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Did you know that after a Falklands War adventure with rigid inflatable boats , Tommy Turtle 's SAS troop called itself "The South Georgia Boating Club"?
Did you know that MLS Cup 1999 was played with new rule changes that were approved days before the game?
Did you know that both grandfathers of Donough MacCarty , who fought for the Irish Catholic Confederation , were Protestants?
Did you know that Aaron Copland considered the Short Symphony to be "one of the best things I ever wrote"?
Did you know that Carl Craig became the state auditor of Mississippi in 1936 after defeating a former state auditor also named Carl ?
Did you know that a syzygy of celestial bodies caused Van Sickle Island to flood in 2017?
Did you know that 19th-century Guyanese poet Egbert Martin , who died at the age of 29, is considered to be the country's first major poet?
Did you know that Arora Akanksha , the first millennial candidate for Secretary-General of the United Nations , believes the organisation is wasteful?
Did you know that " Wer unterm Schutz des Höchsten steht ", a hymn paraphrasing Psalm 91 , has been recommended instead of the psalm in the Liturgy of the Hours , and for memorial services after disasters?
Did you know that only posthumously was Patrick Francis Healy described as the first black American to become a Jesuit , earn a Ph.D. , and become the president of a predominantly white university?
Did you know that the Battery Maritime Building was used as a musical installation while it was awaiting redevelopment?
Did you know that Sandra Wolin , a physician-microbiologist, devised an early ribosome profiling method as a postdoctoral researcher in Peter Walter 's lab at the University of California, San Francisco ?
Did you know that three-quarters of the animated film A Goofy Movie had to be reshot due to a single dead pixel on a faulty monitor, leading to a delayed release?
Did you know that A Winged Victory for the Sullen 's album Invisible Cities was composed as the score of a multimedia theatre production that was inspired by Italo Calvino 's 1972 novel of the same name ?
Did you know that Will Arnett is the only voice actor to appear in the BoJack Horseman episode " Free Churro "?
Did you know that, during his time in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp , footballer Ernie Curtis would obtain extra food by teaching his captors how to play with a ball made of paper?
Did you know that a high-rise residential building in Seattle is planned to incorporate a Boeing 747-400 fuselage into its indoor galleria?
Did you know that Muraina Oyelami started painting after attending a Mbari Mbayo workshop?
Did you know that a 2009 study found that Apple Fifth Avenue was geotagged in more photographs than the Statue of Liberty was?
Did you know that 1-pentadecanol is synthesized by creeping cucumbers, mutant fungus, and the Shell oil company?
Did you know that after his professional baseball career, Joe Beggs was superintendent of prisons in Kentucky and director of urban renewal for Newport, Kentucky ?
Did you know that the String Octet by Max Bruch was premiered in a live BBC broadcast in 1937 and then forgotten for several decades?
Did you know that Crewe Alexandra were promoted back to the second tier of English football for the first time in 101 years when they won the 1997 Football League Second Division play-off Final ?
Did you know that of the ten Taiwanese delegates at the 2017 National Congress of the Communist Party of China , only one, Lu Li'an , was born in Taiwan?
Did you know that temporary war buildings on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., were blamed for "producing a depressing air of slovenliness", but some remained standing for over half a century?
Did you know that the 13th-century Barnston Manor was owned by the same family for 700 years before being put up for sale in 2018?
Did you know that when Marjan Haydaree became the all-time top scorer for the Afghanistan women's national football team , she had never set foot in Afghanistan?
Did you know that the original name for the Arrested Development episode " Motherboy XXX " was an advertisement for Burger King ?
Did you know that stamp dealer Everard F. Aguilar wrote a chapter on Jamaican postage stamps for Ian Fleming Introduces Jamaica (1965)?
Did you know that the Cambridge United team took a cold shower before winning the 1990 Football League Fourth Division play-off Final ?
Did you know that A Ruined Life was the first film by director Victor Sjöström to be shown in Sweden because his earlier film, The Gardener , had been censored for 68 years?
Did you know that during the 1986 Rogers Commission investigation, Allan J. McDonald revealed a coverup by NASA engineers?
Did you know that the 2018–2020 Kivu Ebola epidemic was the Democratic Republic of the Congo 's 10th and longest Ebola outbreak and the second largest in the world after the outbreak in West Africa ?
