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Did you know that if children are not exposed to sounds and language during their first years of life, they will have difficulty in developing language —which can be prevented through hearing screening for infants ?
Did you know that Tara Sweeney is the first Alaska Native to oversee the Bureau of Indian Affairs ?
Did you know that at the start of the Battle of Orange Walk the British commanders ran almost naked from their bathtubs?
Did you know that Yasumi Matsuno was an avid player of Final Fantasy XIV before being hired to write a scenario based on his Ivalice setting for the game's expansion, Stormblood ?
Did you know that Sam Bass was NASCAR 's first officially licensed artist?
Did you know that there were no roads leading to Becontree tube station when it first opened?
Did you know that the opening of the Senegambia bridge has eliminated the need for a 400-kilometre (250 mi) diversion to cross the Gambia River when the ferry is out of use?
Did you know that after scientist Qian Lingxi was denounced during the Cultural Revolution , China's nuclear submarine project sought the help of Premier Zhou Enlai to make him available for this strategic program?
Did you know that the solitary coral Heterocyathus aequicostatus often lives in symbiosis with a small worm that moves it around?
Did you know that Spas Wenkoff , first a tenor at a Bulgarian amateur theatre, appeared as Tristan at the Staatsoper Dresden, and was then invited to sing the role at the centenary Bayreuth Festival ?
Did you know that the Battle of Cape Ecnomus in 256 BC was possibly the largest naval battle ever?
Did you know that the Eiss Archive is composed of materials that document the rescue of Jews threatened by the Holocaust through the efforts of Polish diplomats?
Did you know that major general John K. Singlaub said that Frank Dux 's book The Secret Man , which states Dux was recruited in a urinal to work for the CIA , was "an insult" to the reader's intelligence?
Did you know that Alma Webster Powell earned a law degree from New York University while on a break from her operatic career?
Did you know that kerbs in Northern Ireland are sometimes painted to denote the political views of local residents?
Did you know that actor Tom O'Sullivan 's first television role was on Home and Away as a journalist who got into a fight with Alf Stewart ( Ray Meagher )?
Did you know that six-time world snooker champion Steve Davis reached his 100th career final in the 2005 UK Championship ?
Did you know that Amy Shuler Goodwin is the first woman to serve as mayor of Charleston, West Virginia ?
Did you know that Mendelssohn was requested to compose Psalm 100 for the new Hamburg Temple , but probably set it as Jauchzet dem Herrn, alle Welt for the Berlin Cathedral ?
Did you know that after stimulating them with electricity, Hans Steinert described the worm-like twitching of his patients' muscles?
Did you know that Eco-Link@BKE , the first ecological corridor of its kind in Southeast Asia, is intended to help conserve animals such as the banded leaf monkey and Sunda pangolin in Singapore?
Did you know that Zuzana Marková 's last-minute performance as Lucia di Lammermoor at Opéra de Marseille in 2014 was described as "dazzling" and praised for its depth of understanding?
Did you know that Queens Botanical Garden in New York City was built on top of landfill atop a creek ?
Did you know that the burrow of the spoon worm Ochetostoma erythrogrammon may be shared by flatworms, scale worms, molluscs, pea crabs, snapping shrimps, and copepods?
Did you know that for Pacific Islanders , the sudden arrival of a mass of men and machines during World War II resulted in lasting religious effects, such as cargo cults ?
Did you know that Mary Margaret Francis told Graham Lord that her husband, Dick Francis , "would like me to have all the credit" for his novels?
Did you know that from age nine, college basketball player Zion Williamson began waking up at 5 a.m. every morning to train?
Did you know that the Invereshie and Inshriach National Nature Reserve forms part of the largest remaining expanse of Caledonian pinewood in Scotland?
Did you know that Chiu Hsien-chih was one of the first two legislative candidates supported by the newly established New Power Party ?
Did you know that radiation from radon-222 and its decay products is the second-leading cause of lung cancer in the United States after cigarette smoking?
Did you know that Ruthilde Boesch , who performed as Mozart's Susanna and in 37 other roles at the Vienna State Opera , made five world tours of recitals with her second husband as her accompanist?
Did you know that in the 2006 UK Championship snooker tournament , Ronnie O'Sullivan conceded his quarter-final match against Stephen Hendry while 4–1 frames behind in a best of 17 frames match?
