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Did you know that Charlie Wheatley had a seventh-grade education and three honorary degrees in engineering from the University of Tulsa ?
Did you know that Simon Mills had to postpone his honeymoon to play in the 1989 Third Division play-off final ?
Did you know that Belgian international association footballer Anaëlle Wiard , who started playing beach soccer in 2020, was the top scorer in a competition that year?
Did you know that tools for sewing and skin preparation found at archaeological sites indicate that the history of Inuit clothing in the Arctic regions of North America and Greenland extends back as early as 2500 BCE?
Did you know that Brian Altman is the only player in World Poker Tour history to win the same event twice?
Did you know that in the Chinese erotic novella The Lord of Perfect Satisfaction , Empress Wu Zetian has a virgin lover whose penis is compared with snails and earthworms ?
Did you know that the first Black woman to receive tenure in Kent State University 's College of Arts & Sciences, Angela Neal-Barnett , emphasizes social support between Black women as "an indigenous form of healing"?
Did you know that the pineapple on the flag of the Cayman Islands alludes to the territory's historic connection with Jamaica, whose coat of arms features five pineapples?
Did you know that the Nooth apparatus , originally invented to produce carbonated water , was later repurposed for administering anaesthetic drugs ?
Did you know that Linnéstaty , a sculpture created by Swedish sculptor Gerda Sprinchorn , was raised as a public monument 40 years after its completion?
Did you know that the Latin American travesti gender identity has been considered to be a third gender , akin to the hijras of India and the muxe of Mexico?
Did you know that Clarkson's Farm is "Diddly Squat"?
Did you know that the Rhodesian Independence Bell , a replica of the American Liberty Bell , was inscribed "I toll for justice, civilization and Christianity"?
Did you know that South African American-football kicker Ryan Pretorius wore cleats two sizes too small at Ohio State to simulate kicking barefoot?
Did you know that although Dmitri Shostakovich initially dismissed his own Piano Sonata No. 2 as a "trifle, something impromptu", he would later consider it his most important piano composition?
Did you know that Peter Clavelle did not face either a Republican or a Democratic opponent in the 1991 Burlington mayoral election ?
Did you know that María Teresa Sesé wrote 500 romance novels in her native Spanish , then wrote several books in Basque after studying the language for two years?
Did you know that the current Indonesian ambassador to Nigeria, Usra Hendra Harahap , personally led a rescue operation to free Indonesian crew members taken hostage by pirates in June 2020?
Did you know that leopards live in the forest in Turkey ?
Did you know that future cantor David Werdyger was saved from a Nazi firing squad when he sang the Jewish prayer for the dead ?
Did you know that Kanfei Nesharim Street is long and wide and straight like a runway , because it was originally built as one?
Did you know that in 1975 Time named Schwester Selma , head nurse at the Shaare Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem, one of the world's "living saints", alongside Mother Teresa and Sister Annie ?
Did you know that the Diaspora Yeshiva Band infused rock and bluegrass with Jewish lyrics, creating a music style it called "Hasidic rock" or "Country and Eastern"?
Did you know that Topol , who won a Golden Globe for his performance as Tevye in the 1971 film Fiddler on the Roof , played the role in shows and revivals about 3,500 times?
Did you know that a verse from Psalm 85 has inspired artworks depicting the kiss of Justice and Peace?
Did you know that the third Wanamaker expedition , led by Joseph K. Dixon , travelled at least 20,000 miles (32,000 km) and visited 89 Native American tribes ?
Did you know that Laura Robinson invented Canada's best-selling board game before becoming a successful actress and television producer?
Did you know that some species of bacteria in the genus Alkalihalobacillus live in hypersaline lakes while others are added to laundry detergent ?
Did you know that music theorist Philip Ewell received "anti-Black statements and personal ad hominem attacks" following his claim that Western music theory is shaped by a "white racial frame"?
Did you know that Murray Dowey was a clerk and typist for the Toronto Transit Commission before being the goaltender for Canada's gold-medal-winning hockey team at the 1948 Winter Olympics ?
Did you know that the Walter Bean Grand River Trail was named after Walter Bean, who created the idea of a continuous trail through the Waterloo region ?
Did you know that Toman helped popularize genderless fashion in Japan ?
Did you know that the first use of Je me souviens , the official motto of Quebec, was on a wall of the province's parliament building ?
