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Did you know that after losing his job at KBIF when his father was convicted on tax-withholding crimes, future California politician Jim Patterson bought Fresno's KIRV and turned it into a Christian radio station?
Did you know that before he died in the Battle of Iwo Jima, Japanese composer Shimaguchi Komao left behind an unfinished song bidding farewell to his family?
Did you know that the Shanka Basadi, one of the Lakshmeshwara Jain temples, features a rare monolithic pillar with the carving of 1008 tirthankaras known as the Sahasrakuta Jinabimba?
Did you know that the coat of arms of Montserrat features Erin holding a Celtic harp, alluding to the Irish immigrants to the island during the 17th century?
Did you know that when Johnny Duncan performed "Last Train to San Fernando" in Liverpool, the audience included John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison?
Did you know that Ben Purse was a leader of the 1920 blind march, which helped bring about the world's first disability-specific legislation?
Did you know that Central Park Tower, partially cantilevered over another building, was compared to a giant "poised to squash a poodle"?
Did you know that Chilean psychologist Neva Milicic Müller wrote a book about parent–child separation that can help children and caregivers during COVID-19 lockdowns?
Did you know that Derby County F.C. chairman Sam Longson gave impromptu press conferences in his pyjamas in the aftermath of Brian Clough's resignation as manager?
Did you know that Italy won the UEFA Euro 1968 Final but only after winning a coin toss and a replay?
Did you know that Jennifers' Law expands the definition of domestic violence in Connecticut to include coercive control?
Did you know that José Adán Aguerri's family opened the first movie theater in Nicaragua?
Did you know that Maria of Antioch had a clerk and a notary interrupt the coronation of her rival Hugh III of Cyprus, after which they fled the cathedral?
Did you know that during the 1940 Bloody Wednesday of Olkusz, all the male inhabitants of the occupied Polish town, Jews and non-Jews alike, were subjected to hours of abuse by German soldiers?
Did you know that north London's Barnet Gate was called Grendel's Gate by the Anglo-Saxons, after the monster slain in the epic poem Beowulf?
Did you know that some stone circles (example pictured) such as Stonehenge were perhaps great graveyards of honoured spiritual leaders in prehistoric religion?
Did you know that you can sit next to Mr. Bean in Leicester Square?
Did you know that "Alle Menschen höret auf dies neue Lied", a new offertory hymn with a simple melody, has been suggested for use in confirmation masses?
Did you know that Jerome Robbins's ballet Moves is performed in silence?
Did you know that Lindy Cameron, who leads the UK's National Cyber Security Centre, says that ransomware is the major cyber threat?
Did you know that after the Soviet Union lost to Spain in the 1964 European Nations' Cup Final, their manager Konstantin Beskov was dismissed upon his return to Moscow following a meeting with Nikita Khrushchev?
Did you know that during the 2021 food crisis in southern Madagascar, people have resorted to eating things such as raw red cactus fruits, wild leaves, locusts, ashes mixed with tamarind, and shoe leather?
Did you know that nurse and Jordanian senator Sawsan Al Majali followed in the footsteps of both her mother (who was a nurse) and her father (who was prime minister of Jordan)?
Did you know that the American Pre-Raphaelite painters had an obsession with depicting birds' nest still lifes?
Did you know that the Biellmann spin, a difficult variation of the upright spin in figure skating, was created by world champion skater Denise Biellmann?
Did you know that the Uganda Volunteer Reserve helped intern German nationals at the start of the First World War?
Did you know that the oil painting Marie Antoinette and Her Children is one of the most important treasures of France?
Did you know that 200,000 copies of the Mumbai Mirror were distributed on its inaugural print run in 2005, giving it the second-largest circulation in Mumbai?
Did you know that Italian singer Lia Origoni said she refused to be Joseph Goebbels's dinner guest, so he left her chair empty?
Did you know that Ivory Coast won the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations Final when their goalkeeper scored a penalty and Ghana's goalkeeper missed?
Did you know that New Zealand world-champion rower Emma Twigg came out of retirement to compete in her fourth Olympic Games today?
Did you know that one of Leila Velez's reasons for expanding her Brazilian beauty-salon company is to fight racism against black women and their natural afro-textured hair?
Did you know that ownership of the sail training ship Jadran is disputed between Croatia and Montenegro?
