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Did you know that the destruction by range safety officers of the satellite SOLRAD 2 over Cuba in 1960 sparked international protest and compromised American missile security?
Did you know that Gujarati academic Daksha Pattani published her doctoral thesis on Mahatma Gandhi in six volumes?
Did you know that a colony of fruit bats in Îles Ehotilés National Park in Ivory Coast is considered by the local people to be a sign of the presence of their ancestors?
Did you know that Canadian photographic artist JJ Levine is known for portraits in which the same model depicts both the male and female members of a couple?
Did you know that at the time of Abdullah's entry into what was to become the modern country of Jordan during the interregnum period , the region was extremely poor, sparsely populated and widely considered ungovernable?
Did you know that a jury once rushed out of the courtroom of William F. Turner , first Chief Justice of the Arizona Territorial Supreme Court, to attend to a Native American attack?
Did you know that Mandy Moore choreographed La La Land 's opening number using 30 dancers, 100 extras, and 60 cars stuck in traffic on a Los Angeles freeway ?
Did you know that at the 2019 Austria Open , a 9-ball pool tournament, Kamila Khodjaeva reached the quarter-finals despite not playing a competitive match since 2016?
Did you know that Summer Rayne Oakes has been called "the world's first eco -model" because she only models clothes made from organic or recycled materials?
Did you know that rooks are intelligent birds and can rival or even beat chimpanzees in puzzle-solving tests?
Did you know that George Ali Murad Khan , ruler of the princely state of Khairpur in Pakistan, survived an accidental shooting by his father when he was nine months old?
Did you know that per a recent Supreme Court ruling , U.S. states are immune from private suits against them in courts of other states without their consent?
Did you know that £100,000,000 notes known as "Titans" are locked away in the Bank of England ?
Did you know that at the unveiling of Alexander Phimister Proctor 's statue of Robert E. Lee in 1936, President Franklin D. Roosevelt called Lee "one of our greatest American gentlemen"?
Did you know that Nozomi Nishida is a member of Walküre, a music group which exists both in real life and in the anime Macross Delta ?
Did you know that army general Abdul Haris Nasution considered the 1945 Battle of Semarang the first major battle for the Indonesian nation?
Did you know that Paula R. Pietromonaco found that attachment styles affect how people think and behave during conflict?
Did you know that satellites in a Tundra orbit trace a figure-eight across the sky?
Did you know that Felipe Reinoso served in the Connecticut House of Representatives prior to contesting an open seat in the Congress of the Republic of Peru ?
Did you know that the fly Phytobia betulae is just 5 mm (0.2 in) long but the tunnel made by its larva inside a birch tree may reach 17 m (56 ft)?
Did you know that the 1957 launch of Sputnik 1 , the first artificial satellite, led to a period of public anxiety in the United States and accelerated the Space Race ?
Did you know that pilot-cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin , the first human in space and first to orbit the Earth, ejected from his descending spacecraft at an altitude of about 7,000 metres (23,000 ft)?
Did you know that two Russian tortoises were aboard the first spacecraft to return safely from a trip around the Moon?
Did you know that Mae Jemison , the first black woman in space, worked at a Cambodian refugee camp in Thailand and was a medical officer for the Peace Corps before becoming an astronaut?
Did you know that the Soviet probe Luna 2 , the first human-made object to make contact with the Moon, began a trend of crash landing missions that continued even after soft landings were mastered?
Did you know that David Scott 's performance under pressure during Gemini 8 , the first mission to achieve a docking in space , led to his selection for the Apollo program ?
Did you know that cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova made 42 trips outside the Soviet Union between 1963 and 1970 in response to invitations she received after becoming the first woman in space?
Did you know that Félicette , the first cat in space, was subjected to 9.5 g of acceleration and five minutes of weightlessness?
Did you know that Binod Chaudhary is the first Nepali to be listed on Forbes 's billionaire list?
Did you know that four of the fourteen astronauts in NASA Astronaut Group 3 were killed in training accidents before they had a chance to fly in space?
Did you know that the oboist and composer Rolf Riehm taught music theory in Frankfurt from 1974 to 2000 and wrote an opera, Sirenen , for a 2014 premiere at the Oper Frankfurt ?
Did you know that during the 1924–25 season , Cardiff City F.C. became the first Welsh team to reach an FA Cup final?
