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Did you know that the cantata Kündlich groß ist das gottselige Geheimnis was written by Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel for the Third Day of Christmas at the court of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen?
Did you know that Australasian gannets (example pictured) established a breeding colony on Young Nick's Head after being attracted there by decoy birds and pre-recorded calls?
Did you know that Pat Marsh was described as "the first lady of British ice hockey"?
Did you know that Sakura-Variationen, a trio for saxophone, piano, and percussion by Helmut Lachenmann, was composed for a children's concert?
Did you know that in 1909 Mamie Garvin Fields became one of the first African-American public school teachers in Charleston County, South Carolina?
Did you know that the Poplar Hill mansion on Long Island was reportedly used to spy on the neighboring Killenworth mansion, which housed the Soviet delegation to the United Nations?
Did you know that the Slovak Jewish Center, set up by the Nazis, was taken over by a resistance group?
Did you know that the ending of Avengers: Infinity War inspired the largest user ban in Reddit's history?
Did you know that the followers of Abu Sa'id al-Jannabi, the founder of the Qarmatian state in Bahrayn, believed that he would return after his death, and kept a saddled horse at the entrance of his tomb?
Did you know that Windmill Hill Cavern, which provided the first scientifically accepted proof that humans and now-extinct animal species coexisted in Britain, was found accidentally while searching for a lost pickaxe?
Did you know that after its defeat in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, Pakistan formulated a military doctrine designed to "Bleed India with a Thousand Cuts"?
Did you know that deposits of rock salt are mechanically weak, and may flow under stress?
Did you know that since 1994, Team Taisan (2012 racecar pictured) has won eight team championships and four drivers' championships in the Super GT Series?
Did you know that actress Yume Miyamoto voiced Lilo in the Japanese dub of Lilo & Stitch: The Series?
Did you know that analogue modelling in geology uses material such as honey, gelatin, sand or clay to simulate crust and mantle?
Did you know that elderly members of Knesseth Israel Congregation of Birmingham, Alabama, were featured in the 1990 music video for "Minyan Man"?
Did you know that pharmacologist Li Lianda won a national science award for his research on the traditional Chinese medical concept of blood stasis?
Did you know that the epitaph Known unto God, which appears on more than 212,000 Commonwealth war graves, was selected by the poet Rudyard Kipling, whose own son was killed during the First World War?
Did you know that American John Trumbull's The Death of General Montgomery in the Attack on Quebec, December 31, 1775 was painted in the London studio of Benjamin West?
Did you know that Peng Shilu, the "father of China's nuclear submarines", was jailed at age eight?
Did you know that Wolfgang Unger was director of music at the University of Leipzig, where he founded two instrumental ensembles named after the original Paulinerkirche?
Did you know that among the babies born at the Parsi Lying-in Hospital was the Indian politician Feroze Gandhi?
Did you know that the 1923 World Congress of Jewish Women in Vienna unanimously resolved to support the settlement of Jews in Palestine?
Did you know that the year before he first played in baseball's National Association, Marty Swandell umpired the game that decided the league's championship?
Did you know that Alphonsus J. Donlon became known as the "father of Georgetown athletics" for overseeing multiple victorious teams?
Did you know that Carsten Koch conducted all Beethoven symphonies at the historic Unionskirche, and shared Bach's Christmas Oratorio there in an ecumenical project (performance pictured)?
Did you know that Wilmer Clemont Fields of the Southern Baptist Convention was a defender of freedom of the press?
Did you know that al-Barakah, a self-declared administrative district of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, was moved about 200 kilometres (120 miles) south during its existence?
Did you know that in the Battle of the Hatpins, women protestors repelled police officers with rolling pins and skillets?
Did you know that the underwater mountain and former atoll Darwin Guyot is named after Charles Darwin?
Did you know that when creating the television drama Butterfly, the playwright Tony Marchant aimed to dispel the myth that transgender children transition in order to be "trendy"?
Did you know that , in the 1980s, the British physician John R. Seale advocated the now-discredited theory that HIV might have been created in a germ warfare laboratory?
Did you know that Guêpe-class submarines were solely intended for use in harbor defense?
Did you know that Scharwenzel is a card game, at least three centuries old, that is played today only on the German island of Fehmarn?
