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Did you know that Bill Putnam was an All-American and the co-captain of the first UCLA team to win a basketball championship?
Did you know that Ikmal Jaya, a former mayor of Tegal, Indonesia, published a translated Quran written in Pegon script while in prison?
Did you know that SB19 became the first Filipino group to appear on Billboard's World Digital Song Sales chart, with "Gento"?
Did you know that the Spanish Inquisition sentenced Diego Mateo Zapata to wear the sanbenito, receive 200 lashes, have his 600 books confiscated, and be exiled, despite being acquitted?
Did you know that Chicago's Kasama is the world's first Filipino restaurant to be awarded a Michelin star?
Did you know that Igor Stravinsky said of his cousin and first wife, Yekaterina Nosenko, that they were "closer than lovers sometimes are"?
Did you know that after the death of surgeon and philanthropist John Hitchman the townspeople of Leamington Spa, England, erected a fountain in his memory?
Did you know that before becoming the first woman president of the American College of Sports Medicine, Barbara L. Drinkwater had an undefeated season as a women's college basketball coach?
Did you know that in the 1930s two hoards of gold coins were found in a cellar in Baltimore, Maryland?
Did you know that Change UK had eleven elected members of Parliament despite never actually winning an election?
Did you know that Daniels Park, a Denver Mountain Park, is neither in Denver nor the mountains?
Did you know that South Australian Labor premier Des Corcoran was mentioned in despatches for courage and skill in evacuating casualties during the Korean War?
Did you know that the Empire of Japan turned a Korean royal cemetery at what is now Hyochang Park into a golf course?
Did you know that the James New York – NoMad hotel employed a witch?
Did you know that two days after the 2015 FIFA corruption case was covered in season 2 of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, FIFA president Sepp Blatter resigned?
Did you know that Chicago-style barbecue is cooked in an aquarium smoker?
Did you know that Elisabeth Anderson Sierra, nicknamed the "milk goddess", holds the Guinness World Record for the largest individual donation of breast milk?
Did you know that despite having never played college football, Henry Bell was able to make the roster of the NFL's Denver Broncos and served as one of the team's starting running backs in their inaugural season?
Did you know that the trade-dollar locket (example pictured) has also been referred to as an opium dollar?
Did you know that John Bunker was inspired to propagate old apple tree varieties after encountering Black Oxford apples while managing the food co-op in Belfast, Maine?
Did you know that South Carolina Gamecocks head coach Will Muschamp told Jalin Hyatt: "Man, you're fast, but you need to eat more peanut butter"?
Did you know that The Science of Dune contains a scientific analysis of the fictional concepts from the Dune franchise, such as sandworms, stillsuits, and the fictional drug melange?
Did you know that The Wicked Prince by Hans Christian Andersen, published in 1840, depicts powered and steerable flight twelve years before the first successful airship flight?
Did you know that Thomas Carlyle was the first writer to use the expression "meaning of life" in English?
Did you know that the NCAA placed Yale University athletics on probation for two years after basketball player Jack Langer played in the 1969 Maccabiah Games?
Did you know that "In Bloom", the lead single of the EP Youth in the Shade, samples a-ha's 1984 single "Take On Me"?
Did you know that Misuzu Yamada worked as a nursery teacher before starting her voice-acting career?
Did you know that according to artist Tetsuya Nomura, Vanille's attire took inspiration from the Himba people of Namibia?
Did you know that after Dolwyddelan Castle was captured in January 1283, its new garrison was equipped with winter camouflage of white material and stockings?
Did you know that former basketball player David Webber broke a record previously held by all-time great Larry Bird?
Did you know that the Soviet Union boycotted the United Nations in 1950?
Did you know that King Hussein of Jordan gifted an ancient Roman column to New York City for the 1964–65 World's Fair?
Did you know that after Emily and Jerry Spiegel's deaths, their daughters held rival art auctions?
Did you know that as an undergraduate, battery engineer Celina Mikolajczak discovered a supernova?
Did you know that origami fortune tellers (example pictured) may have originated in Europe rather than Japan?
Did you know that the Akademia Nasionala del Ladino in Israel is dedicated to preserving the Judaeo-Spanish language?
Did you know that the Battlestar Galactica character Laura Roslin has been compared to Machiavelli's Lucretia and Virgil's Dido?
