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Did you know that the arrest of Gilberto García Mena marked when the Mexican government stopped treating drug cartels passively and instead hunted them down?
Did you know that a book-length interview with Stanisław Lem was subject to cuts due to censorship in Communist Poland ?
Did you know that Flaps Rendall flew ball bearings across occupied Denmark at night in Mosquitos ?
Did you know that the style of contemporary art known colloquially as bara belongs to a history of homosexuality in Japanese visual art dating back to shunga of the Edo period ?
Did you know that Kathleen Hite , scriptwriter for Gunsmoke , accepted a job as a secretary at CBS so she could badger company officials into letting her write?
Did you know that XHCDMX-FM , operated by a consortium of women's organizations and activists, is the first community radio station in Mexico City ?
Did you know that former astrophysicist Alejandra Melfo now works on preserving microbial life from Venezuela's rapidly receding last glacier?
Did you know that the Ethiopian Unity Patriots Front is officially opposed to ethnic federalism and sectarianism , although almost all of its popular support stems from just one tribal group?
Did you know that Chinese linguist Yang Naisi was noted for his research on the ʼPhags-pa script ?
Did you know that bald eagles are removing pieces of garbage from the Cedar Hills Regional Landfill and dropping them in surrounding neighborhoods?
Did you know that Ann Wroe has written The Economist 's obituaries since 2003, with subjects including Prince , Arthur Miller , and Osama bin Laden ?
Did you know that the yucca plum pine , the bastard briziletto , and the West Indian sumac grow in the cloud forest on the summits of the Sierra de Luquillo ?
Did you know that as Prime Minister of Hyderabad , Kishen Pershad passed the Mulki regulations giving preference to local citizens over British citizens for state administrative appointments?
Did you know that the Bonin white-eye can evidently learn about new food sources by watching warbling white-eyes feed?
Did you know that Emma Ghent Curtis 's 1889 novel The Administratrix features a cowboy in favor of women's suffrage ?
Did you know that Episode 8052 of the Australian soap opera Neighbours concerns the death of series regular Sonya Rebecchi , whose portrayer 's contract was not renewed to reduce production costs?
Did you know that art historian Andrew Tallon used lasers to collect one billion data points of the interior and exterior of Notre-Dame de Paris , which could be used for its reconstruction ?
Did you know that Friedrich Achleitner , a concrete poet and architecture critic, wrote over decades about Austrian architecture in the 20th century, visiting each building he described?
Did you know that Venezuela's economy still has not recovered from Black Friday in 1983 ?
Did you know that Georgina Pazcoguin of the New York City Ballet co-founded an initiative to combat Asian stereotypes in ballet productions such as The Nutcracker ?
Did you know that the collapse of Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company led to the murder of a district collector of the British Raj ?
Did you know that an original work by artist Virginia Overton was used as a prize at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival ?
Did you know that the young of the striking sea star are nourished in a manner described as "cannibalistic ectoparasitism"?
Did you know that Ukrainian helicopter pilot Mykola Melnyk made 46 sorties over the highly radioactive Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant , and then continued firefighting flights into his 50s?
Did you know that John Virgo won the 1979 UK Snooker Championship despite being docked two frames for arriving late?
Did you know that Canadian investigative journalist Bruce Dowbiggin won a Gemini Award for his reporting on National Hockey League pension fraud?
Did you know that while investigating the case of Brittanee Drexel , who disappeared 10 years ago today, the FBI brought federal charges against someone who had already served state probation for the same crime?
Did you know that Mark M. Ravitch and Félicien M. Steichen introduced surgical staples , a time-saving replacement for suturing by hand, to American operating rooms?
Did you know that the Eklakhi Mausoleum was the first square-shaped building with a single dome built in India?
Did you know that Venezuelan politician Miguel Pizarro was expelled from high school for starting protests against military education?
Did you know that an "alarming" decline in arthropod populations in Luquillo Experimental Forest in Puerto Rico has been linked to the warming climate?
Did you know that Ronald Read , whose last job was working 17 years as a J. C. Penney janitor, left US$1.2 million to his local library and $4.8 million to the hospital where he died ?
Did you know that while a federal deputy , Virgilio Caballero Pedraza lost his apartment in the 2017 Mexico City earthquake ?
Did you know that Indra Devi helped publicise yoga for women by enrolling film stars and other celebrities as her pupils?
