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Did you know that former child refugee Ann Beaglehole has become a historian specialising in refugee history?
Did you know that one reviewer of the British reality TV series Make Me Prime Minister said "Technically it's worth five stars. In every other way, I wish I was dead"?
Did you know that Joe Kraker was said to be the only lineman in football history to play without shoulder pads ?
Did you know that the Violin Concerto by Mieczysław Weinberg , premiered in Moscow in 1961 by Leonid Kogan , was first performed in Germany by Linus Roth in 2014, and in the U.S. by Gidon Kremer in 2015?
Did you know that from 1912, Jindřiška Flajšhansová was the principal editor of Ženské listy , a Czech journal that became a women's "survival manual" during World War I?
Did you know that Ponce de Leon Springs in Atlanta was named in reference to the legend of Juan Ponce de León 's search for the Fountain of Youth due to the spring water's supposed health benefits?
Did you know that Elizabeth II's 1994 state visit to Russia was overshadowed in the UK by a Prince Charles biographical book?
Did you know that Maria Bakalova thought that her Borat Subsequent Moviefilm audition might have been part of a human trafficking scheme?
Did you know that Don Lemon "didn't mean to set the internet on fire" when teasing the rebranding of CNN Tonight to Don Lemon Tonight ?
Did you know that the Grade II*–listed Church of St Benedict , in Ardwick , Manchester , is now a climbing centre ?
Did you know that in 2021 Sarah Aristidou recorded Jörg Widmann 's Labyrinth V , a wordless piece for her soprano voice with " ululations , sobs, jazz inflections and wild laughter"?
Did you know that Windows 3.1 had a special version, known as Modular Windows, that was controlled via television ?
Did you know that during the 1960s and 1970s, American artist Robert Bauer painted figures that were a mixture of 20th-century avant-garde funk and 17th-century Dutch realism ?
Did you know that a Catholic radio station in Texas airs religious talk shows, the Mass—and weekly broadcasts of high school football?
Did you know that Jonathan Beaulieu-Richard retired from the Canadian Football League to become a pharmacist ?
Did you know that in 1979 the magazine Seven Days advised, to avoid ingesting plutonium orally, "never make an A-bomb on an empty stomach"?
Did you know that yoga nidra , a state of consciousness "in which Buddhas may access secret knowledge", is being studied for potential treatment of sleep problems ?
Did you know that Kotaku revised an article about Nintendo Switch emulation after Nintendo complained that the previous version encouraged piracy?
Did you know that Collingwood coach Robert Harvey gave Anton Tohill his AFL debut in 2021, having played International Rules Series against Tohill's father in the 1990s?
Did you know that in her song " Icy Chain ", Saweetie disses PETA , telling them she wears fur?
Did you know that University of Exeter lecturer Fu Jia and his coauthors said in 2017 that "uniquely for any hotel in China", Fairmont Beijing has three workers who have learning disabilities ?
Did you know that Robert Micklewright created the cover art for Nobel Prize winner V. S. Naipaul 's first two novels?
Did you know that in 1979, the Studio 54 nightclub started serving fruit punch because its owners were arrested?
Did you know that the book Working from Within details how W. V. Quine only began to use the term " naturalism " years after he had already developed the key tenets of the philosophy?
Did you know that the owner of a Louisiana radio station was killed while in the process of putting it back on the air?
Did you know that the 1944 Story of a Secret State was one of the first book accounts of the German occupation of Poland , including the Holocaust in Poland ?
Did you know that the Dimension 68000 microcomputer had expansion cards to emulate the Apple II , the IBM PC , and various CP/M machines?
Did you know that William Penney, Baron Penney , was credited as the "father of the British bomb"?
Did you know that the proposed third season of teen sitcom Sonny with a Chance was reworked into the sketch comedy series So Random! after the departure of its lead actor Demi Lovato ?
Did you know that banker Hermann Marx and his firm underwrote the share issue that led to the "pepper scandal" of 1934?
Did you know that the only purpose of the Delaware Straight-Out Truth Teller was to promote a political candidate?
Did you know that as a senior in high school, manga artist Yama Wayama began drawing male–male romance manga as a hobby?
Did you know that Windows 2.1 was the first version of Microsoft Windows to require a hard disk drive ?
Did you know that Sarah Clarke was the first female president of the British Cardiovascular Society ?
