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Did you know that U.S. Representative John Conyers proposed legislation to create a federal holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr. during every session of Congress from 1968 to 1983, when the bill finally passed ?
Did you know that Abel Azcona is known as the " enfant terrible " of Spanish contemporary art?
Did you know that four men sued the city of West Bend, Wisconsin , for the right to burn Baby Be-Bop publicly in 2009?
Did you know that publishers have had their pre-approved books confiscated, or their stalls dismantled overnight, during the Riyadh International Book Fair ?
Did you know that Canadian ice hockey player Aggie Kukulowicz was followed by a KGB agent for six years and never spoke with him, but reportedly once bought him an ice cream cone?
Did you know that Charles Villiers Stanford 's Violin Sonata No. 2 was first performed in 1898, but had not yet been published when it was first recorded in the 1990s?
Did you know that unlike many slasher film antagonists, the true identity and motivations of the character Billy in Black Christmas are never revealed?
Did you know that Chelsea chairman Ken Bates attempted to hang a joke medal around the neck of Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson as a peace offering after the 2000 FA Charity Shield ?
Did you know that as head of the War Assets Administration , retired major general Robert McGowan Littlejohn had to dispose of $34 billion worth of surplus government property?
Did you know that some atheists believe in the Ten Commandments ?
Did you know that a Queen of England was named after a blast furnace ?
Did you know that South Dakota once sued 15 cats ?
Did you know that a Briton told the European Union to fuck off 17 million times ?
Did you know that Turing wrote Prof: Alan Turing Decoded sixty years after his death?
Did you know that a bim bam boom aboard an airplane caused quite a stir in France?
Did you know that Captain Kirk can encrypt your computer, but Spock might decrypt it for a fee?
Did you know that you can have sex with two cans of Pepsi , though one might need to be twisted?
Did you know that Volkswagen part number 199 398 500 A is typically lubricated with ketchup ?
Did you know that Mount Hampton in Antarctica was last active over 10 million years ago, but may still emit steam ?
Did you know that the visual style of African-American artist Henry Speller , who was also an accomplished blues musician, was described as "blues aesthetic"?
Did you know that the CEO of CEPI , a key organisation in the race to develop a vaccine for COVID-19 , has called the disease "the most frightening" that he has ever encountered in his career?
Did you know that Lluest-wen Reservoir was once dubbed "the wettest place in Wales"?
Did you know that rivals Furman and Wofford played the first college football game in South Carolina on December 14, 1889?
Did you know that Irish folklorist Bríd Mahon wrote the first of her hundreds of radio scripts for Radio Éireann as a child, discussing the history and music of County Cork ?
Did you know that Klingons are positively Shakespearean ?
Did you know that after a 20-year search, a gun barrel from the HMAS Sydney and a gun shield from the HMAS Adelaide , discovered on a rubbish tip, were fitted together and put on display at Leighton Battery ?
Did you know that damage to the Verizon Building during the September 11 attacks , though substantial, was limited by its heavy masonry construction?
Did you know that with his victory at The Big House 9 , Zackray became the first Japanese player to win a premier-tier Super Smash Bros. tournament held outside Japan?
Did you know that the former operator of the Q38 bus route was not compensated for the route's takeover, as their equipment was considered obsolete?
Did you know that the spiral galaxy NGC 3393 hosts the nearest known pair of supermassive black holes ?
Did you know that the birthplace of Beatles drummer Ringo Starr in the Welsh Streets , Liverpool, was nearly demolished in the 2000s?
Did you know that William Henry Harrison III and William Henry Harrison served simultaneously in the Wyoming House of Representatives , and both had sons named William Henry Harrison?
Did you know that actress Natalie Portman was nominated for an Oscar for playing the First Lady of the United States ?
Did you know that in the Carceri Nuove jail in Rome, seventeen dungeons were named after saints?
Did you know that the Jersey scrum-half Will Homer led criticism of plans by the Rugby Football Union to cut funding to RFU Championship clubs by 40 per cent?
Did you know that on MTV's The Unplugged Collection, Volume One , Neil Young rescored " Like a Hurricane " using harmonica and pump organ ?
Did you know that the rough sex murder defense asserts that a victim died accidentally during consensual sex?
Did you know that William Birchall may have impressed one of the local militia, but the rest were most unimpressed?
