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Did you know that HMT Night Hawk was sunk on Christmas Day 1914 while trawling for mines off Scarborough, England?
Did you know that Holiday Seasoning was promoted with the release of holiday seasonings?
Did you know that Pflaumentoffel, edible figures made from prunes, were sold by children in German Christmas markets in the 19th century?
Did you know that heavy spring rains caused a poor harvest of the Dickinson pumpkin, leading to a canned pumpkin shortage for Christmas in 2015?
Did you know that the Adoration of the Magi in the Snow, recently re-dated, is now known to be the earliest of Bruegel's snow paintings?
Did you know that the National Gingerbread House Competition, despite its name, has featured gingerbread merry-go-rounds, sea monsters, and even the Statue of Liberty?
Did you know that the Philly Specials, formed by three football players from the Philadelphia Eagles, have recorded Christmas music with Stevie Nicks and Boyz II Men?
Did you know that American president Zachary Taylor is mentioned in a poem about the conversion of Saint Paul?
Did you know that Ian Holm, who died in 2020, was "resurrected" to appear in Alien: Romulus through a combination of animatronics, computer-generated imagery, and artificial intelligence?
Did you know that Musa al-Gharbi argues that "symbolic capitalists" support social justice movements to amass social currency?
Did you know that a viral video by an Indian influencer resulted in the sugar content of Bournvita being cut by almost 15 percent?
Did you know that on 26 December 1724 J. S. Bach directed the first performance of Christum wir sollen loben schon, BWV 121, based on a hymn written by Martin Luther in 1524?
Did you know that the largest IMAX cinema in the Southern Hemisphere is in Melbourne?
Did you know that George Bogaars, as head of Singapore's Secret Branch, oversaw the detention of more than a hundred suspected communist sympathisers?
Did you know that a critic described GNX, after its surprise release, as Kendrick Lamar's "greatest work" yet?
Did you know that a lost chronicle of the kings of Kashmir is attributed to the author Ratnākara?
Did you know that a popular myth held that the French soldiers interred in Bayonet Trench were buried alive with their rifles in their hands?
Did you know that anarchism without adjectives has been described as an ecumenical or non-denominational form of anarchism?
Did you know that former adult actress Suzumi Suzuki's book Gifted was nominated for the Akutagawa Prize in 2022?
Did you know that the Green Bay Packers won a snowy NFL playoff game by scoring six straight touchdowns after they had been losing 14–0?
Did you know that Kwan Man-ching, who directed more than fifty films in forty years, entered the industry hoping to meet his celebrity crush?
Did you know that Shalom Nagar, executioner of war criminal and Nazi Party official Adolf Eichmann, said he was selected at random for the role?
Did you know that between February and August 1918 the Petergofsky District mobilized more than 20 combat units for the Red Army?
Did you know that in 1967 two mathematicians published PhD dissertations independently disproving the same thirteen-year-old conjecture?
Did you know that the style of Hermann Weyl's Gruppentheorie und Quantenmechanik has been likened to "a smiling figure on horseback, cutting a clean way through ... with a swift bright sword"?
Did you know that Good Gravy!, a Thanksgiving dinner–themed roller coaster, was first tested with a train full of plush turkeys?
Did you know that a reviewer described Ceechynaa, who entered the UK singles chart earlier this month with "Peggy", as "proudly waving the sexual liberation flag"?
Did you know that in the 18th century the Mawali tribe was driven from the Syrian steppe to the regions of Hama and Idlib, where their descendants live today?
Did you know that nearly 300 construction workers showed up at 8 am to continue building Chernobyl Reactors 5 and 6, despite the Chernobyl disaster earlier that day?
Did you know that newspaper publisher Jacob Frolich built trapdoors and hiding places in his house in case it was raided by Radical Republicans?
Did you know that the sexual onomatopoeia puff-puff was censored in English releases of Dragon Quest until Dragon Quest XI?
Did you know that British war correspondent Ian Fyfe was killed on D-Day while landing in a glider with troops attacking the Merville Gun Battery?
Did you know that Emil Bove prosecuted Nicolás Maduro and defended Donald Trump?
Did you know that Jill, Duchess of Hamilton, donated her body to science because "funerals are a bore"?
Did you know that Michael O'Kane never received approval to begin constructing a building for the College of the Holy Cross?
