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Did you know that Playboi Carti's song titled "2024" was first teased in 2023 and later officially released in 2025?
Did you know that Wen Chia-ling, despite her family's initial opposition to her becoming an archer, helped Taiwan's team achieve its best-ever finish at the 2000 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that novelist Barbara Frischmuth argues that humans should not presume to rule over other species?
Did you know that the 1982 film The Second November was filmed in colour, but shown in black-and-white until 2012?
Did you know that Dennis Walker acquired millions of dollars' worth of sports memorabilia before being investigated for racketeering and selling unregistered certificates of deposit by the Oregon Attorney General?
Did you know that Hamdan Taha co-led excavations at Hisham's Palace, an early Islamic archaeological site in the West Bank?
Did you know that Venezuelan-American socialite Reinaldo Herrera's extensive connections led to Vanity Fair employing him to work as a fixer?
Did you know that in North America, Europe and New Zealand, research funding is sometimes distributed by lottery?
Did you know that Jim Aldred, with nothing to do after the beach season ended, developed ice hockey in Portugal?
Did you know that Peter Sprenger was the first Liechtensteiner to summit Mount Everest?
Did you know that a Nevada radio station once had a show that played Tongan music?
Did you know that an Italian adage says that a fat pope follows a thin one?
Did you know that the 2nd-century BC Aramaic inscription of Yanouh is the first attested use of Aramaic as a public language in Mount Lebanon?
Did you know that there was a legal battle over whether Sachertorte should have one or two layers of sponge?
Did you know that a statue of German-born missionary Johann Gottlieb Schwarz was commissioned by Prabowo Subianto, later president of Indonesia?
Did you know that mining engineer William H. Shockley found specimens that were used to describe Aquilegia shockleyi and Lupinus shockleyi?
Did you know that swimmer Yuri Hosei was studying at a restaurant when she learned that she had qualified to represent Palau at the 2024 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that the Oregon Garden obtained the Gordon House because of a misunderstanding?
Did you know that a public toilet in Paris (entrance pictured) is a French national heritage site?
Did you know that a special election in February 1963 put the first Republican in four decades into the Mississippi Legislature?
Did you know that carrot recorders, butternut squash trombones, and aubergine castanets are all instruments in the London Vegetable Orchestra?
Did you know that the hedonistic pursuit of pleasure may itself prevent pleasure?
Did you know that Laurie Schipper, who was inducted into the Iowa Women's Hall of Fame in 2022, testified to support a woman who murdered her abusive husband?
Did you know that Sobrevivendo no Inferno by Racionais MC's, which critiques police violence and systemic racism in Brazil, was required reading for a university entrance examination?
Did you know that a North Carolina TV station was originally named after its attorney?
Did you know that lawyer Jefferson Fisher went viral after sharing short videos providing  practical communication tips recorded in his parked pickup truck in Silsbee, Texas?
Did you know that the grave of Javanese spiritual leader Kyai Maja at his exile near Lake Tondano has become a site for pilgrimages?
Did you know that American-born Freddie Lish called playing for the Thai national basketball team, "my dream ever since I found out my mom was born in Thailand"?
Did you know that Cory Booker delivered the longest recorded individual speech in United States Senate history while protesting the second presidency of Donald Trump?
Did you know that Victor L. King employed only black people from the South in 1917 at his new chemical plant in New Jersey to "prevent the entrance into the organization of any enemy aliens" during World War I?
Did you know that during his final known voyage, Lope Martín overthrew two captains before being marooned on Ujelang Atoll?
Did you know that nine days after his heart transplant, J. C. Walter Jr. merged his company Houston Oil & Minerals with Tenneco, then retired to his ranch and shortly after founded Walter Oil & Gas?
Did you know that the Rani of Jhansi (statue pictured) has been described as "the greatest heroine of Indian history"?
Did you know that the shooting of Eileen Quinn was referenced in the poetry of W. B. Yeats?
Did you know that Charles Smith has worked as a basketball coach at the same high school for the past 50 years?
Did you know that UCLA Bruins player Tyler Bilodeau cited his mother, who played in the WNBA, as "the reason I play basketball"?
Did you know that a man is transformed into a woman for seven years in the medieval tale of The Abbot of Drimnagh, an uncommon example of gender-shifting in European folktales?
