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Did you know that Ladislav Zgusta escaped Czechoslovakia to the United States partially by elephant?
Did you know that Thandiwe Abdullah created Black Lives Matter in Schools when she was 15 to help promote racial justice?
Did you know that Winston Tang qualified to represent Guinea-Bissau at the 2026 Winter Olympics through his father's connections to its cashew industry?
Did you know that a Florida TV station once aired a pornographic film by accident?
Did you know that a box of apparently unopened Base Set card packs was purchased by Logan Paul for $3.5 million, only for it to turn out to be fake?
Did you know that a golden branch in Virgil's Aeneid inspired a painting by Turner, poems by Yeats, and an anthropological study of ritual murder?
Did you know that a species of lichen is only known to grow on a single tree in the Chatham Islands?
Did you know that as a youth, Paul Idlout was relocated to the high Arctic by the Canadian government?
Did you know that during the Siege of Naples, local Jews mounted the strongest resistance against the attacking Byzantines in 536?
Did you know that imagery of the ocean in This Monster Wants to Eat Me has been interpreted as a visual metaphor for depression?
Did you know that it took eight and a half years to design a restroom for a New York City park?
Did you know that prior to operating the Edmonton Eskimos, baseball executive John Ducey arranged games while an altar boy?
Did you know that the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait helped a U.S. senator win reelection?
Did you know that the video game Digital Dance Mix Vol. 1 Namie Amuro was sold exclusively at convenience stores?
Did you know that American college football coach Joe Sterrett graduated majoring in psychology and finance?
Did you know that En rejse til månen, a 1973 amateur film made with Lego, was not released publicly until forty years after it was created?
Did you know that Factor's Hanzo track bike was priced at A$97,979 so that it would be too expensive to buy?
Did you know that JoJo Siwa inspired Olivia Ponton to come out?
Did you know that Joseph Malke argued for the Assyrians' right to music?
Did you know that Liechtenstein has won all of its Olympic medals at the Winter Olympics?
Did you know that NBA commissioner Adam Silver appeared in a video for the Chicago Bulls as a parody of the character Professor Oak?
Did you know that a Pakistani teenager had never heard of Islamabad, the capital of his own country, when he was arrested for terrorism in Afghanistan?
Did you know that a Swiss district's request to change cantons needed to be confirmed by a nationwide referendum?
Did you know that conflicting media coverage of Christian emigration from Israel and Palestine seeks to influence Western Christians?
Did you know that minister Charles A. Hill was targeted by the House Un-American Activities Committee for his anti-war activism?
Did you know that one of the judges in the trial of Susana Freydoz voted to convict her of magnicide instead of aggravated murder?
Did you know that the Andrea Margutti Trophy was founded to commemorate a 14-year-old Italian kart racer who died while racing in 1989?
Did you know that the Geneva Peace Congress sought to establish a United States of Europe in 1867?
Did you know that the Pokémon species Smeargle had been banned from multiple competitive tournaments due to being able to learn almost any move in the series?
Did you know that the Washington State Ferries fleet (vessel pictured) uses names with tribal significance?
Did you know that the church of Charlotte's oldest black Baptist congregation was designed by its first black mayor?
Did you know that visitors to the Chinatown Storytelling Centre can listen to the personal stories of locals inside a pagoda phone booth?
Did you know that "Australasia" by William Charles Wentworth, the first book of verse by a native-born Australian, "celebrates the development of a new Britannia in another world"?
Did you know that 18th-century political hostess Susanna Leveson-Gower, Marchioness of Stafford, "sought patronage appointments with the eagerness that some women reserved for cards and scandal"?
Did you know that Blanca Quiñónez, the first player from South America in the history of UConn women's basketball, speaks the Molisan dialect alongside Spanish, English, and Italian?
Did you know that Europeans and Africans voted in different buildings in the 1946 Representative Council election in Bangui?
Did you know that Latvian pilots competed in a 1,087 km (675 mi) Flight Around Latvia in 1938, testing both aircraft endurance and fuel efficiency rather than speed?
Did you know that Mary Theresa Vidal began her writing career with a collection of Christian moral tales intended to educate convicts and servants?
Did you know that Sir Lister Holte donated his own carriage horses to fight the Jacobites—but may have sympathised with them?
