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Did you know that Victoria Siddall is the first woman to be appointed the director of the 168-year-old National Portrait Gallery in London?
Did you know that North Korean series The Taehongdang Party Secretary was created to help promote the consumption of potatoes during a rice shortage?
Did you know that a baby penguin from Australia is "an absolute unit "?
Did you know that Nancy S. Steinhardt completed her doctorate on medieval Chinese architecture before she was able to see any in person?
Did you know that much of Archcliffe Fort was demolished in the 1920s to allow for expansion of a railway?
Did you know that Alfred Sully , who led US forces during the Sioux Wars , was married to a Yankton Sioux woman?
Did you know that The Right and the Wrong was the first feature film produced natively in Trinidad and Tobago?
Did you know that a 23-day CBC strike thrust Don Goodwin into the Canadian national spotlight and into "folk-hero status"?
Did you know that the lyric video for an Olivia Rodrigo song included a teaser that she would tour in support of her album Guts ?
Did you know that the Cosmere Roleplaying Game surpassed Frosthaven to become the most-funded tabletop game on Kickstarter in August 2024?
Did you know that " Honest Ike " stole more than $200,000 from the Alabama treasury?
Did you know that in the history of fisheries in the Philippines , the once-dominant local municipal fisheries were supplanted first by commercial fisheries , and then by aquaculture ?
Did you know that Eliza Legzdina has attributed opinions of her work to the "horrification of the female body"?
Did you know that the center squeeze has been blamed for costing Gary Johnson the 2016 US presidential election ?
Did you know that seven people died when their helicopter struck supporting wires of a Texas TV station 's tower and crashed?
Did you know that Michael P. Walsh oversaw the construction of 15 buildings as the president of Boston College ?
Did you know that Jer Lau , who appeared in the film Over My Dead Body , also performed its theme song because the director felt his role was too minor?
Did you know that a Picasso sculpture at University Village was called "half as high and twice as sexy as the Great Sphinx of Egypt"?
Did you know that country music singer Buck Owens bought a bankrupt TV station in California from his sister?
Did you know that according to the mayor of Utica , 13-year-old Nyah Mway was the first Karen person to be killed in America by police?
Did you know that Ratnākara's Haravijaya is the longest extant Sanskrit mahākāvya ?
Did you know that Betty Brussel set three competitive swimming records on the same day at the age of 99?
Did you know that both scholars and activists believe that diet culture is often intertwined with racism and other forms of prejudice?
Did you know that G. R. Pantouw supported the Dutch puppet state of East Indonesia because he wanted to push the Netherlands into abandoning colonialism?
Did you know that a Cretan man found a 1st-century statue of Aphrodite while trying to drill a well, and then reburied it?
Did you know that Mokulubete Makatisi placed eighth at the 2022 Commonwealth Games women's marathon despite running in new shoes that she had received on the eve of the race?
Did you know that the developer of The Crimson Diamond first created a series of pixel-art rooms and later built a game around the house she had designed?
Did you know that some of the work of lesbian feminist filmmaking pioneer Norma Bahia Pontes is lost media ?
Did you know that the government used military trucks and bulldozers to rescue people from a tropical storm ?
Did you know that Milan A. P. Harminc , the consul-general of the Slovak Republic in London, broke with his government at the outbreak of World War II and sided with the Allies ?
Did you know that there was a doomsday cult named after Neo from The Matrix ?
Did you know that Australian train driver Bill Morrow received the Soviet Union's Lenin Peace Prize alongside Fidel Castro?
Did you know that among the Orang Asli of Negeri Sembilan , chica is only collected during kenduri rituals?
Did you know that Sailor Moon co-stars Emi Shinohara and Rika Fukami were born on the same date?
Did you know that the flag of La Guaira is based on the design of a banner from a 1797 conspiracy against Spanish rule in Venezuela?
Did you know that chef Victor Albisu created a bulgogi taco that honors the Koreatown neighborhood of his hometown of Annandale, Virginia?
Did you know that in 1989 the Barcelona women's second football team was knocked out of the Catalan Cup in the same round as the Barcelona women's first team?
Did you know that Tuhi Martukaw led youth delegations to the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues for ten years in a row?
Did you know that unused placeholder sounds from Smash Hit were reused in Teardown ?
