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Did you know that the Naewat-dang shamanic paintings were discovered when a university professor encountered a nearly eighty-year-old homeless woman living in a cave?
Did you know that today, JoAnne S. Bass becomes not only the first female senior enlisted member of any U.S. military branch, but also the first person of Asian descent to hold that position in the Air Force?
Did you know that in 1264, the Genoese captured an entire Venetian trade convoy after tricking the Venetian fleet into thinking that they had sailed for the Levant ?
Did you know that William Bishop and Noël Poynter 's biography of John Symcotts , sometime physician to Oliver Cromwell , provides a record of the life of a medical practitioner, whose work usually goes unrecognised?
Did you know that students in the Baranovich Yeshiva , a premier Torah institute in pre-war Europe, spent years learning to understand the simple meaning of the Talmud ?
Did you know that more than 70 buildings designed by Paul Max Bertschy , the city architect of Liepāja for over 30 years, are still extant?
Did you know that the 2020 EFL League One play-off Final was played at Wembley Stadium in front of zero paying spectators?
Did you know that a "self-proclaimed public avenger" cut down the tower of Oregon television station KVDO-TV in 1976 to protest its sale to the state government?
Did you know that Acorn Creek is named after an extinct Creek Indian village and plantation on the Chattahoochee River ?
Did you know that under the Republic of Venice , the Procuratie in St Mark's Square included apartments and shops that were rented out to finance maintenance on public buildings and provide assistance to the poor?
Did you know that Bert Nievera , dubbed the Johnny Mathis of the Philippines, encountered the real singer who watched him perform " Misty ", the latter's signature song?
Did you know that a 1950 documentary filmed at a Christian college in Beirut shows how missionary education imparts "modern democratic ways of thinking and living" to Christians, Muslims, and Jews?
Did you know that the 800-year-old Minchenden Oak is one of the oldest trees in London?
Did you know that the Turkish women's league seasons of 2019–20 football and 2020 rugby sevens were named to commemorate Özge Kanbay , a football referee and rugby player, who died in 2019 at age 22 from cancer?
Did you know that Leicester Hemingway , the brother of Ernest Hemingway , was elected president of a floating raft called New Atlantis ?
Did you know that Molly Neptune Parker was able to support her family, buy a home, and pay for her grandchildren's education through basket weaving ?
Did you know that the 1993 Football League First Division play-off Final was estimated to be worth £20 million to the winners Swindon Town ?
Did you know that Christian missionary Moritz Hall was ordered to cast artillery for the Ethiopian Emperor Tewodros II ?
Did you know that the video game Iron Harvest , set in a 1920+ alternate universe inspired by the Polish–Soviet War , has a dieselpunk and mecha theme?
Did you know that in 1851, Wilson Armistead from Leeds hosted escaped slaves Ellen and William Craft when they fled the United States after the Fugitive Slave Act ?
Did you know that Maxine Dunlap , the first licensed female glider pilot in the U.S., began her flight training after catching " lindberghitis "?
Did you know that people used to drive by John and Mary Pappajohn's house to look at the sculptures in their yard before they were donated for the Pappajohn Sculpture Park ?
Did you know that Kashmiri poet Madhosh Balhami lost 30 years of his poetry in a clash between militants and the Indian government ?
Did you know that a voice recording of World War I soldier Edward Dwyer was featured in the contemporary ballet Dust ?
Did you know that Mozambique-born Violet Dias Lannoy , called "the lost Goan/Indian/African novelist" by Peter Nazareth , came from a Goan family, worked with Mahatma Gandhi , and hung out with Richard Wright ?
Did you know that after the mishandling of a call to the Charlotte County Sheriff's Office that might have prevented a woman's murder , Florida mandated additional training for 9-1-1 dispatchers?
Did you know that Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Sunny Cheung once said: "We want to build a democratic Hong Kong. It's not our responsibility to build a democratic China"?
Did you know that Bruus , once the national card game of Hamburg , rewards players for "daring and tormenting" certain top trumps, and that such tactics lend the game "a certain charm"?
Did you know that Taylor Swift wrote the lyrics to the song " Cardigan " to co-writer Aaron Dessner 's music in around five hours?
