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Did you know that the 2024 Summer Paralympics opening ceremony featured dancing Phryges?
Did you know that the song "You Liked This (Okay, Computer!)" features the former text-to-speech voice of TikTok?
Did you know that Deep Cut Gardens in New Jersey contains a stone replica of Mount Vesuvius that once erupted smoke at the behest of mobster Vito Genovese?
Did you know that Pituamkek National Park Reserve, Canada's newest national park, protects a chain of barrier islands that have been used for fishing and hunting by the Mi'kmaq for 4,000 years?
Did you know that a shark cost a competitor a silver medal in the spearfishing event at the 2014 Micronesian Games?
Did you know that the Haitian Revolution began when Cécile Fatiman sacrificed a black pig, a ritual that was later repeated by Haitians resisting the United States occupation and the Duvalier dynasty?
Did you know that the Hillbilly Thomists, a band made up of friars from the Dominican Order, reached the number-two spot on Billboard's bluegrass chart?
Did you know that the Palace Theater light bulb has been running since 1908?
Did you know that the first silver dollars of the Republic of China were crudely designed mementos (example pictured)?
Did you know that the number 1 is its own square, square root, and factorial?
Did you know that Karan Aujla's Hindi-language single "Tauba Tauba" from the 2024 film Bad Newz became a Canadian Hot 100 top-25 song ahead of the film's release?
Did you know that Tonia Ko once composed a three-part concerto played on bubble wrap?
Did you know that a Paralympic gold medalist originally did not know that she qualified for parasports?
Did you know that in UnMetal, the player has to heal any enemies whom they shoot?
Did you know that the Ferrari FF was, upon its release, the world's fastest four-seater car?
Did you know that Karađorđeva šnicla was accidentally created as an improvisation of chicken Kiev?
Did you know that Ogeretsu Tanaka was inspired to create the manga series Happy of the End after taking a morning walk in Shinjuku?
Did you know that a judge is threatening to shut down Wikipedia in India over a defamation lawsuit?
Did you know that activist Joan McIntyre left Friends of the Earth to start her own organization focused on stopping Japanese and Russian whaling?
Did you know that the world's largest video game studio is headquartered in a former textile factory?
Did you know that "Dark Avenger", a song from Manowar's album Battle Hymns, is narrated by actor Orson Welles?
Did you know that Catharina Weiss used to play for the Rolling Chocolate?
Did you know that Louis Vuitton helped to develop the visual arts programme for the School of the Arts, Singapore?
Did you know that labor lawyer Dick Moss argued the 1975 case which resulted in the establishment of free agency in Major League Baseball?
Did you know that real paramedics were hired to portray EMTs in Mongrel, and they responded to a medical emergency that occurred in a village where they were filming?
Did you know that the University of Memphis football team posthumously retired Danton Barto's number following an online petition?
Did you know that Americans received nearly 15 billion political text messages in 2022?
Did you know that Mr. Bronx was not from the Bronx?
Did you know that Will Wood conducted a Bulgarian choir via Zoom for "White Noise"?
Did you know that following the success of Jools Lebron's "demure" videos, she stated that she was able to use the proceeds to pay for her gender transition?
Did you know that novelist Sue Monk Kidd spent fourteen months researching New Testament–era Egypt and the Levant for The Book of Longings?
Did you know that the US$10,000 bill (example pictured) is the highest denomination of US currency that has been used by the public?
Did you know that the writings of José Rizal, a prominent contributor to liberalism in the Philippines, were adopted by both Philippine independence fighters and American colonial authorities?
Did you know that Oxford suffragist Myvanwy Rhys earned first-class honours from Newnham College, Cambridge, but was denied a degree?
Did you know that an Oklahoma TV station returned to its original call sign after the death of its founder, Gene Autry?
Did you know that approximately 85 per cent of Welsh children were not in school in 1821?
Did you know that both Christian Albright and De'Montre Tuggle were born on the same day, named second-team all-Mid-American Conference in 2020, signed with the Chicago Bears in 2022, and debuted in the CFL in 2023?
Did you know that rabbits can control their body temperature with their ears?
Did you know that the scenes set in the United States in the Taiwanese film Daughter's Daughter were nearly omitted during the writing process but were retained at the insistence of lead actress Sylvia Chang?
