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Did you know that Jean-Paul Jeannotte , founder and first artistic director of the Opéra de Montréal , performed the role of Bobino more than 100 times, in the premiere on CBC TV and on stages on a Canada tour?
Did you know that according to Christopher Bollen , much of his 2020 novel A Beautiful Crime was written in a 17th-century monastery?
Did you know that the small island of Aruba was at the Paralympics because Shardea Arias de la Cru thought they should be?
Did you know that the Sawmill Fire of 2017, which burned more than 45,000 acres (18,000 ha), was started at a gender reveal party ?
Did you know that Park Chan-dea is the only male wushu athlete to be a six-time world champion?
Did you know that Washington state educational TV station KPEC-TV bought and repaired a video tape recorder that had fallen off a forklift and been written off?
Did you know that Trump won 28 times more shadow docket requests per year than Bush and Obama ?
Did you know that by the time the Egyptian frigate Mehemet Ali served in the 1877 Russo-Turkish War she was described as "as much good as a cardboard box"?
Did you know that Faith No More 's " Ricochet ", originally earmarked as a B-side , contains "one of the band's most memorable lines"?
Did you know that Aline Abboud is the first woman born in the German Democratic Republic to present Tagesthemen , a German daily news magazine?
Did you know that director Matt Shakman filmed footage specifically for the opening of the 1970s-inspired WandaVision episode " Now in Color ", deviating from typical sitcoms of the era that used stock footage in their openings?
Did you know that the 1993 Finchley Road bombings were the first London bombings by the Provisional Irish Republican Army in six months?
Did you know that John U. Monro resigned as dean of Harvard College to work at a then- unaccredited , historically black college in Alabama?
Did you know that Cedar Hill Yard in New Haven, Connecticut, could hold more than 15,000 railroad cars at one time?
Did you know that Able Seaman Rex Julius was the lowest-ranked Australian official war artist of World War II?
Did you know that a feng shui consultant convinced Donald Trump not to use a gold color for New York City's Trump International Hotel and Tower ?
Did you know that the second match of South Africa women's tour of England in 2018 was the first time a women's international cricket match had featured three centuries ?
Did you know that George Lauder , a surgeon in the Jacobite Army under Bonnie Prince Charlie , treated the wounded of both sides after the Battle of Prestonpans ?
Did you know that KWEM-LP in West Memphis, Arkansas , was established as a tribute to a radio station that in the late 1940s and 1950s helped launch the careers of B.B. King , Howlin' Wolf and Johnny Cash ?
Did you know that the slave trader John Knight transported more than 26,000 Africans to the Americas ?
Did you know that for the construction of the US$200 million Axa Equitable Center , the Equitable Life Assurance Society spent $7.5 million on artwork?
Did you know that Lulwah Al-Qatami was the first woman from Kuwait to study at a university abroad?
Did you know that some canons of the canon law of the Eastern Orthodox Church contradict each other?
Did you know that Jacquelyn Reingold knew nothing about string theory until she wrote a play about it?
Did you know that " Another Body Murdered ", a collaboration between Faith No More and Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E. , has been described as having "a chest-puffing, smack-talking energy that’s undeniable"?
Did you know that in 1999, hundreds to tens of thousands of people protested for 53 days against the flag of Vietnam and a portrait of Ho Chi Minh in Little Saigon ?
Did you know that at one point in Odessa 's history, Jews comprised 89 percent of the city's population ?
Did you know that American serial killer Michael Sumpter was never convicted of murder and it was only after his death that he could be linked to his killings through DNA evidence?
Did you know that Wu Dao has ten times as many parameters as GPT-3 ?
Did you know that Thai YouTuber MindaRyn began an anime singing career after her music covers were noticed by a Japanese record label?
Did you know that Crawfurd v The Royal Bank (1749) established in Scots law that a bona fide recipient of stolen banknotes cannot be forced to return them to their original owner?
Did you know that the photographer Stephan Vanfleteren crossed the US while modelling as Presley and photographing a friend modelling as Elvis?
Did you know that black rails live on Tule Island ?
Did you know that Willi Brokmeier , who participated in the world premiere of Die Soldaten at the Cologne Opera , appeared as Beethoven's Jaquino on a tour to Japan?
Did you know that there is a monument of a photocopier in the Indonesian village of Atar , commemorating the involvement of migrants from the village in the trade?
