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Did you know that the book Midas Touch, co-authored by Donald Trump and Robert Kiyosaki, praises the economic benefits of immigration to the United States?
Did you know that the real-life subject of the film The Broken Cord, diagnosed with fetal alcohol syndrome, was struck by a car and died before the film's release?
Did you know that while a member of the Philadelphia City Council, Thomas McIntosh challenged the school district to ensure that school conditions were equal in both black and white neighborhoods?
Did you know that "Someday" became Mariah Carey's third consecutive number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100?
Did you know that Frank J. Canova has been described as the inventor of the smartphone?
Did you know that Martin Janus wrote the original lyrics of "Jesu, meiner Seelen Wonne", which Bach used in a cantata in a setting known as "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring"?
Did you know that Paul Abels, the first openly gay minister to serve in a major Christian denomination in the United States, was nearly removed from his pastorate after he came out in the 1970s?
Did you know that among the Tuareg people, men traditionally wear a veil called a litham or tagulmust, while women go unveiled?
Did you know that at a 1999 performance of Savuka's anti-apartheid song "Asimbonanga", former South African President Nelson Mandela danced on stage?
Did you know that in creating his Luceafărul myth about the impossible love between a deity and a mortal, Mihai Eminescu may have been influenced by the Katha Upanishad?
Did you know that the 2016 "slashomedy" Pi Day Die Day stars Friday the 13th actor Ari Lehman?
Did you know that the New York City Subway G train is the only non-shuttle service that does not run through Manhattan?
Did you know that the second reused orbital rocket in history, Falcon 9 booster B1029, was "extra toasty" upon coming back from the edge of space on June 23, 2017, to land on a drone ship?
Did you know that the supposed relics of Georgian saint Ketevan the Martyr were retrieved from the ruins of the Church of St. Augustine in Goa?
Did you know that Indian politician Idris Ali has compared party chief Mamata Banerjee to Mother Teresa, Mahatma Gandhi, and the goddess Saraswati?
Did you know that Sebastiano DiGaetano, an early mafia boss of the Bonanno crime family, disappeared after stepping down in 1912?
Did you know that Wilhelm Ehmann, founder and director of a school of church music, toured internationally conducting his choir Westfälische Kantorei?
Did you know that due to violent disruptions by Hebrew-only proponents, Yiddish films screened in Mandatory Palestine had to be dubbed?
Did you know that personal dust monitors required for coal miners by the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration are based on the tapered element oscillating microbalance?
Did you know that singer-songwriter Jo Carol Pierce attended high school with artists Joe Ely and Butch Hancock in Lubbock, Texas?
Did you know that the Hindu festival Ganga Dussehra (celebration pictured) commemorates the descent of the Ganges from heaven to earth?
Did you know that the bass Oskar Czerwenka appeared in 1,084 performances at the Vienna State Opera, and his home was integrated into a state music school that was named after him?
Did you know that the flowers of Banksia alliacea smell of onions?
Did you know that the music video for Oh Land's "Cherry on Top" is intended to serve as the first of three short films directed by Duncan Winecoff?
Did you know that when Donald Trump accused Hillary Clinton of playing the woman card, she did and it garnered $2.4 million for her campaign?
Did you know that Drop the Dip, the first roller coaster to use a lap bar, was inspired by a toy in a dentist's office waiting room?
Did you know that Maurice Wilder-Neligan was dubbed "The Eccentric Colonel" for distributing newspapers to his troops during a lull in an attack?
Did you know that after the 1194 Battle of Fréteval, Richard I captured the French King's government archive which travelled with him, who as a result founded the French National Archives in Paris?
Did you know that governor Min Linka of Pegu was executed after his failed rebellion against his brother King Binnya U of Martaban?
Did you know that in the John Gay version of Achilles, the hero is introduced as a cross-dresser?
Did you know that investment banker Peter W. Smith contacted Russian hackers in an unsuccessful attempt to locate missing emails from Hillary Clinton's computer system?
Did you know that smut has been reported on Scouten Brook?
Did you know that the Indian Ocean coral Acropora rudis is "endangered" by habitat destruction and its susceptibility to coral bleaching, disease and ocean acidification?
Did you know that the Twelve Fantasias for Viola da Gamba solo, published by the composer Georg Philipp Telemann in 1735, were believed lost but published again in 2016?
