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Did you know that one issue with understanding the culture of Champa is that surviving inscriptions are concerned almost exclusively with the elite?
Did you know that the 1969 Corrective Move (commemorative stamp pictured) transformed South Yemen into a communist state?
Did you know that the Irwin Union Bank's glass walls and open-plan layout, uncommon for an American bank building of its time, led to its designation as a historic landmark?
Did you know that Brunei Shell Petroleum, a joint-venture company, provided insights into oil discoveries that may have influenced Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddien III's stance on Malaysia?
Did you know that Kōsaku Yamada's Overture in D major has been described as "a kind of challenge by the composer to Japanese traditional music"?
Did you know that Olympic cyclist Michael Watson was hospitalised because of a dog?
Did you know that Roberta G. Simmons found that an organ transplant was considered by some recipients to be "a burdensome debt"?
Did you know that Walter Bgoya published a novel by Aniceti Kitereza almost 35 years after it had been written?
Did you know that Winnipeg's historic Holy Trinity Anglican Church is at risk of structural failure within the next few years?
Did you know that actress Jennifer Brooke and her colleagues faced severe weather from Storm Imogen while filming her death scene for Hollyoaks?
Did you know that an exiled Sakalava monarch sold Mayotte to the French in exchange for an annual pension?
Did you know that the Roblox video game Grow a Garden once had more than 20 million simultaneous players?
Did you know that Erika Kirk forgave her husband's alleged killer at his memorial service?
Did you know that Hoàng Xuân Vinh won Vietnam's first Olympic gold medal with a record-setting shot at the 2016 Games?
Did you know that Sylvester Espelage, unlike most American clergy, wore a queue and a long beard during his missionary work in Wuhan?
Did you know that Texan poet laureate Jenny Lind Porter was described as America's new Emily Dickinson?
Did you know that a Michigan TV station was designed to serve a smaller area so it could obtain a network affiliation?
Did you know that a grand-nephew of Queen Elizabeth II underwent 200 hours of training in India to become a yoga instructor?
Did you know that the architect of 745 Fifth Avenue once dressed up as the building?
Did you know that the crew of Blackwater 61 knew that they were flying down a box canyon for more than fifteen minutes before the plane crashed?
Did you know that the spider Desis marina makes its nest in the intertidal zone of the coast, where it can survive underwater for up to 19 days?
Did you know that , during the 2012 Weezer Cruise, band members oversaw wedding vow renewals, a shuffleboard contest, a midnight movie screening, and a 1980s-themed prom?
Did you know that Mikael Genberg has sent a house to the Moon?
Did you know that a Russian spy couple used comments on Cristiano Ronaldo YouTube videos to send coded messages to Moscow?
Did you know that in 2025, Royal Challengers Bengaluru became the first in the Indian Premier League to win all away games in a season?
Did you know that more than 50 planned speakers boycotted the Bendigo Writers Festival over its code of conduct?
Did you know that racing driver Neil Cunningham was also a stunt double in the James Bond film Quantum of Solace?
Did you know that singer Tomoo was once unhappy with her performance in a singing contest, despite being chosen as one of its finalists?
Did you know that the giant centipede Cormocephalus rubriceps can grow up to 20 centimetres (8 inches) in length?
Did you know that the personal website of an actor is used for benchmarking newly released gadgets?
Did you know that , unusually for contemporary Islamic chronicles, the Tarikh-i Alfi (page pictured) begins with the death of Muhammad, not his birth?
Did you know that Adolfo Rossi was the only journalist to report firsthand on the turmoil in Sicily sparked by the Fasci Siciliani in 1893?
Did you know that Albert Gatschet's field notes on the grammar of Atakapa is the only surviving work on the language carried out with native speakers?
Did you know that Dutch filmmaker Richard Raaphorst claimed that a boss character in Resident Evil Village copied the design of a monster he created for his 2013 film Frankenstein's Army?
Did you know that Malaysia is the most successful delegation at the Olympics without a gold medal?
Did you know that an ongoing U.S. naval buildup in the Caribbean, ostensibly intended to combat drug trafficking, may be actually intended to intimidate Venezuela?
Did you know that gallerist and congressional candidate Esther Kim Varet inspired the character Soojin on Girls, according to The Dallas Morning News?
