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Did you know that Neal McCoy wanted his anti-protest song "Take a Knee, My Ass (I Won't Take a Knee)" to "bring people together"?
Did you know that New Zealand-born Vance Drummond won the South Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry as a Royal Australian Air Force pilot serving with the United States Air Force?
Did you know that after the original 1932 release of the film Scarface, it was removed from circulation and remained officially unavailable for nearly 50 years?
Did you know that hairs shed by caterpillars of the brown-tail moth can be wind-borne and cause a rash in humans similar to poison ivy?
Did you know that Abu al-Juyush Nasr became the Sultan of Granada in 1309 following the ousting of his brother, only to be ousted in a civil war five years later?
Did you know that Claude Debussy composed The Little Nigar, a cakewalk, for a piano method?
Did you know that Gavin Buckley, the mayor of Annapolis, Maryland, thinks of himself as Australian?
Did you know that US President Donald Trump's nomination of meteorologist Kelvin Droegemeier to direct the Office of Science and Technology Policy has been received positively by scientists?
Did you know that social media users made Joshua Reynolds's David Garrick Between Tragedy and Comedy into a meme based on the distracted boyfriend meme?
Did you know that the goose barnacle Conchoderma virgatum rarely attaches directly to a fish, but four were once found attached to a single spine of a porcupinefish?
Did you know that voice actress Rie Murakawa's accolades include the Best Funny Radio and Best Comfort Radio awards in 2016?
Did you know that Ludwigsburg Palace, the "Versailles of Swabia", was home to four of Württemberg's rulers?
Did you know that Lydia May Ames, one of Cleveland's earliest women artists, is sometimes considered its first impressionist painter?
Did you know that Red W Interactiva, a talk radio network in Mexico, operated for only 102 days?
Did you know that a solar-powered device for extracting water from the air, co-designed by Evelyn Wang, has been compared to the moisture vaporators in Star Wars?
Did you know that in the midst of being chased by Aṅgulimāla, a brigand and serial killer, the Buddha stated: "I am standing still, you are not standing still"?
Did you know that the Austro-Italian ironclad arms race led to the Battle of Lissa, the first naval engagement between multiple armored warships?
Did you know that the writer İsmet Kür's father and sister were writers, and her daughter is also a writer?
Did you know that Hope not Hate released commemorative mugs and teatowels to mark the retirement of Brian Parker, the British National Party's last district councillor?
Did you know that Magema Magwaza Fuze was the first native speaker to publish a book in the Zulu language?
Did you know that Seattle's Denny Way was originally named "Depot Street" in hopes of luring a major train station?
Did you know that at the end of the unsuccessful Siege of Almería, some of the defeated Aragonese attackers were left under the protection of the Muslim defenders while awaiting their evacuation?
Did you know that basketball player Norvel Pelle holds citizenship in three countries—Antigua and Barbuda, Lebanon, and the United States?
Did you know that on 24 August 1878, Charles-Marie Widor premiered his Symphony for Organ No. 6 for the inauguration of the Cavaillé-Coll organ at the Palais du Trocadéro as part of the Paris World Exhibition?
Did you know that the preferred food of the copepod Pseudocalanus newmani includes diatoms of the genus Thalassiosira, which can be toxic to its young?
Did you know that Andalusian philosopher Averroes theorized that all human beings share a single intellect, and Thomas Aquinas wrote a treatise to refute this theory?
Did you know that Serge Blanc was the first to record Leonard Bernstein's Serenade after Plato's "Symposium" in France?
Did you know that one of the financers of the Spire, a residential building in Seattle, joined the project as a result of a state visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping?
Did you know that the ancestors of the grey cuckooshrike most likely spread to Africa from the Australo-Papuan region?
Did you know that Ülo Nugis was the first Estonian politician to publicly call for Estonia to join NATO, even while Soviet troops were still present in the Baltic nation?
Did you know that Ina Hartwig, formerly on the editorial staff of Frankfurter Rundschau, published a biography of Ingeborg Bachmann in 2017?
Did you know that Margot Fonteyn was The Royal Ballet's prima ballerina for 45 years, before retiring to become a cattle rancher in Panama?
Did you know that Ralph Vaughan Williams set Psalm 47 in English, O clap your hands, as a motet for choir and orchestra in 1920?
