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Did you know that Representative-elect August Pfluger's great-great-great-great-grandfather founded Pflugerville, Texas?
Did you know that computer science professor Ruth Aylett performed with a robot poet in the Edinburgh Free Fringe?
Did you know that economists William Darity and Darrick Hamilton proposed the policy of baby bonds in 2010 as a mechanism to reduce the racial wealth gap in the United States?
Did you know that in his Requiem, premiered at Lausanne Cathedral in 1973, Frank Martin scored the "Dies irae" for speaking choir and a "battery of percussion"?
Did you know that the 1951 British film Surprise Attack (title card pictured) warned of the danger of not being vaccinated against infectious diseases?
Did you know that the Belgian-born Peter Verhaegen became a missionary to Missouri and obtained Saint Louis University's state charter?
Did you know that while its predecessor had 80 stops, Minnesota's Metro A Line (bus pictured) has only 20, and completes the same route six to eight minutes faster?
Did you know that Ben Carter and his brother Tim played basketball for Team USA at the 2013 Maccabiah Games, winning a gold medal?
Did you know that a gun serial number can be any combination of numbers, letters or other symbols?
Did you know that conductor and politician Klaus Bernbacher was responsible for 600 Radio Bremen music broadcasts, including of the original version of Schönberg's Gurre-Lieder?
Did you know that in painting First Lady Michelle Obama, Amy Sherald was inspired by the way the quilters of Gee's Bend make clothing and fabric scraps into geometric works of art?
Did you know that in publishing Laura's Ghost, the author insisted the book cover show a photo of Laura alive?
Did you know that on the final date of the Ziggy Stardust Tour, David Bowie said it was "the last show that we'll ever do"?
Did you know that part of the solution to air pollution in Turkey could be electric ferries across the Bosporus?
Did you know that the Bundestag apologized in 2016 for Imperial Germany's "inglorious role" in the Armenian Genocide?
Did you know that the Spanish writer Eva Forest was imprisoned for alleged complicity in multiple terror attacks by the separatist group ETA?
Did you know that the wreck of the train ferry Pere Marquette 18 was discovered in Lake Michigan 109 years after she sank?
Did you know that Douglas Stuart's Booker Prize–winning debut novel, Shuggie Bain, was rejected by 32 publishers before being picked up?
Did you know that Kansas highway K-23 is known as Main Street in Cimarron, Dighton, and Hoxie?
Did you know that Katie Lachapelle, head coach of the Holy Cross women's ice hockey team, was selected to be head coach of the 2021 US women's national Under-18 ice hockey team?
Did you know that a Magnificat was composed for the 1200th anniversary of Salzburg Cathedral in 1974 by Krzysztof Penderecki for two choirs of at least 24 voices, and conducted by him in the premiere?
Did you know that an extract of noodle seagrass inhibits the growth of microalgae, mussels and limpets?
Did you know that artwork at Alewife station includes curved benches, neon art, and depictions of the namesake fish?
Did you know that before Daniel Chester French and Henry Bacon designed the Lincoln Memorial, they collaborated on the James Oglethorpe Monument in Savannah, Georgia?
Did you know that following the Common Sense Revolution, the entire route of Ontario Highway 45 was downloaded from provincial oversight and redesignated as County Road 45?
Did you know that when Paulina died, her husband Pammachius received condolence letters from St Jerome and Paulinus of Nola?
Did you know that 18.33 inches (46.6 cm) of rain fell within 24 hours in Guam during Typhoon Alice, a record for the territory that was not surpassed for another 23 years?
Did you know that American historian Sarah Wilkerson Freeman curated a photo exhibit depicting the fluidity of race, gender, and sexuality in New Orleans during the McCarthy era?
Did you know that French writer Marie Chaix grew up unaware that her father was the right-hand man of the fascist French Popular Party leader Jacques Doriot, and later wrote a memoir about him?
Did you know that Fukushima Industries' corporate mascot was originally called Fukuppy?
Did you know that Hamro Lok Sanskriti (Our Folk Culture) was one of three books to win the first Madan Puraskar, Nepal's highest literary honour?
Did you know that Marjon Lambriks, who studied voice in the Netherlands with Paula Lindberg (both pictured) and made a career in Vienna, recorded La traviata alongside Pavarotti?
Did you know that Thomas Paxton helped establish a saw mill, flour mill, foundry, and railway as a founding father of Port Perry?
