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Did you know that professional Super Smash Bros. player Marss is known for his aggressive, unconventional style that capitalizes on Zero Suit Samus's superior mobility?
Did you know that the German musicologist Ludwig Finscher was the editor of Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, an encyclopedia in 28 volumes, placing music in cultural, social, and historical context?
Did you know that the soundtrack to the manga and anime series Kids on the Slope features American jazz musicians Art Blakey and Bill Evans?
Did you know that the video for Harry Styles's single "Adore You" was praised for "elevating a good pop song to something closer to absurdist art"?
Did you know that Antoinette Waroh was the only female member of the Provisional Representative Body, the parliament of East Indonesia?
Did you know that William L. Borden wrote the letter that set in motion the Oppenheimer security hearing?
Did you know that during contract bidding for structural steel for New York City's New Lots Line, all three bids were rejected partly because the chief engineer was banking on steel prices falling?
Did you know that during the Battle of Port Gibson, the 5th Missouri Infantry Regiment (Confederate) was sometimes only 10 feet (3.0 m) away from their opponent?
Did you know that following decades of repairs due to vandalism and falling headstones in the Children of Israel Cemetery in Winnipeg, Canada, maintenance is now limited to "mowing the grass"?
Did you know that in a radical reform of its power grid, Gujarat became the first state in India to separate electricity feeder lines between agricultural and household usage?
Did you know that in addition to his rabbinical duties at a Winnipeg Orthodox synagogue, Solomon Frank served as Grand Chancellor of the Knights of Pythias?
Did you know that instead of using standard control surfaces, the AFTI/F-111A Aardvark research aircraft had an adaptive wing that could change its airfoil shape for inflight control?
Did you know that suffragist Olive Stott Gabriel supported James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr.'s 1920 Senate campaign, although he opposed extending the vote to women?
Did you know that the interior of Manik Bagh, a palace of the maharajah of Indore State, was filled with contemporary designer furniture by Le Corbusier, Eileen Gray, Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann, and others?
Did you know that the music video for Twice's song "More & More" was inspired by the Garden of Eden (depicted)?
Did you know that Die BIF (cover pictured) was the world's first lesbian magazine where only women were in charge?
Did you know that Namikawa Sōsuke (work pictured) and Namikawa Yasuyuki were the only two cloisonné artists to be appointed Imperial Household Artists?
Did you know that New York City's Rattlesnake Creek was named after the rattlesnakes that once populated the Bronx?
Did you know that Portuguese HIV researcher Odette Ferreira flew from Lisbon to Paris with test tubes of blood in her coat to maintain the right temperature for testing at the Pasteur Institute?
Did you know that a Christian revival at Anna Bliss's school in Peru, Massachusetts, led to her being selected to establish a new school in South Africa?
Did you know that one of the two surviving manuscripts of the Ladakh Chronicles is owned by a monk in Lamayuru Monastery?
Did you know that snooker player John Pulman obliterated a rival's branding from his own cue?
Did you know that the British Raj restricted access to squash courts in India—then located on military bases—to the upper class of society?
Did you know that the chief of the Louisville Metro Police Department was fired after the mayor learned that officers' body cameras were off during the shooting of David McAtee?
Did you know that the founders of the literary journal Irreantum hoped it would become the source for nationwide publishers to access the best of Mormon literature?
Did you know that when Elza van den Heever made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera as the bald queen Elisabetta in Donizetti's Maria Stuarda, she had her head shaved?
Did you know that Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman co-founded the Sadie Collective, which aims to increase representation of black women in economics and other quantitative fields?
Did you know that Kevin Seaward is the fastest marathon runner from Northern Ireland?
Did you know that critics called for a boycott of transgender filmmaker Rhys Ernst's film Adam for perceived transphobia?
Did you know that dancer Alicia Graf Mack completed a history degree in Columbia University while recovering from ankylosing spondylitis?
Did you know that pedlar Joan Dant died a millionaire?
Did you know that the 1943 Rolls-Royce strike at the Merlin engine plant in Hillington, Scotland, was the only major strike for equal pay in the United Kingdom during the Second World War?
Did you know that the Antonyo Awards—a riff on the Tony Awards—were instituted in 2020 to celebrate excellence in Black theater?
