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Did you know that Chiisana Koi no Uta Band performed a cover of "Chiisana Koi no Uta" for Chiisana Koi no Uta?
Did you know that Club Chalamet has been described as an "integral part of Stan Twitter"?
Did you know that Edward Beard won reelection to the United States House of Representatives despite not winning his party's endorsement?
Did you know that Helen Mulholland, who says her parents never drank, is the first woman master blender in the history of Irish whiskey?
Did you know that King Henry I of Cyprus is better known for having been fat than for anything he achieved in his 20-year rule?
Did you know that Muriel Hannah created a map that its buyer described as combining "man's greatest desires – a good looking girl on a King Crab"?
Did you know that Tropical Storm Pabuk forced PAGASA to issue cyclone advisory bulletins outside the Philippine Area of Responsibility in December 2024, for the first time since 1963?
Did you know that most paper in Europe was made from discarded rags until the 19th century?
Did you know that the origin of chole bhature (example pictured) is disputed?
Did you know that Donald Trump nicknamed a lawyer "Sir Charles" because he would "act like royalty"?
Did you know that English and British monarchs claimed to be kings and queens of France for more than 450 years, and finally dropped the title only in 1801?
Did you know that Indonesian ambassador Alfred Tanduk Palembangan was inspired to become a diplomat through interacting with tourists?
Did you know that Martin Robertson kept his job at the British Museum only because he did not clean the exhibits?
Did you know that concrete ties used on the Middleborough/Lakeville Line began to fail after just a decade?
Did you know that former NFL player Heinie Jawish died suddenly while playing handball at the age of 41?
Did you know that one newspaper described the North Christian Church as "poised to lift off and take man to meet his Maker"?
Did you know that the first literary work published in Alabama criticized a participant in the Battle of Burnt Corn?
Did you know that the name of Memorial Park in Tauranga, New Zealand, was chosen in order to qualify for a subsidy?
Did you know that 133 notable Viennese personalities are in Gustav Klimt's Auditorium of the Old Burgtheater?
Did you know that African-American civil rights activist Jesse L. Douglas was called an "unidentified white man" during protests in 1965?
Did you know that Caltech students called their calculus books "Tommy 1" and "Tommy 2"?
Did you know that Michael Gardener preached a sermon in Inuktitut even though he did not yet understand the language?
Did you know that Prince Thagara was so handsome that the future Queen Supayalat disguised herself as a man just to get a glimpse of him?
Did you know that The New York Times likened the design of Storer House to The Matrix?
Did you know that a Connecticut TV station offered $100 to the first viewer who called in, twenty times—but nobody called?
Did you know that a maintenance tram in Prague has a Facebook group?
Did you know that a search-and-rescue otter, on his first mission, recovered a weapon in a 25-year-old murder case?
Did you know that a women's association in Japan used linens hung up to dry to monitor pollution from a nearby power station?
Did you know that diplomat Tess Johnston wrote more than two dozen books about Shanghai's Western-style architecture?
Did you know that fixing a "Null ID" error could have prevented a train derailment and a six-day disruption?
Did you know that more than 63,000 border deaths were documented between 2014 and 2024?
Did you know that physician Signe Salén was denied a pension because she treated fewer than 18,000 patients per year?
Did you know that the East River Generating Station in New York City was opened by the Queen of Romania?
Did you know that the copyright holder of more than 2,000 pornographic films is the most prolific filer of copyright lawsuits in the US?
Did you know that the court jester Bernard de Bluet d'Arbères recounted being forced to recite a sermon from a tree which was being chopped down?
Did you know that the family of a man charged with murdering a police officer ten years ago today were surprised when the jury acquitted him?
Did you know that Beaulieu Park is the first new station on the Great Eastern Main Line in more than 100 years?
Did you know that Bienor is a very long space centaur?
Did you know that Edwin Boxshall, described as Britain's longest-serving spy, was still advising the Foreign Office right up to the time of his death?
Did you know that Jack Fitzgerald was "father" of the South Australian House of Assembly?
Did you know that Jackie Lou Blanco portrayed her real-life mother in the opening scene of One Hit Wonder?
Did you know that NFL player Len Garrett was nicknamed "Graveyard"?
