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Did you know that the Battle of Chippenham was part of a coordinated strike by Guthrum and Ubba to take Wessex?
Did you know that the Singer Building, the world's tallest building when completed, later became the world's tallest building to be demolished?
Did you know that the title of the ballet Polyphonia is a reference to micropolyphony, a kind of musical structure developed by composer György Ligeti?
Did you know that when Tejano singer Lydia Mendoza was a child returning to Texas with her parents in 1920, border agents immersed her and other Mexican children in gasoline baths?
Did you know that Japanese essayist Mineko Nomachi's 2006 book I'm Queer But I'm An Office Lady details her experience as a transgender woman in a pink-collar job?
Did you know that John H. Dudley and his wife both worked on the Manhattan Project, but did not tell each other because of security restrictions?
Did you know that Klaviermusik mit Orchester, a 1923 piano concerto for the left hand by Paul Hindemith, was first performed in 2004 by Leon Fleisher and the Berlin Philharmonic?
Did you know that a gallery of 80 paintings near Meiji Shrine in Tokyo commemorates the life and times of the Meiji Emperor, including his viewing of cherry blossoms (depicted)?
Did you know that a twice-lifesize statue on the Scarborough seafront serves as a memorial to a man who helped liberate Bergen-Belsen concentration camp?
Did you know that in some societies, your spouse's sibling is also your sibling's spouse?
Did you know that the Polish activist Bartosz Staszewski created a series of photographs of LGBT people who live in "LGBT-free zones"?
Did you know that the design of the Broadway–Chambers Building received a medal from the Paris Exposition of 1900, addressed solely to "Monsieur Broadway-Chambers, Etats-Unis"?
Did you know that zebra tangs often associate with shoals of convict tangs?
Did you know that August Göllerich wrote a biography of the composer Anton Bruckner, having been his student, secretary, and friend?
Did you know that FBI informant Ricardo Morales, who testified against Cuban militant Orlando Bosch in 1968, shared a hotel with Bosch in 1976?
Did you know that Jenny Kim's victory in the 2017 Miss Supranational beauty pageant (finalists pictured) marked the first time that a contestant representing South Korea won a major international pageant?
Did you know that a witness said he saw Thomas David Morrison wearing glasses in the Upper Canada Rebellion, but his defence attorney said Morrison wore sunglasses and would not have worn them at night?
Did you know that driving on Coventry ring road has been likened to a roller coaster and a Scalextric?
Did you know that greenhouse gas emissions by Turkey might be reduced by the introduction of a national electric car?
Did you know that in a viral video of a man doing nothing for two hours, a viewer counted him blinking 362 times?
Did you know that more than 130 revolutionaries were hanged on the premises of Sikri Mata Temple during the Indian Rebellion of 1857?
Did you know that radio station WKXL in Concord, New Hampshire, was started by a sitting governor and is owned by a former senator?
Did you know that the anandalahari is an Indian chordophone musical instrument used by religious singers of the Baul faith?
Did you know that writer Doris Willens, Lee Hays of the Weavers, and actor Alan Arkin were all Baby Sitters?
Did you know that Alban Berg dedicated his Three Pieces for Orchestra "with immeasurable gratitude and love" to his teacher, Arnold Schönberg, for his fortieth birthday in September 1914?
Did you know that Cheye Alexander became a professional footballer despite suffering acute knee pain as a teenager due to Osgood–Schlatter disease?
Did you know that Christian Dierstein has played world premieres as the percussionist of Trio Accanto, which also includes a saxophonist and a pianist?
Did you know that General Order No. 1's broad definition of "sexually explicit" material led to a ban on bodybuilding magazines and underwear catalogues for U.S. personnel during the Gulf War?
Did you know that My Michael, a novel by Israeli author Amos Oz set in Jerusalem of the 1950s, was reviled by critics as being "politically dangerous and subversive"?
Did you know that NHL 21 marks the second time that Alexander Ovechkin has appeared on the cover of an NHL video game, the first being NHL 07?
Did you know that nearly half the milk produced in India, whose dairy industry is the largest in the world, comes from buffaloes?
Did you know that radio station WNLC in New London, Connecticut, was off the air for three weeks after the 1938 New England hurricane destroyed its tower and flooded the transmitter building?
Did you know that the Elijah Thomas Webb Residence was built with a family fortune amassed after John Webb discovered lead when plowing a corn field?
