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Did you know that Judith Liberman learned storytelling in a French commune at the age of 14, and has gone on to reintroduce the telling of Anatolian fairy tales in Turkey?
Did you know that Frieda Nadig , one of the four "mothers" of the German constitution , proposed to include the sentence "men and women have equal rights", but was initially voted down?
Did you know that boxing World Youth champion Caroline Dubois pretended to be a boy named Colin when she started training?
Did you know that extensive disturbances in the crust beneath the Philippines produce many volcanoes and earthquakes?
Did you know that the 2000 Canadian hip-hop song " Money Jane " is credited with launching Sean Paul 's international music career?
Did you know that " The Country Without a Post Office " describes Kashmir as "a land of doomed addresses", because postal services were stopped for seven months during an armed uprising ?
Did you know that in 1953, American scientist Winston Price isolated the first rhinovirus , the most prevalent cause of the common cold ?
Did you know that Jon Favreau , creator of the Star Wars television series The Mandalorian , also voiced the character of Paz Vizla ?
Did you know that after Indian-American lawyer Sakharam Ganesh Pandit represented Bhagat Singh Thind in a 1923 U.S. Supreme Court case , the U.S. government attempted to revoke his citizenship?
Did you know that Piazza Scossacavalli in Rome kept its cinquecento atmosphere for nearly 400 years?
Did you know that President Idi Amin ensured the Uganda Army 's loyalty with the so-called "whisky run"?
Did you know that the British security services described Lisa von Pott as the organiser of a pro-Nazi espionage group in wartime Vienna?
Did you know that the Strokes revealed the release date for their sixth album The New Abnormal while performing at a rally for U.S. presidential candidate Bernie Sanders ?
Did you know that three Roman Catholic bishops of Hong Kong have been elevated to the College of Cardinals , even though the diocese is nominally only a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Guangzhou ?
Did you know that baritone Michael Volle has appeared as Wagner's Hans Sachs at the Bayreuth Festival and was awarded Der Faust for portraying Wozzeck ?
Did you know that 110 North Wacker in Chicago replaced a building that was eligible for the National Register of Historic Places ?
Did you know that dillegrout was so delicious that it earned the cook a manor , but to keep it he and his descendants had to serve the dish at every future English coronation?
Did you know that Australian brigadier Arthur Blackburn ordered his men to shoot less in the Battle of Leuwiliang , so that when they withdrew, their Japanese enemies would not realize it?
Did you know that Emily Swallow did not know that she was auditioning for a Star Wars television series when she tried out for the part of the Armorer ?
Did you know that the 2012 24 Hours of Le Mans saw the first overall victory for a hybrid electric vehicle at the race?
Did you know that Alan Swallow started his own solo publishing imprint, Alan Swallow Press , and published novels by Janet Lewis and Anaïs Nin ?
Did you know that the Wiener Hofmusikkapelle , founded by Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I in 1498, was a forerunner of the Vienna Boys' Choir ?
Did you know that in her song " Bad Idea ", Ariana Grande calls herself "Ari- chan " in reference to her admiration of Japanese culture?
Did you know that Adrian Long 's FlexiArch precast-concrete bridge arch can be installed in a single day?
Did you know that the Zulu taunted the British during the action at Sihayo's Kraal , asking: "Why don't you come on up?"
Did you know that General Raymond W. Bliss opened the United States Army's first radioactive-isotope laboratory in 1949?
Did you know that the crested oyster has been eaten by humans for at least 6,000 years?
Did you know that Alasdair Cochrane 's Sentientist Politics was the first book dedicated to extending cosmopolitan political theory to include animal rights ?
Did you know that Texas radio stations KMJR , KXAI , and KBPA are part of a three-station facility change that will give the Educational Media Foundation a city-grade signal in San Antonio ?
Did you know that Swedish actress Julia Dufvenius had a role specially written for her in director Ingmar Bergman 's last film, Saraband ?
Did you know that Zina P. Young Card fought on a national level for both women's suffrage and the right to practice plural marriage in the US?
Did you know that the worm Phyllodoce lineata is a predator and scavenger, feeding mostly on other polychaetes ?
Did you know that Ocean Wind , a planned offshore wind farm in the U.S., may use infrastructure at a closed nuclear power plant to access the electrical grid?
