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Did you know that within the Armenian Rite, it takes 40 days and more than 40 flowers, herbs, and spices to create the chrism known as myron?
Did you know that "Entre el Mar y una Estrella" by Thalía was crowned the best number-one Latin hit of the year 2000 in a survey conducted by Billboard?
Did you know that Independence Lost argues that most support for the American Revolution was non-ideological?
Did you know that Premier Maurice Duplessis, angry at the fact that the federal government of Canada was taking taxes at the expense of the provinces, once demanded that Ottawa "return our loot"?
Did you know that Turkish sport shooter Şimal Yılmaz, who qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympics, had a shooting range in her living room?
Did you know that a 2000 documentary exposed the secret support of female genital mutilation by Norwegian imams?
Did you know that as of December 2023, Get Lost claimed to have helped nearly 20,000 people avoid conscription in Russia?
Did you know that footballer Wyll Stanway was a National Counties cricketer and a football centre-back before becoming a goalkeeper?
Did you know that the Hindu god Shani is worshipped for protection from fear, accident, death and enemies in the 13th-century Akshaya­puree­swarar Temple?
Did you know that the architect of the Asakusa Culture Tourist Information Center thought of stacked nagaya houses while designing it?
Did you know that the first woman cleared to fly Boeing 747s recorded the 1982 outsider music album Jet Lady?
Did you know that with a population of 1,500, Millstreet in County Cork, Ireland, became the smallest settlement to host the Eurovision Song Contest when it staged the 1993 event?
Did you know that Broadway and vaudeville star George W. Munroe was known for his comic female impersonations of elderly Irish women?
Did you know that Drew Golz, who was Baseball Academic All-American of the Year and Soccer Academic All-American of the Year, became the first male student athlete to be named Academic All-American of the year for two sports at the same time?
Did you know that Issey Cross's 2023 song "Bittersweet Goodbye" uses a sped-up sample of a sped-up sample of a sped-up cover version, which itself interpolates a cover version of a traditional gospel song?
Did you know that after Broadway musical composer Silvio Hein died in 1928, the pallbearers at his funeral included Irving Berlin, John Philip Sousa, and Jerome Kern?
Did you know that four members of the interwar Czechoslovak Gendarmerie were killed in action against the Sudetendeutsches Freikorps during the Clash at Habersbirk?
Did you know that many employees of CSL Plasma are themselves plasma donors?
Did you know that scholars have called Liberty 5-3000, the heroine of Ayn Rand's Anthem, "an ideal Randian" and "a frivolous trophy wife"?
Did you know that singer and voice actor Yuki Sakakihara lived "[so] deep in the mountains of Okayama Prefecture" that it was difficult for him to go out for karaoke?
Did you know that some faqih have suggested that vegetarian Muslims should replace the Eid sacrifice with donations or fasting?
Did you know that the Frank J. Wood Bridge is the seventh bridge built across the Androscoggin River to link the towns of Brunswick and Topsham, Maine, since 1796?
Did you know that the Grave with the Hands commemorates a married couple, divided by society and religion, with hands clasped over a cemetery wall after death?
Did you know that the National Women's Basketball Association's methods of selling tickets were derided as "like something from grammar school"?
Did you know that Alexander McQueen created a fairy tale about a feral girl who becomes a princess for his autumn/winter 2008 collection The Girl Who Lived in the Tree (look pictured)?
Did you know that Buellia aethalea, a species of fungus, is also known as the "darkened button lichen" due to the small black spots on its crusty grey surface?
Did you know that Jack White worked for the New York Yankees – and for the New York Yankees?
Did you know that Meghan Trainor had been a fan of T-Pain for a long time before they finally collaborated on the song "Been Like This" from her upcoming sixth major-label studio album, Timeless?
Did you know that Syncletica of Alexandria, a 4th-century saint and Desert Mother, was called "an upper-class girl who does not care about her body"?
Did you know that TikTok rallied its users to protest a bill that would potentially ban the app?
Did you know that an Iowa TV station paid Tom Brokaw, a future anchor of NBC Nightly News, $75 a week to work as a staff announcer and part-time newscaster?
Did you know that despite commonly being caught with a hook and line, the holotype of the Rapa Nui lizardfish was instead collected with a spear?
