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Did you know that having collaborated on the album Folklore months prior, Taylor Swift , Jack Antonoff , and Aaron Dessner met in person for the first time for the filming of Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions ?
Did you know that Tropical Storm Merbok flooded 13,000 hectares (32,000 acres) of crops in 2017 and led to an economic loss of CN¥ 600 million (US$88.3 million) in China?
Did you know that Gustav Classens , music director in Bonn from 1933, performed Beethoven's Choral Fantasy , Missa solemnis , and Ninth Symphony during his first two seasons, offering the Ninth in both?
Did you know that Finland became a member state of the International Labour Organization 100 years ago today?
Did you know that Christian Schreiber , a church administrator, philosopher and poet, wrote a German version of the Latin Mass for the publication, alongside the original, of Beethoven's Mass in C major ?
Did you know that Ruth Williams Cupp , the first woman admitted to the Charleston County Bar Association in 1954, was still barred by law from serving on juries, like all women in South Carolina until 1967?
Did you know that the Crushed Rock quarry near Abuja , Nigeria, is now a popular tourist destination?
Did you know that when Johannes Chum , a tenor in operatic roles from Nerone to Lohengrin , performed in Harnoncourt 's recording of Beethoven's Missa solemnis , a reviewer described his singing as "seraphic"?
Did you know that Beethoven's Third Cello Sonata , first performed in 1809, has been described as the first sonata for piano and cello to treat the instruments as equal partners?
Did you know that 200,000 children were evacuated via the Piccadilly line during World War II?
Did you know that in positioning theory , positions are defined as a person's rights, duties, and obligations which are fluid in various social contexts, as opposed to fixed and long lasting roles ?
Did you know that Julian Edelman weighed less than 100 lb (45 kg) when he played American football as a freshman in high school?
Did you know that the founder of the Cannabis Museum in Japan developed an interest in the subject after reading stories as a child in which ninjas trained by jumping over cannabis plants?
Did you know that several memoirs by first ladies of the United States have outsold books written by their presidential husbands?
Did you know that Otto Jochum , the organist and later the director of the Augsburg Conservatory , received a German national composition prize for a sacred oratorio in 1932, but also composed patriotic anthems under the Nazi regime?
Did you know that in 1875, streetcars in Santa Barbara, California , were drawn by mules ?
Did you know that plastics researcher David S. Breslow 's interest in chemistry began as a child when he used a chemistry set to make stink bombs ?
Did you know that a bank robbery nearly derailed the Northern Ireland peace process ?
Did you know that The Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant were the first memoirs to be written by a first lady of the United States ?
Did you know that Alexander Lindsay served as a general in the East India Company while remaining a half-pay lieutenant in the British Army?
Did you know that the right to truth has been recognized by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights , the European Court of Human Rights , and the United Nations?
Did you know that Israeli physicist Shikma Bressler , a researcher at the CERN particle accelerator in Switzerland, is also an initiator of the "Black Flag" protests against Benjamin Netanyahu ?
Did you know that in Cassandre , an opera by Michael Jarrell based on the novel by Christa Wolf , Cassandra speaks and acts without singing?
Did you know that Katie Levick gave up the chance to play cricket for England in order to pursue a full-time job?
Did you know that the gall wasp Synergus japonicus is considered to be a kleptoparasite ?
Did you know that This American Life producer and Boston native Sean Cole spoke with an affected British accent from age 14 to 16?
Did you know that The Alcestiad , an opera based on a Greek myth and written collaboratively by Thornton Wilder and composer Louise Talma , was premiered by the Oper Frankfurt in German?
Did you know that Arizona Falls is a functioning small hydroelectric plant designed as public art ?
Did you know that the Banu Muhriz emirs were patrons of the Alawites of Syria ?
Did you know that the Cousteau Society visited the wreck of the yacht Gunilda in Lake Superior in 1980, calling it "the most beautiful shipwreck in the world"?
Did you know that The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein exposes policies of racial segregation in nearly all United States presidential administrations dating back to the late 1800s?
Did you know that a non-governmental organisation set up by Hekani Jakhalu helps young entrepreneurs from Nagaland ?
Did you know that Ruth Bader Ginsburg was the second U.S. Supreme Court justice to lie in state at the U.S. Capitol ?
