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Did you know that Instinct described itself as a "clever mix of Cosmo and Maxim for gay men"?
Did you know that Jacqueline Wilson wrote a sequel to Sleepovers 22 years after it was published?
Did you know that Stephanie Gilmore won her first four surfing world titles in her first four seasons on the professional circuit?
Did you know that a 17th-century painting depicts the goddess Bhairavi wearing a skirt made of skulls?
Did you know that pieces of Atlanta's Carnegie Library were reused as vehicle barricades after the library was demolished?
Did you know that the "Dragon Cartel", a cooperation of Chinese triads and Mexican cartels, poach fish maw in the Gulf of California and smuggle it to China?
Did you know that the scent and fruit of Skimmia × confusa might offer clues about its undocumented origins?
Did you know that Arizona voters rejected a 2010 ballot measure by just 194 votes out of more than 1.5 million cast?
Did you know that Dario Toffenetti described his spaghetti as "one hundred yards of happiness"?
Did you know that Idaho's Ridgevue High School collaborated with a local museum to select their mascot, which honors the P-40 Warhawk World War II fighter plane?
Did you know that Mary Scott, Countess of Deloraine, once pulled off the headdress of a court rival and declared "Look at her, do you see how bald she is"?
Did you know that a 16th-century painting is based on a sultan's description of himself as a god?
Did you know that a 90-year-old woman has cared for more than 10,000 animals at her sanctuary?
Did you know that a lake at the John Deere World Headquarters is used for air conditioning?
Did you know that the avian motifs in Alexander McQueen's La Dame Bleue were a celebration of his deceased mentor Isabella Blow and their mutual love of birds?
Did you know that volunteers at Takahanga Marae served more than 10,000 meals in the week following the 2016 Kaikōura earthquake?
Did you know that Fine to Flush was introduced to reduce confusion about flushing wet wipes down toilets, but was discontinued because it caused confusion?
Did you know that Patricia Allan had an abuser's name removed from the New Zealand Prayer Book?
Did you know that The Times said in 1871 that the Idyllic school "aims at making pictorial idylls out of the unpromising materials of lowly life in town and country"?
Did you know that a bad review inspired Aya Ogawa to create an Obie Award–winning play?
Did you know that a selfie broke Twitter?
Did you know that both players in the final of the 2025 WPA Women's World Eight-ball Championship high-fived before the final rack?
Did you know that the US Navy sold USS Severn as part of a scheme to build a new warship discreetly?
Did you know that the painter of an ancient Greek vase wrote an inscription on it taunting a fellow artist?
Did you know that California voters approved a 1908 constitutional amendment by just two votes out of more than 185,000 cast?
Did you know that Gdańsk Castle was taken down in one month?
Did you know that Global Saskatchewan produces three sets of local newscasts, none of which are presented from Saskatchewan?
Did you know that Governor Anawrahta was pardoned by two different Ava kings for his allegiance to Hanthawaddy, only to die shortly after the second pardon?
Did you know that Saigon Hotpot was started by Vietnamese college students who funded free tours for foreign tourists?
Did you know that Tudor Arghezi, "perhaps the strongest personality in all of 20th-century Romanian literature", claimed that he could identify people with cancer by their smell?
Did you know that footballer Matilda Nildén went viral after being unexpectedly soaked by stadium sprinklers during a live halftime TV interview?
Did you know that several Genshin Impact players photoshopped the character Arataki Itto's weapon into ice cream?
Did you know that the live stream of the cassation hearing for Larisa Dolina's apartment deal was the most-watched in the history of the Supreme Court of Russia?
Did you know that Nancy Van Laan said she came up with Rainbow Crow after coming across a Lenape corn planting ceremony?
Did you know that Olympian Adolf Schreiber was awarded a plate by Prince Franz Joseph II?
Did you know that a giant mask was added to the El Colotero sculpture in 2020 to raise awareness of COVID-19?
Did you know that a graduation song was used as the departure melody of a train station in Japan?
Did you know that animal penis is eaten around the world as an aphrodisiac?
Did you know that in 2013 a barrack from the Beaune-la-Rolande internment camp was discovered in a private garden, still bearing detainees' graffiti from 1942?
Did you know that philanthropist Dorothy Spotswood watered the concrete foundation for a new children's hospital?
