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Did you know that the Castillo de Santa Catalina in Santa Cruz de La Palma is the only preserved Habsburg-period castle in the Canary Islands?
Did you know that the Sahrawi refugee poet Al Khadra has written poems intended to inspire military revolution, including criticism of the Moroccan Western Sahara Wall?
Did you know that the Tahtakale Hamam, one of the oldest public bathhouses in Istanbul, now serves as a shopping center?
Did you know that Anthony J. Costello and associates proposed in 2005 that the nerves within the "veil of Aphrodite" mainly supplied the prostate rather than the corpora cavernosa?
Did you know that following the Treaty of Ripon, signed on this day in 1640, a Scottish army had their expenses paid by England, while occupying northern England?
Did you know that the 20-foot (6 m) 19th-century yawl City of Ragusa crossed the Atlantic twice, and President Grant came to see her?
Did you know that the queen and others apparently used to watch Malla kings taking baths in the Tusha Hiti?
Did you know that American composer Norma Wendelburg studied at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and the Vienna Academy of Music on two Fulbright scholarships?
Did you know that Batman and the Joker parade down the street daily at Warner Bros. Movie World?
Did you know that Ernest Hemingway watched the television adaptation of For Whom the Bell Tolls from a flea-bitten motel as the screenwriter held the "rabbit ears" for him?
Did you know that Katrin Lea Tag, named the 2020 Scenic Designer of the Year, created sets and costumes for Die Schutzbefohlenen (production pictured) at the Burgtheater, and for Barrie Kosky's Salome at Oper Frankfurt?
Did you know that Pope Francis's encyclical Fratelli tutti is the first to be signed outside Rome?
Did you know that Rear Admiral Timothy S. Matthews received an award from the Association of Old Crows?
Did you know that designs by nail artist Jenny Bui have become part of Cardi B's signature look?
Did you know that it was illegal to sell a T-bone steak (example pictured) in Great Britain between 1997 and 1999?
Did you know that American doctor Guy Gibson Campbell served as personal physician to Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie?
Did you know that Bruder Martin is an oratorio of seven scenes from the life of Martin Luther, written for the 500th anniversary of the Reformation by a Protestant librettist and a Catholic composer?
Did you know that Ivy Hooks was one of only two women assigned to the original design team for the Space Shuttle orbiter?
Did you know that Joseph Clark gave some of his paintings titles in the Dorset dialect, in which his schoolmaster William Barnes wrote poetry?
Did you know that Taneko Suzuki, an expert in protein chemistry, led the development of a fish-based product that had the texture of hamburger and could be seasoned to taste like beef?
Did you know that Terpios hoshinota, a sponge that overgrows and kills corals, has spread extensively since being detected in Guam in 1973?
Did you know that on the 1965 comedy album "Welcome to the LBJ Ranch!", Nelson Rockefeller is heard saying that he gave his wife the states of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut as an anniversary gift?
Did you know that the Cleveland School fire, the deadliest in South Carolina history, took place on the day the school was to close for good?
Did you know that the English classicist Denys Page was both master of Jesus College, Cambridge, and president of the university's cricket club?
Did you know that the Fauré Quartet, a piano quartet founded in 1995, participated in the world premiere and recording of Sven Helbig's twelve Pocket Symphonies?
Did you know that the song "Cups (When I'm Gone)" features Anna Kendrick playing percussion with a cup, a skill she learned by watching viral videos?
Did you know that the twenty members of the successful 1965 Indian Everest expedition (stamp pictured) are to date the only team recipients of the Arjuna Award?
Did you know that American artist Stuart Davis spent six years working on his jazz-inspired painting The Mellow Pad?
Did you know that Canadian professor Bob Hindmarch donated his own money to feed starving student athletes on the Canada men's national ice hockey team?
Did you know that ChilledCow has one of the longest videos on YouTube, totaling over 13,000 hours?
Did you know that Coronet magazine was deluged with letters and phone calls when Margueritte Harmon Bro wrote about the "Miracle Man of Virginia Beach"?
Did you know that Lillian Brown, makeup artist to nine U.S. presidents, stopped Richard Nixon's sobbing before he went on television to resign the presidency?
Did you know that Martin Egel appeared at the Bayreuth Festival from 1975 to 1986, including a three-year run as Donner in the Jahrhundertring?
