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Did you know that with the designation of County Highway A-2 in 1970, Mrs. Howard "Gene" Temple became the first Michigan woman to acquire a highway designation from the State Highway Commission?
Did you know that the opera Die Prinzessin Girnara , by composer Wellesz and librettist Wassermann , and based on a legend from India, premiered simultaneously at two opera houses in 1921?
Did you know that Estonian linguist Jaan Puhvel has worked for more than half a century on his multi-volume Hittite Etymological Dictionary ?
Did you know that in Public Access Opinion 16-006 , the Illinois Attorney General ordered Chicago police officers to release their private emails about the police-involved murder of Laquan McDonald ?
Did you know that at age 102, Beatrice Lumpkin , a union organizer and lifelong member of the Communist Party , donned hazmat suit –style gear to drop off her vote-by-mail ballot for the US elections ?
Did you know that a male spider of the species Zygiella x-notata uses vibrational courtship signals when entering a female's web to alert her of his presence as a potential mate, rather than potential prey?
Did you know that Agnes Stavenhagen was the soprano soloist in the first performance of Mahler's Second Symphony in Munich , conducted by the composer?
Did you know that balconies at 240 Central Park South were designed to give residents a view above Central Park 's tree line?
Did you know that Michael Jackson 's manager expected him to return from an injury and perform in the 2001 Football League First Division play-off Final ?
Did you know that Leo Petrović , a historian and head of the Herzegovinian Franciscans , was murdered by the Yugoslav Partisans as part of their campaign against the Franciscans?
Did you know that Ann Bedsole , the first woman to be elected to the Alabama Senate , printed a timetable for the state's hunting season on the back of her re-election campaign flyers?
Did you know that Nicholas Wilder said that being diagnosed with AIDS was just another "adventure"?
Did you know that both the adults and the alligator-like larvae of the twice-stabbed lady beetle prey on the walnut scale ?
Did you know that Walt Whitman 's poem " This Dust Was Once the Man ", an elegy for President Abraham Lincoln , is just four lines long?
Did you know that San Baw , chief orthopaedic surgeon of Mandalay General Hospital , pioneered the use of ivory prostheses to replace ununited fractures of the femoral neck ?
Did you know that the 1846 death of Frederick John White after a flogging led the Duke of Wellington to order that sentences not exceed 50 lashes?
Did you know that actress and dancer Raissa Gourevitch performed in surrealist plays before becoming an archaeological authority on Roman statuary?
Did you know that in his hurry to get to a fire in Fort Saskatchewan , the town's fire chief was pulled over for speeding and nearly hitting a police officer in Edmonton ?
Did you know that Paula Bataona Renyaan was the first woman to become a vice governor and the third woman to become a police general in Indonesia?
Did you know that the USA team at the 2007 World Cup of Pool wore orange shirts after both home-nation Dutch teams had been eliminated?
Did you know that four justices dissented in the verdict of the European Court of Human Rights case concerning the Katyn massacre , calling it a denial of justice and a failure of conscience?
Did you know that Folker Bohnet , who acted in Bernhard Wicki 's 1959 film Die Brücke while still studying, toured for 13 years with a comedy play that he co-authored?
Did you know that the expulsion of Greeks from Istanbul in 1964–1965 was part of the final phase of state measures aimed at the Turkification of the local economic, social, and cultural life?
Did you know that same-surname marriage was prohibited for periods in ancient China ?
Did you know that voter turnout increased by 32 percentage points following the passage of Herbert Payne 's bill to introduce compulsory voting in Australian federal elections?
Did you know that unlike neighboring tribes, the Pastia people of south Texas escaped detection by Spanish explorers until the early 18th century?
Did you know that the 2020 film A Life on Our Planet is David Attenborough 's self-described "witness statement" on how human activity has affected the environment?
Did you know that Augustine 's views of Christian theology were developed in opposition to Pelagianism , which he declared a heresy?
Did you know that Ita Maximowna , who trained as a painter in Paris and Berlin in the 1920s, began working in scenic and costume design after World War II and went on to work internationally?
Did you know that Steve McQueen and William Shatner starred in The Defender , the first live television drama in the US divided for broadcast on separate nights, "leaving audiences dangling on the cliff"?
