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Did you know that in 1860, Edric Norfolk Vaux Morisset became the first Inspector General of Police in Queensland?
Did you know that so many people wanted a Line the Label jacket that the company's server crashed?
Did you know that the ants Poneropsis affinis, Ponera affinis, and Formica schmidtii are all the single fossil species Liometopum imhoffii?
Did you know that to ensure the loyalty of Queen Fatuma, a client ruler of Zanzibar, Omani forces kept a cannon trained on her palace?
Did you know that women's sexual preferences and attractiveness may shift across their ovulatory cycles?
Did you know that Shu Xiuwen became an escort dancing girl after her father tried to sell her to repay debts, but later supported him when she became a movie star?
Did you know that a collaborative practice agreement, which allows a pharmacist to prescribe medications, order drug therapy-related laboratory tests, and design therapy plans, can improve people's health?
Did you know that in a legacy game, players may be instructed to destroy physical components?
Did you know that the dramatic soprano Catherine Foster, a former midwife, appeared as Brünnhilde at the Bayreuth Festival celebrating Wagner's bicentenary?
Did you know that underwater thumps and moans in a West African swamp may indicate the presence of certain air-breathing fish?
Did you know that Harold Basil Christian, a self-taught horticulturalist in southern Africa, became a world expert on African aloe species after planting one in his yard to block the view of a large, unsightly rock?
Did you know that Rear Admiral Cindy Jaynes was persuaded to join the United States Navy by a high school friend, having originally considered careers as an actuary or a veterinarian?
Did you know that a pub on the Acle Straight is now a Hindu temple?
Did you know that the art of Uruk includes the 5,000-year-old Mask of Warka, probably one of the earliest known near life-size sculptures?
Did you know that the green wrasse has big eyes, a small mouth, and fleshy lips?
Did you know that Azazet Habtezghi Kidane interviewed more than 1,500 African refugees to document torture in the Sinai Peninsula?
Did you know that Elizabethan physician Edward Dodding conducted a post-mortem examination of Kalicho, one of three Inuit people brought to England?
Did you know that after dismissing the basic concept as "outlandish", Edward Teller later supported Brilliant Pebbles as a way to shoot down Soviet ICBMs?
Did you know that at age 16, Remy Siemsen was the top goalscorer for Sydney FC in the 2016–17 W-League season?
Did you know that Vice Admiral Mary M. Jackson was promoted directly from one-star to three-star rank?
Did you know that West Virginia's 37 state parks include a working grist mill, a scenic railroad, a reconstructed 18th-century fortification, and a Natural National Landmark?
Did you know that as a teenager, Vietnamese singer Tóc Tiên exaggerated her age twice at singing competitions, one time winning the grand prize?
Did you know that the common Epiphany hymn "As with Gladness Men of Old" does not describe the Biblical Magi as "magi" or "kings", or even state their number?
Did you know that while the Three Kings bring gold, incense and myrrh to the manger, the singer of "Ich steh an deiner Krippen hier" offers spirit and mind, heart, soul and courage as gifts?
Did you know that Silvia Correale, the first female Postulator in the Vatican, focuses on guiding potential Argentine saints through the beatification process?
Did you know that after the neutral American ship William P. Frye was sunk by a World War I Imperial German raider, the German government was billed $228,059.54?
Did you know that genetic differences may affect the efficacy of the anti-asthmatic drug zafirlukast?
Did you know that the Exeter Hip, designed by Robin Ling and Clive Lee, improved the lives of millions of people?
Did you know that the Panoz Avezzano, unveiled at the 2016 Petit Le Mans, is named after a town in Italy that was destroyed by an earthquake?
Did you know that when the wasp Idiogramma elbakyanae was named in honor of Sci-Hub founder Alexandra Elbakyan, she took this as an insult?
Did you know that Facebook's Aquila solar-powered drone is intended to provide internet access to remote regions of Earth using no more electricity than three blow dryers?
Did you know that Mahani Teave is considered Easter Island's only classical musician?
Did you know that Marcu Cercel, who ruled over Moldavia in 1600, was probably born to a Turkish Muslim apostate?
Did you know that North-West Mounted Police Corporal William Dempster found the Lost Patrol?
Did you know that US-educated sociologist Lei Jieqiong served as vice-mayor of Beijing and taught at Peking University until the age of 100?
