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Did you know that The West Wing episode "17 People" has an entire website created by a "superfan" with the sole purpose of explaining it?
Did you know that the "Angel of the dump", Jane Walker, helps people in Manila create handbags from reused ring-pulls?
Did you know that the 2021 Illinois vs. Penn State football game was the first in NCAA history to reach nine overtimes?
Did you know that the Allenby Formation has been called part of a "Great Canadian Lagerstätte"?
Did you know that the notorious labor spy and killer Charles Lively was so successful infiltrating the coal miners union that he once posed for a photo with the famed labor activist Mother Jones?
Did you know that the title of Something That May Shock and Discredit You, a memoir by Daniel M. Lavery that explores themes including gender transition, is taken from a scene in The Simpsons?
Did you know that Elizabeth Reiter portrayed the double role of Renee, an "icy wife", and Alice, an "insatiable lover", in the German premiere of Olga Neuwirth's opera Lost Highway?
Did you know that Guy Gavriel Kay, author of Children of Earth and Sky, has been described as "contemporary fiction's finest fantasist"?
Did you know that Metropolitan Opera star John Gurney performed "The Star-Spangled Banner" for sporting events in which his son, racing driver Dan Gurney, competed?
Did you know that Miray Cin played for the Germany women's national U15, U16 and U17 football teams before she became a member of the Turkey women's national football team?
Did you know that Phoenix radio station KTAR bought television station KTYL-TV to avoid a conflict with former U.S. senator Ernest McFarland?
Did you know that Rose Lee Maphis and her husband Joe Maphis, known as Mr. and Mrs. Country Music, helped develop the Bakersfield sound?
Did you know that Stembridge Gun Rentals supplied so many firearms to the film industry that when Chaplin producers asked for a rifle similar to that in Shoulder Arms, Stembridge had on hand the actual gun used?
Did you know that about 700 airmen – and Ida Veldhuyzen van Zanten – have received the Dutch Airman's Cross?
Did you know that after discovering the mass graves of the Arnsberg Forest massacre, American soldiers ordered the entire local population to watch the exhumation?
Did you know that the 1514 horned helmet of Henry VIII has spectacles and a toothy grimace?
Did you know that Belle Delphine's online popularity surged after she mimicked the orgasm faces (example pictured)  featured in some Japanese manga?
Did you know that Billy Strings's 2019 album Home stayed on Billboard's Bluegrass Albums chart for 77 consecutive weeks?
Did you know that Coastal Carolina football coach Chad Staggs has degrees in math education and tourism management?
Did you know that Pteronepelys is known as the "winged stranger"?
Did you know that The Anglo-African was the first newspaper to be published in the British Colony of Lagos?
Did you know that only four NBA players have been named to all four of the league's anniversary teams?
Did you know that the Sky Pool is both a swimming pool and a bridge between two apartment buildings?
Did you know that the dust jacket of the book A Brightness Long Ago contained specks of gold foil?
Did you know that when the New Jersey–born military officer Samuel Gibbs French sided with the South in the U.S. Civil War, residents of Woodbury, New Jersey, hanged him in effigy and stormed his summer home?
Did you know that while stealing Pablo Picasso's 1939 painting Woman's Head, the thief cut his hand and claimed to have wiped the blood on a 16th-century sketch that he flushed down the toilet?
Did you know that Charles Dickens described the Long Island Sound steamboat New York as "a sullen, cumbrous, ungraceful, unshiplike leviathan"?
Did you know that Miriam Soljak, after fighting to recover her New Zealand nationality for nearly three decades, was told that the government considered she had never lost it?
Did you know that Nancy Cappello was described as the "founder of the breast density education movement" for her campaign to inform women about the issue of mammograms failing to detect breast cancer?
Did you know that Russel and Mary Wright's American design "manifesto" Guide to Easier Living proposed that life was "engineering problems with scientific solutions"?
Did you know that Sam Gamgee was modelled on Great War batmen?
Did you know that Trictrac (board pictured) was the classic tables game of France, just as backgammon is of the English-speaking world today?
Did you know that men who refused, when challenged, to take an oath of loyalty to the government were not permitted to vote in the 1861 Maryland gubernatorial election?
Did you know that the release of Lee Hyori's album It's Hyorish had to be moved forward after several tracks were illegally leaked?
