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Did you know that in its early years, New York City's Sunset Park could only be reached by 60-foot (18 m) ladders?
Did you know that Chinese entrepreneur Frank Tsao co-founded the national shipping lines of both Malaysia and Thailand, and was awarded the nobility title Tan Sri by the king of Malaysia?
Did you know that the Lebanon women's national football team 's first official qualification campaign took place eight years after their inception?
Did you know that Beth Van Duyne , the mayor of Irving, Texas , from 2011 to 2017, initially became involved in politics due to a zoning dispute?
Did you know that the endorheic salt lake Sebkha el Melah in Algeria has two parts, the upper one pond-like and biodiverse and the lower one salt-encrusted and nearly devoid of vegetation?
Did you know that British actress and scriptwriter Betty Paul wrote for the first rural soap opera, Weavers Green , in collaboration with her third husband?
Did you know that the Mapuche-Huilliche of southern Chile defeated a slave-hunting Spanish army at the Battle of Río Bueno in 1654?
Did you know that shortly after serving as President of Georgetown University , David H. Buel quit the Jesuits and secretly married?
Did you know that Yola Letellier is widely believed to be the model for the main character in Colette 's story Gigi ?
Did you know that the depiction of the ruins of the leper colony Nagashima Aiseien Sanatorium in Atsushi Fujiwara 's 2015 photobook Poet Island was inspired by the poetry of Kaijin Akashi , who lived, wrote, and ultimately died there in 1939?
Did you know that Clarence Ervin became the first African-American brigadier general in the history of the North Carolina Air National Guard in 2015?
Did you know that in his opera Sirenen – Bilder des Begehrens und des Vernichtens , Rolf Riehm included instruments such as archaic wood planks, a musical saw , an accordion , and a piano?
Did you know that UCLA football player Joshua Kelley 's career-high 289 rushing yards against USC last season were the most by any player on either team in the history of the schools' crosstown rivalry ?
Did you know that an endemic species of trout in Lake Aguelmame Sidi Ali became extinct after the common carp was introduced in 1934?
Did you know that Meghan Trainor 's 2019 EP The Love Train was promoted through a press release which drew controversy because of its "graphic nature and bizarre phrasing"?
Did you know that Werner Müller managed a reduction in Germany's dependence on coal in a socially responsible way as Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy and as CEO of major energy companies?
Did you know that the Ethiopian epauletted fruit bat uses its hind feet to comb its fur and its tongue to wash its face, wing membranes, and genital region?
Did you know that the work of C. Doris Hellman on the Great Comet of 1577 led historians of science to recognize the comet's key role in the success of the Copernican Revolution ?
Did you know that Ali Sayyad Shirazi , deputy chief of staff of the Iranian armed forces, was assassinated in 1999 by a Mojahedin-e Khalq agent disguised as a street cleaner?
Did you know that when National Basketball Association revenue in Canada grew 224 percent in five years, vice-president Dan MacKenzie attributed it to marketing strategy and the sport's appeal to young Asian Canadians ?
Did you know that the International Agrarian Bureau was criticized by the right as advocating the "peasant-boot dictatorship", and by the left as a vehicle for "peasant individualism"?
Did you know that when offered the award of the Iron Cross from Nazi Germany, Leo Skurnik , a Jewish major in the Finnish Army , refused, reportedly saying "I wipe my arse with it"?
Did you know that the Spanish idiom " ¿Cuándo hemos comido en el mismo plato? " (' When have we eaten from the same dish? ' ) is used as social commentary about poor manners or incivility?
Did you know that Patricia Marshall 's role in the 1947 film Good News was originally meant for Gloria DeHaven ?
Did you know that the anti-Muslim Ełk riots in Poland led to the launch of the ironic The Kebab War website, which listed attacks on kebab eateries?
Did you know that the lightning-caused Swan Lake fire in Alaska has burned over 160,000 acres (65,000 ha) of wildland?
Did you know that a critic described the song " Lover " as a throwback to Taylor Swift 's "country days"?
Did you know that in Su Shuyang 's tragedy depicting the last day of Lao She 's life, the celebrated writer converses with dead characters from his own works before committing suicide?
Did you know that The Urology Foundation carried out a survey of how often British men check their testicles ?
