Did you know? Facts from Wikipedia, 2024

text: Did you know that prehistoric women may have had unique advantages over men in endurance hunting due to the positive effects of estrogen on muscle development?
text: Did you know that the actor Andrew Still worked as a receptionist and janitor after leaving Hollyoaks ?
text: Did you know that the Great Book of Marvels has been called "one of the most valuable sources for the study of Chinese folklore"?
text: Did you know that after no record label would sign Keith Marshall , his manager set one up himself and released his 1981 UK Top 20 single "Only Crying"?
text: Did you know that the protagonist of Shovel Knight: King of Cards was compared to "a bad Renaissance fair actor who's gotten too far into his role"?
text: Did you know that skateboarder Cui Chenxi is the youngest Chinese gold medalist in the Asian Games ?
text: Did you know that in the Six Poems by Marina Tsvetayeva , Dmitri Shostakovich wanted to convey how he imagined the poet 's voice, "husky, hefty, occluded in the smoke of homegrown tobacco"?
text: Did you know that McKinney Roughs Nature Park has an unusual convergence of four distinct ecosystems ?
text: Did you know that a hammer and sickle motif was proposed for the New Zealand sixpence ?
text: Did you know that the Voice of Freedom had to counter venomous snakes, leeches, and other wildlife?
text: Did you know that the seven leaders of the East Turkestan Revolutionary Party had Uyghur-language code names, the initials of which spelled out the word Lëninchi , meaning "Leninist" ?
text: Did you know that Whitley Furniture Galleries would increase the population of Zebulon more than eightfold when hosting an automobile giveaway in 1936?
text: Did you know that the Gale–Shapley algorithm was used to assign medical students to residencies long before its publication by Gale and Shapley?
text: Did you know that Skibidi Toilet inspired the Generation Alpha slang "skibidi"?
text: Did you know that pioneering bodybuilder Hippolyte Triat was kidnapped by vagabonds at the age of six and sold to a troupe of Italian acrobats?
text: Did you know that Nigeria seeks the return of the Benin Altar Tusks , ivory artefacts taken by the British in 1897 and dispersed in Europe?
text: Did you know that the Cold Cathode Gauge Experiment could detect gases leaking from an astronaut's life support systems on the Moon's surface?
text: Did you know that the national women's day of Guinea-Bissau commemorates the death of Titina Silá , who was killed on this day during the nation's war of independence ?
text: Did you know that the Adly Mansour Transportation Hub was selected as the best rail project of 2022 by Engineering News-Record ?
text: Did you know that Tucker Hall and Ewell Hall sit on either side of the Sunken Garden on the College of William & Mary's campus ?
text: Did you know that the comic book Nietzsche, se créer liberté tries to express Friedrich Nietzsche 's personality visually?
text: Did you know that Fred G. Sullivan 's film The Beer-Drinker's Guide to Fitness and Filmmaking depicts Sullivan being humiliated with mud and whips for the failings of his previous film?
text: Did you know that Porphyry describes a moral obligation to extend justice to animals in his 3rd-century treatise on vegetarianism ?
text: Did you know that Yuna Kim had a major impact on figure skating and was instrumental in bringing the Olympics to Pyeongchang in 2018 ?
text: Did you know that in 2023, Ralph Nader founded the newspaper Winsted Citizen in his hometown of Winsted, Connecticut , where he delivered papers as a boy?
text: Did you know that after fleeing the Spanish Civil War to Venezuela, Spanish anarchist Concha Liaño became a supporter of Hugo Chávez ?
text: Did you know that two rival designers independently submitted a map for the design of a 1940 New Zealand coin ?
text: Did you know that "Cave Man Kenny" was a "fast-charging, hard-hitting" "ubiquitous" "obstreperous iron man" with "dependable shoulders"?
text: Did you know that Andrea Blanch said that she came to appreciate Jeff Koons 's artwork more after suing him for copyright infringement ?
text: Did you know that Desert Bus requires eight hours of continuous play to gain one point?
text: Did you know that Coco of Coco & Clair Clair developed her alias for school announcements during her senior year of high school?
text: Did you know that the Transvaal Chinese Association opposed discriminatory legislation in the British Transvaal Colony alongside Mahatma Gandhi ?
text: Did you know that Turkish migrant workers living in a residential complex in Amsterdam refused to eat the Dutch food for two weeks after the kitchen's only Turkish chef was fired?
text: Did you know that an Australian High Court case found a hotel chain to have used third-party contractors to avoid paying employees their required benefits?
text: Did you know that a tattoo on the anus of Brazilian singer Anitta ultimately led to inquiries to investigate the use of public funds in artists' concerts?
text: Did you know that Wee Toon Boon remained a member of the Parliament of Singapore even after he began serving a prison sentence for corruption?
text: Did you know that the Saskatchewan Conservation House , built in 1977 to withstand Canadian winter temperatures, did not use a furnace?
text: Did you know that Adila Laïdi-Hanieh and her team used digitisation to preserve endangered Palestinian material culture?
text: Did you know that despite being 80 miles (130 km) apart, Austin and San Antonio are merging into one metropolis ?
text: Did you know that comedian Şenay Duzcu was awarded the German–Turkish Friendship Prize?
text: Did you know that the Leonia Alternative High School 's employment of volunteer instructors led to opposition from the local teachers' union?
text: Did you know that Louis Zhang Jiashu , a Catholic bishop of Shanghai who studied at Canterbury in 1911, received the archbishop of Canterbury in Shanghai in 1983?
text: Did you know that Gareth Knight , a devout Christian, was an occultist who ran an esoteric society of magicians?
text: Did you know that in 1983 readers of the magazine Softline voted Star Raiders the best program for Atari computers?
text: Did you know that Mar Galcerán is believed to be the first politician with Down syndrome to serve in a European regional parliament?
text: Did you know that the 1976 Big Thompson River flood took place several hours before Colorado 's 100th anniversary of statehood?
text: Did you know that before discovering a rudimentary audio workstation on his mother's phone, the French musician Lewis OfMan wanted to be a perfumer ?
text: Did you know that Harpegnathos alperti worker ants have black heads and chocolate-colored mandibles?
text: Did you know that the reign of Ye will be one of perjury, slavery, pestilence and death, according to the Ethiopic Apocalypse of Ezra ?
text: Did you know that the rapper Jords did not know his father was a musician until a chance encounter in a British supermarket?
text: Did you know that the Lunar Ejecta and Meteorites Experiment continuously overheated and had to be switched off during lunar noon?
text: Did you know that Nelson Santana supposedly predicted the date of his death?
text: Did you know that anti-Korean sentiment , due to South Korea's economic growth, motivated Djuna to write the sci-fi novel Counterweight ?
text: Did you know that jazz saxophonist Chris Byars ended his childhood operatic career when his voice croaked during a performance?
text: Did you know that years after it closed, the studios of an Iowa TV station became the headquarters for the state police radio network?
text: Did you know that Frederick Murray Trotter had a distinguished career as a field geologist despite losing a part of his skull and an eye to shrapnel during World War I?
text: Did you know that Stanislav Aseyev , the author of The Torture Camp on Paradise Street , was placed in the Izolyatsia torture camp for writing " Donetsk People's Republic " in quotation marks in a social media post?
text: Did you know that Boquila trifoliolata is the only known plant capable of simultaneously mimicking multiple species?
text: Did you know that Jorge Barón , a member of King County Council , was an assistant director on The Mask of Zorro ?
text: Did you know that the play-by-mail game Westworld was run from prison?
text: Did you know that David Bowie narrated a version of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf in 1978 as a gift for his seven-year-old son Duncan ?
text: Did you know that The Connor Brothers were believed to be two 20-something artists from Brooklyn, but are actually two British art dealers from London?
text: Did you know that Augustine of Hippo 's Harmony of the Gospels is technically not a Gospel harmony ?
text: Did you know that at least three historians asserted How the Red Sun Rose to have rendered outdated the scholarly understanding of the Yan'an Rectification Movement ?
text: Did you know that before the age of thirty, Anna Nekhames performed the dual role of Venus and Chief of the Gepopo in Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre , one of opera's most demanding coloratura soprano parts?
text: Did you know that Femke is the most common feminine given name of West Frisian origin in the Netherlands?
text: Did you know that stagecoaches on the Humboldt Wagon Road could make a 400-mile trip in under four days?
text: Did you know that although only one member was fluent in English, the cast of The Mongol Khan learned the entire script before the play's West End run?
text: Did you know that "gig" in " gig economy " comes from the slang term for individual appearances by performing artists ?
text: Did you know that a species of spider is named after Barack Obama ?
text: Did you know that Michael Owens became the first mayor of Mableton, Georgia , in more than 100 years after winning the 2023 mayoral election ?
text: Did you know that Peckham Rock , a fake cave painting surreptitiously installed in the British Museum by Banksy , is actually concrete from Hackney?
text: Did you know that biochemist Susan Berget was heavily involved in the discovery of split genes , but was excluded from credit and later the Nobel Prize for the research ?
text: Did you know that more than 150 years of documentary sources at the Central Archives of Gaza City were destroyed during the Israel–Hamas war ?
text: Did you know that for 25 years after an attempt to explode a whale went awry, the Oregon TV station that filmed it regularly fielded requests for its footage?
text: Did you know that the fossil turtle Acherontemys was named for a "river of the fabled lower world"?
text: Did you know that Tap Pryor saw a coral reef in Zanzibar that inspired him to spend his life "under water"?
text: Did you know that in his first month in the job, Wali Mohammad Itoo suspended all 23 opposition representatives when they questioned his integrity as the speaker of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly ?
text: Did you know that VMB-611 was the only United States Marine Corps bombing squadron to operate in the Philippines during World War II ?
text: Did you know that Japanese actress Junko Ikeuchi was known as the "Queen of TV Dramas" from the 1960s to the 1980s?
text: Did you know that a commemorative coin was made for a cancelled royal visit to New Zealand?
text: Did you know that because of New York City's Summer Streets program, Park Avenue in Manhattan has no motor traffic in three mornings in August?
text: Did you know that the British musician Coupdekat recorded the vocals for "It's Not You" while trampolining on her bed?
text: Did you know that the book A City on Mars covers sex in space , raising children in low gravity, space law , and space cannibalism?
text: Did you know that before going viral on TikTok for " Hit or Miss " at age fifteen, Georgia Twinn wanted to become a forensic scientist?
text: Did you know that Jake Kaufman composed most of the soundtrack for Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment while streaming on Twitch ?
text: Did you know that Thomas Ragle , the president of Marlboro College from 1958 to 1981, described his position as like a "19th-century college president"?
text: Did you know that after being waived by the San Diego Chargers , Frank Duncan began packing before being re-signed the next day and eventually becoming a starter ?
text: Did you know that " Shalom chaverim " ('Peace, friends'), a Hebrew traditional folk song, has been sung at events commemorating the Holocaust and victims of anti-Semitic violence?
text: Did you know that a future U.S. president and a future British king both visited the Van Cortlandt House during the American Revolution?
text: Did you know that one academic described the introduction of femboys to Myanmar as a tactic to achieve an "ideological revolution"?
text: Did you know that with Gogoliad , Dmitri Shostakovich ended his film career with Grigori Kozintsev , the same director with whom he started?
text: Did you know that during the Mongol campaigns in Siberia , the Mongols defeated rival tribes at the Battle of Irtysh River ?
text: Did you know that in 2014, BBC Three cancelled a debate on being gay and Muslim featuring Asifa Lahore , a Muslim drag queen, citing security concerns at the mosque where it was filmed?
text: Did you know that " Thy Strong Word " replaced an anti– Mexican–American War hymn in the Episcopal Church ?
text: Did you know that despite Daniel Lopatin 's electronic album Chuck Person's Eccojams Vol. 1 having a limited 2010 release on cassette tapes , it became a foundational album for the vaporwave genre?
text: Did you know that Shanthi Kalathil believes Radio Free Asia "filled a critical role in combating Chinese disinformation"?
text: Did you know that a pornographic screenplay about Jesus led to papal and royal condemnations, a firebombing, the writer's ban from the UK, and thousands of letters per week demanding the ban of a non-existent gay Jesus film ?
text: Did you know that LaVonne Griffin-Valade , the Oregon Secretary of State , has published four crime fiction novels?
text: Did you know that Laverstock ware pottery was produced to supply the royal palace at Clarendon , but was also used all over the south of England?
text: Did you know that geographer Richard Urquhart Goode is the namesake of three mountains and a glacier?
text: Did you know that the Indian politician Diwan Chaman Lall failed to get rid of the painting Nude of Indira ?
text: Did you know that the musician Salute has an inclusion rider on their contracts for live performances?
text: Did you know that the success of the book Fifth Chinese Daughter led to the U.S. State Department translating the book into various Asian languages and sending its author on a speaking tour across Asia?
text: Did you know that a teacher of medieval literature and comic books writes the blog Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle ?
text: Did you know that the film Critical Zone was shot in secret by Ali Ahmadzadeh without permission from Iranian authorities?
text: Did you know that nine-year-old Muskan Ahirwar started a library for the children in her slum that now contains more than 3,000 books?
text: Did you know that Wilfried Nancy became the first Black coach to win the MLS Cup in 2023 ?
text: Did you know that Sandra Elkin , discussing basic information on women's topics on Woman , "radicalized" women into supporting women's rights ?
text: Did you know that some people have asked whether they can pay for their Singapore hotel stay using a travel card ?
text: Did you know that the YouTuber CaptainSparklez set three Guinness World Records with a Minecraft song parody?
text: Did you know that the bad handwriting of British doctors has been blamed on the small size of their medical-record envelopes ?
text: Did you know that Vivi Vassileva , a percussionist who was the youngest member of the German national youth orchestra , has played Gregor Mayrhofer 's Recycling Concerto on instruments derived from garbage?
text: Did you know that some California schoolchildren build dioramas when learning about their state's Spanish missions?
text: Did you know that Thomas J. Wright 's PhD dissertation focused on US–Soviet relations in the late 1940s?
text: Did you know that Wrexham and East Denbighshire War Memorial Hospital was designed with balconies to treat patients with tuberculosis ?
text: Did you know that actress M'liss McClure 's publicity agency promoted her "almost telescopic vision" as a selling point?
text: Did you know that 2.5-metre-tall (8.2 ft) white rock spires grow at the volcano Huequi ?
text: Did you know that Detroit has been waiting for its statue of RoboCop for more than 12 years?
text: Did you know that square pyramids can have different shapes, and pyramidologists have put forward multiple theories on which of these shapes was used for the Egyptian pyramids ?
text: Did you know that St. Joseph , a 1909 Catholic church in the Romanesque Revival style in Berlin-Wedding , has served as an interim cathedral since 2018?
text: Did you know that the Ava–Hanthawaddy War of 1385–1391 began when King Swa Saw Ke of Ava tried to place his nominee on the Hanthawaddy throne?
text: Did you know that Koh Masaki was one of the first gay pornographic film actors in Japan to openly appear in adult films without obscuring his identity?
text: Did you know that several reviewers noted the opening line of Venbee 's 2022 song " Messy in Heaven ", "Jesus did cocaine on a night out"?
text: Did you know that a coach said that Bob Gregor "hits so hard, he maims himself"?
text: Did you know that the second collection of decretals in the Quinque compilationes antiquae was actually compiled after the third collection?
text: Did you know that Tadeusz Gebethner , a soccer player, bookseller, soldier and resistance fighter, was recognized as a Polish Righteous Among the Nations ?
text: Did you know that pumices erupted by the Protector Shoal volcano in 1962 floated to Australia and South America?
text: Did you know that the Apollo 12 Solar Wind Spectrometer detected a gas-ion shockwave produced by the impact of the Apollo 13 S-IVB stage on the lunar surface ?
text: Did you know that the fraud that marred Kansas 's 1855 territorial legislature elections led many to dub the elected body the "Bogus Legislature"?
text: Did you know that New York City's Bartow–Pell Mansion became a museum after its operator was restricted from importing and exporting plants?
text: Did you know that sheep can get less stressed when looking at pictures of other sheep?
text: Did you know that the life of Gloria Meneses is celebrated with an exhibition in the Plaza de la Diversidad Sexual in Montevideo?
text: Did you know that 555 Edgecombe Avenue , once named for a British soldier and occupied entirely by white Americans, later attracted notable African Americans like Paul Robeson and Count Basie ?
text: Did you know that journalist Isaac Saul was named as one of the 16 people who had the greatest influence in the 2016 U.S. election ?
text: Did you know that Agri-Expo is the oldest agricultural society in Africa?
text: Did you know that bereavement support groups are one of the most common services offered for grief but have little evidence of improving psychological outcomes?
text: Did you know that a Lockheed EC-130Q aircraft crashed after performing a waterbombing just 190 feet (58 m) in the air?
text: Did you know that Michael Kremer 's O-ring theory of economic development was inspired by his forgetting to purchase toilet paper for a training session?
text: Did you know that a New Zealand coin was declared evidence of an atheistic government by detractors?
text: Did you know that Patricia Schultz , the author of 1,000 Places to See Before You Die , would choose Florence for her final trip before dying?
text: Did you know that children's book illustration techniques include photography?
text: Did you know that French historian Patrice Gueniffey called the 2023 film Napoleon a "very anti-French and very pro-British" rewrite of history?
text: Did you know that the Oasis of Bukhara used to be a swamp?
text: Did you know that while being held in Stalag Luft I , an American prisoner of war built a violin out of scrap material?
text: Did you know that a " welding nun " angered farmers with her garbage-eating goat ?
text: Did you know that Oxford ivy grows towards the light to bloom and then towards the darkness when going to seed?
text: Did you know that it took 34 years for the first person to beat the game Tetris ?
text: Did you know that the murder of Luisa Lallana sparked a general strike in Rosario , Argentina?
text: Did you know that the stylized animation of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem was inspired by rough sketches in school notebooks?
text: Did you know that Thomas Fritzsch , a viol player who rediscovered compositions by Carl Friedrich Abel , established a festival dedicated to him in Köthen ?
text: Did you know that Michael Lewis , author of Going Infinite , compared a rival author to the subject of both their books, convicted fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried ?
text: Did you know that Gracie Mansion became New York City's mayoral residence after serving as a public toilet and a museum?
text: Did you know that instead of paying homage to a visiting King Gustaf VI Adolf , Swedish headmaster Carl Segerståhl took his students swimming in a nearby lake?
text: Did you know that Wikipedia editors have organized various campaigns to improve LGBT coverage on the site ?
text: Did you know that Olipop , with more than $100 million in revenue, has an all-remote workforce?
text: Did you know that Illinois senator Mark Kirk returned to his former high school as an adult to create a UNICEF club ?
text: Did you know that the 2024 season for Seattle Sounders FC will be their first with a new logo?
text: Did you know that while developing the sound effects for Letterpress , Loren Brichter spit in his microphone?
text: Did you know that Line 51 of the Amsterdam Metro was called an express tram because the term "metro" was too controversial in the city?
text: Did you know that Forest Van Hook was so large that he always bought two tickets when attending sports events?
text: Did you know that a My Little Pony fan band wrote a song about a horror game , creating what has been considered to be a sub-genre of music?
text: Did you know that by popular demand, philosopher Anton Charles Pegis continued to teach graduate classes for three years after becoming an emeritus professor ?
text: Did you know that the reggae singer Tony Tribe used to have blouses thrown at him while performing?
text: Did you know that Akram Nadwi addressed the lack of Islamic women scholars highlighted in a Time article by composing al-Wafa bi Asma al-Nisa , a 43-volume work with more than 10,000 entries?
text: Did you know that despite being only 40 feet (12 m) tall, Roar-o-Saurus was described by CNN as one of the "most insane" new roller coasters of 2014?
text: Did you know that composer and conductor William Carter began a career as a professional organist at the age of nine?
text: Did you know that Mister Rogers said that Mr. Chuck, the host of a children's show on the public TV station in Memphis, Tennessee , was "truly remarkable" and "achieving things I still struggle to achieve"?
text: Did you know that Gamze Durmuş and her husband were the first referees to officiate a TFF First League match together?
text: Did you know that Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl took 15 years to write?
text: Did you know that Dom DiSandro , the Philadelphia Eagles ' chief security officer, was ejected from a game for getting into a scuffle with an opposing player?
text: Did you know that Sasuke vs. Commander , one of SNK 's earlier arcade games , was among the earliest to feature multiple boss fights ?
text: Did you know that physician Melvin Ramsay refuted the suggestion – partially based on the fact more women are affected – that myalgic encephalomyelitis is a form of mass hysteria?
text: Did you know that the Vocalises by Jānis Ivanovs were said to express "a longing for humanity"?
text: Did you know that Kihwan Sim , a bass-baritone performer at the Oper Frankfurt , learned to play the tuba during his two years of military service?
text: Did you know that the publication of A Field Guide to Otherkin sparked scholarly interest in people who consider themselves animals or mythological creatures ?
text: Did you know that George Cross recipient Bill Madden died as result of malnutrition and ill-treatment by his Chinese captors while a prisoner of war ?
text: Did you know that Nonô 's discography includes songs from Majestic and Punctual ?
text: Did you know that Louise Julien may have been an inspiration for the character of Cosette in Les Misérables ?
text: Did you know that Nakba denial is a form of historical negationism pertaining to the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight ?
text: Did you know that being in the chain-melted state makes some metals behave as a liquid and solid at the same time?
text: Did you know that since 1995, the AP NFL MVP award has been given to a player for the Green Bay Packers seven times ?
text: Did you know that Carla Ronci , an Italian declared venerable by the Catholic Church , is remembered as the " Vespa saint"?
text: Did you know that Yellow Swans recorded their final album, Going Places , after their breakup?
text: Did you know that code-switching in Lebanon is so common that "hi, كيفك؟ Ça va ? " , which combines English , Levantine Arabic and French , is a typical greeting?
text: Did you know that Peanut is inhospitable to peanuts ?
text: Did you know that the leader of the German Red Cross under the Nazi regime had lived in the UK until he was fifteen years old and was a grandson of Queen Victoria ?
text: Did you know that New Zealand petrol stations were filled with queues before a change in government policy ?
text: Did you know that although five of Armenian composer Grigor Yeghiazaryan 's siblings died of starvation from the Armenian genocide , his life was saved because he played in a brass band?
text: Did you know that Edo literature was influenced by British colonialism in the late 19th century, which introduced the Roman script and Christianity to the Edo people ?
text: Did you know that a New York state TV station thought a St. Bernard could serve as a mascot—until she proved incapable of following direction and had to be sent to obedience school ?
text: Did you know that Harald Hasselbach , the only Dutch Super Bowl champion , lived in four continents in his youth?
text: Did you know that life always ended with a sneeze until the time of Jacob , according to one Midrash ?
text: Did you know that a Connecticut radio station left the FM band for good after it was out of service for a week and only one person wrote a letter to complain?
text: Did you know that the Swiss mountaineer Hermann Alfred Tanner invented a compass to navigate colour harmony ?
text: Did you know that during the January 1982 California floods , more than 18,000 landslides swept through the San Francisco Bay Area with little warning?
text: Did you know that Kathanar – The Wild Sorcerer is being shot on a custom-built studio spanning 45,000 square feet (4,200 m 2 ), utilizing the virtual production technology?
text: Did you know that in her 2021 book The Origins of Early Christian Literature , Robyn Faith Walsh found that German Romanticists were in part responsible for modern scholarly assumptions about the gospels ?
text: Did you know that a 1974 recording of Mozart's Così fan tutte with Ryland Davies as Ferrando was used in a 1995 film by the Salzburg Marionette Theatre ?
text: Did you know that sculptures of defecating people are displayed in the park surrounding Haewoojae ?
text: Did you know that Shen Zigao , the first Anglican bishop of Chinese descent, was consecrated at All Saints Church, Shanghai , in 1934?
text: Did you know that before filming National Football League games, former Green Bay Packers video director Al Treml was trained in photography while serving in the United States Army ?
text: Did you know that the Russian propaganda outlet Sputnik compared the Global Engagement Center to the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four ?
text: Did you know that Giovanni Bonfanti scored a goal on his debut in a European competition ?
text: Did you know that The New Zealand Herald opposed a children's hospital in favour of a statue of Queen Victoria ?
text: Did you know that the Hank Aaron State Trail was regularly visited by Hank Aaron until his death in 2021?
text: Did you know that it is controversial whether there are things that do not exist ?
text: Did you know that a letter to the American people allegedly written by Osama bin Laden has been cited as an example of online youth radicalization ?
text: Did you know that " Hare Hare Yukai " is credited with originating the genre of cover dance videos, in which individuals attempt to replicate dance choreography on video-sharing websites?
text: Did you know that F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote the short stories "The Jelly-Bean" and "May Day" at the Allerton 39th Street House ?
text: Did you know that Lachlan Murdoch was forced to resign as a director of Prime Media Group because the company owned a radio station on Queensland's Sunshine Coast ?
text: Did you know that small-business leaders such as Guillermo Torrez sympathized with the Movement for Socialism despite its anti-capitalist rhetoric?
text: Did you know that Olivia Rodrigo can write ballads about homeschooled girls as well as about songbirds and snakes ?
text: Did you know that when her husband was captured by the Turks, Queen Morphia hired a band of secretly armed fake monks and merchants to infiltrate the prison and rescue him – only for him to be captured again?
text: Did you know that the curator aedium sacrarum et operum locorumque publicorum was responsible for the upkeep of public works and buildings in ancient Rome ?
text: Did you know that British intervention reversed the lacquering of a statue in New Zealand ?
text: Did you know that Harry Dunn guarded a stairwell and Nancy Pelosi 's office during the January 6 United States Capitol attack ?
text: Did you know that the Kansas Business Hall of Fame includes the founders of Pizza Hut and Russell Stover Candies ?
text: Did you know that three first-team All-Americans – Logan Eggleston , Zoe Fleck , and Asjia O'Neal – played on the University of Texas's NCAA volleyball championship team in 2022 ?
text: Did you know that the WoodmenLife Tower hosts a livestream of a peregrine falcon nest on its 28th floor?
text: Did you know that Genghis Khan was extremely charismatic and renowned for his generosity towards his followers?
text: Did you know that a neighborhood in Virginia lost its public park because its city government did not build a fence?
text: Did you know that having painted a domestic scene depicting his nude wife, Robert Ballagh felt that he had to produce a nude painting of himself as a follow-up?
text: Did you know that ten people have died trying to cross the Cascade Saddle ?
text: Did you know that Maciej Grabowski became the Polish minister of environment in 2013 despite having no environmental experience?
text: Did you know that a design for the 1930s New Zealand penny depicted a rugby player?
text: Did you know that the new Catalogue of Works of Carl Friedrich Abel , listing 420 compositions, was introduced at a festival celebrating Abel's tercentenary in Köthen ?
text: Did you know that although Olga Hartman believed that her basic research on marine worms had no practical value, it was applied to experimental studies of oysters?
text: Did you know that archaeologists found that Updown Girl , who was buried in England in the 7th century, had a mixture of West African and European DNA?
text: Did you know that until April 2023, when the genus Triassosculda was discovered, the mantis shrimp fossil record contained a gap of more than a hundred million years?
text: Did you know that when Abbess Stephanie of Courtenay 's niece's marriage to the king of Jerusalem was annulled, the court's reasoning was so flimsy that a noted jurist had to ask Stephanie to explain it to him?
text: Did you know that the wood-pasture hypothesis posits that semi-open wood pastures and not primeval forests are the natural vegetation of temperate Europe?
text: Did you know that Julia Figueredo was the first indigenous woman to be elected president of La Paz 's parliamentary delegation?
text: Did you know that fewer than half of the seventy cues composed by Dmitri Shostakovich for the 1971 film King Lear made it into the final cut?
text: Did you know that the song " Poison " can soothe babies?
text: Did you know that during the British period, the tomb of Khan Muhammad was used as an office and residence for the executive engineer?
text: Did you know that after his professional American football career, Lou Daukas became a lawyer?
text: Did you know that the thought of her sister Ioveta being a common nun was so abhorrent to the queen of Jerusalem that she ordered the construction of the Convent of Saint Lazarus for Ioveta to rule as an abbess?
text: Did you know that the great-nephew of Leon Trotsky was a physician for the Black Panther Party and helped deinstitutionalize Willowbrook State School ?
text: Did you know that the entire inventory of historic string instruments in Canada's Musical Instrument Bank are loaned to musicians in a competition held every three years?
text: Did you know that cabinet-maker Stephen Badlam simultaneously served as a justice of the peace and a brigadier-general?
text: Did you know that misidentifications of the crested cuckoo-dove have led to claims that the extinct Choiseul pigeon is still around?
text: Did you know that the owner of 130 West 30th Street would have renamed the structure the "Beaver Pelt Building" if it could not be named after its architect?
text: Did you know that the murder of Jiang Ge led to public debate in China over the actions of Jiang's roommate during her murder?
text: Did you know that George Willis Pack , a Northerner and Lincoln supporter, financed a monument to Confederate governor Zebulon Vance in Asheville, North Carolina ?
text: Did you know that the painter of The Rape of Lucretia updated the ancient legend by setting the scene in the bedroom of a contemporary Italian home?
text: Did you know that the projector at the Walter Reade Theater had to be modified to screen Nathaniel Dorsky 's short film Triste ?
text: Did you know that Dacrytherium , literally meaning 'tear beast', was named after its " tear-pit "?
text: Did you know that the construction of the Rajiv Lochan Temple has been variously attributed to two mythical kings and a god?
text: Did you know that human rights activist Adeeb Youssef was imprisoned and tortured but later became the governor of Central Darfur ?
text: Did you know that the Cross Temple in Fangshan, Beijing , is the only surviving Nestorian Christian site in China ?
text: Did you know that Switch Disco 's song "Everything" saw a 185-percent increase in its Spotify streams after it was used in the seventh series of Love Island ?
text: Did you know that after popularizing the term rizz , Kai Cenat stopped using the term himself, saying that TikTok had butchered the word?
text: Did you know that Forbes said of the Jetson One aircraft, "Flying Cars Are Here"?
text: Did you know that after accepting the job of team physician for the Green Bay Packers in 1962, E. S. Brusky was not paid a salary for at least the first nine years of his tenure?
text: Did you know that examples of artificial planets in science fiction include Riverworld , the Well World , and the Death Star ?
text: Did you know that Jerry Atkinson , a manager for a department store, helped prevent the Green Bay Packers from becoming insolvent in 1949 and 1950?
text: Did you know that the most tweeted word on New Year's Eve 2013 related to the anime opening theme " Guren no Yumiya "?
text: Did you know that Carlos Santana Tovar , who represented Amazonas in the 1952 Venezuelan Constituent Assembly , was taken hostage during the 1921 revolution and escaped only years later?
text: Did you know that Only Up! was removed from Steam twice: first over copyright violations and subsequently to alleviate the developer's stress?
text: Did you know that the Lunar Ejecta and Meteorites experiment continuously overheated and had to be switched off during the lunar noon?
text: Did you know that Brian Herbert, the son of Frank Herbert , may have left a poem out of a collection of his father's poetry because it was "too racy"?
text: Did you know that Prince William reportedly used the name "Steve" while studying at the University of St Andrews to avoid attracting attention from the media?
text: Did you know that after the 1999 Tempe military base shooting , the Pan African Congress demanded a military funeral for the perpetrator?
text: Did you know that the volcano Carachipampa is surrounded by a lake and a salt flat, and has a Mars-like environment?
text: Did you know that a Stone Age Siberian village is the oldest known fortification in the world?
text: Did you know that Jenny Cavnar is the first female primary play-by-play announcer in Major League Baseball history?
text: Did you know that the hippocampus of the black-capped chickadee grows in the fall and shrinks in the spring?
text: Did you know that a great-grandfather and a grandfather of a commissioner of the Baltimore Police Department also served in the department?
text: Did you know that due to 19th-century French views of widespread homosexuality among Ottoman Turks , Mehmet Cemaleddin Efendi was offered male prostitutes by officials on a visit to Paris?
text: Did you know that almost all members of a flock of tufted jays work together to build a nest?
text: Did you know that Sarah McCreanor imitates objects under hydraulic presses through dance?
text: Did you know that former US president Theodore Roosevelt was shot in front of the Gilpatrick Hotel in 1912?
text: Did you know that Olympic hammer thrower Tamer Balcı was later cast in a movie as Tarzan ?
text: Did you know that TV stations in Nashville and in Memphis, Tennessee , both on channel 30, lost their Fox affiliations in 1990?
text: Did you know that the mild climate in the remote mountain village of Wakan in Oman allows the growth of fruits such as pomegranates in an otherwise hot and dry country?
text: Did you know that football player Brad Kragthorpe played in an exhibition game named after his grandfather?
text: Did you know that the album Something Like This by Ben Rector debuted at number one on iTunes' singer-songwriter album chart five minutes after its release?
text: Did you know that Maria Leshern von Herzfeld helped to organise the prison escape of the Russian revolutionary Peter Kropotkin ?
text: Did you know that the Boundary Fire burned 17,788 acres (7,199 ha) of the Coconino and Kaibab National Forests in Arizona?
text: Did you know that Valentine Strudwick enlisted to serve in the First World War at 14 years old?
text: Did you know that The Seoul Press was an English-language newspaper created to justify Japan's colonial rule of Korea ?
text: Did you know that archaeologist Karl Frederik Kinch identified the location of Stagira , the hometown of Aristotle ?
text: Did you know that the US federal government's " checking account " held more than $800 billion at the beginning of February 2024?
text: Did you know that would-be assassin John Schrank was foiled by a 50-page speech and a spectacles case?
text: Did you know that the Balconcillo mutiny is considered to be the first coup d'état in the history of Peru ?
text: Did you know that Marie Vuillemin was acquitted in the trial of the Bonnot Gang , as the prosecution defined her according to her gender rather than her role in the gang?
text: Did you know that New Zealand wrestler Leilani Tominiko (aka. Candy Lee) has a signature move called the Candy Crush?
text: Did you know that the Seattle metropolitan area includes two major volcanoes, Mount Rainier and Glacier Peak ?
text: Did you know that for at least 90 minutes, Mori Calliope livestreamed herself begging video game developer Atlus to allow her to stream their game Persona 3 ?
text: Did you know that the principal of a high school in Taiwan resigned after students held a Nazi -themed parade, complete with mock uniforms and a cardboard tank?