Did you know that Mdou Moctar's 2021 album Afrique Victime was distributed on pre-loaded Nokia 6120 classic cellphones?
Did you know that Veto, inspired by the history of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, is considered to be the first Polish collectible card game?
Did you know that a man's body, found wearing only a woman's wedding ring and a pair of socks in 1971, is the oldest unsolved missing persons case in Staffordshire, England?
Did you know that an ancient Canadian archaeological site was discovered during the construction of a dump?
Did you know that in fiction, neutron stars harbour exotic lifeforms in their vicinity, on their surface, and even in their interior?
Did you know that Brenden Bates "loves moving people against their will"?
Did you know that The New York Times Simulator was inspired by its creator's frustration with media coverage of the Israel–Hamas war?
Did you know that a fort in Baguia was restored to be converted into tourist accommodation?
Did you know that for nearly 65 years, Wuhan trolleybus route 1 included a loop around a statue of Sun Yat-sen?
Did you know that while shooting his first short film, Jean-Luc Godard was barred from his mother's funeral for stealing?
Did you know that MyRadar uses a custom satellite constellation to help forecast the weather?
Did you know that a small golden bell found at the site of the Mount Gerizim Temple is believed to have been part of the ephod of a high priest, as described in Exodus 28?
Did you know that because the lord chancellor of England did not freeze assets before trial in 1789, the U.S. Supreme Court decided in 1999 that U.S. courts cannot either?
Did you know that part of the site of Granville Colliery is now used as a dry ski slope?
Did you know that song lyrics were allowed as evidence in the YSL Records racketeering trial?
Did you know that the early woman explorer Adèle de Dombasle travelled to Polynesia in 1847 and worked as an illustrator, drawing people such as Queen Pōmare IV?
Did you know that the parents of Mathias Nkwenti, the second Cameroonian ever to play in the NFL, initially opposed his football career?
Did you know that Wigwam formed four days before their first concert?
Did you know that before his victory at the 1128 Battle of Axspoele, William Clito ordered his knights to cut their hair and remove opulent clothing as a sign of penance?
Did you know that neurocysticercosis has been referred to as the "great imitator" because it can mimic many other neurological disorders?
Did you know that some delegates elected in the Qing dynasty's first provincial elections were secretly affiliated with republican revolutionaries?
Did you know that the only two Venezuelans ever to play for the NFL, Pat Ragusa and Alan Pringle, played a combined total of four regular-season games?
Did you know that Dusko Doder reported the 1984 death of Yuri Andropov, the leader of the Soviet Union, before any official announcement?
Did you know that George Bernard Shaw jokingly threatened to torture Hilaire Belloc if it would get G. K. Chesterton to write his first play?
Did you know that Queen Victoria supported Clare embroidery by purchasing dresses for her family?
Did you know that a nuclear reactor was nearly built at the New York Hall of Science, but the money for the institution instead went to Yankee Stadium?
Did you know that after reading American Writers, William Lloyd Garrison told John Neal to be on guard should he return to the United States?
Did you know that Filomena Fortes once said that she was "a bit critical of top-level sports in Cape Verde" despite being the president of its National Olympic Committee?
Did you know that Gerda Philipsborn, a German woman, dedicated her life to the development of Jamia Millia Islamia, a national university in New Delhi?
Did you know that in the Littlehampton libels, Edith Swan fooled three juries and two judges, had another woman sent to prison twice, and was declared not guilty before finally being convicted?
Did you know that on the same day that the members of Heaven's Gate died in a mass suicide, five members of an unrelated group did likewise?
Did you know that the traditional Rapa Nui tattoos of Viriamo included motifs similar to an adze and a paddle?
Did you know that "So American" is considered the first love song in Olivia Rodrigo's discography by critics?
Did you know that Gao Qifeng, a founder of the Lingnan School, slept in a room filled with explosives?
Did you know that Maroon 5, Kali Uchis, and Wilco have all used the same effects unit?
Did you know that Shah Budak, a prince of the Dulkadir dynasty in Anatolia, blinded his nephew Shahruh in retaliation for his son's similar fate?
Did you know that the law of reentry is cited as an explanation for a character's abrupt exit from the stage in Richard II?
Did you know that Matthew Webb died attempting to swim down the Niagara Rapids?
Did you know that Ready Set Learn! was TLC's answer to the PBS children's lineup?
