Did you know? Facts from Wikipedia, 2020

text: Did you know that some media sources described Queen Elizabeth II 's agreement with Prince Harry and Meghan as a "hard Megxit "?
text: Did you know that Bill Regan hit two of his eighteen career home runs in a single inning of a Major League Baseball game on June 16, 1928?
text: Did you know that violent content in the video game Road Rash disqualified it from official motorcycle manufacturer endorsements, resulting in soundalike brands such as "Panda" for Honda and "Kamikaze" for Kawasaki ?
text: Did you know that Taiwanese politician Lai Pin-yu cosplayed as Asuka Langley Soryu during her 2020 election campaign?
text: Did you know that La Saline Natural Area in northeastern Alberta , Canada, features a large tufa mound?
text: Did you know that in the 1883 political cartoon "An appalling attempt to muzzle the watch-dog of science", Friedrich Graetz portrayed Herbert Spencer as a monumental dog?
text: Did you know that the Wellington clock tower has no clock?
text: Did you know that Fresh Off the Boat is the longest-running Asian-American family sitcom in television history?
text: Did you know that after a knee injury at the age of 12, ballet dancer Akane Takada waited more than a year to physically grow enough for corrective surgery?
text: Did you know that the Carnegie Building in Atlanta was designed by G. Lloyd Preacher , who moved his offices to the building after its completion?
text: Did you know that Scottish screenwriter Krysty Wilson-Cairns , who co-wrote the Academy Award –nominated screenplay for the World War I film 1917 , once wrote a short story about killer guinea pigs ?
text: Did you know that the locally scarce bird's eye primrose grows at Cow Myers in North Yorkshire ?
text: Did you know that the bypassing of Nizar in the Fatimid caliphal succession, and his subsequent revolt and execution, led to a split in the Isma'ili branch of Shia Islam that lasts to this day?
text: Did you know that a 1986 contest by radio station KXUS jammed all telephone circuits in Springfield, Missouri , for an hour?
text: Did you know that boxer Charles Lubulwa is the youngest Ugandan ever to compete at the Olympic Games?
text: Did you know that the magazines Pulp and Animerica Extra have been called "instrumental in disseminating manga culture" in North America?
text: Did you know that three cannonballs were discovered in the roof of the Church of St Cuthbert, Bellingham , during renovation works?
text: Did you know that despite her membership in two of Scotland's largest land-owning families, philanthropist Lady Victoria Campbell dedicated her life to helping those who lived on the islands of Argyll ?
text: Did you know that the International Ice Hockey Association was established as a means of shifting the control of world hockey to Canada, "where it rightfully belonged"?
text: Did you know that Prince Minye Kyawhtin , who had rebelled against three Ava kings for over 32 years, was killed by his own bodyguard for sexually assaulting the guard's sister?
text: Did you know that the player controls a smiley face in 868-HACK ?
text: Did you know that martial law was declared in Russell County, Alabama , after the assassination of state attorney general candidate Albert Patterson in 1954?
text: Did you know that despite spending 15 years in the Soviet Union's Italian embassy, diplomat Valentin Bogomazov 's only ambassadorships were to South American countries?
text: Did you know that the fleet of the Fatimid Caliphate went up in flames in 996, resulting in anti-Christian pogroms in Cairo ?
text: Did you know that Richard Rudzitis wrote poetry and articles with a pencil on rags, which he stitched into a pea coat , while in labour camps?
text: Did you know that an extension of New York City's Q27 bus route was discontinued because it was losing $120 a day?
text: Did you know that the China-exclusive Let's Hunt Monsters is the second highest-grossing augmented reality mobile game, behind Pokémon Go ?
text: Did you know that German spy Alphons Timmerman was captured while carrying ingredients for invisible ink ?
text: Did you know that the 2016 24 Hours of Daytona saw two Chevrolet Corvette C7.R cars finish within 0.034 seconds of each other in the closest class finish in the race's history?
text: Did you know that according to philosopher Liu Gangji , modern Chinese aesthetics have largely resulted from the propagation of German idealism ?
text: Did you know that the cemetery of what is now Fordham University had to be relocated in 1889 to make way for the New York Botanical Garden ?
text: Did you know that not only does Couma utilis have edible fruit, its latex is used as a base for chewing gum, caulking boats, and whitewashing houses?
text: Did you know that Uganda's delegation at the 1968 Summer Olympics included boxers Leo Rwabwogo and Eridadi Mukwanga , who won the nation's first Olympic medals at the Games?
text: Did you know that place cells are thought to play an important role in episodic memory ?
text: Did you know that Seattle councilmember Andrew J. Lewis was sworn in at a community garden atop a parking garage ?
text: Did you know that Odette Rousseau almost drowned after landing in a river during a 1955 world-record skydive?
text: Did you know that 75 business leaders, pastors, and listeners of Nevada's KRCV radio attempted to buy the station, even though it was not making money?
text: Did you know that between 934 and 944, Abu Abdallah al-Baridi fought against Ibn Ra'iq , Tuzun , Bajkam , the Hamdanids , the Buyids , and Oman , twice occupied Baghdad , and was named vizier four times?
text: Did you know that sand blown from a landslide in the Ringold Formation has created sand dunes nearby?
text: Did you know that one out of ten labourers in the haruwa–charuwa system is forced to work when seriously ill or injured, and may still face deduction or non-payment of wages?
text: Did you know that in the Apollo 11 spaceflight, Neil Armstrong brought two pieces of the Wright Flyer to the Moon in his personal preference kit ?
text: Did you know that English footballer Tyreece John-Jules 's uncle is Red Dwarf 's Cat ?
text: Did you know that the first Celtic currency of Britain consisted of iron bars?
text: Did you know that the 1990 Wrestling Summit was the only time the World Wrestling Federation , New Japan Pro-Wrestling , and All Japan Pro Wrestling presented a show together?
text: Did you know that Svetolik Dragačevac was deported to a concentration camp after sending a threatening letter to Adolf Hitler ?
text: Did you know that with a stretched length of up to 20 cm (8 in), Pontobdella muricata is one of the largest marine leeches?
text: Did you know that Hui Kālaiʻāina collected 17,000 signatures from Hawaiians seeking to restore the monarchy?
text: Did you know that Skeleton Cave in Maricopa County, Arizona , gets its name from the bones of the massacre victims from the Battle of Salt River Canyon that were found inside?
text: Did you know that typeface designer Dick Dooijes 's first solo design was a Hebrew alphabet , which he could not read?
text: Did you know that students from eight school districts in the region of Wenatchee, Washington , created public artwork for Columbia Station ?
text: Did you know that Charlotte Spencer, Countess Spencer , formed an organisation in the East End of London in 1868 that provided "outfits for girls going into service , or families willing to emigrate "?
text: Did you know that photographs of the 1941 Lviv pogroms have been described by historians as "infamous", "horrific", and "almost iconic"?
text: Did you know that Uganda's delegation at the 1972 Summer Olympics included both the nation's oldest and youngest athletes ever to compete at an Olympic Games at the time?
text: Did you know that American bacteriologist Harold Conn was sometimes called "Dr. Stain"?
text: Did you know that the Raja Rao Award for Literature was bestowed only seven times before it was discontinued?
text: Did you know that the identification of the body of outlaw Joseph Henry Loveless more than 100 years after his death is the oldest successful identification by the DNA Doe Project ?
text: Did you know that the critically endangered spoon-billed sandpiper can often be seen at Laem Phak Bia in Thailand?
text: Did you know that Mackay Yanagisawa was forced to re-mortgage his house three times to keep the Hula Bowl running?
text: Did you know that Kim A. Wagner wrote The Skull of Alum Bheg to tell the story of "thousands of Indian soldiers" who rebelled in 1857 ?
text: Did you know that quotations by architect Abraham H. Albertson about the Cobb Building in Seattle were immortalized 80 years later in a staircase in nearby University Street station ?
text: Did you know that five days after evacuating Blechhammer concentration camp in January 1945, German soldiers returned to murder prisoners who had been unable to leave?
text: Did you know that Hungarian veterinarian József Marek , the first to identify Marek's disease , also developed a remedy for liver fluke in cattle and a nasogastric tube for treating horse colic ?
text: Did you know that the song " New Body " was removed from Kanye West 's 2019 album Jesus Is King one day before its release?
text: Did you know that Israeli wildlife photographer Roie Galitz won first place at the Siena International Photo Awards in the "Fragile Ice" category for his picture of a sleeping polar bear?
text: Did you know that the 1989 film Begotten was made to resemble what the director called "a time that predates spoken language"?
text: Did you know that audio engineer Bill Hare has been called "the Dr. Dre of a cappella recording"?
text: Did you know that the Marine Cemetery , made from plastic bottles collected from an Indian beach, is dedicated to nine endangered aquatic species?
text: Did you know that BECAUSE is the longest-running and largest conference for the bisexual community in the United States?
text: Did you know that Gabriela Rodríguez de Bukele , the current first lady of El Salvador, is the first person in the country to hold a doctorate in prenatal psychology ?
text: Did you know that within six hours of Alabama radio station WFPA being served an eviction notice, the tower had been dismantled?
text: Did you know that chef Tore Wretman introduced Toast Skagen to the Swedish public?
text: Did you know that in 2019, the United States ratified a treaty that had been negotiated 16 years earlier to protect the wreck of the RMS Titanic ?
text: Did you know that both Aleksandr Blagonravov and his son Aleksandr worked on designs for armoured vehicles for the Soviet Armed Forces ?
text: Did you know that although afarit are not necessarily components of a person, but independent entities, a common belief in Islamic Egypt associates them with part of a human's soul?
text: Did you know that the 369th Regiment Armory , built for the " Harlem Hell Fighters ", was planned as a boxing and gymnastics venue in New York City's unsuccessful bid for the 2012 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that novelist Leslie Schwartz has published a memoir about the 22 books she read in jail while recovering from alcoholism?
text: Did you know that Robin Hood's Larder is also known as the Butcher's Oak, the Slaughter Tree, and the Shambles Oak?
text: Did you know that the swing span of Macombs Dam Bridge was considered the world's heaviest movable mass at the time of its construction?
text: Did you know that Queen Tuarii traveled to the Cook Islands to seek British intervention in Raiatea 's war with France ?
text: Did you know that All the Freckles in the World , a Mexican coming-of-age romantic comedy film, was released on Netflix after finding success in theaters in Mexico?
text: Did you know that sprinter Judith Ayaa , the first Ugandan woman to win a Commonwealth Games medal, later lived in poverty, begging on the streets of Kampala ?
text: Did you know that Hay-a-Park Gravel Pit is "one of the most northerly inland breeding populations of reed warbler in Britain"?
text: Did you know that Yukari Miyake joined the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force to realize her dream of singing on stage?
text: Did you know that ashes from a nearby fire left the freshly painted tower of radio station WCAI black instead of red?
text: Did you know that Yefim Gorodetsky and the "Mints group" were criticised by a fellow Soviet historian for being objective, fact-based, internationalist, and insufficiently partisan?
text: Did you know that chitons , such as Acanthochitona crinita , are molluscs with a shell composed of eight separate articulating valves ?
text: Did you know that Indian lyricist Gulzar wants his patriotic song " Ae Watan " to become the "song of our nation"?
text: Did you know that 608 Fifth Avenue was designed to be adaptable for multiple uses due to uncertainty regarding the development of Rockefeller Center around the building?
text: Did you know that Fred Evans is the most successful Welsh boxer in Olympic history?
text: Did you know that the Cassington Canal was built by the Duke of Marlborough to connect his lands to the River Thames and the country's network of canals and rivers ?
text: Did you know that Austrian neurologist Adele Juda concluded that Mozart was "psychiatrically normal"?
text: Did you know that as an attempt to Turkify its Kurdish minority and their land , the Turks deported 300,000 Kurds in 1916 alone and continued the deportations until the 1940s ?
text: Did you know that there is a US$5 million reward for information leading to the conviction of Gilberto Barragán Balderas ?
text: Did you know that Home for Christmas , Netflix's first Norwegian TV show, was inspired by televised Nordic Christmas calendars ?
text: Did you know that stock car driver Joey Logano 's victory in the 2009 Lenox Industrial Tools 301 at the age of 19 made him the youngest person in history to win a NASCAR Cup Series race?
text: Did you know that Reinhold Fritz of the Stuttgart Court Opera , who participated in world premieres such as Ariadne auf Naxos by Richard Strauss, was dismissed in 1933 because his wife was Jewish?
text: Did you know that Baltimore television station WMET-TV was housed in a converted movie theater?
text: Did you know that the 97-year-old, 499 km (310 mi) Irish land border discusses Brexit on Twitter as @BorderIrish and in its book I Am the Border, So I Am ?
text: Did you know that Whittington Tump in Worcestershire was the site of a motte castle ?
text: Did you know that when Louisville, Kentucky 's WKYW radio became religious station WFIA in 1965, it ceased accepting beer, wine and tobacco commercials?
text: Did you know that only a few hundred Jews survived out of the more than 57,000 who were deported from Slovakia in 1942 ?
text: Did you know that fashion model Kesewa Aboah is descended from British nobility?
text: Did you know that the Mad About You episode " The Conversation " was filmed with a single camera in one take, and broadcast without interruption from commercials?
text: Did you know that cricketer Khaya Majola rejected offers to play alongside white players and overseas because he believed that black Africans were "being used as stooges" to benefit white South Africans?
text: Did you know that the Hong Kong restaurant Shia Wong Hip stores hundreds of live and venomous snakes on-site for its cuisine, and serves a soup made from lizards, silkworms, and seahorses?
text: Did you know that Baya Jurquet organized demonstrations by female prisoners in France in the 1950s?
text: Did you know that when Eureka Iron & Steel Works produced the first steel rails in the United States in 1865, it marked the beginning of the American steel industry?
text: Did you know that Infection , the first Venezuelan zombie film , has been banned in the country despite horror being a popular genre there?
text: Did you know that Wanjira Mathai aims to continue the work of her mother, Nobel Peace Prize –winning environmentalist Wangari Maathai , by restoring 12.6 million acres (5.1 million hectares) of Kenyan land by 2030?
text: Did you know that leaks by Miami radio stations WMJX and WHYI-FM forced the release date for the new Bee Gees album Spirits Having Flown to be brought forward?
text: Did you know that despite Charles Jones already having a reputation for ineptitude and dishonesty, he was awarded the contract to dig the longest canal tunnel in England ?
text: Did you know that the City of San Francisco considers its United Nations Plaza eligible for landmark status due to its historical connection to the LGBTQ movement ?
text: Did you know that pediatrician Noni MacDonald was invested into the Order of Nova Scotia in 2019?
text: Did you know that period names for Ancient Egyptian history , such as " Old Kingdom " and " New Kingdom ", are modern inventions?
text: Did you know that actress Georgina Amorós has worked in three languages: Catalan, Spanish, and English?
text: Did you know that the Andrew W. Breidenbach Environmental Research Center was originally housed in a Cincinnati mansion built around 1815?
text: Did you know that Ugandan boxer Leo Rwabwogo is the only athlete in the nation's history to have won more than one Olympic medal?
text: Did you know that Farnham Mires is one of the few sedge -and- rush marshes left in the Vale of York ?
text: Did you know that U.S. attorney general William Barr rejected his inspector general's finding that the FBI investigation into Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign was justified?
text: Did you know that the music of Grim Fandango is considered one of the best early examples of adaptive music systems in video gaming, heralding the era of cinematic experiences in gameplay?
text: Did you know that George Downing created the first surfboard with a removable fin?
text: Did you know that the egg sacs of the newly discovered Phinda button spider are made of bright purple silk that fades to grey when it dries?
text: Did you know that medal inflation is the devaluation of military awards if too many are issued?
text: Did you know that many survivors of the Holocaust in the Sudetenland lost their Czechoslovak citizenship after the war because they were deemed to be "Germans"?
text: Did you know that Georgina Gascoyne-Cecil became a leading member of the Primrose League , the first British political organisation to give women a prominent role, despite finding its medieval influences absurd?
text: Did you know that Peter Hedges was paid $10 to write the screenplay for Pieces of April , and another $10 to direct the film?
text: Did you know that James Stephen , who designed several schools listed on the National Register of Historic Places , received his architectural training through a correspondence course ?
text: Did you know that the lizard goby holds on to rocks in fast-flowing water by means of a "sucker" formed from two fins?
text: Did you know that Ustad Qasim has been described as the "father of Afghan music"?
text: Did you know that the UT Arlington Mavericks women's wheelchair basketball team played its inaugural 2013–14 season without any substitute players?
text: Did you know that Jutta Hering-Winckler , a lawyer from Minden whose grandfather saw the premiere of Wagner's Ring cycle , "made the impossible possible" by organizing Der Ring in Minden ?
text: Did you know that upon the demise of WFAN-TV in Washington, D.C., its owner took out a full-page newspaper advertisement declaring that the station had been "choked to death" by an inability to upgrade its signal?
text: Did you know that Klepetan and Malena have been described as "Croatia's most unusual love story"?
text: Did you know that when he was killed, Mexican drug lord Luis Alberto Guerrero Reyes was wearing a live grenade as a necklace?
text: Did you know that Filipe Albuquerque , João Barbosa , and Christian Fittipaldi won the 2018 24 Hours of Daytona , and broke a distance record that had been held since the 1982 race?
text: Did you know that Irene Palaiologina , the elder sister of Byzantine emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos , became a staunch opponent of his proposed union of the churches , and tried to form a Bulgarian – Mamluk alliance against him?
text: Did you know that the International Criminal Court investigation in Palestine will investigate alleged war crimes by Israel, Hamas , and Palestinian armed groups?
text: Did you know that producer Orla Doherty spent 500 hours underwater in a submarine during her work on Blue Planet II ?
text: Did you know that after its sale to Western Bible College, radio station KJOL toned down its protests against abortion clinics and grocery stores that sold pornographic materials?
text: Did you know that Liverpool F.C. became the first team allowed to wear the FIFA Champions Badge in the English Premier League , but only for one game against Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. on 29 December 2019?
text: Did you know that Chinese-Hawaiian politician and businessman John Ena was decorated with the Royal Order of the Crown of Hawaii by King Kalākaua ?
text: Did you know that a 1-metre (3.3 ft) section was added to the County Fermanagh War Memorial to commemorate eleven civilians who were killed in a 1987 IRA bombing at the site ?
text: Did you know that after the Indian team won the 1983 Cricket World Cup , their manager PR Man Singh ensured that Wisden Cricket Monthly editor David Frith would "eat his words"?
text: Did you know that the Gorham Manufacturing Company opened buildings at Broadway and at Fifth Avenue to display its merchandise in New York City?
text: Did you know that George Nathanael Anderson translated the New Testament into the Iramba language ?
text: Did you know that the 17th-century Antonio de Vea expedition to the fjords and channels of Patagonia was triggered by false rumours about English settlements?
text: Did you know that Lake Kristi in North Carolina was built specifically to allow water skiing champion Kristi Overton Johnson to train?
text: Did you know that the Dęblin–Irena forced-labor camp was one of the last forced-labor camps for Jews in the Lublin District ?
text: Did you know that Willard Ryan was the first head coach of the Green Bay Packers , even though the team claims that Curly Lambeau was actually the first?
text: Did you know that following the annexation of the Leeward Islands , the people of Bora Bora appointed a blind man to raise the flag of France?
text: Did you know that in 1988, Columbia Villa was the site of the first known drive-by shooting in Portland, Oregon ?
text: Did you know that after Mexican drug lord Ediel López Falcón was ordered to forfeit US$15 billion in the U.S., Mexican authorities wanted to keep fifty percent of it?
text: Did you know that Dreamer's Bay on the island of Cyprus is considered "one of the best-preserved ancient ports in the Mediterranean"?
text: Did you know that 23 of the 25 disc jockeys of Utah radio station KJQN-FM defected and started their own station , taking with them a converted truck called the "Milk Beast"?
text: Did you know that the uncle–nephew conflict between Liu Xianshi and Wang Wenhua in the Guizhou clique involved student organizations, an attempted assassination, and a violent coup?
text: Did you know that in order to bypass political changes demanded by Germany at the 1940 Salzburg Conference , Slovakia adopted the Führer principle ?
text: Did you know that after a car accident left him unable to play brass instruments , Native American musician R. Carlos Nakai began playing a traditional cedar flute, and went on to receive eleven Grammy nominations ?
text: Did you know that Pope Alexander VI granted a plenary indulgence to those willing to work on the demolition of the Meta Romuli ?
text: Did you know that British aviation businessman Christopher Harborne donated £5 million to the Brexit Party in 2019?
text: Did you know that forests on the Massif des Maures experience frequent fires, but the thick bark of the cork oak helps it to survive?
text: Did you know that Irish neuroscientist Sabina Brennan was a soap actress in the television series Fair City before she started investigating dementia ?
text: Did you know that cooking manga achieved mainstream popularity in the 1980s as a result of the "gourmet boom" associated with the Japanese bubble economy ?
text: Did you know that Carole Ann Haswell was part of the team that discovered the super-Earth-like exoplanet Barnard's Star b ?
text: Did you know that Cincinnati high-school radio station WNSD was permanently shut down in part because its faculty advisor went on maternity leave?
text: Did you know that German journalist Jürgen Hinzpeter , who covered the Gwangju Uprising , was honored by the May 18 Memorial Foundation with a memorial stone containing his hair and nail clippings?
text: Did you know that New York City's Grand Central Terminal was built at its current location because of a prohibition of steam trains in Lower Manhattan ?
text: Did you know that Shanqi , a Manchu prince, worked with the Japanese Empire and his daughter, Yoshiko Kawashima , to create an independent state in Manchuria in 1912?
text: Did you know that a whale found in western Vermont has presented further evidence of glaciation in New England ?
text: Did you know that the Terebinth of Nero in Rome got its name from a species of tree that traditionally shaded Saint Peter's tomb ?
text: Did you know that Pepe the Frog and the LIHKG pig have become the unofficial mascots of the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests ?
text: Did you know that Dehenna Davison is Bishop Auckland 's first Conservative member of Parliament since the constituency's creation in 1885?
text: Did you know that Antares Point, the part of Route 66 that runs through Antares, Arizona , is the longest continuous curve on any U.S. highway?
text: Did you know that according to Kuldip Nayar , Hans Raj Vohra 's testimony in 1929 was "crucial" in his associate, Bhagat Singh , being sentenced to death?
text: Did you know that the biannual festival Wiesbadener Bachwochen has featured Faure 's Requiem sung by a project choir in 2015, and Bach 's Mass in B minor sung by the Schiersteiner Kantorei in 2019?
text: Did you know that amateur radio operator Charles E. Apgar 's recordings of radio transmissions during World War I were found to include covert messages that exposed an espionage ring?
text: Did you know that before becoming an electrical engineer and factory inspector , Marjorie Bell shovelled coal at a gas works?
text: Did you know that the West Fifth Street Bridge in Austin, Texas , is a cantilever bridge designed to look like an arch bridge ?
text: Did you know that Russian historian Arkadiĭ Sidorov fought in the Moscow People's Militia during the Second World War?
text: Did you know that the Royal Commission on London Traffic proposed constructing 9 miles (14 km) of avenues with railways underneath at the cost of £30 million in 1905 (equivalent to £3 billion in 2016)?
text: Did you know that after world-record breaststroke swimmer Gordon Warner lost his left leg, he resumed practising the Japanese way of the sword and eventually became the discipline's highest-ranked Westerner?
text: Did you know that the Czech-language fascist newspaper Arijský boj (' Aryan Struggle ' ) claimed that the daughter of a former president kept a lesbian harem and lusted after Jewish men?
text: Did you know that someone shot out KSNN radio's tower lights using a .22-caliber rifle in 1967?
text: Did you know that Ralph Evans is the first Welshman to win an Olympic medal in boxing ?
text: Did you know that Hui Aloha ʻĀina was established in 1893 to promote Hawaiian independence and oppose the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom ?
text: Did you know that Marilyn Saviola , a polio survivor, attended Long Island University classes remotely by telephone from her hospital ward?
text: Did you know that the 1864–65 Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem created the first "perfectly accurate" map of the city , and was the impetus for the new Palestine Exploration Fund ?
text: Did you know that taxi driver Pierre Mambele was credited with playing "a unique part in shaping coverage" from the Democratic Republic of the Congo ?
text: Did you know that according to a 2019 biography , R. N. Kao forewarned Indira Gandhi and Sheikh Mujibur Rahman about their assassinations?
text: Did you know that Eastern Michigan University football head coach Chris Creighton has won American football games on three continents?
text: Did you know that the oldest rock in the Eastern Block of the North China Craton is a 3.8- to 3.6-billion-year-old trondhjemitic piece of gneiss ?
text: Did you know that although Michael Buie practiced Fox News anchor Bret Baier 's speaking style for his role in the film Bombshell , they had never talked to each other until after filming had finished?
text: Did you know that the corporate history of Xinuos begins with repeated attempts to acquire a troubled software company in bankruptcy?
text: Did you know that engraver Julius Bien sided with liberals in the 1848 revolutions like many other Jews, and fled Germany to the U.S., where he became a lithographer and the president of B'nai B'rith ?
text: Did you know that the palm scale was first found on an endemic species of palm on the island of Réunion , but now infests plants in at least 78 families around the world?
text: Did you know that New York City's Governors Island has been the site of a Statue of Liberty celebration, a U.S.–Soviet summit, and the signing of a peace treaty between Haitian political leaders?
text: Did you know that despite being nearly illiterate, Chinese soldier Gao Yubao wrote an autobiographical novel that has had more than six million copies in print?
text: Did you know that gay pornographic film actor and director Erik Rhodes was posthumously outed as HIV -positive in his New York Times obituary?
text: Did you know that the first episode of Welcome to the Family was Catalan network TV3 's most watched premiere in over a decade?
text: Did you know that Francis X. Talbot was one of the early leaders of the Catholic literary revival in the U.S.?
text: Did you know that unlike most of its competitors in Hong Kong, stationery retailer Cheap Lab allows its retail staff to manage its Facebook fan page with few restrictions?
text: Did you know that in France, the beetle Aepus marinus is restricted to a narrow strip of the beach near the high-water mark?
text: Did you know that Angelo Neumann toured major European opera houses with a production of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen using the sets and costumes from its 1876 world premiere at the Bayreuth Festival ?
text: Did you know that the owner of Hawaii television station KHBC-TV compared an effort to unionize the station to "socialism"?
text: Did you know that Gates of Tears is the first comprehensive study of the Holocaust in the Lublin District of Poland?
text: Did you know that U.S. citizens are prohibited from engaging in business activities with Abel Briones Ruiz ?
text: Did you know that as of 2016, Wellacre Academy had 1720 solar panels, more than any other school in the United Kingdom?
text: Did you know that Lisa Ainsworth leads a project that involves studying plants under atmospheric conditions that are predicted for 2050?
text: Did you know that private equity firm MerchantBridge never recovered from the death of its founder and CEO in an airplane crash in Iraq?
text: Did you know that Lucinda L. Combs , the first female medical missionary to serve in China, established Beijing's first women's hospital?
text: Did you know that Sangrador , Venezuela's submission for the 2003 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film , had only 31 box-office attendances in the country that year?
text: Did you know that Rex Ryan once flew fellow American football coach Sam Pittman to his house to build a fort for Ryan's children?
text: Did you know that small Indian ringstones of the 3rd to 2nd centuries BCE typically have four nude female figures around the central hole?
text: Did you know that American actress and romance novelist Bella Jarrett was a member of Mensa International , the largest and oldest high IQ society in the world?
text: Did you know that Amritsar 1919 by Kim A. Wagner aims to dispel myths surrounding the Jallianwala Bagh massacre ?
text: Did you know that the 12-year license fight that led to the establishment of Washington, D.C. , radio station WYCB also drained its principals' finances?
text: Did you know that as the youngest UK Member of Parliament elected in 2019 , Nadia Whittome became the Baby of the House ?
text: Did you know that Anisocentropus krampus was described in the same paper as other insects with monstrous names like Ganonema dracula and Anisocentropus golem ?
text: Did you know that Khabzela , a 2005 bestselling biography by Liz McGregor , concerns a South African disc jockey who died of AIDS ?
text: Did you know that GrapheneOS , a free and open-source operating system for selected Google Pixel smartphones, was recommended by Edward Snowden ?
text: Did you know that Russian historian Igor Pavlovich Shaskol'skii helped build defensive structures during the Siege of Leningrad ?
text: Did you know that the oldest part of the Western Block of the North China Craton formed 2.7 billion years ago?
text: Did you know that Francis Dzierozynski 's dispute with Archbishop Ambrose Maréchal over land ownership in Maryland escalated to involve Pope Pius VII and two U.S. secretaries of state ?
text: Did you know that the Polish publishing house WSiP had a monopoly on textbook publishing from the 1950s to 1989?
text: Did you know that the parting of the Red Sea scene in Cecil B. DeMille 's 1956 film The Ten Commandments was created by filming the release of hundreds of thousands of gallons of water into a large tank and playing the resulting footage backwards?
text: Did you know that redbanded thrips are a significant pest of mango and cacao in the West Indies?
text: Did you know that Japanese manga artist Machiko Satonaka has written and illustrated nearly 500 manga titles since her professional debut in 1964?
text: Did you know that the Hazeltine 2000 is possibly the first general-purpose computer terminal ?
text: Did you know that Nesta Wells , the first British female police surgeon , published a survey in the British Medical Journal of the 1,959 suspected sexual offence cases which had been referred to her?
text: Did you know that the 1938 hymn " Dein Lob, Herr, ruft der Himmel aus " ('The sky shouts your praise, Lord') is based on a text by a 17th-century Jesuit astronomer paraphrasing Psalm 19 ?
text: Did you know that American jockey Mack Garner was posthumously inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1969?
text: Did you know that all the residents of Wallacepur , a village in the Indian state of Gujarat , are Christian?
text: Did you know that Megan Fisher is the first woman with a lower-leg amputation to complete an XTERRA off-road triathlon ?
text: Did you know that Hugh Orde , the head of the Police Service of Northern Ireland , has been criticized for using the phrase " acceptable level of violence "?
text: Did you know that the Cowthorpe Oak was mentioned in Shakespeare 's As You Like It ?
text: Did you know that separate locker rooms and a divider in the gymnasium help segregate middle-school and high-school students at Cypress Creek Middle High School in Wesley Chapel, Florida ?
text: Did you know that Walsh McDermott won a Lasker Award for his research on isoniazid , an antibiotic that he had taken to treat his own case of tuberculosis ?
text: Did you know that the export of used cars from China was legalized in 2019 to increase domestic sales and trade in the Chinese automotive industry?
text: Did you know that Albert Flynn , the director of the British Army's accounts, wrote stories about aliens invading the Earth ?
text: Did you know that jellyfish blooms can clog coastal power plants, causing losses of tens of thousands of US dollars per day?
text: Did you know that King John of England is said to have convened an assembly in 1212 at the Parliament Oak to order the hanging of 28 Welsh boys?
text: Did you know that the hymn " Nun lässest du, o Herr ", written by Georg Thurmair as a paraphrase of the Nunc dimittis , appeared with a 16th-century melody in the first Gotteslob , but with a modern one in the second ?
text: Did you know that the Slovak periodical Nástup blamed Jews for both communism and "immoral capitalism"?
text: Did you know that Navy Midshipmen quarterback Malcolm Perry was watching his team from the stands when an injury to a starter forced him to play in the game?
text: Did you know that The Sack of Bath , a collection of newspaper articles by Adam Fergusson , sparked a resurgence in architectural conservation in Britain?
text: Did you know that actor Chris Evans made his film debut in an educational film co-produced by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation ?
text: Did you know that evolutionary biologist Rebecca Kilner has found that mites can give burying beetles a competitive advantage?
text: Did you know that a Staples store in New York City's Spingler Building received a criminal court summons over its refusal to remove several signs?
text: Did you know that Miriam Salpeter and her husband Edwin Ernest Salpeter collaborated to study how nerves and muscle fibers interact?
text: Did you know that Pervez Musharraf is the first former military ruler in Pakistan's history to face a trial for treason ?
text: Did you know that the Charlotte MLS team signed a kit sponsorship deal months before being officially awarded an expansion franchise ?
text: Did you know that a Nepali girl who spent three years in jail for showing a black flag of protest to King Mahendra went on to become the country's first female deputy prime minister?
text: Did you know that after the end of the First World War, thousands of former British Army officers were forced to sleep rough in Hyde Park ?
text: Did you know that Virginia Crosbie , the member of Parliament for Ynys Môn , is a former dolphin trainer?
text: Did you know that the German Advent song " Tochter Zion, freue dich " has words by Friedrich Heinrich Ranke set to music used for triumphant entrances in two of Handel 's oratorios ?
text: Did you know that Bessie S. McColgin , the first woman elected to the Oklahoma House of Representatives , was seen as a "superior orator"?
text: Did you know that sedimentary rock in the Junggar Basin in northwestern China was formed by deposition from rivers and lakes in the Permian ?
text: Did you know that the developers of the indie video game A Story About My Uncle had to teach themselves how to use Unreal Engine to produce it?
text: Did you know that Earl Landgrebe said, "Don't confuse me with the facts. I've got a closed mind. I will not vote for impeachment" when asked about the transcript of the "smoking gun" tape ?
text: Did you know that in 2007, a rescued European bison calf dubbed Pubal grew so attached to humans in southeastern Poland that he could not be successfully reintegrated back into the wild?
text: Did you know that collegiate a cappella was so dominated by cover songs that the genre's first album of original music was not published until 2004?
text: Did you know that historians have not concluded whether Hans Raj turned state's evidence for the British Raj , or if he had been a police agent all along?
text: Did you know that when the Daryl Roth Theatre opened within a former bank, it was described as one of a "growing number of unconventional spaces" that were being converted to theatres?
text: Did you know that one person died during the 1929 New Zealand cyclone when a railway locomotive fell from washed-out track into the Taieri River ?
text: Did you know that Kate Griffiths was elected member of Parliament for Burton in the 2019 UK general election , replacing her estranged husband ?
text: Did you know that the Malayan banded pitta is threatened by the destruction of its forest habitat and by being targeted for the illegal trade in birds?
text: Did you know that the Lincoln University Art Collection was initially funded by selling cigarettes in the staff common room?
text: Did you know that Neil McLaughlin started boxing "by mistake" after an argument with his gymnastics coach?
text: Did you know that the female Savannah darter lays clutches of sticky eggs that she buries in gravel or sand?
text: Did you know that the Figuralchor Frankfurt , founded in 1966 as a youth choir for the state broadcaster Hessischer Rundfunk , sang Mahler 's Symphony of a Thousand at the opening of the Alte Oper concert hall?
text: Did you know that when WFAB radio in Miami was forced off the air in 1977, Hispanic-owned shops in Homestead closed for an hour in protest?
text: Did you know that British neuroscientist Rebeccah Slater led a study that showed that not only do babies experience pain , they may be more sensitive to it than adults?
text: Did you know that Bihar Animal Sciences University is one of four state universities and six private universities established in the Indian state of Bihar in 2017–18?
text: Did you know that Salvatore Pais 's design for an electromagnetic field generator to deflect asteroids away from the Earth has been patented by the U.S. Navy ?
text: Did you know that scientist KC Claffy was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame for her work on measuring the Internet?
text: Did you know that the hymn " Gott, der du warst und bist und bleibst " ('God, you who were, are, and will be') was composed for the opening of the Sankt Georgen seminary church in Frankfurt ?
text: Did you know that a night-time guard at the Bank of the Metropolis once left the bank unprotected when he went out for a drink?
text: Did you know that Mexican soldier Jorge López Pérez is wanted for high treason , but has been a fugitive since 2003?
text: Did you know that school officials in Palm Springs were not successful in using radio station KPSH-FM as a vocational tool, so they turned it over to the University of Southern California ?
text: Did you know that Kim A. Wagner , a Danish author of books on India, is named after Rudyard Kipling 's novel Kim ?
text: Did you know that high mountains can remain standing on Jupiter's moon Io because of heat-pipe tectonics ?
text: Did you know that the Lac La Croix Indian Pony was recreated from a breeding population of four mares by crossing them with a Spanish Mustang ?
text: Did you know that Sir Alexander Gillies was instrumental in establishing orthopaedics as a surgical speciality in New Zealand?
text: Did you know that according to a 2001 documentary , Ron Jeremy became a pornographic actor after his girlfriend sent a nude photo of him to Playgirl magazine?
text: Did you know that the cotton mealybug , originally discovered in an underground ants' nest in New Mexico , is now a major cotton pest in India?
text: Did you know that American businessman David Rabhan was imprisoned in Iran for more than a decade, from 1979 to 1990?
text: Did you know that political cognition shows that the effects of voter persuasion are relatively small and fade rapidly?
text: Did you know that people have randomly interjected the phrase " Epstein didn't kill himself " as a non sequitur at the end of statements?
text: Did you know that Saida Muna Tasneem is the first woman to hold the positions of Bangladeshi high commissioner to the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Liberia?
text: Did you know that the dictator game and the ultimatum game provide experimental evidence for social preferences in behavioral economics?
text: Did you know that an initiative by a Daimaru department store in which menstruating employees could choose to wear a badge featuring the cartoon character Little Miss P caused a public outcry?
text: Did you know that leaders within the Independent Network Charismatic Christianity movement do not aim to grow churches, but rather seek to influence the "seven mountains of culture"?
text: Did you know that William Verbeck , who served as Adjutant General of the New York National Guard , was born to Dutch missionaries in Nagasaki , Japan?
text: Did you know that the sculpture A Line Made by Walking proposed that the simple act of walking could be an art form?
text: Did you know that John Muriel 's novel Youth in Bondage , about the love life of a schoolmaster's wife, was banned in the Republic of Ireland ?
text: Did you know that cognitive inertia is said to play a role in why group brainstorming sessions often fail to generate many ideas?
text: Did you know that the Renfrewshire Council cloned the Wallace Yew , as the historic tree was dying from a fungal infection?
text: Did you know that after three-time Chinese Basketball Association champion Ji Zhe died aged 33, the Beijing Ducks distributed 18,000 T-shirts bearing his jersey number of 51?
text: Did you know that early tenants at New York City's Lincoln Building ranged from architects such as Alfred Zucker to film companies such as the Universal Film Manufacturing Company ?
text: Did you know that several months after Thomas I. Gasson became the president of Boston College , he began arranging to relocate the school to Chestnut Hill ?
text: Did you know that " Wir pflügen und wir streuen " ('We plow and sow'), with words by Matthias Claudius , began as a song of a fictional harvest festival, and is now a Protestant hymn for Erntedankfest ?
text: Did you know that at the age of 84, Charles Duke is the youngest man to have walked on the Moon?
text: Did you know that Russian historian Inna Lubimenko wrote about the letters between Queen Elizabeth I and Ivan the Terrible ?
text: Did you know that the Superior Craton covers central Canada?
text: Did you know that WWNN (980 AM) in Pompano Beach, Florida , was the first radio station in the United States to adopt a format consisting of motivational speeches?
text: Did you know that Ivan Borkovský , under Nazi German pressure, identified the Prague Castle skeleton as a Nordic burial and then later, under Soviet pressure, as a Slavic burial?
text: Did you know that a severe infestation of the palm weevil borer can kill its host palm?
text: Did you know that after American baritone Raymond Wolansky appeared as a guest at the Staatsoper Stuttgart as Verdi's Rigoletto , he remained at the theatre for more than 30 years and made an international career?
text: Did you know that Czech fictional outlaw Rumcajs was so popular in Poland that a brand of detergent was named after his son?
text: Did you know that the first known paravian dinosaurs were from China, but they now live on every continent?
text: Did you know that six All India Institutes of Medical Sciences began operating in 2019, including institutes in Telangana , in Jharkhand , and in West Bengal ?
text: Did you know that DreamWorks Water Park , advertised as North America's largest indoor water park , will include a 1.5-acre (0.61 ha) wave pool and 40 water slides?
text: Did you know that orchestrator Charlie Rosen can play 70 different musical instruments ?
text: Did you know that during the Stary Ciepielów and Rekówka massacre , five Polish families were executed by Nazis for helping Jews?
text: Did you know that the 2019 drama thriller Living in Bondage: Breaking Free became one of the highest-grossing Nigerian films of all time ?
text: Did you know that superstitious people hold a Cleveland Indian responsible for losses by the Cleveland Indians ?
text: Did you know that KFXY in Flagstaff, Arizona , was reported by American newspapers in 1925 to be the only radio station in the world owned by a woman?
text: Did you know that Clebsch–Gordan coefficients , which describe how spinning objects influence each other in quantum mechanics, come from the structure of semisimple representations ?
text: Did you know that Enrique Ika and Moisés Tuʻu Hereveri were the last two kings of Easter Island until Valentino Riroroko Tuki declared himself king in 2011, more than a century later?
text: Did you know that microcracks in rocks are oriented roughly parallel to the maximum applied stress ?
text: Did you know that the W New York Union Square building and the Everett Building form an "imposing terminus" to New York City's Park Avenue South ?
text: Did you know that nearly half of paramilitary punishment attacks in Northern Ireland have occurred since the official end of the conflict ?
text: Did you know that Honey Davenport reigned over Paradise before appearing on RuPaul's Drag Race ?
text: Did you know that National Medal of Science recipient Herbert E. Grier built the firing mechanism used in the Fat Man bomb?
text: Did you know that Nepal's first highway tunnel was constructed by the country's first civil engineering graduate?
text: Did you know that Herbert Willi composed Montafon , a cycle of four concertos with orchestra – for trumpet, flute and oboe, clarinet, and horn?
text: Did you know that the stems and leaves of the endangered Holloway's crystalwort look as if they are covered in sugar crystals?
text: Did you know that Richard Verschoor won the 2019 Macau Grand Prix , becoming the first Dutch driver to win the event?
text: Did you know that in the 2000s, the Brooklyn Bridge Park was described as the "most important public space" to be built in Brooklyn in over a century?
text: Did you know that Scarlett Johansson 's film roles have included spy Natasha Romanoff , English queen Anne Boleyn 's sister Mary , and an artificially intelligent voice assistant?
text: Did you know that Theodora Agnes Peck became the first female honorary member of the Medal of Honor Legion of the United States , at the age of 18?
text: Did you know that ensemble coding is the ability to see the average or variance of a group of objects?
text: Did you know that historian John Belchem 's work covers popular radicalism in 19th-century Britain, Irish migration, the Isle of Man , and modern history?
text: Did you know that the 1990 Bijnor riot was the most destructive event during concurrent Hindu nationalist campaigns in India, which eventually led to the demolition of the Babri Masjid ?
text: Did you know that Frank Soo has been the only person of East Asian descent to play for the England national football team ?
text: Did you know that 44 Union Square in New York City has housed the Tammany Hall political organization, a labor union , and two theaters?
text: Did you know that award-winning film editor Fu Zhengyi was called the "first pair of scissors" in China?
text: Did you know that when students feel a greater sense of school belonging , their mental health and well-being are improved?
text: Did you know that Billy Wilder , an award-winning film director and screenwriter , had minimal knowledge of English when he arrived in Hollywood in 1934?
text: Did you know that the Epiphany hymn " Deep in the Darkness a Starlight is Gleaming " covers the topic of a Christian's journey, as Mary, Joseph and Jesus had done on the flight into Egypt ?
text: Did you know that newly appointed U.S. senator Kelly Loeffler co-owns the women's basketball team Atlanta Dream ?
text: Did you know that the South China Craton is thought to have been adjacent to eastern Australia and western Laurentia in the "missing link" hypothesis?
text: Did you know that David Hillhouse Buel , a lieutenant colonel in the Union Army , was assassinated by a fellow soldier whom he had imprisoned for desertion ?
text: Did you know that the book Trekonomics argues that while the warp drive seems impossible, Star Trek 's post-scarcity economy can plausibly be achieved?
text: Did you know that Notre Père is a setting of the Lord's Prayer in French by Maurice Duruflé , and his only composition suitable for congregational singing?
text: Did you know that Christine Duffy , the president of Carnival Cruise Line , was considered too short to become a flight attendant?
text: Did you know that the Land League 's " rival government " surpassed the power of the British government in many parts of Ireland during the late 19th century?
text: Did you know that the Heckscher Playground , the oldest playground in New York City's Central Park , was initially opposed because people wanted to preserve the park's passive landscape?
text: Did you know that the Anatolian frog is exported from Turkey to France, Italy and Switzerland for food, and is considered by the IUCN to be a near-threatened species ?
text: Did you know that Charles H. Mahoney was the first African American to serve as a delegate to the United Nations ?
text: Did you know that The Conspiracy Collection , a makeup palette whose creation is profiled in The Beautiful World of Jeffree Star , sold out in 30 minutes?
text: Did you know that genetic diversity in the deep biosphere is at least as great as it is on the surface?
text: Did you know that only police detectives attended the funeral of Artemus Ogletree after his unsolved murder 85 years ago today?
text: Did you know that the beetle Zaitzevia thermae has a total habitat of less than 35 square metres (380 sq ft) around one hot spring in Montana ?
text: Did you know that Kurt Honolka 's mid–20th century German translation of Smetana 's Dalibor was still being performed in 2019 in a new Oper Frankfurt production?
text: Did you know that in a 1967 decision , the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the deportation of an alien for being homosexual?
text: Did you know that Satoru Noda , author of the manga series Supinamarada! , cited the series's difficult-to-remember name as a probable reason for its commercial failure?
text: Did you know that after Steeplechase Park burned down in 1907, its owner offered "admission to the burning ruins" for ten cents?
text: Did you know that under the leadership of ethnomusicologist Agnes Nebo von Ballmoos , the University of Liberia choir performed around the world, including at Lincoln Center ?
text: Did you know that the Clan Mackintosh fought against the Clan MacDonald and Clan Cameron in 1688, in what is claimed to have been the last Scottish clan battle ?
text: Did you know that Australian biologist Lee Berger identified Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis as being responsible for the decline and extinction of hundreds of amphibian species?
text: Did you know that a protected structure on Britain Quay , once adorned with a time ball , was demolished to make way for the construction of Ireland's tallest building ?
text: Did you know that after moving to the Canary Islands in 1992, future politician Luc André Diouf ran out of money and was homeless for 42 days?
text: Did you know that posting one's feelings on social media is a form of affect labeling , and may help reduce emotional distress?
text: Did you know that when Donnis Thompson was appointed the University of Hawaii 's first women's athletic director, she was given a budget of only $5,000?
text: Did you know that to avoid a curse against non-descendants placed by Siam's Prince of the Front Palace (pictured) , two of his successors married his daughters?
text: Did you know that the character of Rose Tico in the Star Wars sequel trilogy was played by Kelly Marie Tran , who had never seen a Star Wars film before auditioning?
text: Did you know that software company Caldera International tried to combine Unix with Linux for business customers, but did not succeed?
text: Did you know that when Nicholas Danby recorded the complete organ works of Johannes Brahms , a reviewer noted that he had "put musicality above effect"?
text: Did you know that upon its founding in 1869, the Brooklyn Fire Department replaced a volunteer fire department of about 3,000 firefighters with a paid force?
text: Did you know that under Du Ruiqing 's leadership, the Xi'an Foreign Languages Institute established one of the first centres for Australian studies in China?
text: Did you know that Indian choreographer Mrinalini Sarabhai suggested the egg-shaped Kuiper belt object 20000 Varuna be named after the Hindu deity Varuna ?
text: Did you know that Bertha Boronda tried to flee on a bicycle after committing mayhem against her husband?
text: Did you know that William J. Devlin was called the "builder of the super-structures" at Boston College , despite his fundraising campaign falling short of its goal?
text: Did you know that the Paradise High School football team had an undefeated regular season in 2019, even though most of the players had been burned out of their homes the year before?
text: Did you know that electronics engineer Chen Xingbi was inducted into the ISPSD Hall of Fame for his invention of superjunction power semiconductor devices?
text: Did you know that New Jersey's Big Snow American Dream became the first indoor ski park in North America when it opened last month?
text: Did you know that British medieval historian Isobel D. Thornley died when her home was hit by a bomb during the London Blitz ?
text: Did you know that the design of Totzeret HaAretz Tower 1 in Tel Aviv , Israel, was inspired by an iceberg?
text: Did you know that The Idea of Pakistan attempts to answer the question "What is Pakistan "?
text: Did you know that although he was a renowned writer, Miquel Bauçà was so reclusive that his body was not discovered until the year after he died?
text: Did you know that the Independence was the first propeller-driven vessel built on Lake Michigan , and, in 1845, the first steamboat to run on Lake Superior ?
text: Did you know that professors at the Roman law school of Beirut drafted parts of the Corpus Juris Civilis , a fundamental work in Roman jurisprudence?
text: Did you know that the Caton Oak in Lancashire , England, was reputed to be a site of worship by druids ?
text: Did you know that tenor Carl Demmer was possibly Beethoven's first Florestan at the Vienna Court Opera , but failed to please the composer?
text: Did you know that the success of the 1978 film The Other Side of Aspen led to increased production of feature film –length works across the gay pornography industry?
text: Did you know that Herbert C. Ridout wanted to "set the Thames on fire"?
text: Did you know that the 2020 MLS All-Star Game will be the first to be played against an all-star team from another soccer league?
text: Did you know that space entrepreneur Susmita Mohanty has started companies on three continents?
text: Did you know that the card game of Kaschlan , named after its top trump , became so popular that it was used in the Prussian idiom "my stomach's playing Kaschlan with my bowels"?
text: Did you know that the recreational reading collection at Imperial College London 's Central Library was started from books accumulated in student halls?
text: Did you know that Bambang Soegeng initiated a service number system in the Indonesian National Armed Forces , and received a service number of 10001?
text: Did you know that a bowling green and a monument now occupy the site of Helston Castle in Cornwall ?
text: Did you know that although judge R. W. Buzzard has been criticized for drinking and carrying a loaded gun on the job, he has also personally intervened in fistfights and pursued fleeing suspects?
text: Did you know that Ralph Mellanby 's production of the 1988 Winter Olympics for CTV used a television lens described as the "world's longest", for the ski jumping events ?
text: Did you know that as recently as 2013, girls as young as six from landless families were sold each year as labour in Nepal ?
text: Did you know that Keanu Reeves 's film roles include a time-travelling slacker, a computer hacker, an exorcist, and a dentist?
text: Did you know that Missouri radio station KADY was the first ever recipient of a fine from the FCC for failing to illuminate its tower?
text: Did you know that India's Mohan Samant managed the largest covert naval operation in history, which resulted in the destruction of around 100,000 tonnes of Pakistani shipping during the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971?
text: Did you know that the manga series Our Colors was inspired by author Gengoroh Tagame 's desire to create a story about gay characters that was not centrally focused on romance or sex?
text: Did you know that British teacher Joe Kirby has described marking homework as a hornet ?
text: Did you know that Cheng Sihan , a former driver and art-school dropout, started a successful acting career after becoming homeless and desperate for work?
text: Did you know that Twenty One Pilots had concerns over the sensitivity of their handling of the topic of suicide in their song " Neon Gravestones ", but still kept it in their album Trench ?
text: Did you know that Andrew Watt Kay 's paper describing his augmented histamine test was the single most cited paper in the British Medical Journal between 1945 and 1989?
text: Did you know that the Century Building in New York City was built in 1880 as a speculative project, the developers having purchased the land more than a decade earlier?
text: Did you know that Oskar Cohn initiated protests against the deportation of Jews from Tel Aviv and Jaffa in the German parliament ?
text: Did you know that although it is classified as a commuter rail line, Cercanías Madrid 's C-9 line primarily serves ski resorts?
text: Did you know that upon his election in 1970 , Cecil Andrus became the first Democratic governor of Idaho in 24 years, and began 24 consecutive years of Democratic governors?
text: Did you know that Olivia Salamanca , one of the founding members of the Philippine Anti-Tuberculosis Society, died from the disease at the age of 24?
text: Did you know that Ave Maria , an obscure piece for two men's choirs by Franz Biebl , became a choral standard after Chanticleer made it part of their holiday programs?
text: Did you know that Dogor , an 18,000-year-old canine puppy, may represent a common ancestor of the dog and the wolf?
text: Did you know that the STIR/SHAKEN protocols aim to end the "epidemic" of robocalls , of which there were an estimated 5.7 billion in the U.S. placed in October 2019 alone?
text: Did you know that the name of the Japanese band Spira Spica comes from a Latin word meaning "having hopes as long as one lives", and the star Spica ?
text: Did you know that the Revolutionary Party of Mozambique initially relied on sticks, axes, machetes and spears to fight its insurgency in the late 1970s?
text: Did you know that Rabbi Chaim Malinowitz approved every line and footnote of the English translation of the Talmud in the 73-volume Schottenstein Edition of the Babylonian Talmud ?
text: Did you know that actress Anne Baxter 's roles included an Egyptian princess, a ruthlessly ambitious understudy, an alcoholic, and two villains in the 1960s Batman television series ?
text: Did you know that Priestly's Hydraulic Ram in Gooding County, Idaho , pumped water uphill with no moving parts?
text: Did you know that "Tom's Secret", an animated short film by Israeli artist Ohad Elimelech , was selected as the official video for the 2016 European Day on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse?
text: Did you know that 110 East 42nd Street and the Pershing Square Building , both located above a subway station , were designed with interlocking structures, including what is thought to be New York City's tallest party wall ?
text: Did you know that Carla 's coach at the French talent show The Voice Kids did not want her to release a record?
text: Did you know that the J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia was published before the copy-editing process was completed?
text: Did you know that in 1975, Donna Tobias became the United States Navy 's first female deep-sea diver?
text: Did you know that André Couto , the winner of the 2000 Macau Grand Prix , is the first Macanese driver to win the race under Formula Three regulations?
text: Did you know that neuroengineer Maryam Shanechi and her research team developed a method to determine a person's mood from their brain activity?
text: Did you know that there were only 218 Washington College alumni from 1845 to 1903?
text: Did you know that Irrfan Khan recommended Saba Qamar to the makers of the film Hindi Medium after watching her YouTube videos?
text: Did you know that a cantata titled God is Now , based on the hymn " Gott ist gegenwärtig " and scored for choir, big band, organ, and live electronics, premiered on the 250th anniversary of the hymn writer 's death?
text: Did you know that Korean-Chinese missile expert Li Xianyu is the only female general in the People's Liberation Army Rocket Force ?
text: Did you know that after Mississippi radio station WKNZ relaunched as "Zoo 107", it sponsored a name-the-zebra contest at its namesake, the Hattiesburg Zoo ?
text: Did you know that Mark Williams won a snooker match at the 2020 World Grand Prix despite suffering from gout ?
text: Did you know that the U.S. government has tried to prevent Omar Lorméndez Pitalúa from accessing the international financial sector?
text: Did you know that Alte Liebe (Old Love) is a novel about a couple married for 40 years, told by a couple married longer but separated, with chapters written alternately by wife and husband?
text: Did you know that South Korean businessman Chung Mong-won , an honorary consul of Slovenia, will be inducted into the International Ice Hockey Federation Hall of Fame in 2020?
text: Did you know that the military of the Sasanian Empire used an uncharacterized device or technique called panjagan to fire a volley of five arrows?
text: Did you know that John Thomas Baldwin , a botanist at the College of William & Mary , fined a group of students $100 after they cut down one of his specimens for use as a Christmas tree?
text: Did you know that in addition to its retail operations, Japanese used goods chain K-Books operates a butler café ?
text: Did you know that Canadian professor Georges Larivière conducted a research project in which a transceiver is inserted into a hockey helmet to communicate directly with ice hockey players?
text: Did you know that the 2018 indie video game Past Cure was developed by a team from Turkey, Belgium, Egypt, Romania, England, and North Macedonia?
text: Did you know that Suki Lopez auditioned for Sesame Street by having a heart-to-heart conversation with someone performing as Elmo ?
text: Did you know that a fishing boat capsized and sank in 1948 off the Maltese island of Gozo after too many passengers had insisted on boarding it?
text: Did you know that Margaret Barr Fulton was the first qualified occupational therapist to work in the UK?
text: Did you know that Deno Vourderis promised Coney Island 's Wonder Wheel to his future wife as a gift 36 years before buying it?
text: Did you know that 2019 concerts in the 19th-century Bergkirche in Wiesbaden , Germany, included Pärt's Passio and Handel's Messiah ?
text: Did you know that Dorothy Doolittle , winner of the inaugural Chicago Marathon , was later an assistant coach for the U.S. team at the 1992 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that in a Europe-wide study, the boreal ensign scale was found to be the most common scale insect present in soil?
text: Did you know that Chun Chik-yu , a descendant of Hawaiian chiefs , served as governor of Guangdong province in China?
text: Did you know that the Band of the National Police of Peru has the oldest music library in the country?
text: Did you know that in 2016, Alice Dearing became the first British swimmer to win a gold medal at the World Junior Open Water Championships?
text: Did you know that Vint Cerf performed a striptease in a three-piece suit during the Protocol Wars ?
text: Did you know that in 1965, U.S. civil rights activist John Hulett became one of the first two black voters in Lowndes County, Alabama , in more than six decades?
text: Did you know that Werner Herzog , who plays The Client in The Mandalorian , has called the show's producers "cowards" for considering the use of computer-generated imagery for " Baby Yoda "?
text: Did you know that Irish republican activist Michael Davitt hated the British empire, but actually liked English people?
text: Did you know that in his 1831 chorale cantata Verleih uns Frieden , Mendelssohn set Luther 's German prayer for peace to a new melody?
text: Did you know that British screenwriter Gaby Chiappe has worked with the Rape Crisis centre in Leeds to develop a storyline about rape?
text: Did you know that New York City's Downtown Athletic Club , for white-collar workers of Lower Manhattan , did not accept female members for 51 years?
text: Did you know that cricketer Atharva Ankolekar 's father placed a cricket bat near his crib on the day he was born?
text: Did you know that Virginia Walker was signed to a Hollywood film contract on the basis of her picture in a magazine advertisement for soap?
text: Did you know that Scandinavian sagas were the first to use Eistland as a name for Estonia ?
text: Did you know that Enno Stephan 's book Geheimauftrag Irland caused embarrassment in Ireland when it revealed details of Nazi espionage in the country ?
text: Did you know that The Other Side of Heaven 2: Fire of Faith was filmed in Fiji to take advantage of the country's 47-percent tax rebate for films made there?
text: Did you know that the Leeds -based software company Visionware represented a management buyout success story from the failure of a once much larger British company?
text: Did you know that after Caroline Pafford Miller won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her first novel, she received a letter from Margaret Mitchell saying that it was her "favorite book"?
text: Did you know that rappers Future and Drake worked at McDonald's for a day ?
text: Did you know that Hildegard Heichele , a soprano of the Oper Frankfurt known for performing Mozart roles, appears as Adele on a DVD of Johann Strauss II 's Die Fledermaus from the Royal Opera House ?
text: Did you know that The Patient Assassin , a biography of Udham Singh by Anita Anand , uses evidence from documents released under the UK's Freedom of Information Act ?
text: Did you know that after being treated for uterine cancer , Ai Kidosaki taught cooking to hospital employees?
text: Did you know that Michael Waltrip 's 2019 documentary film Blink of an Eye has been called " NASCAR 's answer to Senna "?
text: Did you know that Al Ahed FC became the first Lebanese association football club to win the AFC Cup ?
text: Did you know that in 2003, a painting by Nazlı Ecevit was hung in the workplace of the Turkish prime minister , an office that her son Bülent Ecevit had previously held?
text: Did you know that the Battle of Drepana was ill-fated for the Romans because their sacred chickens refused to eat?
text: Did you know that at the age of 17, Esther Arditi saved a pilot and a navigator from a burning plane?
text: Did you know that Ron Berteling is the first Dutch ice hockey player to be knighted by the Netherlands ?
text: Did you know that on this day in 1814, a tsar , a king , and a prince met at Troyes to discuss their war against Napoleon ?
text: Did you know that Nino Tkeshelashvili and other early Georgian feminists campaigned to uphold women's "moral standards", labeling prostitution a "social evil"?
text: Did you know that John F. Kennedy used the first satellite in a geosynchronous orbit to phone Nigerian prime minister Abubakar Tafawa Balewa from a ship?
text: Did you know that Gustav Brecher , who conducted the world premieres of Jonny spielt auf and Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny at the Leipzig Opera , was dismissed by the Nazis in 1933?
text: Did you know that a section of Japan National Route 339 on Cape Tappi is a staircase?
text: Did you know that fashion historian Caroline Weber discovered two lost essays by Marcel Proust while researching one of her books?
text: Did you know that the specific name of Pterophorus pentadactyla , commonly known as the white plume moth, comes from the Greek for 'five fingers'?
text: Did you know that Dutch baritone John Bröcheler first sang concerts including world premieres, but was "discovered" for opera in a role of Donizetti's Maria Stuarda alongside Joan Sutherland ?
text: Did you know that although veneration of the dead is often considered blasphemy in Islam, Sukarno's grave in Blitar receives tens of thousands of Javanese Muslims each year seeking his spiritual blessing?
text: Did you know that Ephraim Bacon , a leader of the American Colonization Society expedition that founded Liberia, fled to Barbados after coming down with a fever?
text: Did you know that Super Lemon Haze is an award-winning cannabis strain that commonly exhibits limonene , an organic compound also found in lemons?
text: Did you know that researcher Heejung Kim found that the influence of the oxytocin receptor gene OXTR on social behavior depends on cultural context?
text: Did you know that Mexican indigenous radio station La Voz de los Chontales returns today after being silent for more than 30 years?
text: Did you know that Keith Sebelius voted against the War Powers Resolution , but supported capping the U.S. military at 400,000 troops overseas?
text: Did you know that Blue Square owned the franchise rights for operating IKEA in Israel during the 1990s?
text: Did you know that William Dorsey Swann was the first American on record who pursued legal and political action to defend the LGBTQ community 's right to gather?
text: Did you know that the Little Cross monument in Elgin, Scotland , was listed as a Category A building in 1971?
text: Did you know that Józef Walaszczyk had to collect one kilogram (2.2 lb) of gold within five hours to save 21 Jews?
text: Did you know that the best-selling novel Dear Edward was inspired by a real-life plane crash in which a nine-year-old boy was the sole survivor ?
text: Did you know that Kanye West sold his Maybach to buy a Polar Bear ?
text: Did you know that French Resistance fighter Henri Fertet was executed by occupying German forces during World War II at the age of 16?
text: Did you know that Israeli supermarket chain Yeinot Bitan purchased its rival, Mega, in 2015, becoming the country's second-largest by number of branches?
text: Did you know that as a child, Indian archery champion Pravin Jadhav was undernourished and lived in a shack near a drain?
text: Did you know that the First Baptist Church is Toronto's oldest black institution?
text: Did you know that the coloratura soprano Julia Bauer played five roles in Der Ring in Minden , including her on-stage portrayal of the Forest Bird in Siegfried ?
text: Did you know that the local medical officer thought it "inconceivable" that the Croydon typhoid outbreak of 1937 was caused by contaminated water?
text: Did you know that Dua Saleh 's debut single "First Take" was recorded in a single take ?
text: Did you know that physicist John Bell published the theorem that now bears his name in a journal sometimes called by the unusual title Physics Physique Физика ?
text: Did you know that Roland Kotani , a member of the Hawaii House of Representatives , was murdered by his estranged wife in 1989?
text: Did you know that Kanye West credits creating " an album for God " for being able to collaborate with Dr. Dre on the upcoming Jesus Is King Part II ?
text: Did you know that Indonesian-born Wang Wenjiao and Chen Fushou coached the Chinese national men's and women's badminton teams to win four Thomas Cups and two Uber Cups , respectively?
text: Did you know that all John F. Kennedy talked about on his way to and from church in England was the Profumo affair ?
text: Did you know that Ted Robbins was the longest-serving secretary in the history of the Football Association of Wales ?
text: Did you know that as part of a restoration of New York City's Bryant Park , 84 miles (135 km) of bookshelves were built underneath it?
