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Did you know that the first Malaysian prime minister said that the State of Singapore would be the New York of the country?
Did you know that the original draft of a novel was lost on a London bus and never recovered?
Did you know that there is a football stadium on land once disputed between the US and Mexico?
Did you know that video game character Hu Tao mixes goth aesthetics with Chinese views on life and death?
Did you know that Abdullatif Al-Ghanim, who drafted the Constitution of Kuwait, later lamented that government policies "emptied it of its potential"?
Did you know that Belisarius broke the Siege of Ariminum to save a general who had refused his orders?
Did you know that Ernst Hinsken smuggled a red lantern into the Bundestag to draw attention to Germany's economic struggles?
Did you know that Gandy Malou-Mamel first played basketball at age 12 wearing a shirt and tie?
Did you know that Tim Burton designed the lighting and invitation for the runway show of the Alexander McQueen collection inspired by his films?
Did you know that Ukrainian writer Mykhailo Starytsky financed his own theatre with proceeds from the sale of his rusk factory?
Did you know that a dual-mode locomotive in Spain was intended to be used on a tourist train?
Did you know that abortion-rights groups in Colorado opposed a 2016 ballot measure to create a statewide universal healthcare scheme?
Did you know that after Hilary Duff announced her return to music, searches for her on Spotify surged by 400%, with U.S. streams rising nearly 80% and first-time listeners up about 75%?
Did you know that an ancient Chinese political manual included a posthumous chapter on zither music?
Did you know that former football player Christopher Judge won a contest to host the morning show on an Oregon TV station, helping launch his acting career?
Did you know that in a 17th-century painting, the emperor Shah Jahan is depicted in profile, as painting him head-on was viewed as disrespectful?
Did you know that in his 1720 Christmas cantata, Georg Philipp Telemann used folk music, a rarity in his church music?
Did you know that some Internet users called for a female sitcom character to be canceled for harassing a male character?
Did you know that the 17-arch Shuanglong Bridge is considered the largest and most artistically valuable ancient stone bridge in Yunnan, China?
Did you know that the Florentine crab apple was previously considered a natural hybrid species?
Did you know that the band Self recorded an entire album using only toy instruments?
Did you know that the circle packing theorem has been used to construct flattened maps of the human brain?
Did you know that Argelia Laya went from being a teacher to a communist guerrilla fighter?
Did you know that Jacqueline Wilson said she quickly wrote her 101st book due to previously saying that she would die after publishing her 100th novel?
Did you know that Lim Chee Onn once worked as a roving condensed milk salesman, selling it from the back of a van, before becoming a Singaporean cabinet minister?
Did you know that Saya Hiyama was featured as a customized voice for air purifiers?
Did you know that Tom Maulson had a $30,000 bounty on his head because of his fishing activism?
Did you know that a critic said Justin Timberlake and Jay-Z performed as if they had "forever been friends" on their Legends of the Summer Stadium Tour?
Did you know that a motel room inside an Edward Hopper painting was reconstructed in 3D, allowing guests to sleep there?
Did you know that a rear admiral was wounded while flying on a combat mission off the escort carrier USS Marcus Island?
Did you know that an investigation on the collision of Air Serbia Flight 324 noted that, despite the aircraft leaking fuel, it was sent to park at the terminal anyway?
Did you know that at the time of its construction, the MLC Building was the tallest building in Auckland?
Did you know that drab stinkbugs use fungus to protect their eggs from parasitic wasps?
Did you know that during the 1944 founding congress of the Youth League of Transcarpathian Ukraine, Ivan Turyanytsia called for the formation of a people's militia invoking "an eye for an eye"?
Did you know that during the 2023 Belgrade City Assembly election campaign, former mayor Aleksandar Šapić presented a construction project with images taken from a Salt Lake City school?
Did you know that mining in Greenland began in 1782 with coal extraction on Disko Island?
Did you know that the Flying Padres use aviation to evangelize?
Did you know that the medieval Persian tale of a pact between three schoolfellows ended with a deadly clash between a ruler and a revolutionary?
Did you know that the sound of the cimpoi, a type of pastoral bagpipe, was often mimicked by folk violins and shepherd's flutes, inspiring Béla Bartók to imitate it on the piano?
