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Did you know that the street from which Mississippi radio station WMPR broadcasts was renamed in honor of the station's longtime owner and general manager, former politician Charles Evers?
Did you know that two versions of Embrace Again were released, one in Standard Mandarin and another in the Wuhan dialect?
Did you know that 2020 European pommel horse champion Matvei Petrov won Albania's first medal at the European Men's Artistic Gymnastics Championships?
Did you know that Black Garnet Books was founded in response to the murder of George Floyd?
Did you know that Jonathan Reynolds deep-fried a real turkey during his performance of Dinner With Demons at the Second Stage Theater, New York?
Did you know that Kanye West's "24" was recorded in tribute to Kobe Bryant a few days after his death?
Did you know that Progress, composed by Winsford Devine and recorded by calypsonian King Austin in 1979, was declared "the song of the last millennium" by the Trinbago Unified Calypsonians' Organisation?
Did you know that Rita Humphries-Lewin, a former chair of the Jamaica Stock Exchange, entered the industry as a secretary?
Did you know that a condor is a stretched butterfly?
Did you know that according to the Chronicon Wormatiense, Emperor Frederick II would have conquered the entire Holy Land if the pope had not invaded his kingdom while he was away on crusade?
Did you know that dyeing the threads for a weaving by Mary Zicafoose may involve wrapping, tying, and untying as many as 80,000 ikat ties?
Did you know that for its ReadRight software, OCR Systems recommended users block out graphics on the page with a Post-it Note?
Did you know that in garden history, a wilderness is a highly artificial and formalized type of woodland, forming a section of a large garden?
Did you know that the season-one finale of Riverdale, "Chapter Thirteen: The Sweet Hereafter", almost included Sabrina Spellman from Chilling Adventures of Sabrina?
Did you know that the subdistrict of Komet in Banjarbaru was named after Komet Windpump?
Did you know that the text of "In dir ist Freude" ("In Thee is Gladness") was written in the 16th century to a 1591 dance song melody by Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi, and first published in a collection of Christmas carols?
Did you know that George Balanchine choreographed the ballet Ivesiana to music by Charles Ives, despite previously finding his works too complex for dance?
Did you know that Hurley Goodall was appointed back onto the school board in Muncie, Indiana, following the death of his successor in a plane crash?
Did you know that Nebraska's "Itch" Oehlrich was lured by the "scratch" of $100 per game to play in the National Football League?
Did you know that The Romans was the first Doctor Who serial with a humorous tone?
Did you know that after it broadcast for the last time, KHAT became Rock Steady and was part of a Triathlon?
Did you know that after training for the Soyuz T-11 mission, Indian Air Force pilot Ravish Malhotra stayed on the ground as a backup astronaut for Rakesh Sharma, who became the first Indian in space?
Did you know that although the sculptor of Las Tarascas (work pictured) based their faces on that of a real woman, their bodies were invented?
Did you know that in 1976, Karen Ferguson founded the Pension Rights Center, a nonprofit pensioner advocacy organization, with encouragement and monetary support from Ralph Nader?
Did you know that in October 1981, American doctor and mountaineer Peter Hackett became the third known person to complete a solo ascent of Mount Everest?
Did you know that the township of Hồ Xá in Vietnam was once known as the "B-52 bomb pocket"?
Did you know that when Lou Almada brought his younger brother with him to spring training, the team gave his brother his job?
Did you know that Paraguayan diplomat Elisa Ruiz Díaz helped develop her country's constitution?
Did you know that a jury ruled that the killing of a policeman during the Coldbath Fields riot was justifiable homicide?
Did you know that factorials are more likely to begin with small digits?
Did you know that news editor Amasa Converse officiated the marriage of Edgar Allan Poe and Poe's teenage cousin Virginia Clemm?
Did you know that the "wickedest man in the world" and the creator of Winnie-the-Pooh both lived in London's Wellington Square?
Did you know that the 1938 film Road Demon contains footage of well-known accidents that occurred at Indianapolis Motor Speedway?
Did you know that the Berggarten, a historic botanical garden since 1750 in Herrenhausen, features a mausoleum, where members of the royal family were interred?
Did you know that the Springburn Winter Gardens, the largest single-span glasshouse in Scotland, has been derelict since 1983?
