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Did you know that Di Botcher was inspired to complete a first-aid course after playing the paramedic Jan Jenning in Casualty?
Did you know that Ezra Dotan shot down two MiG-17s while flying an aircraft not designed as a fighter?
Did you know that Herbert Brandl once created a large mountain painting in about 15 minutes?
Did you know that Ian Matakis once won a World Series of Poker bracelet while competing in another tournament at the same time?
Did you know that Yoolya, a member of the Nyigina who was taken from his people as a child, was in later life committed to both Aboriginal and Catholic beliefs?
Did you know that a former beauty consultant created the manga guide Makeup Is Not (Just) Magic?
Did you know that the baseball biopic 42 was screened in the White House?
Did you know that there are rock paintings around Potrok Aike, a lake that is an important source of water in the region?
Did you know that "Good Old Neon" uses mathematical logic as a metaphor for what dying feels like?
Did you know that North Korean footballer Tak Yong-bin scored the winning goal in the last match that South Korea played in the North for 29 years?
Did you know that Voyager 1 crossed the Solar System's termination shock without detecting the expected surge of anomalous cosmic rays, creating the "Voyager paradox"?
Did you know that a court ordered a U.S. basketball league to let two schools into its tournament, but both were knocked out in the first round?
Did you know that after South Sudan gained autonomy, it implemented an abortion law that was more restrictive than that of Sudan?
Did you know that clanker has gained popularity as a slur for robots?
Did you know that much of what is known about the coronations of the kings and queens of Jerusalem (example pictured) comes from the Pontifical of Tyre, with which Archbishop Bonacursus de Gloria likely fled the fall of Tyre?
Did you know that singer Shiyui got her stage name from a Buddhist statue in Kyoto?
Did you know that Boogie Knight was selected to a team of the best college football player names along with General Booty and Storm Duck?
Did you know that Soviet Island is in Japan?
Did you know that a study found the Curtis Bay Incinerator causes US$36.9 million in damage per year to public health?
Did you know that basketball player Liatu King played boys' American football when she was a child?
Did you know that it only took 13 minutes to sell out the second season of Crypto: The Game?
Did you know that kart racing has crowned its first female champion in a global series since 1966 within its newly established OK-N category?
Did you know that one reviewer wrote that the tone of Meat Is Murder "begs for a belt in the chops"?
Did you know that the 1966 production of Peter Handke's Offending the Audience, directed by Claus Peymann at the Theater am Turm, has been described as "the beginning of modern theatre"?
Did you know that the kinetic-energy output from the 2011 Sawyerville–Eoline tornado was almost twice as high as that released during the atomic bombing of Hiroshima?
Did you know that Ada Schnee, a former actress born in New Zealand, experienced World War I in East Africa as the wife of the German governor?
Did you know that Canadian football player Arek Bigos left Poland to escape the communist regime?
Did you know that Cara Mehmed gained his freedom in a successful slave rebellion, but was later executed after he participated in an unsuccessful plot orchestrated by his former master?
Did you know that Rodger Bumpass, before becoming the voice of Squidward, was an announcer, film processor, and cameraman at an Arkansas TV station in the 1970s?
Did you know that The Darkness Which Reveals at Siglap MRT station conveys that darkness can reveal instead of conceal?
Did you know that an English mayor once brought a gold medallist home to his village in a Rolls-Royce?
Did you know that one contemporary reviewer was suspicious of an unacknowledged translation of Les Malheurs de l'inconstance because "French principles and French depravity mark the whole work"?
Did you know that some scholars dispute the Mahabharata's account of Madri self-immolating on her husband's pyre?
Did you know that the creator of the series Anthology of the Killer improvised its game design by squeezing in more jokes and "arbitrarily" combining in-game locations?
Did you know that Africa deindustrialised in the 1980s?
Did you know that Anju Jason nearly quit taekwondo before he became one of the first Olympians for the Marshall Islands?
Did you know that Istana Park was designed to make the front area of the residence of the president of Singapore more prominent?
Did you know that Jenni's Quesadillas actually belongs to Elena?
Did you know that Nevada City Firehouse No. 2 was built after the city burned five times within ten years?
Did you know that a schoolteacher predicted the existence of Iru hillfort after reading about the hill in an ancient poem?
