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Did you know that according to second-century AD Greek rhetorician Athenaeus, the Phoenicians played a flute-like instrument called the gingras in their mourning rituals?
Did you know that when Sithu Pauk Hla was appointed the governor of Yamethin, he was also given command of a 50-strong company of war elephants?
Did you know that Cypress College basketball coach Don Johnson, who was an All-American at UCLA, developed two players with minimal experience who later played for his alma mater and set records in the NBA?
Did you know that Herschel the sea lion was defended by Greenpeace?
Did you know that Peter Demetz, who taught German literature at Yale University from 1956 to 1991, was born in Prague where he was persecuted under the Nazis and escaped the Communist regime in 1949?
Did you know that Shushu/Tong is a brand that creates fashion collections inspired by magical girl anime such as Puella Magi Madoka Magica?
Did you know that a municipal purchase of 177 motorcycles by Hevearita Gunaryanti Rahayu, the mayor of Semarang, Indonesia, caused a social media controversy due to media misreporting?
Did you know that one of SZA's songs name-drops such figures as a boxer, a stand-up comedian, and Jesus?
Did you know that the Antimonumento 5J was installed on 5 June 2023 to commemorate victims of police repression during the 2020 protests in response to the death of Giovanni López?
Did you know that George Krugers was circumcised so he could pass as Muslim and film The Great Mecca Feast?
Did you know that German factory worker Julius Welschof now plays in the National Football League?
Did you know that Stellar Blade's Eve was described as "a woman born from South Korea's culture and philosophy" by The Washington Post?
Did you know that exhibits at Peale's Philadelphia Museum included the first nearly complete skeleton of a mastodon (sketch pictured)?
Did you know that journalist Jacques Poitras spent a month repeatedly crossing the "Imaginary Line" separating New Brunswick and Maine in order to publish a book about it?
Did you know that the New York State Pavilion, one of the most popular attractions at the 1964 World's Fair, later stored hazardous waste?
Did you know that the TikTok success of DellaXOZ's "Ahh!!" prompted a lawyer to contact her?
Did you know that Aurora Gaming's roster for Apex Legends is made up of Fire Beavers?
Did you know that Claude Hamilton Verity, a grandson of Doncaster mayor Charles Verity, was an early pioneer of the synchronisation of sound with silent films?
Did you know that KT Leveston, the 254th pick in the 2024 NFL draft, is from U.S. area code 254?
Did you know that Syrian artist Kefah Ali Deeb painted an empty chair as her vision of victims and refugees?
Did you know that many people with heart failure, diabetes, or ME/CFS cannot raise their heart rates sufficiently during exercise?
Did you know that one of the "plushest" nightclubs in northern Florida turned into studios for a TV station in Jacksonville?
Did you know that within years of Aza Arnold inventing a device to improve cotton roving, it was plagiarized across the United States and Europe?
Did you know that El Califa de León is the first Mexican taqueria to be awarded a Michelin star?
Did you know that Jacob Christiaan Koningsberger, a biologist who catalogued the flora and fauna of Java, also served as the Dutch minister of the colonies?
Did you know that in 2016, the removal of a few lines of code briefly "broke the Internet"?
Did you know that researchers submitting to the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy intentionally introduced security bugs into Linux?
Did you know that the Circle Tower, an Art Deco building in Indianapolis, features ziggurat-like upper floors?
Did you know that the Larmanjat guided rail system was successfully demonstrated in England but failed completely when used commercially in Lisbon?
Did you know that the Tang dynasty politician Fang Yi'ai, together with his wife Princess Gaoyang, rebelled against Emperor Gaozong of Tang, but their rebellion was swiftly suppressed, resulting in their deaths?
Did you know that Kortnei Johnson became a seven-time state sprinting champion for the University Interscholastic League despite training on grass and cement?
Did you know that S'Klallam artist Jeffrey Veregge's "Salish Geek" style blended traditional formline art techniques with bright colors and pop culture references?
Did you know that people in Madagascar perform algebra on tree seeds in order to tell the future?
Did you know that the daimyo of Kumamoto is said to have spent a thousand gold pieces in one night at an Ōsakishimojima teahouse?
Did you know that Macklemore's song "Hind's Hall" refers to Hind Rajab, a six-year-old girl who was killed in the Gaza Strip in January 2024?