Did you know that one reviewer criticised The Magician's Daughter for not mentioning its setting's historical context?
Did you know that only seven Tubular lifeboats were built, but they remained in service for 83 years?
Did you know that , as the University of Edinburgh's chaplain, Harriet Harris appointed more than 40 honorary chaplains to serve traditions including Daoism, humanism, paganism and mindfulness?
Did you know that Angus Watt was a financial advisor, broadcaster, and diplomat all at the same time?
Did you know that Badingah became the first female regent of Gunung Kidul after her predecessor died of a heart attack?
Did you know that First Nations actor and musician Erroll Kinistino grew up in a two-room, mud-shack cabin?
Did you know that Gilles of Saumur was given the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tyre as compensation for the loss of the Archdiocese of Damietta during the Seventh Crusade?
Did you know that PETA wrote a letter to the CEO of Nintendo over a Cow?
Did you know that impersonations of United States immigration officials have become a chronic crime problem in 2025?
Did you know that the 71-year-old Jackie Chan performed all his own stunts without using doubles in The Shadow's Edge?
Did you know that the Paraguayan Regional Workers' Federation named and shamed known strikebreakers in its newspaper?
Did you know that Byrnihat was ranked by an air technology company as the world's most polluted city in 2024?
Did you know that Fort Duvernette played a role in saving the survivors of a 1795 Carib attack on a British supply convoy?
Did you know that Olympic wrestler Robert Diouf twice defeated an opponent who was nearly 20 kilograms (44 lb) heavier than him?
Did you know that a plane crash was watched in real time by a bedridden woman through her mirror?
Did you know that prior to becoming prime minister of Canada, Paul Martin frequently searched the basement of Devonshire Lodge for a bootlegging tunnel?
Did you know that the 2013 murder of Mark Carson, a hate crime involving the killing of an openly gay man, took place less than a quarter-mile (400 m) from the Stonewall Inn?
Did you know that the Prince of Ning decided to rebel against the emperor right after his birthday party?
Did you know that the ground beetle Mecodema howittii, only known to be found on Banks Peninsula in New Zealand, is in decline?
Did you know that the world's longest continuous rock climbing route is a horizontal 4,500-metre (14,800 ft) traverse on El Capitan, according to Guinness World Records?
Did you know that China's imperial chancellor killed himself after he was blamed for the devastation of the 29 BC Yellow River flood?
Did you know that Denise Stoklos's "essential theatre" involves minimizing her acting methods while maximizing "the power of drama"?
Did you know that Donald Trump applies his own makeup each day, according to his former press secretary?
Did you know that Vietnamese prisoner Triệu Quân Sự escaped from jail four times, and was twice caught while playing online games at internet cafés?
Did you know that a hospitalized Ruth El Saffar had to dictate the introduction of her final book to Diana de Armas Wilson, with whom she had co-edited Quixotic Desire?
Did you know that a public service announcement about drunk driving was voted the best television advertisement in New Zealand?
Did you know that the pianist Panka Pelishek was a Heroine of Socialist Labor?
Did you know that where NFL player Spencer Reid is from, "There's no McDonald's. There's no nothing"?
Did you know that while a British school inspired by a circus tent was described as "eclectic and witty", its "plain functional" replacement won an RIBA Award?
Did you know that "Infantino Street", an episode of The Flash, was named after a writer from the Silver Age of Comic Books?
Did you know that , after Yoetikno's death, his family had local villagers keep a 24-hour watch over his grave in fear of graverobbers?
Did you know that Albanian prime minister Edi Rama determined that an AI system should become a cabinet minister tasked with ending corruption in public tenders?
Did you know that Dorothy Sproule received letters from five British monarchs, earning her the epithet "Canadian Poet-Laureate to Royalty"?
Did you know that Dries Van Langendonck has been called "the great Belgian [Formula One] hope"?
Did you know that Jeff Baena made his characters Jewish in Life After Beth because he thought that Jews would be more likely to come back as zombies?
Did you know that soprano  Sarah Fischer sang excerpts from the title role in Carmen for the very first televised BBC broadcast of opera music?
Did you know that the owner of Pringle House planned on vacating due to the risk of earthquake damage, but an earthquake damaged the building first?
