Did you know? Facts from Wikipedia, 2019

text: Did you know that a clinic in Mopti , Mali, is named after Werner Bardenhewer , born 90 years ago today, who was for decades priest of St. Bonifatius, Wiesbaden , and then founded a charity group?
text: Did you know that astronaut Buzz Aldrin discovered the Aldrin cycler , a means of repeatedly traveling between Earth and Mars?
text: Did you know that the Qarmatian movement began when Hamdan Qarmat denounced the claims of Abdallah , the future founder of the Fatimid Caliphate , to be the Islamic Messiah ?
text: Did you know that in a music video for Belgian singer Loïc Nottet 's " Rhythm Inside ", several people are portrayed as being taken to a warehouse, for what some viewers believed was human experimentation ?
text: Did you know that Dave Pickerell was known as the " Johnny Appleseed " of craft distilling?
text: Did you know that video game magazine GameStar called Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne the best add-on in PC gaming history?
text: Did you know that physician Fulke Rose treated the privateer Henry Morgan with millipede powder and oil of scorpion?
text: Did you know that catwalk model Michelle Leslie claimed police in Bali , Indonesia, planted two ecstasy tablets in her handbag and then asked for a US$ 25,000 bribe to avoid conviction?
text: Did you know that the jellyfish Sanderia malayensis has a life cycle that includes a number of different types of asexual reproduction ?
text: Did you know that Meghan Trainor canceled several dates on the MTrain Tour after suffering a vocal cord hemorrhage ?
text: Did you know that rivalries encourage people to take more risks and behave less ethically?
text: Did you know that the BBC head of drama stated that the Slater family in EastEnders was created to address a deficit of "solid families" in the soap?
text: Did you know that actress Naomi Watts is honorary president of the Welsh football club Glantraeth F.C. ?
text: Did you know that the 18th-century Chinese short story " Three Lives " was adapted into a 2016 play featuring hip hop and a live band?
text: Did you know that the historian Thomas Henry Dyer described the Convention of Alessandria as "one of the most disgraceful capitulations in history"?
text: Did you know that in 1720, wealthy merchant-adventurer Sir David Hechstetter directed that his body be buried without any "pompous ostentation"?
text: Did you know that after the Philo Power Plant was demolished, the rotors from turbine six were utilized in a sculpture created by George Greenamyer ?
text: Did you know that in the fourth quarter of 2017, Transsion Holdings had the largest market share for sales of smartphones in Africa, overtaking Samsung ?
text: Did you know that Chinese revolutionary leader Sun Yat-sen referred to Comintern agent Mikhail Borodin as his " Lafayette "?
text: Did you know that the 1991 music video for the Sesame Street song " Monster in the Mirror " featured 25 celebrities, including Robin Williams , Whoopi Goldberg , and The Simpsons characters?
text: Did you know that a Japanese spy helped compose the Indonesian declaration of independence ?
text: Did you know that when a reviewer labelled his song " Don't Miss It " as "sad boy" music, James Blake called the term "unhealthy and problematic"?
text: Did you know that at age 17, the English actress Emily Lloyd reportedly beat over 5,000 others, including Jodie Foster , for the lead role in the 1989 film Cookie ?
text: Did you know that the video game This Is Football 2002 had the controversial feature of allowing players to deliberately dive ?
text: Did you know that the space climate discipline researches how solar wind and interplanetary magnetic field fluctuations can affect Earth over timescales ranging from a few weeks to more than 1,000 years?
text: Did you know that although Giorgio Mitrovich respected and admired the British, he criticised the British colonial administration of Malta for its lack of freedom of the press ?
text: Did you know that the Royal Air Force 's AMES Type 85 radar was considered obsolete by the time it became operational?
text: Did you know that 13 was a lucky number for American movie theater magnate Harry E. Huffman ?
text: Did you know that the superhero form of the fictional character Marinette Dupain-Cheng was based on a woman wearing a ladybug-themed T-shirt who once worked with the creator of Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir ?
text: Did you know that Denver community activist Arlene Hirschfeld lives in Shangri-La ?
text: Did you know that the International Encyclopedia of Women Composers was written partially in response to a comment by Thomas Beecham who said, "There are no women composers, never have been and possibly never will be"?
text: Did you know that James A. Doonan purchased the cannons in front of Healy Hall , which date to 1634?
text: Did you know that inflating balloons into lung arteries may be considered for people with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension who are not suitable for surgery?
text: Did you know that Marianne Schech appeared as the Dyer's Wife in the U.S. premiere of Die Frau ohne Schatten by Richard Strauss at the San Francisco Opera ?
text: Did you know that HMS Sportsman sank twelve Axis ships during World War II ?
text: Did you know that tropical cyclones may have induced past climate changes and could still be causing El Niño type events today?
text: Did you know that Simon Kaloa Kaʻai , a former jailer, became a noble and cabinet minister to a king?
text: Did you know that an 1832 auction of the contents of Cullands Grove included three hundred and seventy cases of wine, two Shetland ponies, a fire engine, and two "humane" man traps?
text: Did you know that David Gwynne-James represented the King's Shropshire Light Infantry in cricket, rugby, hockey, squash, skiing, and athletics?
text: Did you know that the 2005 pop-rock/dance album Rollercoaster , by former American Idol finalist Jim Verraros , was inspired by the music of George Michael and Green Day ?
text: Did you know that Zhuo-Hua Pan , credited by some as the inventor of optogenetics , had his paper describing the technique rejected by multiple journals?
text: Did you know that the Russian youth movement Lion Versus opposes public smoking by spraying smokers' hands with water to douse their cigarettes?
text: Did you know that in 1701, the apothecary William Rose was charged with illegally practising medicine on a butcher ?
text: Did you know that Slovakia was the only country that paid for the deportation of its Jewish citizens during the Holocaust ?
text: Did you know that in his first battle, Prince Binnya Kyan and his brothers drove back the forces of Crown Prince Minye Kyawswa of Ava after being called "useless" by their father, King Razadarit of Pegu ?
text: Did you know that Jennifer Lawrence was so anxious about performing " The Hanging Tree " in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 that she wanted to lip sync to a professional singer?
text: Did you know that in 1901, French feminist writer Marie-Louise Gagneur was awarded the Legion of Honour ?
text: Did you know that two U.S. agents were nearly killed by a drug cartel in Mexico in 1999?
text: Did you know that Johannes Brahms attended the premiere of the operetta Die Göttin der Vernunft by Johann Strauss , but the composer himself did not, and heard about its reception only by telephone?
text: Did you know that Vastupala secretly hired pirates to rob the mother of the Sultan of Delhi ?
text: Did you know that the littleneck clam is harvested for food despite being associated with paralytic shellfish poisoning ?
text: Did you know that Alex Macmillan did not know his 1954 mathematical correction had become a widely used formula known as the "Macmillan Correction" until he read about it while surfing the web in 2004?
text: Did you know that Fallt mit Danken, fallt mit Loben (Fall with thanks, fall with praise), Part IV of Bach's Christmas Oratorio for New Year's Day 1735, commemorates the naming of Jesus ?
text: Did you know that Jean-Pierre Bernès , former general manager of Olympique de Marseille , started out selling membership cards for the club?
text: Did you know that students of sculptor Herbert Maryon tarred and feathered one of his works ?
text: Did you know that the Federal Court of Australia ruled in 2003 that a heroin dealer was entitled to a tax deduction of $ 220,000 for money stolen during a drug deal?
text: Did you know that allyl glycidyl ether can be converted to three different types of polymers by changing the polymerization conditions?
text: Did you know that Beyoncé wore an Inbal Dror wedding gown to the 2016 Grammy Awards ?
text: Did you know that after capturing the French town of Caen in 1346 , an English army massacred the population and engaged in an orgy of rape?
text: Did you know that American Lawrence Cowan regained possession of a copper mine in Sonora , Mexico from local claim jumpers through the Supreme Court of Mexico ?
text: Did you know that the Bodega black gnat was first discovered in Egypt but named for a bay in California ?
text: Did you know that Percy Glading , British communist and Soviet spy , was described by the head of MI5 as looking "like an overgrown schoolboy" but also "quick-witted and likeable"?
text: Did you know that Bob Dylan refused to perform on The Ed Sullivan Show after the CBS network tried to censor the lyrics to " Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues "?
text: Did you know that Rabbi Zvi Aryeh Rosenfeld introduced Breslov Hasidism to the United States?
text: Did you know that " The Bird Language ", a short story by Pu Songling , may have been written to antagonise corrupt officials?
text: Did you know that Swedish logging sportsman Ferry Svan accidentally severed a tendon in his leg with an axe only weeks before the 2018 Timbersports Champions Trophy, but still competed and set a national record?
text: Did you know that Home and Away character Dean Thompson was described in 2018 as the serial's "new favourite bad boy"?
text: Did you know that Peter McAdams received a promotion to sergeant for carrying his wounded comrade 250 yards (230 m) while under fire during the Battle of Salem Church ?
text: Did you know that the northern chink shell has two types of teeth, changing slowly from one to the other as its diet varies?
text: Did you know that small-town Utah doctor John Steele used herbal medicines to treat patients, and also cast their horoscopes ?
text: Did you know that on 20 January 1990, Sakina Aliyeva signed the first declaration of independence by a part of the Soviet Union, and announced it on Nakhichevan television?
text: Did you know that the bite of the red-bellied black snake can result in necrosis , and has been known to require amputation of an affected finger?
text: Did you know that Andrew Traynor received a Medal of Honor after escaping from Confederate guerrillas?
text: Did you know that at the Battle of Blanchetaque , English longbowmen stood in a tidal river to engage French mercenary crossbowmen?
text: Did you know that the surgeon Cuthbert Hilton Golding-Bird invented a dilator for use in tracheotomies ?
text: Did you know that Román Chalbaud 's 1977 film El Pez que Fuma was inspired by stories from prostitutes at a brothel he used to frequent?
text: Did you know that Gwen Grant Mellon , who co-founded a hospital for the poor in Haiti , was buried in a cardboard box?
text: Did you know that music publisher Henri Hinrichsen , owner of C. F. Peters in Leipzig, promoted composers such as Gustav Mahler , Max Reger , and Arnold Schoenberg ?
text: Did you know that Sir Harry Luke called the Turkish Military Cemetery and the adjacent Jewish Cemetery in Marsa, Malta , "the only place in the world where Arabs and Jews lie peacefully together"?
text: Did you know that as part of social emotional development , there is a sevenfold increase in most children's emotional vocabularies between ages 4 and 11?
text: Did you know that British Army officer Ogilvie Graham met his wife during the Battle of the Somme ?
text: Did you know that Bester Bube is a card game characterised by the promotion of two jacks to topmost position, a feature paralleled in Euchre and other historical games such as Reunion and Kontraspiel ?
text: Did you know that when HMS Safari attacked barges at Ras Ali, Libya, the torpedo passed underneath, damaging a mole and killing five men?
text: Did you know that after discovering that the itch mite was the cause of scabies , Giovanni Cosimo Bonomo had a hard time finding a job?
text: Did you know that the white wagtail is the national bird of Latvia ?
text: Did you know that selfish genetic elements are genes that can invade a population even though they are harmful to the individuals carrying them?
text: Did you know that in 1947, state representative Rose M. Poole was part of a Republican majority in the Oregon House of Representatives that outnumbered Democrats 58 to 2?
text: Did you know that the surrender of Valjala Stronghold in 1227 finalized the Crusader conquest of Estonia ?
text: Did you know that in her second novel, Echoes , Maeve Binchy underscores the paucity of educational opportunities in small Irish towns before the introduction of free secondary education in 1967?
text: Did you know that Alexis Hartmann developed a new technique for testing blood sugar levels while he was still a medical student?
text: Did you know that Australian rules footballer Will Schofield played on in a match despite a compound dislocation of his finger?
text: Did you know that American suffragist Annie Nowlin Savery came into conflict with some woman suffragists because she supported free love ?
text: Did you know that Chief Justice Murray Gleeson suggested that public confidence in the independence of Australian judges largely consists of taking things for granted?
text: Did you know that 79 pages of Robin Coste Lewis 's anthology Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poems are devoted to the titular poem, which consists of "titles, catalog entries, or exhibit descriptions" depicting the black female form in Western art?
text: Did you know that " Varsity ", the University of Michigan fight song , was written in 1911 by two Michigan students while they were riding a street car in Detroit ?
text: Did you know that the journalist Johann Georg Reißmüller , a co-publisher of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , is credited with playing an important part in Germany's recognition of Croatia and Slovenia ?
text: Did you know that the production of the film El Caracazo required a military security presence for the filming of scenes of riot and massacre in the centre of the Venezuelan capital of Caracas ?
text: Did you know that the man who named a nearly blind amphibian Dermophis donaldtrumpi did so to raise awareness of Donald Trump's policies on climate change ?
text: Did you know that the first-class cricketer and British Army racquets champion Henry Bond received honours from the British and Romanian governments for his service during the First World War?
text: Did you know that wounds on the abdomen of the wolf spider Geolycosa pikei begin to heal immediately?
text: Did you know that Israeli scholar Esther Farbstein and a colleague discovered more than 100 personal Holocaust accounts in rabbinical works, a resource previously overlooked by Holocaust researchers?
text: Did you know that the Ugandan military indiscriminately bombarded rebel fighters, civilians, and even their own forces during the Battle of Tororo ?
text: Did you know that actor Tim Franklin had his first on-screen kiss while portraying Home and Away character Colby Thorne ?
text: Did you know that historian Julius S. Scott did not agree with his publisher's suggested revisions to The Common Wind , so the book remained unpublished for over thirty years?
text: Did you know that Victor Bonney stained vaginas blue?
text: Did you know that the pup of a little brown bat can weigh nearly a third as much as its mother at birth?
text: Did you know that the Old West figurine sculptor Earl Heikka 's first studio was on Gary Cooper 's ranch?
text: Did you know that after journalist Victor Mallet chaired a talk by Chan Ho-tin , leader of the now-banned Hong Kong National Party , he was denied renewal of his Hong Kong work permit ?
text: Did you know that the 18th-century Rami Barracks was temporarily used by food wholesalers before its current planned redevelopment to create Turkey's biggest library?
text: Did you know that black voting rights activist Herbert Lee was killed in 1961 by Mississippi state representative E. H. Hurst ?
text: Did you know that a volunteer medical unit was raised in Ireland for service with the French Army in the Franco-Prussian War ?
text: Did you know that before Richard Ellis became a photographer, he was a tightrope walker in a travelling circus?
text: Did you know that Portugal international footballer Melissa Antunes teaches at a university and started a sports agency?
text: Did you know that some forms of ginbuna carp asexually reproduce via gynogenesis, in which the male sperm contributes no genetic material but is still required for egg development?
text: Did you know that the biologist Denis G. Lillie drew cartoons of his colleagues on the 1910–1913 Terra Nova Expedition ?
text: Did you know that after 250 laps, second place at the 2001 Harrah's 500 , a CART race, was determined by a photo finish in which Dario Franchitti beat Michel Jourdain Jr. by 2 inches (51 mm)?
text: Did you know that in 1960, Sirimavo Bandaranaike became the first woman elected as a non-hereditary head of government in modern history?
text: Did you know that the founder of Bieling Architekten mainly designed churches, while his two sons now focus on commercial projects?
text: Did you know that before becoming a United States Marine Corps mascot, Jiggs II won a blue ribbon at the 1926 Westminster Dog Show ?
text: Did you know that the Swiss-German spy Carmen Mory , later a Nazi concentration camp kapo , was described as a "third-rate Mata Hari "?
text: Did you know that the katydid Capnobotes fuliginosus shows its dark hindwings when startled?
text: Did you know that merchant John Leamy owned the first U.S. ship to enter the Río de la Plata ?
text: Did you know that Marvel Comics ' chief creative officer Joe Quesada made his directorial debut with the first episode of the digital series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Slingshot ?
text: Did you know that the biochemist Wilfrid Butt was among the first to extract follicle-stimulating hormone from cadavers rather than from urine?
text: Did you know that in 1346, an English army plundered its way across south-west France for 350 miles (560 km) without meeting effective resistance?
text: Did you know that according to primatologists Robert Seyfarth and Dorothy Cheney , successful baboons use rules like those in Jane Austen novels: "be nice to your relatives and get in with the high-ranking relatives"?
text: Did you know that HMS London , a London -class battleship , was fitted with a makeshift ramp for experiments with naval aircraft ?
text: Did you know that a popular account of the Indian rope trick by Chicago Tribune journalist John Wilkie may have been inspired by the Chinese short story " Growing Pears "?
text: Did you know that the final work of artist Monica Ross was completed on the day of her death?
text: Did you know that Al-Ain Football Club was the first Emirati team to qualify for the final of the FIFA Club World Cup ?
text: Did you know that Jewish community leader Tibor Kováč negotiated with and bribed a former classmate who was organizing the deportation of Jews from Slovakia during the Holocaust?
text: Did you know that social connectedness may be as important to our well-being as food or water?
text: Did you know that the Shepherd with a Flute has had his shirt changed, and is now attributed to Titian rather than Giorgione ?
text: Did you know that voice actress Yukari Anzai was appointed as a Japanese ambassador for the hot springs of Hsinchu County in Taiwan?
text: Did you know that Max Reger composed Introduction, Passacaglia and Fugue , Op. 127, for Karl Straube , to be played as the first organ piece at the new Centennial Hall in Breslau in 1913?
text: Did you know that Thomas F. Mulledy sold the slaves owned by the Maryland province of the Jesuits in 1838 in order to pay off its debt?
text: Did you know that although Indian cassava mosaic virus does indeed infect cassava crops in India, the actual origin of the virus is unknown?
text: Did you know that a scientific paper by Thomas Wilkinson King about the thyroid gland fell into obscurity for nearly a century before being discussed by Sir Humphry Rolleston in a lecture in 1933?
text: Did you know that the Monrovia Church massacre was the worst single atrocity of the Liberian civil war ?
text: Did you know that the writer of the play Why We Have a Body was inspired by Harriet the Spy , whom she viewed as the first lesbian she had ever encountered?
text: Did you know that among the books produced by Georgian publisher James Stratford was one of 149 parts ?
text: Did you know that screenwriter and actress Vivian Schilling was inspired to write Soultaker by a car accident in which she had been involved?
text: Did you know that the first-class cricketer Jack Gannon was mentioned in dispatches twice in both the Anglo-Afghan War of 1919 and the Second World War?
text: Did you know that the French submarine Argonaute was designed with a diesel engine but was built with steam and electric motors instead?
text: Did you know that Georgetown University School of Medicine was founded during the presidency of James A. Ryder ?
text: Did you know that a documentary about the British band Coldplay sold more than 300,000 tickets for a single-night cinematic release, but was not viewed by the band's lead singer ?
text: Did you know that Nagammai organised women to picket the toddy shops in Erode during the temperance movement in India ?
text: Did you know that President Jozef Tiso argued in a 1942 speech that Slovakia's complicity in the Holocaust was consistent with Christian morality?
text: Did you know that Cornell University professor Walter LaFeber gave his farewell lecture on American diplomatic history before nearly 3,000 people at New York's Beacon Theatre ?
text: Did you know that the beech orchid was first scientifically described in The Sydney Morning Herald ?
text: Did you know that Melani Leimena Suharli , the daughter of the founder of the Indonesian Christian Party , is Muslim?
text: Did you know that the U.S. Supreme Court delayed hearing oral arguments in Gamble v. United States due to a national day of mourning proclaimed following the death of George H. W. Bush ?
text: Did you know that photographer Lola Álvarez Bravo was described by Alfonso Michel as Mexico's most important painter?
text: Did you know that the Buddhist eight precepts allow lay people to lead a life similar to a monk for a day?
text: Did you know that Jim Siwy was a police officer before and after his career in Major League Baseball ?
text: Did you know that Yum Balam Flora and Fauna Protection Area , which provides a habitat for jaguars, is named for a Maya jaguar god of nature?
text: Did you know that William Gould Young was the first faculty member at UCLA to be inducted into the National Academy of Sciences , and the university's chemistry building was renamed in his honor?
text: Did you know that one of the poems in How to Be Drawn by Terrance Hayes was described as having "echoes of the cultural critique of race relations in America" in Ralph Ellison 's novel Invisible Man ?
text: Did you know that the whitespot ghost shark is known from only four specimens in the Galápagos Islands ?
text: Did you know that suspected hitwoman Joselyn Alejandra Niño had a nickname which referred to Our Lady of Holy Death ?
text: Did you know that Denmark won the 1971 Women's World Cup , an unofficial association football tournament, after 15-year-old Susanne Augustesen scored all three goals in the final?
text: Did you know that with the launch of PSLV-C42 the Indian Space Research Organisation has launched a total of 239 foreign satellites for 28 different countries?
text: Did you know that in 1933 Green Bay Packers president Lee Joannes personally loaned the organization $6,000 to keep it in operation?
text: Did you know that in 1960 Emil Paleček discovered that nucleic acids could be studied electrochemically , contradicting previous assumptions that DNA molecules were too large to have electrochemical properties?
text: Did you know that regolith-hosted rare earth element deposits are mostly low grade, but economic to mine?
text: Did you know that Second World War Jewish resistance fighter Sonia Orbuch was originally named Sarah, but was renamed to sound more Russian?
text: Did you know that actor Tom Hanks has claimed that the Hermes 3000 would be the luxury item he would take to a desert island ?
text: Did you know that Joseph Jenckes Jr. , the founder of Pawtucket, Rhode Island , was arrested and jailed for making threatening remarks about the king of England ?
text: Did you know that organic nuclear reactors , widely researched in the 1950s and 1960s, replaced the water normally used to cool the reactor core with various organic fluids?
text: Did you know that Björn Ambrosiani spent six years excavating at the Viking Age settlement Birka ?
text: Did you know that Peter Cornelius wrote poems and music for his song cycle Weihnachtslieder , which included a popular melody in the piano accompaniment for a song about the Three Kings ?
text: Did you know that in November 2018, Matthew Hedges received a pardon from his life sentence for spying in the United Arab Emirates ?
text: Did you know that Shekhar: Ek Jivani by Agyeya is considered the first psychoanalytical novel in Hindi literature ?
text: Did you know that in 2007, Peter Morris was "discovered" by Peter Morris ?
text: Did you know that Chinese writer Pu Songling may have written an anti-Manchu short story ?
text: Did you know that Trinidadian football player and coach Michael McComie died from a brain tumour 24 hours after being diagnosed?
text: Did you know that the Patagonian squid spawns among the stems of partially defoliated kelp Lessonia trabeculata ?
text: Did you know that the Country Hospital in Shanghai provided free treatment to Jewish refugees during World War II ?
text: Did you know that food writer Melissa Clark elicited disapproving tweets from President Barack Obama and former governor Jeb Bush for her recipe for guacamole with green peas?
text: Did you know that Howard J. Green 's screenplay for I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang led to the elimination of the chain gang system in the U.S. state of Georgia in 1937?
text: Did you know that Falcon 9 booster B1050 malfunctioned during re-entry and missed its landing target at LZ-1 , but still managed a soft landing just offshore?
text: Did you know that Roberto Tobar officiated the 2017 Segunda División final, in which only one team took part in the penalty shootout ?
text: Did you know that the Loch Maree Hotel poisoning of 1922 was the first recorded outbreak of botulism in the United Kingdom?
text: Did you know that while Bernard A. Maguire was a prefect at Georgetown University , a student uprising resulted in the dismissal of 70 students?
text: Did you know that the 1931 accident triangle theory proposed a link between the number of minor accidents and those that led to serious injury?
text: Did you know that Hazel Smith helped to popularize the term " outlaw country " by using it to describe the music of performers such as Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings ?
text: Did you know that the continental arc tonalite-trondhjemite-granodiorite rocks can be plutonic ?
text: Did you know that Jim Derrington is the youngest player to record a base hit in American League history?
text: Did you know that the Ospedale degli Incurabili in Venice, where Johann Adolph Hasse was maestro di cappella , was founded as a hospice for sufferers from syphilis and other incurable diseases of the time?
text: Did you know that Andrew L. Lewis flew more than 100 combat missions as a naval aviator before becoming commander of the United States Second Fleet ?
text: Did you know that " Dui Bigha Jomi ", a Bengali poem written by Rabindranath Tagore , inspired a story which was the basis for the 1953 Hindi film Do Bigha Zamin ?
text: Did you know that Dimyati Natakusumah is set to compete against two of his children in the 2019 Indonesian general election ?
text: Did you know that the money from the sale of Russell Crowe's jockstrap allowed the Australia Zoo to establish a koala chlamydia ward?
text: Did you know that David Long Jr. set the West Virginia Mountaineers football record for single-game tackles for a loss?
text: Did you know that Guêpe -class submarines were solely intended for use in harbor defense?
text: Did you know that Chief Minister Zeik-Bye of Hanthawaddy persuaded Prince Binnya Nwe to revolt by saying that his mother Princess Maha Dewi was planning to put her lover on the throne?
text: Did you know that, in the 1980s, the British physician John R. Seale advocated the now-discredited theory that HIV might have been created in a germ warfare laboratory?
text: Did you know that the namesake of the Brigadier General Thomas F. Barr Award served for just one day as Judge Advocate General of the United States Army ?
text: Did you know that during the filming of There She Goes , a programme based on series creator Shaun Pye 's learning-disabled daughter, he became so emotional that he had to leave the set?
text: Did you know that Scharwenzel is a card game , at least three centuries old, that is played today only on the German island of Fehmarn ?
text: Did you know that al-Barakah , a self-declared administrative district of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant , was moved about 200 kilometres (120 miles) south during its existence?
text: Did you know that Alphonsus J. Donlon became known as the "father of Georgetown athletics " for overseeing multiple victorious teams?
text: Did you know that when creating the television drama Butterfly , the playwright Tony Marchant aimed to dispel the myth that transgender children transition in order to be "trendy"?
text: Did you know that Wilmer Clemont Fields of the Southern Baptist Convention was a defender of freedom of the press ?
text: Did you know that the underwater mountain and former atoll Darwin Guyot is named after Charles Darwin ?
text: Did you know that Gujarati writer Geeta Parikh has written more than 900 poems?
text: Did you know that in the Battle of the Hatpins , women protestors repelled police officers with rolling pins and skillets?
text: Did you know that among the babies born at the Parsi Lying-in Hospital was the Indian politician Feroze Gandhi ?
text: Did you know that Wolfgang Unger was director of music at the University of Leipzig , where he founded two instrumental ensembles named after the original Paulinerkirche ?
text: Did you know that the Romanian destroyers Mărăști and Mărășești both changed owners three times and were renamed four times during their careers?
text: Did you know that the 1923 World Congress of Jewish Women in Vienna unanimously resolved to support the settlement of Jews in Palestine ?
text: Did you know that the year before he first played in baseball's National Association , Marty Swandell umpired the game that decided the league's championship?
text: Did you know that A Summer in a Sea Shell was the first Slovenian coming-of-age film to have popular music and dancing?
text: Did you know that Peng Shilu , the "father of China's nuclear submarines", was jailed at age eight?
text: Did you know that when the ground is not flooded, Humboldt's white-fronted capuchin monkey has been known to raid aquatic turtle nests to eat the eggs?
text: Did you know that Solrad 1 was the first satellite to successfully observe solar X-rays ?
text: Did you know that in the 2015 film Frankenstein vs. The Mummy , the director designed Frankenstein's monster to look like a muscular zombie with long black hair?
text: Did you know that Alberto Jorge is the only association football manager to have won the Liga MX title as caretaker , doing so with Toluca in 2003?
text: Did you know that Bach set the phrase "Unto thee, O God, do we give thanks" from Psalm 75 in German to begin a cantata , and in Latin in his Mass in B minor ?
text: Did you know that Chuang Shu-chi was the first licensed female practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine in Taiwan?
text: Did you know that Vaunda Micheaux Nelson , author of Bad News for Outlaws , asked that US black deputy marshal Bass Reeves appear unclothed in an illustration to ensure its historical accuracy?
text: Did you know that XTC 's Oranges & Lemons , released 30 years ago today, reinterpreted 1960s psychedelic music styles using 1980s instrumentation and technology?
text: Did you know that Chen Chao-long performed the first liver transplant in Asia, as well as Taiwan's first living donor liver transplantation?
text: Did you know that the 1945 Bierut Decree nationalized all land in the Polish capital of Warsaw after the city's destruction by the Nazis ?
text: Did you know that William McSherry arranged for the sale in 1838 of the slaves who worked the Jesuit province in Maryland ?
text: Did you know that Hintersche , a historical card game played by farmers, foresters and journeymen in the Principality of Fürstenberg , is still played in the Black Forest today?
text: Did you know that the soprano Julia Kleiter has appeared internationally in Mozart operas, as both Susanna and the Countess in Figaro , and both Papagena and Pamina in The Magic Flute ?
text: Did you know that the innkeeper worm catches its food with a net and then swallows the net?
text: Did you know that Reina Ueda voiced 18 sisters in the anime series Tesagure! Bukatsu-mono ?
text: Did you know that the first attempt of the British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph Company to lay a submarine telegraph cable to Ireland failed because the cable would not reach that far?
text: Did you know that Ambrosia Tønnesen is regarded as the first professional female sculptor in Norway?
text: Did you know that Cleitarchus 's History of Alexander , written in the fourth century BC, was criticized by contemporaries as being overly sensational?
text: Did you know that Karl Plagge 's efforts to rescue Jews during the Holocaust succeeded because he entered a "grey zone" of moral compromise?
text: Did you know that role-playing video game Dungeon Siege III has so many items with unexplained statistics that it left reviewers confused?
text: Did you know that quarterback Sammy Baugh was investigated by the National Football League after missing the 1942 NFL All-Star Game because he had the flu?
text: Did you know that Edris Allan , the first telephone operator for the Jamaica All Island Telephone Service, married Sir Harold Allan , the first Afro-Jamaican to be knighted?
text: Did you know that the main venue of the Landestheater Detmold was built from 1914–18, after the 1825 court theatre of the Principality of Lippe burnt down?
text: Did you know that Yu-chien Kuan fled China using a stolen Japanese passport, was jailed in Egypt, and then became a sinologist and advisor to the German chancellor?
text: Did you know that actor Michael Rennie and temperance activist Catherine Gurney are buried in Harlow Hill Cemetery ?
text: Did you know that Chinese soybean geneticist Wang Lianzheng was elected a foreign fellow of the Indian and Russian national academies of agricultural sciences?
text: Did you know that a Cleveland film critic said the acting in the 1923 film The Net "doesn't warrant complimentary adjectives"?
text: Did you know that in 1844 Thomas Barry sailed along the River Thames in a tub pulled by four geese?
text: Did you know that cardiac allograft vasculopathy is a complication of heart transplantation that affects up to half of recipients within ten years?
text: Did you know that Liang Weiyan and his team designed the water turbines of the world's largest power plant ?
text: Did you know that otters and seabirds seem to be able to detect when butter clams are toxic, but humans cannot?
text: Did you know that Nina Morrison was nominated for the 2019 AFL Women's Rising Star award on debut – but suffered a season-ending knee injury in training the next week?
text: Did you know that in 1407, Admiral Zheng He 's treasure fleet defeated the pirate force of Chen Zuyi , who had occupied Palembang in today's Indonesia, and sent him back to China for execution?
text: Did you know that the Payún Matrú volcano, last active about 500 years ago, is the source of the longest Quaternary lava flow on Earth?
text: Did you know that in 1832, sugar planter Hamilton Brown argued that slaves in Jamaica were better off than the poor in Britain?
text: Did you know that Joyce Sumbi , one of thirteen black librarians in the 242-librarian LA County Library system in 1971, charged her employer with discrimination against minorities?
text: Did you know that the "sleepy town" of Tarraville , Australia, with a population of around 80, was once the largest town in Gippsland ?
text: Did you know that Freeman Dyson used a result by Marian Pour-El on the mathematical undecidability of the wave equation as evidence for the superiority of analog to digital forms of life?
text: Did you know that St. John the Evangelist Church was the first Catholic church in Frederick County, Maryland , and the first church consecrated in the Archdiocese of Baltimore ?
text: Did you know that Isabel Chan is part of the singing trio MKB48, whose full name is Mega Karaoke Bitches 48?
text: Did you know that, in the United States, mobile field forces are used by police to deal with civil disorder by targeting "agitators"?
text: Did you know that British-Pakistani director Sarmad Masud describes his 2017 film My Pure Land as "a modern-day feminist Western set in Pakistan"?
text: Did you know that larvae of the red tube worm do not settle on bull kelp , probably because that seaweed inflates its float chambers with carbon monoxide ?
text: Did you know that professional world barrel-racing champion Hailey Kinsel won $433,333.33 in one day at the American Rodeo in February 2017?
text: Did you know that the economy of the Philippines under Ferdinand Marcos saw its first crisis in 1969 because of heavy borrowing in preparation for the Marcos re-election campaign ?
text: Did you know that Soni Sumarsono served as acting governor of three provinces of Indonesia without being elected?
text: Did you know that Portland's MAX Red Line light rail, initially planned decades into the future, was built ahead of other projects because of an unsolicited proposal by Bechtel ?
text: Did you know that Olympians Jacques and Philippe Lacarrière were the second father–son pair to be inducted into the International Ice Hockey Federation Hall of Fame ?
text: Did you know that a short story about a child raised without a gender served as an inspiration for a 1975 scientific experiment?
text: Did you know that Manchester City conceded only one goal in regular time en route to the 2019 EFL Cup Final against Chelsea today?
text: Did you know that on a 1932 visit to the Soviet Union, S. Ramanathan was not allowed to meet Joseph Stalin because the Indian politician had also met with Trotskyists ?
text: Did you know that Suoyang City , a major commercial and cultural center on the Silk Road for more than a millennium, was listed as a World Heritage Site in 2014?
text: Did you know that a bunker built by prisoners of Kaufering concentration camp is still in use by the German Air Force?
text: Did you know that Vincent Boussard staged Manon for Vilnius , San Francisco , and Seoul , and I puritani for Liège and Frankfurt ?
text: Did you know that in 2014, the Zoo Interchange in Milwaukee became the first place that orange pavement markings were tested in the United States?
text: Did you know that after informing on a drug cartel , José Manuel Garza Rendón may live the rest of his life like a "hunted rabbit"?
text: Did you know that Madame A. C. Bilbrew directed the choir that appeared as cotton pickers singing spirituals in Hearts in Dixie , one of the first all-black talkies ?
text: Did you know that ... sofferte onde serene ... ("serene waves suffered") is a composition for piano and tape written by Luigi Nono in collaboration with pianist Maurizio Pollini ?
text: Did you know that actor Carl Au shaved the back and sides of his head for the final arc of his Waterloo Road character Barry Barry , in a style he dubbed "The Ferret "?
text: Did you know that John Buddle Blyth and August Wilhelm von Hofmann were the first to report photopolymerisation ?
text: Did you know that the voice of the Erckel's francolin has been described as "an insane cackled laughter"?
text: Did you know that Gaspar Jiménez , who was indicted in 1981 for a bombing attack on radio newscaster Emilio Milián , was later convicted for plotting to assassinate Cuban president Fidel Castro ?
text: Did you know that the rare, much sought after record in Deadwax has killer sound?
text: Did you know that the British Army's Deolali transit camp is the origin for the slang term "doolally", meaning mentally ill?
text: Did you know that Liang Jingkui designed an instrument to measure the temperature in nuclear tests ?
text: Did you know that the Neo-Bechstein was a pioneering electric grand piano in which the mechanics of the piano were no longer involved in the direct production of sound?
text: Did you know that before being appointed to the Supreme Court of Texas , William F. Ramsey served as president of three banks, in different cities, at the same time?
text: Did you know that the larger feeding tentacles of the sea gherkin carry food to its mouth, where two smaller ones help push food in?
text: Did you know  that during the Second World War , Rachel Dübendorfer received sensitive German military information, including plans for the German invasion of the USSR ?
text: Did you know that Thomas Forsyth stocked his cellar with wine until his wife cut the pipes and drained it all?
text: Did you know that Armenia's anthem is based on Mikayel Nalbandian 's poem, inspired by Italian unification ?
text: Did you know that Chinese director Ying Liang was exiled from Shanghai for filming When Night Falls ?
text: Did you know that a 12-hour hearing for Mexican businesswoman Rosalinda González Valencia was held behind closed doors because the government was presenting sensitive evidence about a drug cartel ?
text: Did you know that the Cavalry Staff Corps is regarded as Britain's first standing military police force?
text: Did you know that African-American rapper Leikeli47 always masks her face while performing, saying it makes her feel "free"?
text: Did you know that former prime minister of India Manmohan Singh called the events of the First War of Indian Independence in 1857 a testimony to Hindu–Muslim unity ?
text: Did you know that an engraving in 1500 by Master MZ shows a woman lifting her skirts to protect or hide an owl?
text: Did you know that the opening of the Submarine Telegraph Company 's first oceanic telegraph cable was marked by remotely firing a cannon in Calais from a telegraph station in Dover ?
text: Did you know that, influenced by the Harlem Renaissance , Los Angeles teacher Dorothy Vena Johnson wrote poems such as "Epitaph for a Bigot" and "Post War Ballad"?
text: Did you know that although Mulatschak has been called the card game of the state of Salzburg , its rules were almost certainly unpublished before 2004?
text: Did you know that Australian actor Nick Russell quit his law career to concentrate solely on acting?
text: Did you know that New York City's Grand Central Terminal was built after a deadly crash between two trains in the Park Avenue Tunnel in 1902?
text: Did you know that Genia Kühmeier appeared as Mozart's Pamina at the Vienna State Opera and the Metropolitan Opera , and recorded the soprano solo in Brahms' Ein deutsches Requiem with Nikolaus Harnoncourt ?
text: Did you know that changes in Earth's orbit around the Sun over 10,000 years ago led to the disappearance of the Sahara desert ?
text: Did you know that Marika Kouno was inspired to pursue a career in voice acting by Ikue Ōtani , who plays Pikachu in Pokémon ?
text: Did you know that during construction of New York City's Sixth Avenue subway line in the 1930s, workers had to build around various utilities and tunnels, including an existing railroad tunnel and an elevated line ?
text: Did you know that, playing in 1887, Emily Valentine is the first documented female rugby player?
text: Did you know that the springtail Orchesella cincta moults repeatedly throughout its life, with feeding and reproductive phases alternating?
text: Did you know that British Army officer Michael Magill was killed alongside his brigade commander after treading on a land mine during a training exercise in Yorkshire ?
text: Did you know that MT MOL FSRU Challenger is the world's largest floating storage and regasification vessel?
text: Did you know that despite a ban on Indonesian nationalist hymns during the Japanese occupation of Indonesia , a Japanese army propagandist wrote one and it debuted in an official event?
text: Did you know that Herbert Seddon 's textbook on nerve injuries took 30 years to write?
text: Did you know that Kyle Busch won the 2011 Food City 250 stock car race by 0.019 seconds over his Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Joey Logano , the closest finish in a Nationwide Series race at Bristol Motor Speedway ?
text: Did you know that after being captured and imprisoned by British Major Lionel Bostock , the Nuer prophet Garluark was restored to his former position as ruler of a region of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan ?
text: Did you know that fares on Tacoma Link are covered by a subsidy from local businesses?
text: Did you know that at 8 minutes and 45 seconds, the released version of Neil Young 's song " Crime in the City (Sixty to Zero Part I) " was much shorter than the original, which included a verse about genocide of Native Americans?
text: Did you know that Helmut Kleinicke was dismissed from his job because he was caught helping Jews escape?
text: Did you know that the Gutta Percha Company , whose main product was submarine telegraph cable , started out making bottle stoppers?
text: Did you know that squid can move by jet propulsion and some species can even glide through the air?
text: Did you know that footballer Emiliano Sala is the most expensive signing in the history of Cardiff City F.C. ?
text: Did you know that for 25 years, pedestrians in Hudson Heights , New York City, paid a subway fare to use the elevators in the 190th Street station to avoid climbing an eight-story hill?
text: Did you know that Major General Gao Changqing performed China's first fully robotic cardiac surgery?
text: Did you know that the brown algae Laminaria sinclairii spends several months completely buried in sand?
text: Did you know that the invention of the dry-air blast by James Gayley led to such increased yields of iron that he set a world record for "making the most iron with the least coke " and was named the " pig iron king"?
text: Did you know that the repertoire of the Tucson Arizona Boys Chorus includes folk songs, spirituals, Western ballads, classical and pop music – and rope tricks ?
text: Did you know that Gérard Bolduc and Paul Dumont co-founded the Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament , which began 59 years ago today?
text: Did you know that the author of the 2018 picture book Let the Children March left out "truly upsetting details" about the 1963 Birmingham Children's Crusade to avoid frightening young readers?
text: Did you know that Henrikh Mkhitaryan was the first player to score a hat-trick for the Armenia national football team ?
text: Did you know that musician Taina Asili studied opera and fronted a hardcore punk band before starting the Afro-Caribbean group La Banda Rebelde?
text: Did you know that " Episode 5820 " of the soap opera EastEnders is set entirely in The Queen Victoria pub and focuses on the characters' opinions on sexual consent ?
text: Did you know that Prussian general Georg Dubislav Ludwig von Pirch led a brigade at the Battle of Leipzig and a corps at the Battle of Waterloo ?
text: Did you know that the 1975 Holton-Arms School senior prom was the only high school dance ever held in the White House ?
text: Did you know that Jennie Jackson , an original member of the Fisk Jubilee Singers , performed with the ensemble before US President Ulysses S. Grant , Mark Twain , and Queen Victoria ?
text: Did you know that the British submarine HMS P222 was ordered to escort an Allied convoy to Malta on the surface, with the intent that it would be spotted by enemy aircraft?
text: Did you know that Joseph Jenckes Sr. , a 17th-century blacksmith in Massachusetts, was granted the first machine patent in America?
text: Did you know that the historical card game of Briscan has been described as a "Gothic extravaganza", squeezing "a truly phenomenal range of scores and melds" from a 32-card pack?
text: Did you know that Louis Dreller was decorated by both the United States and Brazil for designing and building World War II warships?
text: Did you know that in 543 a Byzantine army was unexpectedly defeated by a force less than one-seventh its size, during their invasion of Sasanian Armenia ?
text: Did you know that Twitter satirist Coldwar Steve creates most of his works on a phone while travelling to work by bus?
text: Did you know that most of the scenes in Yucatán were filmed onboard the MS Sovereign during a transatlantic crossing , with the ship's actual passengers and crew acting as extras ?
text: Did you know that David Timm , the director of music at Leipzig University , recorded his Jazz-Messe together with Reger 's Der 100. Psalm ?
text: Did you know that SAP SE , Aetna , Mrs. Fields Original Cookies , and Brooklyn Union Gas have all been managed by wire ?
text: Did you know that from 1977 to 1982, Pierre Cangioni presented Téléfoot , France's first dedicated football television programme?
text: Did you know that artificial alternatives to DNA called XNA have been proposed to reduce some hazards of synthetic biology by preventing gene flow to natural organisms?
text: Did you know that German entomologist Ferdinand Rudow was described as "undoubtedly the most incompetent" taxonomist working with Ichneumonidae ?
text: Did you know that members of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce stole the Pioneer Square totem pole from a Tlingit village in 1899 and gifted it to the City of Seattle ?
text: Did you know that Chang Ya-chung was elected to the National Assembly in 2005, but resigned on the first day to protest the parliament's formation?
text: Did you know that Connect Airways , a consortium that includes Virgin Atlantic , was created to take over Flybe —which had previously absorbed Virgin's domestic operations at Heathrow Airport ?
text: Did you know that Shubulade Smith has spoken up against perceived racism at Maudsley Hospital ?
text: Did you know that the Leipziger Universitätschor , part of centuries of music at Leipzig University , received an Echo Klassik for a recording of Hugo Distler 's Liturgische Gesänge ?
text: Did you know that Swedish handball player Johan Jepson was the first on his team to be honoured with a testimonial match ?
text: Did you know that due to an illegal electoral pact , the Scottish burgh of Stirling lost the right to elect a Member of Parliament in 1773?
text: Did you know that in a story known in the Middle Ages , the sons of a dead king shoot arrows at his corpse?
text: Did you know that the seaweed Padina boergesenii has been investigated for use as a bioindicator of heavy metal contamination ?
text: Did you know that Manny Parra's perfect game in 2007 was just the third nine-inning perfect game in the Pacific Coast League 's hundred-year history?
text: Did you know that Saleh Mohammad is the first politician from Jaisalmer district to become a minister of Rajasthan , India?
text: Did you know that Francis Ford Coppola said he added "five three-minute nudie sketches in color to a stupid German movie that had been shot in black-and-white"?
text: Did you know that Oscar de Beaux , in his 1930 publication "Biological ethics", was one of the first people to argue that conserving nature is ethical?
text: Did you know that Louise Creighton and Kathleen Lyttelton founded the Cambridge University Ladies Dining Society in 1890 "not without an idea of retaliating on the husbands who dined in College"?
text: Did you know that lava can form gas-filled balloons that float on water ?
text: Did you know that Maria Guajardo 's doctoral dissertation on educational attainment among Latina teens led to her hiring as Dropout Prevention Coordinator for the Colorado Department of Education ?
text: Did you know that after winning a professional wrestling match at NWA New Years Clash , David Arquette shaved off the hair of his opponent?
text: Did you know that Andrew Cudworth popularised the classification of diabetes into type 1 and type 2 ?
text: Did you know that the SurfSafe browser extension is meant to combat fake news by spotting altered or misleadingly used images as they appear to a user?
text: Did you know that Joseph A. Sellinger oversaw the merger of Mount Saint Agnes College into Loyola College in Maryland in 1971?
text: Did you know that director Jon M. Chu pushed back production on Crazy Rich Asians by four months so actress Constance Wu could star in it?
text: Did you know that in 1990, hornist, conductor, and composer Siegfried Geißler opened the inaugural session of the first Parliament of Thuringia ?
text: Did you know that " Three Incarnations " by Pu Songling may have been inspired by certain stories in Feng Menglong 's Stories to Caution the World ?
text: Did you know that Arthur Blackburn was the first South Australian to be awarded the Victoria Cross in World War I ?
text: Did you know that the Indian organisation Poovulagin Nanbargal filed a case to prevent the commissioning of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant ?
text: Did you know that a small group of Holocaust survivors tried to kill six million Germans?
text: Did you know that Stephen Twinoburyo , a Ugandan expatriate in South Africa, said that Ugandans were unhappy about the ticket prices for the 2010 FIFA World Cup that took place in his new country?
text: Did you know that while the Irish horror film The Green Marker Scare was animated by children, it is not made for them and may even unsettle some adults?
text: Did you know that merchant George Meade was once considered a patriot of the American Revolution , but his firm actually profited from both sides during the war?
text: Did you know that Megan Marie Hart has performed on stage in Detmold , Germany, as Puccini's Tosca and was soprano soloist in Mahler's Resurrection Symphony ?
text: Did you know that Rudyard Kipling may have coined the term "infantillery" to refer to the Royal Artillery Mounted Rifles ?
text: Did you know that California and the entire eastern United States are under a quarantine restriction by the U.S. state of Washington designed to protect it from apple maggot infestation?
text: Did you know that Firhad Hakim is the first Muslim to become the Mayor of Kolkata since Indian independence?
text: Did you know that an extract of peacock's tail is effective against the red cotton stainer ?
text: Did you know that Asim Chaudhry , who plays Chabuddy G in People Just Do Nothing , starred as an Asian Donald Trump in the 2016 short film Donald Mohammed Trump ?
text: Did you know that the capital of the Arizona Territory moved from Prescott to Tucson , back to Prescott, and then to Phoenix in its first 25 years?
text: Did you know that the name of the Japanese idol group Crown Pop was not made public until their live debut?
text: Did you know that the rhythm of the call of the fulvous owl has been likened to Morse code ?
text: Did you know that director Manoel de Oliveira completed the 2009 feature film Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl at the age of 100?
text: Did you know that Hawaiian legislator Pius F. Koakanu was beaten by rioters because of his support for King Kalākaua in the monarchial election of 1874 ?
text: Did you know that Boybuloq Cave , the deepest in Asia, is located near Uzbekistan's highest village?
text: Did you know that in 2017, the Tucson Girls Chorus opened the city 's first public choir for girls and boys with special needs ?
text: Did you know that after he was named heir apparent to owner George Steinbrenner in 2005, Steve Swindal was bought out of the New York Yankees in 2007?
text: Did you know that Shin Hyun-hwak was Prime Minister of South Korea for less than six months?
text: Did you know that the work of physician Elizabeth Ross is still commemorated annually in Serbia despite her having spent only three weeks in the country?
text: Did you know that Eidyn , a Brittonic district of the Early Middle Ages in present-day Scotland, is the source for Edinburgh 's name?
text: Did you know that Liberian-American author Wayétu Moore , once a war refugee , founded a nonprofit organization which publishes culturally relevant books for children in countries with low literacy rates?
text: Did you know that the Israeli video game Piposh , to be released in 2019, will be a reboot of the original 1999 game of the same name ?
text: Did you know that the law center at Willamette University is named in honor of Oregon businessman and philanthropist Truman W. Collins ?
text: Did you know that construction on the Thessaloniki Metro triggered the largest-ever archaeological dig in northern Greece, unearthing more than 300,000 individual artefacts?
text: Did you know that the BAFTA -winning documentary 73 Cows tells the story of Jay and Katja Wilde, beef farmers who gave most of their cows to the Hillside Animal Sanctuary and took up vegan organic farming ?
text: Did you know that Gord Renwick was part of the inaugural class of the Order of Hockey in Canada in 2012?
text: Did you know that SPLA rebels captured a large amount of military equipment from the Sudanese Armed Forces during Operation Thunderbolt , but found much of it had degraded and was of no use?
text: Did you know that when Willem Kloos said to Jacques Perk that they were the only two young talented poets in the Netherlands, Perk mentioned his childhood friend Augusta Peaux as a third?
text: Did you know that in a review for Mr. Shivers , debut novelist Robert Jackson Bennett was favorably compared to Stephen King and John Steinbeck ?
