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Did you know that in 1794, a silver statue of the Virgin Mary from the chapel at Notre-Dame de la Garde was melted down at the mint of Marseille located on Rue du Tapis-Vert ?
Did you know that though Landsat 4 suffered a second failure in 1993 that stopped it from transmitting most scientific data, it continued broadcasting telemetry, tracking, and command data until 2001?
Did you know that the footballer Ted Gorin scored Scunthorpe United 's first goal in the Football League ?
Did you know that the worm Polydora glycymerica bores into the shell of bivalve molluscs, mainly Glycymeris yessoensis , and lives inside it?
Did you know that Angela Brower performed her signature role as Octavian at the Colombian premiere of Richard Strauss 's Der Rosenkavalier ?
Did you know that the French submarine X was the first to use twin shafts ?
Did you know that Chinese film director Lü Ban was banned from film-making for life for his satirical comedies, the last of which , also banned, discussed the topic of film censorship ?
Did you know that Chinese violinist Sheng Zhongguo was named by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation as one of the world's greatest artists?
Did you know that Tell al-Hara is the highest point in Syria's southern Daraa Governorate ?
Did you know that the 17th-century traveller Peter Mundy described Mirza Zulqarnain as the "chiefest" Christian of the Mughal Empire ?
Did you know that two Nazi propaganda films were made in Theresienstadt concentration camp ?
Did you know that Gern Nagler and Billy Howton successfully used a draft antitrust lawsuit to convince NFL Commissioner Bert Bell to create the league's player pension?
Did you know that Aigrette , the first diesel-engine submarine to be launched, had a hydrogen leak and explosion in its battery?
Did you know that US Representative-elect Sharice Davids is a former mixed martial arts fighter?
Did you know that larvae of the beetle Meloe franciscanus trick male bees into landing near them by mimicking the pheromones released by a female bee?
Did you know that Indonesian transport minister Budi Karya Sumadi plays the acoustic guitar and sings in a band with other government ministers?
Did you know that the removal of an antisemitic and antiziganistic statement delayed the release of a Slovak documentary about a post-Holocaust pogrom ?
Did you know that Ray Evrard , a three-term district attorney of Brown County, Wisconsin , served as the second president of the Green Bay Packers during the 1928 NFL season ?
Did you know that the oboe quartet Phantasy , composed by Benjamin Britten as a student, was the work that won him international recognition?
Did you know that Lee Brian Schrager , known for his work with the South Beach Wine and Food Festival, opened a gay bar called Torpedo in 1987?
Did you know that India's Train 18 was designed in 18 months and was completed in 2018?
Did you know that U.S. Representative-elect Antonio Delgado once released a rap album?
Did you know that the sea anemone Mesacmaea mitchellii uses the base of its column to burrow into the sediment?
Did you know that 16-year-old artistic gymnast Ana Padurariu won silver on beam at her first senior world championships , becoming the second-ever Canadian world medalist on the apparatus?
Did you know that the perpetrator of the 2018 Tallahassee shooting identified with the involuntary celibate community and denounced interracial dating ?
Did you know that Prince Nyi Kan-Kaung helped his half-brother Binnya Nwe seize the throne of Hanthawaddy Pegu , only to be executed by him four years later?
Did you know that "temporary" bridges have provided a road crossing of the River Trent at Walton-on-Trent , England, for more than 70 years?
Did you know that Buzz Aldrin 's father, Edwin Eugene Aldrin Sr. , married Marion G. Moon?
Did you know that Andy Levin will succeed his father in the U.S. House of Representatives ?
Did you know that in only its second season, Atlanta United FC has reached the MLS Cup , which will be played tonight?
Did you know that Zhang Yonglian , who spent 20 years doing classified research for the Chinese government, founded a laboratory to study sperm ?
Did you know that the First World War Clairmarais aerodrome in France was utilised by the Luftwaffe from 1940 but proved to be unusable in wet weather?
Did you know that Jack Brooksbank , husband of Princess Eugenie of York , was not given a peerage following his marriage, as there is no general precedent in Britain for a commoner to be given one on marrying a princess?
Did you know that Comic Arts Brooklyn was inaugurated in 2013, following the cancellation of the Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival?
Did you know that Angus Barbieri fasted for more than a year, losing 276 pounds (125 kg) and setting a world record?
