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Did you know that the Antonov An-70 was the first aircraft to take flight powered only by propfans?
Did you know that Francis Poulenc composed the motets for male voices Quatre petites prières de saint François d'Assise on the request of a relative who was a Franciscan friar?
Did you know that Sergeant Stanley McDougall was awarded the Victoria Cross for single-handedly killing many Germans with a Lewis gun during the First Battle of Dernancourt?
Did you know that when breeding, the polychaete worm Syllis prolifera produces a detachable "stolon" which joins other stolons to swarm in the water column?
Did you know that Catie Munnings, winner of the 2016 FIA European Rally Championship Ladies' Trophy, was the first British driver to win a European rally title in 49 years?
Did you know that Onesimus Ustonson (invoice pictured) supplied fishing tackle to the naturalist Joseph Banks for the second voyage of James Cook?
Did you know that during the Dubin Inquiry, lead counsel Robert P. Armstrong questioned Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson about his anabolic steroid use?
Did you know that instead of giving the keys to the city to visiting dignitaries, the mayor of Calgary "white hats" them?
Did you know that officers from the Albuquerque Police Department lied to the Albuquerque Journal when providing details regarding the death of Victoria Martens?
Did you know that the Ethiopian hare is endemic to Africa, and is found in the Afromontane Biozone of Ethiopia and the borders of the Sudanian Savanna Biozone?
Did you know that the bazaar fly is a vector for trachoma, the leading global cause of preventable blindness?
Did you know that "Es spricht der Unweisen Mund wohl" ("The mouth of fools doth God confess") by Martin Luther was one of eight hymns in the first Lutheran hymnal?
Did you know that Dr. William Carpentier, the flight surgeon for Apollo 11 and Apollo 13, was registered on the Air Force One manifest as WFP – "World Famous Physician"?
Did you know that the communion song "Gott sei gelobet und gebenedeiet" ("God be praised and blessed"), which Martin Luther derived from an older model, entered Catholic hymnals in the 20th century?
Did you know that the whaleback SS Clifton disappeared for over 90 years?
Did you know that three stanzas of the penitential hymn "Ach lieben Christen seid getrost" ("Ah dear Christians, be comforted") by Johannes Gigas were retained unchanged for Bach's chorale cantata?
Did you know that when the citizens of Hanover accepted the Reformation in 1533, the 200-year-old Kreuzkirche became Lutheran?
Did you know that Baloke, a small village in Punjab, is the birthplace of Satnam Singh Bhamara, the first Indian to be drafted into the National Basketball Association?
Did you know that Kia Steave-Dickerson, the design artist for four films by M. Night Shyamalan, originally considered a career in dry cleaning?
Did you know that the Rush song "Freewill" was the last studio recording to use the "shrieking high range" of Geddy Lee's vocals?
Did you know that the ballot laws introduced the secret ballot (voting pictured) to all popular assemblies in the Roman Republic?
Did you know that Ines Rau is the first transgender woman to be a Playboy Playmate?
Did you know that Nico Rosberg was presented with the Laureus World Sports Award for Breakthrough of the Year two months after he retired from Formula One?
Did you know that Rudyerd Boulton and his wife, Laura, made the first-ever recordings of the calls of African tropical birds?
Did you know that a political scandal erupted in 2014 after operatives of the Liberian National Security Agency illegally seized US$247,500 from a group of South Korean businessmen in a hotel room in Monrovia?
Did you know that larvae of the vermilion sea star preferentially settle among the tubes of a tube-dwelling worm?
Did you know that the Immigration Museum of the State of São Paulo is located in the Immigrant Inn, which received more than 2.5 million immigrants to Brazil between 1887 and 1978?
Did you know that the lyrics of "Meinen Jesum laß ich nicht" ("I do not let go of my Jesus") are based on memorial sermons for Elector Johann Georg of Saxony, who reflected the ideas on his deathbed?
Did you know that "Glauben können wie du" by Helmut Schlegel is addressed to Mary, and relates to her exemplary faith, hope and love?
Did you know that Barbara Everitt Bryant was the first woman to direct the United States Census Bureau?
Did you know that Cambridge University's new North West Cambridge Development has a school building shaped like a Polo mint?
Did you know that Grape-kun, a Humboldt penguin, "fell in love" with a cutout of an anime character?
Did you know that the Northwest Hills neighborhood of Austin, Texas, includes a 40-acre complex founded by the chief executive officer of Dell, housing Jewish community centers, synagogues, and schools?