Did you know that the New York City Police Department was deceived into guarding a nearly vacant house?
Did you know that the first video game developed in independent Ukraine, Admiral Sea Battles, was released in 1996?
Did you know that Ellie Goulding tied Adele for the most UK number one albums by a British female artist when Higher Than Heaven topped the charts?
Did you know that Emily Sutton illustrated an abridged children's edition of Shakespeare's First Folio with "red-cheeked gentlemen, sword-wielding warriors and ladies in striking attire"?
Did you know that John A. Jakle has co-authored nine books on "roadside America", including books on motels, road signs, gas stations, parking lots, and fast-food restaurants?
Did you know that Robert Van de Graaff, inventor of the Van de Graaff generator, turned to physics after injuries kept him from playing football at Alabama?
Did you know that an unlockable vehicle in Kururin Squash! contains a reference to Super Mario Bros. by honking the horn?
Did you know that gamblers in Myanmar worship the spirit Thone Myo Shin to ensure victory in cockfights?
Did you know that the Casablanca-class escort carrier USS Anzio once took the place of an entire fleet?
Did you know that the Washington DC Snowball Fight Association was formed when around 2,000 people showed up to a snowball fight organized over Facebook?
Did you know that the kingship ideology of the Lozi Kingdom emphasised powerful ancestral royal spirits, believed to affect the present?
Did you know that "King Scum" escaped from prison by pretending to be a solicitor?
Did you know that A Taxonomy of Office Chairs applies evolutionary classification to furniture?
Did you know that Lorenzo Dow Thompson threw Abraham Lincoln in a wrestling match?
Did you know that Sarah, Lady Holte, owned hundreds of slaves in Barbados, but only ever met one?
Did you know that Veronika the cow can scratch herself using brooms (depicted)?
Did you know that a Mexican vice admiral who exposed radioactive milk imports was accused of treason and sent to the Revillagigedo Islands?
Did you know that a popular series interviews celebrities without an interviewer?
Did you know that a psychiatrist expressed concern about a patient's paranoia to a colleague the day before the patient killed him?
Did you know that the socialist newspaper Radenik was banned after it referred to Jesus as a "socialist, communist, and revolutionary"?
Did you know that Allan Ludwig has been described as the "founding father" of gravestone studies?
Did you know that Anahit Ananyan was credited with starting Armenia's tomato heritage?
Did you know that Cuba's Girardinus fish may have evolved into different species because the island's rivers are often interrupted by waterfalls or vanish underground?
Did you know that Haruka No. 2 plays two recorders using her nose, one with each nostril?
Did you know that Tinashe's 333 and Wishy's Triple Seven are both named for angel numbers?
Did you know that a pre-order ticket campaign for Rhapsody in August saw ¥300 of the ¥1,300 ticket price go to the assistance of birds affected by the Gulf War?
Did you know that during the 1939 Abbeville Conference, the first meeting of the Anglo-French Supreme War Council, the parties agreed not to launch large-scale operations against Germany?
Did you know that slipper lamps produced in the Umayyad era sometimes carried bilingual inscriptions with "The Light of Christ" in Greek, alongside "God" (Allah) in Arabic?
Did you know that the relocation of a Mexico City monument resulted in the water-level indicators on its pedestal losing their original geographic alignment?
Did you know that Achmad Soebardjo said that he adopted a surname after hearing a voice while urinating in prison?
Did you know that Allison Lanier traveled between New York and Los Angeles to film for her regular role on The Young and the Restless?
Did you know that Fluminense FM used to broadcast horse races before becoming "the gateway to Brazilian rock in the 80s"?
Did you know that Munich's "Shirker's Alley" got its nickname in the 1930s because people used it to avoid giving the Hitler salute at a nearby Nazi memorial?
Did you know that a 17th-century painting may depict the emperor Jahangir listening as a portrait of his dead father speaks to him?
Did you know that creation of wethers, castrated male sheep or goats, is recorded as far back as the Minoan civilization in the Bronze Age?
Did you know that the baritone Jubilant Sykes, active in spirituals, gospel and funk, recorded the role of the Celebrant in Leonard Bernstein's Grammy-nominated Mass?
