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Did you know that the killing of hundreds of thousands of Soviet civilians by starvation in the siege of Leningrad was ruled not criminal by an American court?
Did you know that Stella Alexander , the first female mayor of Issaquah , was nicknamed "Madame Mussolini " by her detractors?
Did you know that Canadian photographer and architectural activist Brian Merrett 's works prompted the preservation of Montreal's Shaughnessy House, now the Canadian Centre for Architecture ?
Did you know that @ NYT_first_said 's most popular tweet, as of 2019, was simply "shithole"?
Did you know that Swiss athlete Clara Thalmann arrived in Barcelona to compete in the People's Olympiad but ended up fighting in the Spanish Civil War ?
Did you know that Hende's Hut on Roberts Point Track , a tramping track in New Zealand, originally had no windows?
Did you know that soprano Rachel Yakar , who received international attention in 1977 as Poppea with Nikolaus Harnoncourt , was also described as an "ideal" Mélisande and "a Mozartian at heart and in style"?
Did you know that in its first full month on the air, an Idaho TV station had the highest prime-time viewing share of any independent station in the United States?
Did you know that in the 1909 election to the city council of Surabaya , less than 1 percent of the population was enrolled to vote?
Did you know that each performance of the Tale of the Moon Cuckoo lasted for an entire month?
Did you know that the Saikabo Korean restaurant chain in Japan suffered a 30% drop in sales after the South Korean president visited the disputed Liancourt Rocks ?
Did you know that Turku remained the largest city in Finland after three quarters of it burned down?
Did you know that sessions of This War of Mine: The Board Game can last over five hours and often end in the deaths of all characters?
Did you know that the title of " Shinzō wo Sasageyo! ", the opening theme song for season two of Attack on Titan , comes from an in-universe salute and battle cry?
Did you know that according to a book by a friend of the Columbine shooters , students at Columbine High School would joke that their school was next for a mass shooting?
Did you know that authorities said the killing of Wadea al-Fayoume in Illinois was a response to the 2023 Israel–Hamas war ?
Did you know that the city council of Bandung in the Dutch East Indies initially met at the site of a former coffee-packing factory?
Did you know that when he was in the Royal New Zealand Air Force , future politician Tim Costley starred in a YouTube video that joked about having sex with sheep?
Did you know that the site of Hirbemerdon Tepe was initially inhabited in the Chalcolithic and continued to be populated until the Ottoman Empire ?
Did you know that Flathead Lake Biological Station can detect invasive aquatic species in real-time using eDNA technology?
Did you know that the Wantage Code , a record of laws promulgated by the English king Æthelred the Unready and his councillors around 997, may provide the earliest description of a jury of presentment ?
Did you know that in the Russian Far East , there is a population of North Koreans in Kamchatka that now aligns itself with South Korea?
Did you know that New Zealand politician Tom Rutherford is a firefighter and hockey umpire?
Did you know that later pressings of the soundtrack of the soft porn film The Stud replaced Manfred Mann's Earth Band 's " Davy's on the Road Again " after a journalist blabbed its presence to the band's keyboardist ?
Did you know that the Data Colada bloggers drew attention to the replication crisis by exposing faulty social science research?
Did you know that the FBS college football player Tre Harris set his school's single-game record for most receiving touchdowns in his debut?
Did you know that historically, native mercury was extracted from rocks mined in Idrija by washing them in the stream Nikova ?
Did you know that some of the optics for the James Webb Space Telescope were made at the NETPark science park in northern England?
Did you know that professor Ruth Ann Davis made the largest-ever single contribution to Potomac State College of West Virginia University to support nursing scholarships in memory of her mother?
Did you know that cross-site leaks can be used to gain information about your web-browsing habits?
Did you know that to combat water privatization in Bolivia , Freddy Huayta joined a "coordinator"—a loose-knit alliance of organizations united around a single cause ?
Did you know that " Mir nach, spricht Christus, unser Held " (Follow me, says Christ, our hero) is a Christian hymn in German with a text by Angelus Silesius that uses sayings of Jesus in direct speech ?
Did you know that shortly after a missile strike on the Russian Black Sea Fleet headquarters, Oleksiy Danilov said that the fleet could be "sliced up like a salami " at a later date?
