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Did you know that at 8 minutes and 45 seconds, the released version of Neil Young 's song " Crime in the City (Sixty to Zero Part I) " was much shorter than the original, which included a verse about genocide of Native Americans?
Did you know that Helmut Kleinicke was dismissed from his job because he was caught helping Jews escape?
Did you know that the Gutta Percha Company , whose main product was submarine telegraph cable , started out making bottle stoppers?
Did you know that squid can move by jet propulsion and some species can even glide through the air?
Did you know that footballer Emiliano Sala is the most expensive signing in the history of Cardiff City F.C. ?
Did you know that for 25 years, pedestrians in Hudson Heights , New York City, paid a subway fare to use the elevators in the 190th Street station to avoid climbing an eight-story hill?
Did you know that Major General Gao Changqing performed China's first fully robotic cardiac surgery?
Did you know that the brown algae Laminaria sinclairii spends several months completely buried in sand?
Did you know that the invention of the dry-air blast by James Gayley led to such increased yields of iron that he set a world record for "making the most iron with the least coke " and was named the " pig iron king"?
Did you know that the repertoire of the Tucson Arizona Boys Chorus includes folk songs, spirituals, Western ballads, classical and pop music – and rope tricks ?
Did you know that Gérard Bolduc and Paul Dumont co-founded the Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament , which began 59 years ago today?
Did you know that the author of the 2018 picture book Let the Children March left out "truly upsetting details" about the 1963 Birmingham Children's Crusade to avoid frightening young readers?
Did you know that Henrikh Mkhitaryan was the first player to score a hat-trick for the Armenia national football team ?
Did you know that musician Taina Asili studied opera and fronted a hardcore punk band before starting the Afro-Caribbean group La Banda Rebelde?
Did you know that " Episode 5820 " of the soap opera EastEnders is set entirely in The Queen Victoria pub and focuses on the characters' opinions on sexual consent ?
Did you know that Prussian general Georg Dubislav Ludwig von Pirch led a brigade at the Battle of Leipzig and a corps at the Battle of Waterloo ?
Did you know that the 1975 Holton-Arms School senior prom was the only high school dance ever held in the White House ?
Did you know that Jennie Jackson , an original member of the Fisk Jubilee Singers , performed with the ensemble before US President Ulysses S. Grant , Mark Twain , and Queen Victoria ?
Did you know that the British submarine HMS P222 was ordered to escort an Allied convoy to Malta on the surface, with the intent that it would be spotted by enemy aircraft?
Did you know that Joseph Jenckes Sr. , a 17th-century blacksmith in Massachusetts, was granted the first machine patent in America?
Did you know that the historical card game of Briscan has been described as a "Gothic extravaganza", squeezing "a truly phenomenal range of scores and melds" from a 32-card pack?
Did you know that Louis Dreller was decorated by both the United States and Brazil for designing and building World War II warships?
Did you know that in 543 a Byzantine army was unexpectedly defeated by a force less than one-seventh its size, during their invasion of Sasanian Armenia ?
Did you know that Twitter satirist Coldwar Steve creates most of his works on a phone while travelling to work by bus?
Did you know that most of the scenes in Yucatán were filmed onboard the MS Sovereign during a transatlantic crossing , with the ship's actual passengers and crew acting as extras ?
Did you know that David Timm , the director of music at Leipzig University , recorded his Jazz-Messe together with Reger 's Der 100. Psalm ?
Did you know that SAP SE , Aetna , Mrs. Fields Original Cookies , and Brooklyn Union Gas have all been managed by wire ?
Did you know that from 1977 to 1982, Pierre Cangioni presented Téléfoot , France's first dedicated football television programme?
Did you know that artificial alternatives to DNA called XNA have been proposed to reduce some hazards of synthetic biology by preventing gene flow to natural organisms?
Did you know that German entomologist Ferdinand Rudow was described as "undoubtedly the most incompetent" taxonomist working with Ichneumonidae ?
Did you know that members of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce stole the Pioneer Square totem pole from a Tlingit village in 1899 and gifted it to the City of Seattle ?
Did you know that Chang Ya-chung was elected to the National Assembly in 2005, but resigned on the first day to protest the parliament's formation?
Did you know that Connect Airways , a consortium that includes Virgin Atlantic , was created to take over Flybe —which had previously absorbed Virgin's domestic operations at Heathrow Airport ?
