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Did you know that if the double-headed Romano-British dragonesque brooch type (example pictured) represents any real animal, it may be hares rather than dragons?
Did you know that the Cross Temple in Fangshan, Beijing, is the only surviving Nestorian Christian site in China?
Did you know that Dacrytherium, literally meaning 'tear beast', was named after its "tear-pit"?
Did you know that Geordie Greep has an accent that has been described as "geographically unclassifiable"?
Did you know that George Willis Pack, a Northerner and Lincoln supporter, financed a monument to Confederate governor Zebulon Vance in Asheville, North Carolina?
Did you know that the projector at the Walter Reade Theater had to be modified to screen Nathaniel Dorsky's short film Triste?
Did you know that after his professional American football career, Lou Daukas became a lawyer?
Did you know that in 2017, Eustace Tilley missed his annual turn on the cover of The New Yorker because of Donald Trump?
Did you know that the great-nephew of Leon Trotsky was a physician for the Black Panther Party and helped deinstitutionalize Willowbrook State School?
Did you know that Julia Figueredo was the first indigenous woman to be elected president of La Paz's parliamentary delegation?
Did you know that archaeologists found that Updown Girl, who was buried in England in the 7th century, had a mixture of West African and European DNA?
Did you know that the Brazilian cruiser Almirante Barroso was on a voyage to circumnavigate Earth with Prince August Leopold on board when the republic was proclaimed in Brazil?
Did you know that the song "Poison" can soothe babies?
Did you know that when Abbess Stephanie of Courtenay's niece's marriage to the king of Jerusalem was annulled, the court's reasoning was so flimsy that a noted jurist had to ask Stephanie to explain it to him?
Did you know that Dolly de Leon was the first Filipino to be nominated for a Golden Globe or a BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress?
Did you know that a design for the 1930s New Zealand penny depicted a rugby player?
Did you know that ten people have died trying to cross the Cascade Saddle?
Did you know that the new Catalogue of Works of Carl Friedrich Abel, listing 420 compositions, was introduced at a festival celebrating Abel's tercentenary in Köthen?
Did you know that British intervention reversed the lacquering of a statue in New Zealand?
Did you know that Harry Dunn guarded a stairwell and Nancy Pelosi's office during the January 6 United States Capitol attack?
Did you know that the Great Divine Temple of Caodaism holds the cosmos ball, which represents the Jade Emperor's universe?
Did you know that the Kansas Business Hall of Fame includes the founders of Pizza Hut and Russell Stover Candies?
Did you know that the curator aedium sacrarum et operum locorumque publicorum was responsible for the upkeep of public works and buildings in ancient Rome?
Did you know that three first-team All-Americans – Logan Eggleston, Zoe Fleck, and Asjia O'Neal – played on the University of Texas's NCAA volleyball championship team in 2022?
Did you know that "Hare Hare Yukai" is credited with originating the genre of cover dance videos, in which individuals attempt to replicate dance choreography on video-sharing websites?
Did you know that F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote the short stories "The Jelly-Bean" and "May Day" at the Allerton 39th Street House?
Did you know that Lachlan Murdoch was forced to resign as a director of Prime Media Group because the company owned a radio station on Queensland's Sunshine Coast?
Did you know that Nancy Nash had to convince her parents to let her not attend the University of Texas to instead become an actress in 1926?
Did you know that Olivia Rodrigo can write ballads about homeschooled girls as well as about songbirds and snakes?
Did you know that a letter to the American people allegedly written by Osama bin Laden has been cited as an example of online youth radicalization?
Did you know that Chopin's heart (composer pictured) was smuggled into Poland by his sister?
Did you know that Giovanni Bonfanti scored a goal on his debut in a European competition?
Did you know that Shen Zigao, the first Anglican bishop of Chinese descent, was consecrated at All Saints Church, Shanghai, in 1934?
Did you know that The New Zealand Herald opposed a children's hospital in favour of a statue of Queen Victoria?
Did you know that before filming National Football League games, former Green Bay Packers video director Al Treml was trained in photography while serving in the United States Army?
Did you know that it is controversial whether there are things that do not exist?
Did you know that the Russian propaganda outlet Sputnik compared the Global Engagement Center to the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four?
Did you know that Catherine, Princess of Wales, is a keen amateur photographer and the patron of the Royal Photographic Society, and has taken many official photographs of her children?