Did you know that the United States Conciliation Service , which was part of the U.S. Department of Labor , came to an end because the writers of the Taft–Hartley Act thought that the service was too partial to labor?
Did you know that Dianne Lee had her name changed from Melody to avoid seeming like a reggae act?
Did you know that an island vindicated James Cook ?
Did you know that even though the Legislative Assembly of Quebec ordered a monument of Maurice Duplessis in front of its building , later premiers hid it for 16 years to avoid political tensions?
Did you know that after the British premiere of Percy Grainger 's suite In a Nutshell , The Daily Telegraph argued that the marimba , then new to the orchestra, sounded inferior to the xylophone ?
Did you know that a favorite of Tsar Ivan the Terrible may have killed his own father to prove his loyalty to the tsar?
Did you know that BoysTown was reported as having the largest case of child abuse in Australia's history?
Did you know that James Dillon Armstrong was a Virginia state senator, a delegate to West Virginia's constitutional convention, and a circuit court judge while serving for more than 43 years as a Presbyterian church elder ?
Did you know that Amrita Shah found that the introduction of television to India led to more women aspiring to become independent?
Did you know that one of the largest fishing companies of New Zealand started as a fish and chip shop?
Did you know that the song " Lacy " is about a girl whom Olivia Rodrigo finds "sexy" and describes as a " Bardot reincarnate"?
Did you know that Pasquier Grenier sold tapestries to royalty across Europe in the 15th century?
Did you know that History of the Mission of the Evangelical Brothers in the Caribbean by C. G. A. Oldendorp was the first book to publish Igbo-language terms in 1777?
Did you know that Conjurer has contributed to a musical project named after a quote from the sitcom Peep Show ?
Did you know that the island bronze-naped pigeon is a popular food at bars and parties on São Tomé ?
Did you know that last month, Delanie Sheehan scored her first professional goal during Gotham FC 's first NWSL postseason win?
Did you know that little pink elephants are parasitic ?
Did you know that a retired man with no previous broadcasting experience was offered a job by a Wyoming TV station after winning an "Anchorman for a Day" contest?
Did you know that according to Pope Innocent III 's 1213 letter Quia maior , the number of the beast refers to the number of years since Muhammad's migration from Mecca to Medina?
Did you know that the Trapeze spreadsheet introduced the idea of blocks that InfoWorld called "revolutionary"?
Did you know that euglossine bees distribute the seeds of vanilla tlatepusco ?
Did you know that New Zealand politician Hamish Campbell is a cancer researcher and runs a flower-delivery business?
Did you know that Omi in a Hellcat owned three Dodge Hellcats ?
Did you know that plants grow around volcanic gas vents on Candlemas Island ?
Did you know that ranchers in the community now known as Loybas Hill ran their own telephone company for 60 years?
Did you know that the August 2014 United States floods set rainfall records across cities in several states, including Michigan , Maine , and New York ?
Did you know that actress Jacqui Purvis performed her character's wedding vows in te reo Māori during the 8000th episode of Home and Away ?
Did you know that 6 percent of the US population had symptoms of long COVID lasting three months or longer in the first half of 2023?
Did you know that a newspaper in Kentucky reported that the solar eclipse of November 22, 1900 , would pass over Austria instead of Australia?
Did you know that The Butchering Art describes how Joseph Lister 's successful surgery on Queen Victoria led to the widespread adoption of his antiseptic techniques?
Did you know that when Sarah Jane Baker was released after 30 years, she was the United Kingdom's longest serving transgender prisoner?
Did you know that Massachusetts gave the United States its first openly LGBT state legislator to be elected , as well as the first out congressperson and state attorney general ?
Did you know that the Royal Mint reportedly shipped rare silver coins to New Zealand in unsecured bags, claiming they had not been advised to take extra precaution?
Did you know that Toshiki Seto was cast in the television adaptation of Senpai, This Can't Be Love! because, according to the creator, he could express emotion through his stare?
Did you know that the judge in the 1938 King v Bourne trial stated that performing an abortion might prevent a "physical or mental wreck"?
Did you know that the 2023 MLS Cup Playoffs feature 62 percent of the league's teams?
Did you know that the John Snow pub is named for a shy British epidemiologist who did not drink?
Did you know that the ancient Roman poem In Eutropium criticized the politician Eutropius for holding a "feminine" triumph ?
