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Did you know that despite falling out with novelist Thomas Wolfe, Kenneth Raisbeck was the basis for a character in Of Time and the River?
Did you know that the designation of Salar del Huasco as a national park in 2010 was revoked in 2014?
Did you know that the first known NBA player with sickle cell disease once nearly died of a sickle cell crisis after a flight to a game?
Did you know that the psychological inner space genre was a rebellion against the traditional focus of science fiction on literal outer space?
Did you know that the tablet PY Ta 641 was instrumental in proving that Michael Ventris had indeed deciphered Linear B?
Did you know that the titular character in "Beebo the God of War" was inspired by Tickle Me Elmo?
Did you know that when Kelsey Lauritano portrayed Mozart's Cherubino, a reviewer from the FAZ noted her "almost metallic-brittle approach that spreads androgynous infatuation"?
Did you know that Jean Schwartz and William Jerome wrote more than 1,000 popular songs together?
Did you know that Matt Stoller believes that "nearly any other cause or political relationship should be sacrificed" to break up monopolies?
Did you know that an interstate catalytic converter theft ring generated US$545 million in revenue?
Did you know that as music director of the Oper Hagen, Florian Ludwig promoted a wide repertoire that included contemporary operas such as Barber's Vanessa and crossover projects?
Did you know that basketball player Gary Bossert has made 11 consecutive three-point shots and at least 31 consecutive free throws?
Did you know that in addition to his work as a scientist, Robert Hooke was an architect who designed the Monument to the Great Fire of London so that it could also have a practical value as a scientific instrument?
Did you know that marketers try to turn a women-only script in China into a branding device for "high-end potatoes" in the documentary Hidden Letters?
Did you know that police officer Kevin Davis's father, grandfather, and great-grandfather all served in public safety?
Did you know that the Korean protest song "Morning Dew" was banned in North and South Korea?
Did you know that voice actresses Miharu Hanai and Aina Suzuki were revealed to be sisters when they were both cast in an anime TV series?
Did you know that while named for alliums, the fossil Paleoallium was not necessarily directly related to any allium species?
Did you know that Andrew Dakich received an athletic scholarship while under police escort?
Did you know that Edward Hopper's 1963 painting Intermission can be viewed as a metaphor for the world as theater?
Did you know that Francis Fogarty, who went on to manage an NFL franchise for nearly two decades, was taken prisoner by the Nazis in World War II but managed to escape while wounded?
Did you know that Jaroslav Záruba tricked a Waffen-SS unit into surrendering to the Government Army of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia by falsely claiming that British troops were advancing against Prague?
Did you know that Prince Hubertus is the heir apparent to the head of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, a royal dynasty to which Elizabeth II belonged?
Did you know that Rear Admiral Richard Washbourn bought the bell of HMS Chevron for £8 and donated it to Collingwood School?
Did you know that after being criticized for dressing "like a doll" at an important meeting, pioneering Russian feminist Anna Filosofova replied that "clothes do not make the woman"?
Did you know that composer Frederick Solomon adapted several British pantomimes into Broadway musicals, including The Sleeping Beauty and the Beast (sheet music pictured)?
Did you know that foam has been used to kill farm animals en masse in a process called foam depopulation?
Did you know that men of a Namibian tribe "share" their wives with visitors?
Did you know that the album Dariacore took inspiration from Internet memes?
Did you know that the extinct genus Mixtotherium, meaning 'mixed beast', has traits of both extinct primates and hyraxes?
Did you know that the fossil fern Dickwhitea was described from a single block of chert?
Did you know that Apollo 17 carried a 6-pound (2.7 kg) explosive charge as part of the Lunar Seismic Profiling Experiment?
Did you know that Gerald Willis, after working as a bus driver at age 15, started a business that earned $2 million per year and built a replica of the Hermitage after watching The President's Lady?
Did you know that Institutiones rei herbariae, published in 1700, sought to give a unique name to every plant based on their "essence"?
Did you know that John Jones took a leave of absence just days before succeeding Bob Harlan as chief executive officer of the Green Bay Packers, and ultimately left the team a few months later?
Did you know that Keivonn Woodard's nomination for The Last of Us made him the second-youngest actor and first black deaf actor to be nominated at the Emmys?
Did you know that Majed Abu Maraheel, the first Palestinian Olympian, tended flowers for a living before becoming an Olympic runner?
