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Did you know that the Guantanamo Migrant Operations Center, a facility for holding undocumented immigrants to the United States, is set to have its capacity expanded from about 130 to 30,000?
Did you know that the orange stonecrop is a successful garden escapee?
Did you know that "Create", the theme song to the 35th anniversary of Super Mario Bros., features various Nintendo references?
Did you know that Charlton Hunt was a cousin of the author of "The Star-Spangled Banner" and a grand-uncle of a Nobel Prize laureate?
Did you know that Sonya Williams made her first stock investment using Sharesies, the company that she co-founded?
Did you know that the editors of the Red Army newspaper Qьzьl Armies were seen as opponents of the reform to introduce a Latin script for the Tatar language?
Did you know that the private showings of Alexander McQueen's posthumous final collection Angels and Demons (final look pictured) ended with a whisper saying "There is no more"?
Did you know that while six EF5 tornadoes hit the United States during the 2011 tornado season, there has not been an EF5 tornado in more than ten years?
Did you know that Mariel Molino starred in the first Amazon original film for Mexico?
Did you know that Tim Johnston pledged not to become a minister if he was elected to the House of Keys, but did so anyway?
Did you know that an "everliving" stonecrop has helped diabetic mice?
Did you know that in 1858, when 400 Black Americans experiencing discrimination in California resettled on Vancouver Island, clergyman Edward Cridge integrated Christ Church to welcome them?
Did you know that in 1997, several merchants of North Kent Mall in Grand Rapids, Michigan, did not know who owned the mall?
Did you know that some drug trafficking factions in Brazil have partnered up with evangelical churches?
Did you know that the earliest of the authentic portraits of Mozart shows the prodigy wearing the clothes of Archduke Maximilian Francis of Austria, given as a gift by Empress Maria Theresa?
Did you know that the first owners of Fallingwater, a house in Pennsylvania, were rumored to hide tables when the house's architect visited?
Did you know that "Go New York Go" has energized New York Knicks fans at Madison Square Garden since 1993?
Did you know that Gerald Shirtcliff's fake engineering qualifications were exposed following the collapse of the CTV Building?
Did you know that Jackson Cantwell, the number-one college football recruit for 2026, is the son of two Olympians and holds several youth world records in track and field?
Did you know that O-Zone threatened legal action over Haiducii's cover of "Dragostea din tei", which became a hit on charts at the same time as the original?
Did you know that Saraswati enthroned has been described as "a pinnacle of Indian art"?
Did you know that a 1968 protest at Bucks County Community College was one of only two gay-rights protests in the United States to occur on a college campus prior to the Stonewall riots?
Did you know that a Celtic god described by Caesar has been variously identified with a thunder god, a mallet god, a stag god, and a god with no name?
Did you know that a municipal merger in Japan failed after the merger council named the new city after an airport in a different city?
Did you know that historian Gu Jiegang secretly continued research into children's copybooks during the Cultural Revolution?
Did you know that most of My Chemical Romance's debut album, I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love, was recorded in only a week?
Did you know that the Santander anarchist newspaper Adelante had to be printed in neighbouring Torrelavega, as no printing shop in the city was willing to print it due to its political orientation?
Did you know that the Sony PVM-4300 has the largest cathode-ray tube ever made?
Did you know that the anonymously run Socialite Rank and Rich Kids of Instagram were both compared to the fictional Gossip Girl?
Did you know that the first-ever mass message to the U.S. government's two million employees was an enticement for them to resign?
Did you know that tsunami stones serve as risk warnings for tsunamis in Japan?
Did you know that 1Verse is the first K-pop boy band with North Korean defectors?
Did you know that Eddie Eagan's gold medal at the 1932 Winter Olympics made him the first man to win a Summer and Winter Olympic gold medal in different events?
Did you know that Murad Agha, a former slave turned ruler of Ottoman Tripolitania, commissioned the construction of a mosque that doubled as a fortress?
Did you know that a rickshaw puller inspired Helal Hafiz to write "Nishiddho Sompadokiyo" during the 1969 East Pakistan mass uprising?
Did you know that almost half of the invasive species in the United Arab Emirates are birds?
Did you know that birth-control advocate Tenrei Ōta changed his name and went into hiding after he was repeatedly arrested for his work?
