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Did you know that Oleg Vinogradov was the first Soviet ballet master to invite Western choreographers like Maurice Béjart to stage works for the Kirov Ballet ?
Did you know that the Sunday Observance Act 1695 banned the playing of sports on Sunday in Ireland, and parts of the act are still in force in Northern Ireland?
Did you know that Microsoft published Close Combat to kickstart its wider push into the strategy video game industry?
Did you know that the Welsh footballer John Toshack authored a book of poems entitled Gosh, it's Tosh ?
Did you know that a 19-year-old female student, Wu Shuqing , formed, trained, and capably led her own women's militia in the Xinhai Revolution of 1911?
Did you know that Jefferson Street , the historic center of the African-American community in Nashville, Tennessee , declined after the construction of Interstate 40 in the aftermath of the Nashville sit-ins ?
Did you know that para-alpine skier H. E. Bayındırlı twice took part in the Winter Paralympic Games , representing the United States in 2006 and Turkey in 2014 ?
Did you know that the wreck of a merchant ship thought to be West Ridge was found while searching for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 ?
Did you know that metal cones, designed to protect the tops of wooden posts, inspired the creation of a new musical instrument called the Aluphone ?
Did you know that in 1953, U.S. Navy pharmacist Katherine Keating was an official witness for a prisoner of war exchange aboard the hospital ship USS Haven ?
Did you know that the title character of The Adventures of Beekle was named after the way the author Dan Santat 's son would say "bicycle"?
Did you know that while the freighter Lakeland was sinking on Lake Michigan , her captain allegedly refused a tow?
Did you know that the Single African Air Transport Market , which was launched in 2018, was almost 30 years in the making?
Did you know that German World War II general Erich Hoepner was a member of the military resistance to Adolf Hitler , but was also implicated in crimes of the Wehrmacht ?
Did you know that despite being born in Indiana , Brad Kiltz represented American Samoa at the 1994 Winter Olympics ?
Did you know that archaeologist Hans-Åke Nordström excavated sites in Nubia before they were submerged by the creation of the Aswan Dam ?
Did you know that " This Is America " by Childish Gambino addresses the themes of being black in America and gun violence in the United States ?
Did you know that footballer Ian Feuer played a Predator in the 2007 film Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem ?
Did you know that the footballer Irvine Thornley 's benefit match raised £1036, a record at the time?
Did you know that Jack White left his song " Over and Over and Over " unrecorded for 13 years until his 2018 album Boarding House Reach ?
Did you know that though found from Portugal to Angola, the conservation status of the Portuguese sole is unknown ?
Did you know that as a child, Nagi Yanagi became interested in music after playing with an electronic keyboard her neighbor originally intended to throw away?
Did you know that no one was ever convicted of the 1924 lynching of 15-year-old African-American Samuel Smith in Nolensville, Tennessee ?
Did you know that when blindness forced Oscar Almgren to retire as professor of Scandinavian and Comparative Archaeology at Uppsala University , a role filled by Sune Lindqvist and Mårten Stenberger in turn, his young son Bertil Almgren read academic papers to him, and decades later took the post himself?
Did you know that Mrs. David Wright's Guard was formed by female patriots in the American Revolutionary War to guard a crossing on the Nashua River ?
Did you know that Jimmy 'Five Bellies' Gardner has been described as "the only person in Britain famous for being a footballer's mate"?
Did you know that the 2018–19 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team features an incoming class with two players who finished in the top three in voting for the 2018 Mr. Basketball of Michigan award?
Did you know that Longqing Gorge is a scenic area in Beijing created after the flooding of the canyon by the construction of a nearby dam?
Did you know that after police told Brandon Swanson ' s mother he had "a right to be missing" ten years ago today, she successfully lobbied for a state law requiring that such investigations start promptly?
Did you know that both the Morrison–Grady Plan and the Bevin Plan presented at the 1946–47 London Conference on Palestine were rejected by all parties?
Did you know that Bernardo De Pace , an Italian immigrant, started his own opera company and eventually performed at the Metropolitan Opera in New York?
Did you know that the music video for Basement Jaxx 's " U Don't Know Me " shows a Queen Elizabeth II look-alike groping a lapdancer ?
Did you know that while posted to London during the First World War, journalist Beatrice Nasmyth had her brother smuggle her articles back to Canada to avoid censorship ?
