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Did you know that in 2019, Chinese electronics company Xiaomi posted a video of their third-quarterly financial report featuring a parody of the anime song "Renai Circulation"?
Did you know that Casey Johnston's writing about weightlifting is intended for people who feel their bodies are "never hot enough"?
Did you know that Le Vin herbé is a 1942 musical setting of the story of Tristan and Iseult by Frank Martin for twelve vocalists, seven strings and piano?
Did you know that William J. Murphy's presidency of Boston College began 16 days before the start of World War II and concluded five days after hostilities ended?
Did you know that today is independence day for Philly 57?
Did you know that when Kentuckians discover unwanted bourbon, there is something they can do with it?
Did you know that with all known Palae­orehniidae fossils (example pictured) being incomplete, the relationships of the family are uncertain?
Did you know that Scholastic requested Maggie Tokuda-Hall remove the phrase "virulent racism" from the Author's Note in Love in the Library, a children's book about Japanese-American internment camps?
Did you know that Slovenian-born singer Ben Dolic was set to represent Germany at Eurovision in 2020?
Did you know that butterfly collector Ian Heslop was once required to supervise an execution?
Did you know that charges of murder and grand larceny followed the theft of the Binion Hoard (coin pictured), which was valued at US$4 million in 1998?
Did you know that in 1819, members of the Catholic Tübingen school first published the Theologische Quartalschrift, which remains in print as the oldest journal of Catholic theology in the world?
Did you know that Nāmākēhā was sacrificed in 1797 after he led an unsuccessful rebellion against Hawaiian king Kamehameha I?
Did you know that Patricia Mancilla pushed to have restrictions on abortion in Bolivia expunged from the legal code – even after leaders in her own party came out against it?
Did you know that Regina Purtell took such great care of Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders that the press called her the Florence Nightingale of the Spanish–American War?
Did you know that an unfinished cut of Revolution+1, a film about the life of the suspected assassin of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe, was released in theaters the day before Abe's state funeral?
Did you know that in Yugoslavia, Rudi Čajavec, the electronics company that produced various components of the M-84 tank, also made guitar amplifiers?
Did you know that C/1990 K1 (Levy) was the first comet observed by the Hubble Space Telescope, but only short exposures were obtained as the telescope was not yet able to track Solar System bodies?
Did you know that Major League Baseball pitcher Charlie Gray was billed as his team's pitcher "of six fingers and six toed fame" and called "a freak" by the Sporting Life?
Did you know that Nicola Griffith's novella Spear examines how the Roman conquest made Britain an ethnically diverse society?
Did you know that in 1968, actor Ludovic Antal recited a Romanian nationalist poem in front of tourists from Soviet Moldavia, causing them to flee for their bus for fear of a "provocation"?
Did you know that the pastor of St. Patrick's Old Cathedral made Nicholas Russo celebrate Mass in the basement of the church because Russo was Italian?
Did you know that Blockchain Chicken Farm is about chicken farms run by people who have never heard of blockchain?
Did you know that Helene Ollendorff Curth was first to introduce a set of criteria for associating some rashes as possible indicators for internal cancers?
Did you know that circulation numbers for early comic books featuring Captain America remained close to a million copies per month, outstripping news magazines such as Time?
Did you know that raw material waste from the West influenced a generation of rock music in China?
Did you know that the Munich Mouser, Neville Chamberlain's pet, and Nelson, Winston Churchill's pet, had a rivalry during World War II?
Did you know that the clothing tags for Alexander McQueen's first collection, Jack the Ripper Stalks His Victims (garment pictured), had McQueen's own hair encased inside?
Did you know that the legal battle over awarding channel 9 in Orlando, Florida, the longest case in FCC history at the time, filled 55 volumes?
Did you know that Igor Stravinsky called his 1955 orchestral work Greeting Prelude "a kind of singing telegram"?
Did you know that Mark Fabish was recruited to play college football by coach Al Bagnoli and 30 years later succeeded him as head coach of the Columbia Lions?
Did you know that Portrait of a Creole Woman with Madras Tignon fetched nearly $1 million at auction despite questions about both its artist and subject?
Did you know that Quechua senator Carmen García helped pass reforms to education in Bolivia that incorporated indigenous and traditional knowledge?
