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Did you know that Jerome Kohl , a music theorist of the University of Washington , was recognized internationally as an authority on the composer Karlheinz Stockhausen , publishing a book on his Zeitmaße in 2017?
Did you know that the Umberslade Obelisk has been described as a "monument of nothing in particular"?
Did you know that the soft crafting materials used in Judith Weinshall Liberman 's artworks were described as providing "an important contrast to the Holocaust tragedy "?
Did you know that an artificial turf soccer field in New York City's Red Hook Park , donated by the Norwegian government, was destroyed by arson ten days after its dedication?
Did you know that Radio Quarantine was founded in India by a group of professors, directors and PhD students in response to social isolation protocols following the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic ?
Did you know that Capitol Police officer Eugene Goodman has been credited with having "saved American Democracy" on January 6, 2021?
Did you know that the black swan leech attaches itself to the skin or eye of a fish before working its way to the gill chamber?
Did you know that Julio César Gandarilla Bermejo , a founder of the Cuban National Revolutionary Militia , ignored instructions from the Cuban president Miguel Díaz-Canel to make a Twitter account?
Did you know that one of the most recognizable video-game glitches , a bug that forced Mahatma Gandhi in Civilization to use nuclear weapons heavily, never actually existed?
Did you know that the formation of the Central Irian Jaya province in Indonesia, which was headed by Herman Monim , caused a civil war between the supporters and opponents of the province?
Did you know that the 1951 film The Basketball Fix is based on a real-life scandal involving college basketball betting?
Did you know that architect Piers Taylor had to carry the materials for building his award-winning home "Moonshine" over a 600-metre (2,000 ft) woodland incline?
Did you know that the book In Praise of Blood was described as "an immediate, destabilizing influence on the world of orthodox Rwandan scholarship"?
Did you know that Susan Estes is the first woman to have her own company in the historically male bond-trading business in the U.S.?
Did you know that during the Yamagata Hanagasa Festival , ten thousand people sing and dance on Japan National Route 112 ?
Did you know that " New Year's Day " by Taylor Swift was recorded in "scratch takes" that did not filter out unwanted sounds from the outside environment?
Did you know that American local car dealer Sigmund Strochlitz was a confidant of Elie Wiesel and a leader in the Holocaust remembrance movement ?
Did you know that the yawara is a Japanese weapon that is used for martial arts and was used by American police?
Did you know that Walt Whitman called one of his lectures on Abraham Lincoln "the culminating hour" of his life?
Did you know that places of worship in Elmbridge , Surrey, include the "ferocious" Weybridge United Reformed Church ?
Did you know that former New York City Ballet principal dancer Janie Taylor appeared in the film Center Stage as a background dancer, and served as a motion caption dancer for Barbie of Swan Lake ?
Did you know that Ipswich Town won the Football League First Division in their 1961–62 season having been promoted from the Second Division the previous season?
Did you know that despite James Snyder having taught at a women's college for over 20 years, his Northern Renaissance Art of 1985 was criticized for using gender stereotypes ?
Did you know that horse-mounted elements of the French 1st Cavalry Brigade helped hold up the advance of tanks from the 1st Panzer Division for a day in May 1940?
Did you know that the root of the slimflower scurfpea can be eaten raw or cooked, or ground up and used as an ingredient in bread-making?
Did you know that with " Homura " and Leo-Nine , LiSA became the first female artist in 16 years to debut a song and an album simultaneously at number one in Japan since Utada Hikaru ?
Did you know that Eleanor Keaton , who at age 21 became the third wife of silent-film comedian Buster Keaton , was widely credited with rehabilitating his life and career?
Did you know that The Magic of Chocolate 's volumes are ordered alphabetically rather than numerically?
Did you know that after Saint Eustadiola , a 7th century abbess in Bourges, France , prayed with her nuns for rain during a drought, they got drenched before they were able to return to the convent?
Did you know that the peppermint stick insect possesses an aposematic coloration and a robust chemical defense mechanism?
Did you know that after a 15-year campaign, activist Cécile Nobrega completed fundraising for the first public monument to black women to be on permanent display in England?
Did you know that Theodore Roosevelt conducted one of his last bison hunting excursions at Yule Ranch ?