Did you know that the title of Schlafes Bruder (Brother of Sleep), a 1992 novel set in a mountain village in Vorarlberg , refers to Bach's setting of " Komm, o Tod, du Schlafes Bruder "?
Did you know that the last railroad in Ohio to be powered by third rail delivered coal to the Picway Power Plant ?
Did you know that the partial eye-ring of the male green iora looks like a pair of bright yellow eyelids?
Did you know that when the Opémiska Community Hall fire broke out, people inside did not immediately evacuate because they thought the fire was part of a performance?
Did you know that an American report on the refugee camps in post-World War II Europe led to an inquiry regarding Palestine ?
Did you know that the footballer Gary Gill suffered a broken leg during a match in 1989 but carried on playing after being given the magic sponge ?
Did you know that an unconscious bias training program has been created to help people unlearn bias while sleeping?
Did you know that Ye Jizhuang , China's first Minister of Trade, was among the first four officers to be awarded a general's rank by the Communist Party?
Did you know that an underground temple of Mithraism was discovered inside Zerzevan Castle during archaeological excavations?
Did you know that a fellow writer said that satire was the oxygen in Sushil Siddharth 's life?
Did you know that a goal of Unix System Laboratories was the creation of their namesake product "for the masses"?
Did you know that the Welsh footballer Nathan Wigg retired from playing after a scan of his knee was described as looking like it could have "been in a car crash"?
Did you know that the Emilia Plater Independent Women's Battalion , formed by the Soviet Union in the Second World War, was named after a Polish woman who fought against Russia?
Did you know that Lin Haiyun was attacked by Red Guards who called his ministry the "black headquarters" of revisionism ?
Did you know that users of Mary-Kate and Ashley: Pocket Planner can send "G-mail" through the Game Boy Color's infrared port?
Did you know that Donald Seldin transformed the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center from a dilapidated barracks into a world-class medical center with five Nobel laureates ?
Did you know that the 60th Ariel Awards includes three female filmmakers nominated for the Best Director award?
Did you know that the footballer Ken Hodgkisson was the first player ever to be used as a substitute by Walsall ?
Did you know that a pumping station on the River Jordan used a section of the damaged funnel from the SS Great Eastern as a water filter?
Did you know that Ephraim Grizzard was lynched in front of a mob of 10,000 in Nashville, Tennessee , on April 30, 1892?
Did you know that while one reviewer could not get past the second level of Army Men: Operation Green , another felt the game would only take a few hours to beat?
Did you know that Indian politician Anil Sarkar led efforts to provide relief and shelter for hundreds of thousands of refugees from the Bangladesh Liberation War ?
Did you know that Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat won the Caldecott Medal for its illustrations done in the style of Basquiat ?
Did you know that Spring is Coming was the first South Korean musical performance in the North in over a decade, and was attended by North Korean leader Kim Jong-un ?
Did you know that, using data collected from the Dark Energy Survey , a team of researchers led by David Gerdes discovered a new dwarf planet nicknamed DeeDee ?
Did you know that Gujarati writer Mafat Oza published his own elegy in his poetry collection Ashubh ?
Did you know that New York City's Jacob Riis Park contained the world's largest paved parking lot when it was constructed?
Did you know that Clara Schumann noted in her diary in 1853 that her husband was very happy about completing his Märchenerzählungen , fairy-tale music for piano, clarinet, and viola?
Did you know that Fredrik Önnevall , who speaks fluent Chinese, was Sveriges Television 's first correspondent in Beijing and provided commentary for the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics ?
Did you know that there are multiple ways to switch antipsychotics ?
Did you know that Leslie Webster spent her entire career at the British Museum ?
Did you know that according to legend, The Lady Bushranger "escaped from custody while in a locked toilet aboard a moving train"?
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Did you know that the pianist Margarita Höhenrieder has premiered works dedicated to her by Harald Genzmer , including a concerto for piano, trumpet, and strings?
Did you know that the world's largest curved all-wood trestle was built over Goat Canyon ?
Did you know that Ahmed Jahouh is the first Moroccan footballer to play in India?
Did you know that in the novel New England White , Stephen L. Carter writes about the murders of a black professor and a schoolgirl set in a town described as "the heart of whiteness"?
