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Did you know that the Romans enjoyed balneotherapy from geothermal energy in Turkey ?
Did you know that Dorli Rainey , at the age of 84, was pepper-sprayed by police at a 2011 Occupy Seattle protest, making her a symbol of the Occupy Wall Street movement?
Did you know that Hartington Road Halt in Brighton, which closed after five years, was accidentally opened illegally?
Did you know that audience members interrogated suspects in an Australian Cluedo game show based on the board game ?
Did you know that when asked who let New Jersey have a Twitter account , its manager simply replied, "your mom"?
Did you know that the 8.2 M w Biak earthquake of 1996 triggered disproportionately large tsunamis relative to its magnitude?
Did you know that American psychologist Mildred Newman and her husband treated so many celebrities that the two were known as "therapists of the stars"?
Did you know that Sheikh Mujibur Rahman proclaimed the independence of Bangladesh from his residence in Dhaka before his arrest by the Pakistan Army ?
Did you know that Charley Frazier played in the American Football League even though he did not play college football ?
Did you know that despite two 16th-century books often being referred to as the Edwardine Ordinals ,  the word " ordinal " was not applied to them until the 17th century?
Did you know that local regulation and law enforcement in Brighton's early history was carried out by the Society of Twelve, a beadle "in cocked hat and full regalia", and two "Old Charlies"?
Did you know that a lion's head was preserved during construction of Gilman Square station ?
Did you know that Saudi Arabian historian Sa'd ibn Junaydil took high school graduation exams with his students, as he had yet to obtain a high school diploma?
Did you know that Chloe Bailey dances next to a leopard in the music video for her song " Treat Me "?
Did you know that Twyla Tharp 's ballet Nine Sinatra Songs , to songs sung by Frank Sinatra , features ballroom dance -inspired choreography?
Did you know that the illustrations in the 1992 video game Tetris Classic are based on scenes from Alexander Pushkin 's poem Ruslan and Ludmila ?
Did you know  that Riddick Parker increased his weight by 26 pounds (12 kg) because he was regarded as "small" for a defensive end , at 274 pounds (124 kg)?
Did you know that temples served as banks in ancient Rome ?
Did you know that artist Thomas Eakins remarked "I think you've got a heap of impudence" upon receiving the Temple Gold Medal for his portrait Archbishop William Henry Elder ?
Did you know that a television station spent so little on programming that a media columnist called it the " IOUs of Cincinnati "?
Did you know that Sheila Egoff , Canada's first professor of children's literature , returned to her library work immediately after retirement?
Did you know that the Indie sleaze era, from approximately 2006 to 2012, was described by singer Gwenno as "very debauched, and probably the last moment where kids had been able to do whatever they want"?
Did you know that Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church bishop Yuhanon Meletius said that Christian Sangh Parivar sympathizers are "moving on a suicidal path"?
Did you know that Ding Roman defeated his cousin Tet Garcia in the 1993 Bataan gubernatorial recall election ?
Did you know that after depopulating the island of Samson , Augustus Smith established a deer park there, only for the deer to escape to the neighbouring island of Tresco ?
Did you know that the man who built Cauley Square originally used the village to ship his tomatoes?
Did you know that E. Virgil Neal was a teacher, stage hypnotist, fraudster and finally a wealthy cosmetics manufacturer?
Did you know that the first known publication of the phrase " any port in a storm " was in a 1749 erotic novel ?
Did you know that Benny Lefebvre had three sons who signed professional baseball contracts and four brothers who played football ?
Did you know that Home Depot CEO Ted Decker ran his own landscaping business in high school?
Did you know that in Ireland, selling unauthorized Mass cards could lead to 10 years in jail or a €300,000 fine?
Did you know that someone once paid $750 to enjoy a hurricane ?
Did you know that endocrinologist Reginald Hall , who studied the thyroid gland and its diseases, received a heart transplant in 1984?
Did you know that " Slapshot ", a 1995 rock song commissioned by the New York Rangers , is widely considered to be the best goal song in the National Hockey League ?
Did you know that Eva Duldig , who was interned by Australia during the Second World War, later represented the country at the Wimbledon Championships ?
Did you know that in Arnett v. Kennedy , U.S. Supreme Court justice William Rehnquist said public employees must accept "the bitter with the sweet" in their due-process rights when contesting dismissal?