Did you know that the Four Ds include demilitarisation, denazification, decentralisation, and democratisation?
Did you know that by paying attention to mundane decision-making among activists, the critical theorist Eva Haifa Giraud troubles the notion of staying with the trouble ?
Did you know that contractors digging New York City's Joralemon Street Tunnel found the remains of a ship?
Did you know that Napoleon's penis , which was cut off after his death, has been described as comparable to a "piece of leather or a shriveled eel"?
Did you know that clergyman David Williamson 's time as an outlaw is commemorated in the traditional Scottish song " Dainty Davie "?
Did you know that a political feud in the Eastside of Los Angeles began when Gloria Molina was told by Art Torres that she was not the chosen candidate to run for an office?
Did you know that Setiadi Reksoprodjo , who was appointed Minister of Information at the age of 25, had a junior minister twice as old as him?
Did you know that after the Morning Star sank on Lake Erie , the death toll was unknown because many of the passengers were not on the ship's manifest?
Did you know that the Japanese television drama Ossan's Love is credited with popularizing the boys' love genre for a general audience outside of anime and manga fans?
Did you know that Mat and Savanna Shaw 's cover of " The Prayer " went viral at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic , after which they released their debut album that was ranked 54th on the Billboard 200 ?
Did you know that American conservation officer Terry Grosz busted an illegal snagging boat on the Eel River by waiting in the water and getting reeled in?
Did you know that before the creation of Good Job! , Paladin Studios had wanted to collaborate with Nintendo for about a decade?
Did you know that the American writer Mark C. Yerger was honored by the veterans' organization of the Waffen-SS for his works that embellished its history?
Did you know that the Christuskirche in Idstein -Walsdorf received this name in 1993, 600 years after a first chapel in the village was mentioned?
Did you know that a body-shaming comment from a New York Times critic led to ballerina Jenifer Ringer 's appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show and The Today Show ?
Did you know that Kyren Wilson set fire to his cue stick at the 2021 Masters ?
Did you know that at the 1783 Siege of Bednore a British force of 1,600 faced a Mysore army of more than 100,000?
Did you know that the pig bank at the Freedom Farm Cooperative loaned out pigs to families who paid interest in the form of piglets?
Did you know that Joseph McLain held 30 patents, including for smoke grenades, underwater torches, and flares?
Did you know that Artémis, cœur d'artichaut is a female buddy film inspired by Greek mythology , Carl Jung and Éric Rohmer ?
Did you know that the specific name of Laudakia nupta comes from the Latin word for a bride who veils herself?
Did you know that Zintkala Nuni , who survived the Wounded Knee Massacre , gave birth to a stillborn boy in Nebraska's Milford Industrial Home , at one time the only state-funded institution in the US for unmarried pregnant women?
Did you know that due to Brian Crabtree 's closeness with his brothers in professional wrestling, Kendo Nagasaki once refused to wrestle "Big Daddy" Crabtree with Brian refereeing?
Did you know that the 1978 science-fiction novel Dreamsnake includes a named character for whom gender pronouns are never used, thereby subverting gender expectations?
Did you know that Svetlana Lloyd accidentally became a model for Christian Dior , after wandering into his Paris boutique looking for a receptionist job?
Did you know that Christian Friedrich Gottlieb Schwencke , who succeeded C. P. E. Bach as the music director of Hamburg, edited an early publication of the The Well-Tempered Clavier in which the first prelude had an extra measure?
Did you know that U.S. senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan proposed an expansion of New York Penn Station as a homage to the original station , where he had once shined shoes?
Did you know that the two participants in a yaoi relationship are referred to as seme ('top') and uke ('bottom'), terms derived from martial arts that were later appropriated as Japanese LGBT slang ?
Did you know that the defeat of the consul Gaius Porcius Cato by a Celtic tribe in 114 BC led to the last human sacrifices in ancient Rome ?
Did you know that during the trial of Francis Gary Powers , Kansas radio station KBTO presented summaries of Radio Moscow broadcasts alongside other international reports?
Did you know that members of the Nyasaland Volunteer Reserve fought in the first naval action of the First World War ?
Did you know that Doug Grimston insisted on a smoking ban at Queen's Park Arena and took financial responsibility for lost attendance?
