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Did you know that Ferdinand Zellbell the Younger was the only co-founder of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music who was a professional musician?
Did you know that cattle and deer sometimes stand under trees where southern plains gray langurs are feeding in order to consume the edible pieces that the monkeys drop?
Did you know that a comedian was jailed for his negative video review of the 2019 Nepali romantic comedy Bir Bikram 2 ?
Did you know that the Battle of Mine Creek was one of the largest battles between mounted cavalry during the American Civil War ?
Did you know that Roald Dahl became an advocate of vaccination after his eldest daughter died from measles , saying that it was "almost a crime to allow your child to go unimmunized"?
Did you know that the New York City Subway's 7 train has been nicknamed the "International Express" due to the ethnic diversity of communities on its route?
Did you know that for the centenary of Stravinsky 's birth, Zoltán Peskó conducted three of the composer's stage works— The Flood , Renard , and Mavra —directed by Peter Ustinov at La Scala ?
Did you know that the book Do You Remember Kunan Poshpora? has been described as demonstrating the ability of Kashmiri women to tell their own story and resist oppression?
Did you know that after lying on the seafloor for nearly 100 years, the schooner Alvin Clark was noted as "the finest preserved historic vessel in the United States"?
Did you know that a 2006 German documentary attempted to answer the question " Do communists have better sex? "
Did you know that during World War II, Royal Air Force ace Thomas Wallace lost his commission but nonetheless joined the volunteer reserve , where he downed seven enemy aircraft in three weeks?
Did you know that the historic Modern Art Foundry operates in what used to be the carriage house of the Steinway Mansion in New York City?
Did you know that Lisa Piccirillo solved a half-century-old mathematics problem in less than a week during her free time in graduate school?
Did you know that members of the Infrastructure Client Group account for 40 per cent of all spending on infrastructure in the United Kingdom?
Did you know that food writer Vir Sanghvi called Indigo "one of the most important establishments in Indian restaurant history"?
Did you know that the Alpha Michigan Brewing Company describes its location as the "smallest village in America with a brewery"?
Did you know that Irish milliner Philip Treacy said of the controversy surrounding his "pretzel hat" for Princess Beatrice , "I thought I would find myself with my head on a spike outside the Tower of London"?
Did you know that although the people involved in the shooting of Ahmaud Arbery were immediately identified by police, arrests were only made 74 days later, after a video of the incident was publicized?
Did you know that the Open Ice Summit led to fundamental changes in how Canadian ice hockey players were trained?
Did you know that the first mayor of Mountlake Terrace, Washington , lent the city $5 to file its incorporation charter ?
Did you know that after an aeroplane hijacking , the Central Industrial Security Force was given the responsibility of securing airports in India?
Did you know that following its limited release in 1972, Cisco Pike was not available on home media until 2006?
Did you know that Yinka Jegede-Ekpe , the first Nigerian woman to go public with her HIV -positive status, later gave birth to a healthy, HIV-negative baby girl?
Did you know that the Equitable Life Building , once described as fireproof, was destroyed by a massive fire?
Did you know that 20-year-old Alejandro Cruz won the 1988 Chicago Marathon after being selected as an emergency replacement for Mauricio González ?
Did you know that the American merchant ship Herald served in the U.S. Navy against France before becoming a French privateer , was sold to Britain as a slaver , and ended her days as a West Indiaman ?
Did you know that the documentary Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness includes an appearance by Aleichem 's granddaughter Bel Kaufman , who was 100 years old at the time of filming?
Did you know that Nottingham Castle was set on fire during the 1831 reform riots ?
Did you know that Ludwig Strecker was both director of the Schott music publishing house, and under a pen name the librettist of two of the most successful German contemporary operas of the 1930s?
Did you know that the Medford branch had 21 daily round-trip passenger trains in 1906, but carried just a single carload of fish in 2010?
Did you know that the owner of Texas television station KFWT-TV questioned the use of a UNIVAC III computer to assign it a channel?
Did you know that Ken Nightingall , an uncredited boom operator on Star Wars , was not mentioned in the citation for his sound team's Academy Award , but was still invited to Buckingham Palace with the winners?
Did you know that the railway management building at Ankara Central Station , which served as a residence and headquarters for Mustafa Kemal Atatürk during the Turkish War of Independence , is now a museum?