Did you know that the story of Hannah Norsa has been described as "an archetypal tale of how stage stardom might lead to social transformation"?
Did you know that American Civil War Confederate surgeon Charles T. Pepper was the original inspiration for the Dr Pepper soft drink (1910 logo shown)?
Did you know that Dishonored 2, a steampunk video game, had its anti-piracy software hacked by a group called SteamPunks?
Did you know that Microshaft Winblows 98 served as parody video game developer Parroty Interactive's take on Microsoft, Windows, and Bill Gates?
Did you know that Nicole Chevalier was awarded Der Faust for her performance of the four female characters in Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffman at the Komische Oper Berlin?
Did you know that Paula Murrihy, who appeared in operatic title roles such as Dido, Carmen, Hänsel and the Rosenkavalier, sang Lieder with viola and piano for the Hessischer Rundfunk?
Did you know that Robert Symonds, expert in old English furniture, claimed that his girlfriend thrust a pair of curling tongs in his ear?
Did you know that Shekhar Naik is the first blind cricketer to be awarded the Padma Shri?
Did you know that Tropical Depression Eight in 1981 dropped up to 21 inches (530 mm) of rainfall in Texas, much of which fell in only six hours?
Did you know that Trump Tower was marketed as the "debut novel" of Donald Trump?
Did you know that in the UK, the endangered Tansy beetle can only be found on the banks of the River Ouse, near York?
Did you know that the pallid cuckoo was first described as a pigeon?
Did you know that there was a campaign to deny Catherine Afeku's appointment as Ghana's Minister of Tourism because she had not done her national service?
Did you know that within 100 years of the Spanish conquest of Nicaragua, the native population had been all but eliminated by a combination of newly-introduced disease, the slave trade, warfare, and mistreatment?
Did you know that Margaret Amoakohene, currently a member of Ghana's Council of State, is the country's former High Commissioner to Canada?
Did you know that Mirwaiz Yusuf Shah of Kashmir was one of the founders of All Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference?
Did you know that Norah C. James' first book Sleeveless Errand was ruled obscene and ordered by the Bow Street Police Court to be destroyed?
Did you know that ProRodeo Hall of Fame barrel racer Charmayne James still managed to win the round when her horse Scamper's bridle fell off?
Did you know that The Gamblers' "Moon Dawg!" single is considered by some to be the first surf rock record?
Did you know that U.S. admiral Mark Bristol unsuccessfully protested against the deportations of Samsun Greeks to the Turkish authorities of Mustafa Kemal?
Did you know that radio station KRGE in Weslaco, Texas, once shared time with another station that later moved 350 miles (560 km) from Brownsville to Port Arthur?
Did you know that the Amfleet (coaches pictured) was Amtrak's first new intercity passenger cars and the Budd Company's last?
Did you know that the Shinano River is the longest river, and has the third largest drainage basin, in Japan?
Did you know that the YPG was denounced after the Battle of al-Yaarubiyah for fighting the Free Syrian Army, which was not even present during the battle?
Did you know that Alice Tangerini is the only botanical illustrator ever hired by the Smithsonian Institution?
Did you know that Allied logistics in the Kokoda Track campaign relied on aircraft (example pictured) and "Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels"?
Did you know that GhanaSat-1, the first Ghanaian satellite in space, is used to monitor the country's coastline as well as broadcast Ghanaian songs?
Did you know that Hendrika B. Cantwell, one of the first physicians in the US to work for a child protection agency, came in contact with an estimated 30,000 cases of suspected child abuse and neglect?
Did you know that developer Parroty Interactive's 1997 parody video game The X-Fools was released in anticipation of the fifth season of the paranormal TV series The X-Files?
Did you know that international cricketer Carlisle Best would "aggravate bowlers" by commentating on himself while batting?
Did you know that the Brookville Liberty Modern Streetcar has a hybrid design that allows it to run on either battery power or via pantograph and overhead line?
Did you know that the Guangming Daily was one of only three national newspapers published in China during the Cultural Revolution?
Did you know that the National Socialist Party's victory in the 1956 general election formed the only elected government in Jordan's history?
Did you know that the bedding ceremony symbolised the involvement of family, friends, and neighbours in the newlyweds' sexual intimacy, but also had legal importance in parts of Western Europe?
Did you know that when disturbed, the rufous-throated partridge flies to branches as thrushes do, and at night, roosts huddled in trees like babblers?