Did you know that the Pontiac Phantom concept car was designed by Bill Mitchell, who had previously designed the 1938 Cadillac Sixty Special and both the 1963 and 1968 Chevrolet Corvettes?
Did you know that the Trans-Canada Skyway made Hockey Night in Canada possible?
Did you know that the coat of arms of Jersey was allowed to be featured on its stamps during the occupation in World War II, with the Germans unaware that it was also the royal arms of England?
Did you know that when Ingrid Haubold recorded the role of Senta in Wagner's Der fliegende Holländer, reviewer Alan Blyth found "a certain raw edge" of her soprano voice apt for the role?
Did you know that "O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort", translated as "Eternity! tremendous Word", is a hymn by Johann Rist that served as the basis for the first work in Bach's chorale cantata cycle?
Did you know that Barakat Al-Harthi missed his layover and lost some of his sports equipment before competing for Oman at the 2016 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that Duffy Lewis was the only major league player to pinch hit for Babe Ruth?
Did you know that Marita Camacho Quirós, who was First Lady of Costa Rica (1962–1966), is the oldest former first lady in the world and a supercentenarian?
Did you know that Robert Sacchi, who played many Humphrey Bogart roles due to their physical resemblance, "never thought Bogie was too terrific-looking" and "wanted to look like Gregory Peck" instead?
Did you know that during Sam Brownback's 2008 presidential campaign, he mentioned the yellow brick road in both the speech that began and the speech that ended his candidacy?
Did you know that in 1593, French amateur mathematician François Viète found the first formula in European mathematics to represent an infinite process, a product of square roots that he used to compute π?
Did you know that in Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers, Jude Ellison Doyle proposes that Frankenstein is about maternal fear that the author Mary Shelley experienced after family tragedies?
Did you know that income inequality in China is considered to be a major cause of mass incidents?
Did you know that shooter Tehani Egodawela was the third person selected from Sri Lanka to compete in the 2020 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that the cadet scandal of 1942 resulted in a widespread persecution of gay men in Buenos Aires?
Did you know that when R. Bintoro was put in command of the Papua Military Region, he wrote the lyrics for the military region's march?
Did you know that when the Leeds Tiger went on display in Leeds in 1863 it was described as a "work of art quite as much as an object for scientific observation"?
Did you know that Auguste Rodin's erotic sculpture The Kiss  was removed from Lewes Town Hall during the First World War after a local headmistress complained?
Did you know that English cricketer Josh de Caires, the son of former England captain Michael Atherton, was given his mother's maiden name at birth, and he does not know why?
Did you know that Jack Mitchell and his heiress wife Lolita transformed El Mirador into "one of the most fabulous estates in Montecito", complete with a dairy, a zoo, and a floating tea pavilion on a lake?
Did you know that Wendy Solling was a nun, a sculptor and one of the first women ordained in the Anglican Church of Australia?
Did you know that at the 2016 Summer Olympics, French sailor Hélène Defrance won a medal by a single point?
Did you know that bookseller T. S. Shanbhag started Bangalore's landmark Premier Bookstore on the site of a burned-down clothing store in 1971?
Did you know that for polygons with integer coordinates, the area can be computed from the numbers of integer points inside and on the boundary of the polygon?
Did you know that in developing the Dictionary of Women Worldwide, editors Anne Commire and Deborah Klezmer found other biographical dictionaries often devoted only five percent of their text to women?
Did you know that outside of rowing, New Zealand double-Olympian Tom Murray (artwork shown) is known for his devotion to Star Wars?
Did you know that the Connecticut National Guard, Frank Sinatra, and a full-sized Cape Cod house have all been seen at the New Haven Armory?
Did you know that the banker J. S. Moll was selected for the British Lions despite never having played for the England national rugby team?
Did you know that the first Olympic volleyball match in more than 16 years for Kenya's Malkia Strikers is being played today in Tokyo against Japan?
Did you know that Brigadier Archie Miller-Bakewell registered the death of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh?
Did you know that Larisa Iordache is the second-most decorated gymnast in the history of the European Women's Artistic Gymnastics Championships with sixteen medals?
Did you know that Michael McIntyre, who was an Olympic sailing champion in 1988, was awarded an MBE for services to yachting the following year?
