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Did you know that Faith of Our Fathers, a collection of Catholic hymns which became one of Ireland's best-selling albums, was the brainchild of an insurance broker with no experience in the music industry?
Did you know that Hells Bells grow underwater in a cave in Mexico?
Did you know that Rong Baisheng designed the Guangdong International Building, which became China's tallest building when completed in 1990?
Did you know that in Andy Warhol's Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century, the "faces of the dead appear as if behind a veneer of modernity" according to the National Portrait Gallery?
Did you know that Dutch pool player Nick van den Berg has competed in the Mosconi Cup eight times and lost only once, in the 2003 event?
Did you know that Wei Shoukun, the longest-lived academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, taught at 10 universities over his 80-year career?
Did you know that according to motivation crowding theory, adding incentives for some behavior can sometimes backfire and actually result in less of that behavior?
Did you know that after retirement from NASA, astronaut Frank Borman became a special advisor to Eastern Air Lines, and helped rescue survivors of the Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 crash near Florida's Everglades?
Did you know that despite being parodied on World Wrestling Federation TV as "Billionaire Ted", World Championship Wrestling owner Ted Turner reportedly found the sketches funny?
Did you know that for his opera Stephen Climax, composer Hans Zender wrote a libretto which juxtaposes the life of Simeon Stylites with scenes from Ulysses by James Joyce?
Did you know that the wildlife of Senegal includes a critically endangered subspecies of the giant eland and the common Senegal one-striped grass mouse?
Did you know that 11th-century scholar Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Naysaburi, an authority on the early history of Isma'ilism, composed the first official genealogy of the Fatimid dynasty?
Did you know that John Casken's opera Golem won the 1991 Gramophone Classical Music Award for Best Contemporary Recording?
Did you know that before his accession to the Scottish Parliament in 2016, Bill Bowman lived and worked for more than a decade in Bucharest?
Did you know that poutine (example pictured) and back bacon on a bun were served while the Beaver was awarded to Made in Canada at the inaugural Canadian Comedy Awards?
Did you know that the 1458 Loveday, which was intended to unite Henry VI's nobility, only resulted in uniting his enemies?
Did you know that the FM Non-Duplication Rule adopted by the FCC 55 years ago today led to the creation of the album-oriented and classic rock radio formats?
Did you know that the WWE 24/7 Championship, a professional wrestling championship, can be defended anytime, anywhere, as long as a WWE referee is present?
Did you know that Alexandra Phillips and Alexandra Phillips stood against each other for election in South East England, and both were elected?
Did you know that a new personification was developed for the Americas (example pictured) after their discovery by Europeans?
Did you know that the weight of the volcanoes of Hawaii is causing Earth's crust to buckle, generating volcanoes under the sea?
Did you know that composers Alexander Borodin, Mikhail Glinka, Modest Mussorgsky, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky are all buried in the Tikhvin Cemetery?
Did you know that the Mueller probe was born in a crossfire hurricane?
Did you know that the free-living, solitary coral Cycloseris distorta can subdivide its stony skeleton and form two new individuals?
Did you know that when Joseph Wood was appointed as head master of Harrow School, he was by far the oldest to be appointed since the retirement of Thomas Thackeray in 1760?
Did you know that Eddie Gallagher, a Navy SEAL who had been accused of murder, was transferred to "less restrictive confinement" by direct presidential intervention, the first such transfer since William Calley's in 1971?
Did you know that Tito's Tacos of Culver City, California, has sold the same hard-shell tacos filled with shredded beef, iceberg lettuce, and grated cheddar cheese for 60 years?
Did you know that the Tarzan of Manisa planted thousands of trees on Mount Sipylus in Turkey?
Did you know that the United States embassy in Nicosia, Cyprus, was bombed while Fraser Wilkins was serving as the first US ambassador to Cyprus?
Did you know that the creation of the Swedish Levant Company in 1738 was controversial because of a disagreement between several Swedish merchants and the Hat Party?
Did you know that the historic French trick-taking card game of la Bête has its origins in 16th-century Spanish Ombre, and was created by introducing the concept of bidding into Triomphe?
Did you know that this article is a load of old cobblers?
Did you know that Ali Eisami, a Kanuri man, dictated his memoirs of his captivity to German missionary and linguist Sigismund Koelle, and helped him produce a Kanuri grammar?
