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Did you know that the original Flying Fathers ice hockey team consisted of player priests with a horse as a backup goaltender?
Did you know that Turkish schoolchildren are taught that the Armenian Genocide never happened and instead, Armenians committed genocide against Turks?
Did you know that Claude Callegari gained cult-hero status among English football fans for his speeches about Arsenal ?
Did you know that the Court of Master Sommeliers expelled a board member and suspended the titles of 23 new members over a 2018 cheating scandal on the blind-tasting portion of its examination?
Did you know that the Syrian-Lebanese poet Maha Bayrakdar won the Miss Syria beauty pageant in 1967?
Did you know that days before the premiere of Balanchine's ballet Movements for Piano and Orchestra , 17-year-old Suzanne Farrell learned a lead role in an apartment, from a colleague who was on bed rest?
Did you know that Joye Hummel had never read a comic book before becoming the first woman to write scripts for Wonder Woman ?
Did you know that North Country Community Hospital sued North Shore Hospital because the names were too similar, and changed its own name to Glen Cove Hospital after it lost?
Did you know that the Piano Quartet , composed by Robert Schumann in 1842 for piano and strings, was described by his wife Clara as "a beautiful work, so youthful and fresh, as if it were his first"?
Did you know that Nellah Massey Bailey became the first woman to be elected statewide in Mississippi in 1947, less than a year after the death of her husband Governor Thomas L. Bailey ?
Did you know that the assassination of Talat Pasha to avenge the Armenian Genocide resulted in "one of the most spectacular trials of the twentieth century"?
Did you know that author Giacomo Sartori has named his day job as a soil scientist as an influence on his work?
Did you know that the village of Adatepe in Turkey, formerly inhabited by Greeks , was revived in the 1980s when the traditional stone houses were restored by people seeking to escape city life?
Did you know that a dance move originally performed by Big Bang 's G-Dragon became a trend in Vietnam due to efforts by Khá Bảnh ?
Did you know that during the Stratford General Strike of 1933 the Canadian military was brought in, with machine guns, to which the strikers responded with a rally and a parade?
Did you know that W. R. Granger 's funeral was reported to be one of the largest ever known in Montreal ?
Did you know that Russian writer Leonid Andreyev 's 1915 play He Who Gets Slapped was his most successful work in the US, spawning a silent film (1924), a novel, and an opera (1956)?
Did you know that Eric Anthony Abrahams was the first black TV reporter at the BBC ?
Did you know that an immunologic adjuvant is a vaccine ingredient that makes the immune response stronger and longer-lasting?
Did you know that James R. Mills , a California politician, was also a historian, teacher, published author, a champion for historic building preservation, and an advocate for public transportation?
Did you know that Andorra is the only Eurovision Song Contest participating country to have never competed in the grand final in its competitive history ?
Did you know that Chemeketa Community College president emeritus Gretchen Schuette once rappelled from a roof at an annual State of the College address?
Did you know that Julie Pomagalski rose 20 places to first place at the FIS Snowboard World Cup in three years?
Did you know that fens are fed by mineral-rich groundwater , while bogs are fed by mineral-poor precipitation?
Did you know that the Catholic Church barred Deborah Schembri from practicing law in ecclesiastical court because she led a campaign to legalize divorce in Malta?
Did you know that following an engine failure, United Airlines Flight 328 rained debris over Broomfield, Colorado ?
Did you know that the Dresdner Kapellsolisten , formed in 1994 mostly by instrumentalists of the Staatskapelle Dresden , focus on composers from Dresden including Johann Georg Pisendel ?
Did you know that Donald Heirman was given the nickname "Mr. EMC Standards" for his work on developing technical standards for electromagnetic compatibility ?
Did you know that the species name of the frog Boophis haingana is derived from the Malagasy word for 'fast'?
Did you know that the 2019 children's picture book The Fate of Fausto was inspired by the German legend of Faust , who trades his soul in exchange for unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures?
Did you know that Indigenous Australian elder Ivaritji was the last speaker of the Kaurna language before its revival in the 1990s?
Did you know that for three years, an illegal gold-mining settlement on the Amur river went on to host high-class hotels, have public healthcare, and even have a casino?
Did you know that Raoul de Gaucourt , who fought at the Battle of Nicopolis in 1396 and the siege of Harfleur in 1415, was described as "a medieval chivalric hero whom the modern world has forgotten"?
