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Did you know that many participants in the 2021 U.S. Capitol attack have been charged with obstructing an official proceeding, a crime that was created in response to the 2001 Enron accounting scandal?
Did you know that the 1929 Scottish Prayer Book is the Scottish Episcopal Church's current version of the Book of Common Prayer?
Did you know that the naturally formed arch of Marsden Rock collapsed in 1996 following a winter of storms?
Did you know that the white-headed fruit dove (Ptilinopus eugeniae) was named after Eugénie de Montijo, Empress of the French?
Did you know that there is disagreement about whether Lots of Mommies, in which a girl is raised by four mothers, should be considered to be an LGBTQ picture book?
Did you know that when her local cafe was in lockdown, Kate Baer wrote her bestselling poems in her van in the cafe parking lot?
Did you know that "Nobles of the Mystic Shrine" was first conducted with a band of around 6,200 members, the largest band John Philip Sousa ever conducted?
Did you know that Magawa, an African giant pouched rat (example pictured), sniffed out more than 70 land mines in Cambodia?
Did you know that a would-be buyer of San Angelo, Texas, radio station KBIL-FM had no knowledge of the transaction?
Did you know that as part of the ongoing assisted migration of forests in North America, the western larch was selected for reforestation projects nearly 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) north of its native range?
Did you know that development on the video game Expeditions: Rome was not affected by lockdowns from the COVID-19 pandemic because the developer was already split between Copenhagen and Istanbul?
Did you know that plasma physicist Donald Gurnett was part of 41 NASA missions, including Voyager 1, for which he designed the instrument that confirmed that the craft had crossed the heliopause in 2012?
Did you know that the McLaren MCL36, McLaren's 2022 Formula One car, has been in development since 2019 because of the pandemic's interruptions to the sport?
Did you know that the northern­most mosque in the Western Hemisphere was built in Winnipeg and shipped to Inuvik by barge and truck?
Did you know that when he saw the tapestry Les Dés Sont Jetés, Jørn Utzon exclaimed: "See that? Ours will be better!"?
Did you know that while many Premier League clubs were sponsored by alcohol companies, no such sponsors remained by the 2017–18 season?
Did you know that while seeking funding for The Clarion, Carrie Best was told by a donor: "You are just a small voice crying in the wilderness – but keep on crying"?
Did you know that Amory Street station and Babcock Street station replaced four predecessor stations?
Did you know that Bach's cantata Ich lasse dich nicht, du segnest mich denn was first performed 295 years ago today during a memorial service for Johann Christoph von Ponickau?
Did you know that Brandon Tanev said he saw a ghost while his head shot was being taken for the Pittsburgh Penguins?
Did you know that Mini ature is the largest frog in its genus?
Did you know that Monorail Inc.'s first computer, with its all-in-one design and flat-panel display, prefigured the iMac G4 by over five years?
Did you know that New York's Wieting Opera House burnt down and was rebuilt on three separate occasions by its proprietors, John Wieting and Mary Elizabeth Wieting?
Did you know that Rebeca Andrade is the first Brazilian female gymnast to win a medal at the Olympic Games?
Did you know that after a legal tussle, a mural commemorating Halim Dener was declared to be an artwork?
Did you know that during the Venezuelan general strike of 2002–2003, all but one of Venezuelan chocolatier María Fernanda Di Giacobbe's ten businesses went bankrupt?
Did you know that in the 1980s, Amanda Villepastour, now an ethnomusicologist at Cardiff University, was the keyboardist in Australian new wave band Eurogliders?
Did you know that observations of a car tire being repaired helped develop the epidural blood patch?
Did you know that Alexander Buchan, one of the artists on the first voyage of James Cook, was not mentioned in Cook's journals until he died after an epileptic fit?
Did you know that Isabel Leighton, an actress and writer, created a chair in hematology at Yale University in honor of her husband?
Did you know that in the jewellery of the Berber cultures, a silver amulet of a hand (example pictured) was believed by both Muslims and Jews to protect against the evil eye?
Did you know that the 1979 Book of Common Prayer contains a Star Wars prayer?
Did you know that the Neon Genesis Evangelion episode "Asuka Strikes!" includes references to the works of William Shakespeare?
Did you know that the Windows 95 game Banzai Bug, in which a player controls a bug that must escape from an exterminator's house and is told as a war story, was created as "The Flight-Sim with an Attitude"?
