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Did you know that traditional stone houses on the island of Pantelleria (examples pictured) passively maintain an internal temperature up to 8 °C (14 °F) cooler than the ambient air temperature in summer?
Did you know that , when Mariame Clément directed Mozart's Così fan tutte, she froze a wedding tableau during the overture and restarted it in the finale?
Did you know that Dredge is a Lovecraftian horror and fishing video game?
Did you know that Nobuhiko Jimbo saved future Philippine president Manuel Roxas from execution during World War II, and Roxas did the same for Jimbo four years later?
Did you know that Romanian far-right journalist Ilariu Dobridor died after being beaten and locked in his own home?
Did you know that Swedish general Lorens von der Linde once shocked an English diplomat with his stories of King Charles X Gustav's German liaisons?
Did you know that Turkey is facing its worst drought in the last 50 years?
Did you know that scholars have described the 1946 book The Failure of Technology as a precursor to the environmental movement?
Did you know that the Dutch-built and Turkish-operated Birinci İnönü-class submarines were used to discreetly develop German U-boats?
Did you know that the killing of an official by seven women was held up as an example of filial piety?
Did you know that G. Michael Brown said that his 1980 conviction of four mobsters showed that the Mafia wasn't merely "a figment of Hollywood's imagination"?
Did you know that India's Central Reserve Police Force tested the Trichy assault rifle in mud, rain, and saltwater conditions for reliability and accuracy before ordering the rifle?
Did you know that Indonesian ambassador Niniek Kun Naryatie initially wanted to resign as a diplomat after giving birth to her first child, but her husband convinced her not to do so?
Did you know that Jessie Wright, director of physical medicine at the D.T. Watson Home for Crippled Children, helped invent the rocking bed as a treatment for polio?
Did you know that a Super Bowl-winning defensive tackle went on to become a U.S. Army chaplain?
Did you know that a restaurant hired Frank Deig to eat its food?
Did you know that the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility scheme has been criticised for placing workers at risk of modern slavery?
Did you know that upon receiving her pay from His Master's Voice, Asiah Aman was taught by an executive how to open a bank account?
Did you know that while the 2024 WDF World Darts Championship final featured a 70-year-old, the 2025 final featured a 15-year-old?
Did you know that , upon the death of Truganini, the Aboriginal population of Tasmania was declared to be extinct?
Did you know that Alexander Sabar feared thesis defense more than terrorists?
Did you know that Bea Sprung credits her competitive swimming background with aiding her development as a footballer?
Did you know that Depeche Mode chose to follow a set of rules, including one against using chords, when they recorded their 1987 album Music for the Masses?
Did you know that Otago Farmers Market celebrated its birthday with a "long lunch" on a railway platform?
Did you know that Trinity Communion Church in New York erected a 10-foot (3.0 m) papier-mâché pink elephant on its lawn to increase its visibility in its neighborhood?
Did you know that a retired manufacturing CEO and a former Muppeteer co-produced a biopic of Dietrich Bonhoeffer?
Did you know that the 141 Schools for Peace campaign was formed in the aftermath of the 2014 Peshawar school massacre and received proceeds from "We Will Fly"?
Did you know that the AI creation Tilly Norwood has been described as "really, really scary"?
Did you know that 70 high-ranking party officials were disciplined under the 12th Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam?
Did you know that Charlie Mitchell's path to Michelin-starred kitchens started in the valet lot?
Did you know that Jan Świerc and eight other Catholic priests murdered at Auschwitz and Dachau were recognized as martyrs by Pope Leo XIV?
Did you know that Traum von Monte Carlo depicts a casino transformed into an allegorical vision of destruction and moral decay?
Did you know that Waverly W. Wray was a quarter-inch from death?
Did you know that a senator once brought fake dynamite into an Australian budget estimates hearing to make a point about parliamentary security arrangements?
Did you know that gynecologist James Findley Nolan delivered babies and, on one occasion, an atomic bomb?
Did you know that scientists at the University of Chicago achieved a self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction under the stands of a football stadium?
Did you know that the 2001 Biggin Hill Airshow featured two separate fatal aircraft crashes?
Did you know that Doug Jones considered retiring from creature-acting work until being offered the role of Saru on Star Trek: Discovery?
