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Did you know that a major Asian collection was donated to the National Museum of Ireland – Decorative Arts and History by Jewish benefactor Albert Bender while the museum was headed by Adolf Mahr , head of the Dublin Nazi chapter?
Did you know that Thomas Laubach , who wrote more than 250 Christian pop songs, is the same person as Thomas Weißer, a professor of ethics at the University of Bamberg ?
Did you know that the penis of the statue of Heracles in Arcachon, France, was twice reduced in size following complaints from local ladies?
Did you know that at the suggestion of writer and translator Cecilia Bååth-Holmberg , Mother's Day was celebrated for the first time in Sweden in 1919?
Did you know that some men purposely have sex in order to become infected with HIV ?
Did you know that Henriette Spitzeder and her husband Josef Spitzeder appeared on stage as Mozart's Figaro and his bride Susanna?
Did you know that the Suffrage Torch was a symbol of illumination during the Suffragist campaigns in the states of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania in the summer of 1915 and the idea of Harriot Stanton Blatch ?
Did you know that Major-General Freddie de Guingand was invested with his knighthood in the field by King George VI?
Did you know that two business partners' townhouses at 10 and 12 West 56th Street were described as being "paired in an uneasy dance, one doing the cancan , the other a minuet "?
Did you know that Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Zack Wheeler had to have fingernail surgery in 2020 due to an injury sustained from putting on a pair of jeans?
Did you know  that Veronica jovellanoides was given the nickname "Bamboozle" after botanists spent 80 hours trying to find it again following its discovery?
Did you know that Rosa Ponselle blamed Metropolitan Opera star Giovanni Martinelli 's poor singing on his love affair with French soprano and actress Colette D'Arville ?
Did you know that the Vickers Red Hebe air-to-air missile was dismissed by the British Air Ministry 's own Operational Requirements branch as "still in the piston era" compared to the US Sparrow ?
Did you know that, at the time of its dedication, the Ulysses S. Grant Monument in Chicago was the largest statue ever cast in bronze in the United States?
Did you know that Margot Heumann is the first woman known to have survived the Nazi concentration camps despite being both Jewish and queer ?
Did you know that the 1987 FA Charity Shield was played one week early to allow Diego Maradona , Gary Lineker , Michel Platini and Josimar to play alongside one another at Wembley Stadium ?
Did you know that Stina Quint was the founder and editor of Kamratposten , one of the earliest children's magazines in Sweden?
Did you know that an 18th-century carillon -music manuscript by Joannes de Gruytters was discovered at a book auction ?
Did you know that comic book creator Brandon Dayton chose medieval Russia as the setting for his minicomic Green Monk after watching Andrei Tarkovsky 's film Andrei Rublev ?
Did you know that How Doth the Little Crocodile by Leonora Carrington was based on Lewis Carroll 's poem of the same name ?
Did you know that Edith Kanakaʻole 's acceptance speech for a 1978 Na Hoku Hanohano Award was given entirely in the Hawaiian language ?
Did you know that the causes of the Armenian genocide are considered to include both long-term structural problems of the Ottoman Empire and wartime radicalization?
Did you know that the piano businessman Edwin Bechstein received a Nazi state funeral, and his wife Helene taught Hitler table manners?
Did you know that after he escaped from the high-security İmralı prison , Billy Hayes wrote a book about the escape that was later adapted into a film ?
Did you know that the theories of Swiss geographer Samuel Engel about an ice-free region near the North Pole led to a British expedition towards the North Pole in 1773 ?
Did you know that despite going behind in less than one minute courtesy of an own goal , Blackpool secured a record sixth post-season final when they won the 2021 EFL League One play-off Final ?
Did you know that Three Notch Road , covering 233 miles (375 km) between Pensacola, Florida , and Fort Mitchell, Alabama , cost $1,130 to build?
Did you know that Genoa honored Stefanina Moro , a teenage courier in the Italian resistance who was killed by Nazis, by naming a street after her?
Did you know that Northampton Town manager Ian Atkins declared that the "whole town has gone barmy" after his side won the 1997 Football League Third Division play-off Final ?
Did you know that despite Beverly White 's earlier opposition to abortion, she represented Planned Parenthood at the World Conference on Women, 1995 ?
Did you know that Russian generals proposed to invade India in 1854 and in 1855 to divert British forces from the Crimean War ?
