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Did you know that Francis Martin , a Cistercian monk from the Bronx , became a leader in the Catholic charismatic renewal ?
Did you know that Singapore's North East MRT line saw the first launch of the Art-in-Transit (AiT) programme – a public artwork showcase on the MRT network?
Did you know that journalist Jack Berry was influential in lifting the ban on female reporters in the locker room at The Masters ?
Did you know that the artwork Comedian , a fresh banana taped to a wall with duct tape, sold for $120,000 in 2019?
Did you know that fashion model Vivienne Rohner , named after fashion designer Vivienne Westwood , opened one of Westwood's shows during her first season as a model?
Did you know that Washington State Route 304 was accidentally removed from the state highway system by the Washington State Legislature for two years?
Did you know that Beate Ulbricht was subjected to harassment by the East German government because her adoptive parents, Walter and Lotte Ulbricht , did not approve of her marriage?
Did you know that Henry Stoehr was able to spend more time producing his band 's debut studio album, Moveys , after losing his day job due to the COVID-19 pandemic ?
Did you know that one-sixth of all liquor establishments in Bombay were attacked in the 1921 Prince of Wales riots ?
Did you know that at the 2016 Summer Paralympics , German para-cyclist Hans-Peter Durst won a time trial despite having no saddle for most of the event?
Did you know that one radio station owner's decision to bring a " country cousin " to Tallahassee, Florida , turned out to be a miscalculation?
Did you know that although the House Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight tried to end payola , it just became more sophisticated?
Did you know that star singers from the Munich parish of St. Martin, Moosach , were received by Angela Merkel in 2012?
Did you know that Tyler Stockton was the second-youngest defensive coordinator in the FBS each of the two times he was nominated for the Broyles Award ?
Did you know that larvae of the baked bean ascidian settle onto the tunics of adult individuals?
Did you know that Mary Healy , an international speaker on faith healing in the Catholic Church, only became interested in the subject during her 2014 sabbatical ?
Did you know that depictions of a sexual relationship between Richard the Lionheart and his sister Lady Joanna were cut from the script of the Doctor Who serial The Crusade ?
Did you know that in 2021, Alabama state representative Steve McMillan sponsored a bill that later became law allowing restaurants to have outdoor dining areas for dogs?
Did you know that Andi Sudirman Sulaiman made it mandatory for Muslim civil servants to read the Quran before work?
Did you know that according to legend, the Red Ghost trampled a woman to death, and killed and ate a grizzly bear ?
Did you know that David Flitcroft was appointed as director of football at Port Vale after initially applying to be the club's manager ?
Did you know that the driver in a 2019 truck crash received a sentence of 110 years in prison due to mandatory sentencing laws in Colorado?
Did you know that Rudi Kappel , co-founder of the first airline of Suriname, was arrested both on entering and leaving Santiago de Cuba ?
Did you know that The Alignment Problem , a book discussing existential risk from AI , was one of five "books that inspired Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella " in 2021?
Did you know that after a dispute emerged over the terms of its lease, the owner of its broadcast tower forced Wyoming radio station KNWT off the air by disconnecting its power?
Did you knowthat the Yamashiro ikki has been characterized as the "people's parliament of the Warring States period "?
Did you know that in 1848, the Hartford and New Haven Railroad was "regularly run with greater speed than any other railroad in the United States"?
Did you know that Ludwig Zottmayr , who created the role of King Marke in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde , was not the composer's first choice?
Did you know that referee Jan Verhaas was informed of an error he made at the 2022 Masters by a member of the crowd?
Did you know that Cody Bellinger made a motion capture appearance in Assassin's Creed Valhalla as the Viking Otta Sluggasson, with Bellinger's own baseball bat serving as Sluggasson's weapon?
Did you know that Uvariopsis dicaprio was the first new plant species described in 2022?
Did you know that while Wired recommended that readers binge The West Wing , it also advised readers to skip the fourth season episode " The Long Goodbye "?
Did you know that sports broadcaster Gene Principe had to choose between covering his hometown team at the 2006 NHL playoffs and his "pure dream" of covering the Italian team at the 2006 FIFA World Cup ?
Did you know that four years after Harry Frazee opened his Longacre Theatre , he sold his ownership stake in the theater to focus on baseball?