Did you know that St. Nikolaus von Flüe , the first Catholic church in Wörsdorf, was consecrated in 1962?
Did you know that John Mercer Johnson , a Father of Canadian Confederation , entertained the public and members of the London Conference of 1866 with poetry readings and ice-skating performances?
Did you know that British general Charles Bertie Prowse was killed while leading his brigade in an attack during the first day on the Somme , 105 years ago today?
Did you know that following a career-ending injury while playing Australian rules football , Justin Clarke became a Rhodes scholar in 2021?
Did you know that the song " Canadian Idiot " satirizes American xenophobia ?
Did you know that pitchers are cheating in baseball with a glue invented for strongmen to hold Atlas balls?
Did you know that in times of food scarcity, the collared sand anemone may consume the symbiotic zooxanthellae in its tissues?
Did you know that Kata Wéber moved to Berlin to write the play that would become Pieces of a Woman to avoid her husband , who had encouraged her to write it after finding her personal notes?
Did you know that William E. Woods took three same-sex couples to fill out marriage licenses in 1990, beginning a series of events that would lead to the legalization of same-sex marriage in the United States ?
Did you know that the fossil horsetail Equisetum similkamense has been found in only two places, both in British Columbia?
Did you know that Ira F. M. Butler was Speaker of the House of Representatives in the last session of the Oregon Territorial Legislature prior to statehood?
Did you know that in San Diego , you can get a steak dinner made by a bear ?
Did you know that judoka Loretta Doyle found out that she was pregnant during pre–Olympic selection medical checks?
Did you know that William Trench, 5th Earl of Clancarty , had eight children, three of whom also became earls of Clancarty?
Did you know that the Taliban secured victory in the Battle of Lashkargah soon after suicide–car-bombing the police headquarters, a crucial chokepoint of the city's defense?
Did you know that sensors suggest that Lorraine Lambert 's new bra has improved her chances of winning a Paralympic medal for shooting?
Did you know that in his 1683 work Qingzhen Zhinan , Chinese Islamic scholar Ma Zhu recommended the "official persecution" of Sufis ?
Did you know that Dayak journalist Tjilik Riwut led the first Indonesian Air Force airborne operation in 1947?
Did you know that refugee swimmer Abbas Karimi , who competed at the 2020 Summer Paralympics , has won national championships in Afghanistan, Turkey and the US?
Did you know that during the Fall of Herat a United Nations office in Herat was attacked, killing a security guard?
Did you know that the world record for the greatest weight supported by a brick bridge was broken on the French version of Lego Masters ?
Did you know that Mary Cutts was told that her memoir on Dolley Madison needed more emphasis on "important men and masculine subjects"?
Did you know that S. Isaac, Campbell & Company , a British firm, was a major supplier of arms to the Confederacy during the American Civil War ?
Did you know that French king Louis XVI appointed Benjamin Franklin to head the Royal Commission on Animal Magnetism ?
Did you know that poet Trina de Moya was the first Dominican presidential wife to be called first lady ?
Did you know that when Paralympian Issy Bailey was in Stoke Mandeville Hospital , she had so many injuries that taking up shooting seemed to be the best option?
Did you know that the Zuijin Teiki Emaki , a 13th-century Japanese painted handscroll , presents nine equestrian portraits of some of the Imperial Guards who protected the Daijō Tennō ?
Did you know that Nova Iriansyah , the governor of Aceh , was expelled from elementary school as a child?
Did you know that when the 68-story Metropolitan Tower in New York City was being built, its developer was forced to stop marketing it as a 78-story building?
Did you know that Kangmei Pharmaceutical 's financial fraud was initially described as an "accounting error"?
Did you know that William McAndrew , the superintendent of Chicago Public Schools , was accused of being an agent of George V , King of the United Kingdom ?
Did you know that Yoko Ono 's song " Beautiful Boys " incorporates sound effects from the first Star Wars film ?
Did you know that coins issued by Baalshillem II , the Phoenician king of Sidon , were the first Sidonian coins to bear minting dates corresponding to the king's year of reign?
Did you know that the Dalai Lama 's 2008 Memorandum on Genuine Autonomy was a proposal aiming for autonomy rather than full independence for Tibet ?
Did you know that Research Policy is regarded as the leading journal in the field of innovation studies ?
Did you know that the card game Comet , originally called Manille , was renamed in 1682 after the appearance of Halley's Comet ?