Did you know that Alfred Ezra learnt how to keep hummingbirds in captivity using baby food?
Did you know that Charles Moses escaped from Singapore with Major General Gordon Bennett, led a cavalry regiment at the Battle of Buna-Gona, and crossed the Rhine with the British commandos?
Did you know that Don Reitz incorporated his niece's drawings into a series of ceramic pieces that came to be known as the Sara Period (example pictured)?
Did you know that Donald Trump blamed his ghostwriter for inaccuracies in Trump 101, saying in a deposition that he had read it "very quickly" before publication?
Did you know that Gorgonia mariae is one of several species of sea fans affected by a terrestrial fungal disease in the Gulf of Mexico?
Did you know that Martin F. Scanlon was one of the Early Birds of Aviation?
Did you know that Oxford Bibliographies Online has been called "an anti-Google"?
Did you know that Richard Scott was a doctor who in 1963 became the world's first professor in general practice?
Did you know that The Big Bend, which would be the world's longest building if built, was designed to circumvent zoning regulations?
Did you know that the Flag of Washington must show George Washington's profile facing the same direction on both sides, making it one of the most expensive U.S. state flags to produce?
Did you know that the Indian legislator Siddiqullah Chowdhury is critical of the Sheikh Hasina-led government of Bangladesh?
Did you know that the Iranian Prime Minister's office bombing in 1981 led to the death of the prime minister, Mohammad Javad Bahonar, and President Mohammad Ali Rajai?
Did you know that the short film Le Building was created as an opener for the Annecy International Animated Film Festival as the thesis project of five students of Gobelins?
Did you know that the white-necklaced partridge's forehead is white in one subspecies and chestnut in the other?
Did you know that William L. Mercereau, Superintendent of Steamships for the Pere Marquette Railway, was responsible for building up what was at the time the world's largest carferry fleet?
Did you know that according to Snopes, the belief that the soul weighs 21 grams should not be given any credence?
Did you know that after working for the International Coffee Organization in London and as a consultant for the World Bank, Owusu Afriyie Akoto became Ghana's Minister of Food and Agriculture?
Did you know that contralto Ruth Siewert appeared as Erda not only in Bayreuth, but also at La Scala, La Fenice, and La Monnaie?
Did you know that in animal studies of the health and safety hazards of nanomaterials, carbon nanotubes had similar inhalation exposure effects to asbestos?
Did you know that in the mid-1980s, some HIV patients pinned their hopes for survival on an experimental drug called HPA-23?
Did you know that the 2013 book Disinformation was included in the CIA's "Intelligence Officer's Bookshelf"?
Did you know that the Nili Patera dune field (detail pictured) was the first location on Mars where evidence was obtained of dune movement of a minimum of 1 metre (3 ft 3 in)?
Did you know that the black coral barnacle sometimes grows on Plumapathes pennacea?
Did you know that the first county courthouse for Lake County, Oregon, was built on 20 acres (8.1 ha) donated by Mark W. Bullard in 1876?
Did you know that the upcoming movie Stronger is based on a memoir by Boston Marathon bombing survivor Jeff Bauman?
Did you know that when Debussy wrote his cantata La Damoiselle élue, setting a poem by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, he had probably not seen the poet's painting of the subject?
Did you know that within a Monte Viso Tunnel is the most ancient tunnel of Italy throught the mountain?
Did you know that Carmen Cincotti ate nearly 1,000 hot dogs in two months while training for the 2017 Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest, where he ate 62 hot dogs and buns in 10 minutes to finish in second place?
Did you know that Jordan holds an annual celebration on 1 March for the 1956 Arabization of the Jordanian Army command?
Did you know that Stanley Blankson made the smooth flow of human and vehicular traffic his major aim during his term as mayor of Accra?
Did you know that a geologist named a secondary vent of Palomo volcano after his son, hoping that one day he would get to know the mountain range?
Did you know that in 1944, Northern Ireland politician William Lyle denounced as "obnoxious" the views of minister Harry Midgley, whom Lyle hoped would become "more mature"?
Did you know that the Hainan partridge occurs in forests that have recovered from logging?
Did you know that Donald Trump urged his Twitter followers not to buy the biography Trump Revealed by Michael Kranish and Marc Fisher?
Did you know that Mithuben Petit, a woman freedom fighter during the British Raj, played a major part in the Salt March with Mahatma Gandhi?