Did you know that quotations of Cicero, Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. about memory and love are engraved on the Memorial to Victims of Violence in Mexico ?
Did you know that Leander Schnerr survived the Great Chicago Fire and subsequently became the archabbot of Saint Vincent Archabbey ?
Did you know that Fire and Sword , a film about Tristan and Isolde , reused the stuntmen and horses from another Arthurian film, Excalibur ?
Did you know that there have been several attempts to make Colby cheese the official state cheese of Wisconsin ?
Did you know that an Indonesian road expansion project demolished the home of a former public works minister ?
Did you know that a Māori military settlement at Māngere Bridge, New Zealand , was established in the 1840s to protect Auckland ?
Did you know that Dick Graves sold his casino to an employee on a handshake, telling him "pay me when you can"?
Did you know that Ukrainian activists squatted Viktor Yanukovych 's opulent clubhouse at the Mezhyhirya Residence ?
Did you know that journalist Eddie MacCabe claimed to have been pinned to the ground with guns pointed at his head while acting as a golf caddie for the United States president?
Did you know that some of the Japanese music unit Sangatsu no Phantasia ' s songs were also written in novel form by its lead vocalist?
Did you know that the fifteen bags of seaweed used as set dressing for the Doctor Who serial The Web Planet emanated an overpowering vegetable smell under the hot studio lights?
Did you know that Oswald Spengler and the artist can be seen in the painting Late Visitors to Pompeii ?
Did you know that current Hawaii football defensive coordinator Trent Figg coached for the United States national team in 2016?
Did you know that Dyson Institute Village 's modular student-housing pods were inspired by Habitat 67 ?
Did you know that Bobbie Gentry defined her composition " Ode to Billie Joe " as a "study in unconscious cruelty"?
Did you know that Amanda Asay was the longest-serving member of the Canadian women's baseball team when she died at 33, having played on the team for sixteen years?
Did you know that the more irreverent moments of The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction , such as a golf game with giant balls, were added to break up the story's intensity?
Did you know that immediately after Colonel Drury-Lowe reassured his men that "[the bullets] are all passing over your heads", the officer next to him was shot and killed ?
Did you know that in the 12th century, when wearing pure silk was forbidden for Muslim men, a silk-and-cotton blend known as mashru solved the problem?
Did you know that Nathan Agostinelli stomped on a Viet Cong flag during his campaign for Connecticut State Comptroller ?
Did you know that Lille langebro looks like a twisted ribbon when it is lit up after dark?
Did you know that American business executive William M. Ellinghaus helped rescue New York City from bankruptcy in the late 1970s ?
Did you know that Lifetime Medical Television , "the network for physicians only", charged the highest advertising rates on cable?
Did you know that after Goo Hara 's mother abandoned her and Goo died young, South Korean law was changed to prevent such parents from claiming inheritance?
Did you know that you could be arrested for trying to arrange a contract killing through RentAHitman.com ?
Did you know that the astrologer Linn Nhyo Taryar was arrested after performing yadaya (magic rituals) against coup leader Min Aung Hlaing ?
Did you know that despite digital solutions gaining market share, the Day-Timer personal organizer has returned to being a paper-only product?
Did you know that British philatelist Alma Lee specialised in the "standing Helvetia" stamps of Switzerland ?
Did you know that the Nashua and Lowell Railroad was the first railroad built in the state of New Hampshire ?
Did you know that in her 2021 composition This too shall pass with string orchestra, Raminta Šerkšnytė used a vibraphone for the flow of time, a violin for the transience of humans, and a "heavenly" cello?
Did you know that Charles Thaddeus Russell 's architectural designs helped to create the "Black Wall Street of America"?
Did you know that Rosa the cow would attack French game show contestants and knock down sets but would not attack people on the ground?
Did you know that Billy Raimondi declined opportunities to play in Major League Baseball ?
Did you know that Queen Victoria ordered the erection of the Prince Imperial Memorial on the spot where Prince Napoléon was killed in battle with Zulus?
Did you know that between 1878 and 1898, American inventor Maria E. Beasley patented a footwarmer, an improved life raft , several barrel-making machines and an anti-derailment device for trains?
Did you know that the Royal Navy's 4th Submarine Squadron operated from Sydney to train Australian personnel in anti-submarine warfare?
