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Did you know that the East Louisiana Railroad , which removed Homer Plessy from a train, actually did so to help him start Plessy v. Ferguson , an attempt to overturn segregation in the United States ?
Did you know that until Rufina Peter and Kessy Sawang 's election in August 2022, Papua New Guinea was one of only three countries without a woman in parliament?
Did you know that " Dir, dir, Jehova, will ich singen " is a 1697 Lutheran hymn , translated into English by Catherine Winkworth in 1863 as "Jehovah, let me now adore Thee"?
Did you know that Heisman Trophy winner Larry Kelley turned down multiple offers to play professional football to become a school teacher?
Did you know that contrary to Shakespeare's play , Macbeth was not killed during the Battle of Dunsinane ?
Did you know that the leader of the Quebec Hells Angels was acquitted of 13 murder charges because the star witness was unwilling to testify at trial and instead complained about how the Crown had cheated him?
Did you know that the design of the train for the roller coaster Tigris was revealed in the form of a cake ?
Did you know that ballerina Ashley Ellis started her own dancewear brand after her colleagues at Boston Ballet asked her to make leg warmers for them?
Did you know that as the reality of Venus 's harsh surface conditions became known from the mid-20th century, the early tropes of adventures in Venusian tropics gave way to more realistic stories ?
Did you know that Mario Fiorentini was Italy's most decorated World War II resistance fighter ?
Did you know that Lechmere station was proposed for replacement in 1924 – yet was in use until 2020?
Did you know that after suffering life-changing injuries as a baby, five-year-old Tony Hudgell raised £1.7 million for a London children's hospital, and inspired English law changes on child abuse?
Did you know that George Balanchine 's ballet Scotch Symphony , set to Mendelssohn's Scottish Symphony , evokes the style of La Sylphide , a romantic ballet set in Scotland?
Did you know that the 18th-century " Danket, danket dem Herrn ", a thanksgiving round based on Psalm 106:1 , has been described as one of the most widespread rounds in German?
Did you know that British horse trainer Alice Hayes rode a zebra sidesaddle in the late 19th century?
Did you know that the Indianapolis Community Food Access Coalition was created to resolve food deserts in the city of Indianapolis ?
Did you know that the Caldecott Honor –winning illustrations for Going Down Home with Daddy contain Adinkra symbols that represent various concepts in Ghanaian culture ?
Did you know that Federico Gatti went from playing in the Italian sixth division and doing menial jobs to joining Juventus and playing for the Italy national team ?
Did you know that Kanye West performed an additional Touch the Sky Tour date at the University of North Carolina Wilmington after coming third in a student survey?
Did you know  that the decisive participation of a Peruvian cavalry unit in the Battle of Junín led Simón Bolívar to rename them the Hussars of Junín ?
Did you know that Walter Nolen was ranked by ESPN and USA Today as the number-one player in the 2022 college football recruiting class?
Did you know that the poor of ancient Rome were compared to dogs by the Roman writer Martial ?
Did you know that Hayley Kiyoko aimed for a fully LGBT cast while casting the video for her song " For the Girls "?
Did you know that The Twins , a 1930 story by Abd al-Quddus al-Ansari , was called the first Saudi Arabian novel?
Did you know that the Sweet Vengeance Mine was owned and operated by Black miners during the California Gold Rush?
Did you know that at the request of Regine Velasquez , her former manager Ronnie Henares directed the concert Twenty ?
Did you know that ice hockey commentator Jack Michaels began his career announcing an ostrich race ?
Did you know that the Acoustic Atlas at Montana State University Library helped to create a public domain archive of sounds from Yellowstone National Park ?
Did you know that in 1836, a jury ignored the judge's advice and found Daniel Arnoldi guilty of assaulting a black man?
Did you know that in Crippled , author Frances Ryan describes a disabled British woman who was unable to afford heating or her specialist meals due to an austerity programme that began in 2010?
Did you know that amateur astronomer A. O. Granger expanded his home to include the largest observatory and telescope in the southeastern United States?
Did you know that in the concert Songbird Sings the Classics , Regine Velasquez paid homage to the music of Burt Bacharach , Leonard Bernstein , Michel Legrand , Henry Mancini , and Barry Manilow ?
Did you know that Ballet Russe de Monte-Carlo dancer George Verdak was awarded an honorary doctorate by Butler University ?
