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Did you know that when Matthew Wild directed Wagner's Tannhäuser, he made its main character gay?
Did you know that Pitchfork described Yuno Miles's vocals as "ostrich-squeal-rap"?
Did you know that an African-American was appointed postmaster of Baynesville, Virginia, in 1893 in preference to a former Confederate soldier?
Did you know that during the fatal arrest of Abisay Cruz by Montreal police, Cruz was recorded saying "Je vais mourir" ("I'm going to die")?
Did you know that mine labourer Golekane Mosweu became an Olympic runner after someone noticed his fitness?
Did you know that the Chicken Ranch Bingo once showcased 600 arrowheads on a wall?
Did you know that the Fugitive Doctor was the first time The Doctor in Doctor Who was portrayed by a black actor?
Did you know that the Washington D.C. Temple was moved 60 feet (18 m) to exactly align with a nearby road?
Did you know that the authors of The Zelensky Effect analysed material from President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's entertainment career in the context of the development of civic national identity in Ukraine?
Did you know that to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Duster's Stratosphere, a vinyl copy of the album was launched into space?
Did you know that G: Gaya Hidup Ceria was the first gay magazine in Indonesia?
Did you know that Justyna Święty-Ersetic "snatch[ed] gold in the dying strides" of the women's 400 metres at the 2018 European Athletics Championships?
Did you know that Kate Nash part-funded a tour promoting her fifth album using an OnlyFans account?
Did you know that Mabel MacFerran Rockwell was the only female engineer to work on designing the electrical systems for Hoover Dam?
Did you know that Malawian bishop Fanuel Magangani was circumcised as an adult to promote its effectiveness in reducing HIV transmission?
Did you know that William R. Ferguson received a two-year prison sentence for selling a device that was claimed to cure disease through "a force unknown to science"?
Did you know that a Twitter user and an animal sanctuary were involved in a copyright dispute over Meatball?
Did you know that some people chanted "USA, USA!" and others waved Peruvian flags at the inauguration of Pope Leo XIV?
Did you know that the name of the song "Shagidi" was inspired by a children's game?
Did you know that Albanian investment in the AI startup Thinking Machines Lab required an amendment to the country's 2025 budget?
Did you know that Ipuk Fiestiandani defeated her husband's former deputy in a 2020 election?
Did you know that Irene D. Paden turned an annual family summer trip into a book on American westward expansion trails?
Did you know that Jeannie Rice went from running to lose weight to running to set world records?
Did you know that Libya's opposition to abortion has led it to form alliances with the United States and the Catholic Church?
Did you know that Pedro Durruti was executed by firing squad, but the Spanish State officially recorded his cause of death as cardiac arrest?
Did you know that the Houston Rockets sold a majority stake in their League of Legends esports team for US$30 million?
Did you know that the carnivorous dinosaur Eocarcharia may be a chimaera, its bones coming from two different families?
Did you know that the fossil soapberry Bohlenia was named after Oregon's 1972 biology teacher of the year?
Did you know that Angelina Jolie paid homage to Marilyn Monroe with a dress?
Did you know that Isabel Gutiérrez del Arroyo considered preserving Puerto Rican history to be the best way to serve her people?
Did you know that Jim Lankas retired from professional boxing and wrestling to enter farming?
Did you know that Lucie Lagerbielke had a public feud in the press with critic Poul Bjerre after he criticised one of her books?
Did you know that Utah Jazz basketball broadcasts returned in 2023 to a station that is named after the team?
Did you know that a monument in Croatia depicts a small red car triumphing over a battle tank?
Did you know that players of a 2022 strategy board game have to manage stress, overheating, and tight cornering?
Did you know that the 2025 St. Louis tornado caused the worst residential damage in the U.S. since the 2011 Joplin tornado?
Did you know that the first headquarters of New York magazine was a former political clubhouse?
Did you know that an openly gay referee officiated the 2025 PDC World Darts Championship final?
Did you know that around 2,000 prison guards were fired after the 2025 New York corrections officers' strike ended?
Did you know that baseball player Chuck Hockenbery had to refuse an offer to join an MLB team?
Did you know that financial issues including the misuse of funds emerged at an Illinois TV station after its director died?
Did you know that old bridge abutments became artificial reefs during the South Coast Rail project?
