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Did you know that Russell Shorto's mobster grandfather was described as the "holy trinity of a reprobate—a drunk, a philanderer, and a cheat" in a review of the 2021 family memoir Smalltime?
Did you know that a 15-year-old student was brought to court over throwing an egg during a vegetable fight?
Did you know that in one of NFL player Earl Witte's only games, he hit a player so hard that the player "stopped, curled up and dropped to the ground as if he had hit a stone wall"?
Did you know that the Cure's Shows of a Lost World has grossed $37.5 million and become their highest-grossing tour to date, despite the band's refusal to use Ticketmaster's dynamic pricing?
Did you know that according to one traveller, the rapid transit system Lingang DRT took an hour to travel what a car could do in 20 minutes and a bus in 40?
Did you know that in a copyright infringement case over a coffee-table history of the Grateful Dead, the Second Circuit held that a reuser can still claim fair use despite negotiating with the rights holder?
Did you know that Bill Dunn, an Indigenous Australian pastoralist approaching retirement, sold his station at half-price to the Jigalong community despite receiving full-price offers from non-Indigenous people?
Did you know that Ellie Dixon's "Big Lizard Energy" imagines herself as a 320-foot (98 m) dinosaur?
Did you know that John Lennon liked to tell how an older woman lost her temper when she saw his psychedelic Rolls-Royce?
Did you know that NPR favorably compared a story in Jonathan Escoffery's debut book If I Survive You to Moby-Dick?
Did you know that according to Christian tradition, the cloth used to shroud the body of Christ was made of sindon?
Did you know that ancient permafrost can preserve viable microorganisms, some of which contain antibiotic-resistance genes that may be transferred to modern bacteria?
Did you know that before the House of Commons of Canada considers a taxation or spending bill, a royal recommendation has to be given by the governor general?
Did you know that during the "coffin brig" HMS Rinaldo's first three years of service, she captured five ships and sank another?
Did you know that Adele's song "My Little Love" features voice notes of her nine-year-old son?
Did you know that Dennis Law broke an "unwritten commandment" while returning a punt, causing him to get tackled in the end zone?
Did you know that according to legend, the Sacambaya River houses treasure hidden in a cavern by Jesuits?
Did you know that during a call that led to the creation of the Congressional Workers Union, one of the participants attended from a bathroom stall?
Did you know that until the opening of Altay railway station in June 2017, no railway services were provided to Altay City, a tourist attraction with rich mineral resources?
Did you know that Isabelle Cals, who turned to singing after a degree in Chinese, appeared as Wagner's Kundry in a production of Parsifal at the Stadttheater Minden?
Did you know that New Zealand's Big Lemon & Paeroa bottle was originally a replica space rocket?
Did you know that the Counter-Strike map "Inferno" encourages the player to massacre chickens?
Did you know that Lavinia Valbonesi, the first lady–designate of Ecuador, is a nutritionist who owns a fitness center in Tampa, Florida, and a healthy-dining location in Guayaquil?
Did you know that Romanian author Ion Biberi rejected Marxism at the risk of unemployment, consoling himself that "man eats 20 times more than what he needs"?
Did you know that Tommy Villiers, the guitarist for "Feel It", has been a member of five different bands?
Did you know that U.S. Marines eat crayons?
Did you know that in 2023, NFL player Tristin McCollum's team played against a team featuring his twin brother?
Did you know that in Fancies Versus Fads, G. K. Chesterton "knocks all our preconceived notions in the scrap heap, and then tells us that there is no scrap heap"?
Did you know that since being founded in December 2021, the German initiative Freiheitsfonds has paid for the release of around 850 people imprisoned for fare evasion?
Did you know that a man from Milwaukee who goes on walks shirtless is known as the "Milverine"?
Did you know that telephone operator Myriel Davies began her long career as a peace activist during the Suez Crisis?
Did you know that the box cover of the board game John Company shows Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, and George, Prince of Wales, gambling at hazard?
Did you know that the sound for the film A Rustling of Leaves: Inside the Philippine Revolution was recorded using a Walkman?
Did you know that "Thriller" is the most popular Halloween song in the United States?
Did you know that British designer Alexander McQueen pressed live worms into a translucent corset to evoke vampirism and undeath for his collection The Hunger?
Did you know that Night of the Living Dead (film featured) was mistakenly released into the public domain?
