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Did you know that eleven people, nine of them minors, died in a sugar plantation fire in Cagua, Venezuela, while trying to hunt rabbits?
Did you know that former American football player Bruce Taylor owned eighteen Burger King locations?
Did you know that larvae of the mangrove jewel bug feed only on the seeds of the river poison tree?
Did you know that malaria is expected to become more prevalent due to the impacts of climate change in Kenya?
Did you know that the 1839 city plan for Austin, Texas, is thought to have been inspired by the original 1682 city plan for Philadelphia?
Did you know that "I Did Something Bad" is the first song in which Taylor Swift uses profanity?
Did you know that Anna Martina Gottschick wrote the hymn "Herr, mach uns stark" because a composer wanted to make Ralph Vaughan Williams's 1906 melody of "For All the Saints" available for German church singing?
Did you know that Coventry City's winning goal in the 1987 FA Cup Final was an own goal scored in extra time off Gary Mabbutt's knee?
Did you know that Joe Jackson's 1984 album Body and Soul emulated the artwork of the 1957 jazz album Sonny Rollins, Vol. 2?
Did you know that a Latin translation of Winnie-the-Pooh spent 20 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list?
Did you know that after quarterback Joe Montana invested in Crowd Cow, PETA sent him a letter filled with football puns imploring him not to invest in a company that facilitates the slaughtering of animals?
Did you know that during the filming of 6 Day Bike Rider, sixteen bicyclists hit the cameraman's motorcycle, which resulted in nine of them being injured?
Did you know that in advance of the 2021 general election, Morocco outlawed the making of certain types of online posts?
Did you know that the Pallas's cat (example pictured) has up to 9,000 hairs per cm2 (58,000/in2) of fur?
Did you know that the jibba, a Sudanese coat, symbolised a dedication to a religious way of life and denoted the military rank of the wearer?
Did you know that the treatise Zabân-e Pâk, written by Ahmad Kasravi, was one of the first works that sought to suggest refinements to the Persian language?
Did you know that the true identity of the British crime writer Francis Duncan was unknown until after a reprint of his 1949 novel Murder for Christmas?
Did you know that when a proposed sale of Orlando-area radio station WVCF fell through, the attempted buyer started his own station?
Did you know that "Paint It Black" by the Rolling Stones, which was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, was almost scrapped?
Did you know that BTS's song "Blue & Grey" was originally intended to be included on band member V's solo mixtape?
Did you know that Kafilur Rahman Nishat Usmani translated the Islamic law book Fatawa 'Alamgiri from Arabic into Urdu?
Did you know that Millicent Taplin left school at 13 and never studied art full time, yet became one of Wedgwood's main ceramics designers?
Did you know that Stonecrop Gardens in the Hudson Highlands features alpine vegetation and a sunken English garden?
Did you know that although New Zealand lawyer George Harper had been declared bankrupt in 1893, he was knighted in 1937?
Did you know that among Kew's highlights of species described in 2020 were six British webcaps: Cortinarius ainsworthii (example pictured), C. heatherae, C. britannicus, C. scoticus, C. aurae, and C. subsaniosus?
Did you know that the 9th-century Abbasid caliph al-Wathiq, whose five-year reign is considered by historians to be unremarkable, was heavily fictionalized in the 18th-century Gothic fantasy novel Vathek?
Did you know that the addition of the Ally 400 to the 2021 NASCAR Cup Series schedule was considered a surprise as the host venue, the Nashville Superspeedway, had been up for sale since 2012?
Did you know that "Lobpreiset all zu dieser Zeit", for New Year in the current Catholic hymnal Gotteslob, takes two stanzas from a 1851 song by Heinrich Bone, a third stanza and refrain from 1969, and a 1529 popular melody by Luther?
Did you know that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the youngest woman ever to serve in the United States Congress?
Did you know that American educator Alan T. Busby was the first African-American student to attend the University of Connecticut, graduating in 1918?
Did you know that Senegalese turtle biologist Tomas Diagne drove 1,200 miles (1,900 km) to pick up the carcass of a Nubian flapshell turtle?
Did you know that a journalist lived for a year using only goods made in Canada?
Did you know that despite a $34 million advertising campaign in the United States by General Mills, their breakfast cereal snack Fingos only lasted from 1993 to 1994?
