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Did you know that Marietta College's second radio station, airing classical and jazz music, freed up its original outlet for student programming?
Did you know that Victor Cordella designed around twenty churches in Minnesota, including the Church of St. Casimir?
Did you know that a 15th-century cause célèbre saw a duchess dead, innocents hanged, villains and sorcerers drawn and quartered, and eventually the king's brother executed in a butt of malmsey?
Did you know that a North Korean refugee became the "godfather of gangsta rap" by selling records at the Compton Swap Meet?
Did you know that abortion in the United Arab Emirates has been described by Newsweek as less restrictive than some American states following the overturning of Roe v. Wade?
Did you know that according to legend, troubadour Jaufre Rudel fell in love with Countess Hodierna of Tripoli without ever having seen her, sailed to Tripoli to meet her, and promptly died in her arms?
Did you know that despite the song "French Letter" being banned in all French territories, members of the French Foreign Legion sang along to the song  when the band Herbs performed it while playing in Tahiti?
Did you know that the "world's loneliest seabird" chose a concrete statue as his mate?
Did you know that the Legends of Tomorrow episode "Wet Hot American Bummer" quotes a bad review for a different episode of Legends of Tomorrow?
Did you know that the black molly might not be a black molly?
Did you know that the logo of the South Korean company LG is based on an ancient roof tile?
Did you know that two poll workers for the 2024 United States elections were found dead on Election Day, having drowned in a major flash flood event?
Did you know that Américo Ramos became Prime Minister of São Tomé and Príncipe after his predecessor, Ilza Amado Vaz, resigned following a tenure of three days?
Did you know that Andrei Demurenko, the first Russian officer to be a graduate of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, served alongside the Wagner Group in Ukraine?
Did you know that Hans Dieter Beck, a co-head of the publisher C. H. Beck, rode a bicycle to work until he was 92?
Did you know that Paris was the first county seat of Linn County, Kansas, but hardly a ruin is left to tell where it once was?
Did you know that Raging Bull was the first hypercoaster to feature a twister layout?
Did you know that Walter III Brisebarre renounced the lordship of Beirut to inherit a greater lordship from his father-in-law, only to permanently lose both upon the deaths of his wife, Helena of Milly, and their daughter Beatrice?
Did you know that a Taiwanese livestreamer accidentally solved a missing persons case?
Did you know that the Deval Mosque was formerly a Hindu temple?
Did you know that the Fatimid Caliphate used gold from the tombs of the pharaohs in its gold coinage?
Did you know that there are more than 100 rock paintings of Aboriginal pictographs on a cliff face in Missinaibi Lake?
Did you know that Ívar Bárðarson's 14th-century reports of feral livestock inhabiting a failed Greenlandic colony were corroborated by the discovery of a frozen goat and animal feces inside an abandoned home?
Did you know that Carlos Miguel Buela repeatedly disobeyed sanctions placed on him by the Holy See?
Did you know that a contemporary chronicler does not dare say who assassinated Miles of Plancy (event pictured), but a later source implicates an in-law?
Did you know that a government had to intervene after 80 percent of all personal loans taken out were to cover wedding expenses?
Did you know that an Alaska TV station used home movie cameras to shoot newsfilm?
Did you know that novelist Hal Clement created the planet Mesklin in 1953 based on the real-world suspected detection of an extrasolar planet?
Did you know that the 1862 Brooklyn riot involved a mob mainly comprising Irish Americans targeting African-American workers at a tobacco factory?
Did you know that Bill Pulte describes himself as the "inventor of Twitter philanthropy"?
Did you know that Jin the otter went loose for almost a month after escaping Auckland Zoo?
Did you know that Oliver Cromwell's decision in 1648 to launch the attack that became the Battle of Preston was an enormous gamble and hardly credible?
Did you know that copies of 7 Wonders Duel sold twice as fast as the board game of which it is a spinoff?
Did you know that the Andu Masjid, which might have been built as a women's mosque, banned the entry of women?
Did you know that zoologist Olive Swezy appeared in the 1944 American Men of Science?
Did you know that "Hard Out Here" was written in parallel to Raye's departure from Polydor Records and confronts "white men CEOs"?
Did you know that Jill Yager discovered a venomous crustacean species in 1979 and named its class?
