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Did you know that photographer Denis Cameron covered the Lebanese Civil War, the Iranian Revolution, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the Gulf War?
Did you know that the Big Stone County Museum preserves a historic octagonal one-room schoolhouse?
Did you know that the author of the manga series Momo was inspired by the concept of girls wanting the world to be destroyed rather than face their problems?
Did you know that there was an attempt to make a ten-year-old English prince the king of Sicily?
Did you know that 32,000 children auditioned for three main roles in HBO's Harry Potter TV series?
Did you know that Algerian gymnast Mohamed Lazhari was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun?
Did you know that Felix Frankfurter coined the phrase "burn the house to roast the pig" when writing about literary censorship in Butler v. Michigan?
Did you know that King Combs released a collaborative EP with Kanye West in support of his father, Sean "Diddy" Combs?
Did you know that Robert Jacomb-Hood defied his father's wishes and became a railway engineer?
Did you know that police investigated the European Australian Movement after it distributed letters carrying a slogan from Nazi Germany?
Did you know that teenage King Baldwin IV of Jerusalem fought one-handed and still went to battle after becoming blind and immobile at 22?
Did you know that the Dutch women's 4 × 400 metres relay team, having never won a medal before, won European titles in 2021, in 2022, in 2023, in 2024, and in 2025?
Did you know that the video game Baldur's Gate 3 won so many awards that its creators collected them in rotating teams to avoid impacting development?
Did you know that Christina Næss is the only Paralympic gold medalist for the Faroe Islands?
Did you know that Elizabeth Wilhelmina Jones accepted an offer to become a headmistress after finding a brooch on the ground?
Did you know that Nezuko Kamado from Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba has been compared to the Yuki-onna, a character from Japanese folklore?
Did you know that Star Trek's spore drive is a biological faster-than-light engine that was inspired by the real-world science of mycology?
Did you know that a Mississippi TV station paid its bills early to earn its clients' trust following a bankruptcy?
Did you know that abortion in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is governed by a penal code, a public health law, and an international treaty, all of which contradict each other?
Did you know that astrophysicist Alan C. Cummings has led more than 1,700 weekly birdwatching walks at Caltech since 1986?
Did you know that the Lumberjack Band first played "Go! You Packers Go!" in 1931, making it one of the earliest fight songs for a professional American football team?
Did you know that the protest song "Cálice" uses wordplay, disguised under religious themes, to denounce censorship under Brazil's military dictatorship?
Did you know that East Island, once a vital nesting site for green sea turtles, was almost completely destroyed by Hurricane Walaka in 2018 – but has since naturally recovered to about 60% of its original size?
Did you know that Edward L. Molineux seized goods worth $210 million in 2025 from the Confederacy during the American Civil War?
Did you know that Eritrean cyclist Yemane Negassi stated that cycling competitions in the nation were previously like "a fight against colonialism"?
Did you know that Leonardo da Vinci invented a device to solve Alhazen's problem, instead of finding a mathematical solution?
Did you know that a concert on Taylor Swift's Red Tour became the fastest-selling concert in Chinese history?
Did you know that basketball scout Tom Konchalski used players' SAT scores as a metric to evaluate them?
Did you know that the British Council described Nancy Broadfield Parkinson as a driving force behind the formation of UNESCO?
Did you know that the Federation of Central America, declared to be "perpetual and indissoluble", collapsed after less than one year?
Did you know that the chefs of Masala y Maíz declined a nomination from The World's 50 Best Restaurants, saying that the list promotes "abuse and sexism, among other issues"?
Did you know that Astoria the turkey evaded capture by the New York City Police Department?
Did you know that Claude-Charles Bourgonnier was barred from exhibiting his art at the Salon in Paris after tearing up one of his own paintings while it was on display?
Did you know that Eduard Hermann was a race walker, boxer, and farmer?
Did you know that Harriet Converse Moody's restaurant and catering business failed after almost 40 years in part because of her lavish spending as a patron of poets?
Did you know that Olympian Dick Mize designed multiple cross-country skiing trails in Anchorage, Alaska, over a 40-year period?
Did you know that Sentient is a satellite AI system of the National Reconnaissance Office, described as an artificial brain?
Did you know that the Atari 2600 version of Space Invaders  led to Atari rescheduling its entire release line-up?
