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Did you know that refugee Hadi Tiranvalipour spent his first ten days in Italy living in a forest before joining the Refugee Olympic Team at the 2024 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that when not rock climbing, American Olympian Jesse Grupper develops exoskeletons?
Did you know that "Lucki" Allen's prediction of the Tet Offensive was ignored, but she was later inducted into the Military Intelligence Hall of Fame?
Did you know that American Olympic rugby player Sarah Levy is the great-granddaughter of a Springbok?
Did you know that David Tennant filmed a Doctor Who mini-episode on his birthday?
Did you know that Sarah Gibson, who formed a piano duo with Thomas Kotcheff, composed warp & weft inspired by the art of Miriam Schapiro, to be played today by the BBC Philharmonic at The Proms?
Did you know that an American citizen was sentenced to life imprisonment for attempting to overthrow the government of Cambodia?
Did you know that residents reported the first cycling club in Washington, D.C., (uniform pictured) to the police over concerns that bicycles posed a danger to pedestrians?
Did you know that the idea for Clustertruck came from a developer wanting to escape traffic?
Did you know that British physician John H. Bryant gave the first description of a blue scrotum caused by a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm?
Did you know that Hannibal von Degenfeld played the leading role in establishing the Bavarian Army in 1682, before leading it to the Battle of Vienna a year later?
Did you know that Washington's participation in the 2024 Sugar Bowl marked the first appearance of any Pac-12 Conference team in the Sugar Bowl?
Did you know that a reviewer did not expect a documentary on assisted suicide to be so funny?
Did you know that the discovery of a coffin belonging to Ahhotep I, which had been reused to bury a high priest, ignited a debate among scholars over the true number of Egyptian queens named Ahhotep?
Did you know that while Sunny Choi and Logan Edra represent their country at the Olympics in breakdancing, Afghan breakdancer Manizha Talash competes as a member of the IOC Refugee Olympic Team?
Did you know that female wrestler Kennedy Blades once won a state championship against boys?
Did you know that some abortions in Malawi are performed by traditional healers?
Did you know that the National Casket Company made caskets for U.S. president William McKinley and Ol' Rip the Horned Toad?
Did you know that the cuisine of Jerusalem reflects a blend of Jewish culinary traditions, including Sephardic, Kurdish, Ashkenazi, as well as Palestinian Arab traditions?
Did you know that Apollo astronauts walked on walls before walking on the Moon?
Did you know that Finn Butcher is the inaugural Olympic champion in men's kayak cross?
Did you know that wealth generated by tourism in Barcelona is claimed to be a reason for increased social inequality, causing activists to protest against overtourism?
Did you know that Lothar von Falkenhausen was appointed an honorary professor of Zhejiang University, an honor usually reserved for Nobel Prize winners?
Did you know that Sierra Leone is the only country where a British law from 1861 still bans abortion?
Did you know that Tomas Fung founded the predecessor of the restaurant Ling Nam with only 3,000 Philippine pesos?
Did you know that a critic compared vocalist Riley Gale to a "rabid wolf"?
Did you know that a woman was sentenced to 10 months of forced labor when she "tickled" the breasts of The Motherland Calls?
Did you know that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, a United States regulatory agency, does not require workplaces to have employee break rooms?
Did you know that writer Fănuș Neagu claimed to have spent the Romanian floods of May 1970 stranded with a feral wolf on the roof of a cannery?
Did you know that Felix Eberty was called "an original and ingenious person" by Albert Einstein?
Did you know that a £142 wine fridge was smuggled into Downing Street on 11 December 2020, during the height of the COVID-19 lockdown in the United Kingdom?
Did you know that an art collective released a dating simulator dedicated to preparing the player's income taxes?
Did you know that frontier physician Isaac Coe is credited with saving Indianapolis from an 1821 outbreak of malaria?
Did you know that the Poozeum holds fossilized dinosaur feces which may have come from a T. rex?
Did you know that voice teacher Verna Osborne retired at the age of 101?
Did you know that Bolivian intelligence officer Roberto Quintanilla was responsible for cutting off Che Guevara's hands?
Did you know that before Fred Thomas became an MP, he was the Royal Marines' light heavyweight boxing champion?
Did you know that before becoming a commissioner of Indian affairs, William P. Dole was only known to have encountered Native Americans once in his life?
Did you know that horse and sleigh racing once took place on Ocean Parkway?