Did you know that after the Battle of Inverkeithing , Oliver Cromwell deliberately left open a route for the Scottish army to invade England?
Did you know that despite Sandpaper Ballet being choreographed to music by Leroy Anderson , his piece of the same name is not used?
Did you know that Cyclone Gati in November 2020 was the strongest tropical cyclone on record to make landfall in Somalia?
Did you know that Laura Garwin , one of the first female Rhodes Scholars , left a career in science to become a full-time trumpeter?
Did you know that the 1958 Lebanese presidential election was held during an armed rebellion while 10,000 US troops were deployed in the nation?
Did you know that the male sea spider Propallene longiceps carries fertilized eggs in bracelet-like masses wrapped around his legs?
Did you know that MLS Cup 2020 will feature Seattle Sounders FC for the fourth time in five years?
Did you know that Elsa-Brita Nordlund , Sweden's first child psychiatrist, advocated for the humanization of care in children's hospitals?
Did you know that a line of the 1840 song " Kein schöner Land in dieser Zeit ", claiming "no country more beautiful" and presented by its author as a Volkslied , is quoted as the title of books and television series?
Did you know that upon being named president of Georgetown University , Gerard J. Campbell was described as a "new breed" of " Ivy League Catholic"?
Did you know that information provided by the Confederate draftsman Anton R. Roessler was used by the Union Army to determine the ordnance potential of Texas?
Did you know that a section of Japan National Route 105 is named after a group of hunters?
Did you know that the wreck of the freighter SS Russia was discovered in 2019, only 1,200 feet (370 m) from where a different shipwreck hunter ended the search for her years earlier?
Did you know that Turkish accordion-playing street musician Madam Anahit also appeared in a number of films as an extra ?
Did you know that Recollections of Full Years by Helen Taft was the first memoir published by a first lady of the United States ?
Did you know that the 13th-century foundation St Alban Hall, Oxford , closed in 1882 and was demolished?
Did you know that Rachel Sennott stars in two 2020 queer Jewish films about funerals, but is neither queer nor Jewish?
Did you know that the Advent song " Kündet allen in der Not ", an appeal to those in need to take courage, was written by Friedrich Dörr , based on Isaiah's prophecy , in preparation of the 1975 Catholic Gotteslob ?
Did you know that Pennsylvania Treasurer -elect Stacy Garrity was nicknamed "The Angel of the Desert" in the Iraq War ?
Did you know that the developers of Serious Sam's Bogus Detour created a free version of the game to entice pirates to buy the original?
Did you know that newly founded Exeter Chiefs Women were given a place in the top flight of English women's rugby union ahead of Richmond Women , historically one of the most successful teams in England?
Did you know that in Justifying Genocide , Stefan Ihrig argues that many 1920s German nationalists viewed genocide as the "cost of doing political and military business in the twentieth century"?
Did you know that the Waikiki Biltmore , which opened in 1955, was the first high-rise hotel built in Waikiki ?
Did you know that General Charles Barton commanded the 2nd Life Guards in the Peninsular War , and his great-grandson " Banjo " wrote the lyrics of " Waltzing Matilda "?
Did you know that sports photographer Eleni Küreman was Turkey's first professional female photojournalist?
Did you know that Avengers: Endgame was untitled until December 2018, as its title was considered a spoiler for the film and its predecessor, Avengers: Infinity War ?
Did you know that FactCheckArmenia.com falsely claimed that "no Armenians were harmed" during the deportation of Armenian intellectuals on 24 April 1915 ?
Did you know that Ivan Camilleri , the incoming auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Toronto , was an associate director of finance at Bell Canada Enterprises before becoming a priest?
Did you know that the Brooklyn Dodgers , New York Giants , and New York Yankees played in a three-way baseball game in 1944?
Did you know that Helmut Koch , who conducted Monteverdi's L'Orfeo in 1949, taught at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" , and continued the tradition of the Berliner Singakademie in East Berlin from 1963?
Did you know that Lyndon B. Johnson used the same $80 desk as a senator, Vice President, and President of the United States?
Did you know that Silvio Meier has a street in Berlin and a square in Bologna named after him?
Did you know that the release of the 2001 Hindi film Chori Chori Chupke Chupke was delayed for several months due to allegations that it was funded by the Mumbai underworld ?
Did you know that Condescending Wonka is one of the most popular internet memes ?