Did you know that Mount Okmok in Alaska may have contributed to the downfall of Ptolemaic Egypt?
Did you know that Scytalopus krabbei is named after Niels Krabbe, who discovered seven other species in its genus?
Did you know that a popular vote declared sobá, an adaption of Okinawa soba introduced by Japanese immigrants, to be the most representative dish of the Brazilian city of Campo Grande?
Did you know that an unnamed abuse survivor risks her life to become a spy in "one of the bravest actions in all of the Book of Mormon"?
Did you know that the influential Armenian merchants Petik and Sanos expanded the Armenian Church of the Forty Martyrs in Aleppo, in spite of Ottoman laws that banned new construction and expansion of churches?
Did you know that George Parks was president of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and his son Rowan Parks became president of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh?
Did you know that Karsten Januschke's conducting of Offenbach's Die Banditen was described as producing a "lean, dry, [and] delicate" sound with an ensemble of 22 soloists, including 11 tenors?
Did you know that Townsends, a YouTube channel dedicated to life in 18th-century America, has featured a 1784 recipe for macaroni and cheese?
Did you know that despite receiving a head injury, and the guns of his fighter becoming jammed after being attacked by enemy aircraft, Jack A. Bade continued to defend American bombers over Guadalcanal?
Did you know that due to segregation, coach Millard Naylor's high school football team needed to play out-of-state opponents for his first 19 seasons?
Did you know that during the rollout of her album Can You See Me?, Rezz released a sex toy?
Did you know that in accordance with Hale's law, sunspot groups have magnetic fields that align in opposite directions on opposite sides of the Sun's equator?
Did you know that in some rare cases, large Siberian tigers prey on adult brown bears?
Did you know that only six years after its 2016 discovery, the Meratus blue flycatcher was found being sold in Indonesian songbird markets?
Did you know that the Khalij, an ancient canal in Cairo, was replaced by a boulevard in the 1890s?
Did you know that the Qurna Queen's tomb may be the only complete royal burial exported in its entirety from Egypt?
Did you know that Angelle's debut single was promoted with an entire television channel – and still only reached number 43 on the UK Singles Chart?
Did you know that Esther Merle Jackson, as a specialist in theatre and dance education at the United States Office of Education, intended to expand theater's role in the Great Society?
Did you know that Native Americans in Seattle sought refuge on an artificial island composed of waste thrown overboard from ships?
Did you know that Rachelle Ann Go recorded the song "First Burn" with four other actresses who played Eliza Schuyler to promote the music collection Hamildrops?
Did you know that one of Arch Wolfe's duties as an NFL general manager was to prevent his players from fighting the referees?
Did you know that the Chevalier d'Eon de Beaumont inspired the name of the transgender rights organisation the Beaumont Society?
Did you know that the UAW's 1941 union contract with the Ford Motor Company included a then-unique antidiscrimination clause negotiated by Black foundryman Shelton Tappes?
Did you know that the crucifix on the cover of the Horne Book is made of walrus ivory?
Did you know that the video game Fursan al-Aqsa received an update that allows players to reenact the October 7 attacks on Israel?
Did you know that Ernie Shore pitched a combined no-hitter with Babe Ruth?
Did you know that Gabriel García Márquez asked his sons to destroy Until August, but they instead published it after his death?
Did you know that Ruth Gottesman donated $1 billion to ensure free tuition for all students at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine?
Did you know that Sodankylä Old Church is one of the oldest preserved wooden churches in Finland?
Did you know that Zig Jackson is the first contemporary Native American photographer to be represented in the collections of the Library of Congress?
Did you know that actor Corey Feldman knocked his own tooth out at Shank Hall?
Did you know that despite its name meaning 'unscented', Hypericum × inodorum can smell strongly of goat?
Did you know that hundreds of actors and other artists, as members of Artists4Ceasefire, are calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza?
Did you know that Colin Mackay, the political editor at Scottish Television, was "very sad" when Colin MacKay, the political editor at Scottish Television, died?
Did you know that Pep the dog was falsely accused of murdering a cat and sent to Eastern State Penitentiary?
Did you know that a blizzard helped end the Cold War?
Did you know that color-changing cats (artist's impression pictured) could help us communicate with the future?
Did you know that no one laughed at the worst joke in legal history?
