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Did you know that getting bitten by an eel led Sean Barber to become an umpire ?
Did you know that Herb Roedel retired from professional football after only one season to become an engineer ?
Did you know that Oskar Kokoschka 's painting The Duchess of Montesquiou-Fezensac was confiscated by the Nazis after his work was labelled " degenerate "?
Did you know that Canadian architect Barry Downs contributed to the redevelopment of the Expo 86 site in Vancouver , the largest private development in North America at the time?
Did you know that Chancellor Olaf Scholz has announced a €100-billion investment in the German armed forces?
Did you know that when the sale of its San Diego TV station failed, United States International University asked some of its employees to wait to pick up their paychecks?
Did you know that Cursed to Golf has been referred to as the " Dark Souls of golf" due to its difficulty?
Did you know that Mama Lee lived for more than a decade on a cruise ship ?
Did you know that the "awkward, cramped galleries" at 2 Columbus Circle later housed New York City government offices?
Did you know that the perpetrator of the 2015 Heze bombing was described as normal just days before the attack?
Did you know that after civil rights activist Andrew Goodman was murdered, Mary Doyle Curran found and published a poem that Goodman had written for her class?
Did you know that at 6 by 22 metres (20 by 72 feet), Zeitlaich is Jonas Burgert 's largest oil painting?
Did you know that after journalist Adele Ferguson 's criticism of the U.S. Navy's sex discrimination attracted nationwide attention, she was offered a personal tour of a nuclear submarine ?
Did you know that a travelling museum exhibition in Japan displays "life-size" renditions of Pokémon skeletons alongside the fossils of actual prehistoric animals?
Did you know that extendable marshmallow toasting forks were cited as an example of how glamping has "ruined" camping?
Did you know that Silvia Hauer , a singer of Rossini's Rosina and Bizet's Carmen at Staatstheater Wiesbaden , performed the mezzo-soprano solo of Verdi's Requiem in 2022?
Did you know that Mike Judge 's three-month tenure at the video-card manufacturer Parallax Graphics was an inspiration for Office Space ?
Did you know that it was rumoured that " R.I.P. " was initially intended for Rihanna , but it became a song for Rita Ora instead?
Did you know that Bruce Timm created most of the character designs for Batman: The Animated Series ?
Did you know that in 1993, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld West Virginia's largest punitive damages award in history , awarding $10 million – 526 times larger than the compensatory damages?
Did you know that Mini mum is miniscule, but it is not Mini scule ?
Did you know that after his release from a hospital for the criminally insane, Richard Dixon burgled $16 from a credit union and hijacked a jet to Cuba?
Did you know that some evangelical Christians confess their sexual temptations to an accountability partner to maintain their sexual purity ?
Did you know that John Allen Lewis printed the Los Angeles Star , the first newspaper to appear in Los Angeles in 1851, with two pages written in English and two in Spanish?
Did you know that Frederick the Great personally convicted six judges for their involvement in the Miller Arnold case and sentenced them to a custodial penalty?
Did you know that Halyna Kuzmenko promoted the Ukrainization of the Makhnovist movement , successfully increasing the use of the Ukrainian language by Russian speakers?
Did you know that recruitment to the British Canton Coolie Corps suffered due to false rumours that men would be used as human shields in the Second Opium War ?
Did you know that there is a Loch Ness Monster in Williamsburg, Virginia ?
Did you know that Aox Inc. , a maker of computer expansion cards, was named after the founders' dog?
Did you know that Rebecca Blake , Anglo-Romanian captain of the Romania women's national cricket team , also led the French team to victory in a six-team tournament?
Did you know that episodes of such game shows as Double Dare , Finders Keepers , and You Bet Your Life were filmed at the Philadelphia studios of a public TV station ?
Did you know that Bear Witness reviewers said, "The songs were richer than the first wave of Madonna 's hits"?
Did you know that Leonard Kriegel , who had polio, insisted on using the term "cripple" in his works to describe his illness?
Did you know that "one of the finest cut brick façades" in the United Kingdom has been partially obscured by scaffolding for four years, as funds are raised for its repair?
Did you know that after Claudia Fleming 's dessert cookbook went out of print due to poor sales, used copies began circulating on eBay for hundreds of dollars?
Did you know that Bochart 's 1646 Geographia Sacra seu Phaleg et Canaan was the first full-length book devoted to the Phoenicians ?
