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Did you know that " Brich an, du schönes Morgenlicht " (Break, you beautiful morning light) tells the shepherds in Bach's Christmas Oratorio not to be afraid?
Did you know that a Christmas gift on The West Wing 's " Bartlet for America ", a napkin bearing the episode's slogan, was replicated for Jacky Rosen 's U.S. Senate campaign?
Did you know that the creation of the traditional Valtellina Christmas sweet bread bisciola is credited to Napoleon, even though he was never in the region?
Did you know that New Yorkers could at one time rely on thrice-weekly visits from Santa Claus —though not over Christmas?
Did you know that the 2018 soundtrack album It's Christmas, Eve by LeAnn Rimes originated from a film in which Rimes played the main character?
Did you know that the Florida beach festival Surfing Santas , held regularly on Christmas Eve, was inspired by a Honda commercial?
Did you know that when Josef Rheinberger conducted the first performance of his Mass in A major for three women's voices on Christmas Eve 1881, he added a flute and a string quintet to the organ accompaniment?
Did you know that The Jew's Christmas was the first American film to have a rabbi as one of its characters?
Did you know that besides their usual pop fare, the Glee cast sang hymns in traditional arrangements on Glee: The Music, The Christmas Album ?
Did you know that throughout the Cold War , "subversive" persons at the BBC had their files marked with a "Christmas tree" ?
Did you know that the album series Jingle Cats spawned Jingle Dogs, Jingle Babies, and a Japanese video game in which "the object is to breed and care for cats, which begin to sing when they're done copulating"?
Did you know that when a batch of the peppermint liqueur Minttu turned yellow because of iron contamination, Americans just marketed it as an "older vintage"?
Did you know that Elisabeth Dmitrieff , daughter of a Russian noble, was sent by Karl Marx to the Paris Commune and fought in its defense before falling into obscurity?
Did you know that Irving Berlin , who co-owned the Music Box Theatre from its opening in 1921, still checked the theater's receipts before his death in 1989?
Did you know that English women's footballer Shameeka Fishley scored a hat-trick in her newly-established Turkish team's first match?
Did you know that Elcysma westwoodi is considered "the most damaging lepidopteran pest of Prunus × yedoensis "?
Did you know that Suresh Jadhav led the development of the COVID-19 vaccine marketed as Covishield ?
Did you know that the 2020 song " Boris Johnson Is a Fucking Cunt " spawned a sequel in 2021: "Boris Johnson Is Still a Fucking Cunt"?
Did you know that the tiny fossil turtle Amabilis uchoensis was given the Latin name amabilis for being "lovable", but the large evergreen tree Abies amabilis is called amabilis because it is "lovely"?
Did you know that Bilingirl ran a nail salon before she started posting on YouTube ?
Did you know that the 1970 , 1976 , 1977 , 1988 , 1989 , and 1994 Westminster Titans football teams all won national championships?
Did you know that Chris Schulenburg was one of only two recipients of the Grand Cross of Valour , Rhodesia's highest gallantry award?
Did you know that despite its name, the Branford Steam Railroad has not used steam locomotives since 1960?
Did you know that Kurt Rommel , a German Protestant pastor, wrote the texts and tunes for hundreds of hymns with young people in mind?
Did you know that Ixodes tasmani makes a type of cement to help it to suck blood?
Did you know that an advertisement for Mountain Dew starring Tyler, the Creator, as a talking goat was criticized by social commentator Boyce Watkins as "arguably the most racist commercial in history"?
Did you know that 1964 Olympic field hockey player John Land played for England into his late 70s?
Did you know that ice hockey film Chicks with Sticks received its title and funding following the success of Men with Brooms ?
Did you know that before Arthur Phillip commanded the first fleet of convicts to settle Australia , he was employed to spy on France?
Did you know that after Kellogg's announced plans to replace striking workers in 2021 , members of r/antiwork organized to submit fake applications to the company's hiring system?
Did you know that the Decision of 1789 was the first significant construction on the meaning of the United States Constitution in the U.S. Congress?
Did you know that 3-hydroxyisonicotinaldehyde has the lowest molecular weight of any dye which exhibits green fluorescence ?
Did you know that I Putu Sukreta Suranta refused to pursue an academic degree, despite repeatedly being given the opportunity to do so?
Did you know that Canon Computer Systems 's NoteJet laptop came with a built-in printer?
