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Did you know that the size of the entrance hall at the British legation in Uruguay was increased after a diplomat complained that there was not enough room to hold dances?
Did you know that Endah Subekti Kuntariningsih began her career in her current political party as a typist?
Did you know that Gerard Way played pornography while recording the vocals of "You Know What They Do to Guys Like Us in Prison" as a form of method acting?
Did you know that Nina Milkina composed a piano piece at age 11 that a music critic said was too difficult for a child to play?
Did you know that Richard Nixon asked Jet Li to be his personal bodyguard during the 1974 China national wushu team's tour to the United States?
Did you know that US Air Force pilot Alexander Kratz Rupp once kidnapped a goat?
Did you know that Ulster loyalists in Northern Ireland have mistakenly burned the flag of Ivory Coast instead of the flag of Ireland (both pictured)?
Did you know that a Japanese governor once formed a band inspired by the American singer Prince?
Did you know that an American Titanic survivor threatened to throw a British seaman overboard during a confrontation on board Lifeboat No. 6?
Did you know that members of the Autonomous Workers' Union depicted the Euromaidan as a bourgeois revolution?
Did you know that mountain degu families take turns having dust baths?
Did you know that the 74th Street Generating Station's interior was once described as "an industrial-grade Grand Canyon"?
Did you know that the American electronic artist Ships In The Night makes synthwave music with melodies inspired by bird songs, church bells, and trains?
Did you know that the Japanese considered enlisting Tekinaiti as an anti-British collaborator—until they discovered he had a Union Jack tattooed on his chest?
Did you know that the dark sky movement in New Zealand aims for certification of the country as a Dark Sky Nation?
Did you know that the regimental band of the British Central Africa Regiment were known as the "canary birds" because of their bright yellow trousers?
Did you know that the reigning world champion did not qualify for the men's trampoline final at the 2020 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that the site of Chiang Kai-shek's arrest during the 1936 Xi'an Incident remains a popular tourist attraction?
Did you know that viewers complained over the reopening of a fictional pub in an episode of EastEnders as they felt that it looked "almost identical" to the original?
Did you know that Alexander McQueen was accused of misogyny after a model in his Eshu collection was fitted with a mouthpiece that forced her lips into a snarling expression?
Did you know that Josiah Mtekateka, the first indigenous Malawian Anglican bishop, began his career as a priest's dog keeper?
Did you know that Li Gang, a top member of China's anti-corruption agency, was arrested on suspicion of bribery?
Did you know that Mr Flashy's gang used teenagers on electric scooters to deliver crack cocaine?
Did you know that Philippine senator Bong Go showed his back two times to refute accusations from a YouTube series?
Did you know that Wonderful Terrific Monds's father, son, and grandson are also named Wonderful Monds?
Did you know that a memorial park was planned in South Korea for composer Zheng Lücheng, despite controversy over his collaboration with North Korea and China?
Did you know that after capturing the Bone Sultanate's palace in an 1814 expedition, the British brought back 30 Bugis and Makassarese manuscripts (example pictured)?
Did you know that an 829-kilometer-long (515 mi) lightning flash set a record eight years later?
Did you know that fan-art of a romantic pairing between two South Park characters later appeared in the show itself?
Did you know that in 1808 a wealthy Frenchman bought 2,700 acres (1,100 ha) of land in central New York and built a large estate, but abandoned it and returned to Europe less than a decade later?
Did you know that prison abolition is not embraced by most human rights organizations, despite similar evidence for harm as from recognized forms of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment?
Did you know that relations were sour from the onset between the Afghan emperor Ahmad Shah Durrani and the Qianlong Emperor of Qing China?
Did you know that the English inventor Horace Dall invented a foldable telescope, a tube for flow measurements, and a pantograph which allowed him to engrave "280 bibles/square inch"?
Did you know that the Montreal Canadiens hockey team threatened to force a Vermont TV station to stop airing Boston Bruins games?
Did you know that the Red October ouster plot allegedly tried to "brainwash and incite students" in multiple universities across the Philippines?
Did you know that the US Coast Guard canceled a class of 96 ships simply stating that, "times have changed"?
Did you know that the urban legend Polybius shares its name with a historian who warned against reporting stories that cannot be verified?
Did you know that Jules Verne's 1875 short story about Amiens in the year 2000 describes some changes he later oversaw as a city councilor?
