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Did you know that Eleonore Trefftz was the second woman to become a scientific member of the Max Planck Society ?
Did you know that in " Mein Gott, wie schön ist deine Welt ", a 1936 hymn by Georg Thurmair , every stanza declares three times, "How beautiful is Your world"?
Did you know that Zena Edosomwan was the first top-100 high school basketball recruit to commit to Harvard ?
Did you know that Project Harvest Moon intended to commercialize space by selling moon rocks to pay for further lunar experiments?
Did you know that ships of Thomas King 's firm Camden, Calvert and King carried more than 20,000 slaves from West Africa to the Caribbean?
Did you know that Working with Lemons participated in an event in Provo, Utah , that broke the world record for most people participating in a live nativity scene re-enactment?
Did you know that most of footballer Laurence Abrams 's transfer fee for his move from Hearts was never paid, after Chelsea claimed it would force them to fold?
Did you know that a section of Washington State Route 24 through Hanford was closed to traffic during World War II , and never reopened?
Did you know that in 1833, Ursula Newell Emerson drew some of the earliest surviving manuscript maps of Hawaii for instructional use?
Did you know that Cristin Milioti describes her character Nanette Cole from the Black Mirror episode " USS Callister " as "a woman in charge [fighting] against a small-minded, misogynist bully"?
Did you know that Emilio Álvarez Icaza will enter the Mexican Senate as an independent, refusing to affiliate with any of the three parties that supported his candidacy?
Did you know that Willem Adriaan van der Stel introduced the ivy-leaved pelargonium to the Netherlands from South Africa in 1700?
Did you know that the Hindu goddess Matangi is worshipped with the taboo offering of leftovers ?
Did you know that Velters Cornewall Berkeley infuriated some of his fellow British officers by failing to engage the 130-gun Santisima Trinidad ?
Did you know that the release of Led Zeppelin III was held up for two months because of its volvelle -based sleeve design?
Did you know that a Chinese Indonesian billionaire became the oldest medal winner for that country at the 2018 Asian Games ?
Did you know that Cruz Pérez Cuéllar ran for Governor of Chihuahua , Mexico, in 2016 on a platform that called for voters to decide if the governor should be removed midway through his term?
Did you know that the sandalled anemone reproduces by longitudinal fission ?
Did you know that two years after winning the throne of the Byzantine Empire in battle, Isaac I voluntarily abdicated and retired to a monastery?
Did you know that the No. 19 pastrami on rye at Langer's Deli (pictured) in Los Angeles has been called "the Marilyn Monroe of pastrami sandwiches"?
Did you know that tenor Daniel Behle had a single day to learn rarely performed romantic duets when he stepped in at short notice for a 2018 Rheingau Musik Festival concert with Annette Dasch ?
Did you know that Our Lady of Pompeii in New York City was founded in 1892 as a church for Italian immigrants ?
Did you know that during his time in Slovakia to play professional basketball, J. R. Cadot was assaulted and followed to the hospital by a racist mob?
Did you know that the 1980s-themed cover for Muse's album Simulation Theory was made by Stranger Things artist Kyle Lambert ?
Did you know that Lucius Neratius Marcellus was involved in the establishment of the defensive line that later became Hadrian's Wall ?
Did you know that during World War II, the United States Lake Survey published 370 tons of maps including 8,109 different charts and maps, distributing over 9 million items to the armed forces?
Did you know that Sam Frost received death threats after her Home and Away character Jasmine Delaney 's first scenes were aired?
Did you know that Bob Lowes is a two-time winner of the Coach of the Year Award in the Canadian Hockey League ?
Did you know that the Furgate scandal in the late 1990s, described as one of the largest in South Korea, involved influence peddling through the giving of luxury items?
Did you know that upon its completion in 2016 at SeaWorld Orlando, Mako became the tallest, longest, and fastest roller coaster in the Orlando area of Florida ?
Did you know that French poet René Ghil worked towards developing an ideal poetic language that would "subsume and supersede all the other arts" by establishing his own system of verbal instrumentation?
Did you know that to create the fireball effect in episode 1094 of Casualty , the show's production team packed ten different explosions into one blast?
Did you know that Almeda Eliza Hitchcock became the first female lawyer in the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1888?
