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Did you know that the bloody flag of Blackbeard probably wasn't?
Did you know that Dennis Lennon hoped his design for the interior of the Queen Elizabeth 2 would be the "setting for the world's best party"?
Did you know that John W. Beschter, a Luxembourgish Jesuit who ministered throughout rural Pennsylvania, became the President of Georgetown University in 1829?
Did you know that Sabine Hyland discovered that the Incas may have written phonetic information in knotted cords called khipus?
Did you know that the album Liaisons features works by dozens of composers "re-imagining" Stephen Sondheim's music?
Did you know that the interior of the church Mariä Heimsuchung, a tall concrete landmark of Wiesbaden, features two large, abstract triptychs?
Did you know that the wildlife of Spain includes 8000–9000 species of vascular plants, more than any other country in Europe?
Did you know that Maurice Ravel wrote texts and music for Trois Chansons, his only composition for choir a cappella, in response to the outbreak of World War I?
Did you know that Tang Aoqing is known as the "Father of Quantum Chemistry" in China?
Did you know that the Moscow State Jewish Theatre's internationally acclaimed production of King Lear in 1935 contained veiled critiques of Stalin's regime?
Did you know that the Wehrmacht killed at least 35 French civilians in the village of Dortan (memorial pictured), and then burned the entire village to the ground?
Did you know that Coccothrinax jimenezii, a palm tree native to the island of Hispaniola, was listed as a critically endangered species within two years of its formal description?
Did you know that Horst Laubenthal appeared in Mozart operas at the Glyndebourne Festival as Belmonte, in Paris as Tamino, and in Turin as Ottavio?
Did you know that the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation Building in Flint, Michigan, made its film debut in the 2008 sports comedy Semi-Pro?
Did you know that the means of raising the late 18th-century British Provisional Cavalry was likened to the medieval-era feudal system?
Did you know that zinc oxide nanoparticles, thought to be one of the most-produced nanomaterials, are commonly used in sunscreens?
Did you know that Cape Fugui, the northernmost point on Taiwan, includes a beach with ventifacts?
Did you know that Cole Porter's nickname for his romantic partner Nelson Barclift was "cute little nose"?
Did you know that Dai Fudong designed Mao Zedong's villa and asked Ronald Reagan to have his father's Legion of Merit medal reissued?
Did you know that Hubbard's angel insects groom themselves and each other, perhaps in order to avoid the fungal diseases that kill many zorapterans?
Did you know that La Région Centrale was filmed by a robot?
Did you know that William Kempster's 8.44-metre-long (27.7 ft) mural British Air Transport – The Pioneering Days depicts people and aircraft from British aviation between 1919 and 1934?
Did you know that attendees at U.S. President Donald Trump's 2019 State of the Union Address sang "Happy Birthday" to Judah Samet, a Holocaust survivor who narrowly escaped the 2018 Pittsburgh synagogue shooting?
Did you know that both Tom Ballard and his mother Alison Hargreaves died climbing in the Himalayas, more than 23 years apart?
Did you know that Boston Manor tube station once featured a Tiffany lampshade?
Did you know that Felix Mendelssohn first composed the motet Denn er hat seinen Engeln befohlen (For He shall give His angels charge) for an eight-part choir, then included it with orchestra in Elijah?
Did you know that Nazir Ahmad Wani, the first Ashoka Chakra recipient from Kashmir (posthumous award ceremony pictured), was a militant before he surrendered and joined the Indian Army?
Did you know that Order of Australia recipient Helen Brownlee was the first woman to be elected as one of the vice presidents of the Australian Olympic Committee?
Did you know that a New Jersey shopping mall has a California-style design?
Did you know that Ansel Adams, known for his black-and-white landscape photographs, documented a Japanese-American internment camp during World War II?
Did you know that fees and penalties charged as part of criminal-justice financial obligations in the United States may lead to the justice system becoming both a result and a cause of poverty?
Did you know that in a telegram to Hitler, Hans Bredow, the former head of the Reich Broadcasting Corporation, requested to be treated like his colleagues who were interned in the Oranienburg concentration camp?
Did you know that medieval historian Maria Teresa Ferrer i Mallol believed that the 14th-century Mudéjar Muslim, Jewish, and Christian communities in Catalonia and Valencia co-existed due to religious segregation?
