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Did you know that a line delivered by Pelé in the 1980 movie Os Trombadinhas went viral as a meme in Brazil?
Did you know that an estimated three-quarters of New Zealand's population saw Elizabeth II during her 1953–1954 tour of the country?
Did you know that football manager Juan Álvarez was nicknamed the "king without a crown" after his team lost a championship due to the away goals rule?
Did you know that the Munich kitchen was developed because the Stuttgart kitchen (example pictured) did not allow a housewife to look after her children?
Did you know that toy designer Shunsaku Tamiya was placed under government surveillance for speaking to Soviets about their tanks?
Did you know that when Edgewood was built in Stanleytown, Virginia, its Greek Revival style was unknown to most people in the area?
Did you know that Ardian Wicaksono adopted an orangutan during his posting as consul general in Hamburg?
Did you know that Broadway musical composer Jacques Presburg led a popular jazz orchestra in Berlin prior to his 1943 death in Auschwitz?
Did you know that Queen Melisende was so infuriated by her husband's treatment of Count Hugh II of Jaffa (attack pictured), her cousin and alleged lover, that her husband feared for his own life?
Did you know that Rusiate Rogoyawa saw snow for the first time in 1982 and competed at the Winter Olympics six years later?
Did you know that Samoa Samoa was from American Samoa?
Did you know that a house in Jackson, Mississippi, was named in reference to an Ayn Rand novel, whose main character was reportedly based on the house's architect?
Did you know that it took 14 years for the city of San Antonio to get a public radio station?
Did you know that recent coups in Sudan, Mali, Tunisia and Niger have been described as "coupvolutions"?
Did you know that the first Spark by Hilton hotel was a converted Days Inn?
Did you know that American MILF porn star Serenity Cox was a nurse for fifteen years?
Did you know that Graham Crowley's painting Spider with Mushroom Soup uses a jagged tin can to evoke the image of vagina dentata?
Did you know that Hans Ephraimson-Abt began advocating for better support for families of aviation-accident victims after his daughter's death on Korean Air Lines Flight 007 in 1983?
Did you know that Jacqueline Wilson wrote Rent a Bridesmaid (2016) to reflect the "current craze" for weddings?
Did you know that Orthetrum japonicum was one of the first species of Japanese dragonfly to be recognized and described by Europeans?
Did you know that an NAACP chapter successfully protested the appointment of an African bishop to a role at Dartmouth College?
Did you know that many reviewers described the Smashing Pumpkins and Weezer as an odd pairing, but their 2024 co-headlining concert tour received generally positive reviews?
Did you know that the 1926 book The New Household sought to elevate housework to the status of serious professional labor?
Did you know that the Green Bay Packers' victory in the 1997 NFC Championship Game was the third straight year in which they beat the San Francisco 49ers in the playoffs?
Did you know that "Je te laisserai des mots" was the first French-language song to reach one billion streams on Spotify?
Did you know that "New York City" has been described as a "stupidly fun B-side"?
Did you know that American football player Willie Culpepper said that he was fined for dropping a pass in practice?
Did you know that Caquetá Department, despite its high Human Development Index score, had a 44.8% poverty rate in 2021?
Did you know that Frank Page built roads in France during World War I and was put in charge of North Carolina's highway system after the war?
Did you know that Indonesia's current state apparatus minister, Rini Widyantini, was appointed as spokesperson in a coffee morning event?
Did you know that Rendon Labador was invited by the Philippine National Police to lead a 93-day fitness program, but his involvement ended abruptly after just a few days?
Did you know that Thos. W. Ward Ltd. used camels and an elephant named Lizzie to replace horses during World War I?
Did you know that a New Zealand dairy co-operative adjusted their collection schedule so that Andy Oliver could go to bed on time?
Did you know that Baldwin, the first archbishop of Caesarea, allegedly confessed to faking a divine sign by carving a cross into his forehead?
Did you know that Native American Ted Towendolly pioneered a fly-fishing technique that was independently reinvented in Europe fifty years later?
Did you know that Taylor Swift wrote a song that a critic considered to be a "piece of Ethel Kennedy fanfiction"?
Did you know that Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat, Malaysia's first female chief justice, was dubbed "the only man in the Federal Court"?