Did you know that Addo Bonetti lost renomination in a Democratic primary by one vote, but the election was later invalidated?
Did you know that the illustrated erotic novel Su'e pian , published during the late Ming dynasty , describes "Stopping the Horse to Pull the Saddle", "Flowers Longing for Butterflies", and "The Union of Yin and Yang"?
Did you know that pianist and composer Grace Welsh turned down becoming president of the American Conservatory of Music due to thinking that it would get in the way of her teaching music?
Did you know that the new bishop of Kotor in Montenegro, Ivan Štironja , speaks Swahili and served as a missionary in Tanzania?
Did you know that in the musical Fermat's Last Tango , mathematicians Euclid and Newton are played by women?
Did you know that in China, Buddha-like parents, the polar opposite of tiger parents , do not envision their offspring accomplishing much in life?
Did you know that John Quincy Adams was the only American president to be elected as a member of House of Representatives after leaving the presidency?
Did you know that the Toba people use poultices made from the manure of the black-legged seriema to treat boils and abscesses?
Did you know that China expert Sasaki Tōichi was chastised for referring to Sun Yat-sen with the honorific sensei ?
Did you know that in 1981 the Conservative Party leadership feared that 25 of its members of parliament would vote against Margaret Thatcher 's economic policies and cause a split in the party?
Did you know that in 1929, Lisl Goldarbeiter became the first Austrian to win the Miss Universe title?
Did you know that Malcolm Gladwell 's The Bomber Mafia , about the Bomber Mafia of World War II , concludes that " LeMay won the battle. [...] Hansell won the war" with regard to high-precision aerial bombing?
Did you know that Sae Eun Park is the first Asian étoile at the Paris Opera Ballet , and one of the few foreigners to hold the title?
Did you know that the Superior Auditor of the Federation of Mexico observed damage to an overpass between Tezonco and Olivos stations on the Mexico City Metro prior to its collapse in May 2021 ?
Did you know that the Irish government had budgeted €61 million to clean up the former site of the Irish Steel plant, twenty years after selling it for £1?
Did you know that Cal Anderson was the first openly gay member of the Washington State Legislature ?
Did you know that the booklouse Liposcelis bostrychophila can be detrimental to the mass rearing of mosquitoes?
Did you know that the Bitcoin Law would make El Salvador the first country to recognize bitcoin as legal tender ?
Did you know that the dancing school at 165 West 57th Street in New York City was described as instructor Louis Harvy Chalif 's "greatest highlight and dream"?
Did you know that although the April 1923 Kamchatka earthquake had a surface-wave magnitude of 6.8 to 7.3, its tsunami was larger than that of the magnitude-8.4 earthquake in February in the same region?
Did you know that while Filiberto Avogadro di Collobiano was initially mistrusted by King Charles Albert , he was eventually appointed by the king to his royal court?
Did you know that three Aldershot players were involved in a road traffic accident after winning the 1987 Football League Fourth Division play-off Final ?
Did you know that George Balanchine 's ballet Kammermusik No. 2 was referred as "Kammer-computer" by ballerina Karin von Aroldingen because it is "speedy"?
Did you know that the biography of Karin Boye , written by Swedish literary critic Margit Abenius , was criticised for the conservative analysis of Boye's homosexuality?
Did you know that the Theater am Aegi , which opened in Hanover in 1953 as "Germany's most modern theatre" and served mostly as a cinema, is now a venue for a wide range of performances?
Did you know that Rod Bonella , who won a Commonwealth Games marathon medal, was also a horse trainer ?
Did you know that up to fifty starfish shrimps have been found living on a single host ?
Did you know that former Basketball Bundesliga player Dennis Tinnon worked at a slaughterhouse before he was recruited to play college basketball?
Did you know that the Honolulu Star-Bulletin described Thelma Akana Harrison as "volatile", "brilliant", and "vivacious"?
Did you know that the former James Bridge Copper Works has been described as the "most contaminated site in Europe"?
Did you know that Catherine Sourbut Groves , who experienced the fall of the Berlin Wall as a student, became an archdeacon in the Church of England via Zoom ?
Did you know that Frederick Ashton 's ballet Five Brahms Waltzes in the Manner of Isadora Duncan took inspiration from a performance by Duncan that he saw when he was 17?
Did you know that, according to Robert Maxwell Ogilvie , the Thebaid "cannot be said to be about anything"?