Did you know that the Scilly Boys ' idea to try and beat the transatlantic rowing record was started while they were at the pub ?
Did you know that Ryan Roberts , a defensive end for Notre Dame , was a soccer player in high school?
Did you know that the last of three Regina coeli settings written by Mozart for Salzburg Cathedral is scored for four soloists, choir and orchestra?
Did you know that while Moto Hagio 's parents discouraged her interest in manga as "an impediment to studying", she would go on to receive a Medal of Honor for her contributions to the medium?
Did you know that it was Caltech experimental physicist Rana X. Adhikari 's idea to build a gravitational-wave observatory in India ?
Did you know that many fans of Ayub Bachchu 's Bangladeshi rock watched the film Loot Toraj in theaters just to hear the love song " Ananta Prem Tumi Dao Aamake "?
Did you know that Fabio Miretti received a standing ovation from Juventus fans after his Serie A debut as a starter ?
Did you know that Logan v. Zimmerman Brush Co. was the first time a majority of U.S. Supreme Court justices agreed that a challenged statute failed the rational basis test ?
Did you know that the lineups for two songs in the single " Kaze wo Matsu " were determined by the century in which the singers were born?
Did you know that Roslyn Lindheim , who designed hospitals, was the first architect to be elected to the National Academy of Medicine ?
Did you know that coral cores from Flinders Reef capture environmental changes caused by the use of nuclear weapons ?
Did you know that Elizabeth Thorn was six months pregnant when she buried approximately one hundred fallen soldiers after the Battle of Gettysburg ?
Did you know that a walrus named Freya was spotted riding a Walrus -class submarine , and later sank several boats in the Oslofjord ?
Did you know that Henry Janzen was the first coach to lead his team to back-to-back Vanier Cup championships?
Did you know that the main studio of a Cincinnati TV station occupies the one-time gymnasium of a former Black junior high school?
Did you know that Juan José Cabezudo was an openly gay chef and street-food seller in 19th-century Lima?
Did you know that the area of responsibility of the 6th Military Police Group includes all of the United States west of the Mississippi River ?
Did you know that when the US government offered Bolivian president Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada US$15 million to help quell riots in La Paz , he said that with that amount he couldn't even afford to pay for the cigars he smoked?
Did you know that telegraph operator Emma Hunter may have been the world's first electronic commuter ?
Did you know that a dead woman's knickers helped to solve the Charing Cross Trunk Murder ?
Did you know that after U.S. Navy pilot Royce Williams engaged in a solo dogfight with seven Soviet MiG-15s during the Korean War , he was ordered never to tell anyone about it?
Did you know that the 1985 manga series Tomoi contains the first depiction of HIV/AIDS in any literary medium in Japan?
Did you know that the unacknowledged contributions of Eunice Newton Foote to climate change research were recovered by Elizabeth Wagner Reed , whose research in genetics was also obscured?
Did you know that people with sensory processing disorders often require sensory friendly environments which are designed to accommodate their condition?
Did you know that American educator Gilbert Eastman , who acted in and wrote American Sign Language plays, won an Emmy Award in 1993?
Did you know that Nirmalendu Goon shared his doubts about Sheikh Mujibur Rahman 's political decisions during the 1969 East Pakistan mass uprising in his poem Huliya ?
Did you know that after Florida schools banned 54 mathematics books, Chaz Stevens petitioned that they also ban the Bible ?
Did you know that since 2018, IKEA 's stuffed toy shark Blåhaj has become a popular Internet meme and an icon of the online transgender community?
Did you know that Canadian brothers Graeme and Jacob Saunders learned to sail at the Chester Yacht Club , and campaigned a two-person dinghy in the 2016 Summer Olympics ?
Did you know that a livestock auctioneer and former Army sharpshooter shot and killed seven family members in the Rock Road massacre ?
Did you know that when the Canadian baritone Iain MacNeal appeared as Odysseus in Dallapiccola's Ulisse at the Oper Frankfurt , a reviewer noted that he portrayed the "character's self-exegeses"?
Did you know that the sculpture Chicago Rising from the Lake was meant to show the city's rebirth after the Great Chicago Fire but it went missing twice and was eventually found by a Chicago firefighter?
Did you know that as part of its #BlossomWatch campaign, the National Trust plans to plant trees along a circular bus route in Birmingham?
Did you know that Jack Deloplaine was nicknamed "Hydroplane" because of his running ability in wet conditions?
