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Did you know that with Danielle Dithurbide 's appointment to anchor the morning newscast on Las Estrellas , a majority of Mexican news broadcaster Noticieros Televisa 's news programs are hosted by women?
Did you know that the Racecourse Ground , which has hosted more Wales home international matches than any other stadium, is the oldest stadium in the world still hosting international football fixtures?
Did you know that Kurdish civil engineer and politician Hevrin Khalaf , who worked for tolerance among Christians, Arabs, and Kurds, was killed in the 2019 Turkish offensive into Syria ?
Did you know that St. Charles College in Louisiana was the first Jesuit college established in the southern United States?
Did you know that in addition to writing operas that premiered in Porto and Paris, Italian classical organist and composer Francesco Filidei has collaborated with a singer-songwriter on a theatrical show?
Did you know that soldiers were reduced to eating rats during the Siege of Masaka ?
Did you know that in 1939, alert workers at West Virginia radio station WBLK saved equipment from a devastating fire, and the station returned to the air within 45 minutes to report the blaze?
Did you know that the diaries of James Humphreys , the "Emperor of Porn", were used to convict thirteen members of the Metropolitan Police Force of accepting his bribes?
Did you know that Calvert Vaux Park , named after the landscape architect found dead in a nearby bay, is largely made of landfill from the construction of the Verrazzano Bridge ?
Did you know that Xie Gaohua established the Yiwu Market , which has grown into the world's largest small commodities market?
Did you know that the last British troops left India in 1948, post independence, from the Gateway of India ?
Did you know that Order of Canada recipient Thelma Finlayson was Simon Fraser University 's first professor emerita?
Did you know that A. N. Wilson described Oxford 's Clarendon Shopping Centre when it opened as "the most grotesquely horrible building I have ever seen"?
Did you know that after having to leave her World War I posting in Greece upon contracting dysentery , Canadian nurse Mabel Clint later re-enlisted to serve out the war in England and France?
Did you know that more than 100 interviews were conducted for the 2019 documentary Queer Japan ?
Did you know that Frank Philipp Schlößmann designed the stage for Wagner's Ring cycle in Bayreuth in 2006, and more recently created a large illuminated ring framing the stage for the same work in Minden ?
Did you know that a scheme for declaring ten public and ten private institutions as Institutes of Eminence has been approved in India?
Did you know that Chen Zhongyi , an engineer born in Taiwan and educated in the U.S., taught the future Chinese president Hu Jintao ?
Did you know that the stories in Chestnut Street by Maeve Binchy , published posthumously in 2014, had been written over a period of decades and filed away in a drawer?
Did you know that Carla Lalli Music , the food director of Bon Appétit magazine, was the first general manager at Shake Shack ?
Did you know that Irish republican O'Donovan Rossa claimed that the phrase " England's difficulty is Ireland's opportunity " was typically used as an excuse for inaction?
Did you know that having received the results of the 1848 U.S. presidential election by telegraph, George F. Lewis helped publish the news of Zachary Taylor 's win?
Did you know that much of the stone material studied by archeologists at the 12th-century fortress of Tasghîmût near Marrakesh has since been hauled off by local builders?
Did you know that Dorothy Spiers was the first woman to qualify as an actuary in the United Kingdom?
Did you know that WACH-TV in Newport News, Virginia , pleaded with the FCC to regulate networks because another station was "hogging" affiliations?
Did you know that Renatus Mészár , who made his opera debut at the Munich Biennale and then was a member of the NDR Chor , has appeared as Wotan in Wagner's Ring cycle , including on DVD?
Did you know that the Guinness World Record for the largest bowl of braised pork rice is 647 kg (1,426 lb)?
Did you know that in the 1858 Staten Island Quarantine War , angry local residents burned down the United States' largest quarantine facility after years of opposition?
Did you know that self-taught Israeli singer-songwriter Ishay Ribo has released four studio albums, two of them certified gold and one platinum?
Did you know that Red Dead Redemption 2 was developed by a team of 1,600 people ?
Did you know that Samuel May Williams borrowed against his brother's credit to purchase the 125-ton schooner Invincible on behalf of Texian rebels ?
Did you know that the Isla dela Victoria resort and casino under construction in Kawit Island, Cebu City , Philippines, is named for a city officer murdered for his role in the fight against illegal fishing ?