Did you know that Hostage, a book written by Eli Sharabi after surviving 491 days in Hamas captivity, became the fastest-selling book in Hebrew-language publishing history?
Did you know that Yuki Wakai gave up her dream to be a singer-songwriter to become an idol singer, only to later become a singer-songwriter?
Did you know that former Nazi officer Reinhard Höhn founded a business school after the Second World War?
Did you know that most blue lace agate (example pictured) was sourced from a single mine in Namibia until 2017?
Did you know that one sportswriter said: "If Dr. Frankenstein could construct a football player, Ja'Markis Weston would emerge from the lab"?
Did you know that the 2025 Enderlin tornado threw train cars nearly twice as far as required to qualify for the highest intensity tornado rating?
Did you know that the cast of the 1965 film Winter Kept Us Warm were not told about its queer subject matter?
Did you know that the manga series Mentsuyu Hitori Meshi has recipes on cooking with mentsuyu?
Did you know that , under O'Donoghue v. United States, Washington, D.C.'s courts are the only tribunals in the United States that might be both constitutional and legislative courts at the same time?
Did you know that Alek Skarlatos, who helped foil a terrorist attack in 2015, became a member of the Oregon House of Representatives nearly a decade later?
Did you know that British physiotherapist Jane Madders developed relaxation training for pregnant women and migraine patients?
Did you know that Irina Voronina was once painted blue and orange for a nude photoshoot?
Did you know that a U.S. senator advocated for the lobster emoji?
Did you know that a cartel was formed to purchase papyri for the Berlin Papyrus Collection?
Did you know that dockworkers constructed makeshift barricades out of large rolls of paper during the July 1936 military uprising in Barcelona?
Did you know that several Internet memes, including "is this Battletoads?" and the NPC Wojak, originated from the 4chan imageboard /v/?
Did you know that the architecture of a city in Genshin Impact was influenced by an ancient town in the province of Hunan?
Did you know that American trucking company Prime Inc. sued Amazon over its use of the Amazon Prime logo?
Did you know that Daaga was freed from a slave ship by the Royal Navy, but executed by the British Army less than a year later?
Did you know that Gholdengo has been jokingly described as looking like a "walking Ponzi scheme"?
Did you know that Khachaturian's Violin Concerto incorporates several themes from Armenian folk songs?
Did you know that Paper Girl concluded that the super-rich are removing the "ladder of upward mobility" from the lower class?
Did you know that sky lanterns released during the Yi Peng festival cause Chiang Mai International Airport to cancel and reschedule flights every year?
Did you know that the US Army Air Corps ordered the Sperry S-1 bombsight because supplies of the Norden bombsight were controlled by the US Navy?
Did you know that the orchid species Archivea kewensis is known only from an 1823 watercolour painting?
Did you know that the single "Doot Doot (6 7)" inspired a viral meme phrase that was named Dictionary.com's 2025 Word of the Year?
Did you know that Edward Lloyd was the namesake of Lloyd's of London but not its founder?
Did you know that Hanoikids gave free tours of Hanoi to a prime minister of Australia, an American general, and an American senator?
Did you know that Laura Kenny is the most decorated British female athlete in Olympic history?
Did you know that Lotte Ledl, who played characters at the Vienna Burgtheater, in Heimatfilme, in literature adaptations and in crime series, was awarded an honorific title at the age of 89?
Did you know that Nintendo denied that Shiver from Splatoon 3 is non-binary?
Did you know that a member of one of the best-selling boy bands of all time was also signed to the football club Doncaster Rovers?
Did you know that a mountain in Southern California was used  by the Marquardt Corporation as a laboratory to test "highly reactive or toxic" rocket propellant?
Did you know that having large buttocks can be a tactical advantage in hockey?
Did you know that the mysterious Longfellow Boom has been attributed to rail cars coupling, secret NORAD flights, an underground meth lab, or a fault line in the Mississippi River?
Did you know that Aubrey Plaza got high with the "weed nuns" to promote The Little Hours?
Did you know that Bill Cottrell went from playing for a high-school team that had 32 consecutive losses to starting for an NFL team?
Did you know that Lale Andersen, who was popular with both sides of World War II for her version of "Lili Marleen", represented Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 1961?
Did you know that Li Xinchuan was allowed to return to his old workplace after fleeing the Mongol invasion?
