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Did you know that a newly opened ferry in 1968 attracted "vodka tourists" to Estonia ?
Did you know that the 1940 NCAA Basketball Championship Game began a run of three straight NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament title games held at the Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Missouri ?
Did you know that the Alma Mater statue at Columbia University was damaged by an explosion during student protests in 1970?
Did you know that Congolese rebel leader André Kisase Ngandu criticised his Rwandan allies to such an extent that they were probably responsible for his murder?
Did you know that the desert plant Euphorbia caducifolia is commonly known as the "leafless milk hedge", while Euphorbia nivulia is the "holy milk hedge"?
Did you know that in 2020, Border Violence Monitoring Network published the Black Book of Pushbacks documenting human rights violations against 12,654 migrants traveling on the Balkan route?
Did you know that as secretary of the NAACP , May Childs Nerney has been credited with "laying the fundamental groundwork" for "the most powerful organization battling racial injustice"?
Did you know that a club set up tennis courts on the roof of St. John's Terminal after broker William J. Hirschman spotted the suitable space from a helicopter?
Did you know that English netball player Sophie Drakeford-Lewis was once the highest ranked British youth tennis player?
Did you know that artist-activist group Suohpanterror remixed the " We Can Do It! " Rosie the Riveter poster to signify Sámi feminism?
Did you know that Charles IV commanded the significant expansion of the fishponds of the Třeboň Basin "so that the kingdom would abound in fish and mist"?
Did you know that when Gene Scott was forced to close San Francisco TV station KVOF-TV , he called its successor "the Tower of Babel religious brigade"—then proceeded to buy air time on it?
Did you know that the Railroad and Bank Building was built with six miles (9.7 km) of pneumatic tubes used to send items anywhere within the building in under ten seconds?
Did you know that in the Kelmscott Press 's acclaimed Complete Works of Chaucer , illustrator Burne-Jones depicts a house "made of twigges" in an unusually literal style?
Did you know that the country song " Beer Beer, Truck Truck " was based on a viral TikTok video by Erynn Chambers intended to satirize country music?
Did you know that the World War I memorial in Pierson, Iowa , was rededicated in 2018 by the Pritzker Military Museum & Library ?
Did you know that in September 2021, the England national netball team won a series in New Zealand for the first time?
Did you know that in the 2017 case Bayev and Others v. Russia , the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Russian laws against  "promotion of homosexuality" violate freedom of speech?
Did you know that Kanye West performed " Heartless " with altered lyrics at a youth ball for Barack Obama's first inauguration ?
Did you know that the wild jujube can be planted on sand dunes to provide erosion control?
Did you know that Elizabeth Laurie Rees was the only woman to lead devotions at the 1928 World Baptist Congress in Toronto?
Did you know that while Alexander Hamilton may not have broken the tie in the election of 1800, he did break the tie in " The Election of 1800 "?
Did you know that Salu was one of seven cotton cloths explicitly mentioned in the Ain-i-Akbari , together with Khasa , Tansukh , Doriya, Bafta , Dupatta, and Panchtoliya ?
Did you know that anti– Vietnam War protesters occupied Shinjuku Station in 1968, causing the equivalent of US$18 million in financial losses?
Did you know that anti-apartheid activist Sonny Venkatrathnam smuggled a copy of the Complete Works of Shakespeare into the Robben Island Maximum Security Prison covering it with old Deepavali greeting cards?
Did you know that The Bees Army , a Saudi opposition movement, was supported by Jamal Khashoggi ?
Did you know that women's basketball Hall of Famers Chris Dailey and Geno Auriemma are in their 37th season of coaching the UConn Huskies together?
Did you know that Allen Ravenstine , who used a synthesizer to emulate the sound of an airplane's engine on " 30 Seconds Over Tokyo ", later became an airline pilot?
Did you know that KNUZ-TV produced a remote telecast from the HMS Sheffield when it visited Houston ?
Did you know that Waka Nathan was nicknamed "the Black Panther" by a French newspaper reporter who was impressed by his ability to pursue opponents like the animal?
Did you know that the 1974 song " Manchmal feiern wir mitten im Tag " claims that we sometimes celebrate resurrection in the middle of a day?
Did you know that William Henry Vanderbilt spent US$2 million on the lavishly designed Triple Palace , but his son found the decor unfashionable?
