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Did you know that when rag sorter Mary Fitzpatrick was tried for murder, the jury included six aristocrats and the judge was Sir Henry Hawkins of the High Court, known as "Hanging Hawkins"?
Did you know that African-American suffragist Maud E. Craig Sampson Williams was denied membership in the National American Woman Suffrage Association?
Did you know that Catherine Lutz was the first female general in the Mississippi National Guard?
Did you know that Hurricane Dorian was the strongest hurricane on record to strike the Bahamas?
Did you know that Janice Kavander once sang both the U.S. and Canadian national anthems at a hockey game – in Sweden?
Did you know that Sir Donald Douglas was President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, and his son Sir Neil Douglas was President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh?
Did you know that William Smith was prompted to write The Annals of University College after the Court of King's Bench proclaimed the wrong person to be the founder of University College, Oxford?
Did you know that according to Johannes Latuharhary, the education system of the Dutch East Indies in Ambon, Maluku, was designed to create "scribes and clerks, soldiers and sailors"?
Did you know that although Schreber's yellow bat is believed to be an insectivore, the related white-bellied yellow bat has been observed to eat dead bats in captivity?
Did you know that the Shore Theater, originally designed to satiate "the great need in Coney Island for an all-year amusement", is being redeveloped into Coney Island's first new hotel in 50 years?
Did you know that the death penalty in Missouri was restored in large part due to the lynching of Jay Lynch?
Did you know that Der Club, a weekly German-language talk show on Swiss television discussing current topics, was first aired in 1985 as Zischtigsclub ('Tuesday Club')?
Did you know that Ignacio Garriga is the first politician of African descent in the recently formed Spanish populist party Vox?
Did you know that Yale University pediatrician Grover Powers gave liver extract as a nutritional supplement to children with celiac disease?
Did you know that after U-2 spy aircraft piloted by Yeh Changti and Chang Liyi were shot down over China, the United States began prioritizing the development of drones at Area 51?
Did you know that nests of the black-tailed tree rat resemble those of the red-billed buffalo weaver?
Did you know that the Ninth German Inner Africa Research Expedition recorded 2,000 examples of rock art?
Did you know that in his novel A Time of Terror, Douglas Morey Ford imagined anarchists attempting to overthrow the British government?
Did you know that it has been claimed that the Crawley Edge Boatshed is the most photographed travel attraction in Perth, Western Australia, ahead of Elizabeth Quay, Cathedral Square, and the Swan Bells?
Did you know that jackfruits and chili peppers are among the many crops planted in Indonesian home gardens?
Did you know that the Ba Congress failed to prevent the Allies of World War II from breaking off contact with Draža Mihailović's Chetnik movement?
Did you know that when Yu Dunkang was denounced as a "rightist" and banished from academia for twenty years, he found solace in the early Chinese philosophy of Xuanxue?
Did you know that Kevin Harlan said his "first good move" in sports broadcasting was getting into radio at WGBP-FM?
Did you know that bassist Fred Thomas performed with James Brown for over thirty years?
Did you know that during the Battle of Bovey Heath, Royalist officers escaped by "throwing their stakes of money", which the enemy soldiers paused to collect?
Did you know that the African tropical tree Pouteria adolfi-friedericii was named after a German explorer?
Did you know that the gynaecologist Margaret Puxon, who started studying law to prevent boredom while on maternity leave, eventually became a barrister?
Did you know that when Bernard Schriever was promoted to general in 1961, General Curtis LeMay looked at his four stars and said that had it been up to him, Schriever would not be wearing them?
Did you know that Filipino-born scientist Ye Zhupei founded chemical metallurgy in China, while his American wife became an English professor who taught the future Chinese foreign minister Li Zhaoxing?
Did you know that Katharine Hepburn is said to have encountered snakes in the living room of Misty Mountain?
Did you know that Mary van Kleeck, a social reformer and labor activist, was the first woman appointed to a position of authority in the American government during World War I?
Did you know that in 1894, the Ringkirche was the first Protestant church to follow the Wiesbadener Programm of Johannes Otzen, which focused on providing a clear view of the combined altar, pulpit, and organ areas (architect's sketch shown)?
Did you know that the Lake, completed in 1858, was the first feature to be finished in New York City's Central Park?
Did you know that American writer Jan Fortune was born in the back of a post office in Wellington, Texas?
