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Did you know that before specializing in bagpipe making, Roddy MacLellan helped create one of the trophies used at the Super Bowl?
Did you know that general Zhao Chongguo's appointment to manage parklands incidentally gave him control over the Han dynasty's coinage production?
Did you know that the reliefs on the walls of the Dhumnath Temple depict erotic poses from the Kama Sutra?
Did you know that Allen DeGraffenreid, who played in the NFL in the 1990s, is not to be confused with Allen DeGraffenreid, who played in the NFL in the 1990s?
Did you know that Brazil's Ministry of Education threatened legal action against the Portuguese Wikipedia over the article for its minister?
Did you know that Jennifer Reid at first could not find a Canadian publisher for her book on Canadian identity?
Did you know that Princess Margriet of the Netherlands was born in Canada's capital, but outside the country's legal jurisdiction?
Did you know that Susan Twist portrayed seven different roles in the eight episodes of Doctor Who's fourteenth series?
Did you know that a Japanese man raised more than 1,000 Korean orphans during the Japanese occupation of Korea?
Did you know that a viral image called for global attention to the humanitarian crisis following the Tel al-Sultan attack?
Did you know that although over half a million troy ounces of gold have been mined from Valdez Creek, surveys suggest that more is likely undiscovered?
Did you know that during Frank Ocean's performance of "Close to You" at FYF Fest in 2017, giant screens live-streamed Brad Pitt acting out a phone conversation backstage?
Did you know that the Mingxing Film Company (logo pictured) paid off a gangster so that it could release Fate in Tears and Laughter?
Did you know that vehicles in Star Trucker still look like American semi-trucks from the 1970s, despite having technology such as warp drivers and maglocks?
Did you know that Annilese Miskimmon directed a choose-your-own-ending production of Mozart's Così fan tutte?
Did you know that Burma the elephant once escaped Auckland Zoo?
Did you know that Efrim Menuck, the guitarist of Godspeed You! Black Emperor, likened the composition of Lift Your Skinny Fists like Antennas to Heaven to film editing?
Did you know that Malik Ambersley escaped homelessness by making TikTok Live content in which he pretended to be a non-player character version of the superhero Miles Morales?
Did you know that all sporting events in Djibouti were banned for three days after the death of Abdoulkader Waberi Askar?
Did you know that state representative Karl Bohnak, referring to his former profession, said that the Upper Peninsula of Michigan was one of the most challenging places in the U.S. to forecast the weather?
Did you know that streets in a neighborhood in Mexico were renamed after concepts and projects associated with Andrés Manuel López Obrador?
Did you know that the Legend of Aphroditian identifies the Greek goddess Hera with the Virgin Mary?
Did you know that the death of child monarch Kerekorio Manu Rangi in 1867 ended the ancient dynasty of Easter Island, which according to local belief "went back to the gods themselves"?
Did you know that the flowers of the desert paintbrush (example pictured) are small, green, and unremarkable?
Did you know that "Prius Missile" is internet slang for traffic accidents involving older drivers in Japan?
Did you know that Gracie Abrams wrote Good Riddance about her breakup from her former collaborator and boyfriend, Blake Slatkin?
Did you know that Pixel Piracy's developers released a free torrent of their game?
Did you know that South Korean sources reported in January 2024 that several thousand North Korean migrant workers occupied a factory and took hostages?
Did you know that William Plumer Jacobs founded Presbyterian College and Thornwell Orphanage?
Did you know that World War II nurse Ethel Lote practised yoga and tai chi until she was 95?
Did you know that Wu Zhong was recognized as the youngest general in the Chinese People's Liberation Army after the first holder was stripped of the title following his emigration to the Soviet Union?
Did you know that six innocent people were executed for the Liceu bombing, despite Santiago Salvador confessing that he was the sole perpetrator?
Did you know that the Price Tower was sold for $10 in 2023?
Did you know that the illustrated manuscript Tarif-i Husain Shahi contains a rare depiction of a queen in Islamic art?
Did you know that the limited study of the Afghani plants Aquilegia gracillima, A. maimanica, and A. microcentra has been blamed on political circumstances?
Did you know that the serial killer Raul Meza Jr., when asked if he was apologetic, replied: "What's the use if a person will not accept it?"
Did you know that two different colleges experienced fires while Frederick W. Hinitt was their president?
