Did you know? Facts from Wikipedia, 2025

text: Did you know that soldiers participating in an Israeli raid in Masyaf described an explosion that destroyed a missile production facility as "a mini earthquake"?
text: Did you know that The Scarecrow , considered the first collection of Chinese fairy tales, has parallels with the works of Andersen , Pushkin , and Wilde ?
text: Did you know that the ceiling of the Langar Mosque resembles that of a Buddhist chaitya ?
text: Did you know that Adam and John were the only Latin bishops of Banias who lived in Banias ?
text: Did you know that the Japanese song " Summertime " gained traction after it became popular in Southeast Asia two years after its first release?
text: Did you know that the Green Bay Packers ' ninth home victory in a row against the Seattle Seahawks was in the 2019 NFC Divisional playoff game ?
text: Did you know that Sun Haven drew attention for letting players marry the  leader?
text: Did you know that Charles Assmann was the "butt of many jokes"?
text: Did you know that a profile of artist Mark Hearld said his "wrens and squirrels, field mice and owls" help a child care about the planet better than telling them it is burning?
text: Did you know that the NFL listed the 4th and 26 game as one of the greatest in the first 100 years of its history?
text: Did you know that the Yiddish poet David Einhorn levelled criticism at other Jewish writers in Berlin whom he accused of being "bourgeois intellectuals" and out-of-touch with their fellow migrants?
text: Did you know that the Kokusai Ta-Go aircraft was purposely designed for the kamikaze role?
text: Did you know that LGBTQ synagogues helped shape the American Jewish response to AIDS in the 1980s, even as the disease killed many of their members?
text: Did you know that Ali-Hajji of Akusha supported the Bolsheviks because he believed that they would implement sharia ?
text: Did you know that the health of prisoners in Australia is impacted by their lack of access to Medicare , the country's otherwise- universal health care system?
text: Did you know that during hearings for a new TV station in the state of Washington , an engineer collapsed on the witness stand, a radio station owner suffered food poisoning, and his rival's wife was hospitalized?
text: Did you know that Mark IV was the first commercial software to cross $10 million in total sales, and the first to cross $100 million as well?
text: Did you know that lukken , a traditional dessert waffle from West Flanders , gets its name from the Dutch word for 'luck'?
text: Did you know that Rickey Henderson was the first American League baseball player to join the 20–50 club ?
text: Did you know that Shloyme Bastomski reestablished the first children's periodical published in Yiddish after it was discontinued due to World War I?
text: Did you know that " Pantropiko " made Bini the first P-pop group to top the Billboard Philippines Songs chart?
text: Did you know that the Ruthenian Catholic bishop Artur Bubnevych earned a degree in Gaming ?
text: Did you know that Joe Biden has cited Wilmington, Delaware , and Syracuse, New York , as possible locations for the Joseph R. Biden Jr. Presidential Library ?
text: Did you know that Science Fiction Literature Through History: An Encyclopedia contains entries on topics not typically associated with science fiction, such as William Shakespeare and the Odyssey ?
text: Did you know that Mirza Muhammad Amin Shahristani served in the royal courts of the Golconda Sultanate , Safavid Iran , and the Mughal Empire ?
text: Did you know that one writer criticized the College Football Playoff system before its first edition had even begun?
text: Did you know that the Nicaraguan nun Dorotea Wilson joined a guerrilla group, renounced her vows, and became a women's rights activist and politician?
text: Did you know that a U.S. government official ordered that " It Was on a Friday Morning " be removed from a hymnal within 24 hours?
text: Did you know that after the failure of the Tiepolo conspiracy of 1310, the houses of the chief conspirators were torn down, and their families were forced to change their coats of arms?
text: Did you know that Coscinodon lawianus is one of only two species of moss only found in continental Antarctica?
text: Did you know that LGBTQ activist Alexey Davydov became the first person to be charged with violating Russia's 2013 anti-gay law after he displayed a sign that read "being gay is normal" at a children's library?
text: Did you know that stars have been depicted in fiction since the 1600s as locations that can be visited?
text: Did you know that three women spent 80 hours chained together in a mine to protest its closure?
text: Did you know that Joseph Hirkala initially declined to run for reelection to the New Jersey Senate in 1987 due to poor health, but entered the race 38 days before his death?
text: Did you know that a long-legged lovebird lived in humanity's cradle ?
text: Did you know that Bao Tianxiao received an award for best original work for his translation of an Italian novel?
text: Did you know that the lyrics of So Medieval are "like an audiobook during a car crash"?
text: Did you know that Tan Gee Paw was presented with a solid gold medal by Lee Kuan Yew for helping to clean up Singapore's waterways?
text: Did you know that a " mystery eruption " cooled the Northern Hemisphere in 1453 ?
text: Did you know that Lily Phillips had sex with 101 men on 19 October 2024?
text: Did you know that a group of 25 women disfigured by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima traveled to the United States in the 1950s to receive reconstructive surgery?
text: Did you know that Mary Sheffield is the youngest elected member and the youngest president in the Detroit City Council's history?
text: Did you know that fans speculated that Charli XCX wrote " Sympathy Is a Knife " about Taylor Swift and her relationship with Matty Healy?
text: Did you know that the capture of the crusader Bertrand of Toulouse by Muslims was blamed by an anonymous monk on the "treachery" of Queen Melisende and Countess Hodierna ?
text: Did you know that the Chinook Indian Nation became a federally recognized tribe in 2001, but had its status revoked the following year?
text: Did you know that Liang Sishun published an anthology of Chinese poetry in 1908, when she was about fifteen years old?
text: Did you know that Eoscorpius , despite living hundreds of millions of years ago, has been noted for its similarity to modern scorpions?
text: Did you know that a Greek academic compared the Frankish Tower in Athens with the droppings of birds of prey?
text: Did you know that Alabama and Clemson played each other in the championship game of the second and third College Football Playoffs ?
text: Did you know that an irreverent photograph of Czechoslovak president Klement Gottwald brought a ten-year sentence for the photojournalist Jindřich Marco , who had to serve seven years in uranium mines?
text: Did you know that despite having built a cathedral , Bishop Joseph Crétin said that his diocese did not have one?
text: Did you know that Jerónimo Muñoz 's mastery of Hebrew purportedly caused Jews to assert that Muñoz was himself a Jew?
text: Did you know that an Oregon radio station stayed on the air through a major windstorm even though a tree fell into its studios?
text: Did you know that Lee Kuan Yew stated that "there would have been no clean and green Singapore without Lee Ek Tieng "?
text: Did you know that the 1827 novel A Voyage to the Moon contains the first use of anti-gravity for space travel in science fiction?
text: Did you know that a wardrobe malfunction at the Eurovision Song Contest 1985 was staged because the host wanted the audience "to wake up a little"?
text: Did you know that the floor plans of East Kangqiao station included a COVID-19 testing booth near one of its exits?
text: Did you know that college football player Jack Browning was named All– Mountain West Conference at three different positions in 2022?
text: Did you know that the New Zealand goose Thomas has been described as an "icon of the LGBT community"?
text: Did you know that the sole survivor of the Caffey family murders escaped the burning building and crawled for more than an hour to a neighbor's house?
text: Did you know that film director Orlando Bagwell initially thought that he would enter a career in medicine?
text: Did you know that BBC One initially passed on Line of Duty , whose finale would become its highest-rated drama in 19 years?
text: Did you know that Amit Mekel served in Cairo, São Paulo, Brussels and Los Angeles, before becoming the Israeli ambassador to Paraguay ?
text: Did you know that Blue Bendy have been compared to both pavement and Pavement ?
text: Did you know that the T24 Festival was organized after a former soldier boasted online that he could set up a 24-person military tent by himself?
text: Did you know that the organ console at the Loew's Jersey Theatre was originally installed at another theater by mistake?
text: Did you know that Margaret Reid is the first woman to have served as President of the Australian Senate?
text: Did you know that The Hangover by Toulouse-Lautrec, which features the stylistic influence of Vincent van Gogh, was once displayed by Aristide Bruant in his nightclub?
text: Did you know that there were "jubilant" cheers from the courtroom audience when three students were acquitted of the murder of Fernando Rios ?
text: Did you know that the discontinuation of a Warsaw-based Yiddish literary journal in the summer of 1939 was unrelated to the invasion of Poland ?
text: Did you know that Olympic gold medalist Lao Lishi was one of eight bell-ringers for the Alibaba Group 's listing on the New York Stock Exchange ?
text: Did you know that according to the Mercurius Aulicus , 400 soldiers were routed by six officers and a boy during the English Civil War?
text: Did you know that only two people are known to have seen Du Toit's torrent frog alive?
text: Did you know that Jeanne Trevor 's name was misspelled on the cover of her first album?
text: Did you know that the Sitaleshwar Temple remained a place of worship even when it was in ruins?
text: Did you know that the comet C/1975 T2 (Suzuki–Saigusa–Mori) was independently discovered by five observers within the span of half an hour?
text: Did you know that viewers of an Indiana TV station 's newscast in 1995 could send emails to the presenter live on air?
text: Did you know that the diary of Erich Lassota von Steblau is an important primary source on the 16th-century Zaporozhian Cossacks of Ukraine?
text: Did you know that nearly half of the wins achieved in 2024 by the San Jose State Spartans women's volleyball team were by forfeit?
text: Did you know that Japan's oldest expressway is intended to be transformed into a park?
text: Did you know that 1,10-decanediol could potentially hamper the production of nitrite in soil?
text: Did you know that Doug Hamlin vowed to recruit more women and minorities to the National Rifle Association ?
text: Did you know that the upcoming Seattle Sounders FC season includes a tournament for which they qualified in 2022?
text: Did you know that the 1999–2001 Liechtenstein financial crisis caused the country to be blacklisted by the Financial Action Task Force ?
text: Did you know that the Vĩnh Điện River was used to transport sugar and cinnamon for international export in the 1840s?
text: Did you know that after seeing a film at the United Palace , the televangelist Reverend Ike asked to buy the theater so he could move in the next day?
text: Did you know that the staff of Sergiyev Posad-6 were banned from using libraries in Moscow?
text: Did you know that the music video of " Speed Me Up " was described as "incredibly dumb" and a "cornucopia of hilarious imagery"?
text: Did you know that the collapse of the Aboriginal Community Benefit Fund left 14,500 customers A$ 66 million out of pocket?
text: Did you know that a labor union sued a Seattle TV station over a newscast aired on another station ?
text: Did you know that Arthur Swanstrom co-wrote the lyrics to "the first Off-Broadway musical to gain wide recognition in New York"?
text: Did you know that a popular romantic pairing from Doctor Who was later adapted into the show at the suggestion of lead actress Jodie Whittaker ?
text: Did you know that shipwreck hunter Noel Hilliam claimed to have found a sunken U-boat off the coast of New Zealand?
text: Did you know that lead actor Ian Chan also composed, arranged, and performed the interlude for Last Song for You ?
text: Did you know that in the 2019 NFC Championship Game , Raheem Mostert became the first person to rush for more than 200 yards and score four touchdowns in an NFL playoff game?
text: Did you know that Ana María Ochoa was born in Colombia, studied in British Columbia, and taught at Columbia?
text: Did you know that Bob Fernandez , one of the last known survivors of the attack on Pearl Harbor , was then just 17 years old and serving as a Navy mess cook?
text: Did you know that the city of al-Suqaylabiyah was founded in the 19th century by Christian villagers from the Hauran and the Syrian coastal mountains ?
text: Did you know that Oscar Goodman was the tournament MVP for the first New Zealand under-17 basketball team to reach the FIBA Under-16 Asia Cup championship game?
text: Did you know that the retelling of stories can focus on female characters to reflect the feminist perspective?
text: Did you know that William , a medieval bishop of Acre, "met a strange and undeserved fate" at the hands of a mentally ill young priest?
text: Did you know that the music video for " Step by Step " stars a 12-year-old professional skateboarder ?
text: Did you know that Ryusei Nishioka broke the world record difficulty score in trampoline gymnastics by performing seven triple somersaults ?
text: Did you know that Disney+ released a promotional poster for the Doctor Who Christmas special " Joy to the World " with the title spelled incorrectly?
text: Did you know that the illustrated manuscript Tarif-i Husain Shahi contains a rare depiction of a queen in Islamic art ?
text: Did you know that a bulldog from New Zealand was trained to locate wounded soldiers on the battlefields of the Western Front in World War I and guide them back to safety?
text: Did you know that the first biography of the first Japanese woman to earn a college degree was written by her great-granddaughter, who also studied abroad in the U.S.?
text: Did you know that the serial killer Raul Meza Jr. , when asked if he was apologetic, replied: "What's the use if a person will not accept it?"
text: Did you know that after a retabulation showed an overtime was needed, Ateneo put its 1930 NCAA basketball championship round game against UST under protest as one of the two referees already left?
text: Did you know that Robert Yelverton Tyrrell became a professor of classics despite spending only six weeks at secondary school?
text: Did you know that the limited study of the Afghani plants Aquilegia gracillima , A. maimanica , and A. microcentra has been blamed on political circumstances?
text: Did you know that the Price Tower was sold for $10 in 2023?
text: Did you know that Pixel Piracy 's developers released a free torrent of their game?
text: Did you know that Gracie Abrams wrote Good Riddance about her breakup from her former collaborator and boyfriend, Blake Slatkin ?
text: Did you know that Wu Zhong was recognized as the youngest general in the Chinese People's Liberation Army after the first holder was stripped of the title following his emigration to the Soviet Union ?
text: Did you know that the 1926 film Lonely Orchid was adapted from a British novel via a Chinese translation of a Japanese translation?
text: Did you know that two different colleges experienced fires while Frederick W. Hinitt was their president?
text: Did you know that South Korean sources reported in January 2024 that several thousand North Korean migrant workers occupied a factory and took hostages ?
text: Did you know that World War II nurse Ethel Lote practised yoga and tai chi until she was 95?
text: Did you know that " Prius Missile " is internet slang for traffic accidents involving older drivers in Japan?
text: Did you know that the dance drama Rain of Flowers Along the Silk Road used movements inspired by cave paintings?
text: Did you know that Sher Machado created a League of Legends tournament exclusively for transgender people?
text: Did you know that Capote Falls is the highest waterfall in Texas, and the only location where Hinckley's columbine occurs in the wild?
text: Did you know that the Legend of Aphroditian identifies the Greek goddess Hera with the Virgin Mary ?
text: Did you know that a bishop complained to the pope that Princess Alice of Antioch refused to share her raiding spoils with him?
text: Did you know that streets in a neighborhood in Mexico were renamed after concepts and projects associated with Andrés Manuel López Obrador ?
text: Did you know that state representative Karl Bohnak , referring to his former profession, said that the Upper Peninsula of Michigan was one of the most challenging places in the U.S. to forecast the weather?
text: Did you know that Efrim Menuck , the guitarist of Godspeed You! Black Emperor , likened the composition of Lift Your Skinny Fists like Antennas to Heaven to film editing ?
text: Did you know that all sporting events in Djibouti were banned for three days after the death of Abdoulkader Waberi Askar ?
text: Did you know that the 1925 Tri-State tornado was the deadliest in United States history?
text: Did you know that Annilese Miskimmon directed a choose-your-own-ending production of Mozart's Così fan tutte ?
text: Did you know that more than 60 student athletes were involved in an academic dishonesty scandal at Florida State University between 2006 and 2007?
text: Did you know that Malik Ambersley escaped homelessness by making TikTok Live content in which he pretended to be a non-player character version of the superhero Miles Morales ?
text: Did you know that Polish prisoners of war in World War II were held not only by Nazi Germany but also by the Soviet Union?
text: Did you know that the death of child monarch Kerekorio Manu Rangi in 1867 ended the ancient dynasty of Easter Island , which according to local belief "went back to the gods themselves"?
text: Did you know that a widespread violin performance scam was described by radio host Scott Simon as "one more raindrop in the storm of schemes that blur our view of what's right in front of us"?
text: Did you know that William van Praagh pioneered the lip-reading method for the education of the deaf in England?
text: Did you know that players of the simulation video game Overcrowd: A Commute 'Em Up need to manage everything from the construction of train stations to dumping trash cans?
text: Did you know that Jennifer Reid at first could not find a Canadian publisher for her book on Canadian identity ?
text: Did you know that the 1975 French jazz-funk album Troupeau Bleu has been sampled by hip-hop artists at least 142 times since the 1990s?
text: Did you know that a viral image called for global attention to the humanitarian crisis following the Tel al-Sultan attack ?
text: Did you know that Patrick Pillay negotiated Seychelles' re-entry into the Southern African Development Community with a reduced membership fee?
text: Did you know that Susan Twist portrayed seven different roles in the eight episodes of Doctor Who 's fourteenth series ?
text: Did you know that Allen DeGraffenreid , who played in the NFL in the 1990s, is not to be confused with Allen DeGraffenreid , who played in the NFL in the 1990s?
text: Did you know that brickmason Donum Montford likely purchased his own freedom from slavery and became a prominent slave-owner?
text: Did you know that Brazil's Ministry of Education threatened legal action against the Portuguese Wikipedia over the article for its minister ?
text: Did you know that a Japanese man raised more than 1,000 Korean orphans during the Japanese occupation of Korea ?
text: Did you know that although over half a million troy ounces of gold have been mined from Valdez Creek , surveys suggest that more is likely undiscovered?
text: Did you know that Katerina Clark wrote "a brave and intelligent study of the Soviet novel"?
text: Did you know that during Frank Ocean 's performance of " Close to You " at FYF Fest in 2017, giant screens live-streamed Brad Pitt acting out a phone conversation backstage?
text: Did you know that Aon v Australian National University overturned a precedent that encouraged litigation-prolonging amendments to pleadings?
text: Did you know that vehicles in Star Trucker still look like American semi-trucks from the 1970s, despite having technology such as warp drivers and maglocks ?
text: Did you know that a Saturday Night Live sketch received an award from the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)?
text: Did you know that Darryl De Sousa created a Baltimore Police Department unit to give lie detector tests to other units?
text: Did you know that the reliefs on the walls of the Dhumnath Temple depict erotic poses from the Kama Sutra ?
text: Did you know that general Zhao Chongguo 's appointment to manage parklands incidentally gave him control over the Han dynasty 's coinage production?
text: Did you know that an Australian crocodile named Burt starred in Crocodile Dundee ?
text: Did you know that Governor of Svalbard Håkon Balstad was described as a "roaring bull of a man with a fabulous capacity for raw liquor"?
text: Did you know that New Zealand once consumed more tea per capita than Britain?
text: Did you know that before specializing in bagpipe making, Roddy MacLellan helped create one of the trophies used at the Super Bowl ?
text: Did you know that the first draft pick in New England Patriots ' history, Gerhard Schwedes , was born in Nazi Germany?
text: Did you know that an ancient Egyptian pet cemetery included a Rüppell's fox , a Barbary falcon , and over 500 cats?
text: Did you know that Theresia Bauer was named science minister of the year four times?
text: Did you know that a species of Australian ant has special workers that make honey, and is considered a delicacy by Aboriginal Australians ?
text: Did you know that Armand Ceritano acquired a Philadelphia hotel for "a smile and a handshake" – and $20, borrowed from others?
text: Did you know that in the Orphic Hymns the mythical Greek hero Heracles is a sun god ?
text: Did you know that Clay Stevenson has his nickname, "Mud", written on the front of his mask, and a Star of Life on the back?
text: Did you know that a volunteer quipped of a Colorado TV station : "We broadcast to more ears of corn and heads of cattle than any other station"?
text: Did you know that a Bangladeshi diplomatic mission in India was attacked by Hindu extremists protesting the arrest of a Hindu monk ?
text: Did you know that a portrait of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec cooking captures him in an unusual moment of sobriety?
text: Did you know that the Lisdoonvarna Music Festival was described as Ireland's version of the Woodstock music festival?
text: Did you know that Japanese-American activist Yuri Kochiyama converted to Islam in 1971?
text: Did you know that in 1968, ADR 's Autoflow flowchart software became the first program to receive a software patent in the United States?
text: Did you know that the tomb of the 15th-century Okinawan king Shō Hashi was destroyed during World War II?
text: Did you know that the Wilson Warbirds were nearly named the "Wilson Whirligigs" after the folk artist Vollis Simpson 's whirligig sculptures in the town?
text: Did you know that Archbishop John Roach received a standing ovation for admitting his alcoholism?
text: Did you know that the Yogini with a Mynah Bird has the attributes of an ascetic as well as a princess?
text: Did you know that artist Dan Hays uses what he calls "the tactile, flawed and time-consuming medium of painting" to reproduce the effect of a low-resolution JPEG ?
text: Did you know that the owner of a South Carolina TV station admitted, "I'm not a broadcaster"?
text: Did you know that after serving as Malawi's first speaker of the assembly following independence, Alec Nyasulu was a tobacco farmer?
text: Did you know that the "white rose" in The Valiant Girl White Rose refers to both its star and character, but neither share a name?
text: Did you know that in 1860, engineer Andreas Kordellas helped restart operations at an ancient Athenian mine ?
text: Did you know that in " Skin of My Teeth ", Demi Lovato declared that she barely escaped death?
text: Did you know that for some time the penguin Happy Feet got more media attention than New Zealand Prime Minister John Key ?
text: Did you know that the CEO of the London Stock Exchange described insider dealing as "the poster child of market abuse"?
text: Did you know that the Praga E-55 was abandoned due to the Czech aircraft industry being directed to concentrate on licensed production of Soviet aircraft?
text: Did you know that pianist BLKBOK has composed works based on the murder of George Floyd , the Little Rock Nine , and The Negro Motorist Green Book ?
text: Did you know that for television, James Mustapic set his mother up on a date with David Seymour , who will soon be the New Zealand deputy prime minister?
text: Did you know that debris fallout from a violent 2011 tornado included a photograph found 353 km (219 mi) downstream from its origin?
text: Did you know that John A. Tibbits and his law firm partner served as consecutive U.S. consuls to Bradford , England?
text: Did you know that the Chinese theatre dance known as wuju blends influences of ballet and traditional opera?
text: Did you know that a hockey line named after That '70s Show helped the Los Angeles Kings win their second Stanley Cup?
text: Did you know that specimens of Aquilegia daingolica were collected in 1906 and 1909, but it was first described as a new species in 2013?
text: Did you know that Yanou Collart helped Rock Hudson get medical treatment when Nancy Reagan would not?
text: Did you know that when Alexander McQueen , following years of criticism for over-reliance on runway spectacles, presented The Man Who Knew Too Much , it was criticised for its lack of theatrics?
text: Did you know that Lars Chemnitz was one of the first recipients of Nersornaat , the highest honor in Greenland?
text: Did you know that the principal songwriter of a song on Always Happy to Explode asked listeners to "love it for me, for I cannot"?
text: Did you know that Daniel Hermann wrote poems on the inclusion of a lizard and a frog in a piece of amber, the eagle in the coat of arms of Poland , and a child suffering from Fraser syndrome ?
text: Did you know that the harsh treatment of Allied prisoners of war in Japan is well known in the West but mostly ignored or glossed over in Japan itself?
text: Did you know that a cable TV channel in the UK was still broadcasting primarily in black and white as late as 1979?
text: Did you know that with the Green Bay Packers ' loss in the 2020 NFC Championship Game , Aaron Rodgers "became the first quarterback in NFL history to lose four straight NFC Championship Games "?
text: Did you know that The House of Bijapur has been called a "painted curtain call" since the dynasty it depicts was overthrown only a few years later?
text: Did you know that Dethloff Willrodt fought for the Union army on the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg on July 1, 1863 , having previously been a soldier in the Confederate army ?
text: Did you know that in Greek mythology, Achilles promised to marry Pisidice if she would help him conquer her homeland, but afterwards he had her executed for treason?
text: Did you know that blogger Charles LeBlanc interviewed a man who carried out a mass shooting the following year?
text: Did you know that for cultural reasons the jijin was permitted to be worn by Catholic priests in China even while celebrating Mass?
text: Did you know that in 1927 Berta Persson became the first woman bus driver in Sweden and was nicknamed "Buss-Berta"?
text: Did you know that both the comedy film Starbuck , and the Holstein bull it was named after, had cloned remakes?
text: Did you know that Emirati princess Mahra Al Maktoum invoked the triple talaq to divorce her husband, which is traditionally done only by the husband?
text: Did you know that as many as 35 million soldiers became prisoners of war in World War II , according to some estimates?
text: Did you know that Luigi Mangione was described as "somewhat of an online sex symbol" following his December 2024 arrest?
text: Did you know that the Mseilha Fort is strategically located to overlook the crossing of the Jaouz River near Ras ash-Shaq'a , a promontory in Lebanon?
text: Did you know that Saint Amata of Assisi was interviewed and testified during the process of the canonization of her aunt, Saint Clare of Assisi ?
text: Did you know that journalism students at New Mexico State University were willing to work for free to save their newscast on the school's TV station ?
text: Did you know that the Rockwell PPS-8 microprocessor had a number of features that made Adam Osborne call it "most unusual" and "difficult to understand"?
text: Did you know that a president of the Oregon Senate crawled along a ledge of the State Capitol to access an unsecured window of the absent governor's office to place bills on his desk?
text: Did you know that a PhD student discovered a lost manuscript of Galen 's Peri Alypias in 2005, in "one of the most spectacular finds ever of ancient literature"?
text: Did you know that Kim Kitsuragi was praised as one of the best video game characters of 2019?
text: Did you know that the Chinese Lingnan School faced condemnation during the Second Sino-Japanese War , even as it spread anti-Japanese messages?
text: Did you know that in the wake of a hazing scandal , Western Kentucky University placed their swimming and diving programs on a five-year suspension?
text: Did you know that some years after unknowingly working for the Manhattan Project , Charles Fisk quit physics and became an organ builder ?
text: Did you know that after a 2008 tornado , Michael Chertoff likened Picher, Oklahoma , to a nuclear bomb site?
text: Did you know that the producers of Doctor Who only wrote a queer romance into the programme's 2022 special episodes after viewers began shipping two characters?
text: Did you know that the return ceremony of the skull of Adam Sapi Mkwawa 's grandfather was "probably the biggest gathering ever to take place in Tanganyika"?
text: Did you know that a study of people who reported experiences of alien abduction found that many exhibited characteristics consistent with fantasy-prone personality ?
text: Did you know that the My Chemical Romance song " Cancer " was written in eight minutes?
text: Did you know that Ambo Sooloh pledged allegiance to the British government on behalf of all Malays in Singapore?