Did you know that wildlife photographer Thomas D. Mangelsen referred to Grizzly 399 as "An Icon of Motherhood", and 60 Minutes claimed she is "the most famous mother grizzly in the world"?
Did you know that sexual-health doctor Mags Portman and activist Greg Owen worked together to provide accessible HIV medication, preventing thousands of new HIV infections in the United Kingdom?
Did you know that the first airborne radar system, ASV Mk. II , led to the sinking of the German battleship Bismarck ?
Did you know that Tucson, Arizona , school board president George J. Roskruge demanded the resignation or suspension of five female teachers after they were caught smoking and drinking with men?
Did you know that the first telephone booth in Ceylon was installed at the Colombo General Post Office on 16 August 1909?
Did you know that Robert Schunk , who performed minor roles at the Bayreuth Festival , stepped in successfully for Peter Hofmann as Siegmund in Die Walküre there?
Did you know that for NHL 96 , the National Hockey League changed its stance on fighting in licensed hockey video games and allowed the feature as long as it occurred only once or twice per game?
Did you know that Irish actor Emmet Kirwan hopes that the film version of the play Dublin Oldschool will foster awareness of the homeless and drug addicts?
Did you know that Mormon composer Merrill Bradshaw wrote an oratorio in 1974 that used elements of jazz and popular hymns?
Did you know that the British submarine HMS Syrtis twice towed X-class midget submarines , and on both occasions the submarines sank while under tow?
Did you know that Alice de Rivera sued the New York City Board of Education after she was barred from a specialized high school due to her gender?
Did you know that Henry Ward 's painting The 'Finger-Assisted' Nephrectomy of Professor Nadey Hakim is based upon The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp by Rembrandt?
Did you know that Dutch footballer Leon de Kogel 's playing career ended following a car accident in which he had to be cut out of his vehicle by the fire service?
Did you know that red-collared lorikeets sometimes appear drunk at the end of the dry season in Darwin ?
Did you know that "Old Woden" Frederick Hackwood founded the Wednesbury Strollers football club?
Did you know that the motet Lord, have mercy upon us was composed by Felix Mendelssohn in 1833, setting responses from the Book of Common Prayer ?
Did you know that Colorado Springs architect Elizabeth Wright Ingraham incorporated natural light into her designs, outfitting one home with a 100-foot (30 m) high skylight ?
Did you know that one of the two hosts of Dopey , a podcast about addiction, died of a drug overdose?
Did you know that Austrian-born Malcolm Mencer Martin was interned by the British at the beginning of World War II , and graduated from King's College, Newcastle , at war's end?
Did you know that during a grand jury investigation into land-sale fraud at New York City's Kissena Park , Queens borough president Joseph Bermel resigned and fled the U.S. the day before he was scheduled to testify?
Did you know that Yarmouth suspension bridge collapsed under a crowd that had gathered to watch a circus clown in a wash tub being pulled along the River Bure by four geese?
Did you know that 18-year-old Ashwathi Pillai is the youngest-ever winner of the Swedish Senior National Championship in badminton ?
Did you know that for Vida , Tanya Saracho assembled an all- Latinx , "heavily queer " writers' room and a directorial team who are all Latinx or women of color ?
Did you know that Janell Cannon 's children's book Stellaluna won a Grammy Award for best spoken word album ?
Did you know that Elizabeth Webber Harris is the only woman to receive a Victoria Cross , though hers was a replica given by permission of Queen Victoria ?
Did you know that Ten Talents , a 50-year-old vegetarian and vegan cookbook that is still in print, was the first to feature recipes for soy milk ice cream shakes?
Did you know that Australian actress April Rose Pengilly had not yet appeared on-screen as her Neighbours character Chloe Brennan when she was longlisted for a Logie Award ?
Did you know that at the height of her opera career Marlise Wendels sometimes sang in up to 300 performances in a single season?
Did you know that Tessa Ganserer is the first openly transgender person to serve in a German parliament?
Did you know that a disputed Priory election in early 14th-century Yorkshire led to nuns being placed under interdict and later being accused of being "daughters of perdition" by their own Archbishop ?
Did you know that Soham El Wardini is the first female mayor of post-independence Dakar , Senegal?
Did you know that when arrested for performing illegal abortions, members of the Jane Collective protected their clients' identities by swallowing their names and contact information?
Did you know that Peggy Goodin wrote her Hopwood Award -winning novel Clementine in the basement of the Chi Omega sorority house at the University of Michigan ?
