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Did you know that World War II war correspondent James R. Shepley has been called the "father" of HBO ?
Did you know that the poem " Das Wandern ist des Müllers Lust " was first set to music by Schubert , and became a popular German Volkslied with the melody by Carl Friedrich Zöllner ?
Did you know that "fap" as an onomatopoeia for masturbation originates from the manga series Heartbroken Angels ?
Did you know that Mübeccel Argun , a Turkish-language presenter for the BBC World Service in London for 25 years, was formerly a physical-education teacher and one of the first female athletes in her country?
Did you know that the City Bank–Farmers Trust Building had a shooting gallery in the basement for the guards protecting the bank vault to practice in?
Did you know that all that remains of Willenhall House in north London are the gateposts?
Did you know that construction of the 195 m (640 ft) Gorkha Bridge in Nepal reconnected seven remote villages and reestablished a portion of a popular hiking trail?
Did you know that the Nazis blamed the Jews for starting World War II ?
Did you know that Stuart Threipland 's 18th-century medical chest is preserved in the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh ?
Did you know that Coventry City 's promotion following the 2018 EFL League Two play-off Final was their first for 51 years, since they were guided into the 1967–68 Football League First Division by Jimmy Hill ?
Did you know that the tiger snake eel uses its well-developed sense of smell to locate prey buried in the seabed?
Did you know that in Switched on Pop , a musicology professor uses the Britney Spears song " Oops!... I Did It Again " to explain counterpoint ?
Did you know that Alice Sheldon authored two stories in the feminist science fiction collection Aurora: Beyond Equality , as the editors were unaware that her two pseudonyms represented the same person?
Did you know that in both his 2010 film roles, Kjartan Hewitt 's characters notably attend a Broken Social Scene concert?
Did you know that by the time it closed this year, KissAnime was described as the world's most popular illegal anime streaming site?
Did you know that Kurt Szafranski , who was responsible for the success of the Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung in Germany, emigrated to the United States in 1935 where he co-founded the Black Star photo agency?
Did you know that Kanye West asked the collaborators on his album Jesus Is King not to engage in premarital sex ?
Did you know that Ugandan commander Godwin Sule was reportedly run over by one of his own tanks, contributing to the Ugandan defeat during the Battle of Lukaya ?
Did you know that a 1967 promotion by Virginia radio station WHIH , anticipated to receive 15,000 entries, instead received nearly 180 million?
Did you know that the Indiana Hoosiers ' victory in the 1976 NCAA Division I Basketball Championship Game completed the last undefeated season in NCAA Division I men's college basketball?
Did you know that the memoirs of the eunuch chamberlain Jawdhar are one of the most important sources on the history of the Fatimid Caliphate in the mid–10th century?
Did you know that death squad commander Otto Ohlendorf claimed that the extermination of 90,000 Jewish men, women, and children was a justified act of self-defense ?
Did you know that in 1975, Dick Bond introduced legislation to ban the sale of intoxicating beverages on university, college, and community campuses in Washington ?
Did you know that the path of Typhoon Yancy wobbled in a trochoidal pattern as it approached Taiwan?
Did you know that Rembrandt 's later prints make great use of surface tone , by leaving a thin film of ink on parts of the printing plate?
Did you know that a U.S. Republican candidate criticized rappers Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion 's song " WAP ", stating that it made him want to "pour holy water" in his ears?
Did you know that having routed their Scottish opponents at the Battle of Dunbar 370 years ago today, the cavalry of the English New Model Army sang the 117th Psalm ?
Did you know that eight judges recused themselves from proceedings following the fatal shooting of Greg Gunn ?
Did you know that multimedia artist Suki Seokyeong Kang paints a gouache painting every day as part of her work?
Did you know that Mark Williams won the most successive frames at the 2003 World Snooker Championship , despite losing the first two?
Did you know that Jean Kurt Forest played violin in German film orchestras in the 1930s, defected to the Red Army in 1945, and composed operas and film scores from 1954 onwards?
Did you know that the verse " There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus " was left out of the slave bible due to fears that it could incite rebellion?
Did you know that Los Angeles Dodgers ball boy Chico Herrera became a fan favorite after making impressive plays in pre-season games, and inspired the catchphrase "Don't Run on Chico"?