Did you know that the International Olympic Committee rejected recognition of the Marshall Islands National Olympic Committee as the nation's citizens hold dual citizenship?
Did you know that the Spanish anarchist Agustín Remiro worked as a foreign agent for MI6?
Did you know that Uncus dzaugisi is the oldest ecdysozoan, a group that contains arthropods, tardigrades, and nematodes, ever found?
Did you know that after Joe Matesic was revealed to have played at Arizona State under his brother's name, the football coach resigned and the school was nearly expelled from the Border Conference?
Did you know that although Australia and New Zealand competed at the 2017 Asian Winter Games, they were ineligible to win medals?
Did you know that Bosnian sitting volleyball players  Sabahudin Delalić, Ismet Godinjak, Adnan Manko, Asim Medić, and Dževad Hamzić have won medals at every Paralympics this century?
Did you know that Jilly Cooper described her bonkbuster Appassionata as her "sex and Chopin" novel?
Did you know that around 80 percent of foreign tourists to the Indonesian province of Lampung in 2019 went to the town of Krui?
Did you know that inmates from New York state prisons can be involuntarily committed at the Central New York Psychiatric Center?
Did you know that mountain lions in the Santa Monica Mountains of Los Angeles are one of only two examples of wild big cats living in a megacity?
Did you know that the Marshal of France surrendered to the Black Prince after his keep was set on fire?
Did you know that the Norman Lykes House was the last house that Frank Lloyd Wright ever designed?
Did you know that Alamat's "Maharani" made them the first Pinoy pop boy band to enter the Billboard Philippines Hot 100?
Did you know that Ireland won the mixed 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2024 European Athletics Championships, receiving their first European gold medal in athletics since 1998?
Did you know that cinematographer Jason Kwan, a frequent collaborator with Pang Ho-cheung, made his directorial debut by adapting a novella written by Pang?
Did you know that fighter pilot I. B. Donalson was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his actions while commanding a boat?
Did you know that Beyoncé's "Formation" video topped Rolling Stone's list of the "100 Greatest Music Videos of All Time" in 2021?
Did you know that Jim Coffeen was the one of the first two quarterbacks for the Green Bay Packers, then served as the team's first public address announcer?
Did you know that a liquor-drinking celebrity goat named Ioiô won an election for city councilman in Fortaleza?
Did you know that kākā birds deeply scar Nothofagus menziesii trees while searching for the larvae of the pūriri moth?
Did you know that priests were secretly buried at St Catherine's Chapel, Lydiate, after it fell into ruin?
Did you know that Google searches for the word "fortnight" in the US increased by 868% on the release day of the song "Fortnight" by Taylor Swift?
Did you know that Sašo Bertoncelj competed on MasterChef Slovenia during his gymnastics career?
Did you know that the Green Bay Packers signed Tom Birney as their new kicker  in 1979, even though he had not kicked a field goal in more than five years?
Did you know that the Knox Mountain Hillclimb is considered very challenging due to every corner being off camber?
Did you know that the robotic costumes used in the Doctor Who episode "The Robot Revolution" were 3D printed in thirty-four different pieces before being assembled?
Did you know that the works of Yaelokre have been compared to The Lord of the Rings, Gorillaz, and the illustrations of Where the Wild Things Are?
Did you know that Costa Rica's most famous bull killed two men and loved mangos?
Did you know that Fatima Hassouna was killed shortly after a documentary about her was announced for the 2025 Cannes Film Festival?
Did you know that Vincent de Groof successfully tested his bat-like flying machine in 1874, only to die after crashing it 10 days later?
Did you know that at a Destroy Lonely concert promoting an edition of his debut album, some fans entered his car?
Did you know that in 1917 more than 8,000 African Americans protested lynchings by marching down New York City's Fifth Avenue in silence, accompanied only by the sound of muffled drums?
Did you know that visitors from various countries come to a temple to see a wild Chinese monkey named Xing Xing?
Did you know that Javier Domínguez, the current Magic: The Gathering world champion, likes to play more than he likes to win?
Did you know that Proceratosaurus is one of the oldest tyrannosaurs?
Did you know that 33 years after The New York Times called David Lynch's film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me "brain-dead" and seemingly "the worst movie ever made", it conceded that the film was now "revered"?
Did you know that Gabriel Luna used a flamethrower in an episode of The Last of Us, and afterwards had recurring visions of flaming figures running towards him?
