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Did you know that Joseph Drummond , a key figure of New Brunswick 's branch of the NAACP , staged a sit-in at a local barbershop whose owner proclaimed that he had "never cut a colored person's hair in 55 years"?
Did you know that 1 + 1 = 1, according to some forms of non-Diophantine arithmetic ?
Did you know that Will Tschetter had the highest scoring average in Minnesota in basketball and won the state discus throw championship?
Did you know that within the Armenian Rite , it takes 40 days and more than 40 flowers, herbs, and spices to create the chrism known as myron ?
Did you know that because karaoke sounds like the Japanese word for 'coffin', Shigeichi Negishi called his karaoke machine prototype the "Sparko Box"?
Did you know that the developers of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas walked out of the Game Developers Choice Awards after winning nothing?
Did you know that Wilner Burke was the director of the Lumberjack Band , the marching band of the Green Bay Packers , for 42 years?
Did you know that as part of the Apollo 17 Biostack experiment scientists found that cosmic rays could cause brine shrimp larvae to grow two abdomens or have short limbs?
Did you know that actress Mattie Edwards was made a US deputy marshal at the age of sixteen?
Did you know that the design on a New Zealand coin was incorrectly alleged to represent a "personified phallus"?
Did you know that Gerald McGinnis founded his first medical device company from his own home, working at night and using his kitchen oven as a kiln ?
Did you know that during the 1984 Democratic presidential primaries , Alan Cranston scheduled his advertisements in Iowa around airings of The Day After ?
Did you know that there is one male for every 31 females in an E. interjectus colony, and each female can start its own colony?
Did you know that during the Syrian revolution , anarchist Omar Aziz directly participated in establishing four local opposition councils ?
Did you know that the first extant deer discovered in the 21st century is only 38 centimetres (15 in) tall?
Did you know that in 1939, a teenage Robin Ordell became the youngest radio announcer in Australia?
Did you know that a 2010 documentary claimed to expose how the Muslim Brotherhood infiltrates Western society from within?
Did you know that the capital of South Ossetia once had more Jews than Ossetians ?
Did you know that according to Lois N. Magner, Hildegard of Bingen 's Physica is "probably the first book by a female author to discuss the elements and the therapeutic virtues of plants, animals, and metals"?
Did you know that Cliff Christl , who became the Green Bay Packers team historian in 2014, estimated that he had recorded more than 250 oral histories with past players and coaches since the 1990s?
Did you know that at the Eurovision Song Contest 1992 , Johnny Logan became the first person to win the contest three times as either a performer or a songwriter?
Did you know that the positive reception for Until Dawn , developed by Supermassive Games , caught Sony by surprise and led to two spin-off games?
Did you know that Stan Brakhage 's film Sirius Remembered shows the decomposition of the corpse of his family's dog?
Did you know that Tim Kinsella made most of the lyrics for Cap'n Jazz 's only album, Shmap'n Shmazz , during his first experience with psilocybin mushrooms ?
Did you know that the only functioning secondary school in Mississippi during the American Civil War was founded by Thomas S. Gathright ?
Did you know that a story titled "The Adventures of Mr. Stupidhead in Russia" may have influenced the Soviet silent comedy film The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks ?
Did you know that Herwig Gössl rejected a reform document on the Catholic theology of sexuality prepared by the Synodal Way , but later welcomed the church's decision to bless homosexual couples?
Did you know that Waste Siege: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine is based on ten years of field research in the Israeli-occupied West Bank ?
Did you know that Golden Horse Awards –winning film composer Luming Lu worked as a cram-school tutor before pursuing a career in music?
Did you know that a Ramadan television show featured riddles, music, choreographed dance routines and "fantastical narratives"?
Did you know that football executive Ray Walsh also had a "murderous" forehand ?
Did you know that Androsaemum androsaemum is botanically unacceptable , but Aniculus aniculus is perfectly valid ?
Did you know that the word algebra is derived from an Arabic term for the surgical treatment of bonesetting ?
Did you know that The Gospel According to Jesus, Queen of Heaven , Jo Clifford 's 2009 play featuring Jesus as a trans woman , was called an "offensive abuse of Christian beliefs" by Archbishop Mario Conti ?
Did you know that Illieston House , a castle built around 1600, was sold for £890,000 in 2019?