Did you know that the crevice brittle star is sometimes involved in mass spawning events?
Did you know that Grupo Garza Ponce, now one of the largest construction firms in Mexico, had to change its business model every month during the 1982 debt crisis?
Did you know that Kimmie Taylor of the Kurdish YPJ is the first British woman to travel to Syria to fight ISIS?
Did you know that Otto Riethmüller was director of the Confessing Church's youth organisations and created their logo, the Cross on the Globe, in 1935?
Did you know that a one-room schoolhouse established in St. Johns, Ontario, in 1804 is the oldest extant public school in the province, and is still sometimes used as a classroom?
Did you know that the 1973 Belmont Stakes was won by Secretariat, whose 31-length lead was the largest margin of victory in the history of the race?
Did you know that the actress Claire Goose began research for her character Tina Seabrook's rape storyline, before the writers scripted it?
Did you know that Countess Ämilie Juliane von Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt wrote 587 songs and hymns, including "Wer weiß, wie nahe mir mein Ende", used in her regular meditations towards a good death?
Did you know that Karl Hoblitzelle was the first movie theater owner in the United States to install air conditioning?
Did you know that Konomi Suzuki was inspired by the character Sheryl Nome from Macross Frontier to become a singer for anime?
Did you know that Patricia Moberly was once arrested for attacking Prime Minister Ted Heath's car with a placard?
Did you know that if the San Francisco Bay Area were a country, it would be ranked sixteenth in the world in terms of GDP?
Did you know that with Bosnia and Herzegovina–Holy See relations improving, Pope John Paul II came for a visit—and then police discovered 23 land mines planted in the area where he was to have been driven?
Did you know that Albert Sidney Johnston lies in repose atop his grave?
Did you know that governor Aleimma of Martaban was assassinated after he was lured to Donwun by a proposed marriage to Hnin U Yaing?
Did you know that several buildings in Seattle (example pictured) deliberately evoke traditional regional Native American architecture?
Did you know that some carnivorous fungi catch and consume soil nematodes?
Did you know that the Malaysian High Court sentenced 22-year-old Frenchwoman Béatrice Saubin to death by hanging for smuggling 534 grams (1.177 lb) of pure grade heroin?
Did you know that the Pemberton Memorial Operating Room, built in 1896, featured the first post-operative recovery rooms in Canada?
Did you know that two-thirds of the priests in the Diocese of Ruteng signed a 2015 letter of "no confidence" in Bishop Hubertus Leteng, and this year, 69 priests resigned in protest?
Did you know that Anthony Franchini, who served in the U.S. Army for both World Wars prior to obtaining U.S. citizenship, recorded more than 3,500 phonograph record sides with Frank Ferera in the 1920s?
Did you know that Homer Franklin Bassett, a librarian in Waterbury, Connecticut, described 125 new species of gall wasp?
Did you know that Monterey Bay Aquarium was the first public aquarium to exhibit a living kelp forest, which is nearly three stories high?
Did you know that Shadia Bseiso from Jordan is the first female Arab wrestler to sign with WWE?
Did you know that only 20.5 percent of registered Slovenians turned out to vote in a 2017 railway referendum?
Did you know that people have been poisoned after mistaking the deadly dapperling for the grey knight?
Did you know that the UK Holocaust Memorial, to be built in London's Victoria Tower Gardens, will stand alongside other memorials that raise awareness of injustice?
Did you know that the Women's Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools worked to end school segregation in Little Rock, Arkansas?
Did you know that Eel City is a popular residence for cutthroat eels?
Did you know that Frederica Wilson suggested that President Donald Trump's response to the deaths of four American soldiers in the Tongo Tongo ambush in Niger might become his Benghazi incident?
Did you know that during his world tour in 1878, Ulysses S. Grant became the first U.S. President to visit Jerusalem?
Did you know that facing the rise of Nazi ideology, Otto Riethmüller compiled the song "Sonne der Gerechtigkeit" for young people from hymns by three authors of two earlier centuries?
Did you know that "Crazy Sally", an 18th-century bonesetter, successfully treated dislocated shoulders and knees in a London coffee house despite having no medical training?
Did you know that "Jerusalem, du hochgebaute Stadt", a song of New Jerusalem, was written by Johann Matthäus Meyfart, rector of the Casimirianum, for an academic sermon?