Did you know that Kathanar – The Wild Sorcerer is being shot on a custom-built studio spanning 45,000 square feet (4,200 m2), utilizing the virtual production technology?
Did you know that a 1974 recording of Mozart's Così fan tutte with Ryland Davies as Ferrando was used in a 1995 film by the Salzburg Marionette Theatre?
Did you know that during the January 1982 California floods, more than 18,000 landslides swept through the San Francisco Bay Area with little warning?
Did you know that in her 2021 book The Origins of Early Christian Literature, Robyn Faith Walsh found that German Romanticists were in part responsible for modern scholarly assumptions about the gospels?
Did you know that sculptures of defecating people are displayed in the park surrounding Haewoojae?
Did you know that the Swiss mountaineer Hermann Alfred Tanner invented a compass to navigate colour harmony?
Did you know that Edo literature was influenced by British colonialism in the late 19th century, which introduced the Roman script and Christianity to the Edo people?
Did you know that Harald Hasselbach, the only Dutch Super Bowl champion, lived in four continents in his youth?
Did you know that New Zealand petrol stations were filled with queues before a change in government policy?
Did you know that Poussin painted the abduction of the Sabine women twice (one pictured), once for a prince and once for a cardinal?
Did you know that a New York state TV station thought a St. Bernard could serve as a mascot—until she proved incapable of following direction and had to be sent to obedience school?
Did you know that although five of Armenian composer Grigor Yeghiazaryan's siblings died of starvation from the Armenian genocide, his life was saved because he played in a brass band?
Did you know that life always ended with a sneeze until the time of Jacob, according to one Midrash?
Did you know that the leader of the German Red Cross under the Nazi regime had lived in the UK until he was fifteen years old and was a grandson of Queen Victoria?
Did you know that Carla Ronci, an Italian declared venerable by the Catholic Church, is remembered as the "Vespa saint"?
Did you know that Peanut is inhospitable to peanuts?
Did you know that Yellow Swans recorded their final album, Going Places, after their breakup?
Did you know that a third of the MPs elected in the 2023 New Zealand election were new to Parliament, including Carlos Cheung, Grant McCallum, Suze Redmayne, Dana Kirkpatrick, Ryan Hamilton, James Meager, Greg Fleming, Vanessa Weenink, Mike Butterick, Katie Nimon, David MacLeod, Miles Anderson, Carl Bates, Rima Nakhle, Nancy Lu, Cushla Tangaere-Manuel, Reuben Davidson, Scott Willis, Darleen Tana, Takutai Moana Kemp (all pictured), Kahurangi Carter, Todd Stephenson, Laura Trask, Cameron Luxton, Tākuta Ferris, Mariameno Kapa-Kingi, Casey Costello, Jamie Arbuckle, and Tanya Unkovich?
Did you know that code-switching in Lebanon is so common that "hi, كيفك؟ Ça va ?", which combines English, Levantine Arabic and French, is a typical greeting?
Did you know that since 1995, the AP NFL MVP award has been given to a player for the Green Bay Packers seven times?
Did you know that George Cross recipient Bill Madden died as result of malnutrition and ill-treatment by his Chinese captors while a prisoner of war?
Did you know that Kihwan Sim, a bass-baritone performer at the Oper Frankfurt, learned to play the tuba during his two years of military service?
Did you know that Louise Julien may have been an inspiration for the character of Cosette in Les Misérables?
Did you know that Nakba denial is a form of historical negationism pertaining to the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight?
Did you know that Nonô's discography includes songs from Majestic and Punctual?
Did you know that a former radio host got a free apartment in New York City's King Manor and lived there for more than three decades?
Did you know that the publication of A Field Guide to Otherkin sparked scholarly interest in people who consider themselves animals or mythological creatures?
Did you know that Dom DiSandro, the Philadelphia Eagles' chief security officer, was ejected from a game for getting into a scuffle with an opposing player?
Did you know that Mister Rogers said that Mr. Chuck, the host of a children's show on the public TV station in Memphis, Tennessee, was "truly remarkable" and "achieving things I still struggle to achieve"?
Did you know that Sasuke vs. Commander, one of SNK's earlier arcade games, was among the earliest to feature multiple boss fights?
Did you know that Tragedy by the Sea shows a man and a woman standing beside the ocean a few minutes after the couple's young son went missing?