Did you know that African American Ivory Winston sang for President Harry S. Truman 's birthday and was "Iowa's First Lady of Song"?
Did you know that yellowtail flounders are able to camouflage and mimic the seafloor?
Did you know that the Rhodesian Guard Force was often implicated in criminal activity against the villagers it was meant to protect?
Did you know that Whoopee Camp, the developer of Tomba! 2: The Evil Swine Return , dissolved while making their next game?
Did you know that Edward Parr 's slave ship was once surrounded by 10 war canoes ?
Did you know that the perpetrators of the Kennin Rebellion surrendered when one of their commanders, a female samurai , was wounded?
Did you know that Max Creutz , director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Museum in Krefeld from 1922, acquired modern art including a painting by Max Ernst and a large collection of Bauhaus creations?
Did you know that in 1981, a customer could have bought a photocopier from an IBM Product Center for $39,000?
Did you know that Nintendo 's The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword was designed to be an origin story for the Master Sword ?
Did you know that the 1970 board game Blacks & Whites is "strategically designed to make a black win impossible"?
Did you know that Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Rawlins proposed that the Rhodesian Army employ witchdoctors as psychological warfare during the Rhodesian Bush War ?
Did you know that a voyageur shot himself while taking a gun out of his canoe in Abitibi-De-Troyes Provincial Park ?
Did you know that Leland Kirkemo , the skipper of the ship that recovered the crew of Apollo 13 , was played by Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell in the movie ?
Did you know that in the 2021 case Fedotova and Others v. Russia , the European Court of Human Rights unanimously ruled that lack of legal recognition for same-sex couples violated human rights?
Did you know that the facade of 4 Times Square , made partly of glass and partly of stone, was compared to the two-faced god Janus ?
Did you know that the first prayer of " Hilf, Herr meines Lebens ", a Christian song written when its author was age 85, is not to be on earth in vain?
Did you know that 1980's Space Encounters video game was the first that Midway Games offered in their "mini myte" arcade game cabinet ?
Did you know that a comic award jury wrote that the characters of Nicolas Mahler "have no eyes, no ears, no mouths – but they undoubtedly have character"?
Did you know that Margaret Thatcher had to wait while a series of parish ministers objected before she could give her " Sermon on the Mound "?
Did you know that Tungia Baker owned a cloak given to her by King Korokī Mahuta ?
Did you know that the owners of New York City's Grand Prospect Hall produced and starred in cheaply shot commercials, parodied on Jimmy Kimmel Live! and Saturday Night Live ?
Did you know that Peter Macari extorted $500,000 from Qantas Airways , and that more than $200,000 remains unaccounted for?
Did you know that the Gabby Petito disappearance has led to renewed media interest in the June 2021 disappearance of Lauren Cho ?
Did you know that the Pakistani film Shehr e Tabassum was the first animated cyberpunk film to be made by an Urdu development team?
Did you know that Pan Am executive Bill Mullahey was nicknamed "Mr. Pacific" for his work promoting tourism to Hawaiʻi and other island destinations?
Did you know that Michael Herbig , director of the 2018 film Balloon about the 1979 East German balloon escape , would not have made it without the blessing of the families who carried it out?
Did you know that after Norman Dawe died, he was described as "a victim of [ice] hockey because he worked too hard for it"?
Did you know that Kanye West 's "Diamonds" was re-recorded as " Diamonds from Sierra Leone " after Q-Tip informed him about blood diamonds in Sierra Leone?
Did you know that a hoard of Viking treasure was found in 1912 when it fell out of peat fuel being placed on a fire?
Did you know that Indiana's WTAF-TV fought for more than six years to obtain a network affiliation and reached an agreement with NBC just ten days before shutting down for good?
Did you know that the Marsh Family 's parody of Les Misérables 's " One Day More " required pizza?
Did you know that the Sefine Shipyard in Turkey built a hybrid-electric ferry for Norway?
Did you know that in 1345 and 1346 the English repeatedly defeated the French in both north and south-west France ?
Did you know that Jo Walton 's An Informal History of the Hugos , which opines that the Hugo Award has a 69-percent success rate, was itself nominated for a Hugo?
Did you know that Ham House contains a rare Charles I –era cabinet room, created for the display of miniature paintings?