Did you know that National Route 280 was of defensive importance to the Japanese, who feared a Russian incursion into Ezo?
Did you know that Tove Lo wrote the plot for the music video of her song "Timebomb", inspired by the "kind of love that can't last forever because it isn't allowed to or it's not socially accepted"?
Did you know that in 1822 John Henry Wishart gave the first description in English of type 2 neurofibromatosis?
Did you know that some protesters have described "Glory to Hong Kong" as the unofficial national anthem of Hong Kong?
Did you know that the Georgetown University School of Dentistry was established during Jerome Daugherty's tenure as university president?
Did you know that the book Before Freedom contains 38 years of letters from Jawaharlal Nehru to his sister Nan (both pictured), including some he wrote while imprisoned during India's fight for independence?
Did you know that a mural of William Rath depicts him drinking from a Fountain of Youth?
Did you know that despite its title, the Venezuelan film Muchachos bañándose en la laguna de Maracaibo ('Kids bathing at the lagoon of Maracaibo') also features street shots of the city of Maracaibo?
Did you know that in the 1860s, the land for New York City's Central Park was purchased for a higher price than was paid for Alaska?
Did you know that the folk tales in Bernard Binlin Dadié's The Black Cloth express the "African sense of community" and the "wisdom of an ordered society" in the face of French claims of moral superiority?
Did you know that Philadelphia-based physician Charles Sajous, called the "father of American endocrinology", received the French Legion of Honour and the Venezuelan Order of the Liberator?
Did you know that just prior to his arrest in 2019, investigative journalist Ivan Golunov was examining the links between Moscow funeral businesses and the Federal Security Service?
Did you know that one of the first microwave radars, the British Type 271 (Type 273Q pictured) on board HMS Duke of York, led to the night-time sinking of the German battleship Scharnhorst?
Did you know that George Bangs's cemetery memorial features a mail car, carved to scale, commemorating his leadership of the Railway Mail Service?
Did you know that Jihan Wu co-founded Bitmain, the world's largest computer chip company for bitcoin mining?
Did you know that Semin Öztürk Şener is Turkey's first female professional civilian aerobatic pilot?
Did you know that during the capture of Wakefield, some historians claim that the town's commander led a counterattack "in his nightshirt" because he was hungover?
Did you know that in September 1610, Monteverdi dedicated to Pope Paul V his Vespro della Beata Vergine, a complex vespers composition which included the style of the emerging opera?
Did you know that 16th-century Chinese painter Qiu Zhu was known for her depiction of Guanyin, the goddess of compassion popular among women?
Did you know that J. J. Stiffler's "unparalleled" and "landmark" book Theory of Synchronous Communications (1971) sprang from NASA's need for power-efficient synchronization of data transmission for its space probes?
Did you know that in the Zambrów massacre, during the September 1939 invasion of Poland, German Wehrmacht soldiers murdered more than 200 Polish prisoners of war?
Did you know that the phoulkon was a shield wall formation of the late and East Roman army, which classical writers described as both a testudo and a phalanx?
Did you know that two months after being unable to walk properly, Indian long jumper M. Sreeshankar won the bronze medal at the 2018 Asian Junior Athletics Championships?
Did you know that when Harley-Davidson demanded that William Morris take its signs down from his store, he put them on display in his Bill's Old Bike Barn?
Did you know that a 2008 plea bargain to settle criminal charges against financier Jeffrey Epstein has been described as a sweetheart deal?
Did you know that when a German colonel found out that Finnish captain Salomon Klass was Jewish, he said "I have nothing personal against you as a Jew" and gave him the Hitler salute?
Did you know that Finland's minister of science and culture Hanna Kosonen is a world champion in ski orienteering?
Did you know that Patricia Swallow led the Wrens, served on the Heron, and was vice president of the Royal Naval Bird Watching Society?
Did you know that a monumental euro-sign sculpture is installed at the Willy-Brandt-Platz in Frankfurt, which was named in 1992 after the former chancellor?
Did you know that before he wrote Areyo Hoshikuzu, a manga about demobilized soldiers in occupied Japan, series creator Sansuke Yamada was best known as a gay manga artist?
Did you know that funeral dinners are regularly attended by up to a quarter of the residents in Darrington, Washington?
