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Did you know that Ekkehard von Kuenssberg turned down an invitation to join the SS and migrated to Britain, carrying a hockey stick and a tennis racquet?
Did you know that Serpico was filmed in reverse, and Al Pacino had to be shaved as the shooting progressed?
Did you know that after winning the 1814 Battle of Champaubert, Napoleon instructed his representative at the Congress of Châtillon peace negotiations to "sign nothing"?
Did you know that in the 1970s a saxophonist led Major Surgery at a pub in South London?
Did you know that the dance choreography for Babymetal, Perfume, Nosaj Thing's "Cold Stares" music video, the 2016 Summer Olympics closing ceremony, and the Japanese 2016 viral sensation "Koi Dance" were all created by MIKIKO?
Did you know that Elizabeth Pulane Moremi became regent of baTawana after the death of her husband Moremi III?
Did you know that a scene from the music video for "End Game" features Taylor Swift playing the video game Snake, a reference to her reputation as a "snake"?
Did you know that the Strängnäs stone, long considered a forgery, is probably authentic?
Did you know that the church led by Ernest T. Campbell sponsored Marina Oswald, the widow of Lee Harvey Oswald, to study at the University of Michigan?
Did you know that the picture book Maiden & Princess, in which a maiden and princess fall in love, shares a fictional universe with Prince & Knight, in which a prince and male knight do the same?
Did you know that the vocalist in "Erlkönig", published as Schubert's Op. 1, portrays four characters that differ in vocal register, rhythm, and harmony?
Did you know that Helen Dettweiler cofounded the LPGA, was a cryptographer and B-17 pilot during World War II, and became the first female broadcaster in baseball?
Did you know that London-based dream-pop duo Still Corners' album The Last Exit paints a picture of open-road Americana?
Did you know that Micheline Legendre organized Canada's first puppetry festival in conjunction with the 1967 World Expo in Montreal?
Did you know that the Bedouin emirs of the Turabay dynasty presided over nearly a century of peace and prosperity in northern Palestine?
Did you know that the administrator of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Mimie Wood, correctly predicted that she would be replaced by five people upon retirement?
Did you know that British Columbia's oldest practicing lawyer, Canadian Constance Isherwood, who died at 101, closed her last case hours before her death?
Did you know that Dorothee Manski, a soprano of the Berlin Court Opera, gave 335 performances at the Metropolitan Opera after being invited to appear there as the Witch in Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel in 1927?
Did you know that Willa Cather's final story, The Best Years, contains references to her previously published novels?
Did you know that ballerina Merrill Ashley is one of the last dancers to have worked with choreographer George Balanchine?
Did you know that the newly described Rice's whale (example pictured) is one of the most endangered cetaceans, with fewer than 50 adult individuals believed to remain?
Did you know that Universalkünstler Arik Brauer created paintings in Fantastic Realism, songs in Austropop, stage sets for the Paris Opera, and house facades in Austria and Israel?
Did you know that sisters Amal, Hadia, and Hayat Talsam, known as Al Balabil, were referred to as "The Sudanese Supremes"?
Did you know that the 2018 comedy film A Bread Factory, about the difficulty of producing meaningful artistic work in a market economy, received acclaim from critics but earned less than $18,000 at the box office?
Did you know that the world's richest self-made woman, Zhong Huijuan, started out as a middle-school chemistry teacher?
Did you know that Barnett Nathan (caricature pictured) was famous for dancing the hornpipe, while blindfolded, on a stage covered with eggs and teaware?
Did you know that Biserka Cvejić, a Serbian mezzo-soprano who appeared at the Vienna State Opera in 372 performances, made her Metropolitan Opera debut in 1961 as Amneris in Verdi's Aida?
Did you know that Francesca Coppa, a professor of English, compiled "the first anthology of fan fiction for use in the classroom"?
Did you know that Pliofilm, a pre-war food wrap, was used to waterproof firearms during the Normandy landings?
Did you know that AJ Rafael started Crazy Talented Asians, a live variety show, after being influenced by the film Crazy Rich Asians?
Did you know that Keith Gill's username, "DeepFuckingValue", was chosen to reflect his belief in value investing?
Did you know that Lucy Monroe, the "star-spangled soprano", estimated that she performed "The Star-Spangled Banner" over 5,000 times?