Did you know that depictions of Tobias and the Angel (example pictured), unusually for a religious subject, typically show Tobias's dog?
Did you know that football player Levi Drake Rodriguez, considered small for his position, went on an "eat-as-much-as-humanly-possible diet" to be noticed by NFL teams?
Did you know that the Beep the Meep puppet created for "The Star Beast" took six people to operate?
Did you know that Felipe Lara's Pulitzer finalist Double Concerto turns its soloists into a "many-tentacled creature"?
Did you know that Franz Liszt's female admirers would fight over his cigar stubs and coffee dregs as souvenirs?
Did you know that Tim Robards returned to Neighbours in Episode 8851, two years after he had to quit his role early?
Did you know that birds have more species than mammals, but are relatively more uniform in appearance?
Did you know that in addition to her popular manga series Delicious in Dungeon, Ryoko Kui has drawn fan art of the games Baldur's Gate, Pathfinder and Planescape: Torment?
Did you know that one Italian broadcaster delayed airing Eurovision Song Contest 1974 by two months to avoid influencing an upcoming divorce law referendum?
Did you know that two European missionaries stationed in a Catholic church were beheaded by Chinese Red Army soldiers led by Mao Zedong in 1935?
Did you know that Bianca Babb, a pioneer girl captured by Comanches, described her time among them as "every day seemed to be a holiday", despite the hardships of her initial capture?
Did you know that Kenneth Odumegwu had never appeared in an organized American football game prior to playing in the NFL?
Did you know that for her residency Ang Ating Musika, Regine Velasquez performed "two concerts-in-one"?
Did you know that the Doctor Who episode "The Devil's Chord" references the events of an episode that aired more than sixty years before?
Did you know that the ZX Spectrum is one of the best-selling British computers of all time?
Did you know that the idea for Windswept Adan came to Ichiko Aoba after she noticed the translucency of a sea grape?
Did you know that the two marble statues flanking the Dellwood Cemetery gates represent Mourning and Resurrection?
Did you know that Fredrick Wangabo Mwenengabo, a Congolese-Canadian anthropologist and human rights activist, survived being kidnapped and held for ransom in the Democratic Republic of the Congo?
Did you know that if the Devizes Plot had been successful, 7,000 German prisoners of war would have escaped and attacked RAF Yatesbury?
Did you know that sisters Talia and Tori DellaPeruta (both pictured), college teammates at North Carolina, play soccer professionally for Sampdoria?
Did you know that the American band Grupo Frontera collaborated with the media franchise Transformers on a trailer to promote their second studio album?
Did you know that the Byzantine Empire's weak defenses around the Lycus valley played a pivotal role in the fall of Constantinople?
Did you know that when actress Joanna Lumley spent nine days on an uninhabited island for the 1994 TV show Girl Friday, she made a pair of shoes out of her bra?
Did you know that American abolitionists co-opted the concept of Southern chivalry (caricature pictured) as an insult against pro-slavery white Southerners?
Did you know that Pujol and Quintonil are the highest-rated restaurants in Mexico's first Michelin guide, with two Michelin stars each?
Did you know that Shagdarjavin Natsagdorj's remarks at an academic conference led to a communist purge and contributed to the Sino-Soviet split?
Did you know that football player Peter Bowden only started long snapping to help his cousin, a punter, produce film in high school, and both are now in the National Football League?
Did you know that in Thailand and Cambodia, cats are used in a procession to ask for rain?
Did you know that "Human Sacrifice", a track on the 2024 album Atavista, could be heard in a 2019 Google Pixel advertisement?
Did you know that Alexandru Talex was described as "the gentlest" member of a Romanian far-right organization?
Did you know that Mike Gorman spent 43 consecutive years as the television play-by-play commentator for the Boston Celtics?
Did you know that a mob in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, detained Jean Pettrequin and searched for Sebastian Zouberbuhler because of a letter?
Did you know that according to legend, the invention of Chinese characters (examples pictured) caused grain to rain from the sky and ghosts and demons to wail in frustration?
Did you know that during the filming of the Doctor Who episode "Boom" some takes lasted up to seven minutes?
Did you know that the Armenian Radio jokes are neither about radio nor are they Armenian?
Did you know that George Kunkel portrayed a mountaineer in The Chalice of Courage (1915), the first film to depict assisted suicide?
