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Did you know that George Charles Hoste took charge of the quarter-deck guns of the frigate Spartan, defended her against a French squadron, and took the brig Sparvière as a prize?
Did you know that Tolkien's Morgoth has been seen as analogous to Satan?
Did you know that after a stabbing attack on Paweł Adamowicz, the mayor of Gdańsk, at least 41 units of blood were used in an unsuccessful attempt to save him?
Did you know that at the start of Drama Shower, Mr. Unlucky Has No Choice But to Kiss!?
Did you know that for his first film, Operation Java, director Tharun Moorthy and his production team handpicked all 83 actors rather than doing an open audition for roles?
Did you know that Peruvian foreign minister Manuel María Gálvez Egúsquiza was arrested by Chilean troops for refusing to sign peace with the cession of territory during the War of the Pacific?
Did you know that Rolling Stone named Mission of Burma's "Academy Fight Song" as one of the 100 greatest debut singles of all time?
Did you know that a donut has a donutussy?
Did you know that around 1400, the Embriachi workshop in northern Italy specialised in marriage caskets with carved bone plaques (example pictured)?
Did you know that the Banu Kalb tribe were originally Christians but became Muslims after the Muslim conquest of the Levant?
Did you know that the first issue of Allan, one of the earliest Japanese magazines focused on male–male romance for a female audience, featured a pin-up poster of David Bowie?
Did you know that Katō Kanji, leader of the fleet faction, shouted that "war with America starts now" after the signing of the Washington Naval Treaty?
Did you know that according to a critic, the black metal album The Mercian Sphere is not folk metal, but close enough for "black metal purists" to reject it?
Did you know that the Brooklyn Tower, the first supertall building in Brooklyn, was described as the "Empire State Building of Brooklyn"?
Did you know that the music video for David Bowie's "Ashes to Ashes" was, at a cost of £250,000, the most expensive made at the time?
Did you know that Majidreza Rahnavard was the first Iranian to be executed in public in connection with the Mahsa Amini protests?
Did you know that Southern Railway 1401 was one of eight locomotives that hauled the funeral train of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt?
Did you know that only one person made a donation of land for the settlement and employment of British military veterans under a 1916 act of Parliament?
Did you know that while other countries built monuments to José Rizal a century after his birth, the Rizal Monument in Madrid was built a century after his death?
Did you know that Eudoro Galindo, who was nearly elected Vice President of Bolivia, was also a three-time national fencing champion and a two-time Bolivarian Games bronze medallist?
Did you know that SZA said her label insisted on scrapping a song from her second album, even though they had used it to promote the album?
Did you know that during its run of screenings at the Whitney Museum, the 1979 film Asparagus was shown rear-projected onto a set that appears in the film itself?
Did you know that during the construction of Coney Island's Luna Park, its owners electrocuted Topsy the elephant?
Did you know that in 2012, a "stylish but illegal monkey" was seen wandering a Toronto-area IKEA?
Did you know that with his self-produced solo ice show Gift, two-time Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu is expected to become the first ice skater to perform at the Tokyo Dome?
Did you know that Alexander the Great occasionally founded cities not named after himself?
Did you know that Indian independence activist and author P. Kodanda Rao's correspondence with Mahatma Gandhi helped to clarify Thoreau's influence on Gandhi?
Did you know that a 1944 serial film (poster pictured) was the first  film appearance of Captain America and the first film appearance of any Marvel Comics character?
Did you know that of the ten Royal Navy flag officers to die during the First World War, three were killed in action?
Did you know that some historians believe that Steele's Greenville expedition marked a shift in the Union's war policy?
Did you know that zinc white was found in several versions of The Scream?
Did you know that Leverington Cemetery has the most orbs and apparitions in Philadelphia?
Did you know that Perla Batalla was once a backup singer for Leonard Cohen, who encouraged her to write her own songs?
Did you know that a 15-year-old swim team member is credited with saving several lives in the crash of Alitalia Flight 1553?
Did you know that the 801 Grand is the tallest building in the state of Iowa?
Did you know that the subject of A Jewish Wedding was said to be the marriage ceremony of the artist's daughter?
Did you know that Berta Berkovich, who was skilled in sewing, managed to survive Auschwitz in a fashion salon established by the wife of the concentration camp commandant?
