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Did you know that 18-year-old Gerda Hofstätter was given a key to the city of Althofen after winning Austria's first European Pool Championship ?
Did you know that " The U.S. Air Force Blue " started as an advertising jingle for United States Air Force recruitment advertisements?
Did you know that the 6th-century Lakhmid ruler Amr ibn Hind was killed by the poet Amr ibn Kulthum after Hind's mother had insulted Kulthum's mother?
Did you know that in Cameroon, edible caterpillars are cultivated on dwarf red ironwood leaves?
Did you know that Thai chef Bo Songvisava was once asked by a visiting foreign chef about Thai food and realized she knew very little about it?
Did you know that Knut Nystedt wrote Immortal Bach as a scheme for many voices to sing the first line of Bach's " Komm, süßer Tod " simultaneously in different tempi , meeting on the last word meaning peace?
Did you know that Perla Farías has created telenovelas , such as Juana la virgen and La Reina del Sur , which avoid classic stereotypes?
Did you know that Christel Boom passed information about NATO exercises to East Germany for the Stasi ?
Did you know that " A Rugrats Kwanzaa " was one of the first mainstream television episodes to feature Kwanzaa ?
Did you know that the pianist Erik Werba , professor at the Wiener Musikakademie for four decades, is known as an accompanist of lieder singers?
Did you know that the Namib brush-tailed gerbil uses ultrasonic whistles and foot drumming to communicate?
Did you know that Hubert William Lewis was awarded the Victoria Cross after capturing three enemy soldiers and carrying an officer to safety despite being wounded twice?
Did you know that Deepak Fertilisers and Petrochemicals uses GPS to track its vehicles transporting ammonium nitrate , as the chemical has been used by Naxalites to create the explosive ANFO ?
Did you know that Chinese political scientist Wang Shaoguang views Western representative democracy as a failure?
Did you know that manhua artist Xia Da 's April Story was published in 2003 before she had even graduated college?
Did you know that by approving selinexor , the FDA overruled a panel of independent experts that had voted 8–5 against the anti-cancer drug?
Did you know that after John R. Allan died, seven complete or partly-finished unpublished novels were found in his effects?
Did you know that librettist Gerhard Müller and composer Georg Katzer wrote Antigone oder die Stadt in East Germany , but it premiered at the Komische Oper Berlin only after reunification ?
Did you know that footage of Ann Peterson diving was the first 1968 Summer Olympics coverage to be aired by ABC in the eastern United States?
Did you know that antelope grass can recover quickly after wildfires even in the middle of the dry season?
Did you know that pilot Walter Anderson and observer John Mitchell were hit by communist fire but landed, rescued two pilots, and took off with Mitchell on the wing and his fingers plugging their leaking tank?
Did you know that sumo wrestler Enhō Akira is 50 kilograms (110 lb) lighter, and 15 centimetres (6 in) shorter, than most of his top division opponents?
Did you know that U.S. Border Patrol agents reported that some migrant detainees at the U.S.–Mexico border in 2019 were housed in standing-room conditions for days or weeks?
Did you know that Arudji Kartawinata left the Masyumi Party and reformed the Indonesian Islamic Union Party in exchange for a cabinet post?
Did you know that the Sorana bean is grown in such small quantities and is in such demand that it commands prices six to ten times higher than those of other cannellini beans?
Did you know that in 1954, George Ian Scott became the first professor of ophthalmology in Edinburgh?
Did you know that the sea anemone Anemonia sulcata is known as ortiguilla in southern Spain, where it is a popular seafood?
Did you know that Turkish race walker Meryem Bekmez escaped the traditional social practice of child marriage for girls when her athletic abilities were discovered?
Did you know that Welsh international footballer Peyton Vincze discovered she was eligible to represent the nation only when a Welsh football club visited her town in the United States?
Did you know that the large leaves of Marantochloa purpurea are used for wrapping cola nuts to prevent them from becoming desiccated ?
Did you know that after William Tarrant was sacked from the civil service of British Hong Kong , he became a journalist and ran a 12-year-long vendetta that led to his imprisonment?
Did you know that according to the U.S. Supreme Court , Medicare payment levels count as "substantive legal standards"?
Did you know that the baritone Ernst Gerold Schramm was the voice of Christ for Karl Richter in Bach's St John Passion and St Matthew Passion ?