Did you know that the gravestone of Semahat Özdenses, a singer and composer of Ottoman classical music, was erected seven years after her death?
Did you know that Aldersbach brewery was founded more than 750 years ago at Aldersbach Abbey in Lower Bavaria?
Did you know that Jim Drucker, the founder of the world's largest online-only comic bookstore, was also the commissioner of both the Continental Basketball Association and the Arena Football League?
Did you know that Polish children's author Maria Kownacka wrote for an underground children's magazine during the Warsaw Uprising?
Did you know that in 2005, prehistoric rock art paintings symbolic of the cycle of life were found in Vlashnjë, Kosovo?
Did you know that in 2019, despite a nationwide ban in India, an estimated more than ₹900 crore (US$130 million) was wagered on cockfighting (example pictured) in Andhra Pradesh in just three days?
Did you know that the U.S. Government Accountability Office found that Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen swore in the wrong person as her successor?
Did you know that the island of Ōzushima is the site of a museum commemorating the Japanese suicide-attack submarines used during World War II?
Did you know that the last British colour lost in battle was in 1880?
Did you know that 1 Wall Street Court, a condominium building, was once the headquarters of a shipping line and the world's largest cocoa futures market?
Did you know that Light Vessel 72, which helped mark the route to the Normandy landing beaches, has lain in a Welsh scrapyard since 1973?
Did you know that Melati Suryodarmo went viral after dancing on butter?
Did you know that Moop Mama, a band of seven brass players, two drummers, and a rapper, began "guerilla concerts" in Munich's Englischer Garten in 2009?
Did you know that Sarika Kale, a kho kho player who has struggled financially for years, won ₹51,000 for her performance as captain of the India national team at the Third Asian Kho-Kho Championship?
Did you know that Tokyo's Shibuya Route is key to the plot of the novel 1Q84, where it contains a fictitious stairway to another reality in its storyline?
Did you know that Travis Denning illegally used David Ashley Parker from Powder Springs's identity before including him in a music video?
Did you know that the Hokitika Clock Tower on the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island serves the unusual dual purpose of a war memorial and a town clock?
Did you know that the Latvian Boy Scout handbook, written in 1933 by Valdemārs Klētnieks, was destroyed by communists during the Soviet occupation of Latvia in 1940?
Did you know that the current Kenyan National Assembly is made up of 290 constituency elected members including Samuel Arama, 47 county woman representatives including Gladys Boss Shollei and Sabina Wanjiru Chege, and 12 appointed members including Dennitah Ghati?
Did you know that when Bertha Park High School opened, all pupils were provided with iPads, but had to lock their own phones in lockers?
Did you know that Aoimori Park features plants that are symbolic of each municipality in Aomori Prefecture?
Did you know that Felix Mendelssohn subtitled Sechs Lieder, Op. 59, six songs for four voices setting poems by Eichendorff and others, "Im Freien zu singen" ("To be sung outdoors")?
Did you know that Franz Leuninger, a Catholic trade unionist in Silesia who ran against the Nazis for election to the Reichstag in 1933, was executed in March 1945?
Did you know that Jackie Summers quit his corporate job to pursue a "lifelong dream of day-drinking professionally"?
Did you know that Susan Lydon wrote about fake orgasm and real addiction?
Did you know that a 10 cm3 (0.6 cu in) sponge Hymeniacidon kitchingi can filter 22.5 L (5 imp gal; 6 U.S. gal) of water per day?
Did you know that after Ohio fined a woman $100 for not putting her name on a political leaflet, her estate appealed the fine all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court?
Did you know that cavalry of both sides at the Battle of Ticinus fought on foot?
Did you know that conventional religion is positively correlated with authoritarianism?
Did you know that modern studies have shown that the characteristic fur-trimmed hood on traditional Inuit skin clothing (example pictured) is more effective at preventing heat transfer than manufactured winter clothing?
Did you know that the Detroit Lions' tackle Tony Furst saw combat action in the Guadalcanal campaign and later became a florist?
Did you know that Coventry City won the 2017 EFL Trophy Final, earning their first major trophy since winning the 1987 FA Cup Final, despite being relegated from League One to League Two that season?
Did you know that Hurricane Sandy blew the roof off Paradise?
Did you know that Mariah Carey covered Aretha Franklin's rendition of "Don't Play That Song" at The Live Debut – 1990?