text: Did you know that Vasily Bakalov oversaw the design of weapon systems to destroy tanks, such as the 9M113 Konkurs , and to protect tanks, such as the Drozd ?
text: Did you know that Newsweek described the Goucher College campus in Towson, Maryland , as "unusually bucolic"?
text: Did you know that in the 1830s, a Mère in Lyon , France, became famous for her creation Tétons de Venus ('Venus's Breasts'), a dish of giant dumplings that was popular at bachelor parties ?
text: Did you know that the church of Santa Maria della Purità in Rome was managed by caudatari , priests whose main task was to carry the trains of the pope or cardinals?
text: Did you know that Samuel Bacon , government agent on the first American Colonization Society expedition, died of "actual exhaustion" soon after arriving in Africa?
text: Did you know that The Myth of the Eastern Front explores the parallels between the myth of the clean Wehrmacht and the Lost Cause of the Confederacy ?
text: Did you know that Lisa Cristiani was the first European to hold public musical concerts in Siberia ?
text: Did you know that rapper Jay Electronica began recording his debut studio album A Written Testimony in December 2019, despite announcing a sequel to his first mixtape 13 years ago?
text: Did you know that Anwar Tjokroaminoto was known as "Mr. Pervert"?
text: Did you know that the Rockville Centre train crash was one of two Long Island Rail Road crashes in 1950 which collectively killed more than 100 people?
text: Did you know that Flying Apsaras Award winner Tian Chengren worked as an actor until the age of 92?
text: Did you know that the demolished Borgo Vecchio in Rome may have been the road down which Christian martyrs walked when going to the Circus of Nero to be executed?
text: Did you know that Claudeen Arthur was the first Navajo woman to be licensed as a lawyer in the U.S.?
text: Did you know that Grace Buxner said when the developers of Superhot noticed her " cool frog game , they were like 'hmmm... what if..... money????? ' "
text: Did you know that Zhang Changshou co-led a Sino-American archaeological project investigating sites that were sometimes buried under more than 10 meters (33 ft) of alluvium ?
text: Did you know that " The Night We Met ", a song by indie-folk band Lord Huron , was certified two-times platinum nearly two years after its initial release?
text: Did you know that prior to becoming Google India's manager, Sanjay Gupta was credited for expanding Star India 's sports business by launching Pro Kabaddi League and Indian Super League ?
text: Did you know that the copepod Mesocyclops longisetus can be used in the biological control of mosquitoes?
text: Did you know that Egyptian radiologist Sahar Saleem has used CT scans of Tutankhamun 's body to theorise that he died from the effects of a knee fracture?
text: Did you know that the third of Claude Debussy 's three Nocturnes for orchestra requires a women's chorus to sing wordlessly like sirens ?
text: Did you know that English footballer Mark Bright was a foster child, started on wages of £10 a week, and has gone on to earn £1.2 million during his career?
text: Did you know that time decompression is a common narrative technique in sports manga , with one series stretching a four-month basketball season into six years' worth of weekly stories?
text: Did you know that Albert William Bailey translated the Gospel of John into the Mbunda language in 1916?
text: Did you know that the Little Cut , a quarter-mile ( 0.4 km) branch of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal , had the only tunnel containing a towpath on the entire 127-mile (204 km) canal?
text: Did you know that Wang Jin , one of China's first female archaeologists, participated in the discovery of the Neolithic Qujialing culture ?
text: Did you know that the music video for Faith No More 's " Anne's Song " features a caged Chuck Mosley being tormented by Metallica 's James Hetfield ?
text: Did you know that Wolfgang Rehm worked on the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe from the beginning of the project in 1955 to its completion in 2007?
text: Did you know that in 1979, the initials CIRALG were said to "spell power in central Iowa"?
text: Did you know that a fire training academy in the state of Washington has been designated as a quarantine site during the current coronavirus outbreak ?
text: Did you know that in his ballet Alice im Wunderland , composer Herbert Baumann made the story's author a character?
text: Did you know that Leprous 's 2019 album Pitfalls took shape from its songwriter's depression and anxiety?
text: Did you know that American missionary William Harrison Anderson staked a land claim in Rhodesia for the Rusangu Mission by carving a message on a tree trunk?
text: Did you know that groups of social feather dusters sway in unison in the water current and retract into their tubes at the slightest disturbance?
text: Did you know that Anoosh Masood Chaudhry completed a medical degree before entering law enforcement and becoming an assistant superintendent of police ?
text: Did you know that to commemorate its new call letters in 1938, radio station KITE in Kansas City, Missouri , gave away 15,000 kites to children?
text: Did you know that Elke Heidenreich , two-time winner of the Grimme television award , wrote the book Nero Corleone featuring a tomcat as the bullying protagonist?
text: Did you know that the 2020 opera Eurydice was created by three geniuses ?
text: Did you know that during the Battle of Kalijati , a Royal Air Force pilot managed to creep into his plane under Japanese fire and take off with it?
text: Did you know that while other 1978 Chicago Marathon runners complained the late start meant finishing in 80 °F (27 °C) heat, winner Lynae Larson was concerned about its effect on her six-hour drive home?
text: Did you know that the Doctor Who story Planet of Giants was inspired by Rachel Carson 's 1962 environmental science book Silent Spring ?
text: Did you know that John Clark Murray was the first professor at Queen's University at Kingston to offer courses to women?
text: Did you know that common lousewort owes its name to the belief that livestock that ate it would become lousy ?
text: Did you know that two cinemas, a bank, and a pub are now used as places of worship in Portsmouth, England ?
text: Did you know that Swedish actor Christopher Wollter started his career as a teenage reporter for the SVT children's television show Barnjournalen ?
text: Did you know that the book Yoga Body asserts that yoga as exercise is a radical break from the spiritual hatha yoga tradition?
text: Did you know that several mechanics of the TurboGrafx-16 game Soldier Blade were mistakenly changed due to miscommunication between the designer and staff?
text: Did you know that the young, attractive, and date-able portrayal of Colonel Sanders in a parody dating sim is part of an effort by KFC to make the Colonel a "part of pop culture"?
text: Did you know that Carlos Vives once invited Paraguayan violinist Ana Lucrecia Taglioretti to play with him on stage after she tried to sneak into his concert without a ticket?
text: Did you know that viewers complained when the first episode of Living on the Veg , a vegan cookery programme , was broadcast with a sponsor's advertisements showing animal products?
text: Did you know that for three months after Michael Rosenblum's disappearance 40 years ago today, the local police did not tell anyone that they had the car he had been driving?
text: Did you know that the Ager Vaticanus alluvial plain in Rome was known for its unhealthy climate and bad wine?
text: Did you know that Shirley Temple 's mother tried to get the "notably talented and cute" Johnnie Russell fired from the set of The Blue Bird so that he would not share screen time with her daughter?
text: Did you know that even after losing at the 2020 German Masters snooker tournament, Sunny Akani continued to play on the practice tables at the venue for a further two days?
text: Did you know that Milton Tower was the birthplace of John Ogilvie , Scotland's only post- Reformation Catholic saint?
text: Did you know that Cai Shaoqing 's research showed that militarization and banditry fuelled each other during China's Warlord Era ?
text: Did you know that at a meeting about zoning for a tower for KUCB-FM in Des Moines, Iowa , a radio station board member hurled a wastebasket at the chairman of the city zoning board?
text: Did you know that Teno Roncalio , the last Democratic representative from Wyoming, had land claims along the Snake River worth an estimated US$7 billion in gold?
text: Did you know that from 1938, the Slovak People's Party denounced Czechs as "enemies and pests" of the nation?
text: Did you know that neuroscientist Kate Jeffery correctly predicted that her postdoctoral advisor John O'Keefe would win a Nobel Prize in 2014?
text: Did you know that American military personnel taken prisoner of war have a duty to escape ?
text: Did you know that Nintendo planned to support Animal Crossing Plaza for only a limited period, and discontinued the application after less than 17 months?
text: Did you know that Thomas Jefferson Vance Owen , the first school commissioner of Cook County, Illinois , and Chicago's first town president, was responsible for indirectly naming Grand Avenue ?
text: Did you know that after the closure of Tranvía Villasegura , Tenerife 's first tram system, in the 1950s, one of the trams was reused as a bar?
text: Did you know that the Seattle high-rise building Third and Lenora lost its main tenant, WeWork , before it was completed?
text: Did you know that Edward IV of England is traditionally said to have first met his wife, Elizabeth Woodville , under the Queen's Oak in Northamptonshire ?
text: Did you know that civil servant Lou Lefaive was described as a "key builder of the Canadian sport system"?
text: Did you know that the 1941 essay " Who Goes Nazi? " by Dorothy Thompson was referenced by media outlets in commentary on the 2016 U.S. presidential election ?
text: Did you know that the hairy sea cucumber has long tube feet on its dorsal surface, giving it a furry appearance?
text: Did you know that the airstrike that killed three-year-old Milica Rakić during the 1999 bombing of Yugoslavia also wounded five other civilians?
text: Did you know that the champions of the 2015 Camellia Bowl , the Appalachian State Mountaineers , became the first team to win a college bowl game in their first year of eligibility?
text: Did you know that Gujarati humourist Ratilal Borisagar was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award by India's National Academy of Letters in 2019?
text: Did you know that Brewer , the fictional Pennsylvania city in John Updike 's Rabbit novels, reflects change in American society throughout the second half of the 20th century?
text: Did you know that musicologist Ulrich Konrad studied sketches that Wolfgang Amadé Mozart made for composition, and concluded that the composer planned his works more thoroughly than previously assumed?
text: Did you know that Brenda Nelson, host of the Talk of the Town interview program on KTLO-FM in Mountain Home, Arkansas , retired after doing more than 8,000 interviews over 34 years?
text: Did you know that after examining serial rapist Reynhard Sinaga 's mobile phone, police discovered more than three terabytes of digital video evidence of his assaults?
text: Did you know that Dutch forces surrendered to Japanese invaders after their defeat in the Battle of Tjiater Pass because they did not want to fight in Bandung ?
text: Did you know that in an Alden Rowing boat, you can expect your seat to slide out from under you?
text: Did you know that a pair of brothers – future meteorologist Tom Skilling and future Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling – worked at WLXT-TV in Aurora, Illinois , while in high school?
text: Did you know that The Duke's Diwan was built in 1924 as the first post office in Amman , Jordan?
text: Did you know that painter Fang Zengxian served as president of the Shanghai Art Museum , and founded the Shanghai Biennale ?
text: Did you know that one of the three gunmen involved in the 1991 Boston Chinatown massacre has not yet been found despite a "worldwide hunt"?
text: Did you know that a live-action video adapting scenes from the manga The Way of the Househusband was produced to commemorate the series reaching 1.2 million copies in print?
text: Did you know that a stanza from " Nun liebe Seel, nun ist es Zeit ", a German Lutheran hymn , was used in Part V of Bach's Christmas Oratorio ?
text: Did you know that Elin C. Danien , an expert on ancient Maya ceramics, claimed that "archaeology is the most fun you can have with your pants on"?
text: Did you know that Dagmar Schmidt , elected to the Bundestag shortly after giving birth to a son with Down syndrome , stated in a debate about prenatal testing that there should be a "right not to know"?
text: Did you know that Fry 's vegan meat was created by a former livestock trader?
text: Did you know that the child queen Margaret, Maid of Norway , died before reaching Scotland, so her place in the list of Scottish monarchs is in dispute?
text: Did you know that the 2002 World Matchplay saw the first nine-dart finish to be broadcast live in the United Kingdom?
text: Did you know that the Hong Kong government withdrew their decision to use Fai Ming Estate as a quarantine facility following protests from nearby residents?
text: Did you know that since its completion in 2015, Liberty Plaza in Atlanta has hosted demonstrations for both March for Our Lives and the September 2019 climate strikes ?
text: Did you know that Brian Lohse was elected to the Iowa House of Representatives in 2018, six years after he and his wife won US$202 million in the state's Powerball lottery jackpot?
text: Did you know that Ma Guoqiang , the top government official in Wuhan , served as chairman of China's largest steelmaker until less than two years ago?
text: Did you know that Neil Robertson won the 2020 European Masters snooker tournament in a 9–0 whitewash , the first time since 1989 that a two- session finalist did not win a frame ?
text: Did you know that radio station KROF derived its call sign from the three major products of Vermilion Parish, Louisiana – rice, oil, and furs?
text: Did you know that Le Than Bwa , a 15th-century commander-in-chief of Ava forces , left the battle scene after receiving a large bribe from the enemy , forcing King Nyo to flee Ava shortly afterwards?
text: Did you know that the 2018 American superhero film Deadpool 2 was nominated for fifteen Golden Trailer Awards ?
text: Did you know that prior to becoming president of Loyola College in Maryland , Joseph A. Canning spent eight years as a missionary in Jamaica?
text: Did you know that by the end of the Napoleonic Wars , France was conscripting men shorter than five feet (1.5 m) tall ?
text: Did you know that gerontologist Elaine Brody used the term "women in the middle" to refer to women who care for their elderly parents while raising their children?
text: Did you know that the Australian national cricket team's 1999 tour of the West Indies was the first four-match series in the history of Test cricket to finish 2–2 ?
text: Did you know that award-winning typeface designer Colin Brignall had no formal training in typography ?
text: Did you know that the 1939 defeat of Republican Spain in the Spanish Civil War marked the end of the "classical era" of the history of anarchism ?
text: Did you know that the 67-story Queens Plaza Park in Queens will incorporate the borough's first skyscraper, a 14-story clock tower?
text: Did you know that Osbern fitzRichard is considered an English feudal baron because he held Richard's Castle as tenant-in-chief in 1086?
text: Did you know that Marisol loves Julio , but not enough to die for him?
text: Did you know that debate over the Cranfield experiments in information retrieval went "well beyond the boundaries of civility"?
text: Did you know that French historian Jean Delumeau was a prominent figure in the history of mentalities ?
text: Did you know that WCAE , the first educational television station in Indiana , received more support from viewers in Illinois than in its own state?
text: Did you know that Swedish pianist Putte Nelsson has backed up Ricky Martin , Mariah Carey , and Mary J. Blige ?
text: Did you know that Jen Wang wrote The Prince and the Dressmaker in part because she wanted to tell the story of a superhero who could create clothes that transformed those who wore them?
text: Did you know that although the bird of paradise fly was first described from an Angophora tree, it is quite likely that this is not the insect's host plant?
text: Did you know that after her speech on the subject of marriage to the Womanhood Suffrage League of New South Wales in 1891, Eliza Ashton was accused of promoting "free love" and prostitution?
text: Did you know that Gai Mizuki and Takeshi Matsu are among the artists featured in Massive: Gay Erotic Manga and the Men Who Make It , the first English-language anthology of gay manga ?
text: Did you know that the American Express Building in Manhattan replaced a pair of brownstone structures that were described as being "among the ancient landmarks" on Broadway ?
text: Did you know that Egon Hartmann won a competition to design Stalinallee in East Berlin?
text: Did you know that equipment from defunct television station WTVI in Fort Pierce, Florida , was sold to start an unrelated WTVI in Charlotte, North Carolina ?
text: Did you know that the Tedder certificate was awarded by the British government to foreign citizens who assisted Allied prisoners of war to escape German captivity during the Second World War?
text: Did you know that after the devastating 2010 and 2011 Christchurch earthquakes , the New Zealand government " red-zoned ", purchased, and demolished 8,000 houses?
text: Did you know that the idea for the Twilight novel series came to Stephenie Meyer in a dream?
text: Did you know that participants in one of Dirshu 's intensive study programs are tested on their knowledge of all 2,711 pages of the Talmud at the end of the seven-and-a-half-year Daf Yomi cycle?
text: Did you know that epidemiologist Li Lanjuan was the first to propose a lockdown of Wuhan during the present coronavirus outbreak ?
text: Did you know that Sitka Sedge State Natural Area , a pristine estuary in Oregon, almost became a golf course?
text: Did you know that different versions of the song " Danzen! Futari wa Pretty Cure " by Mayumi Gojo were used in the first two seasons and the 25th movie of the Pretty Cure anime franchise?
text: Did you know that Ivan Ustinov , a Soviet officer of the NKVD and SMERSH during the Second World War, threatened to shoot any soldier who wanted to surrender?
text: Did you know that Nick Nolte , who voices Kuiil in the Star Wars television series The Mandalorian , was seriously considered for the role of Han Solo over 40 years earlier?
text: Did you know that before the release of The Baseball Encyclopedia , a Major League Baseball committee passed a rules interpretation that would have altered Babe Ruth 's home run total, before reversing its decision?
text: Did you know that the Battle of the Aegates in 241 BC ended the First Punic War after 23 years?
text: Did you know that Kapoli Kamakau , who composed music with a future queen and a princess , later contracted leprosy and died in exile?
text: Did you know that the 2001 International Formula 3000 Championship featured the series's first round in the modern era to be held outside Europe?
text: Did you know that Bishop Monkton Ings in North Yorkshire , England, provides a habitat to the semi- parasitic marsh lousewort ?
text: Did you know that actor Carl Weathers agreed to play Greef Karga on the Star Wars television series The Mandalorian on the condition that he direct future episodes of the show?
text: Did you know that heat from the Mount Rittmann volcano in Antarctica allows mosses to grow?
text: Did you know that Bonanza City, New Mexico , was founded in 1880 and largely abandoned by 1890?
text: Did you know that even after narrowing the list of suspects in Geetha Angara's unsolved killing , 15 years ago today, down to three men, police could not charge any of them?
text: Did you know that Richard Scrob built Richard's Castle , one of the few castles in England built before the Norman conquest ?
text: Did you know that Capricorn Seamount is an underwater mountain that is breaking up as it enters the Tonga Trench ?
text: Did you know that the Cymmer Colliery explosion of 1856 in Wales resulted in a "sacrifice of human life to an extent unparalleled in the history of coal mining of this country"?
text: Did you know that Supreme Court of British Columbia justice Dev Dley previously served as commissioner of the Western Hockey League ?
text: Did you know that Captain Tilly Park contains the "smallest island in the smallest natural body of water" within New York City?
text: Did you know that rioters in Leicester, England, destroyed a hydrogen balloon in 1864?
text: Did you know that V. S. Lelchuk joined dissident and revisionist historians in a "historical glasnost " during the collapse of the Soviet Union ?
text: Did you know that Jon Favreau created the role of Cara Dune in The Mandalorian with former mixed martial artist Gina Carano in mind, and did not audition any other actresses for the role?
text: Did you know that Mar Field Fen is "one of the best examples of fen habitat in the Vale of York "?
text: Did you know that during her final performance at the 1994 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival , Louisiana Creole singer Inez Catalon chastised female audience members for dressing immodestly?
text: Did you know that the title of the book A Very Stable Genius comes from a tweet by Donald Trump ?
text: Did you know that Iranian women's rights activist Mastoureh Afshar organized the second Eastern Women's Congress, held in Tehran in 1932, which drew delegates from Afghanistan to Zanzibar ?
text: Did you know that television station WETV in Key West , Florida, was forced off the air by an act of Congress?
text: Did you know that software engineer David Notkin worked to expand computer science research to a wider demographic, particularly women?
text: Did you know that salmon conservation measures are threatening the survival of a fishing technique first brought to Britain a thousand years ago by the Vikings ?
text: Did you know that Italian mathematician Giovanni Prodi was initially drafted into the National Republican Army and trained as a telephonist during World War II?
text: Did you know that images of the widowed queen who commissioned the first major work of Indian Deccan painting were erased after her son rebelled and imprisoned her?
text: Did you know that Jean Bégin was the first coach in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League to make three appearances at the Memorial Cup ?
text: Did you know that Fort Tryon Park , located on steep terrain in Manhattan , was designed as a landscaped park with the Cloisters museum as the main point of interest?
text: Did you know that Edda Tasiemka was known as the "human Google"?
text: Did you know that hedge fund manager Jacob Gottlieb hired Status Labs to counteract negative news coverage of him over the closure of Visium Asset Management ?
text: Did you know that Wolfgang J. Fuchs , an early German comics scholar who co-wrote a 1971 standard work on the topic, translated Garfield and Mom's Cancer ?
text: Did you know that according to The Independent , KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps "renders the unimaginable evil of the camps relatable"?
text: Did you know that Eric Bowen 's paintings were inspired by tantra ?
text: Did you know that the studio building used by Oklahoma City radio station KJEM was the last structure that was demolished to make way for the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building ?
text: Did you know that Thomas H. Lee , who developed the vacuum interrupter at General Electric , won an Asian table tennis championship while in college?
text: Did you know that the Austins Quarter of Newton Abbot in Devon , England, is named after a department store ?
text: Did you know that the Courtois Hills region has the most rugged terrain and steepest average slopes of any sub-region of the Missouri Ozarks ?
text: Did you know that Skandinavskii sbornik ( Scandinavian Review ) was the principal forum for Soviet scholars of Nordic studies for 35 years until the collapse of the Soviet Union ?
text: Did you know that during the Cultural Revolution , Zhu Yuli was denounced as a counterrevolutionary and suffered beatings which caused disability in his right hand?
text: Did you know that the Tulsa Club Building suffered four major fires in 2010, including three in a two-week period, yet remained strong enough to allow conversion to a hotel instead of demolition?
text: Did you know that Cueros de Purulla volcano had a large eruption 7820 years ago and was later a source of obsidian ?
text: Did you know that at the time of her retirement in 2008, Florida State Seminoles coach JoAnne Graf held the record for most wins in the history of NCAA Division I softball?
text: Did you know that the differences between live versions of Rush's " Witch Hunt " were seen as an instance of "translation" à la Walter Benjamin ?
text: Did you know that Mollie Hughes is the youngest woman to ski solo to the South Pole?
text: Did you know that the first president of the University of Kentucky , James Kennedy Patterson , personally financed its first three buildings?
text: Did you know that although author Lao She declared his satirical novel Cat Country a failure, it has been translated into at least six languages?
text: Did you know that despite an early career spent with the Soviet and Russian Airborne Forces , Viktor Astapov is currently a deputy commander-in-chief of the Russian Navy?
text: Did you know that there have been 49 captains in the Big Bash League ?
text: Did you know that American missionary Vernon Andy Anderson noted that those accused of witchcraft in the Belgian Congo were likely to be women over 55 and subject to murder by vigilantes?
text: Did you know that the final of the 2020 Masters snooker tournament was interrupted by a " whoopee cushion " device?
text: Did you know that Josef Protschka , who sang as a soloist in Stockhausen's Gesang der Jünglinge at age 12, later appeared in leading tenor roles in the Mozart cycle staged by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle at the Cologne Opera ?
text: Did you know that when the LineageOS operating system refused to integrate MicroG software, the project forked its own version, with MicroG pre-installed ?
text: Did you know that Romanian neuroscientist Viviana Gradinaru was part of the research team from Caltech that found that serotonin is necessary for sleep in zebrafish and mice?
text: Did you know that drag queens Trixie Mattel and Katya Zamolodchikova have hosted the entertainment series UNHhhh , The Trixie & Katya Show , and I Like to Watch ?
text: Did you know that the National Institute of Food Technology Entrepreneurship and Management has conducted research to improve the taste and nutrition of a children's dietary supplement distributed by the government of Kerala ?
text: Did you know that Harun el-Raschid Hintersatz , a German convert to Islam, led a Muslim SS unit comprising Turkmens and Tatars during World War II?
text: Did you know that during a renovation of New York City's Bowne Park , some fish from its pond ended up in refrigerators of nearby homes?
text: Did you know that the blue pitta is a shy, secretive bird, but will respond to a recording of its call?
text: Did you know that Italian soprano Carolina Crespi was born in Prague, appeared in Barcelona in a child role, met her husband in Paris, and performed with him in world premieres of operas at La Scala in Milan?
text: Did you know that in 2016, New York became the 50th U.S. state to legalize and regulate mixed martial arts ?
text: Did you know that Bill Gates is a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering ?
text: Did you know that the serial novel and manga series Nokemono to Hanayome was inspired by the Tokyo subway sarin attack ?
text: Did you know that the Survey of Palestine was led by the man who " wants you ", the man who was too late to save Gordon of Khartoum , a Jack the Ripper suspect , and the police chief who chased him ?
text: Did you know that Edith Hern Fossett , one of Thomas Jefferson 's slaves, was taught French cuisine in the White House and became the head chef at Monticello ?
text: Did you know that before becoming a passenger ferry, the MV Star of Malta made a round-the-world cruise, belonged to a Dominican Republic dictator , and served in the United States Navy ?
text: Did you know that Lin Zonghu was China's first graduate student to major in boilers ?
text: Did you know that no fungi or algae are listed as endangered or threatened by the Illinois Endangered Species Protection Board ?
text: Did you know that the 16-piece Detroit News Orchestra was the first symphonic orchestra in the world organized specifically to play on radio?
text: Did you know that the Fatimid military commander Dirgham abandoned his pupil Ruzzik ibn Tala'i , the vizier , to be deposed and killed by Shawar , only to overthrow the latter a few months later?
text: Did you know that the short story " I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter ", intended to subvert a transphobic Internet meme , was retracted after accusations of transphobia?
text: Did you know that the ant Acropyga exsanguis shares its nest with several species of mealybug , including Geococcus coffeae ?
text: Did you know that archaeologist Winifred Lamb had previously worked in Room 40 , the Royal Navy 's cryptanalysis section, during World War I?
text: Did you know that in 1952, Los Angeles radio station KFAC boasted a recording library weighing 28 tons, enough to program the station for a year without repeating a selection?
text: Did you know that entomologist Karim Vahed led the team that found a cricket species in which the testes accounted for 14 percent of the insect's body mass?
text: Did you know that after regular service to Leavenworth station ceased, annual trains continued to run to serve ski jumping spectators?
text: Did you know that Bach used the first, fifth and seventh stanzas of the 1533 hymn " In dich hab ich gehoffet, Herr ", a paraphrase of Psalm 31 , as chorales in three vocal works, including in the St Matthew Passion ?
text: Did you know that before the creation of Roy Wilkins Park in 1976, the site was described as a wasteland with eighteen "rat-infested" buildings and a "leaking swimming pool full of dead dogs"?
text: Did you know that the largest civil rights demonstration of the 1960s took place when more than 450,000 New York City students boycotted school to protest segregation in public schools?
text: Did you know that Canadian professor and writer W. G. Hardy was given the honorary tribal chief title of "Chief Running Eagle" by the Sarcees ?
text: Did you know that Sunrise, Inverness Copse , a World War I watercolour by Paul Nash , was one of what he described as "fifty drawings of muddy places on the Front "?
text: Did you know that of the initial cluster of people confirmed to have been infected by a novel coronavirus in China , two-thirds had been directly exposed to the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan ?
text: Did you know that Sarah Ellerby 's flight to the United States to play professional pool was diverted due to the September 11 attacks ?
text: Did you know that growth in the brown seaweed Zanardinia typus occurs at the base of the hairs that grow around the edge of the frond?
text: Did you know that James Thompson , who made the first plat of Chicago, declined an offer of land in the city in favor of $300?
text: Did you know that artist and illustrator Rune Naito , credited with pioneering the culture and aesthetic of kawaii , also contributed erotic illustrations to the gay men's magazine Barazoku ?
text: Did you know that a bus shelter on New York City's Q26 route was the subject of two 1948 lawsuits that alleged negative effects on nearby property values?
text: Did you know that Henry Eastburn studied under his uncle John Smeaton before undertaking his own civil engineering projects, such as the Basingstoke Canal ?
text: Did you know that the Creedence Clearwater Revival song " Keep On Chooglin' " popularized the neologism "chooglin ' ", which has been interpreted as a sexual term?
text: Did you know that the life expectancy at Gusen concentration camp was as short as six months?
text: Did you know that Girmay Zahilay defeated a six-term incumbent on King County Council in Washington?
text: Did you know that IG-11 , from the Star Wars series The Mandalorian , so closely resembles the character IG-88 that fans and journalists initially confused the two?
text: Did you know that Hawaiian pastor Moses Kuaea raised funds for Kaumakapili Church , which was later burned down in the Great Honolulu Chinatown Fire of 1900 ?
text: Did you know that " Die Himmel rühmen! " ('The heavens praise'), which begins an 1803 lieder collection by Beethoven setting Gellert's paraphrase of Psalm 19 to music, is also the title of a concert series by pop singer Heino ?
text: Did you know that Sallie Shearer 's brothel in Reading, Pennsylvania , was "magnificently furnished" with fine velvet carpets and beautiful mirrors?
text: Did you know that over 100 Moroccan Hajj pilgrims died on the SS Sardinia when it caught fire off Malta in 1908?
text: Did you know that huge lakes of oil created following the discovery of Oklahoma's Glenn Pool Oil Reserve would sometimes catch fire when struck by lightning?
text: Did you know that computer scientist Sheree Atcheson has been recognised by Computer Weekly as one of the "most influential women in UK tech"?
text: Did you know that The Coca-Cola Company proposed painting a gasometer in Gothenburg , Sweden, to resemble a Coke can?
text: Did you know that the Grotta del Gelo cave on the Etna volcano is partially filled with ice?
text: Did you know that mathematician Pamela E. Harris co-founded the online platform Lathisms to promote Hispanic and Latino American participation in mathematics?
text: Did you know that the mobile game Bleach: Brave Souls features story arcs from the manga Bleach that did not appear in its anime adaptation, including the unaired final arc?
text: Did you know that the Siege of Hull took place in 1642 after the governor twice refused to admit King Charles I to the town?
text: Did you know that German politician Diether Dehm employed former terrorist Christian Klar to work on his website?
text: Did you know that the Dedham Covenant was meant to be eternally binding?
text: Did you know that Mary Gordon , the first British female prison inspector, once forestalled recidivism by supplying men's clothes and a train fare to South Wales to a female inmate who wanted to live as a man?
text: Did you know that Dave Hakkens founded Precious Plastic , an open hardware plastic recycling project, to enable individuals to set up "their own miniature recycling company"?
text: Did you know that knights are depicted in the Freydal illuminated manuscript enjoying cross-dressing after a day's jousting ?
text: Did you know that c. 1900 , the Missouri Lumber and Mining Company provided health care to field workers with a mobile clinic transported by railroad flatcar?
text: Did you know that Church of the Cosmic Skull released a single to celebrate a solar eclipse ?
text: Did you know that in 1939, Lawrence Milner testified against Australian-born longshoremen union leader Harry Bridges in what Time magazine called "the most important deportation hearings of the decade"?
text: Did you know that one surveyor's proposal for removing the Blackwall Rock obstruction in the Thames involved using explosives he knew would likely kill some of the labourers?
text: Did you know that Western Hockey League coach Punch McLean was born in a coal mine?
text: Did you know that diversity ideologies are intended to reduce prejudice, but can backfire and promote more hostility instead?
text: Did you know that former residents of Chicago's Aldine Square held a reunion at a hotel?
text: Did you know that Canadian Yves Abel , the chief conductor of a German symphony orchestra , founded Opéra Français de New York, which focuses on rarely played French operas?
text: Did you know that NearlyFreeSpeech was considered a "safe haven" for alt-right Twitter alternative Gab ?
text: Did you know that the 1978 Japanese manga series California Story was inspired by American New Wave cinema, particularly Midnight Cowboy ?
text: Did you know that the owner of WRSL AM and FM in Stanford, Kentucky , built a dinner theater on the station's property?
text: Did you know that marketing for the Venezuelan film That's the Woman I Want told prospective viewers it was so funny they would forget about foot-and-mouth disease ?
text: Did you know that 2020 AV 2 is the first asteroid discovered to have an orbit completely within Venus 's orbit?
text: Did you know that the song " Toss a Coin to Your Witcher " from the Netflix television series The Witcher became a viral hit within days of the show's release?
text: Did you know that in 1138–39, Fatimid vizier Ridwan ibn Walakhshi attempted to overthrow the Isma'ili caliphate and replace it with a Sunni regime headed by himself?
text: Did you know that juvenile ornate surgeonfish are quite different in colouring from the adult fish?
text: Did you know that Widener University Commonwealth Law School is one of two independent law schools run by Widener University ?
text: Did you know that field hockey player Avtar Singh Bhurji was shot in the leg during a robbery in 1996?
text: Did you know that Rue du Brexit in France was named as a tribute to the British people after the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union ?
text: Did you know that English judoka Samantha Lowe was selected, then deselected, then reselected for the 2002 Commonwealth Games , and went on to win a gold medal?
text: Did you know that Shueisha , the publisher of Weekly Shōnen Jump , has produced a manga series in collaboration with Marvel Comics ?
text: Did you know that Jeffrey Erickson, who was accused of robbing banks in the Chicago metropolitan area with his wife Jill , was a former police officer in Hoffman Estates ?
text: Did you know that the Royal Irish Yacht Club has retained its royal title despite the establishment of the Republic of Ireland?
text: Did you know that Gösta Neuwirth studied composition and musicology in Vienna, but wrote his dissertation on harmony in Schreker 's opera Der ferne Klang in Berlin?
text: Did you know that the Whitehall Building in New York City was developed by a company headed by the inventor of Vaseline ?
text: Did you know that during the first siege of Wardour Castle in 1643, Lady Blanche Arundell held out for a week with just 25 Royalist soldiers against 1,300 Parliamentarian troops?
text: Did you know that before its closure, locals near St Johnston railway station relied heavily for income on Irish customs officers trying to catch smugglers heading for Londonderry station ?
text: Did you know that history professor Hiraizumi Kiyoshi believed Emperor Jimmu to have been a real historical figure?
text: Did you know that a 19th-century country house with a ruined monastery in Winchelsea , England, was put on the market for £4.5 million in 2015?
text: Did you know that Peter Force 's library is considered to be the most important collection of military manuscripts and maps from the American Revolution ?
text: Did you know that the flowering plant Gentianella anglica is found only in Great Britain?
text: Did you know that after 50 years in business, S.W. Randall Toyes and Giftes is both a landmark and a stop on "Haunted Pittsburgh" tours?
text: Did you know that Corona , named after Corona , is fighting corona ?
text: Did you know that the Aberbargoed Grasslands in Wales were designated a Special Area of Conservation primarily due to their population of marsh fritillary butterflies, which had been threatened by an arson attack?
text: Did you know that sculptor Dan Lam was born in a refugee camp in Morong , Philippines?
text: Did you know that a deep-sea fish known as a black ruff was caught in a salmon net in the Firth of Forth and donated to the Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art in 1901?
text: Did you know that the offices of the Chanin Organization in New York City's Chanin Building contained "America's finest bathroom" and a set of ornate bronze gates?
text: Did you know that Japanese voice actor Shugo Nakamura , who has voiced characters in The Idolmaster SideM and other anime series, was recognized as one of the Best New Actors at the 2019 Seiyu Awards ?
text: Did you know that musician Finneas made a cameo appearance as an Uber driver in the music video for Tove Lo 's song " Bikini Porn "?
text: Did you know that at the age of 10, Sky Brown became the youngest professional skateboarder in the world?
text: Did you know that during the 1981 Benson & Hedges Cup Final , a domestic cricket match in England, two West Indian players set new batting and bowling records?
text: Did you know that Richard J. Daronco was a United States federal judge for just over a year before he was assassinated by the father of a disgruntled plaintiff?
text: Did you know that academic Paul Tempan said of the Twelve Bens mountain range in Connemara , Ireland, that "nobody seems to know exactly which are the twelve peaks in question"?
text: Did you know that political scientist Elizabeth Theiss-Morse has written a book on the flexibility of the American national identity ?
text: Did you know that due to its similarity to the coronavirus pandemic , Warner Bros. ' second most successful film of 2020 so far is 2011's Contagion ?
text: Did you know that while studying dance, Anca Giurchescu joined the Romanian national shooting team and won individual and team medals at the 1955 European Shooting Championships ?
text: Did you know that the "Cracked Bell of Trinity Church " in Ryde , England, died of a broken heart and wrote to a newspaper about it?
text: Did you know that the systematic deportation of Jews to the Auschwitz concentration camp began on 26 March 1942, with a transport of 997 women and girls from Poprad , Slovakia?
text: Did you know that Chiara Daraio has used a version of Newton's cradle to create "sound bullets", and walls filled with ball bearings to create one-way barriers for sound?
text: Did you know that the Union Church in Hong Kong was temporarily moved to the officers' mess of the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps from 1945 to 1949?
text: Did you know that Senator Ted Kennedy 's 1980 presidential campaign may have weakened support for incumbent U.S. president Jimmy Carter , who later lost the general election ?
text: Did you know that the Palazzo del Governatore di Borgo in Rome was one of the first buildings to display architect Antonio da Sangallo the Younger 's artistic maturity?
text: Did you know that during the American Civil War, Charles B. Norton offered to hide Peter Force 's large library for fear of a Confederate attack on Washington, D.C.?
text: Did you know that High Peak Borough Council dyed a lake black at Harpur Hill Quarry in Derbyshire , England, to deter swimmers from entering the caustic waters?
text: Did you know that Kurdish nationalist Dara Tawfiq was the editor of Iraq's only independent newspaper in the early 1970s?
text: Did you know that records from the National Archives at Seattle are planned to be moved to California and to Kansas City, Missouri ?
text: Did you know that in 1918, Edith A. Ellis advocated an all-female government with the slogan "Insist that no man shall occupy a position that a woman can fill"?
text: Did you know that the U.S. has imposed sanctions on Luis Parra and six other Venezuelan politicians in relation to an alleged corruption plot ?
text: Did you know that Cecylia and Maciej Brogowski , a Polish Catholic couple, were posthumously recognised as Righteous Among the Nations for having sheltered a Jewish girl during the Holocaust?
text: Did you know that the winged wheel on the coat of arms of the Institution of Municipal Engineers represented traffic and machinery?
text: Did you know that the song " I've danced with a man, who's danced with a girl, who's danced with the Prince of Wales " was inspired by Edna Deane being asked for a dance nine times by the future Edward VIII ?
text: Did you know that Edgar Wright , director of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World , thinks that the film is different from other comedies because it has "a lot of funny women in it"?
text: Did you know that Gaelic footballer Seán Quigley was banned for one game for turning off the lights in a stadium tunnel?
text: Did you know that the Merthyr Mawr Sand Dunes in Wales doubled for the deserts of the Arabian Peninsula during the filming of Lawrence of Arabia ?
text: Did you know that James Blunt wrote " Monsters " to express his feelings about his father and his father's illness?
text: Did you know that the Reverend Raphael Warnock has hosted Al Gore at his church , and been arrested at the Georgia State Capitol ?
text: Did you know that darts player Tony David won the 2002 BDO World Darts Championship despite having haemophilia , which prevents him from straightening his throwing arm?
text: Did you know that in 1725 Hans Sloane described a plant he called Prickly-Pole as the Jamaican tree species that was "the most fit to make Rods and Scowrers for Guns"?
text: Did you know that J. Hunter Guthrie , president of Georgetown University , disbanded the university's football program because he considered it unprofitable and inconsistent with a Catholic university 's mission?
text: Did you know that despite being known as the Kerry lily , the perennial plant has a much wider distribution outside Ireland?
text: Did you know that Papuan-born Silas Papare , who originally held pro-Dutch views, became pro-republican after World War II and founded the Indonesian Irian Independence Party ?
text: Did you know that 21 West Street in New York City is possibly the first commercial building in the U.S. to have windows wrapping around the corners?
text: Did you know that the manga series A Man and His Cat was initially self-published, with entries posted weekly on the author's Twitter account?
text: Did you know that Gerry Culliton was banned from hurling after being seen playing rugby, and later represented Ireland in rugby internationally?
text: Did you know that a 2020 documentary about Pepe the Frog raises the question of whether Pepe can be redeemed?
text: Did you know that Odile Pierre , who became interested in the organ at a recital by Marcel Dupré at the age of seven, later served as the organist of La Madeleine in Paris and played around 2,000 recitals herself?
text: Did you know that in Florida, winged termites are sometimes found stuck to wet foliage, buildings, or vehicles after rain?
text: Did you know that nuclear scientist Clarice Phelps has been recognized as the first African-American woman to be involved with the discovery of a chemical element ?
text: Did you know that any tetrahedron that has integer edge lengths, face areas, and volume can be given in integer vertex coordinates?
text: Did you know that " Baby Yoda " is considered the breakout character of the Star Wars television series The Mandalorian ?
text: Did you know that Mariya Takeuchi 's 1984 song " Plastic Love " saw an international resurgence in 2017?
text: Did you know that poet and scholar Robert L. Kahn , who escaped Nazi Germany with a Kindertransport , became a professor of German at Rice University in Houston, Texas?
text: Did you know that a 1978 Jammu and Kashmir law enacted by Sheikh Abdullah was eventually used to detain his son and his grandson ?
text: Did you know that psychologist Susan Folkman coined the terms "problem-focused coping" and "emotion-focused coping"?
text: Did you know that contrary to popular belief, a hatch in the roof of the Cleveland Tunnel in Bath was probably not used to pass paperwork between office workers above and vessels below?
text: Did you know that " Democracy Dies in Darkness " is the first slogan ever to be adopted by The Washington Post ?
text: Did you know that video game director Aya Kyogoku created Animal Crossing: New Leaf with a team that was half female, and credits the team's diversity for the game's critical and commercial success?
text: Did you know that mass graves in the Orkney and Shetland islands of Scotland might contain bodies from a tsunami 5,500 years ago ?
text: Did you know that Russia and Belarus fought an eleven-day Milk War ?
text: Did you know that television station KTVE in Longview, Texas , broadcast the 1954 World Series without permission, and was ordered to cease and desist by the NBC network?
text: Did you know that at the age of 11, Gabrielle Reidy made her first appearance at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin?
text: Did you know that the Washington Hall hotel was destroyed during the Battle of Atlanta as part of General Sherman 's scorched-earth policy?
text: Did you know that an erotic manga series by Milk Morizono received complaints from the police, parent–teacher associations, housewife groups, and politicians?
text: Did you know that the 1985 British Open was the first ranking snooker tournament not to feature a British player in the final?
text: Did you know that J. Havens Richards , the president of Georgetown University , successfully petitioned Harvard Law School to admit the graduates of some Catholic colleges?
text: Did you know that the first football match held after the renovation of Milltown stadium in Northern Ireland was abandoned due to a floodlight failure?
text: Did you know that unlike most soft scale insects, the adult female pyriform scale is able to move around?
text: Did you know that Welsh boxer Steve Sims has trained for fights by running up and down the 290 steps of the Newport Transporter Bridge ten times a day?
text: Did you know that the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority twice built new lines bypassing JFK/UMass station , only to add platforms later?
text: Did you know that negotiations for the Indonesia–Australia Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement were hindered by spying and executions ?
text: Did you know that Pier 40 , a sports facility in New York City's Hudson River Park , was formerly a cargo terminal?
text: Did you know that Llerena Friend , the first director of the Barker Center for Texas History, lived in 24 different homes during her youth?
text: Did you know that IXI Limited was one of many computer companies to sprout from an acorn ?
text: Did you know that a man suspected of carrying coronavirus in Nepal ran away from the hospital?
text: Did you know that Mayerlin Rivas held World Boxing Association world championship titles in both bantamweight and super bantamweight classes?
text: Did you know that Jay Electronica began recording his 2007 mixtape Act I: Eternal Sunshine (The Pledge) on a built-in laptop microphone?
text: Did you know that Aditi Kapil 's Imogen Says Nothing is inspired by a ghost character in Much Ado About Nothing ?
text: Did you know that Union Station in Walpole, Massachusetts , was the site of the last semaphore signals in New England?
text: Did you know that Canadian professor Robert Steadward became the founding president of the International Paralympic Committee in 1989?
text: Did you know that the sea cucumber Actinopyga agassizii has five teeth surrounding its anus?
text: Did you know that composer Payal Dev used multiple instruments in the 2019 Hindi ballad " Tum Hi Aana " to "give it the right amount of emotions"?
text: Did you know that Cleveland Museum of Art director William Griswold negotiated the restitution of a Hanuman sculpture and a portrait of Drusus Julius Caesar after their questionable provenances were discovered?
text: Did you know that the Irish Central Committee for the Employment of Women , which operated from 1914 to 1919, paid Irish women the same as their British counterparts?
text: Did you know that Latvian folklorist Anna Bērzkalne wrote her 1942 doctoral thesis in English instead of German as a form of non-violent resistance to the Nazi occupation of Latvia during World War II ?
text: Did you know that the sea slug Berthella ocellata hides during the day and feeds on sponges such as Corticium candelabrum at night?
text: Did you know that Charles Carroll MacTavish , the great-grandson of a signatory of the U.S. Declaration of Independence , was briefly a member of the British House of Commons ?
text: Did you know that the Apache Powder Company used a fleet of fireless locomotives to prevent accidental explosions?
text: Did you know that David Leleo Kinimaka was the first member of the Royal Guards of Hawaii to voluntarily leave the ranks during an 1873 mutiny at ʻIolani Barracks ?
text: Did you know that the 3-metre-high (9.8 ft), 6th-century Parel Relief , with seven figures of Shiva , was found in Mumbai during road building in 1931, and is now worshipped at a local temple?
text: Did you know that violinist Günter Kehr , director of the Peter Cornelius Conservatory from 1953, founded the Kehr Trio, a string trio that toured South America, North Africa, and the Near East?
text: Did you know that the premiere of the television series Arrow 's fourth season is the first time that the title character is referred to by his comics moniker Green Arrow ?
text: Did you know that boxer Angélique Duchemin was an undefeated French, European, and world champion?
text: Did you know that 26 Broadway , the former New York City headquarters of Standard Oil , has a pyramidal tower that once contained a kerosene-burning cauldron ?
text: Did you know that the residents of Ely, Cardiff , rioted over the sale of bread in 1991?
text: Did you know that Frieda Caplan , a pioneer of the specialty-produce industry in the U.S., introduced the kiwifruit to the American market?
text: Did you know that Dubarry Park hosted the Irish rugby union team 's home matches in the Six Nations Under 20s Championship between 2005 and 2015?
text: Did you know that Haraguchi Kensai led the Imperial Japanese Army 's 13th Division in the invasion of Sakhalin ?
text: Did you know that Ohio television station WSWO-TV went off the air the same week that its owner was arrested for stealing equipment from other stations?
text: Did you know that for more than a decade, wrestler Ravi Kumar Dahiya 's father travelled daily from his village to Delhi to deliver milk and fruits to him?
text: Did you know that a new wireless-charging standard for electric vehicles guides the driver over the charging spot by triangulating the charger's signal?
text: Did you know that Nikolai Moskvitelev , a former officer in the Soviet Air Defence Forces , was still flying in old age – including a Sukhoi Su-30 on his 80th birthday, and a Yakovlev Yak-52 just before his 90th?
text: Did you know that production designer Kristi Zea created the visual imagery for The Silence of the Lambs , including a scene that the script described only as "a snapshot from hell"?
text: Did you know that Pride in STEM wants to "queer up science spaces and science up queer spaces"?
text: Did you know that Walter M. Giffard was a member of the Republic of Hawaii 's Committee to Destroy Postage Stamps, Postcards and Stamped Envelopes?
text: Did you know that the 1977 Dry Blackthorn Cup was the first snooker event to be held at Wembley Conference Centre ?
text: Did you know that Vasily Savvin was the last commander of the Internal Troops of the Soviet Union, and the first commander of the Internal Troops of Russia ?
text: Did you know that The Red Dragon magazine was intended to "make known to the greater English world the characteristics and aims of the Welsh people and the beauties of their language and literature"?
text: Did you know that comedian Bill Burr disliked Star Wars and regularly mocked the franchise until he portrayed a character in it ?
text: Did you know that Joywave 's third album Possession incorporates samples of audio from the Voyager Golden Record into its songs?
text: Did you know that as a law student, Burkhard Driest robbed a savings bank shortly before an examination, and later wrote a book and a film script about his experiences?
text: Did you know that larvae of the tube worm Hydroides ezoensis prefer to settle on a substrate already inhabited by other worms of their own species?
text: Did you know that Pope Francis's apostolic exhortation Querida Amazonia does not explicitly endorse married Catholic priests , despite being called for by the Amazon synod ?
text: Did you know that in a January 2020 Premiership Rugby match, referee Luke Pearce appointed Manu Vunipola as Saracens captain, after Pearce decided that he did not want to speak with Jackson Wray ?
text: Did you know that future president John F. Kennedy came in second to Senator Estes Kefauver in the 1956 Democratic vice-presidential ballot ?
text: Did you know that police officers once arrested a Mexican Panther who was involved in drug trafficking?
text: Did you know that the design of the 2018 Melita bullion coins is based on a series of stamps issued almost a century earlier?
text: Did you know that Charles E. Mills had dual careers in banking and explosives?
text: Did you know that past eruptions of Cadamosto Seamount dispersed volcanic ash underwater over thousands of square kilometres?
text: Did you know that in 2019, Japanese voice actress Midori Katō earned a Guinness World Record for having voiced the same character in the anime Sazae-san for 50 years and a day?
text: Did you know that in the collection Madwoman , Jamaican-American poet Shara McCallum uses both English and Patwa , a creole she heard while growing up but never saw in writing?
text: Did you know that Estonian general and former Minister of Education Aleksander Jaakson was arrested by NKVD while working on his farm?
text: Did you know that the American Stock Exchange Building was built to get the New York Curb Exchange off the street?
text: Did you know that the nucleoid keeps the bulk of a bacterium 's DNA both compact and well organized?
text: Did you know that a pub on Wincheap in Canterbury is believed to be the oldest continuously trading in the city?
text: Did you know that O salutaris hostia (O saving victim), a setting of a Eucharistic hymn for mixed choir by Vytautas Miškinis , was performed in Brussels when Lithuania held the EU Council presidency ?
text: Did you know that professor Neil Ferguson and his team believe that significantly more people in China have been infected with the 2019 novel coronavirus than has been reported?
text: Did you know that trailers for Uncharted 4: A Thief's End were shown before select screenings of Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice ?
text: Did you know that a course in Spanish North American history that Nettie Lee Benson took at the University of Texas inspired her lifelong interest in teaching and building libraries for Latin American studies ?
text: Did you know that asphaltite powers Şırnak Silopi ?
text: Did you know that horse surfing involves a person surfing while being towed by a horse?
text: Did you know that Joseph Stoddart was acknowledged as "one of the founding fathers" of intensive care in the UK?
text: Did you know that copies of the video game The Race Against Time were recalled due to the unauthorized use of Jesse Owens 's likeness on its packaging and advertising?
text: Did you know that the musicologist Georg von Dadelsen wrote his dissertation on the chronology of Bach's compositions , and influenced the Neue Bach-Ausgabe , the second complete edition of his works?
text: Did you know that reflective writing is a good way to increase empathy in medical students?
text: Did you know that Eugene C. Barker was involved in the "biggest bear fight" in Texas history with Governor James E. Ferguson , but Barker kept his job and Ferguson was later impeached ?
text: Did you know that the British regulator Ofcom received more than 400 complaints over the Pussycat Dolls ' decision to wear sheer PVC outfits during their live performance of " React " on a family programme ?
text: Did you know that former slave Dorothy Thomas purchased her own manumission , but later employed slaves as hucksters ?
text: Did you know that the title of the play The House of Yes came from a piece of bathroom graffiti seen by its author?
text: Did you know that the Hebrides Terrace Seamount , west-southwest of the Scottish Hebrides , hosts "coral gardens" where numerous other animals live?
text: Did you know that industrialists John Huntington , Hinman Hurlbut , and Horace Kelley each independently bequeathed funds that would be used to form the Cleveland Museum of Art in 1913?
text: Did you know that Toyota won the 2018 24 Hours of Le Mans , becoming the first Japanese car manufacturer to win the race since Mazda in the 1991 edition ?
text: Did you know that three communities in New Hampshire vote at midnight during the state's presidential primaries and elections ?
text: Did you know that after vehicle thief Líctor Hazael Marroquín García died in 1985, a Mexican drug lord sent flowers to his grave twice a year?
text: Did you know that the 2005 BBC documentary Dead Mums Don't Cry follows Grace Kodindo 's efforts to stem the maternal mortality rate in Chad , where pregnant and childbearing women had a 9 per cent chance of dying?
text: Did you know that neuroscientist Cristina Alberini uses both mammals, and invertebrates such as sea slugs , to study memory?
text: Did you know that Heidi Cruz , wife of U.S. senator Ted Cruz , is the primary breadwinner of the family?
text: Did you know that Angelina Atyam was awarded the 1998 UN Prize in the Field of Human Rights for campaigning for the release of captive children, including her own daughter kidnapped by Ugandan guerrillas ?
text: Did you know that Judith Liberman learned storytelling in a French commune at the age of 14, and has gone on to reintroduce the telling of Anatolian fairy tales in Turkey?
text: Did you know that Frieda Nadig , one of the four "mothers" of the German constitution , proposed to include the sentence "men and women have equal rights", but was initially voted down?
text: Did you know that boxing World Youth champion Caroline Dubois pretended to be a boy named Colin when she started training?
text: Did you know that extensive disturbances in the crust beneath the Philippines produce many volcanoes and earthquakes?
text: Did you know that the 2000 Canadian hip-hop song " Money Jane " is credited with launching Sean Paul 's international music career?
text: Did you know that " The Country Without a Post Office " describes Kashmir as "a land of doomed addresses", because postal services were stopped for seven months during an armed uprising ?
text: Did you know that in 1953, American scientist Winston Price isolated the first rhinovirus , the most prevalent cause of the common cold ?
text: Did you know that Jon Favreau , creator of the Star Wars television series The Mandalorian , also voiced the character of Paz Vizla ?
text: Did you know that after Indian-American lawyer Sakharam Ganesh Pandit represented Bhagat Singh Thind in a 1923 U.S. Supreme Court case , the U.S. government attempted to revoke his citizenship?
text: Did you know that Piazza Scossacavalli in Rome kept its cinquecento atmosphere for nearly 400 years?
text: Did you know that President Idi Amin ensured the Uganda Army 's loyalty with the so-called "whisky run"?
text: Did you know that the British security services described Lisa von Pott as the organiser of a pro-Nazi espionage group in wartime Vienna?
text: Did you know that the Strokes revealed the release date for their sixth album The New Abnormal while performing at a rally for U.S. presidential candidate Bernie Sanders ?
text: Did you know that three Roman Catholic bishops of Hong Kong have been elevated to the College of Cardinals , even though the diocese is nominally only a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Guangzhou ?
text: Did you know that baritone Michael Volle has appeared as Wagner's Hans Sachs at the Bayreuth Festival and was awarded Der Faust for portraying Wozzeck ?
text: Did you know that 110 North Wacker in Chicago replaced a building that was eligible for the National Register of Historic Places ?
text: Did you know that dillegrout was so delicious that it earned the cook a manor , but to keep it he and his descendants had to serve the dish at every future English coronation?
text: Did you know that Australian brigadier Arthur Blackburn ordered his men to shoot less in the Battle of Leuwiliang , so that when they withdrew, their Japanese enemies would not realize it?
text: Did you know that Emily Swallow did not know that she was auditioning for a Star Wars television series when she tried out for the part of the Armorer ?
text: Did you know that the 2012 24 Hours of Le Mans saw the first overall victory for a hybrid electric vehicle at the race?
text: Did you know that Alan Swallow started his own solo publishing imprint, Alan Swallow Press , and published novels by Janet Lewis and Anaïs Nin ?
text: Did you know that the Wiener Hofmusikkapelle , founded by Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I in 1498, was a forerunner of the Vienna Boys' Choir ?
text: Did you know that in her song " Bad Idea ", Ariana Grande calls herself "Ari- chan " in reference to her admiration of Japanese culture?
text: Did you know that Adrian Long 's FlexiArch precast-concrete bridge arch can be installed in a single day?
text: Did you know that the Zulu taunted the British during the action at Sihayo's Kraal , asking: "Why don't you come on up?"
text: Did you know that General Raymond W. Bliss opened the United States Army's first radioactive-isotope laboratory in 1949?
text: Did you know that the crested oyster has been eaten by humans for at least 6,000 years?
text: Did you know that Alasdair Cochrane 's Sentientist Politics was the first book dedicated to extending cosmopolitan political theory to include animal rights ?
text: Did you know that Texas radio stations KMJR , KXAI , and KBPA are part of a three-station facility change that will give the Educational Media Foundation a city-grade signal in San Antonio ?
text: Did you know that Swedish actress Julia Dufvenius had a role specially written for her in director Ingmar Bergman 's last film, Saraband ?
text: Did you know that North Seattle's waste transfer station has a viewing room and a playground?
text: Did you know that Zina P. Young Card fought on a national level for both women's suffrage and the right to practice plural marriage in the US?
text: Did you know that the worm Phyllodoce lineata is a predator and scavenger, feeding mostly on other polychaetes ?
text: Did you know that Ocean Wind , a planned offshore wind farm in the U.S., may use infrastructure at a closed nuclear power plant to access the electrical grid?
text: Did you know that Zoltán Kovács is the first Hungarian to receive the Paul Loicq Award for contributions to international ice hockey?
text: Did you know that the Danish Trade Union Confederation , the country's largest trade union centre , promotes a model in which pay and working conditions are negotiated without state involvement?
text: Did you know that the designer of the best house in the new Romford Garden Suburb won £250 and a gold medal?
text: Did you know that Moff Gideon of The Mandalorian has been compared to Darth Vader ?
text: Did you know that Tayseer Sboul , one of Jordan's most celebrated writers, wrote some erotic poems?
text: Did you know that KBCQ-FM in Roswell, New Mexico , was traded on two separate occasions, for television stations in Amarillo, Texas , and in Richmond, Virginia ?
text: Did you know that British Paralympic swimmer Toni Shaw has set a world record in the S9 200 m (660 ft) butterfly at the age of 15?
text: Did you know that tenants of the Bowling Green Offices Building in New York City have included the owners of the RMS Titanic , and the Erie Railroad ?
text: Did you know that Magdalena K. P. Smith Meyer was known as the "mother of red-spider mites of the world"?
text: Did you know that Asumiko Nakamura , the author of the manga series Classmates , sought to create a story about a "slow, serious love" that was "cliché" and "almost hackneyed"?
text: Did you know that " Anyone " by Demi Lovato became the most downloaded song of the day in the U.S. after she performed it at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards ?
text: Did you know that the blood-sucking bug Primicimex cavernis survives in a cave in Texas while the bats on which it feeds overwinter elsewhere?
text: Did you know that tenor Roberto Saccà has portrayed opera characters such as Haydn's Orfeo , Pfitzner's Palestrina , and Herbert Willi 's Elias?
text: Did you know that in 1941, two German POWs escaped from their British prison camp and stole a plane from an RAF base to try to reach the continent?
text: Did you know that former college basketball star Amy Langville is an expert in ranking systems, and has applied her ranking expertise to basketball bracketology ?
text: Did you know that Sefer ve Sefel , a second-hand bookshop in Jerusalem, stocks more than 26,000 titles?
text: Did you know that Amazon plans to build its tallest office tower in the Bellevue suburb of Seattle, Washington ?
text: Did you know that Guangdong native Chun Lung attended Yale University in 1879 after being educated in Hawaii's Punahou School ?
text: Did you know that when WIRK-TV ceased operations 64 years ago today, its president admitted to operating the station "long past the point of good judgment"?
text: Did you know that Yang Xin , the vice director of the Palace Museum in Beijing, collaborated with his counterpart at the National Palace Museum in Taipei for the first joint publication by the two museums?
text: Did you know that Calamagrostis intermedia is the dominant plant of the grassy páramo in Ecuador's El Cajas National Park ?
text: Did you know that Edward I. Devitt was the first alumnus of Woodstock College to become a member of its faculty?
text: Did you know that during the Storming of Farnham Castle , the Royalist defence was so minimal that one contemporary claimed they "deserved not the name of a garrison"?
text: Did you know that India's Shikhar Dhawan and England's Jack Burnham are the only players to have scored three centuries in the Under-19 Cricket World Cup ?
text: Did you know that a man shouted "This is madness!" during a production meeting for The Goes Wrong Show ?
text: Did you know that Mary Catherine Phillips , author of Skin Deep. The Truth About Beauty Aids – Safe and Harmful , was a member of the board of directors of Consumers' Research in Bowerstown, New Jersey ?
text: Did you know that tropical cyclones leave deposits in lakes that can be used to reconstruct past cyclonic activity ?
text: Did you know that the Kanye West song " Up from the Ashes " invokes both the rise of the mythological phoenix and the resurrection of Jesus ?
text: Did you know that Slovak dissident Ján Mlynárik was hunted down by the Communist authorities for criticizing the expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia ?
text: Did you know that Camp Jened , a summer camp for disabled people, was heavily influenced by the 1960s counterculture and hippie values?
text: Did you know that after the Battle of Adys , the peace terms offered to the defeated Carthaginians were so harsh that they decided to fight on?
text: Did you know that Ruby Mazur , who designed the cover for the Rolling Stones ' " Tumbling Dice ", once sold a painting to a Saudi Arabian prince before the paint had even dried?
text: Did you know that the pasquinade , a form of satire usually in verse or prose, is named after Pasquino , a Hellenistic statue in Rome on which anonymous postings were made?
text: Did you know that Callaghan MacCarty left his life as a Catholic monk in France and converted to Protestantism to become the third Earl of Clancarty ?
text: Did you know that " Storm Area 51 " was a comedic Facebook event intended as a raid on Area 51 in search of aliens?
text: Did you know that England international footballer Colin Grainger was also a professional singer and shared a bill with the Beatles ?
text: Did you know that a number of Confederate soldiers at the Battle of Cane Hill were armed only with shotguns ?
text: Did you know that Charles Villiers Stanford 's Violin Sonata No. 1 was first performed in Cambridge , by violinist Ludwig Straus and the composer at the piano?
text: Did you know that California governor Pete Wilson celebrated his 60th birthday as a DJ on Sacramento radio station KSEG ?
text: Did you know that the Yokohama Northwest Route features a 4.1-kilometer-long (2.5 mi) tunnel equipped with emergency escape slides?
text: Did you know that French weightlifter Alexandre Maspoli , who won a medal at the 1906 Intercalated Games , later competed in the sculpture event at the 1924 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that GirlsDoPorn was one of the top 20 most viewed channels on Pornhub before its co-owners and a male pornographic actor were charged with sex trafficking by force, fraud, and coercion?
text: Did you know that the first batch of cadets from the Indian Military Academy included the future army chiefs of Pakistan, Burma, and India?
text: Did you know that Luis Miguel 's duet with Frank Sinatra , " Come Fly with Me ", is the only English-language song that he has released to date?
text: Did you know that the potter of Potters Crouch may have been Le Pottere, whose son was also a Pottere?
text: Did you know that at the age of seventeen, Tiger King subject Carole Baskin used llamas for a lawn-trimming business?
text: Did you know that a series of eruptions of Mount Takahe 17,700 years ago may have resulted in an ozone hole ?
text: Did you know that Dorothy Horrell , Chancellor of the University of Colorado Denver , credits her experience in a 4-H farm youth exchange program in Taiwan for developing her ideas on leadership and community?
text: Did you know that photographs of the Holocaust , including many taken by German photographers, have been used as evidence during trials of Nazi war crimes ?
text: Did you know that Bible translations into Geʽez date back to at least the 6th century, making them among the oldest in the world?
text: Did you know that part of the spire of Zagreb Cathedral broke off during a 2020 earthquake ?
text: Did you know that rear admiral Valery Varfolomeyev was named a Hero of the Russian Federation in 2017, while his 11th Submarine Division was recognised as the best submarine formation in the Northern Fleet ?
text: Did you know that Cocklakes is considered one of the rudest place names in the United Kingdom?
text: Did you know that Willa Brown 's efforts to train African-American pilots in the United States led to the creation of the Tuskegee Airmen ?
text: Did you know that by the end of the Addled Parliament , which James I had hoped would be a "Parliament of Love", the king feared that he was in danger of assassination?