Did you know that some newspapers reported as many as 3,000 deaths in Key West, Florida, during an October 1909 hurricane, but just two fatalities occurred in the city in actuality?
Did you know that Librotraficante smuggled books into Arizona?
Did you know that in pacu jawi, the traditional cattle race of Tanah Datar, Indonesia, the jockey holds the tails of two cattle while they sprint across a muddy rice field?
Did you know that instead of attending Columbia University, Taiwanese engineer Ye Qingyao joined the February 28 rebellion, was jailed, and then escaped to China on a sampan?
Did you know that the storyline of Holby City's two-part episode "A Simple Lie" was compared to the Charlie Gard case?
Did you know that American novelist Pearl Doles Bell traveled with the Ringling Brothers Circus for six weeks to research her 1919 novel Her Elephant Man: A Story of the Sawdust Ring?
Did you know that Finnish Ice Hockey Association president Harry Lindblad was a founding member of the Finnish Hockey Hall of Fame, and served as its first chairman?
Did you know that according to research led by Dana Lepofsky, some clam gardens on the Pacific Northwest Coast are up to 3,500 years old?
Did you know that by winning promotion during the 1920–21 season, Cardiff City F.C. became the first Welsh club to reach the top tier of English football?
Did you know that photographer Nydia Blas has said she is intrigued by the use of photography to influence public opinion, for example the use of photographs by anti-lynching activists?
Did you know that the All India Azad Muslim Conference represented several Islamic organisations that opposed the partition of India?
Did you know that Alfons Zgrzebniok commanded the first two of the three Silesian Uprisings?
Did you know that American landscape and still life painter Ida O'Keeffe omitted her last name in her first exhibition to avoid comparison with her sister?
Did you know that Indian MP Sumedhanand Saraswati is also a Hindu monk?
Did you know that Marianne Williamson, a candidate in the 2020 Democratic presidential primaries, has called for $100 billion in reparations for slavery?
Did you know that Siegfried Vogel, a bass at the Berlin State Opera from 1965, appeared at the Metropolitan Opera in New York and at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow?
Did you know that Sternaspis scutata swallows mud?
Did you know that the Tugnet Ice House, the largest surviving ice house in the UK, is now a dolphin watching centre?
Did you know that the critically endangered Chinese alligator may have helped inspire the mythology of the Chinese dragon?
Did you know that John Wozniak took less than an hour to write Marcy Playground's only hit, "Sex and Candy", in his bedroom at 4 a.m.?
Did you know that Mawjoudin Queer Film Festival, the first queer film festival in North Africa, does not disclose its location due to security concerns?
Did you know that the German philatelic writer Wolfgang Baldus is a specialist in the forged and propaganda stamps of the Second World War, such as the American Adolf Hitler skull stamp?
Did you know that the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act protected more than 1.3 million acres (5,300 km2) of wilderness and created four U.S. national monuments?
Did you know that Meghan Trainor requested the removal of her song "Me Too" from Vevo, due to unapproved digital manipulation of her body in the video?
Did you know that Patrick Lange, who conducted a Stephen Sondheim musical in a youth club production at age 16, became chief music director of the Wiesbaden State Opera at age 36?
Did you know that Tsutomu Kawabuchi was referred to as the "father of Japanese women's ice hockey"?
Did you know that choreographer Alex Romero hired a shoeshiner, Leroy Daniels, to dance with Fred Astaire in the 1953 film The Band Wagon?
Did you know that indigenous resistance by mainland Caribs and Island Caribs played a major role in the failure of Dutch, British, French, and Courlander attempts to colonise Tobago in the 17th century?
Did you know that the former Marysville Cotton Mill now houses a data centre for departments and agencies of the Government of New Brunswick?
Did you know that the mottled piculet likes to drum on bamboo?
Did you know that Mexican federal deputy Nay Salvatori invited the public to "smoke marijuana at my house and listen to The Doors" if the drug was legalized in Mexico, despite never having smoked it herself?
Did you know that Raymund Weber wrote "Zeige uns, Herr, deine Allmacht und Güte" to be sung with a modern melody, but it appears in the German Catholic hymnal with a Baroque melody?
Did you know that Rob Morrison from Australia's The Curiosity Show was an expert witness at a Royal Commission of Inquiry into the death of a girl by a dingo?
