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Did you know that the 2022 French protests against the rising cost of living have been called French president Emmanuel Macron's "stiffest challenge" since his re-election?
Did you know that the TV series Mad Men inspired Taylor Swift's hit song "Lavender Haze"?
Did you know that with the help of Turkish and Azerbaijani agents, Muslims in Armenia revolted in 1919–1920 and massacred over 10,000 Armenians?
Did you know that Bettye Crutcher, the only female staff songwriter for Stax Records, wrote songs for B.B. King, Johnnie Taylor, and the Staple Singers?
Did you know that Meteor Studios created "realistic CG on TV budgets", but went bankrupt after completing visual effects work for Journey to the Center of the Earth?
Did you know that Terra Invicta's development company is a group of former volunteer video game modders that decided to release their own game after the success of their mod?
Did you know that Tickner Edwardes was a beekeeper who wrote the earliest published account of hitchhiking?
Did you know that despite it being announced in 2005 that she would not bear the title, Charles III's wife, Camilla (both pictured), is to be crowned queen at his side?
Did you know that the book Dracul makes use of the unpublished first 100 pages of Bram Stoker's Dracula manuscript?
Did you know that the first known texts written by Brazilian indigenous people, written in 1645, were only completely translated in 2021?
Did you know that the song "Phenomenal Cat" was misspelt as "Phenominal Cat" on the original album sleeve?
Did you know that the tomb of the overseer of every cultivated place and every desert place (stele pictured) threatens grave robbers with crocodiles and snakes?
Did you know that Rusli Zainal, the former governor of Riau, represented the province in the Indonesia International Quran Competition as a child?
Did you know that Vientiane railway station in Laos is the largest on the Boten–Vientiane railway and can accommodate 2,500 passengers, but currently only serves three trains per day?
Did you know that in 1917 French general François Léon Jouinot-Gambetta led an offensive that advanced 57 miles (92 km) in six days to capture Skopje?
Did you know that the writer of the 2022 comic book miniseries Poison Ivy, starring the eponymous Batman villain, described it as a "love story" that features "plant-based body horror"?
Did you know that Choe Han-gi published a theory that aimed to replace Newtonian mechanics with one based on qi?
Did you know that GhostRider is the longest wooden roller coaster on the West Coast of the United States?
Did you know that Todd Terry's To the Batmobile Let's Go features the first track to sample Arthur Russell?
Did you know that Kenneth Lo was called "the foremost expert in Britain on Chinese food"?
Did you know that the Burton upon Trent war memorial in England includes a depiction of Saint George standing atop the vanquished dragon?
Did you know that the Citizens for Sanity political action committee, opposing "woke insanity", ran ads saying "vote progressive this November"?
Did you know that the Victoria State Government has ordered 100 G-class trams, which is the largest domestic order in Australian history?
Did you know that Chicago's Marshfield station had four tracks and three platforms, and involved three branch lines and an interurban?
Did you know that German general Hans von Guretzky-Cornitz was awarded the Pour le Mérite in 1916 after mistakenly announcing the capture of Fort Vaux?
Did you know that John Foster, a Boston printer, made an engraving of Richard Mather around 1670, the first produced in colonial America?
Did you know that Luis Alegre Salazar led the translation of the constitution of the Mexican state of Quintana Roo into Maya?
Did you know that the most valuable player of MLS Cup 2022, John McCarthy, only played once in the regular season?
Did you know that Chōgaku-ji's bell-tower gate was originally built in the early 9th century and is the oldest of its kind in Japan?
Did you know that Raihan Rafi, the writer and director of the 2021 Bangladeshi film Janowar, interviewed the alleged perpetrators of the quadruple murder on which it is based?
Did you know that former Arizona Cardinals kicker Cedric Oglesby, one of the first African-American kickers in NFL history, received his chance to play when the team's previous kicker injured himself celebrating?
Did you know that in Loriot's comedy sketch "Englische Ansage", a German TV announcer played by Evelyn Hamann despairs of pronouncing complicated English names?
Did you know that the Roman emperors Augustus and Claudius may have had an affinity for gambling?
Did you know that the paleoflora of the Eocene Okanagan Highlands (fossil pictured) has a notable mixture of both temperate and subtropical plants?
Did you know that Samuel Green printed the Eliot Indian Bible, the first Bible printed in British America, in 1663?
