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Did you know that Green Street may have been named after a man who fell down a well?
Did you know that Len Lye's abstract animation A Colour Box was protested by Nazis in 1936?
Did you know that although Zhou Tongqing led the development of China's first X-ray tube, he was denounced as a "bourgeois intellectual" and persecuted during the Anti-Rightist Campaign and the Cultural Revolution?
Did you know that the murder of Santos Rodriguez galvanized the Mexican-American community in Dallas?
Did you know that the soprano Elżbieta Szmytka recorded Chopin's Polish songs and performed in Górecki's Symphony of Sorrowful Songs, celebrating a century of Polish independence?
Did you know that "Aus der Tiefe rufe ich" ('Out of the depths have I cried') is one of six 1883 psalm settings by Friedrich Kiel?
Did you know that the deep-sea coral species Gersemia juliepackardae was named for Julie Packard, executive director of Monterey Bay Aquarium, for her work as an ocean conservationist?
Did you know that Samra, a male German rapper, performs under a feminine Arabic pseudonym?
Did you know that convenience store chain Wawa successfully forced Philadelphia-area radio station WAWA to stop using its new call letters?
Did you know that despite a genus name referring to its dull leaves, Astilbe chinensis was celebrated as the most important new hardy perennial by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1902?
Did you know that the Kazachye Cemetery takes its name from the interment of Cossacks killed during the July Days in the Russian Revolution?
Did you know that Barlow Trecothick, who later became Lord Mayor of London, served an apprenticeship in Boston, Province of Massachusetts Bay?
Did you know that Nancy Pelosi is the only woman to have served as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, and the first former Speaker to return to the post since 1955?
Did you know that Niayes, a region of Senegal important for fishing, market gardening, cattle-grazing, and birds, is at risk of desertification?
Did you know that St. John's Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C., was designed by William Thornton, who also designed the United States Capitol?
Did you know that Xiuxiong Chen, his former student Song Sun, and Simon Donaldson were awarded the 2019 Veblen Prize for proving Yau's conjecture for Fano manifolds?
Did you know that a critic at The Musical Times described Ruth Hesse's performance as the Nurse in Die Frau ohne Schatten as "tirelessly ingenious"?
Did you know that from Edinburgh city centre, it is two miles to the Inch?
Did you know that Barbie likes welding?
Did you know that James Bruce Lockhart's career in the Foreign Office was a cover for his real work with the Secret Intelligence Service?
Did you know that although the Transylvanian nobleman János Gerendi refrained from eating blood and animals that had been strangled, he did not keep all the Old Testament laws?
Did you know that among those buried in the Nikolskoe Cemetery is Fyodor Uglov, who was the world's oldest practising surgeon when he retired at age 102?
Did you know that military geologists were employed to find the best landing sites during the planning of the invasions of the United Kingdom, Sicily, and France in World War II?
Did you know that one theory holds that aquatic cold-water species entered Sweden's Lake Sommen by a natural lock system at the end of the last ice age?
Did you know that the pea crab Tunicotheres moseri lives inside the water-filled chamber of a sea squirt?
Did you know that the roof of the Temple of Hera in Corfu was decorated with large terracotta figures painted in vivid colour, making it one of the most intricately adorned buildings of Archaic Greece?
Did you know that North Woods in New York City's Central Park contains a bridge made of boulders, some weighing nearly 100 short tons (89 long tons), which are held together by gravity?
Did you know that Yang Jiachi developed control systems for satellites, rockets, and nuclear tests?
Did you know that after the crash of United Airlines Flight 297 in 1962, the Federal Aviation Administration created new regulations that required airplanes to better withstand bird strikes?
Did you know that the Killing Eve episode "Don't I Know You?" was generally praised for including diverse LGBT+ characters, but also criticised for how one was killed?
Did you know that the Lees Macaroon bar was an experiment?
Did you know that the primrose family and the evening primrose family are not related?
Did you know that InvisiblePeople.tv, which has produced interviews with hundreds of homeless people in over 100 cities, was founded by formerly-homeless television executive Mark Horvath?
Did you know that Madame Wellington Koo, the Chinese-Indonesian First Lady of pre-communist China, was featured as a "woman of style" in a 2015 fashion exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art?
Did you know that Meghan Trainor's song "All About That Bass" was written in 40 minutes?