Did you know that Herbert Holmes à Court 's commands included the gunnery training ship HMS Revenge ?
Did you know that until the Netherlands competed at the 2014 Winter Paralympics , all of the country's Winter Paralympics medals had been won by one woman, Marjorie van de Bunt ?
Did you know that Lt. Gen. Wang Bingzhang , head of China's ballistic missile and satellite programs, was imprisoned for ten years without being convicted of a crime?
Did you know that the Motor Neurone Disease Association criticised the two-part Holby City episode " Group Animal " for misleading viewers about a cure for motor neuron disease ?
Did you know that Henry Boynton Clitz , Commandant of Cadets at West Point from 1862 to 1864, disappeared in 1888?
Did you know that the Global Buddhist Network used to be a Thai television station featuring Buddhist content, but was shut down by the Thai military junta ?
Did you know that Wendy Watson Nelson taught nursing students that "the family's ability to change depends upon their ability to alter their perception of the problem"?
Did you know that 40 or more fish leeches of the species Hemibdella soleae may be found attached to one common sole ?
Did you know that the US National Gallery of Art has a picture of Trump urinating on the work of a satirist ?
Did you know that Oscar Wilde , Robert Falcon Scott , David Bowie , and Bob Marley all lived in the same street ?
Did you know that James T. Sutherland , known as the "Father of Hockey", founded the Memorial Cup after serving overseas in World War I?
Did you know that the Bradenton Riverwalk area was originally nicknamed "The Sand Pile"?
Did you know that German stage director Tobias Kratzer nominated two versions of Verdi's Rigoletto for an international competition, pretending to be an American woman in the first instance, and a Bulgarian in the second?
Did you know that the state communication system developed in the Neo-Assyrian Empire enabled communication speed unsurpassed in the Middle East until the advent of telegraphy ?
Did you know that, appalled by the terrible living standards in his hometown, Wu Nansheng became a strong proponent of economic reform in China?
Did you know that the upper floors of a new high-rise building in Seattle will cantilever over an adjacent building?
Did you know that Marvel Comics published Venomverse to relaunch the original Venom character?
Did you know that the Portuguese international footballers Matilde Fidalgo and Bernardo Silva are cousins?
Did you know that one popular expression of Buddhist devotion is to go on pilgrimage to Bodh Gayā in India?
Did you know that around the Dutch village of Aartswoud , the former polder landscape and its seasonal water levels are being restored?
Did you know that the ambassador Ayşe Sinirlioğlu was Turkey's sherpa to the G20 ?
Did you know that the Home and Away spin-off All or Nothing was called "the bloodiest episode ever seen of the hit Aussie soapie"?
Did you know that fashion model Nikki Sievwright captured a wanted man by searching a woman's knickers ?
Did you know that vaudevillian and theatre manager Loney Haskell eulogized Harry Houdini ?
Did you know that the Protestant municipal Luisenkirche in Charlottenburg was named after Queen Luise of Prussia around 100 years after Frederick I of Prussia financed it?
Did you know that President Franklin D. Roosevelt was the first person to officially pass through the Queens–Midtown Tunnel ?
Did you know that both adults and nymphs of the bug Anthocoris nemoralis suck the body fluids from the insects and mites on which they feed?
Did you know that Brazil , Turkey , and Uzbekistan all made their Winter Paralympics debuts at the 2014 Sochi Games ?
Did you know that Bai Xiangguo , China's Minister of Foreign Trade, was dismissed because he "failed to withstand the poisonous snake that took the form of a beautiful woman"?
Did you know that not having been observed by a potential rescue ship, three survivors from the Margaret Olwill coordinated their shouts to attract the attention of a second ship?
Did you know that the pear sucker arrived in the eastern United States from Europe in the early 1800s and took about 100 years to travel across the country?
Did you know that the Turkish international Dilara Özlem Sucuoğlu started to play football in Germany at the age of five inspired by her father, a football coach?
Did you know that the Father Serra statues in Ventura, California , have been vandalized and called "a direct slap in the face" of Native American cultures?
Did you know that Blanche McVeigh 's home workshop had a Sturges printing press so heavy that the floor needed to be shored up to support it?
Did you know that Casualty ' s list of special episodes includes the first webisode for a BBC continuing drama?