Did you know that Nepali author Krishna Lal Adhikari was sentenced to nine years in prison for publishing a book about the cultivation of corn?
Did you know that almost half the known words in Phoenician inscriptions (example pictured) have never been found again?
Did you know that despite being excluded from the standard edition of 1989, "New Romantics" by Taylor Swift was named one of the best songs of the 2010s decade by Rolling Stone?
Did you know that footage from the 1995 documentary film BloodSisters: Leather, Dykes and Sadomasochism was played for a U.S. congressional committee during its hearings on the National Endowment for the Arts?
Did you know that in Bettina, the chamber opera's only solo singer portrays both Bettina von Arnim and Karoline von Günderrode, reflecting their friendship and Günderrode's suicide?
Did you know that in Poland, hanging a rainbow flag on a statue may be a crime?
Did you know that the second birth in a Mexico City Metro station in 2020 occurred at Tláhuac?
Did you know that "So nimm denn meine Hände" by Julie Hausmann, first printed in 1862, placed seventh in a 2019 survey of favourite funeral music in Germany, immediately behind "My Way"?
Did you know that Bups Saggu learned to play the tabla at the local gurdwara in Wolverhampton, but later moved on to playing the dhol because he "took a liking to the larger and louder sound"?
Did you know that Filipina soldier and spy Josefina Guerrero, diagnosed with leprosy, created intelligence reports that helped the Americans defeat the Japanese at Manila Harbor?
Did you know that K. W. Gransden, despite publishing only two poetry collections, was included by Philip Larkin in The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse?
Did you know that Manoj Kumar and Raj Kumar had to win cases at the Delhi High Court to be awarded the Arjuna Award sporting honour in the 2010s?
Did you know that Tom Pope became the second-highest goalscorer in Port Vale's history after twice being rejected by the club as a teenager?
Did you know that a global advisory committee has been monitoring rapidly developing COVID-19 vaccines against a background of growing misinformation and vaccine hesitancy?
Did you know that a lawsuit filed against Busch Gardens Tampa Bay alleged that a model was falsely imprisoned after not being allowed to get off the Scorpion roller coaster?
Did you know that cricketer Charlotte Taylor was the top wicket-taker in the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy, despite not being initially picked in the squads for the tournament?
Did you know that in 1902, the Brooklyn marine engine manufacturers Riley & Cowley built a steam car?
Did you know that the recording of "Waiting for a Train" introduced Jimmie Rodgers's trademark train whistle?
Did you know that the synthetic compound carbonaceous sulfur hydride is the world's first room-temperature superconductor?
Did you know that American actress Masey McLain's feature film debut in I'm Not Ashamed was praised by critic Jordan Hoffman, who said of her acting future, "the sky is the limit"?
Did you know that Bury F.C. converted its debts of £1,230 into a credit balance of £1,329 by winning the 1900 FA Cup Final?
Did you know that Dilys Price, the world's oldest female solo parachute jumper, made more than 1,130 solo jumps before selling her parachute at age 86?
Did you know that Don Johnson used "personality and polish" to make friends?
Did you know that Ethel Maynard was the first black woman elected to the Arizona State Legislature?
Did you know that Indian prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru launched Shankar's Weekly, even though its founder described the magazine as "fundamentally anti-establishment"?
Did you know that Isambard Kingdom Brunel had muddy boots and trousers when posing for what was called "one of the most famous photographs of the nineteenth century and, possibly, of all time"?
Did you know that the 1979 Salvadoran coup d'état overthrew President Carlos Humberto Romero?
Did you know that the fungus Macrolepiota albuminosa (example pictured) is always associated with the nests of termites such as Odontotermes obesus?
Did you know that the shepherd's flock felt that it had been fleeced at Innsbruck?
Did you know that writer and socialite Cat Marnell once described New York City nightclub Lit Lounge as "like Cheers ... but with PCP and vodka"?
Did you know that Augustine's views of Christian theology were developed in opposition to Pelagianism, which he declared a heresy?
Did you know that Folker Bohnet, who acted in Bernhard Wicki's 1959 film Die Brücke while still studying, toured for 13 years with a comedy play that he co-authored?
Did you know that Ita Maximowna, who trained as a painter in Paris and Berlin in the 1920s, began working in scenic and costume design after World War II and went on to work internationally?