Did you know that the Indian independence movement 's underground Congress Radio once submerged their equipment in the Godavari River ?
Did you know that Larry Herndon hit a game-winning home run in the 1984 World Series and a playoff-clinching home run on the last day of the 1987 season ?
Did you know that the 1987 video game Oriental Hero was panned as "so incredibly bad it's almost worth a look"?
Did you know that a 65-minute concert film starring Billie Eilish was filmed all in one week?
Did you know that Seattle-based Tom Alberg , one of the earliest investors in Amazon , was convinced of the company's promise when he could not find a book by Peter Drucker in his local bookstore?
Did you know that Manfred Mann 's 1966 single " Semi-Detached, Suburban Mr. James " was amongst the first songs to utilize the Mellotron ?
Did you know that a New York pop-up restaurant opened by Louisa Shafia served stews and rice dishes described in a review as a "Persian-tapas gateway into the ancient cuisine"?
Did you know that the Iranian operation to liberate the town of Bostan during the Iran–Iraq War was described by Ruhollah Khomeini , then Supreme Leader of Iran, as "the victory of victories"?
Did you know that Aaron S. Watkin is scheduled to become the artistic director of the English National Ballet three decades after he first danced there?
Did you know that one DJ of a Texas radio station challenged another to a cow-milking contest on the streets of the city?
Did you know that Saudi Arabian broadcaster beoutQ pirated and resold beIN Sports programmes during the Qatar diplomatic crisis ?
Did you know that Corky Palmer coached the Southern Miss Golden Eagles to their only College World Series appearance in 2009?
Did you know that more than 1000 tons of paper were used every year printing car literature for the British Motor Corporation by the in-house Nuffield Press ?
Did you know that, before there was a Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Factory Building , William S. Harley and Arthur Davidson built motorcycles in a shed?
Did you know that Alexander Marble , an expert in diabetes, was described as one of "the giant trees among the diabetes sequoias "?
Did you know that the developer of Citizen Sleeper was inspired by the feeling of people coming together and their own experiences as a non-binary person struggling to make ends meet through the gig economy ?
Did you know that Milt Wilcox , winning pitcher of Game 3 of the 1984 World Series , credited "throwing bowling balls " with rescuing his Major League Baseball career?
Did you know that Pier Giorgio Morandi first played as the principal oboist at La Scala in Milan, and conducted a 2019 recorded production of Verdi's Il trovatore at the Verona Arena , directed by Franco Zeffirelli ?
Did you know that Alexis Sharkey's last Instagram post before her murder documented her travels to Tulum , Mexico?
Did you know that politician William Madocks built a privy in the shape of "an old broken tower" on his Dolmelynllyn Estate in Wales?
Did you know that the choral music of Artemy Vedel , who is regarded as one of the Golden Three composers of 18th-century Ukrainian classical music, was censored but performed from handwritten copies?
Did you know that Prabhudas Gandhi invented an innovative foot-driven spinning wheel and named it "Magan Charkha" in memory of his uncle Maganlal Gandhi ?
Did you know that Donald Trump and his attorneys John Eastman and Rudy Giuliani spoke to some 300 Republican state legislators in an effort to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election ?
Did you know that " Surprise " by Chloe Bailey was hand-picked by Beyoncé ?
Did you know that Joseph-Alexandre Baile argued against the separation of the parish of Notre-Dame in Montreal, declaring it to be against civil law?
Did you know that by switching to the smaller typeface Retina in the stock listings of their newspaper, The Wall Street Journal was able to save $6 to 7 million annually?
Did you know that there were two failed attempts to adapt Sailor Moon into a Western live-action series ?
Did you know that Brizlincote in Burton upon Trent , England, was formerly known as "Little Switzerland" for its charm and recreational use by locals?
Did you know that Captain Archie C. Kuntze , known as the "American Mayor of Saigon", was court-martialled for living "openly and notoriously in his official quarters" with his Taiwanese girlfriend?
Did you know that a conversion plan led to the "Battle of the Century "?
Did you know that in 2016, Lukáš Vondráček became the first Czech pianist to win the Queen Elisabeth Competition ?
Did you know that according to Jimmy Carter , "more of [Georgia's] business was probably conducted in the Henry Grady than in the state capitol "?
