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Did you know that the 1989 film Begotten was made to resemble what the director called "a time that predates spoken language"?
Did you know that audio engineer Bill Hare has been called "the Dr. Dre of a cappella recording"?
Did you know that the Marine Cemetery , made from plastic bottles collected from an Indian beach, is dedicated to nine endangered aquatic species?
Did you know that BECAUSE is the longest-running and largest conference for the bisexual community in the United States?
Did you know that Gabriela Rodríguez de Bukele , the current first lady of El Salvador, is the first person in the country to hold a doctorate in prenatal psychology ?
Did you know that within six hours of Alabama radio station WFPA being served an eviction notice, the tower had been dismantled?
Did you know that chef Tore Wretman introduced Toast Skagen to the Swedish public?
Did you know that in 2019, the United States ratified a treaty that had been negotiated 16 years earlier to protect the wreck of the RMS Titanic ?
Did you know that both Aleksandr Blagonravov and his son Aleksandr worked on designs for armoured vehicles for the Soviet Armed Forces ?
Did you know that although afarit are not necessarily components of a person, but independent entities, a common belief in Islamic Egypt associates them with part of a human's soul?
Did you know that the 369th Regiment Armory , built for the " Harlem Hell Fighters ", was planned as a boxing and gymnastics venue in New York City's unsuccessful bid for the 2012 Summer Olympics ?
Did you know that novelist Leslie Schwartz has published a memoir about the 22 books she read in jail while recovering from alcoholism?
Did you know that Robin Hood's Larder is also known as the Butcher's Oak, the Slaughter Tree, and the Shambles Oak?
Did you know that the swing span of Macombs Dam Bridge was considered the world's heaviest movable mass at the time of its construction?
Did you know that Queen Tuarii traveled to the Cook Islands to seek British intervention in Raiatea 's war with France ?
Did you know that All the Freckles in the World , a Mexican coming-of-age romantic comedy film, was released on Netflix after finding success in theaters in Mexico?
Did you know that sprinter Judith Ayaa , the first Ugandan woman to win a Commonwealth Games medal, later lived in poverty, begging on the streets of Kampala ?
Did you know that Hay-a-Park Gravel Pit is "one of the most northerly inland breeding populations of reed warbler in Britain"?
Did you know that Yukari Miyake joined the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force to realize her dream of singing on stage?
Did you know that ashes from a nearby fire left the freshly painted tower of radio station WCAI black instead of red?
Did you know that Yefim Gorodetsky and the "Mints group" were criticised by a fellow Soviet historian for being objective, fact-based, internationalist, and insufficiently partisan?
Did you know that chitons , such as Acanthochitona crinita , are molluscs with a shell composed of eight separate articulating valves ?
Did you know that Indian lyricist Gulzar wants his patriotic song " Ae Watan " to become the "song of our nation"?
Did you know that 608 Fifth Avenue was designed to be adaptable for multiple uses due to uncertainty regarding the development of Rockefeller Center around the building?
Did you know that the Cassington Canal was built by the Duke of Marlborough to connect his lands to the River Thames and the country's network of canals and rivers ?
Did you know that Austrian neurologist Adele Juda concluded that Mozart was "psychiatrically normal"?
Did you know that as an attempt to Turkify its Kurdish minority and their land , the Turks deported 300,000 Kurds in 1916 alone and continued the deportations until the 1940s ?
Did you know that there is a US$5 million reward for information leading to the conviction of Gilberto Barragán Balderas ?
Did you know that Home for Christmas , Netflix's first Norwegian TV show, was inspired by televised Nordic Christmas calendars ?
Did you know that stock car driver Joey Logano 's victory in the 2009 Lenox Industrial Tools 301 at the age of 19 made him the youngest person in history to win a NASCAR Cup Series race?
Did you know that Reinhold Fritz of the Stuttgart Court Opera , who participated in world premieres such as Ariadne auf Naxos by Richard Strauss, was dismissed in 1933 because his wife was Jewish?
Did you know that the 97-year-old, 499 km (310 mi) Irish land border discusses Brexit on Twitter as @BorderIrish and in its book I Am the Border, So I Am ?
Did you know that Whittington Tump in Worcestershire was the site of a motte castle ?
Did you know that when Louisville, Kentucky 's WKYW radio became religious station WFIA in 1965, it ceased accepting beer, wine and tobacco commercials?