Did you know that British brigadier Victor Jaques was almost killed by friendly fire from an American aircraft in Bangkok in 1945?
Did you know that Chuck Mosley described the distinctive singing style used throughout his career as "screaming to the beat, like ranting"?
Did you know that Alia Issa , the first woman competitor to enter during the 2020 Paralympics opening ceremony, is the first female refugee to compete at any Paralympic Games ?
Did you know that the world's 82 million refugees will be represented at the 2020 Summer Paralympics by the Refugee Paralympic Team ?
Did you know that George Orwell said of Mairin Mitchell 's Storm over Spain (1937) that it was "written by a Catholic, but very sympathetic to the Spanish Anarchists "?
Did you know that Theodore Roosevelt sent National Baptist Convention president Elias Camp Morris to investigate atrocities committed in the Congo Free State ?
Did you know that Brachystelma tumakurense 's stem is so weak that it sometimes bends under the weight of leaves and flowers?
Did you know that Tonic Immobility 's "pure, undiluted chaos" is "an escape from the realities of the world"?
Did you know that after Thomas Doughty was sentenced to death by Francis Drake , the two men dined and received communion together just before Doughty's execution?
Did you know that particle physicist Arden Warner invented a magnetism-based method for cleaning up oil spills?
Did you know that thousands of political prisoners in Indonesia were interned in the Waeapo River valley in Buru ?
Did you know that Linda Watson , a dramatic soprano born in San Francisco who made a career in Europe, is proud of a Grammy nomination for Wagner's Ring cycle with her as Brünnhilde?
Did you know that after appointing the Gavrilița Cabinet , Moldova is only one of two republics in the world where the non-collective head of state and head of government are both currently women ?
Did you know that Natalie Simanowski began her "second life" as a Paralympian cyclist after being attacked by someone described as a " psychopath "?
Did you know that Bicellariella ciliata , Crisularia plumosa , Bugulina flabellata and Bugulina turbinata form part of a bryozoan "turf" on steep or vertical rock exposed to moderate water movement?
Did you know that Rosa Egipcíaca was the first black woman in Brazil to write a book?
Did you know that Raymond Hood designed the American Radiator Building with a black-and-gold facade because he thought that other buildings' windows looked like waffles?
Did you know that Kylie Minogue 's seventh studio album, Light Years , was her first number-one album in her native Australia ?
Did you know that the HSBC Tower was the largest structure to be constructed in its vicinity since the Empire State Building fifty years earlier?
Did you know that dyadic rationals , fractions based on powers of two, can be easier to work with than other kinds of fractions for both schoolchildren and computers?
Did you know that three high-ranking officers of USRC Robert McClelland remained with the ship after it surrendered and entered Confederate service?
Did you know that the Russian wheelchair fencer Ksenia Ovsyannikova toured the United States on a "mission for inclusion" in 2017?
Did you know that while writing Scary Stories for Young Foxes , Christian McKay Heidicker , under his agent's advice, "added a snuggle for every snarl"?
Did you know that Johannes Schott of Strasbourg took over the printing company of his father, Martin Schott , in around 1500, and printed texts by Protestant reformers such as Ulrich von Hutten and Martin Luther ?
Did you know that Presidential Ballots, 1836–1892 was reviewed by Richard P. McCormick , who wrote that it "should stimulate a host of studies in the little-explored field of American political behavior"?
Did you know that Rock Demers was spurred to make The Dog Who Stopped the War after reading an article on youth suicide ?
Did you know that soaking a paper banknote in 50% (v/v) alcohol fuel can create a fireproof banknote ?
Did you know that after the 2001 fall of Kabul , young men lined up to have their beards shaved off?
Did you know that Coral Bell believed that Ric Throssell had tried unsuccessfully to recruit her as a Soviet spy in Canberra ?
Did you know that the Land of Lost Content contains bluebirds from the Blue Bird Toffee factory gates, tickets from the first National Lottery draw and a Sinclair C5 ?
Did you know that Erich Witte was the first performer of the title role of Britten's Peter Grimes in Berlin?
Did you know that the SS Alpena , currently the oldest active steamship on the Great Lakes , was shortened by 120 feet (37 m) in 1991?
Did you know that the over 349,000 signatures collected in favour of the Expropriate Deutsche Wohnen & Co. initiative set a new record for the number of signatures collected for a Berlin referendum?
