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Did you know that the leading engineer during the 1702 siege of Liège was so angered by a colleague's disobedience that he threatened to abandon the siege?
Did you know that the roof designs of Bukit Gombak and Bukit Batok stations were based on the logo of the Singapore Housing and Development Board?
Did you know that , after proclaiming it was her duty as a revolutionary never to be "tied down by a family", Lyubov Radchenko got married and had a child?
Did you know that Nejishiki was a manga with a following among the 1960s avant-garde movement?
Did you know that future Olympic runner Maher Abbas switched from basketball to track over his frustration of referees being "easy to bribe"?
Did you know that in 2025 the Pfizer Building was cited as the largest office-to-residential building conversion in the United States?
Did you know that non-destructive virtual unfolding was used to read burned or otherwise highly damaged scrolls?
Did you know that tenor Jean Bonhomme played for seven years on his university's Canadian football team before becoming an international opera star?
Did you know that the Hongguang Emperor was betrayed by his troops and handed over to the enemy, who criticised his poor battle strategy and allowed locals to humiliate him?
Did you know that the Illinois Institute of Technology Academic Campus has been ranked as both one of the US's most significant architectural works and its least beautiful college campus?
Did you know that Argentine admiral Enrique Molina Pico commanded the destroyer ARA Hércules during the Falklands War, and later coordinated the operations of Argentine forces in the Gulf War?
Did you know that Edward D. Maryon's art was heavily influenced by his time stationed at the Presidio of Monterey after being drafted into the army?
Did you know that Kelley Dolphus Stroud hitchhiked from Colorado Springs to Boston in twelve days to compete in the 1928 United States Olympic trials?
Did you know that Max Verstappen won a record 19 Grands Prix in a season on his way to the 2023 Formula One World Drivers' Championship?
Did you know that a 2025 ecclesiastical trial had three successive prosecutors during its first three weeks?
Did you know that condensed-matter physicist Zachary Fisk conducted chemistry experiments in secret because his father disapproved of his interest?
Did you know that legend has it that Ko Myo Shin (statue pictured) became a spirit after allowing his head to be cut off?
Did you know that the children's music singer Damaris Gelabert was the first Catalan music channel on YouTube to win a Silver Button?
Did you know that the film The Taverna was shot at a Greek restaurant in Melbourne over sixteen days?
Did you know that Alex the Great signed autographs by biting the corners of business cards?
Did you know that Amy Louise Daniels worked with wobbly rats?
Did you know that Corbin/Hanner's "Work Song" has been described as "hillbilly reggae"?
Did you know that John F. Kennedy's pollster found many West Virginia voters concerned that a Pope in the White House would arrive by transatlantic tunnel?
Did you know that Kyōka Moriya cosplayed for her driver's license photo?
Did you know that Messenger players can communicate with each other via poop emojis?
Did you know that San Marino politician Lorenzo Bugli first ran for office when he was a teenager?
Did you know that civil rights activist Dorothy Burnham is also a supercentenarian?
Did you know that the parasitic disease enterobiasis once affected nearly 30% of General Mansilla?
Did you know that Japanese businessman Yasuyoshi Kato used embezzled funds to support his wife, who bought twenty Arabian horses, several emus, llamas, potbellied pigs, miniature cattle, and nurse sharks?
Did you know that Jocelyn Borgella was the first Haitian to be selected in the NFL draft?
Did you know that Kevo Muney has a mixtape cover that depicts himself being birthed by an anthropomorphic goat?
Did you know that YouTuber Dianna Cowern has an asteroid named after her?
Did you know that field propulsion comprises types of spacecraft propulsion that move a ship without conventional rocket engines?
Did you know that the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association operated its own Diocese of Zhangjiakou prior to Pope Leo XIV establishing a diocese of the same name?
Did you know that the Regional Workers' Center of Paraguay was largely made up of native Paraguayans, even though its predecessor had been dominated by European and Argentine immigrants?
Did you know that the song "Seasons of Change" featured future AC/DC lead vocalist Bon Scott on the recorder?
Did you know that "DJ booths" are used for announcements at the Meitetsu Nagoya Station?
Did you know that , in a civil case between Mark Aldridge and a shop owner, South Australia's district court found that a person can be liable for the defamatory comments of others on their social media posts?