Did you know that a radio astronomy facility in Illinois objected to the establishment of a TV station in New Jersey ?
Did you know that Turkish aviation pioneer Vecihi Hürkuş had to transport his second plane to Prague just to get it certified?
Did you know that The Onion said in a brief to the U.S. Supreme Court that "the federal judiciary is staffed entirely by total Latin dorks"?
Did you know that in the 2022 Berlin Marathon , Tigist Assefa won by running the third-fastest marathon ever by a woman, in just her second marathon, breaking her personal best by nearly 20 minutes?
Did you know that Clinton D. Burdick and his father Howard are the only father–son pair to receive the title of flying ace ?
Did you know that Rockstar Vienna was the largest video game developer in Austria when it closed in 2006?
Did you know that Harry Langford still turned up for football practice the day after he received a concussion, passed out, and was hospitalized?
Did you know that after visiting Hungary in 2015, members of Action Deaf Youth headed to Stormont to demand better sign language support in Northern Ireland?
Did you know that people queued in a queue to queue in The Queue ?
Did you know that Vlado Milunić admitted that the Dancing House , which he co-designed, was compared to a "gold tooth that spoils a smile"?
Did you know that the leak of the upcoming Grand Theft Auto game was described as one of the biggest leaks in video game history ?
Did you know that Scottish glass artist Denis Mann has made the winner's trophy for every series of the British game show Mastermind , which started in 1972?
Did you know that fans of the musical Rent would sleep outside the Nederlander Theatre to get cheap front-row tickets?
Did you know that after a trip to Morocco in 1912, Henri Matisse painted Goldfish and the animal would become a frequent motif in his art over the next decade?
Did you know that in 1915, Walter McCredie unsuccessfully challenged the baseball color line that prohibited non-white players?
Did you know that Cryptodidymosphaerites is a parasite of a parasite?
Did you know that in 2017, Vincent Ialenti became the first anthropologist with a feature article in Physics Today ?
Did you know that the chancery of the Philippine consulate general in Honolulu was bought with donations?
Did you know that Cornell University 's student-oriented programming language dialect was made available to other universities but required a "research grant" payment in exchange?
Did you know that John Giffard , of Chillington Hall , was described as "arguably Britain's most aristocratic policeman" in 2004?
Did you know that the pro-adoption documentary I Lived on Parker Avenue premiered at the Louisiana Governor's Mansion in 2018 at the invitation of Governor John Bel Edwards ?
Did you know that the young protagonist of A Costume for Nicholas has Down syndrome , as does his portrayer?
Did you know that North Coast Radio went silent after playing the song " In a Silent Way "?
Did you know that Fritz Pleitgen , who interviewed Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan , directed the broadcaster WDR from 1995 to 2007?
Did you know that passenger service on the Ridgefield Branch was eliminated after the electrification of neighboring lines?
Did you know that there are palaces named the Ranjit Vilas in Rajkot , in Ratlam and in Wankaner ?
Did you know that Rick Buffington played for at least 17 minor league and semi-professional football teams, including three at once?
Did you know that the final scene in the 1931 Soviet Yiddish theatrical play Fir teg is said to evoke the mass suicide at the siege of Masada ?
Did you know that Harry Booth played for, captained , and coached the Saint Joseph's Hawks baseball and men's basketball teams?
Did you know that the firm of Israel Sack supplied American antiques to leading private collectors and museums, including the Winterthur Museum , The Henry Ford , and the Metropolitan Museum of Art ?
Did you know that the southernmost worm species, Scottnema lindsayae , reproduces best at temperatures below 10 °C (50 °F)?
Did you know that Mary Ridge blew up the Liberator on her first encounter with Blake's 7 , and killed off the crew on her last?
Did you know that fighting video game Panza Kick Boxing was endorsed by a French kickboxing champion who also supplied technical advice?
Did you know that Albert Henry Smyth discovered 385 letters written by Benjamin Franklin and became the first editor to publish them, beginning in 1905?
Did you know that although he won the battle of Brentford , Edmund Ironside lost so many men that he needed a new army?
Did you know that Magnus Carlsen , the current World Chess Champion , resigned a recent tournament game after only one move ?
Did you know that Galadriel 's gift of some of her hair to Gimli in The Lord of the Rings has echoes in both English literature and Norse legend?