Did you know that some of the Sheffield Wednesday team participated in a conga on the M4 motorway after winning the 2005 Football League One play-off Final?
Did you know that the English clergyman Frank Thewlis was related to Prime Minister Harold Wilson and wore a red handkerchief in his jacket pocket when preaching to show his support for Wilson's Labour Party?
Did you know that the cover of Red Meat Republic, a book on the history of beef production in the United States, has the look and texture of butcher paper?
Did you know that the war in Uganda (1986–1994) involved rebel armies led by a prophetess, her father, spirits, "Hitler", ex-ministers, and Joseph Kony?
Did you know that 50 books from a total of more than 150 authored by Pakistani historian Abu Salman Shahjahanpuri are about the Indian scholar and independence activist Abul Kalam Azad?
Did you know that Canada's National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls called for the abolition of birth alerts?
Did you know that access to Martin's Beach has been the subject of a contentious battle between a Silicon Valley billionaire and the State of California?
Did you know that after finishing his term as Indonesia's minister of agriculture, Sjarifuddin Baharsjah was immediately succeeded by his wife?
Did you know that Bradford City scored three goals in 13 minutes to secure promotion in the 2013 Football League Two play-off Final?
Did you know that British journalist Godfrey Hodgson, who covered American politics, society, and values, showed that the first Thanksgiving did not include turkey and cranberry sauce?
Did you know that Lloyd Percival's The Hockey Handbook was credited as being used by Soviet Union national ice hockey team coach Anatoly Tarasov?
Did you know that Peter Herrmann composed a Second Symphony that premiered at the Gewandhaus with Kurt Masur, and a Kant Pop Symphony that premiered at the Musikhochschule Leipzig, where he had taught for decades?
Did you know that in 1897, former slave George Dinning was the first black man to successfully sue a mob of the Ku Klux Klan?
Did you know that the documentary Change the Subject is about lobbying efforts to replace the term "illegal aliens" with "undocumented immigrants" in the Library of Congress Subject Headings?
Did you know that the tugboat Robert C. Pringle was discovered "remarkably intact" 86 years after it sank?
Did you know that Dav Pilkey wrote the children's book The Paperboy, which received a Caldecott Honor, in fifteen minutes?
Did you know that John Trumbull finished his painting George Washington before he was arrested for high treason?
Did you know that although its range is restricted to the island of Borneo, the mountain blackeye has evolved into four subspecies?
Did you know that film researcher Lillian Michelson interviewed elderly Jewish women about the appearance of the underwear they wore in the 1890s to develop accurate clothing for Fiddler On The Roof?
Did you know that the biography of Singapore's first Asian postmaster-general, M. Bala Subramanion, was released at The Fullerton Hotel, the site of the old General Post Office where he had worked for 35 years?
Did you know that the creator of a video depicting the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état, which featured Indonesian politically satirical song "Ampun Bang Jago", denied that it was politically motivated?
Did you know that American band the Body's album I've Seen All I Need to See opens with a reading of the poem "The Kaleidoscope" by Scottish poet Douglas Dunn?
Did you know that after signing his first movie contract, Humphrey Bogart boasted: "I'm going to become the biggest movie star Hollywood's ever seen"?
Did you know that as part of the Israel–Morocco normalization agreement, the US agreed to recognize Morocco's claim to Western Sahara?
Did you know that veterinarian Matt Brash treated some of the owls that appeared in the first Harry Potter film and concluded that they had leukocytozoonosis?
Did you know that when Imants Lešinskis defected from the Soviet Union while working for the UN in New York, Kofi Annan, future UN secretary-general, complained that he did not show up to work?
Did you know that when the manga series Antique Bakery was adapted into a live-action television drama in 2001, a character who was gay in the source material was changed to having a fear of women?
Did you know that Dileeni Daniel-Selvaratnam, Governor of Anguilla, attended her own swearing-in ceremony remotely due to quarantine restrictions?
Did you know that Ismith Khan's novel The Jumbie Bird explores the transformation of immigrants from India into Indo-Trinidadians?
Did you know that New York City's Western Union Telegraph Building was built on land once owned by Thomas W. Evans, dentist to French emperor Napoleon III?
Did you know that Tailors' Hall, a surviving guildhall of Dublin, hosted fencing and dancing classes, the United Irishmen and a British Army garrison, Dublin Corporation and an insolvency court?
Did you know that Troy, Montana, has flying squirrels?