Did you know that Phoebe Plummer was "unfortunate" to draw Christopher Hehir as judge when they stood trial over the Just Stop Oil Sunflowers protest?
Did you know that The Sausages' first sausage was filled with three courses and an espresso?
Did you know that during one of his Diddy parties, Sean Combs promised not to spill champagne on the Declaration of Independence?
Did you know that grand claims that the ruler of Mwene Muji once had imperial status were dismissed by Belgian colonial authorities?
Did you know that the 1976 Philippine film Itim was described as "one of the most remarkable debuts in cinema history" in a 2022 retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art?
Did you know that the grapefruit (examples pictured) was described as the "forbidden fruit" in 1750?
Did you know that the only death from the Belvidere Apollo Theatre collapse was the one audience member who bought a concert t-shirt from  Crypta that night, according to their lead singer?
Did you know that trembleuse cups and saucers (examples pictured) enabled people with unsteady hands to drink hot beverages?
Did you know that Chrystal read law before beginning a music career?
Did you know that Edward W. Gantt was a Confederate soldier who defected to the Union during the American Civil War?
Did you know that John Green was UCLA's leading scorer on the first of coach John Wooden's 12 Final Four teams?
Did you know that Qing-dynasty official Zeng Laishun attended the second inauguration of Ulysses S. Grant?
Did you know that Scottish bricklayer Brian Higgins was unable to find work for 25 years after appearing on a construction-industry blacklist?
Did you know that Shō Sen'i was overthrown in favor of his thirteen-year-old nephew?
Did you know that insurers paid out about NZ$171 million in damages caused by a 10-minute hailstorm in New Zealand?
Did you know that seamen from the warship USS Roy O. Hale boarded the Soviet ship M/V Novorossiysk in 1959, in response to a report from AT&T?
Did you know that the 1991 Andover tornado narrowly avoided hitting two warplanes equipped with nuclear warheads?
Did you know that the straight-tusked elephant was one of the largest land mammals ever?
Did you know that the titular songstress in Sing-Song Girl Red Peony, a contender for China's first sound film, was overdubbed by a man?
Did you know that while Schubert wrote a melody for the song "Bunt sind schon die Wälder" in 1816, Johann Friedrich Reichardt's 1799 version is the one that remains popular?
Did you know that An Amorous History of the Silver Screen, an exploration of more than four decades of film in China, argues that cinema is a "modern folk tale"?
Did you know that Flora Hommel, after being afraid of giving birth to her own child, went on to teach the Lamaze technique to more than 17,000 couples?
Did you know that Marie-Thérèse Eyquem served in the government of Vichy France, and was later appointed a national secretary of the French Socialist Party?
Did you know that a critic called Benjamin Britten's Tema "Sacher" a "truncated and barely coherent page [of music]" and "a pathetic fragment"?
Did you know that booing heard after the United Kingdom's entry at the Eurovision Song Contest 1984 was reportedly either a response to past football hooliganism, claims of lip syncing, or alleged plagiarism of the Supremes?
Did you know that following public backlash over the mistreatment of Paora, Zoo Miami stated: "We have offended the nation of New Zealand"?
Did you know that in the 1917 Moscow District Duma elections, the Bolshevik Party won 97 percent of the votes of the soldiers at the heavy artillery workshops?
Did you know that one of the major prey groups of the paddle crab, Ovalipes catharus, is other paddle crabs?
Did you know that the 2024 American Samoan gubernatorial election was won by Pula and Pulu?
Did you know that the basic tune for "As Long as You're Mine" from 2003's Wicked was written by Stephen Schwartz in the 1970s?
Did you know that the grave of Ethel Preston in Leeds, England, has a life-sized statue of her stood in front of black marble doors, left ajar?
Did you know that Canadian rapper Apt Exact, who has been described as "not gangster", was elected to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia in 2024?
Did you know that Saint Amalberga of Temse is the patron saint of upper-limb injuries, because of the legend that Charlemagne broke her arm while trying to force her to marry him?
Did you know that Sonya Friedman developed the idea of supertitles, which translate words being sung on stage in opera?
Did you know that a Mountain Landscape is difficult to capture with photography?
Did you know that according to George K. Teulon all of the presidents and vice-presidents of the Republic of Texas, and four-fifths of its government officials, were freemasons?
Did you know that critics argued that involving actresses in civilized drama would promote obscenity?