Did you know that dozens of men were indicted for the lynching-by-fire deaths of two Seminole boys in 1898?
Did you know that the de Havilland Mosquito was almost cancelled in 1940, but Air Vice-Marshal Richard Peck persuaded Air Marshal Wilfrid Freeman to continue the programme?
Did you know that in the music video for her song " Wheelie ", Latto shows off a diamond cryptocurrency wallet made by celebrity jeweler Greg Yuna ?
Did you know that after Claudia Winterstein dropped plans to become an architect because of the Berlin Wall , she led her party as a member of the Bundestag ?
Did you know that Derek Jeter discusses his biracial upbringing and experiencing racism in Michigan in the 1980s and 1990s in The Captain ?
Did you know that when the deputy finance minister rejected his proposal to create a national bank, Margono Djojohadikusumo tried again with the Vice President ?
Did you know that a miniature book written by a 13-year-old sold for over $1 million?
Did you know that Victória Pitts from Brazil portrayed characters in all three parts of Puccini's Il trittico at the Oper Frankfurt in 2022, including Zita in Gianni Schicchi ?
Did you know that Sharp Corporation produced three official variants of Nintendo 's Famicom in Japan, one of which was a television set that was subsequently released in the United States?
Did you know that the US Special Envoy for Afghan women and girls, Rina Amiri , is a former refugee who told US Senator John Kerry that "the Afghan population is not the Taliban"?
Did you know that the main activity of the short-lived parliament of Central Lithuania of 1922 was to request annexation by Poland?
Did you know that Emma Reaney is the only Notre Dame Fighting Irish swimmer to win an NCAA championship?
Did you know that sales declined after Anyone Here Been Raped and Speaks English? was renamed by its American publisher, so the original title was restored in subsequent editions?
Did you know that model Patsy Pulitzer was called one of the "World's Loveliest Sportswomen" after catching a 1,230-pound (560 kg) black marlin, a then world-record fish for a woman?
Did you know that people in Loli traditionally derive their social identity from the village in which they were born?
Did you know that Thomas Jeremiah , a slaveowner, was executed for inciting a slave insurrection?
Did you know that Don't Pay UK plan to encourage UK households to cancel their energy bill payments on 1 October 2022 if their pledge reaches 1 million signatures?
Did you know that PJ and Thomas were the first gay couple to host an HGTV show?
Did you know that in 2018, Donald Trump disinvited the Philadelphia Eagles from a Super Bowl LII victory ceremony at the White House after several players said they were not going to attend?
Did you know that at the end of the siege of Petra in 551 AD, the Romans discovered that there was yet another pipe beneath the ones they destroyed that was supplying water to the besieged garrison all along?
Did you know that Edward N. Hall is known as the "father of the Minuteman ICBM" but his brother Ted was a Soviet spy?
Did you know that Roland Jefferson , the first African-American botanist to work at the U.S. National Arboretum , helped preserve the famous flowering cherry trees in Washington, D.C. ?
Did you know that Gandhi's statue in the Indian parliament is frequently used as a protest site by members of parliament ?
Did you know that Rogers Covey-Crump , once the high tenor of the Hilliard Ensemble , is known as a leading Evangelist in Bach's Passions ?
Did you know that after the tower of a New York state TV station was toppled by Hurricane Hazel , it did not return to the air for more than 18 months?
Did you know that in 1944, at the age of 18, Trevor Hill was responsible for broadcasting Eisenhower 's D-Day announcement of the Normandy landings ?
Did you know that Gleaners Food Bank has served more than 700 million pounds (320 million kg) of food in Indiana?
Did you know that AMTD Digital had a market value greater than the Coca-Cola Company , Costco or McDonald's after its stock price rose 21,000 percent in a matter of days?
Did you know that Turkey's newly acquired fourth drillship , Abdülhamid Han , is able to drill up to 12,200 m (40,000 ft) and in a maximum water depth of 3,665 m (12,024 ft)?
Did you know that Kyaymyin Mibaya was King Mindon 's youngest, last and richest queen?
Did you know that according to researchers including Stephen Hargarten , the slogan " guns don't kill people, people kill people " is "scientifically inaccurate"?
Did you know that the coin used by Gaelic football referee Sean Hurson bears his initials and was presented to him by one of his umpires shortly before the latter died?
Did you know that This Tender Land is a retelling of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn set in the 1930s and incorporating elements of Homer's Odyssey ?