Did you know that The Old Man and the Sea was one of Saddam Hussein's favourite books?
Did you know that Undefeated's previous bassist was replaced by Lis Dunckel, who did not know how to play bass?
Did you know that cyclist Alexandra Yeung raced with one hand during the final 20 kilometres (12 miles) of a race in the Himalayas, and still finished in second place?
Did you know that the Perth Panthers, a Scotland-based ice hockey team, were composed mainly of Americans and Canadians?
Did you know that the Saskatchewan Highway Patrol once bought several firearms that it could not use?
Did you know that Marc Mac made his early projects deliberately "faceless" to sidestep racism?
Did you know that Marcel Schwerzmann, before becoming a Swiss cantonal council member, finished second in a transatlantic boat race from Gran Canaria to Saint Lucia?
Did you know that Marty Norton, after leading the NFL in receiving touchdowns in 1925, was imprisoned in at least eight different years and escaped jail twice?
Did you know that Samuel S. Mayerberg was targeted in a drive-by shooting in 1932 for criticizing political boss Tom Pendergast?
Did you know that autocratic legalism allows leaders to use the law to undermine liberal democracy while appearing to uphold it?
Did you know that the original type specimen of the fish species Cynodon gibbus (example pictured) may have been destroyed in a bombing raid?
Did you know that three Indonesian presidents have reportedly fallen victim to the "Kediri curse"?
Did you know that traditional methods of abortion in Niger often favor the color red?
Did you know that Alca Electronics was liquidated after being sued by Sega for copying a game, even though their major distributor was one of Sega's founders?
Did you know that Andrey Zaliznyak invented self-contained linguistic problems that require no prior knowledge of the language to solve?
Did you know that Frederick E. Bakutis, then the US Navy commander in Antarctica, remarked in 1965 that it would "remain the womanless white continent of peace"?
Did you know that Respati Ardi was announced as a candidate in a 2024 election a day before the registration deadline?
Did you know that soccer games were still played at Marquette Stadium while it was being demolished?
Did you know that the abilities of a Jujutsu Kaisen character were based on a traditional method of inflicting curses?
Did you know that the creator of Reddit's cringe culture community originally intended it to foster empathy for awkward people, not to mock them?
Did you know that the supreme state organ of power of a communist state holds unified power unless it constrains itself through a constitution and laws?
Did you know that Dercy Furtado advocated for the rights of Brazilian women to work at night?
Did you know that Hollywood makeup artist Bernadine Anderson supported herself in college by doing makeup on corpses?
Did you know that Javier Gómez was the president of Valencia CF for 48 hours in June 2009?
Did you know that Shadow the Hedgehog's love for Latinas in Sonic the Hedgehog 3 originated from Sonic fandom shitposting?
Did you know that around 700,000 calls were made using 5 Calls to members of the US Congress in one week?
Did you know that in 1915 Prahran became one of the first railway stations in Victoria to be provided with automatic signalling?
Did you know that sprinter Saidur Rahman Dawn first ran on a synthetic athletics track at the age of 19?
Did you know that the exhibition Pirouette: Turning Points in Design at the Museum of Modern Art includes a data graphic that was compared to a Morris Louis painting?
Did you know that the village of Pope Leo XIV's childhood home plans to turn it into a historic site?
Did you know that Kathleen Romoli became an anthropologist after witnessing the exploitation of natural resources while promoting a mining company?
Did you know that Nina Negri was one of only two people to exhibit engravings at the Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme?
Did you know that Zhou Bingde, despite being the niece of the premier of China (both pictured), refused to use her family status for protection during the Cultural Revolution?
Did you know that a reviewer found the children's novel The Cat Mummy "really quite disturbing"?
Did you know that actor Paul Nicholls made a surprise return on EastEnders after a 27-year absence?
Did you know that it took more than two decades to complete the decorations to the Boston Central Library after it opened to the public?
Did you know that the name of Diaphoretickes, a group containing a huge diversity of organisms including plants and kelps, is derived from a Greek word meaning diverse?
Did you know that the video game Danan: The Jungle Fighter allows the player to summon either an armadillo, an eagle, or a chimpanzee for help?
Did you know that Alberic II of Spoleto appointed five popes and fathered another?
Did you know that Julia Hagen plays a cello made by Francesco Ruggeri in 1684?