Did you know that the debate in " Game On " invokes the beer question ?
Did you know that the bonfires lit on the night of La Venuta recall the miraculous flight of the Holy House of Nazareth to Loreto ?
Did you know that chemist R. Nelson Smith replaced his colleague's desk chair with a porcelain toilet?
Did you know that ahead of the iPhone 4S 's launch, Apple retail store workers in Rome went on strike using the slogan "Strike Different", a play on words on Apple's " Think Different "?
Did you know that Blue Chip Electronics ' low-cost Blue Chip PC was manufactured by Hyundai ?
Did you know that Clan Mother Catharine Brant had the right to nominate the Tekarihogen , the most important civil chief of the Mohawk nation ?
Did you know that Horselunges Manor was featured in the film The Song Remains the Same about Led Zeppelin ?
Did you know that in 1919, Ukrainians were using regular-issue paper money issued in denominations of 0.30, 0.40, 0.90, 1.80, 3.60 and 18 hryvnias ?
Did you know that " Oxytocin " was recorded expressly to "be insane live"?
Did you know that Laura Jean McKay 's 2020 novel about a fictional pandemic was first written in 2013?
Did you know that the Chief Examiner , who first appeared in Questprobe featuring The Hulk , was modeled after game designer Scott Adams ?
Did you know that in his sculptures for the Daily Mirror , Ben Enwonwu carved a "religious group" flying news all over the world?
Did you know that Zenith equipped the floppy -only models of the Eazy PC with power supplies too weak to accommodate a hard drive?
Did you know that after the footballer Romeo Beckham was released by Arsenal, he trained in tennis before returning to football five years later?
Did you know that the Düben collection contains the sole surviving copies of many works by Dieterich Buxtehude ?
Did you know that the tiny bivalve mollusc Montacuta substriata attaches to the spines of the purple heart urchin , where it resembles a grain of sand?
Did you know that Abdullah Aidit did not want his son to change his name, mainly because he did not want to deal with the administrative consequences?
Did you know that as a result of David Albala 's lobbying, Serbia became the first country to endorse the Balfour Declaration ?
Did you know that when the Louisville National Medical College was founded, it was the only medical school in the city to accept Black students?
Did you know that an ancient Chinese medical text suggests that those of low social status will have many illnesses and die more easily?
Did you know that a flat on London's Cadogan Lane has been described as "one of the happiest turn-on centres there's ever been" due to experiments with LSD done there?
Did you know that the famous campaign slogan "I Like Ike" was associated with the 1952 Draft Eisenhower movement ?
Did you know that a painting of a Nigerian princess , unseen for more than 40 years, was discovered in 2017 and sold for more than £1 million?
Did you know that when Charles P. Gross became the chairman of the New York City Board of Transportation, the mayor told him that "if you think war is Hell, then you have something waiting for you on this job"?
Did you know that Richardson Island was involved in an "annexation war" between two cities in the 1950s?
Did you know that after Polish commander Julian Filipowicz was tortured and pronounced dead by the Gestapo , he escaped from the morgue?
Did you know that Faith No More 's " Evidence " has drawn comparisons to Burt Bacharach ?
Did you know that according to legend, the Jain temple of Pisanhari Ki Marhia was built by a poor old woman who saved up money by milling flour?
Did you know that the Division of Industrial Hygiene moved from a custom-built laboratory at the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland, to a converted warehouse in Cincinnati as interest in worker health waned?
Did you know that Anne Wyllie , also known as the "Spit Queen", now has a Wikipedia biography because a healthcare executive asked who she was?
Did you know that Ryan Johnson became Stevenage 's youngest player in the club's English Football League history in May 2014, debuting at 17 years and 215 days old?
Did you know that more than 1,200 early American publishers and printers were prosecuted for seditious speech by royal colonial authorities?
Did you know that after Natsuko Takahashi lost a screenwriting contest because her submission had the wrong theme, she was hired by the examiners?
Did you know that in the browser game Neurocracy , players explore a fictional successor to Wikipedia launched in 2049?
Did you know that Iyopawa Island 's golf course, despite being on an island, has no water hazards ?
Did you know that the impatient sea cucumber readily expels sticky white cuvierian tubules when handled?
Did you know that in 2010, ice hockey executive Kirovs Lipmans was reported to be the second-richest person in Latvia?
