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Did you know that a dark form of the Angolan slender mongoose is found to the south of the Cunene River and a pale form to the north?
Did you know that Thuy Trang became so ill on her voyage out of Saigon to seek political asylum in the US that other passengers wanted to throw her overboard, thinking she was dead?
Did you know that the Bronx–Whitestone Bridge 's stiffening trusses accounted for a quarter of the weight held up by its suspension cables, contributing to the bridge's deterioration and necessitating their removal?
Did you know that after studying excavated legal documents from the ancient Qin dynasty , Gao Heng concluded that Qin's sentence of penal servitude was a lifelong punishment?
Did you know that Ariana Grande 's song " In My Head " includes a voicemail recorded by her best friend, Doug Middlebrook, because it suited the lyrics?
Did you know that in 1862, the pilot of the steamboat Spread Eagle rammed into the Emilie in a desperate attempt to reach Fort Benton first?
Did you know that while Greenpeace activist Steve Sawyer was celebrating his birthday ashore with his crew, French agents bombed and sank their boat, the Rainbow Warrior ?
Did you know that Bharatiya Janata Party politicians Maneka Gandhi and Santosh Gangwar , current members of the 17th Lok Sabha , have been elected to the Indian lower house for the eighth time?
Did you know that during the English Civil War , Katherine Stuart smuggled messages from Charles I to royalist sympathisers in London?
Did you know that in 1949, the students of Northwestern Schools underwrote the US$40,000 cost to build KTIS in Minneapolis , the first radio station of Northwestern Media ?
Did you know that Australian astrophysicist Kirsten Banks was inspired to learn about her Wiradjuri heritage while training at the Sydney Observatory ?
Did you know that Alexander's bush squirrel is named after Lieutenant Boyd Alexander , a British Army officer, explorer, and ornithologist?
Did you know that 19-year-old mxmtoon , who records lo-fi songs in her parents' guest bedroom, reached 100 million streams and nearly sold out an international tour before releasing her first album?
Did you know that the cause of the 1957 crash of Pan Am Flight 7 was never determined?
Did you know that research by Chinese professor Wang Buxuan resulted in the doubling of ammonia production at a major chemical plant in Sichuan province?
Did you know that the Samsung Galaxy A70 's triple-lens camera can create a bokeh effect through a 3D depth sensor?
Did you know that Oregon state legislator Vernon A. Forbes drowned while fishing in an Oregon lake?
Did you know that the myth of the clean Wehrmacht persisted in Germany until the 1990s, when it was eroded by the Wehrmacht Exhibition ?
Did you know that Canadian dressage rider Tina Irwin was forced to restart after a power outage at the Adequan Global Dressage Festival, and achieved a 2017 world record small tour score on her next attempt?
Did you know that in 1865, Confederate losses during the American Civil War were characterized as " blessings in disguise "?
Did you know that Donald Balfour , who began working at the Mayo Clinic as a pathology assistant, later became the director of the Mayo Foundation ?
Did you know that cricket coach Gurcharan Singh survived the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in Delhi with the help of his trainees?
Did you know that Ernst Dammann , an early member of the Nazi Party , was a founding figure of African studies in East Germany – together with Walter Markov , a communist who spent much of the Nazi era in prison?
Did you know that twelve years after his death, Mou Zuoyun became the first Chinese person to be inducted into the FIBA Hall of Fame ?
Did you know that the Asian garden dormouse can enter torpor , a state in which it may remain for several days?
Did you know that the novel Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann uses stream of consciousness narrative and mostly consists of a single sentence running over more than 1,000 pages?
Did you know that in his book ABC of Alcohol , Alex Paton explained why women are more susceptible to the effects of alcohol?
Did you know that the No. 8 Toyota TS050 Hybrid won the 2019 24 Hours of Le Mans after its sister No. 7 car had a tyre pressure sensor system wiring fault that incorrectly indicated a front-right puncture?
Did you know that South African theoretical physicist Adriana Marais was one of 100 candidates chosen for Mars One ?
Did you know that the nymphs of the mayfly Ephemera simulans are able to burrow?
Did you know that according to Bert Cumby , China used thought reform on American prisoners of war during the Korean War as part of a plan to create support for China-friendly policies in the United States?
Did you know that the Field Music album Commontime received media attention after Prince tweeted about one of its songs?
