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Did you know that Indian choreographer Mrinalini Sarabhai suggested the egg-shaped Kuiper belt object 20000 Varuna be named after the Hindu deity Varuna?
Did you know that a protected structure on Britain Quay, once adorned with a time ball, was demolished to make way for the construction of Ireland's tallest building?
Did you know that posting one's feelings on social media is a form of affect labeling, and may help reduce emotional distress?
Did you know that the Clan Mackintosh fought against the Clan MacDonald and Clan Cameron in 1688, in what is claimed to have been the last Scottish clan battle?
Did you know that the LuEsther T. Mertz Library, one of the world's largest botanical libraries, had 6.5 million plant specimens and 75 percent of the world's systematic botany literature in 2002?
Did you know that the character of Rose Tico in the Star Wars sequel trilogy was played by Kelly Marie Tran, who had never seen a Star Wars film before auditioning?
Did you know that to avoid a curse against non-descendants placed by Siam's Prince of the Front Palace, two of his successors married his daughters?
Did you know that under Du Ruiqing's leadership, the Xi'an Foreign Languages Institute established one of the first centres for Australian studies in China?
Did you know that under the leadership of ethnomusicologist Agnes Nebo von Ballmoos, the University of Liberia choir performed around the world, including at Lincoln Center?
Did you know that when Donnis Thompson was appointed the University of Hawaii's first women's athletic director, she was given a budget of only $5,000?
Did you know that when Nicholas Danby recorded the complete organ works of Johannes Brahms, a reviewer noted that he had "put musicality above effect"?
Did you know that British colonial officer Max Henry Ferrars took hundreds of pictures of Burmese life and customs in the late 19th century, such as two men playing the Burmese version of chess (shown)?
Did you know that Charles H. Mahoney was the first African American to serve as a delegate to the United Nations?
Did you know that Christine Duffy, the president of Carnival Cruise Line, was considered too short to become a flight attendant?
Did you know that Kurt Honolka's mid–20th century German translation of Smetana's Dalibor was still being performed in 2019 in a new Oper Frankfurt production?
Did you know that Notre Père is a setting of the Lord's Prayer in French by Maurice Duruflé, and his only composition suitable for congregational singing?
Did you know that Satoru Noda, author of the manga series Supinamarada!, cited the series's difficult-to-remember name as a probable reason for its commercial failure?
Did you know that The Conspiracy Collection, a makeup palette whose creation is profiled in The Beautiful World of Jeffree Star, sold out in 30 minutes?
Did you know that in a 1967 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the deportation of an alien for being homosexual?
Did you know that the Anatolian frog is exported from Turkey to France, Italy and Switzerland for food, and is considered by the IUCN to be a near-threatened species?
Did you know that the Heckscher Playground, the oldest playground in New York City's Central Park, was initially opposed because people wanted to preserve the park's passive landscape?
Did you know that the Land League's "rival government" surpassed the power of the British government in many parts of Ireland during the late 19th century?
Did you know that the beetle Zaitzevia thermae has a total habitat of less than 35 square metres (380 sq ft) around one hot spring in Montana?
Did you know that to counter the influence of Western missionaries, a Japanese woman was hired as the first principal of Bangkok's Rajini School for girls in 1904?
Did you know that 44 Union Square in New York City has housed the Tammany Hall political organization, a labor union, and two theaters?
Did you know that Billy Wilder, an award-winning film director and screenwriter, had minimal knowledge of English when he arrived in Hollywood in 1934?
Did you know that David Hillhouse Buel, a lieutenant colonel in the Union Army, was assassinated by a fellow soldier whom he had imprisoned for desertion?
Did you know that Eastern Orthodox primate Anthony has spent most of his pastoral career in predominantly Roman Catholic areas?
Did you know that Frank Soo has been the only person of East Asian descent to play for the England national football team?
Did you know that Theodora Agnes Peck became the first female honorary member of the Medal of Honor Legion of the United States, at the age of 18?
Did you know that during the collision of India with Asia, the southern part of the Tibetan Plateau achieved its high elevation before the northern part (graphic pictured)?
Did you know that historian John Belchem's work covers popular radicalism in 19th-century Britain, Irish migration, the Isle of Man, and modern history?
Did you know that newly appointed U.S. senator Kelly Loeffler co-owns the women's basketball team Atlanta Dream?