Did you know that the Zigzag House was designed for two people who supported the circus arts?
Did you know that the educational computer games Designasaurus and UMS 1  together gained their publisher more than $5 million during 18 months in the 1980s?
Did you know that Donald H. Elliott's efforts as the director of New York's planning department helped change the city's skyline?
Did you know that John Philip Sousa composed a march for the Boy Scouts of America (audio featured)?
Did you know that Phil Williams served in the Alabama state legislature at the same time as Phil Williams?
Did you know that Wallace's fruit dove has been described as being one of the most beautiful fruit doves?
Did you know that as municipal architect, Albert L. Harris led the design of all city buildings in Washington, D.C., from 1921 until his sudden death in 1934?
Did you know that on 20 January 2022, a mining explosives truck detonated in Apiate, Ghana, damaging around 500 buildings and killing 13 people?
Did you know that researchers used Google Earth to study mysterious Neolithic structures in the volcanic fields of Harrat Khaybar?
Did you know that the 1992 documentary film Daddy and the Muscle Academy, which focuses on the life of gay erotic artist Tom of Finland, has been broadcast on Finnish television multiple times?
Did you know that the Princess of Xiaohe, a 3,800-year-old mummy, was so well preserved that her eyelashes are still intact?
Did you know that when she was around eight years old, Maud Holland was married to Hugh Courtenay, with the approval of Pope Urban V?
Did you know that 250 Jews were imprisoned in a castle in Mladá Boleslav during the Holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia?
Did you know that George Balanchine choreographed the ballet La Valse to Ravel's music of the same name, which was rejected by an impresario and had been used in unsuccessful ballets before?
Did you know that Guy Thwaites and his colleagues hypothesized that the 1993 US hantavirus outbreak was similar to the mysterious medieval sweating sickness?
Did you know that John Hartford wrote "Gentle on My Mind" in about half an hour after seeing Doctor Zhivago?
Did you know that Lowe Kong Meng imported goods for Chinese miners during the Victorian gold rush and became one of the wealthiest men in Victoria?
Did you know that Pitcairn was named after the midshipman on HMS Swallow who first spotted the island?
Did you know that Progressive Corporation, an insurer, published 5,000 copies of a book credited to Dr. Rick, its fictional advertising campaign character?
Did you know that St. Sylvester is a Catholic church that combines the old village church of Schwabing, now part of Munich, and a 20th-century expansion under one roof?
Did you know that on the Jubilee coinage, Queen Victoria wore a crown so small that critics said it might fall off her head?
Did you know that osteogenesis imperfecta causes brittle bones and blue eyes?
Did you know that Baillieu Myer and his siblings were born in California because their father's prior divorce was not recognised under Australian law?
Did you know that Eberhard Zeidler envisaged Toronto Eaton Centre, which opened 45 years ago today, to be an "interior street" instead of simply a shopping mall?
Did you know that Holger Mühlbauer, who currently serves as the managing director of the German IT security association TeleTrusT, originally trained as a metalworker?
Did you know that Irish crucifixion plaques (example pictured) date from between the 9th and 12th centuries and may have once been attached to altars, book shrines, reliquaries or high crosses?
Did you know that New York City's Broadhurst, Plymouth, Shubert, and Booth Theatres were all designed with curved corners facing Broadway?
Did you know that a 1971 format change and firing of three Black disc jockeys contributed to the Mississippi radio station WSWG losing its broadcast license?
Did you know that despite being undersized and not highly recruited, Casey Tiumalu became the BYU Cougars' leader in both rushing and receiving, earning an honorable mention as an All-American?
Did you know that journalist Jack Sullivan was referred to as "the newsman's newsman"?
Did you know that the annual street painting festival in downtown Lake Worth Beach, Florida, attracts approximately 100,000 people?
Did you know that when James Cook came to Saint Helena in 1775, wheelbarrows were placed near his residence in response to a description in John Hawkesworth's An Account of the Voyages?
Did you know that while recording their tenth album, Lucifer on the Sofa, Spoon wanted to replicate their sound as a live band in studio form?
Did you know that Bray Hammond condemned the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Briscoe v. Bank of Kentucky, decided 185 years ago today, as "about as weak and timid as any the Court ever pronounced"?
