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Did you know that King Mohammed VI of Morocco donated part of his royal collection to the new National Jewellery Museum?
Did you know that Lady with a Fan by Gustav Klimt set a record for the highest price achieved at auction for a work of art in Europe?
Did you know that Mother Mother's "Hayloft" received only niche radio play for more than a decade after its release, and then started pulling in a million streams a week?
Did you know that many europium compounds fluoresce under ultraviolet light?
Did you know that Astrid Lindgren can be read in 100 languages?
Did you know that Domingo Germán was booed off the pitcher's mound in the game prior to his perfect game?
Did you know that Nazi Party member Adalbert Baumann created Oiropa'pitshn, a language based on Yiddish?
Did you know that Precious Brady-Davis and her husband were the first transgender couple to have their gender identities listed correctly on an Illinois birth certificate?
Did you know that Robin Roberts, later of ESPN and Good Morning America, worked as a reporter for the radio station at Southeastern Louisiana University while a student there?
Did you know that an underground hip hop album was funded by James Murdoch, the son of billionaire Rupert Murdoch?
Did you know that during World War II, pilot G. E. Clements was removed from training for secret missions associated with the Manhattan Project when senior officers realized she was a woman?
Did you know that during the sinking of the Costa Concordia, Gregorio de Falco told Francesco Schettino "Vada a bordo, cazzo!" which loosely translates to "Get back on board, for fuck's sake"?
Did you know that even though syndicated talk show Karamo generally replaced Maury, its host promised it would feature "no baby mama stuff"?
Did you know that the Schloemer automobile, once described by The Milwaukee Journal as "America's first practical horseless carriage", is now considered to just have been the first car running in Milwaukee?
Did you know that the history of philosophy in India is characterized by its combined interest in the nature of reality, the ways of arriving at knowledge, and the spiritual question of how to reach enlightenment?
Did you know that Austrian online streamer Keekihime became fluent in Japanese from live-streaming daily on the Japanese video website Nico Douga?
Did you know that Ein Samiya, which provides the water for Taybeh, the first beer brewed in Palestine, was depopulated in 2023 after harassment by neighboring Israeli settlers?
Did you know that Jerome Epstein was advised not to take credit for his production work on Charlie Chaplin's 1952 film Limelight due to accusations that Chaplin had communist sympathies?
Did you know that Whisnu Sakti Buana served as the mayor of Surabaya, Indonesia, for just one week in 2021?
Did you know that an Armenian Apostolic Church lawsuit over the Zeytun Gospels led Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh to write a history of its separated canon tables?
Did you know that an Egyptian rabbi's authority was invoked in a deed freeing a woman from slavery in 1132 in Mangalore, India?
Did you know that basketball player Lou Williams was nicknamed "Lemon Pepper Lou" after an incident involving lemon pepper wings?
Did you know that during the excavation of the Beulé Gate, a dynamite explosion sent a piece of mortar through one onlooker's hat?
Did you know that joking about the Chinese military can cost you US$2 million?
Did you know that police in Indianola, Mississippi, shot an unarmed 11-year-old African-American boy after responding to his 9-1-1 call for help at his home?
Did you know that the song "Now You're Gone" by Basshunter was played non-stop for 20 hours in a charity fundraising event?
Did you know that when Carla Monroe's vocals were used in MK's "17", she was working in a prison?
Did you know that Fred Plump sued Alabama governor Bob Riley over an appointment to the county commission of Jefferson County?
Did you know that Princess Rallou Karatza's theater in Bucharest, now upheld as a pioneering institution of modern Greek drama, was described in one Wallachian chronicle as a "temple" for devil-worship?
Did you know that a demo version and a music video of Greece's 2017 Eurovision candidate song, "This Is Love", were leaked online?
Did you know that a verse by Kendrick Lamar for The Melodic Blue was leaked before the album's release and went viral as an Internet meme?
Did you know that critically ill patients undergoing mechanical ventilation in the intensive care unit have been sedated with ciprofol?
Did you know that in 2015, more than 300 complaints were made in a few days about proposed adjustments to a route of the Yan'an Road Medium Capacity Bus Transit System (bus pictured)?
Did you know that in October 2022, the UK Independence Party appointed the former Marilyn Monroe lookalike Rebecca Jane as deputy leader?
