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Did you know that The Constellation of Leo, a group portrait of people from Italy's art world, was exhibited with a note that read "not without a trace of irony"?
Did you know that many hyalospheniid amoebae (example pictured) construct shells by stealing mineralized particles from the shells of their prey?
Did you know that the building housing the city council of Palembang, Indonesia, was claimed to be the "grandest" of its kind?
Did you know that Luca Salsi performed leading roles in two operas in a row at the Metropolitan Opera, stepping in on 30 minutes' notice in Verdi's Ernani and singing as planned in Lucia di Lammermoor?
Did you know that Margarita Ortega left her husband to fight in the Mexican Revolution?
Did you know that rural women in Burundi greet each other with an intricate musical ritual called akazehe?
Did you know that the "Mayor of Picklesburgh" is decided by a pickle juice drinking competition?
Did you know that François Glorieux was a Belgian pianist and improvisor, conductor of the BBC Radio Orchestra and Stan Kenton's band, and arranger for Michael Jackson?
Did you know that Salty Parker, who spent 60 years in organized baseball, described his lifelong love of the game as "a beautiful disease"?
Did you know that a developer on Serious Sam: The Second Encounter doubled its frame rate by removing one line of code?
Did you know that a former Dutch villa houses both the city council of Semarang, Indonesia, and the city's mayor?
Did you know that a vampire killing kit (example pictured) was donated to the Mercer Museum in the 1980s?
Did you know that puzzle maker Patrick Berry has been called the "Thomas Pynchon of crosswords"?
Did you know that the Penitential of Finnian is the oldest known penitential?
Did you know that Angelito de Canal 13, the mascot of the Chilean television network Canal 13, was inspired by its creator's son?
Did you know that South Korea has censored military-affiliated golf courses?
Did you know that Ursula K. Le Guin's short story "The Day Before the Revolution", which won Nebula and Locus Awards in 1975, was praised for its depiction of a "revolutionary icon as a curmudgeonly old woman"?
Did you know that a memorial bust at Diên Hồng Square commemorates a 15-year-old protestor who was shot dead there?
Did you know that 24-year-old Mahasweta Chakraborty of Operation Ganga helped around 800 students return to India during the Russian invasion of Ukraine?
Did you know that Anders Bure created the "first real map" of Sweden (copy pictured)?
Did you know that Brother Jonathan by John Neal has been considered the longest work of early American fiction?
Did you know that Julie Cliff revealed that an outbreak of konzo in Mozambique was caused by cyanide in insufficiently processed cassava?
Did you know that Ron Monaco, described as the "longest of long shots", became a starter in the NFL having been just a backup in college?
Did you know that a "bat ensnared by a plant" was discovered in the garden of the Palestine Museum of Natural History?
Did you know that "National Stupid Day" was not intended to be on Veterans Day?
Did you know that 80 police officers were needed to disperse a crowd that tarred and feathered Statue of Industry?
Did you know that Steve Englehart wrote the Captain America comic book storyline "Secret Empire" as an allegory for the Watergate scandal?
Did you know that a downed power line caused a fire spanning more than 100 acres (40 ha) during a November 2013 North American storm?
Did you know that fridges filled with "frozen duck" sent to Britain actually contained illegal coins?
Did you know that the Uganda Muslim Supreme Council became the richest landlord in Uganda after inheriting land left behind by Asian Muslims expelled under Idi Amin?
Did you know that a Hawaii TV station's switch from Japanese-language programming to home shopping stirred viewer outcry?
Did you know that according to local legend, the St. Nicholas Church in Dubliany, Rivne Oblast, was built there by accident following a clerical error?
Did you know that female snowy plovers often abandon their families as soon as the chicks hatch?
Did you know that in 2023, Tshering Tshomo was the only woman elected to serve in the National Council of Bhutan?
Did you know that the broadcast of the 8th Session of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Serbia was manipulated to remove or delay speeches critical of Slobodan Milošević?
Did you know that Henk Zwartepoorte quacked at caimans?
Did you know that Lepas testudinata  can form colonies of more than 1000 members at a time?
Did you know that Patti Smith posed for a racy photograph in Michael Goldstein's rooftop wading pool?
Did you know that The Washington Post described a North Carolina dive bar as "a middle finger to the development surrounding it"?
