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Did you know that China's largest landfill closed in November 2019, having reached capacity 25 years early?
Did you know that baritone Heiko Trinsinger of the Aalto Theatre appeared as Alberich in Der Ring in Minden , in which reviewers noted expressivity in every moment and a thunderous curse of the ring?
Did you know that the Battle of Marshall's Elm has been described as the "first real confrontation" of the First English Civil War ?
Did you know that to maintain personal privacy, manga artist Paru Itagaki wears a large chicken mask that obscures her face for all public appearances?
Did you know that Kiuchi Kyō , believed to be the first Japanese woman to be a school principal, worked to improve the status of women teachers?
Did you know that on May 9, 1970, Richard Nixon spent the two hours before dawn at the Lincoln Memorial talking to students protesting the Vietnam War?
Did you know that Jay Shah oversaw the Gujarat Cricket Association 's project of constructing the world's largest cricket stadium ?
Did you know that British actress Naomi Watts ' roles include CIA officer Valerie Plame , journalist Gretchen Carlson , and Princess Diana ?
Did you know that during the 2004 US presidential election , Hans Riemer ran an online campaign against the military draft, leading then- President Bush to coin the phrase " on the Internets "?
Did you know that according to academic Yo Tomita, the Bach Digital portal website has largely replaced printed reference works as first point of entry for Bach scholarship?
Did you know that as a child, American Civil War historian Charles P. Roland heard first-hand accounts of the war from veterans who served in it?
Did you know that the Grandview Heights Aquatic Centre has the world's longest spanning timber catenary arched roof?
Did you know that Shetlander Johnnie Notions , a physician with no formal medical background, developed a smallpox inoculation that successfully immunised thousands of people before Jenner's vaccine was available?
Did you know that the Christmas darter is considered a priority species by the state of South Carolina , but of least concern by the International Union for Conservation of Nature ?
Did you know that Stan Lee supported the viral fan campaign to allow Donald Glover to audition for the role of Peter Parker in The Amazing Spider-Man ‬?
Did you know that the Enlightenment concept of doux commerce suggests that commerce civilizes people and can even eliminate violence?
Did you know that the novel Tzilla is based on author Judith Katzir 's great-grandmother, who invited her lover to live with her and her husband in Palestine?
Did you know that Crossroads Village in Genesee County, Michigan, has a narrow huckleberry ?
Did you know that " Baby Yoda ", a character in the Star Wars spin-off The Mandalorian , was named "2019's biggest new character" by The Guardian ?
Did you know that Stribodh , first published in 1857, was one of the earliest magazines in India to be aimed at a female audience?
Did you know that actress Kathryn Crosby earned a nursing degree at the Queen of Angels Hospital in Los Angeles?
Did you know that a year after Five Ash Down Independent Chapel opened, doctrinal differences caused some members to leave and form Uckfield Baptist Church ?
Did you know that in 1982, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the refusal of the International Longshoremen's Association to unload cargo from the Soviet Union was illegal under the National Labor Relations Act ?
Did you know that Liang Baibo and Yu Feng were among China's first female cartoonists?
Did you know that Burleigh House in Enfield , near London, was said to be haunted by a ghost wearing a doublet , hose , and a ruffle ?
Did you know that although Half Alive wrote their song " Still Feel " with the intention of making it unattractive for radio stations, it became their breakout hit?
Did you know that when the Thai government ordered her return from the U.S. during World War II, PhD student Poonsapaya Kraiyong joined the Free Thai resistance movement instead?
Did you know that the demise of Sportsvue , which lost $2 million in its 10 months of operation, prompted Jim Fitzgerald to sell the Milwaukee Bucks basketball team?
Did you know that tenor Mirko Ludwig took part in the opening of Hamburg's Elbphilharmonie as a member of a vocal quintet ?
Did you know that the sermons of Greek Catholic priest Michal Mašlej inspired the villagers of Oľšavica to hide Jews during the Holocaust even though German soldiers were quartered in the village?
Did you know that it can take Yvonne Walker Keshick up to a year to gather the porcupine quills and other materials she needs for a particular work of art?
Did you know that the British Super League XXV will feature a Canadian rugby league team for the first time?
Did you know that Chinese economist Wei Xinghua refused to be known as an "authority" and proclaimed that China had no world-class authority in economics?
