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Did you know that Phil Williams served in the Alabama state legislature at the same time as Phil Williams ?
Did you know that Because They Know Not by Jamaican novelist Alvin Gladstone Bennett describes itself as a "powerful story on the colour problem"?
Did you know that the illusion of explanatory depth leads people to overestimate how knowledgeable they are, but can be counteracted by asking them to explain how things work?
Did you know that Bahraini businesswoman Yara Salman founded a beauty salon, a medical center, an entertainment complex, and a restaurant in the past decade?
Did you know that Wallace's fruit dove has been described as being one of the most beautiful fruit doves ?
Did you know that as municipal architect, Albert L. Harris led the design of all city buildings in Washington, D.C. , from 1921 until his sudden death in 1934?
Did you know that the 1992 documentary film Daddy and the Muscle Academy , which focuses on the life of gay erotic artist Tom of Finland , has been broadcast on Finnish television multiple times?
Did you know that the Colonial Defence Committee advised British colonies not to permit more than two foreign warships into harbour at a time, in case of a surprise attack?
Did you know that illustrator Al Hirschfeld knew he would get his own Broadway theater for his 100th birthday, but he died before the renaming?
Did you know that Alexander Buchan , one of the artists on the first voyage of James Cook , was not mentioned in Cook's journals until he died after an epileptic fit?
Did you know that Los Angeles was built with the labor of Indigenous Yaangavit people whose village was destroyed to make space for it?
Did you know that German economist Ingo Böbel became Professor of Economics at International University of Monaco after serving a prison sentence for embezzlement and tax evasion?
Did you know that the educational computer games Designasaurus and UMS 1 together gained their publisher more than $5 million during 18 months in the 1980s?
Did you know that the Neon Genesis Evangelion episode " Asuka Strikes! " includes references to the works of William Shakespeare ?
Did you know that the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia is the only contemporary art museum in the country with a permanent collection?
Did you know that the Windows 95 game Banzai Bug , in which a player controls a bug that must escape from an exterminator's house and is told as a war story, was created as "The Flight-Sim with an Attitude"?
Did you know that Jérôme Chappellaz wants to collect ice cores from Africa's Mount Kilimanjaro to be preserved in Antarctica?
Did you know that the New Zealand stonefly Stenoperla prasina was the five millionth specimen digitised by the Natural History Museum in London?
Did you know that shortly after getting married in 1875, Robert A. Emmitt crossed the Cascade Mountains driving a cattle herd while his wife led a pack horse that carried their possessions?
Did you know that the Zigzag House was designed for two people who supported the circus arts ?
Did you know that Mark Birley described the interior decor of his Bath & Racquets Club as the "post-Mussolini epic style"?
Did you know that the headquarters of Advanced Logic Research was the subject of an attempted armed invasion in 1989 during a surge of computer-chip robberies?
Did you know that Brandon Tanev said he saw a ghost while his head shot was being taken for the Pittsburgh Penguins ?
Did you know that during the Venezuelan general strike of 2002–2003 , all but one of Venezuelan chocolatier María Fernanda Di Giacobbe 's ten businesses went bankrupt?
Did you know that Monorail Inc. 's first computer, with its all-in-one design and flat-panel display, prefigured the iMac G4 by over five years?
Did you know that Saba Malaspina was "the only important Roman historiographer from the 13th century"?
Did you know that Mini ature is the largest frog in its genus ?
Did you know that a proposed footbridge connecting the Asian Garden Mall to another Vietnamese-American shopping center met opposition because it was deemed "too Chinese"?
Did you know that Rebeca Andrade is the first Brazilian female gymnast to win a medal at the Olympic Games ?
Did you know that John Wayne Bobbitt Uncut was the bestselling pornographic film of 1994 and had the most rentals that year in the United States?
Did you know that in the 1980s, Amanda Villepastour , now an ethnomusicologist at Cardiff University , was the keyboardist in Australian new wave band Eurogliders ?
Did you know that observations of a car tire being repaired helped develop the epidural blood patch ?
Did you know that New York's Wieting Opera House burnt down and was rebuilt on three separate occasions by its proprietors, John Wieting and Mary Elizabeth Wieting ?
Did you know that Rodolphe Iddi Lala went from being a professor of sociology to organizing a bombing at a cinema?
