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Did you know that USA Boxing's head coach said that Olympian Jajaira Gonzalez's return to boxing was "like Lazarus coming back from the dead"?
Did you know that in 1884 Motibai Kapadia's father allowed her to study alongside men in India?
Did you know that the Austin J. Tobin Plaza was destroyed in the September 11 attacks, but one of the sculptures on it survived?
Did you know that the title of the documentary Wolfman's Got Nards is derived from a memorable line in the 1987 film The Monster Squad?
Did you know that Badger is the first commander of the Unmanned Systems Forces?
Did you know that Chris Cox, the founder of Bikers for Trump, estimated that 70 percent of its members are former military personnel?
Did you know that as a child, future Olympian Kevin Mejía sold spinning tops?
Did you know that the borders of the Yellow River Delta National Nature Reserve were drawn to minimize impact on the Shengli Oil Field?
Did you know that the nightclub Café Adria survived a hit by a Karl-Gerät siege mortar?
Did you know that while recruiting for the Blair Colony, Betty Blair reportedly convinced potential settlers that there were no flies in South Dakota?
Did you know that Dorothy Stanley was once said to be one of the last speakers of the Miwok languages?
Did you know that Fantasy, performed at the Luxor Las Vegas hotel, is the longest-duration topless production in Las Vegas at a single venue?
Did you know that Mary Jane Patterson, whose mother was an African-American slave, gained a BA degree in 1862 having taken a "gentleman's course"?
Did you know that operatic tenor Walter Kirchhoff  was also an officer in the cavalry division of the Imperial German Army?
Did you know that some fan wikis document fan fiction?
Did you know that the Permanent Mission of Indonesia to the United Nations is housed in a former public bath?
Did you know that "50 YouTubers Fight for $1,000,000" gained more than 70 million views in 24 hours?
Did you know that Tilman Michael, who is set to be the Metropolitan Opera's chorus master from the 2024/25 season, helped the Oper Frankfurt win multiple awards for operatic choir of the year?
Did you know that the inaugural Canadian Premier League match led to the suspension of both team captains?
Did you know that the runway show for the Alexander McQueen collection Voss included dresses made from razor clams, microscope slides, and an antique Japanese folding screen?
Did you know that during the Panic of 1907, the presidents of New York City's banks and trust companies were locked in the Pierpont Morgan Library?
Did you know that painter Mark Robert Harrison's brother died in a fire that broke out at one of Harrison's own exhibitions in 1846?
Did you know that to avoid COVID-19 rule breaches, officials had to discourage people from posting a leopard seal's location online?
Did you know that €40,000 of equipment and cash was stolen during the filming of the music video for "Cry Baby"?
Did you know that Goethe used his unrequited love to Maximiliane Brentano as inspiration for his novel The Sorrows of Young Werther?
Did you know that Grant Nel, at the age of nine, switched from gymnastics to diving after breaking both of his hands?
Did you know that a 1917 agreement between France and Russia was rendered void within days because of the February Revolution?
Did you know that a drone attack by the Houthi military hit a target in Tel Aviv, but no sirens were activated?
Did you know that the British National Hospital Service Reserve (poster pictured)  trained volunteers to carry out first aid in the aftermath of a nuclear or chemical attack?
Did you know that the New York City Police Department shut down highway and bridge traffic for the funeral of the owner of Neary's, an Irish pub?
Did you know that the regent of the Mongol Empire between 1248 and 1251 was named "We Were Searching for a Boy"?
Did you know that 1920s belles-lettres books published by the State Publishing House of Ukraine (symbol pictured) sold out more rapidly than similar books published elsewhere in the Soviet Union, despite the higher average price?
Did you know that Juan de Casas, the Spanish military governor of Venezuela, cried after the French demanded that he accept a Frenchman as king?
Did you know that a former teacher in the Philippines became a Robin Hood–like outlaw?
Did you know that the Empire of Japan created a girl group as propaganda?
Did you know that around the age of four, Jacob von Eggers was deported to Arkhangelsk in Russia together with the entire German-speaking population of Tartu?
Did you know that one of the last photographs ever taken of Sitting Bull shows him side by side with Buffalo Bill?
Did you know that the Military-First Girls, a Japanese all-women fan club of the Moranbong Band, have compared their interest in North Korean music to other women's interests in K-pop and Taylor Swift?