Did you know that the Community catchphrase "six seasons and a movie" originated in " Paradigms of Human Memory " as a reference to The Cape ?
Did you know that Kameron Michaels has been described as a " lip sync assassin"?
Did you know that prices can be negative ?
Did you know that Mihajlo Petrović was the second combat casualty in the history of military aviation?
Did you know that although John Foster long ago described heavy ion fusion as "the conservative approach" to a working fusion reactor , no large-scale system has ever been built?
Did you know that William Armstrong , an Irish immigrant to the U.S., was a postmaster , a presidential elector , a Virginia House Delegate , and a U.S. House Representative ?
Did you know that Walt Whitman 's poem " The Sleepers " contains "one of the most powerful and evocative passages about slavery in American literature"?
Did you know that Rannveig Þorsteinsdóttir , a newspaper clerk and part-time teacher in the 1920s, became the first woman to practice law in the Supreme Court of Iceland thirty years later?
Did you know that both of Scunthorpe United's substitutes failed to score their penalties in the shootout , which saw them lose the 1992 Football League Fourth Division play-off Final ?
Did you know that Fannie Mahood Heath was nicknamed the "flower lady of North Dakota" for her garden that included over 450 different species of flowers, bushes, and trees?
Did you know that the 1949 film Hardly a Criminal was mostly filmed in Buenos Aires , and that city's critics called it Argentina's "outstanding film of the year"?
Did you know that former ballerina Katita Waldo briefly came out of retirement to perform as the stepmother in Christopher Wheeldon 's Cinderella ?
Did you know that radio station WMLB in Cumming, Georgia , earned national acclaim as an Americana music station in the 1990s?
Did you know that although he was born in the United Kingdom, Isaac Hope was elected to represent Tobago on the Legislative Council of Trinidad and Tobago ?
Did you know that Camille Saint-Saëns called his First Violin Sonata his " hippogriff sonata", suggesting that its technical demands could only be met by a legendary creature?
Did you know that Shirley Congdon , the vice chancellor of the University of Bradford , was the first in her family to attend university?
Did you know that an RMI sounded best with a Hi-Scream Cone?
Did you know that Mary L. Smith became the first female president of Kentucky State University in 1991 despite having been passed over for the same job a year earlier?
Did you know that the Bach-Chor Bonn , a choir founded to sing Bach's works, such as the St John Passion in 1950, grew to a concert choir with a broad repertoire and a long tradition of tours in Europe?
Did you know that Leonidas Zervas was a Greek organic chemist who discovered the carboxybenzyl protecting group, and also served as Minister of Industry of Greece and President of the Academy of Athens ?
Did you know that the Women's London Championship was viewed as a response to the introduction of women's franchise cricket in England?
Did you know that Cuban ballerinas and sisters Lorena and Lorna Feijóo both moved to the U.S., and once split the roles of Black and White Swans in Swan Lake , which are usually danced by the same person?
Did you know that a suspicious neighbor of FuncoLand founder David Pomije called the police to investigate the large number of teenagers and young adults visiting his house?
Did you know that in 1805, Jean Maxwell was sentenced to be imprisoned for a year at Kirkcudbright Tolbooth for pretending to be a witch?
Did you know that in 1972, "Prime Minister" David Sanchez led an occupation of Catalina Island by the Brown Berets meant to draw attention on the continuing struggles of Mexican-Americans in the United States?
Did you know that four religious denominations meet in one district of Wrocław ?
Did you know that Theresa M. Korn turned down a scholarship to the Carnegie Institute of Technology in order to become the institute's first female engineer?
Did you know that in 2001, Turkey set up an official government agency co-chaired by the foreign minister to combat "baseless genocide claims"?
Did you know that Kristen Stewart played a young woman with Friedreich's ataxia in the 2007 film, The Cake Eaters ?
Did you know that some English mediaeval commissions of sewers had powers to imprison labourers who refused to work on flood defences?
Did you know that after Musical Youth reworked the song " Pass the Kouchie " into " Pass the Dutchie " by replacing cannabis references with food references, the word "dutchie" later became a cannabis reference as well?
Did you know that runner-up Ronnie O'Sullivan almost withdrew from the 2021 Tour Championship after sending his cue stick for repair twice before the event?