Did you know that in Denial of Violence, Fatma Müge Göçek argues that Armenian Genocide denial is one of the ideological foundations of the Turkish nation-state?
Did you know that the Strax affair started in the library?
Did you know that the phrase "landfill indie", coined in 2008 by the English music journalist Andrew Harrison, was intended as a pejorative term to describe the perceived bland guitar rock that dominated the UK charts in the early 2000s?
Did you know that the sacred flame carried by the Veiled Vestal in the 2005 film Pride & Prejudice has been described as representing Elizabeth Bennet's "virginal sexual desire"?
Did you know that Area 51 was originally called Paradise Ranch to encourage workers to move there?
Did you know that Canadian photographer and producer Lorraine Monk's book Between Friends / Entre Amis was Canada's gift to the United States on their bicentennial in 1976?
Did you know that Naimur Rahman took six wickets for 132 runs in the very first test Bangladesh played in 2000?
Did you know that after the lynching of her son, Beulah Mae Donald successfully sued the Ku Klux Klan, winning a $7 million judgment?
Did you know that children's writer Israel Wachser died in Kryve Ozero while defending the local Jewish population from a pogrom?
Did you know that cricketer Hasan Ali was picked as a wildcard at the 2021 Pakistan Super League players draft?
Did you know that in a rare leapfrog appeal the UK Supreme Court decided that insurance companies can be liable for business losses arising due to the COVID-19 pandemic?
Did you know that one student's entire semester at the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay in 1979 consisted of programming its student radio station WGBW?
Did you know that the 1.5 million cubic yards (1.1 million m3) of asbestos waste at the BoRit Asbestos Superfund site in Ambler, Pennsylvania, was known colloquially as the "White Mountains" by local residents?
Did you know that the Rhodesian Light Infantry's statue The Troopie was smuggled out of Rhodesia following the establishment of Zimbabwe prior to the regiment's disbanding?
Did you know that the men of Wood's Missouri Cavalry Battalion made defenses out of cotton during the Battle of Pine Bluff?
Did you know that the music style of singer-songwriter Kui Lee featured a blend of traditional Hawaiian music, jazz, blues, and rock and roll?
Did you know that Dax Reynosa began his hip-hop career as a battle rapper who would burn the rhyme books of defeated opponents, and later co-produced a documentary depicting battle rap in Los Angeles?
Did you know that Distichia muscoides provides good grazing all-year-round in the High Andes for domesticated llamas and alpacas, and non-native livestock?
Did you know that F. W. de Klerk's speech announcing the end of apartheid in South Africa and the release of Nelson Mandela (both pictured) was given 31 years ago today?
Did you know that Hamilton Fish Park, whose pool was used for Olympic practice, was one of the New York City Parks Department's "worst problem areas" by the 1970s?
Did you know that My Love from the Star's popularity led to it being discussed at China's National People's Congress?
Did you know that ballerina Georgina Parkinson created several roles in ballets choreographed by Kenneth MacMillan, including Romeo and Juliet, Manon and Mayerling?
Did you know that journalist Kelsey Piper sees her Vox column as a way to popularize discussion of global catastrophic risks?
Did you know that the Pelican Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I is named for the pendant on her breast in the form of a pelican in her piety?
Did you know that Anna Utenhoven, who was buried alive in 1597, was the last person executed for heresy in the Low Countries?
Did you know that Elsa Schiaparelli prevented Salvador Dalí from adding mayonnaise to her lobster dress?
Did you know that Mehmet Ismet Başaran's research into the first stamps of the Ottoman Empire (example pictured) was hampered by the loss of the official records?
Did you know that Pakistani historian Suhail Zaheer Lari and his wife, architect Yasmeen Lari, threatened to elope to Scotland to get married because the legal marriageable age there was lower than in England?
Did you know that Schloss Freudenberg and its park in Wiesbaden-Dotzheim offer an exhibition for the senses, with a Dunkelbar for drinking in darkness?
Did you know that See You in the Cosmos, published as a children's book, has adult themes throughout?
Did you know that Spiel nicht mit den Schmuddelkindern, a 1965 album and song that Franz Josef Degenhardt wrote and sang to his guitar, anticipated the opposition of the student movement?
Did you know that Valentina, with her song "J'imagine", brought France its first victory at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest?
Did you know that Wahsayah Whitebird's Communist Party membership was not publicly known until after he was elected?
