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Did you know that after Ray Hall threw an apple at Jo Jo White, White became Hall's sports agent?
Did you know that for a rare performance in 2023 of the St Matthew Passion by the 18th-century composer Homilius, the conductor Clemens Bosselmann had to track down handwritten sheet music?
Did you know that the two primary vents of West Mata, a submarine volcano, are called "Hades" and "Prometheus"?
Did you know that during the inaugurations of Lithuanian monarchs, Gediminas' Cap (depicted) was placed on the monarch's head by the bishop of Vilnius?
Did you know that in 2009 Jeff Wrana helped to develop a biological model that might play a role in predicting whether a woman is more likely to recover from breast cancer?
Did you know that the first ambassador at the Philippine embassy in Manama would later be injured in the 2000 bombing of the Philippine embassy in Jakarta?
Did you know that today is the Day of Books and Roses, which originated in Barcelona in 1926 as the Day of the Book, described as a "festival of civility and intelligence"?
Did you know that Clara Stauffer was the only woman on the Allied Control Council's list of 104 wanted Nazis in Spain?
Did you know that Ethan Loch, a blind pianist, was inspired by Rowlf the Dog?
Did you know that buddleia grows from the exterior of the Church Street School swimming pool in Glasgow?
Did you know that former NBA basketball player Leroy Chollet benched his own coach?
Did you know that the Marble Hall in Osmaston, Derby, was built in 1912 as offices for the factory manufacturing the Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost?
Did you know that the battle of Zama commenced with a charge by 80 war elephants?
Did you know that "Fear", an episode of The 1619 Project, traces present-day vigilante violence against Black youths in the United States to the fear of slave rebellions?
Did you know that Abdillah was sworn in as the mayor of Medan, Indonesia, in an abrupt and secretive ceremony?
Did you know that Musa va 'Uj depicts figures from all three Abrahamic religions?
Did you know that as mayor, Muhammad Saleh Arifin permitted a temporary gambling area in Medan, Indonesia, saying that it would fund a new street?
Did you know that exercises in the fair division of food (example pictured) are often used to teach unit fractions?
Did you know that the Millennium Complex in Plymouth, England, has hosted a cinema, dance hall, roller disco and night club?
Did you know that the creators of the 1990 game Star Control designed a starship for an alien race of female humanoids, naming it the Penetrator for its resemblance to a ribbed condom?
Did you know that Arnold Schoenberg composed a film score to no film?
Did you know that British designer Alexander McQueen constructed a dress made of clear pallet wrap for his Spring/Summer 1995 collection The Birds?
Did you know that Hearst Castle inspired Xanadu, the lavish mansion in the 1941 film Citizen Kane?
Did you know that after being featured on a Lithuanian website, Maya and Yehuda Devir (both pictured) got so many followers that they thought Instagram had broken?
Did you know that in 2022 an Egyptian company was awarded the contract to build the first toll highway in Madagascar?
Did you know that ninja families in Sengoku Japan established self-governing confederacies in Iga and in Kōka, which formed an alliance?
Did you know that the Gouzenko Affair marked the beginning of the Cold War in Canada?
Did you know that the gender of the villains in Galaxy 4 was switched to female partly due to the women's liberation movement?
Did you know that the government of Ethiopia's SNNP Region supported local governments calling for a referendum to secede from the region?
Did you know that the soundtrack of The Last of Us features a song performed by Nick Offerman, who played a character in the series?
Did you know that Cambodia's first science-fiction film, Karmalink, combines Buddhist concepts of karma with themes of artificial intelligence?
Did you know that Carlisle miser Margery Jackson, who chose to live like a pauper, possessed a fine court mantua?
Did you know that Devin Futrell used a post to dodge a draft?
Did you know that Drag Isn't Dangerous is a charitable telethon set to be hosted by numerous drag queens to oppose the Tennessee drag-ban bill?
Did you know that Drake has the personal approval of U.S. president Barack Obama to portray him in a biopic if the opportunity came?
Did you know that although he only had ten minutes to learn to play offensive lineman, college football player Jake Witt was able to successfully block against "the best defensive line" in the U.S.?
Did you know that either dog feces, or hen and pigeon manure, were used by tanners to produce a soft leather?
Did you know that in the Forum of Augustus in Rome,  elogia were hung on statues of commanders and Augustus's ancestors?
