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Did you know that the 1962 space-age pop album Latin-esque was recorded with halves of the orchestra separated by almost a city block to heighten its stereo effects?
Did you know that Bob Gandey founded a circus that continues to be operated by his descendants more than a century later?
Did you know that Hudson's Bay Company ships reserved special rooms for important Lower Chehalis visitors due to their key role in regional trade networks?
Did you know that referee Mike Hasenfratz acted in an ice hockey fight in Stay Tuned ?
Did you know that Planting a Rainbow has been praised for both its "deft use of colors" and the educational identification of seeds, bulbs, sprouts, and blossoms?
Did you know that David Bookbinder was Margaret Thatcher 's "least favourite local government leader"?
Did you know that the creator of The Americans drew inspiration for the show from his time as a CIA officer and a 2010 Russian spy scandal ?
Did you know that Tjeerd van Andel was surprised to find heaps of giant clam shells around hot springs on his first dive to the Pacific ocean floor?
Did you know that art historians believe that Ellen Thesleff's self-portrait may have been drawn in a trance -like state?
Did you know that Charles Herman Allen , university administrator and American Civil War captain, opened the University of Wisconsin to female enrollment in 1863?
Did you know that during World War I the organ of evacuated Polish railway workers in Moscow denounced the trade unions of the Warsaw–Vienna railway as "separatists"?
Did you know that the Mingxing Film Company released more than 150 films in 16 years, but most are now lost?
Did you know that Ritsuko Taho once had her students at Harvard University slaughter a chicken and turn its bones into a sculpture?
Did you know that Luo Shiwen led a secret cell of the Chinese Communist Party that negotiated better conditions for inmates at their concentration camp ?
Did you know that the Museiliha inscription hints at a border dispute between ancient Caesarea ad Libanum and Gigarta ?
Did you know that the fortune left by Zhu Baosan was believed to have been greatly diminished by his philanthropic activities?
Did you know that less than a day after his dad died, Brett Favre played in " one of the greatest games of his fabulous career "?
Did you know that a museum of tomato processing in Greece uses holographic mechanical fans to display images of workers?
Did you know that Shelley Luther was elected to the Texas House of Representatives four years after being imprisoned?
Did you know that the main cemetery of Mainz was established in 1803 and became the model for the Cimetière du Père-Lachaise in Paris?
Did you know that David Green published more than 200 research papers before his 18th birthday?
Did you know that the distant horse relative Palaeotherium was first misidentified as an amphibious animal, then as a canine?
Did you know that Nikolaus Mollyn was the first book printer in Riga , and the first to print a book in Latvian within the present-day territory of Latvia?
Did you know that in addition to millions murdered, Nazi crimes against children included compulsory sterilization , forced labor, forced institutionalization, medical experiments and Germanisation ?
Did you know that Chivas USA had eleven different managers over ten seasons ?
Did you know that literary critic Qian Xingcun brought several Communist writers into the Shanghai film industry?
Did you know that the clergy of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis were upset about the sale of Nazareth Hall Preparatory Seminary after its closure?
Did you know that Femke Bol successfully defended her 2021 title by winning the women's 400 metres at the 2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships ?
Did you know that Louis Abramson worked on the renovation of a building that he designed 57 years earlier?
Did you know that Fen Juhua became the "first of the lady knights in the Chinese cinema" after fighting for love in a 1925 film ?
Did you know that the offices of Hamm's Brewery in Saint Paul, Minnesota , were built on the site of the city's third cathedral ?
Did you know that Miles Rock served as chief of the commission that determined the disputed Guatemala–Mexico border ?
Did you know that the 2025 season of Inter Miami CF includes matches in the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup ?
Did you know that Anthony F. Ciampi fought his superiors to rebuild the College of the Holy Cross after it was destroyed by fire in 1852?
Did you know that a documentary film built around the final interview of K-pop star Sulli employs elements of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz as a framing device?
Did you know that Diane Leather was the first woman to run a mile in under five minutes?
Did you know that a cat, Timoshenko, joined the British submarine HMS Unruffled on twenty patrols during the Second World War?
Did you know that the 2007 Greensburg tornado had ten smaller tornadoes orbiting it?
Did you know that a music video for a song on the album Dostrotime was made with an oscilloscope ?
