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Did you know that Satya Graha was briefly barred from reporting from the Indonesian presidential palace after his newspaper published a piece on Sukarno 's new wife?
Did you know that in 2006, when The New York Times Book Review asked " What Is the Best Work of American Fiction of the Last 25 Years? ", the answer was Beloved by Toni Morrison ?
Did you know that István Banó collected Two Pieces of Nuts in Baranya ?
Did you know that during the attack on the Delhi chief minister's residence , protesters painted the gate red and tried to scale it while police officers watched?
Did you know that Francis Orray Ticknor was a country doctor whose fame as a poet relies on "Little Giffen", a poem about one of his patients who died in the American Civil War ?
Did you know that the 1653 hymn " Du, o schönes Weltgebäude ", about renouncing the world, contains the stanza "Komm, O Tod, du Schlafes Bruder", which Bach used to conclude his cross-staff cantata ?
Did you know that Satyagraha Hoerip wrote a short story set during the Indonesian mass killings of 1965–66 from the perspective of the killers-to-be?
Did you know that the NBA Comeback Player of the Year Award was canceled, reportedly because of drugs?
Did you know that topics on Recess Therapy have included the economy, climate change, and peeing your pants?
Did you know that disability-rights activist Edith Prentiss objected to the title of a documentary about her, Edith Prentiss: Hell on Wheels , for being too mild?
Did you know that " Es tönen die Lieder ", a German round about greeting spring with songs, first appeared in 1869 in a collection of works by Adolf Spieß , who developed a series of school-gymnastics steps to it?
Did you know that Nigerian footballer Chibuzor Nwakanma was among the first few foreign players to play for all the "big three" Kolkata -based football clubs, Mohun Bagan , East Bengal , and Mohammedan Sporting ?
Did you know that messianic rebel Abu al-Umaytir 's attempt to restore the Umayyad Caliphate in Damascus was defeated by the forces of the Abbasid loyalist Ibn Bayhas ?
Did you know that the sea squirt Distomus variolosus colonises both fronds of kelp and the shells of crustaceans such as the spider crab Maja brachydactyla ?
Did you know that "The College Chimes" by American composer Daisy Wood Hildreth was chosen by the Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts as their alumni song?
Did you know that otomechikku , a subgenre of Japanese girls' comics focusing on stories about ordinary teenaged protagonists, has been compared to monogatari and the genre of Bildungsroman ?
Did you know that Free Comic Book Day was inspired by Free Scoop Night at an ice cream parlor?
Did you know that although it spent only one week on the Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart, " Visitor " was the fifth Adult Alternative Airplay number-one for Of Monsters and Men ?
Did you know that Vincent Munier 's quest to photograph snow leopards became the basis for several books and a film?
Did you know that Doug was nominated to Guinness World Records as the world's largest potato before genetic testing confirmed that it was actually a tuber of a gourd?
Did you know that William Williams was a newspaper publisher who volunteered for service during the War of 1812 and advanced to the rank of colonel?
Did you know that " Hey, Hey, Rise Up! " is the first new Pink Floyd song in more than 25 years?
Did you know that Johannes zu Eltz , who decided to become a Catholic priest after earning his doctorate in law, has advocated blessings of same-sex marriages by the Catholic Church?
Did you know that the Jefferson Scholarship gives scholars more than $293,000 to attend the University of Virginia?
Did you know that Carrie Jenkins Harris , the North American writer who died in 1903, should not be confused with Carrie Jenkins Harris , the North American writer and editor who died in 1903?
Did you know that Castle Hill in Budapest's 1st district is easily accessible by funicular ?
Did you know that when Hasan Gayo led a group of men to seize a railway company, its Japanese guards offered no resistance?
Did you know that the Yiddish-language satirical newspaper Munkatsher Humorist frequently joked about disputes between the Hasidic courts of Munkacs and Belz ?
Did you know that American author Julie Jensen McDonald 's first story was sold to a Sunday school paper for US$6.50?
Did you know that Harry Styles 's goddaughter voices the opening words in " As It Was "?
Did you know that Angela Bassett donated a dance studio at the Royal Theater in St. Petersburg ?
Did you know that Hokuseihō Osamu was inspired to become a sumo wrestler by a chance meeting with Hakuhō , a yokozuna , at an airport?
