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Did you know that Troy Nehls , the sheriff of Fort Bend County , is the son of a sheriff and brother of a sheriff?
Did you know that after closing his military academy at Chelsea , Lewis Lochée fought for the United Belgian States against the Austrian Netherlands and then wrote a history of the Belgian Revolution ?
Did you know that St. James Church in New York City was once occupied by a veterans' organization, an Indonesian church, and a group for Chinese senior citizens?
Did you know that Ismail II of Granada deposed his brother to take the throne, but less than a year later he was dethroned and killed by his brother-in-law ?
Did you know that Vlambeer pitched the video game Serious Sam: The Random Encounter with a crude sketch, expecting it to be turned down?
Did you know that a report that Slayback's Missouri Cavalry Regiment , which was formed in 1864, was armed with lances instead of firearms is likely inaccurate?
Did you know that Maisie Williams almost missed her Game of Thrones audition because it coincided with a school field trip to a pig farm?
Did you know that El Salvador converted its main convention center into a COVID-19 hospital that, when completed, will have 2,000 beds?
Did you know that Canadian journalist Jim Coleman invented the Curse of Muldoon to meet an editing deadline?
Did you know that the 1990 Message from Turnberry issued by NATO has been called the "first official recognition of the end of the Cold War"?
Did you know that after Dua Lipa wrote her song " Break My Heart ", she noticed similarities to INXS 's " Need You Tonight " and decided to credit the band?
Did you know that Xu Chang's rebellion against the Han dynasty attempted to revive the ancient state of Yue , which had ended about 400 years earlier?
Did you know that due to its explicit content, a manga series on Shōnen Jump+ cannot be accessed via its iOS app, but is available on its website and Android app?
Did you know that Bharatiya Janata Party politician Biyuram Wahge is the first Arunachal Pradesh legislator in history to donate his first salary to his party's fund?
Did you know that after a shoving incident involving a 75-year-old man, two Buffalo police officers were suspended and charged with assault?
Did you know that the Rheinsberg Music Academy , based at Schloss Rheinsberg , offered master classes by opera singer Waltraud Meier and stage director Harry Kupfer in 2019?
Did you know that the bank that owned Wisconsin radio stations WMAD AM and FM hired three new employees in the ten days before shutting the stations down?
Did you know that Pippa Wicks , the deputy chief executive officer of the Co-operative Group , has supported the company's initiative to employ people who have escaped modern slavery ?
Did you know that BTS 's Japanese single " Lights " surpassed one million pre-orders in Japan and broke the 24-year-old record of Celine Dion 's 1995 single " To Love You More "?
Did you know that Priscilla Johnson McMillan is the only individual who personally knew both President John F. Kennedy and his assassin Lee Harvey Oswald ?
Did you know that Lel and Polel are considered divine twins in Slavic mythology ?
Did you know that many structures in the Shackelford County Courthouse Historic District were built in the 1880s after Albany, Texas , became the terminus of the now-defunct Texas Central Railroad?
Did you know that harpsichords built and restored by Claude Mercier-Ythier were played in thousands of concerts and on hundreds of recordings?
Did you know that Walter Lord 's book The Dawn's Early Light was called "the definitive book about the burning of Washington during the War of 1812" by the Los Angeles Times ?
Did you know that a peace treaty signed between Venice and the Byzantine Empire in 1277 allowed both parties to fight one another over possession of Negroponte , without violating its terms?
Did you know that the 1943 Rolls-Royce strike at the Merlin engine plant in Hillington, Scotland , was the only major strike for equal pay in the United Kingdom during the Second World War?
Did you know that critics called for a boycott of transgender filmmaker Rhys Ernst 's film Adam for perceived transphobia ?
Did you know that the Doric columns used in Christ Church in Byculla , India, were imported from England?
Did you know that Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman co-founded the Sadie Collective , which aims to increase representation of black women in economics and other quantitative fields?
Did you know that the sea urchin Goniocidaris umbraculum moves its eggs with its tube feet , assisted by cilia , to an area near its mouth where they can be brooded ?
Did you know that more men of the 10th Missouri Infantry Regiment were captured at the Battle of Helena than remained in the regiment two days later?
Did you know that the music video for Dua Lipa 's song " Physical " is based on a Venn diagram from 1981?