Did you know that Suprapto Martosetomo sheltered Indonesian students at his residence in the Philippines during a 1989 coup attempt?
Did you know that a type of flute known as a fluier was sometimes built into Romanian shepherds' whips and staffs?
Did you know that actor and playwright J. Harry Benrimo has been described as a "central and versatile figure in Orientalist theater"?
Did you know that an estimated 23 billion seven-spot ladybirds (example pictured) swarmed England's eastern and southern coasts during a heatwave in 1976?
Did you know that the Variations on a Theme from La Cenerentola are attributed to Frédéric Chopin, but he may only have composed one of the variations?
Did you know that Interstate 155 is the only piece of surface transportation infrastructure that directly connects the U.S. states of Missouri and Tennessee?
Did you know that Lim Joo Hock was called to the bar nearly two decades after getting his Bachelor of Laws degree?
Did you know that Logan Barrio is one of the oldest Mexican barrios in Santa Ana, California?
Did you know that Ukraine protects more than 3,000 geographical indications, only thirty of which originate in the country?
Did you know that a song about the discovery of sex toys and hundreds of condoms from West End Girl recently became Lily Allen's first UK top-ten single since 2014?
Did you know that shortly after the fall of Suharto, Indonesia's 1st Mechanized Infantry Brigade was deployed around the former president's house to protect him from mobs?
Did you know that the Perron of Liège was dismantled and removed by the duke of Burgundy, Charles the Bold, following a failed uprising?
Did you know that the author of  Ethelwina used Shakespeare to justify including a real ghost?
Did you know that the house of actor Calum Lill was used as a set for the drama Waterloo Road when he was a child?
Did you know that Charles Throsby Smith led the first British expedition to what became Canberra, and is a founding figure of Wollongong?
Did you know that FIFA-listed referee Adonis Carrasco signed up for basic training without having ever played football and without knowing any rules?
Did you know that Mai Murakami was the first Japanese female gymnast in 63 years to win a world title?
Did you know that Maid Marian in Super Robin Hood was voiced by the developers' mother?
Did you know that Tipat Halav, a network of well-baby care centers, cut infant mortality rates in pre-state Israel by more than 50 percent between 1927 and 1948?
Did you know that a 1:10 wooden model was used in the acoustic design of Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall?
Did you know that a petition to restrict the sale of fireworks in New Zealand included 80,000 pawprints?
Did you know that historian Jürgen Matthäus used artificial intelligence to help identify Jakobus Onnen as the gunman in The Last Jew in Vinnitsa?
Did you know that The Dream of Saint Joseph by Philippe de Champaigne was owned by Napoleon's half-uncle?
Did you know that a Japanese ministry promotes eating salmon on Christmas?
Did you know that a book about a Finnish Santa figure sold particularly well in Germany and Japan?
Did you know that a cave shrimp from Christmas Island was christened xmas and heralded on Christmas Day?
Did you know that a website has ranked a giant Santa statue as the world's most "unintentionally creepy Christmas ornament"?
Did you know that all four known fossils of the dwarf mistletoe Arceuthobium johnianum have been lost?
Did you know that an Iowa nun's drawing of Eve and a pregnant Mary was described as "simple yet theologically dazzling"?
Did you know that the 2025 UK Christmas number-one single, "XMAS", made Kylie Minogue the oldest woman to top the UK singles chart with a new recording?
Did you know that the author of How to Survive Christmas described the season as a "rat race"?
Did you know that Ghana sent Palestine 40 metric tons of chocolate and other cocoa products as humanitarian aid in 2025?
Did you know that Mao Zedong encouraged Zeng Zesheng not to join the Chinese Communist Party, believing his non-Party status would help him engage more effectively with Taiwan and the international community?
Did you know that May McGee's successful legal action against the Irish government for restricting her access to contraceptives led to an eventual liberalization of the country's laws on birth control?
Did you know that Tex Ritter's recording of "Blood on the Saddle" has often been presented by an animatronic bear?
Did you know that flute playing and hired wailing irked the Latin Church so much that Archbishop Hugh threatened to put the offending women on the rack?
Did you know that the Green Bay Packers' second stadium was built using wood from its first stadium?
Did you know that the United States Supreme Court is not the Highest Court in the Land?
Did you know that the final novel by Catherine Helen Spence remained unpublished for over a century after being labelled "socialistic" and "dangerous"?
