Did you know? Facts from Wikipedia, 2022

text: Did you know that Kanye West originally wrote the chorus of " Gold Digger " from a female point of view?
text: Did you know that in 2019, Paul Cosford and his colleagues found that lung cancer was more common in non-smokers than was generally thought?
text: Did you know that the video game Pyongyang Racer was developed in North Korea for Koryo Tours , which organises tours to the country?
text: Did you know that AI expert Tess Posner resigned her role as a CEO in order to concentrate on her music career?
text: Did you know that the Syracuse House on Clinton Square was described by Charles Dickens as "the worst inn that ever was seen"?
text: Did you know that Zimbabwean colonel Flint Magama , who was responsible for the killing of opposition politician Njini Ntuta , later received the country's highest award for military bravery ?
text: Did you know that at various secondary schools and universities, students eat entire heads of lettuce as quickly as possible ?
text: Did you know that Da'ud , the heir apparent of the last Fatimid caliph, spent almost his entire life imprisoned by the succeeding Ayyubid dynasty ?
text: Did you know that Encanto 's Mirabel is the first Disney heroine to wear glasses?
text: Did you know that Siegfried Goldschmidt translated Kalidasa 's epic poem Sêtubandhu from Prakrit into German?
text: Did you know that the headless body of Thomas Aquinas was boiled, possibly in wine, after his canonization ?
text: Did you know that after going off the air due to financial issues, the control room of Texas radio station KBIL was set ablaze by an arsonist?
text: Did you know that Elena Guseva 's training as a choral conductor helped her analyse the score when playing Polina in Prokofiev's The Gambler at the Vienna State Opera ?
text: Did you know that the vegan-food brand Squeaky Bean produces food that does not contain beans?
text: Did you know that when journalist Bill Fleischman was surprised by a radio advertisement about his next-day article, he just sat down and wrote it?
text: Did you know that the Port of Shahid Rajaee is responsible for 85 percent of the total loading and unloading carried out at Iranian ports?
text: Did you know that Lieutenant-Colonel Johannes Wilhelm Colenbrander and two others died on camera during the filming of the 1918 war film Symbol of Sacrifice ?
text: Did you know that part of the funding for the Columbus Monument in Syracuse, New York , was provided by Italian dictator Benito Mussolini ?
text: Did you know that in 2014, Trinidadian sprinter Deon Lendore won the highest award in National Collegiate Athletic Association track and field while at Texas A&M University ?
text: Did you know that Historia narodu polskiego , the first modern history of Poland, was never finished but was highly influential on emerging Polish historiography?
text: Did you know that a pornographic video service once offered NFL quarterback Gardner Minshew a one-million-dollar endorsement deal based on his habit of exercising in nothing but a jockstrap ?
text: Did you know that when baseball outfielder Brick Eldred was suspended by his team for refusing to pay a fine, another team acquired him, paid the fine, and gave him a raise?
text: Did you know that Tana Tidung Regency is the smallest regency by land area in North Kalimantan and has the province's lowest poverty rate?
text: Did you know that Michael Koomen was shot and killed while trying to calm the situation?
text: Did you know that Jackie Kennedy teased former love interest Declan Costello that a 1955 double date involving them and their spouses had almost broken up the Kennedys' marriage?
text: Did you know that David Bowie 's 1999 album Hours was the first by a major artist available for download from the Internet?
text: Did you know that businessman and activist Matthew Glover 's charity challenged Pope Francis to become a vegan for Lent?
text: Did you know that the American Committee for the Defense of British Homes donated a hunting rifle from Theodore Roosevelt to help defend Britain during the Second World War?
text: Did you know that the Doctor Who serial The Chase was to feature the Beatles dressed as old men, performing as part of a fictional 50th-anniversary concert, but the idea was rejected by their manager?
text: Did you know that Garry Kasparov thought that a move by chess computer Deep Blue demonstrated its "superior intelligence", but the move was in fact caused by a software bug ?
text: Did you know that Albert Freedman was the first person indicted in the 1950s quiz show scandals ?
text: Did you know that Dan Lanning , who coached his final game at Georgia in the 2022 College Football Playoff National Championship , will face Georgia in his first game as the new head coach at Oregon ?
text: Did you know that Paul Gutama Soegijo travelled from Germany to Indonesia to study the gamelan instruments of Java for eight years?
text: Did you know that the Amazon Venture oil spill , in which about 500,000 US gallons (1,900,000 litres) of oil spilled into the Savannah River , was caused by three valves that simultaneously malfunctioned?
text: Did you know that Peruvian Viagra grows on the roots of plants?
text: Did you know that in 1887, after spending three nights on the summit of Mont Blanc , scientist Joseph Vallot and his party were greeted with flowers by the mayor and all the inhabitants of Chamonix ?
text: Did you know that staff at the vegan food brand VFC interact with internet trolls on social media platforms to grow their online brand?
text: Did you know that American musician Kenneth Kilgore , who was inducted into the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame , had a bridge posthumously named after him?
text: Did you know that in 1951, 22 Greenlandic children were sent to foster families in Denmark to be re-educated as "little Danes" ?
text: Did you know that Kate Foster is the British ambassador to Somalia, but there are no consular services at the embassy in Mogadishu ?
text: Did you know that a billion dollars' worth of coal power in Turkey could be stranded ?
text: Did you know that the play-by-mail game Victory! The Battle for Europe takes about three years to play?
text: Did you know that Pope Pius IX gave the monks of Saint Vincent Archabbey permission to brew Saint Vincent Beer ?
text: Did you know that DTK Computer was one of the first companies to have its computers sold via satellite television?
text: Did you know that in Africa, the criminalization of homosexuality was a colonial imposition and the decriminalization of homosexuality is resisted as a neocolonial imposition?
text: Did you know that Francis Martin , a Cistercian monk from the Bronx , became a leader in the Catholic charismatic renewal ?
text: Did you know that Singapore's North East MRT line saw the first launch of the Art-in-Transit (AiT) programme – a public artwork showcase on the MRT network?
text: Did you know that journalist Jack Berry was influential in lifting the ban on female reporters in the locker room at The Masters ?
text: Did you know that the artwork Comedian , a fresh banana taped to a wall with duct tape, sold for $120,000 in 2019?
text: Did you know that fashion model Vivienne Rohner , named after fashion designer Vivienne Westwood , opened one of Westwood's shows during her first season as a model?
text: Did you know that Washington State Route 304 was accidentally removed from the state highway system by the Washington State Legislature for two years?
text: Did you know that Beate Ulbricht was subjected to harassment by the East German government because her adoptive parents, Walter and Lotte Ulbricht , did not approve of her marriage?
text: Did you know that Henry Stoehr was able to spend more time producing his band 's debut studio album, Moveys , after losing his day job due to the COVID-19 pandemic ?
text: Did you know that one-sixth of all liquor establishments in Bombay were attacked in the 1921 Prince of Wales riots ?
text: Did you know that at the 2016 Summer Paralympics , German para-cyclist Hans-Peter Durst won a time trial despite having no saddle for most of the event?
text: Did you know that one radio station owner's decision to bring a " country cousin " to Tallahassee, Florida , turned out to be a miscalculation?
text: Did you know that although the House Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight tried to end payola , it just became more sophisticated?
text: Did you know that star singers from the Munich parish of St. Martin, Moosach , were received by Angela Merkel in 2012?
text: Did you know that Tyler Stockton was the second-youngest defensive coordinator in the FBS each of the two times he was nominated for the Broyles Award ?
text: Did you know that larvae of the baked bean ascidian settle onto the tunics of adult individuals?
text: Did you know that Mary Healy , an international speaker on faith healing in the Catholic Church, only became interested in the subject during her 2014 sabbatical ?
text: Did you know that depictions of a sexual relationship between Richard the Lionheart and his sister Lady Joanna were cut from the script of the Doctor Who serial The Crusade ?
text: Did you know that in 2021, Alabama state representative Steve McMillan sponsored a bill that later became law allowing restaurants to have outdoor dining areas for dogs?
text: Did you know that Andi Sudirman Sulaiman made it mandatory for Muslim civil servants to read the Quran before work?
text: Did you know that according to legend, the Red Ghost trampled a woman to death, and killed and ate a grizzly bear ?
text: Did you know that David Flitcroft was appointed as director of football at Port Vale after initially applying to be the club's manager ?
text: Did you know that the driver in a 2019 truck crash received a sentence of 110 years in prison due to mandatory sentencing laws in Colorado?
text: Did you know that Rudi Kappel , co-founder of the first airline of Suriname, was arrested both on entering and leaving Santiago de Cuba ?
text: Did you know that The Alignment Problem , a book discussing existential risk from AI , was one of five "books that inspired Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella " in 2021?
text: Did you know that Thomas Davey was part of a florists' cult?
text: Did you know that after a dispute emerged over the terms of its lease, the owner of its broadcast tower forced Wyoming radio station KNWT off the air by disconnecting its power?
text: Did you knowthat the Yamashiro ikki has been characterized as the "people's parliament of the Warring States period "?
text: Did you know that in 1848, the Hartford and New Haven Railroad was "regularly run with greater speed than any other railroad in the United States"?
text: Did you know that Ludwig Zottmayr , who created the role of King Marke in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde , was not the composer's first choice?
text: Did you know that referee Jan Verhaas was informed of an error he made at the 2022 Masters by a member of the crowd?
text: Did you know that Cody Bellinger made a motion capture appearance in Assassin's Creed Valhalla as the Viking Otta Sluggasson, with Bellinger's own baseball bat serving as Sluggasson's weapon?
text: Did you know that Uvariopsis dicaprio was the first new plant species described in 2022?
text: Did you know that while Wired recommended that readers binge The West Wing , it also advised readers to skip the fourth season episode " The Long Goodbye "?
text: Did you know that sports broadcaster Gene Principe had to choose between covering his hometown team at the 2006 NHL playoffs and his "pure dream" of covering the Italian team at the 2006 FIFA World Cup ?
text: Did you know that four years after Harry Frazee opened his Longacre Theatre , he sold his ownership stake in the theater to focus on baseball?
text: Did you know that quotations of Cicero, Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. about memory and love are engraved on the Memorial to Victims of Violence in Mexico ?
text: Did you know that Leander Schnerr survived the Great Chicago Fire and subsequently became the archabbot of Saint Vincent Archabbey ?
text: Did you know that Fire and Sword , a film about Tristan and Isolde , reused the stuntmen and horses from another Arthurian film, Excalibur ?
text: Did you know that there have been several attempts to make Colby cheese the official state cheese of Wisconsin ?
text: Did you know that an Indonesian road expansion project demolished the home of a former public works minister ?
text: Did you know that a Māori military settlement at Māngere Bridge, New Zealand , was established in the 1840s to protect Auckland ?
text: Did you know that Dick Graves sold his casino to an employee on a handshake, telling him "pay me when you can"?
text: Did you know that Ukrainian activists squatted Viktor Yanukovych 's opulent clubhouse at the Mezhyhirya Residence ?
text: Did you know that journalist Eddie MacCabe claimed to have been pinned to the ground with guns pointed at his head while acting as a golf caddie for the United States president?
text: Did you know that some of the Japanese music unit Sangatsu no Phantasia ' s songs were also written in novel form by its lead vocalist?
text: Did you know that the fifteen bags of seaweed used as set dressing for the Doctor Who serial The Web Planet emanated an overpowering vegetable smell under the hot studio lights?
text: Did you know that Oswald Spengler and the artist can be seen in the painting Late Visitors to Pompeii ?
text: Did you know that current Hawaii football defensive coordinator Trent Figg coached for the United States national team in 2016?
text: Did you know that Dyson Institute Village 's modular student-housing pods were inspired by Habitat 67 ?
text: Did you know that Bobbie Gentry defined her composition " Ode to Billie Joe " as a "study in unconscious cruelty"?
text: Did you know that Amanda Asay was the longest-serving member of the Canadian women's baseball team when she died at 33, having played on the team for sixteen years?
text: Did you know that the more irreverent moments of The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction , such as a golf game with giant balls, were added to break up the story's intensity?
text: Did you know that immediately after Colonel Drury-Lowe reassured his men that "[the bullets] are all passing over your heads", the officer next to him was shot and killed ?
text: Did you know that in the 12th century, when wearing pure silk was forbidden for Muslim men, a silk-and-cotton blend known as mashru solved the problem?
text: Did you know that Nathan Agostinelli stomped on a Viet Cong flag during his campaign for Connecticut State Comptroller ?
text: Did you know that Lille langebro looks like a twisted ribbon when it is lit up after dark?
text: Did you know that American business executive William M. Ellinghaus helped rescue New York City from bankruptcy in the late 1970s ?
text: Did you know that Lifetime Medical Television , "the network for physicians only", charged the highest advertising rates on cable?
text: Did you know that after Goo Hara 's mother abandoned her and Goo died young, South Korean law was changed to prevent such parents from claiming inheritance?
text: Did you know that you could be arrested for trying to arrange a contract killing through RentAHitman.com ?
text: Did you know that the astrologer Linn Nhyo Taryar was arrested after performing yadaya (magic rituals) against coup leader Min Aung Hlaing ?
text: Did you know that despite digital solutions gaining market share, the Day-Timer personal organizer has returned to being a paper-only product?
text: Did you know that British philatelist Alma Lee specialised in the "standing Helvetia" stamps of Switzerland ?
text: Did you know that the Nashua and Lowell Railroad was the first railroad built in the state of New Hampshire ?
text: Did you know that in her 2021 composition This too shall pass with string orchestra, Raminta Šerkšnytė used a vibraphone for the flow of time, a violin for the transience of humans, and a "heavenly" cello?
text: Did you know that Charles Thaddeus Russell 's architectural designs helped to create the "Black Wall Street of America"?
text: Did you know that Rosa the cow would attack French game show contestants and knock down sets but would not attack people on the ground?
text: Did you know that Billy Raimondi declined opportunities to play in Major League Baseball ?
text: Did you know that Queen Victoria ordered the erection of the Prince Imperial Memorial on the spot where Prince Napoléon was killed in battle with Zulus?
text: Did you know that between 1878 and 1898, American inventor Maria E. Beasley patented a footwarmer, an improved life raft , several barrel-making machines and an anti-derailment device for trains?
text: Did you know that the Royal Navy's 4th Submarine Squadron operated from Sydney to train Australian personnel in anti-submarine warfare?
text: Did you know that Alice of Friday the 13th became a catalyst for the slasher film trope of unexpectedly killing off the main surviving protagonist in the sequel?
text: Did you know that the architect Friedrich Silaban submitted his design for the Istiqlal Mosque pseudonymously in order to conceal his Christian identity?
text: Did you know that according to one critic, the math rock album Cryptooology by Yowie "sounds like an explosion in a Slinky factory"?
text: Did you know that Green Bay Packers kicker Mason Crosby performed a Lambeau Leap after a game-winning field goal, even though it is usually only done as a touchdown celebration ?
text: Did you know that when George Ross went bankrupt in 1867, his wife Sibella Ross started a school to sustain their large family?
text: Did you know that Everyone on the Moon is Essential Personnel includes fairy tale, body horror, and apocalyptic short stories, but all of them relate to the human body?
text: Did you know that " Candy " by H.O.T. sparked a new wave of mainstream music in the young generation of South Korea?
text: Did you know that ice hockey player Trent Frederic was coached by former professional athletes in three of his childhood sports?
text: Did you know that the immigrant-background narration of I Am Zlatan Ibrahimović has been compared to that of Philip Roth 's novel Portnoy's Complaint ?
text: Did you know that The Outdoor Circle opposed a 2009 visit to Hawaii by the Wienermobile , believing its presence in the state was illegal?
text: Did you know that calypsonian Mighty Bomber believed that the judges denied him the Trinidad and Tobago Independence calypso monarch title in 1962 because he was born in Grenada?
text: Did you know that the windows of St. George's Episcopal Memorial Church in Bismarck, North Dakota , contain stained glass fragments collected from English churches damaged during World War II?
text: Did you know that Zdzisław Najmrodzki , a thief in 1970s–1980s Poland, escaped from law-enforcement authorities and prisons on 29 occasions?
text: Did you know that according to the book To Kill a Democracy , when democracies destroy their social foundations, they lay the foundations for despotism ?
text: Did you know that Ching Hammill died less than two months after making his National Football League (NFL) debut?
text: Did you know that the wedding of Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands and Claus van Amsberg was marred by protests over Amsberg's German heritage and past membership in the Hitler Youth and the Wehrmacht ?
text: Did you know that Crackhead Barney picked a dead rat up off the street before confronting the National Guard at the inauguration of Joe Biden ?
text: Did you know that in her 2021 book White Evangelical Racism , professor of religion Anthea Butler called American evangelicalism a pro- Trump , "nationalistic political movement"?
text: Did you know that the steamship Clyde was wrecked in 1879 while carrying more than 500 replacements for the British 24th Regiment , which had suffered heavy losses at the Battle of Isandlwana ?
text: Did you know that in his final collegiate game, Tufts University football player Carl Etelman kicked a field goal with a broken ankle?
text: Did you know that the construction of Auckland's Panmure Bridge in 1865 involved underwater repairs using Heinke diving suits?
text: Did you know that Leon Stynen has been called one of Belgium's greatest architects of the 20th century?
text: Did you know that the glass surface on the BNL BNP Paribas headquarters has alternating angles that follow the principle of the " two-faced Janus "?
text: Did you know that U.S. Virgin Islands suffragist Ella Gifft smuggled rum during Prohibition by hiding it in her underwear ?
text: Did you know that the 1938 film Road Demon contains footage of well-known accidents that occurred at Indianapolis Motor Speedway ?
text: Did you know that when Christy Schwundeck was shot in a job centre in Germany, she had nine cents in her wallet?
text: Did you know that the Ethel Barrymore Theatre has never changed its name, owner, or use since its opening in 1928?
text: Did you know that the St Leonard's Place hoard of around ten thousand 9th-century Northumbrian coins was discovered by workers digging a drain?
text: Did you know that the short story collection Drinking Coffee Elsewhere was chosen by John Updike as a selection for the Today Show book club on NBC ?
text: Did you know that the Springburn Winter Gardens , the largest single-span glasshouse in Scotland, has been derelict since 1983?
text: Did you know that the magic minute exposed a "secret" about baby carrots and criticized Jimmy Carter 's sweaters?
text: Did you know that an observer once described a play-by-mail game as "the most complex game system on Earth"?
text: Did you know that Chappell Roan was signed to Atlantic Records at 17 years old?
text: Did you know that factorials are more likely to begin with small digits ?
text: Did you know that American football wide receiver Bo Hines transferred to Yale University as a freshman to further his political ambitions?
text: Did you know that a jury ruled that the killing of a policeman during the Coldbath Fields riot was justifiable homicide ?
text: Did you know that news editor Amasa Converse officiated the marriage of Edgar Allan Poe and Poe's teenage cousin Virginia Clemm ?
text: Did you know that the " wickedest man in the world " and the creator of Winnie-the-Pooh both lived in London's Wellington Square ?
text: Did you know that before the Biltmore Theatre was restored in 2003, there were proposals to lease the theater to a delicatessen owner or turn it into a hotel lobby?
text: Did you know that the township of Hồ Xá in Vietnam was once known as the " B-52 bomb pocket"?
text: Did you know that Nebraska's "Itch" Oehlrich was lured by the "scratch" of $100 per game to play in the National Football League ?
text: Did you know that George Balanchine choreographed the ballet Ivesiana to music by Charles Ives , despite previously finding his works too complex for dance?
text: Did you know that the lead role in the 2021 film Cry Macho was first offered to Clint Eastwood in 1988?
text: Did you know that Elfrida von Nardroff won $220,500 ($2.1 million today) on the game show Twenty-One in 1958, the highest winnings of any contestant?
text: Did you know that after it broadcast for the last time, KHAT became Rock Steady and was part of a Triathlon ?
text: Did you know that in 1976, Karen Ferguson founded the Pension Rights Center , a nonprofit pensioner advocacy organization, with encouragement and monetary support from Ralph Nader ?
text: Did you know that the Nishi-Okoppe and Yubetsu stations on the former Nayoro Main Line are now the site of a hotel and fire station respectively?
text: Did you know that Hurley Goodall was appointed back onto the school board in Muncie, Indiana , following the death of his successor in a plane crash?
text: Did you know that The Romans was the first Doctor Who serial with a humorous tone?
text: Did you know that in October 1981, American doctor and mountaineer Peter Hackett became the third known person to complete a solo ascent of Mount Everest ?
text: Did you know that the landscapes in the manga series Star Red were drawn from photographs taken by NASA during the Viking 1 Mars exploration mission?
text: Did you know that when Lou Almada brought his younger brother with him to spring training , the team gave his brother his job?
text: Did you know that Black Garnet Books was founded in response to the murder of George Floyd ?
text: Did you know that Progress , composed by Winsford Devine and recorded by calypsonian King Austin in 1979, was declared "the song of the last millennium" by the Trinbago Unified Calypsonians' Organisation ?
text: Did you know that for its ReadRight software, OCR Systems recommended users block out graphics on the page with a Post-it Note ?
text: Did you know that 2020 European pommel horse champion Matvei Petrov won Albania's first medal at the European Men's Artistic Gymnastics Championships ?
text: Did you know that the season-one finale of Riverdale , " Chapter Thirteen: The Sweet Hereafter ", almost included Sabrina Spellman from Chilling Adventures of Sabrina ?
text: Did you know that the text of " In dir ist Freude " ("In Thee is Gladness") was written in the 16th century to a 1591 dance song melody by Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi , and first published in a collection of Christmas carols?
text: Did you know that Jonathan Reynolds deep-fried a real turkey during his performance of Dinner With Demons at the Second Stage Theater , New York?
text: Did you know that according to the Chronicon Wormatiense , Emperor Frederick II would have conquered the entire Holy Land if the pope had not invaded his kingdom while he was away on crusade?
text: Did you know that Rita Humphries-Lewin , a former chair of the Jamaica Stock Exchange, entered the industry as a secretary?
text: Did you know that Kanye West 's " 24 " was recorded in tribute to Kobe Bryant a few days after his death?
text: Did you know that the subdistrict of Komet in Banjarbaru was named after Komet Windpump ?
text: Did you know that after the NCAA vacated their national championship in men's lacrosse, Syracuse made a new trophy without the NCAA logo?
text: Did you know that calypsonian Kenny J was best known for his "well-crafted, risqué parang soca contributions"?
text: Did you know that a condor is a stretched butterfly ?
text: Did you know that as a youth, Jim Johannson handed out shoes and jackets to ice hockey players on the United States national team , then later became general manager of the team?
text: Did you know that a statue of the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador , was installed despite his opposition to cults of personality ?
text: Did you know that Beverly Russell 's 1992 book Women of Design: Contemporary American Interiors was the first survey of female interior designers ?
text: Did you know that two versions of Embrace Again were released, one in Standard Mandarin and another in the Wuhan dialect ?
text: Did you know that Tiancheng Lou is currently the most successful competitive programmer from China?
text: Did you know that the medieval Looe Bridge had 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, or 18 arches?
text: Did you know that Japanese voice actress Kaori Maeda cites Mister Donut fortune-telling as one of her hobbies?
text: Did you know that after first alerting authorities to the Omicron variant in South Africa, bioinformatician Tulio de Oliveira insisted that its origin is unknown?
text: Did you know that the 1912 production of Man's Genesis was the first " primitive man " film ever made and created a prehistory film boom in the years following its release?
text: Did you know that development economist John Toye said free-market proponents "first turn liberty against equality and fraternity, then overthrow liberty itself"?
text: Did you know that the surname Waering is Anglo-Saxon, but Waring may be Norman?
text: Did you know that the street from which Mississippi radio station WMPR broadcasts was renamed in honor of the station's longtime owner and general manager, former politician Charles Evers ?
text: Did you know that when Helena Braun visited New York "just for the trip", she sang the role of Brünnhilde in Wagner's Die Walküre at the Metropolitan Opera with four hours' notice?
text: Did you know that George H. W. Bush hated broccoli so much that he banned it from Air Force One ?
text: Did you know that Paul R. Howe was first on the scene in the real-life "Black Hawk Down"?
text: Did you know that before writing The Space Museum , Glyn Jones had never seen Doctor Who ?
text: Did you know that whilst serving as the Central African ambassador in Paris, Sylvestre Bangui held a press conference confirming that his government had massacred children and resigned?
text: Did you know that the Professional Esports Association suspended its plans for a Counter-Strike: Global Offensive league four months after its announcement?
text: Did you know that the Irish judge Maureen Harding Clark studied Malay in Malaysia and French in France before she was appointed to the Khmer Rouge Tribunal by King Norodom Sihamoni ?
text: Did you know that in 2006 The New York Times described the Palácio das Cinzas , then the presidential palace of East Timor, as "a glorified bungalow really"?
text: Did you know that Gloria Gould , the manager of New York City's Embassy Theatre , wanted an all-woman staff because women "were more efficient than men"?
text: Did you know that the stay of exit has trapped possibly hundreds of British people?
text: Did you know that Ala Stanford established the Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium to fight racism in medicine , vaccinating nearly 4,000 people?
text: Did you know that as a result of the Röhm scandal , a Nazi became the world's first openly gay politician in 1932?
text: Did you know that in 1960, Zoe Progl became the first woman to escape over the wall of HM Prison Holloway ?
text: Did you know that in its first two decades, the Mansfield Theatre had only two "outstanding hits", both performed by all-Black casts?
text: Did you know that economist and anti-apartheid activist Vella Pillay arranged for South African revolutionaries to receive military training in the Soviet Union and China?
text: Did you know that the Apache leader Geronimo soaked in Truth or Consequences Hot Springs ?
text: Did you know that record-setting airplane spinner Catherine Cavagnaro is also a professional mathematician?
text: Did you know that Canadian doctor James Maskalyk's book Six Months in Sudan was based on his blog?
text: Did you know that after George Alexander Albrecht collapsed when conducting Beethoven's Ninth Symphony during a New Year's concert, he returned to composing and began hospice work?
text: Did you know that during the 1979 Boston University strike , some striking professors carried picket signs with quotes from Paul the Apostle , William Shakespeare , and Voltaire ?
text: Did you know that the sea slug Aglaja tricolorata wraps its egg string around its body, forming a tangled skein?
text: Did you know that Anne Emerman refused to allow Mother Teresa and the Missionaries of Charity to convert a building in the Bronx into a homeless shelter without installing an elevator?
text: Did you know that some nuisance ordinances include the forced eviction of tenants if they call for emergency services ?
text: Did you know that Gamaliel's principle has been used to support religious pluralism and reforms within religious groups ?
text: Did you know that the photographer Václav Jírů was sentenced to death for resisting the German occupation of Czechoslovakia and spent years in Nazi prisons?
text: Did you know that the recreation area in Cleadon contains the remains of an 18th-century grotto?
text: Did you know that West Virginia nursing professor Christine Elizabeth Abrahamsen wrote science-fiction and Gothic novels under the pseudonyms Christabel and Kathleen Westcott?
text: Did you know that the Caslon Type Foundry made metal type in London for more than two hundred years?
text: Did you know that St. James AME Zion Church , the oldest known standing church in Ithaca, New York , was a site on the Underground Railroad ?
text: Did you know that in the lead-up to the Second World War, the British government stockpiled more than 100,000 tons of whale oil ?
text: Did you know that the oldest rocks of the Dharwar Craton are tonalite–trondhjemite–granodiorite gneisses and greenstone sequences between 3 and 3.4 billion years old?
text: Did you know that George L. P. Weaver chaired the U.S. delegation to International Labour Organization conferences under Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon?
text: Did you know that The Lost Homestead describes how Kuldip Singh recovered her childhood "paradise", lost after India's partition, in an English country cottage?
text: Did you know that Alison H. Clarkson , the majority leader of the Vermont Senate , worked as a theatrical producer and on New York Theatre Workshop 's board?
text: Did you know that belief that homosexuality can be acquired has motivated Nazi persecution, discriminatory age-of-consent laws, censorship of LGBT publications and employment discrimination?
text: Did you know that Colorado public television station KTSC operates from two studios named for the same benefactor ?
text: Did you know that from 1996 to 2019, Turkish Airlines operated an aircraft that would not move a meter on the ground when "she didn't feel like it"?
text: Did you know that Alisha Kramer worked to fight HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and inequity in women's health in Africa and Europe as a program coordinator for the Center for Strategic and International Studies ?
text: Did you know that many Germans' belief that homosexuality was a communicable disease limited the success of the first homosexual movement ?
text: Did you know that after New Jersey attorney general Walter D. Van Riper busted betting rooms protected by party boss Frank Hague , Hague had Van Riper charged with check kiting and black-market gasoline sales?
text: Did you know that Rangoon kept its own time for more than two decades after Burma Standard Time first came into effect?
text: Did you know that the book Our Hindu Rashtra claims that India is a de facto Hindu-majoritarian state?
text: Did you know that Jeffrey Paparoa Holman gave himself his middle name, after the Paparoa Range ?
text: Did you know that Georgia radio station WMGA was so "atrocious" that its announcers would invite listeners to donate their records?
text: Did you know that Thomas Binger , the lead prosecutor in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse , unsuccessfully ran for district attorney of Racine County, Wisconsin , in 2016?
text: Did you know that after the War of Padua , the victorious Republic of Venice executed the lord of Padua and two of his sons?
text: Did you know that before the Swiss surgeon René Prêtre specialized in surgeries on children's hearts, he treated victims of gunshots and stabbings at Bellevue Hospital in New York?
text: Did you know that the series of protests that led to the 2021 North Kosovo crisis was caused by a ban on Serbian license plates from the Kosovan Government?
text: Did you know that Bruce Davis and his son, who both played for UCLA in college and professionally for the Raiders , are one of the few father–son duos to have played on teams that reached the Super Bowl ?
text: Did you know that at the 2021 Dublin Bay South by-election , voters were asked to bring their own pen or pencil?
text: Did you know that the sourdough starter at Diamond Bakery is believed to be more than a century old?
text: Did you know that the Black Prince's chevauchée of 1356 was the most important campaign of the Hundred Years' War ?
text: Did you know that constable Joseph Luker , the first police officer killed on duty in Australia, was a former convict?
text: Did you know that Roswell, New Mexico , radio station KBIM was so successful that its owner was able to start two other stations with its profits?
text: Did you know that Austrian mountaineer Franz Oppurg was the first person to achieve a solo ascent of Mount Everest , climbing alone from the South Col to the summit on 14 May 1978?
text: Did you know that Broadway's Imperial Theatre , opened in 1924, was the Shubert family 's 50th theater in New York City?
text: Did you know that when elected as mayor, Venezuelan politician Gloria Lizárraga de Capriles did not have her own office and worked from a shopping mall?
text: Did you know that two nude bathers in Arnold Comes of Age were "nearly obliterated"?
text: Did you know that Margaret A. Mahoney , who in 1949 became the majority leader of the Ohio Senate , is still the only woman to hold the top leadership role?
text: Did you know that machine learning can be used to recognize rock fractures?
text: Did you know that Kip Andersen and Keegan Kuhn were co-nominees for the 2018 Cinema for Peace Award for their documentary What the Health ?
text: Did you know that the taxi driver in the Liverpool Women's Hospital bombing was later commended for "incredible presence of mind and bravery"?
text: Did you know that American medical pioneer Isabella Coler Herb designed the Herb–Mueller apparatus to help doctors and dentists administer ether to patients?
text: Did you know that Maroparque received more than 250 exotic animals that were evacuated due to the 2021 Cumbre Vieja volcanic eruption ?
text: Did you know that Alexander Tahy became a pilot via on-the-job training ?
text: Did you know that a 1963 gas explosion in Indianapolis during a Holiday on Ice show was one of the worst disasters in Indiana history?
text: Did you know that Super Mario 64 has been the subject of medical literature showing a correlation between habitual playing of 3D platformers and increased grey matter in the brain?
text: Did you know that 1920s actress Susie Sutton created her own vaudeville troupe and toured her company throughout the TOBA circuit ?
text: Did you know that despite a 2016 commitment to channel a quarter of humanitarian aid through local aid organizations, only 2.1 percent of 2020 funding went to them?
text: Did you know that composers Charles Ives , Charles Tomlinson Griffes , and Elliott Carter attended Scriabin conferences held at Katherine Ruth Heyman 's loft?
text: Did you know that the replacement of arts listings television show 01-for London was described as "like having to swap a bright yellow curvy Japanese sports car for a dumpy little khaki-coloured old Ford Fiesta"?
text: Did you know that in 2002, a python was left in an amnesty bin at a Hawaii airport?
text: Did you know that Adam Kincaid of the National Republican Redistricting Trust defended lowered competition in US House elections, arguing that the changes would save the party money?
text: Did you know that the National Democratic Redistricting Committee supported lawsuits in North Carolina and Ohio against alleged gerrymandering by Republicans ?
text: Did you know that the brutal torture and lynching of Luther Holbert in 1904 was not recognized in the National Memorial for Peace and Justice until 2018?
text: Did you know that woody plant encroachment can harm the habitats of the cheetah , plains zebra and secretarybird ?
text: Did you know that actress Ethelyn Gibson was the first person to star in and produce a serial film that had sound?
text: Did you know that the 2016 Jim Beam strike was the first labor strike in the company's history?
text: Did you know that British Army brigadier Cyril Barclay certified that he was neither a polygamist nor an anarchist who wished to overthrow the United States government?
text: Did you know that the starfish Luidia savignyi feeds on sea urchins and starfish, swallowing its prey whole?
text: Did you know that artist Marie Herndl was arrested after trying to meet with President Theodore Roosevelt about her art?
text: Did you know that the Gujarati poem " Shav Vahini Ganga "  criticises the Indian government's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic?
text: Did you know that Byron Root Pierce was Michigan's last living Civil War general?
text: Did you know that Ken Johannson became the captain of the University of North Dakota ice hockey team despite attending the school on a football scholarship?
text: Did you know that a photo shoot on the Japanese survival program Who Is Princess? was published in the magazine Popteen ?
text: Did you know that Play features Katy Perry interacting with a giant toilet and a giant face mask?
text: Did you know that Harold A. Littledale went undercover as a prisoner for his Pulitzer Prize–winning investigation into the New Jersey prison system ?
text: Did you know that after it bombed in Canada, John Richardson removed anti-American passages from The Canadian Brothers to publish it in New York?
text: Did you know that Tandiono Manu worked in a tax office, took part in guerrilla warfare and then became Minister of Agriculture?
text: Did you know that a future president of the United States played halfback for the 1912 Army Cadets football team ?
text: Did you know that the clinical trials of British scientist Peter Pharoah helped eradicate congenital iodine deficiency syndrome (cretinism) in Papua New Guinea?
text: Did you know that in 1959, the new owner of the Coronet Theatre wanted to rename the theater after his favorite playwright, Eugene O'Neill , whose widow objected?
text: Did you know that China's "lipstick king", Li Jiaqi , once sold 15,000 lipsticks in five minutes in a faceoff against Alibaba Group 's CEO?
text: Did you know that Tulsa and Old Dominion , who played in the 2021 Myrtle Beach Bowl , each had to win their final regular season game to achieve bowl eligibility ?
text: Did you know that the British University of Nottingham has named a building at their Jubilee Campus after Chinese Communist Party politician Xu Yafen ?
text: Did you know that though Broadway's Ambassador Theatre was characterized as having a "relatively lackluster career", it has hosted the same musical since 2003?
text: Did you know that Alexander Wehrle was denied a move to VfB Stuttgart because his parents wanted him to focus on his studies?
text: Did you know that the owner of Mississippi radio stations WGUF and WGUF-FM purposefully fell behind on his royalty payments because he did not like copyright fees?
text: Did you know that Alicia Girón García was the first woman to become the director of the Biblioteca Nacional de España ?
text: Did you know that The New York Times described China Chalet "as if New York's art world had been transported to a Holiday Inn in the Midwest"?
text: Did you know that Surinamese trade unionist Louis Doedel was involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital by the governor-general for 43 years?
text: Did you know that the 1999 video game Interplay Sports Baseball Edition 2000 used a public-address announcer while its rivals were switching to two commentators as featured on real MLB game broadcasts ?
text: Did you know that Austrian master metalsmith Cyril Colnik chose to close his shop rather than make armaments for World War I?
text: Did you know that The New-England Courant has been noted as the first newspaper to publish a writing by Benjamin Franklin ?
text: Did you know that British architect Chris Wilkinson redeveloped Victorian-era industrial gasholders in Kings Cross, London into modern residential apartments?
text: Did you know that after The West Wing 's live, open presidential debate episode , MSNBC polled viewers on whom they thought won?
text: Did you know that Vancouver-based binner turned social entrepreneur Ken Lyotier took the 2010 Winter Olympics torch with him so that other binners could take photographs with it?
text: Did you know that although Alfred Hitchcock rejected James P. Cavanagh 's script for Psycho it contained many elements used in the final film, including the iconic shower murder scene?
text: Did you know that the music hall song " Let's All Go Down the Strand ", with its line "stay away from Germany, what's the good of going down the Rhine?" was popular with British soldiers during the First World War?
text: Did you know that the lynching of Lation Scott took more than three hours while thousands watched?
text: Did you know that the play-by-email game TribeNet , launched in the 1980s, allows players to gameplay activities ranging from combat to beekeeping ?
text: Did you know that Stanton Catlin won a Grammy Award in 1965 for an essay on Mexican art?
text: Did you know that in Die Schneekönigin , an opera for children by George Alexander Albrecht after Andersen's " The Snow Queen ", members of a children's choir play the roles of birds and ice crystals?
text: Did you know that while preparing for War Horse , theatre set designer Rae Smith spent weeks pretending to be a First World War British Army captain?
text: Did you know that when it rains, Turkey burns less gas ?
text: Did you know that a federal marshal seized a car and a truck because there was no other way to satisfy a debt owed by Arkansas television station KRZB-TV ?
text: Did you know that Titane , the first feature film of French actress Agathe Rousselle , won the Palme d'Or at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival ?
text: Did you know that after many years of farming crops, Russ Island was deliberately flooded for salt farming ?
text: Did you know that Papuan anthropologist Marlina Flassy is the first woman to be appointed a dean at Cenderawasih University ?
text: Did you know that a giant puppet dragon called The Hatchling was paraded through Plymouth and flown as a kite over the sea?
text: Did you know that in 1969, the man from Del Monte said yes to Eldorado Electrodata ?
text: Did you know that a recent New York Times article recommended four educational charities: Catherine Omanyo 's school, Children International , Khan Academy and the Wikimedia Foundation ?
text: Did you know that the fortunes of the Hardwick and Woodbury Railroad were inextricably linked to those of the Woodbury Granite Company ?
text: Did you know that in 18th-century England, buyers could pay to include their coat of arms in some books published by subscription ?
text: Did you know that American martial artist John Giordano , who taught karate to women alongside men and disabled people in the 1970s, held plays similar to kabuki theatre?
text: Did you know that the villagers of Akuşağı in Turkey have used their tractors to take tourists to a local attraction?
text: Did you know that the Little Cleo fishing spoon lure previously featured a scantily dressed exotic dancer ?
text: Did you know that " Prawo Jazdy ", once considered the worst traffic violator in Ireland, is actually the Polish term for ' driving licence '?
text: Did you know that coir is saving the Great North Bog ?
text: Did you know that Steve Hamas played in the National Football League and later beat two former boxing champions in the ring?
text: Did you know that fiction about journeys to the Moon has been written since at least the second century?
text: Did you know that Makoto Soejima is the only International Mathematical Olympiad gold medalist with a perfect score to have won both the Google Code Jam and the Facebook Hacker Cup ?
text: Did you know that The Massachusetts Gazette was one of the few Loyalist newspapers commissioned by the British ministry for its support prior to the American Revolution ?
text: Did you know that The Travelers were made to represent emigrants who have left a part of themselves behind?
text: Did you know that before being electrocuted for his crime, Julius Morgan said that the whisky made him do it?
text: Did you know that The Betty White Show was the subject of significant controversy after Betty White refused to fire a black cast member?
text: Did you know that when Stefan Keil moved to Yekaterinburg , Russia, as the German consul general, one of his first appearances was at the European Christmas market, dressed as Saint Nicholas ?
text: Did you know that When Harry Met Santa , an advert for Posten Norge featuring Santa kissing a man, commemorated 50 years since the repeal of Norway's anti-gay laws ?
text: Did you know that Edward M. Kirby proposed the first Pageant of Peace, to follow the lighting of the National Christmas Tree in Washington, D.C.?
text: Did you know that rugby league's 2022 Challenge Cup final will take place at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium instead of its traditional location of Wembley Stadium due to a scheduling conflict?
text: Did you know that COVID-19 vaccine scientist Paul Duprex got his start in microbiology by experimenting with his high-school classmates' spit?
text: Did you know that the origin of Christmas is uncertain?
text: Did you know that Rudolf Szepessy-Sokoll shot down a pair of Macchi L.3 seaplanes to become a flying ace ?
text: Did you know that the continuing influence of the Catholic Church in the politics of the Philippines means that the country lacks a divorce law?
text: Did you know that Francis Bacon played in the first National Football League game and became the first NFL player to return a punt for a touchdown?
text: Did you know that the Democratic Society Party was the 25th political party to be banned in Turkey since 1962?
text: Did you know that when Antonia Urrejola was president of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights , her vice presidents were women as well?
text: Did you know that the pictogram of Zapotitlán metro station depicts an indented sapote tree as the word tlantli means 'tooth' in Nahuatl ?
text: Did you know that the completion of Interstate 205 in Oregon was delayed to mitigate air and noise pollution for a jail that closed a few months later?
text: Did you know that American engineering manager Jack Lemley , credited with rescuing the Channel Tunnel project, flew over 7 million miles (11 million kilometres) or about 300 times around the globe?
text: Did you know that certain bamboo species release large numbers of seeds in synchrony after numbers of years that have only 2, 3, and 5 as their prime factors ?
text: Did you know that the Richard Rodgers Theatre has hosted 11 Tony Award-winning plays and musicals, more than any other Broadway theater?
text: Did you know that Francis Bourgeois is pursuing full-time trainspotting ?
text: Did you know that the 2021 Seattle City Council 3rd district recall election was the first recall held in the city since 1975?
text: Did you know that mayor Pero Pirker was largely forgotten despite leading recovery and rebuilding efforts after the devastating 1964 Zagreb flood ?
text: Did you know that WTVK in Knoxville, Tennessee , won a years-long battle to move from UHF to a VHF channel, only to be sent by new management to "that big TV station in the sky"?
text: Did you know that a bicycle shop in Maryland became a major BMX bike manufacturer in the 1980s?
text: Did you know that the only stained glass exported to the United States by Barton, Kinder and Alderson had to pay import duty, unlike much artwork in places of worship, because of its low cost-to-size ratio?
text: Did you know that John J. Slocum tried in vain to return James Joyce 's body to Ireland?
text: Did you know that Canticle IV: The Journey of the Magi , a 1971 composition for three male solo voices and piano by Benjamin Britten , sets a T. S. Eliot poem to music?
text: Did you know that the recently restored Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Roebourne is the oldest church in North West Australia?
text: Did you know that after offering to be an extra in The Walking Dead , Zoe Colletti was cast as a main character in its spin-off Fear the Walking Dead ?
text: Did you know that during a match at the snooker 2021 UK Championship , player Mark Williams fell asleep?
text: Did you know that Bobbi Kristina Brown died less than four years after her mother Whitney Houston died in similar circumstances?
text: Did you know that during the January 1998 North American ice storm , an employee at Cornwall Electric used a bow and arrow to provide power to a city?
text: Did you know that colonial printer Peter Edes was arrested by British forces for openly expressing support and sympathy for the patriots when they lost the Battle of Bunker Hill ?
text: Did you know that lesbians in Nazi Germany , unlike gay men, did not face systematic persecution?
text: Did you know that former NFL halfback Art Pharmer pursued, tackled, and captured a shoplifter who ran from the sporting goods store where Pharmer worked?
text: Did you know that the Degenerate Art auction in 1939, which included paintings by Van Gogh and Picasso , raised only $115,000?
text: Did you know that actress Miya Cech was praised for "do[ing] what [she] can with nothing" in the ill-regarded The Darkest Minds ?
text: Did you know that the Bancroft region is the only place in Canada and one of very few places in the world where uranium has been mined from pegmatite rock?
text: Did you know that Mally Nydahl , "one of the greatest backs ever to come out of the Middle West", used his football earnings to pay for medical school and became a professor of orthopedic surgery?
text: Did you know that Levantine Arabic is often written in Hebrew characters online by Bedouin , Arab Christians , and Druze in Israel ?
text: Did you know that Rebecca Odes played bass guitar for Love Child before going on to create Gurl.com ?
text: Did you know that in 2008, Macau transferred a woman to mainland China before her habeas corpus case was heard?
text: Did you know that Twitch streamer Jerma985 hosted a stream in which viewers could control him in a real-life version of The Sims ?
text: Did you know that 88.1.2.1 is a broken toe , while 78.1.1.1 is a broken finger ?
text: Did you know that Maw Htun Aung , a Shan Nationalities League for Democracy candidate in the 2020 Myanmar general election , is Kachin , not Shan ?
text: Did you know that Greyhound Electronics enlisted the help of the Scarfo crime family to sell its video poker machines?
text: Did you know that the economy of Reineh , now in northern Israel, was so strong in the Mamluk era that they could afford imported pottery from Syria and Italy?
text: Did you know that Junji Ito had no particular ending in mind while writing Sensor ?
text: Did you know that Daniel Henchman was considered the "most eminent and enterprising" publisher and bookseller in all of British America prior to the American Revolution ?
text: Did you know that according to George Orwell , "serious sport has nothing to do with fair play ... it is war minus the shooting "?
text: Did you know that Claudia Watkins , the only "lady judge" in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina , in 1969, thought it was "no big deal"?
text: Did you know that visual effects artist Roy Field worked on the first seven official James Bond films ?
text: Did you know that the board game Viticulture has a Mafia-themed expansion set?
text: Did you know that Sinan Selen worked at the travel agency TUI before he became the vice president of the German domestic intelligence service ?
text: Did you know that a woman in Texas attempted to have Tiger Flowers removed from the library collection at her daughter's school?
text: Did you know that communist propagandist Jian Xianfo gave birth to her son in an earthwork during the Long March ?
text: Did you know that Interstate 90 is the longest freeway in the United States, at 3,020 miles (4,860 km)?
text: Did you know that General Antonio Valero de Bernabé is said to have used his skills as a ventriloquist to fool his enemies into believing that their weapons were possessed?
text: Did you know that the 100-player board game Cartographers has a crowdfunded expansion set?
text: Did you know that bass-baritone Johann-Werner Prein took part in the 1994 premiere of Erwin Schulhoff 's only opera, Flammen , which the Nazis had suppressed?
text: Did you know that the director of the 1936 film The Love Wanga was threatened by having a wanga placed in his car?
text: Did you know that artist Heather Doram won Antigua and Barbuda 's national competition to design a new national costume?
text: Did you know that a 1999 legal case guaranteed the right of transgender people in England and Wales to access gender reassignment surgery ?
text: Did you know that WAAF Corporal Elspeth Henderson remained at her post despite a direct hit by a Luftwaffe bomb?
text: Did you know that the Glen Rock is very gneiss ?
text: Did you know that Sandy Heribert was inspired to become a journalist after seeing coverage of the Gulf War when she was nine years old?
text: Did you know that "the crowning achievement" of Francis Hopkinson Smith , the novel Felix O'Day , was not published until after his death?
text: Did you know that the French lawyer and politician Francis Szpiner defended a former emperor in court before becoming a district mayor of Paris?
text: Did you know that Marc Jacobs 's fragrance Daisy is cottagecore ?
text: Did you know that orange sea grapes contain substances that have a cytotoxic effect?
text: Did you know that even though Charles P. Adams meant to hire someone else, Ralph Waldo Emerson Jones remained at Grambling State University for 51 years?
text: Did you know that the Chronicle of the 20th Century was so heavy that it was said to be "the first coffee table book seriously to threaten the well-being of coffee-tables"?
text: Did you know that the USFL is in talks with officials from Birmingham, Alabama , with the goal of hosting the entirety of the 2022 USFL season in the city?
text: Did you know that when flying ace Julius Busa 's aircraft was hit at 3,000 metres (9,800 ft), his observer leapt overboard without a parachute?
text: Did you know that Ethel Barrymore, Marilyn Miller, Mary Pickford, and Rosa Ponselle have been standing at 1552 Broadway since 1929?
text: Did you know that blind botanist John Grimshaw Wilkinson used his tongue to tell the difference between plants?
text: Did you know that the world's only museum devoted to American actor Phil Silvers is located in Coventry, England?
text: Did you know that Sumitro Djojohadikusumo expected the majority of the beneficiaries of his economic policy might turn out to be "parasites"?
text: Did you know that about three million people employed Dr. Halo between 1984 and 1993?
text: Did you know that Robert D. Bullard has emerged as the "father of environmental justice" since the publication of his 1990 book, Dumping in Dixie ?
text: Did you know that after the arrival of guerilla commander Goliath Tabuni , Puncak Jaya Regency became "the most violent" region in Papua ?
text: Did you know that the presence of illegal colleges in Saumlaki was compared to "mushrooms growing in the rainy season"?
text: Did you know that West Virginia lawyer Arthur G. Froe served as D.C. Recorder of Deeds under three presidents and was appointed by President Wilson as a draft board legal advisor during World War I?
text: Did you know that clashes between the Myanmar military and local armed groups broke out in Lay Kay Kaw six years after it was established as a "town of peace" between the parties?
text: Did you know that in 1896, the New York Driving Club was sued for damaging their neighbor's garden?
text: Did you know that Daviesia devito and D. schwarzenegger are two Australian peas ?
text: Did you know that twenty-a-day cigarette smoker Trudi Thomson suffered from bulimia and rheumatoid arthritis before she became a successful runner?
text: Did you know that Dash for Cash , an event in which teachers competed to grab one-dollar bills to pay for school supplies, was criticized for being dehumanizing?
text: Did you know that paracyclist Juan José Florián fought for both sides in the Colombian conflict ?
text: Did you know that the Third Street Railroad Trestle is the last remaining wooden trestle bridge in downtown Austin, Texas ?
text: Did you know that Xie Fei , one of the thirty women participating in the Long March , was imprisoned during the Cultural Revolution ?
text: Did you know that the Sei pezzi per pianoforte were Ottorino Respighi 's first published works?
text: Did you know that Pittsburgh Panthers end Steve Jastrzembski was nicknamed "Jazz" because his teammates could not correctly pronounce his surname?
text: Did you know that New Mexico television station KIVA-TV received angry phone calls and a bomb threat after switching away from a tied football game?
text: Did you know that conductor Rudolf Pohl , a member of the Aachen Cathedral choir as a boy, brought the Charlemagne-era choir to international recognition in the 1960s?
text: Did you know that on initiative of the Volkswagen worker organizations , Volkswagen formed one of the first Global Works Councils in 1998, an extension of the existing European Works Council ?
text: Did you know that Lou Swarz became famous for her "One Woman Show" involving monologue performances as various characters, including Phillis Wheatley and Sojourner Truth ?
text: Did you know that Monmouth Coffee Company in Covent Garden was one of the foundations for the third wave of coffee in London?
text: Did you know that Juan Juárez may have been the first bishop-elect within the territory of the United States?
text: Did you know that the leader of the Japanese band Friends was chosen via a game of Uno ?
text: Did you know that Moldavian rebel Teodor Boldur-Lățescu was twice beaten up on circus grounds: once for insulting Wallachian officers of the Romanian Army , and a second time for cruelty to animals?
text: Did you know that the Tokio platform for the Rust programming language uses a work stealing scheduler?
text: Did you know that lingering disabilities led flying ace Johann Frint to join the Austro-Hungarian Aviation Troops ?
text: Did you know that the last edition of The Knoxville Journal was printed 30 years ago today after a 106-year run?
text: Did you know that Adolph Schoeninger faced financial ruin three times before becoming one of the largest bicycle manufacturers in the world?
text: Did you know that Lunt and Fontanne retired from Broadway after the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre was renamed after them?
text: Did you know that Karolína Huvarová quipped that she earned her position as men's hockey coach "in bed"?
text: Did you know that English nurseryman Luke Pope claimed on his deathbed to have spent more than £3,000 (equivalent to over £250,000 in 2020) on tulip bulbs?
text: Did you know that the Louis Micheels House was called a building of "great significance", but the new owners wanted it gone?
text: Did you know that the 2021 Bahamas Bowl was the first edition in which a team made a return appearance?
text: Did you know that approximately 85 percent of Manhattan was recreated for the 2008 video game The Incredible Hulk ?
text: Did you know that despite being nicknamed a "lanternbug", Lycorma imperialis does not actually emit any light?
text: Did you know that Bianca Baptiste was Tottenham Hotspur 's top goal scorer during their promotion—and then they dropped her from the team?
text: 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 "?
text: 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?
text: Did you know that after Syracuse 's Bastable Theatre burnt down in 1923, the city's tallest building was built in its place?
text: Did you know that a 2007 European Court of Human Rights case ruled that European automobile owners do not have the right to remain silent when asked who was speeding in their vehicle?
text: Did you know that Operation Ivory Soap created and operated a fleet of aircraft repair vessels to support the United States' island-hopping strategy in the Pacific during World War II?
text: 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"?
text: 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"?
text: Did you know that Cheok Hong Cheong sold bananas for a decade, after which he became superintendent of the Church of England of Melbourne?
text: Did you know that when offered, soldiers under Russian general V. P. Taranovsky chose imprisonment in Algeria rather than continuing to fight or serving as labourers?
text: Did you know that the tugboat R. B. Forbes was the first iron mercantile vessel built in New England?
text: Did you know that Sukanya Ramgopal is the first woman Ghatam player in Carnatic music ?
text: Did you know that an estimated 1,050 Jews were killed in the Rakaŭ Ghetto between its creation and liquidation?