Did you know that wheelchair racer Nathan Maguire , who is scheduled to compete at the 2020 Summer Paralympics , appeared on a British gameshow with his partner in 2020?
Did you know that Operation Hectic , an operation planned by the Rhodesian security forces to assassinate Robert Mugabe, was called off three hours before it was due to start?
Did you know that Sigismund III transferred Poland's capital from Kraków to Warsaw in 1596?
Did you know that during the 2013 Nutellagate controversy, students at Columbia University were accused of costing the university $5,000 in dining hall Nutella per week?
Did you know that as general director of the Grand Theatre in Łódź , bass singer Kazimierz Kowalski led a worldwide television broadcast of Moniuszko's The Haunted Manor ?
Did you know that two school districts in Kentucky protested against a statewide mandate to hang a copy of the United States national motto by showing oversized $1 bills and 1¢ coins , which contain the motto?
Did you know that the death of Uyghur writer Nurmuhemmet Tohti has been linked to mistreatment in the Xinjiang internment camps , a claim China denies?
Did you know that New York City's James B. Duke House was modeled after a French chateau and designed by an architect who did not have a formal architectural education?
Did you know that Dr. Jodie Lewis led a team of students from the University of Worcester and volunteer archaeologists in excavating the first timber circle discovered in Somerset ?
Did you know that while Bubsy 3D is often labeled as one of the worst video games of all time , it had a positive to mixed reception around its initial release?
Did you know that you could travel with stuffed animals on the Asahiyama Zoo KiHa 183 series train service?
Did you know that Zaranj was the first Afghan provincial capital to be captured by the Taliban since the Battle of Kunduz in 2016?
Did you know that it took more than a decade for Michael M. Thomas to secure a publisher for his eighth novel, which was rejected by approximately 25 publishing houses?
Did you know that the 2014-built ERV Nene Hatun is Turkey's first emergency response vessel?
Did you know that prosecutors who worked to convict Kevin Strickland in 1979 now say they believe him to be innocent?
Did you know that the freshwater leech Haemopis sanguisuga sometimes emerges from the water to hunt for earthworms?
Did you know that before she was elected to the Parliament of Armenia, Maria Karapetyan spray-painted political graffiti on the streets of Yerevan in support of Nikol Pashinyan ?
Did you know that Chinese biblical scholar Zhu Weizhi believed that Jesus was a proletarian ?
Did you know that limonene , a compound found in orange peels, can cause balloon popping based on the "like dissolves like" principle?
Did you know that it took over a decade for Michael M. Thomas to secure a publisher for his eighth novel, which was rejected by approximately 25 publishing houses?
Did you know that on Quebec 's maps, the land border with Newfoundland and Labrador must have a separate symbol in the map's legend from other interprovincial boundaries?
Did you know that although Steinitz's theorem is commonly used to describe convex polyhedra using graph theory , its original formulation did not use graphs?
Did you know that Robert McLean served as a missionary in Chile for six years before moving to Oregon , where he founded two churches and was elected to the state legislature?
Did you know that Philip Rusher patented a paper-saving typeface with no descenders in 1802, but only a few books ever used it?
Did you know that Fred Marples felt it was the duty of all Canadians to ensure the strongest possible national team at the Olympics?
Did you know that Basilico's , an Italian restaurant in Huntington Beach, California , does not admit diners who are either masked or vaccinated against COVID-19 ?
Did you know that in Why Marx Was Right , author Terry Eagleton aims to refute ten common objections to Marxism ?
Did you know that Ng Yu Zhi owned the only Pagani Huayra in Singapore?
Did you know that the melody of " Nimm, o Gott, die Gaben, die wir bringen ", an offertory hymn written in 2009, is taken from Andrew Lloyd Webber's Jesus Christ Superstar ?
Did you know that the foraminiferan Marginopora vertebralis releases its embryos by means of a surprisingly complex behaviour for a single-celled organism?
Did you know that Thomas Earle had his slave-ship Annabella seized by the British Crown , not for slave trading, but for slave trading with the enemy?
Did you know that Konbaung-dynasty general U Din Kyaw Khaung was the only warrior said to have continued fighting after his death?
Did you know that the Chestnut Centre was the first place in the UK where giant otters were successfully bred in captivity?
