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Did you know that the politician Veylma Falaeo is the first woman to be President of the Congress of New Caledonia?
Did you know that tyromancy is a form of fortune-telling using cheese?
Did you know that "Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites" has been credited with bringing dubstep to the mainstream?
Did you know that Elogio del Horizonte has been nicknamed "King Kong's toilet"?
Did you know that Malik Arslan was assassinated on the orders of the Mamluk Sultan of Egypt due to his ties with the Ottomans?
Did you know that The Gust of Wind is Renoir's attempt to paint air?
Did you know that a modern Polish fairy tale, written during the period of martial law in Poland in the 1980s, mixes the themes of real-world environmental protection and fantasy-like gnomes?
Did you know that the Japanese TV show Iron Chef gained a cult following on a San Francisco TV station before it was dubbed into English and aired on the Food Network?
Did you know that Benjamin Franklin Shumard's assistant named an oak species after him, and then sabotaged his reinstatement after he was fired?
Did you know that Texas and Pacific 610 was once bought for $1?
Did you know that the 2013 book Brick by Brick, about how The Lego Group reinvented itself, became a popular business text?
Did you know that Ewa Ligocka cooked another mathematician's goose?
Did you know that Leonardo DiCaprio was set to star in the film adaptation of Leonardo da Vinci?
Did you know that Napoleon III was buried in St Mary's Church, Chislehurst, before his remains were moved to Farnborough Abbey 15 years later?
Did you know that Song Zhenzhong, the son of Song Qiyun and Xu Linxia, was detained by the Kuomintang before his first birthday and executed at the age of eight?
Did you know that the fishing cat mainly inhabits wetlands and preys predominantly on fish?
Did you know that the novel Bloody Bread, about the struggles of Polish immigrants in the US, was briefly criticized by communist censors for "glorifying the United States"?
Did you know that Last Call BBS contains a chip-manufacturing game, a model-building simulator, a game of solitaire, and more?
Did you know that Michael F. Adams was the first president of Centre College not to be a Presbyterian?
Did you know that Shuah Khan, the first woman fellow of the Linux Foundation, "signed off" on a patch recommending the use of inclusive terminology in the Linux kernel?
Did you know that according to the author of Stuff Matters, holding a sample of an aerogel is "like holding a piece of sky"?
Did you know that between 30 and 300 million rupees' worth of goods were plundered during the Afghan sack of Delhi?
Did you know that the murder of Wang Lianying was followed by a blitz of newspaper coverage, books, stage performances, a film, and songs (example featured)?
Did you know that Mariah Carey used a sample from the New Zealand duo Adeaze in her 2005 song "Your Girl"?
Did you know that Mount Rainier cannot be seen from Panhandle Gap, despite the trail being "possibly the best day hike" in Mount Rainier National Park?
Did you know that al-Shaykh Badr was the hometown of Salih al-Ali, who led the Alawite revolt against the French in Syria?
Did you know that despite her father wanting her to become a music teacher, Marcia Moore ran away to Chicago to star in silent film, vaudeville, cabaret, and burlesque performances?
Did you know that "Every Night", released ten years ago today, was called "the smartest dumb music out there"?
Did you know that Bishop John Dunn continued to celebrate Mass after a fire broke out in the choir loft of St. Cecilia Cathedral during the Sixth National Eucharistic Congress?
Did you know that Charles J. M. Gwinn was the first state's attorney of Baltimore elected under the Maryland Constitution of 1851, which he had helped to draft?
Did you know that Ross Mihara "didn't know a yorikiri from hara-kiri" when he was hired as a sumo commentator by NHK?
Did you know that Władysław Umiński's 1914 novel Czarodziejski okręt was described as being a "grotesque" treatment of the robinsonade?
Did you know that over the opening weekend of Florentina Holzinger's first opera, eighteen audience members required medical treatment for severe nausea?
Did you know that weightlifter Oun Yao-ling was asked to compete in the South African Games, but the invitation was swiftly rescinded once the organisers learned that he was Chinese, not white?
Did you know that Rust Red Hills is being sold to renovate student housing, a court-approved move that museum associations say violates the ethics of deaccessioning?
Did you know that both Tim Walz and JD Vance were accused of sanewashing in the 2024 vice presidential debate?
Did you know that feelies (example pictured) have been used for everything from copy protection to sexual roleplay?