Did you know that the writer of How to Survive from Nine to Five and Between the Covers was inspired by her 27 office jobs and her visit to a strip club, respectively?
Did you know that Alberto Giacometti chose the dying photographer Eli Lotar as the subject of his last sculptures, but himself died before finishing them?
Did you know that Christian missionaries in China translated and published an inflammatory anti-Christian treatise?
Did you know that Cyril Karabus was convicted of manslaughter and forgery in 2004, a verdict he learned of only eight years later?
Did you know that Donald Rumsfeld helped develop a mobile game?
Did you know that Gennady Trifonov was one of the few Soviet dissidents who argued for gay rights?
Did you know that Nemiah Wilson ran a tailoring business while playing in the NFL?
Did you know that Yun Jin's appearance in Genshin Impact draws inspiration from legendary Chinese figures like Hua Mulan?
Did you know that a judge acquitted Ben Obumselu of manslaughter due to his "promise as a scholar"?
Did you know that the MPLA launched the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Angola in 1963 hoping to secure support from the Organisation of African Unity, but the move had the opposite effect?
Did you know that American football player Taco Dowler is the twin of a football player who was called "Burrito"?
Did you know that Gerta Hüttl-Folter became interested in Russian culture after staying with Maria Razumovsky's family while homeless?
Did you know that a church in Colorado merged with another congregation, was sold, became a nightclub, and then was bought by an offshoot of the merged congregation?
Did you know that the Oceanic Steamship Company (advertisement pictured) beat a rival company in a trans-Pacific race, bought the rival's ships, and added them to its own fleet?
Did you know that the author of Five Bullets was unaware for a year that Fear and Fury was also being written about the same 1984 shooting, and for the same publishing house?
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Did you know that there were no sex acts in Thea Ehre's nude performance at the 2021 Porn Film Festival Vienna?
Did you know that volumes of one writer's journalism were variously described as "prattling pieces", delivering "a snigger a minute", and having a "soufflé touch"?
Did you know that 17-year-old video game developers Andy Gavin and Jason Rubin obtained a contract with Electronic Arts by cold-calling them and sending them a copy of Dream Zone?
Did you know that Welsh-language activist Joseff Gnagbo came to Wales as a refugee from Ivory Coast?
Did you know that a baby elephant that starred in The Ark was kept in a van outside the director's home the night before filming?
Did you know that a photograph of an airplane propeller taken by a camera with a rolling shutter may distort the propeller into curves resembling the quadratrix of Hippias?
Did you know that an Alabama TV station deemed "The Puppy Episode" unsuitable for family viewing?
Did you know that the Atlanta Central Library, Marcel Breuer's last completed design, was nearly demolished less than three decades after completion?
Did you know that the Fadettes of Boston was named after the titular character of George Sand's novel La Petite Fadette?
Did you know that the remains of at least 970 people were discovered at the former Kilkenny Union Workhouse?
Did you know that zoologist Evelyn Shaw also worked in the catering industry alongside her husband?
Did you know that 16 years ago, a man in Ireland slipped on some ice?
Did you know that Olympian Nam Singh Thapa said his boxing career began when he was arrested and forced to compete in a match?
Did you know that Wales's first Commonwealth Games medallist in shooting walked off the podium when the wrong national anthem was played?
Did you know that Whispering Woods, the second novel set in the universe of Magic: The Gathering, was later declared non-canonical?
Did you know that Yucatán molly males flare their "sails" both to woo and to shoo?
Did you know that in 2002, Sarah Baxendale broke the Guinness World Record for the longest kiss featured on screen?
Did you know that the original occupant of the Farnsworth House likened her experience there to that of a caged animal?
Did you know that the writer of the visual novel SeaBed based it on a comic that he drew in his spare time at work?
Did you know that Althea Hunt founded the William & Mary Theatre, but discouraged students from trying to make a career of it?
Did you know that Chandler Court and Pollard Park, which were designed and occupied by William & Mary faculty, have been called "two of Williamsburg's most appealing twentieth-century neighborhoods"?
Did you know that Denver Mills, the first underclassman to be captain of the William & Mary football team, also played in the army and a single NFL game?
Did you know that Orlando Jones, the maternal grandfather of Martha Washington, was one of William & Mary's first students?
Did you know that Richard Lee Morton became the head of the College of William & Mary's history department after two years of teaching?