Did you know that Lawrence Watt-Evans 's The Cyborg and the Sorcerers was his first work in the hard science fiction genre, but mixed in elements of fantasy?
Did you know that Mal Benning is one of only 0.25 per cent of professional footballers in England to be British Asian ?
Did you know that the play-by-mail game Starweb , first published in 1976, is still available today through postal mail or email?
Did you know that the Great Dover Street woman might be the skeleton of a female gladiator ?
Did you know that Aaron Martin missed his penalty kick in the longest penalty shoot-out in English professional football history?
Did you know that there are tens of thousands of Polish proverbs , the oldest known of which dates to the year 1407?
Did you know that the Concerto for Two Cellos, RV 531 , Antonio Vivaldi's only concerto for two cellos, begins unusually with the two soloists entering alone in fast imitation ?
Did you know that Robert M. Briggs won re-election to the Wisconsin State Assembly by promising Beetown a double-track railway that was "like two rows of brass buttons on a double-breasted vest"?
Did you know that when England moved to take over the Dutch colony of New Netherland in 1664, a delegation met at Stuyvesant Farm to negotiate the Articles of Surrender ?
Did you know that Abraham O. Woodruff married a second wife 11 years after his father, Wilford Woodruff , issued the 1890 Manifesto that banned the practice of plural marriage ?
Did you know that Brookside character Margaret Clemence was featured in a female same-sex kiss that was rebroadcast during the opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics ?
Did you know that the WandaVision episode " Filmed Before a Live Studio Audience " employed a variety of live special effects such as wire rigs to emulate television series of the 1950s and 1960s?
Did you know that despite not initially being selected for the 2020 Summer Paralympics , British equestrian Georgia Wilson won two bronze medals at the Games?
Did you know that Niccolò Paccanari was sentenced to a decade in prison by the Inquisition for mismanaging the religious congregation he founded ?
Did you know that four Altars for Peace , fashioned out of large trees by George Nakashima , have been placed on different continents?
Did you know that Soviet scientist Mikhail Ioffe was not allowed to collect the Atoms for Peace Award because he was seen to be too friendly with western scientists?
Did you know that the Australian music festival Isol-Aid takes place entirely on Instagram ?
Did you know that Noliwe Rooks coined the term "segrenomics" to describe a system of separate, segregated, and unequal education created by the privatization and deregulation of American public education?
Did you know that extreme event attribution estimates how much climate change causes weather events, such as the 2021 Western North America heat wave ?
Did you know that the great hall of Dowhill Castle had a hatch in its floor leading to a pit used as a prison?
Did you know that Michael Barredo campaigned for Filipino athletes competing in disabled sports to receive government incentives?
Did you know that Kaludah was destroyed by fire in 1911, just two years after the ship was commissioned?
Did you know that the city of Dearborn forgot about the existence of Fordson Island for several decades?
Did you know that Victorian post office official William Rundell also collected stamps in his spare time, acquiring 48 copies of the "Sydney view" stamps of New South Wales?
Did you know that the butterfly rare skipper was only known from five rivers in the United States until sometime in the 1980s?
Did you know that John Henry Dunn resigned from the Executive Council of Upper Canada only three weeks after his appointment, throwing away a post he had sought for 16 years, on a matter of political principle?
Did you know that the Lithuanian town of Lyduvėnai had one of the world's largest wooden bridges?
Did you know that the construction of the Erawan Hotel was delayed by so many mishaps that a shrine to Brahma was built to ward off ill fortune?
Did you know that Hakan Akkaya became Turkey's first wheelchair fencer in 2013?
Did you know that the Green Guerillas threw " seed grenades " into abandoned lots in New York City?
Did you know that Brian O'Neill said in his tribute to Leslie Daiken : "He was always busy, always with a half dozen irons in the fire, always trying to give a hand to some Irish writer who needed it"?
Did you know that the February 28 Popular Leagues would seize foreign embassies in protest against the military junta in El Salvador?
Did you know that RTCM SC-104 allows data from different satellite navigation systems to be combined using a single format?
Did you know that the sister ships Ironsides and Lac La Belle sank under similar circumstances, eleven months apart?
Did you know that Dominican senator Anette Sanford donated half her salary to the Dominica Nurses Association during the COVID-19 pandemic?