Did you know that Noelle Sandwith produced the first portrait of a Queen of Tonga ?
Did you know that Avi Nissenkorn , former chairman of Histadrut , Israel's largest trade union, competed in his youth in the 1986 World Junior Championships in Athletics ?
Did you know that the yeast Candida blankii , first described from mink organs, is now known to infect humans?
Did you know that Jens Harzer , a German actor with Hamburg's Thalia Theatre as well as in film and television, was chosen by Bruno Ganz to be the latest bearer of the Iffland-Ring ?
Did you know that before St Wilfrid's Church opened, Catholics in Hailsham , East Sussex, had to worship in the hayloft of a brewery's stables?
Did you know that " der kleine Tag " ("the Little Day") is 23 April in the musical of the same name?
Did you know that Katharine Timpson Cook established training programmes for midwives in Namirembe , Uganda, but distrusted her students and censored their mail?
Did you know that since St George's Church opened in Polegate in 1938, the composition of its parish has changed five times?
Did you know that the Italian cardiologist Attilio Maseri has been the physician to both Queen Elizabeth II and Pope John Paul II ?
Did you know that digger's speedwell is so named because it was thought to indicate the presence of gold?
Did you know that Antonia Franceschi starred in the 1980 film Fame , set at the same High School of Performing Arts that she attended in real life?
Did you know that an engineer inadvertently took off in an English Electric Lightning fighter jet after engaging the afterburner by mistake?
Did you know that the 1996 video game Polanie is considered a cult classic in Poland?
Did you know that footballer Chris Summers set a Welsh Premier League record during the 2003–04 season by scoring in 11 consecutive matches?
Did you know that among the threats facing the " critically endangered " freshwater crayfish Euastacus dalagarbe are domestic livestock and cane toads ?
Did you know that the tenor Ferry Gruber performed at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich for 50 years, including in Prokofiev's Die Liebe zu den drei Orangen alongside Ingeborg Hallstein in 1960?
Did you know that height functions allow mathematicians to count and distinguish objects such as rational points of algebraic varieties ?
Did you know that Rachel Koopmans was part of a research team which discovered that two stained glass windows of Canterbury Cathedral dated to the 1180s?
Did you know that Indian folklorist Joravarsinh Jadav has written and edited more than 90 works?
Did you know that HMS Splendid attacked a heavy German merchant ship, but instead sank an Italian destroyer?
Did you know that prospector John Beaton triggered an Alaskan gold rush by a discovery his team made on Christmas Day 1908?
Did you know that Margit Schramm appeared as Hanna Glawari, the "merry widow" in Lehár's operetta , more than 500 times?
Did you know that Church Fathers such as Irenaeus, Justin Martyr, Clement of Alexandria, and Lactantius accepted the association of the angelic descent myth with the "sons of God" passage in Genesis 6?
Did you know that Barry Sage has earned US$22,000 for clapping his hands in 1981?
Did you know that despite being demoted three times, Nikolai Kulakov rose to the rank of vice admiral and became a Hero of the Soviet Union ?
Did you know that the motet Sicut cervus by Palestrina , suitable for Holy Saturday , has been described as the expression of "serene but fervent spiritual yearning"?
Did you know that cinematographer Mike Gioulakis was inspired by the photography of Gregory Crewdson when shooting the 2014 horror film It Follows ?
Did you know that during Cardiff City F.C. 's 1921–22 season , trainer George Latham became the oldest player in club history when called into action after members of the first team fell ill?
Did you know that Shah Faesal , the first Kashmiri to top the Indian civil services exam , has become a politician?
Did you know that in 1941, the far-right French National-Collectivist Party proposed sending its women paramilitaries to fight for Vichy France in Syria ?
Did you know that Necdet Turhan , a visually impaired mountaineer and long-distance runner, ran five marathons and climbed five summits on five continents?
Did you know that Heinrich Schütz composed Die sieben Worte Jesu Christi am Kreuz , setting the seven Sayings of Jesus on the cross for the Evangelist , who sings in up to four voices, and Jesus , who is accompanied by obbligato instruments?
Did you know that Ario Pardee 's gift of $20,000 to Lafayette College in 1864 was the largest sum ever given to an educational institution in Pennsylvania at the time?