Did you know that Kirsten Warner , whose father was a Holocaust survivor, wrote a novel from the perspective of the child of a Holocaust survivor?
Did you know that one journalist said that the proportions of the limbs of the statues at the Monumento a los Indios Verdes are a "sin against anatomical laws"?
Did you know that the giant hawker , the largest living dragonfly , with a wingspan of 163 millimetres (6.4 in), has larvae that exhibit "ballistic defecation"?
Did you know that the only remaining artifact in the ghost town of Fremont, Oregon , is a juniper stump notched with steps that women travelers used to mount horses in a modest fashion?
Did you know that Semuel Jusof Warouw advocated Minahasan independence to gain leverage in Dutch–Indonesian negotiations ?
Did you know that 80 per cent of the Royalist garrison were killed in the 1645 storming of Shelford House ?
Did you know that the cultural scholar Hermann Bausinger wrote a book about the history of literature from Swabia from the 18th century to the present, published for his 90th birthday?
Did you know that in December 1876, two police officers were murdered by brothers who had poached just two pheasants and a jay ?
Did you know that according to a review from the The New Yorker , The French Suicide largely overstates France's decline?
Did you know that marine engineer Elmer P. Wheaton made his employees learn to scuba dive so that they would have respect for the sea?
Did you know that Hyun Ji Shin was photographed by Karl Lagerfeld in his Chanel campaign before his death?
Did you know that Raoul Servais invented a new technique for combining animation and live action for his short film Harpya ?
Did you know that a formerly abandoned sugar mill is now a rest area on the Trans-Java Toll Road ?
Did you know that the Germanic neopagan group Verein für germanisches Heidentum dismisses völkisch religiosity by associating it with monotheism and dualism?
Did you know that Daniel Barclay Williams , Virginia's first Black teacher of classics, was described as "a one man department"?
Did you know that the Istanbul Waste Power Plant , opened last month, is Turkey's first waste-to-energy facility ?
Did you know that a strip club manager in Toronto sued a company that did not employ him for wrongful dismissal ?
Did you know that Felix Mendelssohn , inspired by the singing of nuns at the Trinità dei Monti in Rome, composed the motet Veni Domine for Advent ?
Did you know that the national-champion 1973 Abilene Christian Wildcats football team featured a freshman running back who broke college football 's single-season scoring record?
Did you know that the lobby of Wenzhou Museum includes Kuafu chasing the sun and Chang'e flying to the moon?
Did you know that Roger Waters thought The Phantom of the Opera 's main theme was ripped off from Pink Floyd 's " Echoes "?
Did you know that after a tornado devastated Wichita Falls, Texas , in 1979, radio station KTRN was just one of two on the air?
Did you know that Jusuf Wibisono , chairman of a labor union, wanted an eight-hour work day – up from seven?
Did you know that Black Oxygen Organics sold packs of dirt to customers for US$110 each?
Did you know that more than 170 children showed signs of tuberculosis and more than 70 died in the 1929–1933 Lübeck disaster after being given BCG vaccines contaminated with the bacteria responsible ?
Did you know that the 1896 novel Tom Grogan by Francis Hopkinson Smith was adapted into a play the same year?
Did you know that the punitive Mamluk campaigns against the non- Sunni Muslim mountaineers of the Kisrawan from 1292 to 1305 helped pave the way for the region's Maronite Christian majority?
Did you know that placekicker Lonny Calicchio was signed by the Philadelphia Eagles to the practice squad, promoted to the active roster, named starter, and released all within eight days?
Did you know that the historical English tables game of Doublets was mentioned in 1549 in a sermon by Latimer to King Edward VI ?
Did you know that Poedjono Pranyoto instructed his subordinates to burn around a thousand houses to make way for a protected forest area?
Did you know that the conservative organization Moms for Liberty wants a book about Galileo Galilei to be taught in a way that is more positive towards the Catholic Church, for balance?
Did you know that Niall Sheridan was the model for the "intellectual Meath -man" Brinsley in Flann O'Brien 's novel At Swim-Two-Birds ?
Did you know that the "English Game", Ludus Anglicorum , was the most popular tables game in the mediaeval England of Chaucer 's time?
Did you know that WNJU , a Spanish-language television station serving New York City , was the first in the United States to air a hard-liquor advertisement?
Did you know that " NDA " transitions into " Therefore I Am "?
Did you know that flying ace Károly Kaszala refused to fly the airplane he was assigned?