Did you know that the wildlife of Iceland includes around 550 species of lichen but no reptiles or amphibians?
Did you know that in 1342, John FitzWalter accused men from Colchester of invading and damaging his park at Lexden , and soon after besieged Colchester for more than two months?
Did you know that Fatih , originally named Deepsea Metro II , is Turkey's first drillship ?
Did you know that palaeontologist Varavudh Suteethorn has helped name and describe more than 25 fossil species from Thailand, including dinosaurs, fish, mammals, turtles, and crocodylomorphs ?
Did you know that the 2018 Zürich ePrix was the first circuit car race held in Switzerland since the 1954 Swiss Grand Prix at Bremgarten ?
Did you know that Wallachian statesman Stroe Leurdeanu was sentenced to live as a monk for conspiring against a rival family ?
Did you know that the genome of the flatworm Otomesostoma auditivum is nearly six times larger than the human genome ?
Did you know that Russian anti-syphilis campaigner Volf Bronner was arrested during Stalin's Great Purge and later executed?
Did you know that Chevy Commons in Flint, Michigan , is a former Chevrolet factory being redeveloped into a park with restored grasslands, wetlands, and woodlands?
Did you know that in 1919, missionary Henry Harness Fout reported his conclusion that a third of the Armenian population of Turkey had been exterminated in the Armenian Genocide ?
Did you know that Lord Keith followed orders not to approve the Convention of El Arish , which would have ended the French campaign in Egypt and Syria , despite personally agreeing with it?
Did you know that Vorombe titan , an extinct elephant bird from Madagascar, shared its habitat with dwarf hippos , giant lemurs , and giant tortoises ?
Did you know that Oswald Boelcke has been described as the father of air combat tactics, the organization of squadrons, and the German Air Force?
Did you know that Hillary Clinton is not with I'm with Her ?
Did you know that Toshio Hosokawa composed several operas based on Japanese Noh theatre, including Vision of Lear after Shakespeare?
Did you know that mathematicians disagree about whether a proof in Georg Cantor 's first set theory article actually shows how to construct a transcendental number , or merely proves that such numbers exist?
Did you know that Karel František Koch was blamed by some Jews for the death of the chief rabbi of Slovakia , despite his having rescued Jews during the Holocaust ?
Did you know that seven of eight major bridges on Washington State Route 504 were destroyed by a lahar during the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens ?
Did you know that Wang Enduo survived breast cancer to become an academician of both the Chinese Academy of Sciences and The World Academy of Sciences ?
Did you know that 79 years after Herbert Maryon and Joseph Alderson discovered one of Britain's earliest known metal objects in the Kirkhaugh cairns , a group including Alderson's great-grandsons discovered another?
Did you know that Tracy LaQuey Parker received more than 5,000 emails over two days in 1997 because of spoofing ?
Did you know that Dorothy Vredenburgh Bush was the first woman to call roll for the Democratic National Convention , doing so for 12 straight conventions?
Did you know that 75 years ago today, the first Holocaust train from Milan left Platform 21 of the Milano Centrale railway station for Auschwitz carrying 169 Jews, of whom only 5 survived the Holocaust?
Did you know that a book chapter by Clara Lanza about the women clerks of New York was published as a souvenir of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair ?
Did you know that most Buddhist discourses start with the words Thus have I heard , which are traditionally attributed to the attendant of the Buddha ?
Did you know that Bryn Davies was one of the first footballers to enlist during World War II ?
Did you know that one of the producers of the television series Disappearing World acknowledged that the episodes "more often reflect a changing world than a disappearing one"?
Did you know that Siti Qomariyah was Amat Antono 's deputy, successor, and predecessor as regent of Pekalongan , Indonesia?
Did you know that the Gascon campaign of 1345 was the first successful land campaign of the Hundred Years' War , eight years after it started?
Did you know that Filipino footballer Neil Etheridge is the first Southeast Asian to play in the Premier League ?
Did you know that during the karuka harvest, entire households move upland and start speaking a pandanus language ?
Did you know that the mezzo-soprano Sophie Koch became known internationally when she appeared as Rosina in Rossini's The Barber of Seville at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden?
Did you know that the Tree of Life Congregation in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania, merged with another congregation that was renting space in its synagogue building?
Did you know that Lady Juliana was the physician in charge of King Akbar 's royal harem?