Did you know that artefacts from Ai-Khanoum, a Hellenistic city rediscovered by the King of Afghanistan in 1961, include a "remarkable" disc displaying "hybrid Greek and Oriental imagery"?
Did you know that by the time he became Governor of Arizona, John Howard Pyle's appearances on a Phoenix radio station made him "as familiar in Arizona homes as the family radio"?
Did you know that in the 1960s Kléber Dupuy campaigned to rehabilitate the reputation of Philippe Pétain, against whose Vichy regime he had fought as a member of the French Resistance?
Did you know that it takes about five hours to inspect Skyrush every morning?
Did you know that thousands of Greenlandic women and girls had intrauterine devices placed without their consent during the 1960s and 1970s?
Did you know that Carson Steele, known as the "Man of Steele", has a pet alligator named Crocky-J and has been called "the most interesting man" in college football?
Did you know that Enriqueta Legorreta, who was the first Mexican woman to appear as Sieglinde in Wagner's Die Walküre, became an award-winning environmental activist?
Did you know that Katie Leung was told to deny witnessing any racism from fans while filming the Harry Potter movies?
Did you know that the only known copy of People, Places and Things, co-authored by Stephen King, is owned by King?
Did you know that Beryl Benacerraf, pioneer of the nuchal scan, wrote that dyslexia caused her to live in a world of images where "anomalies jump out at me like a neon sign"?
Did you know that Dmitri Shostakovich denounced his own Tahiti Trot, an orchestral arrangement of "Tea for Two", as a political blunder?
Did you know that in March 1916 the Duke of Westminster led a group of armoured cars on a 250-mile (400 km) round trip to rescue 92 men held prisoner at a remote desert oasis?
Did you know that most national flags belong to a flag family with similar designs?
Did you know that the success of Los Angeles Rams coach Sean McVay led sportswriter Bill Barnwell to quip that "anyone who has ever worn a polo shirt around McVay is now an NFL head coach"?
Did you know that Belfast's War Memorial Building was built on the site of a hotel destroyed during the 1941 Belfast Blitz?
Did you know that Meghan Trainor was inspired to write "Made You Look" after her therapist asked her to look at herself naked for five minutes?
Did you know that the Danish geologist Tove Birkelund received a gold medal for her early work on fossils of Scaphites in Greenland?
Did you know that the roller coaster Great Bear is named after the constellation Ursa Major?
Did you know that the view from Vogelsang Pass has been described as "one of the most stunning" in Yosemite National Park?
Did you know that Dana International, winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 1998, received death threats following her selection to compete?
Did you know that House of Waters repurposes the hammered dulcimer, an Appalachian folk music instrument, for international jazz fusion?
Did you know that after Taters Chatham stole the chelengk of Lord Nelson (replica pictured) in 1951 it was never recovered?
Did you know that despite its sizable population, Cary is classified as a town?
Did you know that when rock musician Warren Zevon received a terminal diagnosis of lung cancer, he learned to "enjoy every sandwich"?
Did you know that writer I. C. Vissarion was sentenced to death during the 1907 Romanian peasants' revolt, after it was alleged that he had created homemade bombs?
Did you know that Brogan Rafferty was told he would never play professional ice hockey due to his amblyopia and scoliosis?
Did you know that Iran's first three-stage satellite carrier, Qaem 100, successfully passed its suborbital test?
Did you know that Maung O, Prince of Salin, and his sister Nanmadaw Me Nu became de facto rulers of Burma when King Bagyidaw was suffering from depression?
Did you know that by mid-1920, hundreds of German and Austrian communists fought in Red Army units in Turkestan?
Did you know that ophthalmologist Tom Pashby spent 46 years improving the safety of hockey helmets?
Did you know that the Supermarine Stranraer (example pictured) had the nickname "whistling shithouse"?
Did you know that "March of the Soviet Militia" by Dmitri Shostakovich was described by one biographer as a "manifestation of conformity" that was "better not to remember"?
Did you know that China limited online video games for children to three hours per week in 2021?
Did you know that Lainey Wilson said she hoped her duet with Hardy, "Wait in the Truck", haunted domestic abusers?
Did you know that astrophysicist Suzanna Randall continued her research at the European Southern Observatory while training for the spaceflight programme Die Astronautin?