Did you know that translator and journalist Frederika Randall, who moved from the United States to Italy, identified as a "dispatriate" to distance herself from her homeland?
Did you know that with compositions such as Con brio, clarinetist Jörg Widmann was ranked the third-most-performed contemporary composer in 2018?
Did you know that British jazz saxophonist Nubya Garcia's debut album Source, which incorporates reggae, cumbia, calypso, hip-hop, and soul, is an ode to her musical history?
Did you know that Libuše Domanínská, a soprano of Prague's National Theatre, performed in all of Janáček's operas, and a recording she made as his Jenůfa made his works better known beyond their home country?
Did you know that Roy Brown, credited with downing the Red Baron, suffered a serious accident not long after being posted to Marske Aerodrome?
Did you know that at the time of her death at age 90, Lilliane Brady was the mayor of Cobar Shire and the longest-serving female mayor in New South Wales's history?
Did you know that black-sided flowerpeckers camouflage the outside of their nests with lichens?
Did you know that the first telephone designed in Canada, Nortel's Contempra (example pictured), became so famous it was featured on a stamp?
Did you know that 17q12 microdeletion syndrome, an underdiagnosed genetic disorder, is thought to be a major genetic risk factor for autism and schizophrenia?
Did you know that Wilhelm Knabe, a co-founder of the Greens in Germany and a "green" mayor of Mülheim, participated in Fridays For Future with the slogan "Opa For Future"?
Did you know that the 1960 film The Purple Gang has an introduction by Congressman James Roosevelt, son of Franklin D. Roosevelt?
Did you know that the 2010 Football League Two play-off Final at Wembley Stadium was won by "a pub team from Essex"?
Did you know that the common-law wife of the ninth vice president of the United States was Julia Chinn, an enslaved woman?
Did you know that while Gerry House worked at Kentucky radio station WCBR, the owner, a pastor, asked him whether he wanted to donate his salary?
Did you know that Samuel Pepys wrote of Royal Navy Commissioner Sir Thomas Hervey: "a coxcombe he is and will never be better in the business of the Navy"?
Did you know that the 1928 recording by Jimmie Rodgers of "Blue Yodel No. 1 (T for Texas)" influenced a line in Johnny Cash's song "Folsom Prison Blues"?
Did you know that the first vehicle on New York City's Washington Bridge crossed it without permission?
Did you know that winners of the Kings Royal at Eldora Speedway, such as Shane Stewart, are given a scepter, robe, and crown, and pose on a throne in victory lane?
Did you know that Albert H. Blumenthal jumped into the Asser Levy Recreation Center's pool while campaigning for the 1973 New York City mayoral election?
Did you know that Doris Stockhausen's husband dedicated several compositions to her, beginning with Chöre für Doris in 1950 before they married?
Did you know that Guan Bee Ong was the first person of Chinese descent to be professor of surgery at the University of Hong Kong?
Did you know that Richard Platt, a master brewer, founded Aldenham School and arranged for the Company of Brewers to pay the boys beer money?
Did you know that attorney David Schoen held up a copy of Mao's Little Red Book while defending Donald Trump at his second impeachment trial?
Did you know that even though Willa Cather asked that her final novel, Hard Punishments, be destroyed when she died, new fragments were discovered in 2011?
Did you know that for nearly two decades Alfred Woodford was the sole professor in Pomona College's geology department?
Did you know that the 2020 crime film Caught in Time is based on the real-life robber and serial killer Zhang Jun?
Did you know that the former graveyard of St Michael and All Angels Church, Sunninghill, is in the front garden of the house next door?
Did you know that when the 1959 Michigan football team defeated Ohio State, opposing coach Woody Hayes whirled and hurled pieces of clothing, drawing a comparison to a "hot stripper"?
Did you know that "Lasst uns Gott, dem Herrn, lobsingen", a hymn of praise, was written by Dominican Petronia Steiner in 1944 to a melody which Johann Georg Ebeling created in 1666 for a hymn by Paul Gerhardt?
Did you know that FM213 spent a decade in search and rescue and another as a gate guardian before being restored as one of only two remaining airworthy Avro Lancaster bombers?
Did you know that Indian Kathakali artist Mathoor Govindan Kutty specialized in Kathakali Stri Vesham, the portrayal of female characters on stage?