text: Did you know that in 1749, James Davis became the first printer to set up shop in the colony of North Carolina ?
text: Did you know that the genus Xochiquetzallia was named after the Aztec goddess of flowers ?
text: Did you know that Demi Lovato started an Internet feud with a frozen yogurt shop —and lost?
text: 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 ?
text: Did you know that in their first operation, Japan's Special Security Response Team participated in humanitarian activities after the 2021 Atami landslide ?
text: Did you know that playwright Deborah Zoe Laufer is said to "deal with serious, existential questions in seriously hilarious ways"?
text: Did you know that the 1980 bibliography The Old French Tristan Poems was praised for indexing the fragments of Tristan , a 12th-century poem?
text: 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?
text: 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?
text: Did you know that LD has been called the "godfather of UK drill "?
text: Did you know that freestyle skier Kirsty Muir was the youngest Team GB competitor at the 2022 Winter Olympics ?
text: 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 ?
text: Did you know that The Battle at Lake Changjin II uses frostbite makeup and fake snow made from white sand?
text: Did you know that after turning the San Diego Chargers into a Super Bowl contender, Johnny Sanders sought to bring an Arena Football League team into the city?
text: Did you know that Iceland's time zone might have a negative health effect on citizens?
text: Did you know that the Metro Orange Line and 80 percent of express buses in downtown Minneapolis use the Marq2 transit corridor ?
text: Did you know that the 2013 novel Body Offering was described by a critic as "more erratic than erotic"?
text: 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 ?
text: Did you know that Potamophylax coronavirus 's range has been described as a battlefield between scientists and hydropower plant management?
text: Did you know that Avraham Tamir was the first Israeli official to hold talks with the Palestine Liberation Organization leadership?
text: Did you know that David Bowie 's " I Dig Everything " was one of his first songs to be covered by another artist?
text: Did you know that Alexander Hamilton , a future United States Founding Father , attended St. John's Episcopal Church in his youth?
text: Did you know that Australian rules football coach Sampson Hosking named himself in Port Adelaide's team at the age of 48?
text: Did you know that at WSTA , the first radio station in the U.S. Virgin Islands , goats and chickens sometimes wandered in during broadcasts?
text: 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?
text: Did you know that according to Roald Dahl , the measles vaccine is probably far safer than eating chocolate?
text: Did you know that the Casa Rull in Andorra was said to be occupied by "fat peasants"?
text: Did you know that in 1850, about a quarter of the post offices of the Swiss Post were located in taverns ?
text: Did you know that zombie pornography emerged in the 1980s during a rise in the Italian sexploitation film industry?
text: 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 ?
text: Did you know that a showing of the 1914 film Lord Chumley on the roof of a New York City theatre was canceled with an on-screen announcement due to its 40-minute runtime?
text: Did you know that Henry E. Sigerist felt "depressed" after reading A History of Science, Technology, and Philosophy in the 16th and 17th Centuries ?
text: Did you know that pioneering Daily News camerawoman Evelyn Straus had her clothes custom-made to carry her film and flashbulbs?
text: Did you know that a London shipbuilder founded Wellington Square Baptist Church in Hastings out of gratitude for his daughter's health improving while staying in the seaside town?
text: Did you know that Sky Alps is the first airline to operate scheduled flights from Bolzano Airport since 2015?
text: Did you know that siren kings use music by Celine Dion in loudspeaker battles?
text: 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?
text: Did you know that when American-born skier Katie Vesterstein chose to compete for Estonia, she had only visited the country once, and did not speak the language?
text: Did you know that Frank Frazetta 's Egyptian Queen is the most expensive work of comic art ever sold at auction?
text: Did you know that Genghis Khan declared himself to be "the punishment of God" after capturing the city of Bukhara in 1220?
text: 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 ?
text: Did you know that " Silly Boy Blue " reflected David Bowie 's fascination with Tibetan Buddhism ?
text: Did you know that Encanto character Bruno Madrigal was originally named Oscar, but his name was changed due to the number of real-life Oscar Madrigals in Colombia?
text: Did you know that the residents of Derasar collect rainwater in taankas since the village experiences eleven months of drought a year?
text: Did you know that to promote the Paramount Hotel , its operator mailed out apples?
text: Did you know that the 2012 Olympic women's soccer semifinal between the Canadian and the American national teams was called "the greatest knockout match in major-tournament football" since 1982?
text: Did you know that after he was stripped of his Cornish landholdings, Henry Fitzcount joined the Fifth Crusade , during which he died?
text: Did you know that Svalbard Minute by Minute , a 221-hour-long television broadcast, is credited with increasing tourism in Svalbard by 25 percent?
text: Did you know that Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction From Africa and the African Diaspora was partly inspired by The 1619 Project ?
text: Did you know that Balbuena metro station was flooded with sewage following a failure attributed to an unrelated fire ?
text: 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?
text: Did you know that squatters in Hamburg briefly occupied the former Erotic Art Museum ?
text: Did you know that Compaq placed the built-in trackball of the LTE Lite on its display housing?
text: Did you know that although Ovad Efrat was a commando in the Israel Defense Forces , his son Daniel Efrat was rejected after conscription?
text: Did you know that the joint National War Fund was created during World War II so that American citizens would not get annoyed by multiple donation requests for service members' support and overseas relief?
text: Did you know that the 1986 Magic Tour was the last tour Freddie Mercury performed with Queen ?
text: Did you know that even though Robert W. Brady withdrew financial support of the nascent Boston College , he later became its president?
text: Did you know that the organ in Hastings Unitarian Church had previously been in three other Unitarian churches?
text: Did you know that Utah & Ether 's five-year, 30-country graffiti- tagging tour ended when a single dad got Ether in a headlock?
text: Did you know that American psychoanalyst Helen Block Lewis was one of the first researchers to study the difference between shame and guilt?
text: 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 ?
text: 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?
text: Did you know that in the late 1800s, Hong Kong's small Jewish community was divided into two groups that would not even pray together?
text: Did you know that William Rittenhouse is noted for having established the first paper mill in North America in 1690?
text: 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 ?
text: Did you know that the attractions of CTF 2187 included "the fog of war [and] polite insults in the newsletter"?
text: 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?
text: Did you know that Harry Steele purchased the Albatross Hotel in a bankruptcy sale and ultimately owned it for over half a century until his death?
text: Did you know that David Bowie 's 1967 composition " Let Me Sleep Beside You " was rejected as a single due to its suggestive title?
text: Did you know that the name of Church Street station has been changed twice since 2019?
text: 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?
text: Did you know that at the height of their popularity, eight-ball jackets were such a status symbol in the East Coast hip hop scene that they were frequently stolen at gunpoint?
text: Did you know that Skálmöld & Sinfóníuhljómsveit Íslands documents a symphony orchestra playing heavy metal music ?
text: Did you know that the International Vinegar Museum houses more than 350 types of vinegar from around the world?
text: Did you know that the Royal Navy only withdrew cutlasses from combat service in 1936?
text: Did you know that the population of Holmes County, Ohio , is approximately 50 percent Amish ?
text: 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 ?
text: 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?
text: Did you know that after being wiped by the BBC, all four episodes of the Doctor Who serial The Time Meddler were discovered in Nigeria in 1984?
text: Did you know that HALO will orbit the Moon?
text: Did you know that footballer Chris Hussey studied part-time to gain a first-class honours degree after overcoming anxiety and obsessive–compulsive disorders?
text: Did you know that a reviewer once withheld top marks for play-by-mail game Midgard because of a negative experience with a gamemaster ?
text: 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 ?
text: Did you know that in its final years, Mississippi radio station WKXG allegedly attempted to maintain its broadcast license by "taking turns" with another station in their transmitter facility?
text: 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 ?
text: 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 ?
text: Did you know that the private members' club George has a bespoke menu for pet dogs?
text: Did you know that a 1994 lightning strike in Egypt led to 469 deaths after oil tanks were ignited and flooded the village of Dronka with burning fuel?
text: 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 ?
text: Did you know that the Buddhist themes of David Bowie 's 1967 composition " Karma Man " were compared to the Marvel Comics character Doctor Strange ?
text: 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?
text: Did you know that the North Branch Bridge on Ontario Highway 78 partially collapsed just 17 days after a temporary bridge was opened to facilitate construction of a replacement?
text: Did you know that Barrau de Sescas , a Gascon knight, was the first person appointed by an English king to a position titled admiral ?
text: Did you know that Catalena Productions had a Monty Hall problem when the host, unpaid, forced the company into bankruptcy?
text: 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 ?
text: Did you know that letters and reports continued to appear under Pontius Pilate's name for centuries after his death?
text: 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"?
text: 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 ?
text: 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 ?
text: Did you know that Lihie Raz was the first Israeli to medal at the European Women's Artistic Gymnastics Championships ?
text: Did you know that although the Courant–Snyder parameters in accelerator physics are often referred to as "Twiss parameters", Richard Q. Twiss had no idea how his name came to be associated with them?
text: 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?
text: 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 ?
text: 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 ?
text: Did you know that Aubin Grove railway station was built mostly off-site to minimise disruption to a nearby freeway?
text: 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?
text: Did you know that journalist Jack Sullivan was referred to as "the newsman's newsman"?
text: Did you know that the Chicago Sun-Times credits JumpStart Toddlers as the first video game targeted towards babies?
text: Did you know that New York City's Broadhurst , Plymouth , Shubert , and Booth Theatres were all designed with curved corners facing Broadway?
text: 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?
text: Did you know that the annual street painting festival in downtown Lake Worth Beach, Florida , attracts approximately 100,000 people?
text: Did you know that Swiss archaeologist Marguerite Gautier-van Berchem created a service for the International Committee of the Red Cross to help prisoners of war from the French colonies during World War II?
text: 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 ?
text: Did you know that British barrister Jonathan Cooper was "at the forefront of efforts to decriminalise homosexuality around the world"?
text: Did you know that the act of trying a burger at Slutty Vegan for the first time is known as being "sluttified"?
text: Did you know that Progressive Corporation , an insurer, published 5,000 copies of a book credited to Dr. Rick , its fictional advertising campaign character?
text: Did you know that the flag of the French Army's 92nd Infantry Regiment was lost when the destroyer Siroco sank off Dunkirk in 1940?
text: Did you know that at age 12, Shaylee Mansfield became the first deaf actor to be credited alongside the voice actors for a signed performance in an animated production?
text: Did you know that 250 Jews were imprisoned in a castle in Mladá Boleslav during the Holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia ?
text: Did you know that Guy Thwaites and his colleagues hypothesized that the 1993 US hantavirus outbreak was similar to the mysterious medieval sweating sickness ?
text: Did you know that Pitcairn was named after the midshipman on HMS Swallow who first spotted the island?
text: Did you know that the Hoosier Slide was a popular tourist attraction until it was turned into glass?
text: Did you know that John Hartford wrote " Gentle on My Mind " in about half an hour after seeing Doctor Zhivago ?
text: 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?
text: Did you know that Frank Avery Hutchins has been called the "father of Wisconsin public libraries"?
text: 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?
text: Did you know that just four years after starting up, the president of Satellite Television & Associated Resources commented that his entire industry had "gone down the drain"?
text: Did you know that mining entrepreneur and former model Tigui Camara is the first woman in Guinea to own a mining company, which she partially runs as a social enterprise?
text: Did you know that on the Jubilee coinage , Queen Victoria wore a crown so small that critics said it might fall off her head?
text: 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 ?
text: Did you know that during World War II, the governor of Portuguese Timor was confined to the Palácio de Lahane by the territory's Japanese occupiers?
text: Did you know that Donald H. Elliott 's efforts as the director of New York's planning department helped change the city's skyline?
text: Did you know that the Princess of Xiaohe , a 3,800-year-old mummy, was so well preserved that her eyelashes are still intact?
text: Did you know that Lloyd Simmons wore the uniform number 0 because that was the number of games he expected to lose each season?
text: Did you know that on 20 January 2022, a mining explosives truck detonated in Apiate , Ghana, damaging around 500 buildings and killing 13 people?
text: Did you know that Phil Williams served in the Alabama state legislature at the same time as Phil Williams ?
text: Did you know that Because They Know Not by Jamaican novelist Alvin Gladstone Bennett describes itself as a "powerful story on the colour problem"?
text: Did you know that the illusion of explanatory depth leads people to overestimate how knowledgeable they are, but can be counteracted by asking them to explain how things work?
text: Did you know that Bahraini businesswoman Yara Salman founded a beauty salon, a medical center, an entertainment complex, and a restaurant in the past decade?
text: Did you know that Wallace's fruit dove has been described as being one of the most beautiful fruit doves ?
text: 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?
text: 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?
text: Did you know that the Colonial Defence Committee advised British colonies not to permit more than two foreign warships into harbour at a time, in case of a surprise attack?
text: Did you know that illustrator Al Hirschfeld knew he would get his own Broadway theater for his 100th birthday, but he died before the renaming?
text: 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?
text: Did you know that Los Angeles was built with the labor of Indigenous Yaangavit people whose village was destroyed to make space for it?
text: Did you know that German economist Ingo Böbel became Professor of Economics at International University of Monaco after serving a prison sentence for embezzlement and tax evasion?
text: 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?
text: Did you know that the Neon Genesis Evangelion episode " Asuka Strikes! " includes references to the works of William Shakespeare ?
text: Did you know that the 1979 Book of Common Prayer contains a Star Wars prayer?
text: Did you know that the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia is the only contemporary art museum in the country with a permanent collection?
text: 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"?
text: Did you know that Jérôme Chappellaz wants to collect ice cores from Africa's Mount Kilimanjaro to be preserved in Antarctica?
text: Did you know that the New Zealand stonefly Stenoperla prasina was the five millionth specimen digitised by the Natural History Museum in London?
text: Did you know that shortly after getting married in 1875, Robert A. Emmitt crossed the Cascade Mountains driving a cattle herd while his wife led a pack horse that carried their possessions?
text: Did you know that the Zigzag House was designed for two people who supported the circus arts ?
text: Did you know that Mark Birley described the interior decor of his Bath & Racquets Club as the "post-Mussolini epic style"?
text: Did you know that the headquarters of Advanced Logic Research was the subject of an attempted armed invasion in 1989 during a surge of computer-chip robberies?
text: Did you know that Brandon Tanev said he saw a ghost while his head shot was being taken for the Pittsburgh Penguins ?
text: Did you know that Amory Street station and Babcock Street station replaced four predecessor stations?
text: 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?
text: 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?
text: Did you know that Saba Malaspina was "the only important Roman historiographer from the 13th century"?
text: Did you know that Mini ature is the largest frog in its genus ?
text: Did you know that a proposed footbridge connecting the Asian Garden Mall to another Vietnamese-American shopping center met opposition because it was deemed "too Chinese"?
text: Did you know that Rebeca Andrade is the first Brazilian female gymnast to win a medal at the Olympic Games ?
text: Did you know that John Wayne Bobbitt Uncut was the bestselling pornographic film of 1994 and had the most rentals that year in the United States?
text: Did you know that in the 1980s, Amanda Villepastour , now an ethnomusicologist at Cardiff University , was the keyboardist in Australian new wave band Eurogliders ?
text: Did you know that observations of a car tire being repaired helped develop the epidural blood patch ?
text: 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 ?
text: Did you know that Rodolphe Iddi Lala went from being a professor of sociology to organizing a bombing at a cinema?
text: Did you know that Red Clay State Historic Park was the last capital of the Cherokee Nation in the eastern United States?
text: Did you know that in 1917, flying ace Otto Jäger was wounded by a propeller?
text: 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"?
text: Did you know that when he saw the tapestry Les Dés Sont Jetés , Jørn Utzon exclaimed: "See that? Ours will be better!"?
text: Did you know that while many Premier League clubs were sponsored by alcohol companies , no such sponsors remained by the 2017–18 season ?
text: 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?
text: Did you know that Coleman's Melibe is said to look like a "string of snot in the water"?
text: Did you know that footballer Dean Whitehead was compared to Roy Keane a year before Keane was appointed as his manager?
text: 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?
text: Did you know that after nearly killing a man in a duel, Edgar P. Rucker went on to become the attorney general of West Virginia?
text: 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 ?
text: 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?
text: 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?
text: Did you know that a would-be buyer of San Angelo, Texas , radio station KBIL-FM had no knowledge of the transaction?
text: 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?
text: Did you know that former Philippine secretary of national defense Norberto Gonzales said that a Chinese invasion was "not unthinkable"?
text: 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 ?
text: Did you know that Travis Ludlow broke the world record for the youngest person to fly solo around the world?
text: Did you know that staff had to be deployed on the first day of service at Woodleigh MRT station to assist commuters who alighted there mistakenly because they did not realize it had opened?
text: 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?
text: Did you know that the white-headed fruit dove ( Ptilinopus eugeniae ) was named after Eugénie de Montijo , Empress of the French?
text: Did you know that when Maria Keller was eight years old, she founded a nonprofit that would later go on to collect and distribute more than three million books to underprivileged children?
text: Did you know that Fagus langevinii is considered to be the oldest extinct species of beech tree?
text: Did you know that child actress and singer Sylvia Froos was noted for her ability to mimic the vocal styles of famous celebrity performers?
text: Did you know that the 1929 Scottish Prayer Book is the Scottish Episcopal Church 's current version of the Book of Common Prayer ?
text: Did you know that two My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episodes are said to discuss Marxism and Stalinism?
text: Did you know that Mount Yasumandake was considered sacred to Buddhists , Shintoists , and Christians ?
text: Did you know that artist Ervin Herve Loranth refers to his sculptures as "public surprises"?
text: Did you know that the Canadian House of Commons held a take-note debate on the discovery of the graves of more than 200 Indigenous children near Kamloops Indian Residential School in 2021?
text: Did you know that baseball umpire Cece Carlucci made the umpiring equipment used in The Natural ?
text: Did you know that Rudi Stephan was already composing the opera Die ersten Menschen when the 1908 drama about the first humans by Otto Borngräber, on which it is based, was banned in Bavaria?
text: Did you know that Dave Dryburgh began a journalism career while reporting on the soccer games in which he played?
text: Did you know that the paddle steamer Lotta Bernard was described as "altogether unfit for the traffic she was employed in" after she sank?
text: Did you know that the League for Human Rights , established in Germany in the early 1920s, was the first mass organization for homosexuals?
text: Did you know that Microsoft has banned all third-party tech-support advertisements on Bing due to a rise in technical support scams ?
text: Did you know that Clemson University football player Jim McCanless made the 1958 varsity team despite having suffered a broken neck the year prior?
text: Did you know that two major petrochemical explosions in the Greater Houston area, the 1990 ARCO explosion and the Phillips disaster , occurred within one year of each other?
text: Did you know that the seafaring poet D. I. Antoniou worked on a single poem for more than a decade and ended up publishing it over thirty years later?
text: Did you know that Broadway's Lyric Theatre , once deemed a "cursed" theater, now hosts The Cursed Child ?
text: Did you know that Australian senator Ben Small had been a ship's officer, bar owner, paramedic, ambulance trainer, and logistician before entering politics?
text: Did you know that the Finnish 7th Division was formed in 1940 by renumbering another unit to make it appear to the Soviets that it had been replaced with fresh troops?
text: Did you know that the Claudia Quintet was born out of an incident at alt.coffee?
text: Did you know that in 1995, Hurricane Flossie damaged many tapes of Jerry Lewis telethons belonging to the Muscular Dystrophy Association ?
text: Did you know that author Theresa Pulszky escaped from the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 by pretending to be the companion of a German couple?
text: Did you know that the video game JFK Reloaded recreates the assassination of John F. Kennedy from the perspective of the killer?
text: Did you know that Mao Zedong initially approved the Dalai Lama's escape into Indian exile, but later ordered that it be prevented?
text: Did you know that The Constitutional Courant was a single-issue newspaper published by William Goddard for the sole purpose of criticizing the Stamp Act in 1765?
text: Did you know that Genevieve Beacom became the first woman to pitch in the Australian Baseball League when she made her debut for the Melbourne Aces in 2022?
text: Did you know that Interstate 229 once ended at a gravel road ?
text: Did you know that despite experiencing midnight sun and polar night , Svalbard observes daylight saving time ?
text: Did you know that a work by Bettie Freshwater Pool was proposed to be the official state song of North Carolina?
text: Did you know that after viewing the Coates round house , the prospective occupant's fiancée refused to marry him unless the canal company made the property more habitable?
text: Did you know that Qadi al-Fadil began his career under the Fatimids , became Saladin 's chief minister, and was renowned for the elegance of his epistolary writing?
text: Did you know that George Balanchine only started working on his ballet Mozartiana three weeks before its premiere?
text: Did you know that the spotted lanternfly has been used in traditional Chinese medicine to treat swelling since the 1100s?
text: Did you know that the Connecticut Valley Railroad successfully fooled the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad into purchasing it by pretending that it planned to expand northwards?
text: Did you know that the Twin Parks housing project in New York City, the site of a January 2022 fire that killed seventeen people, won architectural awards after it was constructed in the early 1970s?
text: Did you know that Australian neurosurgeon Jeffrey Rosenfeld led the team developing a wireless device that promises to give limited vision to the totally blind?
text: Did you know that the Little Theatre , once deemed a "gem among playhouses", was later planned to be replaced by a driveway for The New York Times ?
text: Did you know that the 1810s reign of Ioan Caragea introduced Wallachia to carom billiards , sugar sculptures , and an eponymous plague ?
text: Did you know that La Poutine Week is the world's largest poutine festival, with 700 restaurants serving 350,000 people?
text: Did you know that while waiting for an interview, journalist Rod Beaton was involved in a shoving incident with baseball player Barry Bonds ?
text: Did you know that the Godzilla Megamullion is at least ten times larger than all other known megamullions?
text: Did you know that after performing as Davy Jones, David Bowie 's " Can't Help Thinking About Me " was his first single released under the name "David Bowie"?
text: Did you know that Grant Sutherland is the geneticist who identified fragile X syndrome ,  the most common inherited genetic form of intellectual impairment?
text: Did you know that characters from several different science fiction media appear as an Easter egg in the episode " Babylon's Ashes "?
text: Did you know that Madame "Toto" Bannard Cogley not only co-founded Dublin's Gate Theatre , but also supplied most of the initial membership?
text: Did you know that the owner of the bus service connecting the two largest Vietnamese-American communities in the United States was the target of an assassination plot by a competitor?
text: Did you know that singer Henrietta Loveless performed at the New York World's Fair with the Chocolate Éclair Family?
text: Did you know that in 1354, the Duke of Lancaster compared his heart to the sea, a fox's hole, and a market-place ?
text: Did you know that future U.S. Supreme Court justice Wiley Rutledge married his college Greek instructor—in a tuberculosis sanatorium ?
text: Did you know that guitarists playing a duet together have been shown to be in neural synchrony ?
text: Did you know that a new species of ant was named to honor artist Jeremy Ayers and the non-binary community?
text: Did you know that a recent cyberattack on Ukrainian websites was disguised as ransomware?
text: Did you know that by 1950, Abraham Wolf had amassed the largest collection of books by and about Spinoza ?
text: Did you know that during the Battle of the Blacks in August 1169, Saladin ordered his forces to attack and torch his opponents' quarters, where their wives and children had been left?
text: Did you knowthat Ozzie was the first gorilla to take his own blood pressure voluntarily?
text: Did you know that an animal rendering and recycling plant dumped illegal amounts of ammonia , phosphorus , and fecal bacteria into the Transquaking River ?
text: Did you know that Malika Louback believes her three engineering degrees make her a better fashion model?
text: Did you know that Racer 's hurricane in 1837 was named after a Royal Navy vessel that was dismasted by the high winds?
text: Did you know that Jason Robertson is only the second Filipino American to play in the National Hockey League ?
text: Did you know that the 1886 song of thanks " Ein Danklied sei dem Herrn " was performed at a thanksgiving service for Pope Benedict XVI on the day of his abdication?
text: Did you know that Fori Nehru founded an employment campaign in 1947 to sell handicrafts made by refugee women following the partition of India ?
text: Did you know that in the 1960s Tennessee had a radio station named after the " Wonderful Gay Way "?
text: Did you know that the colonial enslavement of American Indians is described as a cultural genocide ?
text: Did you know that Burundian judge Domitille Barancira upheld Pierre Nkurunziza 's death sentence, then later administered his presidential oath?
text: Did you know that Qiandama expanded from a single shop to more than 3,700 locations in less than ten years?
text: Did you know that The West Wing faced criticism for a scene in which Ainsley Hayes defends a sexist and objectifying remark made at her?
text: Did you know that the Bornean stubtail forages more like a mouse than a bird?
text: Did you know that Dong Leshan has been cited as "one of the best and most prolific Chinese translators in the 20th century"?
text: Did you know that New York City officials seized the tax-exempt Moore-Jackson Cemetery in 1954 for nonpayment of taxes?
text: Did you know that Eleonore Schönborn , who had to leave Czechoslovakia in 1945 with two young children, received an Austrian award in 2013 for cultural and social improvement?
text: Did you know that Indigo Swing was described as "one of the name bands" of its genre?
text: Did you know that Turkish world-champion para-archer Yiğit Caner Aydın stayed in hospital for eight months after a stand fell on his head, broke his neck, and paralyzed him?
text: Did you know that when Russia joined the Council of Europe in 1996, "no serious observer believed that it met the criteria for membership"?
text: Did you know that David Wheeler was running for re-election to the Alabama House of Representatives unopposed in the Republican primary when he died in 2022?
text: Did you know that historians do not agree on whether the Battle on the Irghiz River took place in 1209 or 1219?
text: Did you know that the creator of Comic Sans also designed a levitating man in a business suit ?
text: Did you know that " Bewahre uns, Gott " (Keep us, God) is a hymn for protection and blessing that Eugen Eckert derived from a 1968 peace song written and composed in Argentina?
text: Did you know that the Pestalozzi Children's Village in Switzerland was established in 1946 after Walter Corti called for the establishment of a village for orphans of World War II?
text: Did you know that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously in favor of Guam in the territory's attempt to seek U.S. Navy contributions to clean up Ordot Dump , a former landfill and Superfund site?
text: Did you know that Chinese social-realist woodcut artist Li Qun felt that the works of expressionists were "far away from life"?
text: Did you know that the Neil Simon Theatre , a New York City landmark, was the first Broadway theater renamed after a living playwright?
text: Did you know that Arti Rana was the president of the self-help group Tharu Hath KargaGharelu Udyog when it received assistance from the World Wide Fund for Nature to make its looms more efficient?
text: Did you know that a snooker table used at the 2022 Turkish Masters was fixed with a car jack ?
text: Did you know that New Zealand editor and journalist Madeleine Chapman , known for fashion label exposés and snack food ranking lists, is a champion javelin thrower ?
text: Did you know that John Wesley Shipp , who played the Flash in the 1990 television series , was cast as his father in the pilot episode of 2014's The Flash ?
text: Did you know that as part of his work as an antiquary, William Thomas visited every church in Worcestershire?
text: Did you know that after Los Angeles Spanish-language TV station KMEX-TV discovered that 15 percent of its viewers did not know the language, it added Spanish courses to its programming?
text: Did you know that Valeriy Chybineyev was honored as a Hero of Ukraine in 2016 for his actions during the war in Donbas ?
text: Did you know that supplies were so poor during the Royal Expedition of the First Carlist War that some soldiers wore cardboard-heeled shoes?
text: Did you know that Chinese writer Feng Xuefeng rewrote his 500,000-character manuscript, lost after he was captured by the Nationalists —only for him to burn it himself?
text: Did you know that Raven-Symoné , who played the lead role in the series That's So Raven , became a producer for its fourth season at the age of 19?
text: Did you know that the website NewsFront evaded a Facebook ban by posting its content on mirror sites ?
text: Did you know that Macy Rodman 's 2021 album Unbelievable Animals was described as combining "radio-rock shine with dirt-punk roots" and "a dash of Ray of Light –esque experimental pop"?
text: Did you know that the tanker MV Millennial Spirit sailed under a Moldovan flag, was crewed entirely by Russians, and was mistaken for a Romanian ship?
text: Did you know that Gloria Rojas , one of the first Latina broadcast journalists in New York City, helped launch the career of Geraldo Rivera ?
text: Did you know that Gérard de Nerval 's poem " Delphica " promises that the gods of classical mythology will eventually return?
text: Did you know that basketmaker Ramona Lubo is known as the "real Ramona "?
text: Did you know that Oleksandr Oksanchenko won the As the Crow Flies Award at the Royal International Air Tattoo in 2017?
text: Did you know that the Correspondence of Paul and Seneca was cited in the Middle Ages to claim that Seneca , a Roman philosopher of Stoicism , had converted to Christianity?
text: Did you know that dancer Jovani Furlan made his New York City Ballet debut in a role in which he was cast at the last minute, with a partner with whom he had never rehearsed?
text: Did you know that some of the calls of the bare-headed laughingthrush have been described as "comical"?
text: Did you know that after Arnold II of Isenburg was elected Archbishop of Trier by the cathedral chapter, King Conrad IV of Germany granted the regalia to the opposing candidate, Rudolf de Ponte?
text: Did you know that all the original buildings of London's Angel Street have been destroyed by fire, bombing, or demolition?
text: Did you know that due to business closures across California during the COVID-19 pandemic , some of the exotic dancers at Jumbo's Clown Room created the Cyber Clown Girls show so they could continue working?
text: Did you know that Utroba Cave was made to resemble female genitalia, and the cave puts on a show with natural light to symbolize fertilization?
text: Did you know that the 1885 spiritual anthem Prayer for Ukraine was performed by a choir from New York on Saturday Night Live ?
text: Did you know that Barbara F. Walter 's How Civil Wars Start argues that the United States is no longer a true democracy?
text: Did you know that the 1950 Hindi film Hamari Beti , which featured Nutan 's first lead role, at 14 years of age, was directed by her mother?
text: Did you know that when the Ivankiv Historical and Local History Museum was burned during the recent Battle of Ivankiv , artworks by Hanna Veres and Maria Prymachenko were destroyed?
text: Did you know that nearly a quarter of the patients at the Kirby Forensic Psychiatric Center in New York City are criminally insane ?
text: Did you know that Indian footballer Surajit Sengupta was called Sócrates because of his beard and varied interests?
text: Did you know that Albert Smijers was one of the first Dutch musicologists to receive a doctorate?
text: Did you know that the high number of free tenants recorded in the 1299 Red Book of Worcester may be a result of manumissions granted by Bishop Godfrey Giffard ?
text: Did you know that Jean Webster daily served hundreds of people free food directly out of her home kitchen for over a decade?
text: Did you know that the detention of two British surveyors for around an hour in 1878 formed part of the justification for the Anglo-Zulu War ?
text: Did you know that Bill Smyth fought as a Marine at Iwo Jima and later played four seasons for the Los Angeles Rams ?
text: Did you know that long ladders have unlimited risk?
text: Did you know that according to its founders, Pink Peacock is the only "queer Yiddish anarchist vegan pay-what-you-can cafe" in the world?
text: Did you know that the Green Line Extension , which partially opens today, was first proposed a century ago?
text: Did you know that while serving his nighttime prison sentence for writing articles critical of the government, Juan Pablo Cárdenas continued writing during the day?
text: Did you know that the Temporary Protection Directive went unused until the Ukrainian refugee crisis ?
text: Did you know that Stephan MacLeod ' s 2021 recording of Bach's Mass in B minor with ten singers was said to be "characterised by swift momentum, crisp articulation and benevolent attention to detail"?
text: Did you know that the faster version of the Mac Studio is 2 pounds (910 g) heavier than the slower one?
text: Did you know that British alpine skier Shona Brownlee , who competed at the 2022 Winter Paralympics , plays the French horn and the piano in the Central Band of the Royal Air Force ?
text: Did you know that Moondog was released 13 years after Moondog 's previous Moondog ?
text: Did you know that Peter Walker choreographed an Oklahoma! -inspired dream ballet for the film I'm Thinking of Ending Things ?
text: Did you know that Ukrainian parties obtained only a fifth of the votes in the 1917 Kiev City Duma election ?
text: Did you know that when Oprah Winfrey was honored at the 2018 Golden Globes , the first person she thanked was Dennis Swanson , the Chicago TV station manager who hired her?
text: Did you know that the women's wheelchair race at the 2021 Tokyo Marathon featured just two competitors?
text: Did you know that Angel Joy Chavis Rocker , a guidance counselor with no political experience, was the first black woman to run for President of the United States as a Republican ?
text: Did you know that the Hittite plague in the 14th century BC was the first documented use of a disease as a biological weapon ?
text: Did you know that Jane Cakebread 's 277 court appearances for drunkenness helped bring about the Inebriates Act of 1898 ?
text: Did you know that, for the Space 220 Restaurant , Disney reached out to NASA engineers to understand what a space elevator might look like?
text: Did you know that Stsiapan Putsila faces criminal charges in Belarus—as does the Polish judge who refused to extradite him?
text: Did you know that North Carolina television station WNAO-TV operated from a converted supper club ?
text: Did you know that Alois Wyrsch , the first member of colour of the Swiss parliament, was born to a mercenary in the Dutch Indies in 1825?
text: Did you know that copper thieves started a fire at Dalton Mills in 2011 while trying to burn off the insulation?
text: Did you know that legal activist Carrie Campbell Severino , who co-authored a book about Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination , was once a law clerk for Justice Clarence Thomas ?
text: Did you know that the Spanish city of Oviedo only repairs Woody Allen's glasses once a year?
text: Did you know that sponsors were asked to buy planks for the restoration of Shotley Pier in Suffolk, England, at £100 each?
text: Did you know that John C. Young served as president of Centre College for nearly 27 years, longer than any other president in the school's history?
text: Did you know that Comtal Corporation 's products were used by NASA to process digital images of the surface of Mars and flybys of Jupiter in the 1970s?
text: Did you know that David Gee Cheng was appointed as a member of the Indonesian cabinet just three years after he became an Indonesian citizen?
text: Did you know that Alaska marmots take turns acting as sentries to protect their colonies?
text: Did you know that Dutch arachnologist Father Chrysanthus was the only person to make the International Society of Arachnology 's first congress "international"?
text: Did you know that at the Guild Theatre , the higher an actor ascended, the farther they were from stardom?
text: Did you know that Nick Goiran , a member of the Western Australian Legislative Council , proposed 357 amendments to a voluntary assisted dying bill ?
text: Did you know that even though many fans died after falling onto a furnace at a college football game, the event continued?
text: Did you know that Jonas Mohammed Bath was only able to obtain his freedom from slavery by purchasing another enslaved person to replace himself?
text: Did you know that the Cavillargues medallion depicts a Roman gladiatorial combat and possibly an official giving the signal for mercy?
text: Did you know that Rut Castillo was the only out LGBTQ rhythmic gymnast at the 2020 Olympics ?
text: Did you know that the Confederate States Navy ordered six Squib -class torpedo boats from England, but they were never delivered?
text: Did you know that the 13th-century Austrian chronicler Jans der Enikel characterized Richard the Lionheart as a "noble goose-roaster"?
text: Did you know that Evelyn Wood called off the Zungwini Mountain skirmishes after learning of the Zulu victory over the British at the Battle of Isandlwana ?
text: Did you know that the Metropolitan main line was the first electrified revenue rapid transit in the United States?
text: Did you know that the only ever hijacking of a Royal Australian Air Force aircraft began at Baucau Airport , East Timor, in 1975?
text: Did you know that Wisconsin farmer-lawmaker Joseph Mleziva refused to run for a fifth term in 1948, saying, "I can't afford to continue and, besides, I'm tired of taking the abuse that comes with the job"?
text: Did you know that those who toppled the Monumento a los Constructores said that it was "a symbol of subordination, representation of slavery and an emblem of the Spanish genocide"?
text: Did you know that Red Blanchard , the owner of Iowa radio station KSMN , commuted 800 miles (1280 km) by plane from Mason City each week to host a radio show in Chicago ?
text: Did you know that one of Josquin des Prez 's most popular works is about the cricket ?
text: Did you know that the Miao art of balancing on a bamboo log has been described as "water ballet"?
text: Did you know that after surviving D-Day , former quarterback Mike Koken wrote that playing American football for Notre Dame left one "prepared for the toughest stuff the Jerries can throw at you"?
text: Did you know that bartender Gary Regan said Takumi's Aviation was the best he had ever encountered?
text: Did you know that James Clark was the second graduate of West Point to convert to Catholicism ?
text: Did you know that when the Mass in D major by Antonín Dvořák was first performed in 1887 at the chapel of a summer residence, his wife was a solo singer?
text: Did you know that due to variable endings of the ballet Swan Lake , Bolshoi Ballet dancer Anna Nikulina has been killed in Moscow , married to the prince in Kazan , and left alone on the lake in Chelyabinsk ?
text: Did you know that the entrance to 229 West 43rd Street was not locked for 32 years, and The New York Times could not find the key?
text: Did you know that in the 1970s, Coors Brewing Company owned Television News Inc. , which provided newsfilm to North American TV stations?
text: Did you know that Hal Sigurdson was described as "the thinking man's sportswriter"?
text: Did you know that magazine Women's World was the first to publish photographs of Ottoman Muslim women?
text: Did you know that the discovery of Bianchengichthys may shed new light on the evolution of all jawed vertebrates ?
text: Did you know that in 1958, Virginia Ali and her husband Ben Ali founded Ben's Chili Bowl , a landmark Washington, D.C. restaurant where Martin Luther King Jr. , Jesse Jackson , and Stokely Carmichael would often eat?
text: Did you know that prior to the third session of the United Nations General Assembly , while the Cold War was ongoing, prayers were conducted in various parts of the world?
text: Did you know that London's Greenwell Street is part of a trapezoid , not a triangle?
text: Did you know that before the Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza Manhattan opened, its workers were sent to Walt Disney World for training?
text: Did you know that Franz Grave , the first bishop of Essen born in Essen , focused on intercultural dialogue with Latin America?
text: Did you know that Britain's first heart transplant was carried out in London's Westmoreland Street ?
text: Did you know that Pennsylvania state representative Marty Flynn engaged in a shootout with attempted burglars near the state capitol ?
text: Did you know that Gea eff has the shortest scientific name of any spider species?
text: Did you know that British singer Hope Tala turned down an opportunity to pursue a master's degree at the University of Cambridge in favour of pursuing a career in music?
text: Did you know that while the United States Armed Forces are forbidden from using flamethrowers by an international treaty, there are no restrictions on civilian use in 48 states and the District of Columbia ?
text: Did you know that Argentine sculptor Alberto Heredia protested censorship through his art and was forced into exile by a right-wing death squad ?
text: Did you know that Morgan Stanley acquired 750 Seventh Avenue and 1585 Broadway after both buildings went bankrupt and their respective tenants refused to pay rent?
text: Did you know that the Dar al-Kiswa in Egypt made ornamental curtains for the Kaaba in Mecca ?
text: Did you know that prior to becoming West Virginia 's first African-American judge, Leon P. Miller was McDowell County 's assistant prosecuting attorney, a Welch city councilman, and U.S. Attorney for the Virgin Islands ?
text: Did you know that the identities of Subwoolfer , who are set to represent Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 , remain unknown to date?
text: Did you know that André Delvaux was a magic-realist filmmaker who was made a baron by the king of Belgium?
text: Did you know that Iowa radio station KFQC was said to change programming and ownership "almost as regularly as dental check-ups are recommended"?
text: Did you know that Rüdiger Huzmann , Bishop of Speyer , granted a protective charter to the city's Jewish community in 1084?
text: Did you know that as a result of the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Smiley v. Holm , the 1932 general election ballot in Minnesota contained 30 candidates for Congress?
text: Did you know that in 2022, Frida Westman was the first Swedish ski jumper to compete at an Olympic Games since 1994, when her father competed?
text: Did you know that the southwestern North American megadrought that began in 2000 is the driest 22-year period in the region since 800?
text: Did you know that the 2019 collapse of Welsh construction company Dawnus caused gridlock in part of Manchester as equipment was left in the highway?
text: Did you know that after the British Army captured New York City in 1776, Samuel Loudon fled to the village of Fishkill , where he founded the state's first post office?
text: Did you know that the gonads of the banded bullfrog remain ripe during dry periods so that it can mate soon after rainfall?
text: Did you know that the Japanese manga Space Family Carlvinson is likely named after an aircraft carrier that is itself named after U.S. congressman Carl Vinson ?
text: Did you know that American cardiologist Michael L. Hess chose to work in that field in exchange for a reduction in his tuition fees?
text: Did you know that in 1969, the first women's strike for equal pay in the Netherlands was called in a cigar factory in Nieuwe Pekela ?
text: Did you know that Indian politician Pushpaben Mehta was the first speaker of the Saurashtra Legislative Assembly ?
text: Did you know that the Dearborn Street Subway had skip-stop service in 1951 for one morning before it was discontinued?
text: Did you know that the motet Inviolata, integra et casta es Maria by Josquin des Prez has 144 breves —a reference to the "woman of the apocalypse" in the Book of Revelation ?
text: Did you know that Cane Beds replaced Virgin Bottoms?
text: Did you know that teenager Jack Sweeney uses Twitter bots to track the private jets of Elon Musk , Drake , and Russian oligarchs ?
text: Did you know that the height of the Ganesh idol at Khairatabad in India increased by one foot (0.3 m) every year between 1954 and 2014?
text: Did you know that the Warwick Railway successfully operated independently for decades despite having just three employees, two locomotives, and less than a mile (1.6 km) of track?
text: Did you know that Abd al-Rahim ibn Ilyas , heir apparent of the Fatimid Caliphate , was arrested after the caliph's death and died in captivity under unclear circumstances?
text: Did you know that the first player can win a game of Fibonacci nim unless it starts with a Fibonacci number of coins?
text: Did you know that out of desperation, Pennsylvania radio station WMAJ took its call letters from the scrambled initials of its first program director?
text: Did you know that the Sons of Neptune sailed a giant toilet down the River Thames?
text: Did you know that efficient and professional torture is found only in fiction ?
text: Did you know that as chancellor of the University of Victoria , Ronald Lou-Poy conferred degrees in Iqaluit and the Great Hall of the People ?
text: Did you know that while playing a ghost in the mystery film Lekin... , Dimple Kapadia was forbidden to blink because director Gulzar believed it would make her feel surreal?
text: Did you know that " Nahe wollt der Herr uns sein " (The Lord wanted to be close to us), first written in Dutch by Huub Oosterhuis in 1964, was included in the 1975 German hymnal Gotteslob ?
text: Did you know that Harvard Business School professor Lauren Cohen is a powerlifting champion?
text: Did you know that the colour of the markings on Nesticus cellulanus can vary depending on the light level of the habitat, with darker habitats causing lighter markings?
text: Did you know that a urinal at Rothesay's Victorian Toilets commemorates Prince Charles' personal patronage?
text: Did you know that American lawyer and politician Armistead Abraham Lilly was also a principal owner of Ruffner Hotel in Charleston, West Virginia , and resided in its penthouse?
text: Did you know that almost everyone and everything that travels to Antarctica has to travel through one of five gateway cities ?
text: Did you know that Jonas Grethlein turned down chaired professorships at the universities of St Andrews and Cambridge ?
text: Did you know that in addition to creating milkshake products, Keventers Milkshake was also a major supplier of various milk products to the Indian Army for several decades up until the 1970s?
text: Did you know that author Harriet Connor Brown testified to the United States Congress in 1921 and 1922 to eliminate funding for the Chemical Warfare Service ?
text: Did you know that the 1711 Missa Sanctae Caeciliae , the first composition by Jan Dismas Zelenka , who had come from Prague to play in the Dresden court orchestra , is a 45-minute mass ?
text: Did you know that the interactive cartoon Cat Burglar takes about 15 minutes to watch, but features 90 minutes of animation?
text: Did you know that American president Calvin Coolidge wrote his statement " I do not choose to run " at Rapid City High School ?
text: Did you know that women's-rights activist Khairunnisa Ash'ari was appointed to the Legislative Council of Brunei as its youngest member?
text: Did you know that the site of Longacres has been home to a dairy farm, a horse racetrack, headquarters of a Boeing division, and a potential new facility for Seattle Sounders FC ?
text: Did you know that before she became a Mexican federal deputy , Celeste Sánchez Romero was a dental researcher with more than 40 published articles?
text: Did you know that Anderson Stadium in Austin, Texas , is the last high-school football stadium in the state built exclusively for African-American students?
text: Did you know that Anna Korsun , a composer who studied in Kyiv and Munich, and teaches in Amsterdam, was awarded a scholarship at the Villa Massimo in Rome in 2018?
text: Did you know that according to a Schiphol Airport official, installing pictures of flies in urinals reduced "spillage" by 80 per cent?
text: Did you know that torture causes a higher risk of mental trauma than any other known human experience?
text: Did you know that in 2002, Georg Christoph Biller and others conceived the Forum Thomanum as a new music educational campus for the Thomanerchor , Bach 's choir dating back to 1212?
text: Did you know that multiple youth sports programs in Winnipeg were established by Uncle Vince ?
text: Did you know that the Tuttle Capital Short Innovation ETF is the first in the US to bet against another exchange-traded fund ?
text: Did you know that Miles Hadfield ensured supplies of food to Coventry during the Second World War Blitz ?
text: Did you know that The Flash episode " Welcome to Earth-2 " featured many actors portraying doppelgängers of their roles from the series?
text: Did you know that the Conservative Animal Welfare Foundation has argued that octopuses should be considered sentient?
text: Did you know that humor in Nazi camps was a survival and defense mechanism?
text: Did you know that Jennifer Bates led thousands of Amazon warehouse workers to petition a vote for a union in Bessemer, Alabama ?
text: Did you know that a 35-second Blue Angels shot in To Fly! took more than four months to prepare?
text: Did you know that United States Army captain John L. Chapin 's company once boycotted a burger restaurant in El Paso, Texas , for discrimination?
text: Did you know that although the Kepler triangle has similar proportions to the Great Pyramid of Giza , the triangle's connection to the golden ratio makes it unlikely to have been used in ancient Egypt?
text: Did you know that Loski 's mixtape Call Me Loose was named as an inspiration for Scorpion by Drake ?
text: Did you know that the Sallie House in Atchison, Kansas , is said to be haunted by “The Man Hating Ghost”?
text: Did you know that H. Radclyffe Roberts once used a parachute, pulleys, and an "insect bomb" to collect grasshoppers from treetops?
text: Did you know that Joan G. Robinson felt that through writing the novel When Marnie Was There , she "faced the truth and found understanding" about her emotionally distant relationship with her mother?
text: Did you know that as the first licensed architect in Oklahoma, Leon B. Senter held "License Number 1" for forty years, from 1925 until his death?
text: Did you know that Selling Mother's Milk is a book which discusses the 18th-century practice of some parents in France giving their children to wet nurses for a year or more?
text: Did you know that Helen Steven shared the Gandhi International Peace Award for her opposition to the nuclear submarine base in Scotland ?
text: Did you know that Chicony , known primarily as a keyboard manufacturer, entered the computer-manufacturing business with the Rabbit 286 in 1988?
text: Did you know that The Beijinger had an advertisement for renting foreigners ?
text: Did you know that Jaz Brisack , leader of the movement to unionize Starbucks , was the first woman Rhodes Scholar at the University of Mississippi ?
text: Did you know that Dimple Kapadia won the National Film Award for Best Actress for playing a professional mourner in the film Rudaali ?
text: Did you know that a Forever 21 store at 1540 Broadway was expected to attract more daily visitors than the Statue of Liberty ?
text: Did you know that in a kishu ryūritan story a hero is exiled from their society, faces a variety of ordeals, and either returns in triumph or dies in exile?
text: Did you know that Dianna Agron auditioned for Glee using a high voice because she interpreted her character as a perfectionist who would not want a deep voice, something for which Agron had been teased at school?
text: Did you know that the developer Jack King-Spooner claimed that the people of Beeswing seemed to be supportive of his creation of his semi-autobiographical indie game Beeswing ?
text: Did you know that the Invisible Wind Factory will not be hosting Futurama ?
text: Did you know that many of the traditional Lakota ceremonies performed at the Sitting Bull Crystal Cavern Dance Pavilion were still illegal under federal law during the show's first years?
text: Did you know that John Harvey Rainier had the distinction of commanding troops from six different countries in action?
text: Did you know that community opposition to the routing of Interstate 40 through Memphis, Tennessee , led to a landmark United States Supreme Court ruling in Citizens to Preserve Overton Park v. Volpe ?
text: Did you know that as a child, Nayantara Sahgal associated the words Prison and Chocolate Cake with her memory of the police taking her father to jail while the family were having tea ?
text: Did you know that Leonard Bernstein composed the piano suite Bridal Suite for the wedding of Adolph Green and Phyllis Newman , with the couple meant to play it three-hands ?
text: Did you know that the film Panta Rhei is about the rhythms of clouds and water because the director Bert Haanstra did not feel ready to deal with people?
text: Did you know that in the UK, your remains can shelter baby lobsters ?
text: Did you know that the route of the former Waycross Air Line Railroad is now an important CSX Transportation line?
text: Did you know that the mathematical infinity symbol ∞ may be derived from the Roman numerals for 1000 or for 100 million?
text: Did you know that the Sunset Park Material Recovery Facility in Brooklyn is the largest commingled recycling facility in the United States?
text: Did you know that Tatiana Saunders is now goalkeeper for the equal pay team Lewes Football Club Women after playing for U.S., Icelandic and French teams?
text: Did you know that John Berry Meachum anchored the Floating Freedom School in the Mississippi River under federal government protection?
text: Did you know that Mohawk Island is sometimes underwater?
text: Did you know that the day employees of Boston television station WLVI received new business cards, they learned the station would be sold and they would lose their jobs?
text: Did you know that more young girls in Hamdallaye in Niger could go to school after a local councillor arranged to buy eight grinding machines?
text: Did you know that Andreas Rechnitzer helped devise the first scuba diving training program for scientists?
text: Did you know that Arithmetic was the first mathematics text book written in the Russian language ?
text: Did you know that gender-swapped drawings of Finn the Human , the main character of Adventure Time , inspired their own spin-off series ?
text: Did you know that journalist Maurice Smith helped establish a national curling championship for high school students in Canada?
text: Did you know that the source material for Curtis Roads 's electronic composition nscor was realized at six studios for a period of five years?
text: Did you know that for a Murad Takla , writing "reminds me of you" might be interpreted as "mind farts in you"?
text: Did you know that operatic soprano Elena Tsallagova has been described as a natural actress who can make even looking around a corner interesting?
text: Did you know that the 1976 manga series Kaze to Ki no Uta is credited with widely popularizing the male–male romance genre ?
text: Did you know that in 2007, Jeremiah Moss started Jeremiah's Vanishing New York , a blog that functions as a "digital obituary column" for old New York City small businesses lost to gentrification ?
text: Did you know that kausheya was an ancient Indian silk mentioned in epics including the Ramayana and the Mahabharata ?
text: Did you know that physical copies of Nintendo Switch Sports include the Leg Strap accessory from Ring Fit Adventure ?
text: Did you know that Richard J. Ferris , CEO of United Airlines , worked a financing plan with Boeing to prevent hostile takeovers of his company?
text: Did you know that the nature documentary The Green Planet , narrated by David Attenborough , has been compared to both horror films and a "plant porno"?
text: Did you know that Matilda Allison , blinded aged seven, "devoted her time instructing the blind" throughout America, thanks to a "wonderful education"?
text: Did you know that British animal-welfare activist Shirley McGreal founded the International Primate Protection League , after seeing trafficked monkeys in cages at an airport in Thailand?
text: Did you know that three former top-ranking Central Intelligence Agency officials appeared on ABC News Nightline to condemn the agency's treatment of Janine Brookner ?
text: Did you know that, between the ages of six and ten, Dorthe Emilie Røssell helped smuggle weapons and propaganda for the Danish resistance movement in her doll's pram?
text: Did you know that Julie Croteau is credited as being the first woman to play National Collegiate Athletic Association men's college baseball?
text: Did you know that South African nurse Stella Madzimbamuto filed an appeal in 1968 with the Privy Council of the United Kingdom that resulted in the Rhodesian government being declared illegal?
text: Did you know that the popular artist's model Margaret Lemon tried to bite Anthony van Dyck 's thumb off?
text: Did you know that the director of Only Fools Rush In said motorcycles are harder to film than cars?
text: Did you know that vaccine coverage at schools around the Disneyland Resort was too low for herd immunity when measles broke out in 2014 ?
text: Did you know that the adoption of all-steel percussion by Alexander's Ragtime Band in 1939 was widely copied, and prompted the development of the steelpan ?
text: Did you know that a 1982 composition by David Sampson is based on a 1931 poem inspired by the ancient Greek Eleusinian Mysteries ?
text: Did you know that al-Muqallad ibn al-Musayyab , the Uqaylid emir of Mosul, was assassinated by his own soldiers while plotting to capture Baghdad from the Buyids ?
text: Did you know that a spokesperson for the American Library Association told ABC News in late 2021 that she had "never seen such a widespread effort to remove books on racial and gender diversity"?
text: Did you know that at the Dow's Hill Interpretation Centre in Antigua , one can enjoy rum cocktails whilst touring historic ruins?
text: Did you know that the aesthetic expression of clothing might entail emotions like "excitement, calmness, strength, and delicacy"?
text: Did you know that after her father received hospice care, Connecticut state legislator Claudia Powers introduced bills to include hospice under Medicare?
text: Did you know that in 2022, Emmanuel Macron recognized the 1962 Isly killings of French citizens in Algeria by the French army as a massacre?
text: Did you know that Encanto 's Isabela Madrigal was animated to be aware that she is "always on stage"?
text: Did you know that the Ciudad Juárez cobalt-60 contamination incident was caused when radioactive material ended up in a junkyard and was smelted to produce rebar ?
text: Did you know that Andrei Angouw is the first Confucian mayor in Indonesia?
text: Did you know that the Hi Jolly Monument in Quartzsite, Arizona , marks the grave of Hadji Ali , recruited to the United States to drive and tend camels for the United States Camel Corps ?
