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Did you know that Russell Court  in Bloomsbury, London, has more than 500 "bachelor flats"?
Did you know that Stan Robb played professional football for the team coached by his brother?
Did you know that on the opening night of her concert R3.0, singer Regine Velasquez also released a triple album of the same name?
Did you know that some song choices by Regine Velasquez in her concert series Solo were viral hits from TikTok?
Did you know that the system of native administration, used in Sudan to govern rural areas, was adapted for use in camps for internally displaced people?
Did you know that two dresses (one pictured) recovered from a 17th-century shipwreck may be the only such items in existence?
Did you know that Alexandra Hunt, a former stripper, opened an OnlyFans account in response to an Internet troll during her campaign for a seat in the United States House of Representatives?
Did you know that Hodges Figgis, a bookseller in Dublin, celebrated its 250th year with the largest ever anthology of new Irish writing, with 250 contributors?
Did you know that New Haven, Connecticut, was home to the world's first commercial telephone exchange?
Did you know that an English country house was the location for the 1970s horror sexploitation films Virgin Witch, Satan's Slave and Terror?
Did you know that at least 14 people were killed during the 1978 Tabriz protests in Iran, which were meant to commemorate the dead in the 1978 Qom protest?
Did you know that in his review of A Tribute for the Negro by Wilson Armistead, Frederick Douglass criticised how it included an image of him that was edited to give him a smile?
Did you know that the 1989 Georgetown–Princeton basketball game made Bob Scrabis "the face of Cinderella"?
Did you know that the 1st Armoured Division of the British Army chose a white rhinoceros on a black oval as their insignia?
Did you know that the Unitized Group Ration – Express is designed to heat food itself without the need of a field kitchen?
Did you know that the concert series Regine at the Theater was conceived two years earlier but was delayed after singer Regine Velasquez suffered acid reflux?
Did you know that two members of the French parliament were killed when a delayed-action German bomb exploded in the town hall at Bapaume on 25 March 1917 (aftermath pictured)?
Did you know that An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Karl Marx's Capital was considered unusual for introducing the three volumes of Karl Marx's Capital?
Did you know that Colonel Mohamed Hashi Lihle's speech after freeing more than 700 prisoners from Mandera Prison first popularized the Somali National Movement in Somaliland?
Did you know that Frances Cleveland was the first United States first lady to have dedicated journalists write about her activities?
Did you know that in 1993, Indonesia's home affairs minister Yogie Suardi Memet used thugs to disrupt the opposition Indonesian Democratic Party's national congress?
Did you know that Malinau Kota, Indonesia, with 31 percent of the population of Malinau Regency, is home to more than 70 percent of its registered restaurants?
Did you know that Rudaki (portrait pictured) is acknowledged as the founder of New Persian poetry in Iran and the father of Tajik literature in Tajikistan?
Did you know that Sharon Cuneta and Regine Velasquez's concert Iconic has been referred to as a venture of two unrivaled names in the music scene of the Philippines?
Did you know that despite having been enlarged for the 1939 New York World's Fair, the Willets Point Boulevard station served practically no resident population by 1949?
Did you know that Andrew Sorrell, State Auditor of Alabama, initially ran for election to the Alabama House of Representatives when his father declined to run for the seat?
Did you know that Frederic Growse's book Bulandshahr: Or, Sketches of an Indian District annoyed the British Indian government so much that they allowed only one edition?
Did you know that a 1943 performance of Darius Milhaud's Scaramouche used anagrams to disguise the suite and its composer from Nazi censors?
Did you know that all three of Jane Severance's books for young readers include lesbian characters, including her first book, which was the first picture book to include such characters?
Did you know that naval units from around 50 countries took part in the Pakistani naval exercise AMAN-23?
Did you know that women including May Mann Jennings were responsible for creating Florida's first state park?
Did you know that Dale Johnston was sentenced to death for murdering and dismembering his stepdaughter and her fiance in 1982, and 30 years after the murders declared innocent?
Did you know that Kong Dongmei, the granddaughter of Mao Zedong, and her husband have an estimated net worth of 5 billion yuan (US$815 million)?
Did you know that Tobi Oluwayemi and his older brother Josh are both goalkeepers who played for Tottenham's youth academy?