Did you know that the Doric columns used in Christ Church in Byculla, India, were imported from England?
Did you know that the announced "Super-Duper Missile" has been theorized to be the AGM-183A air-launched rapid response weapon?
Did you know that the music video for Dua Lipa's song "Physical" is based on a Venn diagram from 1981?
Did you know that the publication of Malta's first newspaper was discontinued after about ten issues due to a local uprising?
Did you know that the sea urchin Goniocidaris umbraculum moves its eggs with its tube feet, assisted by cilia, to an area near its mouth where they can be brooded?
Did you know that BTS's Japanese single "Lights" surpassed one million pre-orders in Japan and broke the 24-year-old record of Celine Dion's 1995 single "To Love You More"?
Did you know that Chinese citizens are lawfully required to spy for the state?
Did you know that Lel and Polel are considered divine twins in Slavic mythology?
Did you know that Pippa Wicks, the deputy chief executive officer of the Co-operative Group, has supported the company's initiative to employ people who have escaped modern slavery?
Did you know that Priscilla Johnson McMillan is the only individual who personally knew both President John F. Kennedy and his assassin Lee Harvey Oswald?
Did you know that Walter Lord's book The Dawn's Early Light was called "the definitive book about the burning of Washington during the War of 1812" by the Los Angeles Times?
Did you know that a peace treaty signed between Venice and the Byzantine Empire in 1277 allowed both parties to fight one another over possession of Negroponte, without violating its terms?
Did you know that many structures in the Shackelford County Courthouse Historic District were built in the 1880s after Albany, Texas, became the terminus of the now-defunct Texas Central Railroad?
Did you know that the Builders Building, originally built to house construction industries, would eventually be home to the Chicago Board of Education and later be renovated into a hotel?
Did you know that the Rheinsberg Music Academy, based at Schloss Rheinsberg, offered master classes by opera singer Waltraud Meier and stage director Harry Kupfer in 2019?
Did you know that videos of Lady Tambourine playing the tambourine at Southern Louisiana football games went viral in 2017?
Did you know that American endocrinologist Jacob Robbins studied the effects of nuclear fallout in Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Chernobyl on the development of thyroid cancer?
Did you know that Ismail II of Granada deposed his brother to take the throne, but less than a year later he was dethroned and killed by his brother-in-law?
Did you know that Troy Nehls, the sheriff of Fort Bend County, is the son of a sheriff and brother of a sheriff?
Did you know that Xu Chang's rebellion against the Han dynasty attempted to revive the ancient state of Yue, which had ended about 400 years earlier?
Did you know that a report that Slayback's Missouri Cavalry Regiment, which was formed in 1864, was armed with lances instead of firearms is likely inaccurate?
Did you know that after Dua Lipa wrote her song "Break My Heart", she noticed similarities to INXS's "Need You Tonight" and decided to credit the band?
Did you know that after closing his military academy at Chelsea, Lewis Lochée fought for the United Belgian States against the Austrian Netherlands and then wrote a history of the Belgian Revolution?
Did you know that it took 190 litres (42 imp gal; 50 US gal) of paint to complete the livery of the Indian locomotive class WDG-4G?
Did you know that the Viklau Madonna is one of the best-preserved 12th-century wooden sculptures in Europe?
Did you know that Ba Than, a school teacher, wrote the Burmese history textbook used in many Burma high schools from the 1930s to 1950s?
Did you know that FCC chairman Ajit Pai has cited his hometown radio station, KLKC in Parsons, Kansas, in advocating for a revitalization of AM broadcasting?
Did you know that Iain Macintyre's group was the first to show that the hormone calcitonin was produced by the thyroid gland?
Did you know that Nerine Barrett, one of the few black women to have achieved international recognition as a classical pianist, first performed on Radio Jamaica for her third birthday?
Did you know that Ty Dolla Sign's song "Ego Death" is a "first-ever of its kind" 9D listening experience?
Did you know that a poem by Annie Rothwell was read to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Queen's University?
Did you know that during the Congo Crisis, American Methodist bishop Newell Snow Booth was threatened at gunpoint by a soldier before being released by an officer who recognized him?
Did you know that in 1988, an enquiry confirmed Joe Collier and Aggrey Burke's findings that racial and sexual discrimination operated in the selection of students at London medical schools?