Did you know that Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro tweeted "Thanks Iran" after the Persian Gulf state sent the first of six oil tankers to aid Venezuela's chronic fuel shortage ?
Did you know that following the Kent State shootings , Robert J. Henle suspended the remainder of the 1970 academic year at Georgetown University ?
Did you know that a former firehouse and church on Long Island now houses a permanent display of nine fluorescent-light sculptures by Dan Flavin ?
Did you know that seven of the ten Roman Catholic bishops and archbishops of Montreal were born in the city?
Did you know that Brigadier General Harold Huglin was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for leading a bombing raid on Magdeburg during World War II?
Did you know that 1.6 million students in Delhi practice mindfulness , one of the components of the Happiness Curriculum , every day?
Did you know that the song and visual images in the music video for " Bola Maya " express the pain of those who lose their loved ones in foreign lands?
Did you know that in 1992, Leo J. O'Donovan was ordered by a Vatican ecclesiastical court to revoke the funding of an abortion-rights group at Georgetown University ?
Did you know that the Central Industrial Security Force Act was amended after the 2008 Mumbai attacks to provide the force with a mandate to secure private enterprises?
Did you know that the statue A Surge of Power (Jen Reid) 2020 was inspired by a raised fist at a Black Lives Matter protest?
Did you know that when the wealthy Abbasid prince Muhammad ibn Sulayman died in 789, government agents found vast quantities of spoilt food in his palace, and dumped it on the street outside?
Did you know that the actors of The Last of Us Part II could improvise their performances and were allowed up to 20 or 30 takes?
Did you know that Japan's Naki Sumo Crying Baby Festival has showdowns between infants in the arms of sumo wrestlers?
Did you know that Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport won the title of Best Improved Airport in the Asia-Pacific region in 2014 and 2015?
Did you know that the Serbian Orthodox Church denounced Bishop Grigorije Durić for suggesting that the Serbian government should fund hospitals rather than churches during the COVID-19 pandemic in the country ?
Did you know that during their 1925–26 season , Cardiff City suffered the heaviest league defeat in the club's history, losing 11–2 to Sheffield United ?
Did you know that an infantry regiment was formed to defend the Turks and Caicos Islands just this year?
Did you know that educator Mildred Hope Fisher Wood was the originator of learning-disability courses, which she taught to prospective teachers at the University of Northern Iowa ?
Did you know that Ditshwanelo has been campaigning for over twenty years against capital punishment in Botswana ?
Did you know that Pulitzer Prize –winning journalist Julia Collier Harris was present at both the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 and the Scopes Trial in 1925?
Did you know that the Mandinka douga , the "dance of the vulture" described in 20th-century African literature, may go back to Sundiata , and reach across to American Gullah culture, buck dance , and the minstrel show ?
Did you know that the campfire ash ceremony is a worldwide Scouting service said to date back to Robert Baden-Powell in 1907?
Did you know that the Embassy of the Philippines in Mexico City was badly damaged in the 2017 Puebla earthquake ?
Did you know that Tolulope Oluwatoyin Sarah Arotile , the first female combat helicopter pilot in the Nigerian Army , died in a freak car accident?
Did you know that there is a recent trend to reverse the Hebraization of street names in mixed Jewish–Arab cities in Israel?
Did you know that before Kanye West sampled " Hey Young World " by Slick Rick on a track in 2018, his frequent collaborator Jay-Z had sampled it back in 2002?
Did you know that Canadian sports journalist Jim Proudfoot was reportedly a lifetime hitchhiker to get to sporting events?
Did you know that during his acting career spanning over 60 films , Jack Nicholson received 12 Academy Award nominations, more than any other male actor?
Did you know that Hokkaidō Heritage includes the Teshio River , named after the Ainu for "river full of fishing weirs "?
Did you know that the New York City Subway's E train has been nicknamed the "Homeless Express" due to its large ridership of homeless people?
Did you know that the step sequence is a required element in men's and women's single skating , pair skating , and ice dance ?
Did you know that after World War II, German industrialists who used forced labor claimed to be victims and opponents of Nazism?
Did you know that the 608,832 lithium-ion battery cells assembled at the Tehachapi Energy Storage Project are capable of powering between 1,600 and 2,400 homes for four hours?
Did you know that a portrait of English prostitute Elizabeth Read is said to allude to the social mobility enjoyed by convicts in colonial Australia ?