Did you know that Jane Remover's school counselor made sure Remover felt fine after a classmate wrote an essay about lyrics from Teen Week?
Did you know that a gun club once allegedly parked boats in the living room of a plantation house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright?
Did you know that many North Carolina Farmers' Union members left the organization as a result of leader Henry Quincy Alexander's opposition to American entry into World War I?
Did you know that the crew of HNLMS Java struggled to access the sinking ship's life vests because these were locked away in a hard-to-reach compartment?
Did you know that the nearly 200 sexual encounters Molly Kochan had while terminally ill formed the basis of the Dying for Sex podcast and subsequent TV series?
Did you know that two future deans of the University of Indonesia, Margono Soekarjo and Djamaloeddin, conducted the first surgery on conjoined twins in Indonesia?
Did you know that Britart and the Turner Prize are both lampooned in the Jilly Cooper romance novel Pandora?
Did you know that Elizabeth II once asked a future member of the "What the Hell Just Happened?" girlband Remember Monday why she was not wearing shoes?
Did you know that Meng Sufen led a 1993 investigation in Guizhou's Mashan region, sparking a donation campaign raising over 1.6 million yuan for poverty alleviation?
Did you know that NFL player Fred Borak once played basketball against the Harlem Globetrotters?
Did you know that Priamurye Governorate-General, a Russian colony in East Asia, issued passports in order to segregate East Asian migrants from the general population?
Did you know that a sunflower is not a flower?
Did you know that cozy game Wanderstop took so long to develop, according to director Davey Wreden, that "cozy game" became a swear word?
Did you know that the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy bought the Goetsch–Winckler House just two days before it was to be auctioned off?
Did you know that the scriptural phrase "fear and trembling" has been used to celebrate hospitality, explore the nature of faith, and justify slavery?
Did you know that "The Well" is a sequel to a 17-year-old Doctor Who episode?
Did you know that American football player Terry Bussey accounted for 72 touchdowns in a season despite playing with a torn meniscus?
Did you know that Miss Behave's Mavericks, a Las Vegas variety show, urges audience members to toss balled up one-dollar bills at performers?
Did you know that Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Hsien Loong's phrase "mee siam mai hum" was described as "Singlish for being out of touch"?
Did you know that Rhino Boy Chris has run 113 marathons wearing a rhinoceros costume to raise awareness for rhino conservation?
Did you know that Robert Allen Norris wrote his PhD dissertation on the brown-headed nuthatch (Sitta pusilla) and the pygmy nuthatch (Sitta pygmaea), later calling it "A Tale of Two Sittas"?
Did you know that Voltaire Molesworth spent part of his early childhood in a utopian socialist colony in Paraguay?
Did you know that a Land Rover driver falling asleep led to the Selby rail crash?
Did you know that after Mark Mulvoy hosted a party, he was reportedly grabbed by the throat for "trying to ruin" the Boston Red Sox?
Did you know that the route of the Bergebyløpet N70 long-distance sled dog race is entirely north of the 70th parallel north?
Did you know that the second owner of Kentuck Knob, a house by Frank Lloyd Wright, "fell in love with the outside" and wanted to see the inside so urgently that he decided to purchase it?
Did you know that Greg Jensen went from world cow dung throwing champion to playing in the NFL?
Did you know that Pope Donus II never existed, despite being praised for his honorable conduct by later historians?
Did you know that Topsy was the longest-surviving member of the United States Camel Corps?
Did you know that a bust of a Chinese gentleman is not based on any actual subject?
Did you know that a science fiction short story from 1939 has been called an "eerie prediction" and "an uncanny, horrifyingly vivid prophecy" of The Holocaust?
Did you know that an Antiguan man who escaped from custody in Canada is suspected of stealing a yacht and sailing it directly into Hurricane Larry?
Did you know that Marcy Rheintgen, a transgender woman, was arrested and detained overnight for using a women's bathroom in Florida?
Did you know that Pope Leo XIV was the editor-in-chief of his high school's yearbook?
Did you know that Tarmidi Suhardjo was fired from his party's leadership roles because he ran for governor?
Did you know that some people ski every month of the year?
Did you know that CBS received a membership to the exclusive Sebonack Golf Club when it bought a TV station on Long Island?
Did you know that CSS can be used to track and identify you?