Did you know that Kangal shepherd dogs can gall cyclists in Turkey?
Did you know that a heavily modified Monotron synthesizer (PCB pictured) was nicknamed "FrankenSynth" by music resource site Ask.Audio?
Did you know that the 1931 Valentine earthquake was the strongest earthquake in recorded history to hit Texas?
Did you know that Bearded Man with a Beret by the Dutch artist Jan Lievens is an example of a tronie?
Did you know that Enriqueta Medellín, a Mexican surgeon, has an ecological center and environmental prize named after her in the state of Aguascalientes?
Did you know that T-Pain said that he thought of the concept for the song "Good Life" while dining at a restaurant with Kanye West?
Did you know that a Bot Sentinel report described conspiracy theories about Prince Harry and Meghan as being reminiscent of QAnon?
Did you know that Daniel Thrasher once unintentionally re-created the theme song of The Office?
Did you know that even though Oise amber is found in France, it was produced by a type of tree now found in the Amazon?
Did you know that in 1943, it took the Oregon State Senate 45 ballots to elect William H. Steiwer as president of the senate over fellow Republican Dorothy McCullough Lee?
Did you know that one can swim with humpback whales in the Niue Nukutuluea Multiple-Use Marine Park?
Did you know that talim encodes intricate patterns for Kashmir shawls and carpets?
Did you know that the last meal the Luttra Woman (skull pictured) had was raspberries?
Did you know that "Step Chickens" on TikTok replaced their profile pictures with an image (shown) of Melissa Ong, whom they call "Mother Hen"?
Did you know that Absaroka was a proposed U.S. state that would have included parts of Wyoming, South Dakota, and Montana?
Did you know that Kimmo Leinonen helped establish both the Finnish Hockey Hall of Fame and the IIHF Hall of Fame?
Did you know that during the filming of Dawn of the Dead, hundreds of extras in zombie makeup had to be on constant standby, so the crew built a "factory" where painted extras were on-call?
Did you know that prior to entering politics, Herbert Salvatierra led a troupe of carnival comparsas?
Did you know that the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel All the Light We Cannot See contains a sympathetic Nazi?
Did you know that Lewis Fry Richardson's Statistics of Deadly Quarrels suggested that the establishment of a world government might end wars?
Did you know that Paul Freeman became one of the few Westerners interred at the Kremlin Wall Necropolis, following his death in an experimental propeller-driven Soviet railcar?
Did you know that Pulaski's Masterpiece, billed as the "world's most valuable dog", disappeared without a trace in 1953?
Did you know that a bloodied fingerprint on newspaper was the central piece of evidence in the murder of Vivianne Ruiz?
Did you know that the "You've Got Mail" voice actor was one of dozens of people fired from an Ohio TV station after its takeover by Paxson Communications?
Did you know that the Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes at the University of Notre Dame contains two stones originally from the grotto at which Our Lady of Lourdes is said to have appeared to Saint Bernadette?
Did you know that Charles Grobe wrote the "Lincoln Quickstep" in honor of Abraham Lincoln?
Did you know that Kalle Rovanperä became the youngest podium finisher in 2020, the youngest event winner in 2021 and the youngest world champion in 2022 in the World Rally Championship?
Did you know that after erecting the African Union headquarters, the Chinese government was accused in 2018 of spying on the building for five years?
Did you know that many surviving remnants of North American prairie grasslands are in cemeteries?
Did you know that the 1980s were the "age of hole-discovery" in yaoi erotica?
Did you know that the hook and concept of the song "Big Brother" was conceived by Kanye West in an elevator ride?
Did you know that Ertuğrul Gazi, a Turkish floating storage and regasification unit for liquefied natural gas, has a daily capacity of 28 million cubic metres (990 million cu ft), among the world's largest?
Did you know that after the Wennington wildfire (destroyed houses pictured) hit London in 2022, experts warned that climate change would cause more wildfires in the future?
Did you know that railway engineer Henry Ketchum earned the first diploma in civil engineering granted by the University of New Brunswick?
Did you know that the first batch of Action Computer Enterprise's Discovery 1600, one of the first multi-user microcomputers, was delivered to a tobacco-growing business in Thailand?
Did you know that the infected creatures in the second episode of The Last of Us were created using prosthetics instead of visual effects?
