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Did you know that " The Present Crisis " by James Russell Lowell has been called a "poetic anthem" for the American antislavery movement?
Did you know that conductor Volker Wangenheim opened the Beethovenhalle in Bonn for music by Karlheinz Stockhausen on 15 November 1969, including the world premiere of Fresco for four orchestral groups?
Did you know that FHProductionHK , a YouTube channel with videos that have reached two million views, features someone who always wears a bear mask to hide his appearance?
Did you know that Frank Greenleaf designed a new style of hockey net which prevented the puck from rebounding?
Did you know that the horse in the equestrian statue of William Henry Harrison has stirrups , but no saddle ?
Did you know that Spanish designer Alberto Corazón was considered one of the fathers of graphical modernization in Spain with the advent of democracy after the death of Francisco Franco ?
Did you know that a carpet for the Chamber of Commerce Building was so large that part of the building's outer wall was temporarily removed so the carpet could be put inside?
Did you know that Mexican political party Progressive Social Networks allowed party members to vote in internal elections using a smartphone app?
Did you know that Joel S. Levine led a team of 12 NASA scientists to investigate why the U.S. Constitution was deteriorating?
Did you know that when Dubliners donated more than 630 trees for amaptocare in Ballymun , artist Jochen Gerz offered a face-to-face meeting to each sponsor to choose their tree's personal permanent inscription?
Did you know that Nathan Abshire was considered an "accomplished musician" at eight years old after learning to play on an accordion that cost $3.50?
Did you know that NASCAR races on the Daytona International Speedway infield road course for the Cup Series , the Xfinity Series , and the Camping World Truck Series were added to the schedule two years in a row due to the COVID-19 pandemic ?
Did you know that the adult i phenotype , a rare blood type , has been associated with being born with cataracts in some populations?
Did you know that the world's richest farmer, Qin Yinglin , started out with just 22 pigs?
Did you know that German cricketer Christina Gough , who scored 348 runs in Women's Twenty20 Internationals in 2020, completed a Master of Arts degree in Modern Languages (German) at St Hilda's College, Oxford ?
Did you know that biotin has been proven to benefit hoof health in cattle and horses, but evidence for human nail health is very weak?
Did you know that John Moffet set an Olympic swimming record despite injuring himself during the same race?
Did you know that the co-founder of Arkansas radio station KTOY , the first Black-owned radio station in the state, continued teaching math after starting it?
Did you know that the French classical scholar François Guyet kept his composure during a lithotomy by reading Lucan 's Pharsalia ?
Did you know that despite containing crystals and chemicals which are thought to deter herbivory, Hypericum sechmenii is still under threat of extinction from grazing ?
Did you know that Asuka Langley Soryu 's surname was taken from two warships used in World War II ?
Did you know that Osborne's ligament is a tissue under some people's elbows that can compress the ulnar nerve when the elbow is flexed, causing numbness and weakness in the fingers?
Did you know that even though low interest prompted the Associated Students of Montana Tech to cut funding for student radio station KMSM-FM , it still filed to renew the station's license ?
Did you know that the investigations of Scandinavian place names by Magnus Olsen were instrumental in restoring confidence in Icelandic literature as a useful source for information on Old Norse religion ?
Did you know that Winston Churchill , an amateur painter, held the first exhibition of his paintings in Paris under a pseudonym?
Did you know that Verna Grahek Mize was given the title "First Lady of Lake Superior" for her campaign to stop a mining company from dumping 67,000 tons of "gray gunk" into the lake each day?
Did you know that George Balanchine choreographed the ballet Stravinsky Violin Concerto in 1972, a year after Igor Stravinsky 's death, having previously choreographed another ballet to the same score in 1941?
Did you know that during a bloody assault with his unit on the Western Front in 1914, Stephan Westmann was amazed to see the British stop firing and send stretcher-bearers to rescue his wounded German comrades?
Did you know that Molly Clutton-Brock treated the spines of African babies until she was deported by the government of Rhodesia ?
Did you know that at the 1997 Bully Hill Vineyards 150 , Ron Fellows , driving for a team that did not have garage space, became the first Canadian to win a NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race?
Did you know that Caleb Grafton Roberts , head of the Second World War Allied Intelligence Bureau , was a highway engineer before the war?
