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Did you know that Pita Limjaroenrat , the current leader of Thailand's Move Forward Party , was the first Thai student to receive an international student scholarship from Harvard University ?
Did you know that at only 54 mi (87 km) long, the Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail commemorating the Voting Rights March of 1965 is the shortest National Historic Trail in America?
Did you know that Seu'ula Johansson-Fua is the keeper of the Kukū Kaunaka Collection, an archive of doctoral and masters dissertations written by Tongan scholars based at universities around the world?
Did you know that the video for " Angels Ain't Listening " by Basshunter features a mentally unstable man modeled after Joaquin Phoenix 's 2019 portrayal of the Joker ?
Did you know that in 2018, hair stylist Johann Peries became the first Sri Lankan man to summit Mount Everest ?
Did you know that sculptor Antonio Berti designed the bronze casket used to house the wooden coffin of Pope Pius XI ?
Did you know that the picture book Orca's Song has received both praise for its depiction of a lesbian relationship and criticism for how it adapted a First Nations story?
Did you know that Leila Hassan edited the journal Race Today and was a member of the British Black Panthers and the Black Unity and Freedom Party ?
Did you know that South Dakota TV station KRSD-TV 's signal was so poor that it sparked an "uprising" of calls and cancellations from cable viewers?
Did you know that Eleanor C. Pressly helped develop and launch a series of Aerobee rockets during the 1957–1958 International Geophysical Year ?
Did you know that a bail fund was started by the American Civil Liberties Union in 1920 to release people arrested for sedition ?
Did you know that the one hundred squatters at the Oval Mansions in London could watch Test cricket for free from the roof?
Did you know that Ethel McGhee Davis , an alumna of Spelman College , later served as the school's first African-American dean and was a member of its board of trustees for 24 years?
Did you know that in the 1970s, Indian retailer Anokhi , which produces hand-printed garments, helped revive traditional Rajasthani woodblock printing ?
Did you know that the Jonas Brothers wrote and recorded the song " Only Human " mostly via FaceTime ?
Did you know that in 1918, a Jewish couple was married in a cemetery in Winnipeg with 1,000 people in attendance?
Did you know that a song by Belarusian rock band Molchat Doma reached number two on the Spotify Viral 50 chart after it was frequently used as background music on video sharing platform TikTok ?
Did you know that the Helmsley Building and the Manhattan Municipal Building both have "basements" above ground, since both are located above underground tracks?
Did you know that money Spain provided to the Hong Kong Junta as part of a peace deal was used to buy weapons to fight Spain ?
Did you know that Fred Sargeant was one of the gay rights activists who proposed the first Christopher Street Liberation Day—now the NYC Pride March —to commemorate the Stonewall riots ?
Did you know that according to one Korean creation narrative , there was a time when noodles grew on shrubs and rice cakes grew on leaves?
Did you know that when one president of the General Union of Public Sector and Transport Workers tried to negotiate with the Nazi government, the other planned to resign in protest?
Did you know that the Emilio López Zamora dam in Ensenada, Baja California , almost overflowed on March 4, 1978?
Did you know that among the 444 songs in the hymnal Cantate! , published by the pedagogue Heinrich Bone in 1847, was his " Komm, Schöpfer Geist, kehr bei uns ein " ("Come, Holy Spirit, visit us")?
Did you know that to bypass censorship in Poland , some authors turned to self-censorship, Aesopian language , and the Polish underground press ?
Did you know that at the 2005 World Snooker Championship , a player turned up without his cue stick and with a hangover?
Did you know that author and performance artist Junauda Petrus originally wanted to be an astronaut, but is now a "pleasure activist"?
Did you know that the Canadian Hockey Association threatened to seize the assets of the St. Thomas Barons after they abandoned the east–west national final?
Did you know that although it depicts an indigenous goddess, the statue María Lionza is deliberately located in the middle of a highway?
Did you know that John Whitworth , a singing lay vicar at Westminster Abbey for 22 years, was praised for his "voice of great beauty, rich in the lower register, trumpet-toned in the upper"?
Did you know that the title of the 2020 Nepali comedy–drama film Senti Virus was changed from Anti Virus on the advice of an astrologer ?
Did you know that an 18th-century court case may support altered ways of signing and witnessing English wills during the COVID-19 pandemic ?