Did you know that Amon G. Carter Jr. worked as a newspaper salesman as a child, despite his father being a successful businessman?
Did you know that Claude Hayes ran away to sea in the 1860s before beginning his career as a landscape painter (painting pictured)?
Did you know that Taylor Swift recently released a song about her fiancé's penis?
Did you know that Tom Cruise attended St. Francis Seminary, a Catholic high-school seminary run by the Franciscan Order?
Did you know that an activist remotely projected anti-CCP slogans onto a building in Chongqing University Town in August 2025?
Did you know that the title of "Best of Wives and Best of Women" in Hamilton came directly from Alexander's farewell letter to Eliza before his fatal duel with Aaron Burr?
Did you know that , after the assassination of George Lincoln Rockwell, his father said that he was "not surprised at all"?
Did you know that Agus Budianto adopted the nickname "Black Hoe" from his skin color and his work on his parents' farm?
Did you know that Berenice Olmedo once sold products made from dog carcasses at a flea market?
Did you know that Dale Berry used his fencing experience to choreograph fight scenes in his comic series?
Did you know that Luis Estrada declined to produce The Dead Girls as an English-language film before directing it as a Spanish-language television series?
Did you know that in November 2024 Typhoon Man-yi was one of four tropical cyclones simultaneously active in the western Pacific, the first such occurrence in November since records began in 1951?
Did you know that most portrayals of hypnosis in fiction are negative stereotypes—usually depicting it as criminal, or seductive?
Did you know that the McLaren MCL38 Formula One car (example pictured) won McLaren their first World Constructors' Championship since 1998?
Did you know that the cover art and nickname (Tripod) of Alice in Chains' 1995 self-titled album was inspired by an aggressive three-legged dog that chased the band's drummer?
Did you know that Caribou Legs once ran more than 7,000 kilometres (4,300 mi) to raise awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women?
Did you know that Emilie Louise Flöge did not like Gustav Klimt's 1902 portrait of her?
Did you know that George Lutfallah sought to use his wealth to become king of Lebanon, viewing his presidential candidacy as a stepping stone to that goal?
Did you know that Ivete da Graça Correia was once called "the public face of the São Tomé anti-drug campaign"?
Did you know that Kirkus Reviews called Jenny Price's environmentalist book Stop Saving the Planet! a "fun introduction to a serious topic"?
Did you know that Liechtensteiner athlete Oskar Ospelt was a two-time Swiss national champion?
Did you know that after a Florida family moved into a house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, one acquaintance said, "How could you let an atheist design your house"?
Did you know that the New Coimbra Fort was founded by 245 men in 15 canoes, guided by an elderly indigenous man?
Did you know that the gender-flipped story of Warriors was partly inspired by the Gamergate harassment campaign?
Did you know that Al Sheehan, despite being WCCO's expert on contract bridge, did not know "a trump from a rubber"?
Did you know that Burger Continental served dishes like "Chicken Erotica" to jurors in high-profile cases, including the trials of O. J. Simpson and the Menendez brothers?
Did you know that Formula One drivers are required to wear fire-resistant underwear for safety reasons?
Did you know that Leik Myrabo invented a laser-propelled type of spacecraft?
Did you know that Queen Maria of Jerusalem died shortly after giving birth to Queen Isabella II,  who also died shortly after giving birth?
Did you know that before becoming the first director of the Danish Language Council, Sabine Kirchmeier was a local politician who reported the mayor to the police?
Did you know that chloroform extracts from the seeds of the Spanish fennel flower have exhibited anti-inflammatory properties?
Did you know that sound recordings were not copyrighted under United States law until 1972?
Did you know that the premiere of the second season of Arrested Development required David Cross to paint himself blue, taking up to three showers a day to remove the paint?
Did you know that Victor-David Mbuyi Bipungu went from being a Catholic priest in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to becoming an Anglican bishop in Canada?
Did you know that Yew Tee station has a kampong-styled roof and a colour scheme that blends in with its surroundings?
Did you know that archaeologist Arne Furumark intended to follow a career in business until he visited the British Museum as a teenager?