Did you know that in August 2022, Sarah Oakley became the first female captain to helm the passing out parade at Dartmouth?
Did you know that the documentary Boggy Creek Monster, about the Fouke Monster, had its first screening at a middle school?
Did you know that María Urquides was the "Mother of Bilingual Education"?
Did you know that academics called MoSys's 1T-SRAM a misnomer with "a catchy name"?
Did you know that an interdisciplinary study concluded that the Motilla del Azuer was built during the 4.2-kiloyear BP aridification event, in a long period of severe drought?
Did you know that the New Zealand mollusc Eatoniella mortoni can thrive in extreme carbon dioxide-rich environments, making it a subject for the study of ocean acidification?
Did you know that the global coalition to save Abu Simbel, Philae and many other temples led to the creation of the modern list of World Heritage Sites?
Did you know that to protest against the overturning of Roe v. Wade, Billie Eilish performed a song that criticizes abusive men in power?
Did you know that Eleanor Hadley, a 29-year-old doctoral candidate in economics, was recruited by the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers to implement antitrust policies in occupied Japan?
Did you know that James Diossa rescued the only public library and post office in Central Falls, Rhode Island, when the city went into bankruptcy?
Did you know that Nargess Eskandari-Grünberg, the new mayor of Frankfurt, gave birth to her first child while a political prisoner in the wake of the Iranian Revolution?
Did you know that penetration enhancers can open tight junctions to allow entry of drugs?
Did you know that the first judgement of 2022 from the High Court of Australia  was considered a loss for a labour hire organisation, but a win for labour hire organisations?
Did you know that as a child,  Turkey national amputee footballer Şeyhmus Erdinç played football with balls he made out of crumpled paper?
Did you know that given a choice between Life and World, the answer was Yes?
Did you know that the Exchange Hotel, Montgomery, where Confederate president Jefferson Davis's inaugural procession started, also hosted Ku Klux Klan leaders, politicians, prostitutes, and two US presidents?
Did you know that the groundwater level of a coastal aquifer system changes with the tide?
Did you know that when the Yale Club of New York City Building was completed in 1901, a Yale Club member said "it will be an easy matter to look down upon" the Harvard Club?
Did you know that 55,000 Berlin workers went on strike on 28 June 1916 to protest the arrest and trial of anti-war campaigner Karl Liebknecht?
Did you know that Derrick Palmer and Chris Smalls, leaders of the Amazon Labor Union, were named two of the "100 most influential people in the world" in 2022?
Did you know that Gastria in Cyprus is "not old", but is home to Bronze Age tombs and a medieval castle?
Did you know that Jean Holzworth obtained a PhD in Latin, then retrained as a veterinarian after one of her favorite cats died from a viral infection?
Did you know that the 1957 Mongolia earthquake produced the world's best-preserved surface rupture of any great earthquake?
Did you know that the robot Cozmo is said to have "felt like a real-life version of WALL·E"?
Did you know that LCD Soundsystem recorded for the first time in five years by making the song "New Body Rhumba" for the 2022 film White Noise?
Did you know that Syndicate was the first to reach 1 million followers on Twitch, beating League of Legends developer Riot Games to the record?
Did you know that giant bucket hats were placed around Wales and in Qatar to mark Wales' football team reaching the 2022 FIFA World Cup?
Did you know that the Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina, uniquely within the Council of State, has powers in both the executive and legislative branches of government?
Did you know that when students spoke Vietnamese in a graduation speech in Louisiana, the school district proposed banning all non-English languages?
Did you know that Delsworth Buckingham was an Odd Fellow?
Did you know that a design competition was held in 2022 to find a replacement for the coat of arms of Curaçao (depicted)?
Did you know that after the Supreme Court of Ohio imposed restrictions on bail procedures, the dissenting justices participated in a bus tour to campaign for a ballot measure that took away their power on that issue?
Did you know that in 2016 an inflatable gorilla was erected on the top of the Sky Trek Tower for Six Flags Great America's Halloween event Fright Fest?
Did you know that the Adoration of the Magi with Saint Helena was once the main altarpiece at Sant'Elena, a church dedicated to its namesake?
Did you know that Fort Curtis's 24-pounder guns were taken away for use in the Vicksburg campaign?
Did you know that Sir Srinivas Varadachariar was the first Indian chief justice of the Federal Court of India?