Did you know that Justin Nsengiyumva was appointed Rwanda's prime minister in the same year that he returned to the country after more than 15 years?
Did you know that both El Salvador and Honduras claim to be the country of origin of the pupusa (examples pictured)?
Did you know that sprinter George Short first started training at the age of 17, then competed in the Olympics two years later?
Did you know that the ban on abortion in the Republic of the Congo is unchanged from a law from 1810?
Did you know that the former luxury passenger liner HMS Worcestershire carried reinforcements across the English Channel on the day after D-Day?
Did you know that the submarine  Dmitry Donskoy has a gym, a swimming pool, a sauna, and an aviary?
Did you know that Miriam Silverberg's academic career ended with Erotic Grotesque Nonsense?
Did you know that by 2010 Yi Kŭmch'ŏl had written approximately one-fifth of all North Korean science fiction literature?
Did you know that medical doctor Jules LaDuron tried to stab someone with a bayonet?
Did you know that members of the Sole Front for Women's Rights staged a hunger strike outside the Mexican president's official residence?
Did you know that the Carthaginians faked agreement to a peace deal after a battle to train their surviving forces for the next one?
Did you know that the Royal Alderney Militia were described as "totally inefficient" and "useless" by two generals in the mid–19th century?
Did you know that the namesake of the James R. Thompson Center once called it a "scrap heap"?
Did you know that the person who coined the term "Barbenheimer" did not recall writing it?
Did you know that the voice actress for Marin Kitagawa said that she would get very hungry after recording lines for the role?
Did you know that Canadian football player Nigel Williams served two tours of duty during the war in Afghanistan?
Did you know that James Marriott's second album took its name from an incident involving a dog that was left behind during a childhood move?
Did you know that Lego sued Nintendo over their N&B Block toys?
Did you know that Queen Sibylla agreed to divorce her unpopular husband, Guy, on the condition that she could choose her next husband, only for her to choose Guy again and crown him king?
Did you know that RhonniRose Mantilla produced, directed and created her own musical to showcase her dancing?
Did you know that an 8th-century log of agarwood was enjoyed as incense for more than a millennium by Japanese leaders including Oda Nobunaga and Emperor Meiji?
Did you know that in a speech at Howard University, novelist Toni Morrison described fascism as a marketing strategy for power?
Did you know that literary scholar Mitzi Myers tried to rescue her library as it burned in a house fire?
Did you know that singer Tati Penna was considered one of the first feminists on Chilean television?
Did you know that Dutch Maid Bakery in Tennessee has survived fire, war, the Great Depression, and the rebranding of its fruitcake?
Did you know that Hadiza Bazoum, a former first lady of Niger, has been imprisoned in the Presidential Palace since a 2023 coup d'état?
Did you know that NBA player Chris Mañon said that his role in college was to "make life hell" for the best opposing players?
Did you know that Yiddish poet Mikhl Gordon's first collection under his real name was not published until 1889, a year before his death?
Did you know that church chancellor Baldwin and knight Bernard Vacher were sent to tell Pisa and Genoa to stop feuding and fight Muslims together instead, but the Italians refused?
Did you know that one of the blue stripes on the flag of El Salvador represents the Atlantic Ocean, despite the country not having a coastline on it?
Did you know that the Bornean Sun Bear Conservation Centre was established after a 2004 report found that captive bears in Malaysia were largely inadequately cared for?
Did you know that the New Zealand band Sachi gained prominence after throwing a USB demo through the car window of music producer Diplo?
Did you know that the sculpture Against the Tide was inspired by a hand gesture of Michelangelo's Pietà?
Did you know that Ann Perkins often taught graduate students at Yale University even though, as a woman, she could not teach undergraduates?
Did you know that Eritrea's abortion law was based on Ethiopia's, which was based on Switzerland's, which was based on France's?
Did you know that Matt Koehl stated that Adolf Hitler was "a gift of Almighty Providence"?
Did you know that Moira Deeming comes from a family of union leaders and Australian Labor Party members, but is a member of the Liberal Party?
Did you know that as of 2024, fewer than 150 people had ever been diagnosed with Meier-Gorlin syndrome?
Did you know that boxing rings are square, despite their name?