Did you know that in the motet Popule meus by Tomás Luis de Victoria , which sets the Good Friday Reproaches , two choirs alternate Greek and Latin versions of the Trisagion ?
Did you know that a columnist for the British Internet magazine Spiked created the fictional Twitter user Titania McGrath in order to mock contemporary " woke culture"?
Did you know that the Good Friday hymn " My Song Is Love Unknown " asks what Jesus had done to deserve crucifixion?
Did you know that Jeff "Beachbum" Berry has been described as "the Indiana Jones of tiki drinks"?
Did you know that Bambang Dwi Hartono championed bus rapid transit in Surabaya as mayor, but his plans were overridden by the next mayor ?
Did you know that " Christus, der uns selig macht ", a translation by Michael Weiße of a Latin Passion hymn, begins with Jesus arrested like a thief?
Did you know that the dire whelk sometimes shares the prey of the ochre sea star while it is being eaten?
Did you know that Ivorian special advisor Euphrasie Kouassi Yao has worked as a UNESCO chair for Water, Women and Decision-making, and has been honoured by the Global Platform for Enterprising Women?
Did you know that the Mayan Train was approved in a public referendum that garnered only a one percent voter turnout ?
Did you know that geneticist Muntaser Ibrahim , described by Science as "one of Sudan 's most distinguished living scholars", was imprisoned in February 2019 after participating in peaceful protests ?
Did you know that Hillary and Clinton is the first Broadway play to feature Hillary Clinton as a lead character?
Did you know that All India Trinamool Congress MP Uma Saren was the first person to speak in the tribal Santali language at the Inter-Parliamentary Union ?
Did you know that the weevil species Sicoderus bautistai , described as resembling "black, shiny ants", is named after professional baseball player José Bautista ?
Did you know that Czech chemist Karel Wiesner , unable to study at university under the German occupation, set up a laboratory in the basement of his parents' house to teach himself polarography ?
Did you know that the Natal Border Guard , established in 1878, was expected to defend the Colony of Natal armed only with spears and shields?
Did you know that American artist Lydia Purdy Hess , best known for her Portrait of Miss E. H. , sketched and painted while floating on the Ohio River during her two-month honeymoon?
Did you know that the Troy Museum , located close to the ancient city of Troy , is clad in rust-colored weathering steel to resemble an excavated artifact?
Did you know that at the Queen Charlotte's Ball , debutantes curtsey to a giant birthday cake?
Did you know that Satish Namdeo Ghormade has served as commanding officer of a guided missile frigate , a submarine rescue vessel , and a minesweeper ?
Did you know that at the 2019 Tour Championship snooker tournament the first-round match between Neil Robertson and Mark Selby , played over 17 frames , was decided by the final black ?
Did you know that, inspired at the age of five by her football -playing brother, Dilan Ağgül became a footballer in Germany and later played for the Turkey women's national team ?
Did you know that the tragic early life of the visual-novel character Kiritsugu Emiya was written by Gen Urobuchi as a prequel to Fate/stay night , which has a happy ending?
Did you know that Heinz Hoppe performed as a lyric tenor at the Hamburg State Opera , including world premieres, but became popular for operetta recordings and television shows?
Did you know that more than one million people are buried on Hart Island , the potter's field for New York City?
Did you know that Ram Singh Malam designed and decorated the Palace of Mirrors and its pleasure hall?
Did you know that the Spider-Man created for the 2018 video game by Insomniac Games has been used by Marvel Comics as an alternate version of Spider-Man ?
Did you know that volleyball player Chen Zhaodi , who was nicknamed "One-armed General" despite having two arms, became an actual general after retiring from her volleyball career?
Did you know that the royal vole has larder chambers in its burrow but not latrines?
Did you know that during World War II , the crew of the USS Argonaut donated their ship's bell to the Submarine Memorial Chapel before the submarine was lost in combat?
Did you know that Ruth H. Alexander was the first woman selected to serve on the President's Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition ?
Did you know that three times a day, the clock tower across from Southampton 's Watts Park tolls out Isaac Watts 's hymn " Our God, Our Help in Ages Past "?
Did you know that when Hansgünther Heyme staged classic plays, Antigone was set in Calcutta, William Tell in Nazi Germany, and Hamlet ended with the prince on a metal trolley?
Did you know that the colour and texture of the transparent lamellaria may vary according to the species of sea squirt on which it is living?