Did you know that the 1662 Book of Common Prayer was approved by Parliament on 19 May 1662, and required by law starting on St Bartholomew's Day that year ?
Did you know that Winston Churchill reportedly called Sam Atyeo the world's most foul-mouthed diplomat?
Did you know that Henry Wilson Hodge served as the director of military railroads for the American Expeditionary Forces during World War I?
Did you know that some have considered the Holocaust a unique event , external to history and beyond human understanding?
Did you know that a reviewer noted that when Leo Hussain conducted Weinberg's Die Passagierin at the Oper Frankfurt , the orchestra excelled in chamber music moments, hard beats and distorted entertainment music?
Did you know that in 1981 Indiana State University–Evansville received a donation valued at nearly $300,000 in the form of campus radio station WSWI ?
Did you know that the body of Hacı Lokman Birlik was dragged behind a Turkish police vehicle, justified by the Ministry of the Interior by saying that the police assumed the body had a bomb attached to it?
Did you know that the 2022 EuroLeague Playoffs marked the first appearance in the event for AS Monaco ?
Did you know that Hi-Tek Corporation 's 725 series keyboard switches were rated for a lifetime of 100 million keystrokes?
Did you know that Nick Schmaltz 's older brother and younger sister would team up against him when they played basement hockey as children?
Did you know that the former German chancellor Bernhard von Bülow called Wilhelm II 's 1900 Hun speech the "worst speech of that time and perhaps the most disgraceful speech that Wilhelm II [had] ever given"?
Did you know that if a disaster is avoided through planning and vigilance, people will paradoxically doubt that the preparation was necessary?
Did you know that Port Vale F.C. is the only club to have beaten all 91 other clubs in the top four divisions of the current English football league system in a competitive league fixture?
Did you know that Eoseira wilsonii "slime" likely helped in fossil preservation?
Did you know that George Balanchine 's ballet Who Cares? , to songs written by George Gershwin ,  is likened to "a tap dance on pointe"?
Did you know that Klaus Wallrath composed  a mass for peace for the 2018 Katholikentag in Münster , performed to an audience of more than 30,000 by a choir, an orchestra, and a dance company?
Did you know that John Spencer "exploded two myths" by winning the 1977 World Snooker Championship with a two-piece cue that he had only been using for a couple of months?
Did you know that Mansiya V. P. , an Indian classical dancer , has experimented with choreographing a fusion of classical Bharatnatyam and traditional Sufi music ?
Did you know that there are only around 30 southern corroboree frogs in the wild?
Did you know that man camps can overwhelm local infrastructure, including emergency services, and contribute to an epidemic of violence against Indigenous women in North America?
Did you know that in 1776 Abraham Hunt entertained Hessian mercenaries with food and drink to render them incapable for duty the night before George Washington defeated them at Trenton ?
Did you know that visitors to Balmaclellan in Scotland can stay in a historic watermill that is "remarkable" for the preservation of its internal workings?
Did you know that Japanese mixed martial artist Itsuki Hirata 's nickname is " Android 18 " due to being told she looks like the Dragon Ball character?
Did you know that Hungarian historian Andrea Pető believes that " right to be forgotten " policies should not be applied to the Holocaust?
Did you know that NYXL was the first organization to own and operate multiple New York esports franchises?
Did you know that by devising the Fairfield Experiment in industrial relations, Iain Maxwell Stewart inspired The Bowler and the Bunnet , Sean Connery 's sole film as a director?
Did you know that the first show at the Gershwin Theatre was also the first Broadway show to lose US$1 million?
Did you know that Mexican sinologist Flora Botton was rescued by an American soldier when being transported on a train from Bergen-Belsen in 1945?
Did you know that Of Monsters and Men filmed the music video for their song " Wild Roses " in 12 hours, just before beginning a tour?
Did you know that the village of Eziler in Turkey has a girls' floor hockey team, but it has no gym?
Did you know that Hollywood star Gary Cooper was baptised at the Church of All Saints, Houghton Regis ?
Did you know that eight of ten ministers in the Bhagwant Mann ministry are first-term members of the Punjab Legislative Assembly ?
Did you know that a mobile production unit served as the first studios of Washington state public TV station KTNW ?
Did you know that five years after Ihsan Gürz died while in Dutch police custody, his father was convicted of swearing at a police officer who had been present at his arrest?