Did you know that when Ashgabat Zoo opened in Turkmenistan, dictator Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow's personal menagerie was moved to the zoo?
Did you know that King Edgar of England wanted to marry Wulfhild, but she rejected him to become a nun instead?
Did you know that Mary Arthur McElroy was never given formal recognition as First Lady of the United States out of respect for Nell Arthur, the deceased wife of then-president Chester A. Arthur?
Did you know that actor Tatsunari Kimura ate pancakes and drank coffee while talking for eight hours during the filming of the television drama Old-Fashioned Cupcake?
Did you know that in 2007, the 1966 track "Most Likely You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine" was the first of Bob Dylan's songs to be officially remixed?
Did you know that popular Korean folk singer Wang Su-bok was given birthday gifts by both Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il?
Did you know that the painting God Giving Birth was inspired by Monica Sjöö's inner visions while giving birth?
Did you know that trans man Iszac Henig alternated wins against trans woman Lia Thomas on the way to the 2022 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming Championship?
Did you know that Alexis Soyer's dish of lamb cutlets Reform is still on the menu at the Reform Club?
Did you know that Damen, despite being one of the busiest stations on the Chicago "L", lacks accessibility for the disabled?
Did you know that Lucien Laurent scored the first goal in FIFA World Cup history during the inaugural game of Group 1 of the 1930 World Cup?
Did you know that the BBC documentary India: The Modi Question, which examines the career of Indian prime minister Narendra Modi, was banned in India?
Did you know that the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Springtown, New Jersey, was used by Harriet Tubman to help fugitive slaves escape?
Did you know that Daniel Klein's Grammatica Litvanica, the first printed grammar of the Lithuanian language, introduced the distinctive Lithuanian letter Ė?
Did you know that Dr. Oz called his veggie tray "crudité" in his supermarket scanner moment?
Did you know that King Bataha Santiago's parents sent him to school when he was 44 years old?
Did you know that Sakhela Buhlungu's anti-corruption efforts at the University of Fort Hare led to a failed assassination attempt that killed his bodyguard?
Did you know that United States Air Force brigadier general E. Daniel Cherry became close friends with the Vietnamese pilot whom he shot down during the Vietnam War?
Did you know that the riots protesting the destruction of the houses in Nieuwmarkt are memorialised in its namesake station?
Did you know that Mark Wetjen was a top advisor for Sam Bankman-Fried, the former CEO of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, during an aggressive lobbying campaign at the United States Congress?
Did you know that Mittens was a chess-playing "cat"?
Did you know that the Arab Orthodox Movement aims to Arabize the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem, a church whose laity is mostly Arab but is led by Greek clergy?
Did you know that the Japanese vessel Tonan Maru No. 3, sunk in a 17 February 1944 air raid, was raised seven years later and returned to service as a whaling factory ship?
Did you know that African-American journalist Erna P. Harris was called a "fearless critic" of the internment of Japanese Americans by the US government during World War II?
Did you know that Constans II was a monk before he became a Roman emperor?
Did you know that James Danandjaja, an expert on Indonesian folklore and the pioneer of Indonesian folkloristics, also learned ballet and modern dance?
Did you know that Rick and Morty caused McDonald's to bring back its Szechuan Sauce, twenty years after it was discontinued?
Did you know that despite J. R. R. Tolkien's dislike of Shakespeare, he was influenced by his work?
Did you know that the television series The Owl's Legacy was modelled after the ancient Greek symposium?
Did you know that American folklorist Esther Shephard collected tall tales from logging camps in the state of Washington to complete her 1924 book about Paul Bunyan?
Did you know that Charles Darwin used a tree of life model (sketch pictured) to conceptualise his theory of evolution?
Did you know that Michał Węsławski was the first non-Russian mayor of Vilnius after the January Uprising?
Did you know that Richard Horn's 1969 novel was an Encyclopedia?
Did you know that for the fourth episode of The Last of Us, Melanie Lynskey was told her character's brother was "basically Jesus"?
Did you know that on his wedding night, Maximilian of Habsburg had a childhood friend, wearing a suit of armour, stand in for him in bed with his new wife?
Did you know that the horse in an equestrian statue of George Washington was modeled on a workhorse that had been seen pulling a milk wagon?
Did you know that Paul Harvey improvised a viral piano piece using only four notes?