Did you know that Peanuts Gallery, a 1997 piano concerto by Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, portrays Peanuts characters in movements such as "Schroeder's Beethoven Fantasy" and "Snoopy Does the Samba"?
Did you know that Tomás Yepes (work pictured) settled a lawsuit his elder sister brought against him by giving her some religious paintings?
Did you know that among proofs of the Sylvester–Gallai theorem, Kelly's has been praised as "simply the best", but also criticized as "like using a sledge hammer to crack an almond"?
Did you know that among rock critic Jacoba Atlas's many concert reviews was a "disastrous appearance" by Joe Cocker?
Did you know that at Osthofen concentration camp, the camp doctor declared all new arrivals healthy and medically fit for imprisonment, even if they had been mistreated before?
Did you know that even though Judith Sims of TeenSet magazine was touring with the Beatles, she was not, "alas", sleeping with them?
Did you know that the 2017 Bishop Maginn High School baseball team largely consisted of Karen refugees?
Did you know that the only statue of a public figure in Scarborough is a memorial to Queen Victoria outside its town hall?
Did you know that "phantom borders" left behind by the partitions of Poland by imperial powers have an impact on which political parties Polish citizens vote for?
Did you know that Alasdair Geddes worked on the WHO's smallpox-eradication programme in Bangladesh five years before diagnosing the world's last fatal case of smallpox in Birmingham, England?
Did you know that Robert B. Landry was the United States Air Force aide to President Harry S. Truman?
Did you know that U.S. senator Strom Thurmond's aides set up a bucket for him to relieve himself during his 24-hour filibuster?
Did you know that a book on polyhedra by Piero della Francesca fell victim to "probably the first full-blown case of plagiarism in the history of mathematics" when Luca Pacioli copied it in his Divina proportione?
Did you know that child actress Melinda Plowman, who appeared in many early television shows, was one of the original Mouseketeers?
Did you know that in the 1789 Virginia's 5th congressional district election, two future U.S. presidents opposed each other?
Did you know that it was once illegal for civilians to pass U.S. military vehicles on Japan National Route 58?
Did you know that the "Hot Air Line" was so-called due to shaky financial backing and grandiose claims?
Did you know that the etching revival that began in the 1850s (work pictured) ended when prices collapsed after the 1929 Wall Street crash?
Did you know that the game developer Toys for Bob created Star Control after its founders Fred Ford and Paul Reiche met at Starflight creator Greg Johnson's house for a game night?
Did you know that Licett Morillo closing Prada's fashion show was compared to an actor winning an Oscar?
Did you know that St. Johannes Evangelist, a former abbey church built in Cappenberg in the 12th century, houses the Barbarossa reliquary?
Did you know that Vinmont Veteran Park traces its name to Robert Weinberg, whose German surname translates to Vinmont in French?
Did you know that William Bowery, who co-wrote two songs on Taylor Swift's album Folklore, appeared to have no online presence, and is possibly a pseudonym?
Did you know that according to the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Pope John Paul II's canonisation of Chinese martyrs hurt the feelings of the Chinese people?
Did you know that although Major General Thomas Holden was twice elected to the Continental Congress, he does not seem to have taken up his seat?
Did you know that during the Victorian-era London garotting panics, some citizens wore studded leather collars to protect themselves from attack?
Did you know that on the single "Bra Off" from Natalie Lauren's album Handle with Care, Lauren points out that women should not be subject to insult, assault, or sexism when they do not wear a bra?
Did you know that sixteen people were injured while fleeing a non-existent terrorist attack during the Oxford Circus panic?
Did you know that the 1997 Polish box-office-hit comedy Szczęśliwego Nowego Jorku criticizes Polish and American myths such as the American Dream?
Did you know that the Hollywood Women's Political Committee was formed in 1984 to help elect Geraldine Ferraro, the first U.S. woman vice-presidential candidate for a major party?
Did you know that the colour of the blackstreak surgeonfish changes according to its mood?
Did you know that Chinese peasants mostly armed with spears and swords repeatedly defeated modern warlord armies during the Spirit Soldier rebellions?
Did you know that Kabul City Center is the only building in Afghanistan that is equipped with working escalators?
Did you know that Leonhard Lechner, who trained as a chorister in Bavaria under Orlande de Lassus, composed a Passion for choir in 1593 that strongly influenced the genre?