Did you know that the Tres Marias cottontail (example pictured) does not fear humans?
Did you know that the winter of 1917–18 caused Nantucket to connect to mainland Massachusetts via an ice bridge?
Did you know that Crash Bandicoot: On the Run! featured a Domino's Pizza mascot as an antagonist?
Did you know that Giovanni Battista Bugatti performed 516 executions for six popes?
Did you know that Hannah Sharts played soccer for the UCLA Bruins over twenty years after her mother fought to create the NCAA team?
Did you know that The Republic of Nothing inspired Rush drummer Neil Peart to write a letter to the author, leading him to write his own book?
Did you know that a 1948 U.S. Supreme Court decision helped to protect comic books from government regulation and censorship?
Did you know that a narcotics addict appealed his drug possession charges on the argument that his addiction compelled him to take drugs, but he narrowly lost?
Did you know that air pollution (example pictured) increases the risk of miscarriages, strokes and dementia?
Did you know that João Barrento had been a distinguished equestrian in Portugal since he was a teenager, but only made his Olympic debut in his forties?
Did you know that Kylie Minogue released "Timebomb" after attracting 25,000 tweets in less than 45 minutes?
Did you know that Terry Brown is reported to have founded an escort service using helicopters for remote rural areas?
Did you know that Wilf Pine, manager of Black Sabbath, had his arm dislocated by a vibrating bed because Ozzy Osbourne kept feeding it quarters?
Did you know that Zhou Enshou was arrested during the Cultural Revolution on the orders of his own brother?
Did you know that a community mural inspired by John Jonik's pet duck was destroyed by a cleanup crew who mistook it for graffiti?
Did you know that the British Army deliberately kept conditions at Blargies prison camp poor to prevent soldiers from viewing it as a "soft" alternative to combat?
Did you know that the wreck of SS Virago, which sank off Alderney in 1882 with the loss of all crew members, was not discovered for 127 years?
Did you know that viewers complained that the 2023 Coronation Street Christmas Day episode was only 30 minutes long?
Did you know that A Balloon in Mid-Air depicts a flight by artist Jules Tavernier with aeronaut Étienne Buislay, who died in a balloon accident a week later?
Did you know that American president Harry S. Truman went to Valhalla?
Did you know that Donald Trump served Clemson Tigers players and coaches fast food during their 2018–19 College Football Playoff championship visit to the White House?
Did you know that Isoup Ganthy, who was part of Cambodia's first Olympic team, later died in prison after being accused of working to overthrow the Khmer Rouge?
Did you know that a park in Canada is named after Axis official Dragutin Kamber?
Did you know that junior college president Hurst Robins Anderson participated in his brother's inauguration as president of a university?
Did you know that supporters of candidates in the 2024 Serang mayoral election fought during a public debate and the ballot-number lottery?
Did you know that the Kingdom of Jerusalem was lost after its army answered Princess Eschiva's plea for help against her besiegers?
Did you know that the supercomputer S-1 was designed to have 16 processors, each with the power of a Cray-1?
Did you know that "the Psycho" controlled the drug trade in Finglas, Cabra, and Ballymun from the early 1990s until his death in 1996?
Did you know that Luis Aranaz was named an "adopted son" of Sabadell after captaining the city's football club to two Spanish second-division titles in the 1940s?
Did you know that NFL player Henry Monroe retired after one season to enter medical school?
Did you know that Namibian activist Werner Mamugwe was banned from entering Bechuanaland Protectorate due to his political activities?
Did you know that North Korea thanked the United States for helping its sailors defeat a group of pirates?
Did you know that during Operation Security and Order, Mbah Suro's followers fought against Indonesian Army special forces with clubs and headbands?
Did you know that pastor, poet, teacher, and musician Wycliffe Smith has served as lieutenant governor of Saba and prime minister of Sint Maarten?
Did you know that the SWAT unit in Regina recruited their first female officer from the Regina Police Service in May 1991?
Did you know that workers of Jakarta's Public Facility Maintenance Agency are known as "orange troops"?
Did you know that Arthur Newnham was born in India, played first-class cricket in England, and served as a military attaché in Moscow?