Did you know that fictional planets of the Solar System (diagram pictured) include planets between Venus and Earth, planets on the inside of a hollow Earth, and a planet "behind the Earth"?
Did you know that schools in Wales during the Second World War were held in village halls?
Did you know that the Canaanite ivory comb contains the earliest known sentence in a Canaanite language?
Did you know that Aquilegia gegica and Aquilegia colchica, two species of columbine native to the Caucasus, can produce fertile hybrid offspring?
Did you know that Frederick Warren Freer switched from studying medicine to art after becoming partially deaf?
Did you know that Mother Solomon returned to Ohio 22 years after the Indian Removal Act forced her people, the Wyandots, into Kansas?
Did you know that Taylor Swift released a demo containing lyrics that were trimmed from the final version of her song "My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys"?
Did you know that a Talmudic passage, "The Heart Knows Its Own Bitterness", has been used in Jewish medical ethics to justify patient autonomy?
Did you know that a Welsh man lost more than £500 million of bitcoin in a landfill?
Did you know that baritone Ettore Verna twice "sang himself out of his pants" during a performance at the Boston Opera House, according to Billboard?
Did you know that the members of an abortive conspiracy to restore the Fatimid Caliphate were said to have asked the Order of Assassins for assistance in eliminating Saladin?
Did you know that white chocolate has been used as a coating for vitamin products?
Did you know that An Amorous History of the Silver Screen has been read as a biographic metafilm, paralleling its lead's rise from prostitution into film stardom?
Did you know that Babak Ganjei tried to sell a painting of his credit card to Barclays?
Did you know that Frank Ocean's song "American Wedding" was pulled from streaming platforms because of its unauthorized use of "Hotel California"?
Did you know that Sarah Pickstone based her John Moores Prize–winning painting on an illustration that accompanied the poem "Not Waving but Drowning"?
Did you know that Thomas Fenner captained an English warship against the Spanish Armada?
Did you know that ants are the main pollinators of jam tarts (example pictured)?
Did you know that archaeologists read an ancient inscription by "unrolling" it virtually?
Did you know that energy on the grid can be stored in sand or salt?
Did you know that the Bronx General Post Office's roof once had a shooting range?
Did you know that the city of Saint Paul, Minnesota, was named after a log chapel?
Did you know that the first publication of the prolific author and Talmudic scholar Israel Ta-Shma was a Jewish songbook for the Israel Defense Forces?
Did you know that Monica Smit was ordered to pay Victoria Police's legal bill of about A$250,000, despite winning a lawsuit against them?
Did you know that Nicolaas van Wijk, after helping to provide humanitarian aid during World War I, called the Partitions of Poland "an offense against God"?
Did you know that a key part of Alexis Harding's abstract art is the chemical incompatibility of the different paints he uses?
Did you know that jorts (example pictured), despite being worn by frumpy dads, are also associated with 1960s counterculture, punks, rappers, skaters, and "Brat summer"?
Did you know that the Biblical Magi dispense mysterious vision-inducing foods in the Revelation of the Magi, which a scholar proposed to be an account of ritual hallucinogen intake?
Did you know that the first modern Chinese play was based on an American novel and staged in Tokyo?
Did you know that the futurist novel Man of Smoke, according to a scholar, contains a hidden legal code for readers to piece together?
Did you know that the music of Camila Cabello inspired Taylor Swift to work on the song "I Forgot That You Existed" with the producers Louis Bell and Frank Dukes?
Did you know that Aquilegia moorcroftiana is named after a mountaineer and is found at the highest elevation of any species of columbine?
Did you know that Bea Hines, the first African-American woman to become a reporter at the Miami Herald, was sent to report on a riot on her first day at work?
Did you know that Her Story was described as China's answer to Barbie?
Did you know that New York City's Valencia Theatre was sold to a church in 1977 for $1?
Did you know that Queen Melisende was so incensed by the rumours of her alleged infidelity that neither her husband nor his friends felt safe in her presence?
Did you know that Renildo José dos Santos, a Brazilian councilman, was murdered in 1993 after publicly coming out as bisexual?
Did you know that Yuki Waga created the "earworm" for "Shikairo Days" by walking around his house repeating "shikanoko nokonoko koshitantan"?
Did you know that Yvonne Francis-Gibson, before improving women's rights as a legislator in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, led a Women's Desk that was "unable to take a firm stand on behalf of women's issues"?
