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Did you know that George L. P. Weaver chaired the U.S. delegation to International Labour Organization conferences under Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon?
Did you know that The Lost Homestead describes how Kuldip Singh recovered her childhood "paradise", lost after India's partition, in an English country cottage?
Did you know that Alison H. Clarkson , the majority leader of the Vermont Senate , worked as a theatrical producer and on New York Theatre Workshop 's board?
Did you know that belief that homosexuality can be acquired has motivated Nazi persecution, discriminatory age-of-consent laws, censorship of LGBT publications and employment discrimination?
Did you know that Colorado public television station KTSC operates from two studios named for the same benefactor ?
Did you know that from 1996 to 2019, Turkish Airlines operated an aircraft that would not move a meter on the ground when "she didn't feel like it"?
Did you know that Alisha Kramer worked to fight HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and inequity in women's health in Africa and Europe as a program coordinator for the Center for Strategic and International Studies ?
Did you know that many Germans' belief that homosexuality was a communicable disease limited the success of the first homosexual movement ?
Did you know that after New Jersey attorney general Walter D. Van Riper busted betting rooms protected by party boss Frank Hague , Hague had Van Riper charged with check kiting and black-market gasoline sales?
Did you know that Rangoon kept its own time for more than two decades after Burma Standard Time first came into effect?
Did you know that the book Our Hindu Rashtra claims that India is a de facto Hindu-majoritarian state?
Did you know that Jeffrey Paparoa Holman gave himself his middle name, after the Paparoa Range ?
Did you know that Georgia radio station WMGA was so "atrocious" that its announcers would invite listeners to donate their records?
Did you know that Thomas Binger , the lead prosecutor in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse , unsuccessfully ran for district attorney of Racine County, Wisconsin , in 2016?
Did you know that after the War of Padua , the victorious Republic of Venice executed the lord of Padua and two of his sons?
Did you know that before the Swiss surgeon René Prêtre specialized in surgeries on children's hearts, he treated victims of gunshots and stabbings at Bellevue Hospital in New York?
Did you know that the series of protests that led to the 2021 North Kosovo crisis was caused by a ban on Serbian license plates from the Kosovan Government?
Did you know that Bruce Davis and his son, who both played for UCLA in college and professionally for the Raiders , are one of the few father–son duos to have played on teams that reached the Super Bowl ?
Did you know that at the 2021 Dublin Bay South by-election , voters were asked to bring their own pen or pencil?
Did you know that the sourdough starter at Diamond Bakery is believed to be more than a century old?
Did you know that the Black Prince's chevauchée of 1356 was the most important campaign of the Hundred Years' War ?
Did you know that constable Joseph Luker , the first police officer killed on duty in Australia, was a former convict?
Did you know that Roswell, New Mexico , radio station KBIM was so successful that its owner was able to start two other stations with its profits?
Did you know that Austrian mountaineer Franz Oppurg was the first person to achieve a solo ascent of Mount Everest , climbing alone from the South Col to the summit on 14 May 1978?
Did you know that Broadway's Imperial Theatre , opened in 1924, was the Shubert family 's 50th theater in New York City?
Did you know that when elected as mayor, Venezuelan politician Gloria Lizárraga de Capriles did not have her own office and worked from a shopping mall?
Did you know that two nude bathers in Arnold Comes of Age were "nearly obliterated"?
Did you know that Margaret A. Mahoney , who in 1949 became the majority leader of the Ohio Senate , is still the only woman to hold the top leadership role?
Did you know that Kip Andersen and Keegan Kuhn were co-nominees for the 2018 Cinema for Peace Award for their documentary What the Health ?
Did you know that the taxi driver in the Liverpool Women's Hospital bombing was later commended for "incredible presence of mind and bravery"?
Did you know that American medical pioneer Isabella Coler Herb designed the Herb–Mueller apparatus to help doctors and dentists administer ether to patients?
Did you know that Maroparque received more than 250 exotic animals that were evacuated due to the 2021 Cumbre Vieja volcanic eruption ?
Did you know that Alexander Tahy became a pilot via on-the-job training ?
Did you know that a 1963 gas explosion in Indianapolis during a Holiday on Ice show was one of the worst disasters in Indiana history?