Did you know that future NFL player Kato Serwanga's family fled Uganda when he was a child after three of his uncles were murdered and his father was nearly killed by Idi Amin's regime?
Did you know that the 2025 book The World After Gaza was deemed "repugnant" and "monstrous" for being both overly and insufficiently critical of Israel?
Did you know that the Chapel of St. Cornelius the Centurion in New York City was designed by Charles C. Haight, whose father had previously served in the clergy of the chapel's parish?
Did you know that the long hair of the Red Yao people in China has become a tourist attraction?
Did you know that the second president of the American Association of Geographers had no formal geography education?
Did you know that two full freight cars were swallowed in 1918 at what is now Glory Hole Park?
Did you know that North Korean archaeological papers, inspired by the state ideology of Juche, often contain nationalist elements?
Did you know that Pedro Berroeta Morales, a diplomat and later the president of a Venezuelan television channel, has also written fiction and essays on topics from science to esotericism?
Did you know that Sidney Gish has described her composition process as "Frankensteining"?
Did you know that a Japanese YouTuber launched a project aiming to "eradicate poverty in Ghana"?
Did you know that a neo-Nazi was offered $5,000 by Richard Nixon's election fundraising group for his participation in a scheme to help Nixon's campaign?
Did you know that freelance journalist Phil Patton's collection of coffee-cup lids was featured in the Cincinnati Art Museum?
Did you know that the Coldplay song "Politik", written on September 11, 2001, was inspired by the September 11 attacks?
Did you know that the comic novel Diary of a Provincial Lady provided inspiration for later fictional diaries such as the Bridget Jones series?
Did you know that the roof of Aljunied station has been described as a "caterpillar" and a "rib cage"?
Did you know that Bijal P. Trivedi wrote on how cystic fibrosis went from being a "death sentence" for children to becoming a treatable condition due to new drugs that brought "weeping with joy"?
Did you know that Fort George was the execution site of Maurice Bishop, the prime minister of Grenada?
Did you know that Indonesia's ambassador to the United Nations Umar Hadi co-produced a movie during his tenure as consul general in Los Angeles?
Did you know that Red Seidelson worked as a dentist at the same time he played in the NFL?
Did you know that choreographer Nat Horne's father, a Baptist minister, opposed dancing, and Horne began his dance training by sneaking out of Saturday-night prayer meetings?
Did you know that in 1982 HMS Junella carried a naval mine from the Falkland Islands to Great Britain on her deck, covered by a wet mattress to keep the explosives cool?
Did you know that the Mongol forces at the Chem River Battle used carts with iron-shod wheels to handle the rocky terrain?
Did you know that the school of Corpus Christi Church educated at least eleven sets of twins during the 1953 school year?
Did you know that the television drama This Thriving Land revived public interest in Chinese sage?
Did you know that , after a policeman held up traffic to let a mother cat cross a street, Harry Warnecke staged a re-enactment of the moment for a photograph?
Did you know that Bayden Barber, the chair of Ngāti Kahungunu, has supported establishing a parliament for Māori?
Did you know that The London Standard described the lyrics in a Taylor Swift song as "a car crash of outdated millennial cringe"?
Did you know that Theo Waimuri's bid for the General Elections Commission caused three lawmakers to walk out of his assessment hearing?
Did you know that Xavian Stapleton was given a list of 55 schools to which he was not allowed to transfer?
Did you know that some Japanese railway companies have their own character mascots?
Did you know that the Kaman-Kalehöyük Archaeological Museum, opened in 2010 and styled as a mound covered by natural grass, received the US-based "Best Green Museum" award?
Did you know that the region of Inazuma was used to allay concerns that Genshin Impact imitated The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild?
Did you know that the voice of the UK X Factor has narrated 30,000 adverts?
Did you know that Adolf Real was re-elected as mayor of Vaduz in 1900, but he refused to take the office?
Did you know that Bob Barrabee studied tobacco farming in Cuba and played in the NFL in the same year?
Did you know that Eschiva of Montbéliard left her children, fled to Buffavento Castle disguised as a monk, brought ample provisions, and joined an old knight in defending it?
Did you know that a crew member of the film Velký vlastenecký výlet walked out after a protagonist justified rape?
