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Did you know that illustrator Ida Waugh met her life partner Amy Ella Blanchard when the latter was hired as a tutor for her younger brother, future painter Frederick Judd Waugh?
Did you know that in 1989, the Institute of Party History of the Communist Party of Estonia denounced the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact?
Did you know that 15 policemen were killed in a 2015 ambush in Jalisco, Mexico?
Did you know that after baritone Johannes Martin Kränzle recovered from MDS, he made his debut at the Bayreuth Festival in 2017 as Beckmesser, staged by the festival's first Jewish director?
Did you know that the future of clinafloxacin as a new drug is less bright due to its risk of drug-induced light sensitivity?
Did you know that the goliath imperial pigeon is also known as the notou?
Did you know that 21 of the 26 Michelin 3-star restaurants in Paris serve Kaluga Queen caviar?
Did you know that Californians have a right to access medical aid in dying under the California End of Life Option Act?
Did you know that Sayaka Harada decided to become a  voice actress in anime despite not having watched many Japanese cartoons?
Did you know that by winning the 2013 Monaco GP2 Series sprint race, Stefano Coletti became the first Monegasque racing driver to win a motor race in Monaco since Louis Chiron in 1931?
Did you know that coloratura soprano Joan Carroll appeared as Alban Berg's Lulu more than 100 times, including the U.S. premiere at the Santa Fe Opera?
Did you know that until the coronation of the Thai monarch is completed, the ruler is considered only a regent and may not sit under the Royal Nine-Tiered Umbrella?
Did you know that Don Amador is portrayed in the film Milk by his friend Cleve Jones, while Jones is portrayed by Emile Hirsch?
Did you know that Johannes Brahms used the same melody for a song of his Fünf Lieder, Op. 105, as for the theme of the slow movement of his second piano concerto?
Did you know that Lydia Zvereva was the first Russian woman to earn a pilot's license?
Did you know that the phrase "Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion" helped Grover Cleveland win the 1884 U.S. Presidential election?
Did you know that Wolfgang Rihm's opera Dionysos, with a libretto by Rihm using only words by Nietzsche, was first performed at the Salzburg Festival and called premiere of the year?
Did you know that Yttralox, a transparent ceramic, was accidentally discovered in the course of fuel cell research in the mid-1960s?
Did you know that a middle-class terrorist organization known as el ABC successfully lobbied for two cabinet positions in the 1933 provisional government of Cuba?
Did you know that as part of Chinese weddings, the groom may be made to swallow pungent wasabi, chilli padi, and bitter tea before receiving the bride at her family home?
Did you know that the limpet Iothia emarginuloides is commonly found on the red alga Phyllophora antarctica growing under the Antarctic sea ice?
Did you know that the producers of "Drew Live II" kept many elements of the episode a secret from the cast?
Did you know that Linguamyrmex vladi is named for Vlad the Impaler, who was the inspiration for Count Dracula?
Did you know that The Inquiry, a study group established by US President Woodrow Wilson to make recommendations for the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, suggested that Crimea should be given to Ukraine?
Did you know that accordionist Vincent Peirani and pianist Michael Wollny, both multiple ECHO Jazz winners, recorded the "symbiotic" album Tandem?
Did you know that after Silence=Death posters appeared around Manhattan, William Olander created a New Museum exhibit highlighting public indifference to AIDS victims?
Did you know that during the Sprague Fire in Glacier National Park, the interior of the historic Sperry Chalet completely burned, leaving only the exterior stone walls standing?
Did you know that the lack of breakfast pushed Mab Copland Lineman to fight against a labor union?
Did you know that Christine Murrell was the first woman elected to the British General Medical Council, but died before she could take her seat?
Did you know that Nicholas Nabokov composed an opera Love's Labour's Lost, setting the same play by Shakespeare as the fictional hero of Mann's Doctor Faustus, "in a spirit of the most artificial mockery"?
Did you know that after William Lunn's wedding, people destroyed the door of a police watch house in Montreal?
Did you know that the Ethiopian highland hare was originally described as a subspecies of the Cape hare, but it was later raised to full species status?
Did you know that when operatic soprano Cynthia Clarey's voice lowered with age, she took up cabaret singing instead?
Did you know that while mating, some species of bat-winged slugs stab each other with a two-pronged penis?
Did you know that Lewis Carroll may have based Alice on Alice?