Did you know that U.S. admiral Edward Joseph O'Donnell passed responsibility for Guantanamo Bay Naval Base to its new commander on a golf course?
Did you know that Ōyama Sutematsu was eleven years old when she was sent with the Iwakura Mission to receive an American education on behalf of Japan?
Did you know that the district attorney of Fulton County, Georgia , sued the U.S. Department of Justice after it refused to cooperate with his investigation of the shooting of Jamarion Robinson ?
Did you know that " Island Home " is the anthem of Jersey , but has been disliked and sometimes substituted with a song that mentions France?
Did you know that in order to write his novel Mr. Monster , Dan Wells researched the offender profiling and embalming processes?
Did you know that brewer Claude Watney was one of several Old Etonians involved in the motor trade in Edwardian London?
Did you know that the chancery of the Philippine embassy in Buenos Aires was previously a house, a hotel, and a retirement home?
Did you know that Bruce Jay Friedman described his first marriage as having "crumbled like an old graham cracker"?
Did you know that Kessler R. Cannon , who later became an Oregon state representative, interviewed Oregon pioneers for his popular 15 Minute Histories radio program broadcast on KBND in the 1950s?
Did you know that the card game of Husarln ("Hussar") is dominated by the distribution of tarot cards, giving it "that brisk and energetic feel" which is reflected in its name?
Did you know that A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip , the new album by rock group Sparks , contains lyrics that appear to foreshadow COVID-19 , even though it was recorded before the onset of the pandemic?
Did you know that a report by Chinese journalist Chen Jieren on university students turning to prostitution to pay for their tuition fees sparked a major debate about prostitution in China ?
Did you know that a life-size cast-iron rhinoceros sculpture was created for the 1878 Exposition Universelle in Paris?
Did you know that in a survey, a Pakistani stated that a visit to one of the American Spaces under increased security conditions was "like going to jail or getting into Fort Knox"?
Did you know that Charles Kingston O'Mahony 's selection of murderers in his 1927 book Enemies of Society includes five doctors?
Did you know that Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin claimed that he had prevented another Holocaust by bombing an Iraqi nuclear reactor ?
Did you know that the languorous voice of television character Paulina de la Mora is seen as a socioeconomic commentary on the Mexican stereotype of high-class young women ?
Did you know that the musicologist Ulrike Liedtke , who founded and directed the Rheinsberg Music Academy , became president of the Brandenburg state parliament in 2019?
Did you know that the Guinness World Record for the amateur sport of cherry pit spitting is 28.51 metres (93 ft 6.5 in)?
Did you know that neuroscientist Michela Gallagher 's research group showed that the epilepsy drug levetiracetam is a candidate to reduce mild cognitive impairment in patients with Alzheimer's disease?
Did you know that the 1997 historical drama Balidaan ( Sacrifice ) was banned in 2005 by King Gyanendra 's government for its portrayal of Nepal's communist movement ?
Did you know that the first state superintendent of schools for Georgia was a one-armed former dentist ?
Did you know that the Jimi Hendrix guitar solo which Beautiful People sampled for their 1993 single " Rilly Groovy " had to be cut into about forty pieces and rearranged to fit the beat?
Did you know that Ba Than founded what became Japanese Burma 's main public hospital after the Imperial Japanese Army reserved Rangoon General Hospital for its exclusive use?
Did you know that business leaders tried to ban the Depression anthem " Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? " for being "a dangerous attack on the American economic system"?
Did you know that the female Andes marsupial frog carries her developing young in a pouch on her back?
Did you know that professional Super Smash Bros. player Dabuz once requested a pause mid-game to consult his notes using a laptop he brought on stage?
Did you know that a courier was once robbed of nearly £300 million in the City of London ?
Did you know that the Chinese policy of Five Fingers of Tibet considers Tibet to be China's right-hand palm, with five fingers— Ladakh , Nepal , Sikkim , Bhutan , and Arunachal Pradesh —that must be "liberated"?
Did you know that amid the George Floyd protests , New York City implemented its first nighttime curfew since the Harlem riot of 1943 ?
Did you know that most Nepali families disapprove of inter-caste marriage because they are afraid of becoming social outcasts ?
Did you know that Seraph Young Ford was the first American woman to cast a vote under a women's equal-suffrage law?