Did you know that Red Clay State Historic Park was the last capital of the Cherokee Nation in the eastern United States?
Did you know that in 1917, flying ace Otto Jäger was wounded by a propeller?
Did you know that while seeking funding for The Clarion , Carrie Best was told by a donor: "You are just a small voice crying in the wilderness – but keep on crying"?
Did you know that when he saw the tapestry Les Dés Sont Jetés , Jørn Utzon exclaimed: "See that? Ours will be better!"?
Did you know that while many Premier League clubs were sponsored by alcohol companies , no such sponsors remained by the 2017–18 season ?
Did you know that plasma physicist Donald Gurnett was part of 41 NASA missions, including Voyager 1 , for which he designed the instrument that confirmed that the craft had crossed the heliopause in 2012?
Did you know that Coleman's Melibe is said to look like a "string of snot in the water"?
Did you know that footballer Dean Whitehead was compared to Roy Keane a year before Keane was appointed as his manager?
Did you know that the McLaren MCL36 , McLaren's 2022 Formula One car, has been in development since 2019 because of the pandemic's interruptions to the sport?
Did you know that after nearly killing a man in a duel, Edgar P. Rucker went on to become the attorney general of West Virginia?
Did you know that development on the video game Expeditions: Rome was not affected by lockdowns from the COVID-19 pandemic because the developer was already split between Copenhagen and Istanbul ?
Did you know that " Nobles of the Mystic Shrine " was first conducted with a band of around 6,200 members, the largest band John Philip Sousa ever conducted?
Did you know that as part of the ongoing assisted migration of forests in North America , the western larch was selected for reforestation projects nearly 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) north of its native range?
Did you know that a would-be buyer of San Angelo, Texas , radio station KBIL-FM had no knowledge of the transaction?
Did you know that there is disagreement about whether Lots of Mommies , in which a girl is raised by four mothers, should be considered to be an LGBTQ picture book?
Did you know that former Philippine secretary of national defense Norberto Gonzales said that a Chinese invasion was "not unthinkable"?
Did you know that many participants in the 2021 U.S. Capitol attack have been charged with obstructing an official proceeding , a crime that was created in response to the 2001 Enron accounting scandal ?
Did you know that Travis Ludlow broke the world record for the youngest person to fly solo around the world?
Did you know that staff had to be deployed on the first day of service at Woodleigh MRT station to assist commuters who alighted there mistakenly because they did not realize it had opened?
Did you know that when her local cafe was in lockdown , Kate Baer wrote her bestselling poems in her van in the cafe parking lot?
Did you know that the white-headed fruit dove ( Ptilinopus eugeniae ) was named after Eugénie de Montijo , Empress of the French?
Did you know that when Maria Keller was eight years old, she founded a nonprofit that would later go on to collect and distribute more than three million books to underprivileged children?
Did you know that Fagus langevinii is considered to be the oldest extinct species of beech tree?
Did you know that child actress and singer Sylvia Froos was noted for her ability to mimic the vocal styles of famous celebrity performers?
Did you know that the 1929 Scottish Prayer Book is the Scottish Episcopal Church 's current version of the Book of Common Prayer ?
Did you know that two My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episodes are said to discuss Marxism and Stalinism?
Did you know that Mount Yasumandake was considered sacred to Buddhists , Shintoists , and Christians ?
Did you know that artist Ervin Herve Loranth refers to his sculptures as "public surprises"?
Did you know that the Canadian House of Commons held a take-note debate on the discovery of the graves of more than 200 Indigenous children near Kamloops Indian Residential School in 2021?
Did you know that baseball umpire Cece Carlucci made the umpiring equipment used in The Natural ?
Did you know that Rudi Stephan was already composing the opera Die ersten Menschen when the 1908 drama about the first humans by Otto Borngräber, on which it is based, was banned in Bavaria?
Did you know that Dave Dryburgh began a journalism career while reporting on the soccer games in which he played?
Did you know that the paddle steamer Lotta Bernard was described as "altogether unfit for the traffic she was employed in" after she sank?
Did you know that the League for Human Rights , established in Germany in the early 1920s, was the first mass organization for homosexuals?
Did you know that Microsoft has banned all third-party tech-support advertisements on Bing due to a rise in technical support scams ?