text: Did you know that Pranati Nayak was the second Indian female artistic gymnast to compete at the Olympic Games ?
text: Did you know that Alabama radio station WTQX was picketed over the alleged systematic firing of its existing staff by new management?
text: Did you know that Hina Suguta , who voices Marin Kitagawa in My Dress-Up Darling , worked as a nursery teacher before starting her voice acting career?
text: Did you know that the B. J. Habibie Bridge in Dili , East Timor, is named after a former deputy of the Indonesian president , who instigated the Indonesian invasion and occupation of East Timor ?
text: Did you know that the second college founded by David Nelson was known as an " abolitionist factory"?
text: Did you know that, for the animated film Us Again , director and writer Zach Parrish considered a video of an elderly couple dancing to be visceral and ideal inspiration?
text: Did you know that Sylvain Tesson isolated himself in a pigeon house for a month to write Un été avec Homère ?
text: Did you know that Brigadier General Francis G. Brink , the first commander of Military Assistance Advisory Group Indochina, was found dead at the Pentagon with three bullet wounds in the chest?
text: Did you know that fried caterpillars are a traditional dish in Angola?
text: Did you know that Polish Home Army resistance fighter Witold Pilecki volunteered to infiltrate the Auschwitz concentration camp ?
text: Did you know that Castle Ten Berghe , a manor house built during the 13th century, is now run as a bed and breakfast with a neo-Gothic architectural style?
text: Did you know that the main storyline of the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode " The Perfect Pear " comes from a long-running joke among the show's staff?
text: Did you know that Children's Fantasy Literature is the first work to address the genre's 500-year history in depth?
text: Did you know that the 1978 New York City newspaper strike has been theorized to have caused great misery in Boston sports fans?
text: Did you know that, in addition to the Armenians, the Assyrians also faced genocide in the Ottoman Empire during World War I?
text: Did you know that Seal Rescue Ireland comforts orphaned seal pups with fake mothers made of wetsuits ?
text: 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 ?
text: Did you know that despite never having received a formal education in botany, Harry Allan became one of New Zealand's most eminent botanists?
text: Did you know that during its fifteen-year existence, the New York City Tribune had its highest circulation during a newspaper strike?
text: Did you know that the Museum of Classic Sci-Fi is located in the cellar of a house in Allendale, Northumberland ?
text: Did you know that an executive of Florida station WFTL-TV declared that he had "faith in its future", only to sell it within months and for the station to close within three years?
text: Did you know that when Florida television station WITV ceased broadcasting in May 1958, its owner was reported to be on a yacht at sea and thus unavailable for comment?
text: Did you know that Plaza Hotel Curaçao , the tallest building in Curaçao , is falling apart?
text: 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 ?
text: Did you know that Squatina mapama was named after Spain's Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Food and Environment ?
text: 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 ?
text: 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?
text: Did you know that journalist Bill Westwick once wrote about a plan that never happened with "brilliant clarity and memorable hilarity"?
text: Did you know that Santa Maria, California , radio station KSBQ is named for the style of barbecue that originated in that city ?
text: 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?
text: Did you know that the Lake Street Transfer was a double-decked transfer station accommodating two different elevated lines?
text: Did you know that the College of William & Mary 's Lake Matoaka is named for Pocahontas ?
text: Did you know that DBTel once took up 30 percent of the original equipment manufacturer market share for cordless phones in the United States?
text: 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?
text: Did you know that before being restored as a Broadway theater, the Ritz Theatre was used as a television studio, pornographic theater, vaudeville house, children's theater, and poster warehouse?
text: 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 ?
text: 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?
text: 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?
text: Did you know that Woody from Toy Story was originally written as a ventriloquist's dummy and the main villain of the film?
text: Did you know that the Turkish Defne Magnanery was established in a farm house donated by the brother of the head silk farmwoman after he watched her silk farming in a British documentary film?
text: 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?
text: Did you know that RNA , DNA , and vitamins B 1 and B 12 are all made from AIR ?
text: Did you know that women were elected to the Odessa City Duma for the first time in 1917?
text: Did you know that Mancunian rapper Geko was signed to UK music collective USG at the age of 13, becoming their youngest member?
text: Did you know that Elvis Costello missed his day job while recording his debut album My Aim Is True over six four-hour sessions?
text: Did you know that the largest intact Ancient Egyptian tomb ever found , with 254 richly decorated sarcophagi, was forgotten for almost a century?
text: Did you know that Jaega Wise co-hosted the television series Beer Masters alongside musician James Blunt ?
text: Did you know that a laptop was purchased for $1,345,000 in May 2019 despite being unable to connect to the internet?
text: Did you know that Dave Frederick has been referred to as the " Sussex County humorist-teacher-writer-radio-host-philosopher dude"?
text: Did you know that, upon ordination, Earl K. Fernandes will be the first Indian-American Latin Catholic bishop in the United States?
text: Did you know that the melody of Mozart's aria " Dove sono " from Le nozze di Figaro , asking "Where are those happy moments ...?", begins similarly to the Agnus Dei from his earlier Coronation Mass ?
text: Did you know that Curtis Island has risen by 18 metres (59 ft) during the last 200 years?
text: Did you know that Rachel Dyer , published in 1828, is the first American bound novel about the Salem witch trials ?
text: Did you know that Brazilian computer science researcher and internet pioneer Tadao Takahashi negotiated with drug lords to install internet equipment in his country?
text: Did you know that with " Alligator ", Of Monsters and Men had their second top-ten hit on the Billboard Hot Rock Songs chart and their first number-one on the magazine's Rock Airplay chart?
text: Did you know that a kettle that looked like Adolf Hitler was offered on eBay for US$199?
text: Did you know that Gret Palucca had to close her dance school in Dresden , Germany, in 1939 because of her Jewish descent, but reopened it in 1945?
text: Did you know that Ashton Hawkins arranged for the construction of the West Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, to house the Temple of Dendur ?
text: Did you know that the Malyuk rifle was originally developed as a private venture under a contract with the Security Service of Ukraine ?
text: Did you know that Indonesian translator Ali Audah would often take hours to translate a single word or sentence?
text: Did you know that the 1972 hymn " Das eine Brot wächst auf vielen Halmen ", with an Israeli melody, has been used for Catholic Corpus Christi processions and Protestant Kirchentag conventions?
text: Did you know that magnetoreception in birds works by quantum effects in their eyes?
text: Did you know that at the premiere of The Cage , a ballet about female insects preying on their male counterparts, choreographer Jerome Robbins 's mother walked out of the theater?
text: Did you know that children's writer Patricia MacLachlan kept a small bag of dirt from the prairies as a reminder of her Wyoming roots?
text: Did you know that the Comoro River , which cuts through the East Timorese capital of Dili , has seen large floods despite often running almost dry?
text: Did you know that 3D Microcomputers produced and marketed Commodore -branded computers from 1991 until over a year after Commodore's bankruptcy?
text: Did you know that the choreography of Crystal Pite 's ballet The Seasons' Canon is inspired by the movement of tectonic plates ?
text: Did you know that lawyer Carrie Goldberg was inspired to share her experience of sexual violence in Nobody's Victim by her clients, who had entrusted her with their own stories?
text: Did you know that Claus Leusser, a justice of the German Federal Constitutional Court , served for only four months?
text: Did you know that a walrus was given his own pontoon to stop him damaging other boats in St Mary's Harbour ?
text: Did you know that in Arlington County Board v. Richards , the U.S. Supreme Court considered the constitutionality of one of the first American residential zoned parking programs?
text: Did you know that Ulf Merbold , the first West German in space, grew up in East Germany?
text: Did you know that judge advocate Julian M. Wright was once a fencer , and President Theodore Roosevelt attended one of his matches in 1902?
text: Did you know that Ulmus chuchuanus had to be renamed due to another fossil already having its original name?
text: Did you know that a photograph by Maks Levin , showing destroyed buildings in Kyiv, was featured on the cover of a March 2022 edition of the German magazine Der Spiegel ?
text: Did you know that to convince Canadian regulators that Vancouver could support a new ethnic radio station, the founder of CJVB documented local restaurants and Sikh temples?
text: Did you know that most of the Chinese in the Chinatown of Phoenix, Arizona , had emigrated from the same village in China's Hoiping County ?
text: Did you know that legislator Henry Alcazar successfully defended everyone accused of inciting the 1903 Water Riots that burned down the Trinidad and Tobago seat of government ?
text: Did you know that eight sailors on USS Varuna received the Medal of Honor for actions during the Battle of Forts Jackson and St. Philip ?
text: Did you know that the final silent film directed by Giulia Cassini Rizzotto was partly funded by the Vatican and featured Italian aristocrats?
text: Did you know that a 2020 study concluded that taco pizza is the favorite pizza of Iowa ?
text: Did you know that Khalid ibn Barmak was so close to the first Abbasid caliph , al-Saffah , that his daughter was suckled by al-Saffah's wife?
text: Did you know that the now-destroyed statue of Alexander Wood was the first LGBT monument in Canada?
text: Did you know that Mimi Reinhardt typed Schindler 's list?
text: Did you know that the Baratal limestone in Russia may be one of the oldest atolls in the world?
text: Did you know that The West Wing 's Amy Gardner is said to be the only character on the show with "a genuinely militant attitude towards equality of the genders"?
text: Did you know that dead cotton is immature or underdeveloped cotton that has poor dye affinity and appears as white specks on a dyed fabric ?
text: Did you know that during a German charity concert for Ukraine, Slovakian singer Judita Nagyová performed a solo in the finale of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony ?
text: Did you know that Elphaba, the main character in Wicked , is named after L. Frank Baum , who wrote the book that inspired Wicked ?
text: Did you know that Carlton Town F.C. , now competing at the eighth tier of the English football pyramid , was once denied promotion by a hat-trick scored by future England international Jamie Vardy ?
text: Did you know that Singaporean zoologist Bernard Harrison was disliked by an orangutan ?
text: Did you know that Italian Jacopo Tissi became one of the few foreign principal dancers in Bolshoi Ballet 's history, only to leave two months later due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine ?
text: Did you know that Holy Trinity Church in Philadelphia , established in 1784, was the first national parish in the United States?
text: Did you know that Mordecai Strelisker published a Hebrew elegy on the death of Emperor Francis I of Austria ?
text: Did you know that the spectacle lynching of George Ward drew the attendance of more than 1,000 people, including women and children?
text: Did you know that it is now possible to run Linux on an Apple-silicon Mac ?
text: Did you know that American soprano Emily Pogorelc went from winning the 2018 "Most Promising Talent" prize at Glyndebourne to appearing as Mozart's Cherubino at the Munich Opera Festival ?
text: Did you know that in his 2015 book The Evolution of Atheism , atheist Stephen LeDrew criticises the New Atheism movement?
text: Did you know that the city of Madrid has had five successive sets of walls , from the first built by the Moors in 860 to the ones built by Philip IV in 1625?
text: Did you know that in response to Disney's stance on Florida's House Bill 1557 , also known as the "Don't Say Gay" bill, Pixar employees stated that Disney removes LGBT references from the studio's films?
text: Did you know that Laura Ashe believes the Gawain Poet used the beheading game to criticize the emptiness of chivalry ?
text: Did you know that the remnants of the Khwarazmian army massacred the Christian inhabitants of Jerusalem in 1244?
text: Did you know that Ukrainian artist Kateryna Antonovych worked at Prague 's Museum of Ukraine's Struggle for Independence before the US Army Air Forces bombed it?
text: Did you know that a species in the genus of sponges Pseudoceratina produces a chemical that can help prevent migration of metastatic breast cancer cells?
text: Did you know that the dome atop the Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower was once called "New York's most exuberant phallic symbol"?
text: Did you know that Monika Buczkowska , who, as a student in Poznań , performed as Mozart's Susanna , was a soloist in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony at a charity concert for Ukraine at the Alte Oper ?
text: Did you know that Shiva Baby was one of the most-awarded films not to receive an Oscar nomination in 2022?
text: Did you know that Tin Srbić was the first Croatian to win a gold medal at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships ?
text: Did you know that the owners of North Carolina radio station WBIG justified shutting it down by noting that the metropolitan area had outgrown its signal?
text: Did you know that gynaecologist Oon Chiew Seng , who was diagnosed with dementia in 2013, was the founding chairperson of the first dementia home in Singapore?
text: Did you know that despite being described in 1840, the chestnut-backed buttonquail was only confirmed in Queensland in 2020?
text: Did you know that unlike his famously generous brother Mansa Musa , Mansa Sulayman of Mali was considered a miser?
text: Did you know that Monthly Halloween was the first manga magazine to publish horror for girls ?
text: Did you know that the mezzo-soprano of Beth Taylor was the only lower voice when she appeared as Dardano in Handel's Amadigi , portraying her male character with fine vocal lines and "remarkable coloraturas "?
text: Did you know that Flat Top Mountain 's agriculture is mainly devoted to livestock and Christmas tree farming ?
text: Did you know that Park "Saebyeolbe" Jong-ryeol was the first esports player to throw a Major League Baseball opening pitch?
text: Did you know that Christopher Gunning apparently only got paid £15 to arrange the top-20 hit " Say You Don't Mind "?
text: Did you know that in 2014 the European Theatre Convention started a programme known as Dialogue of Cultures to support exchanges with theatres in Ukraine and other Eastern European countries?
text: Did you know that Phillips O'Brien revised World War Two?
text: Did you know that during the American Revolution, Hugh Gaine 's printing shop was threatened by the Sons of Liberty because of his wavering loyalty to the American cause?
text: Did you know that historian Dirk Moses argues that The Problems of Genocide include "blinding us to other types of humanly caused civilian death"?
text: Did you know that Katharina Konradi , a soprano born in Kyrgyzstan, made a recording of lieder with pianist Gerold Huber including settings by Lori Laitman of children's poems written in Terezin ?
text: Did you know that manga artist Keiko Takemiya intentionally submitted her manga Sanrūmu Nite immediately before its publication deadline to avoid it being edited?
text: Did you know that Inuvialuk actress Marika Sila views her acting career as a platform for outreach and education on the culture and rights of Indigenous peoples in Canada ?
text: Did you know that Abadi was banned twice: by Sukarno in 1960, then by Suharto in 1974?
text: Did you know that at Beaversprite , beavers lived indoors and were allowed to chew on the furniture?
text: Did you know that the Vorpostenboot John Mahn was the only German ship sunk during the Channel Dash ?
text: Did you know that when Jørgen Læssøe became Professor Extraordinaire of Assyriology at the University of Copenhagen in 1957, he was the only active professional Assyriologist in Denmark?
text: Did you know that The Goldberg Variations , performed to Bach's music , was partly choreographed by Jerome Robbins while he was in a wheelchair?
text: Did you know that Mary Renault was encouraged by J. R. R. Tolkien to write a novel set in medieval times, but she burned the manuscript because she felt it lacked authenticity?
text: Did you know that the Hainanese chicken rice at the Singaporean restaurant Chatterbox was developed by a German chef?
text: Did you know that The Uses of Disorder , characterized by one reviewer as "the best available contemporary defense of anarchism", was intended to be a critique of orderly city life?
text: Did you know that after Leonel Gómez Vides died in 2009, one of his friends expressed surprise that he had not been murdered?
text: Did you know that following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a diverse group of exiled Russian public figures formed the Anti-War Committee of Russia to unite different political movements to oppose the war?
text: Did you know that Charlie Moore played basketball for four universities?
text: Did you know that each song on Andy Shauf 's 2016 album The Party is sung from the perspective of a different guest at a house party ?
text: Did you know that in the twelve- stanza Easter hymn " Ihr Christen, singet hocherfreut ", based on a 15th-century hymn in Latin , an angel tells women to not remain at the empty tomb?
text: Did you know that convicted serial killer Mariam Soulakiotis , a Greek Old Calendarist abbess, is known in Greece as "Mother Rasputin " for fasting nuns to death?
text: Did you know that Winston Churchill painted Tower of the Koutoubia Mosque , his only painting during World War II, at the Villa Taylor ?
text: Did you know that Italian anarchists founded the first trade union for bakers in Argentina ?
text: Did you know that in Le Tombeau de Couperin , George Balanchine 's ballet to Ravel's orchestral suite , the dancers are divided into two groups, dancing separately?
text: Did you know that Guy Alfred Wyon helped discover a remedy for TNT poisoning in British shell factories in World War I?
text: Did you know that none of the original core Ice Age cast returned for The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild ?
text: Did you know that the Colonial Office refused to appoint Cyrus Prudhomme David to the magistracy, considering it wrong "as a matter of policy" to appoint a second Black man to a legal post in Trinidad and Tobago ?
text: Did you know that Walter Cronkite was one of 40 finalists in NASA's Journalist in Space Project ?
text: Did you know that the Selangor State Executive Council degazetted most of the Kuala Langat North Forest Reserve , despite the legislative assembly having unanimously voted to preserve it?
text: Did you know that brewer Sophie de Ronde is allergic to most beer?
text: Did you know that Artem Datsyshyn , the National Opera of Ukraine 's principal dancer in ballets such as Swan Lake and La Bayadère , is said to have danced with "romantic sublimity" and "psychological depth"?
text: Did you know that the freighter Emperor is the most visited shipwreck in Isle Royale National Park ?
text: Did you know that Ciceruacchio , a cart driver, was described as "Rome's first citizen"?
text: Did you know that Russia's Unfriendly Countries List includes the United States, the European Union, and San Marino?
text: Did you know that Eric Sbraccia made his professional wrestling debut at the age of fourteen as a " junior member " for Tony Rumble in International Championship Wrestling ?
text: Did you know that the island of Poilão , within the João Vieira and Poilão Marine National Park , supports five percent of the world's green sea turtle nests?
text: Did you know that Paddy Morgan conceded the final of the 1976 Australian Professional Championship rather than play with Eddie Charlton 's balls?
text: Did you know that the trial of Neumann and Sass , held in Lithuania in 1934–1935, is said to be the first mass trial of Nazis in Europe?
text: Did you know that Andrew Barclay , a bookbinder in colonial Boston, was commanded by British general Sir Guy Carleton to take Loyalist refugees to Nova Scotia ?
text: Did you know that the 1962 Book of Common Prayer has been translated into Cree , French , Inuktitut , and Mohawk ?
text: Did you know that the Johannespassion by Wolfram Menschick , a setting of the Passion according to St John for three soloists and choir, will be performed today at Essen Cathedral ?
text: Did you know that New York Times writer David W. Dunlap said calling the Apple Bank Building a neighborhood bank branch "is like calling Grand Central Terminal a commuter train station"?
text: Did you know that Ukrainian actress Oksana Shvets , who was killed in the 2022 invasion of Ukraine , starred in the 2013 joint Ukrainian–Russian television family saga House with Lilies alongside Russian actors?
text: Did you know that there wasn't enough water in Oceanside to build more than half of the E. F. Barrett Power Station ?
text: Did you know that Zebedee Nungak , taken as a child for an experiment by the Canadian government, went on to "cross antlers with prime ministers, premiers and Québec separatists"?
text: Did you know that the titular character of Verdi's Nabucco , the opera that established his fame, is a combination of three historic rulers?
text: Did you know that military volunteer Maria Berlinska led the report that let women hold combat positions in the Ukrainian military?
text: Did you know that in 2013, McNally v R upheld a conviction for sexual assault via gender deception?
text: Did you know that The West Wing 's theme music was only intended for use in one scene?
text: Did you know that during the Year of Luigi , Nintendo released a mockumentary depicting Luigi as a "legend of parkour "?
text: Did you know that one reviewer wrote that her "pinkies protested and went on strike" after half an hour of typing on a Sharp PC-4500 ?
text: Did you know that the sodium fast reactor Fermi 1 suffered a nuclear meltdown that led one operator to suggest "we almost lost Detroit"?
text: Did you know that when soprano Rosina Buckman returned to New Zealand for a concert tour in 1922, the prime minister and a former prime minister spoke at the reception?
text: Did you know that the freighter Chester A. Congdon became the largest financial loss to date on the Great Lakes when she wrecked in 1918?
text: Did you know that ESA astronauts used virtual reality to verify the design of the International Habitation Module ?
text: Did you know that Stephen Bishop 's 1842 map of Mammoth Cave , drawn from memory, was so accurate that it remained in use for more than forty years?
text: Did you know that Jeff Malott scored his first three goals for Cornell University on the same day?
text: Did you know that forensic scientist Angela Gallop has investigated the stomach contents of Diana, Princess of Wales , alleged alien abductions, and the presence of boar sperm in a hospital patient's intestines?
text: Did you know that Francis Childs was the publisher and printer of The New York Daily Advertiser , the third daily newspaper to appear in the United States, in 1785?
text: Did you know that the text of the hymn " Herr, nimm auch uns zum Tabor mit " was written in 2001 because few German hymns dealt with the transfiguration of Jesus , an annual reading during Lent ?
text: Did you know that the divers who found the c. 9th-century Tully Lough Cross in 1986 were convicted for trying to sell it to American museums?
text: Did you know that Croydon -based rapper ZieZie started studying carpentry in college before he decided to focus on music?
text: Did you know that according to the book Price of the Modi Years , the popularity of Indian prime minister Narendra Modi does not depend on his performance?
text: Did you know that over the course of her career, vocal coach Barbara Maier Gustern taught Debbie Harry , Taylor Mac , Justin Vivian Bond , Diamanda Galás , and Kathleen Hanna ?
text: Did you know that " big mamas " caused China to become the biggest purchaser of gold ?
text: Did you know that Barrie R. Cassileth helped create one of the first palliative cancer care programs in the United States?
text: Did you know that floodlights were first used at Gigg Lane in 1889?
text: Did you know that crane driver Bob Sredersas 's donation of over 100 pieces of art led to the establishment of Wollongong Art Gallery?
text: Did you know that, according to its owner, KLEF in Anchorage, Alaska , was one of just three remaining commercially operated classical-music radio stations in the United States, as of 2013?
text: Did you know that Karie Ross was the first female reporter on ESPN 's College Football GameDay ?
text: Did you know that some rooms in the Sharifi-ha House can rotate 90 degrees?
text: Did you know that Nigel Fossard did not mention his wife's name in a charter , but did mention the name of the king and queen of England?
text: Did you know that Brea Beal received her first college basketball scholarship offer in sixth grade ?
text: Did you know that the 2020 book Neither Settler nor Native was described as "a landmark in trying to figure out how to transform the way humans relate to each other"?
text: Did you know that Christian Herwartz , a Jesuit who lived in an open community in Berlin from 1978 to 2016, held " street exercises " and peace prayers?
text: Did you know that the RKO Keith's Theater , once described as one of New York City's "great theaters", later stood in ruins and was covered with graffiti?
text: Did you know that Suardi Tasrif helped author the code of ethics for Indonesian journalists and advocates?
text: Did you know that following a 1964 police raid on a gay bar , Chicago newspapers published the names and personal information of several of those arrested?
text: Did you know that when a Russian warship asked the Ukrainian defenders of Snake Island to surrender , their response was " Russian warship, go fuck yourself "?
text: Did you know that Hong Kong native Grace Ho gave birth to her fourth child, Bruce Lee , while on a one-year tour through the United States with the Mandarin Theatre?
text: Did you know that when viewed from above, Scale Lane Footbridge looks like an apostrophe?
text: Did you know that Henri Coutard , an early pioneer in radiation therapy , spent the last decade of his life conducting fanciful experiments that were rejected by his peers?
text: Did you know that Washington state TV station KTRX went on the air in January 1958—and failed to make it to the end of the year?
text: Did you know that the Polish soprano Zofia Kilanowicz appeared as Roxana in Szymanowski's King Roger in Paris, and recorded Górecki's Symphony of Sorrowful Songs ?
text: Did you know that Ronnie O'Sullivan became the first player to make five century breaks in consecutive matches at the 2022 Tour Championship ?
text: Did you know that Billie Eilish 's " Male Fantasy " reportedly "sneaks up and destroys you emotionally"?
text: Did you know that more than 200 Nobel Prize laureates have signed a letter against the war in Ukraine ?
text: Did you know that due to the work of John Henry Bell a set of guidelines was introduced to protect woolsorters from anthrax ?
text: Did you know that when WGPR-TV in Detroit was converted from a station serving Black and ethnic audiences to a CBS affiliate, it experienced ratings increases of 11,000 percent?
text: Did you know that Marina Nekrasova was the first woman artistic gymnast to represent Azerbaijan at the Olympics ?
text: Did you know that Joining Forces has sought to make the transfer of occupational licenses easier for U.S. military spouses?
text: Did you know that Yulia Tolopa , a single mother from Russia, has fought for Ukraine in the war in Donbas since she was 18 years old?
text: Did you know that the nests of Hose's broadbill have tails?
text: Did you know that Inuit traditional belief holds that women without facial tattoos would be sent to the land of the crestfallen to spend eternity with smoke coming from their throats and their heads hanging down?
text: Did you know that Nelson W. Aldrich Jr. dedicated his first book to his wife and credited her with having "always propped up my morale", even though they had been separated for seven years?
text: Did you know that moral equality of combatants , regardless of whether they fight for a just cause, is said to be "one of the stickiest problems in the ethics of war"?
text: Did you know that Earlonne Woods details the experience of co-hosting the first podcast created entirely while incarcerated in his book, This Is Ear Hustle ?
text: Did you know that the Ukrainian Chorus Dumka of New York , founded in 1949 by immigrants, first toured Ukraine in 1990?
text: Did you know that one of the original co-owners of New York state radio station WAQX-FM did much of the construction himself?
text: Did you know that Yes complained about former manager Roy Flynn getting " Five per Cent for Nothing "—but he said he got nothing?
text: Did you know that the first New Testament in English was printed by Peter Schöffer the Younger in Worms ?
text: Did you know that at WOPR , a high-school radio station in Michigan , DJs were forced to change the music styles they played every two weeks?
text: Did you know that Chanson à bouche fermée , a 1933 choral piece composed by Jehan Alain , is sung without text and with a closed mouth?
text: Did you know that Carol Van Strum , an environmental activist who wrote the book A Bitter Fog , accumulated 20,000 documents across 40 years that revealed corporate and government cover-ups?
text: Did you know that the Cook Landing Site also commemorates the Māori who landed in New Zealand four centuries or more before Cook did?
text: Did you know that Diane Burns 's Alphabet Serenade provides an early critique of the gentrification of the Lower East Side ?
text: Did you know that visitors to the Museum of Sexual Cultures can make offerings to a statue of Priapus ?
text: Did you know that French designer Martine Bedin compared her Super Lamp design to "a small dog that I could carry with me"?
text: Did you know that the Eden of Coronet guitar is covered in 1.6 kilograms (3.5 lb) of gold and 11,441 diamonds?
text: Did you know that Baku was the last major city to hold municipal elections in 1917 Russia , with the delayed voting occurring after the beginning of the October Revolution ?
text: Did you know that the story of Mary Cornelius Winder was described by Arthur Halbritter as "the story of the Nation"?
text: Did you know that Merck & Co. avoided repatriation taxes totaling over $3 billion during its 2009 acquisition of Schering-Plough ?
text: Did you know that after a career as political journalist, Peter Merseburger wrote biographies of Der Spiegel founder Rudolf Augstein and chancellor Willy Brandt ?
text: Did you know that the Nutty Narrows Bridge went unused on its first day, despite attempts to lure traffic with peanuts?
text: Did you know that Rajendra Kumar was supposed to play his first major role in the 1951 social drama Hum Log but was replaced a few days into filming?
text: Did you know that a young Ukrainian photographer, Valeria Shashenok , posts satirical TikTok videos about the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine ?
text: Did you know that LittleBigPlanet , a video game that allows the player to create levels, coincided with the rise of user-generated content ?
text: Did you know that " Ambush ", the fourth-season premiere episode of ER , was filmed live twice, for the East and West Coasts?
text: Did you know that after a trip to Germany, Xiang Guangda decided to shift from making car doors to making stainless steel ?
text: Did you know that lyricist Neko Oikawa wrote Neon Genesis Evangelion opening theme " A Cruel Angel's Thesis " in two hours?
text: Did you know that chess on a really big board, Nuclear Gandhi, and a list of sexually active popes can all be found in the Depths of Wikipedia ?
text: Did you know that Alabama Pitts was noted by the Los Angeles Times in 1934 as "the most prominent jail-bird athlete in America"?
text: Did you know that Ruyi Bridge was designed to resemble the Chinese symbol for good fortune?
text: Did you know that Vladyslav Buialskyi , a 24-year-old bass-baritone from Berdiansk , sang the State Anthem of Ukraine on the night of his debut with the Metropolitan Opera ?
text: Did you know that Crazy Rich Asians author Kevin Kwan wrote Sex and Vanity in four months?
text: Did you know that many designers and directors avoided the Vivian Beaumont Theater because of its unconventional mixture of stage designs?
text: Did you know that the Roads Improvement Association was founded in 1886 by two British cycling organisations?
text: Did you know that dictator Saparmurat Niyazov made his officials walk a mountain path every year while he flew the route in a helicopter?
text: Did you know that the destructible environment effects in The Incredible Hulk were so extensive that two additional artists were added during the game's development?
text: Did you know that the Journey for Life started with the Zapatistas symbolically invading Spain?
text: Did you know that a song from Rammstein 's eighth album Zeit premiered on the International Space Station ?
text: Did you know that a Ukrainian soldier has written a song dedicated to the Turkish combat drone Bayraktar TB2 ?
text: Did you know that political scientist Selwyn Ryan has been called "the author of record for the ... modern political history" of Trinidad and Tobago?
text: Did you know that in 1982, a news anchor for Phoenix television station KOOL-TV was held hostage on set for five hours?
text: Did you know that you can watch frogs playing poker in Split, Croatia ?
text: Did you know that prior to starting her music career, Akari Akase was a popular cosplayer and TikToker , with more than 1.2 million subscribers?
text: Did you know that the royal necropolis of Byblos was discovered in 1922 due to a heavy rain-triggered landslide, which uncovered an unspoiled royal tomb in the seaside cliff of Byblos ?
text: Did you know that the 2017 short film Juice , starring Shefali Shah as a middle-class Indian wife defying patriarchal norms, won two Filmfare Short Film Awards ?
text: Did you know that Hans-Karl von Kupsch , who was instrumental in the unification of the East and West German booksellers' associations , ran a gallery of contemporary art together with his wife?
text: Did you know that QAnon has used feminine aesthetics to lure in mothers?
text: Did you know that vitamin A deficiency is the leading cause of preventable childhood blindness despite existing prevention programs?
text: Did you know that the songs in the album Da Turdy Point Buck contain belches and animal sounds that were recorded in a barn?
text: Did you know that the 32-story Bridge Apartments in New York City were built directly above a 12-lane freeway ?
text: Did you know that when Heather Phillips made her European debut in Rossini's Bianca e Falliero at the Oper Frankfurt , reviewers agreed that her nuanced coloraturas served to portray Bianca's development?
text: Did you know  that in the 1951 court case Kuzych v White , on appeal from the British Columbia Court of Appeal , five law lords of the British Judicial Committee ruled in favour of a Communist-led trade union?
text: Did you know that the Godhavn inquiry found that a psychiatrist gave children the antipsychotic medication chlorprothixene to stop bedwetting – which was neither standard nor validated by contemporary evidence?
text: Did you know that Mily Treviño-Sauceda , the co-founder of the first national grassroots women's farmworker organization in the United States, the National Alliance of Farmworker Women, was a child farmworker in the 1960s?
text: Did you know that during the Napoleonic looting of art , French soldiers destroyed the Venetian state ship, the Bucentaur , and melted down its gold decorations?
text: Did you know that the owner of Phoenix 's KNXV-TV "[held] a gun to ABC 's head" – and it paid off?
text: Did you know that radio station WIQT near Elmira, New York , was co-owned with a regional group of clothing, furniture, and shoe stores?
text: Did you know that Kitty Shiva Rao was the head of a committee to find out what Indian women wanted from the new Constitution of India ?
text: Did you know that the picture book Eyes That Kiss in the Corners was written to celebrate and empower Asian identities?
text: Did you know that access to London's Devonshire Close was restricted in order to avoid the wealthier streets surrounding it?
text: Did you know that Joseph Binder influenced modern poster design, creating posters for the 1939 New York World's Fair, the U.S. Army Corps and the American Red Cross?
text: Did you know that J. R. R. Tolkien invented Elendil for a time-travel story , but ultimately included the character in his main Middle-earth mythology?
text: Did you know that Verdi Square was originally a triangle?
text: Did you know that Rashida Beal was named 2016 Big Ten Defender of the Year after the Minnesota Golden Gophers won that year's conference tournament ?
text: Did you know that the satirical study of "Qallunology", the study of white people , in the film Qallunaat! Why White People Are Funny , is meant as a critique of the treatment of Inuit culture by anthropologists ?
text: Did you know that Lebanese actress Takla Chamoun refused to cancel a play's performance after being informed that her mother had died?
text: Did you know that the 14th-century house Maison de Jeanne was positively dated with the science of dendrochronology ?
text: Did you know that in the judgment of historians, the Fatimid caliph al-Musta'li "had no noteworthy life", as he was a puppet of his vizier , al-Afdal ?
text: Did you know that the chestnut-hooded laughingthrush feeds on insects that have been hit by vehicles?
text: Did you know that the Neon Genesis Evangelion character Gendo Ikari was diagnosed with narcissistic personality disorder by a real-life Japanese psychiatrist?
text: Did you know that Puyallup leader Ramona Bennett helped organize a week-long occupation of the Cushman Hospital in 1976?
text: Did you know that environmental defenders on the front of the global environmental justice movement are being killed at a rate of about three per week?
text: Did you know that although Adolf I von Nassau was chosen as Archbishop of Mainz by the cathedral chapter in 1371 and 1373, Pope Gregory XI appointed other candidates both times?
text: Did you know that in front of the Government Palace in Dili , East Timor, is a monument to the famous Portuguese explorer and imperialist, Prince Henry the Navigator ?
text: Did you know that Ormond Beatty was the first Centre College president who was not a minister?
text: Did you know that in May 2021, Alisson became the sixth goalkeeper to score in the Premier League ?
text: Did you know that IBM has not been in the IBM Building since 2019?
text: Did you know that Agron House was one of the first Israeli cinemas to show films on the Sabbath?
text: Did you know that Lucy Feagin founded the Feagin School of Dramatic Art in New York City, where talent scouts for radio, screen, and stage were always present to watch her senior students' plays?
text: Did you know that many international law experts and states doubt that extended occupations, such as the Israeli occupation of Palestine , can ever be legal?
text: Did you know that astronaut Judith Resnik flew in space with "Tarzan" and "Cheetah"?
text: Did you know that views on the refusal to fight certain wars range from it being prohibited to morally obligatory?
text: Did you know that William Rees Jeffreys was a cyclist who became the first secretary of the Road Board, the forerunner of the UK's Department for Transport ?
text: Did you know that the House of Brag organized a "Monstrous Pride" event to clash with London's pride parade ?
text: Did you know that the 2022 game Needy Streamer Overload allows the player to make a female livestreamer engage in psychoactive drug abuse?
text: Did you know that Samuel Marolois wrote books about theory and practice of both perspective and fortification ?
text: Did you know that in the television series sequel Imortal (2010), Angel Locsin portrayed the lead role as the daughter of her lycan character in the Lobo TV series?
text: Did you know that journalist Travis Lupick first wrote about the opioid epidemic for The Georgia Straight in 2014 and has since published two books, Light Up the Night and Fighting for Space , on the subject?
text: Did you know that Saint Rose Catholic Church was moved from the ghost town of Fleetwood, Oregon , to the Fort Rock Valley Historical Homestead Museum in 1988?
text: Did you know that in 2019, Border Report launched a ten-day project covering news stories along the Mexico–US border ?
text: Did you know that WBAA , the radio station of Purdue University , received its broadcast license 100 years ago today?
text: Did you know that on March 2, 2022, 86 percent of workers in New York City's REI store voted in favor of the outdoor recreation retailer's first ever trade union, REI Union SoHo?
text: Did you know that Abhijātābhivaṃsa , 12th recipient of the title of Tipiṭakadhara Dhammabhaṇḍāgārika , could memorize and recite all the pages of the Tipiṭaka ?
text: Did you know that raptor persecution is a crime against birds of prey, and in Scotland, ravens are afforded honorary raptor status?
text: Did you know that during the Colleyville synagogue hostage crisis , rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker threw a chair at the perpetrator?
text: Did you know that the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust , which found the wreck of Endurance in 2022, also discovered the wreck of SMS Scharnhorst in 2019?
text: Did you know that Victoria Brownworth was the first open lesbian to write a column in a daily newspaper in the United States?
text: Did you know that according to the "boots" theory , poverty is more expensive than being rich?
text: Did you know that Davide Soliani, the creator of Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle , became an Internet meme for crying on stage?
text: Did you know that Cy Block and Ross Horning testified before the United States Congress about how the reserve clause limited their careers in professional baseball ?
text: Did you know that all stanzas of the song " Gott liebt diese Welt " begin with this line, sending the message that God loves this world to young Christians in Mecklenburg after the Berlin Wall was built?
text: Did you know  that Thomas Fleet , the founder of the Boston Evening-Post , began his printing career by publishing an American version of Mother Goose , from stories told by his mother-in-law to his children?
text: Did you know that deadly attacks from stray cows in India have become an electoral issue?
text: Did you know that decades after resigning from his pulpit, rabbi Mitchell Fisher published a book titled Rebel, O Jews! And Other Prayers ?
text: Did you know that lichexanthone , a chemical found in some lichens , enhances human sperm motility and kills mosquito larvae?
text: Did you know that Nebraska once sued a gremlin ?
text: Did you know that Cyril Croker was a member of the Suicide Squad ?
text: Did you know that on this day in 1966, California radio stations KAHR and KVIP switched frequencies, leading to "mass confusion"?
text: Did you know that Caesar studied German forests before turning to politics?
text: Did you know that a NASA essay collection said ancient carvings "might have been made by aliens"?
text: Did you know that Thanos served in the army, while Thanos was a police officer?
text: Did you know that an Elvin man sang Poems and Songs of Middle Earth ?
text: Did you know that a common way to travel to another world is to be hit by a truck ?
text: Did you know that Darth Vader 's anal shield has a "pronounced bell shape"?
text: Did you know that Clement Crisp , a dance critic for the Financial Times from 1956 to 2020, authored or co-authored 17 books on dance and dance history ?
text: Did you know that the 7th Macho de Monte Infantry Company of the Panama Defense Forces was named after a tapir ?
text: Did you know that after his professional gridiron football career, Ed "Brick" Travis served as president of the Missouri Auto Dealers Association and as president of a local school board?
text: Did you know that the Nuremberg trial verdict described aggression as "the supreme international crime" because "it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole"?
text: Did you know that despite perceived sexist tropes in The West Wing 's women, C. J. Cregg is widely considered to be one of the show's most complex and witty characters?
text: Did you know that the rare Somali pigeon urgently needs a population survey?
text: Did you know that in the early days of news at KPHO-TV in Phoenix, Arizona , one employee processed newsfilm in his bathtub?
text: Did you know that the judging committee of the Manga Taishō , an annual manga prize, is composed primarily of bookstore workers?
text: Did you know that Indian women's hockey player Elvera Britto and her sisters would stitch their own team uniforms while playing in the 1960s?
text: Did you know that XO, Kitty , based on the film series To All the Boys I've Loved Before , is planned to be the first Netflix series to be spun off from a Netflix original film?
text: Did you know that Austrian doctor Paul Bargehr was decried for exposing healthy Indonesians to the leprosy bacillus in his experiments?
text: Did you know that " Segne, Vater, diese Gaben ", a round for saying grace of unknown authorship, has appeared in German collections for kindergarten, schools and events for young people?
text: Did you know that during the Qarmatian invasion of Iraq , the Abbasid Caliphate raised an army of more than 40,000 men to protect Baghdad , but did not engage the few thousand Qarmatians in battle?
text: Did you know that shortly before sports shooter William Riedell was to compete in the 1936 Olympics , he had his pistols confiscated by the New York police because the precinct chief had decided there were "too many guns"?
text: Did you know that Zimbabwean cricketer Mary-Anne Musonda became the first woman to score a century on her Women's One Day International debut while also captaining her team?
text: Did you know that due to U.S. support for Saudi-led operations in Yemen , both Saudi Arabia and the United States may be held responsible for war crimes?
text: Did you know that Margaret Ramsay-Hale has worked as a judge in three countries?
text: Did you know that the stock hard drive of IBM's Personal System/2 Model 30 was twice as slow as its predecessor?
text: Did you know that C. N. H. Lock was a British aerodynamicist, after whom the Lock number is named?
text: Did you know that the newly named Cirsium funkiae honors the describer's mentor, Vicki Funk , and the plant's funky appearance?
text: Did you know that the staff of a Georgia TV station thought they were "really something" for shooting the moon?
text: Did you know that Thomas Seavey Hall 's banjo signals caused a judge to declare him the father of American automatic electric railroad signaling?
text: Did you know that Brassey's , "said to be the oldest established name in defence publishing", traces its history back to The Naval Annual in 1886?
text: Did you know that Bea Alonzo had her breakout role at the age of 15 in the 2002 drama series Kay Tagal Kang Hinintay , in which she played a lawyer?
text: Did you know that after his soccer career, Steve Palacios enlisted in the United States Army and played for the United States Armed Forces soccer team?
text: Did you know that Nutan , the lead actress of the 1951 A-rated suspense thriller Nagina , was not allowed to enter the film's premiere because she was underage?
text: Did you know that Tennessee lawyer Bolton Smith was known for his work integrating African Americans into the Boy Scouts?
text: Did you know that a giant breast destroying a spaceship Mark Zuckerberg in the music video for " Ay mamá " is a criticism of Meta 's censorship of female nipples?
text: Did you know that when Nadja Stefanoff portrayed the title role of Giordano's Fedora at the Oper Frankfurt , one reviewer complimented the brilliance and agility of her voice, assertive even when singing softly?
text: Did you know that when a fire broke out next to studios of Oklahoma radio station KVSO , reporters had to rush in to report the blaze and then out to breathe fresh air?
text: Did you know that Hein Eersel added "genuine Surinamese expressions" in his adaptation of the play The Barber of Seville ?
text: Did you know that during his mayoralty , Fiorello La Guardia appointed the first black woman judge in the United States?
text: Did you know that railroad transportation executive William Phillips Hall was known as the "business millionaire evangelist"?
text: Did you know that the band behind two expletive-laden UK top-five singles about Boris Johnson released a follow-up about Prince Andrew ?
text: Did you know that we don't know if peak beard has ended?
text: Did you know that although George Balanchine set Raymonda Variations to musical excerpts from the ballet Raymonda , his new ballet does not follow the plot of the original?
text: Did you know that ethnic broadcasting pioneer Shushma Datt was the first Canadian woman to obtain a CRTC broadcast licence?
text: Did you know that the Catholic charismatic renewal movement began at a retreat for college students in 1967?
text: Did you know that Moses Cohen Belinfante founded the first Dutch Jewish newspaper?
text: Did you know that the TV adaptation of Life After Life was described as "bingeworthy", but also "practically plotless"?
text: Did you know that Kenneth E. Fields was in command of the engineers at the Ludendorff Bridge during the Battle of Remagen ?
text: Did you know that the "favorable comparisons of Lenin to Confucius, Buddha, and Allah" in Dmitri Shostakovich 's Loyalty were said to have "achieved new levels of ludicrous flattery"?
text: Did you know that Sunday-school classes were once held in the transmitter building of New Mexico radio station KCLV ?
text: Did you know that Scottish inventor and music teacher Anne Gunn was granted the first British patent for a board game in 1801?
text: Did you know that Concurrent Computer Corporation was consumed in a "minnow-swallows-the-whale" merger during the junk bonds era, but unusually, kept its name, CEO, and headquarters?
text: Did you know that Joshua George Beard was a member of the first Toronto City Council and the first Toronto School Board of Trustees ?
text: Did you know that until the 1970s, most shōjo manga (Japanese girls' comics ) were written by men?
text: Did you know that Claudia Riner was falsely accused of distributing lesbian erotica in the Kentucky House of Representatives?
text: Did you know that on the day the Conrad Bangkok hotel opened in 2003, ten people climbed up its walls dressed as Spider-Man ?
text: Did you know that James Edward Smith won the mayoralty of Toronto by one vote?
text: Did you know that 'Til Kingdom Come , a documentary film about evangelical Christian Zionism in the United States, was blocked from airing on PBS due to its editing of a speech by Donald Trump?
text: Did you know that Nazi war criminal Kurt Weigelt could not be directly employed by Deutsche Bank after World War II, so he reestablished Lufthansa ?
text: Did you know that the Battle of San Buenaventura was described by the Los Angeles Times as a "quirky skirmish ... that emptied the mission of wine and left its adobe walls pockmarked by cannon fire"?
text: Did you know that the poet Habibi was adopted by Aq Qoyunlu ruler Ya'qub Beg as a child after he was found shepherding?
text: Did you know that after the 1918 season, some Major League Baseball owners wanted the National Baseball Commission to be replaced by former president William Howard Taft ?
text: Did you know that "it is almost impossible to find fault" with London's exclusive private dining club, Harry's Bar – until one receives the bill?
text: Did you know that during the Great Flood of 1951 , the United States Air Force airlifted a transmitter to put Kansas radio station KTOP back on the air within 24 hours?
text: Did you know that Cardiff-based classicist Kathleen Freeman also wrote detective fiction , publishing under four separate pseudonyms?
text: Did you know that photographer Greta Pratt 's Nineteen Lincolns exhibition featured members of the Association of Lincoln Presenters ?
text: Did you know that when public radio stations aired Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in solidarity with Ukraine on 10 March 2022, the bass voice of Anthony Robin Schneider was heard live from Frankfurt and recorded from Auckland ?
text: Did you know that altered certificates of deposit were used to fraudulently purchase the Ranchlander National Bank in Texas?
text: Did you know that the Ottmar Hitzfeld Arena is the highest football pitch in Europe with the competing teams accessing it by cable car ?
text: Did you know that Luise Duttenhofer died in 1829 after more than a thousand papercuts ?
text: Did you know that Luella Costales was appointed to the Hawaii House of Representatives after her predecessor pled guilty to bribery charges?
text: Did you know that Erratus was one of the earliest-known arthropods to show the origins of lungs and limbs?
text: Did you know that Celia Kaye won the Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer in 1965 for her starring role in Island of the Blue Dolphins ?
text: Did you know that an abandoned building in Cheorwon, South Korea, used to be the base of operations for the Workers' Party of North Korea ?
text: Did you know that Isachar Zacharie , podiatrist and confidant of Abraham Lincoln , helped him accept the idea of a homeland for the Jewish people ?
text: Did you know that the canoe routes through Obabika River Provincial Park are part of Temagami 's 2,400-kilometre-long (1,500 mi) network of portages and waterways, many of which are traditional indigenous routes?
text: Did you know that Craig Braun 's Grammy-nominated album packaging for School's Out had to be recalled for including underwear that constituted a fire hazard?
text: Did you know that it took Isaac Levitan four years to paint Fresh Wind. Volga ?
text: Did you know that windsurfer Penny Way won the British qualification event for the 1996 Summer Olympics with two races to spare?
text: Did you know that by winning the 2022 CONCACAF Champions League Final , Seattle Sounders FC became the first Major League Soccer team to win the competition?
text: Did you know that as a child, Mitsurou Kubo read forty manga magazines per month?
text: Did you know that Archbishop Justin Welby said that the 800th anniversary of the anti-Jewish laws of the Synod of Oxford provided a time to "remember, repent and rebuild"?
text: Did you know that Sofia Halechko 's first language was Polish, but she fought in World War One to create a country for Ukrainian-speaking people?
text: Did you know that during the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera , the singing of the Catalan national anthem was banned?
text: Did you know that fashion journalists joked that it was "a miracle" that no models fell while walking the runway in the 12-inch (30 cm) armadillo shoes designed in 2010 by Alexander McQueen ?
text: Did you know that James Goldberg co-founded the Mormon Lit Blitz, an annual writing competition for very short works of Mormon fiction ?
text: Did you know that in 1958 the Scyla theta pinch device was the first to demonstrate controlled nuclear fusion in the laboratory?
text: Did you know that South African physician Tlaleng Mofokeng is the United Nations special rapporteur on the right to health, and was named one of the BBC's 100 Women ?
text: Did you know that the 1988 closure of WLEE , once one of the top radio stations in Richmond, Virginia , also took WBBL , a church station in existence for nearly 65 years, off the air for good?
text: Did you know that while he was a teacher in France, George Buchanan wrote a school play about Jephthah 's sacrifice of his daughter ?
text: Did you know that Associate Justice John McLean is suspected of leaking internal United States Supreme Court deliberations in the landmark Dred Scott v. Sandford case to the New-York Tribune ?
text: Did you know that when asked by the king to choose the weapon by which he would be executed, the outlaw Nga Tet Pya replied "I choose your most beautiful queen Saw Omma "?
text: Did you know that Binggrae , a South Korean food and beverage company, was the official ice cream supplier of the 1988 Seoul Olympics ?
text: Did you know that AJ Glueckert appeared at the Metropolitan Opera as Erik in 2017, described as a "clarion sensitive tenor", and at the Oper Frankfurt as Flamand in 2018, with "passionate power"?
text: Did you know that a religious community is a group of people who practice the same religion, but do not have to live together?
text: Did you know that Garland Boyette , a two-time American Football League All-Star who was also a track and field All-American , said that he "never felt safe on that aluminum pole "?
text: Did you know that the Red Cross Diamond is one of the largest cut diamonds in the world; and it was donated to help the British Red Cross Society during World War I?
text: Did you know that when asked about the secret to her longevity, 91-year-old Shatzi Weisberger said she smokes marijuana every night?
text: Did you know that Frankie Saluto was a member of the Ringling Giants, a dwarf baseball team that raised money for charity?
text: Did you know that one music critic said that despite being "noisy, banal, fundamentally insincere", Dmitri Shostakovich 's symphonic poem October was nonetheless "enjoyable trash"?
text: Did you know that Centre College president William C. Young awarded degrees to three of his half-sisters in 1891, as they had completed the requirements forty years earlier?
text: Did you know that after four years in the making, the Minimal BASIC standard was described as "more a toy than an actual language"?
text: Did you know that the captain of CSS Pontchartrain was twice detached from the ship to fight in land battles?
text: Did you know that Adolphe Jacquies was arrested for publishing a poem?
text: Did you know that the game of slosh shares the name with an English batter and sausage dish ?
text: Did you know that merchant trader Constantine Zochonis expanded his company Paterson Zochonis into the Gold Coast in the 1930s?
text: Did you know that in 1973, Caroline Rose Foster donated her farm Fosterfields to the Parks Commission of Morris County, New Jersey to be preserved as a functioning farm from 1920?
text: Did you know that the British film Strippers vs Werewolves opens with a different band playing the song " Hungry Like the Wolf " by Duran Duran ?
text: Did you know that Indian gynaecologist and reproductive medicine pioneer Baidyanath Chakrabarty , who performed over 4,000 IVF procedures, was a cricket fan who thought Virat Kohli and Ashwin were "such good boys"?
text: Did you know that Yuki Fumino's relationships with hearing-impaired friends and acquaintances inspired her to create I Hear the Sunspot ?
text: Did you know that at the age of 26, Lucy Moss became the youngest female director of a Broadway musical before directing a TikTok musical that raised $2 million?
text: Did you know that Aroha Bridge changed its name from Hook Ups because fans searching for the show often found pornography instead?
text: Did you know that the New Zealand government has officially apologised for articles published in the New Zealand School Journal about the Moriori people in the early 20th century?
text: Did you know that the 48-story Uris Building went into foreclosure just two and a half years after it was completed?
text: Did you know that media promotions for the film Blood Friends were not allowed to mention that cast member Nina Makino is part of the girl group NiziU ?
text: Did you know that it is purportedly hard to find a more interesting card game played with German-suited cards than Sansprendre, a variant of German Tarok ?
text: Did you know that the parents of Bob Glenalvin insisted that he play baseball under an assumed name?
text: Did you know that the Turkish multirotor combat drone Songar was recently equipped with six 40 mm (1.6 in) mini missiles?
text: Did you know that US radio regulators sought to shut down Ohio station WEBE , which was said to operate from the owner's bedroom using "parts of a questionable nature"?
text: Did you know that mountaineer and geographer Caleb George Cash was instrumental in preserving essential documents pertaining to the first known atlas of Scotland ?
text: Did you know that the short-lived English football club Dingley Dell F.C. was named after a fictitious village in The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens ?
text: Did you know that Josef Venantius von Wöss , a church musician in Vienna, wrote a piano reduction of Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde and a thematic analysis of the work?
text: Did you know that for an episode of BoJack Horseman , the production team added a cardboard cutout of the title character after Netflix said it did not feature him enough?
text: Did you know that in 1957, Burhanuddin Harahap 's family members travelled from Sumatra to Jakarta, believing that he had died?
text: Did you know that Al-Wishah fi Fawa'id al-Nikah , a 15th-century Islamic sex manual by Egyptian writer Al-Suyuti , was based on both traditional hadith literature and material influenced by Indian erotology?
text: Did you know that Ohio SORTA owns the Oasis Subdivision ?
text: Did you know that A. N. Wilson justified fictionalising the life of George Forster for his novel Resolution by saying that Forster "inhabit[ed] a borderline between fact and fiction"?
text: Did you know that bucking bull Spotted Demon won the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association Bucking Bull of the Year award at the old age of 10 years?
text: Did you know that Melody , originally composed by Myroslav Skoryk for a 1982 Soviet film, was used in Volodymyr Zelenskyy 's broadcast to the U.S. Congress in March 2022?
text: Did you know that Manai Sophiaan asserted in his 1994 memoir that the CIA was involved in the 1965 Indonesian coup attempt ?
text: Did you know that half the students of Northern Arizona University left for Christmas early after campus radio station KNAU was pranked?