Did you know that Eli Wallach agreed to play the role of Tuco in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly immediately after watching the main title sequence of For a Few Dollars More ?
Did you know that Anna Feldhusen was for a long time the only female German artist to acquire a business license ?
Did you know that the First World War Zanzibar Volunteer Defence Force included practically every able-bodied British man residing in the protectorate ?
Did you know that a memorandum written by Douglass Cater convinced Lyndon B. Johnson to focus on education policy during his administration?
Did you know that when Joe Brown and George Band made the first successful ascent of Kangchenjunga in 1955, they deliberately turned back a few feet below the summit?
Did you know that the freighter John V. Moran and her sister ship were both sunk by ice on Lake Michigan , ten years apart?
Did you know that the manga anthology Nanohana was inspired by efforts in Chernobyl and Fukushima to use plants to absorb radioactive material ?
Did you know that Professor Shabir Madhi , who led trials of the Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine in South Africa, did not originally want to study medicine?
Did you know that Minnesota 's Winsted Municipal Airport once hosted a country-music festival ?
Did you know that a fake family tree was created for Jeyran , the beloved wife of Naser al-Din Shah of Persia, linking her to the Sassanids and the Ilkhans ?
Did you know that both Jochen Klepper and Hildegard Schaeder sought solace amidst the horror of the Nazi regime in Paul Gerhardt's 17th-century New Year's song " Nun lasst uns gehn und treten "?
Did you know that Edmilsa Governo won Mozambique's first medal at a Paralympic Games in 2016?
Did you know that to record his narration for A Perfect Planet at home, David Attenborough hung duvets from his dining room walls to make a sound stage , and bought a hut for the sound recorder?
Did you know that Kehinde Wiley wanted to express "absolute joy – break dancing in the sky" when he created Go ?
Did you know that Spider-Man 2 is considered to be one of the best and most influential superhero films of all time?
Did you know that progressive house music producer and DJ Guy J prefers analog equipment over software, describing its sound as "a bit dirty and warm"?
Did you know that about 27 men and newsboys were killed in the Chicago circulation wars in the early 1900s?
Did you know that according to Amnesty International , pre-trial detentions, bans on gatherings, and censorship have occurred in Chad in the lead-up to the 2021 presidential election ?
Did you know that ballerina Jennie Somogyi was offered an apprenticeship at the New York City Ballet when she was 15, becoming one of the youngest dancers to join the company?
Did you know that the Atlantic partridge tun preys on sea cucumbers much larger than itself?
Did you know that Texas Motor Speedway 's president once "just laughed" at the idea of NASCAR at COTA ?
Did you know that most Russian cities were destroyed as a result of the Mongol invasion ?
Did you know that associate justice William Johnson was the first member of the U.S. Supreme Court who was not a member of the Federalist Party ?
Did you know that according to legend, Växjö Cathedral in Sweden was founded by an English saint ?
Did you know that Dominic Thiem , winner of the 2020 US Open , is the first player since the 2004 French Open to come back from two sets down in a Grand Slam final to win the title?
Did you know that Veronica Maggio 's 2011 song " Jag kommer " was accused of plagiarizing the Strokes ' " Reptilia ", but the singer denied any connection?
Did you know that Charles G. Hopkins accompanied Queen Emma of Hawaii to Europe and the United States, where she visited Queen Victoria, Emperor Napoleon III, and President Andrew Johnson?
Did you know that due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Japanese cheer screenings , which encourage audience participation, have been replaced by viewers' text messages being superimposed on the screen?
Did you know that the Royal Victoria Arcade, Ryde , had an underground market that is now used as a local history museum?
Did you know that ballerina Kyra Nichols danced with the New York City Ballet for 33 years, retiring shortly before she turned 49?
Did you know that " I Love You " by 2NE1 integrates traditional Korean trot music with electronic to create a different sound and "new genre" of music?
Did you know that Emil Aaltonen went from being a 13-year-old shoemaker's apprentice to owning and running the largest shoe manufacturing business in the Nordics ?
Did you know that the Trinidad euphonia lacks the muscular gizzard that most birds have as part of their digestive tract?
Did you know that the Ur-Quan from the 1992 science-fiction game Star Control II are ranked among the best game antagonists of all time, and have influenced character design in modern games?