text: Did you know that local residents had to wait ten years for step-free access at Newbury Park tube station ?
text: Did you know that in 2014, the Australian actor Jackson Gallagher escaped without injury from a rockfall during a climbing expedition at the Franz Josef Glacier in New Zealand?
text: Did you know that after the release of the Netflix show Tidying Up with Marie Kondo , charity shops in Washington D.C. reported a 66% increase in donations?
text: Did you know that after recapturing escaped Luftwaffe prisoners, the British officer Guy Dury is said to have remarked: "one really has to take off one's hat to them ... I really regret having to lock them up"?
text: Did you know that a river will be diverted for the construction of Hohhot Shengle International Airport ?
text: Did you know that William Hoskins , the co-inventor of modern billiard chalk, also invented the electric heating coil, used to create the first electric toasters?
text: Did you know that the cypress aphid is a vector for cypress canker ?
text: Did you know that soprano Ildikó Raimondi , who appeared at the Vienna State Opera in more than 40 roles including Pamina and Mimì , sang the role of Marzelline in the opening season of the Valencia Opera ?
text: Did you know that the first discovered fossil of the dinosaur Weewarrasaurus was noted for being preserved in green-blue opal ?
text: Did you know that Stephen Godin was a steward of a house of penitent prostitutes?
text: Did you know that for nearly 100 years, people thought Manuel Trujillo Durán introduced cinema to Venezuela , though he was just a film technician at the time?
text: Did you know that Bierlachs , a variant of Germany's national card game, Skat , is predominantly played for beer in pubs and restaurants?
text: Did you know that Arthur R. Gralla was the US Navy 's fourth Jewish Vice Admiral ?
text: Did you know that the poem " The Aboriginal Mother " expresses grief about the massacre of at least 28 Aboriginal Australians at a time when a white settler said, "Why, we are poisoning the Blacks; which is much safer; and serve them right too!"?
text: Did you know that Japanese voice actress Kaede Hondo decided to pursue a career in acting due to a misunderstanding?
text: Did you know that Earth's circumference around the poles is almost exactly 40,000 kilometres or 21,600 (i.e. 360 × 60) nautical miles , because it was used to define those units of measurement?
text: Did you know that after a mastectomy ended her professional modeling career, Sue Miller assembled a fashion show featuring only models who have had breast cancer?
text: Did you know that mountaineer Mary Jobe Akeley was hailed as "the first white person and probably the first human being" to explore a remote peak in the Canadian Rockies that she called "Big Ice Mountain"?
text: Did you know that Typhoon Ofelia was the worst typhoon to hit eastern Taiwan in 30 years?
text: Did you know that James Park Woods was awarded the Victoria Cross in 1918 for leading a small squad in the capture of a "very formidable" enemy post and the subsequent repulsion of multiple counterattacks?
text: Did you know that the 1954 social psychology book The Nature of Prejudice is considered a classic that defined the field of intergroup relations ?
text: Did you know that Wilhelm Kempf , Bishop of Limburg from 1949 to 1981, took part in the Second Vatican Council and introduced its innovations in his diocese, including spiritual discourse and open dialogue?
text: Did you know that Alabama 's 28-point loss against Clemson in the 2019 College Football Playoff National Championship was their worst-ever defeat under head coach Nick Saban ?
text: Did you know that Geoff Harvey , former musical director for the Nine Network Australia , composed the theme song for The Sullivans for his wife's cousin's wedding?
text: Did you know that Roy Inwood was awarded a Victoria Cross in 1917 for several actions including the capture of a German strongpoint and a machinegun nest, mostly singlehanded?
text: Did you know that MLS Cup 2005 featured the same teams and ended with the same scoreline as MLS Cup 2002 ?
text: Did you know that the arrest of Adán Medrano Rodríguez marked a shift in how the Mexican government tackled drug cartels ?
text: Did you know that Florida's Amendment 4 reenfranchised an estimated 1.4 million ex-felons?
text: Did you know that Swedish pool player Marcus Chamat has represented Europe at the Mosconi Cup on 10 occasions?
text: Did you know that George Tabori wrote Goldberg Variations as a play within a play, presenting biblical scenes satirically as a series of disasters?
text: Did you know that the penumbral lunar eclipse originally predicted to occur on 18 August 2016 did not happen?
text: Did you know that in 1908, Silver Quilty was the first man to play the flying wing position in Canadian football ?
text: Did you know that a ditch in Scotland has been the subject of acts of parliament since 1696?
text: Did you know that Australian actor George Pullar attended an army boot camp to prepare for his role in the drama series Fighting Season ?
text: Did you know that Larry Kramer frequently invoked the AIDS–Holocaust metaphor and compared Reagan Administration officials to Nazi war criminals?
text: Did you know that the role-playing video game Kenshi was inspired by stories of wandering rōnin , and the idea of a survivor traveling a wasteland?
text: Did you know that Juan Gabriel 's own cover of " Así Fue ", which he originally composed for Isabel Pantoja , was the best-performing Latin single of 1998 in the United States?
text: Did you know that Alexina Maude Wildman 's biting, sarcastic gossip column in The Bulletin was headed by the cartoon image of an old woman, disguising the fact that she was in her 20s?
text: Did you know that representatives from more than a dozen nations are reported to be attending today's International Conference on the Situation in Venezuela in Montevideo , Uruguay?
text: Did you know that NASA exobiologist Darlene Lim studies underwater volcanoes and desert stations in the Canadian High Arctic to prepare humans for missions to Mars ?
text: Did you know that the Casualty production team wore medical scrubs on-set during the filming of the episode " One " so they could disguise themselves if they were caught on camera?
text: Did you know that Marshmello was listed by Forbes as one of the ten highest-paid DJs, with $21 million in earnings in the twelve months before June 2017?
text: Did you know that Slovak ultranationalists have exaggerated the number of presidential exemptions issued, in order to minimize the complicity of Jozef Tiso in the Holocaust in Slovakia ?
text: Did you know that when taxonomist Gloria Galeano first saw pictures of the newly discovered Sabinaria magnifica she described it as "the most beautiful of all Colombian palms"?
text: Did you know that educator Joseph Forbes had twenty-four children and two wives?
text: Did you know that Harold W. Chase argued that conscription in the United States benefited the Air Force , Navy , and Marines at the expense of the Army ?
text: Did you know that an egg strand of the southern reef squid is most commonly fertilized by three different males?
text: Did you know that the bass-baritone Albert Dohmen appeared as Berg's Wozzeck at the Salzburg Festival in 1997, and as Wagner's Pogner at La Scala in 2017?
text: Did you know that the freighter Selah Chamberlain sank on Lake Michigan after a collision with another ship?
text: Did you know that Victoria Loke , who had a role in Crazy Rich Asians , has advocated for the rights of sex workers and domestic workers ?
text: Did you know that the Homeric Minimum may have been responsible for permanent snow on Mount Olympus , as referred to by Homer and in Greek mythology ?
text: Did you know that the Padule di Fucecchio massacre , in which at least 174 Italian civilians were murdered, has been described as "one of the worst Nazi atrocities in Italy"?
text: Did you know that Nazo Dharejo fought off 200 bandits in a gun battle that earned her a reputation as "Pakistan's toughest woman"?
text: Did you know that the Northeast Syrtis region on Mars once had flowing water, and has sulfate and carbonate minerals?
text: Did you know that top National Hockey League prospects Quinn and Jack Hughes learned how to skate from their mother, Ellen Weinberg-Hughes , a world championship silver medalist?
text: Did you know that indigenous peoples in the Northern Territory of Australia would toss fruit of the river fig into rivers to attract turtles?
text: Did you know that Charles J. Donlan was responsible for selecting the Mercury Seven astronauts and led the team selecting the Mercury spacecraft they flew?
text: Did you know that in the presence of red rock crabs , the shell of the frilled dogwinkle tends to grow thicker, whereas when predatory starfish are around, it tends to grow longer?
text: Did you know that two years before it closed due to lack of funds, the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights published the "Sheroes Womyn Warriors Wall Calendar" to raise money?
text: Did you know that the Romanian pianist Radu Lupu 's public debut at the age of 12 featured his own compositions?
text: Did you know that the cable ship Alert almost completely isolated Germany from the worldwide telegraph network by cutting its submarine telegraph cables just hours after the outbreak of World War I ?
text: Did you know that Edward Stanley scored no runs, and took no catches or wickets, during his first-class cricket career?
text: Did you know that cases against 9,700 Kashmiri youth in India were withdrawn by the government as part of its "healing touch" policy for peacebuilding in Jammu and Kashmir ?
text: Did you know that in reviewing Jude the Obscure for Life , Cyclops found that Alex Marshall as Arabella "steals the series"?
text: Did you know that " Joy to the World " is one of the hymns based on Psalm 96 , "Sing to the Lord a new song"?
text: Did you know that in 1956, German civil servant Erica Pappritz co-wrote a book on etiquette which included sections on correct odour and on how Bonn diplomats liked to carry umbrellas?
text: Did you know that after a nearby railroad station burned down, 12 horses pulled the old Caldwell station on rafters to the site to replace it?
text: Did you know that James Mason landed a role in Neighbours after two-thirds of the other actors in the audition dropped out upon learning the character was gay?
text: Did you know that after becoming king, Kamehameha V proclaimed a constitution which restricted the power of the Privy Council of the Kingdom of Hawaii ?
text: Did you know that an interview with Sammy Woodhouse sparked an inquiry revealing the sexual abuse of about 1,400 children in Rotherham , England, between 1997 and 2013?
text: Did you know that more than half the organic content of the tunic of the shiny orange sea squirt consists of cellulose ?
text: Did you know that bass singer Carlos Feller made his debut at the Teatro Colón in 1946, and at the Metropolitan Opera in 1988 in his signature role of Don Alfonso in Mozart's Così fan tutte ?
text: Did you know that the 1978–79 Penn Quakers men's basketball team was the only nine-seed to reach the Final Four of the NCAA Tournament until 2013?
text: Did you know that members of the British Parliament are entitled to free snuff from the Parliamentary snuff box , despite it being illegal to distribute it for free elsewhere?
text: Did you know that the Steinbrenner family hopes to own the New York Yankees for "eternity"?
text: Did you know that the thornback cowfish has plate-like scales which are fused together to form a solid, box-like carapace ?
text: Did you know that Amnon Rubinstein coined the term "enclave law" to describe Israeli law in the West Bank settlements ?
text: Did you know that in 1909, Ivy Woodward became the first female member of the Royal College of Physicians ?
text: Did you know that the Chiquimula Department of Guatemala contains the Black Christ of Esquipulas , one of the most important centres for religious pilgrimage in Central America?
text: Did you know that Ugandan military commander Isaac Maliyamungu reportedly wept after witnessing how much destruction his country's army had caused in Tanzania?
text: Did you know that the restoration of the Chesapeake and Ohio 1309 locomotive was set back when an employee stole thousands of pounds of brass fittings to sell as scrap?
text: Did you know that Cemile Timur founded, played for, and now coaches a football club recently promoted to the Turkish Women's First League ?
text: Did you know that the recently rediscovered and restored 1898 short film Something Good – Negro Kiss counters racist caricatures?
text: Did you know that Philip Petty received the Medal of Honor for raising his regiment's colors during the Battle of Fredericksburg ?
text: Did you know that a storyline about domestic abuse from the eighteenth series of Holby City sparked 177 calls to the BBC's support line?
text: Did you know that Mamie Shields Pyle was instrumental in winning the right to vote for women in South Dakota ?
text: Did you know that green-legged curly-tail lizards living in more open, exposed locations, tend to have longer limbs and faster sprint speeds?
text: Did you know that Zura Karuhimbi saved the lives of more than 100 refugees during the Rwandan genocide by pretending to be a witch?
text: Did you know that French surgeon Christian Cabrol performed Europe's first heart transplant in 1968?
text: Did you know that Grand Central Palace , a former exhibition center in New York City, was used at different times as a hospital and a U.S. Army induction center?
text: Did you know that one wrestler was injured and another stripped of her championship after a professional wrestling bout involving Lady Shani went off script?
text: Did you know that the lead singer of the English rock band The 1975 wrote the song " Sincerity Is Scary " in order to "denounce all of that postmodern fear of ... being real"?
text: Did you know that Canada has enacted a cap and trade program to tax carbon emissions ?
text: Did you know that when Clive Garthwaite played on the same school cricket team as his identical twin brother Peter , they caused confusion due to their similar looks?
text: Did you know that Crooked Billet was the site of the first house in London that had a telephone, as well as electricity for illumination, boiling a kettle, and ironing?
text: Did you know that The Marriage is a video game that tries to convey meaning through its mechanics rather than through audio or visuals?
text: Did you know that Ursula K. Le Guin once rejected an offer from Hayao Miyazaki to adapt her Earthsea series for the screen, but changed her mind after watching Miyazaki's film My Neighbor Totoro ?
text: Did you know that the 1923 film The Shepherd King about the Biblical David has an opening scene in Egypt because of King Tut ?
text: Did you know that the soprano Melitta Muszely appeared as the four women Hoffmann loves in Felsenstein 's production at the Komische Oper Berlin in 1958, and still sang recitals at age 80?
text: Did you know that the Ussuri shrew feeds largely on earthworms and needs to eat more than twice its bodyweight each day?
text: Did you know that Hungarian ice hockey referee László Schell set an unofficial record of 22 Ice Hockey World Championship matches officiated in a year?
text: Did you know that Stackpole Books sold 12,000 copies of Mein Kampf in English before being ordered to stop?
text: Did you know that Toronto treasure and antique dealer Billy Jamieson discovered the lost mummy of pharaoh Ramesses I when he purchased the Niagara Falls Museum ?
text: Did you know that despite having large molecular gas reservoirs, NGC 3665 has a less than expected star formation rate?
text: Did you know that when Riko Azuna auditioned to perform the opening theme to the anime series Bloom Into You , all she knew about the series was that it focuses on love between two girls ?
text: Did you know that in 1674, the Dutch East India ship Wapen van Rotterdam was captured in Ronas Voe, Shetland , by three English men-of-war ?
text: Did you know that Mark Angel produced the first African YouTube comedy channel to reach one million subscribers?
text: Did you know that Malaysia was stripped of its right to host the 2019 World Para Swimming Championships after refusing to allow Israeli athletes to enter the country to compete?
text: Did you know that Jane Somerville has "Unicorns" all around the world?
text: Did you know that the Lutheran Trinity Church in East Melbourne has occupied its site continuously since 1854, with services conducted in German?
text: Did you know that Sumiko Hennessy , a co-founder of the Asian Pacific Development Center in Denver , Colorado, has taught courses for corporate executives about Asian cultures and "stress management Asian-style"?
text: Did you know that the Persian city of Arrajan , built using the labour of Roman prisoners of war in the early 6th century, later flourished as a large settlement by the 11th century?
text: Did you know that when Barbara Low and Dorothy Hodgkin determined the structure of penicillin in 1945, it was the largest molecule ever to be successfully investigated by X-ray crystallography ?
text: Did you know that a colony of webspinners recently discovered in Surrey was the first new order of insects found in Britain for over a century?
text: Did you know that after the Great Sichuan earthquake , Ding Yi donated more than 200,000 yuan to his former company to help with reconstruction?
text: Did you know that the Baseball Rule in American tort law holds that as long as a baseball team has protected seats available, fans injured by foul balls generally cannot hold the team liable ?
text: Did you know that Abby Cubillo is the first woman born and raised in the Northern Territory to play in the Women's National Basketball League ?
text: Did you know that a Republican candidate has not won a Chicago mayoral election since 1927 ?
text: Did you know that, in rejecting so-called " New Criticism ", Robert Kaske argued that medieval poetry needs to be read in context?
text: Did you know that the Engenho dos Erasmos , built in Colonial Brazil around 1534 to produce sugar cane, was attacked by the English in 1591 and the Dutch in 1615?
text: Did you know that in 2018 Lydia Steier , born in Hartford, Connecticut , became the first woman to stage Mozart's Die Zauberflöte at the Salzburg Festival ?
text: Did you know that large moles can live for four years but may fall prey to owls, snakes, or weasels?
text: Did you know that after China's "tobacco king" Chu Shijian was sentenced to life imprisonment, he became the "king of oranges"?
text: Did you know that Brazilian-born Catarina Macario won three American college soccer awards in the same year?
text: Did you know that the giant spoon worm Ikeda taenioides survived a tsunami that devastated other members of the seabed community?
text: Did you know that physician Sumant Mehta spent five years in jails for his participation in the Indian independence movement ?
text: Did you know that a visit to The Farm by UNICEF resulted in the development of The Farm Vegetarian Cookbook ?
text: Did you know that horror author Michaelbrent Collings used the pen name "Angelica Hart" for his western romance series?
text: Did you know that the sheriffs of more than a dozen of the 39 counties of Washington state have announced they will not enforce recently enacted gun-control legislation ?
text: Did you know that Swedish singer Sophia Somajo released her second album via The Pirate Bay ?
text: Did you know that hearing protection fit-testing is used to determine if devices like earplugs or earmuffs are providing the right amount of sound reduction?
text: Did you know that Hu Peiquan founded the journal of Northwestern Polytechnical University and served as its chief editor for more than 60 years?
text: Did you know that the start of the Greek Revolution of 1821 is celebrated today?
text: Did you know that Bekah Brunstetter 's play The Cake , about a baker refusing to serve gay customers, was partly inspired by her father Peter S. Brunstetter 's opposition to same-sex marriage ?
text: Did you know that the peanut worm Themiste hennahi is a "tentacle breather"?
text: Did you know that Alfred Westou is said to have combed the hair and cut the nails of St Cuthbert , even though the saint had been dead for more than three centuries?
text: Did you know that Karta , an orangutan at the Adelaide Zoo , escaped from her enclosure by short-circuiting an electrical fence using a stick?
text: Did you know that actor Jude Akuwudike originated the part of "the Queen" in the first British production of Not About Nightingales ?
text: Did you know that the fiery-browed starling , found only on Sulawesi in Indonesia, forms mixed flocks with the Sulawesi myna and grosbeak starling ?
text: Did you know that while on hiatus from her beach volleyball career, Sanne Keizer completed a master's degree in criminal investigation and worked as a police detective?
text: Did you know that the "Weird Al" parody song " Chicken Pot Pie " was not released at the request of vegetarian Paul McCartney , who felt it endorsed eating meat?
text: Did you know that Walter Wasservogel was the first full-time general secretary of the International Ice Hockey Federation ?
text: Did you know that in 1980, a ribbon worm was implicated in the collapse of the Dungeness crab fishery in central California?
text: Did you know that an award for women journalists in India is named after a Jain freedom fighter?
text: Did you know that as he was a teacher by day and bandleader at night, those who knew Bob Bachelder in one role likely were unaware of the other?
text: Did you know that Rosie Bernard's bar in Monte Carlo , The Chatham , was "one of the temples of grand prix racing"?
text: Did you know that Wu Dechang managed the emergency response to large-scale plutonium contamination caused by a failed Chinese nuclear test?
text: Did you know that the range of Laxmann's shrew extends from Norway to Sakhalin Island in eastern Asia?
text: Did you know that among the live venues Japanese singer and voice actress Aimi performed at prior to her major debut was a steakhouse ?
text: Did you know that the burrowing brittle star submerges itself in mud and raises its arms to feed?
text: Did you know that Washington lands commissioner Hilary Franz was a competitive ice skater as a teenager?
text: Did you know that Tuvalu could only afford to become a member of the United Nations after selling its Internet country code top-level domain ?
text: Did you know that the wildlife of Sweden is likely to be affected by climate change, with the tree line moving further north and to higher altitudes, and forests replacing tundra ?
text: Did you know that Yury Karandin was the first Soviet referee to officiate matches involving National Hockey League players?
text: Did you know that Sharlene San Pedro and Nash Aguas , the lead actors of the 2018 thriller Class of 2018 , worked together on a sketch comedy show when they were children?
text: Did you know that according to historian An Zuozhang , the governing principle of the Western Han dynasty of ancient China was "doing nothing against nature"?
text: Did you know that the children's poetry book The Great Migration: Journey to the North reflects author Eloise Greenfield's own childhood experiences?
text: Did you know that Percy Furnivall , Britain's first heart surgeon, was also a champion amateur bicyclist, tricyclist, and tandemist?
text: Did you know that the University of Mississippi band was asked to stop playing " From Dixie with Love " because fans kept chanting, "The South will rise again"?
text: Did you know that Ronnie O'Sullivan won the 2017 Masters snooker event, despite breaking his cue tip in his semifinal match?
text: Did you know that Boro Maa created a refugee colony at Thakurnagar for the Matuas , who were displaced due to the 1947 Partition of Bengal ?
text: Did you know that Artur Schnabel's recordings of Beethoven's piano sonatas were the first complete recordings ever made of all of the composer's 32 piano sonatas ?
text: Did you know that Jon Teske posted a double-double in his first collegiate start and the first collegiate basketball game played at Little Caesars Arena ?
text: Did you know that Tobago 's Main Ridge is one of the oldest protected areas in the world set aside for conservation, having been created by the British Parliament in 1776?
text: Did you know that a gay former British prince died fighting on the side of Nazi Germany despite loathing Hitler and the Nazi Party?
text: Did you know that Nickey Barclay played with Fanny , Cocker , and Ball ?
text: Did you know that Jonas Noreika is commemorated on plaques and street signs in Lithuania, despite his active participation in the Holocaust ?
text: Did you know that the 23-storey Dusit Thani Hotel , with its distinctive golden spire, was the tallest building in Bangkok when it opened in 1970?
text: Did you know that the soprano and voice teacher Ria Ginster sang recitals at Wigmore Hall and Carnegie Hall , and recorded Rossini's Petite messe solennelle conducted by Sir John Barbirolli ?
text: Did you know that the special election in North Carolina's 9th congressional district is the first "do-over" of an election to the U.S. House of Representatives since 1974?
text: Did you know that He Yousheng studied the high-speed hydrodynamics of torpedoes ?
text: Did you know that an image of an egg posted on the social media service Instagram became the most liked online post of all time?
text: Did you know that the marine worm Echiurus echiurus uses its spoon-shaped proboscis to feed but not to dig its burrow?
text: Did you know that in 1878, Liverpool stamp dealer Thomas Ridpath bought a collection of British Guiana stamps for £120 that included the unique 1-cent magenta , which sold in 2014 for US$9,480,000?
text: Did you know that as The Big Elk is now the world's tallest statue of a moose, it has been proposed that Mac the Moose be given stilettos so as to reclaim its previous record?
text: Did you know that aeroelasticity engineer Guan De worked on the development of the Shenyang J-8 and J-8II fighter jets?
text: Did you know that an image of an egg posted on the social media service Instagram became the most liked online post of all time?
text: Did you know that U.S. citizens are prohibited from engaging in business activities with Víctor Manuel Vázquez Mireles ?
text: Did you know that the graceful kelp crab tends to inhabit the understory rather than the canopy of the kelp forest ?
text: Did you know that the reversal of post-World War II nationalization in Poland resulted in considerable amounts of chaos and fraud?
text: Did you know that Soediro stole a limousine to be used as Sukarno 's presidential car, despite not knowing how to drive?
text: Did you know that the Dutch musicologist Leo Riemens and the German physician Karl-Josef Kutsch wrote Großes Sängerlexikon , a biographical dictionary of opera singers, with 18,760 entries in 2012?
text: Did you know that Indo-Russia Rifles is a joint venture licensed to produce 750,000 AK-203 rifles, the latest and most advanced version of the AK-47 firearm?
text: Did you know that in 1994, Karen became the first orangutan to have open heart surgery?
text: Did you know that after Tu Jida experienced Japanese aerial bombing at the age of ten, he studied aircraft design and came to be known as the "father of the J-7 fighters "?
text: Did you know that the entire town of Agats is elevated above ground level, including the roads?
text: Did you know that Danielle Ponter is the first member of the Rioli–Long family – described as one of " footy 's most famous dynasties " – to play top-level women's Australian rules football ?
text: Did you know that after the editor of an Alabama newspaper called for the return of the Ku Klux Klan , he was initially replaced by an African-American woman?
text: Did you know that Arvo Pärt composed the motet The Deer's Cry on a commission from Louth , Ireland, setting the conclusion of Saint Patrick's Breastplate , "Christ with me"?
text: Did you know that Indian activist S. Dharmambal was honoured as a Heroic Tamil Mother for her contributions to the Tamil language ?
text: Did you know that the upcoming Dr. Seuss book Horse Museum features horse-themed artwork by Pablo Picasso , Jackson Pollock , and other artists?
text: Did you know that Xu Shunshou , chief designer of China's first jet aircraft, died after being tortured during the Cultural Revolution ?
text: Did you know that 3,000-year-old Ancient Egyptian pictures of foreign prisoners were found by fertilizer-diggers in 1903?
text: Did you know that the tasselled anglerfish is an ambush predator, attracting its prey with a worm-like lure?
text: Did you know that after switching from black-and-white to color film in 1977, John Harding was out on the street taking pictures almost every day for more than three decades?
text: Did you know that Marcello Costa spent his career researching the links between the nervous system and the gut ?
text: Did you know that the British submarine HMS Stratagem sank only one ship in its 13-month-long career—only three days before it was itself sunk?
text: Did you know that Venezuelan journalist Luz Mely Reyes was one of the "Guardians" spotlighted for the 2018 Time Person of the Year ?
text: Did you know that leading black and white artists responded to the 1926 symposium The Negro in Art: How Shall He Be Portrayed? with their views on the extent to which black artists could avoid racial stereotypes?
text: Did you know that Ian Eaves has catalogued the arms and armour of Queen Elizabeth II , and written about those of King Henry VIII ?
text: Did you know that a U.S. presidential candidate making a campaign announcement is said to "throw one's hat in the ring", after a boxing metaphor popularized by the Theodore Roosevelt 1912 presidential campaign ?
text: Did you know that in India, a postal officer became a spymaster ?
text: Did you know that preceding a 1948 Dutch attack , Daan Jahja recommended the creation of a contingent government in exile, which later became the Emergency Government of the Republic of Indonesia ?
text: Did you know that Jules Van Nuffel , founder and conductor of the choir at the Mechelen Cathedral , set Psalm 93 , Dominus regnavit , for choir and organ – but it was Psalm 92 for him?
text: Did you know that E Dongchen participated in eleven polar expeditions, including China's first expeditions to Antarctica and the North Pole ?
text: Did you know that the peanut worm Themiste cymodoceae can survive without oxygen for several days?
text: Did you know that Anatoli Khorozov is referred to as the father of ice hockey in Ukraine ?
text: Did you know that in 1870, inspectors found that most of the workers at the Peter's Hall sugar plantation in British Guiana were from India and China?
text: Did you know that despite killing every dog that he had tried the procedure on, Francis Fontan successfully operated on a young woman's heart in 1968?
text: Did you know that Raymond Butt compiled a directory of "every station, halt , platform and stopping place on the British railway passenger network"?
text: Did you know that the Guianan squirrel monkey has a varied diet that includes seeds, eggs, nectar, gum, insects, flowers, lizards, and occasionally bats?
text: Did you know that Roma producer Gabriela Rodríguez is the first Latin American woman to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture ?
text: Did you know that if Caesar had successfully carried out his planned invasions , he would, according to Plutarch , have ensured that his empire "would then be bounded on all sides by the ocean"?
text: Did you know that Frant Gwo 's science fiction film The Wandering Earth is the world's highest-grossing film of 2019 so far and the second highest-grossing film of all time in China?
text: Did you know that the Arianna String Quartet was praised by the Chicago Tribune as making music "with the tonal warmth, fastidious balance, and heightened communication skills of groups many years its senior"?
text: Did you know that Team Canada threatened to pull out of the 1972 Summit Series against the Soviet Union unless Ove Dahlberg officiated?
text: Did you know that the career of pioneering scholar of public administration William A. Robson was made possible because playwright George Bernard Shaw wanted to experience an aeroplane flight?
text: Did you know that " Das Weizenkorn muss sterben " (The grain of wheat must die), the signature song written by Lothar Zenetti , deals with the mystery of faith that in death there is life?
text: Did you know that Nepal declared a national day of mourning after the 2019 Taplejung helicopter crash ?
text: Did you know that Wayne Messam , mayor of Miramar, Florida , won a national championship in American football with the Florida State Seminoles ?
text: Did you know that party pieces may include reciting a poem, performing a dance, singing a song, or performing a trick?
text: Did you know that Lu Xiaopeng designed a supersonic fighter said to be the lightest in the world, but it never entered service?
text: Did you know that the black limpet feeds on the black turban snail without harming it?
text: Did you know that future Phoenix mayor James D. Monihon 's regiment was attacked by an estimated 450 Apaches led by chief Cochise during the American Civil War ?
text: Did you know that a 2016 Japanese light novel series received praise for its unique protagonist, who is a vending machine ?
text: Did you know that the conductor Marc Piollet recorded rarely performed symphonies by Norbert Burgmüller and Hugo Staehle , and a DVD of Carmen staged by Calixto Bieito ?
text: Did you know that the U.S. Public Health Service can hire – but not fire – scientists "without regard to the civil-service laws" using a Title 42 appointment ?
text: Did you know that Swiss businessman Cesar Lüthi pioneered the use of revolving billboards in sports marketing ?
text: Did you know that fossils found at Granton Shrimp Bed provided evidence of the structure of conodonts ?
text: Did you know that researchers Eileen Shore and Frederick Kaplan discovered the mutation responsible for a disease that turns muscle into bone ?
text: Did you know that despite being a co-author of The Spy Chronicles , Asad Durrani was not allowed to attend the launch of the book?
text: Did you know that Heinz Henschel negotiated the return of Germany into the International Ice Hockey Federation in 1947?
text: Did you know that HMS Stonehenge disappeared with all hands in the Indian Ocean in 1944, and her exact location is still unknown?
text: Did you know that after Argentine politician Eduardo Bauzá retired from politics he produced noodles in his family business?
text: Did you know that before Tanzanian soldiers could attack Lira in 1979, their commander gifted food and cooking oil to a ferry pilot so that he would ship them across a lake?
text: Did you know that in 1895, Edward Chauncey Luard , a planter in British Guiana , led a campaign to amend the colony's constitution?
text: Did you know that the jewelled squid has two unequal-sized eyes which look in different directions?
text: Did you know that Douglas Albert Munro is the only member of the U.S. Coast Guard to receive the Medal of Honor ?
text: Did you know that the New Zealand beetle Oemona hirta is called the "lemon tree borer", even though lemon trees are not native to New Zealand?
text: Did you know that after Huang Zhiqian , chief designer of the Chinese fighter jet Shenyang J-8 , died in a plane crash in Egypt, his deputy Gu Songfen and other colleagues completed the project?
text: Did you know that Ram Nath Chawla and Aspy Engineer were the first Indians to pilot an aircraft from India to England?
text: Did you know that Amur senza fin is the first-ever Romansh language television film?
text: Did you know that footballer Pádraig Amond represented Carlow at hurling under a false name to avoid being discovered by his club?
text: Did you know that the binomial name of the coconut lorikeet translates as "bloody hair-tongue"?
text: Did you know that Byron A. Stover was an American football letterman and forestry major at Ohio State University before moving to Oregon to become a successful businessman and state legislator?
text: Did you know that André Previn composed his Violin Concerto for Anne-Sophie Mutter , his future wife?
text: Did you know that Alfred Clayton Cole , a director of the Bank of England , said: "during any time of crisis ... all that the Bank is called upon to do is to take care of itself"?
text: Did you know that the antisemitic tale " The Jew Among Thorns " was used to indoctrinate children in Nazi Germany?
text: Did you know that the Royal Navy damaged Samuel Travis' house in 1775, then returned 38 years later and attacked his ship ?
text: Did you know that John Leak was convicted of desertion by a court-martial , even though he had previously been awarded the Victoria Cross for most conspicuous bravery?
text: Did you know that the soprano Ursula Wendt-Walther appeared in more than 60 operatic roles at the Staatstheater Nürnberg , including Marei in the world premiere of Zemlinsky's Der Traumgörge ?
text: Did you know that Stephen Hendry compiled his 700th career century break during the first round of the 2007 Malta Cup snooker tournament ?
text: Did you know that Faiz Shakir is the first Muslim and first American of Pakistani descent to manage a United States presidential campaign?
text: Did you know that spiral galaxy NGC 765 features a hydrogen disk that at 240,000 parsecs diameter is the largest in the local universe?
text: Did you know that Spinophorosaurus had spikes on its tail, unlike most other sauropod dinosaurs ?
text: Did you know that the treatment of Lorenzo Gamboa under the White Australia policy led the Philippine House of Representatives to pass a bill which would have banned Australians from the country?
text: Did you know that Hulk Hogan was sued for $5 million by Richard Belzer for choking Belzer unconscious with a sleeper hold and dropping him on live TV?
text: Did you know that pool manager and coach Johan Ruijsink has won the Mosconi Cup as part of both the European and United States teams?
text: Did you know that if children are not exposed to sounds and language during their first years of life, they will have difficulty in developing language —which can be prevented through hearing screening for infants ?
text: Did you know that Tara Sweeney is the first Alaska Native to oversee the Bureau of Indian Affairs ?
text: Did you know that at the start of the Battle of Orange Walk the British commanders ran almost naked from their bathtubs?
text: Did you know that Yasumi Matsuno was an avid player of Final Fantasy XIV before being hired to write a scenario based on his Ivalice setting for the game's expansion, Stormblood ?
text: Did you know that Sam Bass was NASCAR 's first officially licensed artist?
text: Did you know that there were no roads leading to Becontree tube station when it first opened?
text: Did you know that the opening of the Senegambia bridge has eliminated the need for a 400-kilometre (250 mi) diversion to cross the Gambia River when the ferry is out of use?
text: Did you know that after scientist Qian Lingxi was denounced during the Cultural Revolution , China's nuclear submarine project sought the help of Premier Zhou Enlai to make him available for this strategic program?
text: Did you know that the solitary coral Heterocyathus aequicostatus often lives in symbiosis with a small worm that moves it around?
text: Did you know that Spas Wenkoff , first a tenor at a Bulgarian amateur theatre, appeared as Tristan at the Staatsoper Dresden, and was then invited to sing the role at the centenary Bayreuth Festival ?
text: Did you know that the Battle of Cape Ecnomus in 256 BC was possibly the largest naval battle ever?
text: Did you know that the Eiss Archive is composed of materials that document the rescue of Jews threatened by the Holocaust through the efforts of Polish diplomats?
text: Did you know that major general John K. Singlaub said that Frank Dux 's book The Secret Man , which states Dux was recruited in a urinal to work for the CIA , was "an insult" to the reader's intelligence?
text: Did you know that Alma Webster Powell earned a law degree from New York University while on a break from her operatic career?
text: Did you know that kerbs in Northern Ireland are sometimes painted to denote the political views of local residents?
text: Did you know that actor Tom O'Sullivan 's first television role was on Home and Away as a journalist who got into a fight with Alf Stewart ( Ray Meagher )?
text: Did you know that six-time world snooker champion Steve Davis reached his 100th career final in the 2005 UK Championship ?
text: Did you know that Amy Shuler Goodwin is the first woman to serve as mayor of Charleston, West Virginia ?
text: Did you know that Mendelssohn was requested to compose Psalm 100 for the new Hamburg Temple , but probably set it as Jauchzet dem Herrn, alle Welt for the Berlin Cathedral ?
text: Did you know that after stimulating them with electricity, Hans Steinert described the worm-like twitching of his patients' muscles?
text: Did you know that Eco-Link@BKE , the first ecological corridor of its kind in Southeast Asia, is intended to help conserve animals such as the banded leaf monkey and Sunda pangolin in Singapore?
text: Did you know that Zuzana Marková 's last-minute performance as Lucia di Lammermoor at Opéra de Marseille in 2014 was described as "dazzling" and praised for its depth of understanding?
text: Did you know that Queens Botanical Garden in New York City was built on top of landfill atop a creek ?
text: Did you know that Qiu Dahong studied the force of sea waves?
text: Did you know that the Indian organisation Poovulagin Nanbargal filed a case to prevent the commissioning of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant ?
text: Did you know that a small group of Holocaust survivors tried to kill six million Germans?
text: Did you know that the burrow of the spoon worm Ochetostoma erythrogrammon may be shared by flatworms, scale worms, molluscs, pea crabs, snapping shrimps, and copepods?
text: Did you know that for Pacific Islanders , the sudden arrival of a mass of men and machines during World War II resulted in lasting religious effects, such as cargo cults ?
text: Did you know that Mary Margaret Francis told Graham Lord that her husband, Dick Francis , "would like me to have all the credit" for his novels?
text: Did you know that from age nine, college basketball player Zion Williamson began waking up at 5 a.m. every morning to train?
text: Did you know that the Invereshie and Inshriach National Nature Reserve forms part of the largest remaining expanse of Caledonian pinewood in Scotland?
text: Did you know that Chiu Hsien-chih was one of the first two legislative candidates supported by the newly established New Power Party ?
text: Did you know that radiation from radon-222 and its decay products is the second-leading cause of lung cancer in the United States after cigarette smoking?
text: Did you know that Ruthilde Boesch , who performed as Mozart's Susanna and in 37 other roles at the Vienna State Opera , made five world tours of recitals with her second husband as her accompanist?
text: Did you know that in the 2006 UK Championship snooker tournament , Ronnie O'Sullivan conceded his quarter-final match against Stephen Hendry while 4–1 frames behind in a best of 17 frames match?
text: Did you know that wildlife photographer Thomas D. Mangelsen referred to Grizzly 399 as "An Icon of Motherhood", and 60 Minutes claimed she is "the most famous mother grizzly in the world"?
text: Did you know that sexual-health doctor Mags Portman and activist Greg Owen worked together to provide accessible HIV medication, preventing thousands of new HIV infections in the United Kingdom?
text: Did you know that the first airborne radar system, ASV Mk. II , led to the sinking of the German battleship Bismarck ?
text: Did you know that Tucson, Arizona , school board president George J. Roskruge demanded the resignation or suspension of five female teachers after they were caught smoking and drinking with men?
text: Did you know that the Cinderella starfish normally fasts while brooding its young?
text: Did you know that the first telephone booth in Ceylon was installed at the Colombo General Post Office on 16 August 1909?
text: Did you know that Robert Schunk , who performed minor roles at the Bayreuth Festival , stepped in successfully for Peter Hofmann as Siegmund in Die Walküre there?
text: Did you know that for NHL 96 , the National Hockey League changed its stance on fighting in licensed hockey video games and allowed the feature as long as it occurred only once or twice per game?
text: Did you know that Irish actor Emmet Kirwan hopes that the film version of the play Dublin Oldschool will foster awareness of the homeless and drug addicts?
text: Did you know that Mormon composer Merrill Bradshaw wrote an oratorio in 1974 that used elements of jazz and popular hymns?
text: Did you know that the British submarine HMS Syrtis twice towed X-class midget submarines , and on both occasions the submarines sank while under tow?
text: Did you know that Alice de Rivera sued the New York City Board of Education after she was barred from a specialized high school due to her gender?
text: Did you know that Henry Ward 's painting The 'Finger-Assisted' Nephrectomy of Professor Nadey Hakim is based upon The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp by Rembrandt?
text: Did you know that Dutch footballer Leon de Kogel 's playing career ended following a car accident in which he had to be cut out of his vehicle by the fire service?
text: Did you know that red-collared lorikeets sometimes appear drunk at the end of the dry season in Darwin ?
text: Did you know that "Old Woden" Frederick Hackwood founded the Wednesbury Strollers football club?
text: Did you know that the motet Lord, have mercy upon us was composed by Felix Mendelssohn in 1833, setting responses from the Book of Common Prayer ?
text: Did you know that Colorado Springs architect Elizabeth Wright Ingraham incorporated natural light into her designs, outfitting one home with a 100-foot (30 m) high skylight ?
text: Did you know that one of the two hosts of Dopey , a podcast about addiction, died of a drug overdose?
text: Did you know that Austrian-born Malcolm Mencer Martin was interned by the British at the beginning of World War II , and graduated from King's College, Newcastle , at war's end?
text: Did you know that during a grand jury investigation into land-sale fraud at New York City's Kissena Park , Queens borough president Joseph Bermel resigned and fled the U.S. the day before he was scheduled to testify?
text: Did you know that Yarmouth suspension bridge collapsed under a crowd that had gathered to watch a circus clown in a wash tub being pulled along the River Bure by four geese?
text: Did you know that 18-year-old Ashwathi Pillai is the youngest-ever winner of the Swedish Senior National Championship in badminton ?
text: Did you know that for Vida , Tanya Saracho assembled an all- Latinx , "heavily queer " writers' room and a directorial team who are all Latinx or women of color ?
text: Did you know that Janell Cannon 's children's book Stellaluna won a Grammy Award for best spoken word album ?
text: Did you know that Elizabeth Webber Harris is the only woman to receive a Victoria Cross , though hers was a replica given by permission of Queen Victoria ?
text: Did you know that Ten Talents , a 50-year-old vegetarian and vegan cookbook that is still in print, was the first to feature recipes for soy milk ice cream shakes?
text: Did you know that Australian actress April Rose Pengilly had not yet appeared on-screen as her Neighbours character Chloe Brennan when she was longlisted for a Logie Award ?
text: Did you know that at the height of her opera career Marlise Wendels sometimes sang in up to 300 performances in a single season?
text: Did you know that Tessa Ganserer is the first openly transgender person to serve in a German parliament?
text: Did you know that a disputed Priory election in early 14th-century Yorkshire led to nuns being placed under interdict and later being accused of being "daughters of perdition" by their own Archbishop ?
text: Did you know that Soham El Wardini is the first female mayor of post-independence Dakar , Senegal?
text: Did you know that when arrested for performing illegal abortions, members of the Jane Collective protected their clients' identities by swallowing their names and contact information?
text: Did you know that Peggy Goodin wrote her Hopwood Award -winning novel Clementine in the basement of the Chi Omega sorority house at the University of Michigan ?
text: Did you know that Wang Yening helped establish China's first specialization in X-ray metal physics?
text: Did you know that 1920s Broadway star Adele Astaire taught dance steps to the Prince of Wales , played backgammon with Winston Churchill , and proposed to an English nobleman in an American speakeasy ?
text: Did you know that the 2019 Khash–Zahedan suicide bombing , which killed 27 of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps , has been reported as one of the deadliest attacks in Iran in years?
text: Did you know that Heiko Steuer studied mathematics and physics before turning to history and archaeology?
text: Did you know that the English settlement of Southwark was burned by the Normans in 1066?
text: Did you know that Mount Ferguson in Nevada was named after geologist Henry G. Ferguson ?
text: Did you know that a crisper drawer can help protect fruits and vegetables from ethylene gas?
text: Did you know that Stephen Twinoburyo , a Ugandan expatriate in South Africa, said that Ugandans were unhappy about the ticket prices for the 2010 FIFA World Cup that took place in his new country?
text: Did you know that while the Irish horror film The Green Marker Scare was animated by children, it is not made for them and may even unsettle some adults?
text: Did you know that the staged version of Henze's radio opera Ein Landarzt , closely based on a short story by Kafka, premiered at the Frankfurt Opera ?
text: Did you know that Jankaea heldreichii is a relict species that now grows on and around Mount Olympus in Greece and nowhere else?
text: Did you know that Saudi prince Khaled bin Alwaleed bin Talal is a vegan ?
text: Did you know that the 1994 Gambian coup d'état began as a mutiny that was only planned the night before its execution?
text: Did you know that Yan Luguang and his colleagues built China's first tokamak ?
text: Did you know that the Central Committee on Women's Employment was founded to help British women who were out of work due to the First World War?
text: Did you know that the tenor Ewandro Stenzowski went from early competition successes in Brazil to leading roles such as Rodolfo in La bohème at the Landestheater Detmold ?
text: Did you know that the OK gesture can stand for the evil eye , the letter F, the number 9, the rising and setting of the sun, or to signal that a scuba diver is safe?
text: Did you know that merchant George Meade was once considered a patriot of the American Revolution , but his firm actually profited from both sides during the war?
text: Did you know that the unstable limpet is essentially a parasite of the kelp Saccharina dentigera ?
text: Did you know that Philip Hugh-Jones coined the term type J diabetes , where J stands for Jamaica ?
text: Did you know that the main building in the Konya Tropical Butterfly Garden has the form of a butterfly?
text: Did you know that convicted assassin Anastasia Bitsenko was one of the seven Soviet delegates to the German-Soviet peace negotiations in World War I ?
text: Did you know that four Apollo 11 Fiftieth Anniversary commemorative coins were issued in 2019 to commemorate the first landing on the Moon ?
text: Did you know that first-person shooter Bright Memory was described by critics as having the look and feel of a high-budget game, despite being developed by a single person in his spare time?
text: Did you know that Egyptologist Wafaa El Saddik has provided historical tours to Margaret Thatcher , Jimmy Carter , Helmut Schmidt , and Anwar Sadat ?
text: Did you know that Canada's first female surgeon Jennie Smillie Robertson removed a patient's ovary on the kitchen table in their own home?
text: Did you know that The Princess Saves Herself in This One ?
text: Did you know that in 2017, Polish pool player Wiktor Zieliński became the youngest-ever winner of a Euro Tour event, winning the Treviso Open at age 16?
text: Did you know that the Greater London Group , a research centre at the London School of Economics , played a major role in the reformation of the structure of London government in the 1960s?
text: Did you know that when the Second Sino-Japanese War broke out, Gong Zutong abandoned his Ph.D. thesis defence in Germany and returned to China to join the war effort?
text: Did you know that Dua Lipa 's character transforms into Alita at the end of her " Swan Song " music video?
text: Did you know that Eli Grba was the first player chosen by the Los Angeles Angels in the 1960 MLB expansion draft and their first starting pitcher ?
text: Did you know that according to the theory of mineral evolution , the number of mineral species on Earth has increased from about 250 to over 5400?
text: Did you know that Yvonne Blenkinsop , Mary Denness , Christine Jensen and Lillian Bilocca became known as "headscarf revolutionaries" for their attempts to improve safety in the English fishing industry ?
text: Did you know that Dale Earnhardt Jr. won the 2003 Budweiser Shootout stock car race despite starting from the back of the grid ?
text: Did you know that Hou Xun was the chief scientist of a major research project on ultrafast phenomena ?
text: Did you know that Adipicola pelagica was first discovered living on floating whale blubber ?
text: Did you know that Italian beach volleyball player Viktoria Orsi Toth did not like her sport at first, describing it as "some kind of a daily torture"?
text: Did you know that the Limburger Domsingknaben , a boys' choir founded in 1967 by Wilhelm Kempf to sing at the Limburg Cathedral , took part in the premiere of Kagel's Sankt-Bach-Passion ?
text: Did you know that real-life X-ray technician Paul Bateson , convicted of murder 40 years ago today, played the X-ray technician in The Exorcist 's cerebral angiogram scene?
text: Did you know that over 200,000 people applied to be part of Oriental Wrestling Entertainment ?
text: Did you know that Lulu Grace Graves was co-founder and first president of the American Dietetic Association when it formed in 1917?
text: Did you know that the modern separation between West Timor and East Timor resulted from a battle in 1749 ?
text: Did you know that Ralf Otto , director of the Bachchor Mainz from 1986, conducted world premiere recordings of cantatas by Bach's son Wilhelm Friedemann Bach ?
text: Did you know that the Electric Telegraph Company operated the Monarch , the first dedicated cable-laying ship ?
text: Did you know that Zhong Wanxie pioneered computational mechanics in China?
text: Did you know that the Galápagos ghostshark was scientifically named after John E. McCosker , who had discovered the species on his 50th birthday?
text: Did you know that in 1318 an English nun, Joan of Leeds , faked her own death and fled her priory, leaving a dummy in her place to be buried instead of her?
text: Did you know that Jørgen Hviid is referred to as the "father of Danish ice hockey"?
text: Did you know that Texas politician Beto O'Rourke was in a punk band called Foss with Cedric Bixler-Zavala , who went on to become the singer of At the Drive-In and the Mars Volta ?
text: Did you know that an adult gray whale may be infested by several hundred pounds of barnacles and whale lice ?
text: Did you know that Qian Linzhao 's research on the Mohist Canon influenced Joseph Needham 's treatment of physics in his Science and Civilisation in China ?
text: Did you know that reports of drones at Gatwick Airport led to the disruption of over 1,000 flights and delays for about 140,000 passengers?
text: Did you know that the soprano Claire Born appeared in Bayreuth as Wagner's Eva and Gutrune , and in Salzburg as Mozart's Countess and Donna Elvira ?
text: Did you know that although Durham is considered a rare Old English example of a work in praise of a city , the poem never names the city it is said to praise?
text: Did you know that John Kirklin 's modifications to Gibbon's heart–lung machine allowed blood-free surgery on the human heart?
text: Did you know that Bajadasaurus had elongated neural spines on its neck, thought to have been used to deter predators?
text: Did you know that Shutt and Thompson designed All Saints, Harlow Hill , with a "circular bell tower reminiscent of Irish bell-houses "?
text: Did you know that the San Jose Earthquakes won MLS Cup 2001 only one season after finishing at the bottom of the league table?
text: Did you know that Penny Rafferty Hamilton proposed 101 strategies to increase the participation of women in aviation?
text: Did you know that at the 1176 Cardigan eisteddfod in Deheubarth , Wales, The Lord Rhys awarded chairs as prizes to the winners of the poetry and music competitions?
text: Did you know that Indian theatre actor Jahangir Pestonji Khambhata wanted to see Shakespeare 's plays in England, but the ship he boarded went in the other direction?
text: Did you know that self-taught archaeologist Zhao Kangmin was officially recognized as the discoverer of the Terracotta Warriors , even though others found them first?
text: Did you know that the peanut worm Aspidosiphon elegans reproduces by transverse fission ?
text: Did you know that Sophie Van De Heuvel competed at the national level in both cricket and Australian rules football during her junior career?
text: Did you know that ice from the Park Crescent West ice well may have been used to numb dental patients undergoing procedures?
