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Did you know that the 2005 documentary The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till , about African-American teenager Emmett Till 's murder in 1955 for whistling at a white woman, contributed to the case being reopened?
Did you know that some protesters in the 2021 London Impossible Rebellion dressed as bankers with blood on their hands?
Did you know that after Viola Roseboro' suggested Willa Cather rewrite My Ántonia completely, Cather may have based the novel My Mortal Enemy on her?
Did you know that a Socialist Youth League candidate in the 1990 Bosnian general election registered his ethnicity as ' Eskimo ' as an apparent protest against ethnic registry requirements for candidates?
Did you know that the protest initiative Omas gegen Rechts (Grannies against the Right) was awarded a prize for civil courage by the Central Council of Jews in Germany ?
Did you know that Mary V. R. Thayer was briefly arrested on suspicion of spying after abandoning a 1929 business trip in the Soviet Union to explore the Caucasus ?
Did you know that the fungal infection conidiobolomycosis mainly affects people living in tropical areas but was first reported in horses in Texas?
Did you know that racing driver James Sofronas worked as a salesman for a technology company to buy the Nissan NX 2000 required for his first competitive race?
Did you know that a track on Maxïmo Park 's album Nature Always Wins is about Nick Alexander, the band's former merchandiser who was killed in the Bataclan concert hall attack ?
Did you know that Alfred Koerppen , who taught music theory and composition at the Musikhochschule Hannover , wrote the text and music of a 1951 opera after Virgil ?
Did you know that the Silver Deer of Bilge Khan , a 7th-century artifact, is recognized by the Mongolian government as being of "invaluable heritage"?
Did you know that the Torreya Guardians are trying to save the critically endangered North American conifer Torreya taxifolia from extinction?
Did you know that Paraguay made its Paralympic debut at the 2020 Summer Paralympics ?
Did you know that in the upcoming video game Marvel's Midnight Suns , players will be able to create their own superhero in the Marvel Universe ?
Did you know that Jonathan Carr 's 342 bankruptcy petitions set a record?
Did you know that the WHO model list of essential in vitro diagnostics provides guidance to medical personnel on which tests to perform?
Did you know that Samuel Powel Griffitts was advised to take three months of dancing lessons as part of his European medical training?
Did you know that Thomas Fairfax , Lord General of the New Model Army , resigned his commission rather than invade Scotland in 1650 ?
Did you know that Brijmohan Lall Munjal grew Hero Cycles from a parts manufacturer into the world's largest bicycle company?
Did you know that Aaron Pike has competed in wheelchair racing at three Summer Paralympics , and in both biathlon and cross-country skiing at two Winter Paralympics ?
Did you know that the opening of Geistliches Lied by Johannes Brahms possibly references Clara Schumann 's fantasy of playing her husband 's music on the organ ?
Did you know that Horace Harral engraved "one of the most famous photographs of the nineteenth century", a portrait of Isambard Kingdom Brunel , for publication in the Illustrated Times ?
Did you know that bishop Nikolaj Velimirović called Sevastijan Dabović the greatest Serbian missionary of modern times?
Did you know that the counting-out rhyme " One potato, two potato " is more than 135 years old?
Did you know that thousands of people who fled Burundi have taken refuge in Rwanda's Mahama Refugee Camp , but only one has competed in the Paralympics ?
Did you know that American Ken Whitlock played football in Canada because of segregation in the United States?
Did you know that Germany 's players sang " Three Lions " after winning the UEFA Euro 1996 Final ?
Did you know that Naoki Saito is a contributing artist of both the Duel Masters Trading Card Game and the Pokémon Trading Card Game ?
Did you know that the Global Action Fund for Fungal Infections calculates that every year, severe fungal infections affect more than 300 million people?
Did you know that Martin Perscheid published more than 4,300 cartoons, exploring "abysses of sexism, racism, ignorance, corruption and stupidity"?
Did you know that the Huanaki Cultural Centre & Museum was destroyed by a cyclone ?
Did you know that one of the first activities of The Coloured Women's Club of Montreal was to help veterans returning from the Second Boer War in South Africa?
Did you know that the director of the horror film Camera Obscura was inspired to write the screenplay after one of his co-workers was not allowed to take pictures in South America due to locals believing "it would steal their souls"?
