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Did you know that the song "100 Great People Who Made Korea Shine" mentions Yi Wanyong, who is known as a traitor for signing the Japan–Korea Annexation Treaty?
Did you know that Beta brought Scandinavians to the Hawaiian Kingdom to work on sugarcane plantations?
Did you know that an Iowa TV station paid its employees in two-dollar bills?
Did you know that officials of the Worcester Bus Company blamed television for declining ridership?
Did you know that Larry Steinbach did not start high school until the age of 22?
Did you know that Rae Lil Black, who was at one point one of the 20 most popular models on Pornhub, left the adult industry and converted to Islam after visiting Malaysia?
Did you know that The Old Elm was used by the Ottoman Turks to hang captured hajduci?
Did you know that the author of Octavia based one character on a former lover?
Did you know that the sculpture of the Japanese goddess Gigeiten at the temple Akishino-dera has an 8th-century head and a 13th-century body?
Did you know that Emperor Yingzong of Ming abolished the practice of concubines committing suicide following an emperor's death?
Did you know that Sri Jumahaliah Hanifa was the first woman to be the dean of the University of Indonesia's law school?
Did you know that despite being rivals since the 1920s, the 2010 NFC Championship Game was only the second time the Chicago Bears and Green Bay Packers had ever met in the playoffs?
Did you know that sprinter Ng Ka Yee set four Hong Kong records in 1988 ahead of competing in that year's Olympics?
Did you know that Alexander McQueen pioneered the use of digitally engineered prints in fashion with Natural Dis-tinction Un-natural Selection (examples pictured)?
Did you know that Charles Moses competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics, despite previously fabricating claims of his Olympic participation?
Did you know that Sydney Agudong and her sister were the final two candidates for a role in Lilo & Stitch?
Did you know that film director James Ashcroft enjoys "playing in the dark"?
Did you know that the 1956 album Lonnie Donegan Showcase entered both the UK albums chart and the UK singles chart?
Did you know that to comply with broadcasting regulations, some American TV stations claimed that tabloid shows and a Christmas special were educational?
Did you know that "The Interstellar Song Contest" featured the return of a Doctor Who character last seen more than 30 years earlier?
Did you know that Yamada's Symphony in F major had to be reconstructed after a maritime accident and after the bombing of Tokyo during WWII?
Did you know that a bird with huge feet once walked by a river near Denali?
Did you know that a horse in an episode of The Last of Us previously appeared in The 100 and Jurassic World Dominion?
Did you know that almost no fuel was found at the crash site of a fuel transport aircraft?
Did you know that the 2004–2005 trial of the Chohan family murders was the longest in the history of the London Metropolitan Police?
Did you know that the COVID-19 pandemic was credited with saving lives by keeping people indoors during a tornado (video featured)?
Did you know that the construction of the Colosseum was funded by spoils from the First Jewish–Roman War?
Did you know that the musical duo Food House was named after their frequent use of Uber Eats?
Did you know that whistleblower and self-confessed ex-hitman Edgar Matobato fled the Philippines with a fake passport while posing as a gardener?
Did you know that "Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na)" contains 261 "Na"s in total?
Did you know that Franklin Sonn was the first black South African ambassador to the United States?
Did you know that Joe Eddins helped conservative Oklahoma enact universal preschool?
Did you know that John Linton Chapman, despite his artistic talent, sold potboilers and his relatives' valuable paintings to make a living?
Did you know that Marva Nabili, a member of the Iranian New Wave, made a "haunting" film about the struggles of a family in Manhattan's Chinatown?
Did you know that Olive Garden and Chili's got in a ship war over Destiel?
Did you know that footballer Franco Mastantuono played youth tennis on a national-level?
Did you know that the "Tiger-Rider" is said to have miraculously flooded his village with alcohol?
Did you know that the Illinois Institute of Technology created Chicago's smallest park by deeding a 54-square-foot (5 m2) granite slab to the city?
Did you know that the death of a pregnant woman in a video game was written to be even darker on television?
Did you know that the shipwreck of HNLMS De Ruyter went missing, leaving only an imprint on the ocean floor?
Did you know that Boulder–Deer Creek Pass is home to "Togo" wolves and is a potential habitat for grizzly bears?