Did you know that the Federal Radio Commission revoked the license of Chicago radio station WCHI in 1931 for attacking medical procedures such as surgical operations and vaccinations?
Did you know that gravediggers discovered the Hexham Hoard of eight thousand stycas in a bronze bucket in 1832?
Did you know that Ethel Maynard was the first black woman elected to the Arizona State Legislature ?
Did you know that Bury F.C. converted its debts of £1,230 into a credit balance of £1,329 by winning the 1900 FA Cup Final ?
Did you know that Indonesian Navy officer Louise Elisabeth Coldenhoff described her tenure as head of the personnel section as "living between angels and devils"?
Did you know that writer and socialite Cat Marnell once described New York City nightclub Lit Lounge as "like Cheers ... but with PCP and vodka"?
Did you know that The Legend of Dragoon uses four CDs, the maximum allowed in a PlayStation case?
Did you know that Dilys Price , the world's oldest female solo parachute jumper, made more than 1,130 solo jumps before selling her parachute at age 86?
Did you know that Indian prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru launched Shankar's Weekly , even though its founder described the magazine as "fundamentally anti-establishment"?
Did you know that American actress Masey McLain 's feature film debut in I'm Not Ashamed was praised by critic Jordan Hoffman , who said of her acting future, "the sky is the limit"?
Did you know that the 1979 Salvadoran coup d'état overthrew President Carlos Humberto Romero ?
Did you know that the French philologist Georges Dumézil is credited with saving the Ubykh language from extinction?
Did you know that the shepherd 's flock felt that it had been fleeced at Innsbruck?
Did you know that the recording of " Waiting for a Train " introduced Jimmie Rodgers 's trademark train whistle?
Did you know that K. W. Gransden , despite publishing only two poetry collections, was included by Philip Larkin in The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse ?
Did you know that for her sound-film debut in 1931, silent-screen star Mae Marsh begged the director to tell her what to say before each scene?
Did you know that the synthetic compound carbonaceous sulfur hydride is the world's first room-temperature superconductor ?
Did you know that " So nimm denn meine Hände " by Julie Hausmann , first printed in 1862, placed seventh in a 2019 survey of favourite funeral music in Germany, immediately behind " My Way "?
Did you know that Manoj Kumar and Raj Kumar had to win cases at the Delhi High Court to be awarded the Arjuna Award sporting honour in the 2010s ?
Did you know that Filipina soldier and spy Josefina Guerrero , diagnosed with leprosy , created intelligence reports that helped the Americans defeat the Japanese at Manila Harbor ?
Did you know that Bups Saggu learned to play the tabla at the local gurdwara in Wolverhampton , but later moved on to playing the dhol because he "took a liking to the larger and louder sound"?
Did you know that in 1902, the Brooklyn marine engine manufacturers Riley & Cowley built a steam car ?
Did you know that a global advisory committee has been monitoring rapidly developing COVID-19 vaccines against a background of growing misinformation and vaccine hesitancy ?
Did you know that cricketer Charlotte Taylor was the top wicket-taker in the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy , despite not being initially picked in the squads for the tournament?
Did you know that Exeter Cathedral School has been educating choristers since the year 1179?
Did you know that a group of prisoners building the Honolulu Courthouse overpowered their guards, took possession of gun batteries overlooking Honolulu, and attempted to open fire on nearby buildings?
Did you know that The Times said that Sheila Atim "sings Dylan better than Bob"?
Did you know that Canadian professor Bob Hindmarch donated his own money to feed starving student athletes on the Canada men's national ice hockey team ?
Did you know that American artist Stuart Davis spent six years working on his jazz -inspired painting The Mellow Pad ?
Did you know that the Pilcher Monument was erected partly to warn people of the dangers of the Sark coast?
Did you know that Martin Egel appeared at the Bayreuth Festival from 1975 to 1986, including a three-year run as Donner in the Jahrhundertring ?
Did you know that the giant pinkray limpet maintains a patch of the encrusting red alga Hildenbrandia rubra on which it feeds, driving off competitors?
Did you know that the second birth in a Mexico City Metro station in 2020 occurred at Tláhuac ?
Did you know that Lillian Brown , makeup artist to nine U.S. presidents, stopped Richard Nixon 's sobbing before he went on television to resign the presidency ?