Did you know that in 1974, Mattoon, Illinois's Cross County Mall became the first shopping center in the US to have J. C. Penney, Sears, and Kmart, then the nation's three largest retailers?
Did you know that Annie Nicolette Zadoks Josephus Jitta's unusual name inspired a book?
Did you know that Horace Greeley died shortly after he lost the U.S. Presidency to Ulysses S. Grant?
Did you know that in the American scholar Scott Rozelle's 30-year career as a development economist, he has been mostly concerned with children's health conditions in rural China?
Did you know that the Philippine cuckoo-dove was formerly listed as a subspecies of the ruddy cuckoo-dove and the brown cuckoo-dove?
Did you know that the Thomas's pika is sympatric with the Gansu pika?
Did you know that the landscape in Titian's Gypsy Madonna virtually repeats part of that in the Dresden Venus?
Did you know that Alison Van Eenennaam is working on a collaborative research project focused on the production of hornless dairy cattle through gene editing?
Did you know that Fragmentarium digital research laboratory hopes to reunite lost fragments of medieval manuscripts?
Did you know that a 13-city tour for Just the Beginning, a November 2017 album release by 13-year-old America's Got Talent winner Grace VanderWaal, sold out in September?
Did you know that despite being urged to do so, William Jennings Bryan refused to drop his free silver plank when he ran for U.S. President in 1900?
Did you know that the Forrest's pika has at different times been treated as a subspecies of the Moupin pika, the Royle's pika, and the steppe pika?
Did you know that the Muntz Jet was a car that came with the option of a liquor cabinet and ice chest under the rear seat armrests?
Did you know that when Pál Turán was forced to work in a brick factory during World War II, the bumpy crossings of the cart tracks inspired him to ask how to draw graphs with few crossings?
Did you know that Eugene Reimer, who played wheelchair basketball with Terry Fox and Rick Hansen, was the first disabled athlete to receive the Order of Canada?
Did you know that S. Sashikanth was an award-winning architect before launching his own film production company, Y NOT Studios?
Did you know that even though he won the popular vote by a 51–48% margin, Samuel J. Tilden failed to win the U.S. presidency in 1876?
Did you know that hall of fame horse Eternal Sun's owner purchased him with an IOU written on a corner torn from the page of the seller's catalog?
Did you know that in 2005 Atanasio Monserrate and two other ministers resigned from the Manohar Parrikar-led government, leaving it in a minority and thus prematurely bringing down the Government of Goa?
Did you know that the Border Police of Georgia have continued to help enforce Georgian sovereignty over Abkhazia and South Ossetia since the end of the Russo-Georgian War?
Did you know that the scientific name of the Blyth's kingfisher, which grows up to 23 centimetres (9 inches) long, derives from the Greek demigod Hercules?
Did you know that "Mehmetçik", the common name for Ottoman and Turkish soldiers, is thought to commemorate Bigalı Mehmet Çavuş, who fought during the Gallipoli Campaign in 1915?
Did you know that during his Presidential campaign, Alton B. Parker refused to criticize the lynchings and denial of Black suffrage in the Southern United States?
Did you know that the Birka female Viking warrior has been described as a shield-maiden similar to Brienne of Tarth from Game of Thrones?
Did you know that titanium dioxide nanoparticles prevent cancer when used in sunscreens, but may cause it if inhaled by production workers?
Did you know that warriors in the epic poem Beowulf wear helmets like the boar-crested Benty Grange helmet?
Did you know that "Von guten Mächten", a poem written by Dietrich Bonhoeffer in prison in 1944 where he faced execution, became a hymn with several melodies?
Did you know that Antonio Conte is the only person to win the Serie A Coach of the Year award three times in a row?
Did you know that Charles Macdonald called for the creation of a single university for Nova Scotia in his inaugural address at Dalhousie College?
Did you know that the footballer George Poland was rejected by Cardiff City F.C. as an outfield player before making his debut two years later as a goalkeeper?
Did you know that the planthopper Alicodoxa is one of a number of insects found in both Rovno amber and Baltic amber?
Did you know that M.L. Tahaliyani sentenced Ajmal Kasab to death for his role in the 2008 Mumbai attacks?
Did you know that Nakhl Gardani is a ritual in which a woody structure symbolizing Husayn ibn Ali's coffin is carried on the day of Ashura?
Did you know that former Dutch Chess Champion Jorden van Foreest is the great-great grandson of Arnold van Foreest, a three-time Dutch Chess Champion?
