Did you know? Facts from Wikipedia, 2021

text: Did you know that " Paint It Black " by the Rolling Stones , which was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame , was almost scrapped?
text: Did you know that Kafilur Rahman Nishat Usmani translated the Islamic law book Fatawa 'Alamgiri from Arabic into Urdu ?
text: Did you know that the development of Thomas Jefferson Park was intended to help Italian Harlem, described as "for many years the black spot of Harlem"?
text: Did you know that the 9th-century Abbasid caliph al-Wathiq , whose five-year reign is considered by historians to be unremarkable, was heavily fictionalized in the 18th-century Gothic fantasy novel Vathek ?
text: Did you know that both the Mayotte Marine Natural Park and the Glorioso Islands Marine Natural Park entirely cover the exclusive economic zones of the islands within them?
text: Did you know that Millicent Taplin left school at 13 and never studied art full time, yet became one of Wedgwood 's main ceramics designers?
text: Did you know that the U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether a frustrated high-school student who Snapchatted "fuck school fuck softball fuck cheer fuck everything" can be suspended from cheerleading for a year?
text: Did you know that the writing and publication of Justice and Jurisprudence in 1889 has been described as "the Magna Carta of black people"?
text: Did you know that Manek Premchand estimated that 4,334 Hindi films made between 1930 and 1970 depicted around 36,000 songs?
text: Did you know that Stonecrop Gardens in the Hudson Highlands features alpine vegetation and a sunken English garden ?
text: Did you know that the A.P. No. 3 landmine could be neutralised with a "safety spider"?
text: Did you know that the addition of the Ally 400 to the 2021 NASCAR Cup Series schedule was considered a surprise as the host venue, the Nashville Superspeedway , had been up for sale since 2012?
text: Did you know that BTS 's song " Blue & Grey " was originally intended to be included on band member V 's solo mixtape?
text: Did you know that Ethiopian-Italian refugee environmentalist Agitu Ideo Gudeta was nicknamed the "Queen of Happy Goats"?
text: Did you know that after quarterback Joe Montana invested in Crowd Cow , PETA sent him a letter filled with football puns imploring him not to invest in a company that facilitates the slaughtering of animals?
text: Did you know that " I Did Something Bad " is the first song in which Taylor Swift uses profanity?
text: Did you know that Mahadevi Varma chose to live an ascetic life despite being married?
text: Did you know that the treatise Zabân-e Pâk , written by Ahmad Kasravi , was one of the first works that sought to suggest refinements to the Persian language?
text: Did you know that Anna Martina Gottschick wrote the hymn " Herr, mach uns stark " because a composer wanted to make Ralph Vaughan Williams 's 1906 melody of " For All the Saints " available for German church singing?
text: Did you know that Tomoki Suzuki won the men's wheelchair race at the 2020 Tokyo Marathon by over eight minutes?
text: Did you know that Coventry City 's winning goal in the 1987 FA Cup Final was an own goal scored in extra time off Gary Mabbutt 's knee?
text: Did you know that during the filming of 6 Day Bike Rider , sixteen bicyclists hit the cameraman's motorcycle, which resulted in nine of them being injured?
text: Did you know that Pierre Daumesnil refused to surrender the Château de Vincennes after the French Empire had been defeated at the Battle of Paris in 1814?
text: Did you know that in advance of the 2021 general election , Morocco outlawed the making of certain types of online posts?
text: Did you know that the true identity of the British crime writer Francis Duncan was unknown until after a reprint of his 1949 novel Murder for Christmas ?
text: Did you know that when a proposed sale of Orlando -area radio station WVCF fell through, the attempted buyer started his own station ?
text: Did you know that Joe Jackson 's 1984 album Body and Soul emulated the artwork of the 1957 jazz album Sonny Rollins, Vol. 2 ?
text: Did you know that a Latin translation of Winnie-the-Pooh spent 20 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list ?
text: Did you know that American Brigadier General Harold Francis Loomis was in charge of the rearmament of French forces during World War II?
text: Did you know that Overdrawn at the Memory Bank was recorded on videotape instead of photographic film so as not to be as expensive as Blade Runner ?
text: Did you know that Kathleen Heddle was one of two Canadians to win three gold medals at the Summer Olympic Games ?
text: Did you know that eleven people, nine of them minors, died in a sugar plantation fire in Cagua , Venezuela, while trying to hunt rabbits?
text: Did you know that Minnie Lou Crosthwaite , the first Black woman to pass the teacher exam in Nashville's segregated school system, and Minnie Lee Crosthwaite , one of Kansas City's first Black social workers, both attended Fisk University ?
text: Did you know that Sampson's snakeroot is traditionally used to help knit broken bones and as a salve on wounds, ulcers and boils?
text: Did you know that Zéna M'Déré led a protest movement in Mayotte in which women tickled their political opponents, forcing them to comply with their demands?
text: Did you know that Lisa Nishimura started out in the music industry before producing Netflix documentaries including Chef's Table and Making a Murderer ?
text: Did you know that Nima Yooshij was threatened with death for presenting his school of poetry, She'r-e Nimaa'i ?
text: Did you know that the 1839 city plan for Austin, Texas , is thought to have been inspired by the original 1682 city plan for Philadelphia ?
text: Did you know that Michael Cretu of Enigma has been accused of putting satanic content into the band's debut album MCMXC a.D. ?
text: Did you know that Leszek Sibilski was supported by Turkmenistan in establishing World Bicycle Day ?
text: Did you know that malaria is expected to become more prevalent due to the impacts of climate change in Kenya ?
text: Did you know that former American football player Bruce Taylor owned eighteen Burger King locations?
text: Did you know that Sylvie Fortier retired from competitive synchronized swimming at only 18, saying she was happy with what she had achieved?
text: Did you know that the memoir Just Mercy tells the story of an innocent black man who was convicted and condemned to die for the 1986 murder of a young white woman in the town in which To Kill a Mockingbird was written?
text: Did you know that Olga Petit – the first female lawyer in France – was a Russian?
text: Did you know that 6,800 Columbia University students and faculty signed a petition to remove an entrance to the 116th Street–Columbia University station ?
text: Did you know that Bangladesh is the only Test-playing nation that has not been involved in any tied international cricket matches?
text: Did you know that Jerome Kohl , a music theorist of the University of Washington , was recognized internationally as an authority on the composer Karlheinz Stockhausen , publishing a book on his Zeitmaße in 2017?
text: Did you know that the Umberslade Obelisk has been described as a "monument of nothing in particular"?
text: Did you know that the soft crafting materials used in Judith Weinshall Liberman 's artworks were described as providing "an important contrast to the Holocaust tragedy "?
text: Did you know that an artificial turf soccer field in New York City's Red Hook Park , donated by the Norwegian government, was destroyed by arson ten days after its dedication?
text: Did you know that Radio Quarantine was founded in India by a group of professors, directors and PhD students in response to social isolation protocols following the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic ?
text: Did you know that Capitol Police officer Eugene Goodman has been credited with having "saved American Democracy" on January 6, 2021?
text: Did you know that the black swan leech attaches itself to the skin or eye of a fish before working its way to the gill chamber?
text: Did you know that Julio César Gandarilla Bermejo , a founder of the Cuban National Revolutionary Militia , ignored instructions from the Cuban president Miguel Díaz-Canel to make a Twitter account?
text: Did you know that one of the most recognizable video-game glitches , a bug that forced Mahatma Gandhi in Civilization to use nuclear weapons heavily, never actually existed?
text: Did you know that the formation of the Central Irian Jaya province in Indonesia, which was headed by Herman Monim , caused a civil war between the supporters and opponents of the province?
text: Did you know that the 1951 film The Basketball Fix is based on a real-life scandal involving college basketball betting?
text: Did you know that architect Piers Taylor had to carry the materials for building his award-winning home "Moonshine" over a 600-metre (2,000 ft) woodland incline?
text: Did you know that the book In Praise of Blood was described as "an immediate, destabilizing influence on the world of orthodox Rwandan scholarship"?
text: Did you know that Susan Estes is the first woman to have her own company in the historically male bond-trading business in the U.S.?
text: Did you know that during the Yamagata Hanagasa Festival , ten thousand people sing and dance on Japan National Route 112 ?
text: Did you know that " New Year's Day " by Taylor Swift was recorded in "scratch takes" that did not filter out unwanted sounds from the outside environment?
text: Did you know that American local car dealer Sigmund Strochlitz was a confidant of Elie Wiesel and a leader in the Holocaust remembrance movement ?
text: Did you know that the yawara is a Japanese weapon that is used for martial arts and was used by American police?
text: Did you know that Walt Whitman called one of his lectures on Abraham Lincoln "the culminating hour" of his life?
text: Did you know that places of worship in Elmbridge , Surrey, include the "ferocious" Weybridge United Reformed Church ?
text: Did you know that former New York City Ballet principal dancer Janie Taylor appeared in the film Center Stage as a background dancer, and served as a motion caption dancer for Barbie of Swan Lake ?
text: Did you know that Ipswich Town won the Football League First Division in their 1961–62 season having been promoted from the Second Division the previous season?
text: Did you know that Bob Wells created a Burning Man for retirees?
text: Did you know that despite James Snyder having taught at a women's college for over 20 years, his Northern Renaissance Art of 1985 was criticized for using gender stereotypes ?
text: Did you know that horse-mounted elements of the French 1st Cavalry Brigade helped hold up the advance of tanks from the 1st Panzer Division for a day in May 1940?
text: Did you know that the root of the slimflower scurfpea can be eaten raw or cooked, or ground up and used as an ingredient in bread-making?
text: Did you know that with " Homura " and Leo-Nine , LiSA became the first female artist in 16 years to debut a song and an album simultaneously at number one in Japan since Utada Hikaru ?
text: Did you know that Eleanor Keaton , who at age 21 became the third wife of silent-film comedian Buster Keaton , was widely credited with rehabilitating his life and career?
text: Did you know that The Magic of Chocolate 's volumes are ordered alphabetically rather than numerically?
text: Did you know that after Saint Eustadiola , a 7th century abbess in Bourges, France , prayed with her nuns for rain during a drought, they got drenched before they were able to return to the convent?
text: Did you know that the peppermint stick insect possesses an aposematic coloration and a robust chemical defense mechanism?
text: Did you know that after a 15-year campaign, activist Cécile Nobrega completed fundraising for the first public monument to black women to be on permanent display in England?
text: Did you know that Theodore Roosevelt conducted one of his last bison hunting excursions at Yule Ranch ?
text: Did you know that the Four Ds include demilitarisation, denazification, decentralisation, and democratisation?
text: Did you know that by paying attention to mundane decision-making among activists, the critical theorist Eva Haifa Giraud troubles the notion of staying with the trouble ?
text: Did you know that contractors digging New York City's Joralemon Street Tunnel found the remains of a ship?
text: Did you know that Napoleon's penis , which was cut off after his death, has been described as comparable to a "piece of leather or a shriveled eel"?
text: Did you know that clergyman David Williamson 's time as an outlaw is commemorated in the traditional Scottish song " Dainty Davie "?
text: Did you know that a political feud in the Eastside of Los Angeles began when Gloria Molina was told by Art Torres that she was not the chosen candidate to run for an office?
text: Did you know that Setiadi Reksoprodjo , who was appointed Minister of Information at the age of 25, had a junior minister twice as old as him?
text: Did you know that after the Morning Star sank on Lake Erie , the death toll was unknown because many of the passengers were not on the ship's manifest?
text: Did you know that the Japanese television drama Ossan's Love is credited with popularizing the boys' love genre for a general audience outside of anime and manga fans?
text: Did you know that Mat and Savanna Shaw 's cover of " The Prayer " went viral at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic , after which they released their debut album that was ranked 54th on the Billboard 200 ?
text: Did you know that American conservation officer Terry Grosz busted an illegal snagging boat on the Eel River by waiting in the water and getting reeled in?
text: Did you know that before the creation of Good Job! , Paladin Studios had wanted to collaborate with Nintendo for about a decade?
text: Did you know that the American writer Mark C. Yerger was honored by the veterans' organization of the Waffen-SS for his works that embellished its history?
text: Did you know that the Christuskirche in Idstein -Walsdorf received this name in 1993, 600 years after a first chapel in the village was mentioned?
text: Did you know that a body-shaming comment from a New York Times critic led to ballerina Jenifer Ringer 's appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show and The Today Show ?
text: Did you know that Kyren Wilson set fire to his cue stick at the 2021 Masters ?
text: Did you know that at the 1783 Siege of Bednore a British force of 1,600 faced a Mysore army of more than 100,000?
text: Did you know that the pig bank at the Freedom Farm Cooperative loaned out pigs to families who paid interest in the form of piglets?
text: Did you know that Joseph McLain held 30 patents, including for smoke grenades, underwater torches, and flares?
text: Did you know that Artémis, cœur d'artichaut is a female buddy film inspired by Greek mythology , Carl Jung and Éric Rohmer ?
text: Did you know that the specific name of Laudakia nupta comes from the Latin word for a bride who veils herself?
text: Did you know that Zintkala Nuni , who survived the Wounded Knee Massacre , gave birth to a stillborn boy in Nebraska's Milford Industrial Home , at one time the only state-funded institution in the US for unmarried pregnant women?
text: Did you know that due to Brian Crabtree 's closeness with his brothers in professional wrestling, Kendo Nagasaki once refused to wrestle "Big Daddy" Crabtree with Brian refereeing?
text: Did you know that the 1978 science-fiction novel Dreamsnake includes a named character for whom gender pronouns are never used, thereby subverting gender expectations?
text: Did you know that Svetlana Lloyd accidentally became a model for Christian Dior , after wandering into his Paris boutique looking for a receptionist job?
text: Did you know that Christian Friedrich Gottlieb Schwencke , who succeeded C. P. E. Bach as the music director of Hamburg, edited an early publication of the The Well-Tempered Clavier in which the first prelude had an extra measure?
text: Did you know that U.S. senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan proposed an expansion of New York Penn Station as a homage to the original station , where he had once shined shoes?
text: Did you know that the two participants in a yaoi relationship are referred to as seme ('top') and uke ('bottom'), terms derived from martial arts that were later appropriated as Japanese LGBT slang ?
text: Did you know that the defeat of the consul Gaius Porcius Cato by a Celtic tribe in 114 BC led to the last human sacrifices in ancient Rome ?
text: Did you know that during the trial of Francis Gary Powers , Kansas radio station KBTO presented summaries of Radio Moscow broadcasts alongside other international reports?
text: Did you know that members of the Nyasaland Volunteer Reserve fought in the first naval action of the First World War ?
text: Did you know that Doug Grimston insisted on a smoking ban at Queen's Park Arena and took financial responsibility for lost attendance?
text: Did you know that Eli Wallach agreed to play the role of Tuco in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly immediately after watching the main title sequence of For a Few Dollars More ?
text: Did you know that Anna Feldhusen was for a long time the only female German artist to acquire a business license ?
text: Did you know that the First World War Zanzibar Volunteer Defence Force included practically every able-bodied British man residing in the protectorate ?
text: Did you know that a memorandum written by Douglass Cater convinced Lyndon B. Johnson to focus on education policy during his administration?
text: Did you know that when Joe Brown and George Band made the first successful ascent of Kangchenjunga in 1955, they deliberately turned back a few feet below the summit?
text: Did you know that the freighter John V. Moran and her sister ship were both sunk by ice on Lake Michigan , ten years apart?
text: Did you know that the manga anthology Nanohana was inspired by efforts in Chernobyl and Fukushima to use plants to absorb radioactive material ?
text: Did you know that Professor Shabir Madhi , who led trials of the Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine in South Africa, did not originally want to study medicine?
text: Did you know that Minnesota 's Winsted Municipal Airport once hosted a country-music festival ?
text: Did you know that a fake family tree was created for Jeyran , the beloved wife of Naser al-Din Shah of Persia, linking her to the Sassanids and the Ilkhans ?
text: Did you know that both Jochen Klepper and Hildegard Schaeder sought solace amidst the horror of the Nazi regime in Paul Gerhardt's 17th-century New Year's song " Nun lasst uns gehn und treten "?
text: Did you know that Edmilsa Governo won Mozambique's first medal at a Paralympic Games in 2016?
text: Did you know that to record his narration for A Perfect Planet at home, David Attenborough hung duvets from his dining room walls to make a sound stage , and bought a hut for the sound recorder?
text: Did you know that Kehinde Wiley wanted to express "absolute joy – break dancing in the sky" when he created Go ?
text: Did you know that Spider-Man 2 is considered to be one of the best and most influential superhero films of all time?
text: Did you know that progressive house music producer and DJ Guy J prefers analog equipment over software, describing its sound as "a bit dirty and warm"?
text: Did you know that about 27 men and newsboys were killed in the Chicago circulation wars in the early 1900s?
text: Did you know that according to Amnesty International , pre-trial detentions, bans on gatherings, and censorship have occurred in Chad in the lead-up to the 2021 presidential election ?
text: Did you know that ballerina Jennie Somogyi was offered an apprenticeship at the New York City Ballet when she was 15, becoming one of the youngest dancers to join the company?
text: Did you know that the Atlantic partridge tun preys on sea cucumbers much larger than itself?
text: Did you know that Texas Motor Speedway 's president once "just laughed" at the idea of NASCAR at COTA ?
text: Did you know that most Russian cities were destroyed as a result of the Mongol invasion ?
text: Did you know that associate justice William Johnson was the first member of the U.S. Supreme Court who was not a member of the Federalist Party ?
text: Did you know that according to legend, Växjö Cathedral in Sweden was founded by an English saint ?
text: Did you know that Dominic Thiem , winner of the 2020 US Open , is the first player since the 2004 French Open to come back from two sets down in a Grand Slam final to win the title?
text: Did you know that Veronica Maggio 's 2011 song " Jag kommer " was accused of plagiarizing the Strokes ' " Reptilia ", but the singer denied any connection?
text: Did you know that Charles G. Hopkins accompanied Queen Emma of Hawaii to Europe and the United States, where she visited Queen Victoria, Emperor Napoleon III, and President Andrew Johnson?
text: Did you know that due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Japanese cheer screenings , which encourage audience participation, have been replaced by viewers' text messages being superimposed on the screen?
text: Did you know that the Royal Victoria Arcade, Ryde , had an underground market that is now used as a local history museum?
text: Did you know that ballerina Kyra Nichols danced with the New York City Ballet for 33 years, retiring shortly before she turned 49?
text: Did you know that " I Love You " by 2NE1 integrates traditional Korean trot music with electronic to create a different sound and "new genre" of music?
text: Did you know that Emil Aaltonen went from being a 13-year-old shoemaker's apprentice to owning and running the largest shoe manufacturing business in the Nordics ?
text: Did you know that the Trinidad euphonia lacks the muscular gizzard that most birds have as part of their digestive tract?
text: Did you know that the Ur-Quan from the 1992 science-fiction game Star Control II are ranked among the best game antagonists of all time, and have influenced character design in modern games?
text: Did you know that someone ate Koos van der Merwe 's cake?
text: Did you know that the Scottish distiller Sandy Grant Gordon pioneered the creation of single malt Scotch as a whisky category?
text: Did you know that KEVT , the first Spanish-language radio station in Tucson , offered English lessons from a University of Arizona professor?
text: Did you know that Jincheon Gilsangsa is a shrine dedicated to the portrait of General Gim Yu-sin ?
text: Did you know that Hannah J. Patterson and other suffragists hauled a replica of the Liberty Bell across Pennsylvania to gain the right to vote ?
text: Did you know that Dua Lipa 's livestream concert Studio 2054 had a record-breaking attendance of five million paid viewers?
text: Did you know that the Bharatanatyam dancer Sangeeta Isvaran works with deprived communities and uses dance and theatre in an effort to bring about social reform?
text: Did you know that George H. W. Bush drowned a rat in the White House swimming pool ?
text: Did you know that virtuoso organist Frederick Swann was seen weekly on television by an estimated audience of 20 million viewers in 165 countries?
text: Did you know that the exact date of establishment of the Philippine embassy in Cairo is unclear, despite the Philippines having first named an ambassador to Egypt in 1960?
text: Did you know that the philosopher Andy Lamey challenges "new omnivorism", according to which it is permissible to eat animals even if they have moral status ?
text: Did you know that the IRT Powerhouse was intended to be the largest power generating station on earth when it was built in the 1900s?
text: Did you know that Travancore Radio's first English-language broadcaster, Indira Joseph Venniyoor , was paid 69 rupees (then equivalent to US$14.50) for her broadcasts in 1949?
text: Did you know that the Japanese-pop song " Snow Halation " by μ's has a music video animated by Sunrise ?
text: Did you know that more than 41 million hours of online chess have been watched on Twitch during the COVID-19 pandemic?
text: Did you know that the 2009 Nova episode " Darwin's Darkest Hour " was filmed for the bicentennial anniversary of Charles Darwin 's birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his work On the Origin of Species ?
text: Did you know that New Zealand–born musician Millie Lovelock wrote her English literature master's thesis on One Direction ?
text: Did you know that Bernie Sanders was the first socialist mayor in New England since Jasper McLevy ?
text: Did you know that Japanese business executive Minoru Makihara credited his association with activist shareholder Robert Monks , his roommate at Harvard , for some of the reforms at Mitsubishi Corporation ?
text: Did you know that Columbia University 's small press Columbia Global Reports has been described as "somewhere between a magazine and book publisher"?
text: Did you know that Fraser's Hill in Malaysia was previously a tin mining area that was converted into a hill station after the tin ore depleted in 1913?
text: Did you know that when sports journalist Leo Monahan traveled overnight with the Boston Bruins by train, he feared moving while sleeping and keeping one of the team's players awake?
text: Did you know that Bianca Smith , the first Black female coach in professional baseball history, has a JD degree and an MBA in sports management?
text: Did you know that confectionery in the English Renaissance marks the transition of sugar from a medicine to a sweetener?
text: Did you know that when Riot Games approached investors to fund the development of League of Legends , publishers were baffled by the game's free-to-play business model?
text: Did you know that in 2015, Alexe Gaudreault became the first independent artist to top the BDS charts in 15 years?
text: Did you know that the wreck of the freighter Vernon is one of the deadliest ever to have occurred in Wisconsin ?
text: Did you know that the 1352 Siege of Guines reignited the Hundred Years' War after six years of uneasy truce?
text: Did you know that after meeting Mira Mendelson , Sergei Prokofiev described his future wife as "just some girl who wants me to read her bad poetry"?
text: Did you know that The Doctor and Student by Christopher St. Germain was used as a primer by English law students for over two centuries?
text: Did you know that Izaac Hindom , a Papuan himself, actively promoted the assimilation of Javanese and Papuans, describing the latter as backward and self-centered?
text: Did you know that the first Cincinnati Marine Hospital was taken by the Department of War , and the second by environmental health scientists?
text: Did you know that in their 1962 postal history of the Cayman Islands, Philip Saunders and Everard Aguilar were unable to find any surviving mail from the islands before 1889 in private collections, and very little in archives?
text: Did you know that prior to becoming the highest-grossing film of 1965, The Sound of Music was initially criticized for its romanticism and sentimentality?
text: Did you know that Blackburn Rovers won the Premier League three seasons after winning the 1992 Football League Second Division play-off Final ?
text: Did you know that John Clark Mayden 's images of African Americans were extolled by James Baldwin as capturing the "majesty of black life" by portraying people who are "weary but not cast down"?
text: Did you know that according to a chaplain at Nonnberg Abbey , an abbot was immediately struck blind after stealing one of Saint Erentrude 's relics 300 years after her death?
text: Did you know that City of Champaign v. Madigan was the first decision by an Illinois court addressing whether the private emails of government officials are subject to public disclosure?
text: Did you know that Chinese bandit Ma Xiang raised a thousands-strong rebel army in just one or two days, conquered three commanderies , and declared himself emperor, only to be killed by a much weaker opponent?
text: Did you know that a mental-health hotline in Puerto Rico recorded a spike in calls leading up to Hurricane Beryl ?
text: Did you know that Georgina Schuyler led the campaign to have the poem " The New Colossus " by Emma Lazarus placed inside the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty ?
text: Did you know that the gill chambers of the tiger lucine , the dwarf tiger lucine , and the Pennsylvania lucine contain symbiotic bacteria which help them live in sediments not suited to other bivalves ?
text: Did you know that upon completing their apprenticeships, British printers might be doused in ink and paper shavings and paraded through the streets ?
text: Did you know that during the reigns of King Kalākaua and Queen Liliʻuokalani , attempts were made to change the constitution to grant women of the Hawaiian Kingdom the right to vote ?
text: Did you know that Iqbal Qureshi composed the music for the 1964 film Cha Cha Cha , the first Indian film to feature Western dance?
text: Did you know that Vine-Glo sold during Prohibition carried a warning telling people how to make wine from it, and Al Capone allegedly threatened to force it out of Chicago?
text: Did you know that the artist Thilagavathi teaches social interactions and facial expressions to children on the autism spectrum through Therukoothu folk-theatre performances?
text: Did you know that Matt Czuchry , who plays Logan in Gilmore Girls , recommended season 5's " You Jump, I Jump, Jack " as a good episode for new viewers to begin with?
text: Did you know that the Homeward Bound leadership program organized the largest all-woman expedition to Antarctica in 2019?
text: Did you know that after 108-year-old Sarah Thomas woke up from a thirty-hour coma, she asked for her pipe and tobacco?
text: Did you know that Barack Obama 's 2020 book A Promised Land took longer to write than any other presidential memoir in the past hundred years?
text: Did you know that Turkish artistic gymnast Ümit Şamiloğlu is the creator of a special grip in the horizontal bar event?
text: Did you know that after releasing their debut album Black Focus , the English band Yussef Kamaal was denied entry to the United States because one member's visa was revoked by the Trump administration?
text: Did you know that attorney Styles Hutchins was the first African American to argue a case in a court in Georgia ?
text: Did you know that the flameback coral shrimp is often found in close proximity to the yellow-edged moray eel , suggesting that they may have a cleaning symbiosis ?
text: Did you know that according to one critic, video-game designer Kitty Horrorshow does not exploit the Lovecraftian "fear of the unknown", but instead the "fear of the familiar"?
text: Did you know that this year's Boat Race between Oxford and Cambridge will take place on the River Great Ouse instead of the River Thames for the first time since 1944?
text: Did you know that Debbie Muir retired from synchronized swimming at age 20 and coached the Calgary Aquabelles to 22 national titles in ten years?
text: Did you know that in Playing the Whore , Melissa Gira Grant contends that categorizing all sex work as exploitation or empowerment creates a false dichotomy ?
text: Did you know that The Ur-Quan Masters , an open-source remake of the 1992 science-fiction game Star Control II , has been listed several times as one of the best free PC games ever?
text: Did you know that Lucy Burwell Page Saunders 's novel Dora Lee features a French-speaking macaw named Fanchon, inspired by Dolley Madison 's pet parrot, who attacks three different characters in eight pages?
text: Did you know that although the Philippines and Denmark established relations in 1946, the Philippine embassy in Copenhagen only opened in 2019?
text: Did you know that Taylor Swift 's 2020 song " Marjorie " has been described as "a heart-rending tribute" to her grandmother, opera singer Marjorie Finlay , who inspired Swift's musical career?
text: Did you know that the Index Thomisticus covered 10,631,980 words in fifty-six volumes and took an estimated one million hours to create?
text: Did you know that the 2008 FA Cup Final between Cardiff City and Portsmouth holds the record for the highest attendance for a football match at the new Wembley Stadium , with 89,874?
text: Did you know that Katherine Loker donated $30 million each to Harvard and USC , and millions more to develop university, medical, and cultural programs in California?
text: Did you know that prior to the arrival of the Year 24 Group , most girls' comics in Japan were written by men?
text: Did you know that memorial director Jens-Christian Wagner blames Alternative for Germany for the increase in heckling at former Nazi concentration camps in recent years?
text: Did you know that in the 1930 United States Senate election in Illinois , Ruth Hanna McCormick was the first woman ever nominated for the U.S. Senate by a major party?
text: Did you know that the defenses of the soft coral Leptogorgia virgulata are useless against the barnacle Conopea galeata ?
text: Did you know that comedian Blaire Erskine 's mock interview duped Michael Moore into believing she was a Donald Trump supporter stranded and freezing after his Omaha, Nebraska, rally?
text: Did you know that Utah Utes football player Ty Jordan died on Christmas Day, one day after being named the Pac-12 Conference newcomer of the year for 2020?
text: Did you know that The Gospel of Afranius , a 1995 Russian novel and polemic challenging an American evangelical apologist text, has not yet been translated to English?
text: Did you know that Oscar Fritz Schuh created a new style to direct Mozart operas at the Vienna State Opera , focused on the psychology of the characters?
text: Did you know that the wooden freighter Jarvis Lord was one of the first lake freighters ever built?
text: Did you know that Adele Rose wrote 457 scripts for the British soap opera Coronation Street , more than any other contributor?
text: Did you know that President Barack Obama celebrated his 50th birthday by playing basketball with Shane Battier , LeBron James , Magic Johnson , Maya Moore , Alonzo Mourning , Joakim Noah , Chris Paul , and Derrick Rose ?
text: Did you know that George Orwell described the Hyde Park pet cemetery as "perhaps the most horrible spectacle in Britain"?
text: Did you know that the Argentine government took over operations of television channel 8 at Mar del Plata in 1973, only to privatize it again a decade later?
text: Did you know that actress and tennis player Filiz Taçbaş , tired of city life, purchased agricultural land and obtained a farming certificate, and now grows olives and lemons?
text: Did you know that in The Autistic Brain , Temple Grandin suggests that the rise in autism diagnoses has been due to an inaccurate definition in the DSM-5 which groups other conditions under the term?
text: Did you know that it is popularly believed that the Pointer descends from Old Spanish Pointers introduced to England in 1713 by soldiers returning from Spain after the Peace of Utrecht ?
text: Did you know that Södermanland runic inscription 140 has a runic cross that is either a pagan invocation of the Norse god Thor or one of the earliest mentions of Sweden?
text: Did you know that the Nukegate scandal was precipitated by the largest business failure in the history of South Carolina ?
text: Did you know that during Francis Reynolds 's command of HMS Augusta , the ship ran aground and exploded with such force that the blast was heard 30 miles (48 km) away?
text: Did you know that Turkey threatened that Jewish lives would be put in danger if the 1982 International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide , which covered the Armenian Genocide, was not cancelled?
text: Did you know that Canadian football broadcaster Ernie Calcutt coined the phrase "being as wide open as a church door on a Sunday morning"?
text: Did you know that television station WKAB-TV of Mobile, Alabama , broadcast for less than two years before it went off air due to financial difficulties?
text: Did you know that M. P. Alladin depicted rural Indo-Trinidadian life in his art, and has been credited with giving "a new dignity" to the subject?
text: Did you know that a U.S. Supreme Court case involving the French vessel Euryale considered whether Napoleon III , as a foreign emperor, could bring cases in American courts?
text: Did you know that the Lectures on Theoretical Physics are based on thirty years of lectures given by Arnold Sommerfeld , a man Wolfgang Pauli once described as "the epitome of the scholar and the teacher"?
text: Did you know that Billie Holiday was paid $35 for her first recording ?
text: Did you know that It's Elementary: Talking About Gay Issues in School was the first film to provide educators with information on how to prevent discrimination against gay people?
text: Did you know that Esat Uras , a major perpetrator of the Armenian Genocide , later wrote "the ur-text of Turkish denialist 'scholarship ' "?
text: Did you know that a Canadian Supreme Court case about administrative law granted citizenship to a child of covert Russian agents?
text: Did you know that the conchfish conceals itself in the mantle cavity of a living mollusc ?
text: Did you know that 2NE1 's " I Am the Best " topped the Billboard World Digital Songs chart after being featured in a Microsoft commercial?
text: Did you know that Joseph Bachelder III , pioneer of the golden-parachute executive compensation structure, represented John Sculley at Apple Inc., Jamie Dimon at Citigroup, and Louis Gerstner at RJR Nabisco and IBM?
text: Did you know that campaigners to save the Happy Man Tree , named England's Tree of the Year for 2020, presented an axe made from papier-mâché to the mayor of Hackney ?
text: Did you know that Governor of Papua Lukas Enembe pledged financial support to send Indonesian military commander Herman Asaribab to the United States Army Command and General Staff College ?
text: Did you know that at 5,593 pages, the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 is the longest bill ever passed by the U.S. Congress ?
text: Did you know that both Elfriede Jelinek 's 2013 play Die Schutzbefohlenen and the ancient Greek play that inspired it deal with refugees fleeing to Europe?
text: Did you know that Bru McCoy transferred from USC to the University of Texas and back to USC in less than six months?
text: Did you know that women are prohibited from entering the Chisapani Gadhi in Nepal due to the belief that this could bring them bad luck or even death?
text: Did you know that the 2020 EFL League Two play-off Final is believed to be the first competitive match played behind closed doors at Wembley Stadium ?
text: Did you know that " Fujiyama Mama ", an American rockabilly song that compared a woman's energy to the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, was a number-one hit in Japan in 1958?
text: Did you know that during Sir George Smith 's term as governor of Nyasaland , the area of land used for the cultivation of tea, cotton, and tobacco increased a hundredfold?
text: Did you know that according to his 2020 biography, Atomic Spy , Klaus Fuchs felt that passing secrets from his work on the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union was for "the betterment of mankind"?
text: Did you know that Cristin Milioti appears in Death to 2020 as a stereotypical " Karen ", having previously worked with its creators Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones in Black Mirror episode " USS Callister "?
text: Did you know that Iti Tyagi said, "I urge every woman to come out of their shells and to break the stereotype" after receiving the Nari Shakti Puraskar ?
text: Did you know that the music video for Taylor Swift 's single " Willow " avoids showing some dancers' faces because they were wearing masks as a COVID-19 precaution?
text: Did you know that the video game Bad Rats was a popular gag gift on Steam ?
text: Did you know that Wall Street Journal architecture columnist Julie V. Iovine caused an uproar when she wrote that Yale University had a reputation for being a "gay school" in 1987?
text: Did you know that the owners and residents of the Alwyn Court argued over the legal definition of a window in 1985?
text: Did you know that Masochistic Ono Band was created by two Japanese voice actors as the house band for their radio program Dear Girl: Stories ?
text: Did you know that the Scottish gynaecologist Benjamin Philip Watson was examined in surgery by Joseph Bell , the model for Sherlock Holmes ?
text: Did you know that the Save Uganda Movement grew from a few hundred members to around 17,000 in a matter of months?
text: Did you know that " Macorina ", the first erotic song dedicated to one woman by another, became a "lesbian hymn"?
text: Did you know that Bernie Sanders received significant support from Democratic voters in the 1983 Burlington mayoral election despite not being the Democratic nominee?
text: Did you know that competitive swimmer Meenakshi Pahuja encountered water snakes in one river race at Murshidabad , and a corpse in another?
text: Did you know that the environmental journalist Swati Thiyagarajan investigated claims of interspecies communication made by the conservationist Anna Breytenbach ?
text: Did you know that six different dams were proposed for the lower Sanpoil River ?
text: Did you know that British businessman William Brooks Close and his two brothers started a colony in Iowa while owning at times almost 40,000 acres (16,000 ha) of the best soil in the United States?
text: Did you know that Atalanta reached the semifinals of the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1988 while playing in the Italian second tier ?
text: Did you know that Olive Whitlock Klump was the first industrial nurse to work for the U.S. government?
text: Did you know that the developers of Paper Mario: Sticker Star de-emphasized a proper story because fewer than one percent of players found the plot of the previous game interesting?
text: Did you know that WhopperCoin attempted to turn a burger into an "investment vehicle"?
text: Did you know that Hector Munro Chadwick postulated the Heroic Age as a distinct stage in the development of human societies?
text: Did you know that radio station WWBC in Cocoa, Florida , was forced to remove its transmitter tower from the Indian River when the site was sold to condominium developers?
text: Did you know that Wolfgang Marschner was the violinist in the first public performance of a work by Karlheinz Stockhausen , his Sonatine , with the composer as the pianist?
text: Did you know that when Nichols's Missouri Cavalry Regiment was formed, about two-thirds of its men were unarmed?
text: Did you know that Rohana Muthalib , the first Indonesian cosmetologist , was also the first woman mayor of Pontianak ?
text: Did you know that it took Zachary Levi an average of twenty minutes to get into costume as the titular character in Shazam! ?
text: Did you know that an album of poetry read by John Wayne reached the number-13 spot on Billboard 's Hot Country Albums chart?
text: Did you know that Paper Mario: Color Splash was accidentally playable two weeks before its launch?
text: Did you know that Rosalynn Carter 's 1984 memoir First Lady from Plains outsold her presidential husband Jimmy Carter 's 1982 memoir?
text: Did you know that the choral conductor Michael Gläser was called in to lead the Thomanerchor in Leipzig when its musical director Georg Christoph Biller fell ill?
text: Did you know that the People's Liberation Army in China developed the Dongfeng EQ2050 armored vehicle after seeing the Humvee in action on television during the Gulf War ?
text: Did you know that league executives voted ice hockey player Mitchell Miller as one of the best blueliners in the United States Hockey League ?
text: Did you know that Callimachus 's Aetia explains how a lock of hair became an astronomical constellation ?
text: Did you know that Archie Andrews has been described as the "simpiest of the simps "?
text: Did you know that hermit crabs such as Paguristes puncticeps raid octopus middens , both for food and for empty mollusc shells?
text: Did you know that as the health commissioner of Chicago in the 1920s, Herman Bundesen advocated the distribution of prophylactics by the city to combat sexually transmitted diseases ?
text: Did you know that " Morgenglanz der Ewigkeit ", a 17th-century morning hymn, has been variously translated as "Come, Thou Bright and Morning Star", and as "Dayspring of Eternity"?
text: Did you know that women's rights activist Mebrure Aksoley founded an elementary school before serving for more than 40 years in the Turkish parliament , Constituent Assembly , and Senate ?
text: Did you know that Louis Prima being credited as a featured artist on Kids See Ghosts ' " 4th Dimension " marks the third time Kanye West has given this type of posthumous credit?
text: Did you know that the German anthropologist Aparna Rao studied the impact of the Kashmir conflict on both lives and the environment?
text: Did you know that after discovering a giant larva on the fourth Dana expedition , Anton Frederik Bruun said, "I believe in the sea serpent", and lectured on its possible existence?
text: Did you know that turbine manufacturer S. Morgan Smith Company made large gun lathes during World War I and large aircraft carrier, gun, and tank parts during World War II?
text: Did you know that when Abbey House Museum curator Violet Crowther wanted to add old-fashioned household objects or "bygones" to the collection, she advertised for a pair of bellows in the local newspaper?
text: Did you know that while it is now considered a classic work of girls' comics , the 1974 manga series The Heart of Thomas was almost cancelled five weeks into serialization due to poor initial reader response?
text: Did you know that John Montgomery Cooper advanced the theory that both South American and North American Indians were "marginal peoples" who were cultural relics from prehistoric times?
text: Did you know that the judiciary of the Philippines has recognized the legal standing of dolphins?
text: Did you know that after ice hockey executive Hanson Dowell suspended players on Cape Breton Island , local coal miners threatened to strike in protest?
text: Did you know that Industry faces Therapy ?
text: Did you know that the 2021 Challenge Cup will not feature any amateur rugby league teams due to the COVID-19 pandemic?
text: Did you know that gestural abstract painter Jackie Saccoccio experimented with randomness in her works by pouring paint, tilting canvases, and even pressing wet canvases together?
text: Did you know that Harper Pass , a remote hiking trail crossing the Southern Alps / Kā Tiritiri o te Moana in New Zealand, was once the most important overland connection between Canterbury and the West Coast ?
text: Did you know that Anil Kapoor called AK vs AK "the fastest film I have done in my career"?
text: Did you know that in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the U.S. Department of Agriculture had members of Congress distribute millions of free seed packets to Americans ?
text: Did you know that while Ute Trekel-Burckhardt was a leading mezzo-soprano of the State Opera of East Berlin , she appeared as the Rosenkavalier in Vienna, and in the premiere of Sutermeister 's Le roi Béranger in Munich ?
text: Did you know that the largest heroin seizure in the New York City Police Department's history occurred at the luxury apartment tower Central Park Place in 1993?
text: Did you know that the demesne of Rostellan contains an 18th-century folly, built by the landowner in honour of the actress Sarah Siddons ?
text: Did you know that Fran Todman , who fundraised for the Retina Foundation for decades, was honored with an electrophysiology laboratory at the Schepens Eye Research Institute being named for her?
text: Did you know that the Idalion bilingual , one of six Phoenician inscriptions found in 1870 at Dali, Cyprus , was the " Rosetta Stone " for the decipherment of the Cypriot syllabary ?
text: Did you know that Shanghai-born lawyer Ezekiel Toeg formed leading collections of the stamps of the British West Indies ?
text: Did you know that in My Memoir , former United States first lady Edith Wilson detailed how she became Woodrow Wilson 's gatekeeper after his stroke, prioritizing his official duties?
text: Did you know that Ethiopian runner Helen Bekele Tola has stated a desire to compete for Switzerland at the 2020 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that voice actor Justin Roiland got drunk to record the part of Rick in the Rick and Morty episode " Vindicators 3: The Return of Worldender "?
text: Did you know that Pope Pius VI named Leonard Neale the coadjutor bishop of Baltimore in 1795, but Neale did not learn of this until 1800?
text: Did you know that the Urdu novel Fasana-e-Azad consists of about 3,000 pages?
text: Did you know that at the Schaubühne in Berlin, Jutta Lampe played Ophelia "as if in a trance", and male and female roles on a time voyage as the only actor in the premiere of Robert Wilson 's Orlando ?
text: Did you know that the Cominform Resolution of 28 June 1948 publicly announced the Tito–Stalin split ?
text: Did you know that after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a Montana abortion law in Mazurek v. Armstrong , state courts struck down the law as a violation of the Montana Constitution ?
text: Did you know that Canadian ethnomusicologist Judith R. Cohen dispels the myth that Judeo-Spanish songs have medieval origins and are unique to Sephardic Jews ?
text: Did you know that in The Trouble With Gravity , Richard Panek suggests that our universe's gravity originates in a parallel universe and is leaking into our own?
text: Did you know that Molly Gray , the new lieutenant governor of Vermont , is a former competitive skier and the daughter of an Olympic skier ?
text: Did you know that bathrooms in some German bars have vomiting basins ?
text: Did you know that Eleanor Roosevelt wrote four autobiographical memoirs: This Is My Story (1937), This I Remember (1949), On My Own (1958), and The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt (1961)?
text: Did you know that Rosl Zapf , a mezzo-soprano of the Oper Frankfurt who took part in world premieres, appeared at the Salzburg Festival in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte conducted by Georg Solti ?
text: Did you know that LiDAR can be used to make a digital terrain model ?
text: Did you know that the Butler mansion was built with parquette oak floors, elaborate frescos , wainscot paneling —and a fireproof wing to store the archives of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey ?
text: Did you know that during a spacewalk, Jean-Pierre Haigneré , a French spationaut and crew member of the Mir space station, deployed Sputnik 99 onto its orbit by simply releasing the satellite by hand?
text: Did you know that Derrick Tovey recognised early cases of smallpox during an outbreak in Bradford in 1962 ?
text: Did you know that fossils of the cypress Taxodium dubium have been found as far north as Spitsbergen and Denali ?
text: Did you know that Massachusetts-born activist Almira Hollander Pitman was given credit for the passage of a bill for women's suffrage in Hawaii ?
text: Did you know that DTM is the largest gay club in Northern Europe?
text: Did you know that Socrates Nelson sold a block of land to the city of Stillwater, Minnesota , for $5 in 1867 for the building of a new county courthouse?
text: Did you know that the Law for the Protection of Macedonian National Honour , created during World War II to quash opposition to Macedonian nationalism , remained in force until 1991?
text: Did you know that Sunny Lam , a Hong Kong singer-songwriter, performed a love song with Siri ?
text: Did you know that Australian and Greek troops under Lieutenant Colonel Ian Ross Campbell held off a force of over 1,000 German paratroops on Crete for ten days?
text: Did you know that when designing the character Madoka Kaname , Ume Aoki used Yuno, the protagonist of her manga series Hidamari Sketch , as a basis?
text: Did you know that Elaine Van Blunk finished third at the 1994 Chicago Marathon , her second marathon event?
text: Did you know that vaccines are commonly administered via intramuscular injection ?
text: Did you know that KAVU-TV in Victoria, Texas , did not know their signal was being seen on cable in Corpus Christi until family of station employees living there said that they had enjoyed that morning's newscast?
text: Did you know that arachnologist Ekaterina Andreeva wrote the first original monograph published in the USSR about Central Asian spiders?
text: Did you know that an obituary of Neil Peart said he was "sent to Earth to destroy drummer jokes "?
text: Did you know that the former ASCE Society House in New York City has been home to a tire showroom, a restaurant, and an art shop?
text: Did you know that Shanti Stupa, Delhi , was inaugurated by the Dalai Lama in 2007?
text: Did you know that William Cline Borden wrote the first American textbook on X-rays ?
text: Did you know that Bechevinka , an abandoned Soviet submarine base in Kamchatka , is now a ghost town that attracts tourists?
text: Did you know that Openload , a defunct file-sharing site that once received more traffic than Hulu , was labelled a notorious market ?
text: Did you know that the permeability of rocks affected by faults can increase or decrease as a result of seismic activity?
text: Did you know that Taylor Swift offered to postpone the release date of Evermore by one week so as not to coincide with Paul McCartney 's McCartney III ?
text: Did you know that Gernot Roll , considered an expert in literary adaptations, was the cinematographer for the 11-part television series The Buddenbrooks based on Thomas Mann's novel ?
text: Did you know that although fracking is banned in Maryland , state officials support the Eastern Shore Pipeline , which carries fracked gas?
text: Did you know that Michael White served in the same regiment as his father and married the daughter of another of its officers?
text: Did you know that in the Mediterranean Sea , recruitment of the bryozoan Callopora lineata takes place in February and March, whereas in the Isle of Man , it takes place all year round?
text: Did you know that in his first run for Texas House of Representatives , El Franco Lee had to pay a $400 fee to remain on the ballot because his nominating petition did not have enough verifiable signatures?
text: Did you know that dissections for Gray's Anatomy were carried out at the medical school in London's Kinnerton Street ?
text: Did you know that in a 2018 U.S. district court case , software company Stardock unsuccessfully tried to claim trademarks for the names of aliens from the game Star Control ?
text: Did you know that Laura Purser-Rose became the first woman to sign her name on the Green Monster at Fenway Park ?
text: Did you know that Lenín Moreno , who was elected president of Ecuador in 2017, is not seeking re-election in the 2021 general election ?
text: Did you know that Anton Colella was named the chief executive of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland even though his only qualifications were in teaching Catholic theology ?
text: Did you know that in " Body ", Megan Thee Stallion name-drops animal-rights activist Carole Baskin , who had previously criticized the rapper's use of big cats as props in a music video?
text: Did you know that according to historian Stefan Ihrig , the Nazis sought to emulate Turkey, which they viewed as a "postgenocidal paradise"?
text: Did you know that ecological speciation can give rise to new species by the way animals interact with their environment and each other?
text: Did you know that Hawaiian princess Kaʻiulani was an avid surfer and professed in an interview, "I'm sure I was a seal in another world because I am so fond of the water"?
text: Did you know that people with a fish allergy are unlikely to be allergic to shellfish, because fish and shellfish do not have the same allergenic protein?
text: Did you know that American-Israeli basketball player Bryan Cohen is the only athlete in the history of the Patriot League to win its Defensive Player of Year award three times?
text: Did you know that social projection may explain political polarization?
text: Did you know that Gertrude Degenhardt illustrated her brother-in-law Franz Josef Degenhardt 's song albums in the 1960s, and created art books such as Women in Music and Vagabondage in Blue in the 1990s?
text: Did you know that Choctaw was one of only three semi- whaleback ships ever built?
text: Did you know that armed robbers stole an estimated $30–45 million worth of paintings from Sweden's Nationalmuseum in December 2000, including two Renoirs and a Rembrandt ?
text: Did you know that the Strokes lose a game of baseball by a score of 56–1 against a team of robots in the music video for their song " The Adults Are Talking "?
text: Did you know that ballerina and répétiteur Sara Leland was able to stage more than 30 ballets due to her ability to remember choreography accurately?
text: Did you know that the frog pond effect describes how it is better for self-evaluation of competence to be a "big frog in a little pond"?
text: Did you know that Oregon state representative John H. Carkin was unanimously elected Speaker of the Oregon House in 1927, with support from all Democratic House members as well as his fellow Republicans ?
text: Did you know that a section of Japan National Route 114 that was closed following the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster has since been reopened?
text: Did you know that the Ava Prince Thray Sithu led two ceasefire negotiations with Hanthawaddy during the Forty Years' War ?
text: Did you know that messages could be sent by pneumatic tube in central Paris until 1984?
text: Did you know that Mildred Mottahedeh 's personal collection of porcelain was described by Nelson Rockefeller as "utterly fabulous, an artistic and cultural treasure without comparison in its field"?
text: Did you know that US civil-rights leader John Warren Davis was the longest-serving president of West Virginia State University and helped to establish the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund ?
text: Did you know that U-710 was sunk only ten days after beginning her first patrol?
text: Did you know that as a Porto Alegre city councillor, Rodrigo Maroni proposed a bill that would have imposed life imprisonment on offenders who commit cruelty to animals ?
text: Did you know that 6,000 square feet (560 m 2 ) of development rights above the Art Students League Building cost $31.8 million?
text: Did you know that Enid Szánthó , a leading contralto of the Vienna State Opera , appeared as Erda in Wagner's Ring cycle at the Bayreuth Festival in 1930, but was no longer invited by 1938?
text: Did you know that Paper Mario: The Origami King uses office supplies for boss battles to complement its origami theme?
text: Did you know that climate journalist Kendra Pierre-Louis is a critic of mayonnaise ?
text: Did you know that XO was one of the lowest-selling games in the Super Robot Wars series due to Xbox 360 's unwelcoming commercial and critical reception in Japan ?
text: Did you know that Frances Spatz Leighton was called the "Queen of Female Ghosts" for ghostwriting many memoirs?
text: Did you know that the 1988 Bruges speech by Margaret Thatcher has been described as "setting the UK on the path to Brexit "?
text: Did you know that after Illinois overhauled its Freedom of Information Act on January 1, 2010, the law became regarded as one of the most liberal public-records statutes in the United States?
text: Did you know that in 1982, a Magnificat in German composed in 1707 for soprano, traverso , strings, and continuo and attributed to Bach and Telemann , was identified as a composition by Melchior Hoffmann ?
text: Did you know that Spanish physicist Teresa Rodrigo worked on the discovery of the Higgs boson at CERN and the discovery of the top quark at Fermilab ?
text: Did you know that Manner , a Macau entertainment company, opened a store that sells almond biscuits with condom -looking wrapping, and gives customers free beef jerky if they show a parking ticket ?
text: Did you know that British Army officer Sir Augustus FitzGeorge served as equerry to his father, Prince George, Duke of Cambridge , and accompanied Albert Edward, Prince of Wales , on his visit to India?
text: Did you know that the 1983 memoir Home Before Morning , which details the author's time as a Vietnam War nurse, is dedicated to "all of the unknown women who served forgotten in their wars"?
text: Did you know that Israeli lawyer Gonen Ben Itzhak , a prominent figure in the protests against Benjamin Netanyahu , is a former Shin Bet handler of Hamas mole " The Green Prince "?
text: Did you know that the results of the 2021 Uzbek presidential election are expected to mirror those from 2016 , which were widely considered illegitimate?
text: Did you know that LaVon Mercer , who was homeless as a teenager, played in the Israeli Basketball Premier League for 14 years and was its 1980–81 season MVP?
text: Did you know that Milestone House at the Edinburgh City Hospital was the first custom-built AIDS hospice in the UK?
text: Did you know that in a three-month period in mid- to late 2020, nearly half of Americans were subject to an SSA impersonation scam robocall?
text: Did you know that Dick Callahan received his first opportunity as a PA announcer after claiming that he announced all the games at his high school, even though he had actually never announced a game before?
text: Did you know that the GPT-2 artificial intelligence can summarize, respond to, generate, and translate text, despite being trained to do nothing more than predict the next word in a sequence?
text: Did you know that, after former president Abdurrahman Wahid , Rusdy Mastura was the second Indonesian public official to apologize for the mass killings of 1965–66 ?
text: Did you know that the 1928 recording by Jimmie Rodgers of " Blue Yodel No. 1 (T for Texas) " influenced a line in Johnny Cash 's song " Folsom Prison Blues "?
text: Did you know that Samuel Pepys wrote of Royal Navy Commissioner Sir Thomas Hervey : "a coxcombe he is and will never be better in the business of the Navy"?
text: Did you know that by 2001, almost 2000 Trees For Life volunteers were growing 1.5 million plants every year?
text: Did you know that winners of the Kings Royal at Eldora Speedway , such as Shane Stewart , are given a scepter , robe, and crown, and pose on a throne in victory lane?
text: Did you know that the 1960 film The Purple Gang has an introduction by Congressman James Roosevelt , son of Franklin D. Roosevelt ?
text: Did you know that the common-law wife of the ninth vice president of the United States was Julia Chinn , an enslaved woman?
text: Did you know that while Gerry House worked at Kentucky radio station WCBR , the owner, a pastor, asked him whether he wanted to donate his salary?
text: Did you know that the first cookbook edited by Maria Guarnaschelli helped introduce American cooks to Indian cuisine?
text: Did you know that 17q12 microdeletion syndrome , an underdiagnosed genetic disorder, is thought to be a major genetic risk factor for autism and schizophrenia?
text: Did you know that Lee M. Hollander pioneered the translation of the works of the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard into English?
text: Did you know that the 2010 Football League Two play-off Final at Wembley Stadium was won by " a pub team from Essex "?
text: Did you know that at the time of her death at age 90, Lilliane Brady was the mayor of Cobar Shire and the longest-serving female mayor in New South Wales 's history?
text: Did you know that British jazz saxophonist Nubya Garcia 's debut album Source , which incorporates reggae , cumbia , calypso , hip-hop , and soul , is an ode to her musical history?
text: Did you know that Libuše Domanínská , a soprano of Prague's National Theatre , performed in all of Janáček 's operas, and a recording she made as his Jenůfa made his works better known beyond their home country?
text: Did you know that Roy Brown , credited with downing the Red Baron , suffered a serious accident not long after being posted to Marske Aerodrome ?
text: Did you know that in 2019 Joel Farabee became the first player born in the 2000s to become a Philadelphia Flyers player?
text: Did you know that black-sided flowerpeckers camouflage the outside of their nests with lichens ?
text: Did you know that the Language Integrator is a peep show intended only for inhabitants of the 82nd century to use?
text: Did you know that Ismith Khan 's novel The Jumbie Bird explores the transformation of immigrants from India into Indo-Trinidadians ?
text: Did you know that translator and journalist Frederika Randall , who moved from the United States to Italy, identified as a "dispatriate" to distance herself from her homeland?
text: Did you know that New York City's Western Union Telegraph Building was built on land once owned by Thomas W. Evans , dentist to French emperor Napoleon III ?
text: Did you know that with compositions such as Con brio , clarinetist Jörg Widmann was ranked the third-most-performed contemporary composer in 2018?
text: Did you know that Tailors' Hall , a surviving guildhall of Dublin, hosted fencing and dancing classes, the United Irishmen and a British Army garrison, Dublin Corporation and an insolvency court?
text: Did you know that the UConn student body voted 169–7 to fire the basketball coach after he benched Harrison Fitch because a rival team refused to play against an African American?
text: Did you know that Troy, Montana , has flying squirrels ?
text: Did you know that American band the Body 's album I've Seen All I Need to See opens with a reading of the poem "The Kaleidoscope" by Scottish poet Douglas Dunn ?
text: Did you know that Cajun accordion musician Sheryl Cormier has been named the Cajun Queen in the United States and Europe?
text: Did you know that when the manga series Antique Bakery was adapted into a live-action television drama in 2001, a character who was gay in the source material was changed to having a fear of women ?
text: Did you know that veterinarian Matt Brash treated some of the owls that appeared in the first Harry Potter film and concluded that they had leukocytozoonosis ?
text: Did you know that as part of the Israel–Morocco normalization agreement , the US agreed to recognize Morocco 's claim to Western Sahara ?
text: Did you know that when Imants Lešinskis defected from the Soviet Union while working for the UN in New York, Kofi Annan , future UN secretary-general, complained that he did not show up to work?
text: Did you know that the medieval Breton Gwerz Santes Enori tells the story of a woman who sacrificed a breast to cure her father, and is rewarded with a golden breast?
text: Did you know that the creator of a video depicting the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état , which featured Indonesian politically satirical song " Ampun Bang Jago ", denied that it was politically motivated?
text: Did you know that the American scholar Karen Hellekson published the first book in English devoted to analyzing the alternate history genre?
text: Did you know that although its range is restricted to the island of Borneo , the mountain blackeye has evolved into four subspecies?
text: Did you know that the biography of Singapore's first Asian postmaster-general, M. Bala Subramanion , was released at The Fullerton Hotel , the site of the old General Post Office where he had worked for 35 years?
text: Did you know that Dav Pilkey wrote the children's book The Paperboy , which received a Caldecott Honor , in fifteen minutes?
text: Did you know that film researcher Lillian Michelson interviewed elderly Jewish women about the appearance of the underwear they wore in the 1890s to develop accurate clothing for Fiddler On The Roof ?
text: Did you know that a commercial for the food delivery app Domino's App feat. Hatsune Miku went viral on YouTube in 2013, and was described by journalists as "bizarre"?
text: Did you know that Peter Herrmann composed a Second Symphony that premiered at the Gewandhaus with Kurt Masur , and a Kant Pop Symphony that premiered at the Musikhochschule Leipzig , where he had taught for decades?
text: Did you know that British journalist Godfrey Hodgson , who covered American politics, society, and values, showed that the first Thanksgiving did not include turkey and cranberry sauce?
text: Did you know that the documentary Change the Subject is about lobbying efforts to replace the term "illegal aliens" with "undocumented immigrants" in the Library of Congress Subject Headings ?
text: Did you know that in 1897, former slave George Dinning was the first black man to successfully sue a mob of the Ku Klux Klan ?
text: Did you know that Lloyd Percival 's The Hockey Handbook was credited as being used by Soviet Union national ice hockey team coach Anatoly Tarasov ?
text: Did you know that Bradford City scored three goals in 13 minutes to secure promotion in the 2013 Football League Two play-off Final ?
text: Did you know that the wind phone in Japan was set up to allow people to talk to the dead?
text: Did you know that 50 books from a total of more than 150 authored by Pakistani historian Abu Salman Shahjahanpuri are about the Indian scholar and independence activist Abul Kalam Azad ?
text: Did you know that the owner of Walsall F.C. described victory at the 2001 Football League Second Division play-off Final as the greatest day in the club's history?
text: Did you know that after finishing his term as Indonesia's minister of agriculture, Sjarifuddin Baharsjah was immediately succeeded by his wife ?
text: Did you know that Canada's National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls called for the abolition of birth alerts ?
text: Did you know that philanthropist Sidney Hill began a new life in England as a gentleman farmer, adding stables to the estate, a dairy and Langford Bullock Palaces for his prized shorthorn cattle?
text: Did you know that the whaleback barge 115 became the last Great Lakes shipwreck of the 1800s?
text: Did you know that when women's champion Dotty Fothergill sued in 1970 for being denied the right to compete in men's tournaments, the Professional Bowlers Association countersued for "disastrous ridicule"?
text: Did you know that the cover of Red Meat Republic , a book on the history of beef production in the United States, has the look and texture of butcher paper ?
text: Did you know that the English clergyman Frank Thewlis was related to Prime Minister Harold Wilson and wore a red handkerchief in his jacket pocket when preaching to show his support for Wilson's Labour Party ?
text: Did you know that the war in Uganda (1986–1994) involved rebel armies led by a prophetess, her father, spirits, "Hitler", ex-ministers, and Joseph Kony ?
text: Did you know that AJ Rafael started Crazy Talented Asians , a live variety show , after being influenced by the film Crazy Rich Asians ?
text: Did you know that although the 1786 tignon law in Spanish Louisiana was intended to hinder free black women, those who followed it made the tignon a "mark of distinction"?
text: Did you know that some of the Sheffield Wednesday team participated in a conga on the M4 motorway after winning the 2005 Football League One play-off Final ?
text: Did you know that Keith Gill 's username, "DeepFuckingValue", was chosen to reflect his belief in value investing ?
text: Did you know that Shandon Castle was destroyed in the Siege of Cork in 1690, and sandstone from its ruins used to build the Church of St Anne in 1722?
text: Did you know that baseball pitcher Dennis Rasmussen nearly had to have his foot amputated when he was 14 years old?
text: Did you know that the Ćmielów Porcelain Works are Poland's oldest porcelain works, and Europe's largest thin-walled-china works?
text: Did you know that Biserka Cvejić , a Serbian mezzo-soprano who appeared at the Vienna State Opera in 372 performances, made her Metropolitan Opera debut in 1961 as Amneris in Verdi's Aida ?
text: Did you know that the theme song for the tabletop role-playing game F.A.T.A.L. was described by a reviewer as "sound[ing] like the Cookie Monster chasing a drum kit being pushed down a flight of stairs"?
text: Did you know that Francesca Coppa , a professor of English, compiled "the first anthology of fan fiction for use in the classroom"?
text: Did you know that Pliofilm , a pre-war food wrap, was used to waterproof firearms during the Normandy landings ?
text: Did you know that the 1888 eruption of Ritter Island reduced the 780-metre tall (2,560 ft) volcano to a height of just 140 metres (460 ft)?
text: Did you know that sisters Amal, Hadia, and Hayat Talsam, known as Al Balabil , were referred to as "The Sudanese Supremes "?
text: Did you know that academic analysis of The Diving Pool has interpreted the use of food as a way to poison others as a critique on Japanese femininity?
text: Did you know that the world's richest self-made woman, Zhong Huijuan , started out as a middle-school chemistry teacher?
text: Did you know that 23 Wall Street has been called one of the "big little buildings of Wall Street"?
text: Did you know that the 2018 comedy film A Bread Factory , about the difficulty of producing meaningful artistic work in a market economy , received acclaim from critics but earned less than $18,000 at the box office?
text: Did you know that Gauthier Mvumbi has been called the "Shaq of handball", the "Congo Colossus", and "the most popular handball player on the Earth"?
text: Did you know that British Columbia 's oldest practicing lawyer, Canadian Constance Isherwood , who died at 101, closed her last case hours before her death?
text: Did you know that the Babakale Castle supplied water to the Ottoman Navy before the fleet set sail on campaigns?
text: Did you know that Dorothee Manski , a soprano of the Berlin Court Opera , gave 335 performances at the Metropolitan Opera after being invited to appear there as the Witch in Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel in 1927?
text: Did you know that Willa Cather 's final story, The Best Years , contains references to her previously published novels?
text: Did you know that ballerina Merrill Ashley is one of the last dancers to have worked with choreographer George Balanchine ?
text: Did you know that due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK the entire 2021 Netball Superleague season is being hosted at just two venues?
text: Did you know that a 9-metre tall (30 ft) Malt Shovel in Burton upon Trent might actually be a scoop?
text: Did you know that London-based dream-pop duo Still Corners ' album The Last Exit paints a picture of open-road Americana ?
text: Did you know that the administrator of the Royal Society of New Zealand , Mimie Wood , correctly predicted that she would be replaced by five people upon retirement?
text: Did you know that Stalin considered invading the island of Hokkaido in northern Japan in the last days of World War II?
text: Did you know that Utah radio stations KSUB and KSUB-FM both suffered tower collapses before going on air—39 years apart?
text: Did you know that Austrian stamp collector Adolf Passer sold most of his collection to concentrate on wooing his future wife?
text: Did you know that the Bedouin emirs of the Turabay dynasty presided over nearly a century of peace and prosperity in northern Palestine ?
text: Did you know that Helen Dettweiler cofounded the LPGA , was a cryptographer and B-17 pilot during World War II, and became the first female broadcaster in baseball?
text: Did you know that the silent film The Honeymoon Express was reported to have been withdrawn from release despite being screened later in 1926?
text: Did you know that Elizabeth Pulane Moremi became regent of baTawana after the death of her husband Moremi III ?
text: Did you know that the picture book Maiden & Princess , in which a maiden and princess fall in love, shares a fictional universe with Prince & Knight , in which a prince and male knight do the same?
text: Did you know that the church led by Ernest T. Campbell sponsored Marina Oswald , the widow of Lee Harvey Oswald , to study at the University of Michigan ?
text: Did you know that the vocalist in " Erlkönig ", published as Schubert 's Op. 1, portrays four characters that differ in vocal register, rhythm, and harmony?
text: Did you know that François Henri Mouton fought for the Sikhs during the First Anglo-Sikh War whilst on leave from the French Army?
text: Did you know that a scene from the music video for " End Game " features Taylor Swift playing the video game Snake , a reference to her reputation as a "snake"?
text: Did you know that Ekkehard von Kuenssberg turned down an invitation to join the SS and migrated to Britain, carrying a hockey stick and a tennis racquet ?
text: Did you know that High Point has been described as "the severed head of some Japanese giant robot"?
text: Did you know that the dance choreography for Babymetal , Perfume , Nosaj Thing 's "Cold Stares" music video, the 2016 Summer Olympics closing ceremony , and the Japanese 2016 viral sensation " Koi Dance " were all created by MIKIKO ?
text: Did you know that Canadian social activist and human rights pioneer Charan Gill started his career working in a sawmill?
text: Did you know that after winning the 1814 Battle of Champaubert , Napoleon instructed his representative at the Congress of Châtillon peace negotiations to "sign nothing"?
text: Did you know that civil rights lawyer Deborah Archer is the first African-American to be president of the American Civil Liberties Union in its 101-year history?
text: Did you know that in the 1970s a saxophonist led Major Surgery at a pub in South London ?
text: Did you know that music educator Siegfried Borris was dismissed from the Musikhochschule Berlin by the Nazis, but after World War II became a professor there and president of the Deutscher Musikrat ?
text: Did you know that the Boeing 247 DZ203 flew for United Airlines and the RCAF before the RAF used it to perform the world's first completely automated approach and blind landing ?
text: Did you know that Mother Oya , born into a wealthy family, lived and worked without salary in an orphanage for more than 60 years?
text: Did you know that the Church of the Saintes Maries de la Mer was fortified to protect the town from Vikings and Saracens ?
text: Did you know that fashion designer Monika Tilley 's nipple-baring white mesh swimsuit worn by Cheryl Tiegs in the 1978 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue is an exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art ?
text: Did you know that the Taylor Swift song " Gorgeous " features an introduction voiced by James Reynolds, daughter of actress Blake Lively and actor Ryan Reynolds ?
text: Did you know that New Zealand ornithologist Arthur Pycroft ate a huia about two years before the last confirmed sighting of that bird species?
text: Did you know that during his 2020 campaign for the leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada , Erin O'Toole made a platform catering to Quebec nationalist voters?
text: Did you know that the Knoxville Raceway will host the first NASCAR nationally sanctioned race in its 120-year history in 2021, joining a race at Bristol Motor Speedway as dirt-track races on the NASCAR Truck Series schedule ?
text: Did you know that Claude-Laurent Bourgeois de Jessaint was the prefect of Marne from 1800 to 1838, surviving numerous regime changes?
text: Did you know that after winning the 2013 Football League One play-off Final , Yeovil Town were promoted to the second tier of English football just ten years after being a non-League club ?
