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Did you know that at a young age, German TV personality Ranga Yogeshwar learned Kannada , Hindi , and Malayalam in order to communicate with his housekeeper, teacher, and gardener, respectively?
Did you know that the new pine knot-horn is a serious pest of maritime pine plantations?
Did you know that American collage artist Eunice Parsons , who turns 103 today, is the last of the "Northwest Matriarchs of Modernism"?
Did you know that Johann Münzberg ran leading textile factories in Bohemia and promoted the building of the Empress Elisabeth Bridge over the Elbe ?
Did you know that WBUZ and four other operating radio stations lost their FCC licenses as a result of the owner being convicted of felonies?
Did you know that Mother Berry , a jockey who rode disguised as a man, earned her nickname after she adopted a runaway child?
Did you know that the Chief Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation investigates both Nazi crimes and communist crimes ?
Did you know that Ning Bin , who won a national special prize for his contribution to the Beijing–Shanghai high-speed railway , died in a traffic accident?
Did you know that the tree Humbertia madagascariensis , whose durable timber is used in heavy construction, is a member of the morning glory family ?
Did you know that Hollywood furrier Willard H. George was known as "the chinchilla industry's greatest friend"?
Did you know that the excavated Asthall barrow was found to contain a high-status Anglo-Saxon burial?
Did you know that East German Udo Zimmermann composed his fifth opera, Die wundersame Schustersfrau , based on a Spanish play by Federico García Lorca , on a commission for the West German Schwetzingen Festival ?
Did you know that Charles H. Stonestreet received the First Plenary Council of Baltimore in 1852 as President of Georgetown University ?
Did you know that Dioscorea chouardii is known from a single crag in the Pyrenees and has been monitored using scaffolding and telescopes?
Did you know that since 2001, street artist John Hamon has postered and projected his image on the buildings of Paris and 76 other cities around the world?
Did you know that prior to the first town council elections in Loxahatchee Groves, Florida , a political forum for the candidates was hosted at a nudist resort ?
Did you know that English theatre historian " Popie " called Robert Michaelis "one of the very best performers Daly's ever had"?
Did you know that, described as being "cursed", Rispin Mansion was variously used as a SWAT practice ground, a residence, a real-estate showroom, a ghost hunting site, and a nunnery ?
Did you know that the Uptown Hudson Tubes in New York City were constructed with sharp curves to avoid the demolition of preexisting basements?
Did you know that Zhang Xu played a major role in developing fiber-optic communication in China?
Did you know that many residents who were relocated prior to the filling of Lake Kossou were able to return to their land when the reservoir failed to reach full capacity?
Did you know that American historian Pamela Nadell traced the origins of the first agitations for a female rabbi to a short story published in 1889?
Did you know that Assam Petro-Chemicals became the first Indian company to sell methanol as cooking fuel?
Did you know that the first episode of the first Doctor Who series had to be rerecorded because the TARDIS doors would not close?
Did you know that Japanese pool player Naoyuki Ōi once responded to a question asked at a press conference with lyrics from the comedy song " Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen "?
Did you know that the Mongols were advised to invade Sakhalin island in 1273 by marching across the frozen Strait of Tartary ?
Did you know that Kent Angus , a Canadian businessman and Paul Loicq Award winner, incorporated hidden details into hockey jerseys for Team Canada and other countries at the 2010 Winter Olympics ?
Did you know that Puke Ariki , the name for the combined library and museum in New Plymouth , New Zealand, is Māori for "hill of chiefs"?
Did you know that on June 29, Major General Laura Yeager became the first woman to command an infantry division in the United States Army?
Did you know that John Rutter wrote the text and music of A Clare Benediction for choir and orchestra to honour Clare College, Cambridge , where he had studied?
Did you know that falguera , a plant known from only one valley in Spain, is threatened by rock climbers and by road maintenance?
Did you know that thirty million copies of the university textbook compiled by Xu Zhongyu have been printed?
Did you know that hundreds of stockbrokers protested outside the Bombay Stock Exchange demanding removal of the Big Bull after the market crashed?
Did you know that a 2008 plea bargain to settle criminal charges against financier Jeffrey Epstein has been described as a sweetheart deal ?