Did you know that Mary C. Henderson once criticized Neil Simon for his excessive use of dinner tables?
Did you know that NFL player Norbert Hayes was known as "Butts"?
Did you know that Nereus Mendenhall led a delegation to the Confederate States Congress in April 1862 to allow military exemption in the Confederate Army for Quakers?
Did you know that Pamela Nicholson left her political party as she did not support her party's choice of a by-election candidate?
Did you know that Peter Gersten has been called the "UFO lawyer"?
Did you know that Salvador Chuliá composed Tríptico elegíaco para un percusionista for orchestra in memory of his son?
Did you know that Taliban supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada ordered the Afghan government not to celebrate Departure Day as a national holiday in 2023?
Did you know that before the Times Square Hotel was renovated in the 1990s, it was described as "a scene of complete social chaos", with 1,700 violations of building codes?
Did you know that broadcaster Van Hackett returned to the industry a decade after lamenting the "trivialization" of television news?
Did you know that chess tournaments implemented doping tests before doping in chess was even proven to be possible?
Did you know that larvae of the mosquito Opifex fuscus live in high-salinity rock pools?
Did you know that some Japanese sex workers after World War II organised their own self-defence groups?
Did you know that some people think that the most recent series of MasterChef should not have aired?
Did you know that the owner of Contramar opened it in Mexico City to recreate the experience of dining in a beachside palapa?
Did you know that the pulp era of science fiction may have begun in 1896 or 1930, and ended in 1937 or 1960?
Did you know that the Škoda 26 T concept could be ordered in lengths varying from 18 to 50 metres (59 to 164 feet)?
Did you know that Jackson Sombach played with three of his brothers on the Regina Rams?
Did you know that Pythagorean addition, available in many programming libraries as hypot, can compute distances, polar coordinates, and the relativistic energy of moving objects?
Did you know that Tom Wilson Weinberg's song "Lesbian Seagull" was popularized by Engelbert Humperdinck on the soundtrack of Beavis and Butt-Head Do America?
Did you know that fighter pilot Donavon F. Smith was nicknamed "Dieppe" for evading anti-aircraft fire over the French port?
Did you know that in the 1260s one Bishop William moved from Agen to the Holy Land, while another Bishop William moved from the Holy Land to Agen, leaving some historians confused as to which was which?
Did you know that no candidate won an absolute majority in the 1931 Salvadoran presidential election, so the Legislative Assembly elected the president instead?
Did you know that the Rydges Hotel in Christchurch, New Zealand, has been empty since the 2011 earthquake?
Did you know that the Taliban supreme leader canceled a 2023 Victory Day military parade so as to "not disturb the public"?
Did you know that the hospital ship Tübingen was sunk as a result of "a curious mixture of bad luck and stupidity"?
Did you know that 83 manuscripts from Sozomeno da Pistoia's collection, which numbered 110 in 1460, have been found scattered across Europe?
Did you know that Arthur Conan Doyle defeated Wilfrid Edgecombe at billiards every time he played him at The Harrogate Club?
Did you know that Aso Tateno Dam started construction in 1983 and was only completed in 2024?
Did you know that Livingstone Luboobi claimed that he chose to teach himself double mathematics at A-level because there was no teacher available?
Did you know that a Chinese art student who murdered her lover was released after only five years because the Japanese invaded?
Did you know that a mongrel lover wrote a typology of the dogs and a series of children's books based on them?
Did you know that in 1919 a restaurant with vending machines was opened in the 17th-century Great Armoury in Gdańsk?
Did you know that the family of a missing woman originally hid that she was transgender to avoid prejudice during the search?
Did you know that the presumed skull of Menabe king Toera was returned to Madagascar by France almost 128 years after his death?
Did you know that Elias Peleti is said to have been the most forgettable Latin patriarch of Jerusalem in a century?
Did you know that Ida Barber campaigned against corsets in her fashion journalism?
Did you know that Nigeria's independence on 1 October 1960 was marked by the lowering of the Union Jack and the raising of the country's new flag before 40,000 people at the Lagos Race Course?
Did you know that Northwest Marine Iron Works produced the last sternwheel steam tugboat operated in the United States?
Did you know that a lowly garrison soldier was responsible for relocating the capital of the Han dynasty?