Did you know that Badluram's body is buried, yet we get his rations ?
Did you know that Tove Lo 's song " Cool Girl " was inspired by the monologue of the same name by a character in the 2014 film Gone Girl ?
Did you know that the men of Wade's Battery attempted to tunnel beneath enemy lines during the Siege of Vicksburg ?
Did you know that Henrietta Garnett travelled England in a convoy of horse-drawn caravans in support of peace and love, later calling the group "chequebook hippies"?
Did you know that the needle telegraph built by Carl Friedrich Gauss and Wilhelm Eduard Weber had a needle weighing at least 25 lb (11 kg)?
Did you know that months into the Philippines' coronavirus quarantine , the Bureau of Immigration Bicutan Detention Center remained grossly overcrowded, with only two pregnant women having been bailed?
Did you know that in 2015, Eva Asderaki became the first woman to umpire a men's US Open tennis final?
Did you know that the unlit tunnel at Salem station was "happily known as the ' Kissing-Bridge ' " of the rail line?
Did you know that prior to the event, bookmakers' odds against Joe Johnson winning the 1986 World Snooker Championship were 150 to 1?
Did you know that a redundant jail, saved from demolition when an author bought it for $25 for use as his writing studio, later became the Old Jail Art Center ?
Did you know that residents of Rankin Inlet , Nunavut, blocked access to a local goldmine over fears of COVID-19 , even though Nunavut had no confirmed cases ?
Did you know that Lady Bathurst , once described as "the most powerful woman in England, without exception other than royalty", lived in relative obscurity for the last four decades of her life?
Did you know that the hymn " Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier ", a prayer for illumination because the human mind is "shrouded in darkness", became popular in English as "Blessed Jesus, at your word"?
Did you know that a 2013 study by the National Park Service determined that the First Battle of Newtonia Historic District was not suitable for inclusion in its list of official units ?
Did you know that the frog Boophis fayi can be identified by its unusual green-and-turquoise eyes?
Did you know that American-colonial minister William Tennent III was known as the "Firebrand Parson" due to his strong support of religious and civil liberty?
Did you know that up to 75 percent of the surface of Pluto is both tropical and arctic?
Did you know that music academy director Hermann Reutter composed " Hymne an Deutschland ", which President Theodor Heuss suggested as a new German national anthem after World War II?
Did you know that a normally closed entrance to Hynes Convention Center station is opened for Boston Marathon spectators and anime fans ?
Did you know that Möngke Khan was the only khagan to die in an attack on the Sichuan anti-Mongol fortresses ?
Did you know that the audiobook Talking to Strangers has its own theme song, " Hell You Talmbout "?
Did you know that the Midweek Herald edition for Cranbrook, Devon, accidentally published a news report about Cranbrook Rugby Football Club in Kent, 200 miles (320 km) away?
Did you know that Takapūneke , which is sacred to the Māori and may become a national reserve of New Zealand , is the site of Akaroa 's sewage-treatment plant?
Did you know that Thomas Brodie may have been in command of HMS Arrow at the 1801 Battle of Copenhagen , not William Bolton as often recorded?
Did you know that Sid Meier prototyped the interleaved turns system in XCOM: Chimera Squad using a game engine that he had developed over a period of around twenty years?
Did you know that workplace hazard controls for COVID-19 include measures for psychosocial hazards such as stress and anxiety, for which social distancing may prevent typical coping mechanisms?
Did you know that interior designer Valerian Rybar 's dining room was lined with 400 fake books with titles about episodes in his life, including International Boredom , allegedly about his ex-wife ?
Did you know that the video game The Longing can take up to 400 days to complete?
Did you know that citizen journalist Chen Qiushi went missing while reporting on the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan ?
Did you know that after Congress limited presidential power granted by the Forest Reserve Act of 1891 , President Theodore Roosevelt quickly protected 16 million acres of forest while the bill sat on his desk?
Did you know that Quentin Edwards was asked not to return to Bradfield College after a schoolmaster found passionate letters sent to him by John Mortimer ?
Did you know that Venezuela won its first Olympic medal in 1952 with triple jumper Asnoldo Devonish , who competed while injured?
Did you know that Ole Børud 's guitar music on the album Sonrise , by the band Schaliach , was likened to a "metal symphony"?