Did you know that Captain Henry Meintjes , a South African World War I flying ace, was shot in the wrist when far over enemy lines but still managed to bring his airplane back and land it safely?
Did you know that the extinction of the Bramble Cay melomys was described as the first for a mammal species due to anthropogenic climate change ?
Did you know that when he graduated in medicine at the age of 24, James Fraser was already Sir James Fraser?
Did you know that Maria Magnani Noya was the first woman mayor of Turin and the second woman mayor in Italy?
Did you know that David Cage started writing the video game The Nomad Soul because he had grown tired of being a composer?
Did you know that Wu Ziliang developed the technology to separate uranium-235 for China's first nuclear bomb ?
Did you know that Sommen charrs are a relict population that has survived because of Lake Sommen's great depth, and its cold and oxygen-rich waters?
Did you know that sculptor Alice King Chatham used plaster casts to design custom-fitted oxygen masks and helmets for Project Mercury astronauts?
Did you know that Rhys Griffiths has won the Welsh Premier League Golden Boot more times than any other player, winning for seven consecutive seasons between 2006 and 2012?
Did you know that the scenic design for Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen by Günther Schneider-Siemssen was shown at the Metropolitan Opera from 1986 to 2009?
Did you know that Portland 's NS Line opened in 2001 as the first newly built streetcar line in the United States in 50 years to use modern vehicles?
Did you know that according to a study conducted by epidemiologist Xifeng Wu and her colleagues, fifteen minutes of moderate exercise per day can increase lifespan by an average of three years?
Did you know that the Gloucester tabula set includes gaming pieces depicting a copulating couple, a hanging man, and a manticore ?
Did you know that Robyn Benincasa ran a marathon four months after having surgery for osteoarthritis and being told she might never run again?
Did you know that George Gosse was awarded the George Cross for disarming three German naval mines under exceptionally hazardous conditions?
Did you know that six of the Next Nine astronauts flew to the Moon, and three walked on it?
Did you know that as the film negatives used for the first Indian feature film were of limited spectral sensitivity , the colour red was avoided in sets, costumes, and make-up?
Did you know that in South Africa, the mosquito Anopheles funestus used to breed in fast-moving streams but now prefers swamps?
Did you know that HMS Lavinia was saved from being broken up, only to be sunk in a collision with another ship?
Did you know that Isabel Martin was one of the Australian Devils who won silver at the 2019 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in Suphan Buri , Thailand?
Did you know that it took Scarecrow Press 25 years to complete its series of historical dictionaries of African countries ?
Did you know that the idea for the song " Anyone Who Knows What Love Is (Will Understand) " came to Jeannie Seely at the age of 23, and she was still earning royalties for it at age 78?
Did you know that Patrick Francheterre played for, coached and managed the France men's national ice hockey team , and helped cover expenses when the French Ice Hockey Federation went bankrupt?
Did you know that 50 years ago today, Maspalomas Station in the Canary Islands was the first ground station to make contact with the Apollo 11 astronauts in Earth orbit, about 16 minutes into the flight?
Did you know that Sir Lancelot Barrington-Ward performed surgery on Prince Albert, who later became King George VI ?
Did you know that during its 2019 election campaign , the Indian National Congress promised to abolish the sedition law , although the government had arrested 9,000 people for sedition alone in 2012–2013?
Did you know that Gao Xiaoxia abandoned her PhD studies to leave America in 1951, just before the US government banned Chinese students from returning home?
Did you know that the clingfish Diplecogaster bimaculata has been photographed cleaning a moray eel ?
Did you know that in 2001, Bury Football Club 's first mascot , "Robbie the Bobby", was sent off three times by referees for bad behaviour?
Did you know that the Irish musician Gregory Gray , who started his career in a boy band , became the cult indie musician Mary Cigarettes?
Did you know that in 1974, a United States Army private first class stole a helicopter and landed it on the White House lawn?
Did you know that Catherine Despard helped compose the speech that her husband , the ringleader of the Despard Plot , gave at the gallows?
Did you know that American pool player John Schmidt holds the record for the longest straight pool run at 626?
Did you know that Strombosia pustulata is one of over two hundred species of tree growing in the Omo Forest Reserve ?
