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Did you know that Muhammad and his followers in Medina originally faced Jerusalem as their direction for prayer ?
Did you know that UCLA basketball player Natalie Chou said that the use of a slang term for COVID-19 created "unnecessary xenophobia for people who look like me"?
Did you know that the construction of Gappo Park in Aomori , Japan, led to the death of its designer in 1885?
Did you know that catalog showroom retailer Luria's hired former Cuban diplomats in the 1960s due to their knowledge of china and silverware?
Did you know that Lin-Manuel Miranda saw "hip-hop songs rising off the page" when he read Ron Chernow 's book Alexander Hamilton ?
Did you know that the design of the Japanese–Italian fusion restaurant Kissa Tanto was inspired by Hotel Okura Tokyo , Italian architect Gio Ponti , and covers designed by John Gall for Haruki Murakami 's novels?
Did you know that the 1988 Women's Cricket World Cup Final , held at the 90,000-capacity Melbourne Cricket Ground , had an attendance of 3,326?
Did you know that the Valley of the Volcanoes in Peru, with its many lava flows and scoria cones , is of interest both to tourists and scientists?
Did you know that Awkwafina is the first woman of Asian descent to win a Golden Globe Award for best actress in a film?
Did you know that the secret police of several German-speaking nations exchanged intelligence with each other through the Police Union of German States from 1848 to 1866?
Did you know that Earl Dodge held a presidential nominating convention in his home with as few as eight delegates in attendance?
Did you know that the Slovak authorities suspended restitution to Holocaust survivors after the Partisan Congress riots , as many partisans were unhappy at returning property to its original Jewish owners?
Did you know that American ice hockey coach Lou Vairo introduced European coaching concepts to the United States?
Did you know that early drafts of the television drama " CasualtyXHolby " included a vehicle striking an electrical substation to cause a blackout, before a cyberattack was substituted instead?
Did you know that at New Albion , the Coast Miwok people honored Sir Francis Drake as if he were being proclaimed king?
Did you know that NASA Astronaut Group 7 consisted of seven pilots who transferred to NASA from the U.S. Air Force's Manned Orbiting Laboratory spy-satellite program?
Did you know that British police officer Suzette Davenport was responsible for crime in Staffordshire and intelligence in the West Midlands ?
Did you know that New York City Subway riders could get their clothes dry cleaned at the Church Avenue station?
Did you know that Elie Wiesel 's 1966 non-fiction book The Jews of Silence was based on his journey to the Soviet Union during the High Holidays of 1965 to report on the condition of Soviet Jewry in the post- Stalin era?
Did you know that Sabine Lake initially marked the border between French Louisiana and Spanish Texas , then the United States and the Republic of Texas , and now the U.S. states of Louisiana and Texas?
Did you know that the Ethiopian army participated in the Korean War ?
Did you know that four elevator accidents occurred in 150 Nassau Street in Manhattan within two years of its opening?
Did you know that Edwin Arlington Robinson 's 1897 poem " Reuben Bright ", considered good teaching material for English classes, featured a "cow-killer converted" in a realistic, vernacular narrative?
Did you know that neuroscientist J. David Jentsch 's car was firebombed by animal-rights activists?
Did you know that the first film entirely in American Sign Language was a 1975 vampire movie called Deafula ?
Did you know that Charlotte Figi , a child who used cannabidiol to treat seizures caused by Dravet syndrome , had a medical cannabis strain named after her?
Did you know that a wall and a statue of Mary that survived the World War II bombing of St. Kolumba in Cologne have been incorporated into a chapel within the Kolumba art museum?
Did you know that Judy McClintock and her brother Joel were the first pair of siblings to win Water Ski World Championship titles?
Did you know that KILO 's broadcast license allowed the University of North Dakota to get out of the commercial broadcasting business?
Did you know that the New South Wales Governor's Body Guard of Light Horse seemed to have been absent when Governor William Bligh was arrested during the Rum Rebellion ?
Did you know that Pacific Mall in Ontario , Canada, is the largest indoor Asian shopping mall in North America?
Did you know that film director Fred Olen Ray made The Brain Leeches for $298.00?
Did you know that Norman K. Brown has worked on every United States Census from 1960 to 2020?
Did you know that Carlos Celdran criticized the 2017 redevelopment of Plaza Moriones in old Manila for having "paved over his heart"?