Did you know that a two-year Native American housing protest group called the Chicago Indian Village started next to the Chicago Cubs home stadium, Wrigley Field?
Did you know that comedy group Pomato's creations include a skit about a boyfriend who did not understand the difference between a sports bra and a bra, and an advertisement for the Hong Kong Police Force?
Did you know that orientalist Giuseppe Furlani organized the first and only Italian archaeological excavation in Mesopotamia?
Did you know that the Shuttle-Centaur booster (test article pictured) was once intended to send a space probe to Jupiter?
Did you know that the internal shell of the sea slug Berthella stellata is visible through its translucent mantle?
Did you know that Boom Hall was named after a defensive structure on the River Foyle that was breached during the 1689 Siege of Derry?
Did you know that British thespian Vivien Leigh won both her Academy Awards for Best Actress for portraying women of the American South?
Did you know that Condescending Wonka is one of the most popular internet memes?
Did you know that John Devonshire was supposed to stop USS President putting to sea but didn't?
Did you know that Sheriff Paxton, who was called Canada's most beloved ice hockey official, would jokingly order a hanging for every individual who opposed him?
Did you know that The Girls in 3-B (cover pictured) was one of the first pulp-fiction novels to give a lesbian a happy ending?
Did you know that Tribhuvan and Gyanendra each became King of Nepal twice?
Did you know that cybercriminals using Ryuk malware took in more than $61 million in ransom payments between 2018 and 2019, according to the FBI?
Did you know that the Los Angeles Times criticized Disney for contracting their interactive storybooks to independent studios, deeming their series "a mere imitation" of Broderbund's Living Books format?
Did you know that the release of the 2001 Hindi film Chori Chori Chupke Chupke was delayed for several months due to allegations that it was funded by the Mumbai underworld?
Did you know that the soprano Nina Dorliak recorded works by Bach with her husband, the pianist Sviatoslav Richter, sung in Russian?
Did you know that Avengers: Endgame was untitled until December 2018, as its title was considered a spoiler for the film and its predecessor, Avengers: Infinity War?
Did you know that FactCheckArmenia.com falsely claimed that "no Armenians were harmed" during the deportation of Armenian intellectuals on 24 April 1915?
Did you know that General Charles Barton commanded the 2nd Life Guards in the Peninsular War, and his great-grandson "Banjo" wrote the lyrics of "Waltzing Matilda"?
Did you know that Helmut Koch, who conducted Monteverdi's L'Orfeo in 1949, taught at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler", and continued the tradition of the Berliner Singakademie in East Berlin from 1963?
Did you know that Ivan Camilleri, the incoming auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Toronto, was an associate director of finance at Bell Canada Enterprises before becoming a priest?
Did you know that Pennsylvania Treasurer-elect Stacy Garrity was nicknamed "The Angel of the Desert" in the Iraq War?
Did you know that Wikimedian of the Year Sandister Tei of Ghana is a former multimedia journalist for Al Jazeera?
Did you know that acid secretions produced by the orange gumdrop sea slug (examples pictured) provide defence against predators such as sea anemones, fish, and crustaceans?
Did you know that in Justifying Genocide, Stefan Ihrig argues that many 1920s German nationalists viewed genocide as the "cost of doing political and military business in the twentieth century"?
Did you know that newly founded Exeter Chiefs Women were given a place in the top flight of English women's rugby union ahead of Richmond Women, historically one of the most successful teams in England?
Did you know that the Advent song "Kündet allen in der Not", an appeal to those in need to take courage, was written by Friedrich Dörr, based on Isaiah's prophecy, in preparation of the 1975 Catholic Gotteslob?
Did you know that the Brooklyn Dodgers, New York Giants, and New York Yankees played in a three-way baseball game in 1944?
Did you know that the Waikiki Biltmore, which opened in 1955, was the first high-rise hotel built in Waikiki?
Did you know that Chinese cosplayer Liyuu is also an anime musician?
Did you know that Claudette Colbert, who won her only Academy Award for Best Actress for It Happened One Night (poster pictured), privately called the film "the worst picture in the world"?
Did you know that Elsa-Brita Nordlund, Sweden's first child psychiatrist, advocated for the humanization of care in children's hospitals?
Did you know that Recollections of Full Years by Helen Taft was the first memoir published by a first lady of the United States?