Did you know that before having bracelets thrown at him in July, Harry Styles had been the target of Skittles, chicken nuggets, kiwi fruit, tampons, feather boas, cowboy hats, pride flags, and Dr. Simi dolls?
Did you know that the rights to build Incheon Station in the Korean Empire were temporarily given to an American company in an attempt to protect it from the Empire of Japan?
Did you know that 30 Ukrainian anarchists defeated more than 500 Austrian imperial soldiers at the Battle of Dibrivka?
Did you know that Le langaige du Bresil, one of the earliest documentary sources of any South American language, demonstrates that Europeans and Brazilian indigenous peoples maintained intimate social contacts?
Did you know that Phal­lich­thys (literally 'penis fish') species are so called because the males (example pictured) have "comparatively huge" sex appendages?
Did you know that cannibals used hooks to kidnap people during a famine in Fatimid Egypt?
Did you know that the Japanese-language children's show Kikaida, popularized in Hawaii by a Honolulu TV station, beat Sesame Street in the local ratings?
Did you know that Bridgeman Island was the first volcano in Antarctica to be seen erupting?
Did you know that Indianapolis's 2023 gun control ordinance – which bans assault weapons, among other measures – is a trigger law that only goes into effect if Indiana's state preemption law is repealed or struck down?
Did you know that Singaporean broadcaster Lee Fook Hong legally changed his name to Lee Dai Sor (literally 'Lee Big Fool' in Cantonese) after being accused of tax evasion?
Did you know that a seat was reserved for Buddhist monks and nuns in the Sikkim State Council?
Did you know that it can be horrifying to people to choose to use too many tos?
Did you know that provatura cheese was mentioned in a 12th-century chronicle?
Did you know that the Korean stew budae-jjigae (example pictured) commonly includes baked beans, Spam, corn, and American cheese?
Did you know that the U.S. Marine Hospital in Lahaina collapsed due to vibrations from neighboring construction, was rebuilt, and then was destroyed by the 2023 Hawaii wildfires?
Did you know that the waltz from Khachaturian's Masquerade Suite has been called "spooky" and is often played for Halloween?
Did you know that Adam W. Oberlin, the 1917 Republican nominee to be the mayor of Canton, Ohio, went missing and was found seven months later working as a carpenter in Norfolk, Virginia?
Did you know that African porters in Salvador, Bahia, went on strike after the provincial government passed a law requiring them to wear metal identification tags?
Did you know that Mimodactylus (reconstruction pictured) is the first complete pterosaur from the Afro-Arabian continent?
Did you know that Twitter's headquarters building in San Francisco was built as a trade center for furniture wholesalers in 1937?
Did you know that a wolf reportedly ate Boris Johnson's dongle at an Italian castle owned by a Russian billionaire?
Did you know that merry widows like soft bottoms?
Did you know that more than 60 scientific papers authored by mathematician Paul Erdős were published posthumously?
Did you know that one NYPD captain called the 1973 Brooklyn hostage crisis the "birthplace of hostage negotiation"?
Did you know that one of the earliest models of communication was developed by Aristotle?
Did you know that since being left vacant the grade II–listed Occleshaw House in Leyland, Lancashire, has been used as an illegal cannabis farm and suffered a suspected arson attack?
Did you know that the Campanile, a bell tower in Portmeirion, north Wales, was built in 1928 using stone from a nearby 12th-century castle?
Did you know that Australian politicians may face the pub test?
Did you know that DeepStateMap.Live, an interactive map of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, received up to 120,000 visitors in 30 minutes during the Battle of Izium in the 2022 Kharkiv counteroffensive?
Did you know that Megan Abbott's 2018 novel Give Me Your Hand uses menstruation as a metaphor, which she compared to comments made by Donald Trump during the 2016 election?
Did you know that The Librarian was part of the shift by computer programmers away from using punched cards?
Did you know that Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica is expected to add 65 cm (26 in) to global sea levels over the coming centuries?
Did you know that Towa Tei's "Sometime Samurai" remained unfinished for eight years until Australian singer Kylie Minogue re-recorded the song in 2004?
Did you know that Wagner Group head of logistics Valery Chekalov, who was killed in the 2023 Tver Oblast plane crash, used the call sign "Rover"?
Did you know that an initial gameplay concept for Diggin' Dogs was "possibly going to be worms eating into a diseased brain", with design input from Edmund McMillen?