Did you know that Margaret Lyons , the first female vice president of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation , was nicknamed the "Dragon Lady"?
Did you know that for their 2019 documentary film The Elephant Queen , the two directors followed elephant herds for four years?
Did you know that Rear Admiral Ma Weiming has led the development of the electromagnetic catapult system for China's future aircraft carriers ?
Did you know that the bark of Guibourtia tessmannii is much esteemed in traditional medicine and is often removed from living trees?
Did you know that George W. Hotchkiss published the world's first lumber journal, the Lumberman's Gazette ?
Did you know that a fake version of Bish 's album Carrots and Sticks became the sixth-bestselling album in Japan for the week of its release?
Did you know that George Wimpey CEO Joe Dwyer thought general contracting was a "mug's game" and converted the firm into a housebuilder?
Did you know that the death of a track marshal as a result of a two-car collision on lap five of the 2001 Australian Grand Prix was not announced until after the race ended?
Did you know that Manisha Moun kept her boxing interest a secret from her father until he read in a newspaper that she had won a medal?
Did you know that in his Purcell Realizations , Benjamin Britten created arrangements for voice and piano of songs by Henry Purcell , as a commemoration of the 250th anniversary in 1945 of Purcell's death?
Did you know that Anne C. Morel was the first woman to become a full professor of mathematics at the University of Washington ?
Did you know that Shinori Fort in Hokkaido was twice sacked by the Ainu ?
Did you know that businessman Delford M. Smith acquired the Spruce Goose for the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum in McMinnville, Oregon ?
Did you know that subjects of Venezuelan films of the 1890s include a dentist pulling teeth in a hotel and a man getting into a brawl with a stagecoach driver ?
Did you know that botanist George R. Proctor collected more than 55,000 specimens, had 31 species named after him, and was convicted of a conspiracy to murder his wife?
Did you know that New York City's Beekman Tower , built as housing for women in college sororities, was later patronized by United Nations delegates?
Did you know that cricketer Yashasvi Jaiswal lived in a tent and sold panipuri before becoming the youngest List A double centurion ?
Did you know that the assassin bug Rhynocoris marginatus injects venomous saliva into its prey to paralyse it?
Did you know that Rhode Island Public Radio 's 2007 acquisition of WAKX brought NPR service to communities in southern Rhode Island for the first time?
Did you know that Helmuth Froschauer , a former member of the Vienna Boys' Choir , later conducted the ensemble on 22 international tours?
Did you know that Massport is expanding its Logan Express service, expecting to remove up to three million vehicle trips from the roads in and around Boston's Logan International Airport ?
Did you know that Tsai Ying-wen jokingly said that his award-winning book had sold well because readers mistook the author as Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen ?
Did you know that a cross from the grave of a Canadian World War I soldier was brought back to Canada by W. A. Fry , and now hangs in St. Paul's Anglican Church in Dunnville, Ontario ?
Did you know that Louisiana radio station WBOX lost more than 90 percent of its advertisers as a result of a 1965 boycott by the Ku Klux Klan ?
Did you know that Chinese businessman Zhang Zhenxin bought a majority share of the Castlemartyr Resort in Ireland after Kanye West and Kim Kardashian spent part of their honeymoon there?
Did you know that each Xyloterinus politus larva has its own individual cradle?
Did you know that Gwendolyne Cowart – the "youngest girl in the south" to obtain a commercial pilot's license – went on to serve as a Women Airforce Service Pilot (WASP) during World War II?
Did you know that the song " A Pittance of Time " was written to remind people to observe the two-minute silence on Remembrance Day ?
Did you know that the "GOETHE 1" car registration plate of UC Irvine professor Thomas P. Saine was featured in a German novel?
Did you know that players are only likely to hear around one-third of all the music created for Red Dead Redemption 2 in a standard playthrough?
Did you know that before becoming a film director, Nepal's Nischal Basnet went to Australia to study 3D animation , but ended up studying hospitality and becoming a chef?
Did you know that today's MLS Cup 2019 will be the third cup final in four years to feature Seattle Sounders FC and Toronto FC ?
Did you know that Christof Nel staged the world premiere of Thomas Brasch 's play Rotter and the first production in German of Aulis Sallinen 's opera Kullervo ?