Did you know that Robert Einstein, a cousin of Nobel Prize Laureate Albert Einstein, committed suicide less than a year after his family was murdered by German soldiers in World War II?
Did you know that a story by Argentine mathematician Magdalena Mouján about a Basque family that travels back in time to their homeland was blocked by the Franco regime?
Did you know that El Tatio is the largest geyser field in the southern hemisphere and one of two worldwide with the highest elevation?
Did you know that during Governor Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign, political aide Carol Rasco took over Arkansas's "daily business"?
Did you know that during World War II, future Oregon state senator Gordon W. McKay participated in the Battle of Tarawa as a Seabee?
Did you know that the 1810 Catholic hymnal by Christoph Bernhard Verspoell, with his melodies and organ settings, contains a song included in the Catholic hymnal Gotteslob in 2013?
Did you know that the Carpenters received hate mail because they combined a soft ballad with a loud electric guitar?
Did you know that the diet of the skeleton shrimp Caprella equilibra consists mainly of detritus, but it also feeds on the hydroids to which it clings?
Did you know that Migrant Architects of the NHS recounts how doctors from the Indian subcontinent immigrated to Britain and became general practitioners?
Did you know that after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the Austro-Hungarian cruiser SMS Admiral Spaun escorted the ship carrying his body back to Trieste?
Did you know that on its tenth anniversary, the webcomic "Loss" was replaced by an edited version titled "Found"?
Did you know that the Thai Buddhist monk Luang Por Dhammajayo launched an anti-smoking and drinking campaign that won an award from the World Health Organization?
Did you know that Japanese singer Reona was a cosplayer before starting her music career?
Did you know that William Preucil has served as concertmaster for four American orchestras—the Atlanta Symphony, Utah Symphony, Nashville Symphony, and Cleveland Orchestra?
Did you know that in his final college basketball game, Andrew Rowsey broke Marquette's single-season scoring record set by Dwyane Wade?
Did you know that the US Drug Enforcement Administration is looking for a man known as The Claw?
Did you know that the secretary blenny is a slender ambush predator with large eyes?
Did you know that the video game Dungeons 3 was described as the closest its developer came to creating a successor to the popular Dungeon Keeper series?
Did you know that Doug Gurr, head of Amazon UK, has said that a no-deal Brexit could lead to civil unrest "within two weeks"?
Did you know that Gaqo Çako was the lead tenor for more than three decades at the National Theatre of Opera and Ballet of Albania?
Did you know that St. Peter's Church in Malmö, Sweden, was once the largest town church in Denmark?
Did you know that the Beach Boys' Transcendental Meditation-inspired Friends (1968) was their last album of the 1960s to involve former bandleader Brian Wilson?
Did you know that Anastasia Soare is the "Eyebrow Queen"?
Did you know that Bulgaria's first cosmonaut, Georgi Ivanov, safely returned to Earth despite a failing main engine and a damaged backup engine on his Soyuz 33 spacecraft?
Did you know that despite having Stage IV lung cancer, Sutopo Purwo Nugroho continues to act as spokesman for the Indonesian National Board for Disaster Management?
Did you know that the creators of the video game franchise God of War named their main character Kratos without knowing that an actual god by that name appears in the Greek tragedy Prometheus Bound?
Did you know that the parasitic sprat eye-maggot attaches to its sprat host through its eye?
Did you know that voice actress Aya Hirano played the lead role in the multi-award-winning anime series The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya?
Did you know that where the United States has FAANG, China has BAT?
Did you know that Ian Aird performed chest surgery on a wounded German officer after the British surgeon had been captured by a German Panzer column during the North African Campaign?
Did you know that Keanolani was the illegitimate daughter of King Kamehameha V, who died in 1872 without naming an heir to the throne?
Did you know that SpaceX's Rocket Development and Test Facility is on the site of Bluebonnet Ordnance Plant, a former World War II bomb-making facility?
Did you know that Texas-born Mario Alberto Peña became a suspected regional leader of the Gulf Cartel and a gangster folk hero on both sides of the Mexico–United States border?
Did you know that Wieluń, Poland, became the first city to sustain major damage and casualties from German bombing in World War II?
Did you know that Wikipedia has a rule allowing its editors to "ignore all rules"?
Did you know that biblical criticism was dominated by white male Protestant Christians until the late twentieth century?
Did you know that Japanese erotic film star Mitsu Dan writes fiction for literary magazines?