Did you know that the Cova de les Dones contains prehistoric art and ancient Roman inscriptions?
Did you know that the end of the Okipa involved Bull Dancers of the Mandan tribe (example pictured) having ritual sex with married women and then smoking a "pipe of reconciliation" with their husbands?
Did you know that the limited edition of Reira Ushio's debut EP includes a booklet featuring short stories she wrote?
Did you know that Bill Maynard received letters thanking him for making Oh No It's Selwyn Froggitt "the cleanest show on television"?
Did you know that Chad McCharles, before becoming a bishop, moonlighted as a school bus driver?
Did you know that Imogen was described as "puns-and-needles"?
Did you know that Mary Kahil, an Egyptian Christian mystic, cofounded one of the earliest women's movements in the Arab world?
Did you know that Roy Soemirat led the evacuation of Indonesian citizens from Iran during the Iran–Israel war?
Did you know that a 1932 building of the National Geographic Society Headquarters was constructed in part to house the group's collection of 300,000 photographs?
Did you know that it took searchers three days to find the crash site of Western Air Lines Flight 34?
Did you know that many of Johann Sebastian Bach's manuscripts were lost because some of his family members did not care about preserving them?
Did you know that the band Pinmonkey got their name from an episode of The Simpsons?
Did you know that Chinese pilot Shi Bangfan lost his left arm in a dogfight in which he downed a Japanese plane, and was later honored with a brand of cigarettes named after him?
Did you know that El Salvador's only goal at a FIFA World Cup occurred during a 10–1 loss to Hungary?
Did you know that Ivan I of Moscow earned the nickname "Kalita", which literally means 'money bag'?
Did you know that Morocco's abortion law requires spousal consent, but not explicitly the consent of the woman receiving the procedure?
Did you know that Nurtami Soedarsono helped to identify victims of the 2012 Sukhoi crash?
Did you know that The Big Con observes that big consultancies play both sides – advising the fossil-fuel industry while also shaping government climate policy?
Did you know that a socialist youth organization held an anti-NATO music festival attended by 20,000 people in 1982 West Berlin?
Did you know that sprinter Kenaz Kaniwete was the youngest athletics competitor at the 2024 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that Korean science fiction has evolved into distinct North and South branches since the first work appeared in 1929?
Did you know that Oduwa's reign saw cowries becoming so widespread as currency that nobles stitched them into their clothes, causing runaway inflation?
Did you know that Sue Anderson helped to break the glass ceiling for female conductors on Broadway?
Did you know that Yulius Selvanus, the governor of North Sulawesi, Indonesia, used his parents' clan names for "personal branding"?
Did you know that actress Emma Stone contributed "oddities" to "Florida!!!"?
Did you know that flowers falling off the final dress in Alexander McQueen's Sarabande was a serendipitous effect?
Did you know that gymnast Marisa Dick debuted a new balance beam gymnastics move at the 2016 Summer Olympics, which was then named after her?
Did you know that the Georgian Philharmonic Orchestra, founded in 1925, gave a solidarity concert with Ukraine soon after the  Russian invasion?
Did you know that the Mansfield Town Mill has produced flour, textiles and cannabis?
Did you know that 3.5% of a country's population can potentially change its government?
Did you know that Bal Krishna Kaul, who served as the first Home and Finance minister of Ajmer State, undertook a 22-day hunger strike in Ajmer Jail?
Did you know that Freddie Parker and Don King each played one game for the Green Bay Packers as replacement players in 1987 before being injured and never playing in the NFL again?
Did you know that Megalobulimus dryades (example pictured) is named after a kind of nymph from Greek mythology?
Did you know that Shakira's Oral Fixation, Vol. 2 was only released in some Middle Eastern countries, and even then without the song "How Do You Do", which was deemed blasphemous?
Did you know that some of the interior decoration of the Ernst-Haeckel-Haus is inspired by jellyfish?
Did you know that the first volume of Felix Klein's books on the history of mathematics does not mention the three women who originally transcribed his lectures?
Did you know that weightlifter Ri Suk, after returning from a four-year absence from competing internationally, then set eight world records in a single competition?
Did you know that Alberto Jarrín once defeated a train in a running race?