Did you know that the Coca-Cola company named operetta soprano Hilda Clark (print ad pictured) as their first brand ambassador?
Did you know that the medieval Gdańsk Crane was primarily being used by the late 19th century to lift ships for propeller repairs?
Did you know that two competing hypotheses seek to explain the unusual orbit of the exoplanet Nu Octantis Ab?
Did you know that "Cwm Rhondda" was written for Capel Rhondda?
Did you know that Emperor Tenmu had his sons swear to honor his consort and niece Uno-no-sarara as their mother, including two of her brothers?
Did you know that Koh Sok Hiong, a former first lady of Singapore, wrote a cookbook compiling more than 200 of her Peranakan recipes?
Did you know that Muslim sources say that 50,000 inhabitants "burned alive" in the sacking of Tbilisi in 853?
Did you know that No Kaebang's wife, preferring death to capture by Japanese troops, leapt from a cliff while holding her husband's certificate of civil examination?
Did you know that Sydney McLaughlin's world record of 50.68 seconds in the 400 metres hurdles (medalists pictured) was called "one of the greatest track performances of all time"?
Did you know that a 1981 article about the disease of Turku claimed that the city council of Turku was made up of Finnish Freemasons?
Did you know that minister George Freeman ran The Monastery as a gay church, nightclub, and homeless shelter in 1980s Seattle?
Did you know that the app Baby Shaker was removed from the App Store for letting players shake a baby to death?
Did you know that Nancy Sullivan and ten other activists were sued by the Papua New Guinean government as retribution for opposing the Pacific Marine Industrial Zone?
Did you know that a bay in Papua New Guinea is Goodenough?
Did you know that changes in land use and forestry turned Papua New Guinea's contribution to climate change from being a net carbon sink to a net emitter?
Did you know that communities around the Sirinumu Dam lack reliable access to electricity and drinking water?
Did you know that different sounds drummed on the garamut (example pictured) can indicate the intended recipient?
Did you know that inland fisheries in Papua New Guinea are used by more than half of people living in the mountainous Highlands Region?
Did you know that the 11.7 million people of Papua New Guinea speak more than 800 languages?
Did you know that the Organic Law on the Integrity of Political Parties and Candidates was intended to stop "yo-yo politics"?
Did you know that the Papua New Guinean government almost ran out of foreign exchange reserves during a financial crisis in 1994?
Did you know that the cavefish Oxyeleotris caeca is found in surface waters during the wet season?
Did you know that Ahmad Shah Durrani faced an army five times larger than his own at the Battle of Manupur?
Did you know that Dan Pashman spent three years working on a new pasta shape that he named cascatelli, after the Italian word for 'waterfall'?
Did you know that Jeffrey Epstein's contact list has been published three times, but the existence of a separate client list is a matter of controversy?
Did you know that Kim Jong Un was amused by a lube factory?
Did you know that Red Sea tuna and seashells found at the roadside station of Khirbet es-Samra suggest that long-distance trade reached deep into Roman Arabia?
Did you know that a former handball player was the tallest player in the Canadian Football League?
Did you know that the Dark Millennium, which suddenly followed the Neolithic in the United Arab Emirates around 4000 BC, has furnished virtually no evidence of human activity?
Did you know that the Top Chef Masters judge Jay Rayner has attributed writing his viral review of Le Cinq to being "eye-gougingly, bone-crunchingly, teeth-grindingly angry"?
Did you know that the rise of CONUS Communications spurred the Big Three American TV networks to subsidize the purchase of satellite trucks for local newsgathering?
Did you know that Caspar Schmalkalden's 17th-century travelogue describes noises made by animals like the three-toed sloth and the hedgehog fish?
Did you know that Tobias Rahim sold a nude photo of himself to challenge his fears?
Did you know that a museum in Malaysia has more than 80,000 products from McDonald's?
Did you know that an 1890 short story by the author of Dracula was unknown to scholars until its rediscovery in the 21st century?
Did you know that in Ngāti Whātua culture, Neocicindela tuberculata (example pictured) could be the manifestation of the demigoddess Kui?
Did you know that the French Olympic champion Boughera El Ouafi received more coverage from the American press over a few months than from the French press over his entire life?
Did you know that the Japanese colonisation of Hokkaido was facilitated by the expertise of American advisors?
