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Did you know that after her father received hospice care, Connecticut state legislator Claudia Powers introduced bills to include hospice under Medicare?
Did you know that in 2022, Emmanuel Macron recognized the 1962 Isly killings of French citizens in Algeria by the French army as a massacre?
Did you know that Encanto 's Isabela Madrigal was animated to be aware that she is "always on stage"?
Did you know that the Ciudad Juárez cobalt-60 contamination incident was caused when radioactive material ended up in a junkyard and was smelted to produce rebar ?
Did you know that Andrei Angouw is the first Confucian mayor in Indonesia?
Did you know that the Hi Jolly Monument in Quartzsite, Arizona , marks the grave of Hadji Ali , recruited to the United States to drive and tend camels for the United States Camel Corps ?
Did you know that Pranati Nayak was the second Indian female artistic gymnast to compete at the Olympic Games ?
Did you know that Alabama radio station WTQX was picketed over the alleged systematic firing of its existing staff by new management?
Did you know that Hina Suguta , who voices Marin Kitagawa in My Dress-Up Darling , worked as a nursery teacher before starting her voice acting career?
Did you know that the B. J. Habibie Bridge in Dili , East Timor, is named after a former deputy of the Indonesian president , who instigated the Indonesian invasion and occupation of East Timor ?
Did you know that the second college founded by David Nelson was known as an " abolitionist factory"?
Did you know that, for the animated film Us Again , director and writer Zach Parrish considered a video of an elderly couple dancing to be visceral and ideal inspiration?
Did you know that Sylvain Tesson isolated himself in a pigeon house for a month to write Un été avec Homère ?
Did you know that Brigadier General Francis G. Brink , the first commander of Military Assistance Advisory Group Indochina, was found dead at the Pentagon with three bullet wounds in the chest?
Did you know that Polish Home Army resistance fighter Witold Pilecki volunteered to infiltrate the Auschwitz concentration camp ?
Did you know that Castle Ten Berghe , a manor house built during the 13th century, is now run as a bed and breakfast with a neo-Gothic architectural style?
Did you know that the main storyline of the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode " The Perfect Pear " comes from a long-running joke among the show's staff?
Did you know that Children's Fantasy Literature is the first work to address the genre's 500-year history in depth?
Did you know that the 1978 New York City newspaper strike has been theorized to have caused great misery in Boston sports fans?
Did you know that, in addition to the Armenians, the Assyrians also faced genocide in the Ottoman Empire during World War I?
Did you know that Seal Rescue Ireland comforts orphaned seal pups with fake mothers made of wetsuits ?
Did you know that Doja Cat 's " Streets " peaked at number 16 on the Billboard Hot 100 because of a viral mashup on TikTok that combined it with a 1959 song by Paul Anka ?
Did you know that despite never having received a formal education in botany, Harry Allan became one of New Zealand's most eminent botanists?
Did you know that during its fifteen-year existence, the New York City Tribune had its highest circulation during a newspaper strike?
Did you know that the Museum of Classic Sci-Fi is located in the cellar of a house in Allendale, Northumberland ?
Did you know that an executive of Florida station WFTL-TV declared that he had "faith in its future", only to sell it within months and for the station to close within three years?
Did you know that when Florida television station WITV ceased broadcasting in May 1958, its owner was reported to be on a yacht at sea and thus unavailable for comment?
Did you know that Plaza Hotel Curaçao , the tallest building in Curaçao , is falling apart?
Did you know that during the production of the 1935 film Together We Live , carpenters tried to copy the musical saw brought in by actress Wera Engels ?
Did you know that Squatina mapama was named after Spain's Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Food and Environment ?
Did you know that when US Army lieutenant general Carl H. Jark retired in 1964, Congressman Henry B. González of Texas honored him by reading Jark's entire career history into the Congressional Record ?
Did you know that to repel migrants , the European Union has paid hundreds of millions of euros to Libyan partners known to be involved in human trafficking, slavery, and torture?
Did you know that journalist Bill Westwick once wrote about a plan that never happened with "brilliant clarity and memorable hilarity"?
Did you know that Santa Maria, California , radio station KSBQ is named for the style of barbecue that originated in that city ?
Did you know that a Cossack detachment led by Imperial Russian Lazar Bicherakhov joined forces with British general Lionel Dunsterville 's expeditionary corps to prevent Ottoman advance?