Did you know that Turbopolsa is the only player to win four Rocket League Championship Series titles?
Did you know that in the 1942 film Johnny Doughboy , former child stars Bobby Breen , " Alfalfa ", and " Spanky " play themselves as members of a club of Hollywood "has-beens"?
Did you know that ousted Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos and his wife Imelda left 400 pieces of unlawfully acquired jewelry in their palace and were caught smuggling out another $5–10 million worth of gems?
Did you know that Vera Little from Memphis , Tennessee, was for four decades a member of the Deutsche Oper Berlin , where she appeared as Bizet's Carmen and in the world premiere of Henze's Der junge Lord ?
Did you know that during World War II, the Polish-Jewish charity CENTOS cared for orphans in the Nazi ghettos in occupied Poland?
Did you know that Stella Immanuel claims that space alien DNA is used in medical treatments, that reptilians run the United States government, and that she uses hydroxychloroquine to cure COVID-19 ?
Did you know that the Confederate Army's 8th Missouri Infantry Regiment was considered a cavalry regiment, an infantry regiment, and an infantry battalion at different points of its existence?
Did you know that Theodor Scheidl , who participated in the pentathlon at the 1906 Olympic Games and in the 1928 Bayreuth Festival , appeared as Scarpia in Puccini's Tosca to celebrate his 75th birthday?
Did you know that a medal depicting Minerva , sometimes identified as the East India Company's Monghyr Mutiny Medal , may in fact be a Freemasons' award?
Did you know that D'Alton Corry Coleman was the first Canadian Pacific Railway president who was not listed in Burke's Peerage , and was described by Maclean's as "the Great Commoner"?
Did you know that in Eurovision Song Contest history , over 1,500 songs, representing 52 countries , have been performed?
Did you know that Argentinian LGBT-rights activist Carlos Jáuregui had a station named after him on the Buenos Aires Underground ?
Did you know that the Three Brothers was part of the English crown jewels for more than 90 years, but was lost to history after Charles I tried to pawn it?
Did you know that the Spanish city of Algeciras took down a statue of a medieval Islamic Spanish ruler for restoration in 2013 and has yet to put it back?
Did you know that Frank Howard was the oldest sitting member of the Louisiana House of Representatives by 2016?
Did you know that the adoption of early contractor involvement was a recommendation of the 1994 Latham Report into systemic failings in the British construction industry ?
Did you know that in 1977, three ex-members of the Byrds formed a rock supergroup partly modeled after Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young ?
Did you know that after the army he served in mutinied, Mathos became the leader of a 90,000-strong force in a war against ancient Carthage ?
Did you know that some medicines, such as vancomycin , may require higher doses in critically ill patients, due to augmented renal (kidney) clearance ?
Did you know that Rihanna was asked to stay at the Def Jam Recordings office until 3:00 a.m. in order to sign a contract, so that she would not sign with another label?
Did you know that Ulster Unionist Party politician Rosemary Barton highlighted concerns of intimidation from Gaelic football fans towards those who do not follow the sport?
Did you know that the Casa Fuerte de Adeje was built in Tenerife in the 1550s to protect a sugar mill against pirates, but the complex was destroyed by fire in 1902 and has yet to be rebuilt?
Did you know that before the Sunday Service Choir 's "Revelations 19:1" rendition was released, Kanye West sampled it on his song " Selah "?
Did you know that despite its name, Napoleon's Champ de Mai ceremony took place in June?
Did you know that almost a century after African-American brothers Irving and Herman Arthur were burnt alive at a fairground in Paris, Texas , their names were listed on a lynching memorial ?
Did you know that the tower of St. Michael , a church begun in the 12th century, dominated Fürth 's skyline for centuries?
Did you know that Royal B. Lord collected money for the 1931 Army–Navy Game at Yankee Stadium in Evangeline Booth 's tambourine?
Did you know that transmission of COVID-19 is known to occur through respiratory droplets , contaminated surfaces, kissing, and aerosol-generating medical procedures ?
Did you know that Carl Linde , a Swedish football Hall of Fame inductee, also participated in the founding of the International Table Tennis Federation ?
Did you know that Henry Cavendish calculated that the time difference between Church Row in Hampstead and Great Marlborough Street was 10.2 seconds?
