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Did you know that former American Boy Scout Joe Carroll was expelled from seminary before completing his education and being ordained?
Did you know that the African Society of Human Genetics was established so that more human genetics and genomics research could be done by African scientists in Africa?
Did you know that the St Helena Local Militia led the 1840 procession of Napoleon's body after its disinterment from his tomb on the island ?
Did you know that the McDonald's promotion campaign for the 1984 Olympic Games was given an unexpected boost by the Cold War?
Did you know that an entrance to one of the Villard Houses was turned into an exit because it was too close to a chapel of St. Patrick's Cathedral ?
Did you know that Hoagy Carmichael 's song  " Stardust " has been recorded more than 1,500 times?
Did you know that although the Germans boasted that they captured British radio traffic with ease, the Wireless Set Number 10 was so secure that they never even knew of its existence?
Did you know that after starting Los Angeles Spanish-language television station KVEA , a group led by Saul Steinberg bought other Spanish-language stations to form the Telemundo network?
Did you know that Murray Koster started for the Sharks rugby team against the British and Irish Lions, paired with Werner Kok?
Did you know that the church cantata Gelobet sei der Herr täglich (Praised be the Lord daily) by Philipp Heinrich Erlebach for four voices and strings is extant in a manuscript score from around 1710?
Did you know that Kevin Kopps reworked his pitching delivery based on how he played fetch with his dog?
Did you know that the construction of 666 Fifth Avenue involved cartoon decorations, a papier-mâché Santa Claus, and a 78-by-155-foot (24 by 47 m) American flag that ripped as it was being unfurled?
Did you know that Blanche Zacharie de Baralt was the University of Havana 's first woman philosophy graduate and the first person to translate Tagore 's poems into Spanish?
Did you know that the construction of WaHu Student Apartments was delayed for one year by Minneapolis 's initial rejection of a new location for the blood plasma donation center on the property?
Did you know that the fictional battle Operation Yashima, displayed in the Neon Genesis Evangelion episode "Rei II" , inspired a real unofficial campaign in Japan to conserve electricity after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami ?
Did you know that the small Pacific island nation of Tonga, represented by its satellite company Tongasat , claimed nine percent of all viable satellite orbits and became the sixth-largest holder of those orbits?
Did you know that Ralph Fisher bought enslaved people with brass ?
Did you know that psychologist Janis Sanchez-Hucles was only the second person of color to earn a PhD in psychology from the University of North Carolina ?
Did you know that the Pomme d'Or Hotel was used as the Nazi naval headquarters during the occupation of Jersey, and the Union Jack is raised on the hotel balcony every year to celebrate Jersey's liberation?
Did you know that Philip Kreyenbroek taught Iranian studies at the University of Göttingen due to his interest in Yazidi traditions and the fact that about half of the Yazidi diaspora lived in Germany at the time?
Did you know that Lynde Shores Conservation Area is an important resting point for shorebirds and waterfowl migrating along Lake Ontario ?
Did you know that Buffalo, New York , was a terminus on the Underground Railroad ?
Did you know that Tatjana Gamerith and her husband, married for 60 years despite an age difference of 20 years, were awarded a prize for their work to combine art and nature?
Did you know that in June 2021, scientists described " Dragon Man ", a member of a new species of archaic human that lived at least 146,000 years ago on the Northeast China Plain ?
Did you know that George Curtis played football for a Royal Air Force base during his time as a Coventry City player, but he "scarcely broke sweat"?
Did you know that James Benning 's 1995 experimental documentary film Deseret chronicles 140 years of the history of Utah by way of 93 New York Times excerpts?
Did you know that the heavy metal musician Leah has sometimes been called "the metal Enya "?
Did you know that Indian doctor Nasarvanji Hormusji Choksy , who worked to improve public health, contracted bubonic plague three times?
Did you know that, in a 2018 survey of 38 news organizations, the Palmer Report was ranked the fourth-least trusted news organization by Americans?
Did you know that the newly founded Family First Party has access to the former Family First Party 's database of 6,000 supporters, according to The Australian ?
Did you know that the Merchant was the first iron-hulled merchant ship built on the Great Lakes ?
Did you know that Olympic baseball player Édgar Arredondo set a record for the youngest debut in the Mexican League ?