Did you know that during World War II, US Army casualty telegrams were sent out in the name of Major General James Alexander Ulio?
Did you know that the murder of skier Corinne Rey-Bellet led to a change in Swiss gun-control regulations?
Did you know that to raise funds for the Council of District Dumas, its chairman led an armed squad to storm the Moscow headquarters of the State Bank?
Did you know that Debra Toporowski served simultaneously on the Cowichan Tribes council, on the North Cowichan council, and as acting mayor, before being elected to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia?
Did you know that Johannes Kaiser was the leading opponent to Liechtenstein's accession to the International Monetary Fund?
Did you know that Kenshi Yonezu's song "Dune" describes his perception of a "desert-like atmosphere" on the video-sharing website Niconico?
Did you know that Mauritius's abortion law was "dormant for nearly two centuries"?
Did you know that NFL player Darrell Hogan watched Gunsmoke every day?
Did you know that debris was carried aloft to an altitude of 30,000 feet (9,100 m) after the 1957 Ruskin Heights tornado?
Did you know that hefker, unowned property in Talmudic law, came to express both personal freedom and societal abandonment in 20th-century Yiddish poetry?
Did you know that in 1902 the paramedic student Anna Weisman smuggled fonts to help set up an underground revolutionary publishing house in Saratov?
Did you know that one Tumblr user cursed another for stealing bones for use in curses?
Did you know that painter Doris Lusk chose the Onekaka Wharf (remnants pictured) as her main subject for five years?
Did you know that players play Pokémon Smile by brushing their teeth?
Did you know that the FBI's first successful use of silver nitrate to identify fingerprints was in solving the kidnapping of a brewery executive?
Did you know that the first women's dormitory built at Hampton University was partially paid for with money collected by the school's choir in tours led by Thomas P. Fenner?
Did you know that Aquilegia barykinae is likely more closely related to other species of columbine than to Aquilegia amurensis, which shares its range?
Did you know that Goro Takahashi, a silversmith adopted by a Lakota family, was the first Japanese person allowed to attend a Sun Dance?
Did you know that some journalists interpreted Taylor Swift's song "But Daddy I Love Him" as her criticism of her own fans?
Did you know that the Hanta Road on Okinawa was used by both Ryukyuan armies and the U.S. Navy's Perry Expedition?
Did you know that the Waterloo Column, which commemorates Germans who died at the Battle of Waterloo, incorporates the barrels of eight cannons that were captured there?
Did you know that the soundtrack of Two Stars in the Milky Way (scene pictured), one of the few surviving early Chinese films, has been lost?
Did you know that trucks in Tyler promoted Tyler's latest album?
Did you know that Richard Stratton's diplomatic career took him "from South America to Japan, and from Southern Africa to the foothills of the Himalayas"?
Did you know that a hypothesized land bridge may have allowed some fish species (example pictured) to migrate from South America to Cuba?
Did you know that a painting by the artist Bichitr shows an Indian emperor preferring a Sufi saint over the king of England and the Ottoman sultan?
Did you know that a study of people who reported experiences of alien abduction found that many exhibited characteristics consistent with fantasy-prone personality?
Did you know that in the narrative epic Pem Nem, the union of two lovers is a metaphor for the union of the soul with God?
Did you know that the Chapline columbine is generally considered a distinct species, except in Texas, where it is considered a variety of the golden columbine?
Did you know that the Filipino boy band SB19 considered disbandment after their debut single "Tilaluha" saw little success?
Did you know that the My Chemical Romance song "Cancer" was written in eight minutes?
Did you know that Saint Amata of Assisi was interviewed and testified during the process of the canonization of her aunt, Saint Clare of Assisi?
Did you know that a PhD student discovered a lost manuscript of Galen's Peri Alypias in 2005, in "one of the most spectacular finds ever of ancient literature"?
Did you know that after a 2008 tornado, Michael Chertoff likened Picher, Oklahoma, to a nuclear bomb site?
Did you know that as many as 35 million soldiers became prisoners of war in World War II, according to some estimates?
Did you know that in the wake of a hazing scandal, Western Kentucky University placed their swimming and diving programs on a five-year suspension?
Did you know that journalism students at New Mexico State University were willing to work for free to save their newscast on the school's TV station?
