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Did you know that Sibongile Khumalo , who sang both national anthems at the 1995 Rugby World Cup Final , said that it was "the one and only time I've ever watched a rugby match, at any level, of any kind"?
Did you know that solar radio emission was first observed in 1942 during World War II by British radar operators?
Did you know that New Zealand geneticist Neil Gemmell hunted the Loch Ness Monster to show how science works?
Did you know that while held in a concentration camp, Zhu Min sabotaged Nazi cartridge boxes by spitting into them?
Did you know that " People " by the 1975 was written as a response to the passing of Alabama 's controversial abortion ban ?
Did you know that Philip Seymour Hoffman's roles included a storm chaser, an arms dealer, and a cult leader?
Did you know that surgeon Herbert Haxton proved that the kneecap was not just to protect the knee but also important for straightening the leg?
Did you know that the Dreikönigskirche in Dresden , a Baroque church completed in 1739, was bombed in 1945, not restored until 1984, and served as the seat of the state parliament from 1990?
Did you know that the young of Coquerel's coua leave the nest after about nine days when still covered with down and unable to fly?
Did you know that Ruth Wright Hayre 's philanthropic program Tell Them We Are Rising was named after a phrase said by her grandfather , which also inspired the poem " Howard at Atlanta "?
Did you know that Japan National Route 350 serves remote Sado Island without any bridges connecting it to its termini on Honshu ?
Did you know that Cyclone Meena was the first of four severe tropical cyclones to impact the Cook Islands in February 2005 ?
Did you know that 2021 New York City Comptroller candidate Zach Iscol was awarded the Bronze Star for bravery during the Second Battle of Fallujah in the Iraq War ?
Did you know that the Texabama croton was nearly simultaneously discovered at Fort Hood and Balcones Canyonlands National Wildlife Refuge in 1989?
Did you know that after his side won the 2008 Football League One play-off Final , Doncaster Rovers manager Sean O'Driscoll said he could "murder a cup of tea"?
Did you know that comedian Atsugiri Jason became the first non-Japanese finalist on the R-1 Grand Prix in 2014?
Did you know that the Cook Islands Local Defence Force was expected to "uphold the prestige of the Cook Islands " by putting up a token resistance if the islands were invaded?
Did you know that Liolaemus sarmientoi is one of the two southernmost species of lizard in the world?
Did you know that Zeyan Shafiq developed KashBook during an Internet ban in the Kashmir Valley , operating without a virtual private network ?
Did you know that Sucker Punch Productions had trouble finding a publisher for their debut video game, Rocket: Robot on Wheels ?
Did you know that Anne Bierwirth has performed the alto part in Bach's Christmas Oratorio , and in a recording of the first Passion oratorio in German by Reinhard Keiser ?
Did you know that all dialogue in the film Nostos: The Return is in a made-up language based on ancient Greek, Sanskrit and Latin?
Did you know that Jimmie Rodgers 's appearance on The Singing Brakeman made him the first country musician to be featured in a film?
Did you know that the 1989 book Serendipity: Accidental Discoveries in Science examines the role of happenstance in the history of science?
Did you know that the manufacturing of knife cutlery at Babakale in Turkey goes back to the 1720s, started by masters who immigrated from Kazakhstan?
Did you know that gospel pianist Rudy Atwood , heard on Old Fashioned Revival Hour radio broadcasts of the 1930s to the 1960s, attributed his hymn arrangements to the influence of J. S. Bach ?
Did you know that the Bangkok neighbourhood of Bang Rak is home to Buddhist temples, mosques, a Chinese shrine, and the city's Catholic cathedral ?
Did you know that station officials climbed the 500-foot (150 m) tower of the first WFMZ-TV , smashed a bottle of champagne against the top, and christened it "Miss Ultra High "?
Did you know that the empty Shibuya Crossing featured on the series Alice in Borderland was filmed on a large green-screen set outside Tokyo?
Did you know that Abudureheman Abulikemu was the first boxer from Xinjiang to compete at the Olympics ?
Did you know that New York New York is noted as among the first yaoi manga series to depict social realism in its treatment of gay identity?
Did you know that Gabriel Sterling has debunked Donald Trump 's allegations of voter fraud in the 2020 U.S. presidential election ?
Did you know that DeepMind 's protein-folding program AlphaFold 2 has made significant progress towards solving a decades-old grand challenge of biology?
