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Did you know that Callimachus wrote more than 800 books, but almost none of them have survived?
Did you know that A Beast the Color of Winter describes the author, Douglas H. Chadwick , being gored by a mountain goat ?
Did you know that Native American leader Chico Velasquez reputedly wore leggings decorated with the fingernails of his defeated enemies, American down one leg and Mexican down the other?
Did you know that Peace or Love (2021), the first album by the Norwegian duo Kings of Convenience in twelve years, was recorded five times?
Did you know that Ebba Atterbom was the first person to translate the work of Irish novelist James Joyce into Swedish ?
Did you know that Kake has been described as "a sort of Johnny Appleseed ... spreading the seeds of liberated, mutually satisfying, ecstatically explicit gay sex"?
Did you know that Lee Tze Chung , in a pro-China paper, criticized the government's response to the Tiananmen protests ?
Did you know that Piper Harron's 2016 mathematics doctoral thesis has been described as "feminist", "unique", "honest", "generous", and "refreshing"?
Did you know that Annie Kanahele opposed the addition of diacritics to a reprint of the Bible in Hawaiian , arguing that the original exemplified the written Hawaiian language at the time of translation?
Did you know that the province of Central Kalimantan was created after the Indonesian government was harried by the paramilitary organization Mandau Talawang Pancasila ?
Did you know that Obed Dickinson , an abolitionist pastor in Oregon in the mid-1800s, was pressured into resigning for advocating for racial equality?
Did you know that the Campanha da Legalidade was a mobilization led by Governor Leonel Brizola to guarantee the inauguration of João Goulart as the 24th president of Brazil ?
Did you know that Brazilian goalkeeper Lucas Covolan scored an equalising goal in injury time during the 2021 National League play-off Final ?
Did you know that during the Soviet economic blockade of Lithuania , queues to petrol stations were observed to reach several kilometres?
Did you know that Mahmud Jamal is the first person from a visible minority group to be nominated to the Supreme Court of Canada ?
Did you know that the 2021 Challenge Cup Final between Castleford and St Helens today will be played at a half-full Wembley Stadium ?
Did you know that the "only consolation" Brigitte Manceaux said she found in dying was the hope of being reunited with her uncle, the composer Francis Poulenc ?
Did you know that the social network Koo increased in popularity after the 2020–2021 Indian farmers' protest caused a standoff between Twitter and the government of India?
Did you know that the Cartier Building in New York City was purchased in exchange for $100 and a necklace?
Did you know that John Aitken first discovered oxidative stress as a major cause of male infertility?
Did you know that the Canadian city of Halifax, Nova Scotia , plans to construct some 57 km (35 mi) of safe cycling routes within its central urban area?
Did you know that Kate Baker arranged to republish the Australian novel Such Is Life by Joseph Furphy after locating half of the original manuscript under some lumber in the offices of The Bulletin ?
Did you know that Homobiles has been called " Uber for drag queens "?
Did you know that General Sir Charles Reid shot the celebrated, but probably not man-eating, Leeds Tiger ?
Did you know that St Gregory's Church, Sudbury , has the mummified head of Archbishop Simon Sudbury , beheaded by a mob in 1381, preserved in a niche in the vestry?
Did you know that Robert Quackenbush wrote the Henry the Duck books to ease any taunting his son might receive because of his surname?
Did you know that Chinese-descended mining federations in Indonesia, like the Santiaogou Federation , fought bitter battles with the Dutch to preserve their democratic forms of government in the early 19th century?
Did you know that a Midtown Manhattan townhouse at 46 West 55th Street , once occupied by doctors, was later bought by a clothing store and a fashion firm?
Did you know that Lebanese academic Zahia Kaddoura was the first woman to be appointed a dean at the Lebanese University ?
Did you know that Leonard Woods , a Black miner accused of killing a white mine foreman from a prominent family, was possibly lynched to prevent a trial that could have tainted the reputation of the foreman and his family?
Did you know that for the morning song " Die güldne Sonne voll Freud und Wonne ", the poet found a new metre , and the composer a new melody, to reflect the many meanings of "rising"?
Did you know that in the 1990s, the Libertarian Party of New Hampshire was the largest third party in the United States in terms of state legislators since the Socialist Party of America in the 1930s?