Did you know that the Richard Dawkins Award is awarded for publicly proclaiming "the values of secularism and rationalism, upholding scientific truth wherever it may lead"?
Did you know that Jumbo Brown gained 68 pounds (31 kg) after he had his tonsils removed?
Did you know that Alden Roche played in all but one game during his six seasons with the Green Bay Packers ?
Did you know that Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey said that about 80% of the causes driving the ongoing UK cost of living crisis are global?
Did you know that a folded paper lantern shows that certain mathematical definitions of surface area are incorrect?
Did you know that the producer of Kylie Minogue 's " Butterfly ", American DJ Mark Picchiotti , released it in the US as a promotional single under his label?
Did you know that Mike Sullivan was the first governor in Wyoming's statehood history to have his veto overridden by the state legislature ?
Did you know that Şevket Yorulmaz scored 99 goals in 173 matches whilst playing for Beşiktaş ?
Did you know that the Aurelia Star , an Iowa newspaper, has changed ownership at least 11 times?
Did you know that the Supreme Court has been cited as a vector of democratic backsliding in the United States ?
Did you know that Takayama, Gifu , distributed 10,000 maps featuring the real-life locations of the anime TV series Hyouka ?
Did you know that singer Patsy Torres was referred to as the "princess of Tejano music"?
Did you know that an exhibition match of Australian rules football was contested in London on 28 October 1916 between two teams of elite footballers also serving in the First AIF ?
Did you know that when her boss told her to quit her unpaid television commenting role, Katie Phang quit her paid job instead?
Did you know that " Öffnet eure Tore " is a 1810 hymn in German written by Christoph Bernhard Verspoell for the Feast of the Ascension , based on Psalm 24 ?
Did you know that "on a good day", a Minnesota radio station could reach St. Peter ?
Did you know that Daisy Rockwell , the granddaughter of Norman Rockwell , won the 2022 International Booker Prize for her translation of Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree ?
Did you know that songs from the collection " Auf dem Weg durch diese Nacht " (On the way through this night) were performed at the 2022 Katholikentag ?
Did you know that Margaret Peoples Shirer established the first Assemblies of God mission in Ghana?
Did you know that some women have stopped playing competitive football because of the French Football Federation 's ban on playing in hijab?
Did you know that Caesar Tarrant remained enslaved after his service as a boat pilot in the American Revolutionary War until the state of Virginia purchased his freedom in 1789?
Did you know that National Women's Day in Pakistan commemorates a 1983 march against a law that devalued the testimony of Pakistani women to half that of men?
Did you know that Lorenzo Passerini , who has conducted several operas in Sydney, revived Giordano's Fedora at the Oper Frankfurt ?
Did you know that John Cranko 's ballet Initials R.B.M.E. is named after the four original lead dancers, Richard Cragun , Birgit Keil , Marcia Haydée and Egon Madsen , who were his close friends and muses?
Did you know that the winter quarters of a circus owned by Benjamin Wallace are now the site of the Circus Hall of Fame ?
Did you know that live broadcasts of the deciding frame of the 2020 World Seniors Championship were replaced by golf highlights?
Did you know that trombonist Big Chief Russell Moore was the first member of the Pima tribe to receive an obituary in The New York Times ?
Did you know that Ed Sheeran wrote " Remember the Name " as a homage to the "cheekier songs" on early Eminem albums?
Did you know that in 2007, José the beaver set up housekeeping in the Bronx?
Did you know that Faith Cabin Library at Seneca Junior College in South Carolina is also called the "Oberlin Unit" because of the donations of books by the students of Oberlin College in Ohio ?
Did you know that as a member of the El Alto Workers' Center, Martha Yujra participated in mass mobilizations that led to the resignations of two Bolivian presidents?
Did you know that Central City College was established as an African American-led alternative to the historically black Atlanta Baptist College ?
Did you know that Arlene Kelly made her international debut for the Ireland women's cricket team after nine of their regular players were unavailable for selection?
Did you know that One Griswold Street in Detroit, now owned by the Church of Scientology , was built on the location of the first church building in the city, Ste. Anne de Détroit ?
Did you know that Lady Eva Julius once called Girl Guiding "the most important youth movement in the world"?