Did you know that Plotkin's Vaccines was written by the inventor of the rubella vaccine because he felt that vaccinology had become a distinct field of medicine?
Did you know that Swiss national Charles Champaud represented Bulgaria at the 1896 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that a TV station went from being potentially named after a deceased investor to being named after "the crossroads of Middle Georgia"?
Did you know that a public debate in the 2024 Bojonegoro regency election was cancelled because one of the candidates entered the stage?
Did you know that actress Arielle Prepetit was cast in the first African American daytime soap opera in 34 years, Beyond the Gates?
Did you know that actress Eva O'Hara pushed for her Hollyoaks character to be given "something more meaty" rather than have a happy ending?
Did you know that an impostor traded to the Green Bay Packers disappeared after playing one game for the team?
Did you know that when the Westhope house was being built, neighbors were confused as to its design, so its owners said it was supposed to be a pickle factory?
Did you know that "On Eagle's Wings" was quoted in Joe Biden's presidential victory speech and featured in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia?
Did you know that Frederick L. Scarf developed the plasma-wave detector for the Voyager program, which recorded the "sounds of space", described as "an eerie symphony of hisses, pops, and whistles"?
Did you know that Randy Winkler was the "Jolly Green Giant", while Gérard Lefranc was just the "Green Giant"?
Did you know that Serge de Beaurecueil, having spent a "wretched childhood" dreaming of journeying to a faraway land, became the only Catholic priest in Afghanistan?
Did you know that a reviewer for Rolling Stone said that a 2024 concert tour by Weezer resembled a cross between an Iron Maiden concert and the Disneyland attraction Star Tours?
Did you know that after a building in Poland was wrecked by one explosion then demolished by a second, a cat was found alive among the rubble?
Did you know that readers looked forward to a second novel by Walter J. Muilenburg that never happened?
Did you know that sources do not identify with certainty when or why university students began throwing shoes onto the Shoe Tree in Minneapolis?
Did you know that the song "Bésame" blends afrobeat and flamenco?
Did you know that Charles Winckler, a Danish national shot put and discus champion, won his only Olympic medal in a tug-of-war tournament?
Did you know that Olympic champion Franco Testa quit cycling to become a butcher?
Did you know that South African politician Jabu Mbalula is the older brother of Fikile Mbalula, the secretary-general of the African National Congress?
Did you know that a killing resulted in five company-sized units of police, soldiers and marines being sent to secure the 2024 Sampang regency election?
Did you know that a nomad known as "Mule" sued to protect the "sacred relationship between man and horse to travel together with reverence and respect for this beautiful place in which we all reside called Earth"?
Did you know that a writer from The Spinoff called the children's book Cliffhanger a "win for the nerds"?
Did you know that an English translation of At 25:00, in Akasaka was released as a launch title of a boys' love manga reading service?
Did you know that goo from a ship might contain a previously undescribed life form?
Did you know that wildlife rehabilitator Mikayla Raines housed two "lesbian goth foxes" at her SaveAFox Rescue in Minnesota?
Did you know that Bishop Anselm, Abbot Geoffrey, and Viscount Rohard were sent in 1142 to delicately inform the Byzantine emperor that he was welcome in Jerusalem—just not with an army?
Did you know that Herb Alpert's 2024 album 50 commemorates both his 50th studio album and his golden wedding anniversary?
Did you know that Italian football clubs could have a third reserve team in the early 20th century?
Did you know that Lourdes Klitzkie took up running in her late thirties to combat boredom, then qualified for the Olympics?
Did you know that Margarethe Hardegger established an illegal abortion clinic in her own home?
Did you know that Meg White, a key figure in the 2000s garage-rock revival, has not made any public appearances since 2009?
Did you know that Queen Melisende wanted to get rid of her husband's friend Elias, so she made him an offer that he could not refuse?
Did you know that in July 2025 Elon Musk opened a flying saucer–shaped diner on Route 66 in Hollywood?
Did you know that the joint-most successful team in the Indian Premier League finished last in 2025?
Did you know that Phyllis Lightbourn-Jones and Phyllis Edness both competed in the 1948 Olympics and were respectively the first woman and first black woman to compete for Bermuda?
Did you know that Randy D had his first chance to join radio while working as a parking attendant at Lincoln Center?