text: Did you know that Rafflesia meijeri was named after Dutch botanist Willem Meijer for his work on the conservation and study of Rafflesia plants?
text: Did you know that ornithologist Elaina Marie Tuttle discovered that the white-throated sparrow has four sexes?
text: Did you know that the Tuca & Bertie episode " The Jelly Lakes " employs a paper-cutout animation that helps to depict abuse in a way that centers the victim's story?
text: Did you know that after Norwegian YouTuber Apetor 's death in 2021, Czech fans lit candles in his memory outside the Norwegian embassy in Prague?
text: Did you know that the August 2021 Tennessee floods were caused by more than 20 inches (510 mm) of rain falling in a 24-hour period?
text: Did you know that Eyvindur P. Eiríksson has addressed modern alienation and man's relationship with nature through pagan poetry and a book about a fishing trawler ?
text: Did you know that decades after the type specimen of the lichen Punctelia graminicola was destroyed in World War II, its original name was restored after another specimen was rescued from disposal at a dump?
text: Did you know that Angel Reese and her younger brother, Julian, both played college basketball for Maryland after competing at the same high school ?
text: Did you know that in the 960s, the Brethren of Purity wrote an epistle where Christians, Jews, and Muslims are sued by Quran-reading animals ?
text: Did you know that Helena Springs is credited as co-writer with Bob Dylan on 19 songs, more than any of his other collaborators?
text: Did you know that The Citi Exhibition: Manga at the British Museum was the largest exhibition of manga ever held outside Japan?
text: Did you know that Tyler Zombro had a seizure and skull fracture after he was hit in the head by a 104-mile-per-hour (167 km/h) line drive ?
text: Did you know that the Bonin greenfinch is Japan's most endangered bird?
text: Did you know that Olga Ehrenhaft-Steindler , the first woman to earn a physics doctorate at the University of Vienna , co-founded the first Viennese commercial academy for girls?
text: Did you know that the earliest representation of the devil might be a mosaic in San Apollinare Nuovo in Ravenna from the 6th century, in the form of a blue angel ?
text: Did you know that when planting vegetables, Richard Sharpe Mason once buried his glasses instead of peas ?
text: Did you know that Orange William was a very-long-range British anti-tank missile that was cancelled as the Chieftain tank appeared to outperform it?
text: Did you know that Judy Ann Santos received the Box Office Queen award for starring in Isusumbong Kita sa Tatay Ko , the first Filipino film to earn 100 million pesos at the box office?
text: Did you know that the music video for Matt and Kim 's New Glow song "Can You Blame Me" involves fans filming themselves with iPads near their heads playing headshots of the duo lip-syncing?
text: Did you know that the historian and political journalist Lancelot Lawton addressed a House of Commons committee in London in 1935, beginning: "The chief problem in Europe to-day is the Ukrainian problem"?
text: Did you know that Love , a sculpture by Ukrainian artist Alexander Milov , represents two wire-frame adults who appear to be alienated, but inside their bodies two children reach out to each other?
text: Did you know that Ed Jasper started all 16 games for the Atlanta Falcons in 2002, helping the team qualify for the NFL playoffs that year ?
text: Did you know that desert kites in the Middle East and North Africa were used as traps for wild game ?
text: Did you know that Easter in Poland was considered to be an important patriotic holiday during the country's period of Partitions ?
text: Did you know that Jane C. Beck traveled to Virginia, West Africa, and England to research the family history of Daisy Turner for her 2015 book Daisy Turner's Kin: An African American Family Saga ?
text: Did you know that Natsuki Takaya created a sequel to Fruits Basket to promote the release of its collector's edition?
text: Did you know that after activist Aakar Patel was prevented from travelling abroad, a court asked the director of India's Central Bureau of Investigation to apologise?
text: Did you know that a special legislative session to deal with the Real Estate Bank of Arkansas was not called because a third of the legislature owed money to the bank?
text: Did you know that Thihapate withstood the siege of Taungdwin by King Thado Minbya of Ava until after his top commander was assassinated?
text: Did you know that some barns have hoods ?
text: Did you know that Serhiy Kot was the editor of Ukrainian Question , a collection of articles on the status of Ukraine in the 1930s?
text: Did you know that Jacqueline Kennedy did not want to make her clothes the focus of her 1962 goodwill tour of India and Pakistan , but still wore 22 different outfits in the first nine days?
text: Did you know that all but one of the court astrologers at the accession of King Minye Kyawswa I of Ava prophesied that he would rule for three years?
text: Did you know that the first studio of Indiana high school radio station WETL was a cedar closet that had once stored furs?
text: Did you know that British barristers are on strike to protest against underfunding in the criminal justice system?
text: Did you know that both the Qurm Nature Reserve and the surrounding city of Qurm are named for the grey mangroves protected by the reserve?
text: Did you know that The Art of Cooking with Cannabis by Tracey Medeiros was praised by the Los Angeles Times for showcasing a wide range of recipes outside of the "tired pot-brownie cliché"?
text: Did you know that Port Jefferson village officials opposed the expansion of the Caithness Long Island Energy Center because they feared it would lead to the decommissioning of the Port Jefferson Power Station ?
text: Did you know that Jusuf Muda Dalam is the only Indonesian politician to date to be sentenced to death for corruption?
text: Did you know that the construction of Washington State Route 512 included a new high school football stadium to replace a demolished one?
text: Did you know that journalist W. A. Hewitt refereed the first game played in the history of ice hockey at the Olympic Games ?
text: Did you know that the 3rd Plurinational Legislative Assembly of Bolivia has suspended multiple sessions due to open brawls and fights between opposition and ruling party parliamentarians?
text: Did you know that Romy Golan 's 2021 book Flashback, Eclipse is an exploration of Italian art of the 1960s that moved away from the art created under Italian fascism ?
text: Did you know that in 1999, donors to the American Airlines Theatre could pay US$75,000 for their name on a bathroom?
text: Did you know that during the 2013 Norwegian Sámi parliamentary election , the North Calotte People party advocated the transformation of the Norwegian Sámi parliament into a joint Kven and Sámi parliament?
text: Did you know that professional steer wrestler Ty Erickson broke the record for season earnings by $33,152?
text: Did you know that an Israeli football club whose fans regularly shout " death to Arabs " was almost half-owned by an Arab Sheik?
text: Did you know that Bhutanese cricketer Anju Gurung , a pace bowler , has been described as looking "... more like a pop star ..."?
text: Did you know that even though plans to convert the studio building of station KITN in Olympia, Washington , into a courthouse were soon changed, county taxpayers still paid its moving expenses?
text: Did you know that Ignacy Korwin-Milewski amassed a collection of more than 200 paintings by Polish artists, one of the largest private collections of contemporary Polish art at the time?
text: Did you know that the black Christian Siriano gown worn by actor Billy Porter was said to have "won" the 91st Academy Awards ?
text: Did you know that after the ANT catalog of espionage tools by the National Security Agency was leaked to the public, the tools were implemented as open-source hardware and software ?
text: Did you know that as a young girl, Countess Ladislaja Harnoncourt was thought to be uneducatable and was nicknamed the "wild Laja"?
text: Did you know that during a promotional tour of Matt & Kim 's third album Sidewalks , it was played on the public speaker system of the venue before each show began but none of its tracks were on the setlist?
text: Did you know that Brian Fawcett , who would have turned 78 today, taught English to inmates before becoming a full-time writer?
text: Did you know that Iowa radio station KTFC was partially powered by a wind turbine that the owner had bought from an Arizona wind farm?
text: Did you know that many places in the United Kingdom were racially segregated and non-white customers were banned from using spaces and facilities, even though the law never officially permitted such a colour bar ?
text: Did you know that 19th-century Polish ethnographer Zorian Dołęga-Chodakowski travelled the countryside as a " wild man " and later appeared as a literary character?
text: Did you know that Elizabeth Bonhôte wrote Bungay Castle after her husband bought Bungay Castle ?
text: Did you know that Mallory McMorrow won a public contest to design the Mazda3 while she was a college student?
text: Did you know that Suluh Indonesia , once Indonesia's top newspaper by circulation, was banned after the 30 September Movement in 1965?
text: Did you know that ice hockey player Ilya Samsonov chose the position of goaltender because he thought that the equipment looked cool?
text: Did you know that Goodbye Normal Street was named after a street in Oklahoma , but also refers to the Turnpike Troubadours ' new life touring on the road?
text: Did you know that "toe-trimmed" alluvial fans on Mars provide evidence of ancient Martian river systems?
text: Did you know that Bret Price built a 1,500-pound (680 kg) zipper in his backyard?
text: Did you know that in the 1970s, anime song lyrics which centered on the characters' thoughts and feelings became more widely known to the Japanese public?
text: Did you know that Fane Lozman took Riviera Beach to the US Supreme Court once in 2013 for seizing his floating home and again in 2018 for arresting him, and won both times?
text: Did you know that the "pathbreaking" book Paradigm Lost recommends abandoning the two-state solution in favor of equal rights for all inhabitants of Israel and Palestine?
text: Did you know that Vanita Jagdeo Borade has been called the "Snake Woman" for having rescued more than 50,000 snakes?
text: Did you know that more than 30,000 cars were being towed annually by the 1970s to accommodate snow removal efforts in Montreal ?
text: Did you know that President Thomas A. Spragens suspended all classes at Centre College several days after the Kent State shootings , and organized teaching sessions for students on the college lawn?
text: Did you know that BeReal , a social media app, purportedly makes everyone look boring?
text: Did you know that the form of ecclesiastical income in the Catholic Church known as the mense gets its name from the Latin word mensa , meaning 'table'?
text: Did you know that pianist Paul Pollei was a founding member of a quartet that utilized two pianos and eight hands to play complex pieces?
text: Did you know that in 1972, Catalina Island was occupied by the Brown Berets , who claimed that the territory rightfully belonged to Mexico?
text: Did you know that the Black Opry is a website and musical revue that helps raise awareness of Black artists in country music ?
text: Did you know that Satya Graha was briefly barred from reporting from the Indonesian presidential palace after his newspaper published a piece on Sukarno 's new wife?
text: Did you know that in 2006, when The New York Times Book Review asked " What Is the Best Work of American Fiction of the Last 25 Years? ", the answer was Beloved by Toni Morrison ?
text: Did you know that István Banó collected Two Pieces of Nuts in Baranya ?
text: Did you know that during the attack on the Delhi chief minister's residence , protesters painted the gate red and tried to scale it while police officers watched?
text: Did you know that Francis Orray Ticknor was a country doctor whose fame as a poet relies on "Little Giffen", a poem about one of his patients who died in the American Civil War ?
text: Did you know that the 1653 hymn " Du, o schönes Weltgebäude ", about renouncing the world, contains the stanza "Komm, O Tod, du Schlafes Bruder", which Bach used to conclude his cross-staff cantata ?
text: Did you know that Satyagraha Hoerip wrote a short story set during the Indonesian mass killings of 1965–66 from the perspective of the killers-to-be?
text: Did you know that the NBA Comeback Player of the Year Award was canceled, reportedly because of drugs?
text: Did you know that a call to prayer is a common feature to Christianity, Islam and Judaism?
text: Did you know that topics on Recess Therapy have included the economy, climate change, and peeing your pants?
text: Did you know that disability-rights activist Edith Prentiss objected to the title of a documentary about her, Edith Prentiss: Hell on Wheels , for being too mild?
text: Did you know that " Es tönen die Lieder ", a German round about greeting spring with songs, first appeared in 1869 in a collection of works by Adolf Spieß , who developed a series of school-gymnastics steps to it?
text: Did you know that Nigerian footballer Chibuzor Nwakanma was among the first few foreign players to play for all the "big three" Kolkata -based football clubs, Mohun Bagan , East Bengal , and Mohammedan Sporting ?
text: Did you know that LACE found a pre-dawn breeze on the Moon?
text: Did you know that messianic rebel Abu al-Umaytir 's attempt to restore the Umayyad Caliphate in Damascus was defeated by the forces of the Abbasid loyalist Ibn Bayhas ?
text: Did you know that Ukrainian science fiction and fantasy is written both in Ukrainian and Russian?
text: Did you know that Shining Spark has sired 1,300 foals?
text: Did you know that the sea squirt Distomus variolosus colonises both fronds of kelp and the shells of crustaceans such as the spider crab Maja brachydactyla ?
text: Did you know that "The College Chimes" by American composer Daisy Wood Hildreth was chosen by the Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts as their alumni song?
text: Did you know that otomechikku , a subgenre of Japanese girls' comics focusing on stories about ordinary teenaged protagonists, has been compared to monogatari and the genre of Bildungsroman ?
text: Did you know that Free Comic Book Day was inspired by Free Scoop Night at an ice cream parlor?
text: Did you know that although it spent only one week on the Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart, " Visitor " was the fifth Adult Alternative Airplay number-one for Of Monsters and Men ?
text: Did you know that Vincent Munier 's quest to photograph snow leopards became the basis for several books and a film?
text: Did you know that Doug was nominated to Guinness World Records as the world's largest potato before genetic testing confirmed that it was actually a tuber of a gourd?
text: Did you know that William Williams was a newspaper publisher who volunteered for service during the War of 1812 and advanced to the rank of colonel?
text: Did you know that " Hey, Hey, Rise Up! " is the first new Pink Floyd song in more than 25 years?
text: Did you know that Johannes zu Eltz , who decided to become a Catholic priest after earning his doctorate in law, has advocated blessings of same-sex marriages by the Catholic Church?
text: Did you know that the Jefferson Scholarship gives scholars more than $293,000 to attend the University of Virginia?
text: Did you know that Carrie Jenkins Harris , the North American writer who died in 1903, should not be confused with Carrie Jenkins Harris , the North American writer and editor who died in 1903?
text: Did you know that Castle Hill in Budapest's 1st district is easily accessible by funicular ?
text: Did you know that when Hasan Gayo led a group of men to seize a railway company, its Japanese guards offered no resistance?
text: Did you know that the Yiddish-language satirical newspaper Munkatsher Humorist frequently joked about disputes between the Hasidic courts of Munkacs and Belz ?
text: Did you know that American author Julie Jensen McDonald 's first story was sold to a Sunday school paper for US$6.50?
text: Did you know that Harry Styles 's goddaughter voices the opening words in " As It Was "?
text: Did you know that Angela Bassett donated a dance studio at the Royal Theater in St. Petersburg ?
text: Did you know that Hokuseihō Osamu was inspired to become a sumo wrestler by a chance meeting with Hakuhō , a yokozuna , at an airport?
text: Did you know that the 1662 Book of Common Prayer was approved by Parliament on 19 May 1662, and required by law starting on St Bartholomew's Day that year ?
text: Did you know that Winston Churchill reportedly called Sam Atyeo the world's most foul-mouthed diplomat?
text: Did you know that Henry Wilson Hodge served as the director of military railroads for the American Expeditionary Forces during World War I?
text: Did you know that some have considered the Holocaust a unique event , external to history and beyond human understanding?
text: Did you know that a reviewer noted that when Leo Hussain conducted Weinberg's Die Passagierin at the Oper Frankfurt , the orchestra excelled in chamber music moments, hard beats and distorted entertainment music?
text: Did you know that in 1981 Indiana State University–Evansville received a donation valued at nearly $300,000 in the form of campus radio station WSWI ?
text: Did you know that the body of Hacı Lokman Birlik was dragged behind a Turkish police vehicle, justified by the Ministry of the Interior by saying that the police assumed the body had a bomb attached to it?
text: Did you know that the 2022 EuroLeague Playoffs marked the first appearance in the event for AS Monaco ?
text: Did you know that Hi-Tek Corporation 's 725 series keyboard switches were rated for a lifetime of 100 million keystrokes?
text: Did you know that Nick Schmaltz 's older brother and younger sister would team up against him when they played basement hockey as children?
text: Did you know that the former German chancellor Bernhard von Bülow called Wilhelm II 's 1900 Hun speech the "worst speech of that time and perhaps the most disgraceful speech that Wilhelm II [had] ever given"?
text: Did you know that if a disaster is avoided through planning and vigilance, people will paradoxically doubt that the preparation was necessary?
text: Did you know that Port Vale F.C. is the only club to have beaten all 91 other clubs in the top four divisions of the current English football league system in a competitive league fixture?
text: Did you know that Eoseira wilsonii "slime" likely helped in fossil preservation?
text: Did you know that George Balanchine 's ballet Who Cares? , to songs written by George Gershwin ,  is likened to "a tap dance on pointe"?
text: Did you know that Klaus Wallrath composed  a mass for peace for the 2018 Katholikentag in Münster , performed to an audience of more than 30,000 by a choir, an orchestra, and a dance company?
text: Did you know that John Spencer "exploded two myths" by winning the 1977 World Snooker Championship with a two-piece cue that he had only been using for a couple of months?
text: Did you know that Mansiya V. P. , an Indian classical dancer , has experimented with choreographing a fusion of classical Bharatnatyam and traditional Sufi music ?
text: Did you know that there are only around 30 southern corroboree frogs in the wild?
text: Did you know that man camps can overwhelm local infrastructure, including emergency services, and contribute to an epidemic of violence against Indigenous women in North America?
text: Did you know that in 1776 Abraham Hunt entertained Hessian mercenaries with food and drink to render them incapable for duty the night before George Washington defeated them at Trenton ?
text: Did you know that visitors to Balmaclellan in Scotland can stay in a historic watermill that is "remarkable" for the preservation of its internal workings?
text: Did you know that Japanese mixed martial artist Itsuki Hirata 's nickname is " Android 18 " due to being told she looks like the Dragon Ball character?
text: Did you know that Hungarian historian Andrea Pető believes that " right to be forgotten " policies should not be applied to the Holocaust?
text: Did you know that NYXL was the first organization to own and operate multiple New York esports franchises?
text: Did you know that by devising the Fairfield Experiment in industrial relations, Iain Maxwell Stewart inspired The Bowler and the Bunnet , Sean Connery 's sole film as a director?
text: Did you know that the first show at the Gershwin Theatre was also the first Broadway show to lose US$1 million?
text: Did you know that Mexican sinologist Flora Botton was rescued by an American soldier when being transported on a train from Bergen-Belsen in 1945?
text: Did you know that Of Monsters and Men filmed the music video for their song " Wild Roses " in 12 hours, just before beginning a tour?
text: Did you know that the village of Eziler in Turkey has a girls' floor hockey team, but it has no gym?
text: Did you know that Hollywood star Gary Cooper was baptised at the Church of All Saints, Houghton Regis ?
text: Did you know that eight of ten ministers in the Bhagwant Mann ministry are first-term members of the Punjab Legislative Assembly ?
text: Did you know that a mobile production unit served as the first studios of Washington state public TV station KTNW ?
text: Did you know that five years after Ihsan Gürz died while in Dutch police custody, his father was convicted of swearing at a police officer who had been present at his arrest?
text: Did you know that the Richard Dawkins Award is awarded for publicly proclaiming "the values of secularism and rationalism, upholding scientific truth wherever it may lead"?
text: Did you know that Jumbo Brown gained 68 pounds (31 kg) after he had his tonsils removed?
text: Did you know that the Guyim Vault House has been compared to a spaceship?
text: Did you know that Alden Roche played in all but one game during his six seasons with the Green Bay Packers ?
text: Did you know that Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey said that about 80% of the causes driving the ongoing UK cost of living crisis are global?
text: Did you know that a folded paper lantern shows that certain mathematical definitions of surface area are incorrect?
text: Did you know that the producer of Kylie Minogue 's " Butterfly ", American DJ Mark Picchiotti , released it in the US as a promotional single under his label?
text: Did you know that Mike Sullivan was the first governor in Wyoming's statehood history to have his veto overridden by the state legislature ?
text: Did you know that Şevket Yorulmaz scored 99 goals in 173 matches whilst playing for Beşiktaş ?
text: Did you know that the Aurelia Star , an Iowa newspaper, has changed ownership at least 11 times?
text: Did you know that the Supreme Court has been cited as a vector of democratic backsliding in the United States ?
text: Did you know that Takayama, Gifu , distributed 10,000 maps featuring the real-life locations of the anime TV series Hyouka ?
text: Did you know that singer Patsy Torres was referred to as the "princess of Tejano music"?
text: Did you know that an exhibition match of Australian rules football was contested in London on 28 October 1916 between two teams of elite footballers also serving in the First AIF ?
text: Did you know that when her boss told her to quit her unpaid television commenting role, Katie Phang quit her paid job instead?
text: Did you know that " Öffnet eure Tore " is a 1810 hymn in German written by Christoph Bernhard Verspoell for the Feast of the Ascension , based on Psalm 24 ?
text: Did you know that "on a good day", a Minnesota radio station could reach St. Peter ?
text: Did you know that Daisy Rockwell , the granddaughter of Norman Rockwell , won the 2022 International Booker Prize for her translation of Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree ?
text: Did you know that songs from the collection " Auf dem Weg durch diese Nacht " (On the way through this night) were performed at the 2022 Katholikentag ?
text: Did you know that Margaret Peoples Shirer established the first Assemblies of God mission in Ghana?
text: Did you know that some women have stopped playing competitive football because of the French Football Federation 's ban on playing in hijab?
text: Did you know that Caesar Tarrant remained enslaved after his service as a boat pilot in the American Revolutionary War until the state of Virginia purchased his freedom in 1789?
text: Did you know that National Women's Day in Pakistan commemorates a 1983 march against a law that devalued the testimony of Pakistani women to half that of men?
text: Did you know that Robert J. Vlasic published a book of pickle jokes?
text: Did you know that Lorenzo Passerini , who has conducted several operas in Sydney, revived Giordano's Fedora at the Oper Frankfurt ?
text: Did you know that John Cranko 's ballet Initials R.B.M.E. is named after the four original lead dancers, Richard Cragun , Birgit Keil , Marcia Haydée and Egon Madsen , who were his close friends and muses?
text: Did you know that the winter quarters of a circus owned by Benjamin Wallace are now the site of the Circus Hall of Fame ?
text: Did you know that live broadcasts of the deciding frame of the 2020 World Seniors Championship were replaced by golf highlights?
text: Did you know that trombonist Big Chief Russell Moore was the first member of the Pima tribe to receive an obituary in The New York Times ?
text: Did you know that Ed Sheeran wrote " Remember the Name " as a homage to the "cheekier songs" on early Eminem albums?
text: Did you know that in 2007, José the beaver set up housekeeping in the Bronx?
text: Did you know that Faith Cabin Library at Seneca Junior College in South Carolina is also called the "Oberlin Unit" because of the donations of books by the students of Oberlin College in Ohio ?
text: Did you know that as a member of the El Alto Workers' Center, Martha Yujra participated in mass mobilizations that led to the resignations of two Bolivian presidents?
text: Did you know that Central City College was established as an African American-led alternative to the historically black Atlanta Baptist College ?
text: Did you know that Arlene Kelly made her international debut for the Ireland women's cricket team after nine of their regular players were unavailable for selection?
text: Did you know that One Griswold Street in Detroit, now owned by the Church of Scientology , was built on the location of the first church building in the city, Ste. Anne de Détroit ?
text: Did you know that Lady Eva Julius once called Girl Guiding "the most important youth movement in the world"?
text: Did you know that the Gould Memorial Library once hosted pie-throwing contests to raise money?
text: Did you know that Egon Madsen , a former Stuttgart Ballet principal dancer, returned to the stage at the age of 57 and continues to perform in his 70s?
text: Did you know that the 2009 book Where Heaven and Earth Meet introduced the term "Sacred Esplanade" as a politically neutral term for the religious site in Jerusalem known as al-Haram al-Sharif or the Temple Mount ?
text: Did you know that Sophie Freud , the granddaughter of Sigmund Freud , criticized psychoanalysis as a "narcissistic indulgence"?
text: Did you know that, in the 2014 Texas Bowl , the Arkansas Razorbacks defense held the Texas Longhorns offense to a season-low net total of 59 yards?
text: Did you know that when Bernardin Schellenberger wrote the 1978 hymn " Selig, wem Christus auf dem Weg begegnet ", he was prior at Mariawald Abbey , a Trappist monastery?
text: Did you know that squatters in Myanmar were punished for protesting against the 2021 coup d'état by being evicted?
text: Did you know that a bunch of "smart-assed teenagers" drove around the Bronx looking for birds in garbage dumps?
text: Did you know that American artist Inez Demonet created watercolors of facial injuries for the War Department ?
text: Did you know that with regard to transparency, a Swiss permanent representative to the United Nations compared the election of the secretary-general of the United Nations to the election of the pope ?
text: Did you know that the Foxconn union , representing more than 90 percent of Foxconn 's 1.4 million workers, is a company union dominated by management?
text: Did you know that traffic at Greymouth railway station increased significantly after the opening of the Otira Tunnel ?
text: Did you know that Julie Beckett lobbied for the Katie Beckett Medicaid waiver , which enabled hundreds of thousands of disabled children to be cared for by their families at home instead of a hospital?
text: Did you know that Subneolithic groups practised hunting and gathering whilst also incorporating elements of Neolithic culture, including pottery?
text: Did you know that Sput played with Puppy and Dogg ?
text: Did you know that the host of Canyon Kid's Corner said that his Brooklyn accent as a cowboy came from "the canyons created by the tall buildings"?
text: Did you know that after a publisher declined the manga series Let's Go Karaoke! , it sold out multiple times after being self-published ?
text: Did you know that Vito Trause , who dropped out of high school during his junior year to join the United States Army in 1943, received his high school diploma at the age of 92?
text: Did you know that Faiz Ahmad Faiz reportedly remarked that Mujh Se Pehli Si Mohabbat Mere Mehboob Na Maang no longer belonged to him but to Noor Jehan ?
text: Did you know that Pearl Jam 's manager agreed to include a song in The Last of Us Part II after hearing the story pitch, watching the trailer, and receiving a PlayStation 4 and a copy of the first game ?
text: Did you know that Ukrainian designer Anna October showed her collection during Paris Fashion Week after escaping the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine ?
text: Did you know that 75 years ago today, it was KOOL in Phoenix ?
text: Did you know that the band BHLT split up when they did not get a recording contract?
text: Did you know that football goalkeepers dive too much during penalty kicks?
text: Did you know that Boris Rhein failed to become the mayor of his hometown , but was later elected the minister-president of his home state ?
text: Did you know that Dutch squatters fighting eviction from De Vloek (The Curse) briefly occupied Scheveningen Pier ?
text: Did you know that H. B. Wilkinson lost the first special election in Arizona to Isabella Greenway , who became the first woman from Arizona to go to Congress?
text: Did you know that after failing to persuade European donors that six human rights organizations had terrorist connections based on a dossier of classified evidence, Israel designated them as terrorist organizations ?
text: Did you know that more emerging adults are failing to launch ?
text: Did you know that during World War II, Terry Sanford captured a German officer by grabbing him by the belt?
text: Did you know that Basshunter recorded " Fest i hela huset " with Swedish Big Brother contestants who had never worked with music professionally?
text: Did you know that art dealer Inigo Philbrick was called a "mini Madoff " by a colleague – before he was convicted of wire fraud?
text: Did you know that ancient Roman gynecologists believed that menstrual blood could be used to drive dogs insane?
text: Did you know that the emo-revival album Just Got Back From the Discomfort—We're Alright contains samples from Malcolm in the Middle on three of its songs?
text: Did you know that Olympic diver Millie Hudson , who attempted to swim across the Strait of Gibraltar in 1928, was a member of the Hammersmith Ladies Swimming Club along with Belle White , the first British diver to win an Olympic medal?
text: Did you know that the Dnieper Balts might have worshipped bear heads on pillars?
text: Did you know that ancient Roman surgeons used materials such as bran and ashes to heal burns ?
text: Did you know that Joseph Ranger was the longest-serving Black sailor in the American Revolutionary War 's Virginia State Navy ?
text: Did you know that the Suwałki Gap is often described as the modern version of the Cold War –era Fulda Gap , a NATO vulnerability of historical importance?
text: Did you know that Stanford women's basketball player Cameron Brink is a close family friend of Stephen Curry ?
text: Did you know that a Japanese-era building in the Imperial Crown Style serves as the regional museum of Russia's Sakhalin Oblast ?
text: Did you know that Emma Watson considered quitting the Harry Potter film series, but later returned to star in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince ?
text: Did you know that George Henry Daniels has been called the "Father of the Century"?
text: Did you know that Arno Lücker ran a series of concerts titled 2 x hören (listen twice) at the Konzerthaus Berlin in which performers were interviewed between two renditions of the same piece of chamber music ?
text: Did you know that Baltimore Transmission was the last General Motors plant in Maryland?
text: Did you know that Rosana Alvarado was one of three women leading Ecuador's National Assembly in 2017?
text: Did you know that Callaway Gardens promoted the John A. Sibley Horticultural Center as "one of the most advanced garden/greenhouse complexes in the world", before closing it in 2015 after more than 30 years?
text: Did you know that the character of the mother in the painting In the Ploughed Field: Spring is believed to personify Spring?
text: Did you know that Béla Petsco 's Nothing Very Important and Other Stories was based on his own experience as a missionary in Southern California for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ?
text: Did you know that the kisslip himri in Turkey might face a dam problem ?
text: Did you know that Bob Neuwirth worked at an art supply store before becoming Bob Dylan 's road manager?
text: Did you know that Hurricane Agatha was the strongest Pacific hurricane to make landfall in Mexico in May since records began in 1949?
text: Did you know that due to the efforts of James Markham Ambler , the Jeannette expedition became the first Arctic expedition "without a single case of scurvy "?
text: Did you know that  the Uzunköprü Bridge was the longest bridge in the Ottoman Empire and later Turkey for 530 years until 1973, when it was surpassed by the Bosphorus Bridge ?
text: Did you know that Ruth L. Bennett provided shelter for more than 2,000 black women and girls who migrated north to Chester, Pennsylvania , as part of the Great Migration ?
text: Did you know that after using a talent show to select Apostolos Psichramis to represent Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 2004 , the Greek broadcaster instead sent Sakis Rouvas ?
text: Did you know that after serving as President of the Oregon State Senate , Brady L. Adams founded BearFest in Grants Pass, Oregon , which featured playful fiberglass bear statues placed around the town?
text: Did you know that the Stony Brook Railroad was in business from 1845 to 2022, but never owned a single locomotive or ran a single train?
text: Did you know that British oceanographer Sonya Legg has studied the South China Sea , where internal waves can be taller than 200 metres (660 ft)?
text: Did you know that the Rudolf-Oetker-Halle , the concert hall of Bielefeld , remains mostly unchanged from its completion in 1930?
text: Did you know that food psychology research has found that the COVID-19 pandemic led to both reduced and increased consumption of junk food among different geographical populations and educational backgrounds?
text: Did you know that the first tequila distillery in the United States was opened in 1936 in Nogales, Arizona , by Harry J. Karns , former Arizona state senator and Nogales mayor?
text: Did you know that 40 countries constitutionally recognize a right to resist the government under certain circumstances?
text: Did you know that six-time American national archery champion Russ Hoogerhyde performed trick shots including shooting a cigarette from the lips of a spectator?
text: Did you know that entrepreneur Ian Schrager paid a record $9 million for two apartments at the Majestic in New York City, but he never lived there?
text: Did you know that actress Klara Höfels , known for her roles in television crime series, also produced, directed, and starred in world premieres of theatre projects in Berlin?
text: Did you know that Peter Clavelle 's victory in the 1995 Burlington mayoral election made him its first mayor to return to office after losing it since James Edmund Burke in 1933?
text: Did you know that a statue of the Elamite queen Napir-Asu is inscribed with a curse for its would-be vandals?
text: Did you know that Bally's Chicago , a proposed casino resort in Chicago , has a goal of bringing in $200 million in annual tax revenue to fund the city's police and firefighter pension fund?
text: Did you know that Fyodor Arturovich Keller was one of two Russian generals who opposed the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II , offering his corps to help suppress the February Revolution ?
text: Did you know that a Wisconsin radio station used to collect rent from the United States Congress ?
text: Did you know that Job Abbott designed the first through cantilever bridge in North America?
text: Did you know that ska-crazed dancers at a Stretch Armstrong concert once became so intense that three people left on stretchers and one in a hospital helicopter?
text: Did you know that One Night with Regine was a concert in support of the child-welfare program Bantay Bata , staged on the steps of the entrance façade of the National Museum of Anthropology in Manila?
text: Did you know that Hanning Schröder , who in the 1930s played historical instruments in the Harlan Trio together with his wife, was recognised as Righteous Among the Nations ?
text: Did you know that Thihapate of Mohnyin , who was laying siege to Mogaung , refused the court's offer to be king of Ava , saying he was neither a son nor a younger brother of the king, and returned to the siege?
text: Did you know that the Ja Ja Ding Dong Guy announced the points from Iceland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2021 ?
text: Did you know that when A Nymphoid Barbarian in Dinosaur Hell screened at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival, Lloyd Kaufman said that "no one else was dumb enough to do a dinosaur movie"?
text: Did you know that two-time Emmy winner George Yanok was the final road manager of the Kingston Trio and editor of their last album ?
text: Did you know that the 47 in the marijuana strain AK-47 may refer to the number of days between its planting and harvest?
text: Did you know that Royal Ballet dancer Reece Clarke once filled in for a lead role mid-show, opposite a ballerina he had never danced with, after having ten minutes to prepare?
text: Did you know that episodes of the TV Tokyo late-night show Nogizaka Under Construction are uploaded to YouTube shortly after broadcast, which is considered unusual in Japanese media?
text: Did you know that Edward Severin Clark was bequeathed the Dakota in New York City when he was 12 years old?
text: Did you know that Maria Olsvik was called up to the Norway national football team for the first time one year after giving birth?
text: Did you know that the Key Underwood Coon Dog Memorial Graveyard is the only U.S. cemetery reserved exclusively for coon dog burials?
text: Did you know that over half a century after Kristallnacht , the Jews of Innsbruck rebuilt their synagogue on the location of the one destroyed that night?
text: Did you know that Eri Yukimura pushed through with a voice acting career partly to prove her late grandmother wrong?
text: Did you know that Seattle radio station KBLE was named in 1963 for a cable car system that had closed nearly 25 years prior?
text: Did you know that the album Topical Dancer was created using four different languages?
text: Did you know that Turkey demanded Mehmet Sıraç Bilgin 's extradition in May 2022, seven years after he died in Sweden?
text: Did you know that Prawoto Mangkusasmito did not complete law school before the Japanese invaded because he was too busy with student and political organizations?
text: Did you know that one of the tracks on the deluxe version of Frayed at Both Ends by country musician Aaron Lewis was originally a poem by Johnny Cash ?
text: Did you know that Jack Morris , who set Oregon Ducks football records in single-season scoring and consecutive successful conversions , also won three state titles in hurdling ?
text: Did you know that the environmentalism of the poor is a global movement arising from local environmental conflicts ?
text: Did you know that Luz del Carmen Ibáñez Carranza was Abimael Guzmán 's prosecutor before being elected the first Peruvian judge of the International Criminal Court ?
text: Did you know that officials installed a secret switch to shut down the radio station at the University of Akron in Ohio in case "radicals" took it over?
text: Did you know that journalist Charles Edwards relayed a report by The Canadian Press on the torpedoing of SS Athenia without comment, even though his father was aboard the ship?
text: Did you know that Bob Dylan 's backing singers on " New Pony " included both his then-girlfriend and his future wife?
text: Did you know that the Patriarchy really does control the sisters of the Monastery Saint Claire in Nazareth?
text: Did you know that William Buchanan designed the first vehicle to exceed 100 miles per hour (160 km/h)?
text: Did you know that " Monggeumpo Taryeong ", a Korean folk song, is about lovers that wait and sing in a harbor for their loved ones (sailors) to return?
text: Did you know that Benjamin Wallace wrote a book about wine bottles allegedly owned by Thomas Jefferson ?
text: Did you know that Ijima's leaf warbler is named after Japanese zoologist Ijima Isao ?
text: Did you know that The West Wing 's " Hartsfield's Landing " is a homage to three tiny towns in New Hampshire?
text: Did you know that on his third expedition to Hudson Bay , Pierre Allemand piloted a captured English ship?
text: Did you know that campaign literature in the 1894 Montana capital referendum accused Helena residents of copious Manhattan consumption?
text: Did you know that the first episode of the British pop music TV show Top of the Pops was broadcast on 1 January 1964 from Dickenson Road Studios , a converted church in Manchester?
text: Did you know that archaeologist Lawrence H. Keeley refined the methods of microscopic use-wear analysis to learn about prehistoric stone tools ?
text: Did you know that players are cheating in esports by using performance-enhancing drugs ?
text: Did you know that Las Vegas radio station KVBC-FM offered Monica Lewinsky $5 million to do a tell-all interview?
text: Did you know that the reactions to food depicted in the manga series Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma were decided on through free association games?
text: Did you know that although the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 was cancelled, Iceland's planned entry for that year was chosen as the alternative winner in several countries, including Sweden and Australia?
text: Did you know that Floyd Griffin lost a mayoral election by just 35 votes?
text: Did you know that Sam Smith left the University of Louisville after being found to be academically ineligible for its basketball team , claiming the school was "too big for him"?
text: Did you know that the adoption of the Declaration of Independence of Azerbaijan made the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic the first successful republic in the Muslim world ?
text: Did you know that Arnold Blackner was said to be the first person to sing over 3,000 miles (4,800 km) on the telephone?
text: Did you know that the literary movement of créolie tries to integrate the identity of Réunion with France?
text: Did you know that  the Four-Track News is not news about the car music cassettes of the 1950s, but an illustrated magazine of the early 1900s on travel and education put out by the New York Central Railroad ?
text: Did you know that records of Acoutsina 's captivity allow historians to analyse the eighteenth century French- Eskimo relationship?
text: Did you know that a regional radio group with 75 stations started with a " Big Wrig "?
text: Did you know that the recently-announced Google Wallet app revives the brand name previously used by a similar service of the same name from 2011 to 2018?
text: Did you know that Paula Lizell , a former star of the Royal Swedish Opera , advanced from coloratura to dramatic Wagnerian roles?
text: Did you know that until the outbreak at Rotterdam Zoo in 1964, monkeypox was thought to occur only in primates?
text: Did you know that Yumi Nu is a Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue and Vogue cover model and musician signed to Steve Aoki 's record label?
text: Did you know that the arches of the 1849 Belvidere Bridge consist of six pre-cast ribs bolted together?
text: Did you know that after becoming paralyzed from the neck down, Rocky "RockyNoHands" Stoutenburgh broke two Guinness World Records in the video game Fortnite ?
text: Did you know that the largest white diamond ever auctioned is simply called The Rock ?
text: Did you know that when the studio album Jim Reeves Sings was released by Abbott Records in 1955, the artist himself had already signed with RCA Victor ?
text: Did you know that Pedro Tenorio left his professorship at the University of Rome to fight in the Battle of Nájera in 1367 and was captured?
text: Did you know that in Ryūnosuke Akutagawa 's retelling of the Tang dynasty short story " Du Zichun ", a son grieves for his mother who has been reborn as a horse?
text: Did you know that journalist Bob Moir posed as medical staff on the Canadian Olympic team to report on the Munich massacre ?
text: Did you know that Roman Emperor Tiberius used " quantitative easing " to solve a financial crisis in 33 A.D. ?
text: Did you know that 2022 Kentucky Derby winner Rich Strike was drawn into the field just minutes before the entry deadline?
text: Did you know that " Sae Taryeong " , a Korean folk song, describes the flow of a stream as ju-ru-ru-ru-ru-ru ?
text: Did you know that after bombing in World War II, the surviving tower of the Friedenskirche , a Lutheran church in Stuttgart , was combined with a new concrete structure?
text: Did you know that in 2022 Sandhya Dhar has received both a Nari Shakti Puraskar and a bronze medal in boccia at the Indian national championships?
text: Did you know that professional golfer Cary Middlecoff co-owned Memphis, Tennessee , radio station WCBR in the mid-1950s?
text: Did you know that Werner Flume called a fellow academic assistant a pig for demanding the boycott of professors of Jewish descent in 1933?
text: Did you know that the Beresford and the San Remo were sold for a total of $25,000 in 1940, a decade after they were built for $10 million?
text: Did you know that Nathalie Viteri was dismissed from Ecuador's National Assembly but she is now one of the top five members contributing to their debates?
text: Did you know that Melody Clinger of the girl band the Clingers met the drummer for the Beach Boys , Dennis Wilson, after wolf-whistling his Rolls Royce on her way home from a guitar lesson?
text: Did you know  that American doctor Cory Synhorst SerVaas believed that high-lysine corn could help end hunger in Africa, end famine , and stop protein deficiency despite only being fed to livestock and poultry?
text: Did you know that at one point the fossil grasshopper Promastax was placed in the same family as a stick insect?
text: Did you know that tenor Theo Lebow performed the roles of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Pablo Picasso in the world premiere of the opera 27 ?
text: Did you know that a new building of the Catholic church Our Lady of the Annunciation in King's Lynn was initiated by Edward, Prince of Wales , because his guests were inconvenienced by the old building's condition?
text: Did you know that Matthew Walker was driven to write Why We Sleep because of a woman who passed by him and took a peek at his work?
text: Did you know that the 1872 Tradeston Flour Mills explosion that killed 18 people was caused by a fire after the feed of grain to a pair of millstones was halted?
text: Did you know that Phil McGrane used food trucks as his inspiration to increase early voting ?
text: Did you know that John Jacob Withrow allegedly did not consult anyone before announcing a permanent exhibition in Toronto?
text: Did you know that the Hawaii Civil Liberties Committee was designated as a Communist front by the House Un-American Activities Committee ?
text: Did you know that Mahendra Raj 's engineering work on the Hindustan Lever pavilion resembled a crumpled sheet of paper?
text: Did you know that the clown character Mombo was created for The Dr. Max Show after being blamed for an off-stage noise?
text: Did you know that Roddie Fleming was expecting to inherit the family business, but it was sold to Chase Bank instead?
text: Did you know that Darkness Visible: A Study of Vergil's Aeneid was thought by one reviewer to have "the remarkable qualities of the oracular"?
text: Did you know that Sunny Low and his sister were dubbed the "King and Queen of Cha-Cha-Cha and Rock 'n' Roll"?
text: Did you know that a statue and a clock were the only items indicating that Tiffany & Co. occupied the Tiffany and Company Building ?
text: Did you know that Ana Štěrba-Böhm became the first Slovene woman with a doctorate in science, in 1911?
text: Did you know that after performing as a costumed stunt double in the Kamen Rider and Super Sentai franchises for almost 30 years, Seiji Takaiwa appeared in his first starring role in Good Morning, Sleeping Lion ?
text: Did you know that Kelsie Whitmore was part of the first all-female battery in a professional baseball league since the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League ?
text: Did you know that the deity in Nakodaji is considered as a business partner by businessmen?
text: Did you know that at age 22, Yoel Gamzou from Tel Aviv conducted an orchestra that he had founded, playing his completion of Mahler's Tenth Symphony in Berlin?
text: Did you know that The Mutiny Hotel was described as a haven for "cocaine cowboys"?
text: Did you know that the Biden Foundation was shut down on the same day one of its co-founders announced his candidacy for president of the United States ?
text: Did you know that neuroscientist Beatriz Rico and her team discovered a link between a protein called Brevican and short-term spatial memory?
text: Did you know that WLOK , the first Black-owned radio station in Memphis, Tennessee , organizes an annual "Stone Soul Picnic" gospel concert series?
text: Did you know that Darrell Clarke led Bristol Rovers to two successive promotions after having to remove "Clarke Out" posters that disgruntled fans had posted outside of the club's training ground?
text: Did you know that the 2022 Sweden riots stemmed from an anti-Islamic group burning a Quran during Ramadan with police permission?
text: Did you know that in 1991, James F. Kelley claimed that he had been ordered to repatriate Amelia Earhart (who disappeared in 1937) to the United States, where she lived as Irene Craigmile Bolam ?
text: Did you know that the final of the 2009 IBSF women's snooker championship was interrupted so that drug tests could be conducted on the players?
text: Did you know that Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver Britain Covey played quarterback in high school and led his team to 26 consecutive wins?
text: Did you know that the temptation of Christ has been associated with Jebel Quruntul in the West Bank since at least the 4th century?
text: Did you know that Luigi Gaggero conducted the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra in Germany in April 2022, restoring Lyatoshynsky's Symphony No. 3 to its 1951 version, with the last movement themed "Peace will conquer war"?
text: Did you know that the Louis M. Martini Winery began selling wine on December 5, 1933 – the day on which Prohibition in the United States was repealed?
text: Did you know that a former member of the French Senate ended up being exiled to the northern Central African Republic by the future emperor ?
text: Did you know that the documentary comedy films Being Canadian and When Jews Were Funny explore the filmmakers' cultural identity through interviews with dozens of comedians?
text: Did you know that copies of the underground anti-war publication Liberated Barracks were found on ships carrying US troops to Vietnam?
text: Did you know that Ambati Rambabu , the state minister for irrigation of Andhra Pradesh , dabbled in acting before entering politics?
text: Did you know that the solar water-heating market in Turkey is second in the world, after China's?
text: Did you know that when tenor Jonathan Tetelman appeared as Loris Ipanov in Giordano's Fedora , which had made Caruso famous, a reviewer called him ideal for the role?
text: Did you know that the main nesting site of the Japanese murrelet was used as a bombing range by the USAF ?
text: Did you know that East Lake Square, a failed shopping mall in Tampa, Florida , was converted into a business park known as NetPark Tampa Bay in 1999?
text: Did you know that Olga Rudenko , who was chosen as the editor-in-chief of the newspaper The Kyiv Independent , appeared on the cover of Time ?
text: Did you know that literary fiction novel Agatha of Little Neon 's title stems from a house that is "the color of Mountain Dew "?
text: Did you know that before Angeli Foods was sold this year, the first self-service grocery store in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan had been owned by three generations of a single family?
text: Did you know that cricketers Anil Kumble and Harbhajan Singh both played for the Chemplast cricket team under owner and industrialist N. Sankar ?
text: Did you know that the bronze sculpture Expansion is lit from within, after Paige Bradley broke its wax model intentionally and assembled the cast pieces to leave cracks?
text: Did you know that mathematician Mathias Metternich was one of the founders of the Jacobin club of the Republic of Mainz ?
text: Did you know that the documentary Babi Yar. Context shows rare footage of buildings being destroyed by retreating Soviet forces in the main street of Nazi-occupied Kyiv ?
text: Did you know that open depictions of sexual acts were a defining trait of early works of josei manga ('women's comics ')?
text: Did you know that Nina Jankowicz dubbed herself the " Mary Poppins of disinformation"?
text: Did you know that a 1 a.m. phone call resulted in financier George D. Gould joining the efforts to stave off New York City's near-bankruptcy in 1975 ?
text: Did you know that although the problem of squaring the circle with compass and straightedge goes back to Greek mathematics , it was not proven impossible until 1882?
text: Did you know that Canadian cricketer Divya Saxena was accused of obstructing the field in an international match but was ruled " not out "?
text: Did you know that German violinist and professor Aleksey Semenenko was stranded in Ukraine for a month because Russia invaded the country the day after his performance?
text: Did you know that the dark-money American Accountability Foundation aims to "take a big handful of sand and throw it in the gears of the Biden administration "?
text: Did you know that random runners are lonely ?
text: Did you know that Justus H. Rathbone , founder of the Knights of Pythias , served as a hospital steward during the American Civil War?
text: Did you know that some radical right parties in Europe have adopted the rhetoric of anti-antisemitism to oppose Muslim immigration?
text: Did you know that according to one legal scholar, "no intelligent lawyer could well practice without" the books of Joseph Kinnicutt Angell ?
text: Did you know that Tutankhamun's infant daughters are unnamed, being referred to only as "the Osiris" on their coffins?
text: Did you know that Albania's first professional woman painter was Androniqi Zengo Antoniu , who painted impressionist portraits and landscapes, as well as religious art in churches?
text: Did you know that the Fort Worth Intelligence Exchange has investigated a neo-Nazi gang and an alleged plan to break Joe Exotic out of jail?
text: Did you know that Nicholas Jakubovics holds a patent on the use of L-arginine to remove dental plaque ?
text: Did you know that the chicken turtle is one of the shortest-lived turtle species in the world?
text: Did you know that Joseph Eiboeck called the period from July 4, 1884, to 1890 "a reign of terror for Iowa"?
text: Did you know that the Storia de Mahometh contains the earliest Latin translation of any part of the Quran ?
text: Did you know that Paul Delvaux 's painting The Sacrifice of Iphigenia has been interpreted as a work about the little death ?
text: Did you know that actress Dorothy Van Engle starred in the 1935 movie Murder in Harlem with a "proto-feminist role" that was then a primary source of positive representation for African Americans in film?
text: Did you know that the Oshima Brothers started singing together in the bathtub?
text: Did you know that Solomon Hughes was a Harlem Globetrotter before he played a Laker in film ?
text: Did you know that uses for medical textiles range from a simple cotton bandage to complex tissue growth?
text: Did you know that Clotworthy Upton , an illegitimate child, could not inherit his father's barony?
text: Did you know that the Indonesian film Apa Jang Kau Tjari, Palupi? was "hailed by critics", "rejected by the audience", and "shown around the world"?
text: Did you know that Tzedi Tzarfati directed a production of Annie decades after becoming enamored with its song "Tomorrow"?
text: Did you know that American media intelligence company Anomaly Six uses software development kits in commonly used apps to track the movements of hundreds of millions of mobile phones?
text: Did you know that Warring Kennedy was re-elected as Mayor of Toronto by 14 votes?
text: Did you know that the British rap song " Jiggle Jiggle " by filmmaker Louis Theroux has been used in more than two million TikTok videos?
text: Did you know that Adam Murray became the youngest manager in the English Football League when he was appointed at Mansfield Town at the age of 33?
text: Did you know that the UNESCO Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity includes value systems, traditions, and beliefs in its definition of culture?
text: Did you know that Dorothy Binney Palmer built two houses that are on the United States' National Register of Historic Places ?
text: Did you know that, despite its name, The Guild of Carillonneurs in North America is not a labor union?
text: Did you know that Aguil Chut-Deng took 22 child refugees from South Sudan to Ethiopia during civil war so that they could attend school?
text: Did you know that the screenwriter of Under the Christmas Tree , the network Lifetime 's first lesbian Christmas film , also wrote the channel's first gay male Christmas film the year before?
text: Did you know that the 2002 Russian pop song " A Man like Putin " inadvertently became adopted as propaganda?
text: Did you know that Kim E. Nielsen trained as a historian of women and politics, and came to disability history and studies via her discovery of Helen Keller 's political life?
text: Did you know that the first recording of Bach's Kreuzstab cantata was a 1939 Dutch live broadcast sung by Mack Harrell , 25 years before the 1964 German recording by his protégé Barry McDaniel ?
text: Did you know that Johnny Hatley quit professional football to become a full-time rodeo competitor?
text: Did you know that development of the British UB.109T cruise missile was given "super-priority" in 1951 to ward off an expected attack by the Soviet Union , only to be cancelled after the attack never came?
text: Did you know that metaphysicist Helen Hadsell claimed that she won things she wanted by projecting energy?
text: Did you know that Chabacano metro station has a composition named after it and it served as a film location for the 1990 film Total Recall ?
text: Did you know that ballet dancer William Bracewell has portrayed Louis XIV , Romeo , a salamander, and a caterpillar?
text: Did you know that botanist William West 's elder son William West Jr assisted him with fieldwork , and his younger son George Stephen West collaborated with him on numerous scientific publications?
text: Did you know that some severe environmental impacts of the invasion of Ukraine can be seen from space?
text: Did you know that Planned Parenthood president Eleanor Bellows Pillsbury received the Lasker Award for leading the organization into "a new era as a national force and international influence"?
text: Did you know that the Tapuae-o-Uenuku / Hector Mountains have been an important mahinga kai (food-gathering site) for the Māori for more than 600 years?
text: Did you know that beginning in 2024, some California stores will be required to have a gender-neutral children's section ?
text: Did you know that researchers think that investing in the construction of corporate buildings can also have a social impact?
text: Did you know that an Alabama mayoral candidate received "his head on a platter", according to winning candidate Dave Thomas ?
text: Did you know that Russ Davis hit the first home run at Safeco Field ?
text: Did you know that according to The Wire , the web application Tek Fog was used to "amplify right-wing propaganda" among Indians?
text: Did you know that after developing the first packet switching network for the ARPANET in the United States, computer scientist David Walden went to Norway to develop a packet switching network in that country?
text: Did you know that William Shakespeare once described a shepherd's hat as a "platted hive of straw"?
text: Did you know that Lucy Westlake summited the highest peak of each of the 48 contiguous U.S. states by age 12?
text: Did you know that as a result of the crisis of the late 16th century in Russia , many service-class landowners were left with no peasants working their land?
text: Did you know that fashion designer Ouigi Theodore 's anvil -horn-shaped beard inspired his alter ego, "The Bearded Man"?
text: Did you know that Friedrich Oberschelp founded and conducted for five decades the Bielefelder Kinderchor , a children's choir that filled the Rudolf-Oetker-Halle in Bielefeld for Christmas concerts several times each season?
text: Did you know that the adapted TV series Ten Percent was criticised as being too faithful to the original?
text: Did you know that Wayne Cooper , who played in two NBA Finals , finished his career with exactly 7,777 points?
text: Did you know that Anne Baker 's book Wings over Kabul: The First Airlift describes the first significant use of airpower in an insurgency campaign ?
text: Did you know that James McChord was elected to the presidency of Centre College by its board of trustees, but died before he could take office?
text: Did you know that Iranian Sunni scholars condemned the Imam Reza shrine stabbings carried out by a Takfiri extremist?
text: Did you know that homes in urban areas must have earthquake insurance before being connected to electricity in Turkey ?
text: Did you know that Taylor Swift initially wrote " This Love " as a poem, turning it into a song only when she came up with a melody?
