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Did you know that the Indian film Chand Bujh Gaya ( The Moon Is Eclipsed ) was denied a censor certificate for fear of "inciting communal violence" and "communal disharmony"?
Did you know that pediatrician Samuel Z. Levine was summoned by the White House in 1963 to treat President John F. Kennedy 's premature baby son?
Did you know that three of the 34 stanzas of " Jesu Leiden, Pein und Tod ", a Passion hymn by Paul Stockmann , were included in Bach's St John Passion ?
Did you know that the Northern Ireland subsidy is greater than the United Kingdom's annual net expenditure on the European Union before Brexit ?
Did you know that Christian television station KBFI-TV permanently ceased operations at 2 a.m. on Christmas Eve ?
Did you know that Martin Scorsese filmed It's Not Just You, Murray! in his apartment?
Did you know that Hege Lanes Steinlund is believed to have officiated more international football matches than any other Norwegian referee?
Did you know that the 2010 Young Report cited a story about a clown being banned from wearing oversized shoes as an example of "health and safety hysteria in the media"?
Did you know that there was once a 35 km-long (22 mi) glacier in Gusinje Municipality , Montenegro?
Did you know that J. F. S. Stuart found the republican opinions of American colonists "obnoxious to a loyalist, and their barbarous manners repellent to a gentleman"?
Did you know that in the Australian Journal of Herpetology , a first-year student and a high school teacher reassessed the taxonomy of Australia's entire reptile class , naming 33 novel genera and 214 new species ?
Did you know that one of the most common stereotypes of a Karen is asking to "speak to the manager"?
Did you know that due to Pakistani actress Saeeda Imtiaz 's role in Redrum , one of the film's producers said, "I am worried if my film will see the light of day"?
Did you know that Barbara H. Bowman was one of the scientists who discovered the genetic difference responsible for variations in haptoglobin , a human blood protein ?
Did you know that Boston and Skegness is estimated to have the highest percentage of "Leave" votes in the 2016 EU referendum of any parliamentary constituency in the UK ?
Did you know that the 145th Street station in Manhattan was slated to be replaced with another subway station in the 1960s, but remained open following protests?
Did you know that the male bigtooth cardinalfish broods a ball of eggs in his mouth?
Did you know that Oregon state representative J. Patrick Metke flew two-engine Navy bombers on anti-submarine patrols during World War II?
Did you know that Coleraine Cricket Club once became champions of the North West Cricket Union Premiership by default after their nearest competitors went on holiday?
Did you know that unlike most U.S. custom houses , which face the waterfront, the Alexander Hamilton Custom House in Manhattan faces inland?
Did you know that every sixth person in the world who has diabetes is from India ?
Did you know that New Mexico radio station KARA was sued by a competitor who claimed that the station was impeding delivery of its mail?
Did you know that according to numerous Sanskrit, Chinese, and Southeast Asian texts, Mahākāśyapa left his body in suspended animation to see the future Buddha?
Did you know that shortly after the Battle of Cape Hermaeum , most of the victorious Roman fleet was destroyed in a storm, with the loss of over 100,000 lives?
Did you know that Charity Anderson and her contemporary-dance partner Andres Peñate earned the first perfect score on a routine in the history of World of Dance ?
Did you know that in some situations, saying " please " may yield worse outcomes?
Did you know that Grégoire Margotton replaced Christian Jeanpierre as the main presenter of the French football programme Téléfoot in 2018?
Did you know that the book The Pink Swastika has been described as a product of American culture wars ?
Did you know that three nights of riots at Marsh Farm in Luton in 1995 came to an end when the Exodus Collective organised a nearby rave ?
Did you know that a "desperate" attempt was made to rescue Captain William D. Gregory and the crew of the sinking clipper Tejuca during an 1856 hurricane?
Did you know that PewDiePie 's first YouTube video, " Minecraft Multiplayer Fun ", has been viewed more than 14 million times?
Did you know that Yan , a fourth kingdom during the Three Kingdoms period of China, was conquered only one year after its establishment in 237?
Did you know that when NASA Astronaut Group 6 were told that they were not required after reporting for duty, they started calling themselves the "Excess Eleven"?
Did you know that five people have received Nobel Prizes for direct and indirect studies of vitamin B 12 ?