Did you know that Zoltán Kovács is the first Hungarian to receive the Paul Loicq Award for contributions to international ice hockey?
Did you know that the Danish Trade Union Confederation , the country's largest trade union centre , promotes a model in which pay and working conditions are negotiated without state involvement?
Did you know that the designer of the best house in the new Romford Garden Suburb won £250 and a gold medal?
Did you know that Moff Gideon of The Mandalorian has been compared to Darth Vader ?
Did you know that Tayseer Sboul , one of Jordan's most celebrated writers, wrote some erotic poems?
Did you know that KBCQ-FM in Roswell, New Mexico , was traded on two separate occasions, for television stations in Amarillo, Texas , and in Richmond, Virginia ?
Did you know that British Paralympic swimmer Toni Shaw has set a world record in the S9 200 m (660 ft) butterfly at the age of 15?
Did you know that tenants of the Bowling Green Offices Building in New York City have included the owners of the RMS Titanic , and the Erie Railroad ?
Did you know that Magdalena K. P. Smith Meyer was known as the "mother of red-spider mites of the world"?
Did you know that Asumiko Nakamura , the author of the manga series Classmates , sought to create a story about a "slow, serious love" that was "cliché" and "almost hackneyed"?
Did you know that " Anyone " by Demi Lovato became the most downloaded song of the day in the U.S. after she performed it at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards ?
Did you know that the blood-sucking bug Primicimex cavernis survives in a cave in Texas while the bats on which it feeds overwinter elsewhere?
Did you know that tenor Roberto Saccà has portrayed opera characters such as Haydn's Orfeo , Pfitzner's Palestrina , and Herbert Willi 's Elias?
Did you know that in 1941, two German POWs escaped from their British prison camp and stole a plane from an RAF base to try to reach the continent?
Did you know that former college basketball star Amy Langville is an expert in ranking systems, and has applied her ranking expertise to basketball bracketology ?
Did you know that Sefer ve Sefel , a second-hand bookshop in Jerusalem, stocks more than 26,000 titles?
Did you know that Amazon plans to build its tallest office tower in the Bellevue suburb of Seattle, Washington ?
Did you know that Guangdong native Chun Lung attended Yale University in 1879 after being educated in Hawaii's Punahou School ?
Did you know that when WIRK-TV ceased operations 64 years ago today, its president admitted to operating the station "long past the point of good judgment"?
Did you know that Yang Xin , the vice director of the Palace Museum in Beijing, collaborated with his counterpart at the National Palace Museum in Taipei for the first joint publication by the two museums?
Did you know that Calamagrostis intermedia is the dominant plant of the grassy páramo in Ecuador's El Cajas National Park ?
Did you know that Edward I. Devitt was the first alumnus of Woodstock College to become a member of its faculty?
Did you know that during the Storming of Farnham Castle , the Royalist defence was so minimal that one contemporary claimed they "deserved not the name of a garrison"?
Did you know that India's Shikhar Dhawan and England's Jack Burnham are the only players to have scored three centuries in the Under-19 Cricket World Cup ?
Did you know that a man shouted "This is madness!" during a production meeting for The Goes Wrong Show ?
Did you know that Mary Catherine Phillips , author of Skin Deep. The Truth About Beauty Aids – Safe and Harmful , was a member of the board of directors of Consumers' Research in Bowerstown, New Jersey ?
Did you know that tropical cyclones leave deposits in lakes that can be used to reconstruct past cyclonic activity ?
Did you know that the Kanye West song " Up from the Ashes " invokes both the rise of the mythological phoenix and the resurrection of Jesus ?
Did you know that Slovak dissident Ján Mlynárik was hunted down by the Communist authorities for criticizing the expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia ?
Did you know that Camp Jened , a summer camp for disabled people, was heavily influenced by the 1960s counterculture and hippie values?
Did you know that after the Battle of Adys , the peace terms offered to the defeated Carthaginians were so harsh that they decided to fight on?
Did you know that Ruby Mazur , who designed the cover for the Rolling Stones ' " Tumbling Dice ", once sold a painting to a Saudi Arabian prince before the paint had even dried?
Did you know that the pasquinade , a form of satire usually in verse or prose, is named after Pasquino , a Hellenistic statue in Rome on which anonymous postings were made?
