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Did you know that British modern pentathlete Jo Muir qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics despite missing the last qualification event due to COVID-19–related travel restrictions?
Did you know that Donald R. Morris wrote most of The Washing of the Spears, his history of the Anglo-Zulu War, during a five-year CIA posting to Berlin at the time of the construction of the Berlin Wall?
Did you know that Eliza Kennedy Smith's investigations of municipal corruption in Pittsburgh led to the mayor's arrest and imprisonment?
Did you know that German runner Alica Schmidt, who is running in the Women's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2020 Summer Olympics, has won multiple European junior relay medals?
Did you know that KICU-TV in Visalia, California, claimed to be the most powerful TV station west of the Mississippi River after a transmitter upgrade—and closed for good two years later?
Did you know that US Air Force general John W. White commanded the Iceland Defense Force?
Did you know that West Germany won their second UEFA European Championship in three editions when they defeated Belgium in the UEFA Euro 1980 Final?
Did you know that although both Vlad the Impaler and Elizabeth Báthory are popularly believed to have inspired Dracula, Bram Stoker's notes mention neither?
Did you know that author, poet and Arabian horse breeder Wilfrid Scawen Blunt chose to be buried without a coffin at his house, Newbuildings Place?
Did you know that suffragette Lilian Staple Mead was the only female student ever at Adelaide's Prince Alfred College?
Did you know that the pulpit of St George's Church, Edinburgh, was 20 ft (6.1 m) tall?
Did you know that Andreas Schnider, a theologian and local Austrian People's Party leader from Graz, holds a leading role in Austria's teacher training?
Did you know that Danish dairy farmer Hanne Nielsen  created a Tilsit cheese for King Christian IX of Denmark?
Did you know that Jack G. Downing, the only person to serve as CIA station chief in Moscow and Beijing, "read Chinese poetry for kicks"?
Did you know that Muhammad Ali Mungeri was the prime founder of Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama, a major Islamic seminary in India?
Did you know that a cartoonist founded the Jim Thorpe Trophy that was awarded annually to the most valuable player of the National Football League?
Did you know that rhythmic gymnast Isabelle Connor is the first UC Santa Cruz student to compete at the Olympics?
Did you know that the flag of Sark represented the last feudal state in the Western world, and is flown over the British Ministry of Justice every 6 August to commemorate the granting of the fief?
Did you know that the wooden-hulled Mallard II, built in 1936, is "probably the oldest operating dredge in California"?
Did you know that Czech television reporter and author Vladimír Škutina was arrested and imprisoned twice for his use of political satire?
Did you know that Jochen Schmidt, a dance critic for the FAZ for 30 years, wrote a book about Pina Bausch and her Wuppertal dance theatre?
Did you know that Kris Kristofferson's debut album, Kristofferson, was reissued with the title Me and Bobby McGee following the success of Janis Joplin's version of the song?
Did you know that Olympic baseball player Édgar Arredondo set a record for the youngest debut in the Mexican League?
Did you know that during neo-Nazi David Duke's presidential campaign he was convicted, yelled at Jack Kemp, won a vice-presidential primary, switched parties, and had two running mates?
Did you know that in Inferno, an opera by Lucia Ronchetti premiered in 2021 at the Oper Frankfurt, the main character Dante has a speaking voice and an inner voice of four male singers?
Did you know that in exchange for building its New York City headquarters, Goldman Sachs received $1.65 billion in bonds and $115 million in tax breaks?
Did you know that in the early 2000s, the only settlement in East Timor with 24-hour electricity was its capital city Dili?
Did you know that the Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind divided into two factions in March 2008 due to differences between Arshad Madani and his nephew Mahmood Madani?
Did you know that the Merchant was the first iron-hulled merchant ship built on the Great Lakes?
Did you know that the frequently plagiarized poems "Candidate for a Pullet Surprise" and "A Grandchild's Guide to Using Grandpa's Computer" are often cited in discussions of internet publishing ethics?
Did you know that the three dolphins on the coat of arms of Anguilla represent "unity, strength and endurance", which is also the motto of the territory?
Did you know that , in a 2018 survey of 38 news organizations, the Palmer Report was ranked the fourth-least trusted news organization by Americans?
Did you know that Buffalo, New York, was a terminus on the Underground Railroad?