Did you know that the English River within the East English River Provincial Park has no regulated flow and no pollution, unique in northwestern Ontario ?
Did you know that Ruth Huenemann was one of the first researchers to make a connection between socioeconomic status and childhood obesity ?
Did you know that Windows 2.0 is the last version of Windows that ran solely on floppy disks ?
Did you know that Songbird Sings was a series of concerts that focused on Regine Velasquez 's music career?
Did you know that Miguel Rivera sold cosmetics and appliances while working as a jockey ?
Did you know that a TV station in Buffalo, New York , owned a 1921-vintage fire engine?
Did you know that Borys Lyatoshynsky wrote Mourning Prelude , described as among his most tragic works, the day his father died of typhus ?
Did you know that Freetown, Alabama , was founded by free and formerly enslaved African Americans in Alabama, whose church, built in 1929, burned down in 2022?
Did you know that Edgar Williams , Bernard Montgomery 's intelligence officer, was an Oxford don who hated soldiering as a profession?
Did you know that the book Questioning Collapse was created as a critique of the claims made by Jared Diamond in his book Collapse ?
Did you know that a New York state radio station became entangled in an estate dispute in which a man was jailed four times in six months for contempt of court ?
Did you know that Natalie Portman was a co-author on a scientific paper about frontal lobe activation?
Did you know that there was an internet challenge to eat Tide Pods ?
Did you know that in 1816, a copy of the long-lost Institutes by the Roman jurist Gaius was discovered, hidden underneath writings by Saint Jerome ?
Did you know that Ruth M. Anderson recorded a "timeless" Spain in her photographs of the 1920s?
Did you know that Queen Elizabeth II wanted the King George VI Memorial Chapel to hold the remains of three British monarchs and their consorts?
Did you know that Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Nasafi was the first theologian to introduce concepts from Neoplatonism into Isma'ili doctrine?
Did you know that a Nebraska radio station 's plans to broadcast college sports were met with "audible gasps"?
Did you know that Dave Barrow quit municipal politics to work at his family's insurance brokerage before becoming mayor of Richmond Hill ?
Did you know that there are no NIMBYs in NIMBY Rails ?
Did you know that Kiriko , a "fox girl" character for Overwatch 2 , was teased through a coded message that translates to "What Does the Fox Say?"
Did you know that William Hartnell was the only original Doctor Who cast member who remained by the end of the second season ?
Did you know that the First National Bank Tower , standing at 634 feet (193 meters), is the tallest building in the state of Nebraska ?
Did you know that New Zealand academic and runner Roger Robinson has continued competing in races into his 80s despite knee replacement surgery in both knees?
Did you know that the Michigan banner survived an attack by uniformed men from Ohio during the Ten Year War ?
Did you know that the lenient sentencing of two Europeans convicted in 1918 after the death of a black man in the East Africa Protectorate led to inquiries from the British Colonial Office ?
Did you know that in 2021, two Swedish prison inmates took correctional officers as hostages, demanding twenty kebab pizzas ?
Did you know that Tova Friedman is a Holocaust survivor who now posts videos of her life and survival on TikTok ?
Did you know that the ampullae of Lorenzini enable sharks to sense electric fields ?
Did you know that Gilbert Bundy killed himself on the 12th anniversary of a traumatic experience as a war artist at the Battle of Tarawa ?
Did you know that the margins of the Hours of Charles the Noble contain 180 depictions of musical instruments, providing a representative overview of medieval instruments ?
Did you know that Cleo Damianakes 's 1920s book dust jacket designs "made sex respectable", but Hemingway did not like the "large misplaced breasts" on A Farewell to Arms ?
Did you know that The Summer Hikaru Died went from drawings on a Twitter account to receiving three times more orders than copies available in its first print run ?
Did you know that a doctor told Howie Shanks that he only had a few weeks to live, but he lived another 31 years?
Did you know that upon the redescription of the fossil marchfly Plecia avus , an additional seven specimens were identified?
Did you know that Perth 's Airport Central railway station , which opens today, has the longest operating escalators in the southern hemisphere?
Did you know that when Fred Franzia created Two-Buck Chuck , he was said to have "turned the wine industry on its head"?
Did you know that while oil and gas production is a large part of Turkmenistan's economy , there are only two oil refineries in Turkmenistan ?