Did you know that Bob Hainlen , at the age of 22, was both a player and an assistant coach for a professional American football team?
Did you know that Izvestiya Askhabadskogo Soveta was the first Bolshevik newspaper published in present-day Turkmenistan?
Did you know that after he did not come home for dinner, James Michael Reardon 's assistant priests found that he had died in his basilica while praying?
Did you know that the area around Sams Creek was excluded from Kahurangi National Park when it was formed in 1996 due to gold-mining interests?
Did you know that Susan Finnegan was the first female head of the arachnids section at the Natural History Museum, London, but had to resign her job to marry?
Did you know that David Fishwick went from a £27.50-a-week pebbledashing job to becoming the biggest minibus supplier in Britain?
Did you know that American football player Rich Romer was selected three times as an All-American by Pizza Hut ?
Did you know that the medieval font of St Peter's Church, Stapenhill , was restored in 1973?
Did you know that as a nine-year-old, Anastasia Somoza lobbied U.S. president Bill Clinton ?
Did you know that Bini 's performance of " Cherry on Top " at KCON 2024 was the first act by a Filipino pop group at the event?
Did you know that French cellist Nicolas-Joseph Platel is considered to be the founder of the Belgian school of cello playing?
Did you know that the Upper Chehalis people adopted horses widely after their introduction, becoming known as "equestrian" compared to their coastal neighbors?
Did you know that an official investigation found the Fukushima nuclear accident was foreseeable and preventable?
Did you know that basketball player Trey McKenney made all fourteen of his free throws in St. Mary's Preparatory 's 2024 state championship victory?
Did you know that members of the Trade Union Opposition Federation stormed the Copenhagen Stock Exchange ?
Did you know that Arne Slettebak revitalised interest in the field of stellar rotation after it had been abandoned for nearly 15 years?
Did you know that of the 25 times the Green Bay Packers and Seattle Seahawks have played each other, 4 have come in the playoffs ?
Did you know that Amrita Sher-Gil painted a portrait of Helen Chaman Lall without expecting a fee?
Did you know that SZA's " Snooze " happens to be a sleeper hit?
Did you know that Zheng Zhegu urged his film students to bring their girlfriends when no women enrolled?
Did you know that the Green Bay Packers lost the 2014 NFC Championship Game and a spot in the Super Bowl after they were considered to have a 99.9-percent chance of victory?
Did you know that politician Thokchom Chandrasekhar Singh was jailed for 12 months for protesting in favour of restoring the Manipur Legislative Assembly ?
Did you know that the newspaper Qizil Tugh ( Red Banner ) provided a publishing platform for young Uyghur-language poets and writers in the Soviet Union?
Did you know that Gail Damerow was described by one magazine as "poultry's Cesar Millan "?
Did you know that both Catholic and Orthodox Christian democrats received a higher share of votes in Kazansky District than in any other district of Petrograd in the 1917 Russian elections ?
Did you know that in a 2024 game, college football player Jordan Watkins scored an Ole Miss –record five receiving touchdowns – even though he had never before had more than one?
Did you know that Haruki Murakami owns so many T-shirts that he published a book about them ?
Did you know that most of the contributors to the Emancipation Pictorial , a Chinese women's magazine, were men?
Did you know that Elin Falk caused a national controversy in 1913 with her proposals for reforming gymnastics in Swedish schools?
Did you know that the discovery of a new waltz attributed to Chopin was announced in October 2024?
Did you know that college basketball player Adou Thiero plays for the same head coach for whom his father played?
Did you know that match-three video games such as Candy Crush Saga are often considered to be Bejeweled clones?
Did you know that Hikari Kodama disguised herself with wigs during public performances because she went to a high school with strict rules?
Did you know that although three witnesses are typically needed in linguistic reconstruction , only two are necessary if borrowing and innovation can be ruled out?
Did you know that after seeing Taiwanese actor Mo Tzu-yi 's work, a director sought to inquire about him at a film market, only to find Mo standing right behind him?
Did you know that Wang Hanlun used proceeds from her company's only film to finalize her divorce?
Did you know that Benjamin Britten wanted the score of his An American Overture destroyed after it was rediscovered?
Did you know that Dr Disrespect 's first videos featured a bombastic "champion" trash-talking game-play footage?