Did you know that a 1912 case in a Colorado district court yielded the first legal victory against educational segregation in the United States , although it was quickly forgotten afterwards?
Did you know that South African MP Makoti Khawula insists on speaking and being addressed in isiZulu and isiXhosa while in parliament?
Did you know that Habsburg-era Austria 's internal security office, the Secret State Police , was established in 1786 with a staff of just three?
Did you know that marshland around the Flushing River , considered "all but worthless", was later expanded into a park used for two world's fairs ?
Did you know that when a spectator tried to help Australia's first Olympian Edwin Flack after he collapsed during the 1896 marathon event , the athlete punched him to the ground?
Did you know that Dreeg is a card game played with German-suited cards that is described as "a special Franconian form of Sixty-Six "?
Did you know that the song of the Madagascan hoopoe differs markedly from that of the African hoopoe ?
Did you know that John R. Davis Jr. , the U.S. ambassador to Poland , was known to host leaders of the banned trade union Solidarity at his home?
Did you know that Lingua Ignota 's 2019 album Caligula has been described as "a murderous amalgam of opera , metal , and noise "?
Did you know that the company that built Six Pillars House also constructed Highpoint I , and the penguin enclosure at London Zoo ?
Did you know that eight-year-old Nigerian refugee Tanitoluwa Adewumi won a New York state chess championship while his family was living in a homeless shelter in Manhattan ?
Did you know that A. H. M. Jones called his assistant J. R. Martindale 's contributions to the Prosopography a "worthy contender for the thirteenth labour of Hercules "?
Did you know that Emilie Widemann Macfarlane was the first president of the women's branch of Hui Aloha ʻĀina , which was formed in opposition to the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom in 1893?
Did you know that most branchiobdellids use crayfish as hosts, living on their heads, carapaces , or claws , but in some instances inside their gill cavities?
Did you know that the Toronto-based Human Computing Resources was a pioneer in the commercialization of the Unix operating system?
Did you know that according to the 2019 documentary Toxic Beauty , thousands of carcinogenic and hormone-disrupting chemicals are used in cosmetic products in the U.S. without adequate government regulation?
Did you know that Swiss World War II spy Otto Pünter used crosswords and lemon juice as means of encryption ?
Did you know that fan-recorded footage of a live DJ set revealed the existence of 100 Gecs ' song " Ringtone (Remix) " a month prior to its release?
Did you know that cloth face masks were routinely used by surgeons before being replaced by modern surgical masks in the 1960s?
Did you know that St Augustine's Church, Wrangthorn , raised money for a stained-glass window in 1934, but ended up spending it on a church hall instead?
Did you know that A Case of Spring Fever , a film in which springs disappear, was parodied in an episode of The Simpsons ?
Did you know that the Vietnam mouse-deer , which had been feared to have gone extinct nearly 30 years ago, was sighted again in 2019?
Did you know that Zofia Nehringowa set speed-skating world records in all individual distances?
Did you know that Florence Boot introduced the sale of books, stationery, and perfume at the pharmacy chain Boots ?
Did you know that the writer of the hymn " Angel Voices, Ever Singing " banned it from being published with a tune composed by Arthur Sullivan ?
Did you know that after spending World War II in the Philippines, Flora Arca Mata returned to Stockton to become California's first Filipino-American teacher?
Did you know that the 1938 deportation of Jews from Slovakia was justified by blaming them for a recent territorial concession to Hungary ?
Did you know that while commanding one of the last Confederate units north of the Potomac River during the retreat from Gettysburg , J. Johnston Pettigrew was mortally wounded but refused to be left in Union hands?
Did you know that both members of the French musical duo Les Frangines learned to play the guitar by watching online video lessons?
Did you know that Hammersmith Town Hall in London, designed by Ernest Berry Webber , was called an "unfortunate building" by architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner ?
Did you know that racing driver Justin Wilson entered the 2003 Formula One World Championship through an investment programme listed on the London Stock Exchange ?
Did you know that the Romans besieged Lilybaeum for nine years without capturing the Carthaginian city?
Did you know that the Prohibition Party considered Horace Greeley for the presidential nomination at its first national convention , but rejected him because he was not supportive enough of women's suffrage ?