Did you know that Indian doctor Nasarvanji Hormusji Choksy, who worked to improve public health, contracted bubonic plague three times?
Did you know that James Benning's 1995 experimental documentary film Deseret chronicles 140 years of the history of Utah by way of 93 New York Times excerpts?
Did you know that Lever House, slated for replacement with a larger building in the 1980s, was protected as a New York City landmark with a one-vote majority?
Did you know that Lynde Shores Conservation Area is an important resting point for shorebirds and waterfowl migrating along Lake Ontario?
Did you know that in June 2021, scientists described "Dragon Man", a member of a new species of archaic human that lived at least 146,000 years ago on the Northeast China Plain?
Did you know that psychologist Janis Sanchez-Hucles was only the second person of color to earn a PhD in psychology from the University of North Carolina?
Did you know that the heavy metal musician Leah has sometimes been called "the metal Enya"?
Did you know that the newly founded Family First Party has access to the former Family First Party's database of 6,000 supporters, according to The Australian?
Did you know that unlike most other insects, dragonflies have direct flight, the muscles being attached directly to the wing bases?
Did you know that war erupted in 2019 over a fried chicken sandwich?
Did you know that Blanche Zacharie de Baralt was the University of Havana's first woman philosophy graduate and the first person to translate Tagore's poems into Spanish?
Did you know that Hoagy Carmichael's song  "Stardust" has been recorded more than 1,500 times?
Did you know that James Hervey Price renamed the town of Saugeen to Southampton?
Did you know that Ralph Fisher bought enslaved people with brass?
Did you know that after starting Los Angeles Spanish-language television station KVEA, a group led by Saul Steinberg bought other Spanish-language stations to form the Telemundo network?
Did you know that an entrance to one of the Villard Houses was turned into an exit because it was too close to a chapel of St. Patrick's Cathedral?
Did you know that film critic Danny Peary described Darby Jones as having been "even more typecast than the typical black actor", limited to roles in jungle-themed films?
Did you know that the construction of WaHu Student Apartments was delayed for one year by Minneapolis's initial rejection of a new location for the blood plasma donation center on the property?
Did you know that the fictional battle Operation Yashima, displayed in the Neon Genesis Evangelion episode "Rei II", inspired a real unofficial campaign in Japan to conserve electricity after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami?
Did you know that the small Pacific island nation of Tonga, represented by its satellite company Tongasat, claimed nine percent of all viable satellite orbits and became the sixth-largest holder of those orbits?
Did you know that the volcano Eifuku produces bubbles of liquid carbon dioxide underwater?
Did you know that Black Rock is mostly concrete?
Did you know that Pierre Olaf's portrayal of Jacquot in the 1961 Broadway musical Carnival! earned him a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical in 1962?
Did you know that a Chinese ex-slave named Quintín Quintana became a successful merchant and pro-Chile leader in the War of the Pacific?
Did you know that a large amount of energy in Turkey is underground and under the Black Sea?
Did you know that after the Lord's Day Observance Society forced the National Sunday League to stop their Sunday lectures, they eventually regrouped to form the Sunday Lecture Society?
Did you know that an English army devastated Lothian in Scotland so thoroughly in 1356 that the episode became known as Burnt Candlemas?
Did you know that in countries like the United States, prisoners supplement inadequate prison food by combining ingredients like instant ramen, mayonnaise and Kool-Aid into improvised meals called "spreads"?
Did you know that the Royal Hibernian Hotel is thought to be the oldest hotel in Ireland?
Did you know that the St Helena Local Militia led the 1840 procession of Napoleon's body after its disinterment from his tomb on the island?
Did you know that "Stoned at the Nail Salon" was written by Lorde and Jack Antonoff, and features backing vocals from four other artists?
Did you know that Arthur J. Hill, United States Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for Housing, was one of four children of a single parent?
Did you know that Michel Platini scored his ninth goal of the tournament when France won the UEFA Euro 1984 Final?
Did you know that Therese Forster edited the works of her father Georg Forster, who died when she was seven years old?
Did you know that a reviewer wrote that "few tenors on disc can rival the German Rainer Trost" about his 1992 performance as Ferrando in Mozart's Così fan tutte in Paris, with conductor John Eliot Gardiner?
Did you know that almost as soon as Cabaret opened, people mistakenly complained the song "Tomorrow Belongs to Me" was a genuine Nazi anthem?