Did you know that in 1921, before the partition of Ireland, Fermanagh County Council did not recognise the government of Northern Ireland and pledged allegiance to the Dáil Éireann ?
Did you know that Catholic priest Herbert Leuninger , a co-founder and speaker of Pro Asyl , is remembered as a "loudspeaker" for the interests of refugees?
Did you know that 1952's Exercise Ardent was the largest air exercise since World War II, involving around 1,300 aircraft and 200,000 personnel?
Did you know that Rolando Del Maestro used the principles of flight simulation to measure how well surgeons perform brain surgery?
Did you know that Ivy Hooks was one of only two women assigned to the original design team for the Space Shuttle orbiter ?
Did you know that Bruder Martin is an oratorio of seven scenes from the life of Martin Luther , written for the 500th anniversary of the Reformation by a Protestant librettist and a Catholic composer ?
Did you know that the New York City gay bar Metropolitan is situated at a site formerly occupied by a colonial-era cemetery?
Did you know that Taneko Suzuki , an expert in protein chemistry, led the development of a fish-based product that had the texture of hamburger and could be seasoned to taste like beef?
Did you know that the song " Cups (When I'm Gone) " features Anna Kendrick playing percussion with a cup , a skill she learned by watching viral videos?
Did you know that when pediatric neurologist David Gardner-Medwin retired, it took four doctors to replace him?
Did you know that actress Jamie Lee Curtis insured her legs for $1 million after signing an endorsement with L'eggs pantyhose?
Did you know that the Fauré Quartet , a piano quartet founded in 1995, participated in the world premiere and recording of Sven Helbig 's twelve Pocket Symphonies ?
Did you know that the English classicist Denys Page was both master of Jesus College, Cambridge , and president of the university's cricket club ?
Did you know that the Cleveland School fire , the deadliest in South Carolina history, took place on the day the school was to close for good?
Did you know that Joseph Clark gave some of his paintings titles in the Dorset dialect , in which his schoolmaster William Barnes wrote poetry?
Did you know that banana cream pie was ranked the favorite pie of the United States Armed Forces in the 1950s?
Did you know that Terpios hoshinota , a sponge that overgrows and kills corals, has spread extensively since being detected in Guam in 1973?
Did you know that American doctor Guy Gibson Campbell served as personal physician to Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie ?
Did you know that Batman and the Joker parade down the street daily at Warner Bros. Movie World ?
Did you know that Rear Admiral Timothy S. Matthews received an award from the Association of Old Crows ?
Did you know that a conservation professor who appeared in Extinction: The Facts described it as "surprisingly radical" for a David Attenborough documentary?
Did you know that Pope Francis 's encyclical Fratelli tutti is the first to be signed outside Rome ?
Did you know that American composer Norma Wendelburg studied at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and the Vienna Academy of Music on two Fulbright scholarships ?
Did you know that 47 people, including bystanders and an amateur reporter, were arrested in Warsaw at a protest against the detention of LGBT activist Margot in August 2020?
Did you know that a monumental plaque to Italian physician Giovanni Bianchi states: Nascitur infelix, vixit infelicior, obiit infelicissime (He was born unhappy, he lived more unhappy, he died maximally unhappy)?
Did you know that all three engines on Aeroflot Flight 6709 stopped at the same time, resulting in a deadly crash?
Did you know that designs by nail artist Jenny Bui have become part of Cardi B 's signature look?
Did you know that the results of the 1870 Londonderry City by-election were cited as evidence of co-operation between Episcopalian and Presbyterian voters in Ulster?
Did you know that the Division of Global Migration and Quarantine can legally detain a person entering the U.S. who may have one of nine quarantinable contagious diseases?
Did you know that the concept of the multimedia franchise BanG Dream! involves bands composed of voice actresses who can play their own instruments?
Did you know that Louis-Thomas Chabert de Joncaire convinced several Iroquois tribes to ally with the French against the English in 1711 through song?
Did you know that Ernest Hemingway watched the television adaptation of For Whom the Bell Tolls from a flea-bitten motel as the screenwriter held the " rabbit ears " for him?
Did you know that Anthony J. Costello and associates proposed in 2005 that the nerves within the "veil of Aphrodite" mainly supplied the prostate rather than the corpora cavernosa ?
Did you know that following the Treaty of Ripon , signed on this day in 1640, a Scottish army had their expenses paid by England, while occupying northern England?
