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Did you know that sauerkraut made by members of a Russian spiritual sect in Armenia was popular in many other parts of the Soviet Union?
Did you know that the LACE satellite tracked rocket plumes from space for the United States's Star Wars program?
Did you know that "At the Name of Jesus" has been described as "the only completely objective theological hymn to come from the hand of a 19th-century woman writer"?
Did you know that Eminem promoted "Houdini" with a video in which David Blaine eats a wine glass?
Did you know that much of what we know of medieval gardens comes from illuminated manuscripts (example pictured)?
Did you know that two of three candidates in the 2018 mayoral race in Malang, Indonesia, were arrested for bribery before the election?
Did you know that AJR's "Way Less Sad" samples the final trumpet riff of Simon & Garfunkel's "My Little Town" as its primary hook?
Did you know that Drew Thomas, a former car salesman, reached the finals of the NBC show Last Comic Standing?
Did you know that Paul Parkman, one of the developers of the rubella vaccine, did not monetize the patent so that the vaccine could be freely available?
Did you know that a New York man built a house with materials from several 1964 New York World's Fair pavilions?
Did you know that according to a former military journalist, 80,000 copies of a command information newspaper were dumped into the South China Sea during the Vietnam War?
Did you know that despite specializing in literature and serving as a senior editor of the Zhonghua Book Company, historian Zhang Zhenglang never published a single book of his own?
Did you know that putting pre-moistened meat diapers in pre-packaged meat is a form of weight fraud?
Did you know that when MT Petar Hektorović was temporarily reassigned, one resident of Vis wrote an online memorial to the ship, writing "the bay of Vis grieve for you"?
Did you know that Laura Veale was the first woman to practise as a doctor in the town of Harrogate?
Did you know that after Seattle Seahawks quarterback Matt Hasselbeck promised victory, he threw an interception that lost the game?
Did you know that after operating for 168 years and moving to three buildings, the Mercantile Library in Philadelphia was closed due to concerns about asbestos?
Did you know that the "mythical love story" of Sami politician Bjarne Store-Jakobsen and Blackfoot physician Esther Tailfeathers is a focus of the 2014 film Bihttoš?
Did you know that the Akinada Tobishima Kaido (bridge pictured), an island-hopping road, was named after its resemblance to stepping stones in a garden?
Did you know that to encourage the development of Bissau-Guinean cinema, one foreign filmmaker provided the country's film institute with cameras, lights, and a Steinbeck guitar?
Did you know that "Chihiro" by Billie Eilish was titled in reference to the main character of Spirited Away?
Did you know that 16th-century chroniclers thought María Pacheco, a leader of the Revolt of the Comuneros, was a witch?
Did you know that in order to re-marry, Zhou Wennan had to request Mao Zedong's permission?
Did you know that schoolchildren in the town of Kirkby were paid 25 pence an hour to help build Kirkby Ski Slope, even though the slope never opened?
Did you know that some critics described the fourth season of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver as comic relief from the activities of the Trump administration?
Did you know that the Isle of Dogs Pumping Station was nicknamed the Temple of Storms?
Did you know that Anna Russell Cole, a significant benefactor of Vanderbilt University, donated $10,000 in 1926 to endow the office of dean of women?
Did you know that Dreamtime is one of the world's most famous bouldering routes?
Did you know that Flyover, a 2023 science fiction novel by an American author, portraying a dystopian future where part of the US becomes a theocracy, was published in French but not in English?
Did you know that barbarians would have bought cake, not pie, at Barbara's Rhubarb Bar?
Did you know that in The Servile State, Hilaire Belloc criticized socialism for being too similar to capitalism?
Did you know that rapper Gmac Cash attempted to gift a pair of Cartier glasses to Gretchen Whitmer, the governor of Michigan?
Did you know that the 2024 Doctor Who episode "Dot and Bubble" was first conceptualized in 2009?
Did you know that the Tampa Bay Buccaneers players wore white uniforms during a snowy NFL game, which made them extremely difficult for their quarterback to see?
Did you know that Gedling Town F.C.'s nickname "The Ferrymen" was inspired by the name of a pub located next to the team's stadium?
Did you know that Yevhen Klopotenko fought a "war for borscht"?
Did you know that a street in San Francisco was named after a man who used a false identity?
