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Did you know that even though Mother Mary Corona received no formal teacher training, she was the president of Alverno Teachers College?
Did you know that CBS executive Laurence Tisch found out on a tennis court in the U.S. Virgin Islands that rival network NBC had bought his company's affiliate station in Miami?
Did you know that Mihai Eminescu's poem "Out of All the Masts", which Eminescu himself never intended to publish, has won posthumous praise as a "perfect combination of words"?
Did you know that prominent Florida State University benefactor Ruby Diamond had the middle name Pearl?
Did you know that the slogan "One Nation, One Language" has been used to justify the imposition of Hindi?
Did you know that the title of Olivia Rodrigo's song "All-American Bitch" was derived from an essay by Joan Didion?
Did you know that "Gam3 Bo1", a song from the EP Your Choice, contains references to NFTs and Zoom?
Did you know that Kevin Feige perceived a "direct parallel" between the experiences of real people during the COVID-19 pandemic and those of fictional characters in the Marvel Cinematic Universe during the Blip?
Did you know that Lord McAlpine commissioned 100 heads from Big John Dodo?
Did you know that the 1930s Polish Andean expeditions have been credited with several first ascents and the tracing of a new route to the summit of Aconcagua, the Andes' highest peak?
Did you know that the Brazilian military government changed the ochre on the proposed flag of Mato Grosso do Sul to blue so as to match the colors of the national flag?
Did you know that the Chambers Street station was once called "easily one of the most decrepit stations" in the New York City Subway system?
Did you know that David Dayen, executive editor of The American Prospect, argues in his 2020 book that monopolies are so interwoven with our lives that it is impossible to escape them?
Did you know that Naomi Klein and Naomi Wolf are Doppelgangers?
Did you know that State Auto Mutual's life-size nativity scene was donated to the Museum of Catholic Art and History in 2023 for display at St. Joseph Cathedral?
Did you know that heritage properties cared for by An Taisce include a guildhall, a marsh, a castle, a Quaker cemetery, and Babe's Bridge?
Did you know that the Mars Recon­nais­sance Orbiter photographed Curiosity as it landed on Mars?
Did you know that when Zhu Cilang was asked why his family lost the Mandate of Heaven, he blamed it on their "treacherous ministers"?
Did you know that Charlotte Haining was an International Jury Member for the selection of Finland's 2020 Eurovision Song Contest entry?
Did you know that Hồn – trăng – máu, Hạc San's concept album, consists solely of the 29-minute title track?
Did you know that the Museum of Norwich at the Bridewell operated as a residence, a house of correction, a factory, and finally a museum?
Did you know that there is a 7.5-metre-tall (25 ft) statue of an apple in Waitomo, New Zealand?
Did you know that when Valerie Cowie was appointed a senior lecturer, one of her referees wrote that his "only reservation is that the post ... does not adequately do justice to her high academic status"?
Did you know that Seattle Sounders FC players held their practices over Zoom during part of their 2020 season?
Did you know that Thorfinn's journey to Vinland in the manga Vinland Saga was influenced by the author's anxieties during the Cold War and the September 11 attacks?
Did you know that according to Rolling Stone, Lauren Jenkins blended music and acting for No Saint "in ways not currently common practice" in country music?
Did you know that the 19th-century poet Cyprian Norwid, now recognized as one of the most important Polish poets, led a poverty-stricken life and his works were rarely appreciated until decades after his death?
Did you know that the Solution and EU Party aimed to represent 30 percent of Turkish Cypriots, but failed to enter the Northern Cypriot parliament?
Did you know that the librarian Paul Needham has argued for the "respectful burial of the human remains" included in a book bound in human skin?
Did you know that Ben Brown was the seventh member of his family to play American football for the Ole Miss Rebels?
Did you know that according to David Baddiel's book Jews Don't Count, antisemitism has become perceived as a "second-class racism"?
Did you know that fans of Taylor Swift solved 33 million puzzles in less than a day to find out 1989 (Taylor's Version)'s "vault" tracks?
Did you know that the Te'omim Cave in Israel was home to a Bronze Age alabaster quarry, a refuge cave during the Jewish–Roman wars, and a possible center for necromantic activity in late antiquity?