Did you know that the architect of Singapore's Stadium MRT station rotated the original plan on its side after being forced to revise the station's design?
Did you know that former Minnesota governor Harold LeVander jokingly said that he served under state senator Gordon Rosenmeier ?
Did you know that in 1356 Henry of Lancaster marched an English expedition through Normandy 330 miles (530 km) in 22 days while successfully avoiding battle with the French king's far larger army?
Did you know that Michael van der Veen , who represented Donald Trump at his second impeachment trial , also represented a man claiming to have been served a fried rat at a KFC ?
Did you know that Jia Ling 's directorial debut film Hi, Mom has made her the highest-grossing female director in Chinese box-office history?
Did you know that George A. Palmer continued his live Morning Cheer radio broadcast from his house while it was on fire?
Did you know that Robert Dean was one of the few Anglophone Quebecers to join the separatist Parti Québécois ?
Did you know that at the conclusion of the 2006 Football League Two play-off Final , the losing manager said his side did not deserve to win and the winning goalscorer said he did not mean to score?
Did you know that Caroline Parker , a deaf performer, signed the song " I Am What I Am " at the 2012 Summer Paralympics opening ceremony ?
Did you know that Diana, Princess of Wales , wore her revenge dress on the night that her husband admitted to having been unfaithful in a televised interview ?
Did you know that botanist Rosemary Margaret Smith had both an entire genus and a separate species named after her for her major discoveries and classification of ginger ?
Did you know that Kirka Sharif houses a cloak believed to be that of the Prophet Muhammad , the founder of Islam?
Did you know that when the fireman's pole was invented at Chicago's Engine Company 21 , other firefighters thought its use was crazy—until 21 started being the first crew to arrive at fires?
Did you know that British band Black Country, New Road , who are known for experimenting with post-punk sound, showcased a clear preference for atmospherics on their album For the First Time ?
Did you know that runners training to represent Laos at the 2012 Summer Olympics used barbell weights made from concrete, tires, and paint cans?
Did you know that the investigation into the Koh Tao murders and the subsequent trial were widely criticised by human-rights organisations, pathologists and legal experts?
Did you know that Leslie Rowan was PPS to Winston Churchill and Clement Attlee , but Hugh Dalton called him "A bit too pi for me"?
Did you know that the British mycologist Denis Garrett , "one of the last 'string and sealing wax' scientists", once bought plastic lavatory cisterns for his laboratory to use in experiments?
Did you know that Vera Wülfing-Leckie translated in Senegal a novel by Boubacar Boris Diop written in the Wolof language , titled Doomi Golo: The Hidden Notebooks in English?
Did you know that Langston Hughes 's poems " Mother to Son ", " Harlem ", and " The Negro Speaks of Rivers " have been described as "anthems of black America"?
Did you know that Miki Satō would write song lyrics while commuting by train from home to university?
Did you know that after winning the 2004 Football League Second Division play-off Final , some of the Brighton & Hove Albion players dropped the trophy while celebrating and damaged it?
Did you know that poet Mary Custis Vezey , an eleventh-generation American, published much of her work in Russian ?
Did you know that the 2020 book Stuck: How Vaccine Rumors Start and Why They Don't Go Away by Heidi Larson addresses misinformation related to vaccination ?
Did you know that Quentin Tarantino directed a Mother's Day–themed episode of ER after being encouraged to do so by George Clooney ?
Did you know that Bob McCallister is the only golfer to win both the Pac-8 Conference and Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference titles in back-to-back seasons?
Did you know that " Lasst uns Gott, dem Herrn, lobsingen ", a hymn of praise, was written by Dominican Petronia Steiner in 1944 to a melody which Johann Georg Ebeling created in 1666 for a hymn by Paul Gerhardt ?
Did you know that Mary Kate Barlow was made a dame of the Holy Sepulchre in recognition of her contribution to the Eucharistic congress of 1928 held in Sydney , Australia?
Did you know that Indian Kathakali artist Mathoor Govindan Kutty specialized in Kathakali Stri Vesham , the portrayal of female characters on stage?
Did you know that John Oliver was sued for defamation after a man in a squirrel costume told a coal industry CEO to "eat shit" on his show ?