Did you know that in a single week in 1992, a four-man team including Mick Fowler and Andy Nisbet climbed all the main stacks of the Drongs ?
Did you know that Christina Maria Rantetana was buried in a combined military-traditional funeral, with a salvo of shots as her body was placed in a niche 30 metres (100 ft) up a cliff?
Did you know that Hawaii radio station KKON 's change of format from "beautiful music" to a rock-and-roll/country mix in 1974 lasted just one day?
Did you know that Anne L. Stevens disguised herself in order to enroll in the male-only mechanics pit crew at a race track?
Did you know that UK prime minister Boris Johnson said he would "rather be dead in a ditch" than seek an extension to Brexit under the terms of the European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 2) Act 2019 ?
Did you know that paediatrician Ji Xiaocheng co-founded the first neonatal intensive care unit in China?
Did you know that the lamenting grasshopper seems to be expanding its range northwards in Italy, possibly as a result of climate change?
Did you know that Belgian bass Tijl Faveyts , recognized internationally since his 2006 performance as Mozart's Sarastro at the Aix-en-Provence Festival , has portrayed both Fasolt and Hunding in Der Ring in Minden ?
Did you know that for his narrative poetry novel The Long Take , Robin Robertson became the first poet and first Scot to win the Walter Scott Prize ?
Did you know that Jack Hadley founded his own black history museum in Thomasville, Georgia ?
Did you know that Jennifer Morgan , co-chief executive officer at SAP SE , is the first woman CEO of a company on the DAX index?
Did you know that after a secret purchase from Europe, the Special Group became the first Indian troops to be equipped with the AK-47 ?
Did you know that the death of Tony Renna and major accidents involving four other drivers led the Indy Racing League to lower car speeds and engine horsepower from the 2004 Indianapolis 500 onward?
Did you know that two men who plotted to assassinate King George I were arrested in the Green Man public house in 1722?
Did you know that Peng Yuxing was a "czar" of China's military–industrial complex ?
Did you know that a vandal "knew what he was doing" when he disconnected the fuse blocks to WEYY 's transmitter, keeping it off the air for two and a half hours?
Did you know that director Kunihiko Ikuhara sought to make the 1999 film Adolescence of Utena "more naughty" than the television series it was adapted from ?
Did you know that Togashi Masachika was restored to power by a rebel army , only to later commit suicide when confronted by a similar force?
Did you know that Edite Estrela MEP received 80,000 emails in opposition to a nonbinding European Union resolution in favour of sex education and other reproductive rights?
Did you know that Melissa Leilani Larson ' s play Pilot Program imagines a future where members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are asked to practice polygamy again?
Did you know that the Qarhan Playa's Bieletan subbasin – including the Suli , South Suli , Dabiele , and Xiaobiele salt lakes – is China's largest source of brine lithium?
Did you know that for his role in the annexation of Crimea in 2014, Yevgeny Bushmin was awarded the medal "For the Return of Crimea" by Russia, and placed under sanctions by the United States?
Did you know that the Union Literary Institute was established after the Indiana General Assembly barred African Americans from attending public schools?
Did you know that Seneca Village , a community composed mainly of free black people, was destroyed in the 1850s to make way for New York City's Central Park ?
Did you know that German engineer Hermann Oestrich became a Knight of the Legion of Honour for developing the Snecma Atar turbojet engines?
Did you know that just three years after starting radio station WESQ , North Carolina Wesleyan College sold it, partly because of a failure to integrate the station into its curriculum?
Did you know that James Brown , a visually impaired Paralympian , recently climbed atop an aeroplane to protest against government inaction on climate change ?
Did you know that the Society of Gentleman Practisers in the Courts of Law and Equity sought to increase the fees payable to solicitors and attorneys, which had been fixed for more than a century?
Did you know that President of Georgetown University Lawrence C. Gorman worked to have the first black students admitted as undergraduates?
Did you know that one user said of JOSS , an interactive programming system at RAND , "it's better than beer"?
Did you know that Hall of Fame players Curly Lambeau and Arnie Herber both played in the Green Bay East–Green Bay West football rivalry ?
Did you know that in 1985, Hezi Shai and two other captured soldiers were returned to Israel in exchange for 1,150 Palestinian and Lebanese security prisoners ?
Did you know that the first chapter of Go For It, Nakamura! was commissioned to fill a gap of empty pages in the manga magazine in which it was published?