Did you know that Anthony Bennett is part of a football family, with his father, uncle, cousin, and older brother all playing professionally?
Did you know that Che Guevara was almost killed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo during Operation South?
Did you know that a train runs along the roof at Miami International Airport?
Did you know that history sniffing has been used to track Papa John's customers?
Did you know that the green colour of bofedales (examples pictured) stands out in the yellow surrounding landscape?
Did you know that 32 former members of the city council of Bogor, Indonesia, were convicted of corruption in 2010, including 3 who were still serving?
Did you know that Andrea Carla Michaels, who has written more than 80 crosswords for The New York Times, is known as the "Pizza Lady" in San Francisco?
Did you know that Trần Lập was involved in Vietnam's first internet copyright lawsuit?
Did you know that by digging a trench through Hisarlik, Heinrich Schliemann destroyed parts of the ruins of Troy?
Did you know that despite little formal education, Earnest Andersson was a successful inventor, businessman, amateur athlete, race car driver, pilot, photographer, radio operator, pro golfer, and composer?
Did you know that the 1982 book Bitter Legacy by historian Richard C. Lukas describes how in the early Cold War years America lost influence over Poland, which became a part of the Soviet empire?
Did you know that Alexander Hamilton lived in the only house he ever owned for just two years?
Did you know that the 16th-century In the Village of Guaraparim, written by a Catholic saint in a now-dead American language, features a character speaking "in a way that resembles the characters of Aristophanes"?
Did you know that the New Orleans Saints went their first 20 seasons without a winning season?
Did you know that the initial lyrics to "Shukusei!! Loli Kami Requiem" were "as painful as hitting someone with concrete"?
Did you know that Daniel McCaffery campaigned on protecting abortion rights in the 2023 Pennsylvania Supreme Court election, even though judicial candidates typically avoid commenting on specific issues?
Did you know that Fred J. Wiseman  delivered the world's first unofficial airmail flight by airplane?
Did you know that the wrestler Brillante Jr. is the younger cousin of the wrestler Brillante Jr.?
Did you know that Japanese costume designer Satomi Ito has created costumes for figure skating, artistic and rhythmic gymnastics, equestrian vaulting, ballet, and ballroom dance?
Did you know that The Math Myth advocates for American high schools to stop requiring advanced algebra?
Did you know that Turkish international  soccer player Rojin Polat was named member of the "2021 All Schools Merit Girls Team" in New South Wales, Australia?
Did you know that Zavodovski Island stinks?
Did you know that a founder of a New Zealand ice cream company was previously an investment banker?
Did you know that art historian Zehava Jacoby was able to suggest a reconstruction of the lost tomb of Baldwin V of Jerusalem, destroyed in an 1808 fire, using an 18th-century drawing by Elzear Horn?
Did you know that the Bishop of Brooklyn was "appalled" that the music video for "Feather", in which Sabrina Carpenter kills several men, was filmed in a church?
Did you know that Father Marceli Godlewski, known for his pre-war anti-Semitic activities, helped save the lives of hundreds of Jews held in the Warsaw Ghetto during the German occupation of Poland?
Did you know that HMS Trent helped keep the Dutch in port by sending bogus signals to a non-existent fleet?
Did you know that Varroa destructor (example pictured), the Varroa mite, is an external parasitic mite that attacks and feeds on honey bees and is one of the most harmful honey-bee pests in the world?
Did you know that a reception was held for civic leaders of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, to promote a forthcoming TV station that never launched?
Did you know that Annie Rauwerda's stew cooked for more than 60 days and had around 300 contributors?
Did you know that British child artist Noah created the backgrounds for paintings by worldwide celebrities including Ed Sheeran?
Did you know that Sher Shah Suri was often referred to as the "Just King"?
Did you know that Wawa Airport's first commercial flights began three weeks before it officially opened?
Did you know that after starting the first game of the 2023 NFL season, Jordan Love became only the third quarterback since 1993 to start Week 1 for the Green Bay Packers, following Brett Favre and Aaron Rodgers?
Did you know that country musician Kristian Bush celebrated his 52nd birthday by releasing 52 songs in the span of one year?
Did you know that Hannah Davis authored highly cited articles on long COVID while battling the disease herself?
Did you know that New Zealand's Lemon & Te Aroha was created 19 years before the similarly named and more famous Lemon & Paeroa?