Did you know that Sophia Kianni was the youngest activist at a hunger strike and sit-in at U.S. speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi 's office?
Did you know that the Vietnamese pop song " Ghen Cô Vy " was produced to educate people on how to avoid contracting COVID-19 ?
Did you know that Pakistani amateur chef and vlogger Mubashir Saddique cooks with farm-fresh ingredients, earthenware pots, and a hand-built earthenware oven?
Did you know that Bob Dylan 's line "horseplay and disease is killing me by degrees" in " Where Are You Tonight? (Journey Through Dark Heat) " has been called the sound of a man who has hit the wall?
Did you know that J. Hartwell Harrison was the first surgeon to subject a patient to a major operation that was not for their own benefit?
Did you know that during the 1990s, some British Army infantry battalions suffered such severe manpower shortages that they had to be reinforced by companies of Gurkhas ?
Did you know that production on the first season of The House of Flowers was shut down twice—after an earthquake injured one of the leads, and when a store objected to homosexual content being filmed there?
Did you know that the San Antonio Municipal Archives contain the architectural plans for the Alamo ?
Did you know that sportswriter Zotique Lespérance was not invited to his own induction ceremony by the Hockey Hall of Fame because they had been misinformed that he had died?
Did you know that D'Angelo spent several hours playtesting Red Dead Redemption 2 before being invited to write the song " Unshaken " for its original soundtrack ?
Did you know that during the COVID-19 pandemic , Polish police requested criminals to stop all criminal activities until further notice ?
Did you know that the grand marble staircase entrance to Sony Hall was restored in 2013, but painted to appear more dilapidated than it truly was?
Did you know that Joe Davis , champion from 1927 to 1946 , remains the only undefeated player at the World Snooker Championship ?
Did you know that medical supply company Prestige Ameritech offered to manufacture millions of N95 masks in January, but was rebuffed by the U.S. government?
Did you know that " Ye Choirs of New Jerusalem " has been described as the "only medieval resurrection hymn still widely sung"?
Did you know that the 1964 Elektron satellites, launched in pairs to simultaneously measure the upper and lower Van Allen belts , marked the first time multiple satellites were orbited on a single Soviet rocket?
Did you know that Maria Paasche helped Jews and intellectuals escape Nazi Germany by taking them to Prague on her motorcycle?
Did you know that American rapper 6ix9ine requested permission from a judge to record the music video for " Gooba " while under house arrest ?
Did you know that the 2019 romantic comedy Kabaddi Kabaddi Kabaddi set the record for the highest-grossing opening of a film in Nepal?
Did you know that Frédéric Passy was challenged to a duel over the 1901 Nobel Peace Prize ?
Did you know that in 1947, Canadian children staged a nationwide candy bar protest against an increase in the price of chocolate bars from five to eight cents?
Did you know that Ira L. Hanna , the 36th mayor of Cheyenne, Wyoming , served for only five months before being convicted for bribery?
Did you know that cloth face masks are considered source control but they are not considered personal protective equipment ?
Did you know that Vonda McIntyre's 1973 short story " Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand ", which won a Nebula Award , was used as the first chapter of her 1978 novel Dreamsnake , which also won a Nebula Award ?
Did you know that Hossein Kazempour Ardebili , Iran's former commerce minister and OPEC governor, once worked as a pizza delivery man in the U.S.?
Did you know that ant gardens are cultivated by several species of ant, including Crematogaster carinata ?
Did you know that Oasis frontman Noel Gallagher discovered a song to release while under lockdown , which his brother called "not worth a wank"?
Did you know that Sarah Fisher , the first woman to claim a pole position in American open-wheel racing , began competing at age five?
Did you know that the Welsh fiscal deficit was higher than Greece's throughout the Greek government-debt crisis ?
Did you know that the Canadian film I've Heard the Mermaids Singing was the second production screened at 1987 film festivals to have a title taken from T. S. Eliot 's poem " The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock "?
Did you know that U.S. president Donald Trump dismissed five inspectors general in the space of six weeks?
Did you know that in 1914, the Oxford historian L. G. Wickham Legg contributed to Why We Are at War: Great Britain's Case , then joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve ?