Did you know that one of the dogs belonging to Imran Khan , the Pakistani prime minister, accompanies him on his daily helicopter ride to the office and in official meetings at his home?
Did you know that Wally Schirra , one of the original seven astronauts in NASA's first manned spaceflight program , was Walter Cronkite 's co-anchor during the seven Moon landing missions?
Did you know that in 1889, the Edinburgh College of Medicine for Women was established in direct competition with Sophia Jex-Blake 's School of Medicine for Women ?
Did you know that Harry Kupfer , the stage director at the Komische Oper Berlin for decades, presented Wagner's Der fliegende Holländer at the 1978 Bayreuth Festival as a psychological drama?
Did you know that when the Colonial Plaza shopping center opened in 1956 in Orlando, Florida , its sidewalks were tinted green to reduce glare?
Did you know that Wilma Mankiller faced sexism during her campaign for Deputy Chief of the Cherokee Nation , despite Cherokee society being traditionally matrilineal ?
Did you know that Quodlibet is a card game played by student fraternities with William Tell cards , where the dealer is known as the "beer king"?
Did you know that despite Alexis Sánchez's seven goals in qualification , Chile failed to qualify for the 2018 FIFA World Cup ?
Did you know that one of the two temples visited most often by the Buddha was built by Visakha , a wealthy aristocratic woman who was considered his chief female lay disciple?
Did you know that the Scottish Gaelic poet Sorley MacLean asked Douglas Young to destroy some of the poems in Dàin do Eimhir , now regarded as MacLean's masterpiece?
Did you know that professional basketball player Daniel Dixon enrolled in military school after drawing interest from only one college during high school?
Did you know that a scandal at the administrative post of Lioma led to a landmark decision that provided better legal protection for all students in Mozambique?
Did you know that Jake was one of two Overwatch League players invited to a summit between the International Olympic Committee and the eSports community?
Did you know that the designs for the 170-gun HMS Duke of Kent may have been fabricated in an attempt to claim credit for several ship-building innovations?
Did you know that Justin I arrived at Constantinople as an illiterate teenage peasant and died as Emperor of Byzantium ?
Did you know that upon their return to the Philippines after attending college in the United States, pensionados were referred to as "American boys" and faced discrimination?
Did you know that heavy metal vocalist Jill Janus performed at the World Trade Center the night before the September 11 attacks ?
Did you know that when the designer Mariano Fortuny established his studio in the Palazzo Pesaro Orfei in Venice, he was one of about 350 people using the building?
Did you know that Neeru Chadha is the first Indian woman to be elected as a judge to the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea ?
Did you know that the boys choir Wiesbadener Knabenchor has performed as an "ambassador" of Wiesbaden , Germany, including in Bulgaria and Australia?
Did you know that in 1887, eleven Lepidodendron stump fossils were discovered in the Fossil Grove in Glasgow , Scotland, during excavation work?
Did you know that after the arrest of suspected drug lord El 85 , shootouts, burning vehicles, and roadblocks were staged in Guadalajara , Mexico, possibly to allow his allies to escape undetected?
Did you know that Home and Away actress Sarah Roberts met with gambling addicts as research for Willow Harris 's storylines?
Did you know that a volcanic field in Death Valley formed only about 2,100 years ago?
Did you know that Orthodox Jewish sports agent Marc Kligman organizes Hanukkah candle-lighting for Jewish attendees at the baseball Winter Meetings ?
Did you know that the Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada was created as a result of a commission calling for "culturally appropriate curricula" for Aboriginal Canadian students?
Did you know that Afro-Cuban poetry reciter Eusebia Cosme performed only in Spanish, but packed American venues such as Carnegie Hall ?
Did you know that the 2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship saw the best-ever performance by Team Great Britain, which won the men's competition and was runner-up in the women's?
Did you know that Adrienne Maree Brown writes for Bitch ?
Did you know that the string-of-sausage lichen is very sensitive to air pollution and has become locally extinct over much of its former range?
Did you know that bryologist Margaret Sibella Brown was awarded an honorary master of arts degree from Acadia University at the age of 84?
Did you know that Robin Sparkles 's " Let's Go to the Mall " was inspired by Alanis Morissette 's material from her pre- Jagged Little Pill years?
Did you know that neuroscientist Yang Dan and her team discovered that mice either enter a dream state or eat more in response to activation of certain brain neurons?
