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Did you know that according to Nepalese folklore , Pimbahal Pond was built by a demon?
Did you know that XYYY syndrome , a chromosome abnormality in which a man has two extra Y chromosomes, has only been recorded twelve times?
Did you know that Hitler Nababan was beaten by an angry mob after posting a meme to a WhatsApp group?
Did you know that ballerina Unity Phelan danced in the films John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum and I'm Thinking of Ending Things ?
Did you know that Silver Hill station may have been named for rumors of Captain Kidd 's treasure – or just a stand of trees?
Did you know that Charles Scott Napier graduated from the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich , and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in 1916, but could not be sent overseas until he turned nineteen in 1918?
Did you know that the Turkish government forced the last monks of Vazelon Monastery to leave in 1923, more than one thousand years after the monastery first opened?
Did you know that Marion Miley , a 1930s amateur golfer ranked second in the United States, was murdered at the age of 27?
Did you know that the tourist submarine Windermere operated for only two seasons on her namesake lake in Cumbria, England?
Did you know that Vikram Phadnis designed around 800 costumes for the Bollywood film Salaam-e-Ishq ?
Did you know that attending the first Women in Print Conference inspired Carol Seajay to create Feminist Bookstore News ?
Did you know that Michael Hampe , who directed the Cologne Opera for 20 years, was the stage director for the world premiere of Henze 's adaptation of Monteverdi's Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria at the Salzburg Festival ?
Did you know that the remote Burt Township Schools , covering 258 square miles (670 km 2 ) in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan , implemented a novel telephone teaching program that included electronic blackboards in 1984?
Did you know that the Final Offensive of 1981 was actually the first offensive of the 12-year-long Salvadoran Civil War (1979–1992)?
Did you know that professor Emma Baker trained her pharmacology students to perform mass COVID-19 testing on their fellows so that they could go home for Christmas?
Did you know that some of the proposed routes for the current effort to build a Uinta Basin Rail line are based on routes surveyed more than 100 years ago?
Did you know that genderless fashion in Japan was inspired by K-pop groups, visual kei , and 1980s–1990s American fashion?
Did you know that a math mistake while fencing with longswords gave cognitive scientist Tom Griffiths a broken right wrist?
Did you know that Betty Jane Long was Speaker of the Mississippi House of Representatives for less than a day?
Did you know that a contributor to Hell Is a Very Small Place , a 2016 book about solitary confinement, was denied access to a copy of the book while in prison?
Did you know that Aramburu Island is named after its creator, a Marin County supervisor who ordered it cut off from the mainland because he "did not think any homes should be built" there?
Did you know that Kathy Hudson , an expert in science policy and genetic discrimination , helped assemble a team that led to the passage of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act ?
Did you know that Paul McCartney 's psychedelic 1972 Wings Tour Bus ended up in a garden in Tenerife before returning to the UK for restoration?
Did you know that hockey player Kevin Hayes came within two hours of needing his leg amputated due to compartment syndrome ?
Did you know that Russian-born choreographer George Balanchine made the ballet Stars and Stripes as a tribute to the United States, his adopted country?
Did you know that Marion Macfarlane , the first deaconess in the Anglican Church of Australia , later converted to Catholicism and joined the Sisters of the Good Shepherd ?
Did you know that Games Research Inc licensed Diplomacy , Henry Kissinger 's favorite game, in 1960 after the board game's creator unsuccessfully tried to get multiple publishers to accept it?
Did you know that Luis Abraham Delgadillo was Nicaragua's director-general of musical culture, a position which was created specifically for him?
Did you know that in 1750, Daniel-Marie Chabert de Joncaire de Clausonne built a small canal above Niagara Falls to power a sawmill?
Did you know that the North Korean song " Where Are You, Dear General? " plays every morning at 6 a.m. through Pyongyang 's loudspeakers?
Did you know that the chief engineer of Virginia television station WRFT-TV said that "a 15-watt Christmas bulb and baling wire" kept it on the air?
Did you know that during a renovation of New York City's 2 Broadway , some funds were embezzled and sent to two crime families?
Did you know that Lionel Fleury brought minor ice hockey and a recreational facility to Quebec City during the Great Depression ?
Did you know that Frank Sinatra was "very, very angry" after being told that he would not be singing " Lonely Town " on film?