Did you know that The Faculty Club at UC Berkeley, built in 1902, has been reported to be a hotspot for paranormal activity?
Did you know that the Circleville Pumpkin Show, the oldest pumpkin show in the United States, has been selecting a Miss Pumpkin since 1933?
Did you know that there are nearly one hundred thousand .monsters on the internet?
Did you know that various online retailers removed hundreds of books featuring erotic horror from their stores?
Did you know that Batman has extra heavy crude?
Did you know that Chen Xiaocui helped to translate Sherlock Holmes into Chinese when she was still a child?
Did you know that Randy Huntington coached three athletes to break world records in the long jump, the triple jump, and the 60-metres split?
Did you know that a song from Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind was performed by four-year-old Mai Fujisawa, daughter of the film's composer Joe Hisaishi?
Did you know that Julia Allison has been described as one of the first influencers?
Did you know that after signing the Camp David Accords in 1978, Prime Minister Menachem Begin ended a speech with a desire to sing the peace song "Hevenu shalom aleichem" with the people of Israel?
Did you know that during the late 20th century, residents of the Hotel Chelsea could give the owner paintings instead of paying rent?
Did you know that insects not only destroyed the personal plant collection of John Hunter Thomas, but also bear his name?
Did you know that scientists traveled thousands of miles to observe the solar eclipse of September 10, 1923, from Santa Catalina Island, but saw only clouds?
Did you know that until 1985, CBS programs on a TV station in Sitka, Alaska, were videotaped in Seattle and aired on a two-week delay?
Did you know that with only three of the six guns in his P-51 Mustang working during a dogfight, Claude J. Crenshaw  managed to shoot down four enemy aircraft?
Did you know that The Sims 2: Apartment Life is not about apartment life?
Did you know that although Quentin Tarantino thought "Wiseman" was "fantastic", he could not find a scene for it in his film Django Unchained?
Did you know that composer Guglielmo Zuelli, a former director of the Palermo Conservatory, spent time in prison before the age of eight?
Did you know that if James Stuart-Wortley had not falsified his age for the 1853 general election, Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke would now be New Zealand's youngest-ever member of parliament?
Did you know that in 1974, Oliver C. Dawson was the first black person to be inducted into the South Carolina Athletic Hall of Fame?
Did you know that French bread is not from France?
Did you know that Hanthawaddy commander Smin Ye-Thin-Yan captured Donwun by deceiving his blood brother?
Did you know that They Might Be Giants sang in Simlish on the soundtrack for The Sims 2: FreeTime?
Did you know that although the 1950 Mexican film Un día de vida (pamphlet pictured) bombed with domestic audiences, it became a classic in Yugoslavia?
Did you know that scholars have argued over whether the Aineta aryballos depicts a goddess, a dancer, or a prostitute?
Did you know that the Seabury Tredwell House, now a museum, is Manhattan's only remaining 19th-century house with its original furnishings?
Did you know that before a separate party was created for Pakistan, the All India Scheduled Castes Federation simultaneously held the posts of Minister of Law in both Pakistan and India?
Did you know that in 1944, the Tuvan-language journal Lenin–Stalinnьꞑ tugunuꞑ adaa-pile  switched from the Latin script to the Cyrillic script?
Did you know that life exists in every part of the biosphere, from the deepest parts of the ocean (bacterium pictured) to altitudes of up to 64 km (40 miles) in the atmosphere?
Did you know that railroad engineer Jules Hanscotte developed a system for the safe braking of heavy trains on steep gradients, but its only significant use was on tourist tramways?
Did you know that Benton Harbor BASIC was written by Gordon Letwin, who Heathkit management said once showed up with long hair, high-top sneakers and a velvet coat?
Did you know that Jimmie Rodgers is considered the "Father of Country Music"?
Did you know that the Battle of Daybathwe ended shortly after the Myaungmya commander Saw E Binnya was assassinated by the Hanthawaddy commander Dein Mani-Yut, whom he thought was defecting to his side?
Did you know that Draken is the tallest, fastest, and joint-steepest roller coaster in South Korea?
Did you know that Eric Sams remarked "what bride ever had a finer wedding gift?" of the song collection Myrthen (Myrtles), which Robert Schumann dedicated to Clara?
Did you know that The Fader praised "Montgomery Brawl" as "a hilarious recap" of the brawl and a "song a piece of history deserves"?