text: Did you know that a pavilion next to New York City's Ted Weiss Federal Building was canceled due to the discovery of human remains?
text: Did you know that Pocatello mayor Les Purce was the first African-American political officeholder in Idaho?
text: Did you know that the Chapline columbine is generally considered a distinct species, except in Texas, where it is considered a variety of the golden columbine ?
text: Did you know that a Portsmouth building was Grade II-listed because Eric Rimmington painted a mural inside it?
text: Did you know that the Glucoboy was advertised as the "first medical device to interface with a Nintendo Game Boy"?
text: Did you know that a Sunday afternoon phone call to Ken Battle laid the foundations for the Canadian Child Benefit program?
text: Did you know that in the narrative epic Pem Nem , the union of two lovers is a metaphor for the union of the soul with God?
text: Did you know that after becoming a born again Christian, soprano Jane Stuart Smith abandoned a successful opera career to pursue a life of Christian service?
text: Did you know that Singapore's first R-rated play was performed despite the police finding parts of it "offensive"?
text: Did you know that the Filipino boy band SB19 considered disbandment after their debut single " Tilaluha " saw little success?
text: Did you know that Richard Stratton 's diplomatic career took him "from South America to Japan, and from Southern Africa to the foothills of the Himalayas"?
text: Did you know that among the millions of prisoners of war murdered by the Germans during WWII there were also tens of thousands of their former allies, the Italians?
text: Did you know that American football player Noah Knigga went viral for his last name and had to clarify its pronunciation?
text: Did you know that gym teacher Harold Styan of Clifton House School was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to youth?
text: Did you know that one critic described some of the melodies in Life Till Bones as akin to "trying to dig a hole in a bowl full of sugar"?
text: Did you know that Goro Takahashi , a silversmith adopted by a Lakota family, was the first Japanese person allowed to attend a Sun Dance ?
text: Did you know that a Rhode Island TV station started out by re-running an inventory of 50 hours of cartoons and 14 old movies?
text: Did you know that the 1923 film Zhang Xinsheng featured close-up views of internal organs?
text: Did you know that an inscription from 243 AD for a leader of the marzēaḥ ends with blessings for his sons, the scribe, the person in charge of the cooking, the cupbearer, and other assistants?
text: Did you know that Ripken wore a GoPro on his back while retrieving used bats and tees at major sporting events?
text: Did you know that trucks in Tyler promoted Tyler 's latest album ?
text: Did you know that aerospace engineer Nuno Xavier signed the treaty that made São Tomé and Príncipe an independent nation?
text: Did you know that some journalists interpreted Taylor Swift's song " But Daddy I Love Him " as her criticism of her own fans?
text: Did you know that The Bootleggers portrays the illegal alcohol trade during the Prohibition era of the Roaring '20s?
text: Did you know that the Hanta Road on Okinawa was used by both Ryukyuan armies and the U.S. Navy's Perry Expedition ?
text: Did you know that political consultant Jim Rivaldo said that moving to San Francisco made him realize that "there were gay lawyers, gay businessmen—a lot of people like me"?
text: Did you know that Aquilegia barykinae is likely more closely related to other species of columbine than to Aquilegia amurensis , which shares its range?
text: Did you know that Mark Smith was a fourth-generation actor who performed in 70 theaters in New York City and on more than 2,000 radio programs?
text: Did you know that the director-screenwriter of Blossoms Under Somewhere joined Telegram groups that sell used lingerie to conduct field research?
text: Did you know that a musical adaptation of Homer's Odyssey is structured after video-game level progression?
text: Did you know that scholars have suggested that bædlings may have been a third gender in Anglo-Saxon society?
text: Did you know that the FBI's first successful use of silver nitrate to identify fingerprints was in solving the kidnapping of a brewery executive ?
text: Did you know that one Tumblr user cursed another for stealing bones for use in curses ?
text: Did you know that in 1902 the paramedic student Anna Weisman smuggled fonts to help set up an underground revolutionary publishing house in Saratov ?
text: Did you know that debris was carried aloft to an altitude of 30,000 feet (9,100 m) after the 1957 Ruskin Heights tornado ?
text: Did you know that Johannes Kaiser was the leading opponent to Liechtenstein's accession to the International Monetary Fund ?
text: Did you know that the publication of Paul Creston's saxophone sonata was delayed by a "rat with a toothbrush mustache"?
text: Did you know that Josie Childs served as a Chicago mayor's assistant, worked as a campaign organizer for three U.S. presidents, and hosted the British queen?
text: Did you know that Kenshi Yonezu 's song " Dune " describes his perception of a "desert-like atmosphere" on the video-sharing website Niconico ?
text: Did you know that Haliey Welch earned more than $65,000 within weeks of hawk tuah going viral?
text: Did you know that Mauritius's abortion law was "dormant for nearly two centuries"?
text: Did you know that the first women's dormitory built at Hampton University was partially paid for with money collected by the school's choir in tours led by Thomas P. Fenner ?
text: Did you know that hefker , unowned property in Talmudic law, came to express both personal freedom and societal abandonment in 20th-century Yiddish poetry?
text: Did you know that NFL player Darrell Hogan watched Gunsmoke every day?
text: Did you know that players play Pokémon Smile by brushing their teeth?
text: Did you know that the questionnaire prepared after the Jewish Ethnographic Expedition had 2,087 questions and was called "a modern epic"?
text: Did you know that during World War II, US Army casualty telegrams were sent out in the name of Major General James Alexander Ulio ?
text: Did you know that to raise funds for the Council of District Dumas , its chairman led an armed squad to storm the Moscow headquarters of the State Bank ?
text: Did you know that the Boldy James and Sterling Toles collaborative album Manger on McNichols took over a decade to make?
text: Did you know that Renildo José dos Santos , a Brazilian councilman, was murdered in 1993 after publicly coming out as bisexual?
text: Did you know that a Kansas City TV station was under contract to be sold within a week of its first regular broadcast?
text: Did you know that Her Story was described as China's answer to Barbie ?
text: Did you know that football player Jahkeem Stewart was 6 feet 4 inches (1.93 m) and 340 pounds (150 kg) in sixth grade?
text: Did you know that the murder of skier Corinne Rey-Bellet led to a change in Swiss gun-control regulations ?
text: Did you know that Home and Beauty has been described as both a "little masterpiece of polite merriment" and a "misogynist comedy dipped in vitriol"?
text: Did you know that Bea Hines , the first African-American woman to become a reporter at the Miami Herald , was sent to report on a riot on her first day at work?
text: Did you know that terracotta cones found at al-Moghraqa in Palestine are unique in the region, but resemble artefacts from ancient Egypt?
text: Did you know that Yvonne Francis-Gibson , before improving women's rights as a legislator in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, led a Women's Desk that was "unable to take a firm stand on behalf of women's issues"?
text: Did you know that Aquilegia moorcroftiana is named after a mountaineer and is found at the highest elevation of any species of columbine ?
text: Did you know that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was just one center until 1980?
text: Did you know that Yuki Waga created the "earworm" for " Shikairo Days " by walking around his house repeating " shikanoko nokonoko koshitantan "?
text: Did you know that the Okinawan king Shō Taikyū was reportedly protected by an all-female bodyguard?
text: Did you know that the browser extension AdNauseam blocks and clicks on advertisements at the same time?
text: Did you know that a key part of Alexis Harding 's abstract art is the chemical incompatibility of the different paints he uses?
text: Did you know that neither of the two athletes who represented Togo at the 2014 Winter Olympics grew up or trained in the country?
text: Did you know that Monica Smit was ordered to pay Victoria Police 's legal bill of about A$ 250,000, despite winning a lawsuit against them?
text: Did you know that St. Peter's Catholic Church is the oldest church in continuous use in the state of Minnesota?
text: Did you know that the music of Camila Cabello inspired Taylor Swift to work on the song " I Forgot That You Existed " with the producers Louis Bell and Frank Dukes ?
text: Did you know that the Biblical Magi dispense mysterious vision-inducing foods in the Revelation of the Magi , which a scholar proposed to be an account of ritual hallucinogen intake?
text: Did you know that the Rescatemos a David y Miguel memorial was installed seven years ago today in response to a kidnapping that occurred thirteen years ago today?
text: Did you know that Carol and Eric Hafner ran for five United States House of Representatives seats for states in which they did not live, and mostly had not visited?
text: Did you know that the first modern Chinese play was based on an American novel and staged in Tokyo?
text: Did you know that ketchup chips were introduced in the 1970s along with other flavours such as grape and orange?
text: Did you know that the military glider Tsybin Ts-25 was considered for use as a civilian airliner?
text: Did you know that the futurist novel Man of Smoke , according to a scholar, contains a hidden legal code for readers to piece together?
text: Did you know that Pokémon Scarlet and Violet became the lowest-rated mainline entries in the franchise's history due to performance issues at launch?
text: Did you know that Mirza Ebrahim Khan Sahhafbashi opened the first commercial movie theater in Iran, only for it to be banned within a month?
text: Did you know that the death of Odysseus's dog in the Odyssey uses language typically reserved for the noble deaths of warriors?
text: Did you know that when future Olympian Chang Wei-chia entered high school, her elementary-school swimming coach was hired full-time and continued to coach her?
text: Did you know that Babak Ganjei tried to sell a painting of his credit card to Barclays ?
text: Did you know that An Amorous History of the Silver Screen has been read as a biographic metafilm , paralleling its lead's rise from prostitution into film stardom?
text: Did you know that the first publication of the prolific author and Talmudic scholar Israel Ta-Shma was a Jewish songbook for the Israel Defense Forces ?
text: Did you know that Sarah Pickstone based her John Moores Prize –winning painting on an illustration that accompanied the poem " Not Waving but Drowning "?
text: Did you know that Frank Ocean 's song " American Wedding " was pulled from streaming platforms because of its unauthorized use of " Hotel California "?
text: Did you know that after being signed, released, signed, released, signed, released, signed, released, signed, released, and signed again, Brandon Smith made his NFL debut?
text: Did you know that a brigade of Russian paratroopers took part in a NATO-led peacekeeping mission during the 1990s?
text: Did you know that a squirrel helped to steer viewers to its owner's OnlyFans account?
text: Did you know that energy on the grid can be stored in sand or salt?
text: Did you know that the Bronx General Post Office 's roof once had a shooting range?
text: Did you know that Thomas Fenner captained an English warship against the Spanish Armada ?
text: Did you know that an AI-generated Minecraft clone has been described as an early glimpse of the future of video games?
text: Did you know that films were made of plays written by Anthony E. Wills after his death at a relatively young age?
text: Did you know that archaeologists read an ancient inscription by "unrolling" it virtually?
text: Did you know that there were at least seven unsuccessful attempts to redevelop New York City's Kings Theatre before it reopened in 2015?
text: Did you know that newspaper columnist Ly Singko was imprisoned for "glamourising the communist system"?
text: Did you know that Aquilegia gegica and Aquilegia colchica , two species of columbine native to the Caucasus, can produce fertile hybrid offspring?
text: Did you know that YouTuber Tyler Oliveira apologized after trying to drain a pool with paper towels?
text: Did you know that the final seconds of MLS Cup 2024 were disrupted by players and staff who mistakenly entered the field to celebrate?
text: Did you know that Mary Mellor argued that the COVID-19 pandemic increased the impact of the patriarchy on women, both at home and in the wider economy?
text: Did you know that Taylor Swift released a demo containing lyrics that were trimmed from the final version of her song " My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys "?
text: Did you know that a Welsh man lost more than £500 million of bitcoin in a landfill ?
text: Did you know that baritone Ettore Verna twice "sang himself out of his pants" during a performance at the Boston Opera House , according to Billboard ?
text: Did you know that the members of an abortive conspiracy to restore the Fatimid Caliphate were said to have asked the Order of Assassins for assistance in eliminating Saladin ?
text: Did you know that the Lithuanian duke Jonas Vaidutis was elected as the second rector of the oldest Polish university after its restoration in 1400?
text: Did you know that a Talmudic passage, " The Heart Knows Its Own Bitterness ", has been used in Jewish medical ethics to justify patient autonomy?
text: Did you know that Kurt Burris was the first American football lineman to finish among the top two in Heisman Trophy voting?
text: Did you know that The King of Comedy Visits Shanghai depicted Charlie Chaplin in China fourteen years before it happened?
text: Did you know that Frederick Warren Freer switched from studying medicine to art after becoming partially deaf?
text: Did you know that the Japanese band Gohobi describes themselves as having a "tofu mentality"?
text: Did you know that critics argued that involving actresses in civilized drama would promote obscenity?
text: Did you know that five percent of Barbados's population turned out to protest the death of Milton King in Cape Town police custody?
text: Did you know that about 200,000 Jews served in the Polish Army and related formations during World War II?
text: Did you know that Pete Vann recovered from spinal meningitis to set an NCAA single-season passing record?
text: Did you know that St Bride's Church still has loopholes from use as a military outpost in the 19th century?
text: Did you know that Glaive recorded the first track for I Care So Much That I Don't Care at All at the age of 17?
text: Did you know that according to George K. Teulon all of the presidents and vice-presidents of the Republic of Texas , and four-fifths of its government officials, were freemasons ?
text: Did you know that a Mountain Landscape is difficult to capture with photography?
text: Did you know that Sonya Friedman developed the idea of supertitles , which translate words being sung on stage in opera?
text: Did you know that multiple scenes in Papa feature cotton-tree flowers, even though it was not scripted and the falling cotton simply kept drifting into the shot?
text: Did you know that Canadian rapper Apt Exact , who has been described as "not gangster", was elected to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia in 2024?
text: Did you know that the Canaanite ivory comb contains the earliest known sentence in a Canaanite language ?
text: Did you know that schools in Wales during the Second World War were held in village halls?
text: Did you know that Kathryn Maple won the Sunday Times Watercolour Competition twice in three years?
text: Did you know that the apartment building the Manhasset caught fire in 1999, just as its renovation was being completed?
text: Did you know that Chen Dingshan has been called the last heir of the Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies school?
text: Did you know that meetings between Biblical and post-Biblical characters, such as when Moses sees Rabbi Akiva teach and be martyred, are rare in Talmudic stories?
text: Did you know that Marie-Thérèse Eyquem served in the government of Vichy France , and was later appointed a national secretary of the French Socialist Party?
text: Did you know that An Amorous History of the Silver Screen , an exploration of more than four decades of film in China, argues that cinema is a "modern folk tale"?
text: Did you know that a critic called Benjamin Britten 's Tema "Sacher" a "truncated and barely coherent page [of music]" and "a pathetic fragment"?
text: Did you know that the 1980s Beechcraft BQM-126 target drone could be launched from aircraft based on aircraft carriers?
text: Did you know that children's author Mary Chalmers owned ten cats and a Pomeranian dog, whose poses helped her draw illustrations for her books?
text: Did you know that in the 1917 Moscow District Duma elections , the Bolshevik Party won 97 percent of the votes of the soldiers at the heavy artillery workshops?
text: Did you know that Flora Hommel , after being afraid of giving birth to her own child, went on to teach the Lamaze technique to more than 17,000 couples?
text: Did you know that lacrosse player Austin Staats was undefeated in his college career?
text: Did you know that one of the major prey groups of the paddle crab, Ovalipes catharus , is other paddle crabs?
text: Did you know that Arab Christian physician Abu Sulayman Da'ud served both Latin Christian and Arab Muslim rulers?
text: Did you know that jazz dancer LaTasha Barnes used to be a sergeant in the U.S. Army?
text: Did you know that the basic tune for " As Long as You're Mine " from 2003's Wicked was written by Stephen Schwartz in the 1970s?
text: Did you know that Jing Tsu remembers being called "female tiger" because her schoolteachers' punishments had little effect on her?
text: Did you know that booing heard after the United Kingdom's entry at the Eurovision Song Contest 1984 was reportedly either a response to past football hooliganism, claims of lip syncing, or alleged plagiarism of the Supremes ?
text: Did you know that the 2024 American Samoan gubernatorial election was won by Pula and Pulu ?
text: Did you know that Murad Al-Katib provided 700 million meals of Saskatchewan-grown chickpeas, lentils and wheat to a United Nations program for Syrian refugees?
text: Did you know that insurers paid out about NZ$ 171 million in damages caused by a 10-minute hailstorm in New Zealand ?
text: Did you know that Scottish bricklayer Brian Higgins was unable to find work for 25 years after appearing on a construction-industry blacklist ?
text: Did you know that the dragonfly Antiquiala was described from a single wing found in the state of Washington?
text: Did you know that Edward W. Gantt was a Confederate soldier who defected to the Union during the American Civil War ?
text: Did you know that bored soldiers during the siege of Ak-Mechet began stealing watermelons from gardens outside the enemy fortress?
text: Did you know that Shō Sen'i was overthrown in favor of his thirteen-year-old nephew ?
text: Did you know that the titular songstress in Sing-Song Girl Red Peony , a contender for China's first sound film, was overdubbed by a man?
text: Did you know that the male standard-winged nightjar grows a wing ornament more than twice the length of its body during breeding season?
text: Did you know that John Green was UCLA 's leading scorer on the first of coach John Wooden 's 12 Final Four teams?
text: Did you know that while Schubert wrote a melody for the song " Bunt sind schon die Wälder " in 1816, Johann Friedrich Reichardt 's 1799 version is the one that remains popular?
text: Did you know that a fighter-bomber group under the command of Walter G. Benz Jr. during the Korean War became the first United States Air Force unit to complete 50,000 combat sorties?
text: Did you know that because of the cultural impact of Dragon Ball in Mexico, Goku has been described as "a Latino icon"?
text: Did you know that Chrystal read law before beginning a music career?
text: Did you know that the straight-tusked elephant was one of the largest land mammals ever?
text: Did you know that seamen from the warship USS Roy O. Hale boarded the Soviet ship M/V Novorossiysk in 1959, in response to a report from AT&T ?
text: Did you know that Hidayat Arsani , the governor of the Bangka Belitung Islands in Indonesia, was dumped into a trash can as a baby by his birth parents?
text: Did you know that Operation Dugo commemorates the death march from the Auschwitz concentration camp annually on 18 January with the consumption of falafel ?
text: Did you know that the 1990 Serbian general election returned only two women to the National Assembly of Serbia ?
text: Did you know that a desire to be separated from Chicago has led 33 counties in downstate Illinois to hold referendums on secession ?
text: Did you know that the Mazarrón I shipwreck combines Phoenician and local Iberian shipbuilding techniques?
text: Did you know that the Sparkles emoji (✨) is used by large software companies to represent artificial intelligence ?
text: Did you know that the exterior of Shamsher Khan's tomb originally featured richly painted designs, of which only traces survive?
text: Did you know that Bargain Hunters , a game show with elements of home shopping , was described as having "all the most irritating traits of game shows"?
text: Did you know that among the fossils of Finland are the remains of a woolly mammoth and a woolly rhinoceros?
text: Did you know that Gary Tuggle , as head of Philadelphia's Drug Enforcement Administration division, led potentially the largest prepackaged heroin seizure in Delaware history?
text: Did you know that the production design team for The Prosecutor was entirely female?
text: Did you know that Honey Revenge 's debut single contained a voicemail from its subject?
text: Did you know that in 1984, more than 10,000 Papuans from West Papua crossed into Papua New Guinea as refugees due to a government crackdown?
text: Did you know that upon learning of the conditions at Sidi Azaz labor camp , the Tripoli Jewish community organized a food relief effort for the prisoners?
text: Did you know that a botanist initially dismissed this little cactus as "probably just a phase" but came to take it seriously?
text: Did you know that portions of a protected area in Benin have been entrusted to vodún spirits to protect them from destruction?
text: Did you know that the 2025 U.S. Open Cup will not include its defending champions, Los Angeles FC ?
text: Did you know that a lost stone monument for a park in Seoul that closed in 1919 was discovered lying in the grass in 2002?
text: Did you know that the Quad Cities forecast office of the National Weather Service has been directly struck by both an F1 tornado and a historic derecho ?
text: Did you know that the hashtag #AlDubEBTamangPanahon set a Guinness World Record in 2015 with 40,706,392 uses in 24 hours, coinciding with the television event " Tamang Panahon "?
text: Did you know that Elizabeth Teeter was originally cast as Lydia Deetz in Broadway's Beetlejuice in 2020, but did not get to play the role until 2022?
text: Did you know that " Gyutto " was used by many couples to cope during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan ?
text: Did you know that Episode 6867 of EastEnders was criticised for its depiction of Milton Keynes despite not being filmed there?
text: Did you know that Jorge Dias has been called "the most important Portuguese anthropologist of the 20th century"?
text: Did you know that Gerard Way got dental work midway through the recording session for " Vampires Will Never Hurt You "?
text: Did you know that the Jingtai Emperor was rumored to have been strangled to death by a eunuch ?
text: Did you know that UserBenchmark unlocks free testing only if users can shoot down 13 ships?
text: Did you know that Giuseppe Panini turned a batch of unsold stickers into a company which had produced over 150 billion trading cards by 1996?
text: Did you know that Cybermania '94 was the first televised video game awards show?
text: Did you know that Antiqua et nova is a Vatican document that expresses serious ethical concerns surrounding the usage of artificial intelligence ?
text: Did you know that Kaiapoi Pā has been incorrectly called Kaiapohia , a pun that can be translated as 'piling up of bodies for eating'?
text: Did you know that the musical career of Louise Beach has ranged from nationally recognized compositions to a children's book about the viola ?
text: Did you know that the alpine columbine has been cultivated for centuries, and other columbines have often been mistaken for the species for decades?
text: Did you know that the Lutheran pastor Théodore Beck employed modern education methods at the École alsacienne in Paris in the 1880s: no prizes and no corporal punishment?
text: Did you know that Jonathan Rado invited the Lemon Twigs to record their debut album at his house while they were on a school break?
text: Did you know that Ivan Petrovtsii 's vulgar poems were condemned by senior Ukrainian officials in spite of their popularity?
text: Did you know that the CSS-10 aircraft was not produced, despite passing its state trials, as the license for the production of its engine was abandoned?
text: Did you know that the University of Southwestern Louisiana basketball scandal resulted in one of only five times that the NCAA has applied the " death penalty " against a member institution?
text: Did you know that Simeon Barclay 's "sculpture of a chicken on its own little mini-mountain" references a traditional Indian game ?
text: Did you know that Los Angeles's Hollyhock House was built for someone who lived there for only one year?
text: Did you know that a journalist attributed Bonnie Blue going viral to the "outrage economy"?
text: Did you know that the male members of the band Dingo got bottom pats from local men during a Moroccan photoshoot for the album Kerjäläisten valtakunta ?
text: Did you know that the editors of The Philadelphia Inquirer deliberately held back information from the newspaper's TV newscast, Inquirer News Tonight , so as not to be scooped ?
text: Did you know that the villain of a Doctor Who story reappeared after 49 years?
text: Did you know that the FBI tried to convince H. Bruce Franklin that Leibel Bergman , a fellow communist activist, was an FBI informant?
text: Did you know that a group of K-pop fans performed a dance with the goal of convincing a company to commit to 100% renewable energy ?
text: Did you know that the thumb cactus crawls over other plants in cultivation – unless you grow it upside down?
text: Did you know that the Weeping Angels , despite appearing as stone statues, are portrayed by actresses?
text: Did you know that series fiction often suffers from "melodramatic inflation", requiring increasingly dramatic threats, which can lead to prequels and spin-offs?
text: Did you know that 9 to 5 actor Dabney Coleman flew to New York City to pursue acting the day after an actor stopped by for a drink?
text: Did you know that a set of 12th-century Swedish murals in Finja Church is the main achievement of a workshop that decorated at least ten other churches?
text: Did you know that Ren Jinping fought the backlash against a crime film by calling it educational?
text: Did you know that the California FAIR Plan could have nearly $5 billion of exposure to damage from the Palisades and Eaton Fires while only having $377 million on hand to pay claims?
text: Did you know that statements about the character Ridley 's reasons for not being in the fighting game series Super Smash Bros. led to Internet memes about the character's large size?
text: Did you know that William Bartram was both the father of William Bartram and the grandfather of William Bartram ?
text: Did you know that Qatari calligrapher Fatma Al Sharshani was commissioned by Paris Saint-Germain FC to design a skateboard and some Arabic lettering for their shirts?
text: Did you know that some practices found in Jewish customs of etiquette can be traced back to ancient Rome ?
text: Did you know that after chicken keeping was legalized in some U.S. cities , Coastal Farm & Ranch began holding seminars on the subject?
text: Did you know that during a 1989 visit to the United States , Boris Yeltsin said that "there would be a revolution" if the average Soviet citizen knew of the quality of grocery stores in the United States?
text: Did you know that Nourah al-Qahtani was sentenced to 45 years in prison based on alleged social media activity?
text: Did you know that the 1992 video game Otogirisō reinvigorated interest in adventure games in Japan?
text: Did you know that from 1853 to 1855 the State Emigrant Refuge and Hospital on Wards Island in New York City was the largest hospital complex in the world?
text: Did you know that Susan B. Anthony delivered her initial speeches advocating for women's rights at a quilting bee ?
text: Did you know that the Directorate General of Higher Education in Indonesia had been dissolved twice before being re-established in 2019?
text: Did you know that San Antonio declared January 13 to be "Tabyana Ali Day" in honor of the actress and writer Tabyana Ali ?
text: Did you know that one analysis of the song " Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell " cites the ancient Roman orator Quintilian ?
text: Did you know that Edward III's Breton campaign ended in a truce that was "astonishingly favourable" to the English?
text: Did you know that the fantasy writer M. A. R. Barker wrote the neo-Nazi novel Serpent's Walk in 1991, but his authorship was only confirmed in 2022?
text: Did you know that one of the first Polish film producers was prevented from screening his first film in Poland?
text: Did you know that Fuzhou Road was once the centre of the Chinese publishing industry?
text: Did you know that nekonomics includes the leveraging of stray cat populations on islands to draw tourists?
text: Did you know that Yu Xiangdou , unlike most other publishers in Ming-dynasty China , enjoyed including illustrations of himself in his works?
text: Did you know that Frank Lloyd Wright paid more for a well at his Taliesin West estate than he had paid for the land itself?
text: Did you know that Yuval Raphael , who is set to represent Israel at Eurovision 2025 , survived the October 7 Hamas-led attack on Israel by hiding under dead bodies for eight hours?
text: Did you know that the horses pulling the Disneyland Main Street Vehicles ' streetcars include Belgians , Brabants , Clydesdales , Percherons , and Shires ?