Did you know that on National Paddy Day in Nepal, people splash each other and play in the mud, plant rice seedlings, eat curd and beaten rice, and sing folk songs?
Did you know that only three Confederate soldiers were killed at the Battle of Grand Gulf, but one of them was the commander of Fort Wade?
Did you know that the Wrens of the Curragh group of sex workers (members depicted) lived in "nests" hollowed from the ground near Curragh Camp in the 19th century?
Did you know that the old church of St Sebastian in Qormi, Malta, was completed in 1890 but was not formally consecrated until 2019?
Did you know that to demonstrate elevator safety in the Empire Building, eggs and light bulbs were loaded in a cab that was dropped past the third floor at 82 miles per hour (132 km/h), emerging undamaged?
Did you know that Sandra Perron, whom other Canadian Armed Forces officers viewed as a threat, was once interrogated and left in the snow for two hours without boots as part of a training exercise?
Did you know that Sarah Chapone compares the legal situation of married women in 18th-century England to slavery in her legal treatise?
Did you know that Stuart Bergsma, a medical missionary in Ethiopia and India, connected speaking in tongues with emotional stress?
Did you know that archaeological finds at Danamandıra village in Istanbul Province, Turkey, date its settlement back to the Late Neolithic era?
Did you know that during the women's marathon at the 1983 World Championships in Athletics, one runner fell out of medal contention when she stopped for a toilet break?
Did you know that in response to the Hong Kong government refusing to close its border with mainland China to contain COVID-19, Winnie Yu organized a labour strike among hospital workers in February 2020?
Did you know that the 1994 video game Kajko i Kokosz, the first based on the Polish comic book series of the same name, was not playtested, and the initial release had to be recalled and replaced?
Did you know that the Druze emir Fakhr al-Din built a mosque in Mount Lebanon despite the non-use of mosques by the Druze?
Did you know that the English and French translations of Kenjirō Tokutomi's The Cuckoo all omit a key aspect of its most famous line?
Did you know that the elements of the Flag of Ulster supposedly trace their origins to a cross drawn in Saracen blood and a hand cut off to claim a kingdom?
Did you know that Irena Sawicka, a Polish archeologist, educator and communist activist, helped Jews during the Holocaust and perished in the Warsaw Uprising?
Did you know that Kanye West premiered his song "Wash Us in the Blood", which discusses mass incarceration, slavery, genocide, and drug-dealing, at a Christian opera?
Did you know that Theo Akkermann, whose first major work was a war memorial, created a sculpture for his family's grave?
Did you know that during construction of the Valle Gómez and Misterios metro stations, workers uncovered part of a road that connected Tenochtitlan with the Tepeyac Hill, dating from the Mesoamerican Postclassic period?
Did you know that following the cancellation of the Eurovision Song Contest 2020, the BBC produced their own show to determine the British public's favourite Eurovision song of all time?
Did you know that in the Brazilian state of Bahia, cerrado mice are often caught by barn owls, but seldom by researchers?
Did you know that poet William Nauns Ricks wrote an ode to Charles Young, the first African-American colonel in the United States Army?
Did you know that professional Super Smash Bros. player Glutonny, who competes using Wario, nicknamed himself after a Fullmetal Alchemist character because both are known for eating everything?
Did you know that the Mid-Manhattan Library, with space for 350,000 volumes at its opening, was designed to replace a collection housed in a single room of the New York Public Library Main Branch?
Did you know that the earliest known vessel in enamelled glass comes from a pharaoh's tomb of c. 1425 BC, after which there are no other pieces for some 1400 years?
Did you know that Apollo flight director Pete Frank was a finalist for NASA Astronaut Group 5?
Did you know that NCT Dream performed songs from their album Reload on the world's first paid online concert Beyond LIVE?
Did you know that Nainital Yacht Club, located at an elevation of 2,084 m (6,837 ft), is the highest yacht club in India and among the highest in the world?
Did you know that Nepal's first female auto rickshaw driver, Laxmi Sharma, went on to start the first button factory in the country?
Did you know that according to Naraporn Chan-o-cha, the wife of the current prime minister of Thailand, Prayut Chan-o-cha, she is responsible for his clothes, make-up, and haircut?