Did you know that Egon Madsen , a former Stuttgart Ballet principal dancer, returned to the stage at the age of 57 and continues to perform in his 70s?
Did you know that the 2009 book Where Heaven and Earth Meet introduced the term "Sacred Esplanade" as a politically neutral term for the religious site in Jerusalem known as al-Haram al-Sharif or the Temple Mount ?
Did you know that Sophie Freud , the granddaughter of Sigmund Freud , criticized psychoanalysis as a "narcissistic indulgence"?
Did you know that, in the 2014 Texas Bowl , the Arkansas Razorbacks defense held the Texas Longhorns offense to a season-low net total of 59 yards?
Did you know that when Bernardin Schellenberger wrote the 1978 hymn " Selig, wem Christus auf dem Weg begegnet ", he was prior at Mariawald Abbey , a Trappist monastery?
Did you know that squatters in Myanmar were punished for protesting against the 2021 coup d'état by being evicted?
Did you know that a bunch of "smart-assed teenagers" drove around the Bronx looking for birds in garbage dumps?
Did you know that American artist Inez Demonet created watercolors of facial injuries for the War Department ?
Did you know that with regard to transparency, a Swiss permanent representative to the United Nations compared the election of the secretary-general of the United Nations to the election of the pope ?
Did you know that the Foxconn union , representing more than 90 percent of Foxconn 's 1.4 million workers, is a company union dominated by management?
Did you know that traffic at Greymouth railway station increased significantly after the opening of the Otira Tunnel ?
Did you know that Julie Beckett lobbied for the Katie Beckett Medicaid waiver , which enabled hundreds of thousands of disabled children to be cared for by their families at home instead of a hospital?
Did you know that Subneolithic groups practised hunting and gathering whilst also incorporating elements of Neolithic culture, including pottery?
Did you know that Sput played with Puppy and Dogg ?
Did you know that the host of Canyon Kid's Corner said that his Brooklyn accent as a cowboy came from "the canyons created by the tall buildings"?
Did you know that after a publisher declined the manga series Let's Go Karaoke! , it sold out multiple times after being self-published ?
Did you know that Vito Trause , who dropped out of high school during his junior year to join the United States Army in 1943, received his high school diploma at the age of 92?
Did you know that Faiz Ahmad Faiz reportedly remarked that Mujh Se Pehli Si Mohabbat Mere Mehboob Na Maang no longer belonged to him but to Noor Jehan ?
Did you know that Pearl Jam 's manager agreed to include a song in The Last of Us Part II after hearing the story pitch, watching the trailer, and receiving a PlayStation 4 and a copy of the first game ?
Did you know that Ukrainian designer Anna October showed her collection during Paris Fashion Week after escaping the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine ?
Did you know that 75 years ago today, it was KOOL in Phoenix ?
Did you know that Boris Rhein failed to become the mayor of his hometown , but was later elected the minister-president of his home state ?
Did you know that Dutch squatters fighting eviction from De Vloek (The Curse) briefly occupied Scheveningen Pier ?
Did you know that H. B. Wilkinson lost the first special election in Arizona to Isabella Greenway , who became the first woman from Arizona to go to Congress?
Did you know that after failing to persuade European donors that six human rights organizations had terrorist connections based on a dossier of classified evidence, Israel designated them as terrorist organizations ?
Did you know that more emerging adults are failing to launch ?
Did you know that during World War II, Terry Sanford captured a German officer by grabbing him by the belt?
Did you know that Basshunter recorded " Fest i hela huset " with Swedish Big Brother contestants who had never worked with music professionally?
Did you know that art dealer Inigo Philbrick was called a "mini Madoff " by a colleague – before he was convicted of wire fraud?
Did you know that ancient Roman gynecologists believed that menstrual blood could be used to drive dogs insane?
Did you know that the emo-revival album Just Got Back From the Discomfort—We're Alright contains samples from Malcolm in the Middle on three of its songs?
Did you know that Olympic diver Millie Hudson , who attempted to swim across the Strait of Gibraltar in 1928, was a member of the Hammersmith Ladies Swimming Club along with Belle White , the first British diver to win an Olympic medal?
Did you know that the Dnieper Balts might have worshipped bear heads on pillars?
Did you know that ancient Roman surgeons used materials such as bran and ashes to heal burns ?