Did you know that after NBCUniversal shut down KMAS-TV in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, its chief engineer suggested it be donated to his former employer, Rocky Mountain PBS?
Did you know that after twelve years of attempts, Kyle Larson won the Chili Bowl Nationals back-to-back in the first two years when he participated under his own team?
Did you know that journalist Charles Mayer proposed an election procedure change in his attempt to become president of the National Boxing Association?
Did you know that the Remsen Cemetery, one of the few remaining private burial grounds on Long Island, contains the remains of an American Revolutionary War colonel and his family members?
Did you know that when New York City's Harlem Ship Canal Bridge had to be replaced, it was floated down the river to become the University Heights Bridge?
Did you know that Benedict Joseph Fenwick was unable to generate interest in opening the College of the Holy Cross in the wilderness of Maine and so founded it instead in Worcester, Massachusetts?
Did you know that Joe the Pigeon was granted a pardon by the Australian government after being sentenced to euthanasia?
Did you know that Rānui Ngārimu helped weave Te Māhutonga (the Southern Cross), the Māori cloak worn by the flag bearer of the New Zealand Olympic team since 2004?
Did you know that everything in A Reading from Homer is classicist but not everything is ancient?
Did you know that the Bangladesh women's team won the first One Day International cricket match they played?
Did you know that the Music City Grand Prix will cross the Cumberland River in Nashville, Tennessee, making it one of the few auto races to cross a significant body of water?
Did you know that the Willie Nelson Statue in Austin, Texas, was unveiled on 420 day at 4:20 p.m.?
Did you know that the eagle on top of the Monumento a la Raza in Mexico City was originally cast for the Federal Legislative Palace's dome?
Did you know that Barbara Danish wrote The Dragon and the Doctor in 20 minutes?
Did you know that F. Andrieu was the composer of Armes, amours/O flour des flours, a double ballade lamenting the death of his colleague Guillaume de Machaut?
Did you know that Jerome Robbins's ballet In the Night is set to four nocturnes by Frédéric Chopin?
Did you know that Proton 3, launched on 24 March 1966, was one of the first satellites equipped to look for quarks?
Did you know that Sarran Teelucksingh was the first person of Indian descent elected to the Legislative Council of Trinidad and Tobago?
Did you know that artist Frances Emilia Crofton had lithograph copies made of eight of her paintings (example pictured), and sold them for charity?
Did you know that former Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives Frank J. Van Dyke was born in Penang, Straits Settlements, British Malaya, in 1907?
Did you know that in a 1982 book about the printing industry of 16th-century Strasbourg, historian Miriam Usher Chrisman demonstrated the scholarly potential of the digital analysis of large archival datasets?
Did you know that it took authorities only one day to repair damage on Japan National Route 116 following the 2007 Chūetsu offshore earthquake?
Did you know that stocks of mustard gas, thought to have been destroyed in the 1940s, were discovered at RAF Bowes Moor in 1997?
Did you know that the decision not to include a duck with the statue of Sir Nigel Gresley led to "possibly the most acrimonious argument in the long, pedantic history of the railway hobbyist"?
Did you know that "Me & You Together Song" by the 1975 was originally intended for the soundtrack of German, a film that lead singer Matthew Healy was writing?
Did you know that "The House of Asterion" by Jorge Luis Borges was one of the first works by a major author to examine a well-known tale from the monster's perspective?
Did you know that AFC Wimbledon were promoted for a sixth time since their formation in 2002 when they won the 2016 Football League Two play-off Final?
Did you know that Bambang Suryadi, a politician from the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle, was buried with the flag of the party above him?
Did you know that Duo Yun Xuan held the first art auction on the Chinese mainland?
Did you know that Leon Rains, a bass singer who studied in New York City and Paris, took part in the world premiere of Salome and an early recording of Tannhäuser?
Did you know that Martin Luther King Jr.'s secretary Maude Ballou edited early versions of his iconic "I Have a Dream" speech?
Did you know that Pueblo pottery (example pictured) has been created by Pueblo people and their antecedents in the Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico for almost two thousand years?
Did you know that the Australian Army named a programme to acquire new armoured vehicles after an Australian horse?
Did you know that the first women inducted into the USA Field Hockey Hall of Fame included a WASP pilot, a World War II Marine, a "Chickie", a Hall of Fame lacrosse player, a world-champion softball player, an All-College basketball player, the founder of the first collegiate squash program in the United States, a professor and a valedictorian of Ursinus College, and a resident of Atlantis?