Did you know that the freighter James Gayley is one of the largest undiscovered shipwrecks on the Great Lakes?
Did you know that the old defensive walls at New College, Oxford, are examined by the lord mayor every three years in a tradition dating back to 1379?
Did you know that Felix Mendelssohn revised his Rondo capriccioso after a 17-year-old pianist "commanded" him to do so "under pain of one disgrace or another"?
Did you know that Indian activist V. V. Dravid moved to Indore to build a textile workers' union, spent one and a half years in jail there, and later represented the city at the state's legislative assembly?
Did you know that Mary Karadja founded an organisation to deport European Jews to Madagascar, despite previously advocating against antisemitism?
Did you know that Zhang Juzheng was criticised for not adequately mourning the death of his father, after which he eliminated around fifty opponents through self-evaluation tests?
Did you know that the Red Nun of the Mayab worked as a courier and spy for an insurrectionist faction in Valladolid, Yucatán?
Did you know that the Tochigi–Gunma–Saitama border is a rare example of a prefectural tripoint in Japan located on flat land?
Did you know that the geographer Suzanne Daveau, who turned 100 on 13 July 2025, has received honours from three countries?
Did you know that the next Commonwealth Games mascot is a unicorn designed by 76 children?
Did you know that the writer Laurence Sterne became famous for a bawdy comic novel, and immediately sold a book of sermons?
Did you know that Chinese warlord Deng Benyin came out of hiding to lead guerrilla campaigns during the Second Sino-Japanese War?
Did you know that Gabriel Green ran for U.S. president on the platform of universal health care, free college education, and releasing secret government information on extraterrestrials?
Did you know that German social media personality Maya Leinenbach became vegan after completing a school project on the influence of nutrition and consumption on the environment?
Did you know that Hitomi Tohyama, who was raised primarily in an English-speaking environment, did not learn Japanese until she began performing professionally in Japan?
Did you know that Indonesia's ambassador to Hungary and representative to ASEAN are married?
Did you know that Jay-Z and Kanye West once played "Niggas in Paris" twelve times in a single concert?
Did you know that Mary Jo Copeland received the Presidential Citizens Medal from Barack Obama for founding Sharing and Caring Hands?
Did you know that Reedsburg Municipal Airport had a water runway during the 1960s for use by the builder of Lake Redstone?
Did you know that Savannah blockaded Savannah?
Did you know that Spanish footballer Emilia Ibáñez scored 40 league goals in the 1985–86 season, yet was not the top goalscorer in the league?
Did you know that Xu Jie avoided the purges of the Great Rites Controversy because he was at home mourning his father?
Did you know that a Delaware TV station that had once hoped to present the "best of television" was forced to switch to home shopping after less than five months on the air?
Did you know that a church of the Order of St. Augustine in the United States was burned to the ground during the Philadelphia nativist riots of 1844?
Did you know that pillow lava can be found along the upper reaches of the Duckabush River, even though those structures can only form underwater?
Did you know that the Gym Rat in Gaza posts videos of bodybuilding among the rubble of the Israel–Hamas war?
Did you know that the Sanok Construction Company operated its own medical clinic and had sports teams for shooting and volleyball?
Did you know that the app Tea has been praised as an aid for women's safety but was sued for jeopardising its users' safety?
Did you know that the flatbread luchi was historically made with bananas instead of water?
Did you know that Farrell's Bar & Grill in Brooklyn continued serving beer in its large containers after a city ban forced it to swap from styrofoam to paper and plastic?
Did you know that Małgorzata Rosiak, after receiving a snowboard as a Christmas present, went on to win 14 national championships and medals at the European and World Championships?
Did you know that Mimoun Ben Ali, a left-handed Spanish boxer of Moroccan descent, was a three-time European champion?
Did you know that Rinalds Grants, Archbishop of Riga, began his career as a criminal investigator?
Did you know that Samuel Toloza fought off Iraqi militants with only a knife after his convoy was attacked and ran out of ammunition?
Did you know that The Battle of Calverhine, Henry Darger's largest collage, is ten feet (3 m) wide and almost impossible to make out with the naked eye?
Did you know that one airbreathing catfish species cooperates in pack hunting with another species of catfish?
