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Did you know that forest defenders sat in trees at the Old Atlanta Prison Farm to Stop Cop City ?
Did you know that París Galán , who introduced a style of drag performance in Bolivia, became the first-ever transgender individual to win elective office in the country?
Did you know that Called Up Sent Down: The Bevin Boys' War describes the experiences of young men conscripted to work as coal miners in Britain during World War II?
Did you know that when asked by reporters why he was retiring, U.S. Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall replied: "What's wrong with me? I'm old. I'm getting old and coming apart"?
Did you know that the character Kurama was inspired by a friend of manga creator Yoshihiro Togashi ?
Did you know that there was an organism from which all current life on Earth is descended ?
Did you know that Ernest Fanelli 's composition Thèbes , written in 1886, utilizes musical elements considered to precurse Impressionism ?
Did you know that Washington State linebacker Daiyan Henley opted out of playing in the 2022 LA Bowl and served as an assistant linebackers coach during the game instead?
Did you know that while Arifin Achmad was the third governor of Riau , he was the first to hail from the province?
Did you know that the Central Powers brought their armies under a supreme headquarters in September 1916, 18 months before the Allies did the same?
Did you know that, when discussing his music project Love or Loved , K-pop star B.I said that he felt the opposite of love was not "I don't like you", but rather "I loved you before"?
Did you know that businessman Usman Ja'far was the first locally born governor of West Kalimantan elected in nearly 40 years?
Did you know that although it was rejected by the lesbian mainstream when it was first released, Kamikaze Hearts has since been called a milestone in queer cinema ?
Did you know that Paramount Chief Matilda Lansana Minah V has backed a 30-percent quota for the representation of women in the parliament of Sierra Leone?
Did you know that during the 1930 Bago earthquake , a witness observed surface waves propagating through a tennis court?
Did you know that the Seattle SeaDogs won the final Continental Indoor Soccer League championship before the league folded?
Did you know that Aang Kunaefi banned the jaipongan dance from official events because some saw it as being too erotic?
Did you know that both Toyota and Pizza Hut have had commercials saying "Sheesh!" ?
Did you know that a dispute led to HMS Gloucester taking a path that caused the ship to hit a sandbank, leading to it sinking?
Did you know that Paul Joseph Cini , a Canadian skyjacker, thought that he could evade justice by parachuting from the plane before landing?
Did you know that the Second Vatican Council tried to undo the latinization of Eastern Catholic liturgy ?
Did you know that writer Eliza Bland Smith Erskine Norton married two different men who both lost an arm in battle?
Did you know that Midway v. Artic helped establish that video games are eligible for copyright protection as audiovisual works?
Did you know that the statue of Mahatma Gandhi on the premises of the Telangana Legislative Assembly was sculpted by C. S. N. Patnaik ?
Did you know that the Piano Quintet by Alfred Schnittke has been called one of the most depressing pieces ever written?
Did you know that classical dances of Gaddam Padmaja Reddy , recipient of India's highest award for performing arts , explore contemporary social issues such as female foeticide and HIV/AIDS ?
Did you know that the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier under the Arc de Triomphe in Paris was desecrated during riots in 1927?
Did you know that John Kinch worked two jobs in the late 1970s, as a mail carrier and a professional football player ?
Did you know that the Kitab al-wadih bi-l-haqq is a critique of Islam written by a convert to Coptic Christianity during a period of persecution?
Did you know that fighter pilot Winton W. Marshall used the jet exhaust of his F-86 Sabre to extinguish the fire from a crashed B-47 bomber?
Did you know that a man who fatally shot a Florida woman waving a gun at him from her front yard after a road-rage incident was not charged in connection with her death?
Did you know that according to Chinese physician Zhu Zhenheng , apparent possessions are typically no more than confusion caused by mucus?
Did you know that the geology of the Ellsworth Mountains was explored by geologists using motor toboggans in 1961?
Did you know that soprano Galina Pisarenko studied economics, English, and Norwegian at the same time she was studying to become a professional opera singer?
Did you know that Parasitic Engineering was named as a reference to a MITS co-founder calling third-party hardware vendors "parasite companies"?
Did you know that Volodymyr Kozhukhar , the chief conductor of the National Opera of Ukraine in Kyiv, led Lysenko's opera Taras Bulba and Shchedrin's ballet Carmen Suite ?