Did you know that the 1990 Bijnor riot was the most destructive event during concurrent Hindu nationalist campaigns in India, which eventually led to the demolition of the Babri Masjid?
Did you know that the Epiphany hymn "Deep in the Darkness a Starlight is Gleaming" covers the topic of a Christian's journey, as Mary, Joseph and Jesus had done on the flight into Egypt?
Did you know that the book Trekonomics argues that while the warp drive seems impossible, Star Trek's post-scarcity economy can plausibly be achieved?
Did you know that when students feel a greater sense of school belonging, their mental health and well-being are improved?
Did you know that Clebsch–Gordan coefficients, which describe how spinning objects influence each other in quantum mechanics, come from the structure of semisimple representations?
Did you know that Herbert Willi composed Montafon, a cycle of four concertos with orchestra – for trumpet, flute and oboe, clarinet, and horn?
Did you know that Honey Davenport reigned over Paradise before appearing on RuPaul's Drag Race?
Did you know that KFXY in Flagstaff, Arizona, was reported by American newspapers in 1925 to be the only radio station in the world owned by a woman?
Did you know that Nepal's first highway tunnel was constructed by the country's first civil engineering graduate?
Did you know that Richard Verschoor won the 2019 Macau Grand Prix, becoming the first Dutch driver to win the event?
Did you know that Scarlett Johansson's film roles have included spy Natasha Romanoff, English queen Anne Boleyn's sister Mary, and an artificially intelligent voice assistant?
Did you know that in Buddhist art, bodhisattvas are often shown seated in royal ease (example pictured)?
Did you know that microcracks in rocks are oriented roughly parallel to the maximum applied stress?
Did you know that nearly half of paramilitary punishment attacks in Northern Ireland have occurred since the official end of the conflict?
Did you know that the Real Monasterio de Santo Tomás (church interior pictured), a royal monastery and burial place for John, Prince of Asturias, now houses two museums?
Did you know that the W New York Union Square building and the Everett Building form an "imposing terminus" to New York City's Park Avenue South?
Did you know that DreamWorks Water Park, advertised as North America's largest indoor water park, will include a 1.5-acre (0.61 ha) wave pool and 40 water slides?
Did you know that Ivan Borkovský, under Nazi German pressure, identified the Prague Castle skeleton as a Nordic burial and then later, under Soviet pressure, as a Slavic burial?
Did you know that Queen Teriitaria II led her people into battle and defeated a French invasion force during the Franco-Tahitian War?
Did you know that Russian historian Inna Lubimenko wrote about the letters between Queen Elizabeth I and Ivan the Terrible?
Did you know that WWNN (980 AM) in Pompano Beach, Florida, was the first radio station in the United States to adopt a format consisting of motivational speeches?
Did you know that after American baritone Raymond Wolansky appeared as a guest at the Staatsoper Stuttgart as Verdi's Rigoletto, he remained at the theatre for more than 30 years and made an international career?
Did you know that during the Stary Ciepielów and Rekówka massacre, five Polish families were executed by Nazis for helping Jews?
Did you know that orchestrator Charlie Rosen can play 70 different musical instruments?
Did you know that six All India Institutes of Medical Sciences began operating in 2019, including institutes in Telangana, in Jharkhand, and in West Bengal?
Did you know that superstitious people hold a Cleveland Indian responsible for losses by the Cleveland Indians?
Did you know that the 14th-century manuscript The equatorie of the planetis, sometimes ascribed to Chaucer, describes an equatorium (example pictured)?
Did you know that the 2019 drama thriller Living in Bondage: Breaking Free became one of the highest-grossing Nigerian films of all time?
Did you know that the Superior Craton covers central Canada?
Did you know that "Wir pflügen und wir streuen" ('We plow and sow'), with words by Matthias Claudius, began as a song of a fictional harvest festival, and is now a Protestant hymn for Erntedankfest?
Did you know that John Muriel's novel Youth in Bondage, about the love life of a schoolmaster's wife, was banned in the Republic of Ireland?
Did you know that Queen Elizabeth II owns more than 200 handbags by Launer London (example pictured)?
Did you know that William Verbeck, who served as Adjutant General of the New York National Guard, was born to Dutch missionaries in Nagasaki, Japan?