Did you know that India developed nuclear power when Atal Bihari Vajpayee was prime minister?
Did you know that " Democracy Manifest " is a top Australian viral video and meme?
Did you know that Richard Curzon inherited Kedleston Hall and a recently created peerage from his Uncle George ?
Did you know that in the song " LA Monster ", Kanye West claims that Los Angeles lets Satan run the city's streets?
Did you know that Anatoliy Mokrenko , a baritone and future director of the Ukrainian National Opera , performed in a Russian film based on Donizetti 's opera Lucia di Lammermoor ?
Did you know that the saint to whom the church of San Filippo Neri in Via Giulia in Rome was originally dedicated was the patron of people with gout ?
Did you know that Neil Malhotra found evidence that voters reward incumbents for disaster-relief spending, but not for disaster-preparedness spending?
Did you know that Tetraponera penzigi is one of several species of ant that protect whistling thorn trees in East Africa from grazing giraffes and rhinoceroses?
Did you know that Hawaiian chieftess Haʻaheo Kaniu converted to Christianity and attended classes taught by American missionaries?
Did you know that according to legend, the 6th-century Irish monk Brendan spent days fasting on Mount Brandon before voyaging across the Atlantic to discover Saint Brendan's Island ?
Did you know that actress Cecilia Suárez first met director Manolo Caro when he was 14, and would later go on to star in almost all of his films?
Did you know that Manchester United opened Manchester City 's former training ground after floodlights were installed?
Did you know that having served as acting governor for five Indonesian provinces , Eddy Sabara was known as the "acting governor specialist"?
Did you know that to win It's a Crime , a play-by-mail game , players had to first succeed as a gang leader before rising to mob boss level, and achieve victory as "Godfather"?
Did you know that the Buddhist disciple Śāriputra made a pact with his friend Maudgalyayana that they would tell each other if one of them found the path to nirvana ?
Did you know that the 2013 album Group Therapy by Sivion features 26 guest artists?
Did you know that the marriage bed of Henry VII , valued at £20 million, lay dismantled for a while in a hotel car park?
Did you know that a finishing gap of 0.002 seconds at the 2003 Carolina Dodge Dealers 400 was the closest finish in NASCAR Cup Series history since the introduction of electronic scoring in 1993 ?
Did you know that the modern legacy of South Wales colliery proprietor James Harvey Insole is his Victorian mansion Insole Court at Llandaff , Wales?
Did you know that sympathetic accounts of Norway's first Christian kings include descriptions of them committing gruesome torture against pagans, but non-sympathetic accounts do not?
Did you know that the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office has used the popularity of 2020 Netflix documentary Tiger King to help investigate the 1997 disappearance of Don Lewis ?
Did you know that the video game Xenon 2: Megablast was named after its theme music, " Megablast (Hip Hop on Precinct 13) " by Bomb the Bass ?
Did you know that businesswoman Jayne Spain hired one physically handicapped individual in every ten employees she chose?
Did you know that after performing at a squatted slaughterhouse in 1976, Leonard Cohen called it the "best place in Vienna"?
Did you know that Charli XCX , while under self-isolation due to the coronavirus pandemic, is collaborating with her fans to record her album How I'm Feeling Now ?
Did you know that the Rowridge Valley in the Isle of Wight is the only known location for the wood calamint in Britain?
Did you know that Chicano labor and civil rights activist Pancho Medrano started out as a boxer?
Did you know that the pursuit of new ceramic glaze effects led to some pieces of art pottery still being slightly radioactive today, nearly a century later?
Did you know that the 1951 short film A Wonderful Life , starring James Dunn , was an adaptation of Frank Capra 's It's a Wonderful Life for the Christian film industry ?
Did you know that Mahatma Gandhi championed the concept of composite nationalism , which led to a massive expansion of the Indian independence movement ?
Did you know that the melt-blowing technology used to create N95 respirators was previously used to produce ready-made ribbon bows and bra cups?
Did you know that Mughal emperor Farrukhsiyar said: "The word and seal of Mir Jumla III are the word and seal of Farrukhsiyar"?
Did you know that a temporary period of snowfall was added to Red Dead Online to celebrate Christmas in 2019?
Did you know that Sallyanne Payton , Stanford Law School 's first African-American graduate, served as an adviser for the Clinton Health Care Reform Task Force ?