Did you know that an attempt to introduce the orange-breasted bunting to Oahu in 1941 was unsuccessful?
Did you know that during the filming of There She Goes, a programme based on series creator Shaun Pye's learning-disabled daughter, he became so emotional that he had to leave the set?
Did you know that the namesake of the Brigadier General Thomas F. Barr Award served for just one day as Judge Advocate General of the United States Army?
Did you know that "Dui Bigha Jomi", a Bengali poem written by Rabindranath Tagore, inspired a story which was the basis for the 1953 Hindi film Do Bigha Zamin?
Did you know that 16-year-old Greta Thunberg of Sweden has inspired 20,000 students around the world to strike for climate change activism?
Did you know that Andrew L. Lewis flew more than 100 combat missions as a naval aviator before becoming commander of the United States Second Fleet?
Did you know that Dimyati Natakusumah is set to compete against two of his children in the 2019 Indonesian general election?
Did you know that the Ospedale degli Incurabili in Venice, where Johann Adolph Hasse was maestro di cappella, was founded as a hospice for sufferers from syphilis and other incurable diseases of the time?
Did you know that the continental arc tonalite-trondhjemite-granodiorite rocks can be plutonic?
Did you know that , upon completion of the Simeon Monument, a local resident complained that "among the generality of the inhabitants it is called a p****** post"?
Did you know that Falcon 9 booster B1050 malfunctioned during re-entry and missed its landing target at LZ-1, but still managed a soft landing just offshore?
Did you know that Hazel Smith helped to popularize the term "outlaw country" by using it to describe the music of performers such as Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings?
Did you know that Howard J. Green's screenplay for I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang led to the elimination of the chain gang system in the U.S. state of Georgia in 1937?
Did you know that Roberto Tobar officiated the 2017 Segunda División final, in which only one team took part in the penalty shootout?
Did you know that while Bernard A. Maguire was a prefect at Georgetown University, a student uprising resulted in the dismissal of 70 students?
Did you know that Chinese writer Pu Songling may have written an anti-Manchu short story?
Did you know that Thomas Mann's widow, Katia, (couple pictured) called Gert Westphal "des Dichters oberster Mund" (the poet's principal voice) after his reading of her husband's works?
Did you know that the Country Hospital in Shanghai provided free treatment to Jewish refugees during World War II?
Did you know that the Patagonian squid spawns among the stems of partially defoliated kelp Lessonia trabeculata?
Did you know that Björn Ambrosiani spent six years excavating at the Viking Age settlement Birka?
Did you know that Joseph Jenckes Jr., the founder of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, was arrested and jailed for making threatening remarks about the king of England?
Did you know that Peter Cornelius wrote poems and music for his song cycle Weihnachtslieder, which included a popular melody in the piano accompaniment for a song about the Three Kings?
Did you know that Shekhar: Ek Jivani by Agyeya is considered the first psychoanalytical novel in Hindi literature?
Did you know that in 2007, Peter Morris was "discovered" by Peter Morris?
Did you know that in November 2018, Matthew Hedges received a pardon from his life sentence for spying in the United Arab Emirates?
Did you know that organic nuclear reactors, widely researched in the 1950s and 1960s, replaced the water normally used to cool the reactor core with various organic fluids?
Did you know that the Epiphany hymn "Earth Has Many a Noble City" about the biblical Magi was originally written by a Roman governor?
Did you know that actor Tom Hanks has claimed that the Hermes 3000 would be the luxury item he would take to a desert island?
Did you know that in 1960 Emil Paleček discovered that nucleic acids could be studied electrochemically, contradicting previous assumptions that DNA molecules were too large to have electrochemical properties?
Did you know that the red ochre sprinkled on the body of Jane Britton 50 years ago today ultimately turned out to be a red herring in solving her murder?
Did you know that Denmark won the 1971 Women's World Cup, an unofficial association football tournament, after 15-year-old Susanne Augustesen scored all three goals in the final?
Did you know that Jim Siwy was a police officer before and after his career in Major League Baseball?
Did you know that Macrozamia riedlei, a favoured food plant of southwest Australians, was responsible for the accidental poisoning of some early European explorers?
Did you know that William Gould Young was the first faculty member at UCLA to be inducted into the National Academy of Sciences, and the university's chemistry building was renamed in his honor?