Did you know that the largescale four-eyes does not have four eyes?
Did you know that thousands of football players are trafficked every year?
Did you know that Abudureheman Abulikemu was the first boxer from Xinjiang to compete at the Olympics?
Did you know that Blackpool became the most successful club in the history of English Football League play-offs when they won the 2017 EFL League Two play-off Final against Exeter City?
Did you know that Daniel Chester French resigned from the United States Commission of Fine Arts to create his most famous public sculpture, Abraham Lincoln?
Did you know that DeepMind's protein-folding program AlphaFold 2 has made significant progress towards solving a decades-old grand challenge of biology?
Did you know that Gabriel Sterling has debunked Donald Trump's allegations of voter fraud in the 2020 U.S. presidential election?
Did you know that John Atcheler claimed to be "Horse Slaughterer to Her Majesty Queen Victoria"?
Did you know that Mortimer Taube designed his Uniterm indexing system for easy automation, and then built a punched-card version as the IBM 9900?
Did you know that Ronald Graham, president of the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America, also became president of the International Jugglers' Association?
Did you know that Sarah Cooper and Helen Mirren lip synched the Donald Trump Access Hollywood tape in Sarah Cooper: Everything's Fine?
Did you know that Sayidiman Suryohadiprojo, a former ambassador of Indonesia to Japan, authored the first book about Japan in the Indonesian language?
Did you know that part of the remains of Rodrigo Arenas Betancourt rest next to his Monumento a la Raza?
Did you know that the 1st Weather Squadron, the 2016 Weather Squadron of the Year, reports on future battlefield weather conditions and assists during natural disasters?
Did you know that the music video for Harry Styles's song "Lights Up" was interpreted as a "bisexual anthem" by critics and viewers due to it being released on National Coming Out Day?
Did you know that there are other causes of climate change in Brazil besides the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest?
Did you know that "noted controversialist" Mary Aldis (depicted) tried to get Auckland City Council to stop a woman being fired from a cannon in 1887?
Did you know that Anne Bierwirth has performed the alto part in Bach's Christmas Oratorio, and in a recording of the first Passion oratorio in German by Reinhard Keiser?
Did you know that Jimmie Rodgers's appearance on The Singing Brakeman made him the first country musician to be featured in a film?
Did you know that Sucker Punch Productions had trouble finding a publisher for their debut video game, Rocket: Robot on Wheels?
Did you know that Zeyan Shafiq developed KashBook during an Internet ban in the Kashmir Valley, operating without a virtual private network?
Did you know that gospel pianist Rudy Atwood, heard on Old Fashioned Revival Hour radio broadcasts of the 1930s to the 1960s, attributed his hymn arrangements to the influence of J. S. Bach?
Did you know that station officials climbed the 500-foot (150 m) tower of the first WFMZ-TV, smashed a bottle of champagne against the top, and christened it "Miss Ultra High"?
Did you know that the Bangkok neighbourhood of Bang Rak is home to Buddhist temples, mosques, a Chinese shrine, and the city's Catholic cathedral?
Did you know that the Cook Islands Local Defence Force was expected to "uphold the prestige of the Cook Islands" by putting up a token resistance if the islands were invaded?
Did you know that the new chairman of the BBC has a twin sister who is a leading judge?
Did you know that the perfume Un Jardin sur le Nil was inspired by green mangoes?
Did you know that "People" by the 1975 was written as a response to the passing of Alabama's controversial abortion ban?
Did you know that 2021 New York City Comptroller candidate Zach Iscol was awarded the Bronze Star for bravery during the Second Battle of Fallujah in the Iraq War?
Did you know that Cyclone Meena was the first of four severe tropical cyclones to impact the Cook Islands in February 2005?
Did you know that Empress Joséphine rejected the second Sèvres Egyptian Service (plate pictured), given as a divorce gift by Napoleon?
Did you know that Japan National Route 350 serves remote Sado Island without any bridges connecting it to its termini on Honshu?
Did you know that Nilüfer Verdi is the first female jazz pianist in Turkey?
Did you know that Ruth Wright Hayre's philanthropic program Tell Them We Are Rising was named after a phrase said by her grandfather, which also inspired the poem "Howard at Atlanta"?