Did you know that Anatolii Brezvin helped establish a youth hockey championship in Ukraine, and sought to open 60 ice rinks?
Did you know that New York City's Hotel Marseilles, once a shelter for Holocaust survivors, later became affordable housing for the elderly?
Did you know that during the colonial period, the Dutch East Indies was the third-largest exporter of tea after the British Raj and Ceylon?
Did you know that heavy-metal guitarist Kiki Wong played drums for Taylor Swift before joining the Smashing Pumpkins?
Did you know that the Union of Assyrians's mishandling of shoe-polishing stations led to violent conflicts in 1920s Moscow?
Did you know that Light Vessel 95 is now a recording studio?
Did you know that Soviet academic Lily Golden researched "officially disapproved" genres of contemporary Black music?
Did you know that Victoria Espinosa directed the first performance of The Public, almost 50 years after it was written?
Did you know that anime singer Rei Nakashima was named after Ray Charles?
Did you know that when French secret police raided Deng Xiaoping's hotel room in Billancourt, they encountered copies of the Moscow newspaper Qian Jin Bao?
Did you know that German soldiers did not believe that Francis L. Sampson was a non-combatant after his capture during the D-Day landings, because they had never seen a paratrooper chaplain before?
Did you know that a medieval town in Poland disappeared?
Did you know that a new soccer team in Boise, Idaho, plans to play at a converted horse racing track?
Did you know that geologist Gilbert Wilson was the fifth Wilson at school, so he was known as "Quintus"?
Did you know that the U.S. Air Force considered a bomber version of the F-22 Raptor known as the FB-22?
Did you know that the myth of Shunten, the legendary first king of Chūzan, was used to justify the 1872 annexation of Okinawa?
Did you know that Shadia Abu Ghazaleh was one of the first women to join the Palestinian resistance to the Israeli occupation of the West Bank?
Did you know that Stanley Washburn's message on November 29, 1941, warning the US Navy not to underestimate the Japanese, failed to reach Admiral Kimmel before the attack on Pearl Harbor?
Did you know that Yan Ruisheng, China's first full-length feature film, was banned within two years?
Did you know that the name of Kim Jong Un's daughter has not been publicly disclosed?
Did you know that the opening of The Empire Brunei was timed to help create hotel capacity in Brunei for an APEC summit?
Did you know that Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele has referred to himself as the "coolest dictator in the world"?
Did you know that St Francis of Assisi Church, Notting Hill, contains a font designed by John Francis Bentley and in which he was later baptised?
Did you know that following its deconsecration, the Church of Santa Maria Maggiore in Venice and its grounds have been used as a stable, a tobacco warehouse, and a prison?
Did you know that the 1983 Spanish floods were the most economically damaging in Spain until the 2024 Spanish floods?
Did you know that Peel's Cut, a watercourse in Staffordshire, lasted more than 100 years longer than the mill it was excavated to power?
Did you know that a canoe designed by Carl Smith accompanied a  circumnavigation of Earth in 1883–1885?
Did you know that according to The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, the 1913 Polish novel The Cross and the Crescent is "perhaps the first example" of the genre of military science fiction in Polish literature?
Did you know that although no people died in the 1984 Southland floods, about 12,000 sheep perished?
Did you know that no actual voting took place in the 1939 Liechtenstein general election?
Did you know that the director for Yuzuru Hanyu's Echoes of Life Tour choreographed the 2016 Summer Olympics closing ceremony?
Did you know that while conducting research for Kingdom of Characters, author Jing Tsu visited archives across multiple countries and continents?
Did you know that Karen Tei Yamashita realized the structure of her novel, I Hotel, by cutting, folding, and writing on ten cardboard cubes, each representing a year in the book?
Did you know that Piri Reis did not map Antarctica in the sixteenth century?
Did you know that an Indiana university recently argued in court that The Silver Veil and the Golden Gate, a 1914 painting, was too modern for their art collection?
Did you know that due to the near-miss effect, gamblers may mistake a game of luck for a game of skill?
Did you know that more than one hundred million stars are visible in Zooming In on the Andromeda Galaxy?
Did you know that the author of the comic book Timeless Voyage was the leader of a UFO religion?
Did you know that Sehome was an incorporated town for only three years?
Did you know that water-filled pits (example pictured) left behind by tin mining activities in Indonesia have become tourist attractions?
