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Did you know that the dog in A Man and His Dog was modelled after Thomas Mann 's real-life dog Bauschan?
Did you know that in 1674 Marmaduke Johnson was the first printer allowed in colonial America to operate his own printing press in Boston?
Did you know that the Israeli song " HaSela haAdom ", about illegal trips to Petra , was banned in Israel?
Did you know that the sentencing phase of the Jemma Mitchell case was the second to be filmed in England and Wales since a change in the law permitted television cameras into court?
Did you know that the opening day of a California TV station was affected by a strike when workers refused to cross a two-man picket line?
Did you know that the Marrow of the Red Phoenix was composed by the "Daoist Confounded by Plum Blossoms"?
Did you know that Carol Wilson had to pretend that she was a schoolteacher when unofficially representing England at the 1971 Women's World Cup ?
Did you know that the Aegis BMD at Deveselu Military Base , intended to intercept missiles from Iran, has been called a "direct threat" by Russian officials?
Did you know that Michigan defensive end Eyabi Okie , ranked number 3 in the 2018 college football recruiting class , changed his surname from "Anoma" to recognize his mother who lives in Africa?
Did you know that in the 1916 Declaration of Sainte-Adresse Britain, France and Russia committed to securing the political and economic independence of Belgium after the First World War?
Did you know that Ausma Malik is the first hijab -wearing Muslim woman to be elected to public office in Canada?
Did you know that the music video for Taylor Swift 's song " Bejeweled " hints that her 2010 album Speak Now would be her next re-recording ?
Did you know that the nonconformist minister Ichabod Chauncey was banished from England under the Religion Act 1592 and spent two years in exile in Holland where he published a defence of his actions?
Did you know that rather than warning those downriver of the impending failure of the Walnut Grove Dam , a messenger got drunk, leading to the deaths of more than 100 people?
Did you know that the fake news website Disclose.tv plagiarized many of its articles when it relaunched in September 2021?
Did you know that it took 90 years to replace the "unconvincing" original proof of Roberts's triangle theorem , on the number of triangles formed by systems of lines, with a correct proof?
Did you know that View from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on Manhattan, 9/11 taken on the day of the attacks on the World Trade Center was not published until 2005 because it seemed too pretty to its creator Thomas Hoepker ?
Did you know that Sulayman Pasha al-Azm lifted his 1742 siege of Tiberias to lead the Hajj pilgrim caravan to Mecca ?
Did you know that in two days, Nick Sciba went from selling fish to playing in the National Football League?
Did you know that Jay Owen Light aspired to be an astronaut before becoming the dean of Harvard Business School ?
Did you know that a caped Atatürk Monument by Gürdal Duyar was erected in Uşak in 1965 after a campaign by the Milliyet newspaper to erect Atatürk monuments in provinces that did not have them?
Did you know that in the music video for the song " Anti-Hero ", Taylor Swift imagines a scenario in which she is killed by her own daughter-in-law?
Did you know that te lapa , an unproven and unexplained oceanic light phenomenon, might have been used by Polynesians to find islands in the Pacific Ocean ?
Did you know that The Immaculate Collection was the first album to use QSound ?
Did you know that Cape Grim Air Archive in Tasmania has been collecting air samples for more than 40 years?
Did you know that J. Elroy McCaw feigned losing his wallet to make women pay for meals at restaurants?
Did you know that " Look at the world " is a 1996 choral harvest anthem with text and music by John Rutter , written for CPRE "on the theme of the environment and our responsibility towards it"?
Did you know that although Austrian model Greta Hofer was only discovered in 2020, she was chosen to work exclusively for Prada that year?
Did you know that a "frustration walk" connected Chicago Union Station with the rapid transit Canal station ?
Did you know that during the Avar Wars , disease killed 90 per cent of Charlemagne 's horses?
Did you know that in 1919 Ethel Hampson Brewster compared dropping ancient history from school curricula to "knock[ing] out the first two stories of a skyscraper"?
Did you know that the United States severed diplomatic ties with Finland in 1944 because of a personal letter sent to Hitler ?
Did you know that physician and scientist F. William Sunderman continued working until shortly before his death at the age of 104?
Did you know that Daruma-ji was razed in the early 14th century by Buddhists who opposed the spread of Zen Buddhism in Japan?