Did you know that in the surreal art game Islands: Non-Places , a bus stop may become an egg incubator and a fountain may conceal a vast underground space?
Did you know that South African theologian Sarojini Nadar examined the Book of Esther as a "text of terror" in normalizing rape culture?
Did you know that the size of Le Castellet allowed the 2021 French Grand Prix to host more spectators than other events during the COVID-19 pandemic in France ?
Did you know that Neha Narkhede , co-creator of the open source software Apache Kafka , also helped found Confluent, a company valued at $4.5 billion?
Did you know that Peter Brownell 's victory in the 1993 Burlington mayoral election was the last time a Republican won an election for Burlington, Vermont 's mayoralty?
Did you know that William Davenport was one of the world's most prolific slave traders ?
Did you know that " Lass uns in deinem Namen, Herr " is a 1964 Christian hymn with text and music by Kurt Rommel, praying for the courage to take the necessary steps?
Did you know that Abraham Zapruder sold his film to Richard Stolley because he acted like "a gentleman"?
Did you know that in the 1920s Edward A. Everett , with help from his stenographer Lulu G. Stillman , concluded that the Iroquois had been defrauded of their land , but their report was "buried" until the 1970s?
Did you know that rugby league's Hull F.C. forced rugby union's Hull KR out of their home ground by paying triple the rent before the teams became part of rugby league's Hull Derby ?
Did you know that when María Elena Medina-Mora Icaza was appointed to lead the psychology department at the National Autonomous University of Mexico , she proposed a "zero tolerance" policy for gender violence?
Did you know that government-funded non-profits are not subject to a special motion to strike , and so are exempt from California 's anti- SLAPP law?
Did you know that William Lovelady , who wrote Incantations for guitar, set Psalm 104 as a cantata on a request from Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh ?
Did you know that in the United States, Black people are twice as likely as the general population to identify as vegan ?
Did you know that the Latin meaning of rostrata is 'beaked', suggesting that the eastern shovelnose ray was named after its triangular snout?
Did you know that Mahmut Bozteke , whose arms were partially disabled in an accident, started performing Para Taekwondo upon the advice of his physiotherapist , who commented that he can use his legs very well?
Did you know that the Tiféret Israel Synagogue , the oldest in Caracas , Venezuela, was profaned during the 2008–2009 Gaza War ?
Did you know that George Case was the co-owner of the slave ship whose crew perpetrated the Zong massacre ?
Did you know that many Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant fighters were able to reunite with their kidnapped families after the 2021 Battle of Sambisa Forest ?
Did you know that Ludwig Wüllner sang in the U.S. premiere of Mahler's Kindertotenlieder in 1910, conducted by the composer?
Did you know that " I Found a Way ", written by Drake Bell and Michael Corcoran , became the theme song for the Drake & Josh show?
Did you know that in his ruling in Miller v. Bonta , Judge Roger Benitez compared AR-15s to Swiss Army knives ?
Did you know that the Goethe-Gymnasium , founded as the first school of higher education for girls in Dortmund in 1867, is now focused on competitive sports?
Did you know that the seagrass asterina is a sequential hermaphrodite , starting life as a female and later becoming a male?
Did you know that Amee-Leigh Murphy Crowe was the top try scorer at the 2018–19 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series , the first time the feat had been achieved by someone not from Australia or New Zealand?
Did you know that three generations of a Muslim family were killed in London, Canada , last month?
Did you know that Annita Demetriou is the first woman and youngest person elected as Speaker of Cyprus' House of Representatives ?
Did you know that the Society of Catholic Scientists sponsors Gold Masses , following the tradition of Red Masses for lawyers, White Masses for those in healthcare, and Blue Masses for public-safety professionals?
Did you know that B. Max Mehl , a coin dealer in Texas who made the hobby popular, advertised his "Mehl-ing list" in the 1920s?
Did you know that " All Ghillied Up " is considered one of the best levels in first-person shooter games ?
Did you know that Swedish actress Viran Rydkvist was one of the first women to run a theatre in Sweden?
Did you know that Helen Maria Williams 's Letters Written in France praised the French Revolution even though she was imprisoned during the Reign of Terror for being English?
Did you know that Darul Uloom Deoband 's first edict against terrorism in 2008 was signed by Habibur Rahman Khairabadi ?
