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Did you know that Richard Draper , printer of the The Massachusetts Gazette , used this newspaper as a Loyalist voice as the American Revolution drew near?
Did you know that betrothed couple Moe and Joan were paid $50 for helping a painter with his Marriage License ?
Did you know that Canadian running back Chase Brown ranked second in American college football with 1,643 rushing yards in 2022?
Did you know that the Church of St Giles, Stoke Poges , which may have inspired the " Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard ", is featured in a James Bond film?
Did you know that Edward Thonen , one of the miners killed in the Eureka Rebellion , had gained notoriety in England as a jewellery thief prior to his emigration to Australia?
Did you know that although Blizzard 's franchise Overwatch is centered around video games, its lore is mainly told through animated shorts, comics, and novels?
Did you know that Azio Corghi composed his second and third operas with author José Saramago – the second for La Scala in Milan, and the third for a 1993 premiere at the Theater Münster ?
Did you know that Charles Baudelaire wrote " The Pagan School " in opposition to the veneration of Pan in 19th-century France?
Did you know that the " Poetic Essay of the Great Bliss of the Sexual Union of Heaven and Earth and Yin and Yang " argues that heterosexual sex is the "ultimate human pleasure", but affirms homosexuality as well?
Did you know that critics objected to Dangers of the Mail in the 1930s for government support of lewdness and in the 2000s for creating a hostile work environment?
Did you know that Robert Home was sent by the British Army to Canada in 1864 to report on the defence of the frontier against the eventuality of an American invasion?
Did you know that the bridge in the song " Leave the Door Open " almost split the band Silk Sonic apart?
Did you know that Smin Awa Naing 's regiment mortally wounded Crown Prince Minye Kyawswa of Ava , effectively ending Ava's most serious invasion of the Hanthawaddy Kingdom ?
Did you know that Billie Eilish had to take a break from writing a song alluding to her childhood trauma and sexual abuse ?
Did you know that the 1994 Mascara earthquake destroyed every house in the Algerian villages of Shadlia, Hacine and Sidi Ali Cherif?
Did you know that the Twin Falls "saucer" was later proven to be a hoax created by four teenagers?
Did you know that T. E. Lawrence travelled 1,000 miles (1,600 km) on foot alone during a three-month tour of crusader castles while writing his thesis about the Crusades and European military architecture?
Did you know that although the provincial park surrounding the Kopka River had not been thoroughly investigated, the potential for archaeological sites was considered to be high?
Did you know that despite his distinguished family history, musicologist Yuri Shcherbinin told friends that "what matters most is what you are, not who your ancestors were"?
Did you know that the serial arsonist who started the fatal Nihon Shōgakkō fire confessed to starting at least 25 other California fires in the early 1920s?
Did you know that Wilhelm Werner fled to Brazil to avoid prosecution for the 1917 murders of the crew of the SS Torrington but returned to Germany and became an SS officer on Heinrich Himmler 's staff?
Did you know that in 1981, TriGem introduced the first microcomputer built in South Korea?
Did you know that in Canticle II: Abraham and Isaac , Benjamin Britten assigned the tenor of Peter Pears to Abraham and the alto of Kathleen Ferrier to Isaac, with both singing in homophony as the voice of God?
Did you know that the operator of the Commodore Hotel once hosted a circus, featuring an elephant in the ballroom, to impress visiting hoteliers?
Did you know that Frances Campbell-Preston , who served as lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother for nearly 40 years, was reportedly not hesitant to ask her difficult questions when others were reluctant?
Did you know that Tom Harkin ended his 1992 presidential campaign just one month after he won a landslide victory in the Iowa caucuses , where he received over three-quarters of the total vote?
Did you know that while hemmed in at Ekowe during the Anglo-Zulu War , W. R. C. Wynne attempted to respond to heliograph signals by means of a signalling screen and a balloon?
Did you know that in the 1980s, floor stands were offered to computer users to turn their horizontal desktops into towers ?
Did you know that after building Turkey's first airplane , its builder was sentenced to jail for flying it without a permit?
Did you know that New York City would not allow a forest in the Edgar J. Kaufmann Conference Center ?
Did you know that Nanjing Massacre Memorial Day has a memorial tripod ?
Did you know that after Alfred Fell moved his family to England for better education opportunities, his son Walter Fell and two of his brothers returned permanently to New Zealand?