Did you know that Wolfgang Kläsener conducted his Kettwiger Bach-Ensemble in a memorial concert, combining the last work by Thomas Beimel with one Mass by Bach and one by Bruckner?
Did you know that Yiqu was conquered by Qin after its king was killed either by his mistress Queen Dowager Xuan, or by her son the king of Qin?
Did you know that houseflies have been used in germ warfare to distribute cholera?
Did you know that in 1992, Camille Robinson-Regis became the youngest senator to be appointed to the cabinet of Trinidad and Tobago?
Did you know that modelling agent Cherry Marshall discovered Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain?
Did you know that the United States Navy placed orders for the Gorgon IIA and Gorgon IIC missiles with the Singer Manufacturing Company, better known for its sewing machines?
Did you know that 16th-century kabbalist Shimon Lavi displayed knowledge of alchemy in his commentary on the Zohar?
Did you know that Bristol "loo lady" Victoria Hughes (workplace pictured) provided tea and sympathy to local prostitutes?
Did you know that Margaret W. Burcham was the first female brigadier general in the United States Army Corps of Engineers?
Did you know that Slovenian actor Jernej Šugman starred in Shakespeare's Hamlet twice, first in the titular role and the second time as King Claudius?
Did you know that St. Nicolai, Lüneburg, a brick Gothic church with a "star" rib vault, was the location of the first Lutheran sermon in Lüneburg?
Did you know that a parasitic barnacle effectively castrates its hosts, the flattened and the knot-fingered mud crabs?
Did you know that in 1939, Peter Du Cane was awarded the Segrave Medal for his part in the design of the world water speed record-breaking boat Blue Bird K4?
Did you know that the "Memorial for the War to Resist America and Aid Korea" is no longer one of the national first-grade museums of China?
Did you know that the parasitic wasp Ichneumon eumerus has a complex life cycle involving ants and a rare blue butterfly?
Did you know that the video game The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt was marketed as "Skyrim in a Game of Thrones sauce"?
Did you know that "Diddle Diddle Dumpling", an episode of Inside No. 9, was inspired by a chance encounter with a single shoe?
Did you know that Google Earth was originally developed for use by various agencies of the United States government, including the CIA?
Did you know that Kate Fotso, the richest woman in Cameroon, is known as the "iron lady of the cocoa industry"?
Did you know that Professor He Siyuan became an anti-Japanese guerrilla leader during World War II and later survived two assassination attempts, one of which killed his young daughter?
Did you know that Ramona Go was the first female military pilot, line officer, battalion commander, adjutant general, and regular service general in the Philippine Armed Forces?
Did you know that a "Japanese cruiser" was built in Southern California in 1943?
Did you know that all five of the surviving members of the original cast of the Power Rangers series attended the film adaptation's Los Angeles premiere in March 2017?
Did you know that in 1927, barnstormer Doug Davis let 12-year-old Paul Tibbets drop Baby Ruth candy bars attached to parachutes from his biplane over Hialeah, Florida, kindling the boy's love of flying?
Did you know that in 1934 vitamin C was the first synthetic vitamin to be trademarked (as Redoxon) and marketed?
Did you know that patrons of the Cabaret du Néant (Cabaret of Nothingness) drank beverages in the "Intoxication Hall", which had chandeliers made of human bones and coffin-shaped tables?
Did you know that Arsenal Ladies player Clare Wheatley took over as the club's development officer and general manager from Vic Akers, who once told her, "Arsenal Ladies is not a social club"?
Did you know that Desmarestia tropica, or tropical acidweed, is possibly extinct because of the 1982–83 El Niño event?
Did you know that Genius Grant winner Regina Barzilay helped decipher the ancient language Ugaritic?
Did you know that Hatto Ständer, who played the organ in church services at age nine, was professor of organ playing, choral conducting, Gregorian chant and composition at the Technical University of Dortmund for more than three decades?
Did you know that Jie Zhitui, who loyally followed Prince Chong'er in exile for almost 20 years, was supposedly burned alive because he did not want to ask for any reward once his lord was restored to power?
Did you know that after Richard Sloan eloped with his employer's daughter, the couple settled in the Mill Creek valley and built the Sloan–Parker House around 1790?
Did you know that during the 1981 Milwaukee Police Strike, Mayor Henry Maier requested that taverns and bars voluntarily close early?
Did you know that fugitive dust escapes?