Did you know that local folklore links Boghead (ruins pictured), a Northumbrian bastle house, to the story of Barty Milburn, an accomplished swordsman and killer of Scots?
Did you know that periodontist Angela Pack called the Dental Council board "lily-livered chickens" for hesitating to allow training of dental hygienists in New Zealand?
Did you know that the "books within books" of the European Geniza are a collection of manuscript fragments recovered from medieval and early-modern book bindings?
Did you know that the Our Lady of the Holy Spirit Center was the site of a building collapse, a radio station, and the 5th National Eucharistic Congress?
Did you know that the most senior crew member of the Titanic to survive the disaster, as well as an American colonel, one of the telegraphists, the chief baker, and a teenage boy were all saved on an upturned boat?
Did you know that "Racing Mount Pleasant" from Racing Mount Pleasant was written before Racing Mount Pleasant were Racing Mount Pleasant?
Did you know that Alfred Kubin based the novel The Other Side on his own illustrations for a different novel?
Did you know that Anita Lidya Luhulima and her husband died during their terms as ambassador and deputy ambassador, respectively?
Did you know that a young Joseph Norman watched artists when he was at amusement parks?
Did you know that according to an urban legend, Queen Victoria was too scared to travel across the Digswell Viaduct?
Did you know that an episode of Smiling Friends was originally intended to feature a different video game?
Did you know that one of Michael Tene's examiners attended his thesis defense immediately after a government cabinet meeting?
Did you know that the mothers of three missing children went on a talk show to confront a suspect in a 1991 child disappearance?
Did you know that the stern of the wrecked freighter William C. Moreland was used in the construction of another ship?
Did you know that Formula One drivers experience forces of up to six and a half times their body weight when cornering during a race?
Did you know that Georgie Purcell arranged for a trafficked greyhound to meet the Victorian minister for racing?
Did you know that Teck Lee station opened nearly 20 years after it finished construction?
Did you know that a "sea of mega solar farms" concerns environmentalists in Kushiro, Hokkaido?
Did you know that a 1989 anthology of rants includes the works of left-wing and anarchist activists, far-right writers, and a murderer?
Did you know that a cemetery for formerly enslaved people in New York City is buried under a strip mall?
Did you know that a member of the Irving family of New Brunswick unveiled the Robert Burns Memorial Statue in Fredericton during a rededication ceremony in 2011?
Did you know that the Festival of Transitional Architecture had an event in which model cities were made out of jelly?
Did you know that the larch dwarf mistletoe spreads through forests by ejecting its seeds explosively at a speed of almost 100 km/h?
Did you know that , despite popular myth, NFL player Jairo Penaranda did not participate in llama-broncing?
Did you know that Luke Felix-Fualalo played rugby despite being below his league's age limit because he "was just too big to tell no"?
Did you know that a British health campaign on recreational drug overdose recommended using soy sauce fishes to measure safe dosages?
Did you know that a large carnivorous dinosaur recorded at Copper Ridge (fossil track pictured) might have been limping?
Did you know that golden trout disappeared from Silver Lake?
Did you know that optical physicist Franklin Dollar grew up on a Native American reservation without electricity or running water?
Did you know that several parents opted against including their children's names on the New London Cenotaph, with the designers leaving blank spaces on the memorial to commemorate them?
Did you know that the filming location of the Neighbours International Men's Day episode had to be changed due to the COVID-19 pandemic?
Did you know that when the COVID-19 pandemic began, Masyita Crystallin was instructed by the Indonesian finance minister to study the Spanish flu to help formulate unconventional economic policies?
Did you know that Blossom C. Brown attracted attention across the United States for highlighting violence against Black trans women?
Did you know that Masoud El Amaratly, one of Iraq's most popular folk singers in the 1920s (recording featured), was a mustarjil?
Did you know that a 2025 Kate Nash song rebranding TERFs as GERMs caused her to trend on X within hours of its release?
Did you know that in 2023 Kate Nambiar advised the EastEnders team around HIV treatment options for a storyline?
Did you know that misinformation about violence by transgender people has been used to defend violence against them?
Did you know that several journalists have attributed the suicide of Lia Smith to anti-transgender policies?
Did you know that some people identify with no gender?
Did you know that the dinosaur emojis have been used by transgender groups to represent themselves?