Did you know that in 1982, Brooks Resources , originally a subsidiary of the Brooks-Scanlon Lumber Company , donated 135 acres (55 ha) to help Donald Kerr establish the High Desert Museum near Bend, Oregon ?
Did you know that Sylvia Stoesser was called the "nasal chemist" because she could often identify the ingredients in an unknown laboratory mixture by smelling it?
Did you know that in 1979, fifteen-year-old Laura Michalek became the youngest athlete ever to win the Chicago Marathon ?
Did you know that woollen fabrics have been produced at the Knockando Woolmill since the 18th century?
Did you know that the score of the song "Sweet Little Woman o' Mine", composed by Floy Little Bartlett , was played in the 1925 silent film The Big Parade ?
Did you know that the crimson seedcracker has two morphs , large-billed and small-billed, but this trait is not related to sex, age, body size, or location?
Did you know that John Soothill gave "boy in the bubble syndrome" its formal name, severe combined immunodeficiency ?
Did you know that New York City's Eastern Parkway , built in the 1870s, is considered the world's first parkway designed for personal and recreational traffic while prohibiting commercial traffic?
Did you know that John Talbot White 's last nature column before his death described a mouse escaping a weasel by jumping over its back?
Did you know that in 2017, Australian rules footballer Tom Atkins laid 23 tackles in a Victorian Football League match, equalling the competition record?
Did you know that New Jersey high school radio station WHPH , itself shared between two schools, had to share time with another high school radio station ?
Did you know that Arswendo Atmowiloto wrote around 20 books while imprisoned?
Did you know that, following the 1925 London County Council election , the Labour Party became the official opposition on the council for the first time?
Did you know that Terry Dempsey 's songs reached number one in the United Kingdom, France, Canada, Australia, and his native South Africa?
Did you know that the captain of the SS Grampian intentionally rammed an iceberg head-on so as to avoid the Titanic 's fate?
Did you know that chef Asma Khan 's husband is not a fan of her food?
Did you know that Queens at Heart , which features four trans women in the mid-1960s, has been called both a documentary and an exploitation film ?
Did you know that Gavin Arneil is credited with the near-eradication of rickets in Glasgow?
Did you know that the actors from the television drama Jamie Johnson competed at the Gothia Cup international youth football tournament, reaching the quarter-finals?
Did you know that despite being described as a "weak candidate", Arvind Sawant defeated his nearest competitor by more than 120,000 votes to represent the Mumbai South constituency in the 2014 Indian general election ?
Did you know that the Monument to the Fighters of the Revolution incorporates Russia's first eternal flame ?
Did you know that Nicolas Joel , general manager of the Paris Opera from 2009 to 2014, directed Wagner's Ring in 1979 after having assisted Patrice Chéreau for the cycle's centenary ?
Did you know that in 1982, the King of Janow , son of the Queen of Poland , moved to California?
Did you know that President Gerald Ford delayed the signing ceremony for the 1974 Jackson–Vanik amendment because Mark E. Talisman 's wife was in labor?
Did you know that the only building in England designed by the artist Piet de Jong could be turned into a Wetherspoons ?
Did you know that German physician Wolf-Dieter Montag was the inaugural recipient of the Paul Loicq Award for contributions to international ice hockey?
Did you know that the Manhattan blackout of July 2019 occurred exactly 42 years after the New York City blackout of 1977 ?
Did you know that despite being the majority language in the Indonesian town of Belang before World War II, the Ponosakan language had only four fluent speakers left in 2014?
Did you know that Suzy Dietrich was part of the first women's team to finish an international-standard 24-hour motor race ?
Did you know that among the many uses of Erythrophleum ivorense and Lannea welwitschii , trees growing in Assagny National Park , are rope-making, canoe-building and to poison fish?
Did you know that the historic Collingwood mansion in Virginia is expected to be demolished later this year?
Did you know that British physician Donald Irvine was the only general practitioner to have been a president of the General Medical Council ?
Did you know that Bronx Park contains the Bronx Zoo , the New York Botanical Garden , and what is believed to be New York City's only remaining uncleared forest?
Did you know that in 1946, Indonesian nationalist forces burned half of Bandung and evacuated at least 200,000 civilians, preventing the British from capturing the city intact?