Did you know that Riverside Park , designed by Central Park 's architects, suffered from outdoor sewerage, squatters' shacks, and coal emissions in the late 19th century?
Did you know that Noureddine Diwa was one of the first Tunisian footballers to play abroad?
Did you know that interest in network synthesis research is now greater than at any time since the 1950s due to its new applications in mechanics, particularly in Formula One ?
Did you know that while researching for the role of Arthur Morgan for Red Dead Redemption 2 , actor Roger Clark was inspired by the stoic but humorous demeanor of Toshiro Mifune 's characters?
Did you know that the prison in Pretoria where Pedi king Mampuru II was executed was renamed in his honour in 2013?
Did you know that the Norwegian band Vardøger formed, recorded music, disbanded, re-formed to release Whitefrozen , disbanded again, re-formed to release Ghost Notes , and then disbanded yet again?
Did you know that an annual church service is said to have been held at the Gospel Oak in Polstead , Suffolk, for more than 1,000 years?
Did you know that mesophyletid weevils have only been found in Burmese amber ?
Did you know that the producers of the 1990 American comedy film Home Alone were threatened with legal action by the French director of 3615 code Père Noël , who alleged that it was a remake of his film?
Did you know that the role of Antonio Crutta , the interpreter for Polish king Stanisław August in the 1787–1792 Russo-Turkish War , was to "melt the suspicions of the Turks without arousing those of the Russians"?
Did you know that Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote the musical Oklahoma! in a suite at the Berkshire Hotel in New York City?
Did you know that a foul was given at the 2009 World Cup of Pool due to an arm-hair touching the cue ball ?
Did you know that Jordan Henderson is the first Liverpool captain to win the FIFA Club World Cup ?
Did you know that despite overcrowding at the Nostrand Avenue station in Brooklyn , two of its entrances remained closed for several decades?
Did you know that Tetraponera tessmanni , a very aggressive ant, is able to establish dominance over the whole of the liana in which it lives, which may be 50 m (164 ft) long?
Did you know that Ole Børud is featured on a song by a choir project that involved recordings from around the world because of the COVID-19 pandemic ?
Did you know that according to Oliver Heaviside , the law of squares does not mean that an electric current knows where it is going?
Did you know that the book The Forgotten Holocaust: The Poles Under German Occupation, 1939–1944 resulted in a series of reviews and letters that were described as "particularly vicious"?
Did you know that no admiral has ever lived at Admiral's House in Hampstead ?
Did you know that artwork at the Jackson Avenue station in the Bronx depicts images from six Latin American stories?
Did you know that the fallacy of using ad hominem arguments was first discussed by Aristotle in his Sophistical Refutations ?
Did you know that King Kalākaua 's committee to revive the Hale Nauā secret society consisted of nine women, and only one man other than himself?
Did you know that flying ace Brian van Mentz survived the Battle of Britain , but was killed by a bomb that fell on a pub?
Did you know that Martin Scorsese created his first film, What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This? , as part of a summer program?
Did you know that Kosala by Bhalchandra Nemade is regarded as the first existentialist novel in the Marathi language ?
Did you know that most of the known Gigantopithecus fossils are of teeth because the other bones are likely to have been eaten by porcupines ?
Did you know that Richard Grenfell Thomas and Isabel Bear scientifically described the smell of rain, for which Thomas coined the term " petrichor "?
Did you know that Taunton bus station , built in the 1950s, was described as "a rare survivor" just five years before it was closed?
Did you know that German war criminal Hans Walter Zech-Nenntwich gave a television interview after escaping from prison?
Did you know that Travis Scott 's guest appearance in Jay Electronica 's song " The Blinding " has been described as "a cynical attempt to attract younger listeners"?
Did you know that Miller's langur , one of the rarest primates in Borneo , was feared to be extinct until a 2012 study rediscovered it in an area where it was previously unknown?
Did you know that feminist Mary Stuart Smith publicly admonished the aristocracy of Virginia in 1893 for their failure to recognize the talent of native artists?
Did you know that the State Emblem of India was embossed on the wheels of the Chandrayaan-2 mission's lunar rover to leave behind patterned tracks on the lunar surface?
Did you know that a pūloʻuloʻu presented to King Kalākaua during his coronation was made from a narwhal tusk?
Did you know that in the early 20th century Plaza Cervantes , then the financial district of Manila , was likened to a scene out of Othello or The Merchant of Venice ?