Did you know that Herb Plambeck was the founder of the National Plowing Match in Dexter, Iowa?
Did you know that Mutinensis gr. 122 (page pictured) is the only surviving manuscript to include portraits of all Byzantine emperors?
Did you know that Thomas Jefferson and Henry Ford both took an interest in the folk tune and contra dance "Money Musk" (example pictured)?
Did you know that a short version of the Japanese stop motion film Junk Head was favorably reviewed by director Guillermo del Toro?
Did you know that according to American sociologist Pauline Bart, "everything is data, but data isn't everything"?
Did you know that the Filipino fraternity Alpha Phi Beta has been involved in instances of violence, including getting mauled by rival fraternities, such as Sigma Rho?
Did you know that the developer of Art Sqool did not attend art school?
Did you know that Capitalism in America was shortlisted for the 2018 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award?
Did you know that Carol Publishing Group distributed a suicide manual?
Did you know that Earth 300 has designed a climate research vessel that would include a molten salt reactor and a quantum computer?
Did you know that Esther Ze Naw, who appeared on the 2021 Time 100, was one of the few people in Myanmar who protested against Aung San Suu Kyi's defence of the military at the International Court of Justice in December 2019?
Did you know that Hunuki Hunukitama traveled to Baltimore to negotiate the establishment of a Korean holy city in Niue?
Did you know that Kitty Ponse successfully changed the sex of toads?
Did you know that Lyndon B. Johnson delivered the "Let Us Continue" address five days after assuming the presidency upon the assassination of John F. Kennedy?
Did you know that climatologist Geert Jan van Oldenborgh's work was instrumental in proving that the 2021 European floods were made more likely by climate change?
Did you know that photographer Whitey Schafer (portrait of Barbara Stanwyck pictured) thought canned sex was better than cold cream?
Did you know that the Central Khalsa Orphanage houses the first Guru Granth Sahib in braille?
Did you know that the NBA 75 includes the only league MVP who was not among the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History?
Did you know that the audience screamed when Ethel Merman first sang "Sam and Delilah"?
Did you know that Aline Rocha, the first Brazilian woman to compete at the Winter Paralympic Games, also came third in the women's wheelchair race at the 2021 Berlin Marathon?
Did you know that Cédric Wermuth, the co-president of the Swiss Social Democrats, was once fined for squatting?
Did you know that George Balanchine choreographed his ballet Scherzo à la Russe for the New York City Ballet's Stravinsky Festival, a tribute to the composer after his death?
Did you know that Jean Pierson, the former CEO of Airbus, once unbuckled his belt and dropped his trousers when pressed for a hard bargain while selling commercial jets?
Did you know that John Shakespeare wanted to impale his wife's family on his coat of arms?
Did you know that Squaring the Circle is Sneaker Pimps' first album in almost 20 years?
Did you know that Thomas Guggeis, who studied conducting and quantum mechanics, began at the Berlin State Opera as an assistant of Daniel Barenboim and became the youngest Staatskapellmeister there?
Did you know that a reviewer thought that the two-part "Friendship Is Magic" "[flies] off the rails in an orgy of oddly Spielbergian effects and philosophizing" during its climax?
Did you know that according to Human Rights Watch, U.S. maximum pressure against Iran has seriously threatened Iranians' right to health and access to essential medicines including those of cancer patients?
Did you know that after being selected at the age of five for a role in the film Soldier Boy, Andrey Andreev memorized the entire 100-page script?
Did you know that the Soviet rover PrOP-M was intended to be the first rover on Mars in 1971, 26 years earlier than NASA's Sojourner?
Did you know that the Victor 3900 (example pictured) was the first electronic calculator using custom integrated circuits, allowing it to be "smaller than a typewriter"?
Did you know that the title of the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode "Filli Vanilli" references the lip-syncing scandal of the German-French R&B duo Milli Vanilli?
Did you know that "Wenn das Brot, das wir teilen" (When the bread that we share), a hymn written in 1981, begins with a reference to the Miracle of the Roses?
Did you know that Kobe Shoji escaped 120 °F (49 °C) heat at the Poston Internment Camp by enlisting in the U.S. Army's 442nd Infantry Regiment?
Did you know that Meadow Walker was walked down the aisle by Vin Diesel?