Did you know that visitors to the leisure area Piscinão de Ramos were warned not to wear red for their own safety?
Did you know that voters elected a dead man to the South Dakota House of Representatives?
Did you know that Aeschylus's lost play Semele is the only known example of the goddess Hera appearing on stage in ancient Greek tragedy?
Did you know that Anno 117 received around €5.7 million from the federal government of Germany, its largest grant for a single video-game project to date?
Did you know that Avtar Singh Sohal and Surjeet Singh Panesar played for the Kenya field hockey team in four editions of the Olympics?
Did you know that Joan Russell's drawings of Canterbury may form the most complete record of World War II bomb damage to any British city outside London?
Did you know that Justin Timberlake uses boxing metaphors in "TKO" to describe the feeling of seeing a former lover with someone else?
Did you know that Pheidole navigans, a species of invasive big-headed ant, was misidentified as a different species of big-headed ant in its invasive range for more than 50 years?
Did you know that Ted Wheeler's uselessness is a running joke in the television show Stranger Things?
Did you know that Virginia voters are scheduled to decide in 2026 whether to formally legalize same-sex marriage?
Did you know that a Titanic survivor was listed under the pseudonym "Fang Lang" in the ship's records?
Did you know that a music journalist recommended 6-Way Sin Decomposition only for "those who like the most grotesque noise possible"?
Did you know that an eleven-year-old sentenced to three weeks' hard labour for stealing a loaf of bread has a statue commemorating her?
Did you know that astronomers discovered the wide binary system 2001 QW322 while searching for new moons of Uranus?
Did you know that at the time of its construction, the tallest building in the capital of Angola was a tomb?
Did you know that bicycles, television sets, a sofa, and a washing machine have been thrown from high-rise buildings?
Did you know that epistemological dualism posits a fundamental division between experience and reality?
Did you know that one account of Tibet's first king said that he had webbed hands and eyelids that closed upward?
Did you know that the devastation inflicted by the Ostrogoths after the siege of Milan in 538–539 is considered to have surpassed even the worst atrocities committed by Attila in his campaigns?
Did you know that three members of the Hamburg Parliament—Mehria Ashuftah, Hila Latifi, and Zohra Mojadeddi—are Afghan refugees?
Did you know that Aleksandar Vučić, the president of Serbia, is said to have dominated the 2023 Serbian parliamentary election campaign despite not being a candidate?
Did you know that Baháʼí Houses of Worship (example pictured) are nine-sided, with nine gardens and nine pathways, because the number nine is symbolically significant in the Baháʼí Faith?
Did you know that Call of Duty: Black Ops 6's four-year development cycle was the longest in Call of Duty's history?
Did you know that Carl Laubin makes paintings of imaginary cities, each consisting of real buildings from a single architect?
Did you know that Ezekiel Hughes, who built a church and designed a road, was also a clockmaker, farmer, and justice of the peace?
Did you know that Francisco Menéndez's 1885 revolution overthrew a liberal government and installed another liberal government?
Did you know that Ma Aung Phyu was said to have been buried alive as a human sacrifice during the construction of Tharrawaddy's town pillar?
Did you know that Nine Inch Nails wrote the soundtrack to a Walt Disney World ride?
Did you know that a medieval illuminated manuscript was rediscovered in the attic of a castle under rubble and piles of paper?
Did you know that according to his mother, Hotmangaradja Pandjaitan's decision to join the army was influenced by a lot draw?
Did you know that former Salvadoran president Rafael Campo ran for re-election in 1864 and received less than 20 votes?
Did you know that most individuals with O'Donnell-Luria–Rodan syndrome have a larger than average head size, unless they have a more severe form of the condition in which case it might be smaller than average?
Did you know that one of the main characters of the manga NakiNagi is named after a deity from the mythology of Kiribati?
Did you know that one writer claimed that Quizone would "forever outrank" The Cube, The Crystal Maze and Jungle Run?
Did you know that the 2014 Isla Vista killings led to California enacting a red flag law, allowing family members to petition courts to remove weapons from persons deemed a threat?