Did you know that The London Milkman was staged?
Did you know that a Japanese male singer often sang from a female perspective?
Did you know that the U.S. military supported Top Gun: Maverick (director Joseph Kosinski pictured), using it to aid recruitment and retention?
Did you know that until 1827 University of Oxford graduates had to swear never to reconcile with Henry Symeonis, although it appears that by the 1650s everyone had forgotten why, or who he was?
Did you know that Jennifer Jones has won a record-tying six Canadian women's curling championships?
Did you know that Kailash Puri became Marks & Spencer's first advisor on Indian ready meals?
Did you know that Sam Matlock formed Wargasm with a woman who photographed Dead!, his rock band?
Did you know that a SpongeBob-themed channel run by AI quickly devolved into characters discussing depression, drug use, kleptomania, communism, and tax fraud?
Did you know that some workers in Japan pay agencies to tell their employers that they are resigning?
Did you know that the 2021 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in NCAA v. Alston made student athlete influencers eligible for compensation?
Did you know that 23 tons of dog food were once stolen from the Malibu Feed Bin?
Did you know that Benedictine monk Brother Justus helped make stills so that farmers could illegally make alcohol during Prohibition?
Did you know that Inky the octopus attracted worldwide media attention after escaping from the National Aquarium of New Zealand?
Did you know that according to one cactus nurseryman, the Texas nipple cactus is so easy to grow that connoisseurs almost look down on it?
Did you know that even mpreg enthusiasts disapprove of "ass babies"?
Did you know that Antimonumento +65 bears the names of 65 miners who were trapped 19 years ago today and died during the Pasta de Conchos mine disaster?
Did you know that Nagi Nemoto made her VTuber debut on a classic television set?
Did you know that National Hockey League players have not yet participated at the Olympics since the league entered its second century of operation?
Did you know that Swen Swenson was born in Norway but pioneered a drainage system for Nicollet County while living in New Sweden?
Did you know that the Māori-language name for Cave Rock, Sumner—Tuawera—means 'cut down as if by fire'?
Did you know that Ankarette Twynho's hanging for poisoning a duchess was a cause célèbre, and has been described by one modern historian as "judicial murder"?
Did you know that Milton Nascimento did not enter himself into the second edition of the Festival Internacional da Canção, yet placed second?
Did you know that one-dollar pizza slices, a unique part of the culture of New York City, were originally sold near homeless shelters?
Did you know that the catalogue for Tanzania. Masterworks of African Sculpture highlighted traditional artworks such as a Sukuma mask?
Did you know that North and South Korean politicians have expressed fondness for Seoul's third-oldest restaurant?
Did you know that Yu Xiangdou, unlike most other publishers in Ming-dynasty China, enjoyed including illustrations of himself in his works?
Did you know that Yuval Raphael, who is set to represent Israel at Eurovision 2025, survived the October 7 Hamas-led attack on Israel by hiding under dead bodies for eight hours?
Did you know that scholars have discussed whether a 19th-century artwork by Sengai should be titled "○△□" or "□△○"?
Did you know that some railings in London have kinks (example pictured), indicating their original use as stretchers?
Did you know that the delegation of the British Virgin Islands at the 2024 Summer Olympics was supported by a scholarship named after their chef de mission?
Did you know that the horses pulling the Disneyland Main Street Vehicles' streetcars include Belgians, Brabants, Clydesdales, Percherons, and Shires?
Did you know that Fuzhou Road was once the centre of the Chinese publishing industry?
Did you know that George Washington was first exhibited at the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, and later relocated during the 1976 Bicentennial to Trenton?
Did you know that San Antonio declared January 13 to be "Tabyana Ali Day" in honor of the actress and writer Tabyana Ali?
Did you know that one analysis of the song "Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell" cites the ancient Roman orator Quintilian?
Did you know that Lambrini Girls have described their January 2025 debut album Who Let the Dogs Out as "a party for pissed off, gay, angry sluts"?
Did you know that Susan B. Anthony delivered her initial speeches advocating for women's rights at a quilting bee?
Did you know that after chicken keeping was legalized in some U.S. cities, Coastal Farm & Ranch began holding seminars on the subject?
Did you know that during a 1989 visit to the United States, Boris Yeltsin said that "there would be a revolution" if the average Soviet citizen knew of the quality of grocery stores in the United States?