Did you know that Stepan Pimenov's sculptures for the Admiralty building in St. Petersburg were removed and destroyed by order of Emperor Alexander II?
Did you know that Werner Egk wrote the libretto for Irische Legende, his first opera after World War II, based on The Countess Cathleen by W. B. Yeats?
Did you know that the Leagues Cup, an upcoming four-team soccer competition between MLS and Liga MX clubs, was panned by critics as soon as it was announced?
Did you know that the designs on opon Ifá divination trays praise and acknowledge the work of the babalawo?
Did you know that the wildlife of Nigeria includes 940 species of bird and all eight known species of West African mangrove?
Did you know that Aziz Abu Sarah, a peace activist from East Jerusalem and promoter of Arab–Israeli peace projects, neither understood Hebrew nor knew any Israeli Jews until after leaving high school?
Did you know that HMS Imperieuse once sailed under an American flag?
Did you know that James H. Stark, author of six guidebooks to the British West Indies and Bermuda, was described as a "modern Hakluyt"?
Did you know that Tsunekazu Ishihara was nicknamed "The King of Portable Toys" by coworkers during the development of Pokémon Red and Green?
Did you know that an artificial intelligence wrote a novel in the spirit of Jack Kerouac's On the Road?
Did you know that the dome of Santa Maria di Collemaggio collapsed in the 1461 L'Aquila earthquake?
Did you know that the repeated question "Warum?" ('Why?') from the Book of Job structures the first of Two Motets, Op. 74, by Johannes Brahms?
Did you know that wheelchair basketball player Teisha Shadwell raised money for a custom-built chair on GoFundMe?
Did you know that Florrie Redford played football with other women during her lunch break at a World War I munitions factory prior to becoming a leading goal scorer for Dick, Kerr Ladies F.C.?
Did you know that Germany defeated Sweden in the 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup Final with a golden goal, the last time this method of deciding the final was approved?
Did you know that Im Eun-ju was the first South Korean woman to referee at the international level of association football?
Did you know that Liu Xianjue spent three years researching the book The Architectural Heritage in Macau, which was submitted in the city's successful application for World Heritage status?
Did you know that William Feiner became the president of Georgetown College in 1826 despite having never mastered English?
Did you know that among the wetland animals in Kainji National Park are two species of crocodile, four of turtle, the African manatee, the hippopotamus, and the clawless otter?
Did you know that the Missa brevis for choir a cappella is one of about 300 choral compositions by Knut Nystedt?
Did you know that the WTC Cortlandt subway station in New York City, closed for 17 years after the September 11 attacks, cost $181 million to rebuild?
Did you know that Australian Army major Peter Badcoe was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for displaying "conspicuous gallantry and leadership" on three occasions?
Did you know that Bolivia sued Chile in 2013 to regain land lost in 1884, claiming it had an Obligation to Negotiate Access to the Pacific Ocean?
Did you know that Joanne Berger-Sweeney is the first African-American and first woman to serve as president of Trinity College, Connecticut?
Did you know that Tang Dingyuan co-invented the "split-diamond bomb"?
Did you know that The California Field Atlas by Obi Kaufmann is neither a field guide nor a conventional atlas?
Did you know that operatic bass Kieth Engen, who got his first role, Bluebeard, at the Bavarian State Opera because he was tall, also had a pop career under a pseudonym?
Did you know that the earliest evidence of sheep herding has been found in northern Iraq, dated before 9000 BC?
Did you know that Hypericum olympicum, an Award of Garden Merit winner, is toxic to dogs, cats, and horses?
Did you know that Isabelle Story, a member of Eleanor Roosevelt's press corps, published a weekly column called "Chatting With The First Lady"?
Did you know that Newcastle Falcons were relegated to play in the 2019–20 RFU Championship after the RFU rejected a plan to expand Premiership Rugby?
Did you know that Wang Xiji, chief designer of China's first space launch vehicle and recoverable satellites, advocated the construction of a solar power station 36,000 km (22,000 mi) above Earth?
Did you know that after leaving Nauvoo, Illinois, John Lyman Smith traveled with the Mormon pioneers in 1847 to the Salt Lake Valley, where he became a Utah Territory politician?
Did you know that the Occupation of Ma'an has been called "one of the most confused chapters" of Jordan's history?