text: Did you know that Mariko Tamaki wrote Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me in part because she had "always liked the idea of an ex-ex-girlfriend story"?
text: Did you know that Buchenwald prisoner Dr. Marian Ciepielowski produced fake typhus vaccine for Nazi soldiers, while saving the real vaccine for his fellow prisoners?
text: Did you know that Essex Market was built as part of New York City mayor Fiorello La Guardia 's "war on pushcarts"?
text: Did you know that Ant Clemons wrote a song a day in exchange for rent while sleeping on his friends' floor?
text: Did you know that the banthas in Star Wars were portrayed by an elephant who kept shrugging the costume off her body during filming due to the intense heat?
text: Did you know that after winning a place in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue , Mia Kang became suicidal from a modeling-related eating disorder and credits the combat sport Muay Thai for saving her life?
text: Did you know that the Lebanon national football team played their first official match in Tel Aviv 80 years ago today?
text: Did you know that bronze fangyi vessels are thought to have been used for food or wine offerings to ancestors in Bronze Age China ?
text: Did you know that during the Mercenary War , Carthaginian rebels killed 700 prisoners by cutting off their hands, castrating them, breaking their legs, and throwing them into a pit to be buried alive?
text: Did you know that Naomi Munakata , who began singing in a choir at the age of seven, served as the choral conductor of the Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo from 1995 to 2013?
text: Did you know that the Federal Communications Commission found that the owner of Maine radio station WKZX had "abdicated financial control" of the business?
text: Did you know that amateur entomologist James John Joicey had a collection of 1.5 million butterflies?
text: Did you know that Kirk Deighton , a Site of Special Scientific Interest in North Yorkshire , has one of the largest known breeding populations of great crested newt in the United Kingdom?
text: Did you know that French philosopher Lucien Sève wrote a four-volume work focusing on his perceived problems with various interpretations of Marxism ?
text: Did you know that the song " Time " debuted in Childish Gambino 's 2019 film Guava Island before being included on his 2020 album 3.15.20 ?
text: Did you know that ill-equipped Romanian soldiers quelling the Ukrainian-led Khotin Uprising were told to wear the winter clothes of suspects whom they executed?
text: Did you know that the 2005 book Open Secrets reveals how assets of Indian intelligence agencies, including aircraft, were used by politicians and their families for private purposes?
text: Did you know that Tamara Levitt is the Head of Mindfulness?
text: Did you know that a fisherman who was presumed dead during Typhoon Emma in 1959 returned for his funeral meal ten days later?
text: Did you know that Milagros Benet de Mewton , a US citizen, fought for women's suffrage to be extended to Puerto Rico because the 19th Amendment did not apply to US unincorporated territories ?
text: Did you know that the Darmstädter Ferienkurse ('Darmstadt Summer Courses') were initiated in 1946 to reconnect German contemporary music to the international scene after the genre's suppression by the Nazis?
text: Did you know that George Insole pioneered the introduction and early success of South Wales steam coal in the London and international markets?
text: Did you know that among those commemorated by the East Knoyle War Memorial are three brothers who died in the First World War, twelve soldiers killed in the Second, and one killed by friendly fire in the Iraq War?
text: Did you know that Robert Molyneux established the first parochial school in the United States in 1782?
text: Did you know that Hatherton Flush , a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Hatherton , supports an abundance of orchids , including the marsh helleborine , which is rare in Cheshire ?
text: Did you know that actor Ranveer Singh was slapped 21 times while filming the music video for " Ude Dil Befikre "?
text: Did you know that punk pioneer band X 's 2020 album Alphabetland , released on the 40th anniversary of their debut album Los Angeles , was the first featuring the original lineup in 35 years?
text: Did you know that a Roman army in Africa was wiped out by a Carthaginian attack led by an elephant charge in 255 BC?
text: Did you know that footballer Jamal Farhan , who was banned for life by FIFA after punching a referee in the head, later expressed remorse and advised fans not to imitate him?
text: Did you know that costermongers are named after the costard , a variety of apple that they sold?
text: Did you know that Haroun and the Sea of Stories , an opera by Charles Wuorinen , is based on a children's novel by Salman Rushdie about free imagination in battle with thought control?
text: Did you know that Central Collegiate Hockey Association commissioner Bill Beagan signed the first national television contract for colleges in the United States?
text: Did you know that the design of the Netherlands Fractal Pattern was made to confuse a person looking at it?
text: Did you know that the first act passed by the New Zealand Parliament was the " Bellamy's Bill", which permitted the sale of alcohol on the parliamentary premises?
text: Did you know that the low interest rates of the Great Recession contributed to the corporate debt bubble ?
text: Did you know that Dayton Moore , general manager of the Kansas City Royals , held an anti-pornography seminar for the baseball team in 2018?
text: Did you know that the play-by-mail game Hyborian War , which began in 1985, allows players to fight battles with mammoths, undead infantry, and mounted flying reptiles in the world of Conan the Barbarian ?
text: Did you know that of the more than 1.5 million US Army servicemen in the UK in May 1944, nearly 460,000 were part of the Services of Supply , which was responsible for American logistics in the Normandy campaign ?
text: Did you know that Elisabeth Lindermeier sang in performances of Wagner's Ring cycle at the Royal Opera House in London, conducted by her husband Rudolf Kempe and recorded in 1957?
text: Did you know that Nelson House is located on Rotherhithe Street , London's longest street, alongside the River Thames ?
text: Did you know that former Gaelic footballer Donal Reid used his bare hands to put out the flames when a woman's coat caught fire in his church?
text: Did you know that Ansgar the Staller was severely injured at the Battle of Hastings , but was carried to London where he then led the English defence at the Burning of Southwark ?
text: Did you know that during filming of the banned ski-BASE jump performed by Rick Sylvester in Yosemite Valley , the film crew were threatened with arrest but not caught afterwards?
text: Did you know that French medievalist Francis Rapp , who taught at three universities in Strasbourg , specialised in the history of Alsace ?
text: Did you know that the tree Macaranga triloba encourages the ants that defend it by providing them with food bodies ?
text: Did you know that John W. Walsh founded several non-profits around alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency , a condition that had fewer than 5,000 recorded cases when he was diagnosed with it?
text: Did you know that a fresco depicting the Nursing Madonna was found in the churchyard of San Michele Arcangelo ai Corridori di Borgo in Rome?
text: Did you know that Carol Shanahan bought Port Vale F.C. because she felt that "a loved one was held hostage and someone had to pay the ransom"?
text: Did you know that Hong Kong politician Cheng Lai-king has represented her constituency in the Central and Western District Council since its creation in 1994?
text: Did you know that if completed, the coal-fired Afşin-Elbistan C power station would emit more than a tenth of Turkey's greenhouse gas emissions ?
text: Did you know that ice hockey player Akil Thomas runs a clothing company that embraces his Barbadian heritage?
text: Did you know that Oklahoma station KRMC dropped its all-news radio format in part because its management felt that it did not work well on a daytime-only station?
text: Did you know that Heinz Imdahl , a baritone at the Bavarian State Opera , appeared as Beethoven's Pizarro at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma and as Wagner's Hans Sachs at the Philadelphia Opera ?
text: Did you know that despite being the third edition of the tournament , the 1982 Women's Cricket World Cup featured the first final held in the tournament's history?
text: Did you know that actress Laia Manzanares played a cheerleader who is seduced by a gorilla mascot in a Tame Impala music video?
text: Did you know that Joey Dosik wrote the song "Game Winner" while recovering from a basketball-related ACL injury ?
text: Did you know that the parasitic greater broomrape usually grows on the roots of the common broom or the European gorse ?
text: Did you know that the CIA recruited Lithuanian Nazi collaborator Aleksandras Lileikis in 1952, even though he was suspected of complicity in the murder of Jews during the Holocaust?
text: Did you know that the 1992 St. George earthquake caused more damage outside St. George, Utah , than within it?
text: Did you know that Srećko Albini , a conductor at the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb , composed operettas that were also performed in Venice, London, and New York?
text: Did you know that before the opening of a new subway line, passengers at the 169th Street station in Queens had to wait just to get to the platform during rush hours?
text: Did you know that orphanage director Luo Shuzhang was accused of raising "little communists"?
text: Did you know that the HP Slate 21 is an Android tablet with a 21.5-inch (550 mm) screen?
text: Did you know that Sato Project founder Christina Beckles, who coordinates the travel of stray dogs from Puerto Rico to the mainland United States for adoption, is allergic to dogs?
text: Did you know that Duncraig Castle has been a summer home for the wealthy, a naval hospital, a girls' college, and a B&B , has its own railway station , and was the subject of a reality television show?
text: Did you know that despite being ranked 101st of 103 graduates in his West Point class of 1909, William H. Simpson later became a four-star general?
text: Did you know that actor Erik Knudsen worked with Kevin Drew from Broken Social Scene , his favorite band, in a fictional band based on them for the soundtrack of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World ?
text: Did you know that Muhammad al-Riquti taught Muslims, Christians, and Jews at his school under the patronage of the future Alfonso X of Castile ?
text: Did you know that Bräus , from the Swedish island of Gotland , differs from all other card games in that not all cards are playable?
text: Did you know that U.S. Air Force U-2 pilot Chuck Wilson flew the first operational mission of the S-model Dragon Lady in 1995 from Osan Air Base , South Korea?
text: Did you know that in a Berge equilibrium , every player of a strategic game makes sure other players do as well as possible?
text: Did you know that Silke Bühler-Paschen was the first woman to become a full professor of physics at TU Wien in 2005?
text: Did you know that the song " Shiny Suit Theory " was the result of a chance meeting between Jay Electronica and Jay-Z at a birthday party?
text: Did you know that actor James Stewart displayed his only Oscar , which he had won for The Philadelphia Story , in his father's hardware shop?
text: Did you know that Somerset could have won the 2010 Twenty20 Cup Final if they had known the Laws of Cricket ?
text: Did you know that Max Laeuger was a German potter, artist, and architect who won an Olympic medal?
text: Did you know that during John Early 's presidency of Georgetown University , the school was occupied three times by the Union Army but never ceased classes?
text: Did you know that Le Concert Spirituel played Handel's open-air music at the Proms with an ensemble that comprised 18 oboes, 9 trumpets, 9 trombones, and strings?
text: Did you know that painter Lin Wenzheng translated A Brief History of Chinese Fiction from Chinese to French while in prison?
text: Did you know that during the initial naval battle of the First Punic War , the Roman sailors fled, with their commander and the entire fleet captured by the Carthaginians ?
text: Did you know that county judge Clay Jenkins did not wear PPE while interacting with the family of a patient with Ebola virus disease , to show that asymptomatic individuals cannot spread the disease?
text: Did you know that Mahatma Gandhi praised the Gujarati-language poem " Amar Asha " ('Immortal Hope'), saying that both Hindus and Muslims "should be proud of it"?
text: Did you know that 500 Queer Scientists are informally partnered with 500 Women Scientists ?
text: Did you know that Royalist victories at the Battles of Piercebridge and Tadcaster five days apart in December 1642 shifted the balance of power in Yorkshire in their favour?
text: Did you know that American performing artist Nashom Wooden starred in an off-Broadway play titled My Pet Homo with drag queen RuPaul ?
text: Did you know that Karan Johar launched the pop song " Genda Phool " on social media during India's coronavirus lockdown ?
text: Did you know that Syrian refugee Hassan Al Kontar was stranded at Kuala Lumpur International Airport for seven months?
text: Did you know that 90 West Street , damaged by falling steel in the September 11 attacks , may have survived because of its use of architectural terracotta ?
text: Did you know that Peter Minich was a lead tenor for Viennese operettas at the Volksoper in the 1960s and 1970s?
text: Did you know that when US president Bill Clinton phoned Trimdon Labour Club to talk to UK prime minister Tony Blair , the barmaid who answered the call said that "someone called Clinton" was on the phone?
text: Did you know that the Longview Museum of Fine Arts in Texas was founded by the Junior Service League of Longview, whose members transported paintings in their own station wagons ?
text: Did you know that historian Thomas Stephens is considered to have done more to raise the standards of the National Eisteddfod of Wales than any other Welshman of his time?
text: Did you know that Paige Bueckers held athletic scholarship offers by the age of 14 from the college basketball programs of Minnesota , of Iowa State , and of Illinois ?
text: Did you know that the play-by-mail game Beyond the Stellar Empire was part of the "stomping ground" of the genre's top players, allowing them to govern a space colony or join a space pirate band?
text: Did you know that Freimut Duve became the first OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media after serving as a member of the Bundestag from 1980 to 1998?
text: Did you know that during World War II, the 1st Engineer Special Brigade fought in Italy , in Normandy , and in Okinawa ?
text: Did you know that an early program feature on Nebraska radio station KJSK was a cooking show hosted by the owner's wife from her kitchen?
text: Did you know that after serving as president of Georgetown College in Washington, D.C., Giovanni Antonio Grassi became the confessor to King Charles Felix and Queen Maria Cristina of Sardinia ?
text: Did you know that scrcpy allows a user to control an Android phone from a desktop computer?
text: Did you know that Renée Gilly studied under her parents and became a leading mezzo-soprano at the Opéra-Comique in Paris, where she sang roles such as Bizet's Carmen ?
text: Did you know that the title character of the Star Wars television series The Mandalorian was partially inspired by Clint Eastwood 's Man with No Name and the samurai films of Akira Kurosawa ?
text: Did you know that Kathleen Pelham Burn , Countess of Drogheda, was nicknamed "The Flying Countess" because of her involvement with early aviation?
text: Did you know that the book Calendrical Calculations has been called "the most extensive and detailed publication on calendar systems" since Friedrich Karl Ginzel 's work in the early 20th century?
text: Did you know that auctioneer Peregrine Pollen once smuggled four Impressionist paintings out of Buenos Aires in a Beatles poster?
text: Did you know that the term " informed consent " was coined during the 1957 court case Salgo v. Leland Stanford Jr. University Board of Trustees ?
text: Did you know that Edward Ardolino sculpted and carved Art Deco architectural works including the central Los Angeles Public Library and the Nebraska State Capitol ?
text: Did you know that the idea for the documentary film Crip Camp came to the directors after an "off-hand comment at lunch"?
text: Did you know that Sylvia Rose Ashby , an Australian market researcher , was once threatened with arrest if she did not stop surveying popular opinion on the Second World War?
text: Did you know that there were doubts regarding in which County Londonderry constituency the freeholders of the North West Liberties of Londonderry could vote?
text: Did you know that Ulrich Stranz composed Musik für Klavier und Orchester Nr. 1 for piano and orchestra, which premiered in Munich with Margarita Höhenrieder as the soloist in 1983?
text: Did you know that the Socony–Mobil Building in Manhattan was disparaged by architectural critic Lewis Mumford as having the appearance of a structure "coming down with measles"?
text: Did you know that John Tiedtke , heir to a grocery- and department-store fortune , sponsored a Bach festival and served as its president?
text: Did you know that in the 0x88 chess-board representation , 8-by-16 boards are used?
text: Did you know that nephrologist and cellist Leah Lowenstein , an advocate for women in medicine , was the first female dean of a co-educational medical school in the United States?
text: Did you know that Bahra 1 in Kuwait is the oldest permanent settlement south of Mesopotamia ?
text: Did you know that a vote of no confidence was successfully brought against the Kurti cabinet following a cabinet minister's dismissal over disagreements on how to manage the coronavirus pandemic in Kosovo ?
text: Did you know that the Littlefield Fountain is a war memorial at the University of Texas at Austin commemorating students and alumni who died in World War I?
text: Did you know that Venezuelan film editor and director Alfredo Hueck became interested in film after learning how to set up his family's Betamax player?
text: Did you know that Manchester United became the first English football team to win the European Cup by defeating Benfica in the 1968 final ?
text: Did you know that the Htupayon Pagoda in Sagaing , Myanmar, has been hit by at least five major earthquakes and rebuilt three times?
text: Did you know that Charlie Watts was the organiser of the British Union of Fascists ' cab-drivers group, which was said to have 1,000 members, in the 1930s?
text: Did you know that Ayushmann Khurrana learned to play the piano and make omelettes blindfolded for one of his performances ?
text: Did you know that both 60 Hudson Street and 32 Avenue of the Americas , two Art Deco skyscrapers in Manhattan designed by Ralph Thomas Walker , are now major internet and data hubs?
text: Did you know that Charles Wilkins , who wrote prolifically about the history of Wales , was described as "an Englishman with a Welshman's enthusiasm"?
text: Did you know that Dale Jr. did not host The Dale Jr. Download for the podcast's first four years?
text: Did you know that 722 graduates of the M. V. Frunze Military Academy received the title of Hero of the Soviet Union between 1934 and 1988?
text: Did you know that George Dudley threatened to withdraw Canada from ice hockey at the Olympic Games over the definition of an amateur?
text: Did you know that the Maas Brothers store at Port Charlotte Town Center was never opened due to the bankruptcy of its parent company Allied Stores ?
text: Did you know that the 2019 Ukrainian teen drama Early Swallows was responsible for a 600-percent increase in calls to a mental-health helpline?
text: Did you know that when the College of the Pacific started a radio station, it had to settle for the call sign KCVN because a police facility held the rights to KCOP?
text: Did you know that Austrian industrialist Hans Lauda was critical of his grandson Niki 's Formula One ambitions, as he believed that "a Lauda should be on the economic pages of the newspaper, not the sports pages"?
text: Did you know that in the film Dick Johnson Is Dead , director Kirsten Johnson has her elderly father act out different ways – some of them violent "accidents" – in which he could die?
text: Did you know that an attack on Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi may have been triggered by protests against a 150-percent fee hike?
text: Did you know that film director Garrett Batty wrote the script for The Saratov Approach while recovering from heart surgery?
text: Did you know that local residents complained about "potentially hazardous waste" being dredged from Peel Marina on the Isle of Man in 2015, only for toxic cadmium to be found there five years later?
text: Did you know that Josephus C. Vines , the former Prohibitionist mayor of Brighton, Alabama , shot and killed a man who was drinking on his doorstep?
text: Did you know that although the alpine bartsia has a wide range in Europe and North America, it is known in the British Isles only from a few locations in northern England and the central Scottish Highlands ?
text: Did you know that Moldavian leader Nikita Salogor called for an expansion of the borders of Soviet Moldavia in 1946, which may have led to his removal from office later that year?
text: Did you know that professional journalists commended a student reporter at Sacramento radio station KERS for refusing to reveal her source for a story about California governor Ronald Reagan not paying taxes?
text: Did you know that Oxford Circus was once London's busiest pedestrian crossing?
text: Did you know that Cornell University student Charles Spencer Francis , who later became the U.S. ambassador to Austria , set the world record for intercollegiate single-scull rowing in 1876?
text: Did you know that hundreds of patients of the Provincial Mental Sanatorium Kortau died in Nazi Germany's Aktion T4 involuntary-euthanasia program?
text: Did you know that the second of Henry Purcell 's two settings of Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts was composed in an earlier style for the funeral of Queen Mary II of England ?
text: Did you know that Emilia Clarke performed the funky chicken and robot dances at her Game of Thrones audition?
text: Did you know that the Caha Mountains in south-west County Cork are notable for the presence of Minuartia recurva , a montane sandwort not otherwise found in Ireland?
text: Did you know that treatment for the symptoms of Newyorkitis was being offered at a New York YMCA in 1908?
text: Did you know that unlike most other flagship smartphones in 2020, the Sony Xperia 1 II smartphone includes a 3.5 mm audio jack ?
text: Did you know that soprano and voice teacher Henny Wolff performed lieder by Hermann Reutter at the inaugural Ferienkurse für internationale neue Musik in Darmstadt in 1946, with the composer at the piano?
text: Did you know that Bishops Pond in Wales is destined to become a meadow?
text: Did you know that many homes in the neighborhood of Sunset Park were "inexpensive imitations" of upper-class brownstones elsewhere in Brooklyn ?
text: Did you know that Czechoslovak Communist politician Václav Kopecký "distinguished himself with antisemitic diatribes" and stage-managed an antisemitic show trial ?
text: Did you know that after suspected coronavirus patients in Maharashtra, India , started fleeing hospitals, the government directed officials to stamp the left hand of those quarantined at home using indelible ink ?
text: Did you know that 7,000 residents of Brighton , England, ate plum pudding and roast beef and played kiss-in-the-ring at The Level to celebrate Napoleon's defeat in 1814?
text: Did you know that actor Charlie Condou was offered the role of Ben Sherwood in Holby City without an audition?
text: Did you know that when the Third Avenue/125th Street Line was extended across Manhattan , it was celebrated with a seven-day carnival in Harlem ?
text: Did you know that Enderby Jackson , the founder of the traditional British brass band contest, was raised to be a tallow chandler ?
text: Did you know that if climate sensitivity is on the high end of scientists' estimates, it may be impossible to achieve the Paris Agreement 's goal of limiting global warming to below 2.0 °C (3.6 °F)?
text: Did you know that students at Lebanon Valley College in Annville, Pennsylvania , asked for President Clyde A. Lynch 's name to be removed from a memorial hall as it reminded them of lynching ?
text: Did you know that the Fulham Pottery , founded in London in 1672, operated for over 300 years?
text: Did you know that United States Supreme Court justice John Paul Stevens cited political scientist Kristin Goss in a case related to gun control ?
text: Did you know that baseball coach Mike Coolbaugh was killed by a batted ball in 2007?
text: Did you know that King Henry VII of England extracted £48,000 worth of " loving contributions " from his subjects in 1491, despite the practice having been outlawed seven years earlier?
text: Did you know that International Boxing Federation flyweight world champion Leonela Paola Yúdica won a house in a raffle?
text: Did you know that a Tower Records store at 360 Newbury Street , Boston , was the largest record store in the United States upon its opening in 1987?
text: Did you know that Maria van Pallaes allowed both Catholics and Protestants to live in her almshouses , which was unusual for the time?
text: Did you know that Coventry City defeated Football League Cup holders Nottingham Forest 5–4 in 1990 , with a player from each team scoring a hat-trick before half-time?
text: Did you know that Eugene W. Chafin , the Prohibition Party presidential candidate in 1908 and in 1912 , had a brick thrown at him during the Springfield race riot ?
text: Did you know that fossils from twenty-one species of mammals have been identified at Whitecliff Bay on the Isle of Wight ?
text: Did you know that a letter written by John Peyton to his wife contains one of the few surviving first-hand accounts of the Battle of the Nile ?
text: Did you know that the roof of the Town Lake Gazebo in Austin, Texas , is in the shape of a hyperbolic paraboloid ?
text: Did you know that Laverne Antrobus has appeared on the BBC giving advice and information on child psychology since 2004?
text: Did you know that people failing to observe containment measures during the Malta plague epidemics of 1592–93 , 1675–76 , and 1813–14 were liable to the death penalty?
text: Did you know that Paul Mägi , principal conductor of the Estonian National Opera , conducted the first recording of Eino Tamberg 's opera Cyrano de Bergerac ?
text: Did you know that the essay " It's Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers " has been described as an ode to autumn?
text: Did you know that while living in China, the New Zealand tour guide Troy Collings co-founded a company specialising in tours of North Korea?
text: Did you know that I Will Mention the Loving-kindnesses is an 1875 Easter anthem by Arthur Sullivan for solo tenor, mixed choir, and organ, setting a passage from the Book of Isaiah ?
text: Did you know that in a 1902 U.S. Supreme Court case , a ship owner alleged that the real purpose of Louisiana's quarantine laws was to keep Italian immigrants out of New Orleans ?
text: Did you know that Hiyori Nitta was inspired to become a Japanese voice actress after watching HeartCatch PreCure! , the only anime that she was allowed to watch while studying for her examinations?
text: Did you know that the 1775 Easter hymn " I Know That My Redeemer Lives " became popular in both the United Kingdom and the United States, albeit with different words?
text: Did you know that Charles W. Lyons was the only Jesuit and likely the only educator in the United States to have been president of four different colleges?
text: Did you know that some snooker matches at the 2020 Gibraltar Open were played without a referee?
text: Did you know that Willigis Jäger , a German Benedictine friar, studied Zen for six years with Yamada Koun in Japan and introduced it to his order?
text: Did you know that industry analysts have predicted that up to 75 percent of independent restaurants in the U.S. will not survive the coronavirus pandemic ?
text: Did you know that the two road cyclists who represented Burkina Faso at the 2012 Summer Paralympics had to share a handcycle due to a lack of resources?
text: Did you know that birds, bats and humans are the main hosts of members of the bed bug family ?
text: Did you know that Juan Guaidó , president of the Venezuelan National Assembly , tried to climb over a fence to vote in the 2020 committee elections after being blocked from entering the building?
text: Did you know that French potter Auguste Delaherche was said to have used clay dug from his garden, and only fired his kiln once a year?
text: Did you know that the MAX Light Rail system in Portland, Oregon , includes North America's deepest transit station , at 260 ft (79 m) below ground?
text: Did you know that the Jersey Football Association applied for UEFA membership after the Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled that UEFA must allow them to do so?
text: Did you know that Delaware State Commissioner of Education Arthur R. M. Spaid was also a naturalist and photographer who gave more than 100 lectures?
text: Did you know that according to Luke the Evangelist , the last words of Jesus on the cross came from Psalm 31 ?
text: Did you know that the capture of the southern caverns of Cappadocia and Ancyra by Maslama ibn Hisham around 739 marked the Umayyad Caliphate 's last territorial gains against the Byzantine Empire ?
text: Did you know that British Rail 's Automatic Train Protection system was estimated to cost £11 million per life saved, more than the £4 million per life to be considered good value for money?
text: Did you know that Dutch soprano Jo Vincent appeared in Willem Mengelberg 's 1939 recording of Bach's St Matthew Passion , and in the world premiere of Britten's Spring Symphony in 1949?
text: Did you know that Riverside Church in Manhattan includes a movie theater, gymnasium, and observation deck, and formerly contained a bowling alley?
text: Did you know that according to biographer Steven Fenberg, Jesse H. Jones was the second most powerful person in America during the Great Depression and World War II?
text: Did you know that SS Petriana was wrecked 200 metres (660 ft) off the Australian coast, but its crew were not allowed to land in Australia?
text: Did you know that Leonard Montefiore organised an airlift of hundreds of Jewish orphans who had survived Nazi concentration camps?
text: Did you know that according to legend, the so-called Immortal Piano was partially built with wood from the pillars of Solomon's Temple ?
text: Did you know that Richard J. Daley suffered his only electoral defeat when he ran for sheriff of Cook County, Illinois , in 1946 ?
text: Did you know that the National Union of Freedom Fighters in Trinidad and Tobago was the only group to sustain a guerrilla insurgency in the modern English-speaking Caribbean over an extended period of time?
text: Did you know that aspects of Star Wars character Fennec Shand 's personality, costume, and hairstyle were inspired by the fennec fox ?
text: Did you know that Allie X gained inspiration for her album Cape God after watching a documentary about the opioid epidemic in Massachusetts ?
text: Did you know that during the 1952 U.S. presidential election , the Constitution Party gave its presidential and vice-presidential nominations to Douglas MacArthur and Harry F. Byrd , respectively, without their permission?
text: Did you know that Operation Harvest Festival was the largest single massacre by German forces during the Holocaust?
text: Did you know that the Houston Chamber of Commerce and the Southern Pacific Railroad invited Japanese farmers to advise them about rice production in Texas ?
text: Did you know that professional Smash Bros. player Gavin "Tweek" Dempsey was considered the best Bowser Jr. player in the world, but started winning tournaments only after switching to other characters?
text: Did you know that Laura Knight 's painting Ruby Loftus Screwing a Breech Ring was painted at ROF Newport in Wales and features one of the factory's workers?
text: Did you know that after residents near Sunswick Creek broke down its tide gates in 1916, the New York City health commissioner claimed that they "prefer to live like hogs"?
text: Did you know that experts on the World Health Organization 's emergency committee believe that COVID-19 could be the first Disease X ?
text: Did you know that although Constance Kies was a nutrition scientist, she majored in English, and minored in history, geography, library science, and home economics?
text: Did you know that Kissena Creek originates from a New York City swamp that remained undeveloped through 2000?
text: Did you know that Three Latin Motets , Charles Villiers Stanford 's only church music not in English, was dedicated to Alan Gray , who succeeded him as organist at Trinity College, Cambridge, and the college's choir ?
text: Did you know that Japanese voice actress Rei Matsuzaki wrote a newspaper sports column on the Tokyo Yakult Swallows baseball team?
text: Did you know that Monster Island won an Origins Award for the best new play-by-mail game of 1990?
text: Did you know that British windsurfer Emma Wilson won the under-15 Techno 293 World Championships at the age of 12?
text: Did you know that La Dama Enmascarada became the first female professional wrestler in Mexico to be forced to unmask when she lost a Lucha de Apuestas match to Irma González in 1958?
text: Did you know that in eight years, the Somerset Coal Canal used three different ways of climbing a 130-foot (40 m) valley—first with caisson locks , then an inclined plane , and finally a flight of 22 locks ?
text: Did you know that during the American Civil War, Zachariah A. Rice wrote more than 63 letters to his wife, offering insight into the military life of a Confederate cavalry officer?
text: Did you know that in the 1657 hymn " Morgenstern der finstern Nacht " with text by Angelus Silesius , the glory of Jesus is likened to a thousand suns?
text: Did you know that a shootout broke out at Pompton Junction station in New Jersey in 1874 over $600 worth of stolen metal and clothing?
text: Did you know that most species in the palm genus Desmoncus climb using grappling hook –like structures called acanthopylls?
text: Did you know that ice hockey goaltender Cale Morris won Big Ten Player of the Year and Big Ten Goaltender of the Year after going undrafted into the United States Hockey League ?
text: Did you know that the white-browed tit-warbler has been found to practice cooperative breeding ?
text: Did you know that Alice Birch 's play Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. was inspired by Valerie Solanas 's SCUM Manifesto ?
text: Did you know that after ceasing operations, the owner of television station KETX in Tyler, Texas , was sued for nearly $6,000 in unreturned film rentals?
text: Did you know that Diether de la Motte , who taught composition and music theory in Berlin and Vienna, wrote an opera that premiered at the Staatsoper Hannover in 1970?
text: Did you know that at its peak, the Canadian softcore pornography series The Baby Blue Movie was seen by nearly two-thirds of the Toronto viewing audience in its time slot?
text: Did you know that three members of the Harrison family of Virginia served as President of the United States ?
text: Did you know that when the shopping parade and accompanying flats in Northgate, West Sussex , were first built, every flat was mistakenly given the same door lock and key?
text: Did you know that Canadian rancher William Roper Hull is credited with the first use of fences in cattle ranching in Calgary ?
text: Did you know that about eight months of story were scrapped during the development of Uncharted 4: A Thief's End after new directors came on board?
text: Did you know that a Presbyterian–Catholic New Testament in Taiwanese Hokkien was confiscated by the government in 1975 for using the Latin alphabet instead of Chinese characters?
text: Did you know that Charles Montier raced a modified version of the mass-produced Ford Model T in the inaugural 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1923?
text: Did you know that flatter mires in montane regions of Europe are often dominated by deergrass and cottongrass ?
text: Did you know that Holy Trinity Church in Crockham Hill , Kent , regained ecclesiastical independence after a vicar was translated there from St Mark's Church in Royal Tunbridge Wells ?
text: Did you know that Nigerian-American Christian hip hop artist Wande became interested in rapping after her biology teacher allowed her to compose a rap about cellular transport ?
text: Did you know that the Breton saint Goulven of Léon may have been confused with a legendary murderer and rapist featured in the poem " Gwerz Skolan ", giving rise to a number of place names with elements of both individuals?
text: Did you know that station staff had to throw snowballs to knock the ice off the aging transmitter of radio station KWCR-FM at Weber State University in Utah?
text: Did you know that the 1996 racing video game Monster Truck Madness was designed to accurately simulate monster-truck events such as drag tracks and enclosed circuit races?
text: Did you know that Indian writer Malayanil was a pioneer of modern short-story writing in the Gujarati language ?
text: Did you know that U.S. Representative John Conyers proposed legislation to create a federal holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr. during every session of Congress from 1968 to 1983, when the bill finally passed ?
text: Did you know that Abel Azcona is known as the " enfant terrible " of Spanish contemporary art?
text: Did you know that four men sued the city of West Bend, Wisconsin , for the right to burn Baby Be-Bop publicly in 2009?
text: Did you know that publishers have had their pre-approved books confiscated, or their stalls dismantled overnight, during the Riyadh International Book Fair ?
text: Did you know that public primary schools in Hong Kong are required to admit siblings of current students?
text: Did you know that Canadian ice hockey player Aggie Kukulowicz was followed by a KGB agent for six years and never spoke with him, but reportedly once bought him an ice cream cone?
text: Did you know that Charles Villiers Stanford 's Violin Sonata No. 2 was first performed in 1898, but had not yet been published when it was first recorded in the 1990s?
text: Did you know that unlike many slasher film antagonists, the true identity and motivations of the character Billy in Black Christmas are never revealed?
text: Did you know that Chelsea chairman Ken Bates attempted to hang a joke medal around the neck of Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson as a peace offering after the 2000 FA Charity Shield ?
text: Did you know that as head of the War Assets Administration , retired major general Robert McGowan Littlejohn had to dispose of $34 billion worth of surplus government property?
text: Did you know that some atheists believe in the Ten Commandments ?
text: Did you know that New York once neighbored Philadelphia?
text: Did you know that a Queen of England was named after a blast furnace ?
text: Did you know that South Dakota once sued 15 cats ?
text: Did you know that a Briton told the European Union to fuck off 17 million times ?
text: Did you know that Turing wrote Prof: Alan Turing Decoded sixty years after his death?
text: Did you know that a bim bam boom aboard an airplane caused quite a stir in France?
text: Did you know that Captain Kirk can encrypt your computer, but Spock might decrypt it for a fee?
text: Did you know that you can have sex with two cans of Pepsi , though one might need to be twisted?
text: Did you know that Volkswagen part number 199 398 500 A is typically lubricated with ketchup ?
text: Did you know that Mount Hampton in Antarctica was last active over 10 million years ago, but may still emit steam ?
text: Did you know that the visual style of African-American artist Henry Speller , who was also an accomplished blues musician, was described as "blues aesthetic"?
text: Did you know that the CEO of CEPI , a key organisation in the race to develop a vaccine for COVID-19 , has called the disease "the most frightening" that he has ever encountered in his career?
text: Did you know that Lluest-wen Reservoir was once dubbed "the wettest place in Wales"?
text: Did you know that rivals Furman and Wofford played the first college football game in South Carolina on December 14, 1889?
text: Did you know that Irish folklorist Bríd Mahon wrote the first of her hundreds of radio scripts for Radio Éireann as a child, discussing the history and music of County Cork ?
text: Did you know that Klingons are positively Shakespearean ?
text: Did you know that after a 20-year search, a gun barrel from the HMAS Sydney and a gun shield from the HMAS Adelaide , discovered on a rubbish tip, were fitted together and put on display at Leighton Battery ?
text: Did you know that damage to the Verizon Building during the September 11 attacks , though substantial, was limited by its heavy masonry construction?
text: Did you know that with his victory at The Big House 9 , Zackray became the first Japanese player to win a premier-tier Super Smash Bros. tournament held outside Japan?
text: Did you know that the former operator of the Q38 bus route was not compensated for the route's takeover, as their equipment was considered obsolete?
text: Did you know that the spiral galaxy NGC 3393 hosts the nearest known pair of supermassive black holes ?
text: Did you know that the birthplace of Beatles drummer Ringo Starr in the Welsh Streets , Liverpool, was nearly demolished in the 2000s?
text: Did you know that William Henry Harrison III and William Henry Harrison served simultaneously in the Wyoming House of Representatives , and both had sons named William Henry Harrison?
text: Did you know that actress Natalie Portman was nominated for an Oscar for playing the First Lady of the United States ?
text: Did you know that in the Carceri Nuove jail in Rome, seventeen dungeons were named after saints?
text: Did you know that the Jersey scrum-half Will Homer led criticism of plans by the Rugby Football Union to cut funding to RFU Championship clubs by 40 per cent?
text: Did you know that on MTV's The Unplugged Collection, Volume One , Neil Young rescored " Like a Hurricane " using harmonica and pump organ ?
text: Did you know that the rough sex murder defense asserts that a victim died accidentally during consensual sex?
text: Did you know that William Birchall may have impressed one of the local militia, but the rest were most unimpressed?
text: Did you know that Badluram's body is buried, yet we get his rations ?
text: Did you know that Tove Lo 's song " Cool Girl " was inspired by the monologue of the same name by a character in the 2014 film Gone Girl ?
text: Did you know that the men of Wade's Battery attempted to tunnel beneath enemy lines during the Siege of Vicksburg ?
text: Did you know that Henrietta Garnett travelled England in a convoy of horse-drawn caravans in support of peace and love, later calling the group "chequebook hippies"?
text: Did you know that the needle telegraph built by Carl Friedrich Gauss and Wilhelm Eduard Weber had a needle weighing at least 25 lb (11 kg)?
text: Did you know that months into the Philippines' coronavirus quarantine , the Bureau of Immigration Bicutan Detention Center remained grossly overcrowded, with only two pregnant women having been bailed?
text: Did you know that in 2015, Eva Asderaki became the first woman to umpire a men's US Open tennis final?
text: Did you know that the unlit tunnel at Salem station was "happily known as the ' Kissing-Bridge ' " of the rail line?
text: Did you know that prior to the event, bookmakers' odds against Joe Johnson winning the 1986 World Snooker Championship were 150 to 1?
text: Did you know that a redundant jail, saved from demolition when an author bought it for $25 for use as his writing studio, later became the Old Jail Art Center ?
text: Did you know that residents of Rankin Inlet , Nunavut, blocked access to a local goldmine over fears of COVID-19 , even though Nunavut had no confirmed cases ?
text: Did you know that Lady Bathurst , once described as "the most powerful woman in England, without exception other than royalty", lived in relative obscurity for the last four decades of her life?
text: Did you know that the hymn " Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier ", a prayer for illumination because the human mind is "shrouded in darkness", became popular in English as "Blessed Jesus, at your word"?
text: Did you know that a 2013 study by the National Park Service determined that the First Battle of Newtonia Historic District was not suitable for inclusion in its list of official units ?
text: Did you know that the frog Boophis fayi can be identified by its unusual green-and-turquoise eyes?
text: Did you know that American-colonial minister William Tennent III was known as the "Firebrand Parson" due to his strong support of religious and civil liberty?
text: Did you know that up to 75 percent of the surface of Pluto is both tropical and arctic?
text: Did you know that music academy director Hermann Reutter composed " Hymne an Deutschland ", which President Theodor Heuss suggested as a new German national anthem after World War II?
text: Did you know that a normally closed entrance to Hynes Convention Center station is opened for Boston Marathon spectators and anime fans ?
text: Did you know that Möngke Khan was the only khagan to die in an attack on the Sichuan anti-Mongol fortresses ?
text: Did you know that Linda Liau has developed a personalized vaccine against brain cancer?
text: Did you know that the audiobook Talking to Strangers has its own theme song, " Hell You Talmbout "?
text: Did you know that the Midweek Herald edition for Cranbrook, Devon, accidentally published a news report about Cranbrook Rugby Football Club in Kent, 200 miles (320 km) away?
text: Did you know that Australian actress Betty Bryant was honoured by Hillary Clinton for her humanitarian service?
text: Did you know that Takapūneke , which is sacred to the Māori and may become a national reserve of New Zealand , is the site of Akaroa 's sewage-treatment plant?
text: Did you know that Thomas Brodie may have been in command of HMS Arrow at the 1801 Battle of Copenhagen , not William Bolton as often recorded?
text: Did you know that Sid Meier prototyped the interleaved turns system in XCOM: Chimera Squad using a game engine that he had developed over a period of around twenty years?
text: Did you know that workplace hazard controls for COVID-19 include measures for psychosocial hazards such as stress and anxiety, for which social distancing may prevent typical coping mechanisms?
text: Did you know that interior designer Valerian Rybar 's dining room was lined with 400 fake books with titles about episodes in his life, including International Boredom , allegedly about his ex-wife ?
text: Did you know that the video game The Longing can take up to 400 days to complete?
text: Did you know that citizen journalist Chen Qiushi went missing while reporting on the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan ?
text: Did you know that after Congress limited presidential power granted by the Forest Reserve Act of 1891 , President Theodore Roosevelt quickly protected 16 million acres of forest while the bill sat on his desk?
text: Did you know that Quentin Edwards was asked not to return to Bradfield College after a schoolmaster found passionate letters sent to him by John Mortimer ?
text: Did you know that Venezuela won its first Olympic medal in 1952 with triple jumper Asnoldo Devonish , who competed while injured?
text: Did you know that Ole Børud 's guitar music on the album Sonrise , by the band Schaliach , was likened to a "metal symphony"?
text: Did you know that after the 7th Infantry Regiment captured Hitler's Berghof on 4 May 1945, its commander, Colonel John A. Heintges , took Hermann Göring 's 1941 Mercedes-Benz 540K Cabriolet B for his personal use?
text: Did you know that James Blake spontaneously wrote the song " You're Too Precious " in his home studio after waking up at 4 a.m.?
text: Did you know that the first monks at Villeneuve Abbey arrived in 1200 from Buzay ?
text: Did you know that the Roman army repelled an elephant charge at the Battle of Panormus by throwing javelins?
text: Did you know that producer Paul F. Heard believed that techniques used in government propaganda films could also be applied to religious films to bring about "spiritual realizations"?
text: Did you know that Lund Cathedral has been called the "most powerful representative" of Romanesque architecture in the Nordic countries ?
text: Did you know that Lassington Wood , owned by the Guise family since the 13th century, was given to Gloucester County Borough Council in 1921?
text: Did you know that after a disgruntled worker dumped parts of 140 Broadway 's air-conditioning system into a tank, 10,000 workers were "uncomfortably warm" for weeks until scuba divers retrieved the components?
text: Did you know that United States district judge Douglas P. Woodlock ordered Guatemalan general Héctor Gramajo to pay $47.5 million in damages for human rights abuses?
text: Did you know that a series of bollards mark the route taken by the 2nd Armoured Division during the liberation of France ?
text: Did you know that after New York City's Q79 bus was discontinued due to low ridership, a private car service was provided, which was later also discontinued for the same reason?
text: Did you know that the facade of the Collegio Ghislieri in Rome was preserved from the building's 1936 demolition and incorporated into the Liceo Classico Virgilio?
text: Did you know that Galveston Bay , the largest of the estuaries of Texas , is home to the second busiest port in the United States?
text: Did you know that on 22 April 2020, the UK House of Commons met virtually for the first time in its 700-year history due to the COVID-19 pandemic?
text: Did you know that art patron and collector São Schlumberger had her portrait painted by Warhol and Dalí , but did not like the one by Dalí?
text: Did you know that Otis Barrett introduced Artocarpus integer , claimed to be superior to jackfruit , to Puerto Rico ?
text: Did you know that the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation left a studio building in British Columbia unfinished in 1978, only to move in 34 years later?
text: Did you know that the Hoby treasure found in Denmark contains two Roman silver cups with scenes from the Iliad ?
text: Did you know that when Pavel Schilling invited Tsar Nicholas I to touch two wires together, the tsar was greatly surprised by the resulting distant explosion?
text: Did you know that by the time New York City's Richmond Hill station was closed, it averaged a single passenger per day?
text: Did you know that two separate contests were held to determine the words and the music of the national anthem of Guyana ?
text: Did you know that TrueAnon bills itself as "the only non-pedophile podcast"?
text: Did you know that readings of The Crime and the Silence , a book about the Jedwabne massacre , have been picketed by the book's opponents?
text: Did you know that CIA officer Howard Bane proposed that the Special Operations Group storm the Chinese embassy in Ghana and kill all its occupants during the 1966 coup ?
text: Did you know that the facade of the then 1,200-year-old Basilica of Sant'Alessandro was replaced with a Neoclassical one in the 19th century?
text: Did you know that Dalma Iványi has won ten Hungarian women's basketball championships and played for three teams in the WNBA ?
text: Did you know that during the Battle of McDowell , Confederate soldiers attempted to use the dead bodies of their comrades to build breastworks ?
text: Did you know that when the Act of Parliament renaming the Royal Ulster Constabulary was passed, the force was not named the "Northern Ireland Police Service" because the acronym would have been NIPS?
text: Did you know that it took more than eight hours to apply makeup for the first time to the actor playing the character Bib Fortuna in Return of the Jedi ?
text: Did you know that Major Jim Gant of the U.S. Army Special Forces has been compared to both T. E. Lawrence and Colonel Kurtz ?
text: Did you know that Telegraph Plateau was so named because it seemed to be an ideal route for a transatlantic telegraph cable ?
text: Did you know that the Kearney County Gazette reportedly displayed the skull of 19th-century serial killer Stephen Dee Richards in their window?
text: Did you know that a royal deer park in Sweden was made into a nature reserve in 2001 to protect a species of beetle ?
text: Did you know that the Hawaiian Music Hall of Fame honors Na Lani ʻEhā as progenitors of the music and arts culture for which the islands have come to be known?
text: Did you know that after England won the 1993 Women's Cricket World Cup Final , women's cricket received unprecedented coverage in the English press?
text: Did you know that a 1967 study on voice confrontation found that only 38 percent of people could identify recordings of their own voice within five seconds?
text: Did you know that effigies of Soedjono Hoemardani , a personal assistant to Indonesian president Suharto , were burnt by students protesting foreign investment?
text: Did you know that the American-built clipper ship Gravina was named after a Spanish admiral who fought with the French at the Battle of Trafalgar ?
text: Did you know that Svan mountain climber Mikhail Khergiani was nicknamed the "Tiger of the Rocks" for his ability in attacking difficult routes?
text: Did you know that the VI Corps of the North Korean People's Army was disbanded in the 1990s, allegedly after being involved in a coup attempt?
text: Did you know that after his side defeated Leeds United in the FA Cup , Cardiff City chairman Sam Hammam had two BBC reporters forcibly removed and had an altercation with the opposing manager?
text: Did you know that U.S. general George Mathews attempted a failed annexation of Spanish Florida just months before the outbreak of the War of 1812 ?
text: Did you know that despite being known as the Mexican hydrangea, Clerodendrum bungei is neither from Mexico nor a species of hydrangea ?
text: Did you know that Robert De Niro won the first of his two Academy Awards for his portrayal of the young Vito Corleone in The Godfather Part II ?
text: Did you know that most potato farmers in Nigeria rely on hoes rather than tractors?
text: Did you know that Jerry Bradley is the third member of his family to be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame ?
text: Did you know that Droitwich Water Tower has been described as "one of the first things you see when you enter the town "?
text: Did you know that Rómulo Escobar Bethancourt led the Panamanian delegation when the Panama Canal treaties were negotiated with the United States in 1977?
text: Did you know that the developers of Elsinore , a video game based on Hamlet , drew inspiration for the game's time-loop mechanic from The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask , anime, and visual novels ?
text: Did you know that a golden statue was erected in Taiwan in honor of bank robber and murderer Lee Shih-ke ?
text: Did you know that the New York City Subway stations at 9th , 25th , 59th , and Union Streets , as well as Prospect Avenue , were opened with a competition between two trains heading to Coney Island ?
text: Did you know that the developer of Hardcoded wanted to create a game that would appeal to cisgender people with a futanari fetish?
text: Did you know that with the growth of the Werl pilgrimage to a statue of Mary , a large Romanesque Revival basilica was built adjacent to the former Baroque style church?
text: Did you know that during the rule of the Greek military junta , archaeologist and museum curator Semni Karouzou was banned from conducting research in the National Archaeological Museum because of her political views?
text: Did you know that actress Ruth Warrick was said to have "stolen the show" as a sweet young bride who grows into a disillusioned, middle-aged woman in the 1950 Christian film Second Chance ?
text: Did you know that Nico Rosberg announced his retirement from Formula One motor racing five days after winning the 2016 World Championship ?
text: Did you know that author Clinton Heylin flew from England to California to hear Bob Dylan perform " Idiot Wind " live?
text: Did you know that Jon Godfread is the world's tallest politician, according to Guinness World Records ?
text: Did you know that during the COVID-19 pandemic , the hymn " O Licht der wunderbaren Nacht " by Georg Thurmair was recommended for a celebration of Easter Vigil at home?
text: Did you know that when introduced in 1974, the British Rail Passenger Timetable cost 50p (the equivalent of £10 today) and its 1,350 pages provided times for the entire year?
text: Did you know that Dagmar Burešová hid a classmate after he escaped a communist prison, and enabled him to flee from Czechoslovakia to West Germany?
text: Did you know that besides eating ants and termites, the waved woodpecker feeds on fruits, berries, and seeds?
text: Did you know that although the 2018 release Hamari Paltan was promoted as the last film of veteran Indian actor Tom Alter , another one featuring him premiered later that same year?
text: Did you know that Charles Kelman , the inventor of phacoemulsification for cataract surgery , was also a Broadway producer and a jazz musician with a musical comedy routine?
text: Did you know that the pencil sketch for Little Girl Observing Lovers on a Train is in the private collection of George Lucas ?
text: Did you know that Alexander H. Flax , the future chief scientist of the U.S. Air Force , was part of a small team of engineers who developed the Piasecki HRP Rescuer , the first true twin-rotor helicopter?
text: Did you know that many post-World War II anti-Jewish attacks in Slovakia were committed by former anti-Nazi partisans ?
text: Did you know that Carol Brightman first gained inspiration for her book Sweet Chaos from her younger sister, who worked as the Grateful Dead 's lighting director and literary agent?
text: Did you know that an incident in which a player clipped another's heel at the 2002 PDC World Darts Championship was the catalyst for the creation of the exclusion zone in darts?
text: Did you know that 14 Wall Street in Manhattan was among the first skyscrapers to use a pyramidal roof?
text: Did you know that Albert Camus 's novel The Plague is based on an epidemic in Oran , Algeria, and examines how a government could turn tyrannical?
text: Did you know that Pamela Chelgren-Koterba became the first female officer in the history of the United States' NOAA Corps in 1972?
text: Did you know that some countries charge visitors a departure tax ?
text: Did you know that Megaceroides algericus is one of only two deer species known to have been native to Africa, alongside the Barbary stag ?
text: Did you know that on Good Friday 2020, Benedikt Kristjánsson sang all roles in a chamber arrangement of Bach's St John Passion , broadcast live from the composer's burial place ?
text: Did you know that radio station WSID , located in a suburb of Baltimore , claimed that a city court had no jurisdiction over it?
text: Did you know that a draft condition of the Treaty of Lutatius to end the First Punic War , stipulating that Carthage pay Rome 57,000 kg (126,000 lb) of silver, was rejected as insufficient?
text: Did you know that a large statue of a cottontail rabbit in Minneapolis was outfitted with a cloth face mask during the COVID-19 pandemic in Minnesota ?
text: Did you know that although the Alvvays song " Archie, Marry Me " did not chart, it is still considered to be the band's breakout hit?
text: Did you know that Helmut Machemer joined the army of Nazi Germany in the hope of winning a bravery award to save his part-Jewish family?
text: Did you know that a new platform was built at the Bowling Green station in Manhattan after it became overcrowded just four years after opening?
text: Did you know that public reaction to Agatha Christie ' s eleven-day disappearance in 1926 included speculation the incident was an attempt to frame Archie Christie , her then husband, for murder?
text: Did you know that the Buruciye Medrese is considered one of the best examples of Seljuk architecture in Anatolia ?
text: Did you know that Clint Hocking was the level designer, game designer, and scriptwriter for Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell ?
text: Did you know that the communications satellite LES-1 , launched in 1965, spontaneously began transmitting again in 2012 after more than 40 years of silence, making it one of the oldest zombie satellites ?
text: Did you know that in the Danish card game of Brus , if a seven is led, the player risks it being beaten by the beggar king ?
text: Did you know that the bookseller George Robinson paid Ann Radcliffe £500 in 1794 to publish The Mysteries of Udolpho – equivalent to £58,735 today?
text: Did you know that the Arizona dampwood termite exclusively colonizes dead parts of standing trees?
text: Did you know that the physician and science writer Ben Goldacre announced that Noosha Fox was his mother after watching her on a Top of the Pops rerun?
text: Did you know that after the demolition of much of the elevated Myrtle Avenue Line , service on New York City's B54 bus route was increased by 700 percent?
text: Did you know that Exolaunch managed the launch rideshare of a satellite only 2.5 cm (0.98 in) tall?
text: Did you know that FTI Consulting has concluded with "medium to high confidence" that Jeff Bezos's phone was hacked by a file sent from the Saudi Arabian crown prince 's WhatsApp account?
text: Did you know that Francis Augustus Silva was promoted to captain in the American Civil War and later dishonorably discharged by mistake?
text: Did you know that the fictional village of Kattegat in the television series Vikings is located at the base of Luggala in County Wicklow , Ireland?
text: Did you know that Scarlett Johansson was nominated for two Academy Awards in the same year?
text: Did you know that the Slovak periodical Svedectvo ( Testimony ) receives a government subsidy, despite having published apologist articles defending convicted war criminals?
text: Did you know that the founder of the media watchdog organization Ad Fontes Media has compared low-quality news sources to junk food ?
text: Did you know that James Strachan-Davidson , Master of Balliol College, Oxford , believed that the college should be as "wife and children" to its fellows?
text: Did you know that in 1917, the crew of HMS Terror had to abandon ship after the captain refused to sail the damaged ship stern first?
text: Did you know that the in-development fangame Bionicle: Quest for Mata Nui was praised for having better animation than the direct-to-video Bionicle films ?
text: Did you know that Turkish female international sailing competitor Ecem Güzel has finished in the top three of a competition five times in the last seven years?
text: Did you know that the Indian film Chand Bujh Gaya ( The Moon Is Eclipsed ) was denied a censor certificate for fear of "inciting communal violence" and "communal disharmony"?
text: Did you know that pediatrician Samuel Z. Levine was summoned by the White House in 1963 to treat President John F. Kennedy 's premature baby son?
text: Did you know that three of the 34 stanzas of " Jesu Leiden, Pein und Tod ", a Passion hymn by Paul Stockmann , were included in Bach's St John Passion ?
text: Did you know that the Northern Ireland subsidy is greater than the United Kingdom's annual net expenditure on the European Union before Brexit ?
text: Did you know that Christian television station KBFI-TV permanently ceased operations at 2 a.m. on Christmas Eve ?
text: Did you know that Martin Scorsese filmed It's Not Just You, Murray! in his apartment?
text: Did you know that Hege Lanes Steinlund is believed to have officiated more international football matches than any other Norwegian referee?
text: Did you know that the 2010 Young Report cited a story about a clown being banned from wearing oversized shoes as an example of "health and safety hysteria in the media"?
text: Did you know that there was once a 35 km-long (22 mi) glacier in Gusinje Municipality , Montenegro?
text: Did you know that J. F. S. Stuart found the republican opinions of American colonists "obnoxious to a loyalist, and their barbarous manners repellent to a gentleman"?
text: Did you know that in the Australian Journal of Herpetology , a first-year student and a high school teacher reassessed the taxonomy of Australia's entire reptile class , naming 33 novel genera and 214 new species ?
text: Did you know that one of the most common stereotypes of a Karen is asking to "speak to the manager"?
text: Did you know that due to Pakistani actress Saeeda Imtiaz 's role in Redrum , one of the film's producers said, "I am worried if my film will see the light of day"?
text: Did you know that Barbara H. Bowman was one of the scientists who discovered the genetic difference responsible for variations in haptoglobin , a human blood protein ?
text: Did you know that Boston and Skegness is estimated to have the highest percentage of "Leave" votes in the 2016 EU referendum of any parliamentary constituency in the UK ?
text: Did you know that the 145th Street station in Manhattan was slated to be replaced with another subway station in the 1960s, but remained open following protests?
text: Did you know that the male bigtooth cardinalfish broods a ball of eggs in his mouth?
text: Did you know that Oregon state representative J. Patrick Metke flew two-engine Navy bombers on anti-submarine patrols during World War II?
text: Did you know that Coleraine Cricket Club once became champions of the North West Cricket Union Premiership by default after their nearest competitors went on holiday?
text: Did you know that unlike most U.S. custom houses , which face the waterfront, the Alexander Hamilton Custom House in Manhattan faces inland?
text: Did you know that every sixth person in the world who has diabetes is from India ?
text: Did you know that New Mexico radio station KARA was sued by a competitor who claimed that the station was impeding delivery of its mail?
text: Did you know that according to numerous Sanskrit, Chinese, and Southeast Asian texts, Mahākāśyapa left his body in suspended animation to see the future Buddha?
text: Did you know that shortly after the Battle of Cape Hermaeum , most of the victorious Roman fleet was destroyed in a storm, with the loss of over 100,000 lives?
text: Did you know that Charity Anderson and her contemporary-dance partner Andres Peñate earned the first perfect score on a routine in the history of World of Dance ?
text: Did you know that in some situations, saying " please " may yield worse outcomes?
text: Did you know that Grégoire Margotton replaced Christian Jeanpierre as the main presenter of the French football programme Téléfoot in 2018?
text: Did you know that the book The Pink Swastika has been described as a product of American culture wars ?
text: Did you know that three nights of riots at Marsh Farm in Luton in 1995 came to an end when the Exodus Collective organised a nearby rave ?
text: Did you know that a "desperate" attempt was made to rescue Captain William D. Gregory and the crew of the sinking clipper Tejuca during an 1856 hurricane?
text: Did you know that PewDiePie 's first YouTube video, " Minecraft Multiplayer Fun ", has been viewed more than 14 million times?
text: Did you know that Yan , a fourth kingdom during the Three Kingdoms period of China, was conquered only one year after its establishment in 237?
text: Did you know that when NASA Astronaut Group 6 were told that they were not required after reporting for duty, they started calling themselves the "Excess Eleven"?
text: Did you know that five people have received Nobel Prizes for direct and indirect studies of vitamin B 12 ?
text: Did you know that Riverside Park , designed by Central Park 's architects, suffered from outdoor sewerage, squatters' shacks, and coal emissions in the late 19th century?
text: Did you know that Noureddine Diwa was one of the first Tunisian footballers to play abroad?
text: Did you know that interest in network synthesis research is now greater than at any time since the 1950s due to its new applications in mechanics, particularly in Formula One ?
text: Did you know that while researching for the role of Arthur Morgan for Red Dead Redemption 2 , actor Roger Clark was inspired by the stoic but humorous demeanor of Toshiro Mifune 's characters?
text: Did you know that the prison in Pretoria where Pedi king Mampuru II was executed was renamed in his honour in 2013?
text: Did you know that the Norwegian band Vardøger formed, recorded music, disbanded, re-formed to release Whitefrozen , disbanded again, re-formed to release Ghost Notes , and then disbanded yet again?
text: Did you know that an annual church service is said to have been held at the Gospel Oak in Polstead , Suffolk, for more than 1,000 years?
text: Did you know that mesophyletid weevils have only been found in Burmese amber ?
text: Did you know that the producers of the 1990 American comedy film Home Alone were threatened with legal action by the French director of 3615 code Père Noël , who alleged that it was a remake of his film?
text: Did you know that Italy helped to renovate a bridge between Israel and Jordan?
text: Did you know that the role of Antonio Crutta , the interpreter for Polish king Stanisław August in the 1787–1792 Russo-Turkish War , was to "melt the suspicions of the Turks without arousing those of the Russians"?
text: Did you know that Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote the musical Oklahoma! in a suite at the Berkshire Hotel in New York City?
text: Did you know that a foul was given at the 2009 World Cup of Pool due to an arm-hair touching the cue ball ?
text: Did you know that Jordan Henderson is the first Liverpool captain to win the FIFA Club World Cup ?
text: Did you know that despite overcrowding at the Nostrand Avenue station in Brooklyn , two of its entrances remained closed for several decades?
text: Did you know that Tetraponera tessmanni , a very aggressive ant, is able to establish dominance over the whole of the liana in which it lives, which may be 50 m (164 ft) long?
text: Did you know that Ole Børud is featured on a song by a choir project that involved recordings from around the world because of the COVID-19 pandemic ?
text: Did you know that according to Oliver Heaviside , the law of squares does not mean that an electric current knows where it is going?
text: Did you know that the book The Forgotten Holocaust: The Poles Under German Occupation, 1939–1944 resulted in a series of reviews and letters that were described as "particularly vicious"?
text: Did you know that no admiral has ever lived at Admiral's House in Hampstead ?
text: Did you know that artwork at the Jackson Avenue station in the Bronx depicts images from six Latin American stories?
text: Did you know that the fallacy of using ad hominem arguments was first discussed by Aristotle in his Sophistical Refutations ?
text: Did you know that King Kalākaua 's committee to revive the Hale Nauā secret society consisted of nine women, and only one man other than himself?
text: Did you know that flying ace Brian van Mentz survived the Battle of Britain , but was killed by a bomb that fell on a pub?
text: Did you know that Martin Scorsese created his first film, What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This? , as part of a summer program?
text: Did you know that Kosala by Bhalchandra Nemade is regarded as the first existentialist novel in the Marathi language ?
text: Did you know that most of the known Gigantopithecus fossils are of teeth because the other bones are likely to have been eaten by porcupines ?
text: Did you know that Richard Grenfell Thomas and Isabel Bear scientifically described the smell of rain, for which Thomas coined the term " petrichor "?
text: Did you know that Taunton bus station , built in the 1950s, was described as "a rare survivor" just five years before it was closed?
text: Did you know that German war criminal Hans Walter Zech-Nenntwich gave a television interview after escaping from prison?
text: Did you know that Travis Scott 's guest appearance in Jay Electronica 's song " The Blinding " has been described as "a cynical attempt to attract younger listeners"?
text: Did you know that Miller's langur , one of the rarest primates in Borneo , was feared to be extinct until a 2012 study rediscovered it in an area where it was previously unknown?
text: Did you know that feminist Mary Stuart Smith publicly admonished the aristocracy of Virginia in 1893 for their failure to recognize the talent of native artists?
text: Did you know that the State Emblem of India was embossed on the wheels of the Chandrayaan-2 mission's lunar rover to leave behind patterned tracks on the lunar surface?
text: Did you know that a pūloʻuloʻu presented to King Kalākaua during his coronation was made from a narwhal tusk?
text: Did you know that in the early 20th century Plaza Cervantes , then the financial district of Manila , was likened to a scene out of Othello or The Merchant of Venice ?
text: Did you know that American bishop Lawrence Sabatini travelled to Mexico to learn the language and culture because the Italian parishioners at his church in Chicago had been replaced by Hispanics?
text: Did you know that the small Ma On Shan Village in Hong Kong saw a large number of new arrivals after changes in methods of mining iron ore were implemented at a nearby mine in 1953?
text: Did you know that Franz Klarwein , a tenor at the Bavarian State Opera from 1942 to 1977, appeared in world premieres such as those of Capriccio by Richard Strauss and Die Harmonie der Welt by Paul Hindemith?
text: Did you know that a shortened route for the proposed Brooklyn–Queens Connector streetcar, announced in 2018, would be more expensive than the original plan?
text: Did you know that the wet nurse of Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France , was named Madame Poitrine , which can be translated as 'Madame Bosom'?
text: Did you know that the granting of a franchise to the Ogden Gas Company was referred to as "the most disgraceful act" in the history of the Chicago City Council ?
text: Did you know that Hans Herbert Jöris conducted the world premiere of Giselher Klebe 's one-act opera Das Rendezvous , composed for the 125th anniversary of the Staatsoper Hannover ?
text: Did you know that Jean Arp designed the wavy form of the Berger des Nuages sculpture to simulate nature and express opposition to the machines that caused wars?
text: Did you know that investigative journalist Jessica Lussenhop has written articles on corruption in the standardized-testing industry , and the murders and disappearances of Indigenous women ?
text: Did you know that the first earth-return telegraph was set up along the Nuremberg–Fürth railway line in 1838?