Did you know that coconut mites can be dispersed by wind, or perhaps by hitching a lift ?
Did you know that 15th-century documents from the Notarial Archives of Malta were almost thrown away in 2008?
Did you know that Captain Tom , who turns 100 today, has raised more than £32 million for NHS Charities Together by walking laps of his garden?
Did you know that Ryan T. Anderson wrote an anti-transgender book that topped the Amazon bestsellers list in the Gay & Lesbian Civil Rights History category?
Did you know that Elizabeth I is said to have been told of her accession whilst sitting beneath Queen Elizabeth's Oak at Hatfield Palace ?
Did you know that in 1952, the U.S. State Department Panel of Consultants on Disarmament recommended that the first test of the hydrogen bomb not be held?
Did you know that Bandana Nepal achieved the Guinness World Record for "longest dance marathon by an individual" by dancing for 126 hours continuously?
Did you know that the extinct sumac species Rhus republicensis is named for Republic, Washington ?
Did you know that Başakşehir Çam and Sakura City Hospital in Istanbul was the largest seismic base-isolated building in the world at the time of its opening?
Did you know that Hollywood stuntwoman Lila Finn , who "jumped out of bombers, [was] chased by lions, clawed by tigers, and thrown overboard into icy ocean waters at night", performed injury-free into her seventies?
Did you know that Bobby Diamond turned down the role of second son Robbie on My Three Sons , which ran for twelve seasons, in favor of Westinghouse Playhouse , which lasted only one?
Did you know that Storkyrkan , Stockholm 's oldest church, was the first church in Sweden where Mass was celebrated in Swedish?
Did you know that the 1st and 4th Missouri Infantry Regiment (Consolidated) lost six colorbearers at the Battle of Champion Hill ?
Did you know that a queen of Bohemia died at Leicester House, Westminster , shortly after moving in?
Did you know that Nora Ephron was the first writer to use the word " shit " in Esquire , in her 1972 essay " A Few Words About Breasts "?
Did you know that Lieutenant-General Sir David Lindsay feared being made a scapegoat for the poor state of defences at Plymouth during the Armada of 1779 ?
Did you know that Luigi Gregori used University of Notre Dame founder Edward Sorin as the model for Christopher Columbus 's face in one of his Columbus murals ?
Did you know that Handala is considered to portray the Palestinian identity "with astounding clarity"?
Did you know that North Carolina Courage teammates Ryan Williams and Cari Roccaro made training videos for other teammates to follow during socially distanced training?
Did you know that the 1949 film Prejudice drives its point home by having characters use many ethnic slurs , including "nigger", "wops", "dagoes", "dirty Jew", and "dumb Swede"?
Did you know that during a 2015 speech at the Oxford Union , Indian politician Shashi Tharoor claimed that Britain owes reparations to India?
Did you know that the former New York City nightclub The Beatrice Inn is now owned by Chopped "Grill Masters" champion Angie Mar ?
Did you know that a model featured in the game Cover Girl Strip Poker said that she was not informed what the photoshoot was for, and that several models were not paid for their involvement in the game?
Did you know that Rachel Bitecofer , who closely predicted the 2018 U.S. House election results, contends that elections are decided by negative partisanship rather than swing votes ?
Did you know that Mark Ibn Kunbar was excommunicated by two Coptic popes and one Monophysite patriarch in the 12th century?
Did you know that Jimmy and Sally , a 1933 film written for the popular screen duo of James Dunn and Sally Eilers , ended up creating a new screen duo of Dunn and Claire Trevor ?
Did you know that Rangers fans at the 2000 Scottish Cup Final wore orange shirts in tribute to their Dutch manager and players, despite suggestions of Protestant undertones?
Did you know that the title of Got7 's 2020 EP Dye is a pun referring to both colour and death as they relate to "eternal love"?
Did you know that William Carney is the only registered member of the Conservative Party of New York State to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives ?
Did you know that the 13th-century St Andrew-in-the-Oxmarket Church in Chichester , which was bombed during the Second World War, is now an arts centre?
Did you know that Lewis (first name unknown) pitched in his only Players' League game in 1890 and gave up 20 runs?
Did you know that " There is a green hill far away " was described by French composer Charles Gounod as "the most perfect hymn in the English language"?
