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Did you know that Royal Engineers officer Leslie Innes Jacques received the Military Cross for constructing a bridge under heavy fire during the Hundred Days Offensive in 1918?
Did you know that the budget process in the United States Senate often ends in a vote-a-rama ?
Did you know that Maki Kaji formulated the name " Sudoku " while scrambling to get to a horse race?
Did you know that New Zealand writer Jessie Weston wrote for William Ernest Henley 's magazine for 18 months without him knowing she was a woman?
Did you know that Giedrė Šlekytė conducted a version of Mozart's Die Zauberflöte for children at the 2018 Salzburg Festival , and Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmélites at the Oper Frankfurt in 2021?
Did you know that your attention can be stolen ?
Did you know that Eli Bebout , a future Speaker of the Wyoming House of Representatives , was first elected as a write-in candidate ?
Did you know that the 1959 song " Go, Jimmy, Go " by Jimmy Clanton was originally offered to Bobby Rydell with the title "Go, Bobby, Go"?
Did you know that police negotiator Max Vernon told the actor portraying him in 6 Days that "you've been wrongly cast. You're two inches shorter than me and I have more hair"?
Did you know that Diving With a Purpose , a nonprofit focused on maritime archaeology , helped identify and document the wreck of the 18th-century Portuguese slave ship São José Paquete Africa ?
Did you know that the Q contains a drawing of "a buff Ned Flanders from The Simpsons with protruding nipples"?
Did you know that plant biology professor Luca Comai independently developed glyphosate -resistant plants while working at Calgene and published his research before Monsanto researchers were able to?
Did you know that Zollstock , a district of Cologne , takes its name from a local tollhouse ?
Did you know that Bridget Burgess 's mother Sarah once changed all four tires during a pit stop by herself?
Did you know that Zheng Kai first lost weight and then gained 20 kilograms (44 lb) for his role in Never Stop ?
Did you know that the composer Francis Burt , who came from London and settled in Vienna, was inspired by the drumming of the Nigerian Ibo people ?
Did you know that in 1952 meteorologist Harry Volkman delivered the first on-air tornado warning on Oklahoma City's WKY-TV , in defiance of a federal ban on the practice?
Did you know that Pierre Kaufmann helped install the first radio telescope in Brazil, which was later destroyed by cows?
Did you know that Kanye West recorded a music video for " RoboCop " that casts his ex-girlfriend Amber Rose as a robot?
Did you know that American physician and marathon runner Joan Ullyot was one of the key figures in successfully lobbying for a women’s marathon in the Olympic Games ?
Did you know that in addition to running Bangkok's first power station, the Siam Electricity Company also operated half the city's tram lines and a fire brigade?
Did you know that Yasin Zia , while Chief of General Staff of Afghanistan, personally led government forces against the Taliban on the edge of Mihtarlam , 120 km (75 mi) from Kabul ?
Did you know that Kulgoa was the largest wooden ferry to serve on Sydney Harbour ?
Did you know that Louise Heims Beck co-founded the American Theatre Wing and was responsible for overseeing the organization of the 1st Tony Awards ?
Did you know that the Punch Bowl Inn in Lancashire was reputed to be haunted by the ghost of a highwayman?
Did you know that when King Hugh III of Cyprus tried to force a marriage on his vassal, Lady Isabella of Beirut , the Egyptian sultan Baibars declared himself her protector?
Did you know that Queen of Peace Cemetery opened early because Cemetery of the Holy Rood filled up due to the COVID-19 pandemic ?
Did you know that architect Robert Marquis believed that architecture should meet "the users' spiritual and psychological needs" in addition to being functional?
Did you know that the Qing-dynasty erotic novel Shenlou zhi has been called "the earliest novel by far" to describe the opium trade in China?
Did you know that Scott Lee Kimball killed three of his four known victims while he was working as an FBI informant?
Did you know that Yoko Ono considered her 1971 song " Listen, the Snow Is Falling " to be the first pop song she ever wrote?
Did you know that the Australian rugby sevens player Dietrich Roache kept the Australian national sprint champion out of the Australian Olympic team with his speed?
Did you know that Steve Carell insisted his chest genuinely be waxed in a scene in The 40-Year-Old Virgin , which was recorded in a single take?