Did you know that Megumi Nakajima became so associated with her role as Ranka Lee in the anime series Macross Frontier that she feared she would be unable to establish her own identity as a voice actress?
Did you know that Moroccan businesswoman Miriem Bensalah-Chaqroun helped kickstart the World Bank's Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative at the 2017 G20 Hamburg summit?
Did you know that five sacks of documents dating back to 1154 were recovered from a damp potting-shed while Irvine Gray was an archivist at the Gloucester Record Office?
Did you know that Kristianstads IK's 1981–82 team included current Columbus Blue Jackets head coach John Tortorella?
Did you know that Lydia Manley Henry, the first woman to graduate from the University of Sheffield medical school, was awarded the Croix de Guerre?
Did you know that Wilfrid and Arthur married Geoffrey at All Souls, and a master mariner gave away the bride?
Did you know that the Hanthawaddy commander Smin Bayan is celebrated in Burmese history for driving back a Chinese invasion on behalf of his former enemy, Ava?
Did you know that the pilot of That's All, Brother, the lead C-47 carrying American paratroopers to Normandy 75 years ago today, named the airplane as a message to Adolf Hitler that his rule would soon end?
Did you know that Cabilao Island is the location of the only natural lake in the Philippine province of Bohol?
Did you know that Zhang Dongju, Chen Fahu, and J.-J. Hublin discovered that a fossil jaw from Baishiya Cave belonged to the first known Denisovan outside Siberia and the first known human on the Tibetan Plateau?
Did you know that a lawsuit brought by Joel Moskowitz forced public release of mobile phone radiation safety guidelines prepared by the state of California, earning him the James Madison Freedom of Information Award?
Did you know that three players for the U.S. women's national soccer team have scored hat-tricks in the FIFA Women's World Cup, including Carli Lloyd in the 2015 final?
Did you know that Dutch authorities interned a Japanese spy, but thought he was a businessman and released him in a 1942 prisoner exchange?
Did you know that Raffaele Contigiani's brutalist Hôtel du Lac has been seen as symbolic of the modernisation of Tunisia in the 1970s?
Did you know that Werner Schneyder performed political kabarett programs with Dieter Hildebrandt and provided television commentary on boxing at the 1984 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that in the 2000 film No Place to Go, the central character jumps out of a window to her death, as the director's mother had done some years before?
Did you know that spelling is fun, according to Taylor Swift?
Did you know that the Babri Masjid, a mosque built in 1528, was demolished in 1992 after a political rally turned violent?
Did you know that Cameroonian singer Lady Ponce advertised that her wedding would take place at 3:30 p.m., then held it at 9:00 a.m. to avoid paparazzi?
Did you know that John Wrightson, a pioneer in agricultural education, was in 1890 reputedly the first British surfer?
Did you know that Lydia Lavelle is the first openly lesbian mayor in the US state of North Carolina?
Did you know that Molniya orbits are used by Russian and American military satellites?
Did you know that The Immaculate Conception of Los Venerables is also called The Immaculate Conception of Soult after Jean-de-Dieu Soult, who looted it from the Hospital de los Venerables in 1813?
Did you know that in 1983, a stowaway mosquito transmitted malaria to the landlord of a British pub, and to a passing motorcyclist 10 km (6 mi) away from Gatwick Airport?
Did you know that there was a seven-year delay between the release of the first and second issues of the comic book Captain America: White?
Did you know that Horst Rosenthal's 1942 comic Mickey au Camp de Gurs is "perhaps the earliest sequential art narrative dealing with the Holocaust"?
Did you know that Huang Weilu was the chief designer of China's first submarine-launched ballistic missile?
Did you know that Kitty O'Brien Joyner was the first woman engineer at NACA, the predecessor to NASA?
Did you know that if two Austrians say they are "playing Cossack", they are likely to be enjoying the Tarot game of Kosakeln?
Did you know that in 1959 the baritone Ernst Gutstein appeared as Ernesto in Haydn's Il mondo della luna, a role originally written for a castrato?
Did you know that the International Day Against DRM, organized by the Defective by Design initiative, has been observed since 2006?
Did you know that the medical historian Noël Poynter catalogued the Wellcome Library's incunabula?
Did you know that Dutch physician Aletta Jacobs's legal challenge to be added to the Amsterdam electoral rolls backfired, leading to a constitutional amendment granting voting rights to men only?