text: Did you know that the delegation of the British Virgin Islands at the 2024 Summer Olympics was supported by a scholarship named after their chef de mission ?
text: Did you know that Canadian heritage minister Pascale St-Onge was the bassist in an all-lesbian alternative rock quartet?
text: Did you know that North and South Korean politicians have expressed fondness for Seoul's third-oldest restaurant ?
text: Did you know that scholars have discussed whether a 19th-century artwork by Sengai should be titled " ○△□ " or " □△○ "?
text: Did you know that Ankarette Twynho 's hanging for poisoning a duchess was a cause célèbre , and has been described by one modern historian as " judicial murder "?
text: Did you know that China has sanctioned more than 100 foreign individuals and entities with asset freezes and other restrictions?
text: Did you know that technical issues in the minute before their November 2024 BBC Radio 1 performance meant that South Arcade had to set up while the presenter was announcing them?
text: Did you know that Kasey Morlock was one of five NCAA Division II women's basketball players  selected for the 25th-anniversary team?
text: Did you know that Doctor Who series 13 told only a single story, the first time for the show since 1986?
text: Did you know that the scientific name of a species of crustacean is in honor of ambassador Lamtiur Andaliah Panggabean and her two children?
text: Did you know that Milton Nascimento did not enter himself into the second edition of the Festival Internacional da Canção , yet placed second?
text: Did you know that one-dollar pizza slices , a unique part of the culture of New York City , were originally sold near homeless shelters?
text: Did you know that Joanna of Montfort became known as the "Flame of Brittany" after she led the successful defence of Hennebont against a besieging French army in 1342?
text: Did you know that Nagi Nemoto made her VTuber debut on a classic television set ?
text: Did you know that National Hockey League players have not yet participated at the Olympics since the league entered its second century of operation ?
text: Did you know that Swen Swenson was born in Norway but pioneered a drainage system for Nicollet County while living in New Sweden ?
text: Did you know that the Alt Llobregat insurrection took place without any looting or killing?
text: Did you know that Devello Z. Sheffield petitioned for the release of an assailant who had left him with over 30 wounds?
text: Did you know that the 1924 film Tkies-kaf had no director until its lead actor volunteered?
text: Did you know that the Māori-language name for Cave Rock, Sumner — Tuawera —means 'cut down as if by fire'?
text: Did you know that Thomas Burdet supposedly plotted treason against King Edward IV in 1477 after he killed Burdet's favourite white deer?
text: Did you know that 23 tons of dog food were once stolen from the Malibu Feed Bin ?
text: Did you know that Alf Jacques crafted more than 80,000 wooden lacrosse sticks in his lifetime?
text: Did you know that the Chinese silent film Lustrous Pearls has been described as blurring the differences between male and female bodies through long shots?
text: Did you know that by 2006, Catholic sister Rosalind "Sister Roz" Gefre had given an estimated 7,000 massages at St. Paul Saints baseball games?
text: Did you know that Inky the octopus attracted worldwide media attention after escaping from the National Aquarium of New Zealand ?
text: Did you know that Benedictine monk Brother Justus helped make stills so that farmers could illegally make alcohol during Prohibition ?
text: Did you know that even mpreg enthusiasts disapprove of "ass babies"?
text: Did you know that a SpongeBob -themed channel run by AI quickly devolved into characters discussing depression, drug use, kleptomania , communism, and tax fraud?
text: Did you know that some workers in Japan pay agencies to tell their employers that they are resigning ?
text: Did you know that Jennifer Jones has won a record-tying six Canadian women's curling championships ?
text: Did you know that botanists at Kew Gardens suggested in 2018 that there were only three Madagascar banana trees left?
text: Did you know that the movies available to Florida's first TV station were so bad early on that the host called his show "The P.U. Club"?
text: Did you know that Kailash Puri became Marks & Spencer 's first advisor on Indian ready meals?
text: Did you know that the 2021 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in NCAA v. Alston made student athlete influencers eligible for compensation ?
text: Did you know that Jailson Mendes had to gain weight for his first pornographic film?
text: Did you know that the artist Fang Rending was likened to a caged chicken after rebelling against his teacher?
text: Did you know that " Hard Out Here " was written in parallel to Raye 's departure from Polydor Records and confronts "white men CEOs"?
text: Did you know that a Florida TV station received and aired tapes of programs it was not supposed to broadcast?
text: Did you know that The London Milkman was staged?
text: Did you know that Jill Yager discovered a venomous crustacean species in 1979 and named its class ?
text: Did you know that a Japanese male singer often sang from a female perspective?
text: Did you know that until 1827 University of Oxford graduates had to swear never to reconcile with Henry Symeonis , although it appears that by the 1650s everyone had forgotten why, or who he was?
text: Did you know that the communist-era science-fiction novel Małe zielone ludziki presents a futuristic depiction of Africa that reflects Polish perceptions of the continent during the Cold War?
text: Did you know that Bill Pulte describes himself as the "inventor of Twitter philanthropy"?
text: Did you know that the Andu Masjid , which might have been built as a women's mosque , banned the entry of women?
text: Did you know that copies of 7 Wonders Duel sold twice as fast as the board game of which it is a spinoff ?
text: Did you know that Oliver Cromwell 's decision in 1648 to launch the attack that became the Battle of Preston was an enormous gamble and hardly credible?
text: Did you know that Allbirds invited Amazon to copy its materials after look-alikes appeared on the site?
text: Did you know that Chinese embroiderers created seven tapestries about the Trojan War in the 1620s?
text: Did you know that Jin the otter went loose for almost a month after escaping Auckland Zoo ?
text: Did you know that the 1862 Brooklyn riot involved a mob mainly comprising Irish Americans targeting African-American workers at a tobacco factory ?
text: Did you know that A Foreign Sound includes a song that Caetano Veloso called "a fake American song written by a Brazilian", and a song he called "a fake Brazilian song written by Americans"?
text: Did you know that while George Rolph sued six of his assailants in the Ancaster incident for £1000 each, the trial only awarded him £20 from two of the assailants?
text: Did you know that a government had to intervene after 80 percent of all personal loans taken out were to cover wedding expenses ?
text: Did you know that Carlos Miguel Buela repeatedly disobeyed sanctions placed on him by the Holy See ?
text: Did you know that an Alaska TV station used home movie cameras to shoot newsfilm?
text: Did you know that novelist Hal Clement created the planet Mesklin in 1953 based on the real-world suspected detection of an extrasolar planet ?
text: Did you know that the dog Private Chesty was demoted from private first class for willful destruction of government property?
text: Did you know that the 2023 Aston by-election was the first time in more than 100 years that the governing party won a seat from the opposition at an Australian by-election?
text: Did you know that Walter III Brisebarre renounced the lordship of Beirut to inherit a greater lordship from his father-in-law, only to permanently lose both upon the deaths of his wife, Helena of Milly , and their daughter Beatrice ?
text: Did you know that Born in the U.S.A. was the first compact disc to be manufactured in the United States for commercial release?
text: Did you know that Ívar Bárðarson 's 14th-century reports of feral livestock inhabiting a failed Greenlandic colony were corroborated by the discovery of a frozen goat and animal feces inside an abandoned home?
text: Did you know that Princess Mononoke was the most expensively animated, most expensively promoted, and highest-grossing Japanese film of its time?
text: Did you know that Raging Bull was the first hypercoaster to feature a twister layout ?
text: Did you know that the Albis Tunnel was the second-longest railway tunnel in Switzerland when it was built?
text: Did you know that Morph was included in X-Men: The Animated Series because the writers "really wanted to kill somebody"?
text: Did you know that Paris was the first county seat of Linn County, Kansas , but hardly a ruin is left to tell where it once was?
text: Did you know that Américo Ramos became Prime Minister of São Tomé and Príncipe after his predecessor, Ilza Amado Vaz , resigned following a tenure of three days?
text: Did you know that a million tulips at the 1939 New York World's Fair were destroyed and replaced the month after the fair began?
text: Did you know that there are more than 100 rock paintings of Aboriginal pictographs on a cliff face in Missinaibi Lake ?
text: Did you know that the Deval Mosque was formerly a Hindu temple?
text: Did you know that Andrei Demurenko , the first Russian officer to be a graduate of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College , served alongside the Wagner Group in Ukraine?
text: Did you know that the Stride bus network will launch with electric double-deckers that charge wirelessly?
text: Did you know that a Taiwanese livestreamer accidentally solved a missing persons case?
text: Did you know that Marietta College 's second radio station , airing classical and jazz music, freed up its original outlet for student programming?
text: Did you know that the Legends of Tomorrow episode " Wet Hot American Bummer " quotes a bad review for a different episode of Legends of Tomorrow ?
text: Did you know that despite the song " French Letter " being banned in all French territories, members of the French Foreign Legion sang along to the song  when the band Herbs performed it while playing in Tahiti?
text: Did you know that English footballer Ian Wolstenholme once saved three penalty kicks in a 1966 match?
text: Did you know that an apartment building that once housed North Korean soldiers, the American CIA, and United Nations troops is set to be demolished?
text: Did you know that two poll workers for the 2024 United States elections were found dead on Election Day, having drowned in a major flash flood event ?
text: Did you know that a North Korean refugee became the "godfather of gangsta rap" by selling records at the Compton Swap Meet ?
text: Did you know that the " world's loneliest seabird " chose a concrete statue as his mate?
text: Did you know that the Spring Willow Society probably staged the first full-length Shakespearean play in China?
text: Did you know that La Querida in Palm Beach, Florida , served as the Winter White House for President John F. Kennedy ?
text: Did you know that residents of Tudor City once put themselves in front of a bulldozer to prevent a park there from being demolished?
text: Did you know that the logo of the South Korean company LG is based on an ancient roof tile ?
text: Did you know that abortion in the United Arab Emirates has been described by Newsweek as less restrictive than some American states following the overturning of Roe v. Wade ?
text: Did you know that opera singer Susan Botti performed an Olympic jingle for Kodak to pay for graduate school?
text: Did you know that a 15th-century cause célèbre saw a duchess dead, innocents hanged, villains and sorcerers drawn and quartered , and eventually the king's brother executed in a butt of malmsey ?
text: Did you know that the black molly might not be a black molly ?
text: Did you know that the University of Virginia threatened to leave the National Collegiate Athletic Association in 1949 if the Sanity Code , which barred athletic scholarships , was not amended?
text: Did you know that Kit Nascimento , a spokesperson for the government of Guyana during the aftermath of Jonestown , disagrees with current proposals to open the former Jonestown site as a tourist attraction?
text: Did you know that the morning show on an Oklahoma TV station was such a "local phenomenon" that the president of ABC acquiesced to them not airing Good Morning America ?
text: Did you know that Riko Dan , who featured on a UK Top 30 hit in 2024, first performed on the radio in 1994?
text: Did you know that a blizzard across the United States caused a major water crisis in Richmond, Virginia ?
text: Did you know that it is said that Antoinette Lubaki , Congo's first named woman artist, painted her watercolours by candlelight at night, as no stories were allowed to be told during daylight?
text: Did you know that Graham Crowley entered the John Moores Painting Prize ten times since 1976 before finally winning in 2023?
text: Did you know that " Dr. Sex " called for a "Big Breast Renaissance"?
text: Did you know that Paul Steele was elected as council leader on the cut of a deck of cards following the 2022 Comhairle nan Eilean Siar election ?
text: Did you know that the Santa Ynez Reservoir in Pacific Palisades , which was built to provide water for firefighting, was empty when the 2025 Palisades Fire began?
text: Did you know that Polish 1960 sci-fi novel Wielka, większa i największa was very influential for Polish young-adult literature?
text: Did you know that the Eucharistic liturgies of Seek , a Catholic young-adult conference which attracts thousands of attendees, are planned more than a year and a half in advance?
text: Did you know that in the early 1170s Humphrey III of Toron may have been the lord of Transjordan, but he also may have been dead?
text: Did you know that Jane Remover was inspired to create Census Designated after a self-described "near-death experience" traveling through a blizzard?
text: Did you know that Maria Einsmann claimed to be her own husband, Josef, when she registered the births of her companion Helene Müller's two children in 1921 and 1930?
text: Did you know that Death Angels are Happy?
text: Did you know that televangelist Gene Scott went 65 hours without sleep when he barricaded himself in the studios of his Connecticut TV station to protest an order to pay taxes?
text: Did you know that a train station in Singapore repeatedly had issues with the design of its stairs?
text: Did you know that the Olympic shooter Ho Chung Kin translated more than 150 Tang-dynasty and Song-dynasty poems, maintaining a rhyme structure that mirrors the original classical Chinese texts?
text: Did you know that most or all of the inhabitants of Moneka, Kansas , were abolitionists ?
text: Did you know that David of Sassoun has been called the most recognized symbol of Armenia, along with Mount Ararat ?
text: Did you know that the deaths of five teenagers in Poland in the ToNiePokój escape room fire led to inspections of escape rooms in Lithuania and Czechia?
text: Did you know that Thomas M. Robins was responsible for the construction of the Bonneville Dam ?
text: Did you know that according to one school of epistemology , nobody knows anything?
text: Did you know that the majority of Selected Ambient Works Volume II was supposedly composed through lucid dreaming ?
text: Did you know that Karl Malte von Heinz designed the Vatican , Pakistani , Yugoslav and Thai diplomatic missions in India ?
text: Did you know that the anarchist group Los Solidarios assassinated the leader of the Catalan pistoleros , the governor of Biscay , and the archbishop of Zaragoza ?
text: Did you know that photographer Peter Miller stated in 2014 that the "Vermont Way" of grumbling and every so often remembering that "we live in beauty" was "coming to an end"?
text: Did you know that a group of Jewish refugees continued work on their Yiddish encyclopedia after fleeing from Germany and France?
text: Did you know that the unlicensed Willy's Chocolate Experience in Scotland led to a crossover event between the American television series Abbott Elementary and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia ?
text: Did you know that Mufasa shared the same voice as Darth Vader ?
text: Did you know that Dez did not actually catch it ?
text: Did you know that an Ohio TV station bribed ABC to obtain a network affiliation, only to lose it within the year?
text: Did you know that the Loyang Tua Pek Kong Temple in Singapore houses effigies of both the Jade Emperor and Mahaganapati ?
text: Did you know that Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton spent the last 50 years of her life preserving Alexander Hamilton 's and George Washington 's legacies?
text: Did you know that most of the films produced by the Huaju Film Company starred its co-founder and his girlfriend?
text: Did you know that Demi Lovato changed a lyric from " Cool for the Summer " for Revamped to reflect pride in her sexuality?
text: Did you know that young male African bush elephants in musth killed about 49 white rhinoceros in Pilanesberg National Park between 1992 and 1997?
text: Did you know that Scholastique Dianzinga edited a post-independence history of women in the Republic of the Congo that discussed why women's emancipation has been hindered?
text: Did you know that a host of the Longform.org podcast once interviewed a writer while accidentally high on edibles ?
text: Did you know that Zhang Zhiyun , crowned "movie queen" in a newspaper poll in 1926, is reported to have died homeless in Hong Kong?
text: Did you know that a summons to the Council of Tripoli was issued in the name of the Church to bypass the issue of whether a king could summon a prince?
text: Did you know that a Swim School song described by one reviewer as "a heavy dystopian doom rocker" was originally performed by Taylor Swift ?
text: Did you know that the Japanese manga series Mink featured futuristic technology even though its creator was unfamiliar with computers?
text: Did you know that the Airbnb homestay where a song was recorded by Glaive and Ericdoa was dubbed by fans as the "Hyperpop Hype House "?
text: Did you know that the fourth president of Austria 's post-secondary instructors included all three of his predecessors?
text: Did you know that The Catch II game had "one of the most amazing finishes in NFL postseason history", according to the NFL ?
text: Did you know that the Bank of Korea asked the makers of a cheese-filled waffle to change its design?
text: Did you know that Christian death metal has been called the least likely musical development at the close of the 20th century?
text: Did you know that the second edition of An Introduction to Non-Classical Logic more than doubled the length of the original text?
text: Did you know that Wolseley Haig noted that it was not the " city's huge mosque " but the "far less pretentious" Jama Masjid that served as the congregational mosque in Hyderabad ?
text: Did you know that the violent end of a bog body might be related to the cult of the Celtic god Esus ?
text: Did you know that the three costliest tornadoes in Oklahoma's history hit the same town in 2013 , in 1999 and in 2003 ?
text: Did you know that a TV station in Windsor, Ontario , was spared from closure even though it lost money for ten consecutive years?
text: Did you know that the leaves of the herb spiked savoury , although protected under Israeli law, are foraged by local people to make a spice mix ?
text: Did you know that the earliest black holes in fiction appeared decades before the term black hole was coined?
text: Did you know that Fatima Payman is the first elected woman to wear a hijab in Australia’s parliament ?
text: Did you know that Turkey approved the expansion of a coal-fired power station while also bidding to host the 2026 United Nations Climate Change Conference ?
text: Did you know that the Yiddish writer Shmuel Hurvits quit his job as a teacher to become a street paver due to an ideological appreciation for manual labor?
text: Did you know that the majority of extrasolar planets in fiction are inhabited by native species ?
text: Did you know that Wu Yun wrote a treatise on immortality but apparently declined to discuss the subject with Emperor Xuanzong of Tang ?
text: Did you know that Notre Dame 's win in the 2025 Orange Bowl American football game made Marcus Freeman the first Asian and first Black head coach to earn a spot in an FBS national championship game?
text: Did you know that Panchiko released their first studio album, Failed at Math(s) , more than 20 years after the band's formation?
text: Did you know that Scrat , who appears in many films in the Ice Age franchise , was originally intended to be killed in the introduction of the first film ?
text: Did you know that executive John Spytek helped the Tampa Bay Buccaneers sign Tom Brady , more than 20 years after Spytek played with him?
text: Did you know that a Florida TV station 's decision to fire one of its main newscasters led to picketing?
text: Did you know that the wuxia star Wu Suxin passed as a man in several of her films?
text: Did you know that the pilot episode for a BBC series on a suicide prevention charity made some critics laugh?
text: Did you know that Syrian vlogger Hayla Ghazal used online humour to explore the  limitations placed on women in the Arab world?
text: Did you know that the Polish subgenre of speculative fiction known as klerykal fiction emerged in the 1990s as a response to societal fears of church influence in politics?
text: Did you know that the bugia , a ceremonial candlestick used by Latin Catholic bishops , is named after the Algerian city of Béjaïa , which was a source of candle wax?
text: Did you know that Brooklyn's Roll-A-Palace has been called "the front-runner of the roller-disco craze"?
text: Did you know that Elisheva Biernoff paints recreations of found vintage snapshot photographs, some including details like lens flare and overexposure ?
text: Did you know that staffers of an Ohio radio station learned that it had been sold on the same day as its owner 's death?
text: Did you know that A Narrative of the Travels and Adventures of Paul Aermont Among the Planets (1873), following the cancellation of a planned second edition, was not reprinted until 2018?
text: Did you know that Harold Harrington did not seek out new species, but was the first to collect a plant that was later named after him?
text: Did you know that fans of romcom heroine Bridget Jones were shocked at the death of a favourite character in the 2013 novel Mad about the Boy , and then again in a 2025 film ?
text: Did you know that a Bronze Age priestess named Eritha was the focus of the first recorded legal dispute in Europe?
text: Did you know that the Roman-era Ard-al-Moharbeen necropolis is the largest cemetery discovered in Gaza?
text: Did you know that the writer of " Crabs for Christmas " joked that it contributed to Baltimore 's population decline?
text: Did you know that Doris Tulifau , after founding an online campaign to counter Samoan gender-based violence, moved to Samoa to expand the campaign in person?
text: Did you know that the 2014 chariot racing video game Qvadriga was inspired by a 1979 board game ?
text: Did you know that singer Tomoko Aran became a city-pop icon decades after her initial music career?
text: Did you know that the owner of a Montana TV station bought an American Legion hall, gutted by fire, to use as a studio building?
text: Did you know that Ernesius , a 12th-century archbishop of Caesarea , was once prevented from crossing the sea by such a severe storm that he refused to make a second attempt?
text: Did you know that Olde Raleigh Distillery is not located within its namesake city?
text: Did you know that archaeologists found evidence at Taur Ikhbeineh in the Gaza Strip of interactions between Egyptians and Canaanites in the 4th millennium BC?
text: Did you know that an emu named Emmanuel Todd Lopez was the target of a death hoax by undercover journalists?
text: Did you know that the Chauburji might have been the Mughal emperor Babur 's original burial place?
text: Did you know that the magazine Science Fiction Chronicle changed its name to just Chronicle two decades after its launch, to avoid being confused with the San Francisco Chronicle ?
text: Did you know that football manager Darren Moore led Sheffield Wednesday to promotion even after they lost the first leg of their play-off semi-final 4–0 ?
text: Did you know that some locals have criticised the flag of Kagoshima Prefecture , which is supposed to depict the prefecture's topography but omits its outlying islands?
text: Did you know that Richard Davis made the earliest known continuous land-based weather recordings in New Zealand?
text: Did you know that the month of July is named after Julius Caesar ?
text: Did you know that the first minister of the Hopewell Baptist Church is presumed to be buried under the building?
text: Did you know that a 2001 book shares the history of a small Tudor community through a 54-year-long " running commentary " by " a somewhat unamiable busybody "?
text: Did you know that the parked vehicle of one candidate in a 2024 Mexico City borough election was shot five times to "give her a scare"?
text: Did you know that " The Man in the Yellow Tie ", an episode of The Flash , concludes a plotline established two years earlier on a different TV series ?
text: Did you know that college football player Chad Brinker continued his career after undergoing brain surgery and eventually signed into the NFL?
text: Did you know that Their Highest Potential shows the positive side of segregated schools, as written by a student who was taught in one?
text: Did you know that Ann McMillan recalled "playing" a tape recorder for Déserts , a piece by Edgard Varèse ?
text: Did you know that an Iowa TV station , in one fell swoop, fired nearly a third of its staff and canceled a children's show that had been on the air for 32 years?
text: Did you know that Henry A. Henry brought an extensive library of Jewish literature when he emigrated to the United States in 1849?
text: Did you know that King Philip refused to give up Champagne ?
text: Did you know that Maki Narukido researched the characters' travel times in her manga The End of the World With You using Google Maps?
text: Did you know that Annel Silungwe was a judge in Seychelles, a supreme court justice in Namibia, and the chief justice of Zambia?
text: Did you know that after the Great Savannah Fire of 1820 , the city government rejected a donation from New York City because it was stipulated that the funds be allocated "without distinction of color"?
text: Did you know that Italian artist Gianni Benvenuti , known for his children's book illustrations, also had a diverse career as a painter, sculptor, and printmaker ?
text: Did you know that the Green Bay Packers and the Arizona Cardinals set multiple NFL playoff records during their 2009 NFC Wild Card playoff game ?
text: Did you know that Daniel A. Gilbert was referred to as the world's richest police officer?
text: Did you know that a painting of the Battle of Kejiwan was for a time the most expensive ever made by an Indonesian artist?
text: Did you know that some Jeep owners enjoy ducking each other ?
text: Did you know that Edward Skeletrix , to promote his album Museum Music , held an exhibition during which he sat inside a glass box?
text: Did you know that the fortified walls surrounding the Iron Age Tell Ruqeish in Palestine are up to 5.5 metres (18 feet) thick?
text: Did you know that the Raymond C. and Mildred Kramer House was one of fewer than half a dozen houses built in Manhattan during 1934?
text: Did you know that the sustainability of the Baggu reusable bag is challenged by collector culture?
text: Did you know that NFL player Obe Wenig was named an All-Pro even though he played only one game?
text: Did you know that director Isao Takahata reportedly stayed overnight at a doss-house to ensure that the Japanese animated film Jarinko Chie accurately depicts the city of Osaka ?
text: Did you know that the least populous of Oregon's cities has three people?
text: Did you know that journalist Ivan Miller was once bitten by a disgruntled Santa Claus?
text: Did you know that weightlifter Mattie Sasser switched her sporting nationality twice before qualifying for the Marshall Islands at the 2024 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that "the flower of the Yogyakarta nobility perished" at the Battle of Lengkong ?
text: Did you know that the 1918 book A Garden Flora was published posthumously?
text: Did you know that the soap opera Neighbours was cancelled by Amazon MGM Studios just three days after the conclusion of its 40th anniversary tour ?
text: Did you know that the French Jesuit priest and archaeologist René Mouterde contributed to the documentation of 3,405 Greek and Latin inscriptions from Lebanon, Jordan, and Syria?
text: Did you know that readers of Your Computer is On Fire would be "faced with an existential crisis", according to The Register ?
text: Did you know that a California radio station came to exist because a high-school faculty advisor was on leave in Europe?
text: Did you know that a word in Wangerooge Frisian , once used to describe loading a gun, later came to be used to describe an invitation to a birthday party?
text: Did you know that during the 1967 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election , Apurbalal Majumdar ran in two different constituencies and was elected in both?
text: Did you know that the soundtrack to the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz was not commercially available until 1956?
text: Did you know that tea-garden labour leader Prem Oraon lost his right leg in 1970 during a protest against a factory closure?
text: Did you know that when the Brighton Town Commissioners wanted to build Queen's Road through a slum district, they invited all the residents to a festival and demolished their houses while they were away?
text: Did you know that Green Bay Packer Wally Ladrow worked as a packer?
text: Did you know that the outbreak of the Java War , which lasted five years and killed more than 200,000 people, was triggered by a government road project?
text: Did you know that Herzog Wine Cellars produces approximately 250,000 cases of kosher wine annually?
text: Did you know that a car accident may have wrecked Richard Petty's chances of being elected North Carolina's secretary of state ?
text: Did you know that when the crime of mugging gained attention in the UK, one book argued that mugging was not distinct from existing crimes?
text: Did you know that in the essay " Toward European Unity " George Orwell presumed that one of the greatest obstacles to a federal Europe would be economic pressure by the United States?
text: Did you know that Fadel al-Utol considers preserving Gaza's archaeological sites to be a peaceful act of resistance against Israel?
text: Did you know that cyclist Mike Allen compared participating in the Olympics to Disneyland ?
text: Did you know that New York City's unbuilt River Walk development was delayed due to a $2 million study of striped bass ?
text: Did you know that a character from Gunbuster popularized an arm fold commonly seen in anime?
text: Did you know that Marilyn Fisher Lundy developed one of Michigan's first accredited charter schools?
text: Did you know that a journalist used vibe coding to create an app to suggest what to pack for lunch?
text: Did you know that Indian communist revolutionary S. A. Rawoof was charged with conspiracy to murder two individuals with the same name?