Did you know that Francesco de' Medici enjoyed sitting inside the head of the Apennine Colossus and fishing through its eyes?
Did you know that Lihie Raz was the first Israeli to medal at the European Women's Artistic Gymnastics Championships?
Did you know that Professor of Engineering and the Arts Linda Doyle in 2021 became the first female provost (head) of Trinity College Dublin since its 1592 foundation by Elizabeth I?
Did you know that Stahls Automotive Collection includes cars built for films such as The Great Race, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, and The Reivers?
Did you know that a land dispute between Sir Edward Hull and Sir John Fastolf was only resolved after Hull's death in the 1453 Battle of Castillon?
Did you know that Barrau de Sescas, a Gascon knight, was the first person appointed by an English king to a position titled admiral?
Did you know that Saint Juliana Olshanskaya is said to have appeared to Archimandrite Peter Mogila to reproach him for the lack of respect paid to her relics?
Did you know that lawyer Francis B. Murdoch filed one-third of all freedom suits in St. Louis from 1840 to 1847, representing Dred Scott, Harriet Robinson Scott, Lucy A. Delaney and Polly Berry, among others?
Did you know that the Buddhist themes of David Bowie's 1967 composition "Karma Man" were compared to the Marvel Comics character Doctor Strange?
Did you know that the first Division I college sports championship won by a historically black university in any sport was vacated by the NCAA?
Did you know that Jean-Claude Corbeil was credited with having "de-anglicized Quebec" during his time as linguistic director of the province's language police?
Did you know that a reviewer once withheld top marks for play-by-mail game Midgard because of a negative experience with a gamemaster?
Did you know that an antiparallelogram (example pictured) is a crossed quadrilateral with two pairs of equal-length edges?
Did you know that the Umayyad prince Abd al-Malik ibn Umar ibn Marwan sealed the submission of western al-Andalus to the Emirate of Córdoba?
Did you know that the private members' club George has a bespoke menu for pet dogs?
Did you know that the special designation of the 623rd Field Artillery Regiment is being reviewed as it refers to Confederate general John Hunt Morgan?
Did you know that Finnish linguist Eeva Leinonen was one of four women to be inaugurated as heads of Irish universities in 2021, the others being Maggie Cusack, Linda Doyle and Kerstin Mey?
Did you know that George Balanchine choreographed his ballet Sonatine for New York City Ballet's Ravel Festival, a tribute to its composer in his centenary year?
Did you know that HALO will orbit the Moon?
Did you know that a Eurocopter Tiger (example pictured) from the French Army's 5th Combat Helicopter Regiment was involved in the 2019 Ménaka helicopter crash that killed 13 people?
Did you know that the Royal Navy only withdrew cutlasses from combat service in 1936?
Did you know that the population of Holmes County, Ohio, is approximately 50 percent Amish?
Did you know that David Bowie's 1967 composition "Let Me Sleep Beside You" was rejected as a single due to its suggestive title?
Did you know that Gheorghe Eminescu, nephew of Romania's national poet, spent time in communist prisons, including one which allocated him a 25-centimeters-wide (10-inch) sleeping area?
Did you know that Nicole Kidman is the first Australian to win the Academy Award for Best Actress?
Did you know that Skálmöld & Sinfóníuhljómsveit Íslands documents a symphony orchestra playing heavy metal music?
Did you know that following Soviet occupation in 1940, the Lithuanian Armed Forces were transformed into the Lithuanian People's Army, dropped all use of Lithuanian national symbols and faced repression?
Did you know that the name of Church Street station has been changed twice since 2019?
Did you know that Joe Felmet was sentenced to a chain gang for his participation in the Journey of Reconciliation, considered a precursor to the Freedom Riders, in 1947?
Did you know that after Chandigarh fell from being the second-cleanest city in India to the 66th, the residents voted out the incumbent party?
Did you know that although it was only formed in late 1939, the French 87th African Infantry Division inflicted 6,600 casualties upon the German forces and fought until the very end of the Battle of France?
Did you know that the woodland garden (example pictured), "colourfully planted with exotic shrubs and herbaceous plants, dominated English horticulture from 1910 to 1960"?
Did you know that Utah & Ether's five-year, 30-country graffiti-tagging tour ended when a single dad got Ether in a headlock?