Did you know that a woman who died from Alzheimer's was memorialized by her granddaughter through posthumous vocals in a song?
Did you know that the Clock Tower of Haridwar in India provides a good location from which to watch the evening prayers at Har Ki Pauri?
Did you know that the Meriden, Waterbury and Connecticut River Railroad, created as an alternative to the New Haven Railroad, was absorbed into the New Haven after just 11 years?
Did you know that there is ice fishing in Turkey?
Did you know that Carrbridge Packhorse Bridge is the oldest-known stone bridge in the Scottish Highlands?
Did you know that J.J. Wright fused Gregorian chant with jazz in his advent album O Emmanuel?
Did you know that Jan Kochanowski's Fraszki is a 16th-century collection of almost 300 poems, ranging from anecdotes and epitaphs to obscenities and erotica?
Did you know that the Arleigh Burke-class destroyers are hardened against electromagnetic pulses?
Did you know that while Egypt has the Order of the Nile, Sudan has the Order of the Two Niles, White and Blue?
Did you know that Ruth Scott Miller, the first female music critic for the Chicago Tribune, said she was hired to "write for the masses and not for 'four or five thousand freak music lovers'"?
Did you know that in the 2022 film Saint Omer, Guslagie Malanda plays a character based on convicted murderer Fabienne Kabou, while Kayije Kagame plays a stand-in for director Alice Diop?
Did you know that not all military rations are food?
Did you know that pianist Fujita Haruko, one of the first 19 female students enrolled at the University of Tokyo, was taught by Leo Sirota, who was once called the "god of piano" (both pictured)?
Did you know that the Optimizer by Capex Corporation brought memory and runtime savings to COBOL programs running on IBM mainframes?
Did you know that the title of the livestreaming concert Freedom came from Regine Velasquez's desire to have freedom of singing anything she wants?
Did you know that "'average person eats 3 spiders a year' factoid actualy just statistical error"?
Did you know that Edith of Wilton was criticized for not working after her death?
Did you know that Twelves, a pet monkey, died and became a diamond?
Did you know that a rabbit played for the Philadelphia Eagles – as there's a drive into deep left field by Castellanos, that will be a home run. And so that will make it a 4–0 ballgame?
Did you know that after one of Piet Mondrian's paintings (shown) was discovered to have been hanging upside down for decades, the museum left it as is?
Did you know that an artist tried to fly on a Hummingbird?
Did you know that the Loophonium, a cross between a euphonium and a toilet, was played alongside the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic on April Fools' Day?
Did you know that Avi Kwa Ame National Monument, protected as a national monument since March 21, 2023, is a significant habitat of Joshua trees and threatened desert tortoises?
Did you know that Indian activist Birubala Rabha has rescued more than thirty women from being persecuted as witches in the last decade?
Did you know that during the 1913 El Paso smelters' strike the Industrial Workers of the World and the Western Federation of Miners competed to organize the strikers with their respective labor unions?
Did you know that the Alchymic Quartet is a string quartet by Graham Waterhouse, to be performed alongside chemical experiments of Andrew Szydlo, his former teacher at Highgate School?
Did you know that the game designer of the video game Hades said that the characters were attractive "because Jen Zee"?
Did you know that 22-year-old singer Milena Warthon has created a new genre, pop andino, by fusing pop and Andean music?
Did you know that Brightwell Manor was the home of a eugenicist clergyman who did not believe in democracy?
Did you know that Nottingham Forest's victory in the 2022 EFL Championship play-off final gained them promotion to the Premier League for the first time in 23 years?
Did you know that after Sea Girt, New Jersey, passed a law that banned live rock and disco music at the Parker House, a state judge overturned the ban as being "silly"?
Did you know that at the peak of the 2018 Tinder Fire in Arizona, 695 firefighters worked to contain its spread?
Did you know that the Federal Communications Commission's comparative hearing criteria for awarding broadcast licenses were struck down as "arbitrary and capricious"?
Did you know that the Kipsigis people wrote a folk song about American singer Jimmie Rodgers, whom they called "Chemirocha"?
Did you know that Constantine, an infant Byzantine emperor, reportedly died by drowning in a cistern after escaping the care of his nurse?
Did you know that a special case was instrumental to harpist Steffy Goldner's professional career and legacy?