Did you know that the Famine Inquiry Commission has been criticized by scholars and Indian nationalists for exonerating the British government of responsibility for the 1943 Bengal famine ?
Did you know that Rabbi Reuven Elbaz used to frequent pool halls and coffee shops around Jerusalem to talk with secular Jewish youth about religion?
Did you know that after writing a programming language used to publish books on the humanities , Michael Barnett wrote the SNAP language to teach programming to humanities students?
Did you know that two-spirit artist Storme Webber has used various media to retell her family's experience at The Casino , one of the oldest gay bars on the West Coast ?
Did you know that in Requiem for the Living , a setting by Dan Forrest of selected texts from the Requiem Mass and an additional movement about Vanitas , the choir sings seemingly endless melodies?
Did you know that former naval diver Esther Tan has been dubbed "Singapore's G.I. Jane "?
Did you know that Und es waren Hirten in derselben Gegend , the second part of Bach's Christmas Oratorio and written for the second day of Christmas, focuses on the annunciation to the shepherds ?
Did you know that Pomo basket weaver Susan Billy comes from a family of basket weavers that includes Susan Santiago Billy and Elsie Allen ?
Did you know that the Mexican Netflix series The House of Flowers has been compared to such disparate films as Sharknado and the Oscar-winning All About My Mother ?
Did you know that Turkish folk singer and bağlama player Arif Sağ helped introduce Anatolian music to the West in a 1996 concert with the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne ?
Did you know that in the absence of males in North America, the female woolly alder sawfly reproduces through parthenogenesis ?
Did you know that Leena Al-Hadid is Jordan's permanent representative to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe and the United Nations in Vienna?
Did you know that after John Lennon called the Beatles more popular than Jesus , KLUE radio responded by staging a bonfire of Beatles memorabilia – and its transmitter was struck by lightning the next day?
Did you know that Yoshi Kasuya was appointed to the Order of the Precious Crown for her contributions to women's education?
Did you know that the German carol " Kommet, ihr Hirten ", derived by Carl Riedel from a Bohemian song in Czech, addresses shepherds, men, and women?
Did you know that James A. Ward was one of the last surviving graduates of the Jesuit novitiate in White Marsh, Maryland ?
Did you know that religious ministers revealed the winning numbers to illegal lotteries on WOOK radio, by hiding them in Bible references?
Did you know that confectioner Tom Smith is traditionally described as the inventor of the Christmas cracker , in 1847?
Did you know that A Rubber Band Christmas is a novelty album featuring popular Christmas songs played on rubber bands, staplers, and other office equipment?
Did you know that in later life, Paul Mickelson bought the organ upon which he had made his first recording as a solo artist at NBC ?
Did you know that after the ancient Shire Oak fell in 1941, part of it was carved into a sculpture of the Madonna and Child for a local church?
Did you know that Kavya Manyapu led the development of a dust-repelling fabric for space suits using carbon nanotubes ?
Did you know that Taylor Swift wrote, recorded, and released " Christmas Tree Farm " in six days?
Did you know that as pastor of a Catholic church in Baltimore , William Francis Clarke worked to integrate black and Italian Catholics into parish life?
Did you know that Austrian general Konrad Valentin von Kaim was mortally wounded at the Battle of Pozzolo on Christmas Day, 1800?
Did you know that " The Sinner's Redemption " was called a "rude old carol" favoured by peasants?
Did you know that John Rutter wrote the text and music for Angels' Carol , a choral piece for Christmas, using the Latin " Gloria in excelsis Deo " from the Christmas story as a refrain?
Did you know that Tlingit artist Tanis S'eiltin 's mixed-media installation Hit includes video, a replica M16 rifle , and a glass tank of oil and water?
Did you know that the establishment of a secondary population of Christmas white-eye has reduced its risk of extinction?
Did you know that French Resistance member Odette Abadi was a co-founder of Réseau Marcel, which saved more than 500 Jewish children during the Holocaust ?
Did you know that 1 William Street was described by the New York Architect magazine as New York City's "most complete banking institution" upon its completion?
Did you know that Erza Muqoli was a founding member of the French child music group Kids United , which had three number-one albums during her tenure?