Did you know that Benedict Cumberbatch was originally expected to have a cameo appearance as Dr. Strange in the WandaVision episode " Breaking the Fourth Wall "?
Did you know that World War II war criminal Ivo Herenčić worked as an art dealer in Rome after the war?
Did you know that L. P. Hollander & Company filed for bankruptcy less than two years after moving its New York City store to 3 East 57th Street ?
Did you know that " The Epic Split " featured an actor performing a gymnastic split between two backwards moving trucks?
Did you know that academese has been criticized for being unnecessarily complex and in extreme cases, purposefully discriminating and obfuscating?
Did you know that the Delphian Club designated John Neal as Magister Facetiarum of the Office of the Joke Master General?
Did you know that civil-rights lawyer Ni Yulan , sentenced after recording the forced demolition of homes to make way for the 2008 Beijing Olympics , was prevented from leaving China to accept awards?
Did you know that a Communist Party official was represented in Schneiderman v. United States by a previous Republican nominee for president?
Did you know that the use of audience immersion in video games has been studied as a strategy for promoting behavior change for the implementation of public health objectives?
Did you know that the Science Fiction Awards Database also covers fantasy and horror ?
Did you know that the concept of immortality has been featured in fiction since fiction's oldest known work?
Did you know that in downtown Seattle , approximately 8,000 bananas are given away daily by Amazon "banistas" under the supervision of their "bananagers"?
Did you know that Anton Josef Reiss created a marble Pietà sculpture for Cologne's St. Gereon ?
Did you know that the Proseminar in Homophile Studies , one of the first university courses about homosexuality, was held only once?
Did you know that the racially themed time-travel comedy Timewasters was developed under the working title Black to the Future ?
Did you know that the 1909 Forbes Log sent speed measurements remotely to the gunnery calculators used by the Royal Navy ?
Did you know that Anoscopus albifrons males can only be differentiated from other species in its genus by examining their aedeagi ?
Did you know that William Whaley advised William Earle to "purchase all the elephants teeth you possible can"?
Did you know that Show Me the Father is the fourth consecutive film produced by the Kendrick brothers to earn an "A+" grade on CinemaScore ?
Did you know that during the First World War, Senegalese Tirailleurs would be withdrawn from the Western Front to overwinter in camps in the south of France or northern Africa ?
Did you know that Hylozoic Ground, an interactive architecture model presented in the 18th Biennale of Sydney , is an example of architextiles ?
Did you know that Wanda Maximoff was referred to as the " Scarlet Witch " for the first time in the Marvel Cinematic Universe in the WandaVision episode " Previously On "?
Did you know that the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Frederick V of the Palatinate included a staged sea-battle between Christian and Turkish ships in the River Thames ?
Did you know that William M. King , who was born in Connecticut , lived and worked in New York , Pennsylvania , Ohio , and Missouri before becoming the third speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives ?
Did you know that Richard Osman wrote that Squares were invented because "scientists were concerned that children weren't hurting the roofs of their mouths as often as they should be"?
Did you know that Smoke Signal Broadcasting encased their Chieftain microcomputer in faux leather ?
Did you know that the New Zealand tree Dracophyllum fiordense has distinctive spirals at the ends of its leaves?
Did you know that Elizabeth Olsen consulted on the Scarlet Witch costume that debuted in the WandaVision episode " The Series Finale " so it would be less revealing than her past Marvel Cinematic Universe costumes?
Did you know that the trumpeting of Karnabo , a figure from Ardennes folklore with an elephant's trunk, is said to be heard during thunderstorms?
Did you know that John Rudzinski , defensive coordinator for the Air Force Falcons , coached high school football while stationed at Charleston Air Force Base ?
Did you know that Dieter Trautwein gave his 2003 autobiography the same title as his hymn " Komm, Herr, segne uns " (Come, Lord, bless us), for which he wrote the text and music in 1978?
Did you know that a dispute over bird droppings was connected to the impeachment of U.S. president Andrew Johnson ?
Did you know that the robotic enemies in the video game The Incredible Hulk were influenced by Marvel Comics ' objection to the Hulk killing humanoid characters?
Did you know that Miles Dempsey replicated the feat of a distant ancestor by being knighted in the field?
Did you know that the 1913 Studebaker strike is regarded as the first major labor strike in the automotive industry?