text: Did you know that the FogCam is believed to be the world's longest-running public webcam?
text: Did you know that cowries were increasingly used during the reign of Ehenneden as currency in Igodomigodo 's markets?
text: Did you know that the Christchurch Seagull Pit has been described as the "ninth wonder of the world"?
text: Did you know that Herman Martell , who co-founded the alumni association for the Green Bay Packers , only appeared in one NFL game for the team?
text: Did you know that the Mobile Adapter GB was an early, albeit unsuccessful, attempt at handheld online gaming for the Game Boy Color and the Game Boy Advance?
text: Did you know that Genora Johnson Dollinger was known as the Joan of Arc of Labor due to having to be dragged away from the 1936 Flint sit-down strike ?
text: Did you know that a train station in Japan appointed a cat as an "honorary assistant"?
text: Did you know that an Israeli diplomat was assassinated in Ankara just two days after diplomatic relations between Israel and Turkey were fully established?
text: Did you know that Celeste Bedford Walker said that both her plays on the Houston riot of 1917 and Tulsa race massacre were "quintessential racial confrontation stories"?
text: Did you know that actor Kōta Nomura had no experience in cooking before being cast in the live-action drama adaptation of Perfect Propose ?
text: Did you know that Gerry Snyder brought the Summer Olympics and Major League Baseball to Montreal?
text: Did you know that an attempt to use automated dialogue replacement in the Reservation Dogs episode " Deer Lady " failed because the voice sounded too much like Yoda ?
text: Did you know that a former police whistleblower is developing six islands in The World ?
text: Did you know that the 2012 Southern Indiana tornado ripped chunks of asphalt concrete off of a road and threw the pieces 30 yards (27 m) away?
text: Did you know that the proprietor of the company Samurai Shokai promoted the foreign practice of shaking hands in Japan?
text: Did you know that John Albrinck is estimated to have planted more than 1,500 fruit trees during his time as a seminary rector?
text: Did you know that clapper-bells are the oldest bronze-cast objects found at Erlitou ?
text: Did you know that the historic water stream Seil Amman was roofed to make way for a road in the 1960s?
text: Did you know that C. G. Joshi played cricket for Rajasthan at the same time that he ran the fine arts department at Mayo College ?
text: Did you know that the French, when they began to colonize Cambodia, agreed that Angkor Wat was in Thailand ?
text: Did you know that there was initially an attempt to cover up any casualties during the 2025 New Delhi railway station crowd crush ?
text: Did you know that the music video for the single " Dam " by the Filipino boy band SB19 has been compared to Game of Thrones and The Lord of the Rings ?
text: Did you know that the " Slicker " "performed so well at cracking skulls"?
text: Did you know that Mabel Dole Haden gained her law degree at Howard University after not being able to afford to complete her bachelor's degree there?
text: Did you know that Zhou Enlai reportedly enjoyed watching the play Li Huiniang , while Mao Zedong did not?
text: Did you know that the Philippines' gold medal at the 2025 Asian Winter Games was also its first medal at the Asian Winter Games ?
text: Did you know that " Hardwired " was interpreted as a statement on the outcome of the 2016 United States presidential election?
text: Did you know that Kevin Jefferson started kindergarten at age 3, high school at 12, and college at 16, and made his NFL debut at 20?
text: Did you know that Vince McMahon reportedly attempted to buy the rights to a documentary on his career ?
text: Did you know that Dan Bull was a keyboardist for Eskimo Joe before he was elected to the Western Australian Legislative Assembly ?
text: Did you know that the painting Christ's Entry into Jerusalem was once cut from its frame and dragged "like a wet blanket" to save it from a fire?
text: Did you know that an American football game had missiles set up in firing position on the field?
text: Did you know that Chung Suet Ying has better sign language skills than her character in The Way We Talk , which requires her to sign "worse"?
text: Did you know that while executives believed the Golden Rondelle Theater would be a waste of money, it was one of the 1964 World's Fair 's most popular attractions?
text: Did you know that University of Indonesia dean Sahati Suharto was sued by one of her expelled students?
text: Did you know that the first general manager of a Michigan radio station almost died of carbon monoxide poisoning during construction?
text: Did you know that the Attorney General of Georgia argued that Robin Shahar 's lesbian wedding meant that she didn't have "good sense"?
text: Did you know that the expansion of glaciers created two distinct forms of Aquilegia confusa , with individual populations better adapted to different elevations?
text: Did you know that the identity of Cleo , who provided online answers to complex mathematics problems without showing any work, was revealed over a decade later in 2025?
text: Did you know that the Anishinaabe founded Little Current , but were displaced by white settlers who took over their profitable trade?
text: Did you know that in the span of five years, Elsie Chin was a nurse during the Battle of Hong Kong , served with the Chinese Red Cross , trained soldiers on first aid in India, and joined the U.S. Army Nurse Corps ?
text: Did you know that in 1359 the French king signed a treaty which ceded almost half of France to England?
text: Did you know  that Bahraini author Fatema Al Harbi ,  the first non-government Bahraini to visit Israel, faced death threats upon her return to Bahrain?
text: Did you know that Sacred Heart Church was the birthplace of the orphanage which would become the only pontifical university in the United States ?
text: Did you know that actor Darcy Grey sold "posh dog food" on weekends?
text: Did you know that the Dutch edition of Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight for Survival was recalled?
text: Did you know that brothers Carl , Martin , and Dick Zoll all played exactly one NFL game for the Green Bay Packers ?
text: Did you know that an activist group projected an image of Elon Musk's salute onto a Tesla factory with the phrase "Heil Tesla"?
text: Did you know that Jake Brown , although born with cerebral palsy , made dozens of appearances for the mainstream association football club Askam United?
text: Did you know that the Hennepin Avenue Bridge was the first bridge across the Mississippi River ?
text: Did you know that Karl Braun and other German scientists played cards with their British colleagues during World War I?
text: Did you know that a five-year-old boy thrown from a third-floor balcony in the Mall of America was released from the hospital just in time for his first day of kindergarten?
text: Did you know that Andrzej Sapkowski , the creator of The Witcher , described his short story W leju po bombie as the only one of his works that can be classified as science fiction?
text: Did you know that Black Forest gateau inspired an Internet meme ?
text: Did you know that Tim Urban stated that a procrastinator's brain is distracted by an "instant gratification monkey" and saved at the last minute by a "panic monster"?
text: Did you know that Japanese singer Cindy was once said to have an "angel voice"?
text: Did you know that Ronald Reagan 's friends thought that his official White House portrait did not look like him?
text: Did you know that Kwek Leng Joo co-created an exhibition combining modern photography and traditional Chinese painting?
text: Did you know that the library of the Institut Français d'Archéologie de Beyrouth contained about 24,000 volumes by 1970?
text: Did you know that one scholar regards an Old Irish oath as a scholarly Christian invention, but another sees it as the descendant of a Proto-Indo-European oath?
text: Did you know that Evan Honer was told by American Idol judge Luke Bryan to "stick to diving"?
text: Did you know that by the First Treaty of London England was to gain a quarter of France?
text: Did you know that Wayne Davenport , in a six-year span, went from playing college football to coaching football, returning to college, playing in the NFL, returning to coaching and then back to college football?
text: Did you know that the Battle of the Bosporus , one of the largest naval battles in the Middle Ages , was fought during the night in a storm in a narrow strait?
text: Did you know that Terry Davis created TempleOS, a Bible-themed operating system that had more than 120,000 lines of code?
text: Did you know that two EF2 tornadoes merged near downtown Tallahassee in 2024?
text: Did you know that environment minister Peng Chi-ming drafted Taiwan's first weather insurance policy?
text: Did you know that Los Angeles Rising was put together by two musicians who had been forced to evacuate their homes due to the January 2025 wildfires in Los Angeles ?
text: Did you know that the lead cast of Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In reunited to star in the unrelated film Hit N Fun ?
text: Did you know that The Hungry Five were credited with maintaining the unique ownership structure of the Green Bay Packers ?
text: Did you know that the zookeeper of the " loneliest elephant in the world " credited her with saving his marriage?
text: Did you know that music manager Alan Wills learned about management from his father, who was "in charge of the UK's nuclear early warning system"?
text: Did you know that according to some value theorists , nothing is good or bad?
text: Did you know that the main dome of the Sadna Qasai Mosque has collapsed?
text: Did you know that Gil Skeate was called up to the NFL straight from a lumber camp?
text: Did you know that a Doctor Who episode took place during the partition of India , and used a unique Indian adaptation of the usual closing theme?
text: Did you know that multiple deaths could have been avoided if the Peachtree 25th Building had a fire sprinkler system?
text: Did you know that it took 40 years after the formation of the state of West Bengal before a member of the Rajbanshi people became a government minister?
text: Did you know that anthropologist H. Russell Bernard teamed up with an oceanographer to estimate the number of people killed in an earthquake?
text: Did you know that a newly discovered bee descends from a single ancestor that reached the Hawaiian Islands between 1 million and 1.5 million years ago?
text: Did you know that a single company authorizes health-insurance coverage for more than one hundred million Americans?
text: Did you know that politician Prasenjit Barman was credited for leading the restoration of the Cooch Behar Palace ?
text: Did you know that Sound Transit has 170 pieces of permanent public art at its stations and facilities?
text: Did you know that football player DJ Pickett was the first All-American at his high school since his uncle nearly 30 years prior?
text: Did you know that The Dedalus Book of Polish Fantasy features stories spanning two centuries of Polish literary tradition, exploring the theme of personification of evil ?
text: Did you know that Roger Tocotes was suspected by the Duke of Clarence of masterminding the Duchess of Clarence's death, but Tocotes avoided capture until the King got involved?
text: Did you know that Saturday Morning Strippers restored the Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio ?
text: Did you know that the church that attempted to sell a Kansas radio station could not locate the money allegedly paid by the buyer?
text: Did you know that Rudolf Herzog 's novels have been described as characterised by the "sentimentality and harshness, pomp and plainness" of Kaiser Wilhelm II ?
text: Did you know that King Faisal Street , one of the main thoroughfares in downtown Amman , has been used as a public space for national events and celebrations?
text: Did you know that "Busy" Beasy was a boxer, a professional American football player and a firefighter, all at the same time?
text: Did you know that a Google Doc written by a high school student has become "part of the online queer canon"?
text: Did you know that the West Bengal relief minister Santosh Roy resigned in 1975 after the Wanchoo Commission found him guilty of securing a government job for his sister?
text: Did you know that Sabrina Carpenter was sad that the song " Busy Woman " could not be included on Short n' Sweet and later released it as a "thank you" to her fans?
text: Did you know that the Caucasian stonecrop frequently escapes, perhaps through birds or garden waste?
text: Did you know that the lyrics in Conan Gray 's song " People Watching " were based on things he heard while eavesdropping on couples?
text: Did you know that Lydie Pongault was appointed to the Congolese government to fill the roles of two other ministers?
text: Did you know that the gray stonecrop was little known in the 1970s but became so popular by the 1990s that demand exceeded supply?
text: Did you know that using samples provided by Johann Jacob Ferber , it was demonstrated that mosaics at Pompeii were made with glass paste, not stone?
text: Did you know that seven U.S. prosecutors resigned in protest over the Eric Adams corruption case?
text: Did you know that Abbess Ruothild wrapped the body of Saint Fara in a silk covered with bare-breasted Amazons ?
text: Did you know that Ethan Hawke and Devery Jacobs smoked CBD while filming the Reservation Dogs episode " Elora's Dad "?
text: Did you know that when someone accused George Chapman of basing his translation of the Odyssey on a Latin translation, he called them an "envious Windfucker" in the preface?
text: Did you know that people in the 1980s expressed interest in buying Chicago's James Charnley House only because they wanted to see the interior?
text: Did you know that most sports fans are male, and class distinctions also influence which sports people follow?
text: Did you know that a diamond named after Sienna Spiro sold for $3.4 million in June 2021?
text: Did you know that David D. Demarest was the first professor of pastoral theology and sacred rhetoric at the New Brunswick Theological Seminary ?
text: Did you know that Nachi Gordon was one of the youngest agents to sign an NBA player?
text: Did you know that Jim Photoglo wrote the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band 's " Fishin' in the Dark " and joined the band – almost 30 years later?
text: Did you know that scholar Axinte Frunză wanted Romania to join the Central Powers in 1916, espousing "a vision that was profoundly anti-statist (with hints of anarchism), populist, and virulently anti-Russian"?
text: Did you know that an effort to ban one German political party revealed that it was so heavily infiltrated that the German government partially controlled it?
text: Did you know that during the siege of Utica in 204 BC the Romans tied their whole fleet together prior to battle?
text: Did you know that former Griqualand West cricketer Mike Doherty was the team's chairman when they won their first trophy in over 100 years?
text: Did you know that only broken Japanese can be used on the social networking application Tsuita ?
text: Did you know that Prem Bery hosted state visits at the Central Cottage Industries Emporium ?
text: Did you know that Melania Trump wrote that Floor Frame represented "the important contributions of Asian American artists"?
text: Did you know that you should "hang a gone fishin' notice on your office door" before reading Geometry of Quantum States ?
text: Did you know that the relationship between Sherlock Holmes and John Watson in Sherlock is one of the most studied examples of queerbaiting ?
text: Did you know that an image of a skull can be used to express happiness?
text: Did you know that John Stacy warned the Duke of Suffolk that a Tower would be dangerous to him; Suffolk was later murdered by sailors on a ship called The Nicholas of the Tower ?
text: Did you know that Frank Lloyd Wright 's Unity Temple was likened to a Mayan ball court after its completion in 1908?
text: Did you know that Emmett Barrett wore glasses while playing American football?
text: Did you know that when emos and anti-emos confronted each other, Hare Krishna members de-escalated the situation?
text: Did you know that baritone Simon Neal 's 2020 performance as Don Pizarro in Beethoven's Fidelio included riding a horse on the stage of the Royal Opera House ?
text: Did you know that the defection of Padua during the Scaliger War was partly due to a Scaliger lord 's open seduction of the wife of the Lord of Padua ?
text: Did you know that Lyle Lin was the first Taiwanese player to be selected and signed via the Major League Baseball draft ?
text: Did you know that in one version of Zeus 's childhood his enemies are terrified of the goat who raised him ?
text: Did you know that Domingo Chalá worked as a gravedigger for much of his life before releasing his debut album?
text: Did you know that the Louafi Bouguera Olympic Bridge was named after the first Franco-Algerian athlete to win an Olympic gold medal?
text: Did you know that brass casting , which later became a hallmark of Benin art , was first introduced to Igodomigodo during Uwa 's reign?
text: Did you know that Benevacantism is the belief that Francis is not truly the pope, because his predecessor did not validly resign?
text: Did you know that Wes Carlson used a different last name than his father because of a schoolteacher's mistake?
text: Did you know that Sedum palmeri is common on windowsills in the Mediterranean because it is easy to share with other people?
text: Did you know that the runway show for Scanners by Alexander McQueen concluded with a mostly nude model struggling through an artificial snowstorm in a wind tunnel?
text: Did you know that the lord of Bitchū Matsuyama Castle is a cat ?
text: Did you know that a series of agreements at the Upstalsboom in 1323 prohibited bride kidnapping, provided the right to a speedy trial, and created a judicial veto in all Seven Sealands ?
text: Did you know that Time paid Alfred Wertheimer $3,000 to use a picture of Elvis Presley singing to a dog?
text: Did you know that the political and media storm around so-called African gangs in Australia has been described by academics as a moral panic?
text: Did you know that Palestinian singer Zeinab Shaath assumed a short film featuring her had been destroyed until a researcher discovered a copy in the archives of the Israel Defense Forces ?
text: Did you know that Our Friends from Frolix 8 could be Philip K. Dick 's "most sterile" novel?
text: Did you know that Jerome Xavier learned Persian to work on the Mir'at al-quds , a biography of Jesus?
text: Did you know that before playing in the NFL, Rip Owens worked at a steel mill?
text: Did you know that researchers confirmed that they had discovered toilets at the Archaeological Site in Wanggung-ri by finding a high concentration of parasite eggs there?
text: Did you know that both a statue of Lord Botetourt and a medal named for him have been the subject of replicas made for the College of William & Mary ?
text: Did you know that after being unpicked for the NBA, Damian Chong Qui went on to become the first player to score a triple-double in the East Asia Super League ?
text: Did you know that the mummy of the ancient Egyptian estate manager Wah was wrapped in 375 m 2 (448 sq yd) of linen?
text: Did you know that 404 Fifth Avenue 's exterior terracotta features a color scheme usually found in pottery rather than on facades?
text: Did you know that due to her experience of Italy's immigration policies, journalist Nadeesha Uyangoda has been outspoken on migrant rights?
text: Did you know that The Use and Abuse of History: Or How the Past Is Taught explores how school textbooks across the world distort history to serve political interests?
text: Did you know that Ray Jennison legally changed his last name from "Jenison" because "people were always misspelling it"?
text: Did you know that history has a history ?
text: Did you know that the Williamsburg indie music venue Baby's All Right occupies a former hot dog factory?
text: Did you know that Jarrad Searby left the Proud Boys after he became angry with their disavowal of neo-Nazism ?
text: Did you know that the Olympic Village in Saint-Denis used wood sourced from eco-managed forests and ultra-low-carbon concrete to reduce the carbon footprint of its construction?
text: Did you know that Olympic team chaplain Ashley Null credits his work counseling elite athletes to his scholarly research on the Protestant Reformation ?
text: Did you know that French president Emmanuel Macron posted deepfakes of himself on Instagram ahead of the AI Action Summit ?
text: Did you know that George Seeman , shortly after signing to play for the Green Bay Packers , played in a game against the Packers?
text: Did you know that four locations of Video Update were seized by sheriff's deputies in a lawsuit by a sign manufacturer?
text: Did you know that, inspired by the short story " Qingfeng ", Mao Zedong likened the United States to a ghost?
text: Did you know that Eurowhiteness disputes the belief that the European Union "stands for diversity, inclusion and openness"?
text: Did you know that Hikaru Mori and Megu Uyama became world champions in synchronized trampoline after training together for only a month?
text: Did you know that the Battle of Chunj is the only battle in which a British soldier died in action for Pakistan?
text: Did you know that pilot-induced oscillations on board Olympic Airways Flight 3838 killed seven people, including Greek deputy foreign minister Giannos Kranidiotis ?
text: Did you know that Soepojo Padmodipoetro , despite being the highest administrator of Gadjah Mada University , could not attend its meetings?
text: Did you know that a search engine for pirated books has been used to train large language models ?
text: Did you know that " Plaza ", a recognized Basque surname, comes from the Spanish language?
text: Did you know that the rock stonecrop can go in a soup as well as on a roof?
text: Did you know that coach Ed Storm , after seeing his American football team losing late in a game, put on a uniform, entered the game, and made the game-winning score?
text: Did you know that the 1731 novel Manon Lescaut did not become popular in France until after it was banned for immorality?
text: Did you know that it took 12 and a half hours for Rashid Israr to reach his highest score in cricket?
text: Did you know that the American play His Majesty Bunker Bean was a national hit that had "been seen by most of the country east of the Mississippi River" before it reached Broadway ?
text: Did you know that singer Andrew Cushin used to play as a goalkeeper in Newcastle Benfield F.C. 's youth team?
text: Did you know that a model prototype of the Helmover torpedo went out of control while under test and struck a motor launch?
text: Did you know that Bradley Smalley , the political boss of the Vermont Democratic Party , once received the Republican nomination for alderman?
text: Did you know that Comorian football club Djabal Club d'Iconi were deducted two points in the 2023–24 season after a player was found guilty of witchcraft?
text: Did you know that a variety of the Mancos columbine was thought to be extinct but was found in its native cave in 2008?
text: Did you know that Radim Novák conceded a goal directly from a corner kick in the first match of the season, but his team went on to win the league?
text: Did you know that a rickshaw puller inspired Helal Hafiz to write " Nishiddho Sompadokiyo " during the 1969 East Pakistan mass uprising ?
text: Did you know that the Iron Alps Complex Fire took nearly $74 million to suppress?
text: Did you know that the undisturbed Bronze Age necropolis of Byblos was discovered in 2019 during excavations of a previously unexplored area of the ancient city?
text: Did you know that the language of Natalia Maree Belting was said to be "spare, rhythmic, and resonant"?
text: Did you know that almost half of the invasive species in the United Arab Emirates are birds?
text: Did you know that Ashley Tisdale did not record new screams for Phineas and Ferb season 5 because she was pregnant and did not want to scare her baby?
text: Did you know that Eddie Eagan 's gold medal at the 1932 Winter Olympics made him the first man to win a Summer and Winter Olympic gold medal in different events?
text: Did you know that John Neal recommended buying The Token and Atlantic Souvenir "if you have a wife or so of your own"?
text: Did you know that a group of parents discovered that a children's charity had been embezzling money?
text: Did you know that the Nepali term " sukumbasi " refers to squatters, who typically avoid using the word because of its negative connotations?
text: Did you know that Murad Agha , a former slave turned ruler of Ottoman Tripolitania , commissioned the construction of a mosque that doubled as a fortress ?
text: Did you know that 1Verse is the first K-pop boy band with North Korean defectors ?
text: Did you know that cave art, indigenous dance and an ancient flute inspired the work of Libyan artist Shefa Salem ?
text: Did you know that the name of a Portland soccer team refers both to sausages and long-distance goals?
text: Did you know that the Samsum ant is known for a powerful sting that can lead to anaphylactic shock and death?
text: Did you know that the first owner of the 55 Bar supposedly won the property in a card game?
text: Did you know that tsunami stones serve as risk warnings for tsunamis in Japan?
text: Did you know that Jackson Cantwell , the number-one college football recruit for 2026, is the son of two Olympians and holds several youth world records in track and field ?
text: Did you know that most of My Chemical Romance 's debut album, I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love , was recorded in only a week?
text: Did you know that Gerald Shirtcliff 's fake engineering qualifications were exposed following the collapse of the CTV Building ?
text: Did you know that the Santander anarchist newspaper Adelante had to be printed in neighbouring Torrelavega , as no printing shop in the city was willing to print it due to its political orientation?
text: Did you know that " Go New York Go " has energized New York Knicks fans at Madison Square Garden since 1993?
text: Did you know that O-Zone threatened legal action over Haiducii 's cover of " Dragostea din tei ", which became a hit on charts at the same time as the original?
text: Did you know that historian Gu Jiegang secretly continued research into children's copybooks during the Cultural Revolution ?
text: Did you know that a 1968 protest at Bucks County Community College was one of only two gay-rights protests in the United States to occur on a college campus prior to the Stonewall riots ?
text: Did you know that Marion Wiesel translated 14 of her husband's books from French?
text: Did you know that the first-ever mass message to the U.S. government's two million employees was an enticement for them to resign ?
text: Did you know that a Celtic god described by Caesar has been variously identified with a thunder god , a mallet god , a stag god , and a god with no name?
text: Did you know that a municipal merger in Japan failed after the merger council named the new city after an airport in a different city ?
text: Did you know that the anonymously run Socialite Rank and Rich Kids of Instagram were both compared to the fictional Gossip Girl ?
text: Did you know that in 2008, artist Rutherford Chang collected around 4,000 ink-dot portraits from The Wall Street Journal and reorganized them alphabetically into a yearbook-style publication?
text: Did you know that in 1997, several merchants of North Kent Mall in Grand Rapids, Michigan , did not know who owned the mall?
text: Did you know that in 1858, when 400 Black Americans experiencing discrimination in California resettled on Vancouver Island , clergyman Edward Cridge integrated Christ Church to welcome them?
text: Did you know that Georgia O'Keeffe's Hawaii series began as a commercial art commission for Dole pineapple juice?
text: Did you know that Mariel Molino starred in the first Amazon original film for Mexico?
text: Did you know that the tower of a North Dakota TV station was the world's tallest man-made structure from 1963 to 1974 and again from 1991 to 2008?
text: Did you know that Tim Johnston pledged not to become a minister if he was elected to the House of Keys , but did so anyway?
text: Did you know that some drug trafficking factions in Brazil have partnered up with evangelical churches ?
text: Did you know that one incident in Vatican City caused it to have the highest murder rate in the world in 1998?
text: Did you know that the earliest of the authentic portraits of Mozart shows the prodigy wearing the clothes of Archduke Maximilian Francis of Austria , given as a gift by Empress Maria Theresa ?
text: Did you know that a rookie WNBA player crafted a leg sleeve to avoid discomfort and did not expect it to become a fashion trend?
text: Did you know that the oldest depiction of the Amida Triad in Japanese art was donated to the Imperial Household by Hōryū-ji in 1878?
text: Did you know that Barack Obama listed an anti-war song as one of his favorite songs of 2022?
text: Did you know that an "everliving" stonecrop has helped diabetic mice?
text: Did you know that footage of the 1970 Minneapolis teachers' strike uncovered in 2022 showed an 11-year-old Prince speaking in favor of the striking teachers?
text: Did you know that Charlton Hunt was a cousin of the author of " The Star-Spangled Banner " and a grand-uncle of a Nobel Prize laureate?
text: Did you know that " Create ", the theme song to the 35th anniversary of Super Mario Bros. , features various Nintendo references?
text: Did you know that Paraguayan drag artist Usha Didi Gunatita dressed as Santa Claus and visited children in a cancer hospital?
text: Did you know that while six EF5 tornadoes hit the United States during the 2011 tornado season , there has not been an EF5 tornado in more than ten years?
text: Did you know that the editors of the Red Army newspaper Qьzьl Armies were seen as opponents of the reform to introduce a Latin script for the Tatar language ?
text: Did you know that the Father Louis Hennepin Bridge was called "elegant" while also having a "Mussolini kind of quality"?
text: Did you know that Sonya Williams made her first stock investment using Sharesies , the company that she co-founded?
text: Did you know that the discovery of the Bunnik Hoard was a result of metal detectorists searching for a farmer's lost tractor keys?
text: Did you know that Jean-Paul Belmondo allowed Jean-Luc Godard to dub over his lines on their first collaboration , on the condition that Belmondo be cast in Godard's first feature film?
text: Did you know that Reyhaneh Soltaninejad, the girl in the pink jacket , became a symbol of the 2024 Kerman terrorist attacks after being identified by her distinctive pink jacket and heart earrings?
text: Did you know that the Guantanamo Migrant Operations Center , a facility for holding undocumented immigrants to the United States, is set to have its capacity expanded from about 130 to 30,000?
