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Did you know that the ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus (bust pictured) taught that the only reliable way to learn about the world is through empirical observation?
Did you know that the superhero form of the fictional character Marinette Dupain-Cheng was based on a woman wearing a ladybug-themed T-shirt who once worked with the creator of Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir?
Did you know that 13 was a lucky number for American movie theater magnate Harry E. Huffman?
Did you know that although Giorgio Mitrovich respected and admired the British, he criticised the British colonial administration of Malta for its lack of freedom of the press?
Did you know that at age 17, the English actress Emily Lloyd reportedly beat over 5,000 others, including Jodie Foster, for the lead role in the 1989 film Cookie?
Did you know that in 1930, Man Mohan Singh flew his Gipsy Moth Miss India solo from Croydon Airport, South London, to PAF Base Faisal, Karachi?
Did you know that the Royal Air Force's AMES Type 85 radar was considered obsolete by the time it became operational?
Did you know that the video game This Is Football 2002 had the controversial feature of allowing players to deliberately dive?
Did you know that when a reviewer labelled his song "Don't Miss It" as "sad boy" music, James Blake called the term "unhealthy and problematic"?
Did you know that Chinese revolutionary leader Sun Yat-sen referred to Comintern agent Mikhail Borodin as his "Lafayette"?
Did you know that Macleay's glassfish is partly transparent?
Did you know that a Japanese spy helped compose the Indonesian declaration of independence?
Did you know that after the Philo Power Plant was demolished, the rotors from turbine six were utilized in a sculpture created by George Greenamyer?
Did you know that in the fourth quarter of 2017, Transsion Holdings had the largest market share for sales of smartphones in Africa, overtaking Samsung?
Did you know that the 1991 music video for the Sesame Street song "Monster in the Mirror" featured 25 celebrities, including Robin Williams, Whoopi Goldberg, and The Simpsons characters?
Did you know that Meghan Trainor canceled several dates on the MTrain Tour after suffering a vocal cord hemorrhage?
Did you know that actress Naomi Watts is honorary president of the Welsh football club Glantraeth F.C.?
Did you know that catwalk model Michelle Leslie claimed police in Bali, Indonesia, planted two ecstasy tablets in her handbag and then asked for a US$25,000 bribe to avoid conviction?
Did you know that during the Duke and Duchess of Windsor's 1937 tour of Germany, their alcoholic chaperone Robert Ley crashed them at speed through a factory gate?
Did you know that rivalries encourage people to take more risks and behave less ethically?
Did you know that the 18th-century Chinese short story "Three Lives" was adapted into a 2016 play featuring hip hop and a live band?
Did you know that the jellyfish Sanderia malayensis has a life cycle that includes a number of different types of asexual reproduction?
Did you know that Dave Pickerell was known as the "Johnny Appleseed" of craft distilling?
Did you know that Operation Hope Not was the codename for planning Winston Churchill's funeral (procession pictured), the largest state funeral in British history?
Did you know that a clinic in Mopti, Mali, is named after Werner Bardenhewer, born 90 years ago today, who was for decades priest of St. Bonifatius, Wiesbaden, and then founded a charity group?
Did you know that astronaut Buzz Aldrin discovered the Aldrin cycler, a means of repeatedly traveling between Earth and Mars?
Did you know that in a music video for Belgian singer Loïc Nottet's "Rhythm Inside", several people are portrayed as being taken to a warehouse, for what some viewers believed was human experimentation?
Did you know that the Qarmatian movement began when Hamdan Qarmat denounced the claims of Abdallah, the future founder of the Fatimid Caliphate, to be the Islamic Messiah?
Did you know that Canada has enacted a cap and trade program to tax carbon emissions?
Did you know that Grand Central Palace, a former exhibition center in New York City, was used at different times as a hospital and a U.S. Army induction center?
Did you know that Puertasaurus (illustration shown), one of the largest dinosaurs, is known from only four vertebrae?
Did you know that the lead singer of the English rock band The 1975 wrote the song "Sincerity Is Scary" in order to "denounce all of that postmodern fear of ... being real"?
Did you know that when Clive Garthwaite played on the same school cricket team as his identical twin brother Peter, they caused confusion due to their similar looks?
Did you know that Cemile Timur founded, played for, and now coaches a football club recently promoted to the Turkish Women's First League?