Did you know that Russell Strong pioneered multiple techniques for liver transplantation , including splitting a donor liver between multiple recipients?
Did you know that during the 2022 National Arena League season , a player hit a referee?
Did you know that William Pinckney was the second Black American to be awarded the Navy Cross, the second-highest decoration for valor in combat, after the Medal of Honor?
Did you know that the Franco-Greek defence agreement is the first intra- NATO defensive alliance?
Did you know that Fateh Muhammad Panipati has been called the al-Jazari of contemporary times?
Did you know that Harris Computer Systems specialized in making computers for real-time simulation ?
Did you know that LGBT rights activist Kit Malone helped create the first transgender organized marching group in the Indianapolis Pride Parade 's history?
Did you know that in a choral tour program titled Salmo! , Bach's 18th successor first conducted Salmo 150 , an a cappella setting of Psalm 150 by the Brazilian composer Ernani Aguiar ?
Did you know that zoologist Herb Wong wrote the liner notes for more than 600 jazz albums, by his own count?
Did you knowthat defence was not a significant factor in the design or placement of Earlstoun Castle , which was unusual for a 16th-century tower house ?
Did you know that Baya Gamani was freed from prison by his captor, King Mohnyin Thado , to defend the capital region of Ava ?
Did you know that the Manila Standard described the concert Two for the Knight as the "biggest team-up of a foreign and local artist" in the Philippines?
Did you know that hostile references towards Anglo-Egyptian rule in Sudan by Khalil Farah were hidden in colloquial Sudanese Arabic ?
Did you know that when the University of South Dakota started a radio station , the transmitter was built by student and future Nobel Prize winner Ernest Lawrence ?
Did you know that the 1971 Hazelwood massacre was the largest mass murder in the history of "Murder City"?
Did you know that taxation may have played a part in the fall of the Roman Empire ?
Did you know that women's rights activist Susan B. Anthony spoke twice at the now defunct Academy of Music in Sioux City, Iowa , during the 1870s?
Did you know that upon his rescue, Alexander Armstrong retrieved his journal against his captain's orders, and its publication contradicted the captain's claims about their chances of survival?
Did you know that Jesse Fuller 's first release of his song " You're No Good " was more than a year after Bob Dylan had included it on his debut album ?
Did you know that when reggae musician Bob Marley was arrested in London for cannabis possession, he falsely told the police he lived in Collingham Gardens ?
Did you know that in 1948, Thomas Yarborough became the first African American to be elected as a city council member in California?
Did you know that U.S. sanctions against Iran have adversely impacted Iranian children with epidermolysis bullosa , among other patients?
Did you know that Lillian Chase became interested in diabetes after meeting the first patient to receive insulin, and went on to become an expert in the disease?
Did you know that after a 1968 split in the Communist Party of Italy (Marxist–Leninist) , the Black Line and Red Line groups would engage in reciprocal acts of violence and vandalism?
Did you know that the Missa brevis in C by František Brixi , an 18th-century kapellmeister at Prague Cathedral , was not published until 2004?
Did you know that British writer Adolphe Smith Headingley popularised the singing of the socialist anthem " The Red Flag " to the tune of " O Tannenbaum " against the wishes of its lyricist ?
Did you know that the late Foo Fighters member Taylor Hawkins plays the drums on the closing track of King Princess 's album Hold On Baby ?
Did you know that during the First World War, Adrian Becher received his second Military Cross for leading the defence of a position for five days, despite having been buried by a shell explosion on the first day?
Did you know that 11 years after it opened in 1993, Currambine railway station was rebuilt 60 metres (200 ft) to the east?
Did you know that in 2010, a blue poison bottle inscribed "not to be taken" was excavated from the wheel pit of Knowles Mill ?
Did you know that a Billie Eilish song references the Depp v. Heard defamation trial and the overturning of Roe v. Wade ?
Did you know that in 1888, Edward P. Duplex became the first African American to be elected a mayor in California?
Did you know that the 6.0 system of judging figure skating was replaced in 2004, as a response to the scandal during the pair skating competition at the 2002 Winter Olympics ?
Did you know that when creating Aerodynamic Forms in Space in 2010, Rodney Graham was inspired by photographs of misassembled toy model gliders he took in 1977?
Did you know that Bill Hatfield , the oldest person to have sailed solo around the world, had previously narrowly survived a shipwreck with his young family?