Did you know that the Lake Street Transfer was a double-decked transfer station accommodating two different elevated lines?
Did you know that the College of William & Mary 's Lake Matoaka is named for Pocahontas ?
Did you know that DBTel once took up 30 percent of the original equipment manufacturer market share for cordless phones in the United States?
Did you know that the concept of hyperspace , primarily known through its use in science fiction, originated from and is still occasionally used in scholarly works?
Did you know that before being restored as a Broadway theater, the Ritz Theatre was used as a television studio, pornographic theater, vaudeville house, children's theater, and poster warehouse?
Did you know that Guajajara environmental activist and land defender Paulo Paulino Guajajara , who worked to stop the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest , was killed by a group of illegal loggers ?
Did you know that Patsy Cline 's cover of Willie Nelson 's " Crazy " was the all-time most played song in jukeboxes in the United States, 35 years after its release?
Did you know that although it is a bird of prey , the white-fronted falconet is only 14 to 17 cm (5.5 to 6.7 in) long and mainly feeds on insects?
Did you know that Woody from Toy Story was originally written as a ventriloquist's dummy and the main villain of the film?
Did you know that the Turkish Defne Magnanery was established in a farm house donated by the brother of the head silk farmwoman after he watched her silk farming in a British documentary film?
Did you know that when John Emmitt was traveling to the Oregon Territory in 1852 along the Oregon Trail , two of his three children died of cholera and were buried along the route?
Did you know that RNA , DNA , and vitamins B 1 and B 12 are all made from AIR ?
Did you know that women were elected to the Odessa City Duma for the first time in 1917?
Did you know that Mancunian rapper Geko was signed to UK music collective USG at the age of 13, becoming their youngest member?
Did you know that Elvis Costello missed his day job while recording his debut album My Aim Is True over six four-hour sessions?
Did you know that the largest intact Ancient Egyptian tomb ever found , with 254 richly decorated sarcophagi, was forgotten for almost a century?
Did you know that Jaega Wise co-hosted the television series Beer Masters alongside musician James Blunt ?
Did you know that a laptop was purchased for $1,345,000 in May 2019 despite being unable to connect to the internet?
Did you know that Dave Frederick has been referred to as the " Sussex County humorist-teacher-writer-radio-host-philosopher dude"?
Did you know that, upon ordination, Earl K. Fernandes will be the first Indian-American Latin Catholic bishop in the United States?
Did you know that the melody of Mozart's aria " Dove sono " from Le nozze di Figaro , asking "Where are those happy moments ...?", begins similarly to the Agnus Dei from his earlier Coronation Mass ?
Did you know that Curtis Island has risen by 18 metres (59 ft) during the last 200 years?
Did you know that Rachel Dyer , published in 1828, is the first American bound novel about the Salem witch trials ?
Did you know that Brazilian computer science researcher and internet pioneer Tadao Takahashi negotiated with drug lords to install internet equipment in his country?
Did you know that with " Alligator ", Of Monsters and Men had their second top-ten hit on the Billboard Hot Rock Songs chart and their first number-one on the magazine's Rock Airplay chart?
Did you know that a kettle that looked like Adolf Hitler was offered on eBay for US$199?
Did you know that Gret Palucca had to close her dance school in Dresden , Germany, in 1939 because of her Jewish descent, but reopened it in 1945?
Did you know that Ashton Hawkins arranged for the construction of the West Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, to house the Temple of Dendur ?
Did you know that the Malyuk rifle was originally developed as a private venture under a contract with the Security Service of Ukraine ?
Did you know that Indonesian translator Ali Audah would often take hours to translate a single word or sentence?
Did you know that the 1972 hymn " Das eine Brot wächst auf vielen Halmen ", with an Israeli melody, has been used for Catholic Corpus Christi processions and Protestant Kirchentag conventions?
Did you know that at the premiere of The Cage , a ballet about female insects preying on their male counterparts, choreographer Jerome Robbins 's mother walked out of the theater?
Did you know that children's writer Patricia MacLachlan kept a small bag of dirt from the prairies as a reminder of her Wyoming roots?
Did you know that the Comoro River , which cuts through the East Timorese capital of Dili , has seen large floods despite often running almost dry?
Did you know that 3D Microcomputers produced and marketed Commodore -branded computers from 1991 until over a year after Commodore's bankruptcy?