Did you know that after the American Revolutionary War, only five of First Presbyterian Church of Newtown's congregants remained, so a nearby Dutch church took them in?
Did you know that eight Roman Catholic archbishops of Quebec have been elevated to the College of Cardinals, including incumbent Gérald Lacroix?
Did you know that the Seventh-day Adventist Church replaced the African-American missionary Thomas H. Branch with a white man to appease the government of the British Central Africa Protectorate?
Did you know that the bond issue for building Lake Poway had to be voted on three times before it was approved?
Did you know that the novel The Silent Patient was inspired by the Athenian tragedy Alcestis?
Did you know that when Spain joined the European Communities in 1986, it had a larger fishing fleet than all the other Community members' put together?
Did you know that while directing Walking Down Broadway, Erich von Stroheim tied a 12 ft (3.7 m) length of thread to James Dunn's pant leg and tugged on it whenever he wanted the actor to emote more?
Did you know that Colonel Richard Ernest Dupuy's radio statement (recording featured) announcing that the Normandy landings had taken place was so short that he read it twice?
Did you know that David F. Gantt was the first and only black person elected to the New York State Assembly from Monroe County, New York?
Did you know that Kanye West is running under the Birthday Party for his 2020 presidential campaign, because "when we win, it's everybody's birthday"?
Did you know that Konnie Huq presented a mockumentary called Konnie's Great British Wee?
Did you know that Lin-Manuel Miranda's idea for improvisational hip-hop comedy musical group Freestyle Love Supreme originated during rehearsal breaks for the musical In the Heights?
Did you know that according to Nevsun Resources Ltd v Araya, corporations may be liable in Canadian courts if their operations in other countries violate customary international law?
Did you know that after a fisherman crashed into a volcano, it was named after him?
Did you know that although Wong Pak-yu nominated Woo Kwok-hing in the 2017 Hong Kong Chief Executive election, he decided to cast a blank vote to protest against the election's lack of democracy?
Did you know that as president of Georgetown University, Edward B. Bunn ended a 20-year hiatus on construction by opening eight new buildings?
Did you know that the proposed African Medicines Agency would regulate not just modern medicine and medical equipment, but also traditional medicine?
Did you know that Ann Smith was described as a "a great fomentor of plots"?
Did you know that Anthony Kohlmann's refusal to violate the seal of the confessional in 1813 led to the recognition of the confessional privilege for the first time in American law?
Did you know that Polish boxer Tadeusz Pietrzykowski is best known for his string of victories in Nazi concentration camps?
Did you know that Rembrandt's Mughal drawings (example pictured) depict Indian emperors and noblemen, and are the only drawings in which the artist engaged with the style of a "dramatically foreign culture"?
Did you know that a series of tunnels on Japan National Route 48 is known as the Land Gateway to Sendai?
Did you know that table tennis has a larger number of playing styles than other racket sports due to the large variety of table tennis rubbers?
Did you know that the creation of the Swedish torch is credited to the Swedish military during the Thirty Years' War?
Did you know that the nutmeg on the flag of Grenada alludes to one of the country's key exports, which gave rise to its nickname, the "Isle of Spice"?
Did you know that 40 musicians from seven countries collaborated on the song "We Are One", which extends a message of hope and unity to the global population affected by COVID-19?
Did you know that Georgia Adams is the captain of the Sussex Women cricket team, and her father Chris is a former captain of the Sussex men's team?
Did you know that Hilda Gregg published a novel every year for three decades?
Did you know that Waldemar R. Röhrbein and Hugo Thielen wrote a book about Jewish personalities in the history of Hanover, including the violinist Joseph Joachim?
Did you know that despite a poll showing that the 2019 election in the Milton federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, would be a toss-up, Liberal candidate and former Olympian Adam van Koeverden won by a margin of fifteen percent?
Did you know that in order to serve as a prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials, Cecelia Goetz had to receive a "waiver of disability" from Telford Taylor because she was a woman?
Did you know that ornithologist Corina Newsome and herpetologist Earyn McGee held events as part of the inaugural Black Birders Week, an effort to highlight the challenges faced by Black nature enthusiasts?
Did you know that retired United States Air Force colonel Kim Olson is a Master Gardener?