Did you know that Two-Way Mirror , the first full biography of English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning in 30 years, portrays the poet as a daring Victorian sensation and dismisses her image as an invalid?
Did you know that Luigi Fugazy was described as "perhaps the most eminent padrone in the United States"?
Did you know that the Saugatuck Chain Ferry is believed to be the last operating hand-cranked chain ferry in the United States?
Did you know that the fictional character Howard Bellamy from the British soap opera Doctors was based on a real-life army captain who quit his job to run a doctor's surgery?
Did you know that Plunton Castle , although well defended by gun loops , a ditch and a 9-foot (2.7 m) wall, had a very rare security flaw in the arrangement of its ground-floor rooms?
Did you know that after he died, American Revolutionary War general and physician William Irvine was buried three different times at three different locations?
Did you know that Madame Gavaudan , a soprano of the Opéra-Comique in Paris, created the role of Benjamin in Étienne Méhul's Joseph ?
Did you know that all three albums in the discography of the emo band American Football are eponymous , so the media and Polyvinyl Records refer to them as LP1, LP2, and LP3?
Did you know that the cucumber seeds that botanist Elwyn Meader brought back from Korea in 1948 became the basis for all modern cucumber hybrids grown worldwide?
Did you know that during the 2020 Zagreb flash flood , residents broke into a dam control building to drain floodwaters from the city?
Did you know that Mississippi legislator Thelma Farr Baxter introduced a bill to keep livestock off the roads after her husband was fatally injured in a highway collision with a cow?
Did you know that in 1984, a Spanish fishing trawler sank after being fired upon by the Irish patrol vessel Aisling ?
Did you know that despite his side winning the 1998 Football League Second Division play-off Final , Grimsby's Alan Buckley said "Anybody who says they enjoy play-offs aren't football managers"?
Did you know that since Henry E. Parker ran for office in 1974, the Democratic Party has always nominated an African American for Connecticut State Treasurer ?
Did you know that the Shinan shipwreck , the first major discovery of Korean maritime archaeology , has been described as possibly "the richest ancient shipwreck yet discovered"?
Did you know that a head was displayed in the Seagram Building 's plaza in 1968?
Did you know that Kate Clark wrote the children's book A Southern Cross Fairy Tale , which used Northern Hemisphere Christmas imagery but featured the natural features and animals of New Zealand?
Did you know that after Ted Turner asked for viewers' money to keep WRET-TV afloat, he was able to repay thousands of lenders four years later—with interest?
Did you know that Ben Connor , who competed in his first marathon in October 2020, has qualified for the marathon race at the delayed 2020 Summer Olympics ?
Did you know that The Wolf of Wall Street set a Guinness world record for the most instances of swearing in a film, with the word "fuck" said a total of 569 times ?
Did you know that Aga Mikolaj , a soprano who studied with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf , appeared as Mozart's Donna Elvira from San Francisco to Tokyo, and sang the Four Last Songs with "a degree of abandon and rapture"?
Did you know that Nadodrze in Poland was used by Steven Spielberg as a filming location for a spy drama set in Berlin ?
Did you know that Rogers Lehew was influential in starting the Calgary Stampeders tradition of featuring a horse at the sidelines during games at McMahon Stadium ?
Did you know that in the 1950s, the Soviet Union introduced an open university system to enable working-class students to become useful functionaries of the Communist party?
Did you know that historian of the Middle East George Eden Kirk 's first book was praised for excelling in objectivity while his last was criticised for bias and bitterness?
Did you know that the Stinnes–Legien Agreement was named after a trade union leader and an industrialist ?
Did you know that the miracles that established Saint Glodesind 's claim to sainthood did not begin until 25 years or more after her death, and many of them occurred over 200 years later?
Did you know that ballerina Catherine Hurlin performed in Radio City Christmas Spectacular between the age of eleven and thirteen?
Did you know that the space industry of India has supported the launch of more than 100 domestic satellites and more than 300 foreign satellites?
Did you know that Senegalese artist and actress Younousse Sèye , who is best known for her mixed-media works incorporating cowrie shells, is considered to be Senegal's first woman painter?
Did you know that geneticist Neil Hanchard was a senior author on a publication surveying human genomic diversity in Africa that was described by Nature as "a milestone in genomics research"?