Did you know that Vietnam War prisoner Edward A. Brudno was added to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial decades after his death following a Department of Defense ruling?
Did you know that an Iberian beetle (specimen pictured) is undergoing substantial evolution that makes it hard to distinguish from its nearby relatives?
Did you know that an unreleased video game themed around Metallica was described as "Twisted Metal meets Grand Theft Auto"?
Did you know that it's "none of your damned business" how much American Furniture Warehouse paid Billy Carter?
Did you know that one of the two civilian casualties in the 2026 US intervention in Venezuela had postponed returning to her native Colombia due to the tensions between the US and Venezuela?
Did you know that opera singer Ritva Auvinen also worked as a gymnastics and swimming teacher?
Did you know that the Hyderabad Houston Kingsmen are one of two new teams in the Pakistan Super League?
Did you know that the Master of the Epître d'Othéa produced illuminated manuscripts almost exclusively for Christine de Pizan, one of the first professional female writers in Europe?
Did you know that the VTuber Takanashi Kiara has attempted to take part in the Eurovision Song Contest multiple times?
Did you know that the post-apocalyptic manga Girls' Last Tour has been described as an iyashikei ('healing') story?
Did you know that , after David E. Mitchell was diagnosed with cancer that cost $440,000 annually to treat, he founded Patients for Affordable Drugs Now to challenge drug companies that act like "Tony Soprano"?
Did you know that , before Fiji beat Australia 1–0 in 1988, the Fiji Football Association offered each player a FJ$500 bonus if they won?
Did you know that Arena is the first novel to be set in the universe of the card game Magic: The Gathering?
Did you know that Argentine actor Guillermo Pfening and a female friend agreed to have a child together if they were not parents by the age of 35?
Did you know that Strand Arcade was the "most important commercial centre in New Zealand in the early 1900s and beyond", according to Heritage New Zealand?
Did you know that Vidoe Smilevski's apartment was "a center of illegal revolutionary activity" before he became the Macedonian president?
Did you know that the International Criminal Court decided to switch from Microsoft Office to OpenDesk after its chief prosecutor was disconnected from his Microsoft-hosted email account?
Did you know that the Telangana Gaddar Film Awards are named after a person who rejected awards for Telugu cinema?
Did you know that the association of Venda kings with mountains and subordinate rulers with pools affected the layout of a settlement?
Did you know that "Aeao" was involved in a multi-platform trend joined by numerous K-pop celebrities nine years after its release?
Did you know that , in Agnes Borinsky's queer interpretation of the Bible's Song of Songs, audience members placed offerings on a "shrine to the dead"?
Did you know that Boone and Scenic Valley Railroad 8419 was one of the first Chinese steam locomotives to be exported to the United States?
Did you know that Ottoman Iraq's nationality law was a legal basis for Saddam Hussein to classify up to two million Iraqis as "inauthentic" and expel as many as 400,000 of them?
Did you know that Scottish politician Tam Dalyell opposed devolution, warning it would become a "motorway without exit to a separate state"?
Did you know that Viktor Pylypenko ended a relationship with his Emirati boyfriend and returned to Ukraine to fight in the Russo-Ukrainian war?
Did you know that actor Dominic Sessa made his film debut with a breakthrough role as a student in the Christmas film The Holdovers?
Did you know that in 2025, Liz Pelly published the book Mood Machine, a critical examination of Spotify including the platform's promotion of fake artists?
Did you know that the voivode of a Polish region bought a townhouse for his brother, an abbot who converted it to an inn?
Did you know that Bella Ramsey is the youngest person ever to be nominated twice for a Primetime Emmy lead-actress award?
Did you know that British academic Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason quit her job to raise seven children and encouraged them to become musicians?
Did you know that Comic Beam has published manga making fun of its low sales?
Did you know that Confederate Navy officer Alexander F. Warley commanded the ironclad ram CSS Manassas to attack two ships on which he had previously served as a U.S. Navy sailor?
Did you know that German settler newspapers played a significant role in agitating for the Herero and Nama genocide?
Did you know that a 1998 referendum to repeal South Carolina's unenforceable interracial marriage ban was opposed by more than 38 percent of voters?