Did you know that Sheriff Paxton , who was called Canada's most beloved ice hockey official, would jokingly order a hanging for every individual who opposed him?
Did you know that after U.S. women secured the right to vote in 1920, those from the South fought against paying a poll tax for the next 40 years?
Did you know that medieval ceramics expert Jean Le Patourel was also an expert in the archaeology of dog collars?
Did you know that cybercriminals using Ryuk malware took in more than $61 million in ransom payments between 2018 and 2019, according to the FBI ?
Did you know that NCJW activist Florence Lewis was invited by President John F. Kennedy in 1963 to a White House discussion on how women's organizations could help solve civil rights issues?
Did you know that in Russian folklore, the Alatyr is considered the "father to all stones"?
Did you know that Boom Hall was named after a defensive structure on the River Foyle that was breached during the 1689 Siege of Derry ?
Did you know that the soprano Nina Dorliak recorded works by Bach with her husband, the pianist Sviatoslav Richter , sung in Russian?
Did you know that the Los Angeles Times criticized Disney for contracting their interactive storybooks to independent studios, deeming their series "a mere imitation" of Broderbund 's Living Books format?
Did you know that John Devonshire was supposed to stop USS President putting to sea but didn't?
Did you know that the internal shell of the sea slug Berthella stellata is visible through its translucent mantle ?
Did you know that a video of ballerina Carrie Imler dancing the 32 fouetté turns from Swan Lake went viral?
Did you know that comedy group Pomato 's creations include a skit about a boyfriend who did not understand the difference between a sports bra and a bra , and an advertisement for the Hong Kong Police Force ?
Did you know that orientalist Giuseppe Furlani organized the first and only Italian archaeological excavation in Mesopotamia ?
Did you know that the Rodin Studios has been described as "one of the most elegant studio and apartment buildings in New York", with a facade resembling cascades of Gothic decoration?
Did you know that French writer Marie Chaix grew up unaware that her father was the right-hand man of the fascist French Popular Party leader Jacques Doriot , and later wrote a memoir about him?
Did you know that Fukushima Industries ' corporate mascot was originally called Fukuppy ?
Did you know that Hamro Lok Sanskriti ( Our Folk Culture ) was one of three books to win the first Madan Puraskar , Nepal's highest literary honour?
Did you know that Thomas Paxton helped establish a saw mill, flour mill, foundry, and railway as a founding father of Port Perry ?
Did you know that 18.33 inches (46.6 cm) of rain fell within 24 hours in Guam during Typhoon Alice , a record for the territory that was not surpassed for another 23 years?
Did you know that professional footballer Shaun Brisley scored for Peterborough United in the 2014 Football League Trophy Final after initially turning down a move to the club due to homesickness?
Did you know that a two-year Native American housing protest group called the Chicago Indian Village started next to the Chicago Cubs home stadium, Wrigley Field ?
Did you know that medieval murals were discovered in Brönnestad Church in 1935, but not restored until 1980?
Did you know that American historian Sarah Wilkerson Freeman curated a photo exhibit depicting the fluidity of race, gender, and sexuality in New Orleans during the McCarthy era ?
Did you know that the far-right "Hannibal" network has been likened to a "shadow army"?
Did you know that Katie Lachapelle , head coach of the Holy Cross women's ice hockey team, was selected to be head coach of the 2021 US women's national Under-18 ice hockey team ?
Did you know that the British Secretary at War Viscount Barrington anticipated the 1766 food riots and pre-positioned troops to deal with them?
Did you know that Kansas highway K-23 is known as Main Street in Cimarron , Dighton , and Hoxie ?
Did you know that countertenor David Cordier performed operatic title roles such as Handel's Giulio Cesare and one of the three sisters in Tri sestry by Péter Eötvös?
Did you know that before Daniel Chester French and Henry Bacon designed the Lincoln Memorial , they collaborated on the James Oglethorpe Monument in Savannah, Georgia ?
Did you know that The Descent of Woman by Welsh author Elaine Morgan contends that front-to-front sexual intercourse evolved from apes that lived in a semi-aquatic environment?
Did you know that in 2006, social-justice advocate Ronnie L. Podolefsky represented six female athletes who accused their high-school basketball coach of sexual misconduct?
Did you know that following the Common Sense Revolution , the entire route of Ontario Highway 45 was downloaded from provincial oversight and redesignated as County Road 45?