text: Did you know that MLS Cup 1997 finalists Colorado Rapids had finished the regular season with a losing record?
text: Did you know that musical theatre actress Kitty Loftus was praised as "a tricky sprite and a fantastic elf"?
text: Did you know that in the song " 12.38 ", Childish Gambino sings about a psilocybin trip while 21 Savage raps about police harassment ?
text: Did you know that Princess María Teresa of Bourbon-Parma was nicknamed the "Red Princess" because of her socialist activism?
text: Did you know that despite winning the First Battle of Newtonia , the Confederate army retreated from Missouri ?
text: Did you know that the tree Barteria fistulosa is associated with Tetraponera aethiops , an aggressive species of ant that lives in its hollow branches and twigs?
text: Did you know that in a 2014 case , the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held that a group of police officers acted reasonably when they fired fifteen shots to end a high-speed car chase ?
text: Did you know that boxer Johnny Owen was so dedicated to his career that he never drank alcohol nor dated?
text: Did you know that Britons are being urged to clap for their carers every Thursday evening during the country's COVID-19 pandemic ?
text: Did you know that Indian child actress Taruni Sachdev was nicknamed the " Rasna girl"?
text: Did you know that most of the tallest buildings in Myanmar are located in Yangon , where skyscrapers are not allowed?
text: Did you know that when the New York City Board of Aldermen voted to end Tammany Hall 's 38 years of control over the board, politician Augustus Pierce collapsed and died from shock in the chamber?
text: Did you know that three Japanese emperors were imprisoned at Kongō-ji ?
text: Did you know that The Walt Disney Company once planned to build a large retail development on the site of what is now Burbank Town Center in California?
text: Did you know that the peaks of the MacGillycuddy's Reeks , Ireland's highest mountain range, are all on private property?
text: Did you know that a Malaysian sultan gave " The Singing Bishop " a marble statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary as a token of their friendship?
text: Did you know that the banning of Sargon of Akkad from Patreon led to the creation of a new social networking service called Thinkspot ?
text: Did you know that while the termite Pterotermes occidentis inhabits dead blue palo verde in the Sonoran Desert , Marginitermes hubbardi prefers dead saguaro ?
text: Did you know that Ross Perot met his wife on a blind date while a midshipman in Baltimore?
text: Did you know that Horizon , once called "the most automated self-service store in Canada", went defunct less than seven years after it opened?
text: Did you know that the Albanian tribe Gruemiri (literally 'good woman') was possibly named after a distinguished female leader?
text: Did you know that video game developer Be-Rad Entertainment created Serious Sam: Kamikaze Attack! using code repurposed from Lame Castle , its previous release?
text: Did you know that in the final movement of Die Sintflut ( The Flood ), a cantata for eight-part unaccompanied choir by Willy Burkhard , the voices paint Noah's rainbow?
text: Did you know that Steve Wozniak designed Integer BASIC based solely on a copy of 101 BASIC Games and an HP manual?
text: Did you know that Selin Şahin is the first Turkish women's wheelchair basketball player to be transferred to a foreign club?
text: Did you know that Good Faith Collaboration has been described as a pioneering ethnographic study of the culture of Wikipedia?
text: Did you know that the Carthaginian general Gisco was taken prisoner by mutinous soldiers while issuing their pay?
text: Did you know that Miami Spanish-language radio station WLTO was sold in 1972 to a new owner who did not speak Spanish?
text: Did you know that Canberra MRT station was designed with a nautical theme to reflect Singapore's historical role as a British naval base?
text: Did you know that in Minneapolis , a 1,199-pound (544 kg) cherry sits atop a 5,800-pound (2,630 kg) spoon ?
text: Did you know that British-Hawaiian chieftess Maria Beckley Kahea served as lady-in-waiting to two queens, and was appointed keeper of the Royal Mausoleum ?
text: Did you know that a path up the Col de la Loze , the seventh highest mountain pass in France, opened one year ago today and was first used in professional cycling during the 2019 Tour de l'Avenir ?
text: Did you know that according to one theory, Xia Ruifang was killed for his Chinese translations of the Bible ?
text: Did you know that a collective of more than 200 migrants has squatted a chain of buildings in Amsterdam since 2012?
text: Did you know that the Twenty One Pilots song " Level of Concern " frequently references the COVID-19 pandemic ?
text: Did you know that National Hockey League defenceman Sam Girard was able to continue playing ice hockey only after his older brother gave up the sport?
text: Did you know that in the 1993 textbook Quantum Theory , " uncertainty principle " appears only once in the index, and its entry points back to itself?
text: Did you know that the leech Limnatis nilotica can affect humans and livestock, entering hosts through the mouth, nose, or other orifices?
text: Did you know that the Ming dynasty poet Chen Zilong edited a book on agriculture that was the "first compilation of statecraft writing" in China?
text: Did you know that the American-led coalition has partially withdrawn troops from Iraq because of the COVID-19 pandemic in the country ?
text: Did you know that the 2017 romantic thriller You Go to My Head does not use any artificial lighting?
text: Did you know that with her victory at the 2001 Women's World Snooker Championship , Lisa Quick became the first person to win world titles in both pool and snooker ?
text: Did you know that New York City was divided into wards between 1683 and 1938?
text: Did you know that "Spam" played a key part in the design of the urinals on the Royal Navy 's Swiftsure -class submarines ?
text: Did you know that Jeff Butler was sacked as head coach of the South Africa national football team after it was discovered that he had passed off the playing career of another Geoff Butler as his own?
text: Did you know that jue were small bronze vessels used for serving wine in ancestor-worship ceremonies in Bronze Age China ?
text: Did you know that Lewis Grant-Ogilvy had the entire village of Cullen demolished and rebuilt so that he could improve his garden at Cullen House ?
text: Did you know that Jerry Givens served as Virginia's chief executioner for 17 years before becoming a campaigner against the death penalty?
text: Did you know that non-alcoholic fatty liver disease , the most common liver disorder worldwide, is present in approximately 25 percent of the world's population?
text: Did you know that entomologist Frederick Vincent Theobald wrote a five-volume monograph and sixty scientific papers on mosquitoes?
text: Did you know that the 1977 Golden Dragon massacre in San Francisco was the result of a gang feud originating in a dispute over fireworks sales?
text: Did you know that the 1957–1958 influenza pandemic killed at least one million people worldwide?
text: Did you know that the Netflix miniseries Unorthodox was inspired by Deborah Feldman 's memoir Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots ?
text: Did you know that Sampson Mathews was nicknamed the "master driver of cattle" for transporting more than 100 cattle 160 miles (260 km) through the Allegheny Mountains in 19 days for the Battle of Point Pleasant ?
text: Did you know that 48 Wall Street 's cornerstone was laid on Alexander Hamilton 's 171st birthday, and the building opened exactly one year later?
text: Did you know that, although in ruins, the Forty Saints Monastery in Sarandë , Albania, still retains some religious importance for the local Greek Orthodox population ?
text: Did you know that Roderick Jones became general manager of Reuters after Herbert de Reuter killed himself?
text: Did you know that some Taiwanese train tickets are collected because the combination of station names is considered to be auspicious?
text: Did you know that the book Geometric Exercises in Paper Folding was inspired by one of the Froebel gifts for kindergarten children?
text: Did you know that Elzie Odom was the first black postal inspector in Texas, and the first black mayor of Arlington ?
text: Did you know that Ben Lugmore is the second-highest peak on the 15-kilometre (9.3 mi) Mweelrea Horseshoe, which has been described as one of Ireland's "top three" mountain walks?
text: Did you know that the deaths of the leading Muslim commanders in Syria from the plague of Amwas in 639 paved the way for the establishment of the Umayyad Caliphate ?
text: Did you know that " Seht, er lebt " (Look, he lives) is a German Easter hymn by Lothar Zenetti sung to a traditional melody from Israel?
text: Did you know that Julia Azari has shown that U.S. presidents increasingly defend their legitimacy by claiming to have a political mandate ?
text: Did you know that Australian racing driver Mark Webber was given an impromptu podium ceremony for finishing fifth at the 2002 Australian Grand Prix ?
text: Did you know that the history of the Wales national football team includes the first substitution ever used in international football?
text: Did you know that older adherents of the Hindu sect Ramnami Samaj have the word " Ram " tattooed over their entire bodies?
text: Did you know that when three deaths occurred at Elmhurst Hospital Center in 1978 and prompted a homicide investigation, the cause was found to be a shortage of nurses and beds?
text: Did you know that Chinese women's rights activist Shen Zijiu spent some four years as a fugitive?
text: Did you know that Palo Alto station was styled after a streamlined passenger train ?
text: Did you know that a Suara journalist was partially blinded while covering the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests ?
text: Did you know that John Oliver purchased the erotic furry watercolor Stay Up Late for $1,000, plus a $20,000 donation to a food bank ?
text: Did you know that in 1966, Baylor University student John Westbrook was the first African American athlete to play a game in the Southwest Conference of American football?
text: Did you know that until the end of the 19th century, the Palazzolo hill in Rome was for the Romans synonymous with "madhouse"?
text: Did you know that Addison E. Southard attended the coronation of Haile Selassie , served as a witness to the wedding of Lydia Liliuokalani Kawānanakoa , and was captured by the Japanese during World War II?
text: Did you know that Nepali director Nischal Basnet based Loot 's lead character on himself?
text: Did you know that the Holden Block is the best-preserved example of Italianate architecture in Chicago's Near West Side ?
text: Did you know that as executor to the estate of Sir Sidney Herbert , one of Sir George Sidney Herbert 's tasks was to ensure a locked tin box was "destroyed unopened by cremating"?
text: Did you know that of the 41 active Broadway theaters , only 3 are actually on Broadway ?
text: Did you know that Charlton Miner Lewis was a lawyer before becoming an English professor at Yale , and the first judge of the Yale Series of Younger Poets ?
text: Did you know that the scale insect Saissetia coffeae attacks many other plants besides coffee ?
text: Did you know that 70 Pine Street used double-deck elevators due to its narrow plot?
text: Did you know that in 2001, sixteen-year-old Alina Lebedeva struck Prince Charles of the United Kingdom in the face with three red carnations?
text: Did you know that after the Battle of Prairie Grove , the bodies of dead soldiers had to be protected in homemade enclosures to prevent feral hogs from eating them?
text: Did you know that Egypt's Deputy Minister of Culture Mohsen Shaalan was imprisoned for a year in connection with the unsolved theft of Van Gogh's Poppy Flowers ?
text: Did you know that the spinosaurid dinosaur Ichthyovenator had two sails on its back?
text: Did you know that Canadian ice hockey manager Tubby Schmalz reportedly sheltered visiting teams in his hotel during inclement weather?
text: Did you know that the Northern line , which already served the southernmost station on the London Underground , was proposed to be extended southward to North Cheam in 1946?
text: Did you know that Kanuni is Turkey's third drillship ?
text: Did you know that Making a New World , a concept album by Field Music about the after-effects of World War I, originated from a commission by the Imperial War Museum ?
text: Did you know that after not having played Australian rules football competitively since she was 13, Erin Phillips won the inaugural AFL Women's best and fairest award in 2017 in her first season back at age 31?
text: Did you know that angels seen radiating outward on an experimental radar led to the discovery of a curious flocking behavior of starlings ?
text: Did you know that Northern Dancer was the first Canadian-bred horse to win the Kentucky Derby , setting a new track record of two minutes flat?
text: Did you know that a documentary and a board game have been made about the New York City Subway 's 14th Street Tunnel shutdown ?
text: Did you know that Nepali actress Swastima Khadka holds a three-year diploma in architectural engineering ?
text: Did you know that Muhammad and his followers in Medina originally faced Jerusalem as their direction for prayer ?
text: Did you know that UCLA basketball player Natalie Chou said that the use of a slang term for COVID-19 created "unnecessary xenophobia for people who look like me"?
text: Did you know that the construction of Gappo Park in Aomori , Japan, led to the death of its designer in 1885?
text: Did you know that catalog showroom retailer Luria's hired former Cuban diplomats in the 1960s due to their knowledge of china and silverware?
text: Did you know that Lin-Manuel Miranda saw "hip-hop songs rising off the page" when he read Ron Chernow 's book Alexander Hamilton ?
text: Did you know that the design of the Japanese–Italian fusion restaurant Kissa Tanto was inspired by Hotel Okura Tokyo , Italian architect Gio Ponti , and covers designed by John Gall for Haruki Murakami 's novels?
text: Did you know that the 1988 Women's Cricket World Cup Final , held at the 90,000-capacity Melbourne Cricket Ground , had an attendance of 3,326?
text: Did you know that the Valley of the Volcanoes in Peru, with its many lava flows and scoria cones , is of interest both to tourists and scientists?
text: Did you know that Awkwafina is the first woman of Asian descent to win a Golden Globe Award for best actress in a film?
text: Did you know that the secret police of several German-speaking nations exchanged intelligence with each other through the Police Union of German States from 1848 to 1866?
text: Did you know that Earl Dodge held a presidential nominating convention in his home with as few as eight delegates in attendance?
text: Did you know that the Slovak authorities suspended restitution to Holocaust survivors after the Partisan Congress riots , as many partisans were unhappy at returning property to its original Jewish owners?
text: Did you know that American ice hockey coach Lou Vairo introduced European coaching concepts to the United States?
text: Did you know that early drafts of the television drama " CasualtyXHolby " included a vehicle striking an electrical substation to cause a blackout, before a cyberattack was substituted instead?
text: Did you know that at New Albion , the Coast Miwok people honored Sir Francis Drake as if he were being proclaimed king?
text: Did you know that NASA Astronaut Group 7 consisted of seven pilots who transferred to NASA from the U.S. Air Force's Manned Orbiting Laboratory spy-satellite program?
text: Did you know that British police officer Suzette Davenport was responsible for crime in Staffordshire and intelligence in the West Midlands ?
text: Did you know that New York City Subway riders could get their clothes dry cleaned at the Church Avenue station?
text: Did you know that Elie Wiesel 's 1966 non-fiction book The Jews of Silence was based on his journey to the Soviet Union during the High Holidays of 1965 to report on the condition of Soviet Jewry in the post- Stalin era?
text: Did you know that Sabine Lake initially marked the border between French Louisiana and Spanish Texas , then the United States and the Republic of Texas , and now the U.S. states of Louisiana and Texas?
text: Did you know that the Ethiopian army participated in the Korean War ?
text: Did you know that four elevator accidents occurred in 150 Nassau Street in Manhattan within two years of its opening?
text: Did you know that Edwin Arlington Robinson 's 1897 poem " Reuben Bright ", considered good teaching material for English classes, featured a "cow-killer converted" in a realistic, vernacular narrative?
text: Did you know that neuroscientist J. David Jentsch 's car was firebombed by animal-rights activists?
text: Did you know that the first film entirely in American Sign Language was a 1975 vampire movie called Deafula ?
text: Did you know that Charlotte Figi , a child who used cannabidiol to treat seizures caused by Dravet syndrome , had a medical cannabis strain named after her?
text: Did you know that a wall and a statue of Mary that survived the World War II bombing of St. Kolumba in Cologne have been incorporated into a chapel within the Kolumba art museum?
text: Did you know that Judy McClintock and her brother Joel were the first pair of siblings to win Water Ski World Championship titles?
text: Did you know that KILO 's broadcast license allowed the University of North Dakota to get out of the commercial broadcasting business?
text: Did you know that the New South Wales Governor's Body Guard of Light Horse seemed to have been absent when Governor William Bligh was arrested during the Rum Rebellion ?
text: Did you know that Pacific Mall in Ontario , Canada, is the largest indoor Asian shopping mall in North America?
text: Did you know that film director Fred Olen Ray made The Brain Leeches for $298.00?
text: Did you know that Norman K. Brown has worked on every United States Census from 1960 to 2020?
text: Did you know that Carlos Celdran criticized the 2017 redevelopment of Plaza Moriones in old Manila for having "paved over his heart"?
text: Did you know that a 1912 case in a Colorado district court yielded the first legal victory against educational segregation in the United States , although it was quickly forgotten afterwards?
text: Did you know that South African MP Makoti Khawula insists on speaking and being addressed in isiZulu and isiXhosa while in parliament?
text: Did you know that Habsburg-era Austria 's internal security office, the Secret State Police , was established in 1786 with a staff of just three?
text: Did you know that marshland around the Flushing River , considered "all but worthless", was later expanded into a park used for two world's fairs ?
text: Did you know that when a spectator tried to help Australia's first Olympian Edwin Flack after he collapsed during the 1896 marathon event , the athlete punched him to the ground?
text: Did you know that Filipino Americans first settled in Louisiana in the 18th century?
text: Did you know that Dreeg is a card game played with German-suited cards that is described as "a special Franconian form of Sixty-Six "?
text: Did you know that the song of the Madagascan hoopoe differs markedly from that of the African hoopoe ?
text: Did you know that John R. Davis Jr. , the U.S. ambassador to Poland , was known to host leaders of the banned trade union Solidarity at his home?
text: Did you know that Lingua Ignota 's 2019 album Caligula has been described as "a murderous amalgam of opera , metal , and noise "?
text: Did you know that the company that built Six Pillars House also constructed Highpoint I , and the penguin enclosure at London Zoo ?
text: Did you know that eight-year-old Nigerian refugee Tanitoluwa Adewumi won a New York state chess championship while his family was living in a homeless shelter in Manhattan ?
text: Did you know that A. H. M. Jones called his assistant J. R. Martindale 's contributions to the Prosopography a "worthy contender for the thirteenth labour of Hercules "?
text: Did you know that Benno Bikes manufactures an e-bike designed to carry cargo?
text: Did you know that Emilie Widemann Macfarlane was the first president of the women's branch of Hui Aloha ʻĀina , which was formed in opposition to the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom in 1893?
text: Did you know that most branchiobdellids use crayfish as hosts, living on their heads, carapaces , or claws , but in some instances inside their gill cavities?
text: Did you know that the Toronto-based Human Computing Resources was a pioneer in the commercialization of the Unix operating system?
text: Did you know that according to the 2019 documentary Toxic Beauty , thousands of carcinogenic and hormone-disrupting chemicals are used in cosmetic products in the U.S. without adequate government regulation?
text: Did you know that Swiss World War II spy Otto Pünter used crosswords and lemon juice as means of encryption ?
text: Did you know that fan-recorded footage of a live DJ set revealed the existence of 100 Gecs ' song " Ringtone (Remix) " a month prior to its release?
text: Did you know that cloth face masks were routinely used by surgeons before being replaced by modern surgical masks in the 1960s?
text: Did you know that St Augustine's Church, Wrangthorn , raised money for a stained-glass window in 1934, but ended up spending it on a church hall instead?
text: Did you know that A Case of Spring Fever , a film in which springs disappear, was parodied in an episode of The Simpsons ?
text: Did you know that the Vietnam mouse-deer , which had been feared to have gone extinct nearly 30 years ago, was sighted again in 2019?
text: Did you know that Zofia Nehringowa set speed-skating world records in all individual distances?
text: Did you know that Aquarium has a problem with water getting in?
text: Did you know that Florence Boot introduced the sale of books, stationery, and perfume at the pharmacy chain Boots ?
text: Did you know that the writer of the hymn " Angel Voices, Ever Singing " banned it from being published with a tune composed by Arthur Sullivan ?
text: Did you know that after spending World War II in the Philippines, Flora Arca Mata returned to Stockton to become California's first Filipino-American teacher?
text: Did you know that the 1938 deportation of Jews from Slovakia was justified by blaming them for a recent territorial concession to Hungary ?
text: Did you know that while commanding one of the last Confederate units north of the Potomac River during the retreat from Gettysburg , J. Johnston Pettigrew was mortally wounded but refused to be left in Union hands?
text: Did you know that both members of the French musical duo Les Frangines learned to play the guitar by watching online video lessons?
text: Did you know that Hammersmith Town Hall in London, designed by Ernest Berry Webber , was called an "unfortunate building" by architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner ?
text: Did you know that racing driver Justin Wilson entered the 2003 Formula One World Championship through an investment programme listed on the London Stock Exchange ?
text: Did you know that the Romans besieged Lilybaeum for nine years without capturing the Carthaginian city?
text: Did you know that the Prohibition Party considered Horace Greeley for the presidential nomination at its first national convention , but rejected him because he was not supportive enough of women's suffrage ?
text: Did you know that India developed nuclear power when Atal Bihari Vajpayee was prime minister?
text: Did you know that " Democracy Manifest " is a top Australian viral video and meme?
text: Did you know that Richard Curzon inherited Kedleston Hall and a recently created peerage from his Uncle George ?
text: Did you know that in the song " LA Monster ", Kanye West claims that Los Angeles lets Satan run the city's streets?
text: Did you know that Anatoliy Mokrenko , a baritone and future director of the Ukrainian National Opera , performed in a Russian film based on Donizetti 's opera Lucia di Lammermoor ?
text: Did you know that the saint to whom the church of San Filippo Neri in Via Giulia in Rome was originally dedicated was the patron of people with gout ?
text: Did you know that Neil Malhotra found evidence that voters reward incumbents for disaster-relief spending, but not for disaster-preparedness spending?
text: Did you know that Tetraponera penzigi is one of several species of ant that protect whistling thorn trees in East Africa from grazing giraffes and rhinoceroses?
text: Did you know that Hawaiian chieftess Haʻaheo Kaniu converted to Christianity and attended classes taught by American missionaries?
text: Did you know that according to legend, the 6th-century Irish monk Brendan spent days fasting on Mount Brandon before voyaging across the Atlantic to discover Saint Brendan's Island ?
text: Did you know that the Serbian flag was flown from the White House in 1918?
text: Did you know that actress Cecilia Suárez first met director Manolo Caro when he was 14, and would later go on to star in almost all of his films?
text: Did you know that Manchester United opened Manchester City 's former training ground after floodlights were installed?
text: Did you know that having served as acting governor for five Indonesian provinces , Eddy Sabara was known as the "acting governor specialist"?
text: Did you know that to win It's a Crime , a play-by-mail game , players had to first succeed as a gang leader before rising to mob boss level, and achieve victory as "Godfather"?
text: Did you know that the Buddhist disciple Śāriputra made a pact with his friend Maudgalyayana that they would tell each other if one of them found the path to nirvana ?
text: Did you know that the 2013 album Group Therapy by Sivion features 26 guest artists?
text: Did you know that the marriage bed of Henry VII , valued at £20 million, lay dismantled for a while in a hotel car park?
text: Did you know that a finishing gap of 0.002 seconds at the 2003 Carolina Dodge Dealers 400 was the closest finish in NASCAR Cup Series history since the introduction of electronic scoring in 1993 ?
text: Did you know that the modern legacy of South Wales colliery proprietor James Harvey Insole is his Victorian mansion Insole Court at Llandaff , Wales?
text: Did you know that sympathetic accounts of Norway's first Christian kings include descriptions of them committing gruesome torture against pagans, but non-sympathetic accounts do not?
text: Did you know that the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office has used the popularity of 2020 Netflix documentary Tiger King to help investigate the 1997 disappearance of Don Lewis ?
text: Did you know that the video game Xenon 2: Megablast was named after its theme music, " Megablast (Hip Hop on Precinct 13) " by Bomb the Bass ?
text: Did you know that businesswoman Jayne Spain hired one physically handicapped individual in every ten employees she chose?
text: Did you know that after performing at a squatted slaughterhouse in 1976, Leonard Cohen called it the "best place in Vienna"?
text: Did you know that Charli XCX , while under self-isolation due to the coronavirus pandemic, is collaborating with her fans to record her album How I'm Feeling Now ?
text: Did you know that the Rowridge Valley in the Isle of Wight is the only known location for the wood calamint in Britain?
text: Did you know that Chicano labor and civil rights activist Pancho Medrano started out as a boxer?
text: Did you know that the pursuit of new ceramic glaze effects led to some pieces of art pottery still being slightly radioactive today, nearly a century later?
text: Did you know that the 1951 short film A Wonderful Life , starring James Dunn , was an adaptation of Frank Capra 's It's a Wonderful Life for the Christian film industry ?
text: Did you know that Mahatma Gandhi championed the concept of composite nationalism , which led to a massive expansion of the Indian independence movement ?
text: Did you know that Neanderthals went fishing?
text: Did you know that the melt-blowing technology used to create N95 respirators was previously used to produce ready-made ribbon bows and bra cups?
text: Did you know that Mughal emperor Farrukhsiyar said: "The word and seal of Mir Jumla III are the word and seal of Farrukhsiyar"?
text: Did you know that a temporary period of snowfall was added to Red Dead Online to celebrate Christmas in 2019?
text: Did you know that Sallyanne Payton , Stanford Law School 's first African-American graduate, served as an adviser for the Clinton Health Care Reform Task Force ?
text: Did you know that coconut mites can be dispersed by wind, or perhaps by hitching a lift ?
text: Did you know that 15th-century documents from the Notarial Archives of Malta were almost thrown away in 2008?
text: Did you know that Captain Tom , who turns 100 today, has raised more than £32 million for NHS Charities Together by walking laps of his garden?
text: Did you know that Ryan T. Anderson wrote an anti-transgender book that topped the Amazon bestsellers list in the Gay & Lesbian Civil Rights History category?
text: Did you know that Elizabeth I is said to have been told of her accession whilst sitting beneath Queen Elizabeth's Oak at Hatfield Palace ?
text: Did you know that in 1952, the U.S. State Department Panel of Consultants on Disarmament recommended that the first test of the hydrogen bomb not be held?
text: Did you know that Bandana Nepal achieved the Guinness World Record for "longest dance marathon by an individual" by dancing for 126 hours continuously?
text: Did you know that the extinct sumac species Rhus republicensis is named for Republic, Washington ?
text: Did you know that Başakşehir Çam and Sakura City Hospital in Istanbul was the largest seismic base-isolated building in the world at the time of its opening?
text: Did you know that Hollywood stuntwoman Lila Finn , who "jumped out of bombers, [was] chased by lions, clawed by tigers, and thrown overboard into icy ocean waters at night", performed injury-free into her seventies?
text: Did you know that Bobby Diamond turned down the role of second son Robbie on My Three Sons , which ran for twelve seasons, in favor of Westinghouse Playhouse , which lasted only one?
text: Did you know that Storkyrkan , Stockholm 's oldest church, was the first church in Sweden where Mass was celebrated in Swedish?
text: Did you know that the 1st and 4th Missouri Infantry Regiment (Consolidated) lost six colorbearers at the Battle of Champion Hill ?
text: Did you know that a queen of Bohemia died at Leicester House, Westminster , shortly after moving in?
text: Did you know that Nora Ephron was the first writer to use the word " shit " in Esquire , in her 1972 essay " A Few Words About Breasts "?
text: Did you know that Lieutenant-General Sir David Lindsay feared being made a scapegoat for the poor state of defences at Plymouth during the Armada of 1779 ?
text: Did you know that Luigi Gregori used University of Notre Dame founder Edward Sorin as the model for Christopher Columbus 's face in one of his Columbus murals ?
text: Did you know that Handala is considered to portray the Palestinian identity "with astounding clarity"?
text: Did you know that North Carolina Courage teammates Ryan Williams and Cari Roccaro made training videos for other teammates to follow during socially distanced training?
text: Did you know that the 1949 film Prejudice drives its point home by having characters use many ethnic slurs , including "nigger", "wops", "dagoes", "dirty Jew", and "dumb Swede"?
text: Did you know that during a 2015 speech at the Oxford Union , Indian politician Shashi Tharoor claimed that Britain owes reparations to India?
text: Did you know that the former New York City nightclub The Beatrice Inn is now owned by Chopped "Grill Masters" champion Angie Mar ?
text: Did you know that a model featured in the game Cover Girl Strip Poker said that she was not informed what the photoshoot was for, and that several models were not paid for their involvement in the game?
text: Did you know that Rachel Bitecofer , who closely predicted the 2018 U.S. House election results, contends that elections are decided by negative partisanship rather than swing votes ?
text: Did you know that Mark Ibn Kunbar was excommunicated by two Coptic popes and one Monophysite patriarch in the 12th century?
text: Did you know that Jimmy and Sally , a 1933 film written for the popular screen duo of James Dunn and Sally Eilers , ended up creating a new screen duo of Dunn and Claire Trevor ?
text: Did you know that Rangers fans at the 2000 Scottish Cup Final wore orange shirts in tribute to their Dutch manager and players, despite suggestions of Protestant undertones?
text: Did you know that the title of Got7 's 2020 EP Dye is a pun referring to both colour and death as they relate to "eternal love"?
text: Did you know that William Carney is the only registered member of the Conservative Party of New York State to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives ?
text: Did you know that the 13th-century St Andrew-in-the-Oxmarket Church in Chichester , which was bombed during the Second World War, is now an arts centre?
text: Did you know that Lewis (first name unknown) pitched in his only Players' League game in 1890 and gave up 20 runs?
text: Did you know that " There is a green hill far away " was described by French composer Charles Gounod as "the most perfect hymn in the English language"?
text: Did you know that Danielle Lessovitz found respite in New York's ball culture after her father's suicide, later setting her first feature film, Port Authority , within it?
text: Did you know that the 1920 blind march led the British government to pass the Blind Persons Act , the first disability-specific legislation anywhere in the world?
text: Did you know that the fire of Landis' Missouri Battery helped clear the way for an infantry charge at the Second Battle of Corinth ?
text: Did you know that rapper Big Zuu 's first demos were recorded at a studio that did not allow expletives to be used?
text: Did you know that Microsoft head Bill Gates giving a keynote address at the Unix Expo was likened to going "into the belly of the beast", and when a demo he was overseeing crashed, the attendees were delighted?
text: Did you know that famous chefs have based their menus on recipes found in Thai funeral books ?
text: Did you know that 16-year-old Tate McRae has been described as "Canada's answer to Billie Eilish "?
text: Did you know that Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East argues that Nazism and Islamism are similar, especially in their extreme antisemitism?
text: Did you know that the Bodie Creek Suspension Bridge was built to carry sheep?
text: Did you know that Lilly Dubowitz , co-developer of the Dubowitz Score , also introduced the use of cranial ultrasound to assess the brains of newborns at Hammersmith Hospital ?
text: Did you know that an 1870s-era windmill threatened with demolition was relocated to Alley Pond Park to be preserved, only to be burned down two years later?
text: Did you know that Jasraj , a Hindustani classical musician , is still teaching music at age 90, including via Skype ?
text: Did you know that you can't take pictures inside The Cock ?
text: Did you know that a mathematics teacher became one of Kashmir's most hunted militants?
text: Did you know that during the 1970 U.S. Senate election in New York , Vice President Spiro Agnew referred to Senator Charles Goodell as the " Christine Jorgensen of the Republican Party"?
text: Did you know that Mexican professional wrestler Chabela Romero had a feud with Irma González that played out across eight years and in three countries?
text: Did you know that the Chilean seaside cinclodes bobs its tail while it walks and flares its wings while it sings?
text: Did you know that the phrase " When the looting starts, the shooting starts " was first used by a Miami police chief who told the press in 1967 that they "don't mind being accused of police brutality "?
text: Did you know that the earliest of the three surviving operas by Claudio Monteverdi , L'Orfeo from 1607, is the oldest extant opera still regularly performed today?
text: Did you know that visitors often find a double entendre in the General Hooker Entrance of the Massachusetts State House ?
text: Did you know that the United States Army employed its first non-Christian chaplain, Rabbi Jacob Frankel , during the American Civil War ?
text: Did you know that Manoj Muntashir originally wrote " Teri Mitti " as a tribute to soldiers, then wrote a reprise as a tribute to healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic in India ?
text: Did you know that in Eve Online , the Battle of Asakai became one of the largest online battles after a single player made an accidental move that escalated the conflict to include more than 3,000 players?
text: Did you know that Canadian soccer player Christabel Oduro is the cousin of Dominic Oduro , who has played for Ghana?
text: Did you know that although the captain of American Airlines Flight 320 was considered one of the most experienced pilots in the world, his crew was blamed for the fatal crash in 1959?
text: Did you know that during the 1985 Gujarat riots , police in Ahmedabad attacked and burned down the offices of a newspaper?
text: Did you know that San Francisco socialite Mary Grace Borel was granted her first divorce in a hearing that lasted less than five minutes, from a Superior Court Judge who was also her aunt's husband?
text: Did you know that more than 1,000 men fought in the 1st Missouri Infantry Regiment , the first unit from the state to officially enter the Confederate States Army ?
text: Did you know that Raymond Kipkoech won the 2011 Jerusalem Marathon despite crossing the wrong finish line?
text: Did you know that the Wells curve , which illustrates what happens to respiratory droplets once they are exhaled, helps explain the spread of respiratory infections?
text: Did you know that the 2018 film Hotel Milan is based on "anti-Romeo squads" formed in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh ?
text: Did you know that Héctor Suárez was the first comedian from Latin America to be " roasted " by fellow celebrities?
text: Did you know that after 28 Liberty Street 's private plaza was fenced off during the Occupy Wall Street protests, people sued to reopen the plaza, claiming the barriers violated freedom-of-speech laws?
text: Did you know that Wong Keng Liang was arrested after Malaysian customs officials found nearly one hundred baby boa constrictors , two vipers , and a South American turtle hidden in his suitcase?
text: Did you know that to prevent spoilers, the name of the American reality singing competition The Masked Singer is not listed on contracts with celebrities competing on the show?
text: Did you know that Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad 's call for Israel to be "wiped off the map" has been described as incitement to genocide ?
text: Did you know that Rupert Bunny gained an honourable mention at the Paris Salon of 1890 with his painting Tritons ?
text: Did you know that one of the factors affecting the future of the Huanchaca mouse is the increased cultivation of biofuels ?
text: Did you know that the World Hockey Summit debated the age at which to introduce body checking at the minor ice hockey level, or whether to eliminate it altogether?
text: Did you know that American law professor Harry Bigelow sat on President Harry S. Truman's National Loyalty Review Board during the Second Red Scare ?
text: Did you know that on the Lycian Way , a hiker can experience all four seasons in one day?
text: Did you know that George Brian Sinclair worked on British thermonuclear weapons tests , the Channel Tunnel , and a Korean sewer system?
text: Did you know that for generations, black parents in the United States have felt compelled to instruct their children about how to de-escalate encounters with the police?
text: Did you know that the Central Asian riparian woodlands ecoregion features shrubby vegetation known as tugai , which adapts to the region's extremely hot summers and cold winters?
text: Did you know that former GlaxoSmithKline executive Moncef Slaoui is chief adviser to Operation Warp Speed , which aims to deliver 300 million doses of a vaccine for COVID-19 by January 2021?
text: Did you know that over ground workers act as the "eyes and ears of the underground militants" in Jammu and Kashmir ?
text: Did you know that Günther Massenkeil , editor of an eight-volume music encyclopedia, initiated the restoration of the village organ he had played as a prisoner of war in Alsace decades earlier?
text: Did you know that production of Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story was delayed by a monsoon and the director having a heart attack, then sped up following an extortion attempt by the Chinese mafia ?
text: Did you know that St Mary's Church, Rolleston on Dove , is unusual in having the public entrance on its north side, the southern entrance being reserved for the Mosley family ?
text: Did you know that professional Super Smash Bros. player Samsora performed a runway walk while cosplaying as the character he competes with, Princess Peach , at a tournament in 2019?
text: Did you know that an eruption in the Hakkōda Mountains could create volcanic mudflows that might inundate large sections of the Japanese cities of Aomori and Towada ?
text: Did you know that after Joanna Jordan left her job at the Late Show with David Letterman to start a talent agency , the show became her first client?
text: Did you know that in A World Without Jews , Alon Confino argues that "the messianic struggle to create a Nazi civilization depended on the extermination of the Jews"?
text: Did you know that Northern Irish goalkeeper Alan Mannus refused to face the flag of the Republic of Ireland at the 2019 FAI Cup Final because he is not Irish?
text: Did you know that during a 1977 blackout , crews filming Superman: The Movie at the Daily News Building lent their Klieg lights to Daily News editors so that the next day's issue could be published?
text: Did you know that Megacephalosaurus was one of the last known pliosaurs and coexisted with some of the earliest mosasaurs ?
text: Did you know that when the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba discussed the speed limit, Toby Sexsmith remarked that nobody, with the possible exception of the premier , needed to travel faster than 50 mph (80 km/h)?
text: Did you know that The Cincinnati Enquirer commended makers of the 1950 film Again Pioneers for basically telling the Protestant churches that sponsored the production that they "are not doing their jobs"?
text: Did you know that the Corn Exchange in Chichester has also been used as a cinema and a McDonald's ?
text: Did you know that Niya was the Polish god of the underworld?
text: Did you know that after a 2016 prison break by suspected terrorists , the government of Madhya Pradesh called on the Central Industrial Security Force to review the security of its jails?
text: Did you know that the titular antagonist in the Chinese short story " Hu Dagu " is based on a toilet spirit?
text: Did you know that a reviewer praised child star Jane Withers 's expressiveness in the title role of Paddy O'Day , saying that she "talks with eyes, hands, feet and hair"?
text: Did you know that Munster Technological University , scheduled to open in 2021, will be only the second university of its type in Ireland ?
text: Did you know that excavations for the Steinway Tunnel expanded a reef in the East River into an island ?
text: Did you know that Swedish ballerina Nikisha Fogo 's parents owned the first hip-hop dance school in Sweden?
text: Did you know that a state representative called Boston's Silver Line buses "discrimination against people of color", owing to their poor service compared to the elevated metro line they replaced?
text: Did you know that the election of Giacomo dalla Torre as the grand master of the Order of Malta in 2018 marked the first time that female members participated in the vote for a new leader?
text: Did you know that the Unicode characters ☕, ☔, and ⚡ were originally proposed by North Korea ?
text: Did you know that Sir Hereward Wake, 13th Baronet , preserved the keep of Dover Castle from possible loss to fire by giving it to the Office of Works ?
text: Did you know that Fonner Park in Grand Island, Nebraska , was described as having become "the center of the horse racing world" during the COVID-19 pandemic?
text: Did you know that in Nepal, it is against the law to beg ?
text: Did you know that motorsport champion Ashley Freiberg does cyclo-cross , hiking, rock climbing, and skate skiing in the mountains of Vermont to prepare for auto racing events?
text: Did you know that before the passage of India's anti-defection law , an estimated 550 out of 3,500 legislators elected in 1967 defected from their parent parties, some crossing the floor more than once?
text: Did you know that Layla Saad 's 2020 book Me and White Supremacy originated from an Instagram challenge?
text: Did you know that an American politics podcast has said that "if you sleep on a mattress on the floor and fuck in a sleeping bag, then you just might be the dirtbag left "?
text: Did you know that professional Super Smash Bros. player Maister went from being unranked to being considered the sixth-best Super Smash Bros. Ultimate player in only six months?
text: Did you know that Barracuda is home to the longest-running bar show in New York City, which may have inspired RuPaul's Drag Race ?
text: Did you know that Jem Bendell 's paper Deep Adaptation argues that neither a complete halt in emissions nor geoengineering can prevent what he sees as an impending climate apocalypse ?
text: Did you know that Brad Ashford described the film Forrest Gump as "a travelogue of my early life"?
text: Did you know that the Space Shuttle used autogenous pressurization to keep its external fuel tank pressurized after engine ignition?
text: Did you know that Polish philosopher Bronisław Bandrowski was trapped in the Tatra Mountains for days, but had already hurled himself into an abyss when rescuers arrived?
text: Did you know that NATO has its own anthem ?
text: Did you know that St Anselm's Church, Pembury , a Catholic church for former Anglicans, once used an altar on wheels?
text: Did you know that North Texas was invited to play in the 2016 Heart of Dallas Bowl despite having a losing record?
text: Did you know that Monita Rajpal , whose first job out of college was as a receptionist , has interviewed Mikhail Gorbachev , Vicente Fox , Al Gore , Tom Ford , and I. M. Pei ?
text: Did you know that the male giant glass frog has a hooked spur on his upper arm which is used when fighting rivals?
text: Did you know that the 1980s American manufacturer Parallel Computers, Inc. , was part of a wave of new companies trying to make fault-tolerant systems?
text: Did you know that Abu Said Faraj instigated Ceuta to declare independence from the Marinid Sultanate in 1304, only to conquer the city for Granada two years later?
text: Did you know that future government minister Alistair Burt attended the A Question of Europe debate wearing a beret, a striped shirt, and a string of onions?
text: Did you know that a group of escaped German prisoners established a short-lived Nazi state in the Dutch East Indies ?
text: Did you know that in the 1980s, textile conservator Martand Singh organized a series of exhibitions to rekindle interest in the weaving and dyeing traditions of India?
text: Did you know that the Laguna Creek watershed debouches into the San Francisco Bay near the site of the ghost town of Drawbridge ?
text: Did you know that the board of directors of Canadian cooperative television station CFVO-TV refused to accept the resignation of its president so that he could negotiate a loan?
text: Did you know that the abduction of the Georgian demoness Samdzimari and her subsequent conversion to goddess may have been derived from the Christian story of Saint George and the Dragon ?
text: Did you know that the composition of the 1st Wyoming Territorial Legislature was entirely Democratic ?
text: Did you know that the Soviet Union women's national rugby union team bartered smuggled vodka and caviar to cover their living expenses at the 1991 Women's Rugby World Cup?
text: Did you know that a member of the U.S. Congress referred to the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act as "one of the worst pieces of legislation Congress has passed in a generation"?
text: Did you know that Gérard de Nerval thought his poems from the cycle The Chimeras would "lose their charm" if they were explained?
text: Did you know that the All India Conference of Indian Christians was opposed to the partition of India ?
text: Did you know that in the early years of Montana radio station KGHL , some musical groups had to perform on the roof of the studio building?
text: Did you know that coal from Turkey fuelled the first submarine in history to fire a torpedo while submerged?
text: Did you know that the Film Development Board of Nepal refused to issue a production license to Gaja Baja because the title alluded to marijuana?
text: Did you know that a former school band teacher became the Archbishop of Winnipeg ?
text: Did you know that Joseph M. Carey lost reelection to the United States Senate with zero votes to Francis E. Warren due to his opposition to the free silver movement?
text: Did you know that Road Rash II is reportedly "the first game in which you could actually beat, and get beaten by, a cop"?
text: Did you know that the drama The Undivine Comedy has been recognized as one of the most significant works of literature of the Polish Romantic period ?
text: Did you know that Swedish composer Harald Fryklöf , "who had hardly ever known a day's illness in his life", died from the Spanish flu at the age of 36?
text: Did you know that the Keweenaw Brewing Company 's most popular beer gets its "widow maker" nickname from a dangerous drill once used to mine copper?
text: Did you know that both the white-bellied woolly mouse opossum and the Fernando Po swift are named after the British architectural historian and philanthropist Constance Sladen ?
text: Did you know that the East York Lyndhursts ' loss to the Russians in ice hockey was "a national calamity, a national humiliation, and a mortifying experience"?
text: Did you know that Ján Vojtaššák , deputy chairman of the Slovak parliament when it approved the deportation of Jews from Slovakia, is being considered for beatification ?
text: Did you know that The Little Players performed invitation-only puppet shows out of a New York City living room for over 25 years?
text: Did you know that after the king of Kachar died whilst invading the Pratapgarh Kingdom , his widow Kamala commanded its conquest herself to avenge him?
text: Did you know that the #VivaTaiwan campaign started when a letter to Brazilian parliamentarians from the Chinese embassy in Brasília was leaked online?
text: Did you know that Jitse Groen founded Takeaway.com while still a student, after being unable to get a takeaway delivered to North Holland?
text: Did you know that the 1925 FA Cup Final was the first in the competition's history to feature a Welsh team?
text: Did you know that a well-preserved ghost town lies intact at the bottom of an Arizona lake ?
text: Did you know that the former seal of Zion, Illinois , was ruled unconstitutional because it contained the phrase "God reigns"?
text: Did you know that Chelsea F.C. 's loss in the 1988 Football League Second Division play-off Final triggered football hooliganism that injured 45 people?
text: Did you know that Olga Yurievskaya , a daughter of Alexander II of Russia and Princess Catherine Dolgorukova , was legitimated by her parents' morganatic marriage ?
text: Did you know that in a promotional stunt, staff at Cincinnati -area radio station WIZF demanded a 40-percent raise, which turned out to refer to a 40-foot (12 m) increase in the height of the station's antenna?
text: Did you know that while lente insulin is no longer approved for use in humans in the United States, it is still used commonly in cats and dogs with diabetes ?
text: Did you know that Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman developed the plot of their 1936 play Stage Door while cycling side by side?
text: Did you know that a Pony on YouTube creates make-up tutorials for millions of subscribers?
text: Did you know that the hymn " Praise, my soul, the King of heaven ", sung at the wedding of Princess Elizabeth, now Queen Elizabeth II , was written by Henry Francis Lyte , who also wrote the well-known " Abide with Me "?
text: Did you know that Hungarian émigré Frank Varga followed in his father 's footsteps to become a noted sculptor ?
text: Did you know that Singaporean authorities hope that the Mandai Wildlife Bridge will reduce the risk of animals such as Sunda pangolins and leopard cats becoming roadkill ?
text: Did you know that Arlington State College left the Texas A&M University System after 48 years to join the University of Texas System ?
text: Did you know that the annual film festival in Kigali is known as "Hillywood"?
text: Did you know that William Jefferson Hardin was the first black member of the Wyoming House of Representatives ?
text: Did you know that the small frog Cochranella nola has yellow intestines, a green tongue, and dark green bones?
text: Did you know that during the COVID-19 pandemic , United Nations secretary-general António Guterres called for a global domestic violence "ceasefire" ?
text: Did you know that when sports journalist Andy O'Brien discovered John Landy bleeding in the locker room at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games , the runner swore him to secrecy?
text: Did you know that Rob Wiethoff 's work as John Marston in Red Dead Redemption lasted almost two years?
text: Did you know that after logging their 199th win, Hendrick Motorsports had to wait for seven months and sixteen races before they won their 200th NASCAR Cup Series , with Jimmie Johnson at the wheel?
text: Did you know that Casualty struggled to portray the open-air scenes from Episode 1067 as winter because passers-by were wearing summer clothing?
text: Did you know that Susan Benesch , founder of the Dangerous Speech Project, advocates the use of "counterspeech" and humor against hate speech?
text: Did you know that the 2018 Nepali comedy-drama Mr. Virgin was criticised for its title?
text: Did you know that Luis Ocaña won the Orcières-Merlette stage of the 1971 Tour de France , beating the 1970 champion , Eddy Merckx , by more than eight minutes?
text: Did you know that Roland Tan , the most-wanted fugitive in Singapore, remained at large for 50 years until his death in April 2020 in Denmark?
text: Did you know that Massachusetts 's Question 3 was the first U.S. ballot measure to ban the sale of animal products such as eggs and pork from intensively confined animals ?
text: Did you know that the history of nursing's pinning ceremony dates back to the Knights Hospitaller in the 12th century?
text: Did you know that Fumio Tajima published a paper described as among the "founding papers of modern population genetics " the same year he submitted his doctoral dissertation ?
text: Did you know that the text of the hymn " Was mein Gott will, das g'scheh allzeit " was written by Albert, Duke of Prussia , while the tune came from a secular French song?
text: Did you know that when the National City Bank of New York moved to 55 Wall Street in 1908, messengers carried the bank's $500 million holdings across the street in leather satchels?
text: Did you know that Systime Computers , based in Leeds , was once Britain's second largest computer manufacturer?
text: Did you know that in qualifying for the 1987 World Snooker Championship , Jimmy van Rensberg had a suspected heart attack, but returned to win his match?
text: Did you know that Jim Lander graduated from Lander University ?
text: Did you know that the Elected Authorities (Northern Ireland) Act 1989 requires Northern Irish election candidates to sign a declaration that they will not support terrorism in word or deed?
text: Did you know that Homo ergaster may have been the first species of archaic humans to control fire?
text: Did you know that Jane Bell, one of the original occupants of Bell Cottage , was found guilty of concealing a birth and became the first European woman to be incarcerated on Rottnest Island ?
text: Did you know that " Ode to the Mets " is not actually an ode to the Mets , despite being written following a Mets game ?
text: Did you know that Gisele Bündchen thinks that the reason she was audited by the Internal Revenue Service was because of her regular top placing on a Forbes magazine high-earners list?
text: Did you know that a proposed Jewish unit in the Polish Armed Forces in the Soviet Union was described as a "moral victory" for Nazism?
text: Did you know that a song from the Kris Kristofferson album The Silver Tongued Devil and I is referenced in the film Taxi Driver ?
text: Did you know that British educator Thomas Lucas created an embossed shorthand to teach the blind to read by touch around 1830–1832, before the introduction of braille in the UK?
text: Did you know that Siamosaurus , a large bipedal carnivore from the Early Cretaceous of Thailand, is the first crocodilian-like dinosaur named from Asia?
text: Did you know that legislation for a Hong Kong national security law was attempted during both the SARS and COVID-19 epidemics ?
text: Did you know that Irene Triplett , who died in May 2020, was the last recipient of a pension from the American Civil War of 1861–1865?
text: Did you know that H. M. Hook , the first mayor of Cheyenne, Wyoming , drowned while searching for silver mines?
text: Did you know that Singaporean authorities hope that the Mandai Wildlife Bridge will reduce the risk of animals such as Sunda pangolins and leopard cats becoming roadkill ?
text: Did you know that Fannie Flagg set her 2010 comedy-mystery novel I Still Dream About You in Birmingham, Alabama , because she wanted "to write a Valentine to my hometown"?
text: Did you know that Temple Memorial Park , named after Archbishop of Canterbury William Temple , was given to the people of South Shields in recognition of their military contributions at sea in World War II?
text: Did you know that Martin Luther King Jr. used the phrase " justice too long delayed is justice denied " in his Letter from Birmingham Jail ?
text: Did you know that the song " Running ", which was set to represent Cyprus in the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 , was sung by a German-born singer of Greek and American ancestry?
text: Did you know that the Northern Irish historian A. T. Q. Stewart once said that Irish history was "too short, too narrow, upside down and it leans all over to one side"?
text: Did you know that the recording of the Bon Iver song " iMi " took five years and nearly 30 collaborators to complete?
text: Did you know that the University of Cologne awards an annual gender equality prize in honor of Jenny Gusyk , who became the school's first female and first foreign student when it was re-established in 1919?
text: Did you know that fever hospitals , for infectious patients, were once the most common type of hospital in England and Wales?
text: Did you know that a room in the Nebuta Museum in Aomori , Japan, is darkened so the floats on display can be illuminated as they are during the city's annual summer festival ?
text: Did you know that missionary and author Lucy Goodale Thurston survived a mastectomy without anaesthetic in 1855?
text: Did you know that one Labour MP said that the result of the 2016 Sleaford and North Hykeham by-election could foreshadow an "electoral disaster" for the party ?
text: Did you know that Biff Pocoroba endeared himself with Atlanta Braves fans despite the team's poor performance, partly because they liked "the sound of his name"?
text: Did you know that Blackrocks Brewery was created by two unemployed pharmaceutical salesmen?
text: Did you know that in medieval Tutbury , Staffordshire, minstrels chased a bull that, if caught, could be eaten or exchanged for forty pennies?
text: Did you know that William G. King Jr. explored and surveyed islands where downrange stations were subsequently established as part of the Eastern Test Range ?
text: Did you know that the hills of Hárshegy offer commanding views of Budapest ?
text: Did you know that some types of incitement to terrorism are constitutionally protected in the United States?
text: Did you know that Béla Bartók mixed and matched selections from his Eight Hungarian Folksongs in performance?
text: Did you know that President Ulysses S. Grant planned but failed to annex the Dominican Republic from his summer cottage ?
text: Did you know that the railings on Santa Cruz de Tenerife 's Galcerán Bridge were replaced in 1954 to reduce the number of suicides?
text: Did you know that Héctor D. Abruña 's outreach efforts resulted in 15 out of 55 graduates of his Cornell University electrochemistry research group coming from Puerto Rico , like Abruña himself?
text: Did you know that during the Paris Peace Conference , Czechoslovak politicians claimed that their country was tolerant, even as anti-Jewish violence was ongoing?
text: Did you know that the Portland Streetcar 's Loop Service enabled the production of the first U.S.-built streetcars in nearly 60 years?
text: Did you know that there has been a Galleon inn on the same site as the current Spanish Galleon in Greenwich, England, since the 17th century?
text: Did you know that the Taungtha , an unrecognized ethnic group of Myanmar , claim descent from the Pyu during the reign of the legendary King Thamoddarit of Pagan ?
text: Did you know that a June 2015 performance of the 1999 Smash Mouth song " All Star " went awry when audience members began throwing loaves of bread onto the stage?
text: Did you know that the Cyfarthfa Band was conducted by a circus musician and his son?
text: Did you know that New York City's Equitable Building , completed just before the 1916 Zoning Resolution , was described as being "more famous for what it caused than what it is"?
text: Did you know that Ottilie Baader was one of the founders of the first trade union organization for women in Germany?
text: Did you know that after the former church of San Sebastiano in Verona was bombed in 1945, its façade was relocated to San Nicolò all'Arena ?
text: Did you know that the opera The Devil in Love by Alexander Vustin took 15 years to be completed and 30 more years to be premiered, debuting at the centenary of a Moscow theatre ?
text: Did you know that the Church of England expected to distribute a few hundred millennium yews , but ended up sending out 8,000?
text: Did you know that the Hotel Adams , Phoenix 's first luxury hotel, burned to the ground in 1910, leaving the territorial governor homeless?
text: Did you know that more than 3 million people have downloaded the COVID Symptom Study app in the UK and the US?
text: Did you know that mezzo-soprano Grace Hoffman from Cleveland appeared as Brangäne in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde at the Bayreuth Festival in 1957 and 1970?
text: Did you know that defending champion Francisco Bustamante was reportedly distracted by a press photographer at the 2011 WPA World Nine-ball Championship and lost in a knockout round?
text: Did you know that despite suffering from vertigo , actor Bob Barrett performed his own stunt on the hospital rooftop in the Holby City episode " Man Down "?
text: Did you know that the Besser Museum for Northeast Michigan houses the Katherine V , believed to be the last intact wooden fishing tug built to harvest the freshwater fish of the Great Lakes ?
text: Did you know that the Old Church of Siġġiewi was used for agricultural purposes until 2007?
text: Did you know that despite being shortsighted and nearly deaf, Rodger Young saved his platoon from an enemy ambush , for which he was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor ?
text: Did you know that the name "Hashub", mentioned in the Hebrew Bible in the Book of Nehemiah , was found on a piece of pottery contemporary to Nehemiah at the archaeological site of Tel Zeton , Israel?
text: Did you know that a version of Alexander Calder 's hanging mobile Snow Flurry sold for more than $10 million in 2012?
text: Did you know that Cliff Wilson won his first professional snooker title at the age of 57?
text: Did you know that during World War II, the Fremantle Fortress protected the second-most important Allied submarine base in the Pacific Theatre ?
text: Did you know that Ferdinand Zellbell the Younger was the only co-founder of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music who was a professional musician?
text: Did you know that cattle and deer sometimes stand under trees where southern plains gray langurs are feeding in order to consume the edible pieces that the monkeys drop?
text: Did you know that a comedian was jailed for his negative video review of the 2019 Nepali romantic comedy Bir Bikram 2 ?
text: Did you know that the Battle of Mine Creek was one of the largest battles between mounted cavalry during the American Civil War ?
text: Did you know that Roald Dahl became an advocate of vaccination after his eldest daughter died from measles , saying that it was "almost a crime to allow your child to go unimmunized"?
text: Did you know that the New York City Subway's 7 train has been nicknamed the "International Express" due to the ethnic diversity of communities on its route?
text: Did you know that for the centenary of Stravinsky 's birth, Zoltán Peskó conducted three of the composer's stage works— The Flood , Renard , and Mavra —directed by Peter Ustinov at La Scala ?
text: Did you know that the book Do You Remember Kunan Poshpora? has been described as demonstrating the ability of Kashmiri women to tell their own story and resist oppression?
text: Did you know that after lying on the seafloor for nearly 100 years, the schooner Alvin Clark was noted as "the finest preserved historic vessel in the United States"?
text: Did you know that a 2006 German documentary attempted to answer the question " Do communists have better sex? "
text: Did you know that during World War II, Royal Air Force ace Thomas Wallace lost his commission but nonetheless joined the volunteer reserve , where he downed seven enemy aircraft in three weeks?
text: Did you know that the historic Modern Art Foundry operates in what used to be the carriage house of the Steinway Mansion in New York City?
text: Did you know that Lisa Piccirillo solved a half-century-old mathematics problem in less than a week during her free time in graduate school?
text: Did you know that members of the Infrastructure Client Group account for 40 per cent of all spending on infrastructure in the United Kingdom?
text: Did you know that food writer Vir Sanghvi called Indigo "one of the most important establishments in Indian restaurant history"?
text: Did you know that the Alpha Michigan Brewing Company describes its location as the "smallest village in America with a brewery"?
text: Did you know that Irish milliner Philip Treacy said of the controversy surrounding his "pretzel hat" for Princess Beatrice , "I thought I would find myself with my head on a spike outside the Tower of London"?
text: Did you know that although the people involved in the shooting of Ahmaud Arbery were immediately identified by police, arrests were only made 74 days later, after a video of the incident was publicized?
text: Did you know that the Open Ice Summit led to fundamental changes in how Canadian ice hockey players were trained?
text: Did you know that the first mayor of Mountlake Terrace, Washington , lent the city $5 to file its incorporation charter ?
text: Did you know that after an aeroplane hijacking , the Central Industrial Security Force was given the responsibility of securing airports in India?
text: Did you know that following its limited release in 1972, Cisco Pike was not available on home media until 2006?
text: Did you know that Yinka Jegede-Ekpe , the first Nigerian woman to go public with her HIV -positive status, later gave birth to a healthy, HIV-negative baby girl?
text: Did you know that the Equitable Life Building , once described as fireproof, was destroyed by a massive fire?
text: Did you know that 20-year-old Alejandro Cruz won the 1988 Chicago Marathon after being selected as an emergency replacement for Mauricio González ?
text: Did you know that the American merchant ship Herald served in the U.S. Navy against France before becoming a French privateer , was sold to Britain as a slaver , and ended her days as a West Indiaman ?
text: Did you know that the Cranbrook Strict Baptist Chapel was converted from two cottages?
text: Did you know that the documentary Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness includes an appearance by Aleichem 's granddaughter Bel Kaufman , who was 100 years old at the time of filming?
text: Did you know that Nottingham Castle was set on fire during the 1831 reform riots ?
text: Did you know that Ludwig Strecker was both director of the Schott music publishing house, and under a pen name the librettist of two of the most successful German contemporary operas of the 1930s?
text: Did you know that the Medford branch had 21 daily round-trip passenger trains in 1906, but carried just a single carload of fish in 2010?
text: Did you know that the owner of Texas television station KFWT-TV questioned the use of a UNIVAC III computer to assign it a channel?
text: Did you know that Ken Nightingall , an uncredited boom operator on Star Wars , was not mentioned in the citation for his sound team's Academy Award , but was still invited to Buckingham Palace with the winners?
text: Did you know that the railway management building at Ankara Central Station , which served as a residence and headquarters for Mustafa Kemal Atatürk during the Turkish War of Independence , is now a museum?
text: Did you know that Sophia Kianni was the youngest activist at a hunger strike and sit-in at U.S. speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi 's office?
text: Did you know that the Vietnamese pop song " Ghen Cô Vy " was produced to educate people on how to avoid contracting COVID-19 ?
text: Did you know that Pakistani amateur chef and vlogger Mubashir Saddique cooks with farm-fresh ingredients, earthenware pots, and a hand-built earthenware oven?
text: Did you know that Bob Dylan 's line "horseplay and disease is killing me by degrees" in " Where Are You Tonight? (Journey Through Dark Heat) " has been called the sound of a man who has hit the wall?
text: Did you know that J. Hartwell Harrison was the first surgeon to subject a patient to a major operation that was not for their own benefit?
text: Did you know that during the 1990s, some British Army infantry battalions suffered such severe manpower shortages that they had to be reinforced by companies of Gurkhas ?
text: Did you know that production on the first season of The House of Flowers was shut down twice—after an earthquake injured one of the leads, and when a store objected to homosexual content being filmed there?
text: Did you know that the San Antonio Municipal Archives contain the architectural plans for the Alamo ?
text: Did you know that sportswriter Zotique Lespérance was not invited to his own induction ceremony by the Hockey Hall of Fame because they had been misinformed that he had died?
text: Did you know that D'Angelo spent several hours playtesting Red Dead Redemption 2 before being invited to write the song " Unshaken " for its original soundtrack ?
text: Did you know that during the COVID-19 pandemic , Polish police requested criminals to stop all criminal activities until further notice ?
text: Did you know that the grand marble staircase entrance to Sony Hall was restored in 2013, but painted to appear more dilapidated than it truly was?
text: Did you know that Joe Davis , champion from 1927 to 1946 , remains the only undefeated player at the World Snooker Championship ?
text: Did you know that medical supply company Prestige Ameritech offered to manufacture millions of N95 masks in January, but was rebuffed by the U.S. government?
text: Did you know that " Ye Choirs of New Jerusalem " has been described as the "only medieval resurrection hymn still widely sung"?
text: Did you know that the 1964 Elektron satellites, launched in pairs to simultaneously measure the upper and lower Van Allen belts , marked the first time multiple satellites were orbited on a single Soviet rocket?
text: Did you know that Maria Paasche helped Jews and intellectuals escape Nazi Germany by taking them to Prague on her motorcycle?
text: Did you know that American rapper 6ix9ine requested permission from a judge to record the music video for " Gooba " while under house arrest ?
text: Did you know that the 2019 romantic comedy Kabaddi Kabaddi Kabaddi set the record for the highest-grossing opening of a film in Nepal?
text: Did you know that Frédéric Passy was challenged to a duel over the 1901 Nobel Peace Prize ?
text: Did you know that in 1947, Canadian children staged a nationwide candy bar protest against an increase in the price of chocolate bars from five to eight cents?
text: Did you know that Ira L. Hanna , the 36th mayor of Cheyenne, Wyoming , served for only five months before being convicted for bribery?
text: Did you know that cloth face masks are considered source control but they are not considered personal protective equipment ?
text: Did you know that Vonda McIntyre's 1973 short story " Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand ", which won a Nebula Award , was used as the first chapter of her 1978 novel Dreamsnake , which also won a Nebula Award ?
text: Did you know that Hossein Kazempour Ardebili , Iran's former commerce minister and OPEC governor, once worked as a pizza delivery man in the U.S.?
text: Did you know that ant gardens are cultivated by several species of ant, including Crematogaster carinata ?
text: Did you know that Oasis frontman Noel Gallagher discovered a song to release while under lockdown , which his brother called "not worth a wank"?
text: Did you know that Sarah Fisher , the first woman to claim a pole position in American open-wheel racing , began competing at age five?
text: Did you know that the Welsh fiscal deficit was higher than Greece's throughout the Greek government-debt crisis ?
text: Did you know that the Canadian film I've Heard the Mermaids Singing was the second production screened at 1987 film festivals to have a title taken from T. S. Eliot 's poem " The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock "?
text: Did you know that U.S. president Donald Trump dismissed five inspectors general in the space of six weeks?
text: Did you know that in 1914, the Oxford historian L. G. Wickham Legg contributed to Why We Are at War: Great Britain's Case , then joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve ?
text: Did you know that American scholar of genocide Gregory Gordon believes that ordering war crimes or crimes against humanity should be criminalized, even if mass killing has not taken place?
text: Did you know that the opera Doktor Johannes Faust by Hermann Reutter , which was premiered by the Oper Frankfurt in 1936, is based on a puppet play?
text: Did you know that in the 1970s, Disney attempted to build a ski resort and mountain village at Independence Lake , a glacial lake high in California's Sierra Nevada mountains?