Did you know that in exchange for building its New York City headquarters , Goldman Sachs received $1.65 billion in bonds and $115 million in tax breaks?
Did you know that the video game Omori came out in December 2020, instead of its initial projected release date of May 2015?
Did you know that historian Norman K. Risjord worked in counter-intelligence in Berlin before he obtained his PhD and pursued a career in American history?
Did you know that in Inferno , an opera by Lucia Ronchetti premiered in 2021 at the Oper Frankfurt , the main character Dante has a speaking voice and an inner voice of four male singers?
Did you know that the Tampa Bay area of Florida is known as the "capital of death metal" due to the number of bands within the Florida death metal scene which hail from there?
Did you know that Colonel Dyck served in the Rhodesian and Zimbabwean armies before fighting as a mercenary in Mozambique in 2021 aged 77?
Did you know that in the early 2000s, the only settlement in East Timor with 24-hour electricity was its capital city Dili ?
Did you know that the frequently plagiarized poems " Candidate for a Pullet Surprise " and " A Grandchild's Guide to Using Grandpa's Computer " are often cited in discussions of internet publishing ethics?
Did you know that the Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind divided into two factions in March 2008 due to differences between Arshad Madani and his nephew Mahmood Madani ?
Did you know that Kris Kristofferson 's debut album, Kristofferson , was reissued with the title Me and Bobby McGee following the success of Janis Joplin 's version of the song ?
Did you know that Czech television reporter and author Vladimír Škutina was arrested and imprisoned twice for his use of political satire ?
Did you know that during neo-Nazi David Duke 's presidential campaign he was convicted, yelled at Jack Kemp , won a vice-presidential primary, switched parties, and had two running mates?
Did you know that Muhammad Ali Mungeri was the prime founder of Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama , a major Islamic seminary in India?
Did you know that the neofolk album The Lone Furrow features several guest vocalists from heavy metal bands, and critics thought it might appeal to fans of that genre?
Did you know that a book detailing the short life of Indian actress Meena Kumari was published just seven months after her death in 1972?
Did you know that rhythmic gymnast Isabelle Connor is the first UC Santa Cruz student to compete at the Olympics ?
Did you know that the Black Sea seaside resort of Karaburun features a lighthouse built in 1860 with decorative lion heads around its original copper dome?
Did you know that a cartoonist founded the Jim Thorpe Trophy that was awarded annually to the most valuable player of the National Football League ?
Did you know that Leeds industrialist William Gott was charged with nuisance when his factory's steam engine produced "noisome and unwholesome smokes and vapours"?
Did you know that Danish dairy farmer Hanne Nielsen created a Tilsit cheese for King Christian IX of Denmark ?
Did you know that South Carolina radio station WBAW received a Peabody Award for public-service programming just six months after signing on the air?
Did you know that Jack G. Downing , the only person to serve as CIA station chief in Moscow and Beijing, "read Chinese poetry for kicks"?
Did you know that according to campus legend, the English Building at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is haunted by the ghost of a female student who drowned in the building's pool?
Did you know that Andreas Schnider , a theologian and local Austrian People's Party leader from Graz, holds a leading role in Austria's teacher training ?
Did you know that the range of freshwater snail Beddomeia waterhouseae consists merely of a small tributary in Tasmania?
Did you know that at the time the post was abolished, the prime minister of Zambia was being paid less than his secretary?
Did you know that the title of the album Red by Taylor Swift refers to the tumultuous "red" emotions that were evoked from an unhealthy romance she was experiencing during the album's conception?
Did you know that Donald R. Morris wrote most of The Washing of the Spears , his history of the Anglo-Zulu War , during a five-year CIA posting to Berlin at the time of the construction of the Berlin Wall ?
Did you know that the equipment situation for the National Pacification Army was so poor that some soldiers were armed with spears instead of guns?
Did you know that British modern pentathlete Jo Muir qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics despite missing the last qualification event due to COVID-19 –related travel restrictions?
Did you know that the short-lived Socialist Soviet Republic of Lithuania and Belorussia had a Yiddish-language state theatre?
Did you know that Fallout was considered a risky project by developer Interplay Entertainment and was threatened with cancellation three times?