Did you know that scholars disagree about whether the closure of the Walter Hines Page School of International Relations in 1953 had anything to do with McCarthyism ?
Did you know that Howard Mayers is credited with the destruction of at least eleven enemy aircraft during World War II?
Did you know that musician John Mayer dismissed Taylor Swift 's " Dear John " as "cheap songwriting"?
Did you know that Chinese physician Yu Yan described theories like yinyang and the five phases as "simply all lies, absolutely not factual, and completely groundless"?
Did you know that when Seattle sandwich restaurant Paseo abruptly closed, fans left flowers and lit candles?
Did you know that Church Clothes 4 deals with Christian hip hop artist Lecrae 's faith deconstruction and reconstruction?
Did you know that construction workers at UC Berkeley paused their work in solidarity with the 2022 University of California academic workers' strike ?
Did you know that Taingda Mingyi U Pho engineered the massacre of around 40 members of the Burmese royal family in order to eliminate nearly all possible heirs to the throne?
Did you know that Tennessee State Route 396 was constructed to provide access to the Spring Hill Manufacturing plant of Saturn Corporation ?
Did you know that when Arthur Forrest suggested that the squadron of French ships were looking for a battle, Captain Maurice Suckling replied "I think it would be a pity to disappoint them"?
Did you know that an apparently jobless man wearing a cardboard box who taped himself to a lamppost was actually a new DJ for a Vermont radio station ?
Did you know that because of a mistake in a proposed state constitutional amendment , the New Jersey Legislature defined biannually to mean biennially ?
Did you know that Robert de Ogle captured five Scottish knights near Newcastle in 1341 and received royal licence to crenellate his property?
Did you know that the National Wrestling Conference 's controversial KKK storyline was the inspiration for an episode of the Netflix series GLOW ?
Did you know that Gary Wilson threw his snooker cue to the floor in anger at the 2022 UK Championship ?
Did you know that in 1908, American otorhinolaryngologist Margaret F. Butler became the first woman to preside over an international congress of physicians?
Did you know that it was J. R. R. Tolkien 's intention for Black Speech to be "full of harsh and hideous sounds and vile words"?
Did you know that Ella Stewart Udall relayed her husband 's letters to his semi-secret second wife ?
Did you know that Gary Kemp put subtle references to Vladimir Nabokov 's Lolita in his lyrics for Spandau Ballet 's " True " so Clare Grogan would know the song was about her?
Did you know that the home of American revolutionary leader John Cooper was used by General Lord Cornwallis as his headquarters during the British occupation of Woodbury, New Jersey , in 1777?
Did you know that the Morane-Borel military monoplane participated in the Reims Military Aviation Competition , where it lost?
Did you know that in 1858, when Congress delayed its decision on Oregon statehood, Nathaniel H. Gates became the last Speaker of Oregon’s Territorial House of Representatives ?
Did you know that Teardown was not traditionally marketed because of the popularity it gained through Twitter ?
Did you know that Orion Anderson , who was murdered by a lynch mob in Virginia in 1889, was recently found to have been only 14 years old at the time of his death?
Did you know that a reviewer warned that Totoro would lead to "sore cheeks"?
Did you know that Jarn Mound was erected to view the "dreaming spires"?
Did you know that the external models of the Popcom modem have no status lights, instead providing feedback to the user through touch tones ?
Did you know that Burmese scholar Shaw Loo was Bucknell University 's first international student?
Did you know that The Sims 4 by Maxis started as an online multiplayer game, but was transitioned to a single-player experience following the negative launch reception of SimCity in 2013?
Did you know that the Concerto for Piano and String Orchestra was described by its composer, Alfred Schnittke , as sounding like a "blues nightmare" at one point?
Did you know that background research for Dujanah included interviews with Muslim apostates and a Scottish veteran of Afghanistan ?
Did you know that a reviewer wrote of Julian Moynahan that, although "disguised as an English professor at Rutgers", he was in fact "a nonstop Irish-American storyteller"?
Did you know that the calling patterns of the Japanese tree frog have been used in wireless network design, furthering an area of science known as swarm intelligence ?
Did you know that Katharina Cibulka has created monumental feminist messages in cross-stitch that cover scaffolding at construction sites?