Did you know that Freddy Mamani was motivated to become a teacher in part to help his parents overcome their illiteracy?
Did you know that a TV station in New York state signed on just to carry the 1953 World Series , then went off the air and did not start scheduled programming for several weeks?
Did you know that journalist Isabel Fernández likened her experience as a correspondent during periods of intense civil unrest to "[being in] a lion's cage"?
Did you know that the LAX Consolidated Rent-A-Car Facility is the second-largest concrete building in the U.S. – behind only the Pentagon?
Did you know that educationalist Keith Sheen learned how to kill rats with a frying pan at his first job?
Did you know that " Spotlight ", the best-selling digital single in Chinese music history, saw its Douban rating drop from 10.0 to 3.2 less than two days after its release?
Did you know that the melting of the Platigliole Glacier in Italy has revealed artefacts of the White War , including clothing and hay more than 100 years old?
Did you know that eleven years after serving as a Super Bowl usher , Rodney Parker came back to the game as a player?
Did you know that Eli N. Evans authored three books about the culture and history of Jews in the American South ?
Did you know that the selection of Palu as capital of Palu Regency led to protests from the nearby town of Donggala , concerned they would lose out on economic development?
Did you know that elderly showman Bronco Charlie Miller would light matches, held in the mouths of Boy Scouts, using a 20-ft bull whip?
Did you know that American racing driver Emory Collins won the International Motor Contest Association sprint car national championship in 1938, 1946, 1947, and 1948?
Did you know that the Polish science fiction novel Extensa marked the growing recognition of its writer, Jacek Dukaj , in Poland?
Did you know that Constance Fozzard was told during her surgical training that women with children could not become consultants ?
Did you know that the LARIAT platform simulates users on computer networks to be targeted for staged cyber attacks?
Did you know that Melissa Clark-Reynolds , who was awarded the Insignia of an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit , developed the now-defunct virtual world MiniMonos ?
Did you know that guests to the Delmonico's restaurant at 56 Beaver Street touched a pair of columns at the entrance for good luck?
Did you know that Matti Lehtinen , a baritone of the Finnish National Opera and professor of singing at the Sibelius Academy , was the voice of God at age 93?
Did you know that after Mehmet Şerif Fırat helped the Turkish military defeat the Sheikh Said rebellion , he was internally exiled with relatives of the leaders of the rebellion?
Did you know that a report commissioned by the Jews of Color Initiative described " Jews of color " as "an imperfect, but useful umbrella term"?
Did you know that the Iowa state auditor Rob Sand modeled in Milan and Paris while he was in college?
Did you know that the word " dirge " for funeral hymns can be traced to primer prayer books ?
Did you know that Washington College is investigating the possibility of turning the Chestertown Armory into a bed and breakfast ?
Did you know that papyrologist Walter Cockle produced a new edition of a tragedy by Euripides based on fragments found in the Oxyrhynchus Papyri ?
Did you know that a Chicago TV station was expelled from the National Association of Broadcasters by mistake?
Did you know that fictional depictions of Jupiter have portrayed human habitation on the planet and its moons both by altering the environment to suit humans and altering humans to be suited to the environment ?
Did you know that Parker Goins and Taylor Malham have played high school, club, college, and professional soccer together?
Did you know that a scene from the television adaptation of the manga It's All About the Looks was filmed at the Tokyo Girls Collection fashion show?
Did you know that Peachtree Arcade , a shopping arcade in the U.S. state of Georgia, was conceived after a local businessman visited the Cleveland Arcade ?
Did you know that Henry Baylis kept the bullet that wounded him, as a good-luck charm?
Did you know that East Somerville station is planned to open more than 95 years after its predecessor closed?
Did you know that Reina Scully has worked with Crunchyroll because of her skill in translating Japanese anime for English dubs?
Did you know that the player of a 1990 video game can recreate the 14.5-hour-long Battle of Rorke's Drift in real time, controlling each of the 137 British defenders?
Did you know that rhythmic gymnast Gemma Frizelle won a gold medal at the 2022 Commonwealth Games performing to her mother's favourite song?
Did you know that U.S. regulators determined that a South Carolina radio station broadcast from unauthorized facilities for more than 15 years?
Did you know that 11th-century French peasant Leutard of Vertus is said to have preached heresy against the Catholic Church after dreaming his body had been invaded by bees that entered through his genitals?