Did you know that heavy metal led Ossian D'Ambrosio to druidism ?
Did you know that the wedding of Grover Cleveland and Frances Folsom had the president walking his own bride down the aisle?
Did you know that William of Littlington opposed the division of England and Scotland into two Carmelite provinces in 1303, was excommunicated, and did four years' penance in Paris?
Did you know that Cardigan Donuts has sold a Super Mario Kart –inspired rainbow doughnut with white chocolate frosting, gold walnuts, and cereal marshmallows?
Did you know  that the title for Need for Speed Unbound was accidentally revealed early on Electronic Arts ' website?
Did you know that after being extensively hunted in the 19th century, southern right whales can again sometimes be seen in Mahurangi Harbour ?
Did you know that Richard W. Conway earned a varsity letter , a Ph.D. , and an endowed chair , all from the same university?
Did you know that according to two surveys, knocking on wood and ' crossing fingers for good luck' are the most popular superstitions in Britain ?
Did you know that Ella van Poucke , a cellist who studied at the Kronberg Academy , returned there as a soloist, playing Haydn's Cello Concerto No. 1 in the new Casals Forum ?
Did you know that Nippon Steel , one of Japan's largest steelmakers, sold notebook computers in the U.S. in the early 1990s?
Did you know that Lanfranco Cirillo is the architect of Putin's Palace , a palace complex on the Black Sea coast allegedly built for Vladimir Putin which is estimated to have cost over one billion US dollars?
Did you know that couples can marry 'over the anvil' at Patterson's Spade Mill ?
Did you know that the remix of Kanye West 's " Use This Gospel " was added to DJ Khaled 's God Did at the last minute?
Did you know that BBC radio broadcaster Venu Chitale taught listeners how to cook without meat when it was rationed during the Second World War?
Did you know that Ball Ground, Georgia , received its name because the land was originally used by Native Americans to play stickball ?
Did you know that Sergei Prokofiev 's oratorio On Guard for Peace has been called "Kremlin music" and "Stalinist era kitsch at its most egregious"?
Did you know that Leon Burton set the NCAA record of 9.6 yards per carry in 1957?
Did you know that a copyright infringement suit was filed against the song " How We Do (Party) " for its use of the phrase "party and bullshit"?
Did you know that a Florida TV station operated from an abandoned amusement park ?
Did you know that the North Carolina state auditor is fifth in the line of succession to the governorship of North Carolina ?
Did you know that on the song " Conceited ", Flo Milli raps that she's been important since she was a fetus?
Did you know that the heads of the world's largest producer of pure lithium grew up in poverty?
Did you know that William F. Hanson collaborated with Zitkala-Sa on a Sioux-inspired work called The Sun Dance Opera ?
Did you know that the platform below the Weesperplein metro station was used as a fallout shelter after the line that was supposed to run through it got cancelled?
Did you know that Beatrice Muller lived on Queen Elizabeth 2 for nine years?
Did you know that Iraqi poet Isa Hasan al-Yasiri ran away from school at 10 years old, before travelling with a camel caravan overnight to another village?
Did you know that a negative review of Sky Ferreira 's " Don't Forget " on Pitchfork caused a large amount of controversy?
Did you know that the founder of the Guide to the Free World , helping people leave Russia after its invasion of Ukraine , said she was told: "It's good that you get out of Russia, but a pity that you won't be shot"?
Did you know that after serving as the speaker of the Oregon Territory House of Representatives , Lafayette Cartee moved to the Idaho Territory where he became a well-known horticulturalist ?
Did you know that the Shiba Inu memes of NAFO have been called "an actual tactical event against a nation state "?
Did you know that the Regensburg Botanical Society , founded on 14 May 1790, is the world's oldest extant botanical society?
Did you know that decades after its closure, the station house of the Chicago "L" 's Madison station would house a hot dog stand?
Did you know that before entering politics, Romina Pérez worked at the Center for Legal Studies and Social Research, which "became a 'nursery' for intellectual and political cadres of the Movement for Socialism "?
Did you know that despite his defeat at the battle of Pitgaveny , both of Duncan 's sons would later rule Scotland ?
Did you know that Kline's Mill is a rare surviving example of an Oliver Evans milling system from 1794?
Did you know that the hoof of Richard Thomas Glyn 's horse is used as an ashtray by officers of the Royal Regiment of Wales ?