Did you know that shortly after being liberated from the Theresienstadt Ghetto in 1945, Holocaust survivor Karl Loewenstein was sent to Pankrác Prison ?
Did you know that in the 3:16 game , Tim Tebow threw for 316 yards with 31.6 yards per completion, the ratings for the game were 31.6, and the opposing team's time of possession was 31 minutes 6 seconds?
Did you know that the historian al-Rushati was martyred during the fall of Almería in 1147?
Did you know that female Eriopis connexa beetles prevent sibling cannibalism by laying unfertilized eggs?
Did you know that Adolf Ulrik Schützercrantz was enrolled in the military at the age of ten?
Did you know that Canadian peacekeepers participated in every UN peacekeeping effort from its inception until 1989?
Did you know that in 1890 Cornelius N. Dorsette , often referred to as the first African-American physician in Alabama, founded Hale Infirmary , a hospital for Black patients and staff in Montgomery ?
Did you know that one Potteries derby game was decided by a goal scored twelve seconds into the match?
Did you know that Hong Kong actress and beauty pageant winner Louisa Mak is a Cambridge law graduate?
Did you know that as part of the Apollo 17 Biological Cosmic Ray Experiment , the heads of five mice were each cut into 1600 slices to look for brain lesions ?
Did you know that U.S. presidential candidate Johnny Buss owns one of the oldest comedy clubs in the country?
Did you know that Florida State 's exclusion from the 2023–24 College Football Playoff prompted an antitrust investigation?
Did you know that beavers, mules, and dogs have been parachuted from airplanes ?
Did you know that Charlotte FC opened their third season with their third manager ?
Did you know that Andreas Kieber died in 1939 as the last surviving veteran of the Liechtenstein military, which was disbanded in 1866?
Did you know that a new high school for the Pasco School District had to expand with portable classrooms within eight years of opening?
Did you know that food stylist Susan Spungen estimated that she baked hundreds of pies with Josh Brolin and film staff while practicing for a scene in Labor Day ?
Did you know that a local newspaper hosted a beauty pageant to celebrate the opening of New York City's Queensboro Bridge ?
Did you know that Donna Taggart 's cover of Jenn Bostic 's " Jealous of the Angels " charted at No. 85 on the UK Singles Downloads Chart after being featured in an episode of the cooking competition Great British Menu ?
Did you know that the metaverse has been described as "a honeypot trap for architecture astronauts "?
Did you know that the Shakespeare garden in Wessington Springs, South Dakota , was the first of its kind in the state?
Did you know that in the first Romanian universal chronicle , Mihail Moxa shows "the God of the Old and New Testaments baptizing His stars with the names of Olympian deities "?
Did you know that Rodney, Mississippi , became a ghost town after the Mississippi River shifted about two miles (3.2 km) away?
Did you know that Wayne Jacobs said that without football he would have been "dead by 30, or in prison"?
Did you know that a Holocaust memoir translated in 2023 described prisoners so dehumanized by the Nazis that they introduced themselves in past tense, as in "My name was ..."?
Did you know that a Taylor Swift song shares its name with a recurring refrain from Slaughterhouse-Five ?
Did you know that Centre College co-president Robert L. McLeod served for fifteen months on a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier while Robert J. McMullen , the other co-president, ran the school's day-to-day operations?
Did you know that in 2021 Krisztofer Mészáros became the first Hungarian male gymnast in 22 years to qualify for a World Artistic Gymnastics Championships all-around final?
Did you know that Maggio di Accettura , a festival in Italy dedicated to the Christian martyr Saint Julian , might have pagan origins or be linked to Langobard history?
Did you know that WFMT classical music radio host Don Tait owned such a large collection of recordings that he had to buy a house and have its floor reinforced to accommodate the weight?
Did you know that some Confederate bullets were sourced from a silver mine ?
Did you know that Rachelle Ann Go debuted in the West End and Broadway revivals of Miss Saigon portraying the role of a bargirl ?
Did you know that Nicki Minaj reacted to Megan Thee Stallion 's " Hiss " with a 3,100-character Twitter diatribe and a diss track ?
Did you know that a San Diego State coach called Darius Durham "the best high school guy we've ever signed"?
Did you know that Bangiales , an order of red algae , contains both the oldest-known sexually reproducing organism and the seaweed used to make sushi wrappers ?