Did you know that Shawn Mendes's song "Nobody Knows" was recorded in one take on a "tough night"?
Did you know that Wing Sam Chinn combined Chinese and Beaux-Arts architecture in his design for a building in Seattle?
Did you know that in 2018 thieves stole 40 percent of the cocoa produced by the São Toméan Organic Cocoa Production and Export Cooperative?
Did you know that Brian David Gilbert released a series of monster-themed ABBA covers under the name AAAH!BBA?
Did you know that Vincent Darré had a Parisian apartment decorated with skulls?
Did you know that slime monsters (example pictured) have been described as both "a tool for questioning the idea of human exceptionalism" and "loyal punching bags"?
Did you know that the Australian spider Progradungula barringtonensis has been called a "ghost of Gondwana"?
Did you know that the Devil's Doorway is found in Wisconsin?
Did you know that the ghost of Margaret C. Waites is said to haunt an undergraduate suite at Harvard College's Cabot House, protecting her book collection?
Did you know that the song "Haunted" "blends cuteness and spookiness"?
Did you know that the zombie film Get the Hell Out was shot at the currently abandoned Kaohsiung City Council Hall, which had neither water nor electricity?
Did you know that trunk-or-treating was created as a safer alternative to regular trick-or-treating?
Did you know that Yang Pao'an refused to forsake the Chinese Communist Party, reportedly even after a telephone call with Chiang Kai-shek?
Did you know that a photograph of Chili Williams, known as the "Polka Dot Girl", was one of the "two most famous pin-up pictures" of World War II?
Did you know that diverse fields study the mind, including psychology, neuroscience, cognitive science, and philosophy?
Did you know that the music video for John Lennon's "You Are Here", issued half a century after the song was released, shows previously unseen footage of Lennon?
Did you know that David de Pomis published a trilingual Hebrew–Aramaic, Latin and Italian dictionary in 1587?
Did you know that Mitch Torres is a "self-proclaimed damper destroyer"?
Did you know that a poultry farmer was the first woman to compete for the Sovereign's Prize, the highest honour in British rifle shooting?
Did you know that after Liam and Noel Gallagher's band Oasis announced "the most controversial band reunion since the Sex Pistols' 1996 Filthy Lucre Tour", Noel's daughter Anaïs Gallagher criticised some fans for ageism and sexism?
Did you know that oral repositories are individuals trusted with memorising a society's oral traditions, and have been termed "walking libraries"?
Did you know that the basement of the Edmonds Band Rotunda was once used as a kitchen?
Did you know that America's first small-size silver certificate was referred to as a Funnyback?
Did you know that Cate Blanchett played 13 different characters in the multi-screen film installation Manifesto?
Did you know that Ivan Ivan played for the Eagles and the Eagles?
Did you know that Marie Marcks sarcastically caricatured gender roles like no one before, according to Jutta Limbach?
Did you know that convict James Davis escaped custody in Australia and lived with Aboriginal Australians for 13 years?
Did you know that one of the last surviving women from Rapa Nui to receive traditional facial tattoos was queen consort Ana Eva Hei?
Did you know that the British Army deployed companies of aliens to France during the First World War?
Did you know that the Nualas' 2015 novelty song "Yes 2 Love" was created to promote a yes vote?
Did you know that Chinese sculptor Pan He created the Zhuhai Fisher Girl, an icon of Zhuhai?
Did you know that Marine chaplain Francis W. Kelly was known as "Father Foxhole" for his presence on the front lines of the Pacific Theater?
Did you know that Toby Keith's last recording before his death was a cover of Joe Diffie's "Ships That Don't Come In" on the tribute album Hixtape: Vol. 3: Difftape?
Did you know that the Puck Building has two gilded Pucks?
Did you know that when the E-Defense was commissioned in 2005, it was the world's largest 3D earthquake shake table?
Did you know that John W. Keogh killed an attorney to encourage redistricting?
Did you know that Methuselah likes belly rubs?
Did you know that Sammy Basso was the oldest known person with progeria?
Did you know that Tore Skeie's first book, written while he faced severe financial hardship, won him a prize of NOK 100,000?
Did you know that a screen based on the circuitry of a rat brain is displayed on the façade of the Jerusalem-based Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences?
Did you know that the 2024 psychological horror game Mouthwashing utilises non-diegetic scene transitions that mimic glitches and crashes?