Did you know that Wilbur Little was lynched for wearing his World War I uniform after being discharged from the army?
Did you know that when footballer Przemysław Płacheta signed for Norwich City from Śląsk Wrocław in 2020, he was Śląsk's record sale and Norwich's first-ever Polish player?
Did you know that Radio Saigon Houston has been cited as a factor luring Vietnamese Americans to move from the West Coast to Texas?
Did you know that Canadian sports executive Jack Hamilton identified 136 different samples of wood in a guessing competition?
Did you know that the song " Catallena " by South Korean girl group Orange Caramel interpolates a sample of the Punjabi folk song "Jutti Meri"?
Did you know that in June 2020, Southern Virginia University removed the name of Robert Lee Durham from its main academic building in the wake of the George Floyd protests , citing his racist views?
Did you know that Muhammad al-Qunawi wrote a Turkish edition of Al-Khalili 's tables because, according to him, "some of our sons wanted, from this poor man, to learn about sine tables "?
Did you know that during his term as the governor of North Sumatra in the 1980s, Kaharuddin Nasution ordered all civil servants in the province to wear white uniforms?
Did you know that the 2002 Football League First Division play-off Final was played under a closed roof at the Millennium Stadium because it was too sunny?
Did you know that the Domino Sugar Refinery was described on completion as the largest sugar refinery in the Americas?
Did you know that Zacharias Stopius was ennobled by the king of Poland, while his daughter became the first female diplomat of Sweden?
Did you know that " Freuet euch der schönen Erde ", an 1827 hymn about the beauty of nature, became successful with a melody composed by Frieda Fronmüller 100 years later?
Did you know that a short film made by Samantha Buck and Marie Schlingmann at university was screened at both the Telluride Film Festival and South by Southwest ?
Did you know that the Northern Rhodesia Regiment was a British colonial regiment with the motto "Different in Race, Equal in Fidelity"?
Did you know that performer Lady Midnight teaches music production and performance to youth experiencing homelessness in Minnesota?
Did you know that the roll-on/roll-off car ferry Europic Ferry offloaded equipment under aerial attack during the British landings to retake the Falkland Islands in 1982?
Did you know that the publication of Cantate! , Heinrich Bone 's 1847 hymnal with a title translating to Sing! , was followed five years later by an edition with melodies?
Did you know that the Ottendorfer Public Library in Manhattan's East Village contained a librarian's residence on the third floor?
Did you know that Shantaram Siddi is the first Indian legislator of African descent?
Did you know that Devolver Digital requested that the video game Serious Sam Double D be a " Contra on acid "?
Did you know that instead of paying salaries, owner Ron Butlin gave ice hockey players a share of the team's profits, provided medical benefits, and assisted them in finding day jobs?
Did you know that students and adults of three different religions visited the Armenian church in Kuzguncuk , Istanbul, as part of a social activity organized by the local women residents of these religions?
Did you know that after reading a book by Katharine Lee , D. H. Lawrence began to use the phoenix as his personal emblem?
Did you know that A Piece of Eden was filmed at the director John D. Hancock 's home, with the main location being his apple orchard?
Did you know that Samuel Schwarz rediscovered a community of crypto-Jews in Belmonte, Portugal , who had kept their faith secret for centuries?
Did you know that The New York Times continued working in a wood and tar-paper enclosure while its new building was being constructed around its older headquarters?
Did you know that sport stars Donncha O'Callaghan and Roy Keane faced The Young Offenders ' Hilary Rose to determine exactly "how Cork " they were for RTÉ Does Comic Relief ?
Did you know that while the title track of Crazy features the signature sound of South Korean girl group 4Minute —a hip hop – and trap -infused dance number—its lead single was a ballad?
Did you know that Naomi Dattani played for a local boys' team before joining the Middlesex Women cricket team ?
Did you know that the film Alexander the Last , which was shot with a Handycam , credits the lead actors as also being the screenwriters ?
Did you know that Hypertime is a fictional concept of alternate timelines that branch off from the DC Universe ?
Did you know that the Beğendik Bridge is the highest bridge and has the longest main span of any concrete balanced cantilever bridge in Turkey?
Did you know that poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath spent their wedding night in a flat on London's Rugby Street ?