Did you know that only a few hundred Jews survived out of the more than 57,000 who were deported from Slovakia in 1942 ?
Did you know that the Mad About You episode " The Conversation " was filmed with a single camera in one take, and broadcast without interruption from commercials?
Did you know that cricketer Khaya Majola rejected offers to play alongside white players and overseas because he believed that black Africans were "being used as stooges" to benefit white South Africans?
Did you know that the Hong Kong restaurant Shia Wong Hip stores hundreds of live and venomous snakes on-site for its cuisine, and serves a soup made from lizards, silkworms, and seahorses?
Did you know that Baya Jurquet organized demonstrations by female prisoners in France in the 1950s?
Did you know that when Eureka Iron & Steel Works produced the first steel rails in the United States in 1865, it marked the beginning of the American steel industry?
Did you know that Infection , the first Venezuelan zombie film , has been banned in the country despite horror being a popular genre there?
Did you know that Wanjira Mathai aims to continue the work of her mother, Nobel Peace Prize –winning environmentalist Wangari Maathai , by restoring 12.6 million acres (5.1 million hectares) of Kenyan land by 2030?
Did you know that leaks by Miami radio stations WMJX and WHYI-FM forced the release date for the new Bee Gees album Spirits Having Flown to be brought forward?
Did you know that despite Charles Jones already having a reputation for ineptitude and dishonesty, he was awarded the contract to dig the longest canal tunnel in England ?
Did you know that the City of San Francisco considers its United Nations Plaza eligible for landmark status due to its historical connection to the LGBTQ movement ?
Did you know that pediatrician Noni MacDonald was invested into the Order of Nova Scotia in 2019?
Did you know that period names for Ancient Egyptian history , such as " Old Kingdom " and " New Kingdom ", are modern inventions?
Did you know that actress Georgina Amorós has worked in three languages: Catalan, Spanish, and English?
Did you know that the Andrew W. Breidenbach Environmental Research Center was originally housed in a Cincinnati mansion built around 1815?
Did you know that Ugandan boxer Leo Rwabwogo is the only athlete in the nation's history to have won more than one Olympic medal?
Did you know that Farnham Mires is one of the few sedge -and- rush marshes left in the Vale of York ?
Did you know that U.S. attorney general William Barr rejected his inspector general's finding that the FBI investigation into Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign was justified?
Did you know that the music of Grim Fandango is considered one of the best early examples of adaptive music systems in video gaming, heralding the era of cinematic experiences in gameplay?
Did you know that the egg sacs of the newly discovered Phinda button spider are made of bright purple silk that fades to grey when it dries?
Did you know that many survivors of the Holocaust in the Sudetenland lost their Czechoslovak citizenship after the war because they were deemed to be "Germans"?
Did you know that Georgina Gascoyne-Cecil became a leading member of the Primrose League , the first British political organisation to give women a prominent role, despite finding its medieval influences absurd?
Did you know that Peter Hedges was paid $10 to write the screenplay for Pieces of April , and another $10 to direct the film?
Did you know that James Stephen , who designed several schools listed on the National Register of Historic Places , received his architectural training through a correspondence course ?
Did you know that the lizard goby holds on to rocks in fast-flowing water by means of a "sucker" formed from two fins?
Did you know that Ustad Qasim has been described as the "father of Afghan music"?
Did you know that the UT Arlington Mavericks women's wheelchair basketball team played its inaugural 2013–14 season without any substitute players?
Did you know that Jutta Hering-Winckler , a lawyer from Minden whose grandfather saw the premiere of Wagner's Ring cycle , "made the impossible possible" by organizing Der Ring in Minden ?
Did you know that upon the demise of WFAN-TV in Washington, D.C., its owner took out a full-page newspaper advertisement declaring that the station had been "choked to death" by an inability to upgrade its signal?
Did you know that Klepetan and Malena have been described as "Croatia's most unusual love story"?
Did you know that when he was killed, Mexican drug lord Luis Alberto Guerrero Reyes was wearing a live grenade as a necklace?
Did you know that Filipe Albuquerque , João Barbosa , and Christian Fittipaldi won the 2018 24 Hours of Daytona , and broke a distance record that had been held since the 1982 race?
