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Did you know that when a fire broke out next to studios of Oklahoma radio station KVSO , reporters had to rush in to report the blaze and then out to breathe fresh air?
Did you know that Hein Eersel added "genuine Surinamese expressions" in his adaptation of the play The Barber of Seville ?
Did you know that during his mayoralty , Fiorello La Guardia appointed the first black woman judge in the United States?
Did you know that railroad transportation executive William Phillips Hall was known as the "business millionaire evangelist"?
Did you know that the band behind two expletive-laden UK top-five singles about Boris Johnson released a follow-up about Prince Andrew ?
Did you know that although George Balanchine set Raymonda Variations to musical excerpts from the ballet Raymonda , his new ballet does not follow the plot of the original?
Did you know that ethnic broadcasting pioneer Shushma Datt was the first Canadian woman to obtain a CRTC broadcast licence?
Did you know that the Catholic charismatic renewal movement began at a retreat for college students in 1967?
Did you know that the TV adaptation of Life After Life was described as "bingeworthy", but also "practically plotless"?
Did you know that Kenneth E. Fields was in command of the engineers at the Ludendorff Bridge during the Battle of Remagen ?
Did you know that the "favorable comparisons of Lenin to Confucius, Buddha, and Allah" in Dmitri Shostakovich 's Loyalty were said to have "achieved new levels of ludicrous flattery"?
Did you know that Sunday-school classes were once held in the transmitter building of New Mexico radio station KCLV ?
Did you know that Scottish inventor and music teacher Anne Gunn was granted the first British patent for a board game in 1801?
Did you know that Concurrent Computer Corporation was consumed in a "minnow-swallows-the-whale" merger during the junk bonds era, but unusually, kept its name, CEO, and headquarters?
Did you know that Joshua George Beard was a member of the first Toronto City Council and the first Toronto School Board of Trustees ?
Did you know that until the 1970s, most shōjo manga (Japanese girls' comics ) were written by men?
Did you know that Claudia Riner was falsely accused of distributing lesbian erotica in the Kentucky House of Representatives?
Did you know that on the day the Conrad Bangkok hotel opened in 2003, ten people climbed up its walls dressed as Spider-Man ?
Did you know that 'Til Kingdom Come , a documentary film about evangelical Christian Zionism in the United States, was blocked from airing on PBS due to its editing of a speech by Donald Trump?
Did you know that Nazi war criminal Kurt Weigelt could not be directly employed by Deutsche Bank after World War II, so he reestablished Lufthansa ?
Did you know that the Battle of San Buenaventura was described by the Los Angeles Times as a "quirky skirmish ... that emptied the mission of wine and left its adobe walls pockmarked by cannon fire"?
Did you know that the poet Habibi was adopted by Aq Qoyunlu ruler Ya'qub Beg as a child after he was found shepherding?
Did you know that after the 1918 season, some Major League Baseball owners wanted the National Baseball Commission to be replaced by former president William Howard Taft ?
Did you know that "it is almost impossible to find fault" with London's exclusive private dining club, Harry's Bar – until one receives the bill?
Did you know that during the Great Flood of 1951 , the United States Air Force airlifted a transmitter to put Kansas radio station KTOP back on the air within 24 hours?
Did you know that Cardiff-based classicist Kathleen Freeman also wrote detective fiction , publishing under four separate pseudonyms?
Did you know that photographer Greta Pratt 's Nineteen Lincolns exhibition featured members of the Association of Lincoln Presenters ?
Did you know that when public radio stations aired Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in solidarity with Ukraine on 10 March 2022, the bass voice of Anthony Robin Schneider was heard live from Frankfurt and recorded from Auckland ?
Did you know that altered certificates of deposit were used to fraudulently purchase the Ranchlander National Bank in Texas?
Did you know that the Ottmar Hitzfeld Arena is the highest football pitch in Europe with the competing teams accessing it by cable car ?
Did you know that Luise Duttenhofer died in 1829 after more than a thousand papercuts ?
Did you know that Luella Costales was appointed to the Hawaii House of Representatives after her predecessor pled guilty to bribery charges?
Did you know that Erratus was one of the earliest-known arthropods to show the origins of lungs and limbs?
Did you know that Celia Kaye won the Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer in 1965 for her starring role in Island of the Blue Dolphins ?