text: Did you know that Julie Sauvé has coached Canadian, Brazilian, and Singaporean synchronized-swimming teams?
text: Did you know that McDonald's lost over £20 million in its sale of The Aroma Cafe , the first non-American chain it had acquired to run as a separate brand?
text: Did you know that the veterinarian Janina Oyrzanowska-Poplewska , whose work led to the creation of the first Polish canine distemper vaccine, has been honored as a Righteous Among the Nations ?
text: Did you know that the world's largest building by volume is an airplane factory in Everett, Washington ?
text: Did you know that Pierre Schlumberger ran the family business , was a "visionary" art collector, and hosted guests including Audrey Hepburn , Yves Saint Laurent , Andy Warhol , and Rudolf Nureyev ?
text: Did you know that The Biafra Story by Frederick Forsyth was reportedly one of the earliest eyewitness accounts of the Nigerian Civil War ?
text: Did you know that Tracy R. Norris , the first female commander of the Texas Military Department , has masters degrees from Florida State University, the University of Texas, and the United States Army War College?
text: Did you know that London subsidized the rest of the UK by £38.6 billion in the 2016–17 fiscal year?
text: Did you know that J. Leo Hafen was excommunicated from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for being associated with a religious group practicing wife sacrifice?
text: Did you know that the banteng is the second endangered species to be successfully cloned , and the first clone to survive beyond infancy?
text: Did you know that Peter the Great experienced " a riotous and revelling Christmas " in London in 1697?
text: Did you know that Hong Kong protestors have drawn analogies between Nazi Germany and China?
text: Did you know that Cyrano de Bergerac by Eino Tamberg was the first opera to be broadcast internationally from Estonia?
text: Did you know that American Atheists unsuccessfully sued the city of Austin, Texas , because they believed the city's flag violated the First Amendment ?
text: Did you know that according to Muslim sources, Muhammad IV of Granada was assassinated due to his alliance with Sultan Abu al-Hasan , while Christian sources say it was due to his closeness to King Alfonso XI ?
text: Did you know that My Name Is Han , a 1948 docudrama about Christian missionary work in China, was filmed on location near a war zone?
text: Did you know that Bishnu Majhi is the highest-paid singer in Nepal?
text: Did you know that the installation of a garbage-eating sculpture in Riverfront Park caused an uproar from goat farmers, concerned that it perpetuated the false stereotype that goats eat anything ?
text: Did you know that 414 Tank Battalion , a mixed Dutch-German military unit, has been described as a step towards a European army ?
text: Did you know that Oakland Athletics fans coined the chant "I believe in Stephen Vogt !", inspired by a similar U.S. men's national soccer team chant ?
text: Did you know that Keep was the most downloaded fitness app in China between July and September 2018, with 38.8 million downloads?
text: Did you know that the B46 has been called "the most dangerous bus route" in New York City?
text: Did you know that a monument in Moscow honoring North Vietnamese communist leader Ho Chi Minh has been nicknamed the "flying saucer monument" by locals?
text: Did you know that Julian Wylie , known as the King of Pantomime, "never took to drink, he took to ice-cream"?
text: Did you know that Florida radio station WEBY received three threats to blow it up if it did not stop criticizing the sheriff of Okaloosa County ?
text: Did you know that though formerly a vassal to the Mongol Empire , Eastern Xia was later destroyed by the Mongols because it rebelled against them?
text: Did you know that visual anthropologist David MacDougall won the Grand Prix at the Venice Film Festival for his first film, To Live With Herds , about Uganda's Jie people ?
text: Did you know that many of the animals regarded as pests have co-evolved with humans, adapting to the warm, sheltered conditions that a building provides?
text: Did you know that it took three years to construct a subway line to 86th Street in New York City, and another nine years to extend it by one stop to 95th Street ?
text: Did you know that Jeffrey Herf found that East Germany delivered 750,000 Kalashnikov rifles to countries and militants as part of what he calls " undeclared wars with Israel "?
text: Did you know that doctor Carl K. Becker responded to emergency calls in the Ituri Rainforest until the age of 70?
text: Did you know that after the 1973 Chilean coup d'état , Admiral José Toribio Merino described ousted President Salvador Allende 's GAP security force as "Disney-movie style ... kids playing bandits"?
text: Did you know that journalist James Edwin Baum hunted big game in Africa for the Field Museum of Natural History ?
text: Did you know that Nakano Broadway in Tokyo, founded as a luxury shopping complex in 1966, became a destination for anime and manga fans in the 1980s?
text: Did you know that first overall draft pick Nicolas Roy refused to play in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League unless his rights were traded to a Quebec team?
text: Did you know that the Pulitzer Prize–winning opera The Central Park Five includes a role for Donald Trump ?
text: Did you know that Ipsita Biswas led the team that developed less-lethal plastic bullets for crowd control in Jammu and Kashmir ?
text: Did you know that Black Cap Mountain can be seen from both Bangor, Maine , and the sea?
text: Did you know that TORPEDO, BATMAN, CASANOVA, ATLANTIS, and ISIS are all names of clinical trials ?
text: Did you know that Servaas Theron , a World War II fighter pilot, landed next to a stranded aircraft and siphoned fuel from his plane so that they could both fly away?
text: Did you know that in 2016, Scientific American listed one of Lynden Archer 's discoveries among their top-10 "world changing ideas" for that year?
text: Did you know that Tamil Nadu was the first state in India to use green corridors to expedite organ transplants ?
text: Did you know that between 1857 and the 1930s, a Russian gun captured during the Crimean War was displayed on the Hastings seafront near Pelham Arcade ?
text: Did you know that the Protestant Film Commission was founded partly in response to the sympathetic portrayal of Catholics in Hollywood films of the 1940s, while Protestants were played for laughs?
text: Did you know that the world's longest domestic flight , between Papeete , Tahiti, and Paris, France, a distance of 9,765 miles (15,715 km), came about because of the COVID-19 pandemic ?
text: Did you know that the Lincoln Legion of Lesbians , a lesbian separatist collective in Nebraska , tried to outlaw anti-gay discrimination in 1980?
text: Did you know that four prominent Republicans have endorsed a Democrat for president in 2020?
text: Did you know that despite being a member of the cat family , the jaguarundi has several features in common with mustelids such as otters and weasels?
text: Did you know that American tenor Scot Weir sang Hans Zender 's contemporary version of Schubert's Die Winterreise with chamber orchestra in a performance of the Hamburg Ballet ?
text: Did you know that the Ospedale di San Carlo was the first Italian military hospital in Rome?
text: Did you know that gays and lesbians began using the pink triangle in the 1970s to counter "the vicious, influential myth" of a connection between Nazism and homosexuality ?
text: Did you know that the Cork band Five Go Down to the Sea? are widely credited for the often quirky and deadpan approach of Cork bands that followed in the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s?
text: Did you know that the day before a gas explosion on Staten Island killed 40 people, company officials described residents as "hysterical" for raising concerns about storing gas near residential areas?
text: Did you know that Shannon Hale gave her publisher the sequel novel Princess Academy: Palace of Stone instead of the sci-fi novel she had a contract to write?
text: Did you know that in 1324, Ismail I of Granada likely directed the first use of cannons in the Iberian Peninsula ?
text: Did you know that an extension of the New York City Subway to Broad Street station cost three times the normal price of construction at the time, due to its location in the Financial District ?
text: Did you know that the members of the bands Poppin'Party and Roselia are voice actresses in the BanG Dream! anime series who can play their characters' instruments in live concerts?
text: Did you know that a five-year-old boy, using paper and his mother's cigarette lighter , started a fire that consumed the transmitter of Florida radio station WEAR ?
text: Did you know that the origins of the modern hazmat suit can be traced to the use of PPE during the Manchurian plague of 1910–1911?
text: Did you know that a Court of Minstrels , led by a King of the Minstrels, regulated the trade of travelling musicians in parts of the medieval English Midlands ?
text: Did you know that stolen money was found at Newforge in what was believed to be an IRA plot to frame the Police Service of Northern Ireland?
text: Did you know that several hymns for Pentecost in different languages are based on the 9th-century " Veni Creator Spiritus " ("Come, Creator Spirit")?
text: Did you know that the City of Phoenix printed ballots on municipal water bills during a citywide vote for a logo for its new flag ?
text: Did you know that during the COVID-19 pandemic, Camille Combal hosted episodes of Qui veut gagner des millions ? – the French version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? – from his living room?
text: Did you know that on the day she began filming her first starring role in Ginger , nine-year-old Jane Withers received congratulatory bouquets from W. C. Fields and President Franklin D. Roosevelt ?
text: Did you know that Lim Ban Lim , Singapore's most wanted fugitive, stole at least $2.5 million in his career but was found with only $1.40 on him when he was killed by police?
text: Did you know that the City of Seattle was built in Philadelphia ?
text: Did you know that in response to the Hong Kong government refusing to close its border with mainland China to contain COVID-19 , Winnie Yu organized a labour strike among hospital workers in February 2020?
text: Did you know that the English and French translations of Kenjirō Tokutomi 's The Cuckoo all omit a key aspect of its most famous line?
text: Did you know that Sandra Perron , whom other Canadian Armed Forces officers viewed as a threat, was once interrogated and left in the snow for two hours without boots as part of a training exercise?
text: Did you know that archaeological finds at Danamandıra village in Istanbul Province , Turkey, date its settlement back to the Late Neolithic era?
text: Did you know that the myth of Czechoslovakia as "a welcoming and tolerant place for Jews" was exploited by Czechoslovak politicians?
text: Did you know that Emma Lamb was part of the Lancashire Women cricket team that in 2017 won both the Women's County Championship and the Counties Twenty20 competition?
text: Did you know that despite being illegal, jueteng is played by one out of every seven Filipinos?
text: Did you know that none of the 17 anchor projects put forward for recovery from the 2011 Christchurch earthquake in New Zealand have been delivered on time?
text: Did you know that Stuart Bergsma , a medical missionary in Ethiopia and India, connected speaking in tongues with emotional stress?
text: Did you know that the 1994 video game Kajko i Kokosz , the first based on the Polish comic book series of the same name , was not playtested , and the initial release had to be recalled and replaced?
text: Did you know that Sarah Chapone compares the legal situation of married women in 18th-century England to slavery in her legal treatise ?
text: Did you know that the J. N. Petit Library in Mumbai is considered to be one of the finest examples of Neo-Gothic architecture in the city?
text: Did you know that the transmitter used to start Nashville radio station WSIX was purchased in exchange for five barrels of oil?
text: Did you know that during the women's marathon at the 1983 World Championships in Athletics , one runner fell out of medal contention when she stopped for a toilet break?
text: Did you know that during the Congo Crisis , American Methodist bishop Newell Snow Booth was threatened at gunpoint by a soldier before being released by an officer who recognized him?
text: Did you know that in 1960, British AI researcher Donald Michie made a noughts-and-crosses-playing algorithm out of matchboxes?
text: Did you know that the English philanthropist Miss James has both a footpath and a footbridge named after her?
text: Did you know that the old church of St Sebastian in Qormi , Malta, was completed in 1890 but was not formally consecrated until 2019?
text: Did you know that Ty Dolla Sign 's song " Ego Death " is a "first-ever of its kind" 9D listening experience?
text: Did you know that Ba Than , a school teacher, wrote the Burmese history textbook used in many Burma high schools from the 1930s to 1950s?
text: Did you know that to demonstrate elevator safety in the Empire Building , eggs and light bulbs were loaded in a cab that was dropped past the third floor at 82 miles per hour (132 km/h), emerging undamaged?
text: Did you know that Iain Macintyre 's group was the first to show that the hormone calcitonin was produced by the thyroid gland?
text: Did you know that FCC chairman Ajit Pai has cited his hometown radio station, KLKC in Parsons, Kansas , in advocating for a revitalization of AM broadcasting ?
text: Did you know that in 1988, an enquiry confirmed Joe Collier and Aggrey Burke 's findings that racial and sexual discrimination operated in the selection of students at London medical schools?
text: Did you know that only three Confederate soldiers were killed at the Battle of Grand Gulf , but one of them was the commander of Fort Wade?
text: Did you know that a poem by Annie Rothwell was read to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Queen's University ?
text: Did you know that Seton Falls Park went from being one of New York City's best parks to one of its worst in the span of two years?
text: Did you know that Nerine Barrett , one of the few black women to have achieved international recognition as a classical pianist , first performed on Radio Jamaica for her third birthday?
text: Did you know that American endocrinologist Jacob Robbins studied the effects of nuclear fallout in Hiroshima , Nagasaki , and Chernobyl on the development of thyroid cancer ?
text: Did you know that City Developments Limited introduced the concept of show houses in 1965, and is believed to be the first company in Asia to do so?
text: Did you know that Troy Nehls , the sheriff of Fort Bend County , is the son of a sheriff and brother of a sheriff?
text: Did you know that after closing his military academy at Chelsea , Lewis Lochée fought for the United Belgian States against the Austrian Netherlands and then wrote a history of the Belgian Revolution ?
text: Did you know that St. James Church in New York City was once occupied by a veterans' organization, an Indonesian church, and a group for Chinese senior citizens?
text: Did you know that Ismail II of Granada deposed his brother to take the throne, but less than a year later he was dethroned and killed by his brother-in-law ?
text: Did you know that Vlambeer pitched the video game Serious Sam: The Random Encounter with a crude sketch, expecting it to be turned down?
text: Did you know that a report that Slayback's Missouri Cavalry Regiment , which was formed in 1864, was armed with lances instead of firearms is likely inaccurate?
text: Did you know that Maisie Williams almost missed her Game of Thrones audition because it coincided with a school field trip to a pig farm?
text: Did you know that El Salvador converted its main convention center into a COVID-19 hospital that, when completed, will have 2,000 beds?
text: Did you know that Canadian journalist Jim Coleman invented the Curse of Muldoon to meet an editing deadline?
text: Did you know that the 1990 Message from Turnberry issued by NATO has been called the "first official recognition of the end of the Cold War"?
text: Did you know that after Dua Lipa wrote her song " Break My Heart ", she noticed similarities to INXS 's " Need You Tonight " and decided to credit the band?
text: Did you know that Xu Chang's rebellion against the Han dynasty attempted to revive the ancient state of Yue , which had ended about 400 years earlier?
text: Did you know that due to its explicit content, a manga series on Shōnen Jump+ cannot be accessed via its iOS app, but is available on its website and Android app?
text: Did you know that Bharatiya Janata Party politician Biyuram Wahge is the first Arunachal Pradesh legislator in history to donate his first salary to his party's fund?
text: Did you know that after a shoving incident involving a 75-year-old man, two Buffalo police officers were suspended and charged with assault?
text: Did you know that the Rheinsberg Music Academy , based at Schloss Rheinsberg , offered master classes by opera singer Waltraud Meier and stage director Harry Kupfer in 2019?
text: Did you know that the bank that owned Wisconsin radio stations WMAD AM and FM hired three new employees in the ten days before shutting the stations down?
text: Did you know that Pippa Wicks , the deputy chief executive officer of the Co-operative Group , has supported the company's initiative to employ people who have escaped modern slavery ?
text: Did you know that Chinese citizens are lawfully required to spy for the state?
text: Did you know that BTS 's Japanese single " Lights " surpassed one million pre-orders in Japan and broke the 24-year-old record of Celine Dion 's 1995 single " To Love You More "?
text: Did you know that Priscilla Johnson McMillan is the only individual who personally knew both President John F. Kennedy and his assassin Lee Harvey Oswald ?
text: Did you know that Lel and Polel are considered divine twins in Slavic mythology ?
text: Did you know that many structures in the Shackelford County Courthouse Historic District were built in the 1880s after Albany, Texas , became the terminus of the now-defunct Texas Central Railroad?
text: Did you know that harpsichords built and restored by Claude Mercier-Ythier were played in thousands of concerts and on hundreds of recordings?
text: Did you know that Walter Lord 's book The Dawn's Early Light was called "the definitive book about the burning of Washington during the War of 1812" by the Los Angeles Times ?
text: Did you know that a peace treaty signed between Venice and the Byzantine Empire in 1277 allowed both parties to fight one another over possession of Negroponte , without violating its terms?
text: Did you know that the 1943 Rolls-Royce strike at the Merlin engine plant in Hillington, Scotland , was the only major strike for equal pay in the United Kingdom during the Second World War?
text: Did you know that critics called for a boycott of transgender filmmaker Rhys Ernst 's film Adam for perceived transphobia ?
text: Did you know that the Doric columns used in Christ Church in Byculla , India, were imported from England?
text: Did you know that Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman co-founded the Sadie Collective , which aims to increase representation of black women in economics and other quantitative fields?
text: Did you know that the sea urchin Goniocidaris umbraculum moves its eggs with its tube feet , assisted by cilia , to an area near its mouth where they can be brooded ?
text: Did you know that more men of the 10th Missouri Infantry Regiment were captured at the Battle of Helena than remained in the regiment two days later?
text: Did you know that the music video for Dua Lipa 's song " Physical " is based on a Venn diagram from 1981?
text: Did you know that the Antonyo Awards —a riff on the Tony Awards —were instituted in 2020 to celebrate excellence in Black theater?
text: Did you know that the musicologist Jeffrey Kurtzman edited Monteverdi's Vespro della Beata Vergine and wrote a "comprehensive" book about its context, music and performance?
text: Did you know that the Russian group Occupy Pedophilia filmed themselves committing more than a hundred anti-gay attacks between 2012 and 2014?
text: Did you know that dancer Alicia Graf Mack completed a history degree in Columbia University while recovering from ankylosing spondylitis ?
text: Did you know that the publication of Malta's first newspaper was discontinued after about ten issues due to a local uprising ?
text: Did you know that a large sign announcing the winner of the Democratic nomination for a New Mexico special election appeared three hours before the meeting to select him had started?
text: Did you know that pedlar Joan Dant died a millionaire?
text: Did you know that snooker player John Pulman obliterated a rival's branding from his own cue ?
text: Did you know that one of the two surviving manuscripts of the Ladakh Chronicles is owned by a monk in Lamayuru Monastery ?
text: Did you know that in 1948 and 1952, nuclear physicist Leslie Shepherd published scientific papers on the use of nuclear technology for interplanetary and interstellar space travel?
text: Did you know that New York City's Rattlesnake Creek was named after the rattlesnakes that once populated the Bronx ?
text: Did you know that Réjane Laberge-Colas was the first woman to serve as a superior court judge in Canada?
text: Did you know that the chief of the Louisville Metro Police Department was fired after the mayor learned that officers' body cameras were off during the shooting of David McAtee ?
text: Did you know that when Elza van den Heever made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera as the bald queen Elisabetta in Donizetti's Maria Stuarda , she had her head shaved?
text: Did you know that the founders of the literary journal Irreantum hoped it would become the source for nationwide publishers to access the best of Mormon literature ?
text: Did you know that a Christian revival at Anna Bliss 's school in Peru, Massachusetts , led to her being selected to establish a new school in South Africa?
text: Did you know that the British Raj restricted access to squash courts in India —then located on military bases—to the upper class of society?
text: Did you know that Portuguese HIV researcher Odette Ferreira flew from Lisbon to Paris with test tubes of blood in her coat to maintain the right temperature for testing at the Pasteur Institute ?
text: Did you know that many law enforcement authorities in the United States can issue civil investigative demands to compel the production of documents before an action has begun?
text: Did you know that Ralph Debbas founded the first Middle Eastern automotive company in 2012, making him the first automotive executive in the Middle East?
text: Did you know that while the management of Wyoming television station KFNB claimed transmitter trouble as the reason for going off the air, a former reporter announced that all staff had been laid off?
text: Did you know that Harold Clyde Bingham trailed a troop of gorillas for 100 hours in 1929?
text: Did you know that the interior of Manik Bagh , a palace of the maharajah of Indore State , was filled with contemporary designer furniture by Le Corbusier , Eileen Gray , Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann , and others?
text: Did you know that suffragist Olive Stott Gabriel supported James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. 's 1920 Senate campaign, although he opposed extending the vote to women?
text: Did you know that the rapper Akala explains in his book Natives why he was placed in special-needs classes for children who did not speak English, despite reading The Lord of the Rings at the time?
text: Did you know that the 2002 video game Unlimited Saga was one of five games planned for use in a Sony promotional lottery that was cancelled due to tensions between the U.S. and Iraq?
text: Did you know that William L. Borden wrote the letter that set in motion the Oppenheimer security hearing ?
text: Did you know that following decades of repairs due to vandalism and falling headstones in the Children of Israel Cemetery in Winnipeg , Canada, maintenance is now limited to "mowing the grass"?
text: Did you know that in addition to his rabbinical duties at a Winnipeg Orthodox synagogue, Solomon Frank served as Grand Chancellor of the Knights of Pythias ?
text: Did you know that during the Battle of Port Gibson , the 5th Missouri Infantry Regiment (Confederate) was sometimes only 10 feet (3.0 m) away from their opponent?
text: Did you know that Antoinette Waroh was the only female member of the Provisional Representative Body , the parliament of East Indonesia?
text: Did you know that during contract bidding for structural steel for New York City's New Lots Line , all three bids were rejected partly because the chief engineer was banking on steel prices falling?
text: Did you know that Thomas H. Stack was president of Boston College for less than a month before he died?
text: Did you know that in a radical reform of its power grid , Gujarat became the first state in India to separate electricity feeder lines between agricultural and household usage?
text: Did you know that the Isma'ili leader Ibn Hawshab had to surrender his son as hostage to a rival, who returned him after a year with a golden necklace as a gift?
text: Did you know that development of the Republic XP-69 aircraft was canceled due to problems with its liquid-cooled radial engine ?
text: Did you know that the German musicologist Ludwig Finscher was the editor of Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart , an encyclopedia in 28 volumes, placing music in cultural, social, and historical context?
text: Did you know that a Missouri Confederate infantry regiment lost many men on Graveyard Hill ?
text: Did you know that professional Super Smash Bros. player Marss is known for his aggressive, unconventional style that capitalizes on Zero Suit Samus 's superior mobility?
text: Did you know that the soundtrack to the manga and anime series Kids on the Slope features American jazz musicians Art Blakey and Bill Evans ?
text: Did you know that Adesh Kumar Gupta , the current president of the Bharatiya Janata Party 's Delhi unit, was once arrested and imprisoned for a year for his association with the Ram Janmabhoomi Movement ?
text: Did you know that the video for Harry Styles 's single " Adore You " was praised for "elevating a good pop song to something closer to absurdist art"?
text: Did you know that in the 1950s, Slovene transgender lawyer and writer Ljuba Prenner used the introduction: "I am Dr. Ljuba Prenner, neither man nor woman"?
text: Did you know that more than 60 percent of the members of the 2nd and 6th Missouri Infantry Regiment (Consolidated) became casualties at the Battle of Franklin ?
text: Did you know that the sea urchin Abatus cordatus broods its young for nine months in pockets on its upper surface?
text: Did you know that Isaiah McKinnon , an African American, decided to join the Detroit Police Department after he was beaten by racist police officers?
text: Did you know that only Ifugao consented to be part of an autonomous region in the Philippine Cordillera in a 1990 plebiscite ?
text: Did you know that Japanese-American hard rock band Crush 40 created music for a number of Sonic the Hedgehog games?
text: Did you know that the town of Tofino on Vancouver Island was host to a hippie commune called Poole's Land where residents could exchange their labour for accommodation and drugs?
text: Did you know that Nyma Tang sheds light on colourism in the beauty industry through her YouTube series The Darkest Shade ?
text: Did you know that the Ente Nacional de Comunicaciones , the communications and media regulator of Argentina, was created despite a court ruling blocking the act?
text: Did you know that Turkish soldier Abdur Rahman Peshawari was appointed as Turkey's ambassador to Afghanistan in part due to his knowledge of Pashto and Persian ?
text: Did you know that in 1548, the parish of Egginton sold two church bells to fund repairs to the Monks Bridge ?
text: Did you know that Edmund Kurtz 's edition of Bach's cello suites , published in 1983, is recognized as one of his greatest achievements?
text: Did you know that in a new book , Wolf Gruner argues that the collaborationist Czech government played a significant role in the persecution of Jews in Bohemia and Moravia?
text: Did you know that American space rock band Hum released Inlet , their first album in 22 years, as a surprise on June 23?
text: Did you know that lifelong Democrat Stephanie Pollack was appointed by lifelong Republican Charlie Baker to lead the Massachusetts Department of Transportation?
text: Did you know that Charles Rolls 's first car showroom, Lillie Hall , was on the site of a disused skating rink?
text: Did you know that Belgian academic and judge Étienne Cerexhe was a co-founder of the Faculty of Law at the University of Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso ?
text: Did you know that Britney Spears 's song " Mood Ring " was originally written as a collaboration between Spears and the Chainsmokers ?
text: Did you know that Manuel Ellis can be heard in a recording through the Tacoma, Washington, police dispatch radio on March 3, 2020, shouting " I can't breathe !" before his death?
text: Did you know that Moral , part of a loose trilogy of feminist films directed by Marilou Diaz-Abaya , was initially dismissed by critics but is now regarded as one of the best Filipino films ever made?
text: Did you know that Cheech Marin of Cheech & Chong , a collector of Mexican-American art, is helping develop The Cheech , a center for Chicano art in Riverside, California?
text: Did you know that the sea slug Discodoris boholiensis exhibits photokinesis ?
text: Did you know that the administrator Winifred Tumim called the state of management where charity trustees had no knowledge of their legal and professional obligations "mad chair disease"?
text: Did you know that Real Life , Brandon Taylor 's debut novel, is an American campus novel about a gay, black doctoral student in a mostly white PhD program?
text: Did you know that the depiction of Catholicism in Japan in Kids on the Slope , an anime series adapted from a manga by Yuki Kodama , has been compared to The Singing Nun and Sister Act ?
text: Did you know that the author of the hymn " Das Jahr steht auf der Höhe " wrote his reflections of midsummer in 1978 to a 16th-century melody of a love song?
text: Did you know that the statue of Mary Seacole in London honours a woman voted the greatest black Briton ?
text: Did you know that Lauren Boebert encourages her servers to openly carry firearms inside her restaurant in Rifle, Colorado ?
text: Did you know that carnivorous wildlife of North Macedonia as small as the Balkan lynx have been reported to attack not just livestock , but humans too?
text: Did you know that Alexander Gordon clearly demonstrated that childbirth fever was contagious 66 years before Ignaz Semmelweis did?
text: Did you know that Indiana radio station WFCI engaged in a five-year battle to increase its transmitting power, facing opposition from a local TV station ?
text: Did you know that the chief executive officer of the Central Police Canteen was removed from his position for issuing a list of non-indigenous items that were supposed to be banned for sale?
text: Did you know that Zico 's " Any Song " dance challenge went viral on TikTok after several South Korean celebrities including Hwasa , Chungha , and Lee Hyori participated in the trend?
text: Did you know that when originally organized, the 9th Missouri Infantry Regiment contained only eight companies , which violated Confederate regulations?
text: Did you know that Jürgen Holtz played the title role in Brecht's Leben des Galilei with the Berliner Ensemble at age 86, sometimes appearing naked?
text: Did you know that the reef box crab uses its powerful pincers to break open the shells of snails?
text: Did you know that Hetty Spiers , who wrote screenplays for silent films as early as 1917, is included on Columbia University 's list of "Unhistoricized Women Film Pioneers"?
text: Did you know that a LinkedIn license contract compelled UpCounsel , an online marketplace for legal services, to close but it ended up remaining in business?
text: Did you know that Italian prima ballerina Alessandra Ferri originated the lead role in the 2015 ballet Woolf Works at age 52?
text: Did you know that astronomer Mustafa ibn Ali wrote mostly in Ottoman Turkish rather than Arabic, in order to make his field more accessible in the Ottoman Empire?
text: Did you know that the All India Anglo-Indian Association maintains that Anglo-Indians are unique because they are Christians and have historical links to both Europe and India?
text: Did you know that Nathalie Evans lived in a flat with a chimpanzee that was trained to eat at the dinner table and use the flush toilet?
text: Did you know that the flag of the 4th Missouri Infantry Regiment (Confederate) is on display at the Museum of the Confederacy ?
text: Did you know that Adolf Hitler and members of his staff who survived the 20 July plot to assassinate him were treated in the former Carlshof Institutions ?
text: Did you know that Albanese Candy makes gummy confectioneries in the shape of worms, snakes, butterflies, khaki-colored soldiers, and jet fighter aircraft?
text: Did you know that the choir of Reigate St Mary's School in England sang in the film Angels & Demons and was featured on the soundtrack of Tim Burton 's Alice in Wonderland ?
text: Did you know that Gabriella Morreale de Escobar established a national newborn-screening program for congenital hypothyroidism in Spain?
text: Did you know that the Survey of Palestine was the only government department in Mandatory Palestine not headquartered in Jerusalem?
text: Did you know that when he was Archbishop of Buenos Aires , Pope Francis instructed the first director general of television station Canal 21 to position the station "between nude women and the Sunday Mass"?
text: Did you know that the 1994 film Fresh Kill is noted for its influence on hacker subculture , with a 1995 article about the film containing one of the first recorded uses of the term " hacktivism "?
text: Did you know that Venezuelan sociologist Esther Pineda G popularized the term violencia estética ('aesthetic violence') to describe the damaging pressure on women to respond to prevailing ideas of beauty?
text: Did you know that 47 million copies of Dwight D. Eisenhower 's People of Western Europe speech were printed for distribution during World War II?
text: Did you know that American rapper 2 Black 2 Strong is best known for his song "Burn Baby Burn" about the right to burn the flag ?
text: Did you know that for its 2020 tourism campaign , the Government of Nepal proposed building 108 sculptures of the Yeti painted by 108 different artists?
text: Did you know that the 5th-century saint Apollinaris Syncletica might have been wrongly accused of seducing her own sister?
text: Did you know that it was said that Crawfish Spring supplied water to the "entire" Union Army during the Battle of Chickamauga ?
text: Did you know that Bruce Lewandowski , the incoming auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Baltimore , worked with the activist group BUILD to create a parish identity card for undocumented immigrants?
text: Did you know that O sacrum convivium! is one of the best-known works by Olivier Messiaen , but he declared that it was not representative of his compositional style?
text: Did you know that Nature's Fynd , producer of microbe-based meat substitutes, is working with NASA to develop a bioreactor for use in space travel?
text: Did you know that Mark Ormrod was the first UK soldier to survive a triple amputation during the War in Afghanistan ?
text: Did you know that How to Be an Antiracist topped The New York Times Best Seller List in the Hardcover Nonfiction category after a surge in sales following the killing of George Floyd ?
text: Did you know that "Oye Mujer", a song certified 14× Multi-Platinum (Latin) in the US, was composed by Mexican musician Raymix while he was participating in a NASA educative internship?
text: Did you know that a same-sex kiss, broadcast in January 2020, between the Casualty characters Marty Kirkby and Jack Ward received 111 complaints?
text: Did you know that after the American Civil War, Reconstruction-era laws enabled black suffrage , but in practice African Americans still faced obstacles to voting?
text: Did you know that Souleymane Mboup and his team discovered HIV-2 in Senegal in 1985?
text: Did you know that the film Chasing 3000 was meant to premiere at the 2006 Major League Baseball All-Star Game , but was held back since the filmmakers wanted a better chance to secure a distribution deal?
text: Did you know that as the pianist for the ensemble Gruppe Neue Musik Hanns Eisler , Gerhard Erber was among the first East German musicians to tour beyond the Iron Curtain ?
text: Did you know that the " bad apples " metaphor has changed from a warning not to interact with corrupt individuals to a claim that bad apples are not representative of an entire group?
text: Did you know that the base of 712 Fifth Avenue contains the historic Coty Building , which has the only documented architectural work by René Lalique in the United States?
text: Did you know that Emily Sheffield , the new editor of London's Evening Standard , left British Vogue as part of what was called a "posh girl exodus"?
text: Did you know that in the tell-all book Too Much and Never Enough , Donald Trump 's niece Mary L. Trump alleges that he mistreated his father Fred Trump after Fred developed Alzheimer's disease ?
text: Did you know that Joseph Ngolepus finished third at the 2003 London Marathon , one second behind the winner, in the closest London Marathon finish in history?
text: Did you know that Operation Gideon , an attempt to infiltrate Venezuela by sea and remove Nicolás Maduro from office, was stopped before it got further than the beach?
text: Did you know that technology executive Scott A. McGregor was the lead developer of Windows 1.0 ?
text: Did you know that in a January 1939 speech , Hitler predicted "the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe"?
text: Did you know that Brooklyn -based activist group El Grito de Sunset Park frequently photographs the police ?
text: Did you know that Priyanka Chopra planned her wedding to Nick Jonas in between filming scenes for The Sky Is Pink ?
text: Did you know that when Antje Weithaas played Max Bruch 's Violin Concerto , a reviewer from The Guardian wrote that she reminded her, "with quiet and compelling eloquence, why it's a masterpiece"?
text: Did you know that the Federal Communications Commission disapproved of a potential buyer's plans for North Carolina television station WANC-TV , finding them a wasteful use of spectrum?
text: Did you know that to avoid prosecution, managers of illegal opioid prescription centers known as " pill mills " tend to run their facilities like pop-up stores ?
text: Did you know that Jan Otrębski , who knew nothing of the Lithuanian language until his adulthood, is honored in Lithuania for his studies of the language?
text: Did you know that the frog Corythomantis greeningi retreats into a hole, blocks the entrance with its spiny head, and injects venom into anything that tries to dislodge it?
text: Did you know that Angèle Dola Akofa Aguigah demonstrated that the earthworks at Notsé in Togo were used to define separate social spaces, not for defence?
text: Did you know that one of the 11 museums and art installations maintained by the Dia Art Foundation is a room in New York City filled with 250 cubic yards (190 m 3 ) of soil?
text: Did you know that Circassian settlers in Jordan founded modern Amman in 1878?
text: Did you know that the quality of Bruce Edwards 's repartee with his co-star in the 1947 film serial The Black Widow has been compared to the verbal sparring of Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell in His Girl Friday ?
text: Did you know that Pita Limjaroenrat , the current leader of Thailand's Move Forward Party , was the first Thai student to receive an international student scholarship from Harvard University ?
text: Did you know that at only 54 mi (87 km) long, the Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail commemorating the Voting Rights March of 1965 is the shortest National Historic Trail in America?
text: Did you know that Seu'ula Johansson-Fua is the keeper of the Kukū Kaunaka Collection, an archive of doctoral and masters dissertations written by Tongan scholars based at universities around the world?
text: Did you know that the video for " Angels Ain't Listening " by Basshunter features a mentally unstable man modeled after Joaquin Phoenix 's 2019 portrayal of the Joker ?
text: Did you know that in 2018, hair stylist Johann Peries became the first Sri Lankan man to summit Mount Everest ?
text: Did you know that sculptor Antonio Berti designed the bronze casket used to house the wooden coffin of Pope Pius XI ?
text: Did you know that the picture book Orca's Song has received both praise for its depiction of a lesbian relationship and criticism for how it adapted a First Nations story?
text: Did you know that Leila Hassan edited the journal Race Today and was a member of the British Black Panthers and the Black Unity and Freedom Party ?
text: Did you know that South Dakota TV station KRSD-TV 's signal was so poor that it sparked an "uprising" of calls and cancellations from cable viewers?
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 a bail fund was started by the American Civil Liberties Union in 1920 to release people arrested for sedition ?
text: Did you know that the one hundred squatters at the Oval Mansions in London could watch Test cricket for free from the roof?
text: Did you know that Ethel McGhee Davis , an alumna of Spelman College , later served as the school's first African-American dean and was a member of its board of trustees for 24 years?
text: Did you know that in the 1970s, Indian retailer Anokhi , which produces hand-printed garments, helped revive traditional Rajasthani woodblock printing ?
text: Did you know that the Jonas Brothers wrote and recorded the song " Only Human " mostly via FaceTime ?
text: Did you know that in 1918, a Jewish couple was married in a cemetery in Winnipeg with 1,000 people in attendance?
text: Did you know that a song by Belarusian rock band Molchat Doma reached number two on the Spotify Viral 50 chart after it was frequently used as background music on video sharing platform TikTok ?
text: Did you know that the Helmsley Building and the Manhattan Municipal Building both have "basements" above ground, since both are located above underground tracks?
text: Did you know that money Spain provided to the Hong Kong Junta as part of a peace deal was used to buy weapons to fight Spain ?
text: Did you know that Fred Sargeant was one of the gay rights activists who proposed the first Christopher Street Liberation Day—now the NYC Pride March —to commemorate the Stonewall riots ?
text: Did you know that according to one Korean creation narrative , there was a time when noodles grew on shrubs and rice cakes grew on leaves?
text: Did you know that when one president of the General Union of Public Sector and Transport Workers tried to negotiate with the Nazi government, the other planned to resign in protest?
text: Did you know that the Emilio López Zamora dam in Ensenada, Baja California , almost overflowed on March 4, 1978?
text: Did you know that among the 444 songs in the hymnal Cantate! , published by the pedagogue Heinrich Bone in 1847, was his " Komm, Schöpfer Geist, kehr bei uns ein " ("Come, Holy Spirit, visit us")?
text: Did you know that to bypass censorship in Poland , some authors turned to self-censorship, Aesopian language , and the Polish underground press ?
text: Did you know that at the 2005 World Snooker Championship , a player turned up without his cue stick and with a hangover?
text: Did you know that author and performance artist Junauda Petrus originally wanted to be an astronaut, but is now a "pleasure activist"?
text: Did you know that the Canadian Hockey Association threatened to seize the assets of the St. Thomas Barons after they abandoned the east–west national final?
text: Did you know that although it depicts an indigenous goddess, the statue María Lionza is deliberately located in the middle of a highway?
text: Did you know that John Whitworth , a singing lay vicar at Westminster Abbey for 22 years, was praised for his "voice of great beauty, rich in the lower register, trumpet-toned in the upper"?
text: Did you know that the title of the 2020 Nepali comedy–drama film Senti Virus was changed from Anti Virus on the advice of an astrologer ?
text: Did you know that an 18th-century court case may support altered ways of signing and witnessing English wills during the COVID-19 pandemic ?
text: Did you know that U.S. admiral Edward Joseph O'Donnell passed responsibility for Guantanamo Bay Naval Base to its new commander on a golf course?
text: Did you know that Ōyama Sutematsu was eleven years old when she was sent with the Iwakura Mission to receive an American education on behalf of Japan?
text: Did you know that the district attorney of Fulton County, Georgia , sued the U.S. Department of Justice after it refused to cooperate with his investigation of the shooting of Jamarion Robinson ?
text: Did you know that " Island Home " is the anthem of Jersey , but has been disliked and sometimes substituted with a song that mentions France?
text: Did you know that in order to write his novel Mr. Monster , Dan Wells researched the offender profiling and embalming processes?
text: Did you know that brewer Claude Watney was one of several Old Etonians involved in the motor trade in Edwardian London?
text: Did you know that the chancery of the Philippine embassy in Buenos Aires was previously a house, a hotel, and a retirement home?
text: Did you know that Bruce Jay Friedman described his first marriage as having "crumbled like an old graham cracker"?
text: Did you know that Kessler R. Cannon , who later became an Oregon state representative, interviewed Oregon pioneers for his popular 15 Minute Histories radio program broadcast on KBND in the 1950s?
text: Did you know that the card game of Husarln ("Hussar") is dominated by the distribution of tarot cards, giving it "that brisk and energetic feel" which is reflected in its name?
text: Did you know that A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip , the new album by rock group Sparks , contains lyrics that appear to foreshadow COVID-19 , even though it was recorded before the onset of the pandemic?
text: Did you know that a report by Chinese journalist Chen Jieren on university students turning to prostitution to pay for their tuition fees sparked a major debate about prostitution in China ?
text: Did you know that a life-size cast-iron rhinoceros sculpture was created for the 1878 Exposition Universelle in Paris?
text: Did you know that in a survey, a Pakistani stated that a visit to one of the American Spaces under increased security conditions was "like going to jail or getting into Fort Knox"?
text: Did you know that Charles Kingston O'Mahony 's selection of murderers in his 1927 book Enemies of Society includes five doctors?
text: Did you know that Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin claimed that he had prevented another Holocaust by bombing an Iraqi nuclear reactor ?
text: Did you know that the languorous voice of television character Paulina de la Mora is seen as a socioeconomic commentary on the Mexican stereotype of high-class young women ?
text: Did you know that the musicologist Ulrike Liedtke , who founded and directed the Rheinsberg Music Academy , became president of the Brandenburg state parliament in 2019?
text: Did you know that the Guinness World Record for the amateur sport of cherry pit spitting is 28.51 metres (93 ft 6.5 in)?
text: Did you know that neuroscientist Michela Gallagher 's research group showed that the epilepsy drug levetiracetam is a candidate to reduce mild cognitive impairment in patients with Alzheimer's disease?
text: Did you know that the 1997 historical drama Balidaan ( Sacrifice ) was banned in 2005 by King Gyanendra 's government for its portrayal of Nepal's communist movement ?
text: Did you know that the first state superintendent of schools for Georgia was a one-armed former dentist ?
text: Did you know that in Algeria potatoes are grown in sand in the Sahara desert?
text: Did you know that the Jimi Hendrix guitar solo which Beautiful People sampled for their 1993 single " Rilly Groovy " had to be cut into about forty pieces and rearranged to fit the beat?
text: Did you know that Ba Than founded what became Japanese Burma 's main public hospital after the Imperial Japanese Army reserved Rangoon General Hospital for its exclusive use?
text: Did you know that business leaders tried to ban the Depression anthem " Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? " for being "a dangerous attack on the American economic system"?
text: Did you know that the female Andes marsupial frog carries her developing young in a pouch on her back?
text: Did you know that professional Super Smash Bros. player Dabuz once requested a pause mid-game to consult his notes using a laptop he brought on stage?
text: Did you know that a courier was once robbed of nearly £300 million in the City of London ?
text: Did you know that the Chinese policy of Five Fingers of Tibet considers Tibet to be China's right-hand palm, with five fingers— Ladakh , Nepal , Sikkim , Bhutan , and Arunachal Pradesh —that must be "liberated"?
text: Did you know that amid the George Floyd protests , New York City implemented its first nighttime curfew since the Harlem riot of 1943 ?
text: Did you know that most Nepali families disapprove of inter-caste marriage because they are afraid of becoming social outcasts ?
text: Did you know that Seraph Young Ford was the first American woman to cast a vote under a women's equal-suffrage law?
text: Did you know that army ambulances were deployed during the 1989–90 British ambulance strike ?
text: Did you know that Stanley Matthews vowed to never work in management again after one year as Port Vale F.C. manager ?
text: Did you know that the Stanford Fleet Street Singers perform a medley of songs called the "Greatest Hits of the 1590s"?
text: Did you know that Connie Carberg , the NFL 's first female scout, made mock drafts as a hobby while growing up?
text: Did you know that negotiations to end the 1942 Betteshanger miners' strike took place at Maidstone Prison , as three of the union officials had been imprisoned there?
text: Did you know that " Meine engen Grenzen " ("My narrow limits"), a new hymn with text by Eugen Eckert and a melody by Winfried Heurich , was recorded with a band?
text: Did you know that in a 2013 ranking compiled by the political editors of Verdens Gang , Astrid Gjertsen was rated the ninth-most important woman in Norwegian history?
text: Did you know that the Lekhapaddhati , a guidebook written in Sanskrit , includes specimens of letters and documents intended to be used by administrators during Chaulukya rule in Gujarat , India?
text: Did you know that after Sweden defeated the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth at the Battle of Lemberg , the Polish troops joined Sweden and were stationed in the city they had just lost?
text: Did you know that NASA mechanical engineer Aaron Yazzie has compared the surface of Mars to the landscape near his birthplace in the Navajo Nation ?
text: Did you know that Ed Warren , the 35th and 41st mayor of Cheyenne, Wyoming , was an actor and one of three Cheyenne mayors to have played on Broadway ?
text: Did you know that husband and wife Ralf and Kristin Bochröder both won their 1975 Berlin Marathon races, the only couple to have done so?
text: Did you know that after years of fan lobbying, the director's cut of Zack Snyder 's 2017 film Justice League will be released on HBO Max ?
text: Did you know that Maurício Camuto , the incoming bishop of Caxito in Angola, was the director of a commercial radio station that exposed human rights abuses in the country ?
text: Did you know that one private company, Lexipol , writes the policy manuals for 3,500 law and public service agencies in the U.S.?
text: Did you know that a large, elderly, "decently behaved" Russian brown bear once lived in the Leeds suburb of Headingley ?
text: Did you know that Harris' Missouri Battery was formed in an 1864 reorganization that may not have been authorized?
text: Did you know that the Who set the world record for the loudest concert on their The Who by Numbers Tour ?
text: Did you know that Nepali actor Jayanendra Chand Thakuri starred in more than 100 films?
text: Did you know that program tapes were sent to KUAC , the first public radio station in Alaska , by overnight Pan Am flights from Oregon?
text: Did you know that The Generation: The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Communists of Poland discusses the minority of Polish Jews who became communists and were later "demonized" as part of the Żydokomuna canard?
text: Did you know that Taroc l'Hombre imported bidding from the world's most successful card game, Ombre , a feature that was crucial to the future of Tarot games outside Italy?
text: Did you know that a Spanish woman was arrested for carrying a bag that read " A.C.A.B. " accompanied by the phrase "All Cats Are Beautiful"?
text: Did you know that F. Scott Fitzgerald 's works, such as The Great Gatsby , only gained popularity after his death?
text: Did you know that the Spanish government blocked the sale of a stake in digital television licensee Sociedad Gestora de Televisión Net TV to Viacom ?
text: Did you know that during the topping-out ceremony for 1 Wall Street , while workers hoisted an evergreen tree to its pinnacle, a hot rivet fell onto the street and caused a fire?
text: Did you know that in R v Zora , the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that the offence of breaching bail conditions requires subjective mens rea ?
text: Did you know that Joseph Crews , who organized a militia to mobilize African-American voters in South Carolina , was assassinated by whites in the run-up to the 1876 gubernatorial election ?
text: Did you know that a kidney-transplantation scandal led to a 2011 amendment to the law on organ donation in India ?
text: Did you know that trade union official Roger Poole spent his honeymoon travelling the Americas in a double-decker bus promoting British products, until the bus sank in a river in Peru?
text: Did you know that the 7th-century drama Bhagavadajjukam is the earliest-surviving satirical play in Sanskrit literature ?
text: Did you know that after early professional success as a snooker player, Patsy Fagan developed a psychological block when using the rest and never won another major tournament?
text: Did you know that the British government funded Crossroads , the first Kazakhstani soap opera, to promote the country's transition to a free-market economy after the collapse of the Soviet Union ?
text: Did you know that Leo Pacheco , a member of the Texas House of Representatives , used to drive buses for VIA Metropolitan Transit ?
text: Did you know that the Jamai Palace in Fez was originally the residence of a grand vizier , but was later seized by the state, sold, and converted into a hotel?
text: Did you know that during World War II, Polish-Jewish economist Ludwik Maurycy Landau conducted undercover research into the economic conditions in occupied Poland ?
text: Did you know that the Asian freshwater leech Barbronia weberi has invaded North Carolina ?
text: Did you know that production of mina'i ware , the first pottery to use overglaze enamels , stopped with the Mongol invasion of Persia in 1219?
text: Did you know that in 2016, on the tenth anniversary of its premiere, the Royal Ballet performed Chroma with five dancers from the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater ?
text: Did you know that King Carlos I of Portugal often donated the game shot during his hunts to a soup kitchen founded by Maria Luísa de Sousa Holstein ?
text: Did you know that Nick Begich won reelection to the U.S. House of Representatives despite having gone missing the previous month?
text: Did you know that Friedrich Dörr was a member of the commission for Gotteslob , the first common Catholic hymnal in German, which included several old hymns translated by him into modern language?
text: Did you know that before becoming a presenter of Home School Hub , teacher Clíona Ní Chiosáin played the title role in the Irish-language teen drama Aifric ?
text: Did you know that in 2014, judge William Orrick III upheld the constitutionality of a California law banning the possession and sale of shark fin ?
text: Did you know that at the Battle of Grand Gulf , men of the Confederate 3rd Missouri Infantry Regiment fired into the portholes of Union Navy ships?
text: Did you know that the Football Association has asked England fans to stop singing " No Surrender to the IRA "?
text: Did you know that Rockwell A. Schnabel was nominated as United States Ambassador to the European Union instead of Ambassador to Italy, after Italian-Americans demanded one of their own be in that position?
text: Did you know that after a 2014 Philippine Supreme Court decision , liking or retweeting cyberlibel is no longer a crime?
text: Did you know that bobsleigh pusher Pavle Jovanovic was "one of the most feared brakemen" on the Bobsleigh World Cup circuit?
text: Did you know that Gaoshi Shrine is the first Shinto shrine constructed in Taiwan after World War II?
text: Did you know that the 14-year-old lead actress in the 1931 British Indian film The Last Kiss was brought from a brothel in Dhaka ?
text: Did you know that rights of nature are legally recognized in twelve countries?
text: Did you know that as of June 11, 2020, the Navajo Nation had a larger per-capita rate of infection from COVID-19 than any U.S. state?
text: Did you know that the Thailand-based Diablos outlaw motorcycle club fought the Hells Angels in a gun battle in Australia?
text: Did you know that in 1557, Cardinal Giovanni Ricci sold Palazzo Sacchetti in Rome for 25,000 scudi to his friend Tommaso Marino in a fictitious sale?
text: Did you know that railway sabotage during World War II was one of the most common forms of resistance against German occupation?
text: Did you know that Robert Plunkett resigned as the first president of Georgetown College in 1793 because he preferred a rural life of ministry?
text: Did you know that the "lost manuscript" of The Ickabog was featured on the dress worn by J. K. Rowling at her 50th birthday party?
text: Did you know that to make the ethnographic film series The Doon School Quintet , visual anthropologist David MacDougall was given unprecedented access to film students at an all-boys boarding school in India?
text: Did you know that Frank Sargent was the first person to be president of two national amateur sporting associations in Canada?
text: Did you know that a number of Confederate cannons were captured at the Battle of Big Black River Bridge because battery horses were posted on the wrong side of the river?
text: Did you know that Markham's storm petrel , which nests in Peru and northern Chile, has been described as "one of the least known seabirds in the world"?
text: Did you know that James A. Baker helped to reveal the murder conspiracy against wealthy businessman William Marsh Rice ?
text: Did you know that in 1381, the Monastery of St Lawrence at Buda gained greatly in prestige when it received the body of Paul of Thebes ?
text: Did you know that while researching for his book How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems , Randall Munroe enlisted Serena Williams to knock a drone out of the sky with a tennis ball?
text: Did you know that the Senior Citizens Partylist was sworn in five months after the 18th Congress of the Philippines convened, since its factions could not agree on a nominee?
text: Did you know that U.S. law enforcement used chemical irritants to disperse a peaceful George Floyd protest in Washington, D.C. , shortly before President Donald Trump's photo op at St. John's Church ?
text: Did you know that the Büyük Valide Han , a 17th-century caravanserai in Istanbul, was one of the locations used for a motorcycle chase scene in the 2012 James Bond movie Skyfall ?
text: Did you know that after meeting Pueblo Indians during his World War II service, Burton Benedict switched his focus at Harvard University from ornithology to anthropology ?
text: Did you know that BTS transform into black swans in their music video for " Black Swan "?
text: Did you know that more men died while serving in the 16th Missouri Infantry Regiment than any other Missouri unit of the Confederate States Army ?
text: Did you know that there is a large cock at a junction of Sutton High Street , London?
text: Did you know that neurologist Frank Clifford Rose believed that any alcohol might cause a headache, but that red wine could trigger a migraine ?
text: Did you know that the Star Stations radio group was the subject of the largest denial of license renewals in the history of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission ?
text: Did you know that the Nizari (Assassin) garrison of Gerdkuh resisted the siege of Mongol invaders for 13 more years after the surrender of their leaders?
text: Did you know that the Jonas Brothers ' song " Cool " has several popular culture references in its lyrics, including Post Malone , Game of Thrones , and 1950s actor James Dean ?
text: Did you know that Boneybefore in Northern Ireland contains the ancestral home of the seventh president of the United States, Andrew Jackson ?
text: Did you know that the first expulsion from the National Assembly of Guyana took place in 1991, when MP Isahak Basir threw a glass of water at the speaker in protest against one of his decisions?
text: Did you know that Alan Cumming started a nightclub in his dressing room?
text: Did you know that the Great Northern School District is named for a railroad ?
text: Did you know that as health minister of Indonesia, Johannes Leimena focused on preventive care in rural regions, contrasting with prior colonial policy?
text: Did you know that despite owning it, the city of Athens, Georgia , has to look for a legal loophole to relocate its Confederate monument ?
text: Did you know that Norman Whitten , who played the Mad Hatter in the 1903 film Alice in Wonderland , later married May Clark , who played Alice?
text: Did you know that Gwen Stefani 's song " Hollaback Girl " was the first single ever to sell more digital downloads than CDs?
text: Did you know that the book The Polish Underground and the Jews, 1939–1945 has been praised for bridging widely different views of the Polish resistance found in Jewish and Polish historiographies?
text: Did you know that the hollow trunk of Queen Elizabeth's Oak was used as a prison?
text: Did you know that fans were asked to return their copies of The Lot , a 2013 compilation album by Queen drummer Roger Taylor , due to audio and typographical errors?
text: Did you know that film producer Sue Bruce-Smith was credited with the success of Oscar -winning films including 12 Years a Slave , The Favourite , Room , and Slumdog Millionaire ?
text: Did you know that every employee who remained with Mojang Studios for six months after its acquisition by Microsoft received a bonus of roughly $300,000?
text: Did you know that during the Siege of Vicksburg , the former commander of the 2nd Missouri Infantry Regiment stated that the regiment "died once, and can die again"?
text: Did you know that some of Dungiven Celtic F.C. 's players play association football and Gaelic football concurrently?
text: Did you know that Asa Binns was elected president of the Institution of Civil Engineers , but died before he could take office?
text: Did you know that the Pepsi Number Fever draw in May 1992 was supposed to have just two 1-million- peso winners, but 486,170 people made claims for a winning bottle cap?
text: Did you know that the Newland Oak in Gloucestershire took "200 years to grow, 200 years to exist, and 200 to die"?
text: Did you know that Craig Hall , the first African American in New York City Ballet to dance the title role in Apollo , went on to teach the role to Taylor Stanley , another dancer of color?
text: Did you know that St Luke's burial ground, on the south side of London's Cale Street , once had a 9-foot-high (2.7 m) wall and railings to protect against grave robbers ?
text: Did you know that MkLeo , regarded as the best Super Smash Bros. Ultimate player in the world, won his first tournament at the age of eight?
text: Did you know that a mine was detonated under the position of part of the 6th Missouri Infantry Regiment (Confederate) on July 1, 1863, during the Siege of Vicksburg ?
text: Did you know that Ng On-yee defeated Reanne Evans , the champion for the ten previous years, on her way to win the 2015 World Ladies Snooker Championship ?
text: Did you know that after a show host on Orlando -area radio station WTLN hired a hitman to kill his former lover's husband, the intended victim began a campaign to urge advertisers to boycott the station?
text: Did you know that the first murder trial in Iowa led to the hanging of Patrick O'Connor ?
text: Did you know that the second commander of the 3rd Missouri Light Battery was elected by the men of the battery after the original commander was transferred away from the unit?
text: Did you know that Pakistani model Zara Abid , who made her film debut in the upcoming biopic Chaudhry , died in the crash of PIA Flight 8303 ?
text: Did you know that a pedestrianized block of Pine Street in Seattle was re-opened to vehicles after a citywide ballot measure?
text: Did you know that the Indonesia–Japan Economic Partnership Agreement was Indonesia's first bilateral free trade agreement ?
text: Did you know that Dawn Aponte became the highest-ranked woman in NFL football operations when she was appointed chief administrator in June 2017?
text: Did you know that streetcars on the Ipswich Street line ran on both Boylston Street and Boylston Street ?
text: Did you know that Leon Legge became a professional footballer despite suffering from epilepsy from the age of 16?