Did you know that in Zaydi Shi'ism, the imamate was not inherited or appointed but had to be claimed by public summons for allegiance or even leadership of an armed revolt?
Did you know that just seven years after being elected to a local school board, Nancy Ross was a candidate for Vice President of the United States?
Did you know that the 17th-century Wolvesey Palace reuses a 15th-century chapel built on the remains of a 12th-century room from Wolvesey Castle?
Did you know that the Beşiktaş aiming stone in Istanbul marks the spot where in 1810 Sultan Mahmud II hit an ostrich egg 735.9 metres (2,414 ft) away?
Did you know that the ethical dilemma of killing baby Hitler has been compared to the trolley problem?
Did you know that 25 years after her career ended, Jennifer Martz remains second in NCAA Division III history in hitting percentage?
Did you know that Alda Milner-Barry, the older sister of World War II Enigma codebreaker Stuart Milner-Barry, worked for British military intelligence during World War I?
Did you know that British physician Georgiana Bonser investigated whether chemicals used in the dyeing industry caused bladder cancer?
Did you know that Geogaddi makes references to the Branch Davidians and their former leader, David Koresh?
Did you know that John Mulaney would change the Saturday Night Live character Stefon's lines before airing in order to make Bill Hader break character?
Did you know that Nigeria's Muslim–Muslim ticket challenges the norm of religious balance in politics?
Did you know that Palauan English only started emerging in 1962?
Did you know that Vince Lombardi resigned as head coach of the Green Bay Packers after the 1967 NFL season to focus on his role as the team's general manager?
Did you know that after years of development, the British thin-wing Javelin interceptor aircraft was cancelled in favour of purchasing the Canadian Avro Arrow?
Did you know that alongside a 7th-century BC Phoenician shipwreck, two additional wrecks from various historical periods were unearthed in Bajo de la Campana, situated off the coast of Cartagena, Spain?
Did you know that horses were responsible for delaying the deciding match of the Barcelona women's football team's 1973 winning season?
Did you know that the lyrics to Gen Hoshino's "Crazy Crazy" references members of the jazz group Crazy Cats through kanji?
Did you know that Kully Thiarai made a theatre in Doncaster a "living room" for the town?
Did you know that Marcelino Gutiérrez was the only one of his brothers, who together led a rebellion against the president of Peru, to survive a subsequent riot?
Did you know that Max Whitlock is the most successful gymnast on the pommel horse at the Olympics, with two golds and a bronze?
Did you know that pianist and composer  Josef Weiss  created the first film score in the history of German cinema?
Did you know that the 2023 election for sheriff in Caddo Parish, Louisiana, was rerun after an initial margin of one vote?
Did you know that the Comboio Presidencial, a train that carried the Portuguese head of state through the Linha do Douro from 1890, had the Pocinho railway station as its last stop?
Did you know that "Dress" was described as "the perfect marriage of [Taylor] Swift's romanticism and newfound lust"?
Did you know that Ibrahim al-Imam secretly orchestrated the Abbasid Revolution that toppled the Umayyad Caliphate, but was captured and died in prison shortly before the Abbasid army defeated the Umayyads?
Did you know that a "pedophilic" relationship between two fictional adults led to an era of ship wars?
Did you know that activist Joey Siu is the first US citizen to be declared a fugitive under the Hong Kong national security law?
Did you know that artificial intelligence models like ChatGPT can learn from human feedback?
Did you know that as a sophomore Kobe Bufkin was the youngest member of the 2022–23 Michigan Wolverines?
Did you know that some cover-up tattoos incorporate scars into their designs (example pictured)?
Did you know that the Stewards Society is an all-male secret society at Georgetown University?
Did you know that Fredy Clue designed Sweden's first unisex folk costume?
Did you know that Jordan Murphy finished his college career ranked second in Big Ten Conference career rebounds, behind Jerry Lucas?
Did you know that in 2017 Ivanka Trump became the first Jewish member of a U.S. first family?
Did you know that the archaeologist Stanley Casson was almost captured – twice – during World War II?
Did you know that Audrys Nin Reyes is the first male gymnast from the Dominican Republic to qualify for the Olympic Games?
Did you know that Cladonota's extravagant dorsal structures have been called both "grotesque" and "particularly charismatic"?
Did you know that North Dakota state senator Merrill Piepkorn is also a musician, radio host, and public address announcer?