Did you know that Liberian lawyer Alfred Brownell won the "Green Nobel" prize for his efforts to protect more than 500,000 acres (2,000 km2) of tropical forest land?
Did you know that Nancy Fish, widow of P. T. Barnum, is said to have met her second husband when she fell from the Great Pyramid of Giza into his arms?
Did you know that among those buried in the Annunciation Church of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra are Peter the Great's sister, niece, son, and mistress?
Did you know that "one of the biggest concentrations of Bronze Age gold known from Britain" was found in archaeological investigations during the development of Milton Keynes?
Did you know that Danish oxen traders brought Lutheranism to the Dutch city of Enkhuizen, including through the establishment of an Evangelical Lutheran Church there in 1605?
Did you know that Louis B. Anderson, Chicago's second black alderman, mortally wounded a mugger?
Did you know that Walter Feurtado compiled 58 volumes of notes while researching his guide to the Official and Other Personages of Jamaica, from 1655 to 1790?
Did you know that a disc jockey resigned from his post at KWJB in Globe, Arizona, to work with Les Paul and Mary Ford?
Did you know that the fictional character Jakub Wędrowycz—an exorcist, drunkard, moonshine producer, and poacher—is one of the icons of Polish pop culture?
Did you know that the landscape of Göreme National Park has been formed by volcanic activity followed by erosion?
Did you know that Adriaan de Bruin was enslaved in Africa but ended up in Hoorn in the Dutch Republic, where he married a local woman and ran a tobacco shop?
Did you know that Genrikh Novozhilov led the development of Ilyushin Il-76, the most popular passenger and military transport aircraft of the Soviet Union?
Did you know that Max Brod reviewed a performance of Ria Thiele, an actress and dancer who played in theatres of Vienna, Berlin and Prague?
Did you know that the Hevsel Gardens, a UNESCO World Heritage site, have been compared to the Garden of Eden?
Did you know that the poet Nina Salaman was the first woman to deliver a sermon in a British Orthodox synagogue?
Did you know that the suspected "Golden State Killer" was actually born in New York?
Did you know that Francis Rose's plantations in Jamaica included Old Works, New Works, and The Decoy?
Did you know that LGBT rights activist Melissa Ede wanted to become the first transgender woman on Mars?
Did you know that Rodney Robinson, 2019 National Teacher of the Year, makes sure his former students at the Richmond Juvenile Detention Center register to vote?
Did you know that among the wildlife of Liberia, the rarest mammal may be the Liberian mongoose?
Did you know that during the 1923–24 season, Cardiff City F.C. finished as runners-up in the closest title race in First Division history?
Did you know that the Air Lock Diving-Bell Plant, made in Wivenhoe, worked in the Gibraltar harbour for more than 60 years?
Did you know that the book The Expanding Circle bridged sociobiology and ethics, discussing how humans have used reason to expand their moral considerations from family and tribe to the entire of society?
Did you know that the symptoms of CPVT, a cause of sudden death in children, are often mistaken for simple faints?
Did you know that Aron Anderson is the first wheelchair user to complete a Swedish classic, competing in and finishing Vasaloppet, Vätternrundan, Vansbrosimmet, and the Lidingöloppet?
Did you know that Elizabeth Bartlet's PhD thesis on Étienne Méhul was described as earning "the iconic status reserved for the few doctoral theses that are destined to change their chosen field"?
Did you know that High Orchard in Gloucester, England, was part of a medieval priory, then an industrial area (buildings pictured), and is now the site of a shopping centre?
Did you know that Li Xintian, a founder of neuropsychology in China, was the son of Li Da, a founder of the Communist Party of China?
Did you know that Matthias Goethe, who was born in Prussia and trained to become a Catholic priest, became a Lutheran pastor and established congregations in Australia, the United States, and Mexico?
Did you know that Raet is a moraine?
Did you know that in 1948, footballer George Hazlett was punched in the face after fans invaded the pitch?
Did you know that the Arabian broodmare Bandola was called "The Queen of Poland?"
Did you know that during World War II, Elisabeth Erdmann-Macke safeguarded the paintings of her first husband, August Macke, who portrayed her more than 200 times (example pictured)?
Did you know that in 2016 the Indian Army advised replacing pellet guns with non-lethal pepper guns, sonic cannons, and chili grenades to manage violent riots in Jammu and Kashmir?