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 Rhythm Is It! is a 2004 documentary film about 250 public school students trained by Royston Maldoom to dance Stravinsky's Le Sacre du printemps with the Berlin Philharmonic ?
text: Did you know that Laguna Pueblo educator Susie Rayos Marmon was the inspiration for a character in her grandniece Leslie Marmon Silko 's book Storyteller ?
text: Did you know that Kurier Litewski was the first periodical newspaper of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and retained the Lithuanian state name until 1840, despite the final partition of the Commonwealth in 1795?
text: Did you know that executed arsonist Margaret Clark blamed her deeds on "pride and Sabbath breaking"?
text: Did you know that a mysterious island appeared in France after a 2009 cyclone ?
text: Did you know that Otto Hahn was the sole recipient of the 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry , awarded for the discovery of nuclear fission ?
text: Did you know that during the 1972 concert Four for McGovern , Barbra Streisand pretended, as she had before in Las Vegas shows, to smoke a joint?
text: Did you know that Five Movements, Three Repeats features a modern dancer and three ballet dancers ?
text: Did you know that in 2020, Nicholas Robertson became the youngest player since 1996 to play in an NHL postseason game?
text: Did you know that the world premiere of the Second Violin Sonata by Paul Hindemith was performed in Frankfurt in 1920 by violinist Max Strub and pianist Eduard Zuckmayer ?
text: Did you know that in 5D Chess with Multiverse Time Travel , chess pieces can move between different versions of the board in time, hence creating " parallel timelines "?
text: Did you know that niacin is not only a vitamin, but also the first cholesterol-lowering drug, pre-dating statins by decades?
text: Did you know that 17th-century English writers Martha Moulsworth and Alice Sutcliffe are each known for a single literary work?
text: Did you know that the rosy spindle cowry , a species of sea snail , lives exclusively on gorgonians ?
text: Did you know that to guide the direction of Star Control 3 , Legend Entertainment compiled a "bible" based on the series , and consulted its original creators Fred Ford and Paul Reiche ?
text: Did you know that the Gujarat Communist Party head Dinkar Mehta escaped from jail in 1949 and remained underground until 1951?
text: Did you know that a business-firm party is a political party created and run by one person to further their own interests?
text: Did you know that most of the windows of the Ford Foundation Building in Manhattan could not be cleaned for two years because a New York state board would not allow it?
text: Did you know that in 2018, Guyanese politician Charrandas Persaud voted against his own government coalition in a no-confidence motion , causing the coalition to fall by one vote?
text: Did you know that two Northumbrian kings, Ælla and Osberht , were killed by Vikings in 867 at the Battle of York ?
text: Did you know that American naturalist William Harvey Brown , who went to Africa to collect specimens, ended up fighting in two wars there?
text: Did you know that the lyrics of BTS 's song " DNA " compare love to a mathematical formula and divine providence?
text: Did you know that Chopin's mother was his first music teacher, but his musical ability surpassed hers before he was seven?
text: Did you know that an Iron Age bull statue known as the verraco of the bridge was thrown into the Tormes river in 1834, and stayed there for more than 30 years?
text: Did you know that after passing a literacy examination at the age of 96, Karthyayani Amma said: "I learned so much for no reason. The tests were way too easy for me"?
text: Did you know that India's first metro, the Kolkata Metro , was first proposed in 1919 but became operational only in 1984?
text: Did you know that as a medical missionary, pediatrician Ruth Robertson Berrey helped reduce Nigeria's incidence of leprosy ?
text: Did you know that Henry Seamount was hydrothermally active in the last 4,000 years even though it is 126 million years old?
text: Did you know that the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy , which starts today, was created to allow English domestic women's cricket to be played in spite of the COVID-19 pandemic ?
text: Did you know that some of the men of Ruffner's Missouri Battery were executed by Union forces after being captured at the Battle of Jenkins' Ferry ?
text: Did you know that fossils identified as Pentacentron sternhartae may actually be the fruits of another fossil species ?
text: Did you know that journalist Jacques Beauchamp said that he tried to build the Philadelphia Journal "on happiness, on smiles"?
text: Did you know that with Flight Pattern , Crystal Pite became the first woman to choreograph for the Royal Ballet 's main stage in 18 years?
text: Did you know that 21-year-old university student and pro-democracy activist Jordan Pang defeated an incumbent pro-Beijing politician in the 2019 Hong Kong local elections ?
text: Did you know that the publisher of Redshirt suggested adding a sci-fi theme when the social-media simulation game was initially pitched?
text: Did you know that a hostile review of Uncle Tom's Cabin likened the book to a witch from Horace's Epodes ?
text: Did you know that journalist Francis Rosa traveled with the Boston Bruins and "became one of the family"?
text: Did you know that under India's new education policy , students will be allowed to combine fashion studies with physics, or baking courses with chemistry?
text: Did you know that Cuban exile Orlando Bosch was arrested in 1964 after he was found towing a torpedo through rush-hour traffic?
text: Did you know that in July 2020 the Chinese Consulate-General in Houston , the People's Republic of China's first consulate in the United States, was given just 72 hours to close down?
text: Did you know that Soegondo Djojopoespito was banned from teaching after he joined the Indonesian Nationalist Education organization?
text: Did you know that Deep Purple called their new album Whoosh! because of its onomatopoeic qualities?
text: Did you know that Drew Perkins served as the majority leader, vice president, and president of the Wyoming Senate ?
text: Did you know that Farrah Fawcett 's iconic 1976 red swimsuit poster , regarded as the best-selling poster, is exhibited in the Smithsonian together with the swimsuit?
text: Did you know that the Washington District is entirely in Virginia ?
text: Did you know that Kirkandrews in Dumfries and Galloway used to host an annual fair, dedicated to St Lawrence , that a 17th-century minister complained was full of drink, debauchery, and "great lewdness"?
text: Did you know that the American Surety Building , built at a time when skyscrapers were generally criticized, has been called an "outstandingly fine early skyscraper"?
text: Did you know that Arab cryptologist Ibn 'Adlan wrote about the cryptanalysis of ciphers with no space symbol, three centuries before it was first done in the West by G. B. Porta ?
text: Did you know that in a 1949 war plan , the United States targeted 70 Soviet cities with 133 nuclear weapons, of which eight would be dropped on Moscow and seven on Leningrad?
text: Did you know that two stanzas from the hymn " O Jesu Christe, wahres Licht ", written by Johann Heermann during the Thirty Years' War , were used in Mendelssohn's oratorio Paulus ?
text: Did you know that American historian and author Mary Henderson Eastman promoted both Native American rights and Black slavery?
text: Did you know that although registered nurses in Hong Kong are legally required to undergo only three years of training, bachelor's degrees in nursing are five years in length?
text: Did you know that Kanye West recorded part of a track from Jesus Is King as a Voice Memo on his iPhone?
text: Did you know that Bryan Donkin was a physician to Karl , Jenny , and Eleanor Marx ?
text: Did you know that the title of the romantic comedy film Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven mentions the three places that had the biggest box-office appeal in the 1940s?
text: Did you know that Japan National Route 12 has the longest straight section of highway in Japan?
text: Did you know that Greek-Turkish singer Eftalya Işılay earned her nickname "Efthalia the Mermaid" for singing on a rowboat in the Bosphorus during full-moon nights in summer?
text: Did you know that Bledsoe's Missouri Battery was the only artillery battery of the Confederate States Army present at the Battle of Raymond ?
text: Did you know that the web series Avrodh: The Siege Within meticulously details the planning for India's retaliatory military strike following the 2016 Uri terrorist attacks ?
text: Did you know that Lady Red Couture , known as "the largest live-singing drag queen", stood 7 ft 2 in (2.18 m) in heels?
text: Did you know that American abolitionist Margaret Mercer freed the slaves she inherited from her father, Maryland governor John Francis Mercer , and sent six of them to Liberia?
text: Did you know that while in many countries the government cannot finance its deficit by creating new money, it may still borrow from the central bank , which can?
text: Did you know that Belva Cottier proposed and took part in the first occupation of Alcatraz in 1964 to claim the island for the Sioux ?
text: Did you know that the Żegota Monument in Warsaw was unveiled by Władysław Bartoszewski , the last surviving member of Żegota , an organization dedicated to rescuing Jews during the Holocaust ?
text: Did you know that Julián Podoba 's research on iodine deficiency led to the introduction of iodised salt and the disappearance of cretinism in Slovakia?
text: Did you know that the fossil sumac Rhus boothillensis is named for a public fossil digging site in Republic, Washington ?
text: Did you know that Mandeep Dhillon was offered a role by Ricky Gervais after telling him that she was scared by his character ?
text: Did you know that Franz-Peter Weixler was arrested for sharing uncensored pictures of the Massacre of Kondomari in Crete, the originals of which were later burned in Berlin?
text: Did you know that Christians belonging to the Oriental Orthodox Churches pray at seven fixed prayer times ?
text: Did you know that in 1990, Mantu Ghosh became India's youngest national table tennis champion at age 16?
text: Did you know that cellist Ludwig Hoelscher , who played string quartets at home at age nine, performed world premieres of more than 50 compositions?
text: Did you know that Lieutenant Colonel Min Sein was the first Burmese dean of the Faculty of Medicine of Rangoon University ?
text: Did you know that conte , a literary genre which includes fairy tales and philosophical stories, became merged with the short story in the 1800s?
text: Did you know that Led Zeppelin may have played at the Wheaton Youth Center in Maryland, but no one knows for sure?
text: Did you know that the Indian folktronic duo Hari & Sukhmani combine traditional Punjabi folk music and Sufi poetry with electronic music ?
text: Did you know that despite a law against public statues of Francisco Franco , there is one in Melilla because it depicts him before the Spanish Civil War ?
text: Did you know that radio station WCCT-FM was started by the hotel and business management shop of Cape Cod Regional Technical High School in Massachusetts?
text: Did you know that Jeanne Givens was the first Native American woman elected to the Idaho House of Representatives ?
text: Did you know that Cuban historian Eusebio Leal preferred to identify himself as a " Fidelist " rather than a Marxist ?
text: Did you know that Symbolon , composed by Ellen Taaffe Zwilich , was the first piece of American orchestral music to be premiered in the Soviet Union?
text: Did you know that in the early 20th century near Kirkandrews in Scotland, a herd of twelve cows lived in their own palace ?
text: Did you know that Helen Ballard was a hellebore horticulturist?
text: Did you know that the Cabinet of Folksongs , which contains all the Latvian folksongs collected by Krišjānis Barons , was included in UNESCO's Memory of the World Register ?
text: Did you know that the headmistress of the progressive school St Trinnean's was heartbroken by its satirical parody ?
text: Did you know that the Duke of Tuscany allied with Ali Janbulad , the Kurdish chief and rebel governor of Aleppo , to destroy the Ottoman Empire and establish Ali as "Prince of the Kingdom of Syria"?
text: Did you know that The Delectable Negro describes how Nat Turner 's body was turned into "medicinal" grease?
text: Did you know that Bernard Ładysz , a bass-baritone who performed in world premieres of Krzysztof Penderecki 's music in Hamburg and in Salzburg , was the only Polish singer to appear with Maria Callas ?
text: Did you know that according to the game's best player, you can make more money working at McDonald's than by winning major Super Smash Bros. for Wii U tournaments ?
text: Did you know that Maria Ovsiankina studied the Zeigarnik effect of how people remember unfinished tasks more than completed ones, and described the Ovsiankina effect of how likely they are to resume those tasks?
text: Did you know that an industry observer noted that Perkin-Elmer 's Micralign aligner "literally made the modern [integrated circuit] industry"?
text: Did you know that future Bolivian president Evo Morales was present at the 1988 Villa Tunari Massacre , in which nine to twelve protesting coca growers were killed?
text: Did you know that after Berry Boswell Brooks took his 14-year-old daughter hunting in Kenya in 1947, it was featured in Life magazine?
text: Did you know that a former owner of Atlanta -area radio station WIGO took its name from Isaiah 40 :31?
text: Did you know that, despite a history as a reserve Gaelic football goalkeeper, Paul Callaghan played in association football matches against English clubs Chelsea , Liverpool , and Manchester United ?
text: Did you know that a "pickle train" delivered workers to the Budlong Pickle Company in the early 20th century?
text: Did you know that the upcoming sixth Puerto Rican status referendum will be the first to ask a single yes-or-no question?
text: Did you know that publisher Ken McKenzie promised writers of The Hockey News that "they'll know you all across Canada"?
text: Did you know that in Billie Eilish 's song " Bitches Broken Hearts ", she pretends that she no longer needs or cares about her former lover?
text: Did you know that Nippon Professional Baseball 's Pacific League implemented a playoff system for three seasons that resulted in no playoff series being played?
text: Did you know that when built, the Broad Exchange Building was described as "a town under a single roof"?
text: Did you know that Ghansi created a well so that he could be remembered after his death?
text: Did you know that the magazine Pulp serialized the manga series Voyeur concurrently with a column by a sex worker to provide an alternate perspective on prostitution?
text: Did you know that the multi-talented Aonghus McAnally has been a radio producer, television presenter, guitarist, singer, Irish billiards champion, actor, stand-up comedian, and magician?
text: Did you know that the purchasers of West Virginia radio station WGKV were deemed by the Federal Communications Commission to be "almost wholly ignorant of the field of radio broadcasting"?
text: Did you know that the Eocene leaf species Tetracentron hopkinsii was not confirmed from Washington state until 2018?
text: Did you know that Hawona Sullivan Janzen 's Rondo Family Reunion uses lawn signs with photographs and poetry to commemorate the historically Black Rondo neighborhood torn apart by the construction of I-94 in Minnesota ?
text: Did you know that St. Stephanus in Bork , a Baroque church built in the 1720s, received a large former wayside cross in the 20th century?
text: Did you know that Byzantine general Manuel Kamytzes began a rebellion against his emperor when the latter took advantage of his capture to confiscate his fortune, imprison his family, and refuse to ransom him?
text: Did you know that a large Pepsi-Cola sign faces the United Nations ?
text: Did you know that Gunjan Saxena was the first woman Indian Air Force officer to go to war?
text: Did you know that Exchange Place in New York City still survives largely as it existed in 1660?
text: Did you know that since the German army did not accept female doctors, Käte Frankenthal served in the Austrian army during World War I, and was the only woman in her barracks?
text: Did you know that John Lockwood Kipling worked on the capitals and cornices of Bombay's Neo-Gothic Royal Alfred Sailors' Home, now the Maharashtra Police Headquarters ?
text: Did you know that despite having the widest distribution in the United States, the arid-land subterranean termite causes less structural damage than other members of its genus?
text: Did you know that in the 1570s in Ghent , Hendrik van den Keere pioneered a "narrow, dense and sharp" new style of typeface, later called the Dutch taste ?
text: Did you know that Rheinsberg , a 1912 "picture book for lovers", was promoted by author Kurt Tucholsky and illustrator Kurt Szafranski by offering a free schnaps with each purchase of a copy?
text: Did you know that a 1902 magazine article called Helene Odilon "currently the greatest actress in Germany"?
text: Did you know that in Siddhantasara , Manilal Dwivedi refutes the idea of the Genesis creation narrative as told in the Old Testament?
text: Did you know that a resolution proposed by Bob Dearing calling for CBS not to cancel The Mississippi was unanimously passed by the Mississippi Legislature ?
text: Did you know that Yin May , the first Burmese obstetrician , founded and ran the country's main maternity hospital during the Japanese occupation of Burma ?
text: Did you know that the royal palace complex of Moulay Ismail in Meknes was so extensive that it was nicknamed the "Moroccan Versailles "?
text: Did you know that linguist Esther T. Mookini translated many works of 19th-century native Hawaiians, including the 1838 Anatomia , the only medical textbook written in the Hawaiian language ?
text: Did you know that the Yeoman Warders Club might be the most exclusive pub in the world, with only 37 members?
text: Did you know that in 1983, Fanaura Kingstone became the first woman appointed to the Cabinet of the Cook Islands ?
text: Did you know that the Tayway 73 between Dundee and Arbroath is the only UK bus route outside London to retain conductors ?
text: Did you know that analytical chemist N. Howell Furman was part of a secret team of Princeton scientists – including John Archibald Wheeler – who "disappeared to Shangri-La" to work on the atomic bomb?
text: Did you know that the Society for the History of Technology gave Canadian historian Joy Parr a medal for lifetime achievement in technology history and awarded her book Sensing Changes the Edelstein Prize?
text: Did you know that Elks Lodge 878 , which boasted a peak membership of 6,600, controlled politics in the New York City borough of Queens for many years?
text: Did you know that Andrew Niikondo , acting vice-chancellor of the Namibia University of Science and Technology , completed his secondary school education only at age 30?
text: Did you know that the all-woman announcing staff of Spokane , Washington, radio station KPEG all used the first name Peg on air?
text: Did you know that Saint Blaesilla has been described as the first recorded victim of anorexia nervosa ?
text: Did you know that scientists are studying an underwater sinkhole off the Florida coast named the Green Banana Hole ?
text: Did you know that Mooky Greidinger , now CEO of Cineworld , began in the cinema industry by working for his father as an usher?
text: Did you know that one of the survivors of the Battle of Fakhkh , Idris ibn Abdallah , went on to establish his own dynasty in Morocco?
text: Did you know that King Ram Shah of Gorkha introduced criminal codes to the kingdom?
text: Did you know that the title of Ava Max 's song " Sweet but Psycho " was inspired by her parents telling her "you're sweet, but you're a little psycho" when she was younger?
text: Did you know that scientists accidentally created a hybrid of two endangered fish species, called the sturddlefish ?
text: Did you know that South African refugee Jerry Masslo was granted a state funeral after his murder in Italy in 1989?
text: Did you know that the flag of Raleigh, North Carolina , was designed to be given to USS Raleigh , yet no records exist of the ship ever receiving it?
text: Did you know that Mary Clarke raised eight children and managed an estate whilst corresponding by letter with philosopher John Locke ?
text: Did you know that many antipsychotics are available as long-acting depot injections ?
text: Did you know that indie rock band Walk the Moon worked with AT&T and the Deaf Professional Arts Network to create an American Sign Language video for " Different Colors "?
text: Did you know that Canadian dentist Frank Sandercock founded a hockey organization for Calgary , which had no local leagues before he arrived in 1913?
text: Did you know that R. Luke Concanen , the first Roman Catholic bishop of New York , died before he could set foot in New York?
text: Did you know that the comic opera Scalia v. Ginsburg is based on the friendship of the two U.S. Supreme Court justices and their shared love of opera?
text: Did you know that in the 1700s, Helen Hope turned a Scottish moor into a wood and named it after her eldest son?
text: Did you know that Monika Rice's "What! Still Alive?!" has been described as a "disturbing narrative of violence, hostility, and indifference" towards Holocaust survivors in Poland?
text: Did you know that whilst making his record break of 499,135, English billiards player Tom Reece was in play for 85 hours and 49 minutes without his opponent taking a turn?
text: Did you know that in 2014, the government of Bangladesh removed 2,367 former communist guerrilla fighters from the official listing of freedom fighters, but this move was overruled by the High Court ?
text: Did you know that after throwing himself on the mercy of King Peter of Castile , Sultan Muhammad VI of Granada was killed by the Castilian king himself?
text: Did you know that WILS-TV in Lansing , Michigan, featured a singing weather girl and pianist dressed appropriately for the next day's forecast?
text: Did you know that the decision in Penn v Lord Baltimore (1750) helped end the 85 year dispute over the Pennsylvania–Maryland border?
text: Did you know that Italian bandit Graziano Mesina , known as the "king of kidnappers", has escaped from the authorities at least ten times?
text: Did you know that the antibiotic ertapenem can dramatically reduce the concentrations of an anti-seizure drug in blood plasma ?
text: Did you know that Colonel Jesse A. Ladd was in command at an aviation factory when it was seized by federal troops during a strike in June 1941?
text: Did you know that Portez ce vieux whisky au juge blond qui fume is the French version of The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog ?
text: Did you know that the American Bank Note Company Building was purchased by the Global Country of World Peace because it was one of New York City's only buildings that faced due east?
text: Did you know that BTS 's song " Mic Drop " was inspired by former US president Barack Obama 's mic drop at his last White House Correspondents' Dinner in 2016?
text: Did you know that there is a boiling lake in Morne Trois Pitons National Park ?
text: Did you know that U.S. federal judge Miranda Du came to the United States as a child after her family fled Vietnam ?
text: Did you know that because of its isolated, moorside location, Wells House , Ilkley , is the only building by Cuthbert Brodrick known to have been surrounded by a designed landscape?
text: Did you know that South Carolina radio station WDAB sold its former call letters to Michael Bloomberg , then named itself after an owner who had not yet bought the station?
text: Did you know that the English classicist Roger Mynors was discussing the death of Bede shortly before being killed in a car crash?
text: Did you know that South African forward Letago Madiba started playing football at the age of five in the streets of her hometown, and was the only female footballer in her school?
text: Did you know that the Naewat-dang shamanic paintings were discovered when a university professor encountered a nearly eighty-year-old homeless woman living in a cave?
text: Did you know that today, JoAnne S. Bass becomes not only the first female senior enlisted member of any U.S. military branch, but also the first person of Asian descent to hold that position in the Air Force?
text: Did you know that in 1264, the Genoese captured an entire Venetian trade convoy after tricking the Venetian fleet into thinking that they had sailed for the Levant ?
text: Did you know that William Bishop and Noël Poynter 's biography of John Symcotts , sometime physician to Oliver Cromwell , provides a record of the life of a medical practitioner, whose work usually goes unrecognised?
text: Did you know that students in the Baranovich Yeshiva , a premier Torah institute in pre-war Europe, spent years learning to understand the simple meaning of the Talmud ?
text: Did you know that more than 70 buildings designed by Paul Max Bertschy , the city architect of Liepāja for over 30 years, are still extant?
text: Did you know that the 2020 EFL League One play-off Final was played at Wembley Stadium in front of zero paying spectators?
text: Did you know that a "self-proclaimed public avenger" cut down the tower of Oregon television station KVDO-TV in 1976 to protest its sale to the state government?
text: Did you know that Acorn Creek is named after an extinct Creek Indian village and plantation on the Chattahoochee River ?
text: Did you know that under the Republic of Venice , the Procuratie in St Mark's Square included apartments and shops that were rented out to finance maintenance on public buildings and provide assistance to the poor?
text: Did you know that Bert Nievera , dubbed the Johnny Mathis of the Philippines, encountered the real singer who watched him perform " Misty ", the latter's signature song?
text: Did you know that a 1950 documentary filmed at a Christian college in Beirut shows how missionary education imparts "modern democratic ways of thinking and living" to Christians, Muslims, and Jews?
text: Did you know that the 800-year-old Minchenden Oak is one of the oldest trees in London?
text: Did you know that the Turkish women's league seasons of 2019–20 football and 2020 rugby sevens were named to commemorate Özge Kanbay , a football referee and rugby player, who died in 2019 at age 22 from cancer?
text: Did you know that Leicester Hemingway , the brother of Ernest Hemingway , was elected president of a floating raft called New Atlantis ?
text: Did you know that Molly Neptune Parker was able to support her family, buy a home, and pay for her grandchildren's education through basket weaving ?
text: Did you know that the 1993 Football League First Division play-off Final was estimated to be worth £20 million to the winners Swindon Town ?
text: Did you know that Christian missionary Moritz Hall was ordered to cast artillery for the Ethiopian Emperor Tewodros II ?
text: Did you know that the video game Iron Harvest , set in a 1920+ alternate universe inspired by the Polish–Soviet War , has a dieselpunk and mecha theme?
text: Did you know that in 1851, Wilson Armistead from Leeds hosted escaped slaves Ellen and William Craft when they fled the United States after the Fugitive Slave Act ?
text: Did you know that the former building of the Chinese embassy in Jakarta was turned into a parking lot?
text: Did you know that Maxine Dunlap , the first licensed female glider pilot in the U.S., began her flight training after catching " lindberghitis "?
text: Did you know that people used to drive by John and Mary Pappajohn's house to look at the sculptures in their yard before they were donated for the Pappajohn Sculpture Park ?
text: Did you know that Kashmiri poet Madhosh Balhami lost 30 years of his poetry in a clash between militants and the Indian government ?
text: Did you know that a voice recording of World War I soldier Edward Dwyer was featured in the contemporary ballet Dust ?
text: Did you know that Mozambique-born Violet Dias Lannoy , called "the lost Goan/Indian/African novelist" by Peter Nazareth , came from a Goan family, worked with Mahatma Gandhi , and hung out with Richard Wright ?
text: Did you know that after the mishandling of a call to the Charlotte County Sheriff's Office that might have prevented a woman's murder , Florida mandated additional training for 9-1-1 dispatchers?
text: Did you know that Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Sunny Cheung once said: "We want to build a democratic Hong Kong. It's not our responsibility to build a democratic China"?
text: Did you know that Bruus , once the national card game of Hamburg , rewards players for "daring and tormenting" certain top trumps, and that such tactics lend the game "a certain charm"?
text: Did you know that Taylor Swift wrote the lyrics to the song " Cardigan " to co-writer Aaron Dessner 's music in around five hours?
text: Did you know that Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro tweeted "Thanks Iran" after the Persian Gulf state sent the first of six oil tankers to aid Venezuela's chronic fuel shortage ?
text: Did you know that following the Kent State shootings , Robert J. Henle suspended the remainder of the 1970 academic year at Georgetown University ?
text: Did you know that a former firehouse and church on Long Island now houses a permanent display of nine fluorescent-light sculptures by Dan Flavin ?
text: Did you know that seven of the ten Roman Catholic bishops and archbishops of Montreal were born in the city?
text: Did you know that Brigadier General Harold Huglin was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for leading a bombing raid on Magdeburg during World War II?
text: Did you know that 1.6 million students in Delhi practice mindfulness , one of the components of the Happiness Curriculum , every day?
text: Did you know that the song and visual images in the music video for " Bola Maya " express the pain of those who lose their loved ones in foreign lands?
text: Did you know that in 1992, Leo J. O'Donovan was ordered by a Vatican ecclesiastical court to revoke the funding of an abortion-rights group at Georgetown University ?
text: Did you know that the Central Industrial Security Force Act was amended after the 2008 Mumbai attacks to provide the force with a mandate to secure private enterprises?
text: Did you know that the statue A Surge of Power (Jen Reid) 2020 was inspired by a raised fist at a Black Lives Matter protest?
text: Did you know that when the wealthy Abbasid prince Muhammad ibn Sulayman died in 789, government agents found vast quantities of spoilt food in his palace, and dumped it on the street outside?
text: Did you know that the actors of The Last of Us Part II could improvise their performances and were allowed up to 20 or 30 takes?
text: Did you know that Japan's Naki Sumo Crying Baby Festival has showdowns between infants in the arms of sumo wrestlers?
text: Did you know that Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport won the title of Best Improved Airport in the Asia-Pacific region in 2014 and 2015?
text: Did you know that the Serbian Orthodox Church denounced Bishop Grigorije Durić for suggesting that the Serbian government should fund hospitals rather than churches during the COVID-19 pandemic in the country ?
text: Did you know that during their 1925–26 season , Cardiff City suffered the heaviest league defeat in the club's history, losing 11–2 to Sheffield United ?
text: Did you know that an infantry regiment was formed to defend the Turks and Caicos Islands just this year?
text: Did you know that educator Mildred Hope Fisher Wood was the originator of learning-disability courses, which she taught to prospective teachers at the University of Northern Iowa ?
text: Did you know that Ditshwanelo has been campaigning for over twenty years against capital punishment in Botswana ?
text: Did you know that Pulitzer Prize –winning journalist Julia Collier Harris was present at both the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 and the Scopes Trial in 1925?
text: Did you know that the Mandinka douga , the "dance of the vulture" described in 20th-century African literature, may go back to Sundiata , and reach across to American Gullah culture, buck dance , and the minstrel show ?
text: Did you know that the campfire ash ceremony is a worldwide Scouting service said to date back to Robert Baden-Powell in 1907?
text: Did you know that the Embassy of the Philippines in Mexico City was badly damaged in the 2017 Puebla earthquake ?
text: Did you know that Tolulope Oluwatoyin Sarah Arotile , the first female combat helicopter pilot in the Nigerian Army , died in a freak car accident?
text: Did you know that there is a recent trend to reverse the Hebraization of street names in mixed Jewish–Arab cities in Israel?
text: Did you know that before Kanye West sampled " Hey Young World " by Slick Rick on a track in 2018, his frequent collaborator Jay-Z had sampled it back in 2002?
text: Did you know that Canadian sports journalist Jim Proudfoot was reportedly a lifetime hitchhiker to get to sporting events?
text: Did you know that during his acting career spanning over 60 films , Jack Nicholson received 12 Academy Award nominations, more than any other male actor?
text: Did you know that Hokkaidō Heritage includes the Teshio River , named after the Ainu for "river full of fishing weirs "?
text: Did you know that the New York City Subway's E train has been nicknamed the "Homeless Express" due to its large ridership of homeless people?
text: Did you know that the step sequence is a required element in men's and women's single skating , pair skating , and ice dance ?
text: Did you know that after World War II, German industrialists who used forced labor claimed to be victims and opponents of Nazism?
text: Did you know that the 608,832 lithium-ion battery cells assembled at the Tehachapi Energy Storage Project are capable of powering between 1,600 and 2,400 homes for four hours?
text: Did you know that a portrait of English prostitute Elizabeth Read is said to allude to the social mobility enjoyed by convicts in colonial Australia ?
text: Did you know that Wilbur Little was lynched for wearing his World War I uniform after being discharged from the army?
text: Did you know that when footballer Przemysław Płacheta signed for Norwich City from Śląsk Wrocław in 2020, he was Śląsk's record sale and Norwich's first-ever Polish player?
text: Did you know that Radio Saigon Houston has been cited as a factor luring Vietnamese Americans to move from the West Coast to Texas?
text: Did you know that Canadian sports executive Jack Hamilton identified 136 different samples of wood in a guessing competition?
text: Did you know that the song " Catallena " by South Korean girl group Orange Caramel interpolates a sample of the Punjabi folk song "Jutti Meri"?
text: Did you know that in June 2020, Southern Virginia University removed the name of Robert Lee Durham from its main academic building in the wake of the George Floyd protests , citing his racist views?
text: Did you know that Muhammad al-Qunawi wrote a Turkish edition of Al-Khalili 's tables because, according to him, "some of our sons wanted, from this poor man, to learn about sine tables "?
text: Did you know that during his term as the governor of North Sumatra in the 1980s, Kaharuddin Nasution ordered all civil servants in the province to wear white uniforms?
text: Did you know that the 2002 Football League First Division play-off Final was played under a closed roof at the Millennium Stadium because it was too sunny?
text: Did you know that the Domino Sugar Refinery was described on completion as the largest sugar refinery in the Americas?
text: Did you know that Zacharias Stopius was ennobled by the king of Poland, while his daughter became the first female diplomat of Sweden?
text: Did you know that " Freuet euch der schönen Erde ", an 1827 hymn about the beauty of nature, became successful with a melody composed by Frieda Fronmüller 100 years later?
text: Did you know that a short film made by Samantha Buck and Marie Schlingmann at university was screened at both the Telluride Film Festival and South by Southwest ?
text: Did you know that the French peanut is native to Brazil?
text: Did you know that the Northern Rhodesia Regiment was a British colonial regiment with the motto "Different in Race, Equal in Fidelity"?
text: Did you know that performer Lady Midnight teaches music production and performance to youth experiencing homelessness in Minnesota?
text: Did you know that the roll-on/roll-off car ferry Europic Ferry offloaded equipment under aerial attack during the British landings to retake the Falkland Islands in 1982?
text: Did you know that the publication of Cantate! , Heinrich Bone 's 1847 hymnal with a title translating to Sing! , was followed five years later by an edition with melodies?
text: Did you know that the Ottendorfer Public Library in Manhattan's East Village contained a librarian's residence on the third floor?
text: Did you know that Shantaram Siddi is the first Indian legislator of African descent?
text: Did you know that Devolver Digital requested that the video game Serious Sam Double D be a " Contra on acid "?
text: Did you know that instead of paying salaries, owner Ron Butlin gave ice hockey players a share of the team's profits, provided medical benefits, and assisted them in finding day jobs?
text: Did you know that students and adults of three different religions visited the Armenian church in Kuzguncuk , Istanbul, as part of a social activity organized by the local women residents of these religions?
text: Did you know that after reading a book by Katharine Lee , D. H. Lawrence began to use the phoenix as his personal emblem?
text: Did you know that A Piece of Eden was filmed at the director John D. Hancock 's home, with the main location being his apple orchard?
text: Did you know that Samuel Schwarz rediscovered a community of crypto-Jews in Belmonte, Portugal , who had kept their faith secret for centuries?
text: Did you know that The New York Times continued working in a wood and tar-paper enclosure while its new building was being constructed around its older headquarters?
text: Did you know that sport stars Donncha O'Callaghan and Roy Keane faced The Young Offenders ' Hilary Rose to determine exactly "how Cork " they were for RTÉ Does Comic Relief ?
text: Did you know that while the title track of Crazy features the signature sound of South Korean girl group 4Minute —a hip hop – and trap -infused dance number—its lead single was a ballad?
text: Did you know that Naomi Dattani played for a local boys' team before joining the Middlesex Women cricket team ?
text: Did you know that the film Alexander the Last , which was shot with a Handycam , credits the lead actors as also being the screenwriters ?
text: Did you know that Hypertime is a fictional concept of alternate timelines that branch off from the DC Universe ?
text: Did you know that the Beğendik Bridge is the highest bridge and has the longest main span of any concrete balanced cantilever bridge in Turkey?
text: Did you know that poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath spent their wedding night in a flat on London's Rugby Street ?
text: Did you know that judge Frank Park volunteered to provide 100 " fat possums " captured from the wilds of his county for a "Possum and 'Taters" dinner honoring president-elect William Howard Taft ?
text: Did you know that in the 1920s, "the mouthpiece of Bloomsbury liberalism" was published in London's Great James Street ?
text: Did you know that Kawade Shibatarō co-developed the moriage ('piling-up') technique, which gives enamel artworks a three-dimensional effect?
text: Did you know that after being squatted by hundreds of refugees, the 18th-century Debbane Palace was restored to its former state and turned into a private museum?
text: Did you know that Gerry Mullan was deselected by the Social Democratic and Labour Party for the Northern Ireland Assembly in favour of the man he replaced, who had retired seven months earlier?
text: Did you know that North Highlands Dam was built to power a large textile mill which had more spindles turning than any other mill in the United States?
text: Did you know that the name of the former Palestinian village al-Zahiriyya al-Tahta may have been a tribute to the Mamluk sultan al-Zahir Baybars ?
text: Did you know that Edvard August Vainio 's tools for collecting lichens in Brazil included a knife, hammer, chisel, paper, a bag, and a shotgun?
text: Did you know that in the 1930s and 1940s, Marilyn Knowlden appeared in six films that received Academy Award nominations for Best Picture ?
text: Did you know that India's 2020 food-security scheme , launched during the country's COVID-19 pandemic , is equivalent to feeding 2.5 times the population of the US, 12 times that of the UK, and twice that of the EU?
text: Did you know that the Morse Building , once one of New York City's tallest buildings, was expanded twenty years after completion, having been considered "small and old-fashioned"?
text: Did you know that Franciszek Ksawery Niesiołowski became a colonel at age 17?
text: Did you know that the song " I Can See the Change " was developed over text conversation between Celeste and Finneas after the two met in person at the 2020 Brit Awards ?
text: Did you know that German undercover agent Friedrich Salomon Hall 's identity was betrayed by the corns on his feet?
text: Did you know that one California nut job can cost up to $500,000?
text: Did you know that the Battle of Rakkestad , part of the Swedish–Norwegian War of 1814 , was won by Sweden thanks to an all-out bayonet charge ?
text: Did you know that women in the U.S. Virgin Islands did not gain suffrage until after Edith L. Williams attempted to register to vote in 1935?
text: Did you know that Mexican painter Frida Kahlo 's The Broken Column was the inspiration for a costume in Broken Wings , a ballet about her?
text: Did you know that Catholic priest Timothy S. Healy held senior positions at the City University of New York , Georgetown University , and the New York Public Library ?
text: Did you know that the LGBT Centre Mongolia was legally registered in 2009 after being told more than ten times that its name did not suit "Mongolian traditions and customs"?
text: Did you know that after the death of Olaseni Lewis , who was restrained by 11 police officers, UK law was changed to require police to wear body cameras when dealing with vulnerable people?
text: Did you know that D'Arcy Carden has about 40 minutes of screen time in " Janet(s) " even though the episode is only 22 minutes long?
text: Did you know that the name of the women's soccer team Racing Louisville FC is inspired by Louisville's famous horse races ?
text: Did you know that Baekhyun compares his charms to various flavors of candy in his song " Candy "?
text: Did you know that actress Katharine Hepburn thought the status of one's career could be determined by one's seating position at Samuel Goldwyn's table ?
text: Did you know that the rolling straight-edge , one of the earliest means of measuring road surface regularity, is still used in Britain today?
text: Did you know that the COVID-19 pandemic has caused delays in regulatory decisions regarding medications such as fluticasone furoate/umeclidinium bromide/vilanterol ?
text: Did you know that Johnby Hall , a 16th-century manor house built around a medieval tower, is now a bed and breakfast ?
text: Did you know that when the Jehovah's Witnesses sold New York City radio station WBBR in 1957, the purchase included the 18-acre (7.3 ha) farm, complete with 20 chicken houses, at the transmitter site?
text: Did you know that 070 Shake said that it felt "crazy" to have been on a record with Kanye West ?
text: Did you know that the Danum shield , found in Doncaster, is one of fewer than ten Roman shields ever found?
text: Did you know that Augustine Waworuntu , the first woman mayor of Manado , had her official residence in a hotel built of bamboo?
text: Did you know that K26AC in Bemidji , Minnesota, was the first low-power television station in the United States that did not repeat another station?
text: Did you know that the 2022 Chuukese independence referendum has been delayed three times, including by the legislative body that approved it?
text: Did you know that to convince people to let him record their singing, Ozarker folklorist Max Hunter helped them out with chores, including delivering moonshine ?
text: Did you know that the file-sharing website E-Hentai has been called the Library of Alexandria of hentai ?
text: Did you know that in order to serve as a prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials , Cecelia Goetz had to receive a "waiver of disability" from Telford Taylor because she was a woman?
text: Did you know that to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from shipping, the e5 Project is producing solar- and wind-powered ships to transport fuel oil ?
text: Did you know that ornithologist Corina Newsome and herpetologist Earyn McGee held events as part of the inaugural Black Birders Week , an effort to highlight the challenges faced by Black nature enthusiasts?
text: Did you know that the presence of the umbrella slug in the Bay of Biscay , first reported in 2016, may be an example of "tropicalisation"?
text: Did you know that Luton Town F.C. chairman John Gurney organised a "Manager Idol" phone-vote in order to find the club's new manager?
text: Did you know that choreographer Kenneth MacMillan turned a duet in his ballet Concerto into a female solo when the male dancer broke his foot prior to the premiere?
text: Did you know that retired United States Air Force colonel Kim Olson is a Master Gardener ?
text: Did you know that Waldemar R. Röhrbein and Hugo Thielen wrote a book about Jewish personalities in the history of Hanover , including the violinist Joseph Joachim ?
text: Did you know that in 1947, New York City's WMGM rated dead last among FM radio stations, at a time when just 3 percent of metropolitan area residents had FM receivers?
text: Did you know that the former Lake Estancia in New Mexico reached a highstand during the Last Glacial Maximum , similar to other lakes in the Great Basin ?
text: Did you know that Georgia Adams is the captain of the Sussex Women cricket team , and her father Chris is a former captain of the Sussex men's team ?
text: Did you know that 40 musicians from seven countries collaborated on the song " We Are One ", which extends a message of hope and unity to the global population affected by COVID-19 ?
text: Did you know that Hilda Gregg published a novel every year for three decades?
text: Did you know that two versions of each episode of The Titan's Bride are produced: a version that airs on broadcast television, and an online-only "premium edition" featuring explicit content?
text: Did you know that Polish boxer Tadeusz Pietrzykowski is best known for his string of victories in Nazi concentration camps ?
text: Did you know that a former renegade policeman discovered a film depicting his role in the siege of a Philippine military base two decades after its theatrical release?
text: Did you know that the Association of Black Cardiologists has shared resources on the impact of coronavirus disease on black communities in response to the higher death rates seen among African Americans?
text: Did you know that Johannes Schüler conducted world premieres including Alban Berg's Three Orchestral Pieces in 1930, and Henze's Boulevard Solitude in 1952?
text: Did you know that director Patrick Creadon said he made the documentary Hesburgh in part because he was skeptical whether the work of Father Theodore Hesburgh "really lived up to his reputation"?
text: Did you know that a series of tunnels on Japan National Route 48 is known as the Land Gateway to Sendai ?
text: Did you know that Herbert Edwin Bradley was criticised for taking his wife and six-year-old daughter on a gorilla-hunting expedition in 1921?
text: Did you know that nearly 5,000 fans of easy-listening music successfully petitioned Mississippi radio station WEQZ to adopt the format when another station changed away from it?
text: Did you know that the creation of the Swedish torch is credited to the Swedish military during the Thirty Years' War ?
text: Did you know that Anthony Kohlmann 's refusal to violate the seal of the confessional in 1813 led to the recognition of the confessional privilege for the first time in American law?
text: Did you know that the Byzantine emperor Isaac II Angelos was blinded at the Theotokos Kosmosoteira monastery?
text: Did you know that a team of approximately 350 people developed The Last of Us Part II over seven years?
text: Did you know that table tennis has a larger number of playing styles than other racket sports due to the large variety of table tennis rubbers ?
text: Did you know that Ann Smith was described as a "a great fomentor of plots"?
text: Did you know that after Port Vale F.C. were liquidated in 1907, a local church team took on the name and returned to the Football League by October 1919?
text: Did you know that as president of Georgetown University , Edward B. Bunn ended a 20-year hiatus on construction by opening eight new buildings?
text: Did you know that Sinai Park House was used by monks to rest after undergoing bloodletting procedures?
text: Did you know that Lin-Manuel Miranda 's idea for improvisational hip-hop comedy musical group Freestyle Love Supreme originated during rehearsal breaks for the musical In the Heights ?
text: Did you know that the proposed African Medicines Agency would regulate not just modern medicine and medical equipment, but also traditional medicine ?
text: Did you know that David F. Gantt was the first and only black person elected to the New York State Assembly from Monroe County, New York ?
text: Did you know that after a fisherman crashed into a volcano , it was named after him?
text: Did you know that the ancient fortified city of Bhitargarh served as a node to the strategic trade routes connecting Tibet and eastern India?
text: Did you know that Lisa Kearney was the first judoka representing Ireland to reach the final of a Judo World Cup?
text: Did you know that Nintendo received widespread criticism for awarding the winner of a major Super Smash Bros. Ultimate tournament only a Switch controller?
text: Did you know that 5 Beekman Street was described as "architecturally nondescript" and its rooftop spires were likened to "donkey's ears"?
text: Did you know that although Wong Pak-yu nominated Woo Kwok-hing in the 2017 Hong Kong Chief Executive election , he decided to cast a blank vote to protest against the election's lack of democracy?
text: Did you know that according to Nevsun Resources Ltd v Araya , corporations may be liable in Canadian courts if their operations in other countries violate customary international law ?
text: Did you know that Kanye West is running under the Birthday Party for his 2020 presidential campaign , because "when we win, it's everybody's birthday"?
text: Did you know that the novel The Silent Patient was inspired by the Athenian tragedy Alcestis ?
text: Did you know that after nearly 40 years as a prolific researcher and professor of demography at Makerere University in Uganda, James P. M. Ntozi was forced to retire—and became a farmer?
text: Did you know that after the American Revolutionary War, only five of First Presbyterian Church of Newtown 's congregants remained, so a nearby Dutch church took them in?
text: Did you know that according to Naraporn Chan-o-cha , the wife of the current prime minister of Thailand, Prayut Chan-o-cha , she is responsible for his clothes, make-up, and haircut?
text: Did you know that NCT Dream performed songs from their album Reload on the world's first paid online concert Beyond LIVE ?
text: Did you know that Apollo flight director Pete Frank was a finalist for NASA Astronaut Group 5 ?
text: Did you know that the South African motorsport of spinning began as a funeral ritual in which a car was stolen and driven in circles to honor the deceased?
text: Did you know that Arsenal extended their FA Cup winners record in the 2020 FA Cup Final against Chelsea at Wembley today?
text: Did you know that Nepal's first female auto rickshaw driver, Laxmi Sharma , went on to start the first button factory in the country?
text: Did you know that the Seventh-day Adventist Church replaced the African-American missionary Thomas H. Branch with a white man to appease the government of the British Central Africa Protectorate ?
text: Did you know that when Spain joined the European Communities in 1986 , it had a larger fishing fleet than all the other Community members' put together?
text: Did you know that during World War II, Major General Henry Aurand had his own weekly radio show?
text: Did you know that Nainital Yacht Club , located at an elevation of 2,084 m (6,837 ft), is the highest yacht club in India and among the highest in the world?
text: Did you know that while directing Walking Down Broadway , Erich von Stroheim tied a 12 ft (3.7 m) length of thread to James Dunn 's pant leg and tugged on it whenever he wanted the actor to emote more?
text: Did you know that Kanye West premiered his song " Wash Us in the Blood ", which discusses mass incarceration, slavery, genocide, and drug-dealing, at a Christian opera?
text: Did you know that Ugandan rebels did not recognize Ali Fadhul as the enemy commander when he drove past them during an invasion of Uganda in 1972?
text: Did you know that Theo Akkermann , whose first major work was a war memorial, created a sculpture for his family's grave?
text: Did you know that from 2015 to 2019, the U.S. state of Georgia decertified more than 3,000 police officers, while Maryland decertified just one?
text: Did you know that during construction of the Valle Gómez and Misterios metro stations, workers uncovered part of a road that connected Tenochtitlan with the Tepeyac Hill , dating from the Mesoamerican Postclassic period?
text: Did you know that educator Agnes Samuelson was posthumously inducted into the Iowa Women's Hall of Fame and had a Des Moines elementary school named after her?
text: Did you know that in the Brazilian state of Bahia, cerrado mice are often caught by barn owls , but seldom by researchers?
text: Did you know that Chilean television station TVO fired presenter Pamela Jiles for appearing in a presidential campaign advertisement, even though it described itself as editorially "tolerant"?
text: Did you know that the Mid-Manhattan Library , with space for 350,000 volumes at its opening, was designed to replace a collection housed in a single room of the New York Public Library Main Branch ?
text: Did you know that Irena Sawicka , a Polish archeologist, educator and communist activist, helped Jews during the Holocaust and perished in the Warsaw Uprising ?
text: Did you know that British 19th-century prison visitor Sarah Martin criticised living conditions at The Tolhouse jail, and objected to the fact that the inmates had no access to a church or chaplain?
text: Did you know that poet William Nauns Ricks wrote an ode to Charles Young , the first African-American colonel in the United States Army?
text: Did you know that following the cancellation of the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 , the BBC produced their own show to determine the British public's favourite Eurovision song of all time?
text: Did you know that one of the most endangered monuments in Europe is a squatted house in the Netherlands?
text: Did you know that the 2020 World Series will be the first to be held at one ballpark since 1944 ?
text: Did you know that Hainer Hill , who took hundreds of photographs documenting Brecht's Berliner Ensemble , created the stage design for Hindemith's Mathis der Maler at the new Opernhaus Dortmund in 1966?
text: Did you know that at civil disobedience events, undocumented students from Freedom U wear painted monarch butterfly wings symbolizing migration's naturalness and their immigrant experience?
text: Did you know that the European Court of Human Rights has ruled that burqa bans may be " necessary in a democratic society "?
text: Did you know that in 1995, French journalist Didier Roustan helped set up a world footballers union with Eric Cantona and Diego Maradona ?
text: Did you know that " On the Death of Mr. Crashaw ", an elegy for Richard Crashaw , is considered one of Abraham Cowley 's finest poems?
text: Did you know that in 1949 the admirals were revolting ?
text: Did you know that the 74 artists who created the 95 original prints for the subscription portfolio L'Estampe originale included Toulouse-Lautrec , Gaugin , Renoir , Rodin , Pissarro , Whistler , Redon , and Bonnard ?
text: Did you know that Tom Hayden used his Campaign for Economic Democracy to help pass a rent-control measure in Santa Monica, California ?
text: Did you know that when Turkish singer Hamiyet Yüceses lamentingly sang an Ottoman classical song after her husband's death in a submarine accident, many people thought she had composed the song herself?
text: Did you know that the sketch-comedy series The Fuccons stars a cast consisting solely of mannequins?
text: Did you know that with no prior work experience, William B. Jordan turned the Meadows Museum 's collection into the most prominent collection of Spanish art outside Spain?
text: Did you know that the chiton Tonicella marmorea was first described from Greenland by the Danish naturalist Otto Fabricius , who spent five years as a missionary in the country?
text: Did you know that the 1831 Londonderry City by-election was the second of three in that constituency within nine months, all of which were won by Robert Ferguson ?
text: Did you know that during the Second World War, Abkhazian female pilot Meri Avidzba flew 477 combat sorties and dropped 63 tonnes of bombs onto the enemy?
text: Did you know that the Mutual Reserve Building was described as "a law office slum" and a 1920s center of the "personal injury underworld"?
text: Did you know that the Spanish town of Cadrete removed a bust of the ruler who built its castle , for causing "division and confrontation"?
text: Did you know that bridge designer James Barney Marsh gave Archie Alexander , the first African American to graduate as an engineer from the University of Iowa , his first job?
text: Did you know that the owner of WSZE-TV started an air-taxi service to bring program tapes to Saipan ?
text: Did you know that Bristol 's medieval Tolzey Court saw a surge in popularity in the 1960s because it had lower fees than the High Court or County Court ?
text: Did you know that Rodney Scott's Whole Hog BBQ uses MSG in its spice rub , calling it a "flavor maker"?
text: Did you know that The New York Times named Forbes magazine editor Randall Lane one of the 922 most powerful people in America?
text: Did you know that after the Greek Civil War , 20,000 leftists were exiled to the island of Gyaros , dubbed the "Dachau of the Mediterranean"?
text: Did you know that Robert Utter resigned from the Washington Supreme Court in protest of the death penalty ?
text: Did you know that Nerotalanlagen , a park along a creek in Wiesbaden , was built in the late 19th century to enhance the town's spa quality?
text: Did you know that the Bennett Building , once one of New York's most prominent buildings, is probably the world's tallest building with a cast-iron facade?
text: Did you know that anime musician Kano 's Virtual YouTuber 3D model is based on an avatar she uses in official artwork?
text: Did you know that the 1932 Detroit Wolves won the pennant with an outfielder, first baseman, shortstop, and two pitchers who were all inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame ?
text: Did you know that the seeds of Guilandina bonduc , commonly known as nickernuts , are buoyant and remain viable while being dispersed by ocean currents?
text: Did you know that Nihonga artist Yumeji Takehisa was arrested in connection with a plot to assassinate Emperor Meiji of Japan ?
text: Did you know that India has 66 chess grandmasters ?
text: Did you know that James Edwin Campbell , the first president of West Virginia State University , was among the first African-American poets to write poems in the African-American vernacular dialect ?
text: Did you know that the Third Punic War between Rome and Carthage ended in the complete destruction of Carthage and the death or enslavement of all of its citizens?
text: Did you know that Jane Fonda paid for her political activism with the profits of her Workout videos?
text: Did you know that during the Falklands War , a fishing trawler served in the Royal Navy as HMS Junella ?
text: Did you know that Bill Callahan recorded his album Gold Record in just one week?
text: Did you know that the 1872 Londonderry City by-election was the first parliamentary election held by secret ballot in Ireland?
text: Did you know that a historical theory argues that Nixon sought a decent interval between American withdrawal and South Vietnamese collapse to avoid becoming the first president to lose a war?
text: Did you know that writer Jeanne Humbert was repeatedly arrested for spreading information about birth control and abortion after they were banned in France in 1920?
text: Did you know that the anime film Weathering with You was inspired by climate change affecting Japan?
text: Did you know that Hermann Deiters translated Alexander Wheelock Thayer 's Life of Beethoven and published it in German before it appeared in English?
text: Did you know that the Korea Central Zoo houses a chimpanzee that smokes a pack of cigarettes a day ?
text: Did you know that the Churchill caretaker ministry reduced the British bacon ration from four ounces (110 g) to three ounces (85 g) per week?
text: Did you know that historian Jeffrey Kimball argued that the Vietnam War "was waged as much against Saigon as it was against the [Viet Cong / North Vietnamese] enemy"?
text: Did you know that residents of Devdaha , Nepal, decided that a 13-year-old girl should marry her 25-year-old alleged rapist?
text: Did you know that Zofia Poznańska , cipher clerk to the Red Orchestra espionage group, was captured in Belgium by the Abwehr in 1941 and hanged herself in prison in 1942?
text: Did you know that the 1919 Detroit Stars , a Negro league baseball team, included three players who were later inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame ?
text: Did you know that when William R. Watson retired from his gallery for contemporary art in Montreal, one of his artists wrote: "You have known, and been a good friend to nearly all the artists"?
text: Did you know that a chapel at the Confederate Memorial State Historic Site was formerly used for both religious services and the production of alcohol?
text: Did you know that Essop Moosa , who was of Indian origin, became the first non-white player to play for an all-white soccer team in South Africa, appearing under a pseudonym?
text: Did you know that S&M2 is the highest-grossing rock cinema event of all time?
text: Did you know that Du Shuzhen was the first woman in Henan , China, to perform the Hajj ?
text: Did you know that after shutting down in 1954, Indiana television station WRAY-TV was activated once a year to air the annual March of Dimes telethon?
text: Did you know that the 16-bit Ferranti F100-L was the first microprocessor designed in Europe?
text: Did you know that the $10 million Tri-City Mall in Mesa, Arizona , began to lose stores and customers ten years after opening, and even a multimillion-dollar renovation could not save it?
text: Did you know that excavations in Romajë have revealed double-edged axes thought to have been related to sun worship ?
text: Did you know that the Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank Building 's main banking hall was described as "the one real asset" of a nearly bankrupt New York City in the 1970s?
text: Did you know that after contralto Florence Wickham made her debut in Germany , she was engaged for an American tour as Kundry in Wagner's Parsifal ?
text: Did you know that during the 1903 FA Cup Final , a cinematograph was sited on top of one of the stands?
text: Did you know that South Carolina state senator Tom Corbin once referred to women as a "lesser cut of meat"?
text: Did you know that the artwork for the 2017 Bonobo album Migration was captured in four hours?
text: Did you know that less than 18 months after being launched, radio station KFNA of El Paso, Texas , declared bankruptcy after its format failed to attract listeners?
text: Did you know that Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing is the worst-ranked video game of all time on Metacritic and GameRankings ?
text: Did you know that Hildegard Uhrmacher , a coloratura soprano who appeared as Mozart's Konstanze and Bernd Alois Zimmermann's Marie , titled her 2006 autobiography Hilde, du schaffst das ( Hilde, you'll manage )?
text: Did you know that the jute hairy caterpillar is a serious pest of fibre crops in India, sometimes occurring in epidemic outbreaks?
text: Did you know that Walter Mears has compared Donald Trump to populist senator Huey Long ?
text: Did you know that the European Commission of Human Rights found in 1969 that the Greek junta systematically tortured dissidents, leading to Greece's exit from the Council of Europe ?
text: Did you know that Theresa Plummer-Andrews sorted Bob the Builder 's budget?
text: Did you know that in the album title Not Our First Goat Rodeo , the term goat rodeo refers to a chaotic event in which many things must go right for the situation to work?
text: Did you know that a flag pole named a city ?
text: Did you know that Kathy Arendsen had a windmill fastball pitch timed at 96 miles per hour (154 km/h)?
text: Did you know that the U.S. Public Health Service was once reorganized eight times in seven years ?
text: Did you know that Muljadi Djojomartono once said that Sukarno would have been an Islamic prophet had he been born in 571?
text: Did you know that upon opening at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay in 1976, Python was the first roller coaster in Florida to feature inversions ?
text: Did you know that the Hong Kong Logistic Support Regiment RLC was nicknamed the "1000-Day Regiment" as its 1,181 days of service made it possibly the shortest-lived peacetime regiment in the British Army?
text: Did you know that French novelist Claire Etcherelli 's 1967 novel Elise, or the Real Life gained a brief cult following and was adapted into a 1970 film ?
text: Did you know that eyewitnesses at the Battle of Sedalia reported seeing Confederate soldiers riding barefoot because their boots were full of plundered whiskey ?
text: Did you know that the rhythm of " Solang es Menschen gibt auf Erden ", a Dutch hymn translated into German, has been compared to a tango ?
text: Did you know that some works by the Baltic-German writer Laura Marholm were part of "feminist literary criticism", known as gynocriticism , 70 years before the term was coined?
text: Did you know that in April 2009 a bomb blew a hole in the buttocks of the statue of Lenin at Finland Station , Saint Petersburg?
text: Did you know that Wolfman Jack helped finance his nephew's Ampersand magazine?
text: Did you know that Japanese occupying forces reportedly sentenced Fatah Jasin to death, but Japan surrendered and Indonesia became independent before he could be executed?
text: Did you know that the site of Los Arcos Mall was dubbed the "most divisive piece of property" in the history of Scottsdale, Arizona ?
text: Did you know that Portuguese fado singer Cuca Roseta has a black belt in Taekwondo ?
text: Did you know that Nellie Weekes ran for public office even before women received the right to vote in Barbados ?
text: Did you know that the merchant vessel MS Nordic Ferry was awarded a battle honour for service in the Falklands War ?
text: Did you know that Chinese peasants mostly armed with spears and swords repeatedly defeated modern warlord armies during the Spirit Soldier rebellions ?
text: Did you know that West Virginia State College professor Angie Turner King was an educator and mentor to entomologist Margaret S. Collins and NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson of Hidden Figures ?
text: Did you know that Perspectiva corporum regularium , a 1568 book of engraved polyhedra , demonstrates visually the medieval theory that the complexity of the physical world comes from four basic elements ?
text: Did you know that the Postal Telegraph Building contained the first electric elevators, commissioned by Frank J. Sprague ?
text: Did you know that Newcastle architect Gibson Kyle lay in wait and caught a burglar who was absconding with 33 lb (15 kg) of lead belonging to Richard Grainger ?
text: Did you know that the Ryūkyū Disposition saw the former Ryūkyū Kingdom incorporated into the nascent Empire of Japan ?
text: Did you know that though Calvin Royal III did not start formal dance training until he was 14, he went on to become a principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre ?
text: Did you know that Kabul City Center is the only building in Afghanistan that is equipped with working escalators ?
text: Did you know that Leonhard Lechner , who trained as a chorister in Bavaria under Orlande de Lassus , composed a Passion for choir in 1593 that strongly influenced the genre?
text: Did you know that the 1938 film Shadows Over Shanghai incorporates footage of the bombing of the city during the Second Sino-Japanese War , which was then underway?
text: Did you know that Marie "Blanche" Wittman , formerly a hysteria patient of Jean-Martin Charcot , contracted radiation-induced cancer while working for Albert Londe ?
text: Did you know that the name "United States" was originally plural, but gradually transitioned after the Civil War to a singular noun?
text: Did you know that during the Victorian-era London garotting panics , some citizens wore studded leather collars to protect themselves from attack?
text: Did you know that William Bowery, who co-wrote two songs on Taylor Swift 's album Folklore , appeared to have no online presence, and is possibly a pseudonym?
text: Did you know that Zolotarev polynomials were introduced in 1868, but not applied to Zolotarev filters until 1970?
text: Did you know that Len Lanzi was legally fired by the Boy Scouts of America after coming out as gay?
text: Did you know that the 1997 Polish box-office-hit comedy Szczęśliwego Nowego Jorku criticizes Polish and American myths such as the American Dream ?
text: Did you know that Vinmont Veteran Park traces its name to Robert Weinberg , whose German surname translates to Vinmont in French?
text: Did you know that the colour of the blackstreak surgeonfish changes according to its mood?
text: Did you know that 54 years ago today, California television station KCFT-TV went off the air when General Electric showed up with a moving van, a locksmith, and a court order to repossess equipment?
text: Did you know that according to the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Pope John Paul II 's canonisation of Chinese martyrs hurt the feelings of the Chinese people ?
text: Did you know that on the single "Bra Off" from Natalie Lauren 's album Handle with Care , Lauren points out that women should not be subject to insult, assault, or sexism when they do not wear a bra ?
text: Did you know that to help counteract misleading online information on vaccines, the Vaccine Safety Net provides a list of scientifically reviewed websites?
text: Did you know that although Major General Thomas Holden was twice elected to the Continental Congress , he does not seem to have taken up his seat?
text: Did you know that sixteen people were injured while fleeing a non-existent terrorist attack during the Oxford Circus panic ?
text: Did you know that Licett Morillo closing Prada 's fashion show was compared to an actor winning an Oscar ?
text: Did you know that it was once illegal for civilians to pass U.S. military vehicles on Japan National Route 58 ?
text: Did you know that the game developer Toys for Bob created Star Control after its founders Fred Ford and Paul Reiche met at Starflight creator Greg Johnson 's house for a game night?
text: Did you know that Alasdair Geddes worked on the WHO 's smallpox-eradication programme in Bangladesh five years before diagnosing the world's last fatal case of smallpox in Birmingham, England?
text: Did you know that in the 1789 Virginia's 5th congressional district election , two future U.S. presidents opposed each other?
text: Did you know that the Arsenal footballer Matt Smith won an FA Cup winners medal without having made his debut for Arsenal?
text: Did you know that U.S. senator Strom Thurmond 's aides set up a bucket for him to relieve himself during his 24-hour filibuster ?
text: Did you know that " phantom borders " left behind by the partitions of Poland by imperial powers have an impact on which political parties Polish citizens vote for?
text: Did you know that in 1957, a bus ride from Calcutta to London cost £65?
text: Did you know that Robert B. Landry was the United States Air Force aide to President Harry S. Truman ?
text: Did you know that a book on polyhedra by Piero della Francesca fell victim to "probably the first full-blown case of plagiarism in the history of mathematics" when Luca Pacioli copied it in his Divina proportione ?
text: Did you know that Canadian sportscaster John Badham reported on the 1976 Summer Olympics canoe and kayak events despite having no knowledge of the sport?
text: Did you know that From Space I Saw Earth by Daníel Bjarnason was commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic to be performed with three conductors simultaneously?
text: Did you know that two Molotov cocktail attacks have set Club Feathers on fire?
text: Did you know that the " Hot Air Line " was so-called due to shaky financial backing and grandiose claims?
text: Did you know that Peanuts Gallery , a 1997 piano concerto by Ellen Taaffe Zwilich , portrays Peanuts characters in movements such as "Schroeder's Beethoven Fantasy" and "Snoopy Does the Samba"?
text: Did you know that sect leader Li Guangchang ruled as self-proclaimed emperor for five years in the 1980s before being arrested by the Chinese police?
text: Did you know that seeds of the sea bean can be dispersed for long distances by ocean currents?
text: Did you know that Coventry City won the 2017 EFL Trophy Final , earning their first major trophy since winning the 1987 FA Cup Final , despite being relegated from League One to League Two that season?
text: Did you know that among rock critic Jacoba Atlas 's many concert reviews was a "disastrous appearance" by Joe Cocker ?
text: Did you know that at Osthofen concentration camp , the camp doctor declared all new arrivals healthy and medically fit for imprisonment, even if they had been mistreated before?
text: Did you know that Hurricane Sandy blew the roof off Paradise ?
text: Did you know that Mariah Carey covered Aretha Franklin 's rendition of " Don't Play That Song " at The Live Debut – 1990 ?
text: Did you know that among proofs of the Sylvester–Gallai theorem , Kelly 's has been praised as "simply the best", but also criticized as "like using a sledge hammer to crack an almond"?
text: Did you know that professional athletes protested by refusing to play in response to high-profile police shootings of Black people in 2020?
text: Did you know that Hardi dissuaded the Communist Party of Vietnam from inviting their Indonesian counterparts to a party congress in Hanoi?
text: Did you know that the 2017 Bishop Maginn High School baseball team largely consisted of Karen refugees ?
text: Did you know that a flag was used to facilitate trade between Momoyama Japan and Ming China?
text: Did you know that even though Judith Sims of TeenSet magazine was touring with the Beatles , she was not, "alas", sleeping with them?
text: Did you know that the heart of Pierre David was found in a Belgian fountain in August 2020?
text: Did you know that a 10 cm 3 (0.6 cu in) sponge Hymeniacidon kitchingi can filter 22.5 L (5 imp gal; 6 U.S. gal) of water per day?
text: Did you know that the Detroit Lions ' tackle Tony Furst saw combat action in the Guadalcanal campaign and later became a florist?
text: Did you know that Aoimori Park features plants that are symbolic of each municipality in Aomori Prefecture ?
text: Did you know that Felix Mendelssohn subtitled Sechs Lieder , Op. 59 , six songs for four voices setting poems by Eichendorff and others, " Im Freien zu singen " ("To be sung outdoors")?
text: Did you know that conventional religion is positively correlated with authoritarianism?
text: Did you know that Susan Lydon wrote about fake orgasm and real addiction ?
text: Did you know that cavalry of both sides at the Battle of Ticinus fought on foot?
text: Did you know that Alex Anderson became interested in quilting after finishing her grandmother's quilt, which had been started decades earlier, for a college credit?
text: Did you know that irritant hairs on the seed pods of the horse-eye bean have traditionally been used to get rid of intestinal worms?
text: Did you know that the largest Sephardi synagogue in Northeast Philadelphia is primarily composed of Hebrew-speaking Israeli expatriates?
text: Did you know that blues-rock guitarist Gary Moore did not follow up his 1973 debut solo album Grinding Stone for another five years?
text: Did you know that Franz Leuninger , a Catholic trade unionist in Silesia who ran against the Nazis for election to the Reichstag in 1933, was executed in March 1945?
text: Did you know that after Ohio fined a woman $100 for not putting her name on a political leaflet , her estate appealed the fine all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court ?
text: Did you know that mercury pressure gauges as tall as 23 metres (75 ft) have been built to measure very high pressures?
text: Did you know that when Bertha Park High School opened, all pupils were provided with iPads , but had to lock their own phones in lockers?
text: Did you know that Sarika Kale , a kho kho player who has struggled financially for years, won ₹51,000 for her performance as captain of the India national team at the Third Asian Kho-Kho Championship?
text: Did you know that Theodore Roosevelt considered a portion of the Northwest Branch Trail to be one of his favorite places?
text: Did you know that the Latvian Boy Scout handbook, written in 1933 by Valdemārs Klētnieks , was destroyed by communists during the Soviet occupation of Latvia in 1940 ?
text: Did you know that prior to the release of his album Restoration in August 2020, Lecrae decided to leave Columbia Records to be independent again?
text: Did you know that Melati Suryodarmo went viral after dancing on butter?
text: Did you know that sports team owner Dell Loy Hansen purchased a rare dime for $1.3 million?
text: Did you know that the current Kenyan National Assembly is made up of 290 constituency elected members including Samuel Arama , 47 county woman representatives including Gladys Boss Shollei and Sabina Wanjiru Chege , and 12 appointed members including Dennitah Ghati ?
text: Did you know that the hermit crab Paguristes cadenati can help keep a reef aquarium clean?
text: Did you know that Travis Denning illegally used David Ashley Parker from Powder Springs 's identity before including him in a music video?
text: Did you know that Tokyo's Shibuya Route is key to the plot of the novel 1Q84 , where it contains a fictitious stairway to another reality in its storyline?
text: Did you know that 1 Wall Street Court , a condominium building, was once the headquarters of a shipping line and the world's largest cocoa futures market ?
text: Did you know that Moop Mama , a band of seven brass players, two drummers, and a rapper, began "guerilla concerts" in Munich's Englischer Garten in 2009?
text: Did you know that Polish children's author Maria Kownacka wrote for an underground children's magazine during the Warsaw Uprising ?
text: Did you know that according to the Hebrew Bible, a perjurer should receive the same punishment he sought to inflict on the falsely accused?
text: Did you know that the Gemmi Fault is a geological fault in Switzerland that was active in the last 10,000 years?
text: Did you know that the young Troy Baker was cast as the older Joel Miller in The Last of Us because of his voice and movement?
text: Did you know that a 2006 survey found that only 7.6 percent of participants were able to understand an auxiliary label with complex instructions?
text: Did you know that Jim Drucker , the founder of the world's largest online-only comic bookstore, was also the commissioner of both the Continental Basketball Association and the Arena Football League ?
text: Did you know that Aldersbach brewery was founded more than 750 years ago at Aldersbach Abbey in Lower Bavaria ?
text: Did you know that many of the teen actors in the Jane Withers comedy film High School had been guests at her thirteenth birthday party?
text: Did you know that while Leslie Goonewardene was one of the largest landowners in Sri Lanka through inheritance, he re-introduced inheritance tax to the country?
text: Did you know that New Jersey radio station WJJZ lost its license over an unauthorized payment of $25,000 to a competing applicant for its frequency?
text: Did you know that the last British colour lost in battle was in 1880?
text: Did you know that Interstate 5 in Seattle has express lanes that reverse direction to follow commuting patterns?
text: Did you know that in 2005, prehistoric rock art paintings symbolic of the cycle of life were found in Vlashnjë , Kosovo?
text: Did you know that the U.S. Government Accountability Office found that Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen swore in the wrong person as her successor ?
text: Did you know that William H. Strayer was the only Democrat in the Oregon State Senate in 1931?
text: Did you know that My Michael , a novel by Israeli author Amos Oz set in Jerusalem of the 1950s, was reviled by critics as being "politically dangerous and subversive"?
text: Did you know that President Donald Trump watched the 2019 film Joker with his friends and family at the White House and reportedly enjoyed it?
text: Did you know that Cheye Alexander became a professional footballer despite suffering acute knee pain as a teenager due to Osgood–Schlatter disease ?
text: Did you know that General Order No. 1 's broad definition of "sexually explicit" material led to a ban on bodybuilding magazines and underwear catalogues for U.S. personnel during the Gulf War ?
text: Did you know that Christian Dierstein has played world premieres as the percussionist of Trio Accanto , which also includes a saxophonist and a pianist?
text: Did you know that nearly half the milk produced in India, whose dairy industry is the largest in the world, comes from buffaloes ?
text: Did you know that Alban Berg dedicated his Three Pieces for Orchestra "with immeasurable gratitude and love" to his teacher, Arnold Schönberg , for his fortieth birthday in September 1914?
text: Did you know that Hoshimachi Suisei was part of the first live studio performance by virtual YouTubers in Japanese radio history?
text: Did you know that the 1964 split in the Communist Party of India was ignored by the Soviet press, but was overemphasized in Chinese mass media?
text: Did you know that the gravestone of Semahat Özdenses , a singer and composer of Ottoman classical music , was erected seven years after her death?
text: Did you know that radio station WNLC in New London, Connecticut , was off the air for three weeks after the 1938 New England hurricane destroyed its tower and flooded the transmitter building?
text: Did you know that in September 2019, far-right politician Milan Mazurek became the first Slovak parliamentarian to lose his seat due to a crime after comparing Romani children to "animals in the zoo"?
text: Did you know that the album Inner Song by Kelly Lee Owens features John Cale singing in Welsh?
text: Did you know that Trunkey the Elephant has been teaching kids about zoo animals for over 50 years?
text: Did you know that The Life and Death of the Radical Historical Jesus was described as a "giant step forward for the field of working class intellectual history"?