Did you know that Tsvetana Jermanova survived imprisonment in two forced labour camps in communist Bulgaria?
Did you know that in the 2009 documentary concert special Roots to Riches, Regine Velasquez reunited and performed with her former talent show rival Eva Castillo?
Did you know that the only populated place on Kaipokok Bay in Labrador, Canada, is Postville?
Did you know that Al-Rantisi Hospital can extract drinking water from air?
Did you know that DOM clobbering attacks can take over your website?
Did you know that Kantibhai Patel is a National Hero of Zimbabwe?
Did you know that Molly Burman resumed releasing music three years later after finding that "Happy Things" had accrued a million streams on Spotify?
Did you know that War Against Smallpox describes how Edward Jenner's vaccination technique spread across Europe during the Napoleonic Wars?
Did you know that a year after becoming the first woman president of the Canadian Political Science Association, Caroline Andrew moderated the first Canadian leaders' debate on women's issues?
Did you know that it is debated whether or not Nephites used minted coins?
Did you know that meeples (examples pictured) are considered an icon of modern-style eurogames?
Did you know that Lány Castle is the summer residence of the president of the Czech Republic?
Did you know that Michael Collins has been called  "one of the best clarinettists walking the planet" by The Times?
Did you know that in Hyprov, off-Broadway audience members perform improv after undergoing stage hypnosis?
Did you know that in his Liber Gratissimus, Peter Damian argues that simony is a sin worse than adultery or murder?
Did you know that Geoffrey Holt, an unassuming New Hampshire man who worked as a groundskeeper in a mobile home park where he resided, left $3.8 million to his small town after his death?
Did you know that before embarking on a music career, Matilda Cole appeared in three of her father's films?
Did you know that each station in the TVX Broadcast Group had exactly 37 employees?
Did you know that near the end of her life, feminist and educator Nadezhda Stasova wrote that Russian women "still have not learned to stop being men's slaves"?
Did you know that the Ngwa people are the largest clan in Igboland?
Did you know that young orange-billed lorikeets are actually yellow-billed?
Did you know that Foodbank Canterbury receives products from a prison?
Did you know that Yurie Funato, a voice actress and former singer, was bullied in high school for her high-pitched voice?
Did you know that at least one million civilians died as a result of the blockade of Biafra (child pictured)?
Did you know that in 1964, Illinoisans cast more than 500 million votes in one election?
Did you know that in a village in Wales, hares were traditionally nicknamed "St Monacella's lambs"?
Did you know that Crystal Dynamics was the first developer for the PlayStation outside Japan?
Did you know that Jimmy Fallon and Meghan Trainor wrote their song "Wrap Me Up" over FaceTime, during which she described being "so nervous [her] heart was in [her] ass"?
Did you know that Walter A. Groves received a job offer from Centre College by telegram around the same time that he was forced to leave his work as a missionary in Iran due to the country being invaded?
Did you know that despite being rivals since 1977, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Green Bay Packers have only played each other twice in the playoffs, with each team winning once?
Did you know that despite not owning a road bike the year before, Nickolas Zukowsky placed third in the 2016 Canadian National Junior Road Race Championships?
Did you know that during World War II, a Polish priest and a German officer could not prevent the massacre of 257 inhabitants of a Polish village (commemoration pictured)?
Did you know that rural Afghans keep fresh grapes in mud?
Did you know that the New York Post called Paige Lorenze the "female Pete Davidson"?
Did you know that NFL head coach Herb Dell also officiated games of the team he coached?
Did you know that Nizza in central Frankfurt is one of the largest gardens of Mediterranean plants north of the Alps, thanks to its very warm microclimate?
Did you know that Vera Chok asked producers to place a rice cooker in the set of the home of her character, Honour Chen-Williams?
Did you know that in his memoir This Boy's Life, Tobias Wolff writes about his childhood misdeeds including stealing and forging checks?
Did you know that the sarcophagus of Eshmunazar II, the Phoenician king of Sidon, is one of only three ancient Egyptian sarcophagi unearthed outside Egypt?
Did you know that The Oxford Guide to the Book of Common Prayer: A Worldwide Survey made historian Alec Ryrie suspect "there is such a thing as 'Anglicanism' after all"?
Did you know that even though espresso is Italian, espresso and tonic originated in Scandinavia?
Did you know that stinking tutsan smells like goat?