Did you know that Valerie Broussard's video for "Iris" pays homage to the Goo Goo Dolls' original?
Did you know that Witi Ihimaera decided to become a writer after reading a short story that was "so poisonous" he threw the book out of the window?
Did you know that a bug in Crab Game caused multiple IP addresses to be leaked?
Did you know that an equivalence between algebraic and geometric definitions of constructible numbers helps prove the impossibility of squaring the circle?
Did you know that it was said that public school teacher Arthur Hathaway Hewitt "'hath-a-way' of striking terror into the hearts of all who dare oppose him"?
Did you know that on each turn of the board game Broom Service, a player can choose to be brave or cowardly?
Did you know that the Farseer Trilogy was written under an androgynous pen name, Robin Hobb?
Did you know that the London Forum, a British far-right organization, was described by an anti-fascist magazine as "[bridging] the fascist and Tory right"?
Did you know that whenever some of the people in a party shake hands, the number of people who shake an odd number of other people's hands is even?
Did you know that Charles Larson's The Emergence of African Fiction was an early attempt to get to an "African aesthetic", but in the eyes of critics fell short and implicitly employed European standards?
Did you know that Gustav Mahler's Fourth Symphony was premiered to boos, anger, and confusion in the audience?
Did you know that My Child Lebensborn was among the first wave of video games that were allowed to show the swastika in Germany?
Did you know that Pamela McCorduck, who chronicled the evolution of artificial intelligence, regretted not recognizing the technology's potential for misuse?
Did you know that in 2009, Doreen Nabwire became the first Kenyan woman to play professional football in Europe?
Did you know that one critic opined that "it's hard to fall for Falling for Figaro"?
Did you know that rather than the usual supplies of ammunition, a bored British commander used a Popham panel to request the actress Mae West?
Did you know that the 1856 Cello Sonata by Charles-Valentin Alkan has been described as "anticipating Gustav Mahler's juxtaposition of the sublime and the trivial"?
Did you know that the 1967 Fairmont State Falcons won West Virginia's first national title in football?
Did you know that the keepers of Carl Griffith's sourdough starter (loaf pictured), which traveled the Oregon Trail in 1847, are sworn to keep no other sourdough starter in their homes?
Did you know that England's national club cricket champions, Tunbridge Wells, will compete in the 2022 European Cricket League, which is intended to be the UEFA Champions League of European cricket?
Did you know that Frédéric Blanc won an international organ improvisation prize in Paris and became titular organist at Notre-Dame d'Auteuil, which features a Cavaillé-Coll organ?
Did you know that in Toplak and Mrak v. Slovenia—initiated by two disabled voters over polling place access in a gay marriage referendum—the European Court of Human Rights extended its jurisdiction to referendums?
Did you know that it can be hard to know which Snake is which?
Did you know that the first official result for the TPC-C benchmark (testing pictured) in 1992 was 54, and now stands at 707 million?
Did you know that Frederick Ashton choreographed the ballet Rhapsody for both Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother's 80th birthday, and Mikhail Baryshnikov's guest appearance with the Royal Ballet?
Did you know that contemporary correspondence contributed to the identification of Vasari's Allegory of Patience?
Did you know that models couple up at Fish-MIP?
Did you know that the most significant rock from New Caledonia is peridotite, which comes from the Earth's mantle?
Did you know that with the album Speak Now, Taylor Swift became the first female musician to have 11 songs on the Billboard Hot 100 in the same week?
Did you know that the 1977 Yili fire, the deadliest since the founding of the People's Republic of China, was caused by a special jumping firecracker?
Did you know that the 3.5-metre (11 ft) puppet Little Amal was met in Rome by Pope Francis, who took her hand?
Did you know that the Epson ActionNote was one of the first Windows laptops with a touchpad?
Did you know that the subjects of the documentary Found discover that they are biological cousins as teenagers?
Did you know that to print money during the Indonesian National Revolution, Lukman Hakim had to lead a group to the town of Muara Bungo to find a printing machine?
Did you know that after Jonas Rose wrecked a second ship, he never worked again?
Did you know that after failing to establish a colony for black Americans at Abeokuta, Robert Campbell founded the first newspaper in Lagos?
Did you know that the Atari 410 Program Recorder was used to store programs on the Atari 8-bit family, but was also used for computer aided instruction?