Did you know that the Book of Accusations excoriates halakhic interpretation, Kabbalah, magic, superstition, the commentary of Rashi, and the Ashkenazi rabbinical tradition of pilpul?
Did you know that the Gesshizu, a group of video game characters, got their name from gesshirui, the Japanese word for 'rodent'?
Did you know that the Mainz Rose Monday parade includes more than 9,000 participants from Germany and abroad?
Did you know that the Oroku-baka Tomb contains an urn from 1494 with the oldest known inscription in Japanese characters from the Ryukyu Kingdom?
Did you know that the dome of the Regent Theatre in Christchurch contained an apartment?
Did you know that the statue of Michael Arthur Bass in England stands in front of the town hall he paid for?
Did you know that the subjects of Robert M. Edsel's book The Monuments Men returned more than five million objects stolen by the Nazis during World War II?
Did you know that the wreck of HMS Cambrian marks the extent of jurisdiction of the Portsmouth competent harbour authority?
Did you know that when the architect of Chicago's IBM Building was driven to the construction site, he reportedly asked, "Where's the site"?
Did you know that writer Gustave Louis Maurice Strauss sued The Athenæum twice over negative reviews?
Did you know that "Ya Laylat al-Eid", originally a number in Dananeer, a 1940 musical about a singing slave girl, was removed from the film and had its lyrics changed to better associate it with Eid?
Did you know that America Windows by Marc Chagall is a stained-glass window designed for viewing in a museum?
Did you know that Gunbuster is considered a forerunner to the anime Neon Genesis Evangelion?
Did you know that Jorge Meléndez was appointed as the National Democratic Party's candidate for president of El Salvador in 1919, after both frontrunners suddenly dropped out days before the election?
Did you know that O'Bajan sired 312 foals over 25 years?
Did you know that Sweet Martha's Cookies bakes around three million cookies on the busiest days of the Minnesota State Fair?
Did you know that Taylor Swift announced her new album on a sports podcast?
Did you know that Vinanda Prameswati, at the age of 26, became Indonesia's youngest sitting regional leader in 2025?
Did you know that a musk duck named Ripper could apparently say "you bloody fool"?
Did you know that a speech written by Wisaksono Wirjodihardjo for Indonesian president Sukarno presciently warned against converting prime rice fields into golf courses?
Did you know that being outranked by Bishop Thomas Agni of Lentini so infuriated the future Pope Urban IV that he left Palestine and went to Rome?
Did you know that one assessment concluded the Bohu laser facility is the primary site for China's directed-energy weapon research and development?
Did you know that opera singer Olga Olgina used the same stage name as her mother?
Did you know that the French Army initially named the Saint-Cyr class of 2016–2019 after Georges Loustaunau-Lacau, but backed down after a public outcry?
Did you know that the Téléscaphe was an underwater cable car system that allowed tourists to visit the seabed?
Did you know that the first field test of one potential truth serum by the U.S. government was on an unwitting mafia enforcer?
Did you know that the screenplay for the 2002 film Pure was inspired following script writer Alison Hume's interviews with recovering heroin addicts?
Did you know that Boyan the Mage, the son of a Bulgarian emperor, was claimed to shapeshift into wolf form?
Did you know that Dream Park was designed by Forrec, the same company that designed Universal Studios Florida?
Did you know that Ex parte Rodriguez would have invalidated an 1873 election based on the placement of a semicolon in the Texas Constitution?
Did you know that France bought Boating Party for €43 million after declaring it a national treasure?
Did you know that Giant Digger opened in an area of Lotte World Adventure Busan designed as a mining town inhabited by ogres?
Did you know that Japanese YouTuber Pocky named his channel after his dog?
Did you know that Lloyd A. Williams was Malcolm X's godson?
Did you know that Rama Alexander Asia attempted to make community forestry permits last up to 100 years, although legally they could only last for 25?
Did you know that a member of Active Bird Community made a solo EP with money intended for the band's fifth album?
Did you know that according to one account, Patriarch Nicholas's valuables were found on a Venetian ship after he allegedly slipped to his death during boarding, leading some to suspect foul play?
Did you know that four statues at the tomb of Yue Fei (two pictured) in Hangzhou, China, were ritually defecated on for centuries?