Did you know that William Miller Beardshear was known as the "father of Iowa State College", now known as Iowa State University?
Did you know that in the Book of Mormon's allusion to the raising of Lazarus of Bethany in John 11, Abish plays a role parallel to that of Jesus?
Did you know that listeners to ESPN's sports podcasts are "13 years younger than" ESPN Radio listeners, according to a company executive?
Did you know that mathematician Daniel Larsen was the youngest contributor to the New York Times crossword puzzle?
Did you know that the setting of the game Ghost of Tsushima takes place during the Mongol invasion of Tsushima?
Did you know that Hanthawaddy royal Bya Kun fought for Ava against his enemy King Razadarit in the Forty Years' War?
Did you know that Mardi Gras Hangover was marketed as a "loop coaster", but was criticized for lacking the characteristics of a roller coaster?
Did you know that The Inland Whale, by Theodora Kroeber, sought to demonstrate the literary merit of Indigenous American oral traditions?
Did you know that linebacker Carlton Martial, who recently broke a college football record for the most tackles, began his career as a walk-on?
Did you know that male Dendro­psophus branneri frogs (example pictured) have a special "fighting call" reserved for combat with other males?
Did you know that the Golden Mirror, a Qing-dynasty medical text, contains a "one-page array of 24 anuses"?
Did you know that the Liverpool Echo described British rock and roll star Tommy Steele as "quite unable to sing and play the guitar at the same time" when reviewing his first album?
Did you know that while serving as his party's regional leader in Oruro, Franz Choque simultaneously worked as an importer to make ends meet?
Did you know that Latter-day Saint diarist Ida Hunt Udall turned down a marriage offer from her longtime boyfriend because he was a monogamist, and she wanted a polygamous marriage?
Did you know that before playing in the NFL, Jeff Jordan was a Rhodes Scholarship finalist?
Did you know that the Cornish poet D. M. Thomas blamed himself for the death of William Golding, the author of Lord of the Flies?
Did you know that the Roosevelt Hotel had a Teddy Bear Cave?
Did you know that Craig Greenberg was shot at while running in the 2022 Louisville mayoral election?
Did you know that Elisabeth Griffith's sweeping 100-year history of the American equal-rights movement has been compared to listening to Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire"?
Did you know that Through the Darkest of Times was the first video game published in Germany to use swastikas?
Did you know that a 1975 "open tube" event at Waterlooplein station gave the citizens of Amsterdam their first look at the city's metro system?
Did you know that a British filmmaker forced the British Board of Film Classification to watch paint drying for ten hours?
Did you know that the Central American government voted for annexation to the First Mexican Empire after a request from Regent Agustín de Iturbide?
Did you know that Cheng Dan'an is "widely considered the father of modern acupuncture"?
Did you know that the Streichmelodion was once described as being "more like a frying pan than a musical instrument"?
Did you know that Caroline Harrison would mail ceramic milk sets to parents who named their children after U.S. president Benjamin Harrison?
Did you know that Neha Pendse, the lead actress of the Marathi film June, contributed some of her own money towards its production?
Did you know that Rosalind Creasy wrote a landmark book on edible landscaping?
Did you know that a study of Anglo-Saxon literature begun by Bernard Pitt in 1914 was completed by a colleague after Pitt was killed in the First World War?
Did you know that pigs in blankets are not pigs in a blanket?
Did you know that squatters were one of the groups that started the Mau Mau rebellion?
Did you know that An Appeal for Human Rights was published by college students in 1960 in response to racial inequality in Atlanta?
Did you know that Zenith Data Systems unveiled their SupersPort laptop (example pictured) at a Chicago show that featured helmeted performers and motorcyclists?
Did you know that according to Qing-dynasty physician Xu Dachun, "stupid people believe that expensive drugs must be good drugs"?
Did you know that according to one Turkish artist, a nude sculpture by Gürdal Duyar almost dissolved the 37th government of Turkey?
Did you know that plutonium produced in the nuclear reactors at the Hanford Engineer Works was used in the Fat Man bomb used in the atomic bombing of Nagasaki in August 1945?
Did you know that George Vernon's loss against the Parsis cricket team was seen as "a blow to the prestige of the Empire"?