Did you know that someone ate Koos van der Merwe 's cake?
Did you know that the Scottish distiller Sandy Grant Gordon pioneered the creation of single malt Scotch as a whisky category?
Did you know that KEVT , the first Spanish-language radio station in Tucson , offered English lessons from a University of Arizona professor?
Did you know that Jincheon Gilsangsa is a shrine dedicated to the portrait of General Gim Yu-sin ?
Did you know that Hannah J. Patterson and other suffragists hauled a replica of the Liberty Bell across Pennsylvania to gain the right to vote ?
Did you know that Dua Lipa 's livestream concert Studio 2054 had a record-breaking attendance of five million paid viewers?
Did you know that the Bharatanatyam dancer Sangeeta Isvaran works with deprived communities and uses dance and theatre in an effort to bring about social reform?
Did you know that George H. W. Bush drowned a rat in the White House swimming pool ?
Did you know that virtuoso organist Frederick Swann was seen weekly on television by an estimated audience of 20 million viewers in 165 countries?
Did you know that the exact date of establishment of the Philippine embassy in Cairo is unclear, despite the Philippines having first named an ambassador to Egypt in 1960?
Did you know that the philosopher Andy Lamey challenges "new omnivorism", according to which it is permissible to eat animals even if they have moral status ?
Did you know that the IRT Powerhouse was intended to be the largest power generating station on earth when it was built in the 1900s?
Did you know that Travancore Radio's first English-language broadcaster, Indira Joseph Venniyoor , was paid 69 rupees (then equivalent to US$14.50) for her broadcasts in 1949?
Did you know that the Japanese-pop song " Snow Halation " by μ's has a music video animated by Sunrise ?
Did you know that more than 41 million hours of online chess have been watched on Twitch during the COVID-19 pandemic?
Did you know that the 2009 Nova episode " Darwin's Darkest Hour " was filmed for the bicentennial anniversary of Charles Darwin 's birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his work On the Origin of Species ?
Did you know that New Zealand–born musician Millie Lovelock wrote her English literature master's thesis on One Direction ?
Did you know that Bernie Sanders was the first socialist mayor in New England since Jasper McLevy ?
Did you know that Japanese business executive Minoru Makihara credited his association with activist shareholder Robert Monks , his roommate at Harvard , for some of the reforms at Mitsubishi Corporation ?
Did you know that Columbia University 's small press Columbia Global Reports has been described as "somewhere between a magazine and book publisher"?
Did you know that Fraser's Hill in Malaysia was previously a tin mining area that was converted into a hill station after the tin ore depleted in 1913?
Did you know that when sports journalist Leo Monahan traveled overnight with the Boston Bruins by train, he feared moving while sleeping and keeping one of the team's players awake?
Did you know that Bianca Smith , the first Black female coach in professional baseball history, has a JD degree and an MBA in sports management?
Did you know that confectionery in the English Renaissance marks the transition of sugar from a medicine to a sweetener?
Did you know that when Riot Games approached investors to fund the development of League of Legends , publishers were baffled by the game's free-to-play business model?
Did you know that in 2015, Alexe Gaudreault became the first independent artist to top the BDS charts in 15 years?
Did you know that the wreck of the freighter Vernon is one of the deadliest ever to have occurred in Wisconsin ?
Did you know that the 1352 Siege of Guines reignited the Hundred Years' War after six years of uneasy truce?
Did you know that after meeting Mira Mendelson , Sergei Prokofiev described his future wife as "just some girl who wants me to read her bad poetry"?
Did you know that The Doctor and Student by Christopher St. Germain was used as a primer by English law students for over two centuries?
Did you know that Izaac Hindom , a Papuan himself, actively promoted the assimilation of Javanese and Papuans, describing the latter as backward and self-centered?
Did you know that the first Cincinnati Marine Hospital was taken by the Department of War , and the second by environmental health scientists?
Did you know that in their 1962 postal history of the Cayman Islands, Philip Saunders and Everard Aguilar were unable to find any surviving mail from the islands before 1889 in private collections, and very little in archives?
Did you know that prior to becoming the highest-grossing film of 1965, The Sound of Music was initially criticized for its romanticism and sentimentality?