Did you know that 13 contemporary Dubliners reenacted The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci for a mural installed in their city's "Italian Quarter"?
Did you know that Chaimas Kaplanas took part in four hunger strikes during his imprisonment at Kaunas Prison?
Did you know that Jonathan Allen left journalism for politics before quitting 40 days later?
Did you know that South Korean band Seventeen partnered with Apple to let fans create remixes of their song "Darl+ing" on GarageBand?
Did you know that a reviewer for The Sims 2: Nightlife said that a more accurate name would be "The Sims: Slutting About"?
Did you know that the Dvorichna settlement hromada has remained divided between Russia and Ukraine since the 2022 Kharkiv counteroffensive?
Did you know that Himmatul Aliyah was born in Tangerang and represents Jakarta in Indonesia's House of Representatives, while Himmatul Alyah was born in Jakarta and represented Tangerang?
Did you know that a $10 calculator was among the best-rated Nintendo Switch games?
Did you know that soprano Vera Curtis was the first singer trained exclusively in the United States to perform with the Metropolitan Opera?
Did you know that the Daft Punk track "Infinity Repeating" is considered by the duo to be their "last song ever"?
Did you know that the design for the water playground at Chelsea Waterside Park was criticized because local residents thought that the sprinklers resembled sex toys?
Did you know that Stan Lee modeled Tony Stark after 20th-century business magnate Howard Hughes?
Did you know that Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers and John Oliver started a podcast to support their employees during the 2023 Writers Guild of America strike?
Did you know that disputes in the acclaimed re­fur­bishment of Swiss Cottage Library  in London prompted the library's operators to sue its developers?
Did you know that in his 2000 book, Michael Cook argues that the West prefers to "rescue" people after wrongdoing has occurred, while Muslims prefer to "forbid wrong"?
Did you know that the Ninja of Heisei, who robbed places in Japan while wearing a ninja costume, was caught at the age of 74?
Did you know that the University of Maryland's Iribe Center was partly funded by a businessman who dropped out of the university?
Did you know that Finnish-American model Selene Mahri married three millionaires and is credited with inventing the saying "Marriage is a question of give and take. You give. I take"?
Did you know that MI-5 had trouble finding people to interview?
Did you know that a 1956 eruption of Bristol Island drove Argentina to abandon a hut they had built on Thule Island?
Did you know that film director Christina Rosendahl started her career with a documentary about her sister Pernille's music career?
Did you know that the Committee for the Prevention of Destruction of Antiquities on the Temple Mount used aerial photography to monitor the removal of antiquities during construction at Solomon's Stables?
Did you know that the Siberian columbine has been crossed with another species in the genus Aquilegia to determine the gene behind the genus's nectar spurs?
Did you know that Carson Spiers and four of his relatives have played for the Clemson Tigers?
Did you know that John Byrne retold the origin of Superman in the 1986 comic book limited series The Man of Steel, 48 years after the character was created?
Did you know that Saints Peter and Paul Seminary, the last Catholic high school seminary in Ohio before its closure in 1990, was designed with influences from Chinese architecture?
Did you know that across her first three albums, Alessia Cara co-wrote 43 songs ranging in themes from teenage life, to her insecurities about writing music alone, to the five stages of grief?
Did you know that members of the aristocratic Merry Gang during the Stuart Restoration fought watchmen and destroyed a valuable royal sundial?
Did you know that one year after Private Harris Turner was blinded in battle, his fellow soldiers elected him to the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan?
Did you know that the Canadian rock band Rainbow Butt Monkeys changed their name to "Finger Eleven" before releasing their second album Tip?
Did you know that the historical lands and fishing grounds of the Skinpah were buried underwater by the construction of The Dalles Dam?
Did you know that "John Brown" was recorded by Bob Dylan under the pseudonym "Blind Boy Grunt"?
Did you know that El Ojo is a circular rotating floating island?
Did you know that after Benjamin Moloise's execution, the extremist group Direct Action bombed two Paris companies linked to South Africa in protest?
Did you know that at New York City's Apollo Theater, amateurs could be swept off the stage?
Did you know that indirect evidence suggests that cataract surgery could have been performed as early as in ancient Egypt?
Did you know that the militant group Hezbollah released a video game in 2003?