text: Did you know that Jackie Robinson Park was selected as the site for a pool in Harlem after a 1935 riot ?
text: Did you know that a manga series by Nanae Sasaya is credited with influencing the adoption of new Japanese child-abuse laws?
text: Did you know that the Bernie Sanders mittens meme has raised nearly $2 million for Vermont charities?
text: Did you know that Daryn Pittman was the first American to win the World Series Sprintcars championship and the first Oklahoman to win the World of Outlaws title?
text: Did you know that Innisfree Garden in Millbrook, New York , was developed from the 1930s by a painter fascinated with an 8th-century Chinese artist , and a landscape architect from Harvard ?
text: Did you know that the earliest book in English of Sudanese literature is the memoir of Selim Aga , who was born in 1826 and sold as a slave, but published his autobiography in "faultless idiomatic English"?
text: Did you know that British historian and South-Asian history expert David Washbrook called the UK Home Office out on its misrepresentation of slavery and British colonization?
text: Did you know that despite boasting it was the most powerful television station in the Midwest, Missouri's KACY left the air because it could not secure the right to carry network programs?
text: Did you know that the original version of the First World War Garland grenade was made from a food tin packed with barbed wire and spent bullets?
text: Did you know that if a student at Kemptville Agricultural School had a problem to solve, the standard advice was to ask Mr. George ?
text: Did you know that Konrad Rupf , a long-term singer of the Leipzig Opera , made his stage debut in 1955 as Dulcamara in L'elisir d'amore and appeared as Tevje in Fiddler on the Roof in 2000?
text: Did you know that after Amanda Gorman recited the poem " The Hill We Climb " at the inauguration of US president Joe Biden , she gained Twitter followers at a faster rate than the president?
text: Did you know that some members of Napoleon I 's Guards of Honour considered themselves to be hostages of the emperor?
text: Did you know that a seven-figure deal was made for Soman Chainani 's debut book The School for Good and Evil to make a film adaptation less than two weeks after the book's publication?
text: Did you know that Hilda Ellis Davidson played an important role in rescuing the field of folklore studies from its eccentric postwar image?
text: Did you know that Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind is the first wind farm to be built in U.S. federal waters ?
text: Did you know that Billy Kee was going to include "Wembley" in the name of his child who was being born during the 2014 Football League Two play-off Final if he scored?
text: Did you know that one of Finland's longest unsolved crimes , a 1987 murder on board the cruiseferry MS Viking Sally , is going to court after 33 years?
text: Did you know that American Nobel Prize laureate Herbert A. Simon underwent surgery at UPMC Presbyterian to remove a cancerous tumor in his abdomen in January 2001?
text: Did you know that Jewish-Russian Zinaida Vengerova , a pioneer in Russian decadence , allowed a circle of intellectuals to drink her blood in a ritual described as anti-Semitic?
text: Did you know that members of the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps of New Zealand were known as Tuis, after a native bird ?
text: Did you know that Sibongile Khumalo , who sang both national anthems at the 1995 Rugby World Cup Final , said that it was "the one and only time I've ever watched a rugby match, at any level, of any kind"?
text: Did you know that solar radio emission was first observed in 1942 during World War II by British radar operators?
text: Did you know that New Zealand geneticist Neil Gemmell hunted the Loch Ness Monster to show how science works?
text: Did you know that while held in a concentration camp, Zhu Min sabotaged Nazi cartridge boxes by spitting into them?
text: Did you know that " People " by the 1975 was written as a response to the passing of Alabama 's controversial abortion ban ?
text: Did you know that Philip Seymour Hoffman's roles included a storm chaser, an arms dealer, and a cult leader?
text: Did you know that surgeon Herbert Haxton proved that the kneecap was not just to protect the knee but also important for straightening the leg?
text: Did you know that the Dreikönigskirche in Dresden , a Baroque church completed in 1739, was bombed in 1945, not restored until 1984, and served as the seat of the state parliament from 1990?
text: Did you know that the young of Coquerel's coua leave the nest after about nine days when still covered with down and unable to fly?
text: Did you know that Ruth Wright Hayre 's philanthropic program Tell Them We Are Rising was named after a phrase said by her grandfather , which also inspired the poem " Howard at Atlanta "?
text: Did you know that Japan National Route 350 serves remote Sado Island without any bridges connecting it to its termini on Honshu ?
text: Did you know that Cyclone Meena was the first of four severe tropical cyclones to impact the Cook Islands in February 2005 ?
text: Did you know that 2021 New York City Comptroller candidate Zach Iscol was awarded the Bronze Star for bravery during the Second Battle of Fallujah in the Iraq War ?
text: Did you know that the Texabama croton was nearly simultaneously discovered at Fort Hood and Balcones Canyonlands National Wildlife Refuge in 1989?
text: Did you know that Nilüfer Verdi is the first female jazz pianist in Turkey?
text: Did you know that after his side won the 2008 Football League One play-off Final , Doncaster Rovers manager Sean O'Driscoll said he could "murder a cup of tea"?
text: Did you know that comedian Atsugiri Jason became the first non-Japanese finalist on the R-1 Grand Prix in 2014?
text: Did you know that the Cook Islands Local Defence Force was expected to "uphold the prestige of the Cook Islands " by putting up a token resistance if the islands were invaded?
text: Did you know that Liolaemus sarmientoi is one of the two southernmost species of lizard in the world?
text: Did you know that Zeyan Shafiq developed KashBook during an Internet ban in the Kashmir Valley , operating without a virtual private network ?
text: Did you know that Sucker Punch Productions had trouble finding a publisher for their debut video game, Rocket: Robot on Wheels ?
text: Did you know that Anne Bierwirth has performed the alto part in Bach's Christmas Oratorio , and in a recording of the first Passion oratorio in German by Reinhard Keiser ?
text: Did you know that all dialogue in the film Nostos: The Return is in a made-up language based on ancient Greek, Sanskrit and Latin?
text: Did you know that Jimmie Rodgers 's appearance on The Singing Brakeman made him the first country musician to be featured in a film?
text: Did you know that the new chairman of the BBC has a twin sister who is a leading judge?
text: Did you know that the 1989 book Serendipity: Accidental Discoveries in Science examines the role of happenstance in the history of science?
text: Did you know that the manufacturing of knife cutlery at Babakale in Turkey goes back to the 1720s, started by masters who immigrated from Kazakhstan?
text: Did you know that gospel pianist Rudy Atwood , heard on Old Fashioned Revival Hour radio broadcasts of the 1930s to the 1960s, attributed his hymn arrangements to the influence of J. S. Bach ?
text: Did you know that the Bangkok neighbourhood of Bang Rak is home to Buddhist temples, mosques, a Chinese shrine, and the city's Catholic cathedral ?
text: Did you know that station officials climbed the 500-foot (150 m) tower of the first WFMZ-TV , smashed a bottle of champagne against the top, and christened it "Miss Ultra High "?
text: Did you know that the empty Shibuya Crossing featured on the series Alice in Borderland was filmed on a large green-screen set outside Tokyo?
text: Did you know that Abudureheman Abulikemu was the first boxer from Xinjiang to compete at the Olympics ?
text: Did you know that New York New York is noted as among the first yaoi manga series to depict social realism in its treatment of gay identity?
text: Did you know that Gabriel Sterling has debunked Donald Trump 's allegations of voter fraud in the 2020 U.S. presidential election ?
text: Did you know that DeepMind 's protein-folding program AlphaFold 2 has made significant progress towards solving a decades-old grand challenge of biology?
text: Did you know that Blackpool became the most successful club in the history of English Football League play-offs when they won the 2017 EFL League Two play-off Final against Exeter City ?
text: Did you know that the 1st Weather Squadron , the 2016 Weather Squadron of the Year, reports on future battlefield weather conditions and assists during natural disasters?
text: Did you know that Sayidiman Suryohadiprojo , a former ambassador of Indonesia to Japan, authored the first book about Japan in the Indonesian language?
text: Did you know that Mortimer Taube designed his Uniterm indexing system for easy automation , and then built a punched-card version as the IBM 9900?
text: Did you know that there are other causes of climate change in Brazil besides the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest ?
text: Did you know that Ronald Graham , president of the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America , also became president of the International Jugglers' Association ?
text: Did you know that Sarah Cooper and Helen Mirren lip synched the Donald Trump Access Hollywood tape in Sarah Cooper: Everything's Fine ?
text: Did you know that the music video for Harry Styles 's song " Lights Up " was interpreted as a "bisexual anthem" by critics and viewers due to it being released on National Coming Out Day ?
text: Did you know that John Atcheler claimed to be "Horse Slaughterer to Her Majesty Queen Victoria "?
text: Did you know that Leon Rains , a bass singer who studied in New York City and Paris, took part in the world premiere of Salome and an early recording of Tannhäuser ?
text: Did you know that the Australian Army named a programme to acquire new armoured vehicles after an Australian horse ?
text: Did you know that thousands of football players are trafficked every year?
text: Did you know that Bambang Suryadi , a politician from the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle , was buried with the flag of the party above him?
text: Did you know that " Me & You Together Song " by the 1975 was originally intended for the soundtrack of German , a film that lead singer Matthew Healy was writing?
text: Did you know that Martin Luther King Jr. 's secretary Maude Ballou edited early versions of his iconic " I Have a Dream " speech?
text: Did you know that the largescale four-eyes does not have four eyes?
text: Did you know that " The House of Asterion " by Jorge Luis Borges was one of the first works by a major author to examine a well-known tale from the monster's perspective?
text: Did you know that Driveways director Andrew Ahn said that the experience of directing a script he did not write improved both his writing and directing?
text: Did you know that helicopters from Acer cascadense were found in Moose Mountain?
text: Did you know that in the beginning of the 18th century, an estimated 2,100 Cherokee people inhabited more than sixteen Cherokee settlements in villages east of the Blue Ridge Mountains?
text: Did you know that Duo Yun Xuan held the first art auction on the Chinese mainland ?
text: Did you know that AFC Wimbledon were promoted for a sixth time since their formation in 2002 when they won the 2016 Football League Two play-off Final ?
text: Did you know that rapper Zane One does not listen to much hip hop music, and her debut album features samples from classic rock and folk songs?
text: Did you know that former Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives Frank J. Van Dyke was born in Penang , Straits Settlements , British Malaya , in 1907?
text: Did you know that Camille Saint-Saëns dedicated his Caprice on Danish and Russian Airs to a Danish princess who became Empress of Russia?
text: Did you know that stocks of mustard gas , thought to have been destroyed in the 1940s, were discovered at RAF Bowes Moor in 1997?
text: Did you know that Albuquerque radio station KRZY broadcast a college football game without permission by smuggling in gear under blankets and disguising an announcer in the opposing team's student section?
text: Did you know that in a 1982 book about the printing industry of 16th-century Strasbourg , historian Miriam Usher Chrisman demonstrated the scholarly potential of the digital analysis of large archival datasets?
text: Did you know that the first scene of the 2010 film The Social Network took 99 takes to finish?
text: Did you know that when the chimpanzee Sami escaped from the Belgrade Zoo for the second time in less than a week, thousands of people cheered him on?
text: Did you know that F. Andrieu was the composer of Armes, amours/O flour des flours , a double ballade lamenting the death of his colleague Guillaume de Machaut ?
text: Did you know that Proton 3 , launched on 24 March 1966, was one of the first satellites equipped to look for quarks ?
text: Did you know that Sarran Teelucksingh was the first person of Indian descent elected to the Legislative Council of Trinidad and Tobago ?
text: Did you know that Jerome Robbins 's ballet In the Night is set to four nocturnes by Frédéric Chopin ?
text: Did you know that German fighter ace Kurt Wolff decorated his room with machine guns from planes he shot down?
text: Did you know that it took authorities only one day to repair damage on Japan National Route 116 following the 2007 Chūetsu offshore earthquake ?
text: Did you know that Barbara Danish wrote The Dragon and the Doctor in 20 minutes?
text: Did you know that the Music City Grand Prix will cross the Cumberland River in Nashville, Tennessee , making it one of the few auto races to cross a significant body of water?
text: Did you know that after losing the Battle of Kinghorn in 1332, the Earl of Fife was "full of shame" at being defeated by such a small force?
text: Did you know that 2021 New York City mayoral candidate Kathryn Garcia resigned as Commissioner of the New York City Sanitation Department after budget cuts forced a 60-percent reduction in public trash basket pickups?
text: Did you know that the book Lost Feast discusses extinct culinary foods, particularly the herb silphium that was prized by Roman and Egyptian societies?
text: Did you know that the eagle on top of the Monumento a la Raza in Mexico City was originally cast for the Federal Legislative Palace 's dome?
text: Did you know that lawyer and press freedom advocate Frank LoMonte helped pass legislation in 14 U.S. states outlawing censorship of student media by school administrators?
text: Did you know that the Willie Nelson Statue in Austin, Texas , was unveiled on 420 day at 4:20 p.m.?
text: Did you know that the Bangladesh women's team won the first One Day International cricket match they played?
text: Did you know that Benedict Joseph Fenwick was unable to generate interest in opening the College of the Holy Cross in the wilderness of Maine and so founded it instead in Worcester, Massachusetts ?
text: Did you know that the opposing managers watched the penalty shootout that decided the 2015 Football League Two play-off Final together?
text: Did you know that Radio City Music Hall organist Richard Leibert eloped twice with the daughter of a U.S. congressman?
text: Did you know that the documentary Aidan Walsh: Master of the Universe explores the life of the musician who signed "Ireland's fastest ever record deal"?
text: Did you know that the video game Wild Woody contains an Easter egg that displays a topless mermaid if certain items are collected in order?
text: Did you know that Joe the Pigeon was granted a pardon by the Australian government after being sentenced to euthanasia ?
text: Did you know that after twelve years of attempts, Kyle Larson won the Chili Bowl Nationals back-to-back in the first two years when he participated under his own team ?
text: Did you know that Pakistani historian Suhail Zaheer Lari and his wife, architect Yasmeen Lari , threatened to elope to Scotland to get married because the legal marriageable age there was lower than in England?
text: Did you know that the Remsen Cemetery , one of the few remaining private burial grounds on Long Island, contains the remains of an American Revolutionary War colonel and his family members?
text: Did you know that journalist Charles Mayer proposed an election procedure change in his attempt to become president of the National Boxing Association ?
text: Did you know that See You in the Cosmos , published as a children's book, has adult themes throughout?
text: Did you know that Spiel nicht mit den Schmuddelkindern , a 1965 album and song that Franz Josef Degenhardt wrote and sang to his guitar, anticipated the opposition of the student movement ?
text: Did you know that although Walt Whitman and Abraham Lincoln never met, Whitman once wrote "I love the President personally"?
text: Did you know that when New York City's Harlem Ship Canal Bridge had to be replaced, it was floated down the river to become the University Heights Bridge ?
text: Did you know that Anna Utenhoven , who was buried alive in 1597, was the last person executed for heresy in the Low Countries ?
text: Did you know that after NBCUniversal shut down KMAS-TV in Steamboat Springs, Colorado , its chief engineer suggested it be donated to his former employer, Rocky Mountain PBS ?
text: Did you know that the English and French agreed to a draft treaty in 1354 to end what was to become the Hundred Years' War, but the French reneged and the war continued for a further 101 years?
text: Did you know that Wahsayah Whitebird 's Communist Party membership was not publicly known until after he was elected?
text: Did you know that Valentina , with her song " J'imagine ", brought France its first victory at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest ?
text: Did you know that Elsa Schiaparelli prevented Salvador Dalí from adding mayonnaise to her lobster dress ?
text: Did you know that Hamilton Fish Park , whose pool was used for Olympic practice, was one of the New York City Parks Department's "worst problem areas" by the 1970s?
text: Did you know that ballerina Georgina Parkinson created several roles in ballets choreographed by Kenneth MacMillan , including Romeo and Juliet , Manon and Mayerling ?
text: Did you know that the extinct mooneye fish Hiodon woodruffi was not described until 1978, although the earliest finds date to 1906?
text: Did you know that in 1781, Dutch rear admiral Willem Krul was determined to fight a British fleet with a single warship and died?
text: Did you know that Gore Vidal's novel Live from Golgotha has been called a "masterpiece of blasphemous vulgarity"?
text: Did you know that My Love from the Star 's popularity led to it being discussed at China's National People's Congress ?
text: Did you know that journalist Tom Fitzgerald reportedly held the Guinness world record for "the accumulation of complimentary raincoats, Panasonic radios and Cross pens"?
text: Did you know that the film poster for Looking for Magical Doremi appeared in an episode of Healin' Good Pretty Cure to promote the film?
text: Did you know that although Dallas minister Walker Railey was acquitted of the attempted murder of his wife in a criminal court, a civil court awarded an $18 million judgment against him?
text: Did you know that the Regent of Thousand Islands is the only regent in Indonesia to be appointed by the governor instead of being elected by the people?
text: Did you know that journalist Kelsey Piper sees her Vox column as a way to popularize discussion of global catastrophic risks ?
text: Did you know that Distichia muscoides provides good grazing all-year-round in the High Andes for domesticated llamas and alpacas , and non-native livestock?
text: Did you know that Dax Reynosa began his hip-hop career as a battle rapper who would burn the rhyme books of defeated opponents, and later co-produced a documentary depicting battle rap in Los Angeles ?
text: Did you know that a reviewer from Eurogamer considered King of Crabs to be the "best crab-based Battle Royale" video game he had ever reviewed?
text: Did you know that Area 51 was originally called Paradise Ranch to encourage workers to move there?
text: Did you know that the St Peter's Medal of the British Association of Urological Surgeons was first awarded for the detection of bladder cancers in the dye industry?
text: Did you know that the music style of singer-songwriter Kui Lee featured a blend of traditional Hawaiian music , jazz , blues , and rock and roll ?
text: Did you know that in a rare leapfrog appeal the UK Supreme Court decided that insurance companies can be liable for business losses arising due to the COVID-19 pandemic ?
text: Did you know that after the lynching of her son , Beulah Mae Donald successfully sued the Ku Klux Klan , winning a $7 million judgment?
text: Did you know that Naimur Rahman took six wickets for 132 runs in the very first test Bangladesh played in 2000 ?
text: Did you know that Twitter and Discord use snowflakes as unique identifiers for their messages and users?
text: Did you know that Canadian citizen Susan Thomson had her passport confiscated and spent five weeks in "re-education" in 2006 due to her ethnographic research in Rwanda?
text: Did you know that one student's entire semester at the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay in 1979 consisted of programming its student radio station WGBW ?
text: Did you know that children's writer Israel Wachser died in Kryve Ozero while defending the local Jewish population from a pogrom ?
text: Did you know that the men of Wood's Missouri Cavalry Battalion made defenses out of cotton during the Battle of Pine Bluff ?
text: Did you know that Aicha Mekki was one of the very few crime reporters and female journalists in Morocco during the Years of Lead in the latter half of the 20th century?
text: Did you know that cricketer Hasan Ali was picked as a wildcard at the 2021 Pakistan Super League players draft ?
text: Did you know that the 1.5 million cubic yards (1.1 million m 3 ) of asbestos waste at the BoRit Asbestos Superfund site in Ambler, Pennsylvania , was known colloquially as the "White Mountains" by local residents?
text: Did you know that in Denial of Violence , Fatma Müge Göçek argues that Armenian Genocide denial is one of the ideological foundations of the Turkish nation-state?
text: Did you know that the Septet for trumpet, strings and piano was composed by Camille Saint-Saëns for a mathematician?
text: Did you know that Senegalese turtle biologist Tomas Diagne drove 1,200 miles (1,900 km) to pick up the carcass of a Nubian flapshell turtle ?
text: Did you know that despite a $34 million advertising campaign in the United States by General Mills , their breakfast cereal snack Fingos only lasted from 1993 to 1994?
text: Did you know that the northern water dragon migrated from New Guinea into Wallacea less than one million years ago?
text: Did you know that American educator Alan T. Busby was the first African-American student to attend the University of Connecticut , graduating in 1918?
text: Did you know that a journalist lived for a year using only goods made in Canada ?
text: Did you know that Joseildo da Silva beat Roy Dooney at the 1991 Chicago Marathon by six seconds in the slowest winning time for 10 years?
text: Did you know that the British design historian Cheryl Buckley claimed in an influential 1986 article that women's contributions to design have been "consistently ignored"?
text: Did you know that Astoria Park was intended to be New York City's first large park with active recreational facilities?
text: Did you know that the tomb of Muhammad Ahmad in Sudan was desecrated by British forces after the Battle of Omdurman in 1898?
text: Did you know that " Lobpreiset all zu dieser Zeit ", for New Year in the current Catholic hymnal Gotteslob , takes two stanzas from a 1851 song by Heinrich Bone , a third stanza and refrain from 1969, and a 1529 popular melody by Luther ?
text: Did you know that the Strax affair started in the library?
text: Did you know that the phrase "landfill indie", coined in 2008 by the English music journalist Andrew Harrison , was intended as a pejorative term to describe the perceived bland guitar rock that dominated the UK charts in the early 2000s?
text: Did you know that physician Roopa Dhatt has highlighted the disproportionate number of women working on the frontline of the COVID-19 pandemic ?
text: Did you know that British singer Rita Ora and Kazakh DJ Imanbek collaborated with translators over videotelephony software Zoom to record their collaborative EP Bang ?
text: Did you know that Andy Crosby captained Scunthorpe United to victory in the 2009 League One play-off Final , the last match of his 715-game career?
text: Did you know that the encrusting bryozoan Chorizopora brongniartii has a strategy for avoiding being overgrown by worm tubes ?
text: Did you know that although Peter Doyle was Walt Whitman 's intimate companion for over twenty years, he was almost not permitted to attend Whitman's funeral?
text: Did you know that the elderly Widow Mulchrone baked griddlecakes at the Kelly homestead for Princess Grace and Prince Rainier ?
text: Did you know that Richard W. Wells claimed that before he brought several eastern brown snake eggs into the office of a local newspaper , the species had never been photographed hatching?
text: Did you know that after his baseball career, Byron Houck worked as a camera operator on Buster Keaton 's production crew?
text: Did you know that the River Poddle , the main water source of the city of Dublin for over 500 years, was later so polluted by industry that it allegedly killed cattle and horses drinking from it?
text: Did you know that Alexander Bielaski was friends with Abraham Lincoln and the grandfather of a director of what became the FBI ?
text: Did you know that the Disability Day of Mourning was first observed in 2012, in response to the media coverage of a murdered autistic man focusing on his murderer's "love and devotion"?
text: Did you know that one of Elizabeth Cressener 's nuns entered her priory as a ten-year-old princess ?
text: Did you know that the Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock was the first symphony orchestra to perform as a full ensemble following a hiatus caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany ?
text: Did you know that Japanese artist Macoto Takahashi stopped making girls' comics in the 1960s because he considered himself incapable of adopting the point of view of a girl?
text: Did you know that before the consulate was ready, the first Russian consul in Hakodate lived in local temples?
text: Did you know that when Fred Stewart was appointed the manager of Cardiff City F.C. , he paid the transfer fee of his first signing himself?
text: Did you know that Berwind , a mining ghost town in Colorado, was a battle site during the Colorado Coalfield War in 1913 and 1914?
text: Did you know that Christina Adane 's free school meal campaign created a UK government U-turn?
text: Did you know that the first Route 128 station was built in just one week?
text: Did you know that Irish Times columnist Róisín Ingle has penned more than 4,000 pieces, including "It was love at first riot" about meeting her life partner in Northern Ireland ?
text: Did you know that the New York Produce Exchange 's business was described in 1886 as "callithumpian discord" with "fiendish screeches"?
text: Did you know that Satyavathi Rathod is the first woman from a scheduled tribe to serve as a minister in the Indian state of Telangana ?
text: Did you know that Vasari disliked the "clumsy Greek style" of Italo-Byzantine painting that preceded the Renaissance?
text: Did you know that William Lyon Mackenzie was the first mayor of Toronto?
text: Did you know that the East Bengal Ultras , founded in 2013, became India's first ultras group?
text: Did you know that pianist David Kadouch , named Young Artist of the Year in 2011, recorded Shostakovich's 24 Preludes and his Piano Quintet on a single CD?
text: Did you know that Jack Lemmon starred in The Mystery of Thirteen as a real-life physician who Charles Dickens called "the greatest villain that ever stood in the Old Bailey"?
text: Did you know that Stephanie Saland decided to become a ballet dancer because of computerized report cards?
text: Did you know that Dreamcar 's " All of the Dead Girls " was inspired by a comment made by American actor Josh Richman ?
text: Did you know that a child in command of the controls crashed an airplane , killing all seventy-five occupants on impact?
text: Did you know that Kolja Lessing , playing both violin and piano, focuses his repertoire on neglected composers, including numerous former students of Franz Schreker ?
text: Did you know that Sailor Moon contributed significantly to the development of yuri , a genre of media focusing on intimate relationships between female characters?
text: Did you know that John Frankenheimer 's World War II drama Rumors of Evening led one critic to predict stardom for Robert Loggia ?
text: Did you know that the street Borgo Santo Spirito in Rome was named after a fortified complex for Anglo-Saxon pilgrims to Rome ?
text: Did you know that after a Falklands War adventure with rigid inflatable boats , Tommy Turtle 's SAS troop called itself "The South Georgia Boating Club"?
text: Did you know that MLS Cup 1999 was played with new rule changes that were approved days before the game?
text: Did you know that both grandfathers of Donough MacCarty , who fought for the Irish Catholic Confederation , were Protestants?
text: Did you know that Aaron Copland considered the Short Symphony to be "one of the best things I ever wrote"?
text: Did you know that Carl Craig became the state auditor of Mississippi in 1936 after defeating a former state auditor also named Carl ?
text: Did you know that a syzygy of celestial bodies caused Van Sickle Island to flood in 2017?
text: Did you know that 19th-century Guyanese poet Egbert Martin , who died at the age of 29, is considered to be the country's first major poet?
text: Did you know that Pseudolarix wehrii fossils can be mummies?
text: Did you know that Arora Akanksha , the first millennial candidate for Secretary-General of the United Nations , believes the organisation is wasteful?
text: Did you know that " Wer unterm Schutz des Höchsten steht ", a hymn paraphrasing Psalm 91 , has been recommended instead of the psalm in the Liturgy of the Hours , and for memorial services after disasters?
text: Did you know that only posthumously was Patrick Francis Healy described as the first black American to become a Jesuit , earn a Ph.D. , and become the president of a predominantly white university?
text: Did you know that the Battery Maritime Building was used as a musical installation while it was awaiting redevelopment?
text: Did you know that Sandra Wolin , a physician-microbiologist, devised an early ribosome profiling method as a postdoctoral researcher in Peter Walter 's lab at the University of California, San Francisco ?
text: Did you know that three-quarters of the animated film A Goofy Movie had to be reshot due to a single dead pixel on a faulty monitor, leading to a delayed release?
text: Did you know that to attract commercial investment, stones were installed on Stone Street in New York City?
text: Did you know that A Winged Victory for the Sullen 's album Invisible Cities was composed as the score of a multimedia theatre production that was inspired by Italo Calvino 's 1972 novel of the same name ?
text: Did you know that Will Arnett is the only voice actor to appear in the BoJack Horseman episode " Free Churro "?
text: Did you know that, during his time in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp , footballer Ernie Curtis would obtain extra food by teaching his captors how to play with a ball made of paper?
text: Did you know that a high-rise residential building in Seattle is planned to incorporate a Boeing 747-400 fuselage into its indoor galleria?
text: Did you know that Muraina Oyelami started painting after attending a Mbari Mbayo workshop?
text: Did you know that a 2009 study found that Apple Fifth Avenue was geotagged in more photographs than the Statue of Liberty was?
text: Did you know that 1-pentadecanol is synthesized by creeping cucumbers, mutant fungus, and the Shell oil company?
text: Did you know that after his professional baseball career, Joe Beggs was superintendent of prisons in Kentucky and director of urban renewal for Newport, Kentucky ?
text: Did you know that the String Octet by Max Bruch was premiered in a live BBC broadcast in 1937 and then forgotten for several decades?
text: Did you know that Crewe Alexandra were promoted back to the second tier of English football for the first time in 101 years when they won the 1997 Football League Second Division play-off Final ?
text: Did you know that of the ten Taiwanese delegates at the 2017 National Congress of the Communist Party of China , only one, Lu Li'an , was born in Taiwan?
text: Did you know that temporary war buildings on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., were blamed for "producing a depressing air of slovenliness", but some remained standing for over half a century?
text: Did you know that the 13th-century Barnston Manor was owned by the same family for 700 years before being put up for sale in 2018?
text: Did you know that when Marjan Haydaree became the all-time top scorer for the Afghanistan women's national football team , she had never set foot in Afghanistan?
text: Did you know that the original name for the Arrested Development episode " Motherboy XXX " was an advertisement for Burger King ?
text: Did you know that stamp dealer Everard F. Aguilar wrote a chapter on Jamaican postage stamps for Ian Fleming Introduces Jamaica (1965)?
text: Did you know that the Cambridge United team took a cold shower before winning the 1990 Football League Fourth Division play-off Final ?
text: Did you know that A Ruined Life was the first film by director Victor Sjöström to be shown in Sweden because his earlier film, The Gardener , had been censored for 68 years?
text: Did you know that during the 1986 Rogers Commission investigation, Allan J. McDonald revealed a coverup by NASA engineers?
text: Did you know that the 2018–2020 Kivu Ebola epidemic was the Democratic Republic of the Congo 's 10th and longest Ebola outbreak and the second largest in the world after the outbreak in West Africa ?
text: Did you know that Ted Cohen 's romance was set to music by Isaac Asimov ?
text: Did you know that 29 years after their last album, alternative rock band the Dream Syndicate released a new studio album, How Did I Find Myself Here? in 2017?
text: Did you know that Phil Chisnall moved from Manchester United to Liverpool in April 1964, becoming the last player to be transferred directly between the two clubs?
text: Did you know that Woodrow Wilson 's 1919 Pueblo speech was the last time he gave a public oration?
text: Did you know that when the Conservative Mary Morris claimed "never to have been a militant suffragette", the audience laughed?
text: Did you know that Australian hotelier and television personality Simon van Kempen recorded a single, " I Am Real ", in 2011?
text: Did you know that Japan's Shirongo Festival sees ama compete to be the first to catch and dedicate to the kami a pair of "beckoning abalone "?
text: Did you know that Noah Beck , a social-media personality and former college soccer player, wore fishnet tights, cuffed jeans, and stiletto heels for a digital cover of VMan magazine?
text: Did you know that the 1952 film Girls Marked Danger was classified as being morally objectionable for Catholics by the National Legion of Decency ?
text: Did you know that Kanye West 's inspiration for " Welcome to Heartbreak " was Dave Sirulnick showing him pictures of his children?
text: Did you know that the St. Clair Parkway travels through Corunna, Ontario , a planned town intended to be the capital of a united Upper and Lower Canada when it was established in 1823?
text: Did you know that Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai is considered the greatest Sufi poet in the Sindhi language ?
text: Did you know that the Port of Spain Gazette was known for its strongly pro-slavery position in the 1830s, and it was said that it "spat its venom on anyone who spoke of the virtues of emancipation"?
text: Did you know that in 2021, Jane Lunnon became the first woman head of Alleyn's School since it was separated from the College of God's Gift in 1882?
text: Did you know that the Z173 Shipyard changed its name seven times from 1965 to 2010 before it adopted its current public name, Hong Ha Shipbuilding One-Member Limited Liability Company ?
text: Did you know that Edward Hewitt Nichols , the first leader of Hong Kong 's Country Parks administrations, oversaw the designation of 40 per cent of the territory as parkland?
text: Did you know that one of the first recorded cases of the rare genetic disorder ring chromosome 22 was in a pair of identical twins?
text: Did you know that Isa Briones , who played Soji and other roles on Star Trek: Picard , sang a new arrangement of Irving Berlin 's song " Blue Skies " for the first season's finale?
text: Did you know that until the Calendar (New Style) Act 1750 was passed, the new year began on 25 March in England, Wales, Ireland, and Britain's American colonies?
text: Did you know that the current United States Chargé d'affaires to China , Robert W. Forden , taught English at universities in Shenyang and Beijing from 1981 to 1983?
text: Did you know that recordings of Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern , BWV 1 , a Bach chorale cantata for the Annunciation , include Fritz Lehmann 's with the Berlin Philharmonic , and Nikolaus Harnoncourt 's using period instruments ?
text: Did you know that at the opening ceremony for Ontario Highway 105 , a construction company presented Minister of Highways George Doucett with a bear cub as thanks for his efforts towards the creation of the route?
text: Did you know that the 2002 Football League Third Division play-off Final was one of the last matches shown on the ITV Sport Channel ?
text: Did you know that actress Isabel Bonner died on stage while performing in a play written by her husband ?
text: Did you know that the novel Nick was written in 2015 but could not be published until after the copyright of The Great Gatsby expired in 2021?
text: Did you know that Myra MacDonald , whose career as a foreign correspondent for Reuters spanned virtually three decades, and who covered South Asia for a long time, wrote three books on India and Pakistan?
text: Did you know that all video games by Digital Homicide Studios were removed from Steam after the company sued 100 of the platform's users?
text: Did you know that Barnham Court in West Sussex is built in a similar style to Kew Palace in London?
text: Did you know that the original trenches from the 1916 defensive battle of the Ottoman Army against Russians were identifiable from the satellite images of the Mount Kop Defense National Historic Park ?
text: Did you know that Doug Sahm 's album Groover's Paradise was produced by former Creedence Clearwater Revival drummer Doug Clifford ?
text: Did you know that Nicola Formby has recalled growing up in South Africa when "dogs lived in kennels outside and never ever came into the house with their muddy paws"?
text: Did you know that both Robbie Williams and Michael Jackson played for Blackpool in the 2007 Football League One play-off Final ?
text: Did you know that Australian talk-show host Paul B. Kidd is a prolific true-crime writer who has written 37 books?
text: Did you know that Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl will be the first main-series Pokémon games not developed by Game Freak since the franchise's inception 25 years ago?
text: Did you know that Rupert Richardson , a civil-rights activist, was known as the "grand dame" of the NAACP ?
text: Did you know that Roxette 's final studio album Good Karma was recorded in a studio named "Tits & Ass"?
text: Did you know that LeRoy Woodson 's photographs of steel-industry pollution were part of the Environmental Protection Agency 's Documerica project?
text: Did you know that many South Asian migrants are brought into the Gulf Cooperation Council area under the kafala system , which is seen by human-rights groups as highly exploitative ?
text: Did you know that after Pokémon Legends: Arceus was announced, users pointed out that it was very similar to another hit game on the Switch , The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild ?
text: Did you know that the clarinetist Nicola Jürgensen portrayed the character of Eve with her basset horn in Karlheinz Stockhausen's Michaels Reise um die Erde in Vienna and New York City?
text: Did you know that before his 1868 impeachment , there had been several previous efforts to impeach Andrew Johnson ?
text: Did you know that Andrew Russell Murray , pioneer of pollicization and of finger joint replacement , was shot dead by Karl Kast in the Brisbane medical massacre?
text: Did you know that Paul Laurence Dunbar would "undoubtedly" have been killed if contemporary white society had fully understood his poem " We Wear the Mask "?
text: Did you know that The Book of American Negro Poetry , Negro Poets and Their Poems , An Anthology of Verse by American Negroes , and Caroling Dusk , major poetry anthologies from the Harlem Renaissance , included poems by African-American poets ranging from Langston Hughes to a nine-year-old girl?
text: Did you know that Paul Rolan has been the principal investigator in more than 700 clinical research studies of new medicines?
text: Did you know that the bank initially refused to provide a mortgage for the 1932 Alvar Aalto –designed house Villa Tammekann in Tartu until its flat roof was replaced by a pitched one?
text: Did you know that Maryland running back Jake Funk had his best college season after tearing his ACL in the two previous seasons?
text: Did you know that so many people attended the golden-jubilee celebrations for the pastor of Galeed Chapel in Brighton in 1932 that they had to be held in a different church?
text: Did you know that the first words ever spoken in a feature film were uttered by Al Jolson after singing " Dirty Hands, Dirty Face "?
text: Did you know that Poème roumain was composed by George Enescu when he was only 16 years old?
text: Did you know that the Rhodesian Air Force 's Green Leader once threatened to shoot down any Zambian Air Force planes that interfered with Operation Gatling after taking control of Zambian airspace?
text: Did you know that KQLO , the antecedent of today's KIHM , was established after its founder drove from Nevada to Vermont and found no Catholic radio stations on the trip?
text: Did you know that Dwayne De Rosario is Canada's all-time leading male soccer goalscorer, with 22 international goals ?
text: Did you know that a rented Ducati SuperSport that was scratched during the making of Road Rash was kept and displayed in the Electronic Arts lobby?
text: Did you know that when John-Michael Caprio became the director of music at the Roman Catholic St. Patrick's Cathedral , he ordered that the choir's robes be replaced because they looked "too Protestant"?
text: Did you know that the EMER-K1 was created by Myanmar by reverse-engineering QBZ-97 assault rifles sold to them?
text: Did you know that the BoJack Horseman episode " The View from Halfway Down " received its title because series creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg needed an episode title starting with the letter "V"?
text: Did you know that the music styles in the discography of mewithoutYou range from screamed post-hardcore vocals to acoustic campfire songs?
text: Did you know that Eliza Pottie was one of a small group of women who founded the first Young Women's Christian Association branch in Sydney?
text: Did you know that at the 2021 Welsh Open , Jordan Brown was the lowest-ranked snooker player to win a ranking event since 1993?
text: Did you know that Andrew Logan assisted at the first pneumonectomy in the UK and performed the country's first lung transplant ?
text: Did you know that the 1938 film Gangster's Boy starred silent-film actress Betty Blythe , who took on roles that she liked despite a source saying that she was "more or less retired"?
text: Did you know that the baritone Benjamin Appl , the last private student of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau , was named Gramophone 's Young Artist of 2016?
text: Did you know that when commenting on her decision to depict Achilles and Patroclus as lovers in her novel The Song of Achilles , author Madeline Miller remarked: "I stole it from Plato "?
text: Did you know that Millie Dienert was called the "first lady of prayer" for her work on behalf of evangelist Billy Graham ?
text: Did you know that the Sonata in C major for piano four-hands by Franz Schubert was, for over a century after its publication in 1837, thought of as a symphony in disguise?
text: Did you know that Joseph B. O'Hagan resigned the presidency of the College of the Holy Cross to recuperate but soon thereafter died at sea?
text: Did you know that the Mississippi–Alabama barrier islands have shrunken rapidly and drifted westward since first being mapped in the 1800s?
text: Did you know that Domus Litonii is the only remaining 19th-century residential building in the entire centre of Helsinki ?
text: Did you know that in the film Dog Day Afternoon , Al Pacino improvised the " Attica! Attica! " scene following the suggestion of an assistant director?
text: Did you know that Hollis Taylor has argued that birdsong should be considered music?
text: Did you know that Neil Warnock left Huddersfield Town shortly after they gained promotion by winning the 1995 Football League Second Division play-off Final because he said the club chairman had told him a " porky pie "?
text: Did you know that Turkish world-champion para-archer Bahattin Hekimoğlu did not leave his home for two years after breaking his neck and becoming paralyzed?
text: Did you know that the melody of a song to Venus became the tune for the 17th-century hymn " Auf meinen lieben Gott " (in English "In God, My Faithful God") and others?
text: Did you know that the philosopher G. E. L. Owen was described by Martha Nussbaum as "an alcoholic and an attempted womaniser"?
text: Did you know that the British Consulate of Hakodate was prone to catching on fire?
text: Did you know that physicist Joseph Gelders was kidnapped and beaten, probably by members of the Ku Klux Klan , for his civil rights and labor organizing activities?
text: Did you know that the signature fragrance of Aedes de Venustas perfumery is based on rhubarb and tomato leaf?
text: Did you know that the death of NME music journalist Dele Fadele was not known within the music industry for more than two years after the fact?
text: Did you know that Washington State Route 539 is named the "Guide Meridian" because it follows a surveying meridian ?
text: Did you know that the 1998 Football League Third Division play-off Final was the first play-off final to feature two brothers when Neil and David Gregory played for Colchester United ?
text: Did you know that Dennis Howard Green was such a productive book reviewer for the Modern Language Review that they implemented a rule called Lex Green , which limits the number of reviews per person to three per year?
text: Did you know that Chuck Connors , star of the ABC show The Rifleman , was an investor in TV station KNBS , an ABC affiliate, in Washington state?
text: Did you know that physician Clare Fowler and surgeon Prokar Dasgupta were the first in the UK to use Botox injections, using a flexible cystoscope, to treat people with overactive bladders?
text: Did you know that William Steig wrote Shrek! at the age of eighty-three, two decades after leaving a career as a cartoonist at The New Yorker ?
text: Did you know that Allen Mawer was the driving force behind the establishment of the English Place-Name Society , which conducted a systematic survey of English place names ?
text: Did you know that Claude McKay 's poem " If We Must Die " has been cited as marking the beginning of the Harlem Renaissance ?
text: Did you know that John Morkel captained the Rhodesia national rugby team to a victory over the All Blacks ?
text: Did you know that the song " August " was written by Taylor Swift from the perspective of a girl who falls in love with somebody already in a relationship?
text: Did you know that Boris Johnson and Tony Fernandes were present at the opening ceremony of Epsom College in Malaysia in 2014?
text: Did you know that Dorothy Henriques-Wells made 360 paintings for display on three Norwegian Cruise Line ships?
text: Did you know that live huhu grubs have been served at the Hokitika Wildfoods Festival ?
text: Did you know that Ángel Mangual 's walk-off single in the 20th inning on July 9, 1971, ended the longest scoreless game in American League history?
text: Did you know that in Begum v Home Secretary , Lord Reed quoted from Eleanor Roosevelt : "justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both"?
text: Did you know that Maha Jaafar , a Sudanese-Iraqi dentist who started producing YouTube videos to "have fun with her friends", has attracted almost two million views for a video mimicking Arabic dialects and stereotypes?
text: Did you know that the co-founders of the Black College Football Hall of Fame attended the same historically black university and were both quarterbacks in the National Football League ?
text: Did you know that the short documentary film A City Called Copenhagen was initially not released due to the film commission disliking the film, but it was shown two years later to positive reception?
text: Did you know that Adolphus D. Griffin published the Portland New Age for Portland's African-American residents during a time in which they were legally excluded from the state?
text: Did you know that oversimplifying a fictional character over the course of a show's run is called Flanderization , after Ned Flanders of The Simpsons ?
text: Did you know that New York City's Hudson Terminal , once billed as the world's largest office building by floor area, was demolished as part of an agreement to develop the World Trade Center ?
text: Did you know that Manuel L. Quezon defeated the National Socialist Party and the communist -backed Republican Party in 1935 ?
text: Did you know that former masonic grand master Tobias Watkins served nine months in prison for embezzling $3,050 from the U.S. Treasury , then two more years for failing to pay it back?
text: Did you know that many locations in the manga Aria are based on real-life Venice ?
text: Did you know that Idaho 's first television station, KFXD-TV , was a two-man operation that lasted less than two months?
text: Did you know that a copy of Estella Hijmans-Hertzveld 's poem "Stemmen en zangen" was gifted to Hans Christian Andersen during his 1866 visit to the Netherlands?
text: Did you know that the Comanche Springs pupfish no longer lives in Comanche Springs ?
text: Did you know that Elsa Dreisig appeared at the Berlin State Opera in soprano roles from Diane in Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie to Natascha in the world premiere of Beat Furrer 's Violetter Schnee ?
text: Did you know that a decade after passing on the opportunity to build a radio station, the owner of the Okmulgee Daily Times newspaper instead bought KOKL ?
text: Did you know that four members of the Usmani family were co-founders of the Darul Uloom Deoband seminary, where the Deobandi movement began?
text: Did you know that Robert T. Kerlin was fired from the Virginia Military Institute for questioning the death sentences of African-American farmers?
text: Did you know that the publication of A Companion to J. R. R. Tolkien in 2014 by Wiley-Blackwell has been described as proof that Tolkien had finally attained acceptance by the literary establishment?
text: Did you know that the original Pittsburgh U.S. Marine Hospital became a saloon?
text: Did you know that Art Potter once ordered the "unusual scene" of five ice hockey players beginning a game in the penalty box ?
text: Did you know that the ornamental dome of the Great Mosque of Tlemcen is considered one of the most exceptional examples of Almoravid architecture?
text: Did you know that Heléne Alexopoulos was one of the few New York City Ballet dancers who had children?
text: Did you know that the first episode of the British television drama series Ackley Bridge was re-edited following the Manchester Arena bombing , as scenes showed a student at the centre of a bombing hoax?
text: Did you know that Luis Salvador became the mayor of Granada in 2019 even though his party won only four of twenty-seven seats?
text: Did you know that the machine-learning model DALL-E , widely reported on for its "surreal" and "quirky" output, also learned to solve Raven's Matrices (a form of IQ test) without being specifically taught to do so?
text: Did you know that Icelandic footballer Þórdís Hrönn Sigfúsdóttir has had to self-isolate on four occasions during the COVID-19 pandemic ?
text: Did you know that the governor of Iowa banned the speaking of any language other than English in public in 1918?
text: Did you know that attorney Mark F. Pomerantz , who supervised the prosecution of mob boss John A. Gotti , is now assisting a criminal investigation into Donald Trump 's finances?
text: Did you know that the song " I Didn't Know ", representing San Marino in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 , was written by a composer and a lyricist who had never met each other in person?
text: Did you know that the southern brown howler is considered to be a vulnerable species , partly because of the monkey's susceptibility to yellow fever ?
text: Did you know that on Saint Patrick's Day in 2003, Catholic Worker Clare Grady broke into an Army recruiting center and poured her blood on the walls, windows, and a US flag in a protest against the invasion of Iraq ?
text: Did you know that Tamar , an epic poem by American writer Robinson Jeffers , makes references to the Books of Samuel in the Old Testament ?
text: Did you know that the violinist Rudolf Deman , concertmaster of the orchestra of the Berlin State Opera , took part in the first German radio broadcast from Berlin in 1923?
text: Did you know that the shoe department of the Saks Fifth Avenue flagship store was the first individual story of a building in the United States with its own ZIP Code?
text: Did you know that The Ghost Inside 's self-titled 2020 album was their first release since a deadly tour bus crash in 2015?
text: Did you know that Irish sportswoman Carol Breen has played internationally in both association and Australian rules football ?
text: Did you know that within hours of the Social Encounter Party in Mexico being stripped of its electoral registration, the Solidary Encounter Party was formed with the same initials, party structure and ideology?
text: Did you know that ballerina Patricia Delgado danced in a music video for indie rock band the National ?
text: Did you know that KSBK , which has been described as the most influential radio station in Okinawa in the 1960s, became a casualty of the reversion of the Ryukyu Islands to Japan and closed in October 1973?
text: Did you know that Governor Andrew Cuomo , who was initially praised for his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York, is now implicated in a scandal related to it ?
text: Did you know that Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward starred in The 80 Yard Run as a couple in a troubled marriage, and were married in real life 13 days later?
text: Did you know that Martina Vandenberg moved to Russia and founded the country's first rape crisis center when she was 24?
text: Did you know that a three-minute segment of Boonie Bears: The Wild Life took an average of 20 hours per frame to render ?
text: Did you know that footballer Billy Hardy is Cardiff City F.C. 's record appearance holder, having played in 590 matches between 1911 and 1932?
text: Did you know that research incorporating sex as a biological variable enhances the rigor and reproducibility of results?
text: Did you know that the music video for the Taylor Swift song " Delicate " was accused by internet audiences of plagiarizing an advertisement for Kenzo ?
text: Did you know that Chang Yun Chung , formerly the world's oldest billionaire, was captured during the Japanese occupation for aiding anti-Japanese resistance in Malaya ?
text: Did you know that when a fire broke out at 1 Hanover Square 's basement restaurant, engine crews simultaneously fighting a fire across the street got confused?
text: Did you know that Andrew Bahr drove a herd of 3,000 reindeer from Nome, Alaska , to Reindeer Station , earning the nickname "The Arctic Moses"?
text: Did you know that ballerina Kay Mazzo created roles in three ballets choreographed by George Balanchine during the New York City Ballet 's Stravinsky Festival in 1972?
text: Did you know that during the first public reading of Wolfdietrich Schnurre 's short story Das Begräbnis , part of the audience left the room in protest?
text: Did you know that Geoffrey Kirk captained a fishing boat before becoming a professor of ancient Greek at Cambridge University ?
text: Did you know that the top-level domain .guru had 35,000 websites registered to it within the first three weeks of its release?
text: Did you know that Lisa Martin captained the Scotland women's national rugby union team in 2018 to their first victory in Ireland for 12 years?
text: Did you know that a 1958 promotion by Nashville radio station WKDA , in which a " purple people eater " climbed a hotel sign, prompted the police chief to ask the station "never to pull a trick" like it again?
text: Did you know that Lester Collins developed Innisfree Garden over 55 years, and it was listed in the US National Register of Historic Places in 2019?
text: Did you know that Femme au béret et à la robe quadrillée (Marie-Thérèse Walter) , an oil-on-canvas painting by Pablo Picasso, was one of the most expensive paintings ever sold at an auction in Europe?
text: Did you know that no more than 50 mature individuals of the critically endangered northern brown howler are estimated to remain?
text: Did you know that the opening of a new church in Guston, Colorado , was said to have brought fire and "divine intervention" on a rival neighboring community ?
text: Did you know that French rugby union player Audrey Forlani scored a try in the decisive match of the 2016 Women's Six Nations Championship , after which France won the tournament?
text: Did you know that the owners of Kettlethorpe Hall used a relocated 14th-century chapel as a boathouse, and the chapel's remains are now in a public park ?
text: Did you know that Wilbur Nelson was known as the "singing evangelist" because he both sang and preached at his services?
text: Did you know that the whaleback barge 104 was the first ship of its kind to be lost on the Great Lakes ?
text: Did you know that the March of the Indonesian National Armed Forces was adopted after the previous march fell into disuse following mocking and parodying by activists?
text: Did you know that American financial executive Robert Glauber could watch an opera "infinite times"?
text: Did you know that in Epidemiology in Relation to Air Travel (1933), Arthur Massey showed how air passengers could spread infectious diseases between countries before they showed any symptoms?
text: Did you know that while at Fiorentina , Mohamed Salah chose the shirt number 74 in honour of the victims of the Port Said Stadium riot ?
text: Did you know that the US government once mailed rural school districts scale models from which carpenters could construct actual two-room schools ?
text: Did you know that Kids See Ghosts and Ty Dolla Sign were sued for allegedly sampling "The Spirit of Marcus Garvey (Garvey speaks to an all-Black audience)" in their song " Freeee (Ghost Town, Pt. 2) "?
text: Did you know that the Kharijite leader Abu Bilal Mirdas defeated a 2,000-strong Umayyad army with his band of forty?
text: Did you know that " For the Night " was Pop Smoke 's first single to reach the top ten on the US Billboard Hot 100 , peaking at number six?
text: Did you know that Andanappa Doddameti was the first member to address the Bombay Legislative Assembly in the Kannada language?
text: Did you know that TIC 168789840 is the first known six-star stellar system in which the stars can be observed eclipsing one another from Earth?
text: Did you know that during the Great Depression , Ernest R. Fatland led an organization that helped Oregonian farmers reduce their mortgage payments and other debts to save their farms from foreclosure ?
text: Did you know that Swansea City made two appearances at the Millennium Stadium in 2006, winning the Football League Trophy but losing the Football League One play-off Final ?
text: Did you know that the variegated grasshopper can be de-winged, salted and fried to provide a tasty meal?
text: Did you know that in After Us, or the World as it Might Be , surgeon John Lockhart-Mummery proposed that women should only be allowed to breed with physically perfect men?
text: Did you know that when Mark Coles started coaching the Pakistan women's national cricket team , he was not being paid, and he later lived in a compound with snipers on the roof?
text: Did you know that the music video for " Shake the Room " was Pop Smoke 's first posthumous visual after he was shot and killed at the age of 20 during a home invasion?
text: Did you know that at the 2019 London Marathon , the total raised for charities surpassed £1 billion since the first race in 1981?
text: Did you know that Charles Sweeny was expelled from West Point twice, but went on to became a Polish Army brigadier general, a US Army lieutenant colonel, and an officer in the Royal Air Force and the Foreign Legion ?
text: Did you know that the cyberpunk setting of New Gods: Nezha Reborn is based on a mixture of 1920s–1930s Manhattan and Republic of China –era Shanghai ?
text: Did you know that Barge 129 was sunk on Lake Superior by the ship that was towing her?
text: Did you know that Elvis Presley 's song " I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone " features a theme common to country music: "passive acceptance of the singer's fate"?
text: Did you know that the Rolls Royce Battle of Britain Memorial Window commemorates the pilots of the Royal Air Force and the contributions of Rolls-Royce engineering to the Battle of Britain ?
text: Did you know that Amber McReynolds 's advocacy for vote-by-mail supported US states' expansion of absentee balloting during the COVID-19 pandemic so millions of people could vote from home in the 2020 elections ?
text: Did you know that the Rhodesian African Rifles' march " Sweet Banana " was created after their soldiers stopped to buy some bananas in South Africa?
text: Did you know that the 1991 Football League Fourth Division play-off Final was the first Football League play-off to be decided by a penalty shoot-out ?
text: Did you know that RealSports Baseball , part of Atari 's response to an Intellivision marketing campaign fronted by George Plimpton , won a best sports game award for 1983?
text: Did you know that an engineer of Pittsburgh television station WENS found out that its tower had collapsed when he looked out his window to find it missing?
text: Did you know that " Lob Gott getrost mit Singen " (Praise God confidently with singing), the first line of a 1544 hymn by the Bohemian Brethren , was used for the title of a songbook aimed at senior citizens?
text: Did you know that Turkish psychologist Doğan Cüceloğlu contemplated suicide due to his poor command of English while a doctoral student at the University of Illinois , and later taught 16 years at CSU Fullerton ?
text: Did you know that the 2014 film Fires on the Plain , which includes madness, murder, and cannibalism , was intended to warn younger Japanese audiences of the horrors of war?
text: Did you know that Brian Lee Durfee , a prison guard at Utah State Prison , has a painting in the permanent collection at the Grand Canyon National Park visitor center?
text: Did you know that although remaining a little-known monument in Neuquén , Argentina, the Fotheringham Crossing Pyramid , inaugurated in 1947, is considered to be a symbol of the neighborhood of Sapere?
text: Did you know that in 2020, Jasmin Taylor broke the record for the most medals won by a British skier at the World Cup and World Championships ?
text: Did you know that the Rod Serling –hosted television production The Great Gatsby (1958) was described as being "neither 'Great' nor 'Gatsby ' "?
text: Did you know that geographer J. Russell Smith worked with the USDA to make 20 new varieties of Chinese chestnut , with the aim of creating a blight-resistant tree?
text: Did you know that although The Most Important Man was poorly received by critics, composer Gian Carlo Menotti thought it was one of his finest operas?
text: Did you know that a line from the 1899 poem " Sympathy " provided the title for Maya Angelou 's autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings ?
text: Did you know that several candidates running on the ticket of the new political party Force for Mexico were previously members of the National Regeneration Movement ?
text: Did you know that Covington Hall was a member of the Industrial Workers of the World and the Sons of Confederate Veterans ?
text: Did you know that the upcoming SNLE 3G -class nuclear ballistic-missile submarines could remain in service with the French Navy until 2090?
text: Did you know that Plants vs. Zombies became the fastest-selling video game developed by PopCap Games in under a month?
text: Did you know that Governor Greg Abbott initially blamed the 2021 Texas power crisis on frozen wind turbines ?
text: Did you know that after winning Olympic bronze in bobsleigh , "Paddy" Green went on to RAF night-fighter fame that won him awards from the US and Soviet Union?
text: Did you know that George Balanchine choreographed the ballet Vienna Waltzes as a tribute to Austria, using music by Johann Strauss II , Franz Lehár and Richard Strauss ?
text: Did you know that Chris Redd won a Primetime Emmy Award in 2018 for co-writing a song about Barack Obama ?
text: Did you know that tens of thousands of British city dwellers engaged in trekking during the Blitz , with most doing so to get a good night's sleep in nearby towns and rural areas?
text: Did you know that New Zealander Fran Jonas made her debut at the top level of domestic cricket aged 15, and took three wickets in the final that season?
text: Did you know that the God in the novel I Am God was described by a reviewer as "half heteronormative deity, half embarrassing uncle"?
text: Did you know that when his attempt to build RCA into a conglomerate failed, Robert Sarnoff was ousted from the board in a "palace revolt"?
text: Did you know that Wycombe Wanderers secured back-to-back promotions when they won the 1994 Football League Third Division play-off Final ?
text: Did you know that Girma Bekele Gebre finished third at the 2019 New York City Marathon , despite not having a coach or sponsor, and having to pay to enter the race?
text: Did you know that a landmarked house on Abolitionist Place in Downtown Brooklyn may have been a stop on the Underground Railroad ?
text: Did you know that scenes of Honey Wright driving in Casualty had to be filmed carefully as actress Chelsee Healey could not drive?
text: Did you know that the termite Odontotermes formosanus grows its own food?
text: Did you know that billionaire Julia Koch once worked as a fashion designer's assistant and did fittings for Nancy Reagan ?
text: Did you know that 23-year-old Michael Oliver refereed the 2009 Football League One play-off Final at Wembley Stadium the day after his father had officiated the 2009 Football League Two play-off Final ?
text: Did you know that anti-vaccine activist Simone Gold participated in the storming of the U.S. Capitol ?
text: Did you know that when Big Red Envelope was released, nearly half of its audience came from fourth-tier Chinese cities ?
text: Did you know that Joachim Herz was the stage director of an unconventional production of the Ring cycle at the Leipzig Opera , completed in 1976, and of the opening performance of the restored Semperoper in 1985?
text: Did you know that Littledale's whistling rat can be distinguished from Brants's whistling rat by the pitch and length of its calls?
text: Did you know that Candace Brightman was the Grateful Dead 's longtime lighting engineer?
text: Did you know that John Rennie the Elder built Ken Bridge twice?
text: Did you know that Clair McCollough rose from being a carrier boy for Lancaster Newspapers to presiding over the broadcast station group spawned by the company?
text: Did you know that the 10th Texas Field Battery fired at a courthouse during the Battle of Pine Bluff ?
text: Did you know that the Bach Archive in Leipzig, directed by Peter Wollny , acquired in 2021 Gustav Mahler 's copy of the Bach edition , in 59 volumes with handwritten annotations by Mahler?
text: Did you know that Stop AAPI Hate was formed in 2020 in response to increased racially motivated violence against Asian people, which now includes the murder of Vicha Ratanapakdee ?
text: Did you know that Mus'ab ibn al-Zubayr , the Zubayrid governor of Iraq during the Second Fitna (680–692), fought the Umayyad army at the Battle of Maskin almost alone?
text: Did you know that Millwall finally gained promotion through the play-offs on the sixth attempt after winning the 2010 Football League One play-off Final ?
text: Did you know that Pius Schwert died after giving a speech announcing his candidacy for mayor of Buffalo, New York ?
text: Did you know that Arthur C. Clarke 's short story " Time's Arrow " from 1950 predicted that paleontologists may learn about dinosaurs by analyzing their footprints before the method was implemented in real science?
text: Did you know that William Wernigk performed four roles in Der Rosenkavalier during his decades at the Vienna State Opera , including the Innkeeper on a 1933 recording conducted by Robert Heger ?
text: Did you know that the board game Glory to Rome , despite being well-received, led to its publisher's bankruptcy in the mid-2010s and has been out of print since?
text: Did you know that philanthropist George McDonald founded the advocacy group Doe Fund after his homeless friend "Mama Doe" died in the cold on Christmas day after she was ejected from New York's Grand Central ?
text: Did you know that a fire at Marl Chemical Park in 2012 interrupted the world supply of a chemical that was crucial to the auto industry?
text: Did you know that aviation medicine pioneer Jarnail Singh 's work launched the first ultra long-haul flight between Singapore and New York in 2004?
text: Did you know that a former owner of Illinois radio station WRBA carried an expired police badge to allow him to get to its transmitter site quickly if need be?
text: Did you know that South African association footballer Amanda Sister has played for clubs in Hungary and Italy?
text: Did you know that televoting for San Marino in the Eurovision Song Contest is simulated by a pre-selected group of countries?
text: Did you know that Edward McClaren was one of only three black doctors in Greenville, South Carolina , in 1950?
text: Did you know that the Crash Bandicoot character Doctor Neo Cortex was kept stationary in many of his early appearances because his model's short legs kept him from walking properly?
text: Did you know that in his dissent in the Straub v. BMT by Todd case, Indiana Supreme Court Justice Roger Owen DeBruler argued that a promise to pay someone else's share of child support should be considered legally binding?
text: Did you know that a group of Dayak burned a Golkar party office after their gubernatorial candidate, Yurnalis Ngayoh , failed to receive an endorsement from the party?
text: Did you know that Babe Ruth called Marty McHale "the best goddamn singer I ever heard"?
text: Did you know that historian Gary Kates turned down recruiters seeking to help make him a college president so that he could teach undergraduate history?
text: Did you know that after Turkey's environment ministry granted a one-year temporary licence to reopen the coal-fired Çatalağzı power station , the Right to Clean Air Platform complained that it was still emitting thick smoke?
text: Did you know that Elliot Mazer 's only taste of Neil Young 's music before meeting him was his girlfriend incessantly playing " After the Gold Rush "?
text: Did you know that the Jaffna Stallions took home the trophy for the inaugural season of the Lanka Premier League in 2020, besting the Galle Gladiators , the Dambulla Viiking , and the Kandy Tuskers , despite failing to record a win against the Colombo Kings ?
text: Did you know that Arthur Walworth took a decade to write his biography on Woodrow Wilson and twenty-five years to write another book on him?
text: Did you know that Primrose Hill Tunnel was the first railway tunnel to be built in London?
text: Did you know that the English classicist Neil Hopkinson hosted events at which only dessert was served?
text: Did you know that Chichester & Selsey Ladies F.C. broke away from Chichester City for an undisclosed reason but retained their colours and football league position?
text: Did you know that YaYa Gosselin booked her first job a month after signing with an agent at the age of five?
text: Did you know that for 300 years a Kathakali dancer had to be a high-caste man until the Tripunithura Kathakali Kendram Ladies Troupe was formed in 1975?
text: Did you know that Andréa Guiot appeared internationally in French soprano roles such as Mireille , Marguerite , Manon , and Micaëla in Bizet's Carmen , which she recorded alongside Maria Callas in the title role?
text: Did you know that after being told that women could not compete in athletics at the 1924 Summer Olympics , the FSFSF set up their own Women's Olympiad ?
text: Did you know that Pat Lundvall was the first female chair of the Nevada State Athletic Commission, but garnered controversy for some of her decisions relating to mixed martial arts?
text: Did you know that Susan B. Anthony took British citizenship to avoid testifying before the House Un-American Activities Committee and later spent nine years trying to repatriate?
text: Did you know that the Duchess Bridge in Dumfries and Galloway is thought to be the oldest surviving iron bridge in Scotland?
text: Did you know that in 2021, Christina Soontornvat became the first author to win two Newbery Honors in the same year for both fiction ( A Wish in the Dark ) and nonfiction ( All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys' Soccer Team )?
text: Did you know that badminton player P. V. Sindhu became the inaugural recipient of the BBC Indian Sportswoman of the Year award in 2020?
text: Did you know that Polly Batic appeared at the Salzburg Festival in roles such as Annina in Der Rosenkavalier from 1931 to 1937, and became a member of the Vienna State Opera in 1948?
text: Did you know that the spaces between the shelves of the United States Senate bill hopper get shorter near the top as so few proposed bills became law?
text: Did you know that Sadhana Mahila Sangha protected Bangalore sex workers from the police and from HIV , but they now help feed them during the pandemic ?
text: Did you know that the Taylor Swift masters controversy was described by Rolling Stone as one of the "most important moments" in music of the 2010s?
text: Did you know that Singapore's Punggol station is the longest station on the North East line , at 320 m (1,050 ft)?
text: Did you know that after going viral, Robin Schreiber danced at the 2017 NBA All-Star Weekend with Stephen Curry , who later wore shoes featuring designs in her honor?
text: Did you know that Anwoth Old Church , where Samuel Rutherford preached in the early 17th century, was used as a location in the shooting of the classic horror film The Wicker Man ?
text: Did you know that in 1973, jockey Robyn Smith won a race while riding a horse named after her?
text: Did you know that the music video for " Fantastic Baby " by Big Bang is the first by a K-pop boy band to reach 100 million, 200 million, and 300 million views on YouTube ?
text: Did you know that the studio of Francis Chit , the first Thai professional photographer, was in a floating raft-house?
text: Did you know that because Accolade had focused their success around sports games, the packaging for the science-fiction game Star Control II accidentally included a sticker calling it the "Best Sports Game" of 1992?
text: Did you know that the 1959 short story " Now: Zero ", while sharing some concepts with the popular 2003 manga Death Note , has been described as one of J. G. Ballard 's weakest works?
text: Did you know that Malysha Kelly 's return to the Jamaica national netball team after a three-year absence was halted by the COVID-19 pandemic ?
text: Did you know that the American reality TV series The Bachelor took 18 years and 25 seasons to star its first black man ?
text: Did you know that for the 2015 film A Heavy Heart , German actor Peter Kurth gained and then lost 35 pounds (16 kg) to portray his character's physical decline due to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ?
text: Did you know that the 1996 book Breton Ballads studies examples of the Breton genre of gwerz , and discusses the Barzaz Breiz controversy?
text: Did you know that in 2020, Eli Savit was elected the prosecuting attorney of Washtenaw County, Michigan , on a promise to abolish the cash bail system?
text: Did you know that at the 2010 Belgian Grand Prix , Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton slid off the wet track into a gravel trap, but was able to re-join the circuit and win the race?
text: Did you know that writer James Kendall Hosmer chose to fight on the front lines in the American Civil War instead of serving on the staff of General Nathaniel P. Banks ?
text: Did you know that Cheltenham Town lost the 2012 Football League Two play-off Final , their first defeat in nine play-off matches ?
text: Did you know that in The Age of Phillis (2020), American poet Honorée Fanonne Jeffers "fills in the gaps" in a white woman's biography of Phillis Wheatley (1753–1784)?
text: Did you know that the fossil pine Pinus latahensis was named for the wrong geologic formation?
text: Did you know that plant scientist Norman C. Deno 's research on seed germination techniques resulted in him writing a book with germination methods for thousands of species?
text: Did you know that while waiting to film London Hughes: To Catch a D*ck for Netflix, London Hughes talked about the word dick in History of Swear Words ?
text: Did you know that John Lockhart-Mummery was the king of the rectum ?
text: Did you know that the Atlas Cinema in Istanbul was established as a 1,800-seater movie theatre in 1948 replacing a notable music hall, which was in turn established in the horse stable of a 19th-century residential building?
text: Did you know that Nyeema Morgan collaborated in the design of a wooden Afrofuturist replica of the Millennium Falcon ?
text: Did you know that the Paper Mario series was changed from role-playing games to action-adventure games because the developers found it to be too similar to Nintendo 's other role-playing series, Mario & Luigi ?
text: Did you know that on 13 August 2020, Australian-born cricketer Janet Ronalds became the first player, male or female, to score a century for Germany in Twenty20 Internationals ?
text: Did you know that South Carolina low-power television station WPDF-LP was bumped off the air by another station 's digital signal ?
text: Did you know that Bukhari Daud was considered to be the first regent in Indonesia to attempt to resign from his office?