Did you know that in 1745, King Frederick II of Prussia came to be known as "Frederick the Great" after defeating Austria and Saxony in the Second Silesian War?
Did you know that in his 1960 Quatre Motets sur des thèmes grégoriens, Maurice Duruflé "shows his particular genius for invoking the spiritual element of plainsong in a polyphonic context"?
Did you know that the song "Why Didn't Rosemary?" from the 1969 album Deep Purple was inspired by the film Rosemary's Baby?
Did you know that the western bronze-naped pigeon is found in many countries across Africa?
Did you know that German People's Radio pretended to broadcast from within Germany, but was actually located in Moscow?
Did you know that Michele Strazzabosco played in a preseason game with the Buffalo Sabres prior to the 2006–07 NHL season, becoming the first Italian-trained player to do so in National Hockey League history?
Did you know that residents of the top 15 floors of the Optima Signature have access to a private club in the building?
Did you know that the New Britain bronzewing is rated as a "vulnerable species" because the population is in decline and there are fewer than 5,000 birds in total?
Did you know that the Roman consul, urban prefect, and jurisconsult Plotius Pegasus was named by his father, a naval commander, after a ship he commanded?
Did you know that the so-called "Tibesti Soda Lake" at the bottom of the Trou au Natron volcanic caldera is actually a mineral crust composed of sodium carbonate?
Did you know that Erich Mühe, the first surgeon to remove a gallbladder by laparoscopy, was initially mocked by his colleagues for performing "Mickey Mouse surgery"?
Did you know that in August 2017, the Cinder Butte Fire threatened important archaeological sites in Central Oregon?
Did you know that the butterfly Calycopis pisis has a junior synonym named after American cartoonist Gary Larson?
Did you know that the milky ribbon worm feeds on soft-shell clams, inserting its proboscis through the siphon and devouring the soft tissues?
Did you know that until 1968, some 5,000 people on the "Indian List", so-called due to the automatic inclusion of indigenous people, were prohibited from buying liquor from BC Liquor Stores?
Did you know that H. Rex Lee was the last non-elected Governor of American Samoa?
Did you know that Myron Prinzmetal gave his name to Prinzmetal's angina, a type of chest pain that occurs at rest?
Did you know that Qit'at Jaradah, an island in the Persian Gulf, rises only 0.4 metres (1 ft 4 in) above water at high tide?
Did you know that although most sea anemones (example pictured) are harmless to humans, a few are venomous and some can be lethal?
Did you know that in 1471, John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk, considered himself unable to attend parliament in London with a sufficiently large retinue for a duke, and so refused to do so?
Did you know that student activists joined forces with the military to overthrow the Cuban government during the 1933 Sergeants' Revolt?
Did you know that John D. Hoffman was the only member of the Manhattan District to be awarded the Soldier's Medal, the United States Army's highest award for heroism in a non-combat situation?
Did you know that after viewing footage from his 1970 film Serene Velocity, director Ernie Gehr felt nauseated?
Did you know that pesticides may have detrimental effects on beneficial insects such as bees?
Did you know that the State Reception Room in Olympia, Washington, has what was once the world's largest single-loom carpet?
Did you know that the earliest record of the Toronto cocktail is from 1922, when the city of Toronto was under prohibition?
Did you know that Canan Bayram was the only member of Alliance 90/The Greens directly elected to the German parliament in the 2017 election?
Did you know that Fawad Khan appeared in Eastern Eye's listing of the "50 Sexiest Asian Men" in 2014, 2015, and 2016?
Did you know that Grangemoor Park in Cardiff, Wales, was created on top of a former landfill site of household and commercial rubbish?
Did you know that although Pausanias described Spintharus of Corinth as the architect of the Temple at Delphi, subsequent historians have disagreed as to which temple he built?
Did you know that captured women and girls were sold for 10 to 20 Mexican dollars during the Warlord Rebellion in northeastern Shandong?
Did you know that the barred cuckoo-dove is similar to the little cuckoo-dove, but is larger and darker, and is black-barred at the mantle, breast, covert, and tail?
Did you know that Chains of Love was described as "televised prostitution"?
Did you know that chalice coral and porous lettuce coral can be confused underwater?
Did you know that in his Magnificat and Nunc dimittis for St Paul's Cathedral (interior pictured), Herbert Howells uses slow and spacious changes in harmony and tonality to suit the building's long echo?