Did you know that mixed-use stadium districts around major sports venues often include public squares, office space, hotels and residential units?
Did you know that the Morris–Jumel Mansion in Washington Heights, Manhattan, where the musical Hamilton was written, has been described as a haunted house?
Did you know that the Swedish meteorologist Svante Odén was among the first scientists to address and publicize the problems of acid precipitation in Europe?
Did you know that the last pack of Staghounds (example pictured) in England were those of the North Devon Hunt, which pursued stag in the royal forests of Exmoor until 1825?
Did you know that Indonesian Communist Party leader Fachrul Baraqbah was an aristocrat of the Kutai Sultanate in East Kalimantan and a descendant of Muhammad?
Did you know that Lisa Warrington was responsible for painting the doors of Allen Hall Theatre red?
Did you know that Luke Prokop, an ice hockey prospect, is the first player under contract with a National Hockey League team to come out as gay?
Did you know that Serbian landowner Marija Trandafil spent a single day hungry, but she remembered the experience and became a major philanthropist in Novi Sad?
Did you know that William Mackinder was a deep-sea fisherman and millworker before entering British politics, where he advocated for worker's rights?
Did you know that early medieval house-shaped shrines (example pictured) were built as reliquaries to hold the remains of Irish saints?
Did you know that soprano Heidi Grant Murphy, who has given over 200 performances at the Met, said that becoming a singer "takes work on your psyche, your innermost being"?
Did you know that the Mustankallio water tower contains a sauna?
Did you know that the intentional balk in baseball is mostly used as a tactic to stop sign stealing?
Did you know that within a decade, KTVK in Phoenix went from being a "blot on ABC's affiliate ledger" to a station the network only gave up reluctantly?
Did you know that Abul Kalam Qasmi translated E. M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel into Urdu?
Did you know that Francis Ingram pioneered the British slave trade at Porto-Novo?
Did you know that German soldiers fighting with Napoleon brought home a Spanish modification to the Tarot game of Dreierles that resulted in Baden's national game of Cego?
Did you know that Hayden Bridge is the oldest intact bridge in the US state of Oregon?
Did you know that Howell Edmunds Jackson died of tuberculosis less than two and a half years after his appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court?
Did you know that Jenson Button winning ahead of Lewis Hamilton at the 2010 Chinese Grand Prix was the first one-two finish for British Formula One drivers in over a decade?
Did you know that Marco van Basten's strike in the UEFA Euro 1988 Final was described as "perhaps the most iconic goal in UEFA European Championship history"?
Did you know that Mika Kares returned to Finland to perform the title role of Boito's opera Mefistofele at the Savonlinna Opera Festival?
Did you know that My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode "The Last Crusade" introduces lesbian characters?
Did you know that Western Australia was the second Australian state to legalise voluntary assisted dying?
Did you know that an inscription above the 16th-century doorway of the Dame Paulet's Almshouses reads "No Domi Ni" instead of "Anno Domini" because the original was misread by a stonemason during a 1930s restoration?
Did you know that as part of the coronation of Mindon Min, the square yuzana around the capital was designated a sanctuary?
Did you know that for his composition Hallowe'en, Charles Ives supplied two sets of instructions on how to repeat the music in different tempos and dynamics?
Did you know that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation supports the creation of shit flow diagrams?
Did you know that Birgitta Odén was the first female history professor in Sweden?
Did you know that Mexican theatergoers complained that Olaf's Frozen Adventure, a short that played before the movie Coco, was too long?
Did you know that New York City's St. Patrick's Cathedral, praised upon completion as the "finest church edifice on the American continent", was funded mostly by poor Irish Catholic parishioners?
Did you know that a fight in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode "Twilight's Kingdom" has been compared to Dragon Ball Z?
Did you know that after the death of Steven Crawford, his body was found in 1963 but was not identified until 2021?
Did you know that despite the United States outlawing slavery in 1865, historian Antoinette Harrell found examples of African-American families who remained enslaved through debt bondage as recently as the 1970s?
Did you know that in 2017, there were more than 10,000 teenage girls who performed as Japanese idols?
Did you know that it was said that BBC scriptwriter Iain Pattinson's "unique brilliance was his ability to combine the absurd with the plausible"?