Did you know that musical theatre actress Josephine Hall became famous for performing a song that she purposefully sang high and off-key?
Did you know that the Ostjuden antisemitic stereotype was used to describe Jews from Eastern Europe by both non-Jewish Germans and assimilated German Jews?
Did you know that the UK's best-selling single of 2013 has been described as a "rape anthem"?
Did you know that when Marianne Angermann earned her university entrance, the pronouns on her printed diploma were altered manually?
Did you know that Anne Bayley's clinical research in Zambia showed that, contrary to widespread opinion in the early 1980s, HIV could be spread through heterosexual sex?
Did you know that Harold Putnam was the 59th member of his family to serve in the Massachusetts legislature?
Did you know that Japanese governor Takashi Kimura grew up admiring American baseball player Jim Abbott because both of them were missing a hand?
Did you know that a Maryland TV station's facilities originally housed a pharmacy and restaurant?
Did you know that in the Zootopia abortion comic, Nick and Judy's apartment is modeled after one in Seinfeld?
Did you know that the Crystal Springs Dam survived the 1906 San Francisco earthquake despite being built just 1,000 feet (300 m) from the San Andreas Fault?
Did you know that the Ferber House was rumored to be haunted after the family who owned it went extinct?
Did you know that the editor-in-chief of The Ladies' Journal was removed in 1925 after he advocated for polyamory?
Did you know that voice actress Azusa Tachibana shares a name with a character from the anime K-On!, and so her mother pushed her to join a high school band?
Did you know that Anne was the last circus elephant in the United Kingdom?
Did you know that Jackson Findlay is a fourth-generation Canadian Football League player?
Did you know that North Korea built the 72-Hour Bridge after its troops killed two US soldiers for trimming a tree?
Did you know that Shel Hershorn lost interest in photojournalism after the assassination of John F. Kennedy?
Did you know that Walter of Montbéliard ruled Cyprus because his wife, Burgundia, was heir presumptive to the throne?
Did you know that agate gemstones have been found on every continent, including Antarctica?
Did you know that people used Toontown Rewritten for virtual Black Lives Matter protests in 2020?
Did you know that priest Suitbert Mollinger served five years for fraud in a Dutch prison before founding one of the world's largest relic chapels in the United States?
Did you know that the Houaiss Dictionary of the Portuguese Language was so large that it had to be printed in Italy?
Did you know that Celine Dion won the Eurovision Song Contest 1988 for Switzerland by a single point?
Did you know that Indonesia's ambassador to Serbia, Andreano Erwin, joined the foreign ministry because his trading company went bankrupt?
Did you know that Shaktikanta Das qualified with a degree in history, yet rose to lead India's central bank?
Did you know that Zinaida Nevzorova entered into a marriage of convenience with Gleb Krzhizhanovsky to keep their activist group together, but they later developed a genuine romantic relationship?
Did you know that a judicial decision urged Kenya to recognize the land of the Endorois people, but it still had not done so more than a decade later?
Did you know that destruction layers at the Byzantine Church of Khirbet et-Tireh in Palestine were probably caused by the 749 Galilee earthquake?
Did you know that sabotage in World War II involved delaying the Nazi nuclear program, derailing trains, freeing Jews, and ... explosive rats?
Did you know that the 2025 Leagues Cup final set an attendance record for the tournament and for any sporting event at its host stadium?
Did you know that to compete as Timor-Leste's first Winter Olympian at the 2014 Games, Yohan Goutt Gonçalves had to raise US$75,000, most of which came from himself and his family?
Did you know that Abenaki guide Mitchell Sabattis co-invented the Adirondack guideboat?
Did you know that Bootles' Baby's author's baby was Bootles?
Did you know that Chris Samuels, on the last play of his NFL career, caught a pass that set up a game-winning score – and broke his leg?
Did you know that Hyde Park Presbyterian Church in Austin, Texas, was disassembled and moved in order to drive a saloon out of the neighborhood?
Did you know that President Maximiliano Hernández Martínez resigned prior to the 1935 Salvadoran presidential election so that he could circumvent a constitutional ban on re-election?
Did you know that Xymmer phungi was named after the revolutionary leader Phan Đình Phùng?
Did you know that a dream of a concert inspired the creation of the band behind Shobaleader One: d'Demonstrator?