Did you know that Captain John Fenwick Hutchings was in charge of Operation Pluto , the project to construct submarine oil pipelines under the English Channel during World War II?
Did you know that Jessie Carney Smith spent more than twenty years researching the three volumes of Notable Black American Women , which profiled 1,100 figures?
Did you know that the latex-like sap of the desert candle has uses in traditional medicine but can cause skin blisters and blindness?
Did you know that the music video for Oh Land 's " Listen a Little Less " was filmed entirely on a Samsung Galaxy S21 smartphone?
Did you know that Robert Fancourt lost his ship to mutineers in 1797, then ran it aground in 1801?
Did you know that some Brexit supporters have called for the UK to transform itself into a deregulated, low-tax " Singapore-on-Thames " to prosper outside of the EU?
Did you know that Port Vale F.C. captain Tom Conlon 's great-great-grandfather played for the club more than a century ago?
Did you know that Pop Smoke references Manu Ginóbili , a former basketball player with the San Antonio Spurs , in the lyrics for " Hello "?
Did you know that despite the European Commission organising COVID-19 vaccine supplies for the whole bloc , a shortage of vaccines caused several member states to obtain their own supplies from Russia and China?
Did you know that Joseph Taylor Goodsir accused Rudolph Virchow , "the father of modern pathology", of plagiarism?
Did you know that Robert Webb planned his first book to be about Top Gear and other topics of lad culture before it became How Not to Be a Boy , a memoir about masculinity?
Did you know that Doug Sahm 's posthumous album The Return of Wayne Douglas was his first to feature only country music songs?
Did you know that the Astor Place station was flooded by a subterranean river after firefighters extinguished a blaze at a building above it?
Did you know that 19th-century French economist Jean Gustave Courcelle-Seneuil is considered to be the founder of classical economics and economic liberalism in Chile?
Did you know that the late Ottoman Empire has been described as "the laboratory of demographic engineering in Europe"?
Did you know that as the only woman in the 1923 Utah State Senate , Antoinette Kinney introduced bills to increase the number of state-sponsored scholarships and to establish public health regulations?
Did you know that after Erna Schlüter had appeared as Elektra at the Royal Opera House , the composer , who was in the audience, told her that she was the fulfilment of the character?
Did you know that the UK Supreme Court told the Chief Constable that the West Yorkshire Police are not allowed to knock over old ladies?
Did you know that the pioneering Turkish soprano Mesude Çağlayan was presented a tiny doll of "Madama Butterfly" by the government of Japan for performing the Japanese title role in Puccini's opera ?
Did you know that Bob's Your Uncle , a Hong Kong YouTuber, began cooking while he was an international student after he found the food from Chinese restaurants in London unappetising?
Did you know that the Thousand Islands Parkway was the final two-lane section of Highway 401 ?
Did you know that the death of Serbian politician Vladimir Cvijan , which occurred in January 2018, was not publicly known until March 2021?
Did you know that the French football club GPSO 92 Issy was founded by three Peruvian sisters in 1997?
Did you know that computer game studio Legend Entertainment was founded by veterans of the interactive fiction studio Infocom after it shut down in 1989?
Did you know that F. Scott Fitzgerald said that his book The Great Gatsby was a failure in comparison to Willa Cather 's My Ántonia ?
Did you know that the Frightened Rabbit album Painting of a Panic Attack was written mostly over email?
Did you know that Paul English , co-founder of Kayak , offered to pay for the vaccination of 100,000 people during the cholera outbreak following the 2010 Haiti earthquake if other funding could not be secured?
Did you know that the Sursock Purchases represented almost a quarter of all land purchased by Jews in Palestine until 1948?
Did you know that ballerina Miranda Weese performed the lead role in a televised performance of Swan Lake under an hour's notice, with a partner she had never rehearsed with?
Did you know that while the 2020 Triumph Tiger 900 shares a name with a previous model (the 1998 Tiger 900 ) and looks similar to its predecessor (the 2010 Tiger 800 ), it shares its design with neither?
Did you know that on the first day of the East L.A. walkouts , Vickie Castro 's car was used to take down a fence at Roosevelt High School ?
Did you know that a German theologian wrote " Vertraut den neuen Wegen " to be sung at a wedding in Eisenach shortly before the fall of the Wall ?