Did you know that Shubulade Smith has spoken up against perceived racism at Maudsley Hospital ?
Did you know that the Leipziger Universitätschor , part of centuries of music at Leipzig University , received an Echo Klassik for a recording of Hugo Distler 's Liturgische Gesänge ?
Did you know that Swedish handball player Johan Jepson was the first on his team to be honoured with a testimonial match ?
Did you know that due to an illegal electoral pact , the Scottish burgh of Stirling lost the right to elect a Member of Parliament in 1773?
Did you know that in a story known in the Middle Ages , the sons of a dead king shoot arrows at his corpse?
Did you know that the seaweed Padina boergesenii has been investigated for use as a bioindicator of heavy metal contamination ?
Did you know that Manny Parra's perfect game in 2007 was just the third nine-inning perfect game in the Pacific Coast League 's hundred-year history?
Did you know that Saleh Mohammad is the first politician from Jaisalmer district to become a minister of Rajasthan , India?
Did you know that Francis Ford Coppola said he added "five three-minute nudie sketches in color to a stupid German movie that had been shot in black-and-white"?
Did you know that Oscar de Beaux , in his 1930 publication "Biological ethics", was one of the first people to argue that conserving nature is ethical?
Did you know that Louise Creighton and Kathleen Lyttelton founded the Cambridge University Ladies Dining Society in 1890 "not without an idea of retaliating on the husbands who dined in College"?
Did you know that lava can form gas-filled balloons that float on water ?
Did you know that Maria Guajardo 's doctoral dissertation on educational attainment among Latina teens led to her hiring as Dropout Prevention Coordinator for the Colorado Department of Education ?
Did you know that after winning a professional wrestling match at NWA New Years Clash , David Arquette shaved off the hair of his opponent?
Did you know that Andrew Cudworth popularised the classification of diabetes into type 1 and type 2 ?
Did you know that the SurfSafe browser extension is meant to combat fake news by spotting altered or misleadingly used images as they appear to a user?
Did you know that Joseph A. Sellinger oversaw the merger of Mount Saint Agnes College into Loyola College in Maryland in 1971?
Did you know that director Jon M. Chu pushed back production on Crazy Rich Asians by four months so actress Constance Wu could star in it?
Did you know that in 1990, hornist, conductor, and composer Siegfried Geißler opened the inaugural session of the first Parliament of Thuringia ?
Did you know that " Three Incarnations " by Pu Songling may have been inspired by certain stories in Feng Menglong 's Stories to Caution the World ?
Did you know that Arthur Blackburn was the first South Australian to be awarded the Victoria Cross in World War I ?
Did you know that the Indian organisation Poovulagin Nanbargal filed a case to prevent the commissioning of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant ?
Did you know that Stephen Twinoburyo , a Ugandan expatriate in South Africa, said that Ugandans were unhappy about the ticket prices for the 2010 FIFA World Cup that took place in his new country?
Did you know that while the Irish horror film The Green Marker Scare was animated by children, it is not made for them and may even unsettle some adults?
Did you know that merchant George Meade was once considered a patriot of the American Revolution , but his firm actually profited from both sides during the war?
Did you know that Megan Marie Hart has performed on stage in Detmold , Germany, as Puccini's Tosca and was soprano soloist in Mahler's Resurrection Symphony ?
Did you know that Rudyard Kipling may have coined the term "infantillery" to refer to the Royal Artillery Mounted Rifles ?
Did you know that California and the entire eastern United States are under a quarantine restriction by the U.S. state of Washington designed to protect it from apple maggot infestation?
Did you know that Firhad Hakim is the first Muslim to become the Mayor of Kolkata since Indian independence?
Did you know that an extract of peacock's tail is effective against the red cotton stainer ?
Did you know that Asim Chaudhry , who plays Chabuddy G in People Just Do Nothing , starred as an Asian Donald Trump in the 2016 short film Donald Mohammed Trump ?
Did you know that the capital of the Arizona Territory moved from Prescott to Tucson , back to Prescott, and then to Phoenix in its first 25 years?
Did you know that the name of the Japanese idol group Crown Pop was not made public until their live debut?
Did you know that the rhythm of the call of the fulvous owl has been likened to Morse code ?
Did you know that director Manoel de Oliveira completed the 2009 feature film Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl at the age of 100?