text: Did you know that the proposers of the imprinted brain hypothesis , which claims that autistic and schizotypal traits are opposites, had no background in behavioural genetics before proposing it?
text: Did you know that " The Present Crisis " by James Russell Lowell has been called a "poetic anthem" for the American antislavery movement?
text: Did you know that conductor Volker Wangenheim opened the Beethovenhalle in Bonn for music by Karlheinz Stockhausen on 15 November 1969, including the world premiere of Fresco for four orchestral groups?
text: Did you know that FHProductionHK , a YouTube channel with videos that have reached two million views, features someone who always wears a bear mask to hide his appearance?
text: Did you know that Frank Greenleaf designed a new style of hockey net which prevented the puck from rebounding?
text: Did you know that the horse in the equestrian statue of William Henry Harrison has stirrups , but no saddle ?
text: Did you know that Spanish designer Alberto Corazón was considered one of the fathers of graphical modernization in Spain with the advent of democracy after the death of Francisco Franco ?
text: Did you know that a carpet for the Chamber of Commerce Building was so large that part of the building's outer wall was temporarily removed so the carpet could be put inside?
text: Did you know that Mexican political party Progressive Social Networks allowed party members to vote in internal elections using a smartphone app?
text: Did you know that Joel S. Levine led a team of 12 NASA scientists to investigate why the U.S. Constitution was deteriorating?
text: Did you know that when Dubliners donated more than 630 trees for amaptocare in Ballymun , artist Jochen Gerz offered a face-to-face meeting to each sponsor to choose their tree's personal permanent inscription?
text: Did you know that Nathan Abshire was considered an "accomplished musician" at eight years old after learning to play on an accordion that cost $3.50?
text: Did you know that NASCAR races on the Daytona International Speedway infield road course for the Cup Series , the Xfinity Series , and the Camping World Truck Series were added to the schedule two years in a row due to the COVID-19 pandemic ?
text: Did you know that the adult i phenotype , a rare blood type , has been associated with being born with cataracts in some populations?
text: Did you know that the world's richest farmer, Qin Yinglin , started out with just 22 pigs?
text: Did you know that German cricketer Christina Gough , who scored 348 runs in Women's Twenty20 Internationals in 2020, completed a Master of Arts degree in Modern Languages (German) at St Hilda's College, Oxford ?
text: Did you know that biotin has been proven to benefit hoof health in cattle and horses, but evidence for human nail health is very weak?
text: Did you know that John Moffet set an Olympic swimming record despite injuring himself during the same race?
text: Did you know that the co-founder of Arkansas radio station KTOY , the first Black-owned radio station in the state, continued teaching math after starting it?
text: Did you know that the French classical scholar François Guyet kept his composure during a lithotomy by reading Lucan 's Pharsalia ?
text: Did you know that despite containing crystals and chemicals which are thought to deter herbivory, Hypericum sechmenii is still under threat of extinction from grazing ?
text: Did you know that Asuka Langley Soryu 's surname was taken from two warships used in World War II ?
text: Did you know that Osborne's ligament is a tissue under some people's elbows that can compress the ulnar nerve when the elbow is flexed, causing numbness and weakness in the fingers?
text: Did you know that even though low interest prompted the Associated Students of Montana Tech to cut funding for student radio station KMSM-FM , it still filed to renew the station's license ?
text: Did you know that the investigations of Scandinavian place names by Magnus Olsen were instrumental in restoring confidence in Icelandic literature as a useful source for information on Old Norse religion ?
text: Did you know that Winston Churchill , an amateur painter, held the first exhibition of his paintings in Paris under a pseudonym?
text: Did you know that Verna Grahek Mize was given the title "First Lady of Lake Superior" for her campaign to stop a mining company from dumping 67,000 tons of "gray gunk" into the lake each day?
text: Did you know that George Balanchine choreographed the ballet Stravinsky Violin Concerto in 1972, a year after Igor Stravinsky 's death, having previously choreographed another ballet to the same score in 1941?
text: Did you know that during a bloody assault with his unit on the Western Front in 1914, Stephan Westmann was amazed to see the British stop firing and send stretcher-bearers to rescue his wounded German comrades?
text: Did you know that Molly Clutton-Brock treated the spines of African babies until she was deported by the government of Rhodesia ?
text: Did you know that at the 1997 Bully Hill Vineyards 150 , Ron Fellows , driving for a team that did not have garage space, became the first Canadian to win a NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race?
text: Did you know that Caleb Grafton Roberts , head of the Second World War Allied Intelligence Bureau , was a highway engineer before the war?
text: Did you know that the architect of Singapore's Stadium MRT station rotated the original plan on its side after being forced to revise the station's design?
text: Did you know that former Minnesota governor Harold LeVander jokingly said that he served under state senator Gordon Rosenmeier ?
text: Did you know that in 1356 Henry of Lancaster marched an English expedition through Normandy 330 miles (530 km) in 22 days while successfully avoiding battle with the French king's far larger army?
text: Did you know that Michael van der Veen , who represented Donald Trump at his second impeachment trial , also represented a man claiming to have been served a fried rat at a KFC ?
text: Did you know that Jia Ling 's directorial debut film Hi, Mom has made her the highest-grossing female director in Chinese box-office history?
text: Did you know that George A. Palmer continued his live Morning Cheer radio broadcast from his house while it was on fire?
text: Did you know that Amonovula piriei is a master of camouflage?
text: Did you know that Robert Dean was one of the few Anglophone Quebecers to join the separatist Parti Québécois ?
text: Did you know that at the conclusion of the 2006 Football League Two play-off Final , the losing manager said his side did not deserve to win and the winning goalscorer said he did not mean to score?
text: Did you know that Caroline Parker , a deaf performer, signed the song " I Am What I Am " at the 2012 Summer Paralympics opening ceremony ?
text: Did you know that Diana, Princess of Wales , wore her revenge dress on the night that her husband admitted to having been unfaithful in a televised interview ?
text: Did you know that botanist Rosemary Margaret Smith had both an entire genus and a separate species named after her for her major discoveries and classification of ginger ?
text: Did you know that Kirka Sharif houses a cloak believed to be that of the Prophet Muhammad , the founder of Islam?
text: Did you know that when the fireman's pole was invented at Chicago's Engine Company 21 , other firefighters thought its use was crazy—until 21 started being the first crew to arrive at fires?
text: Did you know that British band Black Country, New Road , who are known for experimenting with post-punk sound, showcased a clear preference for atmospherics on their album For the First Time ?
text: Did you know that runners training to represent Laos at the 2012 Summer Olympics used barbell weights made from concrete, tires, and paint cans?
text: Did you know that the investigation into the Koh Tao murders and the subsequent trial were widely criticised by human-rights organisations, pathologists and legal experts?
text: Did you know that Leslie Rowan was PPS to Winston Churchill and Clement Attlee , but Hugh Dalton called him "A bit too pi for me"?
text: Did you know that the British mycologist Denis Garrett , "one of the last 'string and sealing wax' scientists", once bought plastic lavatory cisterns for his laboratory to use in experiments?
text: Did you know that sand in the stomach of the ocean surgeon helps to grind up its food?
text: Did you know that Vera Wülfing-Leckie translated in Senegal a novel by Boubacar Boris Diop written in the Wolof language , titled Doomi Golo: The Hidden Notebooks in English?
text: Did you know that Langston Hughes 's poems " Mother to Son ", " Harlem ", and " The Negro Speaks of Rivers " have been described as "anthems of black America"?
text: Did you know that Miki Satō would write song lyrics while commuting by train from home to university?
text: Did you know that after winning the 2004 Football League Second Division play-off Final , some of the Brighton & Hove Albion players dropped the trophy while celebrating and damaged it?
text: Did you know that poet Mary Custis Vezey , an eleventh-generation American, published much of her work in Russian ?
text: Did you know that the 2020 book Stuck: How Vaccine Rumors Start and Why They Don't Go Away by Heidi Larson addresses misinformation related to vaccination ?
text: Did you know that Quentin Tarantino directed a Mother's Day–themed episode of ER after being encouraged to do so by George Clooney ?
text: Did you know that Bob McCallister is the only golfer to win both the Pac-8 Conference and Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference titles in back-to-back seasons?
text: Did you know that " Lasst uns Gott, dem Herrn, lobsingen ", a hymn of praise, was written by Dominican Petronia Steiner in 1944 to a melody which Johann Georg Ebeling created in 1666 for a hymn by Paul Gerhardt ?
text: Did you know that Mary Kate Barlow was made a dame of the Holy Sepulchre in recognition of her contribution to the Eucharistic congress of 1928 held in Sydney , Australia?
text: Did you know that Indian Kathakali artist Mathoor Govindan Kutty specialized in Kathakali Stri Vesham , the portrayal of female characters on stage?
text: Did you know that John Oliver was sued for defamation after a man in a squirrel costume told a coal industry CEO to "eat shit" on his show ?
text: Did you know that the Indonesian drama film Ave Maryam focuses on a forbidden romantic relationship between a Roman Catholic nun and her pastor?
text: Did you know that before she was elected to the Kansas Senate, Beverly Gossage worked as an elementary school teacher and an insurance agent?
text: Did you know that the 2020 crime film Caught in Time is based on the real-life robber and serial killer Zhang Jun ?
text: Did you know that for nearly two decades Alfred Woodford was the sole professor in Pomona College 's geology department?
text: Did you know that the tiny true bug Microvelia macgregori spends much of its time on the surface of water?
text: Did you know that attorney David Schoen held up a copy of Mao's Little Red Book while defending Donald Trump at his second impeachment trial ?
text: Did you know that the former graveyard of St Michael and All Angels Church, Sunninghill , is in the front garden of the house next door ?
text: Did you know that even though Willa Cather asked that her final novel, Hard Punishments , be destroyed when she died, new fragments were discovered in 2011?
text: Did you know that Guan Bee Ong was the first person of Chinese descent to be professor of surgery at the University of Hong Kong ?
text: Did you know that logging camps were placed next to a river so that harvested logs could be floated to lumber mills in the spring?
text: Did you know that Doris Stockhausen 's husband dedicated several compositions to her, beginning with Chöre für Doris in 1950 before they married?
text: Did you know that Albert H. Blumenthal jumped into the Asser Levy Recreation Center 's pool while campaigning for the 1973 New York City mayoral election ?
text: Did you know that in 1955, physician Count Gibson became the first person outside the Tuskegee Syphilis Study to criticize its ethics, but the study continued for 17 more years?
text: Did you know that the opening goal of the 1992 Football League Third Division play-off Final was described as a "Russian linesman job"?
text: Did you know that women in the Shaheen Bagh protest , who blocked a major road in Delhi for 101 days, included 82-year-old Bilkis ?
text: Did you know that ichthyologist C. Richard Robins and his wife Catherine were honoured jointly in the name of the false moray Robinsia catherinae ?
text: Did you know that Das Leiden Jesu von seinen Freunden , one of Christoph Graupner 's church cantatas , reflects how Jesus suffered from his friends , and ends with a chorale fantasia "full of dissonances"?
text: Did you know that the character Tom Bombadil , omitted by Peter Jackson in his later version, appears in a Russian film of The Lord of the Rings ?
text: Did you know that after coming back for a fifth season at Stanford , Anna Wilson won the 2021 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship Game with the Cardinal?
text: Did you know that the 2019 children's picture book Birdsong portrays intergenerational relationship using seasonal cycles?
text: Did you know that after Rhoda, Lady Birley , made fish stew with cognac for her roses, her daughter said that they "almost cried out with pleasure"?
text: Did you know that the basic design for the sitaras that decorate the Kaaba dates back to the 16th century?
text: Did you know that when Edward Mitchell Bannister won a first prize for painting at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial, officials tried to rescind the award upon realizing he was African-American?
text: Did you know that despite losing the 1990 Football League Third Division play-off Final , Tranmere Rovers were temporarily promoted to the Second Division?
text: Did you know that Olena Tokar , a soprano of the Leipzig Opera from Ukraine, recorded Charmes , a collection of art songs by women including Clara Schumann and Vítězslava Kaprálová ?
text: Did you know that the 2015 children's picture book Timeline chronologically illustrates major world events, including the Big Bang and the Fukushima nuclear disaster ?
text: Did you know that the Vuurbaak van Katwijk aan Zee , built in 1605, is the second-oldest lighthouse in the Netherlands?
text: Did you know that the BBC described Chi Chi DeVayne 's lip sync to " And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going " as "iconic in Drag Race history"?
text: Did you know that Truus Smulders-Beliën , the first female mayor in the Netherlands , succeeded her husband after he was executed by Nazi soldiers?
text: Did you know that Japan's 666 Protected Forests include four Forest Biosphere Reserves that are also Natural World Heritage Sites— Shiretoko , Shirakami-Sanchi , Ogasawara Islands , and Yakushima ?
text: Did you know that Karlin Lillington , long-time technology writer for Ireland's newspaper of record , The Irish Times , holds a PhD on the poetry of Seamus Heaney ?
text: Did you know that many tombstones from the Jewish cemetery of Thessaloniki were used by the city and the Greek Orthodox Church for construction projects?
text: Did you know that Philadelphia Phillies catcher Rafael Marchan had never hit a home run through 850 minor league plate appearances before hitting one in just his second major league game?
text: Did you know that the fish Carapus acus lives in association with a sea cucumber, such as Parastichopus regalis , spending the day inside its host and emerging at night to feed?
text: Did you know that Sister has sparked discussion about gender roles in China?
text: Did you know that Yugoslav politician Miloš Trifunović was briefly professor of zoology and botany despite graduating from the Faculty of Philosophy of the Belgrade Higher School ?
text: Did you know that John Neal's article "The Pound of Flesh" resulted in a substantial donation?
text: Did you know that British nurse Ethel Becher was described as a "modern Florence Nightingale " in 1919 for her services during World War I ?
text: Did you know that the history of Vyatka Land was said to be more obscure than that of any other Russian region?
text: Did you know that when Irene del Río was called up to the Spain women's national football team squad, she was the only player who did not compete in the country's top division ?
text: Did you know that Jerome Robbins 's ballet Other Dances was described as "utterly Slavic" by dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov , partly because it was made for him and fellow Russian Natalia Makarova ?
text: Did you know that when Hollyoaks changed Juliet Nightingale 's appearance for a storyline involving drugs, actress Niamh Blackshaw was glad to get rid of her character's side ponytail?
text: Did you know that the Urdu novel Zameen provides a woman-centric account of Pakistan's independence ?
text: Did you know that Julie Mennell was a police officer and a forensics specialist before she became vice chancellor of the University of Cumbria ?
text: Did you know that Brett Ormerod scored five goals for Blackpool in the 2001 Football League play-offs including one in the 2001 Football League Third Division play-off Final ?
text: Did you know that Wilson Tucker was elected to the Mining and Pastoral region of the Western Australian Legislative Council with just 0.18 per cent of the primary vote ?
text: Did you know that in " Herr, stärke mich, dein Leiden zu bedenken ", Christian Fürchtegott Gellert reflected the theological and emotional impact of the Passion of Jesus , using a familiar Passion hymn tune ?
text: Did you know that tea room owner Edith Warner was convinced by Robert Oppenheimer to keep her restaurant open to serve the scientists working on the Manhattan Project , including Niels Bohr and Enrico Fermi ?
text: Did you know that the founder of the Australian Flying Arts School took flying lessons so that he could travel throughout the Queensland Outback providing art lessons to its inhabitants?
text: Did you know that in hakamat , a genre of the traditional music of Sudan , women exert their influence to resolve conflicts by singing songs of praise or ridicule?
text: Did you know that Virgil Conn was a member of the Oregon Legislature during the 1897 session that failed to organize due to the lack of a quorum ?
text: Did you know that the inspiration for the 1998 novel The Vintner's Luck came to author Elizabeth Knox in a fever dream caused by pneumonia ?
text: Did you know that Sabina Matos , Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island , did not speak English when she immigrated to the United States at age 20?
text: Did you know that the year after going into administration , Huddersfield Town gained promotion to the Second Division by winning the 2004 Football League Third Division play-off Final ?
text: Did you know that the extinct bowfin Amia ? hesperia was likely a fish-eating hunter?
text: Did you know that Leontyne Price described her relationship with voice teacher Florence Kimball as "the most important relationship of my life. Like sex it was pure chemistry"?
text: Did you know that choreographer George Balanchine did not tell the dancers in Duo Concertant there would be a blackout in the middle of the ballet until the morning of the premiere?
text: Did you know that when Rosa M. Morris scored 130 percent in her mathematics exams, a special case had to be made at graduation to avoid handicapping other students?
text: Did you know that the first commercially viable CT scanner was invented by Godfrey Hounsfield in 1972?
text: Did you know that Katja Meier , the Saxon state minister of justice , was criticised for the anti-police lyrics of the punk band in which she played as a teenager?
text: Did you know that a new-age music format called "The Breeze" was a ratings failure for Nebraska radio station KLMS , causing a precipitous decline in listenership?
text: Did you know that William A. Radford assisted in producing a 1700-page encyclopedia about cement ?
text: Did you know that the roof of the TU Delft Library is used as a sledding hill during the winter?
text: Did you know that Mrs Justice Lieven made an order for a pregnant woman with learning difficulties to have an abortion against her wishes, but it was overturned in the Court of Appeal ?
text: Did you know that nonviolence advocate Tim DeChristopher described How to Blow Up a Pipeline by Andreas Malm as "a humble and nuanced case" for sabotaging fossil fuel infrastructure?
text: Did you know that in 1999 Jan Fullerton became the first woman to be appointed Director General of the National Library of Australia ?
text: Did you know that viral vector vaccines currently in use include four COVID-19 vaccines and two Ebola vaccines ?
text: Did you know that The Much Honoured Catherine Maxwell Stuart , who lives in Scotland's oldest continuously-inhabited stately home, is the first female laird of Traquair ?
text: Did you know that Indiana radio station WFML was bought so that the new owner could use the station's transmitter site to expand his hotel?
text: Did you know that Harry Daley , who joined the Metropolitan Police in 1925, was the first openly gay British police officer?
text: Did you know that United Nations diplomat Enuga Sreenivasulu Reddy 's anti-apartheid efforts were driven by a chance encounter with African National Congress activist A. B. Xuma ?
text: Did you know that when D'Arcy Carden was cast in the series premiere of The Good Place as Janet, a guide, news outlets were purposely lied to that her character was "a violin salesperson with a checkered past"?
text: Did you know that NASCAR competitor and film stunt performer Matt Jaskol is the first driver to win a race in North America with Red Bull sponsorship?
text: Did you know that the windmill in Werrington was built to grind corn but later converted to grind coal to make briquettes ?
text: Did you know that Gabriela Canavilhas was a pianist playing Portuguese compositions before she became Portugal's Minister of Culture ?
text: Did you know that in the Eurovision Song Contest the United Kingdom has finished in second place a record fifteen times, with Imaani the last artist to do so when she represented the country at the 1998 contest ?
text: Did you know that the Lenox Health Greenwich Village building was approvingly called "the box in which the Guggenheim Museum came"?
text: Did you know that Queen Letizia of Spain presented the 2020 Rey Jaime I Awards because her husband, the Spanish king , was in COVID-19 quarantine?
text: Did you know that the United States' 21 national preserves are in 11 states and protect vast areas of scenic public land similar to national parks , but where hunting is permitted?
text: Did you know that Stephanie Davis , who has qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics , is a part-time marathon runner who works in finance?
text: Did you know that the Oper am Brühl was the venue for the world premiere of Telemann's Germanicus in 1704, when he was director of the opera house?
text: Did you know that Debra Humphris , the vice chancellor of the University of Brighton , advocated converting 18th-century army barracks into student residences?
text: Did you know that the Hampton Shops Building was advertised as a "Gothic temple of art" shortly after it opened?
text: Did you know that Lilia Tarawa escaped from the Gloriavale Christian Community after believing for years that leaving Gloriavale meant she would go to hell?
text: Did you know that Francis Hagai instituted communal sharing of sliced banana as a parallel to the sacramental bread of the Eucharist ?
text: Did you know that a mathematical conjecture about tiling space by cubes was transformed into a problem in graph theory that became a benchmark for clique-finding algorithms ?
text: Did you know that Powell Clayton , the ninth governor of Arkansas , declared martial law in 1868 in response to the rise of the Ku Klux Klan and violence against African Americans and Republicans?
text: Did you know that Robert Adam 's plans for Kirkdale Bridge were substantially more elaborate than the structure that Sir Samuel Hannay was eventually willing to pay for on his estate in Dumfries and Galloway ?
text: Did you know that Tina LeBlanc spent 17 years as a principal dancer with the San Francisco Ballet despite being rejected by the American Ballet Theatre as a teenager?
text: Did you know that a sculpture of a scale-model taxi balanced on a dog is located outside of Hassenfeld Children's Hospital ?
text: Did you know that the canned-water company Liquid Death released two albums with lyrics consisting of hate comments the company received online?
text: Did you know that in 2021, Lefébre Rademan was unable to play for the South Africa national netball team as she was playing club netball in England?
text: Did you know that the music styles in the discography of Turnover range from pop-punk to dream pop ?
text: Did you know that Payal Ghanwani was the first Belizean senator of Indian descent ?
text: Did you know that the 1780s clerk's office of the Wilson-Wodrow-Mytinger House is West Virginia 's oldest extant public office building, and the c. 1750 kitchen is Romney 's oldest building?
text: Did you know that Xiaohong Rose Yang conducted a genome -wide search for copy number variations to identify the first susceptibility gene for familial chordoma ?
text: Did you know that San Francisco's " KYOU Radio " was the first terrestrial radio station to broadcast a program format consisting of podcasts ?
text: Did you know that the original Flying Fathers ice hockey team consisted of player priests with a horse as a backup goaltender?
text: Did you know that Turkish schoolchildren are taught that the Armenian Genocide never happened and instead, Armenians committed genocide against Turks?
text: Did you know that Claude Callegari gained cult-hero status among English football fans for his speeches about Arsenal ?
text: Did you know that the Court of Master Sommeliers expelled a board member and suspended the titles of 23 new members over a 2018 cheating scandal on the blind-tasting portion of its examination?
text: Did you know that the Syrian-Lebanese poet Maha Bayrakdar won the Miss Syria beauty pageant in 1967?
text: Did you know that days before the premiere of Balanchine's ballet Movements for Piano and Orchestra , 17-year-old Suzanne Farrell learned a lead role in an apartment, from a colleague who was on bed rest?
text: Did you know that Joye Hummel had never read a comic book before becoming the first woman to write scripts for Wonder Woman ?
text: Did you know that North Country Community Hospital sued North Shore Hospital because the names were too similar, and changed its own name to Glen Cove Hospital after it lost?
text: Did you know that the Piano Quartet , composed by Robert Schumann in 1842 for piano and strings, was described by his wife Clara as "a beautiful work, so youthful and fresh, as if it were his first"?
text: Did you know that Nellah Massey Bailey became the first woman to be elected statewide in Mississippi in 1947, less than a year after the death of her husband Governor Thomas L. Bailey ?
text: Did you know that the assassination of Talat Pasha to avenge the Armenian Genocide resulted in "one of the most spectacular trials of the twentieth century"?
text: Did you know that author Giacomo Sartori has named his day job as a soil scientist as an influence on his work?
text: Did you know that the village of Adatepe in Turkey, formerly inhabited by Greeks , was revived in the 1980s when the traditional stone houses were restored by people seeking to escape city life?
text: Did you know that a dance move originally performed by Big Bang 's G-Dragon became a trend in Vietnam due to efforts by Khá Bảnh ?
text: Did you know that during the Stratford General Strike of 1933 the Canadian military was brought in, with machine guns, to which the strikers responded with a rally and a parade?
text: Did you know that W. R. Granger 's funeral was reported to be one of the largest ever known in Montreal ?
text: Did you know that Russian writer Leonid Andreyev 's 1915 play He Who Gets Slapped was his most successful work in the US, spawning a silent film (1924), a novel, and an opera (1956)?
text: Did you know that Eric Anthony Abrahams was the first black TV reporter at the BBC ?
text: Did you know that an immunologic adjuvant is a vaccine ingredient that makes the immune response stronger and longer-lasting?
text: Did you know that James R. Mills , a California politician, was also a historian, teacher, published author, a champion for historic building preservation, and an advocate for public transportation?
text: Did you know that Andorra is the only Eurovision Song Contest participating country to have never competed in the grand final in its competitive history ?
text: Did you know that Chemeketa Community College president emeritus Gretchen Schuette once rappelled from a roof at an annual State of the College address?
text: Did you know that Julie Pomagalski rose 20 places to first place at the FIS Snowboard World Cup in three years?
text: Did you know that fens are fed by mineral-rich groundwater , while bogs are fed by mineral-poor precipitation?
text: Did you know that the Catholic Church barred Deborah Schembri from practicing law in ecclesiastical court because she led a campaign to legalize divorce in Malta?
text: Did you know that following an engine failure, United Airlines Flight 328 rained debris over Broomfield, Colorado ?
text: Did you know that the Dresdner Kapellsolisten , formed in 1994 mostly by instrumentalists of the Staatskapelle Dresden , focus on composers from Dresden including Johann Georg Pisendel ?
text: Did you know that Donald Heirman was given the nickname "Mr. EMC Standards" for his work on developing technical standards for electromagnetic compatibility ?
text: Did you know that the species name of the frog Boophis haingana is derived from the Malagasy word for 'fast'?
text: Did you know that the 2019 children's picture book The Fate of Fausto was inspired by the German legend of Faust , who trades his soul in exchange for unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures?
text: Did you know that Indigenous Australian elder Ivaritji was the last speaker of the Kaurna language before its revival in the 1990s?
text: Did you know that for three years, an illegal gold-mining settlement on the Amur river went on to host high-class hotels, have public healthcare, and even have a casino?
text: Did you know that Raoul de Gaucourt , who fought at the Battle of Nicopolis in 1396 and the siege of Harfleur in 1415, was described as "a medieval chivalric hero whom the modern world has forgotten"?
text: Did you know that the Community catchphrase "six seasons and a movie" originated in " Paradigms of Human Memory " as a reference to The Cape ?
text: Did you know that Kameron Michaels has been described as a " lip sync assassin"?
text: Did you know that prices can be negative ?
text: Did you know that Mihajlo Petrović was the second combat casualty in the history of military aviation?
text: Did you know that although John Foster long ago described heavy ion fusion as "the conservative approach" to a working fusion reactor , no large-scale system has ever been built?
text: Did you know that William Armstrong , an Irish immigrant to the U.S., was a postmaster , a presidential elector , a Virginia House Delegate , and a U.S. House Representative ?
text: Did you know that Walt Whitman 's poem " The Sleepers " contains "one of the most powerful and evocative passages about slavery in American literature"?
text: Did you know that Rannveig Þorsteinsdóttir , a newspaper clerk and part-time teacher in the 1920s, became the first woman to practice law in the Supreme Court of Iceland thirty years later?
text: Did you know that both of Scunthorpe United's substitutes failed to score their penalties in the shootout , which saw them lose the 1992 Football League Fourth Division play-off Final ?
text: Did you know that Fannie Mahood Heath was nicknamed the "flower lady of North Dakota" for her garden that included over 450 different species of flowers, bushes, and trees?
text: Did you know that the 1949 film Hardly a Criminal was mostly filmed in Buenos Aires , and that city's critics called it Argentina's "outstanding film of the year"?
text: Did you know that former ballerina Katita Waldo briefly came out of retirement to perform as the stepmother in Christopher Wheeldon 's Cinderella ?
text: Did you know that radio station WMLB in Cumming, Georgia , earned national acclaim as an Americana music station in the 1990s?
text: Did you know that although he was born in the United Kingdom, Isaac Hope was elected to represent Tobago on the Legislative Council of Trinidad and Tobago ?
text: Did you know that Camille Saint-Saëns called his First Violin Sonata his " hippogriff sonata", suggesting that its technical demands could only be met by a legendary creature?
text: Did you know that Shirley Congdon , the vice chancellor of the University of Bradford , was the first in her family to attend university?
text: Did you know that an RMI sounded best with a Hi-Scream Cone?
text: Did you know that Mary L. Smith became the first female president of Kentucky State University in 1991 despite having been passed over for the same job a year earlier?
text: Did you know that the Bach-Chor Bonn , a choir founded to sing Bach's works, such as the St John Passion in 1950, grew to a concert choir with a broad repertoire and a long tradition of tours in Europe?
text: Did you know that Leonidas Zervas was a Greek organic chemist who discovered the carboxybenzyl protecting group, and also served as Minister of Industry of Greece and President of the Academy of Athens ?
text: Did you know that the Women's London Championship was viewed as a response to the introduction of women's franchise cricket in England?
text: Did you know that Cuban ballerinas and sisters Lorena and Lorna Feijóo both moved to the U.S., and once split the roles of Black and White Swans in Swan Lake , which are usually danced by the same person?
text: Did you know that a suspicious neighbor of FuncoLand founder David Pomije called the police to investigate the large number of teenagers and young adults visiting his house?
text: Did you know that in 1805, Jean Maxwell was sentenced to be imprisoned for a year at Kirkcudbright Tolbooth for pretending to be a witch?
text: Did you know that in 1972, "Prime Minister" David Sanchez led an occupation of Catalina Island by the Brown Berets meant to draw attention on the continuing struggles of Mexican-Americans in the United States?
text: Did you know that four religious denominations meet in one district of Wrocław ?
text: Did you know that Theresa M. Korn turned down a scholarship to the Carnegie Institute of Technology in order to become the institute's first female engineer?
text: Did you know that in 2001, Turkey set up an official government agency co-chaired by the foreign minister to combat "baseless genocide claims"?
text: Did you know that Kristen Stewart played a young woman with Friedreich's ataxia in the 2007 film, The Cake Eaters ?
text: Did you know that some English mediaeval commissions of sewers had powers to imprison labourers who refused to work on flood defences?
text: Did you know that after Musical Youth reworked the song " Pass the Kouchie " into " Pass the Dutchie " by replacing cannabis references with food references, the word "dutchie" later became a cannabis reference as well?
text: Did you know that runner-up Ronnie O'Sullivan almost withdrew from the 2021 Tour Championship after sending his cue stick for repair twice before the event?
text: Did you know that Two-Way Mirror , the first full biography of English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning in 30 years, portrays the poet as a daring Victorian sensation and dismisses her image as an invalid?
text: Did you know that Luigi Fugazy was described as "perhaps the most eminent padrone in the United States"?
text: Did you know that the Saugatuck Chain Ferry is believed to be the last operating hand-cranked chain ferry in the United States?
text: Did you know that the fictional character Howard Bellamy from the British soap opera Doctors was based on a real-life army captain who quit his job to run a doctor's surgery?
text: Did you know that Plunton Castle , although well defended by gun loops , a ditch and a 9-foot (2.7 m) wall, had a very rare security flaw in the arrangement of its ground-floor rooms?
text: Did you know that after he died, American Revolutionary War general and physician William Irvine was buried three different times at three different locations?
text: Did you know that Madame Gavaudan , a soprano of the Opéra-Comique in Paris, created the role of Benjamin in Étienne Méhul's Joseph ?
text: Did you know that all three albums in the discography of the emo band American Football are eponymous , so the media and Polyvinyl Records refer to them as LP1, LP2, and LP3?
text: Did you know that the cucumber seeds that botanist Elwyn Meader brought back from Korea in 1948 became the basis for all modern cucumber hybrids grown worldwide?
text: Did you know that during the 2020 Zagreb flash flood , residents broke into a dam control building to drain floodwaters from the city?
text: Did you know that Mississippi legislator Thelma Farr Baxter introduced a bill to keep livestock off the roads after her husband was fatally injured in a highway collision with a cow?
text: Did you know that in 1984, a Spanish fishing trawler sank after being fired upon by the Irish patrol vessel Aisling ?
text: Did you know that despite his side winning the 1998 Football League Second Division play-off Final , Grimsby's Alan Buckley said "Anybody who says they enjoy play-offs aren't football managers"?
text: Did you know that since Henry E. Parker ran for office in 1974, the Democratic Party has always nominated an African American for Connecticut State Treasurer ?
text: Did you know that the Shinan shipwreck , the first major discovery of Korean maritime archaeology , has been described as possibly "the richest ancient shipwreck yet discovered"?
text: Did you know that a head was displayed in the Seagram Building 's plaza in 1968?
text: Did you know that Kate Clark wrote the children's book A Southern Cross Fairy Tale , which used Northern Hemisphere Christmas imagery but featured the natural features and animals of New Zealand?
text: Did you know that after Ted Turner asked for viewers' money to keep WRET-TV afloat, he was able to repay thousands of lenders four years later—with interest?
text: Did you know that Ben Connor , who competed in his first marathon in October 2020, has qualified for the marathon race at the delayed 2020 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that The Wolf of Wall Street set a Guinness world record for the most instances of swearing in a film, with the word "fuck" said a total of 569 times ?
text: Did you know that Aga Mikolaj , a soprano who studied with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf , appeared as Mozart's Donna Elvira from San Francisco to Tokyo, and sang the Four Last Songs with "a degree of abandon and rapture"?
text: Did you know that Nadodrze in Poland was used by Steven Spielberg as a filming location for a spy drama set in Berlin ?
text: Did you know that Rogers Lehew was influential in starting the Calgary Stampeders tradition of featuring a horse at the sidelines during games at McMahon Stadium ?
text: Did you know that in the 1950s, the Soviet Union introduced an open university system to enable working-class students to become useful functionaries of the Communist party?
text: Did you know that historian of the Middle East George Eden Kirk 's first book was praised for excelling in objectivity while his last was criticised for bias and bitterness?
text: Did you know that the Stinnes–Legien Agreement was named after a trade union leader and an industrialist ?
text: Did you know that the miracles that established Saint Glodesind 's claim to sainthood did not begin until 25 years or more after her death, and many of them occurred over 200 years later?
text: Did you know that ballerina Catherine Hurlin performed in Radio City Christmas Spectacular between the age of eleven and thirteen?
text: Did you know that the space industry of India has supported the launch of more than 100 domestic satellites and more than 300 foreign satellites?
text: Did you know that Senegalese artist and actress Younousse Sèye , who is best known for her mixed-media works incorporating cowrie shells, is considered to be Senegal's first woman painter?
text: Did you know that writer Mark Twain frequently used Cooper station to meet with a friend?
text: Did you know that geneticist Neil Hanchard was a senior author on a publication surveying human genomic diversity in Africa that was described by Nature as "a milestone in genomics research"?
text: Did you know that Wyche Pavilion , a two-story historic building in Greenville, South Carolina , was originally intended to serve as a paint shop for the Greenville Coach Factory?
text: Did you know that Surinamese singer Shahied Wagid Hosain was famous for his Bollywood song covers, more than for his own songs?
text: Did you know that Carl Au received three musical theatre scholarships, which was deemed "an unprecedented event in show business"?
text: Did you know that Hey Lady! is Jayne Eastwood 's first leading role in a 50-year career?
text: Did you know that Colin Powell was regarded as the "architect of Jersey 's finance industry"?
text: Did you know that the 1972 manga series The Poe Clan was among the first works of vampire literature to depict vampires as romantic and tragic rather than predatory?
text: Did you know that Turkish anthropologist Ayşe Gül Altınay was sentenced to 25 months in jail due to her support for a peaceful resolution of the Kurdish–Turkish conflict ?
text: Did you know that the sea cucumber Holothuria poli may have reached the Red Sea by travelling through the Suez Canal ?
text: Did you know that NASA scientist Scott Sandford wrote that apples and oranges can be compared?
text: Did you know that former U.S. president Bill Clinton made a guest appearance on a television reunion episode of The West Wing to encourage voter turnout in the 2020 United States elections ?
text: Did you know that Fan Hongwei and her husband turned a failing textile factory into the largest fiber producer in China?
text: Did you know that coverage of the 1952 funeral of George VI may have led to the mass purchase of television sets in the United Kingdom?
text: Did you know that after Maria Camilleri co-founded a school for Muslim children in Malta, she became the only Christian headmistress of a Muslim school in the world?
text: Did you know that role-playing-game supplement GURPS Steampunk was the most detailed definition of the steampunk genre when it was published?
text: Did you know that Benjamin Kapelushnik , also known as "Benjamin Kickz", sold sneakers at age 16 to celebrity clients such as DJ Khaled , Drake , Travis Scott , Floyd Mayweather and Kevin Hart ?
text: Did you know that the owner of Oregon radio station KLOO offered $10,000 to anyone who could bring an extraterrestrial lifeform to the station's studios?
text: Did you know that the combined no-hitter at the Los Angeles Angels ' memorial game for Tyler Skaggs was the first combined no-hitter in California since the day Skaggs was born?
text: Did you know that a prototype of Octogeddon was submitted to a Ludum Dare contest before being developed into an official video game?
text: Did you know that Julia Letlow won the special election for a seat in the United States House of Representatives after her husband died from COVID-19 before he could be sworn into office?
text: Did you know that the San Diego Trolley passes through the James R. Mills Building ?
text: Did you know that Gianluigi Colalucci is credited with restoring the "dazzling splendour" of both the Sistine Chapel ceiling and Michelangelo 's The Last Judgment ?
text: Did you know that concrete bus shelters in Canberra, Australia , now considered an icon of the city, were initially labelled as "lunatic" by a reporter for The Canberra Times ?
text: Did you know that the critically endangered chestnut-capped piha is locally known as the "little herdsman of Antioquia " because its call sounds like the whistles made by horsemen herding cattle?
text: Did you know that Lovie Gore made multiple unsuccessful attempts to delay the desegregation of schools in Mississippi?
text: Did you know that on Holocaust Memorial Day in 2014 , Turkish foreign minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu claimed that "there is no trace of genocide in our history" – thus denying the Armenian Genocide ?
text: Did you know that Anja Petersen performed the role of the leading woman in the world premiere of Arnulf Herrmann 's Der Mieter at the Oper Frankfurt ?
text: Did you know that Burnley won the 1994 Football League Second Division play-off Final after two opposition players were sent off ?
text: Did you know that Addison Rae 's debut single " Obsessed " is about self-love ?
text: Did you know that Pikrolimni is the only salt lake in Greece, mentioned by Plato and Pliny , and nowadays known for its therapeutic mud baths ?
text: Did you know that the success of the children's poetry book Alligator Pie led to the author, Dennis Lee , being named "Canada's Father Goose"?
text: Did you know that Halyna Sevruk was expelled from the Union of Artists of Ukraine in 1968 due to a political letter she signed?
text: Did you know that Humphrey Jennings 's 1939 film Spare Time showed an American audience how the British working classes spent their free time?
text: Did you know that when Joachim Philip delivered an ultimatum to the British in Grenada during Fédon's rebellion , the militia had to restrain his sister, Susannah, who otherwise would have "torn him to pieces"?
text: Did you know that Jesu, meine Freude (Jesus, my joy), a motet by Bach , has a complex symmetrical structure in which six hymn stanzas alternate with five Bible verses ?
text: Did you know that Kendal Green station was named both for dyed cloth and a nearby resident's grandfather?
text: Did you know that an art gallery exhibit featuring My Androgynous Boyfriend took place at the Animate Girls Festival in 2019?
text: Did you know that as part of her influential research on the garden strawberry , Vivian Lee Bowden discovered the unpublished drawings of early French botanist Antoine Nicolas Duchesne ?
text: Did you know that the Fred F. French Building has been described as the "only Mesopotamian skyscraper" in New York City?
text: Did you know that Arthur Schüller founded the discipline of neuroradiology ?
text: Did you know that Forest Glen Park was among the earliest residential subdivisions in Montgomery County, Maryland , and was described by its developer as " Washington 's most desirable suburb?"
text: Did you know that besides the fruits being edible, the roots and leaves of creeping cucumber have many uses in traditional medicine?
text: Did you know that Darrell Blocker , "The Spy Whisperer", began playing live music in Senegal as part of his espionage duties?
text: Did you know that the Lucifer Dékou-Dékou Biological Reserve , the largest wilderness area of France, is divided in two by land which includes the country's biggest mining project, the Montagne d'Or mine ?
text: Did you know that Dottie Ray interviewed 32,397 guests over 55 years on more than 14,000 broadcasts of her daily show on KXIC radio in Iowa City ?
text: Did you know that Barbara Yancy , who succeeded her husband in the Mississippi Senate after his death, later became an advocate for other widowed homemakers?
text: Did you know that the title of Welsh musician The Anchoress 's album The Art of Losing was inspired by American poet Elizabeth Bishop 's poem " One Art "?
text: Did you know that Marita Napier is the first South African opera singer to have performed lead roles in each of the four "Grand Slam" opera houses?
text: Did you know that the Sunshine Protection Act would make daylight saving time in the United States become permanent ?
text: Did you know that the contrast agent iobitridol can be injected into blood vessels, joints, or body cavities such as the uterus?
text: Did you know that former baseball player Tacks Latimer was sentenced to life imprisonment for second-degree murder , but was pardoned for his heroism in stopping a prison break?
text: Did you know that in the music video for " Montero (Call Me by Your Name) ", Lil Nas X gives Satan a lap dance ?
text: Did you know that a drifting shipwreck stranded several dozen people on Margate Jetty in 1877?
text: Did you know that Frances Theresa Peet Russell may have written the first book to examine satire in Victorian literature ?
text: Did you know that in 1846, Emma Willard represented all of human history in a graphic resembling an Ancient Greek temple ?
text: Did you know that following his career with the Headhunters , Paul Jackson moved to Japan and established a voluntary concert to familiarize students with African-American history ?
text: Did you know that a number of live grenades remain on the moon as part of the Active Seismic Experiment , flown on Apollo 14 and Apollo 16 ?
text: Did you know that every competitor at the 2021 British Athletics Marathon and 20km Walk Trial received a commemorative bonsai tree?
text: Did you know that ballerina Elena Lobsanova broke the "curse of Marie" at the National Ballet of Canada ?
text: Did you know that Tara Downs co-founded the Tomorrow Gallery in a converted paintball studio in Toronto?
text: Did you know that the principles of quantum mechanics have been demonstrated to hold for complex molecules with thousands of atoms?
text: Did you know that MLS Cup 2000 was the first championship game in league history not to feature D.C. United ?
text: Did you know that Abdallah Oumbadougou , the "godfather of all the present-day Tuareg musicians in Niger", distributed illegal cassette tapes of banned ishumar music while in exile from 1984 to 1995?
text: Did you know that an owner of Wyoming radio station KATI donated the station to the University of Wyoming , only to be "disappointed" when the university opted not to use his gift?
text: Did you know that after the start of Afghan peace talks in 2019, journalist Farahnaz Forotan travelled the country to collect testimonies from women and prevent the rollback of their freedoms?
text: Did you know that the settling of Martensdale, California , went so badly that the town's namesake spent the rest of his life as a fugitive?
text: Did you know that Idaho television station KCIX-TV went silent awaiting a merger deal that fell apart?
text: Did you know that Tranmere Rovers players were each promised a £10,000 bonus for winning the 1991 Football League Third Division play-off Final ?
text: Did you know that according to Nepalese folklore , Pimbahal Pond was built by a demon?
text: Did you know that XYYY syndrome , a chromosome abnormality in which a man has two extra Y chromosomes, has only been recorded twelve times?
text: Did you know that Hitler Nababan was beaten by an angry mob after posting a meme to a WhatsApp group?
text: Did you know that ballerina Unity Phelan danced in the films John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum and I'm Thinking of Ending Things ?
text: Did you know that Silver Hill station may have been named for rumors of Captain Kidd 's treasure – or just a stand of trees?
text: Did you know that Charles Scott Napier graduated from the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich , and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in 1916, but could not be sent overseas until he turned nineteen in 1918?
text: Did you know that the Turkish government forced the last monks of Vazelon Monastery to leave in 1923, more than one thousand years after the monastery first opened?
text: Did you know that Marion Miley , a 1930s amateur golfer ranked second in the United States, was murdered at the age of 27?
text: Did you know that the tourist submarine Windermere operated for only two seasons on her namesake lake in Cumbria, England?
text: Did you know that Vikram Phadnis designed around 800 costumes for the Bollywood film Salaam-e-Ishq ?
text: Did you know that attending the first Women in Print Conference inspired Carol Seajay to create Feminist Bookstore News ?
text: Did you know that The Top 100 Drugs can fit in a pocket?
text: Did you know that Michael Hampe , who directed the Cologne Opera for 20 years, was the stage director for the world premiere of Henze 's adaptation of Monteverdi's Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria at the Salzburg Festival ?
text: Did you know that the remote Burt Township Schools , covering 258 square miles (670 km 2 ) in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan , implemented a novel telephone teaching program that included electronic blackboards in 1984?
text: Did you know that the Final Offensive of 1981 was actually the first offensive of the 12-year-long Salvadoran Civil War (1979–1992)?
text: Did you know that professor Emma Baker trained her pharmacology students to perform mass COVID-19 testing on their fellows so that they could go home for Christmas?
text: Did you know that some of the proposed routes for the current effort to build a Uinta Basin Rail line are based on routes surveyed more than 100 years ago?
text: Did you know that genderless fashion in Japan was inspired by K-pop groups, visual kei , and 1980s–1990s American fashion?
text: Did you know that a math mistake while fencing with longswords gave cognitive scientist Tom Griffiths a broken right wrist?
text: Did you know that Betty Jane Long was Speaker of the Mississippi House of Representatives for less than a day?
text: Did you know that a contributor to Hell Is a Very Small Place , a 2016 book about solitary confinement, was denied access to a copy of the book while in prison?
text: Did you know that Aramburu Island is named after its creator, a Marin County supervisor who ordered it cut off from the mainland because he "did not think any homes should be built" there?
text: Did you know that Kathy Hudson , an expert in science policy and genetic discrimination , helped assemble a team that led to the passage of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act ?
text: Did you know that Paul McCartney 's psychedelic 1972 Wings Tour Bus ended up in a garden in Tenerife before returning to the UK for restoration?
text: Did you know that hockey player Kevin Hayes came within two hours of needing his leg amputated due to compartment syndrome ?
text: Did you know that sniffing for coffee was once a highly paid job?
text: Did you know that Russian-born choreographer George Balanchine made the ballet Stars and Stripes as a tribute to the United States, his adopted country?
text: Did you know that Marion Macfarlane , the first deaconess in the Anglican Church of Australia , later converted to Catholicism and joined the Sisters of the Good Shepherd ?
text: Did you know that Games Research Inc licensed Diplomacy , Henry Kissinger 's favorite game, in 1960 after the board game's creator unsuccessfully tried to get multiple publishers to accept it?
text: Did you know that Luis Abraham Delgadillo was Nicaragua's director-general of musical culture, a position which was created specifically for him?
text: Did you know that in 1750, Daniel-Marie Chabert de Joncaire de Clausonne built a small canal above Niagara Falls to power a sawmill?
text: Did you know that the North Korean song " Where Are You, Dear General? " plays every morning at 6 a.m. through Pyongyang 's loudspeakers?
text: Did you know that the chief engineer of Virginia television station WRFT-TV said that "a 15-watt Christmas bulb and baling wire" kept it on the air?
text: Did you know that during a renovation of New York City's 2 Broadway , some funds were embezzled and sent to two crime families?
text: Did you know that Lionel Fleury brought minor ice hockey and a recreational facility to Quebec City during the Great Depression ?
text: Did you know that Frank Sinatra was "very, very angry" after being told that he would not be singing " Lonely Town " on film?
text: Did you know that Captain John Fenwick Hutchings was in charge of Operation Pluto , the project to construct submarine oil pipelines under the English Channel during World War II?
text: Did you know that Jessie Carney Smith spent more than twenty years researching the three volumes of Notable Black American Women , which profiled 1,100 figures?
text: Did you know that the latex-like sap of the desert candle has uses in traditional medicine but can cause skin blisters and blindness?
text: Did you know that the music video for Oh Land 's " Listen a Little Less " was filmed entirely on a Samsung Galaxy S21 smartphone?
text: Did you know that Robert Fancourt lost his ship to mutineers in 1797, then ran it aground in 1801?
text: Did you know that some Brexit supporters have called for the UK to transform itself into a deregulated, low-tax " Singapore-on-Thames " to prosper outside of the EU?
text: Did you know that Port Vale F.C. captain Tom Conlon 's great-great-grandfather played for the club more than a century ago?
text: Did you know that Pop Smoke references Manu Ginóbili , a former basketball player with the San Antonio Spurs , in the lyrics for " Hello "?
text: Did you know that despite the European Commission organising COVID-19 vaccine supplies for the whole bloc , a shortage of vaccines caused several member states to obtain their own supplies from Russia and China?
text: Did you know that Joseph Taylor Goodsir accused Rudolph Virchow , "the father of modern pathology", of plagiarism?
text: Did you know that Robert Webb planned his first book to be about Top Gear and other topics of lad culture before it became How Not to Be a Boy , a memoir about masculinity?
text: Did you know that Doug Sahm 's posthumous album The Return of Wayne Douglas was his first to feature only country music songs?
text: Did you know that the Astor Place station was flooded by a subterranean river after firefighters extinguished a blaze at a building above it?
text: Did you know that 19th-century French economist Jean Gustave Courcelle-Seneuil is considered to be the founder of classical economics and economic liberalism in Chile?
text: Did you know that the late Ottoman Empire has been described as "the laboratory of demographic engineering in Europe"?
text: Did you know that as the only woman in the 1923 Utah State Senate , Antoinette Kinney introduced bills to increase the number of state-sponsored scholarships and to establish public health regulations?
text: Did you know that after Erna Schlüter had appeared as Elektra at the Royal Opera House , the composer , who was in the audience, told her that she was the fulfilment of the character?
text: Did you know that the UK Supreme Court told the Chief Constable that the West Yorkshire Police are not allowed to knock over old ladies?
text: Did you know that the pioneering Turkish soprano Mesude Çağlayan was presented a tiny doll of "Madama Butterfly" by the government of Japan for performing the Japanese title role in Puccini's opera ?
text: Did you know that Plandemic was criticized for its professional-style production?
text: Did you know that Bob's Your Uncle , a Hong Kong YouTuber, began cooking while he was an international student after he found the food from Chinese restaurants in London unappetising?
text: Did you know that the Thousand Islands Parkway was the final two-lane section of Highway 401 ?
text: Did you know that the death of Serbian politician Vladimir Cvijan , which occurred in January 2018, was not publicly known until March 2021?
text: Did you know that the French football club GPSO 92 Issy was founded by three Peruvian sisters in 1997?
text: Did you know that Hastings station had neither platforms nor shelter for waiting passengers?
text: Did you know that computer game studio Legend Entertainment was founded by veterans of the interactive fiction studio Infocom after it shut down in 1989?
text: Did you know that F. Scott Fitzgerald said that his book The Great Gatsby was a failure in comparison to Willa Cather 's My Ántonia ?
text: Did you know that the Frightened Rabbit album Painting of a Panic Attack was written mostly over email?
text: Did you know that Paul English , co-founder of Kayak , offered to pay for the vaccination of 100,000 people during the cholera outbreak following the 2010 Haiti earthquake if other funding could not be secured?
text: Did you know that the Sursock Purchases represented almost a quarter of all land purchased by Jews in Palestine until 1948?
text: Did you know that ballerina Miranda Weese performed the lead role in a televised performance of Swan Lake under an hour's notice, with a partner she had never rehearsed with?
text: Did you know that while the 2020 Triumph Tiger 900 shares a name with a previous model (the 1998 Tiger 900 ) and looks similar to its predecessor (the 2010 Tiger 800 ), it shares its design with neither?
text: Did you know that on the first day of the East L.A. walkouts , Vickie Castro 's car was used to take down a fence at Roosevelt High School ?
text: Did you know that a German theologian wrote " Vertraut den neuen Wegen " to be sung at a wedding in Eisenach shortly before the fall of the Wall ?
text: Did you know that Rosemary Crumlin , author of a 60-year history of the Blake Prize for religious art, first attended a Blake exhibition when she was a young novice with the Australian Sisters of Mercy ?
text: Did you know that within three years, American subscription television service ON TV went from boasting 725,000 subscribers in eight cities to being out of business?
text: Did you know that English clergyman Wilfrid T. F. Castle wrote the first book-length account of the postal history of Cyprus ?
text: Did you know that in the Neon Genesis Evangelion episode " A Transfer ", Arthur Schopenhauer 's hedgehog's dilemma is mentioned?
text: Did you know that Len Fisher won the 1999 Ig Nobel Prize for physics for his research on the optimal way to dunk a biscuit ?
text: Did you know that Grote Stadskerk , a church located in the historical centre of Paramaribo , is the first and the largest church of the Moravian congregation in Suriname?
text: Did you know that after making videos on TikTok where she lip-synced Donald Trump , Sarah Cooper got a comedy special on Netflix and a TV show on CBS ?
text: Did you know that the greeneye spurdog , Sydney skate , grey skate and whitefin swellshark are at risk of extinction by trawling, according to a 2021 report?
text: Did you know that the Nazis at Ravensbrück killed French Resistance fighter Émilie Tillion by gas chamber for having white hair?
text: Did you know that the most senior of the African-American scientists and technicians on the Manhattan Project , William Knox , supervised the otherwise-white staff of the Corrosion Section at Columbia University ?
text: Did you know that José de la Cruz Mena , who contracted leprosy at the age of 21 and was blind at 26, was described as "the pre-eminent Nicaraguan composer of his time"?
text: Did you know that in State v. Linkhaw , the North Carolina Supreme Court reversed the conviction of a man who sang so badly in church that a jury had found him guilty of "disturbing a religious congregation"?
text: Did you know that Carter Hart is the youngest goaltender in Philadelphia Flyers history to record a shutout , doing so at the age of 21 years and 57 days?
text: Did you know that a song of God's presence , written in 1965 in Dutch by Huub Oosterhuis , became part of the first common German Catholic hymnal , and was retained in the second by popular demand?
text: Did you know that in September 2020, two labor unions both performed strike actions against the University of Illinois Hospital in Chicago ?
text: Did you know that irked by the immense gap in gender-focused digital storytelling from both Sudan and South Sudan, Omnia Shawkat co-founded Andariya magazine?
text: Did you know that studies in occupational toxicology often focus on early effects that are more subtle than those in clinical medicine?
text: Did you know that in one of Singapore 's largest drainage diversions, a canal had to be redirected into steel pipes while constructing Chinatown MRT station ?
text: Did you know that organist Lorin Whitney worked nights at a Lockheed Aircraft plant during World War II, while performing on a coast-to-coast radio program after his shift ended in the morning?
text: Did you know that the mayor of Málaga , Francisco de la Torre , was the first Spaniard to be awarded the Medal of Pushkin by Vladimir Putin ?
text: Did you know that historians do not agree on how Port Way entered the Roman town of Calleva Atrebatum ?
text: Did you know that Lyubomir Pipkov is considered one of the founders of Bulgaria's modern professional musical establishment?
text: Did you know that students from four local high schools and Rutgers University each had their chance to run New Jersey television station WRTV for a day?
text: Did you know that Erich Honecker demanded that West Germany violate its own constitution by recognising East German citizenship?
text: Did you know that assisted by computers , Marijn Heule helped devise a proof of Keller's conjecture in dimension seven, a 90-year-old math problem?
text: Did you know that the bicolored sponge goby spends most of its life living inside sponges ?
text: Did you know that rapper Pop Smoke recorded " Diana " the night before he was murdered?
text: Did you know that after Mary Lou Godbold announced her candidacy for the Mississippi Senate , all of the other candidates withdrew from the race?
text: Did you know that when the tower of Sioux Falls radio station KISD collapsed in 1968, it narrowly missed a train motel run by the station's former owner?
text: Did you know that as a fifteen-year-old student, ballerina Angelica Generosa replaced an injured schoolmate to perform a lead role in Balanchine's Stars and Stripes after two weeks of rehearsals?
text: Did you know that Leonard Bernstein rediscovered his setting of Psalm 148 for voice and piano, dated 1935, in the mid-1980s, and it was first performed in 1993?
text: Did you know that the Thai Supreme Court opinion concerning the murder of Jenjira Ployangunsri is often quoted on Valentine's Day?
text: Did you know that a 1947 song tells you how to cook rabbit at top speed ?
text: Did you know that Eugénie Brazier was the first chef to be awarded six Michelin stars ?
text: Did you know that a team including bricklayers, assistant bank managers and insurance clerks defeated Coventry City in the third round of the FA Cup in 1989?
text: Did you know that Ivorian politician Téné Birahima Ouattara , the brother of the country's president, is nicknamed "Photocopy" due to their similar appearance?
text: Did you know that neither of the US-based authors of the 1991 book The Coming War With Japan had ever visited Japan when they wrote it?
text: Did you know that when Canadian preacher Perry F. Rockwood criticized the Presbyterian church in 1947, he was ordered to recant and burn his sermons?
text: Did you know that the 2021 Palestinian film The Present is about a present and the present ?
text: Did you know that German minister Wolfgang Clement said that the secret to drinking a glass of beer in 1.5 seconds was to fold back the uvula ?
text: Did you know that the wasp Sceliphron asiaticum provisions its nest with body parts of spiders?
text: Did you know that Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Zach Eflin was once traded twice in the course of 24 hours?
text: Did you know that the February 2021 calving of Iceberg A-74 has provided the opportunity to study seafloor organisms that can survive 30 kilometres (19 mi) from the nearest daylight?
text: Did you know that the Battle of Milliken's Bend brought acceptance of African Americans as soldiers?
text: Did you know that after Do Not Split received an Oscar nomination, the Chinese government reportedly told local media to downplay the awards?
text: Did you know that Louis William Valentine DuBourg established his episcopal see in St. Louis because the Catholics of New Orleans would not accept his authority?
text: Did you know that people in Taiwan changed their legal names to something involving salmon in order to get free sushi?
text: Did you know that Imago Records intended to release Kylie Minogue in the US before closing down in 1995?
text: Did you know that after IFPI Taiwan established the IFPI Taiwan Charts in August 1996, the charts were noted for having their own World Wide Web site?
text: Did you know that the music video for St. Vincent 's song " Pay Your Way in Pain " recalls the 1970s downtown New York , taking inspiration from the works of Kate Bush , David Bowie , and Cindy Sherman ?
text: Did you know that " Christians, awake, salute the happy morn " is a hymn based on a poem that John Byrom first presented "For Dolly"?
text: Did you know that an article headlined " (Almost) Straight Outta Compton " led to Prince Harry 's communications secretary issuing a public statement denouncing "racist" and "sexist" commentary about Meghan, Duchess of Sussex ?
text: Did you know that the 2003 spy thriller The Hero: Love Story of a Spy was Priyanka Chopra 's first Bollywood film?
text: Did you know that "prophet of doom" Craig Hamilton-Parker claims to have predicted Brexit and Trump ?
text: Did you know that the dual circulation policy calls for China to prioritize domestic consumption while remaining open to international trade ?
text: Did you know that Masako Yashiro was one of the earliest female artists to create Japanese boys' comics ?
text: Did you know that the series finale of Schitt's Creek was written in three hours by co-creator Daniel Levy ?
text: Did you know that Alice Saxby was nurse in charge of an officer's wing at Botleys during the Second World War and cared for many casualties from the Normandy landings ?
text: Did you know that in 2000, the Mayor of New York City Rudy Giuliani threatened to sell JFK and LaGuardia airports to BAA USA owned by a British company?
text: Did you know that Mark Cullen was named as League Two Player of the Month for October 2014 after scoring a perfect hat-trick ?
text: Did you know that former Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev starred in a Pizza Hut commercial in 1997?
text: Did you know that Jacquie Sturm was the first Māori writer to have her work published in a New Zealand anthology?
text: Did you know that Green Bullfrog featured members of Deep Purple , Procol Harum and Chas & Dave ?
text: Did you know that due to her Casualty character Ruby Spark 's near- photographic memory , actress Maddy Hill had to learn all the intricate details of the medical terminology used by the character?
text: Did you know that people thought Boxers would gentrify Washington Heights ?
text: Did you know that Gardner Dow was the only American college football player to die of sports-related injuries in 1919?
text: Did you know that English musician Jane Weaver 's album Flock was inspired by Lebanese torch songs , 1980s Russian Aerobics records, and Australian punk music?
text: Did you know that author Edmund G. Love spent several years homeless, sleeping on the subway and interacting with other homeless people, leading him to write the book Subways Are For Sleeping ?
text: Did you know that only about a quarter of New York City's 472 subway stations had elevators in 2018, among the lowest accessibility rates of the world's major transit systems?
text: Did you know that the TV broadcast of the Taylor Swift concert City of Lover only included half the set list of the original concert?
text: Did you know that Tonia Shand became Australia's first woman high commissioner to Sri Lanka in 1988?
text: Did you know that the coral reefs of Tuvalu include the Funafuti Conservation Area , which encompasses 20 per cent of the reef area of Funafuti atoll?
text: Did you know that Peter Milliman coached Team Russia at the 2014 World Lacrosse Championship despite not knowing until that year that they even had a team?
text: Did you know that, while representing Andorra at the 2010 Winter Olympics , Lluís Marin Tarroch served as the flag bearer and became the first Andorran to compete in snowboarding at the Games?
text: Did you know that Sister Elizabeth Sander , who was imprisoned for carrying "lewd books", escaped twice?
text: Did you know that at the age of 12, the Lakota spiritual leader Arvol Looking Horse became the youngest ever Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe and Bundle?
text: Did you know that Gwen Stefani 's " Slow Clap " has a country -inspired cover artwork, despite the song itself having a ska sound?
text: Did you know that in 1930, the new infant-care centre of the Mothercraft Training Society was named after Princess Elizabeth of York , now Queen Elizabeth II?
text: Did you know that when journalist Pierre Nadeau reported on the 1973 famine in Ethiopia , his suggestion for viewers to donate to Oxfam led to an inundation of contributions the next day?
text: Did you know that Duncan Jupp scored his first league goal for more than a decade in the 2005 Football League Two play-off Final ?
text: Did you know that Lieutenant General Osman Erbaş was one of 11 Turkish military personnel killed in a 4 March 2021 helicopter crash ?
text: Did you know that Prides Crossing station had separate benches for Democrats and Republicans ?
text: Did you know that there are dragons in Buckingham Palace ?
text: Did you know that Napoleon Bonaparte once acted as the main character in a soap opera and once fell from a Harley Davidson motorbike?
text: Did you know that there has been a bottomless pit in East Flagstaff, Arizona, for more than 100 years?
text: Did you know that President George H. W. Bush was King of the Pit ?
text: Did you know that an Alligator in PVC made Mary Quant look wet ?
text: Did you know that Mussolini is not interested in politics?
text: Did you know that Mr. Spock ate my balls ?
text: Did you know that having sex at different times may produce new species ?
text: Did you know that Michigan governor William Milliken gave the homily at a funeral for frozen cheese and mushroom pizzas ?
text: Did you know that Johnny Dickshot was captain of the All-Ugly team?
text: Did you know that Leonard Bernstein wrote " I hate music "?
text: Did you know that 14 April is Cake and Cunnilingus Day ?
text: Did you know that Mr Bean attempted to kill the Queen with a tobacco-loaded gun?
text: Did you know that the United States once sued a golden cock but cried fowl when the cock won?
text: Did you know that in 1941, a Trinidadian king was crowned with the assistance of Adolf Hitler ?
text: Did you know that Toa Payoh station was the first in Singapore's Mass Rapid Transit system to have its structural works completed?
text: Did you know that the title of the Taylor Swift song " Cornelia Street " refers to a street in New York City on which Swift rented a townhouse ?
text: Did you know that the Cerrón Grande Reservoir , also known as Lake Suchitlán, is one of the most contaminated and polluted bodies of fresh water in Central America ?
text: Did you know that Brenda Banks was one of the first African-American women to work as a professional animator?
text: Did you know that Vorau Abbey 's collegiate church has been described as the "most splendid baroque church in Styria ?"
text: Did you know that, such was his popularity with the club's supporters, when footballer Hughie Ferguson was sold by Motherwell F.C. , the local steel works closed to allow workers to wave him off?
text: Did you know that the founder of WZIP in Covington, Kentucky , beat out his own brother for the right to build the station?
text: Did you know that American legislator Uriah F. Abshier rescued his son from an 1894 Christmas Eve fire in Silver Lake, Oregon , that killed 43 people, including his wife?
text: Did you know that Gertrude Michelson sat on the board of trustees of Columbia University before it began admitting female students?
text: Did you know that the original video about the slang term " cheugy " didn't go " TikTok viral", but two months later, a New York Times article about the video did?
text: Did you know that Stephen Chow initially declined to become Bishop of Hong Kong , but relented after receiving a handwritten letter from Pope Francis ?
text: Did you know that there are more than thirty Eagles around the world?
text: Did you know that Jim Johnson scored the first goal in Philadelphia Flyers history during an exhibition game ?
text: Did you know that males of the fossil ant Klondikia have "massive" genitalia?
text: Did you know that Leon Hale , who would have turned 100 today, was rejected from the US Navy and the Marine Corps during World War II partly due to the odd placement of his eye?
text: Did you know that the mushroom Macrocybe gigantea has been found growing on elephant dung in Kerala ?
text: Did you know that Joe Ligon is America's longest serving juvenile lifer ?
text: Did you know that the video game Football Glory features its developers in the Croatia national football team ?
text: Did you know that the music of Jade Bird was called a "young Londoner's spin on modern Americana " by Rolling Stone ?
text: Did you know that research on Inuit clothing began with detailed images of Inuit people produced by Europeans as early as the 1560s?
text: Did you know that Charles Henry Huberich published a book on English prize law in German, and another on German prize law in English, in the same year?
text: Did you know that at 100, Eric Tweedale is the oldest living Australian rugby international player?
text: Did you know that the editor of the Pixar film Soul directed its prequel short film 22 vs. Earth ?
text: Did you know that social worker Mary Treglia died before the Mary J. Treglia Urban Renewal Project razed the neighborhood of immigrants in Sioux City, Iowa , whom she had helped?
text: Did you know that Pop Smoke 's debut album Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon was released nearly five months after his death?
text: Did you know that a proposal was made to build a shoe factory on Waterloo Park ?
text: Did you know that Irish association footballer Margaret Saurin later worked as a coach in the US?
text: Did you know that while the current record-holding giant pumpkin weighed 2,624.6 lb (1,190.5 kg), an ideal pumpkin could grow up to 20,000 lb (9,100 kg)?
text: Did you know that the 2017 film Suburbicon was inspired by Daisy Myers 's family,  who faced racially charged harassment and violence in all-white Levittown, Pennsylvania ?
text: Did you know that the hornbeam Carpinus perryae was described from two fossil nutlets found on a single rock?
text: Did you know that the verse novel Songs of a Mormon Woman by Sidonie Grünwald-Zerkowitz was banned as pornographic in Austria?
text: Did you know that Winterset City Park has a six-ton granite boulder that commemorates the discovery of the Red Delicious apple in Madison County, Iowa , in 1872?
text: Did you know that water polo player Jack Ferguson performed in a circus throughout Britain  as a child?
text: Did you know that the DK Atlas of World History includes maps on the spread of agriculture and the movement of indentured servants ?
text: Did you know that pitcher Hal Stowe won a baseball game without throwing a pitch ?
text: Did you know that a chemical known as ROY has eleven crystalline forms, including red, orange and yellow examples?
text: Did you know that Bruce Baillie 's short film All My Life was shot in one continuous take?
text: Did you know that Life magazine put an Amster Yard Christmas tree on their cover in 1946?
text: Did you know that Republic of Ireland youth-team international footballer Jaden Charles is the son of former England international Gary Charles ?
text: Did you know that Gao Jiamin is commonly known as the "Queen of Taiji "?