Did you know that American scholar of genocide Gregory Gordon believes that ordering war crimes or crimes against humanity should be criminalized, even if mass killing has not taken place?
Did you know that the opera Doktor Johannes Faust by Hermann Reutter , which was premiered by the Oper Frankfurt in 1936, is based on a puppet play?
Did you know that in the 1970s, Disney attempted to build a ski resort and mountain village at Independence Lake , a glacial lake high in California's Sierra Nevada mountains?
Did you know that Julie Sauvé has coached Canadian, Brazilian, and Singaporean synchronized-swimming teams?
Did you know that McDonald's lost over £20 million in its sale of The Aroma Cafe , the first non-American chain it had acquired to run as a separate brand?
Did you know that the veterinarian Janina Oyrzanowska-Poplewska , whose work led to the creation of the first Polish canine distemper vaccine, has been honored as a Righteous Among the Nations ?
Did you know that the world's largest building by volume is an airplane factory in Everett, Washington ?
Did you know that Pierre Schlumberger ran the family business , was a "visionary" art collector, and hosted guests including Audrey Hepburn , Yves Saint Laurent , Andy Warhol , and Rudolf Nureyev ?
Did you know that The Biafra Story by Frederick Forsyth was reportedly one of the earliest eyewitness accounts of the Nigerian Civil War ?
Did you know that Tracy R. Norris , the first female commander of the Texas Military Department , has masters degrees from Florida State University, the University of Texas, and the United States Army War College?
Did you know that London subsidized the rest of the UK by £38.6 billion in the 2016–17 fiscal year?
Did you know that J. Leo Hafen was excommunicated from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for being associated with a religious group practicing wife sacrifice?
Did you know that the banteng is the second endangered species to be successfully cloned , and the first clone to survive beyond infancy?
Did you know that Peter the Great experienced " a riotous and revelling Christmas " in London in 1697?
Did you know that Cyrano de Bergerac by Eino Tamberg was the first opera to be broadcast internationally from Estonia?
Did you know that American Atheists unsuccessfully sued the city of Austin, Texas , because they believed the city's flag violated the First Amendment ?
Did you know that according to Muslim sources, Muhammad IV of Granada was assassinated due to his alliance with Sultan Abu al-Hasan , while Christian sources say it was due to his closeness to King Alfonso XI ?
Did you know that My Name Is Han , a 1948 docudrama about Christian missionary work in China, was filmed on location near a war zone?
Did you know that the installation of a garbage-eating sculpture in Riverfront Park caused an uproar from goat farmers, concerned that it perpetuated the false stereotype that goats eat anything ?
Did you know that 414 Tank Battalion , a mixed Dutch-German military unit, has been described as a step towards a European army ?
Did you know that Oakland Athletics fans coined the chant "I believe in Stephen Vogt !", inspired by a similar U.S. men's national soccer team chant ?
Did you know that Keep was the most downloaded fitness app in China between July and September 2018, with 38.8 million downloads?
Did you know that the B46 has been called "the most dangerous bus route" in New York City?
Did you know that a monument in Moscow honoring North Vietnamese communist leader Ho Chi Minh has been nicknamed the "flying saucer monument" by locals?
Did you know that Julian Wylie , known as the King of Pantomime, "never took to drink, he took to ice-cream"?
Did you know that Florida radio station WEBY received three threats to blow it up if it did not stop criticizing the sheriff of Okaloosa County ?
Did you know that though formerly a vassal to the Mongol Empire , Eastern Xia was later destroyed by the Mongols because it rebelled against them?
Did you know that visual anthropologist David MacDougall won the Grand Prix at the Venice Film Festival for his first film, To Live With Herds , about Uganda's Jie people ?
Did you know that many of the animals regarded as pests have co-evolved with humans, adapting to the warm, sheltered conditions that a building provides?
Did you know that it took three years to construct a subway line to 86th Street in New York City, and another nine years to extend it by one stop to 95th Street ?
Did you know that Jeffrey Herf found that East Germany delivered 750,000 Kalashnikov rifles to countries and militants as part of what he calls " undeclared wars with Israel "?
Did you know that doctor Carl K. Becker responded to emergency calls in the Ituri Rainforest until the age of 70?