Did you know that Yum Balam Flora and Fauna Protection Area, which provides a habitat for jaguars, is named for a Maya jaguar god of nature?
Did you know that one of the poems in How to Be Drawn by Terrance Hayes was described as having "echoes of the cultural critique of race relations in America" in Ralph Ellison's novel Invisible Man?
Did you know that suspected hitwoman Joselyn Alejandra Niño had a nickname which referred to Our Lady of Holy Death?
Did you know that the whitespot ghost shark is known from only four specimens in the Galápagos Islands?
Did you know that Cornell University professor Walter LaFeber gave his farewell lecture on American diplomatic history before nearly 3,000 people at New York's Beacon Theatre?
Did you know that Edward Gyfford's buildings (1807 design pictured) were "calculated for the comfort and convenience of persons of moderate and of ample fortune"?
Did you know that Melani Leimena Suharli, the daughter of the founder of the Indonesian Christian Party, is Muslim?
Did you know that the U.S. Supreme Court delayed hearing oral arguments in Gamble v. United States due to a national day of mourning proclaimed following the death of George H. W. Bush?
Did you know that the beech orchid was first scientifically described in The Sydney Morning Herald?
Did you know that Georgetown University School of Medicine was founded during the presidency of James A. Ryder?
Did you know that Nagammai organised women to picket the toddy shops in Erode during the temperance movement in India?
Did you know that a documentary about the British band Coldplay sold more than 300,000 tickets for a single-night cinematic release, but was not viewed by the band's lead singer?
Did you know that among the books produced by Georgian publisher James Stratford was one of 149 parts?
Did you know that in 2018 the United States Marine Corps' Sunset Parade was moved from the Marine Corps War Memorial to the Lincoln Memorial?
Did you know that Max Reger composed Introduction, Passacaglia and Fugue, Op. 127, for Karl Straube, to be played as the first organ piece at the new Centennial Hall in Breslau in 1913?
Did you know that The New York Times stated that, with one exception, the United States Zouave Cadets were "all young men of extraordinary muscular power"?
Did you know that the Monrovia Church massacre was the worst single atrocity of the Liberian civil war?
Did you know that the writer of the play Why We Have a Body was inspired by Harriet the Spy, whom she viewed as the first lesbian she had ever encountered?
Did you know that Al-Ain Football Club was the first Emirati team to qualify for the final of the FIFA Club World Cup?
Did you know that HMS London, a London-class battleship, was fitted with a makeshift ramp for experiments with naval aircraft?
Did you know that a popular account of the Indian rope trick by Chicago Tribune journalist John Wilkie may have been inspired by the Chinese short story "Growing Pears"?
Did you know that after the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change shared the Nobel Peace Prize, contributing author Raymond Arritt said, "It's kind of neat: I have, like, .002 percent of a Nobel prize now"?
Did you know that the Shepherd with a Flute has had his shirt changed, and is now attributed to Titian rather than Giorgione?
Did you know that the final work of artist Monica Ross was completed on the day of her death?
Did you know that Marvel Comics' chief creative officer Joe Quesada made his directorial debut with the first episode of the digital series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Slingshot?
Did you know that U.S. President George H. W. Bush's service dog Sully slept next to Bush's coffin before his state funeral?
Did you know that according to primatologists Robert Seyfarth and Dorothy Cheney, successful baboons use rules like those in Jane Austen novels: "be nice to your relatives and get in with the high-ranking relatives"?
Did you know that merchant John Leamy owned the first U.S. ship to enter the Río de la Plata?
Did you know that the Swiss-German spy Carmen Mory, later a Nazi concentration camp kapo, was described as a "third-rate Mata Hari"?
Did you know that after 250 laps, second place at the 2001 Harrah's 500, a CART race, was determined by a photo finish in which Dario Franchitti beat Michel Jourdain Jr. by 2 inches (51 mm)?
Did you know that before becoming a United States Marine Corps mascot, Jiggs II won a blue ribbon at the 1926 Westminster Dog Show?
Did you know that the Soviet destroyer Sposobny was designed to survive a nuclear explosion?
Did you know that the biologist Denis G. Lillie drew cartoons of his colleagues on the 1910–1913 Terra Nova Expedition?
Did you know that a volunteer medical unit was raised in Ireland for service with the French Army in the Franco-Prussian War?