Did you know that George Schollenberger was so well known as a high-school football coach that teams in the National Football League sometimes asked for his opinions?
Did you know that as the title character in Marcelle , actress Louise Gunning portrayed a Parisian barmaid who masquerades as her brother, a soldier?
Did you know that the anarchist Rosa Laviña opened the first vegetarian restaurant in Tolosa ?
Did you know that Rewilding Argentina has reintroduced giant river otters , giant anteaters , and jaguars to the country?
Did you know that despite being sacked after losing the Battle of Gazala , Neil Ritchie went on to command a corps in North West Europe?
Did you know that a Minneapolis TV station had newscasts that were "about as popular as the measles" with "sickening theme music"?
Did you know that Alfred Cowles stopped publishing his stock market newsletter as he could not predict the stock market?
Did you know that Sans was crowned as " Ultimate Tumblr Sexyman " on the same day that Elizabeth II died?
Did you know that the ancient Jewish town of Modi'in housed a monumental mausoleum for the Hasmonean family , built in the 2nd century BC, that remains undiscovered?
Did you know that Kassiane Asasumasu coined the term neurodivergent in 2000?
Did you know that Tilmann Köhler directed Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro in 2023 with playful "serious games" in which the women win by "wit, cleverness and presence of mind"?
Did you know that although some of the players on Liberty Christian Preparatory School 's eight-man football team had never played tackle football before, the team won the state championship in its first season?
Did you know that Hildegard Temporini-Gräfin Vitzthum arrived at the University of Tübingen as a student in 1959, and remained there until her death in 2004?
Did you know that Ariana Grande's song about Saturn returns , as well as SZA's and Kacey Musgraves's , were coincidentally released just weeks apart?
Did you know that the phrase "togs, togs, undies" was popularised in New Zealand by an advertisement for Trumpet ice cream cones?
Did you know that the Seattle SuperSonics had consecutive seasons with identical records under different head coaches?
Did you know that Alison Frantz 's photographs played a crucial role in the decipherment of Linear B ?
Did you know that saving the Guadalupe cypress included the help of 40 Judas goats ?
Did you know that Dorkas Tokoro-Hanasbey , the only female member of the New Guinea Council , arrived thirty minutes late to her inauguration ceremony?
Did you know that in 2006, half a million people used a temporary New York City public toilet sponsored by a toilet paper brand?
Did you know that Swedish naval officer Johan Herman Schützercrantz fought in the American Revolutionary War and participated in the Battle of the Chesapeake ?
Did you know that an exhibition hall for the 1939 New York World's Fair later hosted athletic events at a historically Black university in Virginia ?
Did you know that the fork-tailed drongo gives genuine alarm calls but will sometimes lie to steal food from other animals ?
Did you know that Peter Patton was given the nickname General Patton by the father of his college coach?
Did you know that people in Madagascar wrestle bulls to commemorate the unearthing of ancestral corpses ?
Did you know that Shel Kaphan was the first employee of Amazon ?
Did you know that Alexander Atabekian published the first anarchist periodical in the Armenian language ?
Did you know that the Mars Society 's founding conference included a rancorous debate about the ethics of terraforming ?
Did you know that one of the first female officers of the Milwaukee Police Department later served as chief of the department?
Did you know that in semantics , antonym is an antonym of synonym while synonym is not a synonym of antonym ?
Did you know that an Edmonton politician began mouthing his words when he saw a cameraman for A-Channel walk in, mocking the frequent audio difficulties on its newscasts?
Did you know that Wayne Cook tied the UCLA single-game record for touchdown passes in consecutive weeks en route to their first Rose Bowl in eight years?
Did you know that the Scott Tower was built in 1940 as part of a project to create Holyoke, Massachusetts ' "own version of New York City's Central Park "?
Did you know that, after Randy Travis lost most of his singing ability to a stroke in 2013, James Dupré has sung his songs for him in concert?
Did you know that Video Seven released the first VGA video card with video RAM ?
Did you know that Émile Gilliéron was accused of making Minoan frescoes look like Vogue models?
Did you know that a group of death row inmates filed a lawsuit when the U.S. government refused to confiscate their states' lethal injection drugs?
Did you know that slave trader Jourdan Saunders greatly profited from a Louisiana law banning slave trading?
