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Did you know that Camille Saint-Saëns called his First Violin Sonata his "hippogriff sonata", suggesting that its technical demands could only be met by a legendary creature?
Did you know that Cuban ballerinas and sisters Lorena and Lorna Feijóo both moved to the U.S., and once split the roles of Black and White Swans in Swan Lake, which are usually danced by the same person?
Did you know that Leonidas Zervas was a Greek organic chemist who discovered the carboxybenzyl protecting group, and also served as Minister of Industry of Greece and President of the Academy of Athens?
Did you know that Shirley Congdon, the vice chancellor of the University of Bradford, was the first in her family to attend university?
Did you know that although he was born in the United Kingdom, Isaac Hope was elected to represent Tobago on the Legislative Council of Trinidad and Tobago?
Did you know that biologist Joni L. Rutter led the development of the All of Us research program to include more than a million participants to advance precision medicine?
Did you know that former ballerina Katita Waldo briefly came out of retirement to perform as the stepmother in Christopher Wheeldon's Cinderella?
Did you know that radio station WMLB in Cumming, Georgia, earned national acclaim as an Americana music station in the 1990s?
Did you know that the 1949 film Hardly a Criminal was mostly filmed in Buenos Aires, and that city's critics called it Argentina's "outstanding film of the year"?
Did you know that the Bach-Chor Bonn, a choir founded to sing Bach's works, such as the St John Passion in 1950, grew to a concert choir with a broad repertoire and a long tradition of tours in Europe?
Did you know that the Royal Albert Hall has called the 1891 Vril-Ya Bazaar and Fete (programme cover pictured) the world's first science fiction convention?
Did you know that Brandon Kintzler married his wife at a drive-through chapel in Las Vegas?
Did you know that Kameron Michaels has been described as a "lip sync assassin"?
Did you know that Rannveig Þorsteinsdóttir, a newspaper clerk and part-time teacher in the 1920s, became the first woman to practice law in the Supreme Court of Iceland thirty years later?
Did you know that Raoul de Gaucourt, who fought at the Battle of Nicopolis in 1396 and the siege of Harfleur in 1415, was described as "a medieval chivalric hero whom the modern world has forgotten"?
Did you know that Walt Whitman's poem "The Sleepers" contains "one of the most powerful and evocative passages about slavery in American literature"?
Did you know that William Armstrong, an Irish immigrant to the U.S., was a postmaster, a presidential elector, a Virginia House Delegate, and a U.S. House Representative?
Did you know that although John Foster long ago described heavy ion fusion as "the conservative approach" to a working fusion reactor, no large-scale system has ever been built?
Did you know that both of Scunthorpe United's substitutes failed to score their penalties in the shootout, which saw them lose the 1992 Football League Fourth Division play-off Final?
Did you know that prices can be negative?
Did you know that the 2019 children's picture book The Fate of Fausto was inspired by the German legend of Faust, who trades his soul in exchange for unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures?
Did you know that the Community catchphrase "six seasons and a movie" originated in "Paradigms of Human Memory" as a reference to The Cape?
Did you know that the painting Tornado Over Kansas by John Steuart Curry was possibly inspired by photographs of a June 2, 1929, tornado in Hardtner, Kansas?
Did you know that Andorra is the only Eurovision Song Contest participating country to have never competed in the grand final in its competitive history?
Did you know that Auliʻi Cravalho was the last person to audition for the role of the eponymous character in Moana and was ultimately cast for the role?
Did you know that Donald Heirman was given the nickname "Mr. EMC Standards" for his work on developing technical standards for electromagnetic compatibility?
Did you know that Eric Anthony Abrahams was the first black TV reporter at the BBC?
Did you know that Hills Tower was built in three stages, around 1527, 1598, and 1721, each time by a different Edward Maxwell?
Did you know that James R. Mills, a California politician, was also a historian, teacher, published author, a champion for historic building preservation, and an advocate for public transportation?
Did you know that Russian writer Leonid Andreyev's 1915 play He Who Gets Slapped was his most successful work in the US, spawning a silent film (1924), a novel, and an opera (1956)?
Did you know that W. R. Granger's funeral was reported to be one of the largest ever known in Montreal?
Did you know that fens are fed by mineral-rich groundwater, while bogs are fed by mineral-poor precipitation?