Did you know that the publication of the magazine Jiaoyu zazhi was interrupted when the Japanese army bombed its publisher's headquarters?
Did you know that Euclid's Elements has been estimated to be second only to the Bible in its number of published editions?
Did you know that Gibraltar Mountain is one of a few documented U.S. sites where Okanogan fameflower is native?
Did you know that Jeannette Ng accepted the 2019 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer with a speech in which she called the award's namesake, John W. Campbell, a "fucking fascist"?
Did you know that John Greenewald Jr. founded a U.S. government transparency website when he was a teenager?
Did you know that Linda Anne Hutchison performed as a leading soprano of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, including during its first visit to continental Europe since the 1880s?
Did you know that Mohamed Saïl refused prisoner support from International Red Aid in protest against the treatment of Soviet prisoners in the Solovki prison camp?
Did you know that the 1939 NIT and the 1939 NCAA tournament determined two different national champions in men's college basketball?
Did you know that the modern cinnamon fern has existed since the Cretaceous?
Did you know that Charles Bornou once served as a minister of finance and a mayor at the same time?
Did you know that Isaac A. Hopper was one of the One Hundred?
Did you know that King Hugh I of Cyprus married his stepsister with special permission from the pope?
Did you know that Sunaryanta ran 7.5 kilometres (4.7 mi) from his home to register for an election, and later ran 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) back home after losing re-election?
Did you know that a 1941 jam session was notable for its racial integration?
Did you know that penicillin was largely forgotten about for a decade after its initial discovery in 1929?
Did you know that the Help Mark is a Japanese accessibility symbol for people with invisible disabilities?
Did you know that the demolition of 61 Molesworth Street in Wellington, New Zealand, revealed the possessions of illegal residents?
Did you know that there have been attempts to make chess an Olympic sport since at least 1924?
Did you know that , according to the ruling party, the citizenry overwhelmingly allowed the president to be re-elected in the 1939 Salvadoran presidential election?
Did you know that Adamsochrysa fossils from British Columbia and Washington are most similar to an Australian green lacewing?
Did you know that Barbara Buczek intentionally composed music so intricate that it was nearly impossible to realise all of its details?
Did you know that doctor Nandipha Magudumana received payment for the use of her archives in the Netflix documentary Beauty and the Bester, which she subsequently attempted to prevent from being aired?
Did you know that fans of The Exit 8 travelled from across the world to visit a Japanese subway station?
Did you know that the music of Fontaine in Genshin Impact was performed by the London Symphony Orchestra?
Did you know that the red bands on the flag of Mauritania were added in 2017 to represent the blood shed for the country's independence from France?
Did you know that the wedding ceremony of Fukura P and Kazumi Takayama was held at the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building?
Did you know that three-quarters of Turkey's bird species live in the Kızılırmak Delta?
Did you know that Alexander McIver took his fight to remain North Carolina's superintendent of public instruction all the way to the state supreme court?
Did you know that Queen Isabella I lost her first husband to politics, her second to assassins, her third to a window, and her fourth to fish?
Did you know that Sir Frederic Willans attended the deathbeds of Queen Alexandra and her son King George V?
Did you know that Thomas Schubert made his acting debut on the 2011 film Breathing, on the director's insistence that an amateur actor play the leading role?
Did you know that a study in 2024 found that about half of the 500 tonnes (1.1 million lb) of produce brought to the Nueva Vizcaya Agricultural Terminal daily was thrown out?
Did you know that the 2007 NFC Championship Game, with a temperature of −3 °F (−19 °C) and wind chill as low as −24 °F (−31 °C), was one of the coldest games in Lambeau Field history?
Did you know that the alleged son of an Ottoman sultan and an enslaved concubine became a Catholic friar?
Did you know that the healthcare needs of intersex people depend on what physical characteristics they have?
Did you know that while the United States publicly denied any wrongdoing in a 2013 drone strike on a wedding convoy, it likely gave over $1 million in compensation to the victims' families?
Did you know that , after moving to Canada to work as a priest, Naboth Manzongo did not see his wife and children in Zimbabwe for three years due to COVID-19–related processing delays?
Did you know that Aboriginal Australians who first saw herds of water buffalo interpreted the new animals as a manifestation of their dreaming?
Did you know that Aileen Davies sang roles on the first two D'Oyly Carte Opera Company recordings using the new electrical-recording technology?