text: Did you know that Lauryn Hill 's song " To Zion " is about her decision not to terminate her pregnancy despite facing pressure to do so?
text: Did you know that Philipp Tanzer has been an army medic, artist, firefighter, hairdresser, massage therapist, festival organiser, political candidate and gay porn star?
text: Did you know that food was left to rot outside after the supermarket Supie went out of business?
text: Did you know that the sea slug Bosellia mimetica benefits from photosynthesis?
text: Did you know that in December 2022 Panos Katseris scored his first goal for the Italian club Catanzaro less than a minute after kick-off ?
text: Did you know that 35.6 percent of counties in the United States are classified as maternity care deserts ?
text: Did you know that the " first settler of Asotin County " was the second?
text: Did you know that the music of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance was designed to be reactive to the player ' s actions?
text: Did you know that from 1904 to 1911 Arthur Lewis Hall covered 17,479 miles (28,130 km), mostly on foot, to map the geology of the Transvaal ?
text: Did you know that a Rhode Island TV station broadcast for 14 months and then was off the air for 26 years before returning?
text: Did you know that all three of María Esther Biscayart de Tello 's children were forcibly disappeared during the Dirty War in Argentina?
text: Did you know that Life magazine said that Babe Ruth's funeral was the "kind of tribute normally reserved for kings and presidents"?
text: Did you know that Mary Clutter used her directorial position at the National Science Foundation to require scientific conferences to include women speakers when presenting research done by them?
text: Did you know that Taubaté became the "city of lies" after a 2012 pregnancy hoax ?
text: Did you know that the growth of Christianity in 20th-century Africa has been termed the " fourth great age of Christian expansion "?
text: Did you know that Augustus Belknap led the first mule-drawn car from Alamo Plaza to San Pedro Springs Park , which developed into the first streetcar line in San Antonio?
text: Did you know that land for a library built for African Americans in Virginia was donated by Pope Pius XII ?
text: Did you know that despite knowing of Geno 's popularity, Super Mario RPG 's co-director wasn't sure why the character was popular?
text: Did you know that the Japanese boy band D-Date promoted a song through a short film in which the audience had to guess who the traitor was?
text: Did you know that Nicki Minaj 's song " Big Foot " is a diss track about Megan Thee Stallion ?
text: Did you know that Dr. Disaster 's office collapsed in an earthquake on this day in 2011?
text: Did you know that Max Stephan was sentenced to death for aiding a Nazi pilot who had escaped from a prisoner of war camp?
text: Did you know that the 1892 Biddle vs. Livingstone football game was the first college football game ever played between historically black schools ?
text: Did you know that Malaysian percussionist Lewis Pragasam was drumming to " Joy to the World " at a Christmas concert when he suffered a fatal heart attack ?
text: Did you know that Spider-Man was chosen as the last character to return in Avengers: Endgame 's Avengers assemble scene because it was designed to be emotional for audiences?
text: Did you know that the injuries Anthony W. Case suffered in a school shooting led him to give up baseball and turn to astrophysics as a career?
text: Did you know that Taylor Swift announced her upcoming eleventh studio album, The Tortured Poets Department , while accepting a Grammy for her album Midnights ?
text: Did you know that " delulu is the solulu" is a catchphrase?
text: Did you know that the founder of a California TV station opted not to name it for himself because the call sign would have sounded like "cough"?
text: Did you know that William N. Salin was twice decorated with the Sagamore of the Wabash ?
text: Did you know that the Soviet soprano Tamara Milashkina performed alongside her husband Vladimir Atlantov at New York's Metropolitan Opera in 1975?
text: Did you know that for a while in the 1950s, Englewood Golf Club was co-owned by four well-known comedians?
text: Did you know that Prey is the first feature film to have a full Comanche language dub?
text: Did you know that Margaret Donahue was the first female executive in Major League Baseball ?
text: Did you know that for several millennia, some humans buried corpses in their houses ?
text: Did you know that chemist Betty Lou Raskin said in 1958 that society was wasting the "brainpower" of women, and blamed the media for making the mink coat the "symbol of female success" and not the lab coat ?
text: Did you know that The Drunkard's Progress suggests that a single social drink leads to poverty, crime, and suicide?
text: Did you know that James Light was threatened by the Ku Klux Klan when he staged a play with an interracial couple?
text: Did you know that the performers in the Thai drag show Calypso Cabaret impressed Lady Gaga with their ability to be open about their identities?
text: Did you know that William Winstanley Hull 's search for the original manuscript of the 1662 prayer book led to its later discovery?
text: Did you know that Indian field hockey player Sukhbir Singh Gill continued to play professionally after being diagnosed with a brain tumor in 2006?
text: Did you know that nine-year-old Xiang Xuan was the youngest soldier to take part in the Long March ?
text: Did you know that because the Cherokee people were deliberately routed through cholera-stricken areas, their dislocation has been given as an example of Native American genocide in the United States ?
text: Did you know that Centre College hosted two vice-presidential debates during John A. Roush 's presidency?
text: Did you know that former girl soldiers may face higher rates of community rejection than former boy soldiers?
text: Did you know that Ireland's 2024 Eurovision entrant Bambie Thug describes their musical genre as "ouija pop"?
text: Did you know that Campbell Soup considered suing Andy Warhol for his Campbell's Soup Cans theme, but then promoted it?
text: Did you know that Ove Jørgensen , after giving his name to a law of Homeric poetry , renounced classical studies to write about ballet ?
text: Did you know that Sofia Vakman relinquished a career as a concert pianist because a skin disorder she contracted after swimming made it painful for her to play?
text: Did you know that the shining St John's wort owes its bright colors partly to carotenoid compounds?
text: Did you know that Jessica Mutch McKay hosted debates between the leaders of New Zealand's two major political parties?
text: Did you know that some WNBA seasons , including this year's , have a break for the Summer Olympic Games ?
text: Did you know that public historian Richard Smith called Henry David Thoreau the "first punk rocker"?
text: Did you know that The Anxious City introduced a recurring figure in Paul Delvaux 's paintings: a man who is ignorant of the pretty women and disasters around him?
text: Did you know that offensive lineman Andy Dickerson is not to be confused with offensive lineman Andy Dickerson ?
text: Did you know that the volcano Mount Hudson repeatedly depopulated parts of South America?
text: Did you know that Anjali Lama , Nepal's first transgender model, worked with Calvin Klein in 2019?
text: Did you know that Centre's 1921 defeat of Harvard is widely considered to be one of the greatest upsets in college football history?
text: Did you know that Monique Ryan ran for election to the Parliament of Australia after seeing an advertisement in the newspaper calling for an independent candidate?
text: Did you know that Pupil Slicer 's 2023 album Blossom draws inspiration from narratives in the video games Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker and Outer Wilds ?
text: Did you know that Margareth Rago seeks to establish a methodology for what she calls " feminist science "?
text: Did you know that Etchmiadzin Cathedral , Armenia's mother church, previously had a Tibetan Buddhist bell ?
text: Did you know that Keshawn Banks 's only NFL appearance came in the playoffs ?
text: Did you know that Pamatan is an undiscovered city on Lombok that was destroyed by the 1257 Samalas eruption ?
text: Did you know that Ian Begg , known for his work on restoration of castles in Scotland , designed and built his own 20th-century tower house to live in?
text: Did you know that an editorial cartoon in The Honolulu Advertiser called Civ-Alert "Hawaii's Paul Revere"?
text: Did you know that Peter d'Hamecourt was asked to pay for taxi fares with 24 cans of Heineken ?
text: Did you know that Dua Lipa premiered " Training Season " at the 66th Annual Grammy Awards , 11 days before its official release?
text: Did you know that Eenoolooapik fell ill while kayaking through Aberdeen in traditional Inuit clothing ?
text: Did you know that after Shawn Christopher 's " Another Sleepless Night " was rereleased with Mike "Hitman" Wilson 's name removed, it charted 24 places higher on the UK Singles Chart ?
text: Did you know it has been suggested that Crassispira incrassata may be a southern variation of Crassispira bottae and not its own species?
text: Did you know that Maria Olovennikova was the only woman present at the founding conference of Narodnaya Volya ?
text: Did you know that the naturally connected Pipe Lake and Lake Lucerne are the only hydrilla -infested lakes in the state of Washington ?
text: Did you know that sales from Dieux du Stade , a nude calendar produced by the French professional rugby union club Stade Français featuring photos of its players, helped to finance the club for many years?
text: Did you know that Carmen Scheibenbogen was awarded the German Cross of Merit for her work on ME/CFS at the suggestion of patients and relatives?
text: Did you know that despite various proposals, a statue of a renowned Dunedin clergyman was not moved from its location adjacent to a brothel and two parking lots?
text: Did you know that the Chinese play Silang tanmu , which depicts a general returning home to visit his mother, was banned in Tianjin in 1945 because it "distorted the normal ethics and morality"?
text: Did you know that W. Seavey Joyce 's presidency of Boston College was dominated by frequent, large student protests ?
text: Did you know that barley was once used as a form of money?
text: Did you know that actor Bridger Zadina became a national champion llama exhibitor when he was 11 years old?
text: Did you know that male mangrove mollies mate sneakily?
text: Did you know that 13-year-old Michael Artiaga won against his 15-year-old brother Andrew in the final round of the 2020 Classic Tetris World Championship ?
text: Did you know that Winchester College football used to be played on top of a hill , with a line of boys on each side to keep the ball from rolling away?
text: Did you know that a law banning Native Americans from living in Seattle was voided when Seattle itself was abolished?
text: Did you know that Cam McCormick is thought to be the first college football player to be granted a ninth year of NCAA eligibility ?
text: Did you know that the oldest surviving synagogue building in Wisconsin was almost razed in the 1970s?
text: Did you know that when tavern operator August Palmisano was killed in a 1978 car bombing, authorities suspected organized crime in Milwaukee?
text: Did you know that during the COVID-19 pandemic , some former office workers used myNoise to remind them of their workplace?
text: Did you know that Charles J. Turck was accused of being a communist spy during his time as president of Macalester College ?
text: Did you know that The Waste Land , considered one of the most important poems of the 20th century, was described as "waste paper" when first published?
text: Did you know that Walkelin , Bishop of Winchester , began the construction of the modern Winchester Cathedral in 1079?
text: Did you know that New York store Yun Hai raised nine times its fundraising target to support Taiwanese farmers after China banned the import of their pineapples?
text: Did you know that Ukrainians Nadia Smyrnytska , Maria Kalyuzhnaya and Maria Kovalevska joined other prisoners in committing suicide to protest against the abuse of imprisoned women in Kara katorga ?
text: Did you know that Heinrich Nidecker accused Samuel Taylor Coleridge of having committed plagiarism in his philosophical tract Theory of Life ?
text: Did you know that Cliff Davis spent $53 during his 1960 campaign for a seat in the Wyoming House of Representatives ?
text: Did you know that Sky Above Clouds IV was inspired by a large, blank white wall?
text: Did you know that a species of butterfly was named in honor of an Inuit interpreter ?
text: Did you know that Lake Fenwick suffers from an infestation of Brazilian elodea ?
text: Did you know that before besieging Baghdad in 1258 , the Mongol prince Hulegu Khan ended a letter to the city's ruler with the words "I will show you the meaning of the will of God"?
text: Did you know that after the original developer of the Kips Bay Towers sold off the buildings in 1962, his son bought them back a decade later?
text: Did you know that Mwaksy Mudenda presented her first Blue Peter episodes in her house?
text: Did you know that CBS Sports said the Milwaukee Brewers ball-in-glove logo "might just be the best in all of baseball"?
text: Did you know that the use of high-tech surveillance to monitor protests and identify participants has led protestors to use anti-facial recognition masks ?
text: Did you know that Tarcisio Martina , the representative of the Holy See in China, was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1951 over a plot to assassinate Mao Zedong ?
text: Did you know that swimmer Jin Hao competed in eight events, the most of any participant, during the 2001 National Games of China , causing him to lose 4 kilograms (8.8 lb)?
text: Did you know that Bdóte , an area of sacred significance to the Dakota people , centered on the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi rivers, was also the site of their forced exile from Minnesota ?
text: Did you know that Thomas of Chobham 's Summa confessorum was one of the most copied works on penance in the late medieval period ?
text: Did you know that the Apollo 16 Heat Flow Experiment was disabled when astronaut John Young tripped over a cable and tore it from its connector?
text: Did you know that for her presentation at the 2008 Game Developers Conference, Jessica Mak simply played music and released balloons in the audience?
text: Did you know that completion of South Bellevue station was delayed by more than a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic and a workers' strike?
text: Did you know that Matei Donici , a general in the Imperial Russian Army , secretly wrote poetry with Romanian-nationalist and anti-Russian messages?
text: Did you know that the church of St James the Less, Pockthorpe , now the home of the Norwich Puppet Theatre , once contained a rood screen with portraits of saints painted in 1479?
text: Did you know that the Burmese Buddhist monk Sagyo Thu-Myat successfully lobbied for the recalibration of the Burmese calendar ?
text: Did you know that artificial islands were deployed in Hicklin Lake in an unsuccessful attempt to stop eutrophication ?
text: Did you know that a COVID-19 bout forced Beef creator Lee Sung Jin to direct the show's season finale remotely?
text: Did you know that elementary school students named the Wooden Warrior roller coaster?
text: Did you know that Olympic gold medalist Dean Crawford was introduced to rowing when he found a rowing shell outside the students' union building at the University of Victoria ?
text: Did you know that the patu clubs on the New Zealand threepence were compared to bottles of ginger beer?
text: Did you know that Justin Yu , the current Classic Tetris World Champion , is also a cellist in MIT 's video game orchestra?
text: Did you know that a computer system can contain tripwire files that alert administrators upon being accessed by intruders?
text: Did you know that Bryan Brinyark finished second in an election to the Alabama House of Representatives just 15 votes behind his opponent, but later won a runoff election?
text: Did you know that the papal bull Ad fructus uberes gave friars the right to hear confessions and preach without the authorisation of secular clergy ?
text: Did you know that Dane Hansen started a road-construction business with about 100 mules that he was unable to sell to the US Army after World War I ended?
text: Did you know that Hometown Village is a community of Sakhalin Koreans who were finally allowed to return to South Korea after the dissolution of the Soviet Union ?
text: Did you know that after Ursula K. Le Guin published her collection The Wind's Twelve Quarters , a reviewer called her the "ideal science fiction writer for readers who ordinarily dislike science fiction"?
text: Did you know that " Agora Hills " is named after the location of the ashram where Doja Cat lived growing up?
text: Did you know that after winning the 2024 Masters , snooker player Ronnie O'Sullivan is both the youngest and oldest winner of the tournament?
text: Did you know that Shovel Knight Showdown started as a fundraising goal for the Kickstarter of the original game ?
text: Did you know that Nick Whiteside overcame a torn Achilles tendon in 2021 and a broken foot in 2022 to play in the National Football League in 2023?
text: Did you know that the Salmon Report (1966) led to the loss of the job title " matron " from UK hospitals?
text: Did you know that Joan Phillip offered to give any MLAs who were rude to her a whack with her Saskatoon berry stick?
text: Did you know that during the ibedul succession dispute , Gloria Salii held a ceremony for her son in which he washed his hands in turtle blood?
text: Did you know that Shiv Palekar is trained in both the Suzuki method and Butoh form of acting?
text: Did you know that the AtariWriter word processor for the Atari 8-bit family sold over 800,000 copies, about one copy for every five machines sold?
text: Did you know that Stephen Gould performed three roles at the 2022 Bayreuth Festival : Tannhäuser , Siegfried and Tristan , earning him nicknames such as "Iron Man"?
text: Did you know that during Siam Niramit , a Bangkok cultural show, the forestage was transformed into a 50-metre-long (160 ft) river?
text: Did you know that addicts imprisoned in Wormwood Scrubs named the prison football team "Glatt Dynamos", after their psychotherapist Max Glatt , a former Nazi concentration-camp inmate?
text: Did you know that Empire of Liberty was published twenty-seven years after its preceding volume in the Oxford History of the United States series?
text: Did you know that at the age of 14, Jenny Suo conducted a science experiment that ultimately led to GlaxoSmithKline pleading guilty to breaching consumer protection laws?
text: Did you know that from March to May 1962, 60,000 Chinese citizens migrated to the Soviet Union through two ports of entry?
text: Did you know that aviator Paul Pavelka was killed after being thrown and trampled by a horse?
text: Did you know that Laguna Honda Hospital is a non-profit long-term care facility that has been described as America's "last big almshouse "?
text: Did you know that Yunè Pinku derived the first half of her stage name from a childhood nickname and the second half from the children's program Pingu ?
text: Did you know that a college designed for and led by Native Americans was active in Chicago from 1974 to 2005?
text: Did you know that John Boswell believed that the executed King Charles I of England was a martyr?
text: Did you know that zanana can refer to a nagging wife in Egypt, or to Israeli drones flying overhead in Gaza?
text: Did you know that Dora Goldstein exposed mice to alcoholic vapor to investigate the biochemistry of alcohol addiction and alcohol withdrawal syndrome ?
text: Did you know that intangible heritage unique to Palestine includes women's story-telling, embroidery, dance, and soap-making?
text: Did you know that before becoming a jungle musician , Nia Archives wanted to be an archaeologist?
text: Did you know that a Brisbane Lions player said the sight of a jerrycan motivated her team during the 2023 AFL Women's Grand Final ?
text: Did you know that Sun Haiyan is the first Chinese ambassador to Singapore who was not a member of the Foreign Ministry of China ?
text: Did you know that it took eleven years for the instrumental track " I'm God " to receive an official release?
text: Did you know that after Joseph S. Bartley was sentenced to twenty years in prison for embezzlement, he tried to have himself declared legally dead ?
text: Did you know that the artiodactyl Ephelcomenus is thought to have been capable of burrowing?
text: Did you know that after Nadezhda Bantle was exiled to the Russian North , she oversaw the development of the hospital in Nikolskoye to become the most advanced in its region?
text: Did you know that the design of the Baldwin–Reynolds House , a mansion built for U.S. Supreme Court justice Henry Baldwin , may have been inspired by Andrew Jackson 's home?
text: Did you know that pathologist Vincent Marks helped reverse the conviction of socialite Claus von Bülow in a case that was adapted for the film Reversal of Fortune ?
text: Did you know that enrollment at a school for African-American students in Virginia grew from 14 pupils to 1,300 in its first ten years?
text: Did you know that George Daniel submitted his band 's demos as coursework while in college?
text: Did you know that the only proposal from the 1749 book Free and Candid Disquisitions to be implemented by the Church of England was a prayer "for the ceasing of the distemper" of cattle?
text: Did you know that conservation in Indonesia had little local support after independence because it was associated with the Dutch colonial period ?
text: Did you know that Mariia Vetrova 's self-immolation provoked student protests in Saint Petersburg, Moscow and Kyiv?
text: Did you know that Fortnite 's Tilted Towers was described by critics as the equivalent of "psychological torture" and being "dropped into a meat grinder"?
text: Did you know that Elijah Hewson ' s band Inhaler 's UK No. 1 debut album charted 51 places higher than the debut album of his father 's band U2 ?
text: Did you know that the Platt Report was commissioned to improve British nursing education, as at the time up to 50 per cent of trainee nurses failed to qualify?
text: Did you know that in 2022, Julia Dorsey helped North Carolina win a national lacrosse championship and reach the national soccer final ?
text: Did you know that it took the King of Italy 22 years to decide whether France or Mexico owned Clipperton Island ?
text: Did you know that Martina Fernández plays football for Barcelona and studies part-time at a biomedical laboratory?
text: Did you know that Southern Water was fined £90 million for deliberately dumping sewage into the sea?
text: Did you know that Princess Zelda 's name was inspired by American novelist and socialite Zelda Fitzgerald ?
text: Did you know that a bus-chase sequence in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings took more than a year to plan and was revised more than twenty times?
text: Did you know that cornetist Al Sweet dressed his band, the White Hussars, in flashy white-and-gold military uniforms based on hussars ?
text: Did you know that the 400th episode of Neighbours features the serial's first ever Christmas story?
text: Did you know that a street in Bucharest was once named after Ioniță Tunsu , an outlaw who used to visit his girlfriend there?
text: Did you know that Annie Nathan Meyer 's Black Souls was one of the first " lynching dramas" created by a white woman?
text: Did you know that Ray E. Dillon Jr. flew in 92 combat missions during World War II before becoming the president and CEO of Dillons ?
text: Did you know that Kaija Saariaho 's 2021 opera Innocence includes traditional Finnish cow-herding calls?
text: Did you know that Megan Barton-Hanson dated her costars from Love Island 4 , Celebs Go Dating , and Ex on the Beach , but not Hey Tracey! ?
text: Did you know that the packaging of one Thai throat lozenge features five centipedes ?
text: Did you know that Dr. Twink Twining was a Major League Baseball player?
text: Did you know that eyelash seaweed may have been made extinct by a single 2016 earthquake ?
text: Did you know that Gurdev Singh Gill was the first Canadian physician of Indian descent?
text: Did you know that adding the site isolation security feature made Google Chrome use 10 percent more RAM ?
text: Did you know that the Filipino musician No Rome took his stage name from people doubting his career choice?
text: Did you know that the Chompi Kickstarter campaign was one of the most successful of 2023?
text: Did you know that Holly Ringland wrote her second book while stuck in Australia for three years during the COVID-19 pandemic ?
text: Did you know that adherents of effective accelerationism believe that unrestricted technological progress would be a solution for poverty and war?
text: Did you know that William Aditya Sarana was sworn in as a regional legislator four days before he graduated from university?
text: Did you know that millions of people from Madagascar claim ancestral ties to ancient Jews , according to a centuries-old origin myth called the " Malagasy secret "?
text: Did you know that Sunday lunch with Robert Alexander Neil was called "the best intellectual thing in Cambridge "?
text: Did you know that the Apollo 14 Suprathermal Ion Detector Experiment is credited with the first direct observation of water on the Moon ?
text: Did you know that Minecraft YouTuber SkyDoesMinecraft , once the eleventh-most subscribed creator on the platform, attempted to sell their YouTube channel for nearly a million dollars?
text: Did you know that Harley Poe 's folk punk lyrics have been described as "some of the most deranged in the genre"?
text: Did you know that the Nagagamisis Provincial Park has been enlarged four times and once reduced in size?
text: Did you know that Kirk Raymond Jones became the first person to survive going over Niagara Falls without safety equipment, then died after going over it again in an inflatable ball?
text: Did you know that a 16-year-old high-school student reverse-engineered iMessage to let Android users text iPhone users with blue chat bubbles using the Beeper Mini app?
text: Did you know that with an inclination of 1 in 2.5, the slipway at Newquay Lifeboat Station was  one of the steepest in England?
text: Did you know that heist-horror film Johnny & Clyde has been called "unwatchable"?
text: Did you know that Romanian adventure novelist N. D. Popescu-Popnedea "generate[d] laughter" with his deposition at a political assassin's trial?
text: Did you know that Misfat al Abriyeen in Oman was named one of the best tourism villages by the World Tourism Organization in 2021?
text: Did you know that King Charles III of Navarre wanted his illegitimate son Lancelot to become a bishop but the pope forbade it?
text: Did you know that in one neighborhood commission district , the voters and officeholders are all inmates at the D.C. Jail?
text: Did you know that SB19 's second extended play (EP), Pagtatag! , is part of a trilogy about their artistry?
text: Did you know that in 1976, Carmen Valero became the first female track and field athlete to represent Spain at the Olympics ?
text: Did you know that yobidashi often receive their trousers from sumo wrestlers who have been promoted to the rank of yokozuna or ōzeki ?
text: Did you know that Fionna Campbell was created as gender-swapped Adventure Time fan art, but ended up getting her own show ?
text: Did you know that for the southern molly , sexual selection favors smaller males because they copulate by sneaking up to females?
text: Did you know that Patrick O'Connell made his NFL debut on his birthday, in the only game he played that year?
text: Did you know that " he would, wouldn't he "?
text: Did you know that Babe Ruth Bows Out marked the first time a sports-related image won the Pulitzer Prize for Photography ?
text: Did you know that voice actress Mako Morino played volleyball for 14 years, but gave up the goal of playing professionally after being assigned to the non-serving libero position?
text: Did you know that Kevin Feige first envisioned a shared universe featuring the Avengers in the mid-2000s?
text: Did you know that sociologist Richard Twine has developed the concept of the "vegan killjoy" who challenges anthropocentrism by their mere presence?
text: Did you know that Porter Robinson chose the title Nurture for his second album due to its evocation of the word nature and as a reference to the nature versus nurture debate?
text: Did you know that the documentary Tish uses sets from Ricky Gervais 's sitcom After Life ?
text: Did you know that scientist Adelaida K. Semesi was known as "mama mangroves" due to her specialist knowledge of their ecology?
text: Did you know that unlike most skin cancers, a nevoid melanoma may have an almost perfectly symmetrical shape?
text: Did you know that Storm Poly caused hundreds to be stranded at Amsterdam's central station as it passed the Netherlands?
text: Did you know that children have programmed Hackaball as a Magic 8 Ball , a whoopee cushion, and an alarm clock?
text: Did you know that Cisco wine was nicknamed "liquid crack "?
text: Did you know that Walt Whitman 's brain was donated to the American Anthropometric Society but was accidentally destroyed?
text: Did you know that Edward Hopper wondered what an empty room would look like with no one to see it?
text: Did you know that Let's All Go to the Lobby , a one-minute filmed advertisement, has been preserved by the US National Film Registry ?
text: Did you know that a California TV station had a cartoon bee as its mascot?
text: Did you know that Winter Renouf , a British member of the Indian Civil Service , thought that farmers in the Punjab should grow Canadian wheat varieties?
text: Did you know that Van Morrison performed and recorded a collection of ancient Irish poems for Moles nightclub in Bath, Somerset ?
text: Did you know that Donald Sutherland asked to play Coriolanus Snow in The Hunger Games films as he hoped the series would inspire a revolutionary movement among young people?
text: Did you know that a story about Call of Duty: Warzone led to Video Games Chronicle 's Twitter account being temporarily locked?
text: Did you know that the author of the Alex novels says they are not semi-autobiographical, even though she was herself a champion teenage swimmer like the protagonist?
text: Did you know that the band Ryokuoushoku Shakai was named after its members misheard "vegetables" ( 野菜 , yasai ) as "society" ( 社会 , shakai ) ?
text: Did you know that one of Arch Wolfe 's duties as an NFL general manager was to prevent his players from fighting the referees?
text: Did you know that the Frick Collection is not allowed to lend out some of its art?
text: Did you know that the constant losses of Pokémon series protagonist Ash Ketchum have been highlighted for teaching positive lessons to viewers?
text: Did you know that the Chevalier d'Eon de Beaumont inspired the name of the transgender rights organisation the Beaumont Society ?
text: Did you know that Nils Elias Anckers was a kommendör in the Swedish Navy who won a silver medal at the 1900 Paris Exposition for his artwork?
text: Did you know that the canoe Mānuka is said to have voyaged to the Polynesian homeland and brought back tubers that would not grow?
text: Did you know that Esther Merle Jackson , as a specialist in theatre and dance education at the United States Office of Education , intended to expand theater's role in the Great Society ?
text: Did you know that a dispute over 600 machine guns led Czechoslovakia and Portugal to break off diplomatic relations for nearly 37 years?
text: Did you know that the spirit liverwort is called such because of its proximity to the Māori afterlife?
text: Did you know that Angelle 's debut single was promoted with an entire television channel – and still only reached number 43 on the UK Singles Chart?
text: Did you know that the video game Fursan al-Aqsa received an update that allows players to reenact the October 7 attacks on Israel ?
text: Did you know that cultures of the fungus Lentinus brumalis have been flown on three different satellites?
text: Did you know that the English herbalist Nicholas Culpeper claimed that eating alkanet leaves would make a person's spit deadly to serpents?
text: Did you know that Native Americans in Seattle sought refuge on an artificial island composed of waste thrown overboard from ships ?
text: Did you know that the UAW 's 1941 union contract with the Ford Motor Company included a then-unique antidiscrimination clause negotiated by Black foundryman Shelton Tappes ?
text: Did you know that the urban legend Herobrine was ranked on a Guinness World Records poll of the best video game villains, despite never existing?
text: Did you know that "End Zone" Jones ran for a career high in his final regular season game with Nebraska to finish third in the school's history in career rushing yards?
text: Did you know that the Khalij , an ancient canal in Cairo, was replaced by a boulevard in the 1890s?
text: Did you know that following a boycott orchestrated by church groups, a Texas TV station ceased airing the controversial NYPD Blue after just a month?
text: Did you know that Mexican filmmaker David Zonana wrote his first feature film after producing for two other directors?
text: Did you know that the Cranford Rose Garden at Brooklyn Botanic Garden was cited as having 1,200 varieties of roses?
text: Did you know that the Qurna Queen 's tomb may be the only complete royal burial exported in its entirety from Egypt?
text: Did you know that in the Çöpler mine disaster in Turkey, nine gold miners were trapped under a collapse of heap leach material?
text: Did you know that Townsends , a YouTube channel dedicated to life in 18th-century America, has featured a 1784 recipe for macaroni and cheese ?
text: Did you know that in some rare cases, large Siberian tigers prey on adult brown bears ?
text: Did you know that gynecologist Linda Giudice found that bisphenol A contamination in water systems correlates with higher miscarriage rates?
text: Did you know that a massive smallpox epidemic struck the Pacific Northwest shortly before historical records were kept?
text: Did you know that Karsten Januschke 's conducting of Offenbach's Die Banditen was described as producing a "lean, dry, [and] delicate" sound with an ensemble of 22 soloists, including 11 tenors?
text: Did you know that in accordance with Hale's law , sunspot groups have magnetic fields that align in opposite directions on opposite sides of the Sun's equator?
text: Did you know that due to segregation, coach Millard Naylor 's high school football team needed to play out-of-state opponents for his first 19 seasons?
text: Did you know that during the rollout of her album Can You See Me? , Rezz released a sex toy?
text: Did you know that George Parks was president of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and his son Rowan Parks became president of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh ?
text: Did you know that Majed Abu Maraheel , the first Palestinian Olympian, tended flowers for a living before becoming an Olympic runner?
text: Did you know that Apollo 17 carried a 6-pound (2.7 kg) explosive charge as part of the Lunar Seismic Profiling Experiment ?
text: Did you know that Edwin Atwater and his brother were the first people to import glass into Canada?
text: Did you know that a former section of U.S. Route 101 was nicknamed the "Bloody Bayshore" for its frequent collisions?
text: Did you know that Gerald Willis , after working as a bus driver at age 15, started a business that earned $2 million per year and built a replica of the Hermitage after watching The President's Lady ?
text: Did you know that Ian Begg restored Muckrach Castle after over 200 years without a roof?
text: Did you know that John Jones took a leave of absence just days before succeeding Bob Harlan as chief executive officer of the Green Bay Packers , and ultimately left the team a few months later?
text: Did you know that Missouri's annual Snake Saturday parade originally began in a hotel parking lot with only four floats?
text: Did you knowthat the influential Armenian merchants Petik and Sanos expanded the Armenian Church of the Forty Martyrs in Aleppo, in spite of Ottoman laws that banned new construction and expansion of churches?
text: Did you know that Keivonn Woodard 's nomination for The Last of Us made him the second-youngest actor and first black deaf actor to be nominated at the Emmys ?
text: Did you know that an unnamed abuse survivor risks her life to become a spy in "one of the bravest actions in all of the Book of Mormon "?
text: Did you know that Scytalopus krabbei is named after Niels Krabbe , who discovered seven other species in its genus?
text: Did you know that Canadian surgeon Robin McLeod advocated for post-operative patients to get back on their feet and move around immediately, against the prevailing guidance that they should stay in bed?
text: Did you know that the Sydney asbestos crisis started when a child brought home handfuls of mulch from a playground?
text: Did you know that Velma Whitman had "one of the largest and most elaborate wardrobes" for a vaudeville performer thanks to her collection of designer-made English and French gowns?
text: Did you know that Institutiones rei herbariae , published in 1700, sought to give a unique name to every plant based on their "essence"?
text: Did you know that Edward Hopper 's 1963 painting Intermission can be viewed as a metaphor for the world as theater ?
text: Did you know that footballer Keira Walsh first captained England in 2018, when she was the youngest player in the squad?
text: Did you know that foam has been used to kill farm animals en masse in a process called foam depopulation ?
text: Did you know that Jaroslav Záruba tricked a Waffen-SS unit into surrendering to the Government Army of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia by falsely claiming that British troops were advancing against Prague ?
text: Did you know that the fossil fern Dickwhitea was described from a single block of chert ?
text: Did you know that Andrew Dakich received an athletic scholarship while under police escort ?
text: Did you know that the buyers of the house featured in American Horror Story: Murder House sued its sellers for not disclosing that the house was featured on the series?
text: Did you know that Rear Admiral Richard Washbourn bought the bell of HMS Chevron for £8 and donated it to Collingwood School ?
text: Did you know that although his leg was shortened by 5 cm (2.0 in) following a battlefield injury, Raoul Augereau continued his military service?
text: Did you know that the extinct genus Mixtotherium , meaning 'mixed beast', has traits of both extinct primates and hyraxes ?
text: Did you know that before Sean Jackson won three Ivy League basketball championships, he won high school state championships in both baseball and basketball?
text: Did you know that Aaron Bushnell said that his action of setting himself on fire was less extreme than "what people have been experiencing in Palestine at the hands of their colonizers"?
text: Did you know that Prince Hubertus is the heir apparent to the head of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha , a royal dynasty to which Elizabeth II belonged?
text: Did you know that the album Dariacore took inspiration from Internet memes ?
text: Did you know that Francis Fogarty , who went on to manage an NFL franchise for nearly two decades, was taken prisoner by the Nazis in World War II but managed to escape while wounded?
text: Did you know that men of a Namibian tribe "share" their wives with visitors ?
text: Did you know that marketers try to turn a women-only script in China into a branding device for "high-end potatoes" in the documentary Hidden Letters ?
text: Did you know that in addition to his work as a scientist, Robert Hooke was an architect who designed the Monument to the Great Fire of London so that it could also have a practical value as a scientific instrument ?