Did you know that a Virginia TV station broadcast an all-Black variety show on its first day in 1950?
Did you know that actress Montana Manning initially had a speaking role in the 2005 film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, but it was cut?
Did you know that after losing a Shanghai mansion to the Empire of Japan in World War II, British hotelier Victor Sassoon abandoned repossession plans following a communist takeover?
Did you know that in Burundi there is a belief that healers can perform temporary abortions?
Did you know that the goal of "peace" may mean different things to Israelis and Palestinians?
Did you know that the jury of matrons who assessed whether Ann Davis was pregnant after she was sentenced to death were the first civilian jurors for a criminal trial in New South Wales?
Did you know that the novel Vera, or Faith was described by a reviewer as "probably the most endearing book about anxiety ever written"?
Did you know that Dennis Rodman's Big Bang in Pyongyang features Dennis Rodman singing "Happy Birthday" to Kim Jong Un?
Did you know that Jeong Haneul went from being a North Korean soldier to a South Korean YouTuber?
Did you know that Karma held the flag of Bhutan at the Olympics multiple times?
Did you know that Palaeocarpinus fruit fossils have been recovered from Cold Ash and Hells Half Acre?
Did you know that Simón Radowitzky was forced to pay a fare for his own deportation?
Did you know that a worker attempted to kill labor activist Luisa Moreno with an ice pick at a union meeting?
Did you know that painter Low Kway Song founded the first Straits Chinese Methodist church in Malacca?
Did you know that the mosaic effect is the act of combining seemingly unrelated data to reveal sensitive or classified information that individual pieces of data would not disclose?
Did you know that there are eleven ways to unfold a cube?
Did you know that 11 of the 27 Italian generals who died during the First World War perished during the last six months?
Did you know that American football kicker Brian Hall used a prosthetic leg?
Did you know that Anacaona was the subject of a popular salsa song centuries after her death?
Did you know that Jacqueline Wilson worked with Disability Rights UK when writing The Best Sleepover in the World?
Did you know that Laila Friis-Salling took up skiing due to a bet?
Did you know that after an earthquake wiped out Shaizar's ruling family, crusaders tried to seize the city but quarreled and left?
Did you know that some exoplanets are evaporating catastrophically?
Did you know that the printed edition of the Woodstock Letters runs almost 50,000 pages, covering nearly 13 feet (4 metres) of shelving?
Did you know that the song "Michelle Pfeiffer" has been described as possessing "a cresting emotionality grand enough to fill the tallest IMAX screen"?
Did you know that Arthur J. Ruhlig was the first person to record observations of deuterium–tritium fusion?
Did you know that ChatGPT developer John Schulman said that his first period of serious self-directed study was inspired by the television show BattleBots?
Did you know that George Zurcher was suspended as a Catholic priest for six years because he gave a critical homily on All Saints' Day 1899?
Did you know that Marmaduke Tudsbery Tudsbery formed part of "The Sofa" at the Athenaeum Club?
Did you know that despite a reputation as a weed and its invasive species status in New Zealand, Drosera capensis is uncommon in its native habitat?
Did you know that the Meléndez–Quiñónez dynasty held elections in El Salvador that "the entire country" knew were fraudulent?
Did you know that the design of Death in the Marvel Cinematic Universe was inspired by Christian imagery?
Did you know that the fossil osoberry Oemleria janhartfordae was described from a single flower just starting towards fruiting?
Did you know that there was once a proposal to demolish the Paul Schweikher House and Studio to make way for a sewage plant?
Did you know that Altuntash, a former slave-soldier, tried to redraw the political map of southern Syria—until his wife surrendered to his enemies?
Did you know that Bath fire station, a rare example of a design by a female architect from the pre-WWII era, is proposed for demolition?
Did you know that Enriqueta Duarte swam the English Channel despite having never before competed in open water swimming?
Did you know that Pope Paul VI ordained more than 350 men as priests in a ceremony that lasted over three hours?
Did you know that Shakira considered sending an apology note to Matt Damon's wife after mentioning him in the lyrics of her song "Men in This Town"?
Did you know that a negotiated truce in the Breton Civil War included a commitment to end the Hundred Years' War just six years after it started?
Did you know that the withdrawn medication diethylstilbestrol caused uterine hypoplasia?