Did you know that New Zealand-born singer Rosé initially thought her father's suggestion that she audition to become a K-pop star was a joke, as the family lived in Australia?
Did you know that Tatsuo Nomura's "Pokémon Challenge" for Google Maps, created as an April Fools' Day prank for mobile phone users, led to the development of Pokémon Go?
Did you know that the Brahma Temple of Khajuraho is actually dedicated to Shiva?
Did you know that the Kinetest, a women's ski trail at the Grovatesten ski field in Meråker, is named after the Norwegian cross-country skier Kine Beate Bjørnås?
Did you know that the West Indian Incumbered Estates Acts were modelled on legislation introduced after the Irish Great Famine?
Did you know that French-born Joe Bertony, who twice escaped from Nazi concentration camps, played a key part in the construction of the Sydney Opera House?
Did you know that Liu Housheng co-founded the Plum Blossom Award, the highest award for Chinese opera?
Did you know that Portland's MAX Blue Line (train pictured) was built as a result of freeway revolts in the 1970s?
Did you know that a clay tablet at the National Museum of Iraq, dated to c. 1770 BCE, shows a calculation that uses the Pythagorean theorem—twelve centuries prior to the birth of Pythagoras?
Did you know that endometriosis, a condition in which tissue from the womb occurs in unusual locations, can cause bleeding into the chest during menstrual periods?
Did you know that Bohumil Herlischka staged Schoenberg's Moses und Aron at the Hamburg State Opera, including a tour to Israel?
Did you know that Elizabeth L. Gardner served as a WASP during World War II and was the subject of a well-known photo?
Did you know that Maria Howard Weeden painted many portraits of African-American freedmen and freedwomen?
Did you know that in two species of megabat, males have been observed to produce milk?
Did you know that the Arab Serai, a 16th-century roadside inn in Delhi, may have been built to shelter 300 Arab mullahs who accompanied the Mughal emperor's widow on her Hajj to Mecca?
Did you know that the Suvorov Monument, now on Suvorov Square, depicts its subject as the god Mars?
Did you know that Abby Dunkin was one of three University of Texas at Arlington players selected as members of the All Star Five at the 2019 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship?
Did you know that Armenian pianist Tigran Hamasyan believes that God intervened in the recording of his album Luys i Luso?
Did you know that English librarian Frank Cundall created the West India Reference Library in 1894, which later became the nucleus of the National Library of Jamaica?
Did you know that after the crash of Paradise Airlines Flight 901A, the Federal Aviation Administration permanently grounded the airline's operations?
Did you know that as a condition of a bequest from James Cowan Smith, the Scottish National Gallery must permanently display a portrait of his dog Callum?
Did you know that in 1953, Satyawati Suleiman became the first woman to receive a degree in archaeology from the University of Indonesia?
Did you know that Back to Black, the final studio album by Amy Winehouse, topped the European Top 100 Albums chart for 13 non-consecutive weeks?
Did you know that Charles Stapley played 26 different roles in The Adventures of Robin Hood?
Did you know that César Franck composed Psalm 150, a setting of "the musicians' psalm", for choir, orchestra, and organ, for a school for the blind in Paris?
Did you know that lieutenant commander James J. Connell's Navy Cross was the highest award for valor bestowed on a Delawarean during the Vietnam War?
Did you know that the samples of Le Nove porcelain (example pictured), sent to the Venetian government in 1762 to support a licence application, may actually have been made by another factory?
Did you know that Catherine Despard helped compose the speech that her husband, the ringleader of the Despard Plot, gave at the gallows?
Did you know that Damiano Michieletto, known for directing Rossini's operas, recently staged Schreker's Der ferne Klang at the Oper Frankfurt, where the world premiere had been performed in 1912?
Did you know that Strombosia pustulata is one of over two hundred species of tree growing in the Omo Forest Reserve?
Did you know that a three-story structure in Beatrice, Nebraska, was built for a Schmuck?
Did you know that the Irish musician Gregory Gray, who started his career in a boy band, became the cult indie musician Mary Cigarettes?
Did you know that the new Djamaa el Djazaïr mosque is the tallest building in Africa?
Did you know that Patrick Francheterre played for, coached and managed the France men's national ice hockey team, and helped cover expenses when the French Ice Hockey Federation went bankrupt?
