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Did you know that Seal Rescue Ireland comforts orphaned seal pups with fake mothers made of wetsuits?
Did you know that the Museum of Classic Sci-Fi is located in the cellar of a house in Allendale, Northumberland?
Did you know that Brigadier General Francis G. Brink, the first commander of Military Assistance Advisory Group Indochina, was found dead at the Pentagon with three bullet wounds in the chest?
Did you know that Castle Ten Berghe, a manor house built during the 13th century, is now run as a bed and breakfast with a neo-Gothic architectural style?
Did you know that Polish Home Army resistance fighter Witold Pilecki volunteered to infiltrate the Auschwitz concentration camp?
Did you know that fried caterpillars are a traditional dish in Angola?
Did you know that the legs of the statue of Alfred the Great in Southwark are at least 1,600 years older than the torso?
Did you know that the main storyline of the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode "The Perfect Pear" comes from a long-running joke among the show's staff?
Did you know that Hina Suguta, who voices Marin Kitagawa in My Dress-Up Darling, worked as a nursery teacher before starting her voice acting career?
Did you know that Pranati Nayak was the second Indian female artistic gymnast to compete at the Olympic Games?
Did you know that Sylvain Tesson isolated himself in a pigeon house for a month to write Un été avec Homère?
Did you know that the B. J. Habibie Bridge in Dili, East Timor, is named after a former deputy of the Indonesian president, who instigated the Indonesian invasion and occupation of East Timor?
Did you know that the flatworm Hum­ber­tium covidum, named after the COVID-19 pandemic, was classified in a study written mostly during the initial lockdown?
Did you know that the second college founded by David Nelson was known as an "abolitionist factory"?
Did you know that Encanto's Isabela Madrigal was animated to be aware that she is "always on stage"?
Did you know that the Ciudad Juárez cobalt-60 contamination incident was caused when radioactive material ended up in a junkyard and was smelted to produce rebar?
Did you know that the Hi Jolly Monument in Quartzsite, Arizona, marks the grave of Hadji Ali, recruited to the United States to drive and tend camels for the United States Camel Corps?
Did you know that the framework of One Astor Plaza was "a humdinger of an engineering feat" because it was built over the Minskoff Theatre?
Did you know that a 1982 composition by David Sampson is based on a 1931 poem inspired by the ancient Greek Eleusinian Mysteries?
Did you know that al-Muqallad ibn al-Musayyab, the Uqaylid emir of Mosul, was assassinated by his own soldiers while plotting to capture Baghdad from the Buyids?
Did you know that at the Dow's Hill Interpretation Centre in Antigua, one can enjoy rum cocktails whilst touring historic ruins?
Did you know that the Door Tree, which stood for nearly 200 years, was cut down because of a brother's hatred?
Did you know that the adoption of all-steel percussion by Alexander's Ragtime Band in 1939 was widely copied, and prompted the development of the steelpan?
Did you know that vaccine coverage at schools around the Disneyland Resort was too low for herd immunity when measles broke out in 2014?
Did you know that Antonette Wemyss Gorman, the first woman to fill a combat role in the Caribbean, was promoted to rear admiral and is Chief of Defence Staff of the Jamaica Defence Force?
Did you know that British animal-welfare activist Shirley McGreal founded the International Primate Protection League, after seeing trafficked monkeys in cages at an airport in Thailand?
Did you know that Matilda Allison, blinded aged seven, "devoted her time instructing the blind" throughout America, thanks to a "wonderful education"?
Did you know that the popular artist's model Margaret Lemon tried to bite Anthony van Dyck's thumb off?
Did you know that three former top-ranking Central Intelligence Agency officials appeared on ABC News Nightline to condemn the agency's treatment of Janine Brookner?
Did you know that Richard J. Ferris, CEO of United Airlines, worked a financing plan with Boeing to prevent hostile takeovers of his company?
Did you know that in 2007, Jeremiah Moss started Jeremiah's Vanishing New York, a blog that functions as a "digital obituary column" for old New York City small businesses lost to gentrification?
Did you know that kausheya was an ancient Indian silk mentioned in epics including the Ramayana and the Mahabharata?
Did you know that physical copies of Nintendo Switch Sports include the Leg Strap accessory from Ring Fit Adventure?
Did you know that the 1976 manga series Kaze to Ki no Uta is credited with widely popularizing the male–male romance genre?