Did you know that a small group of besieged Nizari Ismailis in the fortress of Shahdiz refused an offer of a safe withdrawal and fought against the Seljuk army from tower to tower in a last stand?
Did you know that the Cubbington Pear Tree , voted England's Tree of the Year for 2015, is at risk of being felled during construction of High Speed 2 ?
Did you know that the Ming dynasty awarded the pirate Wang Zhi 100 shoulder-loads of rice, which he dumped into the sea?
Did you know that a unit of disabled and aged veterans garrisoned key parts of Great Britain in the 18th century?
Did you know that in 1923, Andrew B. Turnbull helped convert the Green Bay Packers into a publicly-held, non-profit corporation , and then was elected as that corporation's first president?
Did you know that Nanchang Laoyingfang Airport , once an airbase used to attack Chinese communist rebels, is now the site of the communist provincial government?
Did you know that Mary Ellen Cuper was the first postmistress at New Norcia ?
Did you know that the United States was ordered by the World Court to lift some sanctions against Iran over humanitarian concerns?
Did you know that Burhan Uray worked as a logger and rubber tapper before becoming "the timber king" of Indonesia?
Did you know that after being damaged twice by Allied ships, escorting a blockade runner, and hitting two mines, the German torpedo boat T24 was sunk by air-launched rockets?
Did you know that footballer Neil Matthews was the first Rochdale player to win an international cap at any level?
Did you know that Solo 66 is a German trick-taking card game for five players in which a soloist always plays against the other four?
Did you know that following his failed rebellion in 1926, governor Xia Chao was executed and his severed head was displayed on a spike?
Did you know that sites in Florida Bay with an abundance of loggerhead sponges experience few blooms of cyanobacteria ?
Did you know that in 1991, the founder of Ecclesia Athletic Association and seven other members were indicted for what a federal prosecutor termed "the largest child slavery ring in the history of the United States"?
Did you know that Mexican suspected hitman René Velázquez Valenzuela shaved his head and grew his beard as a sign of loyalty to his boss ?
Did you know that the concept of an ethnographic group is more commonly found in Soviet and post-Soviet, rather than Western, scholarly works?
Did you know that when William C. F. Robinson was sworn in as governor of South Australia , the band played a song that he had composed himself?
Did you know that for his role in the Holocaust, Adolf Eichmann was described as a desk murderer by Hannah Arendt ?
Did you know that the herring-bone hydroid has two types of feeding polyp which differ in their behaviour?
Did you know that Close But No Cigar , the debut album of the Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio , reached number one on the U.S. Contemporary Jazz Albums chart?
Did you know that trail runner Aurélia Truel gave up on playing handball because she was too short?
Did you know that the Wehrmacht and the Waffen-SS were thought to have committed war crimes against Italians during World War II in retaliation for Italy's surrender?
Did you know that Yang Dan was awarded the TWAS Prize for synthesizing bioactive natural compounds?
Did you know that during the University of London's General Examination for Women of 1869, a matron was in attendance in case the candidates became over-excited?
Did you know that historical novelist Elizabeth Byrd was the editor of a salacious confession magazine in the 1950s?
Did you know that the 2004 Taylor oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico leaks 300 to 700 barrels of oil per day and could continue for the next 100 years if not contained?
Did you know that Ratna Ani Lestari and her husband , the regent of Jembrana , were the first married couple to lead two adjacent Indonesian regencies?
Did you know that the French submarine Amazone was named after a mythological tribe of women warriors ?
Did you know that Ryan Kocer won the Best Male Athlete with a Disability ESPY Award in 2008 after losing his left leg the year before?
Did you know that the shear vane was developed for testing soils, but has also been used on snow to determine the risk of an avalanche forming?
Did you know that political scientist Hu Fo counted among his students the former president , vice president , and premier of Taiwan?
Did you know that Gorgonorhynchus repens has an unusual sticky, branched proboscis with which it snares its prey?
Did you know that in 1953, Francis D. Pastorius and Edward E. Holloway were elected to local offices that the Philadelphia city government had abolished a month earlier?
Did you know that the many lakes in the Nancy Lake State Recreation Area were created during the retreat of glaciers 9,000 years ago?
Did you know that Gilles Courteau made the switch from French to English as the official language used for coaching in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League ?