Did you know that American bishop Lawrence Sabatini travelled to Mexico to learn the language and culture because the Italian parishioners at his church in Chicago had been replaced by Hispanics?
Did you know that the small Ma On Shan Village in Hong Kong saw a large number of new arrivals after changes in methods of mining iron ore were implemented at a nearby mine in 1953?
Did you know that Franz Klarwein , a tenor at the Bavarian State Opera from 1942 to 1977, appeared in world premieres such as those of Capriccio by Richard Strauss and Die Harmonie der Welt by Paul Hindemith?
Did you know that a shortened route for the proposed Brooklyn–Queens Connector streetcar, announced in 2018, would be more expensive than the original plan?
Did you know that the wet nurse of Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France , was named Madame Poitrine , which can be translated as 'Madame Bosom'?
Did you know that the granting of a franchise to the Ogden Gas Company was referred to as "the most disgraceful act" in the history of the Chicago City Council ?
Did you know that Hans Herbert Jöris conducted the world premiere of Giselher Klebe 's one-act opera Das Rendezvous , composed for the 125th anniversary of the Staatsoper Hannover ?
Did you know that Jean Arp designed the wavy form of the Berger des Nuages sculpture to simulate nature and express opposition to the machines that caused wars?
Did you know that investigative journalist Jessica Lussenhop has written articles on corruption in the standardized-testing industry , and the murders and disappearances of Indigenous women ?
Did you know that the first earth-return telegraph was set up along the Nuremberg–Fürth railway line in 1838?
Did you know that MLS Cup 1997 finalists Colorado Rapids had finished the regular season with a losing record?
Did you know that musical theatre actress Kitty Loftus was praised as "a tricky sprite and a fantastic elf"?
Did you know that in the song " 12.38 ", Childish Gambino sings about a psilocybin trip while 21 Savage raps about police harassment ?
Did you know that Princess María Teresa of Bourbon-Parma was nicknamed the "Red Princess" because of her socialist activism?
Did you know that despite winning the First Battle of Newtonia , the Confederate army retreated from Missouri ?
Did you know that the tree Barteria fistulosa is associated with Tetraponera aethiops , an aggressive species of ant that lives in its hollow branches and twigs?
Did you know that in a 2014 case , the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held that a group of police officers acted reasonably when they fired fifteen shots to end a high-speed car chase ?
Did you know that boxer Johnny Owen was so dedicated to his career that he never drank alcohol nor dated?
Did you know that Britons are being urged to clap for their carers every Thursday evening during the country's COVID-19 pandemic ?
Did you know that Indian child actress Taruni Sachdev was nicknamed the " Rasna girl"?
Did you know that most of the tallest buildings in Myanmar are located in Yangon , where skyscrapers are not allowed?
Did you know that when the New York City Board of Aldermen voted to end Tammany Hall 's 38 years of control over the board, politician Augustus Pierce collapsed and died from shock in the chamber?
Did you know that three Japanese emperors were imprisoned at Kongō-ji ?
Did you know that The Walt Disney Company once planned to build a large retail development on the site of what is now Burbank Town Center in California?
Did you know that the peaks of the MacGillycuddy's Reeks , Ireland's highest mountain range, are all on private property?
Did you know that a Malaysian sultan gave " The Singing Bishop " a marble statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary as a token of their friendship?
Did you know that the banning of Sargon of Akkad from Patreon led to the creation of a new social networking service called Thinkspot ?
Did you know that while the termite Pterotermes occidentis inhabits dead blue palo verde in the Sonoran Desert , Marginitermes hubbardi prefers dead saguaro ?
Did you know that Ross Perot met his wife on a blind date while a midshipman in Baltimore?
Did you know that Horizon , once called "the most automated self-service store in Canada", went defunct less than seven years after it opened?
Did you know that the Albanian tribe Gruemiri (literally 'good woman') was possibly named after a distinguished female leader?
Did you know that video game developer Be-Rad Entertainment created Serious Sam: Kamikaze Attack! using code repurposed from Lame Castle , its previous release?
Did you know that in the final movement of Die Sintflut ( The Flood ), a cantata for eight-part unaccompanied choir by Willy Burkhard , the voices paint Noah's rainbow?
Did you know that Steve Wozniak designed Integer BASIC based solely on a copy of 101 BASIC Games and an HP manual?