text: Did you know that the walls of Balboa Park station have "an apparently infinite variety" of patterns?
text: Did you know that U.S. citizens are prohibited from engaging in business activities with Chhota Shakeel ?
text: Did you know that the 2017 UK Snooker Championship saw a member of the audience removed for snoring?
text: Did you know that MLS Cup 2007 was the first Major League Soccer championship rematch to be played in consecutive years?
text: Did you know that Yan Jici , a founder of modern physics in China, has a minor planet named after him?
text: Did you know that St Peter's Bridge in Burton upon Trent , opened in 1985, is the newest road crossing of the River Trent ?
text: Did you know that cricketer Lionel Collins scored six centuries in ten days in a feat described as "quite without parallel in the history of the game"?
text: Did you know that the glaucoma medication levobunolol is more than 60 times as active as its mirror image ?
text: Did you know that Lynnwood Farnam was the first North American organist to play the entire repertoire of Johann Sebastian Bach 's organ works?
text: Did you know that the 2003 Melbourne runaway train avoided a disastrous collision by less than a second?
text: Did you know that Idas simpsoni lives on weathered whale skulls?
text: Did you know that György Pásztor is referred to as "Mr. Hockey" in his native Hungary?
text: Did you know that in 914–915 and in 919–921 , just a few years after its founding, the Fatimid Caliphate launched two unsuccessful invasions of Egypt ?
text: Did you know that actress Georgina Naidu premiered her one-woman show Yellowfeather in 2005 at the Sydney Opera House ?
text: Did you know that HMS Saracen was sunk during her 13th patrol shortly after midnight of a Friday the 13th ?
text: Did you know that Green Bay Packers president Russ Bogda advocated for a public referendum in the 1950s to finance the construction of Lambeau Field ?
text: Did you know that in 2019, millions of women came together to form a 620 km-long (390 mi) women's wall in the Indian state of Kerala ?
text: Did you know that the crowd-funded Curious Brewery has the names of the most significant funders engraved on one of the fermentation tanks?
text: Did you know that journalist Dorothy Jurney was called "the godmother of women's pages "?
text: Did you know that the Italian Communist Party blamed Trotskyite agents for carrying out the Schio massacre , which led to an Allied military court trial?
text: Did you know that bass-baritone Alfred Jerger , who appeared at the Salzburg Festival between 1922 and 1959, created the leading role of Mandryka in Arabella , an opera composed by Richard Strauss ?
text: Did you know that in 1905, Montclair Heights station was the site of an outbreak of glanders that led to the euthanizing of seven horses?
text: Did you know that 17-year-old Robbie Capito defeated the pool world number one Eklent Kaçi at the 2018 WPA World 9-Ball Championship ?
text: Did you know that up to C$ 250 million in cryptocurrencies owed to 115,000 customers cannot be accessed due to the unexpected death of the founder of Quadriga , who was the only person who knew the password?
text: Did you know that Rich Sauveur pitched for six Major League Baseball teams across three decades without earning a win ?
text: Did you know that Storybook Dads helps prisoners in the UK read bedtime stories to their children from behind bars?
text: Did you know that the rapid-fire rifle training implemented in the British Army by Norman McMahon in 1909 proved effective in the opening stages of the First World War?
text: Did you know that a specimen of the ornate wobbegong was observed to have its full set of teeth and be able to defend itself at one day old?
text: Did you know that Mausam Noor was the youngest Muslim woman member of parliament to be elected to the 15th Lok Sabha ?
text: Did you know that the default tenancy in England and Wales allows landlords to evict tenants without giving a reason?
text: Did you know that Agnes Buntine , Australia's first female bullocky , survived a large bush fire only because of her thick clothing and boots, at a time when most women wore "crinolines, bonnets, and shawls"?
text: Did you know that the Dicta Boelcke , written by Oswald Boelcke in 1916, was the world's first manual of aerial combat tactics?
text: Did you know that Juan Carlos de la Cruz Reyna tried to bribe an undercover agent to ensure he was released from prison to members of a drug cartel ?
text: Did you know that the luminous bay squid can use its light organ to imitate starlight or moonlight?
text: Did you know that R. Hari Kumar took a staff course at the US Naval War College while serving in the Indian Navy?
text: Did you know that Rediffusion House in Malta cannot be used for immoral activities?
text: Did you know that a cardiovascular fitness suite at the UK Army School of Physical Training is named after Edward Henslow ?
text: Did you know that a landowner buried the transmitter building for Missouri radio station KXBR under 6 feet (1.83 m) of dirt as part of a rent dispute?
text: Did you know that Green Jacket Shoal is Rhode Island 's largest ship graveyard ?
text: Did you know that the Austrian actor and librettist Karl Lindau co-wrote The Nazi , a comedy, in 1895?
text: Did you know that the Pioneer Square pergola in Seattle has been damaged by semi-trucks and Seahawks fans?
text: Did you know that because of the difficulty of transporting art from Angola , Hildebrando de Melo created multiple paintings in the United States so they could be exhibited there?
text: Did you know that before becoming a football coach, Neil Dewsnip worked as a teacher and taught future professional players and managers including Karl Robinson , Jim Bentley , and Steven Gerrard ?
text: Did you know that the frog-eyed gecko is adapted to the desert conditions experienced by the wildlife of Kuwait ?
text: Did you know that Beverly Gray was able to survive three plane crashes thanks to A. L. Burt ?
text: Did you know that Bunny Ahearne was inducted into three different ice hockey halls of fame, but never played the game?
text: Did you know that, on average, Greece has changed its electoral law regarding apportionment in the Hellenic Parliament once every 1.5 elections?
text: Did you know that Bent Norup , a Danish heldenbaritone , recorded the role of Orest live in France, alongside Ute Vinzing as Elektra and Leonie Rysanek as Chrysothemis?
text: Did you know that upon its completion at Silver Dollar City in 2018, Time Traveler became the world's first spinning roller coaster to feature three inversions ?
text: Did you know that Typhoon Ofelia was the worst typhoon to hit eastern Taiwan in 30 years?
text: Did you know that the arrest of Gilberto García Mena marked when the Mexican government stopped treating drug cartels passively and instead hunted them down?
text: Did you know that a book-length interview with Stanisław Lem was subject to cuts due to censorship in Communist Poland ?
text: Did you know that Flaps Rendall flew ball bearings across occupied Denmark at night in Mosquitos ?
text: Did you know that the style of contemporary art known colloquially as bara belongs to a history of homosexuality in Japanese visual art dating back to shunga of the Edo period ?
text: Did you know that Kathleen Hite , scriptwriter for Gunsmoke , accepted a job as a secretary at CBS so she could badger company officials into letting her write?
text: Did you know that XHCDMX-FM , operated by a consortium of women's organizations and activists, is the first community radio station in Mexico City ?
text: Did you know that former astrophysicist Alejandra Melfo now works on preserving microbial life from Venezuela's rapidly receding last glacier?
text: Did you know that the Ethiopian Unity Patriots Front is officially opposed to ethnic federalism and sectarianism , although almost all of its popular support stems from just one tribal group?
text: Did you know that Chinese linguist Yang Naisi was noted for his research on the ʼPhags-pa script ?
text: Did you know that bald eagles are removing pieces of garbage from the Cedar Hills Regional Landfill and dropping them in surrounding neighborhoods?
text: Did you know that Ann Wroe has written The Economist 's obituaries since 2003, with subjects including Prince , Arthur Miller , and Osama bin Laden ?
text: Did you know that the yucca plum pine , the bastard briziletto , and the West Indian sumac grow in the cloud forest on the summits of the Sierra de Luquillo ?
text: Did you know that as Prime Minister of Hyderabad , Kishen Pershad passed the Mulki regulations giving preference to local citizens over British citizens for state administrative appointments?
text: Did you know that the Bonin white-eye can evidently learn about new food sources by watching warbling white-eyes feed?
text: Did you know that Emma Ghent Curtis 's 1889 novel The Administratrix features a cowboy in favor of women's suffrage ?
text: Did you know that Episode 8052 of the Australian soap opera Neighbours concerns the death of series regular Sonya Rebecchi , whose portrayer 's contract was not renewed to reduce production costs?
text: Did you know that art historian Andrew Tallon used lasers to collect one billion data points of the interior and exterior of Notre-Dame de Paris , which could be used for its reconstruction ?
text: Did you know that Friedrich Achleitner , a concrete poet and architecture critic, wrote over decades about Austrian architecture in the 20th century, visiting each building he described?
text: Did you know that Venezuela's economy still has not recovered from Black Friday in 1983 ?
text: Did you know that Georgina Pazcoguin of the New York City Ballet co-founded an initiative to combat Asian stereotypes in ballet productions such as The Nutcracker ?
text: Did you know that the collapse of Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company led to the murder of a district collector of the British Raj ?
text: Did you know that an original work by artist Virginia Overton was used as a prize at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival ?
text: Did you know that the young of the striking sea star are nourished in a manner described as "cannibalistic ectoparasitism"?
text: Did you know that Ukrainian helicopter pilot Mykola Melnyk made 46 sorties over the highly radioactive Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant , and then continued firefighting flights into his 50s?
text: Did you know that John Virgo won the 1979 UK Snooker Championship despite being docked two frames for arriving late?
text: Did you know that Canadian investigative journalist Bruce Dowbiggin won a Gemini Award for his reporting on National Hockey League pension fraud?
text: Did you know that while investigating the case of Brittanee Drexel , who disappeared 10 years ago today, the FBI brought federal charges against someone who had already served state probation for the same crime?
text: Did you know that Mark M. Ravitch and Félicien M. Steichen introduced surgical staples , a time-saving replacement for suturing by hand, to American operating rooms?
text: Did you know that the Eklakhi Mausoleum was the first square-shaped building with a single dome built in India?
text: Did you know that Venezuelan politician Miguel Pizarro was expelled from high school for starting protests against military education?
text: Did you know that an "alarming" decline in arthropod populations in Luquillo Experimental Forest in Puerto Rico has been linked to the warming climate?
text: Did you know that Ronald Read , whose last job was working 17 years as a J. C. Penney janitor, left US$1.2 million to his local library and $4.8 million to the hospital where he died ?
text: Did you know that while a federal deputy , Virgilio Caballero Pedraza lost his apartment in the 2017 Mexico City earthquake ?
text: Did you know that Indra Devi helped publicise yoga for women by enrolling film stars and other celebrities as her pupils?
text: Did you know that Noelle Sandwith produced the first portrait of a Queen of Tonga ?
text: Did you know that Avi Nissenkorn , former chairman of Histadrut , Israel's largest trade union, competed in his youth in the 1986 World Junior Championships in Athletics ?
text: Did you know that the yeast Candida blankii , first described from mink organs, is now known to infect humans?
text: Did you know that Jens Harzer , a German actor with Hamburg's Thalia Theatre as well as in film and television, was chosen by Bruno Ganz to be the latest bearer of the Iffland-Ring ?
text: Did you know that before St Wilfrid's Church opened, Catholics in Hailsham , East Sussex, had to worship in the hayloft of a brewery's stables?
text: Did you know that " der kleine Tag " ("the Little Day") is 23 April in the musical of the same name?
text: Did you know that Katharine Timpson Cook established training programmes for midwives in Namirembe , Uganda, but distrusted her students and censored their mail?
text: Did you know that since St George's Church opened in Polegate in 1938, the composition of its parish has changed five times?
text: Did you know that the Italian cardiologist Attilio Maseri has been the physician to both Queen Elizabeth II and Pope John Paul II ?
text: Did you know that digger's speedwell is so named because it was thought to indicate the presence of gold?
text: Did you know that Antonia Franceschi starred in the 1980 film Fame , set at the same High School of Performing Arts that she attended in real life?
text: Did you know that an engineer inadvertently took off in an English Electric Lightning fighter jet after engaging the afterburner by mistake?
text: Did you know that the 1996 video game Polanie is considered a cult classic in Poland?
text: Did you know that footballer Chris Summers set a Welsh Premier League record during the 2003–04 season by scoring in 11 consecutive matches?
text: Did you know that among the threats facing the " critically endangered " freshwater crayfish Euastacus dalagarbe are domestic livestock and cane toads ?
text: Did you know that the tenor Ferry Gruber performed at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich for 50 years, including in Prokofiev's Die Liebe zu den drei Orangen alongside Ingeborg Hallstein in 1960?
text: Did you know that height functions allow mathematicians to count and distinguish objects such as rational points of algebraic varieties ?
text: Did you know that Rachel Koopmans was part of a research team which discovered that two stained glass windows of Canterbury Cathedral dated to the 1180s?
text: Did you know that the Butler matrix squints?
text: Did you know that Indian folklorist Joravarsinh Jadav has written and edited more than 90 works?
text: Did you know that HMS Splendid attacked a heavy German merchant ship, but instead sank an Italian destroyer?
text: Did you know that prospector John Beaton triggered an Alaskan gold rush by a discovery his team made on Christmas Day 1908?
text: Did you know that some insect populations have declined dramatically?
text: Did you know that Margit Schramm appeared as Hanna Glawari, the "merry widow" in Lehár's operetta , more than 500 times?
text: Did you know that Church Fathers such as Irenaeus, Justin Martyr, Clement of Alexandria, and Lactantius accepted the association of the angelic descent myth with the "sons of God" passage in Genesis 6?
text: Did you know that Barry Sage has earned US$22,000 for clapping his hands in 1981?
text: Did you know that despite being demoted three times, Nikolai Kulakov rose to the rank of vice admiral and became a Hero of the Soviet Union ?
text: Did you know that the motet Sicut cervus by Palestrina , suitable for Holy Saturday , has been described as the expression of "serene but fervent spiritual yearning"?
text: Did you know that cinematographer Mike Gioulakis was inspired by the photography of Gregory Crewdson when shooting the 2014 horror film It Follows ?
text: Did you know that during Cardiff City F.C. 's 1921–22 season , trainer George Latham became the oldest player in club history when called into action after members of the first team fell ill?
text: Did you know that Shah Faesal , the first Kashmiri to top the Indian civil services exam , has become a politician?
text: Did you know that in 1941, the far-right French National-Collectivist Party proposed sending its women paramilitaries to fight for Vichy France in Syria ?
text: Did you know that Necdet Turhan , a visually impaired mountaineer and long-distance runner, ran five marathons and climbed five summits on five continents?
text: Did you know that Sophie Alexander was concussed in her first AFL Women's match?
text: Did you know that Heinrich Schütz composed Die sieben Worte Jesu Christi am Kreuz , setting the seven Sayings of Jesus on the cross for the Evangelist , who sings in up to four voices, and Jesus , who is accompanied by obbligato instruments?
text: Did you know that Ario Pardee 's gift of $20,000 to Lafayette College in 1864 was the largest sum ever given to an educational institution in Pennsylvania at the time?
text: Did you know that in the motet Popule meus by Tomás Luis de Victoria , which sets the Good Friday Reproaches , two choirs alternate Greek and Latin versions of the Trisagion ?
text: Did you know that a columnist for the British Internet magazine Spiked created the fictional Twitter user Titania McGrath in order to mock contemporary " woke culture"?
text: Did you know that the Good Friday hymn " My Song Is Love Unknown " asks what Jesus had done to deserve crucifixion?
text: Did you know that Jeff "Beachbum" Berry has been described as "the Indiana Jones of tiki drinks"?
text: Did you know that Bambang Dwi Hartono championed bus rapid transit in Surabaya as mayor, but his plans were overridden by the next mayor ?
text: Did you know that " Christus, der uns selig macht ", a translation by Michael Weiße of a Latin Passion hymn, begins with Jesus arrested like a thief?
text: Did you know that the dire whelk sometimes shares the prey of the ochre sea star while it is being eaten?
text: Did you know that Ivorian special advisor Euphrasie Kouassi Yao has worked as a UNESCO chair for Water, Women and Decision-making, and has been honoured by the Global Platform for Enterprising Women?
text: Did you know that the Mayan Train was approved in a public referendum that garnered only a one percent voter turnout ?
text: Did you know that geneticist Muntaser Ibrahim , described by Science as "one of Sudan 's most distinguished living scholars", was imprisoned in February 2019 after participating in peaceful protests ?
text: Did you know that Hillary and Clinton is the first Broadway play to feature Hillary Clinton as a lead character?
text: Did you know that All India Trinamool Congress MP Uma Saren was the first person to speak in the tribal Santali language at the Inter-Parliamentary Union ?
text: Did you know that the weevil species Sicoderus bautistai , described as resembling "black, shiny ants", is named after professional baseball player José Bautista ?
text: Did you know that Czech chemist Karel Wiesner , unable to study at university under the German occupation, set up a laboratory in the basement of his parents' house to teach himself polarography ?
text: Did you know that the Natal Border Guard , established in 1878, was expected to defend the Colony of Natal armed only with spears and shields?
text: Did you know that American artist Lydia Purdy Hess , best known for her Portrait of Miss E. H. , sketched and painted while floating on the Ohio River during her two-month honeymoon?
text: Did you know that the Troy Museum , located close to the ancient city of Troy , is clad in rust-colored weathering steel to resemble an excavated artifact?
text: Did you know that at the Queen Charlotte's Ball , debutantes curtsey to a giant birthday cake?
text: Did you know that Satish Namdeo Ghormade has served as commanding officer of a guided missile frigate , a submarine rescue vessel , and a minesweeper ?
text: Did you know that at the 2019 Tour Championship snooker tournament the first-round match between Neil Robertson and Mark Selby , played over 17 frames , was decided by the final black ?
text: Did you know that, inspired at the age of five by her football -playing brother, Dilan Ağgül became a footballer in Germany and later played for the Turkey women's national team ?
text: Did you know that the tragic early life of the visual-novel character Kiritsugu Emiya was written by Gen Urobuchi as a prequel to Fate/stay night , which has a happy ending?
text: Did you know that Heinz Hoppe performed as a lyric tenor at the Hamburg State Opera , including world premieres, but became popular for operetta recordings and television shows?
text: Did you know that more than one million people are buried on Hart Island , the potter's field for New York City?
text: Did you know that Ram Singh Malam designed and decorated the Palace of Mirrors and its pleasure hall?
text: Did you know that the Spider-Man created for the 2018 video game by Insomniac Games has been used by Marvel Comics as an alternate version of Spider-Man ?
text: Did you know that volleyball player Chen Zhaodi , who was nicknamed "One-armed General" despite having two arms, became an actual general after retiring from her volleyball career?
text: Did you know that the royal vole has larder chambers in its burrow but not latrines?
text: Did you know that during World War II , the crew of the USS Argonaut donated their ship's bell to the Submarine Memorial Chapel before the submarine was lost in combat?
text: Did you know that Ruth H. Alexander was the first woman selected to serve on the President's Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition ?
text: Did you know that three times a day, the clock tower across from Southampton 's Watts Park tolls out Isaac Watts 's hymn " Our God, Our Help in Ages Past "?
text: Did you know that when Hansgünther Heyme staged classic plays, Antigone was set in Calcutta, William Tell in Nazi Germany, and Hamlet ended with the prince on a metal trolley?
text: Did you know that the colour and texture of the transparent lamellaria may vary according to the species of sea squirt on which it is living?
text: Did you know that in 684–85, Caliph Marwan I reestablished Umayyad authority in Syria and Egypt after its collapse across the caliphate?
text: Did you know that when HMS Courageux was wrecked, more than 100 men escaped to the shore by clambering along a fallen mast?
text: Did you know that " Ach wie flüchtig, ach wie nichtig ", a hymn about vanity by Michael Franck , is the basis of a chorale cantata by Bach , and quoted in Mauricio Kagel 's Passion?
text: Did you know that some leaves of the South African plant Romulea tortuosa are shaped like corkscrews?
text: Did you know that Minnesotan portrait and landscape artist Gene Ritchie Monahan is known for work that Sigurd Olson said "caught the details of the changing seasons"?
text: Did you know that Shadow the Hedgehog was originally going to appear only in Sonic Adventure 2 , but proved so popular that he became a recurring Sonic the Hedgehog character?
text: Did you know that Bandaru Dattatreya is the only minister from the Telangana state in the current Union Cabinet of India ?
text: Did you know that Michelle Obama promised George W. Bush that she would rescue his presidential portrait from a fire?
text: Did you know that Rob Morrison from Australia's The Curiosity Show was an expert witness at a Royal Commission of Inquiry into the death of a girl by a dingo ?
text: Did you know that Raymund Weber wrote " Zeige uns, Herr, deine Allmacht und Güte " to be sung with a modern melody, but it appears in the German Catholic hymnal with a Baroque melody?
text: Did you know that D. S. Kapoor designed a replica of the Eiffel Tower to serve as an entrance to the annual Chandigarh Carnival?
text: Did you know that the U.S. Homeland Security Act of 2002 has been used to expedite government-wide hiring for medical, scientific, and cybersecurity positions into the competitive federal civil service ?
text: Did you know that Tom Oppé chaired the working party which produced a report for the British government in 1974 recommending that babies be fed with breast milk rather than formula ?
text: Did you know that a calf grazing near the scene of an 1814 battle between the Royal Navy and United States Revenue Marine became the fight's only fatality?
text: Did you know that Mexican federal deputy Nay Salvatori invited the public to "smoke marijuana at my house and listen to The Doors " if the drug was legalized in Mexico, despite never having smoked it herself?
text: Did you know that indigenous resistance by mainland Caribs and Island Caribs played a major role in the failure of Dutch, British, French, and Courlander attempts to colonise Tobago in the 17th century ?
text: Did you know that Patrick Lange , who conducted a Stephen Sondheim musical in a youth club production at age 16, became chief music director of the Wiesbaden State Opera at age 36?
text: Did you know that the Holby City production team worked with Parkinson's UK to create a Parkinson's disease storyline for the character Alex Adams ?
text: Did you know that Indian social worker Sharda Mehta organised a protest against indentured servitude in 1917?
text: Did you know that the former Marysville Cotton Mill now houses a data centre for departments and agencies of the Government of New Brunswick ?
text: Did you know that Tsutomu Kawabuchi was referred to as the "father of Japanese women's ice hockey "?
text: Did you know that the mottled piculet likes to drum on bamboo?
text: Did you know that Bulgaria's first cosmonaut , Georgi Ivanov , safely returned to Earth despite a failing main engine and a damaged backup engine on his Soyuz 33 spacecraft?
text: Did you know that Meghan Trainor requested the removal of her song " Me Too " from Vevo , due to unapproved digital manipulation of her body in the video?
text: Did you know that the Indian Creek mushroom can be distinguished from chanterelles by its staining dark purple when cut or bruised?
text: Did you know that the Dutch-Belgian composer Oscar van Hemel created two operas, one of them about a prostitute?
text: Did you know that Mawjoudin Queer Film Festival , the first queer film festival in North Africa, does not disclose its location due to security concerns?
text: Did you know that journalist Roman Sushchenko was named by the European Parliament as one of 30 Ukrainian citizens illegally detained or imprisoned in Russia?
text: Did you know that the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act protected more than 1.3 million acres (5,300 km 2 ) of wilderness and created four U.S. national monuments ?
text: Did you know that Mr Justice Orr granted the wife of British spy George Blake a decree nisi for divorce on the grounds that a conviction for treason can amount to cruelty?
text: Did you know that John Wozniak took less than an hour to write Marcy Playground 's only hit , " Sex and Candy ", in his bedroom at 4 a.m.?
text: Did you know that Alfons Zgrzebniok commanded the first two of the three Silesian Uprisings ?
text: Did you know that Marianne Williamson , a candidate in the 2020 Democratic presidential primaries , has called for $100 billion in reparations for slavery ?
text: Did you know that Siegfried Vogel , a bass at the Berlin State Opera from 1965, appeared at the Metropolitan Opera in New York and at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow?
text: Did you know that Sternaspis scutata swallows mud?
text: Did you know that American landscape and still life painter Ida O'Keeffe omitted her last name in her first exhibition to avoid comparison with her sister ?
text: Did you know that the Tugnet Ice House , the largest surviving ice house in the UK, is now a dolphin watching centre?
text: Did you know that Indian MP Sumedhanand Saraswati is also a Hindu monk ?
text: Did you know that while the fan palm Coccothrinax jamaicensis is the only Coccothrinax species native to Jamaica, the neighbouring island of Cuba has 39 native species?
text: Did you know that photographer Nydia Blas has said she is intrigued by the use of photography to influence public opinion, for example the use of photographs by anti-lynching activists ?
text: Did you know that by winning promotion during the 1920–21 season , Cardiff City F.C. became the first Welsh club to reach the top tier of English football?
text: Did you know that according to research led by Dana Lepofsky , some clam gardens on the Pacific Northwest Coast are up to 3,500 years old?
text: Did you know that the All India Azad Muslim Conference represented several Islamic organisations that opposed the partition of India ?
text: Did you know that Finnish Ice Hockey Association president Harry Lindblad was a founding member of the Finnish Hockey Hall of Fame , and served as its first chairman?
text: Did you know that the Florida shuffle refers to recovering drug addicts caught between multiple rehab centers and "patient brokers" for their insurance money?
text: Did you know that Raphaëlle Boitel worked as a contortionist street performer at age eight to earn tuition for circus school?
text: Did you know that the storyline of Holby City 's two-part episode " A Simple Lie " was compared to the Charlie Gard case ?
text: Did you know that U.S. Coast Guard Vice Admiral Lloyd Toulmin Chalker has been credited as the "father of Coast Guard aviation"?
text: Did you know that Promachocrinus is unusual among crinoids in having ten pairs of arms?
text: Did you know that instead of attending Columbia University , Taiwanese engineer Ye Qingyao joined the February 28 rebellion , was jailed, and then escaped to China on a sampan ?
text: Did you know that the European Commission's Joint Research Centre recommends using the spectral G-index rather than correlated color temperature to select streetlights that have low blue light content?
text: Did you know that Librotraficante smuggled books into Arizona?
text: Did you know that the inner core may rotate slightly faster than the rest of the Earth due to torque caused by Earth's geodynamo and the solidification of the core?
text: Did you know that fees and penalties charged as part of criminal-justice financial obligations in the United States may lead to the justice system becoming both a result and a cause of poverty ?
text: Did you know that in a telegram to Hitler , Hans Bredow , the former head of the Reich Broadcasting Corporation , requested to be treated like his colleagues who were interned in the Oranienburg concentration camp ?
text: Did you know that the polychaete worm Poecilochaetus serpens digs a burrow with its head and lines it with particles of clay or mud cemented with mucus?
text: Did you know that medieval historian Maria Teresa Ferrer i Mallol believed that the 14th-century Mudéjar Muslim, Jewish, and Christian communities in Catalonia and Valencia co-existed due to religious segregation ?
text: Did you know that some newspapers reported as many as 3,000 deaths in Key West , Florida, during an October 1909 hurricane , but just two fatalities occurred in the city in actuality?
text: Did you know that a British Guiana one-cent postage stamp that Neil Ross McKinnon bought from a schoolboy later sold for US$9.5 million?
text: Did you know that a New Jersey shopping mall has a California-style design?
text: Did you know that Order of Australia recipient Helen Brownlee was the first woman to be elected as one of the vice presidents of the Australian Olympic Committee ?
text: Did you know that the Paris International Air Navigation Conference of 1910 was held after France became concerned about the number of foreign balloons carrying German officers that were entering their airspace?
text: Did you know that James F. Short served as director of the Oregon Department of Agriculture under four governors?
text: Did you know that Felix Mendelssohn first composed the motet Denn er hat seinen Engeln befohlen ( For He shall give His angels charge ) for an eight-part choir, then included it with orchestra in Elijah ?
text: Did you know that Cynthia García Coll from Puerto Rico has researched the psychological resilience of children born to teen mothers and of immigrant children?
text: Did you know that Boston Manor tube station once featured a Tiffany lampshade ?
text: Did you know that William Kempster 's 8.44-metre-long (27.7 ft) mural British Air Transport – The Pioneering Days depicts people and aircraft from British aviation between 1919 and 1934?
text: Did you know that Cole Porter 's nickname for his romantic partner Nelson Barclift was "cute little nose"?
text: Did you know that Cape Fugui , the northernmost point on Taiwan, includes a beach with ventifacts ?
text: Did you know that both Tom Ballard and his mother Alison Hargreaves died climbing in the Himalayas , more than 23 years apart?
text: Did you know that Hubbard's angel insects groom themselves and each other, perhaps in order to avoid the fungal diseases that kill many zorapterans ?
text: Did you know that Dai Fudong designed Mao Zedong 's villa and asked Ronald Reagan to have his father 's Legion of Merit medal reissued?
text: Did you know that Marjorie Paxson was twice demoted and replaced by a male editor when two different newspapers replaced their women’s sections with features sections?
text: Did you know that La Région Centrale was filmed by a robot?
text: Did you know that zinc oxide nanoparticles , thought to be one of the most-produced nanomaterials , are commonly used in sunscreens?
text: Did you know that Dutch pool player Alex Lely won the 1999 World Pool Masters Tournament and collected autographs from his opponents?
text: Did you know that the means of raising the late 18th-century British Provisional Cavalry was likened to the medieval-era feudal system ?
text: Did you know that, at age 60, Carrie Langston Hughes made her Broadway debut as Sister Susie May Hunt in Hall Johnson 's Run Little Chillun ?
text: Did you know that Coccothrinax jimenezii , a palm tree native to the island of Hispaniola , was listed as a critically endangered species within two years of its formal description ?
text: Did you know that Horst Laubenthal appeared in Mozart operas at the Glyndebourne Festival as Belmonte , in Paris as Tamino , and in Turin as Ottavio ?
text: Did you know that Moston Brook was one of the most polluted waterways in Greater Manchester but, following improvements, it is now a recreational resource for local residents?
text: Did you know that Tang Aoqing is known as the "Father of Quantum Chemistry " in China?
text: Did you know that telegraphy in the United Kingdom included a system that strung wires from rooftop to rooftop of domestic premises?
text: Did you know that conservationist Tom Cade was so successful in his efforts to save the peregrine falcon that it was removed from the US Endangered Species List in 1999?
text: Did you know that Maurice Ravel wrote texts and music for Trois Chansons , his only composition for choir a cappella , in response to the outbreak of World War I ?
text: Did you know that Eleanor Barrow Chase was instrumental in getting Eastern Washington University admitted to the Big Sky Conference in 1987?
text: Did you know that the Moscow State Jewish Theatre 's internationally acclaimed production of King Lear in 1935 contained veiled critiques of Stalin 's regime?
text: Did you know that Austrian ice hockey administrator Hans Dobida was inducted into the German and Slovenian hockey halls of fame?
text: Did you know that the album Liaisons features works by dozens of composers "re-imagining" Stephen Sondheim 's music?
text: Did you know that John W. Beschter , a Luxembourgish Jesuit who ministered throughout rural Pennsylvania , became the President of Georgetown University in 1829?
text: Did you know that the wildlife of Spain includes 8000–9000 species of vascular plants , more than any other country in Europe?
text: Did you know that Sabine Hyland discovered that the Incas may have written phonetic information in knotted cords called khipus ?
text: Did you know that the interior of the church Mariä Heimsuchung , a tall concrete landmark of Wiesbaden , features two large, abstract triptychs ?
text: Did you know that Tore Johannessen was the youngest person to become president of any Norwegian sports association?
text: Did you know that in local folklore, the ancestor of the kings of Banggai hatched from a serpent egg?
text: Did you know that the bloody flag of Blackbeard probably wasn't?
text: Did you know that 1,900 people in Seattle rode the city's slut on a daily basis?
text: Did you know that Patsy , the recently deceased Irish king , personally welcomed visitors who landed in his realm?
text: Did you know that a giant has been seen stomping buses underfoot in Arizona?
text: Did you know that the United States Supreme Court had a divorce and the daughter was sent to Scotland?
text: Did you know that Australians refused to call this bastard a bastard?
text: Did you know that a mud pie is not meant to be eaten and may contain pebbles as an ingredient?
text: Did you know that Bill Gates' converted dustbin lorry helped old people get around Worthing ?
text: Did you know that people sometimes send lewd objects to IBM ?
text: Did you know that zombies can be arrested before they've even committed a crime?
text: Did you know that not enough people entered Crinkley Bottom to keep it open?
text: Did you know that Jesse James eliminated Warren G. Harding ?
text: Did you know that mobile mechanics were needed for the stationery service ?
text: Did you know that you are onto a winner if you can catch four sows with the Jaggl, Zanggl and Buggl ?
text: Did you know that Bizzarro serves in the Connecticut Senate?
text: Did you know that a Genie and three Beavers recognized Young People Fucking ?
text: Did you know that the United States once sued 422 casks of wine , and the wine won?
text: Did you know that in 1905, three days of violence in Warsaw were possibly sparked by a Bund activist trying to save his sister from sexual slavery ?
text: Did you know that a 2016 song by Taiiku Okazaki went viral in Japan as it parodied commonly used tropes in Japanese music videos ?
text: Did you know that the Government Employee Fair Treatment Act ensures retroactive pay for US federal employees affected by government shutdowns ?
text: Did you know that the Indian Member of Parliament Anju Bala believes that violence against cows can be curbed by declaring it the national animal of India?
text: Did you know that Negatiw was named the "Champion Stallion" at the All-Union Agricultural Exhibition in Moscow in 1954?
text: Did you know that due to sponsorship issues, NASCAR team Melling Racing hired Jeff Davis to run a race for the team using his own car?
text: Did you know that Dippy is the most famous dinosaur skeleton in the world?
text: Did you know that the murder of Santos Rodriguez galvanized the Mexican-American community in Dallas ?
text: Did you know that the soprano Elżbieta Szmytka recorded Chopin's Polish songs and performed in Górecki's Symphony of Sorrowful Songs , celebrating a century of Polish independence?
text: Did you know that Green Street may have been named after a man who fell down a well?
text: Did you know that Clark Hubbs was notorious for his collection of clothing depicting fish?
text: Did you know that Michigan state highway M-343 between Kalamazoo and Richland was part of the M-43 highway for a century until Kalamazoo wanted to assert control over several streets in the city's downtown?
text: Did you know that although Zhou Tongqing led the development of China's first X-ray tube , he was denounced as a "bourgeois intellectual" and persecuted during the Anti-Rightist Campaign and the Cultural Revolution ?
text: Did you know that Len Lye 's abstract animation A Colour Box was protested by Nazis in 1936?
text: Did you know that Mahendra Nath Pandey , who was imprisoned during the Emergency , went on to become an Indian government minister?
text: Did you know that Buddhists consider the precept against killing any living being the most important of the five basic ethical precepts ?
text: Did you know that Huang Yihe created the CCTV New Year's Gala , which has become the most-watched television show in the world, with one billion viewers in 2018?
text: Did you know that the scaled piculet is a fairly common bird, but may be undercounted because of its unobtrusive behaviour?
text: Did you know that when she took office, Kate Gallego was the youngest and the only woman mayor of any of the ten largest cities in the United States?
text: Did you know that a virtual K-pop group composed of video game characters topped Billboard 's World Digital Song Sales chart in November 2018?
text: Did you know that D. Geraint James was known as the "King of Sarcoid "?
text: Did you know that despite previously being at war with the Kingdom of the Aurès , the Byzantine Empire supported them during the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb ?
text: Did you know that when directing Der Ring in Minden , Wagner's Ring Cycle at a municipal theatre , Gerd Heinz focused on the psychology in the interactions of the characters?
text: Did you know that Washington State Route 99 passes under downtown Seattle in a tunnel that was excavated by the world's largest tunnel boring machine ?
text: Did you know that many of the photographs taken by Maharaja Ram Singh II of Jaipur State depict the lives of women behind purdah in his harem?
text: Did you know that the internal organs of Elizabeth de Burgh , wife of Robert the Bruce , were buried at Cullen Old Church ?
text: Did you know that the English Premiership Rugby Cup was created after the Welsh regions left the Anglo-Welsh Cup ?
text: Did you know that Lawrence Minard has a business journalism award named after him?
text: Did you know that at the premiere of The End , audience members shouted at the film and threw their chairs?
text: Did you know that while chief engineer of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi , Ramesh Sumant Mehta implemented what was at the time the largest municipal drainage system in India?
text: Did you know that during construction of the tower for Oklahoma City 's KLPR-TV station, a worker was trapped 200 feet (60 m) in the air for more than an hour?
text: Did you know that before she became an expert on wild animals, Hope Ryden was an international flight attendant and used her long layovers to observe wildlife in Africa and Asia?
text: Did you know that New York City's 23rd Street once contained the city's largest residential complex and the world's largest hotel?
text: Did you know that Nepal's first officially recorded tornado occurred in March 2019?
text: Did you know that James Wilson Robertson resigned as the first principal of Macdonald College after his spending was restricted to 100 Canadian dollars?
text: Did you know that during the Soviet period the Feodorovskaya Church was a factory dormitory, the Gate Church was museum office space, and the Dukhovskaya Church became a boiler room?
text: Did you know that Kaylee Davidson-Olley survived an infant heart transplant to win gold in a 4 × 100 metres relay ?
text: Did you know that after Chinese General Dai Anlan died in the Burma Campaign , the United States awarded him the Legion of Merit , which was destroyed during the Cultural Revolution and reissued by President Reagan ?
text: Did you know that in 2008, Geraldine Heaney , Angela James , and Cammi Granato became the first three women ice hockey players inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame ?
text: Did you know that to be one of those buried in the Lazarevskoe Cemetery originally required permission from Peter the Great ?
text: Did you know that hundreds of houses for artisans, built by George Worrall Counsel in the Gloucester suburb of Clapham in the 1820s, were demolished a century later during slum clearance ?
text: Did you know that brown trout in the vicinity of Cline Falls can reach 20 in (51 cm) in length and weigh as much as 8 lb (3.6 kg)?
text: Did you know that Troy is the first Turkish opera composed by a foreigner, the Romanian conductor Bujor Hoinic ?
text: Did you know that a pink Molly Goddard dress worn in the Killing Eve episode " I'll Deal with Him Later " inspired a trend of pink dresses worn to the 91st Academy Awards ?
text: Did you know that Greek pop band Nostradamos won the best new composer and performer prize at the 1972 Thessaloniki Song Festival with their song "Dos Mou to Heri Sou" ('Give Me Your Hand')?
text: Did you know that hints of female discrimination in biblical times were discovered in an ancient Persian cemetery excavated from Tel Qiri in northern Israel?
text: Did you know that Hannelore Elsner , who first appeared in film in 1959, received international attention for her role in No Place to Go at the Cannes Festival in 2000?
text: Did you know that " Afrikaners Landgenote ", an Afrikaans translation of " Deutschland, Deutschland über alles ", was proposed as the co-national anthem for South Africa alongside " God Save the King "?
text: Did you know that Soedarpo Sastrosatomo joined the Socialist Party of Indonesia , but later founded a business conglomerate?
text: Did you know that a classic example of moral progress is the abolition of slavery ?
text: Did you know that the tiddlywinks rivalry of Larry Kahn and Dave Lockwood is so intense, it has been compared to that of Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazer ?
text: Did you know that the whiteknee hermit crab is benefitted by the presence of the hedgehog hydroid but harmed by the barnacle Clistosaccus ?
text: Did you know that Marie C. Brehm scolded an audience for spreading disease by waving handkerchiefs at a temperance meeting?
text: Did you know that the 1938 book Composite Nationalism and Islam by Hussain Ahmed Madani argued that different religions do not constitute different nationalities?
text: Did you know that Ruhut Sitompul landed a role in a telenovela because he was the production studio's legal adviser?
text: Did you know that Peniscola Castle , in the Valencian Community , Spain, was used as a papal residence by the Antipope Benedict XIII ?
text: Did you know that the New York City Board of Aldermen was at different times in its history an upper house and a lower house ?
text: Did you know that Celestina Casapietra , an Italian soprano at the Berlin State Opera , and the conductor Herbert Kegel were regarded as the glamour couple of the GDR in the 1960s?
text: Did you know that the First Landing Party of the Founders of Newark went missing for more than a decade?
text: Did you know that when Derrick Morris received a new heart in 1980 his chances of survival were slim, but he lived another 25 years?
text: Did you know that newly elected Israeli Knesset member Omer Yankelevich was named for the Jewish holiday of Lag BaOmer , her birthday?
text: Did you know that ProRodeo Hall of Fame bucking horse War Paint was insured for $10,000 with Lloyd's of London ?
text: Did you know that field hockey and lacrosse head instructor Fay Biles became the most successful coach in Kent State University history?
text: Did you know that the 1854–55 Royal Commission on the Inns of Court recommended that the inns combine into a single university of law ?
text: Did you know that during World War II, Wang Daheng quit his doctoral studies to help develop optical glass in the UK, and later became the "father of optical engineering " in China?
text: Did you know that while a red Irish lord can change color, it is not a yellow Irish lord ?
text: Did you know that Alfred Kirchner directed the world premiere of Martin Walser 's play Ein Kinderspiel in 1971, and the U.S. premiere of Henze's We Come to the River at the Santa Fe Opera in 1984?
text: Did you know that the small crustacean Pseudamphithoides incurvaria builds itself a home out of forded sea tumbleweed , a brown seaweed that is distasteful to fish?
text: Did you know that film pioneers Alice Guy-Blaché , Georges Méliès , and Charlie Chaplin all made films about women's suffrage ?
text: Did you know that the German architect Konrad Püschel was conscripted into the Wehrmacht during World War II, held as a prisoner of war by the Soviet Union, and returned home weighing only 40 kg (88 lb)?
text: Did you know that a 2019 Iranian drama tells the true story of Abdolhamid Rigi , a member of the Jundallah terrorist group who killed his wife on the orders of his brother ?
text: Did you know that according to Buddhist texts, Sumedha decided to become the Buddha while lying in the mud in front of his teacher ?
text: Did you know that Aleksandr Bibikov commanded his forces at the Battle of Berezina from a sleigh?
text: Did you know that bailiffs who heard champion bubblegum-blower Susan Montgomery Williams popping gum in a courthouse hallway thought a .38 caliber pistol had been discharged?
text: Did you know that the 2019 Peterborough recall petition led to the first successful recall of a Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom?
text: Did you know that Massachusetts Bay settler Robert Coles was sentenced to wear a red letter "D" for drunkenness, which some scholars have argued later inspired Nathaniel Hawthorne 's 1850 novel The Scarlet Letter ?
text: Did you know that the Nubra River rises from the Siachen Glacier , the second longest non-polar glacier in the world?
text: Did you know that Fields Medal -winning mathematician Klaus Roth performed so poorly on the Mathematical Tripos that his tutor suggested he take "some commercial job with a statistical bias"?
text: Did you know that The Trials of Shazam! was meant to update the Captain Marvel character for a modern audience?
text: Did you know that explorer Guo Kun led the construction of China's first Antarctic research base , parts of which have been declared Historic Sites and Monuments in Antarctica ?
text: Did you know that the B-side to Chris Sievey 's 1983 single " Camouflage " contained code for the song's music video for the ZX81 home computer?
text: Did you know that John Rutherford Ryley was a surgeon in a lunatic asylum in 1869 and a patient in one in 1870?
text: Did you know that Washington State Route 142 once included the largest prestressed concrete bridges in the state?
text: Did you know that novelist Ismith Khan 's relative obscurity may reflect the fact that he was not based in London, the "literary capital" of the English Caribbean?
text: Did you know that when several of the small bivalve molluscs Lasaea rubra occupy the same rock crevice, they are likely to be clones ?
text: Did you know that Mongolian-Chinese actress Yong Mei won the Silver Bear at the 2019 Berlin International Film Festival for her portrayal of a mother who lost her only son?
text: Did you know that George Bernard Shaw wondered why Douglas Guthrie excluded osteopaths, herbalists, and homoeopaths from his History of Medicine ?
text: Did you know that on the day Bill Aylett was first elected to the Australian Senate , he knocked down a voter with his car?
text: Did you know that Soviet admiral Yuri Panteleyev was appointed a Companion of the Bath by the British for his role in supporting attacks against the German battleship Tirpitz ?
text: Did you know that more than twenty species of cetaceans have been stranded on the mudflats of Bahía Lomas ?
text: Did you know that Mary Stuart Fisher , a Temple University professor of radiology who was named Physician of the Year in 1996, was discouraged from following her chosen career path by her father, a physician himself?
text: Did you know that Luciano Burti 's 111 G crash at the 2001 Belgian Grand Prix led to a ban on creating holes in racing helmets for drinking tubes and radio communication wires?
text: Did you know that the motto of Midleton College , Spartam nactus es, hanc exorna , is a mistranslation of a line from a Greek play by Euripides ?
text: Did you know that George Backhouse Witts read the Riot Act on a hill in Gloucestershire?
text: Did you know that the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island banned automobiles for more than a decade starting in 1908?
text: Did you know that Watford 's appearance in today's FA Cup Final is their first since 1984 ?
text: Did you know that Kyrgyzstani author Tugelbay Sydykbekov won the Stalin Prize in 1949 for the novel People of our Time , which simultaneously embraced Soviet-style communism and traditional culture including Islam?
text: Did you know that according to a US Supreme Court decision , the Fourth Amendment does not always apply to searches at the border ?
text: Did you know that the 1919 Australian federal election was the first to use preferential voting ?
text: Did you know that sturgeons are ancient fishes, widely sought after for caviar and more critically endangered than any other group of animal species?
text: Did you know that the Disher Challenge Cup , an annual rowing race, is named after Clive Disher , who rowed for the winning Australian eight in the 1919 Henley Royal Peace Regatta ?
text: Did you know that although measles was declared eradicated from the United States in 2000, more than 500 people there have been diagnosed with the disease so far in 2019?
text: Did you know that South African Willem Botha adapted the 2008 Latvian Eurovision entry as an Afrikaans song for the Springboks rugby team, and helped to produce the 2013 Belarusian Eurovision entry?
text: Did you know that Shah Jahan II 's food, clothes, and meetings were decided by the powerful Sayyid brothers who had chosen him as the Mughal emperor ?
text: Did you know that the girls of the Mädchenkantorei Limburg joined a women's choir to perform sacred choral music by contemporary composers at a 2019 concert in Limburg Cathedral ?
text: Did you know that Wenona Giles helped 59 people in the Dadaab refugee camp, Kenya, earn a Certificate of Completion in Educational Studies from Canada's York University ?
text: Did you know that the Arlington Museum of Art occupies a former J. C. Penney store in downtown Arlington, Texas?
text: Did you know that Xiong Zhaoren , whose battle experience was adapted into two films, lived to 107, the longest among China's founding generals?
text: Did you know that for the first six months that Janis Ian performed the song " At Seventeen ", she closed her eyes because she was afraid the audience would laugh at her?
text: Did you know that some ancient trees of the olive cultivar Bidni have been recognised as "national monuments" in Malta ?
text: Did you know that the earliest permanent Filipino American residents settled in Louisiana's bayou country?
text: Did you know that basic economy fares can cause airline passengers to pay more to fly?
text: Did you know that after Chief Justice Xiao Yang implemented reforms requiring all capital punishment cases to be reviewed by the Supreme Court , death sentences in China dropped by 30% in a year?
text: Did you know that the journal Minnesota History covers topics ranging from the Dakota War of 1862 and cholera in the state to root beer stands of the Midwest ?
text: Did you know that Australian rules footballer Haneen Zreika is the first Muslim to play in the AFL Women's ?
text: Did you know that the deepwater crinoid Notocrinus virilis broods its young in pouches on its arms?
text: Did you know that Emil Spiridonov , commander of the Soviet Pacific Fleet , was among the sixteen admirals and generals killed in the 1981 Pushkin Tu-104 crash ?
text: Did you know that Michael Jordan broke one of the unwritten rules of baseball ?
text: Did you know that in 1987, Royal Society of Canada fellow Kathryn Brush was one of the first women to be hired for a full-time position in art history at the University of Western Ontario ?
text: Did you know that El Drago Milenario , located in Parque del Drago , Tenerife , is the largest and oldest known specimen of Dracaena draco ?
text: Did you know that the remains of missing Israeli soldier Zechariah Baumel were discovered in a cemetery in the Yarmouk refugee camp near Damascus , Syria, nearly 37 years after he disappeared in the 1982 Lebanon War ?
text: Did you know that Saint Petersburg's Red Square is now Alexander Nevsky Square ?
text: Did you know that the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius co-ruled with his adoptive brother Lucius Verus in the first joint rule between Roman emperors, and later co-ruled with his own son Commodus ?
text: Did you know that the Georgetown Neighborhood Library houses the collection of its predecessor library established by George Peabody in 1872?
text: Did you know that a nine-day-old citizen of the United States , Archie Mountbatten-Windsor , is seventh in the line of succession to the British throne ?
text: Did you know that the premise for the comic book Sleepless came to writer Sarah Vaughn when she was trying to sleep?
text: Did you know that Vice-Admiral Georgy Stepanov of the Soviet Navy was sentenced to ten years in prison for passing technical secrets to the Allies ?
text: Did you know that after winning the 2001 Austrian Grand Prix , driver David Coulthard refrained from spraying champagne on the podium out of respect for Ilmor Engineering 's Paul Morgan , who had died the day before?
text: Did you know that the dancer and cabaret artist Hedi Schoop emigrated to California with her husband, the composer Friedrich Hollaender , where she created and manufactured pottery ?
text: Did you know that the top trumps in Knüffeln , the centuries-old national card game of Frisia , are the five "Old Ones"?
text: Did you know that Nawab Ahmad Ali Khan was the only ruler of the Malerkotla State who had his name inscribed on coins?
text: Did you know that actress Chloe Howman compared her Casualty character Rita Freeman to a Jack Russell Terrier ?
text: Did you know that Colonel Pavlos Kouroupis was the first commanding officer defending Cyprus at the start of the Turkish invasion and is considered the first missing person of the conflict?
text: Did you know that the Maybrat language of West Papua traditionally uses a base-5 counting system?
text: Did you know that D. J. Butler worked as a corporate attorney for more than ten years before beginning his career as a speculative fiction writer?
text: Did you know that the early study of the geology of China led to the idea of a changeable climate and that drinking dissolved fossils was good for your health?