Did you know that Wang Yening helped establish China's first specialization in X-ray metal physics?
Did you know that 1920s Broadway star Adele Astaire taught dance steps to the Prince of Wales , played backgammon with Winston Churchill , and proposed to an English nobleman in an American speakeasy ?
Did you know that the 2019 Khash–Zahedan suicide bombing , which killed 27 of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps , has been reported as one of the deadliest attacks in Iran in years?
Did you know that Heiko Steuer studied mathematics and physics before turning to history and archaeology?
Did you know that the English settlement of Southwark was burned by the Normans in 1066?
Did you know that Mount Ferguson in Nevada was named after geologist Henry G. Ferguson ?
Did you know that the staged version of Henze's radio opera Ein Landarzt , closely based on a short story by Kafka, premiered at the Frankfurt Opera ?
Did you know that Jankaea heldreichii is a relict species that now grows on and around Mount Olympus in Greece and nowhere else?
Did you know that Saudi prince Khaled bin Alwaleed bin Talal is a vegan ?
Did you know that the 1994 Gambian coup d'état began as a mutiny that was only planned the night before its execution?
Did you know that Yan Luguang and his colleagues built China's first tokamak ?
Did you know that the Central Committee on Women's Employment was founded to help British women who were out of work due to the First World War?
Did you know that the tenor Ewandro Stenzowski went from early competition successes in Brazil to leading roles such as Rodolfo in La bohème at the Landestheater Detmold ?
Did you know that the OK gesture can stand for the evil eye , the letter F, the number 9, the rising and setting of the sun, or to signal that a scuba diver is safe?
Did you know that the unstable limpet is essentially a parasite of the kelp Saccharina dentigera ?
Did you know that Philip Hugh-Jones coined the term type J diabetes , where J stands for Jamaica ?
Did you know that the main building in the Konya Tropical Butterfly Garden has the form of a butterfly?
Did you know that convicted assassin Anastasia Bitsenko was one of the seven Soviet delegates to the German-Soviet peace negotiations in World War I ?
Did you know that four Apollo 11 Fiftieth Anniversary commemorative coins were issued in 2019 to commemorate the first landing on the Moon ?
Did you know that first-person shooter Bright Memory was described by critics as having the look and feel of a high-budget game, despite being developed by a single person in his spare time?
Did you know that Egyptologist Wafaa El Saddik has provided historical tours to Margaret Thatcher , Jimmy Carter , Helmut Schmidt , and Anwar Sadat ?
Did you know that Canada's first female surgeon Jennie Smillie Robertson removed a patient's ovary on the kitchen table in their own home?
Did you know that The Princess Saves Herself in This One ?
Did you know that in 2017, Polish pool player Wiktor Zieliński became the youngest-ever winner of a Euro Tour event, winning the Treviso Open at age 16?
Did you know that the Greater London Group , a research centre at the London School of Economics , played a major role in the reformation of the structure of London government in the 1960s?
Did you know that when the Second Sino-Japanese War broke out, Gong Zutong abandoned his Ph.D. thesis defence in Germany and returned to China to join the war effort?
Did you know that Dua Lipa 's character transforms into Alita at the end of her " Swan Song " music video?
Did you know that Eli Grba was the first player chosen by the Los Angeles Angels in the 1960 MLB expansion draft and their first starting pitcher ?
Did you know that according to the theory of mineral evolution , the number of mineral species on Earth has increased from about 250 to over 5400?
Did you know that Yvonne Blenkinsop , Mary Denness , Christine Jensen and Lillian Bilocca became known as "headscarf revolutionaries" for their attempts to improve safety in the English fishing industry ?
Did you know that Dale Earnhardt Jr. won the 2003 Budweiser Shootout stock car race despite starting from the back of the grid ?
Did you know that Hou Xun was the chief scientist of a major research project on ultrafast phenomena ?
Did you know that Adipicola pelagica was first discovered living on floating whale blubber ?
Did you know that Italian beach volleyball player Viktoria Orsi Toth did not like her sport at first, describing it as "some kind of a daily torture"?
Did you know that the Limburger Domsingknaben , a boys' choir founded in 1967 by Wilhelm Kempf to sing at the Limburg Cathedral , took part in the premiere of Kagel's Sankt-Bach-Passion ?