Did you know that John Oliver was sued for defamation after a man in a squirrel costume told a coal industry CEO to "eat shit" on his show?
Did you know that Langston Hughes's poems "Mother to Son", "Harlem", and "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" have been described as "anthems of black America"?
Did you know that Mary Kate Barlow was made a dame of the Holy Sepulchre in recognition of her contribution to the Eucharistic congress of 1928 held in Sydney, Australia?
Did you know that Quentin Tarantino directed a Mother's Day–themed episode of ER after being encouraged to do so by George Clooney?
Did you know that Vera Wülfing-Leckie translated in Senegal a novel by Boubacar Boris Diop written in the Wolof language, titled Doomi Golo: The Hidden Notebooks in English?
Did you know that after winning the 2004 Football League Second Division play-off Final, some of the Brighton & Hove Albion players dropped the trophy while celebrating and damaged it?
Did you know that in 2017 you could finally have breakfast at Tiffany's?
Did you know that poet Mary Custis Vezey, an eleventh-generation American, published much of her work in Russian?
Did you know that sand in the stomach of the ocean surgeon helps to grind up its food?
Did you know that the 2020 book Stuck: How Vaccine Rumors Start and Why They Don't Go Away by Heidi Larson addresses misinformation related to vaccination?
Did you know that the British mycologist Denis Garrett, "one of the last 'string and sealing wax' scientists", once bought plastic lavatory cisterns for his laboratory to use in experiments?
Did you know that Amonovula piriei is a master of camouflage?
Did you know that British band Black Country, New Road, who are known for experimenting with post-punk sound, showcased a clear preference for atmospherics on their album For the First Time?
Did you know that Caroline Parker, a deaf performer, signed the song "I Am What I Am" at the 2012 Summer Paralympics opening ceremony?
Did you know that Diana, Princess of Wales, wore her revenge dress on the night that her husband admitted to having been unfaithful in a televised interview?
Did you know that Jia Ling's directorial debut film Hi, Mom has made her the highest-grossing female director in Chinese box-office history?
Did you know that Kirka Sharif houses a cloak believed to be that of the Prophet Muhammad, the founder of Islam?
Did you know that Leslie Rowan was PPS to Winston Churchill and Clement Attlee, but Hugh Dalton called him "A bit too pi for me"?
Did you know that Robert Dean was one of the few Anglophone Quebecers to join the separatist Parti Québécois?
Did you know that at the conclusion of the 2006 Football League Two play-off Final, the losing manager said his side did not deserve to win and the winning goalscorer said he did not mean to score?
Did you know that botanist Rosemary Margaret Smith had both an entire genus and a separate species named after her for her major discoveries and classification of ginger?
Did you know that pitcher and "smokeball artist" Lil Stoner also enjoyed baking and growing flowers?
Did you know that the president of Zimbabwe has access to State House which has a "drunk" "Superman" statue of Robert Mugabe in the grounds, and to the former Rhodesian prime minister's house and Cecil Rhodes's Government House in Bulawayo, but not to Mugabe's Blue Roof mansion?
Did you know that when the fireman's pole was invented at Chicago's Engine Company 21, other firefighters thought its use was crazy—until 21 started being the first crew to arrive at fires?
Did you know that Caleb Grafton Roberts, head of the Second World War Allied Intelligence Bureau, was a highway engineer before the war?
Did you know that George Balanchine choreographed the ballet Stravinsky Violin Concerto in 1972, a year after Igor Stravinsky's death, having previously choreographed another ballet to the same score in 1941?
Did you know that Michael van der Veen, who represented Donald Trump at his second impeachment trial, also represented a man claiming to have been served a fried rat at a KFC?
Did you know that Molly Clutton-Brock treated the spines of African babies until she was deported by the government of Rhodesia?
Did you know that The Thankful Poor, an 1894 painting by Henry Ossawa Tanner, was discovered in a storage closet in 1970?
Did you know that Winston Churchill, an amateur painter, held the first exhibition of his paintings in Paris under a pseudonym?
Did you know that artist Frances C. Fairman painted portraits of Queen Victoria's dogs (example pictured) by royal command?
Did you know that at the 1997 Bully Hill Vineyards 150, Ron Fellows, driving for a team that did not have garage space, became the first Canadian to win a NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race?
Did you know that even though low interest prompted the Associated Students of Montana Tech to cut funding for student radio station KMSM-FM, it still filed to renew the station's license?