Did you know that after his side won the 2008 Football League One play-off Final, Doncaster Rovers manager Sean O'Driscoll said he could "murder a cup of tea"?
Did you know that hit-to-kill weapons (example pictured) require no warhead as their high velocity gives them many times the energy per kilogram of TNT?
Did you know that the Dreikönigskirche in Dresden, a Baroque church completed in 1739, was bombed in 1945, not restored until 1984, and served as the seat of the state parliament from 1990?
Did you know that Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind is the first wind farm to be built in U.S. federal waters?
Did you know that Gwendolyn Garcia, the governor of the Philippine province of Cebu, has a signature song?
Did you know that Jewish-Russian Zinaida Vengerova, a pioneer in Russian decadence, allowed a circle of intellectuals to drink her blood in a ritual described as anti-Semitic?
Did you know that Konrad Rupf, a long-term singer of the Leipzig Opera, made his stage debut in 1955 as Dulcamara in L'elisir d'amore and appeared as Tevje in Fiddler on the Roof in 2000?
Did you know that Sibongile Khumalo, who sang both national anthems at the 1995 Rugby World Cup Final, said that it was "the one and only time I've ever watched a rugby match, at any level, of any kind"?
Did you know that a seven-figure deal was made for Soman Chainani's debut book The School for Good and Evil to make a film adaptation less than two weeks after the book's publication?
Did you know that after Amanda Gorman recited the poem "The Hill We Climb" at the inauguration of US president Joe Biden, she gained Twitter followers at a faster rate than the president?
Did you know that members of the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps of New Zealand were known as Tuis, after a native bird?
Did you know that one of Finland's longest unsolved crimes, a 1987 murder on board the cruiseferry MS Viking Sally, is going to court after 33 years?
Did you know that some members of Napoleon I's Guards of Honour considered themselves to be hostages of the emperor?
Did you know that unable to demolish the colonial-style Attara Kacheri, Kengal Hanumanthaiah, Chief Minister of Mysore, instead ordered that the Dravidian-style Vidhana Soudha be built opposite it at a slight elevation?
Did you know that Innisfree Garden in Millbrook, New York, was developed from the 1930s by a painter fascinated with an 8th-century Chinese artist, and a landscape architect from Harvard?
Did you know that Jackie Robinson Park was selected as the site for a pool in Harlem after a 1935 riot?
Did you know that Virol (jar pictured) was dispensed by the Virol Lady in British primary schools in the 1940s?
Did you know that after winning the 2013 Football League One play-off Final, Yeovil Town were promoted to the second tier of English football just ten years after being a non-League club?
Did you know that during his 2020 campaign for the leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada, Erin O'Toole made a platform catering to Quebec nationalist voters?
Did you know that if a student at Kemptville Agricultural School had a problem to solve, the standard advice was to ask Mr. George?
Did you know that medieval depictions of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary (example pictured) often show her dropping her belt to Thomas the Apostle as she rises?
Did you know that the Knoxville Raceway will host the first NASCAR nationally sanctioned race in its 120-year history in 2021, joining a race at Bristol Motor Speedway as dirt-track races on the NASCAR Truck Series schedule?
Did you know that the earliest book in English of Sudanese literature is the memoir of Selim Aga, who was born in 1826 and sold as a slave, but published his autobiography in "faultless idiomatic English"?
Did you know that Eastman Johnson's A Ride for Liberty – The Fugitive Slaves is "virtually unique in art of the period" in depicting African-American slaves as "independent agents of their own freedom"?
Did you know that Mother Oya, born into a wealthy family, lived and worked without salary in an orphanage for more than 60 years?
Did you know that fashion designer Monika Tilley's nipple-baring white mesh swimsuit worn by Cheryl Tiegs in the 1978 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue is an exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art?
Did you know that music educator Siegfried Borris was dismissed from the Musikhochschule Berlin by the Nazis, but after World War II became a professor there and president of the Deutscher Musikrat?
Did you know that the Boeing 247 DZ203 flew for United Airlines and the RCAF before the RAF used it to perform the world's first completely automated approach and blind landing?
Did you know that the Church of the Saintes Maries de la Mer was fortified to protect the town from Vikings and Saracens?
Did you know that the Taylor Swift song "Gorgeous" features an introduction voiced by James Reynolds, daughter of actress Blake Lively and actor Ryan Reynolds?