Did you know that Turkish accordion-playing street musician Madam Anahit also appeared in a number of films as an extra?
Did you know that a line of the 1840 song "Kein schöner Land in dieser Zeit", claiming "no country more beautiful" and presented by its author as a Volkslied, is quoted as the title of books and television series?
Did you know that the 13th-century foundation St Alban Hall, Oxford, closed in 1882 and was demolished?
Did you know that the kilns of Medalta Potteries were used as overnight accommodation by people travelling the country in search of work during the Great Depression?
Did you know that the wreck of the freighter SS Russia was discovered in 2019, only 1,200 feet (370 m) from where a different shipwreck hunter ended the search for her years earlier?
Did you know that upon being named president of Georgetown University, Gerard J. Campbell was described as a "new breed" of "Ivy League Catholic"?
Did you know that Arizona Falls is a functioning small hydroelectric plant designed as public art?
Did you know that Detlev Jöcker wrote and performed songs with movements first for his little son, and went on to sell 13 million albums?
Did you know that Laura Garwin, one of the first female Rhodes Scholars, left a career in science to become a full-time trumpeter?
Did you know that Ruth Bader Ginsburg was the second U.S. Supreme Court justice to lie in state at the U.S. Capitol?
Did you know that The Alcestiad, an opera based on a Greek myth and written collaboratively by Thornton Wilder and composer Louise Talma, was premiered by the Oper Frankfurt in German?
Did you know that a non-governmental organisation set up by Hekani Jakhalu helps young entrepreneurs from Nagaland?
Did you know that after the Battle of Inverkeithing, Oliver Cromwell deliberately left open a route for the Scottish army to invade England?
Did you know that despite Sandpaper Ballet being choreographed to music by Leroy Anderson, his piece of the same name is not used?
Did you know that the 1957 The Green Pastures (advertisement pictured) was critiqued in the white Southern press for having "bowed to the inverted prejudice which insists that Negroes shall never be portrayed as Negroes"?
Did you know that the Banu Muhriz emirs were patrons of the Alawites of Syria?
Did you know that the gall wasp Synergus japonicus is considered to be a kleptoparasite?
Did you know that Israeli physicist Shikma Bressler, a researcher at the CERN particle accelerator in Switzerland, is also an initiator of the "Black Flag" protests against Benjamin Netanyahu?
Did you know that King Ludwig Oak is a natural monument named after its admirer, Ludwig I of Bavaria?
Did you know that The Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant were the first memoirs to be written by a first lady of the United States?
Did you know that a bank robbery nearly derailed the Northern Ireland peace process?
Did you know that in Cassandre, an opera by Michael Jarrell based on the novel by Christa Wolf, Cassandra speaks and acts without singing?
Did you know that plastics researcher David S. Breslow's interest in chemistry began as a child when he used a chemistry set to make stink bombs?
Did you know that the right to truth has been recognized by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the European Court of Human Rights, and the United Nations?
Did you know that Otto Jochum, the organist and later the director of the Augsburg Conservatory, received a German national composition prize for a sacred oratorio in 1932, but also composed patriotic anthems under the Nazi regime?
Did you know that in 1875, streetcars in Santa Barbara, California, were drawn by mules?
Did you know that in positioning theory, positions are defined as a person's rights, duties, and obligations which are fluid in various social contexts, as opposed to fixed and long lasting roles?
Did you know that the final exhibition of Indian artist Anjum Singh, titled I am still here, was an autobiographical depiction of her struggles with cancer?
Did you know that Beethoven's Third Cello Sonata, first performed in 1809, has been described as the first sonata for piano and cello to treat the instruments as equal partners?
Did you know that Christian Schreiber, a church administrator, philosopher and poet, wrote a German version of the Latin Mass for the publication, alongside the original, of Beethoven's Mass in C major?
Did you know that Gustav Classens, music director in Bonn from 1933, performed Beethoven's Choral Fantasy, Missa solemnis, and Ninth Symphony during his first two seasons, offering the Ninth in both?
Did you know that Ruth Williams Cupp, the first woman admitted to the Charleston County Bar Association in 1954, was still barred by law from serving on juries, like all women in South Carolina until 1967?
Did you know that the Crushed Rock quarry near Abuja, Nigeria, is now a popular tourist destination?
Did you know that the first of many monuments to Ludwig van Beethoven is a bust created in 1812 by Franz Klein during the composer's lifetime?