Did you know that Ladislav Burlas , a musicologist at the Slovak Academy of Sciences for almost 40 years, wrote more than 150 works during his career?
Did you know that the Lunar Traverse Gravimeter 's primary accelerometer was based on those operational on SM-65 Atlas intercontinental ballistic missiles?
Did you know that Bell Tea , founded in 1898, is the oldest tea company in New Zealand?
Did you know that in one year, a team of Canadian All-Stars twice played against the U.S. college football national champion and came within one point of winning each game?
Did you know that Ahmad Nasuhi ordered a subordinate to attack the Indonesian Communist Party 's offices with grenades as "psychological warfare against the central government"?
Did you know that the Van Tran Flat Bridge was restored in 1984 using original construction techniques from the 1860s?
Did you know that George E. Mylonas visited Mycenae at night to speak to the legendary king Agamemnon ?
Did you know that Waluigi inspired the name of a phenomenon in artificial intelligence known as the Waluigi effect ?
Did you know that Irish International Brigader Tommy Wood had only been in Spain for 18 days when he was killed at the Battle of Lopera during the Spanish Civil War ?
Did you know that the Brazilian social media page Tupinizando is dedicated to the promotion of Old Tupi , a dead language ?
Did you know that in 1940 Xu Ruiyun became the first Chinese woman to receive a PhD in mathematics?
Did you know that Greenpeace v. Eni is the first climate change lawsuit filed against a privately owned company in Italy?
Did you know that South African civil rights activist Thambi Naidoo was arrested along with Mahatma Gandhi and sent outside of Transvaal for refusing to register ?
Did you know that the novel series Aisling is based on a character archetype elaborated upon by users of a Facebook group?
Did you know that storyteller Rita Cox thinks of stories as "gently echoed music" between the storyteller and the listener?
Did you know that an Arkansas TV station apologized for not being on the air by sending local media a drawing of ducks?
Did you know that TV Guide criticized Flypaper as among the "second-rate rip-offs" of Tarantino's Pulp Fiction ?
Did you know that the Canadian League for Peace and Democracy organized a 10,000-person rally at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto to protest a 2,500-person fascist rally?
Did you know that illustrator Abigail Larson once designed a wine-bottle label for the Edgar Allan Poe Museum ?
Did you know that the Indonesian city of Gorontalo is nicknamed the "Porch of Medina "?
Did you know that John Holahan recalled both being called a "lunatic" by his school's president for seeking a football game at night and being told afterward by the president, "I was the lunatic, not you"?
Did you know that Beyoncé released a country ballad and an uptempo country pop western song on the same day?
Did you know that some fans of Genshin Impact have referred to the character Paimon as "emergency food"?
Did you know that an extinct French scarab beetle was discovered in a Prague factory?
Did you know that Pep the dog was falsely accused of murdering a cat and sent to Eastern State Penitentiary ?
Did you know that the White Dagoba at Lianxing Temple was probably not originally made of an enormous pile of salt?
Did you know that no one laughed at the worst joke in legal history ?
Did you know that when Olivia Rodrigo spilled her guts , her obsession came out?
Did you know that you could be sentenced to serve time in prison for stuffing cookies ?
Did you know that a blizzard helped end the Cold War ?
Did you know that Colin Mackay , the political editor at Scottish Television , was "very sad" when Colin MacKay , the political editor at Scottish Television, died?
Did you know that due to his Hungarian background, composer Henri Berény was banned from living and working in Paris during World War I and his home was seized by the French government?
Did you know that despite its name meaning 'unscented', Hypericum × inodorum can smell strongly of goat?
Did you know that Ruth Gottesman donated $1 billion to ensure free tuition for all students at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine ?
Did you know that Gabriel García Márquez asked his sons to destroy Until August , but they instead published it after his death?
Did you know that Zig Jackson is the first contemporary Native American photographer to be represented in the collections of the Library of Congress ?
Did you know that hundreds of actors and other artists, as members of Artists4Ceasefire , are calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza ?
Did you know that Ernie Shore pitched a combined no-hitter with Babe Ruth ?
Did you know that actor Corey Feldman knocked his own tooth out at Shank Hall ?
Did you know that Richard Osman , who wrote " the biggest thing in fiction since Harry Potter ", lost confidence in his writing ability after his experience with Boyz Unlimited ?