Did you know that an abandoned building in Cheorwon, South Korea, used to be the base of operations for the Workers' Party of North Korea ?
Did you know that Isachar Zacharie , podiatrist and confidant of Abraham Lincoln , helped him accept the idea of a homeland for the Jewish people ?
Did you know that the canoe routes through Obabika River Provincial Park are part of Temagami 's 2,400-kilometre-long (1,500 mi) network of portages and waterways, many of which are traditional indigenous routes?
Did you know that Craig Braun 's Grammy-nominated album packaging for School's Out had to be recalled for including underwear that constituted a fire hazard?
Did you know that it took Isaac Levitan four years to paint Fresh Wind. Volga ?
Did you know that windsurfer Penny Way won the British qualification event for the 1996 Summer Olympics with two races to spare?
Did you know that by winning the 2022 CONCACAF Champions League Final , Seattle Sounders FC became the first Major League Soccer team to win the competition?
Did you know that as a child, Mitsurou Kubo read forty manga magazines per month?
Did you know that Archbishop Justin Welby said that the 800th anniversary of the anti-Jewish laws of the Synod of Oxford provided a time to "remember, repent and rebuild"?
Did you know that Sofia Halechko 's first language was Polish, but she fought in World War One to create a country for Ukrainian-speaking people?
Did you know that during the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera , the singing of the Catalan national anthem was banned?
Did you know that fashion journalists joked that it was "a miracle" that no models fell while walking the runway in the 12-inch (30 cm) armadillo shoes designed in 2010 by Alexander McQueen ?
Did you know that James Goldberg co-founded the Mormon Lit Blitz, an annual writing competition for very short works of Mormon fiction ?
Did you know that in 1958 the Scyla theta pinch device was the first to demonstrate controlled nuclear fusion in the laboratory?
Did you know that South African physician Tlaleng Mofokeng is the United Nations special rapporteur on the right to health, and was named one of the BBC's 100 Women ?
Did you know that the 1988 closure of WLEE , once one of the top radio stations in Richmond, Virginia , also took WBBL , a church station in existence for nearly 65 years, off the air for good?
Did you know that while he was a teacher in France, George Buchanan wrote a school play about Jephthah 's sacrifice of his daughter ?
Did you know that Associate Justice John McLean is suspected of leaking internal United States Supreme Court deliberations in the landmark Dred Scott v. Sandford case to the New-York Tribune ?
Did you know that when asked by the king to choose the weapon by which he would be executed, the outlaw Nga Tet Pya replied "I choose your most beautiful queen Saw Omma "?
Did you know that Binggrae , a South Korean food and beverage company, was the official ice cream supplier of the 1988 Seoul Olympics ?
Did you know that AJ Glueckert appeared at the Metropolitan Opera as Erik in 2017, described as a "clarion sensitive tenor", and at the Oper Frankfurt as Flamand in 2018, with "passionate power"?
Did you know that a religious community is a group of people who practice the same religion, but do not have to live together?
Did you know that Garland Boyette , a two-time American Football League All-Star who was also a track and field All-American , said that he "never felt safe on that aluminum pole "?
Did you know that the Red Cross Diamond is one of the largest cut diamonds in the world; and it was donated to help the British Red Cross Society during World War I?
Did you know that when asked about the secret to her longevity, 91-year-old Shatzi Weisberger said she smokes marijuana every night?
Did you know that Frankie Saluto was a member of the Ringling Giants, a dwarf baseball team that raised money for charity?
Did you know that one music critic said that despite being "noisy, banal, fundamentally insincere", Dmitri Shostakovich 's symphonic poem October was nonetheless "enjoyable trash"?
Did you know that Centre College president William C. Young awarded degrees to three of his half-sisters in 1891, as they had completed the requirements forty years earlier?
Did you know that after four years in the making, the Minimal BASIC standard was described as "more a toy than an actual language"?
Did you know that the captain of CSS Pontchartrain was twice detached from the ship to fight in land battles?
Did you know that the game of slosh shares the name with an English batter and sausage dish ?
Did you know that merchant trader Constantine Zochonis expanded his company Paterson Zochonis into the Gold Coast in the 1930s?
Did you know that in 1973, Caroline Rose Foster donated her farm Fosterfields to the Parks Commission of Morris County, New Jersey to be preserved as a functioning farm from 1920?
