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Did you know that Philip Petty received the Medal of Honor for raising his regiment's colors during the Battle of Fredericksburg ?
Did you know that a storyline about domestic abuse from the eighteenth series of Holby City sparked 177 calls to the BBC's support line?
Did you know that Mamie Shields Pyle was instrumental in winning the right to vote for women in South Dakota ?
Did you know that green-legged curly-tail lizards living in more open, exposed locations, tend to have longer limbs and faster sprint speeds?
Did you know that Zura Karuhimbi saved the lives of more than 100 refugees during the Rwandan genocide by pretending to be a witch?
Did you know that French surgeon Christian Cabrol performed Europe's first heart transplant in 1968?
Did you know that Grand Central Palace , a former exhibition center in New York City, was used at different times as a hospital and a U.S. Army induction center?
Did you know that one wrestler was injured and another stripped of her championship after a professional wrestling bout involving Lady Shani went off script?
Did you know that the lead singer of the English rock band The 1975 wrote the song " Sincerity Is Scary " in order to "denounce all of that postmodern fear of ... being real"?
Did you know that Canada has enacted a cap and trade program to tax carbon emissions ?
Did you know that when Clive Garthwaite played on the same school cricket team as his identical twin brother Peter , they caused confusion due to their similar looks?
Did you know that Crooked Billet was the site of the first house in London that had a telephone, as well as electricity for illumination, boiling a kettle, and ironing?
Did you know that The Marriage is a video game that tries to convey meaning through its mechanics rather than through audio or visuals?
Did you know that Ursula K. Le Guin once rejected an offer from Hayao Miyazaki to adapt her Earthsea series for the screen, but changed her mind after watching Miyazaki's film My Neighbor Totoro ?
Did you know that the 1923 film The Shepherd King about the Biblical David has an opening scene in Egypt because of King Tut ?
Did you know that the soprano Melitta Muszely appeared as the four women Hoffmann loves in Felsenstein 's production at the Komische Oper Berlin in 1958, and still sang recitals at age 80?
Did you know that the Ussuri shrew feeds largely on earthworms and needs to eat more than twice its bodyweight each day?
Did you know that Hungarian ice hockey referee László Schell set an unofficial record of 22 Ice Hockey World Championship matches officiated in a year?
Did you know that Stackpole Books sold 12,000 copies of Mein Kampf in English before being ordered to stop?
Did you know that Toronto treasure and antique dealer Billy Jamieson discovered the lost mummy of pharaoh Ramesses I when he purchased the Niagara Falls Museum ?
Did you know that despite having large molecular gas reservoirs, NGC 3665 has a less than expected star formation rate?
Did you know that when Riko Azuna auditioned to perform the opening theme to the anime series Bloom Into You , all she knew about the series was that it focuses on love between two girls ?
Did you know that in 1674, the Dutch East India ship Wapen van Rotterdam was captured in Ronas Voe, Shetland , by three English men-of-war ?
Did you know that Malaysia was stripped of its right to host the 2019 World Para Swimming Championships after refusing to allow Israeli athletes to enter the country to compete?
Did you know that the Lutheran Trinity Church in East Melbourne has occupied its site continuously since 1854, with services conducted in German?
Did you know that Sumiko Hennessy , a co-founder of the Asian Pacific Development Center in Denver , Colorado, has taught courses for corporate executives about Asian cultures and "stress management Asian-style"?
Did you know that the Persian city of Arrajan , built using the labour of Roman prisoners of war in the early 6th century, later flourished as a large settlement by the 11th century?
Did you know that when Barbara Low and Dorothy Hodgkin determined the structure of penicillin in 1945, it was the largest molecule ever to be successfully investigated by X-ray crystallography ?
Did you know that a colony of webspinners recently discovered in Surrey was the first new order of insects found in Britain for over a century?
Did you know that after the Great Sichuan earthquake , Ding Yi donated more than 200,000 yuan to his former company to help with reconstruction?
Did you know that the Baseball Rule in American tort law holds that as long as a baseball team has protected seats available, fans injured by foul balls generally cannot hold the team liable ?
Did you know that Abby Cubillo is the first woman born and raised in the Northern Territory to play in the Women's National Basketball League ?
Did you know that a Republican candidate has not won a Chicago mayoral election since 1927 ?