text: Did you know that in 2024 Yang Nien-hsi became the first University of Taipei player to sign with a Major League Baseball team since 2008?
text: Did you know that a dissident faction of the Communist Party of Western Belorussia seized the printing press of the underground party organ Balshavik at the end of 1924?
text: Did you know that Irish actors Maria McDermottroe and her daughter Gina Costigan each portrayed the love interest of real-life criminals in 2003's Veronica Guerin ?
text: Did you know that scientists debate whether a brain microbiome exists?
text: Did you know that the orange stonecrop is a successful garden escapee ?
text: Did you know that Samba Yonga and Mulenga Kapwepwe founded the Women's History Museum of Zambia to counter a colonialist perspective on women's history?
text: Did you know that Barbara Neumann invented one of the first nanomaterials to be produced on an industrial scale?
text: Did you know that the music video for " Breakfast " was reimagined by Dove Cameron after the Supreme Court of the United States' decision to overturn Roe v. Wade ?
text: Did you know that Czech Romani social worker and human rights activist Elena Gorolová worked as a metalworker in her youth?
text: Did you know that Episode 8055 of the Australian television soap opera Neighbours is the first episode in the show's history to star and be directed and written entirely by women?
text: Did you know that Danielle Sassoon , a former acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, credits her study of the Talmud for preparing her for her future legal career?
text: Did you know that the ending of the music video for Hoshimachi Suisei 's " Bibbidiba " was called inspiring to struggling women?
text: Did you know that Shirley A. Pomponi helped to create a cancer drug out of a sea-sponge compound?
text: Did you know that a Michigan TV station once aired a program speculating on Richard Nixon 's resignation—two days after he had already resigned?
text: Did you know that the impact of the Charlottetown meteorite was the first to be recorded on video and audio?
text: Did you know that Alexander Goehr formed New Music Manchester , described as a "distinctive, progressive force", with Peter Maxwell Davies , Harrison Birtwistle , Elgar Howarth and John Ogdon ?
text: Did you know that the Fun Lounge police raid is considered the main cause for the formation of Mattachine Midwest , a gay rights group in Chicago?
text: Did you know that the 8-Bit Big Band won Nintendo their first Grammy Award?
text: Did you know that a person required intensive care after being splashed with salt water by a beluga whale?
text: Did you know that Alia Fischer led the first women's college basketball team to achieve back-to-back undefeated seasons?
text: Did you know that among the sources for early Irish law are judgments on bees , on the sea , on sports , on blood-lying , and on inadvertence ; judgements which are wrong , false , shrouded , and from a god ; the paths to judgement and to distraint ; the shaving of the court ; the branched purchase ; a glossary ; and a lot of lists of seven ?
text: Did you know that censorship in communist Poland delayed the publication of the novel Zaziemskie światy for nearly a decade due to its "inappropriate ideological basis" and positive portrayal of the United States?
text: Did you know that the Russian government has been blamed for helping to escalate the Wars in the Caucasus by pursuing a policy of neocolonialism ?
text: Did you know that the concept of Weighing Souls with Sand reflects the guitarist's grief over the death of his first girlfriend?
text: Did you know that Naenano was once known as "the face that Japanese girls most want to have right now"?
text: Did you know that the Hennepin Avenue Steel Arch Bridge had to be put up for sale before it could be demolished?
text: Did you know that Erin LeCount regularly rehearsed at a music venue owned by her primary school teacher?
text: Did you know that Jacinda Ardern said that she was "sometimes a reluctant participant" of a documentary film about her ?
text: Did you know that an author referred to her book Accidental Gods as "dad non-fiction"?
text: Did you know that Madmuin Hasibuan 's father punished him for not fasting in Ramadan by not giving him food for three days?
text: Did you know that SZA named a song after a well-known film director , but was shocked to get his blessing days after release?
text: Did you know that a former French secret-service agent was responsible for seven out of the 26 Formula One drivers qualifying for the 1980 South African Grand Prix being French?
text: Did you know that Josaphat Park , according to tradition, was named for its valley's striking resemblance to the Valley of Josaphat in the Holy Land ?
text: Did you know that Deborah D. Rogers used Ann Radcliffe 's commonplace book to show that Radcliffe was not driven mad by her Gothic novels , but that she just had asthma?
text: Did you know that Mammillaria luethyi was not seen for 44 years after being discovered growing in a coffee can on the windowsill of Mrs Crosby's ?
text: Did you know that Zulu prince Hayseed Stephens played in the American Football League ?
text: Did you know that syncing zombie cookies can create a cookie that is almost impossible to delete ?
text: Did you know that Mark Leiter spent four months working as a corrections officer while rehabilitating from shoulder surgery?
text: Did you know that the two regions most devastated by Typhoon Yagi in Vietnam declined government funding for recovery efforts?
text: Did you know that Benjamin Schreiber argued that his life sentence ended after he was resuscitated ?
text: Did you know that a National Guard pilot died while pursuing a reported flying saucer in 1948?
text: Did you know that Philip S. Low received a PhD from the University of California, San Diego , before Philip S. Low received a PhD from the University of California, San Diego?
text: Did you know that when the French web series Blow Up briefly aired on television in 2014, its allotted airtime was too short to fit some of its episodes?
text: Did you know that American Football 's American Football , regarded by the band as a side project, went on to achieve cult status?
text: Did you know that " Point the Finger ", a comic-book story written in 1989, has been described as "Trump fiction"?
text: Did you know that professional baseball player Eric Reyzelman was twice cut from his high-school baseball team?
text: Did you know that the Dakhni and Amanat Khan caravanserais , built to provide lodging to travelers, are situated on a little-used, Mughal -era highway between Agra and Lahore ?
text: Did you know that Huwie Ishizaki was often asked to "write his real name", despite Huwie being his actual name?
text: Did you know that Joss Whedon was hired to "contribute creatively" to each film in Phase Two of the Marvel Cinematic Universe , in addition to writing and directing Avengers: Age of Ultron ?
text: Did you know that in the official historiography of the Chinese Communist Party , Wei Baqun is considered one of its great early peasant-movement leaders, along with Mao Zedong ?
text: Did you know that Post Malone publicly called his debut album "mediocre" less than a year after its release?
text: Did you know that the Ming dynasty fantasy novel Journey to the South – whose protagonist accidentally amputates his right leg and converts to Buddhism – alludes to popular one-legged spirits?
text: Did you know that Vince Gill once mooned a crowd that poorly received him as an opening act for Kiss ?
text: Did you know that Autechre used something called "the system" during the composition of Sign ?
text: Did you know that a Roman Catholic archbishop was the first person to translate some of Shakespeare 's works into Polish ?
text: Did you know that there was once a stalagmite heist from the longest cave in Arkansas ?
text: Did you know that the Korean royal palace Deoksugung mixes Korean and Western architectural styles?
text: Did you know that May You Stay Forever Young is the first Hong Kong film to be banned following the amendment of the Film Censorship Ordinance ?
text: Did you know that Reine Abbas chose the name Wixel Studios, a blend of "Weird Pixel", in recognition of being one of the only gaming studios in Lebanon?
text: Did you know that the Ibn Shillif brothers, evading the Ottoman authorities' pursuit after leading a local rebellion, found safe haven in the Alawite villages of Ayn al-Kurum and Annab ?
text: Did you know that Tina Leung dressed as her comic book alter ego when accepting an award for the House of Slay ?
text: Did you know that the publication of Ten no Hate Made – Poland Hishi , the first legally published manga in Poland, has been described as the event that created the manga fandom in the country ?
text: Did you know that when Wilson Starbuck 's play Sea Dogs was staged in 1939 it "contained some of the foulest language heard on Broadway " at that point in history?
text: Did you know that Harry Clarke 's Geneva Window was never installed in Geneva because of the "grave offense" it might cause?
text: Did you know that Michal Pivoňka 's father was demoted at work as a result of his son signing with the Washington Capitals ?
text: Did you know that more than 5,000 genres on Spotify use the suffix -core ?
text: Did you know that blackface minstrel show performer George L. Wade was also a race car manufacturer?
text: Did you know that transportation during the 2024 Summer Olympics and Paralympics accounted for 53 percent of the games' carbon footprint?
text: Did you know that a specimen of Tyrannasorus rex had six legs and wings and was killed by a legume?
text: Did you know that Documented is the first non-Chinese newsroom in the United States with a WeChat account?
text: Did you know that Mao Zedong ordered the lenient treatment of bandit leader Cheng Lianzhen , as he thought it rare for a female bandit leader to be from an ethnic minority in China ?
text: Did you know that the building Seokjojeon was meant to symbolize the Korean Empire 's authority, but it was completed just months before Japan annexed Korea ?
text: Did you know that Fritz Strassmann , a co-discoverer of nuclear fission, concealed a Jewish woman in his home during World War II?
text: Did you know that thimble cactus is one of the most commonly grown nipple cacti because it breaks into pieces at the slightest touch?
text: Did you know that 19th-century tightrope walker Madame Saqui performed well into her seventies?
text: Did you know that Michel Langevin described Rush 's " Didacts and Narpets " as "a Max Roach –esque avant-garde jazz piece"?
text: Did you know that Pan Shu had to write psychological theory in secret during the Cultural Revolution ?
text: Did you know that a 1922 Brazilian film was presumed lost for more than 90 years until a copy was rediscovered in 2023?
text: Did you know that peasant Agnieszka Machówna repeatedly deceived Polish nobles into thinking that she was a noble?
text: Did you know that a former professional football player stated his intention to buy the rights to a 25-year-old children's sports game in his podcast ?
text: Did you know that Yuika was allowed by her parents to take a music-related course after playing one of her songs to them?
text: Did you know that Walnut Valley, the neighborhood most affected by the 2023 Little Rock tornado , reported theft and illegal dumping during rebuilding efforts?
text: Did you know that the fictional character Moira Pollock was described as a " battleaxe "?
text: Did you know that a butt of malmsey was required to make "Tyre that is excellent", as part of a mixture of "fat Bastard, two gallons of Cute [and] Parrel "?
text: Did you know that eight Delta Air Lines executives were killed in the 1947 Columbus mid-air collision , including the airline's vice president of operations?
text: Did you know that the South Indian restaurant New Krishna Bhavan served 600 litres (160 US gal) of sambar every day?
text: Did you know that a historical society celebrated the 50th anniversary of its acquisition of Armstrong House by hosting a murder mystery?
text: Did you know that there are more than 100 accepted species of columbines , but Aquilegia kubanica was identified as one of only four to live in the Caucasus?
text: Did you know that Celeste 64: Fragments of the Mountain was developed during a week-long game jam ?
text: Did you know that although nine alibi witnesses placed Temujin Kensu more than 400 miles from a shooting in Port Huron, Michigan , in November 1986, he was convicted of murder and has been in prison ever since?
text: Did you know that Luis Sera was designed to resemble Aragorn from The Lord of the Rings ?
text: Did you know that Magnus Gens was given ten trillion Zimbabwean dollars for developing a crash test dummy moose?
text: Did you know that the Joint Operations Command was created based on lessons learned from the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami ?
text: Did you know that a village in North Sulawesi traces its founding to exiles from the Java War ?
text: Did you know that Continuity by Andre Wee at Hume MRT station presents a stylised cross-sectional view of the historical Former Ford Factory ?
text: Did you know that the first governor of Macau Francisco Mascarenhas took the Fortaleza do Monte as the governor's residence from the Jesuits through a ruse?
text: Did you know that construction of a Pittsburgh TV station was delayed when it was discovered that abandoned mine shafts ran beneath the planned tower site?
text: Did you know that American football coach Jorge Munoz served as an assistant to a former player he coached?
text: Did you know that the birth of Christianity in Minahasa , Indonesia, is celebrated annually on June 12, the day that Johann Friedrich Riedel set foot in Manado ?
text: Did you know that protesters launched a Garbage Offensive on New York City?
text: Did you know that Abbot Donato Ogliari is expected to deliver a meditation to the cardinals of the Catholic Church before the beginning of the 2025 papal conclave ?
text: Did you know that Havergal Brian described his second Symphony as dealing with "man in his cosmic loneliness: ambition, loves, battles, death"?
text: Did you know that in 2019 sanitary bins were removed from railway stations in Japan to prevent terrorism?
text: Did you know that Ruben A. Valdez , a high-school dropout, became the speaker of the Colorado House of Representatives ?
text: Did you know that the Catholic Church takes up a  collection for Christians in the Holy Land annually on Good Friday ?
text: Did you know that the independent video-game developer Re-Logic cancelled the Google Stadia release of its game Terraria after its Google Account was suspended?
text: Did you know that Sophie Rain went from living on food stamps to making US$43 million in a year on OnlyFans?
text: Did you know that American Entomologist credited rivalry displays involving the Pokémon Pinsir with re-emphasizing Japanese cultural interest in insects?
text: Did you know that ratings for "The Bard" range from A− by The A.V. Club to being the second-worst episode of The Twilight Zone by /Film and Paste ?
text: Did you know that Jon Haukeland established a "Polar Bear model" for Norwegian children?
text: Did you know that Statistics House partially collapsed in the 2016 Kaikōura earthquake even though the building was once assessed as not being earthquake-prone?
text: Did you know that Lady Gaga's Living Dress was designed by the creator of the Batsuit ?
text: Did you know that the name of the Maendeleo horseshoe bat refers to its discovery representing progress in understanding Tanzanian bats?
text: Did you know that Philadelphia's Washington Monument was unveiled at its dedication in 1897 by the president of the United States?
text: Did you know that Finland won its first Olympic ice hockey medal under the leadership of Kai Hietarinta ?
text: Did you know that to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the BBC soap opera EastEnders , viewers were given the opportunity to vote on the outcome of a love triangle storyline?
text: Did you know that the two known populations of the desert musk shrew are found on opposite ends of Africa?
text: Did you know that the body of a rebel commander was identified after the Battle of Siluk by his diamond-adorned kris ?
text: Did you know that the origin of Girls' Day in China is uncertain?
text: Did you know that Patriots in Georgia conducted a raid on Tybee Island to capture runaway slaves during the American Revolutionary War ?
text: Did you know that " Multo " was the first song by a Filipino act to enter the Billboard Global 200 chart?
text: Did you know that last year, Pope Francis simplified the book for papal funerals ?
text: Did you know that commentators described American wrestler Wyatt Hendrickson defeating an Olympic gold medalist as the "biggest upset in NCAA history"?
text: Did you know that The Alchemist Code , a game themed around the seven deadly sins , collaborated with The Seven Deadly Sins ?
text: Did you know that Sasami changed her sound for a third time for her third album Blood on the Silver Screen ?
text: Did you know that Japan's celebrity chimpanzee Rita , who dressed as a geisha and smoked cigarettes, became a wartime "propaganda icon"?
text: Did you know that despite being known as "lucky" by colleagues, journalist David Griffin died in an airplane crash?
text: Did you know that the Japanese live-action television drama adaptation of Accomplishment of Fudanshi Bartender was first broadcast in Taiwan before being broadcast in its home country?
text: Did you know that a yeshiva student turned magician went from practicing card tricks in his free time to performing for major league baseball teams?
text: Did you know that an Olympic gymnast lost her gold medal after the women's artistic individual all-around because she used Nurofen , which contains pseudoephedrine , to treat her common cold?
text: Did you know that the Scottish painter Carole Gibbons had her first US exhibition in her eighties?
text: Did you know that because the Green Bay Packers were named after a canned meat company , PETA called on the team to change their name?
text: Did you know that Robert J. O'Brien said that he did not drink alcohol, despite owning a saloon and being elected as alderman by a district containing more than 250 bars?
text: Did you know that no one knows where the Oval Office Swedish ivy came from?
text: Did you know that multiple dancers were arrested at the Capitol Theatre in San Francisco for allegedly not wearing bras during striptease numbers?
text: Did you know that a village in Japan claims that it was Jesus's resting place ?
text: Did you know that Olympians Alice Lord and Richmond Landon later married after meeting each other on the ship ride to the 1920 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that Sofia Gubaidulina combined the Passion narrative according to John with texts from the Book of Revelation when she composed her 2000 Johannes-Passion ?
text: Did you know that scientists from the Institutum Divi Thomae raised silkworms at Saint Gregory Seminary during World War II as a form of economic warfare against Japan?
text: Did you know that Wall Street Plaza is not on Wall Street ?
text: Did you know that, near the ending of the 2005 interactive storytelling video game Façade , two characters portrayed through AI chatbots ask the player for relationship advice?
text: Did you know that Lebanese actress Cynthya Karam volunteers as a clown doctor in children's hospitals?
text: Did you know that a Wisconsin TV station claimed the first-ever broadcast of a lunar eclipse , which it captured by moving a studio camera into its parking lot?
text: Did you know that Khujand gained independence just a year before it was conquered by the Russian Empire ?
text: Did you know that Prince Louis of Wales is the first British prince to be ranked behind an elder sister in the line of succession?
text: Did you know that Klingenheben's law is usually referred to in the singular, but in fact comprises four independent sound changes ?
text: Did you know that Aquilegia vulgaris was associated with a fertility goddess in ancient Greece, symbolized sacredness for Flemish painters, and was an omen of death in Hamlet ?
text: Did you know that Edwin Rist stole hundreds of rare birds to make into fishing lures?
text: Did you know that the Mitsubishi G6M was intended to be an escort gunship , but is best known as one of the transport aircraft that carried the Japanese surrender delegation to Iejima ?
text: Did you know that John Boyer was forced to train his own guide dog because the training program could not support people who were both blind and deaf?
text: Did you know that Computer Mah-jong Yakuman was Nintendo's first handheld device providing multiplayer gaming via a link cable, an innovation that would later be integral to the success of the Game Boy?
text: Did you know that there could have been as many as five individual leaders of the Big Three in World War II?
text: Did you know that, nearly 50 years after the formation of Carlos y José , their grandsons, also named Carlos and José, formed Carlos y José Jr.?
text: Did you know that Seattle mayor Thomas J. Humes went missing for more than 30 hours in 1902?
text: Did you know that the African thin mouse shrew may have diverged from its nearest relative due to glacial cycles?
text: Did you know that the theme song to SpongeBob SquarePants was written by Stephen Hillenburg with the idea "to try to make the most annoying song you can"?
text: Did you know that Godfrey Hattenbach is said to be the father of Sioux City 's Jewish community?
text: Did you know that the Church of Grace became the Church of Saint John of Kronstadt after it was sold for €1 to a Russian Orthodox congregation to maintain its ecclesiastical status?
text: Did you know that American playwright Walter "Long Run" Hackett earned that nickname for his many long-running plays staged in London's West End ?
text: Did you know that the Magic: The Gathering YouTube channel Tolarian Community College has raised more than US$1.5 million for the suicide-prevention hotline Trans Lifeline ?
text: Did you know that John J. Beckley , the first librarian of Congress , came to America in childhood as an indentured servant?
text: Did you know that in the 2024 tournament , India became the first team to win the T20 World Cup without losing a game?
text: Did you know that before the Richmond Tunnel was completed, Staten Island residents had to use water from siphons?
text: Did you know that " Eaea " is "aggressively Spanish"?
text: Did you know that the Sasradilaga rebellion in 1827–1828 devastated the Javanese town of Rajekwesi, causing it to be rebuilt under the new name of Bojonegoro ?
text: Did you know that ROLM 's first product was a military computer , even though Robert Maxfield was the only one of its four co-founders with computer experience?
text: Did you know that up to forty greater bamboo bats will roost in a single bamboo shoot?
text: Did you know that a former street musician 's villa was used for high-society gatherings in Chișinău before the Russian Revolution?
text: Did you know that the Union Navy , despite being embroiled in the American Civil War , built the Wampanoag -class frigates for a planned war against Great Britain?
text: Did you know that eight horses ridden by rebel commander Sentot Prawirodirdjo were killed during the Java War ?
text: Did you know that Pope Sixtus IV gave the Montalto Reliquary to his home town in 1586?
text: Did you know that during a Game Developers Conference showcase of #IDARB , people were "blown away by how stupid it was"?
text: Did you know that Liv.e wrote her debut album Couldn't Wait to Tell You while working in Urban Outfitters ?
text: Did you know that F. B. J. Kuiper , after no longer being able to drive due to his failing vision, underwent eye surgery and then immediately bought a BMW ?
text: Did you know that Adolf Hitler received more than 300 visitors during his Festungshaft (fortress confinement) in Landsberg Prison ?
text: Did you know that St. Thomas Church and Howard–Flaget House was the site of the first Catholic seminary on the American frontier ?
text: Did you know that voice actress Rika Hayashi brought a golf club to the recording studio for Tonbo! , a golf-themed anime series?
text: Did you know that Prunus cathybrownae , an extinct relative of plums, was named after three different Catherines?
text: Did you know that Jiang Xiaoxuan set her debut film, To Kill a Mongolian Horse , in her homeland of Inner Mongolia ?
text: Did you know that Baltimore County Police Department leader Carroll E. Stansbury assigned officers to combat chicken theft?
text: Did you know that singer Ano joined You'll Melt More! without an interview at the invitation of the group's producer?
text: Did you know that a Chinese short story about a man's friendship with a rock may have been inspired by the painter Mi Fu , who was reportedly obsessed with rocks?
text: Did you know that the efforts of oil industry lobbyist Donald Pearlman to prevent the adoption of the Kyoto Protocol were dramatized in the 2024 play Kyoto ?
text: Did you know that the 69th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest is to present several tracks "laden thick with double entendre", including " Ich komme "?
text: Did you know that Trump wrote a letter to Ali Khamenei in an effort to initiate new nuclear negotiations with Iran?
text: Did you know that in 2004 the Wasps Women 's coach Giselle Mather waited until the end of a match to go to hospital despite going into labour before half-time?
text: Did you know that a Minnesota radio station forbade its announcers from saying what songs they had just played?
text: Did you know that the fictitious subject of a hoax Wikipedia article was a nominee to be on an English £50 note?
text: Did you know that the creator of Pop was part of the German techno scene?
text: Did you know that during the Hail Larry game, Green Bay Packers wide receiver Jeff Janis recorded 145 of his career total of 345 receiving yards and two of his three career touchdowns ?
text: Did you know that actor Xavier Molyneux worked as an event paramedic between his acting roles?
text: Did you know that United States president Joe Biden began his political career by unseating an incumbent county councilman ?
text: Did you know that the sole athlete representing Kiribati at the 2024 Summer Paralympics impressed the International Paralympic Committee through his eye mask?
text: Did you know that the founder of a Mississippi radio station compared selling advertising time to campaigning for political office?
text: Did you know that Šediváčkův long is considered one of Europe's most challenging dog sled races, with teams climbing more than 7,500 metres (24,600 feet) during the event?
text: Did you know that Senator James A. Reed asked "Who the hell is Webb ?" when he was nominated to be Webb's running mate?
text: Did you know that Robert Van Damme played ice hockey professionally before pursuing a career in gay pornography ?
text: Did you know that a 2023 tornado damaged Selma, Alabama , known for civil-rights marches attended by Martin Luther King Jr. , just eight days before MLK Day ?
text: Did you know that Pitty recorded Admirável Chip Novo with a band hastily assembled from Salvador musicians after rejecting Rio de Janeiro 's session musicians because it felt "strange"?
text: Did you know that Joseph Pearman played American football with F. Scott Fitzgerald at a preparatory school ?
text: Did you know that A Polish Book of Monsters features stories in which the line between monster and human is blurred, reflecting what the editor saw as a quintessentially Polish view of monstrosity?
text: Did you know that an Indian restaurant chain has more than 800 combinations of kulfi flavours, toppings, and sauces?
text: Did you know that some mill workers in a historic district in Virginia gave their ages as fourteen despite appearing much younger?
text: Did you know that Yi chieftain Xiao Yedan and a Chinese Red Army military leader established an alliance by drinking chicken blood?
text: Did you know that Amman was renamed Philadelphia around 255 BC by a Greek ruler who was nicknamed Philadelphus for marrying his sister?
text: Did you know that museum director Nawala Al-Mutawalli guarded the Iraq Museum with an AK-47 prior to the Battle of Baghdad ?
text: Did you know that Fred Verity and colleagues invented an automatic pivot or bearing for looking glasses?
text: Did you know that Lady Gaga considered changing Mayhem into a grunge record after completing " Perfect Celebrity "?
text: Did you know that models walked the outline of a pentagram for the occult-inspired runway show of Alexander McQueen's In Memory of Elizabeth Howe, Salem, 1692 (Fall/Winter 2007)?
text: Did you know that 2024 Olympic bronze medalist Sophiane Méthot began gymnastics after watching Stick It ?
text: Did you know that African ginger is used by the Zulu people to protect against lightning and snake bites?
text: Did you know that before it was good to be the GOAT , it was actually bad to be a goat?
text: Did you know that more than half of all children in the United States under the age of 16 played Roblox in July 2020?
text: Did you know that the detention of Mahmoud Khalil raises constitutional questions similar to a 1945 court case ?
text: Did you know that Aquilegia vulgaris subsp. nevadensis has remained genetically distinct from other columbines despite frequent hybridization within the genus?
text: Did you know that a dam failure at a Chinese-owned copper mine released 50 million litres of highly toxic waste into the Kafue River in Zambia, devastating ecosystems at least 100 kilometres (62 mi) downstream?
text: Did you know that novvot , a popular traditional candy in the Middle East and Central Asia, is often served with tea and has roots in Persian cuisine?
text: Did you know that Canadian football player Paul Shorten played university football after his pro career?
text: Did you know that Betsy Arakawa 's house was once featured in Architectural Digest ?
text: Did you know that Twitch streamer Morgpie went viral for using her buttocks as a green screen ?
text: Did you know that Bill Chisholm 's announced $6.1 billion purchase of the Boston Celtics is the largest amount ever paid for a North American sports team?
text: Did you know that a former management consultant who coined the framework of " The Three Worlds of Evangelicalism " was described by The New York Times as "a kind of Malcolm Gladwell of conservative Christianity "?
text: Did you know that the 2001 Zug massacre resulted in changes to security measures for public buildings, but not to Swiss gun laws ?
text: Did you know that Juan Soto, before his blockbuster trade , rejected a 15-year, $440 million contract extension, which would have been the largest deal in Major League Baseball history at the time?
text: Did you know that about 25 percent of people experience heartburn at least once a month?
text: Did you know that Miroslav Kvočka was convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity against non-Serb detainees in the Omarska concentration camp during the Bosnian War ?
text: Did you know that the Edmonds' Clock Tower was split in two after the June 2011 Christchurch earthquakes ?