Did you know that a juniper tree in the median of Interstate 17 in Arizona is mysteriously decorated every year at Christmas?
Did you know that Alku and Alku Toinen , built by Finnish immigrants, were the first nonprofit housing cooperatives in New York City?
Did you know that Hong Kong protests in November 2019 included an escape by protesters at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University , by rope and via underground sewers?
Did you know that Mohammad Tabrani first proposed the term " bahasa Indonesia " for the national language of Indonesia?
Did you know that one of the versions of Vivaldi 's Magnificat included five arias to be performed by girl soloists from the Ospedale della Pietà orphanage, who were named in the score?
Did you know that Kunihiko Ikuhara , who was one of the directors of Sailor Moon , cosplayed as Sailor Mars to promote his series Schell Bullet ?
Did you know that the Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky , Jacqueline Coleman , is a basketball coach and the granddaughter of a National Basketball Association player ?
Did you know that Darren Appleton forfeited two matches at the 2019 Antalya Open event after deciding to take a nap between matches?
Did you know that soprano Irma Beilke appeared as Marzelline in Beethoven's Fidelio on 4 September 1945 in the first opera performance in Berlin after World War II?
Did you know that New York City's $4 million Squibb Park Bridge was demolished less than seven years after it was built?
Did you know that Shen Jilan , who successfully proposed the clause of equal pay for equal work in China's first constitution in 1954, is still serving as a congresswoman 65 years later?
Did you know that in 1817, the Ontario became the first steamboat to see active service on the Great Lakes at Lake Ontario ?
Did you know that the surgeon Thomas Morstede served the three successive English kings Henry IV , Henry V , and Henry VI ?
Did you know that The History of Doing describes a fundamentalist Hindu protest, with many women part of it, in favour of sati , the burning of widows?
Did you know that Jef Raskin would prove his FLOW language was easy to use by closing his eyes, typing randomly on the keyboard, and producing executable programs ?
Did you know that when lead miners discovered Dream Cave in Derbyshire in 1822, they found it to contain the near-complete skeleton of a woolly rhinoceros ?
Did you know that U.S. Department of Defense civil servant Laura Cooper has noted that she has frequently been the "only woman in the room" for much of her career?
Did you know that the 1766 Istanbul earthquake claimed 4,000 victims, 880 of them in the city?
Did you know that Wilhelm Keitel was promoted to Chief of the Armed Forces High Command because of his craven willingness to function as Adolf Hitler 's mouthpiece?
Did you know that Clairo drew inspiration for her songs " Sofia " and " Bags " from her crushes on women?
Did you know that Shiza Shahid and Malala Yousafzai co-founded the Malala Fund in 2013 to promote education for every girl?
Did you know that Intelligence Community Campus-Bethesda buildings in Maryland were originally built without windows to conceal the classified work going on inside?
Did you know that after Chinese poet Liu Shahe was denounced as a "filial descendant of the landlord class" in 1957, he performed forced labour for eight years and was unable to publish for two decades?
Did you know that since modernisation work in 2016, trains can only call at Pilning railway station when travelling eastbound?
Did you know that Andrey Kelin , the new Russian ambassador to the United Kingdom , holds the diplomatic rank of ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary ?
Did you know that the banana weevil is considered the most serious insect pest of bananas?
Did you know that HIV researcher Diane Havlir was the U.S. national short track champion in 1974?
Did you know that in his 1915 En blanc et noir for two pianos, Claude Debussy quoted Luther's hymn " Ein feste Burg " and dedicated the work in part to Jacques Charlot, who fell in World War I?
Did you know that Tom Chase has described himself as "the Wally Cleaver of porn"?
Did you know that the pianist Clara Schumann , who toured Europe for decades, taught 68 students at Dr. Hoch's in Frankfurt , including those from Britain and the U.S.?
Did you know that to assist the Australians with INTERFET logistics , the U.S. Army brought in helicopters from Russia and Bulgaria?
Did you know that Sharon Priest , the Secretary of State of Arkansas , launched the state's first internet-based information network in 1995?
Did you know that KSLN-TV , the ABC television affiliate in Salina, Kansas , folded twice in three years under two different owners?