Did you know that Bob Fernandez, one of the last known survivors of the attack on Pearl Harbor, was then just 17 years old and serving as a Navy mess cook?
Did you know that Disney+ released a promotional poster for the Doctor Who Christmas special "Joy to the World" with the title spelled incorrectly?
Did you know that Ryusei Nishioka broke the world record difficulty score in trampoline gymnastics by performing seven triple somersaults?
Did you know that William, a medieval bishop of Acre, "met a strange and undeserved fate" at the hands of a mentally ill young priest?
Did you know that the city of al-Suqaylabiyah was founded in the 19th century by Christian villagers from the Hauran and the Syrian coastal mountains?
Did you know that the music video for "Step by Step" stars a 12-year-old professional skateboarder?
Did you know that the retelling of stories can focus on female characters to reflect the feminist perspective?
Did you know that there is a subreddit for photographs of bread stapled to trees (example pictured)?
Did you know that Doug Hamlin vowed to recruit more women and minorities to the National Rifle Association?
Did you know that a labor union sued a Seattle TV station over a newscast aired on another station?
Did you know that a plan to reclaim three islets in Penang was scaled down to just one—Silicon Island—after an intervention by Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim?
Did you know that a popular romantic pairing from Doctor Who was later adapted into the show at the suggestion of lead actress Jodie Whittaker?
Did you know that after seeing a film at the United Palace, the televangelist Reverend Ike asked to buy the theater so he could move in the next day?
Did you know that in the 2019 NFC Championship Game, Raheem Mostert became the first person to rush for more than 200 yards and score four touchdowns in an NFL playoff game?
Did you know that lead actor Ian Chan also composed, arranged, and performed the interlude for Last Song for You?
Did you know that the 1999–2001 Liechtenstein financial crisis caused the country to be blacklisted by the Financial Action Task Force?
Did you know that the collapse of the Aboriginal Community Benefit Fund left 14,500 customers A$66 million out of pocket?
Did you know that the flag of Mozambique, which depicts an AK-47 equipped with a bayonet, is the only national flag to feature a modern firearm?
Did you know that the music video of "Speed Me Up" was described as "incredibly dumb" and a "cornucopia of hilarious imagery"?
Did you know that Japan's oldest expressway is intended to be transformed into a park?
Did you know that Jeanne Trevor's name was misspelled on the cover of her first album?
Did you know that Margaret Reid is the first woman to have served as President of the Australian Senate?
Did you know that Olympic gold medalist Lao Lishi was one of eight bell-ringers for the Alibaba Group's listing on the New York Stock Exchange?
Did you know that according to the Mercurius Aulicus, 400 soldiers were routed by six officers and a boy during the English Civil War?
Did you know that one 18th-century reader was so offended by some chapters of Laurence Sterne's 1768 novel A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (scene pictured) that they glued the pages shut?
Did you know that the Jethani Temple (ruins pictured) may have collapsed under its own weight?
Did you know that the discontinuation of a Warsaw-based Yiddish literary journal in the summer of 1939 was unrelated to the invasion of Poland?
Did you know that there were "jubilant" cheers from the courtroom audience when three students were acquitted of the murder of Fernando Rios?
Did you know that viewers of an Indiana TV station's newscast in 1995 could send emails to the presenter live on air?
Did you know that Alabama and Clemson played each other in the championship game of the second and third College Football Playoffs?
Did you know that Amit Mekel served in Cairo, São Paulo, Brussels and Los Angeles, before becoming the Israeli ambassador to Paraguay?
Did you know that BBC One initially passed on Line of Duty, whose finale would become its highest-rated drama in 19 years?
Did you know that Blue Bendy have been compared to both pavement and Pavement?
Did you know that Jerónimo Muñoz's mastery of Hebrew purportedly caused Jews to assert that Muñoz was himself a Jew?
Did you know that Lee Kuan Yew stated that "there would have been no clean and green Singapore without Lee Ek Tieng"?
Did you know that an irreverent photograph of Czechoslovak president Klement Gottwald brought a ten-year sentence for the photojournalist Jindřich Marco, who had to serve seven years in uranium mines?
Did you know that college football player Jack Browning was named All–Mountain West Conference at three different positions in 2022?
Did you know that despite having built a cathedral, Bishop Joseph Crétin said that his diocese did not have one?