Did you know that a mandarin duck that appeared in New York City's Central Park became an international celebrity, with followers whom the Associated Press called "quackarazzi"?
Did you know that early tenants at New York City's Lincoln Building ranged from architects such as Alfred Zucker to film companies such as the Universal Film Manufacturing Company?
Did you know that several months after Thomas I. Gasson became the president of Boston College, he began arranging to relocate the school to Chestnut Hill?
Did you know that the Renfrewshire Council cloned the Wallace Yew, as the historic tree was dying from a fungal infection?
Did you know that American coloratura soprano Laura Aikin, who began her opera career in Berlin, appeared as Marie in Zimmermann's Die Soldaten at the 2012 Salzburg Festival?
Did you know that Kim A. Wagner, a Danish author of books on India, is named after Rudyard Kipling's novel Kim?
Did you know that Mexican soldier Jorge López Pérez is wanted for high treason, but has been a fugitive since 2003?
Did you know that according to a 2001 documentary, Ron Jeremy became a pornographic actor after his girlfriend sent a nude photo of him to Playgirl magazine?
Did you know that high mountains can remain standing on Jupiter's moon Io because of heat-pipe tectonics?
Did you know that oak trees associated with William Wallace stood in Elderslie, Port Glasgow and Torwood in Scotland?
Did you know that people have randomly interjected the phrase "Epstein didn't kill himself" as a non sequitur at the end of statements?
Did you know that school officials in Palm Springs were not successful in using radio station KPSH-FM as a vocational tool, so they turned it over to the University of Southern California?
Did you know that the Lac La Croix Indian Pony was recreated from a breeding population of four mares by crossing them with a Spanish Mustang?
Did you know that the cotton mealybug, originally discovered in an underground ants' nest in New Mexico, is now a major cotton pest in India?
Did you know that the hymn "Gott, der du warst und bist und bleibst" ('God, you who were, are, and will be') was composed for the opening of the Sankt Georgen seminary church in Frankfurt?
Did you know that British neuroscientist Rebeccah Slater led a study that showed that not only do babies experience pain, they may be more sensitive to it than adults?
Did you know that Eleanor Vadala, the third woman in the U.S. to receive FAA certification as a balloon pilot, also studied and repaired balloons, and drove chase cars after them?
Did you know that Kate Griffiths was elected member of Parliament for Burton in the 2019 UK general election, replacing her estranged husband?
Did you know that Salvatore Pais's design for an electromagnetic field generator to deflect asteroids away from the Earth has been patented by the U.S. Navy?
Did you know that historians have not concluded whether Hans Raj turned state's evidence for the British Raj, or if he had been a police agent all along?
Did you know that one person died during the 1929 New Zealand cyclone when a railway locomotive fell from washed-out track into the Taieri River?
Did you know that the Figuralchor Frankfurt, founded in 1966 as a youth choir for the state broadcaster Hessischer Rundfunk, sang Mahler's Symphony of a Thousand at the opening of the Alte Oper concert hall?
Did you know that the SCO Forum computer conference was noted for its redwood-forested setting?
Did you know that Bessie S. McColgin, the first woman elected to the Oklahoma House of Representatives, was seen as a "superior orator"?
Did you know that Earl Landgrebe said, "Don't confuse me with the facts. I've got a closed mind. I will not vote for impeachment" when asked about the transcript of the "smoking gun" tape?
Did you know that Pervez Musharraf is the first former military ruler in Pakistan's history to face a trial for treason?
Did you know that Virginia Crosbie, the member of Parliament for Ynys Môn, is a former dolphin trainer?
Did you know that after the end of the First World War, thousands of former British Army officers were forced to sleep rough in Hyde Park?
Did you know that around 200 CE, the Indian monk Nagarjuna exhorted a king to make "Images of Buddha with fine proportions / Well designed and sitting on lotuses" (example pictured)?
Did you know that sedimentary rock in the Junggar Basin in northwestern China was formed by deposition from rivers and lakes in the Permian?
Did you know that the 1886 St. Croix River log jam was described as the "jammedest jam"?
Did you know that the Charlotte MLS team signed a kit sponsorship deal months before being officially awarded an expansion franchise?
Did you know that the German Advent song "Tochter Zion, freue dich" has words by Friedrich Heinrich Ranke set to music used for triumphant entrances in two of Handel's oratorios?