Did you know that the hard sci-fi anime Mighty Space Miners was cancelled after two out of a planned six episodes?
Did you know that the three Bethke brothers separately escaped from East Germany using an air mattress, a zip line and ultralight aircraft?
Did you know that when Ardfry House fell into a state of dilapidation, the 3rd Lord Wallscourt used his wife's dowry to carry out restoration work?
Did you know that Indian member of parliament Hira Singh Chinaria died in his seat after delivering a speech?
Did you know that John Golding avoided painting horizontal lines in his work so that his pieces would not be mistaken for landscapes?
Did you know that Micronesia was the second country to cut ties with Russia after the 2022 invasion of Ukraine—the first being Ukraine?
Did you know that Times Tables Rock Stars added cochlear implants to the game after pupils at a deaf school requested them?
Did you know that a thesis by Amelia Frank was cited by her doctoral advisor in his Nobel Prize speech more than forty years after her death?
Did you know that brown cacholotes sing only in duets, mate for life, and share parental duties equally?
Did you know that for her work in Poor Things, the costume designer Holly Waddington was influenced by the Victorian era, early 20th-century German Expressionism, and 1960s fashion?
Did you know that historian Vasyl Khaynas was active in an underground movement against the Hungarian occupation of Transcarpathia while still in high school?
Did you know that in 1945, British troops burned the town of Bekasi in retaliation for the murders of passengers and crew of a downed British aircraft?
Did you know that orphaned Eliza Showell was sent to Nova Scotia from a British children's home and placed in indentured service?
Did you know that the New Zealand seafood poster is reportedly "in every fish and chip shop in the country"?
Did you know that the TV series Beartown cast real junior hockey players rather than relying on stunt doubles?
Did you know that the alliance led by Siles split from the alliance led by Siles?
Did you know that the eventual location of Cancún's Hotel Zone was chosen in part by a computer program in the late 1960s?
Did you know that the fossil maple Acer wehri is named for a composer, artist, and amateur paleontologist?
Did you know that the medical eye patch worn by former German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is said to have increased his popularity?
Did you know that when a California TV station began broadcasting, a child sent in 35 cents and a handwritten card reading, "Now I can get Sesame Street"?
Did you know that when a nightclub located in an old spaghetti factory was shut down for fire code violations,  a troupe of flamenco dancers collected signatures in protest?
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Did you know that Boleslovas Baranauskas became the chairman of his country's parliament two months after he was imprisoned at a forced-labour camp?
Did you know that French businessman André Kieffer was described as a "one-man party" and "easily the most aggressive and controversial figure" in the territorial assembly of Chad?
Did you know that GameChat was inspired by Nintendo developers' frustrations over video-conferencing software during the COVID-19 pandemic?
Did you know that Hermann E. Sieger, a Nazi Party official, was considered to be a trusted contact of the Liechtenstein government?
Did you know that SUNY Potsdam basketball coach Jerry Welsh won all but 13 of his 267 games at the team's home court?
Did you know that Sandra Caron changed her name to avoid associations with a woman once described as "the most highly paid woman in British show business in the 1950s and 1960s"?
Did you know that Stephen Linard designed clothes for David Bowie and Boy George?
Did you know that Sukumar Barua chose to work as a chef instead of pursuing poetry as a career because his pay was too good?
Did you know that beta-propeller protein-associated neurodegeneration can more often be seen in girls due to its inheritance nature?
Did you know that former NFL player Mike Brunson was known for making banana ice cream?
Did you know that only black Girardinus metallicus males put on a courtship show, while yellow and colorless males rely on coercion?
Did you know that seed fossils (example pictured) from western North America, despite being first reported in 1906, were not fully described and named Pteroheterochrosperma until 2023?
Did you know that the "Song of Healing", an emotional song from The Legend of Zelda, is an inversion of a different, more jaunty Zelda song?
Did you know that the 1984 Indiana's 8th congressional district election was decided by just four votes?
Did you know that the Glenford Dike section of the Ashokan Rail Trail may be the earliest example of an intentional rail with trail in the U.S.?