Did you know that the choreography of Crystal Pite 's ballet The Seasons' Canon is inspired by the movement of tectonic plates ?
Did you know that lawyer Carrie Goldberg was inspired to share her experience of sexual violence in Nobody's Victim by her clients, who had entrusted her with their own stories?
Did you know that Claus Leusser, a justice of the German Federal Constitutional Court , served for only four months?
Did you know that a walrus was given his own pontoon to stop him damaging other boats in St Mary's Harbour ?
Did you know that in Arlington County Board v. Richards , the U.S. Supreme Court considered the constitutionality of one of the first American residential zoned parking programs?
Did you know that Ulf Merbold , the first West German in space, grew up in East Germany?
Did you know that judge advocate Julian M. Wright was once a fencer , and President Theodore Roosevelt attended one of his matches in 1902?
Did you know that Ulmus chuchuanus had to be renamed due to another fossil already having its original name?
Did you know that a photograph by Maks Levin , showing destroyed buildings in Kyiv, was featured on the cover of a March 2022 edition of the German magazine Der Spiegel ?
Did you know that to convince Canadian regulators that Vancouver could support a new ethnic radio station, the founder of CJVB documented local restaurants and Sikh temples?
Did you know that most of the Chinese in the Chinatown of Phoenix, Arizona , had emigrated from the same village in China's Hoiping County ?
Did you know that legislator Henry Alcazar successfully defended everyone accused of inciting the 1903 Water Riots that burned down the Trinidad and Tobago seat of government ?
Did you know that eight sailors on USS Varuna received the Medal of Honor for actions during the Battle of Forts Jackson and St. Philip ?
Did you know that the final silent film directed by Giulia Cassini Rizzotto was partly funded by the Vatican and featured Italian aristocrats?
Did you know that a 2020 study concluded that taco pizza is the favorite pizza of Iowa ?
Did you know that Khalid ibn Barmak was so close to the first Abbasid caliph , al-Saffah , that his daughter was suckled by al-Saffah's wife?
Did you know that Mimi Reinhardt typed Schindler 's list?
Did you know that the Baratal limestone in Russia may be one of the oldest atolls in the world?
Did you know that The West Wing 's Amy Gardner is said to be the only character on the show with "a genuinely militant attitude towards equality of the genders"?
Did you know that dead cotton is immature or underdeveloped cotton that has poor dye affinity and appears as white specks on a dyed fabric ?
Did you know that during a German charity concert for Ukraine, Slovakian singer Judita Nagyová performed a solo in the finale of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony ?
Did you know that Elphaba, the main character in Wicked , is named after L. Frank Baum , who wrote the book that inspired Wicked ?
Did you know that Carlton Town F.C. , now competing at the eighth tier of the English football pyramid , was once denied promotion by a hat-trick scored by future England international Jamie Vardy ?
Did you know that Singaporean zoologist Bernard Harrison was disliked by an orangutan ?
Did you know that Italian Jacopo Tissi became one of the few foreign principal dancers in Bolshoi Ballet 's history, only to leave two months later due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine ?
Did you know that Holy Trinity Church in Philadelphia , established in 1784, was the first national parish in the United States?
Did you know that Mordecai Strelisker published a Hebrew elegy on the death of Emperor Francis I of Austria ?
Did you know that the spectacle lynching of George Ward drew the attendance of more than 1,000 people, including women and children?
Did you know that it is now possible to run Linux on an Apple-silicon Mac ?
Did you know that American soprano Emily Pogorelc went from winning the 2018 "Most Promising Talent" prize at Glyndebourne to appearing as Mozart's Cherubino at the Munich Opera Festival ?
Did you know that in his 2015 book The Evolution of Atheism , atheist Stephen LeDrew criticises the New Atheism movement?
Did you know that the city of Madrid has had five successive sets of walls , from the first built by the Moors in 860 to the ones built by Philip IV in 1625?
Did you know that in response to Disney's stance on Florida's House Bill 1557 , also known as the "Don't Say Gay" bill, Pixar employees stated that Disney removes LGBT references from the studio's films?
Did you know that Laura Ashe believes the Gawain Poet used the beheading game to criticize the emptiness of chivalry ?
Did you know that the remnants of the Khwarazmian army massacred the Christian inhabitants of Jerusalem in 1244?