Did you know that the Antonyo Awards —a riff on the Tony Awards —were instituted in 2020 to celebrate excellence in Black theater?
Did you know that the musicologist Jeffrey Kurtzman edited Monteverdi's Vespro della Beata Vergine and wrote a "comprehensive" book about its context, music and performance?
Did you know that the Russian group Occupy Pedophilia filmed themselves committing more than a hundred anti-gay attacks between 2012 and 2014?
Did you know that dancer Alicia Graf Mack completed a history degree in Columbia University while recovering from ankylosing spondylitis ?
Did you know that the publication of Malta's first newspaper was discontinued after about ten issues due to a local uprising ?
Did you know that a large sign announcing the winner of the Democratic nomination for a New Mexico special election appeared three hours before the meeting to select him had started?
Did you know that snooker player John Pulman obliterated a rival's branding from his own cue ?
Did you know that one of the two surviving manuscripts of the Ladakh Chronicles is owned by a monk in Lamayuru Monastery ?
Did you know that in 1948 and 1952, nuclear physicist Leslie Shepherd published scientific papers on the use of nuclear technology for interplanetary and interstellar space travel?
Did you know that New York City's Rattlesnake Creek was named after the rattlesnakes that once populated the Bronx ?
Did you know that Réjane Laberge-Colas was the first woman to serve as a superior court judge in Canada?
Did you know that the chief of the Louisville Metro Police Department was fired after the mayor learned that officers' body cameras were off during the shooting of David McAtee ?
Did you know that when Elza van den Heever made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera as the bald queen Elisabetta in Donizetti's Maria Stuarda , she had her head shaved?
Did you know that the founders of the literary journal Irreantum hoped it would become the source for nationwide publishers to access the best of Mormon literature ?
Did you know that a Christian revival at Anna Bliss 's school in Peru, Massachusetts , led to her being selected to establish a new school in South Africa?
Did you know that the British Raj restricted access to squash courts in India —then located on military bases—to the upper class of society?
Did you know that Portuguese HIV researcher Odette Ferreira flew from Lisbon to Paris with test tubes of blood in her coat to maintain the right temperature for testing at the Pasteur Institute ?
Did you know that many law enforcement authorities in the United States can issue civil investigative demands to compel the production of documents before an action has begun?
Did you know that Ralph Debbas founded the first Middle Eastern automotive company in 2012, making him the first automotive executive in the Middle East?
Did you know that while the management of Wyoming television station KFNB claimed transmitter trouble as the reason for going off the air, a former reporter announced that all staff had been laid off?
Did you know that Harold Clyde Bingham trailed a troop of gorillas for 100 hours in 1929?
Did you know that the interior of Manik Bagh , a palace of the maharajah of Indore State , was filled with contemporary designer furniture by Le Corbusier , Eileen Gray , Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann , and others?
Did you know that suffragist Olive Stott Gabriel supported James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. 's 1920 Senate campaign, although he opposed extending the vote to women?
Did you know that the rapper Akala explains in his book Natives why he was placed in special-needs classes for children who did not speak English, despite reading The Lord of the Rings at the time?
Did you know that the 2002 video game Unlimited Saga was one of five games planned for use in a Sony promotional lottery that was cancelled due to tensions between the U.S. and Iraq?
Did you know that William L. Borden wrote the letter that set in motion the Oppenheimer security hearing ?
Did you know that following decades of repairs due to vandalism and falling headstones in the Children of Israel Cemetery in Winnipeg , Canada, maintenance is now limited to "mowing the grass"?
Did you know that in addition to his rabbinical duties at a Winnipeg Orthodox synagogue, Solomon Frank served as Grand Chancellor of the Knights of Pythias ?
Did you know that during the Battle of Port Gibson , the 5th Missouri Infantry Regiment (Confederate) was sometimes only 10 feet (3.0 m) away from their opponent?
Did you know that Antoinette Waroh was the only female member of the Provisional Representative Body , the parliament of East Indonesia?
Did you know that during contract bidding for structural steel for New York City's New Lots Line , all three bids were rejected partly because the chief engineer was banking on steel prices falling?
Did you know that Thomas H. Stack was president of Boston College for less than a month before he died?
Did you know that in a radical reform of its power grid , Gujarat became the first state in India to separate electricity feeder lines between agricultural and household usage?