Did you know that the British film Strippers vs Werewolves opens with a different band playing the song " Hungry Like the Wolf " by Duran Duran ?
Did you know that Indian gynaecologist and reproductive medicine pioneer Baidyanath Chakrabarty , who performed over 4,000 IVF procedures, was a cricket fan who thought Virat Kohli and Ashwin were "such good boys"?
Did you know that Yuki Fumino's relationships with hearing-impaired friends and acquaintances inspired her to create I Hear the Sunspot ?
Did you know that at the age of 26, Lucy Moss became the youngest female director of a Broadway musical before directing a TikTok musical that raised $2 million?
Did you know that Aroha Bridge changed its name from Hook Ups because fans searching for the show often found pornography instead?
Did you know that the New Zealand government has officially apologised for articles published in the New Zealand School Journal about the Moriori people in the early 20th century?
Did you know that the 48-story Uris Building went into foreclosure just two and a half years after it was completed?
Did you know that media promotions for the film Blood Friends were not allowed to mention that cast member Nina Makino is part of the girl group NiziU ?
Did you know that it is purportedly hard to find a more interesting card game played with German-suited cards than Sansprendre, a variant of German Tarok ?
Did you know that the parents of Bob Glenalvin insisted that he play baseball under an assumed name?
Did you know that the Turkish multirotor combat drone Songar was recently equipped with six 40 mm (1.6 in) mini missiles?
Did you know that US radio regulators sought to shut down Ohio station WEBE , which was said to operate from the owner's bedroom using "parts of a questionable nature"?
Did you know that mountaineer and geographer Caleb George Cash was instrumental in preserving essential documents pertaining to the first known atlas of Scotland ?
Did you know that the short-lived English football club Dingley Dell F.C. was named after a fictitious village in The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens ?
Did you know that Josef Venantius von Wöss , a church musician in Vienna, wrote a piano reduction of Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde and a thematic analysis of the work?
Did you know that for an episode of BoJack Horseman , the production team added a cardboard cutout of the title character after Netflix said it did not feature him enough?
Did you know that in 1957, Burhanuddin Harahap 's family members travelled from Sumatra to Jakarta, believing that he had died?
Did you know that Al-Wishah fi Fawa'id al-Nikah , a 15th-century Islamic sex manual by Egyptian writer Al-Suyuti , was based on both traditional hadith literature and material influenced by Indian erotology?
Did you know that Ohio SORTA owns the Oasis Subdivision ?
Did you know that A. N. Wilson justified fictionalising the life of George Forster for his novel Resolution by saying that Forster "inhabit[ed] a borderline between fact and fiction"?
Did you know that bucking bull Spotted Demon won the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association Bucking Bull of the Year award at the old age of 10 years?
Did you know that Melody , originally composed by Myroslav Skoryk for a 1982 Soviet film, was used in Volodymyr Zelenskyy 's broadcast to the U.S. Congress in March 2022?
Did you know that Manai Sophiaan asserted in his 1994 memoir that the CIA was involved in the 1965 Indonesian coup attempt ?
Did you know that half the students of Northern Arizona University left for Christmas early after campus radio station KNAU was pranked?
Did you know that Rafflesia meijeri was named after Dutch botanist Willem Meijer for his work on the conservation and study of Rafflesia plants?
Did you know that ornithologist Elaina Marie Tuttle discovered that the white-throated sparrow has four sexes?
Did you know that the Tuca & Bertie episode " The Jelly Lakes " employs a paper-cutout animation that helps to depict abuse in a way that centers the victim's story?
Did you know that after Norwegian YouTuber Apetor 's death in 2021, Czech fans lit candles in his memory outside the Norwegian embassy in Prague?
Did you know that the August 2021 Tennessee floods were caused by more than 20 inches (510 mm) of rain falling in a 24-hour period?
Did you know that Eyvindur P. Eiríksson has addressed modern alienation and man's relationship with nature through pagan poetry and a book about a fishing trawler ?
Did you know that decades after the type specimen of the lichen Punctelia graminicola was destroyed in World War II, its original name was restored after another specimen was rescued from disposal at a dump?
Did you know that Angel Reese and her younger brother, Julian, both played college basketball for Maryland after competing at the same high school ?