Did you know that when John of Montfort was captured in 1341 during the Breton Civil War, his wife took command of the Breton army?
Did you know that Aldous Huxley developed his "feelies" in response to the emergence of "talkies"?
Did you know that Frank A. Kimball brought a transcontinental rail terminus to National City, California, in exchange for thousands of acres of land?
Did you know that Gigarta, a settlement mentioned by Strabo and Pliny the Elder, is believed to have been located on the slopes of Mount Lebanon, although its exact location remains under debate?
Did you know that Hanif Kureshi transformed shadows cast by the Sun into street art?
Did you know that Marie Denizard stood as a candidate in a French presidential election in 1913, thirty years before French women achieved suffrage?
Did you know that basketball coach Trisha Stafford-Odom left the Eagles to join the Eagles?
Did you know that dogs (example pictured) have much more sensitive noses and ears than humans, but have trouble distinguishing red from green?
Did you know that in 1809, two ministers leading the British war effort against Napoleon fought a duel against each other?
Did you know that in his first year in the NFL, Lou Rash was told he was released and began flying back home, but was told upon landing that the release was a mistake and he was to return?
Did you know that the Mongol princess Al-Altan was rumoured to have poisoned her brother Ögedei Khan?
Did you know that Augustus Pugin called St John the Evangelist Church, Islington, a "deformity"?
Did you know that Kang Ju-hyeok became the youngest player in FC Seoul's history at the age of 17 years, 9 months, and 6 days?
Did you know that Mary Robertson was the first woman to receive a Doctor of Science degree in medicine from the University of Cape Town?
Did you know that Richard Du Cann acted for the defence in the Lady Chatterley's Lover obscenity trial and the trial of the MP John Stonehouse?
Did you know that residents of Port Mercer, New Jersey, profited from passing vessels by dragging their tow mules into the Delaware and Raritan Canal and having local boys "rescue" them for a fee?
Did you know that the funds from the sale of burial lots at Cathedral Cemetery in Philadelphia were intended for the construction of the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul?
Did you know that the political opposition in Saint Kitts and Nevis has viewed the national broadcaster, ZIZ, as a government mouthpiece?
Did you know that Annie Huggett, aged 103, was the oldest living suffragette at the time of her death in 1996?
Did you know that Henry Parnell was the youngest British parliamentarian to die in the First World War?
Did you know that a man stabbed Regulus because he disliked the "misty state of the picture"?
Did you know that after signing a peace agreement in 1919, Azerbaijan prepared another invasion of southern Armenia that was foiled by a rebellion in Nagorno-Karabakh?
Did you know that cellist Rohan de Saram's background as a geta bera drummer inspired Luciano Berio's Sequenza XIV?
Did you know that schoolteacher Thomas Curnow used a red scarf to stop a train from derailing, leading to the capture of notorious outlaw Ned Kelly?
Did you know that the oldest surviving wooden lightship, dating to 1840, is now an Airbnb property?
Did you know that Chen Qiyou, a would-be assassin, later became part of the Chinese Committee for World Peace?
Did you know that David Hilchen played a key role in the establishment of Renaissance humanism in the area of the present-day Baltic states?
Did you know that Gutidara is played with balls made from water buffalo horns?
Did you know that Ngiam Tong Dow negotiated Singapore's first and largest purchase of gold from South Africa in 1968 by comparing two halves of a United States one-dollar bill?
Did you know that the 14th-century Barquq Castle was damaged during the Israel–Hamas war?
Did you know that "the world's loneliest duck" arrived on the remote Pacific island country of Niue in 2018?
Did you know that Celeste Caeiro's actions led to the naming of the 1974 coup in Portugal as the Carnation Revolution?
Did you know that L'Attaque, the board game that became Stratego, was patented in 1908 by its designer, a 57-year-old woman?
Did you know that Lizzie Esau covered a 1955 song for a 2024 series about a 1553 queen?
Did you know that Operation Blooming Onion uncovered instances of "modern-day slavery" amongst H-2A visa workers in the state of Georgia?
Did you know that Thomas Sewell said that in 2017 he attempted to recruit the perpetrator of the 2019 Christchurch mosque shootings into the Lads Society?
Did you know that while supporting a law easing restrictions on abortion in Gabon, Prime Minister Rose Christiane Raponda said "it is not yet the right time"?
Did you know that "Vanishing" is the first song that Mariah Carey produced by herself?