Did you know that in 1845, Samuel Mulledy was the President of Georgetown College , a Jesuit institution, but five years later was expelled from the Jesuit order ?
Did you know that the nickname of a Russian submarine constructed from interconnected spheres comes from an animated circus animal made out of juggling balls?
Did you know that technology developed for use in inkjet printers helped make the automated white blood cell differential , a common blood test, possible?
Did you know that George Dashnau started the first mail order delivery service that supplied human skulls?
Did you know that the brown-cheeked hornbill is among the eleven species of hornbill native to Ivory Coast ?
Did you know that Asamardhuni Jivayatra by Tripuraneni Gopichand is regarded as the first psychological novel in Telugu ?
Did you know that Polish colonel Andrzej Marecki was one of the victims of the controversial 1943 Gibraltar B-24 crash ?
Did you know that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor preserved her house with skim milk?
Did you know that the African giant shrew was first described from a mummified specimen found in an ancient Egyptian tomb?
Did you know that Chance Rencountre is the first member of the Osage Nation to win a match in the Ultimate Fighting Championship ?
Did you know that because the half-life of beryllium-8 is less than 10 −16 seconds, there is a bottleneck in stellar nucleosynthesis that limits the abundance of heavier chemical elements ?
Did you know that having wanted to appear in a Sailor Moon stage play since childhood, Momoyo Koyama was cast as Sailor Mercury in a theatrical production of the series in 2014?
Did you know that the Solicitor of Labor leads the second largest litigation department in the U.S. federal government?
Did you know that in 1966, British journalist John Anderson led an expedition across the Atlantic to replicate Leif Erikson 's voyage?
Did you know that the bridge built to cross the Red Canal in Saint Petersburg now spans an entirely different watercourse?
Did you know that Raja ibn Haywa , an adviser to the Umayyad caliphs, supervised the financing for the construction of the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem?
Did you know that the ornate rainbowfish can survive in water as acidic as orange juice?
Did you know that Myrtle Driver Johnson can translate into a language that has been declared to be in a state of emergency?
Did you know that the album Open Here by Field Music has what one band member calls "definitely the angriest songs I have ever written", inspired by Brexit ?
Did you know that Green Bay Packers lawyer Gerald Francis Clifford served as assistant Attorney General of Wisconsin , was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention , and lost a congressional election in 1934?
Did you know that the Swan Canal , one of the oldest canals in Saint Petersburg , is crossed by the Upper and Lower Swan Bridges , the former being one of the oldest stone bridges in the city?
Did you know that according to legend, Gabriel Boughton treated Jahanara Begum 's burns and in return received the right to free trade for the East India Company from her father Shah Jahan ?
Did you know that the Northwestern Pacific Railroad interurban lines were the first use of third rail electrification in California?
Did you know that as a surgeon, John Campbell had the right to sit unelected on Edinburgh Town Council ?
Did you know that Dardanus deformis is one of at least 24 species of hermit crab that transfer sea anemones to a new shell?
Did you know that Green Bay Packers president Emil R. Fischer was also a nationally-recognized leader in the Wisconsin cheese industry?
Did you know that with his victory at the 2004 24 Hours of Le Mans , Dane Tom Kristensen became the first driver to win the endurance motor race five times in a row?
Did you know that Ravindra Dave directed Jesal Toral , one of the biggest hits of Gujarati cinema , to keep his production crew employed?
Did you know that the British government experimented on Berkshire residents in the 1950s?
Did you know that Ambroise Ouédraogo , who became the first Bishop of Maradi , Niger, in 2001, has focused on dialogue with Islam?
Did you know that all five components of the climate system —air, water, ice, Earth's crust, and life—help determine Earth's average weather ?
Did you know that the Ethiopian white-footed mouse and the Ethiopian forest brush-furred rat are two of the most abundant rodents in the montane forests of Ethiopia?
Did you know that Elsie Joy Davison was Britain's first female director of an aircraft company and its first woman pilot to die in World War II ?
Did you know that in its early years, New York City's Q35 bus was considered unprofitable, despite charging a double fare for travel between two boroughs?
Did you know that after a Buddha statue was installed on an Oakland traffic median , neighborhood crime dropped by 82 percent?
Did you know that the Sahel bush sparrow , found in the Oti Valley Faunal Reserve , is one of 676 species of bird recorded in Togo ?