Did you know that John Deane and his crew of the Nottingham Galley cannibalised in desperation the ship's deceased carpenter when the ship wrecked on Boon Island in 1710?
Did you know that the 56-story Essex on the Park in the Chicago Loop was built on a former swimming pool?
Did you know that Swedish scientist Marie Dacke discovered that dung beetles can use the Milky Way to navigate at night?
Did you know that the Seventh German Inner Africa Research Expedition served as cover for a secret First World War espionage mission?
Did you know that in June 2019, Hamilton Tiger-Cats placekicker Gabriel Amavizca became the first non-Canadian or non-American player to score points in a Canadian Football League regular season match?
Did you know that high school radio station WGAG-FM had a yearly budget of US$200, which it raised by selling donuts and clearing lawns?
Did you know that in the Zambrów massacre , during the September 1939 invasion of Poland , German Wehrmacht soldiers murdered more than 200 Polish prisoners of war?
Did you know that J. J. Stiffler 's "unparalleled" and "landmark" book Theory of Synchronous Communications (1971) sprang from NASA 's need for power-efficient synchronization of data transmission for its space probes ?
Did you know that when Harley-Davidson demanded that William Morris take its signs down from his store, he put them on display in his Bill's Old Bike Barn ?
Did you know that Andrea Ihle performed the role of Ännchen in Weber's opera Der Freischütz in the opening performance of the rebuilt Semperoper in Dresden?
Did you know that the phoulkon was a shield wall formation of the late and East Roman army , which classical writers described as both a testudo and a phalanx ?
Did you know that two months after being unable to walk properly, Indian long jumper M. Sreeshankar won the bronze medal at the 2018 Asian Junior Athletics Championships ?
Did you know that following a strike at Lundy's Restaurant in New York City, its owner announced that it would "never reopen" – only to have it reopen a few months later?
Did you know that in September 1610, Monteverdi dedicated to Pope Paul V his Vespro della Beata Vergine , a complex vespers composition which included the style of the emerging opera ?
Did you know that Jihan Wu co-founded Bitmain , the world's largest computer chip company for bitcoin mining ?
Did you know that Sheep Meadow in New York City's Central Park has been used as a sheep pasture, for festivals and concerts, and as a helicopter landing site?
Did you know that footballer Sean Morrison was described as being "45 minutes from death" before undergoing emergency surgery?
Did you know that the dune hairy-footed gerbil locates its burrows close to plants, where the roots stabilise the shifting sand?
Did you know that Semin Öztürk Şener is Turkey's first female professional civilian aerobatic pilot ?
Did you know that during the capture of Wakefield , some historians claim that the town's commander led a counterattack "in his nightshirt" because he was hungover ?
Did you know that Philadelphia-based physician Charles Sajous , called the "father of American endocrinology ", received the French Legion of Honour and the Venezuelan Order of the Liberator ?
Did you know that Ng On-yee won the 2018 Women's World Snooker Championship without losing a single frame in all six of her tournament matches?
Did you know that at his death in 1881, Victoriano G. de Ysasi owned a nearly complete collection of the stamps of Spain?
Did you know that after KSJU radio was forced off FM and onto a cable system, students at the College of Saint Benedict could not listen to it on campus, even though their activity fees supported it?
Did you know that Jeni Bojilova-Pateva became a women's rights activist when she was barred from teaching because she was married?
Did you know that the iPhone 11 Pro is the first iPhone to feature a "Pro" designation, which was previously used only for larger Apple devices?
Did you know that just prior to his arrest in 2019, investigative journalist Ivan Golunov was examining the links between Moscow funeral businesses and the Federal Security Service ?
Did you know that Emirati geneticist Habiba Alsafar was named as one of the "100 Most Powerful Arab Women" of 2015?
Did you know that at approximately 5,000 years old, the Lothagam North Pillar Site is thought to be the earliest and largest monumental cemetery in eastern Africa?
Did you know that a mural of William Rath depicts him drinking from a Fountain of Youth ?
Did you know that despite its title, the Venezuelan film Muchachos bañándose en la laguna de Maracaibo (' Kids bathing at the lagoon of Maracaibo ' ) also features street shots of the city of Maracaibo ?