text: Did you know that Wolfgang Meyer , who recorded Mozart's Clarinet Concerto on a historical basset clarinet , played his last concert with jazz saxophonist Peter Lehel ?
text: Did you know that the U.S. Supreme Court case of Bowen v. Georgetown University Hospital held that federal agencies cannot promulgate retroactive rules without express authorization by Congress ?
text: Did you know that a player once danced with Canadian hockey referee Fred Page at center ice after scoring a goal?
text: Did you know that the Canadian ice hockey show Coach's Corner has been described by one of its hosts as "six minutes of psychotherapy for athletes"?
text: Did you know that POW/MIA activist Ted Sampley discovered that the Vietnam War Unknown Soldier was in fact Michael Blassie ?
text: Did you know that the 13 km (8.1 mi) Mazeno Ridge route to the summit of Nanga Parbat was first completed in 2012?
text: Did you know that Oriana Wilson discovered a new species of bat , which was then named after her?
text: Did you know that although KGTO-TV in Fayetteville, Arkansas , signed on as an NBC affiliate, it received no network compensation for carrying its programs?
text: Did you know that forest ranger Nels Bruseth turned down an offer to become mayor of Darrington, Washington , due to his ineligibility as a federal employee?
text: Did you know that in a 2016 portrait , Queen Elizabeth II is depicted with someone else 's bust?
text: Did you know that despite spending the majority of his career with the Russian Northern Fleet , Aleksandr Moiseyev was appointed commander of the Black Sea Fleet in 2018?
text: Did you know that Martin Luther wrote " Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland " as a close paraphrase of the Latin hymn " Veni redemptor gentium ", with a melody derived from the plainchant ?
text: Did you know that, inspired at a young age by Polish footballer Roman Kosecki of Galatasaray S.K. in Turkey, Nurcan Çelik became a player and later established her own football club?
text: Did you know that the Sword of State of South Carolina is listed in the FBI National Stolen Art File?
text: Did you know that after being influenced by Wahhabism , Mubarez-ud-Daulah wanted to overthrow the Nizam of Hyderabad and the British in India?
text: Did you know that the 1897 supernatural novel Gulabsinh by Gujarati-language writer Manilal Dwivedi is an adaptation of the mystical novel Zanoni by English writer Edward Bulwer-Lytton ?
text: Did you know that Tim Morgan 's Veins are made of steel and glass?
text: Did you know that there may be an island of stability with so-called magic numbers of protons and neutrons?
text: Did you know that Ukrainian journalist Mykola Semena was found guilty of separatism by Russian courts for his coverage of the annexation of Crimea for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty ?
text: Did you know that Michael Osterholm and Mark Olshaker 's book Deadliest Enemy provides a nine-point plan to defeat "killer germs"?
text: Did you know that collegiate soccer coach Pete Fewing has also officiated at the weddings of two of his former players?
text: Did you know that naval officer Mikhail Zakharov is one of several admirals buried in the Serafimovskoe Cemetery in Saint Petersburg?
text: Did you know that the Khan of Manavadar Ghulam Moinuddin Khanji played in the Indian hockey team at the Western Asiatic Games ?
text: Did you know that the ASV Mark III radar was able to hunt down German U-boats with deadly efficiency in part because of a little white lie?
text: Did you know that imaging scientist Katie Bouman first learned of the Event Horizon Telescope in 2007, while still in high school, and joined the project six years later?
text: Did you know that the 12th-century archbishop of Ohrid John IV was born as a Byzantine prince of the Komnenos dynasty?
text: Did you know that Vera Deakin 's missing persons bureau issued 400,000 responses to enquiries from the families of Australian soldiers during World War I?
text: Did you know that The Elvis Dead , a retelling of Evil Dead II in the style of Elvis Presley , features songs such as " Standing in a State of Shock ", " I've Been Possessed ", and " Wrapped Up in Vines "?
text: Did you know that Fiji won a record-breaking fifth consecutive title at the 2019 Hong Kong Sevens ?
text: Did you know that Satya Rhodes-Conway is the first openly gay politician to serve as Mayor of Madison, Wisconsin ?
text: Did you know that during the siege of Leningrad , citizens were warned that " this side of the street is the most dangerous "?
text: Did you know that the town of Morpeth held its own professional Olympic games from 1873 to 1958?
text: Did you know that Japanese singer Alisa Takigawa 's debut song "Season" was originally a demo that was not intended to be her debut release?
text: Did you know that 53,034 people attended the 2019 AFL Women's Grand Final , a record for a standalone women's sporting event in Australia?
text: Did you know that in the first successful kidney transplant in the UK, the surgeon James Ross harvested the kidney which was transplanted into the donor's twin brother?
text: Did you know that the murder of American musician Dimebag Darrell occurred on the 24th anniversary of the murder of John Lennon ?
text: Did you know that the mecha dieselpunk art of Polish painter Jakub Różalski has inspired a board game, a video game, a short film, and a book anthology?
text: Did you know that when Syracuse University outbid the Prussian government to purchase the Ranke Library in 1887, The New York Times called the collection "probably the rarest historical one ever owned by any one"?
text: Did you know that Noel Marshall directed and starred with his family in Roar , promoted as "the most dangerous movie ever made" for its many on-set injuries to the cast and crew working with more than 100 big cats?
text: Did you know that the splendid hermit crab almost exclusively chooses to inhabit a shell on which a colonial hydroid is living?
text: Did you know that in 1990, Forbes named Carmen Thomas one of the 100 most influential women in Germany for running Hallo Ü-Wagen , a weekly travelling talk radio show with audience participation?
text: Did you know that Teide Cableway climbs more than 1,000 metres (3,300 ft) in 8 minutes to the top of Spain's tallest mountain ?
text: Did you know that Eric Milnes has conducted Bach cantatas with the Montreal Baroque Orchestra , with singers performing one voice per part ?
text: Did you know that Given will be the first yaoi anime series to be broadcast on Noitamina , Fuji TV's anime programming block ?
text: Did you know that Chinese mathematician Leetsch C. Hsu and his American colleague Henry W. Gould began collaborating years before formal relations were established between their countries?
text: Did you know that R. Kelly 's 19-minute song " I Admit ", which contains no criminal admissions , was described as an act of trolling and compared to O. J. Simpson 's book If I Did It ?
text: Did you know that goaltender Konstantin Mihailov played in 28 Ice Hockey World Championships with the Bulgarian national team until the age of 49?
text: Did you know that Shirou Emiya was initially conceived as a female character but was changed to a male in order to fit the demographic of the visual novel Fate/stay night ?
text: Did you know that according to legend, Welsh nobleman Hywel Sele was killed by Owain Glyndŵr and his body hidden in the hollow of a tree?
text: Did you know that Fight the New Drug 's advocacy against pornography uses what The Atlantic describes as "a just-some-of-the-facts approach"?
text: Did you know that James Curle , a Scottish mining engineer in South Africa, argued that the white race was being out-bred by other races?
text: Did you know that no Ukrainian presidential election has had a higher voter turnout than the 84% of the first election in 1991?
text: Did you know that pianist Wu Yili made her public debut in her teens, released her first album in her 70s, and went viral in her 80s?
text: Did you know that Kardaki Temple is considered to be the only Greek temple of Doric architecture that does not have a frieze ?
text: Did you know that Carey Wentworth Styles founded The Atlanta Constitution , then had to surrender his interest in the newspaper when he could not pay for the purchase?
text: Did you know that the Pan Inuit Trails Atlas database depicts traditional place names and routes in the Canadian Arctic used by the Inuit , showing connections between their communities from Greenland to Alaska?
text: Did you know that newly-elected parliamentarian Gadeer Mreeh will be the first Druze woman to serve as a member of the Israeli Knesset ?
text: Did you know that Meghan Trainor 's 2014 song " I'll Be Home " did not debut on the Austrian charts until January 2019?
text: Did you know that Australian rules footballer Eleanor Brown was also a netballer and cross country runner in her junior career?
text: Did you know that honeybees can be trained to search for landmines ?
text: Did you know that in 2008, ethnohistorian Jennifer S. H. Brown was the first woman from the University of Winnipeg to become a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada ?
text: Did you know that the Mongol invasion of 1258–1259 was likely the most devastating event for 13th-century Lithuania?
text: Did you know that after Asman Jah represented the Nizam of Hyderabad at the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria , he was promoted to prime minister of the state?
text: Did you know that the hairy sea squirt is preyed on by the Oregon hairy triton ?
text: Did you know that the bass-baritone Hans Günter Nöcker appeared in several world premieres of operas in Berlin , Schwetzingen , and Munich , where he created a stirring portrayal of Gloucester in Reimann 's Lear ?
text: Did you know that the inaugural MLS Cup was played in heavy rain in the aftermath of Hurricane Lili ?
text: Did you know that Theresa May described her leadership as " strong and stable " but her critics called it "weak and wobbly"?
text: Did you know that before joining AMD and then Intel , Raja Koduri developed hardware that enabled Apple to launch its Retina displays ?
text: Did you know that the burrow of the spoon worm Maxmuelleria lankesteri is sometimes modified by fish and crustaceans that take up occupancy there?
text: Did you know that Liselotte Hammes , a soprano with the Cologne Opera , appeared as Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier at the Glyndebourne Festival alongside Teresa Żylis-Gara in the title role and Montserrat Caballé as the Marschallin?
text: Did you know that recent research has shown the presence of a deep water cycle all the way down through the Earth's lower mantle?
text: Did you know that Polish nun and supercentenarian Maria Roszak was named a Righteous Among the Nations for helping shelter Jewish refugees during the Holocaust?
text: Did you know that to emphasize the pseudo-Japanese style of Doki Doki Literature Club! the characters were given Japanese names, with the exception of Monika, who was given an English name to hint at her individual nature?
text: Did you know that Wayne Gretzky offered journalist Jay Greenberg a private interview after the latter was unable to ask questions during a press conference following " The Trade "?
text: Did you know that in UK elections, it is illegal for candidates to treat the voters?
text: Did you know that Chicago Blackhawks team historian Bob Verdi was named Illinois Sportswriter of the Year 19 times?
text: Did you know that staghorn hydrocoral grows on a mollusc shell occupied by a hermit crab ?
text: Did you know that six years after Zhang Yiming founded ByteDance , it surpassed Uber to become the most valuable startup company in the world?
text: Did you know that a newly discovered cave has been temporarily named after a Star Wars character ?
text: Did you know that after a spinal cord injury, Marni Abbott-Peter won three Paralympic gold medals with the Canada women's national wheelchair basketball team ?
text: Did you know that in his book The Unending Game , Indian spymaster Vikram Sood explains that the real world of espionage is less like a James Bond movie and more like a George Smiley novel?
text: Did you know that Andrey Starovoytov , the general secretary of the Soviet Union Ice Hockey Federation for 17 years, negotiated Soviet participation in the Summit Series ?
text: Did you know that despite Shrub's Wood Long Barrow in Kent being nearly 30 m (100 ft) high, it was not discovered until about 1970?
text: Did you know that Xing Shizhong was promoted for his performance in the Sino-Vietnamese War and later served as president of a university that trains China's top military officers?
text: Did you know that Rosana Sullivan , director of the animated short Kitbull , said that she identified with the kitten in the film?
text: Did you know that though Isaac Komnenos was his oldest surviving son, John II Komnenos chose Isaac's younger brother Manuel to succeed him as Byzantine emperor ?
text: Did you know that Dumelow's Seedling is known by more than 50 alternative names?
text: Did you know that Robert Nasmyth was Surgeon-Dentist to Queen Victoria in Scotland while his brother Alexander was Surgeon-Dentist to her in England?
text: Did you know that the Pacific baza has been rumoured to imitate the calls of tree frogs when hunting, inducing them to return the call?
text: Did you know that evidence given by Lincolnshire County Council chief executive David Bowles led to one council leader being jailed and his successor banned from being a county councillor, for seeking revenge against Bowles?
text: Did you know that among the judges of the 1954 Armed Forces March Competition were the last two living cornet soloists to have performed under John Philip Sousa ?
text: Did you know that Stella Abidh is believed to be the first Indo-Trinidadian woman to become a medical doctor?
text: Did you know that Western Australia was held scoreless in the pool A final at the 2016 AFL Youth Girls National Championships ?
text: Did you know that Rosl Schwaiger appeared as Mozart's Blonde at the Salzburg Festival in 1945 and the Glyndebourne Festival in 1957?
text: Did you know that so many people attended a 2017 Pokémon Go live event in Yokohama , Japan, that the city declined to host it the following year?
text: Did you know that in Andy Warhol 's Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century , the "faces of the dead appear as if behind a veneer of modernity" according to the National Portrait Gallery ?
text: Did you know that al-Muhallab ibn Abi Sufra is credited with introducing iron stirrups to the warhorses of early Muslim armies?
text: Did you know that Sarah Smarsh's 2018 memoir Heartland argues that belief in the American Dream leads to the continued oppression of those in poverty?
text: Did you know that sports journalist Jack Gatecliff was inducted into both the Canadian Lacrosse and Buffalo Sabres Halls of Fame?
text: Did you know that Faith of Our Fathers , a collection of Catholic hymns which became one of Ireland's best-selling albums, was the brainchild of an insurance broker with no experience in the music industry?
text: Did you know that Birjis Qadr , the Nawab (leader) of Awadh state in northern India, became a poet while in exile in Nepal ?
text: Did you know that Hells Bells grow underwater in a cave in Mexico?
text: Did you know that ten years ago today, the United States played in the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup Final after ending Spain 's 35-match unbeaten streak?
text: Did you know that Swedish entomologist Carl H. Lindroth suggested that more than 40 species of North American ground beetle were inadvertently transported from Europe in ship ballast ?
text: Did you know that NASA Astronaut Group 4 , selected in 1965 for the Apollo program , was the first recruited primarily on the basis of scientific experience?
text: Did you know that voice actress Karin Takahashi originally aspired to become a lawyer?
text: Did you know that in Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey , players control a lineage of apes until it reaches a stage that resembles Lucy ?
text: Did you know that Kyle Garlick set the single-season home run record for the Cal Poly Pomona Broncos ?
text: Did you know that the sea hedgehog is a cannibal?
text: Did you know that Hu Jinqing 's animated film The Fight Between the Snipe and the Clam , based on a Chinese proverb, won a Silver Bear in Berlin?
text: Did you know that the ripe seed pods of Brachystegia eurycoma burst explosively and throw out the large disc-shaped seeds?
text: Did you know that a Mexican mayor warned that the murder of suspected drug lord Rolando López Salinas would increase drug violence in his city ?
text: Did you know that the 15th-century Short English Chronicle described King Edward IV as receiving instantaneous notification of treason from God?
text: Did you know that motorsport official Silvia Bellot was part of the first all-woman panel of stewards in the history of the World Rally Championship at the 2016 Rally Catalunya ?
text: Did you know that Meghan Trainor 's song " All the Ways " was inspired by a conversation she had with her husband Daryl Sabara ?
text: Did you know that a podcast helped overturn the murder conviction of Kaj Linna after he had been imprisoned for thirteen years?
text: Did you know that in 1979, the RISE project first discovered hydrothermal vents known as 'black smokers', on a mid-ocean ridge in the Pacific Ocean?
text: Did you know that the tenor Alfred Vökt , who performed in the premiere of Henze's Il re cervo , had a Doctor of Law degree?
text: Did you know that the 37 civilians beheaded by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in April 2019 included at least three who were minors at the time of their arrest?
text: Did you know that Mario Pouliot is the only ice hockey coach to win consecutive Memorial Cups with different teams?
text: Did you know that the Buddha, to whom many miracles were attributed , considered the "miracle of instruction" to be the greatest because it would not be taken for a mere magic trick?
text: Did you know that reproductive immunologist Anne Croy was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada for her work with uterine natural killer cells during pregnancy ?
text: Did you know that right-wing political figures in the United Kingdom have recently been milkshaked ?
text: Did you know that publisher Ping Hsin-tao launched the careers of two of Taiwan's most popular writers, one of whom became his wife?
text: Did you know that cut branches of the small tree Erythrina berteroana are used to make living fence posts?
text: Did you know that when the state of Oregon created Deschutes County in 1916, Harvey H. DeArmond was appointed as the county's first district attorney ?
text: Did you know that after Christian bakers refused to decorate a cake in support of gay marriage, the UK Supreme Court ruled that no one could be forced to promote a message with which they disagree?
text: Did you know that Peter Hirsch conducted the premiere of the revised and complete version of Luigi Nono's Prometeo at La Scala in 1985?
text: Did you know that the card game of Pollack is named after a bonus for holding the three top cards – the ten, nine, and ace – of one suit ?
text: Did you know that Monique Scheier-Schneider , general secretary of the Luxembourg Ice Hockey Federation since 1992, has managed her country's men's under-18 , men's junior , and men's national ice hockey teams?
text: Did you know that in 2013 Libro de los Epítomes , a library catalogue by Ferdinand Columbus , was rediscovered after nearly 500 years?
text: Did you know that Diane Holl was the first female race engineer to win a Championship Auto Racing Teams motor race?
text: Did you know that theatre in Saarbrücken began as court theatre directed by Iffland , while plans for today's State Theatre were commissioned by Goebbels ?
text: Did you know that Caliph Abd al-Malik 's scribe Sulayman ibn Sa'd al-Khushani changed the language of Syria's bureaucracy from Greek to Arabic?
text: Did you know that among the varied wildlife of Greece are more than 5,000 species of vascular plant and about 450 species of bird?
text: Did you know that flumezapine was at the center of a lawsuit filed by Eli Lilly and Company against generic manufacturers who sought to void its patent on the antipsychotic Zyprexa ?
text: Did you know that Canadian journalist Katherine Hughes became Alberta 's first provincial archivist , but later became a political activist, fighting for Irish self-determination ?
text: Did you know that lines on sports fields were once marked by young children but can now be marked by robots equipped with GPS ?
text: Did you know that French sinologist Claude Cadart and his wife Cheng Yingxiang published the memoirs of her father Peng Shuzhi , a Trotskyist leader expelled from the Communist Party of China ?
text: Did you know that both Mueller and Barr can be found in Lincoln, Nebraska ?
text: Did you know that Sandy Schreier 's clothing collection includes three Valentino outfits owned by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis ?
text: Did you know that the 1826 Canary Islands storm claimed 298 victims on Tenerife and may have been a tropical cyclone ?
text: Did you know that Ernst Christoph Dressler , an 18th-century operatic tenor, violinist, composer, and music theorist, composed a march on which Beethoven based his earliest published work?
text: Did you know that every week Cincinnati's La Soupe turns 5,000 lb (2,300 kg) of rescued food into 3,000 meals for people in need with the help of sixty local chef volunteers?
text: Did you know that every Garden of Eden contains an orphan?
text: Did you know that Thurrock services was built on top of a rubbish dump?
text: Did you know that while American social media celebrity Olivia Jade said, "I don't really care about school", she applied and was accepted to the University of Southern California ?
text: Did you know that the fatwa against insulting revered Sunni figures issued by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was described as winning "widespread praise"?
text: Did you know that silent film actress Fannie Bourke ran a 500-seat " votes for women " movie theatre in New Rochelle, New York ?
text: Did you know that in 2018, an asteroid measuring 12 meters (39 feet) across exploded in an air burst over the Bering Sea near the Kamchatka Peninsula with the force of 173 kilotons of TNT ?
text: Did you know that Orvar Swenson performed the first successful surgery to treat Hirschsprung's disease , a birth defect which causes megacolon ?
text: Did you know that during the Canada–Philippines waste dispute , Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte threatened to declare war on Canada over 103 mislabeled shipping containers of household trash?
text: Did you know that Carin Clauss , the first female solicitor of the United States Department of Labor , was also nominated by President Carter to be a judge?
text: Did you know that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his ministers prefixed the name 'chowkidar' (watchman) to their Twitter profiles in response to the election slogan Chowkidar Chor Hai ?
text: Did you know that Dickie Haine flew in the RAF 's first night fighter patrol of the Second World War?
text: Did you know that according to Buddhist texts, the Buddha performed The Twin Miracle in a miracle contest against six rival religious leaders?
text: Did you know that German pool player Oliver Ortmann was the first European to win the U.S. Open Straight Pool Championship ?
text: Did you know that the first detailed maps of the quadrangles of Mars were assembled not by NASA but by geologists , mostly at the United States Geological Survey ?
text: Did you know that Leicester City F.C. manager Norman Bullock banned his players from riding motorbikes?
text: Did you know that Scanning Kelvin Probe , a technique based on Lord Kelvin 's work, has been used to investigate fingerprints and meteorites?
text: Did you know that after German tenor Herbert Schachtschneider was a prisoner of war in England during the 1940s, he remained in the country to study voice with a cousin of Arnold Schoenberg ?
text: Did you know that historical significance is often subjective and open to challenge?
text: Did you know that Nujeen Mustafa , a teenage Syrian refugee with cerebral palsy , travelled 5,600 kilometres (3,500 mi) in a wheelchair to seek asylum in Germany?
text: Did you know that the first research center for potatoes in Cambodia was opened in the country in 2016?
text: Did you know that after Fu Xinqi retired as an architect in his eighties, he took up painting and held a personal exhibition to celebrate his one-hundredth birthday?
text: Did you know that the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup , which began 20 years ago today, was moved to large American football stadiums after the success of the 1996 Olympics soccer tournament ?
text: Did you know that suspected drug lord Edelio López Falcón was known as "The Lord of the Horses"?
text: Did you know that Italy bombed a Swedish hospital in Dolo during the Second Italo-Ethiopian War ?
text: Did you know that Ellen Schwiers , who starred as Buhlschaft at the Salzburg Festival and in a film in 1961, founded a touring theatre company with her husband and daughter?
text: Did you know that the marine worm Themiste pyroides is unusual in that it forms swarms when breeding?
text: Did you know that Naomi Koshi is the youngest woman ever elected mayor of a Japanese city?
text: Did you know that Marvel Comics published a parody of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue featuring artwork of superheroes in bathing suits?
text: Did you know that spokesmodel Daniella van Graas thinks she has been largely typecast as a model, but wishes to gain 20 kilograms (44 lb) and play a Monster ?
text: Did you know that Meaning of Life is Kelly Clarkson 's first album after successfully finishing her American Idol recording contract?
text: Did you know that Eduardo A. Roca , Argentina's permanent representative to the United Nations during the Falklands War , accused the UK of aggression and condemned the US for supporting it?
text: Did you know that the theme of the medieval Perso-Arabic legend of al-Nadirah was used in Hans Christian Andersen 's fairy tale " The Princess and the Pea "?
text: Did you know that archaeologist Chen Tiemei proposed the first chronology for Palaeolithic China ?
text: Did you know that trade in the Ajatappareng region increased when the Portuguese conquest of Malacca caused the exodus of Malacca 's traders to other ports?
text: Did you know that when Florence Fang sees a dinosaur, she buys it for her Flintstones-themed house ?
text: Did you know that the McCollom Institute , a high school in New Hampshire , closed in 1906 when the number of students had fallen to eleven?
text: Did you know that when Hu Peizhao argued that capital investors receiving economic returns was a reasonable allocation of production gains, he was criticized by Marxists for justifying exploitation of labour ?
text: Did you know that Philip II of Spain approved funds for a convent because his illegitimate daughter was living there?
text: Did you know that developmental researcher Marion Underwood found that a group of ninth-grade students sent an average of 1,321 text messages a month?
text: Did you know that in 2016 the Indian Army advised replacing pellet guns with non-lethal pepper guns , sonic cannons , and chili grenades to manage violent riots in Jammu and Kashmir ?
text: Did you know that the Indonesian Declaration of Independence was drafted in the home of Japanese rear admiral Tadashi Maeda ?
text: Did you know that you need a key to get into Moseley Park ?
text: Did you know that in 1948, footballer George Hazlett was punched in the face after fans invaded the pitch ?
text: Did you know that the Arabian broodmare Bandola was called "The Queen of Poland?"
text: Did you know that Matthias Goethe , who was born in Prussia and trained to become a Catholic priest, became a Lutheran pastor and established congregations in Australia, the United States, and Mexico?
text: Did you know that the sea cucumber Leptopentacta elongata has a U-shaped or S-shaped body and occupies a burrow in the seabed?
text: Did you know that Li Xintian , a founder of neuropsychology in China, was the son of Li Da , a founder of the Communist Party of China ?
text: Did you know that a variant of the Lorraine 12D was the most powerful French airplane engine during World War I?
text: Did you know that Roza Papo , who nearly lost an eye in an air raid in 1942 after refusing to take shelter, later became the first woman general in the Balkans?
text: Did you know that Raet is a moraine ?
text: Did you know that The Vision of Dorotheus is one of the earliest examples of Christian hexametric poetry?
text: Did you know that in 1991, Harue Kitamura became the first woman to be elected mayor of a Japanese city?
text: Did you know that Albion plantation in Jamaica had at least 450 slaves in 1833, producing 400 hogsheads of sugar and 240 puncheons of rum annually?
text: Did you know that Elizabeth Bartlet 's PhD thesis on Étienne Méhul was described as earning "the iconic status reserved for the few doctoral theses that are destined to change their chosen field"?
text: Did you know that the largest English army to serve overseas prior to 1600 was gathered at the Siege of Calais in 1347?
text: Did you know that the mathematician John Rigby was a leading authority on the relationship between maths and ornamental art?
text: Did you know that if the disc coral Cycloseris cyclolites gets buried in sediment, it can "float" itself free?
text: Did you know that prolific songwriter Matt Farley says he makes US$500 a month from a song containing only the word "poop"?
text: Did you know that Rodney Robinson , 2019 National Teacher of the Year , makes sure his former students at the Richmond Juvenile Detention Center register to vote?
text: Did you know that the symptoms of CPVT , a cause of sudden death in children, are often mistaken for simple faints?
text: Did you know that LGBT rights activist Melissa Ede wanted to become the first transgender woman on Mars ?
text: Did you know that the Trout Creek Hill volcanic eruption approximately 340,000 years ago, during the Pleistocene , produced a lava flow that extended 20 km (12 mi), temporarily damming the Columbia River ?
text: Did you know that the book The Expanding Circle bridged sociobiology and ethics , discussing how humans have used reason to expand their moral considerations from family and tribe to the entire of society?
text: Did you know that Liang Shoupan is known as the "father of China's cruise missile program"?
text: Did you know that among the wildlife of Liberia , the rarest mammal may be the Liberian mongoose ?
text: Did you know that during the 1923–24 season , Cardiff City F.C. finished as runners-up in the closest title race in First Division history?
text: Did you know that Francis Rose 's plantations in Jamaica included Old Works, New Works, and The Decoy?
text: Did you know that the Hevsel Gardens , a UNESCO World Heritage site, have been compared to the Garden of Eden ?
text: Did you know that Adriaan de Bruin was enslaved in Africa but ended up in Hoorn in the Dutch Republic , where he married a local woman and ran a tobacco shop?
text: Did you know that the suspected " Golden State Killer " was actually born in New York?
text: Did you know that Genrikh Novozhilov led the development of Ilyushin Il-76 , the most popular passenger and military transport aircraft of the Soviet Union?
text: Did you know that at oral argument in NIFLA v. Becerra , U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan questioned whether a California law was "gerrymandered" in order to discriminate against crisis pregnancy centers ?
text: Did you know that a mining company wants to quarry the New Zealand Miocene fossil site Foulden Maar for use in pig food?
text: Did you know that Max Brod reviewed a performance of Ria Thiele , an actress and dancer who played in theatres of Vienna, Berlin and Prague?
text: Did you know that the 60-metre-high (200 ft) Grande roue de Montréal , built in Montreal for the 375th anniversary of the city, is the tallest Ferris wheel in Canada?
text: Did you know that the autobiography James Acaster's Classic Scrapes ends with a story about a cabbage-based prank war between the comedian and a nine-year-old child?
text: Did you know that Walter Feurtado compiled 58 volumes of notes while researching his guide to the Official and Other Personages of Jamaica, from 1655 to 1790 ?
text: Did you know that a disc jockey resigned from his post at KWJB in Globe, Arizona , to work with Les Paul and Mary Ford ?
text: Did you know that Nepalese student Sangita Magar became a human rights activist after she survived an acid attack at the age of 16?
text: Did you know that Danish oxen traders brought Lutheranism to the Dutch city of Enkhuizen , including through the establishment of an Evangelical Lutheran Church there in 1605?
text: Did you know that Louis B. Anderson , Chicago's second black alderman , mortally wounded a mugger?
text: Did you know that Bester Bube is a card game characterised by the promotion of two jacks to topmost position, a feature paralleled in Euchre and other historical games such as Reunion and Kontraspiel ?
text: Did you know that "one of the biggest concentrations of Bronze Age gold known from Britain" was found in archaeological investigations during the development of Milton Keynes ?
text: Did you know that the fictional character Jakub Wędrowycz —an exorcist, drunkard, moonshine producer, and poacher—is one of the icons of Polish pop culture?
text: Did you know that Liberian lawyer Alfred Brownell won the " Green Nobel " prize for his efforts to protect more than 500,000 acres (2,000 km 2 ) of tropical forest land?
text: Did you know that the Salt Pan of the Dead Man is one of the most important sources of lithium in the world?
text: Did you know that Dutch physician Aletta Jacobs 's legal challenge to be added to the Amsterdam electoral rolls backfired, leading to a constitutional amendment granting voting rights to men only?
text: Did you know that Palmer Street was the location of a secret British spy base that intercepted the communications of London's embassies?
text: Did you know that Ruth-Margret Pütz was considered one of the leading coloratura sopranos of the 1960s?
text: Did you know that Canadian sports lawyer Gord Kirke agreed to represent Bret Hart due to the wrestler's poetry?
text: Did you know that Nancy Fish , widow of P. T. Barnum , is said to have met her second husband when she fell from the Great Pyramid of Giza into his arms?
text: Did you know that Horst Rosenthal 's 1942 comic Mickey au Camp de Gurs is "perhaps the earliest sequential art narrative dealing with the Holocaust"?
text: Did you know that the medical historian Noël Poynter catalogued the Wellcome Library 's incunabula ?
text: Did you know that the International Day Against DRM , organized by the Defective by Design initiative, has been observed since 2006?
text: Did you know that Huang Weilu was the chief designer of China's first submarine-launched ballistic missile ?
text: Did you know that the pea crab Calyptraeotheres garthi effectively castrates its slipper limpet host, but breeding resumes if the crab is removed?
text: Did you know that in 1959 the baritone Ernst Gutstein appeared as Ernesto in Haydn's Il mondo della luna , a role originally written for a castrato ?
text: Did you know that if two Austrians say they are "playing Cossack ", they are likely to be enjoying the Tarot game of Kosakeln ?
text: Did you know that Molniya orbits are used by Russian and American military satellites?
text: Did you know that John Wrightson , a pioneer in agricultural education , was in 1890 reputedly the first British surfer ?
text: Did you know that there was a seven-year delay between the release of the first and second issues of the comic book Captain America: White ?
text: Did you know that Cameroonian singer Lady Ponce advertised that her wedding would take place at 3:30 p.m., then held it at 9:00 a.m. to avoid paparazzi ?
text: Did you know that when the English army invaded France in 1346 they burnt a 40-mile-wide (64 km) swath of destruction to within 2 miles (3 km) of Paris?
text: Did you know that Lydia Lavelle is the first openly lesbian mayor in the US state of North Carolina ?
text: Did you know that in 1983, a stowaway mosquito transmitted malaria to the landlord of a British pub , and to a passing motorcyclist 10 km (6 mi) away from Gatwick Airport ?
text: Did you know that the pizza di Pasqua used to be blessed at the local church before being eaten at breakfast on Easter morning?
text: Did you know that Werner Schneyder performed political kabarett programs with Dieter Hildebrandt and provided television commentary on boxing at the 1984 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that in the 2000 film No Place to Go , the central character jumps out of a window to her death, as the director's mother had done some years before?
text: Did you know that although Isabella Forshall did not go to school, she gained two university degrees and four postgraduate diplomas in medicine and surgery?
text: Did you know that the Babri Masjid , a mosque built in 1528, was demolished in 1992 after a political rally turned violent?
text: Did you know that spelling is fun , according to Taylor Swift ?
text: Did you know that Dutch authorities interned a Japanese spy , but thought he was a businessman and released him in a 1942 prisoner exchange ?
text: Did you know that Mária Kráľovičová was the first Slovak television actress?
text: Did you know that a lawsuit brought by Joel Moskowitz forced public release of mobile phone radiation safety guidelines prepared by the state of California, earning him the James Madison Freedom of Information Award ?
text: Did you know that Cabilao Island is the location of the only natural lake in the Philippine province of Bohol ?
text: Did you know that American opera singer Jennifer Holloway portrayed Grete in Der ferne Klang as a young girl whose lover leaves her, as a courtesan, and as an old woman who holds the returned lover while he dies?
text: Did you know that the Revolution of 1719 ended the rule of the lords proprietors in South Carolina?
text: Did you know that Zhang Dongju , Chen Fahu , and J.-J. Hublin discovered that a fossil jaw from Baishiya Cave belonged to the first known Denisovan outside Siberia and the first known human on the Tibetan Plateau ?
text: Did you know that during the First World War, Charles Cathcart and Isaac Balfour proposed adopting the German idea of using moss to treat wounded British soldiers?
text: Did you know that the first three singles released by Japanese musician Halca were used as closing themes for three different anime series?
text: Did you know that Dadia is the only European forest in which all four native European species of vulture can be found?
text: Did you know that the Hanthawaddy commander Smin Bayan is celebrated in Burmese history for driving back a Chinese invasion on behalf of his former enemy, Ava ?
text: Did you know that the Irish novelist Maeve Binchy was inspired to write Silver Wedding after hearing a girl on a bus talk about her parents' horrible marriage?
text: Did you know that Lydia Manley Henry , the first woman to graduate from the University of Sheffield medical school, was awarded the Croix de Guerre ?
text: Did you know that Kristianstads IK 's 1981–82 team included current Columbus Blue Jackets head coach John Tortorella ?
text: Did you know that Wilfrid and Arthur married Geoffrey at All Souls , and a master mariner gave away the bride?
text: Did you know that due to the threat of Hurricane Floyd in 1999, Walt Disney World closed for a full day for the first time in its history?
text: Did you know that Megumi Nakajima became so associated with her role as Ranka Lee in the anime series Macross Frontier that she feared she would be unable to establish her own identity as a voice actress ?
text: Did you know that InvisiblePeople.tv , which has produced interviews with hundreds of homeless people in over 100 cities, was founded by formerly-homeless television executive Mark Horvath?
text: Did you know that five sacks of documents dating back to 1154 were recovered from a damp potting-shed while Irvine Gray was an archivist at the Gloucester Record Office ?
text: Did you know that Meghan Trainor 's song " All About That Bass " was written in 40 minutes?
text: Did you know that Moroccan businesswoman Miriem Bensalah-Chaqroun helped kickstart the World Bank 's Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative at the 2017 G20 Hamburg summit ?
text: Did you know that Calma glaucoides has such a rich diet of eggs that it does not need an anus?
text: Did you know that Joe Kryczka used his legal background and knowledge of the Russian language to Canada's advantage in negotiating the 1972 Summit Series agreement?
text: Did you know that after the crash of United Airlines Flight 297 in 1962, the Federal Aviation Administration created new regulations that required airplanes to better withstand bird strikes ?
text: Did you know that although her mother never cooked, Violet Oon learned to cook Peranakan food at the age of sixteen before eventually being appointed the food ambassador of Singapore?
text: Did you know that the primrose family and the evening primrose family are not related?
text: Did you know that Yang Jiachi developed control systems for satellites, rockets, and nuclear tests?
text: Did you know that the Killing Eve episode " Don't I Know You? " was generally praised for including diverse LGBT+ characters, but also criticised for how one was killed?
text: Did you know that the Lees Macaroon bar was an experiment?
text: Did you know that James Bruce Lockhart 's career in the Foreign Office was a cover for his real work with the Secret Intelligence Service ?
text: Did you know that one theory holds that aquatic cold-water species entered Sweden's Lake Sommen by a natural lock system at the end of the last ice age ?
text: Did you know that Australian rules footballer Tyla Hanks set a record in the agility component at the 2018 AFL Women's draft combine?
text: Did you know that the pea crab Tunicotheres moseri lives inside the water-filled chamber of a sea squirt ?
text: Did you know that military geologists were employed to find the best landing sites during the planning of the invasions of the United Kingdom , Sicily , and France in World War II?
text: Did you know that although the Transylvanian nobleman János Gerendi refrained from eating blood and animals that had been strangled, he did not keep all the Old Testament laws ?
text: Did you know that the roof of the Temple of Hera in Corfu was decorated with large terracotta figures painted in vivid colour, making it one of the most intricately adorned buildings of Archaic Greece ?
text: Did you know that Barbie likes welding ?
text: Did you know that Niayes , a region of Senegal important for fishing, market gardening, cattle-grazing, and birds, is at risk of desertification ?
text: Did you know that Barlow Trecothick , who later became Lord Mayor of London, served an apprenticeship in Boston, Province of Massachusetts Bay ?
text: Did you know that the 2018 European Pool Championship was the largest pool event ever held in Europe?
text: Did you know that Xiuxiong Chen , his former student Song Sun , and Simon Donaldson were awarded the 2019 Veblen Prize for proving Yau 's conjecture for Fano manifolds ?
text: Did you know that St. John's Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C., was designed by William Thornton , who also designed the United States Capitol ?
text: Did you know that a critic at The Musical Times described Ruth Hesse 's performance as the Nurse in Die Frau ohne Schatten as "tirelessly ingenious"?
text: Did you know that from Edinburgh city centre, it is two miles to the Inch ?
text: Did you know that Samra , a male German rapper, performs under a feminine Arabic pseudonym?
text: Did you know that convenience store chain Wawa successfully forced Philadelphia -area radio station WAWA to stop using its new call letters ?
text: Did you know that Abdulatif Tiyua was first imprisoned for fighting for the Ugandan government, and later imprisoned for fighting against it?
text: Did you know that Nepalese Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Oli praised the 2019 sports drama Captain for "delivering patriotism"?
text: Did you know that no woman was chosen as a major political party's nominee for the United States Senate until Ruth Hanna McCormick won her state's primary in 1930?
text: Did you know that the Kazachye Cemetery takes its name from the interment of Cossacks killed during the July Days in the Russian Revolution ?
text: Did you know that Lloyd Trefethen and Lloyd Trefethen showed that, when shuffling playing cards, five riffles are enough?
text: Did you know that the first attempt to build the Holy Trinity Cathedral of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra resulted in the demolition of the nearly completed structure?
text: Did you know that Salahuddin Wahid had a public newspaper debate with his brother on their father's vision for Indonesia?
text: Did you know that " Aus der Tiefe rufe ich " ('Out of the depths have I cried') is one of six 1883 psalm settings by Friedrich Kiel ?
text: Did you know that Chen Fangyun proposed a control system that was crucial for the launch of China's first geosynchronous communications satellite in 1984?
text: Did you know that investigators considered the murder of Lisa Holm especially heinous as Holm was only seventeen years old and physically weaker than her killer?
text: Did you know that British architect Bryan Thomas has designed for the Church of England, the Christian Scientists, and the Quakers?
text: Did you know that the people who commissioned Our Trip to Africa demanded the film's destruction after seeing it?
text: Did you know that polonium-210 is 250,000 times more toxic by weight than hydrogen cyanide ?
text: Did you know that Oglala Lakota chef Sean Sherman rejects frybread , seen as a symbol of colonial oppression, but also considers it a symbol of resilience?
text: Did you know that in a 2019 documentary , Astra Taylor interviews trauma surgeons, refugees, and a barber about the meaning of democracy?
text: Did you know that 19 years after Mrinalini Devi married Rabindranath Tagore , many of her wedding jewels were sold to fund Brahmacharya Ashram, a school he founded?
text: Did you know that nearly 80,000 black Mississippians cast a vote in the 1963 Freedom Ballot mock election, four times more than the number of black registered voters?
text: Did you know that the 1990 Nintendo Entertainment System video game Solstice was originally planned and developed as a computer title?
text: Did you know that Susan Beschta was a punk rocker and federal judge?
text: Did you know that Justin James was selected by the Sacramento Kings in the 2019 NBA draft , despite most mock drafts predicting he would not be picked by any team?
text: Did you know that part of the Malaysian tropical forest reserve Bukit Gasing has been protected from development, while another part has been sold to building contractors?
text: Did you know that Chitpas Kridakorn , whose family owns Thailand's Singha brewery, had to change her last name due to her political activism?
text: Did you know that Waylon Jennings and Johnny Dollar were guest disc jockeys for country music station KOYL in Odessa, Texas ?
text: Did you know that after the US banned Chinese students from returning to China, Li Hengde organized a student network which petitioned the Chinese premier, the US president, and the UN for their right to go home?
text: Did you know that the yellow-footed honeyguide probably includes beeswax in its diet?
text: Did you know that a lack of help from W. B. Yeats caused one of the founders of the Ulster Literary Theatre to say, "Damn Yeats! We'll write our own plays!"?
text: Did you know that South African test pilot Desmond Barker has accumulated 7,200 flying hours and flown 58 different types of aircraft?
text: Did you know that some LGBTQ activists have opposed the use of the term " lesbian erasure ", because it has sometimes been used in opposition to transgender rights ?
text: Did you know that Thomas Cheney 's biography of LDS Church leader J. Golden Kimball was withdrawn by Brigham Young University Press for containing explicit language?
text: Did you know that Phyllariopsis brevipes is a deep-water constituent of the kelp forests in the Mediterranean Sea?
text: Did you know that Saumitra Khan was elected in the 2019 Indian general election by a margin of more than 78,000 votes without participating in any political rally in his constituency?
text: Did you know that the announcement of a delay in the release of Animal Crossing: New Horizons caused Nintendo 's stock market valuation to fall by over US$1 billion?
text: Did you know that Lord Mayor of Birmingham Yvonne Mosquito opened comedian Joe Lycett 's kitchen extension?
text: Did you know that Ugandan chief of staff Yusuf Gowon quarrelled with another officer over a looted tractor during the invasion of a foreign country ?
text: Did you know that the process of connecting the scattered fragments surviving from the Hours of Louis XII (begun c. 1498 ) only started in 1973?
text: Did you know that Ye Peida , the president of a university controlled by the Ministry of Posts and Communications, successfully argued for the breakup of the ministry's monopoly of China's telecom industry?
text: Did you know that a new disease which is deadly to corals is spreading from the Florida Keys to other parts of the Caribbean?
text: Did you know that Clemantine Wamariya was reunited with her parents on The Oprah Winfrey Show , twelve years after being separated from them during the Rwandan genocide ?
text: Did you know that George Szirtes 's Reel , winner of the 2004 T. S. Eliot Prize , contains poems in terza rima and relies heavily on ekphrasis , using references to film and photography to aid memory?
text: Did you know that Canadian auto racing driver Kat Teasdale reportedly once asked the starter to wait while she applied lipstick?
text: Did you know that Canadian businessman Lloyd Pollock brought Junior A-level hockey to Windsor, Ontario ?
text: Did you know that in 2004 the British Rail Class 458 trains were so unreliable that their operator considered replacing them all, but by 2012 they had become the most reliable fleet in Britain?
text: Did you know that the Granadan princess Fatima bint al-Ahmar was described as "surpassing the women of her time like the Night of Power surpasses all the other nights" by the historian Ibn al-Khatib ?
text: Did you know that the final owners of Connecticut's WQQW radio station were involved in a fraudulent banking ring that toppled the town 's mayor?
text: Did you know that Lilian Benningsen , a singer at the Bavarian State Opera for decades, appeared as Carolina in the world premiere of Henze's Elegie für junge Liebende ( Elegy for Young Lovers )?
text: Did you know that the verses of the inscription on the funerary Stele of Arniadas are said to be "extraordinarily similar" to the words of Hector in the Iliad ?
text: Did you know that Joe Biden prefers the Chevrolet Corvette, but Joe Biden prefers the Pontiac Trans Am?
text: Did you know that The Unsafe Asylum , a book of short stories by Anirudh Kala , explores the psychological effects of the Partition of India ?
text: Did you know that Australian theatre director and former chemistry demonstrator May Hollinworth was described as "a wizard with lighting effects"?
text: Did you know that while Caltech 's historic South Houses were renovated, its North Houses were recommended for demolition for lack of architectural appeal?
text: Did you know that Samuel Adalberg , pioneer of Polish paremiology , committed suicide upon learning of the Germans' plans to construct the Warsaw Ghetto ?
text: Did you know that after a 2002 study inaccurately claimed a measles and autism link due to improper qPCR data, scientists developed the MIQE guidelines to show the minimum level of reported data required for qPCR?
text: Did you know that the Melkite Christian Sarjun ibn Mansur , who headed the fiscal administration of Syria under the first five Umayyad caliphs , was the father of Saint John of Damascus ?
text: Did you know that the JFK Express subway service in New York City never actually went to JFK Airport ?
text: Did you know that German Ice Hockey Hall of Fame inductee Roman Neumayer assisted in founding the first ice hockey team in Namibia?
text: Did you know that the destruction by range safety officers of the satellite SOLRAD 2 over Cuba in 1960 sparked international protest and compromised American missile security?
text: Did you know that Gujarati academic Daksha Pattani published her doctoral thesis on Mahatma Gandhi in six volumes?
text: Did you know that a colony of fruit bats in Îles Ehotilés National Park in Ivory Coast is considered by the local people to be a sign of the presence of their ancestors?
text: Did you know that Canadian photographic artist JJ Levine is known for portraits in which the same model depicts both the male and female members of a couple?
text: Did you know that at the time of Abdullah's entry into what was to become the modern country of Jordan during the interregnum period , the region was extremely poor, sparsely populated and widely considered ungovernable?
text: Did you know that a jury once rushed out of the courtroom of William F. Turner , first Chief Justice of the Arizona Territorial Supreme Court, to attend to a Native American attack?
text: Did you know that Mandy Moore choreographed La La Land 's opening number using 30 dancers, 100 extras, and 60 cars stuck in traffic on a Los Angeles freeway ?
text: Did you know that at the 2019 Austria Open , a 9-ball pool tournament, Kamila Khodjaeva reached the quarter-finals despite not playing a competitive match since 2016?
text: Did you know that Summer Rayne Oakes has been called "the world's first eco -model" because she only models clothes made from organic or recycled materials?
text: Did you know that rooks are intelligent birds and can rival or even beat chimpanzees in puzzle-solving tests?
text: Did you know that George Ali Murad Khan , ruler of the princely state of Khairpur in Pakistan, survived an accidental shooting by his father when he was nine months old?
text: Did you know that per a recent Supreme Court ruling , U.S. states are immune from private suits against them in courts of other states without their consent?
text: Did you know that £100,000,000 notes known as "Titans" are locked away in the Bank of England ?
text: Did you know that at the unveiling of Alexander Phimister Proctor 's statue of Robert E. Lee in 1936, President Franklin D. Roosevelt called Lee "one of our greatest American gentlemen"?
text: Did you know that Nozomi Nishida is a member of Walküre, a music group which exists both in real life and in the anime Macross Delta ?
text: Did you know that army general Abdul Haris Nasution considered the 1945 Battle of Semarang the first major battle for the Indonesian nation?
text: Did you know that Paula R. Pietromonaco found that attachment styles affect how people think and behave during conflict?
text: Did you know that satellites in a Tundra orbit trace a figure-eight across the sky?
text: Did you know that Felipe Reinoso served in the Connecticut House of Representatives prior to contesting an open seat in the Congress of the Republic of Peru ?
text: Did you know that the fly Phytobia betulae is just 5 mm (0.2 in) long but the tunnel made by its larva inside a birch tree may reach 17 m (56 ft)?
text: Did you know that the 1957 launch of Sputnik 1 , the first artificial satellite, led to a period of public anxiety in the United States and accelerated the Space Race ?
text: Did you know that pilot-cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin , the first human in space and first to orbit the Earth, ejected from his descending spacecraft at an altitude of about 7,000 metres (23,000 ft)?
text: Did you know that two Russian tortoises were aboard the first spacecraft to return safely from a trip around the Moon?
text: Did you know that Mae Jemison , the first black woman in space, worked at a Cambodian refugee camp in Thailand and was a medical officer for the Peace Corps before becoming an astronaut?
text: Did you know that the Soviet probe Luna 2 , the first human-made object to make contact with the Moon, began a trend of crash landing missions that continued even after soft landings were mastered?
text: Did you know that David Scott 's performance under pressure during Gemini 8 , the first mission to achieve a docking in space , led to his selection for the Apollo program ?
text: Did you know that cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova made 42 trips outside the Soviet Union between 1963 and 1970 in response to invitations she received after becoming the first woman in space?
text: Did you know that Félicette , the first cat in space, was subjected to 9.5 g of acceleration and five minutes of weightlessness?
text: Did you know that Binod Chaudhary is the first Nepali to be listed on Forbes 's billionaire list?
text: Did you know that four of the fourteen astronauts in NASA Astronaut Group 3 were killed in training accidents before they had a chance to fly in space?
text: Did you know that the oboist and composer Rolf Riehm taught music theory in Frankfurt from 1974 to 2000 and wrote an opera, Sirenen , for a 2014 premiere at the Oper Frankfurt ?
text: Did you know that during the 1924–25 season , Cardiff City F.C. became the first Welsh team to reach an FA Cup final?
text: Did you know that Captain Henry Meintjes , a South African World War I flying ace, was shot in the wrist when far over enemy lines but still managed to bring his airplane back and land it safely?
text: Did you know that the extinction of the Bramble Cay melomys was described as the first for a mammal species due to anthropogenic climate change ?
text: Did you know that when he graduated in medicine at the age of 24, James Fraser was already Sir James Fraser?
text: Did you know that Maria Magnani Noya was the first woman mayor of Turin and the second woman mayor in Italy?
text: Did you know that David Cage started writing the video game The Nomad Soul because he had grown tired of being a composer?
text: Did you know that Wu Ziliang developed the technology to separate uranium-235 for China's first nuclear bomb ?