Did you know that in 684–85, Caliph Marwan I reestablished Umayyad authority in Syria and Egypt after its collapse across the caliphate?
Did you know that when HMS Courageux was wrecked, more than 100 men escaped to the shore by clambering along a fallen mast?
Did you know that " Ach wie flüchtig, ach wie nichtig ", a hymn about vanity by Michael Franck , is the basis of a chorale cantata by Bach , and quoted in Mauricio Kagel 's Passion?
Did you know that some leaves of the South African plant Romulea tortuosa are shaped like corkscrews?
Did you know that Minnesotan portrait and landscape artist Gene Ritchie Monahan is known for work that Sigurd Olson said "caught the details of the changing seasons"?
Did you know that Shadow the Hedgehog was originally going to appear only in Sonic Adventure 2 , but proved so popular that he became a recurring Sonic the Hedgehog character?
Did you know that Bandaru Dattatreya is the only minister from the Telangana state in the current Union Cabinet of India ?
Did you know that Michelle Obama promised George W. Bush that she would rescue his presidential portrait from a fire?
Did you know that Rob Morrison from Australia's The Curiosity Show was an expert witness at a Royal Commission of Inquiry into the death of a girl by a dingo ?
Did you know that Raymund Weber wrote " Zeige uns, Herr, deine Allmacht und Güte " to be sung with a modern melody, but it appears in the German Catholic hymnal with a Baroque melody?
Did you know that D. S. Kapoor designed a replica of the Eiffel Tower to serve as an entrance to the annual Chandigarh Carnival?
Did you know that the U.S. Homeland Security Act of 2002 has been used to expedite government-wide hiring for medical, scientific, and cybersecurity positions into the competitive federal civil service ?
Did you know that Tom Oppé chaired the working party which produced a report for the British government in 1974 recommending that babies be fed with breast milk rather than formula ?
Did you know that a calf grazing near the scene of an 1814 battle between the Royal Navy and United States Revenue Marine became the fight's only fatality?
Did you know that Mexican federal deputy Nay Salvatori invited the public to "smoke marijuana at my house and listen to The Doors " if the drug was legalized in Mexico, despite never having smoked it herself?
Did you know that indigenous resistance by mainland Caribs and Island Caribs played a major role in the failure of Dutch, British, French, and Courlander attempts to colonise Tobago in the 17th century ?
Did you know that Patrick Lange , who conducted a Stephen Sondheim musical in a youth club production at age 16, became chief music director of the Wiesbaden State Opera at age 36?
Did you know that the Holby City production team worked with Parkinson's UK to create a Parkinson's disease storyline for the character Alex Adams ?
Did you know that Indian social worker Sharda Mehta organised a protest against indentured servitude in 1917?
Did you know that the former Marysville Cotton Mill now houses a data centre for departments and agencies of the Government of New Brunswick ?
Did you know that Tsutomu Kawabuchi was referred to as the "father of Japanese women's ice hockey "?
Did you know that Bulgaria's first cosmonaut , Georgi Ivanov , safely returned to Earth despite a failing main engine and a damaged backup engine on his Soyuz 33 spacecraft?
Did you know that Meghan Trainor requested the removal of her song " Me Too " from Vevo , due to unapproved digital manipulation of her body in the video?
Did you know that the Indian Creek mushroom can be distinguished from chanterelles by its staining dark purple when cut or bruised?
Did you know that the Dutch-Belgian composer Oscar van Hemel created two operas, one of them about a prostitute?
Did you know that Mawjoudin Queer Film Festival , the first queer film festival in North Africa, does not disclose its location due to security concerns?
Did you know that journalist Roman Sushchenko was named by the European Parliament as one of 30 Ukrainian citizens illegally detained or imprisoned in Russia?
Did you know that the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act protected more than 1.3 million acres (5,300 km 2 ) of wilderness and created four U.S. national monuments ?
Did you know that Mr Justice Orr granted the wife of British spy George Blake a decree nisi for divorce on the grounds that a conviction for treason can amount to cruelty?
Did you know that John Wozniak took less than an hour to write Marcy Playground 's only hit , " Sex and Candy ", in his bedroom at 4 a.m.?
Did you know that Alfons Zgrzebniok commanded the first two of the three Silesian Uprisings ?