Did you know that the 1929 book The Magic Island by William Seabrook is considered the first popular English-language work to describe a zombie?
Did you know that though poisonweed, Delphinium geyeri, is highly toxic, it is less poisonous after it starts flowering?
Did you know that Ida Mett was expelled from a Russian anarchist group for mourning her deceased father by lighting a Yahrzeit candle?
Did you know that Jean Sibelius likely wrote his first composition, Water Droplets, as a schoolboy?
Did you know that Lil Uzi Vert told the crowd at one of their concerts that they were all "going to hell"?
Did you know that Newton's apple tree was blown down in a storm in 1816?
Did you know that OnPoint NYC's safe injection sites treated 672 overdoses in their first year of operation, with no resulting deaths?
Did you know that Peter Read coined the term "Stolen Generations" to refer to Aboriginal children who were forcibly separated from their families by Australian governments?
Did you know that Piri & Tommy's "Beachin" was an attempt at imitating the Isley Brothers?
Did you know that according to Fodor's Travel, the 16th Avenue Tiled Steps is "possibly the world's largest mosaic staircase"?
Did you know that none of the members of American Football ever actually lived in the American Football House?
Did you know that the poet Fernando Pessoa considered Alberto Caeiro, one of his own heteronyms, to be his master?
Did you know that when Ralph Sazio, a Canadian Football Hall of Fame inductee, visited Boston University to scout a player, he became so impressed by Dave Viti that he signed him instead?
Did you know that Bill Pohlad, co-founder of film distributor Apparition, was surprised by his fellow co-founder Bob Berney's resignation?
Did you know that Igor Stravinsky's unfinished Two Sketches for a Sonata has been called a "poignant summing-up of a life's work"?
Did you know that Jazzy's 2023 single "Giving Me" made her the first Irish solo female act to top the Irish Singles Chart since Julie-Anne Dineen in 2009 with "Do You Believe"?
Did you know that Keith Raniere co-founded NXIVM, a multi-level marketing company that has been described as a cult?
Did you know that Palmire Dumont, a pioneer of LGBT nightlife in "Gay Paree", was among the first members of the French Bulldog-Owners Club (her dog pictured) and met other bulldog owners in her lesbian bar?
Did you know that Peter III, a cat employed by the British government, was buried in Ilford with "full honours"?
Did you know that although the Brooklyn Union Gas Company's original building, next to its replacement, was once described as having been "miraculously saved", the older building was demolished in 2004 without protest?
Did you know that cocalera activist Ancelma Perlacios, the first Afro-Bolivian to be elected to the Senate, was her organization's secretary of defense of the coca leaf?
Did you know that the French destroyer Fronde was wrecked during the 1906 Hong Kong typhoon, killing five of her crew members?
Did you know that Ben Phillips replaced his friend's hair gel with superglue, put Viagra in his sports drink, and placed him on a lake while he slept on an inflatable mattress?
Did you know that Dolly Johnson, who had once been a slave of 17th U.S. president Andrew Johnson,  opened her own bakery business in 1881?
Did you know that Kenneth Halliwell murdered his lover Joe Orton with a hammer at their flat in London's Noel Road, before taking a drug overdose?
Did you know that Minnesota's Dick Wildung played for back-to-back national championship teams and was twice selected as a consensus All-American?
Did you know that Patricia Davies and Jean Argles, two sisters who signed the Official Secrets Act as World War II codebreakers, did not find out about each other's top-secret work until the 1960s?
Did you know that after freestyling over DJ Marky and XRS's "LK (Carolina Carol Bela)" on stage, Stamina MC was asked to record official vocals for the song?
Did you know that critics felt that the claustrophobic submarine setting was one of the scariest parts of the vampire novel 100 Fathoms Below?
Did you know that curator Nina Tonga is the first Pasifika person to be a contemporary art curator at Te Papa, the national museum of New Zealand?
Did you know that few decisions have instigated more discussion in German criminal law scholarship than an 1859 judgement of the Preußisches Obertribunal?
Did you know that in 1978, Keine Kameraden's findings – that 3.3 million Soviet prisoners of war died of ideologically motivated mistreatment – caused a sensation in Germany?
Did you know that some fictional music can actually be heard?
Did you know that the quasar 3C 345 has a jet that appears to move five to fifteen times faster than the speed of light?