Did you know that frescoes, sarcophagi, urns, and trousseaux found in the tombs of Etruscan women (bust pictured) show the important roles they played in society?
Did you know that it is controversial whether indoctrination forms part of education?
Did you know that pilot Henry Biard made his first flight before taking his first flying lesson?
Did you know that readers of Detroit columnist Nancy Brown funded the reforestation of 560 acres of land in her honor during the Great Depression?
Did you know that several science fiction critics praised "Rock Diver", the first short story by American writer Harry Harrison, for its compelling take on technology for passing through matter?
Did you know that the first road tunnel in England, opened in 1823 in Reigate, Surrey, runs under the site of a medieval castle?
Did you know that Leskov Island is probably inaccessible for penguins?
Did you know that Romanian literary scholar Dan Simonescu, who edited a chronicle dealing with the reign of Michael the Brave, had to delete any mention of Michael having "all the Jews murdered"?
Did you know that Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014 is an example of irredentism?
Did you know that UK prime minister Rishi Sunak complained when a joint declaration was made at a summit between the EU and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States that used the term Islas Malvinas?
Did you know that a California sea lion, later named Freeway, was thought to have traveled up Chollas Creek before getting onto California State Highway 94?
Did you know that according to Ron Howard, his high school classmates teased him by whistling "The Andy Griffith Show Theme"?
Did you know that according to historian Mark Summers, Amphi­thea­trum John­son­ianum could be read as "an invitation to regicide"?
Did you know that as of 2018, the opera house in Harrington, Washington – which opened in 1904 – had never staged an opera?
Did you know that invisible ships are a myth?
Did you know that kids could fight the Great Chicago Fire at Freedomland U.S.A.?
Did you know that Eternal Blue, a metalcore album, was inspired in part by 1980s pop music?
Did you know that JPEGMafia did not use Pro Tools when Scaring the Hoes?
Did you know that John Koniszewski was wounded by machine-gun fire at the Battle of Saipan, returned to the battle after "a brief rest", and later played three years in the National Football League?
Did you know that José Cobo Cano compared officiating same-sex marriages to celebrating the Eucharist with Coca-Cola?
Did you know that Loud LDN co-founder Maisi came joint last in the 2022 Maldon mud race, behind a naked runner who had been forced to start after everyone else?
Did you know that William L. Keleher fired three teachers who said Boston College was teaching heresy?
Did you know that a photograph of Frances "the Shape" Vorne wearing a swimsuit made from remnants of a captured Nazi parachute was one of the most sought-after pin-ups of World War II?
Did you know that it took nearly five years for Tetsuya Tsutsui to find out that the first volume of his work Manhole was banned in Nagasaki Prefecture?
Did you know that record executive Tim DuBois locked the members of Restless Heart in an office for seven hours until they came up with a name for the band?
Did you know that the assassination of Shinzo Abe motivated a former believer of the Unification Church, Sayuri Ogawa, to become a prominent anti-cult activist?
Did you know that the dwarf merry widow is not very brave?
Did you know that "Rich Men North of Richmond" by Oliver Anthony was the first single to debut at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 with no previous chart history for its artist?
Did you know that Adam Exner, the archbishop of Vancouver from 1991 to 2004, played polkas and waltzes on the accordion well after he became a bishop?
Did you know that Covanta Hempstead's predecessor smelled so bad that it caused nearby shoppers to vomit and its workers to strike?
Did you know that Vladimír Mandl wrote the first book on space law 25 years before Sputnik 1 was launched into space?
Did you know that a Baltimore TV station aspired to be "the Cadillac of independents"?
Did you know that actress Diana Ingro was known as the "Argentine Katharine Hepburn"?
Did you know that dwarf mollies hit rock bottom when they grow up?
Did you know that five years after retiring as the president of the Green Bay Packers, judge Robert J. Parins ruled on a case related to American serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer?
Did you know that following the energy price shock caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Turkish government intervened to have the country's renewable energy subsidise coal and gas?
Did you know that it is not known what happened to the 25 pregnant women who were given iodine-132 in Keith Halnan's study?
Did you know that the former Lyster Sanatorium, which was used as the setting for the horror movie Villmark Asylum, is being renovated as a hotel?