text: Did you know that the Overwatch character Juno has been praised for her ability to reward players for having sound game sense?
text: Did you know that Waeta Ben Tabusasi went from being a conservation officer to the speaker of his country's parliament?
text: Did you know that Metallica 's " Blackened " became the namesake for a record label and a whiskey brand?
text: Did you know that After London has been described as a defining work in genres such as Ruined Earth and climate fiction ?
text: Did you know that four-time NAIA scoring champion Grace Beyer has scored more career points than any female basketball player at a four-year college or university?
text: Did you know that the design of the Parakiore Recreation and Sport Centre 's hydroslides was inspired by eels?
text: Did you know that Alamo: The Price of Freedom has been shown continuously at the Rivercenter IMAX in San Antonio , Texas, since March 5, 1988?
text: Did you know that the reclassification of the species in the beetle genus Caccothryptus was based primarily on their genitals?
text: Did you know that a Japanese town used its COVID-19 relief funds to build a statue of a squid ?
text: Did you know that VTuber Sakura Miko was featured in a paper on structural stability and thermodynamics ?
text: Did you know that " Grim Reaper of Love " by the Turtles features an unusual quintuple-meter ( 5 4 ) beat?
text: Did you know that 269 Justitia is one of the reddest known asteroids in the asteroid belt ?
text: Did you know that the first Indian-American mayor of Fremont, California , succeeded its first female and first Asian-American mayor ?
text: Did you know that Oris Aigbokhaevbolo was included on YNaija 's 2024 list of influential people in the Nigerian film industry?
text: Did you know that the 1992 edition of Beringia , with a distance of 2,044 kilometres (1,270 mi), holds the Guinness World Record for the longest sled dog race?
text: Did you know that Dallas Mavericks fans held a mock funeral with a coffin for Luka Dončić in response to him being traded ?
text: Did you know that Io Kaziwara developed tendonitis while drawing the first volume of the manga series Reincarnated into Demon King Evelogia's World ?
text: Did you know that Cris Tinley was the youngest-ever cricketer in Nottinghamshire 's history for 177 years?
text: Did you know that United States senator Joe Biden felt that his decision to run for a fourth term in 1990 was less difficult than deciding to run for his previous terms?
text: Did you know that the snowboarder Hiroto Ogiwara landed the first ever 2340, rotating six and a half times, with a fractured forearm?
text: Did you know that The Source was the highest-selling music magazine on the newsstands in the United States?
text: Did you know that Marshallese chief Kabua Kabua was described as "probably the only person ever to serve as a judge under both the Japanese and U.S. judicial systems"?
text: Did you know that a government surplus audio console used by a Virginia radio station was believed to have been used to broadcast Franklin D. Roosevelt 's fireside chats ?
text: Did you know that Jeff Baena , while unable to film in Italy in 2020, created Cinema Toast from an idea during an online poker game to re-cut and dub old movies into new stories?
text: Did you know that Abba Cohen , who advocates for the Orthodox Jewish community, has worked with seven presidential administrations and nineteen Congresses?
text: Did you know that in 1343 the French and English armies marched to within 18 miles (29 km) of each other, then agreed a three-and-a-half year truce ?
text: Did you know that a former Uber driver is the nominee to be the deputy secretary of a U.S. government department?
text: Did you know that actress Margaret Qualley said she cried when she first heard the song " Margaret "?
text: Did you know that Hong Wang 's latest paper claims to have resolved the Kakeya conjecture , described as "one of the most sought-after open problems in geometric measure theory", in three dimensions?
text: Did you know that an Iowa TV station was paid for by surplus Manhattan Project funds?
text: Did you know that Markus Graf 's "swissmadehockey" formed the approach to training the Switzerland men's national ice hockey team ?
text: Did you know that a bald eagle went viral for incubating a rock?
text: Did you know that the trope of the found manuscript , in which a fictional work refers to another fictional work of literature, dates as far back as ancient Egypt?
text: Did you know that Izawa Takushi is called the "Quiz King from Tokyo University "?
text: Did you know that when MV Solong struck MV Stena Immaculate in March 2025, the former ship was falsely reported to be carrying highly toxic sodium cyanide?
text: Did you know that while starting in place of Aaron Rodgers , backup quarterback Matt Flynn set the Green Bay Packers team record for passing yards (480) and touchdowns (6) in a victory against the Detroit Lions ?
text: Did you know that the Dutch author of books for children and adults Clare Lennart finally turned to full-time writing after her husband retired and took care of the household?
text: Did you know that the Ten Arches Bridge in Amman , built as part of the Ottoman Hejaz railway , was one of the main targets for destruction during a 1918 Allied attack during World War I?
text: Did you know that Elizabeth Harcourt Mitchell wrote A Short Church History , which was used as a textbook for pupil teachers ?
text: Did you know that the codename "Neo" was used when writing the return of EastEnders character Keanu Taylor , in reference to the protagonist of The Matrix ?
text: Did you know that people traveled from as far away as Australia and the Netherlands to stay at a house in Ohio ?
text: Did you know that urbanists have used hive cities from the science-fiction universe of Warhammer 40,000 as an example of how vertical cities could become dystopian?
text: Did you know that the Philippine embassy in Pretoria responded to a South African newspaper's denunciation of horse fighting in the Philippines by saying that the practice was already illegal?
text: Did you know that artisan baker Jules Rabin was inspired to bake bread after a 1971 visit to a commune in France where "they didn't speak of bread as holy, but they treated it as a holy object"?
text: Did you know that Tout est lumière , a setting by Maurice Ravel for soprano, choir and orchestra of a poem by Victor Hugo , earned Ravel a place in the second round of the 1901 Prix de Rome ?
text: Did you know that Tommy Cronin played both basketball and football in high school, in college, and professionally?
text: Did you know that the grave of a Dutch officer and his dog who were killed in the Battle of Nanggulon is a designated cultural object in Indonesia?
text: Did you know that Cowboy Wheeler was a Reimer Wiener?
text: Did you know that two books of photos and drawings by Margot Dias were called "among the best-illustrated anthropological volumes ever produced"?
text: Did you know that some legal documents in Old Frisian refer to the womb as a "fortress of the bones"?
text: Did you know that the Mexican-American band Grupo Frontera has been affected by a massive backlash because of an alleged endorsement of Donald Trump after a viral video of the vocalist's grandmother?
text: Did you know that Varsen Aghabekian is the first Armenian to serve as a minister in the government of the State of Palestine ?
text: Did you know that a Missouri TV station was twice denied in its efforts to move its transmitter tower to Kansas to increase its coverage area?
text: Did you know that the arts magazine Paper Chained was banned in some Australian prisons due to its pen-pal program?
text: Did you know that a survivor of the 1967 Belvidere tornado recalled being inside a school bus when "the tornado picked up the bus and the bus ended up in someone's living room"?
text: Did you know that a buttock painted with "FUFN" was used to promote a recent song by Jade Thirlwall ?
text: Did you know that Rita Lee tracked down two boa constrictors from a concert by Alice Cooper in São Paulo, and later brought them to her recording sessions for Fruto Proibido ?
text: Did you know that after an NBA Twitter parody page posted a fake report of Milwaukee Bucks coach Doc Rivers promising to take coaching "seriously", their performance improved during the 2024–25 season ?
text: Did you know that Margaret Lambert was the British historian responsible for examining the Marburg Files and deciding when they should be published?
text: Did you know that the opening of a Hejaz railway station in Amman in 1904 helped to transform the city from a small village into a major commercial hub in the region?
text: Did you know that Shabbos Kestenbaum , a Harvard Divinity School graduate, sued Harvard University for failing to protect Jewish students from antisemitism ?
text: Did you know that Greek government officials tried to cover up the Yugoslav corn scandal by forging documents and delaying investigations, only to later defend the scheme as being in the "national interest"?
text: Did you know that Sharon Wylie has served in the state legislatures of both Oregon and Washington?
text: Did you know that Dayo Wong , the lead actor of the first film , did not  return for Table for Six 2 and said that he would not reveal the reason for ten years?
text: Did you know that Terraria was released earlier than planned because a beta version of the game was leaked to the public?
text: Did you know that although Nora Helmer was subject to extensive controversy upon her 1879 debut, she is now considered a focal point in analysis of gender roles?
text: Did you know that US general Tommy Franks reportedly did not have time to become an expert on the Danish Air Force?
text: Did you know that Tribuna da Imprensa was shut down in 2001 after losing a lawsuit over an article that referred to a judge as "PC Salomão"?
text: Did you know that Javanese rebel leader Diponegoro partly blamed his sexual infidelity for his defeat at the Battle of Gawok ?
text: Did you know that basketball player Barry Leibowitz , despite being drafted by the New York Knicks and playing in the ABA , chose to play in Israel instead because of its sea, hummus , and tahini ?
text: Did you know that the filmmakers of 100 Litres of Gold brewed 20 litres of sahti at the Finnish embassy in Rome for its premiere?
text: Did you know that after being ousted by the Southern Transitional Council , the governor of the Socotra Archipelago fled to Oman and continued to govern through WhatsApp ?
text: Did you know that Holy Cross Church in Kentucky was built on land donated by the namesake of a brand of whiskey ?
text: Did you know that Kanailal Sarkar , the opposition candidate for mayor of Calcutta in 1963, had been jailed during the 1930 protest movement against British rule in India ?
text: Did you know that Canadian football player Pieter Vanden Bos was traded from the Roughriders to the Rough Riders ?
text: Did you know that workers in European lace workshops and schools chanted catchy, often gruesome rhymes ?
text: Did you know that the tenure of Wallis and Futuna 's longest-serving senator, Soséfo Makapé Papilio , ended when he was found dead in a car submerged in the sea?
text: Did you know that velvet worms had an ancient relative with two pairs of antennae ?
text: Did you know that both athletes for American Samoa at the 2024 Summer Olympics represented the territory because their relatives were born there?
text: Did you know that " the world's ugliest woman " won the women's world gurning title 28 times?
text: Did you know that the themes of Somuk 's artwork range from the bombing of his island during World War II to the origin of trees and plants?
text: Did you know that a sprinter and a judoka representing Kiribati at the 2024 Summer Olympics were the youngest participants in their respective sports at the games?
text: Did you know that Joe Biden ran for president twice before being elected in 2020 ?
text: Did you know that Baabda residents collectively purchased the Seraglio of Baabda for 1,000 gold Ottoman liras in the late 19th century to gift to the Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate government?
text: Did you know that Herman Brown 's estate and most of the proceeds from the sale of Brown & Root were donated after his death to his charitable foundation , which has given more than $2 billion in grants in Texas?
text: Did you know that more than a quarter of the population of Germany is of migration background ?
text: Did you know that Sammy Powers was the only member of the original 1919 Green Bay Packers team who was not a local player?
text: Did you know that Laurence Sterne was told to burn all copies of his pamphlet that depicts his patron's rival with a toilet on his head?
text: Did you know that the United States of America met a mixed reception?
text: Did you know that The Avengers attempted to assassinate Alfonso XIII , King of Spain?
text: Did you know that Barack Obama was a horse and Kamala was an elephant?
text: Did you know that bliss could be found in California?
text: Did you know that Batman had a hipster-proof fence in 2018 ?
text: Did you know that a 1989 science show featured an unusually long signal delay?
text: Did you know that Jackie Chan and the Mario games inspired hundreds of beavers ?
text: Did you know that players on the Laos national baseball team helped construct the country's first baseball stadium in 2019?
text: Did you know that accountant Dan Busby studied with a minor-league umpire in hopes of becoming one himself?
text: Did you know that QuizKnock created puzzle games for the Imperial Palace East Garden ?
text: Did you know that while filming a music video for her debut album at a motel, Underscores had the police called on her by the motel staff because they thought she was shooting a pornographic film?
text: Did you know that the family drama film Little Red Sweet revolves around red bean soup , as red beans symbolize "longing for family" in Chinese culture?
text: Did you know that the author of If It's You, I Might Try Falling in Love made the main characters unfamiliar with each other so that she could draw all sorts of scenarios between them?
text: Did you know that singer-songwriter SZA wore a hijab as a child, but stopped wearing it due to Islamophobia after 9/11 ?
text: Did you know that in an effort to reclaim "the most offensive word in the English language" as aspirational, some people describe being "powerful in an unapologetic and feminine manner" as " serving cunt "?
text: Did you know that the land snail Drymaeus poecilus is notable for the striking variety of colors and patterns on its shell?
text: Did you know that a forensic investigation of Signalgate has determined how a journalist was included in a group chat about Operation Rough Rider ?
text: Did you know that two of the players involved in the 2005 Vietnamese football match-fixing scandal did not accept payment because they felt ashamed?
text: Did you know that a rebellion against a peace treaty with the Yuan dynasty operated out of the Historic Site of Anti-Mongolian Struggle on Jeju Island ?
text: Did you know that Nathan Frink fled the United States with enslaved children to settle in Canada, where he was elected as a Member of the Legislative Assembly and caught in a smuggling conspiracy?
text: Did you know that Seattle's women's ice hockey team has an expected rival , despite not even having played their first game?
text: Did you know that Cave Johnson Couts was separately acquitted for shooting his foreman, firing on funeral mourners, and whipping a native laborer to death?
text: Did you know that characters' scars in an episode of The Last of Us were made with a paste-based appliance and a food mixer ?
text: Did you know that Hedwig Tam gained 20 pounds to play a postpartum mother in Montages of a Modern Motherhood ?
text: Did you know that the Alfonsine Ordinances punished Jews and Muslims with enslavement if they disguised their identity with the intention of "sinning with Christian women"?
text: Did you know that even though he had never seen a field hockey game, Willy Miranda became a high school coach and went on to win over 450 games across a 42-year tenure?
text: Did you know that a false viral rumour claimed 42 people committed suicide after their homoerotic fan art was included in the film Crazy About One Direction ?
text: Did you know that an Arizona TV station put a satellite dish in a vacant swimming pool?
text: Did you know that 42 years after Jilly Cooper 's How to Stay Married was first published, she described it as "terribly politically incorrect"?
text: Did you know that wrestler Kurt Howell won all 108 of his matches in high school?
text: Did you know that the second-place candidate in the 2018 Taipei mayoral election lost by just 0.23%, demanded a recount, and ended up losing by even more?
text: Did you know that Soviet trophy brigades systematically looted art and even moved entire factories from Central and Eastern Europe during and after World War II?
text: Did you know that the only copy of El Apóstol , widely considered to be the first animated feature film, was lost in a fire?
text: Did you know that colonial-era bureaucrat Tan Jin Sing 's close relationship with Europeans led to the saying that he was "no longer a Chinese, not yet a Dutchman, a half-baked Javanese"?
text: Did you know that Solomon Islands at the 2024 Summer Olympics were represented by the only all-female delegation at the games?
text: Did you know that one candidate in the 1990 United States Senate election in Tennessee began the campaign with $3,000 in campaign funds, while the other began with $1 million?
text: Did you know that after the pilot of Somali Airlines Flight 40 was reportedly threatened with jail following his refusal to take off, the flight took off and crashed a few minutes later?
text: Did you know that Indonesian radio presenters Muhammad Farhan and Indy Barends co-hosted a 32-hour nonstop radio show in 2001, setting a national record which they held until 2019?
text: Did you know that in one year, 166,000 people visited a three-bedroom house with a garage that stood amid New York City's skyscrapers?
text: Did you know that a tour promoting the EP For Your Validation sold out in ten minutes?
text: Did you know that despite being named in college as the best at his position in the U.S., football player Buster Maddox only appeared in one NFL game?
text: Did you know that the Doctor Who episode " Lux " is set in Miami, Florida , despite being filmed in Penarth, Wales ?
text: Did you know that Jean-Mohammed Abd-el-Jalil , a Moroccan Franciscan friar, was permitted by the Pope to keep "Muhammad" as his baptismal name?
text: Did you know that Robert Mugabe's motorcade was known for speeding and killing people?
text: Did you know that Elizabeth Holtzman 's opponent ran an ad saying "maybe I'd like to have her as a daughter, but not as a DA " before her election as the first female Brooklyn District Attorney ?
text: Did you know that fighter pilot Morton D. Magoffin made pilots in his group sprint around an airfield for not saluting him?
text: Did you know that the Oslo study withheld treatment from 2,000 patients with syphilis?
text: Did you know that just after the 1945 liberation of Korea , the remnants of the Japanese colonial government used armed guards to prevent Koreans from seizing the printing equipment of the newspaper Keijō nippō ?
text: Did you know that Sheffield Wednesday required a "miracle" to qualify for the 2023 EFL League One play-off final ?
text: Did you know that Pope Leo XIV descends from Creole people of color?
text: Did you know that the Theban general Pelopidas set out for the Battle of Cynoscephalae even after his army was disbanded?
text: Did you know that Hannah Fry used mathematics to compare Elizabeth II's Christmas messages with the lyrics of Snoop Dogg ?
text: Did you know that Stray Kids is the first act to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with their first six chart entries?
text: Did you know that an Indiana TV station promised to begin broadcasting New Year's Eve — but only made it in time for Chinese New Year's Eve?
text: Did you know that Belgian Resistance member Andrée Dumon was recommended for the US Medal of Freedom for "assisting directly in the recuperation and repatriation of about 100 Allied airmen"?
text: Did you know that CBS received a membership to the exclusive Sebonack Golf Club when it bought a TV station on Long Island ?
text: Did you know that a 1924 derailment at Stoughton station was caused by two boys who wanted to "see a real train wreck"?
text: Did you know that Canadian veterinarian Frank Schofield was described as "an eternal Korean" by a South Korean prime minister?
text: Did you know that in 1959 many Americans refused to have cranberry sauce with their Thanksgiving dinner ?
text: Did you know that diver Ng Sui was the last Hong Kong Olympian to compete for Britain in an Olympics?
text: Did you know that CSS can be used to track and identify you?
text: Did you know that Ivan the Terrible killed three polar bears at the Griffith Park Zoo , including his own mate Lena?
text: Did you know that a 700-year-old fortification in present-day South Korea was mostly destroyed during the construction of a coastal road?
text: Did you know that some people ski every month of the year ?
text: Did you know that Tarmidi Suhardjo was fired from his party 's leadership roles because he ran for governor?
text: Did you know that Pope Leo XIV was the editor-in-chief of his high school 's yearbook?
text: Did you know that after Slovak actress Hana Meličková moved to Prague to study piano, she secretly enrolled in acting classes?
text: Did you know that the riverine rabbit was thought to be extinct for more than 30 years?
text: Did you know that Australian NFL player Laki Tasi got into American football at the suggestion of a burger shop owner?
text: Did you know that guests at the launch of the bonkbuster Mount! were given polo mints to feed to a white stallion?
text: Did you know that Topsy was the longest-surviving member of the United States Camel Corps ?
text: Did you know that Misato Haga began her career as a grid girl before she led her own motor racing team?
text: Did you know that a science fiction short story from 1939 has been called an "eerie prediction" and "an uncanny, horrifyingly vivid prophecy" of The Holocaust ?
text: Did you know that Liechtenstein competed only in athletics at the 1968 Summer Olympics?
text: Did you know that Sin and Flesh Brook gets its name from the murder and mutilation of a colonist during King Philip's War?
text: Did you know that Isabel Garcés provided a comical counterpoint to "child prodigy" protagonists in many 1960s musical comedy films?
text: Did you know that the steam corvette Gefle was the first ship of the Swedish Navy to be equipped with a propeller?
text: Did you know that Greg Jensen went from world cow dung throwing champion to playing in the NFL?
text: Did you know that a 15-second commercial for a streaming service has been blamed for causing arguments and domestic violence?
text: Did you know that Darko Pešić ran the 100-metre race at the 2024 Summer Olympics with a broken foot?
text: Did you know that the chimney in a work by Herman Melville has been described as a "a bastion of phallic, assertive, and aggressive masculinity"?
text: Did you know that Robert Brodribb Hammond established the Sydney suburb of Hammondville to house families made homeless by the Great Depression?
text: Did you know that fake Buddhist monks scam tourists out of money to build non-existent temples?
text: Did you know that Lou Romanoli ran a semi-pro baseball team whose attendances sometimes exceeded that of a nearby MLB team?
text: Did you know that an Antiguan man who escaped from custody in Canada is suspected of stealing a yacht and sailing it directly into Hurricane Larry ?
text: Did you know that junior archaeologists used to ask John Papadimitriou to walk over their sites for good luck?
text: Did you know that Miss Behave's Mavericks , a Las Vegas variety show, urges audience members to toss balled up one-dollar bills at performers?
text: Did you know that a 1586 letter from a grieving pregnant widow to her deceased husband became a sensation in South Korea after it was rediscovered in 1998?
text: Did you know that after Mark Mulvoy hosted a party, he was reportedly grabbed by the throat for "trying to ruin" the Boston Red Sox ?
text: Did you know that the Battle of Shangi ended when the Congo Free State commander personally shot the leader of the opposing Rwandan army?
text: Did you know that dramatist Walter Ben Hare became wealthy by writing plays that were rarely performed professionally?
text: Did you know that a Land Rover driver falling asleep led to the Selby rail crash ?
text: Did you know that the parasitic copepod Driocephalus cerebrinoxius burrows into the brains of sharks through their noses?
text: Did you know that Robert Allen Norris wrote his PhD dissertation on the brown-headed nuthatch ( Sitta pusilla ) and the pygmy nuthatch ( Sitta pygmaea ), later calling it "A Tale of Two Sittas"?
text: Did you know that Voltaire Molesworth spent part of his early childhood in a utopian socialist colony in Paraguay ?
text: Did you know that the Meitetsu Okoshi Line was closed because there were too many users?
text: Did you know that Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Hsien Loong 's phrase " mee siam mai hum " was described as " Singlish for being out of touch"?
text: Did you know that American football player Terry Bussey accounted for 72 touchdowns in a season despite playing with a torn meniscus ?
text: Did you know that " The Well " is a sequel to a 17-year-old Doctor Who episode ?
text: Did you know that the second owner of Kentuck Knob , a house by Frank Lloyd Wright , "fell in love with the outside" and wanted to see the inside so urgently that he decided to purchase it?
text: Did you know that Makoto Nishimoto tried to run in the 2020 Tokyo gubernatorial election as his nickname "Super Crazy-kun"?
text: Did you know that a stray dog named Argo visited the ruins of Pompeii daily for 15 years and was considered its "guardian"?
text: Did you know that Soumen Mitra helped restore a building which had housed one of India's first mental asylums?
text: Did you know that cozy game Wanderstop took so long to develop, according to director Davey Wreden , that "cozy game" became a swear word?
text: Did you know that Yvette Greer-Albrecht was named as the Female College Athlete of the Year by the South Dakota Sportswriters Association in 1979?
text: Did you know that NFL player Fred Borak once played basketball against the Harlem Globetrotters ?
text: Did you know that one night on the planet Venus lasts just over 58 full days on Earth?
text: Did you know that photojournalist Samar Abu Elouf once improvised protective gear from a cooking pot while documenting a protest?
text: Did you know that the scriptural phrase " fear and trembling " has been used to celebrate hospitality, explore the nature of faith, and justify slavery?
text: Did you know that a sunflower is not a flower ?
text: Did you know that John P. Metras held all-night recruitment parties including a bathtub full of ice and beer?
text: Did you know that Priamurye Governorate-General , a Russian colony in East Asia, issued passports in order to segregate East Asian migrants from the general population?
text: Did you know that Meng Sufen led a 1993 investigation in Guizhou 's Mashan region, sparking a donation campaign raising over 1.6 million yuan for poverty alleviation?
text: Did you know that Britart and the Turner Prize are both lampooned in the Jilly Cooper romance novel Pandora ?
text: Did you know that the larvae of the elm zigzag sawfly create distinctive zig-zags in the leaves of elm trees?
text: Did you know that while attempting to "bulk up" for the Olympics, judoka Vlado Paradžik lost 11 pounds (5.0 kg) due to food shortages?
text: Did you know that the developers of UTM had to make what they called a "slow edition" of their software to meet the App Store's design requirements?
text: Did you know that NFL player Miles Turpin wrestled alligators when young, calling it "a lot of fun"?
text: Did you know that Gabriel Luna used a flamethrower in an episode of The Last of Us , and afterwards had recurring visions of flaming figures running towards him?
text: Did you know that many North Carolina Farmers' Union members left the organization as a result of leader Henry Quincy Alexander 's opposition to American entry into World War I ?
text: Did you know that 33 years after The New York Times called David Lynch 's film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me "brain-dead" and seemingly "the worst movie ever made", it conceded that the film was now "revered"?
text: Did you know that two future deans of the University of Indonesia , Margono Soekarjo and Djamaloeddin , conducted the first surgery on conjoined twins in Indonesia?
text: Did you know that the nearly 200 sexual encounters Molly Kochan had while terminally ill formed the basis of the Dying for Sex podcast and subsequent TV series ?
text: Did you know that a gun club once allegedly parked boats in the living room of a plantation house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright ?
text: Did you know that Jane Remover 's school counselor made sure Remover felt fine after a classmate wrote an essay about lyrics from Teen Week ?
text: Did you know that playwright Jason Grote was involved in releasing 10,000 crickets in New York City?
text: Did you know that the author of The Perfect Prince Loves Me, His Rival?! used the concept of leveling up in role-playing video games to show that a character was improving in magic?
text: Did you know that the two women athletes Liechtenstein sent to the 1976 Summer Olympics were twins?
text: Did you know that a 2023 coal mine workers' union election in Yellandu had a turnout of 98 percent?
text: Did you know that William Arthur Ganfield often wore a red tie when Carroll College was running a deficit and a black tie when it was running a surplus?
text: Did you know that Proceratosaurus is one of the oldest tyrannosaurs ?
text: Did you know that researcher Daniel Kokotajlo predicts that AI will be better than humans at "everything" by the end of 2027?
text: Did you know that writer Jilly Cooper named a goat in her novel Jump! after a critic who revealed spoilers for an earlier work?
text: Did you know that the theatre which premiered a play about sex offenders had to hire additional security for its run?
text: Did you know that visitors from various countries come to a temple to see a wild Chinese monkey named Xing Xing ?
text: Did you know that Fatima Hassouna was killed shortly after a documentary about her was announced for the 2025 Cannes Film Festival ?
text: Did you know that at a Destroy Lonely concert promoting an edition of his debut album , some fans entered his car?
text: Did you know that Carl Jorgensen and Gust Zarnas were the first NFL players from Denmark and Greece?
text: Did you know that in 1917 more than 8,000 African Americans protested lynchings by marching down New York City's Fifth Avenue in silence, accompanied only by the sound of muffled drums ?