Did you know that the Indonesian drama film Ave Maryam focuses on a forbidden romantic relationship between a Roman Catholic nun and her pastor?
Did you know that before she was elected to the Kansas Senate, Beverly Gossage worked as an elementary school teacher and an insurance agent?
Did you know that the 2020 crime film Caught in Time is based on the real-life robber and serial killer Zhang Jun ?
Did you know that for nearly two decades Alfred Woodford was the sole professor in Pomona College 's geology department?
Did you know that the tiny true bug Microvelia macgregori spends much of its time on the surface of water?
Did you know that attorney David Schoen held up a copy of Mao's Little Red Book while defending Donald Trump at his second impeachment trial ?
Did you know that the former graveyard of St Michael and All Angels Church, Sunninghill , is in the front garden of the house next door ?
Did you know that even though Willa Cather asked that her final novel, Hard Punishments , be destroyed when she died, new fragments were discovered in 2011?
Did you know that Guan Bee Ong was the first person of Chinese descent to be professor of surgery at the University of Hong Kong ?
Did you know that logging camps were placed next to a river so that harvested logs could be floated to lumber mills in the spring?
Did you know that Doris Stockhausen 's husband dedicated several compositions to her, beginning with Chöre für Doris in 1950 before they married?
Did you know that Albert H. Blumenthal jumped into the Asser Levy Recreation Center 's pool while campaigning for the 1973 New York City mayoral election ?
Did you know that in 1955, physician Count Gibson became the first person outside the Tuskegee Syphilis Study to criticize its ethics, but the study continued for 17 more years?
Did you know that the opening goal of the 1992 Football League Third Division play-off Final was described as a "Russian linesman job"?
Did you know that women in the Shaheen Bagh protest , who blocked a major road in Delhi for 101 days, included 82-year-old Bilkis ?
Did you know that ichthyologist C. Richard Robins and his wife Catherine were honoured jointly in the name of the false moray Robinsia catherinae ?
Did you know that Das Leiden Jesu von seinen Freunden , one of Christoph Graupner 's church cantatas , reflects how Jesus suffered from his friends , and ends with a chorale fantasia "full of dissonances"?
Did you know that the character Tom Bombadil , omitted by Peter Jackson in his later version, appears in a Russian film of The Lord of the Rings ?
Did you know that after coming back for a fifth season at Stanford , Anna Wilson won the 2021 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship Game with the Cardinal?
Did you know that the 2019 children's picture book Birdsong portrays intergenerational relationship using seasonal cycles?
Did you know that after Rhoda, Lady Birley , made fish stew with cognac for her roses, her daughter said that they "almost cried out with pleasure"?
Did you know that the basic design for the sitaras that decorate the Kaaba dates back to the 16th century?
Did you know that when Edward Mitchell Bannister won a first prize for painting at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial, officials tried to rescind the award upon realizing he was African-American?
Did you know that despite losing the 1990 Football League Third Division play-off Final , Tranmere Rovers were temporarily promoted to the Second Division?
Did you know that Olena Tokar , a soprano of the Leipzig Opera from Ukraine, recorded Charmes , a collection of art songs by women including Clara Schumann and Vítězslava Kaprálová ?
Did you know that the 2015 children's picture book Timeline chronologically illustrates major world events, including the Big Bang and the Fukushima nuclear disaster ?
Did you know that the Vuurbaak van Katwijk aan Zee , built in 1605, is the second-oldest lighthouse in the Netherlands?
Did you know that the BBC described Chi Chi DeVayne 's lip sync to " And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going " as "iconic in Drag Race history"?
Did you know that Truus Smulders-Beliën , the first female mayor in the Netherlands , succeeded her husband after he was executed by Nazi soldiers?
Did you know that Japan's 666 Protected Forests include four Forest Biosphere Reserves that are also Natural World Heritage Sites— Shiretoko , Shirakami-Sanchi , Ogasawara Islands , and Yakushima ?
Did you know that Karlin Lillington , long-time technology writer for Ireland's newspaper of record , The Irish Times , holds a PhD on the poetry of Seamus Heaney ?
Did you know that many tombstones from the Jewish cemetery of Thessaloniki were used by the city and the Greek Orthodox Church for construction projects?