Did you know that Albert Flynn, the director of the British Army's accounts, wrote stories about aliens invading the Earth?
Did you know that Chelsea McClammer was the youngest member of Team USA's track-and-field team at the 2008 Summer Paralympics?
Did you know that Hugh Orde, the head of the Police Service of Northern Ireland, has been criticized for using the phrase "acceptable level of violence"?
Did you know that Megan Fisher is the first woman with a lower-leg amputation to complete an XTERRA off-road triathlon?
Did you know that The Sack of Bath, a collection of newspaper articles by Adam Fergusson, sparked a resurgence in architectural conservation in Britain?
Did you know that Walsh McDermott won a Lasker Award for his research on isoniazid, an antibiotic that he had taken to treat his own case of tuberculosis?
Did you know that actor Chris Evans made his film debut in an educational film co-produced by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation?
Did you know that separate locker rooms and a divider in the gymnasium help segregate middle-school and high-school students at Cypress Creek Middle High School in Wesley Chapel, Florida?
Did you know that the Cowthorpe Oak was mentioned in Shakespeare's As You Like It?
Did you know that the Mariä Krönung pilgrimage church in Lautenbach (interior pictured) retains original Gothic features, such as the high altar and fused stained-glass windows?
Did you know that the hymn "Nun lässest du, o Herr", written by Georg Thurmair as a paraphrase of the Nunc dimittis, appeared with a 16th-century melody in the first Gotteslob, but with a modern one in the second?
Did you know that Francis Dzierozynski's dispute with Archbishop Ambrose Maréchal over land ownership in Maryland escalated to involve Pope Pius VII and two U.S. secretaries of state?
Did you know that GrapheneOS, a free and open-source operating system for selected Google Pixel smartphones, was recommended by Edward Snowden?
Did you know that Khabzela, a 2005 bestselling biography by Liz McGregor, concerns a South African disc jockey who died of AIDS?
Did you know that Nesta Wells, the first British female police surgeon, published a survey in the British Medical Journal of the 1,959 suspected sexual offence cases which had been referred to her?
Did you know that Russian historian Igor Pavlovich Shaskol'skii helped build defensive structures during the Siege of Leningrad?
Did you know that William Goldman secretly assembled a collection of photographs (example shown) of prostitutes in Reading, Pennsylvania, in the 1890s?
Did you know that all the residents of Wallacepur, a village in the Indian state of Gujarat, are Christian?
Did you know that the 1938 hymn "Dein Lob, Herr, ruft der Himmel aus" ('The sky shouts your praise, Lord') is based on a text by a 17th-century Jesuit astronomer paraphrasing Psalm 19?
Did you know that the Hazeltine 2000 is possibly the first general-purpose computer terminal?
Did you know that the parting of the Red Sea scene in Cecil B. DeMille's 1956 film The Ten Commandments was created by filming the release of hundreds of thousands of gallons of water into a large tank and playing the resulting footage backwards?
Did you know that the red crabs (example pictured) dominating the wildlife of Christmas Island have been threatened by the arrival of yellow crazy ants?
Did you know that American actress and romance novelist Bella Jarrett was a member of Mensa International, the largest and oldest high IQ society in the world?
Did you know that Amritsar 1919 by Kim A. Wagner aims to dispel myths surrounding the Jallianwala Bagh massacre?
Did you know that Anisocentropus krampus was described in the same paper as other insects with monstrous names like Ganonema dracula and Anisocentropus golem?
Did you know that Lucinda L. Combs, the first female medical missionary to serve in China, established Beijing's first women's hospital?
Did you know that Sangrador, Venezuela's submission for the 2003 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, had only 31 box-office attendances in the country that year?
Did you know that U.S. citizens are prohibited from engaging in business activities with Abel Briones Ruiz?
Did you know that a court case about the Devils Hole pupfish (examples pictured) went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court?
Did you know that as the youngest UK Member of Parliament elected in 2019, Nadia Whittome became the Baby of the House?
Did you know that the 12-year license fight that led to the establishment of Washington, D.C., radio station WYCB also drained its principals' finances?
Did you know that the Plaza de Isabel II now stands on the site where an historic fountain was buried in 1809, and may be the starting point of the Walls of the Arrabal?
Did you know that Angelo Neumann toured major European opera houses with a production of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen using the sets and costumes from its 1876 world premiere at the Bayreuth Festival?