Did you know that after the 7th Infantry Regiment captured Hitler's Berghof on 4 May 1945, its commander, Colonel John A. Heintges , took Hermann Göring 's 1941 Mercedes-Benz 540K Cabriolet B for his personal use?
Did you know that James Blake spontaneously wrote the song " You're Too Precious " in his home studio after waking up at 4 a.m.?
Did you know that the first monks at Villeneuve Abbey arrived in 1200 from Buzay ?
Did you know that the Roman army repelled an elephant charge at the Battle of Panormus by throwing javelins?
Did you know that producer Paul F. Heard believed that techniques used in government propaganda films could also be applied to religious films to bring about "spiritual realizations"?
Did you know that Lund Cathedral has been called the "most powerful representative" of Romanesque architecture in the Nordic countries ?
Did you know that Lassington Wood , owned by the Guise family since the 13th century, was given to Gloucester County Borough Council in 1921?
Did you know that after a disgruntled worker dumped parts of 140 Broadway 's air-conditioning system into a tank, 10,000 workers were "uncomfortably warm" for weeks until scuba divers retrieved the components?
Did you know that United States district judge Douglas P. Woodlock ordered Guatemalan general Héctor Gramajo to pay $47.5 million in damages for human rights abuses?
Did you know that a series of bollards mark the route taken by the 2nd Armoured Division during the liberation of France ?
Did you know that after New York City's Q79 bus was discontinued due to low ridership, a private car service was provided, which was later also discontinued for the same reason?
Did you know that the facade of the Collegio Ghislieri in Rome was preserved from the building's 1936 demolition and incorporated into the Liceo Classico Virgilio?
Did you know that Galveston Bay , the largest of the estuaries of Texas , is home to the second busiest port in the United States?
Did you know that on 22 April 2020, the UK House of Commons met virtually for the first time in its 700-year history due to the COVID-19 pandemic?
Did you know that art patron and collector São Schlumberger had her portrait painted by Warhol and Dalí , but did not like the one by Dalí?
Did you know that Otis Barrett introduced Artocarpus integer , claimed to be superior to jackfruit , to Puerto Rico ?
Did you know that the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation left a studio building in British Columbia unfinished in 1978, only to move in 34 years later?
Did you know that the Hoby treasure found in Denmark contains two Roman silver cups with scenes from the Iliad ?
Did you know that when Pavel Schilling invited Tsar Nicholas I to touch two wires together, the tsar was greatly surprised by the resulting distant explosion?
Did you know that by the time New York City's Richmond Hill station was closed, it averaged a single passenger per day?
Did you know that two separate contests were held to determine the words and the music of the national anthem of Guyana ?
Did you know that TrueAnon bills itself as "the only non-pedophile podcast"?
Did you know that readings of The Crime and the Silence , a book about the Jedwabne massacre , have been picketed by the book's opponents?
Did you know that CIA officer Howard Bane proposed that the Special Operations Group storm the Chinese embassy in Ghana and kill all its occupants during the 1966 coup ?
Did you know that the facade of the then 1,200-year-old Basilica of Sant'Alessandro was replaced with a Neoclassical one in the 19th century?
Did you know that Dalma Iványi has won ten Hungarian women's basketball championships and played for three teams in the WNBA ?
Did you know that during the Battle of McDowell , Confederate soldiers attempted to use the dead bodies of their comrades to build breastworks ?
Did you know that when the Act of Parliament renaming the Royal Ulster Constabulary was passed, the force was not named the "Northern Ireland Police Service" because the acronym would have been NIPS?
Did you know that it took more than eight hours to apply makeup for the first time to the actor playing the character Bib Fortuna in Return of the Jedi ?
Did you know that Major Jim Gant of the U.S. Army Special Forces has been compared to both T. E. Lawrence and Colonel Kurtz ?
Did you know that Telegraph Plateau was so named because it seemed to be an ideal route for a transatlantic telegraph cable ?
Did you know that the Kearney County Gazette reportedly displayed the skull of 19th-century serial killer Stephen Dee Richards in their window?
Did you know that a royal deer park in Sweden was made into a nature reserve in 2001 to protect a species of beetle ?
Did you know that the Hawaiian Music Hall of Fame honors Na Lani ʻEhā as progenitors of the music and arts culture for which the islands have come to be known?