Did you know that Harry Kent managed his family's garden nursery after winning New Zealand's first Commonwealth Games gold medal in cycling and first world track championships medal?
Did you know that to rebuild the collection of Tāoga Niue Museum in the aftermath of Cyclone Heta , staff searched through rubbish dumps for historic items?
Did you know that Paul Armin Edelmann appeared in the title role of Mozart's Don Giovanni at Opera Ireland in 2009, while his brother Peter took the role of Leporello?
Did you know that a separated couple competed against each other for the first time at the 2021 British Open ?
Did you know that Gian Marco 's Días Nuevos , the best-selling album of 2011 in Perú, was the first quintuple platinum awarded by Unión Peruana de Productores Fonográficos ?
Did you know that the now-closed Dinosaur Wildlife museum exhibited three fox squirrels posed to fight in a boxing ring?
Did you know that taking St John's wort can weaken the effects of the blood thinner phenprocoumon ?
Did you know that Belarusian activist Vitaly Shishov , the head of an organisation helping people escape repression following the 2020–2021 Belarusian protests , was aware of risks to his life before he was found dead?
Did you know that both finalists at the 2008 World Snooker Championship made maximum breaks during the tournament?
Did you know that when the sea cucumber Holothuria hilla reproduces by fission , the regenerated part is often paler in colour than the original one?
Did you know that IMF economist Tobias Adrian helped devise CoVaR, a method used to stress-test banks after the Great Recession ?
Did you know that in 1999 two necklaces were repatriated to the Cook Islands National Museum from a museum in Angus, Scotland ?
Did you know that Joachim Werzlau composed the music for the DEFA films Naked Among Wolves and Jacob the Liar ?
Did you know that the name of the robot Jet Alone, which first appeared in the Neon Genesis Evangelion episode " A Human Work ", is a reference to Jet Jaguar (also known as Red Alone) from Godzilla vs. Megalon ?
Did you know that Franc Pinter , a para-shooter from Slovenia, competes at his eighth Summer Paralympic Games in Tokyo?
Did you know that Singapore's Nicoll Highway MRT station had to be relocated as a result of a 2004 tunnel collapse near the station?
Did you know that when Texas radio station KNUE was sold to another station in 1982, the new owners added a second story to their newly constructed studios to accommodate the addition?
Did you know that more than 400 millimetres (16 in) of rain was recorded in northern Turkey on 11 August 2021, causing catastrophic flooding ?
Did you know that Fatykha Aitova agreed to marry her husband on the condition that he help her construct a school?
Did you know that In the Ditch (1972) is based on the experiences of writer Buchi Emecheta , and deals with the systemic violence faced by working-class women in Britain at the time?
Did you know that Sjerstin Vermeulen has won Paralympic medals in swimming and equestrian ?
Did you know that the sea urchin Echinocyamus pusillus turns bright green when injured?
Did you know that Tory MP John Solomon Cartwright refused a request by the governor-general of the Province of Canada to join the government, because he would not sit in Cabinet with radical Francis Hincks ?
Did you know that New Zealand opera singer Helen Medlyn 's first performing role was as one of the Three Kings ?
Did you know that France won the UEFA Euro 2000 Final with a golden goal ?
Did you know that Evelyn van Leeuwen won a wheelchair basketball silver medal at the 1996 Paralympics and twenty years later she won a bronze at the 2016 Games ?
Did you know that the New York Times bestseller Fablehaven was written by Brandon Mull following the rejection of his first manuscript?
Did you know that the slave trader William James left for his country retreat before rioting sailors ransacked his home?
Did you know that the architect of 275 Madison Avenue did not include much exterior decoration because he wanted the building to be "shadow-less"?
Did you know that Joseph Stalin 's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva fell in love with Brajesh Singh , whom she considered her husband although they were never allowed to marry?
Did you know that the comb jelly Beroe gracilis feeds on other comb jellies , swallowing them whole?
Did you know that Meme Man is used in many surreal memes , a genre of internet humor inspired by surrealism ?
Did you know that Klaus Storck recorded Schubert's Arpeggione Sonata on original instruments, with Alfons Kontarsky at the hammerflügel ?
Did you know that the vast majority of fiction, including science fiction, takes place on Earth ?
Did you know that German paracyclist Bernd Jeffré may have lost his 2010 Berlin Marathon race because he ignored his wife and did not wear enough clothes?