Did you know that the Isma'ili leader Ibn Hawshab had to surrender his son as hostage to a rival, who returned him after a year with a golden necklace as a gift?
Did you know that development of the Republic XP-69 aircraft was canceled due to problems with its liquid-cooled radial engine ?
Did you know that the German musicologist Ludwig Finscher was the editor of Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart , an encyclopedia in 28 volumes, placing music in cultural, social, and historical context?
Did you know that a Missouri Confederate infantry regiment lost many men on Graveyard Hill ?
Did you know that professional Super Smash Bros. player Marss is known for his aggressive, unconventional style that capitalizes on Zero Suit Samus 's superior mobility?
Did you know that the soundtrack to the manga and anime series Kids on the Slope features American jazz musicians Art Blakey and Bill Evans ?
Did you know that Adesh Kumar Gupta , the current president of the Bharatiya Janata Party 's Delhi unit, was once arrested and imprisoned for a year for his association with the Ram Janmabhoomi Movement ?
Did you know that the video for Harry Styles 's single " Adore You " was praised for "elevating a good pop song to something closer to absurdist art"?
Did you know that in the 1950s, Slovene transgender lawyer and writer Ljuba Prenner used the introduction: "I am Dr. Ljuba Prenner, neither man nor woman"?
Did you know that more than 60 percent of the members of the 2nd and 6th Missouri Infantry Regiment (Consolidated) became casualties at the Battle of Franklin ?
Did you know that the sea urchin Abatus cordatus broods its young for nine months in pockets on its upper surface?
Did you know that Isaiah McKinnon , an African American, decided to join the Detroit Police Department after he was beaten by racist police officers?
Did you know that only Ifugao consented to be part of an autonomous region in the Philippine Cordillera in a 1990 plebiscite ?
Did you know that Japanese-American hard rock band Crush 40 created music for a number of Sonic the Hedgehog games?
Did you know that the town of Tofino on Vancouver Island was host to a hippie commune called Poole's Land where residents could exchange their labour for accommodation and drugs?
Did you know that Nyma Tang sheds light on colourism in the beauty industry through her YouTube series The Darkest Shade ?
Did you know that the Ente Nacional de Comunicaciones , the communications and media regulator of Argentina, was created despite a court ruling blocking the act?
Did you know that Turkish soldier Abdur Rahman Peshawari was appointed as Turkey's ambassador to Afghanistan in part due to his knowledge of Pashto and Persian ?
Did you know that in 1548, the parish of Egginton sold two church bells to fund repairs to the Monks Bridge ?
Did you know that Edmund Kurtz 's edition of Bach's cello suites , published in 1983, is recognized as one of his greatest achievements?
Did you know that in a new book , Wolf Gruner argues that the collaborationist Czech government played a significant role in the persecution of Jews in Bohemia and Moravia?
Did you know that American space rock band Hum released Inlet , their first album in 22 years, as a surprise on June 23?
Did you know that lifelong Democrat Stephanie Pollack was appointed by lifelong Republican Charlie Baker to lead the Massachusetts Department of Transportation?
Did you know that Charles Rolls 's first car showroom, Lillie Hall , was on the site of a disused skating rink?
Did you know that Belgian academic and judge Étienne Cerexhe was a co-founder of the Faculty of Law at the University of Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso ?
Did you know that Britney Spears 's song " Mood Ring " was originally written as a collaboration between Spears and the Chainsmokers ?
Did you know that Manuel Ellis can be heard in a recording through the Tacoma, Washington, police dispatch radio on March 3, 2020, shouting " I can't breathe !" before his death?
Did you know that Moral , part of a loose trilogy of feminist films directed by Marilou Diaz-Abaya , was initially dismissed by critics but is now regarded as one of the best Filipino films ever made?
Did you know that Cheech Marin of Cheech & Chong , a collector of Mexican-American art, is helping develop The Cheech , a center for Chicano art in Riverside, California?
Did you know that the sea slug Discodoris boholiensis exhibits photokinesis ?
Did you know that the administrator Winifred Tumim called the state of management where charity trustees had no knowledge of their legal and professional obligations "mad chair disease"?
Did you know that Real Life , Brandon Taylor 's debut novel, is an American campus novel about a gay, black doctoral student in a mostly white PhD program?
