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Did you know that Richard Worley played in minor baseball leagues and is now the commissioner of the Baltimore Police Department ?
Did you know that during a temporary public holiday to mourn the death of Elizabeth II , New Zealand had another public holiday on the same day?
Did you know that despite having no professional training or experience, DeLancey W. Gill was appointed to take thousands of photographs for the Smithsonian Institution?
Did you know that John Wooden 's UCLA Bruins won the NCAA Division I basketball championship in his last game as head coach?
Did you know that Sarah Cox brought the first breach of promise suit in Australia, during which she was represented by her future husband William Wentworth ?
Did you know that a sinkhole opened up in Massachusetts in September 2023 , damaging cars?
Did you know that " The Potato King of Colorado " survived a shipwreck, mined for gold in Australia, and helped establish an alcohol-free Methodist colony ?
Did you know that a Brontosaurus stamp led to the United States Postal Service being accused of "fostering scientific illiteracy"?
Did you know that the hotel The Redbury New York did not accept men for 95 years?
Did you know that Anthony Vaz was the first flag bearer and team captain for Kenya at the Olympics?
Did you know that the Caleb Grimshaw sank after catching on fire, leaving at least 90 of the 457 people on board dead?
Did you know that when Robert Hale performed as Wagner's Wotan in Washington, a reviewer noted that he commanded "the spirit, from tragic grandeur to ironic detachment, from flooding tenderness to grim rage"?
Did you know that a woman who bought The Sims 2: Bon Voyage sued its publisher?
Did you know that the first newspaper in Korea, the Chōsen shinpō , was written in Japanese and Classical Chinese ?
Did you know that a radio station in Alberta fell afoul of Canadian content guidelines because new songs by Anne Murray were not Canadian enough?
Did you know that under early English common law a person became legally dead when they entered a religious order ?
Did you know that future Georgia representative Edna Jackson was part of a wade-in to protest segregation at Tybee Island Beach?
Did you know that student-aid startup Frank claimed to have 4.25 million users, but is alleged to have had fewer than 300,000?
Did you know that Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour caused the horror film The Exorcist: Believer to move its release date one week earlier from Friday, October 13, 2023?
Did you know that Rebecca Struthers has a PhD in horology ?
Did you know that sugar cubes were used to deliver the polio vaccine ?
Did you know that of newly hired coach Fred Vehmeier , one newspaper said: "Any candidate for the university football team who gets a bit sassy can count on a beating, if this new coach is the man he looks to be"?
Did you know that a 19th-century horse stable in New York City later housed a luxury pet sitter for cats and dogs?
Did you know that in September 2023, The New York Times publicly confirmed the detention of Johan Floderus in Iran a year and a half after his arrest?
Did you know that a reviewer for the PS2 version of The Sims 2: Pets was disappointed that it didn't let him drown the animals?
Did you know that the Yunus Emre coal-fired power station is licensed to operate after Turkey's goal for net zero ?
Did you know that the founder of a California radio station "didn't want to do background music"?
Did you know that All Things Considered host Juana Summers is a competitive pinball player?
Did you know that Bill Duplissea has been said to have the "best eyes in baseball"?
Did you know that Episode 2351 of the Australian soap opera Home and Away was filmed in England, marking the first time the serial was filmed overseas?
Did you know that Irish writer Dave Rudden has written a juvenile fantasy trilogy as well as several stories in the Doctor Who universe ?
Did you know that to portray a child abductor in A Friend of the Family , Jake Lacy took inspiration from the fearlessness and charisma of Danny Ocean and Steve McQueen ?
Did you know that Thomas Mancuso showed how deaths among factory workers could be understood by looking at social security data?
Did you know that the royal chronicles report that the Kingdom of Ava mobilized nearly 300,000 troops for one invasion , but they probably only mobilized around a tenth of that?
Did you know that the katydid -like fossil Republicopteron douseae possibly could not sing?
Did you know that ancient Greek philosopher Xenophon thought the alopekis was part dog, part fox?
Did you know that at least 73,000 attendees were stranded at Burning Man because of the September 2023 southwestern U.S. floods ?
Did you know that Hamas militant Tito Masoud , who manufactured the first Qassam rocket , became wanted by Israel after a colleague revealed his name under interrogation?