Did you know that in the same season Red Weiner played for the Philadelphia Eagles against the Reading Keys, and for the Reading Keys against the Philadelphia Eagles?
Did you know that ten-year-old Violet Wong received a gold watch after performing for General Chiang Kai-shek?
Did you know that Eoscorpius, despite living hundreds of millions of years ago, has been noted for its similarity to modern scorpions?
Did you know that fans speculated that Charli XCX wrote "Sympathy Is a Knife" about Taylor Swift and her relationship with Matty Healy?
Did you know that the Sam Kee Building, recognized by Guinness World Records as the narrowest commercial building in the world, was built on a bet between two businessmen?
Did you know that the capture of the crusader Bertrand of Toulouse by Muslims was blamed by an anonymous monk on the "treachery" of Queen Melisende and Countess Hodierna?
Did you know that Oliver Hutchinson was the subject of the first successful live demonstration of the television on 26 January 1926?
Did you know that a "mystery eruption" cooled the Northern Hemisphere in 1453?
Did you know that a long-legged lovebird lived in humanity's cradle?
Did you know that Brachyrhaphis roseni (examples pictured) and B. rhabdophora are difficult to breed because they voraciously eat their own young?
Did you know that Mirza Muhammad Amin Shahristani served in the royal courts of the Golconda Sultanate, Safavid Iran, and the Mughal Empire?
Did you know that a U.S. government official ordered that "It Was on a Friday Morning" be removed from a hymnal within 24 hours?
Did you know that "Pantropiko" made Bini the first P-pop group to top the Billboard Philippines Songs chart?
Did you know that Joe Biden has cited Wilmington, Delaware, and Syracuse, New York, as possible locations for the Joseph R. Biden Jr. Presidential Library?
Did you know that Rickey Henderson was the first American League baseball player to join the 20–50 club?
Did you know that Science Fiction Literature Through History: An Encyclopedia contains entries on topics not typically associated with science fiction, such as William Shakespeare and the Odyssey?
Did you know that in 2018 Jonna Adlerteg became the first Swedish female gymnast since 1958 to qualify for an event final at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships?
Did you know that lukken, a traditional dessert waffle from West Flanders, gets its name from the Dutch word for 'luck'?
Did you know that the Ruthenian Catholic bishop Artur Bubnevych earned a degree in Gaming?
Did you know that Ali-Hajji of Akusha supported the Bolsheviks because he believed that they would implement sharia?
Did you know that during hearings for a new TV station in the state of Washington, an engineer collapsed on the witness stand, a radio station owner suffered food poisoning, and his rival's wife was hospitalized?
Did you know that the health of prisoners in Australia is impacted by their lack of access to Medicare, the country's otherwise-universal health care system?
Did you know that the vocals on "Drizzle" (record pictured), one of the earliest Chinese pop songs, were likened to "the cacophony produced by a hanged cat"?
Did you know that Adam and John were the only Latin bishops of Banias who lived in Banias?
Did you know that Charles Assmann was the "butt of many jokes"?
Did you know that Sun Haven drew attention for letting players marry the  leader?
Did you know that The Scarecrow, considered the first collection of Chinese fairy tales, has parallels with the works of Andersen, Pushkin, and Wilde?
Did you know that the Green Bay Packers' ninth home victory in a row against the Seattle Seahawks was in the  2019 NFC Divisional playoff game?
Did you know that the Japanese song "Summertime" gained traction after it became popular in Southeast Asia two years after its first release?
Did you know that the Research Tower at the Johnson Wax Headquarters had no fire sprinklers because its architect disliked their appearance?
Did you know that the ceiling of the Langar Mosque resembles that of a Buddhist chaitya?
Did you know that "The Man in the Yellow Tie", an episode of The Flash, concludes a plotline established two years earlier on a different TV series?
Did you know that Ann McMillan recalled "playing" a tape recorder for Déserts, a piece by Edgard Varèse?
Did you know that King Philip refused to give up Champagne?
Did you know that an Iowa TV station, in one fell swoop, fired nearly a third of its staff and canceled a children's show that had been on the air for 32 years?
Did you know that the common Japanese name of Lilium nobilissimum may refer to the sleeves used to carry it from the cliffs on which it grows?