Did you know that on the same day as the Pikysyry campaign's final battle, Paraguayan president Francisco Solano López had his brother shot?
Did you know that the European Union cannot certify the quality of cocoa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo because of armed conflict in the country?
Did you know that the Magong First Fishing Port opened in 1940, was severely damaged by US raids in 1945, and was only largely reactivated around 1955?
Did you know that the poem "Ozymandias" and the birthplace of Pythagoras inspired an Australian sculpture?
Did you know that two-time World Games gold medalist Silvia Contreras wanted to be a cheerleader in high school before she discovered flag football?
Did you know that Émilienne Morin participated in the legal defence campaign of her future partner before they had even met?
Did you know that Gulhifalhu, previously uninhabitable, is now described by the Maldives Independent as "engineered for urban disaster"?
Did you know that Kembangan station is decorated with a mural of a church and a mosque?
Did you know that Naughty Dog's first published game was initially planned to be distributed locally in Ziploc bags?
Did you know that Ragıp Vural Tandoğan began his long-distance open-water swimming career in his fifties?
Did you know that Romanian actor Matei Millo continued an 1877 performance of a politically charged comedy even after the offended authorities had extinguished his theater's candelabra?
Did you know that a 1526 pirate raid might have inspired a Maltese ballad about a bride being abducted from her wedding?
Did you know that all candidates in the 1982 Salvadoran presidential election were pre-selected by the military?
Did you know that an alleged deal between labour boss Ramsingh Verma and mill owner R. C. Jall provoked a bitter dispute between Verma and union leader G. R. Tiwari, leading to Verma's ousting?
Did you know that an oil rig trailer and winch were used to help build a Texas TV station?
Did you know that director Abel Ferrara "delayed" the 64th Locarno Film Festival by singing rock and roll songs?
Did you know that in 1752, Matei Ghica took the throne of Wallachia with support from his father-in-law, allegedly ignoring his late father's last will?
Did you know that in the 1984 Summer Olympics, boxer Zaw Latt nearly knocked out his opponent in the first round, but did not win a single judge's vote?
Did you know that reviewers described Prudence and Emily as "unsophisticated ducklings", whereas Bella showed "badass bitchery"?
Did you know that several 19th-century presidential elections in El Salvador had candidates that ran virtually unopposed?
Did you know that the Brazilian Navy Nuclear Program attempted to hide their research, but their facilities became public knowledge even before they opened?
Did you know that the Yonezawa Shokai Building is the only building left in the former city center of Rikuzentakata after it was destroyed by a tsunami?
Did you know that the village office on the islet of Koja Doi was destroyed by a tsunami in 1992, after which it was rebuilt across a causeway on the larger Besar Island?
Did you know that two sons of Ismail Thomas contested the 2024 regency election to succeed Fransiskus Xaverius Yapan in West Kutai, Indonesia, and the younger brother, Frederick Edwin, won?
Did you know that 99% of the collection of the National Museum of Ecuador is not on public display (example of the 1% pictured)?
Did you know that Christapor Mikaelian was killed by his own explosives, which were intended for the attempted assassination of Sultan Abdul Hamid II?
Did you know that Marcello Magni voiced more than a dozen characters in the claymation series Pingu?
Did you know that Samsul Ashar pawned personal valuables to support his city's football club?
Did you know that Seven McGee was given his name because he was the youngest of seven children in his family?
Did you know that Yvonne Engelman survived the Holocaust because the gas chamber she was in malfunctioned?
Did you know that a former North Korean spy has been unable to return to North Korea since 1953?
Did you know that abortions in Mozambique had government approval for three decades before abortion was actually legalized?
Did you know that burial vaults at Spring Street Presbyterian Church were forgotten under a parking lot until 2006?
Did you know that one anthropologist has described scenes in the 1893 Wild Australia Show as examples of "settler denialism" and "colonial fantasy"?
Did you know that one proposal for the future of London's Wood Street police station would have seen its cells converted into whisky-tasting rooms?
Did you know that the Beninese government has threatened to ban newspapers which report on the ongoing jihadist insurgency?
Did you know that the Yemeni general Nasser Mansour Hadi, brother of a president, was taken prisoner by the Houthis and later freed?
Did you know that the cedar tree on the Lebanese flag is mentioned 103 times in the Bible?