Did you know that some people from Ohio don't give a damn for the whole state of Michigan ?
Did you know that English paediatrician Alfred White Franklin was one of the first to recognise that child abuse was much more common in the United Kingdom than the public realised?
Did you know that in Sessions v. Dimaya , Trump-appointed U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch joined a 5–4 vote against the Trump Administration ?
Did you know that Mabel St Clair Stobart became the first woman to be promoted to the rank of major in any national army?
Did you know that upon release, SpellForce 3 was so buggy that the developer had to release 21 patches in 14 days?
Did you know that before becoming a food historian, James Beard Award -winner Adrian Miller was a White House adviser in the Clinton administration ?
Did you know that Leucospermum cuneiforme is known as luisiesbos ("lice bush") in Afrikaans as its seed pods resemble lice?
Did you know that scientist Warren P. Mason said that polymer chemistry was not "civilized" because of the awful smells produced?
Did you know that the video game Observer stars Rutger Hauer , who also starred in Blade Runner , which influenced the game?
Did you know that before Zheng Tuobin became China's Minister of Foreign Trade, he spent five years performing manual labour?
Did you know that the alpine skier Corey Peters won a silver medal for New Zealand at the 2014 Winter Paralympics ?
Did you know that mezzo-soprano Melinda Paulsen was the first to record songs by Nadia Boulanger and Ethel Smyth ?
Did you know that during the construction of New York City's Van Wyck Expressway , a four-story apartment building was placed on metal rollers and relocated away from the expressway's path?
Did you know that Kavinder Gupta was elected mayor of Jammu for a record three consecutive terms?
Did you know that George Speake sees an "eyeless, open-jawed serpent" on the Staffordshire helmet ?
Did you know that a citizens' group opposing Nashville 's transit referendum submitted an op-ed to The Tennessean under a fake name?
Did you know that the Russian Orthodox Church's mission in China created their own Chinese characters for translating liturgical texts?
Did you know that Michigan Wolverines point guard Zavier Simpson had his two highest-scoring games as a sophomore against top-five ranked opponents?
Did you know that a newly discovered plankton species, Syracosphaera azureaplaneta , has been named in honour of the BBC TV documentary series The Blue Planet , and its presenter, Sir David Attenborough ?
Did you know that according to legend, the dragon Graoully , which terrorized the citizens of Metz , was vanquished by Saint Clement ?
Did you know that Erjon Tola was the only athlete sent by Albania to the 2006 and 2010 Winter Olympics ?
Did you know that Louise Antonini disguised herself as a man to serve in the French Navy and Napoleon 's army for a total of 25 years?
Did you know that Li Zhengyou , vice-governor of Yunnan province, was also a pioneer in the research of high-altitude hybrid rice ?
Did you know that California's Senate Bill 827 would have affected 96 percent of land in San Francisco ?
Did you know that at the age of 79 years and 9 months, Robert Pitcairn became the oldest athlete to debut in a Commonwealth Games event?
Did you know that the endangered New Zealand shrub Muehlenbeckia astonii is also known as zig zag plant and wiggy-wig bush?
Did you know that Gaboimilla , a mythical Chilean queen, is said to have allowed men into her kingdom only for procreation?
Did you know that the British jazz-funk band Jamiroquai gave a performance on an aircraft travelling at 1017 km/h (632 mph), setting the Guinness World Record for "fastest concert"?
Did you know that Poulsbo Bread was inspired by a recipe described in the Book of Ezekiel ?
Did you know that Tunbridge Wells RFC brought 9,000 fans to the RFU Intermediate Cup final at Twickenham Stadium in 2016, establishing a new attendance record for the competition?
Did you know that Yang Gui was the chief designer of the Red Flag Canal , considered by Premier Zhou Enlai as one of the two "miracles" of the People's Republic of China?
Did you know that the Ventura Pier was the longest wooden pier in California until a storm sheared off approximately 420 feet (130 m) in 1995?
Did you know that an interrupted aortic arch is rapidly lethal, but can be fixed by surgery?
Did you know that vaudeville star Don the Talking Dog once helped rescue a drowning man?
Did you know that a reviewer of The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous saw the title character Lysander Hawkley as "the man who put the giggle in gigolo "?