Did you know that KICU-TV in Visalia, California , claimed to be the most powerful TV station west of the Mississippi River after a transmitter upgrade—and closed for good two years later?
Did you know that Eliza Kennedy Smith 's investigations of municipal corruption in Pittsburgh led to the mayor 's arrest and imprisonment?
Did you know that West Germany won their second UEFA European Championship in three editions when they defeated Belgium in the UEFA Euro 1980 Final ?
Did you know that stamp collecting gave Johnny Van Haeften the eye for detail that is essential in dealing in old master Dutch paintings?
Did you know that author, poet and Arabian horse breeder Wilfrid Scawen Blunt chose to be buried without a coffin at his house, Newbuildings Place ?
Did you know that US Air Force general John W. White commanded the Iceland Defense Force ?
Did you know that the pulpit of St George's Church, Edinburgh , was 20 ft (6.1 m) tall?
Did you know that suffragette Lilian Staple Mead was the only female student ever at Adelaide's Prince Alfred College ?
Did you know that Surinamese country singer Lex Rijger was originally a basketball player?
Did you know that Intervilles is a French game show in which contestants can get gored by bulls?
Did you know that the conductor Im Won-sik is considered the "father of Korea's classical music world"?
Did you know that the book Sinews of Survival by Canadian ethnologist Betty Kobayashi Issenman was described on release as "a cardinal reference in the field"?
Did you know that PopCap Games aided in publishing Insaniquarium after the game became a finalist for the Independent Games Festival ?
Did you know that as a youth, Hartlepool United player Brad Walker would travel the 12-mile (19 km) round trip to the club on his bicycle?
Did you know that when a tree is a star , connecting its leaves in a cycle makes a wheel ?
Did you know that bluegrass musician Carroll Best is credited for developing a melodic three-finger banjo style that influenced Tony Trischka and Béla Fleck ?
Did you know that the British South Africa Police's Black Boots support unit were dubbed "terr hungry" for apparently enjoying killing suspected terrorists in Rhodesia?
Did you know that Eshmunazar I , the Phoenician king of Sidon , participated in the Neo-Babylonian campaigns against Egypt , where he seized stone sarcophagi belonging to members of the Egyptian elite?
Did you know that Regine Velasquez , a Filipino singer and actress, was the first Asian artist to stage a solo concert at the Carnegie Hall in New York City ?
Did you know that Tetris Holding won an injunction in 2012 to stop sales of a video game clone of their famed Tetris game?
Did you know that artist Roy Beddington illustrated three books with Irish author Stephen Gwynn and competed in the painting event at the 1948 Summer Olympics ?
Did you know that an inquiry from an engineering student led to the repair of a structural flaw at New York City's Citicorp Center ?
Did you know that at George Floyd 's funeral, a montage mistakenly included a photograph of the still-living former American football player George Floyd ?
Did you know that Crewe Alexandra finished last in the Football League eight times between 1894 and 1982, more than any other league club?
Did you know that Vikram Misri was the Indian ambassador to China during the 2020–2021 China–India skirmishes ?
Did you know that the intricate seal of Columbia University was the first instance in which both Greek and Latin appeared on a college or university seal?
Did you know that John Matthews 's pension was suspended because he was accused of leading a call for a theatre performance to play " Yankee Doodle " and " Hail, Columbia "?
Did you know that the Elazığ Girls' Institute was established in 1937 to assimilate "primitive" Kurdish girls by transforming them into "civilized" Turkish women?
Did you know that Alex Schaefer has never burned down a bank, despite all the evidence suggesting otherwise?
Did you know that the Cairo pentagonal tiling was a favorite pattern of M. C. Escher ?
Did you know that Hayat Bakshi Begum ruled the Golconda Sultanate as regent for her son Abdullah Qutb Shah ?
Did you know that the fungal pathogen Aschersonia aleyrodis can control silverleaf whitefly under greenhouse conditions?
Did you know that Silas Farley rejected a Harvard University full scholarship to pursue a career in ballet?
Did you know that the second volume of A Certain Magical Index was finished in only seventeen days?
Did you know that Franz Harnoncourt became CEO of the Kastner & Öhler department store in Graz after working for Karstadt and Marks & Spencer , and beginning as sales person and storage worker?