Did you know that Rosemary Crumlin , author of a 60-year history of the Blake Prize for religious art, first attended a Blake exhibition when she was a young novice with the Australian Sisters of Mercy ?
Did you know that within three years, American subscription television service ON TV went from boasting 725,000 subscribers in eight cities to being out of business?
Did you know that English clergyman Wilfrid T. F. Castle wrote the first book-length account of the postal history of Cyprus ?
Did you know that in the Neon Genesis Evangelion episode " A Transfer ", Arthur Schopenhauer 's hedgehog's dilemma is mentioned?
Did you know that Len Fisher won the 1999 Ig Nobel Prize for physics for his research on the optimal way to dunk a biscuit ?
Did you know that Grote Stadskerk , a church located in the historical centre of Paramaribo , is the first and the largest church of the Moravian congregation in Suriname?
Did you know that after making videos on TikTok where she lip-synced Donald Trump , Sarah Cooper got a comedy special on Netflix and a TV show on CBS ?
Did you know that the greeneye spurdog , Sydney skate , grey skate and whitefin swellshark are at risk of extinction by trawling, according to a 2021 report?
Did you know that the Nazis at Ravensbrück killed French Resistance fighter Émilie Tillion by gas chamber for having white hair?
Did you know that the most senior of the African-American scientists and technicians on the Manhattan Project , William Knox , supervised the otherwise-white staff of the Corrosion Section at Columbia University ?
Did you know that José de la Cruz Mena , who contracted leprosy at the age of 21 and was blind at 26, was described as "the pre-eminent Nicaraguan composer of his time"?
Did you know that in State v. Linkhaw , the North Carolina Supreme Court reversed the conviction of a man who sang so badly in church that a jury had found him guilty of "disturbing a religious congregation"?
Did you know that Carter Hart is the youngest goaltender in Philadelphia Flyers history to record a shutout , doing so at the age of 21 years and 57 days?
Did you know that a song of God's presence , written in 1965 in Dutch by Huub Oosterhuis , became part of the first common German Catholic hymnal , and was retained in the second by popular demand?
Did you know that in September 2020, two labor unions both performed strike actions against the University of Illinois Hospital in Chicago ?
Did you know that irked by the immense gap in gender-focused digital storytelling from both Sudan and South Sudan, Omnia Shawkat co-founded Andariya magazine?
Did you know that studies in occupational toxicology often focus on early effects that are more subtle than those in clinical medicine?
Did you know that in one of Singapore 's largest drainage diversions, a canal had to be redirected into steel pipes while constructing Chinatown MRT station ?
Did you know that organist Lorin Whitney worked nights at a Lockheed Aircraft plant during World War II, while performing on a coast-to-coast radio program after his shift ended in the morning?
Did you know that the mayor of Málaga , Francisco de la Torre , was the first Spaniard to be awarded the Medal of Pushkin by Vladimir Putin ?
Did you know that historians do not agree on how Port Way entered the Roman town of Calleva Atrebatum ?
Did you know that Lyubomir Pipkov is considered one of the founders of Bulgaria's modern professional musical establishment?
Did you know that students from four local high schools and Rutgers University each had their chance to run New Jersey television station WRTV for a day?
Did you know that Erich Honecker demanded that West Germany violate its own constitution by recognising East German citizenship?
Did you know that assisted by computers , Marijn Heule helped devise a proof of Keller's conjecture in dimension seven, a 90-year-old math problem?
Did you know that the bicolored sponge goby spends most of its life living inside sponges ?
Did you know that rapper Pop Smoke recorded " Diana " the night before he was murdered?
Did you know that after Mary Lou Godbold announced her candidacy for the Mississippi Senate , all of the other candidates withdrew from the race?
Did you know that when the tower of Sioux Falls radio station KISD collapsed in 1968, it narrowly missed a train motel run by the station's former owner?
Did you know that as a fifteen-year-old student, ballerina Angelica Generosa replaced an injured schoolmate to perform a lead role in Balanchine's Stars and Stripes after two weeks of rehearsals?
Did you know that Leonard Bernstein rediscovered his setting of Psalm 148 for voice and piano, dated 1935, in the mid-1980s, and it was first performed in 1993?
Did you know that the Thai Supreme Court opinion concerning the murder of Jenjira Ployangunsri is often quoted on Valentine's Day?