Did you know that when Johannes Chum, a tenor in operatic roles from Nerone to Lohengrin, performed in Harnoncourt's recording of Beethoven's Missa solemnis, a reviewer described his singing as "seraphic"?
Did you know that Faith Smith, who grew up on the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe reservation in Wisconsin, became the founding president of the first urban institute of higher learning led by and serving Native Americans?
Did you know that Tropical Storm Merbok flooded 13,000 hectares (32,000 acres) of crops in 2017 and led to an economic loss of CN¥600 million (US$88.3 million) in China?
Did you know that essayist Briallen Hopper got her start writing sermons?
Did you know that having collaborated on the album Folklore months prior, Taylor Swift, Jack Antonoff, and Aaron Dessner met in person for the first time for the filming of Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions?
Did you know that in 825 feet (251 m) of water, the composite-hulled bulk carrier S.R. Kirby is one of the deepest shipwrecks ever discovered in the Great Lakes?
Did you know that the headlight fish gets its name from the large, bioluminescent patch of skin located between its nostrils?
Did you know that the world's oldest lacquerware was found at the Kakinoshima Site?
Did you know that Jimmy Bonner became the first African American to play baseball professionally in Japan in 1936, eleven years before Jackie Robinson's Major League Baseball debut?
Did you know that Nabil Ahmad became a comedian after a friend signed him up for a reality show as a prank?
Did you know that poet Lynda Schraufnagel, little known in her lifetime, was mourned after her death at 40 for her "funkiness" and "manic glee"?
Did you know that the 104th (New Brunswick) Regiment of Foot marched 1,100 kilometres (680 mi), some of it in snowshoes, during the Canadian winter to fight in the War of 1812?
Did you know that the Indian wax scale was first described in 1798 by Fabricius, but was wrongly attributed to another author for nearly two hundred years?
Did you know that while the Gateway Generating Station was completed without controversy or setbacks, it was later the subject of a lawsuit over endangered butterflies?
Did you know that "Mit Ernst, o Menschenkinder", a 1642 Advent hymn, includes a call to penitence that John the Baptist took from the prophet Isaiah?
Did you know that Majestic Radios (model pictured) were so highly regarded in 1929 that the Graf Zeppelin's navigator bought one when his airship landed in the U.S. to take back to Germany?
Did you know that future U.S. Navy rear admiral Oral Swigart competed as a wrestler at the 1920 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that journalist Bill Fitsell was reportedly scared of driving since he covered accidents?
Did you know that on occasion, Stewart Friesen runs NASCAR and dirt on the same day?
Did you know that the 1921 book The Meaning of Relativity represents Albert Einstein's only attempt to provide an overview of general relativity that was both comprehensive and accessible to non-specialists?
Did you know that the Dachau camp trial was one of 489 Dachau trials, the majority of which were held within the confines of the concentration camp itself?
Did you know that Black Futures, a 544-page collection of Black art and writing, was originally going to be a zine?
Did you know that Matthew Cobb, winner of the 2021 JBS Haldane Lecture, started his academic career by getting twins drunk?
Did you know that Yusuf Sayfa, commander of Ottoman forces in Syria against the Kurdish rebel Janbulad, became the latter's subordinate?
Did you know that although nothing remains of Fort La Cloche in La Cloche Provincial Park, it was an economic hub for the area in the 19th century?
Did you know that in Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, a cantata in eleven movements for Advent, Georg Böhm set all eight stanzas of Luther's hymn, and all differently?
Did you know that shortly after winning a conference tournament championship with Vanderbilt's soccer team, Sarah Fuller became the first woman to play football in a Power Five conference game?
Did you know that the only thing known about Johannete Ravenelle is that she owned a book of hours now carrying her name (detail pictured)?
Did you know that Australian pop band Autumn was one of four artists co-credited with a number-one hit in the Australian charts on 31 October 1970, each with a version of the song "Yellow River"?
Did you know that Bernie Sanders won the election to become Mayor of Burlington, Vermont, by ten votes in 1981?
Did you know that during the Nazi occupation of Poland, Halina Kwiatkowska acted in an underground theatre alongside a future pope?
Did you know that in his book Thematic Origins of Scientific Thought: Kepler to Einstein, Gerald Holton argues that philosophy from Either/Or influenced Niels Bohr's concept of complementarity?