Did you know that in the Credo section of his Missa Ave Marie, composer Ludwig Daser clearly stated his Protestant beliefs to the Catholic court of Albert V, Duke of Bavaria?
Did you know that the Ex is a target practice mannequin that spouts blood when shot?
Did you know that upon his retirement in January 1979, A. M. Aikin Jr. was the longest-tenured legislator in the history of Texas?
Did you know that California High-Speed Rail's proposed Pacheco Pass Tunnel is expected to become the longest rail tunnel in North America?
Did you know that Heinrich Schütz published his Symphoniae sacrae I, a collection of 20 "eloquent, sensitive, and often sensuous" settings of biblical texts, in 1629 in Venice, where he studied with Monteverdi?
Did you know that Loggerhead Key was home to the Tortugas Laboratory, which performed some of the first research on Western Hemisphere mangroves and coral reefs?
Did you know that mezzo-soprano Patricia Johnson appeared as Eboli at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, and created the roles of a Nabokov Princess and a Henze Baroness?
Did you know that the workshop of August Volz supplied decorations for the Latvian National Opera, Latvian National Theatre, Latvian National Museum of Art, and Art Academy of Latvia?
Did you know that Sheila Callender helped to establish the medical discipline of haematology?
Did you know that after Nagapattinam Member of Parliament S.G. Murugaiyan was killed in broad daylight, his party retained the seat in the subsequent 1979 by-election?
Did you know that blister coral was not recognised as a new species until 1971?
Did you know that out of the thirteen Nippon Professional Baseball seasons that have included interleague play, the Pacific League has beaten the Central League in all but one?
Did you know that the United States Coast Guard and China Coast Guard regularly deploy officers aboard each other's vessels as a part of United States–China security cooperation?
Did you know that the northern rosella was previously known as the smutty rosella?
Did you know that Averil Mansfield, a former president of the British Medical Association, was Britain's first female professor of surgery?
Did you know that Duke Huan of Qi's corpse was left to rot in his bedchamber while his sons fought for the throne of Qi?
Did you know that Elisabet Ney's Lady Macbeth (detail pictured), whose face resembles the artist's own, has been interpreted as a self-portrait and expression of personal grief?
Did you know that N. Somana is one of only two Kodagu district politicians to be elected to the Lok Sabha?
Did you know that reinforcement is one of the few cases in which natural selection can directly influence the origin of new species?
Did you know that Baahubali 2: The Conclusion is the highest grossing film in India, with a domestic collection of over ₹12.53 billion?
Did you know that Krishna is the Hindu god of compassion, tenderness, and love?
Did you know that Melahat Okuyan, a Turkish female microbiologist and AIDS activist, once proposed the establishment of male brothels for homosexuals and cross-dressers in order to improve public health?
Did you know that a host venue for the 2019 Rugby World Cup will be built in Kamaishi, which suffered major damage during the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami?
Did you know that extraterrestrial diamonds in meteorites preserve their history from before the Solar System formed?
Did you know that the family of Tejano lawmaker José Tomás Canales feared he would be assassinated during his 1919 investigation into the Texas Rangers?
Did you know that the midden inkcap can be used as ink?
Did you know that Governor David B. Hill prevented New York from carrying out a state census in 1885?
Did you know that Icelandic chess grandmaster Margeir Pétursson founded the country's only commercial bank that did not crash during the financial crisis of 2007–08?
Did you know that John Potter's story of his role as a secret agent in occupied France was exposed as false only after his death?
Did you know that Rhipicephalus pulchellus is sometimes known by its common name "the zebra tick", both because zebras are one of its main hosts and because of the males' black and white ornamentation?
Did you know that in the 1951–52 Indian general election, the 27-year old Sunkam Achalu was elected by the largest margin?
Did you know that people have suffered an Antabuse-type reaction from eating the club foot mushroom and drinking alcohol?
Did you know that Karim Morani teamed up with Shah Rukh Khan in 2013 to co-produce the commercially successful film Chennai Express?
Did you know that Leo Nocentelli was one of the primary songwriters of the New Orleans funk band The Meters?
Did you know that although Arthur Schopenhauer had not invited her and initially refused to cooperate, Elisabet Ney nevertheless sculpted his portrait bust?
Did you know that the Chinese government sponsors a gangsta rap group called CD Rev?
Did you know that the forged Morey letter may have helped 1880 U.S. Presidential candidate Winfield S. Hancock win California and Nevada?