Did you know that Ukrainian artist Kateryna Antonovych worked at Prague 's Museum of Ukraine's Struggle for Independence before the US Army Air Forces bombed it?
Did you know that a species in the genus of sponges Pseudoceratina produces a chemical that can help prevent migration of metastatic breast cancer cells?
Did you know that the dome atop the Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower was once called "New York's most exuberant phallic symbol"?
Did you know that Monika Buczkowska , who, as a student in Poznań , performed as Mozart's Susanna , was a soloist in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony at a charity concert for Ukraine at the Alte Oper ?
Did you know that Shiva Baby was one of the most-awarded films not to receive an Oscar nomination in 2022?
Did you know that Tin Srbić was the first Croatian to win a gold medal at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships ?
Did you know that the owners of North Carolina radio station WBIG justified shutting it down by noting that the metropolitan area had outgrown its signal?
Did you know that gynaecologist Oon Chiew Seng , who was diagnosed with dementia in 2013, was the founding chairperson of the first dementia home in Singapore?
Did you know that despite being described in 1840, the chestnut-backed buttonquail was only confirmed in Queensland in 2020?
Did you know that unlike his famously generous brother Mansa Musa , Mansa Sulayman of Mali was considered a miser?
Did you know that Monthly Halloween was the first manga magazine to publish horror for girls ?
Did you know that the mezzo-soprano of Beth Taylor was the only lower voice when she appeared as Dardano in Handel's Amadigi , portraying her male character with fine vocal lines and "remarkable coloraturas "?
Did you know that Flat Top Mountain 's agriculture is mainly devoted to livestock and Christmas tree farming ?
Did you know that Park "Saebyeolbe" Jong-ryeol was the first esports player to throw a Major League Baseball opening pitch?
Did you know that Christopher Gunning apparently only got paid £15 to arrange the top-20 hit " Say You Don't Mind "?
Did you know that in 2014 the European Theatre Convention started a programme known as Dialogue of Cultures to support exchanges with theatres in Ukraine and other Eastern European countries?
Did you know that during the American Revolution, Hugh Gaine 's printing shop was threatened by the Sons of Liberty because of his wavering loyalty to the American cause?
Did you know that historian Dirk Moses argues that The Problems of Genocide include "blinding us to other types of humanly caused civilian death"?
Did you know that Katharina Konradi , a soprano born in Kyrgyzstan, made a recording of lieder with pianist Gerold Huber including settings by Lori Laitman of children's poems written in Terezin ?
Did you know that manga artist Keiko Takemiya intentionally submitted her manga Sanrūmu Nite immediately before its publication deadline to avoid it being edited?
Did you know that Inuvialuk actress Marika Sila views her acting career as a platform for outreach and education on the culture and rights of Indigenous peoples in Canada ?
Did you know that Abadi was banned twice: by Sukarno in 1960, then by Suharto in 1974?
Did you know that at Beaversprite , beavers lived indoors and were allowed to chew on the furniture?
Did you know that the Vorpostenboot John Mahn was the only German ship sunk during the Channel Dash ?
Did you know that when Jørgen Læssøe became Professor Extraordinaire of Assyriology at the University of Copenhagen in 1957, he was the only active professional Assyriologist in Denmark?
Did you know that The Goldberg Variations , performed to Bach's music , was partly choreographed by Jerome Robbins while he was in a wheelchair?
Did you know that Mary Renault was encouraged by J. R. R. Tolkien to write a novel set in medieval times, but she burned the manuscript because she felt it lacked authenticity?
Did you know that the Hainanese chicken rice at the Singaporean restaurant Chatterbox was developed by a German chef?
Did you know that The Uses of Disorder , characterized by one reviewer as "the best available contemporary defense of anarchism", was intended to be a critique of orderly city life?
Did you know that after Leonel Gómez Vides died in 2009, one of his friends expressed surprise that he had not been murdered?
Did you know that following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a diverse group of exiled Russian public figures formed the Anti-War Committee of Russia to unite different political movements to oppose the war?
Did you know that each song on Andy Shauf 's 2016 album The Party is sung from the perspective of a different guest at a house party ?
Did you know that in the twelve- stanza Easter hymn " Ihr Christen, singet hocherfreut ", based on a 15th-century hymn in Latin , an angel tells women to not remain at the empty tomb?