Did you know that Anna Marguerite McCann, the first female American underwater archaeologist, published the earliest research on deep-sea shipwrecks?
Did you know that Minori Suzuki beat 8,000 others who auditioned for the role of Freyja Wion in the anime series Macross Delta?
Did you know that the J. K. Rowling's Wizarding World franchise was the "most-snubbed franchise" of all time at the Academy Awards, with 12 nominations and zero wins until its 2017 success?
Did you know that the orange cup coral obtains part of its nutritional needs from carbon compounds dissolved in sea water?
Did you know that St. Stefanus, Ghent, was the venue of a concert dedicated to the Martin Luther Year, featuring Max Reger's setting of Psalm 100?
Did you know that Waylon Jennings' 1970s song "Bob Wills Is Still the King" may have been less a tribute to Bob Wills than a friendly jibe at Willie Nelson?
Did you know that after murdering his mistress and her daughter in Ughill Hall, Sheffield, Ian Wood absconded to France and threatened to jump off Amiens Cathedral?
Did you know that after playing with Lego bricks as a child, Roma Agrawal designed both the tip and bottom of The Shard?
Did you know that the extinct ant Odontomachus pseudobauri was bought from an amber dealer in Basel, Switzerland?
Did you know that "The Chosen Wan" is the first Singaporean to hold a world title in professional boxing?
Did you know that Southwestern University's Administration Building is noted for its architecture, even though it was designed by a physicist and not a professional architect?
Did you know that William Cotton Hobdy was the private physician to Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii for three years until her death 100 years ago today?
Did you know that following Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day celebrations in Quebec City in 1996, riots in Place D'Youville caused around CAD$1 million in damages to shops and to the National Assembly of Quebec?
Did you know that the Rollers won the 2017 Asia-Oceania Wheelchair Basketball Championships, while the Gliders came in second?
Did you know that the sexagesimal approximation to the square root of 2 used by Babylonian tablet YBC 7289 appeared again much later in Ptolemy's Almagest?
Did you know that white plague, a disease affecting corals, may be two or more diseases with similar symptoms?
Did you know that Luca Guadagnino, who directed the romantic drama film Call Me by Your Name, was first hired as a location consultant for the film?
Did you know that in its history, the Palau del Parlament de Catalunya has been an arsenal, a barracks, a royal palace, an art museum, and the seat of the Parliament of Catalonia?
Did you know that it took authorities at Kansas City International Airport eight months to find Randy Potter's body in his parked truck, despite recording all license plate numbers nightly?
Did you know that the German Army used pickelhaube helmets made of boiled leather (example pictured) until halfway through World War I?
Did you know that the minister, writer, and publisher Christian Gottlob Barth is remembered on 12 November in the Lutheran calendar of saints?
Did you know that the orange-backed troupial often takes over the nest of a yellow-rumped cacique?
Did you know that Raju Patel teamed up with Walt Disney Studios to produce Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book?
Did you know that Sophia is the first robot to become a recognised citizen of a country?
Did you know that Super Mario World was designed to make the most out of the then-new Super Nintendo Entertainment System's features?
Did you know that in the pastoral poem "Ich will dich lieben, meine Stärke", by Angelus Silesius, the Soul promises to love Jesus until her death?
Did you know that the slipper sea cucumber is avoided by most predatory fish, crabs, and gastropod molluscs, but is preyed on by starfish, especially the leather star?
Did you know that Auguste Le Guennant, the director of the Gregorian Institute of Paris, had Duruflé's Quatre Motets sur des thèmes grégoriens dedicated to him?
Did you know that Rodinná pouta, the first original series broadcast by the Czech Prima televize, attracted over one million viewers per episode?
Did you know that before the Han–Liu War, many soldiers bought coffins as they were prepared to fight to the death?
Did you know that many coral diseases, such as black band disease, are named after their main symptom?
Did you know that Michèle Dix, managing director of the proposed £27 billion Crossrail 2 project, said she would like to run a tea room when she retires?
Did you know that Serena Williams has won the Laureus World Sports Award for Sportswoman of the Year three times, first in 2003 and most recently in 2016?
Did you know that Turkish socialist politician Fatma Hikmet İşmen used her first senate speech to accuse the Directorate of Religious Affairs of fueling discrimination against Alawites by Sunni Muslims?
Did you know that the Avenue Range Station massacre involved the shooting murders of nine Aboriginal Australians, including children and a baby, by white settlers?