Did you know that steam-distilled garlic oil has around 900 times the strength of fresh garlic?
Did you know that the Gorgon IV was the first ramjet-powered aircraft to successfully fly in the United States?
Did you know that the Lilac Fire in Southern California grew from a small brush fire to 4,100 acres (17 km2) in one day?
Did you know that Amtrak service at Tacoma Dome Station was halted on its inaugural day due to a train derailment?
Did you know that Jennie Carignan helped reintroduce ballroom dancing to the Royal Military College Saint-Jean, having taken classes with her future husband when she was a cadet?
Did you know that Wolfgang Stockmeier made around 150 recordings of organ music, taught at three music academies, and composed an opera on a libretto by Gabriele Wohmann?
Did you know that members of the terrorist group Abu Sayyaf used the Inabanga River, the largest waterway in Bohol, Philippines, for a planned incursion into the province in 2017?
Did you know that the Nancy Brown Peace Carillon in Detroit ceased playing music in 1970 due to damage caused by pigeons?
Did you know that the ancient Maya ruins of San Clemente, El Petén, in Guatemala include a two-storey palace structure and two Mesoamerican ballcourts?
Did you know that the footballer Howard Spencer was the first Aston Villa player to captain England?
Did you know that the larvae of the starry night butterfly accumulate toxic chemicals in their bodies, which make the adults distasteful to birds?
Did you know that the lyrics to "The Kentucky Volunteer", the first song copyrighted under the United States Constitution, were written by "a Lady of Philadelphia"?
Did you know that Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie rejected the chance to be the head of Ghana's ports and harbours because of his fear of the sea?
Did you know that a wasp and a fly were used to combat a moth invader?
Did you know that as president of Fisk University, James Raymond Lawson saw the donor base dwindle due to the students' involvement with the Black Power movement?
Did you know that in 1900, a steamboat owned by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was stolen by two tugboats during the night from the Erie Basin Marina?
Did you know that in 1951, thoracic surgeon Clement Price Thomas removed part of King George VI's lung in Buckingham Palace?
Did you know that the 14th-century Hanthawaddy Minister-General Byat Za's doctrine of limited warfare has been compared to that popularized by Clausewitz?
Did you know that the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program was initiated by United States Senator Harry Reid in 2007 to secretly study the topic of UFOs?
Did you know that the Australian Air Board (inaugural members pictured) chose 31 March rather than 1 April as the founding date of the Royal Australian Air Force to avoid being called "April Fools"?
Did you know that the Ottawa Art Gallery acquired the Firestone Collection of over 1,600 pieces of Canadian art, including landscapes by the Group of Seven, in 1992?
Did you know that the boar-crested Pioneer Helmet was initially mistaken for a bucket?
Did you know that 2017 Michigan Wolverine teammates and All-Big Ten Conference honorees Chase Winovich and Khaleke Hudson went to high school in Pennsylvania, while All-Big Ten teammate Lavert Hill once committed to Penn State?
Did you know that Gwen Fleming, the first female major in the Royal Australian Army Medical Corps, was called "sir" by her colleagues during the Second World War?
Did you know that Wolfgang Helbich recorded apocryphal works by Bach with the Alsfelder Vokalensemble, and conducted an award-winning recording of Ein deutsches Requiem with the Bremer Domchor?
Did you know that a 1942 letter addressed to "the blonde Wren from Argentina on the platform at Bletchley station" led to marriage in 1945?
Did you know that approximately 160,000 birds across twenty-two different species nest and breed on the Pearl and Hermes Atoll of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands?
Did you know that statesman Costea Bucioc, who reputedly survived a poisoning attempt at the Moldavian court, was later impaled by the Ottoman army?
Did you know that the 5th-century Tigawa temple is the only survivor of around 36 Hindu temples at the site that were quarried for building stone during a 19th-century construction project?
Did you know that the Han scholar Gao You—responsible for the present editions of the Huainanzi—had to quit school owing to the Yellow Turban Rebellion?
Did you know that the Japanese singer Asaka spent part of her childhood in Michigan?
Did you know that the Orchard Pond Parkway is Florida's first privately-built toll road?
Did you know that the RAF's IFF Mark II was the first operational identification friend or foe system?
Did you know that the high altar in the Propsteikirche, created by Derick Baegert, includes the oldest depiction of Dortmund on its left panel?