Did you know that after journalist Victor Mallet chaired a talk by Chan Ho-tin, leader of the now-banned Hong Kong National Party, he was denied renewal of his Hong Kong work permit?
Did you know that after various changes to Tintoretto's Esther before Ahasuerus (shown) from the 1540s onwards, the painting now has two figures of Haman?
Did you know that black voting rights activist Herbert Lee was killed in 1961 by Mississippi state representative E. H. Hurst?
Did you know that the Old West figurine sculptor Earl Heikka's first studio was on Gary Cooper's ranch?
Did you know that Victor Bonney stained vaginas blue?
Did you know that actor Tim Franklin had his first on-screen kiss while portraying Home and Away character Colby Thorne?
Did you know that even though the Baker Hotel was nearly fully booked during the filming of the 1969 musical film Paint Your Wagon, it closed shortly thereafter?
Did you know that historian Julius S. Scott did not agree with his publisher's suggested revisions to The Common Wind, so the book remained unpublished for over thirty years?
Did you know that the Ugandan military indiscriminately bombarded rebel fighters, civilians, and even their own forces during the Battle of Tororo?
Did you know that "Varsity", the University of Michigan fight song, was written in 1911 by two Michigan students while they were riding a street car in Detroit?
Did you know that 79 pages of Robin Coste Lewis's anthology Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poems are devoted to the titular poem, which consists of "titles, catalog entries, or exhibit descriptions" depicting the black female form in Western art?
Did you know that American suffragist Annie Nowlin Savery came into conflict with some woman suffragists because she supported free love?
Did you know that the Nazi authorities promoted Theresienstadt Ghetto (caricature shown) as a "spa town" and "retirement settlement" for Jews?
Did you know that the journalist Johann Georg Reißmüller, a co-publisher of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, is credited with playing an important part in Germany's recognition of Croatia and Slovenia?
Did you know that the man who named a nearly blind amphibian Dermophis donaldtrumpi did so to raise awareness of Donald Trump's policies on climate change?
Did you know that the production of the film El Caracazo required a military security presence for the filming of scenes of riot and massacre in the centre of the Venezuelan capital of Caracas?
Did you know that Marc Bloch, one of the most influential historians of the 20th century, was also a French Resistance fighter and was executed by the Gestapo in 1944?
Did you know that in her second novel, Echoes, Maeve Binchy underscores the paucity of educational opportunities in small Irish towns before the introduction of free secondary education in 1967?
Did you know that the surrender of Valjala Stronghold in 1227 finalized the Crusader conquest of Estonia?
Did you know that the white wagtail is the national bird of Latvia?
Did you know that Bester Bube is a card game characterised by the promotion of two jacks to topmost position, a feature paralleled in Euchre and other historical games such as Reunion and Kontraspiel?
Did you know that British Army officer Ogilvie Graham met his wife during the Battle of the Somme?
Did you know that Sir Harry Luke called the Turkish Military Cemetery and the adjacent Jewish Cemetery in Marsa, Malta, "the only place in the world where Arabs and Jews lie peacefully together"?
Did you know that after discovering that the itch mite was the cause of scabies, Giovanni Cosimo Bonomo had a hard time finding a job?
Did you know that as part of social emotional development, there is a sevenfold increase in most children's emotional vocabularies between ages 4 and 11?
Did you know that music publisher Henri Hinrichsen, owner of C. F. Peters in Leipzig, promoted composers such as Gustav Mahler, Max Reger, and Arnold Schoenberg?
Did you know that the diademed amazon is considered an endangered species because the forests in Brazil in which it lives are being felled for soybean production and cattle ranching?
Did you know that American suffragists arrested for protesting at the White House later toured the country on the Prison Special while dressed in their prison uniforms (Lucy Branham pictured)?
Did you know that Gwen Grant Mellon, who co-founded a hospital for the poor in Haiti, was buried in a cardboard box?
Did you know that Román Chalbaud's 1977 film El Pez que Fuma was inspired by stories from prostitutes at a brothel he used to frequent?
Did you know that at the Battle of Blanchetaque, English longbowmen stood in a tidal river to engage French mercenary crossbowmen?
Did you know that the bite of the red-bellied black snake can result in necrosis, and has been known to require amputation of an affected finger?
