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Did you know that the Balloon went up in 1784 and added air in 1802, but now Highways England wants to blow it up?
Did you know that German painter Gebhard Fugel led the team creating the monumental Crucifixion Panorama in Altötting , which became a UNESCO-listed monument?
Did you know that Sarazanmai was conceived as an anime series about supernatural monsters for an adult audience?
Did you know that Russian vice admiral Mikhail Motsak , who oversaw the salvage of the wreck of the submarine Kursk , is buried in the same cemetery as a number of the crew who died aboard the vessel?
Did you know that the 2001 BDO World Darts Championship featured an independent women's tournament for the first time in the competition's history?
Did you know that in 2018, Maëlle became the first female and youngest contestant ever to win the French version of The Voice ?
Did you know that the Seven Wonders of the Waterways include the UK's longest and highest aqueduct , its longest, deepest, and highest canal tunnel , and the world's only swinging aqueduct ?
Did you know that later in life, Jo Walker-Meador would be inducted into the hall of fame that she helped create?
Did you know that Virginia Kirkus reviewed 16,000 books for her bookshop service between the 1930s and 1960s?
Did you know that Dixit Maria , a motet in Latin by Hans Leo Hassler , sets to music the narrative of Mary 's consent to the Annunciation ?
Did you know that Chinese doctor Kang Laiyi spent more than 30 years researching the epidemiology of HIV ?
Did you know that Brooklyn 's 13th , 14th , and 23rd Regiment Armories , all built significantly over budget, were later converted to homeless shelters?
Did you know that Ben Kimura was among the first gay artists in Japan to achieve crossover success with a female audience in yaoi publications?
Did you know that future U.S. senator Howard Baker campaigned for president of the University of Tennessee student body on a platform to establish a campus radio station ?
Did you know that Myname 's record label was forced to destroy 20,000 CDs of the group's second single album after accidentally including Psy 's " Gangnam Style " as its sixth track?
Did you know that the Consolidated Edison Building has been called one of New York City's most "beautiful and magnificent structures", with a "Tower of Light"?
Did you know that Barrie Marmion spearheaded the development of the first vaccine against Q fever ?
Did you know that in Der Ring in Minden , the orchestra played at the back of the stage, and the singers all turned towards it to listen to the music at the end ?
Did you know that Hewahewa , a high priest of the Hawaiian religion , supported the abolition of the kapu system and the introduction of Christianity?
Did you know that low water levels at Loch Vaa threatened the remains of a historic crannog ?
Did you know that Gayl King became the first female darts player to compete in the PDC World Darts Championship after the Professional Darts Corporation invited her to play in the 2001 tournament ?
Did you know that there was a campaign to give Captain America a boyfriend ?
Did you know that the use of retentions in the British construction industry , which is now commonplace, had its origins in the Railway Mania of the 1840s?
Did you know that Indian-American chef Raji Jallepalli , who is credited with "originating the fusion of classic French and Indian cuisines", originally trained as a microbiologist ?
Did you know that the Peleng tarsier , a small carnivorous primate , can rotate its head nearly 180 degrees in either direction?
Did you know that German World War II general Heinz Guderian issued post-war apologetics for Hitler, writing that "his struggle was about Europe, even if he made dreadful mistakes and errors"?
Did you know that a young Bob Smith, later famous as Wolfman Jack , got his first radio job as "Daddy Jules" at WYOU in Newport News, Virginia ?
Did you know that William Chapple discovered Euler's theorem and Poncelet's porism ?
Did you know that sculptures of rats outside the Graybar Building , near Grand Central Terminal , were included to signify New York City's role as a "great transportation centre"?
Did you know that Alois Ickstadt founded a children's choir and an adult choir for the public broadcaster Hessischer Rundfunk , conducting the latter for 45 years?
Did you know that Red Dead Redemption 2 was the highest-rated game on Metacritic in 2018 ?
Did you know that despite fighting for more than two years to stop the other station from signing on, WGVL 's last day on the air was also WSPA-TV 's first?
Did you know that before becoming a professional mathematician, Chikako Mese was a record-breaking high school softball player?
Did you know that the otherwise inconclusive Polish–Bohemian War of 1345–1348 cemented Bohemian control of Silesia ?
Did you know that Kodama Naoko , creator of I Married My Best Friend To Shut My Parents Up , called the yuri manga series her first "light" work "in a long time"?