Did you know that Professor Lu Yonggen was named by Harvard Kennedy School as the second most generous Chinese philanthropist of 2017 after donating his entire life savings to South China Agricultural University ?
Did you know that a 1946 United States proposal to buy Greenland from Denmark remained classified until the 1970s, when Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten discovered documents related to it?
Did you know that Prince Min Nyo of Kale seized the throne of Ava by having his lover, Queen Shin Bo-Me , assassinate his eight-year-old nephew, King Min Hla ?
Did you know that Jebel ech Chambi , the highest mountain in Tunisia, is one of the few places in which the Cuvier's gazelle survives?
Did you know that as state health commissioner of Indiana , Woody Myers supported the right of Ryan White , a teenage boy with HIV/AIDS , to return to public school in the face of anti-AIDS discrimination?
Did you know that Libyan president Muammar Gaddafi ordered his air force to attack a city during the Uganda–Tanzania War , but his bomber instead hit a game reserve and killed antelopes?
Did you know that London surgeon Laidlaw Purves was described as the "fairy godfather of ladies' golf"?
Did you know that voice actress Ai Fairouz 's interest in anime and manga was influenced by her reading the series JoJo's Bizarre Adventure in online Skype sessions?
Did you know that trace amounts of snowfall account for up to 80 percent of all precipitation that falls in some areas of northern Canada?
Did you know that Agadzagadza is a mythological trickster from Nigeria who is responsible for bringing death to humankind?
Did you know that the PATH train system was sold to allow the first World Trade Center in New York City to be built?
Did you know that legal scholar Wang Jiafu gave lectures to China's top leaders, including President Jiang Zemin and Premier Li Peng ?
Did you know that the Natal cycad and the dune false currant are among the 1,900 endemic plant species found in the Maputaland-Pondoland-Albany Hotspot ?
Did you know that Petra Klingler finished third in the Ice Climbing World Cup while climbing on one leg?
Did you know that Vicky Knight , who played an acid-attack victim in her debut film role , works as a healthcare assistant in the hospital where she was treated as a child?
Did you know that Mexican drug lord Carlos Landín Martínez was arrested while buying watermelons?
Did you know that the Vel blood group was discovered when a patient experienced a severe transfusion reaction, and her blood type was found to be incompatible with all but five out of ten thousand blood donors?
Did you know that Tonic Trouble , released in 1999, was the first video game developed by Ubisoft Montreal ?
Did you know that John Pierce has performed Wagner roles internationally, such as Tannhäuser and Lohengrin at the Stadttheater Minden , and Tristan in Prague, Rotterdam, and Rio de Janeiro?
Did you know that FreeConferenceCall.com faced a public backlash for trying to change its hold music ?
Did you know that Wen Chuanyuan was the chief designer of China's first drone and first flight simulator ?
Did you know that a tree at least 700 years old , reputedly planted by Robert the Bruce , was destroyed by an arson attack in 2004?
Did you know that structural biologist Erica Ollmann Saphire traveled to Africa to observe rodents in the field in order to study how viruses like Ebola are spread?
Did you know that Alexander of Islay encouraged Clan Chattan to fight the Battle of Craig Cailloch against Clan Cameron as revenge for the Camerons' defection?
Did you know that as President of Georgetown University , Arthur A. O'Leary traveled around the United States to organize inactive regional chapters of the university's alumni into a national network?
Did you know that infestations of the common plaster beetle have caused hygiene problems in a hospital?
Did you know that in the 2010 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship Final , Niamh McEvoy came on as a second-half substitute for Niamh McEvoy ?
Did you know that Pixar cinematographer Patrick Lin pioneered the use of a virtual lens based on an actual camera lens in Inside Out ?
Did you know that David Bowie 's first gig as lead singer was at the Green Man, Blackheath ?
Did you know that Greg Moore won a record-breaking ten races, and completed every event, on his way to winning the 1995 Indy Lights season ?
Did you know that populations of the russet rice rat have been shown to have a monogamous mating system?
Did you know that during the Siege of Eshowe , members of the Natal Native Pioneer Corps ventured out of the town under Zulu fire to retrieve maize and pumpkins to sell to the defenders?
Did you know that in his eighties, former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Whitney North Seymour Jr. co-wrote and produced a one-act play performed off-Broadway ?