text: Did you know that Sommen charrs are a relict population that has survived because of Lake Sommen's great depth, and its cold and oxygen-rich waters?
text: Did you know that sculptor Alice King Chatham used plaster casts to design custom-fitted oxygen masks and helmets for Project Mercury astronauts?
text: Did you know that Rhys Griffiths has won the Welsh Premier League Golden Boot more times than any other player, winning for seven consecutive seasons between 2006 and 2012?
text: Did you know that Stephen King killed off a radio station in the Bangor area?
text: Did you know that the scenic design for Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen by Günther Schneider-Siemssen was shown at the Metropolitan Opera from 1986 to 2009?
text: Did you know that Portland 's NS Line opened in 2001 as the first newly built streetcar line in the United States in 50 years to use modern vehicles?
text: Did you know that according to a study conducted by epidemiologist Xifeng Wu and her colleagues, fifteen minutes of moderate exercise per day can increase lifespan by an average of three years?
text: Did you know that the Gloucester tabula set includes gaming pieces depicting a copulating couple, a hanging man, and a manticore ?
text: Did you know that Robyn Benincasa ran a marathon four months after having surgery for osteoarthritis and being told she might never run again?
text: Did you know that George Gosse was awarded the George Cross for disarming three German naval mines under exceptionally hazardous conditions?
text: Did you know that six of the Next Nine astronauts flew to the Moon, and three walked on it?
text: Did you know that as the film negatives used for the first Indian feature film were of limited spectral sensitivity , the colour red was avoided in sets, costumes, and make-up?
text: Did you know that Eleanor C. Pressly helped develop and launch a series of Aerobee rockets during the 1957–1958 International Geophysical Year ?
text: Did you know that in South Africa, the mosquito Anopheles funestus used to breed in fast-moving streams but now prefers swamps?
text: Did you know that HMS Lavinia was saved from being broken up, only to be sunk in a collision with another ship?
text: Did you know that Isabel Martin was one of the Australian Devils who won silver at the 2019 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in Suphan Buri , Thailand?
text: Did you know that it took Scarecrow Press 25 years to complete its series of historical dictionaries of African countries ?
text: Did you know that the idea for the song " Anyone Who Knows What Love Is (Will Understand) " came to Jeannie Seely at the age of 23, and she was still earning royalties for it at age 78?
text: Did you know that Patrick Francheterre played for, coached and managed the France men's national ice hockey team , and helped cover expenses when the French Ice Hockey Federation went bankrupt?
text: Did you know that 50 years ago today, Maspalomas Station in the Canary Islands was the first ground station to make contact with the Apollo 11 astronauts in Earth orbit, about 16 minutes into the flight?
text: Did you know that Sir Lancelot Barrington-Ward performed surgery on Prince Albert, who later became King George VI ?
text: Did you know that during its 2019 election campaign , the Indian National Congress promised to abolish the sedition law , although the government had arrested 9,000 people for sedition alone in 2012–2013?
text: Did you know that Gao Xiaoxia abandoned her PhD studies to leave America in 1951, just before the US government banned Chinese students from returning home?
text: Did you know that the clingfish Diplecogaster bimaculata has been photographed cleaning a moray eel ?
text: Did you know that in 2001, Bury Football Club 's first mascot , "Robbie the Bobby", was sent off three times by referees for bad behaviour?
text: Did you know that the Irish musician Gregory Gray , who started his career in a boy band , became the cult indie musician Mary Cigarettes?
text: Did you know that in 1974, a United States Army private first class stole a helicopter and landed it on the White House lawn?
text: Did you know that Catherine Despard helped compose the speech that her husband , the ringleader of the Despard Plot , gave at the gallows?
text: Did you know that American pool player John Schmidt holds the record for the longest straight pool run at 626?
text: Did you know that Strombosia pustulata is one of over two hundred species of tree growing in the Omo Forest Reserve ?
text: Did you know that Damiano Michieletto , known for directing Rossini's operas , recently staged Schreker's Der ferne Klang at the Oper Frankfurt , where the world premiere had been performed in 1912?
text: Did you know that a three-story structure in Beatrice, Nebraska , was built for a Schmuck?
text: Did you know that Palestinians in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in Beirut called American journalist Janet Lee Stevens "the little drummer girl" because of her staunch support for their cause?
text: Did you know that Back to Black , the final studio album by Amy Winehouse , topped the European Top 100 Albums chart for 13 non-consecutive weeks?
text: Did you know that Australian rules footballer Emerson Woods was a premiership player in the VFL Women's while still in secondary school?
text: Did you know that the cave-nesting rockwarbler has also been called the "hanging dick" because of its nest?
text: Did you know that lieutenant commander James J. Connell 's Navy Cross was the highest award for valor bestowed on a Delawarean during the Vietnam War?
text: Did you know that César Franck composed Psalm 150 , a setting of " the musicians' psalm ", for choir, orchestra, and organ, for a school for the blind in Paris?
text: Did you know that Charles Stapley played 26 different roles in The Adventures of Robin Hood ?
text: Did you know that after the crash of Paradise Airlines Flight 901A , the Federal Aviation Administration permanently grounded the airline's operations?
text: Did you know that in 1953, Satyawati Suleiman became the first woman to receive a degree in archaeology from the University of Indonesia ?
text: Did you know that Armenian pianist Tigran Hamasyan believes that God intervened in the recording of his album Luys i Luso ?
text: Did you know that Abby Dunkin was one of three University of Texas at Arlington players selected as members of the All Star Five at the 2019 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship ?
text: Did you know that the 2003 edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans featured the first renewable-fuelled sports prototype racing car to be entered in a Le Mans event?
text: Did you know that English librarian Frank Cundall created the West India Reference Library in 1894, which later became the nucleus of the National Library of Jamaica ?
text: Did you know that some supporters of US president Franklin Roosevelt called for him to assume dictatorial powers in 1933?
text: Did you know that the Arab Serai , a 16th-century roadside inn in Delhi , may have been built to shelter 300 Arab mullahs who accompanied the Mughal emperor's widow on her Hajj to Mecca?
text: Did you know that Isao Kataoka is the only Japanese recipient of the Paul Loicq Award for contributions to international ice hockey?
text: Did you know that de novo gene birth was once thought to be impossible but has now been observed in every species that has been systematically examined?
text: Did you know that Maria Howard Weeden painted many portraits of African-American freedmen and freedwomen ?
text: Did you know that the Suvorov Monument , now on Suvorov Square , depicts its subject as the god Mars ?
text: Did you know that Bohumil Herlischka staged Schoenberg's Moses und Aron at the Hamburg State Opera , including a tour to Israel?
text: Did you know that in two species of megabat , males have been observed to produce milk?
text: Did you know that Pema Dhondup studied filmmaking at the University of Southern California so he could use the medium to tell the story of his "lost generation" of Tibetan youth?
text: Did you know that endometriosis , a condition in which tissue from the womb occurs in unusual locations, can cause bleeding into the chest during menstrual periods?
text: Did you know that Liu Housheng co-founded the Plum Blossom Award , the highest award for Chinese opera ?
text: Did you know that a clay tablet at the National Museum of Iraq , dated to c. 1770 BCE , shows a calculation that uses the Pythagorean theorem —twelve centuries prior to the birth of Pythagoras?
text: Did you know that Gustave A. Mueller of the Homeopathic Hospital of Pittsburgh was described in his 1912 obituary as a leading specialist in the treatment of the eye, ear, nose, and throat?
text: Did you know that flyways used by migrating wetland birds have traditional staging points where they can rebuild their energy reserves?
text: Did you know that French-born Joe Bertony , who twice escaped from Nazi concentration camps, played a key part in the construction of the Sydney Opera House ?
text: Did you know that the West Indian Incumbered Estates Acts were modelled on legislation introduced after the Irish Great Famine ?
text: Did you know that Tatsuo Nomura 's "Pokémon Challenge" for Google Maps , created as an April Fools' Day prank for mobile phone users, led to the development of Pokémon Go ?
text: Did you know that although living on the same mountain, the Mount Oku rat is endangered by habitat destruction, while the Mittendorf's striped grass mouse is not?
text: Did you know that the Kinetest , a women's ski trail at the Grovatesten ski field in Meråker , is named after the Norwegian cross-country skier Kine Beate Bjørnås ?
text: Did you know that the editing style of Every Frame a Painting was formulated to avoid copyright claims from YouTube's Content ID system?
text: Did you know that researcher Leslie Leve has found that parents' depression is associated with an increased likelihood of behavioral problems in their children?
text: Did you know that the Brahma Temple of Khajuraho is actually dedicated to Shiva ?
text: Did you know that Isabelle Story , a member of Eleanor Roosevelt 's press corps, published a weekly column called "Chatting With The First Lady"?
text: Did you know that Newcastle Falcons were relegated to play in the 2019–20 RFU Championship after the RFU rejected a plan to expand Premiership Rugby ?
text: Did you know that Wang Xiji , chief designer of China's first space launch vehicle and recoverable satellites, advocated the construction of a solar power station 36,000 km (22,000 mi) above Earth?
text: Did you know that abnormal structures inside white blood cells called critical green inclusions can indicate impending death?
text: Did you know that after leaving Nauvoo, Illinois , John Lyman Smith traveled with the Mormon pioneers in 1847 to the Salt Lake Valley , where he became a Utah Territory politician?
text: Did you know that the Occupation of Ma'an has been called "one of the most confused chapters" of Jordan 's history?
text: Did you know that pool player David Alcaide became the Spanish national eight-ball champion at age 14?
text: Did you know that the earliest evidence of sheep herding has been found in northern Iraq , dated before 9000 BC ?
text: Did you know that Tang Dingyuan co-invented the "split-diamond bomb"?
text: Did you know that Bolivia sued Chile in 2013 to regain land lost in 1884, claiming it had an Obligation to Negotiate Access to the Pacific Ocean ?
text: Did you know that Joanne Berger-Sweeney is the first African-American and first woman to serve as president of Trinity College , Connecticut?
text: Did you know that the Benedictines of Murbach Abbey built the monumental Notre-Dame de Guebwiller in order to relocate from their remote valley?
text: Did you know that operatic bass Kieth Engen , who got his first role, Bluebeard , at the Bavarian State Opera because he was tall, also had a pop career under a pseudonym?
text: Did you know that The California Field Atlas by Obi Kaufmann is neither a field guide nor a conventional atlas ?
text: Did you know that Liu Xianjue spent three years researching the book The Architectural Heritage in Macau , which was submitted in the city's successful application for World Heritage status?
text: Did you know that the Missa brevis for choir a cappella is one of about 300 choral compositions by Knut Nystedt ?
text: Did you know that Florrie Redford played football with other women during her lunch break at a World War I munitions factory prior to becoming a leading goal scorer for Dick, Kerr Ladies F.C. ?
text: Did you know that the WTC Cortlandt subway station in New York City, closed for 17 years after the September 11 attacks , cost $181 million to rebuild?
text: Did you know that Im Eun-ju was the first South Korean woman to referee at the international level of association football ?
text: Did you know that among the wetland animals in Kainji National Park are two species of crocodile, four of turtle, the African manatee , the hippopotamus, and the clawless otter ?
text: Did you know that William Feiner became the president of Georgetown College in 1826 despite having never mastered English ?
text: Did you know that the dome of Santa Maria di Collemaggio collapsed in the 1461 L'Aquila earthquake ?
text: Did you know that Tsunekazu Ishihara was nicknamed "The King of Portable Toys" by coworkers during the development of Pokémon Red and Green ?
text: Did you know that the repeated question "Warum?" ('Why?') from the Book of Job structures the first of Two Motets, Op. 74 , by Johannes Brahms ?
text: Did you know that wheelchair basketball player Teisha Shadwell raised money for a custom-built chair on GoFundMe ?
text: Did you know that HMS Imperieuse once sailed under an American flag?
text: Did you know that Aziz Abu Sarah , a peace activist from East Jerusalem and promoter of Arab–Israeli peace projects , neither understood Hebrew nor knew any Israeli Jews until after leaving high school?
text: Did you know that an artificial intelligence wrote a novel in the spirit of Jack Kerouac 's On the Road ?
text: Did you know that the wildlife of Nigeria includes 940 species of bird and all eight known species of West African mangrove ?
text: Did you know that Stepan Pimenov 's sculptures for the Admiralty building in St. Petersburg were removed and destroyed by order of Emperor Alexander II ?
text: Did you know that Werner Egk wrote the libretto for Irische Legende , his first opera after World War II , based on The Countess Cathleen by W. B. Yeats?
text: Did you know that the designs on opon Ifá divination trays praise and acknowledge the work of the babalawo ?
text: Did you know that the Leagues Cup , an upcoming four-team soccer competition between MLS and Liga MX clubs, was panned by critics as soon as it was announced?
text: Did you know that Maria Hueber founded the first school for girls in the Tyrol region?
text: Did you know that a five-star Amazon review of Facebook Portal by a writer, who claimed not to be a "big" Facebook user before buying the device, was traced to a Facebook employee?
text: Did you know that the Tarzan of Manisa planted thousands of trees on Mount Sipylus in Turkey ?
text: Did you know that the creation of the Swedish Levant Company in 1738 was controversial because of a disagreement between several Swedish merchants and the Hat Party ?
text: Did you know that Eddie Gallagher , a Navy SEAL who had been accused of murder, was transferred to "less restrictive confinement" by direct presidential intervention, the first such transfer since William Calley 's in 1971?
text: Did you know that the historic French trick-taking card game of la Bête has its origins in 16th-century Spanish Ombre , and was created by introducing the concept of bidding into Triomphe ?
text: Did you know that Maddie Shevlin dislocated her thumb on debut in her first season of Australian rules football and missed the next ten weeks?
text: Did you know that the United States embassy in Nicosia , Cyprus , was bombed while Fraser Wilkins was serving as the first US ambassador to Cyprus ?
text: Did you know that this article is a load of old cobblers?
text: Did you know that when Joseph Wood was appointed as head master of Harrow School , he was by far the oldest to be appointed since the retirement of Thomas Thackeray in 1760?
text: Did you know that composers Alexander Borodin , Mikhail Glinka , Modest Mussorgsky , Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky are all buried in the Tikhvin Cemetery ?
text: Did you know that the Touristic Eastern Express makes two-hour-long stops between Ankara and Kars to allow passengers to visit historic and natural attractions?
text: Did you know that the German soprano Melanie Diener began her stage career in Mozart roles in 1996, and appeared as Isolde with the Canadian Opera Company and the Opéra national du Rhin in 2013?
text: Did you know that after discontinuing normal programming, KPPC radio signed on once a week for six months to fulfill a contract to broadcast church services?
text: Did you know that Qian Ji helped design China's first satellite and was the lead designer for its first three-in-one satellite launch?
text: Did you know that the Mueller probe was born in a crossfire hurricane ?
text: Did you know that in 2018, Lorraine Janzen Kooistra was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada for her work in 19th-century literature?
text: Did you know that the weight of the volcanoes of Hawaii is causing Earth's crust to buckle, generating volcanoes under the sea ?
text: Did you know that Turkish women's footballer Aslı Canan Sabırlı was appointed technical director of her team while she was still a member of the squad?
text: Did you know that the 1929 Hugh Ferriss book The Metropolis of Tomorrow featured "projected trends" including skyscraper churches and suspension bridges with apartments built into them?
text: Did you know that Charles S. Bryan and Bill Stone worked out how to avoid toxic doses of penicillin in people with kidney failure?
text: Did you know that the bodies of 499 gold miners bound for China were lost when the SS Ventnor sank in 1902?
text: Did you know that Alexandra Phillips and Alexandra Phillips stood against each other for election in South East England , and both were elected?
text: Did you know that the FM Non-Duplication Rule adopted by the FCC 55 years ago today led to the creation of the album-oriented and classic rock radio formats ?
text: Did you know that 11th-century scholar Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Naysaburi , an authority on the early history of Isma'ilism , composed the first official genealogy of the Fatimid dynasty?
text: Did you know that the WWE 24/7 Championship , a professional wrestling championship , can be defended anytime, anywhere, as long as a WWE referee is present?
text: Did you know that Women and Politics in Canada by Janine Brodie was the first book to study Canadian women in political campaigns between 1945 and 1975?
text: Did you know that John Casken 's opera Golem won the 1991 Gramophone Classical Music Award for Best Contemporary Recording?
text: Did you know that before his accession to the Scottish Parliament in 2016, Bill Bowman lived and worked for more than a decade in Bucharest ?
text: Did you know that the 1458 Loveday , which was intended to unite Henry VI 's nobility, only resulted in uniting his enemies?
text: Did you know that for his opera Stephen Climax , composer Hans Zender wrote a libretto which juxtaposes the life of Simeon Stylites with scenes from Ulysses by James Joyce?
text: Did you know that Dutch pool player Nick van den Berg has competed in the Mosconi Cup eight times and lost only once, in the 2003 event ?
text: Did you know that according to motivation crowding theory , adding incentives for some behavior can sometimes backfire and actually result in less of that behavior?
text: Did you know that Wei Shoukun , the longest-lived academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences , taught at 10 universities over his 80-year career?
text: Did you know that the wildlife of Senegal includes a critically endangered subspecies of the giant eland and the common Senegal one-striped grass mouse ?
text: Did you know that despite being parodied on World Wrestling Federation TV as " Billionaire Ted ", World Championship Wrestling owner Ted Turner reportedly found the sketches funny?
text: Did you know that Edward McGeachy took a butler with him when he surveyed Fort Stewart Estate in colonial Jamaica?
text: Did you know that in 1999, Pam Coats was promoted to senior vice president of creative development at Walt Disney Animation Studios , becoming the highest-ranking woman at the company?
text: Did you know that Neanderthals in the Valencian Valldigna valley hauled young elephants up a 100-metre (330 ft) climb to the Bolomor Cave , for use as food?
text: Did you know that Claude Batchelor , a former trumpet player with the 1st Cavalry Division Band , was convicted on charges related to collaboration with China during the Korean War ?
text: Did you know that the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill introduced in 2019 by the Indian parliament has been met with protests and criticism by the queer community?
text: Did you know that Scottish economist Hugh Quigley was a member of the secret XYZ Club in the 1930s?
text: Did you know that forests in the Guineo-Congolian region of Africa include patches dominated by a single species of tree, such as Brachystegia laurentii , Julbernardia seretii , Michelsonia microphylla , or Gilbertiodendron dewevrei ?
text: Did you know that the BBC has produced a new version of their 1953 film London to Brighton in Four Minutes every 30 years?
text: Did you know that African-American educator Jennie Porter refused to let teachers at her all-black school join the NAACP after its local leaders criticized her views on segregation ?
text: Did you know that Wayne and Shuster 's comedy sketch " Rinse the Blood Off My Toga " recasts Shakespeare's Julius Caesar as a detective story?
text: Did you know that when an angry mob overran the palaces in Granada in 1309, the sultan was spared, but his vizier , Abu Abdallah ibn al-Hakim , was killed?
text: Did you know that the blue korhaan favours habitats with short grass, dwarf shrubs, and termite mounds, but few trees?
text: Did you know that Barbara Zechmeister , who appeared in world premieres at the Oper Frankfurt , portrayed Clarissa in a recorded production of Weber's Die drei Pintos at the 2004 Wexford Festival ?
text: Did you know that the National Salt Satyagraha Memorial honors the participants of the Salt Satyagraha , a nonviolent civil disobedience in colonial India led by Mahatma Gandhi in 1930?
text: Did you know that Nicholas Emery tried to negotiate the sale of Maine 's northern territory to the American government for one million acres (4,000 km 2 ) of the Michigan Territory ?
text: Did you know that Misty Talley , who directed shark horror films for Syfy , edits about five feature film projects at a time?
text: Did you know that a railroad bisects the Italian town of Miramare di Rimini into a residential neighborhood and a prominent tourist area?
text: Did you know that shortly after the arrest of the leaders of the Indonesian National Party , Sartono disbanded it and founded the Indonesia Party ?
text: Did you know that during change of command ceremonies of the United States Marine Band , the John Philip Sousa Baton is transferred from the outgoing to the incoming director?
text: Did you know that the CISF Unit Delhi Metro Rail Corporation is the largest Central Industrial Security Force unit?
text: Did you know that Allen F. Donovan worked for the Manhattan Project on the design of the shape of the Fat Man atomic bomb?
text: Did you know that there will be a women's Twenty20 cricket tournament for the first time at the 2022 Commonwealth Games ?
text: Did you know that MDR Rundfunkchor , the radio choir of the MDR in Leipzig, performed Dvořák's Stabat Mater in the opening concert of the 2019 Rheingau Musik Festival at Eberbach Abbey ?
text: Did you know that Jīvaka , a child left behind on a trash heap, later became the physician of the Buddha?
text: Did you know that the 2020 Basketball Hall of Fame commemorative coins may become the United States Mint 's first color coinage?
text: Did you know that when Zhai Xiangjun 's teaching career was interrupted by dental surgery, he began writing English textbooks, two of which have since been adopted by most Chinese universities?
text: Did you know that Pollichia campestris was first described in 1789 by the Scottish botanist William Aiton in the publication Hortus Kewensis , a catalogue of all the plants then being cultivated at Kew Gardens ?
text: Did you know that Thomas M. Owen founded the Alabama Department of Archives and History , the first such agency in the U.S. to become a distinct department of a state government?
text: Did you know that in 1355, the English marched 675 miles (1,100 km) through French territory and took so much booty that they discarded silver objects to be better able to carry off gold and jewellery?
text: Did you know that Johannes Fatio performed the first successful separation of conjoined twins in 1689?
text: Did you know that The Debut was Jackie Evancho 's eighth consecutive release on the Billboard Classical Albums chart to reach number one?
text: Did you know that former Mexican police chief Zeferino Peña Cuéllar may have escaped through a secret tunnel during an attack by a drug cartel?
text: Did you know that storm surge and abnormally high tides generated by the 1875 Indianola hurricane in Texas swept boats as far as 9 mi (14 km) inland?
text: Did you know that Fang Renqiu was a member of the first national football team of the People's Republic of China and later coached the national team?
text: Did you know that an exhibit of Czech Jewish art and ritual objects confiscated by the Nazis for a planned "Museum of the Extinct Race" was seen by more than half a million people on its U.S. tour?
text: Did you know that in 1968, Mark E. Silverman and John Willis Hurst used what they described as a " Sherlock Holmesian approach" to show that the condition of the heart might be found in clues in the hands?
text: Did you know that the Ross Volunteers are the military escort for the Governor of Texas ?
text: Did you know that Wang Qidong served as the first chair of the first university department of materials science and engineering in China?
text: Did you know that the Redoute in Bad Godesberg , which opened in 1792 when Beethoven played in the orchestra, was used for receptions of the President of Germany ?
text: Did you know that Algernon Burnaby won the Quorn Hunt 's Midnight Steeplechase in 1890?
text: Did you know that some critics prefaced their reviews of SpellForce 3: Soul Harvest with assurances that it was not as buggy as the main game?
text: Did you know that William R. Crawford Jr. was appointed as U.S. ambassador to Cyprus after Rodger Davies , his predecessor, was assassinated?
text: Did you know that peregrine falcons live at the top of New York City's Throgs Neck Bridge ?
text: Did you know that the Argus tortoise beetle is named after the mythical Greek giant Argus Panoptes ?
text: Did you know that Turkish television and film actress Serenay Aktaş was once a women's footballer ?
text: Did you know that department store chain Kastner & Öhler , based in Graz , began as a shop for mercery in 1873, and was the first in Central Europe to introduce fixed prices and run a mail order service?
text: Did you know that Thomas Perkins Abernethy 's dissertation The Formative Period in Alabama, 1815–1828 earned him a doctorate from Harvard University and was published in book form?
text: Did you know that Japanese literature of the 12th through 16th centuries ceased to be the reserve of the aristocracy and became "national literature"?
text: Did you know that in 1946, entomologists E. B. Pinniger and Cynthia Longfield were the first to identify the dainty damselfly in Britain?
text: Did you know that Iggy Azalea joked with Peppa Pig on Twitter over My First Album 's release date?
text: Did you know that Hai-Quan Mao was elected an AIMBE fellow for engineering nanomaterials for regenerative medicine and drug delivery?
text: Did you know that the finalists in tonight's U.S. Open Cup Final both joined Major League Soccer as expansion teams during the 2017 season?
text: Did you know that archaeologist Paul Pascon was a Pied-Noir whose devotion to the situation of Moroccan peasants led him to take Moroccan citizenship?
text: Did you know that Ryan Ashley Malarkey is the only woman to win Ink Master in its first eleven seasons?
text: Did you know that the African hut tampan can transmit relapsing fever in humans and African swine fever in pigs?
text: Did you know that Jill Martin was the only actor to appear in all three West End runs of the musical My Fair Lady ?
text: Did you know that Chicago's WCLM radio was investigated for leasing an audio channel without permission to a service that broadcast horse racing results to bookies , later losing its license over other violations?
text: Did you know that in the nocturnal Battle of Kapetron , the Byzantines in the flanks defeated their Seljuk opponents, but on the next morning learned of their Georgian allies' defeat in the centre?
text: Did you know that Cynthia Whitchurch 's discovery of a novel role for DNA in nature is credited with creating a paradigm shift in the study of biofilms ?
text: Did you know that there has been a boom in LGBT+ cinema produced in Latin America , in contrast to its traditionally religious and machismo culture?
text: Did you know that historian Charles Henry Ambler earned his PhD using the first eight chapters of his book, Sectionalism in Virginia from 1776 to 1861 , for his dissertation?
text: Did you know that despite its reported disappearance from Britain and other European countries, the fountain spleenwort is still considered to have a stable population trend?
text: Did you know that Slovak ice hockey referee Juraj Okoličány translated the international ice hockey rules into his native language ?
text: Did you know that the ancient Jewish text of Perek Shirah asserts that spiders and rats praise God using verses from Psalm 150 ?
text: Did you know that Hans-Georg Münzberg continued to work on the development of the Snecma Atar engine in France despite being a professor at the Technical University of Berlin ?
text: Did you know that a $100-million donation to the Central Park Conservancy in 2012 was the largest ever to New York City's park system at the time?
text: Did you know that Agnes Twiston Hughes was the first woman in Wales to qualify as a solicitor?
text: Did you know that critics called the comedy adventure video game The Haunted Island "suitably goofy" and "pretty gosh darn rad"?
text: Did you know that when Jessie Grayson played Mrs. Higbee in Cass Timberlane , it was the first time an African-American had been addressed on screen by the honorific " Mrs. "?
text: Did you know that U.S. endocrinologist Lewis E. Braverman found the reason for a Midwestern outbreak of hyperthyroidism was contaminated ground beef?
text: Did you know that Charles X of France donated a painting of the incredulity of St Thomas by François Dubois to St Thomas's Church in the small Scottish town of Keith, Moray ?
text: Did you know that before Gryan Miers was even drafted to an Australian Football League club, Fox Sports labelled him one of the competition's "next big cult heroes"?
text: Did you know that Dorothy Olsen was one of only twelve American women certified for night flight in World War II?
text: Did you know that Ethiopian Jews protesting police brutality in Israel used a slogan from the Black Lives Matter movement?
text: Did you know that Donald Dean Jackson , known for his editing of the George Washington papers, originally felt he did not have the proper background and hesitated to act in that capacity?
text: Did you know that the opera Behold the Sun by Alexander Goehr , about the Anabaptists in Münster , was premiered in an abridged version in German, but the BBC aired it in full in English?
text: Did you know that Yuri Korolev led the Soviet Union national ice hockey team 's research group for 28 years while the team won 17 Ice Hockey World Championships and 7 Winter Olympic Games gold medals?
text: Did you know that the Louisville Sinking Fund Building went from being slated for demolition to being listed on the National Register of Historic Places in six years?
text: Did you know that R. K. Wilson , the surgeon behind the hoax "surgeon's photograph" of the Loch Ness Monster , was later awarded the Croix de Guerre and the Order of Orange-Nassau ?
text: Did you know that when Egon Schiele 's painting Dämmernde Stadt was auctioned for US$24.6 million in 2018, the descendants of two former owners shared the proceeds?
text: Did you know that a young woman who went missing in a Rosemont, Illinois , hotel was later found dead inside a walk-in freezer?
text: Did you know that the rock parrot often nests in the old burrows of seabirds?
text: Did you know that in 1968, students at Columbia University protested against their college's proposed construction of a gym at Morningside Park ?
text: Did you know that Chinese legal scholar Su Huiyu regarded capital punishment as "irrational" and supported its eventual abolition?
text: Did you know that minimalist city-building game Islanders deliberately omits features such as resource accumulation and technology research in order to focus on the core mechanic of building placement?
text: Did you know that in 2001, Ben Kimondiu became the first pacesetter to win the Chicago Marathon ?
text: Did you know that Hermin Esser performed 14 tenor roles at the Bayreuth Festival dedicated exclusively to stageworks by Richard Wagner , beginning in 1966 as Froh and ending in 1981 as Tristan ?
text: Did you know that voice actress Yuki Nakashima is a public relations officer for Japan's Wakayama Prefecture ?
text: Did you know that the Scottish surgeon David Wallace was appointed to the Order of St Michael and St George for his work in the Boer War and knighted for his work in World War I?
text: Did you know that the Maple River State Game Area contains the only known inland salt marsh in the state of Michigan ?
text: Did you know that Sophie Luff , who captained the boys' cricket team whilst at school, was named the "most promising young female cricketer" of 2015?
text: Did you know that the different types of combined hormonal contraception include a pill , a patch , an injection , and a vaginal ring ?
text: Did you know that Betty Cantor-Jackson recorded over 1000 tapes of the Grateful Dead , Legion of Mary , Jerry Garcia Band , and Old & In the Way , but lost them when she could not pay the storage fees?
text: Did you know that every Saturday for decades, Miriam Butterworth protested against wars such as those in Nicaragua, Iran, and Iraq, as well as in opposition to nuclear arms?
text: Did you know that the swamp musk shrew scrambles around among aquatic vegetation in the dark?
text: Did you know that Alejandro Finocchiaro , Argentina's current Minister of Education, Culture, Science and Technology, produced the 2008 documentary Mujeres de la Shoá ('Women of the Holocaust')?
text: Did you know that the story of the legendary Christian saints Barlaam and Josaphat is based on the Great Renunciation of the Buddha?
text: Did you know that footballer Craig Bellamy was the first player to score for seven different teams in the Premier League ?
text: Did you know that West Palm Beach, Florida , was the site of the 2000 U.S. presidential election recount, which led to the Bush v. Gore decision giving Florida's 25 electoral votes to George W. Bush ?
text: Did you know that after pyrimethamine was price-hiked by 5000 percent, Sydney University chemists Matthew H. Todd and Alice Motion supported the high school students who showed it could be synthesised cheaply?
text: Did you know that Zhuo Renxi developed the anti-fog coating for Mao Zedong 's crystal coffin that is displayed in his mausoleum ?
text: Did you know that strips of bark from the West African copal are used to make beehives, while the flowers are attractive to bees?
text: Did you know that John Shearer was the second African-American staff photographer at Life and a neighbor of the first, Gordon Parks ?
text: Did you know that the original article describing Berlekamp's root finding algorithm did not contain a proof of correctness ?
text: Did you know that Will Dismukes , a 29-year-old member of the Alabama House of Representatives , is also an ordained minister and former baseball player, and suffered a massive stroke at the age of 22?
text: Did you know that a match at the 2019 WPA World Ten-ball Championship was temporarily halted due to a fire alarm, but both players opted to play on?
text: Did you know that Charity Lamb was the first woman convicted of murder in the Oregon Territory ?
text: Did you know that although Spitzeln was also called German l'Hombre , it had little more in common with the most successful card game ever invented than the fact that it was played by three players?
text: Did you know that after a friend told Toni Sharpless 10 years ago today that she was too drunk to drive , Sharpless ordered her out of the car and has not been seen since?
text: Did you know that the surveillance radar at the Kürecik Radar Station in southeastern Turkey provides NATO missile defense in Europe?
text: Did you know that Kris Knoblauch accumulated 298 wins over seven years as a head coach in the Canadian junior ice hockey leagues before becoming head coach of the Hartford Wolf Pack ?
text: Did you know that the executive producer of Women of '69, Unboxed was a member of the 1969 all-woman graduating class of Skidmore College , on which the film focuses?
text: Did you know that Olivier Latry , organist at Notre-Dame de Paris , played a concert at St. Martin in Lorch am Rhein in 2019?
text: Did you know that some German child-rearing theorists of the 1970s tied Nazism and the Holocaust to authoritarian, sadistic personalities produced by punitive toilet training techniques?
text: Did you know that British author Harold Clunn saw the destruction done by the Blitz as a blessing in disguise ?
text: Did you know that Jörg Breiding , only the second leader of the Knabenchor Hannover in its 69-year history, conducted the choir and the Canadian Brass quintet in folk song arrangements in 2019?
text: Did you know that Edward Riegelmann was opposed to having the Coney Island Boardwalk named after him?
text: Did you know that Rathindranath Tagore , the first vice-chancellor of Visva-Bharati University , initially became involved with the school at the urging of his Nobel Prize-winning father ?
text: Did you know that Mark Hamill had his first regular voice-acting job on the 1973 television series Jeannie ?
text: Did you know that after their beloved Canadian leader, Captain Dyer , died, his Slavo-British unit took to carrying a massive portrait of him and would later murder all of the unit's other officers?
text: Did you know that a solar-powered device for extracting water from the air, co-designed by Evelyn Wang , has been compared to the moisture vaporators in Star Wars ?
text: Did you know that toxic vacuolation , the presence of vacuoles inside certain types of white blood cells , can be a sign of sepsis ?
text: Did you know that when Virginia suffragist Anna Whitehead Bodeker was not allowed to cast a ballot in the 1871 municipal election in Richmond , she put a note in the ballot box claiming her right to vote?
text: Did you know that in 1994, the principal of Alabama's Randolph County High School threatened to cancel the prom if interracial couples planned to attend?
text: Did you know that according to legal theorist Jiang Shigong , China has two constitutions?
text: Did you know that New York City's 407-acre (165 ha) Shirley Chisholm State Park , named after the first black Congresswoman in the U.S. , was created on a landfill?
text: Did you know that Gujarati writer Manilal Dwivedi was invited to present a paper at the 1893 Parliament of the World's Religions , but was unable to attend due to financial constraints?
text: Did you know that the toxic bark of a Madagascan tree species has been used as a poison in trials by ordeal ?
text: Did you know that after traveling through India, Tibet, and the Qing Empire for more than 20 years, 18th-century Dutch explorer Samuel van der Putte ordered his notes and journals to be burned rather than accept their misuse?
text: Did you know that the Naval Medical Research Unit Dayton moved to Ohio from Bethesda, Maryland , in part because their building was about to be lost to termites?
text: Did you know that when the Three Marias published New Portuguese Letters as a direct challenge to Portuguese censors, they were arrested and the book was banned, leading to international protests?
text: Did you know that during the 1960s, Harold Finger was in charge of the development of NASA's nuclear rocket and nuclear power systems , including generators left on the Moon by Apollo missions ?
text: Did you know that there are no longer any chimpanzees in Marahoué National Park ?
text: Did you know that footballer Rachel Rowe made her international debut for Wales while still working as a guard in the prison service?
text: Did you know that the structure of nanoparticle cancer drugs affects their function in such complex ways that nanoinformatics approaches are useful?
text: Did you know that among the musical roles performed by Anke Sieloff at the Musiktheater im Revier are Maria in West Side Story , and a witch in the first German production of The Witches of Eastwick ?
text: Did you know that 50,000 years ago a Neanderthal defecated on an old campfire in El Salt , Spain, and proved the Neanderthal diet also included plants?
text: Did you know that Helen Appo Cook , an African-American activist, publicly admonished Susan B. Anthony in 1898 for failing to support universal suffrage ?
text: Did you know that " Let Nature Sing ", a single consisting of nothing but unedited bird song , reached number one on the UK Singles Sales Chart ?
text: Did you know that a prize for contemporary art of Styria is named after Viktor Fogarassy , the managing director of a department store?
text: Did you know that Manresa Island in Connecticut was used by the Jesuits as a retreat center before being developed as an electrical power plant?
text: Did you know that Japanese voice actress Kanon Takao won an international piano competition when she was ten years old?
text: Did you know that it is not known whether larvae of Deretaphrus beetles spin their cocoons from their mouths or anal glands?
text: Did you know that Australian rules footballer Callum Wilkie , who had been overlooked in four previous national drafts, was working as an accountant when he was selected by St Kilda ?
text: Did you know that the 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup was moved to the United States after the SARS outbreak in China, the original host?
text: Did you know that Quaker abolitionist David Cooper 's anonymously authored 1783 tract condemning slavery was distributed to the New Jersey State Assembly , the Confederation Congress , and George Washington ?
text: Did you know that the Cozzi porcelain factory of Venice had a stock of 118,000 pieces by 1784, mostly old and out of fashion?
text: Did you know that Polish philosopher and World War II resistance member Jan Gralewski likely died in the controversial 1943 Gibraltar B-24 crash ?
text: Did you know that despite their names, the greater Egyptian gerbil and the lesser Egyptian gerbil are found across much of North Africa?
text: Did you know that the sentence of 241 years given to Bobby Bostic was the longest term of imprisonment ever handed down in Missouri to a juvenile for non-homicide offenses?
text: Did you know that Wayne and Shuster poked fun at Canada's Stratford Festival with a skit about a baseball game where the manager, players, and umpires all speak in Shakespearean verse?
text: Did you know that James J. Mason Brown was the first paediatric surgeon to serve as president of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh ?
text: Did you know that Flat Rock Speedway 's opening was delayed by a week after a raccoon drowned in its drainage system and rain led to track flooding?
text: Did you know that new Austrian Finance Minister Eduard Müller began his career as a tax inspector?
text: Did you know that in 1919 a race riot broke out in Norfolk, Virginia , during a homecoming celebration for African-American veterans of World War I ?
text: Did you know that the Italian Nicholas Laucella became principal flute of the New York Philharmonic in 1909 when Gustav Mahler was chief conductor?
text: Did you know that the lesser seedcracker enjoys rice and the large, hard seeds of carrycillo ?
text: Did you know that 18-year-old Gerda Hofstätter was given a key to the city of Althofen after winning Austria's first European Pool Championship ?
text: Did you know that " The U.S. Air Force Blue " started as an advertising jingle for United States Air Force recruitment advertisements?
text: Did you know that the 6th-century Lakhmid ruler Amr ibn Hind was killed by the poet Amr ibn Kulthum after Hind's mother had insulted Kulthum's mother?
text: Did you know that in Cameroon, edible caterpillars are cultivated on dwarf red ironwood leaves?
text: Did you know that Thai chef Bo Songvisava was once asked by a visiting foreign chef about Thai food and realized she knew very little about it?
text: Did you know that Knut Nystedt wrote Immortal Bach as a scheme for many voices to sing the first line of Bach's " Komm, süßer Tod " simultaneously in different tempi , meeting on the last word meaning peace?
text: Did you know that Perla Farías has created telenovelas , such as Juana la virgen and La Reina del Sur , which avoid classic stereotypes?
text: Did you know that Churchill's Port was not bottled until 1982?
text: Did you know that Christel Boom passed information about NATO exercises to East Germany for the Stasi ?
text: Did you know that " A Rugrats Kwanzaa " was one of the first mainstream television episodes to feature Kwanzaa ?
text: Did you know that the pianist Erik Werba , professor at the Wiener Musikakademie for four decades, is known as an accompanist of lieder singers?
text: Did you know that the Namib brush-tailed gerbil uses ultrasonic whistles and foot drumming to communicate?
text: Did you know that Hubert William Lewis was awarded the Victoria Cross after capturing three enemy soldiers and carrying an officer to safety despite being wounded twice?
text: Did you know that Deepak Fertilisers and Petrochemicals uses GPS to track its vehicles transporting ammonium nitrate , as the chemical has been used by Naxalites to create the explosive ANFO ?
text: Did you know that Chinese political scientist Wang Shaoguang views Western representative democracy as a failure?
text: Did you know that manhua artist Xia Da 's April Story was published in 2003 before she had even graduated college?
text: Did you know that by approving selinexor , the FDA overruled a panel of independent experts that had voted 8–5 against the anti-cancer drug?
text: Did you know that after John R. Allan died, seven complete or partly-finished unpublished novels were found in his effects?
text: Did you know that librettist Gerhard Müller and composer Georg Katzer wrote Antigone oder die Stadt in East Germany , but it premiered at the Komische Oper Berlin only after reunification ?
text: Did you know that footage of Ann Peterson diving was the first 1968 Summer Olympics coverage to be aired by ABC in the eastern United States?
text: Did you know that antelope grass can recover quickly after wildfires even in the middle of the dry season?
text: Did you know that pilot Walter Anderson and observer John Mitchell were hit by communist fire but landed, rescued two pilots, and took off with Mitchell on the wing and his fingers plugging their leaking tank?
text: Did you know that sumo wrestler Enhō Akira is 50 kilograms (110 lb) lighter, and 15 centimetres (6 in) shorter, than most of his top division opponents?
text: Did you know that U.S. Border Patrol agents reported that some migrant detainees at the U.S.–Mexico border in 2019 were housed in standing-room conditions for days or weeks?
text: Did you know that Arudji Kartawinata left the Masyumi Party and reformed the Indonesian Islamic Union Party in exchange for a cabinet post?
text: Did you know that the Sorana bean is grown in such small quantities and is in such demand that it commands prices six to ten times higher than those of other cannellini beans?
text: Did you know that in 1954, George Ian Scott became the first professor of ophthalmology in Edinburgh?
text: Did you know that the sea anemone Anemonia sulcata is known as ortiguilla in southern Spain, where it is a popular seafood?
text: Did you know that Turkish race walker Meryem Bekmez escaped the traditional social practice of child marriage for girls when her athletic abilities were discovered?
text: Did you know that Welsh international footballer Peyton Vincze discovered she was eligible to represent the nation only when a Welsh football club visited her town in the United States?
text: Did you know that the large leaves of Marantochloa purpurea are used for wrapping cola nuts to prevent them from becoming desiccated ?
text: Did you know that after William Tarrant was sacked from the civil service of British Hong Kong , he became a journalist and ran a 12-year-long vendetta that led to his imprisonment?
text: Did you know that according to the U.S. Supreme Court , Medicare payment levels count as "substantive legal standards"?
text: Did you know that the baritone Ernst Gerold Schramm was the voice of Christ for Karl Richter in Bach's St John Passion and St Matthew Passion ?
text: Did you know that in 1982, Brooks Resources , originally a subsidiary of the Brooks-Scanlon Lumber Company , donated 135 acres (55 ha) to help Donald Kerr establish the High Desert Museum near Bend, Oregon ?
text: Did you know that Sylvia Stoesser was called the "nasal chemist" because she could often identify the ingredients in an unknown laboratory mixture by smelling it?
text: Did you know that in 1979, fifteen-year-old Laura Michalek became the youngest athlete ever to win the Chicago Marathon ?
text: Did you know that woollen fabrics have been produced at the Knockando Woolmill since the 18th century?
text: Did you know that the score of the song "Sweet Little Woman o' Mine", composed by Floy Little Bartlett , was played in the 1925 silent film The Big Parade ?
text: Did you know that the crimson seedcracker has two morphs , large-billed and small-billed, but this trait is not related to sex, age, body size, or location?
text: Did you know that John Soothill gave "boy in the bubble syndrome" its formal name, severe combined immunodeficiency ?
text: Did you know that New York City's Eastern Parkway , built in the 1870s, is considered the world's first parkway designed for personal and recreational traffic while prohibiting commercial traffic?
text: Did you know that John Talbot White 's last nature column before his death described a mouse escaping a weasel by jumping over its back?
text: Did you know that in 2017, Australian rules footballer Tom Atkins laid 23 tackles in a Victorian Football League match, equalling the competition record?
text: Did you know that New Jersey high school radio station WHPH , itself shared between two schools, had to share time with another high school radio station ?
text: Did you know that Arswendo Atmowiloto wrote around 20 books while imprisoned?
text: Did you know that, following the 1925 London County Council election , the Labour Party became the official opposition on the council for the first time?
text: Did you know that Terry Dempsey 's songs reached number one in the United Kingdom, France, Canada, Australia, and his native South Africa?
text: Did you know that the captain of the SS Grampian intentionally rammed an iceberg head-on so as to avoid the Titanic 's fate?
text: Did you know that chef Asma Khan 's husband is not a fan of her food?
text: Did you know that Queens at Heart , which features four trans women in the mid-1960s, has been called both a documentary and an exploitation film ?
text: Did you know that Gavin Arneil is credited with the near-eradication of rickets in Glasgow?
text: Did you know that the actors from the television drama Jamie Johnson competed at the Gothia Cup international youth football tournament, reaching the quarter-finals?
text: Did you know that despite being described as a "weak candidate", Arvind Sawant defeated his nearest competitor by more than 120,000 votes to represent the Mumbai South constituency in the 2014 Indian general election ?
text: Did you know that the Monument to the Fighters of the Revolution incorporates Russia's first eternal flame ?
text: Did you know that Nicolas Joel , general manager of the Paris Opera from 2009 to 2014, directed Wagner's Ring in 1979 after having assisted Patrice Chéreau for the cycle's centenary ?
text: Did you know that in 1982, the King of Janow , son of the Queen of Poland , moved to California?
text: Did you know that President Gerald Ford delayed the signing ceremony for the 1974 Jackson–Vanik amendment because Mark E. Talisman 's wife was in labor?
text: Did you know that the only building in England designed by the artist Piet de Jong could be turned into a Wetherspoons ?
text: Did you know that German physician Wolf-Dieter Montag was the inaugural recipient of the Paul Loicq Award for contributions to international ice hockey?
text: Did you know that the Manhattan blackout of July 2019 occurred exactly 42 years after the New York City blackout of 1977 ?
text: Did you know that despite being the majority language in the Indonesian town of Belang before World War II, the Ponosakan language had only four fluent speakers left in 2014?
text: Did you know that Suzy Dietrich was part of the first women's team to finish an international-standard 24-hour motor race ?
text: Did you know that among the many uses of Erythrophleum ivorense and Lannea welwitschii , trees growing in Assagny National Park , are rope-making, canoe-building and to poison fish?
text: Did you know that the historic Collingwood mansion in Virginia is expected to be demolished later this year?
text: Did you know that British physician Donald Irvine was the only general practitioner to have been a president of the General Medical Council ?
text: Did you know that Bronx Park contains the Bronx Zoo , the New York Botanical Garden , and what is believed to be New York City's only remaining uncleared forest?
text: Did you know that Alice Evans was the first British female professional futsal player?
text: Did you know that in 1946, Indonesian nationalist forces burned half of Bandung and evacuated at least 200,000 civilians, preventing the British from capturing the city intact?
text: Did you know that in 1845, Samuel Mulledy was the President of Georgetown College , a Jesuit institution, but five years later was expelled from the Jesuit order ?
text: Did you know that the nickname of a Russian submarine constructed from interconnected spheres comes from an animated circus animal made out of juggling balls?
text: Did you know that Lauren Price was the first Welsh woman to win a Commonwealth Games boxing medal?
text: Did you know that technology developed for use in inkjet printers helped make the automated white blood cell differential , a common blood test, possible?
text: Did you know that George Dashnau started the first mail order delivery service that supplied human skulls?
text: Did you know that the brown-cheeked hornbill is among the eleven species of hornbill native to Ivory Coast ?
text: Did you know that Asamardhuni Jivayatra by Tripuraneni Gopichand is regarded as the first psychological novel in Telugu ?
text: Did you know that Polish colonel Andrzej Marecki was one of the victims of the controversial 1943 Gibraltar B-24 crash ?
text: Did you know that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor preserved her house with skim milk?
text: Did you know that the African giant shrew was first described from a mummified specimen found in an ancient Egyptian tomb?
text: Did you know that Chance Rencountre is the first member of the Osage Nation to win a match in the Ultimate Fighting Championship ?
text: Did you know that because the half-life of beryllium-8 is less than 10 −16 seconds, there is a bottleneck in stellar nucleosynthesis that limits the abundance of heavier chemical elements ?
text: Did you know that having wanted to appear in a Sailor Moon stage play since childhood, Momoyo Koyama was cast as Sailor Mercury in a theatrical production of the series in 2014?
text: Did you know that the Solicitor of Labor leads the second largest litigation department in the U.S. federal government?
text: Did you know that in 1966, British journalist John Anderson led an expedition across the Atlantic to replicate Leif Erikson 's voyage?
text: Did you know that the bridge built to cross the Red Canal in Saint Petersburg now spans an entirely different watercourse?
text: Did you know that Raja ibn Haywa , an adviser to the Umayyad caliphs, supervised the financing for the construction of the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem?
text: Did you know that the ornate rainbowfish can survive in water as acidic as orange juice?
text: Did you know that Myrtle Driver Johnson can translate into a language that has been declared to be in a state of emergency?
text: Did you know that the album Open Here by Field Music has what one band member calls "definitely the angriest songs I have ever written", inspired by Brexit ?
text: Did you know that Green Bay Packers lawyer Gerald Francis Clifford served as assistant Attorney General of Wisconsin , was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention , and lost a congressional election in 1934?
text: Did you know that the Swan Canal , one of the oldest canals in Saint Petersburg , is crossed by the Upper and Lower Swan Bridges , the former being one of the oldest stone bridges in the city?
text: Did you know that according to legend, Gabriel Boughton treated Jahanara Begum 's burns and in return received the right to free trade for the East India Company from her father Shah Jahan ?
text: Did you know that the Northwestern Pacific Railroad interurban lines were the first use of third rail electrification in California?
text: Did you know that as a surgeon, John Campbell had the right to sit unelected on Edinburgh Town Council ?
text: Did you know that Dardanus deformis is one of at least 24 species of hermit crab that transfer sea anemones to a new shell?
text: Did you know that Green Bay Packers president Emil R. Fischer was also a nationally-recognized leader in the Wisconsin cheese industry?