Did you know that Ted Cohen 's romance was set to music by Isaac Asimov ?
Did you know that 29 years after their last album, alternative rock band the Dream Syndicate released a new studio album, How Did I Find Myself Here? in 2017?
Did you know that Phil Chisnall moved from Manchester United to Liverpool in April 1964, becoming the last player to be transferred directly between the two clubs?
Did you know that Woodrow Wilson 's 1919 Pueblo speech was the last time he gave a public oration?
Did you know that when the Conservative Mary Morris claimed "never to have been a militant suffragette", the audience laughed?
Did you know that Australian hotelier and television personality Simon van Kempen recorded a single, " I Am Real ", in 2011?
Did you know that Japan's Shirongo Festival sees ama compete to be the first to catch and dedicate to the kami a pair of "beckoning abalone "?
Did you know that Noah Beck , a social-media personality and former college soccer player, wore fishnet tights, cuffed jeans, and stiletto heels for a digital cover of VMan magazine?
Did you know that the 1952 film Girls Marked Danger was classified as being morally objectionable for Catholics by the National Legion of Decency ?
Did you know that Kanye West 's inspiration for " Welcome to Heartbreak " was Dave Sirulnick showing him pictures of his children?
Did you know that the St. Clair Parkway travels through Corunna, Ontario , a planned town intended to be the capital of a united Upper and Lower Canada when it was established in 1823?
Did you know that Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai is considered the greatest Sufi poet in the Sindhi language ?
Did you know that the Port of Spain Gazette was known for its strongly pro-slavery position in the 1830s, and it was said that it "spat its venom on anyone who spoke of the virtues of emancipation"?
Did you know that in 2021, Jane Lunnon became the first woman head of Alleyn's School since it was separated from the College of God's Gift in 1882?
Did you know that the Z173 Shipyard changed its name seven times from 1965 to 2010 before it adopted its current public name, Hong Ha Shipbuilding One-Member Limited Liability Company ?
Did you know that Edward Hewitt Nichols , the first leader of Hong Kong 's Country Parks administrations, oversaw the designation of 40 per cent of the territory as parkland?
Did you know that one of the first recorded cases of the rare genetic disorder ring chromosome 22 was in a pair of identical twins?
Did you know that Isa Briones , who played Soji and other roles on Star Trek: Picard , sang a new arrangement of Irving Berlin 's song " Blue Skies " for the first season's finale?
Did you know that until the Calendar (New Style) Act 1750 was passed, the new year began on 25 March in England, Wales, Ireland, and Britain's American colonies?
Did you know that the current United States Chargé d'affaires to China , Robert W. Forden , taught English at universities in Shenyang and Beijing from 1981 to 1983?
Did you know that recordings of Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern , BWV 1 , a Bach chorale cantata for the Annunciation , include Fritz Lehmann 's with the Berlin Philharmonic , and Nikolaus Harnoncourt 's using period instruments ?
Did you know that at the opening ceremony for Ontario Highway 105 , a construction company presented Minister of Highways George Doucett with a bear cub as thanks for his efforts towards the creation of the route?
Did you know that the 2002 Football League Third Division play-off Final was one of the last matches shown on the ITV Sport Channel ?
Did you know that actress Isabel Bonner died on stage while performing in a play written by her husband ?
Did you know that the novel Nick was written in 2015 but could not be published until after the copyright of The Great Gatsby expired in 2021?
Did you know that Myra MacDonald , whose career as a foreign correspondent for Reuters spanned virtually three decades, and who covered South Asia for a long time, wrote three books on India and Pakistan?
Did you know that all video games by Digital Homicide Studios were removed from Steam after the company sued 100 of the platform's users?
Did you know that Barnham Court in West Sussex is built in a similar style to Kew Palace in London?
Did you know that the original trenches from the 1916 defensive battle of the Ottoman Army against Russians were identifiable from the satellite images of the Mount Kop Defense National Historic Park ?
Did you know that Doug Sahm 's album Groover's Paradise was produced by former Creedence Clearwater Revival drummer Doug Clifford ?
Did you know that Nicola Formby has recalled growing up in South Africa when "dogs lived in kennels outside and never ever came into the house with their muddy paws"?