Did you know that Danielle Lessovitz found respite in New York's ball culture after her father's suicide, later setting her first feature film, Port Authority , within it?
Did you know that the 1920 blind march led the British government to pass the Blind Persons Act , the first disability-specific legislation anywhere in the world?
Did you know that the fire of Landis' Missouri Battery helped clear the way for an infantry charge at the Second Battle of Corinth ?
Did you know that rapper Big Zuu 's first demos were recorded at a studio that did not allow expletives to be used?
Did you know that Microsoft head Bill Gates giving a keynote address at the Unix Expo was likened to going "into the belly of the beast", and when a demo he was overseeing crashed, the attendees were delighted?
Did you know that famous chefs have based their menus on recipes found in Thai funeral books ?
Did you know that 16-year-old Tate McRae has been described as "Canada's answer to Billie Eilish "?
Did you know that Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East argues that Nazism and Islamism are similar, especially in their extreme antisemitism?
Did you know that Lilly Dubowitz , co-developer of the Dubowitz Score , also introduced the use of cranial ultrasound to assess the brains of newborns at Hammersmith Hospital ?
Did you know that an 1870s-era windmill threatened with demolition was relocated to Alley Pond Park to be preserved, only to be burned down two years later?
Did you know that Jasraj , a Hindustani classical musician , is still teaching music at age 90, including via Skype ?
Did you know that you can't take pictures inside The Cock ?
Did you know that during the 1970 U.S. Senate election in New York , Vice President Spiro Agnew referred to Senator Charles Goodell as the " Christine Jorgensen of the Republican Party"?
Did you know that Mexican professional wrestler Chabela Romero had a feud with Irma González that played out across eight years and in three countries?
Did you know that the Chilean seaside cinclodes bobs its tail while it walks and flares its wings while it sings?
Did you know that the phrase " When the looting starts, the shooting starts " was first used by a Miami police chief who told the press in 1967 that they "don't mind being accused of police brutality "?
Did you know that the earliest of the three surviving operas by Claudio Monteverdi , L'Orfeo from 1607, is the oldest extant opera still regularly performed today?
Did you know that visitors often find a double entendre in the General Hooker Entrance of the Massachusetts State House ?
Did you know that the United States Army employed its first non-Christian chaplain, Rabbi Jacob Frankel , during the American Civil War ?
Did you know that Manoj Muntashir originally wrote " Teri Mitti " as a tribute to soldiers, then wrote a reprise as a tribute to healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic in India ?
Did you know that in Eve Online , the Battle of Asakai became one of the largest online battles after a single player made an accidental move that escalated the conflict to include more than 3,000 players?
Did you know that Canadian soccer player Christabel Oduro is the cousin of Dominic Oduro , who has played for Ghana?
Did you know that although the captain of American Airlines Flight 320 was considered one of the most experienced pilots in the world, his crew was blamed for the fatal crash in 1959?
Did you know that during the 1985 Gujarat riots , police in Ahmedabad attacked and burned down the offices of a newspaper?
Did you know that San Francisco socialite Mary Grace Borel was granted her first divorce in a hearing that lasted less than five minutes, from a Superior Court Judge who was also her aunt's husband?
Did you know that more than 1,000 men fought in the 1st Missouri Infantry Regiment , the first unit from the state to officially enter the Confederate States Army ?
Did you know that Raymond Kipkoech won the 2011 Jerusalem Marathon despite crossing the wrong finish line?
Did you know that the Wells curve , which illustrates what happens to respiratory droplets once they are exhaled, helps explain the spread of respiratory infections?
Did you know that the 2018 film Hotel Milan is based on "anti-Romeo squads" formed in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh ?
Did you know that Héctor Suárez was the first comedian from Latin America to be " roasted " by fellow celebrities?
Did you know that after 28 Liberty Street 's private plaza was fenced off during the Occupy Wall Street protests, people sued to reopen the plaza, claiming the barriers violated freedom-of-speech laws?
Did you know that Wong Keng Liang was arrested after Malaysian customs officials found nearly one hundred baby boa constrictors , two vipers , and a South American turtle hidden in his suitcase?
Did you know that to prevent spoilers, the name of the American reality singing competition The Masked Singer is not listed on contracts with celebrities competing on the show?