Did you know that Inua Ellams created the antagonist for "The Story & the Engine" after learning that "ghost writer" translates to 'Black person' in French?
Did you know that NFL player Blane Smith, one of 15 children, grew up in a two-room house in conditions like "sardines in a can"?
Did you know that Nourished by Time recorded Erotic Probiotic 2 while ill with COVID-19?
Did you know that Pope John Paul I broke with tradition by declining to be crowned with a tiara at his inauguration?
Did you know that logicians using classical rules of inference can deduce any arbitrary statement from a contradiction?
Did you know that the Opiki Toll Bridge was placed on New Zealand's national heritage register decades after its deck was removed?
Did you know that 17th-century mathematician Carlo Rinaldini studied gall-inducing insects, air convection, and the design of thermometers?
Did you know that HMS Sheffield earned twelve battle honours during World War II?
Did you know that Harry Wunsch, despite appearing "short and fat", was a "savage tackler"?
Did you know that Jeremy Crawshaw was the only punter selected in the 2025 NFL draft?
Did you know that Olympic historians were unconvinced by speculation that an unknown boy coxswain grew up to be a renowned Georgian mathematician?
Did you know that Pallas Athena marked Gustav Klimt's transition to his iconic "golden phase" style?
Did you know that Ralph Riggs made his professional stage debut when he was a baby?
Did you know that Rosa Parks refused to surrender her seat not because she was physically tired, but because she was "tired of giving in"?
Did you know that Saba's airport, known for its short runway, was named after Juancho Yrausquin in honor of his efforts to secure funding?
Did you know that Taylor Swift compared the metaphors in her song "...Ready for It?" to those in the novel Crime and Punishment?
Did you know that a legislator, a civil servant, and a soldier led the campaign for a new district on Sumba Island?
Did you know that most of the population of Niamey has consisted of first- and second-generation rural migrants since the city was established?
Did you know that American football player Dominic Vairo went from being forced off the freshman team at Notre Dame to becoming captain of the varsity team?
Did you know that Charlie Suff is the third actor to portray Johnny Carter on the soap opera EastEnders?
Did you know that Queen Afua inspired New York City mayor Eric Adams to become vegan?
Did you know that a leak from a natural-gas storage field led to the destruction of or damage to almost 30 buildings in Hutchinson, Kansas?
Did you know that although Taraxacum britannicum is commonly called the British dandelion, specimens have been collected as far north as Iceland?
Did you know that the "monstrous" behavior of landlord Han Kik Ko led to a peasant rebellion, in which he was killed?
Did you know that the Rephaim text, a 14th-century BCE Ugaritic poem, tells of mysterious warrior beings who ride for three days to a threshing floor – only to spend the next seven days eating there?
Did you know that the knight William Longsword was expected to succeed his sickly brother-in-law King Baldwin IV, but succumbed to an illness that the king survived?
Did you know that the term "middle judicatory", which many denominations use for their mid-tier organizations, originated in Presbyterian courts (example pictured) for church discipline?
Did you know that Racing Mount Pleasant sometimes asks concert audiences to sit instead of stand?
Did you know that Warren Truitt served as a legislator in Oregon and a judge in Alaska in the 19th century, and as both a legislator and a judge in Idaho in the 20th?
Did you know that some researchers have studied Tetris as a potential form of psychological treatment?
Did you know that sucking lice perforate their victims' skin with a pair of stabbers?
Did you know that the book Science Without Numbers argues that numbers are just useful fictions?
Did you know that white supremacist Ralph Perry Forbes sued the devil?
Did you know that TJ Monterde recorded his song "Puhon" under a blanket in his bedroom?
Did you know that after seizing the island of Bangka in an 1812 military expedition, the British quickly abandoned it due to high mortality rates?
Did you know that the paintings of the Juniten (Katen pictured) were used in esoteric Buddhist rituals?
Did you know that while making Caressing My Hibernating Bear, the creator said a real bear appeared in the neighborhood?
Did you know that gymnast McKayla Maroney caused an Internet phenomenon with her "not impressed" facial expression?
Did you know that in 2006, a Namibian court ordered Hiskia Ndjoze-Uanivi's church to change its name as a result of a dispute with the Assemblies of God?