Did you know that a court in communist Romania found banker Aristide Blank guilty of high treason, based on his meetings with foreigners and notes from Blank's unpublished novel?
Did you know that the folk tales in Bernard Binlin Dadié 's The Black Cloth express the "African sense of community" and the "wisdom of an ordered society" in the face of French claims of moral superiority?
Did you know that Russian journalist Vsevolod Kukushkin said the Soviet Union national ice hockey team was nicknamed "The Red Machine" due to a Minneapolis newspaper headline?
Did you know that in 1822 John Henry Wishart gave the first description in English of type 2 neurofibromatosis ?
Did you know that some protesters have described " Glory to Hong Kong " as the unofficial national anthem of Hong Kong?
Did you know that with his appointment to head the 12th Submarine Squadron, Rear-Admiral Andrei Volozhinsky commanded nearly 14 percent of strategic Russian warheads and 63 percent of Russia's naval strategic nuclear forces?
Did you know that the Georgetown University School of Dentistry was established during Jerome Daugherty 's tenure as university president ?
Did you know that Tove Lo wrote the plot for the music video of her song " Timebomb ", inspired by the "kind of love that can't last forever because it isn't allowed to or it's not socially accepted"?
Did you know that National Route 280 was of defensive importance to the Japanese, who feared a Russian incursion into Ezo ?
Did you know that American writer Jan Fortune was born in the back of a post office in Wellington, Texas ?
Did you know that Mary van Kleeck , a social reformer and labor activist, was the first woman appointed to a position of authority in the American government during World War I ?
Did you know that the metabolic rate of Rhoptropus bradfieldi is about a quarter of that of other desert lizards?
Did you know that following an injustice suffered by the British consul, Charles Sotheby trained his frigate's guns on the Bey of Rhodes' house and opened fire?
Did you know that the Lake , completed in 1858, was the first feature to be finished in New York City's Central Park ?
Did you know that Leo Frobenius led 12 German Inner Africa Research Expeditions between 1904 and 1935?
Did you know that Filipino-born scientist Ye Zhupei founded chemical metallurgy in China, while his American wife became an English professor who taught the future Chinese foreign minister Li Zhaoxing ?
Did you know that Katharine Hepburn is said to have encountered snakes in the living room of Misty Mountain ?
Did you know that during the Battle of Bovey Heath , Royalist officers escaped by "throwing their stakes of money", which the enemy soldiers paused to collect?
Did you know that Kevin Harlan said his "first good move" in sports broadcasting was getting into radio at WGBP-FM ?
Did you know that after 78-year-old Maggy Hurchalla was ordered to pay US$4 million for interfering with a mining company, her kayaks were seized?
Did you know that the Celebes warty pig has been domesticated and introduced into other Indonesian islands?
Did you know that the African tropical tree Pouteria adolfi-friedericii was named after a German explorer ?
Did you know that the gynaecologist Margaret Puxon , who started studying law to prevent boredom while on maternity leave, eventually became a barrister?
Did you know that in his novel A Time of Terror , Douglas Morey Ford imagined anarchists attempting to overthrow the British government?
Did you know that despite its large screen size, the Samsung Galaxy A90 5G can be operated with one hand?
Did you know that it has been claimed that the Crawley Edge Boatshed is the most photographed travel attraction in Perth , Western Australia, ahead of Elizabeth Quay , Cathedral Square , and the Swan Bells ?
Did you know that the 1985 World Snooker Championship holds the record for the highest-rated post-midnight broadcast in the United Kingdom?
Did you know that when Yu Dunkang was denounced as a "rightist" and banished from academia for twenty years, he found solace in the early Chinese philosophy of Xuanxue ?
Did you know that the Ba Congress failed to prevent the Allies of World War II from breaking off contact with Draža Mihailović 's Chetnik movement ?
Did you know that Scyller Borglum and a deceased candidate both won the same election?
Did you know that nests of the black-tailed tree rat resemble those of the red-billed buffalo weaver ?
Did you know that George Fayad is depicted in a painting of eminent international surgeons that was shown at the National Portrait Gallery in London?
Did you know that the Battery in Lower Manhattan contains an old fort that later served as a theater, immigration processing center, and aquarium?
Did you know that Der Club , a weekly German-language talk show on Swiss television discussing current topics, was first aired in 1985 as Zischtigsclub ('Tuesday Club')?