Did you know that Akram Nadwi addressed the lack of Islamic women scholars highlighted in a Time article by composing al-Wafa bi Asma al-Nisa, a 43-volume work with more than 10,000 entries?
Did you know that a My Little Pony fan band wrote a song about a horror game, creating what has been considered to be a sub-genre of music?
Did you know that by popular demand, philosopher Anton Charles Pegis continued to teach graduate classes for three years after becoming an emeritus professor?
Did you know that the spirals in photographs of spiral staircases (example pictured) are hyperbolic?
Did you know that Illinois senator Mark Kirk returned to his former high school as an adult to create a UNICEF club?
Did you know that Olipop, with more than $100 million in revenue, has an all-remote workforce?
Did you know that Wie liegt die Stadt so wüst (How Deserted Lies the City), a motet composed by Rudolf Mauersberger after the bombing of Dresden, was first performed in the destroyed Kreuzkirche?
Did you know that Wikipedia editors have organized various campaigns to improve LGBT coverage on the site?
Did you know that instead of paying homage to a visiting King Gustaf VI Adolf, Swedish headmaster Carl Segerståhl took his students swimming in a nearby lake?
Did you know that while developing the sound effects for Letterpress, Loren Brichter spit in his microphone?
Did you know that Michael Lewis, author of Going Infinite, compared a rival author to the subject of both their books, convicted fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried?
Did you know that Thomas Fritzsch, a viol player who rediscovered compositions by Carl Friedrich Abel, established a festival dedicated to him in Köthen?
Did you know that it took 34 years for the first person to beat the game Tetris?
Did you know that the murder of Luisa Lallana sparked a general strike in Rosario, Argentina?
Did you know that while George C. Brownell played no part in the Oregon land fraud scandal, a published cartoon showed him as the "Pretty Moth" that flew too close to the land fraud limelight?
Did you know that Patricia Schultz, the author of 1,000 Places to See Before You Die, would choose Florence for her final trip before dying?
Did you know that a "welding nun" angered farmers with her garbage-eating goat?
Did you know that after Cora Victoria Diehl was elected as the first woman to hold office in Oklahoma Territory, county records had to be recovered with dynamite when the incumbent refused to concede?
Did you know that children's book illustration techniques include photography?
Did you know that the Oasis of Bukhara used to be a swamp?
Did you know that while being held in Stalag Luft I, an American prisoner of war built a violin out of scrap material?
Did you know that 555 Edgecombe Avenue, once named for a British soldier and occupied entirely by white Americans, later attracted notable African Americans like Paul Robeson and Count Basie?
Did you know that Agri-Expo is the oldest agricultural society in Africa?
Did you know that Michael Kremer's O-ring theory of economic development was inspired by his forgetting to purchase toilet paper for a training session?
Did you know that journalist Isaac Saul was named as one of the 16 people who had the greatest influence in the 2016 U.S. election?
Did you know that most objects in the travelling exhibition Empire of the Sultans bore calligraphy (example pictured)?
Did you know that S. F. Light disliked using his full name?
Did you know that Tadeusz Gebethner, a soccer player, bookseller, soldier and resistance fighter, was recognized as a Polish Righteous Among the Nations?
Did you know that sheep can get less stressed when looking at pictures of other sheep?
Did you know that the Apollo 12 Solar Wind Spectrometer detected a gas-ion shockwave produced by the impact of the Apollo 13 S-IVB stage on the lunar surface?
Did you know that the fraud that marred Kansas's 1855 territorial legislature elections led many to dub the elected body the "Bogus Legislature"?
Did you know that St. Joseph, a 1909 Catholic church in the Romanesque Revival style in Berlin-Wedding, has served as an interim cathedral since 2018?
Did you know that several reviewers noted the opening line of Venbee's 2022 song "Messy in Heaven", "Jesus did cocaine on a night out"?
Did you know that square pyramids can have different shapes, and pyramidologists have put forward multiple theories on which of these shapes was used for the Egyptian pyramids?
Did you know that the mother of The Little Girl in Blue did not think that the painting was a good likeness of her daughter?
Did you know that 2.5-metre-tall (8.2 ft) white rock spires grow at the volcano Huequi?
Did you know that Thomas J. Wright's PhD dissertation focused on US–Soviet relations in the late 1940s?
