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Did you know that Susanna Hoffs sang on the studio recording of "Eternal Flame" naked after producer Davitt Sigerson pranked her by saying that Olivia Newton-John had done the same thing?
Did you know that Thomas Mann insisted on omitting a passage on homoeroticism in the English translation of his work "On the German Republic"?
Did you know that Yuu Nagira, the author of My Beautiful Man, did not expect readers to love one of the main characters because she had written him to be creepy?
Did you know that actress Agnes Mapes had to improvise a complex choreographed dance from basic poses for the 1907 play The Holy City?
Did you know that in March 2022 Sonja van den Ende was the only Dutch journalist to report from the Russian-occupied Donbas on the war in Ukraine?
Did you know that more than 100 European royals boarded the Cruise of the Kings, a 1954 cruise organised by the Greek queen consort Frederica of Hanover to promote tourism in Greece?
Did you know that the first Acadian newspaper, Le Moniteur Acadien, was acquired in 2023 for just CA$1?
Did you know that Palestinian citizens of Israel hold an annual march to one of the towns and villages from which their community had been displaced in the Nakba?
Did you know that a man cosplaying as a character from the New California Republic (flag pictured) was arrested due to reports that he was carrying a bomb?
Did you know that after the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake destroyed Napier Technical College, it was disestablished and amalgamated into its rivals?
Did you know that many former cast members returned for Arrow's 150th episode?
Did you know that music director Raul Mitra wanted Regine Velasquez to do an all-rock concert?
Did you know that police officers had to be flown in by helicopter to seize hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of cannabis plants found growing illegally in Jerrawangala National Park?
Did you know that Kooraban National Park has provided a habitat for more than twenty vulnerable animal species, including koalas?
Did you know that Walid Daqqa wrote several works of prison literature, including a children's novel about a boy who uses magical olive oil to visit his imprisoned father?
Did you know that a bust of the notorious slave trader Isaac Franklin was placed on the prow of his slave ship, the Isaac Franklin?
Did you know that opera composer and librettist Joseph Redding was also a chess expert and lawyer who argued a landmark decision before the United States Supreme Court?
Did you know that prior to becoming a royal reporter for Fox News, English journalist Neil Sean released a cover of Cliff Richard's "We Don't Talk Anymore" with his mother?
Did you know that the production team of the TV series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier created a digital highway more than five miles (8 km) long to capture visual effects for a truck action sequence for the episode "The Star-Spangled Man"?
Did you know that new employees of a business headquartered in the Editors Building chose their office decorations from a 7,000-piece collection of historic memorabilia of Washington, D.C.?
Did you know that the perpetrator of the 2017 Aztec High School shooting had previously been investigated by the FBI, but the investigation was closed after he convinced them that he was simply "trolling"?
Did you know that with the appointment of Michael Martin as Bishop of Charlotte, the Conventual Franciscans are now the most represented religious order among American Catholic bishops?
Did you know that Prince Philip was the first member of the British royal family to fly in a helicopter?
Did you know that Pulp singer Jarvis Cocker helped fundraise to save a Merseyside flat that has been called "the first example of outsider art to be nationally listed"?
Did you know that a year after objecting to the unauthorised use of his own AI-generated vocals, Drake used vocals of other rappers generated that way to respond to a diss against him?
Did you know that the 1910–1916 publication Raḥamim was the first newspaper in the Judeo-Tajik language?
Did you know that Broadway and film star Lester Allen began his career as a child acrobat in the Barnum and Bailey Circus?
Did you know that due to Richard Louhenapessy's arrest, the Indonesian city of Ambon had four mayors in May 2022?
Did you know that of the 33 Green Bay Packers players named to an NFL All-Rookie Team since 1975, only one—James Lofton—went on to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame?
Did you know that the café C1 Espresso delivers food to customers using pneumatic tubes?
Did you know that under the rule of the first Macedonian president, Kiro Gligorov, the Republic of Macedonia was the only state that seceded from Yugoslavia peacefully?
Did you know that Addie Viola Smith was the first female Foreign Service officer to serve under the United States Department of Commerce?
Did you know that Cinda Firestone, the heiress to the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, directed a documentary about the 1971 Attica Prison riot?
Did you know that The Ugly Black Bird, a Polish book that discredited the autobiographical value of Kosiński's The Painted Bird, initially received reviews that were "more negative than favourable"?