Did you know that Yale University pediatrician Grover Powers gave liver extract as a nutritional supplement to children with celiac disease ?
Did you know that the Ninth German Inner Africa Research Expedition recorded 2,000 examples of rock art ?
Did you know that after U-2 spy aircraft piloted by Yeh Changti and Chang Liyi were shot down over China, the United States began prioritizing the development of drones at Area 51 ?
Did you know that although Schreber's yellow bat is believed to be an insectivore , the related white-bellied yellow bat has been observed to eat dead bats in captivity?
Did you know that African-American suffragist Maud E. Craig Sampson Williams was denied membership in the National American Woman Suffrage Association ?
Did you know that What Did You Eat Yesterday? was one of the first pieces of mainstream Japanese media to substantially depict a cohabiting gay male couple?
Did you know that Sir Donald Douglas was President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh , and his son Sir Neil Douglas was President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh ?
Did you know that the death penalty in Missouri was restored in large part due to the lynching of Jay Lynch ?
Did you know that Polish resistance member Alicja Iwańska became an academic and compared political, religious, and racial persecution in Europe to U.S. segregation restrictions?
Did you know that in 1975, a field mouse knocked Michigan radio station WKJR off the air for 45 minutes?
Did you know that when Osama bin Laden issued his 1998 fatwa proclaiming jihad against the U.S. and its allies, many Islamic jurists stressed that he was not qualified either to proclaim jihad or to issue a fatwa?
Did you know that Catherine Lutz was the first female general in the Mississippi National Guard ?
Did you know that the phloem sap of Phyllanthus balgooyi contains up to 16.9 per cent nickel by weight, giving it a bright green color?
Did you know that according to Johannes Latuharhary , the education system of the Dutch East Indies in Ambon, Maluku , was designed to create "scribes and clerks, soldiers and sailors"?
Did you know that the Shore Theater , originally designed to satiate "the great need in Coney Island for an all-year amusement", is being redeveloped into Coney Island's first new hotel in 50 years?
Did you know that William Smith was prompted to write The Annals of University College after the Court of King's Bench proclaimed the wrong person to be the founder of University College, Oxford ?
Did you know that an implicature might tell you that the nephew of Mrs Jenkins, an old windbag, is standing right behind you?
Did you know that Carlton le Willows Academy alumni include cricketer Mark Footitt , Air Supply singer/guitarist Graham Russell , and balloonist Janet Folkes ?
Did you know that Para Mi , the debut studio album by Cuco , touches on recent problems that he has experienced first-hand, including a tour bus accident that sent him and his band to the hospital?
Did you know that although honeynut squash originated about forty years ago, it has only been in markets for four years?
Did you know that when rag sorter Mary Fitzpatrick was tried for murder , the jury included six aristocrats and the judge was Sir Henry Hawkins of the High Court, known as " Hanging Hawkins "?
Did you know that the Elevador de Aguas de Gordejuela housed the first steam engine on Tenerife ?
Did you know that according to Jennifer Foster , Iron Age metalsmiths of high-quality goods in Britain might have been itinerant rather than having a fixed abode?
Did you know that Leo Frobenius announced the discovery of the lost city of Atlantis during his Fourth German Inner Africa Research Expedition ?
Did you know that Better Together 's " The woman who made up her mind " advert opposing Scottish independence so upset politician Sandra Grieve that she changed her mind and began supporting independence?
Did you know that Ralph Henry Gabriel founded the American Studies Department at Yale University but later resigned in protest during the Cold War ?
Did you know that the Carroll Street Bridge is one of four remaining retractable bridges in the United States, and one of two in New York City?
Did you know that obstetrician James Scott showed that certain diseases in newborns were caused by their mothers' antibodies crossing the placenta?
Did you know that the territory of Central Australia existed only from 1927 to 1931?
Did you know that after Mary Ma orchestrated Lenovo 's acquisition of IBM 's PC division, she was named by Forbes as the 57th most powerful woman in the world?
Did you know that Sahraa Karimi is the first and only woman in Afghanistan who has a PhD in filmmaking?
Did you know that The New York Times ' s The 1619 Project , which aims to re-examine slavery in the United States , was developed in collaboration with the Pulitzer Center for use in schools?