Did you know that the heritage-registered Weston House, designed by architect Cecil Wood for George Weston, was damaged in a series of earthquakes in Christchurch and later demolished?
Did you know that the nature documentary The Green Planet, narrated by David Attenborough, has been compared to both horror films and a "plant porno"?
Did you know that Arithmetic was the first mathematics text book written in the Russian language?
Did you know that Daniel Sickles's leg is a popular museum display?
Did you know that Mohawk Island is sometimes underwater?
Did you know that for a Murad Takla, writing "reminds me of you" might be interpreted as "mind farts in you"?
Did you know that gender-swapped drawings of Finn the Human, the main character of Adventure Time, inspired their own spin-off series?
Did you know that the source material for Curtis Roads's electronic composition nscor was realized at six studios for a period of five years?
Did you know that two sculptures from 1428 (one pictured) in the Church of Saint Quentin in Tournai are among the earliest examples of a style that was to dominate most of Europe for the following century?
Did you know that Asma Al Thani, who directs the Qatar Olympic Committee's communications, has climbed the world's eighth-highest mountain and skied to the North Pole?
Did you know that Dimple Kapadia won the National Film Award for Best Actress for playing a professional mourner in the film Rudaali?
Did you know that Jaz Brisack, leader of the movement to unionize Starbucks, was the first woman Rhodes Scholar at the University of Mississippi?
Did you know that Leonard Bernstein composed the piano suite Bridal Suite for the wedding of Adolph Green and Phyllis Newman, with the couple meant to play it three-hands?
Did you know that a Forever 21 store at 1540 Broadway was expected to attract more daily visitors than the Statue of Liberty?
Did you know that as a child, Nayantara Sahgal associated the words Prison and Chocolate Cake with her memory of the police taking her father to jail while the family were having tea?
Did you know that community opposition to the routing of Interstate 40 through Memphis, Tennessee, led to a landmark United States Supreme Court ruling in Citizens to Preserve Overton Park v. Volpe?
Did you know that five queens on a chessboard can attack or occupy every square on the board?
Did you know that in the UK, your remains can shelter baby lobsters?
Did you know that the Invisible Wind Factory will not be hosting Futurama?
Did you know that the developer Jack King-Spooner claimed that the people of Beeswing seemed to be supportive of his creation of his semi-autobiographical indie game Beeswing?
Did you know that Chicony, known primarily as a keyboard manufacturer, entered the computer-manufacturing business with the Rabbit 286 in 1988?
Did you know that Helen Steven shared the Gandhi International Peace Award for her opposition to the nuclear submarine base in Scotland?
Did you know that Jennifer Bates led thousands of Amazon warehouse workers to petition a vote for a union in Bessemer, Alabama?
Did you know that Joan G. Robinson felt that through writing the novel When Marnie Was There, she "faced the truth and found understanding" about her emotionally distant relationship with her mother?
Did you know that Loski's mixtape Call Me Loose was named as an inspiration for Scorpion by Drake?
Did you know that The Beijinger had an advertisement for renting foreigners?
Did you know that United States Army captain John L. Chapin's company once boycotted a burger restaurant in El Paso, Texas, for discrimination?
Did you know that a hoax photograph was created appearing to show Abraham Lincoln's ghost standing over his widow?
Did you know that although the Kepler triangle has similar proportions to the Great Pyramid of Giza, the triangle's connection to the golden ratio makes it unlikely to have been used in ancient Egypt?
Did you know that humor in Nazi camps was a survival and defense mechanism?
Did you know that the Sallie House in Atchison, Kansas, is said to be haunted by “The Man Hating Ghost”?
Did you know that there are only about 30 Ancient Egyptian obelisks (example pictured) left standing worldwide—and Italy has more than Egypt?
Did you know that American president Calvin Coolidge wrote his statement "I do not choose to run" at Rapid City High School?
Did you know that Anderson Stadium in Austin, Texas, is the last high-school football stadium in the state built exclusively for African-American students?
Did you know that Anna Korsun, a composer who studied in Kyiv and Munich, and teaches in Amsterdam, was awarded a scholarship at the Villa Massimo in Rome in 2018?
Did you know that James A. Merriman was the only Black graduate from Rush Medical College in 1902 and the first African-American physician to practice medicine in Portland?
Did you know that Miles Hadfield ensured supplies of food to Coventry during the Second World War Blitz?