Did you know that the first transgender person to compete professionally in League of Legends was also the first woman to do so?
Did you know that "O Bêbado e a Equilibrista" was written as a samba to honor Charlie Chaplin, and became a political anthem for the return of exiles during the military dictatorship in Brazil?
Did you know that GK Barry said that her girlfriend is used to Barry discussing their sex life on her podcast?
Did you know that Kaia's Charice felt that she might run out of breath while recording the whisper-like chorus of "Walang Biruan"?
Did you know that Madeleine Tchicaya declined the president of Ivory Coast's offer to run for a second term in the National Assembly, as she was reportedly "bored to death"?
Did you know that Priyo Iswanto used what he called "WhatsApp diplomacy" to initiate diplomatic relations between Barbados and Indonesia?
Did you know that a South Carolina TV station began broadcasting just in time to ring in the New Year?
Did you know that recruitment for the French SS Volunteer Assault Brigade (members pictured) was promoted through a Waffen-SS exhibition in Paris that attracted thousands of visitors daily?
Did you know that the "No Toilet, No Bride" campaign encouraged women's families to demand a toilet as a precondition for marriage?
Did you know that the data feed for a website created by Riley Walz tracking San Francisco parking enforcement officers in real time was shut down by city officials just four hours after the site's launch?
Did you know that , although Richard Meier mostly designed white buildings, he used a black facade for 685 First Avenue because of his close relationship with its developer?
Did you know that Aline Sitoe Diatta was declared a "heroine of Senegal" when her death was announced, nearly forty years after she died?
Did you know that Christian Dahl explored the Ob river, paving the way for a trade route from Siberia to Western Europe?
Did you know that Cianna Lieffers was once told to buy a ticket for a hockey game she was about to referee?
Did you know that Jilly Cooper published volumes of nature diaries, as well as compilations of journalism and other non-fiction?
Did you know that Lick Creek, a settlement of freeborn Black people, used to exist in Hoosier National Forest?
Did you know that Shockwave at Six Flags Great America was the first roller coaster to turn riders upside down seven times?
Did you know that in 2023 Nick McKenzie won what was dubbed "the defamation trial of the century" against Ben Roberts-Smith?
Did you know that the 110th U.S. Open Cup final was the first in the tournament's history to have an all-women team of referees?
Did you know that David Voluck, a Chabad Jew and native tribal judge, credits Alaska natives with inspiring him to become more observant in his own faith?
Did you know that Rosa Dubovsky admonished male anarchists for misusing free love to justify promiscuity?
Did you know that Tanguturi Prakasam, a leader of the Indian independence movement, later became a significant dissenting figure within the Indian government?
Did you know that Thurgood Marshall, amid a Kansas desegregation case, said "god damn it, give that white lady the money"?
Did you know that a track-intrusion detection system was implemented on the Punggol LRT line following the death of a woman at Cove station?
Did you know that the Miller House in Indiana opened to the public in 2011, drawing high visitor numbers that were likened to the opening of a new Disney ride?
Did you know that the Sjölejonet class (example pictured), Sweden's first indigenous submarines, featured rotating torpedo tubes and disappearing guns?
Did you know that the inscription on a bracteate in the Vindelev Hoard has been interpreted as the oldest known reference to the Norse god Odin?
Did you know that the music video for Bini's "First Luv" was inspired by rococo art?
Did you know that Budi Bowoleksono always traveled with chili paste in his briefcase?
Did you know that Emma Finucane recently became the first British woman in sixty years to win three medals at a single Olympic Games?
Did you know that Hemenway Park's desert bighorn sheep come as close as a few feet to visitors?
Did you know that Jeremy Hambly has operated a YouTube channel about claw machines?
Did you know that cables of large suspension bridges can reach over 1 meter (3.3 ft) in diameter and weigh more than 20,000 tonnes?
Did you know that researchers accidentally discovered a new antibiotic in soil bacteria?
Did you know that the Star Wars line "these aren't the droids you're looking for" became a popular Internet meme?
Did you know that the art of a reclusive Chicago janitor, Henry Darger, was discovered and popularized by his former landlords?
Did you know that the world's largest McDonald's restaurant closed after only six weeks of operation?