Did you know that the queen and others apparently used to watch Malla kings taking baths in the Tusha Hiti ?
Did you know that horn player Helen Kotas Hirsch began performing with the Woman's Symphony Orchestra of Chicago at the age of 14?
Did you know that Ganni was founded in 2000 as a cashmere brand, but resurfaced and gained popularity as a contemporary designer label almost 20 years later?
Did you know that U.S. district judge Loretta Preska has presided over criminal cases against a basketball coach, a computer hacker, a Somali pirate, and a Rikers Island guard?
Did you know that Airborne Cigar confused German night fighters by broadcasting sound over the voices of their ground controllers?
Did you know that Saint Augustine believed that lying is un-Christian even when done to save a life?
Did you know that the Sahrawi refugee poet Al Khadra has written poems intended to inspire military revolution, including criticism of the Moroccan Western Sahara Wall ?
Did you know that the Tahtakale Hamam , one of the oldest public bathhouses in Istanbul , now serves as a shopping center?
Did you know that J. B. Clark , together with Aubrey Beardsley and William Strang , illustrated an edition of Lucian 's True History ?
Did you know that King of Beasts , a documentary about lion trophy hunting , was filmed during the same month as the killing of Cecil the lion ?
Did you know that Gabriel Scally of the Independent SAGE committee has described the British government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic as "too little, too late, too flawed"?
Did you know that nervous drivers can purchase a shuttle ride to get across the Chesapeake Bay Bridge ?
Did you know that when the army of Spendius was surrounded, his men ate their horses, their prisoners, and then their slaves before forcing him to negotiate?
Did you know that the children's picture book Julián Is a Mermaid was initially going to be about drag balls , until the author learned about the meaning of mermaids to transgender people?
Did you know that the hymn " Singt dem Herrn ein neues Lied " (Sing to the Lord a new song) was written in both French and German in Nazi-controlled Alsace in 1941?
Did you know that astrophysicist and space-weather specialist Professor Peter T. Gallagher led the building of Ireland's first serious radio telescope, the 3,000-antenna I- LOFAR , at Birr Castle ?
Did you know that choreographer Justin Peck cast himself in his ballet Rodeo: Four Dance Episodes when a dancer was injured the night before the premiere?
Did you know that Dina Pomeranz was ranked highest in social-media influence by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in its 2019 ranking of economists?
Did you know that one critic wrote that he had banned his children from watching Doctor Who due to the ending of the first episode of The Dalek Invasion of Earth ?
Did you know that P.O.W. was based on interviews with repatriated prisoners about communist "brainwashing treatment" during the Korean War ?
Did you know that Hargovinddas Kantawala defeated Mahatma Gandhi to become the president of the Gujarati Sahitya Parishad in 1919?
Did you know that Hounslow West is the only station on the London Underground to be step-free for manual-wheelchair users only?
Did you know that lumberman-turned-newspaper-publisher Wesley O. Smith served two terms in the state legislature, representing what are now six large counties in central Oregon ?
Did you know that Doppler radio direction finding is capable of measuring the direction of a stationary radio transmitter despite the Doppler effect being a phenomenon of movement?
Did you know that the smooth jazz – jazz fusion album Worth Waiting For was keyboardist Jeff Lorber 's only solo album to reach number one on the Billboard Contemporary Jazz Chart?
Did you know that a law blog has been cited by the supreme courts of Poland and of Germany ?
Did you know that Eli is an opera by Walter Steffens , who based the libretto on a mystery play by Nelly Sachs which dealt with the suffering of Israel?
Did you know that journalist Robert Evans had his hand broken by a member of the Proud Boys while covering the George Floyd protests in Portland, Oregon ?
Did you know that according to Slavic mythology , the creation of the world required the cooperation of a "good god" and an "evil god"?
Did you know that If You Could Be Mine was the first novel to win first prize in two different categories in the same year from the Publishing Triangle ?
Did you know that Pellegrino Strobel worked with Luigi Pigorini to study the Bronze Age Terramare culture in northern Italy?
Did you know that the essay " In Praise of Polytheism " dismisses all similarities between Enlightenment philosophy and striptease ?
Did you know that being introduced to Whiskey enabled one of Samuel Corson 's patients to regain his speech after 26 years?