Did you know that , commenting on her support for the egalitarian Greek Republic as a Phanariote dame, Roxani Soutzos said it was "[b]etter to be a servant in Greece liberated than a princess in Greece enslaved"?
Did you know that 900 West Randolph, Chicago's first high-rise building built by a black-owned construction firm, has penthouses that can be rented for over $20,000 per month?
Did you know that Barcroft Boake, the author of one of Australia's most anthologised poems, hanged himself with a stockwhip a few months after it was published?
Did you know that The Wizard of the Kremlin depicts a fictional éminence grise based on Vladislav Surkov, who was called one of Russia's "most intriguing figures" by The New York Times?
Did you know that the "extreme lightness and luminous agility" of Michael McCown's voice in the roles of the Tempter and Nebuchadnezzar has been likened to that of Peter Pears?
Did you know that the Knock Knock Gang's modus operandi involves deceiving drivers and passengers before robbing them?
Did you know that Jake Ryan has acted in Wes Anderson films since he was seven?
Did you know that an estimated 30,000 people attended the funeral of  Max Steinberg, an Israeli lone soldier who was killed during the 2014 Gaza War?
Did you know that the European Sky Shield Initiative is expected to have anti-ballistic missile capability?
Did you know that the Hotel Normandie supported the Leaders of the World?
Did you know that the course of the Panzer Dragoon series (creator pictured) has been said to parallel the history of the Sega Saturn?
Did you know that Lord Dunsany's story "The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth" may feature "the most original method of dragonslaying ever devised"?
Did you know that Mckenna Grace has portrayed younger versions of Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Tonya Harding, and Captain Marvel?
Did you know that Wu Xiaoyan, persecuted because of her adoptive father Wu Han, committed suicide 13 days before the end of the Cultural Revolution?
Did you know that according to the Source–Message–Channel–Receiver model, all forms of communication are attempts to influence the behavior of the audience?
Did you know that the stop-motion lyric video of Kylie Minogue's "Skirt" was created using more than 1,000 still photos of her posing in a hotel room?
Did you know that Hans-Jochen Jaschke, who was responsible for ecumenism and inter-religious dialogue as an auxiliary bishop of Hamburg, represented the Catholic Church to the media?
Did you know that La La Land's composer initially wanted "Audition (The Fools Who Dream)" to be the film's "award song" instead of "City of Stars"?
Did you know that during the Second World War, the British government's campaign Make-Do and Mend (poster pictured) encouraged the public to fashion men's clothes into womenswear?
Did you know that the music video for the song "Justify My Love" was banned from appearing on MTV, MuchMusic, and Musique Plus for its sexual imagery?
Did you know that Jug Bennett, Merle Zuver, Lyle Sturgeon, Wuert Engelmann, Zud Schammel, Hal Hinte and Frank Butler all played for Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame head coach Curly Lambeau during the 1930s and 1940s?
Did you know that a division of the Buffalo Sabres ice hockey team lost $6 million in less than three years running a TV station?
Did you know that former German chancellor Angela Merkel's grandfather likely fought against Germany in World War I?
Did you know that the Libellus de vocabulis rei militaris has been misattributed to Cicero, Cato, Pomponius Laetus and a mysterious Modestus?
Did you know that the kissing room of the New York Biltmore Hotel remained after the rest of the hotel had been demolished?
Did you know that when Jalal al-Din realised that he would be defeated at the Battle of the Indus, he rode his horse off a 30-foot (10 m) cliff into the Indus River?
Did you know that Beyoncé paid tribute to O'Shae Sibley, a gay man who was killed after vogueing to her music, on her official website?
Did you know that Colonel Bradley Winslow was brevetted by US president Abraham Lincoln for "brave and gallant conduct" during the siege of Petersburg in the American Civil War?
Did you know that a Vatican Hebrew manuscript has been used as a source for analysing and emending modern editions of the Palestinian Talmud?
Did you know that footballer Kameron Simmonds, who plays for Jamaica, only took up the sport after a gymnastics injury?
Did you know that teenagers picketed The Washington Post to protest the sudden cancellation of The Milt Grant Show, a teen dance TV show in Washington, D.C.?