Did you know that fans speculate that Forever Young, the winner of the Saudi Derby, might become a "horse girl" in the game Uma Musume Pretty Derby?
Did you know that in 1850s New Orleans, the French revolutionary Joseph Déjacque called for black slaves and the white working class to overthrow the United States in a social revolution?
Did you know that in 88 BC, Lucius Cornelius Sulla carried out the first coup d'état in Roman history?
Did you know that Harrogate War Memorial, by Ernest Prestwich, names 1163 casualties of the First and Second World Wars, of whom more than 300 have unknown graves, and the youngest was 15 years old?
Did you know that Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority general manager Phillip Eng brews his own beer?
Did you know that actress Edna May Sperl's fiancé was arrested on the day of her wedding by a federal marshal because her fiancé's father opposed the marriage?
Did you know that no voting was held in four out of six curiae in the 1916 Warsaw City Council election, as the Polish and Jewish parties had agreed on a single joint candidate slate?
Did you know that social media influencer Andrew Tate described himself as "absolutely a misogynist"?
Did you know that the COSMOS field is the largest contiguous survey of the universe ever taken by the Hubble Space Telescope?
Did you know that when the Bukharian-Jewish Soviet newspaper Bajroqi Miⱨnat switched to the Latin script, it initially did not use capital letters, following Jewish writing rules?
Did you know that Final Fantasy's "first great villain" has been compared to characters like the Green Goblin and the Joker?
Did you know that Li Zhaoxing, a former Chinese minister of foreign affairs, has published more than 200 poems and was known as a "poet minister"?
Did you know that ancient humans cared for a 14,000-year-old puppy?
Did you know that at least one person on every NFL All-Decade Team has played for the Green Bay Packers, although one of those players was only with the Packers for one season?
Did you know that "Toy Town" was said to have "almost destroyed" the happy hardcore scene?
Did you know that after failing to qualify for prestigious races as an athlete, Mounir Akbache became a rabbit?
Did you know that hallu­ci­no­genic honey was used as a biological weapon more than 2000 years ago?
Did you know that Erik Sparre is known as "the father of Swedish constitutional law"?
Did you know that Jake Bates's first in-game field goal was the second-longest in professional football history?
Did you know that Jan Klán, as a pilot in the Groupe de Chasse II/5, became the first Czech to achieve an aerial victory against the Luftwaffe while flying the Hawk 75?
Did you know that Triton, a moon of Neptune, has thin clouds that are likely made of nitrogen ice crystals?
Did you know that all sea lions in Otago descend from Mum?
Did you know that the U.S. state of Oklahoma was not allowed to ban Sharia law?
Did you know that writer and artist Jim Steranko was given authorship of "The Strange Death of Captain America" in part to resolve a dispute between himself and Stan Lee?
Did you know that BBC Breakfast's resident doctor Nighat Arif has advocated for more women to be given vibrators for medical reasons?
Did you know that Enchylium limosum (example pictured) loves lime?
Did you know that Katherine Sleeper Walden was a journalist, postmistress, innkeeper, community organizer, environmental activist, and conservationist who now has three mountains named after her?
Did you know that a will bequeathing the Chestnut Street Opera House to the University of Pennsylvania was contested at the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania?
Did you know that after a CD edition of Taylor Swift's album Midnights containing the exclusive song "You're Losing Me" was released at MetLife Stadium, some of the first purchasers uploaded the song online?
Did you know that the comedian Jonny Pelham is one of an estimated 200 people in the UK to suffer from popliteal pterygium syndrome?
Did you know that Debbie Currie once worked as a lollipop lady?
Did you know that George Jenkins was described in 1901 as "the happiest, proudest, most important and most worried individual" in Australia, but 90 years later as "a lazy, dictatorial, unctuous opportunist"?
Did you know that Julian Prégardien's performance as the Evangelist in Bach's St Matthew Passion was noted by one reviewer for its emphatic and penetrating "profoundly human" nature?
Did you know that a 2021 Dutch translation of the Bible introduces five new animals?
Did you know that in Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929–1945, "the 'American people' appear with conspicuous infrequency"?
Did you know that in two years the Thourots became the Brewers, who became the Palaces, who became the Jackaways, who became the Mules, who then disbanded?