Did you know that Hawaiian legislator Pius F. Koakanu was beaten by rioters because of his support for King Kalākaua in the monarchial election of 1874 ?
Did you know that Boybuloq Cave , the deepest in Asia, is located near Uzbekistan's highest village?
Did you know that in 2017, the Tucson Girls Chorus opened the city 's first public choir for girls and boys with special needs ?
Did you know that after he was named heir apparent to owner George Steinbrenner in 2005, Steve Swindal was bought out of the New York Yankees in 2007?
Did you know that Shin Hyun-hwak was Prime Minister of South Korea for less than six months?
Did you know that the work of physician Elizabeth Ross is still commemorated annually in Serbia despite her having spent only three weeks in the country?
Did you know that Eidyn , a Brittonic district of the Early Middle Ages in present-day Scotland, is the source for Edinburgh 's name?
Did you know that Liberian-American author Wayétu Moore , once a war refugee , founded a nonprofit organization which publishes culturally relevant books for children in countries with low literacy rates?
Did you know that the Israeli video game Piposh , to be released in 2019, will be a reboot of the original 1999 game of the same name ?
Did you know that the law center at Willamette University is named in honor of Oregon businessman and philanthropist Truman W. Collins ?
Did you know that construction on the Thessaloniki Metro triggered the largest-ever archaeological dig in northern Greece, unearthing more than 300,000 individual artefacts?
Did you know that the BAFTA -winning documentary 73 Cows tells the story of Jay and Katja Wilde, beef farmers who gave most of their cows to the Hillside Animal Sanctuary and took up vegan organic farming ?
Did you know that Gord Renwick was part of the inaugural class of the Order of Hockey in Canada in 2012?
Did you know that SPLA rebels captured a large amount of military equipment from the Sudanese Armed Forces during Operation Thunderbolt , but found much of it had degraded and was of no use?
Did you know that when Willem Kloos said to Jacques Perk that they were the only two young talented poets in the Netherlands, Perk mentioned his childhood friend Augusta Peaux as a third?
Did you know that in a review for Mr. Shivers , debut novelist Robert Jackson Bennett was favorably compared to Stephen King and John Steinbeck ?
Did you know that local residents had to wait ten years for step-free access at Newbury Park tube station ?
Did you know that in 2014, the Australian actor Jackson Gallagher escaped without injury from a rockfall during a climbing expedition at the Franz Josef Glacier in New Zealand?
Did you know that after the release of the Netflix show Tidying Up with Marie Kondo , charity shops in Washington D.C. reported a 66% increase in donations?
Did you know that after recapturing escaped Luftwaffe prisoners, the British officer Guy Dury is said to have remarked: "one really has to take off one's hat to them ... I really regret having to lock them up"?
Did you know that a river will be diverted for the construction of Hohhot Shengle International Airport ?
Did you know that William Hoskins , the co-inventor of modern billiard chalk, also invented the electric heating coil, used to create the first electric toasters?
Did you know that the cypress aphid is a vector for cypress canker ?
Did you know that soprano Ildikó Raimondi , who appeared at the Vienna State Opera in more than 40 roles including Pamina and Mimì , sang the role of Marzelline in the opening season of the Valencia Opera ?
Did you know that the first discovered fossil of the dinosaur Weewarrasaurus was noted for being preserved in green-blue opal ?
Did you know that Stephen Godin was a steward of a house of penitent prostitutes?
Did you know that for nearly 100 years, people thought Manuel Trujillo Durán introduced cinema to Venezuela , though he was just a film technician at the time?
Did you know that Bierlachs , a variant of Germany's national card game, Skat , is predominantly played for beer in pubs and restaurants?
Did you know that Arthur R. Gralla was the US Navy 's fourth Jewish Vice Admiral ?
Did you know that the poem " The Aboriginal Mother " expresses grief about the massacre of at least 28 Aboriginal Australians at a time when a white settler said, "Why, we are poisoning the Blacks; which is much safer; and serve them right too!"?
Did you know that Japanese voice actress Kaede Hondo decided to pursue a career in acting due to a misunderstanding?
Did you know that Earth's circumference around the poles is almost exactly 40,000 kilometres or 21,600 (i.e. 360 × 60) nautical miles , because it was used to define those units of measurement?
Did you know that after a mastectomy ended her professional modeling career, Sue Miller assembled a fashion show featuring only models who have had breast cancer?