Did you know that nine songs from Mary Lou Williams 's Zodiac Suite were composed during a live radio improvisation?
Did you know that Chief of the General Staff Zdravko Ponoš began military cooperation between Serbia and Ohio ?
Did you know that while experimenting for the music of Red Dead Redemption , Woody Jackson recorded the heartbeat of his unborn daughter on his iPhone ?
Did you know that Chicago Radio public address systems were used extensively by the pro-independence Indian National Congress during the British Raj?
Did you know that the first woman mayor in Metropolitan Toronto , Beth Nealson , ran against True Davidson in a 1966 mayoral race called the "Battle of the Belles"?
Did you know that the founder of a Massachusetts radio station credited Gayle King , then a local news anchor, for mentoring her to pursue a broadcast license ?
Did you know that rugby union flanker Gavin Thomas had his contract cancelled by the Scarlets after he missed more than 26 weeks of the 2008–09 season due to a ruptured Achilles tendon ?
Did you know that overcrowding at the Marine Air Terminal prompted one airline owner to buy a boat?
Did you know that one witness claimed that not even God could have prevented the Battle of Omagh ?
Did you know that before he made his Major League Baseball debut, Nate Fisher worked as a commercial lending analyst for the First National Bank of Omaha ?
Did you know that a two-year-old food bank contributed 150 semi-trucks of supplies to relief efforts for Hurricane Katrina ?
Did you know that Michelle O'Bonsawin is the first Indigenous person appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada ?
Did you know that Bob Dylan 's " 4th Time Around " has been interpreted as a parody of the Beatles ' song " Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) "?
Did you know that the Romans would advertise their goods with a type of inscription known as Titulus pictus ?
Did you know that prolific Italian forger Tobia Nicotra once toured the United States impersonating conductor Riccardo Drigo , who had died two years earlier?
Did you know that The Story of Mr Sommer , a 1991 novella by Patrick Süskind with illustrations by Sempé , has been described as "a children's tale for adults"?
Did you know that medical doctor Brian McMahon was named " ANZAC of the Year" in 2011?
Did you know that Sofia the First was deemed "risky" but subsequently became the most-viewed program in its category?
Did you know that Yesenia Yarhui , the youngest parliamentarian in Bolivian history, was sworn into the Chamber of Deputies at just 19 years old?
Did you know that the soldier guarding the West Farms Soldiers Cemetery went missing for six years?
Did you know that players of the fantasy play-by-mail game Quest once voted on the game's "most useless item"?
Did you know that David Dexter , who wrote the New Guinea volume in the series Australia in the War of 1939–1945 , was a commando who served in East Timor and New Guinea?
Did you know that a pending case at the United States Supreme Court , Haaland v. Brackeen , "could completely erase tribal sovereignty "?
Did you know that after the Swiss federal councilor Josef Martin Knüsel lost a complimentary election to the National Council in 1875, he resigned?
Did you know that Indian footballer Narender Thapa played for both of Calcutta's football clubs Mohun Bagan and Mohammedan Sporting at different times in his career?
Did you know that during meetings at the United Nations headquarters, the United Nations Plaza Hotel was said to have more security than guests?
Did you know that Antony Hodgkinson danced so vigorously onstage with Nirvana at the 1992 Reading Festival that he gave himself whiplash?
Did you know that the Assembly Rooms in Belfast, which housed a branch of the Belfast Banking Company for more than 100 years, were the venue for the court-martial of leaders of the Irish Rebellion of 1798 ?
Did you know that Emma Dean Powell received a pass from General Ulysses S. Grant to accompany her husband to battlefield camps during the American Civil War after he lost his arm?
Did you know that the Eocene Okanagan Highlands span approximately 1,000 km (620 mi) through British Columbia and Washington?
Did you know that Mihi Edwards did not use her own name as a young woman because of discrimination against Māori people in New Zealand?
Did you know that in 1933, the groundbreaking ceremony for the Italian wing of Rockefeller Center's International Building was interrupted by a fascist chant led by an unemployed bricklayer?
Did you know that Sacco Saito, who arranged and performed the theme song for Shin-chan: Me and the Professor on Summer Vacation , was not told the content of the game until after the song had been recorded?
Did you know that Bumper Pool legally changed his name to Bumper when he was 16 because of his father's childhood love for bumper pool ?