Did you know that Nele Hertling, working for the Academy of Arts, Berlin, brought innovative culture to the city including the Tanz im August festival?
Did you know that Tsadkan Gebretensae, one of the top commanders of Tigray forces in the conflict against the Ethiopian government, previously served as chief of staff of the Ethiopian National Defense Force?
Did you know that ballerina Julie Diana began writing for dance publications when she was pregnant?
Did you know that the 1932 sale of the Kibi Daijin Nittō Emaki (detail pictured), a Japanese painted handscroll, to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, provoked outrage in Japan?
Did you know that the Sanford station was often confused with the Stamford station?
Did you know that the fire urchin plays host to two species of shrimp as well as the zebra crab, Zebrida adamsii?
Did you know that the mycoparasitic fungus Ampelomyces quisqualis attacks powdery mildew on crops such as cucumbers?
Did you know that American website ChickClick was owned by the same company who owned IGN?
Did you know that Drahşan Arda is the world's first female association football referee confirmed by FIFA?
Did you know that Jo Inkpin was Australia's first openly transgender Anglican priest?
Did you know that Karel van het Reve, author of Twee minuten stilte (1959), inserted a fake letter to the publisher in the first edition which was real enough for later book owners to return the letter to the author?
Did you know that Monturaqui crater in Chile is threatened by human action?
Did you know that Raychell's previous stage name Lay was meant to represent her belief that singing while lying down would heal listeners?
Did you know that Siebold's account of the Ezo chipmunk is credited by Oldfield Thomas as being the first description of a mammal from Japan?
Did you know that Turkish champion Esra Yıldız, who was named the "Most Hyped Boxer", has been selected to represent Turkey at the 2020 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that operatic soprano Natalia Shpiller was beloved by Joseph Stalin, and he frequently had her perform at the Moscow Kremlin to impress visiting dignitaries?
Did you know that playing Aerodrums will not annoy the neighbours?
Did you know that the WHO Blue Books give expert consensus opinion on cancers?
Did you know that the developer of The Stillness of the Wind was inspired to make the video game after fantasizing with his girlfriend about raising goats instead of living in London?
Did you know that the foundation stone for the Limete Tower in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was laid by Julius Nyerere, then President of Tanzania?
Did you know that Dialta Alliata di Montereale has fought a 25-year court battle for a half-share of Arthur Acton's $1 billion art collection after DNA testing confirmed that she is his granddaughter?
Did you know that Ina Caro, the wife of The Power Broker and The Years of Lyndon Johnson author Robert Caro, is the sole research assistant for his books?
Did you know that Matana Roberts explores "her identity as an African American woman" on the album Coin Coin Chapter Four: Memphis?
Did you know that New Zealand rower Hannah Osborne unexpectedly displaced the current double world champion in double scull, Olivia Loe, to win a silver medal at the ongoing Olympic Games?
Did you know that Peter Plympton Smith's victory in 1988 was the last time a member of the Republican Party was elected to the United States House of Representatives from Vermont?
Did you know that The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois, a new novel by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, mixes narrative with "love songs" that illuminate the lives of the protagonist's African, Creek, and Scottish ancestors?
Did you know that West Germany's Gerd Müller scored six goals in two games against the Soviet Union, including two in the UEFA Euro 1972 Final?
Did you know that by naming her album Planet Her, Doja Cat was "just trying to be cute" and was not promoting a feminist agenda nor a planet exclusively for women?
Did you know that the salt mounds on the former badge of the Turks and Caicos Islands were mistakenly turned into igloos?
Did you know that the worm Bispira volutacornis is sometimes parasitised by a copepod, several of which may move around among the feathery plumes?
Did you know that Angus McIntosh was a Scottish historical linguist who used his skills to decipher German encryptions at Bletchley Park?
Did you know that Antonín Panenka's namesake penalty kick secured victory for Czechoslovakia in the UEFA Euro 1976 Final?
Did you know that Cimoliopterus was among the first pterosaurs to be depicted as models in Crystal Palace Park in the 1850s?
Did you know that Gun Bergman produced the Swedish translation of Nobel laureate Ivo Andrić's best-known work, The Bridge on the Drina?
Did you know that Jo Beall, a British scholar of development economics, was once imprisoned for anti-apartheid activism?
Did you know that Lucy Smith Millikin was one of the first Latter Day Saints to participate in baptism for the dead?