Did you know that the mayor of Málaga , Pedro Aparicio Sánchez , spent the night of the 1981 Spanish coup d'état attempt in his office so he could die there if he was targeted?
Did you know that although its publisher Dark Horse Comics is American, a significant proportion of artists involved with the comic book series The Witcher have been Polish?
Did you know that Vera Schoenenberg 's performance in the title role of Kálmán's Die Csárdásfürstin at the Mörbisch Lake Festival was broadcast by German and Austrian stations?
Did you know that Yoko Ono took the first verse of her 1970 song " Who Has Seen the Wind? " from a 19th century poem written by Christina Rossetti ?
Did you know that Alfie Oakes sued a school district for US$50 million in response to their cancelling a contract?
Did you know that no one knows how a dress worn by Marilyn Monroe ended up in the Payne Whitney House ?
Did you know that Gunhild Bergh was the second woman in Sweden to be awarded a PhD in literary history ?
Did you know that Tone Roads No. 1 , a composition for chamber ensemble by Charles Ives , was originally titled "Tone Roads, rough ones—good ones, bad ones, fast ones, slow ones!"?
Did you know that FBOY Island sets three female contestants to identify twenty-four men as either womanizers or nice guys ?
Did you know that Yulimar Rojas is good at jumping, but her sister Yerilda Zapata is good at throwing?
Did you know that an inquiry into the death of Orville Blackwood at Broadmoor Hospital in 1991 found that admissions of black people to the hospital were more likely to have police involvement?
Did you know that the manga series Mashima Hero's was originally titled Hero's and had its name changed to rank higher in search engine results?
Did you know that in Indonesian , a language featuring pronoun avoidance , a common polite way to address someone else is "father" or "mother", instead of "you"?
Did you know that Gottfried Hornik , a baritone at the Vienna State Opera for 25 years, appeared in his signature role of Beckmesser from Aachen and Barcelona in 1976 to the Municipal Theatre of Santiago in 2001?
Did you know that the Beaux-Arts Apartments never went into foreclosure despite being completed at the start of the Great Depression?
Did you know that Charlie N. Holmberg 's idea for The Fifth Doll began with a writing exercise to develop a system of magic for a household item?
Did you know that the All Time Low song " PMA " features guest vocals from Heather Baron-Gracie of the British band Pale Waves ?
Did you know that Song Kok Hoo was the first Asian deputy commissioner of police in Singapore?
Did you know that Schloss Gripsholm was dedicated by author Kurt Tucholsky to a license plate number?
Did you know that Kuinini Manumua is the first woman to represent Tonga in weightlifting at the Olympic Games?
Did you know that as the acting President of Zambia in 2014, Guy Scott became the first white leader of an African country since the end of apartheid ?
Did you know that Massekhet Amerika by Gerson Rosenzweig satirizes Jewish life in New York in the style of a Talmudic tractate ?
Did you know that three verses from Psalm 86 became part of Mendelssohn's oratorio Elijah , including the opening "Lord, bow thine ear to our pray'r"?
Did you know that during the 1991 Zaire unrest , 30 to 40% of all companies in Zaire were plundered, and around 70% of the country's retail businesses were destroyed?
Did you know that newspaper columnist Kenneth John helped found the Democratic Freedom Movement in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines?
Did you know that ducks frequently carried more than two and a half tons during the Siegfried Line campaign ?
Did you know that mezzo-soprano Margarita Gritskova was José Carreras 's partner for his farewell concert in Carnegie Hall ?
Did you know that the union of taxi drivers offered the residents of retirement homes free transport to the voting stations in the Slovenian Waters Act referendum ?
Did you know that Robert Goodsir , searching for his brother Harry , lost with the Franklin expedition in the Arctic, found the graves of three expedition members?
Did you know that Battlefield Vegas employees during the 2017 Las Vegas shooting drove several armored personnel carriers to Mandalay Bay to shield police officers at the request of a LVMPD sergeant?
Did you know that the Islamic website Askimam has been called more comprehensive, influential and wide-ranging than the web resources of al-Azhar and its sympathisers put together?
Did you know that professor Bronwyn Law-Viljoen became editor-in-chief of a publishing company, co-founded her own independent publishing company, and founded her own bookstore in South Africa?
Did you know that astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson called out Disney for an inaccurate Frozen II poster?