Did you know that army ambulances were deployed during the 1989–90 British ambulance strike ?
Did you know that Stanley Matthews vowed to never work in management again after one year as Port Vale F.C. manager ?
Did you know that the Stanford Fleet Street Singers perform a medley of songs called the "Greatest Hits of the 1590s"?
Did you know that Connie Carberg , the NFL 's first female scout, made mock drafts as a hobby while growing up?
Did you know that negotiations to end the 1942 Betteshanger miners' strike took place at Maidstone Prison , as three of the union officials had been imprisoned there?
Did you know that " Meine engen Grenzen " ("My narrow limits"), a new hymn with text by Eugen Eckert and a melody by Winfried Heurich , was recorded with a band?
Did you know that in a 2013 ranking compiled by the political editors of Verdens Gang , Astrid Gjertsen was rated the ninth-most important woman in Norwegian history?
Did you know that the Lekhapaddhati , a guidebook written in Sanskrit , includes specimens of letters and documents intended to be used by administrators during Chaulukya rule in Gujarat , India?
Did you know that after Sweden defeated the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth at the Battle of Lemberg , the Polish troops joined Sweden and were stationed in the city they had just lost?
Did you know that NASA mechanical engineer Aaron Yazzie has compared the surface of Mars to the landscape near his birthplace in the Navajo Nation ?
Did you know that Ed Warren , the 35th and 41st mayor of Cheyenne, Wyoming , was an actor and one of three Cheyenne mayors to have played on Broadway ?
Did you know that husband and wife Ralf and Kristin Bochröder both won their 1975 Berlin Marathon races, the only couple to have done so?
Did you know that after years of fan lobbying, the director's cut of Zack Snyder 's 2017 film Justice League will be released on HBO Max ?
Did you know that Maurício Camuto , the incoming bishop of Caxito in Angola, was the director of a commercial radio station that exposed human rights abuses in the country ?
Did you know that one private company, Lexipol , writes the policy manuals for 3,500 law and public service agencies in the U.S.?
Did you know that a large, elderly, "decently behaved" Russian brown bear once lived in the Leeds suburb of Headingley ?
Did you know that Harris' Missouri Battery was formed in an 1864 reorganization that may not have been authorized?
Did you know that the Who set the world record for the loudest concert on their The Who by Numbers Tour ?
Did you know that Nepali actor Jayanendra Chand Thakuri starred in more than 100 films?
Did you know that program tapes were sent to KUAC , the first public radio station in Alaska , by overnight Pan Am flights from Oregon?
Did you know that The Generation: The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Communists of Poland discusses the minority of Polish Jews who became communists and were later "demonized" as part of the Żydokomuna canard?
Did you know that Taroc l'Hombre imported bidding from the world's most successful card game, Ombre , a feature that was crucial to the future of Tarot games outside Italy?
Did you know that a Spanish woman was arrested for carrying a bag that read " A.C.A.B. " accompanied by the phrase "All Cats Are Beautiful"?
Did you know that F. Scott Fitzgerald 's works, such as The Great Gatsby , only gained popularity after his death?
Did you know that the Spanish government blocked the sale of a stake in digital television licensee Sociedad Gestora de Televisión Net TV to Viacom ?
Did you know that during the topping-out ceremony for 1 Wall Street , while workers hoisted an evergreen tree to its pinnacle, a hot rivet fell onto the street and caused a fire?
Did you know that in R v Zora , the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that the offence of breaching bail conditions requires subjective mens rea ?
Did you know that Joseph Crews , who organized a militia to mobilize African-American voters in South Carolina , was assassinated by whites in the run-up to the 1876 gubernatorial election ?
Did you know that a kidney-transplantation scandal led to a 2011 amendment to the law on organ donation in India ?
Did you know that trade union official Roger Poole spent his honeymoon travelling the Americas in a double-decker bus promoting British products, until the bus sank in a river in Peru?
Did you know that the 7th-century drama Bhagavadajjukam is the earliest-surviving satirical play in Sanskrit literature ?
Did you know that after early professional success as a snooker player, Patsy Fagan developed a psychological block when using the rest and never won another major tournament?
Did you know that the British government funded Crossroads , the first Kazakhstani soap opera, to promote the country's transition to a free-market economy after the collapse of the Soviet Union ?