Did you know that ChilledCow has one of the longest videos on YouTube , totaling over 13,000 hours?
Did you know that despite being excluded from the standard edition of 1989 , " New Romantics " by Taylor Swift was named one of the best songs of the 2010s decade by Rolling Stone ?
Did you know that in Poland, hanging a rainbow flag on a statue may be a crime ?
Did you know that in Bettina , the chamber opera 's only solo singer portrays both Bettina von Arnim and Karoline von Günderrode , reflecting their friendship and Günderrode's suicide?
Did you know that Coronet magazine was deluged with letters and phone calls when Margueritte Harmon Bro wrote about the " Miracle Man of Virginia Beach "?
Did you know that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant fielded more than a hundred tanks in Syria and Iraq?
Did you know that footage from the 1995 documentary film BloodSisters: Leather, Dykes and Sadomasochism was played for a U.S. congressional committee during its hearings on the National Endowment for the Arts ?
Did you know that Soetran was nicknamed the "Clove Governor" after he obligated families in Papua to cultivate cloves?
Did you know that Great American Bank , based in San Diego , was the first savings and loan association founded in Southern California ?
Did you know that the diaries of Lady Lacoste , a 19th-century philanthropist from Montreal, give historians a rare look into how emotions impacted the lives of women in her social class?
Did you know that the Atlantic dancing shrimp is often associated with sea urchins or sea anemones ?
Did you know that pioneering lesbian columnist Deb Price 's same-sex wedding announcement in The Washington Post was one of the first in a major national newspaper?
Did you know that in a pre-game ceremony before the last game of the 1972 ice hockey Summit Series , the Canadian delegation presented a totem pole to the Soviet Union?
Did you know that Scottsdale, Arizona , repealed its ban on dancing so that the Safari Hotel could open a nightclub?
Did you know that in the ballet West Side Story Suite , some of the dancers also sing?
Did you know that Soedardjat Nataatmadja 's instruction for parliamentary observers to wear traditional Sundanese clothing cost him his reelection?
Did you know that the social study They Live on the Land was based on interviews with nearly the entire population of a rural Alabama town during the Great Depression ?
Did you know that Max Crabtree 's "Big Daddy" was his brother Shirley ?
Did you know that the colonial bryozoan Beania magellanica , widely distributed in the Southern Hemisphere, has recently turned up in the Mediterranean Sea?
Did you know that during the 1973 oil crisis , material scientist Henry Ehrenreich assessed photovoltaic cells and was an advisor to the U.S. Department of Energy ?
Did you know that Dick Kaegel began working as a full-time sportswriter while he was still in high school?
Did you know that 50 years ago today, a military tribunal handed down six controversial death sentences to members of the Basque separatist group ETA ?
Did you know that William Gates LeDuc led a bison through the streets of New York City as part of the Minnesota exhibition at the 1853 World's Fair ?
Did you know that trench nephritis caused 35,000 British casualties during the First World War?
Did you know that " Filipino Baby ", a song about a sailor's love for a Filipino girl, described as "my treasure and my pet", was a top-five hit for three different artists in 1946?
Did you know that Canadian modernist architect and urban planner Geoffrey Massey was part of a movement that prevented freeways from being built in Vancouver ?
Did you know that the first official resolution of the International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology was that they would never meet in a place with anti-sodomy laws?
Did you know that the Wallace rule of nines to calculate the area of a burn was introduced by A. B. Wallace of Bangour General Hospital ?
Did you know that Wisconsin was the leading producer of dairy products in the United States from 1915 to 1993?
Did you know that New Zealand mountaineer Marmaduke Dixon came within 100 ft (30 m) of the summit in his attempt to make the first ascent of the country's highest mountain, Aoraki / Mount Cook ?
Did you know that the life cycle of the Neptune-grass bryozoan is synchronized with the growth cycle of the seagrass on which it lives and the availability of the phytoplankton on which it feeds?
Did you know that academic and philanthropist Guido Goldman convinced West German chancellor Willy Brandt to set up and endow the German Marshall Fund on the 25th anniversary of the Marshall Plan ?
Did you know that the Cistercian monastic order created an early competitor to Hindu–Arabic numerals with which they wrote years as a single character?
Did you know that American football player Harry Field married a Hawaiian princess and is a 2021 finalist for induction into the Polynesian Football Hall of Fame ?