Did you know that Super Mario 64 has been the subject of medical literature showing a correlation between habitual playing of 3D platformers and increased grey matter in the brain?
Did you know that 1920s actress Susie Sutton created her own vaudeville troupe and toured her company throughout the TOBA circuit ?
Did you know that despite a 2016 commitment to channel a quarter of humanitarian aid through local aid organizations, only 2.1 percent of 2020 funding went to them?
Did you know that composers Charles Ives , Charles Tomlinson Griffes , and Elliott Carter attended Scriabin conferences held at Katherine Ruth Heyman 's loft?
Did you know that the replacement of arts listings television show 01-for London was described as "like having to swap a bright yellow curvy Japanese sports car for a dumpy little khaki-coloured old Ford Fiesta"?
Did you know that in 2002, a python was left in an amnesty bin at a Hawaii airport?
Did you know that Adam Kincaid of the National Republican Redistricting Trust defended lowered competition in US House elections, arguing that the changes would save the party money?
Did you know that the National Democratic Redistricting Committee supported lawsuits in North Carolina and Ohio against alleged gerrymandering by Republicans ?
Did you know that the brutal torture and lynching of Luther Holbert in 1904 was not recognized in the National Memorial for Peace and Justice until 2018?
Did you know that woody plant encroachment can harm the habitats of the cheetah , plains zebra and secretarybird ?
Did you know that actress Ethelyn Gibson was the first person to star in and produce a serial film that had sound?
Did you know that the 2016 Jim Beam strike was the first labor strike in the company's history?
Did you know that British Army brigadier Cyril Barclay certified that he was neither a polygamist nor an anarchist who wished to overthrow the United States government?
Did you know that the starfish Luidia savignyi feeds on sea urchins and starfish, swallowing its prey whole?
Did you know that artist Marie Herndl was arrested after trying to meet with President Theodore Roosevelt about her art?
Did you know that the Gujarati poem " Shav Vahini Ganga "  criticises the Indian government's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic?
Did you know that Ken Johannson became the captain of the University of North Dakota ice hockey team despite attending the school on a football scholarship?
Did you know that a photo shoot on the Japanese survival program Who Is Princess? was published in the magazine Popteen ?
Did you know that Play features Katy Perry interacting with a giant toilet and a giant face mask?
Did you know that Harold A. Littledale went undercover as a prisoner for his Pulitzer Prize–winning investigation into the New Jersey prison system ?
Did you know that after it bombed in Canada, John Richardson removed anti-American passages from The Canadian Brothers to publish it in New York?
Did you know that Tandiono Manu worked in a tax office, took part in guerrilla warfare and then became Minister of Agriculture?
Did you know that a future president of the United States played halfback for the 1912 Army Cadets football team ?
Did you know that the clinical trials of British scientist Peter Pharoah helped eradicate congenital iodine deficiency syndrome (cretinism) in Papua New Guinea?
Did you know that in 1959, the new owner of the Coronet Theatre wanted to rename the theater after his favorite playwright, Eugene O'Neill , whose widow objected?
Did you know that China's "lipstick king", Li Jiaqi , once sold 15,000 lipsticks in five minutes in a faceoff against Alibaba Group 's CEO?
Did you know that Tulsa and Old Dominion , who played in the 2021 Myrtle Beach Bowl , each had to win their final regular season game to achieve bowl eligibility ?
Did you know that the British University of Nottingham has named a building at their Jubilee Campus after Chinese Communist Party politician Xu Yafen ?
Did you know that though Broadway's Ambassador Theatre was characterized as having a "relatively lackluster career", it has hosted the same musical since 2003?
Did you know that Alexander Wehrle was denied a move to VfB Stuttgart because his parents wanted him to focus on his studies?
Did you know that the owner of Mississippi radio stations WGUF and WGUF-FM purposefully fell behind on his royalty payments because he did not like copyright fees?
Did you know that Alicia Girón García was the first woman to become the director of the Biblioteca Nacional de España ?
Did you know that The New York Times described China Chalet "as if New York's art world had been transported to a Holiday Inn in the Midwest"?
Did you know that Surinamese trade unionist Louis Doedel was involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital by the governor-general for 43 years?
Did you know that the 1999 video game Interplay Sports Baseball Edition 2000 used a public-address announcer while its rivals were switching to two commentators as featured on real MLB game broadcasts ?