Did you know that Jakarta deputy governor Eddie Marzuki Nalapraya used to babysit future dangdut musician Rhoma Irama?
Did you know that James Joyce's "untranslatable" novel Ulysses was translated into at least 43 languages?
Did you know that Janet Evans was banned from Coldbath Fields Prison, where her husband was imprisoned, for inciting a riot at the gates?
Did you know that Joanna Schaffhausen earned a doctorate in behavioral neuroscience before writing serial-killer novels?
Did you know that Perceval, the Story of the Grail by Chrétien de Troyes is considered by literary historians to be the earliest example of the narrative technique of entrelacement?
Did you know that Thomas Kerr protested the Iraq War with his SNP-supporting aunt, later campaigned for Labour, joined the Conservatives, and defected to Reform UK?
Did you know that bills to postpone the 2025 Philippine barangay elections were filed even after the Supreme Court declared unconstitutional the postponement of the 2023 elections?
Did you know that in 2023, Chinese Coast Guardsman Wang Xiaolong was officially declared a Martyr?
Did you know that technical geography, which includes the application of computer cartography and remote sensing, has origins in Greco-Roman and medieval Islamic cartography?
Did you know that the Constitution Defense Monument in Bangkok (pictured c. 1939) disappeared overnight in 2018 without any official explanation?
Did you know that the book Animals in War inspired the campaign that led to the Animals in War Memorial?
Did you know that AiScReam's recent debut song "Ai Scream!" went viral on social media?
Did you know that Galidor has been described as Lego's biggest failure?
Did you know that Robby Krieger was unable to record his guitar solo for "You're Lost Little Girl" until he got stoned on hashish?
Did you know that Sae Kitamura has had her university students contribute to the Japanese Wikipedia as part of their coursework?
Did you know that a Royal 10 used in the music video for "Fortnight" caused an interest in typewriters among Swifties?
Did you know that all three podium finishers at the 2024 Tour de France were members of cycling's Big Four?
Did you know that the Brazilian government advocated the use of COVID kits, which contained a drug used to treat head lice?
Did you know that the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported that "half of the residents of Mount Desert Island, Maine, are convinced they are millionaires since the body of Karl N. Mellon" was discovered?
Did you know that American football player Curtis Burrow, the fourth different kicker used by the Green Bay Packers in 1988, played one game before being released?
Did you know that Heimito von Doderer's novel The Strudlhof Steps was not allowed to be published until the author had undergone denazification?
Did you know that Jerzy Broszkiewicz, a louse-feeder during World War II, later became a writer of youth literature and drama?
Did you know that Lorde wrote a song about herself titled "Man of the Year" the day after attending GQ's "Men of the Year" party in 2023?
Did you know that Taraxacum brachyglossum can reproduce both sexually and asexually, depending on environmental conditions?
Did you know that Washington University in St. Louis holds one of the few surviving printed broadsides of the United States Declaration of Independence?
Did you know that a Hong Kong porn actress once invited her cyberbullies to talk?
Did you know that although Frederick Rondel was taught to paint by a French king's court painter, he chose to depict American landscapes like the Adirondack Mountains?
Did you know that Ed Stone was the Voyager program's project scientist for 50 years?
Did you know that Empress Kōken, having resigned the Japanese throne in favor of a relative, shaved her head, became a Buddhist nun, and forced her way back into power?
Did you know that Google Street View in Antarctica started as a "challenge"?
Did you know that Jack Reardon received a heart transplant while serving as the mayor of Kansas City?
Did you know that Mendel Catholic High School raised $15 million through hosting weekly house dances from 1975?
Did you know that Saint-Saëns's Phaéton was described by a critic after its premiere as "the noise of a hack coming down from Montmartre"?
Did you know that Sayuti Abubakar was nominated to become the vice governor of Aceh by an imprisoned former governor?
Did you know that modernist architect Paul Rudolph was said to have run out of money three times while designing the Modulightor Building?
Did you know that the Diocese of Poreč and Pula was nearly bankrupted over a dispute with the Italian Benedictines, a case that Dražen Kutleša is credited with quietly resolving?
Did you know that the Dutch government considered converting the incomplete Java-class cruisers  into English Channel ferries?
Did you know that voters approved a 600-percent increase in property taxes to fund programs at Valley Medical Center?