Did you know that according to critics, Fortune-499 is "an effective story of capitalist humdrum" that involves "witchcraft, mid-20s malaise, and puns"?
Did you know that Tatyana Mezhentseva is the first person in ten years to participate in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest twice?
Did you know that 1.8 percent of people in Japan have used cannabis , compared to 44.2 percent of Americans and 41.5 percent of Canadians?
Did you know that General George Monck accepted that 500 Scots, including women and children, were killed when his army stormed Dundee in 1651?
Did you know that Lew Nichols III led the nation during the 2021 regular season with 1,710 rushing yards?
Did you know that the designers of Isle of Skye: From Chieftain to King also created Broom Service , winning the Kennerspiel des Jahres two years in a row?
Did you know that as finance minister , Surachman Tjokroadisurjo often stored government funds inside suitcases in his home?
Did you know that Dan Finnerty was cast in Single All the Way so that he could cross the Canada–U.S. border and join his wife, Kathy Najimy , on the set of the film?
Did you know that the specific epithet of Platycephalus endrachtensis is from an old word for Australia?
Did you know that Nandivada Rathnasree , who ran Delhi's planetarium, proposed that astronomers could be taught using India's stone-built observatories?
Did you know that the documentary film Boycott includes the stories of three Americans who sued their state governments after being affected by anti-BDS laws ?
Did you know that the mediaeval English tables game of Ticktack has several ways of winning, including Toots and Rovers ?
Did you know that William Hunter Dammond became the first African-American graduate of the University of Pittsburgh in 1893, but was not recognised as such until 2000?
Did you know that there are more than 200 manhole covers featuring Pokémon in Japan?
Did you know that Fabian Kelly , a tenor focused on historically informed performance , was a soloist in Monteverdi's Vespro della Beata Vergine and Handel's Messiah ?
Did you know that after Superior Coach Company closed in 1981, its employees' credit union absorbed 15 other credit unions to become the fourth-largest in Ohio ?
Did you know that William Thomas Sugg 's firm installed the gas lights on Tower Bridge ?
Did you know that The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes discusses the history of transgender man Ewan Forbes and his 1968 legal case to inherit his family's baronetcy that was silenced from public records?
Did you know that Digital Eclipse expressed interest in rereleasing Marvel vs. Capcom 2 after Maximilian Dood 's social media campaign went viral ?
Did you know that the medieval John Halle's Hall is the foyer of a cinema?
Did you know that to celebrate the Paramount Building 's construction, oxen and lamb were roasted over the ruins of the previous building on the site?
Did you know that in 1908, Island No. 2 in California was simultaneously deeded to two different people?
Did you know that Soetardjo Kartohadikusumo had to be "made younger" to be eligible for elementary school?
Did you know that the music video for Chris Hadfield 's version of David Bowie 's " Space Oddity " was the first music video recorded in space?
Did you know that Google searches for the term " dumpster fire " spiked after Donald Trump announced his presidential candidacy in October 2015?
Did you know that efforts by Shyam Sunder Jyani have led to the planting of 2.5 million saplings in the Indian state of Rajasthan ?
Did you know that " leek rust", caused by Puccinia allii , has also caused significant losses for garlic farmers?
Did you know that it is said of the board game Photosynthesis that "you can always count on someone else screwing it all up"?
Did you know that Belinda Archer won Australia's first World Artistic Gymnastics Championships team medal in 2003 ?
Did you know that even though it was "the best thing to happen to the Atari", the XF551 floppy disk drive was only released after Nintendo sued them?
Did you know that after Sydney Parkinson died on the return leg of the first voyage of James Cook , some of his drawings were engraved for publication in his Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas ?
Did you know that three schools in Virginia were named after Daniel Webster Davis ?
Did you know that 92 percent of complaint calls about the Scanner Price Accuracy Code are not legitimate complaints?
Did you know that after getting drunk and verbally abusing Cap Anson at a baseball game during his off day, Charlie Bartson was released from the Chicago Pirates ?
Did you know that Birds Aren't Real ?
Did you know that the electropop rock band Siamés created " Argentina 's first anime music video"?
Did you know that the book The Icepick Surgeon discusses research by Henry Murray in which he verbally abused volunteers, one of whom went on to become the Unabomber ?
Did you know that the Polish mezzo-soprano Agnieszka Rehlis , who sang on the Grammy Award –winning album Penderecki conducts Penderecki , was Verdi's Azucena in Zürich in 2021?