text: Did you know that after travelling around 8,300 km (5,200 mi) from Afghanistan to Ireland, Muzamil Sherzad was named a member of Ireland's squad for the 2022 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup ?
text: Did you know that Representative Paul Gosar once posted an anime video on Twitter depicting him killing Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and attacking President Joe Biden ?
text: Did you know that Visigothic noblewoman Sara al-Qutiyya took back the land her uncle stole by travelling to Damascus and petitioning the caliph ?
text: Did you know that in her performances of " Supper Time ", Ethel Waters drew on her experience of staying with the family of a man who had been lynched ?
text: Did you know that at the time of his death, Alexander Manning was the largest individual ratepayer in Toronto?
text: Did you know that one New Hampshire TV station was reportedly dying since its first moment on air?
text: Did you know that Clayton Weishuhn set the New England Patriots single-season record of 229 tackles in 1983, a record that still stands?
text: Did you know that the Carib Theatre in Kingston, Jamaica , was the British West Indies' first building to offer air conditioning upon its opening?
text: Did you know that "What do you hope to achieve with this?" were the last words of the Nigerian college student Deborah Yakubu while being lynched for alleged blasphemy ?
text: Did you know that the Astor family 's plans for 200 Madison Avenue were delayed for years because of J. P. Morgan Jr. , who lived across the street?
text: Did you know that Japanese voice actress and singer Sora Amamiya 's song "Jōnetsu no Te Amo" was heavily influenced by Latin music, including the use of a Spanish guitar?
text: Did you know that the Anglo-Saxons may have used a mixture of garlic, another Allium , wine, and bovine bile as an eye medicine?
text: Did you know that Darien, Connecticut , was once home to a train station built inside a cemetery ?
text: Did you know that John Hutchison , in his role as Mayor of Toronto , signed the city's bid to become the capital of the Province of Canada ?
text: Did you know that there is a Gambian literature even though it has been argued that there is "minimal basis" for its existence?
text: Did you know that Brooklyn Nine-Nine actress Melissa Fumero is the daughter of Cubans who fled to the U.S. as teenagers?
text: Did you know that George Balanchine stated that he choreographed Divertimento No. 15 as he forgot his previous ballet to the same Mozart composition , but some dancers said the two works are nearly identical?
text: Did you know that All-American cornerback Drane Scrivener later became a published author on fire safety issues involving children with special needs, newborns, and older adults?
text: Did you know that French broadcast regulators failed to mediate a dispute between four Jewish radio stations in Paris sharing the same frequency: Judaïques FM , RCJ , Radio J , and Radio Shalom ?
text: Did you know that Abishabis claimed that he could create a map to heaven?
text: Did you know that Vivien Lyra Blair 's performance was deemed "just absurd" in the Netflix film We Can Be Heroes ?
text: Did you know that although Mayu Island has an area of less than one square kilometer (0.4 sq mi), it has two different temples honoring the same goddess?
text: Did you know that after Keri Blakinger left Cornell University to serve time in prison for possession of heroin , she returned to finish her degree and then became a criminal justice reporter?
text: Did you know that although Leah Kate 's single " 10 Things I Hate About You " shares the same name as the 1999 movie , she said that she did not use it as inspiration for the song?
text: Did you know that Redcliffe railway station has been renamed twice since 2016?
text: Did you know that Royal Navy boy seaman Alf Lowe was awarded the Albert Medal for Lifesaving for his actions during a 1948 sinking that killed 29 men?
text: Did you know that the first meeting of the New Zealand Women Writers' Society was chaired by a man?
text: Did you know that music from Mariah Carey , Sheena Easton , and Whitney Houston was the inspiration for the concert residency Reflections ?
text: Did you know that the ceramicist Sandy Brown wanted her sculpture Earth Goddess to be "female and making an impact"?
text: Did you know that Phil Elverum recorded Don't Wake Me Up nocturnally, while "drinking pots of black tea all night"?
text: Did you know that Argentinian Ricardo D. Eliçabe qualified as a physician, co-founded a petroleum refinery, and wrote about forgeries of Bolivia's first stamps?
text: Did you know that the book Love Falls On Us , about the LGBTQ movement in Africa, was praised by author Uzodinma Iweala for "elevating the extraordinary ordinariness of L.G.B.T.Q. Africans"?
text: Did you know that Garretson, South Dakota , was named after businessman Arthur Samuel Garretson ?
text: Did you know that the plot of Fast and Feel Love involves a character competing to become the fastest cup-stacking competitor in the world?
text: Did you know that Garsa Fwip 's portrayer, Jennifer Beals , did not know what series she was part of when she arrived on set?
text: Did you know that Portunus segnis was one of the earliest Lessepsian migrants to the Mediterranean, being first recorded in 1898 at Port Said?
text: Did you know that R. B. Schlather directed the world premiere of Hertzberg's chamber opera The Rose Elf in Brooklyn, as well as Cimarosa's L'Italiana in Londra and Puccini's Madama Butterfly at the Oper Frankfurt ?
text: Did you know that after Lew Dickey Sr. broke into the radio business by buying a station in West Virginia , his son would go on to own Cumulus Media ?
text: Did you know that Russian scientist Dmitry Kolker was arrested on charges of espionage while being treated for terminal cancer at a hospital and flown to Moscow, dying two days later?
text: Did you know that a Space Forge satellite is scheduled to fly on the first-ever satellite launch from the United Kingdom?
text: Did you know that mathematics professor Ari Nagel has fathered more than a hundred children?
text: Did you know that Margot Sponer used her international network of contacts to help people escape persecution in Nazi Germany ?
text: Did you know that the 37-metre-long (121 ft) Burnham Pier is sometimes described as the United Kingdom's shortest?
text: Did you know that Louis Weinstein , a pioneer in infectious disease treatment, funded his education by working as a jazz violinist?
text: Did you know that Rust has been named the "most loved programming language " every year for seven years since 2016 by annual surveys conducted by Stack Overflow ?
text: Did you know that Heather Baron-Gracie of the band Pale Waves likened the music video for their song " Jealousy " to a " Helmet Lang or Calvin Klein advert"?
text: Did you know that Matthew Tye uploaded a YouTube video about leaving China after hearing that members of the local public security bureau had shown his photograph in bars frequented by foreigners?
text: Did you know that the presentation of Inuit fashion items made from sealskin at contemporary art exhibition Floe Edge was called "an upraised Inuit middle finger" to anti– seal hunting activists?
text: Did you know that Canadian paediatrician Gladys Boyd was one of the first physicians to treat diabetic children with insulin?
text: Did you know that Jerome Robbins 's final ballet, Brandenburg , set to excerpts from Bach's Brandenburg Concertos , is likened to a kaleidoscope ?
text: Did you know that Athanasius Safar , a Syriac Catholic bishop from the Ottoman Empire , left Europe for Mexico in 1689?
text: Did you know that following the ban of its labour unions in 1934, the Romanian United Socialist Party would rely on its youth and women's wings for political action?
text: Did you know that the Clements twins have an estimated revenue of almost US$6000 per Instagram post?
text: Did you know that the Japanese manga series Heart Gear sells three times better in France than in Japan?
text: Did you know that the name of the Indian city Bangalore could be derived from a Kannada word meaning 'town of boiled beans'?
text: Did you know that Olivia Rodrigo and Dan Nigro wrote the song " Deja Vu " within one day?
text: Did you know that Anita Rivas , an Ecuadorian mayor, visited the United Kingdom and offered to stop oil drilling in a rainforest in Yasuní National Park ?
text: Did you know that the mission of the United Nations special envoy on Myanmar has been called a "diplomatic graveyard"?
text: Did you know that Robert Byron Tabor 's first major painting was put on display in the White House by Franklin D. Roosevelt and his wife?
text: Did you know that there are nearly 100 carillons in Belgium , two of which are in the same building ?
text: Did you know that the Deutsches Romantik-Museum in Frankfurt , the only museum dedicated to the entire era of German Romanticism , looks like three houses and features blue elements?
text: Did you know that Robert M. Blizzard , who pioneered growth hormone therapy in children, liked to joke that he had added 11 miles (18 km) to the height of the U.S. population?
text: Did you know that Isabel Darlington was the first woman lawyer in Chester County, Pennsylvania , and the only woman practicing law there for 45 years?
text: Did you know that organist Jehan Alain 's Messe modale en septuor was written for a septet of soprano, alto, flute and string quartet?
text: Did you know that Angéline de Montbrun by Laure Conan is the first psychological novel written by a French Canadian?
text: Did you know that while Marvel Comics originally designated the main reality depicted in the MCU multiverse as Earth-199999, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness established it as Earth-616?
text: Did you know that Rod Zaine scored his high school's championship-winning single in Canadian football before playing in the National Hockey League ?
text: Did you know that the classroom video platform Flip was made free-to-use when acquired by Microsoft in 2018?
text: Did you know that Martin Nievera said "you won't see any dancers, fire eaters and things like that" at his 2003 World Concert Tour with Regine Velasquez ?
text: Did you know that Ada Buisson died at the age of 27, and her short story "The Ghost's Summons" has been anthologised several times since her death?
text: Did you know that some members of the Daughters of the American Revolution came up with the idea to design a flag of Colorado , unaware that such a flag already existed?
text: Did you know that after a massacre that took place there , the village of Sohagpur was renamed the "village of widows"?
text: Did you know that Theophilus Gates started a nudist free-love Christian sect in the mid–19th century near Pottstown, Pennsylvania ?
text: Did you know that after its merger with India , the last raja of Jubbal State joined the Indian Foreign Service ?
text: Did you know that Adele reduced the length of " I Drink Wine " from fifteen to six minutes because her label thought that no one would play a fifteen-minute song on the radio?
text: Did you know that Dan Jones discovered that he was talented at taking throw-ins after having been a javelin thrower at school?
text: Did you know that after a successful siege of Mogaung , Commander Thiri Zeya Thura rushed back to Ava , arriving there in time for the coronation of Narapati I to present the captured sawbwa ?
text: Did you know that the flag of Montserrat depicts Erin embracing a cross, signifying the Montserratians' love of Christ?
text: Did you know that years after he played a recurring character on Glee during its first season, Dijon Talton reprised his role as Matt Rutherford in the final two episodes?
text: Did you know that " Ich lobe meinen Gott von ganzem Herzen " is a cheerful hymn based on the beginning of Psalm 9 ?
text: Did you know that the veto of an Indiana law that bans transgender girls from participating in school sports was overridden by the state legislature?
text: Did you know that the son of Reverend Canon W. W. Covey-Crump , Commander A. T. L. Covey-Crump , compiled a list of Jack-speak that is still consulted by historians of the Royal Navy?
text: Did you know that no wave band Pulsallama was described as "13 girls fighting over a cowbell"?
text: Did you know that Watchdog created a fact-checking app within 36 hours of its founding?
text: Did you know that Gentner Drummond flew in the first combat mission of Operation Desert Storm ?
text: Did you know that a hut on New Zealand's Copland Track had to be moved after being hit by a mudslide just 13 weeks after opening?
text: Did you know that Ontario Hockey Association president Brent Ladds once agreed to let a player reduce his suspension by serving as a referee?
text: Did you know that South Carolina's Buford High School was named in 1925 after Continental Army Colonel Abraham Buford , who fought at a nearby battlefield in 1780?
text: Did you know that the Treaty of Breda did not establish the borders of Acadia , so Hector d'Andigné de Grandfontaine established them at the Saint George River ?
text: Did you know that Chicecream 's ice cream flavours include aged cheese and bird's nests ?
text: Did you know that when Heather Engebretson portrayed the title role of Puccini's Madama Butterfly for the first time, a reviewer said that her voice "can tremble with panic and shine with hope"?
text: Did you know that The Kreutzer Sonata was reproduced to promote Tabu ?
text: Did you know that Tashy Bohm held the American public high school 100 meter backstroke record for seven years?
text: Did you know that Mabel Cheung won the 5th Hong Kong Film Award for Best Director with her debut film The Illegal Immigrant ?
text: Did you know that a plaza called the Channel Gardens was planted between British and French buildings at Rockefeller Center ?
text: Did you know that operations at Mirador mine were shut down in June 2022 by protests in Ecuador ?
text: Did you know that William Forsythe 's ballet The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude is so difficult to dance that a ballerina said she would rather give birth again?
text: Did you know that when Jo Ann Evansgardner ran for a position on the Pittsburgh City Council , she asked voters to "put this woman in her place"?
text: Did you know that the Enkeli-Elisa story about a 15-year-old girl who committed suicide because she had been bullied at school was investigated as a fraud by the police?
text: Did you know that 1920s and 1930s radio show actress Artie Belle McGinty played the original radio advertisement voice for Aunt Jemima ?
text: Did you know that discrimination based on nationality is an exception to anti-discrimination laws in many countries?
text: Did you know that artist Richard Lorenz was nearly killed by a falling tree cut down by workers he had been sketching?
text: Did you know that a reviewer called Black Krrsantan one of "the scariest characters in Star Wars history"?
text: Did you know that Adele decided never to perform " To Be Loved " live as it upset her to the point of having to leave the room?
text: Did you know that Bob Dylan poked Emmylou Harris when he wanted her to start singing during the recording of " One More Cup of Coffee (Valley Below) "?
text: Did you know that two Argentine commandos were awarded their nation's highest honour for the Skirmish at Top Malo House ?
text: Did you know that the 1923 book Motion Pictures in Education is among the first major works about using films to teach students?
text: Did you know that Stanley Shaldon upset manufacturers by reusing dialysis machines?
text: Did you know that the soundtrack for the 2016 film Arrival , composed by Jóhann Jóhannsson , was ruled ineligible for contention at the 89th Academy Awards due to the film's prominent inclusion of a Max Richter piece?
text: Did you know that 17th-century entomologist Eleanor Glanville raised her own moths and butterflies, and wrote some of the earliest detailed descriptions of butterfly rearing?
text: Did you know that Park Avenue Plaza is not on Park Avenue and does not have a plaza?
text: Did you know that deceased YouTuber Technoblade beat the video game Minecraft in hardcore mode using a racing-wheel controller?
text: Did you know that the paleoflora of the Messel Formation has had monographs documenting leaves, flowers, fruits, seeds and even pollen?
text: Did you know that David P. Davies was the chief test pilot for the United Kingdom's Civil Aviation Authority for 33 years?
text: Did you know that in June 2009, a teenage girl and her adult boyfriend stabbed her mother to death when she objected to their relationship?
text: Did you know that the National Agrarian Union opposed the introduction of female suffrage in Sweden?
text: Did you know that Mary Mara felt the writers of Nash Bridges "started to write for me really well about halfway through the season"?
text: Did you know that a pontiff in pontificals may pontificate with a pontifical at a Pontifical during his pontificate ?
text: Did you know that Erasmus Schöfer chronicled the resistance in Germany, from the protests of 1968 to German reunification , in a tetralogy of novels?
text: Did you know that the film Evangeline , based on a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , was praised by Longfellow's daughter?
text: Did you know that the defiant owner of a Miami TV station kept its marquee lit for 18 months after losing its license ?
text: Did you know that Carver Court in Coatesville, Pennsylvania , was built to house African-American steelworkers during World War II?
text: Did you know that the wirebird on the flag of Saint Helena is the last species of bird that is endemic to the island?
text: Did you know that Arizona state senator W. P. Mahoney became an acquaintance of Wyatt Earp when he was a miner?
text: Did you know that some TikTokers make videos about whether to smash or pass Disney characters?
text: Did you know that the 2022 USFL playoffs and championship game could not be played in Birmingham, Alabama , as the rest of the season was, due to the 2022 World Games ?
text: Did you know that Bruno Pereira , an expert in the indigenous people of Brazil, and journalist Dom Phillips were killed while on a trip in the Vale do Javari ?
text: Did you know that a founder of a Tennessee radio station bought it back from the same group he had sold it to, who in turn had bought it back themselves?
text: Did you know that the 2022 Marmolada serac collapse was caused by climate change in Italy ?
text: Did you know that doctors told Lance McCullers that he should not continue to pitch in 1990, but he returned to Major League Baseball in 1992?
text: Did you know that displaced aggression is experienced by humans and animals?
text: Did you know that a kind of deep fried egg dish might be perceived as a warning in Thai folklore?
text: Did you know that a Phoenix radio station served as the springboard for future Arizona governor Jack Williams and comedian Steve Allen ?
text: Did you know that soprano Sarah Traubel appeared as Inanna in Jörg Widmann's Babylon for the opening of the 2022 Internationale Maifestspiele Wiesbaden ?
text: Did you know that the engineering and architectural company Burns & McDonnell is 100% owned by its employees?
text: Did you know that indigenous Australian artist Daniel Boyd has depicted colonial figures including Captain James Cook and Governor Arthur Phillip as pirates?
text: Did you know that Matthew Healy and George Daniel of The 1975 helped make Pale Waves 's debut single, " There's a Honey ", "sonically bigger"?
text: Did you know that an episode of the children's TV show Arthur featuring a same-sex wedding was not aired on Alabama's PBS network ?
text: Did you know that Dead Cells was published in early access because the developers feared that there would be an "indiepocalypse"?
text: Did you know that the 2001 concert residency Regine at the Movies was restaged seventeen years later?
text: Did you know that former Dutch rugby union player Sylke Haverkorn served as head coach of the Turkey women's national team before securing the same position at her country's women's national team?
text: Did you know that the CIA shipped color TV sets to Japan to broadcast propaganda for the Liberal Democratic Party ?
text: Did you know that " Supermodel " is about a fictional character inspired by people Måneskin met in Los Angeles?
text: Did you know that the original Green Goblin suit, created by Amalgamated Dynamics for Spider-Man , was scrapped after being deemed "too creepy" by studio executives?
text: Did you know that South African mayor Marlene van Staden was re-elected through a coin toss ?
text: Did you know that the members of the band that recorded the album Hearken to the Witches Rune do not remember in what year it was released?
text: Did you know that after finding success in Poland and South America, soprano Adalgisa Gabbi performed at La Scala as Eva in the Italian premiere of Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg ?
text: Did you know that the perceived tameness of LGBT Pride Month gave rise to Wrath Month ?
text: Did you know that Kiyoe Yoshioka , the vocalist of the band Ikimonogakari , voiced an Eevee in the film Pokémon the Movie: Genesect and the Legend Awakened ?
text: Did you know that the beginning of Lawyering was compared to a Cinderella story?
text: Did you know that before the swearing-in of convicted murderer Kenny Motsamai as an MP, South African Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng cited a constitutional requirement prohibiting felons from becoming MPs?
text: Did you know that the Morris County Park Commission in New Jersey oversees over 20,000 acres (8,100 ha) of land, including a marina, an ice skating arena , a horse stable, a historical farm, and a gristmill ?
text: Did you know that the first line to STU48 's " Hana wa Dare no Mono? ", which imagines a world without borders, is often misheard as wishing for a world without Tokyo ?
text: Did you know that Yosef Shenberger was inspired to add stained glass and other decorative elements to his synagogues through his study of ancient ruins?
text: Did you know that the software-testing framework pytest has been described as a key ecosystem project for the Python programming language?
text: Did you know that Irving L. Branch headed the X-15 rocket program and the first test flight of the B-70 Valkyrie supersonic bomber?
text: Did you know that the Maizbhandari order of Sufism in Bangladesh is each year host to reportedly the fifth-largest gathering of Muslims in the world?
text: Did you know that Danish-born soprano Louise Janssen appeared at the Grand Théâtre de Lyon as Eva in the French premiere of Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg ?
text: Did you know that HMS Chichester was designed to carry 44 guns but never carried more than 22?
text: Did you know that a South Dakota radio station once played nothing but various recordings of " Amazing Grace "?
text: Did you know that in an 1854 war with the Jicarilla , William S. Messervy , the acting governor of the New Mexico Territory , desired either "their extinction or their settlement in pueblos"?
text: Did you know that at the 2022 British Athletics Championships , Daryll Neita became the first woman since 2010 to win both the 100- and 200-metre events?
text: Did you know that Evgenia Debryanskaya , the lesbian activist who co-founded Russia's first gay-rights organization, was the first wife of Aleksandr Dugin , Vladimir Putin 's "Rasputin"?
text: Did you know that residents of the Normandy tried to block the construction of an adjacent tower by citing a covenant that the Normandy itself violated?
text: Did you know that German SA officer Walter Heck was paid only 2.50 ℛℳ (about US$2) for designing the Nazi SS double rune symbol?
text: Did you know that the Indy Bag Ladies , one of the oldest AIDS fundraising organizations, is a group of activist drag queens in Indianapolis who have raised more than $1 million for AIDS patients?
text: Did you know that Catherine Ribeiro 's 1972 album Paix contains a 25-minute-long song about meeting a female personification of death ?
text: Did you know that Liu Zhaohua was a Chinese drug lord who produced and trafficked over 18 tonnes of methamphetamine ?
text: Did you know that the 2020 case Henderson v. Box held that the state of Indiana must list same-sex parents on their child's birth certificate?
text: Did you know that the unveiling of the statue of Captain Cook in Hyde Park, Sydney , in 1879 was declared a public holiday, with an estimated 60,000 people in attendance?
text: Did you know that indie musician Sufjan Stevens composed the score for the 2014 ballet Everywhere We Go , choreographed by Justin Peck for the New York City Ballet ?
text: Did you know that Hermann Gutzmann died of sepsis after suffering a stab wound from a gramophone needle?
text: Did you know that a Federal Communications Commission examiner found that billing fraud at a South Carolina radio station "merited the severest sanctions"?
text: Did you know that Christchurch smells ?
text: Did you know that model Tyra Banks produces Generation Drag , a TV series which follows five children preparing for a drag show?
text: Did you know that the arrest of American farmer Wayne Cryts for removing his soybeans from a bankrupt grain elevator led to a change in legislation by Congress?
text: Did you know that the westernmost population of California fan palms is found on the slopes of Cerro Bola in Baja California, Mexico?
text: Did you know that Rahmah el Yunusiyah founded four Islamic schools for women in Indonesia despite being made to leave school herself at the age of 16?
text: Did you know that in 1991 Mazda engineers created a suitcase car with lights and a 1.7 horsepower engine?
text: Did you know that the favourite role of Wilma Schmidt , who performed at the Staatsoper Hannover for more than five decades in German, Italian and Slavic operas, was the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier ?
text: Did you know that only one boat successfully made it through the Duckport Canal ?
text: Did you know that when Divine 's song " Lately " topped the Billboard Hot 100 in 1998, it became the first number-one single for the performers, the songwriters , the producers , and the record labels ?
text: Did you know that activist Gerlin Bean co-founded the Organisation of Women of African and Asian Descent in 1978, an event described as "a watershed in the history of Black women's rights activism"?
text: Did you know that in the 1980s, NBC was given several hundred million dollars' worth of incentives to stay at 30 Rockefeller Plaza ?
text: Did you know that the tribune of the plebs Gaius Antius Restio passed a law in 68 BC forbidding Roman magistrates from attending banquets?
text: Did you know that a group of Boy Scouts provided first aid to victims of the 2022 Missouri train derailment before first responders arrived?
text: Did you know that COVID-19 lockdown restrictions caused a 37-percent increase in infections of dengue fever in Singapore's 2020 outbreak ?
text: Did you know that Ruth L. Trufant sued a man for not following through on a promise to marry her?
text: Did you know that an erroneous claim that the neural language model LaMDA is sentient has generated conversations on the efficacy of the Turing test ?
text: Did you know that South Carolina legislator Wade Perrin was assassinated by members of the Ku Klux Klan the day after being re-elected?
text: Did you know that the Promethean gap was part of an attempt by Gunther Andres to conceptualize Hiroshima and Auschwitz?
text: Did you know that the 1956 article " My Last Wonderful Days ", about an Iowa woman accepting terminal cancer, funded an Iowa State University scholarship program?
text: Did you know that Ernst Jacobi , known for portraying Gauleiter Löbsack in Volker Schlöndorff 's film The Tin Drum , played more than 200 roles as a television actor?
text: Did you know that public health authorities are still not exactly sure how Alaskapox virus , a recently discovered relative of Monkeypox virus , has spread to humans from animals?
text: Did you know that Mary Baines , credited as one of the founders of the palliative care movement, initially thought it "very odd, this idea of caring for the dying"?
text: Did you know that two slaves belonging to Don Carlos were trained by the Italian medallist Jacopo da Trezzo in his workshop in 1550s Madrid?
text: Did you know that a Florida resident was arrested after posting on RateMyCop.com ?
text: Did you know that in 2007, Arthur Gray 's £2 Kangaroo and Map stamp sold for a world record price for a single Australian stamp?
text: Did you know that the RoadRunner , a laptop from 1983, loaded and stored data from cartridges?
text: Did you know that in 2021, Wishma Sandamali , who was detained for overstaying her visa after seeking police protection for domestic abuse, became the 17th person to die in Japanese immigration detention since 2007?
text: Did you know that roughly 15,000 copies of the anonymously published essay " Queers Read This " were distributed at the June 1990 New York Gay Pride Parade ?
text: Did you know that people with woolly hair may also have tooth decay?
text: Did you know that the American card game of Six-Bid Solo originated in southern Germany?
text: Did you know that Ellaisa Marquis has been called the "marquis player" of women's football in Saint Lucia?
text: Did you know that two state representatives got into a fight in the parking lot of Miami's Radio Mambí after one's father insulted the other's on the air?
text: Did you know that Oey Tiang Tjoei once physically assaulted the editor of a competing newspaper?
text: Did you know that a guerrilla garden established atop an abandoned railroad in Long Island City became legally recognized by the MTA ?
text: Did you know that Welsh shot putter Adele Nicoll was approached about taking up bobsleigh based on a video on social media of her exercising?
text: Did you know that the Broadway Theatre is one of Broadway 's few Broadway theaters ?
text: Did you know that María Chiquinquirá was allowed to remain free until a court heard her case, but since it never did she died a free woman?
text: Did you know that under a new Connecticut law , abortion providers in the state can countersue anyone who sues them under the Texas Heartbeat Act ?
text: Did you know that three men resigned from the Executive Council of Nova Scotia upon Mather Byles Almon 's appointment?
text: Did you know that the snapping shrimp Alpheus armatus clears sand from a sea anemone 's lair?
text: Did you know that counterterrorism expert Esperanza Casteleiro used to work in human resources ?
text: Did you know that during Orrin Hatch's presidential campaign in 2000, his wife told him that his poor performance in the Iowa caucuses was a "sign from God" to end his campaign?
text: Did you know that a statue of Serenidus , the brother of Serenicus , is called the "little pissing saint" because a spring issues from below it in the Oratory of Saint Cénéré ?
text: Did you know that Charlie Young was introduced into The West Wing over concerns of a lack of racial diversity in casting?
text: Did you know that in 2020, Ukrainian association football referee Maryna Striletska was part of the first all-woman officiating team for a men's international football match?
text: Did you know that the Spirit of Norfolk caught fire while carrying 89 schoolchildren?
text: Did you know that in 2021, Elvis Costello remade his 1978 album This Year's Model in Spanish with several Latin musical artists?
text: Did you know that according to Rogers Smith , the U.S. Supreme Court 's decision in the Ku Klux Cases was its only ruling "markedly favorable to black voting rights" in the post-Reconstruction era ?
text: Did you know that Ursula Sillge 's attempt to organize a 1978 national lesbian gathering in East Germany led to the banning of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf 's venue for LGBT meetings?
text: Did you know that the novel June Rain was described by one critic as "a 'whodunit' without a 'who ' "?
text: Did you know that Ann Klein supported a successful bill that allowed women to register to vote in New Jersey without disclosing their marital status?
text: Did you know that readers of The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler often incorrectly assume that the main character is a boy?
text: Did you know that after LaVere Redfield 's death, 12 tons of silver dollars were found hidden in his garage and home?
text: Did you know that a cheat code in the video game Spyro: Year of the Dragon grants access to a near-complete copy of Crash Bash ?
text: Did you know that James T. Sears called the novels The White Paper (1928), Street of Stairs (1968), and Boychick (1971), three " pederastic erotic classics"?
text: Did you know that Australian communist Harry Stein was personally invited by Prime Minister Nguyễn Cao Kỳ to tour South Vietnam ?
text: Did you know that a study published in the journal Celebrity Studies examined Pippa Middleton 's buttocks using Marxist and Freudian analyses?
text: Did you know that The Lord of the Ice Garden , a Polish novel series mixing elements of fantasy and science fiction , has been compared to The Witcher ?
text: Did you know that the Fischer quintuplets had six other siblings?
text: Did you know that Jim Pappin was credited with the 1967 Stanley Cup -clinching goal in exchange for giving Pete Stemkowski unlimited access to his backyard pool?
text: Did you know that William D. Leahy was the highest-ranking American military officer in World War II?
text: Did you know that the prologue to The Polymath was written by Martin Kemp , a leading expert on Leonardo da Vinci ?
text: Did you know that food YouTuber Mike Chen also runs a channel documenting strange phenomena?
text: Did you know that some bells are replaced by a wooden clapper for three days in a year ?
text: Did you know that Alex Horton made his Twenty20 cricket debut for Glamorgan despite no actual play being possible due to rain?
text: Did you know that spiritual jazz originated in the 1960s, partially due to the civil rights movement ?
text: Did you know that dermosyphilopathologist Giuseppe Mariani received a silver medal for his bravery under fire at the Third Battle of the Isonzo?
text: Did you know that based on the biblical principle of omnia sunt communia , Thomas Aquinas argued that theft is not a sin if the thief genuinely needs what they are stealing?
text: Did you know that jazz fusion and funk musician Mark Lettieri graduated with a degree in marketing?
text: Did you know that the first time The Witcher universe was portrayed outside the novels was in the 1993–1995 Polish comic book series of the same name ?
text: Did you know that the Beacon Theatre , once described as "a true bit of Bagdad on Broadway", later gained a reputation as a rock venue?
text: Did you know that early floppy disks used FM encoding that took up only half the available storage?
text: Did you know that politician John D'Orazio helped to secure a three-year trial of daylight saving time in Western Australia ?
text: Did you know that the Red Hill water crisis has caused a water shortage in Honolulu ?
text: Did you know that Ekaterina Novitskaya , then aged 16, became the first female ever to win the Queen Elisabeth Competition for piano?
text: Did you know that the 1944 SCR-720 radar system was used only briefly by the USAAF , but was a primary RAF system into the late 1950s?
text: Did you know that the Scottish medical missionary Ernest Muir championed the use of the traditional Ayurvedic cure chaulmoogra oil in treating Hansen's disease (leprosy)?
text: Did you know that a Pennsylvania TV station is experimenting with datacasting educational content to school students and prison inmates?
text: Did you know that Hans van Manen 's ballet Adagio Hammerklavier is inspired by a recording of the Beethoven score that was played at an exceptionally slow tempo?
text: Did you know that Judith Ehrlich incorporated her NPR work on pacifism into a documentary focusing on conscientious objectors during World War II?
text: Did you know that Israel's mixed cities don't have much mixing?
text: Did you know that Greenlandic author Pipaluk Freuchen was praised for the "unrelenting realism" in her first book, where a child kills a polar bear?
text: Did you know that it took seven years for Gwazi, a pair of dueling wooden roller coasters , to be refurbished into the hybrid roller coaster Iron Gwazi ?
text: Did you know that The Tale of Genji 's Kaoru Genji has been called literature's first antihero ?
text: Did you know that in Jackson, Tennessee , there was a 50–50 chance a reference to Dixie was about a radio station ?
text: Did you know that the Irish Bee Conservation Project is helping to rewild native bees with bee lodges on the estate of the historic Dunsany Castle ?
text: Did you know that American drag queen James Herndon donated funds and resources into black and LGBTQ+ communities in Lexington, Kentucky ?
text: Did you know that Mess L , a multipurpose building in Banjarbaru , Indonesia, was historically used to house Soviet workers?
text: Did you know that American conservationist Paul Lester Errington reshaped perception of predators ?
text: Did you know that the 1983 pink film Beautiful Mystery was one of the earliest commercially produced gay pornographic films in Japan?
text: Did you know that Charles Leslie Richardson was ordered to "make science fashionable in the army"?
text: Did you know that the 19th Junior Eurovision Song Contest was held on 19 December with 19 participating countries – but the EBU had to choose between three competition scenarios due to COVID-19 ?
text: Did you know that J. Michael Miller , the archbishop of Vancouver , who turns 76 today, starred in a high school production of Our Town opposite Mary Lou Finlay ?
text: Did you know that a Louisiana radio station went to a satellite-fed music format because it had more control than with its previous "18- and 20-year-old jocks"?
text: Did you know that Avtar Singh Jouhl took Malcolm X to a segregated pub in Smethwick as part of his campaign to end the colour bar ?
text: Did you know that the title of the incel and Frogtwitter subculture film TFW No GF stands for "that feeling when [you have] no girlfriend"?
text: Did you know that 2021 NCAA champion Bonnie Tan served as the assistant to 2021 UAAP champion Goldwin Monteverde in 1991?
text: Did you know that the developer of 15.ai claims that as little as 15 seconds of a person's voice is sufficient to clone it up to human standards using artificial intelligence ?
text: Did you know that Alfons Koziełł-Poklewski , dubbed the "vodka king of Siberia", was actually Polish?
text: Did you know that about 200 San Francisco police officers led a 1989 riot through a gay neighborhood in reaction to a peaceful protest?
text: Did you know that John Yelland was insulted by Admiral Hyde Parker 's offer of a position aboard his flagship?
text: Did you know that the Enterprise , a black newspaper in Omaha , supported a separate African American department at the 1898 Trans-Mississippi Exposition ?
text: Did you know that Charles Alban Buckler , an artist, topographer, author, and officer of arms , rebuilt Arundel Castle ?
text: Did you know that Ingrid Andress came up with " Lady Like " after being rejected by a man when she brought politics up?
text: Did you know that a 1955 satirical comedy play by Kasymaly Jantöshev was one of the first signs of the relaxation of Soviet literary restrictions after the death of Joseph Stalin ?
text: Did you know that Science Park station was built despite the objections of the operating agency?
text: Did you know that Chris Ernst stripped naked in 1976 with her Yale University teammates to protest the lack of showers for the women's rowing crew?
text: Did you know that Polish courts processed 14.38 million cases in 2020 while having fewer than 10,000 judges?
text: Did you know that conservationist Frank H. Wadsworth supported and worked with efforts to recover the endangered Puerto Rican parrot ?
text: Did you know that Olive Llewellyn, a character in the novel Sea of Tranquility , has been called a stand-in for Emily St. John Mandel , the novel's author?
text: Did you know that Dominic Keegan refused a position on the New York Yankees to "go back and win another championship" for his college baseball team?
text: Did you know that the McLaren MCL35 was the first McLaren race car to be wrapped ?
text: Did you know that baseball player Nick Solak was named after the sports bar where his parents first met?
text: Did you know that according to one reviewer, the problems that may have prompted the publication of Schooling and the Struggle for Public Life in the 1980s had "only gotten worse" by 2005?
text: Did you know that Norwegian footballer Tuva Hansen and her dog have received millions of views on several TikTok videos?
text: Did you know that " Hurricane " was originally intended for Chance the Rapper , who passed on the song to Kanye West ?
text: Did you know that Hausman Baboe , a colonial district chief of Kuala Kapuas , was fired due to his anti-colonial remarks?
text: Did you know that the motto of the Clayton Herald was "Independent in Everything; Neutral in Nothing"?
text: Did you know that in the 1980s, international LGBT organizations organized protests in Europe and the Americas in support of Belgian teacher Eliane Morissens ?
text: Did you know that local dairy farmers credit morning broadcasts of polka music from a Wisconsin radio station for relaxing their cows?
text: Did you know that Kelly Hecking won more Big East Conference championships than any other Notre Dame athlete?
text: Did you know that the three oak saplings on the flag of Prince Edward Island represent the three counties that make up the province ?
text: Did you know that Bert Longfellow took on a one-man crusade which halved the drowning rate in the United States?
text: Did you know that Holy Trinity Church in Newcastle-under-Lyme was praised as the "finest modern specimen of ornamental brickwork in the kingdom"?
text: Did you know that the Ukrainian violinist Diana Tishchenko played Skoryk's Melody on a tour of the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra to Germany in April 2022?
text: Did you know that a Pacific Cyber/Metrix 's Bubbl-Dek fits into the floppy drive bay of an IBM PC, allowing it to take a bubble memory module?
text: Did you know that Dr. Dot started to give her mother "bite massages" at the age of five?
text: Did you know that Owen Jones 's elaborately ornamented Book of Common Prayer "pointed to the direction that books in general were to follow in the Victorian Age"?
text: Did you know that George Mann Niedecken was a Prairie -style interior architect who designed furniture for Frank Lloyd Wright and worked for Marion Mahony Griffin ?
text: Did you know that in the 1917 municipal election in Minsk , Belorussian parties only won 2 out of 102 seats?
text: Did you know that as a lawyer, Peter Dowding defended more than 100 Vietnam War conscientious objectors ?
text: Did you know that Rafflesia lawangensis was previously misidentified as Rafflesia arnoldii , only to be identified as a new species in 2005 after photographs of it were sent to the National University of Malaysia ?
text: Did you know that Paul Chadick performed so well in the Delaware River Basketball League that a sportswriter said it would "benefit the league if he retired"?
text: Did you know that the ancient Romans made toothpaste with human urine?
text: Did you know that Irene Parlby was one of The Famous Five , a group of women in Canada who fought for the right of women to be considered "persons"?
text: Did you know that agriculture ranks as one of the most stressful occupations in the United States and one that experiences high suicide rates?
text: Did you know that The Baby-Sitters Club actress Sophia Reid-Gantzert won an Austrian ballet competition when she was six?
text: Did you know that when the pastor of an African-American church bought the El Dorado , one newspaper wrote that "its occupants are white, and were white"?
text: Did you know that actress Hilda Hanbury was the grandmother of actors James and Edward Fox and the great-grandmother of actress Emilia Fox ?
text: Did you know that part of West Virginia's Princeton–Deepwater District railway was so steep that only shortened coal trains could ascend it?
text: Did you know that George Allsopp was arrested three times for not carrying a lantern?
text: Did you know that Edward A. Synan , a military chaplain , wrote over eighty journal articles on subjects ranging from early patristics to late scholasticism ?
text: Did you know that Italian football club A.C. Monza played 40 seasons in Serie B before securing promotion to Serie A – more than any other club?
text: Did you know that Red Jordan Arobateau adopted "Red" as his first name after dyeing his hair red because he thought the color represented the sensuality and eroticism of his work?
text: Did you know that according to Bohr's law , the person who draws first in a gunfight loses?
text: Did you know that Richmond station includes a "rather disquieting" artwork by William Mitchell ?
text: Did you know that Kwaku Ohene-Frempong , an expert in sickle cell disease , decided while still in medical school to devote his life to the study of the disease, after his newborn son was diagnosed with the condition?
text: Did you know that a Nevada radio station named "Sexy" blew into town with a windstorm?
text: Did you know that Sheikh Mujibur Rahman , the first president of Bangladesh , had an appearance in the 1974 film Sangram ?
text: Did you know that Lebanese LGBT rights activist Sandra Melhem , one of the foremost promoters of drag culture in Beirut, was given an award for her humanitarian relief work after the 2020 Beirut explosion ?
text: Did you know that the quantum boomerang effect causes particles to turn around and return to their starting point?
text: Did you know that Pat Gozemba married her wife while researching a book about the history of the struggle for equal marriage in Massachusetts?
text: Did you know that red-boxing by American politicians is used to coordinate with Super PACs , an activity that the Campaign Legal Center called the "primary mechanism for corruption of federal campaigns in 2022"?
text: Did you know that a song about an esports team went viral in Finland?
text: Did you know that King Mohnyin Thado of Ava responded to the troubles of his kingdom by recalibrating the Burmese calendar to year 2?
text: Did you know that the Electronic Arrays 9002 microprocessor was developed to get the company out of the calculator business, but instead led to their disappearance?
text: Did you know that Stig Millehaugen , who had escaped or attempted escape from prison multiple times, was given a prison furlough in 2022 and failed to return?
text: Did you know that posters for John Lindsay's 1965 New York City mayoral campaign told voters that "John Lindsay Cares About You"?
text: Did you know that an intestine-on-a-chip can model and mimic an organ?
text: Did you know that Charlie H. Hogan was called "king of engineers" after he became the first to drive a train at over 100 miles per hour (160 km/h)?
text: Did you know that Internet activist Sally Burch was refused entry into Argentina because her presence was considered to be disruptive?
text: Did you know that the name of the " Mormons vs. Mullets " game was a play on the 1988 " Catholics vs. Convicts " game?
text: Did you know that Irene Desmet , a Liverpudlian paediatric surgeon, was described by one of her trainees as "an iron fist in a velvet glove"?
text: Did you know that Gil Scott-Heron 's 1975 song " Johannesburg " was banned in South Africa during apartheid ?
text: Did you know that Indian philanthropist and business executive T. Mohandas Pai has been called the "architect of modern Manipal"?
text: Did you know that a Virginia radio station built a house to raise money for operations?
text: Did you know that Peter Corby 's electric trouser press used technology designed for Concorde ?
text: Did you know that at over 2,800 kilometres (1,700 mi), Antar Lintas Sumatera 's Medan -to- Jember service is the longest bus route in Indonesia?
text: Did you know that Pliny used the term insania to describe a Roman art collector 's love of citron tables?
text: Did you know that voting in the first Eurovision Song Contest was conducted in secret, with countries able to vote for their own entries, and only the winner of the contest being announced?
text: Did you know that William White 's last NFL game was Super Bowl XXXIII , in which he made a team-high nine tackles for the losing Atlanta Falcons ?
text: Did you know that Leafpad is a text editor for Linux that is comparable to Notepad for Windows?
text: Did you know that cosmetic chemist Balanda Atis created the foundation worn by Lupita Nyong'o in advertisements for Lancôme ?
text: Did you know that a practice known as jieba , in which a Buddhist monk has scars ritually burned into his head, was banned by the Chinese government for 300 years?
text: Did you know that Clifford G. Grulee died while attending a dinner hosted by the American Academy of Pediatrics in his honor?
text: Did you know that the name of the International Institute of Modern Letters has been criticised by its founder Bill Manhire for being "almost at odds with the fine use of language"?
text: Did you know that Henry Jackson served for 44 days, the shortest tenure of any New Zealand member of parliament?
text: Did you know that armored mud balls are formed underwater when fragments of clay or mud are rolled by moving currents, picking up a coating of gravel or pebbles that helps to stop them breaking down further?
text: Did you know that Eliane Capobianco 's election to the Bolivian Constituent Assembly reflected the propensity of the country's agribusiness elites to occupy positions that granted them influence over land reform policy?
text: Did you know that Bob Dylan rhymes " Angelina " with " concertina ", " hyena ", " subpoena ", " Argentina " and " arena "?
text: Did you know that The Exposé 's false claims that COVID-19 was created by Moderna were republished by Chinese state media outlets?
text: Did you know that New Zealand composer Maewa Kaihau sold her rights to the song " Now is the Hour " for £10, a decade before it became a hit in the United Kingdom and United States?
text: Did you know that Blue Ridge Sanatorium was once a prizewinning pig farm?
text: Did you know that an incident in the Tailhook scandal involved party goers who accidentally dislodged an eighth-floor window pane while "mooning" the crowd below?
text: Did you know that Tigor Silaban vowed to work far from Jakarta and not to open a private practice?
text: Did you know that 17 State Street , near the southern end of New York City's Manhattan Island, was described as "quite literally a beacon for Lower Manhattan"?
text: Did you know that Esther Cuesta was an undocumented migrant in the United States long before she was elected to represent about 800,000 Ecuadorian migrants?
text: Did you know that " Arnold's Christmas ", now considered one of the most memorable episodes from the animated series Hey Arnold! , was almost rejected by network executives because it depicted the Vietnam War ?
text: Did you know that the 1948 novel The Corner That Held Them uses subversion of history that includes a nun who enjoyed the Black Death ?
text: Did you know that Brad White was a potato farmer who went on to play six years in the National Football League ?
text: Did you know that Bill Harkin designed the original Glastonbury Festival Pyramid Stage, which was built from scaffolding and plastic sheeting?
text: Did you know that for decades, the Sand Springs Railway gave all of its profits to a children's home?
text: Did you know that John Dique constructed the machine used by the first Australian patient to receive dialysis ?
text: Did you know that the Roman fort Aquis Querquennis periodically emerges from a reservoir?
text: Did you know that casino pit boss Mike Goodman was the author of a book that sold over a million copies?
text: Did you know that Youlgreave in Derbyshire is one of only a few villages in the United Kingdom to be supplied by its own private waterworks ?
text: Did you know that radio station WBML made its first broadcast just one hour after the funeral of its manager-to-be?
text: Did you know that the East Louisiana Railroad , which removed Homer Plessy from a train, actually did so to help him start Plessy v. Ferguson , an attempt to overturn segregation in the United States ?
text: Did you know that until Rufina Peter and Kessy Sawang 's election in August 2022, Papua New Guinea was one of only three countries without a woman in parliament?
text: Did you know that " Dir, dir, Jehova, will ich singen " is a 1697 Lutheran hymn , translated into English by Catherine Winkworth in 1863 as "Jehovah, let me now adore Thee"?
text: Did you know that Heisman Trophy winner Larry Kelley turned down multiple offers to play professional football to become a school teacher?
text: Did you know that contrary to Shakespeare's play , Macbeth was not killed during the Battle of Dunsinane ?
text: Did you know that the leader of the Quebec Hells Angels was acquitted of 13 murder charges because the star witness was unwilling to testify at trial and instead complained about how the Crown had cheated him?
text: Did you know that the design of the train for the roller coaster Tigris was revealed in the form of a cake ?
text: Did you know that ballerina Ashley Ellis started her own dancewear brand after her colleagues at Boston Ballet asked her to make leg warmers for them?
text: Did you know that as the reality of Venus 's harsh surface conditions became known from the mid-20th century, the early tropes of adventures in Venusian tropics gave way to more realistic stories ?
text: Did you know that Mario Fiorentini was Italy's most decorated World War II resistance fighter ?
text: Did you know that Lechmere station was proposed for replacement in 1924 – yet was in use until 2020?
text: Did you know that after suffering life-changing injuries as a baby, five-year-old Tony Hudgell raised £1.7 million for a London children's hospital, and inspired English law changes on child abuse?
text: Did you know that George Balanchine 's ballet Scotch Symphony , set to Mendelssohn's Scottish Symphony , evokes the style of La Sylphide , a romantic ballet set in Scotland?
text: Did you know that Suay Sew Shop plans to be owned by its sewers?
text: Did you know that the 18th-century " Danket, danket dem Herrn ", a thanksgiving round based on Psalm 106:1 , has been described as one of the most widespread rounds in German?
text: Did you know that British horse trainer Alice Hayes rode a zebra sidesaddle in the late 19th century?
text: Did you know that the Indianapolis Community Food Access Coalition was created to resolve food deserts in the city of Indianapolis ?
text: Did you know that the Caldecott Honor –winning illustrations for Going Down Home with Daddy contain Adinkra symbols that represent various concepts in Ghanaian culture ?
text: Did you know that Federico Gatti went from playing in the Italian sixth division and doing menial jobs to joining Juventus and playing for the Italy national team ?
text: Did you know that Kanye West performed an additional Touch the Sky Tour date at the University of North Carolina Wilmington after coming third in a student survey?
text: Did you know  that the decisive participation of a Peruvian cavalry unit in the Battle of Junín led Simón Bolívar to rename them the Hussars of Junín ?
text: Did you know that Walter Nolen was ranked by ESPN and USA Today as the number-one player in the 2022 college football recruiting class?
text: Did you know that the poor of ancient Rome were compared to dogs by the Roman writer Martial ?
text: Did you know that Hayley Kiyoko aimed for a fully LGBT cast while casting the video for her song " For the Girls "?
text: Did you know that The Twins , a 1930 story by Abd al-Quddus al-Ansari , was called the first Saudi Arabian novel?
text: Did you know that the Sweet Vengeance Mine was owned and operated by Black miners during the California Gold Rush?
text: Did you know that at the request of Regine Velasquez , her former manager Ronnie Henares directed the concert Twenty ?
text: Did you know that ice hockey commentator Jack Michaels began his career announcing an ostrich race ?
text: Did you know that the Acoustic Atlas at Montana State University Library helped to create a public domain archive of sounds from Yellowstone National Park ?
text: Did you know that in 1836, a jury ignored the judge's advice and found Daniel Arnoldi guilty of assaulting a black man?
text: Did you know that in Crippled , author Frances Ryan describes a disabled British woman who was unable to afford heating or her specialist meals due to an austerity programme that began in 2010?
text: Did you know that amateur astronomer A. O. Granger expanded his home to include the largest observatory and telescope in the southeastern United States?
text: Did you know that in the concert Songbird Sings the Classics , Regine Velasquez paid homage to the music of Burt Bacharach , Leonard Bernstein , Michel Legrand , Henry Mancini , and Barry Manilow ?
text: Did you know that Ballet Russe de Monte-Carlo dancer George Verdak was awarded an honorary doctorate by Butler University ?
text: Did you know that the Scilly Boys ' idea to try and beat the transatlantic rowing record was started while they were at the pub ?
text: Did you know that Ryan Roberts , a defensive end for Notre Dame , was a soccer player in high school?
text: Did you know that the last of three Regina coeli settings written by Mozart for Salzburg Cathedral is scored for four soloists, choir and orchestra?
text: Did you know that while Moto Hagio 's parents discouraged her interest in manga as "an impediment to studying", she would go on to receive a Medal of Honor for her contributions to the medium?
text: Did you know that the man from Del Monte never spoke on screen?
text: Did you know that it was Caltech experimental physicist Rana X. Adhikari 's idea to build a gravitational-wave observatory in India ?
text: Did you know that many fans of Ayub Bachchu 's Bangladeshi rock watched the film Loot Toraj in theaters just to hear the love song " Ananta Prem Tumi Dao Aamake "?
text: Did you know that Ken Russell went on international yo-yo tours before turning to politics?
text: Did you know that Fabio Miretti received a standing ovation from Juventus fans after his Serie A debut as a starter ?
text: Did you know that Logan v. Zimmerman Brush Co. was the first time a majority of U.S. Supreme Court justices agreed that a challenged statute failed the rational basis test ?
text: Did you know that the lineups for two songs in the single " Kaze wo Matsu " were determined by the century in which the singers were born?
text: Did you know that Roslyn Lindheim , who designed hospitals, was the first architect to be elected to the National Academy of Medicine ?
text: Did you know that coral cores from Flinders Reef capture environmental changes caused by the use of nuclear weapons ?
text: Did you know that Elizabeth Thorn was six months pregnant when she buried approximately one hundred fallen soldiers after the Battle of Gettysburg ?
text: Did you know that a walrus named Freya was spotted riding a Walrus -class submarine , and later sank several boats in the Oslofjord ?
text: Did you know that Henry Janzen was the first coach to lead his team to back-to-back Vanier Cup championships?
text: Did you know that the main studio of a Cincinnati TV station occupies the one-time gymnasium of a former Black junior high school?
text: Did you know that Juan José Cabezudo was an openly gay chef and street-food seller in 19th-century Lima?
text: Did you know that the area of responsibility of the 6th Military Police Group includes all of the United States west of the Mississippi River ?
text: Did you know that when the US government offered Bolivian president Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada US$15 million to help quell riots in La Paz , he said that with that amount he couldn't even afford to pay for the cigars he smoked?
text: Did you know that telegraph operator Emma Hunter may have been the world's first electronic commuter ?
text: Did you know that a dead woman's knickers helped to solve the Charing Cross Trunk Murder ?
text: Did you know that after U.S. Navy pilot Royce Williams engaged in a solo dogfight with seven Soviet MiG-15s during the Korean War , he was ordered never to tell anyone about it?
text: Did you know that the 1985 manga series Tomoi contains the first depiction of HIV/AIDS in any literary medium in Japan?
text: Did you know that the unacknowledged contributions of Eunice Newton Foote to climate change research were recovered by Elizabeth Wagner Reed , whose research in genetics was also obscured?
text: Did you know that people with sensory processing disorders often require sensory friendly environments which are designed to accommodate their condition?
text: Did you know that American educator Gilbert Eastman , who acted in and wrote American Sign Language plays, won an Emmy Award in 1993?
text: Did you know that Nirmalendu Goon shared his doubts about Sheikh Mujibur Rahman 's political decisions during the 1969 East Pakistan mass uprising in his poem Huliya ?
text: Did you know that after Florida schools banned 54 mathematics books, Chaz Stevens petitioned that they also ban the Bible ?
text: Did you know that since 2018, IKEA 's stuffed toy shark Blåhaj has become a popular Internet meme and an icon of the online transgender community?
text: Did you know that Canadian brothers Graeme and Jacob Saunders learned to sail at the Chester Yacht Club , and campaigned a two-person dinghy in the 2016 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that a livestock auctioneer and former Army sharpshooter shot and killed seven family members in the Rock Road massacre ?
text: Did you know that when the Canadian baritone Iain MacNeal appeared as Odysseus in Dallapiccola's Ulisse at the Oper Frankfurt , a reviewer noted that he portrayed the "character's self-exegeses"?
text: Did you know that the sculpture Chicago Rising from the Lake was meant to show the city's rebirth after the Great Chicago Fire but it went missing twice and was eventually found by a Chicago firefighter?
text: Did you know that as part of its #BlossomWatch campaign, the National Trust plans to plant trees along a circular bus route in Birmingham?
text: Did you know that Jack Deloplaine was nicknamed "Hydroplane" because of his running ability in wet conditions?
text: Did you know that dozens of men were indicted for the lynching-by-fire deaths of two Seminole boys in 1898?
text: Did you know that the de Havilland Mosquito was almost cancelled in 1940, but Air Vice-Marshal Richard Peck persuaded Air Marshal Wilfrid Freeman to continue the programme?