Did you know that Avinash Sable went from running 6 km (3.7 mi) to and from school at age six to running the 3000 metres steeplechase at the 2019 World Athletics Championships?
Did you know that Swiss athlete Bibi Torriani was the first ice hockey player to recite the Olympic Oath?
Did you know that the U.S. Army's Military Intelligence Corps Band had a jazz ensemble known as the Cannonball Combo in tribute to Cannonball Adderley, a former U.S. Army trumpet player?
Did you know that the novel The Ten Thousand Things, earlier rejected by 44 publishers, won the Walter Scott Prize?
Did you know that Cardiff City F.C. founder Bartley Wilson's headstone was discovered in bushes near his grave, which had lain unmarked for more than 40 years?
Did you know that Shadrack Frimpong started a communal cocoa farm in Ghana, where villagers could work in exchange for free tuition at an all-girls school?
Did you know that Steve Wozniak's Integer BASIC was so fast in the Rugg/Feldman benchmarks that Bill Gates complained?
Did you know that according to Robert Mueller, who investigated foreign interference in the 2016 US presidential election, foreign interference in the 2020 US elections is ongoing?
Did you know that drunk driving is among the most common alcohol-related crimes in the United States?
Did you know that in 1863, Captain Joseph LaBarge made a trip up and down the Missouri River aboard his steamboat, exceeding existing records for speed and distance?
Did you know that the winners of the 2019 World Cup doubles snooker event competed as opponents in the final of the 2019 Six-red World Championship?
Did you know that Edgardo Labella, the mayor of Cebu City, survived the 1998 sinking of a passenger ferry during Typhoon Vicki, staying afloat for 36 hours in a life vest?
Did you know that Elizabeth, Lady Echlin, a correspondent of the author, wrote a revised ending to Samuel Richardson's Clarissa in which the rape that was central to the original version is averted?
Did you know that television producer J. Michael Mendel won three Primetime Emmy Awards for The Simpsons and another for Rick and Morty?
Did you know that the New York City neighborhood of Mill Basin, once a desolate swampland, now contains multi-million-dollar homes?
Did you know that the Samsung Galaxy Fit smartwatch can be charged wirelessly through near-field communication?
Did you know that the occupation of the Stasi district headquarters and Stasi prison in Erfurt was a milestone in the Peaceful Revolution?
Did you know that John Cooper is the first political candidate to defeat an incumbent mayor of Nashville since the city consolidated with Davidson County, Tennessee?
Did you know that John Shelton Reed wrote that barbecue spaghetti "is to spaghetti Bolognese as Cincinnati chili is to the Tex-Mex variety"?
Did you know that the director of the film The VelociPastor thought of the idea when his phone autocorrected "Velociraptor" to "Veloci Pastor"?
Did you know that the nudibranch Tritoniella belli is avoided by several predatory starfishes but is inefficiently preyed on by the sea anemone Isotealia antarctica?
Did you know that under the governorship of Ye Xuanping, Guangdong grew economically prosperous and increased its independence from Beijing, earning him the nickname "Emperor of the South"?
Did you know that Joseph Dancis and his colleagues discovered the cause of maple syrup urine disease?
Did you know that New York City Inferno, a 1978 gay pornography film, features a licensed soundtrack by the Village People?
Did you know that Nurul Alam Chowdhury was the youngest MP in the first parliament of Bangladesh?
Did you know that a review of the London Group's 1936 exhibition noted that many works seemed "perverse and downright silly", but those by Ruth Doggett (portrait shown) formed "welcome oases of sense and sensibility"?
Did you know that handicapped army veteran Ma Ning became a pilot and later Commander of the Chinese Air Force after being inspired by a novel about a double amputee flying ace?
Did you know that the 2019 film Ask Dr. Ruth features Holocaust survivor Ruth Westheimer reflecting on her career as a sex therapist?
Did you know that Russian vice-admiral Vladimir Kasatonov has been involved in crew search-and-rescue operations for three submarines: K-219, Komsomolets, and Kursk?
Did you know that in 1881, Kate Dover killed Thomas Skinner by cooking him a roast dinner with arsenic in the stuffing, but was not convicted of murder?
Did you know that prior to becoming acting President of Georgetown College, Joseph A. Lopez was chaplain to the imperial family of Mexico?
Did you know that the correct spelling of "liliifolia" in the name of the orchid Liparis liliifolia has been debated for decades?