Did you know that the Segugio Italiano (example pictured) was highly prized during the Italian Renaissance, being used in elaborate hunts with large numbers of servants and followers mounted on horseback?
Did you know that Charles Green was probably the youngest Australian Army infantry battalion commander during World War II?
Did you know that The European said of George Saxby Penfold's sermons that "they are distinguished by a pleasing mediocrity"?
Did you know that picture books in the Anti-Princess Series by Argentine writer Nadia Fink define words like "dictatorship", "surrealism", and "revolution"?
Did you know that the Arlington Hotel, rebuilt after a devastating fire, was severely damaged in the 1925 Santa Barbara earthquake?
Did you know that Cynthia Fierro Harvey is the first Hispanic woman to serve as the president of the United Methodist Council of Bishops?
Did you know that Rudolf Steglich, a musicologist who wrote his habilitation thesis on rhythm in 1930, was a co-editor of the Hallische Händel-Ausgabe, the critical edition of Handel's complete works, from 1955?
Did you know that cartoonist Trung Le Nguyen's graphic novel The Magic Fish is inspired by his experience as a child of Vietnamese immigrants to the United States?
Did you know that despite being awarded the military Legion of Merit four times, as well as the civilian Medal of Freedom, Lewis Strauss is often viewed as a villain of American history?
Did you know that scholars have speculated that failure to punish the perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide contributed to the Holocaust?
Did you know that the 2021 Somali presidential election was originally scheduled for 2020, but was delayed by concerns of famine, war, pestilence, and civil disorder?
Did you know that when the Osborne Apartments building was slated to be torn down and replaced, its residents saved it by jointly raising $500,000?
Did you know that Fishbait Miller, the doorkeeper of the U.S. House of Representatives, greeted Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom in 1951 by saying, "Howdy, Ma'am"?
Did you know that Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger wrote "Süßer die Glocken nie klingen", a popular 19th-century Christmas carol to the melody of an evening song, evoking the sound of bells as a symbol of peace and joy?
Did you know that James W. Nance tested the Douglas A-3 Skywarrior aboard USS Forrestal, which he later commanded?
Did you know that St. Michael, a 17th-century chapel on a hill near Kaubenheim, Bavaria, which offers services in summer and for Christmas, received electricity around 1980?
Did you know that a football club in Finland called FC Santa Claus has competed as high as the third tier?
Did you know that after a visit to a ragged school, Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol, in which he uses the ghost of Jacob Marley (illustrated) as a mouthpiece for his own views on social responsibility?
Did you know that Giovanni Garbini's studies helped scholars interpret the biblical narrative in the larger context of the history of the ancient Near East?
Did you know that O magnum mysterium, a motet for double choir by Morten Lauridsen, is a setting of a medieval Latin text for Christmas to music described as "ethereal sounds in imperturbable calmness"?
Did you know that One Voice at Christmas involves Aled Jones duetting Christmas carols with his younger self and the late Terry Wogan?
Did you know that the Mostaert Amsterdam Adoration (detail pictured) includes three scenes from the Old Testament and one from Christian legend?
Did you know that when Donald Trump owned the Plaza Hotel, he requested a cameo in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York in exchange for allowing the film crew to shoot in the lobby?
Did you know that Hespress, the most popular news website in Morocco, initially relied on non-staff bloggers for its articles?
Did you know that Psalm 148, calling heaven and earth to be glad, inspired the 17th-century Christmas carol "Erfreue dich, Himmel, erfreue dich, Erde", which Maria Luise Thurmair expanded with more details from the psalm in 1963?
Did you know that Udyavara Madhava Acharya is credited with the modernisation of the theatre form Yakshagana?
Did you know that the former member of parliament Robert Stanton took part in a mock election (depicted) while in prison?
Did you know that the irrigation intake for which New Zealand farmer Marmaduke Dixon long campaigned is now a historic structure registered by Heritage New Zealand?
Did you know that while Ebenezer Joshua joined the government after the 1974 Vincentian general election, his wife Ivy became the leader of the opposition?
Did you know that American football player Harry Field married a Hawaiian princess and is a 2021 finalist for induction into the Polynesian Football Hall of Fame?
Did you know that New Zealand mountaineer Marmaduke Dixon came within 100 ft (30 m) of the summit in his attempt to make the first ascent of the country's highest mountain, Aoraki / Mount Cook?