Did you know that Irene Palaiologina , the elder sister of Byzantine emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos , became a staunch opponent of his proposed union of the churches , and tried to form a Bulgarian – Mamluk alliance against him?
Did you know that the International Criminal Court investigation in Palestine will investigate alleged war crimes by Israel, Hamas , and Palestinian armed groups?
Did you know that producer Orla Doherty spent 500 hours underwater in a submarine during her work on Blue Planet II ?
Did you know that after its sale to Western Bible College, radio station KJOL toned down its protests against abortion clinics and grocery stores that sold pornographic materials?
Did you know that Liverpool F.C. became the first team allowed to wear the FIFA Champions Badge in the English Premier League , but only for one game against Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. on 29 December 2019?
Did you know that Chinese-Hawaiian politician and businessman John Ena was decorated with the Royal Order of the Crown of Hawaii by King Kalākaua ?
Did you know that a 1-metre (3.3 ft) section was added to the County Fermanagh War Memorial to commemorate eleven civilians who were killed in a 1987 IRA bombing at the site ?
Did you know that after the Indian team won the 1983 Cricket World Cup , their manager PR Man Singh ensured that Wisden Cricket Monthly editor David Frith would "eat his words"?
Did you know that the Gorham Manufacturing Company opened buildings at Broadway and at Fifth Avenue to display its merchandise in New York City?
Did you know that George Nathanael Anderson translated the New Testament into the Iramba language ?
Did you know that the 17th-century Antonio de Vea expedition to the fjords and channels of Patagonia was triggered by false rumours about English settlements?
Did you know that Lake Kristi in North Carolina was built specifically to allow water skiing champion Kristi Overton Johnson to train?
Did you know that the Dęblin–Irena forced-labor camp was one of the last forced-labor camps for Jews in the Lublin District ?
Did you know that Willard Ryan was the first head coach of the Green Bay Packers , even though the team claims that Curly Lambeau was actually the first?
Did you know that following the annexation of the Leeward Islands , the people of Bora Bora appointed a blind man to raise the flag of France?
Did you know that in 1988, Columbia Villa was the site of the first known drive-by shooting in Portland, Oregon ?
Did you know that after Mexican drug lord Ediel López Falcón was ordered to forfeit US$15 billion in the U.S., Mexican authorities wanted to keep fifty percent of it?
Did you know that Dreamer's Bay on the island of Cyprus is considered "one of the best-preserved ancient ports in the Mediterranean"?
Did you know that 23 of the 25 disc jockeys of Utah radio station KJQN-FM defected and started their own station , taking with them a converted truck called the "Milk Beast"?
Did you know that the uncle–nephew conflict between Liu Xianshi and Wang Wenhua in the Guizhou clique involved student organizations, an attempted assassination, and a violent coup?
Did you know that in order to bypass political changes demanded by Germany at the 1940 Salzburg Conference , Slovakia adopted the Führer principle ?
Did you know that after a car accident left him unable to play brass instruments , Native American musician R. Carlos Nakai began playing a traditional cedar flute, and went on to receive eleven Grammy nominations ?
Did you know that Pope Alexander VI granted a plenary indulgence to those willing to work on the demolition of the Meta Romuli ?
Did you know that British aviation businessman Christopher Harborne donated £5 million to the Brexit Party in 2019?
Did you know that forests on the Massif des Maures experience frequent fires, but the thick bark of the cork oak helps it to survive?
Did you know that Irish neuroscientist Sabina Brennan was a soap actress in the television series Fair City before she started investigating dementia ?
Did you know that cooking manga achieved mainstream popularity in the 1980s as a result of the "gourmet boom" associated with the Japanese bubble economy ?
Did you know that Carole Ann Haswell was part of the team that discovered the super-Earth-like exoplanet Barnard's Star b ?
Did you know that Cincinnati high-school radio station WNSD was permanently shut down in part because its faculty advisor went on maternity leave?
Did you know that German journalist Jürgen Hinzpeter , who covered the Gwangju Uprising , was honored by the May 18 Memorial Foundation with a memorial stone containing his hair and nail clippings?
Did you know that New York City's Grand Central Terminal was built at its current location because of a prohibition of steam trains in Lower Manhattan ?
Did you know that Shanqi , a Manchu prince, worked with the Japanese Empire and his daughter, Yoshiko Kawashima , to create an independent state in Manchuria in 1912?