Did you know that Munafri Arifuddin ran unopposed for mayor of Makassar, Indonesia, won more than 250,000 votes, and lost?
Did you know that a lost film by Andy Warhol shows the production of Jack Smith's Normal Love?
Did you know that exports of Vienna porcelain (example pictured) to the Ottoman Empire reached 120,000 pieces a year in the 18th century?
Did you know that former CIA agent Luis Posada Carriles twice escaped from prison in Venezuela, where he faced trial for the bombing of Cubana Flight 455?
Did you know that Hawaiian diplomat John Mākini Kapena was sent to Japan in 1882 to discuss Japanese immigration to Hawaii?
Did you know that Ronald Smelser's 2008 book The Myth of the Eastern Front focuses on the myth of the clean Wehrmacht?
Did you know that clothes created by Matilda Etches in the 1940s were the first modern fashion items to be honoured as key acquisitions by London's Victoria and Albert Museum?
Did you know that for his song of praise "Lobet den Herren alle, die ihn ehren", Paul Gerhardt used the Sapphic stanza?
Did you know that prior to heading Ghana's petroleum authority, lawyer Hassan Tampuli secured the release of a journalist who had been detained for writing about the country's president?
Did you know that the Palembang Light Rail Transit, which opened last month, is the first operational light rail system in Indonesia?
Did you know that the cocoi heron is the largest heron in South America?
Did you know that 15 future professors of medicine in Japan worked in Ken Hashimoto's American laboratory?
Did you know that Arthur Machen's novella The Great God Pan has influenced such writers as H. P. Lovecraft, Peter Straub, and Stephen King?
Did you know that Ramiz Kovaçi, a baritone at the National Theatre of Opera and Ballet of Albania, was also a jury member for a light music festival?
Did you know that one account has it that King Charles II offered his mistress Nell Gwyn "all the land she could ride around before breakfast"—and the next morning she rode out early and encircled what would become Bestwood Park?
Did you know that the sea anemone Diadumene cincta reproduces by basal laceration, with pieces of tissue becoming detached from the base and developing into new individuals?
Did you know that Mary Blair Moody became the first woman to earn an MD from Buffalo Medical College?
Did you know that Tosia Altman's blonde hair and fluency in Polish enabled her to pass as a gentile and travel between Jewish ghettos in German-occupied Poland to organize armed resistance to the Holocaust?
Did you know that one of the scientific names in use for the Kimberley death adder was given in honour of actor Burt Lancaster?
Did you know that raindrop cake is a dessert made of water and agar, and has practically no calories?
Did you know that the B&B Carousell, built over 100 years ago, is the last operating carousel in Coney Island?
Did you know that the Jordan Misja Artistic Lyceum in Tirana counts among its alumni most Albanian professional artists, as well as the current Prime Minister of Albania?
Did you know that there are no rules against reverse rotational lifts, in which the woman lifts the man, as competition elements in ice dance?
Did you know that MIS416, a drug derived from bacteria that cause acne, was used to treat multiple sclerosis in New Zealand under a compassionate use law before clinical trials were unable to prove its efficacy?
Did you know that Mulshankar Mulani introduced tragedy to Gujarati theatre?
Did you know that The Mass Extermination of Jews in German Occupied Poland was the first official document to inform the Western Allies about the Holocaust?
Did you know that as a volunteer infantryman in the American Civil War, Felix Agnus saved the life of Captain Judson Kilpatrick?
Did you know that paper wheels provided a quiet and smooth ride in Pullman dining and sleeping cars?
Did you know that Canadian basketball player Grandy Glaze made his professional debut in the Liga Nacional de Baloncesto Profesional, which he led in rebounding?
Did you know that in 2016, fifty years after the Batman villain Poison Ivy was introduced, she starred in her own comic book miniseries?
Did you know that sand from Sandy Hook, New Jersey, and New York City's Rockaway Peninsula was brought by barge to Orchard Beach?
Did you know that while attempting to escape from underwater predators, the tropical two-wing flyingfish may find other hazards above the waves?
Did you know that Prince William Pitt Leleiohoku II formed the Kawaihau Glee Club, said to be composed of the "very purest and sweetest male voices to be found amongst the Native Hawaiians"?
Did you know that before becoming a college professor, Alan L. Gropman flew more than 670 combat missions during two tours of Vietnam?