Did you know that the English-Australian cricketer Bailey Wightman made his County debut for Kent whilst playing club cricket for Tunbridge Wells after an outbreak of COVID-19?
Did you know that the vandalism and eventual removal of the statue of Ivan Konev in Prague has negatively impacted recent Czech Republic–Russia relations?
Did you know that while convicted fraudster Anna Sorokin was in jail, one of her visitors was Julia Garner, who will play Sorokin in the Netflix miniseries about her?
Did you know that John M. Franklin oversaw the construction of SS United States, a liner that broke the transatlantic speed record on its maiden voyage?
Did you know that Peluso implores your help?
Did you know that former football midfielder Marcelo Gallardo became the first River Plate player to achieve an international title as a player and a coach after leading the team to win the 2014 Copa Sudamericana?
Did you know that residents at the queer community known as the Tenacious Unicorn Ranch carry firearms and wear body armor while tending to their alpacas due to threats from right-wing militias?
Did you know that the 93% Club has been described as "the reverse Bullingdon Club"?
Did you know that the design of King Sombra, the villain in "The Crystal Empire", was meant to illustrate him "as both a solid creature and a flowing mass of smoky darkness"?
Did you know that the idea for Fatima's Grill in Downey, California, came from prison?
Did you know that the ship on the coat of arms of the Falkland Islands represents the Desire, whose crew reportedly sighted the islands in 1592?
Did you know that Zygmunt Krasiński, one of Poland's Three Bards, published most of his works anonymously and was known as the Anonymous Poet of Poland?
Did you know that chef Angie Mar went from running a steakhouse to owning Three Horses?
Did you know that during the Crimean War, a colonel complained about his "abominable Albert [shako]" (example pictured), upon whose leather top "a man may fry his ration beef at mid-day in this climate"?
Did you know that former detective inspector Paula Craig is set to take part in a cross-Channel swim today?
Did you know that ink wash painting was created by the Chinese in the 8th century and the technique then spread to the rest of East Asia?
Did you know that of the 16 teams to enter the inaugural Scottish Cup, only Dumbarton, Kilmarnock and Queen's Park still regularly compete in the competition?
Did you know that the 2015 video game Worlds of Magic, intended as a spiritual successor to the classic game Master of Magic, failed to impress most reviewers?
Did you know that Donald Trump had a "big smile plastered on his face" on the day the "Best Sex I've Ever Had" happened?
Did you know that a reviewer wrote that Florian Boesch's 2011 recording of Winterreise with Malcolm Martineau was "one of the most powerful lieder albums of recent years"?
Did you know that director Mamoru Hosoda's original concept for his 1999 film Digimon Adventure was a story set against the backdrop of the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo?
Did you know that in 2016, Hurricane Pali and Hurricane Alex existed simultaneously as rare January hurricanes within the Pacific and Atlantic hurricane basins, respectively, marking the first such occurrence on record?
Did you know that part of Keith Foulger's job was to make sure the front and back ends of Britain's first nuclear submarine fitted together?
Did you know that reproductive success in the lined sea hare can be reduced by noise pollution?
Did you know that seventy years after the death of his tea-planter grandfather, publisher Neville Armstrong remembered  his piercing blue eyes and large white spade beard?
Did you know that the Marble Arch Mound in central London has been compared to the hill in Teletubbies?
Did you know that the South Bronx Greenway includes recycled granite from the Willis Avenue Bridge?
Did you know that the WandaVision song "Agatha All Along" was inspired by the theme songs of The Munsters and The Addams Family?
Did you know that to preserve the surrounding natural environment, Tsunoshima Bridge curves to avoid an island?
Did you know that Massekhet Amerika by Gerson Rosenzweig satirizes Jewish life in New York in the style of a Talmudic tractate?
Did you know that Robert Goodsir, searching for his brother Harry, lost with the Franklin expedition in the Arctic, found the graves of three expedition members?
Did you know that as the acting President of Zambia in 2014, Guy Scott became the first white leader of an African country since the end of apartheid?
Did you know that ducks frequently carried more than two and a half tons during the Siegfried Line campaign?
Did you know that during the 1991 Zaire unrest, 30 to 40% of all companies in Zaire were plundered, and around 70% of the country's retail businesses were destroyed?