Did you know that a whale found in western Vermont has presented further evidence of glaciation in New England ?
Did you know that the Terebinth of Nero in Rome got its name from a species of tree that traditionally shaded Saint Peter's tomb ?
Did you know that Pepe the Frog and the LIHKG pig have become the unofficial mascots of the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests ?
Did you know that Dehenna Davison is Bishop Auckland 's first Conservative member of Parliament since the constituency's creation in 1885?
Did you know that Antares Point, the part of Route 66 that runs through Antares, Arizona , is the longest continuous curve on any U.S. highway?
Did you know that according to Kuldip Nayar , Hans Raj Vohra 's testimony in 1929 was "crucial" in his associate, Bhagat Singh , being sentenced to death?
Did you know that the biannual festival Wiesbadener Bachwochen has featured Faure 's Requiem sung by a project choir in 2015, and Bach 's Mass in B minor sung by the Schiersteiner Kantorei in 2019?
Did you know that amateur radio operator Charles E. Apgar 's recordings of radio transmissions during World War I were found to include covert messages that exposed an espionage ring?
Did you know that before becoming an electrical engineer and factory inspector , Marjorie Bell shovelled coal at a gas works?
Did you know that the West Fifth Street Bridge in Austin, Texas , is a cantilever bridge designed to look like an arch bridge ?
Did you know that Russian historian Arkadiĭ Sidorov fought in the Moscow People's Militia during the Second World War?
Did you know that the Royal Commission on London Traffic proposed constructing 9 miles (14 km) of avenues with railways underneath at the cost of £30 million in 1905 (equivalent to £3 billion in 2016)?
Did you know that after world-record breaststroke swimmer Gordon Warner lost his left leg, he resumed practising the Japanese way of the sword and eventually became the discipline's highest-ranked Westerner?
Did you know that the Czech-language fascist newspaper Arijský boj (' Aryan Struggle ' ) claimed that the daughter of a former president kept a lesbian harem and lusted after Jewish men?
Did you know that someone shot out KSNN radio's tower lights using a .22-caliber rifle in 1967?
Did you know that Ralph Evans is the first Welshman to win an Olympic medal in boxing ?
Did you know that Hui Aloha ʻĀina was established in 1893 to promote Hawaiian independence and oppose the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom ?
Did you know that Marilyn Saviola , a polio survivor, attended Long Island University classes remotely by telephone from her hospital ward?
Did you know that the 1864–65 Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem created the first "perfectly accurate" map of the city , and was the impetus for the new Palestine Exploration Fund ?
Did you know that taxi driver Pierre Mambele was credited with playing "a unique part in shaping coverage" from the Democratic Republic of the Congo ?
Did you know that according to a 2019 biography , R. N. Kao forewarned Indira Gandhi and Sheikh Mujibur Rahman about their assassinations?
Did you know that Eastern Michigan University football head coach Chris Creighton has won American football games on three continents?
Did you know that the oldest rock in the Eastern Block of the North China Craton is a 3.8- to 3.6-billion-year-old trondhjemitic piece of gneiss ?
Did you know that although Michael Buie practiced Fox News anchor Bret Baier 's speaking style for his role in the film Bombshell , they had never talked to each other until after filming had finished?
Did you know that the corporate history of Xinuos begins with repeated attempts to acquire a troubled software company in bankruptcy?
Did you know that engraver Julius Bien sided with liberals in the 1848 revolutions like many other Jews, and fled Germany to the U.S., where he became a lithographer and the president of B'nai B'rith ?
Did you know that the palm scale was first found on an endemic species of palm on the island of Réunion , but now infests plants in at least 78 families around the world?
Did you know that New York City's Governors Island has been the site of a Statue of Liberty celebration, a U.S.–Soviet summit, and the signing of a peace treaty between Haitian political leaders?
Did you know that despite being nearly illiterate, Chinese soldier Gao Yubao wrote an autobiographical novel that has had more than six million copies in print?
Did you know that gay pornographic film actor and director Erik Rhodes was posthumously outed as HIV -positive in his New York Times obituary?
Did you know that the first episode of Welcome to the Family was Catalan network TV3 's most watched premiere in over a decade?
Did you know that Francis X. Talbot was one of the early leaders of the Catholic literary revival in the U.S.?