Did you know that Mary Dee, a popular radio personality in Pittsburgh, Baltimore, and Philadelphia, is widely regarded as the first African-American woman disc jockey in the United States?
Did you know that Steve McQueen and William Shatner starred in The Defender, the first live television drama in the US divided for broadcast on separate nights, "leaving audiences dangling on the cliff"?
Did you know that four justices dissented in the verdict of the European Court of Human Rights case concerning the Katyn massacre, calling it a denial of justice and a failure of conscience?
Did you know that same-surname marriage was prohibited for periods in ancient China?
Did you know that the 2020 film A Life on Our Planet is David Attenborough's self-described "witness statement" on how human activity has affected the environment?
Did you know that the City Investing Building was regarded as a "monument to greed" due to its sheer size?
Did you know that the French painter Genskof is a pioneer in laser eye surgery?
Did you know that the entrance to Bowdoin station was designed by Josep Lluís Sert as part of a project for a never-built chapel?
Did you know that voter turnout increased by 32 percentage points following the passage of Herbert Payne's bill to introduce compulsory voting in Australian federal elections?
Did you know that Agnes Stavenhagen was the soprano soloist in the first performance of Mahler's Second Symphony in Munich, conducted by the composer?
Did you know that Ann Bedsole, the first woman to be elected to the Alabama Senate, printed a timetable for the state's hunting season on the back of her re-election campaign flyers?
Did you know that Leo Petrović, a historian and head of the Herzegovinian Franciscans, was murdered by the Yugoslav Partisans as part of their campaign against the Franciscans?
Did you know that Michael Jackson's manager expected him to return from an injury and perform in the 2001 Football League First Division play-off Final?
Did you know that Rod Serling's Forbidden Area (actor pictured), a nuclear-war thriller, launched the four-year run of a series voted in 1970 as "the greatest television series of all time"?
Did you know that San Baw, chief orthopaedic surgeon of Mandalay General Hospital, pioneered the use of ivory prostheses to replace ununited fractures of the femoral neck?
Did you know that Walt Whitman's poem "This Dust Was Once the Man", an elegy for President Abraham Lincoln, is just four lines long?
Did you know that balconies at 240 Central Park South were designed to give residents a view above Central Park's tree line?
Did you know that both the adults and the alligator-like larvae of the twice-stabbed lady beetle prey on the walnut scale?
Did you know that cricketer Sachin Tendulkar (depicted) was recognised by his native India with both a top sporting honour and its highest civilian honour?
Did you know that in his hurry to get to a fire in Fort Saskatchewan, the town's fire chief was pulled over for speeding and nearly hitting a police officer in Edmonton?
Did you know that the Odyssey has been used as a school text since antiquity?
Did you know that "All Praise and Glad Thanksgiving" is sung to the hymn tune of "Gott Vater, sei gepriesen"?
Did you know that Dua Lipa created the music video for her 2020 song "Hallucinate" with teams working in London, Paris, and Los Angeles?
Did you know that Estonian linguist Jaan Puhvel has worked for more than half a century on his multi-volume Hittite Etymological Dictionary?
Did you know that Ibaqa Beki was briefly married to Genghis Khan, who abruptly gave her to one of his generals, possibly as a reward to that general for killing her father?
Did you know that James Nathan Calloway, born in slavery in Tennessee, established an experimental cotton-growing farm in Togo?
Did you know that according to local legend, the catfish that inhabit the reservoir at the Shah Jalal Dargah (grave pictured) are the cursed and reincarnated soldiers of Gour Govinda?
Did you know that as a lobbyist for Bacardi, Otto Reich, a former U.S. ambassador to Venezuela, played a role in passing legislation that stripped trademark protection from Havana Club rum?
Did you know that at age 102, Beatrice Lumpkin, a union organizer and lifelong member of the Communist Party, donned hazmat suit–style gear to drop off her vote-by-mail ballot for the US elections?
Did you know that in Public Access Opinion 16-006, the Illinois Attorney General ordered Chicago police officers to release their private emails about the police-involved murder of Laquan McDonald?
Did you know that the Battle of Roan's Tan Yard ended Missouri State Guard recruiting activities in Randolph County?
Did you know that the Cem river basin in the borderlands of Albania and Montenegro is home to more than a quarter of the total plant species identified in each country?