Did you know that Poland was one of the places in Europe least affected by the Black Death?
Did you know that Robert Randal delivered a petition to British officials that requested civil rights for aliens living in Upper Canada?
Did you know that during the early development of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2, the studio behind the game was suddenly dissolved?
Did you know that the Hebbel-Theater, designed by Oskar Kaufmann and opened in 1908, was the only theatre in Berlin operational in 1945?
Did you know that the execution of two wives of Sihayo kaXongo for adultery was one of the causes of the 1879 Anglo-Zulu War?
Did you know that the gourd mouth organ is said to have been created in the third millennium B.C. as a likeness of the Phoenix?
Did you know that the village of Ayazini in Turkey, a historic place settled by Phrygians, Ancient Romans, Byzantines and Seljuks, features many dwellings, churches and tomb chambers in rock-cut architecture?
Did you know that two hours before Canadian boxer Mandy Bujold competed in a 2016 Summer Olympics fight, she had been in hospital with gastroenteritis?
Did you know that Aya Mpali, a flagbearer for Gabon at the 2020 Summer Olympics, was motivated to take up swimming competitively after her parents drowned?
Did you know that Gurl.com's initial content used drawings of women instead of photos to avoid concerns about body image?
Did you know that Lee Erwin spent six years scoring every one of Buster Keaton's silent features?
Did you know that Mark Hamill  was cast as the villain in Brigsby Bear, a role the director described as a depraved Jim Henson, "teaching weird lessons about the world in a loving way"?
Did you know that Mark Stanforth won the 1978 Chicago Marathon despite running the last few miles with blisters?
Did you know that Minnie Lindsay Carpenter wrote more than twelve books about the history of The Salvation Army?
Did you know that Olympic Turkish volleyballer Tuğba Şenoğlu was once named "Best Outside Spiker"?
Did you know that after his father was murdered, Samuel Street Jr. lived with his uncle, Samuel Street, and they were both businessmen in the Niagara region?
Did you know that glaciers on Mount Ararat are retreating much faster than most glaciers due to climate change in Turkey?
Did you know that the HOLO card is used to pay fares on TheBus, and will also be used for Honolulu's rail transit system?
Did you know that Climate TRACE will be Tracking Real-Time Atmospheric Carbon Emissions?
Did you know that Lili Marberg, an actress at the Burgtheater in Vienna from 1911 to 1950, was painted performing Wilde's Salome in Munich (painting pictured)?
Did you know that Victor Hugo Tinoco was a deputy in the National Assembly of Nicaragua, first for the Sandinista National Liberation Front, then for the opposition Sandinista Renovation Movement?
Did you know that after Euclid proved that every Mersenne prime leads to an even perfect number, it took more than 2000 years before Leonhard Euler proved that every even perfect number comes from a Mersenne prime?
Did you know that judge Jeremiah T. Mahoney qualified for the 1906 and 1908 Summer Olympics, but did not attend either, and pushed the United States to boycott the 1936 Summer Olympics in protest of Nazi Germany?
Did you know that the book Deal With It! was written by the creators of Gurl.com?
Did you know that the fin de siècle photographer James Reuel Smith rode his bike all over Manhattan and the Bronx to photograph the natural springs and wells of New York City before they disappeared?
Did you know that the name of the band Zuriaake is a metaphor for the Chinese poet Qu Yuan, who drowned himself due to his hatred of the government?
Did you know that Alvin Bragg has overseen lawsuits against the Donald J. Trump Foundation, Harvey Weinstein, and The Weinstein Company, and represented the families of Eric Garner and Ramarley Graham?
Did you know that Yasunori Oshima served as the hitting coach for the Japan national baseball team that won the inaugural World Baseball Classic in 2006?
Did you know that a version of the Albert helmet proposed by Prince Albert in 1842 is still worn by the British Army's Household Cavalry (soldiers pictured)?
Did you know that according to Mbuti tradition, eating a great blue turaco (living example pictured) while pregnant may result in a difficult delivery or birth deformity?
Did you know that after drinking five glasses of "purging" mineral water from the Physic Well on Barnet Common, Samuel Pepys had to break his journey back to London seven or eight times to relieve himself?
Did you know that although "Chi Mat Ba Ram", the title of the song by Brave Girls, translates to "the swish of a skirt" in Korean, a term that is often used negatively, the song is about the fierceness in women?