Did you know that Northwestern women's lacrosse player Izzy Scane led the country in points, missed a season with a torn ACL, then led the country in points again?
Did you know that Uhtred became Earl of Bamburgh after his victory at the siege of Durham, even though his father seems to have still been living?
Did you know that academic Bunny Mellor served as a secret agent alongside Peter Fleming?
Did you know that in the year after its establishment, the provincial legislature of Bali annulled all local laws banning inter-caste marriage?
Did you know that the North Korean propaganda song "Friendly Father" went viral on TikTok, with some users comparing it to songs by ABBA?
Did you know that the budget for the first season of The Last of Us exceeded that of each of the first five seasons of Game of Thrones?
Did you know that AI researcher Jan Leike believes "safety culture and processes have taken a backseat to shiny products" at OpenAI?
Did you know that Drake discovered an ancient Chinese city?
Did you know that Zombie Plane "mercilessly mocks its main stars", according to The Hollywood Reporter?
Did you know that codebreaker Emily Anderson was trained to become a Hush WAAC before she joined the British GCHQ?
Did you know that making a manganese nitride in 1894 required a sponge?
Did you know that Don Hutson and Forrest Gregg were the only Green Bay Packers players selected for all three NFL All-Anniversary Teams?
Did you know that Kenji Tanigaki, the action director of Rurouni Kenshin and Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins, began his career as a stuntman on the invitation of action choreographer Stephen Tung?
Did you know that Utter served as a Stockholm police horse for more than 23 years, participating in 515 changings of the Royal Guards?
Did you know that after presenting a televised singing contest won by Sarah Geronimo, Regine Velasquez co-headlined a concert with her?
Did you know that the CBeebies presenter George Webster has "effervescence, bubbly charm, a quick wit", and "an extra chromosome"?
Did you know that the Natives Representative Council held meetings in school halls?
Did you know that the ancient Homeric Hymns influenced the works of James Joyce, Alfred Hitchcock and Neil Gaiman?
Did you know that Jaelyn Brown, who was born with two club feet, now plays in the WNBA?
Did you know that Megan Abbott receives the most negative letters from readers for The End of Everything?
Did you know that The Amazing Digital Circus is influenced by the short story "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream"?
Did you know that Vasantha Krishna Prasad was the richest candidate from Krishna district to contest the 2019 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election?
Did you know that the Amen break gained popularity because it offered an easy way to create jungle music?
Did you know that the execution of Burkinabé trade union leader Soumane Touré was prevented by the intervention of his childhood friend, then-president Thomas Sankara?
Did you know that Bills plays for the Bills?
Did you know that Isaac Watts, the "father of English hymnody", described one of Charles Wesley's hymns as "worth all the verses he himself had written"?
Did you know that a Buddhist android preacher regularly gives sermons on the Heart Sutra?
Did you know that a Japanese samurai was beatified by Pope Benedict XVI, nearly 400 years after his execution during the Great Martyrdom of Edo?
Did you know that the Nabisco Shredded Wheat Factory was used as a marketing tool, with an image of the factory on every cereal packet it produced until 1960?
Did you know that the Picts disappeared from the historical record after the devastation suffered following the Battle of Dollar?
Did you know that the classicist Adam Parry said that he had only ever considered three careers: academia, law and beachcombing?
Did you know that "Sea of Voices" was well-received by Porter Robinson's fans even though it was a fundamental change from his prior musical style?
Did you know that Eric Bloodaxe's death at the Battle of Stainmore ended the independence of Scandinavian York?
Did you know that Olympian Ryu Sung-hyun taught himself gymnastics for four years because his father did not want him to become an athlete?
Did you know that Seattle Reign FC have had three name changes during their 11-year history?
Did you know that the legacy of American pianist Ella Scoble Opperman has been said to continue "to entertain and draw attention to Tallahassee" decades after her death?
Did you know that Gabriel André Aucler tried to reestablish paganism after the French Revolution?
Did you know that Schoenoplectus triqueter can grow up to 1.5 metres (4 ft 11 in) tall on stems less than half a centimetre (0.20 in) wide?
Did you know that a high jumper took up sprinting to qualify for Kiribati at the 2020 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that in her musical show Songbird, Regine Velasquez performs one lesser-known song from the featured theme each week?