Did you know that the charm quark made physicists eat hats?
Did you know that ur mum has an eleven-second scream?
Did you know that when Olivia Rodrigo spilled her guts, her obsession came out?
Did you know that you could be sentenced to serve time in prison for stuffing cookies?
Did you know that Barren Island, located in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, is the only active volcano in India?
Did you know that Irish International Brigader Tommy Wood had only been in Spain for 18 days when he was killed at the Battle of Lopera during the Spanish Civil War?
Did you know that South African civil rights activist Thambi Naidoo was arrested along with Mahatma Gandhi and sent outside of Transvaal for refusing to register?
Did you know that TV Guide criticized Flypaper as among the "second-rate rip-offs" of Tarantino's Pulp Fiction?
Did you know that an extinct French scarab beetle  was discovered in a Prague factory?
Did you know that illustrator Abigail Larson once designed a wine-bottle label for the Edgar Allan Poe Museum?
Did you know that the Brazilian social media page Tupinizando is dedicated to the promotion of Old Tupi, a dead language?
Did you know that the Indonesian city of Gorontalo is nicknamed the "Porch of Medina"?
Did you know that the Lviv branch of the Ukrderzh­nats­menvydav (building pictured) was the main publisher of Polish literature in the Soviet Union by 1941?
Did you know that Ahmad Nasuhi ordered a subordinate to attack the Indonesian Communist Party's offices with grenades as "psychological warfare against the central government"?
Did you know that Bell Tea, founded in 1898, is the oldest tea company in New Zealand?
Did you know that George E. Mylonas visited Mycenae at night to speak to the legendary king Agamemnon?
Did you know that Ladislav Burlas, a musicologist at the Slovak Academy of Sciences for almost 40 years, wrote more than 150 works during his career?
Did you know that Video Seven released the first VGA video card with video RAM?
Did you know that Waluigi inspired the name of a phenomenon in artificial intelligence known as the Waluigi effect?
Did you know that hotel guests in the 1890s could use a teleseme (example pictured) to order cocktails and call manservants?
Did you know that in 2005, a mag­a­zine estimated that the Hell Gate Bridge could last a thousand years if humans disappeared?
Did you know that the Lunar Traverse Gravimeter's primary accelerometer was based on those operational on SM-65 Atlas intercontinental ballistic missiles?
Did you know that the Scott Tower was built in 1940 as part of a project to create Holyoke, Massachusetts' "own version of New York City's Central Park"?
Did you know that Alexander Atabekian published the first anarchist periodical in the Armenian language?
Did you know that Alison Frantz's photographs played a crucial role in the decipherment of Linear B?
Did you know that Dorkas Tokoro-Hanasbey, the only female member of the New Guinea Council, arrived thirty minutes late to her inauguration ceremony?
Did you know that Shel Kaphan was the first employee of Amazon?
Did you know that Swedish naval officer Johan Herman Schützercrantz fought in the American Revolutionary War and participated in the Battle of the Chesapeake?
Did you know that an exhibition hall for the 1939 New York World's Fair later hosted athletic events at a historically Black university in Virginia?
Did you know that gothic painter Aleksandra Waliszewska (artwork pictured) works with The Vampire's Wife?
Did you know that in semantics, antonym is an antonym of synonym while synonym is not a synonym of antonym?
Did you know that people in Madagascar wrestle bulls to commemorate the unearthing of ancestral corpses?
Did you know that saving the Guadalupe cypress included the help of 40 Judas goats?
Did you know that the Mars Society's founding conference included a rancorous debate about the ethics of terraforming?
Did you know that the anniversary of the Singh v Canada decision is observed as Refugee Rights Day?
Did you know that the fork-tailed drongo gives genuine alarm calls but will sometimes lie to steal food from other animals?
Did you know that the white-tailed jay (example pictured) found in Ecuador and Peru was once thought to have been brought to Mexico by pre-Columbian trade?
Did you know that Ariana Grande's song about Saturn returns, as well as SZA's and Kacey Musgraves's, were coincidentally released just weeks apart?
Did you know that Jean-Emmanuel Depraz won a Magic: The Gathering world championship using three cards depicting the player who beat him in 2021?
Did you know that Rewilding Argentina has reintroduced giant river otters, giant anteaters, and jaguars to the country?