Did you know that most cocoa in Samoa is consumed locally as a drink known as koko Samoa?
Did you know that there was a baseball match between the two most common surnames in Japan?
Did you know that Alexander McQueen's second runway show featured a pregnant woman with a shaved head, a model in a plaster corset, and a woman pretending to put her finger in her vagina?
Did you know that Béatrice Uria-Monzon, in the title role of Bizet's Carmen, preferred a "meditative" and "dreamy" performance over a "sexy" one?
Did you know that Second-Ponce de Leon Baptist Church has hosted a speech by US president Jimmy Carter and the funeral of his attorney general?
Did you know that Sonangol Sinopec International once outbid both ExxonMobil and British Petroleum for two oil sites in Angola?
Did you know that Ted Aber created a series of alphabetized files on 1,600 family names while researching the history of Hamilton County, New York?
Did you know that Tyler Neville overcame being born deaf, a sunken chest, a fractured back, more than 20 surgeries, and cancer to sign with an NFL team?
Did you know that a window-washing railroad track ran atop Chicago's Inland Steel Building?
Did you know that the 2022 German presidential election was held at Paul Löbe House instead of the Reichstag due to the COVID-19 pandemic?
Did you know that the Armenians were enraged when their 60-year-old king married the 12-year-old Sibylla of Cyprus?
Did you know that Gorillaz's upcoming album is scheduled to feature at least six dead musicians?
Did you know that Lynch Fragments sculptures are made with metal scraps and objects like axes, barbed wire, chains, nails, padlocks, spikes, and wrenches?
Did you know that Pelly Ruddock Mpanzu said he had "completed football" after the 2023 EFL Championship play-off?
Did you know that Queen Eschiva and her children were kidnapped by the pirate Kanakes after her husband put a bounty on him?
Did you know that the Holden Special Vehicles Maloo set the Guinness World Record for the fastest production utility or pickup truck in 2006?
Did you know that the Ibnu duo, Ibnu Said and Ibnu Wahyutomo, were two diplomats who carried out bureaucratic reforms within Indonesia's foreign ministry?
Did you know that the editors of The Eastern Miscellany refused to cooperate with a British-imposed media blackout following the 1925 Shanghai massacre?
Did you know that the sound from the engines of the Saturn V during testing shattered the windows of nearby houses?
Did you know that voice actress Niina Hanamiya taught herself to read and write Egyptian hieroglyphs?
Did you know that Barbara Wilk once hand-painted two thousand frames for her animated film?
Did you know that Hano Qritho is rooted in an ancient biblical story and continues to be celebrated by Assyrians in Tur Abdin?
Did you know that Ivatan women wear waterproof headdresses made of leaves (example pictured)?
Did you know that John Stonebraker moved 300-pound (140 kg) ice blocks to prepare for the 1939 college football season?
Did you know that Takuya Kawamura announced his marriage through a card game?
Did you know that circus performer Ferry Torrez lived next door to his crocodiles?
Did you know that the South Rim Fire destroyed seven toilets in Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park?
Did you know that the release of Tyla's 2025 EP was interpreted as both a failure and a success depending on the measurements used?
Did you know that the rulers of the 14th-century Emirate of Erzincan were Muslims, but its major cities were primarily Christian?
Did you know that Ana Aguayo has won gold medals for Mexico in basketball and flag football?
Did you know that King Baldwin III was 13 or 14 when he won his first military success—after which his mother took steps to prevent a second?
Did you know that a hoard of valuable artwork was hidden within the Morozova Mansion in 1917?
Did you know that author Jilly Cooper used Sue Macartney-Snape's illustrations to create the satirical novel Araminta's Wedding?
Did you know that flying ace Ángel Salas Larrazábal was a co-leader of Spain for two days between the death of Francisco Franco and the ascension of King Juan Carlos I?
Did you know that political philosophers focus on desirable norms, while political scientists concentrate on empirical descriptions?
Did you know that ten dancers dressed as furry monkeys featured in the television premiere of Through the Crystal Ball?
Did you know that the architect of Chicago's 860–880 Lake Shore Drive nearly quit the project after his original floor plans were rejected?
Did you know that the process of lysine malonylation has been linked to diseases like obesity and type 2 diabetes?
Did you know that Bernardo Zapater, a founding member of Spain's oldest private scientific society, is the namesake of a "totally underrated" flower?