Did you know that Austrian master metalsmith Cyril Colnik chose to close his shop rather than make armaments for World War I?
Did you know that The New-England Courant has been noted as the first newspaper to publish a writing by Benjamin Franklin ?
Did you know that British architect Chris Wilkinson redeveloped Victorian-era industrial gasholders in Kings Cross, London into modern residential apartments?
Did you know that after The West Wing 's live, open presidential debate episode , MSNBC polled viewers on whom they thought won?
Did you know that Vancouver-based binner turned social entrepreneur Ken Lyotier took the 2010 Winter Olympics torch with him so that other binners could take photographs with it?
Did you know that although Alfred Hitchcock rejected James P. Cavanagh 's script for Psycho it contained many elements used in the final film, including the iconic shower murder scene?
Did you know that the music hall song " Let's All Go Down the Strand ", with its line "stay away from Germany, what's the good of going down the Rhine?" was popular with British soldiers during the First World War?
Did you know that the lynching of Lation Scott took more than three hours while thousands watched?
Did you know that the play-by-email game TribeNet , launched in the 1980s, allows players to gameplay activities ranging from combat to beekeeping ?
Did you know that Stanton Catlin won a Grammy Award in 1965 for an essay on Mexican art?
Did you know that in Die Schneekönigin , an opera for children by George Alexander Albrecht after Andersen's " The Snow Queen ", members of a children's choir play the roles of birds and ice crystals?
Did you know that while preparing for War Horse , theatre set designer Rae Smith spent weeks pretending to be a First World War British Army captain?
Did you know that when it rains, Turkey burns less gas ?
Did you know that a federal marshal seized a car and a truck because there was no other way to satisfy a debt owed by Arkansas television station KRZB-TV ?
Did you know that Titane , the first feature film of French actress Agathe Rousselle , won the Palme d'Or at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival ?
Did you know that after many years of farming crops, Russ Island was deliberately flooded for salt farming ?
Did you know that Papuan anthropologist Marlina Flassy is the first woman to be appointed a dean at Cenderawasih University ?
Did you know that a giant puppet dragon called The Hatchling was paraded through Plymouth and flown as a kite over the sea?
Did you know that in 1969, the man from Del Monte said yes to Eldorado Electrodata ?
Did you know that a recent New York Times article recommended four educational charities: Catherine Omanyo 's school, Children International , Khan Academy and the Wikimedia Foundation ?
Did you know that the fortunes of the Hardwick and Woodbury Railroad were inextricably linked to those of the Woodbury Granite Company ?
Did you know that in 18th-century England, buyers could pay to include their coat of arms in some books published by subscription ?
Did you know that American martial artist John Giordano , who taught karate to women alongside men and disabled people in the 1970s, held plays similar to kabuki theatre?
Did you know that the villagers of Akuşağı in Turkey have used their tractors to take tourists to a local attraction?
Did you know that the Little Cleo fishing spoon lure previously featured a scantily dressed exotic dancer ?
Did you know that " Prawo Jazdy ", once considered the worst traffic violator in Ireland, is actually the Polish term for ' driving licence '?
Did you know that coir is saving the Great North Bog ?
Did you know that Steve Hamas played in the National Football League and later beat two former boxing champions in the ring?
Did you know that fiction about journeys to the Moon has been written since at least the second century?
Did you know that Makoto Soejima is the only International Mathematical Olympiad gold medalist with a perfect score to have won both the Google Code Jam and the Facebook Hacker Cup ?
Did you know that The Massachusetts Gazette was one of the few Loyalist newspapers commissioned by the British ministry for its support prior to the American Revolution ?
Did you know that The Travelers were made to represent emigrants who have left a part of themselves behind?
Did you know that before being electrocuted for his crime, Julius Morgan said that the whisky made him do it?
Did you know that The Betty White Show was the subject of significant controversy after Betty White refused to fire a black cast member?
Did you know that when Stefan Keil moved to Yekaterinburg , Russia, as the German consul general, one of his first appearances was at the European Christmas market, dressed as Saint Nicholas ?
Did you know that When Harry Met Santa , an advert for Posten Norge featuring Santa kissing a man, commemorated 50 years since the repeal of Norway's anti-gay laws ?