Did you know that Sir Lancelot Barrington-Ward performed surgery on Prince Albert, who later became King George VI?
Did you know that Tiny the Wonder could kill 200 rats per hour in London's rat-baiting pits?
Did you know that during its 2019 election campaign, the Indian National Congress promised to abolish the sedition law, although the government had arrested 9,000 people for sedition alone in 2012–2013?
Did you know that in 2001, Bury Football Club's first mascot, "Robbie the Bobby", was sent off three times by referees for bad behaviour?
Did you know that the clingfish Diplecogaster bimaculata has been photographed cleaning a moray eel?
Did you know that Eleanor C. Pressly helped develop and launch a series of Aerobee rockets during the 1957–1958 International Geophysical Year?
Did you know that HMS Lavinia was saved from being broken up, only to be sunk in a collision with another ship?
Did you know that Isabel Martin was one of the Australian Devils who won silver at the 2019 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in Suphan Buri, Thailand?
Did you know that as the film negatives used for the first Indian feature film were of limited spectral sensitivity, the colour red was avoided in sets, costumes, and make-up?
Did you know that it took Scarecrow Press 25 years to complete its series of historical dictionaries of African countries?
Did you know that the idea for the song "Anyone Who Knows What Love Is (Will Understand)" came to Jeannie Seely at the age of 23, and she was still earning royalties for it at age 78?
Did you know that when Roger B. Chaffee was selected for Apollo 1, he was the youngest American astronaut to earn a NASA mission assignment?
Did you know that Portland's NS Line opened in 2001 as the first newly built streetcar line in the United States in 50 years to use modern vehicles?
Did you know that the Gloucester tabula set includes gaming pieces depicting a copulating couple, a hanging man, and a manticore?
Did you know that while the leaf shape varies among hybrids of Episcia cupreata, the flowers always have the same form?
Did you know that Stephen King killed off a radio station in the Bangor area?
Did you know that Wu Ziliang developed the technology to separate uranium-235 for China's first nuclear bomb?
Did you know that the XIX Army Corps represented Germany as it ceded Brest-Litovsk to the Soviet Union in the German–Soviet military parade (commanders pictured)?
Did you know that Binod Chaudhary is the first Nepali to be listed on Forbes's billionaire list?
Did you know that Captain Henry Meintjes, a South African World War I flying ace, was shot in the wrist when far over enemy lines but still managed to bring his airplane back and land it safely?
Did you know that a swan sculpture in Stapenhill Gardens, described by the park superintendent as a "monstrosity" after its construction in 1953, is now a town landmark?
Did you know that during the 1924–25 season, Cardiff City F.C. became the first Welsh team to reach an FA Cup final?
Did you know that the extinction of the Bramble Cay melomys was described as the first for a mammal species due to anthropogenic climate change?
Did you know that the oboist and composer Rolf Riehm taught music theory in Frankfurt from 1974 to 2000 and wrote an opera, Sirenen, for a 2014 premiere at the Oper Frankfurt?
Did you know that David Scott's performance under pressure during Gemini 8, the first mission to achieve a docking in space, led to his selection for the Apollo program?
Did you know that Félicette, the first cat in space, was subjected to 9.5 g of acceleration and five minutes of weightlessness?
Did you know that Mae Jemison, the first black woman in space, worked at a Cambodian refugee camp in Thailand and was a medical officer for the Peace Corps before becoming an astronaut?
Did you know that Michael Collins, the command module pilot for Apollo 11, was the first person to perform two spacewalks in a single mission?
Did you know that pilot-cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space and first to orbit the Earth, ejected from his descending spacecraft at an altitude of about 7,000 metres (23,000 ft)?
Did you know that the 1957 launch of Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite, led to a period of public anxiety in the United States and accelerated the Space Race?
Did you know that the Soviet probe Luna 2, the first human-made object to make contact with the Moon, began a trend of crash landing missions that continued even after soft landings were mastered?
Did you know that Felipe Reinoso served in the Connecticut House of Representatives prior to contesting an open seat in the Congress of the Republic of Peru?
Did you know that Nozomi Nishida is a member of Walküre, a music group which exists both in real life and in the anime Macross Delta?
Did you know that at the unveiling of Alexander Phimister Proctor's statue of Robert E. Lee in 1936, President Franklin D. Roosevelt called Lee "one of our greatest American gentlemen"?