Did you know that Callaghan MacCarty left his life as a Catholic monk in France and converted to Protestantism to become the third Earl of Clancarty ?
Did you know that " Storm Area 51 " was a comedic Facebook event intended as a raid on Area 51 in search of aliens?
Did you know that England international footballer Colin Grainger was also a professional singer and shared a bill with the Beatles ?
Did you know that a number of Confederate soldiers at the Battle of Cane Hill were armed only with shotguns ?
Did you know that Charles Villiers Stanford 's Violin Sonata No. 1 was first performed in Cambridge , by violinist Ludwig Straus and the composer at the piano?
Did you know that California governor Pete Wilson celebrated his 60th birthday as a DJ on Sacramento radio station KSEG ?
Did you know that the Yokohama Northwest Route features a 4.1-kilometer-long (2.5 mi) tunnel equipped with emergency escape slides?
Did you know that French weightlifter Alexandre Maspoli , who won a medal at the 1906 Intercalated Games , later competed in the sculpture event at the 1924 Summer Olympics ?
Did you know that GirlsDoPorn was one of the top 20 most viewed channels on Pornhub before its co-owners and a male pornographic actor were charged with sex trafficking by force, fraud, and coercion?
Did you know that the first batch of cadets from the Indian Military Academy included the future army chiefs of Pakistan, Burma, and India?
Did you know that Luis Miguel 's duet with Frank Sinatra , " Come Fly with Me ", is the only English-language song that he has released to date?
Did you know that the potter of Potters Crouch may have been Le Pottere, whose son was also a Pottere?
Did you know that at the age of seventeen, Tiger King subject Carole Baskin used llamas for a lawn-trimming business?
Did you know that a series of eruptions of Mount Takahe 17,700 years ago may have resulted in an ozone hole ?
Did you know that Dorothy Horrell , Chancellor of the University of Colorado Denver , credits her experience in a 4-H farm youth exchange program in Taiwan for developing her ideas on leadership and community?
Did you know that photographs of the Holocaust , including many taken by German photographers, have been used as evidence during trials of Nazi war crimes ?
Did you know that Bible translations into Geʽez date back to at least the 6th century, making them among the oldest in the world?
Did you know that part of the spire of Zagreb Cathedral broke off during a 2020 earthquake ?
Did you know that rear admiral Valery Varfolomeyev was named a Hero of the Russian Federation in 2017, while his 11th Submarine Division was recognised as the best submarine formation in the Northern Fleet ?
Did you know that Cocklakes is considered one of the rudest place names in the United Kingdom?
Did you know that Willa Brown 's efforts to train African-American pilots in the United States led to the creation of the Tuskegee Airmen ?
Did you know that by the end of the Addled Parliament , which James I had hoped would be a "Parliament of Love", the king feared that he was in danger of assassination?
Did you know that Mariko Tamaki wrote Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me in part because she had "always liked the idea of an ex-ex-girlfriend story"?
Did you know that Buchenwald prisoner Dr. Marian Ciepielowski produced fake typhus vaccine for Nazi soldiers, while saving the real vaccine for his fellow prisoners?
Did you know that Essex Market was built as part of New York City mayor Fiorello La Guardia 's "war on pushcarts"?
Did you know that Ant Clemons wrote a song a day in exchange for rent while sleeping on his friends' floor?
Did you know that the banthas in Star Wars were portrayed by an elephant who kept shrugging the costume off her body during filming due to the intense heat?
Did you know that after winning a place in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue , Mia Kang became suicidal from a modeling-related eating disorder and credits the combat sport Muay Thai for saving her life?
Did you know that the Lebanon national football team played their first official match in Tel Aviv 80 years ago today?
Did you know that bronze fangyi vessels are thought to have been used for food or wine offerings to ancestors in Bronze Age China ?
Did you know that during the Mercenary War , Carthaginian rebels killed 700 prisoners by cutting off their hands, castrating them, breaking their legs, and throwing them into a pit to be buried alive?
Did you know that Naomi Munakata , who began singing in a choir at the age of seven, served as the choral conductor of the Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo from 1995 to 2013?
Did you know that the Federal Communications Commission found that the owner of Maine radio station WKZX had "abdicated financial control" of the business?
Did you know that amateur entomologist James John Joicey had a collection of 1.5 million butterflies?