Did you know that the magic minute exposed a "secret" about baby carrots and criticized Jimmy Carter's sweaters?
Did you know that the short story collection Drinking Coffee Elsewhere was chosen by John Updike as a selection for the Today Show book club on NBC?
Did you know that Crackhead Barney picked a dead rat up off the street before confronting the National Guard at the inauguration of Joe Biden?
Did you know that U.S. Virgin Islands suffragist Ella Gifft smuggled rum during Prohibition by hiding it in her underwear?
Did you know that Zdzisław Najmrodzki, a thief in 1970s–1980s Poland, escaped from law-enforcement authorities and prisons on 29 occasions?
Did you know that according to the book To Kill a Democracy, when democracies destroy their social foundations, they lay the foundations for despotism?
Did you know that archaeologist Bengt Nordqvist interprets a Migration Period belt buckle found at Finnestorp as a depiction of a mythological scene known from the Old Norse poem Völuspá?
Did you know that in her 2021 book White Evangelical Racism, professor of religion Anthea Butler called American evangelicalism a pro-Trump, "nationalistic political movement"?
Did you know that the 7,000-pound (3,200 kg) sculpture Freedom (detail pictured) offers visitors a photograph opportunity?
Did you know that the glass surface on the BNL BNP Paribas headquarters has alternating angles that follow the principle of the "two-faced Janus"?
Did you know that the steamship Clyde was wrecked in 1879 while carrying more than 500 replacements for the British 24th Regiment, which had suffered heavy losses at the Battle of Isandlwana?
Did you know that the wedding of Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands and Claus van Amsberg was marred by protests over Amsberg's German heritage and past membership in the Hitler Youth and the Wehrmacht?
Did you know that the windows of St. George's Episcopal Memorial Church in Bismarck, North Dakota, contain stained glass fragments collected from English churches damaged during World War II?
Did you know that "Candy" by H.O.T. sparked a new wave of mainstream music in the young generation of South Korea?
Did you know that Billy Raimondi declined opportunities to play in Major League Baseball?
Did you know that Green Bay Packers kicker Mason Crosby performed a Lambeau Leap after a game-winning field goal, even though it is usually only done as a touchdown celebration?
Did you know that The Outdoor Circle opposed a 2009 visit to Hawaii by the Wienermobile, believing its presence in the state was illegal?
Did you know that as well as having a film career spanning 60 years, Kumeko Urabe became the oldest debut singer in 1984 with her single Octopus Song?
Did you know that between 1878 and 1898, American inventor Maria E. Beasley patented a footwarmer, an improved life raft, several barrel-making machines and an anti-derailment device for trains?
Did you know that the Churah Valley kukri snake (example pictured) was discovered because of an Instagram post?
Did you know that the immigrant-background narration of I Am Zlatan Ibrahimović has been compared to that of Philip Roth's novel Portnoy's Complaint?
Did you know that American business executive William M. Ellinghaus helped rescue New York City from bankruptcy in the late 1970s?
Did you know that British philatelist Alma Lee specialised in the "standing Helvetia" stamps of Switzerland?
Did you know that Charles Thaddeus Russell's architectural designs helped to create the "Black Wall Street of America"?
Did you know that Lifetime Medical Television, "the network for physicians only", charged the highest advertising rates on cable?
Did you know that Nathan Agostinelli stomped on a Viet Cong flag during his campaign for Connecticut State Comptroller?
Did you know that Preet Chandi, the first known woman of colour to walk solo to the South Pole, contacted friends to be bridesmaids during her expedition?
Did you know that after Goo Hara's mother abandoned her and Goo died young, South Korean law was changed to prevent such parents from claiming inheritance?
Did you know that the Nashua and Lowell Railroad was the first railroad built in the state of New Hampshire?
Did you know that the astrologer Linn Nhyo Taryar was arrested after performing yadaya (magic rituals) against coup leader Min Aung Hlaing?
Did you know that the name of the KHOL podcast "Yonder Lies" comes from a common misconception about the words on a sign?
Did you know that you could be arrested for trying to arrange a contract killing through RentAHitman.com?
Did you know that Bobbie Gentry defined her composition "Ode to Billie Joe" as a "study in unconscious cruelty"?
Did you know that Dyson Institute Village's modular student-housing pods were inspired by Habitat 67?