Did you know that The Fader praised " Montgomery Brawl " as "a hilarious recap" of the brawl and a "song a piece of history deserves"?
Did you know that Lillian V. Holdeman Moore identified a spike in hydrogen-gas-producing bacteria in Skylab astronauts?
Did you know that Eric Sams remarked "what bride ever had a finer wedding gift?" of the song collection Myrthen ( Myrtles ), which Robert Schumann dedicated to Clara ?
Did you know that since 1977, a world constitution has existed alongside a Provisional World Parliament ?
Did you know that the music video for Olivia Rodrigo 's song " Get Him Back! " was shot on a smartphone?
Did you know that Sivapardus was larger than a leopard, smaller than a lion, and had a face like a cheetah?
Did you know that the archaeologist Alan Wace worked undercover for British intelligence during both world wars?
Did you know that Benton Harbor BASIC was written by Gordon Letwin , who Heathkit management said once showed up with long hair, high-top sneakers and a velvet coat?
Did you know that the Battle of Daybathwe ended shortly after the Myaungmya commander Saw E Binnya was assassinated by the Hanthawaddy commander Dein Mani-Yut , whom he thought was defecting to his side?
Did you know that in the 1932 baseball game in which pitcher Eddie Rommel won his last game, he pitched 17 innings in relief, an American League record?
Did you know that Spanish mystic Marina de Escobar founded a convent but never joined one?
Did you know that Spyridon Marinatos discovered the battlefield of Thermopylae in 1939?
Did you know that in 1944, the Tuvan-language journal Lenin–Stalinnьꞑ tugunuꞑ adaa-pile switched from the Latin script to the Cyrillic script?
Did you know that railroad engineer Jules Hanscotte developed a system for the safe braking of heavy trains on steep gradients , but its only significant use was on tourist tramways?
Did you know that William Sharpington and his workshop created what was described as "some of the most distinguished" public lettering in post-war England?
Did you know that before a separate party was created for Pakistan , the All India Scheduled Castes Federation simultaneously held the posts of Minister of Law in both Pakistan and India ?
Did you know that the owner of the Washington Wolfpack said that he initially only wanted to try out some players from his semi-professional team, but they gave him ownership instead?
Did you know that one legend claimed that Hö'elün conceived the boy who would become Genghis Khan when she was impregnated by a ray of light?
Did you know that They Might Be Giants sang in Simlish on the soundtrack for The Sims 2: FreeTime ?
Did you know that when she was elected to the New Zealand parliament, Catherine Wedd defeated her former coworker at a marketing company?
Did you know that the Seabury Tredwell House , now a museum, is Manhattan's only remaining 19th-century house with its original furnishings?
Did you know that scholars have argued over whether the Aineta aryballos depicts a goddess, a dancer, or a prostitute ?
Did you know that Hanthawaddy commander Smin Ye-Thin-Yan captured Donwun by deceiving his blood brother ?
Did you know that Tournament of Kings made its host the United States' biggest buyer of Cornish game hens in 2018?
Did you know that if James Stuart-Wortley had not falsified his age for the 1853 general election , Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke would now be New Zealand's youngest-ever member of parliament?
Did you know that the statue of Trần Hưng Đạo in Mê Linh Square was erected by the South Vietnamese Navy, who regarded him as a patron saint?
Did you know that Hanthawaddy royal Saw Maha-Rit was executed for leaving behind his wife Princess Tala Mi Kyaw on the battlefield?
Did you know that although Quentin Tarantino thought " Wiseman " was "fantastic", he could not find a scene for it in his film Django Unchained ?
Did you know that in 1974, Oliver C. Dawson was the first black person to be inducted into the South Carolina Athletic Hall of Fame ?
Did you know that insects not only destroyed the personal plant collection of John Hunter Thomas , but also bear his name ?
Did you know that with only three of the six guns in his P-51 Mustang working during a dogfight , Claude J. Crenshaw managed to shoot down four enemy aircraft?
Did you know that after signing the Camp David Accords in 1978, Prime Minister Menachem Begin ended a speech with a desire to sing the peace song " Hevenu shalom aleichem " with the people of Israel?
Did you know that scientists traveled thousands of miles to observe the solar eclipse of September 10, 1923 , from Santa Catalina Island, but saw only clouds?