Did you know that species in the dinosaur group Parankylosauria have tail weaponry termed a "macuahuitl", in reference to the Mesoamerican weapons of the same name ?
Did you know that Pat Studstill led the National Football League in punt return yards in 1962, receiving yards in 1966, and punting yards in 1969?
Did you know that the first landing during the Dutch invasion of Saint Helena was defeated by English settlers throwing rocks?
Did you know that when the founder of New Mexico television station KBIM-TV was told on the morning of April Fools' Day that his station's tower had collapsed, he initially wrote it off as a joke?
Did you know that one can place 16 pawns on a chessboard such that no three pawns lie on the same line ?
Did you know that Mauatua married the Bounty mutineer Fletcher Christian and ensured women on Pitcairn were given the vote?
Did you know that the board game Cytosis was endorsed by the Journal of Cell Science ?
Did you know that Óscar Catacora directed Wiñaypacha ( Eternity ), the first Peruvian film in the Aymara language ?
Did you know that Asa Taccone was paid just $60 for co-editing and co-writing the Lonely Island 's  " Dick in a Box "?
Did you know that filmmaker Randal Plunkett, 21st Baron of Dunsany , has seen the return of many species of bird and plant, as well as pine martens , stoats and otters , to his ancestral lands with rewilding ?
Did you know that the black swamp in Claremont Park was believed to be inhabited by evil spirits and was known to have consumed cattle?
Did you know that Bull Island was farmed by the Money family for over 100 years before being turned into a wildlife preserve?
Did you know that Indian cricketer Mukundrao Pai 's altercation with a British army major, J. G. Greig , resulted in the Bombay Quadrangular introducing neutral umpires in 1916?
Did you know that Kanye West recorded " Hey Mama " five years before its release on his 2005 album Late Registration ?
Did you know that the game MicroMacro: Crime City was so popular after its release that print runs repeatedly sold out for eight months?
Did you know that Chinese-Canadian Zhuo Qun Song is currently the most decorated International Mathematical Olympiad contestant?
Did you know that the village of Bidar Alam was the seat of the Indonesian government for three and a half months?
Did you know that the Global Methodist Church is part of a proposed divorce over marriage ?
Did you know that Louis W. Roberts was among the highest ranking African-American space program staff at NASA while the Apollo program was underway?
Did you know that before the Second World War, Australian army officers used the pages of Britain's Army Quarterly and Defence Journal to argue for greater self-reliance in defence matters?
Did you know that 2000 Alabama Amendment 2 , which repealed the state's anti-miscegenation laws , was carefully written to avoid legalizing same-sex marriage ?
Did you know that Ben Comeau invented a fictitious student of Franz Liszt so he could write a 45-minute piano sonata?
Did you know that in Olaf Presents , the line where Olaf points out Mufasa eats some of his subjects was praised by Screen Rant ?
Did you know that on a wax-myrtle plant , 42 mature lobate lac scales were recorded on a 1 cm (0.4 in) section of twig?
Did you know that the Batman supervillain Mr. Bloom was created to be the "anti- Joker "?
Did you know that in 2021, the European Court of Justice ruled that the criminalization of assistance to asylum seekers violated EU law ?
Did you know that Interstate 182 was created as a compromise for the states of Washington and Oregon ?
Did you know that Salvatorian priest Pankratius Pfeiffer saved hundreds of Jews in Rome during the Second World War?
Did you know that the fossil love bug Plecia canadensis changed genus based on a single vein?
Did you know that two voyageur canoes capsized off of Hog Island in 1976?
Did you know that the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre was known as the John Golden Theatre before the John Golden Theatre was?
Did you know that pulmonologist Sze-Piao Yang was referred to as the "father of thoracic X-ray interpretation in Taiwan", and conducted the first ever occupational disease study done in Taiwan?
Did you know that violinist Nikolai Sachenko performs rarely-played piano trios by Russian composers as a member of the Brahms Trio ?
Did you know that The Undercommons , an essay collection that criticizes academia , was written by two alumni of Harvard University ?
Did you know that Jonathan Strong , an early enslaved West Indian in Britain, was abused by his master so badly that he could barely walk or see?
Did you know that a 1963 book offers Marxist and Freudian interpretations of Pooh?