Did you know that the ideas of Albert Schädler became the founding ideas of the Progressive Citizens' Party, though he himself was opposed to the formation of political parties?
Did you know that the leaves of Premna microphylla are used to make a green jelly called Guanyin tofu?
Did you know that upon winning a civil war in Portuguese Timor, the political party Fretilin repeatedly requested that Portuguese authorities return?
Did you know that "New York's wealthiest janitor" lived atop the Bergdorf Goodman Building?
Did you know that Henry Charles Swan, a law graduate from Oxford, spent more than 25 years living on a yacht in a stream in New Zealand?
Did you know that Olympic judoka Edmilson Pedro is nicknamed Bicho Papão, which means "the bogeyman"?
Did you know that although Armond Seidler invented the pugil stick for military training purposes, it later found use in the television show American Gladiators?
Did you know that in her song "Slim Pickins", Sabrina Carpenter supposedly settles for someone who does not know the difference between "their", "there", and "they are"?
Did you know that the Republic of China produced coins featuring emperor Yuan Shikai for decades after his demise?
Did you know that two cosmetic companies engaged in a "rose war" with advertising campaigns based around the song "You're More Beautiful Than a Rose" and the film The Rose of Versailles?
Did you know that Kaylee Bryson was the first female driver to advance to the A-Main feature race at the Chili Bowl Nationals?
Did you know that Patrick J. Hessian, the 16th Chief of Chaplains of the United States Army, earned the Soldier's Medal for disarming a suicidal soldier who was holding a live grenade with the pin pulled?
Did you know that according to legend, after one of the Earl de Grey's parrots was killed, the other never spoke again?
Did you know that architect Donald MacKay designed a fire station which later burnt down in the Great Seattle Fire?
Did you know that the Villa of Augustus was found buried beneath another villa?
Did you know that Alexina Kublu, a linguist, translator, Languages Commissioner, and the first justice of the peace in Nunavut, is her grandmother's father and her daughter's son, as per the Inuit namesake tradition?
Did you know that Australian judoka Josh Katz competed in the 2024 Paris Olympics six months after completely rupturing an ACL?
Did you know that Joanna Ferrone served as the business manager for the fictional character Fido Dido?
Did you know that Parker Short became popular on social media for singing and dancing to "Not Like Us" at a rally for Kamala Harris?
Did you know that the Shrine of Taharqa was coated in nitrocellulose?
Did you know that the flag of Rwanda depicts the sun illuminating the country's vegetation?
Did you know that The Book of Virtues inspired PBS's first animated primetime series?
Did you know that between 1899 and 1923 the United States government issued 3,604,239,600 one-dollar Black Eagle Silver Certificates (example pictured)?
Did you know that during the writing of El Eternauta: segunda parte, Héctor Germán Oesterheld became victim of an enforced disappearance?
Did you know that Huang Shaoqiang produced numerous paintings condemning the Japanese invasion of China?
Did you know that Mali and Niger broke off diplomatic relations with Ukraine over the country's alleged support for rebel groups in the Battle of Tinzaouaten?
Did you know that the 2003 graphic novel The Life Eaters, presenting an occult-driven, hypothetical Axis victory in World War II, has been discussed in the context of its portrayal of The Holocaust?
Did you know that the 2019 single "Trust Issues" by Drake was originally released in 2011 as a free download?
Did you know that the children's museum La Nube includes a bus-washing exhibit?
Did you know that Gwent Broadcasting, at the time the smallest Independent Local Radio station in Britain, lasted less than two years?
Did you know that Storm Ulysses (damage pictured) in 1903 was so named because its effects were described in James Joyce's novel Ulysses?
Did you know that Tamurbek Dawletschin wrote one of the few memoirs by a Soviet prisoner of war, 3 million of whom died in German captivity?
Did you know that Valentin Bontus won the first-ever Olympic gold medal in Formula Kite, while Toni Vodišek won the first silver medal?
Did you know that a class-action lawsuit was filed against Spotify following the discontinuation of the Car Thing?
Did you know that during the Khalji Revolution, Sultan Qaiqabad was wrapped in a carpet and thrown into the Yamuna river?
Did you know that during the Tunisian campaign in World War II, crews carried an AMES Type 6 radar set across a swamp to allow them to spy on Luftwaffe aircraft running supplies into Tunis?