Did you know that Kirk Deighton , a Site of Special Scientific Interest in North Yorkshire , has one of the largest known breeding populations of great crested newt in the United Kingdom?
Did you know that French philosopher Lucien Sève wrote a four-volume work focusing on his perceived problems with various interpretations of Marxism ?
Did you know that the song " Time " debuted in Childish Gambino 's 2019 film Guava Island before being included on his 2020 album 3.15.20 ?
Did you know that ill-equipped Romanian soldiers quelling the Ukrainian-led Khotin Uprising were told to wear the winter clothes of suspects whom they executed?
Did you know that the 2005 book Open Secrets reveals how assets of Indian intelligence agencies, including aircraft, were used by politicians and their families for private purposes?
Did you know that a fisherman who was presumed dead during Typhoon Emma in 1959 returned for his funeral meal ten days later?
Did you know that Milagros Benet de Mewton , a US citizen, fought for women's suffrage to be extended to Puerto Rico because the 19th Amendment did not apply to US unincorporated territories ?
Did you know that the Darmstädter Ferienkurse ('Darmstadt Summer Courses') were initiated in 1946 to reconnect German contemporary music to the international scene after the genre's suppression by the Nazis?
Did you know that George Insole pioneered the introduction and early success of South Wales steam coal in the London and international markets?
Did you know that among those commemorated by the East Knoyle War Memorial are three brothers who died in the First World War, twelve soldiers killed in the Second, and one killed by friendly fire in the Iraq War?
Did you know that Robert Molyneux established the first parochial school in the United States in 1782?
Did you know that Hatherton Flush , a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Hatherton , supports an abundance of orchids , including the marsh helleborine , which is rare in Cheshire ?
Did you know that actor Ranveer Singh was slapped 21 times while filming the music video for " Ude Dil Befikre "?
Did you know that punk pioneer band X 's 2020 album Alphabetland , released on the 40th anniversary of their debut album Los Angeles , was the first featuring the original lineup in 35 years?
Did you know that a Roman army in Africa was wiped out by a Carthaginian attack led by an elephant charge in 255 BC?
Did you know that footballer Jamal Farhan , who was banned for life by FIFA after punching a referee in the head, later expressed remorse and advised fans not to imitate him?
Did you know that costermongers are named after the costard , a variety of apple that they sold?
Did you know that Haroun and the Sea of Stories , an opera by Charles Wuorinen , is based on a children's novel by Salman Rushdie about free imagination in battle with thought control?
Did you know that Central Collegiate Hockey Association commissioner Bill Beagan signed the first national television contract for colleges in the United States?
Did you know that the design of the Netherlands Fractal Pattern was made to confuse a person looking at it?
Did you know that the first act passed by the New Zealand Parliament was the " Bellamy's Bill", which permitted the sale of alcohol on the parliamentary premises?
Did you know that the low interest rates of the Great Recession contributed to the corporate debt bubble ?
Did you know that Dayton Moore , general manager of the Kansas City Royals , held an anti-pornography seminar for the baseball team in 2018?
Did you know that the play-by-mail game Hyborian War , which began in 1985, allows players to fight battles with mammoths, undead infantry, and mounted flying reptiles in the world of Conan the Barbarian ?
Did you know that of the more than 1.5 million US Army servicemen in the UK in May 1944, nearly 460,000 were part of the Services of Supply , which was responsible for American logistics in the Normandy campaign ?
Did you know that Elisabeth Lindermeier sang in performances of Wagner's Ring cycle at the Royal Opera House in London, conducted by her husband Rudolf Kempe and recorded in 1957?
Did you know that Nelson House is located on Rotherhithe Street , London's longest street, alongside the River Thames ?
Did you know that former Gaelic footballer Donal Reid used his bare hands to put out the flames when a woman's coat caught fire in his church?
Did you know that Ansgar the Staller was severely injured at the Battle of Hastings , but was carried to London where he then led the English defence at the Burning of Southwark ?
Did you know that during filming of the banned ski-BASE jump performed by Rick Sylvester in Yosemite Valley , the film crew were threatened with arrest but not caught afterwards?
Did you know that French medievalist Francis Rapp , who taught at three universities in Strasbourg , specialised in the history of Alsace ?
Did you know that the tree Macaranga triloba encourages the ants that defend it by providing them with food bodies ?