Did you know that the depiction of Catholicism in Japan in Kids on the Slope , an anime series adapted from a manga by Yuki Kodama , has been compared to The Singing Nun and Sister Act ?
Did you know that the author of the hymn " Das Jahr steht auf der Höhe " wrote his reflections of midsummer in 1978 to a 16th-century melody of a love song?
Did you know that the statue of Mary Seacole in London honours a woman voted the greatest black Briton ?
Did you know that Lauren Boebert encourages her servers to openly carry firearms inside her restaurant in Rifle, Colorado ?
Did you know that carnivorous wildlife of North Macedonia as small as the Balkan lynx have been reported to attack not just livestock , but humans too?
Did you know that Alexander Gordon clearly demonstrated that childbirth fever was contagious 66 years before Ignaz Semmelweis did?
Did you know that Indiana radio station WFCI engaged in a five-year battle to increase its transmitting power, facing opposition from a local TV station ?
Did you know that the chief executive officer of the Central Police Canteen was removed from his position for issuing a list of non-indigenous items that were supposed to be banned for sale?
Did you know that Zico 's " Any Song " dance challenge went viral on TikTok after several South Korean celebrities including Hwasa , Chungha , and Lee Hyori participated in the trend?
Did you know that when originally organized, the 9th Missouri Infantry Regiment contained only eight companies , which violated Confederate regulations?
Did you know that Jürgen Holtz played the title role in Brecht's Leben des Galilei with the Berliner Ensemble at age 86, sometimes appearing naked?
Did you know that the reef box crab uses its powerful pincers to break open the shells of snails?
Did you know that Hetty Spiers , who wrote screenplays for silent films as early as 1917, is included on Columbia University 's list of "Unhistoricized Women Film Pioneers"?
Did you know that a LinkedIn license contract compelled UpCounsel , an online marketplace for legal services, to close but it ended up remaining in business?
Did you know that Italian prima ballerina Alessandra Ferri originated the lead role in the 2015 ballet Woolf Works at age 52?
Did you know that astronomer Mustafa ibn Ali wrote mostly in Ottoman Turkish rather than Arabic, in order to make his field more accessible in the Ottoman Empire?
Did you know that the All India Anglo-Indian Association maintains that Anglo-Indians are unique because they are Christians and have historical links to both Europe and India?
Did you know that Nathalie Evans lived in a flat with a chimpanzee that was trained to eat at the dinner table and use the flush toilet?
Did you know that the flag of the 4th Missouri Infantry Regiment (Confederate) is on display at the Museum of the Confederacy ?
Did you know that Adolf Hitler and members of his staff who survived the 20 July plot to assassinate him were treated in the former Carlshof Institutions ?
Did you know that Albanese Candy makes gummy confectioneries in the shape of worms, snakes, butterflies, khaki-colored soldiers, and jet fighter aircraft?
Did you know that the choir of Reigate St Mary's School in England sang in the film Angels & Demons and was featured on the soundtrack of Tim Burton 's Alice in Wonderland ?
Did you know that Gabriella Morreale de Escobar established a national newborn-screening program for congenital hypothyroidism in Spain?
Did you know that the Survey of Palestine was the only government department in Mandatory Palestine not headquartered in Jerusalem?
Did you know that when he was Archbishop of Buenos Aires , Pope Francis instructed the first director general of television station Canal 21 to position the station "between nude women and the Sunday Mass"?
Did you know that the 1994 film Fresh Kill is noted for its influence on hacker subculture , with a 1995 article about the film containing one of the first recorded uses of the term " hacktivism "?
Did you know that Venezuelan sociologist Esther Pineda G popularized the term violencia estética ('aesthetic violence') to describe the damaging pressure on women to respond to prevailing ideas of beauty?
Did you know that 47 million copies of Dwight D. Eisenhower 's People of Western Europe speech were printed for distribution during World War II?
Did you know that American rapper 2 Black 2 Strong is best known for his song "Burn Baby Burn" about the right to burn the flag ?
Did you know that for its 2020 tourism campaign , the Government of Nepal proposed building 108 sculptures of the Yeti painted by 108 different artists?
Did you know that the 5th-century saint Apollinaris Syncletica might have been wrongly accused of seducing her own sister?