Did you know that the French submarine Perle was sunk by Allied aircraft after being mistaken for a Nazi U-boat ?
Did you know that ALQST is a Saudi Arabian human rights organisation created by a former Royal Saudi Air Force officer?
Did you know that John Hanger , the governor of the Bank of England, was a character in W. Harrison Ainsworth 's novel about the South Sea Bubble ?
Did you know that the interactive game Your Call Football allows participants to call plays in real time for live exhibition American football games, featuring some former NFL and CFL players?
Did you know that based on her discoveries, Chen Saijuan developed treatment for acute promyelocytic leukemia , turning it into a highly curable disease?
Did you know that the publisher of the first picture book with lesbian characters wanted to change the names of Megan and Shannon, lest readers believe that "only women with Irish heritage were lesbians"?
Did you know that Benal Nevzat İstar Arıman was elected in 1935 into the Grand National Assembly of Turkey as one of its first women members?
Did you know that the hollow Pwllpriddog Oak is said to have been used as the hiding place of a king, a meeting spot for lovers, a pig sty, a duck roost, and a music venue?
Did you know that this month, the armour and explosives researcher Penelope Endersby became the first female chief executive of the Met Office ?
Did you know that South Africa is considering restricting expression when it is directed in a hateful way?
Did you know that Les Joslin wrote a book detailing the history and architecture of 75 United States Forest Service ranger stations in 12 western states?
Did you know that the LeCompte maneuver helps surgeons switch a baby's aorta and pulmonary artery ?
Did you know that Armin Frieder , the leading Neolog rabbi in Slovakia, was arrested for his participation in an illegal smuggling ring ?
Did you know that the brownfish is harvested commercially over most of its range despite being described by the IUCN as a vulnerable species ?
Did you know that Hal Trumble was both an Olympic ice hockey referee and an international baseball umpire ?
Did you know that Anton Schmid was one of only three German soldiers executed for rescuing Jews during the Holocaust ?
Did you know that Carly Rae Jepsen teased " Party for One " by posting a picture of herself?
Did you know that the English poet Robyn Bolam published her first poem at the age of 15 in an anthology titled Next Wave Poets 1 ?
Did you know that members of the Brisingidae family hold up their arms while members of Freyellidae do not?
Did you know that in 2008, a team led by French astrophysicist Anne-Marie Lagrange directly imaged Beta Pictoris b , an exoplanet , confirming predictions of a massive planet existing around the star Beta Pictoris ?
Did you know that blankets are used to teach the history of indigenous peoples in Canada ?
Did you know that Alice and Alastair MacLennan , both experts in reproductive health, were caught by surprise and had to deliver their own baby at home?
Did you know that French explorer Théodore Monod discovered more than 2,000 brass ingots from the 11th or 12th centuries at the Ma'adin Ijafen archaeological site in Mauritania ?
Did you know that American businesswoman and suffragist Anna Shelton was driven to eschew traditional women's roles because of a bigamy scandal involving her sister's husband, a Fort Worth mayor?
Did you know that instead of meeting the blockade runner MV Alsterufer at a fixed rendezvous point in the Atlantic Ocean, the German torpedo boat T23 encountered two British cruisers ?
Did you know that palaeontologist Lü Junchang identified the pterosaur genus Darwinopterus , and "Mrs. T", a pregnant female discovered with her egg?
Did you know that in 1346, a French army more than 15,000 strong besieged Aiguillon for five months, but failed to cut its supply lines?
Did you know that Andreas Bauer has appeared in bass roles such as Mozart's Sarastro , Verdi's Philip II of Spain , and Wagner's Marke , but also as Bluebeard and Ibn-Hakia ?
Did you know that Cameron's Seafood Market ships thousands of dollars of crab meat each month to former National Basketball Association star Gilbert Arenas ?
Did you know that Ismail Amat was one of the highest-ranking Uyghur politicians in the history of the People's Republic of China?
Did you know that Patti Smith 's title for her second memoir, M Train , refers to a "mind train", the train of thought that "goes to any station it wants"?
Did you know that Antonio Falzon is the earliest known Maltese architect, but is often erroneously described as being Italian?
Did you know that India's National Police Memorial has a "Wall of Valour" bearing the names of 34,844 police personnel who died in the line of duty since the country's independence in 1947?