Did you know that Ed Policy and his father Carmen Policy have both served as presidents of National Football League teams?
Did you know that German equestrian Hermann Weiland competed for Croatia at the 1992 Summer Olympics, but marched with Guam during the opening ceremony?
Did you know that Gusnar Ismail lost a gubernatorial election to Rusli Habibie in 2011, but won a subsequent election in 2024 with Habibie's wife as his running mate?
Did you know that Volcano Pizzeria, according to the family of one of its founders, was originally a diner selling Italian food before it became the "granddaddy" of Windsor-style pizza?
Did you know that a statue of Vladimir Lenin in Ukraine was transformed into a statue of Darth Vader?
Did you know that the best baguette in Paris has been determined by a jury (member pictured) annually since 1994?
Did you know that the general manager of a Cleveland TV station believed its owner to be "just tired of losing money"?
Did you know that when Dutch ships reached China for the first time, seventeen out of twenty crew members were executed by the Portuguese?
Did you know that Alicella gigantea (example pictured) grows up to 34 cm (13 in) in length, making it the world's largest amphipod?
Did you know that Guilty as Sock! was described as "the perfect arena" for "unsettled beef"?
Did you know that Redhill MRT station features pink walls?
Did you know that a late-night live stream of Frei Gilson praying the Rosary during Lent in 2025 reached one million people?
Did you know that although Seal Island attracts tourists due to its reef, transport to the island is hard due to its reef?
Did you know that music critic Joshua Kosman said Katherine Balch is "like some kind of musical Thomas Edison"?
Did you know that the National Baseball Hall of Fame does not know who first used the notation "ꓘ" to represent a strikeout looking?
Did you know that the surname Baena was popular among Spanish Jews forced to convert to Catholicism during the Reconquista, even though few Jews in Baena had Jewish surnames in the first place?
Did you know that Formula One races in Golden Lap are simply colored dots traveling along a thick line?
Did you know that Little Benjamin the Ruler is buried in the churchyard of St Anne's Church, Lewes, but nobody knows who he was?
Did you know that a forest in northern Wisconsin was subject to nuclear-radiation testing in the 1970s?
Did you know that a photograph of Lesotho sprinter Motsapi Moorosi was sent into space on the Voyager Golden Records?
Did you know that a recent international aid vessel bound for Gaza counted among its crew Greta Thunberg and a French member of the European Parliament?
Did you know that a studio portrait of the Bundoo Girls, who belonged to a secret society in Sierra Leone, was taken by Alphonso Lisk-Carew and sold as a postcard to tourists?
Did you know that architect Arthur Loveless was a collector of Chinese snuff bottles?
Did you know that despite the presence of 300 witnesses, an inquest concluded that the lynching of Preston Porter Jr. was carried out "at the hands of parties unknown"?
Did you know that there was a 24-year gap between the first Romanian Olympian and the next?
Did you know that NFL player Adolph Bieberstein was later an attorney who argued before the United States Supreme Court?
Did you know that Patriarch Arnulf's "niece" Emma probably really was just his niece?
Did you know that Saiyuud Diwong's cookbook Cooking with Poo won an Oddest Title of the Year award?
Did you know that Sangay Tenzin started his international swimming career at the World Championships?
Did you know that four uninhabited islands triggered a dispute between the Indonesian provinces of Aceh and North Sumatra?
Did you know that no major hurricane has hit Mexico earlier in the year than Hurricane Erick since records began?
Did you know that some medical professionals run clinics dedicated to illegal abortions in Ivory Coast?
Did you know that the former Essex County Courthouse was designed by an American and built by Canada's future prime minister?
Did you know that the identity of "Barbara O'Brien", the author of Operators and Things, a 1958 autobiographical account of schizophrenia, has not been publicly revealed?
Did you know that Christ Church, Amherstburg, a Canadian church built by a Loyalist, features timbers fashioned after a ship's hull?
Did you know that Glódís Perla Viggósdóttir scored two goals for the Iceland women's national football team the day before she graduated from university?
Did you know that Li Jinhua was the first female spokesperson of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs?
Did you know that according to the Zoo Miami communications director, 100 men could beat a single gorilla if they "envelop the gorilla and create a human straightjacket"?
Did you know that an announcer damaged the tower of an Arkansas radio station while driving a moving van?