Did you know that Philadelphia Phillies catcher Rafael Marchan had never hit a home run through 850 minor league plate appearances before hitting one in just his second major league game?
Did you know that the fish Carapus acus lives in association with a sea cucumber, such as Parastichopus regalis , spending the day inside its host and emerging at night to feed?
Did you know that Yugoslav politician Miloš Trifunović was briefly professor of zoology and botany despite graduating from the Faculty of Philosophy of the Belgrade Higher School ?
Did you know that John Neal's article "The Pound of Flesh" resulted in a substantial donation?
Did you know that British nurse Ethel Becher was described as a "modern Florence Nightingale " in 1919 for her services during World War I ?
Did you know that the history of Vyatka Land was said to be more obscure than that of any other Russian region?
Did you know that when Irene del Río was called up to the Spain women's national football team squad, she was the only player who did not compete in the country's top division ?
Did you know that Jerome Robbins 's ballet Other Dances was described as "utterly Slavic" by dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov , partly because it was made for him and fellow Russian Natalia Makarova ?
Did you know that when Hollyoaks changed Juliet Nightingale 's appearance for a storyline involving drugs, actress Niamh Blackshaw was glad to get rid of her character's side ponytail?
Did you know that the Urdu novel Zameen provides a woman-centric account of Pakistan's independence ?
Did you know that Julie Mennell was a police officer and a forensics specialist before she became vice chancellor of the University of Cumbria ?
Did you know that Brett Ormerod scored five goals for Blackpool in the 2001 Football League play-offs including one in the 2001 Football League Third Division play-off Final ?
Did you know that Wilson Tucker was elected to the Mining and Pastoral region of the Western Australian Legislative Council with just 0.18 per cent of the primary vote ?
Did you know that in " Herr, stärke mich, dein Leiden zu bedenken ", Christian Fürchtegott Gellert reflected the theological and emotional impact of the Passion of Jesus , using a familiar Passion hymn tune ?
Did you know that tea room owner Edith Warner was convinced by Robert Oppenheimer to keep her restaurant open to serve the scientists working on the Manhattan Project , including Niels Bohr and Enrico Fermi ?
Did you know that the founder of the Australian Flying Arts School took flying lessons so that he could travel throughout the Queensland Outback providing art lessons to its inhabitants?
Did you know that in hakamat , a genre of the traditional music of Sudan , women exert their influence to resolve conflicts by singing songs of praise or ridicule?
Did you know that Virgil Conn was a member of the Oregon Legislature during the 1897 session that failed to organize due to the lack of a quorum ?
Did you know that the inspiration for the 1998 novel The Vintner's Luck came to author Elizabeth Knox in a fever dream caused by pneumonia ?
Did you know that Sabina Matos , Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island , did not speak English when she immigrated to the United States at age 20?
Did you know that the year after going into administration , Huddersfield Town gained promotion to the Second Division by winning the 2004 Football League Third Division play-off Final ?
Did you know that the extinct bowfin Amia ? hesperia was likely a fish-eating hunter?
Did you know that Leontyne Price described her relationship with voice teacher Florence Kimball as "the most important relationship of my life. Like sex it was pure chemistry"?
Did you know that choreographer George Balanchine did not tell the dancers in Duo Concertant there would be a blackout in the middle of the ballet until the morning of the premiere?
Did you know that when Rosa M. Morris scored 130 percent in her mathematics exams, a special case had to be made at graduation to avoid handicapping other students?
Did you know that the first commercially viable CT scanner was invented by Godfrey Hounsfield in 1972?
Did you know that Katja Meier , the Saxon state minister of justice , was criticised for the anti-police lyrics of the punk band in which she played as a teenager?
Did you know that a new-age music format called "The Breeze" was a ratings failure for Nebraska radio station KLMS , causing a precipitous decline in listenership?
Did you know that William A. Radford assisted in producing a 1700-page encyclopedia about cement ?
Did you know that the roof of the TU Delft Library is used as a sledding hill during the winter?
Did you know that Mrs Justice Lieven made an order for a pregnant woman with learning difficulties to have an abortion against her wishes, but it was overturned in the Court of Appeal ?
Did you know that nonviolence advocate Tim DeChristopher described How to Blow Up a Pipeline by Andreas Malm as "a humble and nuanced case" for sabotaging fossil fuel infrastructure?