Did you know that both Robbie Williams and Michael Jackson played for Blackpool in the 2007 Football League One play-off Final ?
Did you know that Australian talk-show host Paul B. Kidd is a prolific true-crime writer who has written 37 books?
Did you know that Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl will be the first main-series Pokémon games not developed by Game Freak since the franchise's inception 25 years ago?
Did you know that Rupert Richardson , a civil-rights activist, was known as the "grand dame" of the NAACP ?
Did you know that Roxette 's final studio album Good Karma was recorded in a studio named "Tits & Ass"?
Did you know that LeRoy Woodson 's photographs of steel-industry pollution were part of the Environmental Protection Agency 's Documerica project?
Did you know that many South Asian migrants are brought into the Gulf Cooperation Council area under the kafala system , which is seen by human-rights groups as highly exploitative ?
Did you know that after Pokémon Legends: Arceus was announced, users pointed out that it was very similar to another hit game on the Switch , The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild ?
Did you know that the clarinetist Nicola Jürgensen portrayed the character of Eve with her basset horn in Karlheinz Stockhausen's Michaels Reise um die Erde in Vienna and New York City?
Did you know that before his 1868 impeachment , there had been several previous efforts to impeach Andrew Johnson ?
Did you know that Andrew Russell Murray , pioneer of pollicization and of finger joint replacement , was shot dead by Karl Kast in the Brisbane medical massacre?
Did you know that Paul Laurence Dunbar would "undoubtedly" have been killed if contemporary white society had fully understood his poem " We Wear the Mask "?
Did you know that The Book of American Negro Poetry , Negro Poets and Their Poems , An Anthology of Verse by American Negroes , and Caroling Dusk , major poetry anthologies from the Harlem Renaissance , included poems by African-American poets ranging from Langston Hughes to a nine-year-old girl?
Did you know that Paul Rolan has been the principal investigator in more than 700 clinical research studies of new medicines?
Did you know that the bank initially refused to provide a mortgage for the 1932 Alvar Aalto –designed house Villa Tammekann in Tartu until its flat roof was replaced by a pitched one?
Did you know that Maryland running back Jake Funk had his best college season after tearing his ACL in the two previous seasons?
Did you know that so many people attended the golden-jubilee celebrations for the pastor of Galeed Chapel in Brighton in 1932 that they had to be held in a different church?
Did you know that the first words ever spoken in a feature film were uttered by Al Jolson after singing " Dirty Hands, Dirty Face "?
Did you know that Poème roumain was composed by George Enescu when he was only 16 years old?
Did you know that the Rhodesian Air Force 's Green Leader once threatened to shoot down any Zambian Air Force planes that interfered with Operation Gatling after taking control of Zambian airspace?
Did you know that KQLO , the antecedent of today's KIHM , was established after its founder drove from Nevada to Vermont and found no Catholic radio stations on the trip?
Did you know that Dwayne De Rosario is Canada's all-time leading male soccer goalscorer, with 22 international goals ?
Did you know that a rented Ducati SuperSport that was scratched during the making of Road Rash was kept and displayed in the Electronic Arts lobby?
Did you know that when John-Michael Caprio became the director of music at the Roman Catholic St. Patrick's Cathedral , he ordered that the choir's robes be replaced because they looked "too Protestant"?
Did you know that the EMER-K1 was created by Myanmar by reverse-engineering QBZ-97 assault rifles sold to them?
Did you know that the BoJack Horseman episode " The View from Halfway Down " received its title because series creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg needed an episode title starting with the letter "V"?
Did you know that the music styles in the discography of mewithoutYou range from screamed post-hardcore vocals to acoustic campfire songs?
Did you know that Eliza Pottie was one of a small group of women who founded the first Young Women's Christian Association branch in Sydney?
Did you know that at the 2021 Welsh Open , Jordan Brown was the lowest-ranked snooker player to win a ranking event since 1993?
Did you know that Andrew Logan assisted at the first pneumonectomy in the UK and performed the country's first lung transplant ?
Did you know that the 1938 film Gangster's Boy starred silent-film actress Betty Blythe , who took on roles that she liked despite a source saying that she was "more or less retired"?
Did you know that the baritone Benjamin Appl , the last private student of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau , was named Gramophone 's Young Artist of 2016?