Did you know that writer Profira Sadoveanu and her novelist father Mihail once had to take turns defending their home against attacks by the Iron Guard?
Did you know that 28 Greenpeace activists partially cut down a field of genetically modified maize in a 1999 direct action in Lyng, Norfolk, but were acquitted of all charges?
Did you know that Arthur Yorinks's children's book Louis the Fish was inspired by Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis?
Did you know that in Utoro, Uji, in Japan, former forced Korean laborers dodged eviction from 1945 to 2010, when they were finally able to afford buying the land in the district?
Did you know that while serving in the Bolivian parliament, legislator Emeliana Aiza took night courses to receive her high school baccalaureate?
Did you know that David Dean served as general counsel to Texas governor Dolph Briscoe, a Democrat, as well as his Republican successor Bill Clements?
Did you know that Fly with Me, one of the first collaborations by Rodgers and Hart, was written for the 1920 Varsity Show?
Did you know that an eruption on Montagu Island that began in 2001 continued for several years and formed a lava delta?
Did you know that composite miniature paintings (example pictured) fuse together humans and animals?
Did you know that the royal necropolis of Ayaa in Sidon, Lebanon, was accidentally discovered in the late 19th century by a workman who stumbled upon a shaft and chamber tomb while quarrying for stone?
Did you know that Elbridge Colby was considered for a top job in Jeb Bush's 2016 presidential campaign, but was not hired after "prominent, interventionist neoconservatives" objected?
Did you know that George Balanchine choreographed Ballo della Regina to showcase ballerina Merrill Ashley's speed and precision?
Did you know that Polish Renaissance poet Jan Kochanowski – considered "the founding father of Polish literature" – wrote threnodies, the first Polish-language tragedy, and epigrams?
Did you know that Ray Bradbury's short story "I, Rocket" won an award 76 years after it was first published?
Did you know that the perpetrator of a murder on a bus once described meeting his victim, who was his girlfriend, to be "like winning the Mark Six"?
Did you know that a dispute over paid sick leave at a chocolate factory ended up before the High Court of Australia in Mondelez v AMWU?
Did you know that artist Percy Delf Smith's work included lettering using Roman capitals and depictions of the First World War inspired by his experiences in the trenches?
Did you know that during her 2023 season, Aryna Sabalenka became the first woman since Serena Williams in 2016 to reach the semifinals at all four majors in a season?
Did you know that the swordtail molly (examples pictured) and the Petén molly have been named and renamed so often, one even ending up with the other's name at one point, that the swordtail molly's current scientific name means 'confusion'?
Did you know that Harry Jackson received acclaim for his portrayal of Napoleon due to his physical resemblance?
Did you know that Venetian Blinds uses Venetian blinds to simulate Venetian blinds?
Did you know that climate change protesters vandalized and glued themselves to a version of Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup I?
Did you know that in 2014, one could pay half a million US dollars to live in a former residence for people with tuberculosis?
Did you know that when Jessica Berman was named the deputy commissioner of the National Lacrosse League, she became the first woman to hold that position in a men's professional sports league?
Did you know that Athenians built their bulletin board with a surprising lack of precision?
Did you know that National Football League player Dylan Cook went from being the quarterback to protecting the quarterback?
Did you know that after their 2020 tour was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Spiritbox received $10,000 from Shinedown's Brent Smith, a stranger, to cover losses?
Did you know that ash fall from the 1886 eruption of Mount Tarawera was reported on ships nearly 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) out to sea?
Did you know that during World War I, Roy W. Ritner was elected unopposed to the Oregon State Senate while serving with the American Red Cross in France?
Did you know that in 1903, Georg Forchhammer invented a system to help his deaf students see the sounds of spoken Danish?
Did you know that there have been eight known males with three X and two Y chromosomes?
Did you know that Hamas militant Tito Masoud, who manufactured the first Qassam rocket, became wanted by Israel after a colleague revealed his name under interrogation?
Did you know that Yank pin-ups (example pictured) were distributed to American military personnel during World War II to promote morale?
Did you know that after 233 years of being united, Samson lost his mate Hercules?
Did you know that at least 73,000 attendees were stranded at Burning Man because of the September 2023 southwestern U.S. floods?