Did you know that the success of Kingdom Rush prompted plans to grow the video game industry of Uruguay?
Did you know that when Erice van Leuven's brothers posted a video of her mountain biking as a 10-year-old, she received four offers of sponsorship?
Did you know that George Griffith wrote a book about the Boer War three years before it started?
Did you know that Jonathan Blow thought that he may not have finished creating the videogame Braid were he not simultaneously learning kung fu?
Did you know that Pont Abraham Services, at the end of the M4, were one of the first in the UK to sell fuel for over £2 per litre?
Did you know that The Impossible Quiz is possible to beat?
Did you know that William J. Ennis's office consisted of a folding bed?
Did you know that an "army" of women were congratulated by Pat Nixon for their fundraising efforts to bring public TV to Indianapolis?
Did you know that discharge printing creates patterns by stripping dye from dyed cloth?
Did you know that in 2023, footballer Funso Ojo was named as Port Vale's PFA community player of the year for his efforts at becoming more environmentally friendly?
Did you know that judge Robert Bork's leaked list of video rentals included movies such as Citizen Kane, The Philadelphia Story and Sixteen Candles?
Did you know that the Siberian crane is considered more threatened than the whooping crane, despite there being an estimated ten times more of them?
Did you know that BattleBit Remastered, a massively multiplayer online first-person shooter, was created by three indie developers?
Did you know that Chester Smith's California TV station ran its newscast on a "dental floss budget", as one former anchor put it?
Did you know that Graham Fraser pioneered cochlear implantation in the United Kingdom?
Did you know that Haggai Chisom Ndubuisi, a National Football League player, had never heard of American football before watching a YouTube video when he was 18 years old?
Did you know that Holocaust survivor Samuel Rajzman, a witness to the post-war Nuremberg and Treblinka trials, escaped from Treblinka concentration camp and was then sheltered by a local Polish farmer?
Did you know that Hungarians Gyula Bajó and Endre Hevizi, who went on to design stained glass (example pictured) for the Debre Libanos monastery, worked as labourers in a British pottery after the Second World War?
Did you know that Jiří Kylián's ballet Petite Mort (dancers pictured) uses slow movements from Mozart's most famous piano concertos to contrast the physicality of the choreography?
Did you know that after the Battle of Lewinsville, the "Gray Ghost" wrote that he regretted "the glorious opportunity that I missed of winging their colonel"?
Did you know that medieval monks could be punished by being walled up alive in a special ecclesiastical prison called the Vade in Pace?
Did you know that the Adelaide L. T. Douglas House, built for a New York City socialite, housed the United States Olympic Committee before being sold to Guatemala?
Did you know that the mayor of Antrim, Adrian Watson, said that he was overlooked for not being a "Cameron Cutie"?
Did you know that Angeline Quinto has recorded songs for at least 35 films and television soundtracks in the Philippines?
Did you know that Dear England tells the story of how manager Gareth Southgate helped change notions of masculinity for the men's national football team?
Did you know that Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers formed Wet Leg on a Ferris wheel?
Did you know that a pregnant Meghan Trainor, who considered her child a present, wore bows during the promotion for her album A Very Trainor Christmas?
Did you know that according to the Lotharian legend a medieval emperor declared Roman law the law of the Holy Roman Empire?
Did you know that archaeological excavations in the historic town of Kharayeb revealed a rural settlement with a complex system of cisterns and a Phoenician temple?
Did you know that the Cardinal of Portugal's Altarpiece commemorates a prince who fought in battle aged 14 and died aged 25?
Did you know that the Hotel Brexton in Baltimore was once home to Wallis Simpson, the American divorcée who married Edward VIII?
Did you know that the Hôtel Gabriel was rebuilt after its destruction in World War II?
Did you know that the tenor Graham Clark appeared at the Bayreuth Festival in 16 seasons, portraying the characters Loge and Mime in the 1988 Ring cycle?
Did you know that Imagining Mars: A Literary History "presents a compelling case that 'Mars matters'"?
Did you know that Ivan Beshoff, the last survivor of the mutiny on the Potemkin, emigrated to Ireland where he established a fish and chip shop that is still run by his descendants?
Did you know that a 1903 New York Times editorial  predicted it would take one to ten million years to develop an operating flying machine?