text: Did you know that Pat Robertson let his Christian TV station in Dallas air wrestling because it drew viewers and fetched high advertising rates?
text: Did you know that Ivan Ančić was the first Bosnian Franciscan to use the Latin script to write in his native language?
text: Did you know that an interstate catalytic converter theft ring generated US$545 million in revenue?
text: Did you know that basketball player Gary Bossert has made 11 consecutive three-point shots and at least 31 consecutive free throws ?
text: Did you know that one of the first Polish science fiction novels featured a trip to the South Pole by airship, a decade before a similar airship was built?
text: Did you know that voice actresses Miharu Hanai and Aina Suzuki were revealed to be sisters when they were both cast in an anime TV series ?
text: Did you know that as music director of the Oper Hagen , Florian Ludwig promoted a wide repertoire that included contemporary operas such as Barber's Vanessa and crossover projects?
text: Did you know that the Lemmon Petrified Wood Park & Museum contains 3,200 tons of petrified wood?
text: Did you know that E. Graham Howe "introduced Eastern philosophy to psychotherapy in England"?
text: Did you know that the video game mode Ultimate Team has been criticized for its reliance on loot box packs, considered to be a controversial form of gambling?
text: Did you know that police officer Kevin Davis 's father, grandfather, and great-grandfather all served in public safety?
text: Did you know that The Wall Street Journal considered the removal of compulsory figures from Olympic figure skating to be an "obvious" decision, and subsequent attempts to revive them as "surprising"?
text: Did you know that Matt Stoller believes that "nearly any other cause or political relationship should be sacrificed" to break up monopolies ?
text: Did you know that the Korean protest song " Morning Dew " was banned in North and South Korea?
text: Did you know that the psychological inner space genre was a rebellion against the traditional focus of science fiction on literal outer space ?
text: Did you know that according to Billboard magazine, Laufey created a blueprint for jazz music in the modern music industry and helped push it back into the mainstream?
text: Did you know that the tablet PY Ta 641 was instrumental in proving that Michael Ventris had indeed deciphered Linear B ?
text: Did you know that despite falling out with novelist Thomas Wolfe , Kenneth Raisbeck was the basis for a character in Of Time and the River ?
text: Did you know that only one fruit but several thousand seeds were known when Allenbya collinsonae was named?
text: Did you know that when Kelsey Lauritano portrayed Mozart's Cherubino , a reviewer from the FAZ noted her "almost metallic-brittle approach that spreads androgynous infatuation"?
text: Did you know that Mildmay Mission Hospital in East London is the only hospital in Europe specialising in the care and rehabilitation of people with HIV-associated neurocognitive disorder ?
text: Did you know that Sukadji Hendrotomo 's daughter solemnized her marriage contract in front of his deceased body?
text: Did you know that Jo-anne Wilkinson and Graeme Dingle crossed the Bering Sea in a leaking boat?
text: Did you know that Archbishop Lando of Messina abandoned his archdiocese in 1238 and spent the rest of his life in his hometown of Anagni?
text: Did you know that an Illinois radio station closed down to reduce interference with television reception?
text: Did you know that Bob Moore did not found Bob's Red Mill until after his first retirement?
text: Did you know that the titular character in " Beebo the God of War " was inspired by Tickle Me Elmo ?
text: Did you know that Alfred de Laage de Meux received the rank of brevet without completing aviation school?
text: Did you know that the skeleton panda sea squirt was known on the Internet for its skeleton-like appearance years before its formal description?
text: Did you know that according to Indian chef Imtiaz Qureshi , who is credited with reviving the cooking tradition of dum pukht , all biryanis are pulaos ?
text: Did you know that Oakwood Cemetery contains the graves of Confederate soldiers and officers, English, Canadian, and French World War II pilots, and Hank Williams ?
text: Did you know that May O'Flaherty 's purchase in 1949 of Parsons Bookshop, which would become a hub of activity in Dublin's Baggotonia , was inadvertent?
text: Did you know that Piri formed a band with Porij 's guitarist after matching with him on Tinder?
text: Did you know that the Love Island series 8 contestant Tasha Ghouri went viral in early 2024 after uploading a video to TikTok using her "deaf accent"?
text: Did you know that one Baltimore Orioles player compared the 2024 Major League Baseball jerseys to knockoffs from TJ Maxx ?
text: Did you know that John Blackinger quit his job as the general manager of a professional football team to work in the dairy business?
text: Did you know that during their two-minute performance at the Oulu City Theatre , the group Jumalan teatteri caused a huge scandal by throwing excrement, eggs and yoghurt at the audience?
text: Did you know that Fabrizio Dori wants his comic book Il dio vagabondo to bring attention to an ancient Greek view of death?
text: Did you know that Paul Nunn worked as a climbing double for Sean Connery on the film Five Days One Summer ?
text: Did you know that it took a particle accelerator and machine-learning algorithms to extract the charred text of PHerc. Paris. 4 without unrolling it?
text: Did you know that American mezzo-soprano Cecelia Hall portrayed the lead male role in Mozart's Ascanio in Alba ?
text: Did you know that New York Rangers forward Matt Rempe is the first ice hockey player to make his National Hockey League debut in an outdoor game?
text: Did you know that Weise's law was first proposed as a way to explain why cognates differ unexpectedly in ancient Greek and Sanskrit ?
text: Did you know that Oregon state senator William Kuykendall was a physician who founded the first hospital in Eugene, Oregon ?
text: Did you know that Grounded , an opera about drone warfare, was sponsored by General Dynamics , a major military contractor?
text: Did you know that jazz singer Judi Singh 's mother and father were, respectively, among the earliest Black and Sikh settlers of Alberta , Canada?
text: Did you know that the Elmwood Tower may have once been the tallest building in Omaha ?
text: Did you know that R. Ames Montgomery resigned as president of Centre College after students petitioned to remove him for de-emphasizing football ?
text: Did you know that Britney Spears 's 2011 song " Selfish " reached number one on the iTunes chart in 2024?
text: Did you know that despite a career writing queer literature, Chen Xue 's 2019 novel Fatherless City had a "putatively straight premise"?
text: Did you know that singer-songwriter Madi Diaz released her sixth studio album, Weird Faith , after touring with Harry Styles ?
text: Did you know that Kate Gleason would wear her most feminine attire available as a strategy to sell bevel gears ?
text: Did you know that Alan Wace recruited Walter Abel Heurtley , a former military prison governor, to help manage the students of the British School at Athens ?
text: Did you know that Zoé Clauzure won the 2023 Junior Eurovision Song Contest with a song about school bullying ?
text: Did you know that Cobb Power Station has the highest-elevation hydroelectric storage lake in New Zealand?
text: Did you know that Woodrow Wilson , Hermann Collitz , and Carey Thomas all taught at Bryn Mawr College before becoming presidents?
text: Did you know that Xebec Corporation 's partnership with IBM was both their greatest achievement and their eventual downfall?
text: Did you know that Frank Fitzgerald was the general manager of an NFL team that played under four names in five years?
text: Did you know that DeeDo secured a license to feature characters from the manga series Doraemon on its products?
text: Did you know that My Chemical Romance and Fall Out Boy are not emo bands, according to Is This Band Emo ?
text: Did you know that " GBI (German Bold Italic) " has been described as the first song written about a specific typeface ?
text: Did you know that Australian Madeleine Steere played water polo professionally in Turkey after studying biomolecular science in the United States?
text: Did you know that Tapir! often wear red papier-mâché heads while performing, representing the character of "The Pilgrim"?
text: Did you know that former foreign minister Ali Ahmed Karti was elected secretary general of the Sudanese Islamic Movement in a secret meeting?
text: Did you know that an Indiana newspaper donated its TV station to the local high school instead of shutting it down?
text: Did you know that the title of Vampire Weekend 's upcoming fifth studio album, Only God Was Above Us , is derived from a 1988 New York Daily News article about an aircraft's roof being torn off mid-flight ?
text: Did you know that a journalists' poll rated Billy Fitzgerald the second-best Canadian lacrosse player of the first half of the 20th century?
text: Did you know that mule deer sometimes prefer the flavor of one Rocky Mountain juniper tree, like "ice cream", over another?
text: Did you know that Xu Garden was created by community residents grateful to their local warlord?
text: Did you know that while pretending to be a prince of Montenegro, Italian journalist Stefano Černetić met with royalty and made Pamela Anderson a countess?
text: Did you know that more than 50 Microsoft engineers opposed the development of the Integrated Visual Augmentation System , as they believed this made them war profiteers ?
text: Did you know that Rhinecliff station was unusually large for a small hamlet due to the influence of John Jacob Astor IV and Levi P. Morton ?
text: Did you know that Sinéad O'Connor personally invited M-Beat to remix her single " Fire on Babylon " after meeting him backstage at Top of the Pops ?
text: Did you know that the 2026 FIFA World Cup final will be hosted by a stadium that is cutting corners ?
text: Did you know that before charting on the UK Albums Chart with Are We There Yet? , the indie rock musician James Marriott had made a career of mocking other YouTubers ' music?
text: Did you know that San Rafael Falls , once Ecuador's largest waterfall, was swallowed by a sinkhole in February 2020 and no longer exists?
text: Did you know that Latvian-Soviet artist Karlis Johansons exhibited a skeletal tensegrity form of the Schönhardt polyhedron seven years before Erich Schönhardt 's 1928 paper on its mathematics?
text: Did you know that Walker Keith Baylor , a strong believer in phrenology and physiognomy , determined the fitness of political candidates by measuring their faces and heads with a tape measure ?
text: Did you know that names have been steadily added to a Bellingham fishermen's memorial as local fishermen are lost at sea?
text: Did you know that Diana, Princess of Wales , drove through the night to be with Adrian Ward-Jackson before he died?
text: Did you know that in nearly one in three clinical trials , authors engage in outcome switching , which can undermine the reliability of the trials?
text: Did you know that Lewes Friends Meeting House , built in 1784, replaced an earlier building whose proximity to a slaughterhouse made it "unfit to sit in"?
text: Did you know that only approximately 50 individuals have been diagnosed with Beck–Fahrner syndrome ?
text: Did you know that " runology " is the study of how to run away from China?
text: Did you know that the Scottish surgeon John Blair was the only dux of his high school to receive his gold medal in the presence of his wife and child?
text: Did you know that the 2023 drama film Time Still Turns the Pages won the Audience Choice Award at the 60th Golden Horse Awards ?
text: Did you know that the abandoned New World Department Store in Bangkok became home to thousands of fish?
text: Did you know that Singaporean chef and restaurateur Tan Kue Kim cooked while wearing a S$ 40,000 gold Rolex watch?
text: Did you know that some online social and " Barstool conservatives " spent their Christmas holidays arguing about whether a beer promotional calendar was "demonic" ?
text: Did you know that as she commenced chemotherapy , Irish singer Majella O'Donnell raised more than €350,000 for the Irish Cancer Society with a sponsored head shave live on The Late Late Show ?
text: Did you know that US president Calvin Coolidge left Mystic, South Dakota , in a lumber wagon?
text: Did you know that the 1974 conference Transvestism and Transsexualism in Modern Society in Leeds became an early platform for the emergence of terms such as "gender alignment" and "trans.people"?
text: Did you know that both Thackeray and Longfellow bought paintings by Fanny Steers ?
text: Did you know that Samoa House was the first fale (traditional Samoan house) built outside of Samoa?
text: Did you know that as a high schooler in 2018, Logan O'Hoppe caught a home-run ball at Yankee Stadium hit by visiting player Manny Machado and was televised throwing it back on the field?
text: Did you know that Lana Del Rey , who is known as an alt-pop artist, will release her first official country album, Lasso , this year?
text: Did you know that Patricia Grace did not intend for her novel Potiki , about the impact of land development on an indigenous community, to be seen as political?
text: Did you know that in the 1934 German referendum , some areas recorded more votes than there were eligible voters?
text: Did you know that the record label Tidy Trax released an album in 2023 to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the death of Tony De Vit , the "godfather of UK hard house "?
text: Did you know that the city of Tacoma, Washington , incentivized building Seattle–Tacoma International Airport at Bow Lake by contributing $100,000?
text: Did you know that after dodging censorship for years, The Korea Daily News was finally bought out and turned into a publication of the Japanese colonial government in Korea ?
text: Did you know that the Buddhist-studies scholar Paula Arai suffered racial and sexual discrimination while researching Sōtō Zen laywomen and nuns?
text: Did you know that Zwycięzcy oceanu , a Polish young-adult adventure book from 1890, features Polish, English, and American characters?
text: Did you know that Charles Knight 's wartime painting activities led to him being mistaken for a German spy?
text: Did you know that the first game in Georgetown football history was never played?
text: Did you know that Family 1 , a closely related group of Greek New Testament manuscripts, place the passage of the woman caught in adultery at the end of the Gospel of John as a separate story?
text: Did you know that the Canada Centre Building has one of the first aquifer thermal energy storage systems?
text: Did you know that Spring Lake has suffered from an infestation of Eurasian water milfoil , a noxious weed ?
text: Did you know that Indian aristocrat and photographer Umrao Singh Sher-Gil left more than 3000 prints and negatives, including many of his daughter Amrita Sher-Gil , documenting life in Europe and India?
text: Did you know that a Variety critic suggested that the title of Ariana Grande 's " Yes, And? " followed on from that of " Thank U, Next "?
text: Did you know that as a result of the medicalisation of sexuality , sexual disorders like erectile dysfunction have been used as a "penile health gauge" to measure general wellbeing?
text: Did you know that in New Orleans, galleries differ from balconies because they feature supporting posts?
text: Did you know that Lovro Šitović , a 17th-century Croatian Franciscan friar who wrote a Latin grammar, was a convert from Islam?
text: Did you know that the creators of the cartoon Jade Armor filmed live-action martial arts stunts to visualize the show's animated action sequences?
text: Did you know that trans women in Cape Verde are colloquially referred to as tchindas , named after Tchinda Andrade , the first trans woman in the country to come out publicly?
text: Did you know that the dish gogi-guksu , from South Korea's Jeju Island , developed in part because of the Japanese colonial period ?
text: Did you know that So Sethaputra compiled his authoritative English–Thai dictionary while in prison, with the manuscripts smuggled out for publication?
text: Did you know that after being named the general manager of the Minnesota Vikings for three years, Fran Foley served in the position for just three months?
text: Did you know that Will Smith took part in the expedition that discovered the northern green anaconda ?
text: Did you know that at the age of 28, Mason Morelli became the first player in Vegas Golden Knights franchise history to record two points in their National Hockey League debut game?
text: Did you know that the Kīlauea lava cricket disappears from a lava field as soon as any plants start to grow there?
text: Did you know that the British political theorist Chris Armstrong has called for a "blue new deal" to secure ecological resilience for the ocean and a just blue economy ?
text: Did you know that Songs from Suicide Bridge was recorded in a repurposed tool shed?
text: Did you know that several organisers of the Hindu Mela were involved in a secret society that manufactured matchsticks?
text: Did you know that Julian Assange 's lawyer argued that the rules set by the Ecuadorian embassy requiring Assange to take care of his pet cat Michi were "denigrating"?
text: Did you know that Indian historian R. Champakalakshmi was a script consultant for Bharat Ek Khoj , a television series based on Jawaharlal Nehru 's The Discovery of India ?
text: Did you know that Tom Landry led the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League to a record 20 consecutive winning seasons ?
text: Did you know that Jack Biddle was the first and only person to be elected to the Alabama Legislature as a Democratic , Republican , and independent representative?
text: Did you know that only 130 personnel joined the United States Army 's Slavic Legion ?
text: Did you know that the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize is the only Nobel Peace Prize ever to have been declined?
text: Did you know that the 1993 Pacific hurricane season generated more than double the average number of major hurricanes , which have sustained winds of at least 111 mph (179 km/h)?
text: Did you know that sports journalist Tim Burke specialized in capturing "offbeat" moments through GIFs ?
text: Did you know that the King Tornado football team once won by a score of 206–0 – without even playing the full game?
text: Did you know that the album cover for Bruce Springsteen 's Born to Run has been imitated by several musicians, as well as the Sesame Street characters Bert and Cookie Monster ?
text: Did you know that as part of the Hardpoint missile defense system, ARPA developed missiles able to hit 377 g of acceleration with reaction times in milliseconds?
text: Did you know that Enass Muzamel established the Sudanese Female Cyclists Initiative to challenge the stigma against women riding bikes in Sudan?
text: Did you know that only months after going out of business, Milkrun relaunched?
text: Did you know that Aaron Hertzman paid $25 to have a team in the National Football League ?
text: Did you know that Rubymar was the first ship sunk by Houthi missiles during the Red Sea crisis ?
text: Did you know that a Missouri TV station blew up its call letters – literally?
text: Did you know that 320-pound (145 kg) Brandon Coleman runs at 18 miles per hour (29 km/h)?
text: Did you know that in South Africa's genocide case against Israel , the International Court of Justice ordered Israel to "punish the direct and public incitement to commit genocide" against Palestinians in Gaza ?
text: Did you know that after losing his brother to suicide, Turno collaborated with Skepsis and Charlotte Plank on a single about men's mental health ?
text: Did you know that the stage for Pantheon ad Lucem by Alexander McQueen evoked imagery of alien starships and the Roman Colosseum ?
text: Did you know that when Mexia Supermarket was abandoned because of its owners' bankruptcy, all of the food inside was left to rot for more than three months?
text: Did you know that the British musician Charlie Deakin Davies cofounded the Trans Creative Collective, a directory of transgender musicians?
text: Did you know that Henry Clay Frick would not take World War I as an excuse for delays in the construction of his New York City house ?
text: Did you know that Bill Post helped invent the Pop-Tart ?
text: Did you know that after criticising horsegiirL 's "My Barn My Rules" live on air, the British DJ Arielle Free was suspended from BBC Radio 1 for a week?
text: Did you know that the Andrew Carnegie Mansion in New York City was designed by "the only architects in the city who had not begged for the job"?
text: Did you know that Marcos G. McGrath , the Catholic archbishop of Panama, was allowed to enter Manuel Noriega 's "witch house" and other residences, and found evidence of torture, devil worship, and voodoo?
text: Did you know that the Chicago Community Bond Fund sought to put itself out of business by eliminating cash bail ?
text: Did you know that Dave Jamerson was the first NCAA Division I men's basketball player to make 14 three-point shots in a game?
text: Did you know that Nicki Minaj , who receives a shoutout from Ben Shapiro in his song " Facts ", congratulated him when it reached number one on the iTunes chart?
text: Did you know that a Miami TV station built a news set atop a wooden conference room table?
text: Did you know that the use of trade in prehistoric society may have given humans an evolutionary advantage over Neanderthals ?
text: Did you know that the British rock musician Hannah Grae went viral online with an anti-sexual harassment parody of Aqua 's " Barbie Girl "?
text: Did you know that Michigan 's victory in the 2024 College Football Playoff National Championship marked their first outright national championship since 1948?
text: Did you know that the cherry blossom was used symbolically in Japanese World War II propaganda , with falling petals representing "young soldiers' sacrifice for the emperor"?
text: Did you know that the music video for SB19 's " I Want You " showed scenes of the boy band shot underwater?
text: Did you know that the journalist Wendell Steavenson 's book Circling the Square covers the events of the 2011–2013 Egyptian crisis , which were centered around Cairo's Tahrir Square ?
text: Did you know that lenses for telescopes are being designed using optics inspired by lobster eyes ?
text: Did you know that Sting wrote " We Work the Black Seam " because he felt that "the case for coal was never put to the nation" during the 1984–85 British miners' strike , which began 40 years ago today?
text: Did you know that James May led the team that transplanted a patient's right hand onto his left arm?
text: Did you know that Saint Melangell's shrine was reconstructed from pieces of the 12th-century original found in the walls of the church and lychgate ?
text: Did you know that Rana Reider has trained athletes who won Olympic gold medals in five different events?
text: Did you know that in the song " Carnival ", Kanye West references several public figures including Elon Musk and Taylor Swift ?
text: Did you know that the horse Sardar was gifted to Jacqueline Kennedy during her 1962 goodwill tour of Pakistan ?
text: Did you know that a school in New York City occupies a Renaissance-style palazzo and a "French Renaissance hotel" ?
text: Did you know that gynecologist Mary Lake Polan wrote a medical mystery novel to "demystify" the procedures behind in vitro fertilisation ?
text: Did you know that in his Ethics , Peter Abelard argued that infidels who sincerely believe themselves to be honouring God are not guilty of sin ?
text: Did you know that the Scottish judge Lord Duthie served as an officer in the Royal Naval Reserve ?
text: Did you know that the first election in Baden in which women could vote resulted in nine women being elected to the state legislature ?
text: Did you know that the alt-pop musician Lucy Tun cites death metal and RuPaul's Drag Race as influences?
text: Did you know that Rob Thomas always planned to give iZombie a happy ending ?
text: Did you know that placekicker Cam Little donated money to a Down syndrome organization for every field goal he made?
text: Did you know that Fumiya Takahashi was referred to as "the most handsome high schooler in Japan"?
text: Did you know that popular garden plants like malfurada often escape from cultivation and become invasive ?
text: Did you know that Olivia Olson won state championships as a soccer goalkeeper and a basketball guard ?
text: Did you know that the Jewish cemetery in the Dutch city of Hoorn was cleared in 1968 to make room for a roadway, and the bodily remains and gravestones were moved to the public cemetery?
text: Did you know that Nilüfer Gürsoy 's memoirs detail the 1960 Turkish coup d'état , which overthrew her father?
text: Did you know that during the 1997 Spring Creek flood , a railroad embankment suppressing 8,250 cubic feet (234 m 3 ) of water per second overflowed, causing a train to derail?
text: Did you know that Elizabeth II 's childhood toys at 145 Piccadilly included 30 toy horses and a farm set collected from Woolworths ?
text: Did you know that Caspar Richter co-founded an orchestra in Vienna and conducted it in performances of new musicals including Mozart! and Elisabeth ?
text: Did you know that the Fighting Vanguard waged a guerrilla war against the Syrian government in the 1970s and 1980s?
text: Did you know that Robert Brigandyne constructed the first purpose-built dry dock in England, after King Henry VII 's new warships grew too big to be repaired on mudbanks?
text: Did you know that actor Jim O'Heir consumed numerous cinnamon rolls for a scene in Better Call Saul ?
text: Did you know that the British musician Nieve Ella has a hair salon named after her?
text: Did you know that a reviewer thought that the video game Robbery Bob contained cringeworthy dialogue?
text: Did you know that Muhsin Hendricks of South Africa has been described as "the world's first openly gay imam "?
text: Did you know that S. Iswaran was the first Singaporean cabinet minister to be investigated by the country's Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau since 1986?
text: Did you know that the 2023 Argentine provincial elections were overshadowed by the disappearance of Cecilia Strzyzowski ?
text: Did you know that Steven A. Shaw , one of the first food bloggers, decided to pursue the career that he loved after the early death of his father?
text: Did you know that due to a misunderstanding, Catodontherium was moved from its original genus name?
text: Did you know that after becoming "convinced of the evils of slavery", James Townsend left Kentucky for Indiana ?
text: Did you know that a bust of South Korean president Park Chung Hee in Mullae Park had a Japanese Rising Sun Flag tied to it and was dragged through the streets?
text: Did you know that a well-publicised conflict with a superior officer led British cavalry officer John Williams Reynolds to take a break from his military career, study chemistry and discover propylene ?
text: Did you know that historians oppose the removal of a 150-year-old mosque in New Delhi for alleged traffic congestion, citing its cultural significance?
text: Did you know that the Canadian journalist Bernard Descôteaux is credited with the economic revival of the independent newspaper Le Devoir ?
text: Did you know that a Virginia TV station had to take out title loans to pay its staff?
text: Did you know that Métis guide Pierre St. Germain was forced to remain with an Arctic expedition he considered too dangerous?
text: Did you know that songs recorded by Ben&Ben will be featured in the musical adaptation of the film One More Chance ?
text: Did you know that Mount Churchill , a volcano in Alaska, distributed ash as far as Europe and may have driven migration from Canada to southwestern North America?
text: Did you know that although the Jesuit missionary He Tianzhang despised his "sad Chinese appearance", it allowed him to circumvent the Qing 's ban on Christianity and enter China?
text: Did you know that the slave António Corea may have been the first Korean to visit Europe?
text: Did you know that an Indian rhinoceros , sent as a gift to Pope Leo X in 1515, was immortalised as Dürer's Rhinoceros after dying in a shipwreck?
text: Did you know that Robert H. Brooks passed as a white man to join an all-white unit?
text: Did you know that the 1928 Liechtenstein embezzlement scandal cost 1.8 million Swiss francs, the equivalent of two yearly state budgets?
text: Did you know that Maxine North swore never to return to Thailand after the death of her undercover CIA husband , but ultimately settled there and introduced bottled water to the country ?
text: Did you know that a review of the board game Imhotep stated that it can be chaotic and "extremely mean"?
text: Did you know that Franz Jakob Späth 's fortepianos were favorites of Mozart, but Beethoven refused to play them?
text: Did you know that eccentric Yorkshirewoman Camberley Kate is estimated to have cared for more than 600 dogs in her lifetime?
text: Did you know that Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth was Wole Soyinka 's first novel in nearly fifty years?
text: Did you know that cricketer William O'Rourke has the best match-bowling figures by a New Zealander on a Test debut?
text: Did you know that Biodiversity Impact Credits seek to stop species extinction ?
text: Did you know that the terms " Palestine " and " Palestinians " were being increasingly used in 1908 by the emergent Palestinian press , which expressed anti-Zionist positions?
text: Did you know that ice hockey player Cameron Butler "had the good fortune not to get pulled over as he raced" to reach his team's game in time for his NHL debut?
text: Did you know that the iZombie episode " And He Shall Be a Good Man " gets its name from an Elton John lyric ?
text: Did you know that Sans 's boss theme, " Megalovania ", was played at the Vatican as part of a circus act during an audience with Pope Francis ?
text: Did you know that the Cistern of Pulcheria is one of the best-conserved Byzantine reservoirs in Istanbul ?
text: Did you know that Saint Tarbula of Persia was martyred by being cut in half by a saw after being accused of witchcraft ?
text: Did you know that It Sticks Out Half a Mile is a radio sequel series to Dad's Army that follows three of the main characters in their attempts to renovate a seaside pier in post-war Britain?
text: Did you know that Uwe Boll has described his 2024 crime drama film First Shift as the least violent in his body of work?
text: Did you know that All Nations Baptist Church in New York City is primarily associated with ethnic Koreans of the former Soviet Union ?
text: Did you know that home repair and maintenance educator Mercury Stardust and her friend Jory Vizcaino have raised more than $4 million for transgender healthcare through their TikTok-A-Thon for Trans Healthcare ?
text: Did you know that the promotion and hype around obtaining Mew in the original Pokémon games resulted in the games' sales increasing more than threefold?
text: Did you know that zombie-like obedience has been attributed to Jesuits , the military, and followers of totalitarian regimes?
text: Did you know that Typhoon Wutip in 2019 was the first recorded Category 5 –equivalent tropical cyclone to occur in February in the Northern Hemisphere?
text: Did you know that Yudas Sabaggalet , an Indonesian politician, worked in a Coca-Cola factory while studying at university?
text: Did you know that Destinies of the Soul was the only book that contained human skin in the collection of Harvard University ?
text: Did you know that Clams Casino almost lost his EP Rainforest because his computer stopped working?
text: Did you know that William O. Raymond 's 1905 Glimpses of the Past: History of the River St. John probably recorded the first known Black man in future New Brunswick ?
text: Did you know that Blackpink 's " Forever Young " was heard being played from the group's agency's headquarters three years before it was released?
text: Did you know that the residents of Ukraina and Gorham , North Dakota, were involved in a feud that started with Easter baskets ?
text: Did you know that an activist protested the use of Chinese characters for Taiwanese Indigenous names by changing her legal name to " Lee I want to exclusively list my tribal name, my Bunun tribal name is Savungaz Valincinan "?
text: Did you know that John Bennet Lawes started producing superphosphate , the first chemical manure produced in the world, from fossilised dinosaur dung on an industrial scale?
text: Did you know that World Pilots' Day is celebrated on 26 April to commemorate Fesa Evrensev 's first flight, which took place 112 years ago today?
text: Did you know that the design of Genshin Impact 's Furina has elements inspired by classical stories and musicals?
text: Did you know that Porter Robinson discovered that his song " Ghost Voices " had been nominated for a Grammy through Twitter ?
text: Did you know that one of Ukraine's largest power plants was mostly destroyed by Russians in March 2024?
text: Did you know that Angela Doyinsola Aina helped to found the Black Mamas Matter Alliance to address the higher rate of maternal mortality faced by Black women in the United States ?
text: Did you know that the live-action drama adaptation of Our Dining Table was filmed in the hometown of one of the lead actors?
text: Did you know that Fox bought a Philadelphia TV station started by a Fox?
text: Did you know that Blackpink 's " Pink Venom " incorporates the sounds of traditional Korean instruments such as the geomungo ?
text: Did you know that Iona Allen , "the only one to ever make a perfect pair of boots", constructed the pair worn by Neil Armstrong on the Moon out of thirteen layers of precisely fabricated material?
text: Did you know that Vostok 2022 marked the most comprehensive participation of Chinese forces in a Russian military exercise to date?
text: Did you know that the chandelier Pokémon Chandelure is a playable character in the fighting game Pokkén Tournament ?
text: Did you know that the REM de l'Est , a planned light rail network, was abandoned due to its controversial use of elevated railways in downtown Montreal ?
text: Did you know that Porter Robinson listened to excerpts of 100,000 songs in two years to create his EP Virtual Self ?
text: Did you know that tokoyama (traditional Japanese hairdressers) working in kabuki are divided into specialties named after the floors of the Kabuki-za ?
text: Did you know that the Puyallup people traditionally took ritual sweat baths before hunting, after intercourse, and even as a sport?
text: Did you know that the West Georgia Wolves football team won 13 games in 13 years before folding, but upon returning two decades later compiled consecutive undefeated regular seasons and became national champions?
text: Did you know that Fūka Izumi became a voice actress despite initially doubting that she could be one?
text: Did you know that seven countries competed in the Eurovision Song Contest 1994 for the first time, the largest single expansion of participating countries since the contest's first edition ?
text: Did you know that the young Turkish open water swimmer Aysu Türkoğlu has completed three of the Oceans Seven series?
text: Did you know that the Indianapolis African-American community raised $100,000 in just ten days in 1911 to establish the Senate Avenue YMCA ?
text: Did you know that Edgar Wright 's pitch for an Ant-Man film in 2006 helped to shape the early films of Phase One of the Marvel Cinematic Universe ?
text: Did you know that while touring for her album Wallsocket , Underscores handed out pizza before her sets?
text: Did you know that The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763–1789 has been the first, second, and third volume of the Oxford History of the United States?
text: Did you know that the color of a black-headed tailorbird 's throat was thought to depend on sex, but later turned out to depend on age?
text: Did you know that John Morin Scott , the mayor of Philadelphia, responded to the 1842 Lombard Street riot by mostly arresting black victims?
text: Did you know that a 17th-century male-authored book was adapted to argue in favor of women's superiority ?
text: Did you know that Bill Shearer , a leader of the segregationist George Wallace's 1968 presidential campaign , also advocated for ballot access for the Socialist Workers Party ?
text: Did you know that in many works of fiction , the asteroid belt is the remnants of a destroyed planet ?
text: Did you know that the release of the EP Spitfire crashed the servers of the online music store Beatport ?
text: Did you know that the discovery of Descartes' theorem in geometry came from a too-difficult mathematics problem posed to a princess?
text: Did you know that Animal Crossing: New Horizons sparked a boom in the popularity of cozy games ?
text: Did you know that before becoming a voice actress, Miyuki Ichijo left the NHK music variety show Stage 101 in protest over the removal of its director?
text: Did you know that the 1818 Akure–Benin War led to the Akure Kingdom becoming a vassal state of the Benin Kingdom ?
text: Did you know that Albert Gumble and Owen Murphy 's music score for the Broadway musical Red Pepper was dismissed by one critic as not "real music" because of its embrace of jazz ?
text: Did you know that the 1994 Pacific hurricane season was the first to produce three hurricanes that attained Category 5 intensity, the highest rating on the Saffir–Simpson scale ?
text: Did you know that the vocals of To See the Next Part of the Dream were recorded on a Samsung Galaxy S5 ?
text: Did you know that Paul Huff Parkway is named after a U.S. Army soldier who was awarded the Medal of Honor while serving in World War II?
text: Did you know that Jenna Ortega almost quit acting to play soccer?
text: Did you know that Soviet politician Pavel Chioru wanted " Moldovan ", which he developed from a dialect of Romanian , to serve as a language of the "exploited" against the supposedly upper-class Romanian?
text: Did you know that KOKO Networks has used more than $100 million in carbon financing to subsidise cooking fuels in Kenya?
text: Did you know that the first time the New England Revolution competed in an international competition , they played their "home" match at their opponent's stadium ?
text: Did you know that the 2024 drama film The Lyricist Wannabe is the first motion picture about Cantopop lyric writing?
text: Did you know that Clint Sargent succeeded Scott Nagy as head coach of the Wright State Raiders , years after he played for him with the South Dakota State Jackrabbits ?
text: Did you know that Palestinian journalist Hind Khoudary was one of the first two people in the Gaza Strip to receive donated eSIMs through the initiative Connecting Humanity ?
text: Did you know that William Lambdin Prather introduced the phrase "the eyes of Texas are upon you", which was incorporated into the school song of the University of Texas at Austin ?
text: Did you know that a Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode features a body-swap storyline that academics compared to a thought experiment from Plato 's Republic ?
text: Did you know that Thorpe 's secluded hills provided refuge from Scottish raiders and English Civil War troops?
text: Did you know that until the release of the documentary Predator: The Secret Scandal of J-Pop , sexual abuse claims involving record producer Johnny Kitagawa went widely unreported in Japanese media?
text: Did you know that the damselfly-relative Okanagrion is suggested to have eight species due to both alpha and beta diversity drivers?
text: Did you know that even though a village said that it did not want a church, Indonesian politician Thoriqul Haq allocated land and money to build one along with a musalla ?