Did you know that the Irish N53 road from Dundalk to Castleblayney has a 6-kilometre (3.7 mi) gap where it enters Northern Ireland?
Did you know that the Lewis and Clark Expedition documented the Ionia Volcano?
Did you know that the mainland portion of Lake of the Woods Provincial Park in northwestern Ontario, Canada, was deregulated as part of a First Nations land claim settlement?
Did you know that Émile Aubrun flew circles around a golden virgin?
Did you know that Fred Narganes is said to be the first Latino wrestler to win an amateur US national championship or to compete for an American university, and among the first Latino-American Olympians?
Did you know that Hot Gay Time Machine had two life-sized cut-outs of Beyoncé?
Did you know that Mira Bellwether's husband had already read her zine, Fucking Trans Women, years before he met her?
Did you know that Mira, a Hong Kong YouTuber, was asked by the Korea Tourism Organization to be a spokeswoman for Michelin-starred restaurants one year after she started her channel?
Did you know that Weltdeutsch was a proposal for a German-based language by Nobel-Prize laureate and pacifist Wilhelm Ostwald, created in an episode of chauvinistic fervour?
Did you know that according to Etruscan tradition Aulus Vibenna (depicted) helped Servius Tullius to oust the Roman king Lucius Tarquinius Priscus?
Did you know that as part of Bahrainization, the Bahraini government prohibited foreigners from driving taxis?
Did you know that delivering newspapers was how Garnett Wikoff became an Olympic runner?
Did you know that more than a decade after Edgar Wright assembled the cast of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, he helped to convince them all to reprise their roles in an anime adaptation of the source material?
Did you know that one can change from doing 'sad girl music' to dissing your favorite rapper?
Did you know that the Ladies Musical Club brought Sergei Rachmaninoff, Marian Anderson, and Pablo Casals to perform in Seattle?
Did you know that the star TRAPPIST-1 has seven planets, several of which may have temperatures that would allow the existence of liquid water (artist's impression depicted)?
Did you know that 47-year-old Turkish para-karateka Oya Ekici won the bronze medal at the 2022 European Championships?
Did you know that Americano Media wants to be "Fox News in Spanish"?
Did you know that Anne Cooke Reid founded the first Black summer theater in the United States?
Did you know that Arthur Arndt's family was the largest known group of Jews to successfully hide in Germany during the Holocaust?
Did you know that Auto-GPT, an autonomous artificial-intelligence software agent, was used to create ChaosGPT, which has not yet achieved its goal of destroying humanity?
Did you know that HMS Martin was part of the Grand Fleet of the Royal Navy in the First World War, but after the war was sold to be broken up?
Did you know that Ice Spice is Princess Diana?
Did you know that Salar de Pajonales in Chile has been used as an analogue for environments on Mars?
Did you know that United States Air Force colonel Virgil K. Meroney flew two combat missions with his son before his son was killed in action in March 1969, during the Vietnam War?
Did you know that although it was a centennial project, the Canterbury Pioneer Women's Memorial in New Zealand was opened 90 years after the region's organised settlement began?
Did you know that the 56-foot-tall (17 m) monument to the theologian Samuel Rutherford near his parish church in Anwoth was badly damaged by a lightning strike five years after its construction?
Did you know that the saying "give me the man and I will give you the case against him" is usually attributed to Soviet-era public figures such as Beria or Vyshinsky?
Did you know that to prepare for her role in the television film Search for Grace, actress Lisa Hartman Black underwent hypnosis?
Did you know that 1924 Gold Medal Olympian Henri Deglane co-founded a professional wrestling promotion in France which featured catch wrestling?
Did you know that after becoming one of the Mongolian Armed Forces' first female recruits, Bolor Ganbold is now its first female brigadier general?
Did you know that during the Battle of Nicopolis in 1798, Revolutionary French troops placed their artillery on top of an ancient burial mound?
Did you know that goalkeeper Sophie Whitehouse, who has lived in England, Africa and the US, has been chosen to play soccer for the Republic of Ireland?
Did you know that in the remake of Resident Evil 2, Mr. X walks at four times his normal speed when the player cannot see him?
Did you know that no contemporary source identifies the praefectus vigilum who commanded the night watch during the Great Fire of Rome under Nero?
Did you know that quantum materials researcher Tina Brower-Thomas's attempts at chemistry as a youth led to her concoctions eating holes into her coat?