Did you know that the Group Architects led strikes against traditional teaching styles at the Auckland School of Architecture in 1948, which were attended by 142 of 160 students?
Did you know that the murder of a gay man in Afghanistan forced his brother to flee to Turkey and his boyfriend to go into hiding due to harassment from the Taliban?
Did you know that Boubacari Dicko, a non-sovereign monarch, helped to draft the 1991 republican constitution of Burkina Faso?
Did you know that Cathy Cassidy wrote her debut novel Dizzy in three months?
Did you know that JoJo Townsell caught the game-winning touchdown in his professional debut, only two days after signing a contract with his team?
Did you know that Lamarr Wilson was known for his unorthodox reviews, once testing a "spill-proof" mug by hitting it with a baseball bat?
Did you know that Queen Matilda drove Empress Matilda away from London so suddenly that the latter left her dinner still warm?
Did you know that The Witcher Adventure Game was released simultaneously as both a physical board game and a digital video-game adaptation?
Did you know that a British steam locomotive sat at a logistics center in Kentucky for more than a decade?
Did you know that a candle salad (example pictured) was once described as "probably the only arts and crafts project on TV to ever run the risk of being blurred out by the network censors"?
Did you know that a splinter denomination of the Pentecostal Churches of the Apostolic Faith taught that all humans pre-existed in Adam's "seed"?
Did you know that an African elephant named Craig had tusks that were so long that they reached the ground?
Did you know that during the Siege of Auximus, a bodyguard saved Belisarius's life by blocking an arrow with his hand?
Did you know that submerging a dog in motor oil was a pseudoscientific method used to treat infestations of Demodex injai?
Did you know that the 2010 Yazoo City tornado was considered to be the worst natural disaster to occur in Mississippi since Hurricane Katrina?
Did you know that the Beverly Hills Register of Historic Properties includes a storybook witch's cottage, a space-age gas station, and shops designed by Frank Lloyd Wright?
Did you know that the Legends of Tomorrow episode "Phone Home" was inspired by the film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial?
Did you know that the Master of the Cité des dames workshop made illustrations for the works of Christine de Pizan that would serve as models for other illustrators?
Did you know that the video-game adaptation of Little Nicky allows the player to print their results using the Game Boy Printer?
Did you know that tribute videos, fan art, and memes have been made about a gay fan fiction about Minecraft YouTubers?
Did you know that , during Real Madrid's 1927 tour of the Americas, José María Muñagorri nearly jumped into shark-infested waters to rescue a teammate?
Did you know that Colleen McCullough described the television adaptation of her best-known novel as "instant vomit"?
Did you know that Ingrid Fischbach did not expect to win her first election, instead considering it a "test run"?
Did you know that Marie Engle was one of the earliest operatic singers to be recorded on rare Bettini cylinders?
Did you know that The Tigress of Forlì earned its title because its protagonist was accused of being "willing to eat her young to gain power"?
Did you know that Thomas Johannes Mayer went from performing jazz, rock, and punk, to portraying operatic characters such as Wotan and Wozzeck?
Did you know that a 1948 yakuza film was censored when its original ending depicted one character driving the corpse of another around a black market?
Did you know that a wealthy councillor's house in the ancient Egyptian desert city Trimithis preserves a line from a lost tragedy by Euripides?
Did you know that a woman died of water intoxication after participating in a contest held by a California radio station?
Did you know that an Ohio state judge's donation of land for Findley State Park was described as his "personal weapon in a long fight against juvenile delinquency"?
Did you know that counting songs such as "Yo tenía diez perritos" were once thought to have been used as chants for curing illnesses?
Did you know that one writer described the game Wolsung as "legendary" among the Polish role-playing community for its prolonged development?
Did you know that the "nonproductivity" office software The Laffer Utilities was created as a spin-off of the adult-themed franchise Leisure Suit Larry?
Did you know that the Enrei Onodachi Memorial Festival can last for only 15 seconds?
Did you know that the Weeknd's album House of Balloons is named after a real house in which he used to host parties?
Did you know that the author of an 1887 book on British whisky distilleries didn't know how to distill whisky?
Did you know that there were more than a thousand Nazi concentration camps (prisoners pictured)?