Did you know that following an engine failure, United Airlines Flight 328 rained debris over Broomfield, Colorado?
Did you know that the Dresdner Kapellsolisten, formed in 1994 mostly by instrumentalists of the Staatskapelle Dresden, focus on composers from Dresden including Johann Georg Pisendel?
Did you know that Claude Callegari gained cult-hero status among English football fans for his speeches about Arsenal?
Did you know that James Edward Rogers helped Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Morris search for a model for Guinevere for the Oxford Union murals?
Did you know that Joye Hummel had never read a comic book before becoming the first woman to write scripts for Wonder Woman?
Did you know that Nellah Massey Bailey became the first woman to be elected statewide in Mississippi in 1947, less than a year after the death of her husband Governor Thomas L. Bailey?
Did you know that a dance move originally performed by Big Bang's G-Dragon became a trend in Vietnam due to efforts by Khá Bảnh?
Did you know that days before the premiere of Balanchine's ballet Movements for Piano and Orchestra, 17-year-old Suzanne Farrell learned a lead role in an apartment, from a colleague who was on bed rest?
Did you know that the Piano Quartet, composed by Robert Schumann in 1842 for piano and strings, was described by his wife Clara as "a beautiful work, so youthful and fresh, as if it were his first"?
Did you know that the overall design of 945 Madison Avenue has been likened to an inverted ziggurat?
Did you know that the village of Adatepe in Turkey, formerly inhabited by Greeks, was revived in the 1980s when the traditional stone houses were restored by people seeking to escape city life?
Did you know that Carlisle & Finch used carbon-arc technology in both toy trains (example pictured) and military searchlights?
Did you know that Francis Hagai instituted communal sharing of sliced banana as a parallel to the sacramental bread of the Eucharist?
Did you know that Payal Ghanwani was the first Belizean senator of Indian descent?
Did you know that Powell Clayton, the ninth governor of Arkansas, declared martial law in 1868 in response to the rise of the Ku Klux Klan and violence against African Americans and Republicans?
Did you know that Robert Adam's plans for Kirkdale Bridge were substantially more elaborate than the structure that Sir Samuel Hannay was eventually willing to pay for on his estate in Dumfries and Galloway?
Did you know that San Francisco's "KYOU Radio" was the first terrestrial radio station to broadcast a program format consisting of podcasts?
Did you know that Xiaohong Rose Yang conducted a genome-wide search for copy number variations to identify the first susceptibility gene for familial chordoma?
Did you know that a mathematical conjecture about tiling space by cubes was transformed into a problem in graph theory that became a benchmark for clique-finding algorithms?
Did you know that a sculpture of a scale-model taxi balanced on a dog is located outside of Hassenfeld Children's Hospital?
Did you know that the 1780s clerk's office of the Wilson-Wodrow-Mytinger House is West Virginia's oldest extant public office building, and the c. 1750 kitchen is Romney's oldest building?
Did you know that the music styles in the discography of Turnover range from pop-punk to dream pop?
Did you know that the only known fossil of Gordodon had its skull accidentally sawed in half while it was being excavated?
Did you know that Chadwick Boseman was the seventh actor to receive a posthumous Academy Award nomination?
Did you know that Debra Humphris, the vice chancellor of the University of Brighton, advocated converting 18th-century army barracks into student residences?
Did you know that Gabriela Canavilhas was a pianist playing Portuguese compositions before she became Portugal's Minister of Culture?
Did you know that Queen Letizia of Spain presented the 2020 Rey Jaime I Awards because her husband, the Spanish king, was in COVID-19 quarantine?
Did you know that Stephanie Davis, who has qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics, is a part-time marathon runner who works in finance?
Did you know that United Nations diplomat Enuga Sreenivasulu Reddy's anti-apartheid efforts were driven by a chance encounter with African National Congress activist A. B. Xuma?
Did you know that in the Eurovision Song Contest the United Kingdom has finished in second place a record fifteen times, with Imaani the last artist to do so when she represented the country at the 1998 contest?
Did you know that the Negress head clock can show the time in its eyes?
Did you know that the United States' 21 national preserves are in 11 states and protect vast areas of scenic public land similar to national parks, but where hunting is permitted?
Did you know that the windmill in Werrington was built to grind corn but later converted to grind coal to make briquettes?