Did you know that when Marie-Thérèse Gauley premiered the title role of Ravel's opera L'enfant et les sortilèges, he praised both her acting and her "ravishing voice"?
Did you know that with the sign-ons of KWCS-TV, KOET, KUSU-TV, and KBYU-TV, Utah had more educational TV stations than commercial ones by 1966?
Did you know that after 1.5 million rounds played over the history of the PGA Tour, the first 58 was shot by Jim Furyk?
Did you know that after leading a failed rebellion in his native Morocco, Uthman ibn Abi al-Ula led the Volunteers of the Faith in Granada, where he became a major political figure?
Did you know that in 1945, London medical student John Hancock's studies were interrupted when he contracted typhus in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp?
Did you know that the sexual characteristics of the Hollow Dogū, a National Treasure of Japan, are so mixed that the Jōmon figurine has been said to "transcend gender"?
Did you know that Peter Palitzsch was called to the Berliner Ensemble as a graphic designer, and went on to stage many of Brecht's plays internationally?
Did you know that Swedish actress Lotta Ramel portrayed her real-life mother, actress Susanna Ramel, in the film Ted: För kärlekens skull?
Did you know that in 2016, Ben Challacombe performed the UK's first live broadcast of the robotic removal of part of a kidney?
Did you know that professor of English Alice D. Snyder helped lead the campaign that earned women in New York the right to vote?
Did you know that speedrunning robot TASBot made a Skype call in The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past?
Did you know that the Sheepscar tannery, run by John Joseph Willson of the Willson Group of artists in Leeds, England, was at one time the largest in the country?
Did you know that the red dresses (example pictured) in Jaime Black's REDress Project represent the missing and murdered Indigenous women of Canada and the United States?
Did you know that Jane Eskind was the first woman to win a statewide election in Tennessee?
Did you know that Polish entomologist Sergiusz Toll amassed a collection of about 8,000 bird eggs and 12,000 butterflies and moths while in Bydgoszcz?
Did you know that birds nest in the Quelccaya Ice Cap of Peru?
Did you know that choreographer Margaret Barr created more than 80 works (example pictured), inspired by subjects such as Mahatma Gandhi, Margaret Mead, drought, and the Melbourne Cup?
Did you know that despite the party's anti-smoking faction, the Sturmabteilung was funded by a Nazi cigarette company?
Did you know that Ester Peony, Romania's representative at the Eurovision Song Contest 2019, spent part of her early life in Canada?
Did you know that Jimmy Sham, convener of Civil Human Rights Front, helped organize several protest marches against the Hong Kong government's proposed extradition amendment bill?
Did you know that in 1945, a group of London medical students travelled to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp to treat the survivors?
Did you know that in its first decade as an educational radio station, KSLH produced 2,878 fifteen-minute programs for St. Louis-area school students?
Did you know that the female garden symphylan stores sperm in its mouth?
Did you know that up to 60,000 people were displaced during the War of the Peters?
Did you know that KLLT in Grants, New Mexico, went off the air because the United States Forest Service refused to let the station build a tower on Mount Taylor to improve its coverage?
Did you know that after reforming the army of the Sasanian Empire, the officer Babak is said to have insisted that King Khosrow I wear his armor and participate in the military parade like all the other warriors?
Did you know that courts and legal scholars in some countries have expressed support for the idea that even a properly ratified constitutional amendment can be unconstitutional?
Did you know that it took more than 5,000 Philippine soldiers with land, air, and sea support, as well as millions of pesos, to end the uprising of Hadji Kamlon?
Did you know that the character of Felicity Smoak, from The CW's Arrowverse franchise, first appeared in the DC Comics series The Fury of Firestorm in 1984?
Did you know that the surgeon Ian Scott Smillie, president of the International Society of the Knee, wrote a book about deer stalking in Scotland?
Did you know that writing lines (example pictured), as cartoon character Bart Simpson does on a chalkboard, has survived even as other forms of school discipline have fallen out of favour?
Did you know that KTKN in Ketchikan, Alaska, was one of just six new radio stations authorized in the United States in 1942, due to a wartime freeze order?
Did you know that Lisa Gordon-Hagerty, head of the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration, once said, "I have more important things to do than advise Nicole Kidman"?