Did you know that architect Van Dorn Hooker, who served in the USAAF, was a cartoonist for Army news publications, and painted aircraft nose art?
Did you know that during the War of the Lombards, fighting was interrupted so that the corpse of the besieged Queen Alice could be handed over to her husband, who had never seen her alive?
Did you know that the animated film The Exigency took thirteen years to make?
Did you know that Aequanimitas explains "what makes a good doctor"?
Did you know that Indonesian comedian Yusran Effendi was personally awarded a place on an Islamic pilgrimage trip by president Suharto?
Did you know that Jerome Robbins choreographed the ballet Andantino to music by Tchaikovsky, despite his lack of interest, because "you don't necessarily have to enjoy doing something for it to be good"?
Did you know that Marthe Yankurije, who dropped out of school during her fourth year of secondary school, competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that William Powell, the author of The Anarchist Cookbook, founded the nonprofit Next Frontier: Inclusion in atonement for writing the book?
Did you know that YouTuber Ghib Ojisan visited Yishun, a Singaporean town, expecting danger after reading of cats being slaughtered but instead found it "home to nice people and cute cats"?
Did you know that actor Joseph Holland was accidentally stabbed and seriously wounded by Orson Welles, wielding a steel knife, during a 1937 Broadway production of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar?
Did you know that despite an attempted "extermination" of homosexuals in the 1960s and 1970s, the LGBT community in Argentina (parade pictured) is now the most accepted in Latin America?
Did you know that despite being proclaimed Queen of Rhodesia, Elizabeth II refused to recognise the title?
Did you know that perch became a major product of the Swiss fishing industry (fishing boat pictured) in the mid–20th century after a fisherman found that an industrial potato peeler made two perfect filets from each fish?
Did you know that students at Pomona College are traditionally thrown into a fountain on their birthday?
Did you know that the album series Everywhere at the End of Time (2016–2019) by the Caretaker uses ballroom records to depict the stages of Alzheimer's disease?
Did you know that Franz Harnoncourt became CEO of the Kastner & Öhler department store in Graz after working for Karstadt and Marks & Spencer, and beginning as sales person and storage worker?
Did you know that George Webster painted two British slave-ships taking onboard enslaved people from Fort Christiansborg?
Did you know that Hayat Bakshi Begum ruled the Golconda Sultanate as regent for her son Abdullah Qutb Shah?
Did you know that John Matthews's pension was suspended because he was accused of leading a call for a theatre performance to play "Yankee Doodle" and "Hail, Columbia"?
Did you know that Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, caused outrage in 1784 when he ordered that people be buried naked in reusable coffins (example pictured) from which the body fell into the grave via a trapdoor?
Did you know that Spain's win in the UEFA Euro 2008 Final was the first of three successive major tournament victories?
Did you know that Vikram Misri was the Indian ambassador to China during the 2020–2021 China–India skirmishes?
Did you know that at George Floyd's funeral, a montage mistakenly included a photograph of the still-living former American football player George Floyd?
Did you know that the Cairo pentagonal tiling was a favorite pattern of M. C. Escher?
Did you know that Eshmunazar I, the Phoenician king of Sidon, participated in the Neo-Babylonian campaigns against Egypt, where he seized stone sarcophagi belonging to members of the Egyptian elite?
Did you know that PopCap Games aided in publishing Insaniquarium after the game became a finalist for the Independent Games Festival?
Did you know that Regine Velasquez, a Filipino singer and actress, was the first Asian artist to stage a solo concert at the Carnegie Hall in New York City?
Did you know that an inquiry from an engineering student led to the repair of a structural flaw at New York City's Citicorp Center?
Did you know that artist Roy Beddington illustrated three books with Irish author Stephen Gwynn and competed in the painting event at the 1948 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that bluegrass musician Carroll Best is credited for developing a melodic three-finger banjo style that influenced Tony Trischka and Béla Fleck?
Did you know that the Haft Gumbaz complex contains tombs (examples pictured) of the Bahmani dynasty?
Did you know that the medieval Irish book shrine known as the Soiscél Molaisse was built in three phases, from the 8th to the 14th or 15th centuries?
Did you know that when a tree is a star, connecting its leaves in a cycle makes a wheel?