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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 ?
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?
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"?
Did you know that 500 Queer Scientists are informally partnered with 500 Women Scientists ?
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?
Did you know that American performing artist Nashom Wooden starred in an off-Broadway play titled My Pet Homo with drag queen RuPaul ?
Did you know that Karan Johar launched the pop song " Genda Phool " on social media during India's coronavirus lockdown ?
Did you know that Syrian refugee Hassan Al Kontar was stranded at Kuala Lumpur International Airport for seven months?
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 ?
Did you know that Peter Minich was a lead tenor for Viennese operettas at the Volksoper in the 1960s and 1970s?
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?
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 ?
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?
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 ?
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?
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?
Did you know that during World War II, the 1st Engineer Special Brigade fought in Italy , in Normandy , and in Okinawa ?
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?
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 ?
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 ?
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 ?
Did you know that Kathleen Pelham Burn , Countess of Drogheda, was nicknamed "The Flying Countess" because of her involvement with early aviation?
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?
Did you know that auctioneer Peregrine Pollen once smuggled four Impressionist paintings out of Buenos Aires in a Beatles poster?
Did you know that the term " informed consent " was coined during the 1957 court case Salgo v. Leland Stanford Jr. University Board of Trustees ?
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 ?
Did you know that the idea for the documentary film Crip Camp came to the directors after an "off-hand comment at lunch"?
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?
Did you know that there were doubts regarding in which County Londonderry constituency the freeholders of the North West Liberties of Londonderry could vote?
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?
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"?
Did you know that John Tiedtke , heir to a grocery- and department-store fortune , sponsored a Bach festival and served as its president?
Did you know that in the 0x88 chess-board representation , 8-by-16 boards are used?
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?
Did you know that Bahra 1 in Kuwait is the oldest permanent settlement south of Mesopotamia ?
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 ?
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?
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?
Did you know that Manchester United became the first English football team to win the European Cup by defeating Benfica in the 1968 final ?
Did you know that the Htupayon Pagoda in Sagaing , Myanmar, has been hit by at least five major earthquakes and rebuilt three times?
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?
Did you know that Ayushmann Khurrana learned to play the piano and make omelettes blindfolded for one of his performances ?
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?
Did you know that Charles Wilkins , who wrote prolifically about the history of Wales , was described as "an Englishman with a Welshman's enthusiasm"?
Did you know that Dale Jr. did not host The Dale Jr. Download for the podcast's first four years?
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?
Did you know that George Dudley threatened to withdraw Canada from ice hockey at the Olympic Games over the definition of an amateur?
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 ?
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?
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?
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"?
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?
Did you know that an attack on Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi may have been triggered by protests against a 150-percent fee hike?
Did you know that film director Garrett Batty wrote the script for The Saratov Approach while recovering from heart surgery?
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?
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?
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 ?
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?
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?
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?
Did you know that hundreds of patients of the Provincial Mental Sanatorium Kortau died in Nazi Germany's Aktion T4 involuntary-euthanasia program?
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 ?
Did you know that Emilia Clarke performed the funky chicken and robot dances at her Game of Thrones audition?
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?
Did you know that treatment for the symptoms of Newyorkitis was being offered at a New York YMCA in 1908?
Did you know that unlike most other flagship smartphones in 2020, the Sony Xperia 1 II smartphone includes a 3.5 mm audio jack ?
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?
Did you know that many homes in the neighborhood of Sunset Park were "inexpensive imitations" of upper-class brownstones elsewhere in Brooklyn ?
Did you know that Czechoslovak Communist politician Václav Kopecký "distinguished himself with antisemitic diatribes" and stage-managed an antisemitic show trial ?
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 ?
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?
Did you know that actor Charlie Condou was offered the role of Ben Sherwood in Holby City without an audition?
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 ?
Did you know that Enderby Jackson , the founder of the traditional British brass band contest, was raised to be a tallow chandler ?
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)?
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 ?
Did you know that the Fulham Pottery , founded in London in 1672, operated for over 300 years?
Did you know that United States Supreme Court justice John Paul Stevens cited political scientist Kristin Goss in a case related to gun control ?
Did you know that baseball coach Mike Coolbaugh was killed by a batted ball in 2007?
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?
Did you know that International Boxing Federation flyweight world champion Leonela Paola Yúdica won a house in a raffle?
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?
Did you know that Maria van Pallaes allowed both Catholics and Protestants to live in her almshouses , which was unusual for the time?
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?
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 ?
Did you know that fossils from twenty-one species of mammals have been identified at Whitecliff Bay on the Isle of Wight ?
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 ?
Did you know that the roof of the Town Lake Gazebo in Austin, Texas , is in the shape of a hyperbolic paraboloid ?
Did you know that Laverne Antrobus has appeared on the BBC giving advice and information on child psychology since 2004?
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?
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 ?
Did you know that the essay " It's Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers " has been described as an ode to autumn?
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?
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 ?
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 ?
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?
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?
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?
Did you know that some snooker matches at the 2020 Gibraltar Open were played without a referee?
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?
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 ?
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?
Did you know that birds, bats and humans are the main hosts of members of the bed bug family ?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
Did you know that according to Luke the Evangelist , the last words of Jesus on the cross came from Psalm 31 ?
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 ?
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?
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?
Did you know that Riverside Church in Manhattan includes a movie theater, gymnasium, and observation deck, and formerly contained a bowling alley?
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?
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?
Did you know that Leonard Montefiore organised an airlift of hundreds of Jewish orphans who had survived Nazi concentration camps?
Did you know that according to legend, the so-called Immortal Piano was partially built with wood from the pillars of Solomon's Temple ?
Did you know that Richard J. Daley suffered his only electoral defeat when he ran for sheriff of Cook County, Illinois , in 1946 ?
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?
Did you know that aspects of Star Wars character Fennec Shand 's personality, costume, and hairstyle were inspired by the fennec fox ?
Did you know that Allie X gained inspiration for her album Cape God after watching a documentary about the opioid epidemic in Massachusetts ?
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?
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 ?
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?
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?
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"?
Did you know that experts on the World Health Organization 's emergency committee believe that COVID-19 could be the first Disease X ?
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?
Did you know that Kissena Creek originates from a New York City swamp that remained undeveloped through 2000?
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 ?
Did you know that Japanese voice actress Rei Matsuzaki wrote a newspaper sports column on the Tokyo Yakult Swallows baseball team?
Did you know that Monster Island won an Origins Award for the best new play-by-mail game of 1990?
Did you know that British windsurfer Emma Wilson won the under-15 Techno 293 World Championships at the age of 12?
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?
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 ?
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?
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?
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?
Did you know that most species in the palm genus Desmoncus climb using grappling hook –like structures called acanthopylls?
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 ?
Did you know that the white-browed tit-warbler has been found to practice cooperative breeding ?
Did you know that Alice Birch 's play Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. was inspired by Valerie Solanas 's SCUM Manifesto ?
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?
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?
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?
Did you know that three members of the Harrison family of Virginia served as President of the United States ?
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?
Did you know that Canadian rancher William Roper Hull is credited with the first use of fences in cattle ranching in Calgary ?
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?
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?
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?
Did you know that flatter mires in montane regions of Europe are often dominated by deergrass and cottongrass ?
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 ?
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 ?
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?
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?
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?
Did you know that Indian writer Malayanil was a pioneer of modern short-story writing in the Gujarati language ?