Did you know that John W. Walsh founded several non-profits around alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency , a condition that had fewer than 5,000 recorded cases when he was diagnosed with it?
Did you know that a fresco depicting the Nursing Madonna was found in the churchyard of San Michele Arcangelo ai Corridori di Borgo in Rome?
Did you know that Carol Shanahan bought Port Vale F.C. because she felt that "a loved one was held hostage and someone had to pay the ransom"?
Did you know that Hong Kong politician Cheng Lai-king has represented her constituency in the Central and Western District Council since its creation in 1994?
Did you know that if completed, the coal-fired Afşin-Elbistan C power station would emit more than a tenth of Turkey's greenhouse gas emissions ?
Did you know that ice hockey player Akil Thomas runs a clothing company that embraces his Barbadian heritage?
Did you know that Oklahoma station KRMC dropped its all-news radio format in part because its management felt that it did not work well on a daytime-only station?
Did you know that Heinz Imdahl , a baritone at the Bavarian State Opera , appeared as Beethoven's Pizarro at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma and as Wagner's Hans Sachs at the Philadelphia Opera ?
Did you know that despite being the third edition of the tournament , the 1982 Women's Cricket World Cup featured the first final held in the tournament's history?
Did you know that actress Laia Manzanares played a cheerleader who is seduced by a gorilla mascot in a Tame Impala music video?
Did you know that Joey Dosik wrote the song "Game Winner" while recovering from a basketball-related ACL injury ?
Did you know that the parasitic greater broomrape usually grows on the roots of the common broom or the European gorse ?
Did you know that the CIA recruited Lithuanian Nazi collaborator Aleksandras Lileikis in 1952, even though he was suspected of complicity in the murder of Jews during the Holocaust?
Did you know that the 1992 St. George earthquake caused more damage outside St. George, Utah , than within it?
Did you know that Srećko Albini , a conductor at the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb , composed operettas that were also performed in Venice, London, and New York?
Did you know that before the opening of a new subway line, passengers at the 169th Street station in Queens had to wait just to get to the platform during rush hours?
Did you know that orphanage director Luo Shuzhang was accused of raising "little communists"?
Did you know that the HP Slate 21 is an Android tablet with a 21.5-inch (550 mm) screen?
Did you know that Sato Project founder Christina Beckles, who coordinates the travel of stray dogs from Puerto Rico to the mainland United States for adoption, is allergic to dogs?
Did you know that Duncraig Castle has been a summer home for the wealthy, a naval hospital, a girls' college, and a B&B , has its own railway station , and was the subject of a reality television show?
Did you know that despite being ranked 101st of 103 graduates in his West Point class of 1909, William H. Simpson later became a four-star general?
Did you know that actor Erik Knudsen worked with Kevin Drew from Broken Social Scene , his favorite band, in a fictional band based on them for the soundtrack of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World ?
Did you know that Muhammad al-Riquti taught Muslims, Christians, and Jews at his school under the patronage of the future Alfonso X of Castile ?
Did you know that Bräus , from the Swedish island of Gotland , differs from all other card games in that not all cards are playable?
Did you know that U.S. Air Force U-2 pilot Chuck Wilson flew the first operational mission of the S-model Dragon Lady in 1995 from Osan Air Base , South Korea?
Did you know that in a Berge equilibrium , every player of a strategic game makes sure other players do as well as possible?
Did you know that Silke Bühler-Paschen was the first woman to become a full professor of physics at TU Wien in 2005?
Did you know that the song " Shiny Suit Theory " was the result of a chance meeting between Jay Electronica and Jay-Z at a birthday party?
Did you know that actor James Stewart displayed his only Oscar , which he had won for The Philadelphia Story , in his father's hardware shop?
Did you know that Somerset could have won the 2010 Twenty20 Cup Final if they had known the Laws of Cricket ?
Did you know that Max Laeuger was a German potter, artist, and architect who won an Olympic medal?
Did you know that during John Early 's presidency of Georgetown University , the school was occupied three times by the Union Army but never ceased classes?
Did you know that Le Concert Spirituel played Handel's open-air music at the Proms with an ensemble that comprised 18 oboes, 9 trumpets, 9 trombones, and strings?
Did you know that painter Lin Wenzheng translated A Brief History of Chinese Fiction from Chinese to French while in prison?