text: Did you know that with his victory at the 2004 24 Hours of Le Mans , Dane Tom Kristensen became the first driver to win the endurance motor race five times in a row?
text: Did you know that Ravindra Dave directed Jesal Toral , one of the biggest hits of Gujarati cinema , to keep his production crew employed?
text: Did you know that the British government experimented on Berkshire residents in the 1950s?
text: Did you know that Ambroise Ouédraogo , who became the first Bishop of Maradi , Niger, in 2001, has focused on dialogue with Islam?
text: Did you know that all five components of the climate system —air, water, ice, Earth's crust, and life—help determine Earth's average weather ?
text: Did you know that pool player Han Yu did not celebrate after winning her first world championship?
text: Did you know that the Ethiopian white-footed mouse and the Ethiopian forest brush-furred rat are two of the most abundant rodents in the montane forests of Ethiopia?
text: Did you know that Elsie Joy Davison was Britain's first female director of an aircraft company and its first woman pilot to die in World War II ?
text: Did you know that in its early years, New York City's Q35 bus was considered unprofitable, despite charging a double fare for travel between two boroughs?
text: Did you know that after a Buddha statue was installed on an Oakland traffic median , neighborhood crime dropped by 82 percent?
text: Did you know that the Sahel bush sparrow , found in the Oti Valley Faunal Reserve , is one of 676 species of bird recorded in Togo ?
text: Did you know that American composer Eunice Lea Kettering , who had almost 20,000 copies of her work published, started composing music at age six?
text: Did you know that the sons of Pyotr Rumyantsev turned down the offer of a palace built at public expense to honour their father, in preference for a public monument ?
text: Did you know that Zhang Xu discovered the regulatory mechanisms in sensory neurons for opioid receptors ?
text: Did you know that in one of the vigilante witch-hunts in Nepal , an 18-year-old girl was dragged from her home and tortured for hours in public on International Women's Day 2018?
text: Did you know that Mike Pringle and Colin Bradley are credited with developing and instituting significant event audit (SEA) into primary care in the UK?
text: Did you know that Unbox Therapy sparked Apple 's " Bendgate " controversy when host Lewis Hilsenteger used only his hands to bend his iPhone 6 Plus ?
text: Did you know that pianist Alexandre Kantorow won the first prize, gold medal, and Grand Prix in the 2019 International Tchaikovsky Competition , becoming the first French winner in the competition's history?
text: Did you know that KSOM in Tucson, Arizona , suffered two transmitter fires in less than four years of broadcasting?
text: Did you know that Guðrún Björnsdóttir , a 20th-century Icelandic politician and women's rights activist, was at one time a milk vendor?
text: Did you know that the nine balls of Parapivot come from nine different countries?
text: Did you know that Harold Forsyth , the Peruvian ambassador to Japan, is the father of a professional football player and husband of a beauty pageant queen?
text: Did you know that sheep infected with the parasitic nematode Teladorsagia circumcincta may suffer from protein deficiency?
text: Did you know that The Twilight Zone episode " The New Exhibit " features axe-murderer and last pirate of New York, Albert W. Hicks ?
text: Did you know that Paul Loicq from Belgium was the first European to be inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame ?
text: Did you know that the C train , described as the "least loved of New York City subway lines", still uses subway cars that date to the 1960s?
text: Did you know that the North African Muhammad ibn Rushayd befriended the future Granadan vizier Ibn al-Hakim when the two travelled to Mecca for pilgrimage and study?
text: Did you know that Carlos Carrera 's El héroe was the first Mexican entry to win the Short Film Palme d'Or , in 1994?
text: Did you know that Norwegian violinist Mari Samuelsen became a student of Arve Tellefsen by the age of four?
text: Did you know that Colombian Supreme Court judge Augusto Ibáñez Guzmán claimed that in 2008 a dozen armed men stormed his house to steal his personal computer?
text: Did you know that Karski's reports were the first comprehensive documents on the Holocaust in Poland to reach the government-in-exile ?
text: Did you know that a century after Irish antiquarian Francis Joseph Bigger had revived the Ulster Journal of Archaeology , sites he had dug were still being referred to as "well and truly Biggered"?
text: Did you know that the Meers Fault in Oklahoma was active during the last 3,000 years and features a scarp that reaches 16 feet (5 m) in height?
text: Did you know that Nizam Nasir-ud-Daulah established a modern revenue administration system in Hyderabad State ?
text: Did you know that the queen parrotfish feeds on the algae it scrapes from corals and other surfaces, resulting in bioerosion ?
text: Did you know that Karen Saywitz developed "non-leading" techniques for interviewing child witnesses and victims?
text: Did you know that the Atascadero Printery , founded by Edward Gardner Lewis , housed the first rotogravure printing press in the Western United States ?
text: Did you know that in 2011, Stephen J. Challacombe and colleagues laid out research challenges of global health inequalities and oral health, relating to TB , STDs , HIV , and Noma ?
text: Did you know that a 0-year-old genderless fairy baby otter once threatened to "visit your house" with a baseball bat?
text: Did you know that prolific British author S. H. "Tim" Burton hand-wrote his books because he could not stand typewriters?
text: Did you know that imaging scientist Katie Bouman first learned of the Event Horizon Telescope in 2007, while still in high school, and joined the project six years later?
text: Did you know that the investigational drug SEP-363856 may represent a new class of antipsychotics ?
text: Did you know that in addition to founding Tmura, an anti-discrimination center that advocates for women's rights, Yifat Bitton was shortlisted for Israel's Supreme Court twice?
text: Did you know that the maple Acer beckianum was described from a piece of petrified wood found near Vantage, Washington , in 1954?
text: Did you know that the 1813 sinking of the British warship HMS Peacock was celebrated with a song by Eliakim Doolittle ?
text: Did you know that Ottessa Moshfegh 's second novel, My Year of Rest and Relaxation , was originally planned to focus on the September 11 attacks ?
text: Did you know that Ina Kaplan was six months pregnant when she won three of the four 2014 German national pool championships?
text: Did you know that Günther Leib , who often sang at the Halle Handel Festival , was called a "first rate Beckmesser " by The New York Times when he first appeared at the Metropolitan Opera ?
text: Did you know that Elongatoolithus , Macroolithus , and Nanhsiungoolithus were the first types of fossil eggs to be given names in the modern classification system?
text: Did you know that American academic Amy Wax graduated from Harvard Medical School before becoming a lawyer?
text: Did you know that the Pampean flat-slab is an area of low angle subduction in South America, associated with a large volcano-free gap in the Andean Volcanic Belt ?
text: Did you know that Starting for the Hunt by Aelbert Cuyp is an early example of an equestrian portrait of someone who was not a member of court?
text: Did you know that Lionel Matthews was posthumously awarded the George Cross for the courage he displayed while a prisoner of war ?
text: Did you know that following the release of " You Need to Calm Down ", GLAAD reported an "influx" of $13 donations?
text: Did you know that fronds of the seaweed Halimeda tuna each consist of a single cell?
text: Did you know that after fleeing Chihuahua due to death threats, Patricia Mayorga dedicated her 2017 CPJ International Press Freedom Award to two murdered journalists?
text: Did you know that the Hong Kong commercial–residential high-rise Ocean One has a concert hall on its first floor?
text: Did you know that paediatric surgeon Robert Zachary and his colleagues improved the survival rate of babies with spina bifida from 10% to 90% by operating within hours of birth?
text: Did you know that in 2015, Nanjing Golden Dragon Bus announced a joint research agreement with San Diego State University to develop electric batteries and other technologies?
text: Did you know that Turkey's Aksungur MALE UAV has a designed maximum payload nearly four times that of its predecessor?
text: Did you know that footballer Alice Griffiths represented Wales for the first time after playing as the only girl in an otherwise all-boys league?
text: Did you know that Isoldé Elchlepp began her career as a protest song singer and later appeared as Wagner's Ortrud at the Bayreuth Festival and as Schoeck's Penthesilea at the Staatsoper Hannover ?
text: Did you know that an inscription at the tomb of Isa Khan claims that it is an "asylum of paradise"?
text: Did you know that Murtaja Qureiris , the youngest political prisoner in Saudi Arabia, is a member of the Shia minority who may face execution for taking part in anti-government protests when he was 10 years old?
text: Did you know that the Creole Petroleum Corporation 's 1956 propaganda film Assignment: Venezuela sought to convince American oil workers that the anti-capitalist military dictatorship had embraced the American way of life?
text: Did you know that William Pope created "the first comprehensive, well executed pictorial record of Canadian birds"?
text: Did you know that in a 2019 court case , the US Supreme Court ruled that Wyoming 's statehood did not void the Crow Tribe 's right to hunt on unoccupied lands?
text: Did you know that Charles Clarke acted as a watcher for The Great Escape and helped forge papers for the escapees?
text: Did you know that Lawrence of Arabia's plan to install the Sharif of Mecca 's sons as rulers in what became modern Syria, Jordan, Iraq, and western Saudi Arabia was only partially successful?
text: Did you know that in 1599, Henry IV of France appointed Humphrey Bradley maître des digues du royaume ('master of dykes of the kingdom'), giving him an effective monopoly of all dyking and land reclamation work in France?
text: Did you know that the 2018 art installation We Come in Peace was described as "eerie, other, unnerving, ambiguous, even alarming"?
text: Did you know that Gordon Bell was awarded the Military Cross 31 years before becoming president of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons ?
text: Did you know that critics found the couch gag of The Simpsons episode " Dad Behavior " "pretty darned grim" and "bleak", as all but one of the Simpsons die during its otherwise familiar title sequence?
text: Did you know that a biography of Joel Roberts Poinsett , co-authored by Charles Lyon Chandler , went unpublished after two others came out the same year?
text: Did you know that during the Peasants' Revolt , Margery Starre danced with a mob that sacked Corpus Christi College, Cambridge , and burnt its charters, shouting: " Away with the learning of clerks, away with it! "?
text: Did you know that Jeanne Laisné appeared as Aurore in the 1894 world premiere of Massenet 's Le portrait de Manon , a sequel to his Manon ?
text: Did you know that a clandestinely-distributed poem about the Kurds became a Ukrainian symbol of national revival and resistance against the Soviet Union?
text: Did you know that after Josephine Groves Holloway 's petition to form an official Girl Scout troop for African-Americans was rejected, she formed her own troop and encouraged her friends to do the same?
text: Did you know that the Kivu Ebola epidemic was declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on 17 July?
text: Did you know that at a young age, German TV personality Ranga Yogeshwar learned Kannada , Hindi , and Malayalam in order to communicate with his housekeeper, teacher, and gardener, respectively?
text: Did you know that the new pine knot-horn is a serious pest of maritime pine plantations?
text: Did you know that American collage artist Eunice Parsons , who turns 103 today, is the last of the "Northwest Matriarchs of Modernism"?
text: Did you know that Johann Münzberg ran leading textile factories in Bohemia and promoted the building of the Empress Elisabeth Bridge over the Elbe ?
text: Did you know that WBUZ and four other operating radio stations lost their FCC licenses as a result of the owner being convicted of felonies?
text: Did you know that Mother Berry , a jockey who rode disguised as a man, earned her nickname after she adopted a runaway child?
text: Did you know that the Chief Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation investigates both Nazi crimes and communist crimes ?
text: Did you know that Ning Bin , who won a national special prize for his contribution to the Beijing–Shanghai high-speed railway , died in a traffic accident?
text: Did you know that the tree Humbertia madagascariensis , whose durable timber is used in heavy construction, is a member of the morning glory family ?
text: Did you know that Hollywood furrier Willard H. George was known as "the chinchilla industry's greatest friend"?
text: Did you know that the excavated Asthall barrow was found to contain a high-status Anglo-Saxon burial?
text: Did you know that East German Udo Zimmermann composed his fifth opera, Die wundersame Schustersfrau , based on a Spanish play by Federico García Lorca , on a commission for the West German Schwetzingen Festival ?
text: Did you know that Charles H. Stonestreet received the First Plenary Council of Baltimore in 1852 as President of Georgetown University ?
text: Did you know that Dioscorea chouardii is known from a single crag in the Pyrenees and has been monitored using scaffolding and telescopes?
text: Did you know that since 2001, street artist John Hamon has postered and projected his image on the buildings of Paris and 76 other cities around the world?
text: Did you know that prior to the first town council elections in Loxahatchee Groves, Florida , a political forum for the candidates was hosted at a nudist resort ?
text: Did you know that English theatre historian " Popie " called Robert Michaelis "one of the very best performers Daly's ever had"?
text: Did you know that, described as being "cursed", Rispin Mansion was variously used as a SWAT practice ground, a residence, a real-estate showroom, a ghost hunting site, and a nunnery ?
text: Did you know that the Uptown Hudson Tubes in New York City were constructed with sharp curves to avoid the demolition of preexisting basements?
text: Did you know that Zhang Xu played a major role in developing fiber-optic communication in China?
text: Did you know that many residents who were relocated prior to the filling of Lake Kossou were able to return to their land when the reservoir failed to reach full capacity?
text: Did you know that American historian Pamela Nadell traced the origins of the first agitations for a female rabbi to a short story published in 1889?
text: Did you know that Assam Petro-Chemicals became the first Indian company to sell methanol as cooking fuel?
text: Did you know that the first episode of the first Doctor Who series had to be rerecorded because the TARDIS doors would not close?
text: Did you know that Japanese pool player Naoyuki Ōi once responded to a question asked at a press conference with lyrics from the comedy song " Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen "?
text: Did you know that the Mongols were advised to invade Sakhalin island in 1273 by marching across the frozen Strait of Tartary ?
text: Did you know that Kent Angus , a Canadian businessman and Paul Loicq Award winner, incorporated hidden details into hockey jerseys for Team Canada and other countries at the 2010 Winter Olympics ?
text: Did you know that Puke Ariki , the name for the combined library and museum in New Plymouth , New Zealand, is Māori for "hill of chiefs"?
text: Did you know that on June 29, Major General Laura Yeager became the first woman to command an infantry division in the United States Army?
text: Did you know that John Rutter wrote the text and music of A Clare Benediction for choir and orchestra to honour Clare College, Cambridge , where he had studied?
text: Did you know that falguera , a plant known from only one valley in Spain, is threatened by rock climbers and by road maintenance?
text: Did you know that thirty million copies of the university textbook compiled by Xu Zhongyu have been printed?
text: Did you know that hundreds of stockbrokers protested outside the Bombay Stock Exchange demanding removal of the Big Bull after the market crashed?
text: Did you know that a 2008 plea bargain to settle criminal charges against financier Jeffrey Epstein has been described as a sweetheart deal ?
text: Did you know that John Deane and his crew of the Nottingham Galley cannibalised in desperation the ship's deceased carpenter when the ship wrecked on Boon Island in 1710?
text: Did you know that the 56-story Essex on the Park in the Chicago Loop was built on a former swimming pool?
text: Did you know that Swedish scientist Marie Dacke discovered that dung beetles can use the Milky Way to navigate at night?
text: Did you know that a clandestinely-distributed poem about the Kurds became a Ukrainian symbol of national revival and resistance against the Soviet Union?
text: Did you know that Dorothy Olsen was one of only twelve American women certified for night flight in World War II?
text: Did you know that the Seventh German Inner Africa Research Expedition served as cover for a secret First World War espionage mission?
text: Did you know that in June 2019, Hamilton Tiger-Cats placekicker Gabriel Amavizca became the first non-Canadian or non-American player to score points in a Canadian Football League regular season match?
text: Did you know that high school radio station WGAG-FM had a yearly budget of US$200, which it raised by selling donuts and clearing lawns?
text: Did you know that in the Zambrów massacre , during the September 1939 invasion of Poland , German Wehrmacht soldiers murdered more than 200 Polish prisoners of war?
text: Did you know that J. J. Stiffler 's "unparalleled" and "landmark" book Theory of Synchronous Communications (1971) sprang from NASA 's need for power-efficient synchronization of data transmission for its space probes ?
text: Did you know that when Harley-Davidson demanded that William Morris take its signs down from his store, he put them on display in his Bill's Old Bike Barn ?
text: Did you know that Andrea Ihle performed the role of Ännchen in Weber's opera Der Freischütz in the opening performance of the rebuilt Semperoper in Dresden?
text: Did you know that the phoulkon was a shield wall formation of the late and East Roman army , which classical writers described as both a testudo and a phalanx ?
text: Did you know that two months after being unable to walk properly, Indian long jumper M. Sreeshankar won the bronze medal at the 2018 Asian Junior Athletics Championships ?
text: Did you know that following a strike at Lundy's Restaurant in New York City, its owner announced that it would "never reopen" – only to have it reopen a few months later?
text: Did you know that in September 1610, Monteverdi dedicated to Pope Paul V his Vespro della Beata Vergine , a complex vespers composition which included the style of the emerging opera ?
text: Did you know that Jihan Wu co-founded Bitmain , the world's largest computer chip company for bitcoin mining ?
text: Did you know that Sheep Meadow in New York City's Central Park has been used as a sheep pasture, for festivals and concerts, and as a helicopter landing site?
text: Did you know that footballer Sean Morrison was described as being "45 minutes from death" before undergoing emergency surgery?
text: Did you know that the dune hairy-footed gerbil locates its burrows close to plants, where the roots stabilise the shifting sand?
text: Did you know that Semin Öztürk Şener is Turkey's first female professional civilian aerobatic pilot ?
text: Did you know that during the capture of Wakefield , some historians claim that the town's commander led a counterattack "in his nightshirt" because he was hungover ?
text: Did you know that Philadelphia-based physician Charles Sajous , called the "father of American endocrinology ", received the French Legion of Honour and the Venezuelan Order of the Liberator ?
text: Did you know that Ng On-yee won the 2018 Women's World Snooker Championship without losing a single frame in all six of her tournament matches?
text: Did you know that at his death in 1881, Victoriano G. de Ysasi owned a nearly complete collection of the stamps of Spain?
text: Did you know that after KSJU radio was forced off FM and onto a cable system, students at the College of Saint Benedict could not listen to it on campus, even though their activity fees supported it?
text: Did you know that Jeni Bojilova-Pateva became a women's rights activist when she was barred from teaching because she was married?
text: Did you know that the iPhone 11 Pro is the first iPhone to feature a "Pro" designation, which was previously used only for larger Apple devices?
text: Did you know that just prior to his arrest in 2019, investigative journalist Ivan Golunov was examining the links between Moscow funeral businesses and the Federal Security Service ?
text: Did you know that Emirati geneticist Habiba Alsafar was named as one of the "100 Most Powerful Arab Women" of 2015?
text: Did you know that at approximately 5,000 years old, the Lothagam North Pillar Site is thought to be the earliest and largest monumental cemetery in eastern Africa?
text: Did you know that a mural of William Rath depicts him drinking from a Fountain of Youth ?
text: Did you know that despite its title, the Venezuelan film Muchachos bañándose en la laguna de Maracaibo (' Kids bathing at the lagoon of Maracaibo ' ) also features street shots of the city of Maracaibo ?
text: Did you know that a court in communist Romania found banker Aristide Blank guilty of high treason, based on his meetings with foreigners and notes from Blank's unpublished novel?
text: Did you know that the folk tales in Bernard Binlin Dadié 's The Black Cloth express the "African sense of community" and the "wisdom of an ordered society" in the face of French claims of moral superiority?
text: Did you know that Russian journalist Vsevolod Kukushkin said the Soviet Union national ice hockey team was nicknamed "The Red Machine" due to a Minneapolis newspaper headline?
text: Did you know that in 1822 John Henry Wishart gave the first description in English of type 2 neurofibromatosis ?
text: Did you know that some protesters have described " Glory to Hong Kong " as the unofficial national anthem of Hong Kong?
text: Did you know that with his appointment to head the 12th Submarine Squadron, Rear-Admiral Andrei Volozhinsky commanded nearly 14 percent of strategic Russian warheads and 63 percent of Russia's naval strategic nuclear forces?
text: Did you know that the Georgetown University School of Dentistry was established during Jerome Daugherty 's tenure as university president ?
text: Did you know that Tove Lo wrote the plot for the music video of her song " Timebomb ", inspired by the "kind of love that can't last forever because it isn't allowed to or it's not socially accepted"?
text: Did you know that National Route 280 was of defensive importance to the Japanese, who feared a Russian incursion into Ezo ?
text: Did you know that American writer Jan Fortune was born in the back of a post office in Wellington, Texas ?
text: Did you know that Mary van Kleeck , a social reformer and labor activist, was the first woman appointed to a position of authority in the American government during World War I ?
text: Did you know that the metabolic rate of Rhoptropus bradfieldi is about a quarter of that of other desert lizards?
text: Did you know that following an injustice suffered by the British consul, Charles Sotheby trained his frigate's guns on the Bey of Rhodes' house and opened fire?
text: Did you know that the Lake , completed in 1858, was the first feature to be finished in New York City's Central Park ?
text: Did you know that Leo Frobenius led 12 German Inner Africa Research Expeditions between 1904 and 1935?
text: Did you know that Filipino-born scientist Ye Zhupei founded chemical metallurgy in China, while his American wife became an English professor who taught the future Chinese foreign minister Li Zhaoxing ?
text: Did you know that Katharine Hepburn is said to have encountered snakes in the living room of Misty Mountain ?
text: Did you know that during the Battle of Bovey Heath , Royalist officers escaped by "throwing their stakes of money", which the enemy soldiers paused to collect?
text: Did you know that Kevin Harlan said his "first good move" in sports broadcasting was getting into radio at WGBP-FM ?
text: Did you know that after 78-year-old Maggy Hurchalla was ordered to pay US$4 million for interfering with a mining company, her kayaks were seized?
text: Did you know that the Celebes warty pig has been domesticated and introduced into other Indonesian islands?
text: Did you know that bassist Fred Thomas performed with James Brown for over thirty years?
text: Did you know that the African tropical tree Pouteria adolfi-friedericii was named after a German explorer ?
text: Did you know that the gynaecologist Margaret Puxon , who started studying law to prevent boredom while on maternity leave, eventually became a barrister?
text: Did you know that in his novel A Time of Terror , Douglas Morey Ford imagined anarchists attempting to overthrow the British government?
text: Did you know that despite its large screen size, the Samsung Galaxy A90 5G can be operated with one hand?
text: Did you know that it has been claimed that the Crawley Edge Boatshed is the most photographed travel attraction in Perth , Western Australia, ahead of Elizabeth Quay , Cathedral Square , and the Swan Bells ?
text: Did you know that the 1985 World Snooker Championship holds the record for the highest-rated post-midnight broadcast in the United Kingdom?
text: Did you know that when Yu Dunkang was denounced as a "rightist" and banished from academia for twenty years, he found solace in the early Chinese philosophy of Xuanxue ?
text: Did you know that the Ba Congress failed to prevent the Allies of World War II from breaking off contact with Draža Mihailović 's Chetnik movement ?
text: Did you know that Scyller Borglum and a deceased candidate both won the same election?
text: Did you know that nests of the black-tailed tree rat resemble those of the red-billed buffalo weaver ?
text: Did you know that George Fayad is depicted in a painting of eminent international surgeons that was shown at the National Portrait Gallery in London?
text: Did you know that the Battery in Lower Manhattan contains an old fort that later served as a theater, immigration processing center, and aquarium?
text: Did you know that Der Club , a weekly German-language talk show on Swiss television discussing current topics, was first aired in 1985 as Zischtigsclub ('Tuesday Club')?
text: Did you know that Yale University pediatrician Grover Powers gave liver extract as a nutritional supplement to children with celiac disease ?
text: Did you know that the Ninth German Inner Africa Research Expedition recorded 2,000 examples of rock art ?
text: Did you know that after U-2 spy aircraft piloted by Yeh Changti and Chang Liyi were shot down over China, the United States began prioritizing the development of drones at Area 51 ?
text: Did you know that although Schreber's yellow bat is believed to be an insectivore , the related white-bellied yellow bat has been observed to eat dead bats in captivity?
text: Did you know that African-American suffragist Maud E. Craig Sampson Williams was denied membership in the National American Woman Suffrage Association ?
text: Did you know that What Did You Eat Yesterday? was one of the first pieces of mainstream Japanese media to substantially depict a cohabiting gay male couple?
text: Did you know that Sir Donald Douglas was President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh , and his son Sir Neil Douglas was President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh ?
text: Did you know that the death penalty in Missouri was restored in large part due to the lynching of Jay Lynch ?
text: Did you know that Polish resistance member Alicja Iwańska became an academic and compared political, religious, and racial persecution in Europe to U.S. segregation restrictions?
text: Did you know that in 1975, a field mouse knocked Michigan radio station WKJR off the air for 45 minutes?
text: Did you know that when Osama bin Laden issued his 1998 fatwa proclaiming jihad against the U.S. and its allies, many Islamic jurists stressed that he was not qualified either to proclaim jihad or to issue a fatwa?
text: Did you know that Catherine Lutz was the first female general in the Mississippi National Guard ?
text: Did you know that the phloem sap of Phyllanthus balgooyi contains up to 16.9 per cent nickel by weight, giving it a bright green color?
text: Did you know that according to Johannes Latuharhary , the education system of the Dutch East Indies in Ambon, Maluku , was designed to create "scribes and clerks, soldiers and sailors"?
text: Did you know that the Shore Theater , originally designed to satiate "the great need in Coney Island for an all-year amusement", is being redeveloped into Coney Island's first new hotel in 50 years?
text: Did you know that William Smith was prompted to write The Annals of University College after the Court of King's Bench proclaimed the wrong person to be the founder of University College, Oxford ?
text: Did you know that an implicature might tell you that the nephew of Mrs Jenkins, an old windbag, is standing right behind you?
text: Did you know that Carlton le Willows Academy alumni include cricketer Mark Footitt , Air Supply singer/guitarist Graham Russell , and balloonist Janet Folkes ?
text: Did you know that Para Mi , the debut studio album by Cuco , touches on recent problems that he has experienced first-hand, including a tour bus accident that sent him and his band to the hospital?
text: Did you know that although honeynut squash originated about forty years ago, it has only been in markets for four years?
text: Did you know that when rag sorter Mary Fitzpatrick was tried for murder , the jury included six aristocrats and the judge was Sir Henry Hawkins of the High Court, known as " Hanging Hawkins "?
text: Did you know that the Elevador de Aguas de Gordejuela housed the first steam engine on Tenerife ?
text: Did you know that according to Jennifer Foster , Iron Age metalsmiths of high-quality goods in Britain might have been itinerant rather than having a fixed abode?
text: Did you know that Leo Frobenius announced the discovery of the lost city of Atlantis during his Fourth German Inner Africa Research Expedition ?
text: Did you know that Better Together 's " The woman who made up her mind " advert opposing Scottish independence so upset politician Sandra Grieve that she changed her mind and began supporting independence?
text: Did you know that Ralph Henry Gabriel founded the American Studies Department at Yale University but later resigned in protest during the Cold War ?
text: Did you know that the Carroll Street Bridge is one of four remaining retractable bridges in the United States, and one of two in New York City?
text: Did you know that obstetrician James Scott showed that certain diseases in newborns were caused by their mothers' antibodies crossing the placenta?
text: Did you know that the territory of Central Australia existed only from 1927 to 1931?
text: Did you know that after Mary Ma orchestrated Lenovo 's acquisition of IBM 's PC division, she was named by Forbes as the 57th most powerful woman in the world?
text: Did you know that the cut flesh of the bitter tooth mushroom smells of watermelon?
text: Did you know that Sahraa Karimi is the first and only woman in Afghanistan who has a PhD in filmmaking?
text: Did you know that The New York Times ' s The 1619 Project , which aims to re-examine slavery in the United States , was developed in collaboration with the Pulitzer Center for use in schools?
text: Did you know that footballer Josh Yorwerth received what is believed to be the longest doping-related ban in English football history?
text: Did you know that Thomas's rope squirrel can communicate with other squirrels vocally or by stamping?
text: Did you know that South African Member of Parliament Wynand Boshoff is the grandson of assassinated apartheid -era Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd ?
text: Did you know that backlash over Dodge City, Kansas , radio station KTTL 's racist programming and its refusal to pay property taxes left the station with just one advertiser by 1983?
text: Did you know that during the First World War , the Women's Reserve Ambulance Corps was criticised in the contemporary press for "encroaching too closely on male territory"?
text: Did you know that the Narsaq stick was the first Viking Age runic artifact discovered in Greenland ?
text: Did you know that though she lacked her brothers' opportunities for formal schooling, the Irish suffragist Mary Ward was the first woman to pass the Cambridge moral sciences tripos with first class honours?
text: Did you know that Monowai volcano is growing so quickly that it frequently collapses, generating landslides?
text: Did you know that footballer Megan Wynne played for Tottenham Hotspur while also working full-time in the club's human resources department?
text: Did you know that there is a myth that the pieces of the broken tail of the slender glass lizard can grow into new lizards?
text: Did you know that Russian ambassador to Egypt Sergei Kirpichenko was the son of Vadim , former KGB resident to the country, and Valeriya , a philologist specialising in Arabic literature?
text: Did you know that an unauthorized student pilot was in control of Aeroméxico Connect Flight 2431 up until five seconds before it crashed?
text: Did you know that Major League Baseball player Cole Sulser has two degrees in engineering from Dartmouth College ?
text: Did you know that Ulrike Sonntag , a soprano at the Staatsoper Stuttgart and an academic voice teacher in Stuttgart , recorded an oratorio by Fanny Hensel and psalm settings by Lili Boulanger ?
text: Did you know that the submarine volcano Vailulu'u was named after a sacred rain and might become an island in the future?
text: Did you know that Bush Terminal , an intermodal shipping, warehousing, and manufacturing complex in New York City, was once so large that it had its own judicial system?
text: Did you know that Yang Hongxun designed the National Museum of Chinese Writing in the form of an ancient pictographic character from oracle bones ?
text: Did you know that the final of the 2017 World Women's Snooker Championship was the longest ever recorded best-of-11- frames match, lasting over eight hours of playing time?
text: Did you know that former Oregon state representative Ole W. Grubb and his wife had nine children of their own and cared for about 160 foster children?
text: Did you know that the 1805 Treaty of Potsdam committed Prussia to joining the War of the Third Coalition , but was effectively ended by the Battle of Austerlitz less than a month later?
text: Did you know that Dorothy Christian Hare was the first woman general physician to be elected a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians ?
text: Did you know that despite the Zulu serotine bat having a widespread distribution in Africa, it is not known where it roosts during the day?
text: Did you know that lieder singer and voice teacher Franziska Martienssen-Lohmann 's textbook for singers was recommended for general readers interested in "the human instrument"?
text: Did you know that while the American company Roper was the largest stove producer in the world, they also produced artillery shells during World War II?
text: Did you know that José Naranjo delivered the head of his own brother to Diego de Vargas , the Spanish governor of New Mexico ?
text: Did you know that Taylor Swift uses Leonardo DiCaprio as an example to explain sexism in her song " The Man "?
text: Did you know that Kazuo Wada spent decades building his parents' grocery store into the multinational retailer Yaohan , but became almost penniless after it went bankrupt during the 1997 Asian financial crisis ?
text: Did you know that in 1991, the Sacred Heart Church of the First Peoples became Canada's first national parish for indigenous people ?
text: Did you know that John Howland established the United States' first full-time pediatric department at the Johns Hopkins Hospital ?
text: Did you know that after the Siege of Ghent , the victorious commander, the Duke of Marlborough , claimed the garrison was so numerous that it took their army "from ten in the morning till seven at night" to evacuate the town?
text: Did you know that 2016 Paralympics para-rowing gold medalist Roman Polianskyi started experiencing symptoms of Strumpell disease at the age of ten?
text: Did you know that clover grass used to grow in the Pacific Ocean, but has not been seen there since a severe storm in 1996?
text: Did you know that surgeon Sir James Dundas-Grant conducted his own orchestra?
text: Did you know that Yella Beezy 's father was murdered when the rapper was 12 years old?
text: Did you know that a dark form of the Angolan slender mongoose is found to the south of the Cunene River and a pale form to the north?
text: Did you know that Thuy Trang became so ill on her voyage out of Saigon to seek political asylum in the US that other passengers wanted to throw her overboard, thinking she was dead?
text: Did you know that the Bronx–Whitestone Bridge 's stiffening trusses accounted for a quarter of the weight held up by its suspension cables, contributing to the bridge's deterioration and necessitating their removal?
text: Did you know that after studying excavated legal documents from the ancient Qin dynasty , Gao Heng concluded that Qin's sentence of penal servitude was a lifelong punishment?
text: Did you know that Ariana Grande 's song " In My Head " includes a voicemail recorded by her best friend, Doug Middlebrook, because it suited the lyrics?
text: Did you know that in 1862, the pilot of the steamboat Spread Eagle rammed into the Emilie in a desperate attempt to reach Fort Benton first?
text: Did you know that while Greenpeace activist Steve Sawyer was celebrating his birthday ashore with his crew, French agents bombed and sank their boat, the Rainbow Warrior ?
text: Did you know that Bharatiya Janata Party politicians Maneka Gandhi and Santosh Gangwar , current members of the 17th Lok Sabha , have been elected to the Indian lower house for the eighth time?
text: Did you know that during the English Civil War , Katherine Stuart smuggled messages from Charles I to royalist sympathisers in London?
text: Did you know that in 1949, the students of Northwestern Schools underwrote the US$40,000 cost to build KTIS in Minneapolis , the first radio station of Northwestern Media ?
text: Did you know that Australian astrophysicist Kirsten Banks was inspired to learn about her Wiradjuri heritage while training at the Sydney Observatory ?
text: Did you know that Alexander's bush squirrel is named after Lieutenant Boyd Alexander , a British Army officer, explorer, and ornithologist?
text: Did you know that 19-year-old mxmtoon , who records lo-fi songs in her parents' guest bedroom, reached 100 million streams and nearly sold out an international tour before releasing her first album?
text: Did you know that the cause of the 1957 crash of Pan Am Flight 7 was never determined?
text: Did you know that research by Chinese professor Wang Buxuan resulted in the doubling of ammonia production at a major chemical plant in Sichuan province?
text: Did you know that the Samsung Galaxy A70 's triple-lens camera can create a bokeh effect through a 3D depth sensor?
text: Did you know that Oregon state legislator Vernon A. Forbes drowned while fishing in an Oregon lake?
text: Did you know that the myth of the clean Wehrmacht persisted in Germany until the 1990s, when it was eroded by the Wehrmacht Exhibition ?
text: Did you know that Canadian dressage rider Tina Irwin was forced to restart after a power outage at the Adequan Global Dressage Festival, and achieved a 2017 world record small tour score on her next attempt?
text: Did you know that in 1865, Confederate losses during the American Civil War were characterized as " blessings in disguise "?
text: Did you know that Donald Balfour , who began working at the Mayo Clinic as a pathology assistant, later became the director of the Mayo Foundation ?
text: Did you know that cricket coach Gurcharan Singh survived the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in Delhi with the help of his trainees?
text: Did you know that Ernst Dammann , an early member of the Nazi Party , was a founding figure of African studies in East Germany – together with Walter Markov , a communist who spent much of the Nazi era in prison?
text: Did you know that the Texas Reliability Entity monitors the state's electrical grid to ensure its reliability?
text: Did you know that twelve years after his death, Mou Zuoyun became the first Chinese person to be inducted into the FIBA Hall of Fame ?
text: Did you know that the Asian garden dormouse can enter torpor , a state in which it may remain for several days?
text: Did you know that the novel Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann uses stream of consciousness narrative and mostly consists of a single sentence running over more than 1,000 pages?
text: Did you know that in his book ABC of Alcohol , Alex Paton explained why women are more susceptible to the effects of alcohol?
text: Did you know that the No. 8 Toyota TS050 Hybrid won the 2019 24 Hours of Le Mans after its sister No. 7 car had a tyre pressure sensor system wiring fault that incorrectly indicated a front-right puncture?
text: Did you know that South African theoretical physicist Adriana Marais was one of 100 candidates chosen for Mars One ?
text: Did you know that the nymphs of the mayfly Ephemera simulans are able to burrow?
text: Did you know that according to Bert Cumby , China used thought reform on American prisoners of war during the Korean War as part of a plan to create support for China-friendly policies in the United States?
text: Did you know that the Field Music album Commontime received media attention after Prince tweeted about one of its songs?
text: Did you know that Mexican lawyer María José Cristerna , known as "The Vampire Woman" for her extensive body modifications, is recognized as the most tattooed woman in the world?
text: Did you know that in 1949, the Kurtis Sport Car was driven by National Hot Rod Association founder Wally Parks to over 142.5 mph (229.3 km/h) on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah?
text: Did you know that the Hong Kong Way was a peaceful political campaign held in Hong Kong on the 30th anniversary of the Baltic Way ?
text: Did you know that American actor Matt William Knowles was a "rotating mayor" of Danzhai Wanda Village in Guizhou , China?
text: Did you know that Facebook has to vet fake news in India for 23 official languages, but has been able to cover only 10 of them?
text: Did you know that footballer Carrie Jones made her international debut for Wales despite being too young to play for her club side?
text: Did you know that WBBY-FM lost its license because the man who claimed to be its manager worked full-time at a car dealership 120 miles (190 km) away?
text: Did you know that ice almost half a million years old has been found on a mountain named after a sled dog driver?
text: Did you know that Mexican drug lord Alfonso Lam Liu spoke over radio using a coded language, to prevent law enforcement from understanding his drug operations?
text: Did you know that Spoon frontman Britt Daniel was inspired by Franz Ferdinand 's 2004 song " Take Me Out " while writing " I Turn My Camera On ", and was influenced by Prince to sing it with falsetto vocals?
text: Did you know that Doris Bergen holds Canada's only endowed chair in Holocaust history?
text: Did you know that some Buddhists believe that all beings could have been their parents in a previous life, so liberating people from suffering is a form of filial piety ?
text: Did you know that an hour and a half before fur trader Captain Joseph LaBarge died, he received a telegram from historian Hiram M. Chittenden assuring LaBarge of the completion of his biography?
text: Did you know that the parasite Enteromyxum scophthalmi causes a severe illness in farmed turbot for which no cure is known?
text: Did you know that Xu Xiaodong defeated a self-styled kung fu master, who claimed to possess supernatural powers, in 20 seconds?
text: Did you know that in 2008, Vice-Admiral Nikolai Maksimov was in charge of the largest Russian military manoeuvres in the Atlantic since 1991?
text: Did you know that Pumpkin Spice Spam is a legitimate product that started out as a joke on Facebook?
text: Did you know that Liu Wenxi 's art is universally known in China?
text: Did you know that C. P. E. Bach 's Sonata in A minor for Solo Flute , composed around 1747 for flauto traverso without bass and printed during his lifetime, is one of the few significant pieces for solo flute?
text: Did you know that Leila Ernst barged into a dance audition to show theatre producer George Abbott that she could sing and dance?
text: Did you know that one of the weapons in the video game Venetica was named as a result of a contest?
text: Did you know that a mute coal miner is said to have spoken for the first time in several years after riding the Coney Island Cyclone in 1948?
text: Did you know that Pandrosion may have been an earlier female contributor to mathematics than Hypatia ?
text: Did you know that the interviewer in the documentary Enter the Anime did not know anything about anime ?
text: Did you know that in 1808, Joseph LaBarge traveled from Quebec over a series of rivers and lakes and down the Mississippi River to St. Louis in a birch-bark canoe?
text: Did you know that National Treasures at Hōryū-ji include the Tamamushi Shrine and images inside the Tachibana Shrine ?
text: Did you know that in 1945, Arnold Peter Meiklejohn supervised the medical students at the newly liberated Bergen-Belsen concentration camp ?
text: Did you know that at around 127 acres (51 hectares) in size, Crotona Park is known as the "Central Park of the South Bronx"?
text: Did you know that when learning to play pool , Veronika Ivanovskaia stood on a crate of Coca-Cola ?
text: Did you know that hematologist Samuel Charache discovered the first effective treatment for sickle cell disease ?
text: Did you know that St Andrew's Cross in Glasgow is also known as Eglinton Toll, as it was the entry point to an inland dock for a canal established by Hugh Montgomerie, 12th Earl of Eglinton , in the early 19th century?
text: Did you know that Chinese-American mathematician Stephen Shing-Toung Yau established the "Yau algebra" and the "Yau number"?
text: Did you know that Aama was the first Nepalese film to be produced in Nepal?
text: Did you know that Siegel modular varieties naturally capture information about black hole entropy in string theory ?
text: Did you know that billionaire Max Auschnitt bribed Romanian authorities, and worked with "an anti-Semite, but a civilized one", to help Jews escape the Holocaust?
text: Did you know that in 1874, the New York Herald wrote a hoax story to draw attention to inadequate safety precautions at the Central Park Zoo ?
text: Did you know that Julius Tahija was the only Indonesian to receive an Allied nation's highest military decoration during World War II?
text: Did you know that the String Quartet in A major , composed by Arthur Bliss around 1913 as a student, was later withdrawn from performance and not revived until his widow gave permission in the 1990s?
text: Did you know that Mathea Olin 's gold and bronze medals at the 2017 Pan American Surf Games were Canada's first international medals in surfing ?
text: Did you know that the crew of Plymouth Lifeboat Station saved a flying boat during World War II?
text: Did you know that Winnie Quagliotti protested against the Australian Bicentenary by dressing in a possum-skin cloak and throwing a wattle wreath into the sea at Princes Pier ?
text: Did you know that there are believed to be fewer than 100 mature specimens of Dacrydium guillauminii , which is considered critically endangered ?
text: Did you know that during the political campaign for the 1953 Italian general election , the Italian Nettist Party promised voters a free daily supply of steak?
text: Did you know that the Namib day gecko can sprint at 2.5 m/s (8 ft/s) in bright light?
text: Did you know that Guo Zhenqian and his successor, Guo Shuyan , both ended their governorships of Hubei prematurely due to disagreement with the province's party secretary ?
text: Did you know that the video for Marilyn Manson 's soft-rock ballad " Running to the Edge of the World " was widely condemned for its depiction of violence against women ?
text: Did you know that Noelle Campbell-Sharp has led the Cill Rialaig project, hosting over 5,000 artists on residencies in County Kerry , Ireland, since 1991?
text: Did you know that at the Battle of Sourton Down , a Parliamentarian ambush by 108 soldiers successfully routed a Royalist army of 3,600?
text: Did you know that Russian breakdancer Sergei Chernyshev , the 2018 Youth Olympics B-Boys champion, competes under the nickname Bumblebee, after a robot superhero in the Transformers franchise?
text: Did you know that Jones Bar-B-Q is old school, but Jones Bar-B-Q is an American classic?
text: Did you know that playwright Eugene O'Neill stipulated that actress Mary Welch had to gain at least 50 pounds (23 kg) for a role in his play A Moon for the Misbegotten ?
text: Did you know that red yeast rice is used both in traditional Chinese medicine and as a modern-day dietary supplement?
text: Did you know that footballer Jordon Garrick nearly gave up the game as a teenager to pursue a career in rugby league before being persuaded to change his mind by his mother and his coach?
text: Did you know that until the 1930s, sheep grazed in a meadow in New York City's Prospect Park ?
text: Did you know that Brad Leone , a chef and YouTube personality at Bon Appétit , started at the magazine as a self-described "glorified dishwasher"?
text: Did you know that Lučko Airport in Zagreb , Croatia, is the helicopter base for an anti-terrorist police unit that gave former member and mixed martial arts champion Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipović his nickname?
text: Did you know that Danish MEP Pernille Weiss is a sexologist ?
text: Did you know that comic books by Magdalene Visaggio have been nominated for two Eisner Awards and three GLAAD Media Awards ?
text: Did you know that Andi Herzog is the most capped footballer in Austrian history and the only player to win more than 100 caps?
text: Did you know that Petro Kilekwa from Zambia was enslaved because his mother could not pay the ransom – eight yards (7.3 m) of calico cloth?
text: Did you know that after the September 11 attacks , a seldom-staffed temporary border patrol checkpoint was installed on Interstate 91 near White River Junction, Vermont , about 100 miles (160 km) from the Canadian border?
text: Did you know that as general manager of the municipal theatres in Frankfurt , Harry Buckwitz staged plays by Brecht including Mutter Courage , and recruited Georg Solti for the opera ?
text: Did you know that China is the only country in the world to have a licensed vaccine for hepatitis E ?
text: Did you know that military historian Dominick Graham was a prisoner of war in Italy during World War II, and later returned as a member of the British Olympic skiing team?
text: Did you know that the prisoner of war massacre in Ciepielów is the most infamous instance of the war crimes of the Wehrmacht committed during the invasion of Poland ?
text: Did you know that Prince Tarabya Minye Kyawhtin ceded the throne of Ava to his cousin Prince Min Nyo after marrying his deceased brother 's favorite queen, Shin Saw Pu , in return?
text: Did you know that the hard seeds of the Guinea plum are dispersed by elephants, and crushed and eaten by Sanje mangabeys ?
text: Did you know that Wang Guodong painted some of the world's most recognizable portraits, which inspired Andy Warhol ?
text: Did you know that before opening West Point High School , the Tolleson Union High School District in Arizona was so overcrowded that it had to turn students away and use teachers' lounges as classrooms?
text: Did you know that in June 2019, Northern Irish pilot Norman Surplus became the first person to circumnavigate the globe using an autogyro ?
text: Did you know that two Russian tortoises were aboard the first spacecraft to return safely from a trip around the Moon?
text: Did you know that Turkish women's footballer Aslı Canan Sabırlı was appointed technical director of her team while she was still a member of the squad?
text: Did you know that the Tarzan of Manisa planted thousands of trees on Mount Sipylus in Turkey ?
text: Did you know that The O.C. is the "official, original, and only club that matters"?
text: Did you know that former Mexican police chief Gilberto Lerma Plata was ordered to forfeit US$10 billion in drug profits?
text: Did you know that Zenker's fruit bat often forages in areas of forest where Haumania liebrechtsiana grows, a plant favoured by gorillas and chimpanzees?
text: Did you know that Chinese Muslim scholar Yu Zhengui worked as a laogai labourer during the Cultural Revolution ?
text: Did you know that the Jewish Democratic Committee and the Romanian Communist Party together sent Romanian Jews to Israel, hoping to make it a communist ally?
text: Did you know that the African-American conductor Henry Lewis conducted the Seventh Army Symphony Orchestra in support of America's cultural diplomacy initiatives after World War II ?
text: Did you know that the Sogenanntes Linksradikales Blasorchester ('So-called Left Radical Wind Band') played at demonstrations against nuclear power and far-right politics , and at the Berliner Philharmonie ?
text: Did you know that Claude Ruggieri described pyrotechny as "a dark chaos which one cannot penetrate without the torch of chemistry"?
text: Did you know that an anti-suffragist threw rocks at Nora Houston as she was giving a speech advocating for women's voting rights , and Houston kept one of the rocks for the rest of her life?
text: Did you know that several entrants in the 2019 Riga Masters professional snooker event—including the defending champion —missed the tournament because their flights were cancelled?
text: Did you know that four species of reptile, a bird, and an amphibian were named after Arthur Lennox Butler ?
text: Did you know that Qatar expressed interest for its industrial security personnel to be trained at the National Industrial Security Academy of India?
text: Did you know that Steve McClellan booked Prince in the early 1980s, when Minneapolis discouraged black musicians from playing downtown?
text: Did you know that after the fall of the state of Zhongli , its eponymous capital remained an "important governmental, economic, cultural, and military center" for over a thousand years?
text: Did you know that Hungarian MEP Anna Júlia Donáth represents the third generation of her family to enter political office, each time for a different party?
text: Did you know that the melody of the Christian hymn " Ich steh vor dir mit leeren Händen, Herr " is written without bar lines , reflecting the singer's insecurity and questions?
text: Did you know that in Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege , the player character Caveira 's "Silent Step" ability featured a game-breaking bug?
text: Did you know that the polluted Roberts Landing on San Francisco Bay , California, was cleaned up to create a housing development and a marsh, now home to the endangered salt marsh harvest mouse ?
text: Did you know that the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh suspended a bylaw to enable Thomas Chavasse to apply for a surgeon's post?
text: Did you know that eight years to the day after it first signed on, WVOB radio in Bel Air, Maryland , lost its tower when a construction worker clipped the tower's guy wires ?
text: Did you know that with 20 goals, Hassan Maatouk is the Lebanon national football team 's joint top-scorer?
text: Did you know that James Blake took inspiration from the 1967 film Barefoot in the Park for his song of the same name , despite never having watched it?
text: Did you know that a former member of ISIS who was arrested in 2016 and released in 2017 attacked a police and army patrol in Tripoli , killing four people, in 2019?
text: Did you know that snooker player Mandy Fisher played whilst pregnant, but lamented that this was more newsworthy than female players' skill?
text: Did you know that Duthie's golden mole and the long-tailed forest shrew are among the wildlife of South Africa that are both endemic and " vulnerable "?
text: Did you know that General Cao Shuangming was dismissed as Commander of the Chinese Air Force after it suffered an excessive number of accidents?
text: Did you know that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Australia began when a 17-year-old missionary arrived from England in 1840?
text: Did you know that Abigail Mbalo-Mokoena 's 4Roomed, a restaurant 30 kilometres (19 mi) outside Cape Town in Khayelitsha township, was one of only three in Africa named to a 2019 list of the best in the world?
text: Did you know that for the fifth anniversary of video game developer Defiant Development , everyone who had been employed at the company for at least two years was gifted a sword?
text: Did you know that India is creating the post of Chief of the Defence Staff twenty years after it was officially suggested?
text: Did you know that Ursula Boese , a long-time member of the Hamburgische Staatsoper , appeared as Stravinsky's Iocaste at La Scala , and at the San Francisco Opera in the presence of the composer?
text: Did you know that radio station KSUN in Bisbee, Arizona , sold its call letters to a station in Phoenix after going off the air due to financial troubles?
text: Did you know that when Chen Shunyao served as deputy party chief of Tsinghua University , the future Chinese president Hu Jintao was a protégé of hers?
text: Did you know that the father of athlete Safia Abukar Hussein disliked the idea of her competing for Somalia at the 2000 Summer Olympics , as he thought it would prevent her from finding a husband?