Did you know that so little is known about the reclusive developer of Yume Nikki that its publisher Kadokawa Games had to debunk rumors that they had died in the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake ?
Did you know that Jack Melchor stayed at Claridge's annually over a 40-year period?
Did you know that the documentary Railway with a Heart of Gold has actual footage of a derailment captured whilst the filmmaker was attached to the side of the train?
Did you know that after being benched at quarterback , Jackson State Tigers football player T. C. Taylor changed his position and became a record-setting wide receiver ?
Did you know that Canadian poets Milton Acorn , Margaret Atwood , and Gwendolyn MacEwen performed at the Bohemian Embassy on the same bill as burlesque dancer Libby Jones?
Did you know that American teacher Marc Fogel was sentenced to 14 years in Russian prison for possessing a small amount of marijuana, but has gotten little public attention compared to Brittney Griner ?
Did you know that the dinosaur Bashunosaurus was first mentioned in a scientific paper in 1989, but was only formally named in 2004?
Did you know that Patty Loveless 's musical career rebounded after she underwent surgery to repair a blood vessel on her vocal cords?
Did you know that Monaco GP was the most popular arcade driving game in the United States in 1981?
Did you know that Walter von Pückler earned the nickname Dreschgraf ('Thrashing Count') due to his frequent use of violent, antisemitic language?
Did you know that the San Diego Trough Fault Zone can produce an earthquake that devastates the counties of Los Angeles , Orange , and San Diego, California ?
Did you know that Ravenshoe has been noted for its passages dealing with the Charge of the Light Brigade , a failed military action during the Crimean War ?
Did you know that the note-taking software Obsidian was created by just two developers during the COVID-19 pandemic ?
Did you know that Willi Ritschard was not amused when he had to attend a royal banquet for Queen Elizabeth II on International Workers' Day ?
Did you know that creating Vennture Brew Company involved 18 months of construction and $22,000 in crowdsourced funds?
Did you know that abused Overseas Filipino Workers accused the former chargé d'affaires of the Philippine embassy in Damascus of neglecting them while he was regularly partying with handsome Syrians?
Did you know that Tibor Wlassics 's upper-class status forced him to work as a manual laborer?
Did you know that Bethune: The Making of a Hero , once Canada's most expensive film, had a documentary about its troubled production shown at the 1988 Toronto International Film Festival instead of itself?
Did you know that Chinese scholar Liang Tingnan suggested that China should emulate the United States to avoid the upheavals of dynastic change?
Did you know that the music for the Norse Lands DLC of Kingdom Two Crowns utilizes the hurdy-gurdy and moraharpa ?
Did you know that after Mary Gardiner Horsford died, her husband married her sister Phoebe?
Did you know that while most lichens that grow on plants live on the surface, the sole species in Amazonotrema grows partially among the cells of the tree bark on which it lives?
Did you know that Adib Pishavari likened Britain to an old fox ?
Did you know that the feedback sounds in the Yardbirds ' " Happenings Ten Years Time Ago " were later "swiped" by Jimi Hendrix ?
Did you know that the first day of filming of the psychological thriller Farah coincided with the beginning of the 2019 Lebanese protests ?
Did you know that the Douglas branch 's Roosevelt station went from having more than 700,000 riders in 1910 to only 50,000 in 1950?
Did you know that Nasser Abu Hamid had five brothers serving life sentences in addition to him?
Did you know that the 2022 Quick Lane Bowl had to use a substitute referee after the original referee's flight was canceled?
Did you know that Robert Spencer Finkbine spent 13 years as the superintendent of construction of the Iowa State Capitol ?
Did you know that the developers of Among Us VR said that the game could have been too spooky?
Did you know that Kaiu Shirai said that some parts of his story The Promised Neverland came from nightmares?
Did you know that on 9 January 1917, German Emperor Wilhelm II agreed to implement unrestricted submarine warfare?
Did you know that Dreamer Isioma began learning music theory at the age of three?
Did you know that the government of Victoria , Australia, has a program to remove 110 level crossings by 2030, the fastest rate in the state's history?
Did you know that witchcraft historian Malcolm Gaskill documented a real-life 17th-century witch hunt in Springfield, Massachusetts?
Did you know that the 1961 Indonesian census was the country's first since 1930 and the first since gaining independence from the Netherlands ?