Did you know that Louie Cullen , known as "the last of the suffragettes", started a prison hunger strike after her arrest for a 1908 attempt to rush into the House of Commons to promote women's right to vote in the UK ?
Did you know that a Sony α7S II captured the first commercial 4K footage in space from the International Space Station ?
Did you know that chess player Carissa Yip defeated a grandmaster at the age of ten?
Did you know that the Carolina Watchman newspaper supported the Confederacy during the Civil War , but backed the Union cause both before and after?
Did you know that Frank Palmer started in the advertising business on April 1, 1969, and retired 50 years later to the day?
Did you know that the 2001 manga series World of the S&M was released in English as The World Exists for Me ?
Did you know that Mongol general Uriyangkhadai invaded the territory of the Song dynasty in southern China by going through Tibet and Vietnam?
Did you know that Hirtodrosophila mycetophaga mate on bracket fungi , selectively choosing those with a lighter surface to enhance the visibility of their courtship displays?
Did you know that in 2014, Moroccan-born long-distance runner Adil Bouafif won his fourth gold medal in the 10,000 metres at the Swedish national championships?
Did you know that the Austin, Nichols and Company Warehouse is one of the few Egyptian Revival buildings in New York City?
Did you know that English scientist Nicola Curtin donated to charity the £865,000 she received for helping develop the cancer drug Rubraca ?
Did you know that Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie was personally present at the Rue Sainte-Catherine Roundup ?
Did you know that Berna Gözbaşı is the first woman president of a football club playing in the Turkish top-level men's league?
Did you know that 17 extensions and modifications of the construction permit were necessary before Hawaii radio station KFSH went on the air in 1985, more than eight years after the permit was awarded?
Did you know that Jacques Durand studied at the Conservatoire de Paris together with Claude Debussy , and later published both Debussy's compositions and his edition of Chopin 's piano works?
Did you know that Coelopa pilipes fly populations can live at temperatures of 40 °C (104 °F) within piles of kelp , even in areas covered with snow and ice?
Did you know that Ms. Monopoly replaces properties with inventions women contributed to, such as Wi-Fi , chocolate chip cookies , and modern shapewear ?
Did you know that Concert Grove in New York City's Prospect Park is used as a sculpture garden because its acoustics turned out to be bad for musical performances?
Did you know that Juli Briskman , who received international coverage for flipping off President Donald Trump, went on to enter politics and win an election?
Did you know that an article published in the Satyaprakash weekly, which criticised Hindu religious leaders, resulted in a libel case ?
Did you know that after her own childhood experiences, Carla Herrero founded Rompe el Silencio ("Breaking the Silence") to support youth who have suffered bullying, abuse, and psychological disorders?
Did you know that St. Louis County police arrested engineers and announcers of KXLW because their tower violated local zoning laws?
Did you know that water damage postponed the premiere production of the science fiction folk musical Rags Parkland Sings the Songs of the Future ?
Did you know that John Blackwell was dismissed for being "bigoted and obstinate" by Isambard Kingdom Brunel for suggesting a new road might cause a landslide , which indeed happened once the road was built?
Did you know that before Minoru Yoneyama founded the sports-equipment company Yonex , he was a member of a Japanese suicide unit during World War II?
Did you know that the Hong Kong biopic Lost in the Fumes was rated M18 in Singapore due to "political sensitivities" and screened only to members of the country's film society?
Did you know that Nellie Two Bear Gates made beaded artwork that depicted Yanktonai Dakota history and culture?
Did you know that the 2001 Major League Baseball contraction plan would have resulted in the elimination of two teams from MLB?
Did you know that Bernd Loebe , who began his career as a music journalist, received the 2018 International Opera Award in the category of Leadership in Opera?
Did you know that Qaleh Kharabeh , a fort on the Gorgan Plain in Iran, may have housed troops manning the defence of the Great Wall of Gorgan ?
Did you know that Chris Morocco has reverse-engineered dishes by Gordon Ramsay , Jamie Oliver , and Guy Fieri from taste, touch, and smell alone?
Did you know that the side of the Victoria Warehouse in Old Trafford featured murals by Walter Kershaw for nearly 30 years?
Did you know that Nevada radio station KONE was sued in 1966 by the proprietors of 16 musical works, who claimed that the station did not pay royalties for playing songs such as " San Antonio Rose " and " Sweet Georgia Brown "?