Did you know that New Zealand author Patricia Grace did not include a glossary for Māori terms in her book Potiki because she "didn't want the Māori language to be treated as a foreign language in its own country"?
Did you know that part of Keith Foulger 's job was to make sure the front and back ends of Britain's first nuclear submarine fitted together?
Did you know that seventy years after the death of his tea-planter grandfather , publisher Neville Armstrong remembered  his piercing blue eyes and large white spade beard ?
Did you know that the WandaVision song " Agatha All Along " was inspired by the theme songs of The Munsters and The Addams Family ?
Did you know that the Greek Korakou culture had two-storey buildings with internal stairs more than 4,000 years ago?
Did you know that the BBC programme DynaMo was created after a survey revealed parents did not want to help children with homework?
Did you know that Norm Michael did not know he was an NFL Draft selection until 55 years later?
Did you know that director Mamoru Hosoda 's original concept for his 1999 film Digimon Adventure was a story set against the backdrop of the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo?
Did you know that brewer Alexander Gordon paid to build the Polhollick Bridge in Aberdeenshire in 1892 after witnessing a drowning incident at the ferry crossing?
Did you know that in 2016, Hurricane Pali and Hurricane Alex existed simultaneously as rare January hurricanes within the Pacific and Atlantic hurricane basins , respectively, marking the first such occurrence on record?
Did you know that a reviewer wrote that Florian Boesch 's 2011 recording of Winterreise with Malcolm Martineau was "one of the most powerful lieder albums of recent years"?
Did you know that the South Bronx Greenway includes recycled granite from the Willis Avenue Bridge ?
Did you know that Donald Trump had a "big smile plastered on his face" on the day the " Best Sex I've Ever Had " happened?
Did you know that the bamboo-filled atrium of the IBM Building was described as "New York City's peerless privately owned public space"?
Did you know that former British Army Commando major-general John Woollett later became a planning inspector?
Did you know that the 2015 video game Worlds of Magic , intended as a spiritual successor to the classic game Master of Magic , failed to impress most reviewers?
Did you know that of the 16 teams to enter the inaugural Scottish Cup , only Dumbarton , Kilmarnock and Queen's Park still regularly compete in the competition?
Did you know that the sea slug Philinopsis speciosa wraps the mucus strand containing its eggs around its head?
Did you know that ink wash painting was created by the Chinese in the 8th century and the technique then spread to the rest of East Asia ?
Did you know that when starting his business, Vincent Figgins needed help from the mysterious "Black Man"?
Did you know that singer-songwriter Doug Sahm was also a multi-instrumentalist who was regarded as a child prodigy playing the steel guitar?
Did you know that Dallas television station KDAF abandoned plans to launch a local newscast in 1994, after having already hired 20 staff, because it was to lose its Fox affiliation and be sold?
Did you know that Zygmunt Krasiński , one of Poland's Three Bards , published most of his works anonymously and was known as the Anonymous Poet of Poland?
Did you know that the Royal Dental Hospital opened the first dental school in Britain in 1859?
Did you know that Woodland Sketches by Edward MacDowell includes a piano piece based on the songs of the Walla Walla and Brotherton peoples?
Did you know that Ian Fraser Muir partly created the Muir and Barclay formula to calculate the fluid replacement needed after major burns?
Did you know that chef Angie Mar went from running a steakhouse to owning Three Horses ?
Did you know that John M. Franklin oversaw the construction of SS United States , a liner that broke the transatlantic speed record on its maiden voyage?
Did you know that Narciso Rodriguez for Her perfume was inspired by a bottle of Egyptian musk oil Narciso Rodriguez was given in high school?
Did you know that Japanese boxer Arisa Tsubata worked to prevent the spread of COVID-19 during her training for the 2020 Summer Olympics and as a nurse?
Did you know that the 93% Club has been described as "the reverse Bullingdon Club "?
Did you know that former football midfielder Marcelo Gallardo became the first River Plate player to achieve an international title as a player and a coach after leading the team to win the 2014 Copa Sudamericana ?
Did you know that in August 2017, Potential Tropical Cyclone Ten caused some of the worst flooding seen in western Florida in 20 years, just two weeks before Hurricane Irma struck the same region?
Did you know that one night in 1857 Granny gave birth to 240 offspring?
Did you know that journalist Al Cartwright started his career writing for The Reading Times at the age of 15?