Did you know that the Australian Federal Court of Bankruptcy lost its jurisdiction in 1977 but was not formally abolished until 1995?
Did you know that the gray grass mouse inhabits forests of Podocarpus parlatorei and Alnus acuminata on steep hillsides on the eastern flanks of the Andes?
Did you know that Günther Morbach appeared in more than 180 operatic bass roles, including Mozart's Sarastro in the new Opernhaus Dortmund and in a Harald Weiss world premiere at the Staatstheater Braunschweig ?
Did you know that until being murdered in May 2018, Mexican journalist and radio station founder Juan Carlos Huerta anchored the newscast on the television station XHTVL-TDT ?
Did you know that Bill "Maverick" Golden drove the Little Red Wagon , drag racing 's first wheelstander ?
Did you know that the Hyperion proto-supercluster was discovered using astroinformatics ?
Did you know that Arvo Pärt composed Cecilia, vergine romana on an Italian text about Saint Cecilia for choir and orchestra, on a commission for the Great Jubilee in Rome?
Did you know that children have mistaken the poisonous fruits of Adenia hondala for those of the passion flower ?
Did you know that Iris Kadrić played international football for Sweden under-17s , before switching to play for Bosnia and Herzegovina ?
Did you know that dozens of Nazi concentration camps were staffed by guards from the Luftwaffe ?
Did you know that Haifan Lin 's discovery of piRNAs was named by Science as one of the top breakthroughs of 2006?
Did you know that a Trump resort is directly linked to Moscow ?
Did you know that the Deccan Chargers , winners of the 2009 Indian Premier League , finished last in the league stage in the previous season with just two wins in fourteen matches?
Did you know that before becoming a Yad Vashem historian, Shmuel Krakowski worked for Polish communist intelligence and security organizations?
Did you know that viewers have watched 1.5 billion minutes of BuzzFeed 's Worth It in 2018 alone?
Did you know that a letter authored by Ali , the first Shia Imam, to Malik al-Ashtar , governor of Egypt, includes a model for governing based on justice for every place and every time?
Did you know that Peter Bielik was nominated for director of the National Memory Institute , despite having blamed Jewish Holocaust survivors for the 1945 Topoľčany pogrom ?
Did you know that the sea hedgehog hydroid is predated by the nudibranch Zelentia pustulata , which feeds on it and winds egg coils around its branches?
Did you know that Lukas Radovich believed his audition for the Home and Away character Ryder Jackson went so badly that he booked a flight to Perth , but was then offered the role?
Did you know that Sir James Hamilton was largely responsible for the design of Concorde's distinctive wings ?
Did you know that Slovak fascists and anti-fascists joined forces to intimidate returning Holocaust survivors, culminating in the Topoľčany pogrom ?
Did you know that when footballer Wyn Griffiths suffered an injury during a 1945 friendly match for Arsenal , he was replaced by a player from another club who had attended the game as a spectator?
Did you know that Antonio Vivaldi composed three settings of Dixit Dominus , each an extended setting of the vespers psalm for five soloists, choir, and orchestra, and one even for double choir?
Did you know that St. Peter's Pro-Cathedral became the first Catholic pro-cathedral in the United States in 1789?
Did you know that the tombstone of Vietnamese anti-colonialist Phạm Thận Duật was buried face-down for nearly a century to conceal it from the French authorities?
Did you know that former professional Overwatch player Brandon "Seagull" Larned was recruited to NRG Esports by Shaquille O'Neal ?
Did you know that Udo Zimmermann composed two operas about the resistance group White Rose , one while he was a student?
Did you know that in 1345, the Earl of Derby attacked and defeated an army of 7,000 Frenchmen with a force of 1,200 Anglo- Gascons ?
Did you know that in 1975, Margaret Guilfoyle became the first woman in the history of the Australian parliament to hold a cabinet-level ministerial portfolio?
Did you know that Derrick Barnes based the main character of Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut on his own son?
Did you know that 65 percent of internees at the Topaz War Relocation Center were American citizens of Japanese descent ?
Did you know that during its time 200 million years ago, Ledumahadi 's estimated weight of 12 tonnes (26,000 lb) made it the largest animal to have lived on Earth?
Did you know that the Nazi doctor Friedrich Entress organised and administered phenol injections directly into the hearts of Auschwitz prisoners?