Did you know that the Pellissippi Parkway in East Tennessee takes its name from a Native American name that was applied to both the Clinch and Ohio Rivers?
Did you know that Edvard Munch's Inheritance is an inversion of the traditional artistic subject of the Madonna and Child?
Did you know that New Zealand potter Hardy Browning began his career as a coal miner?
Did you know that Quintin Johnstone advocated giving control of an American-governed law school to native Ethiopians?
Did you know that according to its president Said Iqbal, Indonesia's Labour Party would form "personal" coalitions with presidential candidates?
Did you know that in between snowboarding runs at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Jenise Spiteri ate a bao that she forgot was in her pocket?
Did you know that the chemicals responsible for the smell of freshly cut grass are a plant defense mechanism?
Did you know that the crusading movement defined concepts of warfare throughout medieval Europe?
Did you know that you've probably eaten blotter art (examples pictured) if you've ever taken LSD?
Did you know that Bonnie Elliott devised the concept for a campaign to promote female representation in cinematography?
Did you know that some theorists claim that intrapersonal communication is the basis of all communication?
Did you know that the Infinity Stones were not planned to be the MacGuffins of the Marvel Cinematic Universe's Infinity Saga until at least 2012?
Did you know that the Paramore song "Running Out of Time" is based on singer Hayley Williams's friendship with Taylor Swift?
Did you know that women in Madagascar paint their faces with masonjoany (example pictured) as a form of decorative sun protection?
Did you know that Tweet Kimball lived in a castle, herded grand-champion cattle, and preserved a petrified forest?
Did you know that during the August 2023 Mid-South U.S. floods, 3.77 inches (96 mm) of rain fell in Columbia, Missouri, breaking a 113-year rainfall record?
Did you know that in 1975, a cache of 20,000 of Ernst Gottmann's photographic negatives was discovered in the basement of his company's old studio?
Did you know that part of the legislative building of Jujuy Province in Argentina was burned during the 2023 Jujuy protests?
Did you know that the Blackburnian warbler (example pictured) is named after Anna Blackburne, who provided specimens to Thomas Pennant?
Did you know that the Jewish cemetery in Lucena, the largest such cemetery excavated in Spain, was discovered in 2006 during construction of the city's southern ring road?
Did you know that Ain't Burned All the Bright (author pictured) consists of only three sentences across 384 mostly illustrated pages?
Did you know that Albert Bahhuth fled the Lebanese Civil War and owned a Subway franchise before being named an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles?
Did you know that John Sterling, Anthony Harrison and Chuck Compton were all signed by the Green Bay Packers as replacement players because of a players' strike during the 1987 NFL season?
Did you know that Joseph O'Callaghan died at sea while carrying papers appointing him provincial superior?
Did you know that Sue Marx won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film for Young at Heart, about a romance between two octogenarians?
Did you know that a commercial for HeadOn drew comparisons to Maoist posters, North Korean propaganda, and Hillary Clinton?
Did you know that in early 2023 Angela Ferrell-Zabala became the first executive director for the US gun control advocacy organization Moms Demand Action?
Did you know that in the 1950s, links to sexually transmitted infection were dropped from the title of several skin-disease journals, including the Archives of Dermatological Research?
Did you know that the sculpture Antimonumento +72, which commemorates a massacre that took place thirteen years ago today, was also the site of a memorial for a March 2023 migrant center fire?
Did you know that to gain weight to increase his chance of being a college football offensive lineman, John Ojukwu went on a diet that included consuming a gallon of milk a day and sometimes whole pizzas?
Did you know that Commander Alexander Armatas was the leader of the "Gunslingers", but now leads the Blue Angels (featured)?
Did you know that George Munday became known as "Sunday" Munday while playing in the National Football League?
Did you know that Mike Venaani serves alongside his son in the Namibian National Assembly?
Did you know that Nancy Reagan was hexakosioihexekontahexaphobic?
Did you know that Travis Scott expressed interest in collaborating with Beyoncé eight years before creating "Delresto (Echoes)" with her?
Did you know that Yokcushlu was taken hostage on HMS Beagle and named after a basket?
Did you know that a Nebraska TV station stopped carrying live studio wrestling after wrestlers kicked a TV monitor?
Did you know that a march of six thousand people commenced after a statue of Our Lady of Lourdes was made in Paraparaumu?