Did you know that Butt Drugs in Corydon, Indiana, had Butt Liquors and free parking in the rear?
Did you know that Fang Gan failed the imperial examination more than ten times, apparently because of his cleft lip?
Did you know that Puerto Rican singer Young Miko composed "Classy 101" in Los Angeles and had never met Colombian singer Feid before he recorded the song with her?
Did you know that according to Dadang Supriatna, his father gave him 1,000 bricks to fund his studies?
Did you know that data breaches are rarely detected by the compromised organization?
Did you know that ice in outer space is an amorphous solid, and this may be the most common phase of ice in the universe?
Did you know that sulfate pollution causes cooling through global dimming, which is comparable to warming from methane?
Did you know that the nectar and pollen of the meadow death camas and its relatives are so toxic that no bee except the death camas miner bee (pictured on flower) can eat them?
Did you know that "Not Strong Enough" by Boygenius describes conflicting mental states of self-hatred and self-importance?
Did you know that Ronald MacDonald was allegedly drugged with chloroform during the 1901 Boston Marathon, sabotaging his race?
Did you know that a major parade took place in Cairo on 24 August 1472 for the hanging of Shah Suwar?
Did you know that avant-garde musician Mabe Fratti's religious upbringing restricted her to classical and Christian music until she discovered file sharing on LimeWire?
Did you know that the exhibition Heaven on Earth: Art from Islamic Lands included art from the 8th to 19th centuries (object pictured)?
Did you know that according to Brandy Hellville, executives at Brandy Melville have bought the clothes off of employees' backs?
Did you know that after criticizing the political patronage system, John Silva Meehan was hired as Librarian of Congress through "purely an act of political patronage"?
Did you know that gymnast Samir Aït Saïd performed a backflip as the French team walked in during the 2020 Summer Olympics opening ceremony?
Did you know that it will soon be illegal for government employees to gamble in the country of Georgia?
Did you know that Chuck Eisenmann went from professionally pitching in baseball to owning and training the dogs that starred on the Canadian television series The Littlest Hobo?
Did you know that Gherardo Gambelli, the incoming archbishop of Florence, served as a prison chaplain in Chad for over a decade?
Did you know that excavations at Horvat 'Eqed uncovered coinage and hiding complexes dating from the Bar Kokhba revolt, as well as arrowheads, armor scales, slingshots, and ballistae?
Did you know that Amie Parnes allegedly first heard about her employer, The Messenger, ceasing operations from a New York Times article?
Did you know that Josephine Kenyon moved from recommendations of rigid scheduling to "on-demand" scheduling in editions of her book Healthy Babies Are Happy Babies?
Did you know that a large basin on Neptune's moon Triton may have once been filled with liquid water cryolava, similar to how liquid silicates fill lava lakes on Earth?
Did you know that baritone Liviu Holender chose lieder by five composers whose music was banned by the Nazis—Schreker, Zemlinsky, Mahler, Korngold and Schönberg—for a recital at the Oper Frankfurt?
Did you know that bears may be dispersers of the Japanese mountain cherry (painting pictured)?
Did you know that Napoleon awarded a medal to English inventor James White?
Did you know that Plato and Aristotle both opposed the idea of extraterrestrial life?
Did you know that a species of Brazilian cichlid is named after both Satan and Lilith?
Did you know that an ancient Chinese village likely had its own local pyromancer?
Did you know that by 2022 Levi Marhabi had become the last known Jew in Yemen?
Did you know that the 2024 inductees to the Delaware Sports Museum and Hall of Fame include a man with Down syndrome who has lifted 425 pounds (193 kg), an "average gymnast" turned Olympics judge, a "preeminent sportswriter", the state's "greatest high hurdler", the "inventor" of the modern sports mascot, a record-setting 10-year-old, a champion gymnast, an Olympic field hockey player, and a pro baseball player in five countries?
Did you know that the Japanese vegetable nozawana got its name from skiers visiting Nozawaonsen who were impressed by the area's pickled turnip?
Did you know that the inclusion of the Canadian song "How Long" in a bootleg Russian DVD resulted in a sixteen-year search for the track's creator?
Did you know that actress Nellie McCoy suffered a mental breakdown after her theatre performance was criticized, leading to her being committed to a sanatorium?
Did you know that the historic mansion Bulgur Palas in Istanbul hosted a birdhouse for hundreds of domestic canaries in one room during its ownership by the Ottoman Bank?