Did you know that some Chinese snuff bottles (example pictured) were made to look like people?
Did you know that the prefectural border on Hyōtanjima is only 74 metres (243 ft) long?
Did you know that the spider Rhene hexagon gets its name from the unusual hexagonal shape of one of its principal body parts?
Did you know that Alejo Igoa hosts the most-subscribed Spanish-language YouTube channel?
Did you know that Jordan Howlett went from sleeping in his car to amassing millions of followers on TikTok?
Did you know that Joseph M'Bouroukounda was both an Olympic boxer and an art teacher?
Did you know that KING fought and then bought KONG?
Did you know that Max-Emmanuel Mader pretended to be deaf and mute when Nazi Germany occupied France so that his accent could not be identified?
Did you know that Swertia japonica was used as an insecticide for clothes during the Edo period?
Did you know that a dam on Madura Island began construction in 1980, triggered a violent incident in 1993, and only opened in 2016?
Did you know that the dedication ceremony for the Cathedral of Christ the King was attended by both the governor of Georgia and an imperial wizard of the Ku Klux Klan?
Did you know that Amrom Harry Katz, using aerial photographs of tides, helped to capture Seoul during the Korean War?
Did you know that Andrea Enisuoh campaigned to retain the name of her local library, honouring Trinidadian writer C. L. R. James?
Did you know that Bosnian Olympic runners Islam Ðugum and Kada Delić were both nearly killed by snipers during their training?
Did you know that George Lincoln helped draft the document which ended World War II 80 years ago today?
Did you know that Somalia bans abortion in its constitution, one of only three countries to do so?
Did you know that a music publication apologized after reporting that Ghostholding was the work of a fictional indie rock band?
Did you know that brothers Craig and Scott Hendrickson played gridiron football together in college and professionally?
Did you know that the Arch of the Philaeni drew parallels between the dictator Benito Mussolini and the Roman emperor Augustus?
Did you know that the restaurant Megatron was reported to police as a UFO when it first opened?
Did you know that Gaetano di Mauro was the runner-up in a 2017 racing championship despite carrying 80 kg (180 lb) of ballast in his car?
Did you know that Spotify Pakistan's most streamed artist of 2024 made his cinematic debut the same year to present his album?
Did you know that fistfights broke out at a 1903 meeting of African-American leaders, when some challenged Booker T. Washington's Atlanta Compromise?
Did you know that many Muslims in Gaza reportedly celebrate Christmas with the Christian population, despite being officially forbidden to do so since 2020?
Did you know that the 2020 Summer Olympics mascots were chosen by schoolchildren?
Did you know that the basement of the Old Town Hall in Gdańsk was rented by a famous astronomer to store his beers?
Did you know that when a developer tried to buy Kansas City's New York Life Building in the 1990s, it was unclear who owned it?
Did you know that zebros were not zebras?
Did you know that Frenchman Ernest Grandier was the only white prisoner taken by the Zulu during their 1879 war with Britain?
Did you know that NFL player Broc Rutter only received a $279 signing bonus from the San Francisco 49ers?
Did you know that a 1908 glider demonstration at a Bronx airport was successful only after a car replaced a horse for motive power?
Did you know that a major UK retail CEO  criticised the "Not for EU" label as "bureaucratic madness"?
Did you know that at his first international competition, runner Bhupendra Silwal started bleeding when he tried to remove tarmac embedded in his feet?
Did you know that in 2009, a Japanese man held a wedding ceremony to marry his fictional waifu, with the ceremony broadcast live to thousands of viewers?
Did you know that in the 2024 Salvadoran presidential election, there was a 78 percentage point difference between first and second place?
Did you know that the Great Northern Railway almost came to Aeneas?
Did you know that the creators of a botanic database for machine learning included three images of leaves from an extinct relative of the rose?
Did you know that after the Battle of Vrigne-Meuse the identity of the last French soldier killed in World War I was disputed?
Did you know that geologist E. Dale Jackson conducted experiments with Jello to test theories on the formation of the Hawaiian islands?
Did you know that the "umbilical cord" panhandle is only about 90 centimetres (35 in) wide at its narrowest point?
Did you know that the 2016 Christmas Eve EastEnders episode featured a character returning after 21 years?