Did you know that Sans was crowned as "Ultimate Tumblr Sexyman" on the same day that Elizabeth II died?
Did you know that The Feast of Bacchus went viral following a football game?
Did you know that although some of the players on Liberty Christian Preparatory School's eight-man football team had never played tackle football before, the team won the state championship in its first season?
Did you know that as the title character in Marcelle, actress Louise Gunning portrayed a Parisian barmaid who masquerades as her brother, a soldier?
Did you know that despite being sacked after losing the Battle of Gazala, Neil Ritchie went on to command a corps in North West Europe?
Did you know that having specific rather than vague goals tends to increase motivation and performance?
Did you know that the anarchist Rosa Laviña opened the first vegetarian restaurant in Tolosa?
Did you know that the ancient Jewish town of Modi'in housed a monumental mausoleum for the Hasmonean family, built in the 2nd century BC, that remains undiscovered?
Did you know that Bangiales, an order of red algae, contains both the oldest-known sexually reproducing organism and the seaweed used to make sushi wrappers?
Did you know that Centre College co-president Robert L. McLeod served for fifteen months on a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier while Robert J. McMullen, the other co-president, ran the school's day-to-day operations?
Did you know that Maggio di Accettura, a festival in Italy dedicated to the Christian martyr Saint Julian, might have pagan origins or be linked to Langobard history?
Did you know that Nicki Minaj reacted to Megan Thee Stallion's "Hiss" with a 3,100-character Twitter diatribe and a diss track?
Did you know that Rachelle Ann Go debuted in the West End and Broadway revivals of Miss Saigon portraying the role of a bargirl?
Did you know that Rodney, Mississippi, became a ghost town after the Mississippi River shifted about two miles (3.2 km) away?
Did you know that a Japanese island has rapidly fluctuated in size?
Did you know that a Taylor Swift song shares its name with a recurring refrain from Slaughterhouse-Five?
Did you know that after his movement's victory in the Cuban Revolution, television broadcasts showed Camilo Cienfuegos freeing parrots from birdcages, declaring that the birds had "a right to liberty"?
Did you know that in the first Romanian universal chronicle, Mihail Moxa shows "the God of the Old and New Testaments baptizing His stars with the names of Olympian deities"?
Did you know that some Confederate bullets were sourced from a silver mine?
Did you know that the Eretnid dynasty that ruled central and eastern Anatolia during the 14th century was founded by Eretna (coin pictured), an Ilkhanid officer of Uyghur origin?
Did you know that the Shakespeare garden in Wessington Springs, South Dakota, was the first of its kind in the state?
Did you know that Aphaena submaculata uses specialized mouthparts to suck the sap of trees?
Did you know that Charlotte FC opened their third season with their third manager?
Did you know that Donna Taggart's cover of Jenn Bostic's "Jealous of the Angels" charted at No. 85 on the UK Singles Downloads Chart after being featured in an episode of the cooking competition Great British Menu?
Did you know that Ellen Bernstein was called the "birthmother of Jewish environmentalism"?
Did you know that Florida State's exclusion from the 2023–24 College Football Playoff prompted an antitrust investigation?
Did you know that Hibiscus Rising, a 9-metre-tall (30 ft) artwork in Leeds, commemorates David Oluwale, a Nigerian man who drowned in 1969 after police harassment?
Did you know that a local newspaper hosted a beauty pageant to celebrate the opening of New York City's Queensboro Bridge?
Did you know that as part of the Apollo 17 Biological Cosmic Ray Experiment, the heads of five mice were each cut into 1600 slices to look for brain lesions?
Did you know that beavers, mules, and dogs have been parachuted from airplanes?
Did you know that food stylist Susan Spungen estimated that she baked hundreds of pies with Josh Brolin and film staff while practicing for a scene in Labor Day?
Did you know that in 1890 Cornelius N. Dorsette, often referred to as the first African-American physician in Alabama, founded Hale Infirmary, a hospital for Black patients and staff in Montgomery?
Did you know that the metaverse has been described as "a honeypot trap for architecture astronauts"?
Did you know that Androsaemum androsaemum is botanically unacceptable, but Aniculus aniculus is perfectly valid?
Did you know that Golden Horse Awards–winning film composer Luming Lu worked as a cram-school tutor before pursuing a career in music?