Did you know that in the 960s, the Brethren of Purity wrote an epistle where Christians, Jews, and Muslims are sued by Quran-reading animals ?
Did you know that Helena Springs is credited as co-writer with Bob Dylan on 19 songs, more than any of his other collaborators?
Did you know that The Citi Exhibition: Manga at the British Museum was the largest exhibition of manga ever held outside Japan?
Did you know that Tyler Zombro had a seizure and skull fracture after he was hit in the head by a 104-mile-per-hour (167 km/h) line drive ?
Did you know that Olga Ehrenhaft-Steindler , the first woman to earn a physics doctorate at the University of Vienna , co-founded the first Viennese commercial academy for girls?
Did you know that the earliest representation of the devil might be a mosaic in San Apollinare Nuovo in Ravenna from the 6th century, in the form of a blue angel ?
Did you know that when planting vegetables, Richard Sharpe Mason once buried his glasses instead of peas ?
Did you know that Orange William was a very-long-range British anti-tank missile that was cancelled as the Chieftain tank appeared to outperform it?
Did you know that Judy Ann Santos received the Box Office Queen award for starring in Isusumbong Kita sa Tatay Ko , the first Filipino film to earn 100 million pesos at the box office?
Did you know that the music video for Matt and Kim 's New Glow song "Can You Blame Me" involves fans filming themselves with iPads near their heads playing headshots of the duo lip-syncing?
Did you know that the historian and political journalist Lancelot Lawton addressed a House of Commons committee in London in 1935, beginning: "The chief problem in Europe to-day is the Ukrainian problem"?
Did you know that Love , a sculpture by Ukrainian artist Alexander Milov , represents two wire-frame adults who appear to be alienated, but inside their bodies two children reach out to each other?
Did you know that Ed Jasper started all 16 games for the Atlanta Falcons in 2002, helping the team qualify for the NFL playoffs that year ?
Did you know that desert kites in the Middle East and North Africa were used as traps for wild game ?
Did you know that Easter in Poland was considered to be an important patriotic holiday during the country's period of Partitions ?
Did you know that Jane C. Beck traveled to Virginia, West Africa, and England to research the family history of Daisy Turner for her 2015 book Daisy Turner's Kin: An African American Family Saga ?
Did you know that Natsuki Takaya created a sequel to Fruits Basket to promote the release of its collector's edition?
Did you know that after activist Aakar Patel was prevented from travelling abroad, a court asked the director of India's Central Bureau of Investigation to apologise?
Did you know that a special legislative session to deal with the Real Estate Bank of Arkansas was not called because a third of the legislature owed money to the bank?
Did you know that Thihapate withstood the siege of Taungdwin by King Thado Minbya of Ava until after his top commander was assassinated?
Did you know that some barns have hoods ?
Did you know that Serhiy Kot was the editor of Ukrainian Question , a collection of articles on the status of Ukraine in the 1930s?
Did you know that Jacqueline Kennedy did not want to make her clothes the focus of her 1962 goodwill tour of India and Pakistan , but still wore 22 different outfits in the first nine days?
Did you know that all but one of the court astrologers at the accession of King Minye Kyawswa I of Ava prophesied that he would rule for three years?
Did you know that the first studio of Indiana high school radio station WETL was a cedar closet that had once stored furs?
Did you know that British barristers are on strike to protest against underfunding in the criminal justice system?
Did you know that both the Qurm Nature Reserve and the surrounding city of Qurm are named for the grey mangroves protected by the reserve?
Did you know that The Art of Cooking with Cannabis by Tracey Medeiros was praised by the Los Angeles Times for showcasing a wide range of recipes outside of the "tired pot-brownie cliché"?
Did you know that Port Jefferson village officials opposed the expansion of the Caithness Long Island Energy Center because they feared it would lead to the decommissioning of the Port Jefferson Power Station ?
Did you know that Jusuf Muda Dalam is the only Indonesian politician to date to be sentenced to death for corruption?
Did you know that the construction of Washington State Route 512 included a new high school football stadium to replace a demolished one?
Did you know that journalist W. A. Hewitt refereed the first game played in the history of ice hockey at the Olympic Games ?
Did you know that the 3rd Plurinational Legislative Assembly of Bolivia has suspended multiple sessions due to open brawls and fights between opposition and ruling party parliamentarians?