Did you know that Thomas Jefferson pushed William & Mary to hire a man with little linguistic ability as its first professor of modern languages?
Did you know that William & Mary's president was unable to get the college to fund the William and Mary Quarterly, so he paid for it himself?
Did you know that five speeches by William & Mary students helped to move Virginia's capital and establish Williamsburg?
Did you know that the College of William & Mary was established by royal charter 333 years ago today?
Did you know that Immanuel Iheanacho was measured as a 14-year-old freshman at 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) and 325 lb (147 kg), with a 7 ft (2.1 m) wingspan?
Did you know that Variety once called Trisha Ziff a "photographer's photographer"?
Did you know that all five chaplains awarded the Medal of Honor since the American Civil War were Catholic priests?
Did you know that in 1956 a person dressed as the anthropomorphic hedgehog and comic star Mecki traveled by helicopter to more than 100 cities in southern Germany to give children gifts?
Did you know that mangroves reduced the impact of Cyclone Dana?
Did you know that shark fin is one of the "four sea delicacies", a quartet of luxury seafoods in Chinese cuisine?
Did you know that the Bombay sandwich (example pictured) typically uses potatoes and chutney, but some versions use chocolate?
Did you know that the attorney of the last person executed by Peru requested Pope John Paul II's intervention to save his client's life?
Did you know that the headquarters of Indonesia's 16th Mechanized Infantry Brigade was a Japanese military base, seized by Indonesian youths after Japan's surrender in 1945?
Did you know that Gu Yanwu destroyed all his poetry following the Manchu conquest and took to wandering across China?
Did you know that James I. Hopkins Jr., who signed the order to bomb Hiroshima, disappeared without a trace?
Did you know that a Washington state park drew more visitors in 2021 than Yosemite National Park?
Did you know that a radio station requested changes to a light-rail project?
Did you know that a video showing preparations for a campaign speech for mayor of Kharkiv became one of YouTube's top ten most-watched videos of the day?
Did you know that historian Allen French volunteered as a police officer during a labor strike?
Did you know that sanquette, a crêpe from Occitania, is made with blood fresh from slaughter?
Did you know that the Canadian Joint Forces Command was created based on operational lessons from the war in Ukraine?
Did you know that the critically endangered fish Quintana atrizona has not been seen in the wild since 2007–2008?
Did you know that "Right Here, Right Now" was Giorgio Moroder's first song in 15 years to reach the top of the US Dance Club Songs chart?
Did you know that , according to Guyanese authorities, an oil tanker seized by the United States off the coast of Venezuela in 2025 was falsely flying Guyana's flag?
Did you know that Diego García Miravete and his college football team's games were closely monitored by the Mexican government in the early 1970s?
Did you know that Erykah Badu recorded Mama's Gun at what was once Jimi Hendrix's apartment?
Did you know that a 70-foot (21 m) statue of Lionel Messi was unveiled in India during his G.O.A.T. India Tour?
Did you know that future Slavic-language professor Marc L. Greenberg learned Slovene after his fiancée sent him a bilingual dictionary and started writing letters to him only in Slovene?
Did you know that novelist Susie Boyt described Nesselrode pudding (example pictured) as tasting "of Christmas, without any of the disappointment"?
Did you know that some reviewers thought that A Short Hike was too short?
Did you know that the Genshin Impact character Alhaitham is believed to be named after a polymath from the Islamic Golden Age?
Did you know that George Brandt chose to have a song from the soundtrack of Pinocchio at his own funeral?
Did you know that Justin Timberlake's 2013 comeback single was promoted by relaunching Myspace?
Did you know that VTuber Sakamata Chloe used crowdsourcing for Christmas tree decorations?
Did you know that after an international ice hockey career, Leszek Laszkiewicz was given an honorary citizenship of his hometown?
Did you know that at Hagemeister Park, the Green Bay Packers' first stadium, fans would line the field or sit in their parked cars to watch games?
Did you know that the black-rumped magpie was made a full species in 2018?
Did you know that the mating display of Servaea incana includes a "zigzag dance" in which a male moves in ever-narrowing arcs towards a female?
Did you know that the tiny Abra aequalis is a major food source for a species of large starfish?