text: Did you know that greenhouse gas emissions by Turkey might be reduced by the introduction of a national electric car ?
text: Did you know that August Göllerich wrote a biography of the composer Anton Bruckner , having been his student, secretary, and friend?
text: Did you know that radio station WKXL in Concord, New Hampshire , was started by a sitting governor and is owned by a former senator ?
text: Did you know that a witness said he saw Thomas David Morrison wearing glasses in the Upper Canada Rebellion , but his defence attorney said Morrison wore sunglasses and would not have worn them at night?
text: Did you know that the founder of the pornography zine S.T.H. once joked that it was "the only gay-sex magazine funded by the U.S. government"?
text: Did you know that FBI informant Ricardo Morales , who testified against Cuban militant Orlando Bosch in 1968, shared a hotel with Bosch in 1976?
text: Did you know that in a viral video of a man doing nothing for two hours , a viewer counted him blinking 362 times?
text: Did you know that writer Doris Willens , Lee Hays of the Weavers , and actor Alan Arkin were all Baby Sitters ?
text: Did you know that more than 130 revolutionaries were hanged on the premises of Sikri Mata Temple during the Indian Rebellion of 1857 ?
text: Did you know that Beth Langston has played for the England women's cricket team six times: twice in 2013 and four times in 2016?
text: Did you know that the book Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism has been described as a "bleak account of the West's slide toward tyranny"?
text: Did you know that driving on Coventry ring road has been likened to a roller coaster and a Scalextric ?
text: Did you know that Major O. S. Kalkat stumbled upon plans of an invasion of Kashmir in 1947, but no one believed him until the invasion actually started?
text: Did you know that the Red Caboose Motel has the largest privately owned collection of railroad cabooses in the world?
text: Did you know that Klaviermusik mit Orchester , a 1923 piano concerto for the left hand by Paul Hindemith , was first performed in 2004 by Leon Fleisher and the Berlin Philharmonic ?
text: Did you know that the Polish activist Bartosz Staszewski created a series of photographs of LGBT people who live in " LGBT-free zones "?
text: Did you know that 14 players and the coach of the 1970 Wichita State Shockers football team died when its "Gold" plane crashed in the Colorado mountains?
text: Did you know that zebra tangs often associate with shoals of convict tangs ?
text: Did you know that John H. Dudley and his wife both worked on the Manhattan Project , but did not tell each other because of security restrictions?
text: Did you know that Japanese essayist Mineko Nomachi 's 2006 book I'm Queer But I'm An Office Lady details her experience as a transgender woman in a pink-collar job ?
text: Did you know that injector pens increase patient adherence in part by reducing the stigma surrounding injecting medication in public?
text: Did you know that the design of the Broadway–Chambers Building received a medal from the Paris Exposition of 1900 , addressed solely to "Monsieur Broadway-Chambers, Etats-Unis"?
text: Did you know that in 1833, English magistrate John Peele Clapham edited a children's hymn book which had numerous editions and a wide circulation?
text: Did you know that the Turkey men's U23/U24 team won the CMAS World Age Group Underwater Hockey Championships in 2019 for the third time in a row, becoming the only national team to accomplish this?
text: Did you know that U.S. Marine Corps captain Harold Willens returned four samurai swords to Japan after 27 years?
text: Did you know that in some societies, your spouse's sibling is also your sibling's spouse ?
text: Did you know that Johanna André , who appeared in dramatic soprano roles such as Wagner's Isolde , took part in the 1882 world premiere of Parsifal ?
text: Did you know that the Battle of Chippenham was part of a coordinated strike by Guthrum and Ubba to take Wessex ?
text: Did you know that Durbin Feeling was named a Cherokee National Treasure for his contributions to the preservation of the endangered Cherokee language ?
text: Did you know that the title of the ballet Polyphonia is a reference to micropolyphony , a kind of musical structure developed by composer György Ligeti ?
text: Did you know that a purchaser of Delaware radio station WJWL called the transaction "the longest deal in my lifetime"?
text: Did you know that a Christian writer claimed to have seen Yusuf II of Granada putting on a poisoned tunic , which caused the Sultan's death within thirty days?
text: Did you know that female spiders of the genus Diguetia stridulate while mating, and make a noise loud enough for humans to hear when they are harassed?
text: Did you know that after the Battle of Leptis Parva , the losers were spared—except for their commander, who was tortured to death?
text: Did you know that during the 2018 Women's Cricket Super League , Tash Farrant took a hat-trick , but her team still lost the match?
text: Did you know that US diplomats asked Poland not to name their new military base Fort Trump lest it be perceived as a vanity project and not a serious military proposal?
text: Did you know that the Singer Building , the world's tallest building when completed, later became the world's tallest building to be demolished?
text: Did you know that Helen Reddy said that her single " No Sad Song " sold poorly "because it put down men too much"?
text: Did you know that Thomas Edward Wilkinson was made Bishop of Zululand after his predecessor in South Africa, John Colenso , was excommunicated?
text: Did you know that three Prix Gémeaux categories for best drama were created after a boycott by Quebec production studios?
text: Did you know that stuntwoman Betty Danko earned $35 for riding the Wicked Witch's smoke-spewing broomstick in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz , and was hospitalized for eleven days after it exploded on her?
text: Did you know that the 500 brass rods that make up Walter De Maria 's The Broken Kilometer are polished every two years?
text: Did you know that Cristian Montaño spent 18 months out of English football after being sacked and arrested on criminal charges that were never proven?
text: Did you know that a 2020 study found that African countries which allowed foreign funding of NGOs had a higher voter turnout?
text: Did you know that finishers of the Sheffield Star Walk were rewarded with a hot mug of Oxo ?
text: Did you know that of the four set-piece land battles during the 23 years of the First Punic War , Hasdrubal took part in three as a general?
text: Did you know that Iowa's Matchstick Marvels Museum has large models created out of thousands of matchsticks that are glued one at a time?
text: Did you know that among the U.S. women's high school basketball class of 2016, ESPNW ranked Crystal Dangerfield as the best point guard ?
text: Did you know that supplied-air respirators , unlike N95 masks , can be used in atmospheres that are oxygen-deficient or immediately dangerous to life or health ?
text: Did you know that LaNada War Jack , a leader of the Third World Strike at UC Berkeley and the Occupation of Alcatraz during her student days, is today a distinguished professor of Native law and governance?
text: Did you know that the Friends of the Soviet Union was founded in 1941 with poet Rabindranath Tagore as its patron?
text: Did you know that Bronx Skate Park was built to prevent accidents in a nearby McDonald's parking lot?
text: Did you know that contralto Simone Schröder performed as a soloist at the Bayreuth Festival while she was still studying, and went on to sing there in three different productions of Parsifal ?
text: Did you know that a one-legged engineer rode the escalators at Earl's Court tube station on their first day of operation to reassure passengers of their safety?
text: Did you know that Gary Moore bought Peter Green 's Gibson Les Paul for around £100?
text: Did you know that a brass rod with a length of 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) was inserted into the ground as a permanent art installation in Kassel , Germany?
text: Did you know that American logistics in the Northern France campaign was impacted by a critical shortage of jerrycans , more than 2 million of which had been discarded or abandoned in Normandy?
text: Did you know that University Press Limited has won the National Book Centre Award of Bangladesh sixteen times since 1981?
text: Did you know that Go Nagai toned down the character of Akira Fudo , a human-like demon, in the manga Devilman in order to convey an anti-war message?
text: Did you know that Farooq Khan headed the Kashmiri Special Operations Group credited with the killing of more than 2,000 militants between 1994 and 1996?
text: Did you know that six years before releasing Total Freedom , Kathleen Edwards quit creating music and opened a coffee shop called Quitters?
text: Did you know that a print of Badnam Basti , often described as India's first gay film , was discovered in 2019 after having been lost for 40 years?
text: Did you know that American industrialist Roy James Carver 's company supplied self-priming pumps to the United States and Allied Forces navies during World War II?
text: Did you know that elements of the video game Fall Guys were inspired by the game shows Takeshi's Castle and Total Wipeout ?
text: Did you know that Hanna Ludwig appeared in the title role of Der Rosenkavalier at the Vienna State Opera , and in five roles at the first Bayreuth Festival after World War II?
text: Did you know that the hazards of artificial intelligence include algorithmic bias , blaming humans for machine errors, and human–robot collisions ?
text: Did you know that footpaths in Knutsford , England, built intentionally narrow by Jane Stanley to prevent 18th-century couples walking arm-in-arm, were only replaced in 2014?
text: Did you know that the A479 is one of Wales's most dangerous roads?
text: Did you know that Matthias Hölle , a regular bass singer at the Bayreuth Festival , appeared in the world premieres of Stockhausen's Donnerstag aus Licht and Samstag aus Licht at La Scala in Milan?
text: Did you know that the Maypole in the Strand ended up being Isaac Newton 's telescope stand?
text: Did you know that a protest against the trial of Indonesian journalist Asa Bafaqih drew some 1,000 journalists and supporters, and a fire-brigade band?
text: Did you know that The Unknown Comic in the 1984 film Night Patrol is a real-life stand-up comedian?
text: Did you know that the first item of the Havering hoard , the largest Bronze Age hoard found in London, was discovered by a 23-year-old archaeologist only four weeks into a temporary contract?
text: Did you know that Florence "Johnny" Frisbie 's 1948 autobiographical children's novel, Miss Ulysses of Puka-Puka , was the first published literary work by a Pacific Islander woman author?
text: Did you know that the teaser trailer for Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War features fragments of an interview with real-life KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov ?
text: Did you know that 4chan owner Hiroyuki Nishimura claims that 2channel , once "Japan's most popular online community", was stolen from him?
text: Did you know that the pipe organ of the Bridges Hall of Music at Pomona College consists of 3,519 pipes, and weighs 40,000 pounds (18,000 kg)?
text: Did you know that all three of the pleasure gardens run by the entrepreneur Thomas Clapham in Leeds and London failed due to debt and were sold for housing?
text: Did you know that the 2000 anime film Digimon Adventure: Our War Game! draws inspiration from WarGames , Speed , and Dr. Strangelove ?
text: Did you know that Alfredo Di Stéfano scored 6 international goals for Argentina and 23 for Spain ?
text: Did you know that the hashtag #KHive , used by an online support community for Kamala Harris which defends her from racist and sexist attacks, is a play on a hashtag used by fans of Beyoncé ?
text: Did you know that when his widowed mother remarried, James Gordon seized Rusco Tower and imprisoned her to ensure that she did not make it over to her new husband, whom he later killed?
text: Did you know that cellist, composer, and conductor Rudolf Hindemith was the brother of the famous Paul Hindemith , with whom he played in the Amar Quartet , but later used pseudonyms to hide the relation?
text: Did you know that misogynist terrorism is listed as a "rising threat" by counter-terrorism researchers?
text: Did you know that to raise desperately needed money, the first president of Pomona College , Cyrus G. Baldwin , built the first hydroelectric power station with high-voltage transmission in California in 1892?
text: Did you know that the nesting of the bare-shanked screech owl has only been studied once, within the cavity of an oak tree?
text: Did you know that Sir Robert Fletcher rose to command the East India Company 's Madras Army , despite being cashiered for his involvement in the 1766 Monghyr Mutiny ?
text: Did you know that the founder of Reynolds Brothers retired as chairman on his 100th birthday?
text: Did you know that sculptor Alfred Gilbert fled England twice—once for love, once for money?
text: Did you know that Vermont radio station WFAD was ordered to shut down just two weeks after it launched?
text: Did you know that Kanon Shizaki , the second voice actress for BanG Dream! 's Rinko Shirokane, was quickly embraced by fans and her Roselia bandmates, as her shyness mirrors her character's personality?
text: Did you know that a portion of the 2017 ballet The Times Are Racing is inspired by the video game Dance Dance Revolution ?
text: Did you know that the sponge Biemna variantia broods its young, and can also reproduce by budding and fragmentation?
text: Did you know that Edward B. Foley described the blue shift , a phenomenon in US elections showing that provisional ballots are more likely to be for Democrats and can change projected results after election day?
text: Did you know that many dishes in Lebanese cuisine can be traced back thousands of years to eras of Roman, Greek, Persian, Byzantine, Arab, Egyptian, and Phoenician rule?
text: Did you know that " a rat race is for rats. We're not rats. We're human beings "?
text: Did you know that in the 1815 Secret Treaty of Vienna , Britain and Austria sided with their former enemy France against former allies Prussia and Russia?
text: Did you know that Providence College president Brian Shanley invited Rhode Island Public Radio to broadcast over the college's station, WDOM , in the wake of Hurricane Sandy ?
text: Did you know that prior to his singing career, Thanasit Jaturaput was an international exchange student in Boise, Idaho , through the AFS Intercultural Programs ?
text: Did you know that the 1998 books Jews and the American Slave Trade and Jews, Slaves and the Slave Trade rebut the earlier work The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews , calling it a "handbook of hate" and "nine parts fable"?
text: Did you know that Patriarch Joseph el-Ruzzi promulgated the use of the Gregorian calendar in the Maronite Church , the first Eastern Christian church to do so, in 1606?
text: Did you know that, during their 1928–29 season , Cardiff City F.C. were relegated from the First Division of the Football League despite conceding the fewest goals in the league?
text: Did you know that imam Mahmoud Dicko , one of the most influential political figures in Mali today, announced that he was leaving politics despite never having run for office?
text: Did you know that the anti-gender movement claimed that the proposed 2016 Colombian peace agreement was "an instrument to impose gender ideology"?
text: Did you know that sumo wrestler Kitaharima Seiya reached the top division 85 tournaments and 14 years after making his debut?
text: Did you know that Aminé delayed the release of the music video for the song "Riri" from his album Limbo in order to participate in the George Floyd protests ?
text: Did you know that the Soviet Army during the early Cold War had a smaller number of military personnel per division than the US Army, partly because it used civilian labourers and anti-aircraft gunners?
text: Did you know that Mary Haʻaheo Atcherley was allowed to stand as a candidate for a seat in the senate of the Territory of Hawaii in 1920, but was legally prevented from holding the office if she won?
text: Did you know that the nudibranch Aeolidiella alderi attacks sea anemones with the stinging cells it has already acquired from other anemones?
text: Did you know that WHUM-TV featured a cooking show hosted by a woman who did not know how to cook and scoured for recipes at the local public library?
text: Did you know that the 1986 Soviet song " Khochu Peremen " is frequently sung by opponents of Alexander Lukashenko during the ongoing 2020 Belarusian protests ?
text: Did you know that World War II war correspondent James R. Shepley has been called the "father" of HBO ?
text: Did you know that the poem " Das Wandern ist des Müllers Lust " was first set to music by Schubert , and became a popular German Volkslied with the melody by Carl Friedrich Zöllner ?
text: Did you know that "fap" as an onomatopoeia for masturbation originates from the manga series Heartbroken Angels ?
text: Did you know that Mübeccel Argun , a Turkish-language presenter for the BBC World Service in London for 25 years, was formerly a physical-education teacher and one of the first female athletes in her country?
text: Did you know that the City Bank–Farmers Trust Building had a shooting gallery in the basement for the guards protecting the bank vault to practice in?
text: Did you know that all that remains of Willenhall House in north London are the gateposts?
text: Did you know that construction of the 195 m (640 ft) Gorkha Bridge in Nepal reconnected seven remote villages and reestablished a portion of a popular hiking trail?
text: Did you know that the Nazis blamed the Jews for starting World War II ?
text: Did you know that Stuart Threipland 's 18th-century medical chest is preserved in the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh ?
text: Did you know that Coventry City 's promotion following the 2018 EFL League Two play-off Final was their first for 51 years, since they were guided into the 1967–68 Football League First Division by Jimmy Hill ?
text: Did you know that the tiger snake eel uses its well-developed sense of smell to locate prey buried in the seabed?
text: Did you know that in Switched on Pop , a musicology professor uses the Britney Spears song " Oops!... I Did It Again " to explain counterpoint ?
text: Did you know that Alice Sheldon authored two stories in the feminist science fiction collection Aurora: Beyond Equality , as the editors were unaware that her two pseudonyms represented the same person?
text: Did you know that in both his 2010 film roles, Kjartan Hewitt 's characters notably attend a Broken Social Scene concert?
text: Did you know that by the time it closed this year, KissAnime was described as the world's most popular illegal anime streaming site?
text: Did you know that Kurt Szafranski , who was responsible for the success of the Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung in Germany, emigrated to the United States in 1935 where he co-founded the Black Star photo agency?
text: Did you know that Kanye West asked the collaborators on his album Jesus Is King not to engage in premarital sex ?
text: Did you know that Ugandan commander Godwin Sule was reportedly run over by one of his own tanks, contributing to the Ugandan defeat during the Battle of Lukaya ?
text: Did you know that a 1967 promotion by Virginia radio station WHIH , anticipated to receive 15,000 entries, instead received nearly 180 million?
text: Did you know that the Indiana Hoosiers ' victory in the 1976 NCAA Division I Basketball Championship Game completed the last undefeated season in NCAA Division I men's college basketball?
text: Did you know that the memoirs of the eunuch chamberlain Jawdhar are one of the most important sources on the history of the Fatimid Caliphate in the mid–10th century?
text: Did you know that death squad commander Otto Ohlendorf claimed that the extermination of 90,000 Jewish men, women, and children was a justified act of self-defense ?
text: Did you know that in 1975, Dick Bond introduced legislation to ban the sale of intoxicating beverages on university, college, and community campuses in Washington ?
text: Did you know that the path of Typhoon Yancy wobbled in a trochoidal pattern as it approached Taiwan?
text: Did you know that Rembrandt 's later prints make great use of surface tone , by leaving a thin film of ink on parts of the printing plate?
text: Did you know that a U.S. Republican candidate criticized rappers Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion 's song " WAP ", stating that it made him want to "pour holy water" in his ears?
text: Did you know that having routed their Scottish opponents at the Battle of Dunbar 370 years ago today, the cavalry of the English New Model Army sang the 117th Psalm ?
text: Did you know that eight judges recused themselves from proceedings following the fatal shooting of Greg Gunn ?
text: Did you know that multimedia artist Suki Seokyeong Kang paints a gouache painting every day as part of her work?
text: Did you know that Mark Williams won the most successive frames at the 2003 World Snooker Championship , despite losing the first two?
text: Did you know that Jean Kurt Forest played violin in German film orchestras in the 1930s, defected to the Red Army in 1945, and composed operas and film scores from 1954 onwards?
text: Did you know that the verse " There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus " was left out of the slave bible due to fears that it could incite rebellion?
text: Did you know that Los Angeles Dodgers ball boy Chico Herrera became a fan favorite after making impressive plays in pre-season games, and inspired the catchphrase "Don't Run on Chico"?
text: Did you know that Turbopolsa is the only player to win four Rocket League Championship Series titles?
text: Did you know that in the 1942 film Johnny Doughboy , former child stars Bobby Breen , " Alfalfa ", and " Spanky " play themselves as members of a club of Hollywood "has-beens"?
text: Did you know that ousted Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos and his wife Imelda left 400 pieces of unlawfully acquired jewelry in their palace and were caught smuggling out another $5–10 million worth of gems?
text: Did you know that Vera Little from Memphis , Tennessee, was for four decades a member of the Deutsche Oper Berlin , where she appeared as Bizet's Carmen and in the world premiere of Henze's Der junge Lord ?
text: Did you know that when the sea cucumber Holothuria hilla reproduces by fission , the regenerated part is often paler in colour than the original one?
text: Did you know that during World War II, the Polish-Jewish charity CENTOS cared for orphans in the Nazi ghettos in occupied Poland?
text: Did you know that Stella Immanuel claims that space alien DNA is used in medical treatments, that reptilians run the United States government, and that she uses hydroxychloroquine to cure COVID-19 ?
text: Did you know that the Confederate Army's 8th Missouri Infantry Regiment was considered a cavalry regiment, an infantry regiment, and an infantry battalion at different points of its existence?
text: Did you know that Theodor Scheidl , who participated in the pentathlon at the 1906 Olympic Games and in the 1928 Bayreuth Festival , appeared as Scarpia in Puccini's Tosca to celebrate his 75th birthday?
text: Did you know that a medal depicting Minerva , sometimes identified as the East India Company's Monghyr Mutiny Medal , may in fact be a Freemasons' award?
text: Did you know that D'Alton Corry Coleman was the first Canadian Pacific Railway president who was not listed in Burke's Peerage , and was described by Maclean's as "the Great Commoner"?
text: Did you know that in Eurovision Song Contest history , over 1,500 songs, representing 52 countries , have been performed?
text: Did you know that Argentinian LGBT-rights activist Carlos Jáuregui had a station named after him on the Buenos Aires Underground ?
text: Did you know that the Three Brothers was part of the English crown jewels for more than 90 years, but was lost to history after Charles I tried to pawn it?
text: Did you know that the Spanish city of Algeciras took down a statue of a medieval Islamic Spanish ruler for restoration in 2013 and has yet to put it back?
text: Did you know that Frank Howard was the oldest sitting member of the Louisiana House of Representatives by 2016?
text: Did you know that the adoption of early contractor involvement was a recommendation of the 1994 Latham Report into systemic failings in the British construction industry ?
text: Did you know that in 1977, three ex-members of the Byrds formed a rock supergroup partly modeled after Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young ?
text: Did you know that after the army he served in mutinied, Mathos became the leader of a 90,000-strong force in a war against ancient Carthage ?
text: Did you know that some medicines, such as vancomycin , may require higher doses in critically ill patients, due to augmented renal (kidney) clearance ?
text: Did you know that Rihanna was asked to stay at the Def Jam Recordings office until 3:00 a.m. in order to sign a contract, so that she would not sign with another label?
text: Did you know that Ulster Unionist Party politician Rosemary Barton highlighted concerns of intimidation from Gaelic football fans towards those who do not follow the sport?
text: Did you know that the Casa Fuerte de Adeje was built in Tenerife in the 1550s to protect a sugar mill against pirates, but the complex was destroyed by fire in 1902 and has yet to be rebuilt?
text: Did you know that before the Sunday Service Choir 's "Revelations 19:1" rendition was released, Kanye West sampled it on his song " Selah "?
text: Did you know that despite its name, Napoleon's Champ de Mai ceremony took place in June?
text: Did you know that almost a century after African-American brothers Irving and Herman Arthur were burnt alive at a fairground in Paris, Texas , their names were listed on a lynching memorial ?
text: Did you know that the tower of St. Michael , a church begun in the 12th century, dominated Fürth 's skyline for centuries?
text: Did you know that Royal B. Lord collected money for the 1931 Army–Navy Game at Yankee Stadium in Evangeline Booth 's tambourine?
text: Did you know that transmission of COVID-19 is known to occur through respiratory droplets , contaminated surfaces, kissing, and aerosol-generating medical procedures ?
text: Did you know that Carl Linde , a Swedish football Hall of Fame inductee, also participated in the founding of the International Table Tennis Federation ?
text: Did you know that Henry Cavendish calculated that the time difference between Church Row in Hampstead and Great Marlborough Street was 10.2 seconds?
text: Did you know that in 1921, before the partition of Ireland, Fermanagh County Council did not recognise the government of Northern Ireland and pledged allegiance to the Dáil Éireann ?
text: Did you know that Catholic priest Herbert Leuninger , a co-founder and speaker of Pro Asyl , is remembered as a "loudspeaker" for the interests of refugees?
text: Did you know that 1952's Exercise Ardent was the largest air exercise since World War II, involving around 1,300 aircraft and 200,000 personnel?
text: Did you know that Rolando Del Maestro used the principles of flight simulation to measure how well surgeons perform brain surgery?
text: Did you know that Ivy Hooks was one of only two women assigned to the original design team for the Space Shuttle orbiter ?
text: Did you know that Bruder Martin is an oratorio of seven scenes from the life of Martin Luther , written for the 500th anniversary of the Reformation by a Protestant librettist and a Catholic composer ?
text: Did you know that the New York City gay bar Metropolitan is situated at a site formerly occupied by a colonial-era cemetery?
text: Did you know that Taneko Suzuki , an expert in protein chemistry, led the development of a fish-based product that had the texture of hamburger and could be seasoned to taste like beef?
text: Did you know that the song " Cups (When I'm Gone) " features Anna Kendrick playing percussion with a cup , a skill she learned by watching viral videos?
text: Did you know that when pediatric neurologist David Gardner-Medwin retired, it took four doctors to replace him?
text: Did you know that actress Jamie Lee Curtis insured her legs for $1 million after signing an endorsement with L'eggs pantyhose?
text: Did you know that the Fauré Quartet , a piano quartet founded in 1995, participated in the world premiere and recording of Sven Helbig 's twelve Pocket Symphonies ?
text: Did you know that the English classicist Denys Page was both master of Jesus College, Cambridge , and president of the university's cricket club ?
text: Did you know that the Cleveland School fire , the deadliest in South Carolina history, took place on the day the school was to close for good?
text: Did you know that Joseph Clark gave some of his paintings titles in the Dorset dialect , in which his schoolmaster William Barnes wrote poetry?
text: Did you know that banana cream pie was ranked the favorite pie of the United States Armed Forces in the 1950s?
text: Did you know that Terpios hoshinota , a sponge that overgrows and kills corals, has spread extensively since being detected in Guam in 1973?
text: Did you know that American doctor Guy Gibson Campbell served as personal physician to Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie ?
text: Did you know that Batman and the Joker parade down the street daily at Warner Bros. Movie World ?
text: Did you know that Rear Admiral Timothy S. Matthews received an award from the Association of Old Crows ?
text: Did you know that a conservation professor who appeared in Extinction: The Facts described it as "surprisingly radical" for a David Attenborough documentary?
text: Did you know that Pope Francis 's encyclical Fratelli tutti is the first to be signed outside Rome ?
text: Did you know that American composer Norma Wendelburg studied at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and the Vienna Academy of Music on two Fulbright scholarships ?
text: Did you know that 47 people, including bystanders and an amateur reporter, were arrested in Warsaw at a protest against the detention of LGBT activist Margot in August 2020?
text: Did you know that a monumental plaque to Italian physician Giovanni Bianchi states: Nascitur infelix, vixit infelicior, obiit infelicissime (He was born unhappy, he lived more unhappy, he died maximally unhappy)?
text: Did you know that all three engines on Aeroflot Flight 6709 stopped at the same time, resulting in a deadly crash?
text: Did you know that designs by nail artist Jenny Bui have become part of Cardi B 's signature look?
text: Did you know that the results of the 1870 Londonderry City by-election were cited as evidence of co-operation between Episcopalian and Presbyterian voters in Ulster?
text: Did you know that the Division of Global Migration and Quarantine can legally detain a person entering the U.S. who may have one of nine quarantinable contagious diseases?
text: Did you know that the concept of the multimedia franchise BanG Dream! involves bands composed of voice actresses who can play their own instruments?
text: Did you know that Louis-Thomas Chabert de Joncaire convinced several Iroquois tribes to ally with the French against the English in 1711 through song?
text: Did you know that Ernest Hemingway watched the television adaptation of For Whom the Bell Tolls from a flea-bitten motel as the screenwriter held the " rabbit ears " for him?
text: Did you know that Anthony J. Costello and associates proposed in 2005 that the nerves within the "veil of Aphrodite" mainly supplied the prostate rather than the corpora cavernosa ?
text: Did you know that following the Treaty of Ripon , signed on this day in 1640, a Scottish army had their expenses paid by England, while occupying northern England?
text: Did you know that the queen and others apparently used to watch Malla kings taking baths in the Tusha Hiti ?
text: Did you know that horn player Helen Kotas Hirsch began performing with the Woman's Symphony Orchestra of Chicago at the age of 14?
text: Did you know that Ganni was founded in 2000 as a cashmere brand, but resurfaced and gained popularity as a contemporary designer label almost 20 years later?
text: Did you know that U.S. district judge Loretta Preska has presided over criminal cases against a basketball coach, a computer hacker, a Somali pirate, and a Rikers Island guard?
text: Did you know that Airborne Cigar confused German night fighters by broadcasting sound over the voices of their ground controllers?
text: Did you know that Saint Augustine believed that lying is un-Christian even when done to save a life?
text: Did you know that the Sahrawi refugee poet Al Khadra has written poems intended to inspire military revolution, including criticism of the Moroccan Western Sahara Wall ?
text: Did you know that the Tahtakale Hamam , one of the oldest public bathhouses in Istanbul , now serves as a shopping center?
text: Did you know that J. B. Clark , together with Aubrey Beardsley and William Strang , illustrated an edition of Lucian 's True History ?
text: Did you know that King of Beasts , a documentary about lion trophy hunting , was filmed during the same month as the killing of Cecil the lion ?
text: Did you know that Gabriel Scally of the Independent SAGE committee has described the British government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic as "too little, too late, too flawed"?
text: Did you know that nervous drivers can purchase a shuttle ride to get across the Chesapeake Bay Bridge ?
text: Did you know that when the army of Spendius was surrounded, his men ate their horses, their prisoners, and then their slaves before forcing him to negotiate?
text: Did you know that the children's picture book Julián Is a Mermaid was initially going to be about drag balls , until the author learned about the meaning of mermaids to transgender people?
text: Did you know that the hymn " Singt dem Herrn ein neues Lied " (Sing to the Lord a new song) was written in both French and German in Nazi-controlled Alsace in 1941?
text: Did you know that astrophysicist and space-weather specialist Professor Peter T. Gallagher led the building of Ireland's first serious radio telescope, the 3,000-antenna I- LOFAR , at Birr Castle ?
text: Did you know that choreographer Justin Peck cast himself in his ballet Rodeo: Four Dance Episodes when a dancer was injured the night before the premiere?
text: Did you know that Dina Pomeranz was ranked highest in social-media influence by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in its 2019 ranking of economists?
text: Did you know that one critic wrote that he had banned his children from watching Doctor Who due to the ending of the first episode of The Dalek Invasion of Earth ?
text: Did you know that P.O.W. was based on interviews with repatriated prisoners about communist "brainwashing treatment" during the Korean War ?
text: Did you know that Hargovinddas Kantawala defeated Mahatma Gandhi to become the president of the Gujarati Sahitya Parishad in 1919?
text: Did you know that Hounslow West is the only station on the London Underground to be step-free for manual-wheelchair users only?
text: Did you know that lumberman-turned-newspaper-publisher Wesley O. Smith served two terms in the state legislature, representing what are now six large counties in central Oregon ?
text: Did you know that Doppler radio direction finding is capable of measuring the direction of a stationary radio transmitter despite the Doppler effect being a phenomenon of movement?
text: Did you know that the smooth jazz – jazz fusion album Worth Waiting For was keyboardist Jeff Lorber 's only solo album to reach number one on the Billboard Contemporary Jazz Chart?
text: Did you know that a law blog has been cited by the supreme courts of Poland and of Germany ?
text: Did you know that Eli is an opera by Walter Steffens , who based the libretto on a mystery play by Nelly Sachs which dealt with the suffering of Israel?
text: Did you know that journalist Robert Evans had his hand broken by a member of the Proud Boys while covering the George Floyd protests in Portland, Oregon ?
text: Did you know that according to Slavic mythology , the creation of the world required the cooperation of a "good god" and an "evil god"?
text: Did you know that If You Could Be Mine was the first novel to win first prize in two different categories in the same year from the Publishing Triangle ?
text: Did you know that Pellegrino Strobel worked with Luigi Pigorini to study the Bronze Age Terramare culture in northern Italy?
text: Did you know that the essay " In Praise of Polytheism " dismisses all similarities between Enlightenment philosophy and striptease ?
text: Did you know that being introduced to Whiskey enabled one of Samuel Corson 's patients to regain his speech after 26 years?
text: Did you know that a group-stage match at the 2001 Malta Grand Prix snooker tournament was disrupted when electrical cables attached to the television lighting rig snapped and swung across the table ?
text: Did you know that the oath to Hitler sworn by members of the SS may have inspired the Hitler oath sworn by members of the Wehrmacht after 1934?
text: Did you know that Japanese voice actress Nene Hieda was a member of a 3x3 basketball team?
text: Did you know that Bang the Drum Slowly , in which Paul Newman stepped in and out of character to double as a Greek chorus , was called "daring television of rare quality"?
text: Did you know that the Philharmonia Quartet Berlin , formed by principal players of the Berlin Philharmonic , celebrated its 30th anniversary with a recording of all of Beethoven 's string quartets ?
text: Did you know that California maintains 16 checkpoints along its borders with Oregon , Nevada , and Arizona to help protect against an invasion by exotic lifeforms ?
text: Did you know that William Cuming missed the Battle of Trafalgar because he had to take Robert Calder back to England for a court-martial?
text: Did you know that the Japanese pop group Yaen , originally formed to perform a parody song on a television variety series, went on to produce three top-ten albums?
text: Did you know that the Vaccine Confidence Project was developed in response to a boycott of polio eradication efforts in Nigeria?
text: Did you know that Ann Oakley published the first sociological research that shows housework as being actual work?
text: Did you know that Baptist Hoffmann , a leading baritone at the Berlin Court Opera , appeared as Jochanaan in the first production of Salome there in 1906?
text: Did you know that the English Law (Application) Act 1962 ended legal recognition of seduction as a civil offence in Gibraltar?
text: Did you know that the sponge Halisarca caerulea forms part of a "sponge loop", absorbing large quantities of dissolved organic carbon , and returning the carbon to the sea as detritus ?
text: Did you know that Thomas Patrick Payne received the US Medal of Honor for the heroism he displayed five years ago today while liberating hostages during the offensive against ISIL in northern Iraq?
text: Did you know that Paleo-Indians began inhabiting Maryland around 10,000 BC?
text: Did you know that Nabela Qoser , a Hong Kong news reporter of Pakistani descent, learnt Cantonese as a child by watching television?
text: Did you know that the character Nina Cortex was intended by Traveller's Tales to debut in the video game Crash Twinsanity , but appeared in an earlier game without the development team's knowledge?
text: Did you know that American mine owner Charles Butters risked execution by firing squad to protect his mines during the 1926–27 Nicaraguan Civil War ?
text: Did you know that Francis Poulenc composed his Sinfonietta on a commission from the BBC ?
text: Did you know that sprinter Milkha Singh refused to accept the Arjuna Award , one of India's top sporting honours, citing undeserving awardees?
text: Did you know that the swamp scenes in The Caribbean Mystery feature a 350 lb (160 kg) alligator named Ben, who was appearing in his 435th film?
text: Did you know that ontopoetics holds that the world is psychoactive and can respond to us if engaged?
text: Did you know that Kathy Karpan was the first female director of the Office of Surface Mining ?
text: Did you know that Nogiwa Park was built around a 17th-century reservoir?
text: Did you know that The New York Times review of the 1955 television play No Time for Sergeants questioned whether Andy Griffith was "versatile enough to qualify for other important roles"?
text: Did you know that an investment banker was arrested after getting drunk and defecating on a food cart in the first-class section of an international flight 25 years ago today?
text: Did you know that before he died aged 46, Anton Ausserer had described 38 new species of tarantula ?
text: Did you know that it took Jerome Robbins two years to choreograph the 16-minute-long ballet A Suite of Dances for dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov ?
text: Did you know that the Inuit identity of sipiniq referred to individuals who were believed to have changed their physical sex at the moment of birth, but were socialized as members of their original gender?
text: Did you know that Wiebke Lehmkuhl was the alto soloist in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony at the 2017 opening of the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg?
text: Did you know that thunderstorms from Hurricane Dolores flooded the Moreno Valley , destroyed a bridge on Interstate 10 , and killed a man by lightning strike?
text: Did you know that the 8th-century Chinese poet Niu Yingzhen was reportedly able to learn texts by dreaming that she ate the actual copies, then discussed them with deceased male scholars?
text: Did you know that the solution to Pell's equation was mistakenly attributed to mathematician John Pell ?
text: Did you know that Claude Rains 's reference to the Nazis' "gas ovens" was cut from the audio during the broadcast of Judgment at Nuremberg due to an objection by a gas-company sponsor?
text: Did you know that the Austrian entomologist Gustav Mayr named more than 500 new species of ant ?
text: Did you know that Berkeley humorist Alice Kahn described the Grateful Dead 's Jerry Garcia as a "hippie abominable snowman"—and he liked it?
text: Did you know that the pre-launch test of the mobile game One Piece Bounty Rush had one million players?
text: Did you know that the private collections of Giuseppe Saverio Poli formed the foundation of the Zoological Museum of Naples ?
text: Did you know that the Pink Loerie Mardi Gras and Arts Festival celebrates LGBTQ culture with Wigstock events for drag queens , a bear fest, athletic events, and an art festival?
text: Did you know that former math teacher Dominic Gates won a Pulitzer Prize for his aerospace reporting?
text: Did you know that the weekly radio show The Northern Messenger read out personal messages from around the world to friends and family in the Arctic who could not be reached in any other way during the winter?
text: Did you know that in the 2003 ballet Carnival of the Animals , actor John Lithgow appeared as a school nurse and a female elephant?
text: Did you know that when the Bureau of Medical Services was ordered to shut down all U.S. Public Health Service Hospitals , the director of the Seattle hospital simply refused to stop admitting patients?
text: Did you know that Keiji Nishioka , a Japanese botanist, was the first foreigner to receive the Bhutanese honorific Dasho ?
text: Did you know that a 1953 television special broadcast simultaneously on NBC and CBS attracted 60 million viewers and was called "a milestone in the cultural life of the '50s"?
text: Did you know that visitors leave offerings of makeup and Barbie dolls at a shrine to a German girl who died in Singapore in 1914?
text: Did you know that the tur pod bug is the most damaging sap-sucking pest of the pigeon pea in India?
text: Did you know that 130 historians protested the Institute of National Remembrance 's removal of Adam Puławski from his position researching Polish–Jewish relations during World War II?
text: Did you know that a book about the life of gnomes remained on U.S. non-fiction best-seller lists for more than a year?
text: Did you know that Mark Davis withdrew from the second 2020 European Masters after his snooker cue was stolen?
text: Did you know that a makeup artist used a rubber mask and fake nose to age Julie Harris by 60 years in the Emmy-winning "program of the year" Victoria Regina ?
text: Did you know that the six members of Navika Sagar Parikrama , an all-female crew who circumnavigated the globe, received India's highest adventure award in 2017?
text: Did you know that Albert Heschong parlayed his childhood interest in model boats and Erector Sets into building huge stage sets, including a $15,000 Victorian house for ABC's Pulitzer Prize Playhouse ?
text: Did you know that the first of the Punic Wars began in 264 BC, and the third and last ended 118 years later?
text: Did you know that the New York State Agricultural Society annually recognizes farms that have been owned and operated by one family for a hundred years ?
text: Did you know that conductor Eugen Szenkar , who promoted works by Béla Bartók and Gustav Mahler in Germany, Russia, and Brazil, caused a "near riot" with the world premiere of The Miraculous Mandarin ?
text: Did you know that Albert Johnson was the first black mayor in New Mexico ?
text: Did you know that the fish-for-finance trade-off in EU–UK trade negotiations pits an industry that accounts for nearly seven per cent of the UK's GDP against one with revenues less than those of Harrods ?
text: Did you know that a ten-day silent retreat led Deradoorian to invite Dave Harrington to collaborate on her 2020 album Find the Sun ?
text: Did you know that Myra Kathleen Hughes 's Vanishing London series captured several landmarks before they were demolished?
text: Did you know that "microatolls" of the coral Porites lutea have been used to study past changes in sea level?
text: Did you know that A Night to Remember , a live broadcast about Titanic 's final night, featured 107 actors and 31 sets, and proved that "TV occasionally can rise to great heights"?
text: Did you know that cricketer Issy Wong can solve a Rubik's Cube in seconds?
text: Did you know that Turkey women's national footballer Berivan İçen scored 11 goals in a girls' under-13 league match that ended 15–0 for her team?
text: Did you know that Wilson Cary Swann organized the construction of several drinking fountains in Philadelphia , in part to stop people from drinking alcohol?
text: Did you know that (523764) 2014 WC 510 is a binary , trans-Neptunian object that orbits the Sun only once every 245.8 years?
text: Did you know that Swiss civil engineer Jürg Conzett designed a footbridge that collapsed in a rockslide after three years of use?
text: Did you know that choreographer Jerome Robbins planned Dances at a Gathering as a pas de deux for two New York City Ballet dancers, but expanded it to five couples?
text: Did you know that the organ of St. Gallus in Flörsheim was built before the church?
text: Did you know that photographer Heji Shin created Big Cocks , a series of portraits of roosters that she admired for their "angry cock energy"?
text: Did you know that Russian Bank , also known as Crapette or Tunj, has been called "probably the best game for two players ever invented"?
text: Did you know that the name, sound and concept of the album What the Future Holds by Steps derives purely from the lyrics of the title track?
text: Did you know that state representative Angela Russell introduced legislation to recognize Martin Luther King Jr. Day in Montana ?
text: Did you know that five-time world chess champion Viswanathan Anand and India's first woman Everest climber Bachendri Pal received the Arjuna Award in the 1980s , then India's highest sporting honour?
text: Did you know that a dispute between Llywelyn ap Gruffudd and Roger Mortimer over the rebuilding of Cefnllys Castle was one of the factors that led to Edward I's conquest of Wales ?
text: Did you know that soprano Ilse Helling-Rosenthal , her husband , and two others formed a vocal ensemble that appeared as the soloists in Bruckner's Te Deum at the Leipzig Gewandhaus in 1920?
text: Did you know that Belgian waffles were introduced to the United States at the 1964 New York World's Fair ?
text: Did you know that the American tubist Constance Weldon "fell in love with the tuba" after her father brought one home from a pawn shop?
text: Did you know that the National Covenant was signed after protests possibly started by Jenny Geddes throwing a stool at the dean of St Giles' ?
text: Did you know that it took until 2009 to determine which of two apostles was the patron of the 14th-century church of St. Jacobi in Werther ?
text: Did you know that the YouTube channel All Gas No Brakes contains interviews with flat earthers , QAnon adherents, and other groups that its host says represent "true Americana"?
text: Did you know that French historian Josette Elayi was made a knight of the Legion of Honour by the French government for her works on Phoenician history?
text: Did you know that My Lonesome Cowboy , a sculpture created by artist Takashi Murakami as a companion to his earlier Hiropon , sold at auction for US$15.1 million – nearly four times the amount at which it had been valued?
text: Did you know that the New York Tribune Building , once New York City's second tallest building, "vanished almost without a trace, and barely a whimper"?
text: Did you know that Büşra Kuru , who began playing football every day at age six encouraged by her footballer brother, is a member of a German club and of the Turkey national team ?
text: Did you know that the Bureau of State Services was broken up to become the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency , Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , and parts of two other agencies?
text: Did you know that Anna Tifu , a violinist from Cagliari , Sardinia, who won the 2007 George Enescu International Competition , plays a 1716 Stradivarius ?
text: Did you know that the encrusting sponge Clathria aceratoobtusa kills corals?
text: Did you know that Dances with Wolves was filmed on a 60,000-acre (24,000 ha) ranch owned by L. Roy Houck , a former lieutenant governor of South Dakota ?
text: Did you know that reprinted editions of the 1989 manga series Okama Report contain a postscript from an LGBT-rights group noting that the series contains exaggerated and inaccurate depictions of LGBT people?
text: Did you know that former ballet dancer Edward Villella said that when he performed Tarantella , he "would be flying", and then "in the wings, on the ground, gasping for air"?
text: Did you know that a prominent obituary of Socorro Sánchez , the first feminist journalist in the Dominican Republic, criticized her as "manly" and too political?
text: Did you know that in public opinion polls, a majority of Americans believe that Jeffrey Epstein's death was a homicide?
text: Did you know that most editions of the annual Brit Asia TV Music Awards were held in Birmingham , which has been called the " Bhangra capital of the world"?
text: Did you know that the fossil Rhus garwellii likely hybridized with other sumac species in the Klondike Mountain Formation ?
text: Did you know that Canadian Amateur Hockey Association president E. A. Gilroy allowed Canadians to play for Great Britain in ice hockey at the 1936 Winter Olympics as a gesture of sportsmanship?
text: Did you know that limpa , a sweet Scandinavian rye bread, was historically leavened with fermented brewer's wort ?
text: Did you know that Paul McCartney named a puppy after Brown Meggs , who signed the Beatles to Capitol Records ?
text: Did you know that Dawa Dem was the first woman to join the Bhutanese civil service and to become a member of the Royal Advisory Council ?
text: Did you know that sponsors refused to back the lynching story A Town Has Turned to Dust until writer Rod Serling moved the setting out of the South and changed the victim from black to Mexican?
text: Did you know that Irish Conservative candidate William McCormick won the 1860 Londonderry City by-election partly because of the support of his Catholic workers, who had previously voted for the Liberal Party?
text: Did you know that Angela Haseltine Pozzi creates large sculptures of marine life out of plastic waste?
text: Did you know that Wahan Ke Log is one of the earliest science-fiction films made in India?
text: Did you know that Walther Killy , who wrote his dissertation about Hölderlin 's poems, published a literary lexicon which came to be known as "Der Killy"?
text: Did you know that the New York World Building , once New York City's tallest building, was demolished to make room for a ramp to the Brooklyn Bridge ?
text: Did you know that Bernard Fils-Aimé , CEO of the cell carrier Comcel Haiti , was mistaken for Reggie Fils-Aimé by the Miami Herald ?
text: Did you know that a COVID-19 outbreak at the White House involved at least 35 people, including the President , First Lady , three senators, and a governor ?
text: Did you know that the number of Tibetan refugees in India decreased by 44 per cent between 2011 and 2018?
text: Did you know that John H. Hill , born into slavery, was the first African-American lawyer in West Virginia and the second president of West Virginia State University ?
text: Did you know that xenoracism is a term that describes prejudice within one racial group, such as discrimination against Eastern European migrant workers in Western Europe?
text: Did you know that the former site of the Majestic Cinema , Leeds , which was gutted by fire in 2014, will become the national headquarters of Channel 4 ?
text: Did you know that an impromptu sound-check by Dan Bellomy turned into the first track on an album?
text: Did you know that actor Robert De Niro gained 60 pounds (27 kg) and trained as a boxer for a year to portray Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull ?
text: Did you know that the title and cover art for Molchat Doma 's 2018 album Etazhi reference the Stalinist and socialist-realist architecture that inspired its lyrical themes?
text: Did you know that Kathleen Byerly was one of six sailors who sued the U.S. Navy for the right to serve on ships?
text: Did you know that the yellow sponge Aplysina aerophoba turns blue when exposed to air?
text: Did you know that in preparation for the ballet Glass Pieces , choreographer Jerome Robbins marked down the structure of Philip Glass 's music on graph paper?
text: Did you know that Austrian-born Turkish footballer Dilan Yeşim Taşkın became a member of the Turkey women's national team although she initially wanted to play for the Austrian national team ?
text: Did you know that two weeks after the owner of a Kansas City television station declared that " KCIT-TV is here to stay", it ceased broadcasting?
text: Did you know that the commercial success of Juluka 's " Scatterlings of Africa " enabled band co-founder Johnny Clegg to leave his academic position as an anthropologist and become a full-time musician?
text: Did you know that the Santa Fe Freight Building in Fort Worth, Texas , was redeveloped as a market space with restaurants in 2002 and then as a university satellite campus in 2007?
text: Did you know that the Global Certification Commission has certified the eradication of wild poliovirus in five of the six WHO regions , with the exception of the Eastern Mediterranean Region?
text: Did you know that political consultant Andy Spahn said that Cuba is "nothing like" how it has been portrayed by U.S. politicians?
text: Did you know that " Einer ist unser Leben " ("One is our Life"), a hymn with text written by Lothar Zenetti in 1973, was recommended for a regional ecumenical service in 2020?
text: Did you know that a 1998 inquest found that the killing of Alton Manning was unlawful , and a judicial review found that the decision to not bring charges was flawed, but no charges have yet been filed?
text: Did you know that when the 2,500-seat Bridges Auditorium was completed in Claremont, California , in 1931, its capacity was equal to the population of the entire city?
text: Did you know that the 1936 film Hearts in Bondage is a rare example of a Hollywood film depicting naval battles of the Civil War ?
text: Did you know that Gerhard Weber signed tennis player Steffi Graf , at age 17 and before her international success, as an ambassador for the fashion brand Gerry Weber that he co-founded?
text: Did you know that the Soviet Union called The Plot to Kill Stalin "filthy slander" and retaliated by closing the CBS news bureau in Moscow?
text: Did you know that Hans Ustrud was the first native-born South Dakotan to be elected to statewide office?
text: Did you know that all that can be seen of Thyone roscovita is often a plume of branching tentacles?
text: Did you know that aerobics pioneer Jacki Sorensen was voted the best dancer in the 1962 Miss California pageant?
text: Did you know that the British Board of Film Classification was forced to watch paint dry ?
text: Did you know that today's London Marathon is not being run on its usual course, but instead as 19.6 laps around St James's Park , to prevent spectators from attending?
text: Did you know that Aran Bell , who was profiled at age 11 in the dance documentary First Position , became a principal dancer for the American Ballet Theatre at age 21?
text: Did you know that despite being very aggressive towards other ants, the common pugnacious ant is tolerant towards ants of its own species from other colonies?
text: Did you know that Kanye West used an extended version of his track " Jesus Is Lord " under the title of "Every Knee Shall Bow" for his film Jesus Is King ?
text: Did you know that Myint Myint Khin , a professor at the Institute of Medicine, Mandalay , and a WHO consultant, published her first English-language poetry collection at age 89?
text: Did you know that the decommissioned minesweeper USS Lucid was used as a floating warehouse by a scrap-metal dealer on Bradford Island for 18 years?
text: Did you know that women called Honey Badgers are among the most prominent men's rights activists ?
text: Did you know that scientist Emma Teeling of the BatLab in Dublin studies a genus of bats which do not appear to die of old age?
text: Did you know that the Excelsior Power Company Building , the oldest known surviving power plant in Manhattan , now contains apartments?
text: Did you know that mezzo-soprano Marina de Gabaráin appeared as Bizet's Carmen in Scotland, and as Rossini's La Cenerentola in Glyndebourne in 1952, recorded the following year?
text: Did you know that step aerobics attracted 11.4 million people in 1995?
text: Did you know that New York's Continental Iron Works , founded in 1861 by Thomas F. Rowland , built the Union Navy warship that engaged in the first battle between ironclads ?
text: Did you know that in the early 20th century, residents of Mġarr , Malta, were encouraged to contribute eggs to raise funds for the construction of their parish church ?
text: Did you know that The Ghost and the Guest is one in a long line of Hollywood films that validate skepticism about paranormal activity by depicting "a haunted house that is not truly haunted"?
text: Did you know that a former department store building in New York City was converted into a graduate school, publisher's offices, and research library?
text: Did you know that when Annette Jahns portrayed Bettina von Arnim in an opera by Friedrich Schenker , the role required her to scream as well as sing?
text: Did you know that unauthorized persons are not allowed to go to Hooks Island ?
text: Did you know that The Lodger , released in 1913, was the first fictional work based on the story of the serial killer known as Jack the Ripper ?
text: Did you know that President Franklin D. Roosevelt regarded Senator Huey Long of Louisiana as "one of the two most dangerous men in America"?
text: Did you know that according to the superseded Catholic doctrine that " error has no rights ", non-Catholics did not deserve civil or political rights?
text: Did you know that traditional English singer Pop Maynard was also captain of a world-champion marbles team?
text: Did you know that Polish-French author Anna Langfus , a Holocaust survivor, wrote novels that had her own life experiences interwoven into the fiction?
text: Did you know that the 1960 television play Sacco-Vanzetti Story was called "one of the most controversial ever seen on television"?
text: Did you know that Robert Burg , a leading baritone at the Semperoper in Dresden between the First and Second World Wars, performed the title roles of Busoni's Doktor Faust and Hindemith's Cardillac there?
text: Did you know that as one of its campus traditions , Pomona College reveres the number 47 , having the bell in its clock tower chime on the 47th minute of the hour?
text: Did you know that the Maratha Empire 's direct rule came to an end in the Carnatic region when Murari Rao surrendered to Nizam I after the 1743 siege of Trichinopoly ?
text: Did you know that Bill Nation rejected an attempt by the American Nazi Party to establish a headquarters in Cheyenne, Wyoming ?
text: Did you know that after an erotic encounter with a young wife in London's Seething Lane , diarist Samuel Pepys bought the lady eight pairs of gloves?
text: Did you know that the Eocene -age plant Paraconcavistylon was described from a "Rosetta Stone" fossil?
text: Did you know that as an advisor to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Paul Alexander tried unsuccessfully to tell Dr. Anthony Fauci what he could and could not say about the coronavirus ?
text: Did you know that Greece is the only state to have left the Council of Europe ?
text: Did you know that the owners of Florida radio station WPAS blamed an Associated Press teletype machine for starting a fire that burned it down?
text: Did you know that Saefullah was acting governor of Jakarta for 40 hours?
text: Did you know that the Madison Belmont Building contains one of the first Art Deco designs in a building in the United States?
text: Did you know that Leon Uris called Rod Serling 's In the Presence of Mine Enemies "the most disgusting presentation in the history of American television" and demanded that the negative be burned?
text: Did you know that " Macht weit die Pforten in der Welt ", written for the Basel Mission , was included with a new melody in Kirchenlied to proclaim Christ the King in opposition to the Nazi regime?
text: Did you know that the press conference held at a Philadelphia landscaping company by Donald Trump's presidential campaign has inspired a virtual charity run to be held today?
text: Did you know that a foundation set up by Pragya Prasun has supported more than 250 survivors of acid attacks ?
text: Did you know that although " O Captain! My Captain! ", written on the death of Abraham Lincoln , was one of Walt Whitman 's most popular poems, he grew to be "almost sorry" he wrote it?
text: Did you know that the Overa-Aru Wildlife Sanctuary lies within the distributional range of the critically endangered Kashmir stag ?
text: Did you know that social activist Lee Hyo-jae 's efforts helped abolish South Korea's patriarchal naming system, allowing people to use both parents' surnames?
text: Did you know that the old baptismal font of the Vaxholm Church became a bird bath ?
text: Did you know that in 1997, Princess Diana donated her entire wardrobe to a charity auction organized by AIDS activist Marguerite Littman , which raised more than $3 million?
text: Did you know that the lady beetle Cryptognatha nodiceps helps control coconut scales and coconut whiteflies ?
text: Did you know that Judah Leib Ben-Ze'ev composed the earliest known Hebrew erotic poems of the modern era?
text: Did you know that during the 2018 Grande Tema incident , four stowaways threw faeces and urine and made threats to kill the ship's crew?
text: Did you know that 13 years after it was initially announced, Jay Electronica released his album Act II: The Patents of Nobility (The Turn) because it had leaked online ?
text: Did you know that although he was the eldest son of Byzantine emperor Andronikos I Komnenos , Manuel Komnenos was not named as heir, as he opposed his father's policies?
text: Did you know that Major will be the first rescue dog to live in the White House ?
text: Did you know that the ancient city of Prusias ad Hypium in Asia Minor was visited by the Roman emperors Hadrian , Caracalla , and Elagabalus ?
text: Did you know that years before their Neon Genesis Evangelion series became famous, Gainax 's first anime, Royal Space Force , was marketed in Japan by staging a Hollywood premiere?
text: Did you know that National Lacrosse Hall of Fame member Denise Wescott also coached the Germany women's national lacrosse team?
text: Did you know that the Hokersar wetland is the largest bird reserve in the Kashmir Valley ?
text: Did you know that the Japanese mezzo-soprano Mihoko Fujimura , who appeared as Fricka at the Bayreuth Festival in 2002, toured Mahler's Resurrection Symphony with the CBSO conducted by Andris Nelsons ?
text: Did you know that the Columbus Quincentenary was a turning point for how the world remembered Christopher Columbus?
text: Did you know that the ǃUriǁʼaekua used their cattle to defeat the Portuguese Empire decisively at the Battle of Salt River ?
text: Did you know that Leda Valladares produced a "Musical Map of Argentina" to document her country's folk music traditions?
text: Did you know that an estimated tens of thousands of U.S. federal workers could lose due-process job protections by being shifted into Schedule F appointments ?
text: Did you know that Chris Lines has won five promotions during his professional football career?
text: Did you know that firefighters were able to save the campground at Alaska's Hidden Lake from the 2019 Swan Lake Fire by creating a back burn with driptorches ?
text: Did you know that the video game Serious Sam Advance simulates 3D computer graphics on the Game Boy Advance ?
text: Did you know that in For the beauty of the earth , a 1978 anthem for choir and orchestra, John Rutter gave a 19th-century hymn text a new melody, marking it to be sung "Happily"?
text: Did you know that the 17th-century Maine magistrate Richard Bonython tried his own son?
text: Did you know that the crown of the General Electric Building in Midtown Manhattan contains Gothic tracery and four 50-foot-tall (15 m) electric deities?
text: Did you know that the 1990 Hindi film Drishti , which follows the story of a married couple who divorce and later meet again, has been praised for its "harsh look at monogamy"?
text: Did you know that 19th-century Mormonism embraced the desire for a slow, dramatic, "beautiful death" with plenty of witnesses?
text: Did you know that Pierre Bleuse , who learned conducting after a career as a violinist, was chosen by composer Michael Jarrell to lead his opera Cassandre , starring Fanny Ardant ?
text: Did you know that the Fijian fruit fly feeds on the yum-yum tree ?
text: Did you know that two Royal Navy ships named HMS Surly were launched within a year of each other: an 1855 mortar vessel and an 1856 gunboat ?
text: Did you know that American diplomat John B. Stetson Jr. gave a book bound in human skin to Harvard's Houghton Library ?
text: Did you know that in Ainu mythology , it is believed that a gigantic octopus god lives in Uchiura Bay ?
text: Did you know that although Saluche was blacklisted by the Unity Labour Party for his political jokes, the ULP prime minister attended his funeral?
text: Did you know that the costumes of the ballet In Creases are modified from old leotards from another ballet and unused unitards ?
text: Did you know that Maddalena Mariani Masi performed the title role of Ponchielli's La Gioconda in the 1876 world premiere at La Scala ?
text: Did you know that the Book of Ezekiel prophesied Nebuchadnezzar II 's Siege of Tyre , which lasted 13 years?
text: Did you know that despite opposing the establishment of Georgetown College , Francis Neale later became its president?
text: Did you know that the Israeli Nazis and Nazi Collaborators (Punishment) Law was intended to punish Holocaust survivors rather than Holocaust perpetrators?
text: Did you know that an estimated 12 percent of those who voted for Bernie Sanders in the 2016 presidential primaries voted for Donald Trump in the general election ?
text: Did you know that German native Marianne Ignace is helping to preserve indigenous languages in British Columbia?
text: Did you know that Giovanni's Room both influenced and appears in the 2020 novel Swimming in the Dark , a gay love story set in the last years of the Polish People's Republic ?
text: Did you know that Jerome Robbins was commissioned by the New York City Ballet to choreograph the ballet Fanfare in celebration of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II ?
text: Did you know that James Bond introduced himself for the first time on film at Les Ambassadeurs Club ?
text: Did you know that although the suffix automaton , a data structure used in computer science , was introduced in 1983, it appeared in a 1973 scholarly article as an auxiliary structure?
text: Did you know that when he is sworn in next year, Mark Robinson will become the first Black lieutenant governor of North Carolina ?
text: Did you know that the Gulmarg Wildlife Sanctuary acts as a natural corridor in the movement of the Himalayan brown bear and markhor between Poonch and the Kashmir Valley forests?
text: Did you know that the architect who was hired to remodel 5 Columbus Circle 's lower stories later expressed regret for the renovation?
text: Did you know that Rui Pinto uncovered four terabytes of confidential information about association football finances despite having no formal education in computer science?
text: Did you know that the development of the video game Serious Sam VR: The Last Hope was affected by two developers suffering injuries during a football match?
text: Did you know that Victor Jory 's first major screen role as a lecherous landlord in the 1933 film Sailor's Luck was praised as "deliciously slimy" and "insanely funny"?
text: Did you know that the British conspiracy-theory and Holocaust-denial group Keep Talking unites the far right and far left?
text: Did you know that after 28 years away from public media, José Antonio Álvarez Lima was tapped in 2019 to head the Mexican television channel Canal Once ?
text: Did you know that one reviewer of the book The South's Finest called it "chronically and annoyingly" melodramatic?
text: Did you know that table-tennis player Isabelle Li received a standing ovation despite losing the final at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics ?
text: Did you know that only the refrain of " Herr, wir bringen in Brot und Wein ", a 1970 offertory hymn written after Huub Oosterhuis , appeared in the first edition of Gotteslob , but the complete text in the second ?
text: Did you know that the Royal Navy cutter HMS Surly carried almost £96,000 in coin between Dublin and London in 1825?
text: Did you know that Pawnee professional roller skater Bright Star was called "the fastest man on wheels"?
text: Did you know that Fulper Pottery produced a precursor to the modern water cooler named the Germ-Proof Filter?
text: Did you know that the Polish public-television film Invasion "depicted LGBT rights activists as a foreign-backed threat to Polish children, religion, values, and the very biological continuation of the nation"?
text: Did you know that before Carole Dawn Reinhart was appointed professor of trumpet at the Vienna Music Academy , she performed in several of Al Hirt 's Fanfare shows in 1965?
text: Did you know that the Gozo Phoenician shipwreck excavation is the first maritime archaeological survey to explore sunken vessels beyond a depth of 100 metres (330 ft)?
text: Did you know that Edgar Claxton helped set up electrification of the UK mainline railway in the 1960s, and was awarded an MBE ?
text: Did you know that the character of Swiss-type cheeses comes from originally being made on high alpage pastures, as part of the historic culture of Alpine transhumance ?
text: Did you know that German children's author Kirsten Boie has published more than 100 books?
text: Did you know that bishop Hermann of Schleswig was never actually bishop of Schleswig ?
text: Did you know that Cleveland Indigenous activist Sundance successfully petitioned Oberlin High School in Ohio to change its school mascot from the Indians to the Phoenix in 2007?
text: Did you know that a Carthaginian army trapped 40,000 rebels and starved them into cannibalism before attacking and killing every man at the Battle of the Saw ?
text: Did you know that Moneyball depicted Grady Fuson being fired by the Oakland Athletics , though in reality he left voluntarily?
text: Did you know that the Japanese rock band Real spells its name with the Cyrillic letter Я to indicate a desire to show the band's "real inside and outside"?
text: Did you know that Daisy Yen Wu helped establish the new field of nutrition research at Peking Union Medical College ?
text: Did you know that the world's first fusion reactor was called the Diffusion Inhibitor so managers at NACA would not know what it was?
text: Did you know that the Moriguchi Route in Osaka has a mini rest area on one of its entrance ramps?
text: Did you know that American fashion designer Michelle Smith created the dress chosen for Michelle Obama’s official portrait ?
text: Did you know that the Marri rose in rebellion in Balochistan in 1918 because they heard rumours of British defeats in the First World War ?
text: Did you know that Jean Ritchie formed her own record label "out of self-defense" following distribution problems with None but One ?
text: Did you know that Anna Hájková says her research into LGBT people and the Holocaust "shows a more complex, more human, and more real society beyond monsters and saints"?
text: Did you know that the parasitic wasp Diadegma semiclausum can help to control the diamondback moth , a pest that has become resistant to many insecticides?
text: Did you know that John R. Casani used to carry the Pioneer 3 and Pioneer 4 spacecraft in a suitcase?
text: Did you know that a rare microscope designed by Joseph Zentmayer is on display at the Delaware County Institute of Science ?
text: Did you know that the unusual given name of Chilean travel writer Maipina de la Barra commemorates the Battle of Maipú , in which her father fought?
text: Did you know that one of the inhabited initials of the 12th-century Necrologium Lundense illuminated manuscript shows influences from Viking art ?
text: Did you know that former NCAA president Judith Sweet chose to pursue a career in physical education following a blind date?