Did you know that, in rejecting so-called " New Criticism ", Robert Kaske argued that medieval poetry needs to be read in context?
Did you know that the Engenho dos Erasmos , built in Colonial Brazil around 1534 to produce sugar cane, was attacked by the English in 1591 and the Dutch in 1615?
Did you know that in 2018 Lydia Steier , born in Hartford, Connecticut , became the first woman to stage Mozart's Die Zauberflöte at the Salzburg Festival ?
Did you know that large moles can live for four years but may fall prey to owls, snakes, or weasels?
Did you know that after China's "tobacco king" Chu Shijian was sentenced to life imprisonment, he became the "king of oranges"?
Did you know that Brazilian-born Catarina Macario won three American college soccer awards in the same year?
Did you know that the giant spoon worm Ikeda taenioides survived a tsunami that devastated other members of the seabed community?
Did you know that physician Sumant Mehta spent five years in jails for his participation in the Indian independence movement ?
Did you know that a visit to The Farm by UNICEF resulted in the development of The Farm Vegetarian Cookbook ?
Did you know that horror author Michaelbrent Collings used the pen name "Angelica Hart" for his western romance series?
Did you know that the sheriffs of more than a dozen of the 39 counties of Washington state have announced they will not enforce recently enacted gun-control legislation ?
Did you know that Swedish singer Sophia Somajo released her second album via The Pirate Bay ?
Did you know that hearing protection fit-testing is used to determine if devices like earplugs or earmuffs are providing the right amount of sound reduction?
Did you know that Hu Peiquan founded the journal of Northwestern Polytechnical University and served as its chief editor for more than 60 years?
Did you know that Bekah Brunstetter 's play The Cake , about a baker refusing to serve gay customers, was partly inspired by her father Peter S. Brunstetter 's opposition to same-sex marriage ?
Did you know that the peanut worm Themiste hennahi is a "tentacle breather"?
Did you know that Alfred Westou is said to have combed the hair and cut the nails of St Cuthbert , even though the saint had been dead for more than three centuries?
Did you know that Karta , an orangutan at the Adelaide Zoo , escaped from her enclosure by short-circuiting an electrical fence using a stick?
Did you know that actor Jude Akuwudike originated the part of "the Queen" in the first British production of Not About Nightingales ?
Did you know that the fiery-browed starling , found only on Sulawesi in Indonesia, forms mixed flocks with the Sulawesi myna and grosbeak starling ?
Did you know that while on hiatus from her beach volleyball career, Sanne Keizer completed a master's degree in criminal investigation and worked as a police detective?
Did you know that the "Weird Al" parody song " Chicken Pot Pie " was not released at the request of vegetarian Paul McCartney , who felt it endorsed eating meat?
Did you know that Walter Wasservogel was the first full-time general secretary of the International Ice Hockey Federation ?
Did you know that in 1980, a ribbon worm was implicated in the collapse of the Dungeness crab fishery in central California?
Did you know that an award for women journalists in India is named after a Jain freedom fighter?
Did you know that as he was a teacher by day and bandleader at night, those who knew Bob Bachelder in one role likely were unaware of the other?
Did you know that Rosie Bernard's bar in Monte Carlo , The Chatham , was "one of the temples of grand prix racing"?
Did you know that Wu Dechang managed the emergency response to large-scale plutonium contamination caused by a failed Chinese nuclear test?
Did you know that the range of Laxmann's shrew extends from Norway to Sakhalin Island in eastern Asia?
Did you know that among the live venues Japanese singer and voice actress Aimi performed at prior to her major debut was a steakhouse ?
Did you know that the burrowing brittle star submerges itself in mud and raises its arms to feed?
Did you know that Washington lands commissioner Hilary Franz was a competitive ice skater as a teenager?
Did you know that Tuvalu could only afford to become a member of the United Nations after selling its Internet country code top-level domain ?
Did you know that the wildlife of Sweden is likely to be affected by climate change, with the tree line moving further north and to higher altitudes, and forests replacing tundra ?
Did you know that Yury Karandin was the first Soviet referee to officiate matches involving National Hockey League players?
Did you know that Sharlene San Pedro and Nash Aguas , the lead actors of the 2018 thriller Class of 2018 , worked together on a sketch comedy show when they were children?
Did you know that according to historian An Zuozhang , the governing principle of the Western Han dynasty of ancient China was "doing nothing against nature"?