Did you know that the Japanese boy band Nexz was created through the program Nizi Project season 2?
Did you know that the Nazi collaborator Sebastiaan de Ranitz abandoned his office following Mad Tuesday, leaving his department in turmoil?
Did you know that Joseph Tetley, a member of the New Zealand Legislative Council, defrauded several investors to the 2017 equivalent value of around NZ$7 million?
Did you know that South Korean actress Na O-mi's stage name was inspired by the song "I Dream of Naomi"?
Did you know that a video game consisting solely of a clickable image of a banana was briefly the second-most played game on Steam?
Did you know that according to the official history of the Song dynasty, Zhao Kuangyin's soldiers stormed his bedroom and proclaimed him emperor, to his surprise?
Did you know that fossil plants (leaf pictured) and damselflies from the Ypresian age are named after the city of Republic?
Did you know that while reviewers generally praised The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, one reviewer complained that the author was "so nice about his colleagues that it makes you long for a juicy academic vendetta"?
Did you know that a human toe used for cocktails is one of many body parts that are tourist attractions?
Did you know that a novel about Madagascar's colonization, which the author was aware was impossible to publish under colonial rule, was finally published decades after his suicide?
Did you know that working broadcast journalists were used as extras for the portions of the Doctor Who episode "73 Yards" that were filmed at the BBC Cymru Wales New Broadcasting House?
Did you know that Dutch agriculturist Hermanus Johannes Lovink used a suitcase gramophone during his lectures?
Did you know that fans on TikTok were behind the choice of name for one of SZA's singles?
Did you know that the Green Bay Packers once had fourteen players selected to a national All-Pro team?
Did you know that the Vancouver School Board's alleged attempt to censor a student newspaper led to the drafting of a press-freedom act?
Did you know that when sales slowed on the Texas Centennial half dollar, Senator Tom Connally suggested minting five separate versions?
Did you know that 200 spiders were on the set of Infested?
Did you know that Emily Spreeman, the all-time top scorer for the United States women's national deaf soccer team, debuted for the team at the age of 15?
Did you know that Oen Boen Ing, a doctor who often worked for free, was so popular that the Indonesian government was petitioned not to evacuate him during a period of violence against Chinese Indonesians?
Did you know that in Ludwig Krug's rendition of Adam and Eve, an ape mimics Adam eating the apple?
Did you know that the San Diego YMCA  estimates that it has served more than 125 million military personnel?
Did you know that the live-action drama adaptation of the Japanese manga Setsuyaku Rock was reimagined as a buddy comedy?
Did you know that the real-time strategy, tower defense and factory management game Mindustry is freely licensed under the GPLv3?
Did you know that Banner in the Sky inspired a Canadian dentist to climb the Matterhorn?
Did you know that Iowa government social worker Catherine G. Williams started out as a tap dancer?
Did you know that Libyan Jews and Arabs traded and bartered with each other at the fence of the Giado concentration camp?
Did you know that a gunman who, in 1960, shot three people dead in Sheffield, England, was deported to Somalia, where he was killed in a shoot-out while "running amok"?
Did you know that Pharos, the largest impact crater on Neptune's moon Proteus, is more than half the diameter of Proteus itself?
Did you know that a Texas TV station hoped that being named after an eye would ease viewer confusion?
Did you know that a video accompanying ML Buch's debut album showed viewers her inner self – literally?
Did you know that during the 1899–1900 peasant unrest in Bulgaria, some troops refused orders to fire on the protesters?
Did you know that in his book How to Be Perfect, Michael Schur sought to "wade into some deeply confusing and painful applications of moral philosophy ... but in a fun way"?
Did you know that the H. J. Lovink Pumping Station, a national monument of the Netherlands, was used to reclaim the Flevopolder?
Did you know that Charlemagne owned an elephant that he received as a gift from the Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid?
Did you know that Magic: The Gathering world champion Nathan Steuer started tournament-level play as a pre-teen, saying that the "13 and up" label on Magic packaging was "just recommended"?
Did you know that Pure Japanese was released under this English title in its native Japan?
Did you know that ice hockey coach Ryan Warsofsky was the youngest active head coach in the ECHL, then was the youngest in the AHL, and now is the youngest in the NHL?