Did you know that the Los Angeles Times–Washington Post News Service, in existence from 1962 to 2009, had some 650 clients?
Did you know that the county courthouses in New Jersey serve 21 counties in 15 vicinages?
Did you know that Ahlem Belhadj led a march of thousands of women against President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali during the 2011 Tunisian Revolution?
Did you know that Helene Bechstein helped to teach Hitler table manners?
Did you know that Judith Kingston pioneered the use of chemotherapy to treat retinoblastoma, an eye cancer found in children?
Did you know that Kaburakia excelsa, from the west coast of North America, is one of the largest flatworms in the world?
Did you know that Khufiyya (shrine complex pictured) is the oldest of the four Sufi orders established in China?
Did you know that at a time when masonry bridges were widely being replaced by metal truss bridges, the limestone West Sixth Street Bridge in Austin, Texas, replaced an older iron footbridge?
Did you know that the U.S. Army bombarded the village of Wrangell, Alaska, in 1869 to force the handover of the first man to be given the death penalty under U.S. rule?
Did you know that Microsoft helped fund a new overpass on Washington State Route 520 near its corporate headquarters in Redmond?
Did you know that after being injured, Annabelle Lindsay relinquished a scholarship to play college basketball in the United States but has since been awarded another to play wheelchair basketball?
Did you know that serial killer Tommy Lynn Sells confessed to the Dardeen family homicides that took place in Ina, Illinois, 30 years ago today, but he was never charged?
Did you know that the Mulungushi Rock of Authority, known as "the birthplace of Zambian independence", is located in the Central Province of Zambia?
Did you know that the character posings in the manga Phantom Blood were influenced by the sculpture Apollo and Daphne?
Did you know that Miroslava Breach, a Mexican investigative journalist known for exposing human rights violations and political corruption, was murdered in March 2017?
Did you know that a Hiroshima peace bell was donated to the Aegidienkirche, the ruin of a Gothic church that was left as a war memorial?
Did you know that the Colorado potato beetle has developed resistance to all major classes of insecticide?
Did you know that acting Arizona territorial governor Isaac T. Stoddard ordered the entire Arizona Territorial Militia sent to control striking miners?
Did you know that during her compulsory military service, Aya Koren played in an Israeli Air Force band with Yehuda Levi, her future co-star in Yossi & Jagger (2002)?
Did you know that the Naval Careers Service is the smallest of the four components of Her Majesty's Naval Service?
Did you know that the Transylvanian peasant revolt of 1437 broke out after the local bishop, having suspended the collection of the tithe for years, demanded the arrears in a single payment?
Did you know that Games and Culture criticised Sheva Alomar for being the video game equivalent of Pocahontas?
Did you know that Philip Caves' influence on attitudes at Glasgow's Children's Hospital in the 1970s was described as "whirlwind" as he operated on newborns previously considered unfit for surgery?
Did you know that one individual Campo troupial was found to have 126 fly larvae in its stomach?
Did you know that the Marshall Islands Nuclear Claims Tribunal ran out of funds in 2009?
Did you know that the Norwegian mountaineer Arne Næss Jr. died in a climbing accident four months before he could accept his Laureus Lifetime Achievement Award?
Did you know that Belhaven University is named after the mansion of Confederate veteran Jones S. Hamilton?
Did you know that Ethiopian women's rights activist Nahu Senay Girma's given name means "something good is happening now" and is traditionally a masculine name?
Did you know that Nomfunelo Mabedla successfully campaigned for the former flag of South Africa to be removed from the Castle of Good Hope?
Did you know that Rama Pilot and Vijaya Kumari Ganti, both became members of the 13th Lok Sabha after winning by-elections prompted by the death of their respective husbands?
Did you know that kiwi birds are parasitized by lice in the genus Apterygon and in the subgenus Rallicola (Aptericola)?
Did you know that trains on the 42nd Street Shuttle, the shortest route in the New York City Subway system, run a distance of 2,700 feet (820 m) in 90 seconds?
Did you know that Alton C. Parker was the first black police detective in Canada?
Did you know that Olive Scott was Britain's first dedicated paediatric cardiologist?
Did you know that for 70 years, Jerusalem customers have done their banking in an eclectic mansion on Jaffa Road?
Did you know that the 2016 article "United States Health Care Reform: Progress to Date and Next Steps" was the first article by a sitting U.S. president to be published in an academic journal?