Did you know that medieval Ethiopian kings claimed to be descended from Solomon ?
Did you know that ice hockey coach Dave Siciliano designed his team's dressing room so that players could "look [their] teammates directly in the eye"?
Did you know that some philosophers of mathematics believe that the life cycle of a species of cicadas is a good argument for the existence of numbers ?
Did you know that Julie Schmit-Albin was awarded the title of Admiral in the Great Navy of the State of Nebraska for her work as a pro-life activist?
Did you know that championship belt designer Reggie Parks , whose work was used by WWE , UFC , and Madonna , was the first wrestling opponent of future NWA Worlds Heavyweight Champion Dusty Rhodes ?
Did you know that the 2020 documentary film Gather , which explores Native American efforts for food sovereignty and reclamation of ancestral foodways , was named a Critic's Pick by The New York Times ?
Did you know that Chen Wenxin discovered that planting legumes and grasses together can increase yield?
Did you know that radio station KWKC dropped its application for a TV station in order to speed the arrival of television to Abilene, Texas , which would otherwise have been 89th in line?
Did you know that Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott , a motet by Telemann , was performed and recorded in 2017 to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the Reformation ?
Did you know that the Initial IMO Strategy on the reduction of GHG emissions from ships envisions the elimination of greenhouse gas emissions from maritime transport by the end of the century?
Did you know that Elaine Estes , the first African American director of the Des Moines Public Library , holds a patent on her parents' barbecue sauce?
Did you know that during her early career, ballerina Indiana Woodward danced the lead role in La Sylphide , replacing an injured dancer?
Did you know that the Guns N' Roses debut studio album Appetite for Destruction was recorded at a recording studio founded by 1970s pop duo Captain & Tennille ?
Did you know that a 1997 whooping cough outbreak in part led to the establishment of the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance in Australia?
Did you know that Jacob Wohl was banned for life by the National Futures Association when he was only 19 years old?
Did you know that the Myanmar Coast Guard was initially proposed as a civilian law enforcement agency before being established as a branch of the military three years later?
Did you know that after watching Matilda the Musical , Mattea Conforti complained that she could have starred in the title role?
Did you know that Keith Moon was briefly banned from the Tramp nightclub for destroying a chandelier?
Did you know that Greg Dulcich is a former walk-on whose first touchdown with UCLA was about three miles (4.8 km) from his high school?
Did you know that Sama Jaya Free Industrial Zone houses the first semiconductor fabrication plant in Borneo ?
Did you know that CCH Pounder , who guest starred in The West Wing 's " Celestial Navigation ", was almost selected for the main role of C. J. Cregg ?
Did you know that addressing poverty is an important factor in achieving tuberculosis elimination ?
Did you know that Angela Diaz was accepted into Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons despite not taking the standard medical school exams or paying the $15 application fee?
Did you know that Kaczyzm is a pejorative term describing the political ideology of Polish politicians Lech and Jarosław Kaczyński and their Law and Justice party?
Did you know that the lions supporting the coat of arms of the Football Association are half-blue and half-white in imitation of the blue shorts and white shirts worn by the national teams?
Did you know that Castle Recording Laboratory , Nashville 's first commercial recording studio, was established in a repurposed hotel banquet room?
Did you know that Max Wallraf replaced Paul Löbe as President of the Reichstag for a few months in 1924–25 ?
Did you know that Robin Stern 's book The Gaslight Effect describes gaslighting as an epidemic?
Did you know that according to legend, the god of wisdom Odin was tricked by his own wife, and her priestess Gambara , to give victory to Gambara's tribe?
Did you know that the Statutes Fair in Burton upon Trent has been held annually since 1219?
Did you know that Ralph Page once called a contra dance for more than 4000 people in Tokyo, despite not knowing Japanese?
Did you know that when La Folia Barockorchester made the first recordings of anonymous violin concertos found in the Dresden Hofkirche , they chose not to discover the identity of the composers?
Did you know that in 1943, the United States Army conducted a large-scale battle near Stauffer, Oregon , as part of the Oregon Maneuver training exercise preparing troops for combat in World War II?
Did you know that Susan Chitty 's memoir on her mother, Antonia White , was viewed as a "literary assassination" when published?