Did you know that since 1977, a world constitution has existed alongside a Provisional World Parliament?
Did you know that the ancient Roman poem In Eutropium criticized the politician Eutropius for holding a "feminine" triumph?
Did you know that the music video for Olivia Rodrigo's song "Get Him Back!" was shot on a smartphone?
Did you know that 150-year-old wooden models of the Temple Mount (example pictured) are important to archaeology, as their creator was the last European ever permitted to survey its foundations?
Did you know that Massachusetts gave the United States its first openly LGBT state legislator to be elected, as well as the first out congressperson and state attorney general?
Did you know that The Butchering Art describes how Joseph Lister's successful surgery on Queen Victoria led to the widespread adoption of his antiseptic techniques?
Did you know that a newspaper in Kentucky reported that the solar eclipse of November 22, 1900, would pass over Austria instead of Australia?
Did you know that actress Jacqui Purvis performed her character's wedding vows in te reo Māori during the 8000th episode of Home and Away?
Did you know that fan-made Fakemon (example pictured) have been confused for genuine unreleased Pokémon?
Did you know that plants grow around volcanic gas vents on Candlemas Island?
Did you know that the August 2014 United States floods set rainfall records across cities in several states, including Michigan, Maine, and New York?
Did you know that Fort Stonewall was considered a model of river defense?
Did you know that Omi in a Hellcat owned three Dodge Hellcats?
Did you know that according to Pope Innocent III's 1213 letter Quia maior, the number of the beast refers to the number of years since Muhammad's migration from Mecca to Medina?
Did you know that euglossine bees distribute the seeds of vanilla tlatepusco?
Did you know that the holes in the Masked Goddess helped prevent it from exploding during creation?
Did you know that Conjurer has contributed to a musical project named after a quote from the sitcom Peep Show?
Did you know that in 1822, the Paleogene mammal Anop­lo­therium commune (reconstruction pictured) was the first fossil species to be subjected to a brain cast study?
Did you know that last month, Delanie Sheehan scored her first professional goal during Gotham FC's first NWSL postseason win?
Did you know that little pink elephants are parasitic?
Did you know that the island bronze-naped pigeon is a popular food at bars and parties on São Tomé?
Did you know that the song "Lacy" is about a girl whom Olivia Rodrigo finds "sexy" and describes as a "Bardot reincarnate"?
Did you know that James Dillon Armstrong was a Virginia state senator, a delegate to West Virginia's constitutional convention, and a circuit court judge while serving for more than 43 years as a Presbyterian church elder?
Did you know that after the British premiere of Percy Grainger's suite In a Nutshell, The Daily Telegraph argued that the marimba, then new to the orchestra, sounded inferior to the xylophone?
Did you know that even though the Legislative Assembly of Quebec ordered a monument of Maurice Duplessis in front of its building, later premiers hid it for 16 years to avoid political tensions?
Did you know that the gecko Paroedura maingoka imitates venomous scorpions to discourage predators?
Did you know that "Mir nach, spricht Christus, unser Held" (Follow me, says Christ, our hero) is a Christian hymn in German with a text by Angelus Silesius that uses sayings of Jesus in direct speech?
Did you know that Broadway actress Isabelle Urquhart started a fashion trend when she decided to reveal her figure on stage by not wearing petticoats?
Did you know that Jewish tartans have been made for the Jewish community of Scotland?
Did you know that an island vindicated James Cook?
Did you know that shortly after a missile strike on the Russian Black Sea Fleet headquarters, Oleksiy Danilov said that the fleet could be "sliced up like a salami" at a later date?
Did you know that the United States Conciliation Service, which was part of the U.S. Department of Labor, came to an end because the writers of the Taft–Hartley Act thought that the service was too partial to labor?
Did you know that to combat water privatization in Bolivia, Freddy Huayta joined a "coordinator"—a loose-knit alliance of organizations united around a single cause?
Did you know that a 1950s album of frog calls developed a cult following?
Did you know that historically, native mercury was extracted from rocks mined in Idrija by washing them in the stream Nikova?
Did you know that the scenic fields of northern wyethia found in the western United States are sometimes a sign that an area has been overgrazed?
Did you know that Jim Rich served as editor-in-chief of the Daily News twice?
Did you know that in the Russian Far East, there is a population of North Koreans in Kamchatka that now aligns itself with South Korea?