Did you know that Li Minghui faced accusations of lewdness at the age of 12 after challenging Chinese stage conventions?
Did you know that Richard Davis made the earliest known continuous land-based weather recordings in New Zealand?
Did you know that a 2001 book shares the history of a small Tudor community through a 54-year-long "running commentary" by "a somewhat unamiable busybody"?
Did you know that football manager Darren Moore led Sheffield Wednesday to promotion even after they lost the first leg of their play-off semi-final 4–0?
Did you know that some locals have criticised the flag of Kagoshima Prefecture, which is supposed to depict the prefecture's topography but omits its outlying islands?
Did you know that the Chauburji might have been the Mughal emperor Babur's original burial place?
Did you know that the magazine Science Fiction Chronicle changed its name to just Chronicle two decades after its launch, to avoid being confused with the San Francisco Chronicle?
Did you know that the month of July is named after Julius Caesar?
Did you know that Doris Tulifau, after founding an online campaign to counter Samoan gender-based violence, moved to Samoa to expand the campaign in person?
Did you know that Ernesius, a 12th-century archbishop of Caesarea, was once prevented from crossing the sea by such a severe storm that he refused to make a second attempt?
Did you know that the 2014 chariot racing video game Qvadriga was inspired by a 1979 board game?
Did you know that the rose barnacle (examples pictured) eats only when the current is strong?
Did you know that An African Song or Chant from Barbados (manuscript pictured) was nominated for inscription on UNESCO's Memory of the World International Register by someone who saw it in an online exhibition?
Did you know that Elisheva Biernoff paints recreations of found vintage snapshot photographs, some including details like lens flare and overexposure?
Did you know that fans of romcom heroine Bridget Jones were shocked at the death of a favourite character in the 2013 novel Mad about the Boy, and then again in a 2025 film?
Did you know that staffers of an Ohio radio station learned that it had been sold on the same day as its owner's death?
Did you know that the writer of "Crabs for Christmas" joked that it contributed to Baltimore's population decline?
Did you know that a Florida TV station's decision to fire one of its main newscasters led to picketing?
Did you know that executive John Spytek helped the Tampa Bay Buccaneers sign Tom Brady, more than 20 years after Spytek played with him?
Did you know that the bugia, a ceremonial candlestick used by Latin Catholic bishops, is named after the Algerian city of Béjaïa, which was a source of candle wax?
Did you know that the top of the Julier Pass, 2,284 metres (7,493 ft) above sea level, is flanked by two ancient Roman columns?
Did you know that Fatima Payman is the first elected woman to wear a hijab in Australia’s parliament?
Did you know that Notre Dame's win in the 2025 Orange Bowl American football game made Marcus Freeman the first Asian and first Black head coach to earn a spot in an FBS national championship game?
Did you know that Panchiko released their first studio album, Failed at Math(s), more than 20 years after the band's formation?
Did you know that Scrat, who appears in many films in the Ice Age franchise, was originally intended to be killed in the introduction of the first film?
Did you know that Turkey approved the expansion of a coal-fired power station while also bidding to host the 2026 United Nations Climate Change Conference?
Did you know that Woljeonggyo was an 8th-century bridge that was recreated in 2018?
Did you know that Wu Yun wrote a treatise on immortality but apparently declined to discuss the subject with Emperor Xuanzong of Tang?
Did you know that the majority of extrasolar planets in fiction are inhabited by native species?
Did you know that Wolseley Haig noted that it was not the "city's huge mosque" but the "far less pretentious" Jama Masjid that served as the congregational mosque in Hyderabad?
Did you know that a TV station in Windsor, Ontario, was spared from closure even though it lost money for ten consecutive years?
Did you know that the 1972 collapse of the Sidney Lanier Bridge, which was caused by a collision with a cargo ship, caused ten deaths and over a million dollars in damages?
Did you know that the earliest black holes in fiction appeared decades before the term black hole was coined?
Did you know that the leaves of the herb spiked savoury, although protected under Israeli law, are foraged by local people to make a spice mix?
Did you know that the three costliest tornadoes in Oklahoma's history hit the same town in 2013, in 1999 and in 2003?
Did you know that the violent end of a bog body might be related to the cult of the Celtic god Esus?
Did you know that The Catch II game had "one of the most amazing finishes in NFL postseason history", according to the NFL?