Did you know that the small fish species Poecilia vandepolli solves food shortage problems by eating its own offspring?
Did you know that Madonna once operated an elevator at Terrace on the Park?
Did you know that Nicholas Carlini showed that ChatGPT could leak personal information?
Did you know that according to tradition Saint Ludger healed the Frisian bard Bernlef of his blindness and taught him to play psalms on his harp?
Did you know that the concept of genocide was introduced in the 1944 book Axis Rule in Occupied Europe?
Did you know that Adam Berdichevsky represented Israel at the 2024 Paris Paralympics, eleven months after he and his family survived the 7 October Hamas-led attack on Israel?
Did you know that Chișinău's National Hotel was once a flagship property but is now effectively abandoned?
Did you know that one commentator interpreted a kiss between two women in "Fedora" as possibly following the "heteronormative script"?
Did you know that the Dust Bowl refugee Ibsen Nelsen received the Purple Heart and became a fellow of the American Institute of Architects?
Did you know that the science-fiction video game The Anacrusis is named after a musical term?
Did you know that to protest changes to the flight route M503, Taiwan cancelled 176 flights between China and Taiwan?
Did you know that Sabrina Carpenter and Jenna Ortega kiss in the music video for "Taste"?
Did you know that Sophie Scamps decided to enter politics after a survey from her local member of parliament failed to mention climate change?
Did you know that a parrot reportedly screamed profanities at the funeral of U.S. president Andrew Jackson?
Did you know that the flag of Duluth, Minnesota, has an award-winning simple design, but still represents eight things including Lake Superior, the North Woods, and three city hills?
Did you know that Chlöe Swarbrick won the race for Auckland Central in 2020, during which she held a drag show as a campaign event?
Did you know that Irish physician Niall Ó Glacáin worked as a travelling plague doctor in southern France in the 1620s?
Did you know that Mariano R. Vázquez oversaw the integration of anarchists into the government during the Spanish Civil War?
Did you know that many African countries provide for legal abortion in their reproductive health laws, but such laws have been passed without grounds for legal abortion in Madagascar and in Senegal?
Did you know that Dr Punam Krishan "learned the hard way to live without patient 'satisfaction'"?
Did you know that Edi Rama and Baba Mondi plan to create the smallest nation in the world?
Did you know that Giorgina Reid patented a technique for holding up banks?
Did you know that Japanese girls found the song "Ai Uta" by the band Greeeen to be a perfect love song for the autumn, according to a 2007 Oricon survey?
Did you know that scholar Mohja Kahf stated that there is no Syrian literature?
Did you know that the Afonso Henriques Theatre in Guimarães, Portugal, regularly performed shows and plays to aid the construction of the nearby Santos Passos Church?
Did you know that East Suffolk Park, a former student hostel in Edinburgh, was once an internment camp for enemy aliens?
Did you know that English amateur geologist Charlotte Eyton wrote a number of papers and pamphlets on the geology of the Wrekin, a part of Shropshire, between 1862 and 1870?
Did you know that Green Day's "Wake Me Up When September Ends" became closely associated with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina?
Did you know that a statue of the Medicine Buddha, dating from the late 8th or early 9th century, never left its temple grounds until 2024?
Did you know that scientists publishing in Liebigs Annalen were subject to criticism and attacks by editor Justus von Liebig?
Did you know that the director of a Lake Erie-based walleye fishing tournament defended two anglers accused of cheating until he found weights in their winning fish two years ago today?
Did you know that Ajah Pritchard-Lolo is Vanuatu's first Olympic weightlifter?
Did you know that Shoko Ikeda once admitted that Haruhi Suzumiya, a character she designed, was "just like me"?
Did you know that many people who recover from tuberculosis lose more than half of their lung capacity (example pictured)?
Did you know that the 1998 cyberpunk short story "CyberJoly Drim" caused a controversy in the Polish science fiction and fantasy community?
Did you know that Dezső Varga was the first Szekler ice hockey player to be inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame?
Did you know that at least 69 countries have "no net loss" environmental policies?
Did you know that in Hindu mythology, Madhavi, who was blessed with the miraculous ability to regain her virginity after each childbirth, was married to three kings, each in exchange for 200 rare horses?
Did you know that much to his dismay, Andrea Navagero was named the Venetian ambassador to France in 1529?