Did you know that to animate conquistadors in Jungle Cruise , frogs were recorded in a Costa Rican forest?
Did you know that experimental musician John Olson has been called a "sort of bizarro influencer" because of his habit of "chaotic shitposting"?
Did you know that " Nun saget Dank und lobt den Herren ", a 16th-century German hymn based on Psalm 118 , was rewritten and shortened in the 20th century for a hymnal of the Swiss Reformed Church ?
Did you know that Devon Powers argues in Writing the Record that 1960s counter-culture music journalists Richard Goldstein and Robert Christgau acted as public intellectuals despite working outside of academia?
Did you know that the critically endangered Menai Strait whitebeam has a population of roughly 30 individuals?
Did you know that Headreach Island had 175 acres (71 ha) of farmland in 1923, but by 1974 was mostly marshland or underwater?
Did you know that a temporary two-lane viaduct was built along Cross Street to replace the closed lanes during the construction of Singapore's Telok Ayer MRT station ?
Did you know that Thomas J. Hannon succeeded in having a playground in his neighborhood named after his mother?
Did you know that British M-class destroyers such as HMS Obdurate were built to counter German ships that did not exist?
Did you know that wushu athlete Nguyễn Thúy Hiền was voted the best Vietnamese female athlete of the 20th century?
Did you know that after Bishop Sycamore High School lost a televised football game 58–0 , it was reported that the school did not teach its students?
Did you know that Elvira Bierbach has run an alternative medicine school for heilpraktiker in Bielefeld since 1992?
Did you know that to portray "drunk" Vision in the WandaVision episode " Don't Touch That Dial ", Paul Bettany took inspiration from Dick Van Dyke 's drunk acting in The Dick Van Dyke Show ?
Did you know that Guyana MP Yvonne Fredericks-Pearson competed in archery at the Indigenous Heritage Games 2019?
Did you know that the American Institute of Musicology has published over 650 volumes of early music since 1946?
Did you know that the Lutheran theologian Maurus Gerner-Beuerle wrote an autobiographical work about tales and pranks from his childhood?
Did you know that Mariner 1 , the United States' first interplanetary probe, was lost in 1962 due to the miscoding of a single character in its software?
Did you know that more than fifty years after Hilde Scheppan appeared in Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at the 1943 Bayreuth Festival , reviewer Alan Blyth called her "a dream of an Eva"?
Did you know that in 1908, you could "throw a cat through the cracks" of the dynamite shanties on Powder House Island ?
Did you know that the sea anemone Metridium dianthus is parasitised by the sea spider Pycnogonum litorale ?
Did you know that Jonathan Trichter , a registered Democrat , was the Republican nominee for New York State Comptroller in 2018?
Did you know that scouring in wool is among the essential pre-treatments of textiles that prepares them for subsequent processes such as bleaching , dyeing , and printing ?
Did you know that Julio Mayora was most happy about winning his silver medal for Venezuela at the 2020 Summer Olympics because it meant the government might give his mother a house?
Did you know that the Protestant Church in Borgholzhausen features a 1501 carved stone altar with scenes from the Passion of Jesus ?
Did you know that while Allen Hutt was a Communist journalist who became a Royal Designer for Industry for newspaper design , his son Sam is a doctor and country and western singer under the stage name Hank Wangford ?
Did you know that the jumping spider Plexippus petersi is widely admired for its prowess in hunting pest insects in homes?
Did you know that the name of the Noises , a group of islands in New Zealand , is a corrupted version of Les Noisettes ("the Hazelnuts")?
Did you know that an army commanded by Hannibal's father was saved from defeat when part of the enemy force deserted and fought alongside him ?
Did you know that Dawn Hastings-Williams was the first indigenous Minister of State of Guyana?
Did you know that the Pompey stone was believed to date to the early 1500s for over 70 years before it was revealed to be a hoax in 1894?
Did you know that when conductor Hans Drewanz , a personal assistant to Georg Solti at the Oper Frankfurt , became Generalmusikdirektor in Darmstadt , he was the youngest GMD in Germany?
Did you know that music producer Mylo briefly posted two of his rejected tracks for Kylie Minogue 's tenth studio album X online, before the album release?
Did you know that Cornelia Chase Brant was one of the first women to be appointed to the staff of a public hospital in New York City?