Did you know that Mohammad Saifullah Ozaki, an academic in Japan born to a Hindu family in Bangladesh, became a leader in the Islamic State?
Did you know that before its inhabitants were evicted, Rosal was the largest of 49 townships in Strathnaver?
Did you know that due to a 2024 heat wave in Southeast Asia, heat indices in the Philippines rose to dangerous levels, as high as 51 °C (124 °F)?
Did you know that floods across New York City in September 2023 allowed a sea lion to escape her enclosure at the Central Park Zoo?
Did you know that the Robyn Gigl novel By Way of Sorrow, which features a transgender lawyer as the protagonist, was described as "quietly groundbreaking" by The New York Times?
Did you know that the Russian and Belarussian military exercise Zapad 2009 involved nuclear-capable ballistic missiles?
Did you know that Joel Breman, who helped combat the 1976 Ebola virus outbreak in Zaire, was not expected to return alive by the pilots who dropped him there?
Did you know that the "beef" between Kendrick Lamar and Drake (both pictured) dates back to the 2013 song "Control"?
Did you know that the Bluey special "The Sign" reminded a Sydney Morning Herald reporter of Australia's housing crisis?
Did you know that the Lutheran St. Trinitatis in Wolfenbüttel, consecrated in 1719, is a Baroque church with a facade recalling that of a palace?
Did you know that the Vulcan Bridge, a bridge in Vulcan, West Virginia, was constructed after the mayor requested financial aid from the Soviet Union?
Did you know that to mitigate religious violence in the city, Ambon mayor Marcus Jacob Papilaja made Muslim and Christian city employees mix?
Did you know that while going to the Strategion in Constantinople, Emperor Theodosius II was attacked with stones by a hungry mob?
Did you know that John Gould Stephenson fought at the Battle of Gettysburg while serving as the librarian of Congress?
Did you know that New York City's Central Synagogue has hosted churches and a mosque?
Did you know that a ring-tailed monkey named Jenny threw billiard balls down a flight of stairs to alert firefighters to a fire in their own building?
Did you know that on June 30, 1973, scientists set the record for the longest observation of a total solar eclipse, at 74 minutes of totality?
Did you know that suffragette Ellen Oliver recognised "daughter of God" Mabel Barltrop as the spiritual child of prophet Joanna Southcott?
Did you know that the Egyptian-Sudanese singer Nxdia took the "queer anthem" "She Likes a Boy" into the UK Singles Sales Chart?
Did you know that there is a dispute within the Indian communist movement on whether the Communist Party of India was founded in Tashkent in 1920 or Kanpur in 1925?
Did you know that Elizabeth Seifert, who was denied a medical degree due to her gender, went on to achieve success as a writer, penning more than 80 novels about the very field from which she had been excluded?
Did you know that Ilie Purcaru, as a contributor to Nicolae Ceaușescu's cult of personality, claimed that a young Ceaușescu had walked into the woods of Scornicești without fearing their wolves?
Did you know that Indonesian politician Sanusi's parents discouraged him from becoming a government employee, because his salary would be paid partly from taxes on alcohol and prostitution?
Did you know that Marie Catharine Neal, an expert on Hawaiian plants, authored the acclaimed book In Gardens of Hawaii in 1948, which described more than 2,000 species with detailed scientific information and illustrations?
Did you know that since 2022, gyōji can be seen wearing Pokémon-inspired kimonos (example pictured) in the ring to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Pokémon Red and Blue?
Did you know that Denpasar mayor I Gusti Ngurah Jaya Negara became active in politics after he was laid off from a bank due to the Asian financial crisis?
Did you know that Elizabeth Storie's doctor poured nitric acid into her mouth, causing her teeth to fall out?
Did you know that Israel's destruction of trees and farmland in Gaza has been described as an ecocide?
Did you know that John D. Rockefeller Jr., under the name "David's Father", secretly authorized the purchase of an $8,000 "antique"?
Did you know that King Christian IX and Queen Louise of Denmark were the parents of a Danish king, a British queen, a Greek king, and a Russian empress?
Did you know that Olga Lander's camera required her to work close to the dangerous wartime subjects she photographed (example pictured)?