Did you know that judge Frank Park volunteered to provide 100 " fat possums " captured from the wilds of his county for a "Possum and 'Taters" dinner honoring president-elect William Howard Taft ?
Did you know that in the 1920s, "the mouthpiece of Bloomsbury liberalism" was published in London's Great James Street ?
Did you know that Kawade Shibatarō co-developed the moriage ('piling-up') technique, which gives enamel artworks a three-dimensional effect?
Did you know that after being squatted by hundreds of refugees, the 18th-century Debbane Palace was restored to its former state and turned into a private museum?
Did you know that Gerry Mullan was deselected by the Social Democratic and Labour Party for the Northern Ireland Assembly in favour of the man he replaced, who had retired seven months earlier?
Did you know that North Highlands Dam was built to power a large textile mill which had more spindles turning than any other mill in the United States?
Did you know that the name of the former Palestinian village al-Zahiriyya al-Tahta may have been a tribute to the Mamluk sultan al-Zahir Baybars ?
Did you know that Edvard August Vainio 's tools for collecting lichens in Brazil included a knife, hammer, chisel, paper, a bag, and a shotgun?
Did you know that in the 1930s and 1940s, Marilyn Knowlden appeared in six films that received Academy Award nominations for Best Picture ?
Did you know that India's 2020 food-security scheme , launched during the country's COVID-19 pandemic , is equivalent to feeding 2.5 times the population of the US, 12 times that of the UK, and twice that of the EU?
Did you know that the Morse Building , once one of New York City's tallest buildings, was expanded twenty years after completion, having been considered "small and old-fashioned"?
Did you know that Franciszek Ksawery Niesiołowski became a colonel at age 17?
Did you know that the song " I Can See the Change " was developed over text conversation between Celeste and Finneas after the two met in person at the 2020 Brit Awards ?
Did you know that German undercover agent Friedrich Salomon Hall 's identity was betrayed by the corns on his feet?
Did you know that the Battle of Rakkestad , part of the Swedish–Norwegian War of 1814 , was won by Sweden thanks to an all-out bayonet charge ?
Did you know that women in the U.S. Virgin Islands did not gain suffrage until after Edith L. Williams attempted to register to vote in 1935?
Did you know that Mexican painter Frida Kahlo 's The Broken Column was the inspiration for a costume in Broken Wings , a ballet about her?
Did you know that Catholic priest Timothy S. Healy held senior positions at the City University of New York , Georgetown University , and the New York Public Library ?
Did you know that the LGBT Centre Mongolia was legally registered in 2009 after being told more than ten times that its name did not suit "Mongolian traditions and customs"?
Did you know that after the death of Olaseni Lewis , who was restrained by 11 police officers, UK law was changed to require police to wear body cameras when dealing with vulnerable people?
Did you know that D'Arcy Carden has about 40 minutes of screen time in " Janet(s) " even though the episode is only 22 minutes long?
Did you know that the name of the women's soccer team Racing Louisville FC is inspired by Louisville's famous horse races ?
Did you know that Baekhyun compares his charms to various flavors of candy in his song " Candy "?
Did you know that actress Katharine Hepburn thought the status of one's career could be determined by one's seating position at Samuel Goldwyn's table ?
Did you know that the rolling straight-edge , one of the earliest means of measuring road surface regularity, is still used in Britain today?
Did you know that the COVID-19 pandemic has caused delays in regulatory decisions regarding medications such as fluticasone furoate/umeclidinium bromide/vilanterol ?
Did you know that Johnby Hall , a 16th-century manor house built around a medieval tower, is now a bed and breakfast ?
Did you know that when the Jehovah's Witnesses sold New York City radio station WBBR in 1957, the purchase included the 18-acre (7.3 ha) farm, complete with 20 chicken houses, at the transmitter site?
Did you know that 070 Shake said that it felt "crazy" to have been on a record with Kanye West ?
Did you know that the Danum shield , found in Doncaster, is one of fewer than ten Roman shields ever found?
Did you know that Augustine Waworuntu , the first woman mayor of Manado , had her official residence in a hotel built of bamboo?
Did you know that K26AC in Bemidji , Minnesota, was the first low-power television station in the United States that did not repeat another station?