Did you know that while collecting the banknotes of Africa (Cameroon note pictured), Ibrahim Salem found that "the Dark Continent had some of the most colorful ones"?
Did you know that China's first sounding rocket (monument pictured) was fueled using a bicycle pump?
Did you know that George Ali Murad Khan, ruler of the princely state of Khairpur in Pakistan, survived an accidental shooting by his father when he was nine months old?
Did you know that Mandy Moore choreographed La La Land's opening number using 30 dancers, 100 extras, and 60 cars stuck in traffic on a Los Angeles freeway?
Did you know that Summer Rayne Oakes has been called "the world's first eco-model" because she only models clothes made from organic or recycled materials?
Did you know that at the 2019 Austria Open, a 9-ball pool tournament, Kamila Khodjaeva reached the quarter-finals despite not playing a competitive match since 2016?
Did you know that per a recent Supreme Court ruling, U.S. states are immune from private suits against them in courts of other states without their consent?
Did you know that £100,000,000 notes known as "Titans" are locked away in the Bank of England?
Did you know that a jury once rushed out of the courtroom of William F. Turner, first Chief Justice of the Arizona Territorial Supreme Court, to attend to a Native American attack?
Did you know that at the time of Abdullah's entry into what was to become the modern country of Jordan during the interregnum period, the region was extremely poor, sparsely populated and widely considered ungovernable?
Did you know that the seal of Somerset County, Maryland, is based on the Royal Arms of England?
Did you know that NASA test pilots Charles Bassett and Elliot See are among the fallen astronauts whose names are etched on a plaque on the Moon, placed by the crew of Apollo 15?
Did you know that Samuel Adalberg, pioneer of Polish paremiology, committed suicide upon learning of the Germans' plans to construct the Warsaw Ghetto?
Did you know that The Unsafe Asylum, a book of short stories by Anirudh Kala, explores the psychological effects of the Partition of India?
Did you know that the JFK Express subway service in New York City never actually went to JFK Airport?
Did you know that the Melkite Christian Sarjun ibn Mansur, who headed the fiscal administration of Syria under the first five Umayyad caliphs, was the father of Saint John of Damascus?
Did you know that while Caltech's historic South Houses were renovated, its North Houses were recommended for demolition for lack of architectural appeal?
Did you know that Canadian businessman Lloyd Pollock brought Junior A-level hockey to Windsor, Ontario?
Did you know that Lilian Benningsen, a singer at the Bavarian State Opera for decades, appeared as Carolina in the world premiere of Henze's Elegie für junge Liebende (Elegy for Young Lovers)?
Did you know that the Granadan princess Fatima bint al-Ahmar was described as "surpassing the women of her time like the Night of Power surpasses all the other nights" by the historian Ibn al-Khatib?
Did you know that the Guinean striped mojarra is one of the fish caught in the less polluted part of the Ébrié Lagoon?
Did you know that the final owners of Connecticut's WQQW radio station were involved in a fraudulent banking ring that toppled the town's mayor?
Did you know that the verses of the inscription on the funerary Stele of Arniadas are said to be "extraordinarily similar" to the words of Hector in the Iliad?
Did you know that Clemantine Wamariya was reunited with her parents on The Oprah Winfrey Show, twelve years after being separated from them during the Rwandan genocide?
Did you know that George Szirtes's Reel, winner of the 2004 T. S. Eliot Prize, contains poems in terza rima and relies heavily on ekphrasis, using references to film and photography to aid memory?
Did you know that Hallo Ü-Wagen (Hello Radio Van, pictured) was a long-running weekly German radio talk show on wheels?
Did you know that Ugandan chief of staff Yusuf Gowon quarrelled with another officer over a looted tractor during the invasion of a foreign country?
Did you know that Ye Peida, the president of a university controlled by the Ministry of Posts and Communications, successfully argued for the breakup of the ministry's monopoly of China's telecom industry?
Did you know that the process of connecting the scattered fragments surviving from the Hours of Louis XII (begun c. 1498) only started in 1973?
Did you know that Lord Mayor of Birmingham Yvonne Mosquito opened comedian Joe Lycett's kitchen extension?
Did you know that Thomas Cheney's biography of LDS Church leader J. Golden Kimball was withdrawn by Brigham Young University Press for containing explicit language?