Did you know that later pressings of the soundtrack of the soft porn film The Stud replaced Manfred Mann's Earth Band's "Davy's on the Road Again" after a journalist blabbed its presence to the band's keyboardist?
Did you know that the Retable of the Virgin of Montserrat was commissioned by a merchant, perhaps as a sign of gratitude for his safe return from a shipwrecked journey from Savona to Valencia?
Did you know that the Wantage Code, a record of laws promulgated by the English king Æthelred the Unready and his councillors around 997, may provide the earliest description of a jury of presentment?
Did you know that the site of Hirbemerdon Tepe was initially inhabited in the Chalcolithic and continued to be populated until the Ottoman Empire?
Did you know that according to a book by a friend of the Columbine shooters, students at Columbine High School would joke that their school was next for a mass shooting?
Did you know that anyone can play Henry at London Bridge?
Did you know that authorities said the killing of Wadea al-Fayoume in Illinois was a response to the 2023 Israel–Hamas war?
Did you know that the title of "Shinzō wo Sasageyo!", the opening theme song for season two of Attack on Titan, comes from an in-universe salute and battle cry?
Did you know that when he was in the Royal New Zealand Air Force, future politician Tim Costley starred in a YouTube video that joked about having sex with sheep?
Did you know that Hende's Hut on Roberts Point Track, a tramping track in New Zealand, originally had no windows?
Did you know that Swiss athlete Clara Thalmann arrived in Barcelona to compete in the People's Olympiad but ended up fighting in the Spanish Civil War?
Did you know that at a maximum standard length of roughly 2 cm (0.8 in), dwarf pufferfish are some of the smallest pufferfish in the world?
Did you know that in the 1909 election to the city council of Surabaya, less than 1 percent of the population was enrolled to vote?
Did you know that soprano Rachel Yakar, who received international attention in 1977 as Poppea with Nikolaus Harnoncourt, was also described as an "ideal" Mélisande and "a Mozartian at heart and in style"?
Did you know that the Saikabo Korean restaurant chain in Japan suffered a 30% drop in sales after the South Korean president visited the disputed Liancourt Rocks?
Did you know that @NYT_first_said's most popular tweet, as of 2019, was simply "shithole"?
Did you know that Canadian photographer and architectural activist Brian Merrett's works prompted the preservation of Montreal's Shaughnessy House, now the Canadian Centre for Architecture?
Did you know that Hilda Hilst impersonated a journalist to meet Marlon Brando, and asked him about Franz Kafka's works?
Did you know that Stella Alexander, the first female mayor of Issaquah, was nicknamed "Madame Mussolini" by her detractors?
Did you know that Susan Murabana created Africa's first permanent planetarium?
Did you know that after the Iraqi government lost control of its northern territories following the 1991 Gulf War, the Legislative Council of the Autonomous Kurdistan Region was based in Baghdad?
Did you know that some Catholics considered Tom Lehrer's "The Vatican Rag" (audio featured) to be blasphemous?
Did you know that Nusrati attributes the virtues of a good ruler to his patron Ali Adil Shah II in The Rose Garden of Love (manuscript scene pictured)?
Did you know that University of Nebraska alumnus M. Khalid Roashan helped draft the 1964 Constitution of Afghanistan?
Did you know that Władysław Umiński has been called the "Polish Jules Verne"?
Did you know that a Twitter account became a major source on what was happening during the 2022 COVID-19 protests in China?
Did you know that current NHL player Alex Laferriere refused to try out ice skating at a young age, and only did so when bribed with Skittles?
Did you know that Rush Munro's, New Zealand's oldest ice creamery, has used the same recipes since 1926?
Did you know that hatchling Balkan terrapins are only 3 to 4 centimetres (1.2 to 1.6 in) in length, while adults (example pictured) can grow as long as 25 cm (9.8 in)?
Did you know that people were scammed on New Zealand television by the host of You've Been Scammed?
Did you know that there are only 4 locations left of Boloco, which once had 22 burrito restaurants throughout the northeastern United States?
Did you know that American football player Ralph "Catfish" Smith was a two-way player in college and in the National Football League?
Did you know that Djanius Djamin, the speaker of Medan's city council from 1969 to 1971, was the first woman to chair a legislature in Sumatra?