Did you know that Abraham Groves is credited with performing the first appendectomy in North America?
Did you know that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation wound up operating a radio station when it seized a failed Tennessee bank, which in turn had seized WIDD ?
Did you know that Ding Shisun considered his own tenure as President of Peking University a failure, but scholar Ji Xianlin called him one of the two best presidents in the institution's history?
Did you know that poison devil's-pepper has been used both as rat poison and as a traditional medicine for humans?
Did you know that Toki Pona , a constructed language devised in 2001, uses only around 120 to 125 root words?
Did you know that Ramatoulie DK Sanneh , The Gambia's first woman general, has campaigned against gender-based violence?
Did you know that Ramin Djawadi was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for an episode of the Westworld season 2 soundtrack , but lost out to his own work on Game of Thrones season 7 ?
Did you know that Jiang Weipu has been called the "patron saint of lianhuanhua "?
Did you know that the assassin bug Rhynocoris longifrons will feed on moth larvae in preference to sap-sucking pests ?
Did you know that Mikhail Semyonov swapped a career in mining for one in politics, rising to the position of Chairman of the People's Khural of Buryatia ?
Did you know that Mill Creek, Washington , was not named after a mill or a creek?
Did you know that Khema , one of the Buddha's chief female disciples, attained enlightenment before even becoming a nun?
Did you know that none of the people who established North Carolina radio station WVSP had any prior experience in radio broadcasting?
Did you know that Hungarian pianists Márta Kurtág and her husband performed together for 60 years, often from his collection entitled Játékok (' Games ' )?
Did you know that Brazil was the only country with an exhibit at the 1918 Bronx "World's Fair" ?
Did you know that Rabbi Shimon Baadani , a senior leader of Israel's Shas party, once said that those who did not vote for the party would go to hell?
Did you know that the Sierra de Ajusco-Chichinauhtzin mountain range in Mexico is made up of more than one hundred volcanic cones?
Did you know that Ernest Graves Jr. was one of four generations of his family to go to West Point , all of whom graduated first or second in their class?
Did you know that today's 2019 Rugby World Cup Final between England and South Africa is a repeat of the 2007 final ?
Did you know that Thomas Sturgis was a prisoner of war in the American Civil War , a prominent cattle grower, and New York City Fire Commissioner ?
Did you know that a 1945 ordinance by the Cebu City Council was the first to regulate cockfighting venues in the Philippines?
Did you know that in The Book of Gutsy Women , the mother-and-daughter authors feature, among others, the 17th-century nun Juana Inés de la Cruz and climate activist Greta Thunberg ?
Did you know that Canadian SoundCloud rapper bbno$ became interested in music after suffering a back injury that prevented him from pursuing his dreams as a competitive swimmer?
Did you know that the All Blacks were once defeated by Rhodesia , a non- test rugby playing country?
Did you know that Kurt Rackow and his soldiers were trapped for hours during the Battle of Verdun , even though their comrades were just 20 ft (6 m) away?
Did you know that Bill Walton made 21 of his 22 field goal attempts in the 1973 NCAA University Division Basketball Championship Game ?
Did you know that Swedish sociologist Ulf Himmelstrand has been called the "father of sociology in Nigeria"?
Did you know that XHFAMX-TDT "La Octava", which opens tonight, marks Grupo Radio Centro 's return to Mexico City television for the first time since 1972?
Did you know that Grigory Skornyakov-Pisarev wrote on mechanics , investigated a tsarina , was in charge of the Ladoga Canal , and sported with concubines as commandant of Okhotsk ?
Did you know that the film Under the Knife argues that Britain's state-run National Health Service is being intentionally privatised?
Did you know that in his 1950 speech at the United Nations, Chinese diplomat Wu Xiuquan demanded that the United States withdraw its forces from Taiwan and Korea?
Did you know that rings of modular forms are stacky thanks to GAGA ?
Did you know that American tenor Joshua Guerrero stepped in at late notice to sing Almaviva in a Grammy Award -winning production of The Ghosts of Versailles ?
Did you know that the common name of the Halloween darter refers to the orange and black coloration that individuals develop during the breeding season?
Did you know that Zdeňka Wiedermannová-Motyčková established the first girls' secondary school in Moravia ?