Did you know that the calls of the black-collared starling include a kraak kraak sounding like a jay and a whistling prrü like a bee-eater ?
Did you know that the Twitter user dril published the Dril Official "Mr. Ten Years" Anniversary Collection to preserve his best tweets in case of a future societal collapse ?
Did you know that Leo Holzer led a resistance group inside the Theresienstadt concentration camp ?
Did you know that oppositionist delegates to the Philippine Constitutional Convention of 1971 were among the first to be arrested when Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law in the Philippines?
Did you know that an obscenity conviction for screening Kenneth Anger 's Fireworks was reversed by the Supreme Court of California ?
Did you know that Camille Saint-Saëns composed the Messe de Requiem , in memory of his patron, in just eight days, and conducted the first performance in 1878 at Saint-Sulpice in Paris?
Did you know that Hesham Ashmawy was one of Egypt's most-wanted militants prior to his arrest in Libya last month?
Did you know that the United Kingdom conducted 24 nuclear weapons tests in the United States between 1962 and 1991, and has conducted subcritical tests not involving explosions since then?
Did you know that Tommy Lockhart booked a roller-skating grizzly bear to perform as the on-ice intermission entertainment at a Hershey Bears game?
Did you know that historian Felix Römer found that 116 of 137 German World War II combat divisions he researched implemented the Commissar Order , contrary to postwar denials ?
Did you know that  after Schafkopf and Watten , Wallachen is probably the most widely-played card game in Old Bavaria and an indispensable part of Bavarian pub culture?
Did you know that the back cover of Luis Miguel 's  album México en la Piel was changed in 2005 because the original had altered the colors of the Mexican flag , which is illegal in Mexico?
Did you know that Chang Chun-Yen , a pioneer of Taiwan's hi-tech industry, was forbidden from going abroad to study because of his father's involvement in the February 28 incident ?
Did you know that neuroendocrinologist Catherine Woolley found evidence of brain plasticity using a technique described in 1873?
Did you know that an enclave of Edmonds, Washington , was formed after several failed attempts at annexing the community of Esperance ?
Did you know that Brennan's Criterion Bar in Bundoran , Ireland, had no television, discouraged live music, and banned swearing?
Did you know that " Love Interruption " was the first song American musician Jack White released after the breakup of rock duo The White Stripes ?
Did you know that according to Lea Hernandez , editor of webcomic subscription service Girlamatic , she originally wanted to call the website "ModernGirls" but the name was already taken by a porn site ?
Did you know that 17-year-old Dutch chess grandmaster Lucas van Foreest has a brother , great-great grandfather , and great-great granduncle who have all been Dutch Chess Champions ?
Did you know that the East Side Access railroad expansion in New York City has been estimated to cost about $3.5 billion per mile of new tunnel, seven times more than similar projects in other countries?
Did you know that Herman Pines , who could not attend university in Poland because of Jewish quotas , worked on developing aviation fuels that helped the Royal Air Force win the Battle of Britain ?
Did you know that the first woman voted in as head of state says she would not have got her job if women in Iceland had not walked away from theirs?
Did you know that Joan L. Mitchell co-invented JPEG ?
Did you know that the foliage of the cauliflower hakea is so prickly that gloves are recommended when collecting seed?
Did you know that racist graffiti on mathematician Chawne Kimber 's college campus, along with George Carlin 's seven dirty words , inspired her to politicize her quilting ?
Did you know that the Georgetown Car Barn , opened in 1897, operated as a terminal for cable cars for less than a year?
Did you know that Marcel Comeau was a minor league Most Valuable Player , and a junior league Coach of the Year , but never played or coached in the National Hockey League ?
Did you know that 694 Italians have been recognised as Righteous Among the Nations for risking their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust in Italy ?
Did you know that following his retirement from playing, footballer Andy Kerr became a financial advisor in the Far East?
Did you know that Peter Kubelka 's experimental film Schwechater was originally commissioned as a beer commercial?
Did you know that the stretch limousine involved in the recent crash near Schoharie, New York , killing 20, appeared at two vehicle inspections earlier this year with different license plates ?
Did you know that in 1800, a reviewer of Francis Hews 's writings was unsure whether he should be sent to " Bridewell for correction, or to Bedlam for a cure"?