text: Did you know that a Sicilian soldier killed his own family during an Ottoman attack on Gozo in 1551, to prevent them from being enslaved?
text: Did you know that Costa Rica's most famous bull killed two men and loved mangos?
text: Did you know that the Knox Mountain Hillclimb is considered very challenging due to every corner being off camber ?
text: Did you know that the works of Yaelokre have been compared to The Lord of the Rings , Gorillaz , and the illustrations of Where the Wild Things Are ?
text: Did you know that Camp Growden was envisioned to become a winter sports complex with toboggan runs?
text: Did you know that Paddy Higson was known as the "mother of Scottish film"?
text: Did you know that the robotic costumes used in the Doctor Who episode " The Robot Revolution " were 3D printed in thirty-four different pieces before being assembled?
text: Did you know that Google searches for the word "fortnight" in the US increased by 868% on the release day of the song " Fortnight " by Taylor Swift ?
text: Did you know that the Green Bay Packers signed Tom Birney as their new kicker in 1979, even though he had not kicked a field goal in more than five years?
text: Did you know that a 2015 issue of the Strawberry Newspaper features Hello Kitty discussing military conflicts in Afghanistan, Somalia, and Ukraine?
text: Did you know that Beyoncé 's " Formation " video topped Rolling Stone 's list of the "100 Greatest Music Videos of All Time" in 2021?
text: Did you know that Jim Coffeen was the one of the first two quarterbacks for the Green Bay Packers , then served as the team's first public address announcer ?
text: Did you know that Score! by Jilly Cooper was criticised for its treatment of sexual violence?
text: Did you know that the court-appointed receiver for a California TV station noted that the business "at least equal[ed] the most poorly managed companies I've seen"?
text: Did you know that stage director Tina Packer has hired Black and Asian actors in traditionally White Shakespearean roles?
text: Did you know that kākā birds deeply scar Nothofagus menziesii trees while searching for the larvae of the pūriri moth ?
text: Did you know that priests were secretly buried at St Catherine's Chapel, Lydiate , after it fell into ruin?
text: Did you know that Hamengkubuwono III was appointed crown prince of Yogyakarta while his father was also still crown prince?
text: Did you know that Alamat 's " Maharani " made them the first Pinoy pop boy band to enter the Billboard Philippines Hot 100 ?
text: Did you know that Native American Legends of the Great Lakes and the Mississippi Valley was compiled over concerns that the stories would be lost?
text: Did you know that swimmer Anja Margetić refused to participate at the Mediterranean Games after learning she would not be able to compete under the flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina?
text: Did you know that an Ohio TV station broadcast Little League baseball from a ballpark on the station grounds, known as "Telecast Field"?
text: Did you know that cinematographer Jason Kwan , a frequent collaborator with Pang Ho-cheung , made his directorial debut by adapting a novella written by Pang?
text: Did you know that Ireland won the mixed 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2024 European Athletics Championships , receiving their first European gold medal in athletics since 1998?
text: Did you know that the first work of fan fiction featuring a romantic relationship between the Winchester brothers in Supernatural was published one day after the first episode aired?
text: Did you know that The World's Biggest Gang Bang III was so popular that it crashed the server?
text: Did you know that Bosnian sitting volleyball players Sabahudin Delalić , Ismet Godinjak , Adnan Manko , Asim Medić , and Dževad Hamzić have won medals at every Paralympics this century?
text: Did you know that mountain lions in the Santa Monica Mountains of Los Angeles are one of only two examples of wild big cats living in a megacity ?
text: Did you know that Nigerian academic James Nwoye Adichie was kidnapped in 2015?
text: Did you know that around 80 percent of foreign tourists to the Indonesian province of Lampung in 2019 went to the town of Krui ?
text: Did you know that inmates from New York state prisons can be involuntarily committed at the Central New York Psychiatric Center ?
text: Did you know that the Marshal of France surrendered to the Black Prince after his keep was set on fire ?
text: Did you know that Rachel Chinouriri has dreamed of having a Little House with a partner since she was a child?
text: Did you know that Jilly Cooper described her bonkbuster Appassionata as her "sex and Chopin " novel?
text: Did you know that after Joe Matesic was revealed to have played at Arizona State under his brother's name, the football coach resigned and the school was nearly expelled from the Border Conference ?
text: Did you know that Herbert Jacobs and his wife paid off the architect's fee for their house by charging visitors admission?
text: Did you know that weightlifter Mehmed Skender was manning a machine gun when asked to join Bosnia and Herzegovina's first Olympic team?
text: Did you know that around 400 people tried to flee from Francoist Spain to Andorra through Juberri in 1937?
text: Did you know that Samir Flores Soberanes was killed the day after he challenged the accuracy of information about a Mexican federal project?
text: Did you know that Gustavo Santaolalla travelled from northern to southern Argentina in four years to experience folk music from the country's past?
text: Did you know that although Australia and New Zealand competed at the 2017 Asian Winter Games , they were ineligible to win medals ?
text: Did you know that Thelma Adams protested milk quotas in the United Kingdom by sitting in a bathtub of milk, while dressed as Cleopatra?
text: Did you know that Japanese electronic musician Camellia began producing music at the age of ten using his mother's computer?
text: Did you know that a man is transformed into a woman for seven years in the medieval tale of The Abbot of Drimnagh , an uncommon example of gender-shifting in European folktales?
text: Did you know that UCLA Bruins player Tyler Bilodeau cited his mother, who played in the WNBA , as "the reason I play basketball"?
text: Did you know that the International Olympic Committee rejected recognition of the Marshall Islands National Olympic Committee as the nation's citizens hold dual citizenship ?
text: Did you know that actress Edna May Sperl 's fiancé was arrested on the day of her wedding by a federal marshal because her fiancé's father opposed the marriage?
text: Did you know that the Spanish anarchist Agustín Remiro worked as a foreign agent for MI6 ?
text: Did you know that the FMV game Contradiction was made on such a low budget that its creator learned how to code instead of hiring a programmer?
text: Did you know that American-born Freddie Lish called playing for the Thai national basketball team , "my dream ever since I found out my mom was born in Thailand"?
text: Did you know that Pakistani prime minister Mohammad Ali Bogra opposed the 1955 election to protect his political position?
text: Did you know that nine days after his heart transplant , J. C. Walter Jr. merged his company Houston Oil & Minerals with Tenneco , then retired to his ranch and shortly after founded Walter Oil & Gas?
text: Did you know that during his final known voyage, Lope Martín overthrew two captains before being marooned on Ujelang Atoll ?
text: Did you know that a Japanese governor wore a pregnancy simulation suit to encourage men to help out their wives at home?
text: Did you know that the shooting of Eileen Quinn was referenced in the poetry of W. B. Yeats ?
text: Did you know that Victor L. King employed only black people from the South in 1917 at his new chemical plant in New Jersey to "prevent the entrance into the organization of any enemy aliens" during World War I ?
text: Did you know that Cory Booker delivered the longest recorded individual speech in United States Senate history while protesting the second presidency of Donald Trump ?
text: Did you know that a North Carolina TV station was originally named after its attorney?
text: Did you know that the anti-Francoist guerrilla Marcelino Massana pranked the Civil Guard captain who was trying to kill him by paying for his coffee?
text: Did you know that in college, field hockey player Maxine Fluharty was coached by a former national teammate of her mother?
text: Did you know that the filming sets of A New Old Play were visibly fake, with shaking white fabrics and plastic bags used to mimic turbulent waves?
text: Did you know that Laurie Schipper , who was inducted into the Iowa Women's Hall of Fame in 2022, testified to support a woman who murdered her abusive husband?
text: Did you know that Sobrevivendo no Inferno by Racionais MC's , which critiques police violence and systemic racism in Brazil, was required reading for a university entrance examination ?
text: Did you know that lawyer Jefferson Fisher went viral after sharing short videos providing  practical communication tips recorded in his parked pickup truck in Silsbee, Texas ?
text: Did you know that a Wisconsin TV station claimed to have the only revolving stage in a TV studio east of California when it went on the air in 1953?
text: Did you know that Jatin Chakraborty was sued by pop singer Usha Uthup after Chakraborty labelled her shows as "decadent"?
text: Did you know that a special election in February 1963 put the first Republican in four decades into the Mississippi Legislature ?
text: Did you know that a Choquei Instagram post claiming that Lula had won the 2022 Brazilian election received more than 1.3 million likes before the official result was announced?
text: Did you know that Gannon University's original American football program lasted only two years due to fan "apathy", despite going undefeated and holding scoreless six of eight opponents in its first year?
text: Did you know that the hedonistic pursuit of pleasure may itself prevent pleasure?
text: Did you know that the arsonist who burned down a golden Buddhist temple secretly removed one nail, then reinserted it, then removed it again?
text: Did you know that carrot recorders, butternut squash trombones, and aubergine castanets are all instruments in the London Vegetable Orchestra ?
text: Did you know that the only surviving autograph pages of one of Bach's chorale cantatas ended up in three libraries on two continents?
text: Did you know that Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia was deported to El Salvador in March 2025 due to an "administrative error" by the U.S. government?
text: Did you know that the Oregon Garden obtained the Gordon House because of a misunderstanding?
text: Did you know that a statue of German-born missionary Johann Gottlieb Schwarz was commissioned by Prabowo Subianto , later president of Indonesia?
text: Did you know that the murder of Patricia Jeschke resulted in the longest prison tenure for a wrongfully convicted American woman?
text: Did you know that Belize's Toledo Progressive Party was accused of being funded by the government of Guatemala?
text: Did you know that swimmer Yuri Hosei was studying at a restaurant when she learned that she had qualified to represent Palau at the 2024 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that instead of drinking liquor with prospective clients, Arthur Harrison Motley sent them notes written in red pencil crayon, 10,000 times a year?
text: Did you know that a Nevada radio station once had a show that played Tongan music?
text: Did you know that the seat of Muchipara in the 1952 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election was won by just nine votes?
text: Did you know that queen parasitic ants can lay their own eggs inside of a host's colony?
text: Did you know that Jim Aldred , with nothing to do after the beach season ended, developed ice hockey in Portugal?
text: Did you know that the Bernard Schwartz House was built after Schwartz saw a plan by Frank Lloyd Wright in Life magazine?
text: Did you know that Peter Sprenger was the first Liechtensteiner to summit Mount Everest ?
text: Did you know that the 2nd-century BC Aramaic inscription of Yanouh is the first attested use of Aramaic as a public language in Mount Lebanon ?
text: Did you know that an Italian adage says that a fat pope follows a thin one ?
text: Did you know that according to researcher Treena Clark, indigenous drag performance can be seen as a strategy for cultural survival and resistance?
text: Did you know that Venezuelan-American socialite Reinaldo Herrera 's extensive connections led to Vanity Fair employing him to work as a fixer ?
text: Did you know that in North America, Europe and New Zealand, research funding is sometimes distributed by lottery ?
text: Did you know that Dennis Walker acquired millions of dollars' worth of sports memorabilia before being investigated for racketeering and selling unregistered certificates of deposit by the Oregon Attorney General ?
text: Did you know that people caught in the 2025 Belgrade stampede experienced a frightening aural sensation, leading to an accusation that the government used a sonic weapon against them?
text: Did you know that Nahuel Carabaña turned around mid-race at the 2022 European Athletics Championships to help an injured competitor?
text: Did you know that one reviewer described Polo by Jilly Cooper as a "frothy brew of sex, class and jodhpurs"?
text: Did you know that Playboi Carti 's song titled " 2024 " was first teased in 2023 and later officially released in 2025?
text: Did you know that Avi Yemini is one of seventeen children who were raised in an ultra-Orthodox Chabad family?
text: Did you know that Home of a Rebel Sharpshooter was staged by moving a corpse?
text: Did you know that Soemartini was appointed as the chief of the National Archives of Indonesia after working in the agency for a year?
text: Did you know that just two weeks after a Florida TV station began using a news helicopter, it crashed, killing two of three occupants?
text: Did you know that Wen Chia-ling , despite her family's initial opposition to her becoming an archer , helped Taiwan's team achieve its best-ever finish at the 2000 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that although the philosophical study of well-being dates back millennia, empirical research has intensified since the second half of the 20th century?
text: Did you know that the 1982 film The Second November was filmed in colour , but shown in black-and-white until 2012?
text: Did you know that a reviewer praised At Hope's Ravine by saying that singer Pat Hynes sounds "like he's being unbearably tortured whilst holding a pneumatic drill"?
text: Did you know that Carlos Baxter was erroneously given 130 votes meant for his brother during the 1860 U.S. House of Representatives election ?
text: Did you know that during the Spanish Civil War , when the government fled the coming siege of Madrid , the Rosal Column detained several government ministers and accused them of cowardice ?
text: Did you know that Almeda Lambert provided detailed instructions for creating homemade meat substitutes, such as "Nutora" and "Nutmeato"?
text: Did you know that Tao Asian Bistro was used by The New York Times to test new conversation-boosting features in Apple's AirPods Pro ?
text: Did you know that runner Mirsada Burić survived a concentration camp, an attempted rape, and snipers' bullets before she competed at the 1992 Olympics?
text: Did you know that a former U.S. president helped dedicate the United Engineering Center , and a future U.S. president demolished it?
text: Did you know that former governor of Jakarta Sutiyoso has a museum dedicated to himself in his backyard?
text: Did you know that the Vatican's website was first made available in Latin under Pope Benedict XVI ?
text: Did you know that Blue Origin NS-31 recently became the first all-female spaceflight in 62 years?
text: Did you know that a disused industrial pier was incorporated into a city park ?
text: Did you know that a cultivar of Aquilegia flabellata has been called "as beautiful as a columbine needs to be"?
text: Did you know that George R. Dale was sent to prison by a judge whom he accused of being in the Ku Klux Klan ?
text: Did you know that the sled dog race Ivakkak features two mushers riding on the dog sled?
text: Did you know that Major League Baseball 's first Pride Night came about after a lesbian couple were removed from a Los Angeles Dodgers game for kissing?
text: Did you know that people in parts of India, North America, and Africa marry tree trunks ?
text: Did you know that the lifeboat Sir William Hillary was sent to Dover in case of aircraft crashes, but did not save anyone from an aircraft in ten years' service with the Royal National Lifeboat Institution ?
text: Did you know that Martha Burgess 's 1993 sculpture of two female World War II personnel kissing was inspired by the photograph V-J Day in Times Square ?
text: Did you know that on the first day of the 1995 São Tomé and Príncipe coup d'état , President Miguel Trovoada emerged from hiding in his pajamas and nightgown?
text: Did you know that Marcia Coyle , who covers the U.S. Supreme Court for PBS News Hour , got her start in journalism by writing obituaries?
text: Did you know that Dutch East India Company officials considered the inhabitants of the Bungku Kingdom to be "the fiercest of all Malukan peoples "?
text: Did you know that Ardo Hansson was appointed to the committee overseeing the transition from the Soviet ruble to the Estonian kroon as a replacement for someone who fell ill?
text: Did you know that Keurbos 's placement within arthropods is uncertain, as its two surviving fossils lack limbs?
text: Did you know that Green Thumb Industries produces cannabis on lands of a former prison ?
text: Did you know that a tornado estimated to be one of the strongest on record planted maize crops in Greenfield, Iowa?
text: Did you know that four generations of the British royal family had a summer barbecue at Inchnabobart ?
text: Did you know that the midnight shadow docket order in Tandon v. Newsom was called the most important religious free exercise decision in 30 years?
text: Did you know that William Jenkins Wilcox Jr. was given a Citizen Archivist award at a symposium titled "Secret City in the Tennessee Hills: From Dogpatch to Nuclear Power"?
text: Did you know that only Greenland Dogs may race in Avannaata Qimussersua ?
text: Did you know that Bangladeshi singer Abanti Sithi has used plastic cups, foil paper and metal coins as musical instruments?
text: Did you know that Marguerite McDonald performed the world's first laser correction surgery on the normal eye of a living human patient?
text: Did you know that Donald Trump would " much prefer not having a picture than having this one "?
text: Did you know that before becoming an actor, Jeremy Allen White trained in ballet, jazz, and tap dancing?
text: Did you know that Laurence Sterne's journal of love letters reverses the found-manuscript literary device by claiming that his real diary is fictional?
text: Did you know that Katsumaro Akamatsu , a founding member of the Japanese Communist Party , supported the expulsion of communists from the Japanese Federation of Labour ?
text: Did you know that Eleanor Island was first designated as a Migratory Bird Sanctuary and later as a National Wildlife Area to give it a stronger protection status?
text: Did you know that Vermont politician William Baxter personally funded the construction of an Orleans County school, provided that the second floor was used for religious purposes?
text: Did you know that a fictional character from Peg O' My Heart complained about his insomnia with netizens on Threads ?
text: Did you know that a candidate in the 1968 United States House of Representatives election in Delaware took his dog on the campaign trail?
text: Did you know that an elderly Brazilian woman helped to arrest dozens of drug traffickers and corrupt police officers?
text: Did you know that ducks, an owl, a horse and a baby were utilized for the opening scene of a Doctor Who episode ?
text: Did you know that despite winning Australia's top literary prize, The Hand That Signed the Paper has since been labelled a hoax?
text: Did you know that an Oregon TV station planned to be off the air for two to four weeks to complete a move—but did not fully return to air for nearly two years?
text: Did you know that the Academy of Music was the name of three different theaters located on the same property on the Atlantic City Boardwalk which were all destroyed by fires?
text: Did you know that Taylor Swift did not contact the family of actress Clara Bow before releasing a song about her ?
text: Did you know that Jeremiah Chamberlain was murdered outside of his home by a local landowner?
text: Did you know that a whistled language created for a video game was reused in an episode of The Last of Us ?
text: Did you know that the Bishop of Chiclayo Edinson Edgardo Farfán Córdova described his predecessor Pope Leo XIV as smelling like sheep?
text: Did you know that Jeff Baena accidentally earned a minor in medieval studies at film school?
text: 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?
text: Did you know that the Lutterodts were pioneers of African photography?
text: Did you know that the filmmakers of Cyborgs wrote dialogue in both Russian and Ukrainian to show the diversity of the eponymous soldiers who defended Donetsk Airport in late 2014?
text: Did you know that the killer of Anne Castle and William Bryan was convicted nearly 30 years after the murders?
text: Did you know that television producer Paul Graham insisted on "a big game feel" for the sportscast he considered his "baby"?
text: Did you know that the author of Tackle! found its sex scenes difficult to write because of her age?
text: 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?
text: Did you know that the Savannah River Site was where the neutrino was discovered?
text: Did you know that one of the earliest Ukrainian science fiction novels, written in 1918 by Mykola Chaikovsky , features solar power and a radiotelephone ?
text: Did you know that the Philadelphia School of Anatomy began as a private dissection room?
text: Did you know that having been elected to Indonesia's House of Representatives five times, Muhidin Mohamad Said is its longest-serving incumbent member?
text: Did you know that Horvat Mazad 's walls, which also functioned as storage rooms, were likely a revival of centuries-old military architecture?
text: Did you know that despite never having visited China, cyclist Howard Wing competed for it at the 1936 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that a leader of a terrorist group in the Russian Empire was revealed in 1908 to have been a police agent for 15 years?
text: Did you know that Ben Lashes is a talent manager for cat memes?
text: Did you know that L. Whitney Watkins was given the Bull Moose Party 's nomination in a 1912 election despite his own opposition?
text: Did you know that a 1915 film about Florence Nightingale was criticised for not mentioning her pet parrot?
text: Did you know that the statue Receiver was repainted in 2013 to match the likeness of NFL player Donald Driver after his retirement?
text: Did you know that actress Jennifer Metcalfe used the experience of her father's cancer in Episode 6465 of the British soap opera Hollyoaks ?
text: Did you know that economist Roger A. Freeman questioned the value of college and favored limiting access to it to a select few?
text: Did you know that the children's novel Queenie portrays the early years of the NHS in England?
text: 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 ?
text: Did you know that Class War was held responsible for the poll tax riots ?
text: Did you know that "whatever the Glossa does not recognize, the court does not recognize"?
text: 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 ?
text: Did you know that Mighty Doom features a cartoonish aesthetic that contrasts with the dark, gritty tone of the mainline Doom series ?
text: Did you know that sprinter Abdul Wahab Zahiri made his international debut in the same year that he competed at the Olympics?
text: Did you know that the 14th-century builder of Gaza's Zofor Domri Mosque was buried in the mosque?
text: Did you know that actor Ben Ahlers learned watchmaking from the Horological Society of New York for his role in The Gilded Age ?
text: Did you know that due to difficulty reading the biography Edison , one reviewer read it backwards?
text: Did you know that Horace Niall served as magistrate, defence lawyer, executioner, and coroner – for the same group of men?
text: Did you know that NASA promoted the "faster, better, cheaper" approach to spacecraft missions in the 1990s?
text: Did you know that Black model Debra Shaw walked the runway in Bellmer La Poupée wearing a metal frame that generated controversy over a perceived reference to slavery?
text: Did you know that a spokesman for the Kaw Nation credited Robert L. Rankin with single-handedly preserving their language?
text: Did you know that multiple members of various royal families have competed in the Olympics?
text: Did you know that The Westerlies folded a piece of tin foil over the bell of a trombone to make it hiss?
text: 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?
text: 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 ?
text: Did you know that one issue facing tsunami sirens in New Zealand has been a youth subculture that steals sirens to compete for the loudest and clearest sound?
text: Did you know that an actress who appeared in the 1915 film A Welsh Singer did not act in a film again until 1948?
text: Did you know that Irve Tunick said he wrote about 700 to 800 scripts in his first 15 years of writing radio scripts?
text: Did you know that Vatican Cycling is the first Vatican sports governing body to be recognized by a world governing body?
text: Did you know that a newspaper columnist described an Illinois TV station as one that would "illustrate a flood by showing its audience a hand-drawn picture of a lake in the corner of the screen"?
text: 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?
text: Did you know that modernist architect Paul Rudolph was said to have run out of money three times while designing the Modulightor Building ?
text: Did you know that Sayuti Abubakar was nominated to become the vice governor of Aceh by an imprisoned former governor ?
text: Did you know that Google Street View in Antarctica started as a "challenge"?
text: Did you know that singer Karin Ann made headlines after performing live on Polish state television wrapped in a rainbow flag?
text: Did you know that voters approved a 600-percent increase in property taxes to fund programs at Valley Medical Center ?
text: 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?
text: Did you know that the Dutch government considered converting the incomplete Java -class cruisers into English Channel ferries?
text: Did you know that Jack Reardon received a heart transplant while serving as the mayor of Kansas City ?
text: Did you know that the symbol for equality in mathematics was not used for 61 years after its introduction, and was later popularized by Isaac Newton?
text: Did you know that stand-up comedian Dustin Nickerson has said that his children have veto power over any jokes he might tell about them?
text: 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 "?
text: Did you know that the manga Doing Time is based on the author's experiences while incarcerated for three years in a Japanese prison?
text: Did you know that Minnesota Pioneer editor James M. Goodhue called a judge "absentee", after which the judge's brother stabbed him?
text: Did you know that the average transit time of water through the Wharepapa Arthur Marble Aquifer is eight years?
text: Did you know that Leon Hatziioannou played for two different Canadian football teams within 48 hours?
text: Did you know that Heimito von Doderer 's novel The Strudlhof Steps was not allowed to be published until the author had undergone denazification ?
text: Did you know that Lotus L. Kang "tans" sheets of photographic film before using them in her art?
text: Did you know that a Doctor Who episode was still in post-production in the month before it aired?
text: Did you know that artist Samantha Nye unsuccessfully auditioned for The All-New Mickey Mouse Club by performing a Rick Astley song?
text: 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 ?
text: Did you know that a 19th-century water-pumping station is now a wedding venue?
text: Did you know that Washington University in St. Louis holds one of the few surviving printed broadsides of the United States Declaration of Independence ?
text: Did you know that Jerzy Broszkiewicz , a louse-feeder during World War II, later became a writer of youth literature and drama?
text: 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?
text: 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?
text: Did you know that Bukit Brown Cemetery is believed to be the largest Chinese cemetery outside of China, with over 100,000 burials?
text: Did you know that an eight-week UK number-one single co-written by Audrey Hobert has a sexually explicit version?
text: Did you know that the lead actress of The Grub-Stake brought her personal menagerie—which included bears and wolves—to the set for use as extras?
text: Did you know that James Patrick Shea thought that an invitation to meet with Pope Benedict XVI at the White House was a hoax?
text: 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 ?
text: Did you know that all three podium finishers at the 2024 Tour de France were members of cycling's Big Four ?
text: Did you know that the directors of Final Destination Bloodlines "debated the ethics" of a character being killed by an MRI machine?
text: Did you know that one newspaper described the mansions of Riverside Drive as "glitter[ing] like a wedding cake"?
text: Did you know that Galidor has been described as Lego's biggest failure?
text: Did you know that the first review of Ellen, Countess of Castle Howel complained that its marriage plot focused too much on love?
text: Did you know that the Brazilian government advocated the use of COVID kits , which contained a drug used to treat head lice?
text: Did you know that Brave Bunnies was among the children's series streamed ad-free on Sunflower TV for Ukrainian refugees?
text: Did you know that it took more than two years after the Romans invaded Africa in 204 BC for them to completely defeat the Carthaginians?
text: 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?
text: Did you know that AiScReam's recent debut song " Ai Scream! " went viral on social media?
text: Did you know that Laura LeRoy Travis was the first woman at the University of Delaware to coach a men's sports team?
text: Did you know that the screenplay for Smashing Frank was developed from an assignment in a filmmaking course?
text: Did you know that the iconic 1937 photograph At the Time of the Louisville Flood identifiably depicts neither Louisville nor the flood?
text: Did you know that the book Animals in War inspired the campaign that led to the Animals in War Memorial ?
text: Did you know that Chinese actress Huang Wei portrayed a single historical figure in numerous Chinese films and dramas for more than 20 years?
text: 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 ?
text: Did you know that Janet Evans was banned from Coldbath Fields Prison , where her husband was imprisoned, for inciting a riot at the gates?
text: Did you know that even before its first broadcast, a Florida TV station was the subject of a U.S. Supreme Court case and a protest by a competitor over its antenna?
text: 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 ?
text: Did you know that German athlete Leander Wiegand received a scholarship to play American football at an American college that had never seen him play?
text: Did you know that a judge on DVD Verdict found Death Race 2 guilty of "running on empty"?
text: 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 ?