Did you know that Jack Roxburgh introduced legislation on this day in 1964 to declare ice hockey Canada's national game, after disproving the myth that lacrosse held that distinction?
Did you know that despite a name meaning "strong-smelling durian ", Durio graveolens has been described as odorless?
Did you know that Zhang Lianzhong was the first commander of the Chinese navy who had served at sea?
Did you know that Turkish correspondent Pelin Ünker is the only journalist in the world sentenced for writing about the Paradise Papers investigation?
Did you know that Japan National Route 279 's course in Aomori Prefecture follows an ancient pilgrimage path to Mount Osore , a destination believed to be a gate to the underworld in Japanese mythology ?
Did you know that the Green Bay Packers ' training facility Rockwood Lodge burned down less than four years after it was purchased by head coach Curly Lambeau ?
Did you know that Joseph Kupelwieser wrote the libretto for Schubert's Fierrabras , and was later held responsible by the composer for the opera's failure?
Did you know that folic acid, a synthetic form of the vitamin folate , is added to wheat flour in many countries to reduce the risk of infants being born with spina bifida and other neural tube defects ?
Did you know that Tadjuddin Noor was voted out of his position as chair of the legislature of East Indonesia after he failed to restrain spectators?
Did you know that New Hampshire radio station WBRL 's first license was cancelled by the Federal Communications Commission because of double-billing practices?
Did you know that in 2018, Élisabeth Revol became the first woman to ascend Nanga Parbat in winter, and her rescue on the descent was widely reported?
Did you know that a future president of Georgetown University , John D. Whitney , decided to convert to Catholicism after reading a book accidentally dropped into the ocean from a U.S. Navy ship?
Did you know that Enoch Fenwick reluctantly became president of Georgetown College in 1820, and abandoned the post in 1825 before a replacement was found?
Did you know that water seeping from a statue of Jesus in Mumbai was initially called a miracle, but turned out to originate from a nearby overflowing drain?
Did you know that in 2019, Brigham Young University volleyball coach Heather Olmstead held the highest winning percentage of any women's volleyball coach in NCAA Division I history?
Did you know that at least 70 members of the cast and crew were injured while working alongside 130 or more untrained big cats , mostly lions and tigers, for the film Roar ?
Did you know that before becoming the first woman general in the army of the Ivory Coast, Akissi Kouamé initiated the appointment of midwives to the army health service?
Did you know that KGCX , located in a town with a population of 50 , claimed to be the world's smallest broadcasting station?
Did you know that after Xu Chi published his biography of mathematician Chen Jingrun , the latter received a sackful of love letters?
Did you know that director and screenwriter Travis Stevens paused renovations on his production company's house to film Girl on the Third Floor ?
Did you know that Piera Aiello wore a veil to protect her identity when standing for Italy's Chamber of Deputies because of threats from the mafia?
Did you know that after the owner of Delaware radio station WNRK died before he could put it on the air, his widow was interviewed on the station's first day of broadcasting?
Did you know that German stock trader Dirk Müller is known as "Mr. DAX "?
Did you know that the Corps of Royal Artillery Drivers was created in 1793 to replace civilian contractors, who sometimes abandoned their artillery in battle?
Did you know that John B. Creeden was a founder of both Boston College Law School and Georgetown University 's School of Foreign Service ?
Did you know that Neil Robertson will not play at the 2019 World Open snooker tournament because he drove to Barnsley, Gloucestershire , rather than Barnsley, South Yorkshire , to compete in the qualifiers?
Did you know that Ugandan air force commander Andrew Mukooza may have been murdered because he helped defeat a coup attempt?
Did you know that the nectar-rich flowers of the African locust-bean are visited by bats, dormice , and pottos ?
Did you know that after Ruth Darrow 's son died from hemolytic disease of the newborn , she was inspired to study the disease, and became the first person to identify its cause?
Did you know that the Friendship Bridge on the Russian–Chinese border at Shiwei, Inner Mongolia , is used by trucks carrying quarried stone, but passenger vehicles are not permitted?
Did you know that industrialist John Mason Loomis , a Union Army colonel in the American Civil War , fought in 57 battles and skirmishes, marching with his men for more than 6,900 mi (11,100 km)?
Did you know that the 6000 mAh battery on the Samsung Galaxy M30s is the largest ever for a Samsung smartphone?