Did you know that after Nurhajizah Marpaung unsuccessfully defended Butar Butar against human rights violations, she became the first woman to serve as vice governor of North Sumatra?
Did you know that Helene P. Foley 's Sather Lecture on the reception of Greek theatre in the United States was described as "something of a milestone" in bringing the subject closer to the mainstream?
Did you know that Iskaq Tjokrohadisurjo decided against working for the Dutch colonial government because he was treated well in the Netherlands?
Did you know that TRW Vidar was a technological pioneer in a business that its parent company soon decided to leave?
Did you know that the first translation of the Quran into the Gojri language was authored by Mufti Faizul Waheed ?
Did you know that an improperly dismantled orphan radiation source injured three lumberjacks and killed one of them in the Lia radiological accident ?
Did you know that German-Chilean research psychologist Susana Bloch created a technique actors have been using to access their basic emotions?
Did you know that in a 1922 letter to the editor , Flora Kaai Hayes defended the morality of hula compared to the "bosom to bosom, thigh to thigh dances" seen on steamships and roof gardens at the time?
Did you know that Shin Hae-chul , who previously made hard rock and heavy metal albums, was inspired by big band music when he made The Songs for the One ?
Did you know that despite ducking and avoiding being hit in the head by a baseball , Joe Beckwith suffered double vision that required two surgeries to correct?
Did you know that until its demolition in 2014, The Jungle in San Jose, California , was often considered to be one of the largest homeless encampments in the United States?
Did you know that according to one source, The Embroidered Couch is "most likely China's earliest vernacular pornographic novel"?
Did you know that in Hindu mythology , the creator deity Daksha married Asikni , after realising that copulation was necessary for procreation?
Did you know that some members of the formerly all-male University Club of New York voted to reject women from membership to protest a New York City law that would have required it?
Did you know that Ladakh has several festivals throughout the year, including Hemis Tsechu and Losar ?
Did you know that Kanye West performs a bare acoustic gospel rendition of " Street Lights " with the Sunday Service Choir in the film Jesus Is King ?
Did you know that German swimmer Lisa Höpink won two medals at the 2019 Summer Universiade and qualified for two events at the 2020 Summer Olympics ?
Did you know that Roy DeCarava 's photos of Black Harlem life later included in The Sweet Flypaper of Life were rejected by at least two major publishers before Langston Hughes wrote the book's accompanying text?
Did you know that the Royal Naval Artillery Volunteers were "not really wanted" by the Royal Navy and were disbanded less than 20 years after their 1873 founding?
Did you know that " Segne du, Maria ", requesting Mary to bless her child in life and death, was written by Cordula Wöhler in 1870 and finally included in the common Gotteslob hymnal in 2013?
Did you know that Iowa Hawkeye Leo Jensvold played starting quarterback alongside his twin brother in 1930 ?
Did you know that Argentine trans woman Mariela Muñoz raised 23 children and worked as a tarot reader to support them?
Did you know that Kanye West 's track " Say You Will " was recorded in 15 minutes?
Did you know that Pauline monk László Báthory spent twenty years living in a cave in Budapest so he could focus on translating the Bible ?
Did you know that Mahanati is the highest-grossing South Indian film to feature a woman as its primary character?
Did you know that San Francisco Police officer and future barnstormer Ivan R. Gates was the first to transport a prisoner by air, on November 1, 1919?
Did you know that the North Shore School District , home to Kate McKinnon 's alma mater, benefited from taxing the Glenwood Generating Station , with one official saying "we endure the smoke, let's have the gravy"?
Did you know that Toma Kamijo ranked first in a survey asking people which anime or game character they would name their potential son after?
Did you know that open ocean convection , the mixing of deep and surface waters, plays a crucial role in the global climate?
Did you know that William Forsythe 's ballet Blake Works I is set to seven songs from James Blake 's album The Colour in Anything ?
Did you know that rhythmic gymnast Márcia Lopes is the first Cape Verdean athlete to qualify for the 2020 Summer Olympics ?
Did you know that a two-kilometer-long (1.2 mi) section of the Kawasaki Route cost 2.9 trillion yen to complete?
Did you know that despite smoking in football formerly being popular, it has since been banned from the touchline by UEFA?
Did you know that Jim Clendenen went into winemaking instead of law school after staying in Bordeaux , Champagne , and Burgundy for six months?