Did you know that Herwig Gössl rejected a reform document on the Catholic theology of sexuality prepared by the Synodal Way, but later welcomed the church's decision to bless homosexual couples?
Did you know that Illieston House, a castle built around 1600, was sold for £890,000 in 2019?
Did you know that Muslims believe that giving to the poor on the last Friday of Ramadan (prayers pictured) will bring them wealth and blessings during the year and in the future?
Did you know that The Gospel According to Jesus, Queen of Heaven, Jo Clifford's 2009 play featuring Jesus as a trans woman, was called an "offensive abuse of Christian beliefs" by Archbishop Mario Conti?
Did you know that Waste Siege: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine is based on ten years of field research in the Israeli-occupied West Bank?
Did you know that a story titled "The Adventures of Mr. Stupidhead in Russia" may have influenced the Soviet silent comedy film The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks?
Did you know that football executive Ray Walsh also had a "murderous" forehand?
Did you know that in the 3:16 game, Tim Tebow threw for 316 yards with 31.6 yards per completion, the ratings for the game were 31.6, and the opposing team's time of possession was 31 minutes 6 seconds?
Did you know that on her first trip abroad, Riley Jackson won the Golden Ball as the best player of the 2022 CONCACAF Women's U-17 Championship?
Did you know that shortly after being liberated from the Theresienstadt Ghetto in 1945, Holocaust survivor Karl Loewenstein was sent to Pankrác Prison?
Did you know that the only functioning secondary school in Mississippi during the American Civil War was founded by Thomas S. Gathright?
Did you know that the word algebra is derived from an Arabic term for the surgical treatment of bonesetting?
Did you know that Cliff Christl, who became the Green Bay Packers team historian in 2014, estimated that he had recorded more than 250 oral histories with past players and coaches since the 1990s?
Did you know that Gerald McGinnis founded his first medical device company from his own home, working at night and using his kitchen oven as a kiln?
Did you know that Stan Brakhage's film Sirius Remembered shows the decomposition of the corpse of his family's dog?
Did you know that Tim Kinsella made most of the lyrics for Cap'n Jazz's only album,  Shmap'n Shmazz, during his first experience with psilocybin mushrooms?
Did you know that according to Lois N. Magner, Hildegard of Bingen's Physica is "probably the first book by a female author to discuss the elements and the therapeutic virtues of plants, animals, and metals"?
Did you know that at the Eurovision Song Contest 1992, Johnny Logan became the first person to win the contest three times as either a performer or a songwriter?
Did you know that during the 1984 Democratic presidential primaries, Alan Cranston scheduled his advertisements in Iowa around airings of The Day After?
Did you know that during the Syrian revolution, anarchist Omar Aziz directly participated in establishing four local opposition councils?
Did you know that in just one night, thousands of books on the experiences and medical care of transgender people in Nazi Germany were burned for being "un-German"?
Did you know that some ethical theorists believe that all moral claims are false?
Did you know that the Seattle Storm had a ten-season streak of playoff appearances?
Did you know that the capital of South Ossetia once had more Jews than Ossetians?
Did you know that the positive reception for Until Dawn, developed by Supermassive Games, caught Sony by surprise and led to two spin-off games?
Did you know that the whereabouts of the painting Funeral of a Mummy on the Nile were unknown for more than 100 years?
Did you know that 1 + 1 = 1, according to some forms of non-Diophantine arithmetic?
Did you know that Australia-born rugby union player Jason Jones-Hughes was the subject of a protracted legal battle over his international eligibility after Wales called him up for the 1999 Rugby World Cup?
Did you know that Giorgio Moroder co-wrote and recorded a poem about seduction in Italian for Kylie and Garibay's self-titled EP?
Did you know that Joseph Drummond, a key figure of New Brunswick's branch of the NAACP, staged a sit-in at a local barbershop whose owner proclaimed that he had "never cut a colored person's hair in 55 years"?
Did you know that Thomas Young, a professor of midwifery, was taken prisoner at the Battle of Prestonpans?
Did you know that Wilner Burke was the director of the Lumberjack Band, the marching band of the Green Bay Packers, for 42 years?
Did you know that the Federal Aviation Administration uses the brightly lit Oakland California Temple as a navigation beacon, despite complaints about light pollution?
Did you know that the Japanese version of Pokémon Crystal allowed players to trade and battle over mobile networks using an adapter?