Did you know that the mixtape Froge.mp3 took its title from a nickname that Piri & Tommy gave each other?
Did you know that an 1893-S Morgan dollar sold for US$2,086,875.00 in 2021?
Did you know that the BOW counties in Wisconsin were one of the regions of the U.S. that helped Joe Biden win the presidency in 2020?
Did you know that after 233 years of being united, Samson lost his mate Hercules ?
Did you know that National Football League player Dylan Cook went from being the quarterback to protecting the quarterback ?
Did you know that there have been eight known males with three X and two Y chromosomes ?
Did you know that in 1903, Georg Forchhammer invented a system to help his deaf students see the sounds of spoken Danish ?
Did you know that after their 2020 tour was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic , Spiritbox received $10,000 from Shinedown 's Brent Smith , a stranger, to cover losses?
Did you know that the developers of BattleSphere pledged to donate all profits from sales to diabetes research?
Did you know that during World War I , Roy W. Ritner was elected unopposed to the Oregon State Senate while serving with the American Red Cross in France?
Did you know that climate change protesters vandalized and glued themselves to a version of Andy Warhol 's Campbell's Soup I ?
Did you know that Paul Roach became so popular for coaching the Wyoming Cowboys football team that people voted for him to be the state's governor even though he was not a candidate?
Did you know that Angeline Quinto became the first Filipino singer to release a soundtrack album for a television series that featured a single artist?
Did you know that the early big cat Pachypanthera may have weighed as much as 142 kilograms (313 lb) and had teeth similar to a hyena's?
Did you know that in 2014, one could pay half a million US dollars to live in a former residence for people with tuberculosis ?
Did you know that when Jessica Berman was named the deputy commissioner of the National Lacrosse League , she became the first woman to hold that position in a men's professional sports league?
Did you know that Venetian Blinds uses Venetian blinds to simulate Venetian blinds ?
Did you know that physics, chemistry, and biology were all part of philosophy before they became separate disciplines?
Did you know that artist Percy Delf Smith 's work included lettering using Roman capitals and depictions of the First World War inspired by his experiences in the trenches?
Did you know that the perpetrator of the 2006 San Miguel shooting greeted some former co-workers and shot at others?
Did you know that a dispute over paid sick leave at a chocolate factory ended up before the High Court of Australia in Mondelez v AMWU ?
Did you know that the Park Avenue Armory was leased out as an art center because the New York state government could not pay for repairs?
Did you know that during her 2023 season , Aryna Sabalenka became the first woman since Serena Williams in 2016 to reach the semifinals at all four majors in a season?
Did you know that Death Valley Girls have been described as "doom-boogie psych-pop"?
Did you know that George Balanchine choreographed Ballo della Regina to showcase ballerina Merrill Ashley 's speed and precision?
Did you know that Elbridge Colby was considered for a top job in Jeb Bush's 2016 presidential campaign , but was not hired after "prominent, interventionist neoconservatives " objected?
Did you know that the perpetrator of a murder on a bus once described meeting his victim, who was his girlfriend, to be "like winning the Mark Six "?
Did you know that the site of an old paper mill is being redeveloped into a residential area dubbed "Tesla town"?
Did you know that the number of employees in the US represented by a union is rising while the proportion of workers represented by a union is decreasing?
Did you know that Romanian actress Mitzura Arghezi was once told by her father that her career path held "few satisfactions [...] if you're not a director's wife, a manager's wife, this and that man's girlfriend"?
Did you know that Ray Bradbury's short story " I, Rocket " won an award 76 years after it was first published?
Did you know that Fly with Me , one of the first collaborations by Rodgers and Hart , was written for the 1920 Varsity Show ?
Did you know that The Sims 2: Open for Business has been used to teach business students?
Did you know that David Dean served as general counsel to Texas governor Dolph Briscoe , a Democrat , as well as his Republican successor Bill Clements ?
Did you know that an eruption on Montagu Island that began in 2001 continued for several years and formed a lava delta ?
Did you know that wampum artist Elizabeth James-Perry also works on ecological restoration projects, including the reintroduction of native plant life?
Did you know that the royal necropolis of Ayaa in Sidon , Lebanon, was accidentally discovered in the late 19th century by a workman who stumbled upon a shaft and chamber tomb while quarrying for stone?