text: Did you know that Margaret Thatcher 's usage of the royal we was interpreted as an example of her "pseudo-royal grandiosity"?
text: Did you know that as part of a World War I patriotic fundraiser, Frederick E. Betts agreed to run in a "fat man's race"?
text: Did you know that Finnish politician Maija Perho encouraged future president Sauli Niinistö to join the National Coalition Party in the 1960s?
text: Did you know that the main menu for the 2006 video game Curious George looked so simple that a reviewer thought he had an unfinished version of the game?
text: Did you know that Luke Bond , the organist for a royal wedding and a royal funeral at Windsor Castle , played Poulenc's Organ Concerto in Cape Town?
text: Did you know that modern art in Sudan was suppressed from the 1980s until its revival in the Sudanese Revolution ?
text: Did you know that Charles Strum , the obituaries editor of The New York Times , seldom employed the terms "first" or "last" in an obituary to avoid issues with contradictory stories?
text: Did you know that, on arriving at Mecca with a pilgrim caravan, the mahmal was given an elaborate fabric covering?
text: Did you know that camping is prohibited at Reynolds Wayside Campground ?
text: Did you know that Clarence Lushbaugh claimed that God gave him permission to take Cecil Kelley 's organs?
text: Did you know that while performing their song " Sing " on Top of the Pops , Scottish band Travis engaged in a pie fight?
text: Did you know that Chinese activist Li Qiaochu was detained on 31 December 2019 and spent New Year's Day in handcuffs in relation to the "12.26 Citizens Case" while her partner Xu Zhiyong was still in hiding?
text: Did you know that Amasa Eaton wrote the first law review article to be cited in a decision of the Supreme Court of the United States ?
text: Did you know that Canada's Bill C-10 has faced criticism for potentially classifying social media services as broadcasters ?
text: Did you know that Sinikka Luja-Penttilä published a novel in the same year that she retired from the Finnish parliament ?
text: Did you know that Yonenaga's Atlantic spiny rat produces a secretion from its anal gland that has been described as smelling like tutti frutti ?
text: Did you know that during World War II , 150,000 carillon bells were stored in "bell cemeteries" (German: Glockenfriedhöfe ) before being melted down to make shell casings and armaments?
text: Did you know that Frank Jackson was born free but had to win two court cases before he was freed from forced slavery?
text: Did you know that a memorial hall in Ahmedabad has a 12-by-24-foot (3.7 m × 7.3 m) stainless-steel portrait of Rabindranath Tagore on an exterior wall?
text: Did you know that on 18 October 2020, all previous United Nations arms resolutions on Iran expired based on Security Council Resolution 2231 ?
text: Did you know that ballerina Marie-Jeanne entered the School of American Ballet two days after seeing a ballet performance for the first time?
text: Did you know that Road Rash 3 artist Michael Hulme created ten conceptual settings for the game before settling on seven?
text: Did you know that a potential buyer of the Rockefeller Guest House , trying to bid on the house while in a tunnel, found that the house was already sold when he emerged?
text: Did you know that Tony Blair felt later that the sobriquet " people's princess " sounded "corny" and "over the top", but "at the time it felt natural"?
text: Did you know that as a child, future script supervisor Pamela Mann-Francis went to the cinema multiple times a week, even during Second World War air raids?
text: Did you know that Doja Cat stopped smoking marijuana while recording Hot Pink , and discovered that her songwriting improved significantly?
text: Did you know that Simonie Michael was the first elected Inuk legislator in Canada?
text: Did you know that photography video games often play like non-violent shooter games , with the player equipped with a camera instead of a gun?
text: Did you know that L. Zenobia Coleman , a librarian at Tougaloo College for 36 years, "paved the way for Black librarians"?
text: Did you know that during World War II, the U.S. Ghost Army used sonic deception to confuse the Germans?
text: Did you know that the United Kingdom Carrier Strike Group 21 will be the largest single deployment of the F-35 Lightning II fighter aircraft since the program started in 2006, with 18 of the aircraft embarked?
text: Did you know that although some sources have cited the fish kick as potentially the fastest way for humans to swim, it has not been widely used in competitive swimming?
text: Did you know that Marie Desbrosses made her operatic debut at the Comédie-Italienne in Paris in 1776, and created the role of Marguerite in Boieldieu's La dame blanche there in 1822?
text: Did you know that a Turkish court banned a Hrant Dink Foundation conference about the social, cultural and economic history of Kayseri ?
text: Did you know that in April 2020, the Somali health minister, Fawziya Abikar Nur , announced the death of Somalia's second COVID-19 victim, a state justice minister?
text: Did you know that the South African Pavilion at the 1938 Empire Exhibition in Glasgow became the canteen at an explosives factory?
text: Did you know that ancient Spartans ate black soup ?
text: Did you know that dentist Christian Linger ordered two hand-powered horseless carriages to be constructed by machinist Frank Toepfer , leading to the first American gasoline -driven vehicle?
text: Did you know that the Tō-Ō Nippō was the first newspaper distributed throughout Aomori Prefecture ?
text: Did you know that during World War II, Helena Kuipers-Rietberg helped create a national underground network that supported Dutch Jews, downed airmen, and people conscripted for forced labor in Nazi Germany ?
text: Did you know that the poem Beachy Head by Charlotte Turner Smith was written while Britons feared Napoleon's armies would invade at that spot ?
text: Did you know that despite growing up "no more than a bus ride away from Yankee Stadium ", Don Savage had never been to the team's home field before he made the 1944 New York Yankees roster?
text: Did you know that Judas and the Black Messiah 's film director Shaka King approved " Fight for You " by H.E.R. after he heard aspects inspired by Curtis Mayfield ?
text: Did you know that Stuart Baggs "The Brand" was told he was "full of shit" by Lord Sugar after it was revealed he had lied on his application for The Apprentice ?
text: Did you know that the unfinished Interstate 405 was used to mark the border between two of Oregon's congressional districts?
text: Did you know that Lachlan Power became the first Australian gaming content creator to reach 10 million subscribers on YouTube ?
text: Did you know that the UFC's Dana White said that EliteXC: Heat was "fucking illegal" over allegations of fight tampering in the main event involving Kimbo Slice ?
text: Did you know that in 1886 prison superintendent John W. Tyler took 34 Indians, mostly prisoners, to the Colonial and Indian Exhibition in London to show their skill in carpet weaving?
text: Did you know that Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau made an unannounced visit to a McDonald's at the Whitby Mall ?
text: Did you know that, though a poet like her famous great-uncle Henry Wadsworth , Stephanie Longfellow found fame as an actress?
text: Did you know that Zealot: A Book About Cults suggests someone might join a cult when their lifestyle "doesn't let them have enough sex with aliens"?
text: Did you know that bishop Adam Naruszewicz was a prominent writer of the Polish Enlightenment , and one of the first modern historians of Poland?
text: Did you know that the first use of the phrase " crimes against humanity " in diplomacy was in a May 1915 Entente declaration condemning the Armenian Genocide?
text: Did you know that hockey player Troy Terry was named after former National Football League quarterback Troy Aikman ?
text: Did you know that the name of Malaysia's Kalabakan District comes from the words "can eat" in a local language?
text: Did you know that Thomas Fritsch , a film actor who charmed the teens of the 1960s, was the German voice of Russell Crowe , Scar and Diego, a Smilodon ?
text: Did you know that seven years after Miss America cut the ribbon for the Pepsi-Cola world headquarters in New York City, the company announced it would move to the suburbs?
text: Did you know that Indian writer Shrabani Basu learned about the relationship between Abdul Karim and Queen Victoria while researching the history of curry?
text: Did you know that the Golden Age short story " The Voyage That Lasted 600 Years " includes the first use of a generational starship in fiction?
text: Did you know that Kidsgrove Athletic F.C. became the first football club in England to have father and son goalkeepers when they signed Steve Cherry in 2003?
text: Did you know that " O komm, du Geist der Wahrheit " is an 1833 German-language hymn for Pentecost in which the "Spirit of Truth" is called to come and restore the attitude of early Christianity ?
text: Did you know that because of her striking beauty and sense of high fashion, soprano Annamary Dickey was dubbed the "Glamour Girl of the Met " in 1949?
text: Did you know that the statue of Billie Holiday in Upton, Baltimore, also depicts a crow eating a gardenia?
text: Did you know that the Nakba – the destruction of Palestinian society, their homeland, and the permanent displacement of a majority of the Palestinian people – has been described as an ongoing catastrophe?
text: Did you know that the design of Suffolk Downs station was inspired by medieval fortified churches ?
text: Did you know that the finalists from Nizi Project debuted in the Japanese girl group NiziU ?
text: Did you know that Lisa Kahn was described as a prototypical example of a German-American author?
text: Did you know that some 5,000 white people looted a Black church for wood to burn the lynched body of John Carter , a Black man who was hanged and shot in Little Rock, Arkansas , in 1927?
text: Did you know that the Harzburger Musiktage is an annual festival founded in a German spa town in 1970 by violinist Luz Leskowitz , who first played there with colleagues from Berlin and Vienna?
text: Did you know that financial troubles at a television station in Florida led to the bankruptcy that caused the 1994 demise of Mississippi radio station WHSY ?
text: Did you know that Hampden Park's square wooden goalposts , which were used at Scotland's national football stadium between 1903 and 1987, were later placed on the roof of an English pub?
text: Did you know that future Bangladeshi prime minister Tajuddin Ahmad earned a degree in law after taking his law examination in prison?
text: Did you know that during his mayoralty of South Bend, Indiana, Pete Buttigieg faced controversy when he fired the city's first African-American police chief for wiretapping?
text: Did you know that a penalty shootout was used to determine which side would host the replay of the 1988 Football League Third Division play-off Final ?
text: Did you know that the court of Hossein Ali Mirza , the governor of Fars , was compared to the courts of Ottoman sultans due to its large and extravagant festivals?
text: Did you know that the owner of a radio station in Hawaii changed its call letters to KIMO because the Hawaiian name Kimo translates to Jim, the owner's name?
text: Did you know that the regular nature walks taken by historian and naturalist William Grainge averaged 24 miles (39 km)?
text: Did you know that The Simpsons episode " Panic on the Streets of Springfield " features a " Morrissey -esque" character voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch , performing music by Bret McKenzie ?
text: Did you know that filmmaker Matthias Hoene won an award for a commercial of dogs having sex?
text: Did you know that IBM worker organizations compared the company's business deals with apartheid South Africa in the 1970s to those with Nazi Germany ?
text: Did you know that after her death Katri-Helena Eskelinen was voted "the greatest Siilinjärvi resident of all time" by her hometown?
text: Did you know that a hardware bug in early versions of the Intel Pentium CPU led to the affected processors being recalled, in what was the first full recall of a computer chip?
text: Did you know that the founder of New Orleans radio station WHIV-LP chose those call letters to help reduce the stigma surrounding the virus ?
text: Did you know that the New York and Long Island Coignet Stone Company went out of business less than a decade after completing its headquarters building ?
text: Did you know that Fijian Napolioni Bolaca was the top point scorer at the 2019–20 World Rugby Sevens Series ?
text: Did you know that the Danish Civil War was paused so that combatants could participate in the Wendish Crusade ?
text: Did you know that surgeon Alexander Crombie was the first to inject morphine as a premedication?
text: Did you know that Kammermusik by Paul Hindemith comprises eight chamber-music compositions, including a wind quintet and six solo concertos for various instruments?
text: Did you know that the new director of DARPA , Stefanie Tompkins , was paid by NASA to analyze Moon rocks ?
text: Did you know that the Romans copied the Phoenician joints technique from a Punic warship that ran aground in 264 BC?
text: Did you know that despite being warned that her "female parts would be damaged", Susan Beharriell recorded 80 hours in a jet during her time training fighter pilots?
text: Did you know that Hulk Hogan testified in the United States v. McMahon steroids trial that WWF chairman Vince McMahon never bought steroids for him?
text: Did you know that British actress Marie Empress was last seen on a Cunard liner bound for New York?
text: Did you know that the Museum of Literature Ireland is branded MoLI in homage to Molly Bloom of James Joyce's Ulysses , of which it holds "Copy No. 1"?
text: Did you know that in order to keep two paintings by Pablo Picasso in the Kunstmuseum Basel , the people of Basel voted in the 1967 Basel Picasso paintings purchase referendum to buy them?
text: Did you know that Musée de l'Amérique francophone ' s collection contains first edition copies of The Birds of America and Encyclopédie ?
text: Did you know that the Musée Archéologique de Dijon holds dozens of religious offerings to the pagan goddess Sequana ?
text: Did you know that the Kimiuo Aisek Memorial Museum is the first museum in Chuuk State and exhibits artefacts collected from Pacific War wreck sites?
text: Did you know that the designer of the flag of Papua New Guinea , Susan Karike , had a gallery at the national museum named after her?
text: Did you know that Kosrae State Museum used virtual reality technology to inspire interest in the state's heritage from local stakeholders and members of the Kosraean diaspora?
text: Did you know that some of the Science Museum Group 's collection have Never Been Seen ?
text: Did you know that Soman Chainani wrote The School for Good and Evil to "give young readers a taste of what a real fairy tale is"?
text: Did you know that Alli Lahtinen , the first woman to lead a central government agency in Finland, helped establish the country's national child care system?
text: Did you know that the 2007 Heineken Cup Final was the last rugby union match for coach Pat Howard before he returned to Australia to take over the family pharmacy business?
text: Did you know that the Black Keys ' 10th album Delta Kream comprises cover versions of hill country blues songs, a genre that strongly influenced the band's early works?
text: Did you know that the neighborhood of Eastport in Annapolis, Maryland , declared independence in mock secession after the state highway administration temporarily shut down the drawbridge connecting it with the rest of Annapolis?
text: Did you know that Max Emanuel Stern published a two-part epic poem on the life of Elijah ?
text: Did you know that although Justin Peck 's ballet In the Countenance of Kings is plotless, the dancers are credited with superhero names?
text: Did you know that in 2012, French women's football club Arras FCF were promoted to the country's top division and reached the semi-finals of the French Cup ?
text: Did you know that Johnny Peirson signed with the Boston Bruins to earn some extra money for his education at McGill University ?
text: Did you know that a Colorado policeman laughingly told coworkers "Ready for the pop? ... I think it was her shoulder" as they watched footage of a handcuffed 73-year-old being forced to the ground and hogtied ?
text: Did you know that Walter Donaldson , a two-time World Snooker Champion , converted his snooker room into a cowshed and used the slate from his billiard table for paving?
text: Did you know that the creators of the Indian web series His Storyy changed the ending because of prevailing social discrimination against the LGBTQIA+ community in the country ?
text: Did you know that Ora Nichols was the first woman to run a radio sound effects unit?
text: Did you know that The Kiffness satirised the South African national anthem as a protest against the ban on cigarette sales during the COVID-19 pandemic?
text: Did you know that the 2021 FA Cup Final between Leicester City and Chelsea today is expected to be the first football match in England with more than 8,000 supporters since March 2020?
text: Did you know that construction site visits for the Denny Centre in Seattle were conducted through 360-degree video for the Canadian developer due to the COVID-19 pandemic ?
text: Did you know that Orvokki Kangas authored six books, including a novel, memoirs, and religious devotionals, after she left the Finnish parliament at the age of 61?
text: Did you know that Russ Ford developed the emery ball pitch and taught it to Ed Sweeney and Earle Gardner , who taught it to Cy Falkenberg , before it was banned by Major League Baseball when Ray Keating was caught using it?
text: Did you know that A Question of Love was widely regarded as a bold film for portraying homosexuality, a rare topic for television dramas in 1978?
text: Did you know that 47,000 bodies from Lafayette Cemetery in Philadelphia were reinterred to allow for the construction of a playground?
text: Did you know that Miroslav Fryčer 's wish for his former head coach John Brophy to be fired after scoring two goals against the Toronto Maple Leafs came true that same month?
text: Did you know that Colonel Anna von Wattenwyl went to jail in Switzerland because of her work for the Salvation Army ?
text: Did you know that Alan Little led York City to victory in the 1993 Football League Third Division play-off Final two days before his brother 's side played in the First Division play-off Final ?
text: Did you know that for several nights early in her career, ballerina Mary Ellen Moylan danced in a Balanchine ballet, then took a taxi to another theater to appear in the second act of an operetta?
text: Did you know that the region of Oostpunt , which encompasses roughly 10 percent of the island of Curaçao , is privately owned?
text: Did you know that the 1914 Greek deportations have been described as "a trial run for the Armenian Genocide"?
text: Did you know that Silvia Bottini , the face of the "First World Problems" meme , has done makeup for T-Pain and publicly performed Ovid ?
text: Did you know that the only winner of Spain's Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? used his "Phone a Friend" lifeline on the final question to tell his wife that he was going to win?
text: Did you know that Paul Odgers was the last survivor of Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery 's tactical headquarters who was present at the German surrender at Lüneburg Heath ?
text: Did you know that the upcoming television series House of the Dragon takes place before Game of Thrones and chronicles the beginning of the end of House Targaryen ?
text: Did you know that in The Gamblers , Shostakovich tried to set Gogol's play word for word but gave up after one act, and Krzysztof Meyer completed the opera decades later?
text: Did you know that Norwegian footballer Sissel Grude retired aged 22, but returned for a one-off appearance 22 years later?
text: Did you know that two utility companies fought in court over who would supply electricity to North Dakota radio station KBMR ?
text: Did you know that during his fourteen years as mayor, László Bogdán transformed the town of Cserdi in what was known as the "Cserdi miracle"?
text: Did you know that the stargazer snake eel sometimes has a shrimp perched on its head?
text: Did you know that Boris Carmeli , a basso profondo born in Poland who made an opera career in Italy, appeared in the world premieres of Penderecki's Seventh Symphony and Stockhausen's Sirius ?
text: Did you know that The New York Times puzzle editor Joel Fagliano published four crosswords in the paper before he finished high school?
text: Did you know that all inmates of Nohra concentration camp , the first Nazi concentration camp , were communists?
text: Did you know that the " Dirty Tricks " campaign run by British Airways against Virgin Atlantic involved BA staff working behind locked doors to illicitly obtain information about Virgin by pretending to be Virgin?
text: Did you know that the Second Apocalypse of John paints a picture of the Last Judgement in which Christian emperors are driven like slaves and racial discrimination is no more?
text: Did you know that Ken Bloom 's real-life blog Quantum Diaries was a plot point on The Big Bang Theory ?
text: Did you know that in 1968, the inhabitants of a commune in Zealand , Denmark, named themselves after the valley Rivendell from J. R. R. Tolkien 's fictional world of Middle-earth ?
text: Did you know that Les McKeown worked at a paper mill before becoming the frontman of the Bay City Rollers ?
text: Did you know that some microprocessors feature a compressed instruction set that packs machine-language instructions into a more memory-efficient size?
text: Did you know that Curley Christian was the only soldier in the First World War to survive a quadruple amputation?
text: Did you know that critic Jack Anderson described Patricia Bowman as "the first American ballerina to win critical acclaim and wide popularity as a classical and a musical-theater dancer"?
text: Did you know that the Soviet frigate Zadornyy was named after the Russian word for "provocative"?
text: Did you know that Daniel Post Senning studied molecular biology and modern dance but ultimately became an expert in etiquette ?
text: Did you know that William Lescaze and his wife lived in a glass house and were not afraid of stone throwers?
text: Did you know that Sarah Zettel wrote her first short story at the age of 20 and it was published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact five years later?
text: Did you know that Ontario 's last German-language newspaper, the Berliner Journal , was forced to publish in English in 1918 after the Canadian government prohibited German publications?
text: Did you know that when Risa Tsumugi was hired to be the disc jockey and rapper for the band Raise A Suilen , she had no prior experience in either disc jockeying or rapping?
text: Did you know that one of the first two women diagnosed with tetrasomy X was living semi-independently 26 years after her diagnosis, instead of in an institution?
text: Did you know that Irma Toivanen , who was part of a group of Finnish volunteer medics during World War II, helped make a film about the group six decades later?
text: Did you know that the 1972 invasion of Uganda was described by a historian as "one of those rare events in military history. A perfect failure."?
text: Did you know that acid house music promoter Tony Colston-Hayter directed people to his countryside raves by answerphone messages?
text: Did you know that Daimaou Kosaka produced the theme song to the anime adaptation of Damens Walker and had his friend sing it?
text: Did you know that the U.S. Public Health Service Environmental Health Divisions grew from a water-pollution research station in Cincinnati into the modern Environmental Protection Agency ?
text: Did you know that Finnish politician Margit Eskman did not attend secondary school because she had to work in a shoe factory?
text: Did you know that New York City's Ritz Tower was dubbed the world's tallest apartment hotel when it was constructed?
text: Did you know that juggling patterns can be encoded in terms of a mathematical object called the affine symmetric group ?
text: Did you know that Ivan Provorov moved to Pennsylvania from Russia at the age of 13 to play ice hockey?
text: Did you know that Alan Comfort caught a helicopter to Heathrow then a flight to Ireland to get married hours after winning the 1989 Football League Fourth Division play-off Final ?
text: Did you know that civil engineer Tillinghast L'Hommedieu Huston oversaw major projects, from the clean-up of Havana's leper colonies to the construction of Yankee Stadium ?
text: Did you know that extracts from the brown algae Dictyota dichotoma and Dictyota implexa have been shown to have various antimicrobial, antioxidant and antifungal properties?
text: Did you know that when mathematician Josephine M. Mitchell married another University of Illinois faculty member, the university revoked her tenured position so her husband could keep his untenured one?
text: Did you know that the Weimar Republic had three successive cabinets that governed only through emergency powers?
text: Did you know that when Hetty Jane Dunaway created Dunaway Gardens near Atlanta, it had a 400- and a 1,000-seat theatre and a swimming pool blasted out with explosives?
text: Did you know that the breakaway club Dial Square F.C. was founded under the original name of Arsenal as a protest against Stan Kroenke's ownership of the contemporary club?
text: Did you know that when arguing for a narrow front , Monty called Ike 's messages, "nothing but balls"?
text: Did you know that the independent record label Bellmark Records distributed hit records by Prince , Tag Team , and Duice in the 1990s?
text: Did you know that Pirjo Ala-Kapee-Hakulinen was the first and only governor of the Eastern Finland Province from its creation in 1997 to its abolition in 2010?
text: Did you know that the 2014 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship Game , held between UConn and Notre Dame , was the first to feature two undefeated teams?
text: Did you know that the art and diaries of coal miner Sakubei Yamamoto were Japan's first entry on the UNESCO Memory of the World Register ?
text: Did you know that Pakistan was envisioned as the New Medina to be used as a staging point for the conquest and Islamisation of India, similar to the conquest of Mecca by Muhammad ?
text: Did you know that Figueroa Mountain Brewing Company claimed in 2017 to be brewing beer "around the clock – 22 and a half hours every day" in order to keep up with demand?
text: Did you know that John James Hood Gordon and his twin brother Thomas Edward were both generals in the British Army, and joined on the very same day?
text: Did you know that after surviving the Holocaust , writer Trudi Birger moved to Israel with her family and founded a non-profit dental clinic?
text: Did you know that members of the Eocene lacewing genus Palaeopsychops likely migrated from Denmark to the Pacific Northwest via Greenland?
text: Did you know that Alec Sutherland was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire for his work in the sport of swimming?
text: Did you know that the Canopy Group , one of the first venture capital firms in Utah, found success, controversy, and tragedy?
text: Did you know that Helmut Branny , a double bassist of the Staatskapelle Dresden , conducted a recording of four bassoon concertos found in the library of the Dresden Court, including two by Antonín Reichenauer ?
text: Did you know that Alejandro Calvo García 's mother overcame her fear of flying to see him score the winning goal in the 1999 Football League Third Division play-off Final ?
text: Did you know that Zoom towns may increase the demand for self-driving cars ?
text: Did you know that during the production of Jeepers Creepers , a budget cut of $1 million resulted in a third of the film being rewritten?
text: Did you know that West Virginia delegate Harry J. Capehart introduced bills establishing a state anti-lynching law, and a school for West Virginia 's African-American deaf and blind students?
text: Did you know that the Kharijites were the first sect to arise in Islam?
text: Did you know that horticulturalist Albert F. Yeager 's accomplishments led to him being referred to as the "plant wizard of the north" and the " Luther Burbank of North Dakota"?
text: Did you know that one can accurately estimate the area of irregular objects such as plant leaves using only a transparent sheet printed with a grid of dots ?
text: Did you know that Smithe Redwoods State Natural Reserve was originally a privately-owned site that encompassed cabins, a post office, and a store?
text: Did you know that H. J. Sterling once hired a detective to investigate players in the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association ?
text: Did you know that Beverley Manley was a prominent activist for women's rights in Jamaica while her husband was prime minister?
text: Did you know that a tunnel along Japan National Route 410 and Japan National Route 465 is the second-oldest tunnel still used on Japanese national highways ?
text: Did you know that Nicholas Chevalier designed a fern -inspired dress for Anne Maria Barkly , an expert on South African ferns?
text: Did you know that " Herr, du bist mein Leben " (Lord, You are my life), a translation of a popular Italian 1977 " Symbolum " with text and music by Pierangelo Sequeri , was included in the next German Catholic hymnal ?
text: Did you know that after Watergate , the legal profession turned to the 19th-century ethics of David Hoffman because the President's lawyers had "blindly followed the demands of their client"?
text: Did you know that Thomas S. Riley , the son of Irish immigrants, was West Virginia's 11th attorney general and chairperson of the West Virginia Democratic Party State Executive Committee?
text: Did you know that in " Oh Sheit It's X ", Thundercat sings about feeling ecstasy while on ecstasy ?
text: Did you know that after Lady Ganga learned that she had stage-four cervical cancer , she traveled to India and set a women's world record by standup-paddleboarding 700 miles (1,100 km) on the Ganges?
text: Did you know that confusion over time zone changes in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan resulted in technical violations at WCKD radio and almost cost the owner an opportunity to build a station in Illinois?
text: Did you know that Martin Willock took breaks in his cycling career to build a house and start a repairs company?
text: Did you know that a Financial Times reviewer described Der Mieter ( The Tenant ) , a German opera based on a French novel , as "a journey to the blackest regions of an anguished psyche in a hostile world"?
text: Did you know that Nancy McCormick Rambusch founded the Whitby School in 1958, sparking a revival of Montessori education in the United States?
text: Did you know that although Surrey County Council created over 250 smallholdings for men after the First World War , it was the Women's Farm and Garden Society which created those for women?
text: Did you know that international cricketer Rohit Sharma is the rhino ambassador for WWF-India ?
text: Did you know that pioneer film actress Ann Brody was known for her roles as Jewish mothers?
text: Did you know that the 2000 Football League Third Division play-off Final was played at Wembley Stadium on a Friday night to accommodate a friendly between England and Brazil?
text: Did you know that after Peggy Knobloch disappeared on the way home from school in 2001, her body was not located until 2016?
text: Did you know that chemical warfare agents require specialized equipment for workplace exposure monitoring ?
text: Did you know that when Ruth Stokes defended her dissertation on the theory of linear programming in 1931, she became the first person to earn a doctorate in mathematics from Duke University ?
text: Did you know that the 11th-century Dalby Gospel Book is the first medieval manuscript known to have existed in Denmark?
text: Did you know that art collector Michael Xufu Huang bought a portrait of Anna Sorokin , who had defrauded him years earlier, to be displayed in his museum?
text: Did you know that the Hartford Courant described the library of the Hartford Medical Society as "one of the country's finest collections of medical literature"?
text: Did you know that when Giovanni Rossi founded a utopian community in Brazil, based on anarchist ideals including free love , most of its 300 members were men?
text: Did you know that one of the highest death rates in the Holocaust was in Bulgarian-occupied Greece, where 97 percent of Jews were killed in less than a month?
text: Did you know that Emma Mullin , who won four Gaelic football championships , was also the first player from her association football club to play for the Republic of Ireland ?
text: Did you know that the Chamber of Progress describes itself as devoted to a "progressive society" but some critics have called it an astroturfing group and "progressive camouflage" for anti-union organizing?
text: Did you know that Spanish actress Úrsula Corberó captured footage for the music video for " Un Dia (One Day) " without involving production assistants?
text: Did you know that the russet brittlegill is collected and eaten by people in the Ivory Coast?
text: Did you know that Grischa Huber played Grischa in Under the Pavement Lies the Strand , regarded as "a cult film in the feminist movement"?
text: Did you know that Charles Scribner's Sons occupied its Fifth Avenue building , designed by Ernest Flagg , for 19 years before moving to another Fifth Avenue building , also designed by Flagg?
text: Did you know that Japanese singer Lovely Summer Chan attended the same middle school and high school as the members of the all-female band the Peggies ?
text: Did you know that Ishihara Park and Gandara Park in Santa Monica, California , are both named after local World War II veterans whose military contributions were overlooked during their lifetimes?
text: Did you know that after their roughly 320 km/h (200 mph) crash at the 2021 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix , George Russell slapped Valtteri Bottas on his crash helmet while Bottas showed Russell his middle finger?
text: Did you know that American actress Minerva Bussenius's stage name Roberta Arnold is a combination of her father's and uncle's names?
text: Did you know that Adam West was on the set of Zombie Nightmare for two days?
text: Did you know that choreographer George Balanchine completed the ballet Symphony in Three Movements in a week, despite its complex choreography, large cast and Stravinsky's intricate score of the same name ?
text: Did you know that Julie Erichsen is the first female Norwegian gymnast to qualify for an Olympic Games since 1992?
text: Did you know that the 2021 book Do Not Disturb was credited with exposing "a remarkable catalog of lies the [Rwandan government] sold to western apologists"?
text: Did you know that Ecuadorian presidential candidate Ximena Peña previously represented the United States and Canada in the National Assembly ?
text: Did you know that smell training is being used to treat long-term loss of smell after COVID-19 infection?
text: Did you know that the yellow and orange mushroom Imperator luteocupreus stains blue when bruised or cut?
text: Did you know that the founding owner of Minnesota radio station WVAL would climb the 300-foot (91 m) transmission tower himself and change the light bulbs on the mast?
text: Did you know that Vieno Simonen was first elected to the Finnish parliament in 1948, ten years after she was widowed with seven children?
text: Did you know that Langston Hughes allowed his poem " Mississippi–1955 ", written in response to Emmett Till 's lynching, to be republished in all newspapers that wanted to?
text: Did you know that Chris Horn , founder of the NASDAQ-listed IONA Technologies , was still living with his wife and four children in a three-bedroom semi-detached house at a time when his net worth exceeded 300 million dollars?
text: Did you know that the Los Angeles restaurant El Cholo Spanish Cafe is credited with introducing the burrito to the U.S.?
text: Did you know that the fossil torchwood genus Barghoornia was named in honor of paleobotanist Elso Barghoorn ?
text: Did you know that Frederic Growse finished the first complete and illustrated English translation of the Ramayana of Tulsidas in 1883?
text: Did you know that the play Karl Marx in Kalbadevi depicts an imaginary visit by Marx to Kalbadevi , the hyper-capitalist area of Mumbai, India?
text: Did you know that May 4 is celebrated both as Literary Day and as Youth Day in honor of the May Fourth Movement ?
text: Did you know that Conn Findlay is one of only two individuals to win sailing's America's Cup and an Olympic gold medal in rowing ?
text: Did you know that pentasomy X , in which a girl or woman has five X chromosomes, is sometimes mistaken for Down syndrome ?
text: Did you know that John Thomas Douglass 's Virginia's Ball , which premiered in 1868, is generally regarded as the first opera written by a black composer?
text: Did you know that in his book, Uğur Ümit Üngör argues that the Armenian Genocide contributed to The Making of Modern Turkey ?
text: Did you know that Orgill, Inc. , now the world's largest independently owned distributor of hardlines , began as a hardware store in 1847, making it the oldest Memphis -founded company still in operation?
text: Did you know that the colonial tunicate Botrylloides leachii can regenerate its whole body from a small fragment of tissue?
text: Did you know that Japan National Route 119 runs along the world's longest tree-lined avenue?
text: Did you know that soprano Florence Kirk 's temperamental fit over her costume as Lady Macbeth led to the professional debut of opera star Regina Resnik who replaced her?
text: Did you know that actor Don Johnson and other investors reportedly planned to restart production of the Renaissance Tropica , an electric car which appeared in an episode of Nash Bridges ?
text: Did you know that Adeline Gray was the first person to jump using a nylon parachute?
text: Did you know that Asus had to rename their ZenFone 6 for the Indian market after the Delhi High Court ruled that the name violated a competitor's trademark?
text: Did you know that Finnish minister Kyllikki Pohjala learned English while working in New York hospitals to pay for her education at Columbia University ?
text: Did you know that American fiction's first son-of-a-bitch is in the writings of John Neal ?
text: Did you know that toy manufacturer siblings Nick , Anna , and Mat Mowbray bought Coatesville mansion near Auckland , New Zealand, for NZ$ 32.5 million when they were in their early thirties?
text: Did you know that safe listening prevents risks to hearing from voluntary sound exposure rather than unwanted noise?
text: Did you know that " Kiss Me More " interpolates the melody from " Physical " by Olivia Newton-John ?
text: Did you know that a report by Witold Pilecki , a Polish resistance fighter who infiltrated Auschwitz, was translated into English in 2012 as The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery ?
text: Did you know that Facebook has estimated that fake news reached 126 million voters on social media in the 2016 United States presidential election ?
text: Did you know that one of the Cehennemağzı Caves in northwestern Turkey features a very old Christian church, which was used as a secret place of worship in the first years of Christianity ?
text: Did you know that geographer John Fraser Hart does not use a computer, preferring to type emails on his typewriter and have an assistant re-type them digitally?
text: Did you know that Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television is the first book that collects information from various sources to determine how the wide availability of television affects society?
text: Did you know that after the BBC suspended its regular programming following the death of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh , the broadcaster received criticism for its continuous coverage of the event?
text: Did you know that Aaron Nola was the first Philadelphia Phillies pitcher since 1989 to make his major league debut the year after he was drafted?
text: Did you know that the live-action television drama adaptation of Kakafukaka was the first show broadcast on MBS 's programming block, Drama Tokku?
text: Did you know that for his 2015 mural Mutual Entanglements , artist Sandeep Mukherjee instructed the gallery to install the 10 panels in whatever order and orientation they wanted?
text: Did you know that the president of the Palestine Oriental Society was of the opinion that the monuments and antiquities of Palestine belonged to the Palestinians?
text: Did you know that on Christmas Eve in 1917, Lieutenant Cedric Naylor and some of his crew remained aboard their sinking ship so they could fire upon the submarine that had torpedoed her?
text: Did you know that the 2011 single " Chic C'est la Vie " by Luann de Lesseps was called "stunningly un-self-aware and over the top" by a critic?
text: Did you know that Philadelphia Phillies backup catcher Andrew Knapp changed his number in 2018 to honor Roy Halladay and then a second time in 2020 to honor Dick Allen ?
text: Did you know that in Open Wounds , Vicken Cheterian argues that "by censoring the Armenian Genocide, its impact, traces and consequences do not simply disappear. It continues in various forms"?
text: Did you know that actress Bertha Belmore starred in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1925 with W. C. Fields and Will Rogers ?
text: Did you know that Class 1 protected forests in Sabah , such as Tenompok Forest Reserve , Tawai Forest Reserve , Binsuluk Forest Reserve , and Ulu Telupid Forest Reserve , are threatened by encroaching agriculture, illegal logging, and man-made fires?
text: Did you know that Canadian geneticist Phyllis McAlpine was among the first to promote a unified gene nomenclature system and helped found the HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee ?
text: Did you know that there is a mountain of gold in French Guiana?
text: Did you know that Mikoto Misaka , a fictional character from A Certain Magical Index , inspired the name of Bilibili , a real-life streaming service?
text: Did you know that the Fuller Building , with a black granite base and limestone tower, has been called "the Brooks Brothers of Art Deco"?
text: Did you know that in 1908, Louisa Wilkins went to Damascus without local language skills, wearing long skirts and riding side saddle?
text: Did you know that Kanye West and Spike Jonze expanded a music video for " See You in My Nightmares " into the film We Were Once a Fairytale ?
text: Did you know that Rumahis ibn Abd al-Aziz , the governor of Palestine for Caliph Marwan II , escaped to Islamic Spain where he became governor of Algeciras and Sidonia ?
text: Did you know that the Christuskirche , a German Protestant parish church in Paris completed in 1894, has been a venue for performances of Bach's Christmas Oratorio ?
text: Did you know that the Cloud9 League of Legends division won back-to-back League of Legends Championship Series titles in their first two seasons of existence?
text: Did you know that a researcher at the Electronic Frontier Foundation described Google 's Federated Learning of Cohorts as "a technology that should not exist"?
text: Did you know that although they were positioned just a few miles away, the soldiers of George Johnstone 's brigade were unaware of the Battle of Waterloo taking place?
text: Did you know that " Der am Kreuz ist meine Liebe " ( He on the Cross is my love) is the first line of four hymns from the 17th, 18th and 20th centuries?
text: Did you know that Camillo Vaz managed Paris Saint-Germain Féminine when they qualified for the UEFA Women's Champions League for the first time?
text: Did you know that officially sanctioned methods to combat drought in Turkey include better protecting river basins , building underground dams , rainwater harvesting , using more grey water , and praying for rain ?
text: Did you know that classicist Alfred Klotz wrote a textbook promoting scientific racism that turned out to be a commercial failure?
text: Did you know that Dendroides canadensis larvae alternate between two different adaptive mechanisms to survive in subzero temperatures?
text: Did you know that Andrew Guest wrote " Advanced Dungeons & Dragons " despite having no experience playing the titular game ?
text: Did you know that Anna-Liisa Tiekso dropped out of university in 1951 to become the youngest member of the Finnish parliament ?
text: Did you know that the shrimp Processa edulis is white during the day and pink at night?
text: Did you know that French rugby union referee Aurélie Groizeleau also breeds almost 7,000 pairs of pigeons?
text: Did you know that the 1989 manga Sweet Spot by Yutsuko Chūsonji originated the slang term oyaji gal , used to describe young businesswomen who have the interests and hobbies of middle-aged businessmen?
text: Did you know that Terence Lam , who initially did not plan to become a singer, received ViuTV Chill Club's best male singer award and Commercial Radio Hong Kong 's best new artist award?
text: Did you know that the supermarket Omega Mart has nut-free salted peanuts available for purchase?
text: Did you know that Helen D'Amato was appointed to a three-year term as Malta's commissioner of children, but held the role for nearly twice as long after her term expired without a successor being designated?
text: Did you know that because the globose octopus Bathypolypus sponsalis lives at great depths, it has large eggs, reduced gills , and no ink sac ?
text: Did you know that Gira Sarabhai and her brother Gautam were crucial in the formation of the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad ?
text: Did you know that upon its completion, 400 Madison Avenue in New York City was described as one of several buildings that comprised the "Grand Canyon of midtown business"?
text: Did you know that Captain John T. Newton commanded USS Missouri on the first crossing of the Atlantic by an American steam-powered warship, and was later court-martialed after an accidental fire sank the ship?
text: Did you know that the 1975 book Fighting Auschwitz: The Resistance Movement in the Concentration Camp was the first work to discuss in detail the story of the resistance's founder, Witold Pilecki ?
text: Did you know that Rocking the Boat believes that kids are built by boats?
text: Did you know that Gilles Lupien used the C$ 75,000 signing bonus from his first Montreal Canadiens contract to buy shares in a lumber company, enabling him to obtain quality lumber to construct his first home?
text: Did you know that by being the first travesti to become a national celebrity, entertainer Cris Miró increased the visibility of the transgender community in Argentine society during the 1990s?
text: Did you know that transit service on part of MBTA bus route 86 dates back to 1858?
text: Did you know that Nell Walden was the first abstract artist in Swedish history?
text: Did you know that Thomas Rhett 's " What's Your Country Song " contains lyrical references to 16 other country songs?
text: Did you know that Morecambe secured promotion to the third tier of English football for the first time in their history when they won the 2021 EFL League Two play-off Final ?
text: Did you know that there are few tall buildings on Long Island because residents do not want it to become " Queens ified", referring to the neighboring New York City borough?
text: Did you know that the largest dictionary of the Polish language is 50 volumes long?
text: Did you know that Hikaru Natsumi contributed to adult comic magazines while still in high school?
text: Did you know that Major Byers wrote " The Song of Iowa " after being inspired by hearing Confederate soldiers playing " Maryland, My Maryland " outside his prison cell and used the same tune?
text: Did you know that Elena Urrutia helped launch the Mexican feminist magazine Fem ?
text: Did you know that a major Asian collection was donated to the National Museum of Ireland – Decorative Arts and History by Jewish benefactor Albert Bender while the museum was headed by Adolf Mahr , head of the Dublin Nazi chapter?
text: Did you know that Thomas Laubach , who wrote more than 250 Christian pop songs, is the same person as Thomas Weißer, a professor of ethics at the University of Bamberg ?
text: Did you know that the penis of the statue of Heracles in Arcachon, France, was twice reduced in size following complaints from local ladies?
text: Did you know that at the suggestion of writer and translator Cecilia Bååth-Holmberg , Mother's Day was celebrated for the first time in Sweden in 1919?
text: Did you know that some men purposely have sex in order to become infected with HIV ?
text: Did you know that Henriette Spitzeder and her husband Josef Spitzeder appeared on stage as Mozart's Figaro and his bride Susanna?
text: Did you know that the Suffrage Torch was a symbol of illumination during the Suffragist campaigns in the states of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania in the summer of 1915 and the idea of Harriot Stanton Blatch ?
text: Did you know that Major-General Freddie de Guingand was invested with his knighthood in the field by King George VI?
text: Did you know that two business partners' townhouses at 10 and 12 West 56th Street were described as being "paired in an uneasy dance, one doing the cancan , the other a minuet "?
text: Did you know that Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Zack Wheeler had to have fingernail surgery in 2020 due to an injury sustained from putting on a pair of jeans?
text: Did you know  that Veronica jovellanoides was given the nickname "Bamboozle" after botanists spent 80 hours trying to find it again following its discovery?
text: Did you know that Rosa Ponselle blamed Metropolitan Opera star Giovanni Martinelli 's poor singing on his love affair with French soprano and actress Colette D'Arville ?
text: Did you know that the Vickers Red Hebe air-to-air missile was dismissed by the British Air Ministry 's own Operational Requirements branch as "still in the piston era" compared to the US Sparrow ?
text: Did you know that Carla Van Zon ran two arts festivals in New Zealand?
text: Did you know that, at the time of its dedication, the Ulysses S. Grant Monument in Chicago was the largest statue ever cast in bronze in the United States?
text: Did you know that Margot Heumann is the first woman known to have survived the Nazi concentration camps despite being both Jewish and queer ?
text: Did you know that the 1987 FA Charity Shield was played one week early to allow Diego Maradona , Gary Lineker , Michel Platini and Josimar to play alongside one another at Wembley Stadium ?
text: Did you know that Stina Quint was the founder and editor of Kamratposten , one of the earliest children's magazines in Sweden?
text: Did you know that an 18th-century carillon -music manuscript by Joannes de Gruytters was discovered at a book auction ?
text: Did you know that comic book creator Brandon Dayton chose medieval Russia as the setting for his minicomic Green Monk after watching Andrei Tarkovsky 's film Andrei Rublev ?
text: Did you know that How Doth the Little Crocodile by Leonora Carrington was based on Lewis Carroll 's poem of the same name ?
text: Did you know that Edith Kanakaʻole 's acceptance speech for a 1978 Na Hoku Hanohano Award was given entirely in the Hawaiian language ?
text: Did you know that the causes of the Armenian genocide are considered to include both long-term structural problems of the Ottoman Empire and wartime radicalization?
text: Did you know that the piano businessman Edwin Bechstein received a Nazi state funeral, and his wife Helene taught Hitler table manners?
text: Did you know that after he escaped from the high-security İmralı prison , Billy Hayes wrote a book about the escape that was later adapted into a film ?
text: Did you know that the theories of Swiss geographer Samuel Engel about an ice-free region near the North Pole led to a British expedition towards the North Pole in 1773 ?
text: Did you know that despite going behind in less than one minute courtesy of an own goal , Blackpool secured a record sixth post-season final when they won the 2021 EFL League One play-off Final ?
text: Did you know that Three Notch Road , covering 233 miles (375 km) between Pensacola, Florida , and Fort Mitchell, Alabama , cost $1,130 to build?
text: Did you know that Genoa honored Stefanina Moro , a teenage courier in the Italian resistance who was killed by Nazis, by naming a street after her?
text: Did you know that Northampton Town manager Ian Atkins declared that the "whole town has gone barmy" after his side won the 1997 Football League Third Division play-off Final ?
text: Did you know that despite Beverly White 's earlier opposition to abortion, she represented Planned Parenthood at the World Conference on Women, 1995 ?
text: Did you know that Russian generals proposed to invade India in 1854 and in 1855 to divert British forces from the Crimean War ?
text: Did you know that Addo Bonetti lost renomination in a Democratic primary by one vote, but the election was later invalidated?
text: Did you know that the illustrated erotic novel Su'e pian , published during the late Ming dynasty , describes "Stopping the Horse to Pull the Saddle", "Flowers Longing for Butterflies", and "The Union of Yin and Yang"?
text: Did you know that pianist and composer Grace Welsh turned down becoming president of the American Conservatory of Music due to thinking that it would get in the way of her teaching music?
text: Did you know that the new bishop of Kotor in Montenegro, Ivan Štironja , speaks Swahili and served as a missionary in Tanzania?
text: Did you know that in the musical Fermat's Last Tango , mathematicians Euclid and Newton are played by women?
text: Did you know that in China, Buddha-like parents, the polar opposite of tiger parents , do not envision their offspring accomplishing much in life?
text: Did you know that John Quincy Adams was the only American president to be elected as a member of House of Representatives after leaving the presidency?
text: Did you know that the Toba people use poultices made from the manure of the black-legged seriema to treat boils and abscesses?
text: Did you know that China expert Sasaki Tōichi was chastised for referring to Sun Yat-sen with the honorific sensei ?
text: Did you know that in 1981 the Conservative Party leadership feared that 25 of its members of parliament would vote against Margaret Thatcher 's economic policies and cause a split in the party?
text: Did you know that in 1929, Lisl Goldarbeiter became the first Austrian to win the Miss Universe title?
text: Did you know that Malcolm Gladwell 's The Bomber Mafia , about the Bomber Mafia of World War II , concludes that " LeMay won the battle. [...] Hansell won the war" with regard to high-precision aerial bombing?
text: Did you know that Sae Eun Park is the first Asian étoile at the Paris Opera Ballet , and one of the few foreigners to hold the title?
text: Did you know that Australotitan is the largest dinosaur discovered in Australia?
text: Did you know that the Superior Auditor of the Federation of Mexico observed damage to an overpass between Tezonco and Olivos stations on the Mexico City Metro prior to its collapse in May 2021 ?
text: Did you know that the Irish government had budgeted €61 million to clean up the former site of the Irish Steel plant, twenty years after selling it for £1?
text: Did you know that Cal Anderson was the first openly gay member of the Washington State Legislature ?
text: Did you know that the booklouse Liposcelis bostrychophila can be detrimental to the mass rearing of mosquitoes?
text: Did you know that the Bitcoin Law would make El Salvador the first country to recognize bitcoin as legal tender ?
text: Did you know that the dancing school at 165 West 57th Street in New York City was described as instructor Louis Harvy Chalif 's "greatest highlight and dream"?
text: Did you know that although the April 1923 Kamchatka earthquake had a surface-wave magnitude of 6.8 to 7.3, its tsunami was larger than that of the magnitude-8.4 earthquake in February in the same region?
text: Did you know that while Filiberto Avogadro di Collobiano was initially mistrusted by King Charles Albert , he was eventually appointed by the king to his royal court?
text: Did you know that three Aldershot players were involved in a road traffic accident after winning the 1987 Football League Fourth Division play-off Final ?
text: Did you know that George Balanchine 's ballet Kammermusik No. 2 was referred as "Kammer-computer" by ballerina Karin von Aroldingen because it is "speedy"?
text: Did you know that the biography of Karin Boye , written by Swedish literary critic Margit Abenius , was criticised for the conservative analysis of Boye's homosexuality?
text: Did you know that the Theater am Aegi , which opened in Hanover in 1953 as "Germany's most modern theatre" and served mostly as a cinema, is now a venue for a wide range of performances?
text: Did you know that Rod Bonella , who won a Commonwealth Games marathon medal, was also a horse trainer ?
text: Did you know that up to fifty starfish shrimps have been found living on a single host ?
text: Did you know that former Basketball Bundesliga player Dennis Tinnon worked at a slaughterhouse before he was recruited to play college basketball?
text: Did you know that the Honolulu Star-Bulletin described Thelma Akana Harrison as "volatile", "brilliant", and "vivacious"?
text: Did you know that the former James Bridge Copper Works has been described as the "most contaminated site in Europe"?
text: Did you know that Catherine Sourbut Groves , who experienced the fall of the Berlin Wall as a student, became an archdeacon in the Church of England via Zoom ?
text: Did you know that Frederick Ashton 's ballet Five Brahms Waltzes in the Manner of Isadora Duncan took inspiration from a performance by Duncan that he saw when he was 17?
text: Did you know that, according to Robert Maxwell Ogilvie , the Thebaid "cannot be said to be about anything"?
text: Did you know that after Nurhajizah Marpaung unsuccessfully defended Butar Butar against human rights violations, she became the first woman to serve as vice governor of North Sumatra?
text: Did you know that Helene P. Foley 's Sather Lecture on the reception of Greek theatre in the United States was described as "something of a milestone" in bringing the subject closer to the mainstream?
text: Did you know that Iskaq Tjokrohadisurjo decided against working for the Dutch colonial government because he was treated well in the Netherlands?
text: Did you know that TRW Vidar was a technological pioneer in a business that its parent company soon decided to leave?
text: Did you know that the first translation of the Quran into the Gojri language was authored by Mufti Faizul Waheed ?
text: Did you know that an improperly dismantled orphan radiation source injured three lumberjacks and killed one of them in the Lia radiological accident ?
text: Did you know that German-Chilean research psychologist Susana Bloch created a technique actors have been using to access their basic emotions?
text: Did you know that in a 1922 letter to the editor , Flora Kaai Hayes defended the morality of hula compared to the "bosom to bosom, thigh to thigh dances" seen on steamships and roof gardens at the time?
text: Did you know that Shin Hae-chul , who previously made hard rock and heavy metal albums, was inspired by big band music when he made The Songs for the One ?
text: Did you know that despite ducking and avoiding being hit in the head by a baseball , Joe Beckwith suffered double vision that required two surgeries to correct?
text: Did you know that until its demolition in 2014, The Jungle in San Jose, California , was often considered to be one of the largest homeless encampments in the United States?
text: Did you know that according to one source, The Embroidered Couch is "most likely China's earliest vernacular pornographic novel"?
text: Did you know that in Hindu mythology , the creator deity Daksha married Asikni , after realising that copulation was necessary for procreation?
text: Did you know that some members of the formerly all-male University Club of New York voted to reject women from membership to protest a New York City law that would have required it?
text: Did you know that Ladakh has several festivals throughout the year, including Hemis Tsechu and Losar ?
text: Did you know that Kanye West performs a bare acoustic gospel rendition of " Street Lights " with the Sunday Service Choir in the film Jesus Is King ?
text: Did you know that German swimmer Lisa Höpink won two medals at the 2019 Summer Universiade and qualified for two events at the 2020 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that Roy DeCarava 's photos of Black Harlem life later included in The Sweet Flypaper of Life were rejected by at least two major publishers before Langston Hughes wrote the book's accompanying text?
text: Did you know that the Royal Naval Artillery Volunteers were "not really wanted" by the Royal Navy and were disbanded less than 20 years after their 1873 founding?
text: Did you know that " Segne du, Maria ", requesting Mary to bless her child in life and death, was written by Cordula Wöhler in 1870 and finally included in the common Gotteslob hymnal in 2013?
text: Did you know that Iowa Hawkeye Leo Jensvold played starting quarterback alongside his twin brother in 1930 ?
text: Did you know that Argentine trans woman Mariela Muñoz raised 23 children and worked as a tarot reader to support them?
text: Did you know that Kanye West 's track " Say You Will " was recorded in 15 minutes?
text: Did you know that Pauline monk László Báthory spent twenty years living in a cave in Budapest so he could focus on translating the Bible ?
text: Did you know that Mahanati is the highest-grossing South Indian film to feature a woman as its primary character?
text: Did you know that San Francisco Police officer and future barnstormer Ivan R. Gates was the first to transport a prisoner by air, on November 1, 1919?
text: Did you know that the North Shore School District , home to Kate McKinnon 's alma mater, benefited from taxing the Glenwood Generating Station , with one official saying "we endure the smoke, let's have the gravy"?
text: Did you know that Toma Kamijo ranked first in a survey asking people which anime or game character they would name their potential son after?
text: Did you know that open ocean convection , the mixing of deep and surface waters, plays a crucial role in the global climate?
text: Did you know that William Forsythe 's ballet Blake Works I is set to seven songs from James Blake 's album The Colour in Anything ?
text: Did you know that rhythmic gymnast Márcia Lopes is the first Cape Verdean athlete to qualify for the 2020 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that a two-kilometer-long (1.2 mi) section of the Kawasaki Route cost 2.9 trillion yen to complete?
text: Did you know that despite smoking in football formerly being popular, it has since been banned from the touchline by UEFA?
text: Did you know that Jim Clendenen went into winemaking instead of law school after staying in Bordeaux , Champagne , and Burgundy for six months?
text: Did you know that the parasitic fly Hippobosca longipennis has been found inside dog corpses from ancient Greece and on an ancient Egyptian mummified dog?
text: Did you know that actor Arthur Blake was famous for his female impersonations of Bette Davis , Carmen Miranda , and Eleanor Roosevelt ?
text: Did you know that Mennonites and Lutherans both think Canada should recognize the Stoney Knoll First Nation ?
text: Did you know that boxer Nadine Apetz is undertaking a doctorate studying deep brain stimulation in Parkinson's disease in old age?
text: Did you know that Oophaa is a composition by Iannis Xenakis for a harpsichordist and a percussionist playing seven ceramic flower pots and seven skin instruments?
text: Did you know that Christian radio station KIXL near Austin, Texas , pulled an anti-pornography program off-air in mid-transmission because of its graphic descriptions of gay sex?
text: Did you know that according to one source, the Chinese femme fatale Xia Ji married seven times?
text: Did you know that Bucket of Blood Street and the Bucket of Blood Saloon are located in a town that had a reputation as "too tough for women and churches"?
text: Did you know that early in his racing career, Kyle Tilley worked as a delivery driver, mechanic, and sales assistant to fund his Formula Ford team?
text: Did you know that 27 Afghan peace activists of the People's Peace Movement were kidnapped and later freed by the Taliban in late December 2019?
text: Did you know that a jury awarded $225,000 to the prospective owners of Florida radio station WODX because of poor record-keeping and breaches of their lease agreement?
text: Did you know that in 1905, Mae Eleanor Frey became the first woman to be ordained in the American Baptist Churches USA ?
text: Did you know that critics have compared Marina 's " Ancient Dreams in a Modern Land " to Britney Spears 's " Womanizer ", with one describing it as "an electro-glam-pop stomper"?
text: Did you know that after hairdresser Mr. Kenneth 's salon in a converted New York City house burned down, he lamented that "nothing like it will ever exist again"?
text: Did you know that late arrivals at American colonial-era inns might find that the only drink on offer was Whistle Belly Vengeance , a mixture of sour beer, molasses and bread crusts?
text: Did you know that the developers of WarioWare Gold had to carefully select which 300 of the 1100 minigames across the entire series to include in the game?
text: Did you know that according to hacker Tillie Kottmann , most of her data breaches did not require much technical skill?
text: Did you know that banker Henry Seligman's house at 30 West 56th Street had a reception room with green marble furniture and a library with a Gothic-style wastebasket?
text: Did you know that HMS Sherwood is located more than 50 miles (80 km) from the sea?
text: Did you know that Tanja Tetzlaff recorded Einojuhani Rautavaara 's cello sonatas from the 20th century and Wolfgang Rihm 's cello concerto, premiered in 2008, on a cello built in 1776?
text: Did you know that in 1630, fewer than three percent of candidates were awarded the rank of juren , the second-highest civil rank in imperial China?
text: Did you know that Elon Musk lost $16.3 billion in a single day, the largest in the history of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index ?
text: Did you know that four Russian billionaires – Roman Abramovich , Mikhail Fridman , Petr Aven and Shalva Chigirinsky – and the oil firm Rosneft are suing HarperCollins over Putin's People by Catherine Belton ?
text: Did you know that architect Paul Rudolph 's residence at 23 Beekman Place has a penthouse terrace overhanging the nearby street, which even Rudolph was afraid to use?
text: Did you know that the government radio station in Mandatory Palestine had an Arab Hour in the late 1930s hosting Palestinian writers like Stephan Hanna Stephan ?
text: Did you know that interest rates on repos , which are short-term loans between financial institutions, experienced a sudden and unexpected spike on September 17, 2019?
text: Did you know that William Bains-Jordan led the committee that designed the Hawaii State Capitol ?
text: Did you know that the Theater Trier runs a series including the premiere of Zemlinsky 's Sarema , the German premiere of The Voyage by Philip Glass , and the revival of Koanga by Frederick Delius ?
text: Did you know that Eve Pitts , one of the Church of England 's "fiercest critics", is also their first black woman vicar ?
text: Did you know that Greg Cooper based the character of suffragist Kate Sheppard in punk-rock musical That Bloody Woman on Bette Midler in concert in Cleveland?
text: Did you know that although Margaret Thatcher announced to the House of Commons on 14 June 1982 that Argentine troops were flying " white flags over Port Stanley ", they were probably just laundry on a washing line?
text: Did you know that baseball player Eric Filia worked as a butler at the Playboy Mansion while he was suspended by the University of California, Los Angeles ?
text: Did you know that the Rockefeller Apartments , with its glass-enclosed cylindrical "bows", allowed 15 percent more air and natural light than other apartments of the time?
text: Did you know that one in a thousand women have three X chromosomes , but fewer than 10 percent of them know it?
text: Did you know that Donato Palumbo 's leadership of Euratom 's fusion-power organization led to him being known as the "founding father of the European fusion program"?
text: Did you know that in the Chinese erotic novella Chipozi zhuan , a woman has sex with her cousin, her brothers-in-law, her father-in-law, and two Buddhist monks?
text: Did you know that Amy Vilela became an advocate for single-payer healthcare after her daughter died after being turned away from a hospital for lacking health insurance?
text: Did you know that some moʻolelo took multiple days to tell in full, and were sometimes told in the form of hula ?
text: Did you know that the Philippines' Department of Foreign Affairs said that it will not arrest communist leader Jose Maria Sison if he visits the Philippine embassy in The Hague ?
text: Did you know that when Yūka Nishio joined the violin rock band Morfonica as bassist, she had no experience with the bass guitar?
text: Did you know that Barack Obama was once gifted a baseball glove belonging to Tampa Bay Rays pitcher Matt Moore ?
text: Did you know that when Honor McKellar studied voice in England, Ralph Vaughan Williams called her "the girl who does things with the words"?
text: Did you know that Ita Ekpenyon coached American actor Paul Robeson in speaking the Efik language for the 1937 film King Solomon's Mines ?
text: Did you know that James Fulton Zimmerman was the first historian to examine U.S. State Department records on the controversial impressment that occurred just before the War of 1812 was declared?
text: Did you know that Cuilin Zhang leads a study of about 4,000 women who had diabetes in pregnancy to identify factors in the progression from gestational diabetes to type 2 diabetes ?
text: Did you know that Don Mullally, a DJ at Vermont radio station WSTJ between 1952 and 2016, was still playing vinyl records when he retired just two weeks before his death?
text: Did you know that the late- Ming-dynasty erotic novel Zhulin yeshi was written by "Man of the Crazy Way"?
text: Did you know that Ira H. Owen was one of the first steel-hulled lake freighters ?
text: Did you know that Headroom was a bar that operated only during the COVID-19 pandemic ?
text: Did you know that the bite of the pygmy copperhead is potentially fatal if untreated?
text: Did you know that musical comedian Bo Burnham wrote, directed, filmed, starred in and edited Inside by himself, during the COVID-19 pandemic ?
text: Did you know that Langshi is one of the oldest erotic novels published in China?
text: Did you know that while France abolished slavery in 1794 , Napoleon reinstated it in 1802 ?
text: Did you know that Zealand received more than 5,000 lightning strikes in three hours during the 2011 cloudburst in Denmark ?
text: Did you know that Turkey built a courtroom on the island of İmralı for the 1999 trial of Abdullah Öcalan , the leader of the militant Kurdistan Workers' Party ?
text: Did you know that the seven-year-old son of the first owner of Maryland radio station WPTX was sometimes allowed to spin big band records on the air?
text: Did you know that 14th-century hierocrats thought that the pope was the rightful sovereign of the entire world?
text: Did you know that Karl-Günther von Hase , who served as a German government spokesman under three chancellors , became director of the broadcaster ZDF in 1977?
text: Did you know that Cambodian leader Hun Sen released four imprisoned dissidents as a "gift" to the United States upon the opening of its new embassy in Phnom Penh ?
text: Did you know that Ingrid Wallberg was the first female architect in Sweden with her own firm?
text: Did you know that the manager of WVSS at the University of Wisconsin–Stout spent about $6,000 of his own money to buy more than 500 classical music CDs to program the station?
text: Did you know that Casa Anchieta in San Cristóbal de La Laguna , Tenerife, was the childhood home of Brazilian missionary Joseph of Anchieta ?
text: Did you know that John Barefoot 's catalogue of British Commonwealth revenue stamps grew from 142 to more than 500 pages between its first and tenth editions as new stamps were discovered?
text: Did you know that pre-Socratic philosophy included some of the earliest attempts to explain the cosmos as an ordered system without reference to the gods?
text: Did you know that the Romani people in Poland were persecuted alongside the Jews in the Holocaust?
text: Did you know that actress Rebecca Dayan developed a love for acting while being raised in a hotel?
text: Did you know that an artwork featured at Singapore's Marina South Pier MRT station was commissioned for the country's 50th year of independence?
text: Did you know that Asfaw Yemiru 's school educated over 120,000 Ethiopian students?
text: Did you know that the 51st Defense Battalion , formed during World War II, was the first African-American unit in the United States Marine Corps ?
text: Did you know that Kaʻelepulu Pond , formerly a 200-to-400-acre (81 to 162 ha) Hawaiian fish pond , is now about 95 acres (38 ha) and polluted after having been partially filled in for a housing development?
text: Did you know that Brazil has extended its FM broadcasting band to allow more AM radio stations to migrate to FM?
text: Did you know that between 1979 and 1994 the Gilbert Islands in Kiribati were a full day ahead of the country's eastern Phoenix and Line Islands ?
text: Did you know that despite not identifying as Jewish, Michael George Levy was denied a Military Cross due to his commanding officer's antisemitic views?
text: Did you know that Japanese manga artist Riyoko Ikeda was awarded the Legion of Honour by the French government for her manga series The Rose of Versailles ?
text: Did you know that Clark Gable and Carole Lombard were married at Saint John's Methodist Episcopal Church after eloping in 1939?
text: Did you know that in his debut first-class cricket season, Jack Carson took the most wickets of any Sussex player in the 2020 Bob Willis Trophy ?
text: Did you know that radio station WDOV missed its own sign-on date because a boiler failure cut power to the entire city of Dover, Delaware ?
text: Did you know that John Coster-Mullen discovered that the Little Boy was actually a girl?
text: Did you know that French West African poet David Diop was among 63 people killed when Air France Flight 343 crashed in 1960?
text: Did you know that the post office for Wises Landing, Kentucky , was established in June 1878 but did not receive a postmaster until January 1879?
text: Did you know that Robert Ward was the longest-serving caucus leader in the history of the Connecticut General Assembly ?
text: Did you know that Brentford were promoted via the English Football League play-offs for the first time in ten attempts when they won the 2021 EFL Championship play-off Final ?
text: Did you know that in April 2021, the body of the founder of the new religious movement Love Has Won was found mummified and wrapped in Christmas lights?
text: Did you know that Thomas Flatley compared closing WNHT television in Concord, New Hampshire , to putting down his dog?
text: Did you know that it is compulsory for educational providers of international students to register with CRICOS in Australia?
text: Did you know that Brown Lake is of cultural and spiritual significance to the Quandamooka people?
text: Did you know that after the 2020 Summer Olympics were postponed, South African artistic gymnast Caitlin Rooskrantz livestreamed the routine she was going to perform?
text: Did you know that the houses at 5 , 7 , 11 , 13 and 15 West 54th Street form the only remaining "real strip of mansions" in Midtown Manhattan ?
text: Did you know that WMEB-FM had to move its transmitter because its signal was interfering with equipment in physics laboratories at the University of Maine ?
text: Did you know that Presbyterian football head coach Kevin Kelley won nine state championships as a high school coach by rarely punting and almost always attempting fourth down conversions ?
text: Did you know that Macclesfield F.C. was founded as a phoenix club after their stadium was purchased from a property website?
text: Did you know that Barrackpore Trunk Road , the oldest metalled road in India, was built in 1775 to connect the first British cantonment in India with Calcutta , then the country's capital?
text: Did you know that after police beat, choked, pepper-sprayed , and dragged Ronald Greene face down while shackled, saying "that shit hurts, doesn't it?", a trooper was initially reprimanded for violating courtesy rules?
text: Did you know that Kai Cheng Thom wrote Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars not as a memoir to educate cisgender people about transgender issues, but as the book she had wanted to read as a teenager?
text: Did you know that a recent Jersey court case found that the usage of an ancient Norman Clameur de Haro , which includes a recitation of the Lord's Prayer in French to legally apply an injunction, was used incorrectly?
text: Did you know that Massachusetts radio station WAAF pulled off an "unprecedented radio concert promotion coup" by organizing a concert by the Rolling Stones for 300 locals?
text: Did you know that the rock band Blur were the wedding band for the reception of journalists Jane Suiter and Leo Finlay in Dublin in 1990?
text: Did you know that the 2019 establishment of No. 13 Air Experience Flight RAF marked the return of cadet powered-flight experiences to Northern Ireland after more than 22 years?
text: Did you know that you can't be .sexy in private?
text: Did you know that Raimund Hoghe , who was awarded the German Dance Prize in 2020, made a self-portrait documentary film Der Buckel ( The Hunchback )?
text: Did you know that the 66-room C. Ledyard Blair House on New York City's Fifth Avenue was sold and demolished barely a decade after its completion?
text: Did you know that South Korean boy band Shinee 's song " View " (2015) is regarded as K-pop 's first foray into deep house ?
text: Did you know that saxophonist Jerry Jumonville was usually part of any band featured in the 1970s television series Happy Days and Laverne & Shirley ?
text: Did you know that the consumption of poppy seeds, known as the " poppy seed defence ", is a recognised medical defence for failing a drug test?
text: Did you know that the spiny bamboo is one of the main sources of bamboo pulp for paper-making?
text: Did you know that the Line 3 oil spill was the largest inland oil spill in United States history?
text: Did you know that radio station WADK debuted its first talk show after a local businessman told the owner that "the great pastime of Rhode Island ... is talking politics"?
text: Did you know that the Wilder Brigade Monument , which honors the Lightning Brigade , was damaged by a lightning strike?
text: Did you know that the two elliptical roofs of Singapore's Expo MRT station reflect sunlight into the station while cooling it?
text: Did you know that Kate Nicholl is the first lord mayor of Belfast in recent times not to be born in the United Kingdom or Ireland?