Did you know that mutilated body parts found in the spring of Tattarisuo in 1931 were used to practice black magic?
Did you know that while Council Working Parties only formally prepare decisions of the Council of the European Union, they de facto shape the majority of those decisions?
Did you know that Elham Mahamid Ruzin, a blind Muslim Arab, won a silver medal for Israel at the 2024 Paris Paralympics?
Did you know that Maryvonne Le Dizès commissioned a trio for saxophone, trombone and violin during her time as a violinist with the Ensemble intercontemporain?
Did you know that Patrick Tse's performance in the film Time won him the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actor at the age of 85, making him the award's oldest recipient?
Did you know that after some of Anders Årfelt's lion sculptures (example pictured) were struck during the 2017 Stockholm truck attack, the city ordered new versions weighing 3 tonnes?
Did you know that former Commonwealth Games diver Nicky Cooney became a police officer?
Did you know that in 1917 British soldiers in France opened fire on mutineers from the Egyptian Labour Corps, killing at least 27 of them?
Did you know that pastry chef and television judge Benoit Blin cut off the tips of his fingers in a kitchen accident during his service in the French Navy?
Did you know that the Netflix-released film A House in Jerusalem is inspired by the history of the director's Palestinian family, who were expelled in 1948 from what had become Israel during the Nakba?
Did you know that Columbus Airport saw commercial air service before being certified for public use by the Civil Aeronautics Authority?
Did you know that Hurry Up Tomorrow is planned to be the Weeknd's final album under his stage name?
Did you know that Lisa Blatt, the first woman to argue 50 cases before the Supreme Court of the United States, "elicits laughs and the occasional sharp response from the justices" for her witty delivery?
Did you know that Muhammad Khaznadar's museum was said to have "surpassed every other museum in the world" in Phoenician and Carthaginian antiquities?
Did you know that Oxford is the first city in the United Kingdom to adopt a zero emission zone?
Did you know that William, Prince of Wales, inspired the character of Prince Wheeliam in Cars 2?
Did you know that retired model Leticia Sardá had no idea that she was the subject of a four-year global search?
Did you know that the Italian Campaign of 1796–1797 (battle pictured) demonstrated that Napoleon was a "great strategist"?
Did you know that "Bed Chem" and "Juno" are the "horniest" tracks on Short n' Sweet, according to one critic?
Did you know that Rika Nakagawa won a national debate competition as an active tarento?
Did you know that of the 16 aircraft which took part in the Doolittle Raid, only the one piloted by Edward J. York landed intact?
Did you know that unused placeholder sounds from Smash Hit were reused in Teardown?
Did you know that Blue Mountain Pottery wares (example pictured) had a distinctive drip glaze, particularly blue-green and black, so that each piece was unique?
Did you know that Janet Panetta started dancing as physical therapy for childhood polio?
Did you know that almost 45 percent of Taiwan's beer purchases come from rechao restaurants?
Did you know that among the Orang Asli of Negeri Sembilan, chica is only collected during kenduri rituals?
Did you know that the first dogs in space returned to Earth with a parachute?
Did you know that Milan A. P. Harminc, the consul-general of the Slovak Republic in London, broke with his government at the outbreak of World War II and sided with the Allies?
Did you know that a woman was considered a witch because her husband prepared chocolate instead of her?
Did you know that some of the work of lesbian feminist filmmaking pioneer Norma Bahia Pontes is lost media?
Did you know that the government used military trucks and bulldozers to rescue people from a tropical storm?
Did you know that the water of Asik-Asik Falls comes from a source inside a cliff?
Did you know that there was a doomsday cult named after Neo from The Matrix?
Did you know that Ratnākara's Haravijaya is the longest extant Sanskrit mahākāvya?
Did you know that according to the mayor of Utica, 13-year-old Nyah Mway was the first Karen person to be killed in America by police?
Did you know that after a career as an opera singer and Broadway musical star, Winfield Blake became a vaudeville comedian as one half of the duo Blake and Amber?
Did you know that Jer Lau, who appeared in the film Over My Dead Body, also performed its theme song because the director felt his role was too minor?
Did you know that Michael P. Walsh oversaw the construction of 15 buildings as the president of Boston College?
Did you know that in the history of fisheries in the Philippines, the once-dominant local municipal fisheries were supplanted first by commercial fisheries, and then by aquaculture?