Did you know that Damiano Michieletto , known for directing Rossini's operas , recently staged Schreker's Der ferne Klang at the Oper Frankfurt , where the world premiere had been performed in 1912?
Did you know that a three-story structure in Beatrice, Nebraska , was built for a Schmuck?
Did you know that Palestinians in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in Beirut called American journalist Janet Lee Stevens "the little drummer girl" because of her staunch support for their cause?
Did you know that Back to Black , the final studio album by Amy Winehouse , topped the European Top 100 Albums chart for 13 non-consecutive weeks?
Did you know that Australian rules footballer Emerson Woods was a premiership player in the VFL Women's while still in secondary school?
Did you know that the cave-nesting rockwarbler has also been called the "hanging dick" because of its nest?
Did you know that lieutenant commander James J. Connell 's Navy Cross was the highest award for valor bestowed on a Delawarean during the Vietnam War?
Did you know that César Franck composed Psalm 150 , a setting of " the musicians' psalm ", for choir, orchestra, and organ, for a school for the blind in Paris?
Did you know that Charles Stapley played 26 different roles in The Adventures of Robin Hood ?
Did you know that after the crash of Paradise Airlines Flight 901A , the Federal Aviation Administration permanently grounded the airline's operations?
Did you know that in 1953, Satyawati Suleiman became the first woman to receive a degree in archaeology from the University of Indonesia ?
Did you know that Armenian pianist Tigran Hamasyan believes that God intervened in the recording of his album Luys i Luso ?
Did you know that Abby Dunkin was one of three University of Texas at Arlington players selected as members of the All Star Five at the 2019 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship ?
Did you know that the 2003 edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans featured the first renewable-fuelled sports prototype racing car to be entered in a Le Mans event?
Did you know that English librarian Frank Cundall created the West India Reference Library in 1894, which later became the nucleus of the National Library of Jamaica ?
Did you know that some supporters of US president Franklin Roosevelt called for him to assume dictatorial powers in 1933?
Did you know that the Arab Serai , a 16th-century roadside inn in Delhi , may have been built to shelter 300 Arab mullahs who accompanied the Mughal emperor's widow on her Hajj to Mecca?
Did you know that Isao Kataoka is the only Japanese recipient of the Paul Loicq Award for contributions to international ice hockey?
Did you know that de novo gene birth was once thought to be impossible but has now been observed in every species that has been systematically examined?
Did you know that Maria Howard Weeden painted many portraits of African-American freedmen and freedwomen ?
Did you know that the Suvorov Monument , now on Suvorov Square , depicts its subject as the god Mars ?
Did you know that Bohumil Herlischka staged Schoenberg's Moses und Aron at the Hamburg State Opera , including a tour to Israel?
Did you know that in two species of megabat , males have been observed to produce milk?
Did you know that Pema Dhondup studied filmmaking at the University of Southern California so he could use the medium to tell the story of his "lost generation" of Tibetan youth?
Did you know that endometriosis , a condition in which tissue from the womb occurs in unusual locations, can cause bleeding into the chest during menstrual periods?
Did you know that Liu Housheng co-founded the Plum Blossom Award , the highest award for Chinese opera ?
Did you know that a clay tablet at the National Museum of Iraq , dated to c. 1770 BCE , shows a calculation that uses the Pythagorean theorem —twelve centuries prior to the birth of Pythagoras?
Did you know that Gustave A. Mueller of the Homeopathic Hospital of Pittsburgh was described in his 1912 obituary as a leading specialist in the treatment of the eye, ear, nose, and throat?
Did you know that flyways used by migrating wetland birds have traditional staging points where they can rebuild their energy reserves?
Did you know that French-born Joe Bertony , who twice escaped from Nazi concentration camps, played a key part in the construction of the Sydney Opera House ?
Did you know that the West Indian Incumbered Estates Acts were modelled on legislation introduced after the Irish Great Famine ?
Did you know that Tatsuo Nomura 's "Pokémon Challenge" for Google Maps , created as an April Fools' Day prank for mobile phone users, led to the development of Pokémon Go ?
Did you know that although living on the same mountain, the Mount Oku rat is endangered by habitat destruction, while the Mittendorf's striped grass mouse is not?
Did you know that the Kinetest , a women's ski trail at the Grovatesten ski field in Meråker , is named after the Norwegian cross-country skier Kine Beate Bjørnås ?