Did you know that a group-stage match at the 2001 Malta Grand Prix snooker tournament was disrupted when electrical cables attached to the television lighting rig snapped and swung across the table ?
Did you know that the oath to Hitler sworn by members of the SS may have inspired the Hitler oath sworn by members of the Wehrmacht after 1934?
Did you know that Japanese voice actress Nene Hieda was a member of a 3x3 basketball team?
Did you know that Bang the Drum Slowly , in which Paul Newman stepped in and out of character to double as a Greek chorus , was called "daring television of rare quality"?
Did you know that the Philharmonia Quartet Berlin , formed by principal players of the Berlin Philharmonic , celebrated its 30th anniversary with a recording of all of Beethoven 's string quartets ?
Did you know that California maintains 16 checkpoints along its borders with Oregon , Nevada , and Arizona to help protect against an invasion by exotic lifeforms ?
Did you know that William Cuming missed the Battle of Trafalgar because he had to take Robert Calder back to England for a court-martial?
Did you know that the Japanese pop group Yaen , originally formed to perform a parody song on a television variety series, went on to produce three top-ten albums?
Did you know that the Vaccine Confidence Project was developed in response to a boycott of polio eradication efforts in Nigeria?
Did you know that Ann Oakley published the first sociological research that shows housework as being actual work?
Did you know that Baptist Hoffmann , a leading baritone at the Berlin Court Opera , appeared as Jochanaan in the first production of Salome there in 1906?
Did you know that the English Law (Application) Act 1962 ended legal recognition of seduction as a civil offence in Gibraltar?
Did you know that the sponge Halisarca caerulea forms part of a "sponge loop", absorbing large quantities of dissolved organic carbon , and returning the carbon to the sea as detritus ?
Did you know that Thomas Patrick Payne received the US Medal of Honor for the heroism he displayed five years ago today while liberating hostages during the offensive against ISIL in northern Iraq?
Did you know that Paleo-Indians began inhabiting Maryland around 10,000 BC?
Did you know that Nabela Qoser , a Hong Kong news reporter of Pakistani descent, learnt Cantonese as a child by watching television?
Did you know that the character Nina Cortex was intended by Traveller's Tales to debut in the video game Crash Twinsanity , but appeared in an earlier game without the development team's knowledge?
Did you know that American mine owner Charles Butters risked execution by firing squad to protect his mines during the 1926–27 Nicaraguan Civil War ?
Did you know that Francis Poulenc composed his Sinfonietta on a commission from the BBC ?
Did you know that sprinter Milkha Singh refused to accept the Arjuna Award , one of India's top sporting honours, citing undeserving awardees?
Did you know that the swamp scenes in The Caribbean Mystery feature a 350 lb (160 kg) alligator named Ben, who was appearing in his 435th film?
Did you know that ontopoetics holds that the world is psychoactive and can respond to us if engaged?
Did you know that Kathy Karpan was the first female director of the Office of Surface Mining ?
Did you know that The New York Times review of the 1955 television play No Time for Sergeants questioned whether Andy Griffith was "versatile enough to qualify for other important roles"?
Did you know that an investment banker was arrested after getting drunk and defecating on a food cart in the first-class section of an international flight 25 years ago today?
Did you know that before he died aged 46, Anton Ausserer had described 38 new species of tarantula ?
Did you know that it took Jerome Robbins two years to choreograph the 16-minute-long ballet A Suite of Dances for dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov ?
Did you know that the Inuit identity of sipiniq referred to individuals who were believed to have changed their physical sex at the moment of birth, but were socialized as members of their original gender?
Did you know that Wiebke Lehmkuhl was the alto soloist in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony at the 2017 opening of the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg?
Did you know that thunderstorms from Hurricane Dolores flooded the Moreno Valley , destroyed a bridge on Interstate 10 , and killed a man by lightning strike?
Did you know that the 8th-century Chinese poet Niu Yingzhen was reportedly able to learn texts by dreaming that she ate the actual copies, then discussed them with deceased male scholars?
Did you know that the solution to Pell's equation was mistakenly attributed to mathematician John Pell ?
Did you know that Claude Rains 's reference to the Nazis' "gas ovens" was cut from the audio during the broadcast of Judgment at Nuremberg due to an objection by a gas-company sponsor?