Did you know that Alice of Friday the 13th became a catalyst for the slasher film trope of unexpectedly killing off the main surviving protagonist in the sequel?
Did you know that the architect Friedrich Silaban submitted his design for the Istiqlal Mosque pseudonymously in order to conceal his Christian identity?
Did you know that according to one critic, the math rock album Cryptooology by Yowie "sounds like an explosion in a Slinky factory"?
Did you know that Green Bay Packers kicker Mason Crosby performed a Lambeau Leap after a game-winning field goal, even though it is usually only done as a touchdown celebration ?
Did you know that when George Ross went bankrupt in 1867, his wife Sibella Ross started a school to sustain their large family?
Did you know that Everyone on the Moon is Essential Personnel includes fairy tale, body horror, and apocalyptic short stories, but all of them relate to the human body?
Did you know that " Candy " by H.O.T. sparked a new wave of mainstream music in the young generation of South Korea?
Did you know that ice hockey player Trent Frederic was coached by former professional athletes in three of his childhood sports?
Did you know that the immigrant-background narration of I Am Zlatan Ibrahimović has been compared to that of Philip Roth 's novel Portnoy's Complaint ?
Did you know that The Outdoor Circle opposed a 2009 visit to Hawaii by the Wienermobile , believing its presence in the state was illegal?
Did you know that calypsonian Mighty Bomber believed that the judges denied him the Trinidad and Tobago Independence calypso monarch title in 1962 because he was born in Grenada?
Did you know that the windows of St. George's Episcopal Memorial Church in Bismarck, North Dakota , contain stained glass fragments collected from English churches damaged during World War II?
Did you know that Zdzisław Najmrodzki , a thief in 1970s–1980s Poland, escaped from law-enforcement authorities and prisons on 29 occasions?
Did you know that according to the book To Kill a Democracy , when democracies destroy their social foundations, they lay the foundations for despotism ?
Did you know that Ching Hammill died less than two months after making his National Football League (NFL) debut?
Did you know that the wedding of Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands and Claus van Amsberg was marred by protests over Amsberg's German heritage and past membership in the Hitler Youth and the Wehrmacht ?
Did you know that Crackhead Barney picked a dead rat up off the street before confronting the National Guard at the inauguration of Joe Biden ?
Did you know that in her 2021 book White Evangelical Racism , professor of religion Anthea Butler called American evangelicalism a pro- Trump , "nationalistic political movement"?
Did you know that the steamship Clyde was wrecked in 1879 while carrying more than 500 replacements for the British 24th Regiment , which had suffered heavy losses at the Battle of Isandlwana ?
Did you know that in his final collegiate game, Tufts University football player Carl Etelman kicked a field goal with a broken ankle?
Did you know that the construction of Auckland's Panmure Bridge in 1865 involved underwater repairs using Heinke diving suits?
Did you know that Leon Stynen has been called one of Belgium's greatest architects of the 20th century?
Did you know that the glass surface on the BNL BNP Paribas headquarters has alternating angles that follow the principle of the " two-faced Janus "?
Did you know that U.S. Virgin Islands suffragist Ella Gifft smuggled rum during Prohibition by hiding it in her underwear ?
Did you know that the 1938 film Road Demon contains footage of well-known accidents that occurred at Indianapolis Motor Speedway ?
Did you know that when Christy Schwundeck was shot in a job centre in Germany, she had nine cents in her wallet?
Did you know that the Ethel Barrymore Theatre has never changed its name, owner, or use since its opening in 1928?
Did you know that the St Leonard's Place hoard of around ten thousand 9th-century Northumbrian coins was discovered by workers digging a drain?
Did you know that the short story collection Drinking Coffee Elsewhere was chosen by John Updike as a selection for the Today Show book club on NBC ?
Did you know that the Springburn Winter Gardens , the largest single-span glasshouse in Scotland, has been derelict since 1983?
Did you know that the magic minute exposed a "secret" about baby carrots and criticized Jimmy Carter 's sweaters?
Did you know that an observer once described a play-by-mail game as "the most complex game system on Earth"?
Did you know that Chappell Roan was signed to Atlantic Records at 17 years old?
Did you know that factorials are more likely to begin with small digits ?
Did you know that American football wide receiver Bo Hines transferred to Yale University as a freshman to further his political ambitions?