Did you know that the Lyceum Theatre is New York City's oldest continuously operating  legitimate theater?
Did you know that the ring shape of the casatiello represents Christ's crown of thorns?
Did you know that Frontex's role in pushbacks of migrants in Greece has led to investigations by the European Parliament, EU Ombudsman, and EU anti-fraud agency?
Did you know that Galac-Tac, launched in 1982 as a play-by-mail game, is still available today for play on the web?
Did you know that Marie Litta started her own opera company in her early 20s, just a few years before her death in 1883?
Did you know that not so much as a "hell" or "damn" was permitted at G. D. Sweet Famous Players' "Sunday school" productions?
Did you know that the starfish Thromidia catalai can weigh as much as 6 kilograms (13 lb)?
Did you know that Captain Warren of HMS Seringapatam saw the island of Chios in flames, but would give no help, as he had been ordered to observe strict neutrality in the Greek War of Independence?
Did you know that Carmaney Wong was 25 years and 9 months old when she was crowned Miss Hong Kong 2019, making her the oldest champion in 30 years?
Did you know that former Oregon legislator William Massingill died while attending a boxing match?
Did you know that the undefeated 1955 Hillsdale Dales football team declined a Tangerine Bowl bid because the bowl insisted that four black players—including national scoring leader Nate Clark—stay home?
Did you know that until a 1993 reform, separate gallantry medals were awarded to officers and other ranks in the British armed forces?
Did you know that College Football Hall of Fame quarterback Charlie Green led Wittenberg to three consecutive undefeated seasons, including a national championship for the 1964 Wittenberg Tigers football team?
Did you know that Seo Taiji and Boys's April 11, 1992, performance of "I Know" is credited as the beginning of modern K-pop?
Did you know that actor Jonathan Roumie, who plays the character of Jesus Christ in American television series The Chosen, is also an extraordinary minister of Holy Communion in the Catholic Church?
Did you know that all stanzas of the 1963 song "Herr, gib uns Mut zum Hören" (Lord, give us courage to listen), with text and tune by Kurt Rommel, begin with a prayer for courage?
Did you know that economist Nisvan Erkal's research showed that China's one-child policy created children who lacked qualities important for social and economic success?
Did you know that in the board game Sagrada, players attempt to construct a stained-glass window using dice?
Did you know that on special occasions, the city of Gloucester supplies a pie made from lampreys (lamprey pictured) to the British monarch?
Did you know that Franzisca Baruch designed several Hebrew fonts, the cover of the first Israeli passport, the emblem of Jerusalem, and the logo of the Ha'aretz newspaper, all while barely knowing Hebrew?
Did you know that Inger K. Frith, the first woman president of a major international sporting federation, played a key role in returning archery to the Olympics?
Did you know that for round-robin sports tournaments, finding a ranking of the competitors that minimizes the number of upset games is an instance of the feedback arc set problem?
Did you know that most places where tectonic plates ram into each other involve oblique subduction?
Did you know that the novel Dreams of Trespass, which portrays the patriarchy as un-Islamic, was translated into more than 20 languages?
Did you know that the song "Come Back Home" by Seo Taiji and Boys made teenage runaways in South Korea return home?
Did you know that while the New York Marriott Marquis hotel was valued at $579.7 million in 2008, the site was sold five years later for just $19.9 million?
Did you know that Guy Parmelin, now President of Switzerland, opened the study program of cyber security of the Lucerne School of Information Technology in 2018?
Did you know that Herbert Hoover once farmed sugar beets on the Empire Tract?
Did you know that Mimi Fawaz's work includes a documentary on the life of South African president Nelson Mandela?
Did you know that Pitcairn Islander Teraura was one of "the most travelled Polynesian women" of her day?
Did you know that Sarkis Lole, the Armenian chief architect of Mardin who constructed much of the early modern architecture of the city, never received any formal training and designed his buildings in the sand?
Did you know that before Foster City was built on Brewer Island, unsuccessful proposals included a hog farm, two military air bases, two civilian airports, and an entertainment complex larger than Disneyland?
Did you know that in 1755, colonial printer Daniel Fowle was arrested for printing a seditious pamphlet entitled The Monster of Monsters, which criticized members of the general assembly?
Did you know that on his podcast The Anthropocene Reviewed, John Green reviews velociraptors, a hot dog stand in Iceland, and bubonic plague?