Did you know that Aucklanders have a reputation for making false earthquake reports on New Zealand's earthquake monitoring website GeoNet?
Did you know that Bob Hobman recreated a possible sea journey by Palaeolithic humans after 130,000-year-old tools were found on the island of Crete?
Did you know that Kenneth Creer supported applying cosmology to geological problems?
Did you know that coconut cups were believed to have medical benefits?
Did you know that during World War II, Soviet atrocities against prisoners of war included the murder of tens of thousands of Polish soldiers in the Katyn massacre?
Did you know that in his first electoral victory, Aaron Kennedy defeated the premier of New Brunswick?
Did you know that the God of Amiens (head pictured) seems to have lost his serpent?
Did you know that "unusual choices" at Liliget Feast House included wind-dried salmon and pan-fried oolichans?
Did you know that Tommy Suggs recommended using Also sprach Zarathustra as his college football team's entrance music, because he saw Elvis Presley do it first?
Did you know that Verificado 2018 was a fact-checking collaboration between at least 90 organizations to counter disinformation during the 2018 Mexican federal election?
Did you know that Zhou Jianyun pawned his wife's jewellery to make Orphan Rescues Grandfather (scene pictured), saving his studio?
Did you know that Perplexities after Escher, a composition for heckelphone, string quartet and double bass, is based on five graphic artworks by M. C. Escher?
Did you know that U.S. Army chaplain Patrick Ryan celebrated a Mass of thanksgiving for 10,000 people after the liberation of Rome?
Did you know that a staff member at the Carlyle Hotel once lent his own bow tie to Laurence Olivier?
Did you know that the Child Law Project reports on Ireland's child-care system?
Did you know that the city council of Hamtramck, led by Mayor Amer Ghalib, banned the pride flag from publicly owned flagpoles?
Did you know that to prepare for her role in The Last Dance, actress Michelle Wai learned to perform a Taoist funeral ritual traditionally performed only by men?
Did you know that Arthur France founded the Leeds West Indian Carnival, the first Caribbean carnival in Europe, in 1967?
Did you know that Cordova, Alabama, was hit by two tornadoes on the same day in 2011, the second of which was on the ground for more than two hours?
Did you know that Dr Disrespect's first videos featured a bombastic "champion" trash-talking game-play footage?
Did you know that John Moore's mother, after learning that UCLA's student-body president was Black, said "this is where he's going to school"?
Did you know that a raven in Anchorage, Alaska, ate tater tots and toast, fought over ice cream, and disassembled a streetlamp?
Did you know that Mohamed Aw-Ali Abdi campaigned in Birmingham, England, while running to become the vice president of Somaliland?
Did you know that after seeing Taiwanese actor Mo Tzu-yi's work, a director sought to inquire about him at a film market, only to find Mo standing right behind him?
Did you know that although three witnesses are typically needed in linguistic reconstruction, only two are necessary if borrowing and innovation can be ruled out?
Did you know that most of the contributors to the Emancipation Pictorial, a Chinese women's magazine, were men?
Did you know that Gail Damerow was described by one magazine as "poultry's Cesar Millan"?
Did you know that Haruki Murakami owns so many T-shirts that he published a book about them?
Did you know that Light Vessel 93 was converted into a photography studio?
Did you know that both Catholic and Orthodox Christian democrats received a higher share of votes in Kazansky District than in any other district of Petrograd in the 1917 Russian elections?
Did you know that in a 2024 game, college football player Jordan Watkins scored an Ole Miss–record five receiving touchdowns – even though he had never before had more than one?
Did you know that politician Thokchom Chandrasekhar Singh was jailed for 12 months for protesting in favour of restoring the Manipur Legislative Assembly?
Did you know that the newspaper Qizil Tugh (Red Banner) provided a publishing platform for young Uyghur-language poets and writers in the Soviet Union?
Did you know that SZA's "Snooze" happens to be a sleeper hit?
Did you know that Seunghan was forced out of his band because of a cigarette and a kiss?
Did you know that basketball player Trey McKenney made all fourteen of his free throws in St. Mary's Preparatory's 2024 state championship victory?
Did you know that members of the Trade Union Opposition Federation stormed the Copenhagen Stock Exchange?
Did you know that of the 25 times the Green Bay Packers and Seattle Seahawks have played each other, 4 have come in the playoffs?