Did you know that Zhang Zhiyun, crowned "movie queen" in a newspaper poll in 1926, is reported to have died homeless in Hong Kong?
Did you know that a Swim School song described by one reviewer as "a heavy dystopian doom rocker" was originally performed by Taylor Swift?
Did you know that the Airbnb homestay where a song was recorded by Glaive and Ericdoa was dubbed by fans as the "Hyperpop Hype House"?
Did you know that the fourth president of Austria's post-secondary instructors included all three of his predecessors?
Did you know that the relationship between the Dirini (example pictured) and its closest relative has been described by researchers as "odd"?
Did you know that Demi Lovato changed a lyric from "Cool for the Summer" for Revamped to reflect pride in her sexuality?
Did you know that Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton spent the last 50 years of her life preserving Alexander Hamilton's and George Washington's legacies?
Did you know that Louis Malet de Graville (coat of arms pictured) began a successful career at the centre of French politics after his father was captured by the English?
Did you know that a host of the Longform.org podcast once interviewed a writer while accidentally high on edibles?
Did you know that the Loyang Tua Pek Kong Temple in Singapore houses effigies of both the Jade Emperor and Mahaganapati?
Did you know that young male African bush elephants in musth killed about 49 white rhinoceros in Pilanesberg National Park between 1992 and 1997?
Did you know that Dez did not actually catch it?
Did you know that Karl Malte von Heinz designed the Vatican, Pakistani, Yugoslav and Thai diplomatic missions in India?
Did you know that Mufasa shared the same voice as Darth Vader?
Did you know that some North American swimming spots have had to be closed because Macrobdella decora posed such a hazard to bathers?
Did you know that the anarchist group Los Solidarios assassinated the leader of the Catalan pistoleros, the governor of Biscay, and the archbishop of Zaragoza?
Did you know that the majority of Selected Ambient Works Volume II was supposedly composed through lucid dreaming?
Did you know that the unlicensed Willy's Chocolate Experience in Scotland led to a crossover event between the American television series Abbott Elementary and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia?
Did you know that David of Sassoun has been called the most recognized symbol of Armenia, along with Mount Ararat?
Did you know that Metropolitan Opera director Maurice Grau was "important in the growth of popular musical theatre in America"?
Did you know that Thomas M. Robins was responsible for the construction of the Bonneville Dam?
Did you know that a train station in Singapore repeatedly had issues with the design of its stairs?
Did you know that according to one school of epistemology, nobody knows anything?
Did you know that most or all of the inhabitants of Moneka, Kansas, were abolitionists?
Did you know that "Dr. Sex" called for a "Big Breast Renaissance"?
Did you know that Death Angels are Happy?
Did you know that John Beaglehole described the appointment of Johann Reinhold Forster (pictured with his son George) as naturalist on Cook's second voyage as "one of the Admiralty's vast mistakes"?
Did you know that Johnny Gaudreau, despite being one of the smallest players in the National Hockey League, was a seven-time All-Star?
Did you know that Kit Nascimento, a spokesperson for the government of Guyana during the aftermath of Jonestown, disagrees with current proposals to open the former Jonestown site as a tourist attraction?
Did you know that Paul Steele was elected as council leader on the cut of a deck of cards following the 2022 Comhairle nan Eilean Siar election?
Did you know that Riko Dan, who featured on a UK Top 30 hit in 2024, first performed on the radio in 1994?
Did you know that a blizzard across the United States caused a major water crisis in Richmond, Virginia?
Did you know that it is said that Antoinette Lubaki, Congo's first named woman artist, painted her watercolours by candlelight at night, as no stories were allowed to be told during daylight?
Did you know that the Eucharistic liturgies of Seek, a Catholic young-adult conference which attracts thousands of attendees, are planned more than a year and a half in advance?
Did you know that the Santa Ynez Reservoir in Pacific Palisades, which was built to provide water for firefighting, was empty when the 2025 Palisades Fire began?
Did you know that the University of Virginia threatened to leave the National Collegiate Athletic Association in 1949 if the Sanity Code, which barred athletic scholarships, was not amended?
Did you know that the morning show on an Oklahoma TV station was such a "local phenomenon" that the president of ABC acquiesced to them not airing Good Morning America?
Did you know that La Querida in Palm Beach, Florida, served as the Winter White House for President John F. Kennedy?