Did you know that the manga Snow Angel ran a campaign supporting young carers?
Did you know that Dutch soldier Gerrit van der Waals escaped from a German POW camp, aided Jews and anti-Nazi resistance, then was arrested by the Soviets and died in their custody?
Did you know that Maria Rickmers, one of the largest sailing ships of her day, disappeared on her maiden voyage?
Did you know that VHS copies of The Tigger Movie featured $3.00 rebates for Tigger's Honey Hunt?
Did you know that a convent at St. John Church was used by Hassan Jeru-Ahmed's Blackman's Development Center, a Black paramilitary group?
Did you know that in one survey, two thirds of US adults attributed some possibility of consciousness to ChatGPT?
Did you know that it is unclear whether John Marzetti is the namesake of Johnny Marzetti?
Did you know that one of the most significant episodes of Assyrian resistance during the Sayfo was the Defense of Azakh?
Did you know that the broadcast of MLS Cup 2025 used iPhones for some footage?
Did you know that Coldplay's ten shows at Wembley Stadium in 2025 are the highest-grossing concert series at a single venue?
Did you know that General Motors killed the electric car?
Did you know that Li Shaozhu was called the "straw-sandal commander" because he chose to wear straw sandals throughout his military life?
Did you know that some people have placed anti–Elon Musk bumper stickers on their Tesla cars to avoid vandalism?
Did you know that the death of Princess Charlotte precipitated "Hymen's war terrific", a race among her middle-aged uncles to produce a new heir to the British throne?
Did you know that the use of low- and zero-emission buses in New York City has led to improvements in air pollution across the city?
Did you know that the walls of Babylon (reconstruction pictured) were included in many early lists of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?
Did you know that time limits in the 2025 video game Time Flies are based on the life expectancy of the country selected by the player?
Did you know that two Russian admirals were mortally wounded on the Malakhov Kurgan during the Crimean War?
Did you know that Bartholomäus Scultetus tried to become the court cartographer of Ivan the Terrible?
Did you know that Nobody is the highest-grossing 2D Chinese animated film?
Did you know that a prosecutor can get a grand jury to indict a sandwich, but not a sandwich thrower?
Did you know that journalist Dan Stoneking was called an "honorary teammate" and subjected to pranks by Minnesota North Stars players?
Did you know that linked fate looks at the degree to which an individual believes that what happens to their own racial group will affect their own well-being and life chances?
Did you know that the Link light rail system in Seattle is planned to include the first railway line on a floating bridge?
Did you know that the adventure game Jenny of the Prairie was one of the first computer games developed for girls?
Did you know that the jazz artist Aaron Diehl became the organist at St. Dominic Church at the age of seven?
Did you know that the television host Jimmy Kimmel met his bandleader Cleto Escobedo III when they were both nine years old?
Did you know that , after two sisters married Armenian leaders in the War of the Antiochene Succession, a third sister, Melisende of Lusignan, married the Armenians' enemy?
Did you know that Femke Bol passing three runners to win the mixed 4 × 400 metres relay was called "one of Paris's signature moments"?
Did you know that Guillermo de Osma endowed his alma mater's De Osma Studentship to support Spanish studies at his Institute of Valencia de Don Juan?
Did you know that Miho Karasawa's stage name, True, was influenced by her songwriting for anime representing her "true" self?
Did you know that Neoliner Origin is the largest wind-propelled cargo ship currently in service?
Did you know that SKA Saint Petersburg's longest-tenured player was traded to SKA after losing a playoff series to them?
Did you know that after Hkam Hkai Hpa of Hsenwi requested military aid against the Kingdom of Ava, the Yongle Emperor dispatched a eunuch in response?
Did you know that the Jack-be-little pumpkin can be turned into a serving bowl for soup?
Did you know that the first edition of the Autostrada Biennale featured contemporary art exhibitions temporarily hosted in private homes?
Did you know that "Despre tine" by Moldovan group O-Zone replaced the band's own "Dragostea din tei" as the number-one single in Norway?
Did you know that 12-year-old Knowa De Baraso gained attention in the United States when he challenged Mike Lindell's claims about the 2020 presidential election?
Did you know that Farzana Kochai completed twelve years of education in seven after schools reopened following the ousting of the Taliban?