Did you know that Cal Clemens "tackled like a sledge hammer"?
Did you know that Filipino police chief Guillermo Eleazar rose to prominence after publicly shaming another officer?
Did you know that Patricia Arquette researched cults and armies to prepare for her role as Harmony Cobel in the television series Severance?
Did you know that Rockefeller University sold a version of Joan Mitchell's City Landscape for $17 million in 2024 to fund research?
Did you know that a Japanese porn actor opened a restaurant that served poo-flavored curry?
Did you know that architect Dirk Lohan paid $2,705 for the right to smash a window at a building his grandfather designed?
Did you know that the Sentachan Mine was listed as the second-coldest mine in the world by Mining.com?
Did you know that the urban environment around Glasgow's Argyle Street ash tree may have helped it to survive ash dieback disease?
Did you know that "Soda Pop" was originally "Ice Cream"?
Did you know that Carolina Contreras founded one of the first all-natural hair salons in the Dominican Republic?
Did you know that Christophe de Menil had "a long history of supporting 'difficult' art projects", according to The New York Times?
Did you know that Malpas's debut album was composed over email?
Did you know that Solanum baretiae was named after Jeanne Baret, who circumnavigated the world disguised as a man?
Did you know that Thames lightermen would pull their barges up to the Leaning Tower of Rotherhithe to collect their wages?
Did you know that gymnast Mikhail Koudinov, at 14 years old, was New Zealand's youngest competitor at the 2006 Commonwealth Games?
Did you know that the Dutch colonial Amfioen Society was designed to maintain a legal monopoly over raw opium?
Did you know that the Sappho Fresco from Pompeii is most likely not a portrait of Sappho?
Did you know that Diane Orr and C. Larry Roberts were once said to "epitomize the regional, independent filmmaker"?
Did you know that Lourdes Ambriz, singing voice of Belle in the Spanish version of Beauty and the Beast, became the artistic director of the Mexican national opera?
Did you know that Riho Furui wrote her debut song after struggling with life in Canada?
Did you know that in 2010 a journalist fell for a satirical tweet made by a fictional U.S. congressman, then wrote a lengthy response in The Washington Post?
Did you know that numerous historians and academics have argued that Israel has used the Holocaust  to justify its treatment of Palestinians?
Did you know that professional sumo fighting stables are often housed in Shinto shrines when they travel outside of Tokyo?
Did you know that the musical duo Braxe + Falcon formed a supergroup with the band Phoenix to make music about UFOs?
Did you know that the only casualty of USS Missouri's destruction was a pet bear?
Did you know that the son of Mary Fortune – one of the earliest female writers of detective fiction – was a career criminal?
Did you know that Rita Rusk was employed to style the hair of her former trainee Sharleen Spiteri after Spiteri became the lead singer of Texas?
Did you know that Sarah Kraning perceives sound as color, texture, and movement?
Did you know that architect Geoff Malone was tasked with impressing visitors with a "rocket ship" design for a Singapore movie theatre?
Did you know that forensic scientist Luke S. May was nicknamed "America's Sherlock Holmes" for his work as an investigator?
Did you know that four US Army soldiers stole $36 million in valuables from a German castle in late 1945?
Did you know that part of the bonus paid to bartender Gary Hoffman after he was selected in the 1984 NFL draft was a round of drinks for his friends?
Did you know that the author of The Space-Time Painter considers the review bombing against it to be reasonable?
Did you know that the ependytes, originally a Persian male tunic, became a luxury fashion statement in classical Athens, where it was worn by women and children?
Did you know that women's rights activist Shreen Saroor was sent to a Catholic convent for her education after her mother became concerned with her tomboy-like behavior?
Did you know that Fernando Garibay described his collaboration with Kylie Minogue as "Peter Pan meets Tinker Bell"?
Did you know that Juventus Women were champions of Italy every year for their first five years of existence?
Did you know that Muhammad Ahmed Miftah was arrested while leading prayers 20 years before becoming prime minister of the Houthi-led government of Yemen?
Did you know that circus performer Franz Taibosh began his career dancing for British soldiers during the Second Boer War?
Did you know that more than 50 New Caledonian women enlisted to join a World War II Free French regiment, but only two – Raymonde Jore and Raymonde Rolly – ultimately served?