Did you know that J.P. Morgan & Co. received a tax exemption for its former 60 Wall Street headquarters after the building's original developer had been denied the same exemption?
Did you know that Oswald Spengler and the artist can be seen in the painting Late Visitors to Pompeii?
Did you know that Ukrainian activists squatted Viktor Yanukovych's opulent clubhouse at the Mezhyhirya Residence?
Did you know that a Māori military settlement at Māngere Bridge, New Zealand, was established in the 1840s to protect Auckland?
Did you know that an Indonesian road expansion project demolished the home of a former public works minister?
Did you know that immediately after Colonel Drury-Lowe reassured his men that "[the bullets] are all passing over your heads", the officer next to him was shot and killed?
Did you know that some of the Japanese music unit Sangatsu no Phantasia's songs were also written in novel form by its lead vocalist?
Did you know that the more irreverent moments of The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction, such as a golf game with giant balls, were added to break up the story's intensity?
Did you know that the viral online word game Wordle (instance pictured) was originally created just for the developer and his partner to play?
Did you know that Fire and Sword, a film about Tristan and Isolde, reused the stuntmen and horses from another Arthurian film, Excalibur?
Did you know that Jessen's icosahedron has been used for both the "Skwish" children's toy and a NASA proposal for a "super ball bot" to cushion space landers on other planets?
Did you know that Leander Schnerr survived the Great Chicago Fire and subsequently became the archabbot of Saint Vincent Archabbey?
Did you know that Lewis Hamilton's physiotherapist, Angela Cullen, once cycled from Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, to northern Colombia?
Did you know that Ludwig Zottmayr, who created the role of King Marke in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, was not the composer's first choice?
Did you know that four years after Harry Frazee opened his Longacre Theatre, he sold his ownership stake in the theater to focus on baseball?
Did you know that quotations of Cicero, Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. about memory and love are engraved on the Memorial to Victims of Violence in Mexico?
Did you know that sports broadcaster Gene Principe had to choose between covering his hometown team at the 2006 NHL playoffs and his "pure dream" of covering the Italian team at the 2006 FIFA World Cup?
Did you know that the Yamashiro ikki has been characterized as the "people's parliament of the Warring States period"?
Did you know that there have been several attempts to make Colby cheese the official state cheese of Wisconsin?
Did you know that while Wired recommended that readers binge The West Wing, it also advised readers to skip the fourth season episode "The Long Goodbye"?
Did you know that David Flitcroft was appointed as director of football at Port Vale after initially applying to be the club's manager?
Did you know that Mary Healy, an international speaker on faith healing in the Catholic Church, only became interested in the subject during her 2014 sabbatical?
Did you know that Rudi Kappel, co-founder of the first airline of Suriname, was arrested both on entering and leaving Santiago de Cuba?
Did you know that The Alignment Problem, a book discussing existential risk from AI, was one of five "books that inspired Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella" in 2021?
Did you know that Thomas Davey was part of a florists' cult?
Did you know that Tyler Stockton was the second-youngest defensive coordinator in the FBS each of the two times he was nominated for the Broyles Award?
Did you know that according to legend, the Red Ghost trampled a woman to death, and killed and ate a grizzly bear?
Did you know that although the House Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight tried to end payola, it just became more sophisticated?
Did you know that beauty queen Veronica Volkersz was the first woman to pilot an operational jet fighter?
Did you know that depictions of a sexual relationship between Richard the Lionheart and his sister Lady Joanna were cut from the script of the Doctor Who serial The Crusade?
Did you know that in the 1960s, the Centers for Disease Control's Wellbee encouraged Americans to get vaccinated against polio and diphtheria?
Did you know that star singers from the Munich parish of St. Martin, Moosach, were received by Angela Merkel in 2012?
Did you know that Beate Ulbricht was subjected to harassment by the East German government because her adoptive parents, Walter and Lotte Ulbricht, did not approve of her marriage?
Did you know that Francis Martin, a Cistercian monk from the Bronx, became a leader in the Catholic charismatic renewal?
Did you know that Henry Stoehr was able to spend more time producing his band's debut studio album, Moveys, after losing his day job due to the COVID-19 pandemic?
Did you know that John William Kiser, who arrived in Chicago "practically penniless", took advantage of a boom in bicycle usage when he formed the Monarch Bicycle company?