Did you know that the editing style of Every Frame a Painting was formulated to avoid copyright claims from YouTube's Content ID system?
Did you know that researcher Leslie Leve has found that parents' depression is associated with an increased likelihood of behavioral problems in their children?
Did you know that the Brahma Temple of Khajuraho is actually dedicated to Shiva ?
Did you know that Isabelle Story , a member of Eleanor Roosevelt 's press corps, published a weekly column called "Chatting With The First Lady"?
Did you know that Newcastle Falcons were relegated to play in the 2019–20 RFU Championship after the RFU rejected a plan to expand Premiership Rugby ?
Did you know that Wang Xiji , chief designer of China's first space launch vehicle and recoverable satellites, advocated the construction of a solar power station 36,000 km (22,000 mi) above Earth?
Did you know that abnormal structures inside white blood cells called critical green inclusions can indicate impending death?
Did you know that after leaving Nauvoo, Illinois , John Lyman Smith traveled with the Mormon pioneers in 1847 to the Salt Lake Valley , where he became a Utah Territory politician?
Did you know that the Occupation of Ma'an has been called "one of the most confused chapters" of Jordan 's history?
Did you know that pool player David Alcaide became the Spanish national eight-ball champion at age 14?
Did you know that the earliest evidence of sheep herding has been found in northern Iraq , dated before 9000 BC ?
Did you know that Bolivia sued Chile in 2013 to regain land lost in 1884, claiming it had an Obligation to Negotiate Access to the Pacific Ocean ?
Did you know that Joanne Berger-Sweeney is the first African-American and first woman to serve as president of Trinity College , Connecticut?
Did you know that the Benedictines of Murbach Abbey built the monumental Notre-Dame de Guebwiller in order to relocate from their remote valley?
Did you know that operatic bass Kieth Engen , who got his first role, Bluebeard , at the Bavarian State Opera because he was tall, also had a pop career under a pseudonym?
Did you know that The California Field Atlas by Obi Kaufmann is neither a field guide nor a conventional atlas ?
Did you know that Liu Xianjue spent three years researching the book The Architectural Heritage in Macau , which was submitted in the city's successful application for World Heritage status?
Did you know that the Missa brevis for choir a cappella is one of about 300 choral compositions by Knut Nystedt ?
Did you know that Florrie Redford played football with other women during her lunch break at a World War I munitions factory prior to becoming a leading goal scorer for Dick, Kerr Ladies F.C. ?
Did you know that the WTC Cortlandt subway station in New York City, closed for 17 years after the September 11 attacks , cost $181 million to rebuild?
Did you know that Im Eun-ju was the first South Korean woman to referee at the international level of association football ?
Did you know that among the wetland animals in Kainji National Park are two species of crocodile, four of turtle, the African manatee , the hippopotamus, and the clawless otter ?
Did you know that William Feiner became the president of Georgetown College in 1826 despite having never mastered English ?
Did you know that the dome of Santa Maria di Collemaggio collapsed in the 1461 L'Aquila earthquake ?
Did you know that Tsunekazu Ishihara was nicknamed "The King of Portable Toys" by coworkers during the development of Pokémon Red and Green ?
Did you know that the repeated question "Warum?" ('Why?') from the Book of Job structures the first of Two Motets, Op. 74 , by Johannes Brahms ?
Did you know that wheelchair basketball player Teisha Shadwell raised money for a custom-built chair on GoFundMe ?
Did you know that HMS Imperieuse once sailed under an American flag?
Did you know that Aziz Abu Sarah , a peace activist from East Jerusalem and promoter of Arab–Israeli peace projects , neither understood Hebrew nor knew any Israeli Jews until after leaving high school?
Did you know that an artificial intelligence wrote a novel in the spirit of Jack Kerouac 's On the Road ?
Did you know that the wildlife of Nigeria includes 940 species of bird and all eight known species of West African mangrove ?
Did you know that Stepan Pimenov 's sculptures for the Admiralty building in St. Petersburg were removed and destroyed by order of Emperor Alexander II ?
Did you know that Werner Egk wrote the libretto for Irische Legende , his first opera after World War II , based on The Countess Cathleen by W. B. Yeats?