Did you know that Spain 's win in the UEFA Euro 2008 Final was the first of three successive major tournament victories?
Did you know that Marthe Yankurije , who dropped out of school during her fourth year of secondary school, competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics ?
Did you know that during its planning stages, 53 West 53rd Street in New York City was shortened by 200 feet (61 m) to reduce the visibility of the mechanical rooms?
Did you know that Indonesian comedian Yusran Effendi was personally awarded a place on an Islamic pilgrimage trip by president Suharto ?
Did you know that William Powell, the author of The Anarchist Cookbook , founded the nonprofit Next Frontier: Inclusion in atonement for writing the book?
Did you know that YouTuber Ghib Ojisan visited Yishun , a Singaporean town, expecting danger after reading of cats being slaughtered but instead found it "home to nice people and cute cats"?
Did you know that actor Joseph Holland was accidentally stabbed and seriously wounded by Orson Welles , wielding a steel knife, during a 1937 Broadway production of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar ?
Did you know that Jerome Robbins choreographed the ballet Andantino to music by Tchaikovsky , despite his lack of interest, because "you don't necessarily have to enjoy doing something for it to be good"?
Did you know that infectious diseases specialist Jameela Al Salman has supported the development of medical robots and called their use in Bahrain a "pioneering experiment"?
Did you know that despite being proclaimed Queen of Rhodesia , Elizabeth II refused to recognise the title?
Did you know that Princess Lucia was so unpopular ruling in the name of her teenage son Bohemond that he sought permission from the pope to come of age early?
Did you know that the album series Everywhere at the End of Time (2016–2019) by the Caretaker uses ballroom records to depict the stages of Alzheimer's disease ?
Did you know that Royal Navy officer George M'Kinley was blinded during a gun drill?
Did you know that CEO Marla Messing submitted the business plan for the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup two days before the birth of her first child?
Did you know that Gerold of Lausanne prohibited Catholic church services in Jerusalem in 1229?
Did you know that after drinking five glasses of "purging" mineral water from the Physic Well on Barnet Common , Samuel Pepys had to break his journey back to London seven or eight times to relieve himself?
Did you know that architect Van Dorn Hooker , who served in the USAAF , was a cartoonist for Army news publications, and painted aircraft nose art ?
Did you know that New York City's Hotel Knickerbocker closed after fourteen years of operation and did not reopen for nearly a century?
Did you know that Bourton-on-the-Water model village contains a scale model of a model of a model of a model village?
Did you know that Yasunori Oshima served as the hitting coach for the Japan national baseball team that won the inaugural World Baseball Classic in 2006 ?
Did you know that although " Chi Mat Ba Ram ", the title of the song by Brave Girls , translates to "the swish of a skirt" in Korean, a term that is often used negatively, the song is about the fierceness in women?
Did you know that Nicaraguan cartoonist Pedro X. Molina has had to flee his home country twice in his lifetime?
Did you know that the Police Anti-Terrorist Unit joined Rhodesian military operations in police uniform and were only issued camouflage after a soldier hesitated because a target wore the same colour trousers?
Did you know that Alvin Bragg has overseen lawsuits against the Donald J. Trump Foundation , Harvey Weinstein , and The Weinstein Company , and represented the families of Eric Garner and Ramarley Graham ?
Did you know that the lap steel guitar was the first "foreign" musical instrument to gain a foothold in American pop music?
Did you know that during the War of the Lombards , fighting was interrupted so that the corpse of the besieged Queen Alice could be handed over to her husband , who had never seen her alive?
Did you know that the 1911 fire at the New York State Capitol destroyed over 700,000 items held by the New York State Library , creating a "hole in [New York's] cultural heritage"?
Did you know that a 15-year-old boy died after falling from the top of a 142-foot high (43 m) mast ?
Did you know that Richard McGeagh did not receive a gold medal, even though he set an Olympic record in the 4×100 metre medley relay at the 1964 Olympics ?
Did you know that the winner of the men's race at the 2004 London Marathon fell during the race on cobblestones ?
Did you know that Saul Soliz was known as "the godfather of Texas MMA "?
Did you know that the Morowali Industrial Park is the largest center of nickel industry in Indonesia , the world's top nickel producer?
Did you know that Dinah John was one of an estimated fifteen Native American women from New York state to serve in the War of 1812 ?