Did you know that the Majestic Theatre , designed for "revues and light operas", has hosted the same musical for the past three decades?
Did you know that Albruna may have been the woman of "superhuman size" who stopped Roman general Drusus 's campaign in Germania by prophesying his death?
Did you know that the second edition of the Wild West–themed board game Great Western Trail eliminated "the notion of Native Americans as the invisible enemy"?
Did you know that Damon Severson scored a goal with 0.4 seconds left in regulation time to help lead Canada men's national ice hockey team to a silver medal?
Did you know that the construction of Interstate H-2 in Hawaii unearthed a chapel built by Italian prisoners of war in the 1940s?
Did you know that during the October 1980 West Nile campaign , rebels were initially hailed as "liberators", only for them to start looting coffee?
Did you know that William Goebel was sworn in as Governor of Kentucky a day after being shot?
Did you know that unkept promises made in the 1915 Treaty of London created the sense of mutilated victory in Italy after World War I?
Did you know that Bruce Schroeder , who presided over the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse , is the longest-serving state court judge in Wisconsin ?
Did you know that the colonial bryozoan Walkeria uva is sometimes only detectable by accident?
Did you know that the children's book A Place Inside of Me is dedicated to the nephew of Atatiana Jefferson , a Black woman who was shot to death in her home by a policeman in 2019?
Did you know that New Zealand health executive Sharon Shea points to distrust in authority caused by "post-colonisation trauma" for low COVID-19 vaccination rates of Māori ?
Did you know that Major League Baseball set a single-day record with $1.4 billion in new player contracts the day before the 2021 lockout was set to begin?
Did you know that " the surgeon of the sidewalks " is anonymous?
Did you know that today's MLS Cup 2021 will mark the seventh consecutive final to feature either the Portland Timbers or Seattle Sounders FC ?
Did you know that Italian radio presenter Aldo Forbice was a long-time supporter of local social issues, including helping to promote an exhibition on the AIDS epidemic?
Did you know that when the U.S. government wanted to remove Chain Island , a group of "California capitalists" offered to do it for free, recouping expenses by mining it for gold?
Did you know that backgammon was derived from the esteemed 16th-century Scottish and English tables game of Irish and eventually surpassed it in popularity?
Did you know that during W. Sterling Cary 's presidency of the National Council of Churches in the 1970s, the council voted to support gay rights for the first time in its history?
Did you know that the 13th-century Iplikçi Mosque in Konya, Turkey, contains a mihrab with traces of mosaic tiling which is the oldest extant example of Anatolian Seljuk art?
Did you know that Justice Antonin Scalia stated that he did not want the U.S. Congress to make him buy broccoli ?
Did you know that Noa Denmon 's illustration for the Google Doodle on Martin Luther King Jr. Day included people painting a mural while socially distanced due to the COVID-19 pandemic ?
Did you know that the board game Suburbia is said to be a "masterfully designed game" with "tedious bookkeeping"?
Did you know that zoologist Ruth Crosby Noble 's 1945 book on animal behavior was said to have the "rare quality of combining entertainment with sound scientific value"?
Did you know that Dante "may have detested everything about Arabs and Muslims", but placed Saladin , Avicenna , and Averroes among the virtuous in the first circle of hell ?
Did you know that according to Swiss cardiologist Thomas Lüscher , chocolate is good for us if it is dark and bitter, but white chocolate is "not healthy at all"?
Did you know that in 2000, the Sacramento County Policy Planning Commission decided that humans would never be allowed to live on Kimball Island again?
Did you know that in The Arraignment of Paris , poet Denis Glover stated Charles Allan Marris was the "arbiter of all our art and letters / presenting rotten apples to his betters"?
Did you know that Grace Meigs Crowder found that pregnancy and childbirth were a common cause of death in the early 1900s for American women who were aged under 45?
Did you know that the popularity of " 10 Minutes " by Korean singer Lee Hyori led to 2003 being dubbed the "year of Hyori" by domestic media?
Did you know that some members of the Kushner family objected after Jared invoked their grandparents' resistance in Nazi-occupied Poland to support his denial of Donald Trump 's alleged antisemitism?
Did you know that David Whiting was nicknamed "Golden Boy" by Henry Grunwald , "Preppy" by Candice Bergen , and "Whiz Kid" by Sarah Miles ?
Did you know that the title of Taylor Swift 's 2008 album Fearless reflects Swift's attitude to embrace hardships in love and life?