Did you know that American football player Rich Romer was selected three times as an All-American by Pizza Hut?
Did you know that Bini's performance of "Cherry on Top" at KCON 2024 was the first act by a Filipino pop group at the event?
Did you know that Everett Railroad 11 had to be modified after it met a sharp curve on its first trip?
Did you know that Saint George fought a dragon at the Paradise Theater until both were stolen?
Did you know that as a nine-year-old, Anastasia Somoza lobbied U.S. president Bill Clinton?
Did you know that modern Chinese drama was banned during the Cultural Revolution?
Did you know that the medieval font of St Peter's Church, Stapenhill, was restored in 1973?
Did you know that Bob Hainlen, at the age of 22, was both a player and an assistant coach for a professional American football team?
Did you know that Yoon Do-young scored his debut goal for Daejeon Hana Citizen 50 seconds into a match against Gwangju FC?
Did you know that a music video for a song on the album Dostrotime was made with an oscilloscope?
Did you know that after he did not come home for dinner, James Michael Reardon's assistant priests found that he had died in his basilica while praying?
Did you know that the bacterium Ethanoligenens harbinense can produce hydrogen?
Did you know that Fen Juhua became the "first of the lady knights in the Chinese cinema" after fighting for love in a 1925 film?
Did you know that Miles Rock served as chief of the commission that determined the disputed Guatemala–Mexico border?
Did you know that The Horn of Plenty by Alexander McQueen satirized the fashion industry with clothing sewn from expensive fabric made to look like household trash (example pictured)?
Did you know that a cat, Timoshenko, joined the British submarine HMS Unruffled on twenty patrols during the Second World War?
Did you know that the 2025 season of Inter Miami CF includes matches in the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup?
Did you know that the offices of Hamm's Brewery in Saint Paul, Minnesota, were built on the site of the city's third cathedral?
Did you know that Chivas USA had eleven different managers over ten seasons?
Did you know that Femke Bol successfully defended her 2021 title by winning the women's 400 metres at the 2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships?
Did you know that German-born physician Pablo Busch was labelled a "witch or curandero" by indigenous tribes in Bolivia?
Did you know that Nikolaus Mollyn was the first book printer in Riga, and the first to print a book in Latvian within the present-day territory of Latvia?
Did you know that in addition to millions murdered, Nazi crimes against children included compulsory sterilization, forced labor, forced institutionalization, medical experiments and Germanisation?
Did you know that George W. Bush quoted from the Quran in a speech he delivered six days after the September 11 attacks?
Did you know that Luo Shiwen led a secret cell of the Chinese Communist Party that negotiated better conditions for inmates at their concentration camp?
Did you know that less than a day after his dad died, Brett Favre played in "one of the greatest games of his fabulous career"?
Did you know that the Museiliha inscription hints at a border dispute between ancient Caesarea ad Libanum and Gigarta?
Did you know that Charles Herman Allen, university administrator and American Civil War captain, opened the University of Wisconsin to female enrollment in 1863?
Did you know that René Vallon achieved the first aeroplane flight, and was the first aeroplane-related death, in China?
Did you know that St. Gregory the Great Seminary was founded in a former juvenile mental hospital?
Did you know that art historians believe that Ellen Thesleff's self-portrait may have been drawn in a trance-like state?
Did you know that the creator of The Americans drew inspiration for the show from his time as a CIA officer and a 2010 Russian spy scandal?
Did you know that David Bookbinder was Margaret Thatcher's "least favourite local government leader"?
Did you know that entitativity refers to how "groupy" a group is?
Did you know that referee Mike Hasenfratz acted in an ice hockey fight in Stay Tuned?
Did you know that the 2022 Andover tornado (video featured) injured only three people, despite damaging more than 1,000 buildings?
Did you know that Casanova's friend Edoardo Tiretta built a bazaar in India?
Did you know that Oh Hee-ok was the last surviving female Korean independence activist?
Did you know that after Senator Joseph R. Hawley offered $1,000 to shoot an anarchist, Voltairine de Cleyre publicly accepted the challenge?
Did you know that tourte de blettes, a sweet pie made with Swiss chard, is traditionally eaten in Nice on Christmas Eve?
Did you know that "The Christmas Invasion" led to Christmas specials becoming a staple for Doctor Who?
Did you know that A. krampus has been found living in southeastern Brazil?