Did you know that the parasitic fly Hippobosca longipennis has been found inside dog corpses from ancient Greece and on an ancient Egyptian mummified dog?
Did you know that actor Arthur Blake was famous for his female impersonations of Bette Davis , Carmen Miranda , and Eleanor Roosevelt ?
Did you know that Mennonites and Lutherans both think Canada should recognize the Stoney Knoll First Nation ?
Did you know that boxer Nadine Apetz is undertaking a doctorate studying deep brain stimulation in Parkinson's disease in old age?
Did you know that Oophaa is a composition by Iannis Xenakis for a harpsichordist and a percussionist playing seven ceramic flower pots and seven skin instruments?
Did you know that Christian radio station KIXL near Austin, Texas , pulled an anti-pornography program off-air in mid-transmission because of its graphic descriptions of gay sex?
Did you know that according to one source, the Chinese femme fatale Xia Ji married seven times?
Did you know that Bucket of Blood Street and the Bucket of Blood Saloon are located in a town that had a reputation as "too tough for women and churches"?
Did you know that early in his racing career, Kyle Tilley worked as a delivery driver, mechanic, and sales assistant to fund his Formula Ford team?
Did you know that 27 Afghan peace activists of the People's Peace Movement were kidnapped and later freed by the Taliban in late December 2019?
Did you know that a jury awarded $225,000 to the prospective owners of Florida radio station WODX because of poor record-keeping and breaches of their lease agreement?
Did you know that in 1905, Mae Eleanor Frey became the first woman to be ordained in the American Baptist Churches USA ?
Did you know that critics have compared Marina 's " Ancient Dreams in a Modern Land " to Britney Spears 's " Womanizer ", with one describing it as "an electro-glam-pop stomper"?
Did you know that after hairdresser Mr. Kenneth 's salon in a converted New York City house burned down, he lamented that "nothing like it will ever exist again"?
Did you know that late arrivals at American colonial-era inns might find that the only drink on offer was Whistle Belly Vengeance , a mixture of sour beer, molasses and bread crusts?
Did you know that the developers of WarioWare Gold had to carefully select which 300 of the 1100 minigames across the entire series to include in the game?
Did you know that according to hacker Tillie Kottmann , most of her data breaches did not require much technical skill?
Did you know that banker Henry Seligman's house at 30 West 56th Street had a reception room with green marble furniture and a library with a Gothic-style wastebasket?
Did you know that HMS Sherwood is located more than 50 miles (80 km) from the sea?
Did you know that Tanja Tetzlaff recorded Einojuhani Rautavaara 's cello sonatas from the 20th century and Wolfgang Rihm 's cello concerto, premiered in 2008, on a cello built in 1776?
Did you know that in 1630, fewer than three percent of candidates were awarded the rank of juren , the second-highest civil rank in imperial China?
Did you know that Elon Musk lost $16.3 billion in a single day, the largest in the history of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index ?
Did you know that four Russian billionaires – Roman Abramovich , Mikhail Fridman , Petr Aven and Shalva Chigirinsky – and the oil firm Rosneft are suing HarperCollins over Putin's People by Catherine Belton ?
Did you know that architect Paul Rudolph 's residence at 23 Beekman Place has a penthouse terrace overhanging the nearby street, which even Rudolph was afraid to use?
Did you know that the government radio station in Mandatory Palestine had an Arab Hour in the late 1930s hosting Palestinian writers like Stephan Hanna Stephan ?
Did you know that interest rates on repos , which are short-term loans between financial institutions, experienced a sudden and unexpected spike on September 17, 2019?
Did you know that William Bains-Jordan led the committee that designed the Hawaii State Capitol ?
Did you know that the Theater Trier runs a series including the premiere of Zemlinsky 's Sarema , the German premiere of The Voyage by Philip Glass , and the revival of Koanga by Frederick Delius ?
Did you know that Eve Pitts , one of the Church of England 's "fiercest critics", is also their first black woman vicar ?
Did you know that Greg Cooper based the character of suffragist Kate Sheppard in punk-rock musical That Bloody Woman on Bette Midler in concert in Cleveland?
Did you know that although Margaret Thatcher announced to the House of Commons on 14 June 1982 that Argentine troops were flying " white flags over Port Stanley ", they were probably just laundry on a washing line?
Did you know that baseball player Eric Filia worked as a butler at the Playboy Mansion while he was suspended by the University of California, Los Angeles ?