text: Did you know that Celso-Ramón García oversaw early clinical trials of the first contraceptive pill in Puerto Rico ?
text: Did you know that a Neanderthal man, whose upper jaw was found in the Cova Foradà in Spain, used a toothpick because he had sore gums?
text: Did you know that the fictional character Forrest Gump was portrayed as serving during the Vietnam War with the 47th Infantry Regiment ?
text: Did you know that although the Fazzan Basin in Libya currently averages less than 20 mm (0.8 in) of annual rainfall, paleohydrological study shows that it has periodically contained a large lake?
text: Did you know that investigation by detective Wu Guoqing , who was acclaimed as "China's Sherlock Holmes ", led to the murder conviction and death sentence of a prosecutor?
text: Did you know that research into digital media use and mental health has found that females are more likely to be affected by problematic social media use while males are more likely to have gaming disorder ?
text: Did you know that a Waterford Crystal trophy, won by Russian pool player Kristina Tkach at the Women's Pro Players Championship, shattered when it was dropped as it was being carried out of the arena?
text: Did you know that the novel Trust Exercise was inspired by discussions about sexual abuse which followed the publication of the Donald Trump Access Hollywood tape ?
text: Did you know that the Women's World Cup and the CONCACAF Gold Cup finals both involved the United States and were played on the same day?
text: Did you know that the dark and fatalistic humour of Canadian comedians has been attributed to the dangers of Canada's climate and geography ?
text: Did you know that David Morgan , the most successful British fighter pilot in the Falklands War , had a hole in the heart that was only discovered after he applied to join the military?
text: Did you know that psychoanalyst Carl Jung could afford to build his mansion on Lake Zürich (now the C. G. Jung House Museum ) after his wife Emma inherited her father's fortune?
text: Did you know that themes of British band Everything but the Girl 's 1985 album Love Not Money include sexism, social and economic stratification , and The Troubles in Northern Ireland?
text: Did you know that Kihaule's mouse shrew is named after the medical-entomological technician who collected the type specimen from the Udzungwa Mountains in Tanzania?
text: Did you know that Chen Jiayong was the first Chinese scientist to have a satellite named after him?
text: Did you know that US Attorney General Thomas Watt Gregory accused the United States Guards of imposing a "reign of terror" in Butte, Montana ?
text: Did you know that Peter Hamm , a successful writer, literary critic, and jury member for literary prizes, dropped out of school when he was 14?
text: Did you know that experimental folk band House and Land have reinterpreted traditional ballads to remove misogyny by focusing on female protagonists?
text: Did you know that Johann Schwarzhuber , the leader of the Auschwitz men's camp, was sentenced to death during the first Ravensbrück concentration camp trial ?
text: Did you know that multi-level marketing company Younique was valued at US$1 billion at the time of its acquisition by Coty ?
text: Did you know that among Ibuki Kido 's voice acting roles is a vacuum cleaner?
text: Did you know that the Arizona Miner , a newspaper published in Prescott , Arizona Territory , changed its political leanings from Republican to Democrat and back again over a succession of owners?
text: Did you know that motorsport official Charles Faroux was also a three-time French carom billiards world champion?
text: Did you know that social worker Damodar Ganesh Bapat helped around 26,000 leprosy patients?
text: Did you know that the scaly ground roller mostly eats earthworms and centipedes, but has been known to also eat frogs, lizards, and shrews?
text: Did you know that in 1877, the Wellington County House of Industry and Refuge spent less than Can$ 0.76 per week on the care of each resident?
text: Did you know that after the U.S. Congress passed a resolution urging the IOC to reject Beijing's bid for the 2000 Olympics , the city's vice mayor Zhang Baifa threatened to boycott the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta?
text: Did you know that the Palembang Light Rail Transit , which opened last year, is the first operational light-rail system in Indonesia?
text: Did you know that Vice-Admiral Aleksandr Nosatov was appointed head of the Russian Naval Academy in 2016, but spent only one and a half months in the post?
text: Did you know that in its early years, New York City's Sunset Park could only be reached by 60-foot (18 m) ladders?
text: Did you know that Chinese entrepreneur Frank Tsao co-founded the national shipping lines of both Malaysia and Thailand, and was awarded the nobility title Tan Sri by the king of Malaysia?
text: Did you know that the Lebanon women's national football team 's first official qualification campaign took place eight years after their inception?
text: Did you know that Beth Van Duyne , the mayor of Irving, Texas , from 2011 to 2017, initially became involved in politics due to a zoning dispute?
text: Did you know that the endorheic salt lake Sebkha el Melah in Algeria has two parts, the upper one pond-like and biodiverse and the lower one salt-encrusted and nearly devoid of vegetation?
text: Did you know that British actress and scriptwriter Betty Paul wrote for the first rural soap opera, Weavers Green , in collaboration with her third husband?
text: Did you know that the Mapuche-Huilliche of southern Chile defeated a slave-hunting Spanish army at the Battle of Río Bueno in 1654?
text: Did you know that shortly after serving as President of Georgetown University , David H. Buel quit the Jesuits and secretly married?
text: Did you know that Yola Letellier is widely believed to be the model for the main character in Colette 's story Gigi ?
text: Did you know that the depiction of the ruins of the leper colony Nagashima Aiseien Sanatorium in Atsushi Fujiwara 's 2015 photobook Poet Island was inspired by the poetry of Kaijin Akashi , who lived, wrote, and ultimately died there in 1939?
text: Did you know that Clarence Ervin became the first African-American brigadier general in the history of the North Carolina Air National Guard in 2015?
text: Did you know that in his opera Sirenen – Bilder des Begehrens und des Vernichtens , Rolf Riehm included instruments such as archaic wood planks, a musical saw , an accordion , and a piano?
text: Did you know that UCLA football player Joshua Kelley 's career-high 289 rushing yards against USC last season were the most by any player on either team in the history of the schools' crosstown rivalry ?
text: Did you know that an endemic species of trout in Lake Aguelmame Sidi Ali became extinct after the common carp was introduced in 1934?
text: Did you know that Meghan Trainor 's 2019 EP The Love Train was promoted through a press release which drew controversy because of its "graphic nature and bizarre phrasing"?
text: Did you know that Werner Müller managed a reduction in Germany's dependence on coal in a socially responsible way as Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy and as CEO of major energy companies?
text: Did you know that the Ethiopian epauletted fruit bat uses its hind feet to comb its fur and its tongue to wash its face, wing membranes, and genital region?
text: Did you know that the work of C. Doris Hellman on the Great Comet of 1577 led historians of science to recognize the comet's key role in the success of the Copernican Revolution ?
text: Did you know that Ali Sayyad Shirazi , deputy chief of staff of the Iranian armed forces, was assassinated in 1999 by a Mojahedin-e Khalq agent disguised as a street cleaner?
text: Did you know that when National Basketball Association revenue in Canada grew 224 percent in five years, vice-president Dan MacKenzie attributed it to marketing strategy and the sport's appeal to young Asian Canadians ?
text: Did you know that the International Agrarian Bureau was criticized by the right as advocating the "peasant-boot dictatorship", and by the left as a vehicle for "peasant individualism"?
text: Did you know that when offered the award of the Iron Cross from Nazi Germany, Leo Skurnik , a Jewish major in the Finnish Army , refused, reportedly saying "I wipe my arse with it"?
text: Did you know that the Spanish idiom " ¿Cuándo hemos comido en el mismo plato? " (' When have we eaten from the same dish? ' ) is used as social commentary about poor manners or incivility?
text: Did you know that Patricia Marshall 's role in the 1947 film Good News was originally meant for Gloria DeHaven ?
text: Did you know that the anti-Muslim Ełk riots in Poland led to the launch of the ironic The Kebab War website, which listed attacks on kebab eateries?
text: Did you know that the lightning-caused Swan Lake fire in Alaska has burned over 160,000 acres (65,000 ha) of wildland?
text: Did you know that a critic described the song " Lover " as a throwback to Taylor Swift 's "country days"?
text: Did you know that in Su Shuyang 's tragedy depicting the last day of Lao She 's life, the celebrated writer converses with dead characters from his own works before committing suicide?
text: Did you know that The Urology Foundation carried out a survey of how often British men check their testicles ?
text: Did you know that Professor Lu Yonggen was named by Harvard Kennedy School as the second most generous Chinese philanthropist of 2017 after donating his entire life savings to South China Agricultural University ?
text: Did you know that a 1946 United States proposal to buy Greenland from Denmark remained classified until the 1970s, when Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten discovered documents related to it?
text: Did you know that Prince Min Nyo of Kale seized the throne of Ava by having his lover, Queen Shin Bo-Me , assassinate his eight-year-old nephew, King Min Hla ?
text: Did you know that Jebel ech Chambi , the highest mountain in Tunisia, is one of the few places in which the Cuvier's gazelle survives?
text: Did you know that as state health commissioner of Indiana , Woody Myers supported the right of Ryan White , a teenage boy with HIV/AIDS , to return to public school in the face of anti-AIDS discrimination?
text: Did you know that Libyan president Muammar Gaddafi ordered his air force to attack a city during the Uganda–Tanzania War , but his bomber instead hit a game reserve and killed antelopes?
text: Did you know that London surgeon Laidlaw Purves was described as the "fairy godfather of ladies' golf"?
text: Did you know that voice actress Ai Fairouz 's interest in anime and manga was influenced by her reading the series JoJo's Bizarre Adventure in online Skype sessions?
text: Did you know that trace amounts of snowfall account for up to 80 percent of all precipitation that falls in some areas of northern Canada?
text: Did you know that Agadzagadza is a mythological trickster from Nigeria who is responsible for bringing death to humankind?
text: Did you know that the PATH train system was sold to allow the first World Trade Center in New York City to be built?
text: Did you know that legal scholar Wang Jiafu gave lectures to China's top leaders, including President Jiang Zemin and Premier Li Peng ?
text: Did you know that the Natal cycad and the dune false currant are among the 1,900 endemic plant species found in the Maputaland-Pondoland-Albany Hotspot ?
text: Did you know that Petra Klingler finished third in the Ice Climbing World Cup while climbing on one leg?
text: Did you know that Vicky Knight , who played an acid-attack victim in her debut film role , works as a healthcare assistant in the hospital where she was treated as a child?
text: Did you know that Mexican drug lord Carlos Landín Martínez was arrested while buying watermelons?
text: Did you know that the Vel blood group was discovered when a patient experienced a severe transfusion reaction, and her blood type was found to be incompatible with all but five out of ten thousand blood donors?
text: Did you know that Tong Daoming wrote plays without antagonists?
text: Did you know that the chase scene from the 1968 Steve McQueen film Bullitt starts on Cesar Chavez Street (then Army Street) before continuing through San Francisco?
text: Did you know that Tonic Trouble , released in 1999, was the first video game developed by Ubisoft Montreal ?
text: Did you know that John Pierce has performed Wagner roles internationally, such as Tannhäuser and Lohengrin at the Stadttheater Minden , and Tristan in Prague, Rotterdam, and Rio de Janeiro?
text: Did you know that FreeConferenceCall.com faced a public backlash for trying to change its hold music ?
text: Did you know that Wen Chuanyuan was the chief designer of China's first drone and first flight simulator ?
text: Did you know that a tree at least 700 years old , reputedly planted by Robert the Bruce , was destroyed by an arson attack in 2004?
text: Did you know that structural biologist Erica Ollmann Saphire traveled to Africa to observe rodents in the field in order to study how viruses like Ebola are spread?
text: Did you know that Alexander of Islay encouraged Clan Chattan to fight the Battle of Craig Cailloch against Clan Cameron as revenge for the Camerons' defection?
text: Did you know that as President of Georgetown University , Arthur A. O'Leary traveled around the United States to organize inactive regional chapters of the university's alumni into a national network?
text: Did you know that infestations of the common plaster beetle have caused hygiene problems in a hospital?
text: Did you know that in the 2010 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship Final , Niamh McEvoy came on as a second-half substitute for Niamh McEvoy ?
text: Did you know that Pixar cinematographer Patrick Lin pioneered the use of a virtual lens based on an actual camera lens in Inside Out ?
text: Did you know that David Bowie 's first gig as lead singer was at the Green Man, Blackheath ?
text: Did you know that Greg Moore won a record-breaking ten races, and completed every event, on his way to winning the 1995 Indy Lights season ?
text: Did you know that populations of the russet rice rat have been shown to have a monogamous mating system?
text: Did you know that Sunita Sharma is reportedly India's first woman cricket coach?
text: Did you know that during the Siege of Eshowe , members of the Natal Native Pioneer Corps ventured out of the town under Zulu fire to retrieve maize and pumpkins to sell to the defenders?
text: Did you know that in his eighties, former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Whitney North Seymour Jr. co-wrote and produced a one-act play performed off-Broadway ?
text: Did you know that Jack Roxburgh introduced legislation on this day in 1964 to declare ice hockey Canada's national game, after disproving the myth that lacrosse held that distinction?
text: Did you know that despite a name meaning "strong-smelling durian ", Durio graveolens has been described as odorless?
text: Did you know that Zhang Lianzhong was the first commander of the Chinese navy who had served at sea?
text: Did you know that KSKI AM initially broadcast from a lodge at the Sun Valley ski resort?
text: Did you know that Turkish correspondent Pelin Ünker is the only journalist in the world sentenced for writing about the Paradise Papers investigation?
text: Did you know that Japan National Route 279 's course in Aomori Prefecture follows an ancient pilgrimage path to Mount Osore , a destination believed to be a gate to the underworld in Japanese mythology ?
text: Did you know that Lisa Daugaard attended the University of Washington at the age of twelve?
text: Did you know that the Green Bay Packers ' training facility Rockwood Lodge burned down less than four years after it was purchased by head coach Curly Lambeau ?
text: Did you know that Joseph Kupelwieser wrote the libretto for Schubert's Fierrabras , and was later held responsible by the composer for the opera's failure?
text: Did you know that folic acid, a synthetic form of the vitamin folate , is added to wheat flour in many countries to reduce the risk of infants being born with spina bifida and other neural tube defects ?
text: Did you know that Tadjuddin Noor was voted out of his position as chair of the legislature of East Indonesia after he failed to restrain spectators?
text: Did you know that New Hampshire radio station WBRL 's first license was cancelled by the Federal Communications Commission because of double-billing practices?
text: Did you know that in 2018, Élisabeth Revol became the first woman to ascend Nanga Parbat in winter, and her rescue on the descent was widely reported?
text: Did you know that a future president of Georgetown University , John D. Whitney , decided to convert to Catholicism after reading a book accidentally dropped into the ocean from a U.S. Navy ship?
text: Did you know that Enoch Fenwick reluctantly became president of Georgetown College in 1820, and abandoned the post in 1825 before a replacement was found?
text: Did you know that water seeping from a statue of Jesus in Mumbai was initially called a miracle, but turned out to originate from a nearby overflowing drain?
text: Did you know that in 2019, Brigham Young University volleyball coach Heather Olmstead held the highest winning percentage of any women's volleyball coach in NCAA Division I history?
text: Did you know that at least 70 members of the cast and crew were injured while working alongside 130 or more untrained big cats , mostly lions and tigers, for the film Roar ?
text: Did you know that before becoming the first woman general in the army of the Ivory Coast, Akissi Kouamé initiated the appointment of midwives to the army health service?
text: Did you know that KGCX , located in a town with a population of 50 , claimed to be the world's smallest broadcasting station?
text: Did you know that after Xu Chi published his biography of mathematician Chen Jingrun , the latter received a sackful of love letters?
text: Did you know that director and screenwriter Travis Stevens paused renovations on his production company's house to film Girl on the Third Floor ?
text: Did you know that Piera Aiello wore a veil to protect her identity when standing for Italy's Chamber of Deputies because of threats from the mafia?
text: Did you know that after the owner of Delaware radio station WNRK died before he could put it on the air, his widow was interviewed on the station's first day of broadcasting?
text: Did you know that German stock trader Dirk Müller is known as "Mr. DAX "?
text: Did you know that the Corps of Royal Artillery Drivers was created in 1793 to replace civilian contractors, who sometimes abandoned their artillery in battle?
text: Did you know that John B. Creeden was a founder of both Boston College Law School and Georgetown University 's School of Foreign Service ?
text: Did you know that Neil Robertson will not play at the 2019 World Open snooker tournament because he drove to Barnsley, Gloucestershire , rather than Barnsley, South Yorkshire , to compete in the qualifiers?
text: Did you know that Ugandan air force commander Andrew Mukooza may have been murdered because he helped defeat a coup attempt?
text: Did you know that the nectar-rich flowers of the African locust-bean are visited by bats, dormice , and pottos ?
text: Did you know that after Ruth Darrow 's son died from hemolytic disease of the newborn , she was inspired to study the disease, and became the first person to identify its cause?
text: Did you know that the Friendship Bridge on the Russian–Chinese border at Shiwei, Inner Mongolia , is used by trucks carrying quarried stone, but passenger vehicles are not permitted?
text: Did you know that industrialist John Mason Loomis , a Union Army colonel in the American Civil War , fought in 57 battles and skirmishes, marching with his men for more than 6,900 mi (11,100 km)?
text: Did you know that the 6000 mAh battery on the Samsung Galaxy M30s is the largest ever for a Samsung smartphone?
text: Did you know that director Celia Rowlson-Hall cast herself as a modern version of the Virgin Mary in her first feature film?
text: Did you know that Ross T. McIntire was the first Physician to the President to have had a certified medical specialty ?
text: Did you know that John Gibson 's design of Nutfield Priory was inspired by the Palace of Westminster ?
text: Did you know that Józefa Joteyko believed that wages should be based upon scientific research and the amount of effort required to do a job, rather than arbitrary factors like gender?
text: Did you know that the opera Blind Injustice tells the true stories of six people in Ohio who were wrongfully convicted and later exonerated?
text: Did you know that under the leadership of Liu Shunyao , the Chinese air force began emphasizing the need to fight offensive battles?
text: Did you know that the warehouse beetle usually develops within about two months, but may enter an active diapause and take two years?
text: Did you know that a US$25,000 bounty is offered for Big Momma ?
text: Did you know that the gut bacteria of Drosophila subobscura can influence its mating behavior?
text: Did you know that housing expert Patricia Bagot argued with Colonel Muammar Gaddafi over the quality of housing in Libya?
text: Did you know that Evergreen Hospital Medical Center in Washington had the first MRI machine on the U.S. West Coast?
text: Did you know that botanist Betty Flint continued research in a voluntary capacity at Lincoln University and Landcare Research until she was 100 years old?
text: Did you know that the Springs Mills Building , a New York City Landmark built in 1963, has a hexagonal tower that may have taken inspiration from Milan's Pirelli Tower ?
text: Did you know that Swedish journalist Ingalill Mosander and her husband Jan Mosander both survived the Costa Concordia disaster in 2012?
text: Did you know that the grand prize of the Miss'd America pageant was once a Burger King crown and a bouquet of dead roses?
text: Did you know that mathematician Dona Strauss left South Africa over apartheid , lost a faculty job at Dartmouth for joining an anti-war protest, and helped found European Women in Mathematics ?
text: Did you know that the Church of the Gesú in Philadelphia once held more than 200 relics ?
text: Did you know that John Gillies devised what is thought to have been the first British closed-circuit anaesthetic machine?
text: Did you know that New York City's Kings Plaza shopping mall was built with a marina for visitors, as well as its own power system?
text: Did you know that prior to joining the Supreme Court of Chile , Gloria Ana Chevesich was best known for convicting a former government minister and 13 others of fraud in the MOP-Gate case ?
text: Did you know that despite its name, the Pere Marquette Lumber Company ranked among the largest salt and lumber producers in the state of Michigan?
text: Did you know that one of the Buddha 's chief female disciples, Uppalavanna , is said to have become a nun because she was so beautiful that her father feared conflict between her many wealthy suitors?
text: Did you know that at 2.5 miles (4.0 km), New York City's South Beach Boardwalk was cited as the fourth longest boardwalk in the world in 2010?
text: Did you know that medical researcher Shuping Wang may have saved tens of thousands of lives by defying authorities and exposing an HIV/AIDS scandal in China ?
text: Did you know that two years after going on the air, WBCE radio switched from country to gospel music because too many stations in western Kentucky had country formats?
text: Did you know that Lee Eun-soo was South Korea's seventh female general officer and the first in the legal branch?
text: Did you know that at the 2019 China Championship , Judd Trump 's fifteen-match and six-month winning streak was broken when he was defeated by Joe Perry ?
text: Did you know that Gujarati writer Rambha Gandhi wrote and participated in more than 400 radio plays ?
text: Did you know that the 1977 fantasy novel The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions was originally planned as a children's book ?
text: Did you know that Divyansh Singh Panwar won four medals at the 2019 Shooting World Cup , two years after his father became worried by his " PUBG addiction" and sent him to New Delhi to train?
text: Did you know that a contributing factor to the demise of black radio station KOJC in Cedar Rapids, Iowa , was an internal struggle among its board of directors?
text: Did you know that Werner Haseleu appeared as Moses in Schoenberg's Moses und Aron at the Staatsoper Dresden , and as Holofernes in the world premiere of Judith by Siegfried Matthus at the Berlin State Opera ?
text: Did you know that Sevastopol had no official coat of arms from 1917 until 1969, but two official coats of arms from 1993 until 2000?
text: Did you know that Kang Woo-kyu hid a grenade between his legs to pass through the Russian–Japanese border and try to assassinate the Japanese governor-general of Korea ?
text: Did you know that to create the Great Northumberland Forest , up to a million trees are due to be planted between 2020 and 2024?
text: Did you know that William S. White took a two month break from The New York Times to write the book that won the 1955 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography ?
text: Did you know that Yu Zhenwu piloted the first successful flight of China's first indigenously designed jet aircraft and, decades later, became Commander of the People's Liberation Army Air Force ?
text: Did you know that the annual charity radiothon at Wyoming high school radio station KYDZ was commended by a thank-you letter from President Ronald Reagan ?
text: Did you know that after drug cartel member Raúl Alberto Trejo Benavides was killed in a shootout, his comrades tried to fabricate a suicide?
text: Did you know that in 1916, three members of a military band were killed in action during the Battle of Columbus in New Mexico ?
text: Did you know that according to dietician Amy Brown , a researcher of social barriers to breastfeeding, smacking children is acceptable to more British people than breastfeeding in public?
text: Did you know that satellites in a geostationary orbit appear stationary in the sky to a ground observer?
text: Did you know that surgeon Robert N. McClelland tried to save the lives of both John F. Kennedy and his assassin ?
text: Did you know that Litsy is similar to Twitter and Instagram , but is only for books?
text: Did you know that property developer Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi , fiancé of Princess Beatrice of York , co-founded a charity in Rwanda that aims to use cricket to foster social change?
text: Did you know that the cause of the decline in hornleaf riverweed , a foundation species in swift-flowing rivers in North America, is unclear?
text: Did you know that pediatric oncologist Brigid Leventhal was one of only six women in her graduating class from Harvard Medical School in 1960?
text: Did you know that Shaun Murphy pulled out of the 2019 Paul Hunter Classic snooker tournament after injuring his leg dancing to Disney's Greatest Hits ?
text: Did you know that the construction of New York City's Tweed Courthouse , prolonged over 20 years, has been called "a classic in the annals of American graft"?
text: Did you know that tenor Thomas Mohr , who has sung the roles of Loge, Siegmund, and Siegfried in Der Ring in Minden , hosts concerts in his cowshed?
text: Did you know that tenor Enea Scala has appeared in roles by Rossini , most recently in the title role of Otello , an opera which requires at least five tenors?
text: Did you know that the U.S. Armed Forces created Female Engagement Teams to interact with women in Afghanistan?
text: Did you know that Georg Forster 's 1777 report A Voyage Round the World , about the second voyage of James Cook , was not reprinted in English for nearly two centuries?
text: Did you know that Arizona Cardinals offensive tackle Brett Toth was the first Army Black Knights football player to play in the Senior Bowl ?
text: Did you know that the naked-rumped tomb bat is among a number of species of bat that roost in different parts of the Karnak Temple Complex in Egypt?
text: Did you know that 19th-century Scottish heiress and philanthropist Margaret Macpherson Grant died, aged 42, shortly after her female partner had abandoned her to marry a man?
text: Did you know that more than 4 million videos on TikTok feature the song " Mia Khalifa " – also known as the "Hit or Miss" song – even though the app had not licensed its use and has never paid the artists?
text: Did you know that the Bissinger Wool Pullery processed dead sheep?
text: Did you know that governors Liu Tianfu and Liang Lingguang were both considered reform pioneers who propelled the economic development of Guangdong in the 1980s?
text: Did you know that radio station WPSA at Paul Smith's College began life in the basement of a dormitory that had previously been a meat market?
text: Did you know that the nave entrance doors of St Rufus Church in Keith, Moray , Scotland, incorporate a two-sided memorial to the First and Second World Wars?
text: Did you know that in Among the Lost , a 2018 novel by Mexican author Emiliano Monge , the victims of human trafficking are described in language borrowed from Dante's Inferno and the testimony of real-life people?
text: Did you know that Julie Dretzin has narrated audiobooks using Russian accents for some characters and Maine accents for others?
text: Did you know that Hildegarde had a bat , a mouse and a shrew named in her honour?
text: Did you know that Celia Harvey has been a countess, a lecturer, a parliamentary candidate, and a British Army brigadier?
text: Did you know that today's Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Fleet Review was canceled due to Typhoon Hagibis ?
text: Did you know that Hans Riemer went from being a prisoner of war in 1945 to President of Austria's Bundesrat in 1955?
text: Did you know that the Archer Avenue subway took 16 years to finish, was completed at a cost of nearly five times its original budget, and was cut back to a fraction of its original length?
text: Did you know that the Australian Aboriginal community of Ali Curung is named after the nearby ancestral Alekarenge (" dingo -associated") Dreaming sites?
text: Did you know that the murder of Chicago alderman Benjamin F. Lewis was considered unsolvable for having too many suspects?
text: Did you know that a tournament in which a goat is awarded as the top prize was used by the selectors of India's Special Area Games Scheme to scout for field hockey players?
text: Did you know that Sheila Heaney , director of the Women's Royal Army Corps , visited the United States in 1972 to study how women were being integrated into the U.S. Army ?
text: Did you know that Narendra Modi 's experiences in dealing with the after-effects of the 2001 Gujarat earthquake led him to propose the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure ?
text: Did you know that Harry Caray called his first Major League Baseball game on radio station WTMV in the St. Louis area?
text: Did you know that Chinese admiral Wei Jinshan was awarded the Medal of Honour by President Xi Jinping and the Order of the National Flag by North Korea?
text: Did you know that Fort George Amusement Park , which featured roller coasters, carousels, and Ferris wheels, was in Upper Manhattan in a locality once referred to as "Harlem's Coney Island "?
text: Did you know that Swiss pediatrician Heinrich Willi was among the first to recognise the potential of bone marrow aspiration as a diagnostic technique?
text: Did you know that the Colombian television series Bolívar used 6,000 extras?
text: Did you know that the Northern Ireland Assembly has not sat for more than two years, partly because of disagreements over an Irish Language Act ?
text: Did you know that suspected drug lord Raúl Hernández Barrón claimed to be a policeman to avoid being arrested?
text: Did you know that Kylie Minogue was dropped as an act by Geffen Records after her 1989 album Enjoy Yourself failed to find an audience in the United States?
text: Did you know that Nadja Malacrida said in a Vim advertisement that it was "no use having new ideas of decoration if you have old ideas of dirt"?
text: Did you know that KTKN in Ketchikan, Alaska , was one of just six new radio stations authorized in the United States in 1942, due to a wartime freeze order?
text: Did you know that Song Myung-soon was the first woman South Korean army general from a combat arm?
text: Did you know that at the 2010 World Team Championship pool event, a first-to-six- racks playoff match was won by Daryl Peach after 52 racks?
text: Did you know that it took more than 5,000 Philippine soldiers with land, air, and sea support, as well as millions of pesos , to end the uprising of Hadji Kamlon ?
text: Did you know that the character of Felicity Smoak , from The CW 's Arrowverse franchise, first appeared in the DC Comics series The Fury of Firestorm in 1984?
text: Did you know that the surgeon Ian Scott Smillie , president of the International Society of the Knee , wrote a book about deer stalking in Scotland?
text: Did you know that courts and legal scholars in some countries have expressed support for the idea that even a properly ratified constitutional amendment can be unconstitutional ?
text: Did you know that although Yū Sasahara dreamed of becoming a singer as a child, her father persuaded her to pursue a career in voice acting instead?
text: Did you know that KLLT in Grants, New Mexico , went off the air because the United States Forest Service refused to let the station build a tower on Mount Taylor to improve its coverage?
text: Did you know that after reforming the army of the Sasanian Empire , the officer Babak is said to have insisted that King Khosrow I wear his armor and participate in the military parade like all the other warriors?
text: Did you know that American historian Susan L. Mann won the Fairbank Prize for exploring the roles of elite women and same-sex social relationships in Chinese history?
text: Did you know that up to 60,000 people were displaced during the War of the Peters ?
text: Did you know that Jimmy Sham , convener of Civil Human Rights Front , helped organize several protest marches against the Hong Kong government's proposed extradition amendment bill ?
text: Did you know that for a time, subway riders exiting the Fifth Avenue/53rd Street station in the evening could find themselves trapped behind a locked gate?
text: Did you know that Ester Peony , Romania 's representative at the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 , spent part of her early life in Canada?
text: Did you know that in its first decade as an educational radio station, KSLH produced 2,878 fifteen-minute programs for St. Louis -area school students?
text: Did you know that the female garden symphylan stores sperm in its mouth?
text: Did you know that birds nest in the Quelccaya Ice Cap of Peru?
text: Did you know that Deng Hongkui and Chen Hu were the first to use CRISPR gene editing on an HIV patient?
text: Did you know that the upper level of New York's 63rd Street Tunnel took 20 years to open, while the lower level is still under construction after nearly half a century?
text: Did you know that Polish entomologist Sergiusz Toll amassed a collection of about 8,000 bird eggs and 12,000 butterflies and moths while in Bydgoszcz ?
text: Did you know that a snake chased a mouse into the transmitter of Nebraska radio station KWRV in 1962, knocking it off the air for two hours?
text: Did you know that despite the party's anti-smoking faction , the Sturmabteilung was funded by a Nazi cigarette company ?
text: Did you know that Jane Eskind was the first woman to win a statewide election in Tennessee ?
text: Did you know that the Free School Under the Bridge in Delhi uses a metro bridge as its roof and blackboards painted on the wall of a depot?
text: Did you know that Peter Palitzsch was called to the Berliner Ensemble as a graphic designer, and went on to stage many of Brecht 's plays internationally?
text: Did you know that speedrunning robot TASBot made a Skype call in The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past ?
text: Did you know that professor of English Alice D. Snyder helped lead the campaign that earned women in New York the right to vote ?
text: Did you know that the Sheepscar tannery , run by John Joseph Willson of the Willson Group of artists in Leeds , England, was at one time the largest in the country?
text: Did you know that Swedish actress Lotta Ramel portrayed her real-life mother, actress Susanna Ramel , in the film Ted: För kärlekens skull ?
text: Did you know that the Dairy in Central Park was designed to offer board games and sell milk to park guests?
text: Did you know that in 2016, Ben Challacombe performed the UK's first live broadcast of the robotic removal of part of a kidney ?
text: Did you know that director Avi Belkin said the title of his 2019 documentary Mike Wallace Is Here once constituted "the four most-dreaded words in the English language"?
text: Did you know that after leading a failed rebellion in his native Morocco, Uthman ibn Abi al-Ula led the Volunteers of the Faith in Granada , where he became a major political figure?
text: Did you know that Scottish poet Sorley MacLean once called upon the Red Army to invade his homeland?
text: Did you know that the sexual characteristics of the Hollow Dogū , a National Treasure of Japan, are so mixed that the Jōmon figurine has been said to "transcend gender"?
text: Did you know that in 1945, London medical student John Hancock 's studies were interrupted when he contracted typhus in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp ?
text: Did you know that electric moped sharing company Revel deposited 1,000 new mopeds on New York City streets in the space of a week?
text: Did you know that Erland Erlandson became the first known European to cross the Labrador Peninsula from the Hudson Strait to the Atlantic coast when his guides misled him?
text: Did you know that the use of team orders by Ferrari to determine the winner of the 2002 Austrian Grand Prix led to a ban on the practice in Formula One from 2003 to 2010?
text: Did you know that when Marie-Thérèse Gauley premiered the title role of Ravel's opera L'enfant et les sortilèges , he praised both her acting and her "ravishing voice"?
text: Did you know that according to one historian, the Battle of Babylon Hill was "more muddle than battle"?
text: Did you know that prior to becoming acting President of Georgetown College , Joseph A. Lopez was chaplain to the imperial family of Mexico ?
text: Did you know that with the sign-ons of KWCS-TV , KOET , KUSU-TV , and KBYU-TV , Utah had more educational TV stations than commercial ones by 1966?
text: Did you know that in 1881, Kate Dover killed Thomas Skinner by cooking him a roast dinner with arsenic in the stuffing, but was not convicted of murder ?
text: Did you know that the correct spelling of " liliifolia " in the name of the orchid Liparis liliifolia has been debated for decades?
text: Did you know that larvae of the drain fly can be found in trickling filter systems used to process sewage?
text: Did you know that handicapped army veteran Ma Ning became a pilot and later Commander of the Chinese Air Force after being inspired by a novel about a double amputee flying ace ?
text: Did you know that New York City Inferno , a 1978 gay pornography film , features a licensed soundtrack by the Village People ?
text: Did you know that Nurul Alam Chowdhury was the youngest MP in the first parliament of Bangladesh ?
text: Did you know that the Colorado National Guard's 117th Space Battalion is nicknamed the "Space Cowboys"?
text: Did you know that Joseph Dancis and his colleagues discovered the cause of maple syrup urine disease ?
text: Did you know that the 2019 film Ask Dr. Ruth features Holocaust survivor Ruth Westheimer reflecting on her career as a sex therapist ?
text: Did you know that under the governorship of Ye Xuanping , Guangdong grew economically prosperous and increased its independence from Beijing, earning him the nickname "Emperor of the South"?
text: Did you know that the director of the film The VelociPastor thought of the idea when his phone autocorrected " Velociraptor " to "Veloci Pastor"?
text: Did you know that temperance activist Sarah Robinson visited brothels in an attempt to improve the health of prostitutes and their clients?
text: Did you know that the nudibranch Tritoniella belli is avoided by several predatory starfishes but is inefficiently preyed on by the sea anemone Isotealia antarctica ?
text: Did you know that the Irish Occupied Territories Bill would make doing business with Israeli settlers punishable by fines of up to €250,000 and up to five years in prison?
text: Did you know that John Cooper is the first political candidate to defeat an incumbent mayor of Nashville since the city consolidated with Davidson County, Tennessee ?
text: Did you know that the Women's Defence Relief Corps trained British women to fight during the First World War?
text: Did you know that television producer J. Michael Mendel won three Primetime Emmy Awards for The Simpsons and another for Rick and Morty ?
text: Did you know that Walter Burkert described the conclusion on Greek mythology in The Homeric Gods as a "sublime private religion"?
text: Did you know that Edgardo Labella , the mayor of Cebu City , survived the 1998 sinking of a passenger ferry during Typhoon Vicki , staying afloat for 36 hours in a life vest?
text: Did you know that the New York City neighborhood of Mill Basin , once a desolate swampland, now contains multi-million-dollar homes?
text: Did you know that Elizabeth, Lady Echlin , a correspondent of the author, wrote a revised ending to Samuel Richardson 's Clarissa in which the rape that was central to the original version is averted?
text: Did you know that the Samsung Galaxy Fit smartwatch can be charged wirelessly through near-field communication ?
text: Did you know that footballer Tom Farquharson was believed to carry a gun in his kitbag?
text: Did you know that the winners of the 2019 World Cup doubles snooker event competed as opponents in the final of the 2019 Six-red World Championship ?
text: Did you know that Shadrack Frimpong started a communal cocoa farm in Ghana , where villagers could work in exchange for free tuition at an all-girls school?
text: Did you know that drunk driving is among the most common alcohol-related crimes in the United States?
text: Did you know that according to Robert Mueller , who investigated foreign interference in the 2016 US presidential election , foreign interference in the 2020 US elections is ongoing?
text: Did you know that French Resistance agent Jeannette Guyot was one of only two women to be awarded America's second highest military honour during World War II?
text: Did you know that Steve Wozniak 's Integer BASIC was so fast in the Rugg/Feldman benchmarks that Bill Gates complained?
text: Did you know that Cardiff City F.C. founder Bartley Wilson 's headstone was discovered in bushes near his grave, which had lain unmarked for more than 40 years?
text: Did you know that Avinash Sable went from running 6 km (3.7 mi) to and from school at age six to running the 3000 metres steeplechase at the 2019 World Athletics Championships ?
text: Did you know that the novel The Ten Thousand Things , earlier rejected by 44 publishers, won the Walter Scott Prize ?
text: Did you know that B. M. Kutty was called to a meeting with Pakistani prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto after writing him a letter from prison?
text: Did you know that New York City's Rockaways' Playland amusement park was closed because of an eightfold increase in insurance premiums?
text: Did you know that Adele Zay successfully led a campaign in 1894 for Transylvanian authorities to recognize kindergarten and handicraft teachers so that they were entitled to pensions?
text: Did you know that the waniguchi gong is named after its resemblance to the mouth of a crocodile or alligator?
text: Did you know that Swiss athlete Bibi Torriani was the first ice hockey player to recite the Olympic Oath ?
text: Did you know that Finland's minister of science and culture Hanna Kosonen is a world champion in ski orienteering ?
text: Did you know that falguera , a plant known from only one valley in Spain, is threatened by rock climbers and by road maintenance?
text: Did you know that after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down its racial quotas, the management of Starrett City left apartments empty, in an attempt to rent them at market rate, instead of renting them to black and Hispanic families?
text: Did you know that a few months after Lü Peijian was appointed China's auditor general, he announced the discovery of more than US$1.6 billion worth of tax evasion, fraud, and waste?
text: Did you know that the silk made by webspinners is produced from glands on their forelegs?
text: Did you know that before he wrote Areyo Hoshikuzu , a manga about demobilized soldiers in occupied Japan , series creator Sansuke Yamada was best known as a gay manga artist?
text: Did you know that funeral dinners are regularly attended by up to a quarter of the residents in Darrington, Washington ?
text: Did you know that the Jewish Democratic Committee and the Romanian Communist Party together sent Romanian Jews to Israel, hoping to make it a communist ally?
text: Did you know that Patricia Swallow led the Wrens , served on the Heron , and was vice president of the Royal Naval Bird Watching Society?
text: Did you know that Ellie Morrison is the first woman to serve as the national commissioner of the Boy Scouts of America since its incorporation in 1910?
text: Did you know that the massive Sasanian fortification of Iraj Castle lacks any structure in its interior?
text: Did you know that acting U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf stated that, as chief of staff, it was not his responsibility to determine whether the Trump administration family separation policy was right or wrong?
text: Did you know that the parasitic wasp Lathrolestes luteolator has adopted the amber-marked birch leaf miner as a new host ?
text: Did you know that Hedwig Porschütz , who rescued Jews during the Holocaust , was not honoured as an "unsung heroine" in West Berlin because she had been a prostitute?
text: Did you know that Vermont 's first FM radio station renamed itself WQCR , standing for "Wonderful Queen City Radio", in 1972?
text: Did you know that the Queen briefly lived at 77 South Audley Street ?
text: Did you know that American politician Safiya Wazir came to Uzbekistan as a refugee from Afghanistan?
text: Did you know that the 2019 Basshunter song " Home " was described as a throwback to the bounce music of the 2000s?
text: Did you know that Zeng Rongsheng organized a Sino-American joint investigation of the geology of the Tibetan Plateau and examined the collision process of the Indian Plate with the Eurasian Plate ?
text: Did you know that the Northwestern Lumberman , known originally as the Lumbermen's Gazette, was the first trade magazine for the U.S. lumber industry?
text: Did you know that the ambrosia beetle Euplatypus parallelus cultivates fungi in the galleries it creates for its larvae?
text: Did you know that Alexandrea Owens became known as "the Titanic girl" after performing with Leonardo DiCaprio in the James Cameron epic at the age of eight?
text: Did you know that a local story suggests that, in 1912, a cow swam the entire 1,630-yard (0.93 mi; 1.49 km) length of the Foulridge Tunnel before being pulled out and revived with some brandy ?
text: Did you know that a man claiming to be Lynyrd Skynyrd 's Billy Powell fooled Sioux Falls radio station KRRO into letting him sing in their studios?
text: Did you know that Chinese archaeologist Duan Qingbo found that the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor bore similarities to the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus built a century earlier?
text: Did you know that women vendors at Victorian charity bazaars were criticized for using the events to flirt with men?
text: Did you know that 19th-century bridge builder Zenas King built thousands of bridges across the continental United States, some of which are still standing?
text: Did you know that the green spruce aphid often continues breeding throughout the winter, but the nymphs become dormant in the summer?
text: Did you know that Isabelle Kabatu , a Belgian soprano of African origin, recorded the role of Dolly in Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari 's opera Sly alongside José Carreras in the title role?
text: Did you know that the 2018 teen drama Skate Kitchen was partly filmed with a camera mounted on a motorized skateboard deck traveling at speeds of up to 20 miles per hour (32 km/h)?
text: Did you know that British submarine HMS Sceptre towed an X-class midget submarine tasked with attacking German battleships off Norway?
text: Did you know that Carolyn F. Ulrich , who began her career with no formal library training, eventually became the chief of the periodicals division at the New York Public Library ?
text: Did you know that England's 2019 Tree of the Year , the Allerton Oak , was reportedly damaged in an 1864 gunpowder explosion ?
text: Did you know that Aaron Hawkins uses nail polish to guide laser light into optofluidic devices to detect antibiotic resistance ?
text: Did you know that the southern black korhaan , native to South Africa, is becoming rarer due to loss of its natural habitat to agriculture?
text: Did you know that Reuben Hill is considered the "founding father" of the sociology of the family discipline?
text: Did you know that after recording material later compiled into the album Breaking It Up! , Louis Prima left Columbia Records in a disagreement over " Come On-a My House "?
text: Did you know that Cameron Chesterfield Alleyne was the first resident bishop in Africa for the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church ?
text: Did you know that Vasily Kalinnikov composed his Symphony No. 1 while suffering from tuberculosis ?
text: Did you know that Aneurin Bevan led the establishment of the National Health Service , which was inspired by the Tredegar Medical Aid Society in his hometown?
text: Did you know that in Nova Scotia, the tricolored bat roosts exclusively in the dangling fronds of bony beard lichen ?
text: Did you know that Adaora Adimora , an American professor who studies sexually transmitted infections among minorities, was named one of the top 100 African American leaders by The Root in 2009?
text: Did you know that WXGM AM dropped its coverage of William & Mary Tribe athletics in favor of the smaller Christopher Newport University , since CNU offered to pay for the rights?
text: Did you know that Pan Wen-Yuan is known as the "father" of the integrated circuit industry in Taiwan despite having never studied, worked for pay, or settled there?
text: Did you know that as a 10-year-old, Lin Mei-hong joined a dance troupe in Taiwan founded by the Italian priest Gian Carlo Michelini , and later choreographed for the troupe?
text: Did you know that the tree Drypetes gerrardii was named after William Gerrard , who collected plants in southern Africa in the 1860s?
text: Did you know that CNN political correspondent MJ Lee became an American citizen during the 2016 United States presidential election campaign, which she reported on?
text: Did you know that the first Paleolithic sculpture of a woman found in modern times was excavated at Laugerie-Basse , one of the Prehistoric Sites and Decorated Caves of the Vézère Valley ?
text: Did you know that in 2019, Ivorian footballer Amad Traoré became the first player born in 2002 to score in the Serie A ?
text: Did you know that the 1934 choral composition Totentanz ( Danse Macabre ) by Hugo Distler combines motets with spoken dialogue between Death and its victims?
text: Did you know that English diabetes specialist Harry Keen conducted a scientific study in which every adult in the town of Bedford was asked to provide a urine sample for testing?
text: Did you know that American diplomat George Kent speaks Ukrainian , Russian , and Thai , as well as some Polish , German , and Italian ?
text: Did you know that Red Dead Redemption 2 features 1,200 actors and 500,000 lines of dialogue ?
text: Did you know that in 2005, multidisciplinary artist Serge Rezvani married actress Marie-José Nat , whom he had first met nearly half a century before?
text: Did you know that The Boring Company plans to use car elevators to lower cars into its proposed underground Hyperloop system?
text: Did you know that tropical ecologist Winifred Hallwachs helped develop and expand the Área de Conservación Guanacaste in Costa Rica, which is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site ?
text: Did you know that in 1972, the Schools Action Union organised two strikes by schoolchildren in London?
text: Did you know that the main shrine of the Harshat Mata Temple depicts a royal figure and his consorts engaged in amorous activities?
text: Did you know that Benjamin Britten , who composed A Hymn of St Columba for the 1,400th anniversary of Saint Columba 's voyage to Iona , wanted it sung "with fire"?
text: Did you know that nurse and suffragette Mary Bartlett Dixon helped establish the first hospital in Easton, Maryland ?
text: Did you know that the male of the hoverfly species Syritta pipiens darts sharply in flight to facilitate mating?
text: Did you know that Mustafa Güzelgöz was called the "Librarian with Donkey" as he circulated hundreds of books among villagers in Ürgüp , Turkey, on the back of a donkey?
text: Did you know that the Isaac T. Hopper House , built during the development of one of New York City's wealthiest neighborhoods, is now a halfway house for women?
text: Did you know that Japanese fetish artist Namio Harukawa contributed artwork to a BDSM pulp magazine while still in high school?
text: Did you know that in 1998 a buyer of Colorado radio station KGRE risked his entire savings and maxed out seven credit cards to acquire it?
text: Did you know that it took Pan Handian , a winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award in Translation , 27 years to translate Machiavelli 's The Prince into Chinese?
text: Did you know that an owner of radio station KPRB sold it to devote himself to his duties as the fire chief of Redmond, Oregon ?
text: Did you know that in a Russian naval tradition, vice admiral Viktor Mardusin presented the commander of one of his warships with a roast piglet?
text: Did you know that infestations of Leptoconops torrens biting flies have halted construction and farming projects in California?
text: Did you know that during the Apollo 11 program, biomedical engineer Judy Sullivan was instantly identifiable if she made an error as she was the only female voice on NASA 's headset link?
text: Did you know that after the Bengal famine of 1943 was denied by authorities, news reports with images of the victims in English-language papers made it known internationally?
text: Did you know that the unpaid dowry owed by Lucia Visconti 's family upon her marriage to Edmund Holland remained a source of friction between England and Milan for more than 60 years after her death?
text: Did you know that just prior to the construction of 500 Fifth Avenue , the site on which it was built was reportedly the second most valuable undeveloped lot in Manhattan ?
text: Did you know that Akira the Hustler was a member of the Biters, a performance art group whose members were both artists and sex workers ?
text: Did you know that the first incarnation of radio station WYFI was described as running "on faith and LPs" and ending in an " Edsel -like burn" within a year?
text: Did you know that Chinese government minister Xiao Han lost two sons in the 1976 Tangshan earthquake ?
text: Did you know that in 2006, David Lehman said that poet John Ashbery had received more major honors and awards than any other living American writer?
text: Did you know that with 21 goals, Hassan Maatouk is the Lebanon national football team 's all-time top goalscorer?
text: Did you know that the Satanic nightjar can make a growling noise when disturbed?
text: Did you know that the William Ulmer Brewery , the first brewery to be designated a New York City landmark, produced up to 3,200,000 U.S. gal (12,000,000 L) of beer per year?
text: Did you know that with Danielle Dithurbide 's appointment to anchor the morning newscast on Las Estrellas , a majority of Mexican news broadcaster Noticieros Televisa 's news programs are hosted by women?
text: Did you know that the Racecourse Ground , which has hosted more Wales home international matches than any other stadium, is the oldest stadium in the world still hosting international football fixtures?
text: Did you know that Kurdish civil engineer and politician Hevrin Khalaf , who worked for tolerance among Christians, Arabs, and Kurds, was killed in the 2019 Turkish offensive into Syria ?
text: Did you know that St. Charles College in Louisiana was the first Jesuit college established in the southern United States?
text: Did you know that in addition to writing operas that premiered in Porto and Paris, Italian classical organist and composer Francesco Filidei has collaborated with a singer-songwriter on a theatrical show?
text: Did you know that soldiers were reduced to eating rats during the Siege of Masaka ?
text: Did you know that in 1939, alert workers at West Virginia radio station WBLK saved equipment from a devastating fire, and the station returned to the air within 45 minutes to report the blaze?
text: Did you know that the diaries of James Humphreys , the "Emperor of Porn", were used to convict thirteen members of the Metropolitan Police Force of accepting his bribes?
text: Did you know that Calvert Vaux Park , named after the landscape architect found dead in a nearby bay, is largely made of landfill from the construction of the Verrazzano Bridge ?
text: Did you know that Xie Gaohua established the Yiwu Market , which has grown into the world's largest small commodities market?
text: Did you know that the last British troops left India in 1948, post independence, from the Gateway of India ?
text: Did you know that Order of Canada recipient Thelma Finlayson was Simon Fraser University 's first professor emerita?
text: Did you know that A. N. Wilson described Oxford 's Clarendon Shopping Centre when it opened as "the most grotesquely horrible building I have ever seen"?
text: Did you know that after having to leave her World War I posting in Greece upon contracting dysentery , Canadian nurse Mabel Clint later re-enlisted to serve out the war in England and France?
text: Did you know that more than 100 interviews were conducted for the 2019 documentary Queer Japan ?
text: Did you know that Frank Philipp Schlößmann designed the stage for Wagner's Ring cycle in Bayreuth in 2006, and more recently created a large illuminated ring framing the stage for the same work in Minden ?