text: Did you know that the 1906–1907 weekly Der nayer veg ( The New Path ) contained some of the earliest critical scholarly writings on Yiddish language and literature?
text: Did you know that First World War flying ace Max Näther was appointed as commander of his squadron at age 18?
text: Did you know that the theme tune to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is actually an Eagles song?
text: Did you know that Faustas Latėnas , vice-minister of Lithuania's Ministry of Culture , composed incidental music , film scores, and a string quartet subtitled "In loving memory"?
text: Did you know that though it received mixed reviews at its release in 1987, Floodland by the Sisters of Mercy is now considered an essential gothic rock album?
text: Did you know that despite the biggest missing-person investigation in the history of the Toronto Police Service , no physical evidence regarding the 1985 disappearance of Nicole Morin was ever found?
text: Did you know that the ballet Hurry Up, We're Dreaming is performed in sneakers?
text: Did you know that medieval Russians sometimes built churches in one day to ward off epidemics?
text: Did you know that serial entrepreneur John Teeling broke the monopoly in Irish whiskey held by Irish Distillers by launching Cooley Distillery ?
text: Did you know that a newly discovered species of green pit viper, Trimeresurus salazar , was named after Salazar Slytherin from the Harry Potter series?
text: Did you know that the Chapel at the United Nations is a popular site for interfaith marriage ceremonies?
text: Did you know that the Polish Kresy myth has been compared to the American myth of the Wild West and the German nostalgia for East Prussia?
text: Did you know that Newton Collins was enslaved, manumitted , re-enslaved, and emancipated before becoming a successful businessman and landowner?
text: Did you know that although the bronze-leaved clerodendrum is an ornamental garden shrub, it sometimes becomes naturalised and may become an invasive species ?
text: Did you know that " Levels " samples the intro from the Etta James song " Something's Got a Hold on Me "?
text: Did you know that Busiri Suryowinoto was the first governor to propose splitting the province of Papua ?
text: Did you know that the early French science-fiction novel Memoirs of the Year 2500 was one of the most popular titles of the 18th century, despite being banned by the Holy See and the Inquisition ?
text: Did you know that as part of a famous priority dispute , E. T. Whittaker's 1953 book claimed that Henri Poincaré and Hendrik Lorentz developed the theory of special relativity before Albert Einstein ?
text: Did you know that journalist Robert Sam Anson , assigned to cover boxer Joe Frazier , instead got into the ring with him and suffered a broken leg or dislocated shoulder as a result?
text: Did you know that a fatberg heavier than an African elephant was removed from a sewer beneath Cadogan Place ?
text: Did you know that author and book reviewer Janice Harayda started an all-woman church service in New York City in 1974?
text: Did you know that the video game I Hate Running Backwards was named after a quote from the Serious Sam series?
text: Did you know that Dámasa Cabezón was contracted by the Bolivian government to establish a school for girls in La Paz after having done so in Santiago de Chile ?
text: Did you know that Georgies is known as "the gay Cheers "?
text: Did you know that at the Siege of Tunis , a Carthaginian general was crucified on the same cross to which he had previously nailed a rebel leader ?
text: Did you know that William E. Miller was awarded the Medal of Honor after disobeying orders during the Battle of Gettysburg ?
text: Did you know that Kylie Minogue was credited as co-writer for the first time on her third studio album Rhythm of Love ?
text: Did you know that knowing only a surname and a continent, author Hanoch Teller tracked down a boy photographed at the liberation of Auschwitz 70 years earlier for the award-winning cover of Heroic Children ?
text: Did you know that Arkansas poet laureate Rosa Zagnoni Marinoni had her poems published in more than 900 U.S. and international publications?
text: Did you know that the Hawaiian happy-face spider can change color based on its diet?
text: Did you know that in a 2009 case , the U.S. Supreme Court held that a group of school officials violated the U.S. Constitution when they strip-searched a 13-year-old middle-school student?
text: Did you know that the scholarship of Nyasha Junior on the life of Moses has been described as a starting point for how he can be viewed as a subject of feminist inquiry?
text: Did you know that when iceberg A-38 calved from the Filchner–Ronne Ice Shelf in 1998, it carried a German research station with it?
text: Did you know that Marion Hartog founded the first Jewish women's periodical in 1855?
text: Did you know that the city flag of Columbus, Ohio , is undergoing a redesign process due to its heavy use of Christopher Columbus imagery?
text: Did you know that a fire destroyed 70,000 Jōmon period artifacts found at the Ōfune Site ?
text: Did you know that after qualifying on the pole at a late-model stock car race, Ty Majeski chose to start at the rear for a chance to win more money—and won the race?
text: Did you know that in The Cellist , a ballet about cellist Jacqueline du Pré , the cello is personified by a male dancer?
text: Did you know that Joyryde finished three songs for his album Brave while recovering from lower back surgery?
text: Did you know that Joseph Paduano , the minority floor leader in the Philippine congress , began his political career in the military wing of the Revolutionary Workers' Party under a nom de guerre ?
text: Did you know that shortly after the Improved United Kingdom Air Defence Ground Environment radar network was ready for action "a mere six years" late, the Ministry of Defence had already started looking to replace it?
text: Did you know that the case of Adelia Silva , an Afro-Uruguayan teacher who was removed from three different schools due to her race, generated national attention and disciplinary action against one of the principals?
text: Did you know that Jon Pardi had each song on California Sunrise recorded with a full band to create the feel of a live recording and carry the "traditional country soul"?
text: Did you know that clinical trials in India must have government-regulated ethics committees oversee their research?
text: Did you know that "as Pembroke a horseman by most is accounted, 'tis not strange that his Lordship a Hunter has mounted"?
text: Did you know that a Jewish girl from Jerusalem became an acclaimed performer of Indian , Javanese , Balinese , and other ethnic dance forms in the United States?
text: Did you know that 100 war elephants led the Carthaginian assault on a rebel camp at the Battle of Utica ?
text: Did you know that four days after participating in a 12-hour-long legislative session, Joel Molina Ramírez became the first Mexican senator to die of COVID-19 ?
text: Did you know that when it changed hands in 2019, a "mega condo" in 220 Central Park South became the most expensive residence ever sold in the United States?
text: Did you know that Yemeni poet Fatima al-Suqutriyya saved the island of Socotra by writing a qasida to Imam al-Ṣalt ibn Mа̄lik requesting military help?
text: Did you know that claims that Super Mario Bros. 35 was a stolen concept from fan game Super Mario Royale were denied by the developer ?
text: Did you know that Mustafa Akıncı , the incumbent President of Northern Cyprus , claimed he was threatened by Turkish authorities in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election ?
text: Did you know that epidemiologist J. Michael Lane , who played a leading role in the global eradication of smallpox , trekked across the United States from Atlanta to Seattle at the age of 79?
text: Did you know that the melody of the children's song " Kommt ein Vogel geflogen " ("Comes a Bird Flown") was used by Siegfried Ochs for variations in the styles of different classical composers?
text: Did you know that the Swedish archaeologist Birger Nerman excavated a Scandinavian settlement at Grobiņa , Latvia, which predates the Viking Age ?
text: Did you know that the ballet The Runaway is partly inspired by hip-hop dance but performed in pointe shoes ?
text: Did you know that Harold Jarman scored in the first match ever played in the Football League Cup ?
text: Did you know that in 2017, the Carnegie Museum of Natural History discovered that its 19th-century diorama Lion Attacking a Dromedary contained a human skull?
text: Did you know that the establishment of KVZK-TV led to the electrification of many villages in American Samoa ?
text: Did you know that four-term Uruguayan senator Alba Roballo was also an award-winning poet with a rebellious spirit?
text: Did you know that the Khalili Collection of Enamels of the World includes a throne table made for the 18th-century Qianlong Emperor ?
text: Did you know that Laurence Olivier won an Emmy for his role as a London stockbroker, Parisian artist, and Tahitian leper in The Moon and Sixpence ?
text: Did you know that some of the students of yeshivas in World War II were exiled to the remote Komi Republic to do forced labor?
text: Did you know that Vijayalakshmi Ramanan , the first woman officer of the Indian Air Force , custom-tailored her uniform as there were no specific uniforms for women when she joined the force?
text: Did you know that in the early use of intravenous therapy , attempts were made to inject milk, sugar, honey, and egg yolk into a person's veins?
text: Did you know that Marla Berkowitz considers herself a sumain , meaning someone who communicates using their hands?
text: Did you know that a playlist of budots music features excerpts from speeches of Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte ?
text: Did you know that a 14-foot (4.3 m) steel cutout of Donald Trump stands outside the Trump House in Latrobe, Pennsylvania ?
text: Did you know that Gudrun Schröfel , the longtime choral conductor of the Mädchenchor Hannover and a professor at the Musikhochschule Hannover , received the Lower Saxony State Prize in 2015?
text: Did you know that Blue and Red are proposed to meet at Boston's Charles/MGH station ?
text: Did you know that John Djopari 's book about the Free Papua Movement was banned by the Indonesian government , even though the book incorporates material from the Indonesian Army ?
text: Did you know that a 2010 study found 1,000 people living in Al-Ghuraba cemetery in Tripoli, Lebanon?
text: Did you know that Christian Flor , described in a 1740 encyclopedia as a famous organist from Lüneburg , composed settings of Bible verses for collections, and one of the earliest Passion oratorios ?
text: Did you know that Ingrid Bergman won Emmy and Sylvania Awards for her world television debut in John Frankenheimer 's horror movie The Turn of the Screw ?
text: Did you know that the mayors of Prague, Bratislava, Warsaw, and Budapest signed the Pact of Free Cities in December 2019?
text: Did you know that John F. McCarthy Jr. headed a group that suggested modifications to the Lockheed C-5 Galaxy that tripled the structural life of the aircraft?
text: Did you know that Dua Lipa and The Blessed Madonna 's remix album Club Future Nostalgia was crafted in two months during lockdown protocols associated with the COVID-19 pandemic?
text: Did you know that state representative Patricia Haynes Smith worked with a gay rights group to decriminalize sodomy in Louisiana ?
text: Did you know that it is impossible to draw water from Robin Hood's Well ?
text: Did you know that Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?! is the first boys' love series published in English by Square Enix ?
text: Did you know that Saadet İkesus Altan studied music in Berlin, performed as a mezzo-soprano in Germany, and became the first female vocal coach and opera director in Turkey after her return home in 1941?
text: Did you know that in a speech after the 1901 FA Cup Final , General Sir Redvers Buller compared football to the Army by saying that the winning side is usually the one best practised at shooting?
text: Did you know that the World Health Organization 's Weekly Epidemiological Record reports on neglected tropical diseases ?
text: Did you know that linguistics professor and environmentalist Winfred P. Lehmann donated 160 acres (65 ha) of land in Travis County , Texas, to The Nature Conservancy ?
text: Did you know that two of the British Type 42 destroyers from the 1982 Exercise Spring Train would be sunk later that year in the Falklands War ?
text: Did you know that the company responsible for the Miss Spider children's series also produced Sex by Madonna ?
text: Did you know that Edgar C. Polomé established Africa's most advanced phonetics laboratory at the University of Lubumbashi ?
text: Did you know that the Gulmarg Golf Club in Kashmir , situated at an altitude of 2,650 metres (8,690 ft) above sea level, is the highest green golf course in the world?
text: Did you know that an HPV prevention group focuses on preventing cervical cancer by promoting the sharing of information on cervical screening and HPV vaccination ?
text: Did you know that Dieter Ruehle , stadium organist for the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Los Angeles Kings , has played for three championship teams in three different sports?
text: Did you know that the potential of a large landslide and resulting tsunami at Cumbre Vieja volcano attracted considerable attention?
text: Did you know that the ballet Corybantic Games marked the first time Erdem Moralıoğlu had designed costumes for men?
text: Did you know that World War II veteran Millie Bailey went skydiving to celebrate her 102nd birthday?
text: Did you know that the extinct wheel-tree leaf species T. postnastae and fruit species T. rosayi are possibly from the same plant?
text: Did you know that Ukrainian-born Stefania Berlinerblau was one of the first Jewish women to practice surgery in the United States?
text: Did you know that a 2019 book argues that the Armenian Genocide was part of a larger genocide which targeted all of the Christian minorities in the Ottoman Empire?
text: Did you know that the State-of-the-Art Car was designed to run on portions of five different subway systems?
text: Did you know that the film roles of Nepali actor Dayahang Rai include a crime boss, a Maoist , the suspected killer of a popular communist leader , a police officer, and a bank robber?
text: Did you know that the Carpentras Stele , the first ancient Semitic inscription ever published, was originally thought to be Phoenician but is actually ancient Aramaic ?
text: Did you know that Yardley's Law states that "Pretty is what works"?
text: Did you know that Price's Lost Campaign: The 1864 Invasion of Missouri challenged the Lost Cause myth that Confederate soldiers did not engage in total war during Price's Raid ?
text: Did you know that Malcolm Todd uncovered a previously unrecognised Roman occupation at the Iron Age hillfort in Hembury ?
text: Did you know that the world's first simultaneous heart-and-liver organ transplant was performed in 1984 at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh ?
text: Did you know that hundreds of academics signed a letter opposing the "coordinated harassment campaign by the Polish ruling party" against law professor Wojciech Sadurski ?
text: Did you know that Variations for Cello Solo , premiered by the composer Graham Waterhouse in Vienna in 2020, depicts characteristics of the members of his family?
text: Did you know that James Biggart 's election to the Legislative Council of Trinidad and Tobago was viewed by Tobagonian planters as lowering their social standing, because it meant that they were represented by a person of African descent?
text: Did you know that Ted Heath stated "rejoice, rejoice" at the 1990 resignation of Margaret Thatcher, echoing words she had used after the 1982 recapture of South Georgia ?
text: Did you know that the tiny parasitic wasp Metaphycus helvolus has helped control a major pest of citrus, Mediterranean black scale , in California and Australia?
text: Did you know that several Collegiate Gothic buildings were constructed during W. Coleman Nevils 's presidency of Georgetown University as part of his revival of the "Greater Georgetown" plan?
text: Did you know that despite its name, the 11th-century Emperor's Bible is not a Bible?
text: Did you know that musician Sufjan Stevens , who initially disliked ballet , allowed his music to be used in Year of the Rabbit after choreographer Justin Peck invited him to various performances?
text: Did you know that Turkish voice actress Adalet Cimcoz opened and curated her country's first and only woman-owned private art gallery?
text: Did you know that the minbar of the Ibrahimi Mosque in the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron was originally made for a Fatimid shrine in Ashkelon ?
text: Did you know that Edward G. Faile raised prize-winning cattle in what is now The Bronx ?
text: Did you know that James Nathan Calloway , born in slavery in Tennessee, established an experimental cotton-growing farm in Togo?
text: Did you know that Dua Lipa created the music video for her 2020 song " Hallucinate " with teams working in London, Paris, and Los Angeles?
text: Did you know that Ibaqa Beki was briefly married to Genghis Khan , who abruptly gave her to one of his generals, possibly as a reward to that general for killing her father?
text: Did you know that the date of Amy Coney Barrett's Supreme Court nomination – September 26, 2020 – was the nearest to a presidential election in U.S. history?
text: Did you know that the Battle of Roan's Tan Yard ended Missouri State Guard recruiting activities in Randolph County ?
text: Did you know that "All Praise and Glad Thanksgiving" is sung to the hymn tune of " Gott Vater, sei gepriesen "?
text: Did you know that a radio interview with Swedish police chief Mats Löfving was described as "a bombshell"?
text: Did you know that as a lobbyist for Bacardi , Otto Reich , a former U.S. ambassador to Venezuela , played a role in passing legislation that stripped trademark protection from Havana Club rum?
text: Did you know that the 2013 Nepali historical drama Badhshala was briefly banned by the Nepali Army because the actors wore military uniforms without permission?
text: Did you know that with the designation of County Highway A-2 in 1970, Mrs. Howard "Gene" Temple became the first Michigan woman to acquire a highway designation from the State Highway Commission?
text: Did you know that the opera Die Prinzessin Girnara , by composer Wellesz and librettist Wassermann , and based on a legend from India, premiered simultaneously at two opera houses in 1921?
text: Did you know that Estonian linguist Jaan Puhvel has worked for more than half a century on his multi-volume Hittite Etymological Dictionary ?
text: Did you know that in Public Access Opinion 16-006 , the Illinois Attorney General ordered Chicago police officers to release their private emails about the police-involved murder of Laquan McDonald ?
text: Did you know that at age 102, Beatrice Lumpkin , a union organizer and lifelong member of the Communist Party , donned hazmat suit –style gear to drop off her vote-by-mail ballot for the US elections ?
text: Did you know that a male spider of the species Zygiella x-notata uses vibrational courtship signals when entering a female's web to alert her of his presence as a potential mate, rather than potential prey?
text: Did you know that Agnes Stavenhagen was the soprano soloist in the first performance of Mahler's Second Symphony in Munich , conducted by the composer?
text: Did you know that balconies at 240 Central Park South were designed to give residents a view above Central Park 's tree line?
text: Did you know that Michael Jackson 's manager expected him to return from an injury and perform in the 2001 Football League First Division play-off Final ?
text: Did you know that Leo Petrović , a historian and head of the Herzegovinian Franciscans , was murdered by the Yugoslav Partisans as part of their campaign against the Franciscans?
text: Did you know that the Odyssey has been used as a school text since antiquity?
text: Did you know that Ann Bedsole , the first woman to be elected to the Alabama Senate , printed a timetable for the state's hunting season on the back of her re-election campaign flyers?
text: Did you know that Nicholas Wilder said that being diagnosed with AIDS was just another "adventure"?
text: Did you know that both the adults and the alligator-like larvae of the twice-stabbed lady beetle prey on the walnut scale ?
text: Did you know that Walt Whitman 's poem " This Dust Was Once the Man ", an elegy for President Abraham Lincoln , is just four lines long?
text: Did you know that San Baw , chief orthopaedic surgeon of Mandalay General Hospital , pioneered the use of ivory prostheses to replace ununited fractures of the femoral neck ?
text: Did you know that the 1846 death of Frederick John White after a flogging led the Duke of Wellington to order that sentences not exceed 50 lashes?
text: Did you know that actress and dancer Raissa Gourevitch performed in surrealist plays before becoming an archaeological authority on Roman statuary?
text: Did you know that in his hurry to get to a fire in Fort Saskatchewan , the town's fire chief was pulled over for speeding and nearly hitting a police officer in Edmonton ?
text: Did you know that Paula Bataona Renyaan was the first woman to become a vice governor and the third woman to become a police general in Indonesia?
text: Did you know that the USA team at the 2007 World Cup of Pool wore orange shirts after both home-nation Dutch teams had been eliminated?
text: Did you know that four justices dissented in the verdict of the European Court of Human Rights case concerning the Katyn massacre , calling it a denial of justice and a failure of conscience?
text: Did you know that Folker Bohnet , who acted in Bernhard Wicki 's 1959 film Die Brücke while still studying, toured for 13 years with a comedy play that he co-authored?
text: Did you know that the expulsion of Greeks from Istanbul in 1964–1965 was part of the final phase of state measures aimed at the Turkification of the local economic, social, and cultural life?
text: Did you know that the French painter Genskof is a pioneer in laser eye surgery?
text: Did you know that same-surname marriage was prohibited for periods in ancient China ?
text: Did you know that voter turnout increased by 32 percentage points following the passage of Herbert Payne 's bill to introduce compulsory voting in Australian federal elections?
text: Did you know that unlike neighboring tribes, the Pastia people of south Texas escaped detection by Spanish explorers until the early 18th century?
text: Did you know that the 2020 film A Life on Our Planet is David Attenborough 's self-described "witness statement" on how human activity has affected the environment?
text: Did you know that Augustine 's views of Christian theology were developed in opposition to Pelagianism , which he declared a heresy?
text: Did you know that Ita Maximowna , who trained as a painter in Paris and Berlin in the 1920s, began working in scenic and costume design after World War II and went on to work internationally?
text: Did you know that Steve McQueen and William Shatner starred in The Defender , the first live television drama in the US divided for broadcast on separate nights, "leaving audiences dangling on the cliff"?
text: Did you know that Don Johnson used "personality and polish" to make friends?
text: Did you know that the Federal Radio Commission revoked the license of Chicago radio station WCHI in 1931 for attacking medical procedures such as surgical operations and vaccinations?
text: Did you know that gravediggers discovered the Hexham Hoard of eight thousand stycas in a bronze bucket in 1832?
text: Did you know that Ethel Maynard was the first black woman elected to the Arizona State Legislature ?
text: Did you know that Bury F.C. converted its debts of £1,230 into a credit balance of £1,329 by winning the 1900 FA Cup Final ?
text: Did you know that Indonesian Navy officer Louise Elisabeth Coldenhoff described her tenure as head of the personnel section as "living between angels and devils"?
text: Did you know that writer and socialite Cat Marnell once described New York City nightclub Lit Lounge as "like Cheers ... but with PCP and vodka"?
text: Did you know that The Legend of Dragoon uses four CDs, the maximum allowed in a PlayStation case?
text: Did you know that Dilys Price , the world's oldest female solo parachute jumper, made more than 1,130 solo jumps before selling her parachute at age 86?
text: Did you know that Indian prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru launched Shankar's Weekly , even though its founder described the magazine as "fundamentally anti-establishment"?
text: Did you know that American actress Masey McLain 's feature film debut in I'm Not Ashamed was praised by critic Jordan Hoffman , who said of her acting future, "the sky is the limit"?
text: Did you know that the 1979 Salvadoran coup d'état overthrew President Carlos Humberto Romero ?
text: Did you know that the French philologist Georges Dumézil is credited with saving the Ubykh language from extinction?
text: Did you know that the shepherd 's flock felt that it had been fleeced at Innsbruck?
text: Did you know that the recording of " Waiting for a Train " introduced Jimmie Rodgers 's trademark train whistle?
text: Did you know that K. W. Gransden , despite publishing only two poetry collections, was included by Philip Larkin in The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse ?
text: Did you know that for her sound-film debut in 1931, silent-screen star Mae Marsh begged the director to tell her what to say before each scene?
text: Did you know that the synthetic compound carbonaceous sulfur hydride is the world's first room-temperature superconductor ?
text: Did you know that " So nimm denn meine Hände " by Julie Hausmann , first printed in 1862, placed seventh in a 2019 survey of favourite funeral music in Germany, immediately behind " My Way "?
text: Did you know that Manoj Kumar and Raj Kumar had to win cases at the Delhi High Court to be awarded the Arjuna Award sporting honour in the 2010s ?
text: Did you know that Filipina soldier and spy Josefina Guerrero , diagnosed with leprosy , created intelligence reports that helped the Americans defeat the Japanese at Manila Harbor ?
text: Did you know that Bups Saggu learned to play the tabla at the local gurdwara in Wolverhampton , but later moved on to playing the dhol because he "took a liking to the larger and louder sound"?
text: Did you know that in 1902, the Brooklyn marine engine manufacturers Riley & Cowley built a steam car ?
text: Did you know that a global advisory committee has been monitoring rapidly developing COVID-19 vaccines against a background of growing misinformation and vaccine hesitancy ?
text: Did you know that cricketer Charlotte Taylor was the top wicket-taker in the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy , despite not being initially picked in the squads for the tournament?
text: Did you know that Exeter Cathedral School has been educating choristers since the year 1179?
text: Did you know that a group of prisoners building the Honolulu Courthouse overpowered their guards, took possession of gun batteries overlooking Honolulu, and attempted to open fire on nearby buildings?
text: Did you know that The Times said that Sheila Atim "sings Dylan better than Bob"?
text: Did you know that Canadian professor Bob Hindmarch donated his own money to feed starving student athletes on the Canada men's national ice hockey team ?
text: Did you know that American artist Stuart Davis spent six years working on his jazz -inspired painting The Mellow Pad ?
text: Did you know that the Pilcher Monument was erected partly to warn people of the dangers of the Sark coast?
text: Did you know that Martin Egel appeared at the Bayreuth Festival from 1975 to 1986, including a three-year run as Donner in the Jahrhundertring ?
text: Did you know that the giant pinkray limpet maintains a patch of the encrusting red alga Hildenbrandia rubra on which it feeds, driving off competitors?
text: Did you know that the second birth in a Mexico City Metro station in 2020 occurred at Tláhuac ?
text: Did you know that Lillian Brown , makeup artist to nine U.S. presidents, stopped Richard Nixon 's sobbing before he went on television to resign the presidency ?
text: Did you know that ChilledCow has one of the longest videos on YouTube , totaling over 13,000 hours?
text: Did you know that despite being excluded from the standard edition of 1989 , " New Romantics " by Taylor Swift was named one of the best songs of the 2010s decade by Rolling Stone ?
text: Did you know that in Poland, hanging a rainbow flag on a statue may be a crime ?
text: Did you know that in Bettina , the chamber opera 's only solo singer portrays both Bettina von Arnim and Karoline von Günderrode , reflecting their friendship and Günderrode's suicide?
text: Did you know that Coronet magazine was deluged with letters and phone calls when Margueritte Harmon Bro wrote about the " Miracle Man of Virginia Beach "?
text: Did you know that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant fielded more than a hundred tanks in Syria and Iraq?
text: Did you know that footage from the 1995 documentary film BloodSisters: Leather, Dykes and Sadomasochism was played for a U.S. congressional committee during its hearings on the National Endowment for the Arts ?
text: Did you know that Soetran was nicknamed the "Clove Governor" after he obligated families in Papua to cultivate cloves?
text: Did you know that Great American Bank , based in San Diego , was the first savings and loan association founded in Southern California ?
text: Did you know that the diaries of Lady Lacoste , a 19th-century philanthropist from Montreal, give historians a rare look into how emotions impacted the lives of women in her social class?
text: Did you know that the Atlantic dancing shrimp is often associated with sea urchins or sea anemones ?
text: Did you know that pioneering lesbian columnist Deb Price 's same-sex wedding announcement in The Washington Post was one of the first in a major national newspaper?
text: Did you know that in a pre-game ceremony before the last game of the 1972 ice hockey Summit Series , the Canadian delegation presented a totem pole to the Soviet Union?
text: Did you know that Scottsdale, Arizona , repealed its ban on dancing so that the Safari Hotel could open a nightclub?
text: Did you know that in the ballet West Side Story Suite , some of the dancers also sing?
text: Did you know that Soedardjat Nataatmadja 's instruction for parliamentary observers to wear traditional Sundanese clothing cost him his reelection?
text: Did you know that the social study They Live on the Land was based on interviews with nearly the entire population of a rural Alabama town during the Great Depression ?
text: Did you know that Max Crabtree 's "Big Daddy" was his brother Shirley ?
text: Did you know that the colonial bryozoan Beania magellanica , widely distributed in the Southern Hemisphere, has recently turned up in the Mediterranean Sea?
text: Did you know that during the 1973 oil crisis , material scientist Henry Ehrenreich assessed photovoltaic cells and was an advisor to the U.S. Department of Energy ?
text: Did you know that a stereotypical True Pole is a Roman Catholic?
text: Did you know that Dick Kaegel began working as a full-time sportswriter while he was still in high school?
text: Did you know that 50 years ago today, a military tribunal handed down six controversial death sentences to members of the Basque separatist group ETA ?
text: Did you know that William Gates LeDuc led a bison through the streets of New York City as part of the Minnesota exhibition at the 1853 World's Fair ?
text: Did you know that trench nephritis caused 35,000 British casualties during the First World War?
text: Did you know that " Filipino Baby ", a song about a sailor's love for a Filipino girl, described as "my treasure and my pet", was a top-five hit for three different artists in 1946?
text: Did you know that Canadian modernist architect and urban planner Geoffrey Massey was part of a movement that prevented freeways from being built in Vancouver ?
text: Did you know that the first official resolution of the International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology was that they would never meet in a place with anti-sodomy laws?
text: Did you know that the Wallace rule of nines to calculate the area of a burn was introduced by A. B. Wallace of Bangour General Hospital ?
text: Did you know that Wisconsin was the leading producer of dairy products in the United States from 1915 to 1993?
text: Did you know that New Zealand mountaineer Marmaduke Dixon came within 100 ft (30 m) of the summit in his attempt to make the first ascent of the country's highest mountain, Aoraki / Mount Cook ?
text: Did you know that the life cycle of the Neptune-grass bryozoan is synchronized with the growth cycle of the seagrass on which it lives and the availability of the phytoplankton on which it feeds?
text: Did you know that academic and philanthropist Guido Goldman convinced West German chancellor Willy Brandt to set up and endow the German Marshall Fund on the 25th anniversary of the Marshall Plan ?
text: Did you know that the Cistercian monastic order created an early competitor to Hindu–Arabic numerals with which they wrote years as a single character?
text: Did you know that American football player Harry Field married a Hawaiian princess and is a 2021 finalist for induction into the Polynesian Football Hall of Fame ?
text: Did you know that Psalm 148 , calling heaven and earth to be glad, inspired the 17th-century Christmas carol " Erfreue dich, Himmel, erfreue dich, Erde ", which Maria Luise Thurmair expanded with more details from the psalm in 1963?
text: Did you know that the irrigation intake for which New Zealand farmer Marmaduke Dixon long campaigned is now a historic structure registered by Heritage New Zealand ?
text: Did you know that Hespress , the most popular news website in Morocco, initially relied on non-staff bloggers for its articles?
text: Did you know that Sylvia Pengilly used an Amiga computer to integrate graphics with music and herself dancing?
text: Did you know that although the Euclidean distance and the Pythagorean theorem are both ancient concepts, the Pythagorean formula for distance was not published until 1731?
text: Did you know that Udyavara Madhava Acharya is credited with the modernisation of the theatre form Yakshagana ?
text: Did you know that while Ebenezer Joshua joined the government after the 1974 Vincentian general election , his wife Ivy became the leader of the opposition ?
text: Did you know that One Voice at Christmas involves Aled Jones duetting Christmas carols with his younger self and the late Terry Wogan ?
text: Did you know that Giovanni Garbini 's studies helped scholars interpret the biblical narrative in the larger context of the history of the ancient Near East?
text: Did you know that the classic children's Christmas story The Littlest Angel was written in just three days?
text: Did you know that in 1975, Finland's Minister of Education Marjatta Väänänen sent a petition to the Archbishop of Turku with almost 1 million signatures, advocating for the introduction of female priests?
text: Did you know that O magnum mysterium , a motet for double choir by Morten Lauridsen , is a setting of a medieval Latin text for Christmas to music described as "ethereal sounds in imperturbable calmness"?
text: Did you know that when Donald Trump owned the Plaza Hotel , he requested a cameo in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York in exchange for allowing the film crew to shoot in the lobby?
text: Did you know that sending the real animals and personnel in The Twelve Days of Christmas resulted in a letter from G. Creep, solicitor?
text: Did you know that James W. Nance tested the Douglas A-3 Skywarrior aboard USS Forrestal , which he later commanded?
text: Did you know that St. Michael , a 17th-century chapel on a hill near Kaubenheim , Bavaria, which offers services in summer and for Christmas, received electricity around 1980?
text: Did you know that after Houkje Gerrits Bouma won one of the earliest women's speed skating competitions in 1809, women's competitions were not held anymore because women skating with bare arms was considered obscene?
text: Did you know that a football club in Finland called FC Santa Claus has competed as high as the third tier ?
text: Did you know that Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger wrote " Süßer die Glocken nie klingen ", a popular 19th-century Christmas carol to the melody of an evening song, evoking the sound of bells as a symbol of peace and joy?
text: Did you know that the staff of the Embassy of the Philippines in Tokyo at one point formed the entire Philippine foreign service?
text: Did you know that Fishbait Miller , the doorkeeper of the U.S. House of Representatives , greeted Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom in 1951 by saying, "Howdy, Ma'am"?
text: Did you know that Rudolf Steglich , a musicologist who wrote his habilitation thesis on rhythm in 1930, was a co-editor of the Hallische Händel-Ausgabe , the critical edition of Handel's complete works , from 1955?
text: Did you know that the female Agelenopsis aperta spider enters a cataplectic state during mating, which means it loses control of its body and is unconscious?
text: Did you know that cartoonist Trung Le Nguyen 's graphic novel The Magic Fish is inspired by his experience as a child of Vietnamese immigrants to the United States?
text: Did you know that scholars have speculated that failure to punish the perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide contributed to the Holocaust ?
text: Did you know that Cynthia Fierro Harvey is the first Hispanic woman to serve as the president of the United Methodist Council of Bishops ?
text: Did you know that the 2021 Somali presidential election was originally scheduled for 2020, but was delayed by concerns of famine , war , pestilence , and civil disorder ?
text: Did you know that despite being awarded the military Legion of Merit four times, as well as the civilian Medal of Freedom , Lewis Strauss is often viewed as a villain of American history?
text: Did you know that the London Theatre Studio was the first English drama school to teach theatrical design as well as drama?
text: Did you know that Thomas J. White estimated that he gave more than $75 million to charity after resolving "to die as close to penniless as possible"?
text: Did you know that the Royal Pioneer Corps could build a Twynham hut in four minutes?
text: Did you know that In Praise of Forgetting makes the case against collective memory: "whereas forgetting does an injustice to the past, remembering does an injustice to the present"?
text: Did you know that Charles Green was probably the youngest Australian Army infantry battalion commander during World War II?
text: Did you know that the Arlington Hotel , rebuilt after a devastating fire, was severely damaged in the 1925 Santa Barbara earthquake ?
text: Did you know that The European said of George Saxby Penfold 's sermons that "they are distinguished by a pleasing mediocrity"?
text: Did you know that Jenna Ellis was a stern critic of Donald Trump before she became his legal adviser?
text: Did you know that Australian pop band Autumn was one of four artists co-credited with a number-one hit in the Australian charts on 31 October 1970, each with a version of the song " Yellow River "?
text: Did you know that Bernie Sanders won the election to become Mayor of Burlington, Vermont , by ten votes in 1981?
text: Did you know that during the Nazi occupation of Poland , Halina Kwiatkowska acted in an underground theatre alongside a future pope ?
text: Did you know that in his book Thematic Origins of Scientific Thought: Kepler to Einstein , Gerald Holton argues that philosophy from Either/Or influenced Niels Bohr 's concept of complementarity ?
text: Did you know that Robert Hammerstiel wrapped Vienna's Ringturm tower in a painting showing stations of human life in simplified and brightly coloured figures?
text: Did you know that the marine worm Neanthes arenaceodentata is both an environmental monitor and a caring father?
text: Did you know that the nearly identical 130 and 140 West 57th Street are among the few remaining artists' studio buildings in New York City constructed with distinct living and working spaces for occupants?
text: Did you know that Yusuf Sayfa , commander of Ottoman forces in Syria against the Kurdish rebel Janbulad , became the latter's subordinate?
text: Did you know that in Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland , a cantata in eleven movements for Advent , Georg Böhm set all eight stanzas of Luther's hymn , and all differently?
text: Did you know that shortly after winning a conference tournament championship with Vanderbilt 's soccer team, Sarah Fuller became the first woman to play football in a Power Five conference game?
text: Did you know that although nothing remains of Fort La Cloche in La Cloche Provincial Park , it was an economic hub for the area in the 19th century?
text: Did you know that Black Futures , a 544-page collection of Black art and writing, was originally going to be a zine ?
text: Did you know that Matthew Cobb , winner of the 2021 JBS Haldane Lecture , started his academic career by getting twins drunk?
text: Did you know that journalist Bill Fitsell was reportedly scared of driving since he covered accidents?
text: Did you know that the 1921 book The Meaning of Relativity represents Albert Einstein 's only attempt to provide an overview of general relativity that was both comprehensive and accessible to non-specialists?
text: Did you know that Claudia Chamorro Barrios married on the birthday of her assassinated father?
text: Did you know that " Mit Ernst, o Menschenkinder ", a 1642 Advent hymn , includes a call to penitence that John the Baptist took from the prophet Isaiah ?
text: Did you know that future U.S. Navy rear admiral Oral Swigart competed as a wrestler at the 1920 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that the Dachau camp trial was one of 489 Dachau trials , the majority of which were held within the confines of the concentration camp itself?
text: Did you know that on occasion, Stewart Friesen runs NASCAR and dirt on the same day?
text: Did you know that the Indian wax scale was first described in 1798 by Fabricius , but was wrongly attributed to another author for nearly two hundred years?
text: Did you know that poet Lynda Schraufnagel , little known in her lifetime, was mourned after her death at 40 for her "funkiness" and "manic glee"?
text: Did you know that the 104th (New Brunswick) Regiment of Foot marched 1,100 kilometres (680 mi), some of it in snowshoes, during the Canadian winter to fight in the War of 1812 ?
text: Did you know that Jimmy Bonner became the first African American to play baseball professionally in Japan in 1936, eleven years before Jackie Robinson 's Major League Baseball debut?
text: Did you know that a museum in Sendai was built around a 20,000-year-old campsite?
text: Did you know that when Cotton Queen Frances Lockett was crowned in 1930, souvenir handkerchiefs made from "Queenetta" fabric were sold?
text: Did you know that while the Gateway Generating Station was completed without controversy or setbacks, it was later the subject of a lawsuit over endangered butterflies ?
text: Did you know that the headlight fish gets its name from the large, bioluminescent patch of skin located between its nostrils ?
text: Did you know that Faith Smith , who grew up on the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe reservation in Wisconsin , became the founding president of the first urban institute of higher learning led by and serving Native Americans ?
text: Did you know that the world's oldest lacquerware was found at the Kakinoshima Site ?
text: Did you know that Earl Dawson established a council to reverse the decline of ice hockey in rural Manitoba?
text: Did you know that having collaborated on the album Folklore months prior, Taylor Swift , Jack Antonoff , and Aaron Dessner met in person for the first time for the filming of Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions ?
text: Did you know that Tropical Storm Merbok flooded 13,000 hectares (32,000 acres) of crops in 2017 and led to an economic loss of CN¥ 600 million (US$88.3 million) in China?
text: Did you know that essayist Briallen Hopper got her start writing sermons?
text: Did you know that Gustav Classens , music director in Bonn from 1933, performed Beethoven's Choral Fantasy , Missa solemnis , and Ninth Symphony during his first two seasons, offering the Ninth in both?
text: Did you know that Finland became a member state of the International Labour Organization 100 years ago today?
text: Did you know that Christian Schreiber , a church administrator, philosopher and poet, wrote a German version of the Latin Mass for the publication, alongside the original, of Beethoven's Mass in C major ?
text: Did you know that Ruth Williams Cupp , the first woman admitted to the Charleston County Bar Association in 1954, was still barred by law from serving on juries, like all women in South Carolina until 1967?
text: Did you know that the Crushed Rock quarry near Abuja , Nigeria, is now a popular tourist destination?
text: Did you know that when Johannes Chum , a tenor in operatic roles from Nerone to Lohengrin , performed in Harnoncourt 's recording of Beethoven's Missa solemnis , a reviewer described his singing as "seraphic"?
text: Did you know that Beethoven's Third Cello Sonata , first performed in 1809, has been described as the first sonata for piano and cello to treat the instruments as equal partners?
text: Did you know that 200,000 children were evacuated via the Piccadilly line during World War II?
text: Did you know that in positioning theory , positions are defined as a person's rights, duties, and obligations which are fluid in various social contexts, as opposed to fixed and long lasting roles ?
text: Did you know that Julian Edelman weighed less than 100 lb (45 kg) when he played American football as a freshman in high school?
text: Did you know that the founder of the Cannabis Museum in Japan developed an interest in the subject after reading stories as a child in which ninjas trained by jumping over cannabis plants?
text: Did you know that several memoirs by first ladies of the United States have outsold books written by their presidential husbands?
text: Did you know that Otto Jochum , the organist and later the director of the Augsburg Conservatory , received a German national composition prize for a sacred oratorio in 1932, but also composed patriotic anthems under the Nazi regime?
text: Did you know that in 1875, streetcars in Santa Barbara, California , were drawn by mules ?
text: Did you know that plastics researcher David S. Breslow 's interest in chemistry began as a child when he used a chemistry set to make stink bombs ?
text: Did you know that a bank robbery nearly derailed the Northern Ireland peace process ?
text: Did you know that The Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant were the first memoirs to be written by a first lady of the United States ?
text: Did you know that Alexander Lindsay served as a general in the East India Company while remaining a half-pay lieutenant in the British Army?
text: Did you know that the right to truth has been recognized by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights , the European Court of Human Rights , and the United Nations?
text: Did you know that Israeli physicist Shikma Bressler , a researcher at the CERN particle accelerator in Switzerland, is also an initiator of the "Black Flag" protests against Benjamin Netanyahu ?
text: Did you know that in Cassandre , an opera by Michael Jarrell based on the novel by Christa Wolf , Cassandra speaks and acts without singing?
text: Did you know that Katie Levick gave up the chance to play cricket for England in order to pursue a full-time job?
text: Did you know that the gall wasp Synergus japonicus is considered to be a kleptoparasite ?
text: Did you know that This American Life producer and Boston native Sean Cole spoke with an affected British accent from age 14 to 16?
text: Did you know that The Alcestiad , an opera based on a Greek myth and written collaboratively by Thornton Wilder and composer Louise Talma , was premiered by the Oper Frankfurt in German?
text: Did you know that Arizona Falls is a functioning small hydroelectric plant designed as public art ?
text: Did you know that the Banu Muhriz emirs were patrons of the Alawites of Syria ?
text: Did you know that the Cousteau Society visited the wreck of the yacht Gunilda in Lake Superior in 1980, calling it "the most beautiful shipwreck in the world"?
text: Did you know that The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein exposes policies of racial segregation in nearly all United States presidential administrations dating back to the late 1800s?
text: Did you know that a non-governmental organisation set up by Hekani Jakhalu helps young entrepreneurs from Nagaland ?
text: Did you know that Ruth Bader Ginsburg was the second U.S. Supreme Court justice to lie in state at the U.S. Capitol ?
text: Did you know that after the Battle of Inverkeithing , Oliver Cromwell deliberately left open a route for the Scottish army to invade England?
text: Did you know that despite Sandpaper Ballet being choreographed to music by Leroy Anderson , his piece of the same name is not used?
text: Did you know that Cyclone Gati in November 2020 was the strongest tropical cyclone on record to make landfall in Somalia?
text: Did you know that Laura Garwin , one of the first female Rhodes Scholars , left a career in science to become a full-time trumpeter?
text: Did you know that the 1958 Lebanese presidential election was held during an armed rebellion while 10,000 US troops were deployed in the nation?
text: Did you know that Chinese cosplayer Liyuu is also an anime musician?
text: Did you know that the male sea spider Propallene longiceps carries fertilized eggs in bracelet-like masses wrapped around his legs?
text: Did you know that MLS Cup 2020 will feature Seattle Sounders FC for the fourth time in five years?
text: Did you know that Elsa-Brita Nordlund , Sweden's first child psychiatrist, advocated for the humanization of care in children's hospitals?
text: Did you know that a line of the 1840 song " Kein schöner Land in dieser Zeit ", claiming "no country more beautiful" and presented by its author as a Volkslied , is quoted as the title of books and television series?
text: Did you know that upon being named president of Georgetown University , Gerard J. Campbell was described as a "new breed" of " Ivy League Catholic"?
text: Did you know that information provided by the Confederate draftsman Anton R. Roessler was used by the Union Army to determine the ordnance potential of Texas?
text: Did you know that a section of Japan National Route 105 is named after a group of hunters?
text: Did you know that the wreck of the freighter SS Russia was discovered in 2019, only 1,200 feet (370 m) from where a different shipwreck hunter ended the search for her years earlier?
text: Did you know that Turkish accordion-playing street musician Madam Anahit also appeared in a number of films as an extra ?
text: Did you know that Recollections of Full Years by Helen Taft was the first memoir published by a first lady of the United States ?
text: Did you know that the 13th-century foundation St Alban Hall, Oxford , closed in 1882 and was demolished?
text: Did you know that Rachel Sennott stars in two 2020 queer Jewish films about funerals, but is neither queer nor Jewish?
text: Did you know that the Advent song " Kündet allen in der Not ", an appeal to those in need to take courage, was written by Friedrich Dörr , based on Isaiah's prophecy , in preparation of the 1975 Catholic Gotteslob ?
text: Did you know that Pennsylvania Treasurer -elect Stacy Garrity was nicknamed "The Angel of the Desert" in the Iraq War ?
text: Did you know that the developers of Serious Sam's Bogus Detour created a free version of the game to entice pirates to buy the original?
text: Did you know that newly founded Exeter Chiefs Women were given a place in the top flight of English women's rugby union ahead of Richmond Women , historically one of the most successful teams in England?
text: Did you know that in Justifying Genocide , Stefan Ihrig argues that many 1920s German nationalists viewed genocide as the "cost of doing political and military business in the twentieth century"?
text: Did you know that the Waikiki Biltmore , which opened in 1955, was the first high-rise hotel built in Waikiki ?
text: Did you know that General Charles Barton commanded the 2nd Life Guards in the Peninsular War , and his great-grandson " Banjo " wrote the lyrics of " Waltzing Matilda "?
text: Did you know that sports photographer Eleni Küreman was Turkey's first professional female photojournalist?
text: Did you know that Avengers: Endgame was untitled until December 2018, as its title was considered a spoiler for the film and its predecessor, Avengers: Infinity War ?
text: Did you know that FactCheckArmenia.com falsely claimed that "no Armenians were harmed" during the deportation of Armenian intellectuals on 24 April 1915 ?
text: Did you know that Ivan Camilleri , the incoming auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Toronto , was an associate director of finance at Bell Canada Enterprises before becoming a priest?
text: Did you know that the Brooklyn Dodgers , New York Giants , and New York Yankees played in a three-way baseball game in 1944?
text: Did you know that Helmut Koch , who conducted Monteverdi's L'Orfeo in 1949, taught at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" , and continued the tradition of the Berliner Singakademie in East Berlin from 1963?
text: Did you know that Lyndon B. Johnson used the same $80 desk as a senator, Vice President, and President of the United States?
text: Did you know that Silvio Meier has a street in Berlin and a square in Bologna named after him?
text: Did you know that the release of the 2001 Hindi film Chori Chori Chupke Chupke was delayed for several months due to allegations that it was funded by the Mumbai underworld ?
text: Did you know that Condescending Wonka is one of the most popular internet memes ?
text: Did you know that Sheriff Paxton , who was called Canada's most beloved ice hockey official, would jokingly order a hanging for every individual who opposed him?
text: Did you know that Tribhuvan and Gyanendra each became King of Nepal twice?
text: Did you know that after U.S. women secured the right to vote in 1920, those from the South fought against paying a poll tax for the next 40 years?
text: Did you know that medieval ceramics expert Jean Le Patourel was also an expert in the archaeology of dog collars?
text: Did you know that cybercriminals using Ryuk malware took in more than $61 million in ransom payments between 2018 and 2019, according to the FBI ?
text: Did you know that NCJW activist Florence Lewis was invited by President John F. Kennedy in 1963 to a White House discussion on how women's organizations could help solve civil rights issues?
text: Did you know that in Russian folklore, the Alatyr is considered the "father to all stones"?
text: Did you know that Boom Hall was named after a defensive structure on the River Foyle that was breached during the 1689 Siege of Derry ?
text: Did you know that the soprano Nina Dorliak recorded works by Bach with her husband, the pianist Sviatoslav Richter , sung in Russian?
text: Did you know that the Los Angeles Times criticized Disney for contracting their interactive storybooks to independent studios, deeming their series "a mere imitation" of Broderbund 's Living Books format?
text: Did you know that John Devonshire was supposed to stop USS President putting to sea but didn't?
text: Did you know that the internal shell of the sea slug Berthella stellata is visible through its translucent mantle ?
text: Did you know that a video of ballerina Carrie Imler dancing the 32 fouetté turns from Swan Lake went viral?
text: Did you know that comedy group Pomato 's creations include a skit about a boyfriend who did not understand the difference between a sports bra and a bra , and an advertisement for the Hong Kong Police Force ?
text: Did you know that orientalist Giuseppe Furlani organized the first and only Italian archaeological excavation in Mesopotamia ?
text: Did you know that the Rodin Studios has been described as "one of the most elegant studio and apartment buildings in New York", with a facade resembling cascades of Gothic decoration?
text: Did you know that French writer Marie Chaix grew up unaware that her father was the right-hand man of the fascist French Popular Party leader Jacques Doriot , and later wrote a memoir about him?
text: Did you know that Fukushima Industries ' corporate mascot was originally called Fukuppy ?
text: Did you know that Hamro Lok Sanskriti ( Our Folk Culture ) was one of three books to win the first Madan Puraskar , Nepal's highest literary honour?
text: Did you know that Thomas Paxton helped establish a saw mill, flour mill, foundry, and railway as a founding father of Port Perry ?
text: Did you know that 18.33 inches (46.6 cm) of rain fell within 24 hours in Guam during Typhoon Alice , a record for the territory that was not surpassed for another 23 years?
text: Did you know that professional footballer Shaun Brisley scored for Peterborough United in the 2014 Football League Trophy Final after initially turning down a move to the club due to homesickness?
text: Did you know that a two-year Native American housing protest group called the Chicago Indian Village started next to the Chicago Cubs home stadium, Wrigley Field ?
text: Did you know that medieval murals were discovered in Brönnestad Church in 1935, but not restored until 1980?
text: Did you know that American historian Sarah Wilkerson Freeman curated a photo exhibit depicting the fluidity of race, gender, and sexuality in New Orleans during the McCarthy era ?
text: Did you know that the far-right "Hannibal" network has been likened to a "shadow army"?
text: Did you know that Katie Lachapelle , head coach of the Holy Cross women's ice hockey team, was selected to be head coach of the 2021 US women's national Under-18 ice hockey team ?
text: Did you know that the British Secretary at War Viscount Barrington anticipated the 1766 food riots and pre-positioned troops to deal with them?
text: Did you know that Kansas highway K-23 is known as Main Street in Cimarron , Dighton , and Hoxie ?
text: Did you know that countertenor David Cordier performed operatic title roles such as Handel's Giulio Cesare and one of the three sisters in Tri sestry by Péter Eötvös?
text: Did you know that before Daniel Chester French and Henry Bacon designed the Lincoln Memorial , they collaborated on the James Oglethorpe Monument in Savannah, Georgia ?
text: Did you know that The Descent of Woman by Welsh author Elaine Morgan contends that front-to-front sexual intercourse evolved from apes that lived in a semi-aquatic environment?
text: Did you know that in 2006, social-justice advocate Ronnie L. Podolefsky represented six female athletes who accused their high-school basketball coach of sexual misconduct?
text: Did you know that following the Common Sense Revolution , the entire route of Ontario Highway 45 was downloaded from provincial oversight and redesignated as County Road 45?
text: Did you know that in 1941, a group of isolationist U.S. senators conducted an investigation into alleged "war propaganda" in Hollywood films?
text: Did you know that when Paulina died, her husband Pammachius received condolence letters from St Jerome and Paulinus of Nola ?
text: Did you know that the lighting in a portrait by David Hockney has been described as "icily arrogant"?
text: Did you know that an extract of noodle seagrass inhibits the growth of microalgae , mussels and limpets ?
text: Did you know that Douglas Stuart 's Booker Prize –winning debut novel, Shuggie Bain , was rejected by 32 publishers before being picked up?
text: Did you know that London barrister Imran Mahmood has written two thrillers, using the city's gang culture for one setting and its affluent Mayfair district for the other?
text: Did you know that part of the solution to air pollution in Turkey could be electric ferries across the Bosporus ?
text: Did you know that a gun serial number can be any combination of numbers, letters or other symbols?
text: Did you know that conductor and politician Klaus Bernbacher was responsible for 600 Radio Bremen music broadcasts, including of the original version of Schönberg's Gurre-Lieder ?
text: Did you know that some members of the United States Congress are assigned secret offices called hideaways whose locations may be unknown even to their own staff?
text: Did you know that the Bundestag apologized in 2016 for Imperial Germany's " inglorious role " in the Armenian Genocide?
text: Did you know that Salma wrote some of her works while sitting on the toilet, on pieces of paper ripped from calendars and notebooks?
text: Did you know that Ben Carter and his brother Tim played basketball for Team USA at the 2013 Maccabiah Games , winning a gold medal?
text: Did you know that an elevated section of the Higashi-Osaka Route lies over the remnants of a palace?
text: Did you know that in painting First Lady Michelle Obama , Amy Sherald was inspired by the way the quilters of Gee's Bend make clothing and fabric scraps into geometric works of art?
text: Did you know that fossils of the extinct plant Concavistylon were first collected in the 1950s, but the genus was not formally described until 2018?
text: Did you know that the Spanish writer Eva Forest was imprisoned for alleged complicity in multiple terror attacks by the separatist group ETA ?
text: Did you know that Scary Godmother: Halloween Spooktakular mixes 3D characters with 3D backgrounds black-edged to look 2D to avoid investors comparing it with theatrical CGI films?
text: Did you know that in publishing Laura's Ghost , the author insisted the book cover show a photo of Laura alive?
text: Did you know that Representative -elect August Pfluger 's great-great-great-great-grandfather founded Pflugerville, Texas ?
text: Did you know that in his Requiem , premiered at Lausanne Cathedral in 1973, Frank Martin scored the " Dies irae " for speaking choir and a "battery of percussion"?
text: Did you know that Abraham Pais 's 1982 biography of Albert Einstein was the first to focus on Einstein 's scientific contributions as opposed to his life as a popular figure?
text: Did you know that Paul Foley , who played one match in his first-class career, went on to co-found the Minor Counties Cricket Championship ?
text: Did you know that economists William Darity and Darrick Hamilton proposed the policy of baby bonds in 2010 as a mechanism to reduce the racial wealth gap in the United States ?
text: Did you know that the wasp Andricus mukaigawae creates galls on oak trees, and these may become occupied simultaneously by other species of wasp?
text: Did you know that Priscilla Jana , a South African human-rights lawyer of Indian descent, was the first woman to hug Nelson Mandela in 13 years of imprisonment on Robben Island ?
text: Did you know that computer science professor Ruth Aylett performed with a robot poet in the Edinburgh Free Fringe ?
text: Did you know that " Nun singt ein neues Lied dem Herren " is a 1967 paraphrase of Psalm 98 by the Catholic theologian Georg Thurmair set to a 16th-century melody?
text: Did you know that the Belgian-born Peter Verhaegen became a missionary to Missouri and obtained Saint Louis University 's state charter?
text: Did you know that Cloudwater Brew Co 's name is a translation of the Zen Buddhist term unsui , meaning "cloud, water"?
text: Did you know that a multi-component gas analyzer system can allow for real-time forecasting of volcanic eruptions?
text: Did you know that Galician Jewish scholar Reuven Fahn wrote about the Karaite community of Halicz ?
text: Did you know that Donald Trump , Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Alex Jones have all been described as Extremely Online ?
text: Did you know that 25 million tourists—more than twice the population of the entire state—visited the Mandakini River in Uttarakhand in 2011?
text: Did you know that Michelle Curran is the only female flying with the United States Air Force Thunderbirds in the 2020 season?
text: Did you know that in its early years, the University of Calcutta held examinations in the Kolkata Town Hall and in tents in the Maidan urban park?
text: Did you know that as the governor of North Sumatra, Ulung Sitepu donated 2,400 bottles of passion fruit drinks for the inaugural Games of the New Emerging Forces ?
text: Did you know that 224 West 57th Street was built as two separate automobile showrooms, which were occupied by their original clients for less than a decade after completion?
text: Did you know that Hermann Schey , a Jewish bass-baritone , travelled regularly from Berlin to Amsterdam to perform in Bach's St Matthew Passion , and went into hiding there during World War II?
text: Did you know that despite ample epigraphic evidence mentioning his name, nothing is known about Phoenician king Yatonmilk 's reign?
text: Did you know that in the 17th-century card game of Penneech , named after its highest card, the seven of diamonds, the trump suit changes with each trick ?
text: Did you know that to promote their 2011 concept album David Koresh Superstar , based on the 1993 Waco siege , UK indie rock band the Indelicates created the video game Super David Koresh Attack ?
text: Did you know that Maine's Lewiston Daily Sun and its successor, the Sun Journal , were owned by the same family— Louis B. Costello , his son, and grandson—for more than 70 years?
text: Did you know that a petition by Canadian member of parliament Pierre Poilievre to stop the Great Reset amassed 80,000 signatures after a conspiracy theory spread about it?
text: Did you know that Andrew Clyde became involved in politics after being subject to a civil asset forfeiture of nearly $1 million by the Internal Revenue Service ?
text: Did you know that the Plessey AR-3D made use of the annoying problem of " squint " to produce a simple 3D radar ?
text: Did you know that Chorabari Lake no longer exists?
text: Did you know that as Master of Pierson College at Yale University during World War II, Arnold Wolfers recruited students for the Office of Strategic Services ?
text: Did you know that the statue of Heydar Aliyev in Mexico City was meant to be displayed for 99 years, but was removed after five months?
text: Did you know that Kylie Minogue wore a Hysteric Glamour minidress on the cover of her fourth studio album, Let's Get to It ?
text: Did you know that Polish abstract painter Piotr Potworowski influenced the creative thinking of British painters at the Bath Academy of Art ?
text: Did you know that a 2017 global women-leaders conference found that the chief barrier to leadership roles for women was a lack of mentoring?
text: Did you know that Verrucosa arenata is one of the few known large orb-weaver spiders that sits facing upwards in its web?
text: Did you know that Eric Kimaiyo won the 2003 Baltimore Marathon in a sprint finish with one of the athletes that he trained?
text: Did you know that on this day in 1914, W. F. Taylor became the first president of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association ?
text: Did you know that Nazi officials took advantage of national indifference to sign more people up to the Volksliste ?
text: Did you know that 185 Spanish-language radio stations aired the astronomy program Universo produced by KXCR of El Paso, Texas ?
text: Did you know that Tarabya I of Pakhan became governor of Pagan despite his subpar performance in the Forty Years' War ?
text: Did you know that Oxonmoot is an annual conference and fan convention in Oxford dedicated to the life and works of J. R. R. Tolkien ?
text: Did you know that Mary Fowkes 's autopsies on COVID-19 victims helped identify long-term debilitating effects of the virus, including its impact on the heart and the brain?
text: Did you know that after Swampy was evicted from Jones Hill Wood , rare barbastelle bats were discovered to be living there?
text: Did you know that Arsenal Women 's 11–1 win over Bristol City at Meadow Park in 2019 was the widest margin of victory in the history of the FA Women's Super League ?
text: Did you know that Pierre Dufault reported on the Munich massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympics and claimed to have been the first reporter at the scene?
text: Did you know that the 1985–86 Hormel meatpacking plant strike was the subject of both an Academy Award–winning film and a stage play by the Children's Theatre Company ?
text: Did you know that due to the living instrument doctrine , the European Court of Human Rights ruled that "it is no longer considered to be necessary or appropriate" to criminalize homosexuality?
text: Did you know that Golden Age of Radio singer Harriet Lee had her own television show in 1931?
text: Did you know that the bacterium Delftia lacustris could be used in combination with a crust fungus in the bioremediation of petrochemical wastewater?
text: Did you know that folklorist and archaeologist Ethel Rudkin was the first to quantify and categorise sightings of ghostly black dogs ?
text: Did you know that Rudolf Gerlach-Rusnak was the stage name of a tenor from Ukraine, with the first name chosen for his favourite role in La bohème ?
text: Did you know that Coretta Scott King condemned the music video for Public Enemy 's " By the Time I Get to Arizona ", which depicts violent revenge for her assassinated husband?
text: Did you know that the 1922 electoral platform of the Union of Town and Country Proletariat called for the creation of a World Federation of Socialist Republics?
text: Did you know that NASA engineer William H. Robbins worked on what was the world's largest windmill when it was dedicated in 1979?
text: Did you know that the Canadian Toy Testing Council often had a waiting list of families wanting to test toys and games?
text: Did you know that Dolores Cabrera y Heredia , a Spanish Romantic poet and novelist, was a prominent member of Hermandad Lírica (Lyrical Sisterhood)?
text: Did you know that Leonardo DiCaprio actually set actors on fire with his flamethrower in the 2019 film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood ?
text: Did you know that the goldenrod crab spider can change colors between white and yellow depending on the color of the flowers on which it lives?
text: Did you know that Hermann Wiedemann , who sang the role of Beckmesser in Toscanini 's recording of Die Meistersinger , appeared as Faninal in Der Rosenkavalier at the Vienna State Opera 196 times?
text: Did you know that the lehenga was the traditional dress of women belonging to the Bettiah Christian ethnoreligious community of India?
text: Did you know that James M. Canty became the first Superintendent of Mechanical Industries at West Virginia State University following a recommendation from Booker T. Washington ?
text: Did you know that at least 90 percent of intermarried spouses in Nazi Germany and Austria refused to divorce Jewish partners despite intimidation by the Gestapo?
text: Did you know that Japan National Route 281 served as an evacuation route for the city of Kuji following the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and subsequent tsunami ?
text: Did you know that music critic Greg Kot described " Wang Dang Sweet Poontang " as "despicable misogyny", but listed it among his guilty pleasures because the "rawwwk doesn't get much rawer"?
text: Did you know that the developers of the video game Serious Sam: Next Encounter kept up morale by sharing their highscores via internal message boards ?
text: Did you know that David Bonnar , the incoming bishop of Youngstown , served as chaplain of the Pittsburgh Steelers and editor of The Priest ?
text: Did you know that inter-service cooperation was one of the most important lessons of the Bangladesh war for India?
text: Did you know that for a halfpenny fare, children could ride on a small chariot drawn by four muzzled mastiffs to the Farthing Pie House ?
text: Did you know that Swiss bass Peter Lagger performed in the world premieres of Louise Talma's Die Alkestiade at the Oper Frankfurt and of Penderecki's " Magnificat " at the Salzburg Festival ?
text: Did you know that when news reporters were accused of trying to force the outcome of the 1967 North Sumatra gubernatorial election , one of them said he was prepared to be shot if found guilty?
text: Did you know that Britain's 1977 Coal Queen won her weight in Babycham ?
text: Did you know that Ugandan president Idi Amin reportedly shot dead the leader of the Arube uprising when the latter tried to arrest him?
text: Did you know that a reviewer of The Collapse of Price's Raid stated that the lack of maps in the book would force many reviewers to use an atlas to follow the narrative?
text: Did you know that as a music teacher, Canadian classical pianist Margaret Miller Brown was known as a "tough taskmistress"?
text: Did you know that the Gainsborough Studios , a cooperative apartment for artists, was legally classified as a hotel to circumvent zoning restrictions on residential building heights?
text: Did you know that Bodashtart , King of Sidon , left some 30 dedicatory inscriptions at the Temple of Eshmun ?
text: Did you know that the Porcupine Freedom Festival has been described as "the libertarian version of Burning Man "?
text: Did you know that Sydney D. Bailey , an expert on international affairs and author of 17 books, left school by the age of 16 and taught himself political science ?
text: Did you know that Mauree Turner is the first publicly non-binary individual elected to a U.S. state legislature ?
text: Did you know that the annual Indian sports awards ceremony at the Presidential Palace includes awards for adventure , for the top-performing university , and for sports promotion ?
text: Did you know that, by choosing the content included in his classic 1953 introductory textbook on the subject , Charles Kittel helped define the field of solid-state physics ?
text: Did you know that Kwangchul Youn , a bass from South Korea, appeared as Gurnemanz in Parsifal at the Bayreuth Festival , as Mephisto at the Vienna State Opera , and as King Marke at the Metropolitan Opera ?
text: Did you know that the U.S. and Canada engaged in a fishing war in the 1990s?
text: Did you know that a reviewer expressed doubts that the plot of 24 Japan would be accepted by the viewing public since a major terror attack had not occurred in Japan for decades?
text: Did you know that White House correspondent Bryson Rash started in radio at the age of 12 by voicing Buster Brown ?