Did you know that some of the tracks on Karrionic Hacktician and Skin Stripper are only a few seconds long?
Did you know that the artworks in the Louvre's Gallery of the Five Continents are meant to dialogue with each other?
Did you know that the excavator of the Palazzo delle Colonne had to publish his findings from photographs and memory after World War II interrupted the excavation and vandals destroyed the records?
Did you know that the mother of a man who was murdered by Martín Ríos said that the case opened a social debate in Argentina on the difference between psychosis and psychopathy?
Did you know that Alex Honnold's memoir Alone on the Wall was called a "celebration of nonthinking" by The Atlantic?
Did you know that Beyond Dreams, about an ex-convict torn between a heist and housekeeping, won the Church of Sweden's Film Prize?
Did you know that John David Rogers represented Australia at the Japanese surrender in Singapore in September 1945  (video featured)?
Did you know that Kelly Curtis jumped from heptathlon to skeleton?
Did you know that Kurt Wright did not seek reelection to the Burlington City Council due to federal regulations that would have made him leave his radio show?
Did you know that Uruguayan perennial candidate Domingo Tortorelli campaigned on promises such as a 15-minute workday and installing free milk taps on every street corner?
Did you know that a John Robert Cozens painting set the record auction price for an 18th-century English watercolour at £2.4 million?
Did you know that a reviewer said that the musicians on the Christian music compilation 4-Way Noise Explosion would prompt a wave of people leaving Christianity?
Did you know that a teacher was fired for reading Dawn McMillan's book I Need a New Butt! to his second-grade class?
Did you know that in the 1970s, Walter Steding  became known for his electric violin, which he played while wearing flashing goggles "synced" to his brainwaves?
Did you know that out of appreciation for the game's background music, the art director of Splatoon 2: Octo Expansion created a fictional, in-game DJ character to associate it with?
Did you know that the "Queen of Shitty Robots" built a "Pussy Grabs Back Machine"?
Did you know that the Cheyenne Mountain Complex is the alternate command center for both the North American Aerospace Defense Command and the United States Northern Command?
Did you know that the Harvard–Dudley line once used streetcars made from two smaller streetcars?
Did you know that the Russian voice actress who portrayed the lead role in the top two highest-grossing Russian films of all time is also an accomplished ice skater?
Did you know that the design of the Moffat distillery building reflects the style of the surrounding farm buildings?
Did you know that the lyricist of "Coffee Houser Sei Addata" wrote its last lyrics on a cigarette packet?
Did you know that the modern increase of people named Ava is often credited to Hollywood actress Ava Gardner?
Did you know that Belle Hassan once milked goats on television?
Did you know that Dai Dai Ames and Justin Pippen joined the Cal Bears after it replaced nearly all of its players in 2025?
Did you know that Dipu Chandra Das, a garment factory worker, was set on fire and beaten to death after being accused of insulting the prophet Muhammad?
Did you know that Siegfried Sassoon referred to the Royal Societies Club as the "United Nonentities Club"?
Did you know that Zirconic was a U.S. government effort to create reconnaissance satellites equipped with stealth technology?
Did you know that a Galilean fortress once thought to be built by Akko-Ptolemais against the Hasmoneans, was actually built by the Hasmoneans to monitor Akko?
Did you know that a pastor of a Chicago church resigned after it was discovered that he had previously been defrocked in 1915 for having multiple wives?
Did you know that college football quarterback Jack Strand threw for over 7 miles (11 km) in his career?
Did you know that local custom at Pyapon Mountain dictates that all jewelry must be hidden from view to avoid offending Pyapon Taung Shinma?
Did you know that mathematician Grete Hermann wrote political philosophy articles for Der Funke and Sozialistische Warte under various pseudonyms during the German resistance to Nazism?
Did you know that pages of Lewis Hancox's graphic novel were displayed in The Cartoon Museum of London?
Did you know that some of the largest specimens of Aciculolenus palmeri were around 9 millimeters long?
Did you know that the Bosco Nordio nature reserve is located on dunes built up by four millennia of deposits by nearby rivers?
Did you know that the Meiō incident deposed a shogun?
Did you know that the Unsanctioned set of Magic: The Gathering cards are illegal in the game's tournaments due to their satirical nature?