Did you know that Edward M. Kirby proposed the first Pageant of Peace, to follow the lighting of the National Christmas Tree in Washington, D.C.?
Did you know that rugby league's 2022 Challenge Cup final will take place at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium instead of its traditional location of Wembley Stadium due to a scheduling conflict?
Did you know that COVID-19 vaccine scientist Paul Duprex got his start in microbiology by experimenting with his high-school classmates' spit?
Did you know that Rudolf Szepessy-Sokoll shot down a pair of Macchi L.3 seaplanes to become a flying ace ?
Did you know that the continuing influence of the Catholic Church in the politics of the Philippines means that the country lacks a divorce law?
Did you know that Francis Bacon played in the first National Football League game and became the first NFL player to return a punt for a touchdown?
Did you know that the Democratic Society Party was the 25th political party to be banned in Turkey since 1962?
Did you know that when Antonia Urrejola was president of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights , her vice presidents were women as well?
Did you know that the pictogram of Zapotitlán metro station depicts an indented sapote tree as the word tlantli means 'tooth' in Nahuatl ?
Did you know that the completion of Interstate 205 in Oregon was delayed to mitigate air and noise pollution for a jail that closed a few months later?
Did you know that American engineering manager Jack Lemley , credited with rescuing the Channel Tunnel project, flew over 7 million miles (11 million kilometres) or about 300 times around the globe?
Did you know that certain bamboo species release large numbers of seeds in synchrony after numbers of years that have only 2, 3, and 5 as their prime factors ?
Did you know that the Richard Rodgers Theatre has hosted 11 Tony Award-winning plays and musicals, more than any other Broadway theater?
Did you know that Francis Bourgeois is pursuing full-time trainspotting ?
Did you know that the 2021 Seattle City Council 3rd district recall election was the first recall held in the city since 1975?
Did you know that mayor Pero Pirker was largely forgotten despite leading recovery and rebuilding efforts after the devastating 1964 Zagreb flood ?
Did you know that WTVK in Knoxville, Tennessee , won a years-long battle to move from UHF to a VHF channel, only to be sent by new management to "that big TV station in the sky"?
Did you know that a bicycle shop in Maryland became a major BMX bike manufacturer in the 1980s?
Did you know that the only stained glass exported to the United States by Barton, Kinder and Alderson had to pay import duty, unlike much artwork in places of worship, because of its low cost-to-size ratio?
Did you know that John J. Slocum tried in vain to return James Joyce 's body to Ireland?
Did you know that Canticle IV: The Journey of the Magi , a 1971 composition for three male solo voices and piano by Benjamin Britten , sets a T. S. Eliot poem to music?
Did you know that the recently restored Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Roebourne is the oldest church in North West Australia?
Did you know that after offering to be an extra in The Walking Dead , Zoe Colletti was cast as a main character in its spin-off Fear the Walking Dead ?
Did you know that during a match at the snooker 2021 UK Championship , player Mark Williams fell asleep?
Did you know that Bobbi Kristina Brown died less than four years after her mother Whitney Houston died in similar circumstances?
Did you know that during the January 1998 North American ice storm , an employee at Cornwall Electric used a bow and arrow to provide power to a city?
Did you know that colonial printer Peter Edes was arrested by British forces for openly expressing support and sympathy for the patriots when they lost the Battle of Bunker Hill ?
Did you know that lesbians in Nazi Germany , unlike gay men, did not face systematic persecution?
Did you know that former NFL halfback Art Pharmer pursued, tackled, and captured a shoplifter who ran from the sporting goods store where Pharmer worked?
Did you know that the Degenerate Art auction in 1939, which included paintings by Van Gogh and Picasso , raised only $115,000?
Did you know that actress Miya Cech was praised for "do[ing] what [she] can with nothing" in the ill-regarded The Darkest Minds ?
Did you know that the Bancroft region is the only place in Canada and one of very few places in the world where uranium has been mined from pegmatite rock?
Did you know that Mally Nydahl , "one of the greatest backs ever to come out of the Middle West", used his football earnings to pay for medical school and became a professor of orthopedic surgery?
Did you know that Levantine Arabic is often written in Hebrew characters online by Bedouin , Arab Christians , and Druze in Israel ?