Did you know that announcers at a Virginia radio station were warned that playing more than three rap songs an hour could get them fired?
Did you know that of the 16 aircraft which took part in the Doolittle Raid , only the one piloted by Edward J. York landed intact?
Did you know that " Bed Chem " and " Juno " are the "horniest" tracks on Short n' Sweet , according to one critic?
Did you know that Moses Benjamin Wulff founded a printing press that reprinted The Guide for the Perplexed for the first time in centuries?
Did you know that New York City's Queens Zoo once received a lion cub despite having no lion enclosure?
Did you know that Muhammad Khaznadar 's museum was said to have "surpassed every other museum in the world" in Phoenician and Carthaginian antiquities ?
Did you know that William, Prince of Wales , inspired the character of Prince Wheeliam in Cars 2 ?
Did you know that Hurry Up Tomorrow is planned to be the Weeknd 's final album under his stage name?
Did you know that Columbus Airport saw commercial air service before being certified for public use by the Civil Aeronautics Authority ?
Did you know that Lisa Blatt , the first woman to argue 50 cases before the Supreme Court of the United States , "elicits laughs and the occasional sharp response from the justices" for her witty delivery?
Did you know that Oxford is the first city in the United Kingdom to adopt a zero emission zone ?
Did you know that although Pachyballus ornatus is named for its bright pattern, the female is dark and plain while young?
Did you know that retired model Leticia Sardá had no idea that she was the subject of a four-year global search ?
Did you know that pastry chef and television judge Benoit Blin cut off the tips of his fingers in a kitchen accident during his service in the French Navy ?
Did you know that the Netflix-released film A House in Jerusalem is inspired by the history of the director's Palestinian family, who were expelled in 1948 from what had become Israel during the Nakba ?
Did you know that in 1917 British soldiers in France opened fire on mutineers from the Egyptian Labour Corps , killing at least 27 of them?
Did you know that Maryvonne Le Dizès commissioned a trio for saxophone, trombone and violin during her time as a violinist with the Ensemble intercontemporain ?
Did you know that Patrick Tse 's performance in the film Time won him the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actor at the age of 85, making him the award's oldest recipient?
Did you know that Elham Mahamid Ruzin , a blind Muslim Arab , won a silver medal for Israel at the 2024 Paris Paralympics ?
Did you know that attractions at the 1939 World's Fair included a roller coaster, a ski slope, and scantily clad women?
Did you know that a major anime piracy website had over 100 million monthly visits and was one of the top 200 most popular Internet properties?
Did you know that while Council Working Parties only formally prepare decisions of the Council of the European Union , they de facto shape the majority of those decisions?
Did you know that actress Norma Phillips starred in a 52-episode silent film series in 1914 that interviewed real-life celebrities?
Did you know that mutilated body parts found in the spring of Tattarisuo in 1931 were used to practice black magic ?
Did you know that Dezső Varga was the first Szekler ice hockey player to be inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame ?
Did you know that at least 69 countries have " no net loss " environmental policies?
Did you know that in Hindu mythology, Madhavi , who was blessed with the miraculous ability to regain her virginity after each childbirth, was married to three kings, each in exchange for 200 rare horses?
Did you know that the ending of the TV series Community features a fourth-wall-breaking monologue?
Did you know that Henry Kailimai and his Hawaiian Quintet were hired by Henry Ford to serve as official musicians for the Ford Motor Company?
Did you know that when the Edward S. Harkness House was built, its owner took the address from his neighbor?
Did you know that a New Testament manuscript was "barbarously scored with red chalk" by a book publisher?
Did you know that Thomas Bertrand-Hudon is the first professional football player to wear a Guardian Cap during a regular season game?
Did you know that the 1998 cyberpunk short story " CyberJoly Drim " caused a controversy in the Polish science fiction and fantasy community?
Did you know that Ajah Pritchard-Lolo is Vanuatu's first Olympic weightlifter ?
Did you know that many hapa haole songs were written by non-Hawaiians and featured nonsensical, faux-Hawaiian lyrics?
Did you know that Shoko Ikeda once admitted that Haruhi Suzumiya , a character she designed, was "just like me"?
Did you know that Russian pianist Pavel Kushnir died on a hunger strike after his arrest for anti-war videos posted on a YouTube channel with five subscribers?