Did you know that a jury ruled that the killing of a policeman during the Coldbath Fields riot was justifiable homicide ?
Did you know that news editor Amasa Converse officiated the marriage of Edgar Allan Poe and Poe's teenage cousin Virginia Clemm ?
Did you know that the " wickedest man in the world " and the creator of Winnie-the-Pooh both lived in London's Wellington Square ?
Did you know that before the Biltmore Theatre was restored in 2003, there were proposals to lease the theater to a delicatessen owner or turn it into a hotel lobby?
Did you know that the township of Hồ Xá in Vietnam was once known as the " B-52 bomb pocket"?
Did you know that Nebraska's "Itch" Oehlrich was lured by the "scratch" of $100 per game to play in the National Football League ?
Did you know that George Balanchine choreographed the ballet Ivesiana to music by Charles Ives , despite previously finding his works too complex for dance?
Did you know that the lead role in the 2021 film Cry Macho was first offered to Clint Eastwood in 1988?
Did you know that Elfrida von Nardroff won $220,500 ($2.1 million today) on the game show Twenty-One in 1958, the highest winnings of any contestant?
Did you know that after it broadcast for the last time, KHAT became Rock Steady and was part of a Triathlon ?
Did you know that in 1976, Karen Ferguson founded the Pension Rights Center , a nonprofit pensioner advocacy organization, with encouragement and monetary support from Ralph Nader ?
Did you know that the Nishi-Okoppe and Yubetsu stations on the former Nayoro Main Line are now the site of a hotel and fire station respectively?
Did you know that Hurley Goodall was appointed back onto the school board in Muncie, Indiana , following the death of his successor in a plane crash?
Did you know that in October 1981, American doctor and mountaineer Peter Hackett became the third known person to complete a solo ascent of Mount Everest ?
Did you know that the landscapes in the manga series Star Red were drawn from photographs taken by NASA during the Viking 1 Mars exploration mission?
Did you know that when Lou Almada brought his younger brother with him to spring training , the team gave his brother his job?
Did you know that Black Garnet Books was founded in response to the murder of George Floyd ?
Did you know that Progress , composed by Winsford Devine and recorded by calypsonian King Austin in 1979, was declared "the song of the last millennium" by the Trinbago Unified Calypsonians' Organisation ?
Did you know that for its ReadRight software, OCR Systems recommended users block out graphics on the page with a Post-it Note ?
Did you know that 2020 European pommel horse champion Matvei Petrov won Albania's first medal at the European Men's Artistic Gymnastics Championships ?
Did you know that the season-one finale of Riverdale , " Chapter Thirteen: The Sweet Hereafter ", almost included Sabrina Spellman from Chilling Adventures of Sabrina ?
Did you know that the text of " In dir ist Freude " ("In Thee is Gladness") was written in the 16th century to a 1591 dance song melody by Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi , and first published in a collection of Christmas carols?
Did you know that Jonathan Reynolds deep-fried a real turkey during his performance of Dinner With Demons at the Second Stage Theater , New York?
Did you know that according to the Chronicon Wormatiense , Emperor Frederick II would have conquered the entire Holy Land if the pope had not invaded his kingdom while he was away on crusade?
Did you know that Rita Humphries-Lewin , a former chair of the Jamaica Stock Exchange, entered the industry as a secretary?
Did you know that Kanye West 's " 24 " was recorded in tribute to Kobe Bryant a few days after his death?
Did you know that the subdistrict of Komet in Banjarbaru was named after Komet Windpump ?
Did you know that after the NCAA vacated their national championship in men's lacrosse, Syracuse made a new trophy without the NCAA logo?
Did you know that calypsonian Kenny J was best known for his "well-crafted, risqué parang soca contributions"?
Did you know that a condor is a stretched butterfly ?
Did you know that as a youth, Jim Johannson handed out shoes and jackets to ice hockey players on the United States national team , then later became general manager of the team?
Did you know that a statue of the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador , was installed despite his opposition to cults of personality ?
Did you know that Beverly Russell 's 1992 book Women of Design: Contemporary American Interiors was the first survey of female interior designers ?
Did you know that two versions of Embrace Again were released, one in Standard Mandarin and another in the Wuhan dialect ?
Did you know that the medieval Looe Bridge had 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, or 18 arches?