Did you know that in 1919 Vladimir Zitta, Evgenia Semenovskaya, Vladimir Bezel and G. N. Maksimov were expelled from the Party of Revolutionary Communism for having advocated unity with other populist sectors?
Did you know that one critic interpreted a SZA song as being about her fears about the growing influence of AI in the music industry?
Did you know that Bill Wurtz once accepted an award with a two-word acceptance speech?
Did you know that carpenter Cumming Haswell erected a historic villa, later described as "modestly-scaled but ornamental"?
Did you know that the 2016 festival South by South Lawn included a panel discussion on climate change led by President Obama?
Did you know that the newly discovered and critically imperiled Red Rock sunflower (Helianthus devernii) has only been found around two desert springs located in the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area?
Did you know that Cornell College professor Harriette Cooke was also a deaconess?
Did you know that Oey Kim Tiang was one of two "men with no name" to translate Jin Yong's Condor Trilogy into vernacular Malay?
Did you know that a big duck helped promote duck farming on Long Island?
Did you know that scientists tested the age of an African termite's inhabited mound—and found it to be 34,000 years old?
Did you know that there were technical issues with the performance of "Luna" by the Colombian singer Feid at the 2024 Copa América opening ceremony?
Did you know that thirty years after playing his first season for the Miami Hurricanes, J. D. Arteaga became the team's head coach in 2024?
Did you know that Chris Patrick is one of seven Stanley Cup champions in his family?
Did you know that Peter Talbot, the Catholic archbishop of Dublin, was imprisoned in 1678 due to an anti-Catholic conspiracy?
Did you know that Tobie Goedewaagen, a minister under the Nazi occupation government, fled the Netherlands with his belongings in a bedspread?
Did you know that musician Henry Donch witnessed the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and served on the grand jury that indicted the assassin of President Garfield?
Did you know that sixteen-year-old Lisa Andreas, who represented Cyprus in the Eurovision Song Contest 2004, was that year's youngest contest entrant?
Did you know that the owners of the Narragansett Pier Railroad included a family of industrialists, a dentist, a systems analyst, a lumberyard, and the founder of Textron?
Did you know that valence populism cannot be positioned on the left–right political spectrum?
Did you know that British physician James A. Glover found that "spacing-out" beds prevented epidemics of meningitis in the military during World War I?
Did you know that Femke Bol won the women's 400 metres hurdles at the 2024 European Athletics Championships (medallists pictured) in a championship record of 52.49 seconds?
Did you know that Steve Elcock's Symphony No. 6 is dedicated to "the everlasting execration of self-serving politicians, the obscenely rich and the system that allows them to remain so"?
Did you know that a co-founder of Braver Angels designed their Red/Blue political depolarization workshops based on couples therapy?
Did you know that author Anna Smith Spark is also known as the "Queen of Grimdark"?
Did you know that the third Josef Hoop cabinet survived an attempted coup from a domestic Nazi party?
Did you know that to embody her role as a short-track speed skater in the movie Breaking Through, actress Meng Meiqi inserted a rock into one of her ice skates to feel real pain?
Did you know that Ascension Island designated its entire marine territory as a protected area with no commercial fishing permitted?
Did you know that Fu Wuji's Fuhou gujin zhu includes information on a diverse range of topics, from astrological signs to the dimensions of imperial tombs?
Did you know that Zali Steggall, an independent member of the Parliament of Australia, is an Olympic skiing medallist?
Did you know that after women at Apple Inc. found a 6-percent gender wage gap and spoke out against sexual harassment and discrimination in #AppleToo, a class-action lawsuit was filed in June 2024?
Did you know that before they can be pollinated, Scybalium fungiforme flowers (example pictured) need to be forcefully peeled open by possums or tanagers?
Did you know that petroglyphs from western Crete may depict extinct Candiacervus deer from the Palaeolithic?
Did you know that 14 months after taking up track cycling, René Heyde only narrowly missed out being selected to the New Zealand team at the 1972 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that Jenny Hurn in Lincolnshire, England, is said to be haunted by a boggart that crosses the River Trent in a dish propelled by oars the size of teaspoons?
Did you know that according to writer Russell T Davies, he conceived elements of the Doctor Who episode "Empire of Death" decades before he wrote it?
Did you know that the International Olympic Committee's TikTok account praised the "incredible strategy" of speed skater Yang Jingru's win at the 2024 Winter Youth Olympics?