Did you know that public health measures and advances in medical science in modern human history helped raise global life expectancy from about 31 years in 1900 to over 66 years in 2000?
Did you know that Green Day 's " Wake Me Up When September Ends " became closely associated with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina ?
Did you know that scientists publishing in Liebigs Annalen were subject to criticism and attacks by editor Justus von Liebig ?
Did you know that English amateur geologist Charlotte Eyton wrote a number of papers and pamphlets on the geology of the Wrekin , a part of Shropshire, between 1862 and 1870?
Did you know that the director of a Lake Erie-based walleye fishing tournament defended two anglers accused of cheating until he found weights in their winning fish two years ago today ?
Did you know that East Suffolk Park , a former student hostel in Edinburgh, was once an internment camp for enemy aliens ?
Did you know that football player Kyle Hergel said his biggest strength was "my nastiness"?
Did you know that museum administrator Herbert Smith hired a special train so that civil servants could watch a total solar eclipse in 1927?
Did you know that Yan Ruisheng , China's first full-length feature film, was banned within two years?
Did you know that Shadia Abu Ghazaleh was one of the first women to join the Palestinian resistance to the Israeli occupation of the West Bank ?
Did you know that the radio program Radio City Music Hall of the Air employed approximately 10,000 musicians during the first eight years of its broadcast history?
Did you know that Stanley Washburn 's message on November 29, 1941, warning the US Navy not to underestimate the Japanese, failed to reach Admiral Kimmel before the attack on Pearl Harbor ?
Did you know that the first standalone street toilets to cater to both men and women in Auckland were converted into a male-only facility during the Second World War?
Did you know that Taurus 09 was the largest Royal Navy deployment in more than ten years?
Did you know that the hips of some 19th-century Fijian young women were tattooed with veiqia when they reached puberty?
Did you know that the myth of Shunten , the legendary first king of Chūzan , was used to justify the 1872 annexation of Okinawa ?
Did you know that two best-seller lists initially classified The Children's Book of Virtues as non-fiction, but later moved it to their fiction charts?
Did you know that Bahamian basketball player Waltiea Rolle moved to the United States at the age of 13 after being noticed while walking home from school?
Did you know that the U.S. Air Force considered a bomber version of the F-22 Raptor known as the FB-22 ?
Did you know that a new soccer team in Boise, Idaho , plans to play at a converted horse racing track?
Did you know that geologist Gilbert Wilson was the fifth Wilson at school, so he was known as " Quintus "?
Did you know that Soviet academic Lily Golden researched " officially disapproved " genres of contemporary Black music?
Did you know that the opening scene of Yen and Ai-Lee was rewritten as a long take due to rain during filming?
Did you know that anime singer Rei Nakashima was named after Ray Charles ?
Did you know that in high school Anne Marie Armstrong won three state titles in volleyball, three in basketball, and four in track and field?
Did you know that when French secret police raided Deng Xiaoping 's hotel room in Billancourt , they encountered copies of the Moscow newspaper Qian Jin Bao ?
Did you know that Victoria Espinosa directed the first performance of The Public , almost 50 years after it was written?
Did you know that aerospace engineering firm Helliwells Ltd began as a maker of fireplace accessories?
Did you know that during the colonial period , the Dutch East Indies was the third-largest exporter of tea after the British Raj and Ceylon ?
Did you know that the director of Eating Out 2: Sloppy Seconds once described the film as "gaysploitation"?
Did you know that Xu Xinfu adapted the fictional Chinese-American detective Charlie Chan for Chinese audiences?
Did you know that large aircraft once operated on a regular basis from Griffin–Spalding County Airport despite it only having a 3,100-foot-long (940 m) runway?
Did you know that Susanne Craig won the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for her reporting on Donald Trump's taxes after receiving a copy of his tax records in her mailbox?
Did you know that New York City's Hotel Marseilles , once a shelter for Holocaust survivors, later became affordable housing for the elderly?
Did you know that Anatolii Brezvin helped establish a youth hockey championship in Ukraine, and sought to open 60 ice rinks ?
Did you know that the Union of Assyrians 's mishandling of shoe-polishing stations led to violent conflicts in 1920s Moscow?
Did you know that in 1959, Henri Claireaux claimed that a reduction to a subsidy to Saint Pierre and Miquelon had devolved the territory into "a state bordering on poverty"?