Did you know that Chimnabai Clock Tower was named after a queen of Baroda State?
Did you know that Glyn Johns was the recording engineer for Led Zeppelin's debut album, the Beatles' Get Back Sessions, and the Rolling Stones album Let It Bleed?
Did you know that Katherine Henderson led efforts to reverse the gender pay gap in Canadian curling?
Did you know that Piri & Tommy's Froge.tour included pole dancing?
Did you know that Spanish diplomat Ángel Sagaz Zubelzu secured the release of more than 1,500 Jews from prison in Egypt by arguing they were descended from expelled Jews and thus entitled to Spanish citizenship?
Did you know that although more than a thousand used Japanese train cars had previously been imported into Indonesia, the Indonesian government blocked a recent attempt to import more?
Did you know that an air traffic controller's confusion of two planes' locations caused sixteen skydivers to drown after they unknowingly jumped over Lake Erie?
Did you know that on the 1950s game show Across the Board, crossword answers were clued by both a phrase and an image?
Did you know that the 1935 SMU vs. TCU football game, known as the "Game of the Century", was the first football game in Texas to be broadcast nationally?
Did you know that the Royal Academy of Arts exhibited Wyndham Lewis's portrait of T. S. Eliot in 2018, after having rejected it 80 years earlier?
Did you know that Dark Archives reveals that most books bound in human skin were made by respected doctors?
Did you know that Robert Todd Lincoln was saved from possible death by Edwin Booth, whose brother, John Wilkes Booth, assassinated Robert's father, Abraham Lincoln?
Did you know that a painting by Major League Baseball player Gene Locklear was hung in the White House?
Did you know that although Vibe Chemistry's "Balling" only peaked at No. 35 on the UK Singles Chart, it spent ten weeks in the UK Top 40, five of them at No. 38?
Did you know that the Nigerian film October 1 could not be released on October 1, the country's Independence Day?
Did you know that the visual design of Overwatch character Widowmaker was inspired by World of Warcraft character Sylvanas Windrunner?
Did you know that Igor Stravinsky suggested that performances of his song "The Owl and the Pussy Cat" should be "a little hooted, a little meowed, a little grunted"?
Did you know that Jon Secada became the first black artist to top the Hot Latin Tracks chart in 1992, with the Spanish version of "Just Another Day"?
Did you know that Smoke over Birkenau by Polish writer Seweryna Szmaglewska, published in 1945, was one of the first and most influential works about the Auschwitz–Birkenau concentration camp?
Did you know that none of the actors in Poppy Garden, a film depicting a father and son's struggle for survival during the Colombian conflict, had previously acted in a film?
Did you know that scientists shooting lasers at a mirror on the Moon discovered that their telescope was not where it should be?
Did you know that upon the announcement of the verdict in the trial of Lina E., court spectators shouted "fuck class justice" and "you are friends of fascists"?
Did you know that when TVBoy's daughter said she wanted to be a footballer like Alexia Putellas, he painted a mural of Alexia as a superhero to inspire other girls?
Did you know that Brison Manor, who played eight years in the National Football League, had never set foot outside of his home state before attending college?
Did you know that Goddard. learned Reason?
Did you know that Karl Rozental was investigated and surveilled by police after the 1912 sappers' revolt in Tashkent?
Did you know that indie rock band Built to Spill accompanied outsider musician Daniel Johnston at his final two concerts?
Did you know that the Book of Roads and Kingdoms includes illustrations so geometric that they are barely recognizable as maps (example pictured)?
Did you know that the old Ashford railway works is being redeveloped into Ashford International Studios?
Did you know that the web-based video game Moderator Mayhem was based on a card game meant to demonstrate the difficulties of content moderation?
Did you know that Michaela Foster, a New Zealand footballer playing in the 2023 World Cup, is known for her mana?
Did you know that because of violent reactions – such as Jenny Geddes's on 23 July 1637 – to a Scottish prayer book, Walter Whitford kept loaded pistols visible to his congregants while using the book?
Did you know that despite Peter and Peter III each serving about 17 years, Peter II's tenure only lasted six months?
Did you know that during the creation of Sophitia Alexandra, her designers focused on maintaining an innocent appearance for her face?
Did you know that episodes of Angel, Lost, and The Office inspired the writer of The Flash series finale?
Did you know that multiple mathematics competitions have made use of Sophie Germain's identity?