Did you know that residents at the queer community known as the Tenacious Unicorn Ranch carry firearms and wear body armor while tending to their alpacas due to threats from right-wing militias ?
Did you know that the classicist L. D. Reynolds wrote his first publication on the birds of the Caerphilly Basin?
Did you know that the design of King Sombra , the villain in " The Crystal Empire ", was meant to illustrate him "as both a solid creature and a flowing mass of smoky darkness"?
Did you know that when Chorus Systèmes SA was founded in 1986, French technology start-up companies were rare?
Did you know that composer Ida Carroll played a central role in the merger of the Northern School of Music and the Royal Manchester College of Music to found the Royal Northern College of Music in 1973?
Did you know that after the death of Steven Crawford , his body was found in 1963 but was not identified until 2021?
Did you know that Jerome Robbins planned to have his ballet Piano Pieces be about dancers rehearsing a fictitious ballet, but changed the theme to be about the joy of dancing?
Did you know that despite the United States outlawing slavery in 1865 , historian Antoinette Harrell found examples of African-American families who remained enslaved through debt bondage as recently as the 1970s?
Did you know that in 2017, there were more than 10,000 teenage girls who performed as Japanese idols ?
Did you know that it was said that BBC scriptwriter Iain Pattinson 's "unique brilliance was his ability to combine the absurd with the plausible"?
Did you know that a fight in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode " Twilight's Kingdom " has been compared to Dragon Ball Z ?
Did you know that Mexican theatergoers complained that Olaf's Frozen Adventure , a short that played before the movie Coco , was too long?
Did you know that the English-Australian cricketer Bailey Wightman made his County debut for Kent whilst playing club cricket for Tunbridge Wells after an outbreak of COVID-19 ?
Did you know that Minnesota went from having more than 9,000 local government entities in 1952 to having fewer than 4,000 in 2012?
Did you know that Chuck McMann led the McGill Redmen football team to five playoff appearances in his six seasons as head coach?
Did you know that South Australia became the first place in the world to give women the right to stand for parliament due to an opponent's "great miscalculation"?
Did you know that while convicted fraudster Anna Sorokin was in jail, one of her visitors was Julia Garner , who will play Sorokin in the Netflix miniseries about her ?
Did you know that the Duke of Sussex has been providing drinks in Acton Green for over a century?
Did you know that Abul Kalam Qasmi translated E. M. Forster 's Aspects of the Novel into Urdu ?
Did you know that as part of the coronation of Mindon Min , the square yuzana around the capital was designated a sanctuary ?
Did you know that Francis Ingram pioneered the British slave trade at Porto-Novo ?
Did you know that for his composition Hallowe'en , Charles Ives supplied two sets of instructions on how to repeat the music in different tempos and dynamics ?
Did you know that Grace Harrison was one of two women who played in the New Zealand Ice Hockey League in 2021?
Did you know that My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode " The Last Crusade " introduces lesbian characters?
Did you know that an inscription above the 16th-century doorway of the Dame Paulet's Almshouses reads "No Domi Ni" instead of " Anno Domini " because the original was misread by a stonemason during a 1930s restoration?
Did you know that Western Australia was the second Australian state to legalise voluntary assisted dying ?
Did you know that Mika Kares returned to Finland to perform the title role of Boito's opera Mefistofele at the Savonlinna Opera Festival ?
Did you know that Marco van Basten 's strike in the UEFA Euro 1988 Final was described as "perhaps the most iconic goal in UEFA European Championship history"?
Did you know that Howell Edmunds Jackson died of tuberculosis less than two and a half years after his appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court ?
Did you know that when surrounded at the Battle of Oroscopa Carthaginian troops killed their horses and burnt their wooden shields to cook them?
Did you know that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation supports the creation of shit flow diagrams ?
Did you know that while Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Barrios was exiled from Nicaragua and living in Costa Rica in the 1980s, his sister Claudia was there as Nicaragua’s ambassador?
Did you know that Luke Prokop , an ice hockey prospect , is the first player under contract with a National Hockey League team to come out as gay?
Did you know that while 1271 Avenue of the Americas was being built at New York City's Rockefeller Center, Marilyn Monroe re-launched the Center's long-dormant "Sidewalk Superintendents' Club"?