Did you know that convicted serial killer Mariam Soulakiotis , a Greek Old Calendarist abbess, is known in Greece as "Mother Rasputin " for fasting nuns to death?
Did you know that Winston Churchill painted Tower of the Koutoubia Mosque , his only painting during World War II, at the Villa Taylor ?
Did you know that Italian anarchists founded the first trade union for bakers in Argentina ?
Did you know that in Le Tombeau de Couperin , George Balanchine 's ballet to Ravel's orchestral suite , the dancers are divided into two groups, dancing separately?
Did you know that Guy Alfred Wyon helped discover a remedy for TNT poisoning in British shell factories in World War I?
Did you know that none of the original core Ice Age cast returned for The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild ?
Did you know that the Colonial Office refused to appoint Cyrus Prudhomme David to the magistracy, considering it wrong "as a matter of policy" to appoint a second Black man to a legal post in Trinidad and Tobago ?
Did you know that Walter Cronkite was one of 40 finalists in NASA's Journalist in Space Project ?
Did you know that the Selangor State Executive Council degazetted most of the Kuala Langat North Forest Reserve , despite the legislative assembly having unanimously voted to preserve it?
Did you know that Artem Datsyshyn , the National Opera of Ukraine 's principal dancer in ballets such as Swan Lake and La Bayadère , is said to have danced with "romantic sublimity" and "psychological depth"?
Did you know that the freighter Emperor is the most visited shipwreck in Isle Royale National Park ?
Did you know that Ciceruacchio , a cart driver, was described as "Rome's first citizen"?
Did you know that Russia's Unfriendly Countries List includes the United States, the European Union, and San Marino?
Did you know that Eric Sbraccia made his professional wrestling debut at the age of fourteen as a " junior member " for Tony Rumble in International Championship Wrestling ?
Did you know that the island of Poilão , within the João Vieira and Poilão Marine National Park , supports five percent of the world's green sea turtle nests?
Did you know that Paddy Morgan conceded the final of the 1976 Australian Professional Championship rather than play with Eddie Charlton 's balls?
Did you know that the trial of Neumann and Sass , held in Lithuania in 1934–1935, is said to be the first mass trial of Nazis in Europe?
Did you know that Andrew Barclay , a bookbinder in colonial Boston, was commanded by British general Sir Guy Carleton to take Loyalist refugees to Nova Scotia ?
Did you know that the 1962 Book of Common Prayer has been translated into Cree , French , Inuktitut , and Mohawk ?
Did you know that the Johannespassion by Wolfram Menschick , a setting of the Passion according to St John for three soloists and choir, will be performed today at Essen Cathedral ?
Did you know that New York Times writer David W. Dunlap said calling the Apple Bank Building a neighborhood bank branch "is like calling Grand Central Terminal a commuter train station"?
Did you know that Ukrainian actress Oksana Shvets , who was killed in the 2022 invasion of Ukraine , starred in the 2013 joint Ukrainian–Russian television family saga House with Lilies alongside Russian actors?
Did you know that there wasn't enough water in Oceanside to build more than half of the E. F. Barrett Power Station ?
Did you know that Zebedee Nungak , taken as a child for an experiment by the Canadian government, went on to "cross antlers with prime ministers, premiers and Québec separatists"?
Did you know that the titular character of Verdi's Nabucco , the opera that established his fame, is a combination of three historic rulers?
Did you know that military volunteer Maria Berlinska led the report that let women hold combat positions in the Ukrainian military?
Did you know that in 2013, McNally v R upheld a conviction for sexual assault via gender deception?
Did you know that The West Wing 's theme music was only intended for use in one scene?
Did you know that during the Year of Luigi , Nintendo released a mockumentary depicting Luigi as a "legend of parkour "?
Did you know that one reviewer wrote that her "pinkies protested and went on strike" after half an hour of typing on a Sharp PC-4500 ?
Did you know that the sodium fast reactor Fermi 1 suffered a nuclear meltdown that led one operator to suggest "we almost lost Detroit"?
Did you know that when soprano Rosina Buckman returned to New Zealand for a concert tour in 1922, the prime minister and a former prime minister spoke at the reception?
Did you know that the freighter Chester A. Congdon became the largest financial loss to date on the Great Lakes when she wrecked in 1918?