Did you know that the Alexander McQueen collection Neptune drew negative reviews comparing the clothing to 1980s science fiction, Xena, and Wonder Woman?
Did you know that the construction of the Masurian Canal (lock structure pictured) was paused for the World Wars and hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic before being abandoned?
Did you know that three years prior to this month's massive plastics fire in Indiana, a court determined that the site was a fire hazard "unsafe to people and property"?
Did you know that while feathers are light, and light opposes darkness, feathers do not oppose darkness?
Did you know that American teenagers of the 1960s and 1970s used to chat and arrange dates over the sound of the busy signal?
Did you know that Indonesian politician Muhammad Rapsel Ali founded a motorcycle racing team?
Did you know that Radomir Lazović and other activists protested against the redevelopment of the Belgrade Waterfront by bringing a giant rubber duck to the House of the National Assembly?
Did you know that Vladimir Cavarnali, who edited a communist children's magazine (cover pictured), had previously been a member of the fascist Crusade of Romanianism?
Did you know that a wall tomb in Verona has a ten-figure Resurrection scene in marble by Nanni di Bartolo and paintings by Pisanello?
Did you know that at the trial of the Rumrich spy case, US Army deserter Guenther Rumrich stated he was instructed to determine how many US soldiers were based on the country's east coast?
Did you know that defenceman Roman Josi  is the Nashville Predators single-season points leader?
Did you know that in 2020, COVID-19–related articles across all Wikipedias received more than 579 million pageviews?
Did you know that to film the series Quarterback, the NFL allowed quarterbacks to wear microphones for every game of the 2022 season?
Did you know that N. Porsenna, who translated The Ballad of Reading Gaol into Romanian, spent seven years in communist prisons?
Did you know that Patrick O'Brian's Testimonies received reviews that variously described it from "clumsy in construction to the point of amateurishness" to "rare and beautiful"?
Did you know that a fantasy novel by Irish poet and author Sarah Maria Griffin was sent to around 200,000 ticket-holders of the music festival Tomorrowland?
Did you know that after he retired from professional baseball, Paul Hinrichs became a Lutheran minister?
Did you know that female pygmy swordtails prefer male Panuco swordtails, which court them, to males of their own species, which merely sneak up on them?
Did you know that linguist Aníbal Otero was imprisoned for espionage while working on fieldwork for the Linguistic Atlas of the Iberian Peninsula?
Did you know that the African Union has set up a space agency in a Space City?
Did you know that the Soviet submarine K-222 was the fastest submarine ever built?
Did you know that the contrabass trombone has experienced a revival in film music and video game soundtracks?
Did you know that Fletcher Loyer made a game-winning three-point shot in Columbus, Ohio, in January 2023 and missed a game-tying one in Columbus in March?
Did you know that Jones Island Water Reclamation Facility is listed on the National Register of Historic Places?
Did you know that New York City's Mansfield Hotel was developed by two neighbors from Vermont, one of whom later served as Vermont's governor?
Did you know that a "hacker" with blog posts written by ChatGPT was at the center of an online scavenger hunt promoting Avenged Sevenfold's album Life Is but a Dream...?
Did you know that after the 2023 New York City parking garage collapse, a robotic dog named Digidog was deployed by the New York City Fire Department?
Did you know that before joining the girl group XG, Japanese singer Amy Harvey won the most awards when she participated in a modeling contest?
Did you know that in 1935 Paramount wanted to reissue the film Island of Lost Souls (poster pictured) but was denied by the Hays Code, due to the film's excessive horror?
Did you know that nearly two years after getting into a serious car accident that sidelined him for a full season, football player Juice Scruggs returned to the field, and was named All-Big Ten one year later?
Did you know that the court in BP Refinery v Tracey upheld a decision to reinstate an employee fired by BP for posting a meme video from the 2004 film Downfall?
Did you know that Jay Versace went from poking fun at SZA's music to producing songs for her?
Did you know that Lixia traditions include weighing people, brewing seven-family tea, and making rice dogs (examples pictured)?
Did you know that Zenith Data Systems's $242 million contract with the United States Department of Defense in 1986 was the largest federal computer contract until then?
Did you know that although Alexander the Great founded two cities named Boukephala and Nikaia during his invasion of the Indian subcontinent, we do not know which was which?