Did you know that Mexican lawyer María José Cristerna , known as "The Vampire Woman" for her extensive body modifications, is recognized as the most tattooed woman in the world?
Did you know that in 1949, the Kurtis Sport Car was driven by National Hot Rod Association founder Wally Parks to over 142.5 mph (229.3 km/h) on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah?
Did you know that the Hong Kong Way was a peaceful political campaign held in Hong Kong on the 30th anniversary of the Baltic Way ?
Did you know that American actor Matt William Knowles was a "rotating mayor" of Danzhai Wanda Village in Guizhou , China?
Did you know that Facebook has to vet fake news in India for 23 official languages, but has been able to cover only 10 of them?
Did you know that footballer Carrie Jones made her international debut for Wales despite being too young to play for her club side?
Did you know that WBBY-FM lost its license because the man who claimed to be its manager worked full-time at a car dealership 120 miles (190 km) away?
Did you know that ice almost half a million years old has been found on a mountain named after a sled dog driver?
Did you know that Mexican drug lord Alfonso Lam Liu spoke over radio using a coded language, to prevent law enforcement from understanding his drug operations?
Did you know that Spoon frontman Britt Daniel was inspired by Franz Ferdinand 's 2004 song " Take Me Out " while writing " I Turn My Camera On ", and was influenced by Prince to sing it with falsetto vocals?
Did you know that some Buddhists believe that all beings could have been their parents in a previous life, so liberating people from suffering is a form of filial piety ?
Did you know that an hour and a half before fur trader Captain Joseph LaBarge died, he received a telegram from historian Hiram M. Chittenden assuring LaBarge of the completion of his biography?
Did you know that the parasite Enteromyxum scophthalmi causes a severe illness in farmed turbot for which no cure is known?
Did you know that Xu Xiaodong defeated a self-styled kung fu master, who claimed to possess supernatural powers, in 20 seconds?
Did you know that in 2008, Vice-Admiral Nikolai Maksimov was in charge of the largest Russian military manoeuvres in the Atlantic since 1991?
Did you know that Pumpkin Spice Spam is a legitimate product that started out as a joke on Facebook?
Did you know that Liu Wenxi 's art is universally known in China?
Did you know that C. P. E. Bach 's Sonata in A minor for Solo Flute , composed around 1747 for flauto traverso without bass and printed during his lifetime, is one of the few significant pieces for solo flute?
Did you know that Leila Ernst barged into a dance audition to show theatre producer George Abbott that she could sing and dance?
Did you know that one of the weapons in the video game Venetica was named as a result of a contest?
Did you know that a mute coal miner is said to have spoken for the first time in several years after riding the Coney Island Cyclone in 1948?
Did you know that Pandrosion may have been an earlier female contributor to mathematics than Hypatia ?
Did you know that the interviewer in the documentary Enter the Anime did not know anything about anime ?
Did you know that in 1808, Joseph LaBarge traveled from Quebec over a series of rivers and lakes and down the Mississippi River to St. Louis in a birch-bark canoe?
Did you know that National Treasures at Hōryū-ji include the Tamamushi Shrine and images inside the Tachibana Shrine ?
Did you know that in 1945, Arnold Peter Meiklejohn supervised the medical students at the newly liberated Bergen-Belsen concentration camp ?
Did you know that at around 127 acres (51 hectares) in size, Crotona Park is known as the "Central Park of the South Bronx"?
Did you know that when learning to play pool , Veronika Ivanovskaia stood on a crate of Coca-Cola ?
Did you know that hematologist Samuel Charache discovered the first effective treatment for sickle cell disease ?
Did you know that St Andrew's Cross in Glasgow is also known as Eglinton Toll, as it was the entry point to an inland dock for a canal established by Hugh Montgomerie, 12th Earl of Eglinton , in the early 19th century?
Did you know that Chinese-American mathematician Stephen Shing-Toung Yau established the "Yau algebra" and the "Yau number"?
Did you know that Aama was the first Nepalese film to be produced in Nepal?
Did you know that Siegel modular varieties naturally capture information about black hole entropy in string theory ?
Did you know that billionaire Max Auschnitt bribed Romanian authorities, and worked with "an anti-Semite, but a civilized one", to help Jews escape the Holocaust?
Did you know that in 1874, the New York Herald wrote a hoax story to draw attention to inadequate safety precautions at the Central Park Zoo ?