Did you know that although Evgeniia Subbotina failed to escape her own exile in Siberia, she successfully aided the escapes of Catherine Breshkovsky, Yelizaveta Kovalskaya and Sofya Bogomolets?
Did you know that an 18th-century hymn inspired the title of George W. Bush's 1999 autobiography?
Did you know that El Salvador was the first country to recognize Manchukuo, apart from Japan?
Did you know that Galileo's middle finger is considered a secular relic?
Did you know that Richard Osman, who wrote "the biggest thing in fiction since Harry Potter", lost confidence in his writing ability after his experience with Boyz Unlimited?
Did you know that even though about 100,000 mines were laid in Le Touquet during World War II, making it the most mined city in France, it was the first resort in northern France to open its beaches after the liberation?
Did you know that for his first recital as the organist of the restored Frauenkirche in Dresden, Samuel Kummer chose music by Bach, Brahms, and himself?
Did you know that librarian Anne Griffiths was one of the first British women to cross the Antarctic Circle?
Did you know that 69 is "nice"?
Did you know that Aishwarya Rai Bachchan was the first Indian actress to be a juror at the Cannes Film Festival?
Did you know that Barack Obama made an election promise to make non-emergency bills freely available online for a five-day public consultation period under "sunlight before signing"?
Did you know that Bob Noel was the one responsible for dealing "with all the dirty laundry" of the Green Bay Packers?
Did you know that Bruce Conner conceived of his short film Cosmic Ray as "presenting the eyes" for blind musician Ray Charles?
Did you know that Giovanni Manu was the first player from his university ever to be selected in the NFL draft?
Did you know that New England Revolution manager Bruce Arena led the club to a record-breaking 73 points in the 2021 season?
Did you know that North West was originally going to be called Kaidence?
Did you know that Albert Wesker's character design evokes the aesthetic of the Nazi ideal of the Übermensch, reflecting Resident Evil's "core" theme of eugenics?
Did you know that David Ben Avraham was granted Israeli residency after being killed by an IDF soldier?
Did you know that Riley Testut developed AltStore because he wanted to publish his emulator Delta?
Did you know that after John Henry Newman wrote his Apologia Pro Vita Sua in response to an attack by Charles Kingsley, Kingsley compared Newman to a "treacherous ape" and implied that he was insane?
Did you know that the Obonga–Ottertooth Provincial Park is a significant habitat for woodland moose?
Did you know that the mouse protagonist Mrs. Brisby from The Secret of NIMH had her name changed because of a trademark issue from a toy named "Frisbee"?
Did you know that the skulls of Yunxian Man (example pictured) are "relatively complete" despite being heavily crushed?
Did you know that Lie Kiat Teng appealed to the "moral obligation" of doctors to address a healthcare crisis in South Sulawesi?
Did you know that in 1978 the chairman of the Democratic Yemeni Union of Peasants was arrested after the South Yemeni government was taken over by Abdul Fattah Ismail?
Did you know that in college, American football player Jarrett Kingston started at the position of left guard, then moved to left tackle, and then played right tackle and right guard?
Did you know that the Capitolium of Constantinople, originally a pagan temple, was later topped by a cross?
Did you know that the Eurovision Song Contest 1991 was moved to Rome from Sanremo at a late stage due to increased security concerns resulting from the Gulf War?
Did you know that the diss track "6:16 in LA", directed at Drake, samples Al Green's "What a Wonderful Thing Love Is", a song that features Drake's guitarist uncle?
Did you know that Boston's World's Museum was a theatre, an aquarium, a menagerie, and a freak show?
Did you know that Casey Washington made the game-winning score that ended a record nine-overtime college football game?
Did you know that Elizabeth Yeampierre has called Puerto Rico the "poster child for climate injustice" due to the devastation caused by Hurricane Maria?
Did you know that scholars disagree on whether the earliest-known game boards (example pictured) date to the Neolithic or the Early Bronze Age?
Did you know that the 18th-century hymn "Alas! and Did My Saviour Bleed" has been criticised because its lyrics have singers call themselves a "worm"?
Did you know that the distinctive coloration of the giant panda appears to serve as camouflage in both winter and summer?
Did you know that 55 Broad Street, a skyscraper in the Financial District of Manhattan, was called "an unlovable building in an unlivable neighborhood"?
Did you know that Albert Tangora, one of the most successful competitive typewriter speed typists, once had his hands insured for US$100,000?