Did you know that DNA testing suggests that Loschbour man, an 8,000-year-old human skeleton found in Luxembourg in 1935, had dark skin?
Did you know that Mamie Shields Pyle was instrumental in winning the right to vote for women in South Dakota?
Did you know that Philip Petty received the Medal of Honor for raising his regiment's colors during the Battle of Fredericksburg?
Did you know that Amnon Rubinstein coined the term "enclave law" to describe Israeli law in the West Bank settlements?
Did you know that in 1909, Ivy Woodward became the first female member of the Royal College of Physicians?
Did you know that the Chiquimula Department of Guatemala contains the Black Christ of Esquipulas, one of the most important centres for religious pilgrimage in Central America?
Did you know that the thornback cowfish has plate-like scales which are fused together to form a solid, box-like carapace?
Did you know that when Friedrich Spitta revised "Im Frieden dein, o Herre mein", a 1530 German Lutheran communion hymn based on the biblical Nunc dimittis, he completely changed the meaning?
Did you know that Kansas City Union Station was constructed using cement manufactured by a mill in Yocemento?
Did you know that after becoming king, Kamehameha V proclaimed a constitution which restricted the power of the Privy Council of the Kingdom of Hawaii?
Did you know that an interview with Sammy Woodhouse sparked an inquiry revealing the sexual abuse of about 1,400 children in Rotherham, England, between 1997 and 2013?
Did you know that bass singer Carlos Feller made his debut at the Teatro Colón in 1946, and at the Metropolitan Opera in 1988 in his signature role of Don Alfonso in Mozart's Così fan tutte?
Did you know that members of the British Parliament are entitled to free snuff from the Parliamentary snuff box, despite it being illegal to distribute it for free elsewhere?
Did you know that more than half the organic content of the tunic of the shiny orange sea squirt consists of cellulose?
Did you know that "Joy to the World" is one of the hymns based on Psalm 96, "Sing to the Lord a new song"?
Did you know that cases against 9,700 Kashmiri youth in India were withdrawn by the government as part of its "healing touch" policy for peacebuilding in Jammu and Kashmir?
Did you know that in reviewing Jude the Obscure for Life, Cyclops found that Alex Marshall as Arabella "steals the series"?
Did you know that photographer David Johnson was the first African-American student of Ansel Adams?
Did you know that the cable ship Alert almost completely isolated Germany from the worldwide telegraph network by cutting its submarine telegraph cables just hours after the outbreak of World War I?
Did you know that Chinese millionaire merchant Chun Afong made his fortune in the "Sandalwood Mountains" and had sixteen children with a descendant of Hawaiian royalty?
Did you know that in the presence of red rock crabs, the shell of the frilled dogwinkle tends to grow thicker, whereas when predatory starfish are around, it tends to grow longer?
Did you know that the Romanian pianist Radu Lupu's public debut at the age of 12 featured his own compositions?
Did you know that top National Hockey League prospects Quinn and Jack Hughes learned how to skate from their mother, Ellen Weinberg-Hughes, a world championship silver medalist?
Did you know that Harold W. Chase argued that conscription in the United States benefited the Air Force, Navy, and Marines at the expense of the Army?
Did you know that Victoria Loke, who had a role in Crazy Rich Asians, has advocated for the rights of sex workers and domestic workers?
Did you know that the 60-metre-high (200 ft) Grande roue de Montréal, built in Montreal for the 375th anniversary of the city, is the tallest Ferris wheel in Canada?
Did you know that the Homeric Minimum may have been responsible for permanent snow on Mount Olympus, as referred to by Homer and in Greek mythology?
Did you know that NASA exobiologist Darlene Lim studies underwater volcanoes and desert stations in the Canadian High Arctic to prepare humans for missions to Mars?
Did you know that Slovak ultranationalists have exaggerated the number of presidential exemptions issued, in order to minimize the complicity of Jozef Tiso in the Holocaust in Slovakia?
Did you know that Walt Torrence was an All-American college basketball player for UCLA before joining the US Army and winning a gold medal at the 1963 Pan American Games?
Did you know that educator Joseph Forbes had twenty-four children and two wives?
Did you know that representatives from more than a dozen nations are reported to be attending today's International Conference on the Situation in Venezuela in Montevideo, Uruguay?
Did you know that the Casualty production team wore medical scrubs on-set during the filming of the episode "One" so they could disguise themselves if they were caught on camera?