text: Did you know that the Eurovision Song Contest 1990 , held in Yugoslavia , was the first Eurovision Song Contest to be held in the Balkans or in a socialist state ?
text: Did you know that librarian Amanda Jones won an award from the American Library Association for not backing down after receiving death threats for speaking out against book censorship?
text: Did you know that copyright has been used to censor reporters, activists, scholars and artists?
text: Did you know that a committee of Chinese compatriots of all circles from Hong Kong Island and Kowloon struggled against what they viewed as persecution by the British authorities in Hong Kong ?
text: Did you know that Dahiru Musdapher , the 12th chief justice of Nigeria , was once a BBC World Service contributor for West Africa and Hausa?
text: Did you know that To Catch a Copper hoped to show "an enjoyable journey of officers solving cases", but discovered "a misconduct process that was unfit for purpose in addressing seriously concerning behaviour"?
text: Did you know that in 1848 Karl Schädler performed the first surgery with chloroform anaesthesia in Liechtenstein?
text: Did you know that the planned sale of a Texas TV station was the subject of a lawsuit more than seven years after it closed for the last time?
text: Did you know that Bob Born became known as the "Father of Peeps" for automating the production of an Easter marshmallow treat?
text: Did you know that food critic Grace Dent reviewed a Liverpool restaurant that served her rice pudding flavoured with a substance that is banned in the United States for its lethality ?
text: Did you know that it took four games for Todd Leslie to set the NCAA Division I record of fifteen consecutive three-point shots made?
text: Did you know that Young Dirty Bastard rapped despite Ol' Dirty Bastard telling him not to?
text: Did you know that Selected Ambient Works 85–92 's audio quality has been described as poor due to being recorded on a cassette damaged by a cat?
text: Did you know that North Dakota state senator Merrill Piepkorn is also a musician, radio host, and public address announcer ?
text: Did you know that Cladonota 's extravagant dorsal structures have been called both "grotesque" and "particularly charismatic"?
text: Did you know that in opposition to his parents, opera star Joseph Schwarz began his career by running away from home to join a band of traveling minstrels?
text: Did you know that an unusual mountain on Pluto may have once erupted water instead of lava ?
text: Did you know that Audrys Nin Reyes is the first male gymnast from the Dominican Republic to qualify for the Olympic Games ?
text: Did you know that an abandoned Catholic church in China was used by a party school ?
text: Did you know that in 1933 Nazi sympathisers attempted to kidnap two German-Jewish filmmakers in Liechtenstein?
text: Did you know that Fredy Clue designed Sweden's first unisex folk costume ?
text: Did you know that 1.2 million people are diagnosed with prostate cancer per year and 350,000 people die from it?
text: Did you know that five men were accused of lynching Norris Dendy but none were ever indicted?
text: Did you know that while the lichen species Enchylium conglomeratum is considered secure globally, it has been designated as extinct in the UK and regionally extinct in Switzerland?
text: Did you know that Jordan Murphy finished his college career ranked second in Big Ten Conference career rebounds , behind Jerry Lucas ?
text: Did you know that a section of Interstate 65 in Tennessee was the first part of the Interstate Highway System to open in the state?
text: Did you know that the archaeologist Stanley Casson was almost captured – twice – during World War II ?
text: Did you know that Ibrahim al-Imam secretly orchestrated the Abbasid Revolution that toppled the Umayyad Caliphate , but was captured and died in prison shortly before the Abbasid army defeated the Umayyads?
text: Did you know that the Stewards Society is an all-male secret society at Georgetown University ?
text: Did you know that in 1906, composer Robert Winterberg gave a concert for the queen of Romania?
text: Did you know that artificial intelligence models like ChatGPT can learn from human feedback ?
text: Did you know that activist Joey Siu is the first US citizen to be declared a fugitive under the Hong Kong national security law ?
text: Did you know that " Dress " was described as "the perfect marriage of [Taylor] Swift's romanticism and newfound lust"?
text: Did you know that as a sophomore Kobe Bufkin was the youngest member of the 2022–23 Michigan Wolverines ?
text: Did you know that a "pedophilic" relationship between two fictional adults led to an era of ship wars ?
text: Did you know that ochrophyte algae have twice as many membranes around their chloroplasts as plants?
text: Did you know that pianist and composer Josef Weiss created the first film score in the history of German cinema ?
text: Did you know that the 2023 election for sheriff in Caddo Parish, Louisiana , was rerun after an initial margin of one vote?
text: Did you know that Marcelino Gutiérrez was the only one of his brothers, who together led a rebellion against the president of Peru , to survive a subsequent riot?
text: Did you know that the heiress Gertrude Rhinelander Waldo abandoned a brand-new mansion in New York City and refused to sell, rent, or maintain it?
text: Did you know that even though he read the articles of sportswriter Bud Lea "religiously", Vince Lombardi often made his job difficult whenever he interviewed him?
text: Did you know that the Comboio Presidencial , a train that carried the Portuguese head of state through the Linha do Douro from 1890, had the Pocinho railway station as its last stop?
text: Did you know that Kully Thiarai made a theatre in Doncaster a " living room " for the town?
text: Did you know that Nigeria's Muslim–Muslim ticket challenges the norm of religious balance in politics?
text: Did you know that John Mulaney would change the Saturday Night Live character Stefon 's lines before airing in order to make Bill Hader break character?
text: Did you know that Palauan English only started emerging in 1962?
text: Did you know that a Brazilian priest died while attempting to break the cluster-ballooning world record, in order to fund a spiritual rest-stop for truckers?
text: Did you know that after years of development, the British thin-wing Javelin interceptor aircraft was cancelled in favour of purchasing the Canadian Avro Arrow ?
text: Did you know that the Jewish community of Dubrovnik grew due to the expulsions of Jews and Marranos from the Iberian peninsula?
text: Did you know that alongside a 7th-century BC Phoenician shipwreck , two additional wrecks from various historical periods were unearthed in Bajo de la Campana, situated off the coast of Cartagena , Spain?
text: Did you know that horses were responsible for delaying the deciding match of the Barcelona women's football team 's 1973 winning season ?
text: Did you know that Vince Lombardi resigned as head coach of the Green Bay Packers after the 1967 NFL season to focus on his role as the team's general manager ?
text: Did you know that Kameron Saunders is the only dancer in Taylor Swift's Eras Tour to have a spoken line?
text: Did you know that Full Personality Expression was an organization for cross-dressers that was originally called the Hose & Heels Club?
text: Did you know that Alda Milner-Barry , the older sister of World War II Enigma codebreaker Stuart Milner-Barry , worked for British military intelligence during World War I?
text: Did you know that Geogaddi makes references to the Branch Davidians and their former leader, David Koresh ?
text: Did you know that the lyrics to Gen Hoshino 's " Crazy Crazy " references members of the jazz group Crazy Cats through kanji?
text: Did you know that the 2024 Hillhead by-election was the first by-election won by the Scottish Green Party?
text: Did you know that Lou Novikoff asked if the ivy growing on the walls of Wrigley Field could be smoked?
text: Did you know that an Iowa TV station paid Tom Brokaw , a future anchor of NBC Nightly News , $75 a week to work as a staff announcer and part-time newscaster?
text: Did you know that a men's soccer team hired Jenna Winebrenner to analyze game film and practice with the squad?
text: Did you know that shareholders of UDC Homes received two settlements over claims that executives sought to inflate its stock price and conceal financial information?
text: Did you know that in Zaydi Shi'ism , the imamate was not inherited or appointed but had to be claimed by public summons for allegiance or even leadership of an armed revolt?
text: Did you know that Meghan Trainor had been a fan of T-Pain for a long time before they finally collaborated on the song " Been Like This " from her upcoming sixth major-label studio album, Timeless ?
text: Did you know that Crossing a Line compares Palestinian political expression on either side of the Green Line between Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories?
text: Did you know that the town of Longlac was originally founded as a North West Company trading post circa 1800?
text: Did you know that Syncletica of Alexandria , a 4th-century saint and Desert Mother , was called "an upper-class girl who does not care about her body"?
text: Did you know that the ethical dilemma of killing baby Hitler has been compared to the trolley problem ?
text: Did you know that just seven years after being elected to a local school board, Nancy Ross was a candidate for Vice President of the United States ?
text: Did you know that Liechtenstein ceded the Ellhorn mountain to Switzerland in 1949?
text: Did you know that the 17th-century Wolvesey Palace reuses a 15th-century chapel built on the remains of a 12th-century room from Wolvesey Castle ?
text: Did you know that despite commonly being caught with a hook and line , the holotype of the Rapa Nui lizardfish was instead collected with a spear ?
text: Did you know that Buellia aethalea , a species of fungus , is also known as the "darkened button lichen " due to the small black spots on its crusty grey surface?
text: Did you know that TikTok rallied its users to protest a bill that would potentially ban the app ?
text: Did you know that Jack White worked for the New York Yankees – and for the New York Yankees?
text: Did you know that Frank Jonet was appointed as the receiver of the Green Bay Packers from 1933 to 1935, helping to prevent the team from shutting down?
text: Did you know that some faqih have suggested that vegetarian Muslims should replace the Eid sacrifice with donations or fasting ?
text: Did you know that Sarah Todd Cunningham was the first woman from the island of Hawaii to serve as a Hawaii territorial senator?
text: Did you know that in 2023, car manufacturer Rivian acquired the historic Lynn Theatre in Laguna Beach, California, and converted it into its first showroom?
text: Did you know that Max Eisenbud helped make Maria Sharapova the world's highest-paid female athlete for more than a decade?
text: Did you know that the constructors of the Swift Orange Line were fined for breaching a landfill?
text: Did you know that after Broadway musical composer Silvio Hein died in 1928, the pallbearers at his funeral included Irving Berlin , John Philip Sousa , and Jerome Kern ?
text: Did you know that the National Women's Basketball Association 's methods of selling tickets were derided as "like something from grammar school"?
text: Did you know that the Frank J. Wood Bridge is the seventh bridge built across the Androscoggin River to link the towns of Brunswick and Topsham, Maine , since 1796?
text: Did you know that singer and voice actor Yuki Sakakihara lived "[so] deep in the mountains of Okayama Prefecture " that it was difficult for him to go out for karaoke ?
text: Did you know that at the Battle of La Haye-du-Puits in July 1944, a Confederate flag dating to the American Civil War was raised over the town?
text: Did you know that Drew Golz , who was Baseball Academic All-American of the Year and Soccer Academic All-American of the Year , became the first male student athlete to be named Academic All-American of the year for two sports at the same time?
text: Did you know that four members of the interwar Czechoslovak Gendarmerie were killed in action against the Sudetendeutsches Freikorps during the Clash at Habersbirk ?
text: Did you know that scholars have called Liberty 5-3000 , the heroine of Ayn Rand's Anthem , "an ideal Randian" and "a frivolous trophy wife"?
text: Did you know that many employees of CSL Plasma are themselves plasma donors?
text: Did you know that Issey Cross 's 2023 song " Bittersweet Goodbye " uses a sped-up sample of a sped-up sample of a sped-up cover version, which itself interpolates a cover version of a traditional gospel song?
text: Did you know that Independence Lost argues that most support for the American Revolution was non-ideological?
text: Did you know that the first woman cleared to fly Boeing 747s recorded the 1982 outsider music album Jet Lady ?
text: Did you know that some people with severe myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome can lose the ability to speak?
text: Did you know that Premier Maurice Duplessis , angry at the fact that the federal government of Canada was taking taxes at the expense of the provinces , once demanded that Ottawa "return our loot"?
text: Did you know that with a population of 1,500, Millstreet in County Cork , Ireland, became the smallest settlement to host the Eurovision Song Contest when it staged the 1993 event ?
text: Did you know that the mansions in the Herodian Quarter contain frescoes with burn marks and charred wooden beams, serving as evidence of Jerusalem's destruction in 70 AD?
text: Did you know that as of December 2023, Get Lost claimed to have helped nearly 20,000 people avoid conscription in Russia ?
text: Did you know that Turkish sport shooter Şimal Yılmaz , who qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympics , had a shooting range in her living room?
text: Did you know that after going winless in its first season in 2022, Sydney made the finals in the 2023 AFL Women's season and won its first finals match?
text: Did you know that Rasmus Paludan caused a global controversy by burning the Quran?
text: Did you know that more than one million applications for the Canadian Dental Care Plan were approved in its first three months?
text: Did you know that footballer Wyll Stanway was a National Counties cricketer and a football centre-back before becoming a goalkeeper ?
text: Did you know that James McChord is considered to be the first president of Centre College despite dying before officially taking up the role?
text: Did you know that " Entre el Mar y una Estrella " by Thalía was crowned the best number-one Latin hit of the year 2000 in a survey conducted by Billboard ?
text: Did you know that Geoffrey Cuming edited what has been called a gramophone librarian's "Bible"?
text: Did you know that a 2000 documentary exposed the secret support of female genital mutilation by Norwegian imams ?
text: Did you know that Jacques Loew started the worker-priest movement after working as a longshoreman and realizing the distance between the priesthood and the working class?
text: Did you know that Barcelona Femení were unbeaten in their first season in 1971 when their captain announced that she would leave football?
text: Did you know that Thomas Young , a professor of midwifery, was taken prisoner at the Battle of Prestonpans ?
text: Did you know that Giorgio Moroder co-wrote and recorded a poem about seduction in Italian for Kylie and Garibay 's self-titled EP ?
text: Did you know that Australia-born rugby union player Jason Jones-Hughes was the subject of a protracted legal battle over his international eligibility after Wales called him up for the 1999 Rugby World Cup ?
text: Did you know that 28 Jews hid in Verteba Cave for almost six months during the Holocaust?
text: Did you know that Joseph Drummond , a key figure of New Brunswick 's branch of the NAACP , staged a sit-in at a local barbershop whose owner proclaimed that he had "never cut a colored person's hair in 55 years"?
text: Did you know that 1 + 1 = 1, according to some forms of non-Diophantine arithmetic ?
text: Did you know that Will Tschetter had the highest scoring average in Minnesota in basketball and won the state discus throw championship?
text: Did you know that within the Armenian Rite , it takes 40 days and more than 40 flowers, herbs, and spices to create the chrism known as myron ?
text: Did you know that because karaoke sounds like the Japanese word for 'coffin', Shigeichi Negishi called his karaoke machine prototype the "Sparko Box"?
text: Did you know that the developers of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas walked out of the Game Developers Choice Awards after winning nothing?
text: Did you know that Wilner Burke was the director of the Lumberjack Band , the marching band of the Green Bay Packers , for 42 years?
text: Did you know that as part of the Apollo 17 Biostack experiment scientists found that cosmic rays could cause brine shrimp larvae to grow two abdomens or have short limbs?
text: Did you know that actress Mattie Edwards was made a US deputy marshal at the age of sixteen?
text: Did you know that the design on a New Zealand coin was incorrectly alleged to represent a "personified phallus"?
text: Did you know that Gerald McGinnis founded his first medical device company from his own home, working at night and using his kitchen oven as a kiln ?
text: Did you know that during the 1984 Democratic presidential primaries , Alan Cranston scheduled his advertisements in Iowa around airings of The Day After ?
text: Did you know that there is one male for every 31 females in an E. interjectus colony, and each female can start its own colony?
text: Did you know that during the Syrian revolution , anarchist Omar Aziz directly participated in establishing four local opposition councils ?
text: Did you know that the first extant deer discovered in the 21st century is only 38 centimetres (15 in) tall?
text: Did you know that in 1939, a teenage Robin Ordell became the youngest radio announcer in Australia?
text: Did you know that a 2010 documentary claimed to expose how the Muslim Brotherhood infiltrates Western society from within?
text: Did you know that some ethical theorists believe that all moral claims are false?
text: Did you know that the capital of South Ossetia once had more Jews than Ossetians ?
text: Did you know that according to Lois N. Magner, Hildegard of Bingen 's Physica is "probably the first book by a female author to discuss the elements and the therapeutic virtues of plants, animals, and metals"?
text: Did you know that Cliff Christl , who became the Green Bay Packers team historian in 2014, estimated that he had recorded more than 250 oral histories with past players and coaches since the 1990s?
text: Did you know that at the Eurovision Song Contest 1992 , Johnny Logan became the first person to win the contest three times as either a performer or a songwriter?
text: Did you know that the positive reception for Until Dawn , developed by Supermassive Games , caught Sony by surprise and led to two spin-off games?
text: Did you know that the Seattle Storm had a ten-season streak of playoff appearances?
text: Did you know that Stan Brakhage 's film Sirius Remembered shows the decomposition of the corpse of his family's dog?
text: Did you know that Tim Kinsella made most of the lyrics for Cap'n Jazz 's only album, Shmap'n Shmazz , during his first experience with psilocybin mushrooms ?
text: Did you know that the only functioning secondary school in Mississippi during the American Civil War was founded by Thomas S. Gathright ?
text: Did you know that a story titled "The Adventures of Mr. Stupidhead in Russia" may have influenced the Soviet silent comedy film The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks ?
text: Did you know that Herwig Gössl rejected a reform document on the Catholic theology of sexuality prepared by the Synodal Way , but later welcomed the church's decision to bless homosexual couples?
text: Did you know that Waste Siege: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine is based on ten years of field research in the Israeli-occupied West Bank ?
text: Did you know that Golden Horse Awards –winning film composer Luming Lu worked as a cram-school tutor before pursuing a career in music?
text: Did you know that a Ramadan television show featured riddles, music, choreographed dance routines and "fantastical narratives"?
text: Did you know that football executive Ray Walsh also had a "murderous" forehand ?
text: Did you know that Androsaemum androsaemum is botanically unacceptable , but Aniculus aniculus is perfectly valid ?
text: Did you know that the word algebra is derived from an Arabic term for the surgical treatment of bonesetting ?
text: Did you know that The Gospel According to Jesus, Queen of Heaven , Jo Clifford 's 2009 play featuring Jesus as a trans woman , was called an "offensive abuse of Christian beliefs" by Archbishop Mario Conti ?
text: Did you know that Illieston House , a castle built around 1600, was sold for £890,000 in 2019?
text: Did you know that shortly after being liberated from the Theresienstadt Ghetto in 1945, Holocaust survivor Karl Loewenstein was sent to Pankrác Prison ?
text: Did you know that in the 3:16 game , Tim Tebow threw for 316 yards with 31.6 yards per completion, the ratings for the game were 31.6, and the opposing team's time of possession was 31 minutes 6 seconds?
text: Did you know that the historian al-Rushati was martyred during the fall of Almería in 1147?
text: Did you know that female Eriopis connexa beetles prevent sibling cannibalism by laying unfertilized eggs?
text: Did you know that Adolf Ulrik Schützercrantz was enrolled in the military at the age of ten?
text: Did you know that Canadian peacekeepers participated in every UN peacekeeping effort from its inception until 1989?
text: Did you know that in 1890 Cornelius N. Dorsette , often referred to as the first African-American physician in Alabama, founded Hale Infirmary , a hospital for Black patients and staff in Montgomery ?
text: Did you know that one Potteries derby game was decided by a goal scored twelve seconds into the match?
text: Did you know that Hong Kong actress and beauty pageant winner Louisa Mak is a Cambridge law graduate?
text: Did you know that as part of the Apollo 17 Biological Cosmic Ray Experiment , the heads of five mice were each cut into 1600 slices to look for brain lesions ?
text: Did you know that U.S. presidential candidate Johnny Buss owns one of the oldest comedy clubs in the country?
text: Did you know that Florida State 's exclusion from the 2023–24 College Football Playoff prompted an antitrust investigation?
text: Did you know that beavers, mules, and dogs have been parachuted from airplanes ?
text: Did you know that Ellen Bernstein was called the "birthmother of Jewish environmentalism"?
text: Did you know that Charlotte FC opened their third season with their third manager ?
text: Did you know that Andreas Kieber died in 1939 as the last surviving veteran of the Liechtenstein military, which was disbanded in 1866?
text: Did you know that a new high school for the Pasco School District had to expand with portable classrooms within eight years of opening?
text: Did you know that food stylist Susan Spungen estimated that she baked hundreds of pies with Josh Brolin and film staff while practicing for a scene in Labor Day ?
text: Did you know that a local newspaper hosted a beauty pageant to celebrate the opening of New York City's Queensboro Bridge ?
text: Did you know that Donna Taggart 's cover of Jenn Bostic 's " Jealous of the Angels " charted at No. 85 on the UK Singles Downloads Chart after being featured in an episode of the cooking competition Great British Menu ?
text: Did you know that the metaverse has been described as "a honeypot trap for architecture astronauts "?
text: Did you know that the Shakespeare garden in Wessington Springs, South Dakota , was the first of its kind in the state?
text: Did you know that in the first Romanian universal chronicle , Mihail Moxa shows "the God of the Old and New Testaments baptizing His stars with the names of Olympian deities "?
text: Did you know that Rodney, Mississippi , became a ghost town after the Mississippi River shifted about two miles (3.2 km) away?
text: Did you know that Wayne Jacobs said that without football he would have been "dead by 30, or in prison"?
text: Did you know that a Holocaust memoir translated in 2023 described prisoners so dehumanized by the Nazis that they introduced themselves in past tense, as in "My name was ..."?
text: Did you know that a Taylor Swift song shares its name with a recurring refrain from Slaughterhouse-Five ?
text: Did you know that Centre College co-president Robert L. McLeod served for fifteen months on a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier while Robert J. McMullen , the other co-president, ran the school's day-to-day operations?
text: Did you know that a Japanese island has rapidly fluctuated in size?
text: Did you know that in 2021 Krisztofer Mészáros became the first Hungarian male gymnast in 22 years to qualify for a World Artistic Gymnastics Championships all-around final?
text: Did you know that Maggio di Accettura , a festival in Italy dedicated to the Christian martyr Saint Julian , might have pagan origins or be linked to Langobard history?
text: Did you know that WFMT classical music radio host Don Tait owned such a large collection of recordings that he had to buy a house and have its floor reinforced to accommodate the weight?
text: Did you know that some Confederate bullets were sourced from a silver mine ?
text: Did you know that Rachelle Ann Go debuted in the West End and Broadway revivals of Miss Saigon portraying the role of a bargirl ?
text: Did you know that Nicki Minaj reacted to Megan Thee Stallion 's " Hiss " with a 3,100-character Twitter diatribe and a diss track ?
text: Did you know that a San Diego State coach called Darius Durham "the best high school guy we've ever signed"?
text: Did you know that Bangiales , an order of red algae , contains both the oldest-known sexually reproducing organism and the seaweed used to make sushi wrappers ?
text: Did you know that George Schollenberger was so well known as a high-school football coach that teams in the National Football League sometimes asked for his opinions?
text: Did you know that as the title character in Marcelle , actress Louise Gunning portrayed a Parisian barmaid who masquerades as her brother, a soldier?
text: Did you know that the anarchist Rosa Laviña opened the first vegetarian restaurant in Tolosa ?
text: Did you know that Rewilding Argentina has reintroduced giant river otters , giant anteaters , and jaguars to the country?
text: Did you know that despite being sacked after losing the Battle of Gazala , Neil Ritchie went on to command a corps in North West Europe?
text: Did you know that a Minneapolis TV station had newscasts that were "about as popular as the measles" with "sickening theme music"?
text: Did you know that Alfred Cowles stopped publishing his stock market newsletter as he could not predict the stock market?
text: Did you know that Sans was crowned as " Ultimate Tumblr Sexyman " on the same day that Elizabeth II died?
text: Did you know that the ancient Jewish town of Modi'in housed a monumental mausoleum for the Hasmonean family , built in the 2nd century BC, that remains undiscovered?
text: Did you know that Kassiane Asasumasu coined the term neurodivergent in 2000?
text: Did you know that having specific rather than vague goals tends to increase motivation and performance?
text: Did you know that Tilmann Köhler directed Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro in 2023 with playful "serious games" in which the women win by "wit, cleverness and presence of mind"?
text: Did you know that although some of the players on Liberty Christian Preparatory School 's eight-man football team had never played tackle football before, the team won the state championship in its first season?
text: Did you know that Hildegard Temporini-Gräfin Vitzthum arrived at the University of Tübingen as a student in 1959, and remained there until her death in 2004?
text: Did you know that Ariana Grande's song about Saturn returns , as well as SZA's and Kacey Musgraves's , were coincidentally released just weeks apart?
text: Did you know that the phrase "togs, togs, undies" was popularised in New Zealand by an advertisement for Trumpet ice cream cones?
text: Did you know that the Seattle SuperSonics had consecutive seasons with identical records under different head coaches?
text: Did you know that Alison Frantz 's photographs played a crucial role in the decipherment of Linear B ?
text: Did you know that saving the Guadalupe cypress included the help of 40 Judas goats ?
text: Did you know that Dorkas Tokoro-Hanasbey , the only female member of the New Guinea Council , arrived thirty minutes late to her inauguration ceremony?
text: Did you know that in 2006, half a million people used a temporary New York City public toilet sponsored by a toilet paper brand?
text: Did you know that Swedish naval officer Johan Herman Schützercrantz fought in the American Revolutionary War and participated in the Battle of the Chesapeake ?
text: Did you know that an exhibition hall for the 1939 New York World's Fair later hosted athletic events at a historically Black university in Virginia ?
text: Did you know that the fork-tailed drongo gives genuine alarm calls but will sometimes lie to steal food from other animals ?
text: Did you know that Peter Patton was given the nickname General Patton by the father of his college coach?
text: Did you know that people in Madagascar wrestle bulls to commemorate the unearthing of ancestral corpses ?
text: Did you know that Shel Kaphan was the first employee of Amazon ?
text: Did you know that the anniversary of the Singh v Canada decision is observed as Refugee Rights Day?
text: Did you know that Alexander Atabekian published the first anarchist periodical in the Armenian language ?
text: Did you know that the Mars Society 's founding conference included a rancorous debate about the ethics of terraforming ?
text: Did you know that one of the first female officers of the Milwaukee Police Department later served as chief of the department?
text: Did you know that in semantics , antonym is an antonym of synonym while synonym is not a synonym of antonym ?
text: Did you know that an Edmonton politician began mouthing his words when he saw a cameraman for A-Channel walk in, mocking the frequent audio difficulties on its newscasts?
text: Did you know that Wayne Cook tied the UCLA single-game record for touchdown passes in consecutive weeks en route to their first Rose Bowl in eight years?
text: Did you know that the Scott Tower was built in 1940 as part of a project to create Holyoke, Massachusetts ' "own version of New York City's Central Park "?
text: Did you know that, after Randy Travis lost most of his singing ability to a stroke in 2013, James Dupré has sung his songs for him in concert?
text: Did you know that Video Seven released the first VGA video card with video RAM ?
text: Did you know that Émile Gilliéron was accused of making Minoan frescoes look like Vogue models?
text: Did you know that a group of death row inmates filed a lawsuit when the U.S. government refused to confiscate their states' lethal injection drugs?
text: Did you know that slave trader Jourdan Saunders greatly profited from a Louisiana law banning slave trading?
text: Did you know that Ladislav Burlas , a musicologist at the Slovak Academy of Sciences for almost 40 years, wrote more than 150 works during his career?
text: Did you know that the Lunar Traverse Gravimeter 's primary accelerometer was based on those operational on SM-65 Atlas intercontinental ballistic missiles?
text: Did you know that Bell Tea , founded in 1898, is the oldest tea company in New Zealand?
text: Did you know that in one year, a team of Canadian All-Stars twice played against the U.S. college football national champion and came within one point of winning each game?
text: Did you know that Ahmad Nasuhi ordered a subordinate to attack the Indonesian Communist Party 's offices with grenades as "psychological warfare against the central government"?
text: Did you know that the Van Tran Flat Bridge was restored in 1984 using original construction techniques from the 1860s?
text: Did you know that George E. Mylonas visited Mycenae at night to speak to the legendary king Agamemnon ?
text: Did you know that Waluigi inspired the name of a phenomenon in artificial intelligence known as the Waluigi effect ?
text: Did you know that Irish International Brigader Tommy Wood had only been in Spain for 18 days when he was killed at the Battle of Lopera during the Spanish Civil War ?
text: Did you know that the Brazilian social media page Tupinizando is dedicated to the promotion of Old Tupi , a dead language ?
text: Did you know that in 1940 Xu Ruiyun became the first Chinese woman to receive a PhD in mathematics?
text: Did you know that Greenpeace v. Eni is the first climate change lawsuit filed against a privately owned company in Italy?
text: Did you know that South African civil rights activist Thambi Naidoo was arrested along with Mahatma Gandhi and sent outside of Transvaal for refusing to register ?
text: Did you know that the novel series Aisling is based on a character archetype elaborated upon by users of a Facebook group?
text: Did you know that storyteller Rita Cox thinks of stories as "gently echoed music" between the storyteller and the listener?
text: Did you know that an Arkansas TV station apologized for not being on the air by sending local media a drawing of ducks?
text: Did you know that TV Guide criticized Flypaper as among the "second-rate rip-offs" of Tarantino's Pulp Fiction ?
text: Did you know that the Canadian League for Peace and Democracy organized a 10,000-person rally at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto to protest a 2,500-person fascist rally?
text: Did you know that illustrator Abigail Larson once designed a wine-bottle label for the Edgar Allan Poe Museum ?
text: Did you know that the Indonesian city of Gorontalo is nicknamed the "Porch of Medina "?
text: Did you know that John Holahan recalled both being called a "lunatic" by his school's president for seeking a football game at night and being told afterward by the president, "I was the lunatic, not you"?
text: Did you know that Beyoncé released a country ballad and an uptempo country pop western song on the same day?
text: Did you know that some fans of Genshin Impact have referred to the character Paimon as "emergency food"?
text: Did you know that an extinct French scarab beetle was discovered in a Prague factory?
text: Did you know that Pep the dog was falsely accused of murdering a cat and sent to Eastern State Penitentiary ?
text: Did you know that the charm quark made physicists eat hats?
text: Did you know that ur mum has an eleven-second scream?
text: Did you know that the White Dagoba at Lianxing Temple was probably not originally made of an enormous pile of salt?
text: Did you know that no one laughed at the worst joke in legal history ?
text: Did you know that when Olivia Rodrigo spilled her guts , her obsession came out?
text: Did you know that you could be sentenced to serve time in prison for stuffing cookies ?
text: Did you know that a blizzard helped end the Cold War ?
text: Did you know that Colin Mackay , the political editor at Scottish Television , was "very sad" when Colin MacKay , the political editor at Scottish Television, died?
text: Did you know that due to his Hungarian background, composer Henri Berény was banned from living and working in Paris during World War I and his home was seized by the French government?
text: Did you know that despite its name meaning 'unscented', Hypericum × inodorum can smell strongly of goat?
text: Did you know that Ruth Gottesman donated $1 billion to ensure free tuition for all students at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine ?
text: Did you know that Gabriel García Márquez asked his sons to destroy Until August , but they instead published it after his death?
text: Did you know that Zig Jackson is the first contemporary Native American photographer to be represented in the collections of the Library of Congress ?
text: Did you know that hundreds of actors and other artists, as members of Artists4Ceasefire , are calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza ?
text: Did you know that Ernie Shore pitched a combined no-hitter with Babe Ruth ?
text: Did you know that actor Corey Feldman knocked his own tooth out at Shank Hall ?
text: Did you know that Richard Osman , who wrote " the biggest thing in fiction since Harry Potter ", lost confidence in his writing ability after his experience with Boyz Unlimited ?
text: Did you know that Green Bay Packers player Travis Glover started at three separate positions along the offensive line during his college football career?
text: Did you know that even though about 100,000 mines were laid in Le Touquet during World War II, making it the most mined city in France, it was the first resort in northern France to open its beaches after the liberation ?
text: Did you know that for his first recital as the organist of the restored Frauenkirche in Dresden, Samuel Kummer chose music by Bach , Brahms , and himself?
text: Did you know that El Salvador was the first country to recognize Manchukuo , apart from Japan?
text: Did you know that poet Peggy Pond Church became a strong pacifist and a member of the Society of Friends after the Manhattan Project used her home as a place to build nuclear weapons?
text: Did you know that librarian Anne Griffiths was one of the first British women to cross the Antarctic Circle ?
text: Did you know that a firearm blank goes off during The Days of '98 Show shootout, startling the audience?
text: Did you know that the antiseptic cream Boroline was marketed to appeal to nationalistic sentiments?
text: Did you know that King Christian IX and Queen Louise of Denmark were the parents of a Danish king , a British queen , a Greek king , and a Russian empress ?
text: Did you know that John D. Rockefeller Jr. , under the name "David's Father", secretly authorized the purchase of an $8,000 "antique" ?
text: Did you know that although Evgeniia Subbotina failed to escape her own exile in Siberia , she successfully aided the escapes of Catherine Breshkovsky , Yelizaveta Kovalskaya and Sofya Bogomolets ?
text: Did you know that an 18th-century hymn inspired the title of George W. Bush 's 1999 autobiography ?
text: Did you know that Denpasar mayor I Gusti Ngurah Jaya Negara became active in politics after he was laid off from a bank due to the Asian financial crisis ?
text: Did you know that Israel's destruction of trees and farmland in Gaza has been described as an ecocide ?
text: Did you know that Elizabeth Storie 's doctor poured nitric acid into her mouth, causing her teeth to fall out?
text: Did you know that Marie Catharine Neal , an expert on Hawaiian plants, authored the acclaimed book In Gardens of Hawaii in 1948, which described more than 2,000 species with detailed scientific information and illustrations?
text: Did you know that Indonesian politician Sanusi 's parents discouraged him from becoming a government employee, because his salary would be paid partly from taxes on alcohol and prostitution?
text: Did you know that Barry Sanders was the first player to play at least ten seasons in the National Football League and be selected to the Pro Bowl in each year?
text: Did you know that Ilie Purcaru , as a contributor to Nicolae Ceaușescu's cult of personality , claimed that a young Ceaușescu had walked into the woods of Scornicești without fearing their wolves?
text: Did you know that the Lord Chamberlain's plays are a historical archive of play scripts curated through theatrical censorship that provide a unique insight into attitudes to race and sexuality?
text: Did you know that Elizabeth Seifert , who was denied a medical degree due to her gender, went on to achieve success as a writer, penning more than 80 novels about the very field from which she had been excluded?
text: Did you know that Rachel Chinouriri decided to include the English flag on the cover art of What a Devastating Turn of Events to celebrate her Black British identity?