Did you know that the films of Wei Shujun often meditate on the process of making films for the Chinese cinema industry?
Did you know that the only painting Walter Deverell ever sold, A Pet, was bought by William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais as an "act of charity"?
Did you know that yum yum sauce is sometimes called "white sauce" or "shrimp sauce", although it is neither white nor contains shrimp?
Did you know that Elinor Barker won an Olympic medal while pregnant?
Did you know that Hans-Joachim Hacker worked at a state-owned food processing plant before joining the Volkskammer and Bundestag?
Did you know that John D. Hoffman of the Special Engineer Detachment was awarded the Soldier's Medal, the US Army's highest non-combat decoration and the only one given to a member of the Manhattan District?
Did you know that March 7th first appeared on October 8th?
Did you know that Mark Williams did his press conference naked after winning the 2018 World Snooker Championship?
Did you know that Miroslava Pešíková was a ballerina at the National Theatre in Prague for 28 years in 47 roles?
Did you know that Russian astrophysicist Inna Nikolaevna Leman-Balanovskaja was sentenced to five years in a Siberian labor camp as a result of false charges?
Did you know that Seven Samurai is considered one of the greatest films ever made?
Did you know that Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh may have facilitated the killing of a political rival through a United States airstrike?
Did you know that a tram chase sequence in a 2025 adventure film was shot in two different theme parks, and with two different trams?
Did you know that despite being promoted exclusively through word of mouth, New York City's Henry Phipps Plaza West was fully occupied within a year of opening?
Did you know that despite its hardline Islamic beliefs, a Boko Haram faction led by Sadiku tolerated allied bandits' use of alcohol, drugs, and prostitution?
Did you know that net-filter coffee is named for its spoon-shaped filter, which resembles a hand net?
Did you know that several aesthetic and gameplay elements of the video game Quarantine II: Road Warrior, in which the player drives a weaponized hovercab, were inspired by the Mad Max franchise?
Did you know that the Holocaust survivor Joan Salter returned from America to parents she could not remember?
Did you know that the Minneapolis Police Department initially attributed one of the murders committed by spree killer Andrew Cunanan to one of his victims?
Did you know that the first session of the United Nations General Assembly was held in a church in war-damaged London only four months after the end of World War II?
Did you know that when the medieval Book of Hours of Boussu (miniature pictured) was restored in 2020,  it was discovered that the spine of the book was still sewed with the original thread?
Did you know that Abdul Rahman Salama, who currently serves as a Governor of Raqqa, used to work at a stone quarry?
Did you know that Katy Marchant won three British National Track Championships medals within a year of taking up track cycling?
Did you know that Tolkien: Man and Myth was described as particularly valuable for readers interested in "understand[ing] Tolkien from a religious perspective"?
Did you know that a Uruguayan-born victim of the September 11 attacks had founded a community in Sydney to help Uruguayans immigrating to Australia?
Did you know that in October 2025, over 1,500 Alaskans protested at a whale statue?
Did you know that tensions erupted between two local CDU associations after Thomas Kossendey ran as a candidate for a constituency?
Did you know that the Annamite striped rabbit was described by scientists as a new species after it was discovered in a Laotian market?
Did you know that the small curlew sandpiper respects neighbour territories when chasing intruders away?
Did you know that Brigitte Bardot's "Harley Davidson" has been described as "an ode to freedom and female liberation"?
Did you know that Carla Williams got into self-portraits in part due to the poor representation of Black women in her photography history class?
Did you know that Halloween Martin became one of the first modern DJs at a time when radio widely discriminated against women?
Did you know that Matilda Jane Evans' novels presented women's proper management of their homes as essential to maintaining civilisation in the Australian colonies?
Did you know that Ruth Wagner, the minister of culture in Hesse from 1999 to 2003, was nicknamed Mother Courage of Hesse?
Did you know that Valerie Pitt campaigned for the ordination of women by the Church of England for 25 years before wondering why any woman would want to be a priest?
Did you know that the editors of a dictionary of women's quotations were motivated to create it when they observed that mixed-gender volumes were 90% men?
Did you know that the first female president of Ireland helped unveil one of New Zealand's first women's suffrage memorials?
Did you know that there is an Irish-language parody of Mean Girls?