Did you know that both Tim Walz and JD Vance were accused of sanewashing in the 2024 vice presidential debate ?
Did you know that Kazimierz Sakowicz spent three years recording the murder of tens of thousands in his diary, which was published decades later?
Did you know that Rust Red Hills is being sold to renovate student housing, a court-approved move that museum associations say violates the ethics of deaccessioning ?
Did you know that Amaury du Closel founded the Forum Voix Etouffées to revive music that was suppressed by 20th-century totalitarian regimes?
Did you know that 38 per cent of Welsh university students in 1900 were women?
Did you know that Johnny Fripp was described as "a bundle of football-toting dynamite"?
Did you know that Big Motor employees hit cars with socks stuffed with golf balls as part of an insurance-fraud scheme?
Did you know that " Every Night ", released ten years ago today, was called "the smartest dumb music out there"?
Did you know that Bishop John Dunn continued to celebrate Mass after a fire broke out in the choir loft of St. Cecilia Cathedral during the Sixth National Eucharistic Congress ?
Did you know that over the opening weekend of Florentina Holzinger 's first opera, eighteen audience members required medical treatment for severe nausea?
Did you know that the apricot dress of Jacqueline Kennedy kept its shape in India's hot weather?
Did you know that weightlifter Oun Yao-ling was asked to compete in the South African Games , but the invitation was swiftly rescinded once the organisers learned that he was Chinese, not white?
Did you know that the opening of Salmon n' Bannock led to the owner reconnecting with her long-lost family?
Did you know that Władysław Umiński 's 1914 novel Czarodziejski okręt was described as being a "grotesque" treatment of the robinsonade ?
Did you know that Ross Mihara "didn't know a yorikiri from hara-kiri " when he was hired as a sumo commentator by NHK ?
Did you know that despite her father wanting her to become a music teacher, Marcia Moore ran away to Chicago to star in silent film , vaudeville , cabaret , and burlesque performances?
Did you know that al-Shaykh Badr was the hometown of Salih al-Ali , who led the Alawite revolt against the French in Syria ?
Did you know that a charity founded by Henry Smith in 1628 now has assets of more than £1 billion?
Did you know that the 2024 Talerddig train collision was the first collision between passenger trains in Wales since 1991?
Did you know that New World Mall was the largest Asian shopping mall in the Northeastern United States upon its opening in 2011?
Did you know that Mariah Carey used a sample from the New Zealand duo Adeaze in her 2005 song " Your Girl "?
Did you know that working at a post office was how Derrick Harden became an NFL player?
Did you know that Michael F. Adams was the first president of Centre College not to be a Presbyterian ?
Did you know that between 30 and 300 million rupees ' worth of goods were plundered during the Afghan sack of Delhi ?
Did you know that Shuah Khan , the first woman fellow of the Linux Foundation , "signed off" on a patch recommending the use of inclusive terminology in the Linux kernel ?
Did you know that Benjamin Britten was said to have composed Canticle V: The Death of Saint Narcissus "in the face of death"?
Did you know that Last Call BBS contains a chip-manufacturing game, a model-building simulator, a game of solitaire , and more?
Did you know that Pablo Barragán originally wanted to be a jazz saxophonist, but was more attracted to the clarinet because he thought it resembled the human voice?
Did you know that Malfunction Junction in Birmingham, Alabama, carried 160,000 vehicles in 2018, instead of 80,000 as it was intended to hold?
Did you know that according to the author of Stuff Matters , holding a sample of an aerogel is "like holding a piece of sky"?
Did you know that Napoleon III was buried in St Mary's Church, Chislehurst , before his remains were moved to Farnborough Abbey 15 years later?
Did you know that Sankar Montoute became the first NFL player from Trinidad and Tobago in 1987?
Did you know that a San Francisco–area radio station sometimes had to be quiet to avoid disturbing patients at a nearby dentist's office?
Did you know that Bethwel Henry was the first Micronesian to receive a degree in his field, and served as a United Nations delegate at the age of 25?
Did you know that the novel Bloody Bread , about the struggles of Polish immigrants in the US, was briefly criticized by communist censors for "glorifying the United States"?
Did you know that Leonardo DiCaprio was set to star in the film adaptation of Leonardo da Vinci ?