Did you know that Blackpool became the most successful club in the history of English Football League play-offs when they won the 2017 EFL League Two play-off Final against Exeter City ?
Did you know that the 1st Weather Squadron , the 2016 Weather Squadron of the Year, reports on future battlefield weather conditions and assists during natural disasters?
Did you know that Sayidiman Suryohadiprojo , a former ambassador of Indonesia to Japan, authored the first book about Japan in the Indonesian language?
Did you know that Mortimer Taube designed his Uniterm indexing system for easy automation , and then built a punched-card version as the IBM 9900?
Did you know that there are other causes of climate change in Brazil besides the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest ?
Did you know that Ronald Graham , president of the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America , also became president of the International Jugglers' Association ?
Did you know that Sarah Cooper and Helen Mirren lip synched the Donald Trump Access Hollywood tape in Sarah Cooper: Everything's Fine ?
Did you know that the music video for Harry Styles 's song " Lights Up " was interpreted as a "bisexual anthem" by critics and viewers due to it being released on National Coming Out Day ?
Did you know that John Atcheler claimed to be "Horse Slaughterer to Her Majesty Queen Victoria "?
Did you know that Leon Rains , a bass singer who studied in New York City and Paris, took part in the world premiere of Salome and an early recording of Tannhäuser ?
Did you know that the Australian Army named a programme to acquire new armoured vehicles after an Australian horse ?
Did you know that Bambang Suryadi , a politician from the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle , was buried with the flag of the party above him?
Did you know that " Me & You Together Song " by the 1975 was originally intended for the soundtrack of German , a film that lead singer Matthew Healy was writing?
Did you know that Martin Luther King Jr. 's secretary Maude Ballou edited early versions of his iconic " I Have a Dream " speech?
Did you know that " The House of Asterion " by Jorge Luis Borges was one of the first works by a major author to examine a well-known tale from the monster's perspective?
Did you know that Driveways director Andrew Ahn said that the experience of directing a script he did not write improved both his writing and directing?
Did you know that helicopters from Acer cascadense were found in Moose Mountain?
Did you know that in the beginning of the 18th century, an estimated 2,100 Cherokee people inhabited more than sixteen Cherokee settlements in villages east of the Blue Ridge Mountains?
Did you know that Duo Yun Xuan held the first art auction on the Chinese mainland ?
Did you know that AFC Wimbledon were promoted for a sixth time since their formation in 2002 when they won the 2016 Football League Two play-off Final ?
Did you know that rapper Zane One does not listen to much hip hop music, and her debut album features samples from classic rock and folk songs?
Did you know that former Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives Frank J. Van Dyke was born in Penang , Straits Settlements , British Malaya , in 1907?
Did you know that Camille Saint-Saëns dedicated his Caprice on Danish and Russian Airs to a Danish princess who became Empress of Russia?
Did you know that stocks of mustard gas , thought to have been destroyed in the 1940s, were discovered at RAF Bowes Moor in 1997?
Did you know that Albuquerque radio station KRZY broadcast a college football game without permission by smuggling in gear under blankets and disguising an announcer in the opposing team's student section?
Did you know that in a 1982 book about the printing industry of 16th-century Strasbourg , historian Miriam Usher Chrisman demonstrated the scholarly potential of the digital analysis of large archival datasets?
Did you know that the first scene of the 2010 film The Social Network took 99 takes to finish?
Did you know that when the chimpanzee Sami escaped from the Belgrade Zoo for the second time in less than a week, thousands of people cheered him on?
Did you know that F. Andrieu was the composer of Armes, amours/O flour des flours , a double ballade lamenting the death of his colleague Guillaume de Machaut ?
Did you know that Proton 3 , launched on 24 March 1966, was one of the first satellites equipped to look for quarks ?
Did you know that Sarran Teelucksingh was the first person of Indian descent elected to the Legislative Council of Trinidad and Tobago ?
Did you know that Jerome Robbins 's ballet In the Night is set to four nocturnes by Frédéric Chopin ?
Did you know that German fighter ace Kurt Wolff decorated his room with machine guns from planes he shot down?
Did you know that it took authorities only one day to repair damage on Japan National Route 116 following the 2007 Chūetsu offshore earthquake ?