Did you know that the children's poetry book The Great Migration: Journey to the North reflects author Eloise Greenfield's own childhood experiences?
Did you know that Percy Furnivall , Britain's first heart surgeon, was also a champion amateur bicyclist, tricyclist, and tandemist?
Did you know that the University of Mississippi band was asked to stop playing " From Dixie with Love " because fans kept chanting, "The South will rise again"?
Did you know that Ronnie O'Sullivan won the 2017 Masters snooker event, despite breaking his cue tip in his semifinal match?
Did you know that Boro Maa created a refugee colony at Thakurnagar for the Matuas , who were displaced due to the 1947 Partition of Bengal ?
Did you know that Artur Schnabel's recordings of Beethoven's piano sonatas were the first complete recordings ever made of all of the composer's 32 piano sonatas ?
Did you know that Jon Teske posted a double-double in his first collegiate start and the first collegiate basketball game played at Little Caesars Arena ?
Did you know that Tobago 's Main Ridge is one of the oldest protected areas in the world set aside for conservation, having been created by the British Parliament in 1776?
Did you know that a gay former British prince died fighting on the side of Nazi Germany despite loathing Hitler and the Nazi Party?
Did you know that Nickey Barclay played with Fanny , Cocker , and Ball ?
Did you know that Jonas Noreika is commemorated on plaques and street signs in Lithuania, despite his active participation in the Holocaust ?
Did you know that the 23-storey Dusit Thani Hotel , with its distinctive golden spire, was the tallest building in Bangkok when it opened in 1970?
Did you know that the soprano and voice teacher Ria Ginster sang recitals at Wigmore Hall and Carnegie Hall , and recorded Rossini's Petite messe solennelle conducted by Sir John Barbirolli ?
Did you know that the special election in North Carolina's 9th congressional district is the first "do-over" of an election to the U.S. House of Representatives since 1974?
Did you know that He Yousheng studied the high-speed hydrodynamics of torpedoes ?
Did you know that an image of an egg posted on the social media service Instagram became the most liked online post of all time?
Did you know that the marine worm Echiurus echiurus uses its spoon-shaped proboscis to feed but not to dig its burrow?
Did you know that in 1878, Liverpool stamp dealer Thomas Ridpath bought a collection of British Guiana stamps for £120 that included the unique 1-cent magenta , which sold in 2014 for US$9,480,000?
Did you know that as The Big Elk is now the world's tallest statue of a moose, it has been proposed that Mac the Moose be given stilettos so as to reclaim its previous record?
Did you know that aeroelasticity engineer Guan De worked on the development of the Shenyang J-8 and J-8II fighter jets?
Did you know that U.S. citizens are prohibited from engaging in business activities with Víctor Manuel Vázquez Mireles ?
Did you know that the graceful kelp crab tends to inhabit the understory rather than the canopy of the kelp forest ?
Did you know that the reversal of post-World War II nationalization in Poland resulted in considerable amounts of chaos and fraud?
Did you know that Soediro stole a limousine to be used as Sukarno 's presidential car, despite not knowing how to drive?
Did you know that the Dutch musicologist Leo Riemens and the German physician Karl-Josef Kutsch wrote Großes Sängerlexikon , a biographical dictionary of opera singers, with 18,760 entries in 2012?
Did you know that Indo-Russia Rifles is a joint venture licensed to produce 750,000 AK-203 rifles, the latest and most advanced version of the AK-47 firearm?
Did you know that in 1994, Karen became the first orangutan to have open heart surgery?
Did you know that after Tu Jida experienced Japanese aerial bombing at the age of ten, he studied aircraft design and came to be known as the "father of the J-7 fighters "?
Did you know that the entire town of Agats is elevated above ground level, including the roads?
Did you know that Danielle Ponter is the first member of the Rioli–Long family – described as one of " footy 's most famous dynasties " – to play top-level women's Australian rules football ?
Did you know that after the editor of an Alabama newspaper called for the return of the Ku Klux Klan , he was initially replaced by an African-American woman?
Did you know that Arvo Pärt composed the motet The Deer's Cry on a commission from Louth , Ireland, setting the conclusion of Saint Patrick's Breastplate , "Christ with me"?
Did you know that Indian activist S. Dharmambal was honoured as a Heroic Tamil Mother for her contributions to the Tamil language ?