Did you know that the name Zenock is misspelled in almost every published edition of the Book of Mormon ?
Did you know that Meghan Trainor wrote her song " Bad for Me " with strangers?
Did you know that two railroad boxcars were needed to ship William W. Jefferis 's vast mineral collection to the Carnegie Museum of Natural History ?
Did you know that according to Viktor Kožený 's lawyer, Fox Hill Prison in the Bahamas is known for "breaking even the toughest of men"?
Did you know that one of the districts in the city of Astrakhan is named after Bolshevik leader Aleksandr Trusov ?
Did you know that Lady Gaga said she was in a dark state of mind when writing the song " Free Woman " but got over it after completing the song?
Did you know that after saying that joining the Three-Self Patriotic Movement was "against the will of God", Chinese theologian Jia Yuming joined it and became its vice chairperson?
Did you know that workers had to somersault to safety when the Secor Bridge collapsed in 1911?
Did you know that the neutron has a magnetic moment even though it lacks an electric charge ?
Did you know that croton seeds were already being used as a laxative when Chinese physician Wang Haogu discovered that they could also be used to treat diarrhea?
Did you know that the Georgia Cryptologic Center is an NSA facility that uses the code name "Sweet Tea"?
Did you know that in the 1920s, Australian journalist E. George Marks predicted military conflict in the Pacific between Japan and the United States?
Did you know that the North-Western Regional Committee of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) ran an underground network to distribute literature to German soldiers in occupied areas?
Did you know that National Football League player Grant Hermanns won his state high-school wrestling championship just months after a near-fatal staph infection ?
Did you know that Kamibox 's video game A Joke That's Worth $0.99 is permanently on special offer because Itch.io does not allow $0.99 as a regular price?
Did you know that the 2022 Boca Raton Bowl was the first bowl game loss in Liberty program history after three wins in their first three appearances?
Did you know that after a lifetime of feeling undervalued, Nergisî gained the appreciation of the Ottoman sultan and was sent to the front as a chronicler, only to fall from his horse and die on his way?
Did you know that a Washington state radio station turned to "professional bikini watchers"—military recruiters—to report on crowds at local beaches?
Did you know that Ephraim E. Lisitzky wrote an epic poem in Hebrew based on Native American legends ?
Did you know that the Paul Delvaux Museum exhibits not only Paul Delvaux 's paintings, but also a collection of model trains?
Did you know that Chinese physician Gao Ruona 's son, son-in-law, and student all served as editors at the Song government 's Bureau for Editing Medical Texts?
Did you know that after a CCTV system was installed at the 59th Street–Columbus Circle station , crime went up?
Did you know that Anna Maria Bowes escaped from her governess Elizabeth Parish by crawling over a plank to cross a narrow street?
Did you know that the general manager of a West Virginia TV station called changing its network affiliation "the hardest decision I've ever had to make"?
Did you know that Akshata Murty , the wife of British prime minister Rishi Sunak , reportedly has more personal wealth than King Charles III ?
Did you know that the first public usage of the term " ongoing Nakba " is widely credited to Hanan Ashrawi , who referenced it in a speech at the 2001 World Conference against Racism ?
Did you know that Michael S. Farbman 's reporting of the Russian Civil War in winter 1917–18 was described by The Observer as "one of the outstanding successes of the time in special correspondence"?
Did you know that despite being in force for more than 100 years, no known prosecutions were made under the Seamen's and Soldiers' False Characters Act 1906 ?
Did you know that U.S. first lady Bess Truman was humiliated by a champagne bottle?
Did you know that people are prone to such a strong distaste for uncertainty that they might value a $50 gift card more than a lottery ticket that yields a $50 or $100 gift card with equal probability?
Did you know that although the First World War ended with the armistice of 11 November 1918 , twenty-one generals are recognised as having died for France after this date, some as late as 1923?
Did you know that Concentricities , a 2019 clarinet–cello–piano trio by Graham Waterhouse , musically depicts a theme of circular, spiraling, or oscillating concentric phenomena in nature and human structures?
Did you know that Wan Abubakar submitted his resignation to run for reelection, but retracted it when his candidacy failed?
Did you know that a kickoff temperature of 13 °F (−11 °C) at the 2022 Armed Forces Bowl nearly made it the coldest bowl game ever?