Did you know that Australian soprano Ada Baker toured India and China before becoming a singing teacher in Perth in 1889?
Did you know that 537 Votes , documenting the controversial 2000 United States presidential election in Florida , was released in the run-up to the 2020 United States presidential election ?
Did you know that Paralympian Gemma Collis-McCann , who sits on wheelchair fencing 's new Gender Equity Commission, has been chosen to join three men as the UK's wheelchair fencing team in Tokyo ?
Did you know that the Port of Krueng Geukueh in Aceh , Indonesia, became an entry point for aid shipments as it was not damaged by the 2004 tsunami ?
Did you know that one of Hong Kong YouTuber Mama Cheung 's most viewed videos shows her using a rice cooker to bake a cake?
Did you know that Rukhshana Media is named after a young woman called Rukhshana who was stoned to death in Afghanistan in 2015?
Did you know that in 1985, Captain Dale Snodgrass was chosen as "Fighter Pilot of the Year" and was called the real "Maverick" from Top Gun ?
Did you know that there are no trees around Lake Letsie , since its entire catchment area is above the tree line ?
Did you know that Carl Cotton was the first black taxidermist to work at the Field Museum of Natural History after being hired in 1947?
Did you know that John Lennon and Yoko Ono recorded Ono's song " Remember Love " in a Montreal hotel room that has been a tourist draw ever since?
Did you know that radio station KCON in Conway, Arkansas , shut down twice on March 10?
Did you know that the manufacturers of Hedgehog Flavour Crisps were taken to court under the Trade Descriptions Act as they did not contain actual hedgehog?
Did you know that the Kurdish-Armenian politician Knyaz Hasanov chaired the Armenian Parliament in 2017 and 2021?
Did you know that during the Edo period , commoners used semi-cursive script while scholars used regular script ?
Did you know that Aisha de Sequeira led Morgan Stanley 's mergers and acquisitions in India when it was the top bank by the value of its deals in 2012?
Did you know that President Theodore Roosevelt described the declining birthrate of the United States as a form of "race suicide", citing a term coined by eugenicist Edward Alsworth Ross ?
Did you know that David Ahl purchased BASIC-8 to sell with the PDP-8 when DEC management proved more interested in their own FOCAL language?
Did you know that although Pixie Davies has been performing in films since 2012, her breakout role came in Disney 's Mary Poppins Returns in 2018?
Did you know that according to local legend, Piers Shonks , whose tomb can be seen in the Brent Pelham church, killed a dragon ravaging the district?
Did you know that technical standard NZS 3604 is used to design and construct about 93 per cent of New Zealand's light timber-framed buildings?
Did you know that Geoffrey Guy 's company GW Pharmaceuticals was the first to obtain regulatory approval for a medicine based on cannabis ?
Did you know that University of Toronto professor Hermann Boeschenstein published two novels during his lifetime, 56 years apart?
Did you know that the black-and-red broadbill lays eggs in three color morphs ?
Did you know that Donald Mastick accidentally swallowed plutonium in August 1944, and his breath became radioactive?
Did you know that the finale of Beethoven 's Piano Sonata No. 31 sees a gradual "return to life" and ends with a "passionate" and "heroic" coda ?
Did you know that Phyllis Le Cappelaine Burke helped found the Sydney chapter of the St. Joan Social and Political Alliance, which advocated for equal rights for women?
Did you know that films from the Long Bow Trilogy depict the same village and villagers mentioned in Fanshen ?
Did you know that a willow maze in Sussex, England, planted in the shape of a quotation from the Bible in the 1990s, only came to wider notice when it was spotted on Google Earth in 2013?
Did you know that mathematician Gunilla Kreiss , the daughter of Heinz-Otto Kreiss , later became his granddaughter ?
Did you know that the Dragos Gemelos are two entwined dragon trees said to represent twin brothers who dueled for the love of a woman?
Did you know that Miao Poya successfully campaigned to change her high school's uniform policy before becoming one of the first Taipei city councillors to be openly lesbian ?
Did you know  that due to shortages, American supply in the Siegfried Line campaign made use of thousands of rounds of captured ammunition?
Did you know that the Australian case Bradley v Commonwealth held that it was unlawful to unilaterally cut off telephones to a Rhodesian information office?
Did you know that Louis Hempelmann wrote a paper in 1949 that warned of the dangers of shoe stores using fluoroscopes to measure the size of children's feet?