Did you know that before the establishment of Singapore's Rail Test Centre, the bulk of rolling-stock testing had to be conducted overseas?
Did you know that the artist Cady Noland has disavowed artworks that she no longer considered genuine because they were damaged or altered?
Did you know that the literary heritage of Nova Scotia includes the first newspaper and the first literary journal in Canada?
Did you know that the memorial for James Bunbury White, the founder of Whiteville, North Carolina, was knocked down in a car crash 200 years after his death?
Did you know that Elyn Saks's memoir about her life with schizophrenia won her a "Genius Grant"?
Did you know that Here Will I Nest was the first dramatic Canadian feature film to be shot in colour, and the first film adaptation of a Canadian play?
Did you know that Prescott Currier was one of the first Americans to visit the British code-breaking centre at Bletchley Park?
Did you know that fencer Bernardo de la Guardia was a competitor and a judge – at the same Olympic Games?
Did you know that one Japanese bullet train service once skipped the cities of Nagoya and Kyoto?
Did you know that the Ennis House was variously characterized as "a mausoleum, fortress, Tibetan monument, Mayan temple, and palace"?
Did you know that the subculture of Aristasia combined Guénonian Traditionalism with lesbian separatism?
Did you know that François-Edmond Fortier published more than 3,300 postcards of French West Africa (example pictured) between 1901 and 1920?
Did you know that Gyula Kakas competed at two Olympics in gymnastics, set the Hungarian pole-vault record, and played for a national-champion football club?
Did you know that Iceland's entry for Eurovision in 2025 brought out a line of Ash Wednesday costumes?
Did you know that Oleksandr Rodin's opera Kateryna was staged despite barricades, bombings, and an air-raid alarm?
Did you know that Paul Among the People treats the Pauline epistles as sources comparable to Homer, Aristophanes and Virgil on Greco-Roman attitudes?
Did you know that Vatican Taekwondo has no registered athletes or coaches?
Did you know that a language riot broke out between members of Our Lady of the Rosary in 1917?
Did you know that a lyric in Beautiful Chaos was praised for "spreading queer joy"?
Did you know that defending champions Bermuda did not compete in the women's football tournament at the 2015 Island Games?
Did you know that "Whistle" was composed because of a miscommunication between a film director and the songwriters?
Did you know that AHOF, a K-pop group formed on a reality show, includes two members who were not on the winning team?
Did you know that Don Summers signed with an NFL team despite having gone more than 400 days without catching a football?
Did you know that Fletcher Ransom wrote and illustrated a book of satirical cartoons about Theodore Roosevelt titled My Policies in Jungleland?
Did you know that Philippe Housiaux took a law examination instead of competing in the 1972 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that Trichogenes claviger (examples pictured) can climb nets using outgrowths from its head?
Did you know that Worrall Reed Carter wrote about beans, bullets and black oil?
Did you know that art students designed the stained-glass windows of the Chapel at George Fox University?
Did you know that helical strakes can be used to reduce structural fatigue on structures such as chimneys and pipelines?
Did you know that American poet Gladys Cromwell took her own life alongside her twin sister by jumping off a ship while returning home from World War I?
Did you know that Dan Muse was a history teacher before becoming a hockey coach?
Did you know that French drag queens carried the Olympic flame in 2024?
Did you know that Johann Voldemar Jannsen was rebuked by the Estonian nationalist movement that he helped to found, only for a song he wrote to become Estonia's national anthem?
Did you know that a stepped pyramid at Horvat Midras has been identified as the remnant of a monumental family tomb from Second Temple Judea?
Did you know that as of 2023 only about 150 people had been diagnosed with Skraban–Deardorff syndrome?
Did you know that attempted crimes with no chance of success are still punishable by law in Germany?
Did you know that the developers of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 added an easy mode so that Jennifer English could play it?
Did you know that the head of a labor union was jailed during the 1979 New York prison guards' strike and guarded by members of his union?
Did you know that Audrey Hawthorn volunteered as curator while spending more than 20 years establishing a museum of anthropology?
Did you know that Lucy Beall Lott was expected to die in infancy, but later earned master's degrees from Cambridge and London while modeling for Cosmopolitan and Vogue?