Did you know that the outsourcing industry in China is rapidly growing on the back of "cloud computing, big data, Internet of things and mobile Internet"?
Did you know that Angeline Murimirwa received money for her secondary education from Camfed, and is now its regional executive director for Southern & Eastern Africa?
Did you know that Gustave Lambert was killed in the Siege of Paris before he could set sail for the North Pole?
Did you know that John Samuel Phene's five-storey house was called the "Gingerbread Castle" because of its numerous devices and fixtures?
Did you know that Li Huang co-founded the Chinese Youth Party, which was modelled after the Young Turks?
Did you know that Paa Kofi Ansong, a member of the advisory team to the President of Ghana, once worked as a quality control officer at Boots Pharmacy in the United Kingdom?
Did you know that the Goldberg–Coxeter construction can be used to study fullerene molecules, nanoparticles, and basket weaving?
Did you know that the Heisman Trophy, awarded annually to the best college football player, is named for John Heisman, who was instrumental in legalizing the forward pass?
Did you know that the Kaman K-16B tiltwing aircraft was built from an existing Grumman Goose to save time and money?
Did you know that the first successful drone developed in the Netherlands was the Aviolanda AT-21?
Did you know that the late-Gothic church St. Moritz in Halle (Saale) became Catholic again in 1970?
Did you know that the red-breasted partridge is found only on Borneo?
Did you know that British logistics in the Normandy Campaign depended on a Mulberry harbour?
Did you know that Diego Fasolis conducted L'incoronazione di Poppea at the reopened Staatsoper Unter den Linden, adding music by other composers of Monteverdi's time?
Did you know that Lt. Gen. D. R. Soni, chief of the Southern Command of the Indian Army, was a military observer in Iraq and Kuwait after the Gulf War?
Did you know that Otto Franke, the pre-eminent German sinologist of his time, died "practically from hunger and exhaustion" before he could complete his history of China?
Did you know that Rick Parfitt wrote "Forty Five Hundred Times" with Francis Rossi and called it his favourite guitar moment with Status Quo?
Did you know that as part of today's Temperance and Good Citizenship Day observances in the state of Washington, schools are expected to hold voter registration drives for eligible students?
Did you know that producers of the 2012 Austrian short film Homophobia raised US$10,100 in 69 days through crowdfunding on Indiegogo?
Did you know that the Grizzly Flats Railroad, owned by Disney animator Ward Kimball, was the first full-size backyard railroad in the United States?
Did you know that the Italian town of Guardia Lombardi was settled by the Lombards in the sixth century as a defensive outpost?
Did you know that the rare Persoonia procumbens has potential as a rockery plant?
Did you know that Felix Mendelssohn was so fascinated by a particular singer playing the role of a mermaid that he was inspired to write the overture The Fair Melusine (legend pictured)?
Did you know that Patrick Zhuwao was expelled from Zimbabwe's ruling ZANU–PF party during the 2017 Zimbabwean coup d'état?
Did you know that Xu Shijie came out of retirement to serve as the first party chief of the new province of Hainan, but was dismissed in the aftermath of the Tiananmen protests?
Did you know that along with Mount Defiance and Mount Bailey, Diamond Peak is one of the few andesitic shield volcanos in the Cascade Range?
Did you know that during the 1655 papal conclave, the younger cardinals played pranks on the older cardinals for fun?
Did you know that in 1919, Romanian playwright and journalist A. de Herz was court-martialled for alleged collaboration with the Central Powers?
Did you know that in 2017, Canadian pitcher Claire Eccles became the first woman to play baseball in the collegiate West Coast League?
Did you know that prior to creating Booker T. Washington State Park, West Virginia's Conservation Commission justified its segregation policy by explaining that "our Negro citizens would feel ill at ease" using parks alongside whites?
Did you know that the Cahokia Woodhenge, built by the Native American Mississippian culture between 900 and 1100 CE, was a timber circle solar calendar used to observe solstices and equinoxes?
Did you know that the English tenor Mark Milhofer appeared as Mozart's Ferrando in Beijing and Moscow, and as Poppea's nurse in Berlin, dressed as a parody of Riff Raff?
Did you know that the footballer Stanley Kane gave up playing in order to join the Liverpool City Police?
Did you know that the high-waisted fashions of the early 1800s likely helped the Countess of Bessborough hide her figure from her husband while pregnant with her illegitimate daughter, Harriet Osborne?