Did you know that "Old Love / New Love" was written by Twin Shadow for a fictional radio station?
Did you know that Everything Everything's third album, Get to Heaven, was at one point bookmakers' favourite for the 2015 Mercury Prize, but was ultimately not even nominated?
Did you know that Rebecca Thomas wrote and directed Electrick Children, a film with a budget of US$1 million, while she was still a university student?
Did you know that Siegfried Fietz wrote a popular melody for "Von guten Mächten", one of more than 3,000 song melodies he composed?
Did you know that in a sample of medical reviews, useless treatments were just as likely to be recommended for further research as were useful treatments?
Did you know that the coral Pocillopora elegans is considered "vulnerable" after being severely depleted in the eastern Pacific during the 1982–1983 El Niño event?
Did you know that Abbie Hutty hopes there really is life on Mars?
Did you know that Ashley Hatch was named 2017 NWSL Rookie of the Year and helped the North Carolina Courage win the 2017 NWSL Shield, scoring seven goals in 24 games?
Did you know that Latvian-born Lazar Bach became chair of the Communist Party of South Africa, but died in a Gulag?
Did you know that although the gall midge Schizomyia viticola can produce up to 135 galls on a single grape vine leaf, the plant is not harmed?
Did you know that researchers found that sending birthday cards to 21-year-olds did not help reduce harmful birthday drinking?
Did you know that the hymn "Den Herren will ich loben", which Maria Luise Thurmair based on the Magnificat to a popular 1613 melody, was arranged with trumpets and timpani for a papal visit in Munich's Frauenkirche?
Did you know that the new tour by "Weird Al" Yankovic focuses on Yankovic's original songs, as opposed to his staple parody songs?
Did you know that Altan Xire, the main township of a rural county in Inner Mongolia, has an extensive urban skyline?
Did you know that John de Mowbray, 2nd Duke of Norfolk's preparations for the 1415 Agincourt campaign cost him £2,000 and included a seat for his own toilet?
Did you know that Robert Traill was featured in an episode of Victoria, written by his great-great-great-granddaughter Daisy Goodwin?
Did you know that The Black Swan at Oldstead is rated the best restaurant in the world by TripAdvisor?
Did you know that during the summer of 2017, the Milli Fire burned over 24,000 acres (97 km2) of forest land in Oregon, much of it in the Three Sisters Wilderness area?
Did you know that the Arago hotspot may have been creating volcanoes, islands, atolls, and seamounts such as Îles Maria, Tuvalu, and the Marshall Islands for the past 120 million years?
Did you know that the cremation pyres (example pictured) built for Thai royal funerals symbolize Mount Meru, the Hindu centre of the universe?
Did you know that the first opera by Andrea Lorenzo Scartazzini premiered at the Theater Erfurt, the second at the Theater Basel, and the third at the Deutsche Oper Berlin in 2017?
Did you know that AirTrain JFK (vehicle pictured), an airport rail link in New York City, took almost 30 years to plan?
Did you know that Drake's song "KMT" sampled the theme "His World" from the 2006 video game Sonic the Hedgehog?
Did you know that Karam Singh was the first living recipient of the Param Vir Chakra, India's highest military decoration?
Did you know that a Vector General 3D terminal was used to create the 3D animation near the end of the original Star Wars?
Did you know that a global search yielded two mating partners for Jeremy, a rare left-coiled snail, but they began to mate with each other instead?
Did you know that the 1982 Bristow Helicopters Bell 212 crash was one of three fatal helicopter accidents Bristow Helicopters suffered in little more than a year in the North Sea?
Did you know that the musicologist Beatrix Borchard researched female musicians such as Clara Schumann, Amalie Joachim, and Pauline Viardot, and worked for the Goethe-Institut in Portugal, Romania, and China?
Did you know that Cranston Public Library delivered 4,657 items to homebound residents of Cranston, Rhode Island, in 2016 alone?
Did you know that Czech linguist Miroslav Komárek spent his entire six-decade academic career at Palacký University in Olomouc?
Did you know that Floor's use of the "bomb string" on their album Oblation was described as "a guitar string tuned so low it flaps like a pensioner's bingo wing"?
Did you know that computer science lecturer Cynthia B. Lee promoted the use of gender-neutral language across her department at Stanford University?
Did you know that in 2013, the Irish Famine Memorial was described as "the most mocked and reviled public sculpture in Boston"?