Did you know that the 1911 benefit game for Addie Joss was an all-star game that included nine members of the Baseball Hall of Fame ?
Did you know that Nilima Arun Kshirsagar developed and patented liposomal amphotericin B , which was used to treat " black fungus " during the COVID-19 pandemic in India ?
Did you know that Barbara Hepworth instructed people to " walk in " to her sculptures?
Did you know that Mariano Fiallos Oyanguren refused to participate in an attempt to rig the 1990 Nicaraguan presidential election ?
Did you know that there was an assassination attempt on the president-elect during the presidential transition of Franklin D. Roosevelt ?
Did you know that Pyrenean Mountain Dogs were urgently introduced onto French farms in the 1990s to protect flocks from wolves that had arrived from Italy?
Did you know that Benjamin Rathbun constructed more than one hundred buildings in Buffalo, New York , in the 19th century, and was later jailed for forged endorsements ?
Did you know that Swedish painter, ceramist, designer, and writer Tyra Lundgren was one of the most versatile artists of the 20th century?
Did you know that British logistics in the Siegfried Line campaign used so many jerricans that stocks in the UK were depleted, and shipments became limited to the production rate?
Did you know that model and shoe designer Hélène Arpels believed that "diamonds go with everything"?
Did you know that Mark Selby took more time over a single shot at the 2019 Northern Ireland Open than the fastest ever maximum break ?
Did you know that Liu Yu has been called "one of China's best-known America-watchers" and "China's de Tocqueville "?
Did you know that in 2000 the Revived Cornish Stannary Parliament claimed that it was owed £20 billion by the Duchy of Cornwall because of disparities in the rate of taxation of tin between 1337 and 1837?
Did you know that Hugo Torres Jiménez was the only Sandinista guerrilla to participate in both the raids that led to the release of Daniel Ortega and more than 60 prisoners?
Did you know that The Traveling Man was commissioned by Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) to replace murals that were destroyed for the construction of DART Light Rail in Deep Ellum ?
Did you know that college basketball player Haley Cavinder and her twin sister, Hanna, signed a major endorsement deal within minutes of it being allowed?
Did you know that the Lion and Tusk replaced the royal crown on Rhodesian insignia but was previously disparagingly referred to as "the lion with the toothpick"?
Did you know that German art historian Birgit Dahlenburg was instrumental in the recognition of the 16th-century Croy Tapestry as a cultural asset of national value?
Did you know that, although created to understand Chinese psychological torture of American POWs during the Korean War , Biderman's Chart of Coercion was used by American interrogators at Guantanamo Bay ?
Did you know that the head of military leader and "holy man" Sanin Husain was used to decorate a market?
Did you know that " The Stars and Stripes Forever ", a march composed by John Philip Sousa , was made the National March of the United States in 1987?
Did you know that iron and steel magnate Thomas J. Bray wanted to canalize the Beaver , Mahoning and Shenango rivers?
Did you know that United States delegates to the Mont Tremblant Conference argued that the British Empire should be liquidated after World War II?
Did you know that Maria Simon and her husband met through a Jewish youth group in Austria but did not marry until ten years later after reconnecting while living as exiles in England?
Did you know that the anti-apartheid anthem " Gimme Hope Jo'anna " was "bastardised" by being adapted as a yoghurt advert song titled "Gimme Yop, Me Mama"?
Did you know that Christa Ludwig , known for fiction for young horse-lovers, received a prize after her novel about Else Lasker-Schüler 's late years in Jerusalem was published?
Did you know that the 2014 book Packaged Pleasures investigated the history of consumer culture and how the rise of packaging for products created "transmissible packets of pleasure" for popular consumption?
Did you know that Ian Ang , the co-founder and CEO of the gaming chair company Secretlab , was a StarCraft II champion?
Did you know that Róbert Berény 's 1927–1928 oil painting Sleeping Lady with Black Vase was lost until 2009, when it was spotted being used as set dressing in the film Stuart Little ?
Did you know that Brigadier General James H. Stratton never saw combat in his thirty-year military career, but he was still shot once?
Did you know that the Microphones ' 2003 album Mount Eerie uses different people and vocal styles to represent distinct, individual characters?
Did you know that Abeer Odeh was the first woman to serve as Minister of National Economy in Palestine ?