Did you know that Andrea Bonetti was Juventus U16 's most prolific player of the 2018–19 season, with 16 goals?
Did you know that The Essex Gazette was established in 1768, becoming Salem 's first newspaper, and was used as a voice against British rule just before the American Revolution ?
Did you know that Şebnem Korur Fincancı , a drafter of a United Nations guideline on the documentation of torture, was arrested after she suggested an investigation into the use of chemical weapons?
Did you know that City Pier A 's clock tower was the first memorial to World War I casualties in the United States, according to a New York City government spokesperson?
Did you know that the three lines of the traditional German round " Lobet und preiset, ihr Völker, den Herrn " are based on verses from three psalms ?
Did you know that Pride Month is held in commemoration of the Stonewall riots ?
Did you know that Manuel Carpio 's 1849 poem is the earliest literary depiction of the weeping ghost La Llorona ?
Did you know that Denver's oldest building continuously used for Protestant worship , the Evans Memorial Chapel , is now also used by Catholics?
Did you know that Graham Hawkins coached the Wolverhampton Wanderers to the top division in his first season as a manager?
Did you know that the studios of a California TV station were converted back into a movie theater after it went out of business?
Did you know that Hirsch Sommerhausen worked as a court translator in a dozen languages?
Did you know that the cover art for " True Love " features handwritten notes by XXXTentacion ?
Did you know that the Paradise of Wisdom , an early Islamic medical encyclopedia, describes an abortion -causing stone?
Did you know that Jon Brittenum managed an investment banking firm after his fourteen-game-long NFL career?
Did you know that accessible yoga was formed as a way for people with disabilities to be able to perform yoga ?
Did you know that the screenwriter for Corianton: A Story of Unholy Love went to jail for telling a judge to "shut up"?
Did you know that Elcho Castle never saw combat, but was nearly burned down by a mob in 1773?
Did you know that Jordan Gray added the technical name for spider silk to her name due to the UK not having a process to change honorific from Mr to Miss ?
Did you know that the 1947 World Snooker Championship was the first world snooker championship where the winner wasn't Joe Davis ?
Did you know that according to the Open Syllabus Project , Diana Hacker is the second most-read female author on college campuses after Kate L. Turabian ?
Did you know that a scene featuring Michael Fassbender kissing himself in Alien: Covenant was cut from the Chinese release due to censorship ?
Did you know that " Kommt herbei, singt dem Herrn " is a Christian hymn that Diethard Zils wrote in 1972 as a paraphrase of Psalm 95 to an Israeli melody?
Did you know that at the Calais Conference of July 1915 both the British and French thought they had persuaded the other to support their opposing war strategies?
Did you know that the seats on Pipeline: The Surf Coaster shift up and down to mimic the feeling of surfing?
Did you know that Ted Heaton advertised himself as " Liverpool 's famous swimming master"?
Did you know that Oh My God, Charlie Darwin was recorded by the Low Anthem in ten days in a Block Island basement?
Did you know that run-pass option plays used in college football allow quarterbacks to pass the ball farther downfield than those used in the NFL ?
Did you know that despite having roles in more than 170 films, Josef Somr preferred acting in theatre?
Did you know that when the Bowery Savings Bank Building opened in 1895, "the bank as a work of architecture went from the merely big to the colossal"?
Did you know that Zail Singh was the first Sikh and the first person from a backward caste to become President of India ?
Did you know that the sculpture Guns into Plowshares was built from 3,000 disabled handguns?
Did you know that Hong Kongese wuxia author Jozev Kiu is an Eskrima coach and karateka?
Did you know that Saint Augustine died during the Vandal conquest of Roman Africa ?
Did you know that Samuel Hall established Salem 's first newspaper, The Essex Gazette , in 1768, using it to support the colonial cause against British taxation?
Did you know that the heads of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church and Jacobite Syrian Christian Church certify their bishops by giving them a sthathicon ?
Did you know that Lindsay Ring regained control of his family catering firm and went on to become Lord Mayor of London ?
Did you know that some scientists believe we may live in a " dark forest "?
Did you know that Dale Haney has walked presidential pooches from Richard Nixon 's King Timahoe to Joe Biden 's Commander and safeguarded George W. Bush 's pets during the September 11 attacks ?
Did you know that a 1969 note from New York Times writer Grace Glueck to Arthur Ochs Sulzberger spurred a class-action lawsuit over gender discrimination?