Did you know that Cordova, Alabama , was hit by two tornadoes on the same day in 2011, the second of which was on the ground for more than two hours?
Did you know that Arthur France founded the Leeds West Indian Carnival , the first Caribbean carnival in Europe, in 1967?
Did you know that Spectrum HoloByte published Tetris without permission from the Soviet Union?
Did you know that a future World War II aircraft carrier was used as a hotel during the 7th National Eucharistic Congress in 1935?
Did you know that John Moore 's mother, after learning that UCLA 's student-body president was Black, said "this is where he's going to school"?
Did you know that Yangginu plotted to defeat Khan Wan to avenge his murdered father?
Did you know that to prepare for her role in The Last Dance , actress Michelle Wai learned to perform a Taoist funeral ritual traditionally performed only by men?
Did you know that the city council of Hamtramck , led by Mayor Amer Ghalib , banned the pride flag from publicly owned flagpoles?
Did you know that the death rate from adrenal crises can reach as high as 6 percent?
Did you know that Shane Connolly has provided flowers for two royal weddings and the coronation of Charles III?
Did you know that the Child Law Project reports on Ireland 's child-care system?
Did you know that U.S. Army chaplain Patrick Ryan celebrated a Mass of thanksgiving for 10,000 people after the liberation of Rome ?
Did you know that Perplexities after Escher , a composition for heckelphone , string quartet and double bass, is based on five graphic artworks by M. C. Escher ?
Did you know that Verificado 2018 was a fact-checking collaboration between at least 90 organizations to counter disinformation during the 2018 Mexican federal election ?
Did you know that Tommy Suggs recommended using Also sprach Zarathustra as his college football team 's entrance music, because he saw Elvis Presley do it first?
Did you know that "unusual choices" at Liliget Feast House included wind-dried salmon and pan-fried oolichans ?
Did you know that Rada Dyson-Hudson was denied academic tenure at Johns Hopkins University and Cornell University despite her academic record and capabilities?
Did you know that the Jiangwan Racecourse hosted horse races, a golf club, and prisoners of war?
Did you know that a manuscript of the New Testament was bound in the wrong order, which a scholar decried: "the bookbinder has messed everything up"?
Did you know that Doctor Who star Peter Capaldi was a fan of the series as a child?
Did you know that the backflip ban in figure skating was lifted in 2024 alongside other "somersault type jumps"?
Did you know that Bob Hobman recreated a possible sea journey by Palaeolithic humans after 130,000-year-old tools were found on the island of Crete ?
Did you know that Aucklanders have a reputation for making false earthquake reports on New Zealand's earthquake monitoring website GeoNet ?
Did you know that in his first electoral victory, Aaron Kennedy defeated the premier of New Brunswick ?
Did you know that " Vanishing " is the first song that Mariah Carey produced by herself?
Did you know that during World War II, Soviet atrocities against prisoners of war included the murder of tens of thousands of Polish soldiers in the Katyn massacre ?
Did you know that basketball player Charel Allen was a five-time Bulgarian Cup champion despite knowing only a few words of Bulgarian?
Did you know that a Syrian filmmaker repurposed footage from his first film in his last film in order to criticize his younger self?
Did you know that Celeste Caeiro 's actions led to the naming of the 1974 coup in Portugal as the Carnation Revolution ?
Did you know that Operation Blooming Onion uncovered instances of "modern-day slavery" amongst H-2A visa workers in the state of Georgia ?
Did you know that L'Attaque , the board game that became Stratego , was patented in 1908 by its designer, a 57-year-old woman ?
Did you know that the Australian Light Weight Air Warning Radar was once loaded using canoes and later manhandled up a 200-foot cliff?
Did you know that Thomas Sewell said that in 2017 he attempted to recruit the perpetrator of the 2019 Christchurch mosque shootings into the Lads Society ?
Did you know that while supporting a law easing restrictions on abortion in Gabon , Prime Minister Rose Christiane Raponda said "it is not yet the right time"?
Did you know that " the world's loneliest duck " arrived on the remote Pacific island country of Niue in 2018?
Did you know that David Hilchen played a key role in the establishment of Renaissance humanism in the area of the present-day Baltic states ?