Did you know that The Flash episode "Welcome to Earth-2" featured many actors portraying doppelgängers of their roles from the series?
Did you know that Verena Conzett found commercial success when she offered serial novels together with accident insurance?
Did you know that before she became a Mexican federal deputy, Celeste Sánchez Romero was a dental researcher with more than 40 published articles?
Did you know that in 2002, Georg Christoph Biller and others conceived the Forum Thomanum as a new music educational campus for the Thomanerchor, Bach's choir dating back to 1212?
Did you know that multiple youth sports programs in Winnipeg were established by Uncle Vince?
Did you know that the Tuttle Capital Short Innovation ETF is the first in the US to bet against another exchange-traded fund?
Did you know that the site of Longacres has been home to a dairy farm, a horse racetrack, headquarters of a Boeing division, and a potential new facility for Seattle Sounders FC?
Did you know that torture causes a higher risk of mental trauma than any other known human experience?
Did you know that "Nahe wollt der Herr uns sein" (The Lord wanted to be close to us), first written in Dutch by Huub Oosterhuis in 1964, was included in the 1975 German hymnal Gotteslob?
Did you know that American lawyer and politician Armistead Abraham Lilly was also a principal owner of Ruffner Hotel in Charleston, West Virginia, and resided in its penthouse?
Did you know that Australian writer Gertrude Hart was a co-founder of the Old Derelicts' Club, which later became the Society of Australian Authors?
Did you know that Harvard Business School professor Lauren Cohen is a powerlifting champion?
Did you know that Jonas Grethlein turned down chaired professorships at the universities of St Andrews and Cambridge?
Did you know that almost everyone and everything that travels to Antarctica has to travel through one of five gateway cities?
Did you know that as chancellor of the University of Victoria, Ronald Lou-Poy conferred degrees in Iqaluit and the Great Hall of the People?
Did you know that author Harriet Connor Brown testified to the United States Congress in 1921 and 1922 to eliminate funding for the Chemical Warfare Service?
Did you know that efficient and professional torture is found only in fiction?
Did you know that the 1711 Missa Sanctae Caeciliae, the first composition by Jan Dismas Zelenka, who had come from Prague to play in the Dresden court orchestra, is a 45-minute mass?
Did you know that the sculpture Mephistopheles and Margaretta is best seen with a mirror behind it?
Did you know that while playing a ghost in the mystery film Lekin..., Dimple Kapadia was forbidden to blink because director Gulzar believed it would make her feel surreal?
Did you know that Abd al-Rahim ibn Ilyas, heir apparent of the Fatimid Caliphate, was arrested after the caliph's death and died in captivity under unclear circumstances?
Did you know that Cane Beds replaced Virgin Bottoms?
Did you know that Helene Hathaway Britton, the first woman to own a Major League Baseball team, was unsuccessfully pressured by other club owners to sell the team?
Did you know that Indian politician Pushpaben Mehta was the first speaker of the Saurashtra Legislative Assembly?
Did you know that in 1969, the first women's strike for equal pay in the Netherlands was called in a cigar factory in Nieuwe Pekela?
Did you know that teenager Jack Sweeney uses Twitter bots to track the private jets of Elon Musk, Drake, and Russian oligarchs?
Did you know that the Ides of March coin was struck to celebrate an assassination and an assassin?
Did you know that the Japanese manga Space Family Carlvinson is likely named after an aircraft carrier that is itself named after U.S. congressman Carl Vinson?
Did you know that the Sons of Neptune sailed a giant toilet down the River Thames?
Did you know that the motet Inviolata, integra et casta es Maria by Josquin des Prez has 144 breves—a reference to the "woman of the apocalypse" in the Book of Revelation?
Did you know that Argentine sculptor Alberto Heredia protested censorship through his art and was forced into exile by a right-wing death squad?
Did you know that Rüdiger Huzmann, Bishop of Speyer, granted a protective charter to the city's Jewish community in 1084?
Did you know that after the British Army captured New York City in 1776, Samuel Loudon fled to the village of Fishkill, where he founded the state's first post office?
Did you know that as a result of the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Smiley v. Holm, the 1932 general election ballot in Minnesota contained 30 candidates for Congress?
Did you know that prior to becoming West Virginia's first African-American judge, Leon P. Miller was McDowell County's assistant prosecuting attorney, a Welch city councilman, and U.S. Attorney for the Virgin Islands?