Did you know that Richard Saltonstall Rogers, a political enemy of Nathaniel Hawthorne, has been suggested as the inspiration for a character in Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter?
Did you know that huli-huli chicken is turned on a spit, and named from the Hawaiian word huli, meaning "turn"?
Did you know that the hull of USS Albacore (launch pictured) had the Lyon Shape that was originally designed for airships by a woman?
Did you know that Robert Lee Burns, a reformed convict from Oregon, was the subject of an interstate extradition battle between Oregon and California?
Did you know that Swedish singer Wille Crafoord launched the Hovturnén, an annual concert tour in Skåne, in which singers and performers travel by horseback between gigs?
Did you know that at 27 weeks, the longest running number-one song on the US Billboard Dance/Electronic Songs chart is "Closer" by The Chainsmokers, featuring Halsey?
Did you know that in 1975, eight men stole $30 million from the Providence Mafia and associates in the Bonded Vault heist?
Did you know that the black stork population has been declining for many years in Western Europe and the bird is no longer a summer visitor to Scandinavia?
Did you know that 22 years after he walked-on at Ole Miss, Matt Luke became its head football coach?
Did you know that Gertrude Förstel was Sophie when Der Rosenkavalier was first performed in Vienna, and sang in the premieres of Tiefland and Mahler's Eighth Symphony?
Did you know that Jamaica High School, once Queens' largest public high school with 4,613 students, closed in 2014 with a graduating class of only 24 students?
Did you know that for the filming of Can She Bake a Cherry Pie? on Manhattan's Upper West Side, the filmmakers relied on regular pedestrian traffic to background the scenes rather than hiring extras?
Did you know that the Achaemenid palace at Susa served as a model for Persepolis?
Did you know that "Kum-A-Kye" was the regimental march of the British South Africa Police in Rhodesia?
Did you know that Christoph Bock, the 2017 Overton Prize recipient, is a leading scientist in the International Human Epigenome Consortium?
Did you know that David Asante-Apeatu, acting Inspector General of Police of Ghana, once oversaw a police operation that led to the seizure of 588 kg (1,296 lb) of cocaine worth US$38 million?
Did you know that King Kamehameha III held a grand luau at his summer palace of Kaniakapupu for ten thousand guests during the 1847 celebration of Hawaiian Sovereignty Restoration Day?
Did you know that during the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany, Arpad Weixlgärtner refused to hand over the keys to the Imperial Treasury to the SS?
Did you know that the relationship of manga character Boruto Uzumaki with his father Naruto was based on the artist Masashi Kishimoto's own relationship with his children?
Did you know that the white anemone has been found growing in grooves in the shell of a loggerhead sea turtle?
Did you know that Harry Traver's Jazz Railways, Sesquicentennial Cyclone, and Giant Cyclone Safety Coasters (including the notorious Palisades Park Cyclone, Oaks Park Zip, Crystal Beach Cyclone, and Revere Beach Lightning) all included rapidly undulating "Jazz Track" (diagram pictured)?
Did you know that Typhoon Phyllis and Typhoon Rita were responsible for the majority of Japan tropical cyclone casualties in the 1975 Pacific typhoon season?
Did you know that an ultra-Orthodox mother of eleven runs the office of the President of Israel?
Did you know that despite living in complete darkness at bathyal depths, the sea anemone Allantactis parasitica synchronises its breeding activity with the phases of the moon?
Did you know that in 2017, the Brooklyn Street Circuit hosted the New York City ePrix, the city's first automobile race since 1896?
Did you know that Angelo De Donatis is the first non-cardinal to be appointed Vicar General of Rome since the sixteenth century?
Did you know that Daniel Tilton, one of the first three judges of the Mississippi Territory, lacked any legal experience prior to his appointment?
Did you know that Seattle's International District/Chinatown station is located under a large concrete lid that supports several office towers and a public plaza?
Did you know that radioactive nanoparticles are being investigated as a treatment for cancer?
Did you know that the 2008 film Dostana inspired several fashion trends in India, with Priyanka Chopra's silver sari, worn in the song "Desi Girl", becoming very popular?
Did you know that the bagel and cream cheese (example pictured) was a very popular dish in the United States in the early 1950s, having permeated American culture?
Did you know that the stag beetle Geodorcus servandus is unable to fly, and is known to occur only on a single mountaintop in New Zealand?