Did you know that Harry Daley, who joined the Metropolitan Police in 1925, was the first openly gay British police officer?
Did you know that Katja Meier, the Saxon state minister of justice, was criticised for the anti-police lyrics of the punk band in which she played as a teenager?
Did you know that Marcello Petacci was riddled with bullets after trying to escape execution by throwing himself into Lake Como?
Did you know that Mrs Justice Lieven made an order for a pregnant woman with learning difficulties to have an abortion against her wishes, but it was overturned in the Court of Appeal?
Did you know that The Much Honoured Catherine Maxwell Stuart, who lives in Scotland's oldest continuously-inhabited stately home, is the first female laird of Traquair?
Did you know that William A. Radford assisted in producing a 1700-page encyclopedia about cement?
Did you know that a new-age music format called "The Breeze" was a ratings failure for Nebraska radio station KLMS, causing a precipitous decline in listenership?
Did you know that in 1999 Jan Fullerton became the first woman to be appointed Director General of the National Library of Australia?
Did you know that verse 16 from Psalm 115 was quoted by John McConnell as an inspiration to create Earth Day?
Did you know that viral vector vaccines currently in use include four COVID-19 vaccines and two Ebola vaccines?
Did you know that Brett Ormerod scored five goals for Blackpool in the 2001 Football League play-offs including one in the 2001 Football League Third Division play-off Final?
Did you know that German three-time artistic cycling World Championship runner-up Viola Brand was invited to The Ellen DeGeneres Show, having previously watched the show to improve her English?
Did you know that John Hobart, 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire, is entombed in a pyramid in Norfolk, England?
Did you know that Julie Mennell was a police officer and a forensics specialist before she became vice chancellor of the University of Cumbria?
Did you know that Sabina Matos, Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island, did not speak English when she immigrated to the United States at age 20?
Did you know that Virgil Conn was a member of the Oregon Legislature during the 1897 session that failed to organize due to the lack of a quorum?
Did you know that Wilson Tucker was elected to the Mining and Pastoral region of the Western Australian Legislative Council with just 0.18 per cent of the primary vote?
Did you know that in "Herr, stärke mich, dein Leiden zu bedenken", Christian Fürchtegott Gellert reflected the theological and emotional impact of the Passion of Jesus, using a familiar Passion hymn tune?
Did you know that in hakamat, a genre of the traditional music of Sudan, women exert their influence to resolve conflicts by singing songs of praise or ridicule?
Did you know that tea room owner Edith Warner was convinced by Robert Oppenheimer to keep her restaurant open to serve the scientists working on the Manhattan Project, including Niels Bohr and Enrico Fermi?
Did you know that the Urdu novel Zameen provides a woman-centric account of Pakistan's independence?
Did you know that the extinct bowfin Amia? hesperia was likely a fish-eating hunter?
Did you know that the inspiration for the 1998 novel The Vintner's Luck came to author Elizabeth Knox in a fever dream caused by pneumonia?
Did you know that the year after going into administration, Huddersfield Town gained promotion to the Second Division by winning the 2004 Football League Third Division play-off Final?
Did you know that British nurse Ethel Becher was described as a "modern Florence Nightingale" in 1919 for her services during World War I?
Did you know that Japan's 666 Protected Forests include four Forest Biosphere Reserves that are also Natural World Heritage Sites—Shiretoko, Shirakami-Sanchi, Ogasawara Islands, and Yakushima?
Did you know that Jerome Robbins's ballet Other Dances was described as "utterly Slavic" by dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov, partly because it was made for him and fellow Russian Natalia Makarova?
Did you know that Karlin Lillington, long-time technology writer for Ireland's newspaper of record, The Irish Times, holds a PhD on the poetry of Seamus Heaney?
Did you know that Sister has sparked discussion about gender roles in China?
Did you know that The Dream of Ossian by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres was painted in 1813 for Napoleon's bedroom?
Did you know that Truus Smulders-Beliën, the first female mayor in the Netherlands, succeeded her husband after he was executed by Nazi soldiers?
Did you know that Yugoslav politician Miloš Trifunović was briefly professor of zoology and botany despite graduating from the Faculty of Philosophy of the Belgrade Higher School?