Did you know that Clemson University football player Jim McCanless made the 1958 varsity team despite having suffered a broken neck the year prior?
Did you know that two major petrochemical explosions in the Greater Houston area, the 1990 ARCO explosion and the Phillips disaster , occurred within one year of each other?
Did you know that the seafaring poet D. I. Antoniou worked on a single poem for more than a decade and ended up publishing it over thirty years later?
Did you know that Broadway's Lyric Theatre , once deemed a "cursed" theater, now hosts The Cursed Child ?
Did you know that Australian senator Ben Small had been a ship's officer, bar owner, paramedic, ambulance trainer, and logistician before entering politics?
Did you know that the Finnish 7th Division was formed in 1940 by renumbering another unit to make it appear to the Soviets that it had been replaced with fresh troops?
Did you know that the Claudia Quintet was born out of an incident at alt.coffee?
Did you know that in 1995, Hurricane Flossie damaged many tapes of Jerry Lewis telethons belonging to the Muscular Dystrophy Association ?
Did you know that author Theresa Pulszky escaped from the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 by pretending to be the companion of a German couple?
Did you know that the video game JFK Reloaded recreates the assassination of John F. Kennedy from the perspective of the killer?
Did you know that Mao Zedong initially approved the Dalai Lama's escape into Indian exile, but later ordered that it be prevented?
Did you know that The Constitutional Courant was a single-issue newspaper published by William Goddard for the sole purpose of criticizing the Stamp Act in 1765?
Did you know that Genevieve Beacom became the first woman to pitch in the Australian Baseball League when she made her debut for the Melbourne Aces in 2022?
Did you know that Interstate 229 once ended at a gravel road ?
Did you know that despite experiencing midnight sun and polar night , Svalbard observes daylight saving time ?
Did you know that a work by Bettie Freshwater Pool was proposed to be the official state song of North Carolina?
Did you know that after viewing the Coates round house , the prospective occupant's fiancée refused to marry him unless the canal company made the property more habitable?
Did you know that Qadi al-Fadil began his career under the Fatimids , became Saladin 's chief minister, and was renowned for the elegance of his epistolary writing?
Did you know that George Balanchine only started working on his ballet Mozartiana three weeks before its premiere?
Did you know that the spotted lanternfly has been used in traditional Chinese medicine to treat swelling since the 1100s?
Did you know that the Connecticut Valley Railroad successfully fooled the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad into purchasing it by pretending that it planned to expand northwards?
Did you know that the Twin Parks housing project in New York City, the site of a January 2022 fire that killed seventeen people, won architectural awards after it was constructed in the early 1970s?
Did you know that Australian neurosurgeon Jeffrey Rosenfeld led the team developing a wireless device that promises to give limited vision to the totally blind?
Did you know that the Little Theatre , once deemed a "gem among playhouses", was later planned to be replaced by a driveway for The New York Times ?
Did you know that the 1810s reign of Ioan Caragea introduced Wallachia to carom billiards , sugar sculptures , and an eponymous plague ?
Did you know that La Poutine Week is the world's largest poutine festival, with 700 restaurants serving 350,000 people?
Did you know that while waiting for an interview, journalist Rod Beaton was involved in a shoving incident with baseball player Barry Bonds ?
Did you know that the Godzilla Megamullion is at least ten times larger than all other known megamullions?
Did you know that after performing as Davy Jones, David Bowie 's " Can't Help Thinking About Me " was his first single released under the name "David Bowie"?
Did you know that Grant Sutherland is the geneticist who identified fragile X syndrome ,  the most common inherited genetic form of intellectual impairment?
Did you know that characters from several different science fiction media appear as an Easter egg in the episode " Babylon's Ashes "?
Did you know that Madame "Toto" Bannard Cogley not only co-founded Dublin's Gate Theatre , but also supplied most of the initial membership?
Did you know that the owner of the bus service connecting the two largest Vietnamese-American communities in the United States was the target of an assassination plot by a competitor?
Did you know that singer Henrietta Loveless performed at the New York World's Fair with the Chocolate Éclair Family?
Did you know that in 1354, the Duke of Lancaster compared his heart to the sea, a fox's hole, and a market-place ?
Did you know that future U.S. Supreme Court justice Wiley Rutledge married his college Greek instructor—in a tuberculosis sanatorium ?