Did you know that in August 2022, Igor Mangushev spoke on a stage in a Russian nightclub with what he said was the skull of a Ukrainian soldier killed in the Azovstal Iron and Steel Works?
Did you know that the 1968 single "There's a Blind Man Playin' Fiddle in the Street" by Tages was inspired by an old man that could be seen roaming around the streets of Gothenburg, playing a violin?
Did you know that the Capitol Hill Citizen's motto, "Democracy Dies in Broad Daylight", is intended as a jab at The Washington Post's motto, "Democracy Dies in Darkness"?
Did you know that the dollar pattern (example pictured) in Turkish Iznik pottery is a variant of the rock-and-wave border pattern adapted from Chinese porcelain?
Did you know that Lady Rainier has been raising a glass since 1903?
Did you know that college basketball player Jett Howard almost signed at Tennessee, but instead chose the Michigan team of his father Juwan Howard?
Did you know that one could get prosecuted for comparing the Turkish President Erdoğan to Gollum, a character from The Lord of the Rings?
Did you know that the head in the Portrait of George Washington Taking the Salute at Trenton is based on the work of another painter?
Did you know that 2022 documentary The Australian Wars explores "the great Australian silence" about massacres of Indigenous Australians?
Did you know that Informer released a portable computer terminal that also doubled as an IBM PC compatible?
Did you know that John Rauch, of the firm Venturi, Rauch & Scott Brown, was called "one of the unsung heroes of postwar American architecture" by the Architectural Record?
Did you know that Korey Foreman held a makeshift raffle to decide where to play college football?
Did you know that although the Liberty Theatre was built in 1904 to host the Rogers Brothers' musicals, the brothers made their last appearance there three years later?
Did you know that the John McCaffary House was the site of the 1850 murder of Bridget McCaffary, for which John McCaffary became the first and only person to be executed by the state of Wisconsin?
Did you know that Elvis Costello and the Attractions were consistently intoxicated during the recording of the album Trust?
Did you know that Greg Noire aims to "de-concert" his concert photography?
Did you know that Minuscule 1689, a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, went missing for nearly 100 years after it was moved during World War I?
Did you know that for an additional US$25, Martin Research shipped its 1975 book on microcomputers with an Intel 8008?
Did you know that the 2017 acquisition of Katz Broadcasting by the E. W. Scripps Company was seen as a validation of the business of diginets?
Did you know that the visual appeal of its rings has made Saturn popular in fiction?
Did you know that Bernie Wrightson spent seven years drawing an illustrated edition of Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein?
Did you know that a solvent company can access the bankruptcy courts by doing the Texas two-step?
Did you know that in 1785, at the age of 24, James Freeman convinced his congregation to adopt his revised prayer book, which contributed to King's Chapel becoming the first Unitarian congregation in the United States?
Did you know that the Highfield Cocoa and Coffee House in Sheffield, England, sold tea, coffee and cocoa at a penny a pint and also provided billiards and reading rooms?
Did you know that the upcoming Moscow Metro station Maryina Roshcha's four escalators are the longest in Moscow?
Did you know that under a rules draft presented at the 1857 baseball convention, baseball bats would have been allowed to be shaved flat on one side?
Did you know that Gother Mann commanded a small body of militia on Dominica during the French invasion in 1778?
Did you know that in the aftermath of the American Civil War, the only Black-led organization providing teachers to formerly enslaved people was the African Civilization Society?
Did you know that on the day of her Silver concert, singer Regine Velasquez suffered from a viral infection and temporarily lost her voice?
Did you know that the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, and Sports Illustrated have all profiled the smallest TV station in the United States?
Did you know that Linda Ronstadt's "Long, Long Time" saw a 4,900-percent increase in Spotify streams in the United States in the hour after the broadcast of the third episode of The Last of Us?
Did you know that Max Reger's Piano Concerto was premiered by Frieda Hodapp in 1910, but has rarely been performed since due to its difficulty?
Did you know that although SS Tembien was known to be carrying Allied prisoners of war, she was sunk by a British submarine on 27 February 1942 with hundreds killed?
Did you know that from the old Chicago Station, a five-cent fare would get you as far west as California?
Did you know that the covering of the Robert Parker Coffin Bridge has been struck by vehicles at least 40 times since August 2020?