Did you know that Ivan the Terrible killed three polar bears at the Griffith Park Zoo, including his own mate Lena?
Did you know that in 1959 many Americans refused to have cranberry sauce with their Thanksgiving dinner?
Did you know that the Kajaani Castle was the northernmost stone castle in Europe upon its completion?
Did you know that Hannah Fry used mathematics to compare Elizabeth II's Christmas messages with the lyrics of Snoop Dogg?
Did you know that Pope Leo XIV descends from Creole people of color?
Did you know that Sheffield Wednesday required a "miracle" to qualify for the 2023 EFL League One play-off final?
Did you know that Taraxacum mongolicum was first mentioned in writing in the Xinxiu bencao as a medicinal plant in 659 AD?
Did you know that just after the 1945 liberation of Korea, the remnants of the Japanese colonial government used armed guards to prevent Koreans from seizing the printing equipment of the newspaper Keijō nippō?
Did you know that the Theban general Pelopidas set out for the  Battle of Cynoscephalae even after his army was disbanded?
Did you know that Elizabeth Holtzman's opponent ran an ad saying "maybe I'd like to have her as a daughter, but not as a DA" before her election as the first female Brooklyn District Attorney?
Did you know that Jean-Mohammed Abd-el-Jalil, a Moroccan Franciscan friar, was permitted by the Pope to keep "Muhammad" as his baptismal name?
Did you know that Robert Mugabe's motorcade was known for speeding and killing people?
Did you know that a tour promoting the EP For Your Validation sold out in ten minutes?
Did you know that fighter pilot  Morton D. Magoffin made pilots in his group sprint around an airfield for not saluting him?
Did you know that the Doctor Who episode "Lux" is set in Miami, Florida, despite being filmed in Penarth, Wales?
Did you know that the train driver in the Kirkby train crash was found to have been using his mobile phone before the collision?
Did you know that colonial-era bureaucrat Tan Jin Sing's close relationship with Europeans led to the saying that he was "no longer a Chinese, not yet a Dutchman, a half-baked Javanese"?
Did you know that the only copy of El Apóstol, widely considered to be the first animated feature film, was lost in a fire?
Did you know that while picking his Minnesota "team of the century", Dick Cullum said that Hal Hanson "made brave men wince"?
Did you know that 42 years after Jilly Cooper's How to Stay Married was first published, she described it as "terribly politically incorrect"?
Did you know that Hedwig Tam gained 20 pounds to play a postpartum mother in Montages of a Modern Motherhood?
Did you know that a false viral rumour claimed 42 people committed suicide after their homoerotic fan art was included in the film Crazy About One Direction?
Did you know that an Arizona TV station put a satellite dish in a vacant swimming pool?
Did you know that the 1572 Eight Wonders of the World (engraving pictured) is the source of the modern list of classical Seven Wonders of the World?
Did you know that Seattle's women's ice hockey team has an expected rival, despite not even having played their first game?
Did you know that a 400-metre race in 2025 was won by Lieke Klaver, who pretended that an absent competitor was running in front of her?
Did you know that a forensic investigation of Signalgate has determined how a journalist was included in a group chat about Operation Rough Rider?
Did you know that a rebellion against a peace treaty with the Yuan dynasty operated out of the Historic Site of Anti-Mongolian Struggle on Jeju Island?
Did you know that characters' scars in an episode of The Last of Us were made with a paste-based appliance and a food mixer?
Did you know that "Steve's Lava Chicken" recently became the shortest song to enter the UK Top 40?
Did you know that Kitty Marion was force-fed over 200 times during a hunger strike?
Did you know that May Bradford Shockley is why Silicon Valley is where it is?
Did you know that after the release of  High and Low, director Akira Kurosawa received telephone calls imitating his film that threatened to kidnap his daughter?
Did you know that the conservation of a goat might endanger the survival of Aquilegia paui?
Did you know that John P. Morris won a strike by hiding pigeons in fur coats?
Did you know that medicine dean Sjahriar Rasad was accused of being involved in a conspiracy to assassinate Indonesian president Sukarno?
Did you know that no other month in a calendar year starts with the same day of the week as June?
Did you know that the swamp rabbit is both territorial and a great swimmer?
Did you know that Chicago's tornado siren has been described as creepier than the city's actual tornadoes?