Did you know that the date of Amy Coney Barrett's Supreme Court nomination – September 26, 2020 – was the nearest to a presidential election in U.S. history?
Did you know that the opera Die Prinzessin Girnara, by composer Wellesz and librettist Wassermann, and based on a legend from India, premiered simultaneously at two opera houses in 1921?
Did you know that Edward G. Faile raised prize-winning cattle in what is now The Bronx?
Did you know that James Biggart's election to the Legislative Council of Trinidad and Tobago was viewed by Tobagonian planters as lowering their social standing, because it meant that they were represented by a person of African descent?
Did you know that Malcolm Todd uncovered a previously unrecognised Roman occupation at the Iron Age hillfort in Hembury?
Did you know that Price's Lost Campaign: The 1864 Invasion of Missouri challenged the Lost Cause myth that Confederate soldiers did not engage in total war during Price's Raid?
Did you know that Ted Heath stated "rejoice, rejoice" at the 1990 resignation of Margaret Thatcher, echoing words she had used after the 1982 recapture of South Georgia?
Did you know that Variations for Cello Solo, premiered by the composer Graham Waterhouse in Vienna in 2020, depicts characteristics of the members of his family?
Did you know that an election apportionment diagram (example pictured) is used to explain data in easy-to-understand terms?
Did you know that hundreds of academics signed a letter opposing the "coordinated harassment campaign by the Polish ruling party" against law professor Wojciech Sadurski?
Did you know that musician Sufjan Stevens, who initially disliked ballet, allowed his music to be used in Year of the Rabbit after choreographer Justin Peck invited him to various performances?
Did you know that several Collegiate Gothic buildings were constructed during W. Coleman Nevils's presidency of Georgetown University as part of his revival of the "Greater Georgetown" plan?
Did you know that the minbar of the Ibrahimi Mosque in the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron was originally made for a Fatimid shrine in Ashkelon?
Did you know that the tiny parasitic wasp Metaphycus helvolus has helped control a major pest of citrus, Mediterranean black scale, in California and Australia?
Did you know that the world's first simultaneous heart-and-liver organ transplant was performed in 1984 at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh?
Did you know that when Neelofa announced live on air that she was leaving talk show MeleTOP, it was a surprise to her co-host of eight years (both pictured)?
Did you know that African-American contralto Marian Anderson was denied permission by the Daughters of the American Revolution to sing at Constitution Hall in 1939, prompting thousands of its members to resign?
Did you know that Dieter Ruehle, stadium organist for the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Los Angeles Kings, has played for three championship teams in three different sports?
Did you know that Edgar C. Polomé established Africa's most advanced phonetics laboratory at the University of Lubumbashi?
Did you know that St Mark's Campanile in Venice was initially built as a watchtower to sight approaching ships, and its spire, once gilded, became a "welcoming star" for navigators?
Did you know that Yardley's Law states that "Pretty is what works"?
Did you know that an HPV prevention group focuses on preventing cervical cancer by promoting the sharing of information on cervical screening and HPV vaccination?
Did you know that the Carpentras Stele, the first ancient Semitic inscription ever published, was originally thought to be Phoenician but is actually ancient Aramaic?
Did you know that the Gulmarg Golf Club in Kashmir, situated at an altitude of 2,650 metres (8,690 ft) above sea level, is the highest green golf course in the world?
Did you know that the film roles of Nepali actor Dayahang Rai include a crime boss, a Maoist, the suspected killer of a popular communist leader, a police officer, and a bank robber?
Did you know that Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?! is the first boys' love series published in English by Square Enix?
Did you know that Christian Flor, described in a 1740 encyclopedia as a famous organist from Lüneburg, composed settings of Bible verses for collections, and one of the earliest Passion oratorios?
Did you know that Dua Lipa and The Blessed Madonna's remix album Club Future Nostalgia was crafted in two months during lockdown protocols associated with the COVID-19 pandemic?
Did you know that Ingrid Bergman won Emmy and Sylvania Awards for her world television debut in John Frankenheimer's horror movie The Turn of the Screw?
Did you know that Vä Church is decorated with some of the oldest church murals in Sweden (example pictured)?
Did you know that after working to desegregate nursing in the US, Alma John produced the 1970s television show Black Pride, interviewing prominent figures like Rosa Parks and Ella Fitzgerald?