Did you know that playwright Clay M. Greene claimed he was "the first American white child born in San Francisco"?
Did you know that some years after unknowingly working for the Manhattan Project, Charles Fisk quit physics and became an organ builder?
Did you know that the Chinese Lingnan School faced condemnation during the Second Sino-Japanese War, even as it spread anti-Japanese messages?
Did you know that the Mseilha Fort is strategically located to overlook the crossing of the Jaouz River near Ras ash-Shaq'a, a promontory in Lebanon?
Did you know that the return ceremony of the skull of Adam Sapi Mkwawa's grandfather was "probably the biggest gathering ever to take place in Tanganyika"?
Did you know that the white ring on the flag of Okinawa Prefecture represents the "O" in "Okinawa"?
Did you know that Dethloff Willrodt fought for the Union army on the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg on July 1, 1863, having previously been a soldier in the Confederate army?
Did you know that both the comedy film Starbuck, and the Holstein bull it was named after, had cloned remakes?
Did you know that the unique flower shape of Lilium lophophorum is adapted to protect its reproductive organs from the harsh ultraviolet light and torrential rains of its habitat?
Did you know that with the Green Bay Packers' loss in the 2020 NFC Championship Game, Aaron Rodgers "became the first quarterback in NFL history to lose four straight NFC Championship Games"?
Did you know that Adrien Nunez, despite limited playing time, was more highly paid than a projected NBA draft lottery pick while in college?
Did you know that Daniel Hermann wrote poems on the inclusion of a lizard and a frog in a piece of amber, the eagle in the coat of arms of Poland, and a child suffering from Fraser syndrome?
Did you know that Lars Chemnitz was one of the first recipients of Nersornaat, the highest honor in Greenland?
Did you know that when Alexander McQueen, following years of criticism for over-reliance on runway spectacles, presented The Man Who Knew Too Much, it was criticised for its lack of theatrics?
Did you know that John A. Tibbits and his law firm partner served as consecutive U.S. consuls to Bradford, England?
Did you know that for television, James Mustapic set his mother up on a date with David Seymour, who will soon be the New Zealand deputy prime minister?
Did you know that it cost an estimated $1.2 million to move the Confederate Monument at the University of Mississippi?
Did you know that pianist BLKBOK has composed works based on the murder of George Floyd, the Little Rock Nine, and The Negro Motorist Green Book?
Did you know that artist Dan Hays uses what he calls "the tactile, flawed and time-consuming medium of painting" to reproduce the effect of a low-resolution JPEG?
Did you know that for some time the penguin Happy Feet got more media attention than New Zealand Prime Minister John Key?
Did you know that in "Skin of My Teeth", Demi Lovato declared that she barely escaped death?
Did you know that in 1860, engineer Andreas Kordellas helped restart operations at an ancient Athenian mine?
Did you know that of the 146 Conestoga wagons employed by the Braddock Expedition in the French and Indian War, only one remained intact by the campaign's end?
Did you know that British weightlifter Zoe Smith broke 98 national records in 2008?
Did you know that a Bangladeshi diplomatic mission in India was attacked by Hindu extremists protesting the arrest of a Hindu monk?
Did you know that in 1968, ADR's Autoflow flowchart software became the first program to receive a software patent in the United States?
Did you know that the Wilson Warbirds were nearly named the "Wilson Whirligigs" after the folk artist Vollis Simpson's whirligig sculptures in the town?
Did you know that Theresia Bauer was named science minister of the year four times?
Did you know that a species of Australian ant has special workers that make honey, and is considered a delicacy by Aboriginal Australians?
Did you know that a volunteer quipped of a Colorado TV station: "We broadcast to more ears of corn and heads of cattle than any other station"?
Did you know that an ancient Egyptian pet cemetery included a Rüppell's fox, a Barbary falcon, and over 500 cats?
Did you know that in the Orphic Hymns the mythical Greek hero Heracles is a sun god?
Did you know that the first draft pick in New England Patriots' history, Gerhard Schwedes, was born in Nazi Germany?
Did you know that the small flowers that give Aquilegia parviflora its name make it unpopular with gardeners?
Did you know that New Zealand once consumed more tea per capita than Britain?
Did you know that after discovering her child was transgender, Thamirys Nunes created an organization dedicated to defending transgender youth?
Did you know that an Australian crocodile named Burt starred in Crocodile Dundee?