text: Did you know that when the Oakland Athletics promoted Bill McNulty to the major leagues, they needed forest rangers to find him?
text: Did you know that the Egyptian-Sudanese singer Nxdia took the "queer anthem" "She Likes a Boy" into the UK Singles Sales Chart ?
text: Did you know that there is a dispute within the Indian communist movement on whether the Communist Party of India was founded in Tashkent in 1920 or Kanpur in 1925 ?
text: Did you know that John Gould Stephenson fought at the Battle of Gettysburg while serving as the librarian of Congress ?
text: Did you know that the Swiss Party of Labour expelled its branch in Basel in 1988 after tensions over an occupation movement in the city?
text: Did you know that between 2006 and 2007, Stacy Hollowell worked for basketball teams in Qatar, China, Bahrain and Lithuania?
text: Did you know that on June 30, 1973, scientists set the record for the longest observation of a total solar eclipse , at 74 minutes of totality ?
text: Did you know that suffragette Ellen Oliver recognised "daughter of God" Mabel Barltrop as the spiritual child of prophet Joanna Southcott ?
text: Did you know that a ring-tailed monkey named Jenny threw billiard balls down a flight of stairs to alert firefighters to a fire in their own building ?
text: Did you know that the Bluey special " The Sign " reminded a Sydney Morning Herald reporter of Australia's housing crisis?
text: Did you know that Joel Breman , who helped combat the 1976 Ebola virus outbreak in Zaire , was not expected to return alive by the pilots who dropped him there?
text: Did you know that the Lutheran St. Trinitatis in Wolfenbüttel , consecrated in 1719, is a Baroque church with a facade recalling that of a palace ?
text: Did you know that to mitigate religious violence in the city , Ambon mayor Marcus Jacob Papilaja made Muslim and Christian city employees mix?
text: Did you know that the Vulcan Bridge , a bridge in Vulcan, West Virginia , was constructed after the mayor requested financial aid from the Soviet Union?
text: Did you know that while going to the Strategion in Constantinople , Emperor Theodosius II was attacked with stones by a hungry mob?
text: Did you know that during the "trial from hell" Matthew Charles Johnson hurled abuse at the judge and one of his co-accused threw a bag of excrement at a member of the jury?
text: Did you know that the Robyn Gigl novel By Way of Sorrow , which features a transgender lawyer as the protagonist, was described as "quietly groundbreaking" by The New York Times ?
text: Did you know that due to a 2024 heat wave in Southeast Asia , heat indices in the Philippines rose to dangerous levels, as high as 51 °C (124 °F)?
text: Did you know that Hal Malchow consulted for every Democratic presidential nominee from 1988 through 2004?
text: Did you know that before its inhabitants were evicted, Rosal was the largest of 49 townships in Strathnaver ?
text: Did you know that Mohammad Saifullah Ozaki , an academic in Japan born to a Hindu family in Bangladesh, became a leader in the Islamic State?
text: Did you know that floods across New York City in September 2023 allowed a sea lion to escape her enclosure at the Central Park Zoo ?
text: Did you know that Dedie Rachim was the first active member of the Corruption Eradication Commission to be elected to public office?
text: Did you know that a boot is the only monument in the United States dedicated to the traitor Benedict Arnold because it "was the only part of Arnold not to later turn traitor"?
text: Did you know that although the icosian game was advertised as a "highly amusing game for the drawing room", it was too easy to play and not a commercial success?
text: Did you know that prior to embarking on a music career during the COVID-19 pandemic, the DJ Sim0ne placed fifth on the eleventh series of Britain's Next Top Model in 2017?
text: Did you know that the architects of the Eldridge Street Synagogue were Catholics who had never designed a synagogue before?
text: Did you know that Theo Benedet is the first offensive lineman to be named the best Canadian university football lineman two years in a row?
text: Did you know that Luo Wenzao became the first Catholic bishop from China in 1685, after initially declining the appointment in 1677?
text: Did you know that the historic mansion Bulgur Palas in Istanbul hosted a birdhouse for hundreds of domestic canaries in one room during its ownership by the Ottoman Bank ?
text: Did you know that women were 33 percent more likely than men to search for clown pornography on Pornhub in 2016?
text: Did you know that the chief editor of the United States' Telegraph allegedly gouged a rival reporter's eyes inside a Senate office?
text: Did you know that an ancient Chinese village likely had its own local pyromancer ?
text: Did you know that Napoleon awarded a medal to English inventor James White ?
text: Did you know that the Japanese vegetable nozawana got its name from skiers visiting Nozawaonsen who were impressed by the area's pickled turnip ?
text: Did you know that Plato and Aristotle both opposed the idea of extraterrestrial life ?
text: Did you know that by 2022 Levi Marhabi had become the last known Jew in Yemen ?
text: Did you know that the inclusion of the Canadian song " How Long " in a bootleg Russian DVD resulted in a sixteen-year search for the track's creator?
text: Did you know that a species of Brazilian cichlid is named after both Satan and Lilith ?
text: Did you know that the Beatles secretly called the host of their radio show "Pee Litres"?
text: Did you know that Romani Holocaust survivor Philomena Franz wrote about her deportation to Auschwitz, internment in Ravensbrück, escape from a camp near Wittenberge, and concealment by a farmer?
text: Did you know that a large basin on Neptune's moon Triton may have once been filled with liquid water cryolava , similar to how liquid silicates fill lava lakes on Earth?
text: Did you know that Inman Jackson played "as though he were born with a basketball in each hand"?
text: Did you know that Josephine Kenyon moved from recommendations of rigid scheduling to "on-demand" scheduling in editions of her book Healthy Babies Are Happy Babies ?
text: Did you know that Amie Parnes allegedly first heard about her employer, The Messenger , ceasing operations from a New York Times article?
text: Did you know that Coffee Talk Episode 2: Hibiscus & Butterfly was released after the main creator of Coffee Talk died in March 2022?
text: Did you know that baritone Liviu Holender chose lieder by five composers whose music was banned by the Nazis— Schreker , Zemlinsky , Mahler , Korngold and Schönberg —for a recital at the Oper Frankfurt ?
text: Did you know that one member of the U.S. Army Air Corps was so unimpressed by the Estoppey D-8 that he stated that he would rather use "nails and a wire"?
text: Did you know that Spider began making alternative music because she felt that not enough Black women were doing so?
text: Did you know that the trowel and gavel used at the cornerstone-laying ceremony for the Southern Railway Building were previously used by George Washington for the U.S. Capitol?
text: Did you know that Gherardo Gambelli , the incoming archbishop of Florence , served as a prison chaplain in Chad for over a decade?
text: Did you know that the Centurion C-RAM can fire 4500 rounds per minute?
text: Did you know that Indonesian politician Rahmad Mas'ud received his master's degree simultaneously with four of his siblings?
text: Did you know that all Atlantic hurricane activity in 1993 ceased two full months before the season officially ended?
text: Did you know that Chuck Eisenmann went from professionally pitching in baseball to owning and training the dogs that starred on the Canadian television series The Littlest Hobo ?
text: Did you know that Richard Garwin proposed using a bed of nails to protect the Minuteman missile silos from attack?
text: Did you know that the New York City government sought to demolish a wall around the Isaac L. Rice Mansion for five years?
text: Did you know that Mayling Oey-Gardiner went from being a University of Indonesia clerk to a full professor?
text: Did you know that according to Brandy Hellville , executives at Brandy Melville have bought the clothes off of employees' backs?
text: Did you know that a California TV station wondered whether it had the "World's Longest Pregnancy"?
text: Did you know that it will soon be illegal for government employees to gamble in the country of Georgia ?
text: Did you know that Czech industrialist Jan Felkl founded a company in 1854 that would produce globes in 17 languages?
text: Did you know that the Russian and Belarusian military exercise Zapad 2013 was officially described as counterterrorist, but international observers concluded that it was a preparation for a conventional war?
text: Did you know that after criticizing the political patronage system , John Silva Meehan was hired as Librarian of Congress through "purely an act of political patronage"?
text: Did you know that a major parade took place in Cairo on 24 August 1472 for the hanging of Shah Suwar ?
text: Did you know that Ronald MacDonald was allegedly drugged with chloroform during the 1901 Boston Marathon , sabotaging his race?
text: Did you know that avant-garde musician Mabe Fratti 's religious upbringing restricted her to classical and Christian music until she discovered file sharing on LimeWire ?
text: Did you know that a North Carolina TV station broadcast from a "residential showplace" that was considered to be "one of [the] finest" houses in town?
text: Did you know that Lithuanian communist activist Valerija Narvydaitė spent more than 14 years in jails and detention centres?
text: Did you know that " Not Strong Enough " by Boygenius describes conflicting mental states of self-hatred and self-importance?
text: Did you know that Ronald Reagan did not publicly mention AIDS until 1985, after more than 5,000 people in the United States had died from it?
text: Did you know that many winter wonderland fairs have become notorious as "winter blunderlands"?
text: Did you know that according to Dadang Supriatna , his father gave him 1,000 bricks to fund his studies?
text: Did you know that sulfate pollution causes cooling through global dimming , which is comparable to warming from methane ?
text: Did you know that a priest refused to perform the wedding ceremony for Austrian socialist Josef Peskoller and his fiancée Maria Griel on political grounds in 1928?
text: Did you know that data breaches are rarely detected by the compromised organization?
text: Did you know that Puerto Rican singer Young Miko composed " Classy 101 " in Los Angeles and had never met Colombian singer Feid before he recorded the song with her?
text: Did you know that Fang Gan failed the imperial examination more than ten times, apparently because of his cleft lip ?
text: Did you know that ice in outer space is an amorphous solid , and this may be the most common phase of ice in the universe?
text: Did you know that Butt Drugs in Corydon, Indiana , had Butt Liquors and free parking in the rear?
text: Did you know that the Golden State Valkyries are the first expansion franchise in the WNBA since 2008?
text: Did you know that a 2021 Dutch translation of the Bible introduces five new animals?
text: Did you know that in Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929–1945 , "the 'American people' appear with conspicuous infrequency"?
text: Did you know that Julian Prégardien 's performance as the Evangelist in Bach's St Matthew Passion was noted by one reviewer for its emphatic and penetrating "profoundly human" nature?
text: Did you know that The New York Times called Teeth a "feminist awakening with a lethal bite"?
text: Did you know that Debbie Currie once worked as a lollipop lady ?
text: Did you know that the Missoula Children's Theatre works with more than 65,000 children every year?
text: Did you know that in two years the Thourots became the Brewers, who became the Palaces, who became the Jackaways, who became the Mules, who then disbanded ?
text: Did you know that despite graduating last in his West Point class, Frederick Kimble eventually became a general?
text: Did you know that the 2024 film 18×2 Beyond Youthful Days was filmed in Japan in March to capture both snowfalls and cherry blossoms in the same month?
text: Did you know that a will bequeathing the Chestnut Street Opera House to the University of Pennsylvania was contested at the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania ?
text: Did you know that the comedian Jonny Pelham is one of an estimated 200 people in the UK to suffer from popliteal pterygium syndrome ?
text: Did you know that after a CD edition of Taylor Swift 's album Midnights containing the exclusive song " You're Losing Me " was released at MetLife Stadium , some of the first purchasers uploaded the song online?
text: Did you know that BBC Breakfast 's resident doctor Nighat Arif has advocated for more women to be given vibrators for medical reasons?
text: Did you know that Soviet prisoners of war were the second-largest group of victims of Nazi mass killing?
text: Did you know that Katherine Sleeper Walden was a journalist, postmistress, innkeeper, community organizer, environmental activist, and conservationist who now has three mountains named after her ?
text: Did you know that writer and artist Jim Steranko was given authorship of " The Strange Death of Captain America " in part to resolve a dispute between himself and Stan Lee ?
text: Did you know that Jan Klán , as a pilot in the Groupe de Chasse II/5 , became the first Czech to achieve an aerial victory against the Luftwaffe while flying the Hawk 75 ?
text: Did you know that as part of illegal wildlife trading, Oophaga solanensis frogs are bought for US$3 in their native Colombia and sold for up to US$1,000 overseas?
text: Did you know that before becoming a voice actor, Kikunosuke Toya was the keyboardist of an all-male Princess Princess cover band in high school?
text: Did you know that the U.S. state of Oklahoma was not allowed to ban Sharia law ?
text: Did you know that Triton , a moon of Neptune, has thin clouds that are likely made of nitrogen ice crystals ?
text: Did you know that Jake Bates 's first in-game field goal was the second-longest in professional football history?
text: Did you know that all sea lions in Otago descend from Mum ?
text: Did you know that after failing to qualify for prestigious races as an athlete, Mounir Akbache became a rabbit ?
text: Did you know that the memorial Ivančena was created to honor members of the Silesian Scout Resistance who were executed for their part in the resistance to Nazi occupation during World War II?
text: Did you know that Lewis W. Green was one of the two members of the first graduating class of Centre College and later became its president?
text: Did you know that " Toy Town " was said to have "almost destroyed" the happy hardcore scene?
text: Did you know that nearly a thousand elections for local executives were held in Indonesia between 2005 and 2013, with an average of around one every three days?
text: Did you know that although Agnes Kimball was a popular recording artist of opera and musical theatre, she never appeared as a singing actress on the stage?
text: Did you know that 287 Broadway was once called "the most succulent cast-iron street-show in all New York"?
text: Did you know that at least one person on every NFL All-Decade Team has played for the Green Bay Packers , although one of those players was only with the Packers for one season?
text: Did you know that the 2024 opening of regular sessions of the National Congress of Argentina took place at 21:00 instead of 12:00?
text: Did you know that Ground Round attempted to diversify its meat-heavy menu with such dishes as swordfish and Mexican pizza?
text: Did you know that Final Fantasy 's " first great villain " has been compared to characters like the Green Goblin and the Joker ?
text: Did you know that singer Frank Croxton performed a duet with his father for the unveiling of a monument to a Confederate States Army general?
text: Did you know that Thomas Figures prosecuted two members of the Ku Klux Klan for murder, and Michael Figures bankrupted their organization in a civil lawsuit?
text: Did you know that ancient humans cared for a 14,000-year-old puppy ?
text: Did you know that Harrogate War Memorial , by Ernest Prestwich , names 1163 casualties of the First and Second World Wars, of whom more than 300 have unknown graves, and the youngest was 15 years old?
text: Did you know that within a week of its upload, YouTube Rewind 2018: Everyone Controls Rewind became YouTube's most-disliked video of all time?
text: Did you know that no voting was held in four out of six curiae in the 1916 Warsaw City Council election , as the Polish and Jewish parties had agreed on a single joint candidate slate?
text: Did you know that Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority general manager Phillip Eng brews his own beer?
text: Did you know that the oldest complete versions of the Book of Jonah and 1 Peter are from a 3rd-century codex discovered in Egypt in 1952?
text: Did you know that social media influencer Andrew Tate described himself as "absolutely a misogynist "?
text: Did you know that when the Bukharian-Jewish Soviet newspaper Bajroqi Miⱨnat switched to the Latin script , it initially did not use capital letters, following Jewish writing rules?
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 Addie Viola Smith was the first female Foreign Service officer to serve under the United States Department of Commerce ?
text: Did you know that in 88 BC, Lucius Cornelius Sulla carried out the first coup d'état in Roman history ?
text: Did you know that during a soccer game, Mike Watts and his co-commentator wove more than 200 Taylor Swift song titles into the broadcast?
text: Did you know that Bedok Reservoir MRT station features a public artwork including a message that "dribbles down" the lift shaft in motifs of droplets?
text: Did you know that Cinda Firestone , the heiress to the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company , directed a documentary about the 1971 Attica Prison riot ?
text: Did you know that in 1850s New Orleans , the French revolutionary Joseph Déjacque called for black slaves and the white working class to overthrow the United States in a social revolution ?
text: Did you know that The Ugly Black Bird , a Polish book that discredited the autobiographical value of Kosiński 's The Painted Bird , initially received reviews that were "more negative than favourable"?
text: Did you know that Cam Booser retired from baseball to work as a carpenter in 2017 and made it to Major League Baseball in 2024?
text: Did you know that due to Richard Louhenapessy 's arrest, the Indonesian city of Ambon had four mayors in May 2022?
text: Did you know that the Israel Defense Forces have accepted responsibility for killing seven World Central Kitchen aid workers in targeted drone strikes that destroyed the aid workers' cars one by one?
text: Did you know that Broadway and film star Lester Allen began his career as a child acrobat in the Barnum and Bailey Circus ?
text: Did you know that the Skyrocket Galaxy has been described by NASA as looking like a "July 4th skyrocket"?
text: Did you know that a reviewer described the approach of soprano Magdalena Hinterdobler to her role as Grete in Zemlinsky's Der Traumgörge as "bold" and "sassy"?
text: Did you know that of the 33 Green Bay Packers players named to an NFL All-Rookie Team since 1975, only one— James Lofton —went on to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame ?
text: Did you know that after being sent off for the record 97th time, footballer Elvio Porcel de Peralta went to the referee and punched him?
text: Did you know that the café C1 Espresso delivers food to customers using pneumatic tubes ?
text: Did you know that the 1910–1916 publication Raḥamim was the first newspaper in the Judeo-Tajik language ?
text: Did you know that football player Dick Harris was selected in professional drafts four times, including twice as a first-round pick, but never played professionally?
text: Did you know that Pulp singer Jarvis Cocker helped fundraise to save a Merseyside flat that has been called "the first example of outsider art to be nationally listed "?
text: Did you know that basketball player Joanne McCarthy and her actress sister Jenny did gymnastics and bowling in their youth?
text: Did you know that in 1911 the Butterfly Theater featured a pipe organ worth US$10,000 (equivalent to US$327,000 in 2023)?
text: Did you know that environmental economist V. Kerry Smith has been described as a "Renaissance Man of Economics"?
text: Did you know that a year after objecting to the unauthorised use of his own AI -generated vocals, Drake used vocals of other rappers generated that way to respond to a diss against him ?
text: Did you know that in 1919 nurse Hilda Hope McMaugh became the first Australian woman to qualify as a pilot?
text: Did you know that employees of a Florida TV station joked that their studio building would survive "as long as the termites don't stop holding hands"?
text: Did you know that the fossil insect Allenbya holmesae was named after its finder's mother's maiden name?
text: Did you know that Eric Sievers helped the San Diego Chargers set an NFL record for receptions by tight ends on a team?
text: Did you know that the literary magazine Adabijoti Soveti was the sole remaining publication in the Jewish-Bukharian language by the time of the switch to the Cyrillic script in 1939–1940?
text: Did you know that Charlize Mörz became the first Austrian female gymnast to win a gold medal in the FIG World Cup series in 2024?
text: Did you know that the 2023 drama film Fly Me to the Moon was Sasha Chuk's debut as a director, screenwriter and lead actress, making it her first feature film in all three categories?
text: Did you know that with the appointment of Michael Martin as Bishop of Charlotte , the Conventual Franciscans are now the most represented religious order among American Catholic bishops?
text: Did you know that in 1990, Simon Rimmer bought an existing vegetarian restaurant with his business partner and taught himself to cook – in that order?
text: Did you know that the perpetrator of the 2017 Aztec High School shooting had previously been investigated by the FBI , but the investigation was closed after he convinced them that he was simply " trolling "?
text: Did you know that the 1920–1922 Tashkent wall newspaper Rost was the first Bukharian-Jewish Soviet newspaper?
text: Did you know that Kooraban National Park has provided a habitat for more than twenty vulnerable animal species, including koalas ?
text: Did you know that a bust of the notorious slave trader Isaac Franklin was placed on the prow of his slave ship, the Isaac Franklin ?
text: Did you know that the video game Manor Lords was wishlisted more than three million times on Steam after its developer had estimated it would receive around 14,000?
text: Did you know that Walid Daqqa wrote several works of prison literature , including a children's novel about a boy who uses magical olive oil to visit his imprisoned father?
text: Did you know that the production team of the TV series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier created a digital highway more than five miles (8 km) long to capture visual effects for a truck action sequence for the episode " The Star-Spangled Man "?
text: Did you know that prior to becoming a royal reporter for Fox News , English journalist Neil Sean released a cover of Cliff Richard 's " We Don't Talk Anymore " with his mother?
text: Did you know that Palestinian citizens of Israel hold an annual march to one of the towns and villages from which their community had been displaced in the Nakba ?
text: Did you know that the UT Rio Grande Valley Vaqueros football team were members of the United Athletic Conference but left before ever having played a game there?
text: Did you know that music director Raul Mitra wanted Regine Velasquez to do an all-rock concert ?
text: Did you know that Lore Harp McGovern went from being a housewife to the CEO of a US$36 million computer company in six years?
text: Did you know that police officers had to be flown in by helicopter to seize hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of cannabis plants found growing illegally in Jerrawangala National Park ?
text: Did you know that many former cast members returned for Arrow 's 150th episode ?
text: Did you know that the replacement of a semipalmated sandpiper sculpture named Shep in New Brunswick led to a $19,000 investigation over code-of-conduct violations?
text: Did you know that after the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake destroyed Napier Technical College , it was disestablished and amalgamated into its rivals?
text: Did you know that Thomas Mann insisted on omitting a passage on homoeroticism in the English translation of his work " On the German Republic "?
text: Did you know that more than 100 European royals boarded the Cruise of the Kings , a 1954 cruise organised by the Greek queen consort Frederica of Hanover to promote tourism in Greece?
text: Did you know that the first Acadian newspaper, Le Moniteur Acadien , was acquired in 2023 for just CA$1?
text: Did you know that NCVs can assign different values to the lives of civilians of different nationalities?
text: Did you know that Yuu Nagira, the author of My Beautiful Man , did not expect readers to love one of the main characters because she had written him to be creepy?
text: Did you know that actress Agnes Mapes had to improvise a complex choreographed dance from basic poses for the 1907 play The Holy City ?
text: Did you know that in March 2022 Sonja van den Ende was the only Dutch journalist to report from the Russian-occupied Donbas on the war in Ukraine ?
text: Did you know that a restaurant in a Thai hotel serves "Chicken Volcano", a dish containing whiskey?
text: Did you know that One Chun , a Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand restaurant, has black-and-white televisions, transistor radios , and aged clocks on a wall?
text: Did you know that Heike Heubach became the first deaf member of the German Bundestag ?
text: Did you know that larvae of the species Carabus japonicus prey on earthworms up to 400 times larger than themselves?
text: Did you know that John Quincy Adams described Jonathan Elliot , his former printer , as "penurious and venal"?
text: Did you know that an Irish comedy group wrote the film Apocalypse Clown ?
text: Did you know that scholars debate whether Anactoria , mentioned in Sappho 's poems, was a real person, a pseudonym , or an invention of Sappho?
text: Did you know that American Colossus , a history book that describes how a banker bailed out the U.S. government in 1895, was published around a time when the U.S. government bailed out banks ?
text: Did you know that football player Joe Gray was nicknamed the "Gray Ghost" because when running "it was like he wasn't there anymore"?
text: Did you know that several ambiguously gendered figurines from pre-Columbian Ecuador can be analyzed through the lens of transgender archaeology ?
text: Did you know that despite the titular character of the game Cat Bird being a hybrid of a cat and a bird, critics thought the character looked more like a bat?
text: Did you know that the first words in English that National Football League player Bayron Matos knew were "I'm hungry"?
text: Did you know that the 1748 chapbook A Spy on Mother Midnight is studied for its sex scenes with cross-dressing and a dildo ?
text: Did you know that Asha Sobhana is the first Indian player to take a five-wicket haul in the Women's Premier League ?
text: Did you know that the posthumously released documentary Clean centered on the life of Sandra Pankhurst , a former sex worker, drag queen, and crime scene cleaner?
text: Did you know that the last twenty residents of the only Shilshole village on Salmon Bay in Seattle were evicted in 1914 to allow the creation of the Ballard Locks ?
text: Did you know that the Darwin Rocksitters Club had "no funny business" as their first, third, and fifth rules?
text: Did you know that the music video for the Weeknd's " I Feel It Coming " takes inspiration from people entombed in volcanic ash from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD ?
text: Did you know that Akihiko Kondo "married" Hatsune Miku , a fictional character?
text: Did you know that Lake Bell made her directorial debut, In a World... , after no one else would direct it?
text: Did you know that Enoch Edgar Hume was presented as a candidate for election to the Kentucky House of Representatives without his knowledge?
text: Did you know that the Jewish villagers of Qision dedicated an inscription for the salvation of Roman emperor Septimius Severus and his family?
text: Did you know that gymnast Andrei Muntean was Romania's first Youth Olympic Games champion?
text: Did you know that a song from the EP In the Darkest of Nights, Let the Birds Sing , written in response to the cancer diagnosis of singer Mark Foster 's uncle, was played for him before his death?
text: Did you know that Karen B. Westerfield Tucker , who both edited and contributed to The Oxford History of Christian Worship , also served as a dog show judge ?
text: Did you know that in Vladivostok , the Korean enclave Shinhanchon served as a hub of the Korean independence movement ?
text: Did you know that the crater lake produced by the 1628–1627 BCE eruption of Mount Aniakchak generated one of the largest floods of the last 10,000 years?
text: Did you know that a Work for Curaçao candidate in the 2021 Curaçao general election received 427 votes despite being dead?
text: Did you know that the Legends of Tomorrow episode " Here I Go Again " contains multiple ABBA references?
text: Did you know that Weston Turville Castle was slighted on Henry II's orders after the Revolt of 1173–1174 ?
text: Did you know that when offered a chance to repent before being burnt at the stake, one crypto-Jew allegedly told his tormentors to "throw more wood on the fire"?
text: Did you know that according to witnesses, the plutonium charge in the bomb used in the nuclear weapons test Gerboise Verte was transported in an economy car ?
text: Did you know that Ukrainian Sheriffs went to summer school after being shot?
text: Did you know that the Gusuku period saw massive castles built on "virtually every ridge"?
text: Did you know that the enzyme histamine N -methyltransferase regulates essential brain functions and sleep–wake cycles in humans?
text: Did you know that the Labour Party received their highest share of the vote to date in the 1951 UK general election but still lost to the Conservatives , who received fewer votes?
text: Did you know that Oksana Lyniv founded the Youth Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine in 2016 and conducted them in thirty concerts across ten music festivals in 2022?
text: Did you know that the 2004 documentary The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing contains interviews from dozens of film editors, including women under-represented in the field?
text: Did you know that despite getting an offer from his dream basketball school, Notre Dame , Chris Hill instead chose Michigan State ?
text: Did you know that country music singer Waylon Jennings earned his GED by watching tapes of a Kentucky Educational Television series on his tour bus?
text: Did you know that the healthcare campaigner who pioneered organ donor cards in the UK placed a personal advertisement in The Times looking for a " cadaver kidney " for her son?
text: Did you know that a U.S. Navy plane piloted by Michael Wettlaufer clipped the tower of a Florida TV station while on a training mission, forcing it off the air for nearly five years?
text: Did you know that military officer Chris Tanasale was selected as the mayor of Ambon , Indonesia, to prevent the alienation of local Christians?
text: Did you know that YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim has updated the description of his video " Me at the zoo " on multiple occasions to criticize the website's business decisions?
text: Did you know that the Nazis killed more than fifty Dutch nationals in retaliation for the assassinations of Hendrik Seyffardt and Hermannus Reydon by the Dutch resistance ?
text: Did you know that fifteen future Pro Football Hall of Fame players have been drafted by the Detroit Lions ?
text: Did you know that a 2007 pop-punk song by Fall Out Boy was named after Michael Jackson's Thriller and begins with a monologue by rapper Jay-Z ?
text: Did you know that the shopping cart is "the ultimate litmus test for whether a person is capable of self-governing", according to the shopping cart theory ?
text: Did you know that a book about book banning was banned?
text: Did you know that baseball player Shane Rawley has published a novel?
text: Did you know that the Cat Empire 's 2023 album Where the Angels Fall features contributions from 75 musicians and 49 instruments?
text: Did you know that Sara Houcke began performing in circuses at the age of two as a child clown?
text: Did you know that a man was denaturalized and deported from the United States for working at a Nazi death camp , despite the courts never holding that he did it willingly?
text: Did you know that Joy was the sole survivor of the Romanov family's execution ?
text: Did you know that Black Sheep Radio dedicated its first day of programming to a fallen pirate?
text: Did you know that The Penguin History of Modern China profiled the Christian general whose army moved to the beat of " Hark! The Herald Angels Sing "?
text: Did you know that in the Great Alaskan Lumberjack Show , the performers scale a 50-foot (15 m) tree and then free fall ?
text: Did you know that 28 trillion tonnes of ice were lost worldwide between 1994 and 2017 due to climate change ?
text: Did you know that Daniel Chapo , the favorite to be the next president of Mozambique, was previously a radio announcer?
text: Did you know that according to some metaphysicians , there are no relations ?
text: Did you know that William Henry Harrison Seeley was the first American recipient of the Victoria Cross ?
text: Did you know that farmed birds often get marks known as hock burns from the ammonia of other birds' waste?
text: Did you know that the botanist Victor Jacob Koningsberger spoke out against the expulsion of Jewish academics in the occupied Netherlands ?
text: Did you know that there's a Little Canada on Minnesota State Highway 36 ?
text: Did you know that David W. Music has taught music, composed music, conducted music, and written about music?
text: Did you know that a 2022 book lamented that American painter Edna Hibel did not have a Wikipedia article?
text: Did you know that there are more than 9,000 swamps in Belarus ?
text: Did you know that before becoming a voice actor, Kenichirou Matsuda attended law school trying to become a civil servant?
text: Did you know that the first Hindu temple in Wisconsin was built "in the middle of nowhere"?
text: Did you know that Alan Choe was tasked with developing Queenstown , Singapore's first satellite town, after its British architects left the country in the mid-1950s?
text: Did you know that Google 's Client Hints proposal was initially classified as harmful by Mozilla ?
text: Did you know that Dick Walker 's discovery of Saturn's moon Epimetheus was only realized twelve years later?
text: Did you know that Richard Linklater 's original concept for Dazed and Confused took place entirely within a car as its characters listened to ZZ Top ?
text: Did you know that Korean brick toys , colloquially called "Korean Lego", often feature themes of "war and danger", including sets such as military vehicles?
text: Did you know that stage director and scenic designer Daniela Kerck crafted a new ending to Puccini's unfinished opera Turandot for the 2024 Internationale Maifestspiele ?
text: Did you know that the Oxtongue River , historically a canoe route for indigenous people, is still used for recreational canoeing ?
text: Did you know that Native American studies professor Joely Proudfit has received tenure from three different universities?
text: Did you know that Metro Boomin unknowingly sampled a song created with generative artificial intelligence in the diss track " BBL Drizzy "?
text: Did you know that young Erismatopterus formed shoals , likely as a way to avoid predators?
text: Did you know that Fatimid vizier al-Ma'mun al-Bata'ihi helped empower Caliph al-Amir , only to be later imprisoned and executed by him?
text: Did you know that due to legal and union restrictions, the production team for the Doctor Who episode " Space Babies " occasionally had to replace real babies with props?
text: Did you know that the English actor Jude Law is actually named David, a result of his parents naming their children after their best friends?
text: Did you know that a portrait was attributed to the wrong painter for many years, and the sitter was also misidentified?
text: Did you know that an AI rendering of the Detroit Sign misled people into thinking that it would be larger than it actually is?
text: Did you know that bricks laid in Flemish bond were a sign of wealth in colonial Virginia ?
text: Did you know that the communist trade unionist Ditto Pölzl was a member of all three provisional state governments of Styria in 1945?
text: Did you know that when East Wake Academy opened, its two main school buildings were located four miles (6 km) apart in separate towns?
text: Did you know that John White shot himself after it was discovered that he had plagiarized a speech by Aaron Burr ?
text: Did you know that within the mixed-reality mode of Homeworld: Vast Reaches , ships seem to fly around the player's room?
text: Did you know that a Utah radio station read books to listeners, a Chapter a Day ?
text: Did you know  that Italian pianist and composer Maria Luigia Pizzoli posthumously received the title of Maestro di Contrappunto (master of counterpoint )?
text: Did you know that because Larrabee County was not established, Iowa remains a state with 99 counties?
text: Did you know that Yazathingyan Nga Mauk betrayed his brother, Commander Nga Nu , after being promised Nu's wife, Queen Saw Omma , in marriage?
text: Did you know that climate change in Asia is expected to increase flood risks in the continent's cities, which are already high for 932 million people?
text: Did you know that the SkyBridge Alternatives Conference has been called the " Super Bowl of hedge funds"?
text: Did you know that after performing a tour , football club Santa Cruz Futebol Clube had four fewer players, two of them being dead?
text: Did you know that according to one creationist journal , HIV has its origins in the Fall ?
text: Did you know that in her musical show Songbird , Regine Velasquez performs one lesser-known song from the featured theme each week?
text: Did you know that a high jumper took up sprinting to qualify for Kiribati at the 2020 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that playwright Vivian Cosby was hospitalized for three and a half years after lighting herself on fire because of a faulty gas heater?
text: Did you know that the Creamoata Mill, which once produced a now-nonexistent breakfast food, was listed as Gore 's only " place of outstanding historical and cultural influence "?
text: Did you know that the documentary film I Am Human has been the conversation starter for neuroscience panel discussions at universities such as Harvard ?
text: Did you know that Gabriel André Aucler tried to reestablish paganism after the French Revolution ?
text: Did you know that Alan Kulwicki Memorial Park was partially financed with a US$250,000 donation from Hooters chairman Robert Brooks?
text: Did you know that a nihilist school of metaphysics contends that tables and chairs do not exist?
text: Did you know that " Sea of Voices " was well-received by Porter Robinson 's fans even though it was a fundamental change from his prior musical style?
text: Did you know that Morris Villarroel wore a camera on his chest that took around 1,200 photographs per day for several years?
text: Did you know that Seattle Reign FC have had three name changes during their 11-year history ?
text: Did you know that Eric Bloodaxe 's death at the Battle of Stainmore ended the independence of Scandinavian York ?
text: Did you know that the legacy of American pianist Ella Scoble Opperman has been said to continue "to entertain and draw attention to Tallahassee " decades after her death?
text: Did you know that the sheep-farming founder of Kekerengu in New Zealand became an international fugitive?