Did you know that Nine Inch Nails's frontman was "baptized" by a fog machine during a show on the Peel It Back Tour?
Did you know that Pokémon fans compared the design of Mega Starmie to a scene depicting Patrick Star with long legs and in fishnet leggings?
Did you know that Sławomir impersonated Freddie Mercury in the finals of the Polish version of Dancing with the Stars?
Did you know that Three Dances has been described as both characteristic and uncharacteristic of composer Henryk Górecki's work?
Did you know that Yundi won the 2000 International Chopin Piano Competition, after 15 years without a first prize awarded?
Did you know that a synagogue-turned-church was marketed for sale as a potential nightclub?
Did you know that models danced until they seemed to collapse in a fashion show based on a dance marathon?
Did you know that most "citrine" on the market is not natural citrine (example pictured), but rather heat-treated amethyst?
Did you know that the author of Tristram Shandy signed entire print runs of his books to prove they were genuine?
Did you know that the idea for a birdwatching documentary was conceived while one of its creators was high on marijuana?
Did you know that the operator of the Robie House sold bricks to raise money for a renovation?
Did you know that thousands moved to Gowganda during a silver rush, but its population declined significantly after gold was found in Kirkland Lake?
Did you know that , to prove that the "mad king" George III was not actually mad, psychiatrist Ida Macalpine sought out his descendants' faeces?
Did you know that , while reporting on a vehicle driven off a bridge, François Gagnon helped to save another driver who drove off the same bridge?
Did you know that Abdelkader Lahmar was a high school economics teacher before being a candidate for the French Parliament?
Did you know that Ambam the gorilla walked on two legs?
Did you know that American black bear Yellow 2291 and her cubs are the first family of bears in decades to live in the Santa Monica Mountains?
Did you know that Bob Print had a reputation for "being an animal"?
Did you know that Ján Nagy became an Olympic weightlifter despite doctors forbidding him from competing in sports?
Did you know that a Thai film went viral in 2024 as viewers shared videos of themselves crying after watching it?
Did you know that according to the author of a key textbook on documentary editing, a bookstore erroneously assumed that it was related to documentary films instead of archival science?
Did you know that an AI-generated country music artist released a single that topped the Billboard Country Digital Song Sales chart?
Did you know that conventionalism in aesthetics can explain how a urinal is art?
Did you know that during the siege of Jerusalem in the First Jewish Revolt, the Romans crucified prisoners in various positions to intimidate the defenders into surrender?
Did you know that mind control is a popular trope in works of science fiction, particularly dystopian ones?
Did you know that rabbi Alvin Kass helped end a hostage crisis with two pastrami sandwiches?
Did you know that the 13th-century Autumn Colors on the Que and Hua Mountains inspired many imitations over the following seven centuries?
Did you know that the Archives of the Impossible is a special collection primarily focused on UFOs and paranormal research?
Did you know that the Monroe Canyon Fire became Utah's largest wildfire in five years?
Did you know that the character Arlecchino in the game Genshin Impact was named after a stock character in Italian commedia dell'arte?
Did you know that French general Vital Joachim Chamorin dreamed of his death the night before he was killed in the 1811 Battle of Campo Maior?
Did you know that Kenneth D. McCullar was killed when a wallaby crashed his bomber on takeoff?
Did you know that a viral stray cat was, years later, found and adopted by the same journalist who had inadvertently turned her into a meme?
Did you know that accused witch Graciana de Barrenechea was posthumously tried, convicted, and then absolved within a year?
Did you know that station master Fritz Skullerud participated in the 1906 Olympic Games?
Did you know that the 2024 United States drone sightings resulted in flight restrictions over 22 communities in New Jersey and other sensitive sites?
Did you know that the author of The Take-Charge Patient became a patient herself half a year into writing the book?
Did you know that the novel There Is No Antimemetics Division was originally published on the SCP Wiki?
Did you know that the survival-horror video game Crow Country features a game mode with no enemies?
Did you know that Jack Teele remained employed by the Los Angeles Rams under three different owners, six head coaches, and "umpteen different quarterbacks"?
Did you know that Michael D. Coe completed The True History of Chocolate to fulfill a promise he made to his dying wife?