Did you know that American football players Tommy Akingbesote and Kyonte Hamilton grew up in the same community, play in the same position, and were both selected in the seventh round of the 2025 NFL draft?
Did you know that Cui Daozhi has been called the Chinese Sherlock Holmes?
Did you know that Mighty Doom features a cartoonish aesthetic that contrasts with the dark, gritty tone of the mainline Doom series?
Did you know that actor Ben Ahlers learned watchmaking from the Horological Society of New York for his role in The Gilded Age?
Did you know that after runner Frej Liewendahl had broken Paavo Nurmi's five-year winning streak, he went to his hotel room with flowers to apologise?
Did you know that due to difficulty reading the biography Edison, one reviewer read it backwards?
Did you know that multiple members of various royal families have competed in the Olympics?
Did you know that the Congregation Shaar Hashomayim in Windsor, Ontario, was modelled after a synagogue in Montreal?
Did you know that the crew of the US Coast Guard Cutter Dione repeatedly attacked the shipwrecks of oil tankers, believing them to be German U-boats?
Did you know that Ben Lashes is a talent manager for cat memes?
Did you know that Class War was held responsible for the poll tax riots?
Did you know that Diandra Forrest was bullied for her white skin before becoming a professional model?
Did you know that Horvat Mazad's walls, which also functioned as storage rooms, were likely a revival of centuries-old military architecture?
Did you know that L. Whitney Watkins was given the Bull Moose Party's nomination in a 1912 election despite his own opposition?
Did you know that Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra was minutes away from boarding an aircraft that exploded (wreckage pictured)?
Did you know that actress Jennifer Metcalfe used the experience of her father's cancer in Episode 6465 of the British soap opera Hollyoaks?
Did you know that despite never having visited China, cyclist Howard Wing competed for it at the 1936 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that one of the earliest Ukrainian science fiction novels, written in 1918 by Mykola Chaikovsky, features solar power and a radiotelephone?
Did you know that painter Nicolino Calyo left Naples after participating in a failed uprising against King Ferdinand IV, then fled Spain following the outbreak of the First Carlist War?
Did you know that the Philadelphia School of Anatomy began as a private dissection room?
Did you know that the Savannah River Site was where the neutrino was discovered?
Did you know that Aquilegia oxysepala, one of approximately 130 species of columbine, has been used medicinally for thousands of years?
Did you know that Jeff Baena accidentally earned a minor in medieval studies at film school?
Did you know that Stavatti Aerospace's only known facilities in 2021 were a "one-person office suite", a "machine shop ... slightly larger than a basketball court", and the CEO's house?
Did you know that Taylor Swift did not contact the family of actress Clara Bow before releasing a song about her?
Did you know that a whistled language created for a video game was reused in an episode of The Last of Us?
Did you know that ducks, an owl, a horse and a baby were utilized for the opening scene of a Doctor Who episode?
Did you know that the European Athletics Championships first held a women's 400 metres race in 1958, twenty-four years after the first men's race?
Did you know that the Lutterodts were pioneers of African photography?
Did you know that the monumental khachkars at Aprank Monastery can be seen from eight kilometres (five miles) away?
Did you know that "Seigfried" by Frank Ocean credits all four Beatles as songwriters?
Did you know that Alena Veselá, at age 101, was present at the cornerstone ceremony for a new concert hall in Brno, which she had promoted for decades?
Did you know that Jonas I Losovičius's relocation of the main residence of the bishops of Lutsk would last for three centuries?
Did you know that a 44-point comeback in a 2024 semi-final was the Australian Football League's largest semifinal comeback ever?
Did you know that a scene of a man eating a crab in the music video for "Dungka!" symbolised a crab mentality among Filipinos?
Did you know that a single horsehair helped solve the murder of Nancy Titterton?
Did you know that artist Agnes Gallus fled Hungary for Canada during the 1956 revolution?
Did you know that in 1793, Jean-Baptiste Belley, a former black slave, was elected as a deputy to the French National Convention?
Did you know that the McKenzie & Willis Store was demolished after the 2011 Christchurch earthquake, but its facade was kept and restored?
Did you know that the Terrorism Confinement Center in El Salvador has a capacity of 40,000 inmates?