Did you know that Marie "Blanche" Wittman, formerly a hysteria patient of Jean-Martin Charcot, contracted radiation-induced cancer while working for Albert Londe?
Did you know that Nellie Weekes ran for public office even before women received the right to vote in Barbados?
Did you know that Newcastle architect Gibson Kyle lay in wait and caught a burglar who was absconding with 33 lb (15 kg) of lead belonging to Richard Grainger?
Did you know that Perspectiva corporum regularium, a 1568 book of engraved polyhedra, demonstrates visually the medieval theory that the complexity of the physical world comes from four basic elements?
Did you know that West Virginia State College professor Angie Turner King was an educator and mentor to entomologist Margaret S. Collins and NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson of Hidden Figures?
Did you know that a 1966 test flight of a Gemini B spacecraft for the Manned Orbiting Laboratory was the first time an American space capsule intended for human spaceflight had flown in space twice?
Did you know that only five Jain temples (one pictured) remain in the Kumbhariya district of Gujarat out of hundreds that were destroyed by volcanic activity?
Did you know that the 1938 film Shadows Over Shanghai incorporates footage of the bombing of the city during the Second Sino-Japanese War, which was then underway?
Did you know that the Postal Telegraph Building contained the first electric elevators, commissioned by Frank J. Sprague?
Did you know that the Ryūkyū Disposition saw the former Ryūkyū Kingdom incorporated into the nascent Empire of Japan?
Did you know that the merchant vessel MS Nordic Ferry was awarded a battle honour for service in the Falklands War?
Did you know that though Calvin Royal III did not start formal dance training until he was 14, he went on to become a principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre?
Did you know that French novelist Claire Etcherelli's 1967 novel Elise, or the Real Life gained a brief cult following and was adapted into a 1970 film?
Did you know that Jim Watkins founded a super PAC to back politicians who support the QAnon conspiracy theory, furthering belief by experts that he has close ties to, or is, Q?
Did you know that Portuguese fado singer Cuca Roseta has a black belt in Taekwondo?
Did you know that Wolfman Jack helped finance his nephew's Ampersand magazine?
Did you know that eyewitnesses at the Battle of Sedalia reported seeing Confederate soldiers riding barefoot because their boots were full of plundered whiskey?
Did you know that in April 2009 a bomb blew a hole in the buttocks of the statue of Lenin at Finland Station, Saint Petersburg?
Did you know that some works by the Baltic-German writer Laura Marholm were part of "feminist literary criticism", known as gynocriticism, 70 years before the term was coined?
Did you know that the U.S. Public Health Service was once reorganized eight times in seven years?
Did you know that the large hyperradiant lens used in the Mew Island Lighthouse is now on display in the Titanic Quarter of Belfast as The Great Light?
Did you know that the rhythm of "Solang es Menschen gibt auf Erden", a Dutch hymn translated into German, has been compared to a tango?
Did you know that the site of Los Arcos Mall was dubbed the "most divisive piece of property" in the history of Scottsdale, Arizona?
Did you know that upon opening at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay in 1976, Python was the first roller coaster in Florida to feature inversions?
Did you know that Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing is the worst-ranked video game of all time on Metacritic and GameRankings?
Did you know that Hildegard Uhrmacher, a coloratura soprano who appeared as Mozart's Konstanze and Bernd Alois Zimmermann's Marie, titled her 2006 autobiography Hilde, du schaffst das (Hilde, you'll manage)?
Did you know that Theresa Plummer-Andrews sorted Bob the Builder's budget?
Did you know that Walter Mears has compared Donald Trump to populist senator Huey Long?
Did you know that Winston Churchill was a keen amateur bricklayer, constructing buildings and garden walls at his home, Chartwell?
Did you know that a flag pole named a city?
Did you know that after contralto Florence Wickham made her debut in Germany, she was engaged for an American tour as Kundry in Wagner's Parsifal?
Did you know that during the 1903 FA Cup Final, a cinematograph was sited on top of one of the stands?
Did you know that in the album title Not Our First Goat Rodeo, the term goat rodeo refers to a chaotic event in which many things must go right for the situation to work?
Did you know that less than 18 months after being launched, radio station KFNA of El Paso, Texas, declared bankruptcy after its format failed to attract listeners?