Did you know that the Indonesian Declaration of Independence was drafted in the home of Japanese rear admiral Tadashi Maeda?
Did you know that the McCollom Institute, a high school in New Hampshire, closed in 1906 when the number of students had fallen to eleven?
Did you know that when Hu Peizhao argued that capital investors receiving economic returns was a reasonable allocation of production gains, he was criticized by Marxists for justifying exploitation of labour?
Did you know that you need a key to get into Moseley Park?
Did you know that Al Hoceima National Park is one of the few locations where the ribbed Mediterranean limpet survives?
Did you know that Eduardo A. Roca, Argentina's permanent representative to the United Nations during the Falklands War, accused the UK of aggression and condemned the US for supporting it?
Did you know that Meaning of Life is Kelly Clarkson's first album after successfully finishing her American Idol recording contract?
Did you know that archaeologist Chen Tiemei proposed the first chronology for Palaeolithic China?
Did you know that spokesmodel Daniella van Graas thinks she has been largely typecast as a model, but wishes to gain 20 kilograms (44 lb) and play a Monster?
Did you know that the theme of the medieval Perso-Arabic legend of al-Nadirah was used in Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale "The Princess and the Pea"?
Did you know that trade in the Ajatappareng region increased when the Portuguese conquest of Malacca caused the exodus of Malacca's traders to other ports?
Did you know that when Florence Fang sees a dinosaur, she buys it for her Flintstones-themed house?
Did you know that Ellen Schwiers, who starred as Buhlschaft at the Salzburg Festival and in a film in 1961, founded a touring theatre company with her husband and daughter?
Did you know that Italy bombed a Swedish hospital in Dolo during the Second Italo-Ethiopian War?
Did you know that archaeologists Mai Yinghao and Huang Zhanyue led the excavation of the 2,000-year-old mausoleum of King Zhao Mo (jade burial suit pictured)?
Did you know that the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup, which began 20 years ago today, was moved to large American football stadiums after the success of the 1996 Olympics soccer tournament?
Did you know that Nujeen Mustafa, a teenage Syrian refugee with cerebral palsy, travelled 5,600 kilometres (3,500 mi) in a wheelchair to seek asylum in Germany?
Did you know that Scanning Kelvin Probe, a technique based on Lord Kelvin's work, has been used to investigate fingerprints and meteorites?
Did you know that after German tenor Herbert Schachtschneider was a prisoner of war in England during the 1940s, he remained in the country to study voice with a cousin of Arnold Schoenberg?
Did you know that historical significance is often subjective and open to challenge?
Did you know that when Elizabeth II asked Herbert Maryon what he did as she appointed him to the Order of the British Empire, he replied, "Well, Ma'am, I am a sort of back room boy at the British Museum"?
Did you know that Carin Clauss, the first female solicitor of the United States Department of Labor, was also nominated by President Carter to be a judge?
Did you know that Dickie Haine flew in the RAF's first night fighter patrol of the Second World War?
Did you know that German pool player Oliver Ortmann was the first European to win the U.S. Open Straight Pool Championship?
Did you know that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his ministers prefixed the name 'chowkidar' (watchman) to their Twitter profiles in response to the election slogan Chowkidar Chor Hai?
Did you know that the Mikhailovsky Palace cost more to decorate than to build?
Did you know that the first detailed maps of the quadrangles of Mars were assembled not by NASA but by geologists, mostly at the United States Geological Survey?
Did you know that Orvar Swenson performed the first successful surgery to treat Hirschsprung's disease, a birth defect which causes megacolon?
Did you know that Soviet Vice-Admiral Nikolai Yegipko had once been rejected for membership in the Komsomol after it was reported that he used "perfumed" soap?
Did you know that Thurrock services was built on top of a rubbish dump?
Did you know that during the Canada–Philippines waste dispute, Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte threatened to declare war on Canada over 103 mislabeled shipping containers of household trash?
Did you know that in 2018, an asteroid measuring 12 meters (39 feet) across exploded in an air burst over the Bering Sea near the Kamchatka Peninsula with the force of 173 kilotons of TNT?
Did you know that silent film actress Fannie Bourke ran a 500-seat "votes for women" movie theatre in New Rochelle, New York?
Did you know that while American social media celebrity Olivia Jade said, "I don't really care about school", she applied and was accepted to the University of Southern California?