Did you know that according to family tradition, admiral and painter Jacob Hägg decided to become a naval officer after seeing a Franco-British naval force during the Crimean War?
Did you know that in 2018, breast surgeon Liz O'Riordan arrived for her breast cancer treatment dressed as Mrs Incredible?
Did you know that in season three of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Oliver personally forgave nearly $15 million of medical debt for 9,000 Americans?
Did you know that one way to tell the African dusky flycatcher apart from the ashy flycatcher (example pictured) is that the former is "cuter"?
Did you know that scholarly study of the poetry of Kishvari, one of the most important Azerbaijani poets of the 15th and 16th centuries, only started in 1928?
Did you know that the Buffalo Sabres drafted a fictional player in the 1974 National Hockey League Amateur Draft?
Did you know that the Kingstree jail fire killed 22 freedmen amidst the "unsettled" labor conditions of Reconstruction in South Carolina?
Did you know that the fieldwork of Soviet ethnologist Evdokia Kozhevnikova for her unfinished dissertation provides a valuable record of the culture and the language of the Georgian province of Svaneti?
Did you know that HMS Redpole, one of the aptly-named coffin brigs, sank in an action with a pirate vessel in August 1828?
Did you know that Moran Zer Katzenstein led a women's march inspired by The Handmaid's Tale in protest of Israeli judicial reform?
Did you know that at the age of 19, Van E. Chandler was the youngest pilot in the United States Armed Forces to become a flying ace during World War II?
Did you know that the Madrasa Ghaziuddin Khan is one of the few surviving madrasas dating from the Mughal Empire, and the oldest continuing school in Delhi, India?
Did you know that the day before William J. McGarry was set to leave for the Pontifical Biblical Institute, he was instead appointed a professor at Weston College?
Did you know that the earliest-known Jewish writer in the Americas was the nephew of a conquistador?
Did you know that the first organized football game of C. J. Okoye's life was in the National Football League?
Did you know that the name of the video game mod series Bomba Patch was inspired by éclairs?
Did you know that the song "Hot" features samples of car alarms?
Did you know that when the Hungarian Arts Fund denied a grant application by Tamás Király for a fashion show, he used the rejection letter as a poster?
Did you know that "Updown", the first solo single released by Piri and Tommy Villiers after their breakup, was about Piri having cowgirl sex with Villiers?
Did you know that Catechumen, a Christian first-person shooter, was funded only in the aftermath of the Columbine High School massacre?
Did you know that Georgia's racketeering law has been used to prosecute an assisted-suicide group, schoolteachers in a cheating scandal, a fake dentist, and Donald Trump?
Did you know that House Gospel Choir's very first gig was at Glastonbury?
Did you know that William Nixon performed abortions in the NHS before the passing of the Abortion Act 1967?
Did you know that a rapper coined the term "Dongbei renaissance" to describe the cultural resurgence of China's rust belt?
Did you know that clown Julia Masli found success by shaking hands with audience members using her feet?
Did you know that during the 2021 Nabisco strike, Kotaku published an article discussing the ethics of buying Pokémon-themed Oreos?
Did you know that in Greek architecture the round tholos form (example pictured) offered an escape from the "austere conventions" of Greek temple design?
Did you know that the Lava Ridge Wind Project proposal has faced opposition for putting 740-foot-tall (230 m) wind turbines next to the former Minidoka internment camp?
Did you know that upon establishing Georgia's first printing press for Vakhtang VI, Mihai Iștvanovici published Romanian verse in Georgian script?
Did you know that KFC rice may have originated as a quick, cheap Christmas dinner, owing to the popularity of KFC in Japan?
Did you know that following the release of Olivia Rodrigo's song "The Grudge", fans speculated that it was about her supposed feud with Taylor Swift?
Did you know that the old town hall in Godalming, Surrey, is nicknamed "The Pepperpot" after its distinctive cupola?
Did you know that Christian "Chrigel" Maurer, eight-time winner of the X-Alps "hike-and-fly" paragliding endurance race, and his future wife Karin both won gold medals at the same World Cup event?
Did you know that There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd that once led to the Jergins Trust Building in Long Beach, California?
Did you know that artist Joan Brigham is best known for her work with steam?
Did you know that due to the 1955 Brazilian coup d'état, Brazil had three presidents in the span of a single week?