Did you know that Julius Tahija was the only Indonesian to receive an Allied nation's highest military decoration during World War II?
Did you know that the String Quartet in A major , composed by Arthur Bliss around 1913 as a student, was later withdrawn from performance and not revived until his widow gave permission in the 1990s?
Did you know that Mathea Olin 's gold and bronze medals at the 2017 Pan American Surf Games were Canada's first international medals in surfing ?
Did you know that the crew of Plymouth Lifeboat Station saved a flying boat during World War II?
Did you know that Winnie Quagliotti protested against the Australian Bicentenary by dressing in a possum-skin cloak and throwing a wattle wreath into the sea at Princes Pier ?
Did you know that there are believed to be fewer than 100 mature specimens of Dacrydium guillauminii , which is considered critically endangered ?
Did you know that during the political campaign for the 1953 Italian general election , the Italian Nettist Party promised voters a free daily supply of steak?
Did you know that the Namib day gecko can sprint at 2.5 m/s (8 ft/s) in bright light?
Did you know that Guo Zhenqian and his successor, Guo Shuyan , both ended their governorships of Hubei prematurely due to disagreement with the province's party secretary ?
Did you know that the video for Marilyn Manson 's soft-rock ballad " Running to the Edge of the World " was widely condemned for its depiction of violence against women ?
Did you know that Noelle Campbell-Sharp has led the Cill Rialaig project, hosting over 5,000 artists on residencies in County Kerry , Ireland, since 1991?
Did you know that at the Battle of Sourton Down , a Parliamentarian ambush by 108 soldiers successfully routed a Royalist army of 3,600?
Did you know that Russian breakdancer Sergei Chernyshev , the 2018 Youth Olympics B-Boys champion, competes under the nickname Bumblebee, after a robot superhero in the Transformers franchise?
Did you know that Jones Bar-B-Q is old school, but Jones Bar-B-Q is an American classic?
Did you know that playwright Eugene O'Neill stipulated that actress Mary Welch had to gain at least 50 pounds (23 kg) for a role in his play A Moon for the Misbegotten ?
Did you know that red yeast rice is used both in traditional Chinese medicine and as a modern-day dietary supplement?
Did you know that footballer Jordon Garrick nearly gave up the game as a teenager to pursue a career in rugby league before being persuaded to change his mind by his mother and his coach?
Did you know that until the 1930s, sheep grazed in a meadow in New York City's Prospect Park ?
Did you know that Brad Leone , a chef and YouTube personality at Bon Appétit , started at the magazine as a self-described "glorified dishwasher"?
Did you know that Lučko Airport in Zagreb , Croatia, is the helicopter base for an anti-terrorist police unit that gave former member and mixed martial arts champion Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipović his nickname?
Did you know that Danish MEP Pernille Weiss is a sexologist ?
Did you know that comic books by Magdalene Visaggio have been nominated for two Eisner Awards and three GLAAD Media Awards ?
Did you know that Andi Herzog is the most capped footballer in Austrian history and the only player to win more than 100 caps?
Did you know that Petro Kilekwa from Zambia was enslaved because his mother could not pay the ransom – eight yards (7.3 m) of calico cloth?
Did you know that after the September 11 attacks , a seldom-staffed temporary border patrol checkpoint was installed on Interstate 91 near White River Junction, Vermont , about 100 miles (160 km) from the Canadian border?
Did you know that as general manager of the municipal theatres in Frankfurt , Harry Buckwitz staged plays by Brecht including Mutter Courage , and recruited Georg Solti for the opera ?
Did you know that China is the only country in the world to have a licensed vaccine for hepatitis E ?
Did you know that military historian Dominick Graham was a prisoner of war in Italy during World War II, and later returned as a member of the British Olympic skiing team?
Did you know that the prisoner of war massacre in Ciepielów is the most infamous instance of the war crimes of the Wehrmacht committed during the invasion of Poland ?
Did you know that Prince Tarabya Minye Kyawhtin ceded the throne of Ava to his cousin Prince Min Nyo after marrying his deceased brother 's favorite queen, Shin Saw Pu , in return?
Did you know that the hard seeds of the Guinea plum are dispersed by elephants, and crushed and eaten by Sanje mangabeys ?
Did you know that Wang Guodong painted some of the world's most recognizable portraits, which inspired Andy Warhol ?