Did you know that Herb Lusk retired from the National Football League at the age of 26 to become a minister ?
Did you know that Nicola Griffith 's Slow River , described as a lesbian romance , features a "sophisticated depiction of environmental management"?
Did you know that a Catholic radio station in Texas wields the "velvet hammer" to promote Christianity?
Did you know that Incas , the last known Carolina parakeet , died in the same aviary cage as the last passenger pigeon?
Did you know that the lichen genus Felipes is named for its fruiting structures , which resemble a cat's paw?
Did you know that heavy metal band Judas Priest took their name from Bob Dylan 's song " The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest "?
Did you know that Rings of Power showrunner Patrick McKay likened Isildur to Michael Corleone from The Godfather ?
Did you know that Oak Industries was the largest American maker of TV tuning dials in 1980?
Did you know that Wesley Tann designed dresses for Jackie Kennedy , Carmen de Lavallade , Leontyne Price and Michelle Obama ?
Did you know that the dominant species in the Iron-grass Natural Temperate Grassland of South Australia are often not grasses at all?
Did you know that a pink skin for Mercy in the video game Overwatch helped raise more than $12 million for breast cancer research?
Did you know that in 2005, the Philippine embassy in Paris regularly had a flooded basement due to a lack of funds?
Did you know that medievalist Edward Rand rang the doorbell of Harvard president Charles William Eliot and asked him: "I would like to go to Harvard; do you have any money?"
Did you know that academic Kohei Saito describes the Sustainable Development Goals as the "new opium of the masses " in his 2020 Marxist book, Capital in the Anthropocene ?
Did you know that Nick Kerbawy did not receive his college tennis championship trophy until 14 years after winning it?
Did you know that the dining room at Ardress House has no internal doors and can only be reached using an external entrance?
Did you know that Cephas L. Bard , the first American physician in Ventura, California , was also the first person to die in the hospital he built there?
Did you know that independent media and scholars estimate that thousands might have perished in the Yarkand Massacre in 2014?
Did you know that Reconstructing Womanhood by Hazel Carby , about the history of American black women writers, was said to be a "landmark study" and "groundbreaking"?
Did you know that Henry Stock designed the Peek Freans factory where, in 1929, Twiglets were invented?
Did you know that despite a song duration limit of three minutes and thirty seconds at the Eurovision Song Contest 1957 , the entry from Italy lasted over five minutes?
Did you know that the search engine of Geliyoo was found to be retrieving its results from Google, in contrast to the company's claims of spending 10 million Turkish liras on development?
Did you know that Jamie "Canhead" Keeton is also known as the "human suction cup"?
Did you know that Adele 's song " Water Under the Bridge " is about her relationship with Simon Konecki, which she is usually reluctant to discuss in her music?
Did you know that the 1995 Aigio earthquake caused the strongest ground acceleration ever recorded in Greece?
Did you know that Latin philologist Robert Rodgers produced the first detailed commentary on Frontinus 's work on Roman aqueducts in almost 300 years?
Did you know that the bombing of Mokha was described as one of the deadliest attacks by the Saudi Arabian–led coalition against Yemen , leaving between 65 and 120 dead, including 10 children?
Did you know that at the time of its construction in 1920, the Howard Theatre in Atlanta was the second-largest movie theater in the world, with a seating capacity of 2,700?
Did you know that when Josette Simon appeared as Rosaline in Love's Labour's Lost , she was the first black woman in a lead role at the Royal Shakespeare Company ?
Did you know that Soccer Mommy hosted a virtual concert through Club Penguin Rewritten ?
Did you know that the 2022 U.S. Open Cup Final was the first in 14 years to feature a non- Major League Soccer team?
Did you know that Pietro Badoer was banished twice, poisoned one of his three wives, but declined an offer for a coup to make him doge ?
Did you know that college debates in the United States were originally conducted entirely in Latin ?
Did you know that despite entering politics as part of a right-wing party , Betty Tejada was later elected president of the Chamber of Deputies as a member of the Movement for Socialism ?
Did you know that Britten's Five Flower Songs , part songs composed for a couple's 25th wedding anniversary, premiered at their estate Dartington Hall ?
Did you know that when Rain Pryor drew a picture of her friend Skeeter the unicycling clown in school, her teacher said that there were no Black clowns?