Did you know that former Minnesota governor Harold LeVander jokingly said that he served under state senator Gordon Rosenmeier?
Did you know that the investigations of Scandinavian place names by Magnus Olsen were instrumental in restoring confidence in Icelandic literature as a useful source for information on Old Norse religion?
Did you know that Asuka Langley Soryu's surname was taken from two warships used in World War II?
Did you know that Bobby Reynolds was known as "Mr. Touchdown" after winning a promotional contest for the song "Mr. Touchdown, U.S.A."?
Did you know that George Balanchine's ballet The Four Temperaments (production pictured) premiered at a high-school auditorium?
Did you know that German cricketer Christina Gough, who scored 348 runs in Women's Twenty20 Internationals in 2020, completed a Master of Arts degree in Modern Languages (German) at St Hilda's College, Oxford?
Did you know that NASCAR races on the Daytona International Speedway infield road course for the Cup Series, the Xfinity Series, and the Camping World Truck Series were added to the schedule two years in a row due to the COVID-19 pandemic?
Did you know that despite containing crystals and chemicals which are thought to deter herbivory, Hypericum sechmenii is still under threat of extinction from grazing?
Did you know that the French classical scholar François Guyet kept his composure during a lithotomy by reading Lucan's Pharsalia?
Did you know that the adult i phenotype, a rare blood type, has been associated with being born with cataracts in some populations?
Did you know that the co-founder of Arkansas radio station KTOY, the first Black-owned radio station in the state, continued teaching math after starting it?
Did you know that the world's richest farmer, Qin Yinglin, started out with just 22 pigs?
Did you know that when Dubliners donated more than 630 trees for amaptocare in Ballymun, artist Jochen Gerz offered a face-to-face meeting to each sponsor to choose their tree's personal permanent inscription?
Did you know that "The Present Crisis" by James Russell Lowell has been called a "poetic anthem" for the American antislavery movement?
Did you know that FHProductionHK, a YouTube channel with videos that have reached two million views, features someone who always wears a bear mask to hide his appearance?
Did you know that George Poynter Heath, the first portmaster of Queensland, Australia, was responsible for establishing 33 lighthouses, Booby Island Light being the last one?
Did you know that Nyeema Morgan collaborated in the design of a wooden Afrofuturist replica of the Millennium Falcon?
Did you know that South Carolina low-power television station WPDF-LP was bumped off the air by another station's digital signal?
Did you know that Spanish designer Alberto Corazón was considered one of the fathers of graphical modernization in Spain with the advent of democracy after the death of Francisco Franco?
Did you know that Thomas Picken's lithograph of the 1834 conflagration of Britain's Houses of Parliament (detail pictured) was created when he was around 16 years old?
Did you know that on 13 August 2020, Australian-born cricketer Janet Ronalds became the first player, male or female, to score a century for Germany in Twenty20 Internationals?
Did you know that the Paper Mario series was changed from role-playing games to action-adventure games because the developers found it to be too similar to Nintendo's other role-playing series, Mario & Luigi?
Did you know that the horse in the equestrian statue of William Henry Harrison has stirrups, but no saddle?
Did you know that the proposers of the imprinted brain hypothesis, which claims that autistic and schizotypal traits are opposites, had no background in behavioural genetics before proposing it?
Did you know that Cheltenham Town lost the 2012 Football League Two play-off Final, their first defeat in nine play-off matches?
Did you know that Etruscan cippi were sometimes used as cinerary urns in the shape of a human torso with the head as a lid (example pictured)?
Did you know that John Lockhart-Mummery was the king of the rectum?
Did you know that Malysha Kelly's return to the Jamaica national netball team after a three-year absence was halted by the COVID-19 pandemic?
Did you know that US Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick wanted to pursue a career in law enforcement since high school, and joined the New Jersey Air National Guard "as a means to that end"?
Did you know that at the 2010 Belgian Grand Prix, Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton slid off the wet track into a gravel trap, but was able to re-join the circuit and win the race?
Did you know that for the 2015 film A Heavy Heart, German actor Peter Kurth gained and then lost 35 pounds (16 kg) to portray his character's physical decline due to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis?
Did you know that in 2020, Eli Savit was elected the prosecuting attorney of Washtenaw County, Michigan, on a promise to abolish the cash bail system?