Did you know that Alexina Maude Wildman's biting, sarcastic gossip column in The Bulletin was headed by the cartoon image of an old woman, disguising the fact that she was in her 20s?
Did you know that Australian actor George Pullar attended an army boot camp to prepare for his role in the drama series Fighting Season?
Did you know that Juan Gabriel's own cover of "Así Fue", which he originally composed for Isabel Pantoja, was the best-performing Latin single of 1998 in the United States?
Did you know that almost all pre-modern maps of Jerusalem (example pictured) were made by Christians for a Christian European audience?
Did you know that in 1908, Silver Quilty was the first man to play the flying wing position in Canadian football?
Did you know that the role-playing video game Kenshi was inspired by stories of wandering rōnin, and the idea of a survivor traveling a wasteland?
Did you know that MLS Cup 2005 featured the same teams and ended with the same scoreline as MLS Cup 2002?
Did you know that Somerset County, Maryland, adopted the style of the Union Jack as their flag before Great Britain did?
Did you know that the arrest of Adán Medrano Rodríguez marked a shift in how the Mexican government tackled drug cartels?
Did you know that Alabama's 28-point loss against Clemson in the 2019 College Football Playoff National Championship was their worst-ever defeat under head coach Nick Saban?
Did you know that Geoff Harvey, former musical director for the Nine Network Australia, composed the theme song for The Sullivans for his wife's cousin's wedding?
Did you know that Wilhelm Kempf, Bishop of Limburg from 1949 to 1981, took part in the Second Vatican Council and introduced its innovations in his diocese, including spiritual discourse and open dialogue?
Did you know that the 1954 social psychology book The Nature of Prejudice is considered a classic that defined the field of intergroup relations?
Did you know that the Inter-Allied Women's Conference, which opened in Paris 100 years ago today, marked the first time women were granted formal participation in an international treaty negotiation (conference organizer Marguerite de Witt-Schlumberger pictured)?
Did you know that Arthur R. Gralla was the US Navy's fourth Jewish Vice Admiral?
Did you know that Bierlachs, a variant of Germany's national card game, Skat, is predominantly played for beer in pubs and restaurants?
Did you know that British ambulance units (stores pictured) served alongside armies of both combatants in the Franco-Prussian War?
Did you know that Earth's circumference around the poles is almost exactly 40,000 kilometres or 21,600 (i.e. 360 × 60) nautical miles, because it was used to define those units of measurement?
Did you know that for nearly 100 years, people thought Manuel Trujillo Durán introduced cinema to Venezuela, though he was just a film technician at the time?
Did you know that the poem "The Aboriginal Mother" expresses grief about the massacre of at least 28 Aboriginal Australians at a time when a white settler said, "Why, we are poisoning the Blacks; which is much safer; and serve them right too!"?
Did you know that Hawaiian king Kamehameha III relied on American and British advisors to fill his cabinet?
Did you know that William Hoskins, the co-inventor of modern billiard chalk, also invented the electric heating coil, used to create the first electric toasters?
Did you know that a river will be diverted for the construction of Hohhot Shengle International Airport?
Did you know that soprano Ildikó Raimondi, who appeared at the Vienna State Opera in more than 40 roles including Pamina and Mimì, sang the role of Marzelline in the opening season of the Valencia Opera?
Did you know that the cypress aphid is a vector for cypress canker?
Did you know that the first discovered fossil of the dinosaur Weewarrasaurus was noted for being preserved in green-blue opal?
Did you know that SPLA rebels captured a large amount of military equipment from the Sudanese Armed Forces during Operation Thunderbolt, but found much of it had degraded and was of no use?
Did you know that after the release of the Netflix show Tidying Up with Marie Kondo, charity shops in Washington D.C. reported a 66% increase in donations?
Did you know that in a review for Mr. Shivers, debut novelist Robert Jackson Bennett was favorably compared to Stephen King and John Steinbeck?
Did you know that local residents had to wait ten years for step-free access at Newbury Park tube station?
Did you know that the golden-headed cisticola has been described as the "finest tailor of all birds"?
Did you know that Eidyn, a Brittonic district of the Early Middle Ages in present-day Scotland, is the source for Edinburgh's name?
Did you know that Guth's Au Bois de Boulogne (shown) depicts a fashionable crowd, including the courtesans Liane de Pougy and La Belle Otero?