Did you know that George Balanchine choreographed Ballet Imperial to prove that Americans were capable of performing in the traditions of classical ballet?
Did you know that Lamar Johnson learned American Sign Language for his role in the fifth episode of The Last of Us?
Did you know that New York City's Lexington Hotel banned tipping when it opened?
Did you know that Palma Vecchio's A Blonde Woman may be a goddess, a lady, or a courtesan?
Did you know that Soviet German literary critic Richard Knorre was injured in an explosion during the siege of Leningrad?
Did you know that nursing educator Helen Turner Watson was one of the first African-American women to become a commissioned officer in the United States Navy?
Did you know that trains can be pulled by cows?
Did you know that two Norwegians, Erik Fosse and Mads Gilbert, as the only Western doctors at the al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza, found themselves as leading witnesses of the 2008–2009 Gaza War?
Did you know that a media columnist in Columbus, Georgia, opined: "If TV-16 was a horse, it would have been shot long ago"?
Did you know that science fiction authors who want to avoid the paradoxes associated with time travel may instead write about time viewers?
Did you know that the Fatimid boy caliph al-Fa'iz bi-Nasr Allah was raised to the throne by the vizier, who had killed his father and uncles?
Did you know that the bondiola sandwich (example pictured) is a popular street food in Argentina?
Did you know that three decades after chasing away surveyors for a previous railroad with guns, residents of Wickford, Rhode Island, built their own railroad?
Did you know that John Spencer won a World Snooker Championship on his first attempt in 1969?
Did you know that Nothing, Forever is completely procedurally generated?
Did you know that in 1927, Native American activist Chauncey Yellow Robe and the Lakota Sioux tribe "adopted" President Calvin Coolidge to thank him for supporting the 1924 Indian Citizenship Act?
Did you know that the Jewish anarchist Volin refused to flee Nazi-occupied France as he believed that a revolution would follow the liberation of France?
Did you know that the old adage "feed a cold, starve a fever" was first published in a 1574 dictionary?
Did you know that Generosity of Alexander is a painting that shows Alexander the Great giving his concubine to a painter as a gift?
Did you know that Mark Robinson was a world champion in submission wrestling, sumo and powerlifting?
Did you know that of thirty-five Palestinians killed in the West Bank in January 2023 by Israeli forces and settlers, twenty were from the Jenin refugee camp?
Did you know that the first secular school in Catalonia was founded by the anarcha-feminist Teresa Mañé?
Did you know that artwork at Shenton Way MRT station depicts everyday people running after an old banknote?
Did you know that during the first tour to the Soviet Union by any American ballet company, Lupe Serrano danced the first encore in the American Ballet Theatre's history?
Did you know that Ludwig Ahgren showered on camera during his 31-day continuous livestream?
Did you know that Montagu Toller was a part of the British team that played cricket at the 1900 Summer Olympics, the only time cricket was ever featured at the Olympics?
Did you know that Muchlis Ibrahim opted to resign as Governor of West Sumatra when Zainal Bakar, instead of his choice, was appointed to be his deputy?
Did you know that covers of Bob Dylan's "Just Like a Woman" by Manfred Mann and Jonathan King were both coincidentally released on the same day Dylan was involved in a motorcycle accident?
Did you know that the Cut Meutia is the only active train service in Indonesia using standard-gauge track?
Did you know that the façade of Hôtel Albert Ciamberlani has been described as one of the most beautiful Art Nouveau façades in Belgium?
Did you know that David Bowie's song "Let's Dance" began as a folk song?
Did you know that Rembrandt liked the Jan Lievens painting The Raising of Lazarus so much that he acquired it for himself?
Did you know that a pond of liquid sulfur was discovered at the summit crater of the Daikoku Seamount in 2006 in the Northern Mariana Islands?
Did you know that before John McClaughry was elected to the Vermont House of Representatives, he traveled about 5,000 miles (8,000 km) in boxcars as a hobo?
Did you know that the "Barry White of tennis" is a French chair umpire?
Did you know that the rebooted design of Glimmer from She-Ra was partly inspired by the showrunner's love of Dungeons & Dragons?
Did you know that Dean Huijsen went from scoring seven goals in one season for Juventus's under-17 squad to playing for their professional reserve team in just half a year?