Did you know that the Allegory of Peace by Jan Lievens celebrates the 1648 Treaty of Münster?
Did you know that a Lady Gaga song became popular 11 years after its release, when videos showing Jenna Ortega, as Wednesday Addams, dancing to the song became viral on TikTok?
Did you know that for Live at Bush Hall the band Black Country, New Road created three distinct backstories for its performances, including one about a pizza chef who comes across a poltergeist?
Did you know that knees and elbows were censored on Manga Up!?
Did you know that porcelain lithophanes (examples pictured) are intended to be viewed when lit from behind?
Did you know that the Poison Book Project has identified more than 100 books that contain arsenic?
Did you know that the children of papercutting artist Claire von Greyerz received some of their education together with Napoleon III?
Did you know that when Nestor Binabo's wife was freed by her kidnappers, she was given a bag of fish and told to make her husband peppersoup?
Did you know that Andrew Klemencic said "I don't think that I blockaded the streets nearly as bad as the Salvation Army" after Hawaii police fined him for speaking on a street corner in 1900?
Did you know that Panzer Dragoon II Zwei features a villain inspired by Dune's Baron Harkonnen, visuals inspired by the work of Jean Giraud, and a fictional language?
Did you know that Prilep's Old Bazaar contains a leaning clock tower?
Did you know that football linebacker Roger Bonk was nicknamed "the Boinker"?
Did you know that in 1945 the US Army confiscated the Hotel Rose in Wiesbaden, which is now the Hessian State Chancellery?
Did you know that in a recent book, David Bentley Hart – a New Testament translator and proponent of the existence of fairies – engages in dialogues with his dog Roland (both pictured)?
Did you know that the opera Omar, about the Muslim scholar Omar ibn Said, had its world premiere in a theater located less than a mile from the site where he was sold as a slave?
Did you know that Basic Medicine features North Korean propaganda?
Did you know that King Charles III's wife left him after she found four of his lovers living in his palace?
Did you know that Liberian paramount chief Tamba Taylor worked as a tailor and claimed to have sewn clothes for Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie and Ghanaian president Kwame Nkrumah?
Did you know that Sweden won the Eurovision Song Contest 1999, twenty-five years after ABBA brought the country its first victory in the contest?
Did you know that although Titian's Allegory of Marriage left England in the 17th century, two early replicas, probably done from the original, remain in the Royal Collection?
Did you know that the LAPD Special Investigation Section trains military special forces in surveillance?
Did you know that Abbas ibn Abi al-Futuh was a Zirid prince who became a vizier of the Fatimid Caliphate after assassinating his stepfather, and was overthrown after murdering caliph al-Zafir?
Did you know that in 1967 Hilton Hotels revealed plans for a 100-room hotel on the Moon?
Did you know that in February 2023, Italian footballer Samuele Parlati saved a penalty kick while playing as an emergency goalkeeper?
Did you know that the Richard Childress Racing Museum (exhibition pictured) is located in the former team workshop in which Richard Childress Racing won six NASCAR Cup Series championships and 58 races?
Did you know that Elena Rybakina's coach promised to get a tattoo of her name if she ever won Wimbledon – and did so?
Did you know that Grove Road Cemetery once had two chapels by architect Thomas Charles Sorby, and contains self-made men George Dawson, Richard Ellis and David Simpson, banker John Smith, bandleader Daniel Schwarz, newspaperman Robert Ackrill, kayaker Fridel Meyer, and miser John Turner?
Did you know that Jasmila Žbanić's experience of living through the siege of Sarajevo influenced her work on the sixth episode of The Last of Us?
Did you know that Melanie Martinez's song, "Death", was her first chart hit in more than a decade?
Did you know that while serving as the mayor of Malang, Peni Suparto led a protest in front of the city hall?
Did you know that Audrey Whitty, who created an exhibition about the thousands of Irish children who died in care, is now the director of the National Library of Ireland?
Did you know that M.I.A. originally wanted to name her newest album after her son but instead named it Mata?
Did you know that Yeshiva University basketball star Dave Kufeld was the first Orthodox Jew ever to be selected in the NBA draft?
Did you know that according to legend, the Third Month Fair was originally held on the Moon?
Did you know that before becoming the mayor of Medan, Indonesia, Agus Salim Rangkuti acted in movies and oversaw a real-life political prison camp?