Did you know that Irish writer Dave Rudden has written a juvenile fantasy trilogy as well as several stories in the Doctor Who universe?
Did you know that the FBI set up temporary offices in a museum on an aircraft carrier while investigating the 9/11 terrorist attacks?
Did you know that the katydid-like fossil Republicopteron douseae possibly could not sing?
Did you know that the royal chronicles report that the Kingdom of Ava mobilized nearly 300,000 troops for one invasion, but they probably only mobilized around a tenth of that?
Did you know that to portray a child abductor in A Friend of the Family, Jake Lacy took inspiration from the fearlessness and charisma of Danny Ocean and Steve McQueen?
Did you know that in his book The Creative Gene, Hideo Kojima revealed that he would sacrifice his position as a game designer to go to outer space?
Did you know that of newly hired coach Fred Vehmeier, one newspaper said: "Any candidate for the university football team who gets a bit sassy can count on a beating, if this new coach is the man he looks to be"?
Did you know that the Yunus Emre coal-fired power station is licensed to operate after Turkey's goal for net zero?
Did you know that Kenya Grace shot her first music video after becoming a finalist in a competition?
Did you know that Rebecca Struthers has a PhD in horology?
Did you know that opening a Falnama on a painting of the queen of the fairies (example pictured) meant a prediction of good fortune?
Did you know that sugar cubes were used to deliver the polio vaccine?
Did you know that under early English common law a person became legally dead when they entered a religious order?
Did you know that Sheryl Cooper and her daughter Calico "beheaded" Sheryl's husband in front of a live audience?
Did you know that the first newspaper in Korea, the Chōsen shinpō, was written in Japanese and Classical Chinese?
Did you know that "The Potato King of Colorado" survived a shipwreck, mined for gold in Australia, and helped establish an alcohol-free Methodist colony?
Did you know that John Wooden's UCLA Bruins won the NCAA Division I basketball championship in his last game as head coach?
Did you know that Sarah Cox brought the first breach of promise suit in Australia, during which she was represented by her future husband William Wentworth?
Did you know that a sinkhole opened up in Massachusetts in September 2023, damaging cars?
Did you know that players of Monster Hunter Now have just 75 seconds to defeat large monsters?
Did you know that the wings of Lycorma meliae (example pictured) undergo multiple color changes throughout their lives?
Did you know that Czesław Lewicki, Polish composer and conductor, was recognized as Righteous Among the Nations for aiding the Polish-Jewish composer Władysław Szpilman?
Did you know that Michael Vinson wasn't yet cheese, so he became milk instead?
Did you know that PlantSims, human–plant hybrids in The Sims 2: Seasons, have been studied as examples of ecofeminism and deep ecology?
Did you know that Richard Worley played in minor baseball leagues and is now the commissioner of the Baltimore Police Department?
Did you know that as president of Loyola College in Maryland, John F. Quirk became close friends with the cardinal who ordained him a priest ten years earlier?
Did you know that contrary to NFL rules, the Green Bay Packers do not have a franchise owner and are instead led by an elected team president?
Did you know that during a temporary public holiday to mourn the death of Elizabeth II, New Zealand had another public holiday on the same day?
Did you know that the three-toed species of Diplobune (fossils pictured) were mammals of the order of "even-toed ungulates"?
Did you know that English missionary Reverend Thomas Sparshott co-wrote a book in Swahili, and his daughter Margaret Elwyn Sparshott was responsible as matron for 22 hospitals in World War I?
Did you know that Louise Fulton was the first African American to win a professional bowling tournament?
Did you know that a landscape demo created by Attention to Detail for the Konix Multisystem became the basis for Cybermorph on Atari Jaguar?
Did you know that firefighters had to wade through deep pools of viscous, slippery butter and cheese spawned by the great butter fire?
Did you know that footballer Sara Mérida played for Espanyol Femení, was a physiotherapist for the club, and ultimately helped coach her former team to promotion in 2022?
Did you know that in 1936, a dairy farmer unsuccessfully attempted to cut a signal wire to prevent a train from derailing  as it approached a landslide in New Zealand?
Did you know that in the early 1990s, several TV stations in Northern California experimented with moving prime time up an hour?