Did you know that American composer Eunice Lea Kettering , who had almost 20,000 copies of her work published, started composing music at age six?
Did you know that the sons of Pyotr Rumyantsev turned down the offer of a palace built at public expense to honour their father, in preference for a public monument ?
Did you know that Zhang Xu discovered the regulatory mechanisms in sensory neurons for opioid receptors ?
Did you know that in one of the vigilante witch-hunts in Nepal , an 18-year-old girl was dragged from her home and tortured for hours in public on International Women's Day 2018?
Did you know that Mike Pringle and Colin Bradley are credited with developing and instituting significant event audit (SEA) into primary care in the UK?
Did you know that Unbox Therapy sparked Apple 's " Bendgate " controversy when host Lewis Hilsenteger used only his hands to bend his iPhone 6 Plus ?
Did you know that pianist Alexandre Kantorow won the first prize, gold medal, and Grand Prix in the 2019 International Tchaikovsky Competition , becoming the first French winner in the competition's history?
Did you know that KSOM in Tucson, Arizona , suffered two transmitter fires in less than four years of broadcasting?
Did you know that Guðrún Björnsdóttir , a 20th-century Icelandic politician and women's rights activist, was at one time a milk vendor?
Did you know that Harold Forsyth , the Peruvian ambassador to Japan, is the father of a professional football player and husband of a beauty pageant queen?
Did you know that sheep infected with the parasitic nematode Teladorsagia circumcincta may suffer from protein deficiency?
Did you know that The Twilight Zone episode " The New Exhibit " features axe-murderer and last pirate of New York, Albert W. Hicks ?
Did you know that Paul Loicq from Belgium was the first European to be inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame ?
Did you know that the C train , described as the "least loved of New York City subway lines", still uses subway cars that date to the 1960s?
Did you know that the North African Muhammad ibn Rushayd befriended the future Granadan vizier Ibn al-Hakim when the two travelled to Mecca for pilgrimage and study?
Did you know that Carlos Carrera 's El héroe was the first Mexican entry to win the Short Film Palme d'Or , in 1994?
Did you know that Norwegian violinist Mari Samuelsen became a student of Arve Tellefsen by the age of four?
Did you know that Colombian Supreme Court judge Augusto Ibáñez Guzmán claimed that in 2008 a dozen armed men stormed his house to steal his personal computer?
Did you know that Karski's reports were the first comprehensive documents on the Holocaust in Poland to reach the government-in-exile ?
Did you know that a century after Irish antiquarian Francis Joseph Bigger had revived the Ulster Journal of Archaeology , sites he had dug were still being referred to as "well and truly Biggered"?
Did you know that the Meers Fault in Oklahoma was active during the last 3,000 years and features a scarp that reaches 16 feet (5 m) in height?
Did you know that Nizam Nasir-ud-Daulah established a modern revenue administration system in Hyderabad State ?
Did you know that the queen parrotfish feeds on the algae it scrapes from corals and other surfaces, resulting in bioerosion ?
Did you know that Karen Saywitz developed "non-leading" techniques for interviewing child witnesses and victims?
Did you know that the Atascadero Printery , founded by Edward Gardner Lewis , housed the first rotogravure printing press in the Western United States ?
Did you know that in 2011, Stephen J. Challacombe and colleagues laid out research challenges of global health inequalities and oral health, relating to TB , STDs , HIV , and Noma ?
Did you know that a 0-year-old genderless fairy baby otter once threatened to "visit your house" with a baseball bat?
Did you know that prolific British author S. H. "Tim" Burton hand-wrote his books because he could not stand typewriters?
Did you know that the investigational drug SEP-363856 may represent a new class of antipsychotics ?
Did you know that in addition to founding Tmura, an anti-discrimination center that advocates for women's rights, Yifat Bitton was shortlisted for Israel's Supreme Court twice?
Did you know that the maple Acer beckianum was described from a piece of petrified wood found near Vantage, Washington , in 1954?
Did you know that the 1813 sinking of the British warship HMS Peacock was celebrated with a song by Eliakim Doolittle ?
Did you know that Ottessa Moshfegh 's second novel, My Year of Rest and Relaxation , was originally planned to focus on the September 11 attacks ?
Did you know that Ina Kaplan was six months pregnant when she won three of the four 2014 German national pool championships?