Did you know that the Music City Grand Prix will cross the Cumberland River in Nashville, Tennessee , making it one of the few auto races to cross a significant body of water?
Did you know that after losing the Battle of Kinghorn in 1332, the Earl of Fife was "full of shame" at being defeated by such a small force?
Did you know that 2021 New York City mayoral candidate Kathryn Garcia resigned as Commissioner of the New York City Sanitation Department after budget cuts forced a 60-percent reduction in public trash basket pickups?
Did you know that the book Lost Feast discusses extinct culinary foods, particularly the herb silphium that was prized by Roman and Egyptian societies?
Did you know that the eagle on top of the Monumento a la Raza in Mexico City was originally cast for the Federal Legislative Palace 's dome?
Did you know that lawyer and press freedom advocate Frank LoMonte helped pass legislation in 14 U.S. states outlawing censorship of student media by school administrators?
Did you know that the Willie Nelson Statue in Austin, Texas , was unveiled on 420 day at 4:20 p.m.?
Did you know that Benedict Joseph Fenwick was unable to generate interest in opening the College of the Holy Cross in the wilderness of Maine and so founded it instead in Worcester, Massachusetts ?
Did you know that the opposing managers watched the penalty shootout that decided the 2015 Football League Two play-off Final together?
Did you know that Radio City Music Hall organist Richard Leibert eloped twice with the daughter of a U.S. congressman?
Did you know that the documentary Aidan Walsh: Master of the Universe explores the life of the musician who signed "Ireland's fastest ever record deal"?
Did you know that the video game Wild Woody contains an Easter egg that displays a topless mermaid if certain items are collected in order?
Did you know that Joe the Pigeon was granted a pardon by the Australian government after being sentenced to euthanasia ?
Did you know that after twelve years of attempts, Kyle Larson won the Chili Bowl Nationals back-to-back in the first two years when he participated under his own team ?
Did you know that Pakistani historian Suhail Zaheer Lari and his wife, architect Yasmeen Lari , threatened to elope to Scotland to get married because the legal marriageable age there was lower than in England?
Did you know that the Remsen Cemetery , one of the few remaining private burial grounds on Long Island, contains the remains of an American Revolutionary War colonel and his family members?
Did you know that journalist Charles Mayer proposed an election procedure change in his attempt to become president of the National Boxing Association ?
Did you know that See You in the Cosmos , published as a children's book, has adult themes throughout?
Did you know that Spiel nicht mit den Schmuddelkindern , a 1965 album and song that Franz Josef Degenhardt wrote and sang to his guitar, anticipated the opposition of the student movement ?
Did you know that although Walt Whitman and Abraham Lincoln never met, Whitman once wrote "I love the President personally"?
Did you know that when New York City's Harlem Ship Canal Bridge had to be replaced, it was floated down the river to become the University Heights Bridge ?
Did you know that Anna Utenhoven , who was buried alive in 1597, was the last person executed for heresy in the Low Countries ?
Did you know that after NBCUniversal shut down KMAS-TV in Steamboat Springs, Colorado , its chief engineer suggested it be donated to his former employer, Rocky Mountain PBS ?
Did you know that the English and French agreed to a draft treaty in 1354 to end what was to become the Hundred Years' War, but the French reneged and the war continued for a further 101 years?
Did you know that Wahsayah Whitebird 's Communist Party membership was not publicly known until after he was elected?
Did you know that Valentina , with her song " J'imagine ", brought France its first victory at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest ?
Did you know that Elsa Schiaparelli prevented Salvador Dalí from adding mayonnaise to her lobster dress ?
Did you know that Hamilton Fish Park , whose pool was used for Olympic practice, was one of the New York City Parks Department's "worst problem areas" by the 1970s?
Did you know that ballerina Georgina Parkinson created several roles in ballets choreographed by Kenneth MacMillan , including Romeo and Juliet , Manon and Mayerling ?
Did you know that the extinct mooneye fish Hiodon woodruffi was not described until 1978, although the earliest finds date to 1906?
Did you know that in 1781, Dutch rear admiral Willem Krul was determined to fight a British fleet with a single warship and died?
Did you know that Gore Vidal's novel Live from Golgotha has been called a "masterpiece of blasphemous vulgarity"?
Did you know that My Love from the Star 's popularity led to it being discussed at China's National People's Congress ?