Did you know that mountaineer Mary Jobe Akeley was hailed as "the first white person and probably the first human being" to explore a remote peak in the Canadian Rockies that she called "Big Ice Mountain"?
Did you know that Typhoon Ofelia was the worst typhoon to hit eastern Taiwan in 30 years?
Did you know that James Park Woods was awarded the Victoria Cross in 1918 for leading a small squad in the capture of a "very formidable" enemy post and the subsequent repulsion of multiple counterattacks?
Did you know that the 1954 social psychology book The Nature of Prejudice is considered a classic that defined the field of intergroup relations ?
Did you know that Wilhelm Kempf , Bishop of Limburg from 1949 to 1981, took part in the Second Vatican Council and introduced its innovations in his diocese, including spiritual discourse and open dialogue?
Did you know that Alabama 's 28-point loss against Clemson in the 2019 College Football Playoff National Championship was their worst-ever defeat under head coach Nick Saban ?
Did you know that Geoff Harvey , former musical director for the Nine Network Australia , composed the theme song for The Sullivans for his wife's cousin's wedding?
Did you know that Roy Inwood was awarded a Victoria Cross in 1917 for several actions including the capture of a German strongpoint and a machinegun nest, mostly singlehanded?
Did you know that MLS Cup 2005 featured the same teams and ended with the same scoreline as MLS Cup 2002 ?
Did you know that the arrest of Adán Medrano Rodríguez marked a shift in how the Mexican government tackled drug cartels ?
Did you know that Florida's Amendment 4 reenfranchised an estimated 1.4 million ex-felons?
Did you know that Swedish pool player Marcus Chamat has represented Europe at the Mosconi Cup on 10 occasions?
Did you know that George Tabori wrote Goldberg Variations as a play within a play, presenting biblical scenes satirically as a series of disasters?
Did you know that the penumbral lunar eclipse originally predicted to occur on 18 August 2016 did not happen?
Did you know that in 1908, Silver Quilty was the first man to play the flying wing position in Canadian football ?
Did you know that a ditch in Scotland has been the subject of acts of parliament since 1696?
Did you know that Australian actor George Pullar attended an army boot camp to prepare for his role in the drama series Fighting Season ?
Did you know that Larry Kramer frequently invoked the AIDS–Holocaust metaphor and compared Reagan Administration officials to Nazi war criminals?
Did you know that the role-playing video game Kenshi was inspired by stories of wandering rōnin , and the idea of a survivor traveling a wasteland?
Did you know that Juan Gabriel 's own cover of " Así Fue ", which he originally composed for Isabel Pantoja , was the best-performing Latin single of 1998 in the United States?
Did you know that Alexina Maude Wildman 's biting, sarcastic gossip column in The Bulletin was headed by the cartoon image of an old woman, disguising the fact that she was in her 20s?
Did you know that representatives from more than a dozen nations are reported to be attending today's International Conference on the Situation in Venezuela in Montevideo , Uruguay?
Did you know that NASA exobiologist Darlene Lim studies underwater volcanoes and desert stations in the Canadian High Arctic to prepare humans for missions to Mars ?
Did you know that the Casualty production team wore medical scrubs on-set during the filming of the episode " One " so they could disguise themselves if they were caught on camera?
Did you know that Marshmello was listed by Forbes as one of the ten highest-paid DJs, with $21 million in earnings in the twelve months before June 2017?
Did you know that Slovak ultranationalists have exaggerated the number of presidential exemptions issued, in order to minimize the complicity of Jozef Tiso in the Holocaust in Slovakia ?
Did you know that when taxonomist Gloria Galeano first saw pictures of the newly discovered Sabinaria magnifica she described it as "the most beautiful of all Colombian palms"?
Did you know that Harold W. Chase argued that conscription in the United States benefited the Air Force , Navy , and Marines at the expense of the Army ?
Did you know that an egg strand of the southern reef squid is most commonly fertilized by three different males?
Did you know that the bass-baritone Albert Dohmen appeared as Berg's Wozzeck at the Salzburg Festival in 1997, and as Wagner's Pogner at La Scala in 2017?
Did you know that the freighter Selah Chamberlain sank on Lake Michigan after a collision with another ship?
Did you know that Victoria Loke , who had a role in Crazy Rich Asians , has advocated for the rights of sex workers and domestic workers ?