Did you know that some practices found in Jewish customs of etiquette can be traced back to ancient Rome?
Did you know that Diana Vicezar created recycled housing for street dogs, a recruitment platform for international students, and a podcast about Latin American students in Ireland?
Did you know that William Bartram was both the father of William Bartram and the grandfather of William Bartram?
Did you know that statements about the character Ridley's reasons for not being in the fighting game series Super Smash Bros. led to Internet memes about the character's large size?
Did you know that the Weeping Angels, despite appearing as stone statues, are portrayed by actresses?
Did you know that 1ES 1927+654, a galaxy in Draco, exhibited such extreme nuclear activity that it challenged conventional models of black-hole environments?
Did you know that Ivan Petrovtsii's vulgar poems were condemned by senior Ukrainian officials in spite of their popularity?
Did you know that Simeon Barclay's "sculpture of a chicken on its own little mini-mountain" references a traditional Indian game?
Did you know that a group of K-pop fans performed a dance with the goal of convincing a company to commit to 100% renewable energy?
Did you know that the FBI tried to convince H. Bruce Franklin that Leibel Bergman, a fellow communist activist, was an FBI informant?
Did you know that the University of Southwestern Louisiana basketball scandal resulted in one of only five times that the NCAA has applied the "death penalty" against a member institution?
Did you know that the editors of The Philadelphia Inquirer deliberately held back information from the newspaper's TV newscast, Inquirer News Tonight, so as not to be scooped?
Did you know that the male members of the band Dingo got bottom pats from local men during a Moroccan photoshoot for the album Kerjäläisten valtakunta?
Did you know that the musical career of Louise Beach has ranged from nationally recognized compositions to a children's book about the viola?
Did you know that the tuatara Henry, who was named after Henry VIII, was planned "to have lots of wives"?
Did you know that the villain of a Doctor Who story reappeared after 49 years?
Did you know that "Gyutto" was used by many couples to cope during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan?
Did you know that Antiqua et nova is a Vatican document that expresses serious ethical concerns surrounding the usage of artificial intelligence?
Did you know that Gerard Way got dental work midway through the recording session for "Vampires Will Never Hurt You"?
Did you know that Kaiapoi Pā has been incorrectly called Kaiapohia, a pun that can be translated as 'piling up of bodies for eating'?
Did you know that a landscaper was hired to demolish the David and Gladys Wright House, but he hesitated when he saw the building itself?
Did you know that the 2025 U.S. Open Cup will not include its defending champions, Los Angeles FC?
Did you know that the Jingtai Emperor was rumored to have been strangled to death by a eunuch?
Did you know that the Plutonium Finishing Plant, which processed more than 66 metric tons of plutonium between 1949 and 1989, was demolished (animation pictured) between 2016 and 2021?
Did you know that the Quad Cities forecast office of the National Weather Service has been directly struck by both an F1 tornado and a historic derecho?
Did you know that the hashtag #AlDubEBTamangPanahon set a Guinness World Record in 2015 with 40,706,392 uses in 24 hours, coinciding with the television event "Tamang Panahon"?
Did you know that Bargain Hunters, a game show with elements of home shopping, was described as having "all the most irritating traits of game shows"?
Did you know that Gary Tuggle, as head of Philadelphia's Drug Enforcement Administration division, led potentially the largest prepackaged heroin seizure in Delaware history?
Did you know that Hidayat Arsani, the governor of the Bangka Belitung Islands in Indonesia, was dumped into a trash can as a baby by his birth parents?
Did you know that Honey Revenge's debut single contained a voicemail from its subject?
Did you know that Operation Dugo commemorates the death march from the Auschwitz concentration camp annually on 18 January with the consumption of falafel?
Did you know that US congressman Mike Collins called for Bishop Mariann Budde to be "added to the deportation list" after she urged President Donald Trump to "have mercy"?
Did you know that a desire to be separated from Chicago has led 33 counties in downstate Illinois to hold referendums on secession?
Did you know that red velvet cake (example pictured) has been described as "the Dolly Parton of cakes"?
Did you know that the 1990 Serbian general election returned only two women to the National Assembly of Serbia?
Did you know that the Sparkles emoji (✨) is used by large software companies to represent artificial intelligence?