Did you know that Ernst Christoph Dressler, an 18th-century operatic tenor, violinist, composer, and music theorist, composed a march on which Beethoven based his earliest published work?
Did you know that French sinologist Claude Cadart and his wife Cheng Yingxiang published the memoirs of her father Peng Shuzhi, a Trotskyist leader expelled from the Communist Party of China?
Did you know that Mughal emperor Humayun died after falling down the stairs of his library, Sher Mandal?
Did you know that Sandy Schreier's clothing collection includes three Valentino outfits owned by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis?
Did you know that both Mueller and Barr can be found in Lincoln, Nebraska?
Did you know that every Garden of Eden contains an orphan?
Did you know that the 1826 Canary Islands storm claimed 298 victims on Tenerife and may have been a tropical cyclone?
Did you know that Caliph Abd al-Malik's scribe Sulayman ibn Sa'd al-Khushani changed the language of Syria's bureaucracy from Greek to Arabic?
Did you know that Canadian journalist Katherine Hughes became Alberta's first provincial archivist, but later became a political activist, fighting for Irish self-determination?
Did you know that Canadian nurse Edith Campbell was awarded the Military Medal for her bravery during air raids on a First World War hospital in France?
Did you know that in 2013 Libro de los Epítomes, a library catalogue by Ferdinand Columbus, was rediscovered after nearly 500 years?
Did you know that lines on sports fields were once marked by young children but can now be marked by robots equipped with GPS?
Did you know that theatre in Saarbrücken began as court theatre directed by Iffland, while plans for today's State Theatre were commissioned by Goebbels?
Did you know that Monique Scheier-Schneider, general secretary of the Luxembourg Ice Hockey Federation since 1992, has managed her country's men's under-18, men's junior, and men's national ice hockey teams?
Did you know that the Lion of Menecrates is thought to have been part of the Tomb of Menecrates in Corfu, Greece, built for an ancient Korkyrean ambassador who was lost at sea?
Did you know that the card game of Pollack is named after a bonus for holding the three top cards – the ten, nine, and ace – of one suit?
Did you know that when the state of Oregon created Deschutes County in 1916, Harvey H. DeArmond was appointed as the county's first district attorney?
Did you know that Jammu and Kashmir has a unique penal code established by Maharaja Ranbir Singh?
Did you know that reproductive immunologist Anne Croy was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada for her work with uterine natural killer cells during pregnancy?
Did you know that right-wing political figures in the United Kingdom have recently been milkshaked?
Did you know that the Buddha, to whom many miracles were attributed, considered the "miracle of instruction" to be the greatest because it would not be taken for a mere magic trick?
Did you know that the tenor Alfred Vökt, who performed in the premiere of Henze's Il re cervo, had a Doctor of Law degree?
Did you know that Hu Jinqing's animated film The Fight Between the Snipe and the Clam, based on a Chinese proverb, won a Silver Bear in Berlin?
Did you know that Meghan Trainor's song "All the Ways" was inspired by a conversation she had with her husband Daryl Sabara?
Did you know that a Mexican mayor warned that the murder of suspected drug lord Rolando López Salinas would increase drug violence in his city?
Did you know that an aqueduct of over 1 mi (1.6 km) in length was built to supply Trinity plantation in Jamaica with water?
Did you know that motorsport official Silvia Bellot was part of the first all-woman panel of stewards in the history of the World Rally Championship at the 2016 Rally Catalunya?
Did you know that Kyle Garlick set the single-season home run record for the Cal Poly Pomona Broncos?
Did you know that NASA Astronaut Group 4, selected in 1965 for the Apollo program, was the first recruited primarily on the basis of scientific experience?
Did you know that Swedish entomologist Carl H. Lindroth suggested that more than 40 species of North American ground beetle were inadvertently transported from Europe in ship ballast?
Did you know that in Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey, players control a lineage of apes until it reaches a stage that resembles Lucy?
Did you know that ten years ago today, the United States played in the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup Final after ending Spain's 35-match unbeaten streak?
Did you know that the Hungarian coloratura soprano Sylvia Geszty was a member of the Berlin State Opera in East Germany before joining the Stuttgart State Opera in the West?
Did you know that the sea hedgehog is a cannibal?
Did you know that Birjis Qadr, the Nawab (leader) of Awadh state in northern India, became a poet while in exile in Nepal?