Did you know that Kent Gaydos played quarterback in high school, then wide receiver in college, and in the NFL changed to tight end before going back to receiver, then tight end again, and then receiver once more?
Did you know that as well as books, Hove's first public library featured a disembowelling knife and a Japanese executioner's sword?
Did you know that Arthur Yorinks 's children's book Louis the Fish was inspired by Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis ?
Did you know that in Utoro, Uji , in Japan, former forced Korean laborers dodged eviction from 1945 to 2010, when they were finally able to afford buying the land in the district?
Did you know that Danish-Portuguese publisher Snu Abecassis was the first to publish both Pippi Longstocking and Solzhenitsyn in Portugal?
Did you know that 28 Greenpeace activists partially cut down a field of genetically modified maize in a 1999 direct action in Lyng, Norfolk , but were acquitted of all charges?
Did you know that in 2023, Daniel Whelan became the first Irish-born NFL player since 1985?
Did you know that the Ni'isjoohl totem pole was once fed a diet of vacuum-packed food?
Did you know that indirect evidence suggests that cataract surgery could have been performed as early as in ancient Egypt ?
Did you know that writer Profira Sadoveanu and her novelist father Mihail once had to take turns defending their home against attacks by the Iron Guard ?
Did you know that the U.S. Bank Center in Seattle once had a Montessori school on the 23rd floor?
Did you know that after Benjamin Moloise's execution , the extremist group Direct Action bombed two Paris companies linked to South Africa in protest?
Did you know that " John Brown " was recorded by Bob Dylan under the pseudonym "Blind Boy Grunt"?
Did you know that El Ojo is a circular rotating floating island ?
Did you know that across her first three albums, Alessia Cara co-wrote 43 songs ranging in themes from teenage life, to her insecurities about writing music alone, to the five stages of grief ?
Did you know that Carson Spiers and four of his relatives have played for the Clemson Tigers ?
Did you know that the historical lands and fishing grounds of the Skinpah were buried underwater by the construction of The Dalles Dam ?
Did you know that one year after Private Harris Turner was blinded in battle, his fellow soldiers elected him to the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan ?
Did you know that Saints Peter and Paul Seminary , the last Catholic high school seminary in Ohio before its closure in 1990, was designed with influences from Chinese architecture ?
Did you know that John Byrne retold the origin of Superman in the 1986 comic book limited series The Man of Steel , 48 years after the character was created?
Did you know that the Canadian rock band Rainbow Butt Monkeys changed their name to " Finger Eleven " before releasing their second album Tip ?
Did you know that a 1956 eruption of Bristol Island drove Argentina to abandon a hut they had built on Thule Island ?
Did you know that John A. Kennedy was placed near the top of the 1964 Illinois House election ballot because of his name?
Did you know that Annalee Newitz chose to set their debut novel Autonomous in the Canadian prairies because it was "the kind of place that often gets forgotten"?
Did you know that the Committee for the Prevention of Destruction of Antiquities on the Temple Mount used aerial photography to monitor the removal of antiquities during construction at Solomon's Stables ?
Did you know that the Siberian columbine has been crossed with another species in the genus Aquilegia to determine the gene behind the genus's nectar spurs ?
Did you know that film director Christina Rosendahl started her career with a documentary about her sister Pernille 's music career?
Did you know that Olga Onuch is believed to be the first professor of Ukrainian politics in the English-speaking world?
Did you know that Stephen Colbert , Jimmy Fallon , Jimmy Kimmel , Seth Meyers and John Oliver started a podcast to support their employees during the 2023 Writers Guild of America strike ?
Did you know that as a child, New Zealand economist Brad Olsen would write notes about stock market trends while watching the evening news?
Did you know that the University of Maryland's Iribe Center was partly funded by a businessman who dropped out of the university ?
Did you know that Stan Lee modeled Tony Stark after 20th-century business magnate Howard Hughes ?
Did you know that in his 2000 book , Michael Cook argues that the West prefers to "rescue" people after wrongdoing has occurred, while Muslims prefer to "forbid wrong"?
Did you know that the Ninja of Heisei , who robbed places in Japan while wearing a ninja costume, was caught at the age of 74?