Did you know that the Roman emperor Hadrian was so grieved by the death of his male lover Antinous that he made him into a god and founded a city in his honour?
Did you know that Kurt Cobain gave a Seattle radio station a copy of his first single, then called from a pay phone to request it after it went unplayed?
Did you know that Liz Truss 's rise to power went from "astonishing" to "explosive" a day before she resigned as prime minister?
Did you know that, in 2018, Tara Jones both captained a women's Super League team and was the first female match official in the men's Super League ?
Did you know that the limited radio airplay of " Get Together " in the US spawned a petition, outrage, and conspiracy theories among Madonna fans?
Did you know that The Bone People by Keri Hulme nearly ended up as a doorstop instead of a Booker Prize -winning novel?
Did you know that Juliet Rice Wichman once stood in front of a bulldozer to prevent the destruction of a rock wall?
Did you know that the change of South Kalimantan capital city from Banjarmasin to Banjarbaru was called a "constitutional coup" by its opponents?
Did you know that Chuck Deardorf joked that he "played both kinds of music: country and western"?
Did you know that Matthias Hanke , an organist and choral leader by age 14, in due course became responsible for all Protestant church music in Württemberg ?
Did you know that the steamboat carrying the 9th Missouri Sharpshooter Battalion back from its military service sank in the Red River of the South ?
Did you know that Margie Masters made the cut at a golf tournament despite being shot at by a sniper on the course?
Did you know that Delaware weekly newspaper The Faulkland Quiz was founded, edited and published by an 18-year-old?
Did you know that Rabab Al-Kadhimi was threatened with deportation from Egypt due to the political nature of her poetry?
Did you know that the Chicago "L" 's Laflin station had an elevator for caskets?
Did you know that Martin Pipe 's training methods for steeplechasers were so effective, he was investigated twice for cheating?
Did you know that use of the 1604 Book of Common Prayer was authorized by the king of England, but later outlawed by Parliament?
Did you know that Turkish world- and European-champion armwrestler Esra Kiraz used to carry cement bags at construction sites where her father worked?
Did you know that the release of the Compaq Deskpro 386 marked the first time a company other than IBM revised a major component of their PC standard ?
Did you know that Quentin Oliver Lee landed a title role in Gershwin's Porgy and Bess on Broadway after a casting agent spotted him singing in a subway station?
Did you know that " Citizen Erased " was Muse 's first song to include a seven-string guitar ?
Did you know that pediatrician James Oleske was a pioneer in identifying that HIV/AIDS could be a disease in children?
Did you know that a bear ate 75 pounds (34 kg) of cocaine in 1985, and was nicknamed Pablo Eskobear ?
Did you know that the Chicago Police Department regularly cited vehicles of the Philippine consulate general in Chicago for parking in a no-parking zone, causing a diplomatic incident?
Did you know that Ben Bell was elected at the age of 23 as New Zealand's youngest-ever mayor during the 2022 local elections ?
Did you know that Ganggang , an Indianapolis -based cultural development firm for Black artists, created a fine art fair called "Butter" that also included a dance party called "Melt"?
Did you know that Tang Zonghai was one of the first advocates for the integration of Chinese and Western medicine?
Did you know that management of the Richmond Shipyards "went out of its way to propagandize against" the Shipyard Railway that was built to serve it?
Did you know that Yusuf al-Hani was executed by the Ottoman Empire after signing a letter to François Georges-Picot that was found in the French consulate in Beirut during the First World War?
Did you know that real calf brains were used during the production of the 1988 comedy horror film Brain Damage ?
Did you know that the poetry collection of Guyanese radio presenter Shana Yardan was described as "accomplished, tough-minded and well-crafted"?
Did you know that the runway show for the Alexander McQueen collection The Widows of Culloden ended with an illusion of Kate Moss that brought the audience to a rowdy standing ovation ?
Did you know that the film Farha , which depicts the killing of a Palestinian family by Israeli soldiers during the Nakba , became the subject of a downvoting campaign?
Did you know that Junior Colson , the leading tackler on the 2022 Michigan Wolverines football team , lived in a Haitian orphanage prior to his adoption at age nine?
Did you know that some people who are not Spanish citizens have the right to vote in elections for local public officials in the municipalities of Cantabria ?