Did you know that David Bennett was hired as general director of the San Diego Opera after his predecessor tried unsuccessfully to shut the opera company down?
Did you know that the gut-like sea cucumber moves by peristalsis because it has no tube feet ?
Did you know that the British surgeon J. I. P. James parachuted into German-occupied Yugoslavia to provide medical support to the partisan resistance , and operated in sheds and caves by candlelight?
Did you know that Singer Presents...Elvis attracted 42 percent of the American television audience when it aired 50 years ago today?
Did you know that Molly Morgan became the mistress of a ship captain so that she could escape from the colony where she lived?
Did you know that Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS veterans formed a 40,000-strong secret army in West Germany in 1949?
Did you know that Hans-Joachim Schulze introduced 226 Bach cantatas in weekly broadcasts on Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk over a five-year period?
Did you know that Mattawa residents opposed to a roundabout on Washington State Route 243 later apologized to the state government for their stance on the project?
Did you know that Mufti Nemat , the commander of a branch of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant , surrendered to the Afghan government after a Taliban offensive against his group in 2018?
Did you know that a colony of the arboreal ant Cephalotes atratus used their heads to repel a column of army ants ?
Did you know that Jack Vainisi scouted and recommended drafting or acquiring eight future Pro Football Hall of Famers during his ten-year career with the Green Bay Packers ?
Did you know that Mistigri is a German card game named after the French word for pussycat, a nickname given to its highest trump , the Jack of Clubs ?
Did you know that songwriter Paul Gilley gave a neighbor the lyrics to the 1950 Hank Williams song " They'll Never Take Her Love from Me " before it was heard on the radio, as proof that he had written it?
Did you know that Mexico was represented by a single athlete at the 1994 Winter Olympics ?
Did you know that in 1910, Indian obstetrician and gynaecologist Dossibai Patell became the first female member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England ?
Did you know that after Soviet air attacks damaged the fuel system of the Romanian destroyer Regele Ferdinand in May 1944, an unsuccessful attempt was made to refuel the ship using a bucket brigade ?
Did you know that George Fleming made topsoil for the 1988 Glasgow Garden Festival out of dredgings from the River Clyde ?
Did you know that the German torpedo boat T22 , along with two other torpedo boats, was blown up by naval mines while laying a minefield?
Did you know that Pachara Chirathivat was actually suffocating during a strangling scene in the 2012 film Countdown , but the film crew thought he was just acting?
Did you know that more than 1.6 million Britons held a Construction Skills Certification Scheme card in December 2017?
Did you know that Gilles Bouchard was the first person in the history of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League to be named coach of the year and general manager of the year in the same season?
Did you know that the bathypelagic starfish Freyella elegans is probably not a suspension feeder ?
Did you know that Juma Butabika was appointed to high-ranking military positions in the government of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin despite being considered psychopathic , even by his colleagues?
Did you know that Mark Judge wrote a book about how dancing helped him stop drinking ?
Did you know that Japanese singer Eir Aoi initially did not show her mouth in physical release images as she wanted to have a "mysterious aura" and emphasize her "powerful" eyes?
Did you know that chiropractor Tim Robards appeared in the first season of Australia's version of The Bachelor ?
Did you know that volunteer firemen from the fire station in Schäflohe claim to be the only people in the German district of Upper Palatinate to play the traditional Bavarian card game of Lampeln ?
Did you know that Ankita Bhakat 's archery team, who entered the 2017 World Archery Youth Championships seeded ninth, won India's fourth overall world youth championships title?
Did you know that The Bar-Steward Sons of Val Doonican are an English parody band whose "mission is to keep their spiritual father Val Doonican 's legacy alive"?
Did you know that Jean Davies , then a junior officer in the Women's Royal Naval Service , attended Winston Churchill's 69th birthday party along with President Franklin Roosevelt and Soviet Marshal Josef Stalin?
Did you know that Max Reger composed his first cello sonata as a student and had it published in London?
Did you know that during the 1873 mutiny of the Royal Guards of Hawaii , the Hungarian drillmaster Captain Joseph Jajczay and the adjutant general Charles Hastings Judd were attacked?
Did you know that both Madame de Pompadour and Coco Chanel loved Coromandel lacquer ?