Did you know that the Mesopotamian goddess Iqbi-damiq had an illness named after her?
Did you know that Marcela Revollo 's pragmatic approach to legislating led her to cooperate with both neoliberal and socialist governments on women's rights legislation?
Did you know that All Saints' Episcopal Church contains the crypt of its founder, Episcopal Bishop of Texas George Herbert Kinsolving ?
Did you know that the Nakhichevan uezd was home to more than 54,000 Armenians until they perished through the events of 1918–1920 as a result of the Russian Revolution ?
Did you know that the inspiration for the Hong Kong novel Sai Ying Pun came from the author oversleeping on a train?
Did you know that Tyrone Davis set a school record with 28 career touchdown receptions while playing wide receiver for the Virginia Cavaliers ?
Did you know that the abandoned 17th-century Grimethorpe Hall in South Yorkshire, England, has been proposed as a potential new headquarters for the Grimethorpe Colliery Band ?
Did you know that athletic trainer Gian Piero Ventrone , nicknamed " marine " for his very hard and tiring training sessions, made his players ring a "bell of shame" when they were too exhausted to continue?
Did you know that in the 1920s, Hickson Inc. had the "most elegant and expensive specialty shop" on New York's Fifth Avenue ?
Did you know that the Konzerthalle in Bad Salzuflen , an example of spa architecture in the 1960s, is one of the regular venues of the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie ?
Did you know that Eppa Hunton Jr. and his son, Eppa Hunton IV , the namesakes of the Hunton Student Center at Virginia Commonwealth University , served a combined 50 years on the Medical College of Virginia 's board of visitors ?
Did you know that a U.S. soldier who killed a Vietnamese woman after raping her was dubbed a "double veteran"?
Did you know that both of Karl R. Free 's New Deal-era U.S. post office murals with Native American subjects have been challenged as offensive?
Did you know that the Scottish Register of Tartans has registered district tartans for Australia as a whole, and also a state district tartan for each of Australia's six states ?
Did you know that before bungee jumping with White House aides in New Zealand, senior White House correspondent Bill Plante said he was "proving that you're never too old to do something really stupid"?
Did you know that Taylor Swift got in touch with Gary Lightbody , with whom she collaborated on the song " The Last Time ", through Ed Sheeran ?
Did you know that the Lithuanian-Belorussian Soviet Republic exchanged 13 detained German diplomats for 24 jailed leaders of the Kaunas Soviet of Workers Deputies ?
Did you know that the Missa primi toni octo vocum was written for double choir by the Italian composer Stefano Bernardi in 1630 for Salzburg Cathedral when he was the music director there?
Did you know that Betty Hall introduced a New Hampshire bill that would have petitioned the United States Congress to impeach George W. Bush ?
Did you know that Tony DeLuca was the longest-serving member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives at the time of his death?
Did you know that Tropical Storm Hermine in September 2022 produced record-breaking rainfall in the Canary Islands amounting to more than 20 times the monthly average?
Did you know that according to one historian, James S. Rains made a "significant contribution to the Confederate war effort" by getting drunk?
Did you know that the Church of the Immaculate Conception was rededicated as a shrine in 1954, 100 years after the dogma of the Immaculate Conception was defined?
Did you know that Markus Becker , who earned awards for his recording of the complete piano works by Max Reger , also recorded jazz?
Did you know that according to the Open Syllabus Project ,  the most widely taught novel in college courses is Frankenstein ?
Did you know that César Mascetti was reportedly the first Argentine journalist to interview a member of the Beatles when he met a naked George Harrison on a Rio de Janeiro beach?
Did you know that IBM EduQuest equipped the floppy drives in their computer systems with a dust shield to prevent the intrusion of dirt and chalk dust?
Did you know that an ancient Chinese medical encyclopaedia recommends qigong as a cure for most diseases?
Did you know that Mark Williams travelled for more than 13 hours to be a last-minute replacement at the 2022 Hong Kong Masters ?
Did you know that Sir Frank Price , a former Lord Mayor of Birmingham , grew up in the city's slums and left school at the age of 14?
Did you know that the beat in Taylor Swift 's song " Holy Ground " was described by Brad Nelson of The Atlantic as "insistent enough to act as punctuation for the lyrics"?