Did you know that at the 2010 World Team Championship pool event, a first-to-six-racks playoff match was won by Daryl Peach after 52 racks?
Did you know that the Northern Ireland Assembly has not sat for more than two years, partly because of disagreements over an Irish Language Act?
Did you know that Fort George Amusement Park, which featured roller coasters, carousels, and Ferris wheels, was in Upper Manhattan in a locality once referred to as "Harlem's Coney Island"?
Did you know that Narendra Modi's experiences in dealing with the after-effects of the 2001 Gujarat earthquake led him to propose the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure?
Did you know that Sheila Heaney, director of the Women's Royal Army Corps, visited the United States in 1972 to study how women were being integrated into the U.S. Army?
Did you know that a discourse given by the Buddha to his only son, Rāhula (depiction shown), became one of the seven Buddhist texts recommended for study in the inscriptions of Emperor Aśoka?
Did you know that the Colombian television series Bolívar used 6,000 extras?
Did you know that adult apple maggot flies (example pictured) use their wing patterns defensively to mimic spiders?
Did you know that the Australian Aboriginal community of Ali Curung is named after the nearby ancestral Alekarenge ("dingo-associated") Dreaming sites?
Did you know that today's Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Fleet Review was canceled due to Typhoon Hagibis?
Did you know that Hildegarde had a bat, a mouse and a shrew named in her honour?
Did you know that in Among the Lost, a 2018 novel by Mexican author Emiliano Monge, the victims of human trafficking are described in language borrowed from Dante's Inferno and the testimony of real-life people?
Did you know that in his youth, Finnish Skolt singer Jaakko Gauriloff was called "the James Dean of Nellim" and "the world's northernmost schlager singer"?
Did you know that the Bissinger Wool Pullery processed dead sheep?
Did you know that the nave entrance doors of St Rufus Church in Keith, Moray, Scotland, incorporate a two-sided memorial to the First and Second World Wars?
Did you know that Arizona Cardinals offensive tackle Brett Toth was the first Army Black Knights football player to play in the Senior Bowl?
Did you know that Georg Forster's 1777 report A Voyage Round the World, about the second voyage of James Cook, was not reprinted in English for nearly two centuries?
Did you know that in 2011, Nitehawk Cinema successfully lobbied to overturn a Prohibition-era liquor law that prevented movie theaters in New York from serving alcohol?
Did you know that more than 4 million videos on TikTok feature the song "Mia Khalifa" – also known as the "Hit or Miss" song – even though the app had not licensed its use and has never paid the artists?
Did you know that tenor Enea Scala has appeared in roles by Rossini, most recently in the title role of Otello, an opera which requires at least five tenors?
Did you know that Hannah Simpson Grant, mother of U.S. president Ulysses S. Grant, did not attend her son's inauguration?
Did you know that Litsy is similar to Twitter and Instagram, but is only for books?
Did you know that Shaun Murphy pulled out of the 2019 Paul Hunter Classic snooker tournament after injuring his leg dancing to Disney's Greatest Hits?
Did you know that property developer Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, fiancé of Princess Beatrice of York, co-founded a charity in Rwanda that aims to use cricket to foster social change?
Did you know that tenor Thomas Mohr, who has sung the roles of Loge, Siegmund, and Siegfried in Der Ring in Minden, hosts concerts in his cowshed?
Did you know that the cause of the decline in hornleaf riverweed, a foundation species in swift-flowing rivers in North America, is unclear?
Did you know that the construction of New York City's Tweed Courthouse, prolonged over 20 years, has been called "a classic in the annals of American graft"?
Did you know that Yu Zhenwu piloted the first successful flight of China's first indigenously designed jet aircraft and, decades later, became Commander of the People's Liberation Army Air Force?
Did you know that according to dietician Amy Brown, a researcher of social barriers to breastfeeding, smacking children is acceptable to more British people than breastfeeding in public?
Did you know that in 1916, three members of a military band were killed in action during the Battle of Columbus in New Mexico?
Did you know that surgeon Robert N. McClelland tried to save the lives of both John F. Kennedy and his assassin?
Did you know that the annual charity radiothon at Wyoming high school radio station KYDZ was commended by a thank-you letter from President Ronald Reagan?
Did you know that when pianist Clara Wieck (pictured with the score) composed her Piano Concerto in A minor as a teenager, her future husband Robert Schumann helped with the orchestration?