Did you know that Vivi Vassileva, a percussionist who was the youngest member of the German national youth orchestra, has played Gregor Mayrhofer's Recycling Concerto on instruments derived from garbage?
Did you know that Wrexham and East Denbighshire War Memorial Hospital was designed with balconies to treat patients with tuberculosis?
Did you know that actress M'liss McClure's publicity agency promoted her "almost telescopic vision" as a selling point?
Did you know that after Nazi Germany placed anti-aircraft batteries on the property of the Genoa Conservatory, the school moved into the Villa Saluzzo Serra art museum to maintain the safety of its students?
Did you know that Andrew J. Evans Jr. was the highest-ranking United States Air Force prisoner during the Korean War?
Did you know that Sandra Elkin, discussing basic information on women's topics on Woman, "radicalized" women into supporting women's rights?
Did you know that Wilfried Nancy became the first Black coach to win the MLS Cup in 2023?
Did you know that some people have asked whether they can pay for their Singapore hotel stay using a travel card?
Did you know that the bad handwriting of British doctors has been blamed on the small size of their medical-record envelopes?
Did you know that LaVonne Griffin-Valade, the Oregon Secretary of State, has published four crime fiction novels?
Did you know that Laverstock ware pottery was produced to supply the royal palace at Clarendon, but was also used all over the south of England?
Did you know that Monet decorated his house at Giverny with Kuniyoshi's In the Snow at Tsukahara, Sado Island, one of about 231 Japanese prints in Monet's personal collection?
Did you know that a teacher of medieval literature and comic books writes the blog Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle?
Did you know that the Indian politician Diwan Chaman Lall failed to get rid of the painting Nude of Indira?
Did you know that the musician Salute has an inclusion rider on their contracts for live performances?
Did you know that "Shalom chaverim" ('Peace, friends'), a Hebrew traditional folk song, has been sung at events commemorating the Holocaust and victims of anti-Semitic violence?
Did you know that "Thy Strong Word" replaced an anti–Mexican–American War hymn in the Episcopal Church?
Did you know that Jake Kaufman composed most of the soundtrack for Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment while streaming on Twitch?
Did you know that Thomas Ragle, the president of Marlboro College from 1958 to 1981, described his position as like a "19th-century college president"?
Did you know that a pornographic screenplay about Jesus led to papal and royal condemnations, a firebombing, the writer's ban from the UK, and thousands of letters per week demanding the ban of a non-existent gay Jesus film?
Did you know that after being waived by the San Diego Chargers, Frank Duncan began packing before being re-signed the next day and eventually becoming a starter?
Did you know that before going viral on TikTok for "Hit or Miss" at age fifteen, Georgia Twinn wanted to become a forensic scientist?
Did you know that despite Daniel Lopatin's electronic album Chuck Person's Eccojams Vol. 1 having a limited 2010 release on cassette tapes, it became a foundational album for the vaporwave genre?
Did you know that during the Mongol campaigns in Siberia, the Mongols defeated rival tribes at the Battle of Irtysh River?
Did you know that in 2014, BBC Three cancelled a debate on being gay and Muslim featuring Asifa Lahore, a Muslim drag queen, citing security concerns at the mosque where it was filmed?
Did you know that the Late Gothic appearance of the church of St. Martin (interior pictured) in Oestrich was destroyed in the Thirty Years' War and restored only in 1894?
Did you know that the Māori warrior on the New Zealand shilling was actually depicted wearing a dance uniform?
Did you know that with Gogoliad, Dmitri Shostakovich ended his film career with Grigori Kozintsev, the same director with whom he started?
Did you know that Michael Owens became the first mayor of Mableton, Georgia, in more than 100 years after winning the 2023 mayoral election?
Did you know that Peckham Rock, a fake cave painting surreptitiously installed in the British Museum by Banksy, is actually concrete from Hackney?
Did you know that Self-Portrait as a Tahitian depicts Indian artist Amrita Sher-Gil standing in the shadow of an unknown man?
Did you know that VMB-611 was the only United States Marine Corps bombing squadron to operate in the Philippines during World War II?
Did you know that a commemorative coin was made for a cancelled royal visit to New Zealand?
Did you know that biochemist Susan Berget was heavily involved in the discovery of split genes, but was excluded from credit and later the Nobel Prize for the research?
Did you know that in his first month in the job, Wali Mohammad Itoo suspended all 23 opposition representatives when they questioned his integrity as the speaker of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly?