Did you know that until 1985, CBS programs on a TV station in Sitka, Alaska , were videotaped in Seattle and aired on a two-week delay?
Did you know that Julia Allison has been described as one of the first influencers ?
Did you know that a US$6 plastic crown worn by the Notorious B.I.G. in a photograph featured on the cover of Rap Pages sold for US$594,790 at an auction?
Did you know that Randy Huntington coached three athletes to break world records in the long jump , the triple jump , and the 60-metres split ?
Did you know that despite a mathematical model deeming the ice cream bar flavour Goody Goody Gum Drops impossible, it was still created?
Did you know that a song from Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind was performed by four-year-old Mai Fujisawa , daughter of the film's composer Joe Hisaishi ?
Did you know that the Harlem Park Three were awarded US$48 million, the largest sum in Baltimore history, after being falsely imprisoned for murder?
Did you know that Warren C. Dickerson helped transform the Bronx into an urban extension of Manhattan?
Did you know that Batman has extra heavy crude ?
Did you know that a variety of the Connecticut field pumpkin is known as "the original commercial jack-o'-lantern pumpkin"?
Did you know that The Faculty Club at UC Berkeley , built in 1902, has been reported to be a hotspot for paranormal activity?
Did you know that British designer Alexander McQueen pressed live worms into a translucent corset to evoke vampirism and undeath for his collection The Hunger ?
Did you know that " Thriller " is the most popular Halloween song in the United States?
Did you know that film critics accused the MPAA ratings board of having yielded to studio pressure to rate The Exorcist R rather than X?
Did you know that the Circleville Pumpkin Show , the oldest pumpkin show in the United States, has been selecting a Miss Pumpkin since 1933?
Did you know that The Wiccan Web recommends drawing pentagrams on your computer screen with tinctures?
Did you know that Jack Washburn was called "Cinderella Boy" for winning a starring role in his first Broadway show?
Did you know that the India national team were victorious in football at the 1951 and 1962 Asian Games ?
Did you know that Bob Albright won his first primary election for the Alabama House of Representatives against a neighbor who lived on the same street as him?
Did you know that the allegedly haunted Capitol Hill mystery soda machine "went for a walk" one day and never returned?
Did you know that teacher Mary Creighton Bailey was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for her services in the improvement of education in Germany shortly after World War II ?
Did you know that a winter storm in December 2017 cancelled an attempt at the world's largest snowball fight at Six Flags Great Adventure in New Jersey ?
Did you know that Colonel Sanders created a competing restaurant to KFC, and was sued by KFC?
Did you know that Snoop Dogg's original lyrics about cannabis for the song " Sunday " were sung over by Ben Rector to keep the song clean?
Did you know that Sophie von Maltzan led the making of a submarine that was walked through the streets of Dublin ?
Did you know that the New Zealand fishing company Sealord Group is half-owned by iwi ?
Did you know that rubber barons like Carlos Scharff enslaved indigenous populations in the Upper Amazon region during the rubber boom as a workforce for latex collection?
Did you know that the Greco-Australian dialect , a variety of Modern Greek , blends words with English roots into the Greek language?
Did you know that Dublin property developer Harry Crosbie received an OBE from the British ambassador to Ireland , partly for entertaining Elizabeth II with his showbiz contacts?
Did you know that the song " Luochahai City " mentions Ludwig Wittgenstein ?
Did you know that football player and coach Clarence McGeary wrestled with Bronko Nagurski , owned bowling alleys with Rocky Marciano , founded the Federation of Christian Athletes, and was awarded a Purple Heart ?
Did you know that the Al Qarara Cultural Museum , housed in a former grain silo, contained 6000 years of history?
Did you know that Dimitrie Ralet , a pioneer Romanian orientalist, commended Ottoman reformers for not "blindly adopting what we in Europe take to mean civilization"?
Did you know that PragerU 's hashtag #DETRANS, originally meant to promote their short film , was hijacked by Twitter users?
Did you know that plant species like Hypericum bupleuroides can reproduce by a callus ?
Did you know that the son of an engine fitter from England became Director of Education in part of modern-day South Africa for almost twenty years?
Did you know that the No. 1–ranked 2023 Colorado Mines Orediggers , "college football's nerdiest contender", featured players with pigtails and a drawn-on blue mustache, a friar's haircut, and Harry Potter cosplay?