Did you know that the upcoming Dr. Seuss book Horse Museum features horse-themed artwork by Pablo Picasso , Jackson Pollock , and other artists?
Did you know that Xu Shunshou , chief designer of China's first jet aircraft, died after being tortured during the Cultural Revolution ?
Did you know that 3,000-year-old Ancient Egyptian pictures of foreign prisoners were found by fertilizer-diggers in 1903?
Did you know that the tasselled anglerfish is an ambush predator, attracting its prey with a worm-like lure?
Did you know that after switching from black-and-white to color film in 1977, John Harding was out on the street taking pictures almost every day for more than three decades?
Did you know that Marcello Costa spent his career researching the links between the nervous system and the gut ?
Did you know that the British submarine HMS Stratagem sank only one ship in its 13-month-long career—only three days before it was itself sunk?
Did you know that Venezuelan journalist Luz Mely Reyes was one of the "Guardians" spotlighted for the 2018 Time Person of the Year ?
Did you know that leading black and white artists responded to the 1926 symposium The Negro in Art: How Shall He Be Portrayed? with their views on the extent to which black artists could avoid racial stereotypes?
Did you know that Ian Eaves has catalogued the arms and armour of Queen Elizabeth II , and written about those of King Henry VIII ?
Did you know that a U.S. presidential candidate making a campaign announcement is said to "throw one's hat in the ring", after a boxing metaphor popularized by the Theodore Roosevelt 1912 presidential campaign ?
Did you know that in India, a postal officer became a spymaster ?
Did you know that preceding a 1948 Dutch attack , Daan Jahja recommended the creation of a contingent government in exile, which later became the Emergency Government of the Republic of Indonesia ?
Did you know that Jules Van Nuffel , founder and conductor of the choir at the Mechelen Cathedral , set Psalm 93 , Dominus regnavit , for choir and organ – but it was Psalm 92 for him?
Did you know that E Dongchen participated in eleven polar expeditions, including China's first expeditions to Antarctica and the North Pole ?
Did you know that the peanut worm Themiste cymodoceae can survive without oxygen for several days?
Did you know that Anatoli Khorozov is referred to as the father of ice hockey in Ukraine ?
Did you know that in 1870, inspectors found that most of the workers at the Peter's Hall sugar plantation in British Guiana were from India and China?
Did you know that despite killing every dog that he had tried the procedure on, Francis Fontan successfully operated on a young woman's heart in 1968?
Did you know that Raymond Butt compiled a directory of "every station, halt , platform and stopping place on the British railway passenger network"?
Did you know that the Guianan squirrel monkey has a varied diet that includes seeds, eggs, nectar, gum, insects, flowers, lizards, and occasionally bats?
Did you know that Roma producer Gabriela Rodríguez is the first Latin American woman to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture ?
Did you know that if Caesar had successfully carried out his planned invasions , he would, according to Plutarch , have ensured that his empire "would then be bounded on all sides by the ocean"?
Did you know that Frant Gwo 's science fiction film The Wandering Earth is the world's highest-grossing film of 2019 so far and the second highest-grossing film of all time in China?
Did you know that the Arianna String Quartet was praised by the Chicago Tribune as making music "with the tonal warmth, fastidious balance, and heightened communication skills of groups many years its senior"?
Did you know that Team Canada threatened to pull out of the 1972 Summit Series against the Soviet Union unless Ove Dahlberg officiated?
Did you know that the career of pioneering scholar of public administration William A. Robson was made possible because playwright George Bernard Shaw wanted to experience an aeroplane flight?
Did you know that " Das Weizenkorn muss sterben " (The grain of wheat must die), the signature song written by Lothar Zenetti , deals with the mystery of faith that in death there is life?
Did you know that Nepal declared a national day of mourning after the 2019 Taplejung helicopter crash ?
Did you know that Wayne Messam , mayor of Miramar, Florida , won a national championship in American football with the Florida State Seminoles ?
Did you know that party pieces may include reciting a poem, performing a dance, singing a song, or performing a trick?
Did you know that Lu Xiaopeng designed a supersonic fighter said to be the lightest in the world, but it never entered service?
Did you know that the black limpet feeds on the black turban snail without harming it?