Did you know that Leo Pacheco , a member of the Texas House of Representatives , used to drive buses for VIA Metropolitan Transit ?
Did you know that the Jamai Palace in Fez was originally the residence of a grand vizier , but was later seized by the state, sold, and converted into a hotel?
Did you know that during World War II, Polish-Jewish economist Ludwik Maurycy Landau conducted undercover research into the economic conditions in occupied Poland ?
Did you know that the Asian freshwater leech Barbronia weberi has invaded North Carolina ?
Did you know that production of mina'i ware , the first pottery to use overglaze enamels , stopped with the Mongol invasion of Persia in 1219?
Did you know that in 2016, on the tenth anniversary of its premiere, the Royal Ballet performed Chroma with five dancers from the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater ?
Did you know that King Carlos I of Portugal often donated the game shot during his hunts to a soup kitchen founded by Maria Luísa de Sousa Holstein ?
Did you know that Nick Begich won reelection to the U.S. House of Representatives despite having gone missing the previous month?
Did you know that Friedrich Dörr was a member of the commission for Gotteslob , the first common Catholic hymnal in German, which included several old hymns translated by him into modern language?
Did you know that before becoming a presenter of Home School Hub , teacher Clíona Ní Chiosáin played the title role in the Irish-language teen drama Aifric ?
Did you know that in 2014, judge William Orrick III upheld the constitutionality of a California law banning the possession and sale of shark fin ?
Did you know that at the Battle of Grand Gulf , men of the Confederate 3rd Missouri Infantry Regiment fired into the portholes of Union Navy ships?
Did you know that the Football Association has asked England fans to stop singing " No Surrender to the IRA "?
Did you know that Rockwell A. Schnabel was nominated as United States Ambassador to the European Union instead of Ambassador to Italy, after Italian-Americans demanded one of their own be in that position?
Did you know that after a 2014 Philippine Supreme Court decision , liking or retweeting cyberlibel is no longer a crime?
Did you know that bobsleigh pusher Pavle Jovanovic was "one of the most feared brakemen" on the Bobsleigh World Cup circuit?
Did you know that Gaoshi Shrine is the first Shinto shrine constructed in Taiwan after World War II?
Did you know that the 14-year-old lead actress in the 1931 British Indian film The Last Kiss was brought from a brothel in Dhaka ?
Did you know that as of June 11, 2020, the Navajo Nation had a larger per-capita rate of infection from COVID-19 than any U.S. state?
Did you know that the Thailand-based Diablos outlaw motorcycle club fought the Hells Angels in a gun battle in Australia?
Did you know that in 1557, Cardinal Giovanni Ricci sold Palazzo Sacchetti in Rome for 25,000 scudi to his friend Tommaso Marino in a fictitious sale?
Did you know that railway sabotage during World War II was one of the most common forms of resistance against German occupation?
Did you know that Robert Plunkett resigned as the first president of Georgetown College in 1793 because he preferred a rural life of ministry?
Did you know that the "lost manuscript" of The Ickabog was featured on the dress worn by J. K. Rowling at her 50th birthday party?
Did you know that to make the ethnographic film series The Doon School Quintet , visual anthropologist David MacDougall was given unprecedented access to film students at an all-boys boarding school in India?
Did you know that Frank Sargent was the first person to be president of two national amateur sporting associations in Canada?
Did you know that a number of Confederate cannons were captured at the Battle of Big Black River Bridge because battery horses were posted on the wrong side of the river?
Did you know that Markham's storm petrel , which nests in Peru and northern Chile, has been described as "one of the least known seabirds in the world"?
Did you know that James A. Baker helped to reveal the murder conspiracy against wealthy businessman William Marsh Rice ?
Did you know that in 1381, the Monastery of St Lawrence at Buda gained greatly in prestige when it received the body of Paul of Thebes ?
Did you know that while researching for his book How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems , Randall Munroe enlisted Serena Williams to knock a drone out of the sky with a tennis ball?
Did you know that the Senior Citizens Partylist was sworn in five months after the 18th Congress of the Philippines convened, since its factions could not agree on a nominee?
Did you know that U.S. law enforcement used chemical irritants to disperse a peaceful George Floyd protest in Washington, D.C. , shortly before President Donald Trump's photo op at St. John's Church ?