Did you know that although Ovad Efrat was a commando in the Israel Defense Forces, his son Daniel Efrat was rejected after conscription?
Did you know that even though Robert W. Brady withdrew financial support of the nascent Boston College, he later became its president?
Did you know that seas are being rewilded with seagrass (example pictured)?
Did you know that the 1986 Magic Tour was the last tour Freddie Mercury performed with Queen?
Did you know that Baha al-Din Qaraqush built the Cairo Citadel on behalf of the sultan, Saladin?
Did you know that Balbuena metro station was flooded with sewage following a failure attributed to an unrelated fire?
Did you know that Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction From Africa and the African Diaspora was partly inspired by The 1619 Project?
Did you know that Nathan Safir, general manager of Texas radio station KCOR for 44 years, was credited with being a pioneer in Spanish-language broadcasting in the United States?
Did you know that Svalbard Minute by Minute, a 221-hour-long television broadcast, is credited with increasing tourism in Svalbard by 25 percent?
Did you know that after he was stripped of his Cornish landholdings, Henry Fitzcount joined the Fifth Crusade, during which he died?
Did you know that squatters in Hamburg briefly occupied the former Erotic Art Museum?
Did you know that "Silly Boy Blue" reflected David Bowie's fascination with Tibetan Buddhism?
Did you know that Alexander Bannwart got into a fistfight with the pro-war senator Henry Cabot Lodge over America's proposed entry into World War I?
Did you know that Anita Kiki Gbeho is still working for the United Nations in Somalia, even though her boss was lucky to escape assassination?
Did you know that Frank Frazetta's Egyptian Queen is the most expensive work of comic art ever sold at auction?
Did you know that to promote the Paramount Hotel, its operator mailed out apples?
Did you know that Henry E. Sigerist felt "depressed" after reading A History of Science, Technology, and Philosophy in the 16th and 17th Centuries?
Did you know that in Pacific States Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Oregon, decided 110 years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the initiative process?
Did you know that the pie house gained media attention from a viral TikTok that received more than one million views?
Did you know that Alexandra Tegleva, a nursemaid to Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia, helped uncover a woman who impersonated Anastasia after the royal family were executed?
Did you know that Indian Army havildar Naren Chandra Das escorted the 14th Dalai Lama to safety in India after the monk made a 13-day trek across the Himalayas dressed as a soldier to evade Chinese troops?
Did you know that according to Roald Dahl, the measles vaccine is probably far safer than eating chocolate?
Did you know that in 1850, about a quarter of the post offices of the Swiss Post were located in taverns?
Did you know that the President's House never housed a president?
Did you know that Alexander Hamilton, a future United States Founding Father, attended St. John's Episcopal Church in his youth?
Did you know that David Bowie's "I Dig Everything" was one of his first songs to be covered by another artist?
Did you know that George Washington was dedicated on the anniversary of his saying farewell to the troops?
Did you know that Potamophylax coronavirus's range has been described as a battlefield between scientists and hydropower plant management?
Did you know that at WSTA, the first radio station in the U.S. Virgin Islands, goats and chickens sometimes wandered in during broadcasts?
Did you know that the only person killed by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami on the island of Socotra was a seven-year-old in Qulensya?
Did you know that Iceland's time zone might have a negative health effect on citizens?
Did you know that freestyle skier Kirsty Muir was the youngest Team GB competitor at the 2022 Winter Olympics?
Did you know that of the more than 1,000 workers who participated in the 18-month long 1985–1987 Watsonville Cannery strike, none of them crossed the picket line?
Did you know that the Metro Orange Line and 80 percent of express buses in downtown Minneapolis use the Marq2 transit corridor?
Did you know that the persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany is considered to be the most severe persecution of LGBT people in history?
Did you know that American root doctor Valerie Boles  was the inspiration for the character Minerva in the book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil and its film adaptation?
Did you know that LD has been called the "godfather of UK drill"?
Did you know that a wolf and lion cub were raised together since they were five weeks old to film The Wolf and the Lion?
Did you know that following its victory over Bologna in the 1229 battle of San Cesario, the city of Modena returned the enemy's captured carroccio to prevent an escalation of the conflict?
Did you know that in their first operation, Japan's Special Security Readiness Team participated in humanitarian activities after the 2021 Atami landslide?