Did you know that Selin Şahin is the first Turkish women's wheelchair basketball player to be transferred to a foreign club?
Did you know that Good Faith Collaboration has been described as a pioneering ethnographic study of the culture of Wikipedia?
Did you know that the Carthaginian general Gisco was taken prisoner by mutinous soldiers while issuing their pay?
Did you know that Miami Spanish-language radio station WLTO was sold in 1972 to a new owner who did not speak Spanish?
Did you know that Canberra MRT station was designed with a nautical theme to reflect Singapore's historical role as a British naval base?
Did you know that in Minneapolis , a 1,199-pound (544 kg) cherry sits atop a 5,800-pound (2,630 kg) spoon ?
Did you know that British-Hawaiian chieftess Maria Beckley Kahea served as lady-in-waiting to two queens, and was appointed keeper of the Royal Mausoleum ?
Did you know that a path up the Col de la Loze , the seventh highest mountain pass in France, opened one year ago today and was first used in professional cycling during the 2019 Tour de l'Avenir ?
Did you know that according to one theory, Xia Ruifang was killed for his Chinese translations of the Bible ?
Did you know that a collective of more than 200 migrants has squatted a chain of buildings in Amsterdam since 2012?
Did you know that the Twenty One Pilots song " Level of Concern " frequently references the COVID-19 pandemic ?
Did you know that National Hockey League defenceman Sam Girard was able to continue playing ice hockey only after his older brother gave up the sport?
Did you know that in the 1993 textbook Quantum Theory , " uncertainty principle " appears only once in the index, and its entry points back to itself?
Did you know that the leech Limnatis nilotica can affect humans and livestock, entering hosts through the mouth, nose, or other orifices?
Did you know that the Ming dynasty poet Chen Zilong edited a book on agriculture that was the "first compilation of statecraft writing" in China?
Did you know that the American-led coalition has partially withdrawn troops from Iraq because of the COVID-19 pandemic in the country ?
Did you know that the 2017 romantic thriller You Go to My Head does not use any artificial lighting?
Did you know that with her victory at the 2001 Women's World Snooker Championship , Lisa Quick became the first person to win world titles in both pool and snooker ?
Did you know that New York City was divided into wards between 1683 and 1938?
Did you know that "Spam" played a key part in the design of the urinals on the Royal Navy 's Swiftsure -class submarines ?
Did you know that Jeff Butler was sacked as head coach of the South Africa national football team after it was discovered that he had passed off the playing career of another Geoff Butler as his own?
Did you know that jue were small bronze vessels used for serving wine in ancestor-worship ceremonies in Bronze Age China ?
Did you know that Lewis Grant-Ogilvy had the entire village of Cullen demolished and rebuilt so that he could improve his garden at Cullen House ?
Did you know that Jerry Givens served as Virginia's chief executioner for 17 years before becoming a campaigner against the death penalty?
Did you know that non-alcoholic fatty liver disease , the most common liver disorder worldwide, is present in approximately 25 percent of the world's population?
Did you know that entomologist Frederick Vincent Theobald wrote a five-volume monograph and sixty scientific papers on mosquitoes?
Did you know that the 1977 Golden Dragon massacre in San Francisco was the result of a gang feud originating in a dispute over fireworks sales?
Did you know that the 1957–1958 influenza pandemic killed at least one million people worldwide?
Did you know that the Netflix miniseries Unorthodox was inspired by Deborah Feldman 's memoir Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots ?
Did you know that Sampson Mathews was nicknamed the "master driver of cattle" for transporting more than 100 cattle 160 miles (260 km) through the Allegheny Mountains in 19 days for the Battle of Point Pleasant ?
Did you know that 48 Wall Street 's cornerstone was laid on Alexander Hamilton 's 171st birthday, and the building opened exactly one year later?
Did you know that, although in ruins, the Forty Saints Monastery in Sarandë , Albania, still retains some religious importance for the local Greek Orthodox population ?
Did you know that Roderick Jones became general manager of Reuters after Herbert de Reuter killed himself?
Did you know that some Taiwanese train tickets are collected because the combination of station names is considered to be auspicious?
Did you know that the book Geometric Exercises in Paper Folding was inspired by one of the Froebel gifts for kindergarten children?