Did you know that Al-Jahith's Treasury , an Amman bookstore chain, may have been named for theologian al-Jahiz , who was supposedly crushed by a stack of books?
Did you know that Maryland state legislator William Daniel was a Whig , a Know Nothing , and a Republican before finally joining the Prohibition Party in 1884?
Did you know that Francis Poulenc placed an ode to liberty at the end of his Figure humaine , a cantata for a twelve-part choir, composed in occupied France and premiered by the BBC ?
Did you know that Dwain Worrell's debut screenplay The Wall is also Amazon Studios' first original spec script ?
Did you know that after the Bugis prince Arung Palakka supported the Dutch East India Company in the Makassar War , he became the most powerful man in South Sulawesi ?
Did you know that in 2015, the Irish Guards GAA became the first British Army Gaelic games club to join the Gaelic Athletic Association?
Did you know that the Contingency Fund for Foreign Intercourse , a U.S. government program established in 1790 to finance foreign covert operations, had by 1793 grown to consume 12 percent of the government's budget?
Did you know that in 2015, Alison Hughes was part of the first all-female officiating team in a Fed Cup final?
Did you know that Emany Mata Likambe , Zaire's former ambassador to Poland, was discovered homeless and living on the streets of Warsaw in 1994 after his government had failed to pay him for over two years?
Did you know that as CEO of Intel Israel, Maxine Fassberg encouraged women, Arabs, Druze , and Haredi Jews to enter the high-tech sector?
Did you know that the Nanjing Metro system in Nanjing, China, has a total of 139 stations , with transfer stations counted once for every line they serve?
Did you know that during the 1952 steel strike , Clarence B. Randall criticized President Harry S. Truman for what he considered "shocking distortions of fact"?
Did you know that Chloë Sevigny portrays the accused ax-murderer Lizzie Borden in the upcoming film Lizzie ?
Did you know that Mount Berlin , a volcano in Antarctica, has had large Plinian eruptions in the past and is still fumarolically active through towers of ice?
Did you know that King Razadarit 's decision to keep the one-time flower seller Piya Yaza Dewi as his chief queen consort led to the suicide of his first wife, Queen Talamidaw ?
Did you know that Elizabeth Plankinton , known as the "municipal patroness" for her philanthropy, gifted a 9-foot (2.7 m) high bronze George Washington sculpture to the citizens of Milwaukee?
Did you know that in November 2016 Peter Reulein conducted the premiere of his oratorio Laudato si' , described as a Franciscan Magnificat , with more than 250 performers at the Limburg Cathedral ?
Did you know that the Hongwu Emperor copied the text of Zhen Dexiu 's work The Expanded Meaning of the Great Learning onto the walls of his palace?
Did you know that the Clemson Tigers defeated the Alabama Crimson Tide in the 2017 College Football Playoff National Championship on a game-winning touchdown with one second left?
Did you know that the Indian Government Mint in Hyderabad was established in 1803 by the Nizam of Hyderabad , Asaf Jah III , and was taken over by the Government of India in 1950?
Did you know that Sheikh Morteza Ansari 's Makasib , authored more than 150 years ago, is still taught in Shia seminaries?
Did you know that according to family tradition, George Charles Beckley designed the Flag of Hawaii , which was passed down as an heirloom in the form of a child's frock?
Did you know that before starting her pioneering genetic studies of complex human diseases such as atherosclerosis , Nobuyo Maeda researched sea snake venoms ?
Did you know that Fei Xiaotong 's book From the Soil was banned in China for being "rightist", and in Taiwan for the author's perceived support for Communism?
Did you know that pacer Always B Miki set a world record of 1 minute 46 seconds, the fastest mile in Standardbred history?
Did you know that an environmental assessment for the future Grimsby train station included review of an 1876 historical atlas of Ontario, Canada, to find features of historic value?
Did you know that when Sarah Bavly arrived in Jerusalem to open a nutrition department in a new health center, she was forced to hide in the building for a week due to the outbreak of the 1929 Palestine riots ?
Did you know that a politician implicated in Italy's largest corruption scandal was permitted to claim his time in the parliament constituted his community service?
Did you know that Pulitzer Prize -winning sportswriter Arthur Daley wrote more than 10,000 columns for The New York Times ?
Did you know that a tick finds a potential host by detecting its breath and body odors, or by sensing its vibrations or changes in temperature?