Did you know that Green Bay Packers player Travis Glover started at three separate positions along the offensive line during his college football career?
Did you know that even though about 100,000 mines were laid in Le Touquet during World War II, making it the most mined city in France, it was the first resort in northern France to open its beaches after the liberation ?
Did you know that for his first recital as the organist of the restored Frauenkirche in Dresden, Samuel Kummer chose music by Bach , Brahms , and himself?
Did you know that El Salvador was the first country to recognize Manchukuo , apart from Japan?
Did you know that poet Peggy Pond Church became a strong pacifist and a member of the Society of Friends after the Manhattan Project used her home as a place to build nuclear weapons?
Did you know that librarian Anne Griffiths was one of the first British women to cross the Antarctic Circle ?
Did you know that a firearm blank goes off during The Days of '98 Show shootout, startling the audience?
Did you know that the antiseptic cream Boroline was marketed to appeal to nationalistic sentiments?
Did you know that King Christian IX and Queen Louise of Denmark were the parents of a Danish king , a British queen , a Greek king , and a Russian empress ?
Did you know that John D. Rockefeller Jr. , under the name "David's Father", secretly authorized the purchase of an $8,000 "antique" ?
Did you know that although Evgeniia Subbotina failed to escape her own exile in Siberia , she successfully aided the escapes of Catherine Breshkovsky , Yelizaveta Kovalskaya and Sofya Bogomolets ?
Did you know that an 18th-century hymn inspired the title of George W. Bush 's 1999 autobiography ?
Did you know that Denpasar mayor I Gusti Ngurah Jaya Negara became active in politics after he was laid off from a bank due to the Asian financial crisis ?
Did you know that Israel's destruction of trees and farmland in Gaza has been described as an ecocide ?
Did you know that Elizabeth Storie 's doctor poured nitric acid into her mouth, causing her teeth to fall out?
Did you know that Marie Catharine Neal , an expert on Hawaiian plants, authored the acclaimed book In Gardens of Hawaii in 1948, which described more than 2,000 species with detailed scientific information and illustrations?
Did you know that Indonesian politician Sanusi 's parents discouraged him from becoming a government employee, because his salary would be paid partly from taxes on alcohol and prostitution?
Did you know that Barry Sanders was the first player to play at least ten seasons in the National Football League and be selected to the Pro Bowl in each year?
Did you know that Ilie Purcaru , as a contributor to Nicolae Ceaușescu's cult of personality , claimed that a young Ceaușescu had walked into the woods of Scornicești without fearing their wolves?
Did you know that the Lord Chamberlain's plays are a historical archive of play scripts curated through theatrical censorship that provide a unique insight into attitudes to race and sexuality?
Did you know that Elizabeth Seifert , who was denied a medical degree due to her gender, went on to achieve success as a writer, penning more than 80 novels about the very field from which she had been excluded?
Did you know that Rachel Chinouriri decided to include the English flag on the cover art of What a Devastating Turn of Events to celebrate her Black British identity?
Did you know that when the Oakland Athletics promoted Bill McNulty to the major leagues, they needed forest rangers to find him?
Did you know that the Egyptian-Sudanese singer Nxdia took the "queer anthem" "She Likes a Boy" into the UK Singles Sales Chart ?
Did you know that there is a dispute within the Indian communist movement on whether the Communist Party of India was founded in Tashkent in 1920 or Kanpur in 1925 ?
Did you know that John Gould Stephenson fought at the Battle of Gettysburg while serving as the librarian of Congress ?
Did you know that the Swiss Party of Labour expelled its branch in Basel in 1988 after tensions over an occupation movement in the city?
Did you know that between 2006 and 2007, Stacy Hollowell worked for basketball teams in Qatar, China, Bahrain and Lithuania?
Did you know that on June 30, 1973, scientists set the record for the longest observation of a total solar eclipse , at 74 minutes of totality ?
Did you know that suffragette Ellen Oliver recognised "daughter of God" Mabel Barltrop as the spiritual child of prophet Joanna Southcott ?
Did you know that a ring-tailed monkey named Jenny threw billiard balls down a flight of stairs to alert firefighters to a fire in their own building ?
Did you know that the Bluey special " The Sign " reminded a Sydney Morning Herald reporter of Australia's housing crisis?