text: Did you know that in the music video for her song " Wheelie ", Latto shows off a diamond cryptocurrency wallet made by celebrity jeweler Greg Yuna ?
text: Did you know that after Claudia Winterstein dropped plans to become an architect because of the Berlin Wall , she led her party as a member of the Bundestag ?
text: Did you know that Derek Jeter discusses his biracial upbringing and experiencing racism in Michigan in the 1980s and 1990s in The Captain ?
text: Did you know that when the deputy finance minister rejected his proposal to create a national bank, Margono Djojohadikusumo tried again with the Vice President ?
text: Did you know that a miniature book written by a 13-year-old sold for over $1 million?
text: Did you know that Victória Pitts from Brazil portrayed characters in all three parts of Puccini's Il trittico at the Oper Frankfurt in 2022, including Zita in Gianni Schicchi ?
text: Did you know that Sharp Corporation produced three official variants of Nintendo 's Famicom in Japan, one of which was a television set that was subsequently released in the United States?
text: Did you know that the US Special Envoy for Afghan women and girls, Rina Amiri , is a former refugee who told US Senator John Kerry that "the Afghan population is not the Taliban"?
text: Did you know that the main activity of the short-lived parliament of Central Lithuania of 1922 was to request annexation by Poland?
text: Did you know that Emma Reaney is the only Notre Dame Fighting Irish swimmer to win an NCAA championship?
text: Did you know that sales declined after Anyone Here Been Raped and Speaks English? was renamed by its American publisher, so the original title was restored in subsequent editions?
text: Did you know that model Patsy Pulitzer was called one of the "World's Loveliest Sportswomen" after catching a 1,230-pound (560 kg) black marlin, a then world-record fish for a woman?
text: Did you know that people in Loli traditionally derive their social identity from the village in which they were born?
text: Did you know that Thomas Jeremiah , a slaveowner, was executed for inciting a slave insurrection?
text: Did you know that Don't Pay UK plan to encourage UK households to cancel their energy bill payments on 1 October 2022 if their pledge reaches 1 million signatures?
text: Did you know that PJ and Thomas were the first gay couple to host an HGTV show?
text: Did you know that in 2018, Donald Trump disinvited the Philadelphia Eagles from a Super Bowl LII victory ceremony at the White House after several players said they were not going to attend?
text: Did you know that at the end of the siege of Petra in 551 AD, the Romans discovered that there was yet another pipe beneath the ones they destroyed that was supplying water to the besieged garrison all along?
text: Did you know that Edward N. Hall is known as the "father of the Minuteman ICBM" but his brother Ted was a Soviet spy?
text: Did you know that Roland Jefferson , the first African-American botanist to work at the U.S. National Arboretum , helped preserve the famous flowering cherry trees in Washington, D.C. ?
text: Did you know that Gandhi's statue in the Indian parliament is frequently used as a protest site by members of parliament ?
text: Did you know that Rogers Covey-Crump , once the high tenor of the Hilliard Ensemble , is known as a leading Evangelist in Bach's Passions ?
text: Did you know that after the tower of a New York state TV station was toppled by Hurricane Hazel , it did not return to the air for more than 18 months?
text: Did you know that in 1944, at the age of 18, Trevor Hill was responsible for broadcasting Eisenhower 's D-Day announcement of the Normandy landings ?
text: Did you know that Gleaners Food Bank has served more than 700 million pounds (320 million kg) of food in Indiana?
text: Did you know that AMTD Digital had a market value greater than the Coca-Cola Company , Costco or McDonald's after its stock price rose 21,000 percent in a matter of days?
text: Did you know that Turkey's newly acquired fourth drillship , Abdülhamid Han , is able to drill up to 12,200 m (40,000 ft) and in a maximum water depth of 3,665 m (12,024 ft)?
text: Did you know that Kyaymyin Mibaya was King Mindon 's youngest, last and richest queen?
text: Did you know that according to researchers including Stephen Hargarten , the slogan " guns don't kill people, people kill people " is "scientifically inaccurate"?
text: Did you know that the coin used by Gaelic football referee Sean Hurson bears his initials and was presented to him by one of his umpires shortly before the latter died?
text: Did you know that This Tender Land is a retelling of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn set in the 1930s and incorporating elements of Homer's Odyssey ?
text: Did you know that Russell Strong pioneered multiple techniques for liver transplantation , including splitting a donor liver between multiple recipients?
text: Did you know that during the 2022 National Arena League season , a player hit a referee?
text: Did you know that William Pinckney was the second Black American to be awarded the Navy Cross, the second-highest decoration for valor in combat, after the Medal of Honor?
text: Did you know that the Franco-Greek defence agreement is the first intra- NATO defensive alliance?
text: Did you know that Fateh Muhammad Panipati has been called the al-Jazari of contemporary times?
text: Did you know that Harris Computer Systems specialized in making computers for real-time simulation ?
text: Did you know that LGBT rights activist Kit Malone helped create the first transgender organized marching group in the Indianapolis Pride Parade 's history?
text: Did you know that in a choral tour program titled Salmo! , Bach's 18th successor first conducted Salmo 150 , an a cappella setting of Psalm 150 by the Brazilian composer Ernani Aguiar ?
text: Did you know that zoologist Herb Wong wrote the liner notes for more than 600 jazz albums, by his own count?
text: Did you knowthat defence was not a significant factor in the design or placement of Earlstoun Castle , which was unusual for a 16th-century tower house ?
text: Did you know that Baya Gamani was freed from prison by his captor, King Mohnyin Thado , to defend the capital region of Ava ?
text: Did you know that the Manila Standard described the concert Two for the Knight as the "biggest team-up of a foreign and local artist" in the Philippines?
text: Did you know that hostile references towards Anglo-Egyptian rule in Sudan by Khalil Farah were hidden in colloquial Sudanese Arabic ?
text: Did you know that when the University of South Dakota started a radio station , the transmitter was built by student and future Nobel Prize winner Ernest Lawrence ?
text: Did you know that the 1971 Hazelwood massacre was the largest mass murder in the history of "Murder City"?
text: Did you know that taxation may have played a part in the fall of the Roman Empire ?
text: Did you know that women's rights activist Susan B. Anthony spoke twice at the now defunct Academy of Music in Sioux City, Iowa , during the 1870s?
text: Did you know that upon his rescue, Alexander Armstrong retrieved his journal against his captain's orders, and its publication contradicted the captain's claims about their chances of survival?
text: Did you know that Jesse Fuller 's first release of his song " You're No Good " was more than a year after Bob Dylan had included it on his debut album ?
text: Did you know that when reggae musician Bob Marley was arrested in London for cannabis possession, he falsely told the police he lived in Collingham Gardens ?
text: Did you know that in 1948, Thomas Yarborough became the first African American to be elected as a city council member in California?
text: Did you know that U.S. sanctions against Iran have adversely impacted Iranian children with epidermolysis bullosa , among other patients?
text: Did you know that Lillian Chase became interested in diabetes after meeting the first patient to receive insulin, and went on to become an expert in the disease?
text: Did you know that after a 1968 split in the Communist Party of Italy (Marxist–Leninist) , the Black Line and Red Line groups would engage in reciprocal acts of violence and vandalism?
text: Did you know that creating visual art led Maya Pindyck to write poetry?
text: Did you know that the Missa brevis in C by František Brixi , an 18th-century kapellmeister at Prague Cathedral , was not published until 2004?
text: Did you know that British writer Adolphe Smith Headingley popularised the singing of the socialist anthem " The Red Flag " to the tune of " O Tannenbaum " against the wishes of its lyricist ?
text: Did you know that the late Foo Fighters member Taylor Hawkins plays the drums on the closing track of King Princess 's album Hold On Baby ?
text: Did you know that during the First World War, Adrian Becher received his second Military Cross for leading the defence of a position for five days, despite having been buried by a shell explosion on the first day?
text: Did you know that 11 years after it opened in 1993, Currambine railway station was rebuilt 60 metres (200 ft) to the east?
text: Did you know that in 2010, a blue poison bottle inscribed "not to be taken" was excavated from the wheel pit of Knowles Mill ?
text: Did you know that a Billie Eilish song references the Depp v. Heard defamation trial and the overturning of Roe v. Wade ?
text: Did you know that in 1888, Edward P. Duplex became the first African American to be elected a mayor in California?
text: Did you know that the 6.0 system of judging figure skating was replaced in 2004, as a response to the scandal during the pair skating competition at the 2002 Winter Olympics ?
text: Did you know that when creating Aerodynamic Forms in Space in 2010, Rodney Graham was inspired by photographs of misassembled toy model gliders he took in 1977?
text: Did you know that Bill Hatfield , the oldest person to have sailed solo around the world, had previously narrowly survived a shipwreck with his young family?
text: Did you know that a reviewer said that playing as a cat "is at least 50% of the appeal" of Stray ?
text: Did you know that although some casting directors found Jack Ferver difficult to believe as an 18-year-old, Ferver would later portray Little Lad in a Starburst advertisement?
text: Did you know that the idea for the Fuente de la República arose after Manuel Felguérez suggested a fountain to accompany his newly inaugurated Puerta 1808 to the mayor of Mexico City?
text: Did you know that in his early career, Daniel Camargo was cast to dance a lead role at the opening night of Don Quixote at Stuttgart Ballet , over the principal dancers ?
text: Did you know that The Scent of Joseph's Shirt was said by Iranian director and screenwriter Ebrahim Hatamikia to reflect his perception of waiting for Imam Mahdi ?
text: Did you know that Ruslana Pysanka , who hosted a Ukrainian television program with Volodymyr Zelenskyy , died as a refugee in Germany?
text: Did you know that " Highway 51 ", the closing track on Bob Dylan 's debut album, incorporated elements from earlier songs by Curtis Jones , Tommy McClennan , and the Everly Brothers ?
text: Did you know that Kenyan theologian Mary Getui was named a Moran of the Burning Spear ?
text: Did you know that Colombian singer Juanita Lascarro became a soprano at the Oper Frankfurt , where she appeared as both Calypso and Penelope in a new production of Dallapiccola's Ulisse ?
text: Did you know that Akbar Bhawan , which houses the South Asian University and offices of India's Ministry of External Affairs, was originally a hotel?
text: Did you know that Pop Team Epic creator Bkub Okawa is also a virtual YouTuber ?
text: Did you know that after the Little Rock campaign , Union forces held three-quarters of Arkansas ?
text: Did you know that Alena Analeigh Wicker is the youngest Black person to be accepted into medical school in the United States and the youngest person to work as an intern at NASA?
text: Did you know that Taco Bell initially commissioned a TikTok musical for their Mexican Pizza ?
text: Did you know that Curtis Imrie won three world championships as a pack burro racer ?
text: Did you know that Northup Avenue Yard in Providence, Rhode Island , was described as "the finest in the New Haven system"?
text: Did you know that David Belchem was awarded the DSO for leading a tank regiment in Tunisia that took 749 prisoners?
text: Did you know that according to historian Rashid Khalidi , "Israel has been extremely successful in forcibly establishing itself as a colonial reality in a post-colonial age"?
text: Did you know that in 2022, Michael Phillips became the third professor in a year to sue Collin College for retaliating against protected speech ?
text: Did you know that Spy Princess by Shrabani Basu tells the story of Noor Inayat Khan , a British secret agent in France who was executed by the Nazis?
text: Did you know that Julian MacKay moved to Moscow at the age of 11 to attend the Bolshoi Ballet Academy , and later became the first American to complete both the lower and upper schools there?
text: Did you know that milk's gotta lotta bottle ?
text: Did you know that " The Strike " (1954), about an American officer's turmoil in ordering an air strike on his own men, was rated as Rod Serling 's best script he had written to date?
text: Did you know that Suleman Raza was coincidently awarded an MBE while his organisation Uplyft received the Queen's Award for Voluntary Service in the 2022 Birthday Honours ?
text: Did you know that a boy's voice over CB radio claiming to be within an overturned truck in New Mexico sparked a search-and-rescue mission 49 years ago today?
text: Did you know that baseball player Dwight Smith recorded a demo rhythm and blues album during the 1993–94 offseason?
text: Did you know that Natsuki Hanae was chosen to voice Vanitas to give the character more sexual appeal?
text: Did you know that the indie band Crumb wrote Jinx after a near-fatal car accident?
text: Did you know that Colin Stubs spent the prize money from his first international tennis title on an old Volkswagen to travel around Europe?
text: Did you know that Seckinger High School was created in 2022 with an artificial intelligence –themed curriculum?
text: Did you know that Singaporean singer Dawn Gan played herself in a television drama about aspiring singers?
text: Did you know that Oleksandr Kamyshin , the head of Ukrainian Railways , who runs the iron diplomacy program that brings world leaders to Kyiv by rail, carries his gun and his son's stuffed owl with him?
text: Did you know that Zahia Mentouri was credited with training all pediatric anesthetists in western Algeria ?
text: Did you know that the Freies Deutsches Hochstift association acquired Goethe's birthplace in Frankfurt am Main in 1863, but did not fully restore it until 1926?
text: Did you know that the majority of the members of the Israeli Desert Reconnaissance Battalion are Bedouin Arabs?
text: Did you know that Super Mario has spent more than a million dollars on cruises?
text: Did you know that the carillons of the British Isles were primarily constructed in the interwar period ?
text: Did you know that Indian author and publisher Pramod Kapoor was made a Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur for his contribution to promoting India's heritage?
text: Did you know that shoals of Munida gregaria , the gregarious squat lobster, can be up to 5 km (3.1 mi) long?
text: Did you know that Martha Wolfenstein wrote stories based on her father's experiences in a Moravian Judengasse ?
text: Did you know that Bob Dylan 's song " I Pity the Poor Immigrant " uses phrases from the Book of Leviticus ?
text: Did you know that A. K. M. Miraj Uddin set a Pakistani national record in the pole vault by clearing 12 feet 2 inches (3.71 m) with a bamboo pole instead of a carbon-fiber pole?
text: Did you know that a New York City office building was nicknamed for its resemblance to a lipstick tube?
text: Did you know that José Ramón Balaguer fought as a soldier-medic for Fidel Castro's rebel army before becoming Cuba's minister of public health?
text: Did you know that the 6th Louisiana Infantry Regiment began with 916 men and ended with 52?
text: Did you know that Shanti Devi was awarded the Padma Shri Award for her social work, including eradicating the yaws disease in a village in Odisha ?
text: Did you know that " Kommt her, ihr Kreaturen all ", a Catholic hymn first published in 1687, is still commonly used for Corpus Christi processions?
text: Did you know that Syrian novelist Hani al-Rahib had a deaf-mute father and an illiterate mother?
text: Did you know that 100-year-old logs, perfectly preserved and good enough to mill, have been retrieved from the bottom of Lake Brunner ?
text: Did you know that Sir Thomas Peel Dunhill used to milk the goats at St Vincent's Hospital?
text: Did you know that the Amazon rainforest may change into a savanna once it passes a tipping point ?
text: Did you know that Carl-Gustav Groth was the first surgeon in Sweden to perform pancreas, liver, and islet cell transplants ?
text: Did you know that the 14th-century Tashfiniya Madrasa in Tlemcen was demolished by French colonial authorities in 1876?
text: Did you know that actor Oscar Isaac contributed to the creation of his character's background history in the film A Most Violent Year (2014)?
text: Did you know that three gasholders at the Windsor Street Gasworks were painted in the claret and blue colours of local football team Aston Villa ?
text: Did you know that Canadian professional ice hockey player Larry Jeffrey had eleven knee surgeries in a span of nine years?
text: Did you know that among the special events broadcast by the Maine Television Network during its brief existence were a fashion show, a basketball tournament, and an ordination ceremony?
text: Did you know that in 1969, unknown persons dynamited the tower of a Kentucky TV station , leaving it leaning at a 15-degree angle?
text: Did you know that at 107 years old, Stanley Stair of Jamaica was at the time of his death the last surviving Caribbean veteran of World War I?
text: Did you know that Calvin Harris's 2022 album Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 2 features nearly 20 collaborators, including Justin Timberlake , Snoop Dogg , and Busta Rhymes ?
text: Did you know that actress Daisy Belmore disfigured her appearance for a character in a play so significantly that she was barely recognised in the street by audience members?
text: Did you know that the 2021 French documentary From Where They Stood examines photographs secretly taken by inmates of Nazi concentration camps ?
text: Did you know that Jerold F. Lucey introduced phototherapy to the United States as a treatment for jaundice in newborns?
text: Did you know that seats of some roundabout chairs have corners?
text: Did you know that American religious speaker Ann Kiemel Anderson ran in two Boston Marathons and two Israel marathons near the Sea of Galilee to promote Christianity?
text: Did you know that the neighborhood of Colonia Federal was built by employees of the Mexican Secretariat of the Interior to create exclusive housing for civil servants?
text: Did you know that Robert Armour was entrusted with his children's inheritance from his dead wife, but used it to buy the Montreal Gazette instead?
text: Did you know that in 1951, the University of Arizona radio bureau produced four different programs that aired on four different Tucson stations?
text: Did you know that Alice King overcame her disability to lead Bible classes and write eleven novels?
text: Did you know that the Sofia , a condominium building in New York City, was originally a parking garage?
text: Did you know that the "candidate of God" badly lost the 2000 Pasay mayoral recall election ?
text: Did you know that about 1,000 years after it was made, a stele of The Eight Great Events in the Life of Buddha is worshiped as an image of a female Hindu goddess?
text: Did you know that according to Theodore Roosevelt , U.S. Supreme Court justice David J. Brewer had "a sweetbread for a brain" and was a "menace to the welfare of the Nation"?
text: Did you know that the administration of Carlos Salinas de Gortari barred El Financiero from the Mexican presidential press plane for its reporting on foreign debt negotiations?
text: Did you know that Thomas Dickson Archibald , when speaking against increasing fines for violating liquor licenses, said "we need only go a step further and make the violation a hanging matter"?
text: Did you know that eight years after the U.S. Army canceled the M8 Armored Gun System , the 82nd Airborne Division requested that prototypes from the program be sent to Iraq?
text: Did you know that skeletons of a Triassic marine reptile were discovered at an altitude of about 2,700 metres (8,900 ft) above sea level?
text: Did you know that the only trumpet concerto by Antonio Vivaldi is for two trumpets ?
text: Did you know that Bernard Toone received a standing ovation after being berated by coach Al McGuire to the point of tears?
text: Did you know that as women's ski jumping was not then an Olympic event, Yoshiko Kasai participated as the only female test jumper at the 1998 Winter Olympics , as dramatized in Jump!! The Heroes Behind the Gold ?
text: Did you know that the Education for Economic Security Act prohibited secular humanism in magnet schools ?
text: Did you know that Katja Husen was the speaker of the Green Youth , a member of the Hamburg Parliament , and the CEO of the Centre for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg ?
text: Did you know that singer Billie Eilish wrote and produced a film that critiques body shaming ?
text: Did you know that Kamome Shirahama , in addition to writing and illustrating her best-selling Witch Hat Atelier manga series, has created variant covers for DC Comics , Marvel Comics , and the Star Wars franchise?
text: Did you know that the man who designed the flag of Barbados also made the first few flags himself out of fabric from a department store?
text: Did you know that Regine Velasquez had to audition for composer Michel Legrand before collaborating in the concert Songbird Sings Legrand ?
text: Did you know that Joseph-Alfred Archambeault threatened to excommunicate a writer who criticised the Catholic Church's opposition to the theory of evolution?
text: Did you know that New Galloway Town Hall 's clock mechanism was replaced in 1872 because the original was "utterly worthless as a time keeper"?
text: Did you know that political philosophy professor Werner J. Dannhauser was the basis for a character in a Saul Bellow novel?
text: Did you know that shareholders who object to some transactions can use appraisal rights to make the company buy their shares?
text: Did you know that Kanye West recorded " Everything We Need " as a new version of his leaked track "The Storm"?
text: Did you know that Roman slave miners would rather die than work in the horrible working conditions of the mines?
text: Did you know that the fossil palm Uhlia allenbyensis has been found with "tar spots"?
text: Did you know that Catherine Flanagan was arrested and jailed in 1917 for picketing the White House in support of women's suffrage?
text: Did you know that half a square mile (130 ha) in Alberta contains an estimated 6,000 arthropod species and is one of the most biodiverse areas in the province for its size?
text: Did you know that Charles Johnson received the most votes for student body president at the University of Colorado Boulder , even though he had already been disqualified from running?
text: Did you know that Sdorica featured crossovers with the fellow Rayark games Cytus II and Deemo , involving special events in Sdorica and song albums in Cytus II ?
text: Did you know that a new Christmas stamp that debuted in the 350-person town of Bethlehem, Georgia , in 1967 got so much attention that the two-employee post office had to hire forty-three temporary workers?
text: Did you know that Horace Archambeault introduced a Quebec bill in 1904 that would make employers responsible for workplace accidents, even if they were not negligent ?
text: Did you know that the new curriculum in Wales allows schools to set their own curricula ?
text: Did you know that Frank Goadby said that he served on 44 committees after his retirement from the British Army?
text: Did you know that supply-side progressivism is a response to rising costs of housing, healthcare, and other essential goods in the United States?
text: Did you know that Vikki Blanche did not take her Neighbours audition seriously, thinking that she would not be cast so soon after graduating from school?
text: Did you know that an attempt to jazz up a South Carolina radio station did not get much response from listeners?
text: Did you know that Sarah Ashton-Cirillo , covering the Russian invasion of Ukraine , said that Ukrainians care less about her being transgender than Americans do?
text: Did you know that shoshin is a Zen Buddhist term that means having a "beginner's mind"?
text: Did you know that The Last of Us Part I features three accessibility presets for those requiring hearing, motor, or visual aids?
text: Did you know that Earle M. Chiles , a businessman and philanthropist from Portland, Oregon , was also a senator of the board of Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich , Germany?
text: Did you know that China Miéville 's novella This Census-Taker fluctuates between the first and third person to convey the trauma felt by the protagonist?
text: Did you know that the development of the Port of Tanjung Api-Api resulted in a bribery scandal implicating the incumbent governor ?
text: Did you know that Open Philanthropy has made grants to causes ranging from recession prevention to cancer vaccines for dogs?
text: Did you know that Ukrainian baritone Danylo Matviienko , who holds a master's degree in mathematics, appeared as Demetrius in Britten 's opera A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Oper Frankfurt ?
text: Did you know that Univel was an early-1990s attempt to compete with Microsoft on the desktop, but one industry consultant said of the company's goal, "they're dreaming"?
text: Did you know that a European settler in Kenya who tortured a black employee to death in 1920 was sentenced to just two years' imprisonment?
text: Did you know that the California Golden Bears men's basketball team won the 1959 NCAA University Division Basketball Championship Game by a single point over West Virginia?
text: Did you know that Saudi Arabian poet Hamad al-Hajji lost three members of his family during his childhood and later suffered from schizophrenia until he died at the age of 49 after a lung disease?
text: Did you know that riders on the Jolly Rancher Remix can smell one of five randomly chosen Jolly Rancher flavors?
text: Did you know that television production companies working in Bhadun , Bangladesh, can hire a local woman as an extra for ৳500 (US$5.30) per day?
text: Did you know that Bob Dylan 's " Absolutely Sweet Marie " was misspelled on several international releases of Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits 2 ?
text: Did you know that a civil servant sued his own minister for libel?
text: Did you know that subgroup distortion theory , introduced by Misha Gromov in 1993, can help encode text?
text: Did you know that according to climate scientist Chip Fletcher , "our communities are scaled and built for a climate that no longer exists"?
text: Did you know that Cowbridge Girls School , built in 1896, was unusual for its time in providing a science laboratory for the students?
text: Did you know that Jim Nettles followed his older brother to San Diego State University and the Minnesota Twins , but preceded him in being diagnosed with prostate cancer?
text: Did you know that the current lighthouse at the Port of Tanjung Kalian was built by a Dutch company in 1862 based on a British design?
text: Did you know that Rakhel Feygenberg wrote her first novel at age 13, but was forced by her relatives to burn it?
text: Did you know that Microsoft made a Mac enhancer ?
text: Did you know that Eddie Keenan was once the largest American football player?
text: Did you know that physical applications of Euclidean minimum spanning trees range in scale from the particles in bubble chambers to the dark matter halos of galaxies?
text: Did you know that the court-martial of William T. Colman , the commander of a U.S. air base, created a storm of protest when he was merely reduced in rank after shooting a black soldier?
text: Did you know that lemur health is threatened by climate change in Madagascar due to the spread of parasites with warmer temperatures?
text: Did you know that the radio station at Western Washington University interfered with telephone and television services in a campus dormitory?
text: Did you know that Kannada-language author M. V. Seetharamiah established that the Rashtrakuta emperor Nrupatunga did not write the classic Kavirajamarga ?
text: Did you know that Union Carbide bought 270 Park Avenue in 1976 while moving out of the building?
text: Did you know that a Carolingian military sermon promises soldiers victory, provided they do not engage in sexual activity or looting ?
text: Did you know that the slopes near Bass Lake at Flat Top Manor in North Carolina were covered with hundreds of apple trees?
text: Did you know that Rockstar Vancouver developed most of the "Beta 5" update for Counter-Strike ?
text: Did you know that Iraqi psychologist Nuri Ja'far , in his youth, was denied admission to the College of Medicine University of Baghdad by Harry Sinderson ?
text: Did you know that Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell wrote the melody for their four-time Grammy-nominated song " Happier Than Ever " on an $80 guitar?
text: Did you know that South African politician Speedy Mashilo was kidnapped for seven hours?
text: Did you know that The Random Years includes a version of strip poker played to Antiques Roadshow ?
text: Did you know that the design of the Magic: The Gathering expansion set Streets of New Capenna is inspired by the Five Families of organized crime?
text: Did you know that protesters demanded the closure of the embassy of the Philippines in Lisbon ?
text: Did you know that the Suquamish tribe opened their community house, the House of Awakened Culture , in 2009?
text: Did you know that The Maiden in the Tower , the only opera by Jean Sibelius , was withdrawn after only three performances with the intention to revise it, which never happened?
text: Did you know that Wes Freed was the secretary of Future Farmers of America before becoming the album cover artist for the Drive-By Truckers ?
text: Did you know that Die Brennessel was a satirical magazine devised by the Nazi Party as a propaganda tool?
text: Did you know that when a computer journalist saw the IBM PS/2 Model 25 for the first time, he thought that he "was looking at a deformed Macintosh "?
text: Did you know that the shop in Cairo designed by Robert Williams for the Davies Bryan Company became a site of "pilgrimage for all Welsh travellers" to Egypt?
text: Did you know that Pedro II of Brazil examined the signal system on the Fitchburg Cutoff ?
text: Did you know that when Francesco Lanzillotta conducted Dallapiccola's Ulisse at Oper Frankfurt in 2022, a reviewer noted that he "does not shy away from agglomerations of sound"?
text: Did you know that in 2009, residents of Maine voted to repeal a law that would have legalized same-sex marriage?
text: Did you know that yachting photographer Eileen Ramsay damaged many Rolleiflex cameras by attempting to take photos at water level?
text: Did you know that " illegal operation " was a common euphemism for abortion in early-20th-century North American newspapers?
text: Did you know that Ekuikui V was deposed as the king of Bailundo in 2021 and sentenced to six years in prison?
text: Did you know that according to one sociologist, Franklin Flores 's landslide victory demonstrated his party 's ability to win the rural vote "regardless of the candidates nominated"?
text: Did you know that Northwest High School required transgender staff members of the student newspaper to use deadnames in bylines ?
text: Did you know that Drummie Zeb was one of the last two original members of Aswad still playing with the reggae group by 2006?
text: Did you know that following the introduction of the round goby to Lake Erie, the Lake Erie watersnake 's population recovered enough to be removed from the U.S. threatened species list?
text: Did you know that in the lead-up to the 1919 Copa del Rey Final between FC Barcelona and Arenas Club de Getxo , fans broke the fencing twice to watch the sold-out match?
text: Did you know that former Lincoln University president Armstead Otey Grubb was robbed and murdered outside his home on campus in 1968?
text: Did you know that concerts of the Spannungen festival of chamber music, founded by pianist Lars Vogt in 1998, are played in a power plant?
text: Did you know that Green Valley State Park in Iowa, which was dedicated exactly 69 years ago, had multiple species of fish added to its artificial lake in 1974?
text: Did you know that according to Modern Times, a San Francisco–based bookstore collective, if there was only one book that you read in 1975 it had to be Canadian author and activist Helen Potrebenko 's Taxi! ?
text: Did you know that a Duesenberg car was the first American car to win a French Grand Prix , doing so in 1921?
text: Did you know that besides official retreats in Hyderabad and in Shimla , the president of India also has one in Dehradun ?
text: Did you know that actress Zita Moulton first starred in theatre performances after a bet with her fiancé that she would be able to get a stage job within 24 hours?
text: Did you know that 48 of the 55 British participants in the August 1919 raid on Kronstadt received gallantry medals or were mentioned in despatches ?
text: Did you know that Malaysian businessman Lim Kok Wing was depicted as "King of Africa"?
text: Did you know that Westminster Abbey 's director of music James O'Donnell , who is responsible for the singing at the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II , is scheduled to become a professor at Yale University in 2023?
text: Did you know that in 1988, Elizabeth II became the first British monarch to make an official visit to Spain ?
text: Did you know that in 1952, Douglas Chandor painted the first portrait of Elizabeth II that she posed for following her accession?
text: Did you know that Elizabeth II approved the design of the state hearse used in her funeral?
text: Did you know that Leverton & Sons were given the coffin of Elizabeth II when they were appointed funeral directors to the Royal Household in 1991?
text: Did you know that today's funeral procession of Elizabeth II to Windsor Castle started at the gate to Shaw Farm ?
text: Did you know that the 1991 song " Queen's Road East " by Lo Ta-yu describes Elizabeth II as "beautiful even when saying goodbye"?
text: Did you know that Abraham Lincoln Davis cofounded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with Martin Luther King Jr. , serving as his vice president?
text: Did you know that the Communist Party of Lithuania and Belorussia organized partisan units behind the front lines during the Polish–Soviet War ?
text: Did you know that George F. Kosco filmed the signing of the Japanese surrender in color ?
text: Did you know that evidence of the battle of Benfleet was found in the 19th century in the form of charred timbers and human bones?
text: Did you know that James W. Lugenbeel 's journal became the only known record of the proceedings of the 1847 Liberian Constitutional Convention ?
text: Did you know that because of the increasing prevalence of sesame allergy , the U.S. will join the EU and Canada in 2023 in instituting mandatory food labeling?
text: Did you know that baseball player Mark Littell developed an anatomically correct athletic cup called the "Nutty Buddy"?
text: Did you know that Tala Bashmi played on the Bahrain women's national football team for seven years before opening a restaurant in a Manama hotel?
text: Did you know that when The Papers of Benjamin Franklin is completed, it is expected to contain approximately 30,000 writings in 47 volumes?
text: Did you know that Liu Yunbin , the son of the second president of the People's Republic of China , was a graduate in radiochemistry and contributed to the development of China's first atomic bomb ?
text: Did you know that Taylor Swift announced her upcoming album, Midnights , while accepting the 2022 Video of the Year award?
text: Did you know that when Bill Renwick was asked to review a neo-Nazi case at the University of Waikato it was meant to take three weeks, but instead took nearly two years?
text: Did you know that women- and minority-owned businesses built the Frequent Express high-capacity bus line in Portland, Oregon ?
text: Did you know that during the 1970s, future Indonesian president Habibie would go to a specific noodle shop every lunchtime?
text: Did you know that Jewish Indian theory , the erroneous idea that some lost tribes of Israel became ancestors to Native Americans , influenced the Book of Mormon ?
text: Did you know that Billie Eilish released two songs in July 2022, one of which was about a loved one's car accident?
text: Did you know that a job offer from the Empire Cinema saved science fiction writer John Russell Fearn from factory-based war work that "damned near killed [him]"?
text: Did you know that upon its completion, the Gwinnett Environmental & Heritage Center had the largest sloped green roof in the United States?
text: Did you know that Ruffian Games co-developed Kinect games to stay in business after the release of Crackdown 2 ?
text: Did you know that the National Football League record for career punting yards is more than 40 miles (65 km)?
text: Did you know that "gambling lord" Hong Taechawanit 's mansion in Thailand became a police station?
text: Did you know that WNEW-TV Channel 5 used its early-morning Columbia Lectures in International Studies to offset criticism of its prime-time schedule of crime show reruns?
text: Did you know that Moses Judah Hays leased a block of buildings to the Canadian Parliament after its seat was burned down in 1849 ?
text: Did you know that though Haiti did not compete at the 1936 Summer Olympics, its presence there made Liechtenstein change its flag?
text: Did you know that Robert Downey Jr. declared Elvis Costello 's Imperial Bedroom his favorite album in a 2005 article for Uncut magazine?
text: Did you know that datacasting tests by a Detroit TV station included a ceremonial broadcast of an early automobile patent from 1886?
text: Did you know that Madeleine Swann 's name is a tribute to Marcel Proust ?
text: Did you know that according to Ruth Marcus , the facts of Michael H. v. Gerald D. "more closely resembled a soap opera synopsis than a typical Supreme Court case"?
text: Did you know that the working title of Alien was Star Beast ?
text: Did you know that Linus Roth , who plays the 1703 Dancla Stradivarius violin, recorded all compositions by Mieczysław Weinberg which feature a solo violin?
text: Did you know that a bystander's video of the arrest of Randal Worcester in Mulberry, Arkansas , showed one law enforcement officer holding Worcester on the ground while two other officers beat him?
text: Did you know that the Swiss Youth Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1969 for members from all four Swiss language regions, and meets twice a year for rehearsals and a tour program?
text: Did you know that the video game Serious Sam: Tormental was originally inspired by Geometry Wars ?
text: Did you know that Robert Redford helped the Lion of Zion receive a federal grant?
text: Did you know that Zack Kelly received a $500 signing bonus , lost money in his first professional seasons, and was released by two organizations before he made his Major League Baseball debut?
text: Did you know that Jauchzet dem Herren, alle Welt by Heinrich Schütz , a 1619 setting of Psalm 100 for double choir , was performed at the Proms at the Royal Albert Hall in 1972?
text: Did you know that Samuel Fyzee-Rahamin was born a Jew , became a Muslim , moved to Pakistan and died in poverty?
text: Did you know that in the Troy axe murders a former fireman killed his wife, five-year-old daughter, and five stepchildren and left love notes on their bodies?
text: Did you know that whilst serving in the Royal Navy during World War II, Tom Dorrien-Smith , a former leaseholder of Tresco , was involved in the sinking of the Bismarck ?
text: Did you know that construction of Van Ness Bus Rapid Transit uncovered tracks from the California Street Cable Railroad ?
text: Did you know that in Norse mythology, the sun and moon are each chased by a warg ?
text: Did you know that Adele moans in " Can I Get It ", a song about desire for a real relationship instead of casual sex?
text: Did you know that George Eisenbarth conducted twin studies showing that if one twin had type 1 diabetes , the other was also at risk of the disease?
text: Did you know that the Romans enjoyed balneotherapy from geothermal energy in Turkey ?
text: Did you know that Dorli Rainey , at the age of 84, was pepper-sprayed by police at a 2011 Occupy Seattle protest, making her a symbol of the Occupy Wall Street movement?
text: Did you know that Hartington Road Halt in Brighton, which closed after five years, was accidentally opened illegally?
text: Did you know that audience members interrogated suspects in an Australian Cluedo game show based on the board game ?
text: Did you know that when asked who let New Jersey have a Twitter account , its manager simply replied, "your mom"?
text: Did you know that the 8.2 M w Biak earthquake of 1996 triggered disproportionately large tsunamis relative to its magnitude?
text: Did you know that American psychologist Mildred Newman and her husband treated so many celebrities that the two were known as "therapists of the stars"?
text: Did you know that Sheikh Mujibur Rahman proclaimed the independence of Bangladesh from his residence in Dhaka before his arrest by the Pakistan Army ?
text: Did you know that Charley Frazier played in the American Football League even though he did not play college football ?
text: Did you know that despite two 16th-century books often being referred to as the Edwardine Ordinals ,  the word " ordinal " was not applied to them until the 17th century?
text: Did you know that local regulation and law enforcement in Brighton's early history was carried out by the Society of Twelve, a beadle "in cocked hat and full regalia", and two "Old Charlies"?
text: Did you know that a lion's head was preserved during construction of Gilman Square station ?
text: Did you know that Saudi Arabian historian Sa'd ibn Junaydil took high school graduation exams with his students, as he had yet to obtain a high school diploma?
text: Did you know that Chloe Bailey dances next to a leopard in the music video for her song " Treat Me "?
text: Did you know that Twyla Tharp 's ballet Nine Sinatra Songs , to songs sung by Frank Sinatra , features ballroom dance -inspired choreography?
text: Did you know that the illustrations in the 1992 video game Tetris Classic are based on scenes from Alexander Pushkin 's poem Ruslan and Ludmila ?
text: Did you know  that Riddick Parker increased his weight by 26 pounds (12 kg) because he was regarded as "small" for a defensive end , at 274 pounds (124 kg)?
text: Did you know that temples served as banks in ancient Rome ?
text: Did you know that artist Thomas Eakins remarked "I think you've got a heap of impudence" upon receiving the Temple Gold Medal for his portrait Archbishop William Henry Elder ?
text: Did you know that a television station spent so little on programming that a media columnist called it the " IOUs of Cincinnati "?
text: Did you know that Sheila Egoff , Canada's first professor of children's literature , returned to her library work immediately after retirement?
text: Did you know that the Indie sleaze era, from approximately 2006 to 2012, was described by singer Gwenno as "very debauched, and probably the last moment where kids had been able to do whatever they want"?
text: Did you know that Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church bishop Yuhanon Meletius said that Christian Sangh Parivar sympathizers are "moving on a suicidal path"?
text: Did you know that Ding Roman defeated his cousin Tet Garcia in the 1993 Bataan gubernatorial recall election ?
text: Did you know that after depopulating the island of Samson , Augustus Smith established a deer park there, only for the deer to escape to the neighbouring island of Tresco ?
text: Did you know that the man who built Cauley Square originally used the village to ship his tomatoes?
text: Did you know that E. Virgil Neal was a teacher, stage hypnotist, fraudster and finally a wealthy cosmetics manufacturer?
text: Did you know that the first known publication of the phrase " any port in a storm " was in a 1749 erotic novel ?
text: Did you know that Benny Lefebvre had three sons who signed professional baseball contracts and four brothers who played football ?
text: Did you know that Vegeta is used to attack HTTP-based applications?
text: Did you know that Home Depot CEO Ted Decker ran his own landscaping business in high school?
text: Did you know that in Ireland, selling unauthorized Mass cards could lead to 10 years in jail or a €300,000 fine?
text: Did you know that someone once paid $750 to enjoy a hurricane ?
text: Did you know that endocrinologist Reginald Hall , who studied the thyroid gland and its diseases, received a heart transplant in 1984?
text: Did you know that " Slapshot ", a 1995 rock song commissioned by the New York Rangers , is widely considered to be the best goal song in the National Hockey League ?
text: Did you know that Eva Duldig , who was interned by Australia during the Second World War, later represented the country at the Wimbledon Championships ?
text: Did you know that in Arnett v. Kennedy , U.S. Supreme Court justice William Rehnquist said public employees must accept "the bitter with the sweet" in their due-process rights when contesting dismissal?
text: Did you know that the Indian independence movement 's underground Congress Radio once submerged their equipment in the Godavari River ?
text: Did you know that Larry Herndon hit a game-winning home run in the 1984 World Series and a playoff-clinching home run on the last day of the 1987 season ?
text: Did you know that the 1987 video game Oriental Hero was panned as "so incredibly bad it's almost worth a look"?
text: Did you know that a 65-minute concert film starring Billie Eilish was filmed all in one week?
text: Did you know that Seattle-based Tom Alberg , one of the earliest investors in Amazon , was convinced of the company's promise when he could not find a book by Peter Drucker in his local bookstore?
text: Did you know that Manfred Mann 's 1966 single " Semi-Detached, Suburban Mr. James " was amongst the first songs to utilize the Mellotron ?
text: Did you know that a New York pop-up restaurant opened by Louisa Shafia served stews and rice dishes described in a review as a "Persian-tapas gateway into the ancient cuisine"?
text: Did you know that the Iranian operation to liberate the town of Bostan during the Iran–Iraq War was described by Ruhollah Khomeini , then Supreme Leader of Iran, as "the victory of victories"?
text: Did you know that Aaron S. Watkin is scheduled to become the artistic director of the English National Ballet three decades after he first danced there?
text: Did you know that one DJ of a Texas radio station challenged another to a cow-milking contest on the streets of the city?
text: Did you know that Saudi Arabian broadcaster beoutQ pirated and resold beIN Sports programmes during the Qatar diplomatic crisis ?
text: Did you know that Corky Palmer coached the Southern Miss Golden Eagles to their only College World Series appearance in 2009?
text: Did you know that more than 1000 tons of paper were used every year printing car literature for the British Motor Corporation by the in-house Nuffield Press ?
text: Did you know that, before there was a Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Factory Building , William S. Harley and Arthur Davidson built motorcycles in a shed?
text: Did you know that Alexander Marble , an expert in diabetes, was described as one of "the giant trees among the diabetes sequoias "?
text: Did you know that the developer of Citizen Sleeper was inspired by the feeling of people coming together and their own experiences as a non-binary person struggling to make ends meet through the gig economy ?
text: Did you know that Milt Wilcox , winning pitcher of Game 3 of the 1984 World Series , credited "throwing bowling balls " with rescuing his Major League Baseball career?
text: Did you know that Pier Giorgio Morandi first played as the principal oboist at La Scala in Milan, and conducted a 2019 recorded production of Verdi's Il trovatore at the Verona Arena , directed by Franco Zeffirelli ?
text: Did you know that Alexis Sharkey's last Instagram post before her murder documented her travels to Tulum , Mexico?
text: Did you know that politician William Madocks built a privy in the shape of "an old broken tower" on his Dolmelynllyn Estate in Wales?
text: Did you know that the choral music of Artemy Vedel , who is regarded as one of the Golden Three composers of 18th-century Ukrainian classical music, was censored but performed from handwritten copies?
text: Did you know that Prabhudas Gandhi invented an innovative foot-driven spinning wheel and named it "Magan Charkha" in memory of his uncle Maganlal Gandhi ?
text: Did you know that Donald Trump and his attorneys John Eastman and Rudy Giuliani spoke to some 300 Republican state legislators in an effort to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election ?
text: Did you know that " Surprise " by Chloe Bailey was hand-picked by Beyoncé ?
text: Did you know that Joseph-Alexandre Baile argued against the separation of the parish of Notre-Dame in Montreal, declaring it to be against civil law?
text: Did you know that by switching to the smaller typeface Retina in the stock listings of their newspaper, The Wall Street Journal was able to save $6 to 7 million annually?
text: Did you know that there were two failed attempts to adapt Sailor Moon into a Western live-action series ?
text: Did you know that Brizlincote in Burton upon Trent , England, was formerly known as "Little Switzerland" for its charm and recreational use by locals?
text: Did you know that Captain Archie C. Kuntze , known as the "American Mayor of Saigon", was court-martialled for living "openly and notoriously in his official quarters" with his Taiwanese girlfriend?
text: Did you know that despite a truce, the siege of Wark continued?
text: Did you know that a conversion plan led to the "Battle of the Century "?
text: Did you know that in 2016, Lukáš Vondráček became the first Czech pianist to win the Queen Elisabeth Competition ?
text: Did you know that according to Jimmy Carter , "more of [Georgia's] business was probably conducted in the Henry Grady than in the state capitol "?
text: Did you know that Freddy Mamani was motivated to become a teacher in part to help his parents overcome their illiteracy?
text: Did you know that a TV station in New York state signed on just to carry the 1953 World Series , then went off the air and did not start scheduled programming for several weeks?
text: Did you know that journalist Isabel Fernández likened her experience as a correspondent during periods of intense civil unrest to "[being in] a lion's cage"?
text: Did you know that the LAX Consolidated Rent-A-Car Facility is the second-largest concrete building in the U.S. – behind only the Pentagon?
text: Did you know that educationalist Keith Sheen learned how to kill rats with a frying pan at his first job?
text: Did you know that " Spotlight ", the best-selling digital single in Chinese music history, saw its Douban rating drop from 10.0 to 3.2 less than two days after its release?
text: Did you know that the melting of the Platigliole Glacier in Italy has revealed artefacts of the White War , including clothing and hay more than 100 years old?
text: Did you know that eleven years after serving as a Super Bowl usher , Rodney Parker came back to the game as a player?
text: Did you know that Shenseea almost named Alpha after her dead mother?
text: Did you know that Eli N. Evans authored three books about the culture and history of Jews in the American South ?
text: Did you know that the selection of Palu as capital of Palu Regency led to protests from the nearby town of Donggala , concerned they would lose out on economic development?
text: Did you know that elderly showman Bronco Charlie Miller would light matches, held in the mouths of Boy Scouts, using a 20-ft bull whip?
text: Did you know that American racing driver Emory Collins won the International Motor Contest Association sprint car national championship in 1938, 1946, 1947, and 1948?
text: Did you know that the Polish science fiction novel Extensa marked the growing recognition of its writer, Jacek Dukaj , in Poland?
text: Did you know that Constance Fozzard was told during her surgical training that women with children could not become consultants ?
text: Did you know that the LARIAT platform simulates users on computer networks to be targeted for staged cyber attacks?
text: Did you know that Melissa Clark-Reynolds , who was awarded the Insignia of an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit , developed the now-defunct virtual world MiniMonos ?
text: Did you know that guests to the Delmonico's restaurant at 56 Beaver Street touched a pair of columns at the entrance for good luck?
text: Did you know that Matti Lehtinen , a baritone of the Finnish National Opera and professor of singing at the Sibelius Academy , was the voice of God at age 93?
text: Did you know that after Mehmet Şerif Fırat helped the Turkish military defeat the Sheikh Said rebellion , he was internally exiled with relatives of the leaders of the rebellion?
text: Did you know that a report commissioned by the Jews of Color Initiative described " Jews of color " as "an imperfect, but useful umbrella term"?
text: Did you know that the Iowa state auditor Rob Sand modeled in Milan and Paris while he was in college?
text: Did you know that the word " dirge " for funeral hymns can be traced to primer prayer books ?
text: Did you know that Washington College is investigating the possibility of turning the Chestertown Armory into a bed and breakfast ?
text: Did you know that papyrologist Walter Cockle produced a new edition of a tragedy by Euripides based on fragments found in the Oxyrhynchus Papyri ?
text: Did you know that a Chicago TV station was expelled from the National Association of Broadcasters by mistake?
text: Did you know that fictional depictions of Jupiter have portrayed human habitation on the planet and its moons both by altering the environment to suit humans and altering humans to be suited to the environment ?
text: Did you know that Parker Goins and Taylor Malham have played high school, club, college, and professional soccer together?
text: Did you know that a scene from the television adaptation of the manga It's All About the Looks was filmed at the Tokyo Girls Collection fashion show?
text: Did you know that Peachtree Arcade , a shopping arcade in the U.S. state of Georgia, was conceived after a local businessman visited the Cleveland Arcade ?
text: Did you know that Henry Baylis kept the bullet that wounded him, as a good-luck charm?
text: Did you know that East Somerville station is planned to open more than 95 years after its predecessor closed?
text: Did you know that customers at Karen's Diner pay to be insulted?
text: Did you know that Reina Scully has worked with Crunchyroll because of her skill in translating Japanese anime for English dubs?
text: Did you know that the player of a 1990 video game can recreate the 14.5-hour-long Battle of Rorke's Drift in real time, controlling each of the 137 British defenders?
text: Did you know that rhythmic gymnast Gemma Frizelle won a gold medal at the 2022 Commonwealth Games performing to her mother's favourite song?
text: Did you know that U.S. regulators determined that a South Carolina radio station broadcast from unauthorized facilities for more than 15 years?
text: Did you know that 11th-century French peasant Leutard of Vertus is said to have preached heresy against the Catholic Church after dreaming his body had been invaded by bees that entered through his genitals?
text: Did you know that nine songs from Mary Lou Williams 's Zodiac Suite were composed during a live radio improvisation?
text: Did you know that Chief of the General Staff Zdravko Ponoš began military cooperation between Serbia and Ohio ?
text: Did you know that while experimenting for the music of Red Dead Redemption , Woody Jackson recorded the heartbeat of his unborn daughter on his iPhone ?
text: Did you know that Chicago Radio public address systems were used extensively by the pro-independence Indian National Congress during the British Raj?
text: Did you know that the first woman mayor in Metropolitan Toronto , Beth Nealson , ran against True Davidson in a 1966 mayoral race called the "Battle of the Belles"?
text: Did you know that the founder of a Massachusetts radio station credited Gayle King , then a local news anchor, for mentoring her to pursue a broadcast license ?
text: Did you know that rugby union flanker Gavin Thomas had his contract cancelled by the Scarlets after he missed more than 26 weeks of the 2008–09 season due to a ruptured Achilles tendon ?
text: Did you know that overcrowding at the Marine Air Terminal prompted one airline owner to buy a boat?
text: Did you know that one witness claimed that not even God could have prevented the Battle of Omagh ?
text: Did you know that before he made his Major League Baseball debut, Nate Fisher worked as a commercial lending analyst for the First National Bank of Omaha ?
text: Did you know that a two-year-old food bank contributed 150 semi-trucks of supplies to relief efforts for Hurricane Katrina ?
text: Did you know that Michelle O'Bonsawin is the first Indigenous person appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada ?
text: Did you know that Bob Dylan 's " 4th Time Around " has been interpreted as a parody of the Beatles ' song " Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) "?
text: Did you know that the Romans would advertise their goods with a type of inscription known as Titulus pictus ?
text: Did you know that Univision bought a Chicago TV station that wasn't for sale?
text: Did you know that prolific Italian forger Tobia Nicotra once toured the United States impersonating conductor Riccardo Drigo , who had died two years earlier?
text: Did you know that The Story of Mr Sommer , a 1991 novella by Patrick Süskind with illustrations by Sempé , has been described as "a children's tale for adults"?
text: Did you know that KECH 22 was associated with two simultaneous bankruptcy proceedings?
text: Did you know that medical doctor Brian McMahon was named " ANZAC of the Year" in 2011?
text: Did you know that Sofia the First was deemed "risky" but subsequently became the most-viewed program in its category?
text: Did you know that Yesenia Yarhui , the youngest parliamentarian in Bolivian history, was sworn into the Chamber of Deputies at just 19 years old?
text: Did you know that the soldier guarding the West Farms Soldiers Cemetery went missing for six years?
text: Did you know that players of the fantasy play-by-mail game Quest once voted on the game's "most useless item"?
text: Did you know that David Dexter , who wrote the New Guinea volume in the series Australia in the War of 1939–1945 , was a commando who served in East Timor and New Guinea?
text: Did you know that a pending case at the United States Supreme Court , Haaland v. Brackeen , "could completely erase tribal sovereignty "?
text: Did you know that after the Swiss federal councilor Josef Martin Knüsel lost a complimentary election to the National Council in 1875, he resigned?
text: Did you know that a Kansas City TV station sold for $1 in 1953?
text: Did you know that Indian footballer Narender Thapa played for both of Calcutta's football clubs Mohun Bagan and Mohammedan Sporting at different times in his career?
text: Did you know that during meetings at the United Nations headquarters, the United Nations Plaza Hotel was said to have more security than guests?
text: Did you know that Antony Hodgkinson danced so vigorously onstage with Nirvana at the 1992 Reading Festival that he gave himself whiplash?
text: Did you know that the Assembly Rooms in Belfast, which housed a branch of the Belfast Banking Company for more than 100 years, were the venue for the court-martial of leaders of the Irish Rebellion of 1798 ?
text: Did you know that Emma Dean Powell received a pass from General Ulysses S. Grant to accompany her husband to battlefield camps during the American Civil War after he lost his arm?
text: Did you know that the Eocene Okanagan Highlands span approximately 1,000 km (620 mi) through British Columbia and Washington?
text: Did you know that Mihi Edwards did not use her own name as a young woman because of discrimination against Māori people in New Zealand?
text: Did you know that in 1933, the groundbreaking ceremony for the Italian wing of Rockefeller Center's International Building was interrupted by a fascist chant led by an unemployed bricklayer?
text: Did you know that Sacco Saito, who arranged and performed the theme song for Shin-chan: Me and the Professor on Summer Vacation , was not told the content of the game until after the song had been recorded?
text: Did you know that Bumper Pool legally changed his name to Bumper when he was 16 because of his father's childhood love for bumper pool ?
text: Did you know that Aymara legislator Rafael Quispe 's humorous style of political activism led one Bolivian parliamentarian to describe him as the " Chapulín Colorado " of the Legislative Assembly ?
text: Did you know that Russia launched an Iranian satellite into orbit just three weeks after Putin and Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei vowed to cooperate against the West?
text: Did you know that medieval literature scholar Theodore Silverstein 's unit in World War II took over the Eiffel Tower to intercept communications of German aircraft?
text: Did you know that the Office for National Statistics defines a golden logistics triangle in the English Midlands that lies within four hours driving distance of 90% of the British population?
text: Did you know that "King of Torts" Harry Lipsig persuaded a jury that a man had been scared to death by a car?
text: Did you know that the tallest captive elephant in Asia has been commemorated in verse , sculpture and film ?
text: Did you know that the pediatrician Daniel C. Darrow "was tolerant of students, but they were rather terrified of him"?
text: Did you know that Naikilah Perusahaan Minang is the oldest operating autobus company in Indonesia?
text: Did you know that an article by Dave Wasserman two months before the 2016 U.S. presidential election correctly predicted that Donald Trump would win despite losing the popular vote?
text: Did you know that CLODO 's initialism is also a French slang term for 'bum' or 'homeless'?
text: Did you know that while Joseph Longworth thought that he would be remembered only as "the son of his father and the father of his son ", there is today a wing of the Cincinnati Art Museum named for him?