Did you know that the production design team for The Prosecutor was entirely female?
Did you know that upon learning of the conditions at Sidi Azaz labor camp, the Tripoli Jewish community organized a food relief effort for the prisoners?
Did you know that Celeste 64: Fragments of the Mountain was developed during a week-long game jam?
Did you know that Luis Sera was designed to resemble Aragorn from The Lord of the Rings?
Did you know that although nine alibi witnesses placed Temujin Kensu more than 400 miles from a shooting in Port Huron, Michigan, in November 1986, he was convicted of murder and has been in prison ever since?
Did you know that attempts to draw tourism to the town of Pengkalan Kempas include the promotion of an ancient megalith site?
Did you know that eight Delta Air Lines executives were killed in the 1947 Columbus mid-air collision, including the airline's vice president of operations?
Did you know that there are more than 100 accepted species of columbines, but Aquilegia kubanica was identified as one of only four to live in the Caucasus?
Did you know that Pan Shu had to write psychological theory in secret during the Cultural Revolution?
Did you know that Walnut Valley, the neighborhood most affected by the 2023 Little Rock tornado, reported theft and illegal dumping during rebuilding efforts?
Did you know that a butt of malmsey was required to make "Tyre that is excellent", as part of a mixture of "fat Bastard, two gallons of Cute [and] Parrel"?
Did you know that a former professional football player stated his intention to buy the rights to a 25-year-old children's sports game in his podcast?
Did you know that the annual operating cost of the Grain Belt Beer Sign dropped from $48,000 to $7,500 after it was renovated with LED lighting?
Did you know that the fictional character Moira Pollock was described as a "battleaxe"?
Did you know that Fritz Strassmann, a co-discoverer of nuclear fission, concealed a Jewish woman in his home during World War II?
Did you know that Mao Zedong ordered the lenient treatment of bandit leader Cheng Lianzhen, as he thought it rare for a female bandit leader to be from an ethnic minority in China?
Did you know that Michel Langevin described Rush's "Didacts and Narpets" as "a Max Roach–esque avant-garde jazz piece"?
Did you know that Naide Gomes broke the Portuguese long-jump record fourteen times in her career, raising it from 6.56 metres to 7.12 metres?
Did you know that the building Seokjojeon was meant to symbolize the Korean Empire's authority, but it was completed just months before Japan annexed Korea?
Did you know that Harry Clarke's Geneva Window was never installed in Geneva because of the "grave offense" it might cause?
Did you know that Michal Pivoňka's father was demoted at work as a result of his son signing with the Washington Capitals?
Did you know that a 1920 article segregated members of Isopyrum into the new genus Paraquilegia – assigning it P. grandflorum, P. caespitosa,  P. microphylla (example pictured), and P. uniflora – but had the "rather less fortunate" effect of expanding Semiaquilegia beyond S. adoxoides?
Did you know that more than 5,000 genres on Spotify use the suffix -core?
Did you know that the publication of Ten no Hate Made – Poland Hishi, the first legally published manga in Poland, has been described as the event that created the manga fandom in the country?
Did you know that when Wilson Starbuck's play Sea Dogs was staged in 1939 it "contained some of the foulest language heard on Broadway" at that point in history?
Did you know that Autechre used something called "the system" during the composition of Sign?
Did you know that Bob Foster named a small cactus species after his best friend, Charlie Glass, with whom he undertook more than a dozen plant-hunting expeditions to Mexico?
Did you know that May You Stay Forever Young is the first Hong Kong film to be banned following the amendment of the Film Censorship Ordinance?
Did you know that Tina Leung dressed as her comic book alter ego when accepting an award for the House of Slay?
Did you know that a Roman Catholic archbishop was the first person to translate some of Shakespeare's works into Polish?
Did you know that the Ibn Shillif brothers, evading the Ottoman authorities' pursuit after leading a local rebellion, found safe haven in the Alawite villages of Ayn al-Kurum and Annab?
Did you know that there was once a stalagmite heist from the longest cave in Arkansas?
Did you know that "Point the Finger", a comic-book story written in 1989, has been described as "Trump fiction"?
Did you know that American Football's American Football, regarded by the band as a side project, went on to achieve cult status?
Did you know that Benjamin Schreiber argued that his life sentence ended after he was resuscitated?