Did you know that the concept for the Radar, Coast Defense, Mark I, emerged in 1939 when an experimental radar set saw the splashes from shells falling in the water?
Did you know that the leaves of Coprosma foetidissima, when rubbed, produce a smell like rotten cabbage?
Did you know that the murder of the former director of Trinidad and Tobago's national museum in 2017 brought attention to crime and violence against women in the country?
Did you know that the recordings of Leontyne Price have been nominated for 25 Grammy Awards and won 13?
Did you know that Achmad Maschut, the mayor of Kediri, gave municipal government jobs to players from the city's football club after they became national champions in 2003?
Did you know that Frank W. Lehan invented a search-and-rescue system used in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, but never profited from it?
Did you know that President Paul Kagame pardoned more than five hundred people who had been arrested for abortion in Rwanda?
Did you know that a Japanese racehorse was named the tourism ambassador of a city in Hokkaido?
Did you know that the German Empire dispatched six warships to Nicaragua after a marriage dispute led to a shooting and Germany's consul being arrested?
Did you know that the Little Valley Fire prompted the evacuation of 101 horses and one parrot?
Did you know that the devkit used to develop Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy had to be smuggled into the United States due to export restrictions?
Did you know that the ecclesiastical site at Devenish Island was among the first protected monuments in the United Kingdom?
Did you know that wrestler Vladimir Popov initially viewed winning a bronze medal at the Olympics as a "failure"?
Did you know that Ali Akbar is the last newspaper hawker in France?
Did you know that Antonio Oteiza was a missionary in Latin America but from 1961 focused on creating religious art, which he felt had more impact than sermons?
Did you know that Farhan Hadafo is Somalia's first Paralympian?
Did you know that an episode of the British soap opera EastEnders encouraged LGBTQ+ men to come out?
Did you know that at least 30 people have been arrested since 2018 for allegedly abusing children whom they met on Roblox?
Did you know that conservationist Stephen King was kicked out of Bible College for refusing to wear shoes?
Did you know that most Bhutanese people have no surname?
Did you know that the Vanuatu beer Tusker is named after the tusks of a pig, a traditional symbol of wealth?
Did you know that the first Portuguese translation of Homer's Odyssey was reportedly "harder to read than the [original] texts"?
Did you know that Alaíde Foppa used the airwaves of Mexico City to launch a feminist "forum for women"?
Did you know that Aleksandras Olelka was initially a supporter of the Lithuanian grand duke Švitrigaila, but later participated in a coup d'état against him?
Did you know that Joseph Buh, a Slovene Catholic missionary priest in Minnesota, was called Meshidong or 'Long Beard' by the Ojibwe?
Did you know that an Australian radio station defended playing Zheani's "Bring Wet Cunt" uncensored in 2024?
Did you know that logistical support for Operation Forager involved calling forward ammunition ships to replenish the fleet despite almost daily Japanese air attacks?
Did you know that the English composer Gustav Holst published a collection of Hindu hymns based on his own translations of Sanskrit literature?
Did you know that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Chae Chan Ping v. United States that courts must defer to Congress and the president in immigration and nationality law?
Did you know that the only album of an obscure Japanese singer became a city-pop cult classic?
Did you know that the route of the Bond End Canal later became a railway and then a road?
Did you know that Bedok Lighthouse is the first fully automated lighthouse in Singapore?
Did you know that Brazilian troops captured more than 3,000 women after the Battle of Tupí-hú?
Did you know that Centauress and Faun puzzled critics for inverting the traditional motif of the centaur carrying away a nymph?
Did you know that Weezer announced the Indie Rock Road Trip after plans for a Broadway concert residency fell through?
Did you know that a Utah college radio station was found not to be educational enough?
Did you know that a scandal saw several sports commentators receiving Sports Emmy Awards statuettes that they were ineligible to receive?
Did you know that actress Ashling O'Shea found joining the cast of Hollyoaks "surreal" as she had grown up watching the soap opera?
Did you know that problems with the construction of a Florida TV station prevented its owner from building a station in Texas?
Did you know that the cover of the children's novel The Butterfly Club was recreated using 7500 Loom bands, which are included in the novel's plot?
Did you know that Chermin Island, at the mouth of the Brunei River, became Abdul Hakkul Mubin's administrative seat during the Bruneian civil war?