Did you know that the small tree Homalanthus nutans is a pioneer species , readily colonising disturbed ground?
Did you know that Arkansas legislator Denise Jones Ennett took part in a Black Lives Matter protest in front of the Arkansas State Capitol ?
Did you know that an Australian state premier said he would be taking a spear to meetings on a tax-distribution dispute ?
Did you know that interest in meme stocks has given rise to what the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has called a "meme stocks phenomenon"?
Did you know that Zeb Noland was named the starting quarterback for the South Carolina Gamecocks despite being on the coaching staff?
Did you know that A Passage North , which is shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize , is set in the aftermath of the Sri Lankan Civil War ?
Did you know that Eberhard Panitz wrote his novel, My Father's Tram , with autobiographic elements around his father—a tram conductor in Dresden?
Did you know that Digital pulled their HiNote Ultra laptop out of a manila envelope on television nearly 15 years before Apple did the same?
Did you know that pollen study was needed to clarify the identity of a Dipteronia brownii fossil?
Did you know that a tenant of the Bryant Park Studios once tried to evict their landlord from the building's top floor?
Did you know that the 12th-century Lismore Crozier was rediscovered, along with the 15th-century Book of Lismore , in a concealed doorway in Ireland's Lismore Castle in 1814?
Did you know that a 1999 self-portrait made by William Utermohlen while suffering from Alzheimer's disease took nearly two years to complete?
Did you know that the liana Ancistrocladus korupensis contains a substance able to inhibit HIV viral replication?
Did you know that a brief in Lum v. Rice was so badly written that Justice Louis Brandeis asked Felix Frankfurter to find a lawyer whom the Supreme Court could appoint to argue the Lums' case?
Did you know that the 1981 execution of Werner Teske was the final use of the death penalty in Germany ?
Did you know that when Jean Kekedo was made a Dame of the Order of the British Empire in 2020 she became the third woman in her family to receive this honour, after her mother Dame Mary Kekedo and her sister Dame Rose Kekedo ?
Did you know that when Dan Quayle announced his 2000 presidential campaign , Larry King congratulated him by telling him "you're not a joke like you once were"?
Did you know that the early Germanic priestess Ganna may have been named for her magic staff ?
Did you know that 125 years after the Seventh Circuit referred Graver v. Faurot to the Supreme Court to decide whether United States v. Throckmorton or Marshall v. Holmes controlled, the question is still open?
Did you know that a Chinese corruption investigation into Gao Yan has been interpreted as a political move against Li Peng , then second-in-command of the Communist Party of China ?
Did you know that a 1917 explosion broke the SS Fernebo in two, with one part drifting ashore carrying six survivors?
Did you know that Facebook's outage on October 4, 2021 , also cut off the company's internal communications, preventing employees from sending or receiving external emails or logging in to Zoom?
Did you know that Jackie Collins likened nightclub owner Johnny Gold , not unkindly, to "an old whore"?
Did you know that Singaporean activist Thum Ping Tjin called the Foreign Interference (Countermeasures) Act an attempted coup ?
Did you know that Kenneth Lawson , who was disbarred after dealing with addiction, teaches subjects including professional responsibility at the William S. Richardson School of Law ?
Did you know that Gladue courts, part of Ontario's court system , apply distinctive principles when sentencing Indigenous offenders?
Did you know that Singapore's Upper Thomson MRT station is decorated with 88 animal figures, most of which are crab-eating macaques ?
Did you know that Albert Einstein was hired as a technical expert during the gyrocompass patent dispute between Anschütz and Elmer Ambrose Sperry ?
Did you know that in 1929, the world press proclaimed Teleilat el Ghassul to be the biblical Sodom and Gomorrah , but Father Alexis Mallon , the site's excavator, disagreed?
Did you know that David Bowie wrote his 1971 track " Life on Mars? " as a parody of Frank Sinatra 's " My Way "?
Did you know that the platform shelters in the redevelopment concept design for Bayswater railway station, Perth , were criticised for looking like a trestle table ?
Did you know that when the Rhodesian Guard Force was disbanded in 1980, Brigadier Bill Godwin advised his men to fade away?
Did you know that inside a building, the desert subterranean termite can form free-standing tubes descending from the ceiling?
Did you know that cosmetologist Pauline Brown Humphrey opened a beauty shop for African-American women in the Women's Army Corps in Fort Des Moines?