Did you know that footballer Josh Yorwerth received what is believed to be the longest doping-related ban in English football history?
Did you know that Thomas's rope squirrel can communicate with other squirrels vocally or by stamping?
Did you know that South African Member of Parliament Wynand Boshoff is the grandson of assassinated apartheid -era Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd ?
Did you know that backlash over Dodge City, Kansas , radio station KTTL 's racist programming and its refusal to pay property taxes left the station with just one advertiser by 1983?
Did you know that during the First World War , the Women's Reserve Ambulance Corps was criticised in the contemporary press for "encroaching too closely on male territory"?
Did you know that the Narsaq stick was the first Viking Age runic artifact discovered in Greenland ?
Did you know that though she lacked her brothers' opportunities for formal schooling, the Irish suffragist Mary Ward was the first woman to pass the Cambridge moral sciences tripos with first class honours?
Did you know that Monowai volcano is growing so quickly that it frequently collapses, generating landslides?
Did you know that footballer Megan Wynne played for Tottenham Hotspur while also working full-time in the club's human resources department?
Did you know that there is a myth that the pieces of the broken tail of the slender glass lizard can grow into new lizards?
Did you know that Russian ambassador to Egypt Sergei Kirpichenko was the son of Vadim , former KGB resident to the country, and Valeriya , a philologist specialising in Arabic literature?
Did you know that an unauthorized student pilot was in control of Aeroméxico Connect Flight 2431 up until five seconds before it crashed?
Did you know that Major League Baseball player Cole Sulser has two degrees in engineering from Dartmouth College ?
Did you know that Ulrike Sonntag , a soprano at the Staatsoper Stuttgart and an academic voice teacher in Stuttgart , recorded an oratorio by Fanny Hensel and psalm settings by Lili Boulanger ?
Did you know that the submarine volcano Vailulu'u was named after a sacred rain and might become an island in the future?
Did you know that Bush Terminal , an intermodal shipping, warehousing, and manufacturing complex in New York City, was once so large that it had its own judicial system?
Did you know that Yang Hongxun designed the National Museum of Chinese Writing in the form of an ancient pictographic character from oracle bones ?
Did you know that the final of the 2017 World Women's Snooker Championship was the longest ever recorded best-of-11- frames match, lasting over eight hours of playing time?
Did you know that former Oregon state representative Ole W. Grubb and his wife had nine children of their own and cared for about 160 foster children?
Did you know that the 1805 Treaty of Potsdam committed Prussia to joining the War of the Third Coalition , but was effectively ended by the Battle of Austerlitz less than a month later?
Did you know that Dorothy Christian Hare was the first woman general physician to be elected a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians ?
Did you know that despite the Zulu serotine bat having a widespread distribution in Africa, it is not known where it roosts during the day?
Did you know that lieder singer and voice teacher Franziska Martienssen-Lohmann 's textbook for singers was recommended for general readers interested in "the human instrument"?
Did you know that while the American company Roper was the largest stove producer in the world, they also produced artillery shells during World War II?
Did you know that José Naranjo delivered the head of his own brother to Diego de Vargas , the Spanish governor of New Mexico ?
Did you know that Taylor Swift uses Leonardo DiCaprio as an example to explain sexism in her song " The Man "?
Did you know that Kazuo Wada spent decades building his parents' grocery store into the multinational retailer Yaohan , but became almost penniless after it went bankrupt during the 1997 Asian financial crisis ?
Did you know that in 1991, the Sacred Heart Church of the First Peoples became Canada's first national parish for indigenous people ?
Did you know that John Howland established the United States' first full-time pediatric department at the Johns Hopkins Hospital ?
Did you know that after the Siege of Ghent , the victorious commander, the Duke of Marlborough , claimed the garrison was so numerous that it took their army "from ten in the morning till seven at night" to evacuate the town?
Did you know that 2016 Paralympics para-rowing gold medalist Roman Polianskyi started experiencing symptoms of Strumpell disease at the age of ten?
Did you know that clover grass used to grow in the Pacific Ocean, but has not been seen there since a severe storm in 1996?
Did you know that Yella Beezy 's father was murdered when the rapper was 12 years old?