Did you know that guitarists playing a duet together have been shown to be in neural synchrony ?
Did you know that a new species of ant was named to honor artist Jeremy Ayers and the non-binary community?
Did you know that a recent cyberattack on Ukrainian websites was disguised as ransomware?
Did you know that by 1950, Abraham Wolf had amassed the largest collection of books by and about Spinoza ?
Did you know that during the Battle of the Blacks in August 1169, Saladin ordered his forces to attack and torch his opponents' quarters, where their wives and children had been left?
Did you knowthat Ozzie was the first gorilla to take his own blood pressure voluntarily?
Did you know that an animal rendering and recycling plant dumped illegal amounts of ammonia , phosphorus , and fecal bacteria into the Transquaking River ?
Did you know that Malika Louback believes her three engineering degrees make her a better fashion model?
Did you know that Racer 's hurricane in 1837 was named after a Royal Navy vessel that was dismasted by the high winds?
Did you know that Jason Robertson is only the second Filipino American to play in the National Hockey League ?
Did you know that the 1886 song of thanks " Ein Danklied sei dem Herrn " was performed at a thanksgiving service for Pope Benedict XVI on the day of his abdication?
Did you know that Fori Nehru founded an employment campaign in 1947 to sell handicrafts made by refugee women following the partition of India ?
Did you know that in the 1960s Tennessee had a radio station named after the " Wonderful Gay Way "?
Did you know that the colonial enslavement of American Indians is described as a cultural genocide ?
Did you know that Burundian judge Domitille Barancira upheld Pierre Nkurunziza 's death sentence, then later administered his presidential oath?
Did you know that Qiandama expanded from a single shop to more than 3,700 locations in less than ten years?
Did you know that The West Wing faced criticism for a scene in which Ainsley Hayes defends a sexist and objectifying remark made at her?
Did you know that the Bornean stubtail forages more like a mouse than a bird?
Did you know that Dong Leshan has been cited as "one of the best and most prolific Chinese translators in the 20th century"?
Did you know that New York City officials seized the tax-exempt Moore-Jackson Cemetery in 1954 for nonpayment of taxes?
Did you know that Eleonore Schönborn , who had to leave Czechoslovakia in 1945 with two young children, received an Austrian award in 2013 for cultural and social improvement?
Did you know that Indigo Swing was described as "one of the name bands" of its genre?
Did you know that Turkish world-champion para-archer Yiğit Caner Aydın stayed in hospital for eight months after a stand fell on his head, broke his neck, and paralyzed him?
Did you know that when Russia joined the Council of Europe in 1996, "no serious observer believed that it met the criteria for membership"?
Did you know that David Wheeler was running for re-election to the Alabama House of Representatives unopposed in the Republican primary when he died in 2022?
Did you know that historians do not agree on whether the Battle on the Irghiz River took place in 1209 or 1219?
Did you know that the creator of Comic Sans also designed a levitating man in a business suit ?
Did you know that " Bewahre uns, Gott " (Keep us, God) is a hymn for protection and blessing that Eugen Eckert derived from a 1968 peace song written and composed in Argentina?
Did you know that the Pestalozzi Children's Village in Switzerland was established in 1946 after Walter Corti called for the establishment of a village for orphans of World War II?
Did you know that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously in favor of Guam in the territory's attempt to seek U.S. Navy contributions to clean up Ordot Dump , a former landfill and Superfund site?
Did you know that Chinese social-realist woodcut artist Li Qun felt that the works of expressionists were "far away from life"?
Did you know that the Neil Simon Theatre , a New York City landmark, was the first Broadway theater renamed after a living playwright?
Did you know that Arti Rana was the president of the self-help group Tharu Hath KargaGharelu Udyog when it received assistance from the World Wide Fund for Nature to make its looms more efficient?
Did you know that a snooker table used at the 2022 Turkish Masters was fixed with a car jack ?
Did you know that New Zealand editor and journalist Madeleine Chapman , known for fashion label exposés and snack food ranking lists, is a champion javelin thrower ?
Did you know that John Wesley Shipp , who played the Flash in the 1990 television series , was cast as his father in the pilot episode of 2014's The Flash ?