Did you know that more than 150 years of documentary sources at the Central Archives of Gaza City were destroyed during the Israel–Hamas war?
Did you know that the book A City on Mars covers sex in space, raising children in low gravity, space law, and space cannibalism?
Did you know that two towers remain of the otherwise almost completely demolished Abbey of Saint Winnoc, because they were used as daymarks by sailors?
Did you know that "gig" in "gig economy" comes from the slang term for individual appearances by performing artists?
Did you know that Augustine of Hippo's Harmony of the Gospels is technically not a Gospel harmony?
Did you know that David Bowie narrated a version of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf in 1978 as a gift for his seven-year-old son Duncan?
Did you know that Jorge Barón, a member of King County Council, was an assistant director on The Mask of Zorro?
Did you know that New York City's Roosevelt Island Tramway was placed next to a bridge to prevent collisions with planes?
Did you know that Stanislav Aseyev, the author of The Torture Camp on Paradise Street, was placed in the Izolyatsia torture camp for writing "Donetsk People's Republic" in quotation marks in a social media post?
Did you know that a species of spider is named after Barack Obama?
Did you know that at least three historians asserted How the Red Sun Rose to have rendered outdated the scholarly understanding of the Yan'an Rectification Movement?
Did you know that before the age of thirty, Anna Nekhames performed the dual role of Venus and Chief of the Gepopo in Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre, one of opera's most demanding coloratura soprano parts?
Did you know that the 1830 abandonment of Chipewyan woman Matooskie by her Scottish husband was eventually settled with a dowry payment of £200?
Did you know that the play-by-mail game Westworld was run from prison?
Did you know that Gareth Knight, a devout Christian, was an occultist who ran an esoteric society of magicians?
Did you know that Nelson Santana supposedly predicted the date of his death?
Did you know that all known populations of Epipterygium opararense (example pictured) live within a 5-metre (16 ft) radius in New Zealand?
Did you know that anti-Korean sentiment, due to South Korea's economic growth, motivated Djuna to write the sci-fi novel Counterweight?
Did you know that before discovering a rudimentary audio workstation on his mother's phone, the French musician Lewis OfMan wanted to be a perfumer?
Did you know that locals responding to the 1882 Spuyten Duyvil train wreck used snowballs to extinguish the fires in the wrecked cars (illustration pictured)?
Did you know that the 1976 Big Thompson River flood took place several hours before Colorado's 100th anniversary of statehood?
Did you know that the reign of Ye will be one of perjury, slavery, pestilence and death, according to the Ethiopic Apocalypse of Ezra?
Did you know that Amrita Sher-Gil's Young Girls earned her the Paris Salon's gold medal in 1933, making her the first Asian to be awarded the prize?
Did you know that Andrea Blanch said that she came to appreciate Jeff Koons's artwork more after suing him for copyright infringement?
Did you know that Desert Bus requires eight hours of continuous play to gain one point?
Did you know that Louis Zhang Jiashu, a Catholic bishop of Shanghai who studied at Canterbury in 1911, received the archbishop of Canterbury in Shanghai in 1983?
Did you know that despite being 80 miles (130 km) apart, Austin and San Antonio are merging into one metropolis?
Did you know that female swamp guppies show no preference for orange or red coloration during courtship?
Did you know that the Leonia Alternative High School's employment of volunteer instructors led to opposition from the local teachers' union?
Did you know that the Saskatchewan Conservation House, built in 1977 to withstand Canadian winter temperatures, did not use a furnace?
Did you know that the Transvaal Chinese Association opposed discriminatory legislation in the British Transvaal Colony alongside Mahatma Gandhi?
Did you know that Fred G. Sullivan's film The Beer-Drinker's Guide to Fitness and Filmmaking depicts Sullivan being humiliated with mud and whips for the failings of his previous film?
Did you know that Nigeria seeks the return of the Benin Altar Tusks, ivory artefacts taken by the British in 1897 and dispersed in Europe?
Did you know that Porphyry describes a moral obligation to extend justice to animals in his  3rd-century treatise on vegetarianism?
Did you know that Tucker Hall and Ewell Hall sit on either side of the Sunken Garden on the College of William & Mary's campus?
Did you know that Yuna Kim had a major impact on figure skating and was instrumental in bringing the Olympics to Pyeongchang in 2018?