Did you know that cave art, indigenous dance and an ancient flute inspired the work of Libyan artist Shefa Salem?
Did you know that species of the fossil water strider Telmatrechus (example pictured) were both winged and wingless?
Did you know that the Iron Alps Complex Fire took nearly $74 million to suppress?
Did you know that the Nepali term "sukumbasi" refers to squatters, who typically avoid using the word because of its negative connotations?
Did you know that "Plaza", a recognized Basque surname, comes from the Spanish language?
Did you know that Bradley Smalley, the political boss of the Vermont Democratic Party, once received the Republican nomination for alderman?
Did you know that Soepojo Padmodipoetro, despite being the highest administrator of Gadjah Mada University, could not attend its meetings?
Did you know that a search engine for pirated books has been used to train large language models?
Did you know that coach Ed Storm, after seeing his American football team losing late in a game, put on a uniform, entered the game, and made the game-winning score?
Did you know that pilot-induced oscillations on board Olympic Airways Flight 3838 killed seven people, including Greek deputy foreign minister Giannos Kranidiotis?
Did you know that singer Andrew Cushin used to play as a goalkeeper in Newcastle Benfield F.C.'s youth team?
Did you know that the American play His Majesty Bunker Bean was a national hit that had "been seen by most of the country east of the Mississippi River" before it reached Broadway?
Did you know that the galaxy NGC 1700 has a rotating hot gas disk glowing in X-rays after merging with another galaxy three billion years ago?
Did you know that the tenure of Edmund C. Stanton as director of the Metropolitan Opera featured the first United States performance of Wagner's Ring cycle?
Did you know that 404 Fifth Avenue's exterior terracotta features a color scheme usually found in pottery rather than on facades?
Did you know that French president Emmanuel Macron posted deepfakes of himself on Instagram ahead of the AI Action Summit?
Did you know that George Seeman, shortly after signing to play for the Green Bay Packers, played in a game against the Packers?
Did you know that Jameson's red rock hare once had ten recognized subspecies, but now has none?
Did you know that Jarrad Searby left the Proud Boys after he became angry with their disavowal of neo-Nazism?
Did you know that Nyango Star, a half-cat, half-apple character who plays death metal drums, helps fund a town with a declining population?
Did you know that Olympic team chaplain Ashley Null credits his work counseling elite athletes to his scholarly research on the Protestant Reformation?
Did you know that after being unpicked for the NBA, Damian Chong Qui went on to become the first player to score a triple-double in the East Asia Super League?
Did you know that both a statue of Lord Botetourt and a medal named for him have been the subject of replicas made for the College of William & Mary?
Did you know that history has a history?
Did you know that the mummy of the ancient Egyptian estate manager Wah was wrapped in 375 m2 (448 sq yd) of linen?
Did you know that Jerome Xavier learned Persian to work on the Mir'at al-quds, a biography of Jesus?
Did you know that Our Friends from Frolix 8 could be Philip K. Dick's "most sterile" novel?
Did you know that Palestinian singer Zeinab Shaath assumed a short film featuring her had been destroyed until a researcher discovered a copy in the archives of the Israel Defense Forces?
Did you know that a series of agreements at the Upstalsboom in 1323 prohibited bride kidnapping, provided the right to a speedy trial, and created a judicial veto in all Seven Sealands?
Did you know that brass casting, which later became a hallmark of Benin art, was first introduced to Igodomigodo during Uwa's reign?
Did you know that the crash of a Bersey Electric Cab in London in 1897 led to the first-ever charge of drunk driving?
Did you know that the lord of Bitchū Matsuyama Castle is a cat?
Did you know that the new eponym of Fort Bragg stole a German ambulance and drove 20 miles (32 km) under fire to save a wounded soldier during the Battle of the Bulge?
Did you know that Ana María Iriarte made her professional opera debut in 1945, retired from the stage in 1960, and created a foundation promoting zarzuela in 2006?
Did you know that Emmett Barrett wore glasses while playing American football?
Did you know that Frank Lloyd Wright's Unity Temple was likened to a Mayan ball court after its completion in 1908?
Did you know that John Stacy warned the Duke of Suffolk that a Tower would be dangerous to him; Suffolk was later murdered by sailors on a ship called The Nicholas of the Tower?