Did you know that until the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Norwood Tower held the only public restroom open to African Americans in downtown Austin, Texas?
Did you know that Amtrak ran "toasters" on the Northeast Corridor for over thirty years?
Did you know that Georges Dargaud produced the first Asterix film, Asterix the Gaul, in 1967?
Did you know that India, Kyrgyzstan, Malaysia, and the Philippines made their debut in under-20 international ice hockey at the 2018 IIHF U20 Challenge Cup of Asia?
Did you know that John Rutter wrote the lyrics for his choral composition Christmas Lullaby, with each verse including the refrain "Ave Maria"?
Did you know that The Hammer of Thor by Rick Riordan won a Stonewall Book Award for its portrayal of the genderfluid character Alex Fierro?
Did you know that azeloprazole was designed with pharmacogenomics in mind?
Did you know that in 1858, the obstetrician Gustavus Murray claimed to be able to identify the parts of a fetus, including each vertebra, through an abdominal examination of a pregnant woman?
Did you know that the California green shrimp uses a raft to get around?
Did you know that the English physicist and television technology developer Boris Townsend described colour television as a "judicious combination of human imperfections and clever technical solutions"?
Did you know that the Republic SD-3 Snooper reconnaissance drone used airbags to cushion its landings?
Did you know that the mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor is a national archaeological park of China, while the tomb of St. Francis Xavier is a candidate for the designation?
Did you know that Herman Vandenburg Ames was one of Ezra Pound's professors at the University of Pennsylvania?
Did you know that Wayne Jacks and Ben Hess were among the 86 drivers who attempted to qualify for the inaugural Brickyard 400?
Did you know that both Oliver Cromwell and Kylie Minogue have stayed at the Lygon Arms?
Did you know that fans noticed Doctor Who references in a promotional trailer for Paul McGann's first episode in Holby City as John Gaskell?
Did you know that five siblings and an in-law made up the Bartell Group, which owned radio stations around the United States during the 1940s–1960s and was a pioneer in the Top 40 format?
Did you know that mutant squirrels and "cat-faced" trees can be found in Ochlockonee River State Park?
Did you know that peanut farmer Harris DeVane won the first race held on Atlanta Motor Speedway's present configuration by 0.023 seconds, leading only the last 100 yards (91 m) of the event?
Did you know that some 500,000 photographs and drawings are included in the collections of the Historical Model Railway Society?
Did you know that the Anglo-Saxon Coppergate Helmet may have been hidden in a well during the Viking invasion of York?
Did you know that the Rick and Morty episode "Pickle Rick" was largely inspired by the Breaking Bad episode "4 Days Out"?
Did you know that Amazon is building a $1.5 billion facility at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport to serve as a principal hub for Amazon Air?
Did you know that Friedrich Spee wrote the lyrics of the Christmas carol "Zu Bethlehem geboren" to a popular French tune with a frivolous text?
Did you know that Ilya Espino de Marotta, lead engineer for the Panama Canal expansion project, wears a pink hard hat on site to make a statement that women can do the job?
Did you know that Metropolis Software's Tajemnica Statuetki (The Mystery of the Statuette) was the first Polish adventure game?
Did you know that Mhaimbhat is considered the first known prose writer in the Marathi language?
Did you know that Ming China turned Qianshan into a military base to protect Guangdong from the Portuguese settlement in Macao?
Did you know that Sonali Guha, a four-term member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly, captured the seat of a five-term member of the assembly in her first election?
Did you know that Swiss-born Louis de Roll was colonel of Roll's Regiment, which distinguished itself at the Battle of Alexandria in 1801?
Did you know that the Morgan Morgan Monument memorializes one of the earliest European pioneers to settle permanently in present-day West Virginia?
Did you know that the newly named dinosaur Sibirotitan is only the second sauropod species named from the country of Russia, and one of the oldest titanosauriform sauropod species known from all of Asia?
Did you know that wars, battles, assassinations, and natural disasters can all cause national trauma?
Did you know that "Private View", an episode of Inside No. 9, was a homage to Theatre of Blood satirising the world of contemporary art?
Did you know that Barnet Nover's 1939 Washington Post article "British Surrender – a Munich for the Holy Land" was inserted into the Congressional Record by then US Senator Harry Truman?
Did you know that Black Buttes' amphitheater is partially occupied by Deming Glacier?