Did you know that Wyche Pavilion , a two-story historic building in Greenville, South Carolina , was originally intended to serve as a paint shop for the Greenville Coach Factory?
Did you know that Surinamese singer Shahied Wagid Hosain was famous for his Bollywood song covers, more than for his own songs?
Did you know that Carl Au received three musical theatre scholarships, which was deemed "an unprecedented event in show business"?
Did you know that Hey Lady! is Jayne Eastwood 's first leading role in a 50-year career?
Did you know that Colin Powell was regarded as the "architect of Jersey 's finance industry"?
Did you know that the 1972 manga series The Poe Clan was among the first works of vampire literature to depict vampires as romantic and tragic rather than predatory?
Did you know that Turkish anthropologist Ayşe Gül Altınay was sentenced to 25 months in jail due to her support for a peaceful resolution of the Kurdish–Turkish conflict ?
Did you know that the sea cucumber Holothuria poli may have reached the Red Sea by travelling through the Suez Canal ?
Did you know that NASA scientist Scott Sandford wrote that apples and oranges can be compared?
Did you know that former U.S. president Bill Clinton made a guest appearance on a television reunion episode of The West Wing to encourage voter turnout in the 2020 United States elections ?
Did you know that Fan Hongwei and her husband turned a failing textile factory into the largest fiber producer in China?
Did you know that coverage of the 1952 funeral of George VI may have led to the mass purchase of television sets in the United Kingdom?
Did you know that after Maria Camilleri co-founded a school for Muslim children in Malta, she became the only Christian headmistress of a Muslim school in the world?
Did you know that role-playing-game supplement GURPS Steampunk was the most detailed definition of the steampunk genre when it was published?
Did you know that Benjamin Kapelushnik , also known as "Benjamin Kickz", sold sneakers at age 16 to celebrity clients such as DJ Khaled , Drake , Travis Scott , Floyd Mayweather and Kevin Hart ?
Did you know that the owner of Oregon radio station KLOO offered $10,000 to anyone who could bring an extraterrestrial lifeform to the station's studios?
Did you know that the combined no-hitter at the Los Angeles Angels ' memorial game for Tyler Skaggs was the first combined no-hitter in California since the day Skaggs was born?
Did you know that a prototype of Octogeddon was submitted to a Ludum Dare contest before being developed into an official video game?
Did you know that Julia Letlow won the special election for a seat in the United States House of Representatives after her husband died from COVID-19 before he could be sworn into office?
Did you know that the San Diego Trolley passes through the James R. Mills Building ?
Did you know that Gianluigi Colalucci is credited with restoring the "dazzling splendour" of both the Sistine Chapel ceiling and Michelangelo 's The Last Judgment ?
Did you know that concrete bus shelters in Canberra, Australia , now considered an icon of the city, were initially labelled as "lunatic" by a reporter for The Canberra Times ?
Did you know that the critically endangered chestnut-capped piha is locally known as the "little herdsman of Antioquia " because its call sounds like the whistles made by horsemen herding cattle?
Did you know that Lovie Gore made multiple unsuccessful attempts to delay the desegregation of schools in Mississippi?
Did you know that on Holocaust Memorial Day in 2014 , Turkish foreign minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu claimed that "there is no trace of genocide in our history" – thus denying the Armenian Genocide ?
Did you know that Anja Petersen performed the role of the leading woman in the world premiere of Arnulf Herrmann 's Der Mieter at the Oper Frankfurt ?
Did you know that Burnley won the 1994 Football League Second Division play-off Final after two opposition players were sent off ?
Did you know that Addison Rae 's debut single " Obsessed " is about self-love ?
Did you know that Pikrolimni is the only salt lake in Greece, mentioned by Plato and Pliny , and nowadays known for its therapeutic mud baths ?
Did you know that the success of the children's poetry book Alligator Pie led to the author, Dennis Lee , being named "Canada's Father Goose"?
Did you know that Halyna Sevruk was expelled from the Union of Artists of Ukraine in 1968 due to a political letter she signed?
Did you know that Humphrey Jennings 's 1939 film Spare Time showed an American audience how the British working classes spent their free time?
Did you know that when Joachim Philip delivered an ultimatum to the British in Grenada during Fédon's rebellion , the militia had to restrain his sister, Susannah, who otherwise would have "torn him to pieces"?