Did you know that in 1786, antiquarian Catherine Downes was one of the first women to excavate a Roman villa?
Did you know that the Wapsipinicon Almanac was started "to silence anyone who thinks Iowa doesn't have a literary culture"?
Did you know that the founders of the Turkish Republic despised Turkish classical music and tried to censor it?
Did you know that one of the smallest known species of frog is Mini scule ?
Did you know that when H. P. Lovecraft was five years old, he was told Santa Claus did not exist and responded by asking why " God is not equally a myth"?
Did you know that a leaked memo indicating that a government official would receive a bonus payment if she cut $667 million from Ontario's education budget contributed to the 1997 Ontario teachers' strike ?
Did you know that the Sharp PC-7000 , compared in shape to a toaster, was manufactured in a factory that also produced Sharp's microwave ovens?
Did you know that body image disturbance is a common symptom in patients with eating disorders ?
Did you know that in 1799, the federal government of the United States was evacuated to Trenton, New Jersey , due to an outbreak of yellow fever ?
Did you know that 50-year-old Lieutenant Colonel John Ford Elkington was reinstated into the British Army in 1916 after winning medals for bravery while serving in the ranks of the French Foreign Legion ?
Did you know that in 1863, the Union Navy built a ship with an outhouse serving as the pilothouse ?
Did you know that the 1918 book Iowa Authors and Their Works was an attempt to document all Iowa authors and their writing starting from 1880?
Did you know that the name of the Squirrel Scouts section of the Scout Association in the United Kingdom was inspired in part by the thriving population of red squirrels on Brownsea Island , where Scouting began?
Did you know that the pungent and bitter yet prized Musang King has been called the " Hermès of durian "?
Did you know that Washington State Route 971 is the highest-numbered state highway in Washington ?
Did you know that the United Nations described Ben Enwonwu 's sculpture Anyanwu as "symbolic of the rising sun" of the new nation of Nigeria?
Did you know that an ʻape -leaf design decorates the exterior of the Mabel Smyth Memorial Building in Honolulu ?
Did you know that after they met, evolutionary scientist Charles Darwin described Thomas Parr as an "old, miserly squire"?
Did you know that pacifist Theodora Wilson Wilson 's science fiction book The Last Weapon was banned by the British Government in 1917?
Did you know that Activision teased the video game Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time by sending jigsaw puzzles to members of the press?
Did you know that during disaster events, elites will typically shift the focus away from disaster relief towards measures of command and control , a behaviour referred to as elite panic ?
Did you know that construction of Wyoming Highway 257 was delayed for several years by an eminent domain lawsuit?
Did you know that the lead belt in the English East Midlands is named after the historic use of lead in the wargames miniatures manufactured there?
Did you know that today's London Marathon is expected to have 50,000 runners, and another 50,000 virtual competitors?
Did you know that Aung Myo Min , Union Minister of Human Rights for the National Unity Government of Myanmar , is the country 's first openly LGBT minister?
Did you know that Wickiup Hill has undocumented Native American burial grounds that are protected by Iowa law?
Did you know that the UK's former chief immigration adjudicator, Judge Hubert Dunn , published a book on the Irish poet Francis Ledwidge , including some previously unseen poems?
Did you know that in a typical tarmac scam someone at your door claims to be a builder working on a contract nearby with some asphalt left over, and offers a cheap deal to resurface your driveway with it?
Did you know that the tunnel boring machines that dug the London's new Northern line extension were named after the first British astronaut Helen Sharman , and British aviation pioneer Amy Johnson ?
Did you know that the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode " Three's a Crowd " references Fear and Loathing writer Hunter S. Thompson ?
Did you know that archaeologists found evidence at Michipicoten Provincial Park on the north shore of Canada's Lake Superior that indigenous people used the site since at least 1100 AD?
Did you know that even the manager of Indiana radio station WMCZ confused it with WMEE , leading a federal judge to order the former to change its call sign ?
Did you know that Craft Horizons both documented and shaped the changing history of the American craft movement?
Did you know that Wolfgang Anheisser was the leading baritone at the Cologne Opera while simultaneously a member of East Berlin's State Opera ?
Did you know that the availability of the chemical intermediate 4,7-dichloroquinoline facilitated the discovery of hydroxychloroquine in 1949?