Did you know that Chinese physician Zhang Congzheng reportedly cured a man of his insanity by tying him to a rotating wheel until he vomited?
Did you know that the attendance record for a women's club football game that was set on Boxing Day 1920 would not be exceeded for 99 years?
Did you know that Benjamin F. Gue , who co-founded Iowa State University , allowed women to become students there despite much opposition?
Did you know that Leon Schidlowsky wrote the Misa sine nomine in memory of Víctor Jara for speaker, choirs, organ and percussion, juxtaposing mass texts with contemporary poetry and Torah verses?
Did you know that Justly Watson died suddenly in 1757 from the effects of poison administered in his coffee, it was believed, by a servant?
Did you know that hard drive reseller CMS Enhancements nearly went bankrupt while attempting to enter the personal computer systems market amid a price war?
Did you know that author Ann Howard interviewed more than 100 Australians about their experiences as child evacuees sent inland during World War II when a Japanese invasion seemed imminent?
Did you know that Prince Bernhard's titi monkey is known locally as zog-zog ?
Did you know that Amtrak called the Vermont Rail System the worst host railroad in the country in 2010 due to delays on the Ethan Allen Express ?
Did you know that one of the Wolfe -class ships of the line was destroyed by a storm before she had even been launched?
Did you know that after winning a discrimination lawsuit against the Honolulu Police Department , Lucile Abreu became its first female detective?
Did you know that Glacialisaurus , meaning 'icy lizard', got its name from its discovery site in the Beardmore Glacier ?
Did you know that the Brooklyn Nine-Nine storyline about Rosa Diaz 's bisexuality was heavily influenced by the bisexuality of her portrayer ?
Did you know that a 700-page article published in Lustrum was issued over the course of twelve years?
Did you know that while the Apion family held extensive power over Byzantine Egypt, they largely remained in Constantinople as absentee landlords ?
Did you know that Navidades by Luis Miguel was the first Spanish-language album to enter the Billboard Top Holiday Albums since 1966?
Did you know that the Christmas Raid carried out by Confederate brigadier general John Hunt Morgan captured 1,800 Union soldiers?
Did you know that critics were confused by Justin Bieber's version of "Drummer Boy", in which he raps about himself and consumer products, which was seen to bastardize the original sentiment?
Did you know that the classic children's Christmas story The Littlest Angel was written in just three days?
Did you know that Starbucks raised money for HIV/AIDS research using their red holiday cups ?
Did you know that Mendelssohn 's 1831 Christmas cantata Vom Himmel hoch , influenced by Bach's chorale cantatas , was based on a 1539 carol composed by Martin Luther ?
Did you know that in local Afro-Colombian and Catholic tradition, residents of Guapi sing and dance while sailing the Virgin Mary down their coconut-candlelit river to church every Christmas Eve?
Did you know that before being named jach'a mallku cantonal , Samuel Plata worked as an auto mechanic in El Alto ?
Did you know that a scene in " Axe and Grind ", an episode of Better Call Saul , was supposed to be filmed with a crane but was changed because the cameraman declined to execute it?
Did you know that despite running against a former general, Danny Setiawan received implicit backing from military officers in his 2003 gubernatorial bid?
Did you know that Marc-Antoine Charpentier composed the midnight mass Messe de minuit pour Noël based on the melodies of ten French Christmas carols ?
Did you know that John J. Ray III , the chairman of Enron during its bankruptcy, said he had never before seen "such a complete failure of corporate controls" upon becoming CEO of cryptocurrency exchange FTX ?
Did you know that some residents near Higginson Highway believe that a ghost named "Sheila" is the cause of the highway's fatal accidents?
Did you know that despite losing almost one thousand men capturing Malacca in 1641 , the Dutch East India Company did not invest much time or energy into it afterward?
Did you know that American author Marilyn Gayle Hoff was honored by a Fourth of July parade float as an unsung hero?
Did you know that the Bern Disputation of 1528 led to the Swiss canton becoming the second Protestant canton in the Swiss Confederacy ?
Did you know that slave owner John Custis petitioned the Governor of Virginia to manumit a slave child whom he had fathered?
Did you know that the crannogs of Milton Loch , although similar in design, span a time period of around 1,000 years?
Did you know that American legal scholar John Hart Ely penned a law review article castigating the Supreme Court's decision in Roe v. Wade , despite being pro-choice ?