Did you know that Ed McCann chose a career in civil engineering after being dissuaded from other branches of engineering by their military applications?
Did you know that Pink Floyd escaped from its enclosure at the Sedgwick County Zoo in 2005, but continued to be spotted in Texas as late as 2023?
Did you know that the Angel of Long Point saved seventeen lives across five different incidents?
Did you know that the city of Kikwit, estimated to have a population of at least half a million, had only four paved roads in 2023?
Did you know that the departure of Carl Borgmann from the University of Vermont ended 17 years of scientists serving consecutive terms as president?
Did you know that the walls of the former Lyttelton Gaol are archaeologically significant as one of the first uses of concrete in New Zealand?
Did you know that Ana Roš, head chef at the first Slovenian restaurant to earn three Michelin stars, has no formal culinary training?
Did you know that Calling Mr. Smith, a World War II–era Polish avant-garde film about Nazi German atrocities, was censored in the UK?
Did you know that Charles C. Peterson played billiards in a plane 4,000 ft (1,200 m) in the air in 1930?
Did you know that Wyoming PBS is only available to satellite-television customers in five of the state's twenty-three counties?
Did you know that archaeologists studying Qasr Bshir used smoke signals, mirrors, and torches to test how messages travelled between Roman frontier forts?
Did you know that the 2008 PC game Legend of the Galactic Heroes allows players to prevent the canonical deaths of characters who died in the original source material?
Did you know that the Abyssinian hare is thought to be spreading outside its native range because of overgrazing by domestic animals there?
Did you know that the Tāhuna Glenorchy Dark Sky Sanctuary is in an astronomical "sweet spot" where the aurora australis and the core of the Milky Way can both be seen?
Did you know that the schooner F. J. King, lost for 139 years, was discovered after a two-hour search in 2025?
Did you know that P. J. Moriarty persuaded a judge to drop a charge of placing a fake fire hydrant in front of his restaurant because "the leprechauns" did it?
Did you know that The New York Times once said that Reba Paeff Mirsky sounded like she had "two right hands and two left hands"?
Did you know that a 1965 proposal for South Station included a bus terminal, 5,000 parking spaces, and a heliport?
Did you know that a duck named Sergeant Siwash fought the Japanese in World War II?
Did you know that the Bop House has been called "a modern-day, TikTokified Playboy Mansion"?
Did you know that the Dulles International Airport Main Terminal was once so empty that it attracted more tourists than travelers?
Did you know that the Mesadorm singer Blythe Pepino founded a movement of people refusing to have children until the climate crisis ends?
Did you know that the music video for "Holy, Holy" is purposefully edited to show Geordie Greep consistently bowling strikes?
Did you know that the narrator in The Path to Rome repeatedly argues with an imagined reader who is often combative and confused?
Did you know that Friday the 13th has been credited for popularizing the trope of teenage characters suffering violent murders after having premarital sex?
Did you know that Gene White's professional football career was interrupted by United States Army service, during which he continued to play as an officer?
Did you know that Ingersoll's Ordinary was used as a prison during the Salem witch trials?
Did you know that Leo McLaughlin's government in Hot Springs, Arkansas, provided protection to Al Capone and Lucky Luciano?
Did you know that Matthew Vickers, who specialised in Italian opera, made his debut in Italy singing in French?
Did you know that Mikan, the cat station master of Ciaotou Sugar Refinery metro station, visited the Jiji line in Nantou County for the appointment of Longjiaosun as cat station master of Jiji railway station?
Did you know that Tish Weinstock got married over the Halloween weekend in 2022 at a castle wearing a wedding dress made from antique lace styled after Morticia Addams?
Did you know that a Hungarian nobleman survived with a spear in his head?
Did you know that in 1973 Carme Travesset became the first woman in Andorra to hold elected office?
Did you know that mull, mor and moder are humus forms?
Did you know that one of the bosses of the video game CarnEvil can be replaced with a giant teddy bear?
Did you know that police forced Eva Coo and her accomplice to reenact a killing at the crime scene using the victim's exhumed body?
Did you know that the Office of the President of the Philippines released a diagram in 2019 which it claimed revealed participants in a plot to oust president Rodrigo Duterte?