Did you know that when commenting on her decision to depict Achilles and Patroclus as lovers in her novel The Song of Achilles , author Madeline Miller remarked: "I stole it from Plato "?
Did you know that Millie Dienert was called the "first lady of prayer" for her work on behalf of evangelist Billy Graham ?
Did you know that the Sonata in C major for piano four-hands by Franz Schubert was, for over a century after its publication in 1837, thought of as a symphony in disguise?
Did you know that Joseph B. O'Hagan resigned the presidency of the College of the Holy Cross to recuperate but soon thereafter died at sea?
Did you know that the Mississippi–Alabama barrier islands have shrunken rapidly and drifted westward since first being mapped in the 1800s?
Did you know that Domus Litonii is the only remaining 19th-century residential building in the entire centre of Helsinki ?
Did you know that in the film Dog Day Afternoon , Al Pacino improvised the " Attica! Attica! " scene following the suggestion of an assistant director?
Did you know that Neil Warnock left Huddersfield Town shortly after they gained promotion by winning the 1995 Football League Second Division play-off Final because he said the club chairman had told him a " porky pie "?
Did you know that Turkish world-champion para-archer Bahattin Hekimoğlu did not leave his home for two years after breaking his neck and becoming paralyzed?
Did you know that the melody of a song to Venus became the tune for the 17th-century hymn " Auf meinen lieben Gott " (in English "In God, My Faithful God") and others?
Did you know that the philosopher G. E. L. Owen was described by Martha Nussbaum as "an alcoholic and an attempted womaniser"?
Did you know that the British Consulate of Hakodate was prone to catching on fire?
Did you know that physicist Joseph Gelders was kidnapped and beaten, probably by members of the Ku Klux Klan , for his civil rights and labor organizing activities?
Did you know that the signature fragrance of Aedes de Venustas perfumery is based on rhubarb and tomato leaf?
Did you know that the death of NME music journalist Dele Fadele was not known within the music industry for more than two years after the fact?
Did you know that Washington State Route 539 is named the "Guide Meridian" because it follows a surveying meridian ?
Did you know that the 1998 Football League Third Division play-off Final was the first play-off final to feature two brothers when Neil and David Gregory played for Colchester United ?
Did you know that Dennis Howard Green was such a productive book reviewer for the Modern Language Review that they implemented a rule called Lex Green , which limits the number of reviews per person to three per year?
Did you know that Chuck Connors , star of the ABC show The Rifleman , was an investor in TV station KNBS , an ABC affiliate, in Washington state?
Did you know that physician Clare Fowler and surgeon Prokar Dasgupta were the first in the UK to use Botox injections, using a flexible cystoscope, to treat people with overactive bladders?
Did you know that William Steig wrote Shrek! at the age of eighty-three, two decades after leaving a career as a cartoonist at The New Yorker ?
Did you know that Allen Mawer was the driving force behind the establishment of the English Place-Name Society , which conducted a systematic survey of English place names ?
Did you know that Claude McKay 's poem " If We Must Die " has been cited as marking the beginning of the Harlem Renaissance ?
Did you know that John Morkel captained the Rhodesia national rugby team to a victory over the All Blacks ?
Did you know that the song " August " was written by Taylor Swift from the perspective of a girl who falls in love with somebody already in a relationship?
Did you know that Boris Johnson and Tony Fernandes were present at the opening ceremony of Epsom College in Malaysia in 2014?
Did you know that Dorothy Henriques-Wells made 360 paintings for display on three Norwegian Cruise Line ships?
Did you know that live huhu grubs have been served at the Hokitika Wildfoods Festival ?
Did you know that Ángel Mangual 's walk-off single in the 20th inning on July 9, 1971, ended the longest scoreless game in American League history?
Did you know that in Begum v Home Secretary , Lord Reed quoted from Eleanor Roosevelt : "justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both"?
Did you know that Maha Jaafar , a Sudanese-Iraqi dentist who started producing YouTube videos to "have fun with her friends", has attracted almost two million views for a video mimicking Arabic dialects and stereotypes?
Did you know that the co-founders of the Black College Football Hall of Fame attended the same historically black university and were both quarterbacks in the National Football League ?