Did you know that journalist Tom Fitzgerald reportedly held the Guinness world record for "the accumulation of complimentary raincoats, Panasonic radios and Cross pens"?
Did you know that the film poster for Looking for Magical Doremi appeared in an episode of Healin' Good Pretty Cure to promote the film?
Did you know that although Dallas minister Walker Railey was acquitted of the attempted murder of his wife in a criminal court, a civil court awarded an $18 million judgment against him?
Did you know that the Regent of Thousand Islands is the only regent in Indonesia to be appointed by the governor instead of being elected by the people?
Did you know that journalist Kelsey Piper sees her Vox column as a way to popularize discussion of global catastrophic risks ?
Did you know that Distichia muscoides provides good grazing all-year-round in the High Andes for domesticated llamas and alpacas , and non-native livestock?
Did you know that Dax Reynosa began his hip-hop career as a battle rapper who would burn the rhyme books of defeated opponents, and later co-produced a documentary depicting battle rap in Los Angeles ?
Did you know that a reviewer from Eurogamer considered King of Crabs to be the "best crab-based Battle Royale" video game he had ever reviewed?
Did you know that the St Peter's Medal of the British Association of Urological Surgeons was first awarded for the detection of bladder cancers in the dye industry?
Did you know that the music style of singer-songwriter Kui Lee featured a blend of traditional Hawaiian music , jazz , blues , and rock and roll ?
Did you know that in a rare leapfrog appeal the UK Supreme Court decided that insurance companies can be liable for business losses arising due to the COVID-19 pandemic ?
Did you know that after the lynching of her son , Beulah Mae Donald successfully sued the Ku Klux Klan , winning a $7 million judgment?
Did you know that Naimur Rahman took six wickets for 132 runs in the very first test Bangladesh played in 2000 ?
Did you know that Twitter and Discord use snowflakes as unique identifiers for their messages and users?
Did you know that Canadian citizen Susan Thomson had her passport confiscated and spent five weeks in "re-education" in 2006 due to her ethnographic research in Rwanda?
Did you know that one student's entire semester at the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay in 1979 consisted of programming its student radio station WGBW ?
Did you know that children's writer Israel Wachser died in Kryve Ozero while defending the local Jewish population from a pogrom ?
Did you know that the men of Wood's Missouri Cavalry Battalion made defenses out of cotton during the Battle of Pine Bluff ?
Did you know that Aicha Mekki was one of the very few crime reporters and female journalists in Morocco during the Years of Lead in the latter half of the 20th century?
Did you know that cricketer Hasan Ali was picked as a wildcard at the 2021 Pakistan Super League players draft ?
Did you know that the 1.5 million cubic yards (1.1 million m 3 ) of asbestos waste at the BoRit Asbestos Superfund site in Ambler, Pennsylvania , was known colloquially as the "White Mountains" by local residents?
Did you know that in Denial of Violence , Fatma Müge Göçek argues that Armenian Genocide denial is one of the ideological foundations of the Turkish nation-state?
Did you know that the Septet for trumpet, strings and piano was composed by Camille Saint-Saëns for a mathematician?
Did you know that Senegalese turtle biologist Tomas Diagne drove 1,200 miles (1,900 km) to pick up the carcass of a Nubian flapshell turtle ?
Did you know that despite a $34 million advertising campaign in the United States by General Mills , their breakfast cereal snack Fingos only lasted from 1993 to 1994?
Did you know that the northern water dragon migrated from New Guinea into Wallacea less than one million years ago?
Did you know that American educator Alan T. Busby was the first African-American student to attend the University of Connecticut , graduating in 1918?
Did you know that a journalist lived for a year using only goods made in Canada ?
Did you know that Joseildo da Silva beat Roy Dooney at the 1991 Chicago Marathon by six seconds in the slowest winning time for 10 years?
Did you know that the British design historian Cheryl Buckley claimed in an influential 1986 article that women's contributions to design have been "consistently ignored"?
Did you know that Astoria Park was intended to be New York City's first large park with active recreational facilities?
Did you know that the tomb of Muhammad Ahmad in Sudan was desecrated by British forces after the Battle of Omdurman in 1898?
Did you know that " Lobpreiset all zu dieser Zeit ", for New Year in the current Catholic hymnal Gotteslob , takes two stanzas from a 1851 song by Heinrich Bone , a third stanza and refrain from 1969, and a 1529 popular melody by Luther ?