Did you know that an ancient depiction of Medjed became an Internet meme on Japanese social media?
Did you know that an earlier title going viral on TikTok prompted Meghan Trainor to take it back to doo-wop, which made them look again?
Did you know that during the 2023 Fort Lauderdale floods, 25.91 inches (65.8 cm) of rain fell in Fort Lauderdale, equivalent to a third of the city's annual rainfall total?
Did you know that dying Unit 731 war criminal Shirō Ishii was baptized by Jesuit priest and playwright Hermann Heuvers?
Did you know that respected travelling bandleader Otto Schwarz and his Bavarian String Band were interned in Douglas, Isle of Man, during World War I?
Did you know that table tennis commentator Adam Bobrow's nickname "Snakeman" comes from a trick shot called "the snake"?
Did you know that the 1965 song "Wie als een God wil leven", written by Huub Oosterhuis, was listed in 2013 as a hymn in German successful with young people?
Did you know that vampire amoebae are naked?
Did you know that witch-hunts in India are still prevalent?
Did you know that 19th-century American evangelist Dwight L. Moody was converted to Christianity in the stock room of a shoe store by his Sunday School teacher Edward Kimball?
Did you know that Bachtiar Djafar was the first mayor of Medan, Indonesia, to be of Malay descent?
Did you know that Edward VI was only nine years old on the day of his coronation?
Did you know that John C. Carson built the first sidewalk in Portland, Oregon?
Did you know that Mari Shimizu is nicknamed the "mother of voice actors" in Japan?
Did you know that Percy Kelly hoarded his drawings and paintings until the end of his life, saying that his cottage would someday "upstage Beatrix Potter's home"?
Did you know that Victor Wembanyama has been described as the most anticipated NBA prospect since LeBron James in 2003?
Did you know that as a college football player, Frank LeMaster changed from being a fullback to the starting halfback, to reserve halfback, to tight end, to linebacker, back to halfback and then linebacker again?
Did you know that before today, 39 English and British monarchs have been crowned at Westminster Abbey since 1066?
Did you know that in early depictions of Uranus in fiction, the planet was portrayed as solid (example pictured)?
Did you know that the 1928 Book of Common Prayer was adopted by the Episcopal Church in the United States, but the Church of England's 1928 Book of Common Prayer was rejected by Parliament?
Did you know that the destroyed plinth of Gürdal Duyar's nude sculpture Güzel İstanbul contained reliefs of a fig, a pomegranate, a honeysuckle and a bee to represent different aspects of Istanbul?
Did you know that the documentary Lynch/Oz incorporates hundreds of film clips to illustrate the influence of The Wizard of Oz on the work of filmmaker David Lynch?
Did you know that the shores of Kesagami Lake in Kesagami Provincial Park (northern Ontario, Canada) are surrounded by "exceptional" peat cliffs reaching 4 metres (13 ft) in height?
Did you know that the title of Lemnis Gate refers to the lemniscate?
Did you know that Beibeilong was one of the largest oviraptorosaurs, with an estimated adult length of about 7.5 m (25 ft) and body mass of around 1.2 t (2,600 lb) or 2 t (4,400 lb)?
Did you know that Helene Lecher's presentation at the Women at the Hague conference, which Mary Heaton Vorse described as the "most moving speech of all the Congress", urged for peace?
Did you know that a British monarch arrives at their coronation wearing the Robe of State, is crowned (example depicted) while wearing the Supertunica, Stole Royal, Robe Royal and a single white glove, and leaves Westminster Abbey wearing the Imperial Robe?
Did you know that before winning The X Factor: The Band as part of RLY, Luena Martinez had released two singles as part of an anti-bullying campaign?
Did you know that during her coronation, Caroline of Ansbach's dress was reportedly so covered in jewels that she required a pulley to lift her skirt for her to kneel?
Did you know that one of the longest civil trials in Utah history, with 1,000 exhibits, concerned the purchase of a Salt Lake City TV station?
Did you know that the 1961 film Barabbas portrayed a solar eclipse by shooting during a real one?
Did you know that the 2018 Te Deum for choir by Peter Reulein uses the same instruments including a bandoneon as Palmeri's Misatango, and is inspired by tango, habanera and huapango?
Did you know that the Cross of Wales, leading the procession at the coronation of Charles III and Camilla, features two relics of the True Cross gifted to the King by Pope Francis?