Did you know that the early Bronze Age Saint-Bélec slab is the oldest map to be found in Europe?
Did you know that the fish Carapus acus lives in association with a sea cucumber, such as Parastichopus regalis, spending the day inside its host and emerging at night to feed?
Did you know that when Hollyoaks changed Juliet Nightingale's appearance for a storyline involving drugs, actress Niamh Blackshaw was glad to get rid of her character's side ponytail?
Did you know that when Irene del Río was called up to the Spain women's national football team squad, she was the only player who did not compete in the country's top division?
Did you know that Das Leiden Jesu von seinen Freunden, one of Christoph Graupner's church cantatas, reflects how Jesus suffered from his friends, and ends with a chorale fantasia "full of dissonances"?
Did you know that Inkeri Anttila, Finland's first female minister of justice, was also the first woman in Finland to complete a doctorate in law?
Did you know that James H. McGraw Jr., who selected the blue-green facade panels for 330 West 42nd Street, was said to be "appalled" at the color of the building?
Did you know that Olena Tokar, a soprano of the Leipzig Opera from Ukraine, recorded Charmes, a collection of art songs by women including Clara Schumann and Vítězslava Kaprálová?
Did you know that after Rhoda, Lady Birley, made fish stew with cognac for her roses, her daughter said that they "almost cried out with pleasure"?
Did you know that after coming back for a fifth season at Stanford, Anna Wilson won the 2021 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship Game with the Cardinal?
Did you know that despite losing the 1990 Football League Third Division play-off Final, Tranmere Rovers were temporarily promoted to the Second Division?
Did you know that ichthyologist C. Richard Robins and his wife Catherine were honoured jointly in the name of the false moray Robinsia catherinae?
Did you know that the 2015 children's picture book Timeline chronologically illustrates major world events, including the Big Bang and the Fukushima nuclear disaster?
Did you know that the BBC described Chi Chi DeVayne's lip sync to "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" as "iconic in Drag Race history"?
Did you know that the Vuurbaak van Katwijk aan Zee, built in 1605, is the second-oldest lighthouse in the Netherlands?
Did you know that the character Tom Bombadil, omitted by Peter Jackson in his later version, appears in a Russian film of The Lord of the Rings?
Did you know that women in the Shaheen Bagh protest, who blocked a major road in Delhi for 101 days, included 82-year-old Bilkis?
Did you know that Andrew Guest wrote "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons" despite having no experience playing the titular game?
Did you know that Anna-Liisa Tiekso dropped out of university in 1951 to become the youngest member of the Finnish parliament?
Did you know that Captain John T. Newton commanded USS Missouri on the first crossing of the Atlantic by an American steam-powered warship, and was later court-martialed after an accidental fire sank the ship?
Did you know that Gira Sarabhai and her brother Gautam were crucial in the formation of the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad?
Did you know that Rocking the Boat believes that kids are built by boats?
Did you know that Terence Lam, who initially did not plan to become a singer, received ViuTV Chill Club's best male singer award and Commercial Radio Hong Kong's best new artist award?
Did you know that US Navy Seabee Charles A. Bevilacqua was chief builder of the original South Pole station?
Did you know that because the globose octopus Bathypolypus sponsalis lives at great depths, it has large eggs, reduced gills, and no ink sac?
Did you know that the 1975 book Fighting Auschwitz: The Resistance Movement in the Concentration Camp was the first work to discuss in detail the story of the resistance's founder, Witold Pilecki?
Did you know that the 1989 manga Sweet Spot by Yutsuko Chūsonji originated the slang term oyaji gal, used to describe young businesswomen who have the interests and hobbies of middle-aged businessmen?
Did you know that the use of a gold background (example pictured) has been prevalent for some types of art from Europe to Japan?
Did you know that "Der am Kreuz ist meine Liebe" (He on the Cross is my love) is the first line of four hymns from the 17th, 18th and 20th centuries?
Did you know that Euphemia de Walliers made additions to the illuminated psalter (detail pictured) left by her predecessor as Wherwell Abbey's prioress, Matilda de Bailleul?
Did you know that Kanye West and Spike Jonze expanded a music video for "See You in My Nightmares" into the film We Were Once a Fairytale?
Did you know that Mikoto Misaka, a fictional character from A Certain Magical Index, inspired the name of Bilibili, a real-life streaming service?