Did you know that when 2025 U.S. Amateur champion Mason Howell was four, he dressed as golfer Bobby Jones for Halloween?
Did you know that "Higher" faced 29 soundalike cover versions on digital stores at the time of its release?
Did you know that , during production of the documentary Live Nude Girls Unite!, Julie Query told her mother on camera that she was a sex worker?
Did you know that Ashworth Moor Reservoir was authorised by Parliament in 1877, but construction did not begin for more than 20 years?
Did you know that Bonnie Blue's "1,000 men in a day" challenge inspired an event and a planned event by fellow sex workers Annie Knight and Drake Von?
Did you know that Miranda Oakley became the first woman to rope-solo The Nose in less than 24 hours?
Did you know that a North Carolina radio station host asked his neighbors about 2001: A Space Odyssey on air—and went on to host Ask Your Neighbor for 29 years?
Did you know that a church in Indiana has a "Zipper" in its design?
Did you know that femtanyl is popular among the furry fandom?
Did you know that scientists have discovered a planetary system that can be described as "inside-out"?
Did you know that several religious groups and a parent–teacher association helped to sponsor a Manhattan apartment complex?
Did you know that some video game stores removed their adult content under pressure from credit card companies?
Did you know that the "Indiana Jones of Chelsea" lived a playboy lifestyle?
Did you know that the Communist Party of Transcarpathian Ukraine lasted just over a year?
Did you know that the New York Stock Exchange Safe Deposit Company conducted its business in a basement?
Did you know that the Troadec family murders were committed over an inheritance dispute due to a myth involving gold bars?
Did you know that the author of Sakura Trick asked the director of its anime adaptation to include at least one kissing scene per episode?
Did you know that the development of the 2019 video game Retro Mystery Club Vol.1: The Ise-Shima Case started in 2010?
Did you know that the video game Ukrainian Fight Drone Simulator is based on a military training simulator used by Ukrainian soldiers in the ongoing war?
Did you know that "Time After Time" uses the turn signal sound of the Volvo XC60 as a musical element?
Did you know that , according to his obituary, Prince Sunhwa "killed more than ten people each year"?
Did you know that Academy Award nominee Burton Miller was the first costume designer elected to the governing board of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences?
Did you know that Chicago State Cougars football is the only NCAA Division I gridiron football program in Chicago?
Did you know that Gabriele Lösekrug-Möller worked as a bookseller before entering politics?
Did you know that Reiji Okii came up with the title of Mr. Noone Special in the shower?
Did you know that Scott Kupor had not heard of the United States Office of Personnel Management until he was suggested to lead it?
Did you know that The Coin Mat in Bartley station is made of 164,800 one-cent coins?
Did you know that The Missing took three years to write but only four days to film?
Did you know that U.S. law states that information on atomic weapons is born secret from the moment of creation?
Did you know that a map from the Atlas of the Historical Geography of the Holy Land was used to negotiate the borders of Mandatory Palestine?
Did you know that only 42 votes separated the two major parties in the 2021 Liechtenstein general election?
Did you know that recordings of the voice of Fanny Cochrane Smith were used in the development of a modern Aboriginal Tasmanian constructed language?
Did you know that the 1927 Salvadoran coup attempt failed after one of its leaders was unable to convince the president that he had been overthrown?
Did you know that the 1994 game Blown Away, inspired by an action movie and themed around bomb disposal, surprised many reviewers by focusing on puzzle gameplay?
Did you know that the space-combat simulation game Renegade II was cancelled for poor quality despite the release of demo and beta versions and reviews?
Did you know that users on Rebrickable create their own Lego designs and sell instructions for them?
Did you know that when finished in 1947, the Marcel Breuer House II was suspended from cables costing US$22?
Did you know that , when asked about a mysterious ghost girl in Pokémon, producer Junichi Masuda laughed and said "oOoOoOoO"?
Did you know that Bonbon Drop stickers revived sticker collecting and trading culture in Japan?
Did you know that Edward R. Kone had the ugliest face his father had ever seen?
Did you know that Frances Duff was once described as the only 18th-century heiress of African ancestry to marry into the British aristocracy?