Did you know that a drawing of a dog was promoted by the president of El Salvador, caused an unaffiliated song to peak on the TikTok Billboard Top 50, and got its original creator doxxed?
Did you know that the National Windrush Monument features a family standing on a pile of suitcases and "surveying their new country"?
Did you know that a Long Island TV station sued a columnist for satirizing its signal and programming?
Did you know that after the Medway Street footbridge had become twisted in the 2010 Canterbury earthquake, part of it was turned into a memorial?
Did you know that the music video for "The Kids from Yesterday" by My Chemical Romance was directed by a fan?
Did you know that Beth Sholom Synagogue has been compared to a concrete ship, a teepee with fins, and a giant fish?
Did you know that Mike Estep was nicknamed "The Terminator"?
Did you know that Nathan Crumpton was shirtless while holding the flag of American Samoa at the 2022 Winter Olympics?
Did you know that Taylor Swift and Zayn Malik's "I Don't Wanna Live Forever" is the highest-charting Fifty Shades song on the US Billboard Hot 100?
Did you know that the Soviet Union designated both communist and non-communist states as national democratic states?
Did you know that Julian Yacoub Mourad, an archbishop of the Syriac Catholic Church, escaped from the Islamic State after being held captive for more than four months?
Did you know that Tyla became the second female African artist to score multiple solo entries on the Billboard Hot 100 with "Push 2 Start"?
Did you know that pianist Phyllis Chen started playing the smaller toy piano after both her arms became sore from tendinopathy?
Did you know that sculptures of children's shoes at the Antimonumento 49 ABC—honoring those killed in a fire—were later stolen?
Did you know that 170 trips on Sounder commuter rail were cancelled in a single winter due to mudslides?
Did you know that John C. Raaen Jr., at age 103, is the last surviving US Army Ranger from the first D-Day assault wave on Omaha Beach?
Did you know that a dinner between Bill Maher and Donald Trump was satirized in "My Dinner with Adolf"?
Did you know that some Byzantine churches in Philadelphia, modern-day Amman, were repurposed from earlier Roman temples?
Did you know that the Donnie Creek fire in 2023 was the largest wildfire in British Columbia's history?
Did you know that upon being drafted by the NFL's Chicago Bears, Ralph Jarvis wanted to thank the judge who sent him to the reform school where he first played American football?
Did you know that Bach's Easter Oratorio has been regarded as a sequel to his St John Passion?
Did you know that Femke Bol's time of 49.17 seconds on 2 March 2024 broke her own 400 m short track world record?
Did you know that Francis W. Joaque was one of the earliest African photographers?
Did you know that fighter pilot Luther H. Richmond  kept his P-51 Mustang's shiny, silver, no-camouflage finish to tempt enemies into aerial combat?
Did you know that the Green Bay Packers have twice achieved team-record 23-point comebacks: once in 1982, and again in 2013?
Did you know that the male pink scaled squid has been observed to mate upside down?
Did you know that , soon after the failure of the first British expedition against Sambas, its commander died of illness?
Did you know that , to research her bonkbuster Wicked!, Jilly Cooper visited more than a dozen schools and taught at one?
Did you know that Opishnia decorative ceramics (example pictured) use flowers, grapes and wreaths as motifs?
Did you know that Richard L. Morrill, as president of the University of Richmond, was the highest-paid private-school president in Virginia?
Did you know that Helen Kendall was one of 446 Canadians to receive the Royal Red Cross for her service in World War I?
Did you know that Joe Pantoliano thought that he would star in This Is Us, not an episode of The Last of Us?
Did you know that Remedios Varo's only sculpture, Homo rodans, is accompanied by a satirical anthropological manuscript?
Did you know that Sumahadi, a future Indonesian minister of forestry, was the only person in his cohort to graduate without a thesis?
Did you know that it was feared that Earl Ohlgren had broken his neck during an NFL exhibition game, but he was actually just in shock?
Did you know that Najmul Akhyar worked out of a shipping container for some time after the 2018 Lombok earthquakes?
Did you know that Sheldon L. Toomer, tired of the seven-mile trip to the nearest bank, founded a new one?
Did you know that an 1895 painting stood out to a critic who had described the artist's previous works as a "list of disasters"?
Did you know that fans chartered yachts to hear "Thunder" for the first time?
Did you know that the founders of the news website San José Spotlight considered San Jose to be a news desert?