Did you know that Deutsches Tanzarchiv Köln , the German archive for documents related to dance on stage, holds around 400 estates of dancers, choreographers and photographers, such as Mary Wigman and Kurt Jooss ?
Did you know that Steve Bennett 's write-in candidacy for election to the Ventura city council was endorsed by Patagonia, Inc. ?
Did you know that Harriet Tyce 's novel Blood Orange became popular during COVID-19 lockdowns in 2020?
Did you know that photographing Elliot Page for the cover of Time "really meant the world" to Canadian photographer Wynne Neilly ?
Did you know that the style of the 9th-century Celtic Roscrea Brooch was influenced by the artworks of Viking invaders?
Did you know that Ellora Derenoncourt demonstrated that the expansion of minimum wage in 1967 accounted for 20 percent of the reduction in racial income gaps in the United States during the civil rights era?
Did you know that Japanese industrialist Ichizō Kobayashi established the Takarazuka Grand Theater in the city of Takarazuka because it was located at the terminus of a train line owned by his company?
Did you know that Marja Kubašec was both the first Sorbian woman to receive a formal teacher training and the first woman to write a novel in Upper Sorbian ?
Did you know that the many refugees who have entered Canada via Roxham Road at the border between New York and Quebec since 2017 may not have been breaking any laws?
Did you know that the volcanic crater Cerro Overo formed about 77,000 years ago?
Did you know that the meagre attendance at the 1960 European Nations' Cup Final in Paris was blamed on crowds who "wanted western European glamour, not mysterious teams from the other side of Europe"?
Did you know that Joan Boada was named a principal dancer at the Cuban National Ballet at age 16, but later defected and ended up at the San Francisco Ballet ?
Did you know that the temperature was 0 °F (−18 °C) on the morning that the Battle of Hancock began?
Did you know that James Chappell is thought to have been the first black landlord of an English public house?
Did you know that "the very first words of encouragement [ Edgar Allan Poe ] ever remember[ed] to have heard" were in The Yankee ?
Did you know that Swedish writer Hedda Anderson began her literary career at the age of 58, following her husband's death in 1888?
Did you know that prior to winning their first of nine consecutive titles in the 1965–66 season , Celtic had not been champions of the Scottish Football League for 12 years?
Did you know that Patric and Rosalie Carey built New Zealand's first theatre for professional repertory on the back of their house?
Did you know that Grenadian anatomic pathologist Kathleen Coard is the first female professor of pathology in the Caribbean?
Did you know that the 130th Regiment of Foot , raised by George Pigot in 1794, was disbanded just two years later after suffering heavy losses due to tropical disease?
Did you know that Josh Phillips , who was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for murdering his eight-year-old friend when he was fourteen, is eligible for resentencing in 2023?
Did you know that the extinct planthopper Florissantia elegans was described in 1890 from only two fossils?
Did you know that Chris Gittens 's father refused to attend any of his professional baseball games until he was promoted to the major leagues?
Did you know that official guests of the Swiss Confederation stayed at the Lohn Estate , a manor in Kehrsatz , in the Canton of Bern , between 1942 and 1994?
Did you know that ballerina Tina Pereira won a competition even though she was chosen to replace an indisposed dancer, and her partner got seriously injured mid-performance?
Did you know that for the first time this century, this year's British Athletics Championships were not broadcast on live television?
Did you know that after her election as Florida's agriculture commissioner , Nikki Fried was sworn into office using the first Hebrew Bible published in the United States?
Did you know that the fan disc of the visual novel Kichiku Megane includes a salacious typing game ?
Did you know that British army officer Thomas Stanton Lambert was killed by an IRA ambush while returning from a tennis match in 1921?
Did you know that Homestead, Florida , radio station WOIR was credited with saving the lives of hundreds of farmworkers in a labor camp before the arrival of Hurricane Andrew ?
Did you know that, after her death, contemporaries of Frankish queen Austregilde both called her "the light of her homeland, the world, and the court" and compared her to Herod ?
Did you know that The City in the Middle of the Night , a 2019 climate-fiction novel by Charlie Jane Anders , is set on a tidally locked planet?
Did you know that Elizabeth Mburu 's book African Hermeneutics seeks to bring a uniquely African approach to interpreting the Bible?
Did you know that one of the arguments made by the Simla Deputation for increasing Muslim representation in Indian politics was that they had ruled India under the Mughal Empire ?