Did you know that Umamusume character Haru Urara became so popular that a website donating grass to feed her namesake racehorse crashed?
Did you know that a 2025 musical film, which topped the U.S. box office within a weekend, had its global release plan scrapped in multiple countries?
Did you know that after her father's death, Thora Thersner completed his work documenting Swedish buildings and landscapes?
Did you know that fiction about impact events typically focuses more on the societal ramifications than on the science?
Did you know that golfer Michael Brennan won in his first start as a professional on the PGA Tour?
Did you know that in his early career Charlie Chaplin was booed, heckled, and pelted with oranges and coins until he left the stage of Foresters Music Hall?
Did you know that the titular mandolin in Picasso's Girl with a Mandolin has been attributed with "a mild autoerotic suggestion"?
Did you know that "nobody among the secretaries of the Middle Ages could reach such a level of influence over kings" as Fernán Díaz de Toledo?
Did you know that Brandon Saad was the first Saginaw Spirit alumnus to win the Stanley Cup?
Did you know that Josèphe Jacquiot founded a museum that was named in her honour?
Did you know that Serbia's smallest passenger airport has only one year-round scheduled flight – to Istanbul?
Did you know that Stalin told the Turkestan Autonomy to invade the Soviet Commissariat in Tashkent instead of asking him to dissolve it?
Did you know that a 2025 petition to the International Criminal Court alleges that 122 European politicians have committed crimes against humanity against migrants?
Did you know that in Māori culture a woman can end a speech during a pōwhiri by walking in front of the speaker?
Did you know that the 2003 series Trouble frequently appears on lists of the worst or most controversial Spider-Man storylines?
Did you know that the soprillo saxophone (example pictured) is about half the length of a soprano saxophone and pitched one octave higher?
Did you know that Chris Jackson left the Cancer Society of New Zealand after his wife was elected to parliament?
Did you know that Geordie Greep announced his debut solo album just ten days after revealing that his band was on an indefinite hiatus?
Did you know that Nestor Makhno described the evolutionary biologist Marie Goldsmith as one of the "titans of anarchism"?
Did you know that Renato Candida, not the assassinated general Carlo Alberto dalla Chiesa, inspired the character of Captain Bellodi in The Day of the Owl?
Did you know that The Patient's Playbook warns against overly hasty medical treatment, citing a case in which a man received heart stents before learning that the issue was in his lungs?
Did you know that Water World Lloret has been described as "a favourite of foreign tourists", with 60 per cent of its visitors coming from outside Spain?
Did you know that a house that was once called "almost the opposite of a landmark" later became a U.S. National Historic Landmark?
Did you know that the first Mass for Saint Cyprian Church, a Black Catholic congregation, had only one Black Catholic in attendance?
Did you know that two successive Hanthawaddy commanders who held the title of Smin Maw-Khwin surrendered to Ava forces in 1414?
Did you know that , according to legend, Ngataba Min became king after eating the head of a rooster?
Did you know that , contrary to the perception of Phytoseiidae, Amblyseius anacardii is observed as an agricultural pest?
Did you know that Harvard's first modern feeder school cost twice as much as Harvard itself?
Did you know that The Banquet of Cleopatra depicts Cleopatra drinking a dissolved pearl to impress Mark Antony?
Did you know that Zhang Xichen founded a magazine to compete with one made by his own employer?
Did you know that an on-stage incident traumatized Antonie Mielke so much that she retired from opera?
Did you know that people entered the Bronze Age tombs at Volimidia centuries later in the Iron Age to leave offerings to the dead?
Did you know that the text of "Heaven and Earth, and Sea and Air" was written by the man after whom the Neandertal was named?
Did you know that the unique, if "Freudian", partnership between Richard A. Hunter and his mother was the most prolific in publishing in the history of psychiatry?
Did you know that Luciano Berio composed Sequenza III for diverse mouth sounds interspersed with ecstatic singing?
Did you know that Sneeze Achiu had documents listing him as Caucasian so that he would not be segregated from his teammates?
Did you know that Tamagotchi Connection: Corner Shop 2 features a mini-game called sushi-bowling?
Did you know that Tjoo Tik Tjoen stood for the Indonesian Communist Party in a 1955 election, despite not having officially joined the party?