Did you know that cycling's governing body ended Chelsea Wolfe's career through a rule change?
Did you know that lyme & cybelle's "Follow Me" was the first of only three songs by Warren Zevon to chart on the Billboard Hot 100?
Did you know that the Canons Regular of St. John Cantius have trained some 2,000 priests in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite of the Catholic Mass?
Did you know that the May 1995 Pale air strikes during the Bosnian War were the first offensive operations carried out by the Spanish Air Force since 1957?
Did you know that the ancient Greek orator Lysias wrote a "Funeral Oration", but may have been forbidden from delivering it?
Did you know that the origin myth of the Mori polity involved a man appearing from a bamboo shoot?
Did you know that the role of Julia Santos was created for Sydney Penny after she was nominated for an Emmy Award for her work in Santa Barbara?
Did you know that Kathleen O'Melia's conversion to the Catholic Church so embarrassed the Anglican Church in Vancouver that there are almost no references to it in primary sources?
Did you know that Robert Baker Park in Baltimore was named after Robert Lewis Baker, whose personal garden was recreated at the city's Flower and Garden Show the year after his death?
Did you know that a 1995 demonstration of the 1969-era AL1 microprocessor using Nintendo Entertainment System cartridges successfully challenged Texas Instruments' patents on the microprocessor?
Did you know that it took a two-year "campaign" from future NFL player Fred Shirey, his friends and coaches for Shirey's father to allow him to try out for his high school team?
Did you know that the audience at the premiere of the film Viet Flakes unknowingly controlled the projection equipment through their physical responses to images of the Vietnam War?
Did you know that the ophicleide (example pictured) was used in early British brass bands in the 19th century before being replaced by the euphonium?
Did you know that the reconstructed ancestral language of the Siouan languages had two sounds that linguists call "funny w" and "funny r"?
Did you know that to get to her training in Germany, luger Verona Marjanović had to run through an airport while bullets were being fired?
Did you know that American football player Bob Wicks was teammates with the same quarterback from fourth grade through college?
Did you know that Archbishop Letard II of Nazareth was one of only a few fellow bishops about whom William of Tyre had something nice to say?
Did you know that Mayu Sakai found drawing Peter Pan Syndrome difficult because of its fantasy elements?
Did you know that Peru's fishing industry is the world's largest producer of fishmeal and fish oil?
Did you know that actor Suja Khondokar served as a flight attendant aboard the inaugural commercial flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines?
Did you know that from 1986 to 1988, a Boston TV station was the only one in the U.S. to broadcast digital audio in its video signal?
Did you know that some Italians eat eggplants with chocolate?
Did you know that the Albanian noble Blasius Mataranga may have been captured and killed by the Balsha family—after they lured him into peace talks with a false promise of safe conduct?
Did you know that the state flag of Transnistria features communist symbols, even though Transnistria is not a communist state?
Did you know that American Civil War chaplain Thomas Mooney was pulled from service after baptizing a cannon?
Did you know that Audichron estimated that Don Elliot Heald's voice was heard on 12 million Audichron phone calls a day in 1971?
Did you know that Indonesian mystic Mbah Suro reportedly consumed only coffee and cigarettes for two years?
Did you know that avery r. young became the first poet laureate of Chicago in 2023?
Did you know that by spinning off Lord Fitzhenry (1794) from a four-volume work in progress, Elizabeth Gunning was paid for two novels instead of one?
Did you know that the British indie rock band Girl Ray named themselves after the surrealist visual artist Man Ray?
Did you know that the Potomac-class frigates (example pictured) were built slowly for the sake of quality, only for the last ships to be outdated by the time they were finished?
Did you know that the United States' first capitol building was later sold for $425 and then demolished?
Did you know that the mascot of an Australian HIV prevention campaign was a condom-wielding superhero?
Did you know that Copford Place has been used as a prisoner of war camp and a retirement home for "gentlefolk"?
Did you know that George Mearns Savery was a pioneer of women's education in England?
Did you know that Kamla Jaan, a hijra and mayor, was removed from office because the electoral rolls listed her as male?
Did you know that Walmart referred to a store at Muscatine Mall as their "Yankee store" because it was then their northernmost?
Did you know that operatic tenor Klaus König, who performed for more than 30 years, also worked as a house painter?