Did you know that Tom Oppé chaired the working party which produced a report for the British government in 1974 recommending that babies be fed with breast milk rather than formula?
Did you know that the ABC Rail Guide features in Agatha Christie's novel The A.B.C. Murders and on the cover of two editions of the book (first edition cover pictured)?
Did you know that the U.S. Homeland Security Act of 2002 has been used to expedite government-wide hiring for medical, scientific, and cybersecurity positions into the competitive federal civil service?
Did you know that Bandaru Dattatreya is the only minister from the Telangana state in the current Union Cabinet of India?
Did you know that James Henry Marriott was the first optics professional in New Zealand to make a telescope?
Did you know that Shadow the Hedgehog was originally going to appear only in Sonic Adventure 2, but proved so popular that he became a recurring Sonic the Hedgehog character?
Did you know that Ruth H. Alexander was the first woman selected to serve on the President's Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition?
Did you know that Thomas Fulljames designed the Gloucester Court of Probate in a "picturesque Gothic" style?
Did you know that during World War II, the crew of the USS Argonaut donated their ship's bell to the Submarine Memorial Chapel before the submarine was lost in combat?
Did you know that the Spider-Man created for the 2018 video game by Insomniac Games has been used by Marvel Comics as an alternate version of Spider-Man?
Did you know that three times a day, the clock tower across from Southampton's Watts Park tolls out Isaac Watts's hymn "Our God, Our Help in Ages Past"?
Did you know that volleyball player Chen Zhaodi, who was nicknamed "One-armed General" despite having two arms, became an actual general after retiring from her volleyball career?
Did you know that Heinz Hoppe performed as a lyric tenor at the Hamburg State Opera, including world premieres, but became popular for operetta recordings and television shows?
Did you know that Satish Namdeo Ghormade has served as commanding officer of a guided missile frigate, a submarine rescue vessel, and a minesweeper?
Did you know that at the 2019 Tour Championship snooker tournament the first-round match between Neil Robertson and Mark Selby, played over 17 frames, was decided by the final black?
Did you know that more than one million people are buried on Hart Island, the potter's field for New York City?
Did you know that the scientific name of the Chatham shag commemorates a former Governor of New Zealand?
Did you know that the tragic early life of the visual-novel character Kiritsugu Emiya was written by Gen Urobuchi as a prequel to Fate/stay night, which has a happy ending?
Did you know that All India Trinamool Congress MP Uma Saren was the first person to speak in the tribal Santali language at the Inter-Parliamentary Union?
Did you know that American artist Lydia Purdy Hess, best known for her Portrait of Miss E. H., sketched and painted while floating on the Ohio River during her two-month honeymoon?
Did you know that Czech chemist Karel Wiesner, unable to study at university under the German occupation, set up a laboratory in the basement of his parents' house to teach himself polarography?
Did you know that Fritz Pollard became the NFL's first black quarterback in 1923, but it was not until 2017 that all 32 modern NFL teams had started at least one black quarterback?
Did you know that at the Queen Charlotte's Ball, debutantes curtsey to a giant birthday cake?
Did you know that the Natal Border Guard, established in 1878, was expected to defend the Colony of Natal armed only with spears and shields?
Did you know that the Troy Museum, located close to the ancient city of Troy, is clad in rust-colored weathering steel to resemble an excavated artifact?
Did you know that the weevil species Sicoderus bautistai, described as resembling "black, shiny ants", is named after professional baseball player José Bautista?
Did you know that "Christus, der uns selig macht", a translation by Michael Weiße of a Latin Passion hymn, begins with Jesus arrested like a thief?
Did you know that Bambang Dwi Hartono championed bus rapid transit in Surabaya as mayor, but his plans were overridden by the next mayor?
Did you know that California deserts are experiencing the second wildflower superbloom in three years?
Did you know that geneticist Muntaser Ibrahim, described by Science as "one of Sudan's most distinguished living scholars", was imprisoned in February 2019 after participating in peaceful protests?
Did you know that the Mayan Train was approved in a public referendum that garnered only a one percent voter turnout?
Did you know that Ario Pardee's gift of $20,000 to Lafayette College in 1864 was the largest sum ever given to an educational institution in Pennsylvania at the time?
Did you know that Heinrich Schütz composed Die sieben Worte Jesu Christi am Kreuz, setting the seven Sayings of Jesus on the cross for the Evangelist, who sings in up to four voices, and Jesus, who is accompanied by obbligato instruments?