Did you know that after the 1973 Chilean coup d'état , Admiral José Toribio Merino described ousted President Salvador Allende 's GAP security force as "Disney-movie style ... kids playing bandits"?
Did you know that journalist James Edwin Baum hunted big game in Africa for the Field Museum of Natural History ?
Did you know that Nakano Broadway in Tokyo, founded as a luxury shopping complex in 1966, became a destination for anime and manga fans in the 1980s?
Did you know that first overall draft pick Nicolas Roy refused to play in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League unless his rights were traded to a Quebec team?
Did you know that the Pulitzer Prize–winning opera The Central Park Five includes a role for Donald Trump ?
Did you know that Ipsita Biswas led the team that developed less-lethal plastic bullets for crowd control in Jammu and Kashmir ?
Did you know that Black Cap Mountain can be seen from both Bangor, Maine , and the sea?
Did you know that TORPEDO, BATMAN, CASANOVA, ATLANTIS, and ISIS are all names of clinical trials ?
Did you know that Servaas Theron , a World War II fighter pilot, landed next to a stranded aircraft and siphoned fuel from his plane so that they could both fly away?
Did you know that in 2016, Scientific American listed one of Lynden Archer 's discoveries among their top-10 "world changing ideas" for that year?
Did you know that Tamil Nadu was the first state in India to use green corridors to expedite organ transplants ?
Did you know that between 1857 and the 1930s, a Russian gun captured during the Crimean War was displayed on the Hastings seafront near Pelham Arcade ?
Did you know that the Protestant Film Commission was founded partly in response to the sympathetic portrayal of Catholics in Hollywood films of the 1940s, while Protestants were played for laughs?
Did you know that the world's longest domestic flight , between Papeete , Tahiti, and Paris, France, a distance of 9,765 miles (15,715 km), came about because of the COVID-19 pandemic ?
Did you know that the Lincoln Legion of Lesbians , a lesbian separatist collective in Nebraska , tried to outlaw anti-gay discrimination in 1980?
Did you know that despite being a member of the cat family , the jaguarundi has several features in common with mustelids such as otters and weasels?
Did you know that American tenor Scot Weir sang Hans Zender 's contemporary version of Schubert's Die Winterreise with chamber orchestra in a performance of the Hamburg Ballet ?
Did you know that the Ospedale di San Carlo was the first Italian military hospital in Rome?
Did you know that gays and lesbians began using the pink triangle in the 1970s to counter "the vicious, influential myth" of a connection between Nazism and homosexuality ?
Did you know that the Cork band Five Go Down to the Sea? are widely credited for the often quirky and deadpan approach of Cork bands that followed in the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s?
Did you know that the day before a gas explosion on Staten Island killed 40 people, company officials described residents as "hysterical" for raising concerns about storing gas near residential areas?
Did you know that Shannon Hale gave her publisher the sequel novel Princess Academy: Palace of Stone instead of the sci-fi novel she had a contract to write?
Did you know that in 1324, Ismail I of Granada likely directed the first use of cannons in the Iberian Peninsula ?
Did you know that an extension of the New York City Subway to Broad Street station cost three times the normal price of construction at the time, due to its location in the Financial District ?
Did you know that the members of the bands Poppin'Party and Roselia are voice actresses in the BanG Dream! anime series who can play their characters' instruments in live concerts?
Did you know that a five-year-old boy, using paper and his mother's cigarette lighter , started a fire that consumed the transmitter of Florida radio station WEAR ?
Did you know that the origins of the modern hazmat suit can be traced to the use of PPE during the Manchurian plague of 1910–1911?
Did you know that a Court of Minstrels , led by a King of the Minstrels, regulated the trade of travelling musicians in parts of the medieval English Midlands ?
Did you know that stolen money was found at Newforge in what was believed to be an IRA plot to frame the Police Service of Northern Ireland?
Did you know that several hymns for Pentecost in different languages are based on the 9th-century " Veni Creator Spiritus " ("Come, Creator Spirit")?
Did you know that the City of Phoenix printed ballots on municipal water bills during a citywide vote for a logo for its new flag ?
Did you know that during the COVID-19 pandemic, Camille Combal hosted episodes of Qui veut gagner des millions ? – the French version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? – from his living room?