Did you know that " Gegrüßet seist du, Königin ", a German version of the Latin hymn " Salve Regina ", was taken to the U.S. by emigrants and became popular in the U.S. in the film Sister Act ?
Did you know that while DreamBooth can be used by anyone to fine-tune image generation AI models , the cost barrier to entry is quite high for hobbyist users?
Did you know that Chinese writer Ye Dehui was executed after he called members of the Chinese Communist Party "beasts" and "half-breeds"?
Did you know that a Royal Air Force officer built a KAVE in New Mexico ?
Did you know that Josephine Gates Kelly of the Standing Rock Reservation once hitchhiked to Washington, D.C. , to protest portions of the Indian Reorganization Act ?
Did you know that George Vernon 's loss against the Parsis cricket team was seen as "a blow to the prestige of the Empire "?
Did you know that Enoch Marvin Banks resigned from the University of Florida because of public outrage over his belief that the American Civil War was caused by slavery?
Did you know that the Durham police mast was designed to be slender to minimise the impact on views of Durham Cathedral ?
Did you know that Arthur O. Austin built the most powerful outdoor high-voltage laboratory in the world?
Did you know that bookseller John Harrison Stonehouse commissioned the "cursed" edition of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam that was lost when the Titanic sank in 1912 ?
Did you know that when Maha Thamun , the head of the Hanthawaddy delegation, presented his king's demands, King Thado of Ava reflexively ordered his execution?
Did you know that Australian official Jack Emanuel was awarded the George Cross in 1971 after being stabbed to death whilst trying to resolve a land dispute with the Tolai people of New Guinea?
Did you know that the 1999 television film Down Will Come Baby aired two weeks after the Columbine High School massacre and was criticized for exploiting parental fears with its depiction of child violence?
Did you know that according to one Turkish artist, a nude sculpture by Gürdal Duyar almost dissolved the 37th government of Turkey ?
Did you know that An Appeal for Human Rights was published by college students in 1960 in response to racial inequality in Atlanta ?
Did you know that the uncommon Florida lichen species Gyalectidium yahriae was named after Rebecca Yahr of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh in Scotland?
Did you know that plutonium produced in the nuclear reactors at the Hanford Engineer Works was used in the Fat Man bomb used in the atomic bombing of Nagasaki in August 1945 ?
Did you know that according to Qing-dynasty physician Xu Dachun , "stupid people believe that expensive drugs must be good drugs"?
Did you know that the precise details in medieval customaries have allowed historians to reconstruct since-lost buildings?
Did you know that Rosalind Creasy wrote a landmark book on edible landscaping ?
Did you know that Neha Pendse , the lead actress of the Marathi film June , contributed some of her own money towards its production?
Did you know that American lumber businessman and politician John Barber White funded a scholarship at Williams College in memory of his son?
Did you know that squatters were one of the groups that started the Mau Mau rebellion ?
Did you know that Caroline Harrison would mail ceramic milk sets to parents who named their children after U.S. president Benjamin Harrison ?
Did you know that pigs in blankets are not pigs in a blanket ?
Did you know that Stanley J. Korsmeyer published over 250 scientific papers, 23 of which were cited over 500 times?
Did you know that a 1902 plan called for a town to be built in Dukes Meadows that would have been known as Burlingwick?
Did you know that Bernardo Adam Ferrero wrote compositions such as Danzas alicantinas for Spanish civil and military bands that he conducted?
Did you know that the Chicago Bears media guide had an asterisk next to the result of the Instant Replay Game for 10 years, noting the team's belief that the game was decided incorrectly?
Did you know that Cheng Dan'an is "widely considered the father of modern acupuncture "?
Did you know that in one experiment in which moor frogs were frozen solid to −16 °C (3 °F) and then thawed, a small percentage survived?
Did you know that several murals from New York City's Hotel McAlpin were reinstalled in the subway after being found in a dumpster?
Did you know that the Central American government voted for annexation to the First Mexican Empire after a request from Regent Agustín de Iturbide ?
Did you know that Craig Greenberg was shot at while running in the 2022 Louisville mayoral election ?
Did you know that Through the Darkest of Times was the first video game published in Germany to use swastikas ?
Did you know that Elisabeth Griffith 's sweeping 100-year history of the American equal-rights movement has been compared to listening to Billy Joel 's " We Didn't Start the Fire "?