Did you know that Debbie Friedman and Drorah Setel 's Mi Shebeirach for healing, written by the couple amidst the AIDS crisis , has become "the emotional highlight of synagogue services" for many Jews?
Did you know that American Elmer Carlson brought a roller-skating mule to the 1964 Democratic National Convention ?
Did you know that the show The Thing About Pam is based on Pam Hupp 's involvement in the murder of Betsy Faria?
Did you know that Austin Reed 's 497 passing yards in the 2022 New Orleans Bowl set a New Orleans Bowl record?
Did you know that Sarah Mardini worked as a humanitarian for refugees and now could be sentenced to 25 years in prison?
Did you know that Quasar Data Products ' ruggedized QDP-300 microcomputer alerts the user if it is potentially overheating by sounding an alarm?
Did you know that a 2016 leaflet published by the British government warned that Brexit would increase the cost of living and lead to a decade or more of uncertainty?
Did you know that the Macks Creek Law originated in response to a state legislator getting a traffic ticket?
Did you know that James B. Jones got his nickname, "Jawbone", from his time as a traveling soap salesman?
Did you know that L. J. Potts translated the Poetics as Aristotle on the Art of Fiction , a title accused of "[narrowing] dangerously the wide gap between Aristotle and ourselves", but later called "creative genius"?
Did you know that Atlanta's "quicker picker-upper " aired martial arts movies, professional wrestling, jazz music, and Japanese-language programming?
Did you know that despite published scholarship to the contrary, Andrew Planta neither received a doctorate nor taught mathematics at Erlangen ?
Did you know that in November 2022, Leicester City Council used the Food Act 1984 in combination with a royal charter of 1199 to levy a charge on the organisers of two Christmas light switching-on events?
Did you know that after Domen Križaj from Slovenia was a prize winner in the singing competition Neue Stimmen , he moved to the Oper Frankfurt where he appeared as Massenet's Albert and Mozart's Papageno ?
Did you know that Manny's Deli in Chicago received national recognition for its popularity among politicians, including Barack Obama ?
Did you know that Claude C. Robinson was supposed to pick the star-of-the-game , but he left early when struck in the head by a hockey puck ?
Did you know that the audience sometimes heckles defeated sumo wrestlers by throwing zabuton onto the stage at them?
Did you know that while at high school, Johann Georg Seidenbusch declared to Our Lady : "ad carissimam Sponsam te eligo" (I choose thee as my dearest Bride)?
Did you know that Cincinnati hired Louisville 's head football coach to replace their own outgoing head coach just days after the two teams were announced as opponents for the 2022 Fenway Bowl ?
Did you know that George Jameson was the highest-scoring New Zealand night fighter pilot of World War II ?
Did you know that when the former Clarence Hotel in Brighton began to collapse in 1990, the resulting closure of North Street diverted 120 buses per hour in each direction for a week?
Did you know that when serving as Governor of Riau , Soeripto helped found the province's first daily newspaper?
Did you know that Culver City's Measure VY would have allowed 16-year-olds to vote, but it fell short by 16 votes out of over 16,000?
Did you know that Gene Cipriano played the saxophone part for Tony Curtis 's character in the film Some Like It Hot ?
Did you know that when Westminster City Council in London agreed to use " global majority " as a more inclusive term than BAME or "ethnic minority", a Conservative MP called it "deeply sinister"?
Did you know that Rhea Seehorn wanted the sprinkler in the cold open to the Better Call Saul episode " Hit and Run "  to sound like a machine gun?
Did you know that after leaving his job promoting Qatar ahead of the 2022 World Cup , Marc Bennett alleged he was tortured before being found hanged in his hotel room ?
Did you know that at age 10, Sophia Lucia surpassed the world record for consecutive pirouettes by 19 turns?
Did you know that the medieval baptismal font of Löderup Church in Sweden contains a depiction of a ship with a dragon's head at the stem, similar to a Viking ship ?
Did you know that New York mayor Michael Bloomberg said that the only calls on his bat phone were from salespeople offering magazine subscriptions or insurance policies?
Did you know that Fuccbois ' crew won awards, while Fuccboi 's prose received both praise and criticism?
Did you know that after fleeing the Nazis in 1938, Peter Strausfeld befriended the manager of London's top art house cinema and designed their posters until his death in 1980?