Did you know that Donald A. Morgan is the first director of photography to be inducted into the Television Hall of Fame?
Did you know that Long Island's PBS station specialized in making shows for other stations to air during their pledge drives?
Did you know that Lord Stonehaven, Governor-General of Australia, called Hay War Memorial High School the "finest war memorial in the British Empire"?
Did you know that organisms could harvest kinetic energy to survive?
Did you know that the Code of Lipit-Ishtar is older than the famous Code of Hammurabi?
Did you know that the newly opened shopping mall The Wai has Hong Kong's largest indoor bicycle parking lot?
Did you know that Benjamin Britten composed Canticle I: My beloved is mine and I am his for the tenor voice of Peter Pears, using poetry from A Divine Rapture by Francis Quarles?
Did you know that Martha Poma worked as a textile artisan in El Alto before being elected to the Bolivian senate?
Did you know that North Nias Regency demolished its own government buildings in 2018 for urban renewal?
Did you know that a teenage boy stole over US$300,000 worth of paintings from the Deshong Art Museum by simply taking them off the wall and sliding them through a window?
Did you know that in 1790, ten years before the discovery of infrared heating of the Earth by the Sun, Marc-Auguste Pictet demonstrated the apparent reflection of cold by mirrors?
Did you know that pollution in rivers scatters far-red light, making it harder for plants like Noveloa to germinate?
Did you know that while writing Lessons in Chemistry, the author self-studied chemistry and was a full-time copywriter?
Did you know that Lea Ackermann, a German nun of the Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Africa, fought against forced prostitution and sex tourism in East Africa?
Did you know that in Korea Job World, children can participate in career-experience scenarios to explore vocational paths?
Did you know that the John Snow Society's Pumphandle Lecture ends with a ceremonial removal of the Broad Street pump handle and a visit to a pub?
Did you know that Athanasios Rhousopoulos, one of Athens's major archaeological criminals, made a speech complaining about the high rate of archaeological crime?
Did you know that John Neilson, a Scottish immigrant to Lower Canada, became a major publisher and bookseller, and was reportedly "the largest consumer of paper" in the country?
Did you know that Manaka Matsukubo, the youngest player to start in the NWSL Challenge Cup, was named most valuable player of this year's final?
Did you know that during the production of Serious Sam: The First Encounter, all of its developers were conscripted into the Croatian military?
Did you know that hundreds of people lived in Jim Jordan's orbit in "Jordanville"?
Did you know that people are robbing Lebanese banks to get their own money back?
Did you know that some ancient Athenian coins featured the faces of gorgons?
Did you know that some viewers of an Arizona TV station saw hardcore pornography instead of the Super Bowl?
Did you know that Chancellor Hut is the oldest alpine hut still in its original location in the Southern Alps of New Zealand?
Did you know that Dublin restaurant Deli 613 imports frozen bagels from New York?
Did you know that dei Rossi's work on modern Jewish historiography was banned by Venetian rabbis, but he obtained imprimatur from a Catholic?
Did you know that some of the Michigan fake electors attempted to enter the State Capitol, but were turned away by the state police?
Did you know that throughout the history of education in Wales, schools have been held in monastic settlements, cathedrals, residential houses, marketplaces, barns, churches, and village halls?
Did you know that John Seigenthaler hosted a literary interview program which ran for 42 years on Nashville Public Television?
Did you know that Mona Williams said her degree from Stanford University was called a "wanky Yankee" degree when she arrived in New Zealand?
Did you know that Pachelbel's Canon is notorious for being widespread in pop music, but it actually isn't?
Did you know that after learning to write with Inuktitut syllabics to help Catholic missionaries learn her language, Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk wrote one of the first Inuktitut-language novels?
Did you know that in high school, tennis player Sara Daavettila went an entire season without losing a game?
Did you know that interviews collected for a Boston College oral history project were used in two murder trials?
Did you know that the 1992 comic book storyline "Man and Wolf", in which Captain America is transformed into a werewolf, has been described as "one of the most bizarre moments of the core Marvel Universe"?
Did you know that Dan Blumenthal, a senior defense official in the Bush administration, believes that China has "three roads" to gain control of Taiwan?
Did you know that Mariah Carey does not know Jennifer Lopez?
Did you know that Romanian-born Helen O'Brien escaped advancing Russians on the King's horse, opened Eve, and worked as a spy for MI5 and MI6?