Did you know that French general Guillaume Brune (portrait shown) signed the Armistice of Treviso on 16 January 1801, despite promising Napoleon that he would not agree to a ceasefire on such terms?
Did you know that Reema Juffali (pictured in race car) is the first Saudi Arabian woman to obtain a racing license and compete in an international racing event in the country?
Did you know that although Michael Buie practiced Fox News anchor Bret Baier's speaking style for his role in the film Bombshell, they had never talked to each other until after filming had finished?
Did you know that engraver Julius Bien sided with liberals in the 1848 revolutions like many other Jews, and fled Germany to the U.S., where he became a lithographer and the president of B'nai B'rith?
Did you know that gay pornographic film actor and director Erik Rhodes was posthumously outed as HIV-positive in his New York Times obituary?
Did you know that the first episode of Welcome to the Family was Catalan network TV3's most watched premiere in over a decade?
Did you know that the oldest rock in the Eastern Block of the North China Craton is a 3.8- to 3.6-billion-year-old trondhjemitic piece of gneiss?
Did you know that the palm scale was first found on an endemic species of palm on the island of Réunion, but now infests plants in at least 78 families around the world?
Did you know that Hui Aloha ʻĀina was established in 1893 to promote Hawaiian independence and oppose the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom?
Did you know that Marilyn Saviola, a polio survivor, attended Long Island University classes remotely by telephone from her hospital ward?
Did you know that Ralph Evans is the first Welshman to win an Olympic medal in boxing?
Did you know that according to a 2019 biography, R. N. Kao forewarned Indira Gandhi and Sheikh Mujibur Rahman about their assassinations?
Did you know that artist Salvador Dalí claimed that his pet ocelot (both pictured) was an ordinary domestic cat that he had "painted over in an op art design"?
Did you know that before becoming an electrical engineer and factory inspector, Marjorie Bell shovelled coal at a gas works?
Did you know that more than 18 million trees were planted to create Larose Forest in Eastern Ontario, Canada?
Did you know that taxi driver Pierre Mambele was credited with playing "a unique part in shaping coverage" from the Democratic Republic of the Congo?
Did you know that the 1864–65 Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem created the first "perfectly accurate" map of the city, and was the impetus for the new Palestine Exploration Fund?
Did you know that the Czech-language fascist newspaper Arijský boj ('Aryan Struggle') claimed that the daughter of a former president kept a lesbian harem and lusted after Jewish men?
Did you know that the West Fifth Street Bridge in Austin, Texas, is a cantilever bridge designed to look like an arch bridge?
Did you know that Antares Point, the part of Route 66 that runs through Antares, Arizona, is the longest continuous curve on any U.S. highway?
Did you know that Carole Ann Haswell was part of the team that discovered the super-Earth-like exoplanet Barnard's Star b?
Did you know that Dehenna Davison is Bishop Auckland's first Conservative member of Parliament since the constituency's creation in 1885?
Did you know that German journalist Jürgen Hinzpeter, who covered the Gwangju Uprising, was honored by the May 18 Memorial Foundation with a memorial stone containing his hair and nail clippings?
Did you know that New York City's Grand Central Terminal was built at its current location because of a prohibition of steam trains in Lower Manhattan?
Did you know that Pepe the Frog and the LIHKG pig have become the unofficial mascots of the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests?
Did you know that Polish baritone Wacław Brzeziński was praised in Italy for his performances as Rossini's Figaro and Verdi's Rigoletto?
Did you know that Shanqi, a Manchu prince, worked with the Japanese Empire and his daughter, Yoshiko Kawashima, to create an independent state in Manchuria in 1912?
Did you know that a whale found in western Vermont has presented further evidence of glaciation in New England?
Did you know that according to Kuldip Nayar, Hans Raj Vohra's testimony in 1929 was "crucial" in his associate, Bhagat Singh, being sentenced to death?
Did you know that amateur radio operator Charles E. Apgar's recordings of radio transmissions during World War I were found to include covert messages that exposed an espionage ring?
Did you know that cooking manga achieved mainstream popularity in the 1980s as a result of the "gourmet boom" associated with the Japanese bubble economy?
Did you know that kogin-zashi (patterns pictured) was created by peasants to bypass local regulations on clothing during the Edo period?