Did you know that despite winning Roush Fenway Racing's 100th NASCAR Cup Series race in the 2007 Dodge Dealers 400, driver Carl Edwards was penalized for his car being too low at the right-rear?
Did you know that every Australian has the right to a free portrait of the Queen?
Did you know that the first NCAA Basketball Championship Game was attended by James Naismith, the inventor of basketball?
Did you know that when Castile invited Navarre to join an alliance against Muhammad VII of Granada, Charles III of Navarre informed Muhammad VII of this scheme, called him "my brother" and sent him military aid?
Did you know that Milton Griepp was receiving unemployment benefits when he co-founded Capital City Distribution, which became the largest comic book distributor in the United States?
Did you know that despite homosexuality being punishable by death, Iranian LGBT activists celebrate IranPride Day (logo pictured) by secretly photographing themselves holding rainbow flags in Tehran and other cities?
Did you know that if completed, the proposed 1,422-foot (433 m) Tribune East Tower would be the second tallest building in Chicago, behind the Willis Tower?
Did you know that in 1985, Victor Almaraz made a charro outfit which consisted mainly of pull tabs from 2,500 aluminum cans?
Did you know that in 2016, Jaime Bonilla Valdez invited current Mexican president-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador to his suite at Petco Park to watch the Major League Baseball All-Star Game?
Did you know that American missionary Mary Sophia Hyde Rice taught Sanford B. Dole, who later became Hawaii's only president?
Did you know that Godfrey's Cordial, a popular infant sedative in Victorian Britain, led to numerous fatalities?
Did you know that Max Steiner was often criticized for his excessive use of "Mickey Mousing" in his film scores?
Did you know that mezzo-soprano Sybille Specht appeared as La Belle in a chamber opera by Philip Glass at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz?
Did you know that the 2018 animated film Seder-Masochism was said to turn parts of the Exodus (God figure pictured) "into Busby Berkeley-style song-and-dance numbers"?
Did you know that though caterpillars feed on the leaves of Hypericum punctatum, the foliage is toxic to mammals?
Did you know that Elizabeth Kekaʻaniau was the last surviving royal student from the Chiefs' Children's School, a select school for the nobles and rulers of the Kingdom of Hawaii?
Did you know that Fredy Hirsch saved the lives of children at Auschwitz by impressing SS guards, even though he was Jewish and openly gay?
Did you know that Roberto Benedicto was so close to his fraternity brother, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, that he had full access to the presidential quarters in Malacañang Palace?
Did you know that editorial cartoonist Etta Hulme began her artistic career at Walt Disney animation studio under Ward Kimball?
Did you know that sections of Washington State Route 821 are shut down for annual cattle drives, a marathon, and a heritage tractor run?
Did you know that the Royal Air Force's "Winkle" system tracked aircraft by listening for their radar jammers?
Did you know that the breakout single "broken" by lovelytheband was inspired by its vocalist after he split up with his previous band, Oh Honey?
Did you know that the oceanic two-wing flyingfish exhibits countershading?
Did you know that Vanessa Delgado's 112-day term in the California State Senate will be the shortest tenure since 1903?
Did you know that in 1948, Ralph Ellison, Richard Wright, and Fredric Wertham helped establish the Lafargue Clinic in New York City, one of the first to provide low-cost psychiatric services to black patients?
Did you know that in 2001, HIV/AIDS campaigner Minoo Mohraz defied a media ban by using the word "condom" on Iranian national television?
Did you know that pieces of Hirado ware decorated with seven boys chasing butterflies were once made only for the shōgun and emperors of Japan?
Did you know that the Mount Cayley massif in British Columbia has been investigated as a potential geothermal energy resource?
Did you know that a Jewish prisoner at the Auschwitz concentration camp escaped disguised as an SS guard along with an SS-Rottenführer?
Did you know that a line of T-shirts produced by Massive Goods featuring art by Gengoroh Tagame became popular in the LGBTQ hip-hop scene?
Did you know that in 2017, Lorena Cuéllar Cisneros joined eight other Mexican senators in switching parties after a dispute over commission seats, more than doubling the Labor Party's ranks?
Did you know that the Hanbo scandal, one of South Korea's largest corruption cases, involved presidential aides, a former minister, and top banking executives?
Did you know that the long tails on the hindwings of the Luna moth are thought to interfere with echolocation detection used by predatory bats?