Did you know that Joss Whedon was hired to "contribute creatively" to each film in Phase Two of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, in addition to writing and directing Avengers: Age of Ultron?
Did you know that Norse Peak is the namesake of a wilderness area, a wildfire, and a fleece jacket?
Did you know that Philip S. Low received a PhD from the University of California, San Diego, before Philip S. Low received a PhD from the University of California, San Diego?
Did you know that Vince Gill once mooned a crowd that poorly received him as an opening act for Kiss?
Did you know that in the official historiography of the Chinese Communist Party, Wei Baqun is considered one of its great early peasant-movement leaders, along with Mao Zedong?
Did you know that the Dakhni and Amanat Khan caravanserais, built to provide lodging to travelers, are situated on a little-used, Mughal-era highway between Agra and Lahore?
Did you know that the salmon Eosalmo (fossil example pictured) likely never migrated to the ocean?
Did you know that Brian Driscoll became the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation by accident?
Did you know that Deborah D. Rogers used Ann Radcliffe's commonplace book to show that Radcliffe was not driven mad by her Gothic novels, but that she just had asthma?
Did you know that Jacinda Ardern said that she was "sometimes a reluctant participant" of a documentary film about her?
Did you know that Josaphat Park, according to tradition, was named for its valley's striking resemblance to the Valley of Josaphat in the Holy Land?
Did you know that Madmuin Hasibuan's father punished him for not fasting in Ramadan by not giving him food for three days?
Did you know that Mammillaria luethyi was not seen for 44 years after being discovered growing in a coffee can on the windowsill of Mrs Crosby's?
Did you know that SZA named a song after a well-known film director, but was shocked to get his blessing days after release?
Did you know that Zulu prince Hayseed Stephens played in the American Football League?
Did you know that syncing zombie cookies can create a cookie that is almost impossible to delete?
Did you know that the Grain Belt Brewery was built with four distinct architectural sections, in homage to the four companies that combined to form it?
Did you know that the Russian government has been blamed for helping to escalate the Wars in the Caucasus by pursuing a policy of neocolonialism?
Did you know that Alexander Goehr formed New Music Manchester, described as a "distinctive, progressive force", with Peter Maxwell Davies, Harrison Birtwistle, Elgar Howarth and John Ogdon?
Did you know that Danielle Sassoon, a former acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, credits her study of the Talmud for preparing her for her future legal career?
Did you know that Isabel Coursier was only 15 years old when she became the first North American to break the world record for women's ski jumping?
Did you know that a Michigan TV station once aired a program speculating on Richard Nixon's resignation—two days after he had already resigned?
Did you know that among the sources for early Irish law are judgments on bees, on the sea, on sports, on blood-lying, and on inadvertence; judgements which are wrong, false, shrouded, and from a god; the paths to judgement and to distraint; the shaving of the court; the branched purchase; a glossary; and a lot of lists of seven?
Did you know that in 1994 Kazuyoshi Akiyama conducted the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra in the first performance of Schoenberg's Moses und Aron with Japanese musicians?
Did you know that the 8-Bit Big Band won Nintendo their first Grammy Award?
Did you know that the Fun Lounge police raid is considered the main cause for the formation of Mattachine Midwest, a gay rights group in Chicago?
Did you know that the ending of the music video for Hoshimachi Suisei's "Bibbidiba" was called inspiring to struggling women?
Did you know that the music video for "Breakfast" was reimagined by Dove Cameron after the Supreme Court of the United States' decision to overturn Roe v. Wade?
Did you know that Irish actors Maria McDermottroe and her daughter Gina Costigan each portrayed the love interest of real-life criminals in 2003's Veronica Guerin?
Did you know that Jean-Paul Belmondo allowed Jean-Luc Godard to dub over his lines on their first collaboration, on the condition that Belmondo be cast in Godard's first feature film?
Did you know that Reyhaneh Soltaninejad, the girl in the pink jacket, became a symbol of the 2024 Kerman terrorist attacks after being identified by her distinctive pink jacket and heart earrings?
Did you know that Russia funded the building of the Russian Memorial Church in Leipzig as a monument to the 22,000 Russians who died in the 1813 Battle of Leipzig against Napoleon?
Did you know that scientists debate whether a brain microbiome exists?