Did you know that Joseph Ranger was the longest-serving Black sailor in the American Revolutionary War 's Virginia State Navy ?
Did you know that the Suwałki Gap is often described as the modern version of the Cold War –era Fulda Gap , a NATO vulnerability of historical importance?
Did you know that Stanford women's basketball player Cameron Brink is a close family friend of Stephen Curry ?
Did you know that a Japanese-era building in the Imperial Crown Style serves as the regional museum of Russia's Sakhalin Oblast ?
Did you know that Emma Watson considered quitting the Harry Potter film series, but later returned to star in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince ?
Did you know that Arno Lücker ran a series of concerts titled 2 x hören (listen twice) at the Konzerthaus Berlin in which performers were interviewed between two renditions of the same piece of chamber music ?
Did you know that Rosana Alvarado was one of three women leading Ecuador's National Assembly in 2017?
Did you know that Callaway Gardens promoted the John A. Sibley Horticultural Center as "one of the most advanced garden/greenhouse complexes in the world", before closing it in 2015 after more than 30 years?
Did you know that the character of the mother in the painting In the Ploughed Field: Spring is believed to personify Spring?
Did you know that Béla Petsco 's Nothing Very Important and Other Stories was based on his own experience as a missionary in Southern California for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ?
Did you know that the kisslip himri in Turkey might face a dam problem ?
Did you know that Bob Neuwirth worked at an art supply store before becoming Bob Dylan 's road manager?
Did you know that Hurricane Agatha was the strongest Pacific hurricane to make landfall in Mexico in May since records began in 1949?
Did you know that due to the efforts of James Markham Ambler , the Jeannette expedition became the first Arctic expedition "without a single case of scurvy "?
Did you know that  the Uzunköprü Bridge was the longest bridge in the Ottoman Empire and later Turkey for 530 years until 1973, when it was surpassed by the Bosphorus Bridge ?
Did you know that Ruth L. Bennett provided shelter for more than 2,000 black women and girls who migrated north to Chester, Pennsylvania , as part of the Great Migration ?
Did you know that after using a talent show to select Apostolos Psichramis to represent Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 2004 , the Greek broadcaster instead sent Sakis Rouvas ?
Did you know that after serving as President of the Oregon State Senate , Brady L. Adams founded BearFest in Grants Pass, Oregon , which featured playful fiberglass bear statues placed around the town?
Did you know that the Stony Brook Railroad was in business from 1845 to 2022, but never owned a single locomotive or ran a single train?
Did you know that British oceanographer Sonya Legg has studied the South China Sea , where internal waves can be taller than 200 metres (660 ft)?
Did you know that the Rudolf-Oetker-Halle , the concert hall of Bielefeld , remains mostly unchanged from its completion in 1930?
Did you know that food psychology research has found that the COVID-19 pandemic led to both reduced and increased consumption of junk food among different geographical populations and educational backgrounds?
Did you know that the first tequila distillery in the United States was opened in 1936 in Nogales, Arizona , by Harry J. Karns , former Arizona state senator and Nogales mayor?
Did you know that 40 countries constitutionally recognize a right to resist the government under certain circumstances?
Did you know that six-time American national archery champion Russ Hoogerhyde performed trick shots including shooting a cigarette from the lips of a spectator?
Did you know that entrepreneur Ian Schrager paid a record $9 million for two apartments at the Majestic in New York City, but he never lived there?
Did you know that actress Klara Höfels , known for her roles in television crime series, also produced, directed, and starred in world premieres of theatre projects in Berlin?
Did you know that Peter Clavelle 's victory in the 1995 Burlington mayoral election made him its first mayor to return to office after losing it since James Edmund Burke in 1933?
Did you know that a statue of the Elamite queen Napir-Asu is inscribed with a curse for its would-be vandals?
Did you know that Bally's Chicago , a proposed casino resort in Chicago , has a goal of bringing in $200 million in annual tax revenue to fund the city's police and firefighter pension fund?
Did you know that Fyodor Arturovich Keller was one of two Russian generals who opposed the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II , offering his corps to help suppress the February Revolution ?
Did you know that a Wisconsin radio station used to collect rent from the United States Congress ?
Did you know that ska-crazed dancers at a Stretch Armstrong concert once became so intense that three people left on stretchers and one in a hospital helicopter?