Did you know that real-life X-ray technician Paul Bateson , convicted of murder 40 years ago today, played the X-ray technician in The Exorcist 's cerebral angiogram scene?
Did you know that over 200,000 people applied to be part of Oriental Wrestling Entertainment ?
Did you know that Lulu Grace Graves was co-founder and first president of the American Dietetic Association when it formed in 1917?
Did you know that the modern separation between West Timor and East Timor resulted from a battle in 1749 ?
Did you know that Ralf Otto , director of the Bachchor Mainz from 1986, conducted world premiere recordings of cantatas by Bach's son Wilhelm Friedemann Bach ?
Did you know that the Electric Telegraph Company operated the Monarch , the first dedicated cable-laying ship ?
Did you know that the Galápagos ghostshark was scientifically named after John E. McCosker , who had discovered the species on his 50th birthday?
Did you know that in 1318 an English nun, Joan of Leeds , faked her own death and fled her priory, leaving a dummy in her place to be buried instead of her?
Did you know that Jørgen Hviid is referred to as the "father of Danish ice hockey"?
Did you know that Texas politician Beto O'Rourke was in a punk band called Foss with Cedric Bixler-Zavala , who went on to become the singer of At the Drive-In and the Mars Volta ?
Did you know that an adult gray whale may be infested by several hundred pounds of barnacles and whale lice ?
Did you know that Qian Linzhao 's research on the Mohist Canon influenced Joseph Needham 's treatment of physics in his Science and Civilisation in China ?
Did you know that reports of drones at Gatwick Airport led to the disruption of over 1,000 flights and delays for about 140,000 passengers?
Did you know that the soprano Claire Born appeared in Bayreuth as Wagner's Eva and Gutrune , and in Salzburg as Mozart's Countess and Donna Elvira ?
Did you know that although Durham is considered a rare Old English example of a work in praise of a city , the poem never names the city it is said to praise?
Did you know that John Kirklin 's modifications to Gibbon's heart–lung machine allowed blood-free surgery on the human heart?
Did you know that Bajadasaurus had elongated neural spines on its neck, thought to have been used to deter predators?
Did you know that Shutt and Thompson designed All Saints, Harlow Hill , with a "circular bell tower reminiscent of Irish bell-houses "?
Did you know that the San Jose Earthquakes won MLS Cup 2001 only one season after finishing at the bottom of the league table?
Did you know that Penny Rafferty Hamilton proposed 101 strategies to increase the participation of women in aviation?
Did you know that at the 1176 Cardigan eisteddfod in Deheubarth , Wales, The Lord Rhys awarded chairs as prizes to the winners of the poetry and music competitions?
Did you know that Indian theatre actor Jahangir Pestonji Khambhata wanted to see Shakespeare 's plays in England, but the ship he boarded went in the other direction?
Did you know that self-taught archaeologist Zhao Kangmin was officially recognized as the discoverer of the Terracotta Warriors , even though others found them first?
Did you know that the peanut worm Aspidosiphon elegans reproduces by transverse fission ?
Did you know that Sophie Van De Heuvel competed at the national level in both cricket and Australian rules football during her junior career?
Did you know that ice from the Park Crescent West ice well may have been used to numb dental patients undergoing procedures?
Did you know that the walls of Balboa Park station have "an apparently infinite variety" of patterns?
Did you know that U.S. citizens are prohibited from engaging in business activities with Chhota Shakeel ?
Did you know that the 2017 UK Snooker Championship saw a member of the audience removed for snoring?
Did you know that MLS Cup 2007 was the first Major League Soccer championship rematch to be played in consecutive years?
Did you know that Yan Jici , a founder of modern physics in China, has a minor planet named after him?
Did you know that St Peter's Bridge in Burton upon Trent , opened in 1985, is the newest road crossing of the River Trent ?
Did you know that cricketer Lionel Collins scored six centuries in ten days in a feat described as "quite without parallel in the history of the game"?
Did you know that the glaucoma medication levobunolol is more than 60 times as active as its mirror image ?
Did you know that Lynnwood Farnam was the first North American organist to play the entire repertoire of Johann Sebastian Bach 's organ works?
Did you know that the 2003 Melbourne runaway train avoided a disastrous collision by less than a second?
Did you know that György Pásztor is referred to as "Mr. Hockey" in his native Hungary?
Did you know that in 914–915 and in 919–921 , just a few years after its founding, the Fatimid Caliphate launched two unsuccessful invasions of Egypt ?