Did you know that director Celia Rowlson-Hall cast herself as a modern version of the Virgin Mary in her first feature film?
Did you know that Ross T. McIntire was the first Physician to the President to have had a certified medical specialty ?
Did you know that John Gibson 's design of Nutfield Priory was inspired by the Palace of Westminster ?
Did you know that Józefa Joteyko believed that wages should be based upon scientific research and the amount of effort required to do a job, rather than arbitrary factors like gender?
Did you know that the opera Blind Injustice tells the true stories of six people in Ohio who were wrongfully convicted and later exonerated?
Did you know that under the leadership of Liu Shunyao , the Chinese air force began emphasizing the need to fight offensive battles?
Did you know that the warehouse beetle usually develops within about two months, but may enter an active diapause and take two years?
Did you know that a US$25,000 bounty is offered for Big Momma ?
Did you know that the gut bacteria of Drosophila subobscura can influence its mating behavior?
Did you know that housing expert Patricia Bagot argued with Colonel Muammar Gaddafi over the quality of housing in Libya?
Did you know that Evergreen Hospital Medical Center in Washington had the first MRI machine on the U.S. West Coast?
Did you know that botanist Betty Flint continued research in a voluntary capacity at Lincoln University and Landcare Research until she was 100 years old?
Did you know that the Springs Mills Building , a New York City Landmark built in 1963, has a hexagonal tower that may have taken inspiration from Milan's Pirelli Tower ?
Did you know that Swedish journalist Ingalill Mosander and her husband Jan Mosander both survived the Costa Concordia disaster in 2012?
Did you know that the grand prize of the Miss'd America pageant was once a Burger King crown and a bouquet of dead roses?
Did you know that mathematician Dona Strauss left South Africa over apartheid , lost a faculty job at Dartmouth for joining an anti-war protest, and helped found European Women in Mathematics ?
Did you know that the Church of the Gesú in Philadelphia once held more than 200 relics ?
Did you know that John Gillies devised what is thought to have been the first British closed-circuit anaesthetic machine?
Did you know that New York City's Kings Plaza shopping mall was built with a marina for visitors, as well as its own power system?
Did you know that prior to joining the Supreme Court of Chile , Gloria Ana Chevesich was best known for convicting a former government minister and 13 others of fraud in the MOP-Gate case ?
Did you know that despite its name, the Pere Marquette Lumber Company ranked among the largest salt and lumber producers in the state of Michigan?
Did you know that one of the Buddha 's chief female disciples, Uppalavanna , is said to have become a nun because she was so beautiful that her father feared conflict between her many wealthy suitors?
Did you know that at 2.5 miles (4.0 km), New York City's South Beach Boardwalk was cited as the fourth longest boardwalk in the world in 2010?
Did you know that medical researcher Shuping Wang may have saved tens of thousands of lives by defying authorities and exposing an HIV/AIDS scandal in China ?
Did you know that two years after going on the air, WBCE radio switched from country to gospel music because too many stations in western Kentucky had country formats?
Did you know that Lee Eun-soo was South Korea's seventh female general officer and the first in the legal branch?
Did you know that at the 2019 China Championship , Judd Trump 's fifteen-match and six-month winning streak was broken when he was defeated by Joe Perry ?
Did you know that Gujarati writer Rambha Gandhi wrote and participated in more than 400 radio plays ?
Did you know that the 1977 fantasy novel The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions was originally planned as a children's book ?
Did you know that Divyansh Singh Panwar won four medals at the 2019 Shooting World Cup , two years after his father became worried by his " PUBG addiction" and sent him to New Delhi to train?
Did you know that a contributing factor to the demise of black radio station KOJC in Cedar Rapids, Iowa , was an internal struggle among its board of directors?
Did you know that Werner Haseleu appeared as Moses in Schoenberg's Moses und Aron at the Staatsoper Dresden , and as Holofernes in the world premiere of Judith by Siegfried Matthus at the Berlin State Opera ?
Did you know that Sevastopol had no official coat of arms from 1917 until 1969, but two official coats of arms from 1993 until 2000?
Did you know that Kang Woo-kyu hid a grenade between his legs to pass through the Russian–Japanese border and try to assassinate the Japanese governor-general of Korea ?
Did you know that to create the Great Northumberland Forest , up to a million trees are due to be planted between 2020 and 2024?