Did you know that the art of Villains Are Destined to Die was said to be "almost in-between the Disney happy-ending fairy tales and the original Grimm's stories"?
Did you know that the flatworm Freddius is named after Freddy Krueger's razor gloves?
Did you know that the novel Lady Jennifer sometimes came with a book of advice promoting John Strange Winter Toilet Preparations?
Did you know that the warship USS Undine was captured and used by Nathan Bedford Forrest's Confederate cavalry?
Did you know that Charlie the goat hospitalized his co-star three times on the set of The Witch?
Did you know that Cthulhu, Dagon, and Hydra are actually mud dragons living off the coast of Madagascar?
Did you know that movie characters like Pennywise have been cited as contributing to some people's fear of clowns?
Did you know that photographer Hal Hirshorn recreated the 1865 funeral of a wealthy Manhattanite for a 2011 photo series?
Did you know that some of the Bronze Age Deir el-Balah sarcophagi looted by Moshe Dayan became part of his private collection?
Did you know that the Willows Inn, headed by chef Blaine Wetzel, was one of the restaurants that inspired the horror comedy film The Menu?
Did you know that the animator of the Magic Cat Academy Halloween-themed Google Doodles overcame her arachnophobia to design a spider boss that was ultimately rejected as "way too scary"?
Did you know that when a prospective funder called the script for his horror film All You Need Is Death "weird and confusing", Paul Duane got the phrase tattooed on his arm and funded the film himself?
Did you know that Filipino politician Miriam Defensor Santiago is known as the "Iron Lady of Asia"?
Did you know that Jack Fleck defeated Ben Hogan in a playoff to win the 1955 U.S. Open using Hogan's golf clubs?
Did you know that John Adams Cameron lost twice to John Culpepper in elections for the United States Congress that were 14 years apart?
Did you know that My Dad, the first entry in My Family Member, a series of illustrated children books, was inspired by the author's discovery of his father's old gown?
Did you know that a 16th-century ethnic term used in Africa is still used today for a Brazilian religion, a Togolese and Beninese ethnic group, and their language?
Did you know that it took 40 years for Raghunath Brahmbhatt to be credited for the lyrics to a popular song he wrote, 21 years after his death?
Did you know that neighbors thought Naughty Dog was filming adult films due to their setup of shooting moves for Way of the Warrior from an apartment hallway?
Did you know that painter and designer Mia Lee used to make doll fashions from her grandmother's scraps?
Did you know that the freighter D. M. Clemson was one of the largest vessels on the Great Lakes in 1903?
Did you know that , according to a 2025 book about artificial superintelligence, If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies?
Did you know that Hilaire Belloc and G. K. Chesterton's first collaboration sold only thirty-five copies?
Did you know that King Owodo, the last Ogiso of Igodomigodo, was deposed after killing a pregnant widow, an act punishable by deposition under the kingdom's law?
Did you know that NFL player Bill Gutteron estimated that he helped over 50,000 people learn how to swim?
Did you know that a Dutch publisher pirated the first four volumes of Memoirs and Adventures of a Man of Quality, then hired the author to write more?
Did you know that an early Chinese women's magazine ran afoul of a government ministry due to its sexual content and nudity?
Did you know that the Fernald Feed Materials Production Center produced uranium for nuclear weapons between 1951 and 1989?
Did you know that the Sursock bronze was discovered in a damaged state with hacked parts, possibly after being vandalized by early Christian iconoclasts?
Did you know that the first bank of the Republic of Lithuania was bankrupt after nine years of operation?
Did you know that A Far Better Thing is a retelling of Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities with fairy changelings?
Did you know that Antirrhinum barrelieri was split into two species in 1896, the other being Antirrhinum controversum?
Did you know that Habib Mousa wrote a song about the village of Enhil to object to the Turkification of Assyrian villages in Tur Abdin?
Did you know that Soebekti Soenarto performed the duties of the governor, vice governor, and provincial secretary of the Special Region of Yogyakarta simultaneously for several weeks in 1998?
Did you know that a 13th-century wooden sculpture of Rāgarāja was carved from the debris of the Great Buddha Hall at Tōdai-ji in Nara, Japan?
Did you know that actor Rory Gibson was cast on The Young and the Restless despite the producers not liking his initial self-tape?