Did you know that fermented leaves are used to make a meat substitute in Sudan called kawal?
Did you know that for the Better Call Saul episode "Breaking Bad", writer and director Thomas Schnauz filmed the cameos of Walter White and Jesse Pinkman seven months before the main production?
Did you know that some misanthropes reject humanity because of how humans treat other animals?
Did you know that the Three Bards are the most celebrated poets in the history of Polish literature?
Did you know that Gustav Klimt did not finish painting Johanna Staude's mouth in her portrait?
Did you know that Ice King, the antagonist of television series Adventure Time, was at first received negatively by critics but later praised for representing mental health issues such as Alzheimer's disease?
Did you know that Jorge Medina – the first Afro-Bolivian in parliament – recalled being harassed as a young adult due to the superstitious belief that pinching a black person brought good luck?
Did you know that Lorenzo White was the first player in college football to rush for 2,000 yards in a season without winning the Heisman Trophy?
Did you know that Pany Yathotou is the first woman vice president of Laos?
Did you know that Piri released the song "Fumble" after her relationship ended?
Did you know that holmium has the highest magnetic moment of any naturally occurring element?
Did you know that in 1999, British designer Alexander McQueen staged an Eye in the middle of a New York hurricane?
Did you know that reporting by Theo Baker, a freshman student journalist, led to the resignation of Stanford University president Marc Tessier-Lavigne?
Did you know that the Midtown Theater was nowhere near Midtown?
Did you know that the prop currency produced by the Earl Hays Press for the 1965 film The Cincinnati Kid was so realistic that it entered circulation and the plates had to be destroyed by the United States Secret Service?
Did you know that Gavin Massey made his professional debut for Watford Football Club after growing up within 300 yards (270 m) of its stadium, Vicarage Road?
Did you know that Mae Stephens described Meghan Trainor as her "role model music mother" after they collaborated on "Mr Right"?
Did you know that Master of Magic, released in 2022, is a faithful remake of the 1994 classic of the same name?
Did you know that a Michigan TV station was built on a former circus ground?
Did you know that although doctors said Mitchell Agude would live the rest of his life in a vegetative state following a skateboarding accident at age nine, he recovered in three days and now plays in the NFL?
Did you know that during the 2023 Western Kentucky floods, 11.28 inches (287 mm) of rain fell in Graves County, which set a new preliminary rainfall record for the state?
Did you know that one of three hydroelectric dams on the Skagit River continued to operate as the Sourdough Fire burned nearby?
Did you know that the exclusive secret society Hamilton House from the television show Gossip Girl was based on St. Anthony Hall, a social and literary fraternity?
Did you know that Imsil Cheese Theme Park (event pictured) cost over ₩39 billion to build?
Did you know that a 14th-century work, originally attributed to another poet, was discovered in 2018 to be the creation of the Azerbaijani poet Yusuf Meddah?
Did you know that a 1940s pin-up photograph (shown) of  dancer and actress Martha Holliday reportedly "created a near-panic in the United States Senate"?
Did you know that a report by the philosopher Jonathan Birch and colleagues led to cephalopods and decapods being recognised as sentient under the UK's Animal Welfare (Sentience) Act?
Did you know that fire baskets were once used to mark the main route through Danish waters from the North Sea to the Baltic?
Did you know that in 1987, an estimated one-sixth of New York City's homeless children lived at the Martinique Hotel, even though it lacked basic facilities like kitchens?
Did you know that one contemporary chronicler claimed that Tolui's Mongol army killed as many as three million people in less than two months?
Did you know that the names of Harvey Meyerhoff, Elie Wiesel, and Bill Clinton are carved into the cornerstone of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, according to Meyerhoff's daughter?
Did you know that the walls of the Municipal Asphalt Plant's mixing plant remained standing after three weeks of attempts to demolish it?
Did you know that when Felicia Schroeder signed to play soccer for the University of South Carolina, the school did not have a sign-language interpreter available for her?
Did you know that Bird Thomas Baldwin, the director of the first child research center of its kind, died due to a shaving accident?
Did you know that Carlos Alberto Sonnenschein won three terms and spent twelve years in the Bolivian parliament despite barely attending any legislative sessions?