Did you know that the SS Andaste – a hybrid whaleback Great Lakes cargo vessel – disappeared with all hands on Lake Michigan in 1929 and is still listed as unfound?
Did you know that the coral Acropora aculeus is particularly susceptible to coral bleaching and coral diseases and is listed as a vulnerable species?
Did you know that Colombian performer J Balvin won Artist of the Year for the second year in a row at the Premio Lo Nuestro 2017?
Did you know that Helicopter 66, which recovered astronauts from five different Apollo missions, has been called "one of the most famous, or at least most iconic, helicopters in history"?
Did you know that Lillian Bilocca threatened to picket British Prime Minister Harold Wilson's house if he did not impose stronger safety regulations on the fishing industry?
Did you know that opposition to tyranny in 16th-century Florence led Michelangelo to sculpt a heroic Brutus?
Did you know that the gall wasp Bassettia pallida induces oak trees to form galls, but has its own behavior altered by a chalcid wasp?
Did you know that the simple hymn "Nun laßt uns Gott dem Herren", used at the end of a meal, became a model for other songs of thanks?
Did you know that Japanese artist and poet Chō Kōran became a specialist in ink paintings in the "Four Gentlemen" genre?
Did you know that Moroccan women's rights activist Fedwa Misk named her online magazine Qandisha after a mythical jinn famous for her seductive powers?
Did you know that St. Leonhard in Frankfurt was remodeled from a Romanesque basilica to a late Gothic hall church?
Did you know that Bayview Park ferry wharf in Sydney, Australia, is situated on the historic landing site of 58 exiles from the Lower Canada Rebellion in 1840 (memorial pictured)?
Did you know that Bongo Joe Coleman was distinguished by a drum set fabricated from 55-gallon oil drums?
Did you know that the Wall of Grief is Russia's first monument ordered by presidential decree for victims killed during the political persecutions of Joseph Stalin?
Did you know that the gavaksha motif, common in Hindu temples, originated in replications of timber and thatch roofs?
Did you know that Bach's setting of the chorale "Es ist genug" ("It is enough"), with a melody beginning with an unusual whole-tone sequence, was quoted with variations in Alban Berg's Violin Concerto?
Did you know that Elizabeth M. Bryan's wedding was attended by 25 sets of twins?
Did you know that Northfield Allotments are claimed to be the oldest in London?
Did you know that Ourida Chouaki co-ordinated the 20 ans, barakat! ("20 years is enough!") campaign to reform the Algerian Family Code?
Did you know that Frank P. Gates designed 18 buildings on the campus of the University of Mississippi?
Did you know that PS Duchess of Fife received a battle honour for saving 1,633 Allied troops from the beaches of Dunkirk?
Did you know that mezzo-soprano Mechthild Georg, a voice teacher at the Musikhochschule Köln, performed music by C. P. E. Bach at the first Rheingau Musik Festival?
Did you know that on one day of his 1908 U.S. presidential campaign, William Jennings Bryan gave 30 speeches?
Did you know that the Pragmatic Sanction of 1712, allowing a Habsburg princess to become Queen of Croatia, is evoked in the Constitution of Croatia as a demonstration of Croatian millennial statehood?
Did you know that the United States supplied ballistic missiles (example pictured) to Great Britain under the Polaris Sales Agreement?
Did you know that Fatou Kiné Camara campaigns for wider access to abortions in Senegal, which has some of the most restrictive abortion laws in Africa?
Did you know that Hawaiian Independence Day, on November 28, commemorates the Anglo-Franco Proclamation recognizing the independence of the Kingdom of Hawaii?
Did you know that Mustafa Tuna, the mayor of Ankara from November 2017 to April 2019, was previously an academic in environmental technology?
Did you know that Myanmar produces some of the world's finest rubies?
Did you know that the fossil bumble bee Bombus trophonius was named after the Greek hero Trophonius?
Did you know that Liwonde National Park has a population of approximately 12,000 large mammals (elephants pictured) and more than 380 recorded bird species?
Did you know that Mishkat al-Mumin's advocacy for women's rights angered jihadist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi?
Did you know that Virginia Lieutenant Governor-elect Justin Fairfax once worked for Tipper Gore?
Did you know that the Turkestan red pika was at one time trapped for its fur?
Did you know that General Robert B. Abrams took "less than a second" to choose Laura J. Richardson as his deputy at United States Army Forces Command, despite never having worked with her?