Did you know that wrestler Din Mohammad celebrated his gold medal at the Asian Games by riding an elephant?
Did you know that Erna Meyer urged the Jewish immigrant readers of How to Cook in Palestine to try olives and eggplants, but doubted their ability to eat spicy food like the "native population"?
Did you know that Matt Koart forced himself to eat 2000 calories in addition to his regular meals to increase his weight?
Did you know that a cruise ship off the coast of Tahiti was the first floating Olympic Village?
Did you know that a theme-park attraction based on Harry Potter's Diagon Alley cost approximately US$400 million to build?
Did you know that an annual festival attracts fans of a defunct car company to its former manufacturing complex in Fort Wayne, Indiana?
Did you know that hurdler Ahmed Hamada was the Bahraini flagbearer for two Olympic Games – sixteen years apart?
Did you know that suicide by electrocution, while usually very rare, was one of the most common suicide methods in Nazi concentration camps due to the surrounding high-voltage electric fences?
Did you know that the coconut octopus walks on two legs to look like a floating coconut?
Did you know that the tomb of Louis Adrian is surmounted by a sculpture of the helmet that he developed for the French Army?
Did you know that Elizabeth Gunning (caricature pictured) was the subject of a pamphlet war about forged love letters, and used her notoriety to market her first novel?
Did you know that Jake Larson went viral on TikTok for discussing his experiences of World War II?
Did you know that Victor Hall, who died twice in 1986, is still alive?
Did you know that a university building designed in 1952 was built in 2020, needing only minor adjustments to meet building codes?
Did you know that government-owned grocery stores in the United States include city-owned supermarkets and military commissaries?
Did you know that more than 200 British warships assembled for a fleet review just days before the start of the First World War?
Did you know that part of the Bolton Percy hoard was discovered by schoolboys?
Did you know that sportsman Nándor Dáni competed in athletics, cycling, rowing, and speed skating during his career?
Did you know that the Mesola red deer survived only in a single woodland in Italy until 2023?
Did you know that 4chan users found a Burger King restaurant based on a photo of someone standing on lettuce within 15 minutes of its posting?
Did you know that Ames Shipbuilding and Drydock Company employees participated in a walkout that precipitated the 1919 Seattle General Strike?
Did you know that Lindsay de Sausmarez was elected head of government of Guernsey only a few days after deciding to run for the position?
Did you know that Olympic silver medallist Eduard von Lütcken captured a Russian general before being killed in an early action of the First World War?
Did you know that a French abortion ban in Mali dating from 1920 was in place until 2002?
Did you know that a community vote allowed players of the "wholesome" city-building game The Wandering Village to feed their villagers to a giant beast?
Did you know that according to a 1994 paper, the Okanogan fameflower spent the last ice age in a glacial refugium?
Did you know that swimmer Yu Zidi qualified for the World Aquatics Championships at just twelve years old?
Did you know that 223 East 25th Street was auctioned off in 1973, triggering a bidding war that drove the price up ninefold?
Did you know that Pope Leo XIV planned to attend Tolentine College, but it closed before he could enroll?
Did you know that Sudanese politician Mohammed Hassan al-Ta'ishi is the prime minister of a government that opposes a council on which he once served?
Did you know that Tomoya Machino ate five pounds (2.3 kg) of rice daily for a year to put on the necessary weight to be an American football lineman?
Did you know that a hermit lived at the hermitage and chapel of Saint-Thibaut until 1968?
Did you know that eight poems to the 6th-century Brittonic king Urien Rheged may be among the oldest works of vernacular literature in post-classical Europe?
Did you know that the Strong Court had a weak leader?
Did you know that the dispute over the fundamental nature of the leader of the devils in Islam dates back to the religion's formative stages?
Did you know that the teams of five countries set seven national records during a women's 4 × 400 metres relay event in 2024?
Did you know that Magical Girl Witch Trials received full voice acting after crowdfunding raised more than 30 times the original goal?
Did you know that Thomas Lincoln Tally, considered the pioneer movie-theater exhibitor of Los Angeles in 1916, is credited with coining the term "moving picture"?
Did you know that a Roman historian reported that Perdiccas, Alexander the Great's regent after his death, was nominated as king with great support, but hesitated to accept the role?