Did you know that the scarlet-and-white tanager swallows small berries whole, but eats larger fruit piece by piece?
Did you know that OpenAI Codex 's use of licensed code as training data has raised questions about the copyright status of machine learning models?
Did you know that social psychologist Lotte Bailyn , the first woman faculty member at the MIT Sloan School of Management , is an expert in work and family dynamics ?
Did you know that some music scholars have suggested that the Chaconne in G minor , widely attributed to Tomaso Antonio Vitali , is a musical hoax ?
Did you know that Koenigia islandica is considered the most hardy annual plant in the world?
Did you know that Anthony "Big Tony" Ciulla had to enter the United States Federal Witness Protection Program after he testified in a trial about rigged horse races?
Did you know that the Alfred Fischer Hall , built as the machinery hall for a 1912 coal mine, was the venue for a concert performance of Beethoven's Fidelio in 2021?
Did you know that American historian Donald R. Hickey was referred to as "the dean of 1812 scholarship" by The New Yorker ?
Did you know that Greece won the UEFA Euro 2004 Final despite never having won a match at a previous major tournament?
Did you know that the National Transportation Safety Board concluded that the probable cause of the 2014 Bedford Gulfstream IV crash was the flight crew's failure to perform the flight-control check before takeoff?
Did you know that the last commanding officer of the Rhodesian Light Infantry, Charlie Aust , described himself as "seedy moustache, glasses and intensely ugly" so soldiers knew how to identify him?
Did you know that criminologist Herschel Prins found in 1993 that young black men at Broadmoor Hospital were often stereotyped as "big, black and dangerous"?
Did you know that director Steve Kloves was reluctant to cast Beau Bridges as the brother of Jeff Bridges 's character in The Fabulous Baker Boys because he thought it sounded like "a gimmick"?
Did you know that Muhammad Sadiq 's photographs were the first ever taken of the Islamic holy sites in Mecca and Medina ?
Did you know that RSS Panglima was the first ship of  the Republic of Singapore Navy ?
Did you know that a resolution introduced into the Nebraska Legislature by Joni Albrecht praised Julie Schmit-Albin as "never one to let a public official waffle on pro-life legislation"?
Did you know that the birdfoot buttercup is found on three continents, mostly in the Arctic zone?
Did you know that the cast and crew of the zombie film Junk , which made use of real meat for its gore effects , were sometimes unable to stomach meat for dinner after spending hours filming?
Did you know that Peter Fleischmann directed the cult film The Hamburg Syndrome , which foresaw a scenario similar to the COVID-19 pandemic as early as 1979?
Did you know that distance education in Chicago Public Schools in 1937 took place via radio broadcasts during school closures that were spurred by a polio outbreak?
Did you know that a review by Alan Blyth of tenor Christoph Strehl 's performances described him as singing "with a Wunderlich -like strength and beauty"?
Did you know that South Carolina 's first television station, WCOS-TV , "could not stand the economic gaff" and folded less than three years after starting up?
Did you know that in terms of performance , wool has been advertised as a "miracle fabric"?
Did you know that Wayward Son was described as "a delirious candy-coated romp"?
Did you know that due to a left–right mix-up, Barry Joule destroyed the wrong Francis Bacon painting, which would now be worth around £35 million?
Did you know that Cack Henley threw the longest complete game shutout in professional baseball history?
Did you know that places of worship in the English district of East Hampshire include the Temple of the White Eagle Lodge—likened to "an Art Deco version of the Pantheon"?
Did you know that Bill Pinkney was the first African American to sail around the world solo via the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Horn ?
Did you know that Operation Romeo was one of the causes of the Nepalese Civil War ?
Did you know that after decades of being a central hub for river dredging operations, Stony Island 's population was reduced to a caretaker and his two dogs?
Did you know that New Zealand choreographer and dancer Louise Potiki Bryant was coated in clay by sculptor Paerau Corneal in their interdisciplinary work Kiri ?
Did you know that street racing was once prevalent along the Tokyo area's Bayshore Route ?
Did you know that Characteres generum plantarum , a work about the botany of the second voyage of James Cook , contains an apology for only including 75 new genera ?
Did you know that Tyler Gilbert threw a no-hitter in his first Major League Baseball start ?