Did you know that Lyle Lin was the first Taiwanese player to be selected and signed via the Major League Baseball draft?
Did you know that Prem Bery hosted state visits at the Central Cottage Industries Emporium?
Did you know that an image of a skull can be used to express happiness?
Did you know that baritone Simon Neal's 2020 performance as Don Pizarro in Beethoven's Fidelio included riding a horse on the stage of the Royal Opera House?
Did you know that in one version of Zeus's childhood his enemies are terrified of the goat who raised him?
Did you know that only broken Japanese can be used on the social networking application Tsuita?
Did you know that some pale stonecrops (example pictured) in Spain closely resemble Israeli specimens, while neighboring plants in Spain can look vastly different?
Did you know that the defection of Padua during the Scaliger War was partly due to a Scaliger lord's open seduction of the wife of the Lord of Padua?
Did you know that the relationship between Sherlock Holmes and John Watson in Sherlock is one of the most studied examples of queerbaiting?
Did you know that you should "hang a gone fishin' notice on your office door" before reading Geometry of Quantum States?
Did you know that Abbess Ruothild wrapped the body of Saint Fara in a silk covered with bare-breasted Amazons?
Did you know that David D. Demarest was the first professor of pastoral theology and sacred rhetoric at the New Brunswick Theological Seminary?
Did you know that Ethan Hawke and Devery Jacobs smoked CBD while filming the Reservation Dogs episode "Elora's Dad"?
Did you know that Jim Photoglo wrote the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's "Fishin' in the Dark" and joined the band – almost 30 years later?
Did you know that Nachi Gordon was one of the youngest agents to sign an NBA player?
Did you know that a 17th-century painting depicts an Indian emperor shooting arrows at a personification of poverty?
Did you know that around 200 cats (example pictured) are tasked, as "security officers", with keeping mice out of the Forbidden City?
Did you know that seven U.S. prosecutors resigned in protest over the Eric Adams corruption case?
Did you know that the lyrics in Conan Gray's song "People Watching" were based on things he heard while eavesdropping on couples?
Did you know that using samples provided by Johann Jacob Ferber, it was demonstrated that mosaics at Pompeii were made with glass paste, not stone?
Did you know that "Logical" was performed on a crescent moon suspended from the ceiling on Olivia Rodrigo's Guts World Tour?
Did you know that King Faisal Street, one of the main thoroughfares in downtown Amman, has been used as a public space for national events and celebrations?
Did you know that Rudolf Herzog's novels have been described as characterised by the "sentimentality and harshness, pomp and plainness" of Kaiser Wilhelm II?
Did you know that Sabrina Carpenter was sad that the song "Busy Woman" could not be included on Short n' Sweet and later released it as a "thank you" to her fans?
Did you know that Sardoine Mia creates paintings whose surfaces look like concrete?
Did you know that Saturday Morning Strippers restored the Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio?
Did you know that The Dedalus Book of Polish Fantasy features stories spanning two centuries of Polish literary tradition, exploring the theme of personification of evil?
Did you know that politician Prasenjit Barman was credited for leading the restoration of the Cooch Behar Palace?
Did you know that Los Angeles Rising was put together by two musicians who had been forced to evacuate their homes due to the January 2025 wildfires in Los Angeles?
Did you know that Paul Loudon was described as a "human battering ram"?
Did you know that The Hungry Five were credited with maintaining the unique ownership structure of the Green Bay Packers?
Did you know that a Doctor Who episode took place during the partition of India, and used a unique Indian adaptation of the usual closing theme?
Did you know that according to some value theorists, nothing is good or bad?
Did you know that environment minister Peng Chi-ming drafted Taiwan's first weather insurance policy?
Did you know that the Battle of the Bosporus, one of the largest naval battles in the Middle Ages, was fought during the night in a storm in a narrow strait?
Did you know that the lead cast of Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In reunited to star in the unrelated film Hit N Fun?
Did you know that the zookeeper of the "loneliest elephant in the world" credited her with saving his marriage?
Did you know that when the owner of the house Wingspread complained that his roof was leaking, the architect reportedly advised him to move his chair?
Did you know that Andrzej Sapkowski, the creator of The Witcher, described his short story W leju po bombie as the only one of his works that can be classified as science fiction?
Did you know that Black Forest gateau inspired an Internet meme?
Did you know that Cao Shumin was instrumental in overseeing the establishment of China's 4G mobile network?
Did you know that Jake Brown, although born with cerebral palsy, made dozens of appearances for the mainstream association football club Askam United?
Did you know that Japanese singer Cindy was once said to have an "angel voice"?
Did you know that Ronald Reagan's friends thought that his official White House portrait did not look like him?
Did you know that Wayne Davenport, in a six-year span, went from playing college football to coaching football, returning to college, playing in the NFL, returning to coaching and then back to college football?
Did you know that an inscription on the painting Ibrahim Adil Shah II Hawking identifies its subject as an emperor, even though he was not?
Did you know that by the First Treaty of London England was to gain a quarter of France?
Did you know that the Hennepin Avenue Bridge was the first bridge across the Mississippi River?
Did you know that Chung Suet Ying has better sign language skills than her character in The Way We Talk, which requires her to sign "worse"?
Did you know that Sacred Heart Church was the birthplace of the orphanage which would become the only pontifical university in the United States?
Did you know that a painting by Fabián Cháirez depicting a nude, effeminate Emiliano Zapata caused violent protests at the Palacio de Bellas Artes?
Did you know that actor Darcy Grey sold "posh dog food" on weekends?
Did you know that an American football game had missiles set up in firing position on the field?
Did you know that brothers Carl, Martin, and Dick Zoll all played exactly one NFL game for the Green Bay Packers?
Did you know that in the span of five years, Elsie Chin was a nurse during the Battle of Hong Kong, served with the Chinese Red Cross, trained soldiers on first aid in India, and joined the U.S. Army Nurse Corps?
Did you know that some fossils of the paleobiota of the Latah Formation still have living color (example pictured)?
Did you know that the Anishinaabe founded Little Current, but were displaced by white settlers who took over their profitable trade?
Did you know that the Attorney General of Georgia argued that Robin Shahar's lesbian wedding meant that she didn't have "good sense"?
Did you know that the expansion of glaciers created two distinct forms of Aquilegia confusa, with individual populations better adapted to different elevations?
Did you know that the identity of Cleo, who provided online answers to complex mathematics problems without showing any work, was revealed over a decade later in 2025?
Did you know that while executives believed the Golden Rondelle Theater would be a waste of money, it was one of the 1964 World's Fair's most popular attractions?
Did you know that "Hardwired" was interpreted as a statement on the outcome of the 2016 United States presidential election?
Did you know that Dan Bull was a keyboardist for Eskimo Joe before he was elected to the Western Australian Legislative Assembly?
Did you know that Japanese art during the Kofun period included carriage-wheel-shaped (example pictured) and hoe-shaped stone "bracelets"?
Did you know that Vince McMahon reportedly attempted to buy the rights to a documentary on his career?
Did you know that Zhou Enlai reportedly enjoyed watching the play Li Huiniang, while Mao Zedong did not?
Did you know that the Philippines' gold medal at the 2025 Asian Winter Games was also its first medal at the Asian Winter Games?
Did you know that C. G. Joshi played cricket for Rajasthan at the same time that he ran the fine arts department at Mayo College?
Did you know that Razzouk Tattoo in Jerusalem has been giving tattoos to Christian pilgrims (process pictured) for more than 250 years?
Did you know that clapper-bells are the oldest bronze-cast objects found at Erlitou?
Did you know that the "Slicker" "performed so well at cracking skulls"?
Did you know that the French, when they began to colonize Cambodia, agreed that Angkor Wat was in Thailand?
Did you know that the music video for the single "Dam" by the Filipino boy band SB19 has been compared to Game of Thrones and The Lord of the Rings?
Did you know that there was initially an attempt to cover up any casualties during the 2025 New Delhi railway station crowd crush?
Did you know that a former police whistleblower is developing six islands in The World?
Did you know that actor Kōta Nomura had no experience in cooking before being cast in the live-action drama adaptation of Perfect Propose?
Did you know that an attempt to use automated dialogue replacement in the Reservation Dogs episode "Deer Lady" failed because the voice sounded too much like Yoda?
Did you know that retired United States Marine Corps three-star general Willie Williams originally planned to enlist in the Air Force after high school instead of going to college?
Did you know that Genora Johnson Dollinger was known as the Joan of Arc of Labor due to having to be dragged away from the 1936 Flint sit-down strike?
Did you know that Herman Martell, who co-founded the alumni association for the Green Bay Packers, only appeared in one NFL game for the team?
Did you know that a train station in Japan appointed a cat as an "honorary assistant"?
Did you know that cowries were increasingly used during the reign of Ehenneden as currency in Igodomigodo's markets?
Did you know that the Grand Husseini Mosque has served as a gathering point for political demonstrations in Amman (example pictured) for nearly a century?
Did you know that New York City's unbuilt River Walk development was delayed due to a $2 million study of striped bass?
Did you know that ancient Egyptians crafted hundreds of thousands of stone vessels (examples pictured) before the workforce was redirected to build pyramids?
Did you know that cyclist Mike Allen compared participating in the Olympics to Disneyland?
Did you know that in the essay "Toward European Unity" George Orwell presumed that one of the greatest obstacles to a federal Europe would be economic pressure by the United States?
Did you know that a car accident may have wrecked Richard Petty's chances of being elected North Carolina's secretary of state?
Did you know that during the 1967 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, Apurbalal Majumdar ran in two different constituencies and was elected in both?
Did you know that the closure of five University of Wisconsin branch campuses (one pictured) has called into question the future of the Wisconsin Idea?
Did you know that the outbreak of the Java War, which lasted five years and killed more than 200,000 people, was triggered by a government road project?
Did you know that "the flower of the Yogyakarta nobility perished" at the Battle of Lengkong?
Did you know that Amman's downtown area is located in a valley that has attracted urban settlement for millennia?
Did you know that a word in Wangerooge Frisian, once used to describe loading a gun, later came to be used to describe an invitation to a birthday party?
Did you know that readers of Your Computer is On Fire would be "faced with an existential crisis", according to The Register?
Did you know that the 1918 book A Garden Flora was published posthumously?
Did you know that the soap opera Neighbours was cancelled by Amazon MGM Studios just three days after the conclusion of its 40th anniversary tour?
Did you know that weightlifter Mattie Sasser switched her sporting nationality twice before qualifying for the Marshall Islands at the 2024 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that Edward Skeletrix, to promote his album Museum Music, held an exhibition during which he sat inside a glass box?
Did you know that director Isao Takahata reportedly stayed overnight at a doss-house to ensure that the Japanese animated film Jarinko Chie accurately depicts the city of Osaka?
Did you know that the exterior of the De Lamar Mansion was cleaned using toothbrushes during the 2000s?
Did you know that the least populous of Oregon's cities has three people?
Did you know that Daniel A. Gilbert was referred to as the world's richest police officer?
Did you know that Edward S. Morse described doban (example pictured) as "curious clay objects"?
Did you know that Italian artist Gianni Benvenuti, known for his children's book illustrations, also had a diverse career as a painter, sculptor, and printmaker?
Did you know that after the Great Savannah Fire of 1820, the city government rejected a donation from New York City because it was stipulated that the funds be allocated "without distinction of color"?
Did you know that some Jeep owners enjoy ducking each other?
Did you know that the Green Bay Packers and the Arizona Cardinals set multiple NFL playoff records during their 2009 NFC Wild Card playoff game?
Did you know that QuizKnock created puzzle games for the Imperial Palace East Garden?
Did you know that aged 17, Hunter Schafer was a plaintiff in a successful lawsuit against an act preventing trans people from using the bathroom corresponding to their gender identity?
Did you know that in an effort to reclaim "the most offensive word in the English language" as aspirational, some people describe being "powerful in an unapologetic and feminine manner" as "serving cunt"?
Did you know that singer-songwriter SZA wore a hijab as a child, but stopped wearing it due to Islamophobia after 9/11?
Did you know that the family drama film Little Red Sweet revolves around red bean soup, as red beans symbolize "longing for family" in Chinese culture?
Did you know that Barack Obama was a horse and Kamala was an elephant?
Did you know that Batman had a hipster-proof fence in 2018?
Did you know that Jackie Chan and the Mario games inspired hundreds of beavers?