Did you know that before opening West Point High School , the Tolleson Union High School District in Arizona was so overcrowded that it had to turn students away and use teachers' lounges as classrooms?
Did you know that in June 2019, Northern Irish pilot Norman Surplus became the first person to circumnavigate the globe using an autogyro ?
Did you know that The O.C. is the "official, original, and only club that matters"?
Did you know that former Mexican police chief Gilberto Lerma Plata was ordered to forfeit US$10 billion in drug profits?
Did you know that Zenker's fruit bat often forages in areas of forest where Haumania liebrechtsiana grows, a plant favoured by gorillas and chimpanzees?
Did you know that Chinese Muslim scholar Yu Zhengui worked as a laogai labourer during the Cultural Revolution ?
Did you know that the Jewish Democratic Committee and the Romanian Communist Party together sent Romanian Jews to Israel, hoping to make it a communist ally?
Did you know that the African-American conductor Henry Lewis conducted the Seventh Army Symphony Orchestra in support of America's cultural diplomacy initiatives after World War II ?
Did you know that the Sogenanntes Linksradikales Blasorchester ('So-called Left Radical Wind Band') played at demonstrations against nuclear power and far-right politics , and at the Berliner Philharmonie ?
Did you know that Claude Ruggieri described pyrotechny as "a dark chaos which one cannot penetrate without the torch of chemistry"?
Did you know that an anti-suffragist threw rocks at Nora Houston as she was giving a speech advocating for women's voting rights , and Houston kept one of the rocks for the rest of her life?
Did you know that several entrants in the 2019 Riga Masters professional snooker event—including the defending champion —missed the tournament because their flights were cancelled?
Did you know that four species of reptile, a bird, and an amphibian were named after Arthur Lennox Butler ?
Did you know that Qatar expressed interest for its industrial security personnel to be trained at the National Industrial Security Academy of India?
Did you know that Steve McClellan booked Prince in the early 1980s, when Minneapolis discouraged black musicians from playing downtown?
Did you know that after the fall of the state of Zhongli , its eponymous capital remained an "important governmental, economic, cultural, and military center" for over a thousand years?
Did you know that Hungarian MEP Anna Júlia Donáth represents the third generation of her family to enter political office, each time for a different party?
Did you know that the melody of the Christian hymn " Ich steh vor dir mit leeren Händen, Herr " is written without bar lines , reflecting the singer's insecurity and questions?
Did you know that in Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege , the player character Caveira 's "Silent Step" ability featured a game-breaking bug?
Did you know that the polluted Roberts Landing on San Francisco Bay , California, was cleaned up to create a housing development and a marsh, now home to the endangered salt marsh harvest mouse ?
Did you know that the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh suspended a bylaw to enable Thomas Chavasse to apply for a surgeon's post?
Did you know that eight years to the day after it first signed on, WVOB radio in Bel Air, Maryland , lost its tower when a construction worker clipped the tower's guy wires ?
Did you know that with 20 goals, Hassan Maatouk is the Lebanon national football team 's joint top-scorer?
Did you know that James Blake took inspiration from the 1967 film Barefoot in the Park for his song of the same name , despite never having watched it?
Did you know that a former member of ISIS who was arrested in 2016 and released in 2017 attacked a police and army patrol in Tripoli , killing four people, in 2019?
Did you know that snooker player Mandy Fisher played whilst pregnant, but lamented that this was more newsworthy than female players' skill?
Did you know that Duthie's golden mole and the long-tailed forest shrew are among the wildlife of South Africa that are both endemic and " vulnerable "?
Did you know that General Cao Shuangming was dismissed as Commander of the Chinese Air Force after it suffered an excessive number of accidents?
Did you know that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Australia began when a 17-year-old missionary arrived from England in 1840?
Did you know that Abigail Mbalo-Mokoena 's 4Roomed, a restaurant 30 kilometres (19 mi) outside Cape Town in Khayelitsha township, was one of only three in Africa named to a 2019 list of the best in the world?
Did you know that for the fifth anniversary of video game developer Defiant Development , everyone who had been employed at the company for at least two years was gifted a sword?
Did you know that India is creating the post of Chief of the Defence Staff twenty years after it was officially suggested?
Did you know that Ursula Boese , a long-time member of the Hamburgische Staatsoper , appeared as Stravinsky's Iocaste at La Scala , and at the San Francisco Opera in the presence of the composer?