Did you know that the Leeds 13's attempt at staging a holiday at Leeds University Union's expense was taken literally by the British press?
Did you know that Chief Rabbi of Madrid Yehuda Benasouli's first language was Castilian Spanish, but he also knew Hebrew, French, Arabic, Ladino, Haketia, and some English?
Did you know that Tesla, Inc. is the only major U.S. automobile manufacturer with no unionized American plants?
Did you know that at age 14, footballer Lara Esponda was the youngest goalkeeper to debut in the top division of women's football in Argentina?
Did you know that nearing the end of his tenure as mayor of Tegal, Indonesia, Adi Winarso took part in a talkshow with his former political competitors?
Did you know that the portrayal of a transgender child by Sofía Otero made her the youngest actor to win the Silver Bear for Best Leading Performance?
Did you know that a year when the Feast of Saint James falls on a Sunday is designated a Jacobean Holy Year, and the Holy Door at the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela is unblocked for all to enter?
Did you know that according to legend the tomb of James the Apostle was forgotten for eight centuries until it was found by Pelagius in the forest Libredón?
Did you know that during a Jacobean Holy Year, the Berenguela Tower's lantern is lit throughout the year to act as a lighthouse to guide pilgrims to the cathedral?
Did you know that the Cross of Saint James is associated with the apostle's appearance at the mythical Battle of Clavijo?
Did you know that the coat of arms of Santiago de Compostela features a chalice and host from the Galician arms, as well as a star and the tomb of Saint James?
Did you know that Continental Army soldier Adamson Tannehill, later the president of the Pittsburgh branch of the Bank of the United States, was also convicted of extortion?
Did you know that a political action committee paid $132,000 to former First Lady Melania Trump's fashion stylist for strategy consulting?
Did you know that drummer Ivan Conti earned the nickname "Mamão" after destroying a papaya tree?
Did you know that the weather forecast for HD 189733 b is "Westerly winds at 2000 m/s, with molten glass showers"?
Did you know that Emi Wong, the Hong Kong YouTuber with the most subscribers, used a carpet sweeper to do lunges and bottles of laundry detergent to do squats?
Did you know that in 1973 Luten Petrowsky played the saxophone in a quartet that made the first record with jazz musicians from both East and West Germany?
Did you know that in August 2021 Sheika Scott became the youngest player to score in the Costa Rican Women's Premier Division, at just 14 years old?
Did you know that the 100 gecs tree was listed as a "place of worship" on Google Maps?
Did you know that the newly discovered red tigrina may already be extinct?
Did you know that Israeli journalist Ayala Hasson is the first woman to head Channel 1's news division?
Did you know that Melanie Golding's theory that changeling folklore was an attempt to explain postpartum psychosis inspired her horror novel Little Darlings?
Did you know that New Zealand footballer Grace Wisnewski's bottom-ranked team upset the defending league champions when she scored what an A-League statistician called an "acrobatic" 99th-minute equalising goal?
Did you know that a mural created to honor the late YouTuber Etika was added as a PokéStop in the mobile game Pokémon Go?
Did you know that leading Sacaba's largest drivers' union was José Mendieta's second choice of career, after teaching?
Did you know that the six saints in the Coronation of the Virgin by Piero del Pollaiuolo are "poised between ecstasy and migraine"?
Did you know that Charles F. Gumm Jr. was the first aviator to score an aerial victory in the P-51 Mustang?
Did you know that Wallachian statesman Radu Golescu, who worked with Russian occupiers in 1806, was described as "immeasurably thirsty for wealth, and mean-spirited"?
Did you know that the Baljuna Covenant, an oath sworn by the future Genghis Khan in summer 1203, encapsulated his ideals of social equality and personal choice?
Did you know that the song "Money" by the Drums was certified gold by the RIAA over a decade after its initial release?
Did you know that Gladys Ingle was a wing walker who successfully moved from the wing of one airplane to the wing of another in mid-air (example pictured) more than 300 times?
Did you know that Heba Saadia, the first Palestinian referee at a World Cup, only took up the profession when she noticed there were no women among a group of referees she saw training?
Did you know that the Octavius V. Catto Memorial, unveiled in 2017, contains the first statue on Philadelphia public property of a specific African American?
Did you know that the Poniatowski gems, 19th-century forgeries of ancient engraved gems, have themselves been copied by other forgers?