Did you know that the Greyster is a type of sled dog favored especially for dryland racing like canicross and bikejoring?
Did you know that the tower of a defunct TV station turned into a Christmastime landmark in Winston-Salem, North Carolina?
Did you know that today the Bishop of Edinburgh plays a ceremonial role at the coronation of Charles III and Camilla as a representative of the Walker Trustees?
Did you know that Ali Mufiz was named advisor, without his consent, to a candidate's campaign in the 2013 gubernatorial election for Central Java?
Did you know that Marie Meyer's aerobatic stunts included standing on the upper wing of a biplane while it looped-the-loop?
Did you know that Martine Froger was elected to the National Assembly of France without the support of the national leadership of her party?
Did you know that Matty Healy is banned from Dubai?
Did you know that There I Ruined It aims to ruin as many songs as possible?
Did you know that across his thirty-six collections, fashion designer Alexander McQueen contemplated religion, told fairy tales, and criticized the fashion industry?
Did you know that an Iowa TV station's prior decision to disaffiliate from the Fox network meant that The Simpsons were originally unseen in the Quad Cities?
Did you know that before his 100th birthday, Herman Benson wrote his own obituary claiming that his "last, dying words" were a plea for generous donations to the Association for Union Democracy?
Did you know that the  Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission listed former Council of State vice chair Isaac Musa among dead supposed perpetrators of human rights abuses and war crimes?
Did you know that the 2021 NCAA Division I women's basketball championship game was the first to feature two teams from the Pac-12 Conference?
Did you know that the owners of the Doll's Hospital building were the penultimate victims of the Acid Bath Murderer?
Did you know that today, to mark the coronation of Charles III and Camilla, Abingdon Town Council throws thousands of currant buns from the roof of the County Hall (building pictured)?
Did you know that under Soekotjo Sastrodinoto, the municipal government of Surabaya signed up the city's homeless population for the transmigration program?
Did you know that Barbara Kennedy was the first player to lead NCAA Division I women's basketball in scoring?
Did you know that Bessarabian legislator Anton Novakov, who was absent when his colleagues voted on union with Romania, sued the Romanian state for land benefits they had received for voting in favor?
Did you know that Constantin Bivol, who championed land reform in Bessarabia, could only locate half of his ten dessiatins of ancestral farmland, noting that "God only knows where the rest of them are"?
Did you know that Edemariam Tsega published a book about his father while Aida Edemariam, Tsega's daughter, published a book about Tsega's mother in the same year?
Did you know that a TV station in Washington, D.C., held on-air monkey races as part of its children's programming?
Did you know that after seeing a broken car, A.B. Quintanilla proclaimed his desire to make the song "La Carcacha" about it?
Did you know that despite being marketed as Tages' international breakthrough, Studio was only issued in Sweden and Denmark upon original release?
Did you know that during his career in Surabaya, Radjamin Nasution worked as a customs official, an alderman, a doctor, a football club's president, and the city's mayor?
Did you know that if you went to an anime convention in the 2000s, you might have been hit by a yaoi paddle (example pictured)?
Did you know that the Australian government tried to censor a film of  Quail Island's starving koalas?
Did you know that the Monument to the Martyrs of the 1830 Revolution is surmounted by a statue of Liberty inscribing the days of 23, 24, 25 and 26 September 1830 in a book?
Did you know that zaï planting pits are an indigenous form of rainwater harvesting in the Sahel?
Did you know that Soeparno moved the official year of establishment of Surabaya, Indonesia, from 1906 to 1293?
Did you know that before assassinating Umberto I of Italy, Gaetano Bresci spent most of the day eating ice cream?
Did you know that despite her physical disability, Sara Gadalla Gubara came third in a 50 km (31 mi) mixed-sex national swimming event in 1972?
Did you know that singer Barbara Mandrell thought that when she saw Maureen McCormick play her in her biographical film, "all [she was] going to be able to think about is Marcia Brady"?
Did you know that the acorn worm Balanoglossus gigas gives a strong iodoform-like smell when handled, possibly to ward off predators?
Did you know that the musicians piri, venbee, Issey Cross, and Charlotte Plank are all part of the female and non-binary collective Loud LDN?
Did you know that the nadiri, a sleeveless overcoat, was personally designed by Jahangir, the fourth Mughal emperor?