Did you know that in 1999 Jan Fullerton became the first woman to be appointed Director General of the National Library of Australia ?
Did you know that viral vector vaccines currently in use include four COVID-19 vaccines and two Ebola vaccines ?
Did you know that The Much Honoured Catherine Maxwell Stuart , who lives in Scotland's oldest continuously-inhabited stately home, is the first female laird of Traquair ?
Did you know that Indiana radio station WFML was bought so that the new owner could use the station's transmitter site to expand his hotel?
Did you know that Harry Daley , who joined the Metropolitan Police in 1925, was the first openly gay British police officer?
Did you know that United Nations diplomat Enuga Sreenivasulu Reddy 's anti-apartheid efforts were driven by a chance encounter with African National Congress activist A. B. Xuma ?
Did you know that when D'Arcy Carden was cast in the series premiere of The Good Place as Janet, a guide, news outlets were purposely lied to that her character was "a violin salesperson with a checkered past"?
Did you know that NASCAR competitor and film stunt performer Matt Jaskol is the first driver to win a race in North America with Red Bull sponsorship?
Did you know that the windmill in Werrington was built to grind corn but later converted to grind coal to make briquettes ?
Did you know that Gabriela Canavilhas was a pianist playing Portuguese compositions before she became Portugal's Minister of Culture ?
Did you know that in the Eurovision Song Contest the United Kingdom has finished in second place a record fifteen times, with Imaani the last artist to do so when she represented the country at the 1998 contest ?
Did you know that the Lenox Health Greenwich Village building was approvingly called "the box in which the Guggenheim Museum came"?
Did you know that Queen Letizia of Spain presented the 2020 Rey Jaime I Awards because her husband, the Spanish king , was in COVID-19 quarantine?
Did you know that the United States' 21 national preserves are in 11 states and protect vast areas of scenic public land similar to national parks , but where hunting is permitted?
Did you know that Stephanie Davis , who has qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics , is a part-time marathon runner who works in finance?
Did you know that the Oper am Brühl was the venue for the world premiere of Telemann's Germanicus in 1704, when he was director of the opera house?
Did you know that Debra Humphris , the vice chancellor of the University of Brighton , advocated converting 18th-century army barracks into student residences?
Did you know that the Hampton Shops Building was advertised as a "Gothic temple of art" shortly after it opened?
Did you know that Lilia Tarawa escaped from the Gloriavale Christian Community after believing for years that leaving Gloriavale meant she would go to hell?
Did you know that Francis Hagai instituted communal sharing of sliced banana as a parallel to the sacramental bread of the Eucharist ?
Did you know that a mathematical conjecture about tiling space by cubes was transformed into a problem in graph theory that became a benchmark for clique-finding algorithms ?
Did you know that Powell Clayton , the ninth governor of Arkansas , declared martial law in 1868 in response to the rise of the Ku Klux Klan and violence against African Americans and Republicans?
Did you know that Robert Adam 's plans for Kirkdale Bridge were substantially more elaborate than the structure that Sir Samuel Hannay was eventually willing to pay for on his estate in Dumfries and Galloway ?
Did you know that Tina LeBlanc spent 17 years as a principal dancer with the San Francisco Ballet despite being rejected by the American Ballet Theatre as a teenager?
Did you know that a sculpture of a scale-model taxi balanced on a dog is located outside of Hassenfeld Children's Hospital ?
Did you know that the canned-water company Liquid Death released two albums with lyrics consisting of hate comments the company received online?
Did you know that in 2021, Lefébre Rademan was unable to play for the South Africa national netball team as she was playing club netball in England?
Did you know that the music styles in the discography of Turnover range from pop-punk to dream pop ?
Did you know that Payal Ghanwani was the first Belizean senator of Indian descent ?
Did you know that the 1780s clerk's office of the Wilson-Wodrow-Mytinger House is West Virginia 's oldest extant public office building, and the c. 1750 kitchen is Romney 's oldest building?
Did you know that Xiaohong Rose Yang conducted a genome -wide search for copy number variations to identify the first susceptibility gene for familial chordoma ?
Did you know that San Francisco's " KYOU Radio " was the first terrestrial radio station to broadcast a program format consisting of podcasts ?