Did you know that the socialite Lucy Drexel Dahlgren's New York City house was designed by a neighbor whom Dahlgren met in Paris?
Did you know that Turbo Dismount released a playable web demo to stave off bankruptcy?
Did you know that the Lake Patzcuaro salamander 's native habitat is limited to a single lake in Mexico ?
Did you know that the Springfield Science Museum is home to the oldest operating projection planetarium in the United States?
Did you know that in the early 20th century, the town council of Worthing purchased Cote Bottom and pledged that it would be kept in perpetuity as a public amenity?
Did you know that the party leader of the new Dutch youth political party LEF – For the New Generation tattooed his party's program points on his forearm?
Did you know that the Latin princess Ioveta was about four years old when her mother, Queen Morphia , surrendered her to the Turks as debt payment security?
Did you know that William Brault was inducted into the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame 28 years after he founded it?
Did you know that a 1905 steam-powered pump was assembled on-site in Virginia with its housing constructed around it?
Did you know that when the financially failing Walker Interactive Products could not find a buyer, it staged a large-scale layoff in order to stay alive?
Did you know that to encourage upscale development of the neighborhood, J. Harper Smith had the street leading to his Victorian mansion renamed to have a "higher tone"?
Did you know that in 2001, around 64 percent of all films produced in Malayalam were of the soft-porn variety ?
Did you know that although Jules Meysmans invented an entire language, he is best known for his invention of one word ?
Did you know that in 1977, Appalachian folk singer Phyllis Boyens performed at a Christmas benefit concert to support Kentucky coal miners who had been on strike for 17 months?
Did you know that Grandpa Indian , created in the 1930s to replace Santa Claus in Brazil , was portrayed as adorned in colorful bird feathers, bringing gifts to Brazilian children?
Did you know that an early example of the genre of Christmas horror is A Christmas Carol , published in 1843?
Did you know that Jewish refugee Kurt S. Adler , who started one of the largest importers of Christmas decorations to the United States, was called "America’s Father Christmas" by the magazine German Life in 2002?
Did you know that the live-action comedy series Community had a stop motion animated Christmas special ?
Did you know that " Verbum caro factum est ", a Christmas motet for six voices by Hans Leo Hassler in the Venetian polychoral style , has been arranged for brass ensembles?
Did you know that in Icelandic folklore, the Yule cat eats people who do not receive new clothing for Christmas?
Did you know that Maryam Eslamdoust was the first Iranian-born woman to hold public office in Great Britain?
Did you know that on Christmas Eve in 1818, the Christmas carol "Stille Nacht" (" Silent Night ") was first performed in the Nikolauskirche in Oberndorf , Austria?
Did you know that the tripartite structure of the National War Labor Board helped the United States keep work stoppages to a minimum during World War II?
Did you know that on every Christmas Eve since 1994, Willem Lange 's story about the fruitcake -delivering farmer Favor Johnson is broadcast on public radio stations in Vermont ?
Did you know that the anti-colonialist Ligue de défense de la race nègre , which at one point had around 1,000 members, was suppressed by the French government in 1937, ten years after its founding?
Did you know that Mel Bartholomew , who developed the time-saving square foot gardening method, said that he gardened "with a salad bowl in mind, not a wheelbarrow "?
Did you know that 25 Water Street was designed to blend in with historic brick buildings that no longer exist?
Did you know that the last Byzantine emperor , Constantine XI Palaiologos , was never formally crowned ?
Did you know that having worked as a secretary for 67 years, secret millionaire Sylvia Bloom retired at the age of 96 and willed US$8.2 million to sponsor underprivileged students?
Did you know that a Hot Dog Bean screenprint from Andy Warhol 's Campbell's Soup Cans II sold for $258,046 in 2013?
Did you know that Anna Burke was the second woman to give birth while a member of the Australian House of Representatives ?
Did you know that Eagle-Dogtooth Provincial Park in Ontario , Canada, contains part of the Experimental Lakes Area , a controlled area for conducting scientific experiments in lakes?
Did you know that as CEO of Walmart US, Greg Foran would go undercover as a shopper?
Did you know that Mario Party DS 's minigames feature "minimized" Mario characters ?
Did you know that Fred Provo was told he would have to have his arm amputated due to a wound sustained in World War II, but refused, recovered, and went on to play in the National Football League?