text: Did you know that Professor of History Lorenzo Kamel deems Umma–Lagash the first recorded war in human history?
text: Did you know that after playing professional football, Furlong Flynn became an aviation pioneer?
text: Did you know that before Godley & Creme were one half of 10cc , they were Frabjoy & the Runcible Spoon ?
text: Did you know that 2022 Commonwealth Games women's squash gold medallist Georgina Kennedy was once a promising runner, ranked number one in England at the 1500 metres , before focusing on squash?
text: Did you know that a Chinatown in the logging community of Sugar Pine was intentionally burned down by the Madera Sugar Pine Company in 1922?
text: Did you know that hedge fund manager Patrick Degorce was an early investor in Moderna , with the hope that they could find a cure for his wife's stage-IV lung cancer?
text: Did you know that Ingrid Andress said that she wished she had included a parrot which startled her in the music video for her single " The Stranger "?
text: Did you know that the writer of Elden Ring compared the game's mythology to using a dungeon master 's handbook in a tabletop RPG ?
text: Did you know that the Romanian soprano Iulia Maria Dan was Hamlet's Ophelia in the Bregenz Festival 's revival of Franco Faccio's revived opera Amleto ?
text: Did you know that the owner of a Montana TV station changed the name of his company because he was asked why his license plate read " SUNBELT "?
text: Did you know that the German conductor Kai Bumann was the music director of the Warsaw Chamber Opera , and toured Japan with the company twice?
text: Did you know that the genetic deletion of the protein Rubicon increases the lifespan of roundworms and female fruit flies?
text: Did you know that Creekfinding was inspired by epidemiologist Michael Osterholm 's efforts to restore a creek that had been diverted decades earlier?
text: Did you know that when the British government discovered that John Jarvis-Smith was not dead, they gave him a medal?
text: Did you know that the Alabama Crimson Tide 's loss to the LSU Tigers in their 2019 football game broke a 31-game home winning streak?
text: Did you know that the woodcarver Violet Pinwill of the Pinwill sisters was still working on a life-size figure of Saint Peter days before her death in 1957, aged 82?
text: Did you know that some regular users of the Schiller Woods magic water pump near Chicago believe that it was covertly blessed by Pope John Paul II in 1979?
text: Did you know that Stanford 's E. J. Smith , son of Emmitt Smith , the National Football League 's all-time rushing leader , was named a 2022 breakout candidate at his father's position ?
text: Did you know that members of a 250,000-strong crowd sang the refrain of the Christian hymn " Ich lobe meinen Gott, der aus der Tiefe mich holt " during the 2015 Kirchentag ?
text: Did you know that Judith Schiff , as chief research archivist at the Yale University Library , helped determine that skeletons exposed by a tree uprooted by Hurricane Sandy dated to the 18th century?
text: Did you know that neighboring British Sierra Leone and Liberia disputed their border, and the British Empire seized the disputed territory in 1885?
text: Did you know that William Heath Byford performed the first ovariotomy in Chicago in 1860?
text: Did you know that Barclays House in Poole, England, has been sinking since its construction in 1975?
text: Did you know that getting bitten by an eel led Sean Barber to become an umpire ?
text: Did you know that the Eyes of Buddha is a Buddhist symbol commonly painted on stupas in Nepal?
text: Did you know that Herb Roedel retired from professional football after only one season to become an engineer ?
text: Did you know that Oskar Kokoschka 's painting The Duchess of Montesquiou-Fezensac was confiscated by the Nazis after his work was labelled " degenerate "?
text: Did you know that Canadian architect Barry Downs contributed to the redevelopment of the Expo 86 site in Vancouver , the largest private development in North America at the time?
text: Did you know that Chancellor Olaf Scholz has announced a €100-billion investment in the German armed forces?
text: Did you know that when the sale of its San Diego TV station failed, United States International University asked some of its employees to wait to pick up their paychecks?
text: Did you know that Cursed to Golf has been referred to as the " Dark Souls of golf" due to its difficulty?
text: Did you know that Mama Lee lived for more than a decade on a cruise ship ?
text: Did you know that the "awkward, cramped galleries" at 2 Columbus Circle later housed New York City government offices?
text: Did you know that the perpetrator of the 2015 Heze bombing was described as normal just days before the attack?
text: Did you know that after civil rights activist Andrew Goodman was murdered, Mary Doyle Curran found and published a poem that Goodman had written for her class?
text: Did you know that at 6 by 22 metres (20 by 72 feet), Zeitlaich is Jonas Burgert 's largest oil painting?
text: Did you know that after journalist Adele Ferguson 's criticism of the U.S. Navy's sex discrimination attracted nationwide attention, she was offered a personal tour of a nuclear submarine ?
text: Did you know that a travelling museum exhibition in Japan displays "life-size" renditions of Pokémon skeletons alongside the fossils of actual prehistoric animals?
text: Did you know that Cheekface announced their third album via postcards sent to fans?
text: Did you know that extendable marshmallow toasting forks were cited as an example of how glamping has "ruined" camping?
text: Did you know that Silvia Hauer , a singer of Rossini's Rosina and Bizet's Carmen at Staatstheater Wiesbaden , performed the mezzo-soprano solo of Verdi's Requiem in 2022?
text: Did you know that Mike Judge 's three-month tenure at the video-card manufacturer Parallax Graphics was an inspiration for Office Space ?
text: Did you know that it was rumoured that " R.I.P. " was initially intended for Rihanna , but it became a song for Rita Ora instead?
text: Did you know that Bruce Timm created most of the character designs for Batman: The Animated Series ?
text: Did you know that in 1993, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld West Virginia's largest punitive damages award in history , awarding $10 million – 526 times larger than the compensatory damages?
text: Did you know that Mini mum is miniscule, but it is not Mini scule ?
text: Did you know that after his release from a hospital for the criminally insane, Richard Dixon burgled $16 from a credit union and hijacked a jet to Cuba?
text: Did you know that some evangelical Christians confess their sexual temptations to an accountability partner to maintain their sexual purity ?
text: Did you know that John Allen Lewis printed the Los Angeles Star , the first newspaper to appear in Los Angeles in 1851, with two pages written in English and two in Spanish?
text: Did you know that Frederick the Great personally convicted six judges for their involvement in the Miller Arnold case and sentenced them to a custodial penalty?
text: Did you know that Halyna Kuzmenko promoted the Ukrainization of the Makhnovist movement , successfully increasing the use of the Ukrainian language by Russian speakers?
text: Did you know that recruitment to the British Canton Coolie Corps suffered due to false rumours that men would be used as human shields in the Second Opium War ?
text: Did you know that there is a Loch Ness Monster in Williamsburg, Virginia ?
text: Did you know that Aox Inc. , a maker of computer expansion cards, was named after the founders' dog?
text: Did you know that Rebecca Blake , Anglo-Romanian captain of the Romania women's national cricket team , also led the French team to victory in a six-team tournament?
text: Did you know that episodes of such game shows as Double Dare , Finders Keepers , and You Bet Your Life were filmed at the Philadelphia studios of a public TV station ?
text: Did you know that Bear Witness reviewers said, "The songs were richer than the first wave of Madonna 's hits"?
text: Did you know that Leonard Kriegel , who had polio, insisted on using the term "cripple" in his works to describe his illness?
text: Did you know that "one of the finest cut brick façades" in the United Kingdom has been partially obscured by scaffolding for four years, as funds are raised for its repair?
text: Did you know that after Claudia Fleming 's dessert cookbook went out of print due to poor sales, used copies began circulating on eBay for hundreds of dollars?
text: Did you know that Bochart 's 1646 Geographia Sacra seu Phaleg et Canaan was the first full-length book devoted to the Phoenicians ?
text: Did you know that heavy metal led Ossian D'Ambrosio to druidism ?
text: Did you know that the wedding of Grover Cleveland and Frances Folsom had the president walking his own bride down the aisle?
text: Did you know that William of Littlington opposed the division of England and Scotland into two Carmelite provinces in 1303, was excommunicated, and did four years' penance in Paris?
text: Did you know that Cardigan Donuts has sold a Super Mario Kart –inspired rainbow doughnut with white chocolate frosting, gold walnuts, and cereal marshmallows?
text: Did you know that board game cafés can be found across the world?
text: Did you know  that the title for Need for Speed Unbound was accidentally revealed early on Electronic Arts ' website?
text: Did you know that after being extensively hunted in the 19th century, southern right whales can again sometimes be seen in Mahurangi Harbour ?
text: Did you know that Richard W. Conway earned a varsity letter , a Ph.D. , and an endowed chair , all from the same university?
text: Did you know that according to two surveys, knocking on wood and ' crossing fingers for good luck' are the most popular superstitions in Britain ?
text: Did you know that Ella van Poucke , a cellist who studied at the Kronberg Academy , returned there as a soloist, playing Haydn's Cello Concerto No. 1 in the new Casals Forum ?
text: Did you know that Nippon Steel , one of Japan's largest steelmakers, sold notebook computers in the U.S. in the early 1990s?
text: Did you know that Lanfranco Cirillo is the architect of Putin's Palace , a palace complex on the Black Sea coast allegedly built for Vladimir Putin which is estimated to have cost over one billion US dollars?
text: Did you know that couples can marry 'over the anvil' at Patterson's Spade Mill ?
text: Did you know that the remix of Kanye West 's " Use This Gospel " was added to DJ Khaled 's God Did at the last minute?
text: Did you know that BBC radio broadcaster Venu Chitale taught listeners how to cook without meat when it was rationed during the Second World War?
text: Did you know that Ball Ground, Georgia , received its name because the land was originally used by Native Americans to play stickball ?
text: Did you know that Sergei Prokofiev 's oratorio On Guard for Peace has been called "Kremlin music" and "Stalinist era kitsch at its most egregious"?
text: Did you know that Leon Burton set the NCAA record of 9.6 yards per carry in 1957?
text: Did you know that a copyright infringement suit was filed against the song " How We Do (Party) " for its use of the phrase "party and bullshit"?
text: Did you know that a Florida TV station operated from an abandoned amusement park ?
text: Did you know that the North Carolina state auditor is fifth in the line of succession to the governorship of North Carolina ?
text: Did you know that Martini Maccomo accidentally shot someone in the eye while performing?
text: Did you know that on the song " Conceited ", Flo Milli raps that she's been important since she was a fetus?
text: Did you know that the heads of the world's largest producer of pure lithium grew up in poverty?
text: Did you know that William F. Hanson collaborated with Zitkala-Sa on a Sioux-inspired work called The Sun Dance Opera ?
text: Did you know that the platform below the Weesperplein metro station was used as a fallout shelter after the line that was supposed to run through it got cancelled?
text: Did you know that Beatrice Muller lived on Queen Elizabeth 2 for nine years?
text: Did you know that Iraqi poet Isa Hasan al-Yasiri ran away from school at 10 years old, before travelling with a camel caravan overnight to another village?
text: Did you know that a negative review of Sky Ferreira 's " Don't Forget " on Pitchfork caused a large amount of controversy?
text: Did you know that Welsh footballer Jon Morgan went on to become a college principal after retiring?
text: Did you know that the founder of the Guide to the Free World , helping people leave Russia after its invasion of Ukraine , said she was told: "It's good that you get out of Russia, but a pity that you won't be shot"?
text: Did you know that after serving as the speaker of the Oregon Territory House of Representatives , Lafayette Cartee moved to the Idaho Territory where he became a well-known horticulturalist ?
text: Did you know that the Shiba Inu memes of NAFO have been called "an actual tactical event against a nation state "?
text: Did you know that you could place bets on a lettuce becoming the British prime minister?
text: Did you know that the Regensburg Botanical Society , founded on 14 May 1790, is the world's oldest extant botanical society?
text: Did you know that decades after its closure, the station house of the Chicago "L" 's Madison station would house a hot dog stand?
text: Did you know that before entering politics, Romina Pérez worked at the Center for Legal Studies and Social Research, which "became a 'nursery' for intellectual and political cadres of the Movement for Socialism "?
text: Did you know that despite his defeat at the battle of Pitgaveny , both of Duncan 's sons would later rule Scotland ?
text: Did you know that Kline's Mill is a rare surviving example of an Oliver Evans milling system from 1794?
text: Did you know that the hoof of Richard Thomas Glyn 's horse is used as an ashtray by officers of the Royal Regiment of Wales ?
text: Did you know that the Mesopotamian goddess Iqbi-damiq had an illness named after her?
text: Did you know that Marcela Revollo 's pragmatic approach to legislating led her to cooperate with both neoliberal and socialist governments on women's rights legislation?
text: Did you know that All Saints' Episcopal Church contains the crypt of its founder, Episcopal Bishop of Texas George Herbert Kinsolving ?
text: Did you know that the Nakhichevan uezd was home to more than 54,000 Armenians until they perished through the events of 1918–1920 as a result of the Russian Revolution ?
text: Did you know that the inspiration for the Hong Kong novel Sai Ying Pun came from the author oversleeping on a train?
text: Did you know that Tyrone Davis set a school record with 28 career touchdown receptions while playing wide receiver for the Virginia Cavaliers ?
text: Did you know that the abandoned 17th-century Grimethorpe Hall in South Yorkshire, England, has been proposed as a potential new headquarters for the Grimethorpe Colliery Band ?
text: Did you know that athletic trainer Gian Piero Ventrone , nicknamed " marine " for his very hard and tiring training sessions, made his players ring a "bell of shame" when they were too exhausted to continue?
text: Did you know that in the 1920s, Hickson Inc. had the "most elegant and expensive specialty shop" on New York's Fifth Avenue ?
text: Did you know that the Konzerthalle in Bad Salzuflen , an example of spa architecture in the 1960s, is one of the regular venues of the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie ?
text: Did you know that Eppa Hunton Jr. and his son, Eppa Hunton IV , the namesakes of the Hunton Student Center at Virginia Commonwealth University , served a combined 50 years on the Medical College of Virginia 's board of visitors ?
text: Did you know that a U.S. soldier who killed a Vietnamese woman after raping her was dubbed a "double veteran"?
text: Did you know that both of Karl R. Free 's New Deal-era U.S. post office murals with Native American subjects have been challenged as offensive?
text: Did you know that the Scottish Register of Tartans has registered district tartans for Australia as a whole, and also a state district tartan for each of Australia's six states ?
text: Did you know that before bungee jumping with White House aides in New Zealand, senior White House correspondent Bill Plante said he was "proving that you're never too old to do something really stupid"?
text: Did you know that Taylor Swift got in touch with Gary Lightbody , with whom she collaborated on the song " The Last Time ", through Ed Sheeran ?
text: Did you know that the Lithuanian-Belorussian Soviet Republic exchanged 13 detained German diplomats for 24 jailed leaders of the Kaunas Soviet of Workers Deputies ?
text: Did you know that the Missa primi toni octo vocum was written for double choir by the Italian composer Stefano Bernardi in 1630 for Salzburg Cathedral when he was the music director there?
text: Did you know that Betty Hall introduced a New Hampshire bill that would have petitioned the United States Congress to impeach George W. Bush ?
text: Did you know that Tony DeLuca was the longest-serving member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives at the time of his death?
text: Did you know that Tropical Storm Hermine in September 2022 produced record-breaking rainfall in the Canary Islands amounting to more than 20 times the monthly average?
text: Did you know that according to one historian, James S. Rains made a "significant contribution to the Confederate war effort" by getting drunk?
text: Did you know that the Church of the Immaculate Conception was rededicated as a shrine in 1954, 100 years after the dogma of the Immaculate Conception was defined?
text: Did you know that Markus Becker , who earned awards for his recording of the complete piano works by Max Reger , also recorded jazz?
text: Did you know that according to the Open Syllabus Project ,  the most widely taught novel in college courses is Frankenstein ?
text: Did you know that César Mascetti was reportedly the first Argentine journalist to interview a member of the Beatles when he met a naked George Harrison on a Rio de Janeiro beach?
text: Did you know that IBM EduQuest equipped the floppy drives in their computer systems with a dust shield to prevent the intrusion of dirt and chalk dust?
text: Did you know that an ancient Chinese medical encyclopaedia recommends qigong as a cure for most diseases?
text: Did you know that a grey poplar in Amsterdam is "the tree that saw it all"?
text: Did you know that Mark Williams travelled for more than 13 hours to be a last-minute replacement at the 2022 Hong Kong Masters ?
text: Did you know that Sir Frank Price , a former Lord Mayor of Birmingham , grew up in the city's slums and left school at the age of 14?
text: Did you know that the beat in Taylor Swift 's song " Holy Ground " was described by Brad Nelson of The Atlantic as "insistent enough to act as punctuation for the lyrics"?
text: Did you know that Carlo Carrà attributed The Funeral of the Anarchist Galli to the 1904 Italian general strike , while the actual funeral and riot occured in 1906?
text: Did you know that American illustrator Alfred Skrenda "was particularly adept at billowing skirts and heroic gazes"?
text: Did you know that the Pedestals of Biahmu are known locally as Al-Ṣanam , Arabic for "the idol"?
text: Did you know that the Sugar Puffs bear once escaped from Clinton Keeling 's home zoo?
text: Did you know that civil rights lawyer Qian Julie Wang wrote the draft of her memoir Beautiful Country on her phone during her commute?
text: Did you know that the memorabilia of Jennie Scott Griffiths , a Texan who died in California, are housed in the National Library of Australia ?
text: Did you know that Queen Camilla has said that her childhood at The Laines was "perfect in every way"?
text: Did you know that despite a "No Rock & Roll" sign in the studios of the Utica College radio station , students played it anyway?
text: Did you know that Kenyan coffee farmer "Pinkie" Jackson amassed Africa's largest collection of native butterflies?
text: Did you know that following a gun battle with Polish legionnaires, five leaders of the Vilna Soviet of Workers Deputies committed suicide rather than surrendering?
text: Did you know that Abbott and Costello dragged the Empire Theatre 168 feet (51 m) in 1998?
text: Did you know that birders in New York City have recorded over 400 species?
text: Did you know that Iraqi poet Kazim al-Samawi spent more than half his life in political exile and was called "The Sheikh of the Exiles"?
text: Did you know that the Piedmont Hotel hosted a former, a current, and a future U.S. president in one week?
text: Did you know that Royston Brooks was the last European to serve as the Commanding Officer of the Royal Hong Kong Auxiliary Air Force from 1988 to 1990?
text: Did you know that the U.S. National Firefighter Registry will match state cancer data with voluntarily collected work history data from firefighters?
text: Did you know that Scottish physician George Gray received the thanks of the Chinese government for his work during the Manchurian plague of 1910–11 ?
text: Did you know that Rockstar Leeds was once based at a decommissioned church?
text: Did you know that, among migrants, transgender asylum seekers are more likely to be subjected to physical and mental abuse?
text: Did you know that camel caravans using the Darb El Arba'īn trade route transported salt and slaves?
text: Did you know that Yemen currently has two parliamentary upper houses ?
text: Did you know that the public artwork Eroclamation at Haw Par Villa MRT station reflects Haw Par Villa 's themes of mortality and reincarnation?
text: Did you know that Australia has three major Japanese language schools ?
text: Did you know that in " Who shall separate us? ", composed by James MacMillan for the state funeral of Elizabeth II , verses from Romans 8 are followed by Alleluias described as "burning bright sonic trails"?
text: Did you know that the collapse of Cloghan Castle in County Cork, Ireland, was said to have been caused by the barking of a ghostly black dog?
text: Did you know that Luis Gallego had only completed middle-school education when he was elected to the Bolivian Chamber of Deputies ?
text: Did you know that Tornado Cash , a cryptocurrency tumbler , was blacklisted by the United States Department of the Treasury ?
text: Did you know that despite losing his left arm in World War II, Austrian tennis player Hans Redl reached the fourth round at Wimbledon in 1947?
text: Did you know that In Win Development designed a computer case that can be opened with a smartphone app?
text: Did you know that Jacqueline Kennedy bought several saris during her 1962 tour of India and Pakistan to be turned into sari-inspired dresses ?
text: Did you know that Assyrian Christian couples drink dust from the tombs of martyrs and are crowned during their weddings?
text: Did you know that an early version of the turn-based game Legends could take three to ten years to complete?
text: Did you know that in 1875, Robert J. Fulton moved Boston College by 60 feet (18 m)?
text: Did you know that the Jihadist Burkinabè rebels' ongoing siege of Djibo has been described as a "Ukrainian death"?
text: Did you know that Chunyu Yi may have been the "ancient founder of the case history tradition"?
text: Did you know that in 2010, the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Atlanta became the first church in the state to be elevated to the rank of a minor basilica ?
text: Did you know that Robert Nimmo 's command of the UN Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan remains the longest ever command of a United Nations operation?
text: Did you know that the Victory Theatre , the first theater on 42nd Street to show adult movies, later became a children's theater?
text: Did you know that religious studies scholar C. Jouco Bleeker believed that religions are like acorns?
text: Did you know that after the liberation of towns in Ukraine during the Ukrainian Kharkiv counteroffensive , authorities found evidence of numerous Russian torture chambers ?
text: Did you know that Maria Sole Ferrieri Caputi is the first woman to referee a Serie A football match?
text: Did you know that a Connecticut radio station was "the loser in a survival-of-the-fittest battle"?
text: Did you know that Abdel Moneim Mokhtar travelled to the 1928 Summer Olympics to compete in gymnastics, but took part in diving instead?
text: Did you know that Shaun Murphy lost a match at the 2022 British Open despite potting the winning ball?
text: Did you know that the best novel of American science fiction author Garrett Smith did not appear as a stand-alone book until over 60 years after his death?
text: Did you know that after Billie Eilish wrote the song " Wish You Were Gay ", its subject came out to her as gay?
text: Did you know that " Like as the hart ", a setting of Psalm 42 for a cappella choir, was composed by Judith Weir , Master of the King's Music, for the state funeral of Elizabeth II ?
text: Did you know that Rebeca Delgado created Freedom of Thought for Bolivia after being told by her previous party that she should leave if she wanted to be a "freethinker"?
text: Did you know that Brooklyn Nine-Nine character Amy Santiago has straight hair because the show's two Latina regular cast members feared that one of them would be fired?
text: Did you know that Adam Kingsmill , who is missing most of his right leg, played stand-up ice hockey until 2016?
text: Did you know that a 28-year-old tire store manager drowned his four children in the same station wagon in which his father fatally shot himself in the head?
text: Did you know that writer Malcolm Neesam was awarded the Freedom of the Borough of Harrogate , England, by the town council for services to local history?
text: Did you know that "perhaps the most notable wedding gown in existence" within the United States was once worn in St. Mary's-in-Tuxedo ?
text: Did you know that the documentary film Jihad Rehab features interviews with former inmates from the Guantanamo Bay detention camp who are now in the Care Rehabilitation Center , a "jihad rehab" in Saudi Arabia?
text: Did you know that Malabo Mosque cost about two billion Central African CFA francs to build?
text: Did you know that Cary Grant taught Sylvia Wu how to make shredded chicken salad?
text: Did you know that Adele 's artwork for " When We Were Young " features a picture of her as a child?
text: Did you know that Jutta Fleck protested for six months in front of border guards at Checkpoint Charlie for her daughters' release from East Germany ?
text: Did you know that the combat suit Pharah wears in Overwatch bears a strong resemblance to those featured in mecha anime?
text: Did you know that "the Hurricane Shark is real"?
text: Did you know that Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed , India's second Muslim president, was also the second Indian president to die in office?
text: Did you know that while some lichen species in the genus Piccolia have ranges which span multiple continents, others are restricted to single islands?
text: Did you know that Stardust , the title of a composition by Taylor Scott Davis for eight voices a cappella commissioned by Voces8 , became also the name of the vocal ensemble's 2022 tour?
text: Did you know that the roadless Solace Provincial Park in the Temagami area of Ontario , Canada, is considered as one of the most isolated, wild places in the province?
text: Did you know that the day after returning to Atlanta following his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance in 1964, Martin Luther King Jr. joined picketers who were on strike against Scripto ?
text: Did you know that Herbert James Gunn used a paper cut-out of Princess Elizabeth's corgi dog to help him paint his Conversation Piece at the Royal Lodge, Windsor ?
text: Did you know that Shaun Aguano 's interview to join the Arizona State football coaching staff consisted only of being asked, "you want the job?"
text: Did you know that Annie Dove Denmark was offered residency on campus for the rest of her life after resigning as the president of Anderson College ?
text: Did you know that Andreas Reize ranked Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen , a choral setting of the first verses of Psalm 84 by Johann Hermann Schein , as one of three pinnacles of motets before Bach ?
text: Did you know that Malaysian poet Wong Phui Nam wrote in English, despite feeling no connection to the English literary tradition?
text: Did you know that the depiction of conservative Catholic intellectuals in the play Heroes of the Fourth Turning was praised both by its subjects and by liberal New York theater critics?
text: Did you know that the day before the 1969 investiture of Charles, Prince of Wales , two protestors were killed when their homemade bomb exploded prematurely?
text: Did you know that Plutarch believed that animals were more virtuous than humans?
text: Did you know that Tom Urbani was an original Dirtbag ?
text: Did you know that riding on the Roller Soaker was described as going through a "car wash with the top down"?
text: Did you know that British Army brigadier John Hemsley and his wife set a record time for travel by car from Cape Town to London in 1983?
text: Did you know that Kanye West 's " Hands On " marked Fred Hammond 's first appearance on the US Billboard Hot 100 ?
text: Did you know that some analysts considered Víctor Hugo Zamora 's appointment as hydrocarbons minister to be a gesture to oil companies , guaranteeing "covert continuity" between the Áñez and Morales governments?
text: Did you know that Christy Martin vs. Deirdre Gogarty has been called the fight that "put women's boxing on the map"?
text: Did you know that former child refugee Ann Beaglehole has become a historian specialising in refugee history?
text: Did you know that one reviewer of the British reality TV series Make Me Prime Minister said "Technically it's worth five stars. In every other way, I wish I was dead"?
text: Did you know that Joe Kraker was said to be the only lineman in football history to play without shoulder pads ?
text: Did you know that the Violin Concerto by Mieczysław Weinberg , premiered in Moscow in 1961 by Leonid Kogan , was first performed in Germany by Linus Roth in 2014, and in the U.S. by Gidon Kremer in 2015?
text: Did you know that from 1912, Jindřiška Flajšhansová was the principal editor of Ženské listy , a Czech journal that became a women's "survival manual" during World War I?
text: Did you know that Ponce de Leon Springs in Atlanta was named in reference to the legend of Juan Ponce de León 's search for the Fountain of Youth due to the spring water's supposed health benefits?
text: Did you know that Elizabeth II's 1994 state visit to Russia was overshadowed in the UK by a Prince Charles biographical book?
text: Did you know that Maria Bakalova thought that her Borat Subsequent Moviefilm audition might have been part of a human trafficking scheme?
text: Did you know that Don Lemon "didn't mean to set the internet on fire" when teasing the rebranding of CNN Tonight to Don Lemon Tonight ?
text: Did you know that the Grade II*–listed Church of St Benedict , in Ardwick , Manchester , is now a climbing centre ?
text: Did you know that in 2021 Sarah Aristidou recorded Jörg Widmann 's Labyrinth V , a wordless piece for her soprano voice with " ululations , sobs, jazz inflections and wild laughter"?
text: Did you know that Windows 3.1 had a special version, known as Modular Windows, that was controlled via television ?
text: Did you know that during the 1960s and 1970s, American artist Robert Bauer painted figures that were a mixture of 20th-century avant-garde funk and 17th-century Dutch realism ?
text: Did you know that a Catholic radio station in Texas airs religious talk shows, the Mass—and weekly broadcasts of high school football?
text: Did you know that Jonathan Beaulieu-Richard retired from the Canadian Football League to become a pharmacist ?
text: Did you know that in 1979 the magazine Seven Days advised, to avoid ingesting plutonium orally, "never make an A-bomb on an empty stomach"?
text: Did you know that yoga nidra , a state of consciousness "in which Buddhas may access secret knowledge", is being studied for potential treatment of sleep problems ?
text: Did you know that Kotaku revised an article about Nintendo Switch emulation after Nintendo complained that the previous version encouraged piracy?
text: Did you know that Collingwood coach Robert Harvey gave Anton Tohill his AFL debut in 2021, having played International Rules Series against Tohill's father in the 1990s?
text: Did you know that in her song " Icy Chain ", Saweetie disses PETA , telling them she wears fur?
text: Did you know that University of Exeter lecturer Fu Jia and his coauthors said in 2017 that "uniquely for any hotel in China", Fairmont Beijing has three workers who have learning disabilities ?
text: Did you know that Robert Micklewright created the cover art for Nobel Prize winner V. S. Naipaul 's first two novels?
text: Did you know that in 1979, the Studio 54 nightclub started serving fruit punch because its owners were arrested?
text: Did you know that the book Working from Within details how W. V. Quine only began to use the term " naturalism " years after he had already developed the key tenets of the philosophy?
text: Did you know that the owner of a Louisiana radio station was killed while in the process of putting it back on the air?
text: Did you know that the 1944 Story of a Secret State was one of the first book accounts of the German occupation of Poland , including the Holocaust in Poland ?
text: Did you know that the Dimension 68000 microcomputer had expansion cards to emulate the Apple II , the IBM PC , and various CP/M machines?
text: Did you know that William Penney, Baron Penney , was credited as the "father of the British bomb"?
text: Did you know that the proposed third season of teen sitcom Sonny with a Chance was reworked into the sketch comedy series So Random! after the departure of its lead actor Demi Lovato ?
text: Did you know that banker Hermann Marx and his firm underwrote the share issue that led to the "pepper scandal" of 1934?
text: Did you know that the only purpose of the Delaware Straight-Out Truth Teller was to promote a political candidate?
text: Did you know that as a senior in high school, manga artist Yama Wayama began drawing male–male romance manga as a hobby?
text: Did you know that Windows 2.1 was the first version of Microsoft Windows to require a hard disk drive ?
text: Did you know that Sarah Clarke was the first female president of the British Cardiovascular Society ?
text: Did you know that a radio astronomy facility in Illinois objected to the establishment of a TV station in New Jersey ?
text: Did you know that Turkish aviation pioneer Vecihi Hürkuş had to transport his second plane to Prague just to get it certified?
text: Did you know that The Onion said in a brief to the U.S. Supreme Court that "the federal judiciary is staffed entirely by total Latin dorks"?
text: Did you know that in the 2022 Berlin Marathon , Tigist Assefa won by running the third-fastest marathon ever by a woman, in just her second marathon, breaking her personal best by nearly 20 minutes?
text: Did you know that Clinton D. Burdick and his father Howard are the only father–son pair to receive the title of flying ace ?
text: Did you know that Rockstar Vienna was the largest video game developer in Austria when it closed in 2006?
text: Did you know that Harry Langford still turned up for football practice the day after he received a concussion, passed out, and was hospitalized?
text: Did you know that after visiting Hungary in 2015, members of Action Deaf Youth headed to Stormont to demand better sign language support in Northern Ireland?
text: Did you know that Darrell Mudra was known as "Dr. Victory"?
text: Did you know that people queued in a queue to queue in The Queue ?
text: Did you know that Vlado Milunić admitted that the Dancing House , which he co-designed, was compared to a "gold tooth that spoils a smile"?
text: Did you know that the leak of the upcoming Grand Theft Auto game was described as one of the biggest leaks in video game history ?
text: Did you know that Scottish glass artist Denis Mann has made the winner's trophy for every series of the British game show Mastermind , which started in 1972?
text: Did you know that fans of the musical Rent would sleep outside the Nederlander Theatre to get cheap front-row tickets?
text: Did you know that after a trip to Morocco in 1912, Henri Matisse painted Goldfish and the animal would become a frequent motif in his art over the next decade?
text: Did you know that in 1915, Walter McCredie unsuccessfully challenged the baseball color line that prohibited non-white players?
text: Did you know that Cryptodidymosphaerites is a parasite of a parasite?
text: Did you know that in 2017, Vincent Ialenti became the first anthropologist with a feature article in Physics Today ?
text: Did you know that the chancery of the Philippine consulate general in Honolulu was bought with donations?
text: Did you know that Cornell University 's student-oriented programming language dialect was made available to other universities but required a "research grant" payment in exchange?
text: Did you know that John Giffard , of Chillington Hall , was described as "arguably Britain's most aristocratic policeman" in 2004?
text: Did you know that the pro-adoption documentary I Lived on Parker Avenue premiered at the Louisiana Governor's Mansion in 2018 at the invitation of Governor John Bel Edwards ?
text: Did you know that the young protagonist of A Costume for Nicholas has Down syndrome , as does his portrayer?
text: Did you know that North Coast Radio went silent after playing the song " In a Silent Way "?
text: Did you know that Fritz Pleitgen , who interviewed Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan , directed the broadcaster WDR from 1995 to 2007?
text: Did you know that passenger service on the Ridgefield Branch was eliminated after the electrification of neighboring lines?
text: Did you know that there are palaces named the Ranjit Vilas in Rajkot , in Ratlam and in Wankaner ?
text: Did you know that Rick Buffington played for at least 17 minor league and semi-professional football teams, including three at once?
text: Did you know that the final scene in the 1931 Soviet Yiddish theatrical play Fir teg is said to evoke the mass suicide at the siege of Masada ?
text: Did you know that Harry Booth played for, captained , and coached the Saint Joseph's Hawks baseball and men's basketball teams?
text: Did you know that the yellow bloodstain lichen is not always yellow?
text: Did you know that the firm of Israel Sack supplied American antiques to leading private collectors and museums, including the Winterthur Museum , The Henry Ford , and the Metropolitan Museum of Art ?
text: Did you know that the southernmost worm species, Scottnema lindsayae , reproduces best at temperatures below 10 °C (50 °F)?
text: Did you know that Mary Ridge blew up the Liberator on her first encounter with Blake's 7 , and killed off the crew on her last?
text: Did you know that fighting video game Panza Kick Boxing was endorsed by a French kickboxing champion who also supplied technical advice?
text: Did you know that Albert Henry Smyth discovered 385 letters written by Benjamin Franklin and became the first editor to publish them, beginning in 1905?
text: Did you know that although he won the battle of Brentford , Edmund Ironside lost so many men that he needed a new army?
text: Did you know that Magnus Carlsen , the current World Chess Champion , resigned a recent tournament game after only one move ?
text: Did you know that Galadriel 's gift of some of her hair to Gimli in The Lord of the Rings has echoes in both English literature and Norse legend?
text: Did you know that the English River within the East English River Provincial Park has no regulated flow and no pollution, unique in northwestern Ontario ?
text: Did you know that Ruth Huenemann was one of the first researchers to make a connection between socioeconomic status and childhood obesity ?
text: Did you know that Windows 2.0 is the last version of Windows that ran solely on floppy disks ?
text: Did you know that Songbird Sings was a series of concerts that focused on Regine Velasquez 's music career?
text: Did you know that Miguel Rivera sold cosmetics and appliances while working as a jockey ?
text: Did you know that a TV station in Buffalo, New York , owned a 1921-vintage fire engine?
text: Did you know that Borys Lyatoshynsky wrote Mourning Prelude , described as among his most tragic works, the day his father died of typhus ?
text: Did you know that Freetown, Alabama , was founded by free and formerly enslaved African Americans in Alabama, whose church, built in 1929, burned down in 2022?
text: Did you know that Edgar Williams , Bernard Montgomery 's intelligence officer, was an Oxford don who hated soldiering as a profession?
text: Did you know that the book Questioning Collapse was created as a critique of the claims made by Jared Diamond in his book Collapse ?
text: Did you know that a New York state radio station became entangled in an estate dispute in which a man was jailed four times in six months for contempt of court ?
text: Did you know that Natalie Portman was a co-author on a scientific paper about frontal lobe activation?
text: Did you know that there was an internet challenge to eat Tide Pods ?
text: Did you know that in 1816, a copy of the long-lost Institutes by the Roman jurist Gaius was discovered, hidden underneath writings by Saint Jerome ?
text: Did you know that Ruth M. Anderson recorded a "timeless" Spain in her photographs of the 1920s?
text: Did you know that Queen Elizabeth II wanted the King George VI Memorial Chapel to hold the remains of three British monarchs and their consorts?
text: Did you know that Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Nasafi was the first theologian to introduce concepts from Neoplatonism into Isma'ili doctrine?
text: Did you know that a Nebraska radio station 's plans to broadcast college sports were met with "audible gasps"?
text: Did you know that Dave Barrow quit municipal politics to work at his family's insurance brokerage before becoming mayor of Richmond Hill ?
text: Did you know that there are no NIMBYs in NIMBY Rails ?
text: Did you know that Kiriko , a "fox girl" character for Overwatch 2 , was teased through a coded message that translates to "What Does the Fox Say?"
text: Did you know that William Hartnell was the only original Doctor Who cast member who remained by the end of the second season ?
text: Did you know that the First National Bank Tower , standing at 634 feet (193 meters), is the tallest building in the state of Nebraska ?
text: Did you know that New Zealand academic and runner Roger Robinson has continued competing in races into his 80s despite knee replacement surgery in both knees?
text: Did you know that the Michigan banner survived an attack by uniformed men from Ohio during the Ten Year War ?
text: Did you know that the lenient sentencing of two Europeans convicted in 1918 after the death of a black man in the East Africa Protectorate led to inquiries from the British Colonial Office ?
text: Did you know that in 2021, two Swedish prison inmates took correctional officers as hostages, demanding twenty kebab pizzas ?
text: Did you know that Tova Friedman is a Holocaust survivor who now posts videos of her life and survival on TikTok ?
text: Did you know that the ampullae of Lorenzini enable sharks to sense electric fields ?
text: Did you know that Gilbert Bundy killed himself on the 12th anniversary of a traumatic experience as a war artist at the Battle of Tarawa ?
text: Did you know that the margins of the Hours of Charles the Noble contain 180 depictions of musical instruments, providing a representative overview of medieval instruments ?
text: Did you know that Cleo Damianakes 's 1920s book dust jacket designs "made sex respectable", but Hemingway did not like the "large misplaced breasts" on A Farewell to Arms ?
text: Did you know that The Summer Hikaru Died went from drawings on a Twitter account to receiving three times more orders than copies available in its first print run ?
text: Did you know that a doctor told Howie Shanks that he only had a few weeks to live, but he lived another 31 years?
text: Did you know that upon the redescription of the fossil marchfly Plecia avus , an additional seven specimens were identified?
text: Did you know that Perth 's Airport Central railway station , which opens today, has the longest operating escalators in the southern hemisphere?
text: Did you know that when Fred Franzia created Two-Buck Chuck , he was said to have "turned the wine industry on its head"?
text: Did you know that while oil and gas production is a large part of Turkmenistan's economy , there are only two oil refineries in Turkmenistan ?
text: Did you know that Herb Lusk retired from the National Football League at the age of 26 to become a minister ?
text: Did you know that Nicola Griffith 's Slow River , described as a lesbian romance , features a "sophisticated depiction of environmental management"?
text: Did you know that a Catholic radio station in Texas wields the "velvet hammer" to promote Christianity?
text: Did you know that Incas , the last known Carolina parakeet , died in the same aviary cage as the last passenger pigeon?
text: Did you know that the lichen genus Felipes is named for its fruiting structures , which resemble a cat's paw?
text: Did you know that heavy metal band Judas Priest took their name from Bob Dylan 's song " The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest "?
text: Did you know that Rings of Power showrunner Patrick McKay likened Isildur to Michael Corleone from The Godfather ?
text: Did you know that Oak Industries was the largest American maker of TV tuning dials in 1980?
text: Did you know that Wesley Tann designed dresses for Jackie Kennedy , Carmen de Lavallade , Leontyne Price and Michelle Obama ?
text: Did you know that some microorganisms consume honey despite it having antimicrobial qualities?
text: Did you know that the dominant species in the Iron-grass Natural Temperate Grassland of South Australia are often not grasses at all?
text: Did you know that a pink skin for Mercy in the video game Overwatch helped raise more than $12 million for breast cancer research?
text: Did you know that in 2005, the Philippine embassy in Paris regularly had a flooded basement due to a lack of funds?
text: Did you know that medievalist Edward Rand rang the doorbell of Harvard president Charles William Eliot and asked him: "I would like to go to Harvard; do you have any money?"
text: Did you know that academic Kohei Saito describes the Sustainable Development Goals as the "new opium of the masses " in his 2020 Marxist book, Capital in the Anthropocene ?
text: Did you know that Nick Kerbawy did not receive his college tennis championship trophy until 14 years after winning it?
text: Did you know that the dining room at Ardress House has no internal doors and can only be reached using an external entrance?
text: Did you know that Cephas L. Bard , the first American physician in Ventura, California , was also the first person to die in the hospital he built there?
text: Did you know that independent media and scholars estimate that thousands might have perished in the Yarkand Massacre in 2014?
text: Did you know that Reconstructing Womanhood by Hazel Carby , about the history of American black women writers, was said to be a "landmark study" and "groundbreaking"?
text: Did you know that Henry Stock designed the Peek Freans factory where, in 1929, Twiglets were invented?
text: Did you know that despite a song duration limit of three minutes and thirty seconds at the Eurovision Song Contest 1957 , the entry from Italy lasted over five minutes?
text: Did you know that the search engine of Geliyoo was found to be retrieving its results from Google, in contrast to the company's claims of spending 10 million Turkish liras on development?
text: Did you know that Jamie "Canhead" Keeton is also known as the "human suction cup"?
text: Did you know that Adele 's song " Water Under the Bridge " is about her relationship with Simon Konecki, which she is usually reluctant to discuss in her music?
text: Did you know that the 1995 Aigio earthquake caused the strongest ground acceleration ever recorded in Greece?
text: Did you know that Latin philologist Robert Rodgers produced the first detailed commentary on Frontinus 's work on Roman aqueducts in almost 300 years?
text: Did you know that the bombing of Mokha was described as one of the deadliest attacks by the Saudi Arabian–led coalition against Yemen , leaving between 65 and 120 dead, including 10 children?
text: Did you know that at the time of its construction in 1920, the Howard Theatre in Atlanta was the second-largest movie theater in the world, with a seating capacity of 2,700?
text: Did you know that when Josette Simon appeared as Rosaline in Love's Labour's Lost , she was the first black woman in a lead role at the Royal Shakespeare Company ?
text: Did you know that Soccer Mommy hosted a virtual concert through Club Penguin Rewritten ?
text: Did you know that the 2022 U.S. Open Cup Final was the first in 14 years to feature a non- Major League Soccer team?
text: Did you know that Pietro Badoer was banished twice, poisoned one of his three wives, but declined an offer for a coup to make him doge ?
text: Did you know that college debates in the United States were originally conducted entirely in Latin ?
text: Did you know that despite entering politics as part of a right-wing party , Betty Tejada was later elected president of the Chamber of Deputies as a member of the Movement for Socialism ?
text: Did you know that Britten's Five Flower Songs , part songs composed for a couple's 25th wedding anniversary, premiered at their estate Dartington Hall ?
text: Did you know that when Rain Pryor drew a picture of her friend Skeeter the unicycling clown in school, her teacher said that there were no Black clowns?
text: Did you know that British logistics in the Western Allied invasion of Germany involved buffaloes, duck bills and weasels?
text: Did you know that Boost! won a temporary restraining order against Mead Johnson , after claiming it had infringed on their trademarks?
text: Did you know that the Peruvian Civil Guard officer Mariano Santos Mateo was nicknamed the Brave Man of Tarapacá because he captured a banner of a Chilean military unit during the Battle of Tarapacá ?
text: Did you know that Oglethorpe County High School worked with the University of Georgia to bring their dropout rate from 65 dropouts in 1985–86 to just 4 in 1987–88?
text: Did you know that Taylor Swift said she wrote " Should've Said No " to address her "dramatic and crazy" experience?
text: Did you know that until a 1982 legal decision , women were not permitted to stand at the bar at El Vino in London?
text: Did you know that OPTi Inc. won a patent suit against Apple for unauthorized use of "predictive snooping" technology?
text: Did you know that the " Temple of Humanity " hosted underwear companies?
text: Did you know that the only run scored by John Gamble was a game-winner?
text: Did you know that despite the commercial success of previous Kendrick Brothers films, star Kirk Cameron said that Lifemark was unable to secure a distributor due to its pro-life stance?
text: Did you know that the elite men's race at today's London Marathon is expected to feature three of the five fastest men in history?
text: Did you know that Tolkien may have devised the sundering of the Elves to justify the existence of two distinct Elvish languages in his legendarium ?
text: Did you know that the six highest Minor League Baseball season attendance counts were all at Sahlen Field ?
text: Did you know that Bob Dylan recorded " To Ramona " in a single take, for an album recorded in a single three-hour session?
text: Did you know that during his first air-sea rescue mission with the Irish Air Corps , Barney McMahon landed to refuel with a mixture of petrol and paraffin, filtered through a pair of tights?
text: Did you know that an investigation into the Royal Oak post office shootings led one congressman to accuse the Postal Service of having been "asleep at the switch"?
text: Did you know that Gil Kim played professional baseball in the Netherlands, China, Australia, Spain, and Venezuela, scouted in Mexico and the Dominican Republic, and coaches in Canada?
text: Did you know that the first Catholic synod in China was held in 1803 near Chungkingchow in Sichuan Province ?
text: Did you know that badminton in Singapore began in the early 19th century?
text: Did you know that 17th-century freemason and alchemist Elias Ashmole attempted to invoke the spirits at the mediaeval Dove Bridge ?
text: Did you know that former Atalanta player Andrea Rinaldi died of an aneurysm aged 19 in 2020?
text: Did you know that Golf Digest has described " Narco " as having "a fire beat"?
text: Did you know that the video for " 7/11 " by Beyoncé contains a cameo from her daughter Blue Ivy ?
text: Did you know that Elise Reiman , who taught children's classes at George Balanchine 's School of American Ballet for four decades, was called "the bridge between generations"?
text: Did you know that a Turkish Airlines aircraft that crashed in 1972 had been due to carry Turkish prime minister Nihat Erim later that day?
text: Did you know that Hamim Tohari , the current spokesperson of the Indonesian Army, was once removed from his post after being caught using a phone during a meeting with the commander-in-chief?
text: Did you know that TreasuryDirect , a website for purchasing US Treasury securities , originated in 1986 as a computerized service conducted over postal mail?
text: Did you know that the manga series Reptilia was inspired in part by a story from Japanese folklore about a woman who is transformed into a snake, told to author Kazuo Umezu as a child?
text: Did you know that Nancy Reagan jumped out of her bath when she heard that her husband had been elected President of the United States?
text: Did you know that Carter Moore Braxton fought for the Confederacy throughout the American Civil War and, according to one report, had seven horses killed under him but avoided any wounds?
text: Did you know that the Adoration of the Magi with Saint Helena was once the main altarpiece at Sant'Elena , a church dedicated to its namesake ?
text: Did you know that after the Supreme Court of Ohio imposed restrictions on bail procedures , the dissenting justices participated in a bus tour to campaign for a ballot measure that took away their power on that issue ?
text: Did you know that a peace monument was erected for Turkish journalist Abdi İpekçi in the place where he was shot and killed by an assassin 21 years earlier?
text: Did you know that in 2016 an inflatable gorilla was erected on the top of the Sky Trek Tower for Six Flags Great America 's Halloween event Fright Fest ?
text: Did you know that Ugandan military officer Bernard Rwehururu originally wanted to become a Catholic priest, but enlisted as a soldier to pay for his siblings' school fees?
text: Did you know that Delsworth Buckingham was an Odd Fellow?
text: Did you know that after he, his father, and his grandfather won the Rurrenabaque mayoralty as MNR members, Yerko Núñez switched parties and won a third term, defeating the MNR by a margin of 3,476 votes to 30?
text: Did you know that LCD Soundsystem recorded for the first time in five years by making the song " New Body Rhumba " for the 2022 film White Noise ?
text: Did you know that Syndicate was the first to reach 1 million followers on Twitch , beating League of Legends developer Riot Games to the record?
text: Did you know that when students spoke Vietnamese in a graduation speech in Louisiana , the school district proposed banning all non-English languages?
text: Did you know that in 2020 when Persian-Canadian countertenor Cameron Shahbazi performed in Written on Skin in Cologne, his "Luciferian charm" and "iridescent voice" were noted?
text: Did you know that the Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina , uniquely within the Council of State , has powers in both the executive and legislative branches of government?
text: Did you know that a woman hitchhiked from Indiana to Washington, D.C., to protest the sale of the radio station where she worked?
text: Did you know that Derrick Palmer and Chris Smalls , leaders of the Amazon Labor Union , were named two of the " 100 most influential people in the world " in 2022?
text: Did you know that the 1957 Mongolia earthquake produced the world's best-preserved surface rupture of any great earthquake ?
text: Did you know that Jean Holzworth obtained a PhD in Latin , then retrained as a veterinarian after one of her favorite cats died from a viral infection?
text: Did you know that Wyndham Lewis abandoned work on a portrait of Edith Sitwell from 1923 to 1935 after he failed to pay the rent for his studio?
text: Did you know that Erick Russell is the first openly gay African American elected to a statewide office in the United States?
text: Did you know that Gastria in Cyprus is "not old", but is home to Bronze Age tombs and a medieval castle ?
text: Did you know that the robot Cozmo is said to have "felt like a real-life version of WALL·E "?
text: Did you know that the groundwater level of a coastal aquifer system changes with the tide?
text: Did you know that agronomist Simon Groot was awarded the 2019 World Food Prize for "benefiting hundreds of millions of consumers with greater access to nutritious vegetables"?
text: Did you know that 144 couples were pronounced man and wife on the Giant Drop before the cars at the top were released 205 feet (62 m) down?
text: Did you know that as a child, Turkey national amputee footballer Şeyhmus Erdinç played football with balls he made out of crumpled paper?
text: Did you know that when the Yale Club of New York City Building was completed in 1901, a Yale Club member said "it will be an easy matter to look down upon" the Harvard Club ?
text: Did you know that at 102 years old, Christian Lamb is one of the last surviving officers of the Women's Royal Naval Service who served throughout World War II?
text: Did you know that given a choice between Life and World , the answer was Yes ?
text: Did you know that Cranksgiving has been described as "part bike ride, part food drive, part scavenger hunt"?
text: Did you know that the body of Fateme Asadi was found 37 years after she was tortured and killed by the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan when she attempted to ransom her husband?
text: Did you know that penetration enhancers can open tight junctions to allow entry of drugs?
text: Did you know that James Diossa rescued the only public library and post office in Central Falls, Rhode Island , when the city went into bankruptcy?
text: Did you know that the first judgement of 2022 from the High Court of Australia was considered a loss for a labour hire organisation , but a win for labour hire organisations?
text: Did you know that Eleanor Hadley , a 29-year-old doctoral candidate in economics, was recruited by the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers to implement antitrust policies in occupied Japan ?
text: Did you know that some believe that learning about Roko's basilisk may cause a superintelligence from the future to torture you for eternity?
text: Did you know that the global coalition to save Abu Simbel, Philae and many other temples led to the creation of the modern list of World Heritage Sites ?
text: Did you know that spatial inequality refers to the unequal distribution of income and resources across geographical regions?
text: Did you know that an interdisciplinary study concluded that the Motilla del Azuer was built during the 4.2-kiloyear BP aridification event , in a long period of severe drought?
text: Did you know that Grumman Aerospace built its own power plant because it was cheaper than buying electricity from utilities?
text: Did you know that academics called MoSys 's 1T-SRAM a misnomer with "a catchy name"?
text: Did you know that to protest against the overturning of Roe v. Wade , Billie Eilish performed a song that criticizes abusive men in power ?
text: Did you know that María Urquides was the "Mother of Bilingual Education"?
text: Did you know that the documentary Boggy Creek Monster , about the Fouke Monster , had its first screening at a middle school?
text: Did you know that environmental activist Nigel Savage created Hazon after googling "Jewish food movement" and receiving zero search results?
text: Did you know that " March of the Soviet Militia " by Dmitri Shostakovich was described by one biographer as a "manifestation of conformity" that was "better not to remember"?
text: Did you know that Lainey Wilson said she hoped her duet with Hardy , " Wait in the Truck ", haunted domestic abusers?
text: Did you know that in August 2022, Sarah Oakley became the first female captain to helm the passing out parade at Dartmouth ?
text: Did you know that Eritrean poet Yirgalem Fisseha Mebrahtu was imprisoned for six years without trial, and later published poems in Tigrinya based on her experience?
text: Did you know that China limited online video games for children to three hours per week in 2021 ?
text: Did you know that the 8th-century Lichfield Angel was discovered beneath the floor of Lichfield Cathedral in 2003?
text: Did you know that the gun-powered mousetrap never gained wide popularity after being patented in 1882, but was hailed as the "best mousetrap ever" in 2012?
text: Did you know that ophthalmologist Tom Pashby spent 46 years improving the safety of hockey helmets ?
text: Did you know that women did not enter the upper stories of the New York Yacht Club Building for 35 years?
text: Did you know that owner Matthew Benham influenced both Brentford FC in the UK and FC Midtjylland in Denmark to use mathematical modelling to recruit undervalued football players?
text: Did you know that to optimize Atkinson Hyperlegible for visually impaired people, its designers intentionally broke the rule that a typeface should be uniform?
text: Did you know that the name of the SooperDooperLooper was picked when a Hershey executive was outvoted by his wife and children?
text: Did you know that by mid-1920, hundreds of German and Austrian communists fought in Red Army units in Turkestan ?
text: Did you know that Maung O , Prince of Salin, and his sister Nanmadaw Me Nu became de facto rulers of Burma when King Bagyidaw was suffering from depression?
text: Did you know that in 2022, Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America was a finalist for both an Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction and an Audie Award for Multi-voiced Performance?
text: Did you know that after the Russian invasion, the daughter of the Ukrainian ambassador to Indonesia was evacuated together with Indonesian citizens in Ukraine?
text: Did you know that the China Folk House Retreat dismantled a Chinese folk house and rebuilt it in West Virginia?