Did you know that the 19th-century photographer Eadweard Muybridge created more than 100,000 images for his study Animal Locomotion (example pictured) that included an ostrich and a capybara?
Did you know that the Dar al-Kiswa in Egypt made ornamental curtains for the Kaaba in Mecca?
Did you know that the cultural magazine Du (cover pictured), first published in Zürich in 1941, takes its name from you?
Did you know that the identities of Subwoolfer, who are set to represent Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest 2022, remain unknown to date?
Did you know that Britain's first heart transplant was carried out in London's Westmoreland Street?
Did you know that Franz Grave, the first bishop of Essen born in Essen, focused on intercultural dialogue with Latin America?
Did you know that Gea eff has the shortest scientific name of any spider species?
Did you know that London's Greenwell Street is part of a trapezoid, not a triangle?
Did you know that Pennsylvania state representative Marty Flynn engaged in a shootout with attempted burglars near the state capitol?
Did you know that in 1958, Virginia Ali and her husband Ben Ali founded Ben's Chili Bowl, a landmark Washington, D.C. restaurant where Martin Luther King Jr., Jesse Jackson, and Stokely Carmichael would often eat?
Did you know that in the 1970s, Coors Brewing Company owned Television News Inc., which provided newsfilm to North American TV stations?
Did you know that magazine Women's World was the first to publish photographs of Ottoman Muslim women?
Did you know that on the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day, Peninah Musyimi, from the slums of Nairobi, was given the "I am Powerful" award?
Did you know that prior to the third session of the United Nations General Assembly, while the Cold War was ongoing, prayers were conducted in various parts of the world?
Did you know that the discovery of Bianchengichthys may shed new light on the evolution of all jawed vertebrates?
Did you know that the future Tsar Alexander III bought a painting of disappointed mermaids?
Did you know that while the United States Armed Forces are forbidden from using flamethrowers by an international treaty, there are no restrictions on civilian use in 48 states and the District of Columbia?
Did you know that Evelyn Wood called off the Zungwini Mountain skirmishes after learning of the Zulu victory over the British at the Battle of Isandlwana?
Did you know that James Clark was the second graduate of West Point to convert to Catholicism?
Did you know that Red Blanchard, the owner of Iowa radio station KSMN, commuted 800 miles (1280 km) by plane from Mason City each week to host a radio show in Chicago?
Did you know that after surviving D-Day, former quarterback Mike Koken wrote that playing American football for Notre Dame left one "prepared for the toughest stuff the Jerries can throw at you"?
Did you know that due to variable endings of the ballet Swan Lake, Bolshoi Ballet dancer Anna Nikulina has been killed in Moscow, married to the prince in Kazan, and left alone on the lake in Chelyabinsk?
Did you know that one of Josquin des Prez's most popular works is about the cricket?
Did you know that the 1935 film Navy Wife, starring Claire Trevor, was the first film that deals with life as part of the Navy Nurse Corps and Medical Corps of the United States Navy?
Did you know that the only ever hijacking of a Royal Australian Air Force aircraft began at Baucau Airport, East Timor, in 1975?
Did you know that when Lviv-born Maria Moscisca performed the title role of Verdi's La traviata at the San Francisco Opera in 1913, a review described her as "the impersonation of grace and refinement"?
Did you know that Alaska marmots take turns acting as sentries to protect their colonies?
Did you know that Comtal Corporation's products were used by NASA to process digital images of the surface of Mars and flybys of Jupiter in the 1970s?
Did you know that Dutch arachnologist Father Chrysanthus was the only person to make the International Society of Arachnology's first congress "international"?
Did you know that Lillian Eichler Watson created "Again She Orders – 'A Chicken Salad, Please'" to advertise her 1921 Book of Etiquette?
Did you know that Nick Goiran, a member of the Western Australian Legislative Council, proposed 357 amendments to a voluntary assisted dying bill?
Did you know that Rut Castillo was the only out LGBTQ rhythmic gymnast at the 2020 Olympics?
Did you know that at the Guild Theatre, the higher an actor ascended, the farther they were from stardom?
Did you know that in a weeklong contest during World War II, trained farm girls were found to produce more enriched uranium than professional physicists?
Did you know that the Confederate States Navy ordered six Squib-class torpedo boats from England, but they were never delivered?