Did you know that Selected Ambient Works 85–92's audio quality has been described as poor due to being recorded on a cassette damaged by a cat?
Did you know that an abandoned Catholic church in China was used by a party school?
Did you know that an unusual mountain on Pluto may have once erupted water instead of lava?
Did you know that in opposition to his parents, opera star Joseph Schwarz  began his career by running away from home to join a band of traveling minstrels?
Did you know that in the 2024 election, Indonesian comedian Komeng (election portrait pictured) received the most votes of any senatorial candidate to date?
Did you know that Dahiru Musdapher, the 12th chief justice of Nigeria, was once a BBC World Service contributor for West Africa and Hausa?
Did you know that food critic Grace Dent reviewed a Liverpool restaurant that served her rice pudding flavoured with a substance that is banned in the United States for its lethality?
Did you know that there is an East Quoddy Head Lighthouse and a West Quoddy Head Lighthouse on opposite sides of a bay, but one is in Canada and the other is in the United States?
Did you know that Thorpe's secluded hills provided refuge from Scottish raiders and English Civil War troops?
Did you know that a committee of Chinese compatriots of all circles from Hong Kong Island and Kowloon struggled against what they viewed as persecution by the British authorities in Hong Kong?
Did you know that copyright has been used to censor reporters, activists, scholars and artists?
Did you know that even though a village said that it did not want a church, Indonesian politician Thoriqul Haq allocated land and money to build one along with a musalla?
Did you know that opera singer Charles Holland spent much of his career in Europe as opportunities in classical music for African Americans were limited?
Did you know that the Eurovision Song Contest 1990, held in Yugoslavia, was the first Eurovision Song Contest to be held in the Balkans or in a socialist state?
Did you know that until the release of the documentary Predator: The Secret Scandal of J-Pop, sexual abuse claims involving record producer Johnny Kitagawa went widely unreported in Japanese media?
Did you know that Clint Sargent succeeded Scott Nagy as head coach of the Wright State Raiders, years after he played for him with the South Dakota State Jackrabbits?
Did you know that Palestinian journalist Hind Khoudary was one of the first two people in the Gaza Strip to receive donated eSIMs through the initiative Connecting Humanity?
Did you know that Soviet politician Pavel Chioru wanted "Moldovan", which he developed from a dialect of Romanian, to serve as a language of the "exploited" against the supposedly upper-class Romanian?
Did you know that William Lambdin Prather introduced the phrase "the eyes of Texas are upon you", which was incorporated into the school song of the University of Texas at Austin?
Did you know that a Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode features a body-swap storyline that academics compared to a thought experiment from Plato's Republic?
Did you know that the first time the New England Revolution competed in an international competition, they played their "home" match at their opponent's stadium?
Did you know that trees of the extinct genus Calamophyton (example pictured) formed the earliest known forest?
Did you know that Albert Gumble and Owen Murphy's music score for the Broadway musical Red Pepper was dismissed by one critic as not "real music" because of its embrace of jazz?
Did you know that Animal Crossing: New Horizons sparked a boom in the popularity of cozy games?
Did you know that Jenna Ortega almost quit acting to play soccer?
Did you know that the 1818 Akure–Benin War led to the Akure Kingdom becoming a vassal state of the Benin Kingdom?
Did you know that the 1994 Pacific hurricane season was the first to produce three hurricanes that attained Category 5 intensity, the highest rating on the Saffir–Simpson scale?
Did you know that the 2011 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot (rioter pictured) was the second time a riot broke out in Vancouver after a Stanley Cup loss?
Did you know that the vocals of To See the Next Part of the Dream were recorded on a Samsung Galaxy S5?
Did you know that Bill Shearer, a leader of the segregationist George Wallace's 1968 presidential campaign, also advocated for ballot access for the Socialist Workers Party?
Did you know that John Morin Scott, the mayor of Philadelphia, responded to the 1842 Lombard Street riot by mostly arresting black victims?
Did you know that Shohei Ohtani married "a normal Japanese woman" who used to play professional basketball?
Did you know that a 17th-century male-authored book was adapted to argue in favor of women's superiority?
Did you know that in many works of fiction, the asteroid belt is the remnants of a destroyed planet?
Did you know that the color of a black-headed tailorbird's throat was thought to depend on sex, but later turned out to depend on age?