Did you know that the various versions of Titian's Venus and Musician include organists, lute-players, Cupids, and dogs, but always a nude Venus?
Did you know that "Denes nad Makedonija" was chosen to be the national anthem of the Republic of Macedonia, even though it finished runner-up in a contest held soon after independence in 1991?
Did you know that Prince Știrbei, the Romanian arts patron, buried sculptor Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux in Courbevoie, then fought over the remains with Carpeaux's widow?
Did you know that at age 18, Daniel Schiebeler wrote the libretto for an opera by Telemann based on an episode from Cervantes' Don Quixote, which he could read in Spanish?
Did you know that one of the largest colonies in England of the rare sea aster mining bee is in an artificial mound of sand?
Did you know that people may be fined US$250,000 for importing monkey meat into the United States?
Did you know that the United States Marine Corps tiara was designed by the New York fashion house Mainbocher?
Did you know that Michael Boder conducted new operas, including Penderecki's Ubu Rex for the Munich Opera Festival, Henze's Phaedra in Berlin, and Reimann's Medea in Vienna?
Did you know that as you progress through your 90-minute sleep cycle, your brainwaves change and your body secretes different hormones?
Did you know that freedom fighter K. E. Mammen was expelled from Madras Christian College for participating in the Quit India Movement?
Did you know that numerous writers have called the Airplane Coaster the greatest roller coaster ever built?
Did you know that the Rabbitkettle Hot Springs in the Northwest Territories are both the largest tufa mounds in Canada and the only known tufa mounds on permafrost?
Did you know that the call of the dusky long-tailed cuckoo is faster in Lower Guinea than it is in Upper Guinea?
Did you know that Ariana Grande said she wanted her "Baby I" music video to emulate the "breeziness" of early 1990s music videos by TLC and Will Smith?
Did you know that Sekondi MP Andrew Mercer helped repay the debt owed to the Ghana Football Association by Sekondi Eleven Wise, a Division 1 league club in his constituency?
Did you know that Theater Magdeburg's opera house, an operetta and variety theatre, is a reconstruction of the original destroyed in World War II?
Did you know that around the shores of Long Island, the ghost anemone can cause "clam diggers' itch", while the lined anemone is responsible for "seabather's eruption"?
Did you know that cargo had to be loaded and unloaded by hand onto the SS John Sherman, the first freight ship used on Lake Michigan?
Did you know that consistent misrepresentation of a frequently-cited 1980 letter to the editor in The New England Journal of Medicine has been blamed for contributing to the U.S. opioid epidemic?
Did you know that the Life sculpture was designed by Joseph Drapell shortly after landing in Halifax, Nova Scotia, as a refugee?
Did you know that CUBRIC at Cardiff University can create a map of someone's brain?
Did you know that Clementina Anstruther-Thomson and Vernon Lee openly lived together as a lesbian couple during the Victorian era?
Did you know that Matthew Pottinger, a member of the U.S. National Security Council, was a journalist in China for seven years before becoming a U.S. Marine?
Did you know that Typhoon Hattie was the fifth of a record six tropical cyclones to hit Japan in 1990?
Did you know that pianist Abdullah Ibrahim recorded the Cape jazz instrumental "Mannenberg" in response to the forced relocation of Coloured families by the South African government during apartheid?
Did you know that the East Asian holiday White Day served as the basis for the horror game White Day: A Labyrinth Named School?
Did you know that the Gevninge helmet fragment once adorned a pre-Viking Age helmet?
Did you know that "Cherry Garcia" is a cherry ice cream named after Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead?
Did you know that Bart Sawyer's pro wrestling gimmick was inspired by Bart Simpson?
Did you know that Melusine, the second opera by Aribert Reimann, premiered at the Schlosstheater Schwetzingen in 1971 and was revived in 2016 by students in Berlin for the composer's 80th birthday?
Did you know that Typhoon Caitlin provided drought relief to Okinawa, where reservoir levels rose from 35% to over 80% capacity?
Did you know that a clinical pharmaceutical scientist is both a practicing pharmacist and a scientist?
Did you know that the family of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Alex Tizon kept a slave for 56 years?
Did you know that Céleste Mogador may have been the inspiration for the title character in Georges Bizet's opera Carmen?
Did you know that René Morax founded the Thêatre du Jorat, where his play Le Roi David premiered with dramatic music by Arthur Honegger?
Did you know that beer ice cream has been served at the Great American Beer Festival?