Did you know that Alois Wyrsch, the first member of colour of the Swiss parliament, was born to a mercenary in the Dutch Indies in 1825?
Did you know that Angel Joy Chavis Rocker, a guidance counselor with no political experience, was the first black woman to run for President of the United States as a Republican?
Did you know that Gateshead Millennium Bridge is the world's first tilt bridge?
Did you know that Jane Cakebread's 277 court appearances for drunkenness helped bring about the Inebriates Act of 1898?
Did you know that North Carolina television station WNAO-TV operated from a converted supper club?
Did you know that Peter Walker choreographed an Oklahoma!-inspired dream ballet for the film I'm Thinking of Ending Things?
Did you know that Ukrainian parties obtained only a fifth of the votes in the 1917 Kiev City Duma election?
Did you know that legal activist Carrie Campbell Severino, who co-authored a book about Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination, was once a law clerk for Justice Clarence Thomas?
Did you know that the Hittite plague in the 14th century BC was the first documented use of a disease as a biological weapon?
Did you know that the goddess Vasoorimala (devotee pictured) is a deity associated with communicable diseases like smallpox, chickenpox, and measles?
Did you know that when Oprah Winfrey was honored at the 2018 Golden Globes, the first person she thanked was Dennis Swanson, the Chicago TV station manager who hired her?
Did you know that British alpine skier Shona Brownlee, who competed at the 2022 Winter Paralympics, plays the French horn and the piano in the Central Band of the Royal Air Force?
Did you know that Moondog was released 13 years after Moondog's previous Moondog?
Did you know that Stephan MacLeod's 2021 recording of Bach's Mass in B minor with ten singers was said to be "characterised by swift momentum, crisp articulation and benevolent attention to detail"?
Did you know that museum director Alena Aladava rebuilt the Belarusian national art collection in the aftermath of the Second World War?
Did you know that the Green Line Extension, which partially opens today, was first proposed a century ago?
Did you know that the Temporary Protection Directive went unused until the Ukrainian refugee crisis?
Did you know that Bill Smyth fought as a Marine at Iwo Jima and later played four seasons for the Los Angeles Rams?
Did you know that an excavation for 75 Wall Street revealed an old crock linked with a leader of the Tammany Hall political machine?
Did you know that long ladders have unlimited risk?
Did you know that the detention of two British surveyors for around an hour in 1878 formed part of the justification for the Anglo-Zulu War?
Did you know that the high number of free tenants recorded in the 1299 Red Book of Worcester may be a result of manumissions granted by Bishop Godfrey Giffard?
Did you know that Barbara F. Walter's How Civil Wars Start argues that the United States is no longer a true democracy?
Did you know that Elizabeth Pierce Blegen was one of the "Quartet" of archaeologists who lived and worked together in Greece as a family, along with Ida Hill, Carl Blegen, and Bert Hodge Hill?
Did you know that nearly a quarter of the patients at the Kirby Forensic Psychiatric Center in New York City are criminally insane?
Did you know that the 1885 spiritual anthem Prayer for Ukraine was performed by a choir from New York on Saturday Night Live?
Did you know that the 1950 Hindi film Hamari Beti, which featured Nutan's first lead role, at 14 years of age, was directed by her mother?
Did you know that when the Ivankiv Historical and Local History Museum was burned during the recent Battle of Ivankiv, artworks by Hanna Veres and Maria Prymachenko were destroyed?
Did you know that due to business closures across California during the COVID-19 pandemic, some of the exotic dancers at Jumbo's Clown Room created the Cyber Clown Girls show so they could continue working?
Did you know that the Correspondence of Paul and Seneca was cited in the Middle Ages to claim that Seneca, a Roman philosopher of Stoicism, had converted to Christianity?
Did you know that the Dillinger Gang's 1934 robbery of the Security National Bank in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, was depicted in the 2009 film Public Enemies?
Did you know that Gloria Rojas, one of the first Latina broadcast journalists in New York City, helped launch the career of Geraldo Rivera?
Did you know that Gérard de Nerval's poem "Delphica" promises that the gods of classical mythology will eventually return?
Did you know that Macy Rodman's 2021 album Unbelievable Animals was described as combining "radio-rock shine with dirt-punk roots" and "a dash of Ray of Light–esque experimental pop"?
Did you know that Raven-Symoné, who played the lead role in the series That's So Raven, became a producer for its fourth season at the age of 19?