Did you know that as part of his work as an antiquary, William Thomas visited every church in Worcestershire?
Did you know that after Los Angeles Spanish-language TV station KMEX-TV discovered that 15 percent of its viewers did not know the language, it added Spanish courses to its programming?
Did you know that Valeriy Chybineyev was honored as a Hero of Ukraine in 2016 for his actions during the war in Donbas ?
Did you know that supplies were so poor during the Royal Expedition of the First Carlist War that some soldiers wore cardboard-heeled shoes?
Did you know that Chinese writer Feng Xuefeng rewrote his 500,000-character manuscript, lost after he was captured by the Nationalists —only for him to burn it himself?
Did you know that Raven-Symoné , who played the lead role in the series That's So Raven , became a producer for its fourth season at the age of 19?
Did you know that the website NewsFront evaded a Facebook ban by posting its content on mirror sites ?
Did you know that Macy Rodman 's 2021 album Unbelievable Animals was described as combining "radio-rock shine with dirt-punk roots" and "a dash of Ray of Light –esque experimental pop"?
Did you know that the tanker MV Millennial Spirit sailed under a Moldovan flag, was crewed entirely by Russians, and was mistaken for a Romanian ship?
Did you know that Gloria Rojas , one of the first Latina broadcast journalists in New York City, helped launch the career of Geraldo Rivera ?
Did you know that Gérard de Nerval 's poem " Delphica " promises that the gods of classical mythology will eventually return?
Did you know that basketmaker Ramona Lubo is known as the "real Ramona "?
Did you know that Oleksandr Oksanchenko won the As the Crow Flies Award at the Royal International Air Tattoo in 2017?
Did you know that the Correspondence of Paul and Seneca was cited in the Middle Ages to claim that Seneca , a Roman philosopher of Stoicism , had converted to Christianity?
Did you know that dancer Jovani Furlan made his New York City Ballet debut in a role in which he was cast at the last minute, with a partner with whom he had never rehearsed?
Did you know that some of the calls of the bare-headed laughingthrush have been described as "comical"?
Did you know that after Arnold II of Isenburg was elected Archbishop of Trier by the cathedral chapter, King Conrad IV of Germany granted the regalia to the opposing candidate, Rudolf de Ponte?
Did you know that all the original buildings of London's Angel Street have been destroyed by fire, bombing, or demolition?
Did you know that due to business closures across California during the COVID-19 pandemic , some of the exotic dancers at Jumbo's Clown Room created the Cyber Clown Girls show so they could continue working?
Did you know that Utroba Cave was made to resemble female genitalia, and the cave puts on a show with natural light to symbolize fertilization?
Did you know that the 1885 spiritual anthem Prayer for Ukraine was performed by a choir from New York on Saturday Night Live ?
Did you know that Barbara F. Walter 's How Civil Wars Start argues that the United States is no longer a true democracy?
Did you know that the 1950 Hindi film Hamari Beti , which featured Nutan 's first lead role, at 14 years of age, was directed by her mother?
Did you know that when the Ivankiv Historical and Local History Museum was burned during the recent Battle of Ivankiv , artworks by Hanna Veres and Maria Prymachenko were destroyed?
Did you know that nearly a quarter of the patients at the Kirby Forensic Psychiatric Center in New York City are criminally insane ?
Did you know that Indian footballer Surajit Sengupta was called Sócrates because of his beard and varied interests?
Did you know that Albert Smijers was one of the first Dutch musicologists to receive a doctorate?
Did you know that the high number of free tenants recorded in the 1299 Red Book of Worcester may be a result of manumissions granted by Bishop Godfrey Giffard ?
Did you know that Jean Webster daily served hundreds of people free food directly out of her home kitchen for over a decade?
Did you know that the detention of two British surveyors for around an hour in 1878 formed part of the justification for the Anglo-Zulu War ?
Did you know that Bill Smyth fought as a Marine at Iwo Jima and later played four seasons for the Los Angeles Rams ?
Did you know that according to its founders, Pink Peacock is the only "queer Yiddish anarchist vegan pay-what-you-can cafe" in the world?
Did you know that the Green Line Extension , which partially opens today, was first proposed a century ago?
Did you know that while serving his nighttime prison sentence for writing articles critical of the government, Juan Pablo Cárdenas continued writing during the day?