Did you know that Rebecca Odes played bass guitar for Love Child before going on to create Gurl.com ?
Did you know that in 2008, Macau transferred a woman to mainland China before her habeas corpus case was heard?
Did you know that Twitch streamer Jerma985 hosted a stream in which viewers could control him in a real-life version of The Sims ?
Did you know that 88.1.2.1 is a broken toe , while 78.1.1.1 is a broken finger ?
Did you know that Maw Htun Aung , a Shan Nationalities League for Democracy candidate in the 2020 Myanmar general election , is Kachin , not Shan ?
Did you know that Greyhound Electronics enlisted the help of the Scarfo crime family to sell its video poker machines?
Did you know that the economy of Reineh , now in northern Israel, was so strong in the Mamluk era that they could afford imported pottery from Syria and Italy?
Did you know that Junji Ito had no particular ending in mind while writing Sensor ?
Did you know that Daniel Henchman was considered the "most eminent and enterprising" publisher and bookseller in all of British America prior to the American Revolution ?
Did you know that according to George Orwell , "serious sport has nothing to do with fair play ... it is war minus the shooting "?
Did you know that Claudia Watkins , the only "lady judge" in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina , in 1969, thought it was "no big deal"?
Did you know that visual effects artist Roy Field worked on the first seven official James Bond films ?
Did you know that the board game Viticulture has a Mafia-themed expansion set?
Did you know that Sinan Selen worked at the travel agency TUI before he became the vice president of the German domestic intelligence service ?
Did you know that a woman in Texas attempted to have Tiger Flowers removed from the library collection at her daughter's school?
Did you know that communist propagandist Jian Xianfo gave birth to her son in an earthwork during the Long March ?
Did you know that Interstate 90 is the longest freeway in the United States, at 3,020 miles (4,860 km)?
Did you know that General Antonio Valero de Bernabé is said to have used his skills as a ventriloquist to fool his enemies into believing that their weapons were possessed?
Did you know that bass-baritone Johann-Werner Prein took part in the 1994 premiere of Erwin Schulhoff 's only opera, Flammen , which the Nazis had suppressed?
Did you know that the director of the 1936 film The Love Wanga was threatened by having a wanga placed in his car?
Did you know that artist Heather Doram won Antigua and Barbuda 's national competition to design a new national costume?
Did you know that a 1999 legal case guaranteed the right of transgender people in England and Wales to access gender reassignment surgery ?
Did you know that WAAF Corporal Elspeth Henderson remained at her post despite a direct hit by a Luftwaffe bomb?
Did you know that the Glen Rock is very gneiss ?
Did you know that Sandy Heribert was inspired to become a journalist after seeing coverage of the Gulf War when she was nine years old?
Did you know that "the crowning achievement" of Francis Hopkinson Smith , the novel Felix O'Day , was not published until after his death?
Did you know that the French lawyer and politician Francis Szpiner defended a former emperor in court before becoming a district mayor of Paris?
Did you know that Marc Jacobs 's fragrance Daisy is cottagecore ?
Did you know that even though Charles P. Adams meant to hire someone else, Ralph Waldo Emerson Jones remained at Grambling State University for 51 years?
Did you know that the Chronicle of the 20th Century was so heavy that it was said to be "the first coffee table book seriously to threaten the well-being of coffee-tables"?
Did you know that the USFL is in talks with officials from Birmingham, Alabama , with the goal of hosting the entirety of the 2022 USFL season in the city?
Did you know that when flying ace Julius Busa 's aircraft was hit at 3,000 metres (9,800 ft), his observer leapt overboard without a parachute?
Did you know that Ethel Barrymore, Marilyn Miller, Mary Pickford, and Rosa Ponselle have been standing at 1552 Broadway since 1929?
Did you know that blind botanist John Grimshaw Wilkinson used his tongue to tell the difference between plants?
Did you know that the world's only museum devoted to American actor Phil Silvers is located in Coventry, England?
Did you know that Sumitro Djojohadikusumo expected the majority of the beneficiaries of his economic policy might turn out to be "parasites"?
Did you know that about three million people employed Dr. Halo between 1984 and 1993?
Did you know that Robert D. Bullard has emerged as the "father of environmental justice" since the publication of his 1990 book, Dumping in Dixie ?