Did you know that after England won the 1993 Women's Cricket World Cup Final , women's cricket received unprecedented coverage in the English press?
Did you know that a 1967 study on voice confrontation found that only 38 percent of people could identify recordings of their own voice within five seconds?
Did you know that effigies of Soedjono Hoemardani , a personal assistant to Indonesian president Suharto , were burnt by students protesting foreign investment?
Did you know that the American-built clipper ship Gravina was named after a Spanish admiral who fought with the French at the Battle of Trafalgar ?
Did you know that Svan mountain climber Mikhail Khergiani was nicknamed the "Tiger of the Rocks" for his ability in attacking difficult routes?
Did you know that the VI Corps of the North Korean People's Army was disbanded in the 1990s, allegedly after being involved in a coup attempt?
Did you know that after his side defeated Leeds United in the FA Cup , Cardiff City chairman Sam Hammam had two BBC reporters forcibly removed and had an altercation with the opposing manager?
Did you know that U.S. general George Mathews attempted a failed annexation of Spanish Florida just months before the outbreak of the War of 1812 ?
Did you know that despite being known as the Mexican hydrangea, Clerodendrum bungei is neither from Mexico nor a species of hydrangea ?
Did you know that Robert De Niro won the first of his two Academy Awards for his portrayal of the young Vito Corleone in The Godfather Part II ?
Did you know that Jerry Bradley is the third member of his family to be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame ?
Did you know that Droitwich Water Tower has been described as "one of the first things you see when you enter the town "?
Did you know that Rómulo Escobar Bethancourt led the Panamanian delegation when the Panama Canal treaties were negotiated with the United States in 1977?
Did you know that the developers of Elsinore , a video game based on Hamlet , drew inspiration for the game's time-loop mechanic from The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask , anime, and visual novels ?
Did you know that a golden statue was erected in Taiwan in honor of bank robber and murderer Lee Shih-ke ?
Did you know that the New York City Subway stations at 9th , 25th , 59th , and Union Streets , as well as Prospect Avenue , were opened with a competition between two trains heading to Coney Island ?
Did you know that the developer of Hardcoded wanted to create a game that would appeal to cisgender people with a futanari fetish?
Did you know that with the growth of the Werl pilgrimage to a statue of Mary , a large Romanesque Revival basilica was built adjacent to the former Baroque style church?
Did you know that during the rule of the Greek military junta , archaeologist and museum curator Semni Karouzou was banned from conducting research in the National Archaeological Museum because of her political views?
Did you know that actress Ruth Warrick was said to have "stolen the show" as a sweet young bride who grows into a disillusioned, middle-aged woman in the 1950 Christian film Second Chance ?
Did you know that Nico Rosberg announced his retirement from Formula One motor racing five days after winning the 2016 World Championship ?
Did you know that author Clinton Heylin flew from England to California to hear Bob Dylan perform " Idiot Wind " live?
Did you know that Jon Godfread is the world's tallest politician, according to Guinness World Records ?
Did you know that during the COVID-19 pandemic , the hymn " O Licht der wunderbaren Nacht " by Georg Thurmair was recommended for a celebration of Easter Vigil at home?
Did you know that when introduced in 1974, the British Rail Passenger Timetable cost 50p (the equivalent of £10 today) and its 1,350 pages provided times for the entire year?
Did you know that Dagmar Burešová hid a classmate after he escaped a communist prison, and enabled him to flee from Czechoslovakia to West Germany?
Did you know that besides eating ants and termites, the waved woodpecker feeds on fruits, berries, and seeds?
Did you know that although the 2018 release Hamari Paltan was promoted as the last film of veteran Indian actor Tom Alter , another one featuring him premiered later that same year?
Did you know that Charles Kelman , the inventor of phacoemulsification for cataract surgery , was also a Broadway producer and a jazz musician with a musical comedy routine?
Did you know that the pencil sketch for Little Girl Observing Lovers on a Train is in the private collection of George Lucas ?
Did you know that Alexander H. Flax , the future chief scientist of the U.S. Air Force , was part of a small team of engineers who developed the Piasecki HRP Rescuer , the first true twin-rotor helicopter?