Did you know that Japanese voice actress Kaori Maeda cites Mister Donut fortune-telling as one of her hobbies?
Did you know that after first alerting authorities to the Omicron variant in South Africa, bioinformatician Tulio de Oliveira insisted that its origin is unknown?
Did you know that the 1912 production of Man's Genesis was the first " primitive man " film ever made and created a prehistory film boom in the years following its release?
Did you know that development economist John Toye said free-market proponents "first turn liberty against equality and fraternity, then overthrow liberty itself"?
Did you know that the surname Waering is Anglo-Saxon, but Waring may be Norman?
Did you know that the street from which Mississippi radio station WMPR broadcasts was renamed in honor of the station's longtime owner and general manager, former politician Charles Evers ?
Did you know that when Helena Braun visited New York "just for the trip", she sang the role of Brünnhilde in Wagner's Die Walküre at the Metropolitan Opera with four hours' notice?
Did you know that George H. W. Bush hated broccoli so much that he banned it from Air Force One ?
Did you know that Paul R. Howe was first on the scene in the real-life "Black Hawk Down"?
Did you know that before writing The Space Museum , Glyn Jones had never seen Doctor Who ?
Did you know that whilst serving as the Central African ambassador in Paris, Sylvestre Bangui held a press conference confirming that his government had massacred children and resigned?
Did you know that the Professional Esports Association suspended its plans for a Counter-Strike: Global Offensive league four months after its announcement?
Did you know that the Irish judge Maureen Harding Clark studied Malay in Malaysia and French in France before she was appointed to the Khmer Rouge Tribunal by King Norodom Sihamoni ?
Did you know that in 2006 The New York Times described the Palácio das Cinzas , then the presidential palace of East Timor, as "a glorified bungalow really"?
Did you know that Gloria Gould , the manager of New York City's Embassy Theatre , wanted an all-woman staff because women "were more efficient than men"?
Did you know that Ala Stanford established the Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium to fight racism in medicine , vaccinating nearly 4,000 people?
Did you know that as a result of the Röhm scandal , a Nazi became the world's first openly gay politician in 1932?
Did you know that in 1960, Zoe Progl became the first woman to escape over the wall of HM Prison Holloway ?
Did you know that in its first two decades, the Mansfield Theatre had only two "outstanding hits", both performed by all-Black casts?
Did you know that economist and anti-apartheid activist Vella Pillay arranged for South African revolutionaries to receive military training in the Soviet Union and China?
Did you know that the Apache leader Geronimo soaked in Truth or Consequences Hot Springs ?
Did you know that Canadian doctor James Maskalyk's book Six Months in Sudan was based on his blog?
Did you know that after George Alexander Albrecht collapsed when conducting Beethoven's Ninth Symphony during a New Year's concert, he returned to composing and began hospice work?
Did you know that during the 1979 Boston University strike , some striking professors carried picket signs with quotes from Paul the Apostle , William Shakespeare , and Voltaire ?
Did you know that the sea slug Aglaja tricolorata wraps its egg string around its body, forming a tangled skein?
Did you know that Anne Emerman refused to allow Mother Teresa and the Missionaries of Charity to convert a building in the Bronx into a homeless shelter without installing an elevator?
Did you know that some nuisance ordinances include the forced eviction of tenants if they call for emergency services ?
Did you know that Gamaliel's principle has been used to support religious pluralism and reforms within religious groups ?
Did you know that the photographer Václav Jírů was sentenced to death for resisting the German occupation of Czechoslovakia and spent years in Nazi prisons?
Did you know that the recreation area in Cleadon contains the remains of an 18th-century grotto?
Did you know that West Virginia nursing professor Christine Elizabeth Abrahamsen wrote science-fiction and Gothic novels under the pseudonyms Christabel and Kathleen Westcott?
Did you know that the Caslon Type Foundry made metal type in London for more than two hundred years?
Did you know that St. James AME Zion Church , the oldest known standing church in Ithaca, New York , was a site on the Underground Railroad ?
Did you know that in the lead-up to the Second World War, the British government stockpiled more than 100,000 tons of whale oil ?
Did you know that the oldest rocks of the Dharwar Craton are tonalite–trondhjemite–granodiorite gneisses and greenstone sequences between 3 and 3.4 billion years old?