text: Did you know that Peter Swan became only the third Englishman to be sent off at Wembley Stadium when he was dismissed in the 1993 Second Division play-off final ?
text: Did you know that as part of the type certification process, aircraft manufacturers routinely fire dead chickens at windshields with a chicken gun in order to simulate bird strikes ?
text: Did you know that " Talkin' Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues ", a humorous account of a real-life event in which more than 20 people were injured on a boat trip, was one of Bob Dylan 's first popular songs?
text: Did you know that on June 8, 1826, rioters destroyed William Lyon Mackenzie 's printing press in the Types Riot ?
text: Did you know that Anisomeles malabarica plants are defended from unwanted foragers by carpenter bees ?
text: Did you know that geographer Hildegard Binder Johnson fled Third Reich Germany after the Nazi Party destroyed her scientific paper criticizing the development of European colonies in Africa?
text: Did you know that the Sherwood Studio Building was characterized in 1892 as New York City's "uptown headquarters of Art", with many of its tenants having studied art together?
text: Did you know that one airline has flown more than 5,600 preighter flights, carrying cargo in place of passengers?
text: Did you know that Sonny Bloch invested $500,000 in improvements to Connecticut radio station WCNX , only to be unable to complete the purchase after he was arrested on federal fraud charges?
text: Did you know that Kühkopf-Knoblochsaue is a large Naturschutzgebiet in Hesse , Germany, protecting the ecology of the floodplains where the Rhine formerly meandered ?
text: Did you know that the termite Macrotermes michaelseni is considered to be an ecosystem engineer in the Okavango Delta in Botswana?
text: Did you know that the only way for litigants in California to appeal most pre-trial rulings before a final judgment – and the only way to appeal some rulings at all – is by suing the court that issued the order for a writ of mandate ?
text: Did you know that Royal Ballet dancer Fumi Kaneko danced Princess Aurora in a cinema relay of The Sleeping Beauty , even though she was supposed to portray the Lilac Fairy?
text: Did you know that Ester Wajcblum and other Jewish prisoners of Auschwitz smuggled gunpowder out of a munitions plant and successfully destroyed a crematorium at Birkenau during the Sonderkommando revolt ?
text: Did you know that when the European Super League was proposed, UEFA threatened to ban any footballers who took part from playing international football?
text: Did you know that the 1928 Austin city plan recommended segregating the city's African American residents to East Austin?
text: Did you know that avant-garde artist Hu Zhiying 's master's degree was denied after his thesis was labeled as "not in line with Marxist principles"?
text: Did you know that Frank Lloyd Wright 's 1905 plan for a Wisconsin Badgers Crew boathouse was shelved but the design was used in 2007 for the West Side Rowing Club in Buffalo, New York ?
text: Did you know that the cast of Canadian teen drama Degrassi Junior High were named UNICEF goodwill ambassadors of Canada?
text: Did you know that Tishaura Jones , the new mayor of St. Louis , once started a GoFundMe fundraiser to take down a Confederate monument ?
text: Did you know that tourists on holiday trips arranged by the Finland travel agency Keihäsmatkat were encouraged to drink alcoholic beverages , partly to avoid culture shock ?
text: Did you know that Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi sought plant species from Indian forest conservationist S. G. Neginhal to be planted at the memorial of his mother, former prime minister Indira Gandhi ?
text: Did you know that Tom Jones 's 2021 album Surrounded by Time marked the first time in his career that he recorded music in his home country of Wales ?
text: Did you know that Walter Gladwin was the first black New York state assemblyman from the Bronx ?
text: Did you know that Ronald Graham , a star in the original Broadway casts of musicals by Rodgers and Hart , Cole Porter , and Arthur Schwartz , began his career in radio after winning a national singing contest in 1931?
text: Did you know that the Dolmen de Soto is one of about 1,650 neolithic burial sites in Andalusia , and assumed to have been built between 4,500 and 5,000 years ago?
text: Did you know that jelly rolls are sensitive to interest rates ?
text: Did you know that the proverb " speech is silver, silence is golden " has been attributed to "wise men of old", and traced to Arabic texts more than a millennium old?
text: Did you know that early in her career, Maria Calegari danced principal roles in every ballet performed one weekend by the New York City Ballet ?
text: Did you know that the Agreed Measures for the Conservation of Antarctic Fauna and Flora , passed in 1964, established the first international rules for wildlife conservation in Antarctica?
text: Did you know that Fontainea venosa is a vulnerable rare plant in Australia?
text: Did you know that the four-year history of radio station WUCI-FM included the revelation of the founder as a convicted felon and a station staffer threatening another with a revolver?
text: Did you know that despite being sick and ordered to return to the rear, Hughie Miller fought on the front lines in the Battle of Belleau Wood and single-handedly captured two German soldiers?
text: Did you know that Lord Byron lay in state for two days at a house in Great George Street , Westminster?
text: Did you know that due to COVID-19 lockdowns in India , the science-fiction short film 55 km/sec was directed remotely, and the lead actors Mrinal Dutt and Richa Chadda filmed themselves through their own devices?
text: Did you know that in translating the short story " Xianü " by Pu Songling , Herbert Giles omitted the protagonist's homosexual relationship with a fox spirit ?
text: Did you know that the sculptor and schoolteacher Arvīds Brastiņš led a group of Latvian pagans in the post-war United States?
text: Did you know that Hercules hosted a live-streamed talk show during the COVID-19 pandemic ?
text: Did you know that Western media treated Egyptian activist Gihan Ibrahim as a face of the Egyptian revolution of 2011 , but rarely mentioned her revolutionary-socialist political views?
text: Did you know the Tala tank is the largest overhead water reservoir in the world?
text: Did you know that William Henry Ellis spearheaded a plan to colonize Black Americans in Mexico in the late 19th century?
text: Did you know that " Wo Menschen sich vergessen " was the first song in the opening service of the 2021 Ecumenical Church Assembly in Frankfurt , held as an open-air livestream ?
text: Did you know that the presidential transition of John F. Kennedy saw Kennedy, the youngest individual elected president, prepare to assume power from Dwight D. Eisenhower , at the time the oldest individual to have served as president?
text: Did you know that ancient Egyptians carried boats in pieces across the Eastern Desert , reassembling them when they reached the Red Sea to embark on trading expeditions?
text: Did you know that the Supreme People's Procuratorate , China's highest agency for investigation and prosecution, was abolished for three years during the Cultural Revolution ?
text: Did you know that Robin Ransom , the first African-American woman to serve on the Supreme Court of Missouri , said that she was "really happy I didn't like law school"?
text: Did you know that the Robert Louis Stevenson Museum in Samoa was founded by two American Mormon missionaries?
text: Did you know that Sungai Selan hosted the first Catholic mission under the Dutch East Indies outside of Java?
text: Did you know that Charles Irving 's apparatus for the distillation of seawater was used during James Cook 's 1772–1775 voyage round the world ?
text: Did you know that developer William Earl Dodge Stokes commissioned a five-story mansion in New York City that he never resided in?
text: Did you know that the rugby league teams of the British Army , Royal Navy and Royal Air Force play in the Challenge Cup with Great Britain Police ?
text: Did you know that Kathleen Rubins has voted while in space —twice?
text: Did you know that Izkia Siches , who was re-elected as president of the Chilean Medical College in 2020, has ruled out running for President of Chile in 2021?
text: Did you know that the wooden houses at 312 and 314 East 53rd Street were completed just as fire codes in New York City prevented the construction of further wooden structures nearby?
text: Did you know that British sailor Eilidh McIntyre , who has qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics , is the daughter of a former Olympic gold medallist ?
text: Did you know that one of the founders of the Santa Cruz Operation later said that they had "every type of relationship with Microsoft you can imagine"?
text: Did you know that the paintings and letters sent home by " Inkerman hero" Lieutenant Colonel Alfred Tippinge helped document the Crimean War ?
text: Did you know that 2 Cheap Cars withdrew a television advertisement in New Zealand because children were copying the main character's catchphrase, "Ah so", which they sometimes pronounced "asshole"?
text: Did you know that Gretchen Campbell 's research on Bose–Einstein condensates may provide insight into the expansion of the early universe ?
text: Did you know that Richard Hatherill survived a mutiny and a shipwreck, only to die from an illness at the age of 35?
text: Did you know that West Virginia radio station WHIS made the first broadcast of a murder trial in the United States—and was broadcasting when the first on-air death occurred?
text: Did you know that the emperor shrimp likes to hitch a ride on a sea cucumber or a large mollusc?
text: Did you know that when The Saint Paul Hotel was built in 1908–1910, a rathskeller was carved into the sandstone beneath the building?
text: Did you know that soprano Estelle Liebling , the voice teacher of Beverly Sills and Meryl Streep , performed in more than 1600 concerts with John Philip Sousa and his band?
text: Did you know that Frederick Manfred ate insects and mice as research for his 1954 novel about mountain man Hugh Glass , titled Lord Grizzly ?
text: Did you know that 110 taxa are classed as being extinct on the Japanese Red List , including the Hokkaido wolf ?
text: Did you know that the last five minutes of a 1977 game between Coventry City and Bristol City were played with neither team attempting to score?
text: Did you know that Sindee Simon studied ancient amber to show that glass does not flow ?
text: Did you know that concert pianist, composer, and opera librettist Leonard Liebling was the editor-in-chief of the Musical Courier from 1911 to 1945?
text: Did you know that the principal of Big Tree Elementary read a book from a hot-air balloon to honor her students for having collectively read more than 2.5 million minutes in 2006?
text: Did you know that Kartini Hermanus , the first female general in the Indonesian Army , outranked her husband after being promoted in 2000?
text: Did you know that landslides caused by Tropical Storm Talas delayed a realignment project on Japan National Route 424 ?
text: Did you know that when the sheriff in Helena, Arkansas , was asked to arrest Owen Flemming , an African-American man accused of killing a white overseer on June 8, 1927, he allegedly said "I'm busy. Just go ahead and lynch him"?
text: Did you know that after being denied admission to Memphis State University because of her race, Miriam DeCosta-Willis went on to become the university's first African-American professor?
text: Did you know that Acer spitzi is one of seven fossil maples first found in the Klondike Mountain Formation ?
text: Did you know that the Star Wars Rebels episode " Twin Suns " took inspiration from the 1954 Akira Kurosawa film Seven Samurai ?
text: Did you know that Robert J. Ulrich was asked to cast Glee because of his musical background?
text: Did you know that a former DJ at radio station WKOP in Binghamton, New York , was convicted of arson for setting fire to the studios?
text: Did you know that the former Ontario Highway 29 was split in half for nine years, from 1927 to 1936?
text: Did you know that students participating in the 1968–69 Japanese university protests were known for ruthlessly interrogating and verbally abusing professors, sometimes for days on end?
text: Did you know that in Hall v. Decuir , the Supreme Court of the United States "all but endorsed segregation"?
text: Did you know that Herman Schiller and Marshall Meyer cofounded the Movimiento Judío por los Derechos Humanos , a Jewish human-rights organization in Argentina that denounced the National Reorganization Process ?
text: Did you know that ballerina Margaret Tracey performed for Bill and Hillary Clinton when Maria Tallchief received a Kennedy Center Honor ?
text: Did you know that the brown seaweed Acinetospora crinita forms a more-or-less complete covering of filamentous algae over the rock, detritus, living animals and sea grasses on the seabed where it occurs?
text: Did you know that Canadian cyclist Bernie Willock , who missed out on competing at the Olympics due to the 1980 Summer Olympics boycott , later owned furniture stores?
text: Did you know that Mirror , a Hong Kong Cantopop music group which does not want to go for a " K-pop feel", performed Korean pop songs at a concert?
text: Did you know that labor activist Mother Blizzard once led a group of women to tear up train tracks to prevent an attack on striking miners?
text: Did you know that botanist and "great Yorkshire character" John Farrah reprimanded greedy plant collectors in such a way that they would "remember it to the end of their days"?
text: Did you know that the orange flatworm Yungia aurantiaca can regrow its whole body from a small fragment of tissue?
text: Did you know that the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western once stockpiled 15,000 train cars of coal at Gravel Place, Pennsylvania , to be able to operate through a miners' strike?
text: Did you know that Jimbōchō Book Town is home to roughly a third of Japan's used bookstores?
text: Did you know that the 18th-century Great Pagoda in London is considered the most important surviving example of Chinoiserie : Chinese-inspired design in Europe?
text: Did you know that Fannie R. Buchanan received a citation and medal from the USDA "for outstanding contributions to rural culture"?
text: Did you know that Cuddles Marshall , the "handsomest twirler" on the New York Yankees , turned down a movie contract from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ?
text: Did you know that a man who threatened to blow up Alaska radio station KIAK unless he was put on the air was startled to find the station completely automated?
text: Did you know that Kahe Te Rau-o-te-rangi swam seven miles (11 km) with her child strapped to her back, from Kapiti Island to the New Zealand mainland, to raise the alarm about an impending invasion?
text: Did you know that hundreds of spectators gathered at a nearby church and club to watch 689 Fifth Avenue catch on fire?
text: Did you know that although ballerina Cynthia Harvey spent most of her career with the American Ballet Theatre , she was also the first American principal dancer with the Royal Ballet in London?
text: Did you know that Thurston Clarke felt that Harold Wilson should find it a "chilling thought" that The Chariot of Israel would be "cluttering library shelves" for years to come?
text: Did you know that Kenneth Robinson , the second of three Robinsons to present Points of View between Robert Robinson and Anne Robinson , was fired from that programme for the frivolous way he described bananas?
text: Did you know that SC East Bengal became the first club in Indian football to activate the force majeure clause in their 2020–21 season ?
text: Did you know that American politician Alexander Warner held elected political offices in three different states?
text: Did you know that after Haier bought the Greenwich Savings Bank Building , it turned the large banking hall into a showroom for refrigerators and air conditioners?
text: Did you know that Finnish politician Kaarina Suonio answered the world's first GSM phone call?
text: Did you know that around a fifth of all Filipinos served by the Philippine consulate in Barcelona protested its closure on Facebook ?
text: Did you know that British deputy prime minister John Prescott was nicknamed "Two Jabs" after punching a protestor in 2001?
text: Did you know that the village of Pstrąże is known as the "Polish Chernobyl " due to its reputation as a ghost town and a former storage site for nuclear weapons?
text: Did you know that, at the 2002 Commonwealth Games , Jamie Arthur became the first Welsh boxer to win a gold medal for more than 40 years?
text: Did you know that critics compared John Lennon 's first book, In His Own Write , to the writings of James Joyce , even though Lennon had never read him?
text: Did you know that Harry Harper refused to play baseball on Sundays?
text: Did you know that Moto Hagio wrote her 1992 manga Iguana Girl as a semi-autobiographical story that reflects her strained relationship with her mother?
text: Did you know that the state of Illinois erected both the Illinois Memorial and the Illinois Monument on American Civil War battlefields in the early 1900s?
text: Did you know that soprano Joyce Mathis won the Marian Anderson Award in 1967 and the Young Concert Artists singing competition in 1968?
text: Did you know that the Victorian Carham Hall in Northumberland was saved from demolition this year when its listed-building status was reinstated?
text: Did you know that J. L. Granatstein 's 1998 book Who Killed Canadian History? has been described as the pinnacle of Canada's "history wars"?
text: Did you know that the "pits" in trachoma are named for Herbert Herbert ?
text: Did you know that some Polish military cooperatives , formed to provide supplies to service personnel at low prices, issued their own coins?
text: Did you know that the Bishop of Bath and Wells said that "there is not a more dangerous woman in the West" than Mary Speke ?
text: Did you know that Masayoshi Soken composed the music for Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker while battling cancer ?
text: Did you know that Finnish politician Maija Rask earned a PhD at the age of 61 after a career as a nurse, teacher, member of Parliament, and minister of education?
text: Did you know that the Museum of French Art once exhibited Napoleon's penis ?
text: Did you know that Climate TRACE will be Tracking Real-Time Atmospheric Carbon Emissions?
text: Did you know that New York City's Olympic Tower was meant to reflect St. Patrick's Cathedral but instead gave the city "the back of its hand"?
text: Did you know that Victor Hugo Tinoco was a deputy in the National Assembly of Nicaragua, first for the Sandinista National Liberation Front , then for the opposition Sandinista Renovation Movement ?
text: Did you know that the 1972 documentary Elvis on Tour became the only film starring Elvis Presley to win an award?
text: Did you know that the music minister, seminary student, and pageant contestant Leah Boyd became an Internet celebrity due to her comedic and satirical commentary on Twitter?
text: Did you know that Tropical Storm Eliakim enhanced rainfall and brought flooding to Kenya despite the storm making landfall on Madagascar?
text: Did you know that after Euclid proved that every Mersenne prime leads to an even perfect number , it took more than 2000 years before Leonhard Euler proved that every even perfect number comes from a Mersenne prime ?
text: Did you know that Nelson Mandela claimed in 1994 that people who waved the flag of the National Party were "not sober"?
text: Did you know that judge Jeremiah T. Mahoney qualified for the 1906 and 1908 Summer Olympics , but did not attend either, and pushed the United States to boycott the 1936 Summer Olympics in protest of Nazi Germany ?
text: Did you know that the name of the band Zuriaake is a metaphor for the Chinese poet Qu Yuan , who drowned himself due to his hatred of the government?
text: Did you know that Baker & Dawson was the largest firm of slave traders in England during the late 18th century?
text: Did you know that the book Deal With It! was written by the creators of Gurl.com ?
text: Did you know that Jimmy Dunn was the original timekeeper of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in 1930, and never missed a home game until he retired before the 1972 season?
text: Did you know that the European version of the video game Tomba! uses the theme song of the television series No Sweat as its opening theme?
text: Did you know that Aya Mpali , a flagbearer for Gabon at the 2020 Summer Olympics , was motivated to take up swimming competitively after her parents drowned?
text: Did you know that assembly theory provides an experimentally verifiable way of detecting extraterrestrial life without needing to define what life is?
text: Did you know that Lee Erwin spent six years scoring every one of Buster Keaton 's silent features?
text: Did you know that the British embassy in Kabul was handed over to Pakistan in 1994?
text: Did you know that Mark Stanforth won the 1978 Chicago Marathon despite running the last few miles with blisters ?
text: Did you know that the sea urchin Pourtalesia miranda and the Venus flytrap sea anemone dominate the seabed community at a depth of 2,000 m (6,600 ft) off the coast of West Africa?
text: Did you know that author Eldred Kurtz Means originated the refrain: "if it wasn't for bad luck I wouldn't have any luck at all"?
text: Did you know that Gurl.com 's initial content used drawings of women instead of photos to avoid concerns about body image ?
text: Did you know that Jasson Domínguez is nicknamed "The Martian" because his talent is said to be not of this world?
text: Did you know that the HOLO card is used to pay fares on TheBus , and will also be used for Honolulu's rail transit system ?
text: Did you know that the second half of the 2016 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl broke the record for the highest-scoring half in bowl game history?
text: Did you know that Minnie Lindsay Carpenter wrote more than twelve books about the history of The Salvation Army ?
text: Did you know that after his father was murdered, Samuel Street Jr. lived with his uncle, Samuel Street , and they were both businessmen in the Niagara region ?
text: Did you know that Mark Hamill was cast as the villain in Brigsby Bear , a role the director described as a depraved Jim Henson , "teaching weird lessons about the world in a loving way"?
text: Did you know that two hours before Canadian boxer Mandy Bujold competed in a 2016 Summer Olympics fight, she had been in hospital with gastroenteritis ?
text: Did you know that after the Helmsley Palace Hotel adjacent to the historic Villard Houses was approved, an opponent compared the plans to a human abortion?
text: Did you know that Jo Beall , a British scholar of development economics, was once imprisoned for anti-apartheid activism?
text: Did you know that Antonín Panenka 's namesake penalty kick secured victory for Czechoslovakia in the UEFA Euro 1976 Final ?
text: Did you know that Robert Randal delivered a petition to British officials that requested civil rights for aliens living in Upper Canada ?
text: Did you know that the village of Ayazini in Turkey, a historic place settled by Phrygians , Ancient Romans , Byzantines and Seljuks , features many dwellings, churches and tomb chambers in rock-cut architecture ?
text: Did you know that the execution of two wives of Sihayo kaXongo for adultery was one of the causes of the 1879 Anglo-Zulu War ?
text: Did you know that Lucy Smith Millikin was one of the first Latter Day Saints to participate in baptism for the dead ?
text: Did you know that during the early development of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 , the studio behind the game was suddenly dissolved?
text: Did you know that Angus McIntosh was a Scottish historical linguist who used his skills to decipher German encryptions at Bletchley Park ?
text: Did you know that Poland was one of the places in Europe least affected by the Black Death ?
text: Did you know that Gun Bergman produced the Swedish translation of Nobel laureate Ivo Andrić 's best-known work, The Bridge on the Drina ?
text: Did you know that the gourd mouth organ is said to have been created in the third millennium B.C. as a likeness of the Phoenix ?
text: Did you know that beginning in 1763, Columbia University students were required to wear their academic regalia daily in order to steer them away from New York City brothels?
text: Did you know that the Dayak people from Indonesia returned five skulls of Japanese soldiers killed during the Dayak Desa War to Japan in 1981?
text: Did you know that Peter Plympton Smith 's victory in 1988 was the last time a member of the Republican Party was elected to the United States House of Representatives from Vermont ?
text: Did you know that the worm Bispira volutacornis is sometimes parasitised by a copepod , several of which may move around among the feathery plumes?
text: Did you know that Ina Caro , the wife of The Power Broker and The Years of Lyndon Johnson author Robert Caro , is the sole research assistant for his books?
text: Did you know that Mertome Village in Bayswater, Western Australia was the first aged care complex to be built by a local government in Australia?
text: Did you know that by naming her album Planet Her , Doja Cat was "just trying to be cute" and was not promoting a feminist agenda nor a planet exclusively for women?
text: Did you know that when Michael Wojas used Colony Club regulars in a Francis Bacon biopic studio scene, he had to persuade them Derek Jacobi was not Bacon "because Francis is dead, and this isn't the Colony Room"?
text: Did you know that Dialta Alliata di Montereale has fought a 25-year court battle for a half-share of Arthur Acton 's $1 billion art collection after DNA testing confirmed that she is his granddaughter?
text: Did you know that The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois , a new novel by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers , mixes narrative with "love songs" that illuminate the lives of the protagonist's African, Creek, and Scottish ancestors?
text: Did you know that Ahmet Cevat Emre shared a household with Vâlâ Nureddin and Nâzım Hikmet in Batumi, with Emre responsible for cooking, Hikmet writing poetry and Nureddin giving Turkish language lessons?
text: Did you know that West Germany 's Gerd Müller scored six goals in two games against the Soviet Union , including two in the UEFA Euro 1972 Final ?
text: Did you know that Michita Sakata declined an offer to be Prime Minister of Japan because he thought the role was too political?
text: Did you know that Matana Roberts explores "her identity as an African American woman" on the album Coin Coin Chapter Four: Memphis ?
text: Did you know that, while drunk, Romanian government minister Gheorghe Chițu allegedly had a dentist "pull out the roots of all his molars and his front teeth", resulting in permanent neurological damage?
text: Did you know that two hagiographic documents about St. Hunegund of France publicized Hunegund's miracles to create a sense of identity in Homblières and to raise money for the monastery?
text: Did you know that Monturaqui crater in Chile is threatened by human action?
text: Did you know that Turkish champion Esra Yıldız , who was named the "Most Hyped Boxer", has been selected to represent Turkey at the 2020 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that American website ChickClick was owned by the same company who owned IGN ?
text: Did you know that the Dutch ordered Roosseno Soerjohadikoesoemo to destroy bridges, but then the Japanese ordered him to build them back?
text: Did you know that the WHO Blue Books give expert consensus opinion on cancers?
text: Did you know that Raychell 's previous stage name Lay was meant to represent her belief that singing while lying down would heal listeners?
text: Did you know that Jo Inkpin was Australia's first openly transgender Anglican priest?
text: Did you know that the developer of The Stillness of the Wind was inspired to make the video game after fantasizing with his girlfriend about raising goats instead of living in London ?
text: Did you know that Karel van het Reve , author of Twee minuten stilte (1959), inserted a fake letter to the publisher in the first edition which was real enough for later book owners to return the letter to the author?
text: Did you know that operatic soprano Natalia Shpiller was beloved by Joseph Stalin , and he frequently had her perform at the Moscow Kremlin to impress visiting dignitaries?
text: Did you know that Fort Hampton was constructed by the United States Army to warn Americans to leave and keep them from illegally settling in Chickasaw territory?
text: Did you know that Drahşan Arda is the world's first female association football referee confirmed by FIFA ?
text: Did you know that playing Aerodrums will not annoy the neighbours?
text: Did you know that the name of Serbian Roma female rap group Pretty Loud was inspired by the popular notion that Roma women are not typically very loud?
text: Did you know that Brigadier Archie Miller-Bakewell registered the death of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh ?
text: Did you know that Living in the Age of Airplanes was the first IMAX film to be shot on all seven continents?
text: Did you know that the fire urchin plays host to two species of shrimp as well as the zebra crab, Zebrida adamsii ?
text: Did you know that the Sanford station was often confused with the Stamford station ?
text: Did you know that Michael McIntyre , who was an Olympic sailing champion in 1988 , was awarded an MBE for services to yachting the following year ?
text: Did you know that the manga Cheat Slayer ran for one chapter before it was cancelled?
text: Did you know that ballerina Julie Diana began writing for dance publications when she was pregnant?
text: Did you know that 2020 U.S. men's Olympic basketball player Kevin Durant is on the verge of becoming Team USA's leading Olympic scorer?
text: Did you know that Nele Hertling , working for the Academy of Arts, Berlin , brought innovative culture to the city including the Tanz im August festival?
text: Did you know that the mycoparasitic fungus Ampelomyces quisqualis attacks powdery mildew on crops such as cucumbers ?
text: Did you know that Tsadkan Gebretensae , one of the top commanders of Tigray forces in the conflict against the Ethiopian government , previously served as chief of staff of the Ethiopian National Defense Force ?
text: Did you know that in a 1987 poll of prominent New Yorkers, the MetLife Building was ranked as the building that respondents most wanted to see demolished?
text: Did you know that the Ming-dynasty-era homoerotic short-story anthology Bian er chai was written by the Moon-Heart Master of the Drunken West Lake?
text: Did you know that bookseller T. S. Shanbhag started Bangalore 's landmark Premier Bookstore on the site of a burned-down clothing store in 1971?
text: Did you know that the first Olympic volleyball match in more than 16 years for Kenya's Malkia Strikers is being played today in Tokyo against Japan ?
text: Did you know that the Connecticut National Guard , Frank Sinatra , and a full-sized Cape Cod house have all been seen at the New Haven Armory ?
text: Did you know that Auguste Rodin 's erotic sculpture The Kiss was removed from Lewes Town Hall during the First World War after a local headmistress complained?
text: Did you know that Jack Mitchell and his heiress wife Lolita transformed El Mirador into "one of the most fabulous estates in Montecito ", complete with a dairy, a zoo, and a floating tea pavilion on a lake?
text: Did you know that for polygons with integer coordinates, the area can be computed from the numbers of integer points inside and on the boundary of the polygon ?
text: Did you know that English cricketer Josh de Caires , the son of former England captain Michael Atherton , was given his mother's maiden name at birth, and he does not know why?
text: Did you know that two male penguins from Heythrop Zoological Gardens were "married" in February 2019?
text: Did you know that at the 2016 Summer Olympics , French sailor Hélène Defrance won a medal by a single point?
text: Did you know that Kibu.com was shut down 46 days after it was launched?
text: Did you know that Ian Board ejected Colony Room regular Francis Bacon shouting: "Get out! Call yourself a painter. You can't fucking paint. Take your boring friends with you and don't bother coming back"?
text: Did you know that in developing the Dictionary of Women Worldwide , editors Anne Commire and Deborah Klezmer found other biographical dictionaries often devoted only five percent of their text to women?
text: Did you know that Wendy Solling was a nun, a sculptor and one of the first women ordained in the Anglican Church of Australia ?
text: Did you know that a 620,000-word My Little Pony fanfiction work based on Fallout has developed a fandom of its own?
text: Did you know that New Zealand's Grace Prendergast was the highest-ranked female rower in the world in 2019?
text: Did you know that Drew Goddard wrote the soundtrack for Bad Times at the El Royale into his screenplay so a studio would be forced to purchase the licenses for each piece of music?
text: Did you know that during Sam Brownback's 2008 presidential campaign , he mentioned the yellow brick road in both the speech that began and the speech that ended his candidacy?
text: Did you know that shooter Tehani Egodawela was the third person selected from Sri Lanka to compete in the 2020 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that when R. Bintoro was put in command of the Papua Military Region , he wrote the lyrics for the military region's march?
text: Did you know that the cadet scandal of 1942 resulted in a widespread persecution of gay men in Buenos Aires ?
text: Did you know that Robert Sacchi , who played many Humphrey Bogart roles due to their physical resemblance, "never thought Bogie was too terrific-looking" and "wanted to look like Gregory Peck " instead?
text: Did you know that Barakat Al-Harthi missed his layover and lost some of his sports equipment before competing for Oman at the 2016 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that although the Pat Buchanan campaign commercial Meatballs was created by a Houston-based ad agency, it was not initially aired in Houston, lest its message turn off voters?
text: Did you know that income inequality in China is considered to be a major cause of mass incidents ?
text: Did you know that in 1593, French amateur mathematician François Viète found the first formula in European mathematics to represent an infinite process , a product of square roots that he used to compute π ?
text: Did you know that Marita Camacho Quirós , who was First Lady of Costa Rica (1962–1966), is the oldest former first lady in the world and a supercentenarian ?
text: Did you know that in Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers , Jude Ellison Doyle proposes that Frankenstein is about maternal fear that the author Mary Shelley experienced after family tragedies?
text: Did you know that Duffy Lewis was the only major league player to pinch hit for Babe Ruth ?
text: Did you know that the coat of arms of Jersey was allowed to be featured on its stamps during the occupation in World War II , with the Germans unaware that it was also the royal arms of England ?
text: Did you know that when Ingrid Haubold recorded the role of Senta in Wagner's Der fliegende Holländer , reviewer Alan Blyth found "a certain raw edge" of her soprano voice apt for the role?
text: Did you know that 200,000 copies of the Mumbai Mirror were distributed on its inaugural print run in 2005, giving it the second-largest circulation in Mumbai ?
text: Did you know that in 2021, Lisa Barbelin won her European Archery Championships event, and briefly became the world's number one ranked player?
text: Did you know that Ripon Spa Baths is the only spa in the United Kingdom to have been ceremonially opened by a member of the royal family?
text: Did you know that one of Leila Velez 's reasons for expanding her Brazilian beauty-salon company is to fight racism against black women and their natural afro-textured hair ?
text: Did you know that the "Cuddle with a Koala" experience at Featherdale Wildlife Park was stopped in 1988 when New South Wales law was changed to restrict koala handling?
text: Did you know that Siphesihle November was brought to Canada from South Africa for ballet training at age 11, and became a principal dancer with the National Ballet of Canada at 22?
text: Did you know that according to an elaborate 1990s joke, Elmo Aardvark was history's first animated cartoon character?
text: Did you know that the Pontiac Phantom concept car was designed by Bill Mitchell , who had previously designed the 1938 Cadillac Sixty Special and both the 1963 and 1968 Chevrolet Corvettes ?
text: Did you know that John Zampieri was the youngest member of the Vermont House of Representatives after the 1966 election?
text: Did you know that Ivory Coast won the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations Final when their goalkeeper scored a penalty and Ghana 's goalkeeper missed?
text: Did you know that the Trans-Canada Skyway made Hockey Night in Canada possible?
text: Did you know that Italian singer Lia Origoni said she refused to be Joseph Goebbels 's dinner guest, so he left her chair empty?
text: Did you know that, after being elected as the first transgender city councilor of Belo Horizonte , Duda Salabert was fired from her job as a teacher when the school where she worked received a threatening email?
text: Did you know that Transair Flight 810 ditched only about 2 miles (3 km) from an air station for U.S. Coast Guard rescue helicopters?
text: Did you know that after the Soviet Union lost to Spain in the 1964 European Nations' Cup Final , their manager Konstantin Beskov was dismissed upon his return to Moscow following a meeting with Nikita Khrushchev ?
text: Did you know that Vittoria Alliata di Villafranca translated Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings into Italian as a teenager, then wrested control of the family's 100-room summer palace from Opus Dei and the Mafia?
text: Did you know that " Alle Menschen höret auf dies neue Lied ", a new offertory hymn with a simple melody, has been suggested for use in confirmation masses?
text: Did you know that award winner Lillian Comas-Díaz became interested in psychology after consoling classmates recovering from a destructive hurricane?
text: Did you know that Jerome Robbins 's ballet Moves is performed in silence?
text: Did you know that nurse and Jordanian senator Sawsan Al Majali followed in the footsteps of both her mother (who was a nurse) and her father (who was prime minister of Jordan )?
text: Did you know that a British company is developing plastics that are vulnerable to sunlight, air and water?
text: Did you know that the Uganda Volunteer Reserve helped intern German nationals at the start of the First World War ?
text: Did you know that during the 2021 food crisis in southern Madagascar , people have resorted to eating things such as raw red cactus fruits, wild leaves, locusts, ashes mixed with tamarind, and shoe leather?
text: Did you know that Lindy Cameron , who leads the UK's National Cyber Security Centre , says that ransomware is the major cyber threat?
text: Did you know that although Vivaldi composed cello sonatas for private international customers, six of them were published in Paris in 1740 without his permission?
text: Did you know that the American Pre-Raphaelite painters had an obsession with depicting birds' nest still lifes ?
text: Did you know that Jennifers' Law expands the definition of domestic violence in Connecticut to include coercive control ?
text: Did you know that during the 1940 Bloody Wednesday of Olkusz , all the male inhabitants of the occupied Polish town, Jews and non-Jews alike, were subjected to hours of abuse by German soldiers?
text: Did you know that Ben Purse was a leader of the 1920 blind march , which helped bring about the world's first disability-specific legislation ?
text: Did you know that protesters against the Line 3 oil pipeline handcuffed themselves together at an Enbridge pump station?
text: Did you know that when Cordula Wöhler was expelled from a Lutheran pastor's household for converting to Catholicism, she wrote a poem that became one of the most popular hymns to Mary in German?
text: Did you know that barrister and arbitrator Mahnaz Malik worked with the Law Society of England and Wales to set up a programme to assist imprisoned children in Pakistan?
text: Did you know that Derby County F.C. chairman Sam Longson gave impromptu press conferences in his pyjamas in the aftermath of Brian Clough 's resignation as manager?
text: Did you know that Maria of Antioch had a clerk and a notary interrupt the coronation of her rival Hugh III of Cyprus , after which they fled the cathedral?
text: Did you know that Central Park Tower , partially cantilevered over another building, was compared to a giant "poised to squash a poodle"?
text: Did you know that José Adán Aguerri 's family opened the first movie theater in Nicaragua?
text: Did you know that Italy won the UEFA Euro 1968 Final but only after winning a coin toss and a replay ?
text: Did you know that Chilean psychologist Neva Milicic Müller wrote a book about parent–child separation that can help children and caregivers during COVID-19 lockdowns ?
text: Did you know that north London's Barnet Gate was called Grendel 's Gate by the Anglo-Saxons, after the monster slain in the epic poem Beowulf ?
text: Did you know that Des van Jaarsveldt was the first Rhodesian to captain the South Africa national rugby team and possibly the first to give a Springboks team talk in English?
text: Did you know that James A. Gilmore reorganized the Federal League , hoping that it would become a third major league?
text: Did you know that Survivalcraft , a game inspired by Minecraft , was once one of the most downloaded games on Windows Phone and iPad ?
text: Did you know that the slave trader Thomas Leyland won a lottery, transported 22,365 enslaved Africans, and became Lord Mayor of Liverpool?
text: Did you know that the Women's National Basketball Players Association was the first trade union for professional women athletes?
text: Did you know that before he died in the Battle of Iwo Jima , Japanese composer Shimaguchi Komao left behind an unfinished song bidding farewell to his family?
text: Did you know that the coat of arms of Montserrat features Erin holding a Celtic harp , alluding to the Irish immigrants to the island during the 17th century?
text: Did you know that when Johnny Duncan performed " Last Train to San Fernando " in Liverpool, the audience included John Lennon , Paul McCartney , and George Harrison ?
text: Did you know that The Hidden People by Alison Littlewood is based on the 1895 incident in Ireland where Bridget Cleary was burnt alive by her husband, who believed she was a fairy changeling ?
text: Did you know that Rani Kumudini Devi was the first woman to serve as Mayor of Hyderabad ?
text: Did you know that Jojo Rabbit director Taika Waititi , a Polynesian Jew, also starred in the film as an imaginary Adolf Hitler ?
text: Did you know that Peter Pernin was disciplined by the Catholic diocese of Green Bay for spending too long away publishing his memoir of the Peshtigo fire ?
text: Did you know that after losing his job at KBIF when his father was convicted on tax-withholding crimes, future California politician Jim Patterson bought Fresno 's KIRV and turned it into a Christian radio station?
text: Did you know that Hope Muir was hired as the artistic director of the National Ballet of Canada without any in-person interviews?
text: Did you know that Big Time Wrestling featured a wrestling bear that escaped and was subdued after a police hunt by putting sugar in its mouth?
text: Did you know that Hannah Lee Corbin was the "first Virginia woman to take a stand for women's rights"?
text: Did you know that hunts for the yeren , a Chinese apeman cryptid , were some of the largest involvements of peasants in scientific endeavors?
text: Did you know that donors withdrew $4 million in funding from Vote.org after its board fired its founder and CEO, Debra Cleaver ?
text: Did you know that the Royal Rhodesian Air Force Ensign originally had three assegais , but this was reduced to one following the break-up of the Federation ?
text: Did you know that Jim Laker did not become a spin bowler until he played on coconut matting strips in Egypt during World War II?
text: Did you know that Charlie N. Holmberg developed the idea for her novel The Paper Magician after studying Japanese and learning about the art of origami ?
text: Did you know that a group of men killed Robert Corrigan because they did not like his decisions as a judge of an agricultural fair ?
text: Did you know that undercover journalists at the Greenpeace publication Unearthed tricked an ExxonMobil lobbyist into revealing the company's agenda by posing as job recruiters?
text: Did you know that Callimachus wrote more than 800 books, but almost none of them have survived?
text: Did you know that A Beast the Color of Winter describes the author, Douglas H. Chadwick , being gored by a mountain goat ?
text: Did you know that Native American leader Chico Velasquez reputedly wore leggings decorated with the fingernails of his defeated enemies, American down one leg and Mexican down the other?
text: Did you know that Peace or Love (2021), the first album by the Norwegian duo Kings of Convenience in twelve years, was recorded five times?
text: Did you know that Ebba Atterbom was the first person to translate the work of Irish novelist James Joyce into Swedish ?
text: Did you know that Kake has been described as "a sort of Johnny Appleseed ... spreading the seeds of liberated, mutually satisfying, ecstatically explicit gay sex"?
text: Did you know that Lee Tze Chung , in a pro-China paper, criticized the government's response to the Tiananmen protests ?
text: Did you know that Piper Harron's 2016 mathematics doctoral thesis has been described as "feminist", "unique", "honest", "generous", and "refreshing"?
text: Did you know that Annie Kanahele opposed the addition of diacritics to a reprint of the Bible in Hawaiian , arguing that the original exemplified the written Hawaiian language at the time of translation?
text: Did you know that the province of Central Kalimantan was created after the Indonesian government was harried by the paramilitary organization Mandau Talawang Pancasila ?
text: Did you know that Obed Dickinson , an abolitionist pastor in Oregon in the mid-1800s, was pressured into resigning for advocating for racial equality?
text: Did you know that the Campanha da Legalidade was a mobilization led by Governor Leonel Brizola to guarantee the inauguration of João Goulart as the 24th president of Brazil ?
text: Did you know that Brazilian goalkeeper Lucas Covolan scored an equalising goal in injury time during the 2021 National League play-off Final ?
text: Did you know that during the Soviet economic blockade of Lithuania , queues to petrol stations were observed to reach several kilometres?
text: Did you know that Mahmud Jamal is the first person from a visible minority group to be nominated to the Supreme Court of Canada ?
text: Did you know that the 2021 Challenge Cup Final between Castleford and St Helens today will be played at a half-full Wembley Stadium ?
text: Did you know that the "only consolation" Brigitte Manceaux said she found in dying was the hope of being reunited with her uncle, the composer Francis Poulenc ?
text: Did you know that the snapping shrimp Alpheus armatus clears sand from a sea anemone 's lair?
text: Did you know that the social network Koo increased in popularity after the 2020–2021 Indian farmers' protest caused a standoff between Twitter and the government of India?
text: Did you know that the Cartier Building in New York City was purchased in exchange for $100 and a necklace?
text: Did you know that John Aitken first discovered oxidative stress as a major cause of male infertility?
text: Did you know that the Canadian city of Halifax, Nova Scotia , plans to construct some 57 km (35 mi) of safe cycling routes within its central urban area?
text: Did you know that Kate Baker arranged to republish the Australian novel Such Is Life by Joseph Furphy after locating half of the original manuscript under some lumber in the offices of The Bulletin ?
text: Did you know that Homobiles has been called " Uber for drag queens "?
text: Did you know that General Sir Charles Reid shot the celebrated, but probably not man-eating, Leeds Tiger ?
text: Did you know that St Gregory's Church, Sudbury , has the mummified head of Archbishop Simon Sudbury , beheaded by a mob in 1381, preserved in a niche in the vestry?
text: Did you know that Robert Quackenbush wrote the Henry the Duck books to ease any taunting his son might receive because of his surname?
text: Did you know that Chinese-descended mining federations in Indonesia, like the Santiaogou Federation , fought bitter battles with the Dutch to preserve their democratic forms of government in the early 19th century?
text: Did you know that a Midtown Manhattan townhouse at 46 West 55th Street , once occupied by doctors, was later bought by a clothing store and a fashion firm?
text: Did you know that Lebanese academic Zahia Kaddoura was the first woman to be appointed a dean at the Lebanese University ?
text: Did you know that Leonard Woods , a Black miner accused of killing a white mine foreman from a prominent family, was possibly lynched to prevent a trial that could have tainted the reputation of the foreman and his family?
text: Did you know that for the morning song " Die güldne Sonne voll Freud und Wonne ", the poet found a new metre , and the composer a new melody, to reflect the many meanings of "rising"?
text: Did you know that in the 1990s, the Libertarian Party of New Hampshire was the largest third party in the United States in terms of state legislators since the Socialist Party of America in the 1930s?
text: Did you know that in the surreal art game Islands: Non-Places , a bus stop may become an egg incubator and a fountain may conceal a vast underground space?
text: Did you know that South African theologian Sarojini Nadar examined the Book of Esther as a "text of terror" in normalizing rape culture?
text: Did you know that the size of Le Castellet allowed the 2021 French Grand Prix to host more spectators than other events during the COVID-19 pandemic in France ?
text: Did you know that Neha Narkhede , co-creator of the open source software Apache Kafka , also helped found Confluent, a company valued at $4.5 billion?
text: Did you know that Peter Brownell 's victory in the 1993 Burlington mayoral election was the last time a Republican won an election for Burlington, Vermont 's mayoralty?
text: Did you know that William Davenport was one of the world's most prolific slave traders ?
text: Did you know that " Lass uns in deinem Namen, Herr " is a 1964 Christian hymn with text and music by Kurt Rommel, praying for the courage to take the necessary steps?
text: Did you know that Abraham Zapruder sold his film to Richard Stolley because he acted like "a gentleman"?
text: Did you know that in the 1920s Edward A. Everett , with help from his stenographer Lulu G. Stillman , concluded that the Iroquois had been defrauded of their land , but their report was "buried" until the 1970s?
text: Did you know that rugby league's Hull F.C. forced rugby union's Hull KR out of their home ground by paying triple the rent before the teams became part of rugby league's Hull Derby ?
text: Did you know that when María Elena Medina-Mora Icaza was appointed to lead the psychology department at the National Autonomous University of Mexico , she proposed a "zero tolerance" policy for gender violence?
text: Did you know that government-funded non-profits are not subject to a special motion to strike , and so are exempt from California 's anti- SLAPP law?
text: Did you know that William Lovelady , who wrote Incantations for guitar, set Psalm 104 as a cantata on a request from Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh ?
text: Did you know that in the United States, Black people are twice as likely as the general population to identify as vegan ?
text: Did you know that the Latin meaning of rostrata is 'beaked', suggesting that the eastern shovelnose ray was named after its triangular snout?
text: Did you know that Mahmut Bozteke , whose arms were partially disabled in an accident, started performing Para Taekwondo upon the advice of his physiotherapist , who commented that he can use his legs very well?
text: Did you know that the Tiféret Israel Synagogue , the oldest in Caracas , Venezuela, was profaned during the 2008–2009 Gaza War ?
text: Did you know that George Case was the co-owner of the slave ship whose crew perpetrated the Zong massacre ?
text: Did you know that many Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant fighters were able to reunite with their kidnapped families after the 2021 Battle of Sambisa Forest ?
text: Did you know that Ludwig Wüllner sang in the U.S. premiere of Mahler's Kindertotenlieder in 1910, conducted by the composer?
text: Did you know that " I Found a Way ", written by Drake Bell and Michael Corcoran , became the theme song for the Drake & Josh show?
text: Did you know that in his ruling in Miller v. Bonta , Judge Roger Benitez compared AR-15s to Swiss Army knives ?
text: Did you know that the Goethe-Gymnasium , founded as the first school of higher education for girls in Dortmund in 1867, is now focused on competitive sports?
text: Did you know that the seagrass asterina is a sequential hermaphrodite , starting life as a female and later becoming a male?
text: Did you know that Amee-Leigh Murphy Crowe was the top try scorer at the 2018–19 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series , the first time the feat had been achieved by someone not from Australia or New Zealand?
text: Did you know that three generations of a Muslim family were killed in London, Canada , last month?
text: Did you know that Annita Demetriou is the first woman and youngest person elected as Speaker of Cyprus' House of Representatives ?
text: Did you know that the Society of Catholic Scientists sponsors Gold Masses , following the tradition of Red Masses for lawyers, White Masses for those in healthcare, and Blue Masses for public-safety professionals?
text: Did you know that B. Max Mehl , a coin dealer in Texas who made the hobby popular, advertised his "Mehl-ing list" in the 1920s?
text: Did you know that " All Ghillied Up " is considered one of the best levels in first-person shooter games ?
text: Did you know that Swedish actress Viran Rydkvist was one of the first women to run a theatre in Sweden?
text: Did you know that Helen Maria Williams 's Letters Written in France praised the French Revolution even though she was imprisoned during the Reign of Terror for being English?
text: Did you know that Darul Uloom Deoband 's first edict against terrorism in 2008 was signed by Habibur Rahman Khairabadi ?
text: Did you know that the 1911 benefit game for Addie Joss was an all-star game that included nine members of the Baseball Hall of Fame ?
text: Did you know that Nilima Arun Kshirsagar developed and patented liposomal amphotericin B , which was used to treat " black fungus " during the COVID-19 pandemic in India ?
text: Did you know that Barbara Hepworth instructed people to " walk in " to her sculptures?
text: Did you know that Mariano Fiallos Oyanguren refused to participate in an attempt to rig the 1990 Nicaraguan presidential election ?
text: Did you know that there was an assassination attempt on the president-elect during the presidential transition of Franklin D. Roosevelt ?
text: Did you know that Pyrenean Mountain Dogs were urgently introduced onto French farms in the 1990s to protect flocks from wolves that had arrived from Italy?
text: Did you know that Benjamin Rathbun constructed more than one hundred buildings in Buffalo, New York , in the 19th century, and was later jailed for forged endorsements ?
text: Did you know that Swedish painter, ceramist, designer, and writer Tyra Lundgren was one of the most versatile artists of the 20th century?
text: Did you know that British logistics in the Siegfried Line campaign used so many jerricans that stocks in the UK were depleted, and shipments became limited to the production rate?
text: Did you know that model and shoe designer Hélène Arpels believed that "diamonds go with everything"?
text: Did you know that Mark Selby took more time over a single shot at the 2019 Northern Ireland Open than the fastest ever maximum break ?
text: Did you know that Liu Yu has been called "one of China's best-known America-watchers" and "China's de Tocqueville "?
text: Did you know that in 2000 the Revived Cornish Stannary Parliament claimed that it was owed £20 billion by the Duchy of Cornwall because of disparities in the rate of taxation of tin between 1337 and 1837?
text: Did you know that Hugo Torres Jiménez was the only Sandinista guerrilla to participate in both the raids that led to the release of Daniel Ortega and more than 60 prisoners?
text: Did you know that The Traveling Man was commissioned by Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) to replace murals that were destroyed for the construction of DART Light Rail in Deep Ellum ?
text: Did you know that college basketball player Haley Cavinder and her twin sister, Hanna, signed a major endorsement deal within minutes of it being allowed?
text: Did you know that the Lion and Tusk replaced the royal crown on Rhodesian insignia but was previously disparagingly referred to as "the lion with the toothpick"?
text: Did you know that German art historian Birgit Dahlenburg was instrumental in the recognition of the 16th-century Croy Tapestry as a cultural asset of national value?
text: Did you know that, although created to understand Chinese psychological torture of American POWs during the Korean War , Biderman's Chart of Coercion was used by American interrogators at Guantanamo Bay ?
text: Did you know that the head of military leader and "holy man" Sanin Husain was used to decorate a market?
text: Did you know that " The Stars and Stripes Forever ", a march composed by John Philip Sousa , was made the National March of the United States in 1987?
text: Did you know that iron and steel magnate Thomas J. Bray wanted to canalize the Beaver , Mahoning and Shenango rivers?
text: Did you know that United States delegates to the Mont Tremblant Conference argued that the British Empire should be liquidated after World War II?
text: Did you know that Maria Simon and her husband met through a Jewish youth group in Austria but did not marry until ten years later after reconnecting while living as exiles in England?
text: Did you know that the anti-apartheid anthem " Gimme Hope Jo'anna " was "bastardised" by being adapted as a yoghurt advert song titled "Gimme Yop, Me Mama"?
text: Did you know that Christa Ludwig , known for fiction for young horse-lovers, received a prize after her novel about Else Lasker-Schüler 's late years in Jerusalem was published?
text: Did you know that the 2014 book Packaged Pleasures investigated the history of consumer culture and how the rise of packaging for products created "transmissible packets of pleasure" for popular consumption?
text: Did you know that Ian Ang , the co-founder and CEO of the gaming chair company Secretlab , was a StarCraft II champion?
text: Did you know that Róbert Berény 's 1927–1928 oil painting Sleeping Lady with Black Vase was lost until 2009, when it was spotted being used as set dressing in the film Stuart Little ?
text: Did you know that Brigadier General James H. Stratton never saw combat in his thirty-year military career, but he was still shot once?
text: Did you know that many Broadway stars went to Therapy on Monday nights?
text: Did you know that the Microphones ' 2003 album Mount Eerie uses different people and vocal styles to represent distinct, individual characters?
text: Did you know that Abeer Odeh was the first woman to serve as Minister of National Economy in Palestine ?
text: Did you know that Deutsches Tanzarchiv Köln , the German archive for documents related to dance on stage, holds around 400 estates of dancers, choreographers and photographers, such as Mary Wigman and Kurt Jooss ?
text: Did you know that Steve Bennett 's write-in candidacy for election to the Ventura city council was endorsed by Patagonia, Inc. ?
text: Did you know that Harriet Tyce 's novel Blood Orange became popular during COVID-19 lockdowns in 2020?
text: Did you know that photographing Elliot Page for the cover of Time "really meant the world" to Canadian photographer Wynne Neilly ?
text: Did you know that the style of the 9th-century Celtic Roscrea Brooch was influenced by the artworks of Viking invaders?
text: Did you know that Ellora Derenoncourt demonstrated that the expansion of minimum wage in 1967 accounted for 20 percent of the reduction in racial income gaps in the United States during the civil rights era?
text: Did you know that Japanese industrialist Ichizō Kobayashi established the Takarazuka Grand Theater in the city of Takarazuka because it was located at the terminus of a train line owned by his company?
text: Did you know that Marja Kubašec was both the first Sorbian woman to receive a formal teacher training and the first woman to write a novel in Upper Sorbian ?
text: Did you know that the many refugees who have entered Canada via Roxham Road at the border between New York and Quebec since 2017 may not have been breaking any laws?
text: Did you know that the volcanic crater Cerro Overo formed about 77,000 years ago?
text: Did you know that June Fernández wrote "I Wanted Sex But Not Like That"?
text: Did you know that the meagre attendance at the 1960 European Nations' Cup Final in Paris was blamed on crowds who "wanted western European glamour, not mysterious teams from the other side of Europe"?
text: Did you know that Joan Boada was named a principal dancer at the Cuban National Ballet at age 16, but later defected and ended up at the San Francisco Ballet ?
text: Did you know that the temperature was 0 °F (−18 °C) on the morning that the Battle of Hancock began?
text: Did you know that James Chappell is thought to have been the first black landlord of an English public house?
text: Did you know that "the very first words of encouragement [ Edgar Allan Poe ] ever remember[ed] to have heard" were in The Yankee ?
text: Did you know that Swedish writer Hedda Anderson began her literary career at the age of 58, following her husband's death in 1888?
text: Did you know that prior to winning their first of nine consecutive titles in the 1965–66 season , Celtic had not been champions of the Scottish Football League for 12 years?
text: Did you know that Patric and Rosalie Carey built New Zealand's first theatre for professional repertory on the back of their house?
text: Did you know that Grenadian anatomic pathologist Kathleen Coard is the first female professor of pathology in the Caribbean?
text: Did you know that the 130th Regiment of Foot , raised by George Pigot in 1794, was disbanded just two years later after suffering heavy losses due to tropical disease?
text: Did you know that Josh Phillips , who was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for murdering his eight-year-old friend when he was fourteen, is eligible for resentencing in 2023?
text: Did you know that the extinct planthopper Florissantia elegans was described in 1890 from only two fossils?
text: Did you know that Chris Gittens 's father refused to attend any of his professional baseball games until he was promoted to the major leagues?
text: Did you know that official guests of the Swiss Confederation stayed at the Lohn Estate , a manor in Kehrsatz , in the Canton of Bern , between 1942 and 1994?
text: Did you know that ballerina Tina Pereira won a competition even though she was chosen to replace an indisposed dancer, and her partner got seriously injured mid-performance?
text: Did you know that for the first time this century, this year's British Athletics Championships were not broadcast on live television?
text: Did you know that after her election as Florida's agriculture commissioner , Nikki Fried was sworn into office using the first Hebrew Bible published in the United States?
text: Did you know that the fan disc of the visual novel Kichiku Megane includes a salacious typing game ?
text: Did you know that British army officer Thomas Stanton Lambert was killed by an IRA ambush while returning from a tennis match in 1921?
text: Did you know that Homestead, Florida , radio station WOIR was credited with saving the lives of hundreds of farmworkers in a labor camp before the arrival of Hurricane Andrew ?
text: Did you know that, after her death, contemporaries of Frankish queen Austregilde both called her "the light of her homeland, the world, and the court" and compared her to Herod ?
text: Did you know that The City in the Middle of the Night , a 2019 climate-fiction novel by Charlie Jane Anders , is set on a tidally locked planet?
text: Did you know that Elizabeth Mburu 's book African Hermeneutics seeks to bring a uniquely African approach to interpreting the Bible?
text: Did you know that one of the arguments made by the Simla Deputation for increasing Muslim representation in Indian politics was that they had ruled India under the Mughal Empire ?
text: Did you know that when Robert Saunders Jr. 's predecessor died, Saunders took his job but not his home ?
text: Did you know that Big Bang 's G-Dragon switched his mini-album 's title track from " Bullshit " to " Untitled, 2014 " on the day of its release?
text: Did you know that Mormon missionaries in Japan converse with each other in a specialized cant known as Senkyoshigo ?
text: Did you know that Hugo Marchand was named an étoile of Paris Opera Ballet at age 23, after he made an unexpected role debut when the company was touring in Japan?
text: Did you know that in 1991, the Church of Christ, Scientist published a book it had previously rejected as blasphemous to obtain a $97 million bequest needed to repay its financially disastrous expansion into television ?
text: Did you know that the George W. Vanderbilt Residence has been occupied by American Express , Olympic Airlines , and Versace , but never by Vanderbilt himself?
text: Did you know that ballerina Pippa Moore 's last role was as Princess Beatrice , Queen Victoria 's youngest daughter?
text: Did you know that a basic difference between modern Paganism and New Age is that the former focuses more on the external world and the latter on the inner life of the individual?
text: Did you know that Hugh Leatherman effectively controls the state of South Carolina 's budget?
text: Did you know that the blacktail snapper is commercially fished in Kiribati and the Ryukyu Islands ?
text: Did you know that Jordan Geller owned 2,388 pairs of sneakers and was recognized by Guinness World Records in 2012 for having the world's largest sneaker collection?
text: Did you know that Doja Cat and her directors used Blade Runner and The Fifth Element as reference points while making the music video for " Need to Know "?
text: Did you know that Chetana Nagavajara initiated and led arts-criticism research projects in Thailand in the early 2000s?
text: Did you know that the "olde English" interior of the Fisk–Harkness House later became an automobile club, an art gallery, and finally a college?
text: Did you know that Pamela Trotman Reid , the first Black president of the University of Saint Joseph , developed the GO-GIRL program?
text: Did you know that Chang Chen lost 12 kilograms (26 lb) for his role in The Soul ?
text: Did you know that police officer Abdulrachman Setjowibowo was appointed the acting chairman of the Football Association of Indonesia following a conflict between the association and the Persija Jakarta club?
text: Did you know that sculptures by Lorenzo Ghiglieri have been installed at the Royal Palace of Madrid , the White House , and Brown Bear Car Wash ?
text: Did you know that Opal Lee is often referred to as the "grandmother of Juneteenth "?
text: Did you know that the National Institutes of Health 's first mycologist, Chester W. Emmons , demonstrated that fungal infections were common and widespread?
text: Did you know that the Basilica of Saint Maternus in Walcourt , Belgium, contains one of the oldest preserved Marian devotional statues in Western Christianity?
text: Did you know that Mexican politician Rubén Rocha Moya obtained a law degree while serving as a senator ?
text: Did you know that before she entered the U.S. Army in 1942, Jane Douglass White , a songwriter for soldier's shows , had already composed the tune which would become the official " Song of the Women's Army Corps "?
text: Did you know that during the 1940s, Sigge Stark became Sweden 's most published, most read, as well as most criticised author?
text: Did you know that the theme song for Guilty 's live-action television series is Toshi 's first original song in 22 years?
text: Did you know that two of the men in the Dover Eight were going to join the raid on Harpers Ferry led by John Brown but ultimately backed out?
text: Did you know that Ronald Barnes was a major force in establishing an American approach to writing music for the carillon ?
text: Did you know that each chapter of the Japanese novel Kanojo ga Suki na Mono wa Homo de Atte Boku de wa Nai is themed after a song by Queen ?
text: Did you know that the Royal Commission on Metropolitan Railway Termini of 1846 was responsible for central London being mostly free of mainline railways and led, indirectly, to the creation of the London Underground ?
text: Did you know that Ed Gomes was the first member of the Working Families Party elected to a state legislature solely with the party's nomination?
text: Did you know that Gracelino Barbosa won the first Paralympic medal in Cape Verdean history at the 2016 Summer Paralympics ?
text: Did you know that neither holochess (dejarik) nor sabacc , two games invented for the Star Wars films, have a definitive ruleset despite several real-world licensed releases?
text: Did you know that adult-film actress Kendra Sunderland originally wanted to be a counselor or an accountant?
text: Did you know that " She's a Woman " was the first song by the Beatles to include a reference to drugs?
text: Did you know that Charlie Wheatley had a seventh-grade education and three honorary degrees in engineering from the University of Tulsa ?
text: Did you know that Simon Mills had to postpone his honeymoon to play in the 1989 Third Division play-off final ?
text: Did you know that Belgian international association footballer Anaëlle Wiard , who started playing beach soccer in 2020, was the top scorer in a competition that year?
text: Did you know that tools for sewing and skin preparation found at archaeological sites indicate that the history of Inuit clothing in the Arctic regions of North America and Greenland extends back as early as 2500 BCE?
text: Did you know that Brian Altman is the only player in World Poker Tour history to win the same event twice?
text: Did you know that in the Chinese erotic novella The Lord of Perfect Satisfaction , Empress Wu Zetian has a virgin lover whose penis is compared with snails and earthworms ?
text: Did you know that the first Black woman to receive tenure in Kent State University 's College of Arts & Sciences, Angela Neal-Barnett , emphasizes social support between Black women as "an indigenous form of healing"?
text: Did you know that the pineapple on the flag of the Cayman Islands alludes to the territory's historic connection with Jamaica, whose coat of arms features five pineapples?
text: Did you know that Robert Jones wrote the first book about figure skating in 1772?
text: Did you know that the Nooth apparatus , originally invented to produce carbonated water , was later repurposed for administering anaesthetic drugs ?
text: Did you know that Linnéstaty , a sculpture created by Swedish sculptor Gerda Sprinchorn , was raised as a public monument 40 years after its completion?
text: Did you know that the Latin American travesti gender identity has been considered to be a third gender , akin to the hijras of India and the muxe of Mexico?
text: Did you know that Clarkson's Farm is "Diddly Squat"?
text: Did you know that the Rhodesian Independence Bell , a replica of the American Liberty Bell , was inscribed "I toll for justice, civilization and Christianity"?
text: Did you know that South African American-football kicker Ryan Pretorius wore cleats two sizes too small at Ohio State to simulate kicking barefoot?
text: Did you know that although Dmitri Shostakovich initially dismissed his own Piano Sonata No. 2 as a "trifle, something impromptu", he would later consider it his most important piano composition?
text: Did you know that Peter Clavelle did not face either a Republican or a Democratic opponent in the 1991 Burlington mayoral election ?
text: Did you know that María Teresa Sesé wrote 500 romance novels in her native Spanish , then wrote several books in Basque after studying the language for two years?
text: Did you know that the current Indonesian ambassador to Nigeria, Usra Hendra Harahap , personally led a rescue operation to free Indonesian crew members taken hostage by pirates in June 2020?
text: Did you know that leopards live in the forest in Turkey ?
text: Did you know that future cantor David Werdyger was saved from a Nazi firing squad when he sang the Jewish prayer for the dead ?
text: Did you know that Kanfei Nesharim Street is long and wide and straight like a runway , because it was originally built as one?
text: Did you know that in 1975 Time named Schwester Selma , head nurse at the Shaare Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem, one of the world's "living saints", alongside Mother Teresa and Sister Annie ?
text: Did you know that the Diaspora Yeshiva Band infused rock and bluegrass with Jewish lyrics, creating a music style it called "Hasidic rock" or "Country and Eastern"?
text: Did you know that Topol , who won a Golden Globe for his performance as Tevye in the 1971 film Fiddler on the Roof , played the role in shows and revivals about 3,500 times?
text: Did you know that a verse from Psalm 85 has inspired artworks depicting the kiss of Justice and Peace?
text: Did you know that Bambi delivered more than 35,000 babies?
text: Did you know that the third Wanamaker expedition , led by Joseph K. Dixon , travelled at least 20,000 miles (32,000 km) and visited 89 Native American tribes ?
text: Did you know that Laura Robinson invented Canada's best-selling board game before becoming a successful actress and television producer?
text: Did you know that some species of bacteria in the genus Alkalihalobacillus live in hypersaline lakes while others are added to laundry detergent ?
text: Did you know that music theorist Philip Ewell received "anti-Black statements and personal ad hominem attacks" following his claim that Western music theory is shaped by a "white racial frame"?
text: Did you know that Murray Dowey was a clerk and typist for the Toronto Transit Commission before being the goaltender for Canada's gold-medal-winning hockey team at the 1948 Winter Olympics ?
text: Did you know that the Walter Bean Grand River Trail was named after Walter Bean, who created the idea of a continuous trail through the Waterloo region ?
text: Did you know that Toman helped popularize genderless fashion in Japan ?
text: Did you know that the first use of Je me souviens , the official motto of Quebec, was on a wall of the province's parliament building ?
text: Did you know that St. Nikolaus von Flüe , the first Catholic church in Wörsdorf, was consecrated in 1962?
text: Did you know that John Mercer Johnson , a Father of Canadian Confederation , entertained the public and members of the London Conference of 1866 with poetry readings and ice-skating performances?
text: Did you know that British general Charles Bertie Prowse was killed while leading his brigade in an attack during the first day on the Somme , 105 years ago today?
text: Did you know that following a career-ending injury while playing Australian rules football , Justin Clarke became a Rhodes scholar in 2021?
text: Did you know that the song " Canadian Idiot " satirizes American xenophobia ?
text: Did you know that pitchers are cheating in baseball with a glue invented for strongmen to hold Atlas balls?
text: Did you know that in times of food scarcity, the collared sand anemone may consume the symbiotic zooxanthellae in its tissues?
text: Did you know that Kata Wéber moved to Berlin to write the play that would become Pieces of a Woman to avoid her husband , who had encouraged her to write it after finding her personal notes?
text: Did you know that William E. Woods took three same-sex couples to fill out marriage licenses in 1990, beginning a series of events that would lead to the legalization of same-sex marriage in the United States ?
text: Did you know that the fossil horsetail Equisetum similkamense has been found in only two places, both in British Columbia?
text: Did you know that Ira F. M. Butler was Speaker of the House of Representatives in the last session of the Oregon Territorial Legislature prior to statehood?
text: Did you know that in San Diego , you can get a steak dinner made by a bear ?
text: Did you know that judoka Loretta Doyle found out that she was pregnant during pre–Olympic selection medical checks?
text: Did you know that William Trench, 5th Earl of Clancarty , had eight children, three of whom also became earls of Clancarty?
text: Did you know that the Taliban secured victory in the Battle of Lashkargah soon after suicide–car-bombing the police headquarters, a crucial chokepoint of the city's defense?
text: Did you know that sensors suggest that Lorraine Lambert 's new bra has improved her chances of winning a Paralympic medal for shooting?
text: Did you know that in his 1683 work Qingzhen Zhinan , Chinese Islamic scholar Ma Zhu recommended the "official persecution" of Sufis ?
text: Did you know that Dayak journalist Tjilik Riwut led the first Indonesian Air Force airborne operation in 1947?
text: Did you know that a Viking ship sailed to Brazil?
text: Did you know that a 2020 congressional election in New York had a sticky problem?
text: Did you know that refugee swimmer Abbas Karimi , who competed at the 2020 Summer Paralympics , has won national championships in Afghanistan, Turkey and the US?
text: Did you know that during the Fall of Herat a United Nations office in Herat was attacked, killing a security guard?
text: Did you know that the world record for the greatest weight supported by a brick bridge was broken on the French version of Lego Masters ?
text: Did you know that Mary Cutts was told that her memoir on Dolley Madison needed more emphasis on "important men and masculine subjects"?
text: Did you know that S. Isaac, Campbell & Company , a British firm, was a major supplier of arms to the Confederacy during the American Civil War ?
text: Did you know that French king Louis XVI appointed Benjamin Franklin to head the Royal Commission on Animal Magnetism ?
text: Did you know that poet Trina de Moya was the first Dominican presidential wife to be called first lady ?
text: Did you know that when Paralympian Issy Bailey was in Stoke Mandeville Hospital , she had so many injuries that taking up shooting seemed to be the best option?