Did you know that feminist Carole De Saram caused the closure of a Citibank branch?
Did you know that the granulate ambrosia beetle is native to Asia but has spread as an invasive species to Africa, the Americas, Europe, and Oceania?
Did you know that the brother of Ugandan president Idi Amin was once delivered in a car boot to military commander Hussein Mohammed ?
Did you know that Memory: The Origins of Alien defines the Alien franchise as "a collective art form" inspired by H. P. Lovecraft , Francis Bacon , and the Greek Furies ?
Did you know that Charles Blackwell was the third Blackwell (after his father and his grandfather ) to be elected to the Institution of Civil Engineers ?
Did you know that jazz musicians Ben Tucker and Billy Taylor bought Savannah, Georgia , radio station WSOK and expanded its album collection from 20 to 4,000?
Did you know that letters which Charlotte Pistorius , the self-taught wife of a country pastor, wrote to intellectuals Friedrich Schleiermacher and Ernst Moritz Arndt were published with their works?
Did you know that there is a man in tweeds on a gallows outside the Green Man, Ashbourne ?
Did you know that public health historian Elizabeth Fee wrote on topics as varied as the history of HIV/AIDS , the racialized treatment of syphilis , bioterrorism , and the history of the toothbrush?
Did you know that the government of Thailand has branded the Buddhist celebration Magha Puja as a day of spiritual love and gratitude, to compete with Valentine's Day ?
Did you know that Sara Wesslin , featured on the BBC's 100 Women for 2019, is one of only two journalists in the world broadcasting in Skolt Sami ?
Did you know that the Polish–Bohemian War of 990 resulted in Poland taking control of Silesia ?
Did you know that Ignaz Saal , for decades a bass with the Imperial Court Theatre in Vienna, performed the bass parts in the world premieres of Haydn's oratorios Die Schöpfung and Die Jahreszeiten ?
Did you know that radio station KEYZ in Williston, North Dakota , owned a Beechcraft Bonanza aircraft and used it for news coverage, promotional events, sales calls, and search and rescue efforts?
Did you know that Unhappy the Land argues that the Irish are not the "most oppressed people ever"?
Did you know that Rhagoletis juglandis is a species of fly that infests walnuts?
Did you know that former Playboy model Susie Owens hand-produced up to 50,000 vials of perfume and lotion each year in her garage?
Did you know that The Cedars School is the first senior school in Great Britain to be based on the ethos of Opus Dei ?
Did you know that plant physiologist Hu Dujing cultivated Eucommia ulmoides to produce a substitute for rubber?
Did you know that the Lord & Taylor Building in New York City incorporated innovative window displays that could be lowered into the basement and swapped out?
Did you know that British journalist Anna Kessel co-founded the charity Women in Football, and initiated the Blue Plaque Rebellion, to promote gender equality for women in sport ?
Did you know that HKmap.live , an app tracking protests and police presence in Hong Kong , was removed by Apple from its App Store less than a week after being approved?
Did you know that Yang Enze , who built China's first fiber-optic communication system approved for practical use, taught until the age of 99?
Did you know that after development builds of the cancelled video game Lego Bionicle: The Legend of Mata Nui leaked online, Bionicle fans created a video game development studio to complete the game?
Did you know that Kathrin Göring portrayed both Fricka and Waltraute in Der Ring in Minden , and a critic called her scene in Götterdämmerung a highlight, noting her dramatic mezzo-soprano and intense acting?
Did you know that WXXX 's broadcast license was challenged in the 1970s because the station employed no African Americans in Hattiesburg, Mississippi , a city that was 30 percent black?
Did you know that research on pain in fish by Victoria Braithwaite resulted in new rules in the UK, Europe, and Canada to make fisheries more humane?
Did you know that string quartet Well-Strung has performed "Chelsea's Mom", a reimagining of " Stacy's Mom ", for Hillary Clinton?
Did you know that the chirps of the snowy tree cricket can be used to estimate the temperature?
Did you know that following the defense of Katowice on 4 September 1939, dozens of defenders, including a number of Polish Boy and Girl Scouts , were summarily executed ?
Did you know that Jedediah Sanger founded New Hartford , but gave his name to Sangerfield ?
Did you know that Rainbow Valley , one of the books in the Anne of Green Gables series, draws heavily on Lucy Maud Montgomery 's life in the Leaskdale Manse ?