Did you know that in 1941, a group of isolationist U.S. senators conducted an investigation into alleged "war propaganda" in Hollywood films?
Did you know that when Paulina died, her husband Pammachius received condolence letters from St Jerome and Paulinus of Nola ?
Did you know that the lighting in a portrait by David Hockney has been described as "icily arrogant"?
Did you know that an extract of noodle seagrass inhibits the growth of microalgae , mussels and limpets ?
Did you know that Douglas Stuart 's Booker Prize –winning debut novel, Shuggie Bain , was rejected by 32 publishers before being picked up?
Did you know that London barrister Imran Mahmood has written two thrillers, using the city's gang culture for one setting and its affluent Mayfair district for the other?
Did you know that part of the solution to air pollution in Turkey could be electric ferries across the Bosporus ?
Did you know that conductor and politician Klaus Bernbacher was responsible for 600 Radio Bremen music broadcasts, including of the original version of Schönberg's Gurre-Lieder ?
Did you know that some members of the United States Congress are assigned secret offices called hideaways whose locations may be unknown even to their own staff?
Did you know that the Bundestag apologized in 2016 for Imperial Germany's " inglorious role " in the Armenian Genocide?
Did you know that Salma wrote some of her works while sitting on the toilet, on pieces of paper ripped from calendars and notebooks?
Did you know that Ben Carter and his brother Tim played basketball for Team USA at the 2013 Maccabiah Games , winning a gold medal?
Did you know that an elevated section of the Higashi-Osaka Route lies over the remnants of a palace?
Did you know that in painting First Lady Michelle Obama , Amy Sherald was inspired by the way the quilters of Gee's Bend make clothing and fabric scraps into geometric works of art?
Did you know that fossils of the extinct plant Concavistylon were first collected in the 1950s, but the genus was not formally described until 2018?
Did you know that the Spanish writer Eva Forest was imprisoned for alleged complicity in multiple terror attacks by the separatist group ETA ?
Did you know that Scary Godmother: Halloween Spooktakular mixes 3D characters with 3D backgrounds black-edged to look 2D to avoid investors comparing it with theatrical CGI films?
Did you know that in publishing Laura's Ghost , the author insisted the book cover show a photo of Laura alive?
Did you know that Representative -elect August Pfluger 's great-great-great-great-grandfather founded Pflugerville, Texas ?
Did you know that in his Requiem , premiered at Lausanne Cathedral in 1973, Frank Martin scored the " Dies irae " for speaking choir and a "battery of percussion"?
Did you know that Abraham Pais 's 1982 biography of Albert Einstein was the first to focus on Einstein 's scientific contributions as opposed to his life as a popular figure?
Did you know that Paul Foley , who played one match in his first-class career, went on to co-found the Minor Counties Cricket Championship ?
Did you know that economists William Darity and Darrick Hamilton proposed the policy of baby bonds in 2010 as a mechanism to reduce the racial wealth gap in the United States ?
Did you know that the wasp Andricus mukaigawae creates galls on oak trees, and these may become occupied simultaneously by other species of wasp?
Did you know that Priscilla Jana , a South African human-rights lawyer of Indian descent, was the first woman to hug Nelson Mandela in 13 years of imprisonment on Robben Island ?
Did you know that computer science professor Ruth Aylett performed with a robot poet in the Edinburgh Free Fringe ?
Did you know that " Nun singt ein neues Lied dem Herren " is a 1967 paraphrase of Psalm 98 by the Catholic theologian Georg Thurmair set to a 16th-century melody?
Did you know that the Belgian-born Peter Verhaegen became a missionary to Missouri and obtained Saint Louis University 's state charter?
Did you know that Cloudwater Brew Co 's name is a translation of the Zen Buddhist term unsui , meaning "cloud, water"?
Did you know that a multi-component gas analyzer system can allow for real-time forecasting of volcanic eruptions?
Did you know that Galician Jewish scholar Reuven Fahn wrote about the Karaite community of Halicz ?
Did you know that Donald Trump , Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Alex Jones have all been described as Extremely Online ?
Did you know that 25 million tourists—more than twice the population of the entire state—visited the Mandakini River in Uttarakhand in 2011?
Did you know that Michelle Curran is the only female flying with the United States Air Force Thunderbirds in the 2020 season?