Did you know that a 1947 song tells you how to cook rabbit at top speed ?
Did you know that Eugénie Brazier was the first chef to be awarded six Michelin stars ?
Did you know that a team including bricklayers, assistant bank managers and insurance clerks defeated Coventry City in the third round of the FA Cup in 1989?
Did you know that Ivorian politician Téné Birahima Ouattara , the brother of the country's president, is nicknamed "Photocopy" due to their similar appearance?
Did you know that neither of the US-based authors of the 1991 book The Coming War With Japan had ever visited Japan when they wrote it?
Did you know that when Canadian preacher Perry F. Rockwood criticized the Presbyterian church in 1947, he was ordered to recant and burn his sermons?
Did you know that the 2021 Palestinian film The Present is about a present and the present ?
Did you know that German minister Wolfgang Clement said that the secret to drinking a glass of beer in 1.5 seconds was to fold back the uvula ?
Did you know that the wasp Sceliphron asiaticum provisions its nest with body parts of spiders?
Did you know that Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Zach Eflin was once traded twice in the course of 24 hours?
Did you know that the February 2021 calving of Iceberg A-74 has provided the opportunity to study seafloor organisms that can survive 30 kilometres (19 mi) from the nearest daylight?
Did you know that the Battle of Milliken's Bend brought acceptance of African Americans as soldiers?
Did you know that after Do Not Split received an Oscar nomination, the Chinese government reportedly told local media to downplay the awards?
Did you know that Louis William Valentine DuBourg established his episcopal see in St. Louis because the Catholics of New Orleans would not accept his authority?
Did you know that people in Taiwan changed their legal names to something involving salmon in order to get free sushi?
Did you know that Imago Records intended to release Kylie Minogue in the US before closing down in 1995?
Did you know that after IFPI Taiwan established the IFPI Taiwan Charts in August 1996, the charts were noted for having their own World Wide Web site?
Did you know that the music video for St. Vincent 's song " Pay Your Way in Pain " recalls the 1970s downtown New York , taking inspiration from the works of Kate Bush , David Bowie , and Cindy Sherman ?
Did you know that " Christians, awake, salute the happy morn " is a hymn based on a poem that John Byrom first presented "For Dolly"?
Did you know that an article headlined " (Almost) Straight Outta Compton " led to Prince Harry 's communications secretary issuing a public statement denouncing "racist" and "sexist" commentary about Meghan, Duchess of Sussex ?
Did you know that the 2003 spy thriller The Hero: Love Story of a Spy was Priyanka Chopra 's first Bollywood film?
Did you know that "prophet of doom" Craig Hamilton-Parker claims to have predicted Brexit and Trump ?
Did you know that the dual circulation policy calls for China to prioritize domestic consumption while remaining open to international trade ?
Did you know that Masako Yashiro was one of the earliest female artists to create Japanese boys' comics ?
Did you know that the series finale of Schitt's Creek was written in three hours by co-creator Daniel Levy ?
Did you know that Alice Saxby was nurse in charge of an officer's wing at Botleys during the Second World War and cared for many casualties from the Normandy landings ?
Did you know that in 2000, the Mayor of New York City Rudy Giuliani threatened to sell JFK and LaGuardia airports to BAA USA owned by a British company?
Did you know that Mark Cullen was named as League Two Player of the Month for October 2014 after scoring a perfect hat-trick ?
Did you know that former Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev starred in a Pizza Hut commercial in 1997?
Did you know that Jacquie Sturm was the first Māori writer to have her work published in a New Zealand anthology?
Did you know that Green Bullfrog featured members of Deep Purple , Procol Harum and Chas & Dave ?
Did you know that due to her Casualty character Ruby Spark 's near- photographic memory , actress Maddy Hill had to learn all the intricate details of the medical terminology used by the character?
Did you know that people thought Boxers would gentrify Washington Heights ?
Did you know that Gardner Dow was the only American college football player to die of sports-related injuries in 1919?
Did you know that English musician Jane Weaver 's album Flock was inspired by Lebanese torch songs , 1980s Russian Aerobics records, and Australian punk music?
Did you know that author Edmund G. Love spent several years homeless, sleeping on the subway and interacting with other homeless people, leading him to write the book Subways Are For Sleeping ?
Did you know that only about a quarter of New York City's 472 subway stations had elevators in 2018, among the lowest accessibility rates of the world's major transit systems?