Did you know that William S. White took a two month break from The New York Times to write the book that won the 1955 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography ?
Did you know that Yu Zhenwu piloted the first successful flight of China's first indigenously designed jet aircraft and, decades later, became Commander of the People's Liberation Army Air Force ?
Did you know that the annual charity radiothon at Wyoming high school radio station KYDZ was commended by a thank-you letter from President Ronald Reagan ?
Did you know that after drug cartel member Raúl Alberto Trejo Benavides was killed in a shootout, his comrades tried to fabricate a suicide?
Did you know that in 1916, three members of a military band were killed in action during the Battle of Columbus in New Mexico ?
Did you know that according to dietician Amy Brown , a researcher of social barriers to breastfeeding, smacking children is acceptable to more British people than breastfeeding in public?
Did you know that satellites in a geostationary orbit appear stationary in the sky to a ground observer?
Did you know that surgeon Robert N. McClelland tried to save the lives of both John F. Kennedy and his assassin ?
Did you know that Litsy is similar to Twitter and Instagram , but is only for books?
Did you know that property developer Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi , fiancé of Princess Beatrice of York , co-founded a charity in Rwanda that aims to use cricket to foster social change?
Did you know that the cause of the decline in hornleaf riverweed , a foundation species in swift-flowing rivers in North America, is unclear?
Did you know that pediatric oncologist Brigid Leventhal was one of only six women in her graduating class from Harvard Medical School in 1960?
Did you know that Shaun Murphy pulled out of the 2019 Paul Hunter Classic snooker tournament after injuring his leg dancing to Disney's Greatest Hits ?
Did you know that the construction of New York City's Tweed Courthouse , prolonged over 20 years, has been called "a classic in the annals of American graft"?
Did you know that tenor Thomas Mohr , who has sung the roles of Loge, Siegmund, and Siegfried in Der Ring in Minden , hosts concerts in his cowshed?
Did you know that tenor Enea Scala has appeared in roles by Rossini , most recently in the title role of Otello , an opera which requires at least five tenors?
Did you know that the U.S. Armed Forces created Female Engagement Teams to interact with women in Afghanistan?
Did you know that Georg Forster 's 1777 report A Voyage Round the World , about the second voyage of James Cook , was not reprinted in English for nearly two centuries?
Did you know that Arizona Cardinals offensive tackle Brett Toth was the first Army Black Knights football player to play in the Senior Bowl ?
Did you know that the naked-rumped tomb bat is among a number of species of bat that roost in different parts of the Karnak Temple Complex in Egypt?
Did you know that 19th-century Scottish heiress and philanthropist Margaret Macpherson Grant died, aged 42, shortly after her female partner had abandoned her to marry a man?
Did you know that more than 4 million videos on TikTok feature the song " Mia Khalifa " – also known as the "Hit or Miss" song – even though the app had not licensed its use and has never paid the artists?
Did you know that governors Liu Tianfu and Liang Lingguang were both considered reform pioneers who propelled the economic development of Guangdong in the 1980s?
Did you know that radio station WPSA at Paul Smith's College began life in the basement of a dormitory that had previously been a meat market?
Did you know that the nave entrance doors of St Rufus Church in Keith, Moray , Scotland, incorporate a two-sided memorial to the First and Second World Wars?
Did you know that in Among the Lost , a 2018 novel by Mexican author Emiliano Monge , the victims of human trafficking are described in language borrowed from Dante's Inferno and the testimony of real-life people?
Did you know that Julie Dretzin has narrated audiobooks using Russian accents for some characters and Maine accents for others?
Did you know that Hildegarde had a bat , a mouse and a shrew named in her honour?
Did you know that Celia Harvey has been a countess, a lecturer, a parliamentary candidate, and a British Army brigadier?
Did you know that today's Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Fleet Review was canceled due to Typhoon Hagibis ?
Did you know that Hans Riemer went from being a prisoner of war in 1945 to President of Austria's Bundesrat in 1955?
Did you know that the Archer Avenue subway took 16 years to finish, was completed at a cost of nearly five times its original budget, and was cut back to a fraction of its original length?
Did you know that the Australian Aboriginal community of Ali Curung is named after the nearby ancestral Alekarenge (" dingo -associated") Dreaming sites?