Did you know that the 1931 Barcelona rent strike resulted in 18 deaths, dozens of injuries and arrests, and an agreement on the reduction of rents?
Did you know that several local residents mistook the production set of Miss Shampoo for a real shop and entered during filming?
Did you know that a columnist described Bern Shanks as "the most open and accessible state wildlife chief in memory"?
Did you know that Ngiam Tong Dow negotiated Singapore's first and largest purchase of gold from South Africa in 1968 by comparing two halves of a United States one-dollar bill ?
Did you know that Tiny Glade was developed by a two-person studio and was the fourth most-played demo on 2024's Steam Next Fest?
Did you know that Chen Qiyou , a would-be assassin, later became part of the Chinese Committee for World Peace?
Did you know that Annie Huggett , aged 103, was the oldest living suffragette at the time of her death in 1996?
Did you know that cellist Rohan de Saram 's background as a geta bera drummer inspired Luciano Berio 's Sequenza XIV ?
Did you know that a priest canceled 1,600 subscriptions to The Catholic Bulletin over a front-page photograph of nuns dancing?
Did you know that comic-opera performer Celie Ellis Turner pursued a stage career against her family's wishes?
Did you know that the oldest surviving wooden lightship , dating to 1840, is now an Airbnb property?
Did you know that Henry Parnell was the youngest British parliamentarian to die in the First World War ?
Did you know that after signing a peace agreement in 1919 , Azerbaijan prepared another invasion of southern Armenia that was foiled by a rebellion in Nagorno-Karabakh ?
Did you know that schoolteacher Thomas Curnow used a red scarf to stop a train from derailing, leading to the capture of notorious outlaw Ned Kelly ?
Did you know that the political opposition in Saint Kitts and Nevis has viewed the national broadcaster, ZIZ , as a government mouthpiece?
Did you know that Richard Du Cann acted for the defence in the Lady Chatterley's Lover obscenity trial and the trial of the MP John Stonehouse ?
Did you know that the funds from the sale of burial lots at Cathedral Cemetery in Philadelphia were intended for the construction of the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul ?
Did you know that Mary Robertson was the first woman to receive a Doctor of Science degree in medicine from the University of Cape Town ?
Did you know that Karl Amadeus Hartmann completed his Hungarian-influenced composition Kammerkonzert during his period of inner emigration after Hitler's seizure of power?
Did you know that one Canadian football announcer refused to mention Tony Pajaczkowski in game broadcasts for several years?
Did you know that Augustus Pugin called St John the Evangelist Church, Islington , a "deformity"?
Did you know that residents of Port Mercer, New Jersey , profited from passing vessels by dragging their tow mules into the Delaware and Raritan Canal and having local boys "rescue" them for a fee?
Did you know that in 1809, two ministers leading the British war effort against Napoleon fought a duel against each other ?
Did you know that in his first year in the NFL , Lou Rash was told he was released and began flying back home, but was told upon landing that the release was a mistake and he was to return?
Did you know that muthkwey was not harvested or walked over, because oral tradition held that it had grown from the droppings of a two-headed serpent?
Did you know that the Mongol princess Al-Altan was rumoured to have poisoned her brother Ögedei Khan ?
Did you know that the Saybrook Colony was sold to Connecticut for an annual payment of 180 pounds of equal quantities of wheat, peas, and either rye or barley?
Did you know that future Olympic weightlifter Chiu Yuh-chuan received a job offer in marketing after media coverage about his difficulty securing employment?
Did you know that out of 148 candidates in the 1957 Manipur Territorial Council election there was only one woman?
Did you know that basketball coach Trisha Stafford-Odom left the Eagles to join the Eagles ?
Did you know that The Crystal was one of few publications in early-20th-century China that regularly covered same-sex intimacy?
Did you know that Gigarta , a settlement mentioned by Strabo and Pliny the Elder , is believed to have been located on the slopes of Mount Lebanon , although its exact location remains under debate?
Did you know that Al LeBoeuf was diagnosed with a rare condition in 2012 from an injury that he suffered in 1985?
Did you know that the Swedish broadcaster organising the Eurovision Song Contest 1975 refused to allow the contest to be shown in Chile, as a protest against the country's military dictatorship?
Did you know that the Polish manga and anime fandom arose in the 1990s and now numbers over 100,000 people?