Did you know that Pope Pius IX gave the monks of Saint Vincent Archabbey permission to brew Saint Vincent Beer?
Did you know that Vita Sackville-West described the garden rooms she created at Sissinghurst as "a series of escapes from the world, giving the impression of cumulative escape"?
Did you know that at the 2016 Summer Paralympics, German para-cyclist Hans-Peter Durst won a time trial despite having no saddle for most of the event?
Did you know that fashion model Vivienne Rohner, named after fashion designer Vivienne Westwood, opened one of Westwood's shows during her first season as a model?
Did you know that journalist Jack Berry was influential in lifting the ban on female reporters in the locker room at The Masters?
Did you know that one radio station owner's decision to bring a "country cousin" to Tallahassee, Florida, turned out to be a miscalculation?
Did you know that one-sixth of all liquor establishments in Bombay were attacked in the 1921 Prince of Wales riots?
Did you know that the artwork Comedian, a fresh banana taped to a wall with duct tape, sold for $120,000 in 2019?
Did you know that Albert Freedman was the first person indicted in the 1950s quiz show scandals?
Did you know that American musician Kenneth Kilgore, who was inducted into the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame, had a bridge posthumously named after him?
Did you know that Dan Lanning, who coached his final game at Georgia in the 2022 College Football Playoff National Championship, will face Georgia in his first game as the new head coach at Oregon?
Did you know that Garry Kasparov thought that a move by chess computer Deep Blue demonstrated its "superior intelligence", but the move was in fact caused by a software bug?
Did you know that Kate Foster is the British ambassador to Somalia, but there are no consular services at the embassy in Mogadishu?
Did you know that Peruvian Viagra grows on the roots of plants?
Did you know that Smithsonian archivists are rediscovering the works of photography pioneer Louisa Bernie Gallaher after they were misattributed to her boss?
Did you know that a 40-foot-tall (12 m) mural outside Broadway's St. James Theatre was painted over due to a broken foot?
Did you know that a billion dollars' worth of coal power in Turkey could be stranded?
Did you know that in 1887, after spending three nights on the summit of Mont Blanc, scientist Joseph Vallot and his party were greeted with flowers by the mayor and all the inhabitants of Chamonix?
Did you know that in 1951, 22 Greenlandic children were sent to foster families in Denmark to be re-educated as "little Danes"?
Did you know that the Amazon Venture oil spill, in which about 500,000 US gallons (1,900,000 litres) of oil spilled into the Savannah River, was caused by three valves that simultaneously malfunctioned?
Did you know that David Bowie's 1999 album Hours was the first by a major artist available for download from the Internet?
Did you know that Historia narodu polskiego, the first modern history of Poland, was never finished but was highly influential on emerging Polish historiography?
Did you know that Jupiter is sometimes called a "cosmic vacuum cleaner" because of frequent impacts from asteroids and comets (example pictured)?
Did you know that Lieutenant-Colonel Johannes Wilhelm Colenbrander and two others died on camera during the filming of the 1918 war film Symbol of Sacrifice?
Did you know that Michael Koomen was shot and killed while trying to calm the situation?
Did you know that a pornographic video service once offered NFL quarterback Gardner Minshew a one-million-dollar endorsement deal based on his habit of exercising in nothing but a jockstrap?
Did you know that businessman and activist Matthew Glover's charity challenged Pope Francis to become a vegan for Lent?
Did you know that in 2014, Trinidadian sprinter Deon Lendore won the highest award in National Collegiate Athletic Association track and field while at Texas A&M University?
Did you know that part of the funding for the Columbus Monument in Syracuse, New York, was provided by Italian dictator Benito Mussolini?
Did you know that the double florin (example pictured), a British coin, was criticised both for being too close in size to the crown and because the crown on it was too small?
Did you know that Da'ud, the heir apparent of the last Fatimid caliph, spent almost his entire life imprisoned by the succeeding Ayyubid dynasty?
Did you know that Elena Guseva's training as a choral conductor helped her analyse the score when playing Polina in Prokofiev's The Gambler at the Vienna State Opera?
Did you know that Encanto's Mirabel is the first Disney heroine to wear glasses?
Did you know that Kanye West originally wrote the chorus of "Gold Digger" from a female point of view?