Did you know that Psalm 148 , calling heaven and earth to be glad, inspired the 17th-century Christmas carol " Erfreue dich, Himmel, erfreue dich, Erde ", which Maria Luise Thurmair expanded with more details from the psalm in 1963?
Did you know that the irrigation intake for which New Zealand farmer Marmaduke Dixon long campaigned is now a historic structure registered by Heritage New Zealand ?
Did you know that Hespress , the most popular news website in Morocco, initially relied on non-staff bloggers for its articles?
Did you know that Sylvia Pengilly used an Amiga computer to integrate graphics with music and herself dancing?
Did you know that although the Euclidean distance and the Pythagorean theorem are both ancient concepts, the Pythagorean formula for distance was not published until 1731?
Did you know that Udyavara Madhava Acharya is credited with the modernisation of the theatre form Yakshagana ?
Did you know that while Ebenezer Joshua joined the government after the 1974 Vincentian general election , his wife Ivy became the leader of the opposition ?
Did you know that One Voice at Christmas involves Aled Jones duetting Christmas carols with his younger self and the late Terry Wogan ?
Did you know that Giovanni Garbini 's studies helped scholars interpret the biblical narrative in the larger context of the history of the ancient Near East?
Did you know that in 1975, Finland's Minister of Education Marjatta Väänänen sent a petition to the Archbishop of Turku with almost 1 million signatures, advocating for the introduction of female priests?
Did you know that O magnum mysterium , a motet for double choir by Morten Lauridsen , is a setting of a medieval Latin text for Christmas to music described as "ethereal sounds in imperturbable calmness"?
Did you know that when Donald Trump owned the Plaza Hotel , he requested a cameo in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York in exchange for allowing the film crew to shoot in the lobby?
Did you know that sending the real animals and personnel in The Twelve Days of Christmas resulted in a letter from G. Creep, solicitor?
Did you know that James W. Nance tested the Douglas A-3 Skywarrior aboard USS Forrestal , which he later commanded?
Did you know that St. Michael , a 17th-century chapel on a hill near Kaubenheim , Bavaria, which offers services in summer and for Christmas, received electricity around 1980?
Did you know that after Houkje Gerrits Bouma won one of the earliest women's speed skating competitions in 1809, women's competitions were not held anymore because women skating with bare arms was considered obscene?
Did you know that a football club in Finland called FC Santa Claus has competed as high as the third tier ?
Did you know that Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger wrote " Süßer die Glocken nie klingen ", a popular 19th-century Christmas carol to the melody of an evening song, evoking the sound of bells as a symbol of peace and joy?
Did you know that the staff of the Embassy of the Philippines in Tokyo at one point formed the entire Philippine foreign service?
Did you know that Fishbait Miller , the doorkeeper of the U.S. House of Representatives , greeted Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom in 1951 by saying, "Howdy, Ma'am"?
Did you know that Rudolf Steglich , a musicologist who wrote his habilitation thesis on rhythm in 1930, was a co-editor of the Hallische Händel-Ausgabe , the critical edition of Handel's complete works , from 1955?
Did you know that the female Agelenopsis aperta spider enters a cataplectic state during mating, which means it loses control of its body and is unconscious?
Did you know that cartoonist Trung Le Nguyen 's graphic novel The Magic Fish is inspired by his experience as a child of Vietnamese immigrants to the United States?
Did you know that scholars have speculated that failure to punish the perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide contributed to the Holocaust ?
Did you know that Cynthia Fierro Harvey is the first Hispanic woman to serve as the president of the United Methodist Council of Bishops ?
Did you know that the 2021 Somali presidential election was originally scheduled for 2020, but was delayed by concerns of famine , war , pestilence , and civil disorder ?
Did you know that despite being awarded the military Legion of Merit four times, as well as the civilian Medal of Freedom , Lewis Strauss is often viewed as a villain of American history?
Did you know that the London Theatre Studio was the first English drama school to teach theatrical design as well as drama?
Did you know that Thomas J. White estimated that he gave more than $75 million to charity after resolving "to die as close to penniless as possible"?
Did you know that the Royal Pioneer Corps could build a Twynham hut in four minutes?