Did you know that although Baeoentedon bouceki was collected from China in 1983, it was not formally described as a new species until 2014?
Did you know that the Vatican selected Mary Milligan in 1987 to be one of only three U.S. experts to assist the International Synod of Bishops on the Laity in Rome?
Did you know that a British filmmaker forced the British Board of Film Classification to watch paint drying for ten hours ?
Did you know that the Xinxiu bencao was the first state-sponsored pharmacopoeia in China?
Did you know that the Japanese fire-bellied newt tends to show its belly to birds but wag its tail at snakes?
Did you know that Edward Glemham destroyed two Spanish vessels, repulsed four galleys, and captured a rich Venetian merchant ship in his first voyage as a privateer in 1590?
Did you know that anthropologist Theodora Kroeber wrote a biography of her husband that was described as a "welcome and refreshing exception" to the "often embarrassing" biographies of men written by their wives?
Did you know that the Cornish poet D. M. Thomas blamed himself for the death of William Golding , the author of Lord of the Flies ?
Did you know that while serving as his party's regional leader in Oruro , Franz Choque simultaneously worked as an importer to make ends meet?
Did you know that Mardi Gras Hangover was marketed as a "loop coaster", but was criticized for lacking the characteristics of a roller coaster ?
Did you know that Hanthawaddy royal Bya Kun fought for Ava against his enemy King Razadarit in the Forty Years' War ?
Did you know that The Inland Whale , by Theodora Kroeber , sought to demonstrate the literary merit of Indigenous American oral traditions?
Did you know that the Liverpool Echo described British rock and roll star Tommy Steele as "quite unable to sing and play the guitar at the same time" when reviewing his first album ?
Did you know that linebacker Carlton Martial , who recently broke a college football record for the most tackles , began his career as a walk-on ?
Did you know that the Golden Mirror , a Qing-dynasty medical text, contains a "one-page array of 24 anuses"?
Did you know that the oldest Chinese medical text on surgery was, according to tradition, written by a doctor who had met a ghost?
Did you know that listeners to ESPN 's sports podcasts are "13 years younger than" ESPN Radio listeners, according to a company executive?
Did you know that Sir Srinivas Varadachariar was the first Indian chief justice of the Federal Court of India ?
Did you know that Fort Curtis 's 24-pounder guns were taken away for use in the Vicksburg campaign ?
Did you know that in the Book of Mormon 's allusion to the raising of Lazarus of Bethany in John 11 , Abish plays a role parallel to that of Jesus ?
Did you know that the setting of the game Ghost of Tsushima takes place during the Mongol invasion of Tsushima ?
Did you know that mathematician Daniel Larsen was the youngest contributor to the New York Times crossword puzzle ?
Did you know that " Paint It Black " by the Rolling Stones , which was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame , was almost scrapped?
Did you know that Kafilur Rahman Nishat Usmani translated the Islamic law book Fatawa 'Alamgiri from Arabic into Urdu ?
Did you know that the development of Thomas Jefferson Park was intended to help Italian Harlem, described as "for many years the black spot of Harlem"?
Did you know that the 9th-century Abbasid caliph al-Wathiq , whose five-year reign is considered by historians to be unremarkable, was heavily fictionalized in the 18th-century Gothic fantasy novel Vathek ?
Did you know that both the Mayotte Marine Natural Park and the Glorioso Islands Marine Natural Park entirely cover the exclusive economic zones of the islands within them?
Did you know that Millicent Taplin left school at 13 and never studied art full time, yet became one of Wedgwood 's main ceramics designers?
Did you know that the U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether a frustrated high-school student who Snapchatted "fuck school fuck softball fuck cheer fuck everything" can be suspended from cheerleading for a year?
Did you know that the writing and publication of Justice and Jurisprudence in 1889 has been described as "the Magna Carta of black people"?
Did you know that Manek Premchand estimated that 4,334 Hindi films made between 1930 and 1970 depicted around 36,000 songs?
Did you know that Stonecrop Gardens in the Hudson Highlands features alpine vegetation and a sunken English garden ?
Did you know that the A.P. No. 3 landmine could be neutralised with a "safety spider"?
Did you know that the addition of the Ally 400 to the 2021 NASCAR Cup Series schedule was considered a surprise as the host venue, the Nashville Superspeedway , had been up for sale since 2012?