Did you know that Siegfried Goldschmidt translated Kalidasa's epic poem Sêtubandhu from Prakrit into German?
Did you know that Umar Zahir built both an island of trash and an island of hope?
Did you know that Zimbabwean colonel Flint Magama, who was responsible for the killing of opposition politician Njini Ntuta, later received the country's highest award for military bravery?
Did you know that at various secondary schools and universities, students eat entire heads of lettuce as quickly as possible?
Did you know that the BP Building features Europe's first example of "suspended construction"?
Did you know that the headless body of Thomas Aquinas was boiled, possibly in wine, after his canonization?
Did you know that the video game Pyongyang Racer was developed in North Korea for Koryo Tours, which organises tours to the country?
Did you know that Grant Sutherland is the geneticist who identified fragile X syndrome,  the most common inherited genetic form of intellectual impairment?
Did you know that Madame "Toto" Bannard Cogley not only co-founded Dublin's Gate Theatre, but also supplied most of the initial membership?
Did you know that Ozzie was the first gorilla to take his own blood pressure voluntarily?
Did you know that Randell Cottage, home to a residency for French and New Zealand writers, is a listed heritage building?
Did you know that after performing as Davy Jones, David Bowie's "Can't Help Thinking About Me" was his first single released under the name "David Bowie"?
Did you know that by 1950, Abraham Wolf had amassed the largest collection of books by and about Spinoza?
Did you know that characters from several different science fiction media appear as an Easter egg in the episode "Babylon's Ashes"?
Did you know that future U.S. Supreme Court justice Wiley Rutledge married his college Greek instructor—in a tuberculosis sanatorium?
Did you know that guitarists playing a duet together have been shown to be in neural synchrony?
Did you know that in 1354, the Duke of Lancaster compared his heart to the sea, a fox's hole, and a market-place?
Did you know that when a reporter asked for updates on Jayson Werth's wrist injury, his manager at the time responded "Who?"
Did you know that Qadi al-Fadil began his career under the Fatimids, became Saladin's chief minister, and was renowned for the elegance of his epistolary writing?
Did you know that after viewing the Coates round house, the prospective occupant's fiancée refused to marry him unless the canal company made the property more habitable?
Did you know that despite experiencing midnight sun and polar night, Svalbard observes daylight saving time?
Did you know that in 2016, Luke Kunin became the first sophomore captain of the Wisconsin Badgers men's ice hockey team since 1975?
Did you know that the 1810s reign of Ioan Caragea introduced Wallachia to carom billiards, sugar sculptures, and an eponymous plague?
Did you know that the Little Theatre, once deemed a "gem among playhouses", was later planned to be replaced by a driveway for The New York Times?
Did you know that the Sonoran blue butterfly uses Dudleya cymosa subsp. pumila as a larval foodplant and hummingbirds feed on its nectar?
Did you know that while waiting for an interview, journalist Rod Beaton was involved in a shoving incident with baseball player Barry Bonds?
Did you know that Interstate 229 once ended at a gravel road?
Did you know that in 1995, Hurricane Flossie damaged many tapes of Jerry Lewis telethons belonging to the Muscular Dystrophy Association?
Did you know that the proposed Palestinian enclaves in the West Bank (map pictured) constitute an "archipelago" of 165 territories?
Did you know that Broadway's Lyric Theatre, once deemed a "cursed" theater, now hosts The Cursed Child?
Did you know that Microsoft has banned all third-party tech-support advertisements on Bing due to a rise in technical support scams?
Did you know that Mothica credits TikTok for the success of her career as a musician?
Did you know that all Golden Retrievers (example pictured) descend from a golden-coloured Flat-coated Retriever named Nous and a Tweed Water Spaniel named Belle?
Did you know that baseball umpire Cece Carlucci made the umpiring equipment used in The Natural?
Did you know that the League for Human Rights, established in Germany in the early 1920s, was the first mass organization for homosexuals?
Did you know that two major petrochemical explosions in the Greater Houston area, the 1990 ARCO explosion and the Phillips disaster, occurred within one year of each other?
Did you know that Glenwood Memorial Gardens in Broomall, Pennsylvania, was initially established in 1849 as Glenwood Cemetery in North Philadelphia and contained the graves of 702 Union soldiers?
Did you know that Mount Yasumandake was considered sacred to Buddhists, Shintoists, and Christians?