Did you know that Günther Leib , who often sang at the Halle Handel Festival , was called a "first rate Beckmesser " by The New York Times when he first appeared at the Metropolitan Opera ?
Did you know that Elongatoolithus , Macroolithus , and Nanhsiungoolithus were the first types of fossil eggs to be given names in the modern classification system?
Did you know that the Pampean flat-slab is an area of low angle subduction in South America, associated with a large volcano-free gap in the Andean Volcanic Belt ?
Did you know that Starting for the Hunt by Aelbert Cuyp is an early example of an equestrian portrait of someone who was not a member of court?
Did you know that Lionel Matthews was posthumously awarded the George Cross for the courage he displayed while a prisoner of war ?
Did you know that following the release of " You Need to Calm Down ", GLAAD reported an "influx" of $13 donations?
Did you know that fronds of the seaweed Halimeda tuna each consist of a single cell?
Did you know that after fleeing Chihuahua due to death threats, Patricia Mayorga dedicated her 2017 CPJ International Press Freedom Award to two murdered journalists?
Did you know that the Hong Kong commercial–residential high-rise Ocean One has a concert hall on its first floor?
Did you know that paediatric surgeon Robert Zachary and his colleagues improved the survival rate of babies with spina bifida from 10% to 90% by operating within hours of birth?
Did you know that in 2015, Nanjing Golden Dragon Bus announced a joint research agreement with San Diego State University to develop electric batteries and other technologies?
Did you know that Turkey's Aksungur MALE UAV has a designed maximum payload nearly four times that of its predecessor?
Did you know that footballer Alice Griffiths represented Wales for the first time after playing as the only girl in an otherwise all-boys league?
Did you know that Isoldé Elchlepp began her career as a protest song singer and later appeared as Wagner's Ortrud at the Bayreuth Festival and as Schoeck's Penthesilea at the Staatsoper Hannover ?
Did you know that an inscription at the tomb of Isa Khan claims that it is an "asylum of paradise"?
Did you know that Murtaja Qureiris , the youngest political prisoner in Saudi Arabia, is a member of the Shia minority who may face execution for taking part in anti-government protests when he was 10 years old?
Did you know that the Creole Petroleum Corporation 's 1956 propaganda film Assignment: Venezuela sought to convince American oil workers that the anti-capitalist military dictatorship had embraced the American way of life?
Did you know that William Pope created "the first comprehensive, well executed pictorial record of Canadian birds"?
Did you know that in a 2019 court case , the US Supreme Court ruled that Wyoming 's statehood did not void the Crow Tribe 's right to hunt on unoccupied lands?
Did you know that Charles Clarke acted as a watcher for The Great Escape and helped forge papers for the escapees?
Did you know that Lawrence of Arabia's plan to install the Sharif of Mecca 's sons as rulers in what became modern Syria, Jordan, Iraq, and western Saudi Arabia was only partially successful?
Did you know that in 1599, Henry IV of France appointed Humphrey Bradley maître des digues du royaume ('master of dykes of the kingdom'), giving him an effective monopoly of all dyking and land reclamation work in France?
Did you know that the 2018 art installation We Come in Peace was described as "eerie, other, unnerving, ambiguous, even alarming"?
Did you know that Gordon Bell was awarded the Military Cross 31 years before becoming president of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons ?
Did you know that critics found the couch gag of The Simpsons episode " Dad Behavior " "pretty darned grim" and "bleak", as all but one of the Simpsons die during its otherwise familiar title sequence?
Did you know that a biography of Joel Roberts Poinsett , co-authored by Charles Lyon Chandler , went unpublished after two others came out the same year?
Did you know that during the Peasants' Revolt , Margery Starre danced with a mob that sacked Corpus Christi College, Cambridge , and burnt its charters, shouting: " Away with the learning of clerks, away with it! "?
Did you know that Jeanne Laisné appeared as Aurore in the 1894 world premiere of Massenet 's Le portrait de Manon , a sequel to his Manon ?
Did you know that a clandestinely-distributed poem about the Kurds became a Ukrainian symbol of national revival and resistance against the Soviet Union?
Did you know that after Josephine Groves Holloway 's petition to form an official Girl Scout troop for African-Americans was rejected, she formed her own troop and encouraged her friends to do the same?
Did you know that the Kivu Ebola epidemic was declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on 17 July?