Did you know that flying hummingbirds (example pictured) use oxygen at a rate which is relatively ten times greater than elite athletes?
Did you know that when a tourist's corpse was found atop the Apthorp, The New York Times wrote that "it struck some tenants not as an oddity but as a metaphor" for life there?
Did you know that during the time of the Church Fathers, the velatio nuptialis was used by the church to validate the sacrament of marriage and emphasize its importance?
Did you know that in 1979, Vermont ETV received more donations from viewers in Quebec than it did from Vermonters?
Did you know that the loud low horn sound (featured) that often appears in action film trailers is known as BRAAAM?
Did you know that when recording what became "Suze (The Cough Song)", Bob Dylan started coughing, then said that the song ended before his coughing started, and asked the producer to fade it out?
Did you know that Albert Luthuli was the first African to win the Nobel Peace Prize?
Did you know that Atari hired a number of graffiti artists for the remixed versions of classic arcade games in Retro Atari Classics?
Did you know that Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park, modeled on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., was created to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the statehood of Tennessee in 1996?
Did you know that John Hoke III, who is dyslexic and the chief design officer of Nike, has described drawing as his first language?
Did you know that The Vision of God sparked controversy in Mexican radio?
Did you know that in 1819 Michael O'Sullivan, a member of the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada, fought a duel in Montreal with William Caldwell over a proposal to create the Montreal General Hospital?
Did you know that the Jewish-Roman pizza dolce di Beridde was reportedly the favorite dessert of Pope Benedict XVI?
Did you know that there is a "desert" in Maine?
Did you know that Foster Loyer broke Michigan's high-school and Steph Curry's Davidson records for consecutive free throws?
Did you know that It Was Hot, We Stayed in the Water explores the theme of water and was inspired by Phil Elverum's visits to the ocean?
Did you know that at the age of 27 New Zealand entrepreneur Jamie Beaton had degrees from Harvard, Stanford, Oxford, and Tsinghua University, and was working on his seventh degree, from Yale?
Did you know that in 1956 Green Bay Packers athletic trainer Bud Jorgensen became the first athletic trainer selected by the National Football League to treat players at a Pro Bowl?
Did you know that street artist TVBoy, known for his murals of footballers in Barcelona (example pictured), painted uplifting art in regions of Kyiv ahead of the one-year anniversary of the 2022 Russian invasion?
Did you know that the St. Raphael Provincial Park in Northern Ontario, Canada, is part of the 1,530 km2 (590 sq mi) St. Raphael Signature Site, which is recognized for its natural and recreational values?
Did you know that Airis Computer's 1991 laptop could be powered with ten C batteries as an alternative to a rechargeable pack?
Did you know that Christian Keller worked as an academic before running SSV Jahn Regensburg?
Did you know that Mary Shadow, the first unmarried woman in the Tennessee House of Representatives, received fourteen marriage proposals after her election?
Did you know that Thierry Coquand won a SIGPLAN award for his eponymous proof assistant Coq, which was used to find a formal proof of the four color theorem?
Did you know that the Chinese-language forum 1Point3Acres created a COVID-19 tracker used by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention?
Did you know that the poem "Ovid in the Third Reich" has been described as "a classic reaction" to the Eichmann trial, despite being published before the trial was held?
Did you know that to open for recreation, Castner Range National Monument in El Paso's Franklin Mountains still needs to be cleaned of live munitions since closing as a weapons test site in 1966?
Did you know that Indonesia and Malaysia founded the Council of Palm Oil Producing Countries to promote the use of palm oil?
Did you know that X-radiographs of Jan Lievens's circa 1629–1630 Self-Portrait showed that the artist made "transformative revisions to his appearance" in the portrait?
Did you know that black lemurs use toxic millipede secretions as insect repellent, and apparently enjoy their narcotic effect?
Did you know that logic translations can be used to analyze whether arguments expressed in ordinary language are correct?
Did you know that precursors to the killer toy include ventriloquist dummies such as Otto in the 1929 film The Great Gabbo?
Did you know that Erich Korngold's Die tote Stadt had simultaneous premieres in Cologne and Hamburg in 1920, one with Johanna Geisler and her husband Otto Klemperer?
Did you know that Latin legal maxims like casum sentit dominus have been described as "guardians of eternity [...] more lasting than codifications"?