Did you know that the Cathedral of Nocera Umbra probably rests on the foundations of a temple dedicated to the goddess Favonia ?
Did you know that watching Tacoma, Washington 's KTVW "used to be worse than no TV at all"?
Did you know that reconstruction of Nebraska 's Interstate 180 was disrupted by the discovery of nesting migratory birds?
Did you know that Johan Zulch de Villiers was the first mayor of Johannesburg until Johannesburg's surrender during the Second Boer War ?
Did you know that Life with Father was the first network television series originating in Hollywood that was broadcast in color?
Did you know that Māori fiction written in English, now a key part of New Zealand literature , only emerged in the 1950s?
Did you know that the Frente de Liberación Homosexual viewed all forms of oppression as interconnected, and believed that homosexuality was subversive because it challenged patriarchy ?
Did you know that reporter O. Kay Henderson , who has interviewed U.S. presidential candidates, is considered by national media to be an Iowa political authority?
Did you know that " The Supremes " was said to have foreseen the conflict following the death of Antonin Scalia , twelve years later?
Did you know that since the formation of the United Democratic Alliance , Nagaland has had no parliamentary opposition ?
Did you know that Azerbaijan has been a member of the Council of Europe , an organization promoting human rights, for more than twenty years, despite holding political prisoners and rigging elections?
Did you know that in Magic Desk I , the icons within the main screen for the phone, the calculator, the spreadsheet, and the Rolodex do nothing?
Did you know that the Temagami River in Ontario , Canada, is an outstanding water route with twenty sets of whitewater rapids rated CI to CIII?
Did you know that Times Square Tower and 5 Times Square , across the street from each other, were built for rival accounting firms during a redevelopment of New York City's Times Square ?
Did you know that rebel leader Sam Magara was killed when he ventured into a city to visit a dentist?
Did you know that within a year after the first Black Student Union was founded at San Francisco State College in March 1966, it had a presence at every state college in California?
Did you know that a flat in London's Basil Street was the scene of the first meetings that led to Monty Python's Flying Circus ?
Did you know that Australian religious sister Bridget Partridge fled her convent in 1920 dressed only in her nightgown, precipitating a national sectarian scandal?
Did you know that Philip Michael Thomas compared himself to Santa Claus upon releasing his album Living the Book of My Life ?
Did you know that Iggy Pop 's second studio album Lust for Life was written, recorded, and mixed in eight days?
Did you know that Olympic flagbearer Raed Ahmed defected after he saw Bill Clinton clapping?
Did you know that archaeologist Giuseppe Scarabelli made the only complete excavation of a Bronze Age village in Italy?
Did you know that M. Night Shyamalan's Old is based on a Swiss graphic novel that the filmmaker received as a Father's Day gift?
Did you know that two feet-one hand syndrome is the combination of two athlete's feet and fungus in one hand ?
Did you know that philosopher George Pitcher adopted a stray dog and her puppy that he took everywhere, including on a trip to France aboard the Queen Elizabeth 2 ?
Did you know that the Steel River , in Northern Ontario , Canada, is one of the few rivers along Lake Superior 's north shore never used for log drives ?
Did you know that the 1887 execution of George Flaxman may have inspired Rudyard Kipling 's poem " Danny Deever "?
Did you know that "every chapter" of the 1823 novel Seventy-Six is said to be "covered with blood, or heaving with the throes of lacerated flesh"?
Did you know that Fernhill House has been home to a butter merchant, an Ulster Volunteer Force armoury, a Grand National -winning racehorse and the world's largest collection of Orange Order memorabilia?
Did you know that 100 years after Mary Emily Sinclair wrote a master's thesis in mathematics on the discriminants of quintic polynomials , Helaman Ferguson based a sculpture on her work?
Did you know that the Tenantry Column was built by the tenants of the Duke of Northumberland as thanks for a rent reduction?
Did you know that the Iraqi paramilitary organisation Saraya Awliya al-Dam has a Telegram account?
Did you know that Sharri MacDonald was removed from the Old Orchard Beach City Council after a controversial 4–3 vote put the entire council up for recall?
Did you know that the Antlers ' 2021 album Green to Gold was made after lead singer Peter Silberman suffered temporary total hearing loss and lesions on his vocal cords?