Did you know that at the age of 27, Aleksander Barkov became the Florida Panthers' all-time leading scorer?
Did you know that the Harvester Vase, a Minoan carved stone rhyton of circa 1550 to 1500 BC, includes a figure who may have fallen over drunk?
Did you know that the Medway Branch was made redundant just nine years after its opening by the construction of the Charles River Railroad?
Did you know that the first United States court case to recognize moral rights in authorship involved the use of music by four Soviet composers in the 1948 Cold War film The Iron Curtain?
Did you know that the music video for Olivia Rodrigo's "Bad Idea Right?" features appearances by her "favorite girlz"?
Did you know that Freedom of Religion South Africa filed an unsuccessful lawsuit to keep child spanking legal?
Did you know that James Edward Moore was the chief of staff of the Ninth United States Army, which Omar Bradley described as "uncommonly normal"?
Did you know that Jerome Robbins choreographed In G Major for New York City Ballet's Ravel Festival, in celebration of the composer's centenary?
Did you know that Keith Hartwig overcame an injury that he was told would end his career in high school, and went on to play in the National Football League?
Did you know that no single political party has a mandate in a coalition government?
Did you know that to include the popular Marian hymn "Maria zu lieben, ist allzeit mein Sinn" in the first common Catholic hymnal in German, Friedrich Dörr retained only its first line?
Did you know that to promote The Simpsons Movie in 2007, 20th Century Fox gifted a sculpture of a doughnut to the town of Springfield, New Zealand?
Did you know that Hypericum perforatum was a common component of classical cure-all concoctions called theriacs?
Did you know that John Buck Wilkin was inspired to write "GTO" during a physics class?
Did you know that Kimball County, Nebraska, was named after railroad executive Thomas Lord Kimball?
Did you know that the Amazonas de Yaxunah, a Mayan softball team from Yucatán, play barefoot while wearing the huipil, a traditional indigenous dress?
Did you know that the market hall of Niort opened in 1871 and has been listed as a historic monument since 1987?
Did you know that Aristotle classified living things based on whether they had a "sensitive soul" or, like plants, only a "vegetative soul"?
Did you know that Jim Davidson's Sinderella featured a flatulent Fairy Godmother?
Did you know that Liu Weining, grandson of the second president of the People's Republic of China, became involved with Russian military secrecy due to his job and was denied the ability to travel to China?
Did you know that Songs and Flowers of the Wasatch represented a shift in Mormon history toward a "socially-accepted American cultural and religious heritage", according to historian Jennifer Reeder?
Did you know that premiers of Victoria get a bronze statue (example pictured) if they hold office for more than 3,000 days?
Did you know that there are at least 13,000 sites containing toxic materials that are frozen in permafrost, many of which are expected to start thawing and releasing their pollutants in the near future?
Did you know that Julie Mehretu's Mural, installed at 200 West Street in New York City, was painted using 215 different colors?
Did you know that before Michael Shanks became Member of Parliament for Rutherglen and Hamilton West, he ran along all of Glasgow's 6,143 streets?
Did you know that during the 1916–1917 northern Minnesota lumber strike, multiple cities in Minnesota banned members of the Industrial Workers of the World from their municipalities?
Did you know that the Android version of Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective is now lost media?
Did you know that Jennifer Mills has written Jennifer Mills News, a weekly newspaper about herself, for 21 years?
Did you know that Minuscule 1582, a Greek manuscript of the New Testament Gospels, has an ancient note before Mark 16:9–20 which casts doubt on the authenticity of these verses?
Did you know that a fungus called white rot can strip out certain dyes in textiles?
Did you know that according to Cory Doctorow, enshittification is how platforms die?
Did you know that local tribal nations will be involved in the management of Baaj Nwaavjo I'tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument, which includes hundreds of cultural sites?
Did you know that Ganjar Pranowo's 2024 presidential campaign is headquartered in the same building that hosted the incumbent president's 2019 campaign?
Did you know that Gavriil Popov's Fourth Symphony was not publicly performed until 2023, 74 years after it was composed?
Did you know that German forester Carl A. Schenck founded the first forestry school in North America at George W. Vanderbilt's Biltmore Estate?
Did you know that Mary Jo Shelly used her background in modern dance and physical education to train women in the military during two wars?