text: Did you know that the Zuijin Teiki Emaki , a 13th-century Japanese painted handscroll , presents nine equestrian portraits of some of the Imperial Guards who protected the Daijō Tennō ?
text: Did you know that Nova Iriansyah , the governor of Aceh , was expelled from elementary school as a child?
text: Did you know that when the 68-story Metropolitan Tower in New York City was being built, its developer was forced to stop marketing it as a 78-story building?
text: Did you know that Kangmei Pharmaceutical 's financial fraud was initially described as an "accounting error"?
text: Did you know that William McAndrew , the superintendent of Chicago Public Schools , was accused of being an agent of George V , King of the United Kingdom ?
text: Did you know that Yoko Ono 's song " Beautiful Boys " incorporates sound effects from the first Star Wars film ?
text: Did you know that coins issued by Baalshillem II , the Phoenician king of Sidon , were the first Sidonian coins to bear minting dates corresponding to the king's year of reign?
text: Did you know that the Dalai Lama 's 2008 Memorandum on Genuine Autonomy was a proposal aiming for autonomy rather than full independence for Tibet ?
text: Did you know that Research Policy is regarded as the leading journal in the field of innovation studies ?
text: Did you know that the card game Comet , originally called Manille , was renamed in 1682 after the appearance of Halley's Comet ?
text: Did you know that British brigadier Victor Jaques was almost killed by friendly fire from an American aircraft in Bangkok in 1945?
text: Did you know that Chuck Mosley described the distinctive singing style used throughout his career as "screaming to the beat, like ranting"?
text: Did you know that Alia Issa , the first woman competitor to enter during the 2020 Paralympics opening ceremony, is the first female refugee to compete at any Paralympic Games ?
text: Did you know that the world's 82 million refugees will be represented at the 2020 Summer Paralympics by the Refugee Paralympic Team ?
text: Did you know that George Orwell said of Mairin Mitchell 's Storm over Spain (1937) that it was "written by a Catholic, but very sympathetic to the Spanish Anarchists "?
text: Did you know that the W71 nuclear warhead had a tamper made of gold?
text: Did you know that Theodore Roosevelt sent National Baptist Convention president Elias Camp Morris to investigate atrocities committed in the Congo Free State ?
text: Did you know that Brachystelma tumakurense 's stem is so weak that it sometimes bends under the weight of leaves and flowers?
text: Did you know that Tonic Immobility 's "pure, undiluted chaos" is "an escape from the realities of the world"?
text: Did you know that after Thomas Doughty was sentenced to death by Francis Drake , the two men dined and received communion together just before Doughty's execution?
text: Did you know that particle physicist Arden Warner invented a magnetism-based method for cleaning up oil spills?
text: Did you know that thousands of political prisoners in Indonesia were interned in the Waeapo River valley in Buru ?
text: Did you know that Linda Watson , a dramatic soprano born in San Francisco who made a career in Europe, is proud of a Grammy nomination for Wagner's Ring cycle with her as Brünnhilde?
text: Did you know that after appointing the Gavrilița Cabinet , Moldova is only one of two republics in the world where the non-collective head of state and head of government are both currently women ?
text: Did you know that Natalie Simanowski began her "second life" as a Paralympian cyclist after being attacked by someone described as a " psychopath "?
text: Did you know that Bicellariella ciliata , Crisularia plumosa , Bugulina flabellata and Bugulina turbinata form part of a bryozoan "turf" on steep or vertical rock exposed to moderate water movement?
text: Did you know that Rosa Egipcíaca was the first black woman in Brazil to write a book?
text: Did you know that Raymond Hood designed the American Radiator Building with a black-and-gold facade because he thought that other buildings' windows looked like waffles?
text: Did you know that Kylie Minogue 's seventh studio album, Light Years , was her first number-one album in her native Australia ?
text: Did you know that the HSBC Tower was the largest structure to be constructed in its vicinity since the Empire State Building fifty years earlier?
text: Did you know that dyadic rationals , fractions based on powers of two, can be easier to work with than other kinds of fractions for both schoolchildren and computers?
text: Did you know that three high-ranking officers of USRC Robert McClelland remained with the ship after it surrendered and entered Confederate service?
text: Did you know that the Russian wheelchair fencer Ksenia Ovsyannikova toured the United States on a "mission for inclusion" in 2017?
text: Did you know that while writing Scary Stories for Young Foxes , Christian McKay Heidicker , under his agent's advice, "added a snuggle for every snarl"?
text: Did you know that Johannes Schott of Strasbourg took over the printing company of his father, Martin Schott , in around 1500, and printed texts by Protestant reformers such as Ulrich von Hutten and Martin Luther ?
text: Did you know that Presidential Ballots, 1836–1892 was reviewed by Richard P. McCormick , who wrote that it "should stimulate a host of studies in the little-explored field of American political behavior"?
text: Did you know that Rock Demers was spurred to make The Dog Who Stopped the War after reading an article on youth suicide ?
text: Did you know that soaking a paper banknote in 50% (v/v) alcohol fuel can create a fireproof banknote ?
text: Did you know that after the 2001 fall of Kabul , young men lined up to have their beards shaved off?
text: Did you know that Coral Bell believed that Ric Throssell had tried unsuccessfully to recruit her as a Soviet spy in Canberra ?
text: Did you know that the Land of Lost Content contains bluebirds from the Blue Bird Toffee factory gates, tickets from the first National Lottery draw and a Sinclair C5 ?
text: Did you know that Erich Witte was the first performer of the title role of Britten's Peter Grimes in Berlin?
text: Did you know that the SS Alpena , currently the oldest active steamship on the Great Lakes , was shortened by 120 feet (37 m) in 1991?
text: Did you know that the over 349,000 signatures collected in favour of the Expropriate Deutsche Wohnen & Co. initiative set a new record for the number of signatures collected for a Berlin referendum?
text: Did you know that wheelchair racer Nathan Maguire , who is scheduled to compete at the 2020 Summer Paralympics , appeared on a British gameshow with his partner in 2020?
text: Did you know that Operation Hectic , an operation planned by the Rhodesian security forces to assassinate Robert Mugabe, was called off three hours before it was due to start?
text: Did you know that Sigismund III transferred Poland's capital from Kraków to Warsaw in 1596?
text: Did you know that during the 2013 Nutellagate controversy, students at Columbia University were accused of costing the university $5,000 in dining hall Nutella per week?
text: Did you know that as general director of the Grand Theatre in Łódź , bass singer Kazimierz Kowalski led a worldwide television broadcast of Moniuszko's The Haunted Manor ?
text: Did you know that two school districts in Kentucky protested against a statewide mandate to hang a copy of the United States national motto by showing oversized $1 bills and 1¢ coins , which contain the motto?
text: Did you know that the death of Uyghur writer Nurmuhemmet Tohti has been linked to mistreatment in the Xinjiang internment camps , a claim China denies?
text: Did you know that New York City's James B. Duke House was modeled after a French chateau and designed by an architect who did not have a formal architectural education?
text: Did you know that Dr. Jodie Lewis led a team of students from the University of Worcester and volunteer archaeologists in excavating the first timber circle discovered in Somerset ?
text: Did you know that while Bubsy 3D is often labeled as one of the worst video games of all time , it had a positive to mixed reception around its initial release?
text: Did you know that you could travel with stuffed animals on the Asahiyama Zoo KiHa 183 series train service?
text: Did you know that Zaranj was the first Afghan provincial capital to be captured by the Taliban since the Battle of Kunduz in 2016?
text: Did you know that it took more than a decade for Michael M. Thomas to secure a publisher for his eighth novel, which was rejected by approximately 25 publishing houses?
text: Did you know that the 2014-built ERV Nene Hatun is Turkey's first emergency response vessel?
text: Did you know that prosecutors who worked to convict Kevin Strickland in 1979 now say they believe him to be innocent?
text: Did you know that the freshwater leech Haemopis sanguisuga sometimes emerges from the water to hunt for earthworms?
text: Did you know that before she was elected to the Parliament of Armenia, Maria Karapetyan spray-painted political graffiti on the streets of Yerevan in support of Nikol Pashinyan ?
text: Did you know that Chinese biblical scholar Zhu Weizhi believed that Jesus was a proletarian ?
text: Did you know that limonene , a compound found in orange peels, can cause balloon popping based on the "like dissolves like" principle?
text: Did you know that it took over a decade for Michael M. Thomas to secure a publisher for his eighth novel, which was rejected by approximately 25 publishing houses?
text: Did you know that on Quebec 's maps, the land border with Newfoundland and Labrador must have a separate symbol in the map's legend from other interprovincial boundaries?
text: Did you know that Shirley Chiang captured the first image of individual benzene molecules?
text: Did you know that although Steinitz's theorem is commonly used to describe convex polyhedra using graph theory , its original formulation did not use graphs?
text: Did you know that Robert McLean served as a missionary in Chile for six years before moving to Oregon , where he founded two churches and was elected to the state legislature?
text: Did you know that Philip Rusher patented a paper-saving typeface with no descenders in 1802, but only a few books ever used it?
text: Did you know that Fred Marples felt it was the duty of all Canadians to ensure the strongest possible national team at the Olympics?
text: Did you know that Basilico's , an Italian restaurant in Huntington Beach, California , does not admit diners who are either masked or vaccinated against COVID-19 ?
text: Did you know that in Why Marx Was Right , author Terry Eagleton aims to refute ten common objections to Marxism ?
text: Did you know that Ng Yu Zhi owned the only Pagani Huayra in Singapore?
text: Did you know that the melody of " Nimm, o Gott, die Gaben, die wir bringen ", an offertory hymn written in 2009, is taken from Andrew Lloyd Webber's Jesus Christ Superstar ?
text: Did you know that the foraminiferan Marginopora vertebralis releases its embryos by means of a surprisingly complex behaviour for a single-celled organism?
text: Did you know that Thomas Earle had his slave-ship Annabella seized by the British Crown , not for slave trading, but for slave trading with the enemy?
text: Did you know that Konbaung-dynasty general U Din Kyaw Khaung was the only warrior said to have continued fighting after his death?
text: Did you know that the Chestnut Centre was the first place in the UK where giant otters were successfully bred in captivity?
text: Did you know that Australian soprano Ada Baker toured India and China before becoming a singing teacher in Perth in 1889?
text: Did you know that 537 Votes , documenting the controversial 2000 United States presidential election in Florida , was released in the run-up to the 2020 United States presidential election ?
text: Did you know that Paralympian Gemma Collis-McCann , who sits on wheelchair fencing 's new Gender Equity Commission, has been chosen to join three men as the UK's wheelchair fencing team in Tokyo ?
text: Did you know that the Port of Krueng Geukueh in Aceh , Indonesia, became an entry point for aid shipments as it was not damaged by the 2004 tsunami ?
text: Did you know that one of Hong Kong YouTuber Mama Cheung 's most viewed videos shows her using a rice cooker to bake a cake?
text: Did you know that Rukhshana Media is named after a young woman called Rukhshana who was stoned to death in Afghanistan in 2015?
text: Did you know that in 1985, Captain Dale Snodgrass was chosen as "Fighter Pilot of the Year" and was called the real "Maverick" from Top Gun ?
text: Did you know that there are no trees around Lake Letsie , since its entire catchment area is above the tree line ?
text: Did you know that Carl Cotton was the first black taxidermist to work at the Field Museum of Natural History after being hired in 1947?
text: Did you know that John Lennon and Yoko Ono recorded Ono's song " Remember Love " in a Montreal hotel room that has been a tourist draw ever since?
text: Did you know that radio station KCON in Conway, Arkansas , shut down twice on March 10?
text: Did you know that the manufacturers of Hedgehog Flavour Crisps were taken to court under the Trade Descriptions Act as they did not contain actual hedgehog?
text: Did you know that the Kurdish-Armenian politician Knyaz Hasanov chaired the Armenian Parliament in 2017 and 2021?
text: Did you know that during the Edo period , commoners used semi-cursive script while scholars used regular script ?
text: Did you know that Aisha de Sequeira led Morgan Stanley 's mergers and acquisitions in India when it was the top bank by the value of its deals in 2012?
text: Did you know that President Theodore Roosevelt described the declining birthrate of the United States as a form of "race suicide", citing a term coined by eugenicist Edward Alsworth Ross ?
text: Did you know that David Ahl purchased BASIC-8 to sell with the PDP-8 when DEC management proved more interested in their own FOCAL language?
text: Did you know that although Pixie Davies has been performing in films since 2012, her breakout role came in Disney 's Mary Poppins Returns in 2018?
text: Did you know that according to local legend, Piers Shonks , whose tomb can be seen in the Brent Pelham church, killed a dragon ravaging the district?
text: Did you know that technical standard NZS 3604 is used to design and construct about 93 per cent of New Zealand's light timber-framed buildings?
text: Did you know that Geoffrey Guy 's company GW Pharmaceuticals was the first to obtain regulatory approval for a medicine based on cannabis ?
text: Did you know that University of Toronto professor Hermann Boeschenstein published two novels during his lifetime, 56 years apart?
text: Did you know that the black-and-red broadbill lays eggs in three color morphs ?
text: Did you know that Donald Mastick accidentally swallowed plutonium in August 1944, and his breath became radioactive?
text: Did you know that the finale of Beethoven 's Piano Sonata No. 31 sees a gradual "return to life" and ends with a "passionate" and "heroic" coda ?
text: Did you know that Phyllis Le Cappelaine Burke helped found the Sydney chapter of the St. Joan Social and Political Alliance, which advocated for equal rights for women?
text: Did you know that films from the Long Bow Trilogy depict the same village and villagers mentioned in Fanshen ?
text: Did you know that a willow maze in Sussex, England, planted in the shape of a quotation from the Bible in the 1990s, only came to wider notice when it was spotted on Google Earth in 2013?
text: Did you know that mathematician Gunilla Kreiss , the daughter of Heinz-Otto Kreiss , later became his granddaughter ?
text: Did you know that the Dragos Gemelos are two entwined dragon trees said to represent twin brothers who dueled for the love of a woman?
text: Did you know that Miao Poya successfully campaigned to change her high school's uniform policy before becoming one of the first Taipei city councillors to be openly lesbian ?
text: Did you know  that due to shortages, American supply in the Siegfried Line campaign made use of thousands of rounds of captured ammunition?
text: Did you know that the Australian case Bradley v Commonwealth held that it was unlawful to unilaterally cut off telephones to a Rhodesian information office?
text: Did you know that Louis Hempelmann wrote a paper in 1949 that warned of the dangers of shoe stores using fluoroscopes to measure the size of children's feet?
text: Did you know that Royal Engineers officer Leslie Innes Jacques received the Military Cross for constructing a bridge under heavy fire during the Hundred Days Offensive in 1918?
text: Did you know that the budget process in the United States Senate often ends in a vote-a-rama ?
text: Did you know that Maki Kaji formulated the name " Sudoku " while scrambling to get to a horse race?
text: Did you know that New Zealand writer Jessie Weston wrote for William Ernest Henley 's magazine for 18 months without him knowing she was a woman?
text: Did you know that Giedrė Šlekytė conducted a version of Mozart's Die Zauberflöte for children at the 2018 Salzburg Festival , and Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmélites at the Oper Frankfurt in 2021?
text: Did you know that your attention can be stolen ?
text: Did you know that Eli Bebout , a future Speaker of the Wyoming House of Representatives , was first elected as a write-in candidate ?
text: Did you know that the 1959 song " Go, Jimmy, Go " by Jimmy Clanton was originally offered to Bobby Rydell with the title "Go, Bobby, Go"?
text: Did you know that police negotiator Max Vernon told the actor portraying him in 6 Days that "you've been wrongly cast. You're two inches shorter than me and I have more hair"?
text: Did you know that Diving With a Purpose , a nonprofit focused on maritime archaeology , helped identify and document the wreck of the 18th-century Portuguese slave ship São José Paquete Africa ?
text: Did you know that the Q contains a drawing of "a buff Ned Flanders from The Simpsons with protruding nipples"?
text: Did you know that plant biology professor Luca Comai independently developed glyphosate -resistant plants while working at Calgene and published his research before Monsanto researchers were able to?
text: Did you know that Zollstock , a district of Cologne , takes its name from a local tollhouse ?
text: Did you know that Bridget Burgess 's mother Sarah once changed all four tires during a pit stop by herself?
text: Did you know that Zheng Kai first lost weight and then gained 20 kilograms (44 lb) for his role in Never Stop ?
text: Did you know that the composer Francis Burt , who came from London and settled in Vienna, was inspired by the drumming of the Nigerian Ibo people ?
text: Did you know that in 1952 meteorologist Harry Volkman delivered the first on-air tornado warning on Oklahoma City's WKY-TV , in defiance of a federal ban on the practice?
text: Did you know that Pierre Kaufmann helped install the first radio telescope in Brazil, which was later destroyed by cows?
text: Did you know that Kanye West recorded a music video for " RoboCop " that casts his ex-girlfriend Amber Rose as a robot?
text: Did you know that American physician and marathon runner Joan Ullyot was one of the key figures in successfully lobbying for a women’s marathon in the Olympic Games ?
text: Did you know that in addition to running Bangkok's first power station, the Siam Electricity Company also operated half the city's tram lines and a fire brigade?
text: Did you know that Yasin Zia , while Chief of General Staff of Afghanistan, personally led government forces against the Taliban on the edge of Mihtarlam , 120 km (75 mi) from Kabul ?
text: Did you know that Kulgoa was the largest wooden ferry to serve on Sydney Harbour ?
text: Did you know that Louise Heims Beck co-founded the American Theatre Wing and was responsible for overseeing the organization of the 1st Tony Awards ?
text: Did you know that the Punch Bowl Inn in Lancashire was reputed to be haunted by the ghost of a highwayman?
text: Did you know that when King Hugh III of Cyprus tried to force a marriage on his vassal, Lady Isabella of Beirut , the Egyptian sultan Baibars declared himself her protector?
text: Did you know that Queen of Peace Cemetery opened early because Cemetery of the Holy Rood filled up due to the COVID-19 pandemic ?
text: Did you know that architect Robert Marquis believed that architecture should meet "the users' spiritual and psychological needs" in addition to being functional?
text: Did you know that the Qing-dynasty erotic novel Shenlou zhi has been called "the earliest novel by far" to describe the opium trade in China?
text: Did you know that Scott Lee Kimball killed three of his four known victims while he was working as an FBI informant?
text: Did you know that Yoko Ono considered her 1971 song " Listen, the Snow Is Falling " to be the first pop song she ever wrote?
text: Did you know that the Australian rugby sevens player Dietrich Roache kept the Australian national sprint champion out of the Australian Olympic team with his speed?
text: Did you know that Steve Carell insisted his chest genuinely be waxed in a scene in The 40-Year-Old Virgin , which was recorded in a single take?
text: Did you know that the mayor of Málaga , Pedro Aparicio Sánchez , spent the night of the 1981 Spanish coup d'état attempt in his office so he could die there if he was targeted?
text: Did you know that although its publisher Dark Horse Comics is American, a significant proportion of artists involved with the comic book series The Witcher have been Polish?
text: Did you know that Vera Schoenenberg 's performance in the title role of Kálmán's Die Csárdásfürstin at the Mörbisch Lake Festival was broadcast by German and Austrian stations?
text: Did you know that Yoko Ono took the first verse of her 1970 song " Who Has Seen the Wind? " from a 19th century poem written by Christina Rossetti ?
text: Did you know that Alfie Oakes sued a school district for US$50 million in response to their cancelling a contract?
text: Did you know that no one knows how a dress worn by Marilyn Monroe ended up in the Payne Whitney House ?
text: Did you know that Gunhild Bergh was the second woman in Sweden to be awarded a PhD in literary history ?
text: Did you know that Tone Roads No. 1 , a composition for chamber ensemble by Charles Ives , was originally titled "Tone Roads, rough ones—good ones, bad ones, fast ones, slow ones!"?
text: Did you know that FBOY Island sets three female contestants to identify twenty-four men as either womanizers or nice guys ?
text: Did you know that Yulimar Rojas is good at jumping, but her sister Yerilda Zapata is good at throwing?
text: Did you know that an inquiry into the death of Orville Blackwood at Broadmoor Hospital in 1991 found that admissions of black people to the hospital were more likely to have police involvement?
text: Did you know that the manga series Mashima Hero's was originally titled Hero's and had its name changed to rank higher in search engine results?
text: Did you know that William Earle referred to slave traders as "Bite Men"?
text: Did you know that in Indonesian , a language featuring pronoun avoidance , a common polite way to address someone else is "father" or "mother", instead of "you"?
text: Did you know that Gottfried Hornik , a baritone at the Vienna State Opera for 25 years, appeared in his signature role of Beckmesser from Aachen and Barcelona in 1976 to the Municipal Theatre of Santiago in 2001?
text: Did you know that the Beaux-Arts Apartments never went into foreclosure despite being completed at the start of the Great Depression?
text: Did you know that Charlie N. Holmberg 's idea for The Fifth Doll began with a writing exercise to develop a system of magic for a household item?
text: Did you know that the All Time Low song " PMA " features guest vocals from Heather Baron-Gracie of the British band Pale Waves ?
text: Did you know that Song Kok Hoo was the first Asian deputy commissioner of police in Singapore?
text: Did you know that Schloss Gripsholm was dedicated by author Kurt Tucholsky to a license plate number?
text: Did you know that Kuinini Manumua is the first woman to represent Tonga in weightlifting at the Olympic Games?
text: Did you know that as the acting President of Zambia in 2014, Guy Scott became the first white leader of an African country since the end of apartheid ?
text: Did you know that Massekhet Amerika by Gerson Rosenzweig satirizes Jewish life in New York in the style of a Talmudic tractate ?
text: Did you know that three verses from Psalm 86 became part of Mendelssohn's oratorio Elijah , including the opening "Lord, bow thine ear to our pray'r"?
text: Did you know that during the 1991 Zaire unrest , 30 to 40% of all companies in Zaire were plundered, and around 70% of the country's retail businesses were destroyed?
text: Did you know that newspaper columnist Kenneth John helped found the Democratic Freedom Movement in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines?
text: Did you know that ducks frequently carried more than two and a half tons during the Siegfried Line campaign ?
text: Did you know that mezzo-soprano Margarita Gritskova was José Carreras 's partner for his farewell concert in Carnegie Hall ?
text: Did you know that the union of taxi drivers offered the residents of retirement homes free transport to the voting stations in the Slovenian Waters Act referendum ?
text: Did you know that Robert Goodsir , searching for his brother Harry , lost with the Franklin expedition in the Arctic, found the graves of three expedition members?
text: Did you know that Battlefield Vegas employees during the 2017 Las Vegas shooting drove several armored personnel carriers to Mandalay Bay to shield police officers at the request of a LVMPD sergeant?
text: Did you know that the Islamic website Askimam has been called more comprehensive, influential and wide-ranging than the web resources of al-Azhar and its sympathisers put together?
text: Did you know that professor Bronwyn Law-Viljoen became editor-in-chief of a publishing company, co-founded her own independent publishing company, and founded her own bookstore in South Africa?
text: Did you know that astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson called out Disney for an inaccurate Frozen II poster?
text: Did you know that New Zealand author Patricia Grace did not include a glossary for Māori terms in her book Potiki because she "didn't want the Māori language to be treated as a foreign language in its own country"?
text: Did you know that part of Keith Foulger 's job was to make sure the front and back ends of Britain's first nuclear submarine fitted together?
text: Did you know that seventy years after the death of his tea-planter grandfather , publisher Neville Armstrong remembered  his piercing blue eyes and large white spade beard ?
text: Did you know that the WandaVision song " Agatha All Along " was inspired by the theme songs of The Munsters and The Addams Family ?
text: Did you know that the Greek Korakou culture had two-storey buildings with internal stairs more than 4,000 years ago?
text: Did you know that the BBC programme DynaMo was created after a survey revealed parents did not want to help children with homework?
text: Did you know that Norm Michael did not know he was an NFL Draft selection until 55 years later?
text: Did you know that director Mamoru Hosoda 's original concept for his 1999 film Digimon Adventure was a story set against the backdrop of the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo?
text: Did you know that reproductive success in the lined sea hare can be reduced by noise pollution?
text: Did you know that brewer Alexander Gordon paid to build the Polhollick Bridge in Aberdeenshire in 1892 after witnessing a drowning incident at the ferry crossing?
text: Did you know that in 2016, Hurricane Pali and Hurricane Alex existed simultaneously as rare January hurricanes within the Pacific and Atlantic hurricane basins , respectively, marking the first such occurrence on record?
text: Did you know that a reviewer wrote that Florian Boesch 's 2011 recording of Winterreise with Malcolm Martineau was "one of the most powerful lieder albums of recent years"?
text: Did you know that the South Bronx Greenway includes recycled granite from the Willis Avenue Bridge ?
text: Did you know that Donald Trump had a "big smile plastered on his face" on the day the " Best Sex I've Ever Had " happened?
text: Did you know that the bamboo-filled atrium of the IBM Building was described as "New York City's peerless privately owned public space"?
text: Did you know that former British Army Commando major-general John Woollett later became a planning inspector?
text: Did you know that the 2015 video game Worlds of Magic , intended as a spiritual successor to the classic game Master of Magic , failed to impress most reviewers?
text: Did you know that of the 16 teams to enter the inaugural Scottish Cup , only Dumbarton , Kilmarnock and Queen's Park still regularly compete in the competition?
text: Did you know that the sea slug Philinopsis speciosa wraps the mucus strand containing its eggs around its head?
text: Did you know that ink wash painting was created by the Chinese in the 8th century and the technique then spread to the rest of East Asia ?
text: Did you know that when starting his business, Vincent Figgins needed help from the mysterious "Black Man"?
text: Did you know that singer-songwriter Doug Sahm was also a multi-instrumentalist who was regarded as a child prodigy playing the steel guitar?
text: Did you know that Dallas television station KDAF abandoned plans to launch a local newscast in 1994, after having already hired 20 staff, because it was to lose its Fox affiliation and be sold?
text: Did you know that Zygmunt Krasiński , one of Poland's Three Bards , published most of his works anonymously and was known as the Anonymous Poet of Poland?
text: Did you know that the Royal Dental Hospital opened the first dental school in Britain in 1859?
text: Did you know that Woodland Sketches by Edward MacDowell includes a piano piece based on the songs of the Walla Walla and Brotherton peoples?
text: Did you know that Ian Fraser Muir partly created the Muir and Barclay formula to calculate the fluid replacement needed after major burns?
text: Did you know that chef Angie Mar went from running a steakhouse to owning Three Horses ?
text: Did you know that John M. Franklin oversaw the construction of SS United States , a liner that broke the transatlantic speed record on its maiden voyage?
text: Did you know that Narciso Rodriguez for Her perfume was inspired by a bottle of Egyptian musk oil Narciso Rodriguez was given in high school?
text: Did you know that Japanese boxer Arisa Tsubata worked to prevent the spread of COVID-19 during her training for the 2020 Summer Olympics and as a nurse?
text: Did you know that the 93% Club has been described as "the reverse Bullingdon Club "?
text: Did you know that former football midfielder Marcelo Gallardo became the first River Plate player to achieve an international title as a player and a coach after leading the team to win the 2014 Copa Sudamericana ?
text: Did you know that in August 2017, Potential Tropical Cyclone Ten caused some of the worst flooding seen in western Florida in 20 years, just two weeks before Hurricane Irma struck the same region?
text: Did you know that one night in 1857 Granny gave birth to 240 offspring?
text: Did you know that journalist Al Cartwright started his career writing for The Reading Times at the age of 15?
text: Did you know that residents at the queer community known as the Tenacious Unicorn Ranch carry firearms and wear body armor while tending to their alpacas due to threats from right-wing militias ?
text: Did you know that the classicist L. D. Reynolds wrote his first publication on the birds of the Caerphilly Basin?
text: Did you know that the design of King Sombra , the villain in " The Crystal Empire ", was meant to illustrate him "as both a solid creature and a flowing mass of smoky darkness"?
text: Did you know that when Chorus Systèmes SA was founded in 1986, French technology start-up companies were rare?
text: Did you know that composer Ida Carroll played a central role in the merger of the Northern School of Music and the Royal Manchester College of Music to found the Royal Northern College of Music in 1973?
text: Did you know that Peluso implores your help?
text: Did you know that Birgitta Odén was the first female history professor in Sweden?
text: Did you know that after the death of Steven Crawford , his body was found in 1963 but was not identified until 2021?
text: Did you know that Jerome Robbins planned to have his ballet Piano Pieces be about dancers rehearsing a fictitious ballet, but changed the theme to be about the joy of dancing?
text: Did you know that despite the United States outlawing slavery in 1865 , historian Antoinette Harrell found examples of African-American families who remained enslaved through debt bondage as recently as the 1970s?
text: Did you know that in 2017, there were more than 10,000 teenage girls who performed as Japanese idols ?
text: Did you know that it was said that BBC scriptwriter Iain Pattinson 's "unique brilliance was his ability to combine the absurd with the plausible"?
text: Did you know that a fight in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode " Twilight's Kingdom " has been compared to Dragon Ball Z ?
text: Did you know that Mexican theatergoers complained that Olaf's Frozen Adventure , a short that played before the movie Coco , was too long?
text: Did you know that the English-Australian cricketer Bailey Wightman made his County debut for Kent whilst playing club cricket for Tunbridge Wells after an outbreak of COVID-19 ?
text: Did you know that Minnesota went from having more than 9,000 local government entities in 1952 to having fewer than 4,000 in 2012?
text: Did you know that Chuck McMann led the McGill Redmen football team to five playoff appearances in his six seasons as head coach?
text: Did you know that South Australia became the first place in the world to give women the right to stand for parliament due to an opponent's "great miscalculation"?
text: Did you know that while convicted fraudster Anna Sorokin was in jail, one of her visitors was Julia Garner , who will play Sorokin in the Netflix miniseries about her ?
text: Did you know that the Duke of Sussex has been providing drinks in Acton Green for over a century?
text: Did you know that Abul Kalam Qasmi translated E. M. Forster 's Aspects of the Novel into Urdu ?
text: Did you know that as part of the coronation of Mindon Min , the square yuzana around the capital was designated a sanctuary ?
text: Did you know that Francis Ingram pioneered the British slave trade at Porto-Novo ?
text: Did you know that for his composition Hallowe'en , Charles Ives supplied two sets of instructions on how to repeat the music in different tempos and dynamics ?
text: Did you know that Grace Harrison was one of two women who played in the New Zealand Ice Hockey League in 2021?
text: Did you know that My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode " The Last Crusade " introduces lesbian characters?
text: Did you know that an inscription above the 16th-century doorway of the Dame Paulet's Almshouses reads "No Domi Ni" instead of " Anno Domini " because the original was misread by a stonemason during a 1930s restoration?
text: Did you know that Western Australia was the second Australian state to legalise voluntary assisted dying ?
text: Did you know that Hayden Bridge is the oldest intact bridge in the US state of Oregon?
text: Did you know that Mika Kares returned to Finland to perform the title role of Boito's opera Mefistofele at the Savonlinna Opera Festival ?
text: Did you know that Marco van Basten 's strike in the UEFA Euro 1988 Final was described as "perhaps the most iconic goal in UEFA European Championship history"?
text: Did you know that Howell Edmunds Jackson died of tuberculosis less than two and a half years after his appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court ?
text: Did you know that when surrounded at the Battle of Oroscopa Carthaginian troops killed their horses and burnt their wooden shields to cook them?
text: Did you know that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation supports the creation of shit flow diagrams ?
text: Did you know that while Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Barrios was exiled from Nicaragua and living in Costa Rica in the 1980s, his sister Claudia was there as Nicaragua’s ambassador?
text: Did you know that Luke Prokop , an ice hockey prospect , is the first player under contract with a National Hockey League team to come out as gay?
text: Did you know that while 1271 Avenue of the Americas was being built at New York City's Rockefeller Center, Marilyn Monroe re-launched the Center's long-dormant "Sidewalk Superintendents' Club"?
text: Did you know that Serbian landowner Marija Trandafil spent a single day hungry, but she remembered the experience and became a major philanthropist in Novi Sad ?
text: Did you know that Tig Notaro replaced a cast member in Army of the Dead and was added through computer-generated imagery a year after filming had concluded?
text: Did you know that Hong Kong wushu athlete Li Fai dropped out of the 1994 Asian Games after discovering she was pregnant?
text: Did you know that an FCC hearing examiner scolded the owner of California radio station KCTY for having a "cavalier attitude" and at times being too lazy to put the station on the air?
text: Did you know that Indonesian Communist Party leader Fachrul Baraqbah was an aristocrat of the Kutai Sultanate in East Kalimantan and a descendant of Muhammad ?
text: Did you know that within a decade, KTVK in Phoenix went from being a "blot on ABC 's affiliate ledger" to a station the network only gave up reluctantly?
text: Did you know that Lisa Warrington was responsible for painting the doors of Allen Hall Theatre red?
text: Did you know that soprano Heidi Grant Murphy , who has given over 200 performances at the Met , said that becoming a singer "takes work on your psyche, your innermost being"?
text: Did you know that Leaders of the World included 20-foot-tall (6 m) horses?
text: Did you know that William Mackinder was a deep-sea fisherman and millworker before entering British politics, where he advocated for worker's rights ?
text: Did you know that the intentional balk in baseball is mostly used as a tactic to stop sign stealing ?
text: Did you know that peasant leader Medardo Mairena was the sixth aspiring presidential candidate in the 2021 Nicaraguan general election to be arrested?
text: Did you know that part of the ceiling at the 181st Street station collapsed two days after funding was allocated to repair damage from a similar collapse two years prior?
text: Did you know that a reviewer wrote that "few tenors on disc can rival the German Rainer Trost " about his 1992 performance as Ferrando in Mozart's Così fan tutte in Paris, with conductor John Eliot Gardiner ?
text: Did you know that mixed-use stadium districts around major sports venues often include public squares , office space, hotels and residential units?
text: Did you know that the freighter John Mitchell was the costliest shipwreck on the Great Lakes in 1911?
text: Did you know that instead of fighting in battle, female vassals in the Kingdom of Jerusalem were obliged to render the service of marriage to their lord by marrying one of three candidates proposed to them?
text: Did you know that Mary Dunn was reported to have had "many a free ride" in ice hockey, when men "would just lift her up and dump her elsewhere"?
text: Did you know that the costs of the great astronomical clock at Norwich Cathedral that were recorded in its Sacrist's Rolls from 1322 to 1325 provide the earliest known detailed account of clockmaking in England?
text: Did you know that Arthur J. Hill , United States Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for Housing , was one of four children of a single parent?
text: Did you know that Michel Platini scored his ninth goal of the tournament when France won the UEFA Euro 1984 Final ?
text: Did you know that " Stoned at the Nail Salon " was written by Lorde and Jack Antonoff , and features backing vocals from four other artists?
text: Did you know that the Morris–Jumel Mansion in Washington Heights, Manhattan , where the musical Hamilton was written, has been described as a haunted house ?
text: Did you know that the Swedish meteorologist Svante Odén was among the first scientists to address and publicize the problems of acid precipitation in Europe ?
text: Did you know that almost as soon as Cabaret opened, people mistakenly complained the song " Tomorrow Belongs to Me " was a genuine Nazi anthem?
text: Did you know that the Royal Hibernian Hotel is thought to be the oldest hotel in Ireland?
text: Did you know that Pierre Olaf 's portrayal of Jacquot in the 1961 Broadway musical Carnival! earned him a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical in 1962?
text: Did you know that an English army devastated Lothian in Scotland so thoroughly in 1356 that the episode became known as Burnt Candlemas ?
text: Did you know that Bernette Ford was one of the first members of the Black Creators for Children, an organization that helped promote black authors and increase diversity in children's books?
text: Did you know that The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy contains an idiosyncratic selection of topics, from "Aliens in Space" to "Rats and Mice"?
text: Did you know that Natal frontier trader James Rorke specified that he be buried under three feet (0.9 m) of concrete because he feared Zulu graverobbers?
text: Did you know that the graffiti artists hired for the video game Skitchin' were interviewed at a train station because they were too young to drive?
text: Did you know that after the Lord's Day Observance Society forced the National Sunday League to stop their Sunday lectures, they eventually regrouped to form the Sunday Lecture Society ?
text: Did you know that a Chinese ex-slave named Quintín Quintana became a successful merchant and pro-Chile leader in the War of the Pacific ?
text: Did you know that a large amount of energy in Turkey is underground and under the Black Sea ?
text: Did you know that former American Boy Scout Joe Carroll was expelled from seminary before completing his education and being ordained?
text: Did you know that the African Society of Human Genetics was established so that more human genetics and genomics research could be done by African scientists in Africa?
text: Did you know that the St Helena Local Militia led the 1840 procession of Napoleon's body after its disinterment from his tomb on the island ?
text: Did you know that the McDonald's promotion campaign for the 1984 Olympic Games was given an unexpected boost by the Cold War?
text: Did you know that an entrance to one of the Villard Houses was turned into an exit because it was too close to a chapel of St. Patrick's Cathedral ?
text: Did you know that Hoagy Carmichael 's song  " Stardust " has been recorded more than 1,500 times?
text: Did you know that although the Germans boasted that they captured British radio traffic with ease, the Wireless Set Number 10 was so secure that they never even knew of its existence?
text: Did you know that after starting Los Angeles Spanish-language television station KVEA , a group led by Saul Steinberg bought other Spanish-language stations to form the Telemundo network?
text: Did you know that Murray Koster started for the Sharks rugby team against the British and Irish Lions, paired with Werner Kok?
text: Did you know that the church cantata Gelobet sei der Herr täglich (Praised be the Lord daily) by Philipp Heinrich Erlebach for four voices and strings is extant in a manuscript score from around 1710?
text: Did you know that Kevin Kopps reworked his pitching delivery based on how he played fetch with his dog?
text: Did you know that the construction of 666 Fifth Avenue involved cartoon decorations, a papier-mâché Santa Claus, and a 78-by-155-foot (24 by 47 m) American flag that ripped as it was being unfurled?
text: Did you know that Blanche Zacharie de Baralt was the University of Havana 's first woman philosophy graduate and the first person to translate Tagore 's poems into Spanish?
text: Did you know that the volcano Eifuku produces bubbles of liquid carbon dioxide underwater?
text: Did you know that the construction of WaHu Student Apartments was delayed for one year by Minneapolis 's initial rejection of a new location for the blood plasma donation center on the property?
text: Did you know that the fictional battle Operation Yashima, displayed in the Neon Genesis Evangelion episode "Rei II" , inspired a real unofficial campaign in Japan to conserve electricity after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami ?
text: Did you know that the small Pacific island nation of Tonga, represented by its satellite company Tongasat , claimed nine percent of all viable satellite orbits and became the sixth-largest holder of those orbits?
text: Did you know that Ralph Fisher bought enslaved people with brass ?
text: Did you know that psychologist Janis Sanchez-Hucles was only the second person of color to earn a PhD in psychology from the University of North Carolina ?
text: Did you know that the Pomme d'Or Hotel was used as the Nazi naval headquarters during the occupation of Jersey, and the Union Jack is raised on the hotel balcony every year to celebrate Jersey's liberation?
text: Did you know that Philip Kreyenbroek taught Iranian studies at the University of Göttingen due to his interest in Yazidi traditions and the fact that about half of the Yazidi diaspora lived in Germany at the time?
text: Did you know that Lynde Shores Conservation Area is an important resting point for shorebirds and waterfowl migrating along Lake Ontario ?
text: Did you know that Buffalo, New York , was a terminus on the Underground Railroad ?
text: Did you know that Tatjana Gamerith and her husband, married for 60 years despite an age difference of 20 years, were awarded a prize for their work to combine art and nature?
text: Did you know that in June 2021, scientists described " Dragon Man ", a member of a new species of archaic human that lived at least 146,000 years ago on the Northeast China Plain ?
text: Did you know that George Curtis played football for a Royal Air Force base during his time as a Coventry City player, but he "scarcely broke sweat"?
text: Did you know that James Benning 's 1995 experimental documentary film Deseret chronicles 140 years of the history of Utah by way of 93 New York Times excerpts?
text: Did you know that the heavy metal musician Leah has sometimes been called "the metal Enya "?
text: Did you know that Indian doctor Nasarvanji Hormusji Choksy , who worked to improve public health, contracted bubonic plague three times?
text: Did you know that, in a 2018 survey of 38 news organizations, the Palmer Report was ranked the fourth-least trusted news organization by Americans?
text: Did you know that the newly founded Family First Party has access to the former Family First Party 's database of 6,000 supporters, according to The Australian ?
text: Did you know that war erupted in 2019 over a fried chicken sandwich?
text: Did you know that the Merchant was the first iron-hulled merchant ship built on the Great Lakes ?
text: Did you know that Olympic baseball player Édgar Arredondo set a record for the youngest debut in the Mexican League ?
text: Did you know that in exchange for building its New York City headquarters , Goldman Sachs received $1.65 billion in bonds and $115 million in tax breaks?
text: Did you know that the video game Omori came out in December 2020, instead of its initial projected release date of May 2015?
text: Did you know that historian Norman K. Risjord worked in counter-intelligence in Berlin before he obtained his PhD and pursued a career in American history?
text: Did you know that in Inferno , an opera by Lucia Ronchetti premiered in 2021 at the Oper Frankfurt , the main character Dante has a speaking voice and an inner voice of four male singers?
text: Did you know that the Tampa Bay area of Florida is known as the "capital of death metal" due to the number of bands within the Florida death metal scene which hail from there?
text: Did you know that Colonel Dyck served in the Rhodesian and Zimbabwean armies before fighting as a mercenary in Mozambique in 2021 aged 77?
text: Did you know that in the early 2000s, the only settlement in East Timor with 24-hour electricity was its capital city Dili ?
text: Did you know that the frequently plagiarized poems " Candidate for a Pullet Surprise " and " A Grandchild's Guide to Using Grandpa's Computer " are often cited in discussions of internet publishing ethics?
text: Did you know that the Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind divided into two factions in March 2008 due to differences between Arshad Madani and his nephew Mahmood Madani ?
text: Did you know that Kris Kristofferson 's debut album, Kristofferson , was reissued with the title Me and Bobby McGee following the success of Janis Joplin 's version of the song ?
text: Did you know that Czech television reporter and author Vladimír Škutina was arrested and imprisoned twice for his use of political satire ?
text: Did you know that during neo-Nazi David Duke 's presidential campaign he was convicted, yelled at Jack Kemp , won a vice-presidential primary, switched parties, and had two running mates?
text: Did you know that Muhammad Ali Mungeri was the prime founder of Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama , a major Islamic seminary in India?
text: Did you know that the neofolk album The Lone Furrow features several guest vocalists from heavy metal bands, and critics thought it might appeal to fans of that genre?
text: Did you know that a book detailing the short life of Indian actress Meena Kumari was published just seven months after her death in 1972?
text: Did you know that rhythmic gymnast Isabelle Connor is the first UC Santa Cruz student to compete at the Olympics ?
text: Did you know that the Black Sea seaside resort of Karaburun features a lighthouse built in 1860 with decorative lion heads around its original copper dome?
text: Did you know that a cartoonist founded the Jim Thorpe Trophy that was awarded annually to the most valuable player of the National Football League ?
text: Did you know that Leeds industrialist William Gott was charged with nuisance when his factory's steam engine produced "noisome and unwholesome smokes and vapours"?
text: Did you know that Danish dairy farmer Hanne Nielsen created a Tilsit cheese for King Christian IX of Denmark ?
text: Did you know that South Carolina radio station WBAW received a Peabody Award for public-service programming just six months after signing on the air?
text: Did you know that Jack G. Downing , the only person to serve as CIA station chief in Moscow and Beijing, "read Chinese poetry for kicks"?
text: Did you know that according to campus legend, the English Building at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is haunted by the ghost of a female student who drowned in the building's pool?
text: Did you know that Andreas Schnider , a theologian and local Austrian People's Party leader from Graz, holds a leading role in Austria's teacher training ?
text: Did you know that the range of freshwater snail Beddomeia waterhouseae consists merely of a small tributary in Tasmania?
text: Did you know that at the time the post was abolished, the prime minister of Zambia was being paid less than his secretary?
text: Did you know that the title of the album Red by Taylor Swift refers to the tumultuous "red" emotions that were evoked from an unhealthy romance she was experiencing during the album's conception?
text: Did you know that Donald R. Morris wrote most of The Washing of the Spears , his history of the Anglo-Zulu War , during a five-year CIA posting to Berlin at the time of the construction of the Berlin Wall ?
text: Did you know that the equipment situation for the National Pacification Army was so poor that some soldiers were armed with spears instead of guns?
text: Did you know that British modern pentathlete Jo Muir qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics despite missing the last qualification event due to COVID-19 –related travel restrictions?
text: Did you know that the short-lived Socialist Soviet Republic of Lithuania and Belorussia had a Yiddish-language state theatre?
text: Did you know that Fallout was considered a risky project by developer Interplay Entertainment and was threatened with cancellation three times?
text: Did you know that KICU-TV in Visalia, California , claimed to be the most powerful TV station west of the Mississippi River after a transmitter upgrade—and closed for good two years later?
text: Did you know that Eliza Kennedy Smith 's investigations of municipal corruption in Pittsburgh led to the mayor 's arrest and imprisonment?
text: Did you know that West Germany won their second UEFA European Championship in three editions when they defeated Belgium in the UEFA Euro 1980 Final ?
text: Did you know that stamp collecting gave Johnny Van Haeften the eye for detail that is essential in dealing in old master Dutch paintings?
text: Did you know that author, poet and Arabian horse breeder Wilfrid Scawen Blunt chose to be buried without a coffin at his house, Newbuildings Place ?
text: Did you know that US Air Force general John W. White commanded the Iceland Defense Force ?
text: Did you know that the pulpit of St George's Church, Edinburgh , was 20 ft (6.1 m) tall?
text: Did you know that suffragette Lilian Staple Mead was the only female student ever at Adelaide's Prince Alfred College ?
text: Did you know that Surinamese country singer Lex Rijger was originally a basketball player?
text: Did you know that Intervilles is a French game show in which contestants can get gored by bulls?
text: Did you know that the conductor Im Won-sik is considered the "father of Korea's classical music world"?
text: Did you know that the book Sinews of Survival by Canadian ethnologist Betty Kobayashi Issenman was described on release as "a cardinal reference in the field"?
text: Did you know that PopCap Games aided in publishing Insaniquarium after the game became a finalist for the Independent Games Festival ?
text: Did you know that as a youth, Hartlepool United player Brad Walker would travel the 12-mile (19 km) round trip to the club on his bicycle?
text: Did you know that when a tree is a star , connecting its leaves in a cycle makes a wheel ?
text: Did you know that bluegrass musician Carroll Best is credited for developing a melodic three-finger banjo style that influenced Tony Trischka and Béla Fleck ?
text: Did you know that the British South Africa Police's Black Boots support unit were dubbed "terr hungry" for apparently enjoying killing suspected terrorists in Rhodesia?
text: Did you know that Eshmunazar I , the Phoenician king of Sidon , participated in the Neo-Babylonian campaigns against Egypt , where he seized stone sarcophagi belonging to members of the Egyptian elite?
text: Did you know that Regine Velasquez , a Filipino singer and actress, was the first Asian artist to stage a solo concert at the Carnegie Hall in New York City ?
text: Did you know that Tetris Holding won an injunction in 2012 to stop sales of a video game clone of their famed Tetris game?
text: Did you know that artist Roy Beddington illustrated three books with Irish author Stephen Gwynn and competed in the painting event at the 1948 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that an inquiry from an engineering student led to the repair of a structural flaw at New York City's Citicorp Center ?
text: Did you know that at George Floyd 's funeral, a montage mistakenly included a photograph of the still-living former American football player George Floyd ?
text: Did you know that Crewe Alexandra finished last in the Football League eight times between 1894 and 1982, more than any other league club?
text: Did you know that Vikram Misri was the Indian ambassador to China during the 2020–2021 China–India skirmishes ?
text: Did you know that the intricate seal of Columbia University was the first instance in which both Greek and Latin appeared on a college or university seal?
text: Did you know that John Matthews 's pension was suspended because he was accused of leading a call for a theatre performance to play " Yankee Doodle " and " Hail, Columbia "?
text: Did you know that the Elazığ Girls' Institute was established in 1937 to assimilate "primitive" Kurdish girls by transforming them into "civilized" Turkish women?
text: Did you know that Alex Schaefer has never burned down a bank, despite all the evidence suggesting otherwise?
text: Did you know that the Cairo pentagonal tiling was a favorite pattern of M. C. Escher ?
text: Did you know that Hayat Bakshi Begum ruled the Golconda Sultanate as regent for her son Abdullah Qutb Shah ?
text: Did you know that the fungal pathogen Aschersonia aleyrodis can control silverleaf whitefly under greenhouse conditions?
text: Did you know that Silas Farley rejected a Harvard University full scholarship to pursue a career in ballet?
text: Did you know that the second volume of A Certain Magical Index was finished in only seventeen days?
text: Did you know that Franz Harnoncourt became CEO of the Kastner & Öhler department store in Graz after working for Karstadt and Marks & Spencer , and beginning as sales person and storage worker?
text: Did you know that Spain 's win in the UEFA Euro 2008 Final was the first of three successive major tournament victories?
text: Did you know that Marthe Yankurije , who dropped out of school during her fourth year of secondary school, competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that during its planning stages, 53 West 53rd Street in New York City was shortened by 200 feet (61 m) to reduce the visibility of the mechanical rooms?
text: Did you know that Indonesian comedian Yusran Effendi was personally awarded a place on an Islamic pilgrimage trip by president Suharto ?
text: Did you know that William Powell, the author of The Anarchist Cookbook , founded the nonprofit Next Frontier: Inclusion in atonement for writing the book?
text: Did you know that YouTuber Ghib Ojisan visited Yishun , a Singaporean town, expecting danger after reading of cats being slaughtered but instead found it "home to nice people and cute cats"?
text: Did you know that Aequanimitas explains "what makes a good doctor"?
text: Did you know that actor Joseph Holland was accidentally stabbed and seriously wounded by Orson Welles , wielding a steel knife, during a 1937 Broadway production of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar ?
text: Did you know that Jerome Robbins choreographed the ballet Andantino to music by Tchaikovsky , despite his lack of interest, because "you don't necessarily have to enjoy doing something for it to be good"?
text: Did you know that infectious diseases specialist Jameela Al Salman has supported the development of medical robots and called their use in Bahrain a "pioneering experiment"?
text: Did you know that despite being proclaimed Queen of Rhodesia , Elizabeth II refused to recognise the title?
text: Did you know that Princess Lucia was so unpopular ruling in the name of her teenage son Bohemond that he sought permission from the pope to come of age early?
text: Did you know that the album series Everywhere at the End of Time (2016–2019) by the Caretaker uses ballroom records to depict the stages of Alzheimer's disease ?
text: Did you know that Royal Navy officer George M'Kinley was blinded during a gun drill?
text: Did you know that students at Pomona College are traditionally thrown into a fountain on their birthday?
text: Did you know that CEO Marla Messing submitted the business plan for the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup two days before the birth of her first child?
text: Did you know that the animated film The Exigency took thirteen years to make?
text: Did you know that Gerold of Lausanne prohibited Catholic church services in Jerusalem in 1229?
text: Did you know that after drinking five glasses of "purging" mineral water from the Physic Well on Barnet Common , Samuel Pepys had to break his journey back to London seven or eight times to relieve himself?
text: Did you know that architect Van Dorn Hooker , who served in the USAAF , was a cartoonist for Army news publications, and painted aircraft nose art ?
text: Did you know that New York City's Hotel Knickerbocker closed after fourteen years of operation and did not reopen for nearly a century?
text: Did you know that Bourton-on-the-Water model village contains a scale model of a model of a model of a model village?
text: Did you know that Yasunori Oshima served as the hitting coach for the Japan national baseball team that won the inaugural World Baseball Classic in 2006 ?
text: Did you know that although " Chi Mat Ba Ram ", the title of the song by Brave Girls , translates to "the swish of a skirt" in Korean, a term that is often used negatively, the song is about the fierceness in women?
text: Did you know that Nicaraguan cartoonist Pedro X. Molina has had to flee his home country twice in his lifetime?
text: Did you know that the Police Anti-Terrorist Unit joined Rhodesian military operations in police uniform and were only issued camouflage after a soldier hesitated because a target wore the same colour trousers?
text: Did you know that Alvin Bragg has overseen lawsuits against the Donald J. Trump Foundation , Harvey Weinstein , and The Weinstein Company , and represented the families of Eric Garner and Ramarley Graham ?
text: Did you know that the lap steel guitar was the first "foreign" musical instrument to gain a foothold in American pop music?
text: Did you know that during the War of the Lombards , fighting was interrupted so that the corpse of the besieged Queen Alice could be handed over to her husband , who had never seen her alive?
text: Did you know that the 1911 fire at the New York State Capitol destroyed over 700,000 items held by the New York State Library , creating a "hole in [New York's] cultural heritage"?
text: Did you know that a 15-year-old boy died after falling from the top of a 142-foot high (43 m) mast ?
text: Did you know that Richard McGeagh did not receive a gold medal, even though he set an Olympic record in the 4×100 metre medley relay at the 1964 Olympics ?
text: Did you know that the winner of the men's race at the 2004 London Marathon fell during the race on cobblestones ?
text: Did you know that Saul Soliz was known as "the godfather of Texas MMA "?
text: Did you know that the Morowali Industrial Park is the largest center of nickel industry in Indonesia , the world's top nickel producer?
text: Did you know that Dinah John was one of an estimated fifteen Native American women from New York state to serve in the War of 1812 ?
text: Did you know that the defendants in the Racism-Turanism trials between 1944 and 1947 were absolved because racism was not contrary to the Turkish constitution?
text: Did you know that civil rights activist Bob Zellner was arrested at least 25 times and severely beaten on several occasions for his activism?
text: Did you know that Queen Elizabeth II sat for Ben Enwonwu on twelve occasions as he created his sculpture of her ?
text: Did you know that Jay-Z was re-added to " Jail " by Kanye West after initially being replaced with DaBaby ?
text: Did you know that Jan Hecker influenced the foreign policy of Angela Merkel ?
text: Did you know that the 1992 championship of Vince McMahon 's World Bodybuilding Federation consisted of "two of the silliest hours in the history of live sports"?
text: Did you know that "why" is the only lyric of " Why "?
text: Did you know that while The Gods from Outer Space has eight volumes, only four were published in English?
text: Did you know that rebel leader and later Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni had to walk 19 kilometres (12 mi) and borrow a car before the Battle of Kabamba because his pickup truck had broken down?
text: Did you know that Lori Gramlich , a survivor of sexual abuse in her childhood, introduced legislation that made it easier for sexual abuse survivors in Maine to file civil lawsuits against their abusers?
text: Did you know that the crane shots at the end of the opening sequence for the WandaVision episode " On a Very Special Episode... " were added as an homage to Full House ?
text: Did you know that all 256 places at the 2021 U.S. Open Pool Championship were filled within 10 hours?
text: Did you know that Turkey's Anadolu Shipyard signed a contract with India's Hindustan Shipyard to transfer technology for the building of five fleet support ships for the Indian Navy ?
text: Did you know that in their book about molybdenum , American chemists Arthur Linz and David H. Killeffer complained that previous works included the true and the false, the probable and the fantastic?
text: Did you know that when acting in HBO television series Big Little Lies , Darby Camp received suggestions from Reese Witherspoon , who plays her onscreen mother?
text: Did you know that Dorans Lane in Liverpool is named after Felix Doran , who "seems to cling ghost-like to the area"?
text: Did you know that 80 acres (32 ha) of Hog Island were farmland in 1923, but only 15 acres (6 ha) were above water in 1974?
text: Did you know that Impa is one of the oldest characters in Nintendo 's The Legend of Zelda series?
text: Did you know that the WandaVision episode " We Interrupt This Program " was pitched like an episode of CSI , deviating from the sitcom genre of preceding episodes?
text: Did you know that Royal Navy officer John Wells managed to escape the Nore mutiny through a gun port in his ship, returning later to accept the mutineers' surrender?
text: Did you know that during Tag des offenen Denkmals , Germany's largest annual cultural event, thousands of historic monuments are opened for free?
text: Did you know that Eric Berger wrote about weather for the Houston Chronicle even before he became a certified meteorologist?
text: Did you know that Poles who fought in the Russian Partition during the January Uprising were detained as political prisoners in Magdeburg and Graudenz , Prussia , even though the uprising never crossed the border?
text: Did you know that Haripriya Banoth is the youngest member of the Telangana Legislative Assembly ?
text: Did you know that Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany wore comic-book-accurate Scarlet Witch and Vision Halloween costumes in the WandaVision episode " All-New Halloween Spooktacular! "?
text: Did you know that research for the Cambridge Greek Lexicon was planned to last five years but was only completed after twenty-three?
text: Did you know that Faith No More 's " Digging the Grave " was featured on both Beavis and Butt-Head and Top of the Pops ?
text: Did you know that Lydia Wevers was the first scholar to write about the history of short stories in New Zealand?
text: Did you know that each of the three times Fox Island exploded, shockwaves could be felt dozens of miles away?
text: Did you know that Anna Apostolaki , the first Greek woman to work as a professional archaeologist, was also a feminist educator who promoted women's traditional crafts?
text: Did you know that the social golfer problem is used to assign groups in classrooms to maximize student interaction?
text: Did you know that sportswriter Matt Zabitka started his career at the age of 13?
text: Did you know that Windsor Gardens station was built to serve a single apartment complex?
text: Did you know that playwright Carol K. Mack wrote the thriller novel The Chameleon Variant in 1980 with Rutgers University biologist David Ehrenfeld ?
text: Did you know that Tlalli will replace a monument to Christopher Columbus , not to "erase history", but to "deliver social justice"?
text: Did you know that the music for the video game Rings of Power was composed by a first-year medical student?
text: Did you know that Jean-Paul Jeannotte , founder and first artistic director of the Opéra de Montréal , performed the role of Bobino more than 100 times, in the premiere on CBC TV and on stages on a Canada tour?
text: Did you know that according to Christopher Bollen , much of his 2020 novel A Beautiful Crime was written in a 17th-century monastery?
text: Did you know that the small island of Aruba was at the Paralympics because Shardea Arias de la Cru thought they should be?
text: Did you know that the Sawmill Fire of 2017, which burned more than 45,000 acres (18,000 ha), was started at a gender reveal party ?
text: Did you know that Park Chan-dea is the only male wushu athlete to be a six-time world champion?
text: Did you know that Washington state educational TV station KPEC-TV bought and repaired a video tape recorder that had fallen off a forklift and been written off?
text: Did you know that Trump won 28 times more shadow docket requests per year than Bush and Obama ?
text: Did you know that by the time the Egyptian frigate Mehemet Ali served in the 1877 Russo-Turkish War she was described as "as much good as a cardboard box"?
text: Did you know that Faith No More 's " Ricochet ", originally earmarked as a B-side , contains "one of the band's most memorable lines"?
text: Did you know that Aline Abboud is the first woman born in the German Democratic Republic to present Tagesthemen , a German daily news magazine?
text: Did you know that director Matt Shakman filmed footage specifically for the opening of the 1970s-inspired WandaVision episode " Now in Color ", deviating from typical sitcoms of the era that used stock footage in their openings?
text: Did you know that the 1993 Finchley Road bombings were the first London bombings by the Provisional Irish Republican Army in six months?
text: Did you know that John U. Monro resigned as dean of Harvard College to work at a then- unaccredited , historically black college in Alabama?
text: Did you know that Cedar Hill Yard in New Haven, Connecticut, could hold more than 15,000 railroad cars at one time?
text: Did you know that Able Seaman Rex Julius was the lowest-ranked Australian official war artist of World War II?
text: Did you know that a feng shui consultant convinced Donald Trump not to use a gold color for New York City's Trump International Hotel and Tower ?
text: Did you know that the second match of South Africa women's tour of England in 2018 was the first time a women's international cricket match had featured three centuries ?
text: Did you know that George Lauder , a surgeon in the Jacobite Army under Bonnie Prince Charlie , treated the wounded of both sides after the Battle of Prestonpans ?
text: Did you know that adults and larvae of the green weevil damage a wide range of plants?
text: Did you know that KWEM-LP in West Memphis, Arkansas , was established as a tribute to a radio station that in the late 1940s and 1950s helped launch the careers of B.B. King , Howlin' Wolf and Johnny Cash ?
text: Did you know that the slave trader John Knight transported more than 26,000 Africans to the Americas ?
text: Did you know that for the construction of the US$200 million Axa Equitable Center , the Equitable Life Assurance Society spent $7.5 million on artwork?
text: Did you know that Lulwah Al-Qatami was the first woman from Kuwait to study at a university abroad?
text: Did you know that some canons of the canon law of the Eastern Orthodox Church contradict each other?
text: Did you know that Jacquelyn Reingold knew nothing about string theory until she wrote a play about it?
text: Did you know that " Another Body Murdered ", a collaboration between Faith No More and Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E. , has been described as having "a chest-puffing, smack-talking energy that’s undeniable"?
text: Did you know that in 1999, hundreds to tens of thousands of people protested for 53 days against the flag of Vietnam and a portrait of Ho Chi Minh in Little Saigon ?
text: Did you know that at one point in Odessa 's history, Jews comprised 89 percent of the city's population ?
text: Did you know that American serial killer Michael Sumpter was never convicted of murder and it was only after his death that he could be linked to his killings through DNA evidence?
text: Did you know that Wu Dao has ten times as many parameters as GPT-3 ?
text: Did you know that Thai YouTuber MindaRyn began an anime singing career after her music covers were noticed by a Japanese record label?
text: Did you know that Crawfurd v The Royal Bank (1749) established in Scots law that a bona fide recipient of stolen banknotes cannot be forced to return them to their original owner?
text: Did you know that the photographer Stephan Vanfleteren crossed the US while modelling as Presley and photographing a friend modelling as Elvis?
text: Did you know that black rails live on Tule Island ?
text: Did you know that Willi Brokmeier , who participated in the world premiere of Die Soldaten at the Cologne Opera , appeared as Beethoven's Jaquino on a tour to Japan?
text: Did you know that there is a monument of a photocopier in the Indonesian village of Atar , commemorating the involvement of migrants from the village in the trade?
text: Did you know that Lawrence Watt-Evans 's The Cyborg and the Sorcerers was his first work in the hard science fiction genre, but mixed in elements of fantasy?
text: Did you know that Mal Benning is one of only 0.25 per cent of professional footballers in England to be British Asian ?
text: Did you know that the play-by-mail game Starweb , first published in 1976, is still available today through postal mail or email?
text: Did you know that the Great Dover Street woman might be the skeleton of a female gladiator ?
text: Did you know that Aaron Martin missed his penalty kick in the longest penalty shoot-out in English professional football history?
text: Did you know that there are tens of thousands of Polish proverbs , the oldest known of which dates to the year 1407?
text: Did you know that the Concerto for Two Cellos, RV 531 , Antonio Vivaldi's only concerto for two cellos, begins unusually with the two soloists entering alone in fast imitation ?
text: Did you know that Robert M. Briggs won re-election to the Wisconsin State Assembly by promising Beetown a double-track railway that was "like two rows of brass buttons on a double-breasted vest"?
text: Did you know that when England moved to take over the Dutch colony of New Netherland in 1664, a delegation met at Stuyvesant Farm to negotiate the Articles of Surrender ?
text: Did you know that Abraham O. Woodruff married a second wife 11 years after his father, Wilford Woodruff , issued the 1890 Manifesto that banned the practice of plural marriage ?
text: Did you know that Brookside character Margaret Clemence was featured in a female same-sex kiss that was rebroadcast during the opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that the WandaVision episode " Filmed Before a Live Studio Audience " employed a variety of live special effects such as wire rigs to emulate television series of the 1950s and 1960s?
text: Did you know that despite not initially being selected for the 2020 Summer Paralympics , British equestrian Georgia Wilson won two bronze medals at the Games?
text: Did you know that River Works station is only for the use of GE Aviation employees?
text: Did you know that Niccolò Paccanari was sentenced to a decade in prison by the Inquisition for mismanaging the religious congregation he founded ?
text: Did you know that four Altars for Peace , fashioned out of large trees by George Nakashima , have been placed on different continents?
text: Did you know that Soviet scientist Mikhail Ioffe was not allowed to collect the Atoms for Peace Award because he was seen to be too friendly with western scientists?
text: Did you know that Spud Island was sold for US$15,000?
text: Did you know that the Australian music festival Isol-Aid takes place entirely on Instagram ?
text: Did you know that Noliwe Rooks coined the term "segrenomics" to describe a system of separate, segregated, and unequal education created by the privatization and deregulation of American public education?
text: Did you know that extreme event attribution estimates how much climate change causes weather events, such as the 2021 Western North America heat wave ?
text: Did you know that the great hall of Dowhill Castle had a hatch in its floor leading to a pit used as a prison?
text: Did you know that Michael Barredo campaigned for Filipino athletes competing in disabled sports to receive government incentives?
text: Did you know that Kaludah was destroyed by fire in 1911, just two years after the ship was commissioned?
text: Did you know that the city of Dearborn forgot about the existence of Fordson Island for several decades?
text: Did you know that Victorian post office official William Rundell also collected stamps in his spare time, acquiring 48 copies of the "Sydney view" stamps of New South Wales?
text: Did you know that the butterfly rare skipper was only known from five rivers in the United States until sometime in the 1980s?
text: Did you know that John Henry Dunn resigned from the Executive Council of Upper Canada only three weeks after his appointment, throwing away a post he had sought for 16 years, on a matter of political principle?
text: Did you know that the Lithuanian town of Lyduvėnai had one of the world's largest wooden bridges?
text: Did you know that the construction of the Erawan Hotel was delayed by so many mishaps that a shrine to Brahma was built to ward off ill fortune?
text: Did you know that Hakan Akkaya became Turkey's first wheelchair fencer in 2013?
text: Did you know that the Green Guerillas threw " seed grenades " into abandoned lots in New York City?
text: Did you know that Brian O'Neill said in his tribute to Leslie Daiken : "He was always busy, always with a half dozen irons in the fire, always trying to give a hand to some Irish writer who needed it"?
text: Did you know that the February 28 Popular Leagues would seize foreign embassies in protest against the military junta in El Salvador?
text: Did you know that RTCM SC-104 allows data from different satellite navigation systems to be combined using a single format?
text: Did you know that the sister ships Ironsides and Lac La Belle sank under similar circumstances, eleven months apart?
text: Did you know that Dominican senator Anette Sanford donated half her salary to the Dominica Nurses Association during the COVID-19 pandemic?
text: Did you know that to animate conquistadors in Jungle Cruise , frogs were recorded in a Costa Rican forest?
text: Did you know that experimental musician John Olson has been called a "sort of bizarro influencer" because of his habit of "chaotic shitposting"?
text: Did you know that " Nun saget Dank und lobt den Herren ", a 16th-century German hymn based on Psalm 118 , was rewritten and shortened in the 20th century for a hymnal of the Swiss Reformed Church ?
text: Did you know that Devon Powers argues in Writing the Record that 1960s counter-culture music journalists Richard Goldstein and Robert Christgau acted as public intellectuals despite working outside of academia?
text: Did you know that the critically endangered Menai Strait whitebeam has a population of roughly 30 individuals?
text: Did you know that Headreach Island had 175 acres (71 ha) of farmland in 1923, but by 1974 was mostly marshland or underwater?
text: Did you know that a temporary two-lane viaduct was built along Cross Street to replace the closed lanes during the construction of Singapore's Telok Ayer MRT station ?
text: Did you know that Thomas J. Hannon succeeded in having a playground in his neighborhood named after his mother?