Did you know that three months after Jon Stewart went on CNN's Crossfire and told the hosts that their show was "hurting America", CNN cancelled it and fired co-host Tucker Carlson?
Did you know that Skyline Madrid was built on the most expensive plot of land ever sold in Madrid?
Did you know that Vera Brodsky Lawrence hated being called the "queen of ragtime" despite being a catalyst for the revival of Scott Joplin's music?
Did you know that fictional life on Pluto has included mist creatures and crystals?
Did you know that footballer Alexandra Pinell scored the Costa Rica U20 team's only goal at the FIFA tournament hosted by their country?
Did you know that in 1966 Sylvester da Cunha modelled the Amul girl to contrast with the mascot of Amul's main rival, Polson?
Did you know that independent India's first female pilot, Usha Sundaram, holds the record for the fastest flight between England and India in a piston-engine aircraft?
Did you know that personal debt was regularly cancelled in the ancient Near East?
Did you know that "Mission to the Unknown" is the only Doctor Who serial not to feature the Doctor at all?
Did you know that Anita Gustafson became Presbyterian College's first female president when she took office today?
Did you know that Ben Collins accepted a job with NBC News on the condition that the company also hire Brandy Zadrozny?
Did you know that Catalina Estrada and two of her thirteen siblings played as forwards on the same men's football team?
Did you know that Martin Farquhar Tupper was a favourite poet of Queen Victoria, but his works are now almost entirely forgotten?
Did you know that orcas have been teaching each other to attack boats?
Did you know that years after premiering Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7 in the US, conductor Arturo Toscanini allegedly asked if he had really learned and conducted "such junk"?
Did you know that Chris Wroblewski was the starting point guard for the winningest team in Ivy League history?
Did you know that Gwen Stacy was depicted with a "Protect Trans Kids" poster in her room in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse?
Did you know that Mardani Ali Sera, after initiating a campaign to "Replace the President",  prohibited himself from speaking of it after the 2019 Indonesian presidential election?
Did you know that Sundari paintings (example pictured) were a popular type of erotic art in 19th-century British India?
Did you know that three songs from Kyla's album Not Your Ordinary Girl were nominated in the same category at the 2005 Awit Awards?
Did you know that 20,000 Species of Bees, the first feature film by Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren, won numerous awards at film festivals?
Did you know that Ameles decolor has one of the most complex mating rituals of any praying mantis?
Did you know that Ferrial Sofyan was absent at the inauguration of his successor as deputy speaker of the Jakarta Regional People's Representative Council?
Did you know that Oklahoma tenderloin is baloney?
Did you know that almost 40 years into their career, American indie rock band Yo La Tengo released their first self-produced album, This Stupid World, in 2023?
Did you know that former Kuwaiti foreign minister Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah interrupted his studies in France to volunteer during the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait?
Did you know that the Duke of Westminster preferred Bourdon House to Grosvenor House?
Did you know that when discussing her album Guts, Olivia Rodrigo said she "grew 10 years between the ages of 18 and 20"?
Did you know that Chicago journalist Jamie Kalven has amassed a database of nearly 250,000 allegations against police officers?
Did you know that George Thomas Taylor was one of Canada's earliest nature photographers?
Did you know that in 1912, Emily Dorothea Pavy became the first recipient of the Catherine Helen Spence Scholarship?
Did you know that the active galaxy 3C 120 was given the variable-star designation BW Tauri because of its variability in the visible spectrum?
Did you know that the only notable quality in Igor Stravinsky's "Tarantella", according to Richard Taruskin, is "how little talent it displays"?
Did you know that Habiburokhman made a public bet that Basuki Tjahaja Purnama would not be able to collect one million ID cards – or else he would jump off the National Monument?
Did you know that I Gede Pasek Suardika resigned the chairmanship of the Nusantara Awakening Party to be succeeded by his formerly imprisoned colleague Anas Urbaningrum?
Did you know that Indian singer Sudakshina Sarma sang in Assamese as Mahatma Gandhi's ashes were immersed in the Brahmaputra River?
Did you know that Jarren Horton's childhood dream was to serve as an American football defensive coordinator under his father, and he now does so with the Pittsburgh Maulers?
Did you know that salt marsh snakes (examples pictured) drink only rainwater?