Did you know that the TV broadcast of the Taylor Swift concert City of Lover only included half the set list of the original concert?
Did you know that Tonia Shand became Australia's first woman high commissioner to Sri Lanka in 1988?
Did you know that the coral reefs of Tuvalu include the Funafuti Conservation Area , which encompasses 20 per cent of the reef area of Funafuti atoll?
Did you know that Peter Milliman coached Team Russia at the 2014 World Lacrosse Championship despite not knowing until that year that they even had a team?
Did you know that, while representing Andorra at the 2010 Winter Olympics , Lluís Marin Tarroch served as the flag bearer and became the first Andorran to compete in snowboarding at the Games?
Did you know that Sister Elizabeth Sander , who was imprisoned for carrying "lewd books", escaped twice?
Did you know that at the age of 12, the Lakota spiritual leader Arvol Looking Horse became the youngest ever Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe and Bundle?
Did you know that Gwen Stefani 's " Slow Clap " has a country -inspired cover artwork, despite the song itself having a ska sound?
Did you know that in 1930, the new infant-care centre of the Mothercraft Training Society was named after Princess Elizabeth of York , now Queen Elizabeth II?
Did you know that when journalist Pierre Nadeau reported on the 1973 famine in Ethiopia , his suggestion for viewers to donate to Oxfam led to an inundation of contributions the next day?
Did you know that Duncan Jupp scored his first league goal for more than a decade in the 2005 Football League Two play-off Final ?
Did you know that Lieutenant General Osman Erbaş was one of 11 Turkish military personnel killed in a 4 March 2021 helicopter crash ?
Did you know that Prides Crossing station had separate benches for Democrats and Republicans ?
Did you know that there are dragons in Buckingham Palace ?
Did you know that Napoleon Bonaparte once acted as the main character in a soap opera and once fell from a Harley Davidson motorbike?
Did you know that there has been a bottomless pit in East Flagstaff, Arizona, for more than 100 years?
Did you know that President George H. W. Bush was King of the Pit ?
Did you know that an Alligator in PVC made Mary Quant look wet ?
Did you know that Mr. Spock ate my balls ?
Did you know that having sex at different times may produce new species ?
Did you know that Michigan governor William Milliken gave the homily at a funeral for frozen cheese and mushroom pizzas ?
Did you know that Leonard Bernstein wrote " I hate music "?
Did you know that 14 April is Cake and Cunnilingus Day ?
Did you know that the United States once sued a golden cock but cried fowl when the cock won?
Did you know that in 1941, a Trinidadian king was crowned with the assistance of Adolf Hitler ?
Did you know that Toa Payoh station was the first in Singapore's Mass Rapid Transit system to have its structural works completed?
Did you know that the title of the Taylor Swift song " Cornelia Street " refers to a street in New York City on which Swift rented a townhouse ?
Did you know that the Cerrón Grande Reservoir , also known as Lake Suchitlán, is one of the most contaminated and polluted bodies of fresh water in Central America ?
Did you know that Brenda Banks was one of the first African-American women to work as a professional animator?
Did you know that Vorau Abbey 's collegiate church has been described as the "most splendid baroque church in Styria ?"
Did you know that, such was his popularity with the club's supporters, when footballer Hughie Ferguson was sold by Motherwell F.C. , the local steel works closed to allow workers to wave him off?
Did you know that the founder of WZIP in Covington, Kentucky , beat out his own brother for the right to build the station?
Did you know that American legislator Uriah F. Abshier rescued his son from an 1894 Christmas Eve fire in Silver Lake, Oregon , that killed 43 people, including his wife?
Did you know that Gertrude Michelson sat on the board of trustees of Columbia University before it began admitting female students?
Did you know that the original video about the slang term " cheugy " didn't go " TikTok viral", but two months later, a New York Times article about the video did?
Did you know that Stephen Chow initially declined to become Bishop of Hong Kong , but relented after receiving a handwritten letter from Pope Francis ?
Did you know that Jim Johnson scored the first goal in Philadelphia Flyers history during an exhibition game ?
Did you know that males of the fossil ant Klondikia have "massive" genitalia?
Did you know that Leon Hale , who would have turned 100 today, was rejected from the US Navy and the Marine Corps during World War II partly due to the odd placement of his eye?