Did you know that the Homeric Minimum may have been responsible for permanent snow on Mount Olympus , as referred to by Homer and in Greek mythology ?
Did you know that the Padule di Fucecchio massacre , in which at least 174 Italian civilians were murdered, has been described as "one of the worst Nazi atrocities in Italy"?
Did you know that Nazo Dharejo fought off 200 bandits in a gun battle that earned her a reputation as "Pakistan's toughest woman"?
Did you know that the Northeast Syrtis region on Mars once had flowing water, and has sulfate and carbonate minerals?
Did you know that top National Hockey League prospects Quinn and Jack Hughes learned how to skate from their mother, Ellen Weinberg-Hughes , a world championship silver medalist?
Did you know that indigenous peoples in the Northern Territory of Australia would toss fruit of the river fig into rivers to attract turtles?
Did you know that Charles J. Donlan was responsible for selecting the Mercury Seven astronauts and led the team selecting the Mercury spacecraft they flew?
Did you know that in the presence of red rock crabs , the shell of the frilled dogwinkle tends to grow thicker, whereas when predatory starfish are around, it tends to grow longer?
Did you know that two years before it closed due to lack of funds, the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights published the "Sheroes Womyn Warriors Wall Calendar" to raise money?
Did you know that the Romanian pianist Radu Lupu 's public debut at the age of 12 featured his own compositions?
Did you know that the cable ship Alert almost completely isolated Germany from the worldwide telegraph network by cutting its submarine telegraph cables just hours after the outbreak of World War I ?
Did you know that Edward Stanley scored no runs, and took no catches or wickets, during his first-class cricket career?
Did you know that cases against 9,700 Kashmiri youth in India were withdrawn by the government as part of its "healing touch" policy for peacebuilding in Jammu and Kashmir ?
Did you know that in reviewing Jude the Obscure for Life , Cyclops found that Alex Marshall as Arabella "steals the series"?
Did you know that " Joy to the World " is one of the hymns based on Psalm 96 , "Sing to the Lord a new song"?
Did you know that in 1956, German civil servant Erica Pappritz co-wrote a book on etiquette which included sections on correct odour and on how Bonn diplomats liked to carry umbrellas?
Did you know that after a nearby railroad station burned down, 12 horses pulled the old Caldwell station on rafters to the site to replace it?
Did you know that James Mason landed a role in Neighbours after two-thirds of the other actors in the audition dropped out upon learning the character was gay?
Did you know that after becoming king, Kamehameha V proclaimed a constitution which restricted the power of the Privy Council of the Kingdom of Hawaii ?
Did you know that an interview with Sammy Woodhouse sparked an inquiry revealing the sexual abuse of about 1,400 children in Rotherham , England, between 1997 and 2013?
Did you know that more than half the organic content of the tunic of the shiny orange sea squirt consists of cellulose ?
Did you know that bass singer Carlos Feller made his debut at the Teatro Colón in 1946, and at the Metropolitan Opera in 1988 in his signature role of Don Alfonso in Mozart's Così fan tutte ?
Did you know that the 1978–79 Penn Quakers men's basketball team was the only nine-seed to reach the Final Four of the NCAA Tournament until 2013?
Did you know that members of the British Parliament are entitled to free snuff from the Parliamentary snuff box , despite it being illegal to distribute it for free elsewhere?
Did you know that the Steinbrenner family hopes to own the New York Yankees for "eternity"?
Did you know that the thornback cowfish has plate-like scales which are fused together to form a solid, box-like carapace ?
Did you know that Amnon Rubinstein coined the term "enclave law" to describe Israeli law in the West Bank settlements ?
Did you know that in 1909, Ivy Woodward became the first female member of the Royal College of Physicians ?
Did you know that the Chiquimula Department of Guatemala contains the Black Christ of Esquipulas , one of the most important centres for religious pilgrimage in Central America?
Did you know that Ugandan military commander Isaac Maliyamungu reportedly wept after witnessing how much destruction his country's army had caused in Tanzania?
Did you know that the restoration of the Chesapeake and Ohio 1309 locomotive was set back when an employee stole thousands of pounds of brass fittings to sell as scrap?
Did you know that Cemile Timur founded, played for, and now coaches a football club recently promoted to the Turkish Women's First League ?
Did you know that the recently rediscovered and restored 1898 short film Something Good – Negro Kiss counters racist caricatures?