Did you know that a reviewer said that playing as a cat "is at least 50% of the appeal" of Stray ?
Did you know that although some casting directors found Jack Ferver difficult to believe as an 18-year-old, Ferver would later portray Little Lad in a Starburst advertisement?
Did you know that the idea for the Fuente de la República arose after Manuel Felguérez suggested a fountain to accompany his newly inaugurated Puerta 1808 to the mayor of Mexico City?
Did you know that in his early career, Daniel Camargo was cast to dance a lead role at the opening night of Don Quixote at Stuttgart Ballet , over the principal dancers ?
Did you know that The Scent of Joseph's Shirt was said by Iranian director and screenwriter Ebrahim Hatamikia to reflect his perception of waiting for Imam Mahdi ?
Did you know that Ruslana Pysanka , who hosted a Ukrainian television program with Volodymyr Zelenskyy , died as a refugee in Germany?
Did you know that " Highway 51 ", the closing track on Bob Dylan 's debut album, incorporated elements from earlier songs by Curtis Jones , Tommy McClennan , and the Everly Brothers ?
Did you know that Kenyan theologian Mary Getui was named a Moran of the Burning Spear ?
Did you know that Colombian singer Juanita Lascarro became a soprano at the Oper Frankfurt , where she appeared as both Calypso and Penelope in a new production of Dallapiccola's Ulisse ?
Did you know that Akbar Bhawan , which houses the South Asian University and offices of India's Ministry of External Affairs, was originally a hotel?
Did you know that Pop Team Epic creator Bkub Okawa is also a virtual YouTuber ?
Did you know that after the Little Rock campaign , Union forces held three-quarters of Arkansas ?
Did you know that Alena Analeigh Wicker is the youngest Black person to be accepted into medical school in the United States and the youngest person to work as an intern at NASA?
Did you know that Taco Bell initially commissioned a TikTok musical for their Mexican Pizza ?
Did you know that Curtis Imrie won three world championships as a pack burro racer ?
Did you know that Northup Avenue Yard in Providence, Rhode Island , was described as "the finest in the New Haven system"?
Did you know that David Belchem was awarded the DSO for leading a tank regiment in Tunisia that took 749 prisoners?
Did you know that according to historian Rashid Khalidi , "Israel has been extremely successful in forcibly establishing itself as a colonial reality in a post-colonial age"?
Did you know that in 2022, Michael Phillips became the third professor in a year to sue Collin College for retaliating against protected speech ?
Did you know that Spy Princess by Shrabani Basu tells the story of Noor Inayat Khan , a British secret agent in France who was executed by the Nazis?
Did you know that Julian MacKay moved to Moscow at the age of 11 to attend the Bolshoi Ballet Academy , and later became the first American to complete both the lower and upper schools there?
Did you know that milk's gotta lotta bottle ?
Did you know that " The Strike " (1954), about an American officer's turmoil in ordering an air strike on his own men, was rated as Rod Serling 's best script he had written to date?
Did you know that Suleman Raza was coincidently awarded an MBE while his organisation Uplyft received the Queen's Award for Voluntary Service in the 2022 Birthday Honours ?
Did you know that a boy's voice over CB radio claiming to be within an overturned truck in New Mexico sparked a search-and-rescue mission 49 years ago today?
Did you know that baseball player Dwight Smith recorded a demo rhythm and blues album during the 1993–94 offseason?
Did you know that Natsuki Hanae was chosen to voice Vanitas to give the character more sexual appeal?
Did you know that the indie band Crumb wrote Jinx after a near-fatal car accident?
Did you know that Colin Stubs spent the prize money from his first international tennis title on an old Volkswagen to travel around Europe?
Did you know that Seckinger High School was created in 2022 with an artificial intelligence –themed curriculum?
Did you know that Singaporean singer Dawn Gan played herself in a television drama about aspiring singers?
Did you know that Oleksandr Kamyshin , the head of Ukrainian Railways , who runs the iron diplomacy program that brings world leaders to Kyiv by rail, carries his gun and his son's stuffed owl with him?
Did you know that Zahia Mentouri was credited with training all pediatric anesthetists in western Algeria ?
Did you know that the Freies Deutsches Hochstift association acquired Goethe's birthplace in Frankfurt am Main in 1863, but did not fully restore it until 1926?
Did you know that the majority of the members of the Israeli Desert Reconnaissance Battalion are Bedouin Arabs?