Did you know that Roger Shepard created an elephant named "L'egs-istential Quandary" (variant pictured)?
Did you know that Sophie Alexander was concussed in her first AFL Women's match?
Did you know that a columnist for the British Internet magazine Spiked created the fictional Twitter user Titania McGrath in order to mock contemporary "woke culture"?
Did you know that in the motet Popule meus by Tomás Luis de Victoria, which sets the Good Friday Reproaches, two choirs alternate Greek and Latin versions of the Trisagion?
Did you know that the Good Friday hymn "My Song Is Love Unknown" asks what Jesus had done to deserve crucifixion?
Did you know that Necdet Turhan, a visually impaired mountaineer and long-distance runner, ran five marathons and climbed five summits on five continents?
Did you know that Shah Faesal, the first Kashmiri to top the Indian civil services exam, has become a politician?
Did you know that cinematographer Mike Gioulakis was inspired by the photography of Gregory Crewdson when shooting the 2014 horror film It Follows?
Did you know that despite being demoted three times, Nikolai Kulakov rose to the rank of vice admiral and became a Hero of the Soviet Union?
Did you know that during Cardiff City F.C.'s 1921–22 season, trainer George Latham became the oldest player in club history when called into action after members of the first team fell ill?
Did you know that in 1941, the far-right French National-Collectivist Party proposed sending its women paramilitaries to fight for Vichy France in Syria?
Did you know that in the 1970s, spoon worms (example pictured) helped promote biodiversity around the effluent outlets from the Los Angeles sewage system?
Did you know that the motet Sicut cervus by Palestrina, suitable for Holy Saturday, has been described as the expression of "serene but fervent spiritual yearning"?
Did you know that Margit Schramm appeared as Hanna Glawari, the "merry widow" in Lehár's operetta, more than 500 times?
Did you know that some insect populations have declined dramatically?
Did you know that the 1862 Easter hymn "Christ Is Risen! Christ Is Risen!" (visual depiction shown) by Gurney was virtually unknown until two revised versions were sent to the United States?
Did you know that Venezuelan journalist Fabiana Rosales has assumed the role of international ambassador, soliciting support for her husband's opposition party, towards resolving the crisis in Venezuela?
Did you know that among the threats facing the "critically endangered" freshwater crayfish Euastacus dalagarbe are domestic livestock and cane toads?
Did you know that height functions allow mathematicians to count and distinguish objects such as rational points of algebraic varieties?
Did you know that the Butler matrix squints?
Did you know that "der kleine Tag" ("the Little Day") is 23 April in the musical of the same name?
Did you know that Antonia Franceschi starred in the 1980 film Fame, set at the same High School of Performing Arts that she attended in real life?
Did you know that Katharine Timpson Cook established training programmes for midwives in Namirembe, Uganda, but distrusted her students and censored their mail?
Did you know that Walter Stanley Haines testified about the Haymarket bombing of 1886, the disappearance of Louisa Luetgert in 1897, and the suspicious deaths in multimillionaire Thomas H. Swope's family in 1909?
Did you know that the Italian cardiologist Attilio Maseri has been the physician to both Queen Elizabeth II and Pope John Paul II?
Did you know that Avi Nissenkorn, former chairman of Histadrut, Israel's largest trade union, competed in his youth in the 1986 World Junior Championships in Athletics?
Did you know that Jens Harzer, a German actor with Hamburg's Thalia Theatre as well as in film and television, was chosen by Bruno Ganz to be the latest bearer of the Iffland-Ring?
Did you know that Noelle Sandwith produced the first portrait of a Queen of Tonga?
Did you know that before St Wilfrid's Church opened, Catholics in Hailsham, East Sussex, had to worship in the hayloft of a brewery's stables?
Did you know that the 14th-century Alai Darwaza was the first Indian monument built using Islamic methods of construction and ornamentation?
Did you know that the yeast Candida blankii, first described from mink organs, is now known to infect humans?
Did you know that while a federal deputy, Virgilio Caballero Pedraza lost his apartment in the 2017 Mexico City earthquake?
Did you know that Mark M. Ravitch and Félicien M. Steichen introduced surgical staples, a time-saving replacement for suturing by hand, to American operating rooms?