Did you know that Rumahis ibn Abd al-Aziz, the governor of Palestine for Caliph Marwan II, escaped to Islamic Spain where he became governor of Algeciras and Sidonia?
Did you know that Sussex Drive forms part of a ceremonial route used by foreign dignitaries and royal visitors to Canada?
Did you know that a researcher at the Electronic Frontier Foundation described Google's Federated Learning of Cohorts as "a technology that should not exist"?
Did you know that although they were positioned just a few miles away, the soldiers of George Johnstone's brigade were unaware of the Battle of Waterloo taking place?
Did you know that officially sanctioned methods to combat drought in Turkey include better protecting river basins, building underground dams, rainwater harvesting, using more grey water, and praying for rain?
Did you know that the Christuskirche, a German Protestant parish church in Paris completed in 1894, has been a venue for performances of Bach's Christmas Oratorio?
Did you know that the Fuller Building, with a black granite base and limestone tower, has been called "the Brooks Brothers of Art Deco"?
Did you know that Canadian geneticist Phyllis McAlpine was among the first to promote a unified gene nomenclature system and helped found the HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee?
Did you know that Class 1 protected forests in Sabah, such as Tenompok Forest Reserve, Tawai Forest Reserve, Binsuluk Forest Reserve, and Ulu Telupid Forest Reserve, are threatened by encroaching agriculture, illegal logging, and man-made fires?
Did you know that Philadelphia Phillies backup catcher Andrew Knapp changed his number in 2018 to honor Roy Halladay and then a second time in 2020 to honor Dick Allen?
Did you know that actress Bertha Belmore starred in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1925 with W. C. Fields and Will Rogers?
Did you know that after the BBC suspended its regular programming following the death of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, the broadcaster received criticism for its continuous coverage of the event?
Did you know that for his 2015 mural Mutual Entanglements, artist Sandeep Mukherjee instructed the gallery to install the 10 panels in whatever order and orientation they wanted?
Did you know that in North America, the Hercules ant tends aphids, as well as the larvae of the silvery blue butterfly?
Did you know that in Open Wounds, Vicken Cheterian argues that "by censoring the Armenian Genocide, its impact, traces and consequences do not simply disappear. It continues in various forms"?
Did you know that the 2011 single "Chic C'est la Vie" by Luann de Lesseps was called "stunningly un-self-aware and over the top" by a critic?
Did you know that the live-action television drama adaptation of Kakafukaka was the first show broadcast on MBS's programming block, Drama Tokku?
Did you know that the original entrance to New York City's 72nd Street station was once called "a miserable monstrosity as to architecture" and recommended for demolition?
Did you know that there is a mountain of gold in French Guiana?
Did you know that "Kiss Me More" interpolates the melody from "Physical" by Olivia Newton-John?
Did you know that American fiction's first son-of-a-bitch is in the writings of John Neal?
Did you know that Facebook has estimated that fake news reached 126 million voters on social media in the 2016 United States presidential election?
Did you know that Finnish minister Kyllikki Pohjala learned English while working in New York hospitals to pay for her education at Columbia University?
Did you know that Linn Sömskar has won medals at World Cups in both cross-country skiing and roller skiing?
Did you know that a report by Witold Pilecki, a Polish resistance fighter who infiltrated Auschwitz, was translated into English in 2012 as The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery?
Did you know that actor Don Johnson and other investors reportedly planned to restart production of the Renaissance Tropica, an electric car which appeared in an episode of Nash Bridges?
Did you know that one of the Cehennemağzı Caves in northwestern Turkey features a very old Christian church, which was used as a secret place of worship in the first years of Christianity?
Did you know that safe listening prevents risks to hearing from voluntary sound exposure rather than unwanted noise?
Did you know that soprano Florence Kirk's temperamental fit over her costume as Lady Macbeth led to the professional debut of opera star Regina Resnik who replaced her?
Did you know that the Flying Dutchman (model pictured), a locomotive powered by a horse on a treadmill, could carry 12 passengers at speeds of around 12 miles per hour (19 km/h)?
Did you know that toy manufacturer siblings Nick, Anna, and Mat Mowbray bought Coatesville mansion near Auckland, New Zealand, for NZ$32.5 million when they were in their early thirties?