Did you know that Elzie Odom was the first black postal inspector in Texas, and the first black mayor of Arlington ?
Did you know that Ben Lugmore is the second-highest peak on the 15-kilometre (9.3 mi) Mweelrea Horseshoe, which has been described as one of Ireland's "top three" mountain walks?
Did you know that the deaths of the leading Muslim commanders in Syria from the plague of Amwas in 639 paved the way for the establishment of the Umayyad Caliphate ?
Did you know that " Seht, er lebt " (Look, he lives) is a German Easter hymn by Lothar Zenetti sung to a traditional melody from Israel?
Did you know that Julia Azari has shown that U.S. presidents increasingly defend their legitimacy by claiming to have a political mandate ?
Did you know that Australian racing driver Mark Webber was given an impromptu podium ceremony for finishing fifth at the 2002 Australian Grand Prix ?
Did you know that the history of the Wales national football team includes the first substitution ever used in international football?
Did you know that older adherents of the Hindu sect Ramnami Samaj have the word " Ram " tattooed over their entire bodies?
Did you know that when three deaths occurred at Elmhurst Hospital Center in 1978 and prompted a homicide investigation, the cause was found to be a shortage of nurses and beds?
Did you know that Chinese women's rights activist Shen Zijiu spent some four years as a fugitive?
Did you know that Palo Alto station was styled after a streamlined passenger train ?
Did you know that a Suara journalist was partially blinded while covering the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests ?
Did you know that John Oliver purchased the erotic furry watercolor Stay Up Late for $1,000, plus a $20,000 donation to a food bank ?
Did you know that in 1966, Baylor University student John Westbrook was the first African American athlete to play a game in the Southwest Conference of American football?
Did you know that until the end of the 19th century, the Palazzolo hill in Rome was for the Romans synonymous with "madhouse"?
Did you know that Addison E. Southard attended the coronation of Haile Selassie , served as a witness to the wedding of Lydia Liliuokalani Kawānanakoa , and was captured by the Japanese during World War II?
Did you know that Nepali director Nischal Basnet based Loot 's lead character on himself?
Did you know that the Holden Block is the best-preserved example of Italianate architecture in Chicago's Near West Side ?
Did you know that as executor to the estate of Sir Sidney Herbert , one of Sir George Sidney Herbert 's tasks was to ensure a locked tin box was "destroyed unopened by cremating"?
Did you know that of the 41 active Broadway theaters , only 3 are actually on Broadway ?
Did you know that Charlton Miner Lewis was a lawyer before becoming an English professor at Yale , and the first judge of the Yale Series of Younger Poets ?
Did you know that the scale insect Saissetia coffeae attacks many other plants besides coffee ?
Did you know that 70 Pine Street used double-deck elevators due to its narrow plot?
Did you know that in 2001, sixteen-year-old Alina Lebedeva struck Prince Charles of the United Kingdom in the face with three red carnations?
Did you know that after the Battle of Prairie Grove , the bodies of dead soldiers had to be protected in homemade enclosures to prevent feral hogs from eating them?
Did you know that Egypt's Deputy Minister of Culture Mohsen Shaalan was imprisoned for a year in connection with the unsolved theft of Van Gogh's Poppy Flowers ?
Did you know that the spinosaurid dinosaur Ichthyovenator had two sails on its back?
Did you know that Canadian ice hockey manager Tubby Schmalz reportedly sheltered visiting teams in his hotel during inclement weather?
Did you know that the Northern line , which already served the southernmost station on the London Underground , was proposed to be extended southward to North Cheam in 1946?
Did you know that Kanuni is Turkey's third drillship ?
Did you know that Making a New World , a concept album by Field Music about the after-effects of World War I, originated from a commission by the Imperial War Museum ?
Did you know that after not having played Australian rules football competitively since she was 13, Erin Phillips won the inaugural AFL Women's best and fairest award in 2017 in her first season back at age 31?
Did you know that angels seen radiating outward on an experimental radar led to the discovery of a curious flocking behavior of starlings ?
Did you know that Northern Dancer was the first Canadian-bred horse to win the Kentucky Derby , setting a new track record of two minutes flat?
Did you know that a documentary and a board game have been made about the New York City Subway 's 14th Street Tunnel shutdown ?
Did you know that Nepali actress Swastima Khadka holds a three-year diploma in architectural engineering ?