Did you know that mezzo-soprano Margarita Gritskova was José Carreras's partner for his farewell concert in Carnegie Hall?
Did you know that on the 32nd anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, the traditional venue for memorials in Hong Kong lay empty (blockade pictured) for the first time in thirty-two years?
Did you know that the Kokawa-dera Engi Emaki, a 12th-century Japanese painted handscroll (detail pictured), was partly burned in a fire, and also partly damaged at the edges?
Did you know that the union of taxi drivers offered the residents of retirement homes free transport to the voting stations in the Slovenian Waters Act referendum?
Did you know that three verses from Psalm 86 became part of Mendelssohn's oratorio Elijah, including the opening "Lord, bow thine ear to our pray'r"?
Did you know that Charlie N. Holmberg's idea for The Fifth Doll began with a writing exercise to develop a system of magic for a household item?
Did you know that FBOY Island sets three female contestants to identify twenty-four men as either womanizers or nice guys?
Did you know that Gottfried Hornik, a baritone at the Vienna State Opera for 25 years, appeared in his signature role of Beckmesser from Aachen and Barcelona in 1976 to the Municipal Theatre of Santiago in 2001?
Did you know that Gunhild Bergh was the second woman in Sweden to be awarded a PhD in literary history?
Did you know that Tone Roads No. 1, a composition for chamber ensemble by Charles Ives, was originally titled "Tone Roads, rough ones—good ones, bad ones, fast ones, slow ones!"?
Did you know that William Earle referred to slave traders as "Bite Men"?
Did you know that in Indonesian, a language featuring pronoun avoidance, a common polite way to address someone else is "father" or "mother", instead of "you"?
Did you know that the All Time Low song "PMA" features guest vocals from Heather Baron-Gracie of the British band Pale Waves?
Did you know that the cooking of Flora Mae Hunter was enjoyed so much by the Duchess of Windsor that she gained weight on her visits to the plantation where Hunter worked?
Did you know that the steel-framed Church Missions House in New York City predates the city's first steel skyscraper?
Did you know that Queen of Peace Cemetery opened early because Cemetery of the Holy Rood filled up due to the COVID-19 pandemic?
Did you know that Steve Carell insisted his chest genuinely be waxed in a scene in The 40-Year-Old Virgin, which was recorded in a single take?
Did you know that Vera Schoenenberg's performance in the title role of Kálmán's Die Csárdásfürstin at the Mörbisch Lake Festival was broadcast by German and Austrian stations?
Did you know that Yoko Ono considered her 1971 song "Listen, the Snow Is Falling" to be the first pop song she ever wrote?
Did you know that Yoko Ono took the first verse of her 1970 song "Who Has Seen the Wind?" from a 19th century poem written by Christina Rossetti?
Did you know that because the hand in the Shrine of Saint Lachtin's Arm is clenched rather than open, it is assumed to have functioned as a battle standard or a talisman?
Did you know that no one knows how a dress worn by Marilyn Monroe ended up in the Payne Whitney House?
Did you know that the mayor of Málaga, Pedro Aparicio Sánchez, spent the night of the 1981 Spanish coup d'état attempt in his office so he could die there if he was targeted?
Did you know that when King Hugh III of Cyprus tried to force a marriage on his vassal, Lady Isabella of Beirut, the Egyptian sultan Baibars declared himself her protector?
Did you know that with his victory in the 1996 presidential election, Bill Clinton became the first Democrat to win two consecutive presidential elections since Franklin D. Roosevelt?
Did you know that American physician and marathon runner Joan Ullyot was one of the key figures in successfully lobbying for a women’s marathon in the Olympic Games?
Did you know that Bridget Burgess's mother Sarah once changed all four tires during a pit stop by herself?
Did you know that Kanye West recorded a music video for "RoboCop" that casts his ex-girlfriend Amber Rose as a robot?
Did you know that Kulgoa was the largest wooden ferry to serve on Sydney Harbour?
Did you know that Louise Heims Beck co-founded the American Theatre Wing and was responsible for overseeing the organization of the 1st Tony Awards?
Did you know that Yasin Zia, while Chief of General Staff of Afghanistan, personally led government forces against the Taliban on the edge of Mihtarlam, 120 km (75 mi) from Kabul?
Did you know that Zheng Kai first lost weight and then gained 20 kilograms (44 lb) for his role in Never Stop?