Did you know that Chinese virologist George F. Gao led a test laboratory in Sierra Leone during the peak of the 2014 Ebola outbreak ?
Did you know that the Eberhard Faber Pencil Factory in Brooklyn , originally built for one of the world's largest pencil makers, now contains the Kickstarter headquarters ?
Did you know that baritone Hans Braun , who performed 75 roles at the Vienna State Opera , appeared as Mozart's Count Almaviva at the Royal Opera House and as Wagner's Wolfram at La Scala ?
Did you know that the tapping sound of the deathwatch beetle has long been considered an omen of an impending death?
Did you know that New York City's Broadway Junction station sees 100,000 daily riders, the vast majority using it to make transfers?
Did you know that Ilona Durigo , one of the leading concert contraltos of her time, performed in the first recording of Bach's St Matthew Passion , conducted by Willem Mengelberg ?
Did you know that Oneco referred to the gift of a ceremonial sword from Charles II of England as proof of the legal equality of the Mohegan sachemate with the English monarchy ?
Did you know that the company developing the SSM-A-23 Dart anti-tank missile changed ownership twice while the project was underway?
Did you know that Mildred Dilling 's first fee for a harp performance was a dozen carnations and a jar of pickles?
Did you know that a newly appointed count of the Székelys was entitled to a horse from each of the Székely seats ?
Did you know that of the six known Anglo-Saxon helmets , the Shorwell helmet was originally mistaken for a pot, the Pioneer helmet for a bucket, and the Coppergate helmet for a rock?
Did you know that American scholar Paul Y. Hammond sought to develop a more discerning understanding of how organizational behavior and domestic political considerations affected American foreign policy?
Did you know that among the accolades received by I, Tonya are five British Academy Film Award nominations?
Did you know that the comic " Shoot ", originally scheduled for publication in a 1999 issue of Hellblazer , was not published until 2010?
Did you know that Canadian physician Fraser Rose was partly named after the doctor who walked through a snowstorm in Nova Scotia to deliver him?
Did you know that the first shipment of books for the Washington Territorial Library traveled around Cape Horn from New York City ?
Did you know that the Edict of Milan , an agreement between Constantine and Licinius to treat the Christian Church peacefully, was issued during the pontificate of Pope Miltiades ?
Did you know that the Alabama Crimson Tide overcame a 13–0 deficit at halftime to win the 2018 College Football Playoff National Championship in overtime?
Did you know that while chief justice of the Colony of Cape Breton , Richard Gibbons founded a group that was later banned as being a possible "Seed of Rebellion"?
Did you know that Cider with Rosie could not be filmed in Slad , where the story takes place, as the village had changed too much?
Did you know that Sciota Brook is only 2 miles (3.2 km) long but flows through three counties in Pennsylvania?
Did you know that the elm seed bug produces an unpleasant smell reminiscent of bitter almonds ?
Did you know that during the height of the Cold War , an American visiting Russia received a seven-year sentence for spying?
Did you know that Chen Junsheng 's investigative report resulted in his superior losing his job and getting "promoted"?
Did you know that horse carcasses, and trash from three of New York City's boroughs, were once processed at Barren Island, Brooklyn ?
Did you know that Galco's Soda Pop Stop in Los Angeles carries more than 700 different soft drinks ?
Did you know that Mesembrinella caenozoica is the first unambiguous fossil described in the fly superfamily Oestroidea ?
Did you know that the physician George Abercrombie once won a game of chess against world champion José Raúl Capablanca ?
Did you know that the Coatzacoalcos Underwater Tunnel , which took 13 years to complete, has been described as a "monument to corruption"?
Did you know that the Houdini Museum of New York houses the world's second largest collection of "Houdiniana"?
Did you know that Shmuel Abba Twersky 's immigration to Canada from Ukraine – to serve as Makarover Rebbe of Winnipeg in the 1920s – was held up by two years of bureaucratic red tape ?
Did you know that in his review, IGN 's Craig Harris called Elite Forces: Unit 77 the "perfect storm of gaming mediocrity"?
Did you know that after contracting diphtheria , John Hunt believed he was one of the last cases in England to have his tonsils painted with cocaine and then removed by guillotine?
Did you know that the Jaguar multi-stage sounding rocket was designed to be launched using a toss bombing maneuver from a B-57 bomber ?