Did you know that on the day she began filming her first starring role in Ginger , nine-year-old Jane Withers received congratulatory bouquets from W. C. Fields and President Franklin D. Roosevelt ?
Did you know that Lim Ban Lim , Singapore's most wanted fugitive, stole at least $2.5 million in his career but was found with only $1.40 on him when he was killed by police?
Did you know that the City of Seattle was built in Philadelphia ?
Did you know that in response to the Hong Kong government refusing to close its border with mainland China to contain COVID-19 , Winnie Yu organized a labour strike among hospital workers in February 2020?
Did you know that the English and French translations of Kenjirō Tokutomi 's The Cuckoo all omit a key aspect of its most famous line?
Did you know that Sandra Perron , whom other Canadian Armed Forces officers viewed as a threat, was once interrogated and left in the snow for two hours without boots as part of a training exercise?
Did you know that archaeological finds at Danamandıra village in Istanbul Province , Turkey, date its settlement back to the Late Neolithic era?
Did you know that the myth of Czechoslovakia as "a welcoming and tolerant place for Jews" was exploited by Czechoslovak politicians?
Did you know that Emma Lamb was part of the Lancashire Women cricket team that in 2017 won both the Women's County Championship and the Counties Twenty20 competition?
Did you know that despite being illegal, jueteng is played by one out of every seven Filipinos?
Did you know that none of the 17 anchor projects put forward for recovery from the 2011 Christchurch earthquake in New Zealand have been delivered on time?
Did you know that Stuart Bergsma , a medical missionary in Ethiopia and India, connected speaking in tongues with emotional stress?
Did you know that the 1994 video game Kajko i Kokosz , the first based on the Polish comic book series of the same name , was not playtested , and the initial release had to be recalled and replaced?
Did you know that Sarah Chapone compares the legal situation of married women in 18th-century England to slavery in her legal treatise ?
Did you know that the J. N. Petit Library in Mumbai is considered to be one of the finest examples of Neo-Gothic architecture in the city?
Did you know that the transmitter used to start Nashville radio station WSIX was purchased in exchange for five barrels of oil?
Did you know that during the women's marathon at the 1983 World Championships in Athletics , one runner fell out of medal contention when she stopped for a toilet break?
Did you know that during the Congo Crisis , American Methodist bishop Newell Snow Booth was threatened at gunpoint by a soldier before being released by an officer who recognized him?
Did you know that in 1960, British AI researcher Donald Michie made a noughts-and-crosses-playing algorithm out of matchboxes?
Did you know that the English philanthropist Miss James has both a footpath and a footbridge named after her?
Did you know that the old church of St Sebastian in Qormi , Malta, was completed in 1890 but was not formally consecrated until 2019?
Did you know that Ty Dolla Sign 's song " Ego Death " is a "first-ever of its kind" 9D listening experience?
Did you know that Ba Than , a school teacher, wrote the Burmese history textbook used in many Burma high schools from the 1930s to 1950s?
Did you know that to demonstrate elevator safety in the Empire Building , eggs and light bulbs were loaded in a cab that was dropped past the third floor at 82 miles per hour (132 km/h), emerging undamaged?
Did you know that Iain Macintyre 's group was the first to show that the hormone calcitonin was produced by the thyroid gland?
Did you know that FCC chairman Ajit Pai has cited his hometown radio station, KLKC in Parsons, Kansas , in advocating for a revitalization of AM broadcasting ?
Did you know that in 1988, an enquiry confirmed Joe Collier and Aggrey Burke 's findings that racial and sexual discrimination operated in the selection of students at London medical schools?
Did you know that only three Confederate soldiers were killed at the Battle of Grand Gulf , but one of them was the commander of Fort Wade?
Did you know that a poem by Annie Rothwell was read to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Queen's University ?
Did you know that Seton Falls Park went from being one of New York City's best parks to one of its worst in the span of two years?
Did you know that Nerine Barrett , one of the few black women to have achieved international recognition as a classical pianist , first performed on Radio Jamaica for her third birthday?
Did you know that American endocrinologist Jacob Robbins studied the effects of nuclear fallout in Hiroshima , Nagasaki , and Chernobyl on the development of thyroid cancer ?
Did you know that City Developments Limited introduced the concept of show houses in 1965, and is believed to be the first company in Asia to do so?