text: Did you know that Iran's first three-stage satellite carrier , Qaem 100 , successfully passed its suborbital test?
text: Did you know that the president of chipset designer ServerWorks called Intel their "main competitor" as well as their "best customer"?
text: Did you know that when rock musician Warren Zevon received a terminal diagnosis of lung cancer, he learned to " enjoy every sandwich "?
text: Did you know that writer I. C. Vissarion was sentenced to death during the 1907 Romanian peasants' revolt , after it was alleged that he had created homemade bombs?
text: Did you know that House of Waters repurposes the hammered dulcimer , an Appalachian folk music instrument, for international jazz fusion?
text: Did you know that Sanne Wevers is the first Dutch female gymnast to have won an individual Olympic medal?
text: Did you know that the Hosanna Meeting House was a station on the Underground Railroad and had a secret chamber to conceal fugitive slaves beneath its floorboards?
text: Did you know that Dana International , winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 1998 , received death threats following her selection to compete?
text: Did you know that despite its sizable population, Cary is classified as a town?
text: Did you know that Meghan Trainor was inspired to write " Made You Look " after her therapist asked her to look at herself naked for five minutes?
text: Did you know that of 12 experts who opened the tomb of a medieval Polish king in 1973, 10 died prematurely?
text: Did you know that the view from Vogelsang Pass has been described as "one of the most stunning" in Yosemite National Park ?
text: Did you know that Montenegrin historian Radoje Pajović refused to engage in historical revisionism to rehabilitate Chetniks who collaborated with the Axis powers?
text: Did you know that the roller coaster Great Bear is named after the constellation Ursa Major ?
text: Did you know that Belfast's War Memorial Building was built on the site of a hotel destroyed during the 1941 Belfast Blitz ?
text: Did you know that Shigeo Kageyama was purposely created to come across as "somewhat standoffish or nerdy"?
text: Did you know that the Lebon Patisserie & Café in Istanbul closed in 2022, after 212 years of business, due to the high increase of monthly rent?
text: Did you know that Albert Sack wrote the "bible" for a generation of weekend antique furniture buyers?
text: Did you know that Dmitri Shostakovich denounced his own Tahiti Trot , an orchestral arrangement of " Tea for Two ", as a political blunder?
text: Did you know that Beryl Benacerraf , pioneer of the nuchal scan, wrote that dyslexia caused her to live in a world of images where "anomalies jump out at me like a neon sign"?
text: Did you know that one of the first researchers to propose dolphin-assisted therapy for humans later renounced it?
text: Did you know that in March 1916 the Duke of Westminster led a group of armoured cars on a 250-mile (400 km) round trip to rescue 92 men held prisoner at a remote desert oasis ?
text: Did you know that the success of Los Angeles Rams coach Sean McVay led sportswriter Bill Barnwell to quip that " anyone who has ever worn a polo shirt around McVay is now an NFL head coach "?
text: Did you know that the only known copy of People, Places and Things , co-authored by Stephen King , is owned by King?
text: Did you know that singer Mohinder Kaur Bhamra encouraged British Indian women to join in party celebrations at a time when they were typically excluded?
text: Did you know that the Tellico Dam project was controversial for its acquisition of farmland for real estate development, loss of Native American sites, and damaging an endangered fish habitat?
text: Did you know that Katie Leung was told to deny witnessing any racism from fans while filming the Harry Potter movies ?
text: Did you know that politics in The Simpsons have caused controversy in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, and Japan?
text: Did you know that a version of the video game Rhino Rumble was not released due to the creators not wanting to add licensed characters?
text: Did you know that Carson Steele , known as the "Man of Steele", has a pet alligator named Crocky-J and has been called "the most interesting man" in college football?
text: Did you know that it takes about five hours to inspect Skyrush every morning?
text: Did you know that after the results of the 2010 Sudanese general election in Jonglei were announced, two disgruntled candidates launched armed insurgencies?
text: Did you know that Samuel Green printed the Eliot Indian Bible , the first Bible printed in British America , in 1663?
text: Did you know that a lack of screening for pregnant women with syphilis in sub-Saharan Africa is associated with increased infant mortality?
text: Did you know that in the 1960s Kléber Dupuy campaigned to rehabilitate the reputation of Philippe Pétain , against whose Vichy regime he had fought as a member of the French Resistance?
text: Did you know that thousands of Greenlandic women and girls had intrauterine devices placed without their consent during the 1960s and 1970s ?
text: Did you know that by the time he became Governor of Arizona, John Howard Pyle 's appearances on a Phoenix radio station made him "as familiar in Arizona homes as the family radio"?
text: Did you know that Raihan Rafi , the writer and director of the 2021 Bangladeshi film Janowar , interviewed the alleged perpetrators of the quadruple murder on which it is based?
text: Did you know that Jason Moore and other Wikipedia editors curated the entry about the January 6 United States Capitol attack in real time?
text: Did you know that in Loriot 's comedy sketch " Englische Ansage ", a German TV announcer played by Evelyn Hamann despairs of pronouncing complicated English names?
text: Did you know that former Arizona Cardinals kicker Cedric Oglesby , one of the first African-American kickers in NFL history, received his chance to play when the team's previous kicker injured himself celebrating?
text: Did you know that Chōgaku-ji 's bell-tower gate was originally built in the early 9th century and is the oldest of its kind in Japan?
text: Did you know that Nathan Smith made 110 consecutive appearances for Port Vale after his 2016 English Football League debut?
text: Did you know that the Roman emperors Augustus and Claudius may have had an affinity for gambling ?
text: Did you know that the collier Franz Fischer was claimed to have become, in 1916, the first merchant vessel to be sunk by aerial attack but is now thought to have been sunk by a submarine?
text: Did you know that the territories of Old Dartmouth contained five modern Massachusetts towns and cities, and parts of two others?
text: Did you know that Luis Alegre Salazar led the translation of the constitution of the Mexican state of Quintana Roo into Maya ?
text: Did you know that the most valuable player of MLS Cup 2022 , John McCarthy , only played once in the regular season?
text: Did you know that German general Hans von Guretzky-Cornitz was awarded the Pour le Mérite in 1916 after mistakenly announcing the capture of Fort Vaux ?
text: Did you know that Chicago's Marshfield station had four tracks and three platforms, and involved three branch lines and an interurban ?
text: Did you know that the Guinness World Record for the most consecutive pull-ups is 651 in 87 minutes?
text: Did you know that William D. Dunham threw a lifejacket to the Japanese pilot he shot down in aerial combat, after the pilot parachuted into the water?
text: Did you know that the Victoria State Government has ordered 100 G-class trams , which is the largest domestic order in Australian history?
text: Did you know that Venla Luukkonen is the first Finnish person to win the World IBJJF Jiu-Jitsu Championship at black belt level?
text: Did you know that the Citizens for Sanity political action committee , opposing " woke insanity", ran ads saying "vote progressive this November"?
text: Did you know that Kenneth Lo was called "the foremost expert in Britain on Chinese food"?
text: Did you know that an attempt by six employees of a California TV station to remain on the air by working unpaid lasted just three days?
text: Did you know that Japanese parodies of scenes from the life of Buddha in art include arrangements of vegetables?
text: Did you know that a class-action lawsuit against Global Plasma Solutions claimed that their air-purification devices used in schools did not function as advertised and were potentially harmful?
text: Did you know that Arthur Leslie Walter Newth was only 21 when appointed to command the 16th (Service) Battalion of the Cheshire Regiment during the First World War?
text: Did you know that Todd Terry 's To the Batmobile Let's Go features the first track to sample Arthur Russell ?
text: Did you know that when sworn in, Annas Maamun was the oldest serving Indonesian governor?
text: Did you know that GhostRider is the longest wooden roller coaster on the West Coast of the United States ?
text: Did you know that the 2000 Taiwanese presidential election ended more than 50 years of Kuomintang rule?
text: Did you know that an online community makes its users pretend to be long-time neighbors as part of a fictional town named Lower Duck Pond?
text: Did you know that John Kennedy of Dingwall was minister of the same church for forty years?
text: Did you know that Jim Londos was one of four wrestlers recognized by The Ring as professional wrestling's "true world champion", for holding both the Los Angeles and New York versions of the world title?
text: Did you know that Rusli Zainal , the former governor of Riau , represented the province in the Indonesia International Quran Competition as a child?
text: Did you know that the writer of the 2022 comic book miniseries Poison Ivy , starring the eponymous Batman villain , described it as a "love story" that features "plant-based body horror"?
text: Did you know that in 1917 French general François Léon Jouinot-Gambetta led an offensive that advanced 57 miles (92 km) in six days to capture Skopje ?
text: Did you know that the fall of Sundrum Castle was alluded to in a poem by Robert Chambers in the 19th century and was later referred to as a curse?
text: Did you know that one reviewer called deleting a block of text in Atari Word Processor "as easy as a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j,k,l"?
text: Did you know that Terra Invicta 's development company is a group of former volunteer video game modders that decided to release their own game after the success of their mod?
text: Did you know that Tang dynasty poet and calligrapher Li Yong was falsely accused and executed for attempted treason in 747, but had actually committed treason 37 years earlier?
text: Did you know that Meteor Studios created "realistic CG on TV budgets", but went bankrupt after completing visual effects work for Journey to the Center of the Earth ?
text: Did you know that Nicole Lloyd-Ronning returned to astrophysics research after a ten-year hiatus, aided by an American Physical Society award for women with interrupted careers?
text: Did you know that when built in the 1880s, London's Hesper Mews was home to servants, stables, and horses, but within a century it was populated by artists, military officers, and an Astronomer Royal?
text: Did you know that after being considered too lean for his position, college football player Jalen Dalton gained 40 pounds (18 kg) for his sophomore season, describing his diet as "eat whatever"?
text: Did you know that the song " Phenomenal Cat " was misspelt as "Phenominal Cat" on the original album sleeve?
text: Did you know that Alfredo Frohlich formed an award-winning collection of Panamanian postal history that included items from as early as 1777?
text: Did you know that the top goalscorer of the 1957 Latin Cup scored all three goals in the same match?
text: Did you know that the book Dracul makes use of the unpublished first 100 pages of Bram Stoker 's Dracula manuscript?
text: Did you know that Tickner Edwardes was a beekeeper who wrote the earliest published account of hitchhiking ?
text: Did you know that the first known texts written by Brazilian indigenous people , written in 1645, were only completely translated in 2021?
text: Did you know that Bettye Crutcher , the only female staff songwriter for Stax Records , wrote songs for B.B. King , Johnnie Taylor , and the Staple Singers ?
text: Did you know that in 1916 the French appointed a pigeon to the Legion of Honour?
text: Did you know that the TV series Mad Men inspired Taylor Swift 's hit song " Lavender Haze "?
text: Did you know that the ancient Roman tourist destination of Baiae was infamous for its hedonism?
text: Did you know that What Hath God Wrought , the 2007 history of Jacksonian America written by Daniel Walker Howe , is dedicated to Andrew Jackson 's "political nemesis" John Quincy Adams ?
text: Did you know that with the help of Turkish and Azerbaijani agents, Muslims in Armenia revolted in 1919–1920 and massacred over 10,000 Armenians ?
text: Did you know that The Breakwater Light was the first newspaper in the first town in the first state ?
text: Did you know that Mexican poet Francisco de Terrazas was praised by Don Quixote author Miguel de Cervantes ?
text: Did you know that as a young midshipman Martin Wemyss , arriving late at a function and using the wrong entrance, bumped into George VI and was invited to dance with the Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret ?
text: Did you know that Hollywood Golden Age actress Gloria Dea was the first magician to perform on the Las Vegas Strip , at the El Rancho Vegas hotel and casino on May 14, 1941?
text: Did you know that a Taiwanese film about parental favoritism was titled A Sun in English to create a pun with "a son"?
text: Did you know that Handan Chun wrote a poem on the game of pitch-pot ?
text: Did you know that Sung Min Song , who was an informatics engineer in Seoul until age 26, performed the extreme tenor role of Arnold in Rossini's Guillaume Tell as his debut at the Saarländisches Staatstheater ?
text: Did you know that Edward V. Boursaud was the first American assistant secretary to the Jesuit Superior General for the English-speaking world ?
text: Did you know that Gürdal Duyar 's 1976 Seyrani Monument became a symbol of the Develi district?
text: Did you know that Ed Miliband retweeted " Chaos with Ed Miliband " with a clown emoji during the October 2022 United Kingdom government crisis ?
text: Did you know that Burt Gustafson was described as the "grand old man" of the Wyoming Cowboys football coaching staff despite being only 36?
text: Did you know that in 2021, two asteroids hit Mars , each leaving craters over 100 meters (330 feet) across and being felt as marsquakes by the InSight mission thousands of kilometers away?
text: Did you know that Fire Shut Up in My Bones , a 2019 opera by Terence Blanchard , was the first by a black composer to be performed at the Metropolitan Opera since its founding in 1883?
text: Did you know that Rabia Balkhi is the first known Persian woman poet?
text: Did you know that trains lost traction during the Locust Plague of 1874 in the United States due to the tracks being "slick with grasshopper guts"?
text: Did you know that track and field star Herman Neugass boycotted the 1936 US Olympic Trials because of rising antisemitism in Nazi Germany?
text: Did you know that the Wood River Branch Railroad was once sold for $301?
text: Did you know that Taylor Swift said that her first live album, Speak Now World Tour – Live , was meant to capture what she wanted to "show [...] my kids and my grandkids"?
text: Did you know that Rockstar New England is based in Andover, Massachusetts , because it is the founder's "favorite place"?
text: Did you know that the constitution of Arkansas contained text opposing racial integration for 34 years until it was repealed in a 1990 amendment ?
text: Did you know that while the Empire of Japan did not actively participate in the Holocaust , it has been found to have committed war crimes of its own ?
text: Did you know that Helmut Reimer , who was professor of microelectronics at the Technische Universität Ilmenau from 1971, began in 1992 to make TeleTrusT a competence centre for applied cryptography and biometrics ?
text: Did you know that the concept of adding strippers to the extreme sports video game BMX XXX was initially proposed in jest?
text: Did you know that you can keep a snowflake in a browser tab?
text: Did you know that although Ronteza slipped and fell chasing a cow in competition, she made Arabian horse history?
text: Did you know that Tammy Wynette once toured on a bus labeled "Mr. and Mrs. Country Music" with her husband George Jones ?
text: Did you know that one scholar compared the importance of Zork to that of Homer's Iliad ?
text: Did you know that philanthropist Sydney Simmons gave Friary Park a statue of Queen Victoria as Peace holding a dove, but the dove was replaced with a spear?
text: Did you know that despite Jimmy Eat World running out of song ideas in pre-production, Rolling Stone called Futures their "finest album"?
text: Did you know that Chinese court painter Su Hanchen is known for his paintings of children?
text: Did you know that despite not ever performing in the country, Lil Yachty rapped about taking the wock to Poland ?
text: Did you know that Four Epigraphs after Escher is a 1993 piano trio by Graham Waterhouse for viola , heckelphone and piano based on four graphic artworks by M. C. Escher including Reptiles ?
text: Did you know that after 2014 horror film The Babadook was listed as an "LGBT film" by Netflix , the titular monster was adopted as a gay icon in internet memes?
text: Did you know that the statue of the goddess Dērītum had to be ceremonially bathed?
text: Did you know that Ken Kortas lost money speculating on hog futures during his NFL career?
text: Did you know that terbium compounds have applications in fields such as optics because of their green fluorescence?
text: Did you know that one of chairman and CEO Brendan Bechtel 's first jobs was to install security cables for laptops at Bechtel headquarters in San Francisco when he was 14 years old?
text: Did you know that the Chinese medical text Essential Formulas Worth a Thousand in Gold for Emergencies warns its readers not to share its formulas "even for a thousand in gold"?
text: Did you know that Cumulus Computer Corporation was sued over alleged unpaid T-shirts?
text: Did you know that the dog in A Man and His Dog was modelled after Thomas Mann 's real-life dog Bauschan?
text: Did you know that in 1674 Marmaduke Johnson was the first printer allowed in colonial America to operate his own printing press in Boston?
text: Did you know that the Israeli song " HaSela haAdom ", about illegal trips to Petra , was banned in Israel?
text: Did you know that the sentencing phase of the Jemma Mitchell case was the second to be filmed in England and Wales since a change in the law permitted television cameras into court?
text: Did you know that the opening day of a California TV station was affected by a strike when workers refused to cross a two-man picket line?
text: Did you know that the Marrow of the Red Phoenix was composed by the "Daoist Confounded by Plum Blossoms"?
text: Did you know that Carol Wilson had to pretend that she was a schoolteacher when unofficially representing England at the 1971 Women's World Cup ?
text: Did you know that the Aegis BMD at Deveselu Military Base , intended to intercept missiles from Iran, has been called a "direct threat" by Russian officials?
text: Did you know that Michigan defensive end Eyabi Okie , ranked number 3 in the 2018 college football recruiting class , changed his surname from "Anoma" to recognize his mother who lives in Africa?
text: Did you know that in the 1916 Declaration of Sainte-Adresse Britain, France and Russia committed to securing the political and economic independence of Belgium after the First World War?
text: Did you know that Ausma Malik is the first hijab -wearing Muslim woman to be elected to public office in Canada?
text: Did you know that the music video for Taylor Swift 's song " Bejeweled " hints that her 2010 album Speak Now would be her next re-recording ?
text: Did you know that the Algonquin Hotel keeps a cat in its lobby?
text: Did you know that the nonconformist minister Ichabod Chauncey was banished from England under the Religion Act 1592 and spent two years in exile in Holland where he published a defence of his actions?
text: Did you know that rather than warning those downriver of the impending failure of the Walnut Grove Dam , a messenger got drunk, leading to the deaths of more than 100 people?
text: Did you know that the fake news website Disclose.tv plagiarized many of its articles when it relaunched in September 2021?
text: Did you know that it took 90 years to replace the "unconvincing" original proof of Roberts's triangle theorem , on the number of triangles formed by systems of lines, with a correct proof?
text: Did you know that View from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on Manhattan, 9/11 taken on the day of the attacks on the World Trade Center was not published until 2005 because it seemed too pretty to its creator Thomas Hoepker ?
text: Did you know that Sulayman Pasha al-Azm lifted his 1742 siege of Tiberias to lead the Hajj pilgrim caravan to Mecca ?
text: Did you know that in two days, Nick Sciba went from selling fish to playing in the National Football League?
text: Did you know that Jay Owen Light aspired to be an astronaut before becoming the dean of Harvard Business School ?
text: Did you know that a caped Atatürk Monument by Gürdal Duyar was erected in Uşak in 1965 after a campaign by the Milliyet newspaper to erect Atatürk monuments in provinces that did not have them?
text: Did you know that in the music video for the song " Anti-Hero ", Taylor Swift imagines a scenario in which she is killed by her own daughter-in-law?
text: Did you know that te lapa , an unproven and unexplained oceanic light phenomenon, might have been used by Polynesians to find islands in the Pacific Ocean ?
text: Did you know that The Immaculate Collection was the first album to use QSound ?
text: Did you know that Cape Grim Air Archive in Tasmania has been collecting air samples for more than 40 years?
text: Did you know that J. Elroy McCaw feigned losing his wallet to make women pay for meals at restaurants?
text: Did you know that " Look at the world " is a 1996 choral harvest anthem with text and music by John Rutter , written for CPRE "on the theme of the environment and our responsibility towards it"?
text: Did you know that although Austrian model Greta Hofer was only discovered in 2020, she was chosen to work exclusively for Prada that year?
text: Did you know that a "frustration walk" connected Chicago Union Station with the rapid transit Canal station ?
text: Did you know that during the Avar Wars , disease killed 90 per cent of Charlemagne 's horses?
text: Did you know that in 1919 Ethel Hampson Brewster compared dropping ancient history from school curricula to "knock[ing] out the first two stories of a skyscraper"?
text: Did you know that the United States severed diplomatic ties with Finland in 1944 because of a personal letter sent to Hitler ?
text: Did you know that Rockstar Lincoln used to keep live tarantulas at its offices?
text: Did you know that physician and scientist F. William Sunderman continued working until shortly before his death at the age of 104?
text: Did you know that Daruma-ji was razed in the early 14th century by Buddhists who opposed the spread of Zen Buddhism in Japan?
text: Did you know that Andrea Bonetti was Juventus U16 's most prolific player of the 2018–19 season, with 16 goals?
text: Did you know that The Essex Gazette was established in 1768, becoming Salem 's first newspaper, and was used as a voice against British rule just before the American Revolution ?
text: Did you know that Şebnem Korur Fincancı , a drafter of a United Nations guideline on the documentation of torture, was arrested after she suggested an investigation into the use of chemical weapons?
text: Did you know that City Pier A 's clock tower was the first memorial to World War I casualties in the United States, according to a New York City government spokesperson?
text: Did you know that the three lines of the traditional German round " Lobet und preiset, ihr Völker, den Herrn " are based on verses from three psalms ?
text: Did you know that Pride Month is held in commemoration of the Stonewall riots ?
text: Did you know that Manuel Carpio 's 1849 poem is the earliest literary depiction of the weeping ghost La Llorona ?
text: Did you know that Denver's oldest building continuously used for Protestant worship , the Evans Memorial Chapel , is now also used by Catholics?
text: Did you know that Graham Hawkins coached the Wolverhampton Wanderers to the top division in his first season as a manager?
text: Did you know that the studios of a California TV station were converted back into a movie theater after it went out of business?
text: Did you know that Hirsch Sommerhausen worked as a court translator in a dozen languages?
text: Did you know that the cover art for " True Love " features handwritten notes by XXXTentacion ?
text: Did you know that the Paradise of Wisdom , an early Islamic medical encyclopedia, describes an abortion -causing stone?
text: Did you know that Jon Brittenum managed an investment banking firm after his fourteen-game-long NFL career?
text: Did you know that accessible yoga was formed as a way for people with disabilities to be able to perform yoga ?
text: Did you know that the screenwriter for Corianton: A Story of Unholy Love went to jail for telling a judge to "shut up"?
text: Did you know that Elcho Castle never saw combat, but was nearly burned down by a mob in 1773?
text: Did you know that Jordan Gray added the technical name for spider silk to her name due to the UK not having a process to change honorific from Mr to Miss ?
text: Did you know that the 1947 World Snooker Championship was the first world snooker championship where the winner wasn't Joe Davis ?
text: Did you know that according to the Open Syllabus Project , Diana Hacker is the second most-read female author on college campuses after Kate L. Turabian ?
text: Did you know that a scene featuring Michael Fassbender kissing himself in Alien: Covenant was cut from the Chinese release due to censorship ?
text: Did you know that " Kommt herbei, singt dem Herrn " is a Christian hymn that Diethard Zils wrote in 1972 as a paraphrase of Psalm 95 to an Israeli melody?
text: Did you know that at the Calais Conference of July 1915 both the British and French thought they had persuaded the other to support their opposing war strategies?
text: Did you know that the seats on Pipeline: The Surf Coaster shift up and down to mimic the feeling of surfing?
text: Did you know that Ted Heaton advertised himself as " Liverpool 's famous swimming master"?
text: Did you know that Clara MacBeth lived on a cruise ship for over a decade?
text: Did you know that Oh My God, Charlie Darwin was recorded by the Low Anthem in ten days in a Block Island basement?
text: Did you know that run-pass option plays used in college football allow quarterbacks to pass the ball farther downfield than those used in the NFL ?
text: Did you know that despite having roles in more than 170 films, Josef Somr preferred acting in theatre?
text: Did you know that when the Bowery Savings Bank Building opened in 1895, "the bank as a work of architecture went from the merely big to the colossal"?
text: Did you know that Zail Singh was the first Sikh and the first person from a backward caste to become President of India ?
text: Did you know that the Iowa Cow War started due to bovine tuberculosis testing?
text: Did you know that the sculpture Guns into Plowshares was built from 3,000 disabled handguns?
text: Did you know that Hong Kongese wuxia author Jozev Kiu is an Eskrima coach and karateka?
text: Did you know that Saint Augustine died during the Vandal conquest of Roman Africa ?
text: Did you know that Samuel Hall established Salem 's first newspaper, The Essex Gazette , in 1768, using it to support the colonial cause against British taxation?
text: Did you know that the heads of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church and Jacobite Syrian Christian Church certify their bishops by giving them a sthathicon ?
text: Did you know that Lindsay Ring regained control of his family catering firm and went on to become Lord Mayor of London ?
text: Did you know that some scientists believe we may live in a " dark forest "?
text: Did you know that Dale Haney has walked presidential pooches from Richard Nixon 's King Timahoe to Joe Biden 's Commander and safeguarded George W. Bush 's pets during the September 11 attacks ?
text: Did you know that Japanese jazz cafés often require customers to be silent?
text: Did you know that a 1969 note from New York Times writer Grace Glueck to Arthur Ochs Sulzberger spurred a class-action lawsuit over gender discrimination?
text: Did you know that organizations have been successfully sued for not using the alt attribute correctly on their websites?
text: Did you know that the Roman emperor Hadrian was so grieved by the death of his male lover Antinous that he made him into a god and founded a city in his honour?
text: Did you know that Kurt Cobain gave a Seattle radio station a copy of his first single, then called from a pay phone to request it after it went unplayed?
text: Did you know that Liz Truss 's rise to power went from "astonishing" to "explosive" a day before she resigned as prime minister?
text: Did you know that, in 2018, Tara Jones both captained a women's Super League team and was the first female match official in the men's Super League ?
text: Did you know that the limited radio airplay of " Get Together " in the US spawned a petition, outrage, and conspiracy theories among Madonna fans?
text: Did you know that The Bone People by Keri Hulme nearly ended up as a doorstop instead of a Booker Prize -winning novel?
text: Did you know that Juliet Rice Wichman once stood in front of a bulldozer to prevent the destruction of a rock wall?
text: Did you know that the change of South Kalimantan capital city from Banjarmasin to Banjarbaru was called a "constitutional coup" by its opponents?
text: Did you know that Chuck Deardorf joked that he "played both kinds of music: country and western"?
text: Did you know that mushroom synagogues helped many Jews celebrate the High Holidays?
text: Did you know that Matthias Hanke , an organist and choral leader by age 14, in due course became responsible for all Protestant church music in Württemberg ?
text: Did you know that the steamboat carrying the 9th Missouri Sharpshooter Battalion back from its military service sank in the Red River of the South ?
text: Did you know that Margie Masters made the cut at a golf tournament despite being shot at by a sniper on the course?
text: Did you know that Delaware weekly newspaper The Faulkland Quiz was founded, edited and published by an 18-year-old?
text: Did you know that Rabab Al-Kadhimi was threatened with deportation from Egypt due to the political nature of her poetry?
text: Did you know that the Chicago "L" 's Laflin station had an elevator for caskets?
text: Did you know that Martin Pipe 's training methods for steeplechasers were so effective, he was investigated twice for cheating?
text: Did you know that use of the 1604 Book of Common Prayer was authorized by the king of England, but later outlawed by Parliament?
text: Did you know that Turkish world- and European-champion armwrestler Esra Kiraz used to carry cement bags at construction sites where her father worked?
text: Did you know that the release of the Compaq Deskpro 386 marked the first time a company other than IBM revised a major component of their PC standard ?
text: Did you know that Quentin Oliver Lee landed a title role in Gershwin's Porgy and Bess on Broadway after a casting agent spotted him singing in a subway station?
text: Did you know that " Citizen Erased " was Muse 's first song to include a seven-string guitar ?
text: Did you know that pediatrician James Oleske was a pioneer in identifying that HIV/AIDS could be a disease in children?
text: Did you know that a bear ate 75 pounds (34 kg) of cocaine in 1985, and was nicknamed Pablo Eskobear ?
text: Did you know that the Chicago Police Department regularly cited vehicles of the Philippine consulate general in Chicago for parking in a no-parking zone, causing a diplomatic incident?
text: Did you know that Ben Bell was elected at the age of 23 as New Zealand's youngest-ever mayor during the 2022 local elections ?
text: Did you know that Ganggang , an Indianapolis -based cultural development firm for Black artists, created a fine art fair called "Butter" that also included a dance party called "Melt"?
text: Did you know that Tang Zonghai was one of the first advocates for the integration of Chinese and Western medicine?
text: Did you know that management of the Richmond Shipyards "went out of its way to propagandize against" the Shipyard Railway that was built to serve it?
text: Did you know that Yusuf al-Hani was executed by the Ottoman Empire after signing a letter to François Georges-Picot that was found in the French consulate in Beirut during the First World War?
text: Did you know that real calf brains were used during the production of the 1988 comedy horror film Brain Damage ?
text: Did you know that the poetry collection of Guyanese radio presenter Shana Yardan was described as "accomplished, tough-minded and well-crafted"?
text: Did you know that the runway show for the Alexander McQueen collection The Widows of Culloden ended with an illusion of Kate Moss that brought the audience to a rowdy standing ovation ?
text: Did you know that Richard Gerald Jordan has been sentenced to death four times?
text: Did you know that the film Farha , which depicts the killing of a Palestinian family by Israeli soldiers during the Nakba , became the subject of a downvoting campaign?
text: Did you know that Junior Colson , the leading tackler on the 2022 Michigan Wolverines football team , lived in a Haitian orphanage prior to his adoption at age nine?
text: Did you know that some people who are not Spanish citizens have the right to vote in elections for local public officials in the municipalities of Cantabria ?
text: Did you know that Chinese physician Zhang Congzheng reportedly cured a man of his insanity by tying him to a rotating wheel until he vomited?
text: Did you know that the attendance record for a women's club football game that was set on Boxing Day 1920 would not be exceeded for 99 years?
text: Did you know that Benjamin F. Gue , who co-founded Iowa State University , allowed women to become students there despite much opposition?
text: Did you know that Leon Schidlowsky wrote the Misa sine nomine in memory of Víctor Jara for speaker, choirs, organ and percussion, juxtaposing mass texts with contemporary poetry and Torah verses?
text: Did you know that Justly Watson died suddenly in 1757 from the effects of poison administered in his coffee, it was believed, by a servant?
text: Did you know that hard drive reseller CMS Enhancements nearly went bankrupt while attempting to enter the personal computer systems market amid a price war?
text: Did you know that author Ann Howard interviewed more than 100 Australians about their experiences as child evacuees sent inland during World War II when a Japanese invasion seemed imminent?
text: Did you know that Prince Bernhard's titi monkey is known locally as zog-zog ?
text: Did you know that Amtrak called the Vermont Rail System the worst host railroad in the country in 2010 due to delays on the Ethan Allen Express ?
text: Did you know that one of the Wolfe -class ships of the line was destroyed by a storm before she had even been launched?
text: Did you know that after winning a discrimination lawsuit against the Honolulu Police Department , Lucile Abreu became its first female detective?
text: Did you know that Glacialisaurus , meaning 'icy lizard', got its name from its discovery site in the Beardmore Glacier ?
text: Did you know that the Brooklyn Nine-Nine storyline about Rosa Diaz 's bisexuality was heavily influenced by the bisexuality of her portrayer ?
text: Did you know that a 700-page article published in Lustrum was issued over the course of twelve years?
text: Did you know that while the Apion family held extensive power over Byzantine Egypt, they largely remained in Constantinople as absentee landlords ?
text: Did you know that Navidades by Luis Miguel was the first Spanish-language album to enter the Billboard Top Holiday Albums since 1966?
text: Did you know that the Christmas Raid carried out by Confederate brigadier general John Hunt Morgan captured 1,800 Union soldiers?
text: Did you know that critics were confused by Justin Bieber's version of "Drummer Boy", in which he raps about himself and consumer products, which was seen to bastardize the original sentiment?
text: Did you know that the classic children's Christmas story The Littlest Angel was written in just three days?
text: Did you know that Starbucks raised money for HIV/AIDS research using their red holiday cups ?
text: Did you know that Mendelssohn 's 1831 Christmas cantata Vom Himmel hoch , influenced by Bach's chorale cantatas , was based on a 1539 carol composed by Martin Luther ?
text: Did you know that Santa Claus really did on one occasion deliver coal?
text: Did you know that in local Afro-Colombian and Catholic tradition, residents of Guapi sing and dance while sailing the Virgin Mary down their coconut-candlelit river to church every Christmas Eve?
text: Did you know that before being named jach'a mallku cantonal , Samuel Plata worked as an auto mechanic in El Alto ?
text: Did you know that a scene in " Axe and Grind ", an episode of Better Call Saul , was supposed to be filmed with a crane but was changed because the cameraman declined to execute it?
text: Did you know that despite running against a former general, Danny Setiawan received implicit backing from military officers in his 2003 gubernatorial bid?
text: Did you know that Marc-Antoine Charpentier composed the midnight mass Messe de minuit pour Noël based on the melodies of ten French Christmas carols ?
text: Did you know that John J. Ray III , the chairman of Enron during its bankruptcy, said he had never before seen "such a complete failure of corporate controls" upon becoming CEO of cryptocurrency exchange FTX ?
text: Did you know that some residents near Higginson Highway believe that a ghost named "Sheila" is the cause of the highway's fatal accidents?
text: Did you know that despite losing almost one thousand men capturing Malacca in 1641 , the Dutch East India Company did not invest much time or energy into it afterward?
text: Did you know that American author Marilyn Gayle Hoff was honored by a Fourth of July parade float as an unsung hero?
text: Did you know that the Bern Disputation of 1528 led to the Swiss canton becoming the second Protestant canton in the Swiss Confederacy ?
text: Did you know that slave owner John Custis petitioned the Governor of Virginia to manumit a slave child whom he had fathered?
text: Did you know that the crannogs of Milton Loch , although similar in design, span a time period of around 1,000 years?
text: Did you know that American legal scholar John Hart Ely penned a law review article castigating the Supreme Court's decision in Roe v. Wade , despite being pro-choice ?
text: Did you know that Sonia Levitin was inspired to write Boom Town after reading about a California girl who baked $11,000 worth of pies during the Gold Rush ?
text: Did you know that in 2016 Verrado High School in Arizona began offering all-female engineering classes?
text: Did you know that Chinese scholar Lin Changyi likened the miracles of Jesus to Daoist magic?
text: Did you know that despite their song " Freaks " going platinum after becoming popular on TikTok , members of Surf Curse said they neither understood nor used the app?
text: Did you know that Carolyn Grace was the only qualified female pilot of the Supermarine Spitfire ever to take part in display flying?
text: Did you know that a 1982 court case established that video games may qualify for multiple types of U.S. copyright protection?
text: Did you know that the Bohemian harp spread to Western Europe after a fire hit the town of Přísečnice ?
text: Did you know that pigeon racer "Biff" Bangs previously played for two different teams in Rose Bowl football games ?
text: Did you know that Rick Rehm attributed his surprise victory in an Alabama election to grassroots campaigning, while his opponent attributed it to straight-ticket voting ?
text: Did you know that 90 percent of Indonesia's village-owned enterprises are not legal entities, hampering their ability to attract investors or open bank accounts?
text: Did you know that prior to kickoff, the Bahamas Bowl announced that the winner of a regular season game between Miami and Ball State would earn a bid to the 2022 edition of the game ?
text: Did you know that Frederica Planta designed cards to teach the children of George III and Queen Charlotte the history of England?
text: Did you know that "Weird Al" Yankovic wrote the song " Bob " entirely in palindromes , and sang it in the style of Bob Dylan ?
text: Did you know that in the Book of Mormon , the city of Ammonihah kills Christians by fire as a deliberately twisted reference to a warning that spiritual death is like a "lake of fire and brimstone "?
text: Did you know that the name of Boudica may have been an honorific title?
text: Did you know that Delaware politician Armwell Long was said to have once outranked his close friend, George Washington ? (See discussions regarding this hook at Talk:Armwell Long .)
text: Did you know that revenge buying after the lifting of a 2020 COVID-19 lockdown helped a Hermès store set a record for the most shopping at a luxury outlet in China in a single day?
text: Did you know that cellist Harvey Shapiro played at the 50th anniversary of his professional debut despite broken ribs and a torn muscle incurred from a fall a few days prior?
text: Did you know that at the conclusion of the AFL Women's season seven Grand Final , winning captain Daisy Pearce placed her premiership medal on a young girl?
text: Did you know that the film Death in Small Doses is a dramatization of the real-life death of Nancy Lyon by arsenic poisoning?
text: Did you know that the impeachment proceedings against West Kalimantan Governor Aspar Aswin were shelved after an ethnic riot broke out?
text: Did you know that the mite Neotrombicula fujigmo gets its name from the American military acronym for "Fuck you, Jack, I got my orders"?
text: Did you know that fourteenth-century Buddhist monk Tuệ Tĩnh is referred to as a founding father of traditional Vietnamese medicine ?
text: Did you know that the 2022 Ticketmaster controversy over Taylor Swift 's the Eras Tour has triggered investigations by several U.S. state attorneys general and the federal Department of Justice ?
text: Did you know that Ecuadorian footballer Hernán Galíndez won a bicycle for beating a team featuring Lionel Messi when they were children?
text: Did you know that the 1937 Fleischer Studios strike in New York City was the first major labor strike in the animation industry?
text: Did you know that Cambridge don R. R. Bolgar was heard to say that if it had not been for a misfortune, he might well have supported the Nazis as a landowner in Moravia and been murdered by the Russians?
text: Did you know that Panasonic 's Senior Partner and Executive Partner portable computers weighed between 28 and 31 lb and featured built-in printers?
text: Did you know that a Hawaii radio station couldn't buy a KISS?
text: Did you know that Saleh Djasit was the first member of the Indonesian People's Representative Council to be arrested by the Corruption Eradication Commission ?
text: Did you know that according to The Atlantic , "the first widely acknowledged performance" of the song " We Shall Overcome " occurred during the 1945–1946 Charleston Cigar Factory strike ?
text: Did you know that the Russian violinist Evgeny Sviridov , who has been concertmaster of the Baroque ensemble Concerto Köln since 2015, has made an award-winning recording of sonatas by Giuseppe Tartini ?
text: Did you know that at the Ryukyu Arc , the Philippine Sea Plate is subducting under the Eurasian Plate at 5 to 7 cm (2.0 to 2.8 in) per year?
text: Did you know that Richard Draper , printer of the The Massachusetts Gazette , used this newspaper as a Loyalist voice as the American Revolution drew near?
text: Did you know that betrothed couple Moe and Joan were paid $50 for helping a painter with his Marriage License ?
text: Did you know that Canadian running back Chase Brown ranked second in American college football with 1,643 rushing yards in 2022?
text: Did you know that the Church of St Giles, Stoke Poges , which may have inspired the " Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard ", is featured in a James Bond film?
text: Did you know that Edward Thonen , one of the miners killed in the Eureka Rebellion , had gained notoriety in England as a jewellery thief prior to his emigration to Australia?
text: Did you know that although Blizzard 's franchise Overwatch is centered around video games, its lore is mainly told through animated shorts, comics, and novels?
text: Did you know that Azio Corghi composed his second and third operas with author José Saramago – the second for La Scala in Milan, and the third for a 1993 premiere at the Theater Münster ?
text: Did you know that Charles Baudelaire wrote " The Pagan School " in opposition to the veneration of Pan in 19th-century France?
text: Did you know that the " Poetic Essay of the Great Bliss of the Sexual Union of Heaven and Earth and Yin and Yang " argues that heterosexual sex is the "ultimate human pleasure", but affirms homosexuality as well?
text: Did you know that critics objected to Dangers of the Mail in the 1930s for government support of lewdness and in the 2000s for creating a hostile work environment?
text: Did you know that Robert Home was sent by the British Army to Canada in 1864 to report on the defence of the frontier against the eventuality of an American invasion?
text: Did you know that the bridge in the song " Leave the Door Open " almost split the band Silk Sonic apart?
text: Did you know that Smin Awa Naing 's regiment mortally wounded Crown Prince Minye Kyawswa of Ava , effectively ending Ava's most serious invasion of the Hanthawaddy Kingdom ?
text: Did you know that Billie Eilish had to take a break from writing a song alluding to her childhood trauma and sexual abuse ?
text: Did you know that the 1994 Mascara earthquake destroyed every house in the Algerian villages of Shadlia, Hacine and Sidi Ali Cherif?
text: Did you know that the Twin Falls "saucer" was later proven to be a hoax created by four teenagers?
text: Did you know that T. E. Lawrence travelled 1,000 miles (1,600 km) on foot alone during a three-month tour of crusader castles while writing his thesis about the Crusades and European military architecture?
text: Did you know that although the provincial park surrounding the Kopka River had not been thoroughly investigated, the potential for archaeological sites was considered to be high?
text: Did you know that despite his distinguished family history, musicologist Yuri Shcherbinin told friends that "what matters most is what you are, not who your ancestors were"?
text: Did you know that the serial arsonist who started the fatal Nihon Shōgakkō fire confessed to starting at least 25 other California fires in the early 1920s?
text: Did you know that Wilhelm Werner fled to Brazil to avoid prosecution for the 1917 murders of the crew of the SS Torrington but returned to Germany and became an SS officer on Heinrich Himmler 's staff?
text: Did you know that in 1981, TriGem introduced the first microcomputer built in South Korea?
text: Did you know that in Canticle II: Abraham and Isaac , Benjamin Britten assigned the tenor of Peter Pears to Abraham and the alto of Kathleen Ferrier to Isaac, with both singing in homophony as the voice of God?
text: Did you know that the operator of the Commodore Hotel once hosted a circus, featuring an elephant in the ballroom, to impress visiting hoteliers?
text: Did you know that Frances Campbell-Preston , who served as lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother for nearly 40 years, was reportedly not hesitant to ask her difficult questions when others were reluctant?
text: Did you know that Tom Harkin ended his 1992 presidential campaign just one month after he won a landslide victory in the Iowa caucuses , where he received over three-quarters of the total vote?
text: Did you know that while hemmed in at Ekowe during the Anglo-Zulu War , W. R. C. Wynne attempted to respond to heliograph signals by means of a signalling screen and a balloon?
text: Did you know that in the 1980s, floor stands were offered to computer users to turn their horizontal desktops into towers ?
text: Did you know that after building Turkey's first airplane , its builder was sentenced to jail for flying it without a permit?
text: Did you know that New York City would not allow a forest in the Edgar J. Kaufmann Conference Center ?
text: Did you know that Nanjing Massacre Memorial Day has a memorial tripod ?
text: Did you know that after Alfred Fell moved his family to England for better education opportunities, his son Walter Fell and two of his brothers returned permanently to New Zealand?
text: Did you know that scholars disagree about whether the closure of the Walter Hines Page School of International Relations in 1953 had anything to do with McCarthyism ?
text: Did you know that Howard Mayers is credited with the destruction of at least eleven enemy aircraft during World War II?
text: Did you know that musician John Mayer dismissed Taylor Swift 's " Dear John " as "cheap songwriting"?
text: Did you know that Chinese physician Yu Yan described theories like yinyang and the five phases as "simply all lies, absolutely not factual, and completely groundless"?
text: Did you know that when Seattle sandwich restaurant Paseo abruptly closed, fans left flowers and lit candles?
text: Did you know that Church Clothes 4 deals with Christian hip hop artist Lecrae 's faith deconstruction and reconstruction?
text: Did you know that Richard Newland is cricket's earliest-known left-handed batter?
text: Did you know that construction workers at UC Berkeley paused their work in solidarity with the 2022 University of California academic workers' strike ?
text: Did you know that Taingda Mingyi U Pho engineered the massacre of around 40 members of the Burmese royal family in order to eliminate nearly all possible heirs to the throne?
text: Did you know that Tennessee State Route 396 was constructed to provide access to the Spring Hill Manufacturing plant of Saturn Corporation ?
text: Did you know that when Arthur Forrest suggested that the squadron of French ships were looking for a battle, Captain Maurice Suckling replied "I think it would be a pity to disappoint them"?
text: Did you know that an apparently jobless man wearing a cardboard box who taped himself to a lamppost was actually a new DJ for a Vermont radio station ?
text: Did you know that because of a mistake in a proposed state constitutional amendment , the New Jersey Legislature defined biannually to mean biennially ?
text: Did you know that Robert de Ogle captured five Scottish knights near Newcastle in 1341 and received royal licence to crenellate his property?
text: Did you know that the National Wrestling Conference 's controversial KKK storyline was the inspiration for an episode of the Netflix series GLOW ?
text: Did you know that Gary Wilson threw his snooker cue to the floor in anger at the 2022 UK Championship ?
text: Did you know that in 1908, American otorhinolaryngologist Margaret F. Butler became the first woman to preside over an international congress of physicians?
text: Did you know that it was J. R. R. Tolkien 's intention for Black Speech to be "full of harsh and hideous sounds and vile words"?
text: Did you know that Ella Stewart Udall relayed her husband 's letters to his semi-secret second wife ?
text: Did you know that Gary Kemp put subtle references to Vladimir Nabokov 's Lolita in his lyrics for Spandau Ballet 's " True " so Clare Grogan would know the song was about her?
text: Did you know that the home of American revolutionary leader John Cooper was used by General Lord Cornwallis as his headquarters during the British occupation of Woodbury, New Jersey , in 1777?
text: Did you know that the Morane-Borel military monoplane participated in the Reims Military Aviation Competition , where it lost?
text: Did you know that in 1858, when Congress delayed its decision on Oregon statehood, Nathaniel H. Gates became the last Speaker of Oregon’s Territorial House of Representatives ?
text: Did you know that Teardown was not traditionally marketed because of the popularity it gained through Twitter ?
text: Did you know that Orion Anderson , who was murdered by a lynch mob in Virginia in 1889, was recently found to have been only 14 years old at the time of his death?
text: Did you know that a reviewer warned that Totoro would lead to "sore cheeks"?
text: Did you know that Jarn Mound was erected to view the "dreaming spires"?
text: Did you know that the external models of the Popcom modem have no status lights, instead providing feedback to the user through touch tones ?
text: Did you know that Burmese scholar Shaw Loo was Bucknell University 's first international student?
text: Did you know that The Sims 4 by Maxis started as an online multiplayer game, but was transitioned to a single-player experience following the negative launch reception of SimCity in 2013?
text: Did you know that the Concerto for Piano and String Orchestra was described by its composer, Alfred Schnittke , as sounding like a "blues nightmare" at one point?
text: Did you know that background research for Dujanah included interviews with Muslim apostates and a Scottish veteran of Afghanistan ?
text: Did you know that Chinese physician Zhang Jiebin believed that tobacco smoking was good for health?
text: Did you know that a reviewer wrote of Julian Moynahan that, although "disguised as an English professor at Rutgers", he was in fact "a nonstop Irish-American storyteller"?
text: Did you know that the calling patterns of the Japanese tree frog have been used in wireless network design, furthering an area of science known as swarm intelligence ?
text: Did you know that Katharina Cibulka has created monumental feminist messages in cross-stitch that cover scaffolding at construction sites?
text: Did you know that " Gegrüßet seist du, Königin ", a German version of the Latin hymn " Salve Regina ", was taken to the U.S. by emigrants and became popular in the U.S. in the film Sister Act ?
text: Did you know that while DreamBooth can be used by anyone to fine-tune image generation AI models , the cost barrier to entry is quite high for hobbyist users?
text: Did you know that Chinese writer Ye Dehui was executed after he called members of the Chinese Communist Party "beasts" and "half-breeds"?
text: Did you know that a Royal Air Force officer built a KAVE in New Mexico ?
text: Did you know that Josephine Gates Kelly of the Standing Rock Reservation once hitchhiked to Washington, D.C. , to protest portions of the Indian Reorganization Act ?
text: Did you know that George Vernon 's loss against the Parsis cricket team was seen as "a blow to the prestige of the Empire "?
text: Did you know that Enoch Marvin Banks resigned from the University of Florida because of public outrage over his belief that the American Civil War was caused by slavery?
text: Did you know that the Durham police mast was designed to be slender to minimise the impact on views of Durham Cathedral ?
text: Did you know that Arthur O. Austin built the most powerful outdoor high-voltage laboratory in the world?
text: Did you know that bookseller John Harrison Stonehouse commissioned the "cursed" edition of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam that was lost when the Titanic sank in 1912 ?
text: Did you know that when Maha Thamun , the head of the Hanthawaddy delegation, presented his king's demands, King Thado of Ava reflexively ordered his execution?
text: Did you know that Australian official Jack Emanuel was awarded the George Cross in 1971 after being stabbed to death whilst trying to resolve a land dispute with the Tolai people of New Guinea?
text: Did you know that the 1999 television film Down Will Come Baby aired two weeks after the Columbine High School massacre and was criticized for exploiting parental fears with its depiction of child violence?
text: Did you know that according to one Turkish artist, a nude sculpture by Gürdal Duyar almost dissolved the 37th government of Turkey ?
text: Did you know that An Appeal for Human Rights was published by college students in 1960 in response to racial inequality in Atlanta ?
text: Did you know that the uncommon Florida lichen species Gyalectidium yahriae was named after Rebecca Yahr of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh in Scotland?
text: Did you know that plutonium produced in the nuclear reactors at the Hanford Engineer Works was used in the Fat Man bomb used in the atomic bombing of Nagasaki in August 1945 ?
text: Did you know that according to Qing-dynasty physician Xu Dachun , "stupid people believe that expensive drugs must be good drugs"?
text: Did you know that the precise details in medieval customaries have allowed historians to reconstruct since-lost buildings?
text: Did you know that Rosalind Creasy wrote a landmark book on edible landscaping ?
text: Did you know that Neha Pendse , the lead actress of the Marathi film June , contributed some of her own money towards its production?
text: Did you know that American lumber businessman and politician John Barber White funded a scholarship at Williams College in memory of his son?
text: Did you know that squatters were one of the groups that started the Mau Mau rebellion ?
text: Did you know that Caroline Harrison would mail ceramic milk sets to parents who named their children after U.S. president Benjamin Harrison ?
text: Did you know that pigs in blankets are not pigs in a blanket ?
text: Did you know that Stanley J. Korsmeyer published over 250 scientific papers, 23 of which were cited over 500 times?
text: Did you know that a 1902 plan called for a town to be built in Dukes Meadows that would have been known as Burlingwick?
text: Did you know that Bernardo Adam Ferrero wrote compositions such as Danzas alicantinas for Spanish civil and military bands that he conducted?
text: Did you know that the Chicago Bears media guide had an asterisk next to the result of the Instant Replay Game for 10 years, noting the team's belief that the game was decided incorrectly?
text: Did you know that Cheng Dan'an is "widely considered the father of modern acupuncture "?
text: Did you know that in one experiment in which moor frogs were frozen solid to −16 °C (3 °F) and then thawed, a small percentage survived?
text: Did you know that several murals from New York City's Hotel McAlpin were reinstalled in the subway after being found in a dumpster?
text: Did you know that the Central American government voted for annexation to the First Mexican Empire after a request from Regent Agustín de Iturbide ?
text: Did you know that Craig Greenberg was shot at while running in the 2022 Louisville mayoral election ?
text: Did you know that Through the Darkest of Times was the first video game published in Germany to use swastikas ?
text: Did you know that Elisabeth Griffith 's sweeping 100-year history of the American equal-rights movement has been compared to listening to Billy Joel 's " We Didn't Start the Fire "?
text: Did you know that although Baeoentedon bouceki was collected from China in 1983, it was not formally described as a new species until 2014?
text: Did you know that the Vatican selected Mary Milligan in 1987 to be one of only three U.S. experts to assist the International Synod of Bishops on the Laity in Rome?
text: Did you know that a British filmmaker forced the British Board of Film Classification to watch paint drying for ten hours ?
text: Did you know that the Xinxiu bencao was the first state-sponsored pharmacopoeia in China?
text: Did you know that before playing in the NFL, Jeff Jordan was a Rhodes Scholarship finalist?
text: Did you know that the Japanese fire-bellied newt tends to show its belly to birds but wag its tail at snakes?
text: Did you know that Edward Glemham destroyed two Spanish vessels, repulsed four galleys, and captured a rich Venetian merchant ship in his first voyage as a privateer in 1590?
text: Did you know that anthropologist Theodora Kroeber wrote a biography of her husband that was described as a "welcome and refreshing exception" to the "often embarrassing" biographies of men written by their wives?
text: Did you know that the Cornish poet D. M. Thomas blamed himself for the death of William Golding , the author of Lord of the Flies ?
text: Did you know that the Roosevelt Hotel had a Teddy Bear Cave?
text: Did you know that while serving as his party's regional leader in Oruro , Franz Choque simultaneously worked as an importer to make ends meet?
text: Did you know that Mardi Gras Hangover was marketed as a "loop coaster", but was criticized for lacking the characteristics of a roller coaster ?
text: Did you know that Hanthawaddy royal Bya Kun fought for Ava against his enemy King Razadarit in the Forty Years' War ?
text: Did you know that The Inland Whale , by Theodora Kroeber , sought to demonstrate the literary merit of Indigenous American oral traditions?
text: Did you know that the Liverpool Echo described British rock and roll star Tommy Steele as "quite unable to sing and play the guitar at the same time" when reviewing his first album ?
text: Did you know that linebacker Carlton Martial , who recently broke a college football record for the most tackles , began his career as a walk-on ?
text: Did you know that the Golden Mirror , a Qing-dynasty medical text, contains a "one-page array of 24 anuses"?
text: Did you know that the oldest Chinese medical text on surgery was, according to tradition, written by a doctor who had met a ghost?
text: Did you know that listeners to ESPN 's sports podcasts are "13 years younger than" ESPN Radio listeners, according to a company executive?
text: Did you know that Sir Srinivas Varadachariar was the first Indian chief justice of the Federal Court of India ?
text: Did you know that Fort Curtis 's 24-pounder guns were taken away for use in the Vicksburg campaign ?
text: Did you know that in the Book of Mormon 's allusion to the raising of Lazarus of Bethany in John 11 , Abish plays a role parallel to that of Jesus ?
text: Did you know that the setting of the game Ghost of Tsushima takes place during the Mongol invasion of Tsushima ?
text: Did you know that mathematician Daniel Larsen was the youngest contributor to the New York Times crossword puzzle ?