Did you know that seven people died when their helicopter struck supporting wires of a Texas TV station's tower and crashed?
Did you know that the center squeeze has been blamed for costing Gary Johnson the 2016 US presidential election?
Did you know that the search for mammals on Booby Island was a bust?
Did you know that voice actress Atsuko Tanaka named several pandas?
Did you know that while the objects on the Farnese Artemis had initially been identified as female breasts, the museum housing the statue now describes them as bull scrotums?
Did you know that "Honest Ike" stole more than $200,000 from the Alabama treasury?
Did you know that Alfred Sully, who led US forces during the Sioux Wars, was married to a Yankton Sioux woman?
Did you know that because the capital of The Gambia is on a small island, its population has overflowed into Serekunda in the nearby municipality of Kanifing?
Did you know that the lyric video for an Olivia Rodrigo song included a teaser that she would tour in support of her album Guts?
Did you know that Maximiliano Hernández Martínez believed that hanging colored lights across San Salvador would cure a smallpox epidemic?
Did you know that a baby penguin from Australia is "an absolute unit"?
Did you know that a lane behind a tenement in Edinburgh is decorated as a Wild West town?
Did you know that a tornado near Chicago was produced by a storm with a hydrodynamical helicity four times higher than the threshold favorable for tornadogenesis?
Did you know that when guitarist Pete Wade was 19, he moved to Nashville with $3, his suitcase, two ham sandwiches, and the telephone numbers of Don Helms and Jerry Rivers?
Did you know that Actinote zikani (specimen pictured) is one of only two butterflies on the IUCN's list of the 100 most threatened species?
Did you know that the Counterintelligence Group was disbanded because the unit was deemed successful in the "neutralization and prosecution of scalawags" in the Armed Forces of the Philippines?
Did you know that the first art exhibition in the Trade Fair Palace after it was rebuilt from a fire was named Like a Phoenix?
Did you know that Northamptonshire has had ninety-two railway stations, but now has only six?
Did you know that Santa opened the 2024 Summer Paralympics closing ceremony?
Did you know that researchers speculate that cocoa butter forms crystals on sugar while chocolate is tempered?
Did you know that the music video for "...Well, Better Than the Alternative" uses software to render handmade paintings over live-action footage of musician Will Wood?
Did you know that the ongoing premiere of Gregory Markopoulos's Eniaios started 20 years ago?
Did you know that Cathy Merrick was the first woman to be elected grand chief of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs?
Did you know that Harold C. Hinton was one of the only American academics under McCarthyism to study communist China?
Did you know that Maystorm, a character from Ultimate X-Men, was initially created for a variant cover for the comic X-Men?
Did you know that Mike Veeck's baseball promotions include Disco Demolition Night, a game with no fans, and the world's largest pillow fight?
Did you know that a clergyman from London established 87 schools in Wales in the 17th century?
Did you know that the Niederdollendorf stone, the Grésin plaque, and the Landelinus buckle are each controversially conjectured to depict a pagan-inspired Jesus Christ?
Did you know that the undefeated 1961 Pittsburg State Gorillas football team shut out seven opponents, featured four All-Americans, and won three national championships?
Did you know that John Passmore Edwards erected a library in memory of his mother?
Did you know that Samuel Barber said that he could not adequately play his own Piano Sonata?
Did you know that an art critic felt that Rooms by the Sea was one of Edward Hopper's "strangest" works?
Did you know that as the 1979 computer chess game Chesmac could not display a chessboard on screen, players had to replicate the game on a physical chessboard?
Did you know that geographer Michael Chisholm and contemporaries became known as "Caesar's Praetorian Guard", in reference to their teacher Gus Caesar?
Did you know that when Swedish soccer player Beata Olsson transferred from Florida to Florida State, she said that she did not really know about the schools' rivalry?
Did you know that Abdul Ahad Azad is recognised for laying the foundations of literary criticism in Kashmiri literature?
Did you know that Albert Bumgardner's design for an architectural press office was highly publicized in the architectural press?
Did you know that although Uzun-Hajji and Najmuddin of Gotzo (both pictured) were originally political allies, they later fought on opposing sides of the Russian Civil War?
Did you know that drivers "dodge[d] track blemishes" more than each other during the first race at the Charlotte Motor Speedway?