Did you know that the Creamoata Mill, which once produced a now-nonexistent breakfast food, was listed as Gore's only "place of outstanding historical and cultural influence"?
Did you know that the documentary film I Am Human has been the conversation starter for neuroscience panel discussions at universities such as Harvard?
Did you know that Yazathingyan Nga Mauk betrayed his brother, Commander Nga Nu, after being promised Nu's wife, Queen Saw Omma, in marriage?
Did you know that a Utah radio station read books to listeners, a Chapter a Day?
Did you know that according to one creationist journal, HIV has its origins in the Fall?
Did you know that after performing a tour, football club Santa Cruz Futebol Clube had four fewer players, two of them being dead?
Did you know that at the 2014 Olympic Games, Yulia Lipnitskaya became Russia's youngest-ever Winter Olympic gold medalist?
Did you know that the SkyBridge Alternatives Conference has been called the "Super Bowl of hedge funds"?
Did you know that John White shot himself after it was discovered that he had plagiarized a speech by Aaron Burr?
Did you know that a Chinese warlord put his car on coinage, in lieu of his own portrait?
Did you know that bricks laid in Flemish bond were a sign of wealth in colonial Virginia?
Did you know that within the mixed-reality mode of Homeworld: Vast Reaches, ships seem to fly around the player's room?
Did you know that Fatimid vizier al-Ma'mun al-Bata'ihi helped empower Caliph al-Amir, only to be later imprisoned and executed by him?
Did you know that Korean brick toys, colloquially called "Korean Lego", often feature themes of "war and danger", including sets such as military vehicles?
Did you know that Mel Carnahan was the first person to be elected to the United States Senate posthumously?
Did you know that Metro Boomin unknowingly sampled a song created with generative artificial intelligence in the diss track "BBL Drizzy"?
Did you know that due to legal and union restrictions, the production team for the Doctor Who episode "Space Babies" occasionally had to replace real babies with props?
Did you know that stage director and scenic designer Daniela Kerck crafted a new ending to Puccini's unfinished opera Turandot for the 2024 Internationale Maifestspiele?
Did you know that the Oxtongue River, historically a canoe route for indigenous people, is still used for recreational canoeing?
Did you know that young Erismatopterus formed shoals, likely as a way to avoid predators?
Did you know that Alan Choe was tasked with developing Queenstown, Singapore's first satellite town, after its British architects left the country in the mid-1950s?
Did you know that Clark House hosted Cold War meetings?
Did you know that Dick Walker's discovery of Saturn's moon Epimetheus was only realized twelve years later?
Did you know that Google's Client Hints proposal was initially classified as harmful by Mozilla?
Did you know that Richard Linklater's original concept for Dazed and Confused took place entirely within a car as its characters listened to ZZ Top?
Did you know that the first Hindu temple in Wisconsin was built "in the middle of nowhere"?
Did you know that there are more than 9,000 swamps in Belarus?
Did you know that 28 trillion tonnes of ice were lost worldwide between 1994 and 2017 due to climate change?
Did you know that Arndt Jorgens won five World Series despite not playing in a postseason game?
Did you know that Daniel Chapo, the favorite to be the next president of Mozambique, was previously a radio announcer?
Did you know that William Henry Harrison Seeley was the first American recipient of the Victoria Cross?
Did you know that according to some metaphysicians, there are no relations?
Did you know that the botanist Victor Jacob Koningsberger spoke out against the expulsion of Jewish academics in the occupied Netherlands?
Did you know that there's a Little Canada on Minnesota State Highway 36?
Did you know that Black Sheep Radio dedicated its first day of programming to a fallen pirate?
Did you know that Joy was the sole survivor of the Romanov family's execution?
Did you know that The Penguin History of Modern China profiled the Christian general whose army moved to the beat of "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing"?
Did you know that a man was denaturalized and deported from the United States for working at a Nazi death camp, despite the courts never holding that he did it willingly?
Did you know that after the original Stonewall Inn (modern building pictured) closed in 1969, its space was used by a bagel shop, a Chinese restaurant, and a clothing store?
Did you know that baseball player Shane Rawley has published a novel?
Did you know that in the Great Alaskan Lumberjack Show, the performers scale a 50-foot (15 m) tree and then free fall?
Did you know that the Cat Empire's 2023 album Where the Angels Fall features contributions from 75 musicians and 49 instruments?