Did you know that Helmut Bauer confirmed around 150,000 young people, including 500 in Tanzania?
Did you know that although the plant species Dolichostachys elongata was first described in 1962, it was not considered validly published until 60 years later?
Did you know that a review described He Fucked the Girl Out of Me as being about "all the ways in which American society fails its most vulnerable"?
Did you know that the restoration of Neknampur Lake was recognised "as the best model of lake restoration in India"?
Did you know that Benjamin Franklin Shumard 's assistant named an oak species after him, and then sabotaged his reinstatement after he was fired?
Did you know that the 2013 book Brick by Brick , about how The Lego Group reinvented itself, became a popular business text?
Did you know that the Trilobite Wilderness is so rich in trilobite fossils that in places virtually every rock contains a fossil?
Did you know that cavalry officer Harvey Tuckett retired from the British Army to become an actor, but was shot in a duel by his former commanding officer?
Did you know that after fleeing to Argentina as a Spanish Civil War refugee, Maria Muntañola Cvetković became one of Yugoslavia's first experts on microfungi?
Did you know that a modern Polish fairy tale , written during the period of martial law in Poland in the 1980s, mixes the themes of real-world environmental protection and fantasy-like gnomes?
Did you know that the Japanese TV show Iron Chef gained a cult following on a San Francisco TV station before it was dubbed into English and aired on the Food Network ?
Did you knowthat Malik Arslan was assassinated on the orders of the Mamluk Sultan of Egypt due to his ties with the Ottomans ?
Did you know that Equatorial Guinea's national abortion law is, as of 2022, one of only eleven that requires a woman to get her spouse's approval to receive an abortion?
Did you know that Wasswa Serwanga and his twin brother were the first two NFL players from Uganda?
Did you know that " Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites " has been credited with bringing dubstep to the mainstream?
Did you know that Johann Friedrich Hartknoch published the first edition of Immanuel Kant 's Critique of Pure Reason ?
Did you know that according to the Laws of London , merchants from lands ruled by the German emperor enjoyed special trading privileges in 11th-century London?
Did you know that language activist Hasan Ali spent more than 20 years compiling a dictionary of the Osing language ?
Did you know that a Chinese poet wrote about a Syriac church in Sichuan without knowing what it was?
Did you know that the politician Veylma Falaeo is the first woman to be President of the Congress of New Caledonia ?
Did you know that housewives were encouraged to keep Edmonds baking-powder tins to be used as bombs?
Did you know that the members of Nocturna met for the first time while recording their debut album?
Did you know that Leon Trotsky frequented a Jewish dairy restaurant in the Bronx but refused to tip, and the waiters retaliated by spilling hot soup on him?
Did you know that Roger Farmer , the first NFL player from Barbados, reached the league after playing for schools that a newspaper described as having "terrible records"?
Did you know that a recurrent famine has haunted Madagascar's southern regions since the 1930s?
Did you know that Georgina Sutton was the first woman to be appointed the chief pilot of an Australian airline?
Did you know that the ballot summary for 2024 Ohio Issue 1 was a flashpoint for legal action?
Did you know that ballerina Marina Kondratyeva served the Bolshoi Ballet and its school for over 70 years?
Did you know that Eternity in Flames , now commonly shown in Chinese schools, was banned during the Cultural Revolution ?
Did you know that before selling chicken and pies, 5-foot-9-inch (1.75 m) Eddie Sheldrake broke UCLA 's single-game scoring record in basketball?
Did you know that a book known as the "Polish Pinocchio " was published a hundred years ago?
Did you know that Sun Jianai co-founded one of China's first national universities in 1898?
Did you know that in its 1962 election campaign, the Socialist Party of India demanded that twice-yearly inter-caste dining be made a mandatory criterion for government employment?
Did you know that the 2000 edition of the Eurovision Song Contest was the first to be broadcast live over the internet?
Did you know that the cast of The Perfect Couple created a WhatsApp group to avoid filming a dance sequence to the theme song ?
Did you know that Negussie Roba was an Olympic sprinter who later became a top marathon coach?
Did you know that smokestacks at a former rayon mill were stabilized by dropping bricks into them?
Did you know that Dalibor Riccardi , a head of state of San Marino, has played more than 70 matches in the country's football league?