Did you know that islands are home to an estimated 41 percent of land vertebrates at risk of extinction?
Did you know that one of the items on display at the Baltimore Museum and Gallery of Fine Arts  was George Washington's shaving brush?
Did you know that the pulse stops during the soliloquy of In C Mali?
Did you know that Amy Sawyer was the only woman to contribute to the more than a thousand illustrations created for H. Rider Haggard's works during his lifetime?
Did you know that Chinese archaeologist Zou Heng was forced to work as a poultry farmer during the Cultural Revolution?
Did you know that Major General Jarrett Robertson earned the nickname "Desert Fox" by having similar skills in battle to German field marshal Erwin Rommel, who held the same nickname?
Did you know that President Ieremia Tabai of Kiribati was elected in 1978, 1982, 1983 and 1987, although his eligibility for the fourth term was subject to a legal challenge?
Did you know that the Historia Divae Monacellae, a medieval hagiography, tells of wild hares performing miracles?
Did you know that the Linda Lindas wrote No Obligation, their second album, during breaks from school and touring?
Did you know that Leonhard Kaiser, a student of Martin Luther, was burned at the stake on 16 August 1527 after being declared guilty of heresy?
Did you know that some of the first likely Libotonius fossils collected are lost at the Smithsonian?
Did you know that the 2024 song "Tobey" features "3 generations of Detroit"?
Did you know that the flowers of Pavonia praemorsa bloom and die within the same day?
Did you know that Japanese surgeon Hayari Miyake cured Albert Einstein of a tropical fever?
Did you know that South Korea has a day to celebrate North Koreans?
Did you know that a Philadelphia TV station shut down because of a family feud?
Did you know that classical composer Carl Ludvig Lithander also worked as a teacher at a military academy?
Did you know that Abraham Lincoln felt obliged to propose to Mary Owens – a woman he did not want to marry – but was rejected several times?
Did you know that Jennifer Brea directed an Academy Award–shortlisted documentary while bedbound from ME/CFS?
Did you know that a scrapped song from SZA's second album was supposed to be on her next one, but when the song was leaked she had to scrap it again?
Did you know that sport in Vatican City has included cricket, calcio fiorentino, and taekwondo?
Did you know that the 4,000-year-old Ravenswood standing stone now lies in a cul-de-sac in a 1970s Scottish housing estate?
Did you know that the DI MA-1 Mk. III rifle was made in Myanmar as a reverse-engineered copy of the Chinese QBZ-97?
Did you know that Johann Joseph Dömling suggested in 1803 that venous blood contained carbon monoxide?
Did you know that Lisa M. Corrigan used the prison memoirs of black activists to show how incarceration impacted the black power movement?
Did you know that a shipwreck in the eastern Mediterranean, dating from the Late Bronze Age, is the earliest deep-sea shipwreck to be discovered?
Did you know that the two victims of the Zénith balloon incident are depicted holding hands on their tomb?
Did you know that John S. McCain Sr. and John S. McCain Jr. (both pictured) were the first father-and-son pair to achieve the U.S. rank of four-star admiral?
Did you know that a scholar argued that the 2021 German novel About People, which is set during the COVID-19 pandemic in the country, encourages "sympathy with rightwing extremists"?
Did you know that the 1885 wreck of the cargo ship Dmitry was the inspiration for the arrival of Count Dracula in England in Bram Stoker's 1897 novel?
Did you know that the character Dogpool was portrayed by "Britain's ugliest dog"?
Did you know that Anna DeShawn started E3 Radio to help educate others about Black women that she did not learn about in grade school?
Did you know that a South Korean church suspended a pastor, Lee Dong-hwan, after he performed a blessing at a queer festival and eventually excommunicated him?
Did you know that in revenge for the torture of Polish prisoners, the terminally-ill Jan Kryst walked into the Café Adria and shot members of the Gestapo?
Did you know that the Advanced Tactical Fighter program resulted in the F-22 Raptor?
Did you know that the Linda Lindas have recorded a cover of the song they were named after?
Did you know that Eilish Cleary was controversially dismissed as New Brunswick's chief medical officer of health while studying glyphosate, a herbicide widely used in the province's industries?
Did you know that a superseded combination is not a synonym for a synonym?
Did you know that in 1989, Rockstar North opened its first offices above a former fish and chip shop in Dundee?
Did you know that Kanaria's song "King" has been characterized as an allegory for the house arrest, trial, and execution of Louis XVI?