Did you know that unlike most of its competitors in Hong Kong, stationery retailer Cheap Lab allows its retail staff to manage its Facebook fan page with few restrictions?
Did you know that in France, the beetle Aepus marinus is restricted to a narrow strip of the beach near the high-water mark?
Did you know that Angelo Neumann toured major European opera houses with a production of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen using the sets and costumes from its 1876 world premiere at the Bayreuth Festival ?
Did you know that the owner of Hawaii television station KHBC-TV compared an effort to unionize the station to "socialism"?
Did you know that Gates of Tears is the first comprehensive study of the Holocaust in the Lublin District of Poland?
Did you know that U.S. citizens are prohibited from engaging in business activities with Abel Briones Ruiz ?
Did you know that as of 2016, Wellacre Academy had 1720 solar panels, more than any other school in the United Kingdom?
Did you know that Lisa Ainsworth leads a project that involves studying plants under atmospheric conditions that are predicted for 2050?
Did you know that private equity firm MerchantBridge never recovered from the death of its founder and CEO in an airplane crash in Iraq?
Did you know that Lucinda L. Combs , the first female medical missionary to serve in China, established Beijing's first women's hospital?
Did you know that Sangrador , Venezuela's submission for the 2003 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film , had only 31 box-office attendances in the country that year?
Did you know that Rex Ryan once flew fellow American football coach Sam Pittman to his house to build a fort for Ryan's children?
Did you know that small Indian ringstones of the 3rd to 2nd centuries BCE typically have four nude female figures around the central hole?
Did you know that American actress and romance novelist Bella Jarrett was a member of Mensa International , the largest and oldest high IQ society in the world?
Did you know that Amritsar 1919 by Kim A. Wagner aims to dispel myths surrounding the Jallianwala Bagh massacre ?
Did you know that the 12-year license fight that led to the establishment of Washington, D.C. , radio station WYCB also drained its principals' finances?
Did you know that as the youngest UK Member of Parliament elected in 2019 , Nadia Whittome became the Baby of the House ?
Did you know that Anisocentropus krampus was described in the same paper as other insects with monstrous names like Ganonema dracula and Anisocentropus golem ?
Did you know that Khabzela , a 2005 bestselling biography by Liz McGregor , concerns a South African disc jockey who died of AIDS ?
Did you know that GrapheneOS , a free and open-source operating system for selected Google Pixel smartphones, was recommended by Edward Snowden ?
Did you know that Russian historian Igor Pavlovich Shaskol'skii helped build defensive structures during the Siege of Leningrad ?
Did you know that the oldest part of the Western Block of the North China Craton formed 2.7 billion years ago?
Did you know that Francis Dzierozynski 's dispute with Archbishop Ambrose Maréchal over land ownership in Maryland escalated to involve Pope Pius VII and two U.S. secretaries of state ?
Did you know that the Polish publishing house WSiP had a monopoly on textbook publishing from the 1950s to 1989?
Did you know that the parting of the Red Sea scene in Cecil B. DeMille 's 1956 film The Ten Commandments was created by filming the release of hundreds of thousands of gallons of water into a large tank and playing the resulting footage backwards?
Did you know that redbanded thrips are a significant pest of mango and cacao in the West Indies?
Did you know that Japanese manga artist Machiko Satonaka has written and illustrated nearly 500 manga titles since her professional debut in 1964?
Did you know that the Hazeltine 2000 is possibly the first general-purpose computer terminal ?
Did you know that Nesta Wells , the first British female police surgeon , published a survey in the British Medical Journal of the 1,959 suspected sexual offence cases which had been referred to her?
Did you know that the 1938 hymn " Dein Lob, Herr, ruft der Himmel aus " ('The sky shouts your praise, Lord') is based on a text by a 17th-century Jesuit astronomer paraphrasing Psalm 19 ?
Did you know that American jockey Mack Garner was posthumously inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1969?
Did you know that all the residents of Wallacepur , a village in the Indian state of Gujarat , are Christian?
Did you know that Megan Fisher is the first woman with a lower-leg amputation to complete an XTERRA off-road triathlon ?
Did you know that Hugh Orde , the head of the Police Service of Northern Ireland , has been criticized for using the phrase " acceptable level of violence "?
Did you know that the Cowthorpe Oak was mentioned in Shakespeare 's As You Like It ?