Did you know that the Allman Brothers Band 's well-known 1971 interpretation of " Done Somebody Wrong " had four songwriters listed in the credits, but not Eddie Kirkland , who wrote the original song?
Did you know that although the third Onondaga County Courthouse was demolished in 1967, the hand-cut stones of its tower have been preserved?
Did you know that King Albert Park MRT station and its adjoining stations Tan Kah Kee and Sixth Avenue are intended to represent the natural elements?
Did you know that Aaron Stark 's life may have been saved by a friend inviting him in for a blueberry-peach pie ?
Did you know that C. J. Phipps , the leading theatre architect of the age, was found responsible for the deadliest-ever UK theatre disaster ?
Did you know that the 100-player board game Cartographers has a crowdfunded expansion set?
Did you know that Midwest Scientific was the only maker of microcomputers in Kansas City in the late 1970s?
Did you know that Catholic bishop-elect Philip Moger knew that he wanted to become a priest when he was eight years old?
Did you know that the 2021 film West Side Story was banned in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, and Bahrain, likely due to the transgender character Anybodys?
Did you know that according to legend, Giriyak Stupa was constructed over the body of a dead goose?
Did you know that the parliamentary sign-language interpreter could not make out what South African MP Joan Fubbs tried to say in her tribute to President Cyril Ramaphosa ?
Did you know that Perry County is the least densely populated county in Tennessee ?
Did you know that Abdul Hamid al-Zahrawi , a former member of the General Assembly of the Ottoman Empire , was executed in 1916 for his support for Arab nationalism?
Did you know that a section of Mississippi Highway 489 was designated as the Jason Boyd Memorial Highway to commemorate the MDOT superintendent who was killed while removing debris from the road?
Did you know that in mediaeval England an area of special legal jurisdiction extended around the royal court and moved with it?
Did you know that Paul Dini was a writer for both the animated television series Batman: The Animated Series and the video game series Batman: Arkham ?
Did you know that Romeo and Juliet both served in the Union Navy ?
Did you know that the first fictional depiction of the moons of Mars predates their discovery by a century and a half?
Did you know that in Mother and Child , composed in 2002 by John Tavener for the vocal ensemble Tenebrae , organ and temple gong enter for the climax?
Did you know that the 2022 Cure Bowl is the only one of the 2022–23 NCAA football bowl games scheduled to be played between FBS conference champions?
Did you know that Burton Raffel called Arthur Cooper 's translation of a poem by Du Fu "exceedingly lame"?
Did you know that Minnesota legislator Claudia Meier cosponsored a bill freeing women from having to take their husbands' last names, and then took her husband's last name?
Did you know that at the height of the war between Iraq and the Islamic State , diplomats of the Philippine embassy in Baghdad agreed to die together rather than be taken hostage?
Did you know that all three of playwright Oliver Hailey 's Broadway productions closed after one regular performance?
Did you know that Jack Smith , the special counsel appointed to investigate Donald Trump , played football for Liverpool ?
Did you know that the parasitic fossil fungus Paleoserenomyces allenbyensis was named after a Canadian ghost town?
Did you know that retired Indonesian general and politician Mochamad Hasbi fled from arrest for seven years after he was sentenced to a year in prison in relation to a corruption case?
Did you know that the Apple II game Pentapus was developed by Jeremy Sagan, son of astronomer Carl Sagan ?
Did you know that the Canadian Coalition for Firearm Rights has been described as "Canada's most prominent pro-gun group"?
Did you know that the South Asian river dolphin is nearly blind and relies on echolocation for navigation?
Did you know that Cow Hell Swamp got its name because cows would frequently wander in and get stuck?
Did you know that although SS Tembien was known to be carrying Allied prisoners of war, she was sunk by a British submarine on 27 February 1942 with hundreds killed?
Did you know that the conservationist Martha Isabel Ruiz Corzo sings when she speaks?
Did you know that Linda Ronstadt 's " Long, Long Time " saw a 4,900-percent increase in Spotify streams in the United States in the hour after the broadcast of the third episode of The Last of Us ?
Did you know that Nicholas Orsini became Despot of Epirus by murdering his uncle, only to be in turn killed by his brother five years later?
Did you know that Max Reger 's Piano Concerto was premiered by Frieda Hodapp in 1910, but has rarely been performed since due to its difficulty?