Did you know that Liberian-American author Wayétu Moore, once a war refugee, founded a nonprofit organization which publishes culturally relevant books for children in countries with low literacy rates?
Did you know that the BAFTA-winning documentary 73 Cows tells the story of Jay and Katja Wilde, beef farmers who gave most of their cows to the Hillside Animal Sanctuary and took up vegan organic farming?
Did you know that the Israeli video game Piposh, to be released in 2019, will be a reboot of the original 1999 game of the same name?
Did you know that the law center at Willamette University is named in honor of Oregon businessman and philanthropist Truman W. Collins?
Did you know that Boybuloq Cave, the deepest in Asia, is located near Uzbekistan's highest village?
Did you know that Hawaiian legislator Pius F. Koakanu was beaten by rioters because of his support for King Kalākaua in the monarchial election of 1874?
Did you know that in 2017, the Tucson Girls Chorus opened the city's first public choir for girls and boys with special needs?
Did you know that some sources believe Adele Spitzeder created the first documented Ponzi scheme in 1869?
Did you know that the rhythm of the call of the fulvous owl has been likened to Morse code?
Did you know that "Three Incarnations" by Pu Songling may have been inspired by certain stories in Feng Menglong's Stories to Caution the World?
Did you know that Arthur Blackburn was the first South Australian to be awarded the Victoria Cross in World War I?
Did you know that Asim Chaudhry, who plays Chabuddy G in People Just Do Nothing, starred as an Asian Donald Trump in the 2016 short film Donald Mohammed Trump?
Did you know that Edgar Degas's Les Choristes (shown), stolen in 2009 from the Musée Cantini in Marseille, France, was found in the luggage compartment of a bus outside Paris a year ago today?
Did you know that Megan Marie Hart has performed on stage in Detmold, Germany, as Puccini's Tosca and was soprano soloist in Mahler's Resurrection Symphony?
Did you know that Rudyard Kipling may have coined the term "infantillery" to refer to the Royal Artillery Mounted Rifles?
Did you know that Stephen Twinoburyo, a Ugandan expatriate in South Africa, said that Ugandans were unhappy about the ticket prices for the 2010 FIFA World Cup that took place in his new country?
Did you know that a small group of Holocaust survivors tried to kill six million Germans?
Did you know that an extract of peacock's tail is effective against the red cotton stainer?
Did you know that merchant George Meade was once considered a patriot of the American Revolution, but his firm actually profited from both sides during the war?
Did you know that the Indian organisation Poovulagin Nanbargal filed a case to prevent the commissioning of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant?
Did you know that the OK gesture can stand for the evil eye, the letter F, the number 9, the rising and setting of the sun, or to signal that a scuba diver is safe?
Did you know that the capital of the Arizona Territory moved from Prescott to Tucson, back to Prescott, and then to Phoenix in its first 25 years?
Did you know that Andrew Cudworth popularised the classification of diabetes into type 1 and type 2?
Did you know that Maria Guajardo's doctoral dissertation on educational attainment among Latina teens led to her hiring as Dropout Prevention Coordinator for the Colorado Department of Education?
Did you know that after winning a professional wrestling match at NWA New Years Clash, David Arquette shaved off the hair of his opponent?
Did you know that in 1990, hornist, conductor, and composer Siegfried Geißler opened the inaugural session of the first Parliament of Thuringia?
Did you know that the population of Kunság (banner pictured) was "almost entirely wiped out" during the Ottoman occupation, before recovering through re-colonization?
Did you know that Connect Airways, a consortium that includes Virgin Atlantic, was created to take over Flybe—which had previously absorbed Virgin's domestic operations at Heathrow Airport?
Did you know that Hilda Ranscombe captained a team that won ten consecutive Ladies Ontario Hockey Association championships?
Did you know that Manny Parra's perfect game in 2007 was just the third nine-inning perfect game in the Pacific Coast League's hundred-year history?
Did you know that Oscar de Beaux, in his 1930 publication "Biological ethics", was one of the first people to argue that conserving nature is ethical?
Did you know that Saleh Mohammad is the first politician from Jaisalmer district to become a minister of Rajasthan, India?
Did you know that Shubulade Smith has spoken up against perceived racism at Maudsley Hospital?
Did you know that Swedish handball player Johan Jepson was the first on his team to be honoured with a testimonial match?