Did you know that François Glorieux was a Belgian pianist and improvisor, conductor of the BBC Radio Orchestra and Stan Kenton 's band, and arranger for Michael Jackson ?
Did you know that a developer on Serious Sam: The Second Encounter doubled its frame rate by removing one line of code ?
Did you know that the Penitential of Finnian is the oldest known penitential ?
Did you know that a former Dutch villa houses both the city council of Semarang, Indonesia , and the city's mayor?
Did you know that Salty Parker , who spent 60 years in organized baseball , described his lifelong love of the game as "a beautiful disease"?
Did you know that the directors of the Dutchess and Columbia Railroad stole back the railroad from a bankrupt lessee?
Did you know that puzzle maker Patrick Berry has been called the " Thomas Pynchon of crosswords"?
Did you know that Japanese actor Kouhei Higuchi prepared for his role on the television drama adaptation of My Personal Weatherman by learning from a weather forecaster?
Did you know that Erin Swenson was the first mainstream Protestant minister known to have undergone gender transition while in ordained office?
Did you know that an ancient wildcat species is known only from a part of the jaw of a single animal discovered in Poland?
Did you know that when historian of cartography Leo Bagrow was granted Swedish citizenship in 1952, he had been stateless for 34 years?
Did you know that rural women in Burundi greet each other with an intricate musical ritual called akazehe ?
Did you know that Margarita Ortega left her husband to fight in the Mexican Revolution ?
Did you know that the "Mayor of Picklesburgh " is decided by a pickle juice drinking competition?
Did you know that Romanian-born Helen O'Brien escaped advancing Russians on the King's horse, opened Eve , and worked as a spy for MI5 and MI6?
Did you know that students who do not attend Conversations about Important Things lessons face expulsion or police investigation?
Did you know that Dan Blumenthal , a senior defense official in the Bush administration, believes that China has "three roads" to gain control of Taiwan?
Did you know that the building housing the city council of Palembang, Indonesia , was claimed to be the "grandest" of its kind?
Did you know that Stan Mataele lied about his football experience but still became one of the top players in the state?
Did you know that The Constellation of Leo , a group portrait of people from Italy's art world, was exhibited with a note that read "not without a trace of irony"?
Did you know that Mariah Carey does not know Jennifer Lopez ?
Did you know that the 1992 comic book storyline " Man and Wolf ", in which Captain America is transformed into a werewolf, has been described as "one of the most bizarre moments of the core Marvel Universe "?
Did you know that Abram Kofman was the first Ancient Greek–Esperanto translator, publishing translated sections of the Iliad in 1895?
Did you know that after learning to write with Inuktitut syllabics to help Catholic missionaries learn her language, Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk wrote one of the first Inuktitut-language novels ?
Did you know that John Seigenthaler hosted a literary interview program which ran for 42 years on Nashville Public Television ?
Did you know that in high school, tennis player Sara Daavettila went an entire season without losing a game ?
Did you know that Pachelbel's Canon is notorious for being widespread in pop music , but it actually isn't?
Did you know that Indonesian politician Gembong Warsono criticized the governor of Jakarta over municipally owned companies, sidewalk use, and imported dumpsters?
Did you know that Mohammed went from the roof of the Appellate Division Courthouse of New York State to a field in New Jersey?
Did you know that some of the Michigan fake electors attempted to enter the State Capitol , but were turned away by the state police ?
Did you know that throughout the history of education in Wales , schools have been held in monastic settlements , cathedrals, residential houses, marketplaces, barns, churches, and village halls?
Did you know that dei Rossi 's work on modern Jewish historiography was banned by Venetian rabbis, but he obtained imprimatur from a Catholic?
Did you know that Lady Six Monkey was the only one of her four siblings not to be sacrificed?
Did you know that during the production of Serious Sam: The First Encounter , all of its developers were conscripted into the Croatian military ?
Did you know that Athanasios Rhousopoulos , one of Athens's major archaeological criminals, made a speech complaining about the high rate of archaeological crime?
Did you know that some viewers of an Arizona TV station saw hardcore pornography instead of the Super Bowl ?
Did you know that hundreds of people lived in Jim Jordan 's orbit in "Jordanville"?
Did you know that some ancient Athenian coins featured the faces of gorgons ?