Did you know that two tropical cyclones in the 1996 Pacific hurricane season made the unusual move of crossing over from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific?
Did you know that Al-Qunayyah, a village in Jordan, is thought to have been the site of a Roman-era sanctuary?
Did you know that Astor Piazzolla's Oblivion has been called "exquisitely melancholic"?
Did you know that Billy Gallagher's Times Square cabaret was open from sundown to dawn, with a mix of "reputable people" and those "who had practical reasons for circulating after dark"?
Did you know that Calvin Duncan was elected clerk of the same court that wrongfully convicted him of murder and sentenced him to life in prison?
Did you know that Kamaipuʻupaʻa, the mistress of King Kamehameha V, blamed the 1871 Lānaʻi earthquake on a foreigner riding a horse?
Did you know that the Cipero Tramway was the first operational railway in Trinidad and Tobago?
Did you know that there are cognitions about cognitions?
Did you know that to teach high school photography, Kent Kammerer took students on trips to the North Cascades and Olympic Peninsula in a home-built camper?
Did you know that voice actor Rena Motomura prepared for an audition by practicing a single challenging line a hundred times a day?
Did you know that Bruce Springsteen's ICE protest song, "Streets of Minneapolis", was written the day Alex Pretti was killed and performed live the same week?
Did you know that Dawn Hope's first episode on Hollyoaks featured an entirely Black cast?
Did you know that Inugami Korone's catchphrase "yubi yubi" calls for her fans to cut off their fingers and give them to her?
Did you know that Liu Shasha didn't own a mobile phone because it might take away from her learning billiards?
Did you know that Nigel Bluck's cinematography has been compared to the work of painter Edward Hopper?
Did you know that The Dance of Anitra is one of the few sculptures by Edith Maryon known to have survived in private ownership?
Did you know that United States Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia did not endorse the statement, "everybody has got a right to the use of the English language"?
Did you know that a U.S. Army veteran was claimed to be suffering from erotomania when he carried out a mass shooting at a Ford Motor Plant in Michigan?
Did you know that a bridge over the Schuylkill River does not actually cross the river?
Did you know that a building in New York City had to be classified as a hospital despite containing classrooms and a dormitory?
Did you know that at fifteen years old, Ebenezer Harcourt became the youngest footballer to play for the Nigeria national team?
Did you know that despite coincidental timing, Gap's ad featuring Katseye was not intended as a response to Sydney Sweeney's controversial jeans commercial?
Did you know that in 1930s America, you could buy a quart of frozen salad for a dollar?
Did you know that physical copies of Chama come with a short story about the premise of the album?
Did you know that sulfur mollies create rhythmic waves to avoid ending up in birds' beaks?
Did you know that the Armenian politician Aram Piruzyan said the USSR's head of state asked for copies of his cookbook to give to Fidel Castro?
Did you know that the difficulty of finding  Fluid Ounces's third studio album led some fans to believe it was an urban legend?
Did you know that when Titan Fleischmann's grandmother first heard her future grandson's name, she cried out of fear that he would be bullied for it?
Did you know that Amy Williams won Great Britain's only medal at the 2010 Winter Olympics?
Did you know that David Barsum Perley used his writings to explore what he considered the British betrayal of the Assyrian people?
Did you know that Melkart Abou Jaoude received his first Division I college football offer at the bagel store where he worked?
Did you know that Salvador Dalí transformed a painting of horses into Hitler Masturbating?
Did you know that William Bloomfield is recognized as the first known Māori architect?
Did you know that after pollination Koelreuteria dilcheri fruits (fossil pictured) likely inflated like a balloon to drift on the wind for dispersal?
Did you know that all Aboriginal languages in mainland Australia may have descended from a common ancestor spoken around 6,000 years ago?
Did you know that although An Ordinary Youth is based on the author's real-life experience, it begins with an epigraph saying "All details completely made up"?
Did you know that an NFL team shared City Stadium with a local high school for over thirty years?
Did you know that in 2017, it was said that 10,000 people gathered on Al-Rashid Street every day?
Did you know that powerlifter Stefi Cohen went down a weight class to bring her world record total to 25?
Did you know that rock wrens build pavements made of flat stones to keep their nests dry?
Did you know that the American Civil War inspired the design of the British Amazon-class sloops?