Did you know that British logistics in the Western Allied invasion of Germany involved buffaloes, duck bills and weasels?
Did you know that Boost! won a temporary restraining order against Mead Johnson , after claiming it had infringed on their trademarks?
Did you know that the Peruvian Civil Guard officer Mariano Santos Mateo was nicknamed the Brave Man of Tarapacá because he captured a banner of a Chilean military unit during the Battle of Tarapacá ?
Did you know that Oglethorpe County High School worked with the University of Georgia to bring their dropout rate from 65 dropouts in 1985–86 to just 4 in 1987–88?
Did you know that Taylor Swift said she wrote " Should've Said No " to address her "dramatic and crazy" experience?
Did you know that until a 1982 legal decision , women were not permitted to stand at the bar at El Vino in London?
Did you know that OPTi Inc. won a patent suit against Apple for unauthorized use of "predictive snooping" technology?
Did you know that the " Temple of Humanity " hosted underwear companies?
Did you know that despite the commercial success of previous Kendrick Brothers films, star Kirk Cameron said that Lifemark was unable to secure a distributor due to its pro-life stance?
Did you know that the elite men's race at today's London Marathon is expected to feature three of the five fastest men in history?
Did you know that Tolkien may have devised the sundering of the Elves to justify the existence of two distinct Elvish languages in his legendarium ?
Did you know that the six highest Minor League Baseball season attendance counts were all at Sahlen Field ?
Did you know that Bob Dylan recorded " To Ramona " in a single take, for an album recorded in a single three-hour session?
Did you know that during his first air-sea rescue mission with the Irish Air Corps , Barney McMahon landed to refuel with a mixture of petrol and paraffin, filtered through a pair of tights?
Did you know that an investigation into the Royal Oak post office shootings led one congressman to accuse the Postal Service of having been "asleep at the switch"?
Did you know that Gil Kim played professional baseball in the Netherlands, China, Australia, Spain, and Venezuela, scouted in Mexico and the Dominican Republic, and coaches in Canada?
Did you know that the first Catholic synod in China was held in 1803 near Chungkingchow in Sichuan Province ?
Did you know that 17th-century freemason and alchemist Elias Ashmole attempted to invoke the spirits at the mediaeval Dove Bridge ?
Did you know that former Atalanta player Andrea Rinaldi died of an aneurysm aged 19 in 2020?
Did you know that Golf Digest has described " Narco " as having "a fire beat"?
Did you know that the video for " 7/11 " by Beyoncé contains a cameo from her daughter Blue Ivy ?
Did you know that Elise Reiman , who taught children's classes at George Balanchine 's School of American Ballet for four decades, was called "the bridge between generations"?
Did you know that a Turkish Airlines aircraft that crashed in 1972 had been due to carry Turkish prime minister Nihat Erim later that day?
Did you know that Hamim Tohari , the current spokesperson of the Indonesian Army, was once removed from his post after being caught using a phone during a meeting with the commander-in-chief?
Did you know that TreasuryDirect , a website for purchasing US Treasury securities , originated in 1986 as a computerized service conducted over postal mail?
Did you know that the manga series Reptilia was inspired in part by a story from Japanese folklore about a woman who is transformed into a snake, told to author Kazuo Umezu as a child?
Did you know that Nancy Reagan jumped out of her bath when she heard that her husband had been elected President of the United States?
Did you know that Carter Moore Braxton fought for the Confederacy throughout the American Civil War and, according to one report, had seven horses killed under him but avoided any wounds?
Did you know that the Adoration of the Magi with Saint Helena was once the main altarpiece at Sant'Elena , a church dedicated to its namesake ?
Did you know that after the Supreme Court of Ohio imposed restrictions on bail procedures , the dissenting justices participated in a bus tour to campaign for a ballot measure that took away their power on that issue ?
Did you know that a peace monument was erected for Turkish journalist Abdi İpekçi in the place where he was shot and killed by an assassin 21 years earlier?
Did you know that in 2016 an inflatable gorilla was erected on the top of the Sky Trek Tower for Six Flags Great America 's Halloween event Fright Fest ?
Did you know that Ugandan military officer Bernard Rwehururu originally wanted to become a Catholic priest, but enlisted as a soldier to pay for his siblings' school fees?