Did you know that Frank A. Kimball brought a transcontinental rail terminus to National City, California , in exchange for thousands of acres of land?
Did you know that Aldous Huxley developed his " feelies " in response to the emergence of " talkies "?
Did you know that a senior colonel with 30 years' experience in North Korean intelligence agencies defected to South Korea in 2014?
Did you know that an underground tunnel between two houses in what is now Jugtown Historic District was used to hide fugitive slaves?
Did you know that when John of Montfort was captured in 1341 during the Breton Civil War , his wife took command of the Breton army?
Did you know that five of the six people killed in the 2011 Cullman–Arab tornado were members of the same family?
Did you know that Ornithoprion was studied primarily using X-rays of its fossils?
Did you know that the author of Oh My Mother! has written about the phenomenon of giving Asian-American girls the name "Connie"?
Did you know that the Campo Valdés Roman baths were rediscovered during the construction of a sewer system in 1903?
Did you know that Karen Tei Yamashita realized the structure of her novel, I Hotel , by cutting, folding, and writing on ten cardboard cubes, each representing a year in the book?
Did you know that Carrlyn Bathe met her husband after he sent her gear from his clothing brand?
Did you know that due to the near-miss effect , gamblers may mistake a game of luck for a game of skill?
Did you know that tacklers "bounced off" Chauncey Archiquette "as if he were a brick wall"?
Did you know that the author of the comic book Timeless Voyage was the leader of a UFO religion ?
Did you know that Chief Constable James Smart flooded police courts with over 17,000 cases to prove the impracticality of leaving homeowners with the responsibility for lighting  stairs?
Did you know that an Indiana university recently argued in court that The Silver Veil and the Golden Gate , a 1914 painting, was too modern for their art collection?
Did you know that although no people died in the 1984 Southland floods , about 12,000 sheep perished?
Did you know that while conducting research for Kingdom of Characters , author Jing Tsu visited archives across multiple countries and continents?
Did you know that Patriarch Amalric was, according to the archbishop of Tyre, "reasonably well educated but bereft of intelligence and virtually useless"?
Did you know that according to The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction , the 1913 Polish novel The Cross and the Crescent is "perhaps the first example" of the genre of military science fiction in Polish literature?
Did you know that the director for Yuzuru Hanyu 's Echoes of Life Tour choreographed the 2016 Summer Olympics closing ceremony ?
Did you know that the MrBeast Lab toy line first debuted in a pop-up store in the shape of an overturned tanker truck carrying toxic waste?
Did you know that Peel's Cut , a watercourse in Staffordshire, lasted more than 100 years longer than the mill it was excavated to power?
Did you know that no actual voting took place in the 1939 Liechtenstein general election ?
Did you know that following its deconsecration , the Church of Santa Maria Maggiore in Venice and its grounds have been used as a stable, a tobacco warehouse, and a prison?
Did you know that television director Diana Edwards-Jones introduced earpieces to permit direct communication between a control room and newsreaders?
Did you know that St Francis of Assisi Church, Notting Hill , contains a font designed by John Francis Bentley and in which he was later baptised?
Did you know that the 1983 Spanish floods were the most economically damaging in Spain until the 2024 Spanish floods ?
Did you know that the medieval Castle Knob was the site of a Cold War nuclear monitoring station?
Did you know that Zhou Houkun wrote a thesis on the use of bamboo to reinforce concrete?
Did you know that Burrito Express began shipping out its burritos by mail because of demand from former customers who had moved away from California?
Did you know that weightlifter Wu Tsai-fu drank six huge glasses of beer to help himself urinate for a drug test?
Did you know that David Bowie frequently updated the lyrics for his song " Young Americans " to keep them contemporary?
Did you know that in 1991, Juan López Mella was the first Spanish rider to achieve a podium place in the Superbike World Championship ?
Did you know that after complaints of A Pickle for the Knowing Ones lacking punctuation, the author published a second edition with full pages of punctuation in the appendix?
Did you know that in 1998, the Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR received the Guinness World Record for the most expensive production car?
Did you know that the 1995 dedication ceremony for the Faces of War Memorial included missing-man flyovers ?
Did you know that fossils are included in Polystoechotites due to being poorly fossilized, rather than due to relation?