Did you know that Chinese missionary Tan See Boo moved to Singapore to work for the Presbyterian Church, but later returned to China to persuade Christians to leave the Presbyterian Church?
Did you know that Edward A. McGurk disbanded the College of the Holy Cross's football team because he did not want it playing outside Worcester?
Did you know that Juventus's reserve team, Juventus U23, won their first trophy after only two years in existence?
Did you know that after his candidacy was disqualified by Bolivia's electoral court, Eduardo Maldonado sued the state at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and won?
Did you know that during the 2013 Midwest floods, lightning struck a plane on the runway, according to officials at the airport?
Did you know that of 42 pilot competitors who started the 2022 X-Pyr, a paragliding hike-and-fly endurance race, only four reached the final goal?
Did you know that social media influencer Alix Earle's first video on TikTok featured her and her friends showcasing outfits they had made out of trash bags?
Did you know that the Kabwe mine produced crystals and a fossilised pre-human skull (replica pictured), and has poisoned hundreds of thousands of people?
Did you know that the Piri Reis map likely contains the only surviving piece of an otherwise lost map of Christopher Columbus?
Did you know that the first Thai typewriter left out two letters, which eventually became obsolete?
Did you know that the only preface (book cover pictured) Jules Verne ever wrote was likely written by somebody else?
Did you know that to promote the Buffalo Club, Rising Tide Records sent packages of plastic buffalo to music industry executives in Nashville?
Did you know that CSS Beaufort fought USS Albatross in the first ship-versus-ship action of the American Civil War?
Did you know that Chinese intellectual Tan Teck Soon, who was the son of a Christian missionary, became a supporter of Buddhist revivalist Anagarika Dharmapala in his later years?
Did you know that Singaporean performance artist Josef Ng was fined S$1,000 for partially exposing his buttocks and snipping his pubic hair during a public performance?
Did you know that Thelma Bates's colleagues tried to discourage her from establishing the first palliative care team at a British hospital, saying it would ruin her career?
Did you know that equipment from a bankrupt North Carolina TV station was dismantled, loaded on three rental trucks, and reassembled to start a station in Virginia?
Did you know that one critic described the lower portion of One Worldwide Plaza's facade as resembling "stone wallpaper"?
Did you know that the mineral gauthierite has only been found in one location, and only on very few specimens?
Did you know that Diamandi Djuvara's last stand against the Ottoman army in Wallachia resulted in the Ottomans collecting 138 human tongues as war trophies?
Did you know that although Kississing Lake is threatened by water contaminated with tailings, it is the main resource for nearby residents?
Did you know that an Iowa TV station operates from a former McDonald's restaurant?
Did you know that before the Fulton Street station (entrance pictured) was renovated in the 2010s, a New York Times reporter said the station "might be a good spot for M. C. Escher to set up an easel"?
Did you know that Ashiq Peri was the first prominent female folk poet in Azerbaijan?
Did you know that dramatic soprano Berit Lindholm was said to have been called "that damn primary school teacher" by the director of the Royal Swedish Opera, and used it in the title of her memoir?
Did you know that former New Jersey first lady Lucinda Florio restored the Italianate gardens at Drumthwacket?
Did you know that goalkeeper Daniela Solera had the most touches of any Costa Rican player in their opening match of the 2023 World Cup?
Did you know that in the span of three days, a Florida man was approved by bankruptcy courts to buy TV stations in Roanoke and Lynchburg, Virginia, and then arrested on charges of laundering millions in drug money?
Did you know that tens of thousands of New Yorkers traveled to see Dreamland burn?
Did you know that the study of selection algorithms has been traced to an 1883 work of Lewis Carroll on how to award second place in single-elimination tournaments?
Did you know that Forbes named German chancellor Angela Merkel the world's most powerful woman fourteen times?
Did you know that King Seonjo considered necromancy for Crown Princess Gonghoe's funeral because her remains were lost during the 1592 Japanese invasion of Korea?
Did you know that MrBeast's Squid Game re-enactment was described as "perverse" and a misunderstanding of the original?
Did you know that Xochitl Gomez was aged 13 when she first auditioned for the 18-year-old America Chavez in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness?
Did you know that by the late 20th century, many tourists did not know who was entombed in Grant's Tomb?