Did you know that the Büyük Valide Han , a 17th-century caravanserai in Istanbul, was one of the locations used for a motorcycle chase scene in the 2012 James Bond movie Skyfall ?
Did you know that after meeting Pueblo Indians during his World War II service, Burton Benedict switched his focus at Harvard University from ornithology to anthropology ?
Did you know that BTS transform into black swans in their music video for " Black Swan "?
Did you know that more men died while serving in the 16th Missouri Infantry Regiment than any other Missouri unit of the Confederate States Army ?
Did you know that there is a large cock at a junction of Sutton High Street , London?
Did you know that neurologist Frank Clifford Rose believed that any alcohol might cause a headache, but that red wine could trigger a migraine ?
Did you know that the Star Stations radio group was the subject of the largest denial of license renewals in the history of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission ?
Did you know that the Nizari (Assassin) garrison of Gerdkuh resisted the siege of Mongol invaders for 13 more years after the surrender of their leaders?
Did you know that the Jonas Brothers ' song " Cool " has several popular culture references in its lyrics, including Post Malone , Game of Thrones , and 1950s actor James Dean ?
Did you know that Boneybefore in Northern Ireland contains the ancestral home of the seventh president of the United States, Andrew Jackson ?
Did you know that the first expulsion from the National Assembly of Guyana took place in 1991, when MP Isahak Basir threw a glass of water at the speaker in protest against one of his decisions?
Did you know that the Great Northern School District is named for a railroad ?
Did you know that as health minister of Indonesia, Johannes Leimena focused on preventive care in rural regions, contrasting with prior colonial policy?
Did you know that despite owning it, the city of Athens, Georgia , has to look for a legal loophole to relocate its Confederate monument ?
Did you know that Norman Whitten , who played the Mad Hatter in the 1903 film Alice in Wonderland , later married May Clark , who played Alice?
Did you know that Gwen Stefani 's song " Hollaback Girl " was the first single ever to sell more digital downloads than CDs?
Did you know that the book The Polish Underground and the Jews, 1939–1945 has been praised for bridging widely different views of the Polish resistance found in Jewish and Polish historiographies?
Did you know that fans were asked to return their copies of The Lot , a 2013 compilation album by Queen drummer Roger Taylor , due to audio and typographical errors?
Did you know that film producer Sue Bruce-Smith was credited with the success of Oscar -winning films including 12 Years a Slave , The Favourite , Room , and Slumdog Millionaire ?
Did you know that every employee who remained with Mojang Studios for six months after its acquisition by Microsoft received a bonus of roughly $300,000?
Did you know that during the Siege of Vicksburg , the former commander of the 2nd Missouri Infantry Regiment stated that the regiment "died once, and can die again"?
Did you know that some of Dungiven Celtic F.C. 's players play association football and Gaelic football concurrently?
Did you know that Asa Binns was elected president of the Institution of Civil Engineers , but died before he could take office?
Did you know that the Pepsi Number Fever draw in May 1992 was supposed to have just two 1-million- peso winners, but 486,170 people made claims for a winning bottle cap?
Did you know that the Newland Oak in Gloucestershire took "200 years to grow, 200 years to exist, and 200 to die"?
Did you know that Craig Hall , the first African American in New York City Ballet to dance the title role in Apollo , went on to teach the role to Taylor Stanley , another dancer of color?
Did you know that St Luke's burial ground, on the south side of London's Cale Street , once had a 9-foot-high (2.7 m) wall and railings to protect against grave robbers ?
Did you know that MkLeo , regarded as the best Super Smash Bros. Ultimate player in the world, won his first tournament at the age of eight?
Did you know that a mine was detonated under the position of part of the 6th Missouri Infantry Regiment (Confederate) on July 1, 1863, during the Siege of Vicksburg ?
Did you know that Ng On-yee defeated Reanne Evans , the champion for the ten previous years, on her way to win the 2015 World Ladies Snooker Championship ?
Did you know that after a show host on Orlando -area radio station WTLN hired a hitman to kill his former lover's husband, the intended victim began a campaign to urge advertisers to boycott the station?
Did you know that the first murder trial in Iowa led to the hanging of Patrick O'Connor ?