Did you know that the 2022 Chuukese independence referendum has been delayed three times, including by the legislative body that approved it?
Did you know that to convince people to let him record their singing, Ozarker folklorist Max Hunter helped them out with chores, including delivering moonshine ?
Did you know that the file-sharing website E-Hentai has been called the Library of Alexandria of hentai ?
Did you know that in order to serve as a prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials , Cecelia Goetz had to receive a "waiver of disability" from Telford Taylor because she was a woman?
Did you know that to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from shipping, the e5 Project is producing solar- and wind-powered ships to transport fuel oil ?
Did you know that ornithologist Corina Newsome and herpetologist Earyn McGee held events as part of the inaugural Black Birders Week , an effort to highlight the challenges faced by Black nature enthusiasts?
Did you know that the presence of the umbrella slug in the Bay of Biscay , first reported in 2016, may be an example of "tropicalisation"?
Did you know that Luton Town F.C. chairman John Gurney organised a "Manager Idol" phone-vote in order to find the club's new manager?
Did you know that choreographer Kenneth MacMillan turned a duet in his ballet Concerto into a female solo when the male dancer broke his foot prior to the premiere?
Did you know that retired United States Air Force colonel Kim Olson is a Master Gardener ?
Did you know that Waldemar R. Röhrbein and Hugo Thielen wrote a book about Jewish personalities in the history of Hanover , including the violinist Joseph Joachim ?
Did you know that in 1947, New York City's WMGM rated dead last among FM radio stations, at a time when just 3 percent of metropolitan area residents had FM receivers?
Did you know that the former Lake Estancia in New Mexico reached a highstand during the Last Glacial Maximum , similar to other lakes in the Great Basin ?
Did you know that Georgia Adams is the captain of the Sussex Women cricket team , and her father Chris is a former captain of the Sussex men's team ?
Did you know that 40 musicians from seven countries collaborated on the song " We Are One ", which extends a message of hope and unity to the global population affected by COVID-19 ?
Did you know that two versions of each episode of The Titan's Bride are produced: a version that airs on broadcast television, and an online-only "premium edition" featuring explicit content?
Did you know that Polish boxer Tadeusz Pietrzykowski is best known for his string of victories in Nazi concentration camps ?
Did you know that a former renegade policeman discovered a film depicting his role in the siege of a Philippine military base two decades after its theatrical release?
Did you know that the Association of Black Cardiologists has shared resources on the impact of coronavirus disease on black communities in response to the higher death rates seen among African Americans?
Did you know that Johannes Schüler conducted world premieres including Alban Berg's Three Orchestral Pieces in 1930, and Henze's Boulevard Solitude in 1952?
Did you know that director Patrick Creadon said he made the documentary Hesburgh in part because he was skeptical whether the work of Father Theodore Hesburgh "really lived up to his reputation"?
Did you know that a series of tunnels on Japan National Route 48 is known as the Land Gateway to Sendai ?
Did you know that Herbert Edwin Bradley was criticised for taking his wife and six-year-old daughter on a gorilla-hunting expedition in 1921?
Did you know that nearly 5,000 fans of easy-listening music successfully petitioned Mississippi radio station WEQZ to adopt the format when another station changed away from it?
Did you know that the creation of the Swedish torch is credited to the Swedish military during the Thirty Years' War ?
Did you know that Anthony Kohlmann 's refusal to violate the seal of the confessional in 1813 led to the recognition of the confessional privilege for the first time in American law?
Did you know that the Byzantine emperor Isaac II Angelos was blinded at the Theotokos Kosmosoteira monastery?
Did you know that a team of approximately 350 people developed The Last of Us Part II over seven years?
Did you know that table tennis has a larger number of playing styles than other racket sports due to the large variety of table tennis rubbers ?
Did you know that after Port Vale F.C. were liquidated in 1907, a local church team took on the name and returned to the Football League by October 1919?
Did you know that as president of Georgetown University , Edward B. Bunn ended a 20-year hiatus on construction by opening eight new buildings?
Did you know that Sinai Park House was used by monks to rest after undergoing bloodletting procedures?
Did you know that Lin-Manuel Miranda 's idea for improvisational hip-hop comedy musical group Freestyle Love Supreme originated during rehearsal breaks for the musical In the Heights ?