Did you know that Charli XCX once followed George Daniel into a toilet but stopped halfway, and later wrote the song "Talk Talk" about the experience?
Did you know that From Warsaw to Ojców, an 1897 Polish adventure and travel novel for young readers, was inspired by Jules Verne's works but reflects Polish patriotic and educational values?
Did you know that Rose O'Neill's marriage to Hugh Roe O'Donnell united two powerful noble families that had been rivals for centuries?
Did you know that a rainbow plaque marks the site of Peckham's Black Lesbian and Gay Centre?
Did you know that one of the paintings sold by Beijing Hanhai was stolen by an emperor, and another was hidden in a well?
Did you know that the name of the Japanese band Sajou no Hana (vocalist pictured) has no official meaning?
Did you know that Allison Reese has received millions of views for her impressions of Kamala Harris?
Did you know that Manhood was Josh Hawley's second book to be published by Regnery, after he was dropped by Simon & Schuster for his support of attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election?
Did you know that Tenzin Doendrup, the 68th Je Khenpo and chief abbot of Bhutan, issued a decree to stop the practice of animal sacrifices?
Did you know that The True Record (issue pictured) closed shortly after implicating Provisional President Yuan Shikai in the assassination of Song Jiaoren?
Did you know that Vivian Stranders, a British-born Jew, served as an officer in the Nazi SS?
Did you know that several major U.S. politicians have spread conspiracy theories about the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season?
Did you know that the embassy of the Philippines in Bucharest is the country's first mission in the Eastern Bloc?
Did you know that the first Chinese driver to race in Formula One debuted at the 2022 Bahrain Grand Prix?
Did you know that the lyrics of Gigi Perez's "Sailor Song" were criticized by far-right conservative Christian communities?
Did you know that Rico Lebrun refused to submit sketches of Genesis (detail pictured), a mural commissioned by Pomona College, for approval by its board of trustees?
Did you know that The Lock-Up, an art gallery housed in a former police station, retains the graffiti drawn by prisoners in the holding cells and has incorporated it into a performative exhibition?
Did you know that Ukrainian journalist Victoria Roshchyna's car was once fired on by Russian tanks?
Did you know that college football player Ricot Joseph declined a full scholarship so that he could be a walk-on?
Did you know that Aniello Prisco was shot to death while trying to extort a crime boss?
Did you know that Canadian microbiologist Patricia Taylor helped American diplomats hide in her house in Tehran during the Iran hostage crisis?
Did you know that He Jianshi used Chinese opera to advance a revolution against the Qing dynasty?
Did you know that Kent Brushes have supplied their products (examples pictured) to every British monarch since George IV?
Did you know that a "glomping circle" in 2008 reportedly lasted seven hours?
Did you know that crab is served in school meals in Toyama Prefecture?
Did you know that the Holy See has been represented by an anime-style mascot?
Did you know that the rural village of Neath, New South Wales, had a population of three Tok Pisin speakers in 2021?
Did you know that despite being Barcelona's starting goalkeeper for 1972, Núria Llansà played one match as right-back?
Did you know that during the Second World War the British government transmitted German music to Nazi U-boats?
Did you know that hot-dog vendor Dan Rossi has slept inside his cart overnight to preserve his spot in front of the Metropolitan Museum of Art?
Did you know that the current flag of Falcón, a state of Venezuela, was first hoisted at the Monument to the Venezuelan Federation in 2006 and is based on the design of the 1806 naval flag of Francisco de Miranda?
Did you know that the music video for "It's OK I'm OK" was edited to make its singer appear naked?
Did you know that Jacques Lewis, a 105-year-old French veteran of D-Day, insisted on participating in a ceremony commemorating the invasion's 80th anniversary?
Did you know that a memorial in Suffolk, England, marks the deaths of six members of a scout troop in a 1914 boating accident and that of the sole survivor two years later in the Battle of the Somme?
Did you know that although Hugh O'Neill publicly assisted the English Crown in thwarting Irish rebels during the Nine Years' War, he was secretly the leader of the Irish confederacy?
Did you know that an enigmatic ancient site deep in Madagascar may have been built by Zoroastrians?
Did you know that the suppression of the Diaspora Revolt of 115–117 CE led to the near-total annihilation and displacement of Jewish communities in Cyrenaica, Cyprus, and much of Egypt?