Did you know that a commentator said the McLaren MCL60 underwent "one of the most impressive in-season development steps ever seen" in Formula One?
Did you know that a lyric in the song "Hands on Me" is about Meghan Trainor being unable to have sex due to pelvic floor damage?
Did you know that the Santos Passos Church in Guimarães, Portugal, was declared a royal chapel by King Luís I in 1878?
Did you know that the United States' largest planned solar project, Mammoth Solar, is named after mastodon fossils rather than its size?
Did you know that the five stripes of the flag of Togo represent the country's five regions?
Did you know that Moain Sadeq led excavations at Tell es-Sakan in the Gaza Strip, the oldest-known ancient Egyptian fortification to be excavated?
Did you know that Richard Swanson died while trying to dribble a soccer ball from Seattle to São Paulo?
Did you know that a performance by Milkie Way at the 2021 Heavy Music Awards got its Twitch stream banned for three days?
Did you know that during World War II an armed resistance group was based at the Norwegian Soy Flour Plant in Larvik?
Did you know that voice actress Aoi Koga has an interest in manhole covers?
Did you know that women seeking abortions in Eswatini or in Lesotho may travel to neighbouring South Africa, where it is legal?
Did you know that Crystal Castles canceled their studio recording plans for "Not in Love" because of Robert Smith's demo vocals?
Did you know that Doc Edgerton created a stroboscope that he used to take high-speed photographs of bullets being shot, insects flying, and drops of liquid?
Did you know that Hadriana in All My Dreams, published in 1988, was the first novel by a Haitian author to win a major French literary award?
Did you know that Hendrik Wortman oversaw the early development of the Zuiderzee Works, which dammed off the Zuiderzee to create arable land in the Netherlands?
Did you know that Michael Jerrell was the only player from the NCAA Division II level to be selected in the 2024 NFL draft?
Did you know that Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founder and first president of Bangladesh, experienced his birthday in jail eight times?
Did you know that architect John Henry Hirst designed at least nine Grade II listed buildings, including Cambridge Crescent, Harrogate, which hosts the newsroom of the Stray Ferret?
Did you know that though Donatello was a Bardi, he was not a Bardi?
Did you know that Wolfgang Rihm asked of the music of his 1987 opera Oedipus: "Sound is a weapon here – or a scalpel?"
Did you know that after becoming a religious leader of the Upper Skagit Indian Tribe, Slaybebtikud united the tribes and established himself as their sole leader?
Did you know that entomologist Charles De Geer made all the illustrations for his eight-volume work himself (example pictured)?
Did you know that thousands of crocodiles were once farmed on Bazaruto Island?
Did you know that Aleister Crowley's 1941 manifesto controversially asserts a human right to commit tyrannicide?
Did you know that Begüm Pusat, a 15-year-old Turkish wheelchair basketballer, was one of the youngest players at the 2019 Women's U25 World Championship?
Did you know that Brandiose's design work for the Rocket City Trash Pandas helped the team sell $4 million in merchandise before it played its first game?
Did you know that Carey Wright implemented literacy reforms that led to the "Mississippi Miracle"?
Did you know that Titiou Lecoq only realized that "women did not rule the universe" after she left home?
Did you know that Tupou VI was crowned by D'Arcy Wood, an Australian, in order to respect the tradition of native Tongans not touching the king's head?
Did you know that by losing her constituency of South West Norfolk in 2024, Liz Truss became the first former UK prime minister since 1935 to lose their seat?
Did you know that Ernest Hemingway broke a cane over John O'Hara's head in Costello's, an Irish bar in New York City?
Did you know that Jerzy Artysz was given a gala concert on his 70th birthday by the Chopin University of Music?
Did you know that Liebfrauenkirche, a Catholic church in Zurich, was designed with Italian influences to distinguish it from churches of other denominations?
Did you know that a Stegosaurus fossil sold for $44.6 million?
Did you know that according to Charles Melville, the poet Hatefi implied that Timur was another Alexander the Great by making Timur the subject of the fourth poem of a quintet?
Did you know that after her 2019 death in rural China, Huang Wenxiu was elevated into a national model by the Chinese Communist Party?
Did you know that police were called several times in 2014 about a fictitious post on r/nosleep?
Did you know that traditional folk dances are an essential part of Pontic Greek culture?
Did you know that Robert Turner  remained in post for around 30 years after being described as "the oldest soldier in the Royal Artillery"?