Did you know that Sonia Levitin was inspired to write Boom Town after reading about a California girl who baked $11,000 worth of pies during the Gold Rush ?
Did you know that in 2016 Verrado High School in Arizona began offering all-female engineering classes?
Did you know that Chinese scholar Lin Changyi likened the miracles of Jesus to Daoist magic?
Did you know that despite their song " Freaks " going platinum after becoming popular on TikTok , members of Surf Curse said they neither understood nor used the app?
Did you know that Carolyn Grace was the only qualified female pilot of the Supermarine Spitfire ever to take part in display flying?
Did you know that a 1982 court case established that video games may qualify for multiple types of U.S. copyright protection?
Did you know that the Bohemian harp spread to Western Europe after a fire hit the town of Přísečnice ?
Did you know that pigeon racer "Biff" Bangs previously played for two different teams in Rose Bowl football games ?
Did you know that Rick Rehm attributed his surprise victory in an Alabama election to grassroots campaigning, while his opponent attributed it to straight-ticket voting ?
Did you know that 90 percent of Indonesia's village-owned enterprises are not legal entities, hampering their ability to attract investors or open bank accounts?
Did you know that prior to kickoff, the Bahamas Bowl announced that the winner of a regular season game between Miami and Ball State would earn a bid to the 2022 edition of the game ?
Did you know that Frederica Planta designed cards to teach the children of George III and Queen Charlotte the history of England?
Did you know that "Weird Al" Yankovic wrote the song " Bob " entirely in palindromes , and sang it in the style of Bob Dylan ?
Did you know that in the Book of Mormon , the city of Ammonihah kills Christians by fire as a deliberately twisted reference to a warning that spiritual death is like a "lake of fire and brimstone "?
Did you know that Delaware politician Armwell Long was said to have once outranked his close friend, George Washington ? (See discussions regarding this hook at Talk:Armwell Long .)
Did you know that revenge buying after the lifting of a 2020 COVID-19 lockdown helped a Hermès store set a record for the most shopping at a luxury outlet in China in a single day?
Did you know that cellist Harvey Shapiro played at the 50th anniversary of his professional debut despite broken ribs and a torn muscle incurred from a fall a few days prior?
Did you know that at the conclusion of the AFL Women's season seven Grand Final , winning captain Daisy Pearce placed her premiership medal on a young girl?
Did you know that the film Death in Small Doses is a dramatization of the real-life death of Nancy Lyon by arsenic poisoning?
Did you know that the impeachment proceedings against West Kalimantan Governor Aspar Aswin were shelved after an ethnic riot broke out?
Did you know that the mite Neotrombicula fujigmo gets its name from the American military acronym for "Fuck you, Jack, I got my orders"?
Did you know that fourteenth-century Buddhist monk Tuệ Tĩnh is referred to as a founding father of traditional Vietnamese medicine ?
Did you know that the 2022 Ticketmaster controversy over Taylor Swift 's the Eras Tour has triggered investigations by several U.S. state attorneys general and the federal Department of Justice ?
Did you know that Ecuadorian footballer Hernán Galíndez won a bicycle for beating a team featuring Lionel Messi when they were children?
Did you know that the 1937 Fleischer Studios strike in New York City was the first major labor strike in the animation industry?
Did you know that Cambridge don R. R. Bolgar was heard to say that if it had not been for a misfortune, he might well have supported the Nazis as a landowner in Moravia and been murdered by the Russians?
Did you know that Panasonic 's Senior Partner and Executive Partner portable computers weighed between 28 and 31 lb and featured built-in printers?
Did you know that Saleh Djasit was the first member of the Indonesian People's Representative Council to be arrested by the Corruption Eradication Commission ?
Did you know that according to The Atlantic , "the first widely acknowledged performance" of the song " We Shall Overcome " occurred during the 1945–1946 Charleston Cigar Factory strike ?
Did you know that the Russian violinist Evgeny Sviridov , who has been concertmaster of the Baroque ensemble Concerto Köln since 2015, has made an award-winning recording of sonatas by Giuseppe Tartini ?
Did you know that at the Ryukyu Arc , the Philippine Sea Plate is subducting under the Eurasian Plate at 5 to 7 cm (2.0 to 2.8 in) per year?