Did you know that ski jumper Joséphine Pagnier, who competed at the 2022 Winter Olympics, won two medals at the Winter Youth Olympics two years ago?
Did you know that the 1980 bibliography The Old French Tristan Poems was praised for indexing the fragments of Tristan, a 12th-century poem?
Did you know that Demi Lovato started an Internet feud with a frozen yogurt shop—and lost?
Did you know that Sukanya Ramgopal is the first woman Ghatam player in Carnatic music?
Did you know that in 1749, James Davis became the first printer to set up shop in the colony of North Carolina?
Did you know that the facade of geometric shapes on the Milam Residence also provides shade to the interior?
Did you know that the genus Xochiquetzallia was named after the Aztec goddess of flowers?
Did you know that Charles William Warner, the attorney general of Trinidad between 1845 and 1870, was one of the most powerful men in the colony and often considered "the real governor"?
Did you know that El Capitan, an operetta composed by John Philip Sousa, was later described as likely to become "the most enduring American comic opera of the nineteenth century"?
Did you know that Jennifer Webster-Cyriaque assisted in the founding of Malawi's first dental school in 2019?
Did you know that after Syracuse's Bastable Theatre burnt down in 1923, the city's tallest building was built in its place?
Did you know that the St. Mary and St. John of Nepomuk Monument in Timișoara commemorates the Great Plague of 1738, which killed around 1,000 of the city's 6,000 inhabitants?
Did you know that Bianca Baptiste was Tottenham Hotspur's top goal scorer during their promotion—and then they dropped her from the team?
Did you know that approximately 85 percent of Manhattan was recreated for the 2008 video game The Incredible Hulk?
Did you know that the captain of the warship CSS Baltic stated that she was "about as fit to go into action as a mud scow"?
Did you know that the ice mound at the center of the crater Louth is the warmest permanent body of water on the Martian surface?
Did you know that Guajajara environmental activist and land defender Paulo Paulino Guajajara, who worked to stop the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest, was killed by a group of illegal loggers?
Did you know that Patsy Cline's cover of Willie Nelson's "Crazy" was the all-time most played song in jukeboxes in the United States, 35 years after its release?
Did you know that RNA, DNA, and vitamins B1 and B12 are all made from AIR?
Did you know that although it is a bird of prey, the white-fronted falconet is only 14 to 17 cm (5.5 to 6.7 in) long and mainly feeds on insects?
Did you know that members of The Links, an elite organization of upper-class Black women, include Betty Shabazz, Marian Wright Edelman, and Kamala Harris?
Did you know that when John Emmitt was traveling to the Oregon Territory in 1852 along the Oregon Trail, two of his three children died of cholera and were buried along the route?
Did you know that Santa Maria, California, radio station KSBQ is named for the style of barbecue that originated in that city?
Did you know that a Cossack detachment led by Imperial Russian Lazar Bicherakhov joined forces with British general Lionel Dunsterville's expeditionary corps to prevent Ottoman advance?
Did you know that after the 1871 German victory parade in Paris 151 years ago today, the French symbolically scrubbed the streets on which the Germans had marched?
Did you know that the College of William & Mary's  Lake Matoaka is named for Pocahontas?
Did you know that the concept of hyperspace, primarily known through its use in science fiction, originated from and is still occasionally used in scholarly works?
Did you know that Plaza Hotel Curaçao, the tallest building in Curaçao, is falling apart?
Did you know that Squatina mapama was named after Spain's Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Food and Environment?
Did you know that during the production of the 1935 film Together We Live, carpenters tried to copy the musical saw brought in by actress Wera Engels?
Did you know that the sea slug Elysia timida (example pictured) absorbs its colouration from its algae-based diet?
Did you know that to repel migrants, the European Union has paid hundreds of millions of euros to Libyan partners known to be involved in human trafficking, slavery, and torture?
Did you know that when US Army lieutenant general Carl H. Jark retired in 1964, Congressman Henry B. González of Texas honored him by reading Jark's entire career history into the Congressional Record?
Did you know that Doja Cat's "Streets" peaked at number 16 on the Billboard Hot 100 because of a viral mashup on TikTok that combined it with a 1959 song by Paul Anka?
Did you know that Kobe and Vanessa Bryant were founding donors of the National Museum of African American History and Culture?