text: Did you know that James Joyce 's "untranslatable" novel Ulysses was translated into at least 43 languages ?
text: Did you know that in 2023, Chinese Coast Guardsman Wang Xiaolong was officially declared a Martyr ?
text: Did you know that the memoir of Saudi poet Huda al-Daghfaq has been described as an expression of her "existential battle"?
text: 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 ?
text: Did you know that Jakarta deputy governor Eddie Marzuki Nalapraya used to babysit future dangdut musician Rhoma Irama ?
text: Did you know that a partly AI-generated 2022 issue of Civilization was designed to be horrible and unlikable?
text: Did you know that a nude painting of a Mexican revolutionary is housed at the Museum of Forbidden Art in Spain?
text: Did you know that a lawsuit against the Early Winters Ski Resort reached the United States Supreme Court?
text: Did you know that the legendary Areindama spear was said to make sour limes taste sweet when struck with it?
text: Did you know that 291 people were killed in the sinking of the Hirano Maru by a German submarine less than six weeks before the end of the First World War?
text: Did you know that American football player David Viaene could bench press over 500 pounds (230 kg) in college?
text: Did you know that the 2024 Seattle International Film Festival sold 18,000 pounds (8,200 kg) of popcorn?
text: 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 ?
text: Did you know that author Paul Corey built a door featured in Popular Science that both people and pets could open?
text: Did you know that Lenny Brown almost left his college basketball team after two games, but stayed to become one of its all-time leading scorers?
text: Did you know that Ananth Subramaniam came up with Bleat! after thinking of a pregnant goat?
text: 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?
text: Did you know that in his first year as an NBA G League head coach, Scott King was named its coach of the year?
text: Did you know that TJ Monterde recorded his song " Puhon " under a blanket in his bedroom?
text: Did you know that a California TV station lost the rights to air Sacramento Kings basketball for declining to share revenue from pre-game and post-game shows?
text: Did you know that while making Caressing My Hibernating Bear , the creator said a real bear appeared in the neighborhood?
text: Did you know that the neo-Nazi and Ku Klux Klan Grand Dragon Dan Burros killed himself when The New York Times revealed that he was Jewish?
text: Did you know that Davy Russell won a 2025 Scottish election despite being dubbed the "invisible man" by an opponent?
text: Did you know that one historian considered the anachronisms of the historical novel The Rival Chiefs to be unproblematic because readers wanted "not accuracy but thrill"?
text: Did you know that the developers of Ducks Ahoy! deliberately omitted violence from the game?
text: Did you know that when being visited by an NFL scout, college football player Boyd Jones was acting as a coach since the normal coach was absent?
text: Did you know that when a fan asked the developers of Door Kickers 2: Task Force North to "release the damn game", they did?
text: Did you know that Indonesian legislator Alifuddin pushed for the passage of an anti-LGBT "Family Resilience" law in response to the publicization of an incest-fantasy Facebook group?
text: Did you know that Racing Mount Pleasant sometimes asks concert audiences to sit instead of stand?
text: Did you know that the roar of the Yeti from Doctor Who was made by slowing down the sound of a flushing toilet?
text: Did you know that the announcement of Crash Team Rumble at The Game Awards 2022 was teased on a receipt attached to a pizza box?
text: Did you know that future world and Olympic champion fencer Nikolay Alyokhin was once slapped by a coach and told "you're not talented"?
text: Did you know that white supremacist Ralph Perry Forbes sued the devil?
text: Did you know that Nazaruddin Dek Gam bought the football club Persiraja after ten of the wealthiest men in Aceh declined the offer?
text: Did you know that former archbishop Philip Hannan became a world-traveling reporter for the New Orleans TV station founded by his archdiocese?
text: Did you know that the book Science Without Numbers argues that numbers are just useful fictions?
text: Did you know that Lisa McCorkell co-authored the first major study of long COVID while battling the condition herself?
text: Did you know that some researchers have studied Tetris as a potential form of psychological treatment?
text: Did you know that former University of Indonesia dean Asri Rasad used to work as a liaison officer for the Indonesian Army to the Allied Forces headquarters?
text: 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?
text: Did you know that Warren Kilbourne led a strike against a professional football team because he was not paid for participation in a charity game?
text: Did you know that a train station in Singapore features an artwork with different types of chairs in a family tree?
text: Did you know that the choice between The Rector of Justin and Herzog for the 1965 National Book Award for Fiction was described as "a conflict of philosophies" about life itself?
text: Did you know that Charlie Suff is the third actor to portray Johnny Carter on the soap opera EastEnders ?
text: Did you know that the "monstrous" behavior of landlord Han Kik Ko led to a peasant rebellion , in which he was killed?
text: 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?
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text: Did you know that texting someone a poop emoji in Japan is a way to wish them good luck?
text: 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 ?
text: Did you know that an anime programming block that originally aired on the American television channel TechTV was the inspiration for the co-founder of a Japanese animation studio?
text: Did you know that ratline organizer Ivo Omrčanin once beat a suspected informant with an umbrella?
text: 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 ?
text: Did you know that Lorenzo Pace performed a candlelit flute concerto at the outset of his dissertation defense?
text: Did you know that Queen Afua inspired New York City mayor Eric Adams to become vegan?
text: Did you know that the Fuck Tree has been described as a "physical embodiment of desire"?
text: Did you know that most of the population of Niamey has consisted of first- and second-generation rural migrants since the city was established ?
text: Did you know that Harry Wunsch , despite appearing "short and fat", was a "savage tackler"?
text: Did you know that Black dandyism flourished during and after the Harlem Renaissance as a means of self-expression in the African-American community?
text: Did you know that 17th-century mathematician Carlo Rinaldini studied gall-inducing insects , air convection , and the design of thermometers?
text: Did you know that the title of Elegies comes from a suite of poems that its director read during the film's pre-production?
text: 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?
text: Did you know that Sculpture Space lets artists create large-scale works in a former metalworking shop?
text: Did you know that Olympic historians were unconvinced by speculation that an unknown boy coxswain grew up to be a renowned Georgian mathematician ?
text: Did you know that a legislator , a civil servant , and a soldier led the campaign for a new district on Sumba Island ?
text: Did you know that the cover for Brazilian supergroup Tribalistas' debut album used chocolate syrup to illustrate the trio?
text: Did you know that Jeremy Crawshaw was the only punter selected in the 2025 NFL draft ?
text: Did you know that HMS Sheffield earned twelve battle honours during World War II?
text: Did you know that a South African library was named after American economist Elizabeth Ellis Hoyt in recognition of her work in Africa?
text: Did you know that the Five Domains model seeks to ensure that animals have a "life worth living"?
text: Did you know that Taylor Swift compared the metaphors in her song " ...Ready for It? " to those in the novel Crime and Punishment ?
text: Did you know that Ralph Riggs made his professional stage debut when he was a baby?
text: Did you know that Wang Yungui lifted her family out of poverty, then helped hundreds of other people in her home village to do likewise?
text: 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?
text: Did you know that Regina George was once voted the "meanest high school film character of all time"?
text: Did you know that The Guardian recommended Buried Alive! as a book to help children make friends?
text: Did you know that John Lynch was at one point the only honors linguistics student at the University of Sydney?
text: Did you know that Pope John Paul I broke with tradition by declining to be crowned with a tiara at his inauguration ?
text: Did you know that Robin Adair Harvey reached 17 state championships in 24 years as a high school field hockey coach?
text: Did you know that British troops during the sack of Yogyakarta looted all the court archives and manuscripts except for a single Quran?
text: Did you know that logicians using classical rules of inference can deduce any arbitrary statement from a contradiction ?
text: Did you know that Ratwita Gandasoebrata pioneered the development of clinical pathology in Indonesia?
text: Did you know that the producer of África Brasil had to take a specialized course in the United States to learn how to record the unusual setup of musicians?
text: Did you know that Arizona State athletic director Graham Rossini got his start as a student assistant, with duties including washing baseball uniforms?
text: Did you know that the government's Visit Myanmar Year initiative caused Aung San Suu Kyi to encourage a tourism boycott?
text: 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"?
text: Did you know that Nourished by Time recorded Erotic Probiotic 2 while ill with COVID-19 ?
text: Did you know that a Mexican restaurant with just four communal tables, no set menu, no reservations, and cash-only payments was awarded a Michelin star?
text: Did you know that NFL player Dustin McDonald was later a labor leader who led strikes and was jailed for fighting the police?
text: Did you know that the death of a pregnant woman in a video game was written to be even darker on television ?
text: Did you know that Joe Eddins helped conservative Oklahoma enact universal preschool ?
text: Did you know that Olive Garden and Chili's got in a ship war over Destiel ?
text: Did you know that William F. J. Ryan designed more than 1,000 coats of arms for bishops, dioceses, and institutions?
text: Did you know that the cover art for Jane Remover's debut album is a screenshot taken from Google Street View?
text: Did you know that the " Tiger-Rider " is said to have miraculously flooded his village with alcohol?
text: Did you know that " Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na) " contains 261 "Na"s in total?
text: Did you know that footballer Franco Mastantuono played youth tennis on a national-level?
text: Did you know that Franklin Sonn was the first black South African ambassador to the United States?
text: Did you know that the deportation of Soviet Germans was one of the largest ethnic-cleansing operations of the 20th century?
text: Did you know that John Linton Chapman , despite his artistic talent, sold potboilers and his relatives' valuable paintings to make a living?
text: 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 ?
text: Did you know that Rued Langgaard said that his Symphony No. 6 depicts the struggle between Jesus and "spiritual wickedness in high places"?
text: Did you know that the construction of the Colosseum was funded by spoils from the First Jewish–Roman War ?
text: Did you know that " The Interstellar Song Contest " featured the return of a Doctor Who character last seen more than 30 years earlier?
text: Did you know that a diner who was denied a table caused Máximo Bistrot to temporarily close by raising concerns about the reservation system?
text: Did you know that baseball player Ed Stone may have been born on January 2, 1909, or August 21, 22, or 23, 1909, or August 21 or August 22, 1910?
text: Did you know that almost no fuel was found at the crash site of a fuel transport aircraft ?
text: Did you know that former ambassador Diennaryati Tjokrosuprihatono used to work as a kindergarten teacher?
text: Did you know that the musical duo Food House was named after their frequent use of Uber Eats ?
text: Did you know that Tom Farris thought that he was a jinx for every team for which he played, so he once asked to be traded to an opposing team to make them lose?
text: 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?
text: Did you know that Chris Anderson was one of three members of his family to win a Delaware state golf championship?
text: Did you know that a horse in an episode of The Last of Us previously appeared in The 100 and Jurassic World Dominion ?
text: Did you know that Everyone Hates Elon invited members of the public to destroy a Tesla Model S to raise money for food banks?
text: Did you know that the 2004–2005 trial of the Chohan family murders was the longest in the history of the London Metropolitan Police ?
text: Did you know that the meningitis storyline in the romance novel Harriet was inspired by the illness of the author's son?
text: Did you know that the 2023 EFL League Two play-off final saw a father–son duo on opposing coaching sides?
text: Did you know that a bird with huge feet once walked by a river near Denali ?
text: Did you know that the box of Burgle Bros 2 transforms into a two-layer game board?
text: Did you know that Sydney Agudong and her sister were the final two candidates for a role in Lilo & Stitch ?
text: Did you know that Charles Moses competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics , despite previously fabricating claims of his Olympic participation?
text: Did you know that the 1956 album Lonnie Donegan Showcase entered both the UK albums chart and the UK singles chart ?
text: Did you know that every team on which Bob Kercher played for seven years went undefeated?
text: Did you know that to comply with broadcasting regulations , some American TV stations claimed that tabloid shows and a Christmas special were educational?
text: Did you know that film director James Ashcroft enjoys "playing in the dark"?
text: Did you know that a 1994 paper tried to claim ancient Babylonian astronomy as a new discovery in diabetes care?
text: Did you know that FlexiRide bus services have no fixed route, operating only when passengers book a trip?
text: Did you know that Sri Jumahaliah Hanifa was the first woman to be the dean of the University of Indonesia 's law school?
text: Did you know that two-thirds of the six-week budget allocated to the filming of a Doctor Who episode was used up in only three days?
text: 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 ?
text: Did you know that the then–prime minister of New Zealand said that the greatest impact of the December 2011 Christchurch earthquakes was on mental health?
text: Did you know that sprinter Ng Ka Yee set four Hong Kong records in 1988 ahead of competing in that year's Olympics ?
text: Did you know the 2025 student elections at 15 constituent campuses of Tribhuvan University could not be held due to political conflicts between student organizations?
text: Did you know that Fromage was described as "the cheesiest board game of all time"?
text: Did you know that David Mavrogonato was exempted from a tax on Jews due to his services to Venice in the 1450s?
text: Did you know that The Old Elm was used by the Ottoman Turks to hang captured hajduci ?
text: Did you know that Mohamed Asswai Khalifa was the first Libyan to compete at the Olympics?
text: Did you know that the author of Octavia based one character on a former lover?
text: 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?
text: Did you know that the Roman lawyer Cicero defended Gnaeus Plancius in 54 BCE, but neither the verdict nor exactly what Plancius was accused of have survived?
text: Did you know that Larry Steinbach did not start high school until the age of 22?
text: Did you know that the Scottish invasion of England in 1648 was defeated by an army less than half their size?
text: Did you know that an Iowa TV station paid its employees in two-dollar bills?
text: Did you know that the 1946 Aviators Affair saw more than a dozen Soviet air force commanders and aircraft industry officials purged on Stalin's orders?
text: Did you know that The Naulahka by Rudyard Kipling depicts the barriers Indian women faced in receiving health care, and the efforts of Western women to help them?
text: Did you know that Hasto Wardoyo required his municipal employees to buy at least 10 kg (22 lb) of locally produced rice every month?
text: Did you know that the fourth first lady of Poland manufactured and smuggled nitroglycerin used by the Polish independence movement to attack Russian officials?
text: Did you know that digitally removing a spider bite from an episode of The Last of Us cost thousands of dollars per shot?
text: Did you know that officials of the Worcester Bus Company blamed television for declining ridership?
text: Did you know that Jacques Drollet said that he would have Marlon Brando arrested if Brando ever returned to Tahiti?
text: Did you know that the mortar for St Peter's Cathedral in Malawi was made from soil formed by compacted termite mounds?
text: 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 ?
text: Did you know that Sheldon L. Toomer , tired of the seven-mile trip to the nearest bank, founded a new one?
text: Did you know that the founders of the news website San José Spotlight considered San Jose to be a news desert ?
text: Did you know that Najmul Akhyar worked out of a shipping container for some time after the 2018 Lombok earthquakes ?
text: Did you know that fans chartered yachts to hear " Thunder " for the first time?
text: Did you know that Kent Haruf wrote his final novel in 45 days while dying of a lung condition?
text: Did you know that suggested responses to nihilism include detachment, resignation, defiance, disruption, and the creation of new values?
text: Did you know that Sumahadi , a future Indonesian minister of forestry, was the only person in his cohort to graduate without a thesis?
text: Did you know that Joe Pantoliano thought that he would star in This Is Us , not an episode of The Last of Us ?
text: Did you know that the first UK private toll road in a century operated for 14 weeks in 2014?
text: Did you know that The Dark Domain was said by one critic to have placed its author "within the canon of supernatural greats"?
text: Did you know that Remedios Varo 's only sculpture, Homo rodans , is accompanied by a satirical anthropological manuscript?
text: Did you know that it was feared that Earl Ohlgren had broken his neck during an NFL exhibition game, but he was actually just in shock ?
text: Did you know that Paul Tiulana lost his leg in World War II, and afterwards helped to bring back an Iñupiat dance that had not been fully performed in more than fifty years?
text: Did you know that The Oceanic Languages is so ubiquitous among scholars of the Oceanic languages that it is known simply as "the blue book"?
text: Did you know that Blu Fiefer began incorporating pole dancing into her live performances after she visited a strip club in London?
text: Did you know that, soon after the failure of the first British expedition against Sambas , its commander died of illness?
text: Did you know that Richard L. Morrill , as president of the University of Richmond , was the highest-paid private-school president in Virginia?
text: Did you know that, to research her bonkbuster Wicked! , Jilly Cooper visited more than a dozen schools and taught at one?
text: Did you know that Brian Satterfield worked for United Parcel Service before playing in the NFL?
text: Did you know that My Little Pony fan music has developed its own music subgenres such as "dubtrot" and "ponybeat"?
text: Did you know that the Green Bay Packers have twice achieved team-record 23-point comebacks: once in 1982 , and again in 2013 ?
text: Did you know that Bach's Easter Oratorio has been regarded as a sequel to his St John Passion ?
text: Did you know that Ayman Hassouna led a student expedition to investigate archaeological sites in Gaza?
text: Did you know that the Grand Prix of Finland was held again in 2022 after Russia was banned from hosting international figure skating competitions?
text: Did you know that Annis Lee Wister translated Struwwelpeter from German to English?
text: Did you know that Femke Bol 's time of 49.17 seconds on 2 March 2024 broke her own 400 m short track world record ?
text: Did you know that fighter pilot Luther H. Richmond kept his P-51 Mustang 's shiny, silver, no-camouflage finish to tempt enemies into aerial combat?
text: Did you know that the male pink scaled squid has been observed to mate upside down?
text: Did you know that John C. Raaen Jr. , at age 103, is the last surviving US Army Ranger from the first D-Day assault wave on Omaha Beach ?
text: Did you know that the Donnie Creek fire in 2023 was the largest wildfire in British Columbia 's history?
text: Did you know that Teuku Karimoeddin was arrested by the Imperial Japanese military police for resisting mandatory head shaving and other regulations?
text: Did you know that a dinner between Bill Maher and Donald Trump was satirized in " My Dinner with Adolf "?
text: Did you know that Guyanese trade unionist Philomena Sahoye-Shury was nicknamed "Fireball" due to her "outspoken and forthright stance on the workers' behalf"?
text: Did you know that some Byzantine churches in Philadelphia , modern-day Amman , were repurposed from earlier Roman temples?
text: Did you know that upon being drafted by the NFL's Chicago Bears , Ralph Jarvis wanted to thank the judge who sent him to the reform school where he first played American football?
text: Did you know that some bodies at Chalandriani were buried with "frying pans"?
text: Did you know that marmalade, mashed potato and fish knives were all used in the book Class to identify different British social classes?
text: Did you know that until the 1990s, linguists often confused the Nizaa language with a similarly named local language?
text: Did you know that Julian Yacoub Mourad , an archbishop of the Syriac Catholic Church , escaped from the Islamic State after being held captive for more than four months?
text: Did you know that the role of the British Mobile Defence Corps was to carry out rescue work in the aftermath of a nuclear attack?
text: Did you know that the chairman of the board of a Texas TV station was found to have died from drinking cyanide-laced cola?
text: Did you know that Tyla became the second female African artist to score multiple solo entries on the Billboard Hot 100 with " Push 2 Start "?
text: Did you know that pianist Phyllis Chen started playing the smaller toy piano after both her arms became sore from tendinopathy ?
text: Did you know that Welwitschia mirabilis only ever grows two leaves, which last for the plant's entire life?
text: Did you know that the Soviet Union designated both communist and non-communist states as national democratic states ?
text: Did you know that Ferdinand I of Bulgaria once described historian Dimitar Agura as having "the eyes, gaze and head of a cat"?
text: Did you know that Nathan Crumpton was shirtless while holding the flag of American Samoa at the 2022 Winter Olympics ?
text: Did you know that Masanori Tanimoto was elected as the governor of Ishikawa Prefecture seven times?
text: Did you know that more than 500 American law firms signed an amicus brief opposing their government's actions against law firms in 2025?
text: Did you know that Juan Astorquia was the captain of the Athletic Bilbao team that won the first Spanish Cup in 1903?
text: Did you know that Taylor Swift and Zayn Malik's " I Don't Wanna Live Forever " is the highest-charting Fifty Shades song on the US Billboard Hot 100 ?
text: Did you know that Mike Estep was nicknamed "The Terminator"?
text: Did you know that the first defendants indicted for a crime of apartheid have not yet faced trial?
text: Did you know that the Saxe–Goldstein hypothesis has been used to explain burial practices in Greece, Australia, Madagascar and Peru?
text: Did you know that surveyors in colonial Pennsylvania may have deliberately excluded fertile land from a tract granted to the Okehocking people in 1703?
text: Did you know that the German explorer Gustav Conrau shot himself in 1899 to avoid recapture, according to a later report by his local interpreter?
text: Did you know that a Long Island TV station sued a columnist for satirizing its signal and programming?
text: Did you know that the music video for " The Kids from Yesterday " by My Chemical Romance was directed by a fan?
text: Did you know that Scott Burnside received journalism awards for writing about shift work, murders, and ice hockey?
text: Did you know that a drawing of a dog was promoted by the president of El Salvador , caused an unaffiliated song to peak on the TikTok Billboard Top 50 , and got its original creator doxxed ?
text: Did you know that the naturalised German Mandenga Diek was denied funds to return to his native Cameroon because he wanted to bring his German wife?
text: Did you know that Chicago's tornado siren has been described as creepier than the city's actual tornadoes ?
text: Did you know that a snowstorm resulted in Mickey Volcan and Garry Howatt becoming the first active players to officiate a National Hockey League game?
text: Did you know that Església de Sant Serni de Canillo has the tallest bell tower in Andorra?
text: Did you know that the director of the lesbian film The First Girl I Loved based the plot on true stories gathered from all-girls school graduates he interviewed?
text: Did you know that butcher Leo Franciosi was also a four-time Olympian?
text: Did you know that a homily written by Pseudo-Evodius features Jesus and the devil competing in a fishing tournament in the desert?
text: Did you know that no other month in a calendar year starts with the same day of the week as June ?
text: Did you know that Samantha Kane led an unsuccessful takeover bid for Sheffield United F.C. and, after a gender transition, was interviewed to become its chief executive?
text: Did you know that the first version of the Amtrak Susquehanna River Bridge was heavily damaged by a tornado during construction?
text: Did you know that medicine dean Sjahriar Rasad was accused of being involved in a conspiracy to assassinate Indonesian president Sukarno ?
text: Did you know that the U.S. Supreme Court is currently deciding whether the family who lived in a house wrongly raided by the FBI may sue the government?
text: Did you know that Romanian sports shooter Petre Cișmigiu demanded the elimination of a pension gap between Olympic and non-Olympic champions, such as himself?
text: Did you know that the novel Looking Glass Girl was launched at Coventry Central Library to highlight the threat of 17 libraries in the city closing?
text: Did you know that John P. Morris won a strike by hiding pigeons in fur coats?
text: Did you know that the North Korean destroyer Choe Hyon is the largest ship constructed for the Korean People's Navy?
text: Did you know that after the release of High and Low , director Akira Kurosawa received telephone calls imitating his film that threatened to kidnap his daughter?
text: Did you know that May Bradford Shockley is why Silicon Valley is where it is?
text: Did you know that the conservation of a goat might endanger the survival of Aquilegia paui ?
text: Did you know that Joy Laking predicted in a school writing assignment that within ten years she would be making a living as an artist?
text: Did you know that the Taiwanese restaurant chain Formosa Chang drew inspiration from McDonald's for its non-greasy atmosphere and corporate practices?
text: Did you know that Haridas Mitra had his death sentence commuted after the intervention of Mahatma Gandhi?
text: Did you know that " Steve's Lava Chicken " recently became the shortest song to enter the UK Top 40?
text: Did you know that Simmie Knox was recommended to paint the official White House portraits of Hillary and Bill Clinton by Ruth Bader Ginsburg ?
text: Did you know that My Schizophrenic Life concludes by its author realizing her illness is not a "life sentence"?
text: 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 ?
text: Did you know that a Christian army was allegedly saved from a fire when Archbishop Robert I of Nazareth raised the True Cross against the flames?
text: Did you know that in 1956 a brand new Swissair plane crashed on delivery ?
text: Did you know that the colour of Rockbank railway station 's pedestrian bridge represents the earth surrounding the station?
text: Did you know that Windsor-style pizza features shredded pepperoni and canned mushrooms?
text: Did you know that Liquid Glass was criticised for being too transparent?
text: Did you know that Captain James Cook and his crew were some of the first Europeans to witness and record Polynesians surfing ?
text: 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?
text: Did you know that Carmel Naughton , having been told that girls were "stupid and couldn't do maths", sponsored a STEM scholarship fund?
text: Did you know that after moving into the Samuel Freeman House , the owners sat on cardboard boxes because they could not afford real furniture?
text: Did you know that Nicolas Cage was trained by award-winning chef Gabriel Rucker for one of his films?
text: Did you know that a subcontractor working on the tower of a Nevada TV station recorded footage of the PEPCON disaster as it unfolded nearby?
text: Did you know that Maude Simmons played the mother of Paul Robeson on stage and the mother of Sidney Poitier on screen?
text: 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?
text: Did you know that " Seigfried " by Frank Ocean credits all four Beatles as songwriters?
text: Did you know that the McKenzie & Willis Store was demolished after the 2011 Christchurch earthquake , but its facade was kept and restored?
text: Did you know that Suzy Knickerbocker called James Ross Mellon one of the world's most eligible bachelors?
text: Did you know that a 44-point comeback in a 2024 semi-final was the Australian Football League 's largest semifinal comeback ever?
text: 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?
text: Did you know that residents of the Acres hired Frank Lloyd Wright to design their houses, but eventually lost patience with him over his approach to the project?
text: Did you know that artist Agnes Gallus fled Hungary for Canada during the 1956 revolution ?
text: Did you know that a single horsehair helped solve the murder of Nancy Titterton ?
text: Did you know that operatic tenor Vladyslav Gorai was a Merited Artist of Ukraine who died while on a volunteer mission during the Russo-Ukrainian War?
text: Did you know that although abortion in Tunisia has been available for free at government clinics since 1965, it is estimated that most abortions take place at private facilities?
text: Did you know that the Town Walls of Index, Washington , have 402 climbing routes ?
text: Did you know that Jonas I Losovičius 's relocation of the main residence of the bishops of Lutsk would last for three centuries?
text: Did you know that a Serbian columbine species might be luring some animals with mixtures of molecular compounds?
text: Did you know that after playing in the NFL, Eddie Garcia became a salesman who "could sell ice to a penguin"?
text: Did you know that a scene of a man eating a crab in the music video for " Dungka! " symbolised a crab mentality among Filipinos?
text: Did you know that Giulio Basetti-Sani began as a missionary believing Muhammad to be a "prophet of Satan" and ended believing that the Quran was a prophecy of Christ?