Did you know that Toby Olubi has claimed to have funded his Olympic bobsled career by being "shot out of a cannon"?
Did you know that although sculptor Frances Darlington was known for her painted relief panels, she also designed a railway poster?
Did you know that immigrant midwife Dorothy Dworkin was considered the matriarch of Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital?
Did you know that Aboriginal soldier Tim Hughes was decorated for remarkable bravery, exceptional coolness and initiative during the Battle of Buna–Gona?
Did you know that New York City's Soldiers' and Sailors' Arch once had a puppet library?
Did you know that Olympia Dukakis's first screen role was in the avant-garde film Twice a Man?
Did you know that angling was once an Olympic sport?
Did you know that during an expedition on RV Kaharoa, a 34-centimetre-long (13 in) "supergiant" amphipod was discovered?
Did you know that ten years after publishing the book Great South African Christians, Horton Davies gave a speech criticizing South African churches and synagogues for their role in apartheid?
Did you know that the shape of Fisherman's Friend lozenges was based on the buttons on a dress worn by Doreen Lofthouse?
Did you know that Chloë Farro, María Sara Grippoli, Edda Hannesdóttir, Viren Nettasinghe, Oyuntsetsegiin Yesügen, and Lê Đức Phát are flagbearers at today's Olympic opening ceremony?
Did you know that NATO was once targeted by a group of "gay furry hackers"?
Did you know that a Kubrick stare (example pictured) can be "invasive" and "troubling"?
Did you know that silver dimes kept a Tennessee TV station on the air?
Did you know that the Guinness World Record holder for the world's largest menorah, in Manhattan's Grand Army Plaza, is smaller than a menorah in Brooklyn's Grand Army Plaza?
Did you know that there is a rare circumstance in which Jewish soldiers are allowed to abandon kosher dietary laws?
Did you know that Evann Girault is Niger's first Olympic fencer?
Did you know that Rhapsody was the hardest traditional climbing route in the world?
Did you know that the neutral oil tanker Hercules carried an unexploded bomb into a Brazilian port after being attacked by Argentine aircraft during the Falklands War?
Did you know that untreated sewage was dumped directly into the ocean from Clover Point until 2020?
Did you know that Aminata Barrow is the first female Olympic swimmer for The Gambia?
Did you know that Baubau city filed two different budgets at the same time, losing their chance at becoming the capital of Southeast Sulawesi?
Did you know that Brazilian Olympic gymnast Lorrane Oliveira trained for the circus before starting gymnastics?
Did you know that after being freed from Buq Buq labor camp in Italian-occupied Egypt, Libyan Jewish prisoners had to walk home across the desert?
Did you know that Adam Maraana, a Jewish Arab-Israeli, is competing in swimming for Israel at the 2024 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that Olympic fencer Victor Alvares de Oliveira was told at a young age by doctors that he had little chance to compete in the sport due to his severe asthma?
Did you know that a law was signed so that the Solomon Islands delegation could return home from the 2020 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that future American presidential candidate George McGovern was a student pastor at a church in Diamond Lake, Illinois?
Did you know that the site of the headquarters of the German colonization of Texas was converted into a museum?
Did you know that Ghana and Ivory Coast have been accused of setting up a cocoa cartel?
Did you know that Sizzle Ohtaka, known as the "Queen of Commercial Songs", was producing them at a rate of ten per month?
Did you know that a Michigan TV station rescued and restored a weather ball that had been sitting for years in a scrapyard?
Did you know that in Liberia, self-induced abortions are performed with herbal remedies known as "rocket-propelled grenade" and "Christmas leaf"?
Did you know that one in ten thousand individuals are born without the ability to smell?
Did you know that the triathletes competing in the 2024 Summer Olympics include a man who won his first international competition aged 30 and the brother of a former Olympian?
Did you know that China launched a military exercise in response to the inauguration of Lai Ching-te as president of Taiwan?
Did you know that The Chinese in America documents how people in California, during the gold rush era, mailed their laundry to Hong Kong for cleaning?
Did you know that a member of the House of Lords was the principal of a Canadian junior school?
Did you know that after Wong Sau Ying attempted to assassinate a British colonial official, the police and press began to associate the bob cut with anarchism?