Did you know that Woody Allen was disgusted by having to sleep next to Milt Rosen?
Did you know that a doctor reattached a farmer's severed hand in a remote Swedish hospital in 1964?
Did you know that boxer Chan Wa-yen had to lose more than 4 kilograms (8.8 lb) in 13 days for the 1968 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that drones were deployed as part of rescue efforts after Cyclone Montha?
Did you know that one procedure for simultaneous approach (example pictured) allows aircraft to land on runways as close as 750 feet (230 m) apart?
Did you know that there is "noooooooooooooo smoking" in the Metrodome?
Did you know that Laurence J. Lesh worked on the aerodynamics of horse-drawn gliders, sailboats, and throwing knives?
Did you know that Taylor Swift wrote a song about Elizabeth Taylor after learning that the late actress's son compared the two of them?
Did you know that a volcano in Ethiopia had its first recorded explosive eruption in 2025?
Did you know that a young Donald Trump was sent to military school after his father found that he had been purchasing smoke bombs and switchblades in Manhattan?
Did you know that cameras of the Canon EOS series were used to film portions of House, Dexter, and Iron Man 2?
Did you know that political strategist Morris Katz stated that any Democrat "who's scared to congratulate" Zohran Mamdani "is very unlikely to be the nominee for president in 2028"?
Did you know that the buttocks of the fictional character Elastigirl inspired various memes, GIFs, and YouTube videos in 2018?
Did you know that the face of the goddess Hera in The Birth of the Milky Way was modelled after Peter Paul Rubens's wife?
Did you know that the painting The Death of Khan Jahan Lodi features six severed heads, and another in the midst of decapitation?
Did you know that Eric Gilbertson's goal is to climb the high point of every country in the world?
Did you know that Jane Rigby was too short to become an astronaut, so she became an astronomer instead?
Did you know that an NFL player who played strip poker with nurses, a human rights lawyer who founded a Swiss assisted-suicide clinic, and a businessman who denounced his old football playing style all had the nickname "Dr. Death"?
Did you know that by 2013 the Auto-Vue was eastern Washington's last operating drive-in theater?
Did you know that electrical engineer Emilija Soklič lived to see a mixing console she built become a museum piece?
Did you know that milk tokens were introduced to reduce the theft of milk payments?
Did you know that the 1930 Marx Brothers film Animal Crackers (complete film featured) entered the public domain in the United States on January 1, 2026?
Did you know that the Pacific molly easily hybridizes with the common molly in the laboratory, but for some reason tends not to in nature?
Did you know that the ownership of Lucian Freud's portrait of Queen Elizabeth II is unclear?
Did you know that , after an attempt to sell the Tokamak de Varennes to Iran failed, it became a display at the Canada Science and Technology Museum?
Did you know that Andreas Papandreou wrote in his book Democracy at Gunpoint that his father blamed him for the 1967 coup of the Greek junta?
Did you know that Indonesian diplomat Linggawaty Hakim assisted the Bahamas government in determining its maritime border with Cuba?
Did you know that Katsuko Kanai reconsidered her plans to retire after her song "Tanin no Kankei" became a hit?
Did you know that a 17th-century painting depicts 63-year-old emperor Aurangzeb showing no signs of aging, even as his elder son's beard is going grey?
Did you know that a popular podcast on Anglican news has been described as crossing "the boundary that separates truth from truthiness"?
Did you know that the Sweet Sulphur Springs hotel was famous for the supposed healing powers of its mineral waters?
Did you know that the social work of Sister Stan was praised by two presidents of Ireland?
Did you know that three different versions of the 2020 novel Telephone were released simultaneously?
Did you know that Armand Avril travelled in 1960 for a year in Africa, where he was inspired to assemble "bottle caps, clothespins, glue, nails and empty tin cans"?
Did you know that Lola Young won a house in a bet over the chart position of a single from I'm Only F**king Myself?
Did you know that Nuala O'Faolain's first book was so popular that shops sold copies straight from the box, because they did not have the time to shelve them?
Did you know that Roti ran 42 restaurants before the COVID-19 pandemic reduced the midday lunch demand?
Did you know that Thihapate III of Taungdwin pledged his allegiance to King Thado, only to renounce it upon returning to his fief?
Did you know that hundreds of refugees at a UN humanitarian center in Niger have been protesting conditions there for more than a year?