Did you know that many post-World War II anti-Jewish attacks in Slovakia were committed by former anti-Nazi partisans ?
Did you know that Carol Brightman first gained inspiration for her book Sweet Chaos from her younger sister, who worked as the Grateful Dead 's lighting director and literary agent?
Did you know that an incident in which a player clipped another's heel at the 2002 PDC World Darts Championship was the catalyst for the creation of the exclusion zone in darts?
Did you know that 14 Wall Street in Manhattan was among the first skyscrapers to use a pyramidal roof?
Did you know that Albert Camus 's novel The Plague is based on an epidemic in Oran , Algeria, and examines how a government could turn tyrannical?
Did you know that Pamela Chelgren-Koterba became the first female officer in the history of the United States' NOAA Corps in 1972?
Did you know that some countries charge visitors a departure tax ?
Did you know that Megaceroides algericus is one of only two deer species known to have been native to Africa, alongside the Barbary stag ?
Did you know that on Good Friday 2020, Benedikt Kristjánsson sang all roles in a chamber arrangement of Bach's St John Passion , broadcast live from the composer's burial place ?
Did you know that radio station WSID , located in a suburb of Baltimore , claimed that a city court had no jurisdiction over it?
Did you know that a draft condition of the Treaty of Lutatius to end the First Punic War , stipulating that Carthage pay Rome 57,000 kg (126,000 lb) of silver, was rejected as insufficient?
Did you know that a large statue of a cottontail rabbit in Minneapolis was outfitted with a cloth face mask during the COVID-19 pandemic in Minnesota ?
Did you know that although the Alvvays song " Archie, Marry Me " did not chart, it is still considered to be the band's breakout hit?
Did you know that Helmut Machemer joined the army of Nazi Germany in the hope of winning a bravery award to save his part-Jewish family?
Did you know that a new platform was built at the Bowling Green station in Manhattan after it became overcrowded just four years after opening?
Did you know that public reaction to Agatha Christie ' s eleven-day disappearance in 1926 included speculation the incident was an attempt to frame Archie Christie , her then husband, for murder?
Did you know that the Buruciye Medrese is considered one of the best examples of Seljuk architecture in Anatolia ?
Did you know that Clint Hocking was the level designer, game designer, and scriptwriter for Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell ?
Did you know that the communications satellite LES-1 , launched in 1965, spontaneously began transmitting again in 2012 after more than 40 years of silence, making it one of the oldest zombie satellites ?
Did you know that in the Danish card game of Brus , if a seven is led, the player risks it being beaten by the beggar king ?
Did you know that the bookseller George Robinson paid Ann Radcliffe £500 in 1794 to publish The Mysteries of Udolpho – equivalent to £58,735 today?
Did you know that the physician and science writer Ben Goldacre announced that Noosha Fox was his mother after watching her on a Top of the Pops rerun?
Did you know that after the demolition of much of the elevated Myrtle Avenue Line , service on New York City's B54 bus route was increased by 700 percent?
Did you know that Exolaunch managed the launch rideshare of a satellite only 2.5 cm (0.98 in) tall?
Did you know that FTI Consulting has concluded with "medium to high confidence" that Jeff Bezos's phone was hacked by a file sent from the Saudi Arabian crown prince 's WhatsApp account?
Did you know that Francis Augustus Silva was promoted to captain in the American Civil War and later dishonorably discharged by mistake?
Did you know that the fictional village of Kattegat in the television series Vikings is located at the base of Luggala in County Wicklow , Ireland?
Did you know that Scarlett Johansson was nominated for two Academy Awards in the same year?
Did you know that the Slovak periodical Svedectvo ( Testimony ) receives a government subsidy, despite having published apologist articles defending convicted war criminals?
Did you know that the founder of the media watchdog organization Ad Fontes Media has compared low-quality news sources to junk food ?
Did you know that James Strachan-Davidson , Master of Balliol College, Oxford , believed that the college should be as "wife and children" to its fellows?
Did you know that in 1917, the crew of HMS Terror had to abandon ship after the captain refused to sail the damaged ship stern first?
Did you know that the in-development fangame Bionicle: Quest for Mata Nui was praised for having better animation than the direct-to-video Bionicle films ?
Did you know that Turkish female international sailing competitor Ecem Güzel has finished in the top three of a competition five times in the last seven years?