text: Did you know that the sprinter Peter Norman requested that he be left off the Olympic Black Power Statue so that others could stand in his place?
text: Did you know that a Japanese samurai was beatified by Pope Benedict XVI , nearly 400 years after his execution during the Great Martyrdom of Edo ?
text: Did you know that the Picts disappeared from the historical record after the devastation suffered following the Battle of Dollar ?
text: Did you know that the operators of a Wisconsin radio station received unsolicited checks and food deliveries?
text: Did you know that the classicist Adam Parry said that he had only ever considered three careers: academia, law and beachcombing ?
text: Did you know that Isaac Watts , the "father of English hymnody", described one of Charles Wesley's hymns as "worth all the verses he himself had written"?
text: Did you know that a Buddhist android preacher regularly gives sermons on the Heart Sutra ?
text: Did you know that Bills plays for the Bills ?
text: Did you know that the execution of Burkinabé trade union leader Soumane Touré was prevented by the intervention of his childhood friend, then-president Thomas Sankara ?
text: Did you know that The Amazing Digital Circus is influenced by the short story " I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream "?
text: Did you know that Jaelyn Brown , who was born with two club feet , now plays in the WNBA ?
text: Did you know that the U.S. Department of Labor recorded 583 sitdown strikes in the U.S. between 1936 and 1939, affecting half a million workers?
text: Did you know that Vasantha Krishna Prasad was the richest candidate from Krishna district to contest the 2019 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election ?
text: Did you know that Megan Abbott receives the most negative letters from readers for The End of Everything ?
text: Did you know that volleyball player Madisen Skinner beat Texas in one national championship final – then won two national championships with Texas?
text: Did you know that the Gravity Blanket was funded by a crowdfunding campaign which raised more than $4.7 million, despite asking for only $21,500?
text: Did you know that the ancient Homeric Hymns influenced the works of James Joyce , Alfred Hitchcock and Neil Gaiman ?
text: Did you know that Jasprit Bumrah holds the record for scoring the highest number of runs in a single over in Test cricket?
text: Did you know that the Natives Representative Council held meetings in school halls?
text: Did you know that Kenji Tanigaki , the action director of Rurouni Kenshin and Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins , began his career as a stuntman on the invitation of action choreographer Stephen Tung ?
text: Did you know that after presenting a televised singing contest won by Sarah Geronimo , Regine Velasquez co-headlined a concert with her?
text: Did you know that Qin Huasun criticized Taiwan's bid to join the United Nations as a "brazen attempt [...] at splitting a sovereign state"?
text: Did you know that Don Hutson and Forrest Gregg were the only Green Bay Packers players selected for all three NFL All-Anniversary Teams ?
text: Did you know that Utter served as a Stockholm police horse for more than 23 years, participating in 515 changings of the Royal Guards ?
text: Did you know that Joe Shield was the first person from Vermont to be drafted into the NFL and then make a team's roster?
text: Did you know that codebreaker Emily Anderson was trained to become a Hush WAAC before she joined the British GCHQ ?
text: Did you know that actress Mia Goth was cast as both Pearl and Maxine in X to emphasize the similarities between the two characters?
text: Did you know that making a manganese nitride in 1894 required a sponge ?
text: Did you know that AI researcher Jan Leike believes " safety culture and processes have taken a backseat to shiny products" at OpenAI ?
text: Did you know that Zombie Plane "mercilessly mocks its main stars", according to The Hollywood Reporter ?
text: Did you know that Two Roosters Ice Cream became locally popular after offering odd flavors such as "grilled cheese" and "pizza"?
text: Did you know that Drake discovered an ancient Chinese city ?
text: Did you know that Uhtred became Earl of Bamburgh after his victory at the siege of Durham , even though his father seems to have still been living?
text: Did you know that Eddie Halliwell was voted into the top 20 of the DJ Mag poll of the most popular disc jockeys for four consecutive years?
text: Did you know that in the year after its establishment, the provincial legislature of Bali annulled all local laws banning inter-caste marriage ?
text: Did you know that Northwestern women's lacrosse player Izzy Scane led the country in points, missed a season with a torn ACL , then led the country in points again?
text: Did you know that a 2018 documentary film explores blockchain as a means to give stateless refugees official identities?
text: Did you know that academic Bunny Mellor served as a secret agent alongside Peter Fleming ?
text: Did you know that the budget for the first season of The Last of Us exceeded that of each of the first five seasons of Game of Thrones ?
text: Did you know that the North Korean propaganda song " Friendly Father " went viral on TikTok , with some users comparing it to songs by ABBA ?
text: Did you know that Alexandru Talex was described as "the gentlest" member of a Romanian far-right organization ?
text: Did you know that "Human Sacrifice", a track on the 2024 album Atavista , could be heard in a 2019 Google Pixel advertisement?
text: Did you know that a mob in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia , detained Jean Pettrequin and searched for Sebastian Zouberbuhler because of a letter?
text: Did you know that lacrosse player Caitlyn Wurzburger committed to a college program at the age of 14?
text: Did you know that during the filming of the Doctor Who episode " Boom " some takes lasted up to seven minutes?
text: Did you know that Mike Gorman spent 43 consecutive years as the television play-by-play commentator for the Boston Celtics ?
text: Did you know that the Armenian Radio jokes are neither about radio nor are they Armenian?
text: Did you know that Shagdarjavin Natsagdorj 's remarks at an academic conference led to a communist purge and contributed to the Sino-Soviet split ?
text: Did you know that Pujol and Quintonil are the highest-rated restaurants in Mexico's first Michelin guide , with two Michelin stars each?
text: Did you know that football player Peter Bowden only started long snapping to help his cousin, a punter , produce film in high school, and both are now in the National Football League ?
text: Did you know that the adjacent Jennings and Sloane Houses comprise New York City's largest single-family residence?
text: Did you know that Arthur Fulton was a sniper in the First World War and described as "the most famous rifle shot the world has ever known"?
text: Did you know that the Asyikin–Brugman Treaty was revoked 11 days after being signed?
text: Did you know that Shirley Warde not only starred in theater and movie productions, but also wrote playscripts and short stories for magazines?
text: Did you know that in Thailand and Cambodia, cats are used in a procession to ask for rain ?
text: Did you know that, as minister, Simon de Graaff would receive daily shipments of documents by bicycle?
text: Did you know that the Byzantine Empire's weak defenses around the Lycus valley played a pivotal role in the fall of Constantinople ?
text: Did you know that a graphic novel for teens was among the 10 most challenged books in the United States in 2023?
text: Did you know that the American band Grupo Frontera collaborated with the media franchise Transformers on a trailer to promote their second studio album ?
text: Did you know that if the Devizes Plot had been successful, 7,000 German prisoners of war would have escaped and attacked RAF Yatesbury ?
text: Did you know that Fredrick Wangabo Mwenengabo , a Congolese-Canadian anthropologist and human rights activist , survived being kidnapped and held for ransom in the Democratic Republic of the Congo?
text: Did you know that when actress Joanna Lumley spent nine days on an uninhabited island for the 1994 TV show Girl Friday , she made a pair of shoes out of her bra?
text: Did you know that John Wilson was expelled from the Arkansas House of Representatives for killing another representative in a knife fight, but was then re-elected two years later?
text: Did you know that Kenneth Odumegwu had never appeared in an organized American football game prior to playing in the NFL ?
text: Did you know that the Doctor Who episode " The Devil's Chord " references the events of an episode that aired more than sixty years before?
text: Did you know that Rachel Brem discovered a tumor in her own breast while testing ultrasound equipment for her hospital?
text: Did you know that for her residency Ang Ating Musika , Regine Velasquez performed "two concerts-in-one"?
text: Did you know that Bianca Babb , a pioneer girl captured by Comanches , described her time among them as "every day seemed to be a holiday", despite the hardships of her initial capture?
text: Did you know that the two marble statues flanking the Dellwood Cemetery gates represent Mourning and Resurrection ?
text: Did you know that before becoming a comedian, Ola Labib was a pharmacist who had never been inside a pub before her first gig?
text: Did you know that the idea for Windswept Adan came to Ichiko Aoba after she noticed the translucency of a sea grape ?
text: Did you know that Felipe Lara 's Pulitzer finalist Double Concerto turns its soloists into a "many-tentacled creature"?
text: Did you know that birds have more species than mammals, but are relatively more uniform in appearance ?
text: Did you know that in addition to her popular manga series Delicious in Dungeon , Ryoko Kui has drawn fan art of the games Baldur's Gate , Pathfinder and Planescape: Torment ?
text: Did you know that one Italian broadcaster delayed airing Eurovision Song Contest 1974 by two months to avoid influencing an upcoming divorce law referendum ?
text: Did you know that Irish Gaelic footballer Jude McAtamney became interested in American football after reading a Twitter post in 2020, and became an NFL player in 2024?
text: Did you know that Tim Robards returned to Neighbours in Episode 8851 , two years after he had to quit his role early?
text: Did you know that Franz Liszt 's female admirers would fight over his cigar stubs and coffee dregs as souvenirs?
text: Did you know that Australian gamer Zer0 led his team to an Apex Legends Global Series championship with a substitution teammate to whom he had never spoken before?
text: Did you know that Louisa May Alcott wrote A Modern Mephistopheles as part of an anonymous series in which readers were meant to guess the author?
text: Did you know that the first model of cosmic inflation was formulated by a Soviet physicist but initially remained unknown outside the Soviet Union?
text: Did you know that the Beep the Meep puppet created for " The Star Beast " took six people to operate?
text: Did you know that football player Levi Drake Rodriguez , considered small for his position, went on an "eat-as-much-as-humanly-possible diet" to be noticed by NFL teams?
text: Did you know that Macklemore 's song " Hind's Hall " refers to Hind Rajab , a six-year-old girl who was killed in the Gaza Strip in January 2024?
text: Did you know that starting at age 16, future Woolworths CEO Brad Banducci was named top sewing machine salesperson three years in a row?
text: Did you know that the ancient Greek game polis is one of the world's oldest known strategy games?
text: Did you know that over the course of several decades, the missionaries of New Zealand's German Mission House failed to convert a single person?
text: Did you know that all 55 people killed during the Great Genna Martyrdom in 1622 were beatified by Pope Pius IX more than two hundred years later?
text: Did you know that S'Klallam artist Jeffrey Veregge 's " Salish Geek" style blended traditional formline art techniques with bright colors and pop culture references?
text: Did you know that the daimyo of Kumamoto is said to have spent a thousand gold pieces in one night at an Ōsakishimojima teahouse ?
text: Did you know that in 2024, C. J. Hanson became the first player from his school to be chosen in the NFL draft since 1989?
text: Did you know that the Chinese Red Army housed its political directorate in a Catholic church in 1935?
text: Did you know that people in Madagascar perform algebra on tree seeds in order to tell the future ?
text: Did you know that Jacob Christiaan Koningsberger , a biologist who catalogued the flora and fauna of Java, also served as the Dutch minister of the colonies ?
text: Did you know that researchers submitting to the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy intentionally introduced security bugs into Linux ?
text: Did you know that the Tang dynasty politician Fang Yi'ai , together with his wife Princess Gaoyang , rebelled against Emperor Gaozong of Tang , but their rebellion was swiftly suppressed, resulting in their deaths?
text: Did you know that El Califa de León is the first Mexican taqueria to be awarded a Michelin star ?
text: Did you know that first-team All-American soccer player Jordynn Dudley holds her high school's basketball scoring record?
text: Did you know that the Larmanjat guided rail system was successfully demonstrated in England but failed completely when used commercially in Lisbon ?
text: Did you know that during a comedy routine Reuben Solo drew a graph plotting the audience's reaction to his routine?
text: Did you know that in 2016, the removal of a few lines of code briefly "broke the Internet "?
text: Did you know that three of the four Richmond Theatres were destroyed by fire, of which the 1811 fire was described as "early America's first great disaster"?
text: Did you know that Claude Hamilton Verity , a grandson of Doncaster mayor Charles Verity , was an early pioneer of the synchronisation of sound with silent films?
text: Did you know that one of the "plushest" nightclubs in northern Florida turned into studios for a TV station in Jacksonville ?
text: Did you know that Left Socialist-Revolutionary leader Maria Spiridonova addressed her party's fourth congress in October 1918 by letter as she was in jail?
text: Did you know that KT Leveston , the 254th pick in the 2024 NFL draft , is from U.S. area code 254 ?
text: Did you know that many people with heart failure, diabetes, or ME/CFS cannot raise their heart rates sufficiently during exercise ?
text: Did you know that within years of Aza Arnold inventing a device to improve cotton roving , it was plagiarized across the United States and Europe?
text: Did you know that Aurora Gaming 's roster for Apex Legends is made up of Fire Beavers ?
text: Did you know that German factory worker Julius Welschof now plays in the National Football League?
text: Did you know that despite the success of their song "C U in da Ballpit", Camping in Alaska band members say they all hate it?
text: Did you know that journalist Jacques Poitras spent a month repeatedly crossing the " Imaginary Line " separating New Brunswick and Maine in order to publish a book about it?
text: Did you know that George Krugers was circumcised so he could pass as Muslim and film The Great Mecca Feast ?
text: Did you know that the TikTok success of DellaXOZ 's "Ahh!!" prompted a lawyer to contact her?
text: Did you know that the New York State Pavilion , one of the most popular attractions at the 1964 World's Fair, later stored hazardous waste?
text: Did you know that Stellar Blade 's Eve was described as "a woman born from South Korea's culture and philosophy" by The Washington Post ?
text: Did you know that Tad's Steaks offered "tasty food, low prices, service with a grunt"?
text: Did you know that Cypress College basketball coach Don Johnson , who was an All-American at UCLA , developed two players with minimal experience who later played for his alma mater and set records in the NBA ?
text: Did you know that one of SZA's songs name-drops such figures as a boxer , a stand-up comedian , and Jesus ?
text: Did you know that Shushu/Tong is a brand that creates fashion collections inspired by magical girl anime such as Puella Magi Madoka Magica ?
text: Did you know that Peter Demetz , who taught German literature at Yale University from 1956 to 1991, was born in Prague where he was persecuted under the Nazis and escaped the Communist regime in 1949?
text: Did you know that Herschel the sea lion was defended by Greenpeace ?
text: Did you know that Taiwanese long jumper Lin Yu-tang qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympics by switching out his broken track shoes between attempts?
text: Did you know that when Yuba County's library was built in 1906, it had a smoking room?
text: Did you know that a municipal purchase of 177 motorcycles by Hevearita Gunaryanti Rahayu , the mayor of Semarang , Indonesia, caused a social media controversy due to media misreporting?
text: Did you know that the managing editor of Aujourd'hui was executed by firing squad in 1944?
text: Did you know that football player Michael Jurgens never lost in 42 high school varsity games?
text: Did you know that the success of the British band Shiva was cut short by the death of its lead vocalist?
text: Did you know that the 1972 Finnish film The Sheep Eaters gathered more than a million viewers opposite the 1975 Ice Hockey World Championships match between Finland and the Soviet Union?
text: Did you know that according to second-century AD Greek rhetorician Athenaeus , the Phoenicians played a flute-like instrument called the gingras in their mourning rituals?
text: Did you know that 55 Broad Street , a skyscraper in the Financial District of Manhattan, was called "an unlovable building in an unlivable neighborhood"?
text: Did you know that when Sithu Pauk Hla was appointed the governor of Yamethin , he was also given command of a 50-strong company of war elephants ?
text: Did you know that the Estado Novo deprived Aurora Rodrigues of sleep for more than two weeks to induce hallucinations?
text: Did you know that the Hogmanay special Live into 85 was so shambolic it ended a 32-year tradition?
text: Did you know that Casey Washington made the game-winning score that ended a record nine- overtime college football game?
text: Did you know that the distinctive coloration of the giant panda appears to serve as camouflage in both winter and summer?
text: Did you know that Saparinah Sadli defended one of her former students when Indonesia's State Intelligence Agency challenged her gendered exploration of the New Order regime?
text: Did you know that the 18th-century hymn " Alas! and Did My Saviour Bleed " has been criticised because its lyrics have singers call themselves a "worm"?
text: Did you know that Elizabeth Yeampierre has called Puerto Rico the "poster child for climate injustice " due to the devastation caused by Hurricane Maria ?
text: Did you know that Boston's World's Museum was a theatre, an aquarium, a menagerie, and a freak show ?
text: Did you know that in 1978 the chairman of the Democratic Yemeni Union of Peasants was arrested after the South Yemeni government was taken over by Abdul Fattah Ismail ?
text: Did you know that Lyle Bauer continued to attend Canadian Football League executive meetings despite being unable to speak due to his treatment for stage four throat cancer?
text: Did you know that the Capitolium of Constantinople , originally a pagan temple , was later topped by a cross?
text: Did you know that the diss track " 6:16 in LA ", directed at Drake , samples Al Green 's "What a Wonderful Thing Love Is", a song that features Drake's guitarist uncle ?
text: Did you know that an essay of jailed Socialist Revolutionary politician Alexander Helfgot was smuggled out of Russia and published in Berlin in 1922?
text: Did you know that when producer Daniel Grodnik proposed the idea for Terror Train to his wife, she thought that it sounded terrible?
text: Did you know that the Eurovision Song Contest 1991 was moved to Rome from Sanremo at a late stage due to increased security concerns resulting from the Gulf War ?
text: Did you know that in college, American football player Jarrett Kingston started at the position of left guard , then moved to left tackle , and then played right tackle and right guard ?
text: Did you know that Travis Clayton went from the eighth tier of English rugby union to being drafted into the National Football League, even though he had never played in an American football game?
text: Did you know that David Ben Avraham was granted Israeli residency after being killed by an IDF soldier ?
text: Did you know that the mouse protagonist Mrs. Brisby from The Secret of NIMH had her name changed because of a trademark issue from a toy named " Frisbee "?
text: Did you know that Tachikawa Sumito made a hit cover in 1976 of a song that he first discovered when a housewife called into his radio show requesting to hear a version of it?
text: Did you know that Riley Testut developed AltStore because he wanted to publish his emulator Delta ?
text: Did you know that the Obonga–Ottertooth Provincial Park is a significant habitat for woodland moose ?
text: Did you know that Albert Wesker 's character design evokes the aesthetic of the Nazi ideal of the Übermensch , reflecting Resident Evil 's "core" theme of eugenics ?
text: Did you know that after John Henry Newman wrote his Apologia Pro Vita Sua in response to an attack by Charles Kingsley , Kingsley compared Newman to a "treacherous ape" and implied that he was insane?
text: Did you know that Bruce Conner conceived of his short film Cosmic Ray as "presenting the eyes" for blind musician Ray Charles ?
text: Did you know that Giovanni Manu was the first player from his university ever to be selected in the NFL draft ?
text: Did you know that Barack Obama made an election promise to make non-emergency bills freely available online for a five-day public consultation period under " sunlight before signing "?
text: Did you know that Bob Noel was the one responsible for dealing "with all the dirty laundry" of the Green Bay Packers ?
text: Did you know that New England Revolution manager Bruce Arena led the club to a record-breaking 73 points in the 2021 season ?
text: Did you know that North West was originally going to be called Kaidence?
text: Did you know that Lock's Quest was said to feature "some of the best original music in a DS game"?
text: Did you know that 69 is "nice"?
text: Did you know that in Liberia , self-induced abortions are performed with herbal remedies known as "rocket-propelled grenade" and "Christmas leaf"?
text: Did you know that Olympic judoka Valentin Houinato is also a full-time journalist?
text: Did you know that Ghana and Ivory Coast have been accused of setting up a cocoa cartel ?
text: Did you know that the triathletes competing in the 2024 Summer Olympics include a man who won his first international competition aged 30 and the brother of a former Olympian ?
text: Did you know that the Wikipedia hoax Carlos Bandeirense Mirandópolis was cited in a judicial decision by the Rio de Janeiro Court of Justice?
text: Did you know that Alyssa Mendoza and Andy Barat are the first Olympic representatives of their sport for their state and country, respectively?
text: Did you know that one in ten thousand individuals are born without the ability to smell ?
text: Did you know that Sizzle Ohtaka , known as the "Queen of Commercial Songs", was producing them at a rate of ten per month?
text: Did you know that future American presidential candidate George McGovern was a student pastor at a church in Diamond Lake, Illinois ?
text: Did you know that Stefano Manetti was co-consecrated a bishop by the same man who ordained him a priest 30 years earlier?
text: Did you know that a law was signed so that the Solomon Islands delegation could return home from the 2020 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that the first lady of the Ivory Coast created an animated kids' show in 1989?
text: Did you know that Olympic fencer Victor Alvares de Oliveira was told at a young age by doctors that he had little chance to compete in the sport due to his severe asthma ?
text: Did you know that the site of the headquarters of the German colonization of Texas was converted into a museum ?
text: Did you know that artifacts of Papua New Guinean art were called "living spirits with fixed abodes"?
text: Did you know that some estimate that maintenance of existing software costs up to nine times as much as creating it in the first place?
text: Did you know that at age 15, Lilia Cosman moved from the United States to Romania to compete for Romania's Olympic gymnastics team?
text: Did you know that Baubau city filed two different budgets at the same time, losing their chance at becoming the capital of Southeast Sulawesi ?
text: Did you know that in 1948, Jane Wallis Burrell became the first CIA officer to die in service?
text: Did you know that after being freed from Buq Buq labor camp in Italian-occupied Egypt , Libyan Jewish prisoners had to walk home across the desert?
text: Did you know that Aminata Barrow is the first female Olympic swimmer for The Gambia ?
text: Did you know that the Newton Lower Falls Branch was operated with a single electric railcar nicknamed the "Ping-Pong"?
text: Did you know that after disappearing in 2019, a donkey is now "living his best life" with a wild elk herd?
text: Did you know that Fathimath Dheema Ali is the first Olympic qualifier from the Maldives?
text: Did you know that Rhapsody was the hardest traditional climbing route in the world?
text: Did you know that Rashmika Mandanna was reluctant to accept her first role in Hindi cinema as she disagreed with the character's views on spirituality?
text: Did you know that the aid climbing routes on the Great Trango Tower are some of the longest vertical big wall climbs in the world?
text: Did you know that Evann Girault is Niger's first Olympic fencer?
text: Did you know that the neutral oil tanker Hercules carried an unexploded bomb into a Brazilian port after being attacked by Argentine aircraft during the Falklands War ?
text: Did you know that Goodboy Galaxy was the first commercially released video game for the Game Boy Advance in more than 13 years?
text: Did you know that Quintus et Ultimus Watson was the acting governor of Texas for one day in 1915?
text: Did you know that Chloë Farro , María Sara Grippoli , Edda Hannesdóttir , Viren Nettasinghe , Oyuntsetsegiin Yesügen , and Lê Đức Phát are flagbearers at today's Olympic opening ceremony ?
text: Did you know that silver dimes kept a Tennessee TV station on the air?
text: Did you know that agronomist Oliver Golden remained in the Soviet Union after his delegation of cotton experts returned to the United States?
text: Did you know that the Guinness World Record holder for the world's largest menorah, in Manhattan's Grand Army Plaza , is smaller than a menorah in Brooklyn's Grand Army Plaza ?
text: Did you know that Olympic swimmer Camil Doua represents a country in which "the only existing swimming pools are those in hotels"?
text: Did you know that there is a rare circumstance in which Jewish soldiers are allowed to abandon kosher dietary laws ?
text: Did you know that physiotherapist Alison McGregor was one of the Olympic flame torchbearers from Imperial College London in the build-up to the London Olympic Games in 2012?
text: Did you know that NATO was once targeted by a group of " gay furry hackers "?
text: Did you know that angling was once an Olympic sport ?
text: Did you know that the shape of Fisherman's Friend lozenges was based on the buttons on a dress worn by Doreen Lofthouse ?
text: Did you know that during an expedition on RV Kaharoa , a 34-centimetre-long (13 in) "supergiant" amphipod was discovered?
text: Did you know that Olympia Dukakis 's first screen role was in the avant-garde film Twice a Man ?
text: Did you know that ten years after publishing the book Great South African Christians , Horton Davies gave a speech criticizing South African churches and synagogues for their role in apartheid?
text: Did you know that the two varieties of Alabama croton are separated by more than 1,000 kilometres (620 miles)?
text: Did you know that Aboriginal soldier Tim Hughes was decorated for remarkable bravery, exceptional coolness and initiative during the Battle of Buna–Gona ?
text: Did you know that the Victory Vertical piano was developed in 1942 to be parachuted to US troops?
text: Did you know that a shrine dedicated to the fictional character Ianto Jones is visited by people from around the world?
text: Did you know that a sprinter who competed for American Samoa at the 2020 Summer Olympics had never competed in a sprinting event beforehand?
text: Did you know that immigrant midwife Dorothy Dworkin was considered the matriarch of Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital ?
text: Did you know that an Alabama TV station fired nearly its entire news staff and replaced its newscasts with a countdown clock for more than a month?
text: Did you know that the Kelvite sounding machine used a chemical reaction to determine the depth of water in which a ship was sailing?
text: Did you know that Zionist activist Georg Kareski defended the Nuremberg Laws in a Nazi newspaper?
text: Did you know that the 2024 U.S. Supreme Court case Department of State v. Muñoz decided that the fundamental right to marry does not give a U.S. citizen a right to challenge their spouse's visa denial?
text: Did you know that Toby Olubi has claimed to have funded his Olympic bobsled career by being " shot out of a cannon "?
text: Did you know that the Mount Leona Fire was finally contained on the upper slopes of Profanity Peak?
text: Did you know that the International Olympic Committee 's TikTok account praised the "incredible strategy" of speed skater Yang Jingru 's win at the 2024 Winter Youth Olympics ?
text: Did you know that according to writer Russell T Davies , he conceived elements of the Doctor Who episode " Empire of Death " decades before he wrote it?
text: Did you know that during his tenure as the manager of Austria's Burgtheater from 1971 to 1976, Gerhard Klingenberg often directed plays with analogies of a divided Europe?
text: Did you know that Red (Taylor's Version) was credited by media publications with popularizing the "Sad Girl Autumn" phenomenon in popular culture?
text: Did you know that 14 months after taking up track cycling, René Heyde only narrowly missed out being selected to the New Zealand team at the 1972 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that during the construction of 181 Montague Street in New York City, each of the building's columns was pulled by 14 horses?
text: Did you know that Unilever invited Britons to congregate and worship at a shrine to Marmite in 2010?
text: Did you know that Zali Steggall , an independent member of the Parliament of Australia , is an Olympic skiing medallist?
text: Did you know that petroglyphs from western Crete may depict extinct Candiacervus deer from the Palaeolithic ?
text: Did you know that North Korean child prodigy Ri Jong-yol defected to South Korea after winning silver at the 2016 International Mathematical Olympiad in Hong Kong?
text: Did you know that after women at Apple Inc. found a 6-percent gender wage gap and spoke out against sexual harassment and discrimination in #AppleToo , a class-action lawsuit was filed in June 2024?
text: Did you know that Fu Wuji 's Fuhou gujin zhu includes information on a diverse range of topics, from astrological signs to the dimensions of imperial tombs?
text: Did you know that Ascension Island designated its entire marine territory as a protected area with no commercial fishing permitted ?
text: Did you know that Jewish video essayist Jacob Geller cited Jewish traditions of study and scholarship as an inspiration behind his analysis of popular culture?
text: Did you know that one critic likened the design of 185 Montague Street in New York City to the horns of Count Basie's orchestra?
text: Did you know that Steve Elcock 's Symphony No. 6 is dedicated to "the everlasting execration of self-serving politicians, the obscenely rich and the system that allows them to remain so"?
text: Did you know that to embody her role as a short-track speed skater in the movie Breaking Through , actress Meng Meiqi inserted a rock into one of her ice skates to feel real pain?
text: Did you know that British physician James A. Glover found that " spacing-out " beds prevented epidemics of meningitis in the military during World War I?
text: Did you know that a co-founder of Braver Angels designed their Red/Blue political depolarization workshops based on couples therapy ?
text: Did you know that the 1969 leadership election for the Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick was blacklisted by the American Federation of Musicians because one of the candidates was indebted to them?
text: Did you know that American ornithologist Judy Kellogg Markowsky died after disappearing in the river that she worked to protect during her life?
text: Did you know that the third Josef Hoop cabinet survived an attempted coup from a domestic Nazi party ?
text: Did you know that author Anna Smith Spark is also known as the "Queen of Grimdark "?
text: Did you know that sixteen-year-old Lisa Andreas , who represented Cyprus in the Eurovision Song Contest 2004 , was that year's youngest contest entrant?
text: Did you know that Chris Patrick is one of seven Stanley Cup champions in his family ?
text: Did you know that the Coon Rapids Dam on the Mississippi River is the northern terminus of the river's navigable portion?
text: Did you know that musician Henry Donch witnessed the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and served on the grand jury that indicted the assassin of President Garfield ?
text: Did you know that the Pokémon species Lucario is used to promote fitness programs in Japan?
text: Did you know that Peter Talbot , the Catholic archbishop of Dublin , was imprisoned in 1678 due to an anti-Catholic conspiracy ?
text: Did you know that the owners of the Narragansett Pier Railroad included a family of industrialists , a dentist, a systems analyst, a lumberyard, and the founder of Textron ?
text: Did you know that valence populism cannot be positioned on the left–right political spectrum ?
text: Did you know that 17-year-old women's basketball player Zhang Ziyu is at least 220 centimetres (7 ft 3 in) tall?
text: Did you know that Cornell College professor Harriette Cooke was also a deaconess ?
text: Did you know that there were technical issues with the performance of " Luna " by the Colombian singer Feid at the 2024 Copa América opening ceremony?
text: Did you know that Oey Kim Tiang was one of two "men with no name" to translate Jin Yong 's Condor Trilogy into vernacular Malay ?
text: Did you know that the radio station at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire would go off the air in the middle of the day?
text: Did you know that thirty years after playing his first season for the Miami Hurricanes , J. D. Arteaga became the team's head coach in 2024?
text: Did you know that scientists tested the age of an African termite 's inhabited mound —and found it to be 34,000 years old?
text: Did you know that Albert Einstein wrote to Joseph Petzoldt in 1914 that he had "long shared his convictions", after reading one of his philosophical books?
text: Did you know that in fiction, supernovae are induced to serve as weapons, power sources for time travel, and advertisements?
text: Did you know that football player Julian Lewis received offers to play college football before he had attended high school?
text: Did you know that carpenter Cumming Haswell erected a historic villa , later described as "modestly-scaled but ornamental"?
text: Did you know that Terry Pratchett's earliest Discworld stories were posthumously found and published by two of his fans?
text: Did you know that the flaming finale of Joan by Alexander McQueen has been read as an image of violence, resilience, transcendence, and resurrection?
text: Did you know that the 2016 festival South by South Lawn included a panel discussion on climate change led by President Obama ?
text: Did you know that Melani Budianta used street gangs and Moonies in Los Angeles to reflect on the state of democracy in Indonesia?
text: Did you know that Stardust's only song earned them a $3 million offer from a record label, but they refused?
text: Did you know that Bill Wurtz once accepted an award with a two-word acceptance speech?
text: Did you know that in 1919 Vladimir Zitta , Evgenia Semenovskaya , Vladimir Bezel and G. N. Maksimov were expelled from the Party of Revolutionary Communism for having advocated unity with other populist sectors ?
text: Did you know that the satellite TRUTHS is planned to enable the precise calibration of Earth observation data from other satellites?
text: Did you know that ice hockey coach Ryan Warsofsky was the youngest active head coach in the ECHL , then was the youngest in the AHL , and now is the youngest in the NHL ?
text: Did you know that Pure Japanese was released under this English title in its native Japan?
text: Did you know that Charlemagne owned an elephant that he received as a gift from the Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid ?
text: Did you know that one critic interpreted a SZA song as being about her fears about the growing influence of AI in the music industry ?
text: Did you know  that Kho Ping Hoo , despite writing numerous stories based on wuxia , could not read Chinese?
text: Did you know that during the 1899–1900 peasant unrest in Bulgaria , some troops refused orders to fire on the protesters?
text: Did you know that the winner of the seventeenth series of Britain's Got Talent was the first individual woman to win the show without a dog?
text: Did you know that the moat around Pinxton Castle was inside the perimeter walls, rather than outside?
text: Did you know that William Beck emigrated to the US from Germany, became a policeman at 19, was wounded by a Native American tribe, and was shipwrecked before becoming Milwaukee's first police chief?
text: Did you know that a Texas TV station hoped that being named after an eye would ease viewer confusion?
text: Did you know that Pharos , the largest impact crater on Neptune's moon Proteus , is more than half the diameter of Proteus itself?
text: Did you know that in his book How to Be Perfect , Michael Schur sought to "wade into some deeply confusing and painful applications of moral philosophy ... but in a fun way"?
text: Did you know that a video accompanying ML Buch 's debut album showed viewers her inner self – literally?
text: Did you know that environmental journalist Gloria Dickie wrote her thesis on how cities in Colorado changed garbage laws to prevent bear incursions?
text: Did you know that Brunel University's lecture centre has been described as "imposing" and "frightening", but also as "an expressive centrepiece" and "a brutalist classic"?
text: Did you know that Benjamin Jackson was likely paid at least $300 to fight in the American Civil War as Lewis Saunders?
text: Did you know that, of the three presidents of the Chamber of Dutch Culture , two were arrested and one was assassinated?
text: Did you know that the inclusion of two preteen competing performers at the Eurovision Song Contest 1989 led to the introduction of an age rule for participants at future contests?
text: Did you know that a gunman who, in 1960, shot three people dead in Sheffield , England, was deported to Somalia, where he was killed in a shoot-out while "running amok"?
text: Did you know that Iowa government social worker Catherine G. Williams started out as a tap dancer ?
text: Did you know that Banner in the Sky inspired a Canadian dentist to climb the Matterhorn ?
text: Did you know that Australia's most threatened butterfly is confined to a native range of less than 10 square kilometres (3.9 sq mi)?
text: Did you know that football player Gordon Cooper performed so well that "the adjective supply [was] exhausted" in trying to describe him?
text: Did you know that the live-action drama adaptation of the Japanese manga Setsuyaku Rock was reimagined as a buddy comedy ?