Did you know that In Praise of Forgetting makes the case against collective memory: "whereas forgetting does an injustice to the past, remembering does an injustice to the present"?
Did you know that the Arlington Hotel , rebuilt after a devastating fire, was severely damaged in the 1925 Santa Barbara earthquake ?
Did you know that The European said of George Saxby Penfold 's sermons that "they are distinguished by a pleasing mediocrity"?
Did you know that Jenna Ellis was a stern critic of Donald Trump before she became his legal adviser?
Did you know that Australian pop band Autumn was one of four artists co-credited with a number-one hit in the Australian charts on 31 October 1970, each with a version of the song " Yellow River "?
Did you know that Bernie Sanders won the election to become Mayor of Burlington, Vermont , by ten votes in 1981?
Did you know that during the Nazi occupation of Poland , Halina Kwiatkowska acted in an underground theatre alongside a future pope ?
Did you know that in his book Thematic Origins of Scientific Thought: Kepler to Einstein , Gerald Holton argues that philosophy from Either/Or influenced Niels Bohr 's concept of complementarity ?
Did you know that Robert Hammerstiel wrapped Vienna's Ringturm tower in a painting showing stations of human life in simplified and brightly coloured figures?
Did you know that the marine worm Neanthes arenaceodentata is both an environmental monitor and a caring father?
Did you know that the nearly identical 130 and 140 West 57th Street are among the few remaining artists' studio buildings in New York City constructed with distinct living and working spaces for occupants?
Did you know that Yusuf Sayfa , commander of Ottoman forces in Syria against the Kurdish rebel Janbulad , became the latter's subordinate?
Did you know that in Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland , a cantata in eleven movements for Advent , Georg Böhm set all eight stanzas of Luther's hymn , and all differently?
Did you know that shortly after winning a conference tournament championship with Vanderbilt 's soccer team, Sarah Fuller became the first woman to play football in a Power Five conference game?
Did you know that although nothing remains of Fort La Cloche in La Cloche Provincial Park , it was an economic hub for the area in the 19th century?
Did you know that Black Futures , a 544-page collection of Black art and writing, was originally going to be a zine ?
Did you know that Matthew Cobb , winner of the 2021 JBS Haldane Lecture , started his academic career by getting twins drunk?
Did you know that the 1921 book The Meaning of Relativity represents Albert Einstein 's only attempt to provide an overview of general relativity that was both comprehensive and accessible to non-specialists?
Did you know that Claudia Chamorro Barrios married on the birthday of her assassinated father?
Did you know that " Mit Ernst, o Menschenkinder ", a 1642 Advent hymn , includes a call to penitence that John the Baptist took from the prophet Isaiah ?
Did you know that future U.S. Navy rear admiral Oral Swigart competed as a wrestler at the 1920 Summer Olympics ?
Did you know that the Dachau camp trial was one of 489 Dachau trials , the majority of which were held within the confines of the concentration camp itself?
Did you know that the Indian wax scale was first described in 1798 by Fabricius , but was wrongly attributed to another author for nearly two hundred years?
Did you know that poet Lynda Schraufnagel , little known in her lifetime, was mourned after her death at 40 for her "funkiness" and "manic glee"?
Did you know that the 104th (New Brunswick) Regiment of Foot marched 1,100 kilometres (680 mi), some of it in snowshoes, during the Canadian winter to fight in the War of 1812 ?
Did you know that Jimmy Bonner became the first African American to play baseball professionally in Japan in 1936, eleven years before Jackie Robinson 's Major League Baseball debut?
Did you know that a museum in Sendai was built around a 20,000-year-old campsite?
Did you know that when Cotton Queen Frances Lockett was crowned in 1930, souvenir handkerchiefs made from "Queenetta" fabric were sold?
Did you know that while the Gateway Generating Station was completed without controversy or setbacks, it was later the subject of a lawsuit over endangered butterflies ?
Did you know that the headlight fish gets its name from the large, bioluminescent patch of skin located between its nostrils ?
Did you know that Faith Smith , who grew up on the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe reservation in Wisconsin , became the founding president of the first urban institute of higher learning led by and serving Native Americans ?
Did you know that the world's oldest lacquerware was found at the Kakinoshima Site ?
Did you know that Earl Dawson established a council to reverse the decline of ice hockey in rural Manitoba?