text: Did you know that British M-class destroyers such as HMS Obdurate were built to counter German ships that did not exist?
text: Did you know that wushu athlete Nguyễn Thúy Hiền was voted the best Vietnamese female athlete of the 20th century?
text: Did you know that after Bishop Sycamore High School lost a televised football game 58–0 , it was reported that the school did not teach its students?
text: Did you know that Elvira Bierbach has run an alternative medicine school for heilpraktiker in Bielefeld since 1992?
text: Did you know that to portray "drunk" Vision in the WandaVision episode " Don't Touch That Dial ", Paul Bettany took inspiration from Dick Van Dyke 's drunk acting in The Dick Van Dyke Show ?
text: Did you know that Guyana MP Yvonne Fredericks-Pearson competed in archery at the Indigenous Heritage Games 2019?
text: Did you know that the American Institute of Musicology has published over 650 volumes of early music since 1946?
text: Did you know that the Lutheran theologian Maurus Gerner-Beuerle wrote an autobiographical work about tales and pranks from his childhood?
text: Did you know that Mariner 1 , the United States' first interplanetary probe, was lost in 1962 due to the miscoding of a single character in its software?
text: Did you know that more than fifty years after Hilde Scheppan appeared in Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at the 1943 Bayreuth Festival , reviewer Alan Blyth called her "a dream of an Eva"?
text: Did you know that in 1908, you could "throw a cat through the cracks" of the dynamite shanties on Powder House Island ?
text: Did you know that the sea anemone Metridium dianthus is parasitised by the sea spider Pycnogonum litorale ?
text: Did you know that Jonathan Trichter , a registered Democrat , was the Republican nominee for New York State Comptroller in 2018?
text: Did you know that scouring in wool is among the essential pre-treatments of textiles that prepares them for subsequent processes such as bleaching , dyeing , and printing ?
text: Did you know that Julio Mayora was most happy about winning his silver medal for Venezuela at the 2020 Summer Olympics because it meant the government might give his mother a house?
text: Did you know that the Protestant Church in Borgholzhausen features a 1501 carved stone altar with scenes from the Passion of Jesus ?
text: Did you know that while Allen Hutt was a Communist journalist who became a Royal Designer for Industry for newspaper design , his son Sam is a doctor and country and western singer under the stage name Hank Wangford ?
text: Did you know that the jumping spider Plexippus petersi is widely admired for its prowess in hunting pest insects in homes?
text: Did you know that the name of the Noises , a group of islands in New Zealand , is a corrupted version of Les Noisettes ("the Hazelnuts")?
text: Did you know that an army commanded by Hannibal's father was saved from defeat when part of the enemy force deserted and fought alongside him ?
text: Did you know that Dawn Hastings-Williams was the first indigenous Minister of State of Guyana?
text: Did you know that the Pompey stone was believed to date to the early 1500s for over 70 years before it was revealed to be a hoax in 1894?
text: Did you know that when conductor Hans Drewanz , a personal assistant to Georg Solti at the Oper Frankfurt , became Generalmusikdirektor in Darmstadt , he was the youngest GMD in Germany?
text: Did you know that music producer Mylo briefly posted two of his rejected tracks for Kylie Minogue 's tenth studio album X online, before the album release?
text: Did you know that Cornelia Chase Brant was one of the first women to be appointed to the staff of a public hospital in New York City?
text: Did you know that the scarlet-and-white tanager swallows small berries whole, but eats larger fruit piece by piece?
text: Did you know that OpenAI Codex 's use of licensed code as training data has raised questions about the copyright status of machine learning models?
text: Did you know that social psychologist Lotte Bailyn , the first woman faculty member at the MIT Sloan School of Management , is an expert in work and family dynamics ?
text: Did you know that some music scholars have suggested that the Chaconne in G minor , widely attributed to Tomaso Antonio Vitali , is a musical hoax ?
text: Did you know that Koenigia islandica is considered the most hardy annual plant in the world?
text: Did you know that Anthony "Big Tony" Ciulla had to enter the United States Federal Witness Protection Program after he testified in a trial about rigged horse races?
text: Did you know that the Alfred Fischer Hall , built as the machinery hall for a 1912 coal mine, was the venue for a concert performance of Beethoven's Fidelio in 2021?
text: Did you know that American historian Donald R. Hickey was referred to as "the dean of 1812 scholarship" by The New Yorker ?
text: Did you know that Greece won the UEFA Euro 2004 Final despite never having won a match at a previous major tournament?
text: Did you know that the National Transportation Safety Board concluded that the probable cause of the 2014 Bedford Gulfstream IV crash was the flight crew's failure to perform the flight-control check before takeoff?
text: Did you know that the last commanding officer of the Rhodesian Light Infantry, Charlie Aust , described himself as "seedy moustache, glasses and intensely ugly" so soldiers knew how to identify him?
text: Did you know that criminologist Herschel Prins found in 1993 that young black men at Broadmoor Hospital were often stereotyped as "big, black and dangerous"?
text: Did you know that director Steve Kloves was reluctant to cast Beau Bridges as the brother of Jeff Bridges 's character in The Fabulous Baker Boys because he thought it sounded like "a gimmick"?
text: Did you know that Muhammad Sadiq 's photographs were the first ever taken of the Islamic holy sites in Mecca and Medina ?
text: Did you know that RSS Panglima was the first ship of  the Republic of Singapore Navy ?
text: Did you know that a resolution introduced into the Nebraska Legislature by Joni Albrecht praised Julie Schmit-Albin as "never one to let a public official waffle on pro-life legislation"?
text: Did you know that the birdfoot buttercup is found on three continents, mostly in the Arctic zone?
text: Did you know that the cast and crew of the zombie film Junk , which made use of real meat for its gore effects , were sometimes unable to stomach meat for dinner after spending hours filming?
text: Did you know that Peter Fleischmann directed the cult film The Hamburg Syndrome , which foresaw a scenario similar to the COVID-19 pandemic as early as 1979?
text: Did you know that distance education in Chicago Public Schools in 1937 took place via radio broadcasts during school closures that were spurred by a polio outbreak?
text: Did you know that a review by Alan Blyth of tenor Christoph Strehl 's performances described him as singing "with a Wunderlich -like strength and beauty"?
text: Did you know that South Carolina 's first television station, WCOS-TV , "could not stand the economic gaff" and folded less than three years after starting up?
text: Did you know that in terms of performance , wool has been advertised as a "miracle fabric"?
text: Did you know that Wayward Son was described as "a delirious candy-coated romp"?
text: Did you know that due to a left–right mix-up, Barry Joule destroyed the wrong Francis Bacon painting, which would now be worth around £35 million?
text: Did you know that Cack Henley threw the longest complete game shutout in professional baseball history?
text: Did you know that places of worship in the English district of East Hampshire include the Temple of the White Eagle Lodge—likened to "an Art Deco version of the Pantheon"?
text: Did you know that Bill Pinkney was the first African American to sail around the world solo via the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Horn ?
text: Did you know that Operation Romeo was one of the causes of the Nepalese Civil War ?
text: Did you know that after decades of being a central hub for river dredging operations, Stony Island 's population was reduced to a caretaker and his two dogs?
text: Did you know that New Zealand choreographer and dancer Louise Potiki Bryant was coated in clay by sculptor Paerau Corneal in their interdisciplinary work Kiri ?
text: Did you know that street racing was once prevalent along the Tokyo area's Bayshore Route ?
text: Did you know that Characteres generum plantarum , a work about the botany of the second voyage of James Cook , contains an apology for only including 75 new genera ?
text: Did you know that Tyler Gilbert threw a no-hitter in his first Major League Baseball start ?
text: Did you know that the medieval rood of Ramsåsa Church was discovered in the church attic at the beginning of the 20th century?
text: Did you know that Rhodesians continued to raise the Union Jack to celebrate Pioneers' Day every 12 September, even after adopting a new flag, in order to honour the original pioneers?
text: Did you know that Suzanna Hext chose to compete in swimming rather than equestrian at the delayed 2020 Summer Paralympics ?
text: Did you know that as documented in The Presidential Vote, 1896–1932 , fewer than a quarter of the United States' counties voted for the same party in every presidential election from 1896 to 1932?
text: Did you know that the Ming-dynasty novella The Jealous Wife might have been written by the "Master of the Doctrine of Subduing Women"?
text: Did you know that Joe Hill , the last opera by Alan Bush , contains four songs by the real Joe Hill ?
text: Did you know that after Michele Anne Harris disappeared 20 years ago today , her husband was tried four times for her murder before being acquitted?
text: Did you know that Plevna in Tampere , Finland, was the first building in the Nordic countries and the Russian Empire (of which Finland was part at the time) to be lit by electric lights?
text: Did you know that American journalist and activist Clara Leiser traveled to Nazi Germany frequently, and documented the plight of families of political prisoners?
text: Did you know that the New Zealand tree tarahinau has evolved to develop thinner leaves as it matures, probably as a result of the high winds of the Chatham Islands ?
text: Did you know that Joe Murphy 's civil-engineering firm was known colloquially as "Grey Murphy" to distinguish it from that of his brother , which was known as "Green Murphy"?
text: Did you know that Fraser Patrick likened playing in the 2019 Q School to being in a boxing match with Anthony Joshua ?
text: Did you know that women originally had the right to vote in New Jersey thanks to its constitution until an 1807 act removed that right?
text: Did you know that Leo Kestenberg , a concert pianist, initiated a large-scale reform of music education in Prussia , but had to flee the Nazis first to Prague and then to Tel Aviv?
text: Did you know that the Banjul sector Half Die was reportedly given its name due to an epidemic outbreak in the 19th century?
text: Did you know that Team San Juan became the first champion of the FIBA 3x3 World Tour in 2012?
text: Did you know that garden refugees can become invasive in the wild?
text: Did you know that  during the American Civil War, Charles K. Prioleau made a fortune by smuggling arms to the Confederacy on board the blockade runner Bermuda ?
text: Did you know that King Edward's Place , once a love nest for King Edward VII , later became a children's activity centre?
text: Did you know that 18-year-old George McCubbin piloted the aircraft that shot down German ace Max Immelmann in 1916?
text: Did you know that the Chevelon Creek Bridge , built in Arizona in 1912–1913, was part of one of America's first national highways?
text: Did you know that the ceramicist Franz Josef Altenburg was honoured with an exhibition of his art at Austria's Kaiservilla where he was born?
text: Did you know that a television in the film Day of Reckoning includes scenes from Big Ass Spider! ?
text: Did you know that the Southern Lebanese villages of Safad El Battikh , Kafra and Ayta al-Jabal were mentioned in 1596 Ottoman tax records ?
text: Did you know that the Harvard step test , developed by Lucien Brouha in 1942, is still used as a reference when developing fitness tests?
text: Did you know that actual play shows have helped to improve the representation of women, people of color , and LGBT people in tabletop gaming ?
text: Did you know that sumo wrestler Shōnanzakura Sōta had a record 104 consecutive losses?
text: Did you know that the Beach Boys ' song " Rollin' Up to Heaven " had a chorus that consisted of the lines "alley-oop", "fuck her", and "big tits"?
text: Did you know that Franček Gorazd Tiršek , a para-shooter from Slovenia, won three silver medals at the Summer Paralympic Games , the most recent one in Tokyo?
text: Did you know that the Marvel Cinematic Universe television series WandaVision was structured to follow the five stages of grief by starting with denial and ending with acceptance?
text: Did you know that Sir Hardman Earle, 1st Baronet 's father, grandfather and great-grandfather were all slave traders ?
text: Did you know that when the National Museum of Vanuatu opened its new building in 1995, a specially selected pig was sacrificed?
text: Did you know that "one of early Australia's biggest manhunts" was organized to catch Chinese Australian bushranger Sam Poo ?
text: Did you know that the fringe belief of serpent seed claims that the Serpent mated with Eve in the Garden of Eden , and their offspring was Cain ?
text: Did you know that Angelo Tsarouchas nearly abandoned his hopes of being a comedian because his wife at the time thought it was a bad idea?
text: Did you know that the 2005 documentary The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till , about African-American teenager Emmett Till 's murder in 1955 for whistling at a white woman, contributed to the case being reopened?
text: Did you know that some protesters in the 2021 London Impossible Rebellion dressed as bankers with blood on their hands?
text: Did you know that after Viola Roseboro' suggested Willa Cather rewrite My Ántonia completely, Cather may have based the novel My Mortal Enemy on her?
text: Did you know that a Socialist Youth League candidate in the 1990 Bosnian general election registered his ethnicity as ' Eskimo ' as an apparent protest against ethnic registry requirements for candidates?
text: Did you know that the protest initiative Omas gegen Rechts (Grannies against the Right) was awarded a prize for civil courage by the Central Council of Jews in Germany ?
text: Did you know that Mary V. R. Thayer was briefly arrested on suspicion of spying after abandoning a 1929 business trip in the Soviet Union to explore the Caucasus ?
text: Did you know that the fungal infection conidiobolomycosis mainly affects people living in tropical areas but was first reported in horses in Texas?
text: Did you know that racing driver James Sofronas worked as a salesman for a technology company to buy the Nissan NX 2000 required for his first competitive race?
text: Did you know that a track on Maxïmo Park 's album Nature Always Wins is about Nick Alexander, the band's former merchandiser who was killed in the Bataclan concert hall attack ?
text: Did you know that Alfred Koerppen , who taught music theory and composition at the Musikhochschule Hannover , wrote the text and music of a 1951 opera after Virgil ?
text: Did you know that the Silver Deer of Bilge Khan , a 7th-century artifact, is recognized by the Mongolian government as being of "invaluable heritage"?
text: Did you know that the Torreya Guardians are trying to save the critically endangered North American conifer Torreya taxifolia from extinction?
text: Did you know that Paraguay made its Paralympic debut at the 2020 Summer Paralympics ?
text: Did you know that in the upcoming video game Marvel's Midnight Suns , players will be able to create their own superhero in the Marvel Universe ?
text: Did you know that Jonathan Carr 's 342 bankruptcy petitions set a record?
text: Did you know that the WHO model list of essential in vitro diagnostics provides guidance to medical personnel on which tests to perform?
text: Did you know that Samuel Powel Griffitts was advised to take three months of dancing lessons as part of his European medical training?
text: Did you know that Thomas Fairfax , Lord General of the New Model Army , resigned his commission rather than invade Scotland in 1650 ?
text: Did you know that Brijmohan Lall Munjal grew Hero Cycles from a parts manufacturer into the world's largest bicycle company?
text: Did you know that Aaron Pike has competed in wheelchair racing at three Summer Paralympics , and in both biathlon and cross-country skiing at two Winter Paralympics ?
text: Did you know that the opening of Geistliches Lied by Johannes Brahms possibly references Clara Schumann 's fantasy of playing her husband 's music on the organ ?
text: Did you know that Horace Harral engraved "one of the most famous photographs of the nineteenth century", a portrait of Isambard Kingdom Brunel , for publication in the Illustrated Times ?
text: Did you know that the Rhodesia Information Centre spread propaganda about Rhodesia in Australia?
text: Did you know that bishop Nikolaj Velimirović called Sevastijan Dabović the greatest Serbian missionary of modern times?
text: Did you know that the counting-out rhyme " One potato, two potato " is more than 135 years old?
text: Did you know that thousands of people who fled Burundi have taken refuge in Rwanda's Mahama Refugee Camp , but only one has competed in the Paralympics ?
text: Did you know that American Ken Whitlock played football in Canada because of segregation in the United States?
text: Did you know that Germany 's players sang " Three Lions " after winning the UEFA Euro 1996 Final ?
text: Did you know that Naoki Saito is a contributing artist of both the Duel Masters Trading Card Game and the Pokémon Trading Card Game ?
text: Did you know that the Global Action Fund for Fungal Infections calculates that every year, severe fungal infections affect more than 300 million people?
text: Did you know that Martin Perscheid published more than 4,300 cartoons, exploring "abysses of sexism, racism, ignorance, corruption and stupidity"?
text: Did you know that the Huanaki Cultural Centre & Museum was destroyed by a cyclone ?
text: Did you know that one of the first activities of The Coloured Women's Club of Montreal was to help veterans returning from the Second Boer War in South Africa?
text: Did you know that the director of the horror film Camera Obscura was inspired to write the screenplay after one of his co-workers was not allowed to take pictures in South America due to locals believing "it would steal their souls"?
text: Did you know that Harry Kent managed his family's garden nursery after winning New Zealand's first Commonwealth Games gold medal in cycling and first world track championships medal?
text: Did you know that to rebuild the collection of Tāoga Niue Museum in the aftermath of Cyclone Heta , staff searched through rubbish dumps for historic items?
text: Did you know that Paul Armin Edelmann appeared in the title role of Mozart's Don Giovanni at Opera Ireland in 2009, while his brother Peter took the role of Leporello?
text: Did you know that a separated couple competed against each other for the first time at the 2021 British Open ?
text: Did you know that Gian Marco 's Días Nuevos , the best-selling album of 2011 in Perú, was the first quintuple platinum awarded by Unión Peruana de Productores Fonográficos ?
text: Did you know that the now-closed Dinosaur Wildlife museum exhibited three fox squirrels posed to fight in a boxing ring?
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 taking St John's wort can weaken the effects of the blood thinner phenprocoumon ?
text: Did you know that Belarusian activist Vitaly Shishov , the head of an organisation helping people escape repression following the 2020–2021 Belarusian protests , was aware of risks to his life before he was found dead?
text: Did you know that both finalists at the 2008 World Snooker Championship made maximum breaks during the tournament?
text: Did you know that when the sea cucumber Holothuria hilla reproduces by fission , the regenerated part is often paler in colour than the original one?
text: Did you know that IMF economist Tobias Adrian helped devise CoVaR, a method used to stress-test banks after the Great Recession ?
text: Did you know that in 1999 two necklaces were repatriated to the Cook Islands National Museum from a museum in Angus, Scotland ?
text: Did you know that Joachim Werzlau composed the music for the DEFA films Naked Among Wolves and Jacob the Liar ?
text: Did you know that the name of the robot Jet Alone, which first appeared in the Neon Genesis Evangelion episode " A Human Work ", is a reference to Jet Jaguar (also known as Red Alone) from Godzilla vs. Megalon ?
text: Did you know that Franc Pinter , a para-shooter from Slovenia, competes at his eighth Summer Paralympic Games in Tokyo?
text: Did you know that Singapore's Nicoll Highway MRT station had to be relocated as a result of a 2004 tunnel collapse near the station?
text: Did you know that when Texas radio station KNUE was sold to another station in 1982, the new owners added a second story to their newly constructed studios to accommodate the addition?
text: Did you know that more than 400 millimetres (16 in) of rain was recorded in northern Turkey on 11 August 2021, causing catastrophic flooding ?
text: Did you know that Fatykha Aitova agreed to marry her husband on the condition that he help her construct a school?
text: Did you know that In the Ditch (1972) is based on the experiences of writer Buchi Emecheta , and deals with the systemic violence faced by working-class women in Britain at the time?
text: Did you know that Sjerstin Vermeulen has won Paralympic medals in swimming and equestrian ?
text: Did you know that the sea urchin Echinocyamus pusillus turns bright green when injured?
text: Did you know that Tory MP John Solomon Cartwright refused a request by the governor-general of the Province of Canada to join the government, because he would not sit in Cabinet with radical Francis Hincks ?
text: Did you know that advertisements for Road 96 were taken down by Facebook for being too political?
text: Did you know that New Zealand opera singer Helen Medlyn 's first performing role was as one of the Three Kings ?
text: Did you know that France won the UEFA Euro 2000 Final with a golden goal ?
text: Did you know that Evelyn van Leeuwen won a wheelchair basketball silver medal at the 1996 Paralympics and twenty years later she won a bronze at the 2016 Games ?
text: Did you know that the New York Times bestseller Fablehaven was written by Brandon Mull following the rejection of his first manuscript?
text: Did you know that the slave trader William James left for his country retreat before rioting sailors ransacked his home?
text: Did you know that the architect of 275 Madison Avenue did not include much exterior decoration because he wanted the building to be "shadow-less"?
text: Did you know that Joseph Stalin 's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva fell in love with Brajesh Singh , whom she considered her husband although they were never allowed to marry?
text: Did you know that the comb jelly Beroe gracilis feeds on other comb jellies , swallowing them whole?
text: Did you know that Meme Man is used in many surreal memes , a genre of internet humor inspired by surrealism ?
text: Did you know that Klaus Storck recorded Schubert's Arpeggione Sonata on original instruments, with Alfons Kontarsky at the hammerflügel ?
text: Did you know that the vast majority of fiction, including science fiction, takes place on Earth ?
text: Did you know that German paracyclist Bernd Jeffré may have lost his 2010 Berlin Marathon race because he ignored his wife and did not wear enough clothes?
text: Did you know that medieval Ethiopian kings claimed to be descended from Solomon ?
text: Did you know that ice hockey coach Dave Siciliano designed his team's dressing room so that players could "look [their] teammates directly in the eye"?
text: Did you know that some philosophers of mathematics believe that the life cycle of a species of cicadas is a good argument for the existence of numbers ?
text: Did you know that Julie Schmit-Albin was awarded the title of Admiral in the Great Navy of the State of Nebraska for her work as a pro-life activist?
text: Did you know that championship belt designer Reggie Parks , whose work was used by WWE , UFC , and Madonna , was the first wrestling opponent of future NWA Worlds Heavyweight Champion Dusty Rhodes ?
text: Did you know that the 2020 documentary film Gather , which explores Native American efforts for food sovereignty and reclamation of ancestral foodways , was named a Critic's Pick by The New York Times ?
text: Did you know that Chen Wenxin discovered that planting legumes and grasses together can increase yield?
text: Did you know that radio station KWKC dropped its application for a TV station in order to speed the arrival of television to Abilene, Texas , which would otherwise have been 89th in line?
text: Did you know that Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott , a motet by Telemann , was performed and recorded in 2017 to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the Reformation ?
text: Did you know that the Initial IMO Strategy on the reduction of GHG emissions from ships envisions the elimination of greenhouse gas emissions from maritime transport by the end of the century?
text: Did you know that Elaine Estes , the first African American director of the Des Moines Public Library , holds a patent on her parents' barbecue sauce?
text: Did you know that during her early career, ballerina Indiana Woodward danced the lead role in La Sylphide , replacing an injured dancer?
text: Did you know that the Guns N' Roses debut studio album Appetite for Destruction was recorded at a recording studio founded by 1970s pop duo Captain & Tennille ?
text: Did you know that a 1997 whooping cough outbreak in part led to the establishment of the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance in Australia?
text: Did you know that Jacob Wohl was banned for life by the National Futures Association when he was only 19 years old?
text: Did you know that the Myanmar Coast Guard was initially proposed as a civilian law enforcement agency before being established as a branch of the military three years later?
text: Did you know that after watching Matilda the Musical , Mattea Conforti complained that she could have starred in the title role?
text: Did you know that Keith Moon was briefly banned from the Tramp nightclub for destroying a chandelier?
text: Did you know that Greg Dulcich is a former walk-on whose first touchdown with UCLA was about three miles (4.8 km) from his high school?
text: Did you know that Sama Jaya Free Industrial Zone houses the first semiconductor fabrication plant in Borneo ?
text: Did you know that CCH Pounder , who guest starred in The West Wing 's " Celestial Navigation ", was almost selected for the main role of C. J. Cregg ?
text: Did you know that addressing poverty is an important factor in achieving tuberculosis elimination ?
text: Did you know that Angela Diaz was accepted into Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons despite not taking the standard medical school exams or paying the $15 application fee?
text: Did you know that Kaczyzm is a pejorative term describing the political ideology of Polish politicians Lech and Jarosław Kaczyński and their Law and Justice party?
text: Did you know that Janet Wilmshurst paints pictures of the past with poop?
text: Did you know that the lions supporting the coat of arms of the Football Association are half-blue and half-white in imitation of the blue shorts and white shirts worn by the national teams?
text: Did you know that Castle Recording Laboratory , Nashville 's first commercial recording studio, was established in a repurposed hotel banquet room?
text: Did you know that Max Wallraf replaced Paul Löbe as President of the Reichstag for a few months in 1924–25 ?
text: Did you know that Robin Stern 's book The Gaslight Effect describes gaslighting as an epidemic?
text: Did you know that according to legend, the god of wisdom Odin was tricked by his own wife, and her priestess Gambara , to give victory to Gambara's tribe?
text: Did you know that the Statutes Fair in Burton upon Trent has been held annually since 1219?
text: Did you know that Ralph Page once called a contra dance for more than 4000 people in Tokyo, despite not knowing Japanese?
text: Did you know that when La Folia Barockorchester made the first recordings of anonymous violin concertos found in the Dresden Hofkirche , they chose not to discover the identity of the composers?
text: Did you know that in 1943, the United States Army conducted a large-scale battle near Stauffer, Oregon , as part of the Oregon Maneuver training exercise preparing troops for combat in World War II?
text: Did you know that Susan Chitty 's memoir on her mother, Antonia White , was viewed as a "literary assassination" when published?
text: Did you know that the small tree Homalanthus nutans is a pioneer species , readily colonising disturbed ground?
text: Did you know that Arkansas legislator Denise Jones Ennett took part in a Black Lives Matter protest in front of the Arkansas State Capitol ?
text: Did you know that an Australian state premier said he would be taking a spear to meetings on a tax-distribution dispute ?
text: Did you know that interest in meme stocks has given rise to what the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has called a "meme stocks phenomenon"?
text: Did you know that Zeb Noland was named the starting quarterback for the South Carolina Gamecocks despite being on the coaching staff?
text: Did you know that A Passage North , which is shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize , is set in the aftermath of the Sri Lankan Civil War ?
text: Did you know that Eberhard Panitz wrote his novel, My Father's Tram , with autobiographic elements around his father—a tram conductor in Dresden?
text: Did you know that Digital pulled their HiNote Ultra laptop out of a manila envelope on television nearly 15 years before Apple did the same?
text: Did you know that Carl Freedman viewed science fiction as the most sound genre for academic study?
text: Did you know that pollen study was needed to clarify the identity of a Dipteronia brownii fossil?
text: Did you know that a tenant of the Bryant Park Studios once tried to evict their landlord from the building's top floor?
text: Did you know that the 12th-century Lismore Crozier was rediscovered, along with the 15th-century Book of Lismore , in a concealed doorway in Ireland's Lismore Castle in 1814?
text: Did you know that a 1999 self-portrait made by William Utermohlen while suffering from Alzheimer's disease took nearly two years to complete?
text: Did you know that the liana Ancistrocladus korupensis contains a substance able to inhibit HIV viral replication?
text: Did you know that a brief in Lum v. Rice was so badly written that Justice Louis Brandeis asked Felix Frankfurter to find a lawyer whom the Supreme Court could appoint to argue the Lums' case?
text: Did you know that the 1981 execution of Werner Teske was the final use of the death penalty in Germany ?
text: Did you know that when Jean Kekedo was made a Dame of the Order of the British Empire in 2020 she became the third woman in her family to receive this honour, after her mother Dame Mary Kekedo and her sister Dame Rose Kekedo ?
text: Did you know that when Dan Quayle announced his 2000 presidential campaign , Larry King congratulated him by telling him "you're not a joke like you once were"?
text: Did you know that the early Germanic priestess Ganna may have been named for her magic staff ?
text: Did you know that 125 years after the Seventh Circuit referred Graver v. Faurot to the Supreme Court to decide whether United States v. Throckmorton or Marshall v. Holmes controlled, the question is still open?
text: Did you know that a Chinese corruption investigation into Gao Yan has been interpreted as a political move against Li Peng , then second-in-command of the Communist Party of China ?
text: Did you know that Givans Creek Woods was once used to dump construction fill?
text: Did you know that a 1917 explosion broke the SS Fernebo in two, with one part drifting ashore carrying six survivors?
text: Did you know that Facebook's outage on October 4, 2021 , also cut off the company's internal communications, preventing employees from sending or receiving external emails or logging in to Zoom?
text: Did you know that Jackie Collins likened nightclub owner Johnny Gold , not unkindly, to "an old whore"?
text: Did you know that Singaporean activist Thum Ping Tjin called the Foreign Interference (Countermeasures) Act an attempted coup ?
text: Did you know that Kenneth Lawson , who was disbarred after dealing with addiction, teaches subjects including professional responsibility at the William S. Richardson School of Law ?
text: Did you know that Gladue courts, part of Ontario's court system , apply distinctive principles when sentencing Indigenous offenders?
text: Did you know that Singapore's Upper Thomson MRT station is decorated with 88 animal figures, most of which are crab-eating macaques ?
text: Did you know that Albert Einstein was hired as a technical expert during the gyrocompass patent dispute between Anschütz and Elmer Ambrose Sperry ?
text: Did you know that in 1929, the world press proclaimed Teleilat el Ghassul to be the biblical Sodom and Gomorrah , but Father Alexis Mallon , the site's excavator, disagreed?
text: Did you know that 3 Times Square was likened to an "identity crisis"?
text: Did you know that David Bowie wrote his 1971 track " Life on Mars? " as a parody of Frank Sinatra 's " My Way "?
text: Did you know that the platform shelters in the redevelopment concept design for Bayswater railway station, Perth , were criticised for looking like a trestle table ?
text: Did you know that when the Rhodesian Guard Force was disbanded in 1980, Brigadier Bill Godwin advised his men to fade away?
text: Did you know that inside a building, the desert subterranean termite can form free-standing tubes descending from the ceiling?
text: Did you know that cosmetologist Pauline Brown Humphrey opened a beauty shop for African-American women in the Women's Army Corps in Fort Des Moines?
text: Did you know that the Cathedral of Nocera Umbra probably rests on the foundations of a temple dedicated to the goddess Favonia ?
text: Did you know that watching Tacoma, Washington 's KTVW "used to be worse than no TV at all"?
text: Did you know that reconstruction of Nebraska 's Interstate 180 was disrupted by the discovery of nesting migratory birds?
text: Did you know that Johan Zulch de Villiers was the first mayor of Johannesburg until Johannesburg's surrender during the Second Boer War ?
text: Did you know that Life with Father was the first network television series originating in Hollywood that was broadcast in color?
text: Did you know that Māori fiction written in English, now a key part of New Zealand literature , only emerged in the 1950s?
text: Did you know that the Frente de Liberación Homosexual viewed all forms of oppression as interconnected, and believed that homosexuality was subversive because it challenged patriarchy ?
text: Did you know that reporter O. Kay Henderson , who has interviewed U.S. presidential candidates, is considered by national media to be an Iowa political authority?
text: Did you know that a Gelae donut has large, protruding eyes?
text: Did you know that " The Supremes " was said to have foreseen the conflict following the death of Antonin Scalia , twelve years later?
text: Did you know that since the formation of the United Democratic Alliance , Nagaland has had no parliamentary opposition ?
text: Did you know that Azerbaijan has been a member of the Council of Europe , an organization promoting human rights, for more than twenty years, despite holding political prisoners and rigging elections?
text: Did you know that in Magic Desk I , the icons within the main screen for the phone, the calculator, the spreadsheet, and the Rolodex do nothing?
text: Did you know that the Temagami River in Ontario , Canada, is an outstanding water route with twenty sets of whitewater rapids rated CI to CIII?
text: Did you know that Times Square Tower and 5 Times Square , across the street from each other, were built for rival accounting firms during a redevelopment of New York City's Times Square ?
text: Did you know that rebel leader Sam Magara was killed when he ventured into a city to visit a dentist?
text: Did you know that within a year after the first Black Student Union was founded at San Francisco State College in March 1966, it had a presence at every state college in California?
text: Did you know that a flat in London's Basil Street was the scene of the first meetings that led to Monty Python's Flying Circus ?
text: Did you know that Australian religious sister Bridget Partridge fled her convent in 1920 dressed only in her nightgown, precipitating a national sectarian scandal?
text: Did you know that the first railroad in New England was powered by horses?
text: Did you know that Philip Michael Thomas compared himself to Santa Claus upon releasing his album Living the Book of My Life ?
text: Did you know that Iggy Pop 's second studio album Lust for Life was written, recorded, and mixed in eight days?
text: Did you know that Olympic flagbearer Raed Ahmed defected after he saw Bill Clinton clapping?
text: Did you know that archaeologist Giuseppe Scarabelli made the only complete excavation of a Bronze Age village in Italy?
text: Did you know that M. Night Shyamalan's Old is based on a Swiss graphic novel that the filmmaker received as a Father's Day gift?
text: Did you know that two feet-one hand syndrome is the combination of two athlete's feet and fungus in one hand ?
text: Did you know that philosopher George Pitcher adopted a stray dog and her puppy that he took everywhere, including on a trip to France aboard the Queen Elizabeth 2 ?
text: Did you know that the Steel River , in Northern Ontario , Canada, is one of the few rivers along Lake Superior 's north shore never used for log drives ?
text: Did you know that the 1887 execution of George Flaxman may have inspired Rudyard Kipling 's poem " Danny Deever "?
text: Did you know that "every chapter" of the 1823 novel Seventy-Six is said to be "covered with blood, or heaving with the throes of lacerated flesh"?
text: Did you know that Fernhill House has been home to a butter merchant, an Ulster Volunteer Force armoury, a Grand National -winning racehorse and the world's largest collection of Orange Order memorabilia?
text: Did you know that 100 years after Mary Emily Sinclair wrote a master's thesis in mathematics on the discriminants of quintic polynomials , Helaman Ferguson based a sculpture on her work?
text: Did you know that the Tenantry Column was built by the tenants of the Duke of Northumberland as thanks for a rent reduction?
text: Did you know that the Iraqi paramilitary organisation Saraya Awliya al-Dam has a Telegram account?
text: Did you know that Sharri MacDonald was removed from the Old Orchard Beach City Council after a controversial 4–3 vote put the entire council up for recall?
text: Did you know that the Antlers ' 2021 album Green to Gold was made after lead singer Peter Silberman suffered temporary total hearing loss and lesions on his vocal cords?
text: Did you know that a newly opened ferry in 1968 attracted "vodka tourists" to Estonia ?
text: Did you know that the 1940 NCAA Basketball Championship Game began a run of three straight NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament title games held at the Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Missouri ?
text: Did you know that the Alma Mater statue at Columbia University was damaged by an explosion during student protests in 1970?
text: Did you know that Congolese rebel leader André Kisase Ngandu criticised his Rwandan allies to such an extent that they were probably responsible for his murder?
text: Did you know that the desert plant Euphorbia caducifolia is commonly known as the "leafless milk hedge", while Euphorbia nivulia is the "holy milk hedge"?
text: Did you know that in 2020, Border Violence Monitoring Network published the Black Book of Pushbacks documenting human rights violations against 12,654 migrants traveling on the Balkan route?
text: Did you know that as secretary of the NAACP , May Childs Nerney has been credited with "laying the fundamental groundwork" for "the most powerful organization battling racial injustice"?
text: Did you know that a club set up tennis courts on the roof of St. John's Terminal after broker William J. Hirschman spotted the suitable space from a helicopter?
text: Did you know that English netball player Sophie Drakeford-Lewis was once the highest ranked British youth tennis player?
text: Did you know that artist-activist group Suohpanterror remixed the " We Can Do It! " Rosie the Riveter poster to signify Sámi feminism?
text: Did you know that Charles IV commanded the significant expansion of the fishponds of the Třeboň Basin "so that the kingdom would abound in fish and mist"?
text: Did you know that when Gene Scott was forced to close San Francisco TV station KVOF-TV , he called its successor "the Tower of Babel religious brigade"—then proceeded to buy air time on it?
text: Did you know that the Railroad and Bank Building was built with six miles (9.7 km) of pneumatic tubes used to send items anywhere within the building in under ten seconds?
text: Did you know that in the Kelmscott Press 's acclaimed Complete Works of Chaucer , illustrator Burne-Jones depicts a house "made of twigges" in an unusually literal style?
text: Did you know that the country song " Beer Beer, Truck Truck " was based on a viral TikTok video by Erynn Chambers intended to satirize country music?
text: Did you know that the World War I memorial in Pierson, Iowa , was rededicated in 2018 by the Pritzker Military Museum & Library ?
text: Did you know that in September 2021, the England national netball team won a series in New Zealand for the first time?
text: Did you know that in the 2017 case Bayev and Others v. Russia , the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Russian laws against  "promotion of homosexuality" violate freedom of speech?
text: Did you know that Kanye West performed " Heartless " with altered lyrics at a youth ball for Barack Obama's first inauguration ?
text: Did you know that the wild jujube can be planted on sand dunes to provide erosion control?
text: Did you know that Elizabeth Laurie Rees was the only woman to lead devotions at the 1928 World Baptist Congress in Toronto?
text: Did you know that while Alexander Hamilton may not have broken the tie in the election of 1800, he did break the tie in " The Election of 1800 "?
text: Did you know that Salu was one of seven cotton cloths explicitly mentioned in the Ain-i-Akbari , together with Khasa , Tansukh , Doriya, Bafta , Dupatta, and Panchtoliya ?
text: Did you know that anti– Vietnam War protesters occupied Shinjuku Station in 1968, causing the equivalent of US$18 million in financial losses?
text: Did you know that anti-apartheid activist Sonny Venkatrathnam smuggled a copy of the Complete Works of Shakespeare into the Robben Island Maximum Security Prison covering it with old Deepavali greeting cards?
text: Did you know that The Bees Army , a Saudi opposition movement, was supported by Jamal Khashoggi ?
text: Did you know that women's basketball Hall of Famers Chris Dailey and Geno Auriemma are in their 37th season of coaching the UConn Huskies together?
text: Did you know that Allen Ravenstine , who used a synthesizer to emulate the sound of an airplane's engine on " 30 Seconds Over Tokyo ", later became an airline pilot?
text: Did you know that KNUZ-TV produced a remote telecast from the HMS Sheffield when it visited Houston ?
text: Did you know that Waka Nathan was nicknamed "the Black Panther" by a French newspaper reporter who was impressed by his ability to pursue opponents like the animal?
text: Did you know that the 1974 song " Manchmal feiern wir mitten im Tag " claims that we sometimes celebrate resurrection in the middle of a day?
text: Did you know that William Henry Vanderbilt spent US$2 million on the lavishly designed Triple Palace , but his son found the decor unfashionable?
text: Did you know that African American Ivory Winston sang for President Harry S. Truman 's birthday and was "Iowa's First Lady of Song"?
text: Did you know that yellowtail flounders are able to camouflage and mimic the seafloor?
text: Did you know that the Rhodesian Guard Force was often implicated in criminal activity against the villagers it was meant to protect?
text: Did you know that Whoopee Camp, the developer of Tomba! 2: The Evil Swine Return , dissolved while making their next game?
text: Did you know that Edward Parr 's slave ship was once surrounded by 10 war canoes ?
text: Did you know that the perpetrators of the Kennin Rebellion surrendered when one of their commanders, a female samurai , was wounded?
text: Did you know that Max Creutz , director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Museum in Krefeld from 1922, acquired modern art including a painting by Max Ernst and a large collection of Bauhaus creations?
text: Did you know that in 1981, a customer could have bought a photocopier from an IBM Product Center for $39,000?
text: Did you know that Nintendo 's The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword was designed to be an origin story for the Master Sword ?
text: Did you know that the 1970 board game Blacks & Whites is "strategically designed to make a black win impossible"?
text: Did you know that Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Rawlins proposed that the Rhodesian Army employ witchdoctors as psychological warfare during the Rhodesian Bush War ?
text: Did you know that a voyageur shot himself while taking a gun out of his canoe in Abitibi-De-Troyes Provincial Park ?
text: Did you know that Leland Kirkemo , the skipper of the ship that recovered the crew of Apollo 13 , was played by Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell in the movie ?
text: Did you know that in the 2021 case Fedotova and Others v. Russia , the European Court of Human Rights unanimously ruled that lack of legal recognition for same-sex couples violated human rights?
text: Did you know that the facade of 4 Times Square , made partly of glass and partly of stone, was compared to the two-faced god Janus ?
text: Did you know that the first prayer of " Hilf, Herr meines Lebens ", a Christian song written when its author was age 85, is not to be on earth in vain?
text: Did you know that 1980's Space Encounters video game was the first that Midway Games offered in their "mini myte" arcade game cabinet ?
text: Did you know that a comic award jury wrote that the characters of Nicolas Mahler "have no eyes, no ears, no mouths – but they undoubtedly have character"?
text: Did you know that Margaret Thatcher had to wait while a series of parish ministers objected before she could give her " Sermon on the Mound "?
text: Did you know that Tungia Baker owned a cloak given to her by King Korokī Mahuta ?
text: Did you know that the owners of New York City's Grand Prospect Hall produced and starred in cheaply shot commercials, parodied on Jimmy Kimmel Live! and Saturday Night Live ?
text: Did you know that Peter Macari extorted $500,000 from Qantas Airways , and that more than $200,000 remains unaccounted for?
text: Did you know that the Gabby Petito disappearance has led to renewed media interest in the June 2021 disappearance of Lauren Cho ?
text: Did you know that the Pakistani film Shehr e Tabassum was the first animated cyberpunk film to be made by an Urdu development team?
text: Did you know that Stinson Jarvis believed druids controlled history?
text: Did you know that Pan Am executive Bill Mullahey was nicknamed "Mr. Pacific" for his work promoting tourism to Hawaiʻi and other island destinations?
text: Did you know that Michael Herbig , director of the 2018 film Balloon about the 1979 East German balloon escape , would not have made it without the blessing of the families who carried it out?
text: Did you know that after Norman Dawe died, he was described as "a victim of [ice] hockey because he worked too hard for it"?
text: Did you know that Kanye West 's "Diamonds" was re-recorded as " Diamonds from Sierra Leone " after Q-Tip informed him about blood diamonds in Sierra Leone?
text: Did you know that a hoard of Viking treasure was found in 1912 when it fell out of peat fuel being placed on a fire?
text: Did you know that Indiana's WTAF-TV fought for more than six years to obtain a network affiliation and reached an agreement with NBC just ten days before shutting down for good?
text: Did you know that the Marsh Family 's parody of Les Misérables 's " One Day More " required pizza?
text: Did you know that the Sefine Shipyard in Turkey built a hybrid-electric ferry for Norway?
text: Did you know that in 1345 and 1346 the English repeatedly defeated the French in both north and south-west France ?
text: Did you know that Jo Walton 's An Informal History of the Hugos , which opines that the Hugo Award has a 69-percent success rate, was itself nominated for a Hugo?
text: Did you know that Ham House contains a rare Charles I –era cabinet room, created for the display of miniature paintings?
text: Did you know that the debate in " Game On " invokes the beer question ?
text: Did you know that the bonfires lit on the night of La Venuta recall the miraculous flight of the Holy House of Nazareth to Loreto ?
text: Did you know that chemist R. Nelson Smith replaced his colleague's desk chair with a porcelain toilet?
text: Did you know that ahead of the iPhone 4S 's launch, Apple retail store workers in Rome went on strike using the slogan "Strike Different", a play on words on Apple's " Think Different "?
text: Did you know that Blue Chip Electronics ' low-cost Blue Chip PC was manufactured by Hyundai ?
text: Did you know that Clan Mother Catharine Brant had the right to nominate the Tekarihogen , the most important civil chief of the Mohawk nation ?
text: Did you know that Horselunges Manor was featured in the film The Song Remains the Same about Led Zeppelin ?
text: Did you know that in 1919, Ukrainians were using regular-issue paper money issued in denominations of 0.30, 0.40, 0.90, 1.80, 3.60 and 18 hryvnias ?
text: Did you know that " Oxytocin " was recorded expressly to "be insane live"?
text: Did you know that Laura Jean McKay 's 2020 novel about a fictional pandemic was first written in 2013?
text: Did you know that the Chief Examiner , who first appeared in Questprobe featuring The Hulk , was modeled after game designer Scott Adams ?
text: Did you know that in his sculptures for the Daily Mirror , Ben Enwonwu carved a "religious group" flying news all over the world?
text: Did you know that Zenith equipped the floppy -only models of the Eazy PC with power supplies too weak to accommodate a hard drive?
text: Did you know that after the footballer Romeo Beckham was released by Arsenal, he trained in tennis before returning to football five years later?
text: Did you know that the Düben collection contains the sole surviving copies of many works by Dieterich Buxtehude ?
text: Did you know that the tiny bivalve mollusc Montacuta substriata attaches to the spines of the purple heart urchin , where it resembles a grain of sand?
text: Did you know that Abdullah Aidit did not want his son to change his name, mainly because he did not want to deal with the administrative consequences?
text: Did you know that as a result of David Albala 's lobbying, Serbia became the first country to endorse the Balfour Declaration ?
text: Did you know that when the Louisville National Medical College was founded, it was the only medical school in the city to accept Black students?
text: Did you know that an ancient Chinese medical text suggests that those of low social status will have many illnesses and die more easily?
text: Did you know that a flat on London's Cadogan Lane has been described as "one of the happiest turn-on centres there's ever been" due to experiments with LSD done there?
text: Did you know that the famous campaign slogan "I Like Ike" was associated with the 1952 Draft Eisenhower movement ?
text: Did you know that a painting of a Nigerian princess , unseen for more than 40 years, was discovered in 2017 and sold for more than £1 million?
text: Did you know that when Charles P. Gross became the chairman of the New York City Board of Transportation, the mayor told him that "if you think war is Hell, then you have something waiting for you on this job"?
text: Did you know that Richardson Island was involved in an "annexation war" between two cities in the 1950s?
text: Did you know that after Polish commander Julian Filipowicz was tortured and pronounced dead by the Gestapo , he escaped from the morgue?
text: Did you know that Faith No More 's " Evidence " has drawn comparisons to Burt Bacharach ?
text: Did you know that the brown rock sea cucumber has been used in regeneration research?
text: Did you know that according to legend, the Jain temple of Pisanhari Ki Marhia was built by a poor old woman who saved up money by milling flour?
text: Did you know that the Division of Industrial Hygiene moved from a custom-built laboratory at the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland, to a converted warehouse in Cincinnati as interest in worker health waned?
text: Did you know that Low is higher than its surroundings?
text: Did you know that Anne Wyllie , also known as the "Spit Queen", now has a Wikipedia biography because a healthcare executive asked who she was?
text: Did you know that Ryan Johnson became Stevenage 's youngest player in the club's English Football League history in May 2014, debuting at 17 years and 215 days old?
text: Did you know that more than 1,200 early American publishers and printers were prosecuted for seditious speech by royal colonial authorities?
text: Did you know that after Natsuko Takahashi lost a screenwriting contest because her submission had the wrong theme, she was hired by the examiners?
text: Did you know that in the browser game Neurocracy , players explore a fictional successor to Wikipedia launched in 2049?
text: Did you know that Iyopawa Island 's golf course, despite being on an island, has no water hazards ?
text: Did you know that the impatient sea cucumber readily expels sticky white cuvierian tubules when handled?
text: Did you know that in 2010, ice hockey executive Kirovs Lipmans was reported to be the second-richest person in Latvia?
text: Did you know that Benedict Cumberbatch was originally expected to have a cameo appearance as Dr. Strange in the WandaVision episode " Breaking the Fourth Wall "?
text: Did you know that World War II war criminal Ivo Herenčić worked as an art dealer in Rome after the war?
text: Did you know that L. P. Hollander & Company filed for bankruptcy less than two years after moving its New York City store to 3 East 57th Street ?
text: Did you know that " The Epic Split " featured an actor performing a gymnastic split between two backwards moving trucks?
text: Did you know that academese has been criticized for being unnecessarily complex and in extreme cases, purposefully discriminating and obfuscating?
text: Did you know that the Delphian Club designated John Neal as Magister Facetiarum of the Office of the Joke Master General?
text: Did you know that civil-rights lawyer Ni Yulan , sentenced after recording the forced demolition of homes to make way for the 2008 Beijing Olympics , was prevented from leaving China to accept awards?
text: Did you know that a Communist Party official was represented in Schneiderman v. United States by a previous Republican nominee for president?
text: Did you know that the use of audience immersion in video games has been studied as a strategy for promoting behavior change for the implementation of public health objectives?
text: Did you know that the Science Fiction Awards Database also covers fantasy and horror ?
text: Did you know that Thomas Foxcroft sold 307 people for £9,858?
text: Did you know that the concept of immortality has been featured in fiction since fiction's oldest known work?
text: Did you know that in downtown Seattle , approximately 8,000 bananas are given away daily by Amazon "banistas" under the supervision of their "bananagers"?
text: Did you know that Anton Josef Reiss created a marble Pietà sculpture for Cologne's St. Gereon ?
text: Did you know that the Proseminar in Homophile Studies , one of the first university courses about homosexuality, was held only once?
text: Did you know that monsoons in Asia may contribute to the dry climate of the Mediterranean during summer?
text: Did you know that the racially themed time-travel comedy Timewasters was developed under the working title Black to the Future ?
text: Did you know that the 1909 Forbes Log sent speed measurements remotely to the gunnery calculators used by the Royal Navy ?
text: Did you know that Anoscopus albifrons males can only be differentiated from other species in its genus by examining their aedeagi ?
text: Did you know that William Whaley advised William Earle to "purchase all the elephants teeth you possible can"?
text: Did you know that Show Me the Father is the fourth consecutive film produced by the Kendrick brothers to earn an "A+" grade on CinemaScore ?
text: Did you know that during the First World War, Senegalese Tirailleurs would be withdrawn from the Western Front to overwinter in camps in the south of France or northern Africa ?
text: Did you know that Hylozoic Ground, an interactive architecture model presented in the 18th Biennale of Sydney , is an example of architextiles ?
text: Did you know that Wanda Maximoff was referred to as the " Scarlet Witch " for the first time in the Marvel Cinematic Universe in the WandaVision episode " Previously On "?
text: Did you know that the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Frederick V of the Palatinate included a staged sea-battle between Christian and Turkish ships in the River Thames ?
text: Did you know that William M. King , who was born in Connecticut , lived and worked in New York , Pennsylvania , Ohio , and Missouri before becoming the third speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives ?
text: Did you know that Richard Osman wrote that Squares were invented because "scientists were concerned that children weren't hurting the roofs of their mouths as often as they should be"?
text: Did you know that Smoke Signal Broadcasting encased their Chieftain microcomputer in faux leather ?
text: Did you know that the New Zealand tree Dracophyllum fiordense has distinctive spirals at the ends of its leaves?
text: Did you know that Elizabeth Olsen consulted on the Scarlet Witch costume that debuted in the WandaVision episode " The Series Finale " so it would be less revealing than her past Marvel Cinematic Universe costumes?
text: Did you know that the trumpeting of Karnabo , a figure from Ardennes folklore with an elephant's trunk, is said to be heard during thunderstorms?
text: Did you know that John Rudzinski , defensive coordinator for the Air Force Falcons , coached high school football while stationed at Charleston Air Force Base ?
text: Did you know that Dieter Trautwein gave his 2003 autobiography the same title as his hymn " Komm, Herr, segne uns " (Come, Lord, bless us), for which he wrote the text and music in 1978?
text: Did you know that a dispute over bird droppings was connected to the impeachment of U.S. president Andrew Johnson ?
text: Did you know that the robotic enemies in the video game The Incredible Hulk were influenced by Marvel Comics ' objection to the Hulk killing humanoid characters?
text: Did you know that Miles Dempsey replicated the feat of a distant ancestor by being knighted in the field?
text: Did you know that the 1913 Studebaker strike is regarded as the first major labor strike in the automotive industry?
text: Did you know that in 1786, antiquarian Catherine Downes was one of the first women to excavate a Roman villa?
text: Did you know that the Wapsipinicon Almanac was started "to silence anyone who thinks Iowa doesn't have a literary culture"?
text: Did you know that the founders of the Turkish Republic despised Turkish classical music and tried to censor it?
text: Did you know that one of the smallest known species of frog is Mini scule ?
text: Did you know that when H. P. Lovecraft was five years old, he was told Santa Claus did not exist and responded by asking why " God is not equally a myth"?
text: Did you know that a leaked memo indicating that a government official would receive a bonus payment if she cut $667 million from Ontario's education budget contributed to the 1997 Ontario teachers' strike ?
text: Did you know that the Sharp PC-7000 , compared in shape to a toaster, was manufactured in a factory that also produced Sharp's microwave ovens?
text: Did you know that body image disturbance is a common symptom in patients with eating disorders ?
text: Did you know that in 1799, the federal government of the United States was evacuated to Trenton, New Jersey , due to an outbreak of yellow fever ?
text: Did you know that 50-year-old Lieutenant Colonel John Ford Elkington was reinstated into the British Army in 1916 after winning medals for bravery while serving in the ranks of the French Foreign Legion ?
text: Did you know that in 1863, the Union Navy built a ship with an outhouse serving as the pilothouse ?
text: Did you know that the 1918 book Iowa Authors and Their Works was an attempt to document all Iowa authors and their writing starting from 1880?
text: Did you know that the name of the Squirrel Scouts section of the Scout Association in the United Kingdom was inspired in part by the thriving population of red squirrels on Brownsea Island , where Scouting began?
text: Did you know that the pungent and bitter yet prized Musang King has been called the " Hermès of durian "?
text: Did you know that Washington State Route 971 is the highest-numbered state highway in Washington ?
text: Did you know that the United Nations described Ben Enwonwu 's sculpture Anyanwu as "symbolic of the rising sun" of the new nation of Nigeria?
text: Did you know that an ʻape -leaf design decorates the exterior of the Mabel Smyth Memorial Building in Honolulu ?
text: Did you know that after they met, evolutionary scientist Charles Darwin described Thomas Parr as an "old, miserly squire"?
text: Did you know that pacifist Theodora Wilson Wilson 's science fiction book The Last Weapon was banned by the British Government in 1917?
text: Did you know that Activision teased the video game Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time by sending jigsaw puzzles to members of the press?
text: Did you know that during disaster events, elites will typically shift the focus away from disaster relief towards measures of command and control , a behaviour referred to as elite panic ?
text: Did you know that construction of Wyoming Highway 257 was delayed for several years by an eminent domain lawsuit?
text: Did you know that the lead belt in the English East Midlands is named after the historic use of lead in the wargames miniatures manufactured there?
text: Did you know that today's London Marathon is expected to have 50,000 runners, and another 50,000 virtual competitors?
text: Did you know that Aung Myo Min , Union Minister of Human Rights for the National Unity Government of Myanmar , is the country 's first openly LGBT minister?
text: Did you know that Wickiup Hill has undocumented Native American burial grounds that are protected by Iowa law?
text: Did you know that the UK's former chief immigration adjudicator, Judge Hubert Dunn , published a book on the Irish poet Francis Ledwidge , including some previously unseen poems?
text: Did you know that in a typical tarmac scam someone at your door claims to be a builder working on a contract nearby with some asphalt left over, and offers a cheap deal to resurface your driveway with it?
text: Did you know that the tunnel boring machines that dug the London's new Northern line extension were named after the first British astronaut Helen Sharman , and British aviation pioneer Amy Johnson ?
text: Did you know that the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode " Three's a Crowd " references Fear and Loathing writer Hunter S. Thompson ?
text: Did you know that archaeologists found evidence at Michipicoten Provincial Park on the north shore of Canada's Lake Superior that indigenous people used the site since at least 1100 AD?
text: Did you know that even the manager of Indiana radio station WMCZ confused it with WMEE , leading a federal judge to order the former to change its call sign ?
text: Did you know that Craft Horizons both documented and shaped the changing history of the American craft movement?
text: Did you know that Wolfgang Anheisser was the leading baritone at the Cologne Opera while simultaneously a member of East Berlin's State Opera ?
text: Did you know that the availability of the chemical intermediate 4,7-dichloroquinoline facilitated the discovery of hydroxychloroquine in 1949?
text: Did you know that a "lake" of liquid CO 2 exists underground at Yonaguni Knoll IV ?
text: Did you know that after Williams won the 2012 Spanish Grand Prix a conspiracy theory emerged which argued that the team had been given special tyres?
text: Did you know that Battle of Demons was first published on an original fiction website in 2004?
text: Did you know that the apartments and hotel rooms at Time Warner Center did not have internet from Time Warner because it was too expensive?
text: Did you know that the South American plant Phyla canescens has invaded wetlands and floodplains in the Murray–Darling basin of Australia?
text: Did you know that Winchester Highlands station was used for church meetings in the 1880s?
text: Did you know that Bob Jahnke started the first Māori visual arts degree programme in New Zealand in 1991?
text: Did you know that Kathryn Gromatski was the first Miss Wool of Texas in 1952?
text: Did you know that Zhang Shangwu , a two-time gold medal gymnast at the Universiade , turned to stealing and begging in the streets after his competitive career ended with an injury?
text: Did you know that The Rolling Stones ' single " Good Time Women ", released in 2010, formed the basis for their 1972 hit single " Tumbling Dice "?
text: Did you know that criticism of armchair theorizing in anthropology has resulted in scholars "coming down off the verandah "?
text: Did you know that Borocera cajani produces a form of wild silk that has been harvested for hundreds of years?
text: Did you know that after failing to establish a colony for black Americans at Abeokuta , Robert Campbell founded the first newspaper in Lagos ?
text: Did you know that the Central Asian Orogenic Belt is a leading laboratory of geologically recent crustal growth?
text: Did you know that the Atari 410 Program Recorder was used to store programs on the Atari 8-bit family , but was also used for computer aided instruction ?
text: Did you know that after Jonas Rose wrecked a second ship, he never worked again?
text: Did you know that the ring shape of the casatiello represents Christ's crown of thorns ?
text: Did you know that James van Riemsdyk once scored a goal for the Philadelphia Flyers on a puck that bounced off of his face and into the net?
text: Did you know that the Epson ActionNote was one of the first Windows laptops with a touchpad ?
text: Did you know that the subjects of the documentary Found discover that they are biological cousins as teenagers?
text: Did you know that a cheat code for the 2003 video game Hulk is hidden in a scene of the film it is based on?
text: Did you know that the sewing-themed board game Patchwork has been described as "devious and cutthroat"?
text: Did you know that the 1977 Yili fire , the deadliest since the founding of the People's Republic of China, was caused by a special jumping firecracker ?
text: Did you know that to print money during the Indonesian National Revolution , Lukman Hakim had to lead a group to the town of Muara Bungo to find a printing machine?
text: Did you know that one owner of Montana radio station KXGF went from owning a stake in a waterbed dealership to liquidating his assets in a span of six months?
text: Did you know that in 2018, 41 out of 45 members of the Malang city council were arrested for corruption?
text: Did you know that Frederick Ashton choreographed the ballet Rhapsody for both Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother 's 80th birthday, and Mikhail Baryshnikov 's guest appearance with the Royal Ballet ?
text: Did you know that California radio station KNCR was fined by the Federal Communications Commission for moving its transmitter site without permission after being evicted?
text: Did you know that the most significant rock from New Caledonia is peridotite , which comes from the Earth's mantle ?
text: Did you know that UMass interim football coach Alex Miller started in all fifty games of his playing career at UMass?
text: Did you know that with the album Speak Now , Taylor Swift became the first female musician to have 11 songs on the Billboard Hot 100 in the same week?
text: Did you know that models couple up at Fish-MIP ?
text: Did you know that in Toplak and Mrak v. Slovenia —initiated by two disabled voters over polling place access in a gay marriage referendum—the European Court of Human Rights extended its jurisdiction to referendums?
text: Did you know that Frédéric Blanc won an international organ improvisation prize in Paris and became titular organist at Notre-Dame d'Auteuil , which features a Cavaillé-Coll organ?
text: Did you know that the documentary series Exotic and Unusual Fishes of North America included a poaching incident with an arrest?
text: Did you know that England's national club cricket champions, Tunbridge Wells , will compete in the 2022 European Cricket League , which is intended to be the UEFA Champions League of European cricket?
text: Did you know that Shawnee leader Kekewepelethy used Daniel Boone as an intermediary in a prisoner exchange?
text: Did you know that the James Norman Hall Museum is where the The Bounty Trilogy was written?
text: Did you know that it can be hard to know which Snake is which?
text: Did you know that Charles Larson 's The Emergence of African Fiction was an early attempt to get to an "African aesthetic", but in the eyes of critics fell short and implicitly employed European standards?
text: Did you know that Alatchakra: Circle of Desire was the first three-dimensional Bangladeshi film?
text: Did you know that the 1856 Cello Sonata by Charles-Valentin Alkan has been described as "anticipating Gustav Mahler 's juxtaposition of the sublime and the trivial"?
text: Did you know that Pamela McCorduck , who chronicled the evolution of artificial intelligence , regretted not recognizing the technology's potential for misuse ?
text: Did you know that the practice of whaling in the Faroe Islands dates back to the early days of Norse settlement during the Viking Era?
text: Did you know that with eight nominations, Peter Hylenski has been nominated for the Tony Award for Best Sound Design more often than anyone else – but only won once?
text: Did you know that one critic opined that "it's hard to fall for Falling for Figaro "?
text: Did you know that there were so many facts in The Shorter Cambridge Medieval History that some reviewers wondered whether it was a chronicle rather than a history?
text: Did you know that The Occupation of the American Mind sought to explore the United States' steadfast support for Israel in the face of the latter's controversial actions?
text: Did you know that Gustav Mahler 's Fourth Symphony was premiered to boos, anger, and confusion in the audience?
text: Did you know that the police officers who murdered Jared Lakey on July 4, 2019, shocked him more than 50 times with tasers even though he was unarmed and not combative?
text: Did you know that My Child Lebensborn was among the first wave of video games that were allowed to show the swastika in Germany ?
text: Did you know that the 1967 Fairmont State Falcons won West Virginia's first national title in football ?
text: Did you know that rather than the usual supplies of ammunition, a bored British commander used a Popham panel to request the actress Mae West ?
text: Did you know that " Wenn das Brot, das wir teilen " (When the bread that we share), a hymn written in 1981, begins with a reference to the Miracle of the Roses ?
text: Did you know that Jean Walton stopped the Pomona College football team from forcibly weighing and measuring the proportions of first-year women?
text: Did you know that the 1968 Ruby Tower collapse was caused by an earthquake centered more than 200 km (120 mi) away?
text: Did you know that Kobe Shoji escaped 120 °F (49 °C) heat at the Poston Internment Camp by enlisting in the U.S. Army's 442nd Infantry Regiment ?
text: Did you know that a bug in Crab Game caused multiple IP addresses to be leaked?
text: Did you know that Meadow Walker was walked down the aisle by Vin Diesel ?
text: Did you know that whenever some of the people in a party shake hands, the number of people who shake an odd number of other people's hands is even ?
text: Did you know that the undefeated 1963 and 1965 Saint John's Johnnies won NAIA Football National Championships under the leadership of a coach who won more games than any other in college football history?
text: Did you know that an equivalence between algebraic and geometric definitions of constructible numbers helps prove the impossibility of squaring the circle ?
text: Did you know that a reviewer from The Guardian noted after a concert at The Proms that Jonathon Heyward led Beethoven's Third Symphony "from memory – a fast and fearless performance"?
text: Did you know that on each turn of the board game Broom Service , a player can choose to be brave or cowardly?
text: Did you know that Valerie Broussard 's video for " Iris " pays homage to the Goo Goo Dolls ' original?
text: Did you know that the London Forum , a British far-right organization, was described by an anti-fascist magazine as "[bridging] the fascist and Tory right"?
text: Did you know that it was said that public school teacher Arthur Hathaway Hewitt " 'hath-a-way' of striking terror into the hearts of all who dare oppose him"?
text: Did you know that after being selected at the age of five for a role in the film Soldier Boy , Andrey Andreev memorized the entire 100-page script?
text: Did you know that the 1959 Texas A&I Javelinas football team won the first of the school's seven NAIA Football National Championships?
text: Did you know that Thomas Guggeis , who studied conducting and quantum mechanics , began at the Berlin State Opera as an assistant of Daniel Barenboim and became the youngest Staatskapellmeister there?
text: Did you know that the title of the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode " Filli Vanilli " references the lip-syncing scandal of the German-French R&B duo Milli Vanilli ?
text: Did you know that Aline Rocha , the first Brazilian woman to compete at the Winter Paralympic Games , also came third in the women's wheelchair race at the 2021 Berlin Marathon ?
text: Did you know that according to Human Rights Watch , U.S. maximum pressure against Iran has seriously threatened Iranians' right to health and access to essential medicines including those of cancer patients?
text: Did you know that John Shakespeare wanted to impale his wife's family on his coat of arms ?
text: Did you know that Ryan Grubb was on the football coaching staff at South Dakota State University while pursuing a master's degree in sports pedagogy?
text: Did you know that Squaring the Circle is Sneaker Pimps ' first album in almost 20 years?
text: Did you know that George Balanchine choreographed his ballet Scherzo à la Russe for the New York City Ballet 's Stravinsky Festival, a tribute to the composer after his death?
text: Did you know that Cédric Wermuth , the co-president of the Swiss Social Democrats , was once fined for squatting ?
text: Did you know that all charges against John S. Marmaduke for killing a fellow Confederate general in a duel were later dropped?
text: Did you know that Jean Pierson , the former CEO of Airbus , once unbuckled his belt and dropped his trousers when pressed for a hard bargain while selling commercial jets?
text: Did you know that a reviewer thought that the two-part " Friendship Is Magic " "[flies] off the rails in an orgy of oddly Spielbergian effects and philosophizing" during its climax?
text: Did you know that Earth 300 has designed a climate research vessel that would include a molten salt reactor and a quantum computer ?
text: Did you know that the NBA 75 includes the only league MVP who was not among the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History ?
text: Did you know that Hunuki Hunukitama traveled to Baltimore to negotiate the establishment of a Korean holy city in Niue ?
text: Did you know that the audience screamed when Ethel Merman first sang " Sam and Delilah "?
text: Did you know that the starfish Luidia maculata eats its prey whole, and often leaves behind inedible fragments in the hollow in which it was lying?
text: Did you know that climatologist Geert Jan van Oldenborgh 's work was instrumental in proving that the 2021 European floods were made more likely by climate change ?
text: Did you know that Carol Publishing Group distributed a suicide manual?
text: Did you know that pushbacks of migrants in the Aegean Sea have been described as "a human rights violation that encapsulates a will to eliminate a person's presence on the face of the planet"?
text: Did you know that when Oregon journalist Larry Smyth was asked who he thought would win presidential elections, he invariably replied "the man who gets the most votes"?
text: Did you know that the Central Khalsa Orphanage houses the first Guru Granth Sahib in braille ?
text: Did you know that Montana television station KOPR-TV brought forward its start date by several months, only to last just one year?
text: Did you know that Esther Ze Naw , who appeared on the 2021 Time 100 , was one of the few people in Myanmar who protested against Aung San Suu Kyi 's defence of the military at the International Court of Justice in December 2019?
text: Did you know that Capitalism in America was shortlisted for the 2018 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award ?
text: Did you know that Kitty Ponse successfully changed the sex of toads?
text: Did you know that the classic board game Jacquet was the benchmark for all tables games in France during the 19th century?
text: Did you know that Charles Larson became one of the first Americans to teach African literature, after working in Nigeria for the Peace Corps to avoid the Vietnam draft?
text: Did you know that the Filipino fraternity Alpha Phi Beta has been involved in instances of violence, including getting mauled by rival fraternities, such as Sigma Rho ?
text: Did you know that after he died in September 2021, John Boyden was revealed to have written under the pseudonym "Lunchtime O'Boulez"?
text: Did you know that a short version of the Japanese stop motion film Junk Head was favorably reviewed by director Guillermo del Toro ?
text: Did you know that the sea slug Philinopsis depicta has no radula or jaws, and is thought to protrude its foregut and suck up its prey whole?
text: Did you know that according to American sociologist Pauline Bart , "everything is data, but data isn't everything"?
text: Did you know that Nicholas Hasselbach introduced the first printing press to colonial Maryland in 1765?