Did you know that YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim has updated the description of his video "Me at the zoo" on multiple occasions to criticize the website's business decisions?
Did you know that a 2007 pop-punk song by Fall Out Boy was named after Michael Jackson's Thriller and begins with a monologue by rapper Jay-Z?
Did you know that a book about book banning was banned?
Did you know that fifteen future Pro Football Hall of Fame players have been drafted by the Detroit Lions?
Did you know that military officer Chris Tanasale was selected as the mayor of Ambon, Indonesia, to prevent the alienation of local Christians?
Did you know that the Bermuda onion was so closely associated with Bermuda that the island's inhabitants became known as "onions"?
Did you know that the Nazis killed more than fifty Dutch nationals in retaliation for the assassinations of Hendrik Seyffardt and Hermannus Reydon by the Dutch resistance?
Did you know that the shopping cart is "the ultimate litmus test for whether a person is capable of self-governing", according to the shopping cart theory?
Did you know that Brittany Luse's podcast The Nod was praised for its exploration of "the diversity and richness of the Black experience"?
Did you know that David Marchese recalled accidentally posting a picture of a cat's testicles on Salon.com?
Did you know that a mail-order catalogue offered a "Rocking Ram" toy, designed by Charleen Kinser, for US$1,600 in 1985?
Did you know that at the opening ceremony of Brighton Aquarium, naturalist Frank Buckland "produced, apparently from his pocket, a couple of juvenile alligators"?
Did you know that despite a global decline in mangrove forests, Red Sea mangroves have expanded in area since 1972?
Did you know that despite lagging attendance at the 1964 New York World's Fair, its organizer rejected nearly every suggestion to increase attendance?
Did you know that the project Called by Name aims to commemorate Poles who were murdered for aiding Jews during World War II?
Did you know that Max Weil, founder of the Halifax Symphony Orchestra, spent his later years in real estate?
Did you know that the 1754 Battle of the Frogs was commemorated on banknotes (detail pictured)?
Did you know that the United States Department of Defense ran a propaganda campaign against Chinese vaccines during the COVID-19 pandemic?
Did you know that the Wellesbourne, Brighton's lost river, stopped flowing in 1889?
Did you know that the first public performance of the two songs of Arnold Schoenberg's Zwei Gesänge, Op. 1 was met with hostile audience reactions?
Did you know that Billie Eilish first served "Lunch" during a party at Coachella?
Did you know that Florida Hospital Oceanside was demolished after being damaged by Hurricane Irma?
Did you know that according to a popular myth, Admiral Ernest J. King shaved with a blowtorch?
Did you know that after completing his tenure as regent, Tatto Suwarto Pamuji walked 96 kilometres (60 mi) to fulfill a vow he made?
Did you know that on American band the Linda Lindas' first album, Growing Up, a cat named Lil' Dude is featured playing the piano?
Did you know that Żeromski Park, the second-largest park in Szczecin, Poland, used to be a cemetery?
Did you know that Jackson Demonstration State Forest was named in honor of American lumberman Jacob Green Jackson?
Did you know that Tural, the setting of the expansion pack Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail, is inspired by Latin America and Southeast Asia?
Did you know that between 1985 and 1988, Televerket spent 2 million kronor paying youth sports teams to monitor payphones for vandalism?
Did you know that orthopedic surgeon Adnan al-Bursh had also served as an advisor to the Palestine national football team before dying in an Israeli prison?
Did you know that the NFL has required players in most positions to wear Guardian Caps during training even though third-party research has questioned their effectiveness?
Did you know that the Upper Voltan National Radio chief editor Watamou Lamien was the liaison between the ROC group of young radical military officers and the clandestine Voltan Revolutionary Communist Party?
Did you know that Margaret Carroux's German translation of The Lord of the Rings contains errors introduced by her editor?
Did you know that Melanie L. Campbell was arrested for civil disobedience while protesting proposed restrictions on voting rights?
Did you know that actor George Kunkel portrayed in blackface the character of Uncle Tom, using it at first to promote slavery during the American Civil War but later to attack it, after his views had changed?
Did you know that before reading the script for the play Golden Girls, at least nine of the cast members were under the impression that they would be taking the lead role?
Did you know that historically, lichens like Umbilicaria torrefacta have been used to naturally dye traditional Scottish tartans and textiles?