Did you know that in a speech after the 1901 FA Cup Final, General Sir Redvers Buller compared football to the Army by saying that the winning side is usually the one best practised at shooting?
Did you know that it is impossible to draw water from Robin Hood's Well?
Did you know that linguistics professor and environmentalist Winfred P. Lehmann donated 160 acres (65 ha) of land in Travis County, Texas, to The Nature Conservancy?
Did you know that state representative Patricia Haynes Smith worked with a gay rights group to decriminalize sodomy in Louisiana?
Did you know that the World Health Organization's Weekly Epidemiological Record reports on neglected tropical diseases?
Did you know that the company responsible for the Miss Spider children's series also produced Sex by Madonna?
Did you know that two of the British Type 42 destroyers from the 1982 Exercise Spring Train would be sunk later that year in the Falklands War?
Did you know that Blue and Red are proposed to meet at Boston's Charles/MGH station?
Did you know that Gudrun Schröfel, the longtime choral conductor of the Mädchenchor Hannover and a professor at the Musikhochschule Hannover, received the Lower Saxony State Prize in 2015?
Did you know that John Djopari's book about the Free Papua Movement was banned by the Indonesian government, even though the book incorporates material from the Indonesian Army?
Did you know that Laurence Olivier won an Emmy for his role as a London stockbroker, Parisian artist, and Tahitian leper in The Moon and Sixpence?
Did you know that Marla Berkowitz considers herself a sumain, meaning someone who communicates using their hands?
Did you know that Parole der Woche (Slogan of the Week; example pictured) has been described as "the most ubiquitous and intrusive aspect of Nazism’s visual offensive"?
Did you know that Vijayalakshmi Ramanan, the first woman officer of the Indian Air Force, custom-tailored her uniform as there were no specific uniforms for women when she joined the force?
Did you know that a 14-foot (4.3 m) steel cutout of Donald Trump stands outside the Trump House in Latrobe, Pennsylvania?
Did you know that a book on Vanity Fair says of Goedecker's "Modern Strategy", a caricature of Moltke: "... in a glance the viewer can comprehend the essence of the individual, yet recognize the man"?
Did you know that a playlist of budots music features excerpts from speeches of Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte?
Did you know that in the early use of intravenous therapy, attempts were made to inject milk, sugar, honey, and egg yolk into a person's veins?
Did you know that the Khalili Collection of Enamels of the World includes a throne table made for the 18th-century Qianlong Emperor?
Did you know that the establishment of KVZK-TV led to the electrification of many villages in American Samoa?
Did you know that 100 war elephants led the Carthaginian assault on a rebel camp at the Battle of Utica?
Did you know that Harold Jarman scored in the first match ever played in the Football League Cup?
Did you know that Mustafa Akıncı, the incumbent President of Northern Cyprus, claimed he was threatened by Turkish authorities in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election?
Did you know that a Jewish girl from Jerusalem became an acclaimed performer of Indian, Javanese, Balinese, and other ethnic dance forms in the United States?
Did you know that claims that Super Mario Bros. 35 was a stolen concept from fan game Super Mario Royale were denied by the developer?
Did you know that epidemiologist J. Michael Lane, who played a leading role in the global eradication of smallpox, trekked across the United States from Atlanta to Seattle at the age of 79?
Did you know that four days after participating in a 12-hour-long legislative session, Joel Molina Ramírez became the first Mexican senator to die of COVID-19?
Did you know that the Swedish archaeologist Birger Nerman excavated a Scandinavian settlement at Grobiņa, Latvia, which predates the Viking Age?
Did you know that the adults and larvae of the cactus lady beetle prey on the West Indian red scale, the date palm scale, the white peach scale, the sugarcane scale, and the minute cypress scale?
Did you know that the ballet The Runaway is partly inspired by hip-hop dance but performed in pointe shoes?
Did you know that the melody of the children's song "Kommt ein Vogel geflogen" ("Comes a Bird Flown") was used by Siegfried Ochs for variations in the styles of different classical composers?
Did you know that works of fiction can describe both the near and far future (example pictured)?
Did you know that Joseph Paduano, the minority floor leader in the Philippine congress, began his political career in the military wing of the Revolutionary Workers' Party under a nom de guerre?
Did you know that Kanutus Johannis's ex libris is one of the oldest marks of book ownership from Sweden?