Did you know that writer Ed Brubaker earned more from the residuals for his cameo appearance in the film Captain America: The Winter Soldier than he did for his comic from which the film was adapted?
Did you know that Dustin Wolf has been named his league's goaltender of the year the last four years in a row?
Did you know that Emelia Quinn argues that "monstrous vegans" have recurred in literature since Mary Shelley's Frankenstein?
Did you know that as a result of the Witch Fire almost 1 million people had to evacuate Southern California?
Did you know that in Liber ad amicum, Bonizo of Sutri endorses violence against heretics?
Did you know that in the documentary Transition, Jordan Bryon says he finds Taliban fighters "lovely"?
Did you know that orange paintbrushes are guarded by rufous hummingbirds?
Did you know that the British Tychon missile was developed from a Barnes Wallis concept to keep strike aircraft safe while dropping nuclear bombs?
Did you know that voice actress Yurie Igoma considers Mickey Mouse to be her mentor?
Did you know that Hoàng Thị Minh Hồng's environmental activism inspired Barack Obama?
Did you know that Misti is one of the most dangerous volcanoes in the world?
Did you know that The Story Teller by Amrita Sher-Gil, depicting a group of Indian village women performing ordinary tasks, fetched US$7.45 million at auction in 2023?
Did you know that a video of U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken performing "Hoochie Coochie Man" at the September 2023 launch of the Global Music Diplomacy Initiative went viral?
Did you know that the Antarctic lichen Buellia frigida has been to outer space?
Did you know that the restaurant CosMc's is named after a character from McDonaldland?
Did you know that Härnösand Residence  is one of the earliest examples of Neoclassical architecture in Sweden?
Did you know that Mario Party DS's minigames feature "minimized" Mario characters?
Did you know that the Indian director Manhar Raskapur's films Mulu Manek and Kadu Makrani were both remade during the 1970s?
Did you know that the Key & Peele sketch "Substitute Teacher" was analyzed for its racial commentary and educational insight?
Did you know that the musician Bou went from being fired from an IT apprenticeship for producing beats during company time to having songs rank on the UK Singles Chart?
Did you know that Anna Burke was the second woman to give birth while a member of the Australian House of Representatives?
Did you know that Eagle-Dogtooth Provincial Park in Ontario, Canada, contains part of the Experimental Lakes Area, a controlled area for conducting scientific experiments in lakes?
Did you know that a Hot Dog Bean screenprint from Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans II sold for $258,046 in 2013?
Did you know that a replacement player was injured replacing an injured replacement player?
Did you know that the closest modern fern relatives to Dennstaedtia christophelii (fossil pictured) of the Pacific Northwest are tropical species from South America?
Did you know that the last Byzantine emperor, Constantine XI Palaiologos, was never formally crowned?
Did you know that Mel Bartholomew, who developed the time-saving square foot gardening method, said that he gardened "with a salad bowl in mind, not a wheelbarrow"?
Did you know that four course records were broken during the 2023 Chicago Marathon (women's winner pictured)?
Did you know that on Christmas Eve in 1818, the Christmas carol "Stille Nacht" ("Silent Night") was first performed in the Nikolauskirche in Oberndorf, Austria?
Did you know that on every Christmas Eve since 1994, Willem Lange's story about the fruitcake-delivering farmer Favor Johnson is broadcast on public radio stations in Vermont?
Did you know that the anti-colonialist Ligue de défense de la race nègre, which at one point had around 1,000 members, was suppressed by the French government in 1937, ten years after its founding?
Did you know that you can play Pitfall! in two Call of Duty games?
Did you know that "Verbum caro factum est", a Christmas motet for six voices by Hans Leo Hassler in the Venetian polychoral style, has been arranged for brass ensembles?
Did you know that Grandpa Indian, created in the 1930s to replace Santa Claus in Brazil, was portrayed as adorned in colorful bird feathers, bringing gifts to Brazilian children?
Did you know that Jewish refugee Kurt S. Adler, who started one of the largest importers of Christmas decorations to the United States, was called "America’s Father Christmas" by the magazine German Life in 2002?
Did you know that an early example of the genre of Christmas horror is A Christmas Carol, published in 1843?
Did you know that the live-action comedy series Community had a stop motion animated Christmas special?