Did you know that Samuel Johnson did not want to be depicted as "Blinking Sam"?
Did you know that The Eternaut 1969 is a reboot of the original comic, with an anti-imperialist tone?
Did you know that mamas sang on "Mama"?
Did you know that storm chaser Reed Timmer feared thunder and lightning at a young age?
Did you know that the Durrës Expedition in 1376 saw Louis of Évreux successfully recapture Durrës from Karl Thopia, only for Thopia to reclaim the city in 1383?
Did you know that you can search Wikipedia or a database of more than 37 billion compounds by substructure?
Did you know that Bangué, the smallest island of the Bazaruto Archipelago, was formed by ocean waves shaped by the surrounding archipelago?
Did you know that The Game led to a boom in all-channel TV sales so viewers could see the game on Ohio State University's TV station?
Did you know that dominant males of Perugia's limia (species pictured) may be so preoccupied with fighting each other that the females end up mating with the subordinate males?
Did you know that following the filming of the music video for "Guess", Charli XCX and Billie Eilish donated 10,000 pairs of underwear to charity?
Did you know that journalist Jules Loh reported that Malcolm X told him that "his own people would kill him" before his assassination?
Did you know that resources to fight the 1988 White Mountain Fire were slow to arrive because of fires at Yellowstone?
Did you know that Australian military chaplain Andrew Gillison took up arms to snipe at Turkish soldiers in Gallipoli?
Did you know that a casino, a bar, and formerly a restaurant occupy what was once one of Brighton's most important cinemas?
Did you know that a knife attack in Suzhou, China, led to the deletion of hundreds of ultranationalist posts from social media platforms?
Did you know that during World War II, Gabriel Navarrete tried to prevent the crossing of Rapido River, in which American forces suffered 2,128 casualties?
Did you know that even though abortion is legal in Zambia, most are performed unsafely?
Did you know that the 1853 Valley Falls train collision led to the creation of a time zone?
Did you know that Keke Palmer did an impression of "We did it, Joe!" onstage with Kamala Harris?
Did you know that Nam Su-hyeon, Jeon Hun-young, and Lim Si-hyeon's gold medal in the women's team archery event at the 2024 Olympics marked South Korea's tenth victory in a row?
Did you know that Robert Aiello's first novel was published after literary agents turned it down roughly 60 times?
Did you know that an AI-generated cover of Shaan and Kailash Kher's "Chand Sifarish" received nearly five million views on Instagram in two days?
Did you know that under the premiership of Josef Hoop, the Progressive Citizens' Party was the first party to hold an absolute majority in the Landtag of Liechtenstein?
Did you know that Rachel Scott reported live during the January 6 United States Capitol attack in her first week as ABC News' White House correspondent?
Did you know that Tropical Storm Chris in July 2024 caused bodies of water to overflow in Ciudad Madero, Mexico, resulting in a crocodile sighting at a beach?
Did you know that William Pope, an Anglican deacon, was a follower of John Henry Newman and like him became a Roman Catholic priest?
Did you know that a bootleg album of Jai Paul's unreleased music was named as one of the best of 2013 by several music publications?
Did you know that a historian lamented the lack of English-language translations for the work of Aracy Amaral despite it being "a vital reference for the study of art history in Brazil"?
Did you know that the Auckland meteorite crashed through the roof of a house in New Zealand?
Did you know that Asiatyrannus is thought to have grown to less than half the size of other tyrannosaurs?
Did you know that Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza is based on Egyptian Ratscrew?
Did you know that The Hooded Man is an iconic photograph of the Iraq War, known as a symbol of torture at Abu Ghraib prison?
Did you know that in Mannion v. Coors Brewing Co., Judge Lewis A. Kaplan cited Thomas Mangelsen's Catch of the Day as a photograph so original in its timing that it could be copyrightable for that alone?
Did you know that the Dublin Castle scandal in 1884 led to the resignations, loss of positions, and criminal convictions of a number of British administrators in Dublin, and celebrations amongst Irish nationalists?
Did you know that the colours of the flag of Madagascar originally had no meaning?
Did you know that actress Lisa Coleman attended artist Euan Uglow's studio one to three times a week from 1993 to 1996 to model for Articulation?
Did you know that brothers Mike McCartney and Paul McCartney, and sisters Dakota Fanning and Elle Fanning, use their middle names as their first names?