Did you know that the release of the EP Spitfire crashed the servers of the online music store Beatport?
Did you know that Anders Åkerman started the production of terrestrial and celestial globes (example pictured) in Sweden?
Did you know that Edgar Wright's pitch for an Ant-Man film in 2006 helped to shape the early films of Phase One of the Marvel Cinematic Universe?
Did you know that seven countries competed in the Eurovision Song Contest 1994 for the first time, the largest single expansion of participating countries since the contest's first edition?
Did you know that the Indianapolis African-American community raised $100,000 in just ten days in 1911 to establish the Senate Avenue YMCA?
Did you know that while touring for her album Wallsocket, Underscores handed out pizza before her sets?
Did you know that Blackpink's "Pink Venom" incorporates the sounds of traditional Korean instruments such as the geomungo?
Did you know that Iona Allen, "the only one to ever make a perfect pair of boots", constructed the pair worn by Neil Armstrong on the Moon out of thirteen layers of precisely fabricated material?
Did you know that Porter Robinson listened to excerpts of 100,000 songs in two years to create his EP Virtual Self?
Did you know that Vicky López took up horse riding during a six-month period when she was not allowed to play football?
Did you know that the REM de l'Est, a planned light rail network, was abandoned due to its controversial use of elevated railways in downtown Montreal?
Did you know that the chandelier Pokémon Chandelure is a playable character in the fighting game Pokkén Tournament?
Did you know that tokoyama (traditional Japanese hairdressers) working in kabuki are divided into specialties named after the floors of the Kabuki-za?
Did you know that Angela Doyinsola Aina helped to found the Black Mamas Matter Alliance to address the higher rate of maternal mortality faced by Black women in the United States?
Did you know that Fox bought a Philadelphia TV station started by a Fox?
Did you know that John Bennet Lawes started producing superphosphate, the first chemical manure produced in the world, from fossilised dinosaur dung on an industrial scale?
Did you know that Mirna El Helbawi discovered a way to reconnect people in Gaza to the internet through donated eSIMs, and her organisation Connecting Humanity has connected more than 200,000 people so far?
Did you know that Porter Robinson discovered that his song "Ghost Voices" had been nominated for a Grammy through Twitter?
Did you know that World Pilots' Day is celebrated on 26 April to commemorate Fesa Evrensev's first flight, which took place 112 years ago today?
Did you know that the design of Genshin Impact's Furina has elements inspired by classical stories and musicals?
Did you know that Blackpink's "Forever Young" was heard being played from the group's agency's headquarters three years before it was released?
Did you know that Destinies of the Soul was the only book that contained human skin in the collection of Harvard University?
Did you know that N661US was the prototype Boeing 747-400 and was involved in the Northwest Airlines Flight 85 incident, in which the aircraft suddenly banked hard to the left in flight?
Did you know that Typhoon Wutip in 2019 was the first recorded Category 5–equivalent tropical cyclone to occur in February in the Northern Hemisphere?
Did you know that William O. Raymond's 1905 Glimpses of the Past: History of the River St. John probably recorded the first known Black man in future New Brunswick?
Did you know that Yudas Sabaggalet, an Indonesian politician, worked in a Coca-Cola factory while studying at university?
Did you know that an activist protested the use of Chinese characters for Taiwanese Indigenous names by changing her legal name to "Lee I want to exclusively list my tribal name, my Bunun tribal name is Savungaz Valincinan"?
Did you know that the residents of Ukraina and Gorham, North Dakota, were involved in a feud that started with Easter baskets?
Did you know that All Nations Baptist Church in New York City is primarily associated with ethnic Koreans of the former Soviet Union?
Did you know that Francis of Delirium overcame Luxembourg's relatively quiet alternative music scene to become a prominent artist?
Did you know that Saint Tarbula of Persia was martyred by being cut in half by a saw after being accused of witchcraft?
Did you know that home repair and maintenance educator Mercury Stardust and her friend Jory Vizcaino have raised more than $4 million for transgender healthcare through their TikTok-A-Thon for Trans Healthcare?
Did you know that the Cistern of Pulcheria is one of the best-conserved Byzantine reservoirs in Istanbul?
Did you know that zombie-like obedience has been attributed to Jesuits, the military, and followers of totalitarian regimes?