Did you know that due to an illegal electoral pact, the Scottish burgh of Stirling lost the right to elect a Member of Parliament in 1773?
Did you know that in a story known in the Middle Ages, the sons of a dead king shoot arrows at his corpse?
Did you know that lava can form gas-filled balloons that float on water?
Did you know that the Leipziger Universitätschor, part of centuries of music at Leipzig University, received an Echo Klassik for a recording of Hugo Distler's Liturgische Gesänge?
Did you know that the head of the emperor goose frequently turns from white to reddish-brown in summer, due to its feeding in tidal pools with iron oxide?
Did you know that the seaweed Padina boergesenii has been investigated for use as a bioindicator of heavy metal contamination?
Did you know that David Timm, the director of music at Leipzig University, recorded his Jazz-Messe together with Reger's Der 100. Psalm?
Did you know that German entomologist Ferdinand Rudow was described as "undoubtedly the most incompetent" taxonomist working with Ichneumonidae?
Did you know that Jennie Jackson, an original member of the Fisk Jubilee Singers, performed with the ensemble before US President Ulysses S. Grant, Mark Twain, and Queen Victoria?
Did you know that John L. Whitehead Jr. was the first African American to graduate from the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School?
Did you know that Joseph Jenckes Sr., a 17th-century blacksmith in Massachusetts, was granted the first machine patent in America?
Did you know that SAP SE, Aetna, Mrs. Fields Original Cookies, and Brooklyn Union Gas have all been managed by wire?
Did you know that from 1977 to 1982, Pierre Cangioni presented Téléfoot, France's first dedicated football television programme?
Did you know that in 1871, Beaver Hall was demolished so that the neighbours could have a "private green belt"?
Did you know that in 543 a Byzantine army was unexpectedly defeated by a force less than one-seventh its size, during their invasion of Sasanian Armenia?
Did you know that members of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce stole the Pioneer Square totem pole from a Tlingit village in 1899 and gifted it to the City of Seattle?
Did you know that most of the scenes in Yucatán were filmed onboard the MS Sovereign during a transatlantic crossing, with the ship's actual passengers and crew acting as extras?
Did you know that the British submarine HMS P222 was ordered to escort an Allied convoy to Malta on the surface, with the intent that it would be spotted by enemy aircraft?
Did you know that "Episode 5820" of the soap opera EastEnders is set entirely in The Queen Victoria pub and focuses on the characters' opinions on sexual consent?
Did you know that "Pramadaavanam", a weekly column by Malathi Chendur, was published uninterruptedly for 47 years?
Did you know that Gérard Bolduc and Paul Dumont co-founded the Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament, which began 59 years ago today?
Did you know that Henrikh Mkhitaryan was the first player to score a hat-trick for the Armenia national football team?
Did you know that Prussian general Georg Dubislav Ludwig von Pirch led a brigade at the Battle of Leipzig and a corps at the Battle of Waterloo?
Did you know that footballer Emiliano Sala is the most expensive signing in the history of Cardiff City F.C.?
Did you know that for 25 years, pedestrians in Hudson Heights, New York City, paid a subway fare to use the elevators in the 190th Street station to avoid climbing an eight-story hill?
Did you know that mine fields in the Falkland Islands are havens for Magellanic and gentoo penguins?
Did you know that the 1975 Holton-Arms School senior prom was the only high school dance ever held in the White House?
Did you know that the invention of the dry-air blast by James Gayley led to such increased yields of iron that he set a world record for "making the most iron with the least coke" and was named the "pig iron king"?
Did you know that the repertoire of the Tucson Arizona Boys Chorus includes folk songs, spirituals, Western ballads, classical and pop music – and rope tricks?
Did you know that British Army officer Michael Magill was killed alongside his brigade commander after treading on a land mine during a training exercise in Yorkshire?
Did you know that Herbert Seddon's textbook on nerve injuries took 30 years to write?
Did you know that Kyle Busch won the 2011 Food City 250 stock car race by 0.019 seconds over his Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Joey Logano, the closest finish in a Nationwide Series race at Bristol Motor Speedway?
Did you know that Marika Kouno was inspired to pursue a career in voice acting by Ikue Ōtani, who plays Pikachu in Pokémon?
Did you know that after being captured and imprisoned by British Major Lionel Bostock, the Nuer prophet Garluark was restored to his former position as ruler of a region of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan?