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Did you know that after fleeing the Spanish Civil War to Venezuela, Spanish anarchist Concha Liaño became a supporter of Hugo Chávez?
Did you know that after he waited twenty-four hours to capture his Pulitzer Prize–winning photograph, the flash bulb on Earle Bunker's camera failed on his first attempt?
Did you know that in 2023, Ralph Nader founded the newspaper Winsted Citizen in his hometown of Winsted, Connecticut, where he delivered papers as a boy?
Did you know that the Adly Mansour Transportation Hub was selected as the best rail project of 2022 by Engineering News-Record?
Did you know that the comic book Nietzsche, se créer liberté tries to express Friedrich Nietzsche's personality visually?
Did you know that the first theatrical run of A Stormy Night by Ion Luca Caragiale, featuring a journalist nearly beaten up by the Civic Guard, saw Caragiale nearly beaten up by the Civic Guard?
Did you know that the national women's day of Guinea-Bissau commemorates the death of Titina Silá, who was killed on this day during the nation's war of independence?
Did you know that two rival designers independently submitted a map for the design of a 1940 New Zealand coin?
Did you know that McKinney Roughs Nature Park has an unusual convergence of four distinct ecosystems?
Did you know that a city in Virginia's 88.5-foot-tall (27.0 m) Christmas decoration was so popular with residents that it was decided to light it nightly year-round?
Did you know that a hammer and sickle motif was proposed for the New Zealand sixpence?
Did you know that after no record label would sign Keith Marshall, his manager set one up himself and released his 1981 UK Top 20 single "Only Crying"?
Did you know that in the Six Poems by Marina Tsvetayeva, Dmitri Shostakovich wanted to convey how he imagined the poet's voice, "husky, hefty, occluded in the smoke of homegrown tobacco"?
Did you know that skateboarder Cui Chenxi is the youngest Chinese gold medalist in the Asian Games?
Did you know that the Lunar Surface Gravimeter failed to turn the Moon into a gravitational wave antenna?
Did you know that the actor Andrew Still worked as a receptionist and janitor after leaving Hollyoaks?
Did you know that the seven leaders of the East Turkestan Revolutionary Party had Uyghur-language code names, the initials of which spelled out the word Lëninchi, meaning "Leninist"?
Did you know that Cisco wine was nicknamed "liquid crack"?
Did you know that Let's All Go to the Lobby, a one-minute filmed advertisement, has been preserved by the US National Film Registry?
Did you know that Van Morrison performed and recorded a collection of ancient Irish poems for Moles nightclub in Bath, Somerset?
Did you know that Walt Whitman's brain was donated to the American Anthropometric Society but was accidentally destroyed?
Did you know that Winter Renouf, a British member of the Indian Civil Service, thought that farmers in the Punjab should grow Canadian wheat varieties?
Did you know that a California TV station had a cartoon bee as its mascot?
Did you know that a story about Call of Duty: Warzone led to Video Games Chronicle's Twitter account being temporarily locked?
Did you know that black-billed magpies are known to eat ticks off deer and other large mammals (example pictured)?
Did you know that children have programmed Hackaball as a Magic 8 Ball, a whoopee cushion, and an alarm clock?
Did you know that even though Faith and Confidence by William C. Beall won the 1958 Pulitzer Prize for photography, the jurors who selected it were unimpressed by all of the entries?
Did you know that the band Ryokuoushoku Shakai was named after its members misheard "vegetables" (野菜, yasai) as "society" (社会, shakai)?
Did you know that "he would, wouldn't he"?
Did you know that Babe Ruth Bows Out marked the first time a sports-related image won the Pulitzer Prize for Photography?
Did you know that Fionna Campbell was created as gender-swapped Adventure Time fan art, but ended up getting her own show?
Did you know that SB19's second extended play (EP), Pagtatag!, is part of a trilogy about their artistry?
Did you know that William Thomas Pike, a convicted felon, published a biographical series (volume pictured), which includes traders, bishops, and a lord mayor of London, but almost no women?
Did you know that fighter pilot Donald H. Bochkay  shot down two jet-powered Messerschmitt Me 262s while flying a propeller-driven P-51 Mustang?
Did you know that for the southern molly, sexual selection favors smaller males because they copulate by sneaking up to females?
Did you know that in 1976, Carmen Valero became the first female track and field athlete to represent Spain at the Olympics?
Did you know that the documentary Tish uses sets from Ricky Gervais's sitcom After Life?
Did you know that yobidashi often receive their trousers from sumo wrestlers who have been promoted to the rank of yokozuna or ōzeki?
Did you know that Emais Roberts administered the COVID-19 vaccination program in Palau and was one of the first to receive the vaccine in the country?
Did you know that Harley Poe's folk punk lyrics have been described as "some of the most deranged in the genre"?
Did you know that Minecraft YouTuber SkyDoesMinecraft, once the eleventh-most subscribed creator on the platform, attempted to sell their YouTube channel for nearly a million dollars?
Did you know that Sunday lunch with Robert Alexander Neil was called "the best intellectual thing in Cambridge"?
Did you know that groups of tourists have unsuccessfully tried to push the Hanging Stone into the lake below?
Did you know that in one neighborhood commission district, the voters and officeholders are all inmates at the D.C. Jail?
Did you know that millions of people from Madagascar claim ancestral ties to ancient Jews, according to a centuries-old origin myth called the "Malagasy secret"?
Did you know that the Apollo 14 Suprathermal Ion Detector Experiment is credited with the first direct observation of water on the Moon?
Did you know that 40 Bank Street, a skyscraper in London, has been described as looking like two different buildings fused into one?
Did you know that Annie Nathan Meyer's Black Souls was one of the first "lynching dramas" created by a white woman?
Did you know that Claire Rousay creates music using everyday sounds she records?
Did you know that Dr. Twink Twining was a Major League Baseball player?
Did you know that Gurdev Singh Gill was the first Canadian physician of Indian descent?
Did you know that Holly Ringland wrote her second book while stuck in Australia for three years during the COVID-19 pandemic?
Did you know that Kaija Saariaho's 2021 opera Innocence includes traditional Finnish cow-herding calls?
Did you know that Megan Barton-Hanson dated her costars from Love Island 4, Celebs Go Dating, and Ex on the Beach, but not Hey Tracey!?
Did you know that Ray E. Dillon Jr. flew in 92 combat missions during World War II before becoming the president and CEO of Dillons?
Did you know that adding the site isolation security feature made Google Chrome use 10 percent more RAM?
Did you know that eyelash seaweed may have been made extinct by a single 2016 earthquake?
Did you know that the packaging of one Thai throat lozenge features five centipedes?
Did you know that Elijah Hewson's band Inhaler's UK No. 1 debut album charted 51 places higher than the debut album of his father's band U2?
Did you know that Fortnite's Tilted Towers was described by critics as the equivalent of "psychological torture" and being "dropped into a meat grinder"?
Did you know that Mariia Vetrova's self-immolation provoked student protests in Saint Petersburg, Moscow and Kyiv?
Did you know that Princess Zelda's name was inspired by American novelist and socialite Zelda Fitzgerald?
Did you know that St Mary's Church in Nun Monkton, England, restored by John Wilson Walton-Wilson, contains a pulpit (detail pictured) carved by Robert Beall?
Did you know that a street in Bucharest was once named after Ioniță Tunsu, an outlaw who used to visit his girlfriend there?
Did you know that conservation in Indonesia had little local support after independence because it was associated with the Dutch colonial period?
Did you know that cornetist Al Sweet dressed his band, the White Hussars, in flashy white-and-gold military uniforms based on hussars?
Did you know that in 2022, Julia Dorsey helped North Carolina win a national lacrosse championship and reach the national soccer final?
Did you know that it took the King of Italy 22 years to decide whether France or Mexico owned Clipperton Island?
Did you know that the Kalmia Club (clubhouse pictured) is named after the mountain laurel?
Did you know that Dora Goldstein exposed mice to alcoholic vapor to investigate the biochemistry of alcohol addiction and alcohol withdrawal syndrome?
Did you know that George Daniel submitted his band's demos as coursework while in college?
Did you know that Phomen Singh, an early Indian migrant to New Zealand, sold sweets and chutneys out of a suitcase?
Did you know that Sun Haiyan is the first Chinese ambassador to Singapore who was not a member of the Foreign Ministry of China?
Did you know that a Brisbane Lions player said the sight of a jerrycan motivated her team during the 2023 AFL Women's Grand Final?
Did you know that after Joseph S. Bartley was sentenced to twenty years in prison for embezzlement, he tried to have himself declared legally dead?
Did you know that after Nadezhda Bantle was exiled to the Russian North, she oversaw the development of the hospital in Nikolskoye to become the most advanced in its region?
Did you know that before becoming a jungle musician, Nia Archives wanted to be an archaeologist?
Did you know that it took eleven years for the instrumental track "I'm God" to receive an official release?
Did you know that on its maiden voyage from Liverpool to Australia, the George Roper ran aground and was wrecked?
Did you know that pathologist Vincent Marks helped reverse the conviction of socialite Claus von Bülow in a case that was adapted for the film Reversal of Fortune?
Did you know that the design of the Baldwin–Reynolds House, a mansion built for U.S. Supreme Court justice Henry Baldwin, may have been inspired by Andrew Jackson's home?
Did you know that Laguna Honda Hospital is a non-profit long-term care facility that has been described as America's "last big almshouse"?
Did you know that Stephen Gould performed three roles at the 2022 Bayreuth Festival: Tannhäuser, Siegfried and Tristan, earning him nicknames such as "Iron Man"?
Did you know that Yunè Pinku derived the first half of her stage name from a childhood nickname and the second half from the children's program Pingu?
Did you know that addicts imprisoned in Wormwood Scrubs named the prison football team "Glatt Dynamos", after their psychotherapist Max Glatt, a former Nazi concentration-camp inmate?
Did you know that during Siam Niramit, a Bangkok cultural show, the forestage was transformed into a 50-metre-long (160 ft) river?
Did you know that teenage Inuk interpreter Qalaherriaq drew an accurate map of northwest Greenland while using a pencil for the first time?
Did you know that the 6-ton (6.1-tonne) Pilgrims' Cross, high on Holcombe Moor, England, was dragged up there with difficulty by 14 horses?
Did you know that "Agora Hills" is named after the location of the ashram where Doja Cat lived growing up?
Did you know that Hometown Village is a community of Sakhalin Koreans who were finally allowed to return to South Korea after the dissolution of the Soviet Union?
Did you know that Justin Yu, the current Classic Tetris World Champion, is also a cellist in MIT's video game orchestra?
Did you know that Shovel Knight Showdown started as a fundraising goal for the Kickstarter of the original game?
Did you know that after Ursula K. Le Guin published her collection The Wind's Twelve Quarters, a reviewer called her the "ideal science fiction writer for readers who ordinarily dislike science fiction"?
Did you know that after winning the 2024 Masters, snooker player Ronnie O'Sullivan is both the youngest and oldest winner of the tournament?
Did you know that during the ibedul succession dispute, Gloria Salii held a ceremony for her son in which he washed his hands in turtle blood?
Did you know that in 1857 Ludwig Grass donated 20,000 guilders to build the first state secondary school in Liechtenstein?
Did you know that the Salmon Report (1966) led to the loss of the job title "matron" from UK hospitals?
Did you know that the papal bull Ad fructus uberes gave friars the right to hear confessions and preach without the authorisation of secular clergy?
Did you know that the steps of Pohang Space Walk represent an ascent to an unreachable utopia?
Did you know that Olympic gold medalist Dean Crawford was introduced to rowing when he found a rowing shell outside the students' union building at the University of Victoria?
Did you know that artificial islands were deployed in Hicklin Lake in an unsuccessful attempt to stop eutrophication?
Did you know that artist Tove Jansson based the children's book character Snufkin on a political philosopher whom she had dated?
Did you know that elementary school students named the Wooden Warrior roller coaster?
Did you know that the Burmese Buddhist monk Sagyo Thu-Myat successfully lobbied for the recalibration of the Burmese calendar?
Did you know that the church of St James the Less, Pockthorpe, now the home of the Norwich Puppet Theatre, once contained a rood screen with portraits of saints painted in 1479?
Did you know that Bdóte, an area of sacred significance to the Dakota people, centered on the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi rivers, was also the site of their forced exile from Minnesota?
Did you know that Jonos offered Gucci carrying cases with their Escort portable computers (example pictured) in 1982?
Did you know that Matei Donici, a general in the Imperial Russian Army, secretly wrote poetry with Romanian-nationalist and anti-Russian messages?
Did you know that Thomas of Chobham's Summa confessorum was one of the most copied works on penance in the late medieval period?
Did you know that swimmer Jin Hao competed in eight events, the most of any participant, during the 2001 National Games of China, causing him to lose 4 kilograms (8.8 lb)?
Did you know that Lake Fenwick suffers from an infestation of Brazilian elodea?
Did you know that Tarcisio Martina, the representative of the Holy See in China, was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1951 over a plot to assassinate Mao Zedong?
Did you know that after dying in her daughter's arms in an asylum in 1897, Maria Trubnikova was remembered as the "heart and soul" of feminist activism in Russia?
Did you know that before besieging Baghdad in 1258, the Mongol prince Hulegu Khan ended a letter to the city's ruler with the words "I will show you the meaning of the will of God"?
Did you know that the use of high-tech surveillance to monitor protests and identify participants has led protestors to use anti-facial recognition masks?
Did you know that Cliff Davis spent $53 during his 1960 campaign for a seat in the Wyoming House of Representatives?
Did you know that Heinrich Nidecker accused Samuel Taylor Coleridge of having committed plagiarism in his philosophical tract Theory of Life?
Did you know that Sky Above Clouds IV was inspired by a large, blank white wall?
Did you know that Ukrainians Nadia Smyrnytska, Maria Kalyuzhnaya and Maria Kovalevska joined other prisoners in committing suicide to protest against the abuse of imprisoned women in Kara katorga?
Did you know that Walkelin, Bishop of Winchester, began the construction of the modern Winchester Cathedral in 1079?
Did you know that a species of butterfly was named in honor of an Inuit interpreter?
Did you know that the terracotta statue of George Washington by the Danish-American sculptor Nels N. Alling was entirely funded by the local Scandinavian community?
Did you know that Cam McCormick is thought to be the first college football player to be granted a ninth year of NCAA eligibility?
Did you know that Charles J. Turck was accused of being a communist spy during his time as president of Macalester College?
Did you know that The Waste Land, considered one of the most important poems of the 20th century, was described as "waste paper" when first published?
Did you know that during the COVID-19 pandemic, some former office workers used myNoise to remind them of their workplace?
Did you know that the Alexander McQueen collection The Overlook (Autumn/Winter 1999) featured a Shaun Leane–produced corset made from coiled aluminium?
Did you know that 13-year-old Michael Artiaga won against his 15-year-old brother Andrew in the final round of the 2020 Classic Tetris World Championship?
Did you know that Amrita Sher-Gil's painting Hill Women appeared on a 1978 Indian postage stamp?
Did you know that W. Seavey Joyce's presidency of Boston College was dominated by frequent, large student protests?
Did you know that Winchester College football used to be played on top of a hill, with a line of boys on each side to keep the ball from rolling away?
Did you know that barley was once used as a form of money?
Did you know that male mangrove mollies mate sneakily?
Did you know that the Chinese play Silang tanmu, which depicts a general returning home to visit his mother, was banned in Tianjin in 1945 because it "distorted the normal ethics and morality"?
Did you know that Maria Olovennikova was the only woman present at the founding conference of Narodnaya Volya?
Did you know that after Shawn Christopher's "Another Sleepless Night" was rereleased with Mike "Hitman" Wilson's name removed, it charted 24 places higher on the UK Singles Chart?
Did you know that lovers on the campus of the College of William & Mary are encouraged to cross the Crim Dell bridge together?
Did you know that sales from Dieux du Stade, a nude calendar produced by the French professional rugby union club Stade Français featuring photos of its players, helped to finance the club for many years?
Did you know that the naturally connected Pipe Lake and Lake Lucerne are the only hydrilla-infested lakes in the state of Washington?
Did you know that Dua Lipa premiered "Training Season" at the 66th Annual Grammy Awards, 11 days before its official release?
Did you know that Eenoolooapik fell ill while kayaking through Aberdeen in traditional Inuit clothing?
Did you know that Ian Begg, known for his work on restoration of castles in Scotland, designed and built his own 20th-century tower house to live in?
Did you know that Keshawn Banks's only NFL appearance came in the playoffs?
Did you know that Pamatan is an undiscovered city on Lombok that was destroyed by the 1257 Samalas eruption?
Did you know that Peter d'Hamecourt was asked to pay for taxi fares with 24 cans of Heineken?
Did you know that six-tenths of a second is one reason that a photograph won a Pulitzer Prize?
Did you know that Anjali Lama, Nepal's first transgender model, worked with Calvin Klein in 2019?
Did you know that Etchmiadzin Cathedral, Armenia's mother church, previously had a Tibetan Buddhist bell?
Did you know that Logan Thompson is the first former U Sports goaltender to start a National Hockey League game in over 30 years?
Did you know that Margareth Rago seeks to establish a methodology for what she calls "feminist science"?
Did you know that Pupil Slicer's 2023 album Blossom draws inspiration from narratives in the video games Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker and Outer Wilds?
Did you know that the volcano Mount Hudson repeatedly depopulated parts of South America?
Did you know that Paul McCartney wrote a poem about Dumb Woman's Lane?
Did you know that The Anxious City introduced a recurring figure in Paul Delvaux's paintings: a man who is ignorant of the pretty women and disasters around him?
Did you know that offensive lineman Andy Dickerson is not to be confused with offensive lineman Andy Dickerson?
Did you know that some WNBA seasons, including this year's, have a break for the Summer Olympic Games?
Did you know that Centre College hosted two vice-presidential debates during John A. Roush's presidency?
Did you know that Ove Jørgensen, after giving his name to a law of Homeric poetry, renounced classical studies to write about ballet?
Did you know that because the Cherokee people were deliberately routed through cholera-stricken areas, their dislocation has been given as an example of Native American genocide in the United States?
Did you know that former girl soldiers may face higher rates of community rejection than former boy soldiers?
Did you know that having lived in Central Park for more than a year after becoming homeless, Flaco has been accused of being a peeping tom?
Did you know that nine-year-old Xiang Xuan was the youngest soldier to take part in the Long March?
Did you know that Waharoa, a sculpture by artist Selwyn Muru, was created to metaphorically turn Aotea Square in Auckland into the courtyard of a Māori meeting house?
Did you know that William Winstanley Hull's search for the original manuscript of the 1662 prayer book led to its later discovery?
Did you know that chemist Betty Lou Raskin said in 1958 that society was wasting the "brainpower" of women, and blamed the media for making the mink coat the "symbol of female success" and not the lab coat?
Did you know that Margaret Donahue was the first female executive in Major League Baseball?
Did you know that Mike Sadler guided nighttime raids on enemy targets as a celestial navigator during the Western Desert campaign?
Did you know that William N. Salin was twice decorated with the Sagamore of the Wabash?
Did you know that for several millennia, some humans buried corpses in their houses?
Did you know that "delulu is the solulu" is a catchphrase?
Did you know that Malaysian percussionist Lewis Pragasam was drumming to "Joy to the World" at a Christmas concert when he suffered a fatal heart attack?
Did you know that Spider-Man was chosen as the last character to return in Avengers: Endgame's Avengers assemble scene because it was designed to be emotional for audiences?
Did you know that Taylor Swift announced her upcoming eleventh studio album, The Tortured Poets Department, while accepting a Grammy for her album Midnights?
Did you know that communist forces set up their headquarters at the Sacred Heart Cathedral during the 1948 battle for Kaifeng in the Chinese Civil War?
Did you know that the 1892 Biddle vs. Livingstone football game was the first college football game ever played between historically black schools?
Did you know that Augustus Belknap led the first mule-drawn car from Alamo Plaza to San Pedro Springs Park, which developed into the first streetcar line in San Antonio?
Did you know that Dr. Disaster's office collapsed in an earthquake on this day in 2011?
Did you know that Maruxa and Coralia Fandiño Ricart (statues pictured) became famous in Galicia because their bright, colourful outfits contrasted with the social repression of Francoist Spain?
Did you know that Nicki Minaj's song "Big Foot" is a diss track about Megan Thee Stallion?
Did you know that despite knowing of Geno's popularity, Super Mario RPG's co-director wasn't sure why the character was popular?
Did you know that land for a library built for African Americans in Virginia was donated by Pope Pius XII?
Did you know that the growth of Christianity in 20th-century Africa has been termed the "fourth great age of Christian expansion"?
Did you know that Taubaté became the "city of lies" after a 2012 pregnancy hoax?
Did you know that all three of María Esther Biscayart de Tello's children were forcibly disappeared during the Dirty War in Argentina?
Did you know that from 1904 to 1911 Arthur Lewis Hall covered 17,479 miles (28,130 km), mostly on foot, to map the geology of the Transvaal?
Did you know that the horned sungem (example pictured) becomes a nectar robber when food is scarce?
Did you know that the music of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance was designed to be reactive to the player's actions?
Did you know that 35.6 percent of counties in the United States are classified as maternity care deserts?