Did you know that radio station KSUN in Bisbee, Arizona , sold its call letters to a station in Phoenix after going off the air due to financial troubles?
Did you know that when Chen Shunyao served as deputy party chief of Tsinghua University , the future Chinese president Hu Jintao was a protégé of hers?
Did you know that the father of athlete Safia Abukar Hussein disliked the idea of her competing for Somalia at the 2000 Summer Olympics , as he thought it would prevent her from finding a husband?
Did you know that Celso-Ramón García oversaw early clinical trials of the first contraceptive pill in Puerto Rico ?
Did you know that a Neanderthal man, whose upper jaw was found in the Cova Foradà in Spain, used a toothpick because he had sore gums?
Did you know that the fictional character Forrest Gump was portrayed as serving during the Vietnam War with the 47th Infantry Regiment ?
Did you know that although the Fazzan Basin in Libya currently averages less than 20 mm (0.8 in) of annual rainfall, paleohydrological study shows that it has periodically contained a large lake?
Did you know that investigation by detective Wu Guoqing , who was acclaimed as "China's Sherlock Holmes ", led to the murder conviction and death sentence of a prosecutor?
Did you know that research into digital media use and mental health has found that females are more likely to be affected by problematic social media use while males are more likely to have gaming disorder ?
Did you know that a Waterford Crystal trophy, won by Russian pool player Kristina Tkach at the Women's Pro Players Championship, shattered when it was dropped as it was being carried out of the arena?
Did you know that the novel Trust Exercise was inspired by discussions about sexual abuse which followed the publication of the Donald Trump Access Hollywood tape ?
Did you know that the Women's World Cup and the CONCACAF Gold Cup finals both involved the United States and were played on the same day?
Did you know that the dark and fatalistic humour of Canadian comedians has been attributed to the dangers of Canada's climate and geography ?
Did you know that David Morgan , the most successful British fighter pilot in the Falklands War , had a hole in the heart that was only discovered after he applied to join the military?
Did you know that psychoanalyst Carl Jung could afford to build his mansion on Lake Zürich (now the C. G. Jung House Museum ) after his wife Emma inherited her father's fortune?
Did you know that themes of British band Everything but the Girl 's 1985 album Love Not Money include sexism, social and economic stratification , and The Troubles in Northern Ireland?
Did you know that Kihaule's mouse shrew is named after the medical-entomological technician who collected the type specimen from the Udzungwa Mountains in Tanzania?
Did you know that Chen Jiayong was the first Chinese scientist to have a satellite named after him?
Did you know that US Attorney General Thomas Watt Gregory accused the United States Guards of imposing a "reign of terror" in Butte, Montana ?
Did you know that Peter Hamm , a successful writer, literary critic, and jury member for literary prizes, dropped out of school when he was 14?
Did you know that experimental folk band House and Land have reinterpreted traditional ballads to remove misogyny by focusing on female protagonists?
Did you know that Johann Schwarzhuber , the leader of the Auschwitz men's camp, was sentenced to death during the first Ravensbrück concentration camp trial ?
Did you know that multi-level marketing company Younique was valued at US$1 billion at the time of its acquisition by Coty ?
Did you know that among Ibuki Kido 's voice acting roles is a vacuum cleaner?
Did you know that the Arizona Miner , a newspaper published in Prescott , Arizona Territory , changed its political leanings from Republican to Democrat and back again over a succession of owners?
Did you know that motorsport official Charles Faroux was also a three-time French carom billiards world champion?
Did you know that social worker Damodar Ganesh Bapat helped around 26,000 leprosy patients?
Did you know that the scaly ground roller mostly eats earthworms and centipedes, but has been known to also eat frogs, lizards, and shrews?
Did you know that in 1877, the Wellington County House of Industry and Refuge spent less than Can$ 0.76 per week on the care of each resident?
Did you know that after the U.S. Congress passed a resolution urging the IOC to reject Beijing's bid for the 2000 Olympics , the city's vice mayor Zhang Baifa threatened to boycott the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta?
Did you know that the Palembang Light Rail Transit , which opened last year, is the first operational light-rail system in Indonesia?
Did you know that Vice-Admiral Aleksandr Nosatov was appointed head of the Russian Naval Academy in 2016, but spent only one and a half months in the post?