Did you know that Catriona Ida Macleod has received a Social Change Award from Rhodes University for her work in promoting African-based psychology?
Did you know that the Royal Navy 's Type 277 radar was so successful that it served as the basis for Navy radars for years, and was used on land by the Royal Air Force and the British Army ?
Did you know that American tenor Jeff Martin has appeared as the Astrologer in Rimsky-Korsakov 's The Golden Cockerel at Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre ?
Did you know that by the 12th century, the relics of St Adelphus attracted so many pilgrims to the Neuwiller-lès-Saverne Abbey that the Benedictines built a secondary church nearby?
Did you know that the video game developer Rockstar San Diego once worked on XGirl , an "interactive girlfriend" experience for the Xbox console?
Did you know that after Steven Koecher's disappearance ten years ago today, his family ate at International House of Pancakes for four straight nights in response to a tip?
Did you know that infestations of the cotton jassid can be reduced by growing a cotton cultivar with hairy leaves?
Did you know that prior to debuting as a voice actress in 2018, Iori Saeki had been self-publishing songs as a dōjin musician for several years?
Did you know that after ineffective counsel led to a man's prison sentence being increased a hundredfold, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that attorneys are obligated to inform their clients about plea bargain offers?
Did you know that Siegfried Matthus composed the opera Judith for the reopening of the restored Semperoper , but it premiered at the Komische Oper Berlin , staged by Harry Kupfer ?
Did you know that concentration of land ownership has been linked to deforestation in 48 developing countries?
Did you know that Esther Killick repeatedly "gassed herself for science" in order to study carbon monoxide poisoning and acclimatisation ?
Did you know that Fred Thomas has been described as "the greatest Canadian athlete you've never heard of"?
Did you know that the television series The Bold Type is inspired by the life and career of former Cosmopolitan magazine editor-in-chief Joanna Coles ?
Did you know that Beethoven's only opera, Fidelio , was a failure in its original form, but was revised partly at the behest of Carl Weinmüller , who then appeared in the premiere in the bass role of Rocco?
Did you know that because photomicrographs of Longan witches broom-associated virus were not published, the virus was not initially accepted as the cause of the eponymous disease?
Did you know that according to the American Society of Civil Engineers , Thomas Evans Blackwell was the first hydraulic engineer in England?
Did you know that in the Newar festival of Depukhu , young men compete for the carcass of a young female goat that is first sacrificed by drowning in the Deopokhari pond in Khokana , Nepal?
Did you know that there is a lighthouse under the George Washington Bridge in Fort Washington Park ?
Did you know that Merryll Saylan helped pioneer the application of color and the use of secondary materials in woodturning art?
Did you know that a moth is being used in biological pest control of the sugarcane planthopper ?
Did you know that Chinese economist Zhang Peigang 's dissertation was translated into Spanish and used as a university textbook in Latin America in the 1950s, but was not published in Chinese until 1984?
Did you know that A Stanislaw Lem Reader showcases the work of one of the most widely read science fiction writers , including interviews on the relation of literature to philosophy and science?
Did you know that Educational Media Foundation 's 2006 acquisition of WSMU-FM marked the "first major foray" by Christian FM broadcasting into New England ?
Did you know that Colleen Barrett , the first female president of a major airline, appeared in patriotic advertisements for Southwest Airlines after the September 11 attacks ?
Did you know that Tell Qudadi , a buried Iron Age era fortress, was unknowingly used as the site of a military stronghold during World War I?
Did you know that the Sandyhills area of Glasgow once contained two coal mines, a factory making foamslag blocks, and a chemical works producing tar?
Did you know that British jurist Bin Cheng invented a legal theory which states that a customary international law may be created "overnight"?
Did you know that the Broe helmet , an artefact of the Vendel Period , was discovered while digging up a garden?
Did you know that although Ernest Fahmy played for Abertillery RFC in Wales, he opted to play international rugby for Scotland ?
Did you know that after taking the unprofitable station off the air, Harold Orr hired a crew of young announcers to broadcast on KSVY 12 hours a day, 6 days a week, to keep the license?
Did you know that Lu Shijia , founder of China's first university aerodynamics program, twice declined nominations to the Chinese Academy of Sciences ?