Did you know that Carlo Carrà attributed The Funeral of the Anarchist Galli to the 1904 Italian general strike , while the actual funeral and riot occured in 1906?
Did you know that American illustrator Alfred Skrenda "was particularly adept at billowing skirts and heroic gazes"?
Did you know that the Pedestals of Biahmu are known locally as Al-Ṣanam , Arabic for "the idol"?
Did you know that the Sugar Puffs bear once escaped from Clinton Keeling 's home zoo?
Did you know that civil rights lawyer Qian Julie Wang wrote the draft of her memoir Beautiful Country on her phone during her commute?
Did you know that the memorabilia of Jennie Scott Griffiths , a Texan who died in California, are housed in the National Library of Australia ?
Did you know that Queen Camilla has said that her childhood at The Laines was "perfect in every way"?
Did you know that despite a "No Rock & Roll" sign in the studios of the Utica College radio station , students played it anyway?
Did you know that Kenyan coffee farmer "Pinkie" Jackson amassed Africa's largest collection of native butterflies?
Did you know that following a gun battle with Polish legionnaires, five leaders of the Vilna Soviet of Workers Deputies committed suicide rather than surrendering?
Did you know that Abbott and Costello dragged the Empire Theatre 168 feet (51 m) in 1998?
Did you know that Iraqi poet Kazim al-Samawi spent more than half his life in political exile and was called "The Sheikh of the Exiles"?
Did you know that the Piedmont Hotel hosted a former, a current, and a future U.S. president in one week?
Did you know that Royston Brooks was the last European to serve as the Commanding Officer of the Royal Hong Kong Auxiliary Air Force from 1988 to 1990?
Did you know that the U.S. National Firefighter Registry will match state cancer data with voluntarily collected work history data from firefighters?
Did you know that Scottish physician George Gray received the thanks of the Chinese government for his work during the Manchurian plague of 1910–11 ?
Did you know that, among migrants, transgender asylum seekers are more likely to be subjected to physical and mental abuse?
Did you know that camel caravans using the Darb El Arba'īn trade route transported salt and slaves?
Did you know that Yemen currently has two parliamentary upper houses ?
Did you know that the public artwork Eroclamation at Haw Par Villa MRT station reflects Haw Par Villa 's themes of mortality and reincarnation?
Did you know that Australia has three major Japanese language schools ?
Did you know that in " Who shall separate us? ", composed by James MacMillan for the state funeral of Elizabeth II , verses from Romans 8 are followed by Alleluias described as "burning bright sonic trails"?
Did you know that the collapse of Cloghan Castle in County Cork, Ireland, was said to have been caused by the barking of a ghostly black dog?
Did you know that Luis Gallego had only completed middle-school education when he was elected to the Bolivian Chamber of Deputies ?
Did you know that Tornado Cash , a cryptocurrency tumbler , was blacklisted by the United States Department of the Treasury ?
Did you know that despite losing his left arm in World War II, Austrian tennis player Hans Redl reached the fourth round at Wimbledon in 1947?
Did you know that Jacqueline Kennedy bought several saris during her 1962 tour of India and Pakistan to be turned into sari-inspired dresses ?
Did you know that Assyrian Christian couples drink dust from the tombs of martyrs and are crowned during their weddings?
Did you know that an early version of the turn-based game Legends could take three to ten years to complete?
Did you know that in 1875, Robert J. Fulton moved Boston College by 60 feet (18 m)?
Did you know that the Jihadist Burkinabè rebels' ongoing siege of Djibo has been described as a "Ukrainian death"?
Did you know that Chunyu Yi may have been the "ancient founder of the case history tradition"?
Did you know that in 2010, the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Atlanta became the first church in the state to be elevated to the rank of a minor basilica ?
Did you know that Robert Nimmo 's command of the UN Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan remains the longest ever command of a United Nations operation?
Did you know that the Victory Theatre , the first theater on 42nd Street to show adult movies, later became a children's theater?
Did you know that religious studies scholar C. Jouco Bleeker believed that religions are like acorns?
Did you know that after the liberation of towns in Ukraine during the Ukrainian Kharkiv counteroffensive , authorities found evidence of numerous Russian torture chambers ?
Did you know that Maria Sole Ferrieri Caputi is the first woman to referee a Serie A football match?
Did you know that a Connecticut radio station was "the loser in a survival-of-the-fittest battle"?