Did you know that when Robert Saunders Jr. 's predecessor died, Saunders took his job but not his home ?
Did you know that Big Bang 's G-Dragon switched his mini-album 's title track from " Bullshit " to " Untitled, 2014 " on the day of its release?
Did you know that Mormon missionaries in Japan converse with each other in a specialized cant known as Senkyoshigo ?
Did you know that Hugo Marchand was named an étoile of Paris Opera Ballet at age 23, after he made an unexpected role debut when the company was touring in Japan?
Did you know that in 1991, the Church of Christ, Scientist published a book it had previously rejected as blasphemous to obtain a $97 million bequest needed to repay its financially disastrous expansion into television ?
Did you know that the George W. Vanderbilt Residence has been occupied by American Express , Olympic Airlines , and Versace , but never by Vanderbilt himself?
Did you know that ballerina Pippa Moore 's last role was as Princess Beatrice , Queen Victoria 's youngest daughter?
Did you know that a basic difference between modern Paganism and New Age is that the former focuses more on the external world and the latter on the inner life of the individual?
Did you know that Hugh Leatherman effectively controls the state of South Carolina 's budget?
Did you know that the blacktail snapper is commercially fished in Kiribati and the Ryukyu Islands ?
Did you know that Jordan Geller owned 2,388 pairs of sneakers and was recognized by Guinness World Records in 2012 for having the world's largest sneaker collection?
Did you know that Doja Cat and her directors used Blade Runner and The Fifth Element as reference points while making the music video for " Need to Know "?
Did you know that Chetana Nagavajara initiated and led arts-criticism research projects in Thailand in the early 2000s?
Did you know that the "olde English" interior of the Fisk–Harkness House later became an automobile club, an art gallery, and finally a college?
Did you know that Pamela Trotman Reid , the first Black president of the University of Saint Joseph , developed the GO-GIRL program?
Did you know that Chang Chen lost 12 kilograms (26 lb) for his role in The Soul ?
Did you know that police officer Abdulrachman Setjowibowo was appointed the acting chairman of the Football Association of Indonesia following a conflict between the association and the Persija Jakarta club?
Did you know that sculptures by Lorenzo Ghiglieri have been installed at the Royal Palace of Madrid , the White House , and Brown Bear Car Wash ?
Did you know that Opal Lee is often referred to as the "grandmother of Juneteenth "?
Did you know that the National Institutes of Health 's first mycologist, Chester W. Emmons , demonstrated that fungal infections were common and widespread?
Did you know that the Basilica of Saint Maternus in Walcourt , Belgium, contains one of the oldest preserved Marian devotional statues in Western Christianity?
Did you know that Mexican politician Rubén Rocha Moya obtained a law degree while serving as a senator ?
Did you know that before she entered the U.S. Army in 1942, Jane Douglass White , a songwriter for soldier's shows , had already composed the tune which would become the official " Song of the Women's Army Corps "?
Did you know that during the 1940s, Sigge Stark became Sweden 's most published, most read, as well as most criticised author?
Did you know that the theme song for Guilty 's live-action television series is Toshi 's first original song in 22 years?
Did you know that two of the men in the Dover Eight were going to join the raid on Harpers Ferry led by John Brown but ultimately backed out?
Did you know that Ronald Barnes was a major force in establishing an American approach to writing music for the carillon ?
Did you know that each chapter of the Japanese novel Kanojo ga Suki na Mono wa Homo de Atte Boku de wa Nai is themed after a song by Queen ?
Did you know that the Royal Commission on Metropolitan Railway Termini of 1846 was responsible for central London being mostly free of mainline railways and led, indirectly, to the creation of the London Underground ?
Did you know that Ed Gomes was the first member of the Working Families Party elected to a state legislature solely with the party's nomination?
Did you know that Gracelino Barbosa won the first Paralympic medal in Cape Verdean history at the 2016 Summer Paralympics ?
Did you know that neither holochess (dejarik) nor sabacc , two games invented for the Star Wars films, have a definitive ruleset despite several real-world licensed releases?
Did you know that adult-film actress Kendra Sunderland originally wanted to be a counselor or an accountant?
Did you know that " She's a Woman " was the first song by the Beatles to include a reference to drugs?