Did you know that Romy Golan 's 2021 book Flashback, Eclipse is an exploration of Italian art of the 1960s that moved away from the art created under Italian fascism ?
Did you know that in 1999, donors to the American Airlines Theatre could pay US$75,000 for their name on a bathroom?
Did you know that during the 2013 Norwegian Sámi parliamentary election , the North Calotte People party advocated the transformation of the Norwegian Sámi parliament into a joint Kven and Sámi parliament?
Did you know that professional steer wrestler Ty Erickson broke the record for season earnings by $33,152?
Did you know that an Israeli football club whose fans regularly shout " death to Arabs " was almost half-owned by an Arab Sheik?
Did you know that Bhutanese cricketer Anju Gurung , a pace bowler , has been described as looking "... more like a pop star ..."?
Did you know that even though plans to convert the studio building of station KITN in Olympia, Washington , into a courthouse were soon changed, county taxpayers still paid its moving expenses?
Did you know that Ignacy Korwin-Milewski amassed a collection of more than 200 paintings by Polish artists, one of the largest private collections of contemporary Polish art at the time?
Did you know that the black Christian Siriano gown worn by actor Billy Porter was said to have "won" the 91st Academy Awards ?
Did you know that after the ANT catalog of espionage tools by the National Security Agency was leaked to the public, the tools were implemented as open-source hardware and software ?
Did you know that as a young girl, Countess Ladislaja Harnoncourt was thought to be uneducatable and was nicknamed the "wild Laja"?
Did you know that during a promotional tour of Matt & Kim 's third album Sidewalks , it was played on the public speaker system of the venue before each show began but none of its tracks were on the setlist?
Did you know that Brian Fawcett , who would have turned 78 today, taught English to inmates before becoming a full-time writer?
Did you know that Iowa radio station KTFC was partially powered by a wind turbine that the owner had bought from an Arizona wind farm?
Did you know that many places in the United Kingdom were racially segregated and non-white customers were banned from using spaces and facilities, even though the law never officially permitted such a colour bar ?
Did you know that 19th-century Polish ethnographer Zorian Dołęga-Chodakowski travelled the countryside as a " wild man " and later appeared as a literary character?
Did you know that Elizabeth Bonhôte wrote Bungay Castle after her husband bought Bungay Castle ?
Did you know that Mallory McMorrow won a public contest to design the Mazda3 while she was a college student?
Did you know that Suluh Indonesia , once Indonesia's top newspaper by circulation, was banned after the 30 September Movement in 1965?
Did you know that ice hockey player Ilya Samsonov chose the position of goaltender because he thought that the equipment looked cool?
Did you know that Goodbye Normal Street was named after a street in Oklahoma , but also refers to the Turnpike Troubadours ' new life touring on the road?
Did you know that "toe-trimmed" alluvial fans on Mars provide evidence of ancient Martian river systems?
Did you know that Bret Price built a 1,500-pound (680 kg) zipper in his backyard?
Did you know that in the 1970s, anime song lyrics which centered on the characters' thoughts and feelings became more widely known to the Japanese public?
Did you know that Fane Lozman took Riviera Beach to the US Supreme Court once in 2013 for seizing his floating home and again in 2018 for arresting him, and won both times?
Did you know that the "pathbreaking" book Paradigm Lost recommends abandoning the two-state solution in favor of equal rights for all inhabitants of Israel and Palestine?
Did you know that Vanita Jagdeo Borade has been called the "Snake Woman" for having rescued more than 50,000 snakes?
Did you know that more than 30,000 cars were being towed annually by the 1970s to accommodate snow removal efforts in Montreal ?
Did you know that President Thomas A. Spragens suspended all classes at Centre College several days after the Kent State shootings , and organized teaching sessions for students on the college lawn?
Did you know that BeReal , a social media app, purportedly makes everyone look boring?
Did you know that the form of ecclesiastical income in the Catholic Church known as the mense gets its name from the Latin word mensa , meaning 'table'?
Did you know that pianist Paul Pollei was a founding member of a quartet that utilized two pianos and eight hands to play complex pieces?
Did you know that in 1972, Catalina Island was occupied by the Brown Berets , who claimed that the territory rightfully belonged to Mexico?
Did you know that the Black Opry is a website and musical revue that helps raise awareness of Black artists in country music ?