Did you know that Aymara legislator Rafael Quispe 's humorous style of political activism led one Bolivian parliamentarian to describe him as the " Chapulín Colorado " of the Legislative Assembly ?
Did you know that Russia launched an Iranian satellite into orbit just three weeks after Putin and Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei vowed to cooperate against the West?
Did you know that medieval literature scholar Theodore Silverstein 's unit in World War II took over the Eiffel Tower to intercept communications of German aircraft?
Did you know that the Office for National Statistics defines a golden logistics triangle in the English Midlands that lies within four hours driving distance of 90% of the British population?
Did you know that "King of Torts" Harry Lipsig persuaded a jury that a man had been scared to death by a car?
Did you know that the tallest captive elephant in Asia has been commemorated in verse , sculpture and film ?
Did you know that the pediatrician Daniel C. Darrow "was tolerant of students, but they were rather terrified of him"?
Did you know that Naikilah Perusahaan Minang is the oldest operating autobus company in Indonesia?
Did you know that an article by Dave Wasserman two months before the 2016 U.S. presidential election correctly predicted that Donald Trump would win despite losing the popular vote?
Did you know that CLODO 's initialism is also a French slang term for 'bum' or 'homeless'?
Did you know that while Joseph Longworth thought that he would be remembered only as "the son of his father and the father of his son ", there is today a wing of the Cincinnati Art Museum named for him?
Did you know that Professor of History Lorenzo Kamel deems Umma–Lagash the first recorded war in human history?
Did you know that before Godley & Creme were one half of 10cc , they were Frabjoy & the Runcible Spoon ?
Did you know that 2022 Commonwealth Games women's squash gold medallist Georgina Kennedy was once a promising runner, ranked number one in England at the 1500 metres , before focusing on squash?
Did you know that a Chinatown in the logging community of Sugar Pine was intentionally burned down by the Madera Sugar Pine Company in 1922?
Did you know that hedge fund manager Patrick Degorce was an early investor in Moderna , with the hope that they could find a cure for his wife's stage-IV lung cancer?
Did you know that Ingrid Andress said that she wished she had included a parrot which startled her in the music video for her single " The Stranger "?
Did you know that the writer of Elden Ring compared the game's mythology to using a dungeon master 's handbook in a tabletop RPG ?
Did you know that the Romanian soprano Iulia Maria Dan was Hamlet's Ophelia in the Bregenz Festival 's revival of Franco Faccio's revived opera Amleto ?
Did you know that the owner of a Montana TV station changed the name of his company because he was asked why his license plate read " SUNBELT "?
Did you know that the German conductor Kai Bumann was the music director of the Warsaw Chamber Opera , and toured Japan with the company twice?
Did you know that the genetic deletion of the protein Rubicon increases the lifespan of roundworms and female fruit flies?
Did you know that Creekfinding was inspired by epidemiologist Michael Osterholm 's efforts to restore a creek that had been diverted decades earlier?
Did you know that when the British government discovered that John Jarvis-Smith was not dead, they gave him a medal?
Did you know that the Alabama Crimson Tide 's loss to the LSU Tigers in their 2019 football game broke a 31-game home winning streak?
Did you know that the woodcarver Violet Pinwill of the Pinwill sisters was still working on a life-size figure of Saint Peter days before her death in 1957, aged 82?
Did you know that some regular users of the Schiller Woods magic water pump near Chicago believe that it was covertly blessed by Pope John Paul II in 1979?
Did you know that Stanford 's E. J. Smith , son of Emmitt Smith , the National Football League 's all-time rushing leader , was named a 2022 breakout candidate at his father's position ?
Did you know that members of a 250,000-strong crowd sang the refrain of the Christian hymn " Ich lobe meinen Gott, der aus der Tiefe mich holt " during the 2015 Kirchentag ?
Did you know that Judith Schiff , as chief research archivist at the Yale University Library , helped determine that skeletons exposed by a tree uprooted by Hurricane Sandy dated to the 18th century?
Did you know that neighboring British Sierra Leone and Liberia disputed their border, and the British Empire seized the disputed territory in 1885?
Did you know that William Heath Byford performed the first ovariotomy in Chicago in 1860?
Did you know that Barclays House in Poole, England, has been sinking since its construction in 1975?