Did you know that the California State Assembly held a moment of silence over the death of fictional character Mrs. Landingham while in the midst of an energy crisis?
Did you know that the Cort Theatre has hosted the Broadway debuts of actresses Katharine Hepburn and Grace Kelly?
Did you know that the music video to "I Bet You Think About Me" by Taylor Swift is co-written and directed by Blake Lively in her directorial debut?
Did you know that the phrase "bing bong" became a rallying cry for the New York Knicks because of its appearance on Sidetalk (logo pictured)?
Did you know that when home computers used cassette tapes for storage, the data was sometimes distributed on flexi disc records or even broadcast on radio?
Did you know that Awet Tesfaiesus was the first black woman ever elected to the Bundestag?
Did you know that Eric Schmidt developed Berknet, an early wide area network system, in 1978 while he was a student at Berkeley University?
Did you know that Kanye West's group the Sunday Service Choir performed "No Child Left Behind" with Justin Bieber at a Halloween 2021 concert?
Did you know that Norma Kuhling's character in Fourteen was described by a film critic as "a Greta Gerwig spin on the Manic Pixie Dream Girl"?
Did you know that archaeologist and prehistorian Jacquetta Hawkes co-founded the Homosexual Law Reform Society and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament?
Did you know that in Hokusai's woodblock print series One Hundred Ghost Stories, there are only five prints?
Did you know that in the 1820s, the British acrobat Henry Johnson performed before the Chinese Emperor?
Did you know that the wreathed hornbill (male pictured) is hunted for consumption of its meat, and that its casque is used as headgear by local people in Arunachal Pradesh?
Did you know that when David Bowie performed "Golden Years" on Soul Train in 1975, he was incoherent and visibly intoxicated?
Did you know that Bobby Hackett said that Jackie Gleason's main contribution to the recording of Music for Lovers Only was that "he brought the checks"?
Did you know that Desmond Young's biography of Erwin Rommel was criticised for portraying him as a "blue-eyed god who could do no wrong"?
Did you know that Michaela Goade received the 2021 Caldecott Medal for her watercolor illustrations for We Are Water Protectors, becoming the first Indigenous artist to win the award?
Did you know that Styx's name derives from its seeming to have "come from the underworld"?
Did you know that Syaoran Li (cosplayer pictured) from the manga Cardcaptor Sakura formed the basis of two characters in a later manga; one original and one clone?
Did you know that according to legend, Edigna fled an arranged marriage in 1074, leaving her royal life behind to live as a hermit in a hollowed-out tree in Fürstenfeldbruck?
Did you know that an all-male boating event on Tinsley Island was called the "Bohemian Grove of yachting"?
Did you know that critics complained about the manga Sex Ed 120% being given a "mature" rating by its English-language publisher?
Did you know that film producer Konstantin Kalser, who won an Oscar for his 1956 short film Crashing the Water Barrier, later admitted that the film was an advertisement for an oil company?
Did you know that silicification can produce opal (example pictured)?
Did you know that the Panacea Society believed in God the Father, God the Mother, Jesus the Son, and Octavia?
Did you know that the bryozoan Walkeria tuberosa is sometimes referred to as Valkeria tuberosa despite being named after the Scottish natural historian John Walker?
Did you know that two years after the small Corinthian navy was defeated during the Affair of Epidamnus, their navy became the third largest in all of Greece?
Did you know that Mr. Bean accurately predicted the results of many American elections?
Did you know that Norman Colville renovated a manor to house his growing art collection?
Did you know that Theodore Conrad, who evaded capture for 52 years after stealing US$215,000, remained a fugitive for so long that he was finally tracked down by the son of one of the original investigators?
Did you know that a "North Dakota joke of the mornin'" was a feature on Montana radio station KGRZ because the station's owner and morning show host hailed from that state?
Did you know that before starring in the Pedro Almodóvar film Parallel Mothers, Milena Smit worked as a model, waitress, shop assistant, babysitter, subway information assistant, and hotel receptionist?
Did you know that on an average night, between 130 and 200 people can be found Outstanding in the Field (example pictured) for about five hours?
Did you know that the Burmese and South Korean first ladies held their first informal conversation 44 years after the establishment of bilateral relations between the two countries?
Did you know that the Chile Ridge has a slab window?