Did you know that the medieval rood of Ramsåsa Church was discovered in the church attic at the beginning of the 20th century?
Did you know that Rhodesians continued to raise the Union Jack to celebrate Pioneers' Day every 12 September, even after adopting a new flag, in order to honour the original pioneers?
Did you know that Suzanna Hext chose to compete in swimming rather than equestrian at the delayed 2020 Summer Paralympics ?
Did you know that as documented in The Presidential Vote, 1896–1932 , fewer than a quarter of the United States' counties voted for the same party in every presidential election from 1896 to 1932?
Did you know that the Ming-dynasty novella The Jealous Wife might have been written by the "Master of the Doctrine of Subduing Women"?
Did you know that Joe Hill , the last opera by Alan Bush , contains four songs by the real Joe Hill ?
Did you know that after Michele Anne Harris disappeared 20 years ago today , her husband was tried four times for her murder before being acquitted?
Did you know that Plevna in Tampere , Finland, was the first building in the Nordic countries and the Russian Empire (of which Finland was part at the time) to be lit by electric lights?
Did you know that American journalist and activist Clara Leiser traveled to Nazi Germany frequently, and documented the plight of families of political prisoners?
Did you know that the New Zealand tree tarahinau has evolved to develop thinner leaves as it matures, probably as a result of the high winds of the Chatham Islands ?
Did you know that Joe Murphy 's civil-engineering firm was known colloquially as "Grey Murphy" to distinguish it from that of his brother , which was known as "Green Murphy"?
Did you know that Fraser Patrick likened playing in the 2019 Q School to being in a boxing match with Anthony Joshua ?
Did you know that women originally had the right to vote in New Jersey thanks to its constitution until an 1807 act removed that right?
Did you know that Leo Kestenberg , a concert pianist, initiated a large-scale reform of music education in Prussia , but had to flee the Nazis first to Prague and then to Tel Aviv?
Did you know that the Banjul sector Half Die was reportedly given its name due to an epidemic outbreak in the 19th century?
Did you know that Team San Juan became the first champion of the FIBA 3x3 World Tour in 2012?
Did you know that  during the American Civil War, Charles K. Prioleau made a fortune by smuggling arms to the Confederacy on board the blockade runner Bermuda ?
Did you know that King Edward's Place , once a love nest for King Edward VII , later became a children's activity centre?
Did you know that 18-year-old George McCubbin piloted the aircraft that shot down German ace Max Immelmann in 1916?
Did you know that the Chevelon Creek Bridge , built in Arizona in 1912–1913, was part of one of America's first national highways?
Did you know that the ceramicist Franz Josef Altenburg was honoured with an exhibition of his art at Austria's Kaiservilla where he was born?
Did you know that a television in the film Day of Reckoning includes scenes from Big Ass Spider! ?
Did you know that the Southern Lebanese villages of Safad El Battikh , Kafra and Ayta al-Jabal were mentioned in 1596 Ottoman tax records ?
Did you know that the Harvard step test , developed by Lucien Brouha in 1942, is still used as a reference when developing fitness tests?
Did you know that actual play shows have helped to improve the representation of women, people of color , and LGBT people in tabletop gaming ?
Did you know that sumo wrestler Shōnanzakura Sōta had a record 104 consecutive losses?
Did you know that the Beach Boys ' song " Rollin' Up to Heaven " had a chorus that consisted of the lines "alley-oop", "fuck her", and "big tits"?
Did you know that Franček Gorazd Tiršek , a para-shooter from Slovenia, won three silver medals at the Summer Paralympic Games , the most recent one in Tokyo?
Did you know that the Marvel Cinematic Universe television series WandaVision was structured to follow the five stages of grief by starting with denial and ending with acceptance?
Did you know that Sir Hardman Earle, 1st Baronet 's father, grandfather and great-grandfather were all slave traders ?
Did you know that when the National Museum of Vanuatu opened its new building in 1995, a specially selected pig was sacrificed?
Did you know that "one of early Australia's biggest manhunts" was organized to catch Chinese Australian bushranger Sam Poo ?
Did you know that the fringe belief of serpent seed claims that the Serpent mated with Eve in the Garden of Eden , and their offspring was Cain ?
Did you know that Angelo Tsarouchas nearly abandoned his hopes of being a comedian because his wife at the time thought it was a bad idea?