Did you know that Abdel Moneim Mokhtar travelled to the 1928 Summer Olympics to compete in gymnastics, but took part in diving instead?
Did you know that Shaun Murphy lost a match at the 2022 British Open despite potting the winning ball?
Did you know that the best novel of American science fiction author Garrett Smith did not appear as a stand-alone book until over 60 years after his death?
Did you know that after Billie Eilish wrote the song " Wish You Were Gay ", its subject came out to her as gay?
Did you know that " Like as the hart ", a setting of Psalm 42 for a cappella choir, was composed by Judith Weir , Master of the King's Music, for the state funeral of Elizabeth II ?
Did you know that Rebeca Delgado created Freedom of Thought for Bolivia after being told by her previous party that she should leave if she wanted to be a "freethinker"?
Did you know that Brooklyn Nine-Nine character Amy Santiago has straight hair because the show's two Latina regular cast members feared that one of them would be fired?
Did you know that Adam Kingsmill , who is missing most of his right leg, played stand-up ice hockey until 2016?
Did you know that a 28-year-old tire store manager drowned his four children in the same station wagon in which his father fatally shot himself in the head?
Did you know that writer Malcolm Neesam was awarded the Freedom of the Borough of Harrogate , England, by the town council for services to local history?
Did you know that "perhaps the most notable wedding gown in existence" within the United States was once worn in St. Mary's-in-Tuxedo ?
Did you know that the documentary film Jihad Rehab features interviews with former inmates from the Guantanamo Bay detention camp who are now in the Care Rehabilitation Center , a "jihad rehab" in Saudi Arabia?
Did you know that Malabo Mosque cost about two billion Central African CFA francs to build?
Did you know that Cary Grant taught Sylvia Wu how to make shredded chicken salad?
Did you know that Adele 's artwork for " When We Were Young " features a picture of her as a child?
Did you know that Jutta Fleck protested for six months in front of border guards at Checkpoint Charlie for her daughters' release from East Germany ?
Did you know that the combat suit Pharah wears in Overwatch bears a strong resemblance to those featured in mecha anime?
Did you know that Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed , India's second Muslim president, was also the second Indian president to die in office?
Did you know that while some lichen species in the genus Piccolia have ranges which span multiple continents, others are restricted to single islands?
Did you know that Stardust , the title of a composition by Taylor Scott Davis for eight voices a cappella commissioned by Voces8 , became also the name of the vocal ensemble's 2022 tour?
Did you know that the roadless Solace Provincial Park in the Temagami area of Ontario , Canada, is considered as one of the most isolated, wild places in the province?
Did you know that the day after returning to Atlanta following his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance in 1964, Martin Luther King Jr. joined picketers who were on strike against Scripto ?
Did you know that Herbert James Gunn used a paper cut-out of Princess Elizabeth's corgi dog to help him paint his Conversation Piece at the Royal Lodge, Windsor ?
Did you know that Shaun Aguano 's interview to join the Arizona State football coaching staff consisted only of being asked, "you want the job?"
Did you know that Annie Dove Denmark was offered residency on campus for the rest of her life after resigning as the president of Anderson College ?
Did you know that Andreas Reize ranked Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen , a choral setting of the first verses of Psalm 84 by Johann Hermann Schein , as one of three pinnacles of motets before Bach ?
Did you know that Malaysian poet Wong Phui Nam wrote in English, despite feeling no connection to the English literary tradition?
Did you know that the depiction of conservative Catholic intellectuals in the play Heroes of the Fourth Turning was praised both by its subjects and by liberal New York theater critics?
Did you know that the day before the 1969 investiture of Charles, Prince of Wales , two protestors were killed when their homemade bomb exploded prematurely?
Did you know that Tom Urbani was an original Dirtbag ?
Did you know that riding on the Roller Soaker was described as going through a "car wash with the top down"?
Did you know that British Army brigadier John Hemsley and his wife set a record time for travel by car from Cape Town to London in 1983?
Did you know that Kanye West 's " Hands On " marked Fred Hammond 's first appearance on the US Billboard Hot 100 ?
Did you know that some analysts considered Víctor Hugo Zamora 's appointment as hydrocarbons minister to be a gesture to oil companies , guaranteeing "covert continuity" between the Áñez and Morales governments?
Did you know that Christy Martin vs. Deirdre Gogarty has been called the fight that "put women's boxing on the map"?