Did you know that the surgeon Cuthbert Hilton Golding-Bird invented a dilator for use in tracheotomies?
Did you know that "The Bird Language", a short story by Pu Songling, may have been written to antagonise corrupt officials?
Did you know that Minchington Hall in Middlesex, England, was said to have one window for every week of the year?
Did you know that Peter McAdams received a promotion to sergeant for carrying his wounded comrade 250 yards (230 m) while under fire during the Battle of Salem Church?
Did you know that small-town Utah doctor John Steele used herbal medicines to treat patients, and also cast their horoscopes?
Did you know that American Lawrence Cowan regained possession of a copper mine in Sonora, Mexico from local claim jumpers through the Supreme Court of Mexico?
Did you know that Beyoncé wore an Inbal Dror wedding gown to the 2016 Grammy Awards?
Did you know that Bob Dylan refused to perform on The Ed Sullivan Show after the CBS network tried to censor the lyrics to "Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues"?
Did you know that Lieutenant Colonel James Lawton Collins Jr. was wounded when his battalion was accidentally hit by American bombers during Operation Cobra?
Did you know that Percy Glading, British communist and Soviet spy, was described by the head of MI5 as looking "like an overgrown schoolboy" but also "quick-witted and likeable"?
Did you know that after capturing the French town of Caen in 1346, an English army massacred the population and engaged in an orgy of rape?
Did you know that the Bodega black gnat was first discovered in Egypt but named for a bay in California?
Did you know that Fallt mit Danken, fallt mit Loben (Fall with thanks, fall with praise), Part IV of Bach's Christmas Oratorio for New Year's Day 1735, commemorates the naming of Jesus?
Did you know that Jean-Pierre Bernès, former general manager of Olympique de Marseille, started out selling membership cards for the club?
Did you know that Vastupala secretly hired pirates to rob the mother of the Sultan of Delhi?
Did you know that in 2018, 151 North Franklin became the new corporate headquarters for CNA Insurance, which continues to be based in the Chicago Loop as it has been since 1900?
Did you know that students of sculptor Herbert Maryon tarred and feathered one of his works?
Did you know that the Federal Court of Australia ruled in 2003 that a heroin dealer was entitled to a tax deduction of $220,000 for money stolen during a drug deal?
Did you know that the littleneck clam is harvested for food despite being associated with paralytic shellfish poisoning?
Did you know that Jennifer Lawrence was so anxious about performing "The Hanging Tree" in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 that she wanted to lip sync to a professional singer?
Did you know that Johannes Brahms attended the premiere of the operetta Die Göttin der Vernunft by Johann Strauss, but the composer himself did not, and heard about its reception only by telephone?
Did you know that Rondebosch Fountain, a cast-iron water trough and one of the first electric street lights in South Africa, is being rebuilt in aluminium after a speeding car demolished the original?
Did you know that Slovakia was the only country that paid for the deportation of its Jewish citizens during the Holocaust?
Did you know that in 1701, the apothecary William Rose was charged with illegally practising medicine on a butcher?
Did you know that in 1901, French feminist writer Marie-Louise Gagneur was awarded the Legion of Honour?
Did you know that in his first battle, Prince Binnya Kyan and his brothers drove back the forces of Crown Prince Minye Kyawswa of Ava after being called "useless" by their father, King Razadarit of Pegu?
Did you know that Simon Kaloa Kaʻai, a former jailer, became a noble and cabinet minister to a king?
Did you know that Zhuo-Hua Pan, credited by some as the inventor of optogenetics, had his paper describing the technique rejected by multiple journals?
Did you know that the 2005 pop-rock/dance album Rollercoaster, by former American Idol finalist Jim Verraros, was inspired by the music of George Michael and Green Day?
Did you know that the poet, cartoonist, and satirist F. W. Bernstein was appointed professor of caricature and comics in Berlin in 1984, the only such chair in the world at the time?
Did you know that Denver community activist Arlene Hirschfeld lives in Shangri-La?
Did you know that HMS Sportsman sank twelve Axis ships during World War II?
Did you know that James A. Doonan purchased the cannons in front of Healy Hall, which date to 1634?
Did you know that Marianne Schech appeared as the Dyer's Wife in the U.S. premiere of Die Frau ohne Schatten by Richard Strauss at the San Francisco Opera?