Did you know that a Let's Save Togo protest rally in August 2012 called for a week-long sex strike by women to encourage men to oppose Togolese President Faure Gnassingbé ?
Did you know that prior to serving as executive fashion director for Cosmopolitan and Seventeen , and as a judge for Project Runway: Junior , Aya Kanai considered careers in puppetry and fine art?
Did you know that Major General Miles Graham was Monty 's logistics supremo in both North Africa and North-West Europe during the Second World War?
Did you know that passengers traveling to the 1939 New York World's Fair via the World's Fair subway line paid the standard five-cent fare to board, but had to pay the fare again on arrival?
Did you know that Doug McMurdy was the inaugural winner of the Red Tilson Trophy , given to the most outstanding player in the Ontario Hockey League each season?
Did you know that " What a Beautiful Name " represents the first Grammy nomination for Hillsong Worship ?
Did you know that SCA1 was the first genetic defect found to cause ataxia ?
Did you know that activist Mandisa Thomas was recognized in the bill officially proclaiming October 15, 2017, as the 16th annual celebration of California Freethought Day ?
Did you know that the Aequare was a remotely piloted vehicle intended to be used by F-4 Phantom II fighter-bombers to find and designate targets?
Did you know that in the 1937 program The Three Garridebs , Louis Hector became the first actor to portray Sherlock Holmes on television?
Did you know that a website run by Digiday generates random absurd Twitter bios followed by profanity-laced commentary?
Did you know that Wang Zhongyu was one of China ' s most powerful figures in the 1990s, with authority over reforming state-owned enterprises?
Did you know that over seven hours of rain delays resulted in the 1998 NAPA 500 becoming the first night race held at Atlanta Motor Speedway ?
Did you know that Rome's first emperor, Augustus , adopted his grandsons Lucius and Gaius ?
Did you know that Bill Dubuque 's scripts for The Judge and The Accountant were both featured on the Black List of the best unproduced screenplays in Hollywood?
Did you know that larvae of the firefly Luciola substriata swim upside down?
Did you know that the Prospect House at Blue Mountain Lake in New York was the first hotel anywhere to be equipped with electric lighting in all the guest rooms?
Did you know that the Welsh footballer Syd Thomas impressed Fulham so much in a trial match that he was offered a contract at half-time?
Did you know that Peter Frank Stott investigated the use of open level crossings on the British Rail network following the Lockington rail crash in which nine people died?
Did you know that Barnes Brook lacked any habitats for fish in 2001, but is now being considered for addition to the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission 's list of wild trout streams?
Did you know that the U.S. Army's Plato and FABMDS programs for anti-ballistic missiles evolved into the well-known Patriot missile ?
Did you know that Odontadenia macrantha flowers year-round in its natural habitat?
Did you know that certain copies of the Christmas compilation album MTV: TRL Christmas contained tickets for a free trip to be a part of the Total Request Live studio audience in New York City?
Did you know that James Robson has been to six Rugby World Cups with the Scotland team and on six British and Irish Lions tours?
Did you know that the RAF pushed to introduce IFF Mark III after a Short Stirling was shot down by a Bristol Beaufighter , which was in turn shot down by another Beaufighter?
Did you know that Colette Lorand made her debut as Gounod's Marguerite in 1945, created Reimann's Regan in 1978, and retired as Janáček's Emilia Marty in 1983?
Did you know that Ninian Park , the home stadium of Cardiff City F.C. for 99 years, was built on the site of a former rubbish tip?
Did you know that the 2017 film Dunkirk was conceived in the mid-1990s when writer and director Christopher Nolan sailed with Emma Thomas across the English Channel , as did many small boats during the Dunkirk evacuation ?
Did you know that Nana Otuo Siriboe II , a Ghanaian electrical engineer and paramount chief , is the chairman of the advisory council to the President of Ghana?
Did you know that the authors of the 1940 Frisch–Peierls memorandum were assigned to research nuclear weapons because, as enemy aliens , they could not work on secret military projects?
Did you know that the Canadian bluegrass band The Dead South often refer to themselves as " Mumford and Sons ' Evil Twins"?
Did you know that the taboo-breaking debut novel Season of Crimson Blossoms ended up winning Africa's biggest literary award instead of attracting the severe backlash author Abubakar Adam Ibrahim expected?