Did you know that Serbian landowner Marija Trandafil spent a single day hungry, but she remembered the experience and became a major philanthropist in Novi Sad ?
Did you know that Tig Notaro replaced a cast member in Army of the Dead and was added through computer-generated imagery a year after filming had concluded?
Did you know that Hong Kong wushu athlete Li Fai dropped out of the 1994 Asian Games after discovering she was pregnant?
Did you know that an FCC hearing examiner scolded the owner of California radio station KCTY for having a "cavalier attitude" and at times being too lazy to put the station on the air?
Did you know that Indonesian Communist Party leader Fachrul Baraqbah was an aristocrat of the Kutai Sultanate in East Kalimantan and a descendant of Muhammad ?
Did you know that within a decade, KTVK in Phoenix went from being a "blot on ABC 's affiliate ledger" to a station the network only gave up reluctantly?
Did you know that soprano Heidi Grant Murphy , who has given over 200 performances at the Met , said that becoming a singer "takes work on your psyche, your innermost being"?
Did you know that Leaders of the World included 20-foot-tall (6 m) horses?
Did you know that William Mackinder was a deep-sea fisherman and millworker before entering British politics, where he advocated for worker's rights ?
Did you know that the intentional balk in baseball is mostly used as a tactic to stop sign stealing ?
Did you know that peasant leader Medardo Mairena was the sixth aspiring presidential candidate in the 2021 Nicaraguan general election to be arrested?
Did you know that part of the ceiling at the 181st Street station collapsed two days after funding was allocated to repair damage from a similar collapse two years prior?
Did you know that a reviewer wrote that "few tenors on disc can rival the German Rainer Trost " about his 1992 performance as Ferrando in Mozart's Così fan tutte in Paris, with conductor John Eliot Gardiner ?
Did you know that mixed-use stadium districts around major sports venues often include public squares , office space, hotels and residential units?
Did you know that the freighter John Mitchell was the costliest shipwreck on the Great Lakes in 1911?
Did you know that instead of fighting in battle, female vassals in the Kingdom of Jerusalem were obliged to render the service of marriage to their lord by marrying one of three candidates proposed to them?
Did you know that Mary Dunn was reported to have had "many a free ride" in ice hockey, when men "would just lift her up and dump her elsewhere"?
Did you know that the costs of the great astronomical clock at Norwich Cathedral that were recorded in its Sacrist's Rolls from 1322 to 1325 provide the earliest known detailed account of clockmaking in England?
Did you know that Arthur J. Hill , United States Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for Housing , was one of four children of a single parent?
Did you know that Michel Platini scored his ninth goal of the tournament when France won the UEFA Euro 1984 Final ?
Did you know that " Stoned at the Nail Salon " was written by Lorde and Jack Antonoff , and features backing vocals from four other artists?
Did you know that the Morris–Jumel Mansion in Washington Heights, Manhattan , where the musical Hamilton was written, has been described as a haunted house ?
Did you know that the Swedish meteorologist Svante Odén was among the first scientists to address and publicize the problems of acid precipitation in Europe ?
Did you know that almost as soon as Cabaret opened, people mistakenly complained the song " Tomorrow Belongs to Me " was a genuine Nazi anthem?
Did you know that Pierre Olaf 's portrayal of Jacquot in the 1961 Broadway musical Carnival! earned him a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical in 1962?
Did you know that an English army devastated Lothian in Scotland so thoroughly in 1356 that the episode became known as Burnt Candlemas ?
Did you know that Bernette Ford was one of the first members of the Black Creators for Children, an organization that helped promote black authors and increase diversity in children's books?
Did you know that The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy contains an idiosyncratic selection of topics, from "Aliens in Space" to "Rats and Mice"?
Did you know that Natal frontier trader James Rorke specified that he be buried under three feet (0.9 m) of concrete because he feared Zulu graverobbers?
Did you know that the graffiti artists hired for the video game Skitchin' were interviewed at a train station because they were too young to drive?
Did you know that after the Lord's Day Observance Society forced the National Sunday League to stop their Sunday lectures, they eventually regrouped to form the Sunday Lecture Society ?
Did you know that a Chinese ex-slave named Quintín Quintana became a successful merchant and pro-Chile leader in the War of the Pacific ?
Did you know that a large amount of energy in Turkey is underground and under the Black Sea ?