Did you know that Josephine Gates Kelly of the Standing Rock Reservation once hitchhiked to Washington, D.C., to protest portions of the Indian Reorganization Act?
Did you know that Raorchestes chalazodes (example pictured) lays its eggs inside bamboo, and is the only species in its genus to exhibit parental care?
Did you know that bookseller John Harrison Stonehouse commissioned the "cursed" edition of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam that was lost when the Titanic sank in 1912?
Did you know that the Durham police mast was designed to be slender to minimise the impact on views of Durham Cathedral?
Did you know that when Maha Thamun, the head of the Hanthawaddy delegation, presented his king's demands, King Thado of Ava reflexively ordered his execution?
Did you know that "Gegrüßet seist du, Königin", a German version of the Latin hymn "Salve Regina", was taken to the U.S. by emigrants and became popular in the U.S. in the film Sister Act?
Did you know that a 4 December 1915 agreement by French prime minister Aristide Briand with a British proposal to evacuate the Salonika front almost led to the collapse of his government?
Did you know that a Royal Air Force officer built a KAVE in New Mexico?
Did you know that the calling patterns of the Japanese tree frog have been used in wireless network design, furthering an area of science known as swarm intelligence?
Did you know that while DreamBooth can be used by anyone to fine-tune image generation AI models, the cost barrier to entry is quite high for hobbyist users?
Did you know that Burmese scholar Shaw Loo was Bucknell University's first international student?
Did you know that Chinese physician Zhang Jiebin believed that tobacco smoking was good for health?
Did you know that Symphyotrichum kentuckiense (flower head pictured), the Kentucky aster, is only found on limestone cedar glades and limestone roadsides in Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, and Tennessee?
Did you know that background research for Dujanah included interviews with Muslim apostates and a Scottish veteran of Afghanistan?
Did you know that the Concerto for Piano and String Orchestra was described by its composer, Alfred Schnittke, as sounding like a "blues nightmare" at one point?
Did you know that the external models of the Popcom modem have no status lights, instead providing feedback to the user through touch tones?
Did you know that Gary Kemp put subtle references to Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita in his lyrics for Spandau Ballet's "True" so Clare Grogan would know the song was about her?
Did you know that Nettie Metcalf was the first woman recognized by the American Poultry Association for creating a breed of chicken, the Buckeye chicken (example pictured),  in the 1890s?
Did you know that Orion Anderson, who was murdered by a lynch mob in Virginia in 1889, was recently found to have been only 14 years old at the time of his death?
Did you know that Teardown was not traditionally marketed because of the popularity it gained through Twitter?
Did you know that in 1858, when Congress delayed its decision on Oregon statehood, Nathaniel H. Gates became the last Speaker of Oregon’s Territorial House of Representatives?
Did you know that the Morane-Borel military monoplane participated in the Reims Military Aviation Competition, where it lost?
Did you know that the home of American revolutionary leader John Cooper was used by General Lord Cornwallis as his headquarters during the British occupation of Woodbury, New Jersey, in 1777?
Did you know that Ella Stewart Udall relayed her husband's letters to his semi-secret second wife?
Did you know that Gary Wilson threw his snooker cue to the floor in anger at the 2022 UK Championship?
Did you know that St. Bernward in Döhren was consecrated in 1893, when part of Christoph Hehl's design of a basilica in the Romanesque Revival style was built, but the building was only completed after World War II?
Did you know that because of a mistake in a proposed state constitutional amendment, the New Jersey Legislature defined biannually to mean biennially?
Did you know that it was J. R. R. Tolkien's intention for Black Speech to be "full of harsh and hideous sounds and vile words"?
Did you know that the National Wrestling Conference's controversial KKK storyline was the inspiration for an episode of the Netflix series GLOW?
Did you know that Church Clothes 4 deals with Christian hip hop artist Lecrae's faith deconstruction and reconstruction?
Did you know that Olive MacLeod journeyed 6,000 km (3,700 mi) through Africa in 1910–1911 to visit her murdered fiancé's grave, and wrote a book based on her observations?
Did you know that Richard Newland is cricket's earliest-known left-handed batter?
Did you know that Tennessee State Route 396 was constructed to provide access to the Spring Hill Manufacturing plant of Saturn Corporation?
Did you know that an apparently jobless man wearing a cardboard box who taped himself to a lamppost was actually a new DJ for a Vermont radio station?