Did you know that it was said that Crawfish Spring supplied water to the "entire" Union Army during the Battle of Chickamauga ?
Did you know that Bruce Lewandowski , the incoming auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Baltimore , worked with the activist group BUILD to create a parish identity card for undocumented immigrants?
Did you know that O sacrum convivium! is one of the best-known works by Olivier Messiaen , but he declared that it was not representative of his compositional style?
Did you know that Nature's Fynd , producer of microbe-based meat substitutes, is working with NASA to develop a bioreactor for use in space travel?
Did you know that Mark Ormrod was the first UK soldier to survive a triple amputation during the War in Afghanistan ?
Did you know that How to Be an Antiracist topped The New York Times Best Seller List in the Hardcover Nonfiction category after a surge in sales following the killing of George Floyd ?
Did you know that "Oye Mujer", a song certified 14× Multi-Platinum (Latin) in the US, was composed by Mexican musician Raymix while he was participating in a NASA educative internship?
Did you know that a same-sex kiss, broadcast in January 2020, between the Casualty characters Marty Kirkby and Jack Ward received 111 complaints?
Did you know that after the American Civil War, Reconstruction-era laws enabled black suffrage , but in practice African Americans still faced obstacles to voting?
Did you know that Souleymane Mboup and his team discovered HIV-2 in Senegal in 1985?
Did you know that the film Chasing 3000 was meant to premiere at the 2006 Major League Baseball All-Star Game , but was held back since the filmmakers wanted a better chance to secure a distribution deal?
Did you know that as the pianist for the ensemble Gruppe Neue Musik Hanns Eisler , Gerhard Erber was among the first East German musicians to tour beyond the Iron Curtain ?
Did you know that the " bad apples " metaphor has changed from a warning not to interact with corrupt individuals to a claim that bad apples are not representative of an entire group?
Did you know that the base of 712 Fifth Avenue contains the historic Coty Building , which has the only documented architectural work by René Lalique in the United States?
Did you know that Emily Sheffield , the new editor of London's Evening Standard , left British Vogue as part of what was called a "posh girl exodus"?
Did you know that in the tell-all book Too Much and Never Enough , Donald Trump 's niece Mary L. Trump alleges that he mistreated his father Fred Trump after Fred developed Alzheimer's disease ?
Did you know that Joseph Ngolepus finished third at the 2003 London Marathon , one second behind the winner, in the closest London Marathon finish in history?
Did you know that Operation Gideon , an attempt to infiltrate Venezuela by sea and remove Nicolás Maduro from office, was stopped before it got further than the beach?
Did you know that technology executive Scott A. McGregor was the lead developer of Windows 1.0 ?
Did you know that in a January 1939 speech , Hitler predicted "the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe"?
Did you know that Brooklyn -based activist group El Grito de Sunset Park frequently photographs the police ?
Did you know that Priyanka Chopra planned her wedding to Nick Jonas in between filming scenes for The Sky Is Pink ?
Did you know that when Antje Weithaas played Max Bruch 's Violin Concerto , a reviewer from The Guardian wrote that she reminded her, "with quiet and compelling eloquence, why it's a masterpiece"?
Did you know that the Federal Communications Commission disapproved of a potential buyer's plans for North Carolina television station WANC-TV , finding them a wasteful use of spectrum?
Did you know that to avoid prosecution, managers of illegal opioid prescription centers known as " pill mills " tend to run their facilities like pop-up stores ?
Did you know that Jan Otrębski , who knew nothing of the Lithuanian language until his adulthood, is honored in Lithuania for his studies of the language?
Did you know that the frog Corythomantis greeningi retreats into a hole, blocks the entrance with its spiny head, and injects venom into anything that tries to dislodge it?
Did you know that Angèle Dola Akofa Aguigah demonstrated that the earthworks at Notsé in Togo were used to define separate social spaces, not for defence?
Did you know that one of the 11 museums and art installations maintained by the Dia Art Foundation is a room in New York City filled with 250 cubic yards (190 m 3 ) of soil?
Did you know that Circassian settlers in Jordan founded modern Amman in 1878?
Did you know that the quality of Bruce Edwards 's repartee with his co-star in the 1947 film serial The Black Widow has been compared to the verbal sparring of Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell in His Girl Friday ?