Did you know that future Phoenix mayor James D. Monihon 's regiment was attacked by an estimated 450 Apaches led by chief Cochise during the American Civil War ?
Did you know that a 2016 Japanese light novel series received praise for its unique protagonist, who is a vending machine ?
Did you know that the conductor Marc Piollet recorded rarely performed symphonies by Norbert Burgmüller and Hugo Staehle , and a DVD of Carmen staged by Calixto Bieito ?
Did you know that the U.S. Public Health Service can hire – but not fire – scientists "without regard to the civil-service laws" using a Title 42 appointment ?
Did you know that Swiss businessman Cesar Lüthi pioneered the use of revolving billboards in sports marketing ?
Did you know that fossils found at Granton Shrimp Bed provided evidence of the structure of conodonts ?
Did you know that researchers Eileen Shore and Frederick Kaplan discovered the mutation responsible for a disease that turns muscle into bone ?
Did you know that despite being a co-author of The Spy Chronicles , Asad Durrani was not allowed to attend the launch of the book?
Did you know that Heinz Henschel negotiated the return of Germany into the International Ice Hockey Federation in 1947?
Did you know that HMS Stonehenge disappeared with all hands in the Indian Ocean in 1944, and her exact location is still unknown?
Did you know that after Argentine politician Eduardo Bauzá retired from politics he produced noodles in his family business?
Did you know that before Tanzanian soldiers could attack Lira in 1979, their commander gifted food and cooking oil to a ferry pilot so that he would ship them across a lake?
Did you know that in 1895, Edward Chauncey Luard , a planter in British Guiana , led a campaign to amend the colony's constitution?
Did you know that the jewelled squid has two unequal-sized eyes which look in different directions?
Did you know that Douglas Albert Munro is the only member of the U.S. Coast Guard to receive the Medal of Honor ?
Did you know that the New Zealand beetle Oemona hirta is called the "lemon tree borer", even though lemon trees are not native to New Zealand?
Did you know that after Huang Zhiqian , chief designer of the Chinese fighter jet Shenyang J-8 , died in a plane crash in Egypt, his deputy Gu Songfen and other colleagues completed the project?
Did you know that Ram Nath Chawla and Aspy Engineer were the first Indians to pilot an aircraft from India to England?
Did you know that Amur senza fin is the first-ever Romansh language television film?
Did you know that footballer Pádraig Amond represented Carlow at hurling under a false name to avoid being discovered by his club?
Did you know that the binomial name of the coconut lorikeet translates as "bloody hair-tongue"?
Did you know that Byron A. Stover was an American football letterman and forestry major at Ohio State University before moving to Oregon to become a successful businessman and state legislator?
Did you know that André Previn composed his Violin Concerto for Anne-Sophie Mutter , his future wife?
Did you know that Alfred Clayton Cole , a director of the Bank of England , said: "during any time of crisis ... all that the Bank is called upon to do is to take care of itself"?
Did you know that the antisemitic tale " The Jew Among Thorns " was used to indoctrinate children in Nazi Germany?
Did you know that the Royal Navy damaged Samuel Travis' house in 1775, then returned 38 years later and attacked his ship ?
Did you know that John Leak was convicted of desertion by a court-martial , even though he had previously been awarded the Victoria Cross for most conspicuous bravery?
Did you know that the soprano Ursula Wendt-Walther appeared in more than 60 operatic roles at the Staatstheater Nürnberg , including Marei in the world premiere of Zemlinsky's Der Traumgörge ?
Did you know that Stephen Hendry compiled his 700th career century break during the first round of the 2007 Malta Cup snooker tournament ?
Did you know that Faiz Shakir is the first Muslim and first American of Pakistani descent to manage a United States presidential campaign?
Did you know that spiral galaxy NGC 765 features a hydrogen disk that at 240,000 parsecs diameter is the largest in the local universe?
Did you know that Spinophorosaurus had spikes on its tail, unlike most other sauropod dinosaurs ?
Did you know that the treatment of Lorenzo Gamboa under the White Australia policy led the Philippine House of Representatives to pass a bill which would have banned Australians from the country?
Did you know that Hulk Hogan was sued for $5 million by Richard Belzer for choking Belzer unconscious with a sleeper hold and dropping him on live TV?
Did you know that pool manager and coach Johan Ruijsink has won the Mosconi Cup as part of both the European and United States teams?