Did you know that Jesu, meine Freude (Jesus, my joy), a motet by Bach , has a complex symmetrical structure in which six hymn stanzas alternate with five Bible verses ?
Did you know that Kendal Green station was named both for dyed cloth and a nearby resident's grandfather?
Did you know that an art gallery exhibit featuring My Androgynous Boyfriend took place at the Animate Girls Festival in 2019?
Did you know that as part of her influential research on the garden strawberry , Vivian Lee Bowden discovered the unpublished drawings of early French botanist Antoine Nicolas Duchesne ?
Did you know that the Fred F. French Building has been described as the "only Mesopotamian skyscraper" in New York City?
Did you know that Arthur Schüller founded the discipline of neuroradiology ?
Did you know that Forest Glen Park was among the earliest residential subdivisions in Montgomery County, Maryland , and was described by its developer as " Washington 's most desirable suburb?"
Did you know that besides the fruits being edible, the roots and leaves of creeping cucumber have many uses in traditional medicine?
Did you know that Darrell Blocker , "The Spy Whisperer", began playing live music in Senegal as part of his espionage duties?
Did you know that the Lucifer Dékou-Dékou Biological Reserve , the largest wilderness area of France, is divided in two by land which includes the country's biggest mining project, the Montagne d'Or mine ?
Did you know that Dottie Ray interviewed 32,397 guests over 55 years on more than 14,000 broadcasts of her daily show on KXIC radio in Iowa City ?
Did you know that Barbara Yancy , who succeeded her husband in the Mississippi Senate after his death, later became an advocate for other widowed homemakers?
Did you know that the title of Welsh musician The Anchoress 's album The Art of Losing was inspired by American poet Elizabeth Bishop 's poem " One Art "?
Did you know that Marita Napier is the first South African opera singer to have performed lead roles in each of the four "Grand Slam" opera houses?
Did you know that the Sunshine Protection Act would make daylight saving time in the United States become permanent ?
Did you know that the contrast agent iobitridol can be injected into blood vessels, joints, or body cavities such as the uterus?
Did you know that former baseball player Tacks Latimer was sentenced to life imprisonment for second-degree murder , but was pardoned for his heroism in stopping a prison break?
Did you know that in the music video for " Montero (Call Me by Your Name) ", Lil Nas X gives Satan a lap dance ?
Did you know that a drifting shipwreck stranded several dozen people on Margate Jetty in 1877?
Did you know that Frances Theresa Peet Russell may have written the first book to examine satire in Victorian literature ?
Did you know that in 1846, Emma Willard represented all of human history in a graphic resembling an Ancient Greek temple ?
Did you know that following his career with the Headhunters , Paul Jackson moved to Japan and established a voluntary concert to familiarize students with African-American history ?
Did you know that a number of live grenades remain on the moon as part of the Active Seismic Experiment , flown on Apollo 14 and Apollo 16 ?
Did you know that every competitor at the 2021 British Athletics Marathon and 20km Walk Trial received a commemorative bonsai tree?
Did you know that ballerina Elena Lobsanova broke the "curse of Marie" at the National Ballet of Canada ?
Did you know that Tara Downs co-founded the Tomorrow Gallery in a converted paintball studio in Toronto?
Did you know that the principles of quantum mechanics have been demonstrated to hold for complex molecules with thousands of atoms?
Did you know that MLS Cup 2000 was the first championship game in league history not to feature D.C. United ?
Did you know that Abdallah Oumbadougou , the "godfather of all the present-day Tuareg musicians in Niger", distributed illegal cassette tapes of banned ishumar music while in exile from 1984 to 1995?
Did you know that an owner of Wyoming radio station KATI donated the station to the University of Wyoming , only to be "disappointed" when the university opted not to use his gift?
Did you know that after the start of Afghan peace talks in 2019, journalist Farahnaz Forotan travelled the country to collect testimonies from women and prevent the rollback of their freedoms?
Did you know that the settling of Martensdale, California , went so badly that the town's namesake spent the rest of his life as a fugitive?
Did you know that Idaho television station KCIX-TV went silent awaiting a merger deal that fell apart?
Did you know that Tranmere Rovers players were each promised a £10,000 bonus for winning the 1991 Football League Third Division play-off Final ?