Did you know that Manaka Matsukubo , the youngest player to start in the NWSL Challenge Cup , was named most valuable player of this year's final?
Did you know that Turkey is the world's largest grower of hazelnuts, apricots, and oregano?
Did you know that the John Snow Society 's Pumphandle Lecture ends with a ceremonial removal of the Broad Street pump handle and a visit to a pub ?
Did you know that in Korea Job World , children can participate in career-experience scenarios to explore vocational paths?
Did you know that former Dreams Come True band member Takahiro Nishikawa opened a bar in his hometown of Sapporo in 2009, seven years after he left the band?
Did you know that a manuscript discovered in the Morris–Jumel Mansion was sold for US$912,000 to finance the mansion's endowment fund?
Did you know that Zimbabwean musician Joshua Sacco and his band used to perform songs at ZANU–PF election rallies before he became a party member?
Did you know that The Washington Post called Butts: A Backstory "cheeky"?
Did you know that Turkish carom billiards champion Güzin Müjde Karakaşlı grew up playing volleyball for about 12 years?
Did you know that North Nias Regency demolished its own government buildings in 2018 for urban renewal ?
Did you know that pollution in rivers scatters far-red light , making it harder for plants like Noveloa to germinate ?
Did you know that while writing Lessons in Chemistry , the author self-studied chemistry and was a full-time copywriter?
Did you know that Martha Poma worked as a textile artisan in El Alto before being elected to the Bolivian senate ?
Did you know that Benjamin Britten composed Canticle I: My beloved is mine and I am his for the tenor voice of Peter Pears , using poetry from A Divine Rapture by Francis Quarles ?
Did you know that in 1790, ten years before the discovery of infrared heating of the Earth by the Sun, Marc-Auguste Pictet demonstrated the apparent reflection of cold by mirrors ?
Did you know that Djanius Djamin , the speaker of Medan's city council from 1969 to 1971, was the first woman to chair a legislature in Sumatra ?
Did you know that Long Island's PBS station specialized in making shows for other stations to air during their pledge drives ?
Did you know that the Code of Lipit-Ishtar is older than the famous Code of Hammurabi ?
Did you know that American football player Ralph "Catfish" Smith was a two-way player in college and in the National Football League ?
Did you know that Donald A. Morgan is the first director of photography to be inducted into the Television Hall of Fame ?
Did you know that Lord Stonehaven , Governor-General of Australia , called Hay War Memorial High School the "finest war memorial in the British Empire "?
Did you know that Rush Munro's , New Zealand's oldest ice creamery, has used the same recipes since 1926?
Did you know that the mean sea level observed by the Newlyn Tidal Observatory from 1915 to 1921 defined the reference for height measurement in Great Britain?
Did you know that Orchard MRT station had a dome over the station's circular concourse until it was removed in 2008?
Did you know that there are only 4 locations left of Boloco , which once had 22 burrito restaurants throughout the northeastern United States ?
Did you know that Jeʹvida is the first feature film in the Skolt Sámi language?
Did you know that the novel Minor Detail is based on a true story of a 1949 gang rape and murder of a young Arab Bedouin-Palestinian girl by Israeli soldiers?
Did you know that people were scammed on New Zealand television by the host of You've Been Scammed ?
Did you know that a Twitter account became a major source on what was happening during the 2022 COVID-19 protests in China ?
Did you know that Jim Hobbins played two years of professional football, spaced apart by 11 years?
Did you know that Baghdad governor Ḥassan Pasha bought the slave who married his granddaughter and went on to become governor of the same city?
Did you know that University of Nebraska alumnus M. Khalid Roashan helped draft the 1964 Constitution of Afghanistan ?
Did you know that the authors of The Neanderthals Rediscovered learned that their book proposal had been accepted on the same day they took their twin sons home from hospital?
Did you know that Władysław Umiński has been called the "Polish Jules Verne "?
Did you know that current NHL player Alex Laferriere refused to try out ice skating at a young age, and only did so when bribed with Skittles ?
Did you know that Hilda Hilst impersonated a journalist to meet Marlon Brando , and asked him about Franz Kafka 's works?
Did you know that after the Iraqi government lost control of its northern territories following the 1991 Gulf War , the Legislative Council of the Autonomous Kurdistan Region was based in Baghdad ?