text: Did you know that a scheme for declaring ten public and ten private institutions as Institutes of Eminence has been approved in India?
text: Did you know that Chen Zhongyi , an engineer born in Taiwan and educated in the U.S., taught the future Chinese president Hu Jintao ?
text: Did you know that the stories in Chestnut Street by Maeve Binchy , published posthumously in 2014, had been written over a period of decades and filed away in a drawer?
text: Did you know that Carla Lalli Music , the food director of Bon Appétit magazine, was the first general manager at Shake Shack ?
text: Did you know that Irish republican O'Donovan Rossa claimed that the phrase " England's difficulty is Ireland's opportunity " was typically used as an excuse for inaction?
text: Did you know that having received the results of the 1848 U.S. presidential election by telegraph, George F. Lewis helped publish the news of Zachary Taylor 's win?
text: Did you know that much of the stone material studied by archeologists at the 12th-century fortress of Tasghîmût near Marrakesh has since been hauled off by local builders?
text: Did you know that Dorothy Spiers was the first woman to qualify as an actuary in the United Kingdom?
text: Did you know that WACH-TV in Newport News, Virginia , pleaded with the FCC to regulate networks because another station was "hogging" affiliations?
text: Did you know that Renatus Mészár , who made his opera debut at the Munich Biennale and then was a member of the NDR Chor , has appeared as Wotan in Wagner's Ring cycle , including on DVD?
text: Did you know that the Guinness World Record for the largest bowl of braised pork rice is 647 kg (1,426 lb)?
text: Did you know that in the 1858 Staten Island Quarantine War , angry local residents burned down the United States' largest quarantine facility after years of opposition?
text: Did you know that self-taught Israeli singer-songwriter Ishay Ribo has released four studio albums, two of them certified gold and one platinum?
text: Did you know that Red Dead Redemption 2 was developed by a team of 1,600 people ?
text: Did you know that Samuel May Williams borrowed against his brother's credit to purchase the 125-ton schooner Invincible on behalf of Texian rebels ?
text: Did you know that the Isla dela Victoria resort and casino under construction in Kawit Island, Cebu City , Philippines, is named for a city officer murdered for his role in the fight against illegal fishing ?
text: Did you know that Margaret Lyons , the first female vice president of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation , was nicknamed the "Dragon Lady"?
text: Did you know that for their 2019 documentary film The Elephant Queen , the two directors followed elephant herds for four years?
text: Did you know that Rear Admiral Ma Weiming has led the development of the electromagnetic catapult system for China's future aircraft carriers ?
text: Did you know that the bark of Guibourtia tessmannii is much esteemed in traditional medicine and is often removed from living trees?
text: Did you know that George W. Hotchkiss published the world's first lumber journal, the Lumberman's Gazette ?
text: Did you know that a fake version of Bish 's album Carrots and Sticks became the sixth-bestselling album in Japan for the week of its release?
text: Did you know that George Wimpey CEO Joe Dwyer thought general contracting was a "mug's game" and converted the firm into a housebuilder?
text: Did you know that the death of a track marshal as a result of a two-car collision on lap five of the 2001 Australian Grand Prix was not announced until after the race ended?
text: Did you know that John Cule was forced to learn Italian because his batman spoke no English?
text: Did you know that Manisha Moun kept her boxing interest a secret from her father until he read in a newspaper that she had won a medal?
text: Did you know that in his Purcell Realizations , Benjamin Britten created arrangements for voice and piano of songs by Henry Purcell , as a commemoration of the 250th anniversary in 1945 of Purcell's death?
text: Did you know that Anne C. Morel was the first woman to become a full professor of mathematics at the University of Washington ?
text: Did you know that Shinori Fort in Hokkaido was twice sacked by the Ainu ?
text: Did you know that businessman Delford M. Smith acquired the Spruce Goose for the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum in McMinnville, Oregon ?
text: Did you know that subjects of Venezuelan films of the 1890s include a dentist pulling teeth in a hotel and a man getting into a brawl with a stagecoach driver ?
text: Did you know that botanist George R. Proctor collected more than 55,000 specimens, had 31 species named after him, and was convicted of a conspiracy to murder his wife?
text: Did you know that New York City's Beekman Tower , built as housing for women in college sororities, was later patronized by United Nations delegates?
text: Did you know that cricketer Yashasvi Jaiswal lived in a tent and sold panipuri before becoming the youngest List A double centurion ?
text: Did you know that the assassin bug Rhynocoris marginatus injects venomous saliva into its prey to paralyse it?
text: Did you know that Rhode Island Public Radio 's 2007 acquisition of WAKX brought NPR service to communities in southern Rhode Island for the first time?
text: Did you know that Helmuth Froschauer , a former member of the Vienna Boys' Choir , later conducted the ensemble on 22 international tours?
text: Did you know that Massport is expanding its Logan Express service, expecting to remove up to three million vehicle trips from the roads in and around Boston's Logan International Airport ?
text: Did you know that Tsai Ying-wen jokingly said that his award-winning book had sold well because readers mistook the author as Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen ?
text: Did you know that a cross from the grave of a Canadian World War I soldier was brought back to Canada by W. A. Fry , and now hangs in St. Paul's Anglican Church in Dunnville, Ontario ?
text: Did you know that Louisiana radio station WBOX lost more than 90 percent of its advertisers as a result of a 1965 boycott by the Ku Klux Klan ?
text: Did you know that Chinese businessman Zhang Zhenxin bought a majority share of the Castlemartyr Resort in Ireland after Kanye West and Kim Kardashian spent part of their honeymoon there?
text: Did you know that each Xyloterinus politus larva has its own individual cradle?
text: Did you know that Gwendolyne Cowart – the "youngest girl in the south" to obtain a commercial pilot's license – went on to serve as a Women Airforce Service Pilot (WASP) during World War II?
text: Did you know that the song " A Pittance of Time " was written to remind people to observe the two-minute silence on Remembrance Day ?
text: Did you know that the "GOETHE 1" car registration plate of UC Irvine professor Thomas P. Saine was featured in a German novel?
text: Did you know that players are only likely to hear around one-third of all the music created for Red Dead Redemption 2 in a standard playthrough?
text: Did you know that before becoming a film director, Nepal's Nischal Basnet went to Australia to study 3D animation , but ended up studying hospitality and becoming a chef?
text: Did you know that today's MLS Cup 2019 will be the third cup final in four years to feature Seattle Sounders FC and Toronto FC ?
text: Did you know that Christof Nel staged the world premiere of Thomas Brasch 's play Rotter and the first production in German of Aulis Sallinen 's opera Kullervo ?
text: Did you know that in a single week in 1992, a four-man team including Mick Fowler and Andy Nisbet climbed all the main stacks of the Drongs ?
text: Did you know that Christina Maria Rantetana was buried in a combined military-traditional funeral, with a salvo of shots as her body was placed in a niche 30 metres (100 ft) up a cliff?
text: Did you know that Hawaii radio station KKON 's change of format from "beautiful music" to a rock-and-roll/country mix in 1974 lasted just one day?
text: Did you know that Anne L. Stevens disguised herself in order to enroll in the male-only mechanics pit crew at a race track?
text: Did you know that UK prime minister Boris Johnson said he would "rather be dead in a ditch" than seek an extension to Brexit under the terms of the European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 2) Act 2019 ?
text: Did you know that paediatrician Ji Xiaocheng co-founded the first neonatal intensive care unit in China?
text: Did you know that the lamenting grasshopper seems to be expanding its range northwards in Italy, possibly as a result of climate change?
text: Did you know that Belgian bass Tijl Faveyts , recognized internationally since his 2006 performance as Mozart's Sarastro at the Aix-en-Provence Festival , has portrayed both Fasolt and Hunding in Der Ring in Minden ?
text: Did you know that for his narrative poetry novel The Long Take , Robin Robertson became the first poet and first Scot to win the Walter Scott Prize ?
text: Did you know that Jack Hadley founded his own black history museum in Thomasville, Georgia ?
text: Did you know that Jennifer Morgan , co-chief executive officer at SAP SE , is the first woman CEO of a company on the DAX index?
text: Did you know that after a secret purchase from Europe, the Special Group became the first Indian troops to be equipped with the AK-47 ?
text: Did you know that the death of Tony Renna and major accidents involving four other drivers led the Indy Racing League to lower car speeds and engine horsepower from the 2004 Indianapolis 500 onward?
text: Did you know that two men who plotted to assassinate King George I were arrested in the Green Man public house in 1722?
text: Did you know that Peng Yuxing was a "czar" of China's military–industrial complex ?
text: Did you know that a vandal "knew what he was doing" when he disconnected the fuse blocks to WEYY 's transmitter, keeping it off the air for two and a half hours?
text: Did you know that director Kunihiko Ikuhara sought to make the 1999 film Adolescence of Utena "more naughty" than the television series it was adapted from ?
text: Did you know that Togashi Masachika was restored to power by a rebel army , only to later commit suicide when confronted by a similar force?
text: Did you know that Edite Estrela MEP received 80,000 emails in opposition to a nonbinding European Union resolution in favour of sex education and other reproductive rights?
text: Did you know that Melissa Leilani Larson ' s play Pilot Program imagines a future where members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are asked to practice polygamy again?
text: Did you know that the Qarhan Playa's Bieletan subbasin – including the Suli , South Suli , Dabiele , and Xiaobiele salt lakes – is China's largest source of brine lithium?
text: Did you know that for his role in the annexation of Crimea in 2014, Yevgeny Bushmin was awarded the medal "For the Return of Crimea" by Russia, and placed under sanctions by the United States?
text: Did you know that the Union Literary Institute was established after the Indiana General Assembly barred African Americans from attending public schools?
text: Did you know that wheelchair rugby co-inventor Duncan Campbell is nicknamed "the Quadfather"?
text: Did you know that Seneca Village , a community composed mainly of free black people, was destroyed in the 1850s to make way for New York City's Central Park ?
text: Did you know that German engineer Hermann Oestrich became a Knight of the Legion of Honour for developing the Snecma Atar turbojet engines?
text: Did you know that just three years after starting radio station WESQ , North Carolina Wesleyan College sold it, partly because of a failure to integrate the station into its curriculum?
text: Did you know that James Brown , a visually impaired Paralympian , recently climbed atop an aeroplane to protest against government inaction on climate change ?
text: Did you know that the Society of Gentleman Practisers in the Courts of Law and Equity sought to increase the fees payable to solicitors and attorneys, which had been fixed for more than a century?
text: Did you know that President of Georgetown University Lawrence C. Gorman worked to have the first black students admitted as undergraduates?
text: Did you know that one user said of JOSS , an interactive programming system at RAND , "it's better than beer"?
text: Did you know that Hall of Fame players Curly Lambeau and Arnie Herber both played in the Green Bay East–Green Bay West football rivalry ?
text: Did you know that in 1985, Hezi Shai and two other captured soldiers were returned to Israel in exchange for 1,150 Palestinian and Lebanese security prisoners ?
text: Did you know that the first chapter of Go For It, Nakamura! was commissioned to fill a gap of empty pages in the manga magazine in which it was published?
text: Did you know that Abraham Groves is credited with performing the first appendectomy in North America?
text: Did you know that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation wound up operating a radio station when it seized a failed Tennessee bank, which in turn had seized WIDD ?
text: Did you know that Ding Shisun considered his own tenure as President of Peking University a failure, but scholar Ji Xianlin called him one of the two best presidents in the institution's history?
text: Did you know that poison devil's-pepper has been used both as rat poison and as a traditional medicine for humans?
text: Did you know that Toki Pona , a constructed language devised in 2001, uses only around 120 to 125 root words?
text: Did you know that Ramatoulie DK Sanneh , The Gambia's first woman general, has campaigned against gender-based violence?
text: Did you know that Ramin Djawadi was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for an episode of the Westworld season 2 soundtrack , but lost out to his own work on Game of Thrones season 7 ?
text: Did you know that Jiang Weipu has been called the "patron saint of lianhuanhua "?
text: Did you know that the assassin bug Rhynocoris longifrons will feed on moth larvae in preference to sap-sucking pests ?
text: Did you know that Mikhail Semyonov swapped a career in mining for one in politics, rising to the position of Chairman of the People's Khural of Buryatia ?
text: Did you know that Mill Creek, Washington , was not named after a mill or a creek?
text: Did you know that Khema , one of the Buddha's chief female disciples, attained enlightenment before even becoming a nun?
text: Did you know that none of the people who established North Carolina radio station WVSP had any prior experience in radio broadcasting?
text: Did you know that Hungarian pianists Márta Kurtág and her husband performed together for 60 years, often from his collection entitled Játékok (' Games ' )?
text: Did you know that Brazil was the only country with an exhibit at the 1918 Bronx "World's Fair" ?
text: Did you know that Rabbi Shimon Baadani , a senior leader of Israel's Shas party, once said that those who did not vote for the party would go to hell?
text: Did you know that the Sierra de Ajusco-Chichinauhtzin mountain range in Mexico is made up of more than one hundred volcanic cones?
text: Did you know that Ernest Graves Jr. was one of four generations of his family to go to West Point , all of whom graduated first or second in their class?
text: Did you know that today's 2019 Rugby World Cup Final between England and South Africa is a repeat of the 2007 final ?
text: Did you know that Thomas Sturgis was a prisoner of war in the American Civil War , a prominent cattle grower, and New York City Fire Commissioner ?
text: Did you know that a 1945 ordinance by the Cebu City Council was the first to regulate cockfighting venues in the Philippines?
text: Did you know that in The Book of Gutsy Women , the mother-and-daughter authors feature, among others, the 17th-century nun Juana Inés de la Cruz and climate activist Greta Thunberg ?
text: Did you know that Canadian SoundCloud rapper bbno$ became interested in music after suffering a back injury that prevented him from pursuing his dreams as a competitive swimmer?
text: Did you know that the All Blacks were once defeated by Rhodesia , a non- test rugby playing country?
text: Did you know that Kurt Rackow and his soldiers were trapped for hours during the Battle of Verdun , even though their comrades were just 20 ft (6 m) away?
text: Did you know that Bill Walton made 21 of his 22 field goal attempts in the 1973 NCAA University Division Basketball Championship Game ?
text: Did you know that Swedish sociologist Ulf Himmelstrand has been called the "father of sociology in Nigeria"?
text: Did you know that XHFAMX-TDT "La Octava", which opens tonight, marks Grupo Radio Centro 's return to Mexico City television for the first time since 1972?
text: Did you know that Grigory Skornyakov-Pisarev wrote on mechanics , investigated a tsarina , was in charge of the Ladoga Canal , and sported with concubines as commandant of Okhotsk ?
text: Did you know that the film Under the Knife argues that Britain's state-run National Health Service is being intentionally privatised?
text: Did you know that in his 1950 speech at the United Nations, Chinese diplomat Wu Xiuquan demanded that the United States withdraw its forces from Taiwan and Korea?
text: Did you know that rings of modular forms are stacky thanks to GAGA ?
text: Did you know that American tenor Joshua Guerrero stepped in at late notice to sing Almaviva in a Grammy Award -winning production of The Ghosts of Versailles ?
text: Did you know that the common name of the Halloween darter refers to the orange and black coloration that individuals develop during the breeding season?
text: Did you know that Zdeňka Wiedermannová-Motyčková established the first girls' secondary school in Moravia ?
text: Did you know that the skeleton frog Boophis popi can be identified by its bright red irises?
text: Did you know that the namesake of Betsy Head Park left half her estate to the New York City parks system and only $5 to her daughter?
text: Did you know that the Coffin Cave mold beetle may not actually be found in Coffin Cave?
text: Did you know that forensic artists at the University of Dundee used 100-year-old photographs of a skull to digitally recreate the face of an accused witch in Scotland ?
text: Did you know that John Moutoussamy is the only African-American to have designed a high-rise building—which featured "colorful walls and psychedelic carpets"—in the Chicago Loop ?
text: Did you know that the first owners of radio station KSTO fled Guam after running up a debt of $60,000 in less than seven months of operation?
text: Did you know that the Indian Air Force has launched two mobile air combat games , Guardians of the Skies and A Cut Above , to reach out to youth?
text: Did you know that the 1988 opening of New York City's Archer Avenue lines , expected to lessen congestion, ended up slashing ridership at Parsons Boulevard station by half?
text: Did you know that Miley Cyrus gained over 2.3 million likes on the video-sharing platform TikTok when she danced and lip-synced with Cody Simpson to " Stupid " by Ashnikko ?
text: Did you know that the Fatimid Caliphate prepared their conquest of Egypt in 969 through a long and patient propaganda effort, resulting in it being swift and almost unopposed?
text: Did you know that computer scientist Odest Chadwicke Jenkins taught a robot to do the Cabbage Patch by demonstrating the dance?
text: Did you know that due to Spanish singer Melody 's three-year disappearance from the public eye, she was rumoured to be dead?
text: Did you know that the director of a 2018 documentary uncovered evidence of FBI surveillance of Arab-American families in her hometown outside Chicago?
text: Did you know that TMNT Shellraiser , the world's steepest roller coaster, beat the previous record holder by half a degree?
text: Did you know that German SS commander and convicted war criminal Kurt Meyer falsely claimed that the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre was the only war crime that SS troops ever committed?
text: Did you know that the Field Music album Plumb was nominated for the 2012 Mercury Prize , even though the band thought that their odds were "minimal to nil"?
text: Did you know that Lu Youquan 's book on Piaget's theory of cognitive development won a national education award in China?
text: Did you know that pygmy Ota Benga was moved to the Howard Colored Orphan Asylum after people objected to him being shown in the Bronx Zoo ?
text: Did you know that Lynn Family Stadium shares its namesake with another stadium in the same city?
text: Did you know that Marco Streng 's Genesis Group has a bitcoin mine in Iceland?
text: Did you know that HMS Melpomene missed the Battle of Trafalgar , but arrived in time to tow away damaged enemy vessels?
text: Did you know that medical scholar Ronald Grossarth-Maticek directed a long-term study involving 30,000 people from 18,000 households, spanning more than 20 years?
text: Did you know that the songs on the Kabir Singh soundtrack album, including " Tujhe Kitna Chahne Lage " ('I have begun to really love you'), have been described as " saccharine rock"?
text: Did you know that Mexican drug lord María Antonieta Rodríguez Mata controlled a drug trafficking ring that extended across Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico, and the U.S.?
text: Did you know that in baseball , it is not against the rules to steal signs ?
text: Did you know that actor Ryan Reynolds has lent his voice to a garden snail, a caveman, and Pikachu ?
text: Did you know that the sale of WWIZ radio in Lorain, Ohio , undertaken in order to raise capital to build WXTV in Youngstown , prompted both stations to lose their licenses ?
text: Did you know that Polish courtier and writer Krzysztof Warszewicki was a respected orator who spoke at the funerals of Catherine, queen consort of Poland , and Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor ?
text: Did you know that the Concert Hall inside the BBC's Broadcasting House was pressed into service as a dormitory at the outbreak of World War II?
text: Did you know that Sally Milgrim designed the dress that Eleanor Roosevelt wore to her husband's first inaugural ball ?
text: Did you know that after laying its eggs on a leaf, the female mango leaf-cutting weevil severs the leaf near its base and lets it fall to the ground?
text: Did you know that the Jewish a cappella group Six13 sings traditional Hanukkah songs and prayers to music from Star Wars ?
text: Did you know that before entering journalism, G. Gould Lincoln was part of Thomas Edison 's team that looked for nickel in Canada?
text: Did you know that Michler's Palace , a townhouse destroyed in the Warsaw Uprising , is remembered for a wartime song named after it?
text: Did you know that Culley C. Carson III 's research has included treatments for Peyronie's disease , in which the penis curves when erect?
text: Did you know that China's largest landfill closed in November 2019, having reached capacity 25 years early?
text: Did you know that baritone Heiko Trinsinger of the Aalto Theatre appeared as Alberich in Der Ring in Minden , in which reviewers noted expressivity in every moment and a thunderous curse of the ring?
text: Did you know that the Battle of Marshall's Elm has been described as the "first real confrontation" of the First English Civil War ?
text: Did you know that to maintain personal privacy, manga artist Paru Itagaki wears a large chicken mask that obscures her face for all public appearances?
text: Did you know that Kiuchi Kyō , believed to be the first Japanese woman to be a school principal, worked to improve the status of women teachers?
text: Did you know that on May 9, 1970, Richard Nixon spent the two hours before dawn at the Lincoln Memorial talking to students protesting the Vietnam War?
text: Did you know that Jay Shah oversaw the Gujarat Cricket Association 's project of constructing the world's largest cricket stadium ?
text: Did you know that British actress Naomi Watts ' roles include CIA officer Valerie Plame , journalist Gretchen Carlson , and Princess Diana ?
text: Did you know that during the 2004 US presidential election , Hans Riemer ran an online campaign against the military draft, leading then- President Bush to coin the phrase " on the Internets "?
text: Did you know that according to academic Yo Tomita, the Bach Digital portal website has largely replaced printed reference works as first point of entry for Bach scholarship?
text: Did you know that as a child, American Civil War historian Charles P. Roland heard first-hand accounts of the war from veterans who served in it?
text: Did you know that the Grandview Heights Aquatic Centre has the world's longest spanning timber catenary arched roof?
text: Did you know that Shetlander Johnnie Notions , a physician with no formal medical background, developed a smallpox inoculation that successfully immunised thousands of people before Jenner's vaccine was available?
text: Did you know that the Christmas darter is considered a priority species by the state of South Carolina , but of least concern by the International Union for Conservation of Nature ?
text: Did you know that Stan Lee supported the viral fan campaign to allow Donald Glover to audition for the role of Peter Parker in The Amazing Spider-Man ‬?
text: Did you know that the Enlightenment concept of doux commerce suggests that commerce civilizes people and can even eliminate violence?
text: Did you know that the novel Tzilla is based on author Judith Katzir 's great-grandmother, who invited her lover to live with her and her husband in Palestine?
text: Did you know that Crossroads Village in Genesee County, Michigan, has a narrow huckleberry ?
text: Did you know that " Baby Yoda ", a character in the Star Wars spin-off The Mandalorian , was named "2019's biggest new character" by The Guardian ?
text: Did you know that Stribodh , first published in 1857, was one of the earliest magazines in India to be aimed at a female audience?
text: Did you know that actress Kathryn Crosby earned a nursing degree at the Queen of Angels Hospital in Los Angeles?
text: Did you know that a year after Five Ash Down Independent Chapel opened, doctrinal differences caused some members to leave and form Uckfield Baptist Church ?
text: Did you know that in 1982, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the refusal of the International Longshoremen's Association to unload cargo from the Soviet Union was illegal under the National Labor Relations Act ?
text: Did you know that Liang Baibo and Yu Feng were among China's first female cartoonists?
text: Did you know that Burleigh House in Enfield , near London, was said to be haunted by a ghost wearing a doublet , hose , and a ruffle ?
text: Did you know that although Half Alive wrote their song " Still Feel " with the intention of making it unattractive for radio stations, it became their breakout hit?
text: Did you know that when the Thai government ordered her return from the U.S. during World War II, PhD student Poonsapaya Kraiyong joined the Free Thai resistance movement instead?
text: Did you know that the demise of Sportsvue , which lost $2 million in its 10 months of operation, prompted Jim Fitzgerald to sell the Milwaukee Bucks basketball team?
text: Did you know that tenor Mirko Ludwig took part in the opening of Hamburg's Elbphilharmonie as a member of a vocal quintet ?
text: Did you know that the sermons of Greek Catholic priest Michal Mašlej inspired the villagers of Oľšavica to hide Jews during the Holocaust even though German soldiers were quartered in the village?
text: Did you know that it can take Yvonne Walker Keshick up to a year to gather the porcupine quills and other materials she needs for a particular work of art?
text: Did you know that the British Super League XXV will feature a Canadian rugby league team for the first time?
text: Did you know that Chinese economist Wei Xinghua refused to be known as an "authority" and proclaimed that China had no world-class authority in economics?
text: Did you know that the Famine Inquiry Commission has been criticized by scholars and Indian nationalists for exonerating the British government of responsibility for the 1943 Bengal famine ?
text: Did you know that Rabbi Reuven Elbaz used to frequent pool halls and coffee shops around Jerusalem to talk with secular Jewish youth about religion?
text: Did you know that after writing a programming language used to publish books on the humanities , Michael Barnett wrote the SNAP language to teach programming to humanities students?
text: Did you know that two-spirit artist Storme Webber has used various media to retell her family's experience at The Casino , one of the oldest gay bars on the West Coast ?
text: Did you know that in Requiem for the Living , a setting by Dan Forrest of selected texts from the Requiem Mass and an additional movement about Vanitas , the choir sings seemingly endless melodies?
text: Did you know that former naval diver Esther Tan has been dubbed "Singapore's G.I. Jane "?
text: Did you know that Und es waren Hirten in derselben Gegend , the second part of Bach's Christmas Oratorio and written for the second day of Christmas, focuses on the annunciation to the shepherds ?
text: Did you know that Pomo basket weaver Susan Billy comes from a family of basket weavers that includes Susan Santiago Billy and Elsie Allen ?
text: Did you know that the Mexican Netflix series The House of Flowers has been compared to such disparate films as Sharknado and the Oscar-winning All About My Mother ?
text: Did you know that Turkish folk singer and bağlama player Arif Sağ helped introduce Anatolian music to the West in a 1996 concert with the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne ?
text: Did you know that in the absence of males in North America, the female woolly alder sawfly reproduces through parthenogenesis ?
text: Did you know that Leena Al-Hadid is Jordan's permanent representative to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe and the United Nations in Vienna?
text: Did you know that after John Lennon called the Beatles more popular than Jesus , KLUE radio responded by staging a bonfire of Beatles memorabilia – and its transmitter was struck by lightning the next day?
text: Did you know that Yoshi Kasuya was appointed to the Order of the Precious Crown for her contributions to women's education?
text: Did you know that the German carol " Kommet, ihr Hirten ", derived by Carl Riedel from a Bohemian song in Czech, addresses shepherds, men, and women?
text: Did you know that James A. Ward was one of the last surviving graduates of the Jesuit novitiate in White Marsh, Maryland ?
text: Did you know that the Christmas Island flying fox matures more slowly than nearly all other bats?
text: Did you know that religious ministers revealed the winning numbers to illegal lotteries on WOOK radio, by hiding them in Bible references?
text: Did you know that confectioner Tom Smith is traditionally described as the inventor of the Christmas cracker , in 1847?
text: Did you know that A Rubber Band Christmas is a novelty album featuring popular Christmas songs played on rubber bands, staplers, and other office equipment?
text: Did you know that in later life, Paul Mickelson bought the organ upon which he had made his first recording as a solo artist at NBC ?
text: Did you know that after the ancient Shire Oak fell in 1941, part of it was carved into a sculpture of the Madonna and Child for a local church?
text: Did you know that Kavya Manyapu led the development of a dust-repelling fabric for space suits using carbon nanotubes ?
text: Did you know that Taylor Swift wrote, recorded, and released " Christmas Tree Farm " in six days?
text: Did you know that as pastor of a Catholic church in Baltimore , William Francis Clarke worked to integrate black and Italian Catholics into parish life?
text: Did you know that Austrian general Konrad Valentin von Kaim was mortally wounded at the Battle of Pozzolo on Christmas Day, 1800?
text: Did you know that " The Sinner's Redemption " was called a "rude old carol" favoured by peasants?
text: Did you know that John Rutter wrote the text and music for Angels' Carol , a choral piece for Christmas, using the Latin " Gloria in excelsis Deo " from the Christmas story as a refrain?
text: Did you know that Tlingit artist Tanis S'eiltin 's mixed-media installation Hit includes video, a replica M16 rifle , and a glass tank of oil and water?
text: Did you know that the establishment of a secondary population of Christmas white-eye has reduced its risk of extinction?
text: Did you know that French Resistance member Odette Abadi was a co-founder of Réseau Marcel, which saved more than 500 Jewish children during the Holocaust ?
text: Did you know that 1 William Street was described by the New York Architect magazine as New York City's "most complete banking institution" upon its completion?
text: Did you know that Erza Muqoli was a founding member of the French child music group Kids United , which had three number-one albums during her tenure?
text: Did you know that a juniper tree in the median of Interstate 17 in Arizona is mysteriously decorated every year at Christmas?
text: Did you know that Alku and Alku Toinen , built by Finnish immigrants, were the first nonprofit housing cooperatives in New York City?
text: Did you know that Hong Kong protests in November 2019 included an escape by protesters at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University , by rope and via underground sewers?
text: Did you know that Mohammad Tabrani first proposed the term " bahasa Indonesia " for the national language of Indonesia?
text: Did you know that one of the versions of Vivaldi 's Magnificat included five arias to be performed by girl soloists from the Ospedale della Pietà orphanage, who were named in the score?
text: Did you know that Kunihiko Ikuhara , who was one of the directors of Sailor Moon , cosplayed as Sailor Mars to promote his series Schell Bullet ?
text: Did you know that the Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky , Jacqueline Coleman , is a basketball coach and the granddaughter of a National Basketball Association player ?
text: Did you know that Darren Appleton forfeited two matches at the 2019 Antalya Open event after deciding to take a nap between matches?
text: Did you know that soprano Irma Beilke appeared as Marzelline in Beethoven's Fidelio on 4 September 1945 in the first opera performance in Berlin after World War II?
text: Did you know that New York City's $4 million Squibb Park Bridge was demolished less than seven years after it was built?
text: Did you know that Shen Jilan , who successfully proposed the clause of equal pay for equal work in China's first constitution in 1954, is still serving as a congresswoman 65 years later?
text: Did you know that in 1817, the Ontario became the first steamboat to see active service on the Great Lakes at Lake Ontario ?
text: Did you know that the surgeon Thomas Morstede served the three successive English kings Henry IV , Henry V , and Henry VI ?
text: Did you know that The History of Doing describes a fundamentalist Hindu protest, with many women part of it, in favour of sati , the burning of widows?
text: Did you know that Jef Raskin would prove his FLOW language was easy to use by closing his eyes, typing randomly on the keyboard, and producing executable programs ?
text: Did you know that when lead miners discovered Dream Cave in Derbyshire in 1822, they found it to contain the near-complete skeleton of a woolly rhinoceros ?
text: Did you know that U.S. Department of Defense civil servant Laura Cooper has noted that she has frequently been the "only woman in the room" for much of her career?
text: Did you know that the 1766 Istanbul earthquake claimed 4,000 victims, 880 of them in the city?
text: Did you know that Wilhelm Keitel was promoted to Chief of the Armed Forces High Command because of his craven willingness to function as Adolf Hitler 's mouthpiece?
text: Did you know that Clairo drew inspiration for her songs " Sofia " and " Bags " from her crushes on women?
text: Did you know that Shiza Shahid and Malala Yousafzai co-founded the Malala Fund in 2013 to promote education for every girl?
text: Did you know that Intelligence Community Campus-Bethesda buildings in Maryland were originally built without windows to conceal the classified work going on inside?
text: Did you know that after Chinese poet Liu Shahe was denounced as a "filial descendant of the landlord class" in 1957, he performed forced labour for eight years and was unable to publish for two decades?
text: Did you know that since modernisation work in 2016, trains can only call at Pilning railway station when travelling eastbound?
text: Did you know that Andrey Kelin , the new Russian ambassador to the United Kingdom , holds the diplomatic rank of ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary ?
text: Did you know that the banana weevil is considered the most serious insect pest of bananas?
text: Did you know that HIV researcher Diane Havlir was the U.S. national short track champion in 1974?
text: Did you know that in his 1915 En blanc et noir for two pianos, Claude Debussy quoted Luther's hymn " Ein feste Burg " and dedicated the work in part to Jacques Charlot, who fell in World War I?
text: Did you know that Tom Chase has described himself as "the Wally Cleaver of porn"?
text: Did you know that the pianist Clara Schumann , who toured Europe for decades, taught 68 students at Dr. Hoch's in Frankfurt , including those from Britain and the U.S.?
text: Did you know that to assist the Australians with INTERFET logistics , the U.S. Army brought in helicopters from Russia and Bulgaria?
text: Did you know that Sharon Priest , the Secretary of State of Arkansas , launched the state's first internet-based information network in 1995?
text: Did you know that KSLN-TV , the ABC television affiliate in Salina, Kansas , folded twice in three years under two different owners?
text: Did you know that Louie Cullen , known as "the last of the suffragettes", started a prison hunger strike after her arrest for a 1908 attempt to rush into the House of Commons to promote women's right to vote in the UK ?
text: Did you know that a Sony α7S II captured the first commercial 4K footage in space from the International Space Station ?
text: Did you know that chess player Carissa Yip defeated a grandmaster at the age of ten?
text: Did you know that the Carolina Watchman newspaper supported the Confederacy during the Civil War , but backed the Union cause both before and after?
text: Did you know that Frank Palmer started in the advertising business on April 1, 1969, and retired 50 years later to the day?
text: Did you know that the 2001 manga series World of the S&M was released in English as The World Exists for Me ?
text: Did you know that Mongol general Uriyangkhadai invaded the territory of the Song dynasty in southern China by going through Tibet and Vietnam?
text: Did you know that Hirtodrosophila mycetophaga mate on bracket fungi , selectively choosing those with a lighter surface to enhance the visibility of their courtship displays?
text: Did you know that in 2014, Moroccan-born long-distance runner Adil Bouafif won his fourth gold medal in the 10,000 metres at the Swedish national championships?
text: Did you know that the Austin, Nichols and Company Warehouse is one of the few Egyptian Revival buildings in New York City?
text: Did you know that English scientist Nicola Curtin donated to charity the £865,000 she received for helping develop the cancer drug Rubraca ?
text: Did you know that Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie was personally present at the Rue Sainte-Catherine Roundup ?
text: Did you know that Berna Gözbaşı is the first woman president of a football club playing in the Turkish top-level men's league?
text: Did you know that 17 extensions and modifications of the construction permit were necessary before Hawaii radio station KFSH went on the air in 1985, more than eight years after the permit was awarded?
text: Did you know that Jacques Durand studied at the Conservatoire de Paris together with Claude Debussy , and later published both Debussy's compositions and his edition of Chopin 's piano works?
text: Did you know that Coelopa pilipes fly populations can live at temperatures of 40 °C (104 °F) within piles of kelp , even in areas covered with snow and ice?
text: Did you know that Ms. Monopoly replaces properties with inventions women contributed to, such as Wi-Fi , chocolate chip cookies , and modern shapewear ?
text: Did you know that Concert Grove in New York City's Prospect Park is used as a sculpture garden because its acoustics turned out to be bad for musical performances?
text: Did you know that Juli Briskman , who received international coverage for flipping off President Donald Trump, went on to enter politics and win an election?
text: Did you know that an article published in the Satyaprakash weekly, which criticised Hindu religious leaders, resulted in a libel case ?
text: Did you know that after her own childhood experiences, Carla Herrero founded Rompe el Silencio ("Breaking the Silence") to support youth who have suffered bullying, abuse, and psychological disorders?
text: Did you know that St. Louis County police arrested engineers and announcers of KXLW because their tower violated local zoning laws?
text: Did you know that water damage postponed the premiere production of the science fiction folk musical Rags Parkland Sings the Songs of the Future ?
text: Did you know that John Blackwell was dismissed for being "bigoted and obstinate" by Isambard Kingdom Brunel for suggesting a new road might cause a landslide , which indeed happened once the road was built?
text: Did you know that before Minoru Yoneyama founded the sports-equipment company Yonex , he was a member of a Japanese suicide unit during World War II?
text: Did you know that the Hong Kong biopic Lost in the Fumes was rated M18 in Singapore due to "political sensitivities" and screened only to members of the country's film society?
text: Did you know that Nellie Two Bear Gates made beaded artwork that depicted Yanktonai Dakota history and culture?
text: Did you know that the 2001 Major League Baseball contraction plan would have resulted in the elimination of two teams from MLB?
text: Did you know that Bernd Loebe , who began his career as a music journalist, received the 2018 International Opera Award in the category of Leadership in Opera?
text: Did you know that Qaleh Kharabeh , a fort on the Gorgan Plain in Iran, may have housed troops manning the defence of the Great Wall of Gorgan ?
text: Did you know that Chris Morocco has reverse-engineered dishes by Gordon Ramsay , Jamie Oliver , and Guy Fieri from taste, touch, and smell alone?
text: Did you know that the side of the Victoria Warehouse in Old Trafford featured murals by Walter Kershaw for nearly 30 years?
text: Did you know that Nevada radio station KONE was sued in 1966 by the proprietors of 16 musical works, who claimed that the station did not pay royalties for playing songs such as " San Antonio Rose " and " Sweet Georgia Brown "?
text: Did you know that Catriona Ida Macleod has received a Social Change Award from Rhodes University for her work in promoting African-based psychology?
text: Did you know that the Royal Navy 's Type 277 radar was so successful that it served as the basis for Navy radars for years, and was used on land by the Royal Air Force and the British Army ?
text: Did you know that American tenor Jeff Martin has appeared as the Astrologer in Rimsky-Korsakov 's The Golden Cockerel at Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre ?
text: Did you know that by the 12th century, the relics of St Adelphus attracted so many pilgrims to the Neuwiller-lès-Saverne Abbey that the Benedictines built a secondary church nearby?
text: Did you know that the video game developer Rockstar San Diego once worked on XGirl , an "interactive girlfriend" experience for the Xbox console?
text: Did you know that after Steven Koecher's disappearance ten years ago today, his family ate at International House of Pancakes for four straight nights in response to a tip?
text: Did you know that infestations of the cotton jassid can be reduced by growing a cotton cultivar with hairy leaves?
text: Did you know that prior to debuting as a voice actress in 2018, Iori Saeki had been self-publishing songs as a dōjin musician for several years?
text: Did you know that after ineffective counsel led to a man's prison sentence being increased a hundredfold, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that attorneys are obligated to inform their clients about plea bargain offers?
text: Did you know that Siegfried Matthus composed the opera Judith for the reopening of the restored Semperoper , but it premiered at the Komische Oper Berlin , staged by Harry Kupfer ?
text: Did you know that concentration of land ownership has been linked to deforestation in 48 developing countries?
text: Did you know that Esther Killick repeatedly "gassed herself for science" in order to study carbon monoxide poisoning and acclimatisation ?
text: Did you know that Fred Thomas has been described as "the greatest Canadian athlete you've never heard of"?
text: Did you know that the television series The Bold Type is inspired by the life and career of former Cosmopolitan magazine editor-in-chief Joanna Coles ?
text: Did you know that Beethoven's only opera, Fidelio , was a failure in its original form, but was revised partly at the behest of Carl Weinmüller , who then appeared in the premiere in the bass role of Rocco?
text: Did you know that because photomicrographs of Longan witches broom-associated virus were not published, the virus was not initially accepted as the cause of the eponymous disease?
text: Did you know that according to the American Society of Civil Engineers , Thomas Evans Blackwell was the first hydraulic engineer in England?
text: Did you know that in the Newar festival of Depukhu , young men compete for the carcass of a young female goat that is first sacrificed by drowning in the Deopokhari pond in Khokana , Nepal?
text: Did you know that there is a lighthouse under the George Washington Bridge in Fort Washington Park ?
text: Did you know that Merryll Saylan helped pioneer the application of color and the use of secondary materials in woodturning art?
text: Did you know that a moth is being used in biological pest control of the sugarcane planthopper ?
text: Did you know that Chinese economist Zhang Peigang 's dissertation was translated into Spanish and used as a university textbook in Latin America in the 1950s, but was not published in Chinese until 1984?
text: Did you know that A Stanislaw Lem Reader showcases the work of one of the most widely read science fiction writers , including interviews on the relation of literature to philosophy and science?
text: Did you know that Educational Media Foundation 's 2006 acquisition of WSMU-FM marked the "first major foray" by Christian FM broadcasting into New England ?
text: Did you know that Colleen Barrett , the first female president of a major airline, appeared in patriotic advertisements for Southwest Airlines after the September 11 attacks ?
text: Did you know that Tell Qudadi , a buried Iron Age era fortress, was unknowingly used as the site of a military stronghold during World War I?
text: Did you know that the Sandyhills area of Glasgow once contained two coal mines, a factory making foamslag blocks, and a chemical works producing tar?
text: Did you know that British jurist Bin Cheng invented a legal theory which states that a customary international law may be created "overnight"?
text: Did you know that the Broe helmet , an artefact of the Vendel Period , was discovered while digging up a garden?
text: Did you know that although Ernest Fahmy played for Abertillery RFC in Wales, he opted to play international rugby for Scotland ?
text: Did you know that after taking the unprofitable station off the air, Harold Orr hired a crew of young announcers to broadcast on KSVY 12 hours a day, 6 days a week, to keep the license?
text: Did you know that Lu Shijia , founder of China's first university aerodynamics program, twice declined nominations to the Chinese Academy of Sciences ?
text: Did you know that the Balloon went up in 1784 and added air in 1802, but now Highways England wants to blow it up?
text: Did you know that German painter Gebhard Fugel led the team creating the monumental Crucifixion Panorama in Altötting , which became a UNESCO-listed monument?
text: Did you know that Sarazanmai was conceived as an anime series about supernatural monsters for an adult audience?
text: Did you know that Russian vice admiral Mikhail Motsak , who oversaw the salvage of the wreck of the submarine Kursk , is buried in the same cemetery as a number of the crew who died aboard the vessel?
text: Did you know that the 2001 BDO World Darts Championship featured an independent women's tournament for the first time in the competition's history?
text: Did you know that in 2018, Maëlle became the first female and youngest contestant ever to win the French version of The Voice ?
text: Did you know that the Seven Wonders of the Waterways include the UK's longest and highest aqueduct , its longest, deepest, and highest canal tunnel , and the world's only swinging aqueduct ?
text: Did you know that later in life, Jo Walker-Meador would be inducted into the hall of fame that she helped create?
text: Did you know that Virginia Kirkus reviewed 16,000 books for her bookshop service between the 1930s and 1960s?
text: Did you know that Dixit Maria , a motet in Latin by Hans Leo Hassler , sets to music the narrative of Mary 's consent to the Annunciation ?
text: Did you know that Chinese doctor Kang Laiyi spent more than 30 years researching the epidemiology of HIV ?
text: Did you know that Brooklyn 's 13th , 14th , and 23rd Regiment Armories , all built significantly over budget, were later converted to homeless shelters?
text: Did you know that Ben Kimura was among the first gay artists in Japan to achieve crossover success with a female audience in yaoi publications?
text: Did you know that future U.S. senator Howard Baker campaigned for president of the University of Tennessee student body on a platform to establish a campus radio station ?
text: Did you know that Myname 's record label was forced to destroy 20,000 CDs of the group's second single album after accidentally including Psy 's " Gangnam Style " as its sixth track?
text: Did you know that the Consolidated Edison Building has been called one of New York City's most "beautiful and magnificent structures", with a "Tower of Light"?
text: Did you know that Barrie Marmion spearheaded the development of the first vaccine against Q fever ?
text: Did you know that in Der Ring in Minden , the orchestra played at the back of the stage, and the singers all turned towards it to listen to the music at the end ?
text: Did you know that Hewahewa , a high priest of the Hawaiian religion , supported the abolition of the kapu system and the introduction of Christianity?
text: Did you know that low water levels at Loch Vaa threatened the remains of a historic crannog ?
text: Did you know that Gayl King became the first female darts player to compete in the PDC World Darts Championship after the Professional Darts Corporation invited her to play in the 2001 tournament ?
text: Did you know that there was a campaign to give Captain America a boyfriend ?
text: Did you know that the use of retentions in the British construction industry , which is now commonplace, had its origins in the Railway Mania of the 1840s?
text: Did you know that Indian-American chef Raji Jallepalli , who is credited with "originating the fusion of classic French and Indian cuisines", originally trained as a microbiologist ?
text: Did you know that the Peleng tarsier , a small carnivorous primate , can rotate its head nearly 180 degrees in either direction?
text: Did you know that German World War II general Heinz Guderian issued post-war apologetics for Hitler, writing that "his struggle was about Europe, even if he made dreadful mistakes and errors"?
text: Did you know that a young Bob Smith, later famous as Wolfman Jack , got his first radio job as "Daddy Jules" at WYOU in Newport News, Virginia ?
text: Did you know that William Chapple discovered Euler's theorem and Poncelet's porism ?
text: Did you know that sculptures of rats outside the Graybar Building , near Grand Central Terminal , were included to signify New York City's role as a "great transportation centre"?
text: Did you know that Alois Ickstadt founded a children's choir and an adult choir for the public broadcaster Hessischer Rundfunk , conducting the latter for 45 years?
text: Did you know that Red Dead Redemption 2 was the highest-rated game on Metacritic in 2018 ?
text: Did you know that despite fighting for more than two years to stop the other station from signing on, WGVL 's last day on the air was also WSPA-TV 's first?
text: Did you know that before becoming a professional mathematician, Chikako Mese was a record-breaking high school softball player?
text: Did you know that the otherwise inconclusive Polish–Bohemian War of 1345–1348 cemented Bohemian control of Silesia ?
text: Did you know that Kodama Naoko , creator of I Married My Best Friend To Shut My Parents Up , called the yuri manga series her first "light" work "in a long time"?
text: Did you know that feminist Carole De Saram caused the closure of a Citibank branch?
text: Did you know that the granulate ambrosia beetle is native to Asia but has spread as an invasive species to Africa, the Americas, Europe, and Oceania?
text: Did you know that the brother of Ugandan president Idi Amin was once delivered in a car boot to military commander Hussein Mohammed ?
text: Did you know that Memory: The Origins of Alien defines the Alien franchise as "a collective art form" inspired by H. P. Lovecraft , Francis Bacon , and the Greek Furies ?
text: Did you know that Charles Blackwell was the third Blackwell (after his father and his grandfather ) to be elected to the Institution of Civil Engineers ?
text: Did you know that jazz musicians Ben Tucker and Billy Taylor bought Savannah, Georgia , radio station WSOK and expanded its album collection from 20 to 4,000?
text: Did you know that letters which Charlotte Pistorius , the self-taught wife of a country pastor, wrote to intellectuals Friedrich Schleiermacher and Ernst Moritz Arndt were published with their works?
text: Did you know that there is a man in tweeds on a gallows outside the Green Man, Ashbourne ?
text: Did you know that public health historian Elizabeth Fee wrote on topics as varied as the history of HIV/AIDS , the racialized treatment of syphilis , bioterrorism , and the history of the toothbrush?
text: Did you know that the government of Thailand has branded the Buddhist celebration Magha Puja as a day of spiritual love and gratitude, to compete with Valentine's Day ?
text: Did you know that Sara Wesslin , featured on the BBC's 100 Women for 2019, is one of only two journalists in the world broadcasting in Skolt Sami ?
text: Did you know that the Polish–Bohemian War of 990 resulted in Poland taking control of Silesia ?
text: Did you know that Ignaz Saal , for decades a bass with the Imperial Court Theatre in Vienna, performed the bass parts in the world premieres of Haydn's oratorios Die Schöpfung and Die Jahreszeiten ?
text: Did you know that radio station KEYZ in Williston, North Dakota , owned a Beechcraft Bonanza aircraft and used it for news coverage, promotional events, sales calls, and search and rescue efforts?
text: Did you know that Unhappy the Land argues that the Irish are not the "most oppressed people ever"?
text: Did you know that Rhagoletis juglandis is a species of fly that infests walnuts?
text: Did you know that former Playboy model Susie Owens hand-produced up to 50,000 vials of perfume and lotion each year in her garage?
text: Did you know that The Cedars School is the first senior school in Great Britain to be based on the ethos of Opus Dei ?
text: Did you know that plant physiologist Hu Dujing cultivated Eucommia ulmoides to produce a substitute for rubber?
text: Did you know that the Lord & Taylor Building in New York City incorporated innovative window displays that could be lowered into the basement and swapped out?
text: Did you know that British journalist Anna Kessel co-founded the charity Women in Football, and initiated the Blue Plaque Rebellion, to promote gender equality for women in sport ?
text: Did you know that HKmap.live , an app tracking protests and police presence in Hong Kong , was removed by Apple from its App Store less than a week after being approved?
text: Did you know that Yang Enze , who built China's first fiber-optic communication system approved for practical use, taught until the age of 99?
text: Did you know that after development builds of the cancelled video game Lego Bionicle: The Legend of Mata Nui leaked online, Bionicle fans created a video game development studio to complete the game?
text: Did you know that Kathrin Göring portrayed both Fricka and Waltraute in Der Ring in Minden , and a critic called her scene in Götterdämmerung a highlight, noting her dramatic mezzo-soprano and intense acting?
text: Did you know that WXXX 's broadcast license was challenged in the 1970s because the station employed no African Americans in Hattiesburg, Mississippi , a city that was 30 percent black?
text: Did you know that research on pain in fish by Victoria Braithwaite resulted in new rules in the UK, Europe, and Canada to make fisheries more humane?
text: Did you know that string quartet Well-Strung has performed "Chelsea's Mom", a reimagining of " Stacy's Mom ", for Hillary Clinton?
text: Did you know that the chirps of the snowy tree cricket can be used to estimate the temperature?
text: Did you know that following the defense of Katowice on 4 September 1939, dozens of defenders, including a number of Polish Boy and Girl Scouts , were summarily executed ?
text: Did you know that Jedediah Sanger founded New Hartford , but gave his name to Sangerfield ?
text: Did you know that Rainbow Valley , one of the books in the Anne of Green Gables series, draws heavily on Lucy Maud Montgomery 's life in the Leaskdale Manse ?
text: Did you know that Chinese virologist George F. Gao led a test laboratory in Sierra Leone during the peak of the 2014 Ebola outbreak ?
text: Did you know that the Eberhard Faber Pencil Factory in Brooklyn , originally built for one of the world's largest pencil makers, now contains the Kickstarter headquarters ?
text: Did you know that baritone Hans Braun , who performed 75 roles at the Vienna State Opera , appeared as Mozart's Count Almaviva at the Royal Opera House and as Wagner's Wolfram at La Scala ?
text: Did you know that the tapping sound of the deathwatch beetle has long been considered an omen of an impending death?