Did you know that the short documentary film A City Called Copenhagen was initially not released due to the film commission disliking the film, but it was shown two years later to positive reception?
Did you know that Adolphus D. Griffin published the Portland New Age for Portland's African-American residents during a time in which they were legally excluded from the state?
Did you know that oversimplifying a fictional character over the course of a show's run is called Flanderization , after Ned Flanders of The Simpsons ?
Did you know that New York City's Hudson Terminal , once billed as the world's largest office building by floor area, was demolished as part of an agreement to develop the World Trade Center ?
Did you know that Manuel L. Quezon defeated the National Socialist Party and the communist -backed Republican Party in 1935 ?
Did you know that former masonic grand master Tobias Watkins served nine months in prison for embezzling $3,050 from the U.S. Treasury , then two more years for failing to pay it back?
Did you know that many locations in the manga Aria are based on real-life Venice ?
Did you know that Idaho 's first television station, KFXD-TV , was a two-man operation that lasted less than two months?
Did you know that a copy of Estella Hijmans-Hertzveld 's poem "Stemmen en zangen" was gifted to Hans Christian Andersen during his 1866 visit to the Netherlands?
Did you know that the Comanche Springs pupfish no longer lives in Comanche Springs ?
Did you know that Elsa Dreisig appeared at the Berlin State Opera in soprano roles from Diane in Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie to Natascha in the world premiere of Beat Furrer 's Violetter Schnee ?
Did you know that a decade after passing on the opportunity to build a radio station, the owner of the Okmulgee Daily Times newspaper instead bought KOKL ?
Did you know that four members of the Usmani family were co-founders of the Darul Uloom Deoband seminary, where the Deobandi movement began?
Did you know that Robert T. Kerlin was fired from the Virginia Military Institute for questioning the death sentences of African-American farmers?
Did you know that the publication of A Companion to J. R. R. Tolkien in 2014 by Wiley-Blackwell has been described as proof that Tolkien had finally attained acceptance by the literary establishment?
Did you know that Art Potter once ordered the "unusual scene" of five ice hockey players beginning a game in the penalty box ?
Did you know that the ornamental dome of the Great Mosque of Tlemcen is considered one of the most exceptional examples of Almoravid architecture?
Did you know that Heléne Alexopoulos was one of the few New York City Ballet dancers who had children?
Did you know that the first episode of the British television drama series Ackley Bridge was re-edited following the Manchester Arena bombing , as scenes showed a student at the centre of a bombing hoax?
Did you know that Luis Salvador became the mayor of Granada in 2019 even though his party won only four of twenty-seven seats?
Did you know that the machine-learning model DALL-E , widely reported on for its "surreal" and "quirky" output, also learned to solve Raven's Matrices (a form of IQ test) without being specifically taught to do so?
Did you know that Icelandic footballer Þórdís Hrönn Sigfúsdóttir has had to self-isolate on four occasions during the COVID-19 pandemic ?
Did you know that the governor of Iowa banned the speaking of any language other than English in public in 1918?
Did you know that attorney Mark F. Pomerantz , who supervised the prosecution of mob boss John A. Gotti , is now assisting a criminal investigation into Donald Trump 's finances?
Did you know that the song " I Didn't Know ", representing San Marino in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 , was written by a composer and a lyricist who had never met each other in person?
Did you know that the southern brown howler is considered to be a vulnerable species , partly because of the monkey's susceptibility to yellow fever ?
Did you know that on Saint Patrick's Day in 2003, Catholic Worker Clare Grady broke into an Army recruiting center and poured her blood on the walls, windows, and a US flag in a protest against the invasion of Iraq ?
Did you know that Tamar , an epic poem by American writer Robinson Jeffers , makes references to the Books of Samuel in the Old Testament ?
Did you know that the violinist Rudolf Deman , concertmaster of the orchestra of the Berlin State Opera , took part in the first German radio broadcast from Berlin in 1923?
Did you know that the shoe department of the Saks Fifth Avenue flagship store was the first individual story of a building in the United States with its own ZIP Code?
Did you know that The Ghost Inside 's self-titled 2020 album was their first release since a deadly tour bus crash in 2015?
Did you know that Irish sportswoman Carol Breen has played internationally in both association and Australian rules football ?