Did you know that Ronald Read, whose last job was working 17 years as a J. C. Penney janitor, left US$1.2 million to his local library and $4.8 million to the hospital where he died?
Did you know that the largest in-flight transmission of SARS (virus pictured) took place on an Air China flight in March 2003?
Did you know that while investigating the case of Brittanee Drexel, who disappeared 10 years ago today, the FBI brought federal charges against someone who had already served state probation for the same crime?
Did you know that Friedrich Achleitner, a concrete poet and architecture critic, wrote over decades about Austrian architecture in the 20th century, visiting each building he described?
Did you know that Georgina Pazcoguin of the New York City Ballet co-founded an initiative to combat Asian stereotypes in ballet productions such as The Nutcracker?
Did you know that Harry B. Neilson's illustrations for The Fox's Frolic (example shown) depict fox hunting in which the foxes do the hunting?
Did you know that Ukrainian helicopter pilot Mykola Melnyk made 46 sorties over the highly radioactive Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, and then continued firefighting flights into his 50s?
Did you know that Venezuela's economy still has not recovered from Black Friday in 1983?
Did you know that an original work by artist Virginia Overton was used as a prize at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival?
Did you know that the collapse of Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company led to the murder of a district collector of the British Raj?
Did you know that Ann Wroe has written The Economist's obituaries since 2003, with subjects including Prince, Arthur Miller, and Osama bin Laden?
Did you know that Emma Ghent Curtis's 1889 novel The Administratrix features a cowboy in favor of women's suffrage?
Did you know that Episode 8052 of the Australian soap opera Neighbours concerns the death of series regular Sonya Rebecchi, whose portrayer's contract was not renewed to reduce production costs?
Did you know that art historian Andrew Tallon used lasers to collect one billion data points of the interior and exterior of Notre-Dame de Paris, which could be used for its reconstruction?
Did you know that as Prime Minister of Hyderabad, Kishen Pershad passed the Mulki regulations giving preference to local citizens over British citizens for state administrative appointments?
Did you know that most major Venetian Renaissance architects (villa by Palladio pictured) were not natives of the city, or even of the Republic of Venice?
Did you know that the yucca plum pine, the bastard briziletto, and the West Indian sumac grow in the cloud forest on the summits of the Sierra de Luquillo?
Did you know that Chinese linguist Yang Naisi was noted for his research on the ʼPhags-pa script?
Did you know that Kathleen Hite, scriptwriter for Gunsmoke, accepted a job as a secretary at CBS so she could badger company officials into letting her write?
Did you know that XHCDMX-FM, operated by a consortium of women's organizations and activists, is the first community radio station in Mexico City?
Did you know that the Ethiopian Unity Patriots Front is officially opposed to ethnic federalism and sectarianism, although almost all of its popular support stems from just one tribal group?
Did you know that the style of contemporary art known colloquially as bara belongs to a history of homosexuality in Japanese visual art dating back to shunga of the Edo period?
Did you know that Ānanda (sculpture pictured) became the Buddha's attendant, on condition that he would never receive any material benefit from the position?
Did you know that Bent Norup, a Danish heldenbaritone, recorded the role of Orest live in France, alongside Ute Vinzing as Elektra and Leonie Rysanek as Chrysothemis?
Did you know that Flaps Rendall flew ball bearings across occupied Denmark at night in Mosquitos?
Did you know that a book-length interview with Stanisław Lem was subject to cuts due to censorship in Communist Poland?
Did you know that the crinoid Aporometra wilsoni broods its young in cavities in the feathery pinnules on its arms?
Did you know that upon its completion at Silver Dollar City in 2018, Time Traveler became the world's first spinning roller coaster to feature three inversions?
Did you know that Western Australia was held scoreless in the pool A final at the 2016 AFL Youth Girls National Championships?
Did you know that among the judges of the 1954 Armed Forces March Competition were the last two living cornet soloists to have performed under John Philip Sousa?
Did you know that so many people attended a 2017 Pokémon Go live event in Yokohama, Japan, that the city declined to host it the following year?
Did you know that the fashion designer Edward Windsor, Lord Downpatrick is the closest relative of Queen Elizabeth II who cannot succeed to the British throne because of conversion to Catholicism?
Did you know that Andrey Starovoytov, the general secretary of the Soviet Union Ice Hockey Federation for 17 years, negotiated Soviet participation in the Summit Series?