Did you know that a nationwide survey found that one in three Japanese people have an oshi?
Did you know that in 1900 Isabel Fidler was appointed as tutor to the 70 women students at the University of Sydney; by the time of her retirement in 1939 there were more than 800?
Did you know that the Deer Creek Fire developed a nearly stationary fire tornado?
Did you know that the United States agreed Australian staff would support the Joint Geological and Geophysical Research Station in Alice Springs, but the United States Air Force runs it instead?
Did you know that the appeal of the children's poem "On the Ning Nang Nong" has been attributed to the absurdity of its nonsense sounds, like teapots going "Jibber Jabber Joo"?
Did you know that Agnes Inglis developed her own idiosyncratic cataloging system for the Labadie Collection?
Did you know that Battle for Dream Island helped to launch a YouTube genre centered on anthropomorphic objects?
Did you know that Jake Bergey was drafted by the Boston Blazers before being traded back to the Philadelphia Wings, twice?
Did you know that actress Jessica Forrest performed in a play where venues were transformed into fish-and-chip shops?
Did you know that cocoa is grown in Tokyo, almost 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) south of the city centre?
Did you know that in 2025 Oscar Piastri became the first Australian since 2010 to lead the Formula One World Drivers' Championship?
Did you know that people greened rubble?
Did you know that tens of thousands of Vietnamese Catholics travel to Missouri annually to attend Marian Days at Our Lady of the Ozarks College?
Did you know that the seven­teen known species of the prehistoric horse relative Plagiolophus ranged in weight from 10 kg (22 lb) to more than 150 kg (330 lb) (size chart pictured)?
Did you know that Brigadier General William J. Fox retired from the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, moved to Mexico and became a charro?
Did you know that HMAS Emu once rescued a cigarette-smoking chimpanzee and his magician owner?
Did you know that Ken Selby walked along U.S. Route 66 from Oklahoma City to Tulsa at the age of 73?
Did you know that The Republic Newspaper Office was completed under budget despite the plans undergoing more than 100 changes during construction?
Did you know that a subculture from Asian-American gangs broadened to include women in college sororities and cultural clubs?
Did you know that actress Daniela Melchior once did an audition with rats?
Did you know that scholar Martin P. Nilsson called the Ring of Nestor "a most amazing find", but later doubted its authenticity?
Did you know that the video game My Time at Sandrock was funded by almost 10,000 people from more than 160 countries?
Did you know that viruses can be catalogued into seven groups in the Baltimore classification?
Did you know that "the Boshfather" was deported from Australia in October 2025?
Did you know that , when workers of the Zenkoku Jiren went on strike at a Hitachi factory, anarchist militants firebombed the mansion of Hitachi's president, Namihei Odaira?
Did you know that Ahmad Shah Durrani conducted fifteen major military campaigns during his reign, comprising nine invasions of India, three in Khorasan, and three in Afghan Turkestan?
Did you know that Matilda Freeman did not originally intend to be an actress, but auditioned for a role after being teased by some classmates?
Did you know that New Tide was abandoned after many of its contributors left the country or joined the Chinese Literary Association?
Did you know that a park in New York City occupies the former site of a waste transfer station and a heliport?
Did you know that reggae musician James Mange formed a soccer-themed political party to compete in South Africa's first democratic election?
Did you know that the 2014 Louisville, Mississippi tornado was powerful enough that an entire door was torn off and blown 30 miles (48 km)?
Did you know that the Queen's Theatre in East London was named to reflect its opening in the same year as the coronation of Elizabeth II?
Did you know that Friedrich von Pernstein, the archbishop of Riga for 37 years, only spent less than five years there?
Did you know that Gatot Wilotikto needed approval from the North Korean parliament to marry a local woman?
Did you know that Gävle Hospital in Sweden was so overrun with scarlet fever in 1934 that it considered requisitioning a local gymnasium?
Did you know that Satank Bridge to Satank, Colorado, was constructed in 1900 for $2,325, while its 2011 restoration was estimated to cost at least $750,000?
Did you know that a former Indonesian ambassador was spared by Khmer Rouge forces after repeatedly shouting "Indonesia"?
Did you know that more than 30 women claimed to have gone into labor within 24 hours of eating a Labor Inducer?