Did you know that Marianne Williamson , a candidate in the 2020 Democratic presidential primaries , has called for $100 billion in reparations for slavery ?
Did you know that Siegfried Vogel , a bass at the Berlin State Opera from 1965, appeared at the Metropolitan Opera in New York and at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow?
Did you know that American landscape and still life painter Ida O'Keeffe omitted her last name in her first exhibition to avoid comparison with her sister ?
Did you know that the Tugnet Ice House , the largest surviving ice house in the UK, is now a dolphin watching centre?
Did you know that Indian MP Sumedhanand Saraswati is also a Hindu monk ?
Did you know that while the fan palm Coccothrinax jamaicensis is the only Coccothrinax species native to Jamaica, the neighbouring island of Cuba has 39 native species?
Did you know that photographer Nydia Blas has said she is intrigued by the use of photography to influence public opinion, for example the use of photographs by anti-lynching activists ?
Did you know that by winning promotion during the 1920–21 season , Cardiff City F.C. became the first Welsh club to reach the top tier of English football?
Did you know that according to research led by Dana Lepofsky , some clam gardens on the Pacific Northwest Coast are up to 3,500 years old?
Did you know that the All India Azad Muslim Conference represented several Islamic organisations that opposed the partition of India ?
Did you know that Finnish Ice Hockey Association president Harry Lindblad was a founding member of the Finnish Hockey Hall of Fame , and served as its first chairman?
Did you know that the Florida shuffle refers to recovering drug addicts caught between multiple rehab centers and "patient brokers" for their insurance money?
Did you know that Raphaëlle Boitel worked as a contortionist street performer at age eight to earn tuition for circus school?
Did you know that the storyline of Holby City 's two-part episode " A Simple Lie " was compared to the Charlie Gard case ?
Did you know that U.S. Coast Guard Vice Admiral Lloyd Toulmin Chalker has been credited as the "father of Coast Guard aviation"?
Did you know that Promachocrinus is unusual among crinoids in having ten pairs of arms?
Did you know that instead of attending Columbia University , Taiwanese engineer Ye Qingyao joined the February 28 rebellion , was jailed, and then escaped to China on a sampan ?
Did you know that the European Commission's Joint Research Centre recommends using the spectral G-index rather than correlated color temperature to select streetlights that have low blue light content?
Did you know that the inner core may rotate slightly faster than the rest of the Earth due to torque caused by Earth's geodynamo and the solidification of the core?
Did you know that fees and penalties charged as part of criminal-justice financial obligations in the United States may lead to the justice system becoming both a result and a cause of poverty ?
Did you know that in a telegram to Hitler , Hans Bredow , the former head of the Reich Broadcasting Corporation , requested to be treated like his colleagues who were interned in the Oranienburg concentration camp ?
Did you know that the polychaete worm Poecilochaetus serpens digs a burrow with its head and lines it with particles of clay or mud cemented with mucus?
Did you know that medieval historian Maria Teresa Ferrer i Mallol believed that the 14th-century Mudéjar Muslim, Jewish, and Christian communities in Catalonia and Valencia co-existed due to religious segregation ?
Did you know that some newspapers reported as many as 3,000 deaths in Key West , Florida, during an October 1909 hurricane , but just two fatalities occurred in the city in actuality?
Did you know that a British Guiana one-cent postage stamp that Neil Ross McKinnon bought from a schoolboy later sold for US$9.5 million?
Did you know that Order of Australia recipient Helen Brownlee was the first woman to be elected as one of the vice presidents of the Australian Olympic Committee ?
Did you know that the Paris International Air Navigation Conference of 1910 was held after France became concerned about the number of foreign balloons carrying German officers that were entering their airspace?
Did you know that James F. Short served as director of the Oregon Department of Agriculture under four governors?
Did you know that Felix Mendelssohn first composed the motet Denn er hat seinen Engeln befohlen ( For He shall give His angels charge ) for an eight-part choir, then included it with orchestra in Elijah ?
Did you know that Cynthia García Coll from Puerto Rico has researched the psychological resilience of children born to teen mothers and of immigrant children?
Did you know that Boston Manor tube station once featured a Tiffany lampshade ?
Did you know that William Kempster 's 8.44-metre-long (27.7 ft) mural British Air Transport – The Pioneering Days depicts people and aircraft from British aviation between 1919 and 1934?