Did you know that the Rockefeller Apartments , with its glass-enclosed cylindrical "bows", allowed 15 percent more air and natural light than other apartments of the time?
Did you know that one in a thousand women have three X chromosomes , but fewer than 10 percent of them know it?
Did you know that Donato Palumbo 's leadership of Euratom 's fusion-power organization led to him being known as the "founding father of the European fusion program"?
Did you know that in the Chinese erotic novella Chipozi zhuan , a woman has sex with her cousin, her brothers-in-law, her father-in-law, and two Buddhist monks?
Did you know that Amy Vilela became an advocate for single-payer healthcare after her daughter died after being turned away from a hospital for lacking health insurance?
Did you know that some moʻolelo took multiple days to tell in full, and were sometimes told in the form of hula ?
Did you know that the Philippines' Department of Foreign Affairs said that it will not arrest communist leader Jose Maria Sison if he visits the Philippine embassy in The Hague ?
Did you know that when Yūka Nishio joined the violin rock band Morfonica as bassist, she had no experience with the bass guitar?
Did you know that Barack Obama was once gifted a baseball glove belonging to Tampa Bay Rays pitcher Matt Moore ?
Did you know that when Honor McKellar studied voice in England, Ralph Vaughan Williams called her "the girl who does things with the words"?
Did you know that Ita Ekpenyon coached American actor Paul Robeson in speaking the Efik language for the 1937 film King Solomon's Mines ?
Did you know that James Fulton Zimmerman was the first historian to examine U.S. State Department records on the controversial impressment that occurred just before the War of 1812 was declared?
Did you know that Cuilin Zhang leads a study of about 4,000 women who had diabetes in pregnancy to identify factors in the progression from gestational diabetes to type 2 diabetes ?
Did you know that Don Mullally, a DJ at Vermont radio station WSTJ between 1952 and 2016, was still playing vinyl records when he retired just two weeks before his death?
Did you know that the late- Ming-dynasty erotic novel Zhulin yeshi was written by "Man of the Crazy Way"?
Did you know that Ira H. Owen was one of the first steel-hulled lake freighters ?
Did you know that Headroom was a bar that operated only during the COVID-19 pandemic ?
Did you know that the bite of the pygmy copperhead is potentially fatal if untreated?
Did you know that musical comedian Bo Burnham wrote, directed, filmed, starred in and edited Inside by himself, during the COVID-19 pandemic ?
Did you know that while France abolished slavery in 1794 , Napoleon reinstated it in 1802 ?
Did you know that Zealand received more than 5,000 lightning strikes in three hours during the 2011 cloudburst in Denmark ?
Did you know that Turkey built a courtroom on the island of İmralı for the 1999 trial of Abdullah Öcalan , the leader of the militant Kurdistan Workers' Party ?
Did you know that the seven-year-old son of the first owner of Maryland radio station WPTX was sometimes allowed to spin big band records on the air?
Did you know that 14th-century hierocrats thought that the pope was the rightful sovereign of the entire world?
Did you know that Karl-Günther von Hase , who served as a German government spokesman under three chancellors , became director of the broadcaster ZDF in 1977?
Did you know that Cambodian leader Hun Sen released four imprisoned dissidents as a "gift" to the United States upon the opening of its new embassy in Phnom Penh ?
Did you know that Ingrid Wallberg was the first female architect in Sweden with her own firm?
Did you know that the manager of WVSS at the University of Wisconsin–Stout spent about $6,000 of his own money to buy more than 500 classical music CDs to program the station?
Did you know that Casa Anchieta in San Cristóbal de La Laguna , Tenerife, was the childhood home of Brazilian missionary Joseph of Anchieta ?
Did you know that John Barefoot 's catalogue of British Commonwealth revenue stamps grew from 142 to more than 500 pages between its first and tenth editions as new stamps were discovered?
Did you know that pre-Socratic philosophy included some of the earliest attempts to explain the cosmos as an ordered system without reference to the gods?
Did you know that the Romani people in Poland were persecuted alongside the Jews in the Holocaust?
Did you know that actress Rebecca Dayan developed a love for acting while being raised in a hotel?
Did you know that an artwork featured at Singapore's Marina South Pier MRT station was commissioned for the country's 50th year of independence?
Did you know that Asfaw Yemiru 's school educated over 120,000 Ethiopian students?