Did you know that in its early years, the University of Calcutta held examinations in the Kolkata Town Hall and in tents in the Maidan urban park?
Did you know that as the governor of North Sumatra, Ulung Sitepu donated 2,400 bottles of passion fruit drinks for the inaugural Games of the New Emerging Forces ?
Did you know that 224 West 57th Street was built as two separate automobile showrooms, which were occupied by their original clients for less than a decade after completion?
Did you know that Hermann Schey , a Jewish bass-baritone , travelled regularly from Berlin to Amsterdam to perform in Bach's St Matthew Passion , and went into hiding there during World War II?
Did you know that despite ample epigraphic evidence mentioning his name, nothing is known about Phoenician king Yatonmilk 's reign?
Did you know that in the 17th-century card game of Penneech , named after its highest card, the seven of diamonds, the trump suit changes with each trick ?
Did you know that to promote their 2011 concept album David Koresh Superstar , based on the 1993 Waco siege , UK indie rock band the Indelicates created the video game Super David Koresh Attack ?
Did you know that Maine's Lewiston Daily Sun and its successor, the Sun Journal , were owned by the same family— Louis B. Costello , his son, and grandson—for more than 70 years?
Did you know that a petition by Canadian member of parliament Pierre Poilievre to stop the Great Reset amassed 80,000 signatures after a conspiracy theory spread about it?
Did you know that Andrew Clyde became involved in politics after being subject to a civil asset forfeiture of nearly $1 million by the Internal Revenue Service ?
Did you know that the Plessey AR-3D made use of the annoying problem of " squint " to produce a simple 3D radar ?
Did you know that as Master of Pierson College at Yale University during World War II, Arnold Wolfers recruited students for the Office of Strategic Services ?
Did you know that the statue of Heydar Aliyev in Mexico City was meant to be displayed for 99 years, but was removed after five months?
Did you know that Kylie Minogue wore a Hysteric Glamour minidress on the cover of her fourth studio album, Let's Get to It ?
Did you know that Polish abstract painter Piotr Potworowski influenced the creative thinking of British painters at the Bath Academy of Art ?
Did you know that a 2017 global women-leaders conference found that the chief barrier to leadership roles for women was a lack of mentoring?
Did you know that Verrucosa arenata is one of the few known large orb-weaver spiders that sits facing upwards in its web?
Did you know that Eric Kimaiyo won the 2003 Baltimore Marathon in a sprint finish with one of the athletes that he trained?
Did you know that on this day in 1914, W. F. Taylor became the first president of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association ?
Did you know that Nazi officials took advantage of national indifference to sign more people up to the Volksliste ?
Did you know that 185 Spanish-language radio stations aired the astronomy program Universo produced by KXCR of El Paso, Texas ?
Did you know that Tarabya I of Pakhan became governor of Pagan despite his subpar performance in the Forty Years' War ?
Did you know that Oxonmoot is an annual conference and fan convention in Oxford dedicated to the life and works of J. R. R. Tolkien ?
Did you know that Mary Fowkes 's autopsies on COVID-19 victims helped identify long-term debilitating effects of the virus, including its impact on the heart and the brain?
Did you know that after Swampy was evicted from Jones Hill Wood , rare barbastelle bats were discovered to be living there?
Did you know that Arsenal Women 's 11–1 win over Bristol City at Meadow Park in 2019 was the widest margin of victory in the history of the FA Women's Super League ?
Did you know that Pierre Dufault reported on the Munich massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympics and claimed to have been the first reporter at the scene?
Did you know that the 1985–86 Hormel meatpacking plant strike was the subject of both an Academy Award–winning film and a stage play by the Children's Theatre Company ?
Did you know that due to the living instrument doctrine , the European Court of Human Rights ruled that "it is no longer considered to be necessary or appropriate" to criminalize homosexuality?
Did you know that Golden Age of Radio singer Harriet Lee had her own television show in 1931?
Did you know that the bacterium Delftia lacustris could be used in combination with a crust fungus in the bioremediation of petrochemical wastewater?
Did you know that folklorist and archaeologist Ethel Rudkin was the first to quantify and categorise sightings of ghostly black dogs ?
Did you know that Rudolf Gerlach-Rusnak was the stage name of a tenor from Ukraine, with the first name chosen for his favourite role in La bohème ?