Did you know that although Luxembourg has won the Eurovision Song Contest five times, none of the winning artists representing the country have been native Luxembourgers?
Did you know that basketball player Dylan Travis played for nine head coaches in nine years?
Did you know that "the old man was startled and a little shocked" when he was shown Walter Frere's revision of his book?
Did you know that Matahi Brightwell reintroduced the sport of waka ama to New Zealand?
Did you know that Warren Lawrence, the first Dominican swimmer at the Commonwealth Games, is the son of the first Dominican swimmer at the Olympics?
Did you know that a high school evicted a Pennsylvania TV station?
Did you know that during the First Bishops' War, the Duke of Hamilton's mother intended to shoot him with silver bullets if he landed in Scotland?
Did you know that in its first appearance at the Olympics, Suriname was represented by a single athlete, who missed his event?
Did you know that the National Library of Korea is a no kid zone?
Did you know that a geographer determined the surface area of Carl Friedrich Gauss's brain?
Did you know that the dried leaves of Strobilanthes tonkinensis (examples pictured) give black tea a sticky rice flavor?
Did you know that Olympic sprinter Filomenaleonisa Iakopo is also a competitive bodybuilder?
Did you know that Oriana Skylar Mastro, a Stanford political scientist, joined the U.S. Air Force as a PhD student to better understand military issues in the Asia–Pacific region?
Did you know that a third of London Underground stations have step-free access?
Did you know that had Cambodian swimmer Apsara Sakbun declined her invitation to compete at the 2024 Summer Olympics, her sister would have become an Olympian instead?
Did you know that the championship record was broken three times in the mixed 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2024 World Athletics Relays?
Did you know that three-quarters of Doctor Who's longest story are missing?
Did you know that Frederick Perceval, 11th Earl of Egmont, was nicknamed "the loneliest boy in the world" by journalists?
Did you know that Kim Ye-ji's performance in the 10 meter air pistol at the 2024 Summer Olympics led her to be dubbed the "coolest person on the planet"?
Did you know that Michigan and Alabama entered the 2024 Rose Bowl as the two college football teams with the most all-time wins?
Did you know that after a British Sikh physician could not find any recent mainstream English film led by a woman that resembled her, she co-wrote and co-produced her own?
Did you know that although the Soviet Red Army Monument in Harbin was covered with scaffolding during the Sino-Soviet split, wreaths were still laid in front of it during the Qingming Festival and on Victory Day?
Did you know that the author of the novel Wandering Souls, about Vietnamese refugees, was inspired by an episode of A Very British History?
Did you know that Piper Kelly secured her position as a competitor in speed climbing at the 2024 Olympics by reaching the final race at the 2023 Pan American Games, before winning the race?
Did you know that after Jamal Valizadeh was tortured in Iran, hid for six months, and escaped, he qualified to compete in the Olympics as a member of the Refugee Olympic Team?
Did you know that the Cannonball, a commuter train on the Long Island Rail Road, was once operated exclusively with parlor cars?
Did you know that Céline Dept was the first Belgian YouTuber to reach 10 million subscribers?
Did you know that Jenya Kazbekova, a competition climber on Ukraine's 2024 Olympic team, is the daughter and granddaughter of competition climbing medalists?
Did you know that Larisa Latynina became the most-medalled Olympian after she won six medals at the 1964 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that South African singer Tyla delayed her debut album's submission date in order to collaborate with Tems?
Did you know that after the McVey Fire, the United States Forest Service accidentally planted thousands of acres of non-native trees?
Did you know that electrical engineering professor Mariesa Crow raises alpacas?
Did you know that when delivering his speech "The boys of Pointe du Hoc" on the 40th anniversary of the Normandy landings, Ronald Reagan addressed 62 veteran service members present on D-Day?
Did you know that Patrick Gottsch, the founder of RFD-TV and The Cowboy Channel, led the effort to break the Guinness World Record for the largest parade of pickup trucks?
Did you know that São Tomé and Príncipe was popularly known as the Chocolate Islands in the early 1900s, when it was the world's top exporter of cocoa?
Did you know that in its two years of existence, the Hunter River Railway Company initiated construction on what would eventually become the Great Northern Railway connecting Sydney to Queensland?
Did you know that on top of being used as a culinary herb, Tulbaghia acutiloba has traditionally been used in treating infectious diseases and hypertension?