Did you know that Apollon Karelin established an order of the Knights Templar to promote anarchism in Soviet Russia?
Did you know that Kerri Rawson criticized author Stephen King writing a novella based on her serial killer father's crimes?
Did you know that Michael Lippman had his breakthrough in the music business in the 1970s by working as an attorney and manager for David Bowie?
Did you know that NFL players Brad and Cory Lekkerkerker worked on a farm with 2,000 cows and were nicknamed the "Brothers Large"?
Did you know that a Minnesota church building is considered to be a "historic non-operating cemetery" because a former priest was buried in a crypt underneath the sanctuary?
Did you know that an Abbott Elementary episode was filmed at an abandoned shopping mall, after which it was demolished to build an NFL facility?
Did you know that one reviewer said The Witcher: The Adventure Card Game was "a very pretty piece of junk"?
Did you know that the opera Complications in Sue was written by ten different composers, each writing without knowledge of what the others were doing?
Did you know that the public art at Lorong Chuan station depicts landmarks, the Merlion, and political events like the Pedra Branca dispute?
Did you know that Arif Havas Oegroseno, the Indonesian ambassador to Belgium, performed a Balinese dance at the Royal Palace of Brussels?
Did you know that Charlie Marr was paid by oil corporations to coach American football in Mexico?
Did you know that Jordan Shanks's house was firebombed after he published a YouTube video about organized crime?
Did you know that Savannah Bond sold cosmetics before entering the adult film industry?
Did you know that Tsar Asen interpreted the sudden deaths of his wife and child as divine punishment for breaking his alliance during the 1235–1236 siege of Constantinople?
Did you know that during their migration upstream to reproduce, smaller neritid snails were observed to "hitchhike" on the bigger Neritina pulligera to save energy?
Did you know that the 2020 Hampton County tornado was the first recorded F4- or EF4-rated tornado in the South Carolina Lowcountry?
Did you know that the Tulalip Tribes relocate "nuisance" beavers to the Middle Fork Snoqualmie River?
Did you know that the extinct damselfly family Whetwhetaksidae is known only from wing fossils, as their bodies and heads have not survived?
Did you know that Dalmatius was murdered by his soldiers during a massacre that killed nearly all the male members of the Constantinian dynasty?
Did you know that Harold Orlob was not credited as a composer of the 1909 hit song "I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now" until he sued in 1947?
Did you know that Israel Keyes buried "murder kits", containing weapons and supplies, years before using them in his crimes?
Did you know that The Mosquito Bowl is based on a college football game played before the battle of Okinawa?
Did you know that a painting by Adelaide Ironside modelled its depiction of Christ on the Italian general Giuseppe Garibaldi?
Did you know that news of the deadliest cyclone in the Southern Hemisphere took a month to reach authorities?
Did you know that the character designer for Drill Dozer had his wife model with two roll cakes on her head to create the main character's hair?
Did you know that the commissioner of the New York City Department of Bridges did not classify the High Bridge as a bridge?
Did you know that the facade of Populus Denver has been compared to a "cheese grater"?
Did you know that , although Self's fifth studio album was cancelled, its songs were still used in television commercials?
Did you know that Alfonso Quiñónez Molina suddenly becoming President of El Salvador before the 1919 election was described as a "mixed blessing"?
Did you know that Go-Rilla Means War by Crystal Z Campbell was inspired by a kung fu judge?
Did you know that Jerauld George Wright was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for his "brilliant" navigation during a 2,000-mile (3,200 km) overwater flight that lasted almost 25 hours?
Did you know that John Comfort Fillmore perceived a "cosmic connection" between the music of Native Americans and music composed by Richard Wagner?
Did you know that Kim Chwajin was imprisoned for three years for freeing his family's slaves?
Did you know that Toby Fox's video game Undertale was given to Pope Francis?
Did you know that a scene from an episode of Ted took about 30 takes to complete due to Scott Grimes repeatedly making his co-stars laugh?
Did you know that football player LeShun Daniels Sr. and his best friend were teammates in junior high school, high school, college, and the NFL?
Did you know that in his autobiography, openly gay footballer Thomas Hitzlsperger criticises high-profile players for promoting gay rights while working in countries where homosexuality is illegal?