Did you know that the designs on opon Ifá divination trays praise and acknowledge the work of the babalawo ?
Did you know that the Leagues Cup , an upcoming four-team soccer competition between MLS and Liga MX clubs, was panned by critics as soon as it was announced?
Did you know that Maria Hueber founded the first school for girls in the Tyrol region?
Did you know that a five-star Amazon review of Facebook Portal by a writer, who claimed not to be a "big" Facebook user before buying the device, was traced to a Facebook employee?
Did you know that the Tarzan of Manisa planted thousands of trees on Mount Sipylus in Turkey ?
Did you know that the creation of the Swedish Levant Company in 1738 was controversial because of a disagreement between several Swedish merchants and the Hat Party ?
Did you know that Eddie Gallagher , a Navy SEAL who had been accused of murder, was transferred to "less restrictive confinement" by direct presidential intervention, the first such transfer since William Calley 's in 1971?
Did you know that the historic French trick-taking card game of la Bête has its origins in 16th-century Spanish Ombre , and was created by introducing the concept of bidding into Triomphe ?
Did you know that Maddie Shevlin dislocated her thumb on debut in her first season of Australian rules football and missed the next ten weeks?
Did you know that the United States embassy in Nicosia , Cyprus , was bombed while Fraser Wilkins was serving as the first US ambassador to Cyprus ?
Did you know that when Joseph Wood was appointed as head master of Harrow School , he was by far the oldest to be appointed since the retirement of Thomas Thackeray in 1760?
Did you know that composers Alexander Borodin , Mikhail Glinka , Modest Mussorgsky , Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky are all buried in the Tikhvin Cemetery ?
Did you know that the Touristic Eastern Express makes two-hour-long stops between Ankara and Kars to allow passengers to visit historic and natural attractions?
Did you know that the German soprano Melanie Diener began her stage career in Mozart roles in 1996, and appeared as Isolde with the Canadian Opera Company and the Opéra national du Rhin in 2013?
Did you know that after discontinuing normal programming, KPPC radio signed on once a week for six months to fulfill a contract to broadcast church services?
Did you know that Qian Ji helped design China's first satellite and was the lead designer for its first three-in-one satellite launch?
Did you know that the Mueller probe was born in a crossfire hurricane ?
Did you know that in 2018, Lorraine Janzen Kooistra was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada for her work in 19th-century literature?
Did you know that the weight of the volcanoes of Hawaii is causing Earth's crust to buckle, generating volcanoes under the sea ?
Did you know that Turkish women's footballer Aslı Canan Sabırlı was appointed technical director of her team while she was still a member of the squad?
Did you know that the 1929 Hugh Ferriss book The Metropolis of Tomorrow featured "projected trends" including skyscraper churches and suspension bridges with apartments built into them?
Did you know that Charles S. Bryan and Bill Stone worked out how to avoid toxic doses of penicillin in people with kidney failure?
Did you know that the bodies of 499 gold miners bound for China were lost when the SS Ventnor sank in 1902?
Did you know that Alexandra Phillips and Alexandra Phillips stood against each other for election in South East England , and both were elected?
Did you know that the FM Non-Duplication Rule adopted by the FCC 55 years ago today led to the creation of the album-oriented and classic rock radio formats ?
Did you know that 11th-century scholar Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Naysaburi , an authority on the early history of Isma'ilism , composed the first official genealogy of the Fatimid dynasty?
Did you know that the WWE 24/7 Championship , a professional wrestling championship , can be defended anytime, anywhere, as long as a WWE referee is present?
Did you know that Women and Politics in Canada by Janine Brodie was the first book to study Canadian women in political campaigns between 1945 and 1975?
Did you know that John Casken 's opera Golem won the 1991 Gramophone Classical Music Award for Best Contemporary Recording?
Did you know that before his accession to the Scottish Parliament in 2016, Bill Bowman lived and worked for more than a decade in Bucharest ?
Did you know that the 1458 Loveday , which was intended to unite Henry VI 's nobility, only resulted in uniting his enemies?
Did you know that for his opera Stephen Climax , composer Hans Zender wrote a libretto which juxtaposes the life of Simeon Stylites with scenes from Ulysses by James Joyce?
Did you know that Dutch pool player Nick van den Berg has competed in the Mosconi Cup eight times and lost only once, in the 2003 event ?