Did you know that actress Georgina Naidu premiered her one-woman show Yellowfeather in 2005 at the Sydney Opera House ?
Did you know that HMS Saracen was sunk during her 13th patrol shortly after midnight of a Friday the 13th ?
Did you know that Green Bay Packers president Russ Bogda advocated for a public referendum in the 1950s to finance the construction of Lambeau Field ?
Did you know that in 2019, millions of women came together to form a 620 km-long (390 mi) women's wall in the Indian state of Kerala ?
Did you know that the crowd-funded Curious Brewery has the names of the most significant funders engraved on one of the fermentation tanks?
Did you know that journalist Dorothy Jurney was called "the godmother of women's pages "?
Did you know that the Italian Communist Party blamed Trotskyite agents for carrying out the Schio massacre , which led to an Allied military court trial?
Did you know that bass-baritone Alfred Jerger , who appeared at the Salzburg Festival between 1922 and 1959, created the leading role of Mandryka in Arabella , an opera composed by Richard Strauss ?
Did you know that in 1905, Montclair Heights station was the site of an outbreak of glanders that led to the euthanizing of seven horses?
Did you know that 17-year-old Robbie Capito defeated the pool world number one Eklent Kaçi at the 2018 WPA World 9-Ball Championship ?
Did you know that up to C$ 250 million in cryptocurrencies owed to 115,000 customers cannot be accessed due to the unexpected death of the founder of Quadriga , who was the only person who knew the password?
Did you know that Rich Sauveur pitched for six Major League Baseball teams across three decades without earning a win ?
Did you know that Storybook Dads helps prisoners in the UK read bedtime stories to their children from behind bars?
Did you know that the rapid-fire rifle training implemented in the British Army by Norman McMahon in 1909 proved effective in the opening stages of the First World War?
Did you know that a specimen of the ornate wobbegong was observed to have its full set of teeth and be able to defend itself at one day old?
Did you know that Mausam Noor was the youngest Muslim woman member of parliament to be elected to the 15th Lok Sabha ?
Did you know that the default tenancy in England and Wales allows landlords to evict tenants without giving a reason?
Did you know that Agnes Buntine , Australia's first female bullocky , survived a large bush fire only because of her thick clothing and boots, at a time when most women wore "crinolines, bonnets, and shawls"?
Did you know that the Dicta Boelcke , written by Oswald Boelcke in 1916, was the world's first manual of aerial combat tactics?
Did you know that Juan Carlos de la Cruz Reyna tried to bribe an undercover agent to ensure he was released from prison to members of a drug cartel ?
Did you know that the luminous bay squid can use its light organ to imitate starlight or moonlight?
Did you know that R. Hari Kumar took a staff course at the US Naval War College while serving in the Indian Navy?
Did you know that a cardiovascular fitness suite at the UK Army School of Physical Training is named after Edward Henslow ?
Did you know that a landowner buried the transmitter building for Missouri radio station KXBR under 6 feet (1.83 m) of dirt as part of a rent dispute?
Did you know that Green Jacket Shoal is Rhode Island 's largest ship graveyard ?
Did you know that the Austrian actor and librettist Karl Lindau co-wrote The Nazi , a comedy, in 1895?
Did you know that the Pioneer Square pergola in Seattle has been damaged by semi-trucks and Seahawks fans?
Did you know that because of the difficulty of transporting art from Angola , Hildebrando de Melo created multiple paintings in the United States so they could be exhibited there?
Did you know that before becoming a football coach, Neil Dewsnip worked as a teacher and taught future professional players and managers including Karl Robinson , Jim Bentley , and Steven Gerrard ?
Did you know that the frog-eyed gecko is adapted to the desert conditions experienced by the wildlife of Kuwait ?
Did you know that Beverly Gray was able to survive three plane crashes thanks to A. L. Burt ?
Did you know that Bunny Ahearne was inducted into three different ice hockey halls of fame, but never played the game?
Did you know that, on average, Greece has changed its electoral law regarding apportionment in the Hellenic Parliament once every 1.5 elections?
Did you know that Bent Norup , a Danish heldenbaritone , recorded the role of Orest live in France, alongside Ute Vinzing as Elektra and Leonie Rysanek as Chrysothemis?
Did you know that upon its completion at Silver Dollar City in 2018, Time Traveler became the world's first spinning roller coaster to feature three inversions ?