Did you know that the Town Walls of Index, Washington, have 402 climbing routes?
Did you know that Captain James Cook and his crew were some of the first Europeans to witness and record Polynesians surfing?
Did you know that Carmel Naughton, having been told that girls were "stupid and couldn't do maths", sponsored a STEM scholarship fund?
Did you know that Hanahaki disease, a fictional illness in which a person coughs up flowers due to unrequited love, is often used in queer fan fiction to symbolize repressed desire?
Did you know that Libania Grenot was the first woman in three decades to successfully defend the European 400-metres title (final pictured)?
Did you know that Liquid Glass was criticised for being too transparent?
Did you know that Simmie Knox was recommended to paint the official White House portraits of Hillary and Bill Clinton by Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
Did you know that after moving into the Samuel Freeman House, the owners sat on cardboard boxes because they could not afford real furniture?
Did you know that although he was only active for three games with them, NFL player Dick Capp made a play that helped his team win the Super Bowl?
Did you know that in 1956 a brand new Swissair plane crashed on delivery?
Did you know that male fish in the subclass Holocephali often have special organs on top of their head that are used to grasp females while mating?
Did you know that the Japanese government responded to the rice riots of 1918, which involved up to 10 million participants, with a "candy and whip" policy?
Did you know that the colour of  Rockbank railway station's pedestrian bridge represents the earth surrounding the station?
Did you know that Archbishop Letard I died while trying to get his king married?
Did you know that Taraxacum akteum was first identified in some parts of Britain in 2016, more than 40 years after it was described from Dutch coastal meadows?
Did you know that a 2018 film by David Wilcock has been described by Vice as making the case that space aliens "occupy large swaths of Antarctica [and] are massing for an invasion"?
Did you know that continental snowpacks are associated with more avalanche fatalities than other types?
Did you know that gender-neutral grammatical forms used by some non-binary people in Poland originated from a science fiction novel about posthumans and are named after its author?
Did you know that the McMenamins Hotel Oregon UFO Festival (parade pictured) was established in 2000 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the McMinnville UFO hoax?
Did you know that the Miley Cyrus song "Easy Lover" was intended for three different albums before its release?
Did you know that the Trump administration researched whether it could incarcerate American citizens abroad?
Did you know that while serving as an artilleryman in World War I, Herbert Morton Stoops sent sketches of soldiers and battles back to the US?
Did you know that 17-year-old José Segundo Decoud helped to convince Antonio Estigarribia to surrender during the siege of Uruguaiana?
Did you know that Cybersocket, Inc., started by repackaging public domain information into a niche paperback guide to gay pornographic sites?
Did you know that a New Jersey TV station claimed that potential advertisers were "hostile" to efforts to encourage them to air commercials?
Did you know that a Thompson Seattle rooftop bar distributes drinks from copper containers shaped like flamingos?
Did you know that nucleariid amoebae are among the closest relatives of fungi?
Did you know that one of the priority programmes announced by Supian Suri as mayor of Depok involved repairing school toilets?
Did you know that surgeon Stuart Stanton popularised an operation for stress incontinence?
Did you know that the YouTuber behind Stop Killing Games compared video-game publishers shutting down online-only games to silent-era film studios "burning their own films ... to recover the silver content"?
Did you know that the mountain cottontail is abundant in the Hanford Site, a decommissioned nuclear production complex?
Did you know that Frank Page's sons stole his corpse after he died, leaving their stepmother to bury an empty casket?
Did you know that Grand Theft Auto V is a popular video game in North Korea?
Did you know that Jamaican-Welsh noblewoman Justina Jeffreys was the inspiration for the character of Anthelia in the 1817 novel Melincourt?
Did you know that after a tornado strike at a St. Louis–area Amazon warehouse killed six workers, the rebuilt warehouse still had no proper storm shelter?
Did you know that after playing just one game, Michael Basinger retired from the NFL and became a country music performer?
Did you know that following the sinking of HNLMS Kortenaer, an officer responded to ethnic tensions on the lifeboats by beating his subordinates with a paddle?
Did you know that gymnast Gabby Douglas has a Barbie doll modeled after her?
Did you know that one of former British prime minister Rishi Sunak's favourite books is the 1988 romance Rivals?