text: Did you know that the Commission on Elections was allowed to tabulate the results of the 2002 Puerto Princesa mayoral recall election but could not declare a winner right away?
text: Did you know that Herb Plambeck was the founder of the National Plowing Match in Dexter, Iowa ?
text: Did you know that Cimbrian seeresses are said to have predicted the future by slitting the throats of war prisoners and studying how the blood trickled down into a cauldron?
text: Did you know that the tributary Walnut Creek in Iowa was named for the black walnut trees which once lined the creek before early settlers cleared them?
text: Did you know that Friedrich Hefty could not become an officer in the Austro-Hungarian Aviation Troops because of his interest in aviation?
text: Did you know that the developer of Art Sqool did not attend art school?
text: Did you know that the release of Lee Hyori 's album It's Hyorish had to be moved forward after several tracks were illegally leaked?
text: Did you know that Sam Gamgee was modelled on Great War batmen ?
text: Did you know that fashion model Rebecca Leigh Longendyke was inspired by Grey's Anatomy to get a degree in biomedical engineering?
text: Did you know that Miriam Soljak , after fighting to recover her New Zealand nationality for nearly three decades, was told that the government considered she had never lost it?
text: Did you know that men who refused, when challenged, to take an oath of loyalty to the government were not permitted to vote in the 1861 Maryland gubernatorial election ?
text: Did you know that although Sultan Muhammad Kaharuddin III died in 1975, his son only succeeded him in 2011?
text: Did you know that to make the Belasco Theatre comfortable for performers, David Belasco banned spitting onto the floor?
text: Did you know that Russel and Mary Wright 's American design "manifesto" Guide to Easier Living proposed that life was "engineering problems with scientific solutions"?
text: Did you know that the telephone exchange in Craig's Court contains one of the entrances to the secret government tunnels under London?
text: Did you know that Bob Ferry became general manager of the Washington Bullets by selling advertisements for its game programs, giving its upper management the impression that he "must know a lot about business"?
text: Did you know that the tourist attraction Little Canada has a "Littlization Station" used to create scale 3D replicas of visitors to be placed in the exhibit?
text: Did you know that 14 top art students in the Russian Empire revolted and quit their academy because of a competition theme?
text: Did you know that Nancy Cappello was described as the "founder of the breast density education movement" for her campaign to inform women about the issue of mammograms failing to detect breast cancer ?
text: Did you know that the biggest Turdus is 23–28 centimetres (9–10 inches) in length?
text: Did you know that Pteronepelys is known as the "winged stranger"?
text: Did you know that only four NBA players have been named to all four of the league's anniversary teams ?
text: Did you know that staff members of the Embassy of the Philippines to the Holy See would stack rosaries by the windows so they could be blessed by the Pope?
text: Did you know that when the New Jersey–born military officer Samuel Gibbs French sided with the South in the U.S. Civil War, residents of Woodbury, New Jersey , hanged him in effigy and stormed his summer home?
text: Did you know that while stealing Pablo Picasso's 1939 painting Woman's Head , the thief cut his hand and claimed to have wiped the blood on a 16th-century sketch that he flushed down the toilet?
text: Did you know that the first train headlight was simply a bonfire on a train car pushed in front of a locomotive?
text: Did you know that while The New York Times Building was designed to protect against terrorist attacks, planners did not consider that the façade could be climbed until several people scaled it?
text: Did you know that it has cost about the same to maintain Broomhead and More Hall Reservoirs as it did to build them in the first place?
text: Did you know that Brazilian wheelchair racer Vanessa Cristina de Souza won a race despite completing the last two kilometres (1.2 mi) with a flat tyre?
text: Did you know that the Sky Pool is both a swimming pool and a bridge between two apartment buildings?
text: Did you know that Coastal Carolina football coach Chad Staggs has degrees in math education and tourism management ?
text: Did you know that the dust jacket of the book A Brightness Long Ago contained specks of gold foil ?
text: Did you know that Billy Strings 's 2019 album Home stayed on Billboard 's Bluegrass Albums chart for 77 consecutive weeks?
text: Did you know that despite its common name of Santa Rita Mountain aster, Symphyotrichum potosinum can no longer be found in the Santa Rita Mountains of Arizona?
text: Did you know that Stembridge Gun Rentals supplied so many firearms to the film industry that when Chaplin producers asked for a rifle similar to that in Shoulder Arms , Stembridge had on hand the actual gun used?
text: Did you know that more than 40 percent of women have dense breast tissue that increases the risk of breast cancer and makes it difficult for mammograms to identify tumors?
text: Did you know that Metropolitan Opera star John Gurney performed " The Star-Spangled Banner " for sporting events in which his son, racing driver Dan Gurney , competed?
text: Did you know that Oscarella tuberculata can reproduce by budding in a process unique among sponges?
text: Did you know that Canadian diver Jeff Hirst won his event at the 1988 Canadian Championships despite having fractured his thumb five weeks before?
text: Did you know that after discovering the mass graves of the Arnsberg Forest massacre , American soldiers ordered the entire local population to watch the exhumation?
text: Did you know that the 1794 travelogue A Journey Around My Room contains details of the author's visits to his armchair and curtains?
text: Did you know that Rose Lee Maphis and her husband Joe Maphis , known as Mr. and Mrs. Country Music, helped develop the Bakersfield sound ?
text: Did you know that when watercress algae grows on degraded coral reefs, coral larvae settle on the seaweed as  readily as they do on the rubble substrate?
text: Did you know that Elizabeth Reiter portrayed the double role of Renee, an "icy wife", and Alice, an "insatiable lover", in the German premiere of Olga Neuwirth's opera Lost Highway ?
text: Did you know that Guy Gavriel Kay , author of Children of Earth and Sky , has been described as "contemporary fiction's finest fantasist"?
text: Did you know that in the late 2000s the Campbell Soup Company began producing a spicier canned cheese sauce in their California and Texas plants than they did elsewhere to cater for different consumer tastes?
text: Did you know that Miray Cin played for the Germany women's national U15, U16 and U17 football teams before she became a member of the Turkey women's national football team ?
text: Did you know that Phoenix radio station KTAR bought television station KTYL-TV to avoid a conflict with former U.S. senator Ernest McFarland ?
text: Did you know that the 2021 Illinois vs. Penn State football game was the first in NCAA history to reach nine overtimes ?
text: Did you know that racehorse Tipperary Tim won the 1928 Grand National at odds of 100-1?
text: Did you know that the notorious labor spy and killer Charles Lively was so successful infiltrating the coal miners union that he once posed for a photo with the famed labor activist Mother Jones ?
text: Did you know that Symphyotrichum molle , the soft aster, can be found only in the Bighorn Mountains of Montana and Wyoming?
text: Did you know that the title of Something That May Shock and Discredit You , a memoir by Daniel M. Lavery that explores themes including gender transition , is taken from a scene in The Simpsons ?
text: Did you know that although the fruits of Cola verticillata are considered inedible, they contain caffeine and are used to make a beverage?
text: Did you know that upon hearing about a 600-worker walkout reportedly prompted by difficulties she caused, Dee Duponte responded "fiddlesticks"?
text: Did you know that the Allenby Formation has been called part of a "Great Canadian Lagerstätte "?
text: Did you know that Satrio used water buffaloes to vaccinate 240,000 people against smallpox ?
text: Did you know that the Cello Sonata by John Foulds features quarter tones in the second movement, but it is uncertain if he introduced them in the 1905 version or the 1927 revision?
text: Did you know that Scottish novelist Isla Dewar said "if ... a thing is not worth doing then it's worth doing fabulously, amazingly, with grace, style and panache"?
text: Did you know that The West Wing episode " 17 People " has an entire website created by a "superfan" with the sole purpose of explaining it?
text: Did you know that Indian cricketer Bangalore Jayaram 's English styled Mashie Lodge, was named after his favourite golf club, the Mashie Niblick ?
text: Did you know that the developers of the video game Golf Club: Wasteland jokingly announced that they would only sell one copy at a price of $500 million?
text: Did you know that Scott Isphording coached golf and baseball for a time while on the football coaching staff at Wittenberg University ?
text: Did you know that German fashion magazine Der Bazar had many spin offs, including Harper's Bazaar ?
text: Did you know that Ally Condie 's dystopian Matched trilogy was inspired by a high school prom?
text: Did you know that Iris Murdoch wrote a poem juxtaposing the outbreak of World War II with a seminar by Eduard Fraenkel ?
text: Did you know that, after tolerating him for years, the Ministry of Internal Affairs III expelled Carlos the Jackal from Hungary after the bombing of Radio Free Europe's headquarters in Munich ?
text: Did you know that the crew of a U.S. Navy blimp mysteriously disappeared over the Pacific Ocean in 1942?
text: Did you know that Wikipedia editors wrote over 40,000 words arguing over a single letter ?
text: Did you know that the Turkish government tried to have the German music video " Erdowie, Erdowo, Erdogan " taken down because it insulted Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan ?
text: Did you know that it was British classicist Courtenay Edward Stevens who suggested that Allied radio broadcasts during the Second World War use the opening notes of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony as a signature theme?
text: Did you know that students and faculty from Fuchs Mizrachi School protested at Nazi guard John Demjanjuk 's home in 1993, objecting to his release from Israeli prison and residence in the United States?
text: Did you know that Ask la Cour , who came from Denmark, only planned to perform with the New York City Ballet for a few years, but spent two decades there and became a principal dancer ?
text: Did you know that glaciation in Wisconsin 17 thousand years ago helped create its unique geography ?
text: Did you know that after Gaudelia Díaz won a bronze medal at the 1992 Paralympics, she was asked to join Televisa by its CEO?
text: Did you know that the Boston, Barre and Gardner Railroad never actually reached Boston or Barre ?
text: Did you know that the leader of the male Ustaše Youth group claimed to have placed ears of the Serbs he murdered on his necklace?
text: Did you know that in Connecticut, there are statues of Revolutionary War hero Israel Putnam in Brooklyn , in Hartford , and in Redding ?
text: Did you know that the World Bank 's Open Knowledge Repository was called "one of the most important hubs for economic scholarship in the world" by Creative Commons ?
text: Did you know that reporter Bobbie Wygant got her first television show after filling in while its host was sick with the flu?
text: Did you know that the Space Launch System rocket will generate nearly nine million pounds of thrust at liftoff?
text: Did you know that David Arquette donated his earnings from his appearances in World Championship Wrestling to the families of dead and injured wrestlers?
text: Did you know that Didi Gregorius tweets after every game his baseball team wins, and has dedicated emojis for his teammates?
text: Did you know that the song " House Party " by Super Junior was praised by Tedros Adhanom , the director-general of the WHO ?
text: Did you know that John Carter started his career as an early American colonial printer working as the apprentice of Benjamin Franklin ?
text: Did you know that the sea slug Berthellina edwardsii secretes a white acidic fluid that is distasteful to fish?
text: Did you know that the new head coach for Washington State Cougars football once played in a football game two weeks after an appendectomy ?
text: Did you know that a wreck rediscovered in the former Royal Navy dockyard in Antigua in 2021 might be that of the French ship Beaumont , captured by the British in 1778?
text: Did you know that surgeon Margaret Louden developed a treatment for people crushed by rubble during the The Blitz , but her contribution was forgotten until the 1990s?
text: Did you know that when a ban on developing the Hotel Macklowe was revoked two years early, some New York City Council members said they did not realize that they had voted to rescind the ban?
text: Did you know that Ernie Ross , the Member of Parliament for Dundee West , was nicknamed "the MP for Nablus West" due to his support of Palestinian nationalism ?
text: Did you know that the 1979 German song " Selig seid ihr, wenn ihr einfach lebt " offers eight beatitudes which include a blessing for living simply, and another for daring to be kind?
text: Did you know that Myrtle Edwards 's family objected to Seattle's Gas Works Park being named after her?
text: Did you know that the protagonist of the novel Long Live the Post Horn! campaigns against a real European Union Directive ?
text: Did you know that the paddle steamer Keystone State was rumored to be carrying gold when she sank?
text: Did you know that Khin Maung Lat , a servant at the king's palace in Ratnagiri , India, eloped with Princess Myat Phaya Lat against the will of the king and queen?
text: Did you know that in 2017, the Hudson Theatre was both the newest Broadway theater and one of the oldest?
text: Did you know that the original name of the sidewheel steamer CSS Maurepas , Grosse Tete , means "big head" in French?
text: Did you know that the Russian Fort Raim was built in 1847 around the ruined mausoleum of Kazakh warrior Raiymbek Batyr ?
text: Did you know that after plans for the skyscraper Sutton 58 prompted a height limit for the surrounding area, construction went ahead anyway?
text: Did you know that Osman Çakmak won the European Amputee Football Championship as a player in 2017 and as a manager in 2021 with the Turkey national team ?
text: Did you know that Sherita Hill Golden demonstrated that diabetics were more likely to develop depression and that those with depression were more likely to become diabetic?
text: Did you know that the Japanese variety show Say You to Yo Asobi collaborated with the Japan Racing Association to create a special video about the Takarazuka Kinen horse race?
text: Did you know that prior to entering politics, Bonifasius Belawan Geh collected edible bird's nests from the jungle after dropping out of college?
text: Did you know that Luc Tardif Sr. gained French citizenship in order to further his ice hockey career?
text: Did you know that " Möge die Straße uns zusammenführen ", a German song based on Irish toasts , was ranked fourth in a recent survey of favourite hymns ?
text: Did you know that Kane Ioane finished his playing career at Montana State as the Big Sky Conference 's all-time tackles leader?
text: Did you know that IBM spent US$50 million to develop the PCradio and expected to sell 100,000 units, but ended up selling just under 10,000?
text: Did you know that Gerd Ruge received a twelve-year entry ban to the Soviet Union for having helped his friend Boris Pasternak financially?
text: Did you know that the 1905 monument to the King's Liverpool Regiment is inscribed with the words Nec Aspera Terrent ("Difficulties be Damned")?
text: Did you know that American evangelist J. Charles Jessup was called "The Great Gaspy"?
text: Did you know that even though Australian citizens are no longer British subjects , they can still vote in elections and stand for parliament in the United Kingdom?
text: Did you know that Samsi Sastrawidagda , Indonesia's first finance minister, once leased the veranda of future president Sukarno 's house for his accountant's office?
text: Did you know that the RADCAL satellite, designed to have a three-year lifespan, operated for almost twenty?
text: Did you know that the philosopher Emil Utitz , a classmate of Franz Kafka , became the head librarian of Theresienstadt Ghetto ?
text: Did you know that none of the six then-living CCNY players were interviewed for the 1998 documentary film City Dump: The Story of the 1951 CCNY Basketball Scandal ?
text: Did you know that New Zealand association football coach Olli Harder has worked in the US, China, Norway and England?
text: Did you know that Miller's Anatomy of the Dog , a textbook dedicated to canines, was found by a specialist feline publication to be bereft of information about cats?
text: Did you know that Lars Fause is the first governor of Svalbard to use the gender-neutral title Sysselmester ?
text: Did you know that the French animated film The Summit of the Gods is based on a Japanese manga series ?
text: Did you know that the Pixel 6 is the first smartphone to be powered by the Google Tensor system on a chip (SoC)?
text: Did you know that Broadway producer Richard Aldrich penned a biography on his wife, the actress Gertrude Lawrence ,  after her death from cancer?
text: Did you know that the 1996 song " Gott hat mir längst einen Engel gesandt ", with text by Eugen Eckert and music by Thomas Gabriel , began as part of a rock oratorio about Daniel ?
text: Did you know that Rise Bar 's management spent more than US$110,000 soundproofing the space, which holds just 74 patrons?
text: Did you know that despite not being an economist, Sunarjo Kolopaking became dean for the faculty of economics at the University of Indonesia ?
text: Did you know that to reflect the neighbourhood's heritage as a songbird-watching community, Singapore's Mayflower MRT station is decorated with 22 bird sculptures?
text: Did you know that Earl Old Person , lifetime honorary Chief of the Blackfeet Nation , inadvertently broke a 1000-year tradition in 1971 when he asked the Shah of Iran to stand up?
text: Did you know that the plant Dyssodia papposa was given to horses for coughs by the Dakota and smoked for epilepsy by the Keres ?
text: Did you know that the first pendulum clock was invented in 1657 by Christiaan Huygens ?
text: Did you know that Kursdorf is "the loudest village in Germany" and a "sound inferno"?
text: Did you know that Ed Beauvais co-founded the "darling of deregulation "?
text: Did you know that workers have the right to sit in some jurisdictions?
text: Did you know that Andreas Reize assumed the post of Thomaskantor as the first Swiss and the first Catholic since the Reformation ?
text: Did you know that Johann Reinhold Forster 's 1778 book Observations Made During a Voyage Round the World has been described as "the beginning of modern geography"?
text: Did you know that Marguerite Dunlap sang in the first radio broadcast of WEAF in New York?
text: Did you know that the streaming service Alchemiya has been dubbed the "Muslim Netflix"?
text: Did you know that David Whitaker has been called "the father of the ISBN "?
text: Did you know that for his appearance in the fourth-season finale of The Drew Carey Show , Hal Linden spoke with a German accent because he had trouble speaking with a Dutch accent?
text: Did you know that Indonesian historian Sartono Kartodirdjo 's father wanted him to be a doctor, but he refused as he claimed to be afraid of blood ?
text: Did you know that a complaint over an allegedly illegal transmitter move led to Texas radio station KFQX-FM being forced off the air for four hours in 1988?
text: Did you know that future rear admiral Robert Wertheim had a hand in the naming of the MIM-72 Chaparral ?
text: Did you know that Bagenal's Castle was originally thought to have been destroyed, but was rediscovered in 1996 in the premises of a bakery?
text: Did you know that David Kennedy , co-founder of the agency that came up with Nike 's Just Do It campaign, was once gifted 50 pairs of Levi's denims by his employees?
text: Did you know that White Lake Provincial Park is the only provincial park in Ontario , Canada, with an exceptional provision allowing hydroelectric activity as a non-conforming use?
text: Did you know that the painter and writer Hilda Vīka was involved in Latvian neopaganism and used Latvian mythology in her works?
text: Did you know that the non-fiction book Corvus: A Life with Birds focuses on a rook named after a drag queen called "Madame Chickeboumskaya"?
text: Did you know that there are three hydroelectric generating stations on the White River in Northern Ontario , Canada, all part-owned by First Nations ?
text: Did you know that Iranian-American aerospace engineer Joe Youssefi was posthumously awarded a gold medal for his collection of Persian stamps?
text: Did you know that actor Frankie Muniz praised the Blackstarkids for their track "Frankie Muniz"?
text: Did you know that the English botanists Jane Ingham and Joseph Hubert Priestley were the first to separate cell walls from meristematic tissues in broad beans ?
text: Did you know that KMXO near Abilene, Texas , aired the region's first Spanish-language radio program and later became its first full-time Spanish-language station?
text: Did you know that hinges on arch bridges were introduced in 1858 and remain popular in modern civil engineering?
text: Did you know that a branch line of the New Haven and Northampton Railroad was so difficult to build, the area was nicknamed " Satan's Kingdom "?
text: Did you know that some lawyers and privacy experts have questioned the constitutionality of reverse search warrants in the United States?
text: Did you know that Anne Makemie Holden bequeathed land to her male relatives so that they could vote?
text: Did you know that Julius Caesar 's portrayal of his actions in the Gallic Wars have led historians to call him one of history's first " spin doctors "?
text: Did you know that Lorenza Böttner , a mouth and foot painter , had both of her arms amputated following an electric shock?
text: Did you know that the 1992 book A Song for Arbonne is set in a fantasy world loosely based on 12th-century Provence ?
text: Did you know that former judge Steve Alm 's successful campaign to be elected Prosecuting Attorney of Honolulu was endorsed by the State of Hawaii Organization of Police Officers in 2019?
text: Did you know that after starring in several films directed by Umberto Lenzi , actor Me Me Lai later worked as a police officer who confiscated them as " video nasties "?
text: Did you know that the woman of the Chatti was allegedly a Germanic prophetess whose advice inspired Roman Emperor Vitellius to murder his own mother, Sextilia ?
text: Did you know that in October 2021, American wheelchair racer Yen Hoang came in the top three in marathons on consecutive days?
text: Did you know that the first East German embassy in Africa opened in Zanzibar in 1964?
text: Did you know that American Computer and Peripheral was the first company to offer a plug-in board for Intel 's 386 processor?
text: Did you know that thanks to the advocate general 's opinion, one is likely to know the outcome of a court case before the European Court of Justice before it even starts drafting the ruling?
text: Did you know that SpaceX 's reusable Starship launch vehicle has twice as much thrust as the Apollo program 's Saturn V ?
text: Did you know that Canadian politician Above Znoneofthe chose his name so as to be placed last on alphabetical ballots?
text: Did you know that the original release of Jason Shiga 's comic Demon included a four-page issue, a sixty-page issue, and an issue in which all the panels were black?
text: Did you know that 125 years ago today, the lifeboat Henry Ramey Upcher rescued the fourteen-man crew of the SS Commodore and three fishermen who had been stranded aboard her?
text: Did you know that the women's race at today's New York City Marathon will feature two of the medalists from this year's Olympic marathon ?
text: Did you know that Osa Maliki opposed the introduction of the Guided Democracy , and as a result was removed from his position?
text: Did you know that Cwmhiraeth 's name roughly translates to "valley of longing"?
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 Citizens Square was almost named after Fort Wayne 's Harry Baals ?
text: Did you know that Colombian-born Susan Bernal is developing new cements that can reduce the substantial CO 2 emissions currently caused by concrete?
text: Did you know that the Columbus was a disposable ship , built from large quantities of North American timber and intended to be sailed to London where she would be dismantled to avoid cargo import duties?
text: Did you know that deleted articles on Wikipedia may be " salted " so that they cannot be recreated?
text: Did you know that Cher Scarlett is one of the leaders of #AppleToo , a workers' rights movement at Apple Inc. ?
text: Did you know that flowers of the arctic dandelion do not need to be pollinated in order to set seed?
text: Did you know that British Turk Hüseyin Er won world and European championships with the Turkey national deaf football team?
text: Did you know that a U.S. Supreme Court case had "odd bedfellows"?
text: Did you know that the African zebrawood is in danger of becoming extinct?
text: Did you know that landscape architect Harriet Pattison collaborated with her lover Louis Kahn on the design of Four Freedoms Park and the grounds of the Kimbell Art Museum ?
text: Did you know that climate change in Malaysia may cause its mangroves to be inundated by sea level rise by 2060?
text: Did you know that Małgorzata Kalinowska-Iszkowska was awarded a Polish Gold Cross of Merit for her work in information technology ?
text: Did you know that the Nashua, Acton and Boston Railroad was also known as the "Red Line" because it was consistently unprofitable?
text: Did you know that the railway network in Lithuania will have its first high-speed line by 2026?
text: Did you know that a mock funeral was held outside company headquarters during the 1986–1987 John Deere strike in which 700 union workers ceremoniously burned a coffin and a Christmas tree covered in company hats?
text: Did you know that in 1776 Robert Bell was commissioned by Thomas Paine to print Common Sense , considered the most inciteful work of the American Revolution?
text: Did you know that the Raytheon 704 , which cost more than $10,000 in 1970, was the first computer used for playing games by mail?
text: Did you know that Marie Surcouf was the president of Stella, a club for French women aeronauts ?
text: Did you know that investment fund Engine No. 1 waged a successful proxy battle against ExxonMobil despite owning only 0.02 percent of the oil company's shares?
text: Did you know that Hans Haselböck , later an international concert organist and professor at the Vienna Music Academy , began 65 years as organist at the Dominican Church, Vienna , on 4 November 1949?
text: Did you know that for more than six decades no federal supreme court existed in the German territories until the Reichsoberhandelsgericht was formed in 1869?
text: Did you know that a reviewer said that Richard Osman 's The Man Who Died Twice has "more holes than a dodgy knitting pattern" but he "enjoyed every minute"?
text: Did you know that Arkansas linebacker Grant Morgan , originally a walk-on himself, signed a personality rights deal with Walk-On's Bistreaux and Bar?
text: Did you know that melodies by Guillaume Franc , composed to French psalms published in Geneva in 1542, are still in use in the 21st century?
text: Did you know that Reply Corporation went from competing against IBM with clones of the PS/2 to selling upgrade motherboards for them?
text: Did you know that a group of farmers discovered The Young Woman of Amajac while preparing to till a citrus field?
text: Did you know that Nintendo constructed a special retail box for The Incredible Hulk that features a comic strip built into its cover?
text: Did you know that Grey Gowrie , while holding office under Margaret Thatcher , described himself as "Irishman with a Scots name and a German wife, working, somewhat to his surprise, for a very English government"?
text: Did you know that the type specimen of the icefish Pagetodes , a synonym of Cryodraco , was stolen and eaten by a cat before it could be preserved?
text: Did you know that the 1936 Northeastern United States Flood directly led to the passage of the Flood Control Act of 1936 by the United States Congress?
text: Did you know that with a force of just 3,500 men, French lieutenant colonel Natalis Constant Darche was able to hold up the advance of the German 5th Army for three weeks at Longwy in August 1914?
text: Did you know that Piecemeal , who appeared in The Incredible Hulk: The Pantheon Saga , was considered one of the strangest characters to appear in a Marvel video game?
text: Did you know that according to science fiction essayist Jacques Van Herp , the novella The End of Illa caused the temporary decline of French science fiction?
text: Did you know that Mother Teresa defended Jesuit priest and child molester Donald McGuire against sexual abuse allegations?
text: Did you know that in 1987, fans of C.D. Guadalajara attempted to dress the statue of Minerva in the team's shirt?
text: Did you know that Lieutenant Colonel Richard John Andrews survived the Second Boer War , the First World War , the Russian Civil War and the Irish War of Independence only to be killed by a defective tool in his garage?
text: Did you know that at one point in its political history , the Philippines was represented in the Spanish Cortes Generales ?
text: Did you know that Johannes Schröder composed an oratorio honouring Katharina Kaspar , who became a new saint in 2018?
text: Did you know that HMS Cicala was commanded at the 1941 Battle of Hong Kong by a one-armed veteran of the 1916 Battle of Jutland ?
text: Did you know that Robert Weiner taught AP English Literature while coaching football at Henry B. Plant High School ?
text: Did you know that it took five years of observations to find the planet orbiting the star HD 175167 ?
text: Did you know that manuscript illuminator Gioacchino de' Gigantibus worked for six different popes during his lifetime?
text: Did you know that Hogwarts School of Prayer and Miracles rewrote Harry Potter to replace magic with prayer and supernatural phenomena?
text: Did you know that the account of the Haliurunas in the 6th century history of the Goths, the Getica , is a precursor to later Christian traditions that wise women had sex and orgies with demons and the Devil?
text: Did you know that the New Amsterdam Theatre , once described as "a vision of gorgeousness", later had dead cats in the basement and mushrooms growing through the floor?
text: Did you know that from 1960 to 1981, executions in East Germany took place in Leipzig Prison in the middle of a residential area?
text: Did you know that the Battle of Saint Charles featured what is known as the deadliest shot of the American Civil War ?
text: Did you know that the Germanic seeress Waluburg is only known from a pot shard found on the island Elephantine in southern Egypt?
text: Did you know that the opera The Devil and Daniel Webster features a jury of ghosts made up of famous historical American figures who are now residents of Hell; including the pirate Blackbeard ?
text: Did you know that Florissantia flowers were possibly pollinated by bats?
text: Did you know that Re'quan Boyette was named to the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) Good Works Team in 2008, making him the second Duke player to receive the honor?
text: Did you know that a group of self-employed women on the island of Cikobia-i-Ra donate 10 percent of their earnings to combat climate change?
text: Did you know that George Mackaness showed that by infecting mice with intracellular bacteria, macrophages could be activated to attack other bacteria?
text: Did you know that the specific and common names of the Argentine seabass refer to different countries?
text: Did you know that Ingeborg Beugel left Greece following death threats and reported attacks after she questioned the prime minister about pushbacks ?
text: Did you know that Chninkel , a Franco-Belgian comic mixing Tolkien-like fantasy with Biblical themes, has been translated into several languages?
text: Did you know that trade negotiator Michael Smith 's negotiating style was summarized by a sign at his office door that read "This is not Burger King "?
text: Did you know that among the traditions of the University of Texas at Arlington are bed racing and oozeball ?
text: Did you know that Brazilian student Bruno Borges disappeared , leaving fourteen handwritten encrypted books and a statue over two metres (6.6 ft) tall in his bedroom?
text: Did you know that the Austro-Hungarian yacht Dalmat carried Archduke Franz Ferdinand on his journey to Sarajevo in 1914 and returned with his body?
text: Did you know that in the 1880s Joseph T. Wilson wrote the "most comprehensive study of African American military service" of the era?
text: Did you know that consuming the vitamin riboflavin in large amounts will cause urine to have a bright yellow color?
text: Did you know that the leaders of Nazi Germany believed that Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin were puppets of an international Jewish conspiracy ?
text: Did you know that Indonesian politician Iskandar Ramis had to be hospitalized after attempting to make juice?
text: Did you know that an incident at Bridle Trails State Park resulted in a horse being euthanized?
text: Did you know that cricketer Kekhashru Mistry , an all-rounder in the first all-Indian cricket team that toured England in 1911 , had to return after three games because he was also the aide-de-camp to the maharaja of Patiala ?
text: Did you know that contestants in the Financial Modeling World Cup solve problems in Microsoft Excel ?
text: Did you know that Nicholas Horsfall published five commentaries on Vergil 's Aeneid after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis ?
text: Did you know that a strike by uranium miners in 1974 in Ontario led to the creation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act?
text: Did you know that impressionist Paul Boland has imitated over 100 voices during his performances including Frank Sinatra , Elvis Presley , and the Beatles ?
text: Did you know that a ghostly figure can be seen at the legendary home of King Arthur ?
text: Did you know that Herrscher des Himmels, erhöre das Lallen , a Bach cantata for the Third Day of Christmas , contains the only aria that he newly composed for the oratorio ?
text: Did you know that the bridge from which James Bond leapt in No Time to Die is actually an aqueduct ?
text: Did you know that despite the support of the British authorities, the multi-racial United Tanganyika Party was unsuccessful, with the African-nationalist TANU winning a majority in the 1958–59 election ?
text: Did you know that Maine state legislator Tracy Quint introduced a bill that would have banned all COVID-19 vaccination mandates in Maine until 2024?
text: Did you know that in 1874, thousands of Russian students " [went] to the people " to agitate the peasantry towards socialism ?
text: Did you know that a 1939 thesis by Nathaniel Fadipe , The Sociology of the Yoruba , was the first sociological study by a black African?
text: Did you know  that the original author of Half-Life: Full Life Consequences wanted it to be so bad that "it stands the test of time as one of the worst things ever written"?
text: Did you know that theatre critic Günther Rühle 's books cover the history of theatre in Germany, its events and its people, from 1887 to 1966?
text: Did you know that Hypericum aegypticum exhibits a rare form of heterostyly ?
text: Did you know that the home of civil rights activist Lottie B. Scott is a stop on Norwich 's Freedom Trail?
text: Did you know that the software vulnerability Log4Shell affects hundreds of millions of devices worldwide?
text: Did you know that despite the governor-general being advised not to employ him, Darmawan Mangunkusumo kept his colonial government job?
text: Did you know that three unsuccessful attempts were made to destroy the offices of The Union Flag ?
text: Did you know that mountaineer Edmund Hillary asked Canadian doctor Joan Ford to take her "Adidas runners, a stethoscope and an umbrella" and get to the Himalayas ?
text: Did you know that the Christmas Special Honda minibike , which struggled to sell upon release in 1986, is now worth nearly $10,000 as a collector's item?
text: Did you know that the song " Meri Kuri " by BoA has been dubbed Japan's " All I Want for Christmas Is You "?
text: Did you know that in 1897, Francis Pharcellus Church wrote " Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus "?
text: Did you know that " Brich an, du schönes Morgenlicht " (Break, you beautiful morning light) tells the shepherds in Bach's Christmas Oratorio not to be afraid?
text: Did you know that a Christmas gift on The West Wing 's " Bartlet for America ", a napkin bearing the episode's slogan, was replicated for Jacky Rosen 's U.S. Senate campaign?
text: Did you know that the creation of the traditional Valtellina Christmas sweet bread bisciola is credited to Napoleon, even though he was never in the region?
text: Did you know that New Yorkers could at one time rely on thrice-weekly visits from Santa Claus —though not over Christmas?
text: Did you know that the 2018 soundtrack album It's Christmas, Eve by LeAnn Rimes originated from a film in which Rimes played the main character?
text: Did you know that the Florida beach festival Surfing Santas , held regularly on Christmas Eve, was inspired by a Honda commercial?
text: Did you know that when Josef Rheinberger conducted the first performance of his Mass in A major for three women's voices on Christmas Eve 1881, he added a flute and a string quintet to the organ accompaniment?
text: Did you know that The Jew's Christmas was the first American film to have a rabbi as one of its characters?
text: Did you know that besides their usual pop fare, the Glee cast sang hymns in traditional arrangements on Glee: The Music, The Christmas Album ?
text: Did you know that throughout the Cold War , "subversive" persons at the BBC had their files marked with a "Christmas tree" ?
text: Did you know that the album series Jingle Cats spawned Jingle Dogs, Jingle Babies, and a Japanese video game in which "the object is to breed and care for cats, which begin to sing when they're done copulating"?
text: Did you know that when a batch of the peppermint liqueur Minttu turned yellow because of iron contamination, Americans just marketed it as an "older vintage"?
text: Did you know that Elisabeth Dmitrieff , daughter of a Russian noble, was sent by Karl Marx to the Paris Commune and fought in its defense before falling into obscurity?
text: Did you know that Irving Berlin , who co-owned the Music Box Theatre from its opening in 1921, still checked the theater's receipts before his death in 1989?
text: Did you know that English women's footballer Shameeka Fishley scored a hat-trick in her newly-established Turkish team's first match?
text: Did you know that Elcysma westwoodi is considered "the most damaging lepidopteran pest of Prunus × yedoensis "?
text: Did you know that Suresh Jadhav led the development of the COVID-19 vaccine marketed as Covishield ?
text: Did you know that the 2020 song " Boris Johnson Is a Fucking Cunt " spawned a sequel in 2021: "Boris Johnson Is Still a Fucking Cunt"?
text: Did you know that the tiny fossil turtle Amabilis uchoensis was given the Latin name amabilis for being "lovable", but the large evergreen tree Abies amabilis is called amabilis because it is "lovely"?
text: Did you know that Bilingirl ran a nail salon before she started posting on YouTube ?
text: Did you know that the 1970 , 1976 , 1977 , 1988 , 1989 , and 1994 Westminster Titans football teams all won national championships?
text: Did you know that Chris Schulenburg was one of only two recipients of the Grand Cross of Valour , Rhodesia's highest gallantry award?
text: Did you know that despite its name, the Branford Steam Railroad has not used steam locomotives since 1960?
text: Did you know that Kurt Rommel , a German Protestant pastor, wrote the texts and tunes for hundreds of hymns with young people in mind?
text: Did you know that Ixodes tasmani makes a type of cement to help it to suck blood?
text: Did you know that an advertisement for Mountain Dew starring Tyler, the Creator, as a talking goat was criticized by social commentator Boyce Watkins as "arguably the most racist commercial in history"?
text: Did you know that 1964 Olympic field hockey player John Land played for England into his late 70s?
text: Did you know that ice hockey film Chicks with Sticks received its title and funding following the success of Men with Brooms ?
text: Did you know that before Arthur Phillip commanded the first fleet of convicts to settle Australia , he was employed to spy on France?
text: Did you know that after Kellogg's announced plans to replace striking workers in 2021 , members of r/antiwork organized to submit fake applications to the company's hiring system?
text: Did you know that Cibo paints Italian food over neo-fascist graffiti?
text: Did you know that the Decision of 1789 was the first significant construction on the meaning of the United States Constitution in the U.S. Congress?
text: Did you know that 3-hydroxyisonicotinaldehyde has the lowest molecular weight of any dye which exhibits green fluorescence ?
text: Did you know that I Putu Sukreta Suranta refused to pursue an academic degree, despite repeatedly being given the opportunity to do so?
text: Did you know that Canon Computer Systems 's NoteJet laptop came with a built-in printer?
text: Did you know that Kirsten Warner , whose father was a Holocaust survivor, wrote a novel from the perspective of the child of a Holocaust survivor?
text: Did you know that one journalist said that the proportions of the limbs of the statues at the Monumento a los Indios Verdes are a "sin against anatomical laws"?
text: Did you know that the giant hawker , the largest living dragonfly , with a wingspan of 163 millimetres (6.4 in), has larvae that exhibit "ballistic defecation"?
text: Did you know that the only remaining artifact in the ghost town of Fremont, Oregon , is a juniper stump notched with steps that women travelers used to mount horses in a modest fashion?
text: Did you know that Semuel Jusof Warouw advocated Minahasan independence to gain leverage in Dutch–Indonesian negotiations ?
text: Did you know that 80 per cent of the Royalist garrison were killed in the 1645 storming of Shelford House ?
text: Did you know that the cultural scholar Hermann Bausinger wrote a book about the history of literature from Swabia from the 18th century to the present, published for his 90th birthday?
text: Did you know that in December 1876, two police officers were murdered by brothers who had poached just two pheasants and a jay ?
text: Did you know that according to a review from the The New Yorker , The French Suicide largely overstates France's decline?
text: Did you know that marine engineer Elmer P. Wheaton made his employees learn to scuba dive so that they would have respect for the sea?
text: Did you know that Hyun Ji Shin was photographed by Karl Lagerfeld in his Chanel campaign before his death?
text: Did you know that Raoul Servais invented a new technique for combining animation and live action for his short film Harpya ?
text: Did you know that a formerly abandoned sugar mill is now a rest area on the Trans-Java Toll Road ?
text: Did you know that the Germanic neopagan group Verein für germanisches Heidentum dismisses völkisch religiosity by associating it with monotheism and dualism?
text: Did you know that Daniel Barclay Williams , Virginia's first Black teacher of classics, was described as "a one man department"?
text: Did you know that the Istanbul Waste Power Plant , opened last month, is Turkey's first waste-to-energy facility ?
text: Did you know that a strip club manager in Toronto sued a company that did not employ him for wrongful dismissal ?
text: Did you know that Felix Mendelssohn , inspired by the singing of nuns at the Trinità dei Monti in Rome, composed the motet Veni Domine for Advent ?
text: Did you know that the national-champion 1973 Abilene Christian Wildcats football team featured a freshman running back who broke college football 's single-season scoring record?
text: Did you know that the lobby of Wenzhou Museum includes Kuafu chasing the sun and Chang'e flying to the moon?
text: Did you know that Roger Waters thought The Phantom of the Opera 's main theme was ripped off from Pink Floyd 's " Echoes "?
text: Did you know that after a tornado devastated Wichita Falls, Texas , in 1979, radio station KTRN was just one of two on the air?
text: Did you know that Jusuf Wibisono , chairman of a labor union, wanted an eight-hour work day – up from seven?
text: Did you know that Black Oxygen Organics sold packs of dirt to customers for US$110 each?
text: Did you know that more than 170 children showed signs of tuberculosis and more than 70 died in the 1929–1933 Lübeck disaster after being given BCG vaccines contaminated with the bacteria responsible ?
text: Did you know that the 1896 novel Tom Grogan by Francis Hopkinson Smith was adapted into a play the same year?
text: Did you know that the punitive Mamluk campaigns against the non- Sunni Muslim mountaineers of the Kisrawan from 1292 to 1305 helped pave the way for the region's Maronite Christian majority?
text: Did you know that placekicker Lonny Calicchio was signed by the Philadelphia Eagles to the practice squad, promoted to the active roster, named starter, and released all within eight days?
text: Did you know that the historical English tables game of Doublets was mentioned in 1549 in a sermon by Latimer to King Edward VI ?
text: Did you know that Poedjono Pranyoto instructed his subordinates to burn around a thousand houses to make way for a protected forest area?
text: Did you know that the conservative organization Moms for Liberty wants a book about Galileo Galilei to be taught in a way that is more positive towards the Catholic Church, for balance?
text: Did you know that Niall Sheridan was the model for the "intellectual Meath -man" Brinsley in Flann O'Brien 's novel At Swim-Two-Birds ?
text: Did you know that the "English Game", Ludus Anglicorum , was the most popular tables game in the mediaeval England of Chaucer 's time?
text: Did you know that WNJU , a Spanish-language television station serving New York City , was the first in the United States to air a hard-liquor advertisement?
text: Did you know that Harry Tombs established the first New Zealand fine-arts press?
text: Did you know that " NDA " transitions into " Therefore I Am "?
text: Did you know that flying ace Károly Kaszala refused to fly the airplane he was assigned?
text: Did you know that according to critics, Fortune-499 is "an effective story of capitalist humdrum" that involves "witchcraft, mid-20s malaise, and puns"?
text: Did you know that Tatyana Mezhentseva is the first person in ten years to participate in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest twice?
text: Did you know that 1.8 percent of people in Japan have used cannabis , compared to 44.2 percent of Americans and 41.5 percent of Canadians?
text: Did you know that Walter Bassett arranged for the construction of the first wind tunnel in Australia?
text: Did you know that General George Monck accepted that 500 Scots, including women and children, were killed when his army stormed Dundee in 1651?
text: Did you know that Lew Nichols III led the nation during the 2021 regular season with 1,710 rushing yards?
text: Did you know that the designers of Isle of Skye: From Chieftain to King also created Broom Service , winning the Kennerspiel des Jahres two years in a row?
text: Did you know that as finance minister , Surachman Tjokroadisurjo often stored government funds inside suitcases in his home?
text: Did you know that Dan Finnerty was cast in Single All the Way so that he could cross the Canada–U.S. border and join his wife, Kathy Najimy , on the set of the film?
text: Did you know that the specific epithet of Platycephalus endrachtensis is from an old word for Australia?
text: Did you know that Nandivada Rathnasree , who ran Delhi's planetarium, proposed that astronomers could be taught using India's stone-built observatories?
text: Did you know that the documentary film Boycott includes the stories of three Americans who sued their state governments after being affected by anti-BDS laws ?
text: Did you know that the mediaeval English tables game of Ticktack has several ways of winning, including Toots and Rovers ?
text: Did you know that William Hunter Dammond became the first African-American graduate of the University of Pittsburgh in 1893, but was not recognised as such until 2000?
text: Did you know that there are more than 200 manhole covers featuring Pokémon in Japan?
text: Did you know that Fabian Kelly , a tenor focused on historically informed performance , was a soloist in Monteverdi's Vespro della Beata Vergine and Handel's Messiah ?
text: Did you know that after Superior Coach Company closed in 1981, its employees' credit union absorbed 15 other credit unions to become the fourth-largest in Ohio ?
text: Did you know that William Thomas Sugg 's firm installed the gas lights on Tower Bridge ?
text: Did you know that The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes discusses the history of transgender man Ewan Forbes and his 1968 legal case to inherit his family's baronetcy that was silenced from public records?
text: Did you know that Digital Eclipse expressed interest in rereleasing Marvel vs. Capcom 2 after Maximilian Dood 's social media campaign went viral ?
text: Did you know that the medieval John Halle's Hall is the foyer of a cinema?
text: Did you know that to celebrate the Paramount Building 's construction, oxen and lamb were roasted over the ruins of the previous building on the site?
text: Did you know that in 1908, Island No. 2 in California was simultaneously deeded to two different people?
text: Did you know that Soetardjo Kartohadikusumo had to be "made younger" to be eligible for elementary school?
text: Did you know that the music video for Chris Hadfield 's version of David Bowie 's " Space Oddity " was the first music video recorded in space?
text: Did you know that Google searches for the term " dumpster fire " spiked after Donald Trump announced his presidential candidacy in October 2015?
text: Did you know that efforts by Shyam Sunder Jyani have led to the planting of 2.5 million saplings in the Indian state of Rajasthan ?
text: Did you know that " leek rust", caused by Puccinia allii , has also caused significant losses for garlic farmers?
text: Did you know that it is said of the board game Photosynthesis that "you can always count on someone else screwing it all up"?
text: Did you know that Belinda Archer won Australia's first World Artistic Gymnastics Championships team medal in 2003 ?
text: Did you know that even though it was "the best thing to happen to the Atari", the XF551 floppy disk drive was only released after Nintendo sued them?
text: Did you know that after Sydney Parkinson died on the return leg of the first voyage of James Cook , some of his drawings were engraved for publication in his Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas ?
text: Did you know that three schools in Virginia were named after Daniel Webster Davis ?
text: Did you know that 92 percent of complaint calls about the Scanner Price Accuracy Code are not legitimate complaints?
text: Did you know that after getting drunk and verbally abusing Cap Anson at a baseball game during his off day, Charlie Bartson was released from the Chicago Pirates ?
text: Did you know that Birds Aren't Real ?
text: Did you know that the electropop rock band Siamés created " Argentina 's first anime music video"?
text: Did you know that the book The Icepick Surgeon discusses research by Henry Murray in which he verbally abused volunteers, one of whom went on to become the Unabomber ?
text: Did you know that the Polish mezzo-soprano Agnieszka Rehlis , who sang on the Grammy Award –winning album Penderecki conducts Penderecki , was Verdi's Azucena in Zürich in 2021?
text: Did you know that species in the dinosaur group Parankylosauria have tail weaponry termed a "macuahuitl", in reference to the Mesoamerican weapons of the same name ?
text: Did you know that Pat Studstill led the National Football League in punt return yards in 1962, receiving yards in 1966, and punting yards in 1969?
text: Did you know that the first landing during the Dutch invasion of Saint Helena was defeated by English settlers throwing rocks?
text: Did you know that when the founder of New Mexico television station KBIM-TV was told on the morning of April Fools' Day that his station's tower had collapsed, he initially wrote it off as a joke?
text: Did you know that one can place 16 pawns on a chessboard such that no three pawns lie on the same line ?
text: Did you know that Mauatua married the Bounty mutineer Fletcher Christian and ensured women on Pitcairn were given the vote?
text: Did you know that the board game Cytosis was endorsed by the Journal of Cell Science ?
text: Did you know that Óscar Catacora directed Wiñaypacha ( Eternity ), the first Peruvian film in the Aymara language ?
text: Did you know that Asa Taccone was paid just $60 for co-editing and co-writing the Lonely Island 's  " Dick in a Box "?
text: Did you know that filmmaker Randal Plunkett, 21st Baron of Dunsany , has seen the return of many species of bird and plant, as well as pine martens , stoats and otters , to his ancestral lands with rewilding ?
text: Did you know that the black swamp in Claremont Park was believed to be inhabited by evil spirits and was known to have consumed cattle?
text: Did you know that Bull Island was farmed by the Money family for over 100 years before being turned into a wildlife preserve?
text: Did you know that Indian cricketer Mukundrao Pai 's altercation with a British army major, J. G. Greig , resulted in the Bombay Quadrangular introducing neutral umpires in 1916?
text: Did you know that Kanye West recorded " Hey Mama " five years before its release on his 2005 album Late Registration ?
text: Did you know that the game MicroMacro: Crime City was so popular after its release that print runs repeatedly sold out for eight months?
text: Did you know that Chinese-Canadian Zhuo Qun Song is currently the most decorated International Mathematical Olympiad contestant?
text: Did you know that the village of Bidar Alam was the seat of the Indonesian government for three and a half months?
text: Did you know that the Global Methodist Church is part of a proposed divorce over marriage ?
text: Did you know that Louis W. Roberts was among the highest ranking African-American space program staff at NASA while the Apollo program was underway?
text: Did you know that before the Second World War, Australian army officers used the pages of Britain's Army Quarterly and Defence Journal to argue for greater self-reliance in defence matters?
text: Did you know that 2000 Alabama Amendment 2 , which repealed the state's anti-miscegenation laws , was carefully written to avoid legalizing same-sex marriage ?
text: Did you know that Ben Comeau invented a fictitious student of Franz Liszt so he could write a 45-minute piano sonata?
text: Did you know that in Olaf Presents , the line where Olaf points out Mufasa eats some of his subjects was praised by Screen Rant ?
text: Did you know that on a wax-myrtle plant , 42 mature lobate lac scales were recorded on a 1 cm (0.4 in) section of twig?
text: Did you know that the Batman supervillain Mr. Bloom was created to be the "anti- Joker "?
text: Did you know that in 2021, the European Court of Justice ruled that the criminalization of assistance to asylum seekers violated EU law ?
text: Did you know that Interstate 182 was created as a compromise for the states of Washington and Oregon ?
text: Did you know that Salvatorian priest Pankratius Pfeiffer saved hundreds of Jews in Rome during the Second World War?
text: Did you know that you could buy ten Montgomery Ward Records for $1.79?
text: Did you know that the fossil love bug Plecia canadensis changed genus based on a single vein?
text: Did you know that two voyageur canoes capsized off of Hog Island in 1976?
text: Did you know that the first Wikipedia edit was made on 15 January 2001?
text: Did you know that the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre was known as the John Golden Theatre before the John Golden Theatre was?
text: Did you know that pulmonologist Sze-Piao Yang was referred to as the "father of thoracic X-ray interpretation in Taiwan", and conducted the first ever occupational disease study done in Taiwan?
text: Did you know that the board game Dragomino features "adorable" dragons?
text: Did you know that violinist Nikolai Sachenko performs rarely-played piano trios by Russian composers as a member of the Brahms Trio ?
text: Did you know that The Undercommons , an essay collection that criticizes academia , was written by two alumni of Harvard University ?
text: Did you know that Jonathan Strong , an early enslaved West Indian in Britain, was abused by his master so badly that he could barely walk or see?
text: Did you know that a 1963 book offers Marxist and Freudian interpretations of Pooh?
text: Did you know that the Majestic Theatre , designed for "revues and light operas", has hosted the same musical for the past three decades?
text: Did you know that Albruna may have been the woman of "superhuman size" who stopped Roman general Drusus 's campaign in Germania by prophesying his death?
text: Did you know that the second edition of the Wild West–themed board game Great Western Trail eliminated "the notion of Native Americans as the invisible enemy"?
text: Did you know that Damon Severson scored a goal with 0.4 seconds left in regulation time to help lead Canada men's national ice hockey team to a silver medal?
text: Did you know that the construction of Interstate H-2 in Hawaii unearthed a chapel built by Italian prisoners of war in the 1940s?
text: Did you know that during the October 1980 West Nile campaign , rebels were initially hailed as "liberators", only for them to start looting coffee?
text: Did you know that William Goebel was sworn in as Governor of Kentucky a day after being shot?
text: Did you know that unkept promises made in the 1915 Treaty of London created the sense of mutilated victory in Italy after World War I?
text: Did you know that Bruce Schroeder , who presided over the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse , is the longest-serving state court judge in Wisconsin ?
text: Did you know that the colonial bryozoan Walkeria uva is sometimes only detectable by accident?
text: Did you know that the children's book A Place Inside of Me is dedicated to the nephew of Atatiana Jefferson , a Black woman who was shot to death in her home by a policeman in 2019?
text: Did you know that New Zealand health executive Sharon Shea points to distrust in authority caused by "post-colonisation trauma" for low COVID-19 vaccination rates of Māori ?
text: Did you know that Major League Baseball set a single-day record with $1.4 billion in new player contracts the day before the 2021 lockout was set to begin?
text: Did you know that " the surgeon of the sidewalks " is anonymous?
text: Did you know that today's MLS Cup 2021 will mark the seventh consecutive final to feature either the Portland Timbers or Seattle Sounders FC ?
text: Did you know that Italian radio presenter Aldo Forbice was a long-time supporter of local social issues, including helping to promote an exhibition on the AIDS epidemic?
text: Did you know that when the U.S. government wanted to remove Chain Island , a group of "California capitalists" offered to do it for free, recouping expenses by mining it for gold?
text: Did you know that backgammon was derived from the esteemed 16th-century Scottish and English tables game of Irish and eventually surpassed it in popularity?
text: Did you know that during W. Sterling Cary 's presidency of the National Council of Churches in the 1970s, the council voted to support gay rights for the first time in its history?
text: Did you know that the 13th-century Iplikçi Mosque in Konya, Turkey, contains a mihrab with traces of mosaic tiling which is the oldest extant example of Anatolian Seljuk art?
text: Did you know that Justice Antonin Scalia stated that he did not want the U.S. Congress to make him buy broccoli ?
text: Did you know that Noa Denmon 's illustration for the Google Doodle on Martin Luther King Jr. Day included people painting a mural while socially distanced due to the COVID-19 pandemic ?
text: Did you know that the board game Suburbia is said to be a "masterfully designed game" with "tedious bookkeeping"?
text: Did you know that zoologist Ruth Crosby Noble 's 1945 book on animal behavior was said to have the "rare quality of combining entertainment with sound scientific value"?
text: Did you know that Dante "may have detested everything about Arabs and Muslims", but placed Saladin , Avicenna , and Averroes among the virtuous in the first circle of hell ?
text: Did you know that according to Swiss cardiologist Thomas Lüscher , chocolate is good for us if it is dark and bitter, but white chocolate is "not healthy at all"?
text: Did you know that in 2000, the Sacramento County Policy Planning Commission decided that humans would never be allowed to live on Kimball Island again?
text: Did you know that in The Arraignment of Paris , poet Denis Glover stated Charles Allan Marris was the "arbiter of all our art and letters / presenting rotten apples to his betters"?
text: Did you know that Grace Meigs Crowder found that pregnancy and childbirth were a common cause of death in the early 1900s for American women who were aged under 45?
text: Did you know that the popularity of " 10 Minutes " by Korean singer Lee Hyori led to 2003 being dubbed the "year of Hyori" by domestic media?
text: Did you know that some members of the Kushner family objected after Jared invoked their grandparents' resistance in Nazi-occupied Poland to support his denial of Donald Trump 's alleged antisemitism?
text: Did you know that David Whiting was nicknamed "Golden Boy" by Henry Grunwald , "Preppy" by Candice Bergen , and "Whiz Kid" by Sarah Miles ?
text: Did you know that the title of Taylor Swift 's 2008 album Fearless reflects Swift's attitude to embrace hardships in love and life?
text: Did you know that Paddy Fox recruited so many people from County Durham to the British Army that they became known locally as "Pad's Army"?
text: Did you know that super weaners may be "milk thieves" or "double mother-sucklers"?
text: Did you know that Harriet Amelia Folsom went by her middle name, so as not to be confused with her husband Brigham Young 's other wives?
text: Did you know that the Romans won a series of campaigns against Germanic tribes after the disaster at Teutoburg but decided to leave Germany as the effort was out of proportion to the territory's value?
text: Did you know that Dianxi Xiaoge , who grew up in a remote Yunnan mountain village without running water , is an Internet celebrity with roughly 16 million subscribers on all her platforms?
text: Did you know that the " two boats and a helicopter " parable has been used to combat COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy ?
text: Did you know that in September 2021, cricketer Andrea-Mae Zepeda became the first player to score a century for Austria in a Women's Twenty20 International match?
text: Did you know that part of Prise d'Orange was recently discovered in the binding of another book?
text: Did you know that George Asprey was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth – according to the Daily Mirror , it was a silver shovel?
text: Did you know that the Beach Boys played a concert in Hawaii while high on LSD ?
text: Did you know that with as many as a quarter of mothers in eastern Greenland experiencing domestic violence, Laura Tàunâjik proposed a women's shelter in Tasiilaq ?
text: Did you know that Bellman 's song " Ge rum i Bröllopsgåln din hund! " describes "one of the wildest weddings in Swedish literature"?
text: Did you know that Dermot Morrah , a British journalist for The Times , wrote Princess Elizabeth 's 21st birthday speech?
text: Did you know that an investigation found that most Mexican nutrition science students could not interpret a nutritional front-of-package labeling system correctly?
text: Did you know that in 1752, Samuel Kneeland and his partner produced the first Bible in the English language ever printed in America?
text: Did you know that it's pronounced "gif", not "gif" ?
text: Did you know that when Nadjamuddin Daeng Malewa was forming a government cabinet for the State of East Indonesia , he was outside the region?
text: Did you know that the name of Ireland's Eye off Howth northeast of Dublin has nothing to do with the organ but can actually be translated as "Ireland's island"?
text: Did you know that Theodore Conrad , who evaded capture for 52 years after stealing US$215,000, remained a fugitive for so long that he was finally tracked down by the son of one of the original investigators?
text: Did you know that the Burmese and South Korean first ladies held their first informal conversation 44 years after the establishment of bilateral relations between the two countries ?
text: Did you know that children's author Kate DiCamillo received 473 rejection letters before her first novel was accepted for publication?
text: Did you know that the infamous Nepalese royal massacre took place in the Tribhuvan Sadan ?
text: Did you know that the freighter Manasoo is believed to have been sunk by cows?
text: Did you know that Norman Colville renovated a manor to house his growing art collection?
text: Did you know that the Chile Ridge has a slab window ?
text: Did you know that before starring in the Pedro Almodóvar film Parallel Mothers , Milena Smit worked as a model, waitress, shop assistant, babysitter, subway information assistant, and hotel receptionist?
text: Did you know that a " North Dakota joke of the mornin ' " was a feature on Montana radio station KGRZ because the station's owner and morning show host hailed from that state?
text: Did you know that when Margaret de Longvillers married into the House of Neville , her wealth consolidated its position in English society?
text: Did you know that the front of the 11th-century River Laune Crozier contains a figure with oval eyes, a thin nose, spiral ears and a handlebar moustache that radiates out around him?
text: Did you know that Mr. Bean accurately predicted the results of many American elections?
text: Did you know that an all-male boating event on Tinsley Island was called the " Bohemian Grove of yachting"?
text: Did you know that according to legend, Edigna fled an arranged marriage in 1074, leaving her royal life behind to live as a hermit in a hollowed-out tree in Fürstenfeldbruck ?
text: Did you know that the bryozoan Walkeria tuberosa is sometimes referred to as Valkeria tuberosa despite being named after the Scottish natural historian John Walker ?
text: Did you know that Michaela Goade received the 2021 Caldecott Medal for her watercolor illustrations for We Are Water Protectors , becoming the first Indigenous artist to win the award?
text: Did you know that two years after the small Corinthian navy was defeated during the Affair of Epidamnus , their navy became the third largest in all of Greece?
text: Did you know that the Panacea Society believed in God the Father, God the Mother, Jesus the Son, and Octavia ?
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text: Did you know that Desmond Young 's biography of Erwin Rommel was criticised for portraying him as a "blue-eyed god who could do no wrong"?
text: Did you know that the theme of the board game Parks is based on the national parks of the United States?
text: Did you know that Sjafruddin Prawiranegara ordered Indonesians to physically cut their banknotes in half?
text: Did you know that Bobby Hackett said that Jackie Gleason 's main contribution to the recording of Music for Lovers Only was that "he brought the checks"?
text: Did you know that critics complained about the manga Sex Ed 120% being given a "mature" rating by its English-language publisher ?
text: Did you know that film producer Konstantin Kalser , who won an Oscar for his 1956 short film Crashing the Water Barrier , later admitted that the film was an advertisement for an oil company?
text: Did you know that Styx 's name derives from its seeming to have "come from the underworld"?
text: Did you know that Norma Kuhling 's character in Fourteen was described by a film critic as "a Greta Gerwig spin on the Manic Pixie Dream Girl "?
text: Did you know that the album Hello by Korean singer Cho Yong-pil was the first time he had worked with international composers since his debut in 1968?
text: Did you know that in the 1820s, the British acrobat Henry Johnson performed before the Chinese Emperor ?
text: Did you know that Kanye West 's group the Sunday Service Choir performed " No Child Left Behind " with Justin Bieber at a Halloween 2021 concert?
text: Did you know that in Hokusai 's woodblock print series One Hundred Ghost Stories , there are only five prints?
text: Did you know that Elisabeth Geleerd became one of the most influential American psychoanalysts of her time while chronically ill and raising a family?
text: Did you know that an image of MacCarthy's Bar on the front cover of a book featured a staff member posing as a nun drinking a pint of Guinness and the surprise appearance of a dog?
text: Did you know that for more than a decade, WNJC-FM at Northwest Mississippi Junior College was the state's only public radio station?
text: Did you know that when David Bowie performed " Golden Years " on Soul Train in 1975, he was incoherent and visibly intoxicated?
text: Did you know that gameplay in the board game Oceans ends once the ocean zones are depopulated of fish?
text: Did you know that Awet Tesfaiesus was the first black woman ever elected to the Bundestag ?
text: Did you know that Eric Schmidt developed Berknet , an early wide area network system, in 1978 while he was a student at Berkeley University ?
text: Did you know that Zeliha Ağrıs started performing taekwondo at age ten and became a world champion when she was 19?
text: Did you know that OK Kosher got the OK for .kosher in January 2014?
text: Did you know that the California State Assembly held a moment of silence over the death of fictional character Mrs. Landingham while in the midst of an energy crisis ?
text: Did you know that Spotify Wrapped has been both praised and criticized for effectively providing Spotify with free advertising?
text: Did you know that in 1755, colonial printer Daniel Fowle was arrested for printing a seditious pamphlet entitled The Monster of Monsters , which criticized members of the general assembly?
text: Did you know that Guy Parmelin , now President of Switzerland , opened the study program of cyber security of the Lucerne School of Information Technology in 2018?
text: Did you know that before Foster City was built on Brewer Island , unsuccessful proposals included a hog farm, two military air bases, two civilian airports, and an entertainment complex larger than Disneyland ?
text: Did you know that Colonel Hugh Pettigrew observed that troops who thought that the Scottish Highlands resembled Waziristan on India's North West Frontier were "of little use to anyone"?
text: Did you know that on his podcast The Anthropocene Reviewed , John Green reviews velociraptors , a hot dog stand in Iceland , and bubonic plague ?
text: Did you know that Sarkis Lole , the Armenian chief architect of Mardin who constructed much of the early modern architecture of the city, never received any formal training and designed his buildings in the sand?
text: Did you know that the Cort Theatre has hosted the Broadway debuts of actresses Katharine Hepburn and Grace Kelly ?
text: Did you know that Mimi Fawaz 's work includes a documentary on the life of South African president Nelson Mandela ?
text: Did you know that the music video to " I Bet You Think About Me " by Taylor Swift is co-written and directed by Blake Lively in her directorial debut?
text: Did you know that when home computers used cassette tapes for storage , the data was sometimes distributed on flexi disc records or even broadcast on radio?
text: Did you know that non-microscopic life forms such as plants associate with microbiomes of microscopic organisms which determine their health and productivity?
text: Did you know that Herbert Hoover once farmed sugar beets on the Empire Tract ?
text: Did you know that for round-robin sports tournaments , finding a ranking of the competitors that minimizes the number of upset games is an instance of the feedback arc set problem?
text: Did you know that Inger K. Frith , the first woman president of a major international sporting federation, played a key role in returning archery to the Olympics ?
text: Did you know that Glen Cove City School District closed the South School in 1966 to remedy alleged de facto segregation in the district?
text: Did you know that the novel Dreams of Trespass , which portrays the patriarchy as un- Islamic , was translated into more than 20 languages?
text: Did you know that in a study for UNICEF, Reginald Green found that more than two million children under the age of five had died in Angola and Mozambique due to the South African apartheid regime's economic policies?
text: Did you know that most places where tectonic plates ram into each other involve oblique subduction ?
text: Did you know that the Atlas Tract is farmland with a population of 0, but is expected to have a population of 42,000 by 2045?
text: Did you know that the song " Come Back Home " by Seo Taiji and Boys made teenage runaways in South Korea return home?
text: Did you know that Italian actress Linda Albertini used her abilities as a former circus acrobat in silent films?
text: Did you know that Joice Island was the location of a "web of intrigue" in 1890, a failed asparagus farm in 1905, a wildlife refuge in 1950, a hunting preserve in 1965, and a pig hunt in 2017?
text: Did you know that under college president Arthur Bronwell in 1959, Worcester Polytechnic Institute built one of the first nuclear research reactors at an American university?
text: Did you know that a YouTuber predicted the crossover between My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and Rick and Morty long before it aired?
text: Did you know that baseball statistician Bob Ferguson claimed that he became the owner of the London Majors "by accident"?
text: Did you know that Zzzzzz had the busiest residential telephone number in the United States in the 1970s?
text: Did you know that in the board game Sagrada , players attempt to construct a stained-glass window using dice?
text: Did you know that economist Nisvan Erkal 's research showed that China's one-child policy created children who lacked qualities important for social and economic success?
text: Did you know that all stanzas of the 1963 song " Herr, gib uns Mut zum Hören " (Lord, give us courage to listen), with text and tune by Kurt Rommel, begin with a prayer for courage?
text: Did you know that College Football Hall of Fame quarterback Charlie Green led Wittenberg to three consecutive undefeated seasons, including a national championship for the 1964 Wittenberg Tigers football team ?
text: Did you know that Seo Taiji and Boys 's April 11, 1992, performance of " I Know " is credited as the beginning of modern K-pop ?
text: Did you know that actor Jonathan Roumie , who plays the character of Jesus Christ in American television series The Chosen , is also an extraordinary minister of Holy Communion in the Catholic Church ?
text: Did you know that the Falcon Lake Incident is considered "Canada's best-documented UFO case"?
text: Did you know that the undefeated 1955 Hillsdale Dales football team declined a Tangerine Bowl bid because the bowl insisted that four black players—including national scoring leader Nate Clark —stay home?
text: Did you know that until a 1993 reform , separate gallantry medals were awarded to officers and other ranks in the British armed forces?
text: Did you know that Marsh Hen Mill in South Carolina grinds heirloom grains with a 1945 gristmill that was found in a barn in 2007?
text: Did you know that Carmaney Wong was 25 years and 9 months old when she was crowned Miss Hong Kong 2019 , making her the oldest champion in 30 years?
text: Did you know that a reviewer noted that the LCD of Packard Bell's first laptop suffered from "an occasional case of the shakes"?
text: Did you know that the sea slug Thuridilla vataae collects and stores its worn-out teeth in a sac in its mouth?
text: Did you know that former Oregon legislator William Massingill died while attending a boxing match?
text: Did you know that the first exhibit of the West Virginia Music Hall of Fame came from founder Michael Lipton's record collection?
text: Did you know that the senior Burmese princes could not attend the funeral of King Mindon since they had all been arrested?
text: Did you know that in 1958, New Jersey assemblyman Carmine Savino proposed cutting property taxes in half by imposing a three-percent state sales tax that would be used to cover public school costs?
text: Did you know that the Greenlandic novel Homo Sapienne was written in only one month?
text: Did you know that when the Marquis Theatre was completed, some Broadway performers boycotted it because of a controversy over the construction of the hotel above it?
text: Did you know that magma travelling through dykes usually solidifies before it gets to the Earth's surface?
text: Did you know that Jonathan Weiner explains in his book how Time, Love, [and] Memory became associated with specific fly genes?
text: Did you know that the economy of Sarawak is strongly dependent on natural resource exports such as timber, oil, and gas?
text: Did you know that not so much as a "hell" or "damn" was permitted at G. D. Sweet Famous Players ' "Sunday school" productions?
text: Did you know that Frontex 's role in pushbacks of migrants in Greece has led to investigations by the European Parliament, EU Ombudsman, and EU anti-fraud agency?
text: Did you know that the documentary Nerds 2.0.1 has been criticized for racial inequality among its 50 featured pioneers of the internet?
text: Did you know that the Franco-Belgian comic book Hans had its title changed in Poland due to lingering ill-feeling toward Germany?
text: Did you know that Galac-Tac , launched in 1982 as a play-by-mail game , is still available today for play on the web?
text: Did you know that The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval Europe isn't a book that perhaps cannot be written?