Did you know that Das goldene Kreuz (The Golden Cross), the second opera by Ignaz Brüll, was an immediate international success but was later banned by the Nazi regime?
Did you know that James T. Mullen was the first Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus?
Did you know that Radio Times critic Alison Graham called the character Jacob Masters "a cocky narcissist" following his debut in Casualty?
Did you know that in 1985, Shiv Pande arranged for a joint India-Pakistan cricket team to play "the rest of the world" in aid of Mother Teresa's charity and the orphans of the Bhopal gas disaster?
Did you know that the 2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship took place at the Edel-optics.de Arena in Hamburg?
Did you know that the comic book The Accelerators was originally conceived as a screenplay?
Did you know that "Love Men Holic" by Shiena Nishizawa is a love song that uses ramen-related puns in its lyrics?
Did you know that United States Route 66, decommissioned in 1985, was recently designated as a bicycle route?
Did you know that on arriving in Cuba in 1920, the SS Yarmouth (crew pictured), flagship of Marcus Garvey's Black Star Line, was hailed as the "Ark of the Covenant of the colored people"?
Did you know that the Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of India has sometimes been more influential than senior government ministers?
Did you know that the Überwasserkirche, a Gothic hall church in Münster, was the location of the second of three sermons held in 1941 by Bishop Clemens August Graf von Galen in defiance of the Nazi regime?
Did you know that a record reward was raised by the local Crime Stoppers in the month-long search for missing University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts, who was found dead in a cornfield?
Did you know that around one million pilgrims visit the Sanctuary of San Gerardo Maiella in Materdomini, Italy, each year?
Did you know that during the Battle of Neville's Cross, King David II of Scotland was shot twice in the face by arrows and taken prisoner after knocking out the teeth of his captor?
Did you know that in 2018, Diede de Groot became the first woman in wheelchair tennis to win both the women's singles and doubles events at Wimbledon?
Did you know that some Ludwigsburg porcelain figures from the 1760s (example pictured) show the lighter dance costumes pioneered by the ballet master Jean-Georges Noverre?
Did you know that the Apple Capital Recreation Loop Trail in Wenatchee, Washington, was funded by a local utility company as part of environmental mitigation for hydroelectric dams?
Did you know that with the USC Trojans, beach volleyball player Sara Hughes won 103 consecutive matches and 2 NCAA Championships?
Did you know that "Wenn ich, o Schöpfer, deine Macht", part of German Protestant and Catholic hymnals, began as a poem by Christian Fürchtegott Gellert from the Age of Enlightenment?
Did you know that Bob Wood, co-creator of the comic Crime Does Not Pay, served three years in prison for manslaughter, and was murdered a year after his release?
Did you know that Kaʻiminaʻauao, a younger sibling of Hawaii's Queen Liliʻuokalani, died in an epidemic that killed more than 10,000 people, mostly Native Hawaiians?
Did you know that Niel Gow, a Scottish fiddler, is said to have composed many of his best-known tunes under a tree on the banks of the River Tay?
Did you know that in 1381, during the Peasants' Revolt, John Fresshe—later to be Lord Mayor of London—was widely suspected of encouraging the mob to burn down the Marshalsea Prison?
Did you know that the United States government purchased John Lennon's boyhood stamp album for the National Philatelic Collection?
Did you know that the brown-hooded kingfisher, about 22 centimetres (8.7 in) long, has been recorded eating reptiles as long as 25 centimetres (9.8 in)?
Did you know that Alexander Polycleitos Cawadias denied there was such a thing as a true hermaphrodite?
Did you know that Arrowe Country Park sits on land purchased in 1800 by the Mayor of Liverpool with money earned from the slave trade?
Did you know that Belgian footballer Romelu Lukaku has scored two international hat-tricks, but only one is recognised by FIFA?
Did you know that Sabrina, a critique of the modern "fake news" era, is the first graphic novel to be longlisted for the Booker Prize?
Did you know that attorney Kristin Cooper, the current First Lady of North Carolina, has performed in several plays with her daughters?
Did you know that from 1660 to 1700, the majority of Japanese porcelain was made to be exported?
Did you know that the German composer Karl Ludwig Drobisch and his brother calculated planetary movements?
Did you know that Big Tips Texas features scantily-clad waitresses from Redneck Heaven, a breastaurant whose body-paint events led to nudity law changes in at least three Texas municipalities?