text: Did you know that Emily Spreeman , the all-time top scorer for the United States women's national deaf soccer team , debuted for the team at the age of 15?
text: Did you know that the San Diego YMCA estimates that it has served more than 125 million military personnel?
text: Did you know that the real-time strategy, tower defense and factory management game Mindustry is freely licensed under the GPLv3 ?
text: Did you know that Oen Boen Ing , a doctor who often worked for free , was so popular that the Indonesian government was petitioned not to evacuate him during a period of violence against Chinese Indonesians ?
text: Did you know that 200 spiders were on the set of Infested ?
text: Did you know that the Vancouver School Board 's alleged attempt to censor a student newspaper led to the drafting of a press-freedom act?
text: Did you know that fans on TikTok were behind the choice of name for one of SZA's singles ?
text: Did you know that when sales slowed on the Texas Centennial half dollar , Senator Tom Connally suggested minting five separate versions?
text: Did you know that the Green Bay Packers once had fourteen players selected to a national All-Pro team ?
text: Did you know that Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos bought New York City's Crown Building because of a tearful plea?
text: Did you know that the magazine Acoustic Guitar said that Dan Erlewine "might be the most famous guitar repairperson on earth"?
text: Did you know that models in the runway show for Nihilism by Alexander McQueen were dressed in plastic, locusts, rust, and clay?
text: Did you know that literary critic Leslie Fiedler called the novel Band of Angels "operatic in the worst sense of the word"?
text: Did you know that a novel about Madagascar's colonization , which the author was aware was impossible to publish under colonial rule, was finally published decades after his suicide?
text: Did you know that working broadcast journalists were used as extras for the portions of the Doctor Who episode " 73 Yards " that were filmed at the BBC Cymru Wales New Broadcasting House ?
text: Did you know that plans to shoot the Beijing-set portions of the 1989 Japanese film Beijing Watermelon on location were cancelled after the Tiananmen Square protests and massacre occurred mid-production?
text: Did you know that the Radcliffe Telescope was the largest telescope in the Southern Hemisphere when it was completed in 1948?
text: Did you know that the marine fungal species Parengyodontium album only breaks down polyethylene plastics that have been exposed to ultraviolet light?
text: Did you know that author Ron Chernow was reluctant to write a biography of John D. Rockefeller until being shown a 1,700-page transcript of three years' worth of private interviews with him?
text: Did you know that the Green Bay Packers once defeated a team of all-stars chosen from the rest of the league?
text: Did you know that on February 3, 1986, African Independence Party leaders Adama Touré and Adama Touré were released from detention?
text: Did you know that South Korean actress Na O-mi 's stage name was inspired by the song " I Dream of Naomi "?
text: Did you know that while reviewers generally praised The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs , one reviewer complained that the author was "so nice about his colleagues that it makes you long for a juicy academic vendetta"?
text: Did you know that Joseph Tetley , a member of the New Zealand Legislative Council , defrauded several investors to the 2017 equivalent value of around NZ$7 million?
text: Did you know that Cleo Hill Jr. coached the college basketball team for which his father played more than 60 years earlier?
text: Did you know that according to the official history of the Song dynasty , Zhao Kuangyin 's soldiers stormed his bedroom and proclaimed him emperor , to his surprise?
text: Did you know that a video game consisting solely of a clickable image of a banana was briefly the second-most played game on Steam ?
text: Did you know that the album covers of Blue Note Records have been considered to be the "look" of jazz?
text: Did you know that on July 11, 2022, millions of dollars worth of jewelry was stolen from the back of a truck while one driver was getting food at a California truck stop and the other one was asleep in the cab?
text: Did you know that a street in San Francisco was named after a man who used a false identity ?
text: Did you know that Alfie Templeman described the style of his studio album Radiosoul as "incohesively cohesive"?
text: Did you know that Rosemary Miller won her state's skeet shooting championship one year after learning the sport, and then won a state shooting championship in all but two years for the rest of her life?
text: Did you know that the Japanese boy band Nexz was created through the program Nizi Project season 2 ?
text: Did you know that the Nazi collaborator Sebastiaan de Ranitz abandoned his office following Mad Tuesday , leaving his department in turmoil?
text: Did you know that Gedling Town F.C. 's nickname "The Ferrymen" was inspired by the name of a pub located next to the team's stadium?
text: Did you know that Antonio Dini was the only survivor of a three-man crew after he crashed a plane into the sea, but had no recollection of the crash due to concussion?
text: Did you know that after a pigeon sculpture in Wellington went missing, members of the public created a memorial for it?
text: Did you know that Jopie and Teun Roosenburg led an art colony at Oost Castle that helped Jewish refugees escape the Nazi-occupied Netherlands to Belgium?
text: Did you know that Flyover , a 2023 science fiction novel by an American author, portraying a dystopian future where part of the US becomes a theocracy , was published in French but not in English?
text: Did you know that Anna Russell Cole , a significant benefactor of Vanderbilt University , donated $10,000 in 1926 to endow the office of dean of women?
text: Did you know that in The Servile State , Hilaire Belloc criticized socialism for being too similar to capitalism?
text: Did you know that the 2024 Doctor Who episode " Dot and Bubble " was first conceptualized in 2009?
text: Did you know that rapper Gmac Cash attempted to gift a pair of Cartier glasses to Gretchen Whitmer , the governor of Michigan ?
text: Did you know that the Tampa Bay Buccaneers players wore white uniforms during a snowy NFL game , which made them extremely difficult for their quarterback to see?
text: Did you know that barbarians would have bought cake , not pie , at Barbara's Rhubarb Bar ?
text: Did you know that 16th-century chroniclers thought María Pacheco , a leader of the Revolt of the Comuneros , was a witch ?
text: Did you know that some critics described the fourth season of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver as comic relief from the activities of the Trump administration ?
text: Did you know that in order to re-marry, Zhou Wennan had to request Mao Zedong 's permission?
text: Did you know that schoolchildren in the town of Kirkby were paid 25 pence an hour to help build Kirkby Ski Slope , even though the slope never opened?
text: Did you know that Lois E. Trott ran the first lodging house for homeless girls in America, providing shelter and support for over 1,000 girls annually, all without receiving any payment?
text: Did you know that Jerzy Kosinski: A Biography described its subject as a "liar", and yet, one reviewer felt that the author's "studiously neutral position ends up sounding like an apologia for Kosinski"?
text: Did you know that " Chihiro " by Billie Eilish was titled in reference to the main character of Spirited Away ?
text: Did you know that the DJ NewJeansNim has been credited with reviving interest in Buddhism among South Korean youths?
text: Did you know that the "mythical love story" of Sami politician Bjarne Store-Jakobsen and Blackfoot physician Esther Tailfeathers is a focus of the 2014 film Bihttoš ?
text: Did you know that after Seattle Seahawks quarterback Matt Hasselbeck promised victory , he threw an interception that lost the game?
text: Did you know that the compilation of the Wu shu was hampered by the execution of two members of the committee compiling the text?
text: Did you know that after operating for 168 years and moving to three buildings, the Mercantile Library in Philadelphia was closed due to concerns about asbestos ?
text: Did you know that the annual energy cost of a single fume hood in Singapore can be up to US$9,300?
text: Did you know that Laura Veale was the first woman to practise as a doctor in the town of Harrogate ?
text: Did you know that to encourage the development of Bissau-Guinean cinema , one foreign filmmaker provided the country's film institute with cameras, lights, and a Steinbeck guitar?
text: Did you know that professional vibraphonist Joel Ross has called the vibraphone his "least favorite instrument"?
text: Did you know that according to a former military journalist, 80,000 copies of a command information newspaper were dumped into the South China Sea during the Vietnam War ?
text: Did you know that despite specializing in literature and serving as a senior editor of the Zhonghua Book Company , historian Zhang Zhenglang never published a single book of his own?
text: Did you know that AJR 's " Way Less Sad " samples the final trumpet riff of Simon & Garfunkel 's " My Little Town " as its primary hook?
text: Did you know that when MT Petar Hektorović was temporarily reassigned, one resident of Vis wrote an online memorial to the ship, writing "the bay of Vis grieve for you"?
text: Did you know that Drew Thomas , a former car salesman , reached the finals of the NBC show Last Comic Standing ?
text: Did you know that the Bad Dürrenberg shaman may have been able to block blood vessels to her brain by holding her head at certain angles?
text: Did you know that a New York man built a house with materials from several 1964 New York World's Fair pavilions ?
text: Did you know that putting pre-moistened meat diapers in pre-packaged meat is a form of weight fraud ?
text: Did you know that Mark Hutton was the first Australian to be a starting pitcher in a Major League Baseball game?
text: Did you know that two of three candidates in the 2018 mayoral race in Malang, Indonesia , were arrested for bribery before the election?
text: Did you know that Gladys Stone Wright got started with a year of free piano lessons and a $5 clarinet?
text: Did you know that " At the Name of Jesus " has been described as "the only completely objective theological hymn to come from the hand of a 19th-century woman writer"?
text: Did you know that Liza Soberano's early acting roles include playing the third wheel in romance films?
text: Did you know that Maryland state delegate C. T. Wilson compared negotiating with the Catholic Church on the Maryland Child Victims Act to making "a deal with the devil"?
text: Did you know that educational writer Ștefan Tita gave Romanian students impractical advice on mending damaged bark with bandages of dirt?
text: Did you know that Eminem promoted " Houdini " with a video in which David Blaine eats a wine glass?
text: Did you know that sauerkraut made by members of a Russian spiritual sect in Armenia was popular in many other parts of the Soviet Union ?
text: Did you know that The Blue Angels was shot using IMAX cameras rigged to a helicopter, plus an ultra-high-speed camera shooting at 1,000 frames per second?
text: Did you know that Margaret Carroux 's German translation of The Lord of the Rings contains errors introduced by her editor?
text: Did you know that the LACE satellite tracked rocket plumes from space for the United States's Star Wars program ?
text: Did you know that Melanie L. Campbell was arrested for civil disobedience while protesting proposed restrictions on voting rights ?
text: Did you know that historically, lichens like Umbilicaria torrefacta have been used to naturally dye traditional Scottish tartans and textiles ?
text: Did you know that American poet Edwin Ford Piper preserved 828 folk songs, most of which were from Iowa and Nebraska?
text: Did you know that before reading the script for the play Golden Girls , at least nine of the cast members were under the impression that they would be taking the lead role?
text: Did you know that the Upper Voltan National Radio chief editor Watamou Lamien was the liaison between the ROC group of young radical military officers and the clandestine Voltan Revolutionary Communist Party ?
text: Did you know that Silence Is Loud uses a style that was previously considered "absolutely verboten" for its genre?
text: Did you know that Jackson Demonstration State Forest was named in honor of American lumberman Jacob Green Jackson ?
text: Did you know that Tural, the setting of the expansion pack Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail , is inspired by Latin America and Southeast Asia?
text: Did you know that orthopedic surgeon Adnan al-Bursh had also served as an advisor to the Palestine national football team before dying in an Israeli prison ?
text: Did you know that American Colossus is a biography of a man who was "the most famous sportsman in the world" and "the most forgotten great athlete in American history"?
text: Did you know that husband and wife Edward M. and Marie Zimmerman co-wrote the suffragist anthem "Votes for Women: Suffrage Rallying Song"?
text: Did you know that between 1985 and 1988, Televerket spent 2 million kronor paying youth sports teams to monitor payphones for vandalism ?
text: Did you know that Billie Eilish first served " Lunch " during a party at Coachella?
text: Did you know that footballer Han Bong-zin trained in the military every day for four years in preparation for the FIFA World Cup?
text: Did you know that a critic said that the hors d'oeuvres served at Sud 777 could function as desserts and vice versa?
text: Did you know that after completing his tenure as regent , Tatto Suwarto Pamuji walked 96 kilometres (60 mi) to fulfill a vow he made?
text: Did you know that Florida Hospital Oceanside was demolished after being damaged by Hurricane Irma ?
text: Did you know that youthful Second World War resistance leader Jean-Pierre Lévy was advised by the Free French intelligence service to dye his hair grey to appear older?
text: Did you know that Żeromski Park , the second-largest park in Szczecin , Poland, used to be a cemetery?
text: Did you know that on American band the Linda Lindas ' first album, Growing Up , a cat named Lil' Dude is featured playing the piano?
text: Did you know that as of 2019, inclusion in the International Register of Electors no longer requires residency in Canada in the preceding five years?
text: Did you know that the United States Department of Defense ran a propaganda campaign against Chinese vaccines during the COVID-19 pandemic ?
text: Did you know that Peewee Jarrett went from having a two-year span with no playing time and being "set on quitting football" to signing into the National Football League?
text: Did you know that the Wellesbourne , Brighton's lost river, stopped flowing in 1889?
text: Did you know that Max Weil , founder of the Halifax Symphony Orchestra , spent his later years in real estate?
text: Did you know that when DarkZero contracted Xynew, his teammates highlighted his "communication skills and game brain", which they deemed unusual for a controller player?
text: Did you know that the first public performance of the two songs of Arnold Schoenberg 's Zwei Gesänge , Op. 1 was met with hostile audience reactions?
text: Did you know that Score: A Hockey Musical has been described as "so Canadian it hurts"?
text: Did you know that a mail-order catalogue offered a "Rocking Ram" toy, designed by Charleen Kinser , for US$1,600 in 1985?
text: Did you know that the project Called by Name aims to commemorate Poles who were murdered for aiding Jews during World War II ?
text: Did you know that despite a global decline in mangrove forests , Red Sea mangroves have expanded in area since 1972?
text: Did you know that Voyager 2 has been transmitting data for more than 46 years, making it the oldest active space probe in history?
text: Did you know that Brittany Luse 's podcast The Nod was praised for its exploration of "the diversity and richness of the Black experience"?
text: Did you know that despite lagging attendance at the 1964 New York World's Fair , its organizer rejected nearly every suggestion to increase attendance?
text: Did you know that David Marchese recalled accidentally posting a picture of a cat's testicles on Salon.com ?
text: Did you know that Sophie Kropotkin and her husband returned to France despite the risk of being arrested, as they thought that detention in a French prison would be preferable to living in England?
text: Did you know that following the filming of the music video for " Guess ", Charli XCX and Billie Eilish donated 10,000 pairs of underwear to charity?
text: Did you know that Winzar Kakiouea was the sole athlete from his nation at the 2024 Olympics?
text: Did you know that resources to fight the 1988 White Mountain Fire were slow to arrive because of fires at Yellowstone ?
text: Did you know that journalist Jules Loh reported that Malcolm X told him that "his own people would kill him" before his assassination ?
text: Did you know that Bangué , the smallest island of the Bazaruto Archipelago , was formed by ocean waves shaped by the surrounding archipelago?
text: Did you know that The Game led to a boom in all-channel TV sales so viewers could see the game on Ohio State University's TV station ?
text: Did you know that Aphex Twin never intended to release Drukqs and only did so because he accidentally left an MP3 player on a plane?
text: Did you know that Olympic breakdancer Sun Chen is nicknamed "Quake" as he was born on the day of a deadly earthquake?
text: Did you know that The Eternaut 1969 is a reboot of the original comic , with an anti-imperialist tone?
text: Did you know that storm chaser Reed Timmer feared thunder and lightning at a young age?
text: Did you know that the Durrës Expedition in 1376 saw Louis of Évreux successfully recapture Durrës from Karl Thopia , only for Thopia to reclaim the city in 1383?
text: Did you know that Robert Turner remained in post for around 30 years after being described as "the oldest soldier in the Royal Artillery"?
text: Did you know that you can search Wikipedia or a database of more than 37 billion compounds by substructure ?
text: Did you know that Luxembourgian myrmecologist Robert Stumper also played as a goalkeeper for his nation's football team?
text: Did you know that mamas sang on " Mama "?
text: Did you know that a Stegosaurus fossil sold for $44.6 million?
text: Did you know that according to Charles Melville , the poet Hatefi implied that Timur was another Alexander the Great by making Timur the subject of the fourth poem of a quintet ?
text: Did you know that photographs of Donald Trump taken during the failed attempt to assassinate him have been acclaimed as "immediately legendary"?
text: Did you know that Jerzy Artysz was given a gala concert on his 70th birthday by the Chopin University of Music ?
text: Did you know that Ernest Hemingway broke a cane over John O'Hara 's head in Costello's , an Irish bar in New York City?
text: Did you know that after her 2019 death in rural China, Huang Wenxiu was elevated into a national model by the Chinese Communist Party ?
text: Did you know that traditional folk dances are an essential part of Pontic Greek culture ?
text: Did you know that police were called several times in 2014 about a fictitious post on r/nosleep ?
text: Did you know that Brandiose 's design work for the Rocket City Trash Pandas helped the team sell $4 million in merchandise before it played its first game?
text: Did you know that Tupou VI was crowned by D'Arcy Wood , an Australian, in order to respect the tradition of native Tongans not touching the king's head?
text: Did you know that Aleister Crowley's 1941 manifesto controversially asserts a human right to commit tyrannicide ?
text: Did you know that Begüm Pusat , a 15-year-old Turkish wheelchair basketballer , was one of the youngest players at the 2019 Women's U25 World Championship ?
text: Did you know that by losing her constituency of South West Norfolk in 2024 , Liz Truss became the first former UK prime minister since 1935 to lose their seat?
text: Did you know that Carey Wright implemented literacy reforms that led to the "Mississippi Miracle"?
text: Did you know that Upper Ivory Coast was created from the former French Upper Volta to facilitate the provision of forced plantation labour?
text: Did you know that Quintus Quincy Quigley preferred "Angles" to a ring?
text: Did you know that the anniversary of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's 1974 speech at the United Nations has been observed as Bangladeshi Immigration Day in New York since 2019?
text: Did you know that thousands of crocodiles were once farmed on Bazaruto Island ?
text: Did you know that the flag of North Korea has been mistakenly used by international organisations to represent South Korea?
text: Did you know that Marie Breen retired from the Australian Senate to care for her husband, who had been badly injured in a car accident?
text: Did you know that Lionel Messi and Luis Suárez were picked for the 2024 MLS All-Star Game but could not play?
text: Did you know that Spanish bishop Josep-Lluís Serrano Pentinat is expected to be a future head of state of Andorra?
text: Did you know that after becoming a religious leader of the Upper Skagit Indian Tribe , Slaybebtikud united the tribes and established himself as their sole leader?
text: Did you know that Wolfgang Rihm asked of the music of his 1987 opera Oedipus : "Sound is a weapon here – or a scalpel?"
text: Did you know that Michael Jerrell was the only player from the NCAA Division II level to be selected in the 2024 NFL draft ?
text: Did you know that Crystal Castles canceled their studio recording plans for " Not in Love " because of Robert Smith 's demo vocals?
text: Did you know that architect John Henry Hirst designed at least nine Grade II listed buildings , including Cambridge Crescent, Harrogate , which hosts the newsroom of the Stray Ferret ?
text: Did you know that Nosy Komba is a destination for both ecotourism and illegal logging?
text: Did you know that Sheikh Mujibur Rahman , the founder and first president of Bangladesh, experienced his birthday in jail eight times?
text: Did you know that Hadriana in All My Dreams , published in 1988, was the first novel by a Haitian author to win a major French literary award?
text: Did you know that Hendrik Wortman oversaw the early development of the Zuiderzee Works , which dammed off the Zuiderzee to create arable land in the Netherlands?
text: Did you know that though Donatello was a Bardi , he was not a Bardi ?
text: Did you know that women seeking abortions in Eswatini or in Lesotho may travel to neighbouring South Africa, where it is legal ?
text: Did you know that New Zealand mayor Georgina Beyer was the world's first openly transgender mayor?
text: Did you know that during World War II an armed resistance group was based at the Norwegian Soy Flour Plant in Larvik ?
text: Did you know that Moain Sadeq led excavations at Tell es-Sakan in the Gaza Strip , the oldest-known ancient Egyptian fortification to be excavated?
text: Did you know that Richard Swanson died while trying to dribble a soccer ball from Seattle to São Paulo ?
text: Did you know that Winston Churchill was often portrayed as a bulldog, but his personal pet dog during the Second World War was a poodle?
text: Did you know that when Didier Berthod failed to make the first free ascent of Cobra Crack in 2005, he quit climbing and became a Franciscan monk?
text: Did you know that voice actress Aoi Koga has an interest in manhole covers?
text: Did you know that a commentator said the McLaren MCL60 underwent "one of the most impressive in-season development steps ever seen" in Formula One ?
text: Did you know that Kanaria 's song " King " has been characterized as an allegory for the house arrest, trial , and execution of Louis XVI ?
text: Did you know that a schoolteacher tried to make left-footed footballer Norman Hunter play right-footed?
text: Did you know that the Santos Passos Church in Guimarães , Portugal, was declared a royal chapel by King Luís I in 1878?
text: Did you know that the United States' largest planned solar project, Mammoth Solar , is named after mastodon fossils rather than its size?
text: Did you know that a lyric in the song " Hands on Me " is about Meghan Trainor being unable to have sex due to pelvic floor damage ?
text: Did you know that William Hewett was the last-surviving British Army officer to have fought at the Battle of Waterloo?
text: Did you know that a 1938 Catholic procession featured 80,000 marchers and one blimp?
text: Did you know that the discovery of Laquintasaura challenged the idea that early dinosaurs could not survive in equatorial regions?
text: Did you know that the Yerevan Children's Art Museum deliberately kept no records from the 1970s to the 1990s?
text: Did you know that Sam Carling is the first UK member of Parliament to be born in the 21st century?
text: Did you know that an Idaho TV station lost its network affiliation after less than two years on the air but did not permanently close for another decade?
text: Did you know that some LGBT people wear shorter nails on their middle and index fingers to allow for easier manual sex and to express a queer identity?
text: Did you know that Eilish Cleary was controversially dismissed as New Brunswick 's chief medical officer of health while studying glyphosate , a herbicide widely used in the province's industries?
text: Did you know that in 1683 ice floes on the River Trent in England badly damaged the bridges at Nottingham and Newark?
text: Did you know that a superseded combination is not a synonym for a synonym ?
text: Did you know that in revenge for the torture of Polish prisoners, the terminally-ill Jan Kryst walked into the Café Adria and shot members of the Gestapo ?
text: Did you know that Panamanian earth scientist Erika Podest uses remote sensing to see how climate change has affected global soil moisture?
text: Did you know that the Linda Lindas have recorded a cover of the song they were named after ?
text: Did you know that a South Korean church suspended a pastor, Lee Dong-hwan , after he performed a blessing at a queer festival and eventually excommunicated him?
text: Did you know that more than 90 world leaders have made a pledge to achieve nature-positive goals?
text: Did you know that Anna DeShawn started E3 Radio to help educate others about Black women that she did not learn about in grade school ?
text: Did you know that a Vancouver TV station was intended to stop the "$1,500 cup of coffee"?
text: Did you know that the thrash metal band Hermética arranged to receive the gold certification for Víctimas del Vaciamiento on-stage during a concert?
text: Did you know that a scholar argued that the 2021 German novel About People , which is set during the COVID-19 pandemic in the country , encourages "sympathy with rightwing extremists"?
text: Did you know that those found guilty of cocoa smuggling in Ghana face a maximum sentence of ten years in prison?
text: Did you know that actor Scott Jarvis was angered when White House officials under Richard Nixon requested that portions of his role in the musical 1776 be cut due to its anti-war theme?
text: Did you know that the 1885 wreck of the cargo ship Dmitry was the inspiration for the arrival of Count Dracula in England in Bram Stoker 's 1897 novel?
text: Did you know that Alexander Langmuir created the Epidemic Intelligence Service to send epidemiologists across the world?
text: Did you know that the first Miss Indigenous Canada contestants were judged on ambassadorship, character, community service, and cultural involvement?
text: Did you know that the character Dogpool was portrayed by " Britain's ugliest dog "?
text: Did you know that Lionel Haward applied an early example of offender profiling to help identify high-ranking Nazis disguised as ordinary troops?
text: Did you know that the adventure game Until Then has an in-universe version of Facebook where the player can like and comment on other characters' posts?
text: Did you know that Lisa M. Corrigan used the prison memoirs of black activists to show how incarceration impacted the black power movement ?
text: Did you know that a shipwreck in the eastern Mediterranean , dating from the Late Bronze Age, is the earliest deep-sea shipwreck to be discovered?
text: Did you know that Johann Joseph Dömling suggested in 1803 that venous blood contained carbon monoxide ?
text: Did you know that Togo's abortion law was one of the first in Africa to allow abortion in the case of rape?
text: Did you know that Dissolution Grip by KMRU uses recordings of the artist's shack being struck by strong winds?
text: Did you know that, according to a local myth, a headless priest cursed León Viejo with earthquakes?
text: Did you know that Dov Noy founded the Israel Folktale Archives, which have collected around 25,000 Jewish folk tales?
text: Did you know that Choco Togo produces heat-resistant chocolate bars that can withstand temperatures of up to 35 °C (95 °F)?
text: Did you know that one newspaper expected mayor Sun Zhiyang to help turn Guangzhou into a "smart car city"?
text: Did you know that Jennifer Brea directed an Academy Award–shortlisted documentary while bedbound from ME/CFS ?
text: Did you know that the DI MA-1 Mk. III rifle was made in Myanmar as a reverse-engineered copy of the Chinese QBZ-97 ?
text: Did you know that sport in Vatican City has included cricket, calcio fiorentino , and taekwondo?
text: Did you know that a scrapped song from SZA 's second album was supposed to be on her next one, but when the song was leaked she had to scrap it again?
text: Did you know that Abraham Lincoln felt obliged to propose to Mary Owens – a woman he did not want to marry – but was rejected several times?
text: Did you know that after 1943, the Symphony for Strings by Georgy Sviridov was not played again until 2000?
text: Did you know that non-white Samoan people were permitted to join the local branch of the Nazi Party in the 1930s?
text: Did you know that a Philadelphia TV station shut down because of a family feud?
text: Did you know that Ecco2K created a fashion brand when he was 16 years old by talking online to Chinese factory managers who did not know his age?
text: Did you know that an 1814 British raid on a fort in Virginia was guided by an escaped slave of the American garrison commander?
text: Did you know that the Mercer Art Gallery rediscovered little-known artist Eva Leigh and exhibited her work?
text: Did you know that classical composer Carl Ludvig Lithander also worked as a teacher at a military academy ?
text: Did you know that South Korea has a day to celebrate North Koreans ?
text: Did you know that soprano Joan Ruth rejected a marriage proposal because her suitor wanted her to abandon ambitions of a singing career?
text: Did you know that the mascots of the 2026 Winter Olympics and 2026 Winter Paralympics were designed by schoolchildren?
text: Did you know that Bengisu Avcı had to abandon her 45-kilometre (28-mile) swim across the Kaiwi Channel after being stung by jellyfish twelve hours in?
text: Did you know that some of the first likely Libotonius fossils collected are lost at the Smithsonian ?
text: Did you know that Argentine naval officer Barry Melbourne Hussey was known as El Ingles ('The Englishman') by his comrades?
text: Did you know that the 2024 song " Tobey " features "3 generations of Detroit "?
text: Did you know that Leonhard Kaiser , a student of Martin Luther , was burned at the stake on 16 August 1527 after being declared guilty of heresy?
text: Did you know that the area of Cultybraggan Camp has been a royal hunting ground, a prison for fervent Nazis and the site of an underground bunker intended for use in a nuclear war?
text: Did you know that President Ieremia Tabai of Kiribati was elected in 1978 , 1982 , 1983 and 1987 , although his eligibility for the fourth term was subject to a legal challenge?
text: Did you know that Chinese archaeologist Zou Heng was forced to work as a poultry farmer during the Cultural Revolution ?
text: Did you know that the American Pigeon Museum & Library keeps a flock of hundreds of pigeons for public viewing?
text: Did you know that Major General Jarrett Robertson earned the nickname "Desert Fox" by having similar skills in battle to German field marshal Erwin Rommel , who held the same nickname?
text: Did you know that despite being New Zealand's biggest earthquake in 78 years, the 2009 Dusky Sound earthquake caused only minor damage?
text: Did you know that college football player Reggie Brown tore three knee ligaments but still made it to the NFL?
text: Did you know that the Linda Lindas wrote No Obligation , their second album, during breaks from school and touring?
text: Did you know that the Historia Divae Monacellae , a medieval hagiography , tells of wild hares performing miracles?
text: Did you know that islands are home to an estimated 41 percent of land vertebrates at risk of extinction ?
text: Did you know that Ken Goldin has sold more than US$1.3 billion in collectibles?
text: Did you know that one of the items on display at the Baltimore Museum and Gallery of Fine Arts was George Washington 's shaving brush?
text: Did you know that before Fred Thomas became an MP , he was the Royal Marines' light heavyweight boxing champion?
text: Did you know that Fumika Baba had to learn how to draw for her role in the live-action drama adaptation of Hey Sensei, Don't You Know?
text: Did you know that before becoming a commissioner of Indian affairs , William P. Dole was only known to have encountered Native Americans once in his life?
text: Did you know that the pulse stops during the soliloquy of In C Mali ?
text: Did you know that Bolivian intelligence officer Roberto Quintanilla was responsible for cutting off Che Guevara 's hands?
text: Did you know that Suleiman of Germiyan allowed the Ottoman annexation of much of his territory to pay his daughter's dowry?
text: Did you know that a £142 wine fridge was smuggled into Downing Street on 11 December 2020 , during the height of the COVID-19 lockdown in the United Kingdom ?
text: Did you know that voice teacher Verna Osborne retired at the age of 101?
text: Did you know that researchers estimated that training the model for ChatGPT used the equivalent energy footprint of "driving 123 gasoline-powered passenger vehicles for a year"?
text: Did you know that Felix Eberty was called "an original and ingenious person" by Albert Einstein ?
text: Did you know that the H. Wortman Pumping Station has four pumps, but is only used in exceptional circumstances?
text: Did you know that frontier physician Isaac Coe is credited with saving Indianapolis from an 1821 outbreak of malaria ?
text: Did you know that an art collective released a dating simulator dedicated to preparing the player's income taxes ?
text: Did you know that Sierra Leone is the only country where a British law from 1861 still bans abortion ?
text: Did you know that Lewis Worthington Smith received royalties from his textbook The Mechanism of English Style for 20 years?
text: Did you know that Tomas Fung founded the predecessor of the restaurant Ling Nam with only 3,000 Philippine pesos ?
text: Did you know that Lothar von Falkenhausen was appointed an honorary professor of Zhejiang University , an honor usually reserved for Nobel Prize winners?
text: Did you know that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration , a United States regulatory agency, does not require workplaces to have employee break rooms ?
text: Did you know that a critic compared vocalist Riley Gale to a "rabid wolf"?
text: Did you know that The Strip documents how the gangster Meyer Lansky would walk his Shih Tzu near the pool while visiting a casino?
text: Did you know that a woman was sentenced to 10 months of forced labor when she "tickled" the breasts of The Motherland Calls ?
text: Did you know that Finn Butcher is the inaugural Olympic champion in men's kayak cross ?
text: Did you know  that Barry Burton 's lines such as "You were almost a Jill Sandwich !" from the first Resident Evil game were popular enough to be referenced in following games?
text: Did you know that locally endangered Eurasian otters along the river Meghri have become a nuisance to local fish farmers?
text: Did you know that the parents of Olympian Minna Stess built a concrete skatepark in their backyard for their children?
text: Did you know that wealth generated by tourism in Barcelona is claimed to be a reason for increased social inequality, causing activists to protest against overtourism ?
text: Did you know that Olympic sport shooter Ada Korkhin practiced in her family's apartment, shooting from the kitchen through the living and dining rooms?
text: Did you know that Alien Blue was the most popular Reddit app for iPhone and iPad at the time of its discontinuation?
text: Did you know that New York Mets executive Jay Horwitz did not publicly reveal that he had a glass eye until he was in his 70s?
text: Did you know that Olympic wrestler Gaku Akazawa also runs a popular massage parlor?
text: Did you know that Richard Beale Davis first published Chivers' Life of Poe almost 100 years after it was written?
text: Did you know that taekwondo practitioner Alasan Ann was injured by a gunshot four months before an Olympic qualification tournament, but recovered in time and won the competition?
text: Did you know that some abortions in Malawi are performed by traditional healers?
text: Did you know that the cuisine of Jerusalem reflects a blend of Jewish culinary traditions , including Sephardic , Kurdish , Ashkenazi , as well as Palestinian Arab traditions ?
text: Did you know that female wrestler Kennedy Blades once won a state championship against boys?
text: Did you know that Dead Pony renamed themselves after a track expressing how they felt after being told that Santa Claus was fictional?
text: Did you know that Classic Tetris World Champion Alex Thach celebrates victories by dumping Parmesan cheese on his head?
text: Did you know that a reviewer did not expect a documentary on assisted suicide to be so funny?
text: Did you know that while Sunny Choi and Logan Edra represent their country at the Olympics in breakdancing , Afghan breakdancer Manizha Talash competes as a member of the IOC Refugee Olympic Team ?
text: Did you know that the 2025 Philippine general election is set to be the first to be held under a new voting system provider after the previous one was disqualified over bribery allegations?
text: Did you know that the Piano Quintet by Dmitri Shostakovich has been called "the most expensive piece of chamber music ever composed"?
text: Did you know that workers building Mercy Gilbert Medical Center plowed over alfalfa fields and chased off sheep during construction?
text: Did you know that the discovery of a coffin belonging to Ahhotep I , which had been reused to bury a high priest , ignited a debate among scholars over the true number of Egyptian queens named Ahhotep?
text: Did you know that Washington 's participation in the 2024 Sugar Bowl marked the first appearance of any Pac-12 Conference team in the Sugar Bowl ?
text: Did you know that British physician John H. Bryant gave the first description of a blue scrotum caused by a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm ?
text: Did you know that Olympic taekwondo practitioner Emmanuella Atora described her career as "I hit people for a living"?
text: Did you know that an American citizen was sentenced to life imprisonment for attempting to overthrow the government of Cambodia ?
text: Did you know that Sarah Gibson , who formed a piano duo with Thomas Kotcheff , composed warp & weft inspired by the art of Miriam Schapiro , to be played today by the BBC Philharmonic at The Proms ?
text: Did you know that eight cardboard white elephants were put up as a form of public protest to lobby for the opening of Buangkok MRT station in Singapore?