Did you know that the skeleton frog Boophis popi can be identified by its bright red irises?
Did you know that the namesake of Betsy Head Park left half her estate to the New York City parks system and only $5 to her daughter?
Did you know that the Coffin Cave mold beetle may not actually be found in Coffin Cave?
Did you know that forensic artists at the University of Dundee used 100-year-old photographs of a skull to digitally recreate the face of an accused witch in Scotland ?
Did you know that John Moutoussamy is the only African-American to have designed a high-rise building—which featured "colorful walls and psychedelic carpets"—in the Chicago Loop ?
Did you know that the first owners of radio station KSTO fled Guam after running up a debt of $60,000 in less than seven months of operation?
Did you know that the Indian Air Force has launched two mobile air combat games , Guardians of the Skies and A Cut Above , to reach out to youth?
Did you know that the 1988 opening of New York City's Archer Avenue lines , expected to lessen congestion, ended up slashing ridership at Parsons Boulevard station by half?
Did you know that Miley Cyrus gained over 2.3 million likes on the video-sharing platform TikTok when she danced and lip-synced with Cody Simpson to " Stupid " by Ashnikko ?
Did you know that the Fatimid Caliphate prepared their conquest of Egypt in 969 through a long and patient propaganda effort, resulting in it being swift and almost unopposed?
Did you know that computer scientist Odest Chadwicke Jenkins taught a robot to do the Cabbage Patch by demonstrating the dance?
Did you know that due to Spanish singer Melody 's three-year disappearance from the public eye, she was rumoured to be dead?
Did you know that the director of a 2018 documentary uncovered evidence of FBI surveillance of Arab-American families in her hometown outside Chicago?
Did you know that TMNT Shellraiser , the world's steepest roller coaster, beat the previous record holder by half a degree?
Did you know that German SS commander and convicted war criminal Kurt Meyer falsely claimed that the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre was the only war crime that SS troops ever committed?
Did you know that the Field Music album Plumb was nominated for the 2012 Mercury Prize , even though the band thought that their odds were "minimal to nil"?
Did you know that Lu Youquan 's book on Piaget's theory of cognitive development won a national education award in China?
Did you know that pygmy Ota Benga was moved to the Howard Colored Orphan Asylum after people objected to him being shown in the Bronx Zoo ?
Did you know that Marco Streng 's Genesis Group has a bitcoin mine in Iceland?
Did you know that HMS Melpomene missed the Battle of Trafalgar , but arrived in time to tow away damaged enemy vessels?
Did you know that medical scholar Ronald Grossarth-Maticek directed a long-term study involving 30,000 people from 18,000 households, spanning more than 20 years?
Did you know that the songs on the Kabir Singh soundtrack album, including " Tujhe Kitna Chahne Lage " ('I have begun to really love you'), have been described as " saccharine rock"?
Did you know that Mexican drug lord María Antonieta Rodríguez Mata controlled a drug trafficking ring that extended across Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico, and the U.S.?
Did you know that in baseball , it is not against the rules to steal signs ?
Did you know that actor Ryan Reynolds has lent his voice to a garden snail, a caveman, and Pikachu ?
Did you know that the sale of WWIZ radio in Lorain, Ohio , undertaken in order to raise capital to build WXTV in Youngstown , prompted both stations to lose their licenses ?
Did you know that Polish courtier and writer Krzysztof Warszewicki was a respected orator who spoke at the funerals of Catherine, queen consort of Poland , and Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor ?
Did you know that the Concert Hall inside the BBC's Broadcasting House was pressed into service as a dormitory at the outbreak of World War II?
Did you know that Sally Milgrim designed the dress that Eleanor Roosevelt wore to her husband's first inaugural ball ?
Did you know that after laying its eggs on a leaf, the female mango leaf-cutting weevil severs the leaf near its base and lets it fall to the ground?
Did you know that the Jewish a cappella group Six13 sings traditional Hanukkah songs and prayers to music from Star Wars ?
Did you know that before entering journalism, G. Gould Lincoln was part of Thomas Edison 's team that looked for nickel in Canada?
Did you know that Michler's Palace , a townhouse destroyed in the Warsaw Uprising , is remembered for a wartime song named after it?
Did you know that Culley C. Carson III 's research has included treatments for Peyronie's disease , in which the penis curves when erect?