Did you know that the Palika Kendra is one of 23 buildings in India documented in the Atlas of Brutalist Architecture?
Did you know that the former Lake Estancia in New Mexico reached a highstand during the Last Glacial Maximum, similar to other lakes in the Great Basin?
Did you know that the presence of the umbrella slug in the Bay of Biscay, first reported in 2016, may be an example of "tropicalisation"?
Did you know that to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from shipping, the e5 Project is producing solar- and wind-powered ships to transport fuel oil?
Did you know that 070 Shake said that it felt "crazy" to have been on a record with Kanye West?
Did you know that Augustine Waworuntu, the first woman mayor of Manado, had her official residence in a hotel built of bamboo?
Did you know that Baekhyun compares his charms to various flavors of candy in his song "Candy"?
Did you know that Johnby Hall, a 16th-century manor house built around a medieval tower, is now a bed and breakfast?
Did you know that K26AC in Bemidji, Minnesota, was the first low-power television station in the United States that did not repeat another station?
Did you know that actress Katharine Hepburn thought the status of one's career could be determined by one's seating position at Samuel Goldwyn's table?
Did you know that as Federal Commissioner for Foreigners in the 1980s, German politician Liselotte Funcke saw her role as an "interpreter" of the problems of foreign workers, especially Turks?
Did you know that in Valletta, a statue of a queen is located in a square honouring a republic?
Did you know that the COVID-19 pandemic has caused delays in regulatory decisions regarding medications such as fluticasone furoate/umeclidinium bromide/vilanterol?
Did you know that the Danum shield, found in Doncaster, is one of fewer than ten Roman shields ever found?
Did you know that the file-sharing website E-Hentai has been called the Library of Alexandria of hentai?
Did you know that the name of the women's soccer team Racing Louisville FC is inspired by Louisville's famous horse races?
Did you know that the rolling straight-edge, one of the earliest means of measuring road surface regularity, is still used in Britain today?
Did you know that to convince people to let him record their singing, Ozarker folklorist Max Hunter helped them out with chores, including delivering moonshine?
Did you know that "Oh Uganda, Land of Beauty" (recording featured) is one of the shortest national anthems, at only eight bars long?
Did you know that Catholic priest Timothy S. Healy held senior positions at the City University of New York, Georgetown University, and the New York Public Library?
Did you know that D'Arcy Carden has about 40 minutes of screen time in "Janet(s)" even though the episode is only 22 minutes long?
Did you know that German undercover agent Friedrich Salomon Hall's identity was betrayed by the corns on his feet?
Did you know that India's 2020 food-security scheme, launched during the country's COVID-19 pandemic, is equivalent to feeding 2.5 times the population of the US, 12 times that of the UK, and twice that of the EU?
Did you know that Mexican painter Frida Kahlo's The Broken Column was the inspiration for a costume in Broken Wings, a ballet about her?
Did you know that after the death of Olaseni Lewis, who was restrained by 11 police officers, UK law was changed to require police to wear body cameras when dealing with vulnerable people?
Did you know that in the 1930s and 1940s, Marilyn Knowlden appeared in six films that received Academy Award nominations for Best Picture?
Did you know that one California nut job can cost up to $500,000?
Did you know that the Battle of Rakkestad, part of the Swedish–Norwegian War of 1814, was won by Sweden thanks to an all-out bayonet charge?
Did you know that the LGBT Centre Mongolia  was legally registered in 2009 after being told more than ten times that its name did not suit "Mongolian traditions and customs"?
Did you know that the Morse Building, once one of New York City's tallest buildings, was expanded twenty years after completion, having been considered "small and old-fashioned"?
Did you know that the song "I Can See the Change" was developed over text conversation between Celeste and Finneas after the two met in person at the 2020 Brit Awards?
Did you know that with 1,121 World Heritage Sites, UNESCO's World Heritage Program (logo pictured) is the world's most popular cultural programme?
Did you know that Edvard August Vainio's tools for collecting lichens in Brazil included a knife, hammer, chisel, paper, a bag, and a shotgun?
Did you know that Hypertime is a fictional concept of alternate timelines that branch off from the DC Universe?
Did you know that John "JR" Robinson kicked off the Steve Winwood album Back in the High Life with a drum solo he played on his own drum kit at Unique Recording Studios in New York?