Did you know that the phrase "landfill indie", coined in 2008 by the English music journalist Andrew Harrison , was intended as a pejorative term to describe the perceived bland guitar rock that dominated the UK charts in the early 2000s?
Did you know that physician Roopa Dhatt has highlighted the disproportionate number of women working on the frontline of the COVID-19 pandemic ?
Did you know that British singer Rita Ora and Kazakh DJ Imanbek collaborated with translators over videotelephony software Zoom to record their collaborative EP Bang ?
Did you know that Andy Crosby captained Scunthorpe United to victory in the 2009 League One play-off Final , the last match of his 715-game career?
Did you know that the encrusting bryozoan Chorizopora brongniartii has a strategy for avoiding being overgrown by worm tubes ?
Did you know that although Peter Doyle was Walt Whitman 's intimate companion for over twenty years, he was almost not permitted to attend Whitman's funeral?
Did you know that the elderly Widow Mulchrone baked griddlecakes at the Kelly homestead for Princess Grace and Prince Rainier ?
Did you know that Richard W. Wells claimed that before he brought several eastern brown snake eggs into the office of a local newspaper , the species had never been photographed hatching?
Did you know that after his baseball career, Byron Houck worked as a camera operator on Buster Keaton 's production crew?
Did you know that the River Poddle , the main water source of the city of Dublin for over 500 years, was later so polluted by industry that it allegedly killed cattle and horses drinking from it?
Did you know that Alexander Bielaski was friends with Abraham Lincoln and the grandfather of a director of what became the FBI ?
Did you know that the Disability Day of Mourning was first observed in 2012, in response to the media coverage of a murdered autistic man focusing on his murderer's "love and devotion"?
Did you know that one of Elizabeth Cressener 's nuns entered her priory as a ten-year-old princess ?
Did you know that the Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock was the first symphony orchestra to perform as a full ensemble following a hiatus caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany ?
Did you know that Japanese artist Macoto Takahashi stopped making girls' comics in the 1960s because he considered himself incapable of adopting the point of view of a girl?
Did you know that before the consulate was ready, the first Russian consul in Hakodate lived in local temples?
Did you know that when Fred Stewart was appointed the manager of Cardiff City F.C. , he paid the transfer fee of his first signing himself?
Did you know that Berwind , a mining ghost town in Colorado, was a battle site during the Colorado Coalfield War in 1913 and 1914?
Did you know that Christina Adane 's free school meal campaign created a UK government U-turn?
Did you know that Irish Times columnist Róisín Ingle has penned more than 4,000 pieces, including "It was love at first riot" about meeting her life partner in Northern Ireland ?
Did you know that the New York Produce Exchange 's business was described in 1886 as "callithumpian discord" with "fiendish screeches"?
Did you know that Satyavathi Rathod is the first woman from a scheduled tribe to serve as a minister in the Indian state of Telangana ?
Did you know that Vasari disliked the "clumsy Greek style" of Italo-Byzantine painting that preceded the Renaissance?
Did you know that the East Bengal Ultras , founded in 2013, became India's first ultras group?
Did you know that pianist David Kadouch , named Young Artist of the Year in 2011, recorded Shostakovich's 24 Preludes and his Piano Quintet on a single CD?
Did you know that Jack Lemmon starred in The Mystery of Thirteen as a real-life physician who Charles Dickens called "the greatest villain that ever stood in the Old Bailey"?
Did you know that Stephanie Saland decided to become a ballet dancer because of computerized report cards?
Did you know that Dreamcar 's " All of the Dead Girls " was inspired by a comment made by American actor Josh Richman ?
Did you know that a child in command of the controls crashed an airplane , killing all seventy-five occupants on impact?
Did you know that Kolja Lessing , playing both violin and piano, focuses his repertoire on neglected composers, including numerous former students of Franz Schreker ?
Did you know that Sailor Moon contributed significantly to the development of yuri , a genre of media focusing on intimate relationships between female characters?
Did you know that John Frankenheimer 's World War II drama Rumors of Evening led one critic to predict stardom for Robert Loggia ?
Did you know that the street Borgo Santo Spirito in Rome was named after a fortified complex for Anglo-Saxon pilgrims to Rome ?