Did you know that Biodiversity Impact Credits seek to stop species extinction?
Did you know that Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth was Wole Soyinka's first novel in nearly fifty years?
Did you know that G299.2-2.9 is one of the oldest known Type Ia supernova remnants in the Milky Way?
Did you know that Sans's boss theme, "Megalovania", was played at the Vatican as part of a circus act during an audience with Pope Francis?
Did you know that the iZombie episode "And He Shall Be a Good Man" gets its name from an Elton John lyric?
Did you know that the terms "Palestine" and "Palestinians" were being increasingly used in 1908 by the emergent Palestinian press, which expressed anti-Zionist positions?
Did you know that despite getting an offer from his dream basketball school, Notre Dame, Chris Hill instead chose Michigan State?
Did you know that soprano Olga von Türk-Rohn was celebrated for her interpretations of Franz Schubert's lieder?
Did you know that the Labour Party received their highest share of the vote to date in the 1951 UK general election but still lost to the Conservatives, who received fewer votes?
Did you know that the enzyme histamine N-methyltransferase regulates essential brain functions and sleep–wake cycles in humans?
Did you know that the healthcare campaigner who pioneered organ donor cards in the UK placed a personal advertisement in The Times looking for a "cadaver kidney" for her son?
Did you know that Ukrainian Sheriffs went to summer school after being shot?
Did you know that Weston Turville Castle was slighted on Henry II's orders after the Revolt of 1173–1174?
Did you know that a  Work for Curaçao candidate in the 2021 Curaçao general election received 427 votes despite being dead?
Did you know that according to witnesses, the plutonium charge in the bomb used in the nuclear weapons test Gerboise Verte was transported in an economy car?
Did you know that in Vladivostok, the Korean enclave Shinhanchon served as a hub of the Korean independence movement?
Did you know that the Legends of Tomorrow episode "Here I Go Again" contains multiple ABBA references?
Did you know that the ancient Hawaiian village known as the Kāneiolouma Complex is across the street from a popular beach on the island of Kauaʻi?
Did you know that Akihiko Kondo "married" Hatsune Miku, a fictional character?
Did you know that Jex Blackmore, an American pro-choice activist and Satanist, performed art with 100 pounds (45 kg) of rotten fruit before their second abortion?
Did you know that Karen B. Westerfield Tucker, who both edited and contributed to The Oxford History of Christian Worship, also served as a dog show judge?
Did you know that Lake Bell made her directorial debut, In a World..., after no one else would direct it?
Did you know that a song from the EP In the Darkest of Nights, Let the Birds Sing, written in response to the cancer diagnosis of singer Mark Foster's uncle, was played for him before his death?
Did you know that the music video for the Weeknd's "I Feel It Coming" takes inspiration from people entombed in volcanic ash from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD?
Did you know that Asha Sobhana is the first Indian player to take a five-wicket haul in the Women's Premier League?
Did you know that Bäckadräkten is Sweden's first unisex folk costume?
Did you know that several ambiguously gendered figurines from pre-Columbian Ecuador can be analyzed through the lens of transgender archaeology?
Did you know that the 1748 chapbook A Spy on Mother Midnight is studied for its sex scenes with cross-dressing and a dildo?
Did you know that the last twenty residents of the only Shilshole village on Salmon Bay in Seattle were evicted in 1914 to allow the creation of the Ballard Locks?
Did you know that the posthumously released documentary Clean centered on the life of Sandra Pankhurst, a former sex worker, drag queen, and crime scene cleaner?
Did you know that American Colossus, a history book that describes how a banker bailed out the U.S. government in 1895, was published around a time when the U.S. government bailed out banks?
Did you know that Heike Heubach became the first deaf member of the German Bundestag?
Did you know that John Quincy Adams described Jonathan Elliot, his former printer, as "penurious and venal"?
Did you know that One Chun, a Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand restaurant, has black-and-white televisions, transistor radios, and aged clocks on a wall?
Did you know that an Irish comedy group wrote the film Apocalypse Clown?
Did you know that scholars debate whether Anactoria, mentioned in Sappho's poems, was a real person, a pseudonym, or an invention of Sappho?
Did you know that the magazine Al-Asma'i, one of the first publications to emerge in Ottoman Palestine in 1908, was opposed to Zionism and frequently criticized Jewish immigration?