Did you know that the English footballer Danny Lloyd sold bins for a waste management company before turning professional in 2017?
Did you know that " Erde, singe " ("Earth, sing") was a carol in ten stanzas derived in the 19th century from a pastoral lullaby , but appears in the current hymnal in four stanzas, alluding to Christmas only once?
Did you know that before becoming a New York Supreme Court justice, Irwin Untermyer successfully argued to preserve the New York City Subway 's five-cent fare in a U.S. Supreme Court case?
Did you know that the gastropod mollusc Thyca crystallina is in the early evolutionary stages of becoming parasitic on a starfish?
Did you know that the United States Navy tested a Flyrt for distracting radar-guided missiles from its ships?
Did you know that during World War II, Colonel George F. Good Jr. successfully defended Funafuti from ten Japanese attacks with a mixed unit that was "poorly armed" and "stuck out like a sore thumb"?
Did you know that the secular Bach cantata Weichet nur, betrübte Schatten , BWV 202 , scored for a soprano soloist, oboe, strings and continuo, pictures the transition from winter to spring?
Did you know that the La Loche Formation can include clasts of Precambrian gneiss ?
Did you know that the English footballer Tammy Abraham was the first player to win Bristol City 's Player of the Year, Young Player of the Year, and Top Goalscorer awards in the same season?
Did you know that low-turbulence enclosures developed for the pharmaceutical industry are also suitable as engineering controls for nanomaterials ?
Did you know that Gudy Gaskill , the driving force behind the creation of the 567-mile (912 km) Colorado Trail , was honored by Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush for her volunteerism?
Did you know that in 2009 the British construction industry was urged to Never Waste a Good Crisis ?
Did you know that missile scientist Song Jian was the architect of China's one-child policy ?
Did you know that Richard Strauss ' s art song " Freundliche Vision " describes a waking dream?
Did you know that American construction company RMK-BRJ trained 200,000 Vietnamese workers in construction and administrative trades during the Vietnam War ?
Did you know that despite London Welsh being liquidated, their amateur team London Welsh Amateur continued as they held separate independent membership of the Rugby Football Union?
Did you know that the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board oversees a park system that has been called the best-designed, best-financed, and best-maintained in America?
Did you know that because of the 2016–17 video game voice actor strike , voice actress Ashly Burch could not reprise her role in the Life Is Strange prequel, Before the Storm ?
Did you know that Jim Benedict was knocked out during his first professional batting practice ?
Did you know that public art at University of Washington station includes a mural inspired by symbols on geologic maps ?
Did you know that footballer John Robson was forced to retire after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis at the age of 28?
Did you know that the first discovery of copper in the state of Victoria , Australia, was made at Coopers Creek in the 1860s?
Did you know that the high Byzantine title of sebastokrator was invented for Isaac Komnenos , who was described by his niece as an "emperor without the purple "?
Did you know that Joint Task Force Empire Shield consists of soldiers and sailors of the New York National Guard and New York Naval Militia , tasked with the defense of New York City?
Did you know that the actress Martina Mayne published an English translation of the work of the German poet Paula Ludwig ?
Did you know that the engines of Jagdgeschwader II could not tolerate artificial castor oil ?
Did you know that although the song that Eri Sasaki submitted for use in the anime series Plastic Memories was not chosen, she later passed an audition to sing the series' opening theme?
Did you know that after the unsuccessful Mudéjar revolt of 1264–66 , Castile expelled the surviving Muslims?
Did you know that Marie Grice Young , piano instructor for Theodore Roosevelt 's children, is speculated to have been one of the LGBT passengers on the RMS Titanic ?
Did you know that the main building of the Music House Museum is a remodelled 1909 dairy barn?
Did you know that Vice-Admiral Herbert King-Hall called the example of the tugboat HMS Blackcock during the sinking of the Imperial cruiser Königsberg "most praiseworthy"?
Did you know that Canadian football player Archie Amerson was described as both halves of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats ' "one-two punch"?
Did you know that Andy's Diner was partly constructed from a railcar that once carried Franklin D. Roosevelt ?
Did you know that gold was discovered on Cline Buttes in central Oregon in 1904, but proved uneconomic to mine?
Did you know that Pecorino di Carmasciano cheese is produced only in a small cluster of towns in the Apennine Mountains of Italy?