Did you know that the defendants in the Racism-Turanism trials between 1944 and 1947 were absolved because racism was not contrary to the Turkish constitution?
Did you know that civil rights activist Bob Zellner was arrested at least 25 times and severely beaten on several occasions for his activism?
Did you know that Queen Elizabeth II sat for Ben Enwonwu on twelve occasions as he created his sculpture of her ?
Did you know that Jay-Z was re-added to " Jail " by Kanye West after initially being replaced with DaBaby ?
Did you know that Jan Hecker influenced the foreign policy of Angela Merkel ?
Did you know that the 1992 championship of Vince McMahon 's World Bodybuilding Federation consisted of "two of the silliest hours in the history of live sports"?
Did you know that "why" is the only lyric of " Why "?
Did you know that while The Gods from Outer Space has eight volumes, only four were published in English?
Did you know that rebel leader and later Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni had to walk 19 kilometres (12 mi) and borrow a car before the Battle of Kabamba because his pickup truck had broken down?
Did you know that Lori Gramlich , a survivor of sexual abuse in her childhood, introduced legislation that made it easier for sexual abuse survivors in Maine to file civil lawsuits against their abusers?
Did you know that the crane shots at the end of the opening sequence for the WandaVision episode " On a Very Special Episode... " were added as an homage to Full House ?
Did you know that all 256 places at the 2021 U.S. Open Pool Championship were filled within 10 hours?
Did you know that Turkey's Anadolu Shipyard signed a contract with India's Hindustan Shipyard to transfer technology for the building of five fleet support ships for the Indian Navy ?
Did you know that in their book about molybdenum , American chemists Arthur Linz and David H. Killeffer complained that previous works included the true and the false, the probable and the fantastic?
Did you know that when acting in HBO television series Big Little Lies , Darby Camp received suggestions from Reese Witherspoon , who plays her onscreen mother?
Did you know that Dorans Lane in Liverpool is named after Felix Doran , who "seems to cling ghost-like to the area"?
Did you know that 80 acres (32 ha) of Hog Island were farmland in 1923, but only 15 acres (6 ha) were above water in 1974?
Did you know that Impa is one of the oldest characters in Nintendo 's The Legend of Zelda series?
Did you know that the WandaVision episode " We Interrupt This Program " was pitched like an episode of CSI , deviating from the sitcom genre of preceding episodes?
Did you know that Royal Navy officer John Wells managed to escape the Nore mutiny through a gun port in his ship, returning later to accept the mutineers' surrender?
Did you know that during Tag des offenen Denkmals , Germany's largest annual cultural event, thousands of historic monuments are opened for free?
Did you know that Eric Berger wrote about weather for the Houston Chronicle even before he became a certified meteorologist?
Did you know that Poles who fought in the Russian Partition during the January Uprising were detained as political prisoners in Magdeburg and Graudenz , Prussia , even though the uprising never crossed the border?
Did you know that Haripriya Banoth is the youngest member of the Telangana Legislative Assembly ?
Did you know that Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany wore comic-book-accurate Scarlet Witch and Vision Halloween costumes in the WandaVision episode " All-New Halloween Spooktacular! "?
Did you know that research for the Cambridge Greek Lexicon was planned to last five years but was only completed after twenty-three?
Did you know that Faith No More 's " Digging the Grave " was featured on both Beavis and Butt-Head and Top of the Pops ?
Did you know that Lydia Wevers was the first scholar to write about the history of short stories in New Zealand?
Did you know that each of the three times Fox Island exploded, shockwaves could be felt dozens of miles away?
Did you know that Anna Apostolaki , the first Greek woman to work as a professional archaeologist, was also a feminist educator who promoted women's traditional crafts?
Did you know that the social golfer problem is used to assign groups in classrooms to maximize student interaction?
Did you know that sportswriter Matt Zabitka started his career at the age of 13?
Did you know that playwright Carol K. Mack wrote the thriller novel The Chameleon Variant in 1980 with Rutgers University biologist David Ehrenfeld ?
Did you know that Tlalli will replace a monument to Christopher Columbus , not to "erase history", but to "deliver social justice"?
Did you know that the music for the video game Rings of Power was composed by a first-year medical student?