Did you know that Charlotte Serber worked at the secret Project Y during World War II, but after the war could not get a security clearance to work as a librarian at Berkeley?
Did you know that in the only church dedicated to Saint Wendreda , the roof is decorated with 118 oaken angels?
Did you know that U.S. President Donald Trump has proposed to revoke government funding using the rescission process , which was successfully used 461 times prior to 2000 but has never been attempted since?
Did you know that footballer Joe Mayo "never really thought about" turning professional, and was training as an accountant when offered his first professional contract?
Did you know that during its development, the predatory plant bug Deraeocoris brevis can consume up to 400 eggs and nymphs of the pear psylla ?
Did you know that Pulitzer Prize -nominated film critic Ann Hornaday was once an assistant to Gloria Steinem ?
Did you know that some stilts have been designed to be used within saggars ?
Did you know that for £5, Amiga users who registered Llamatron would receive a poster, a newsletter, and another game from the company?
Did you know that actor Kelly Lai Chen married and divorced the " female Bruce Lee "?
Did you know that the pygmy eagle of New Guinea is the world ' s smallest-known species of eagle?
Did you know that by the time of his death, Owen Harding Wangensteen 's invention of Wangensteen suction was estimated to have saved a million lives?
Did you know that when completed in 1968, the Tower of History was the tallest observation tower in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan ?
Did you know that the audience of the play Quiz act as the jury for a fictionalised version of the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? "Coughing Major" scandal?
Did you know that Knut Stjerna used archaeology to analyse the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf ?
Did you know that there is no strangler in the 1972 film Night of the Strangler ?
Did you know that the US Air Force Association 's highest award for nursing is named in honor of Juanita Redmond Hipps ?
Did you know that Trivières contains the most important Merovingian necropolis in Belgium?
Did you know that footballer Wayne Entwistle played for more FA Cup -winning clubs than any other player?
Did you know that the Xena: Warrior Princess episode " The Haunting of Amphipolis " was changed at the behest of the writers from focusing on a murdered man and his daughter to featuring the demon Mephistopheles ?
Did you know that Li Keran 's painting Landscape in Red , which sold for 80 yuan in the 1970s, fetched 184,000,000 yuan at auction four decades later?
Did you know that the Uspallata chinchilla rat feeds on the leaves of the creosote bush , despite the toxicity of its foliage?
Did you know that Gavin Robinson 's 1960s fashion shows were described as zippy, nippy, and hippy?
Did you know that during the filming of Atlanta 's " Teddy Perkins ", Donald Glover was referred to by the crew as "Teddy" and "there was no Donald on set whatsoever"?
Did you know that after Canadian football player Earl Valiquette signed with the Edmonton Eskimos , his former team threatened legal action to keep him from leaving?
Did you know that the copepod Temora longicornis makes daily vertical migrations, spending the day near the seabed and the night near the surface?
Did you know that after a decade-long opera and concert career, George Bentham originated the leading role of Alexis in The Sorcerer by Gilbert and Sullivan , which proved to be his last performing engagement?
Did you know that in 2016, Oregon ’s legislative Emergency Board provided $2 million to reimburse state and local agencies for costs resulting from the armed occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge ?
Did you know that radiologically isolated syndrome is a condition that may develop into multiple sclerosis , even in children?
Did you know that in 1896, Queen Mamea offered her South Pacific island nation to the United States ?
Did you know that the black-winged flycatcher-shrike camouflages its nest with pieces of bark?
Did you know that in 1956–57, footballer Ray Straw equalled Derby County 's club record for most league goals in a single season?
Did you know that it is possible to simultaneously measure which genes are turned on in an organism using transcriptomics technologies ?
Did you know that Medal of Honor recipient Charles Mattocks was born in Danville, Vermont , and imprisoned in Danville, Virginia , as a POW during the American Civil War?
Did you know that the Romanesque cross basilica St. Georg in Aplerbeck from the 12th century fell into such disrepair that its street was named Ruinenstraße?
Did you know that Yurika was inspired to become a singer for anime after hearing the song " Genesis of Aquarion " by Akino in a television commercial?
Did you know that a year after the character of Mason Morgan was introduced on Home and Away , his curly hair disappeared due to actor Orpheus Pledger 's new hairstyle?
Did you know that ballerina Joan Benesh married the man who suggested a better way of notating her dances ?