Did you know that the world's oldest timepiece with an anchor escapement is in the collection of the Irish Museum of Time?
Did you know that Chinese Garden MRT station did not originally have access to the Chinese Garden?
Did you know that Dutch rabbi Meijer de Hond, who grew up in poverty, was known as the Volksrebbe ('people's rabbi') for his popularity among the Jewish poor of Amsterdam?
Did you know that Walter Campbell Smith's training in mineralogy led him to volunteer with the chemical warfare unit of British Army during World War I?
Did you know that Wilf Perreault's artwork of landscapes and alleyways was influenced by artists such as Reta Cowley and Dorothy Knowles?
Did you know that Will Wood performed nude for the music video of a song on SELF-iSH?
Did you know that controversy ensued when the painting Pleasure Garden was offered to the Robert McDougall Art Gallery?
Did you know that members of the Fijian Labour Corps attracted notice on the Western Front of World War I for their height and muscularity?
Did you know that "All Hell Breaks Loose", the last episode of Charmed to feature Shannen Doherty as Prue, was also directed by her?
Did you know that El Eternauta: tercera parte kept Héctor Germán Oesterheld, the creator of the original comic, as a narrator after he was disappeared?
Did you know that Nathania Ong had not seen Les Misérables before successfully auditioning for the role of Éponine?
Did you know that The Cock Destroyers released a trans-inclusive sex education video for Netflix before hosting Slag Wars: The Next Destroyer?
Did you know that the barracks at the Xifeng concentration camp were named for Confucian tenets such as righteousness and filial piety?
Did you know that Jeya Wilson invited New Zealand prime minister David Lange to debate the moral indefensibility of nuclear weapons at the Oxford Union?
Did you know that despite being an ordinary commuter train, the Cannonball was known for its Friday-night parties?
Did you know that the FCC canceled a permit to build a Florida TV station, finding that "the most prominent facility completed within the studio building appears to be a toilet"?
Did you know that the music producer of Barney & Friends considered it ludicrous that its theme song was used in torture at Guantanamo Bay?
Did you know that with the exception of one day in 1941, the Kaunas Carillon stopped playing music for sixteen years due to the Soviet and German occupations of Lithuania?
Did you know that "Buy Cash" is the speaker of the House of Assembly of Eswatini?
Did you know that Checheyigen's political acumen ensured that her family became one of the most powerful in the Mongol Empire?
Did you know that China was once the "Kingdom of Bicycles"?
Did you know that Dalibor Riccardi, a head of state of San Marino, has played more than 70 matches in the country's football league?
Did you know that Eunus, a Syrian slave and reputed prophet, led a slave revolt in Sicily against the Roman Republic?
Did you know that Martha Washington's portrait on the 1896 US one-dollar silver certificate is the most recent time that a woman has been featured on US paper money?
Did you know that at the 2024 Democratic National Convention, vice presidential nominee Tim Walz was booed for visiting the "wrong" Pennsylvanian gas station chain?
Did you know that Rincón Chileno was nicknamed the "second Chilean consulate" by the Chilean immigrant community in Los Angeles?
Did you know that a book known as the "Polish Pinocchio" was published a hundred years ago?
Did you know that before selling chicken and pies, 5-foot-9-inch (1.75 m) Eddie Sheldrake broke UCLA's single-game scoring record in basketball?
Did you know that the cast of The Perfect Couple created a WhatsApp group to avoid filming a dance sequence to the theme song?
Did you know that Eternity in Flames, now commonly shown in Chinese schools, was banned during the Cultural Revolution?
Did you know that Roger Farmer, the first NFL player from Barbados, reached the league after playing for schools that a newspaper described as having "terrible records"?
Did you know that Samuel Lander founded the Williamston Female College in an abandoned hotel?
Did you know that socialists received 31 percent of the vote in the 1917 Łódź City Council election (campaign poster pictured), but the system implemented by the German occupying authorities only gave them 8 percent of the seats?
Did you know that Johann Friedrich Hartknoch published the first edition of Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason?
Did you know that according to the Laws of London, merchants from lands ruled by the German emperor enjoyed special trading privileges in 11th-century London?
Did you know that language activist Hasan Ali spent more than 20 years compiling a dictionary of the Osing language?
Did you know that the choreography of "How You Get the Girl" during the 1989 World Tour resembled that of the musical Singin' in the Rain?