Did you know that a pregnant Sally Buchanan was said to have carried bullets in her apron and distributed whiskey while singing during the Battle of Buchanan's Station?
Did you know that an abandoned seminary collapsed during the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, upon its 100th year of completion?
Did you know that the ruined Fort Phantom Hill was briefly a town that was the seat of Jones County, Texas?
Did you know that 161 years ago today, William Y. Slack was promoted to brigadier general, even though he was already dead?
Did you know that Museum Arnhem in the Netherlands celebrated its 100th anniversary with a giant cat picture?
Did you know that Sasajiscymnus tsugae is used as a biological control method for the hemlock woolly adelgid, an invasive pest of the eastern hemlock?
Did you know that after losing her eyesight to toxoplasmosis, Rhina Aguirre dedicated herself to disability rights and was elected to the Bolivian Senate in 2009?
Did you know that some British soldiers hung the First World War propaganda poster "Daddy, what did you do in the Great War?" in the trenches and left sarcastic answers to the daughter's question?
Did you know that you can see the sea from every apartment in Arlington House, Margate?
Did you know that Fairleigh Dickinson's upset victory over Purdue was the biggest upset in terms of point spread in NCAA tournament history, with Purdue being a 23+1⁄2-point favorite?
Did you know that Swedish footballer Taha Ayari made his Allsvenskan debut by coming on as a substitute for his older brother?
Did you know that residents at Alterlaa (building pictured), a housing complex in Vienna, have large concrete planters in which plants can be grown?
Did you know that the Friedrichshafen FF.19 became the first German aircraft to conduct successful tests with wireless telegraphy?
Did you know that there are no werewolves in Mexican Werewolf in Texas?
Did you know that when he was the rector of the University of Indonesia, Asman Boedisantoso Ranakusuma sometimes took the train to campus to overhear criticism of the school?
Did you know that Francois Massaquoi, who studied economics at New York University, later led the Lofa Defense Force during the First Liberian Civil War?
Did you know that Letitia Christian Tyler (depicted) was the first United States first lady to die in the role?
Did you know that Nationalist China's own Northeastern Army captured Chiang Kai-shek to convince him to end the civil war against the Chinese Communist Party?
Did you know that Rihanna and Dua Lipa participated in #BlueforSudan to bring attention to the 3 June 2019 Khartoum massacre?
Did you know that The Noble Fisherman unusually places Robin Hood in the seaside town of Scarborough, and he ends up fighting French pirates?
Did you know that the periodic comet 323P/SOHO approaches the Sun at a distance of 0.04 AU, nearer than any other numbered comet, every 4.15 years?
Did you know that Rosa Smester Marrero said that without women, men would live the life of a turnip?
Did you know that after Michael Jordan was fired by the Washington Wizards, he wanted to move the Capital Classic from the Washington, D.C., area to New York?
Did you know that after a riot destroyed some local churches, Marie-Julien Dunand, a French missionary in China, ordered the construction of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Chengdu and Annunciation Seminary in Pengzhou?
Did you know that during a guerrilla campaign in 1968, the Iraqi Communist Party – Central Command attacked the house of Saddam Hussein?
Did you know that the Achaemenid royal inscriptions (one pictured) at Persepolis allowed for the initial decipherment of cuneiform?
Did you know that there was an American version of the Eurovision Song Contest, but it was not renewed for a 2023 season?
Did you know that Digital Domain created a new facial-capture system to help create the look of Thanos in Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame?
Did you know that Li Fu Lee, the first Chinese woman to attend MIT, studied electrical engineering, which—according to The Boston Globe—its undergraduates at the time said was its hardest major?
Did you know that President James Monroe promised the eastern Cherokee a "gateway to the setting sun" where they were not "surrounded by the White man", which resulted in the creation of Lovely's Purchase?
Did you know that Untitled Goose Game escaped being called Some Like It Honk?
Did you know that newspapers in Brazil printed cake recipes and 16th-century poetry to cover material censored by the military dictatorship?
Did you know that YouTube channel Trial & Error's manner of selling live-show tickets—HK$10,000 on day one, $5,000 on day two, all the way to $10 on day 24—appeared on a university entrance exam?
Did you know that a former armory in New York City later housed ESPN offices?