Did you know that Blackburn Rovers won the Premier League three seasons after winning the 1992 Football League Second Division play-off Final ?
Did you know that John Clark Mayden 's images of African Americans were extolled by James Baldwin as capturing the "majesty of black life" by portraying people who are "weary but not cast down"?
Did you know that according to a chaplain at Nonnberg Abbey , an abbot was immediately struck blind after stealing one of Saint Erentrude 's relics 300 years after her death?
Did you know that City of Champaign v. Madigan was the first decision by an Illinois court addressing whether the private emails of government officials are subject to public disclosure?
Did you know that Chinese bandit Ma Xiang raised a thousands-strong rebel army in just one or two days, conquered three commanderies , and declared himself emperor, only to be killed by a much weaker opponent?
Did you know that a mental-health hotline in Puerto Rico recorded a spike in calls leading up to Hurricane Beryl ?
Did you know that Georgina Schuyler led the campaign to have the poem " The New Colossus " by Emma Lazarus placed inside the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty ?
Did you know that the gill chambers of the tiger lucine , the dwarf tiger lucine , and the Pennsylvania lucine contain symbiotic bacteria which help them live in sediments not suited to other bivalves ?
Did you know that upon completing their apprenticeships, British printers might be doused in ink and paper shavings and paraded through the streets ?
Did you know that during the reigns of King Kalākaua and Queen Liliʻuokalani , attempts were made to change the constitution to grant women of the Hawaiian Kingdom the right to vote ?
Did you know that Iqbal Qureshi composed the music for the 1964 film Cha Cha Cha , the first Indian film to feature Western dance?
Did you know that Vine-Glo sold during Prohibition carried a warning telling people how to make wine from it, and Al Capone allegedly threatened to force it out of Chicago?
Did you know that the artist Thilagavathi teaches social interactions and facial expressions to children on the autism spectrum through Therukoothu folk-theatre performances?
Did you know that Matt Czuchry , who plays Logan in Gilmore Girls , recommended season 5's " You Jump, I Jump, Jack " as a good episode for new viewers to begin with?
Did you know that the Homeward Bound leadership program organized the largest all-woman expedition to Antarctica in 2019?
Did you know that after 108-year-old Sarah Thomas woke up from a thirty-hour coma, she asked for her pipe and tobacco?
Did you know that Barack Obama 's 2020 book A Promised Land took longer to write than any other presidential memoir in the past hundred years?
Did you know that Turkish artistic gymnast Ümit Şamiloğlu is the creator of a special grip in the horizontal bar event?
Did you know that after releasing their debut album Black Focus , the English band Yussef Kamaal was denied entry to the United States because one member's visa was revoked by the Trump administration?
Did you know that attorney Styles Hutchins was the first African American to argue a case in a court in Georgia ?
Did you know that the flameback coral shrimp is often found in close proximity to the yellow-edged moray eel , suggesting that they may have a cleaning symbiosis ?
Did you know that according to one critic, video-game designer Kitty Horrorshow does not exploit the Lovecraftian "fear of the unknown", but instead the "fear of the familiar"?
Did you know that this year's Boat Race between Oxford and Cambridge will take place on the River Great Ouse instead of the River Thames for the first time since 1944?
Did you know that Debbie Muir retired from synchronized swimming at age 20 and coached the Calgary Aquabelles to 22 national titles in ten years?
Did you know that in Playing the Whore , Melissa Gira Grant contends that categorizing all sex work as exploitation or empowerment creates a false dichotomy ?
Did you know that The Ur-Quan Masters , an open-source remake of the 1992 science-fiction game Star Control II , has been listed several times as one of the best free PC games ever?
Did you know that Lucy Burwell Page Saunders 's novel Dora Lee features a French-speaking macaw named Fanchon, inspired by Dolley Madison 's pet parrot, who attacks three different characters in eight pages?
Did you know that although the Philippines and Denmark established relations in 1946, the Philippine embassy in Copenhagen only opened in 2019?
Did you know that Taylor Swift 's 2020 song " Marjorie " has been described as "a heart-rending tribute" to her grandmother, opera singer Marjorie Finlay , who inspired Swift's musical career?
Did you know that the Index Thomisticus covered 10,631,980 words in fifty-six volumes and took an estimated one million hours to create?