Did you know that in The Gambia, there is a belief that people can summon evil spirits to cause abortions?
Did you know that rivers form 23% of international borders?
Did you know that the Kitāb al-ṭabīẖ, a medieval Andalusian cookbook, contains an early version of Jewish challah bread, which traveled with Jews expelled from Spain and likely influenced Ashkenazi cuisine?
Did you know that "Ka Esi Le Onye Isi Oche", a 1983 song by Mike Ejeagha, went viral in 2024?
Did you know that Swedish naval officer Henrik Johan Nauckhoff fought against the British in the American Revolutionary War?
Did you know that cinematographer Alfredo Gandolfi also had a career as a singer that included more than 300 performances at the Metropolitan Opera?
Did you know that upon independence from Portugal, the flags of São Tomé and Príncipe, Cape Verde, and Guinea-Bissau all featured the colours green, yellow and red, as well as black stars?
Did you know that 30 royal portraits of Korean kings were completely destroyed in a 1954 fire in Busan, South Korea?
Did you know that Babydog is "a fixture in West Virginia politics"?
Did you know that Sergei Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible (scene pictured) has been named as both one of the worst films and one of the greatest films of all time?
Did you know that a judge compared the bankruptcy fraud of an Ohio TV station to a 1601 English court case?
Did you know that the 1919 foxtrot song "I'll See You in C-U-B-A" was an example of Cuba being perceived as "America's playground"?
Did you know that Cyclone Freddy was the longest-lasting tropical cyclone recorded?
Did you know that Daiki Kobayashi was already known for his androgynous voice when he was cast as a cross-dressing idol in The Idolmaster SideM?
Did you know that architect Ivan Palmaw designed houses in Shanghai and Seattle after fleeing the Russian Revolution?
Did you know that despite suffering burns to 80 percent of his body, Israel Del Toro became the first member of the U.S. Air Force to re-enlist after being deemed 100-percent disabled?
Did you know that while performing "Love Is Embarrassing", Olivia Rodrigo suffered an "embarrassing" wardrobe malfunction?
Did you know that William Aitken, William J. Bain, J. Lister Holmes, John T. Jacobsen, and George W. Stoddard collaborated in the early 1940s to design America's first racially integrated public housing development?
Did you know that according to a TikTok theory, burnt toast could save you from a car accident?
Did you know that during the 1929 Dollar Mountain Fire, 65 firefighters survived being surrounded by fire overnight by sheltering near a creek?
Did you know that in 1253 Henry III of England ordered that his white bear (sculpture pictured) be permitted to swim and hunt in the River Thames?
Did you know that the lyrics of "Executioner's Tax (Swing of the Axe)" were inspired by beheadings in medieval Europe?
Did you know that the prison scenes in the film Plurality were shot in an archaeology museum?
Did you know that up to 16,000 crows regularly commute from around the Seattle metropolitan area to a wetland in Bothell, Washington?
Did you know that Betty Hanley, originally a Michigander, was appointed lampshade designer to the British royal family?
Did you know that Greenlandic content creator Qupanuk Olsen petitioned the Inatsisartut to move Greenland's time zone to UTC−03:00?
Did you know that Kim Jong Il had Italian chefs flown into Pyongyang to introduce pizza to North Korea (example pictured)?
Did you know that LA LOM named many of their songs after various locations in Los Angeles?
Did you know that during the 1964 New York World's Fair, police officers used computers at the United States Pavilion to help arrest people?
Did you know that many an Xplorer has traversed the rails in Canberra?
Did you know that the Church of St John of the Collachium was said to contain the hand of John the Baptist, a bowl used by Jesus, and a piece of the True Cross?
Did you know that the Nuwhaha people, despite sometimes being erroneously known as the "Upper Samish", do not speak the Samish language?
Did you know that Nathaniel Coe declined nomination to the United States Senate, instead choosing to serve as an inspector for the United States Postal Service?
Did you know that many producers of Marmelada de Santa Luzia, a variety of quince cheese, are descendants of quilombolas?
Did you know that the Electriquette (example pictured) was an electric wicker vehicle that could be rented at the 1915 Panama–California Exposition?
Did you know that Lorena Peril, who once cleaned toilets at a nursing home, beat out over 3,000 people to sing the national anthem for the San Francisco 49ers?
Did you know that Mohammad Bhar, a Palestinian man with Down syndrome and autism, died following a dog attack in the Gaza Strip during the Israel–Hamas war?