Did you know that the Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank Building's main banking hall was described as "the one real asset" of a nearly bankrupt New York City in the 1970s?
Did you know that the European Commission of Human Rights found in 1969 that the Greek junta systematically tortured dissidents, leading to Greece's exit from the Council of Europe?
Did you know that the buoy in Edward Hopper's 1939 painting Ground Swell alludes to impending doom, possibly the beginning of World War II?
Did you know that Albert Bierstadt's landscape painting Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains was removed from its frame and glued to an interior wall when Locusts on Hudson was rebuilt?
Did you know that Du Shuzhen was the first woman in Henan, China, to perform the Hajj?
Did you know that Essop Moosa, who was of Indian origin, became the first non-white player to play for an all-white soccer team in South Africa, appearing under a pseudonym?
Did you know that Zofia Poznańska, cipher clerk to the Red Orchestra espionage group, was captured in Belgium by the Abwehr in 1941 and hanged herself in prison in 1942?
Did you know that after the Rockaway Boardwalk was destroyed in Hurricane Sandy, a radio ad campaign using the Ramones song "Rockaway Beach" was aired to draw visitors to the adjacent beach?
Did you know that excavations in Romajë have revealed double-edged axes thought to have been related to sun worship?
Did you know that residents of Devdaha, Nepal, decided that a 13-year-old girl should marry her 25-year-old alleged rapist?
Did you know that the $10 million Tri-City Mall in Mesa, Arizona, began to lose stores and customers ten years after opening, and even a multimillion-dollar renovation could not save it?
Did you know that the 1919 Detroit Stars, a Negro league baseball team, included three players who were later inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame?
Did you know that Bill Callahan recorded his album Gold Record in just one week?
Did you know that Hermann Deiters translated Alexander Wheelock Thayer's Life of Beethoven and published it in German before it appeared in English?
Did you know that the Convent of Santo Domingo in Valencia, founded in 1239 as a church, is now used as a Spanish Army headquarters?
Did you know that the Korea Central Zoo houses a chimpanzee that smokes a pack of cigarettes a day?
Did you know that the anime film Weathering with You was inspired by climate change affecting Japan?
Did you know that India has 66 chess grandmasters?
Did you know that James Edwin Campbell, the first president of West Virginia State University, was among the first African-American poets to write poems in the African-American vernacular dialect?
Did you know that Nihonga artist Yumeji Takehisa was arrested in connection with a plot to assassinate Emperor Meiji of Japan?
Did you know that during the Falklands War, a fishing trawler served in the Royal Navy as HMS Junella?
Did you know that early vocational-education advocate Mary Schenck Woolman obtained her first teaching position as a result of her "harsh" review of a sewing manual?
Did you know that the seeds of Guilandina bonduc, commonly known as nickernuts, are buoyant and remain viable while being dispersed by ocean currents?
Did you know that Nerotalanlagen, a park along a creek in Wiesbaden, was built in the late 19th century to enhance the town's spa quality?
Did you know that Robert Utter resigned from the Washington Supreme Court in protest of the death penalty?
Did you know that after the Greek Civil War, 20,000 leftists were exiled to the island of Gyaros, dubbed the "Dachau of the Mediterranean"?
Did you know that anime musician Kano's Virtual YouTuber 3D model is based on an avatar she uses in official artwork?
Did you know that the 1932 Detroit Wolves won the pennant with an outfielder, first baseman, shortstop, and two pitchers who were all inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame?
Did you know that the Bennett Building, once one of New York's most prominent buildings, is probably the world's tallest building with a cast-iron facade?
Did you know that the leaf insect Phyllium bilobatum can defend itself by spraying a foul-smelling liquid?
Did you know that Bristol's medieval Tolzey Court saw a surge in popularity in the 1960s because it had lower fees than the High Court or County Court?
Did you know that Rodney Scott's Whole Hog BBQ uses MSG in its spice rub, calling it a "flavor maker"?
Did you know that bridge designer James Barney Marsh gave Archie Alexander, the first African American to graduate as an engineer from the University of Iowa, his first job?
Did you know that the Spanish town of Cadrete removed a bust of the ruler who built its castle, for causing "division and confrontation"?
Did you know that the direction of the black swan on the flag of Western Australia was corrected in 1953, even though this issue was identified 17 years earlier?
Did you know that the owner of WSZE-TV started an air-taxi service to bring program tapes to Saipan?