Did you know that BTS 's song " Blue & Grey " was originally intended to be included on band member V 's solo mixtape?
Did you know that Ethiopian-Italian refugee environmentalist Agitu Ideo Gudeta was nicknamed the "Queen of Happy Goats"?
Did you know that after quarterback Joe Montana invested in Crowd Cow , PETA sent him a letter filled with football puns imploring him not to invest in a company that facilitates the slaughtering of animals?
Did you know that " I Did Something Bad " is the first song in which Taylor Swift uses profanity?
Did you know that Mahadevi Varma chose to live an ascetic life despite being married?
Did you know that the treatise Zabân-e Pâk , written by Ahmad Kasravi , was one of the first works that sought to suggest refinements to the Persian language?
Did you know that Anna Martina Gottschick wrote the hymn " Herr, mach uns stark " because a composer wanted to make Ralph Vaughan Williams 's 1906 melody of " For All the Saints " available for German church singing?
Did you know that Tomoki Suzuki won the men's wheelchair race at the 2020 Tokyo Marathon by over eight minutes?
Did you know that Coventry City 's winning goal in the 1987 FA Cup Final was an own goal scored in extra time off Gary Mabbutt 's knee?
Did you know that during the filming of 6 Day Bike Rider , sixteen bicyclists hit the cameraman's motorcycle, which resulted in nine of them being injured?
Did you know that Pierre Daumesnil refused to surrender the Château de Vincennes after the French Empire had been defeated at the Battle of Paris in 1814?
Did you know that in advance of the 2021 general election , Morocco outlawed the making of certain types of online posts?
Did you know that the true identity of the British crime writer Francis Duncan was unknown until after a reprint of his 1949 novel Murder for Christmas ?
Did you know that when a proposed sale of Orlando -area radio station WVCF fell through, the attempted buyer started his own station ?
Did you know that Joe Jackson 's 1984 album Body and Soul emulated the artwork of the 1957 jazz album Sonny Rollins, Vol. 2 ?
Did you know that a Latin translation of Winnie-the-Pooh spent 20 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list ?
Did you know that American Brigadier General Harold Francis Loomis was in charge of the rearmament of French forces during World War II?
Did you know that Overdrawn at the Memory Bank was recorded on videotape instead of photographic film so as not to be as expensive as Blade Runner ?
Did you know that Kathleen Heddle was one of two Canadians to win three gold medals at the Summer Olympic Games ?
Did you know that eleven people, nine of them minors, died in a sugar plantation fire in Cagua , Venezuela, while trying to hunt rabbits?
Did you know that Minnie Lou Crosthwaite , the first Black woman to pass the teacher exam in Nashville's segregated school system, and Minnie Lee Crosthwaite , one of Kansas City's first Black social workers, both attended Fisk University ?
Did you know that Sampson's snakeroot is traditionally used to help knit broken bones and as a salve on wounds, ulcers and boils?
Did you know that Zéna M'Déré led a protest movement in Mayotte in which women tickled their political opponents, forcing them to comply with their demands?
Did you know that Lisa Nishimura started out in the music industry before producing Netflix documentaries including Chef's Table and Making a Murderer ?
Did you know that Nima Yooshij was threatened with death for presenting his school of poetry, She'r-e Nimaa'i ?
Did you know that the 1839 city plan for Austin, Texas , is thought to have been inspired by the original 1682 city plan for Philadelphia ?
Did you know that Michael Cretu of Enigma has been accused of putting satanic content into the band's debut album MCMXC a.D. ?
Did you know that Leszek Sibilski was supported by Turkmenistan in establishing World Bicycle Day ?
Did you know that malaria is expected to become more prevalent due to the impacts of climate change in Kenya ?
Did you know that Sylvie Fortier retired from competitive synchronized swimming at only 18, saying she was happy with what she had achieved?
Did you know that the memoir Just Mercy tells the story of an innocent black man who was convicted and condemned to die for the 1986 murder of a young white woman in the town in which To Kill a Mockingbird was written?
Did you know that Olga Petit – the first female lawyer in France – was a Russian?
Did you know that 6,800 Columbia University students and faculty signed a petition to remove an entrance to the 116th Street–Columbia University station ?
Did you know that Bangladesh is the only Test-playing nation that has not been involved in any tied international cricket matches?