Did you know that one newspaper labelled Caroline Hodgson the "wickedest woman in Melbourne"?
Did you know that the Pokémon Heracross may have contributed to an increase in demand for rhinoceros beetles in both legal and illegal Japanese insect markets?
Did you know that the former Natick station building became the basement of a liquor store?
Did you know that Achmad Husein required municipal employees of Banyumas to collect 1 kg (2.2 lb) of inorganic waste each month?
Did you know that Bob Comfort, an atheist, made up a religion when ordered to pick one while serving in the United States military?
Did you know that Paul Revere's daughter had a portrait of him revised, as it depicted him dressed informally?
Did you know that Superstring at Marymount station features child-like drawings of the sun, a singing bird, and cryptic messages on babies and saving water?
Did you know that Tan Boon Chiang awarded four cases of PepsiCo soft drinks to each worker in Singapore after rejecting their claim for higher wages?
Did you know that Tony Hawk described ollieing a staircase in Lyon as "one of the greatest feats in skateboarding history"?
Did you know that the American crow is considered to be a sign of good luck in Native American cultures?
Did you know that the Tudor historian Polydore Vergil erroneously wrote that the site of the Battle of Edington was in Abingdon?
Did you know that the arietta "Caro mio ben" has been attributed to three Giordanis, one of whom was unrelated to the other two?
Did you know that , after winning the Eurovision Song Contest 1965, France Gall was slapped by a fellow competitor?
Did you know that Baek Se-hee wrote I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki?
Did you know that Charles Strong founded the Australian Church (building pictured) after facing heresy charges, and attracted many elite congregants including a future prime minister?
Did you know that MrBeast offered a $15,000 bounty to anyone who could defeat YouTuber Technoblade in the tournament Minecraft Monday?
Did you know that cyclist Sepp Kuss logged 547,019 metres (1,794,682 ft) of elevation gain in 2023?
Did you know that some people who witnessed the sinking of the May Flint thought that it was a public display?
Did you know that the Energy Polarizer claimed to enhance the performance of Holden Commodores with crystals?
Did you know that the Minnesota and Wisconsin National Guards may have shot cannonballs across the Mississippi River at each other during artillery competitions at Camp Lakeview?
Did you know that the symbol of Slender Man originates from the web series Marble Hornets?
Did you know that Gemma Hayter was inspired to return to playing darts after eight years when her friend became world champion?
Did you know that Leon Russianoff never took a college music lesson, but an obituary stated that he was "considered by many to be the Godfather of American clarinetists"?
Did you know that a Florida TV station was named after Columbia Pictures, even though a merger with that company fell through?
Did you know that a New York railroad once operated a special train to a former train station so that people could see model trains?
Did you know that an American government database was named after a rock band?
Did you know that author Tareq Baconi, after studying water scarcity and Hamas, wrote a memoir about queer identity, family displacement, and political awakening?
Did you know that multiple police raids failed to retrieve a book that was once valued at more than US$900 million?
Did you know that the author of Kaiten no Albus did not decide the protagonist's objective until after the first chapter was written?
Did you know that the opening of the General Motors Technical Center featured an appearance by Indonesia's president and a speech from the US president?
Did you know that , after Uruapan mayor Carlos Manzo was assassinated, his wife Grecia Quiroz was chosen to complete his term in office?
Did you know that 10 Things I Want to Do Before I Turn 40 was originally conceived as a science-fiction story about an older male succubus?
Did you know that A. A. Gill saw "poseurs, pimps, phoney counts, lounge lizards, poodle fakers, ageing gigolos and remittance men" at San Lorenzo?
Did you know that Catalan artist Josefa Tolrà created paintings and embroideries while in a trance?
Did you know that Kenssy Dwi Ekaningsih used her skills in traditional Javanese dance at diplomatic receptions during an assignment in Rome?
Did you know that Yonki-no-kai Productions was founded by Akira Kurosawa, Masaki Kobayashi, Kon Ichikawa and Keisuke Kinoshita with the aim of reviving the struggling Japanese film industry?
Did you know that YouTuber Laura Kampf got millions of views on a video in which she built a project that did not work?
Did you know that the majority of candidates in the 2024 Delaware elections ran unopposed?