Did you know that the pulpit in the Pisa Baptistery (1260) by Nicola Pisano has a relief combining the Annunciation with the Nativity, with two Virgin Marys beside each other?
Did you know that Commander Samuel Sparshott, who testified at Lord Gambier's court-martial, and Admiral Edward Sparshott, who commanded the 52-gun HMS Winchester, were brothers who served in the Napoleonic Wars?
Did you know that Kirby was designed simply so that children could draw him with ease?
Did you know that although Jules Meysmans invented an entire language, he is best known for his invention of one word?
Did you know that in 2001, around 64 percent of all films produced in Malayalam were of the soft-porn variety?
Did you know that Kamala, Percy Pringle and the Fabulous Freebirds got their first "big break" in International Championship Wrestling?
Did you know that the Lake Patzcuaro salamander's native habitat is limited to a single lake in Mexico?
Did you know that the Latin princess Ioveta was about four years old when her mother, Queen Morphia, surrendered her to the Turks as debt payment security?
Did you know that Dimitrie Ralet, a pioneer Romanian orientalist, commended Ottoman reformers for not "blindly adopting what we in Europe take to mean civilization"?
Did you know that PragerU's hashtag #DETRANS, originally meant to promote their short film, was hijacked by Twitter users?
Did you know that an Indian maharajah asked Eugenie Grosup to marry him after she received a deportation notice to leave India and return to Nazi-occupied Europe?
Did you know that football player and coach Clarence McGeary wrestled with Bronko Nagurski, owned bowling alleys with Rocky Marciano, founded the Federation of Christian Athletes, and was awarded a Purple Heart?
Did you know that plant species like Hypericum bupleuroides can reproduce by a callus?
Did you know that the Al Qarara Cultural Museum, housed in a former grain silo, contained 6000 years of history?
Did you know that the No. 1–ranked 2023 Colorado Mines Orediggers, "college football's nerdiest contender", featured players with pigtails and a drawn-on blue mustache, a friar's haircut, and Harry Potter cosplay?
Did you know that Dublin property developer Harry Crosbie received an OBE from the British ambassador to Ireland, partly for entertaining Elizabeth II with his showbiz contacts?
Did you know that Snoop Dogg's original lyrics about cannabis for the song "Sunday" were sung over by Ben Rector to keep the song clean?
Did you know that Sophie von Maltzan led the making of a submarine that was walked through the streets of Dublin?
Did you know that the Greco-Australian dialect, a variety of Modern Greek, blends words with English roots into the Greek language?
Did you know that the New Zealand fishing company Sealord Group is half-owned by iwi?
Did you know that the congressional office lottery has involved a "Jedi mind trick", head rubs, and push-ups?
Did you know that the song "Luochahai City" mentions Ludwig Wittgenstein?
Did you know that a winter storm in December 2017 cancelled an attempt at the world's largest snowball fight at Six Flags Great Adventure in New Jersey?
Did you know that before photographer Philippe Halsman decided to photograph three cats flying through the air, surrealist artist Salvador Dalí had wanted to blow up a duck with dynamite?
Did you know that teacher Mary Creighton Bailey was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for her services in the improvement of education in Germany shortly after World War II?
Did you know that the India national team were victorious in football at the 1951 and 1962 Asian Games?
Did you know that Brian Herbert, the son of Frank Herbert, may have left a poem out of a collection of his father's poetry because it was "too racy"?
Did you know that Carlos Santana Tovar, who represented Amazonas in the 1952 Venezuelan Constituent Assembly, was taken hostage during the 1921 revolution and escaped only years later?
Did you know that Criccieth Castle combined the "latest advances in military technology" with the "haphazard Welsh castle building style"?
Did you know that Jerry Atkinson, a manager for a department store, helped prevent the Green Bay Packers from becoming insolvent in 1949 and 1950?
Did you know that the most tweeted word on New Year's Eve 2013 related to the anime opening theme "Guren no Yumiya"?
Did you know that Switch Disco's song "Everything" saw a 185-percent increase in its Spotify streams after it was used in the seventh series of Love Island?
Did you know that after popularizing the term rizz, Kai Cenat stopped using the term himself, saying that TikTok had butchered the word?
Did you know that examples of artificial planets in science fiction include Riverworld, the Well World, and the Death Star?
Did you know that human rights activist Adeeb Youssef was imprisoned and tortured but later became the governor of Central Darfur?