text: Did you know that "Lucki" Allen 's prediction of the Tet Offensive was ignored, but she was later inducted into the Military Intelligence Hall of Fame ?
text: Did you know that the idea for Clustertruck came from a developer wanting to escape traffic?
text: Did you know that American Olympic rugby player Sarah Levy is the great-granddaughter of a Springbok ?
text: Did you know that David Tennant filmed a Doctor Who mini-episode on his birthday?
text: Did you know that Olympian Ruby Remati got into synchronized swimming because she liked the competitors' "sparkly suits" as a child?
text: Did you know that São Tomé and Príncipe was popularly known as the Chocolate Islands in the early 1900s, when it was the world's top exporter of cocoa ?
text: Did you know that when not rock climbing, American Olympian Jesse Grupper develops exoskeletons ?
text: Did you know that a Japanese essayist and film historian has called Godzilla Minus One a "dangerous movie"?
text: Did you know that refugee Hadi Tiranvalipour spent his first ten days in Italy living in a forest before joining the Refugee Olympic Team at the 2024 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that in its two years of existence, the Hunter River Railway Company initiated construction on what would eventually become the Great Northern Railway connecting Sydney to Queensland ?
text: Did you know that Patrick Gottsch , the founder of RFD-TV and The Cowboy Channel , led the effort to break the Guinness World Record for the largest parade of pickup trucks?
text: Did you know that Operation Matterhorn logistics involved the construction of airfields in China by thousands of laborers with hammers and wicker baskets?
text: Did you know that after qualifying for the 2024 Summer Olympics at the age of 11, skateboarder Zheng Haohao became the youngest Chinese sportsperson to participate in the Olympics?
text: Did you know that electrical engineering professor Mariesa Crow raises alpacas ?
text: Did you know that Larisa Latynina became the most-medalled Olympian after she won six medals at the 1964 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you know that South African singer Tyla delayed her debut album 's submission date in order to collaborate with Tems ?
text: Did you know that Jenya Kazbekova , a competition climber on Ukraine's 2024 Olympic team , is the daughter and granddaughter of competition climbing medalists?
text: Did you know that when delivering his speech " The boys of Pointe du Hoc " on the 40th anniversary of the Normandy landings , Ronald Reagan addressed 62 veteran service members present on D-Day?
text: Did you know that after the McVey Fire , the United States Forest Service accidentally planted thousands of acres of non-native trees?
text: Did you know that Piper Kelly secured her position as a competitor in speed climbing at the 2024 Olympics by reaching the final race at the 2023 Pan American Games , before winning the race?
text: Did you know that a Bangladeshi government agency collected ৳6.5 billion (equivalent to US$150 million in 2023) from corruption suspects, but a court ruled it was illegal?
text: Did you know that after Jamal Valizadeh was tortured in Iran, hid for six months, and escaped, he qualified to compete in the Olympics as a member of the Refugee Olympic Team ?
text: Did you know that the electoral victory of the Union for Democracy and Social Progress in 2018 led to DR Congo's first peaceful transition of power since its independence from Belgium in 1960?
text: Did you know that in May 1983 British public health physician Spence Galbraith suggested withdrawing blood products made from blood donated in the U.S. after 1978?
text: Did you know that Jack White released his sixth studio album unannounced by including unmarked vinyl copies of it with purchases made at Third Man Records stores?
text: Did you know that Aniya Holder secured a spot at the 2024 Summer Olympics by winning a speed climbing competition, for which she had started training without even knowing that it was an Olympics qualifier?
text: Did you know that the only known solution to the Erdős–Moser equation is 1 + 2 = 3?
text: Did you know that Femke Bol won the women's 400 metres and 400 metres hurdles at the 2022 European Athletics Championships in an unprecedented double victory?
text: Did you know that Cambodian architect Vann Molyvann declined a request from Lee Kuan Yew to help design Singapore?
text: Did you know that Michigan and Alabama entered the 2024 Rose Bowl as the two college football teams with the most all-time wins ?
text: Did you know that the author of the novel Wandering Souls , about Vietnamese refugees, was inspired by an episode of A Very British History ?
text: Did you know that Kim Ye-ji 's performance in the 10 meter air pistol at the 2024 Summer Olympics led her to be dubbed the "coolest person on the planet"?
text: Did you know that for the 1936 Summer Olympics, Liechtenstein flipped their flag upside down?
text: Did you know that after a British Sikh physician could not find any recent mainstream English film led by a woman that resembled her, she co-wrote and co-produced her own ?
text: Did you know that Frederick Perceval, 11th Earl of Egmont , was nicknamed "the loneliest boy in the world" by journalists?
text: Did you know that the championship record was broken three times in the mixed 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2024 World Athletics Relays ?
text: Did you know that in its centennial year, Anderson's Grocery was said to be one of only ten small U.S. groceries that were more than a hundred years old?
text: Did you know that Israeli archer Mikaella Moshe competed in the 2024 Paris Olympics after having spent less than two years in the sport?
text: Did you know that a third of London Underground stations have step-free access ?
text: Did you know that Olympic sprinter Filomenaleonisa Iakopo is also a competitive bodybuilder ?
text: Did you know that the Idaho State Veterans Cemetery faced criticism in 2014 when it did not allow a lesbian couple to be buried together?
text: Did you know that three-quarters of Doctor Who 's longest story are missing ?
text: Did you know that had Cambodian swimmer Apsara Sakbun declined her invitation to compete at the 2024 Summer Olympics , her sister would have become an Olympian instead?
text: Did you know that at age 12, Emily Ausmus participated in an international water polo tournament against players as old as 19?
text: Did you know that a crab species was named after both an ancient board game and a League of Legends character?
text: Did you know that Cho Myung-chul was the first North Korean defector to be elected to the South Korean National Assembly?
text: Did you know that the flagbearer for the Philippines at the 1924 Summer Olympics also carried a flag of the United States?
text: Did you know that a geographer determined the surface area of Carl Friedrich Gauss 's brain?
text: Did you know that a Kentucky TV station gained industry attention after it criticized the overuse of the term "breaking news"?
text: Did you know that citizens of New Westminster burnt effigies of Attorney General George Hunter Cary and drowned the ashes?
text: Did you know that many enthusiasts say that a good tomato sandwich is so messy, it should be eaten over the kitchen sink?
text: Did you know that during the First Bishops' War , the Duke of Hamilton 's mother intended to shoot him with silver bullets if he landed in Scotland?
text: Did you know that Warren Lawrence , the first Dominican swimmer at the Commonwealth Games , is the son of the first Dominican swimmer at the Olympics?
text: Did you know that a high school evicted a Pennsylvania TV station ?
text: Did you know that the National Library of Korea is a no kid zone ?
text: Did you know that in its first appearance at the Olympics , Suriname was represented by a single athlete , who missed his event?
text: Did you know that Myinsaing withstood a ten-week siege by the Mongols because its three brother leaders bribed the invaders to withdraw?
text: Did you know that basketball player Marcedes Walker became an Olympian 16 years after her WNBA career ended?
text: Did you know that " the old man was startled and a little shocked" when he was shown Walter Frere 's revision of his book ?
text: Did you know that although Luxembourg has won the Eurovision Song Contest five times , none of the winning artists representing the country have been native Luxembourgers ?
text: Did you know that basketball player Dylan Travis played for nine head coaches in nine years?
text: Did you know that The Chinese in America documents how people in California, during the gold rush era , mailed their laundry to Hong Kong for cleaning?
text: Did you know that a member of the House of Lords was the principal of a Canadian junior school ?
text: Did you know that despite being invented in the 2000s, Frutiger Aero was not named until 2017?
text: Did you know that Roscoe "Red" Jackson was the last person to be publicly executed in the United States?
text: Did you know that Cameroonian-born Joel Embiid opted to play for the 2024 U.S. Olympic basketball team instead of France in part because his son is American?
text: Did you know that after Wong Sau Ying attempted to assassinate a British colonial official, the police and press began to associate the bob cut with anarchism ?
text: Did you know that Japanese girls found the song " Ai Uta " by the band Greeeen to be a perfect love song for the autumn, according to a 2007 Oricon survey?
text: Did you know that Margrit Waltz has ferried planes to points on five continents?
text: Did you know that scholar Mohja Kahf stated that there is no Syrian literature ?
text: Did you know that after supervising construction of London's Tower Bridge in the 1890s, engineer Edward Cruttwell was retained as consulting engineer to the bridge until his death in 1933?
text: Did you know that the Afonso Henriques Theatre in Guimarães , Portugal, regularly performed shows and plays to aid the construction of the nearby Santos Passos Church ?
text: Did you know that poet and rapper Elayne Harrington carried all her property in her bodhrán case while homeless in Dublin?
text: Did you know that Edi Rama and Baba Mondi plan to create the smallest nation in the world ?
text: Did you know that Giorgina Reid patented a technique for holding up banks?
text: Did you know that Chlöe Swarbrick won the race for Auckland Central in 2020 , during which she held a drag show as a campaign event?
text: Did you know that many Jehovah's Witnesses in Singapore have been imprisoned for refusing to serve in the military?
text: Did you know that PGA Tour golfer Max Greyserman and his brother Reed are the first brothers to win the New Jersey Amateur Championship?
text: Did you know that many African countries provide for legal abortion in their reproductive health laws, but such laws have been passed without grounds for legal abortion in Madagascar and in Senegal ?
text: Did you know that Mariano R. Vázquez oversaw the integration of anarchists into the government during the Spanish Civil War ?
text: Did you know that the author of The Power of Babel says that speakers of Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish are all speaking the same language?
text: Did you know that in college, football player Cooper Mays was a member of the same offensive line as his brother?
text: Did you know that the music of math rock band Jyocho has been alternatively described as akin to "madness" or "contemplative and melancholy"?
text: Did you know that Sophie Scamps decided to enter politics after a survey from her local member of parliament failed to mention climate change ?
text: Did you know that Vollpension employs grandparents to bake cakes according to their own recipes and, during the COVID-19 pandemic, offered live baking courses from elders around the world?
text: Did you know that Benjamin F. McAdoo was the first Black architect to be licensed in the U.S. state of Washington?
text: Did you know that Sabrina Carpenter and Jenna Ortega kiss in the music video for " Taste "?
text: Did you know that in the week of his assassination, Quinto Inuma Alvarado said at a conference: "If I must die, I will die"?
text: Did you know that G Affairs was presented at project markets in South Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, but rejected because it was deemed unmarketable in China?
text: Did you know that Sienna Green began playing water polo because she saw it as a combination of basketball and swimming, her favourite sports?
text: Did you know that a parrot reportedly screamed profanities at the funeral of U.S. president Andrew Jackson ?
text: Did you know that the science-fiction video game The Anacrusis is named after a musical term ?
text: Did you know that to protest changes to the flight route M503 , Taiwan cancelled 176 flights between China and Taiwan?
text: Did you know that ComicBook.com originally began as a website with sales links and press releases before becoming an entertainment news site?
text: Did you know that the Dust Bowl refugee Ibsen Nelsen received the Purple Heart and became a fellow of the American Institute of Architects ?
text: Did you know that Chișinău 's National Hotel was once a flagship property but is now effectively abandoned?
text: Did you know that the composer Joe Hisaishi has been awarded eight Japan Academy Film Prizes and nominated for eight more?
text: Did you know that one commentator interpreted a kiss between two women in " Fedora " as possibly following the " heteronormative script"?
text: Did you know that the September 11 Digital Archive argues that even its misinformation is useful to the historical record?
text: Did you know that as of 1.06 billion years ago, three supermassive black holes from a trio of galaxies in the constellation of Cancer were colliding?
text: Did you know that Nicholas Carlini showed that ChatGPT could leak personal information?
text: Did you know that Takara's Treasure was created because its artist wanted to draw a story about a boy who speaks a local dialect?
text: Did you know that in addition to having been a centre for local involvement in Chinese politics, the Kuomintang Building in Vancouver has hosted social events including a wedding reception?
text: Did you know that Ron Tiavaasue was born in Samoa, grew up in New Zealand, played college football in the United States, and now plays professional football in Canada?
text: Did you know that the concept of genocide was introduced in the 1944 book Axis Rule in Occupied Europe ?
text: Did you know that Michael Kettle received an award at the age of 80 for his work as a cricket groundskeeper?
text: Did you know that Madonna once operated an elevator at Terrace on the Park ?
text: Did you know that Tamurbek Dawletschin wrote one of the few memoirs by a Soviet prisoner of war, 3 million of whom died in German captivity ?
text: Did you know that a class-action lawsuit was filed against Spotify following the discontinuation of the Car Thing ?
text: Did you know that Singaporean former lawyer David Yong learned Korean and moved to South Korea to become a K-pop singer?
text: Did you know that during the Tunisian campaign in World War II, crews carried an AMES Type 6 radar set across a swamp to allow them to spy on Luftwaffe aircraft running supplies into Tunis ?
text: Did you know that Gwent Broadcasting , at the time the smallest Independent Local Radio station in Britain, lasted less than two years?
text: Did you know that Valentin Bontus won the first-ever Olympic gold medal in Formula Kite , while Toni Vodišek won the first silver medal?
text: Did you know that during the Khalji Revolution , Sultan Qaiqabad was wrapped in a carpet and thrown into the Yamuna river?
text: Did you know that the small fish species Poecilia vandepolli solves food shortage problems by eating its own offspring ?
text: Did you know that German national Rico Krieger was likely forced by the Belarusian KGB to lie in a state-televised plea titled "Confession of a German Terrorist"?
text: Did you know that although the electrification of the Midland Main Line was designated as a high priority in 1981, work to electrify the northern part of the line did not begin until more than 30 years later?
text: Did you know that Huang Shaoqiang produced numerous paintings condemning the Japanese invasion of China ?
text: Did you know that the 2019 single " Trust Issues " by Drake was originally released in 2011 as a free download?
text: Did you know that the 2003 graphic novel The Life Eaters , presenting an occult-driven , hypothetical Axis victory in World War II , has been discussed in the context of its portrayal of The Holocaust ?
text: Did you know that Mali and Niger broke off diplomatic relations with Ukraine over the country's alleged support for rebel groups in the Battle of Tinzaouaten ?
text: Did you know that Olympic gold-medal-winning rugby player Jordan Sepho vomited from stress the first time he played for his national team?
text: Did you know that a viral dance in which performers mimic driving a car was performed by #Amishtiktok content creators, who substituted operating a horse and buggy?
text: Did you know that although J1407b eclipsed V1400 Centauri in 2007, nobody noticed for over three years?
text: Did you know that in order to attend breakdancing classes as a child, future Olympian Amir Zakirov had to give up eating lunch?
text: Did you know that The Book of Virtues inspired PBS 's first animated primetime series?
text: Did you know that one researcher found that nearly a third of the people cancelled over antisemitism allegations in Germany have been Jews?
text: Did you know that plans for a statue of Dirk Nowitzki to have three basketballs were scrapped?
text: Did you know that during the writing of El Eternauta: segunda parte , Héctor Germán Oesterheld became victim of an enforced disappearance ?
text: Did you know that arguments in favor of a Palestinian right of armed resistance are often based on Article 1(4) of Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions?
text: Did you know that Joanna Ferrone served as the business manager for the fictional character Fido Dido ?
text: Did you know that queer pro-Palestinian protesters faced off against the 2024 Philadelphia Pride drumline?
text: Did you know that Australian judoka Josh Katz competed in the 2024 Paris Olympics six months after completely rupturing an ACL ?
text: Did you know that the Tunghsing Building was the only building in Taipei that collapsed after the September 21 earthquake in 1999?
text: Did you know that Parker Short became popular on social media for singing and dancing to " Not Like Us " at a rally for Kamala Harris ?
text: Did you know that the Rabbinic period was consequential in the ongoing development of Judaism and its traditions?
text: Did you know that Alexina Kublu , a linguist, translator, Languages Commissioner, and the first justice of the peace in Nunavut, is her grandmother's father and her daughter's son, as per the Inuit namesake tradition?
text: Did you know that the Shrine of Taharqa was coated in nitrocellulose ?
text: Did you know that Rolling Stone listed Ácido Argentino as the most essential album of Argentine heavy metal?
text: Did you know that people of the Zenú culture built canals in the La Mojana wetland area of Colombia long before Spanish arrival?
text: Did you know that Kaylee Bryson was the first female driver to advance to the A-Main feature race at the Chili Bowl Nationals ?
text: Did you know that the Villa of Augustus was found buried beneath another villa?
text: Did you know that every summer, the Suiattle River dirties the Sauk with glacial debris?
text: Did you know that architect Donald MacKay designed a fire station which later burnt down in the Great Seattle Fire ?
text: Did you know that according to legend, after one of the Earl de Grey 's parrots was killed, the other never spoke again?
text: Did you know that although Armond Seidler invented the pugil stick for military training purposes, it later found use in the television show American Gladiators ?
text: Did you know that two cosmetic companies engaged in a "rose war" with advertising campaigns based around the song " You're More Beautiful Than a Rose " and the film The Rose of Versailles ?
text: Did you know that Fede Vigevani once presented an awards ceremony in which he won an award?
text: Did you know that the construction of the Jubilee Bridge was featured in the 1982 documentary about the A9 road reconstruction?
text: Did you know that Olympic judoka Edmilson Pedro is nicknamed Bicho Papão , which means "the bogeyman"?
text: Did you know that "New York's wealthiest janitor" lived atop the Bergdorf Goodman Building ?
text: Did you know that Henry Charles Swan , a law graduate from Oxford, spent more than 25 years living on a yacht in a stream in New Zealand?
text: Did you know that in her song " Slim Pickins ", Sabrina Carpenter supposedly settles for someone who does not know the difference between "their", "there", and "they are"?
text: Did you know that the ideas of Albert Schädler became the founding ideas of the Progressive Citizens' Party , though he himself was opposed to the formation of political parties?
text: Did you know that Queen Anne Pool opened to the public one day late, after a thermostat glitch accidentally heated the pool to 100 °F (38 °C)?
text: Did you know that Hyakuman-kai no "I Love You" is a popular confession song in Japan?
text: Did you know that upon winning a civil war in Portuguese Timor , the political party Fretilin repeatedly requested that Portuguese authorities return?
text: Did you know that around the age of four, Jacob von Eggers was deported to Arkhangelsk in Russia together with the entire German-speaking population of Tartu ?
text: Did you know that an annex to the A. I. Namm & Son Department Store included artifacts from a church?
text: Did you know that the Military-First Girls , a Japanese all-women fan club of the Moranbong Band , have compared their interest in North Korean music to other women's interests in K-pop and Taylor Swift ?
text: Did you know that one of the last photographs ever taken of Sitting Bull shows him side by side with Buffalo Bill ?
text: Did you know that Juan de Casas , the Spanish military governor of Venezuela, cried after the French demanded that he accept a Frenchman as king?
text: Did you know that the Empire of Japan created a girl group as propaganda?
text: Did you know that a bust of former Peruvian president Justiniano Borgoño was stolen from its pedestal by thieves?
text: Did you know that the Republic Drug Store was formed from the consolidation of an estate and its competition?
text: Did you know that a coconut tree meme drove sales of piña coladas in the Washington, D.C., area?
text: Did you know that Nicole Chang-Leng has been described as a "daughter" of the Seychelles?
text: Did you know that a former teacher in the Philippines became a Robin Hood –like outlaw?
text: Did you know that the author of Sugar Dog Life ended up buying and raising a cactus after drawing one in the manga?
text: Did you know that a 1917 agreement between France and Russia was rendered void within days because of the February Revolution ?
text: Did you know that Goethe used his unrequited love to Maximiliane Brentano as inspiration for his novel The Sorrows of Young Werther ?
text: Did you know that the cupola of Homer House is part of a 19th-century cooling system?
text: Did you know that Grant Nel , at the age of nine, switched from gymnastics to diving after breaking both of his hands?
text: Did you know that the New York City Police Department shut down highway and bridge traffic for the funeral of the owner of Neary's , an Irish pub?
text: Did you know that a drone attack by the Houthi military hit a target in Tel Aviv , but no sirens were activated?
text: Did you know that the general manager of a California TV station canceled the interview show he hosted because of its lack of quality?
text: Did you know that the regent of the Mongol Empire between 1248 and 1251 was named " We Were Searching for a Boy "?
text: Did you know that Olympic taekwondo practitioner Yahya Al-Ghotany picked up the sport "by chance" at a refugee camp?
text: Did you know that the opera Christopher Columbus was written by its Jewish composer while fleeing persecution from Nazi Germany by sailing across the Atlantic?
text: Did you know that The Invincible Dragon was filmed at the Macau police headquarters without permission, leading to the detention of the director and the lead actor?
text: Did you know that David Gillespie became the chief surveyor of the United States boundary commission after the first surveyor was considered to be "insufferably arrogant"?
text: Did you know that the creator of Ani ni Aisaresugite Komattemasu ensured a happy ending by not making the main characters blood relatives?
text: Did you know that painter Mark Robert Harrison 's brother died in a fire that broke out at one of Harrison's own exhibitions in 1846?
text: Did you know that €40,000 of equipment and cash was stolen during the filming of the music video for " Cry Baby "?
text: Did you know that to avoid COVID-19 rule breaches, officials had to discourage people from posting a leopard seal 's location online?
text: Did you know that Zhong Jingwen was known as the "father of Chinese folklore studies"?
text: Did you know that Galena Schoolhouse in South Dakota was once leased to a historical society for $1 annually?
text: Did you know that the British Army's Submarine Mining Service defended ports and harbours with naval mines and torpedoes?
text: Did you know that the inaugural Canadian Premier League match led to the suspension of both team captains?
text: Did you know that Tilman Michael , who is set to be the Metropolitan Opera 's chorus master from the 2024/25 season, helped the Oper Frankfurt win multiple awards for operatic choir of the year?
text: Did you know that " 50 YouTubers Fight for $1,000,000 " gained more than 70 million views in 24 hours?
text: Did you know that Thomas Broun has been blamed for inflating the number of beetle species in New Zealand?
text: Did you know that a school was once evacuated after the water gun of a student playing senior assassin was mistaken for a firearm?
text: Did you know that the Permanent Mission of Indonesia to the United Nations is housed in a former public bath ?
text: Did you know that rugby sevens player Malacchi Esdale said that the conditioning he went through to play in the Olympics was "borderline crazy"?
text: Did you know that Fantasy , performed at the Luxor Las Vegas hotel, is the longest-duration topless production in Las Vegas at a single venue?
text: Did you know that two kidnapped activists were released after claiming at a press conference that they were abducted by government forces?
text: Did you know that Mary Jane Patterson , whose mother was an African-American slave, gained a BA degree in 1862 having taken a "gentleman's course"?
text: Did you know that the angel's wings in the live-action television-drama adaptation of One Room Angel took about a month to construct?
text: Did you know that Dorothy Stanley was once said to be one of the last speakers of the Miwok languages ?
text: Did you know that some fan wikis document fan fiction?
text: Did you know that a contemporary adaptation of "The Snow Queen" contains feminist elements and, according to one scholar, violates gender expectations?
text: Did you know that Badger is the first commander of the Unmanned Systems Forces ?
text: Did you know that the borders of the Yellow River Delta National Nature Reserve were drawn to minimize impact on the Shengli Oil Field ?
text: Did you know that as a child, future Olympian Kevin Mejía sold spinning tops ?
text: Did you know that Chris Cox, the founder of Bikers for Trump , estimated that 70 percent of its members are former military personnel?
text: Did you know that Feastogether launched a restaurant that was Taiwan's highest-priced buffet when it opened in 2023?
text: Did you know that while recruiting for the Blair Colony , Betty Blair reportedly convinced potential settlers that there were no flies in South Dakota?
text: Did you know that the DJ Sammy Virji went viral on TikTok after cueing in a track with a rubber fish?
text: Did you know that in 1884 Motibai Kapadia 's father allowed her to study alongside men in India?
text: Did you know that in the late 1940s the steam tug Brent removed war-related debris, including naval mines, from the River Thames?
text: Did you know that Lorena Peril , who once cleaned toilets at a nursing home, beat out over 3,000 people to sing the national anthem for the San Francisco 49ers ?
text: Did you know that Mohammad Bhar, a Palestinian man with Down syndrome and autism, died following a dog attack in the Gaza Strip during the Israel–Hamas war ?
text: Did you know that Héctor Germán Oesterheld repurposed his initial plans for a sequel of the comic The Eternaut as a novel?
text: Did you know that Helen Hornbeck Tanner was part of a major case supporting the Ojibwe before the Supreme Court of the United States while in her 80s?
text: Did you know that the title of the documentary Wolfman's Got Nards is derived from a memorable line in the 1987 film The Monster Squad ?
text: Did you know that USA Boxing's head coach said that Olympian Jajaira Gonzalez 's return to boxing was "like Lazarus coming back from the dead"?
text: Did you know that shortly after it was completed, the Tokamak de Fontenay-aux-Roses burned a hole through itself in a plasma disruption?
text: Did you know that 19th-century Polish writer Józef Ignacy Kraszewski authored hundreds of works, including more than 200 novels?
text: Did you know that the legalization of abortion in Benin was supported by two members of the cabinet who had both worked as gynecologists?
text: Did you know that in December 2023, former Major League Soccer referee Alex Chilowicz began officiating in the English Football League after relocating to England?
text: Did you know that many producers of Marmelada de Santa Luzia , a variety of quince cheese , are descendants of quilombolas ?
text: Did you know that Nathaniel Coe declined nomination to the United States Senate , instead choosing to serve as an inspector for the United States Postal Service ?
text: Did you know that Sachi Narashima came up with the idea for the manga Cosmetic Playlover after her friend, who worked as a beauty consultant, mentioned that there were male beauty consultants?
text: Did you know that Mary Jo West compared working in network TV news to learning that Santa Claus is just an ordinary man?
text: Did you know that the Church of St John of the Collachium was said to contain the hand of John the Baptist , a bowl used by Jesus, and a piece of the True Cross ?
text: Did you know that LA LOM named many of their songs after various locations in Los Angeles?
text: Did you know that the Nuwhaha people, despite sometimes being erroneously known as the "Upper Samish ", do not speak the Samish language ?
text: Did you know that Betty Hanley , originally a Michigander , was appointed lampshade designer to the British royal family?
text: Did you know that the spin-off episode of the live-action adaptation of Motokare Retry was written to portray "conversations between men" and "male friendship"?
text: Did you know that during the 1964 New York World's Fair , police officers used computers at the United States Pavilion to help arrest people?
text: Did you know that Greenlandic content creator Qupanuk Olsen petitioned the Inatsisartut to move Greenland's time zone to UTC−03:00 ?
text: Did you know that many an Xplorer has traversed the rails in Canberra ?
text: Did you know that William Aitken , William J. Bain , J. Lister Holmes , John T. Jacobsen , and George W. Stoddard collaborated in the early 1940s to design America's first racially integrated public housing development ?
text: Did you know that the prison scenes in the film Plurality were shot in an archaeology museum?
text: Did you know that the 1990 Serbian constitutional referendum also took place at six voting stations in Montenegro for voters who were on holiday?
text: Did you know that Ana Sigüenza was the first woman to be the general secretary of a national trade union center in Spain?
text: Did you know that during the 1929 Dollar Mountain Fire , 65 firefighters survived being surrounded by fire overnight by sheltering near a creek?
text: Did you know that the lyrics of " Executioner's Tax (Swing of the Axe) " were inspired by beheadings in medieval Europe?
text: Did you know that up to 16,000 crows regularly commute from around the Seattle metropolitan area to a wetland in Bothell, Washington ?
text: Did you know that according to a TikTok theory , burnt toast could save you from a car accident?
text: Did you know that Cyclone Freddy was the longest-lasting tropical cyclone recorded ?
text: Did you know that Daiki Kobayashi was already known for his androgynous voice when he was cast as a cross-dressing idol in The Idolmaster SideM ?
text: Did you know that an office building on New York City's Times Square was almost entirely vacant upon its completion?
text: Did you know that although sport shooter Ban Hyo-jin attended Olympic trials just to gain some competition experience, she qualified for the Olympics and went on to win a gold medal?
text: Did you know that while performing " Love Is Embarrassing ", Olivia Rodrigo suffered an "embarrassing" wardrobe malfunction?
text: Did you know that architect Ivan Palmaw designed houses in Shanghai and Seattle after fleeing the Russian Revolution ?
text: Did you know that a researcher called the community on the short-lived collaborative writing website One Million Monkeys Typing "astonishingly harmonious"?
text: Did you know that an icon of Jesus was removed from a Catholic church for allegedly being pagan imagery?
text: Did you know that Olympian Sydney Francisco was named after the city where her mother competed at the Olympics?
text: Did you know that the December 2010 Christchurch earthquake caused Boxing Day sales events six weeks later?
text: Did you know that a judge compared the bankruptcy fraud of an Ohio TV station to a 1601 English court case ?
text: Did you know that the surviving copies of the Kitab-ı Bahriye contain a total of more than 5,700 maps?
text: Did you know that the 1919 foxtrot song " I'll See You in C-U-B-A " was an example of Cuba being perceived as "America's playground"?
text: Did you know that 30 royal portraits of Korean kings were completely destroyed in a 1954 fire in Busan, South Korea ?
text: Did you know that Babydog is "a fixture in West Virginia politics"?
text: Did you know that cinematographer Alfredo Gandolfi also had a career as a singer that included more than 300 performances at the Metropolitan Opera ?
text: Did you know that the demolition of the Iloilo Central Market was criticized as being unlawful?
text: Did you know that Swedish naval officer Henrik Johan Nauckhoff fought against the British in the American Revolutionary War ?
text: Did you know that nine-year-old children were sometimes employed to help teach younger children in infant schools in the 1840s?
text: Did you know that the Zbrojovka Z 4 was the first Czechoslovak mass-produced car with front-wheel drive?
text: Did you know that " Ka Esi Le Onye Isi Oche ", a 1983 song by Mike Ejeagha , went viral in 2024?
text: Did you know  that despite being an independent candidate, Leanne Mohamad came within 528 votes of defeating shadow health secretary Wes Streeting in the 2024 UK general election ?
text: Did you know that German officials exiled the Samoan king from his own kingdom in 1887?
text: Did you know that at the 2024 Olympics, unranked North Korean table tennis pair Ri Jong Sik and Kim Kum Yong defeated the defending champions and went on to win the silver medal?
text: Did you know that rivers form 23% of international borders?
text: Did you know that according to a myth, after composer Maxim Berezovsky died, Catherine the Great allegedly ordered that the papers in his rooms be burned?
text: Did you know that a Los Angeles summer camp teaches children how to become YouTubers by making toy unboxing videos?
text: Did you know that brothers Mike McCartney and Paul McCartney , and sisters Dakota Fanning and Elle Fanning , use their middle names as their first names ?
text: Did you know that Abdul Ali Deobandi stipulated that women were prohibited from learning to read and write, even at home?
text: Did you know that actress Lisa Coleman attended artist Euan Uglow 's studio one to three times a week from 1993 to 1996 to model for Articulation ?
text: Did you know that in The Gambia , there is a belief that people can summon evil spirits to cause abortions?
text: Did you know that Asiatyrannus is thought to have grown to less than half the size of other tyrannosaurs ?
text: Did you know that the colours of the flag of Madagascar originally had no meaning?
text: Did you know that Indian film editor A. Sreekar Prasad holds a record for editing films in 17 different languages?
text: Did you know that Alfred Biliotti excavated the first known examples of Mycenaean painted pottery in 1868?
text: Did you know that the Dublin Castle scandal in 1884 led to the resignations, loss of positions, and criminal convictions of a number of British administrators in Dublin , and celebrations amongst Irish nationalists ?
text: Did you know that in Mannion v. Coors Brewing Co. , Judge Lewis A. Kaplan cited Thomas Mangelsen 's Catch of the Day as a photograph so original in its timing that it could be copyrightable for that alone?
text: Did you know that the rulers of the Yuan dynasty styled themselves as both Mongol khans and Chinese emperors?
text: Did you know that Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza is based on Egyptian Ratscrew ?
text: Did you know that when New York City's Metropolitan Club was established, there was another Metropolitan Club two city blocks away?
text: Did you know that William Pope , an Anglican deacon, was a follower of John Henry Newman and like him became a Roman Catholic priest ?
text: Did you know that a bootleg album of Jai Paul 's unreleased music was named as one of the best of 2013 by several music publications?
text: Did you know that a historian lamented the lack of English-language translations for the work of Aracy Amaral despite it being "a vital reference for the study of art history in Brazil "?
text: Did you know that the Auckland meteorite crashed through the roof of a house in New Zealand?
text: Did you know that Rachel Scott reported live during the January 6 United States Capitol attack in her first week as ABC News ' White House correspondent?
text: Did you know that the Nan Oo Pagoda is classified as a double encased stupa as it envelops a smaller stupa?
text: Did you know that the creators of Poetry for Neanderthals faced difficulties during its release because they needed a way to manufacture inflatable clubs?
text: Did you know that the S1/S2 rolling stock of the Amsterdam Metro was also a tram?
text: Did you know that when refugee Iman Mahdavi boarded a plane in Turkey, he did not know its destination?
text: Did you know that an AI -generated cover of Shaan and Kailash Kher 's " Chand Sifarish " received nearly five million views on Instagram in two days?
text: Did you know that Keke Palmer did an impression of " We did it, Joe! " onstage with Kamala Harris ?
text: Did you know that Nam Su-hyeon , Jeon Hun-young , and Lim Si-hyeon 's gold medal in the women's team archery event at the 2024 Olympics marked South Korea's tenth victory in a row?
text: Did you know that a warrant was issued to pay a force to relieve the siege of Perth in October 1339, after the garrison had already surrendered?
text: Did you know that Robert Aiello 's first novel was published after literary agents turned it down roughly 60 times?
text: Did you know that a clip of a soft pretzel being cut perfectly in half made the short-lived German game show Schlag den Henssler briefly popular to an international audience?
text: Did you know that even though abortion is legal in Zambia , most are performed unsafely?
text: Did you know that Olympic rugby sevens player Joseva Talacolo only started playing the sport as a way to support his family?
text: Did you know that the 1853 Valley Falls train collision led to the creation of a time zone ?
text: Did you know that during World War II, Gabriel Navarrete tried to prevent the crossing of Rapido River , in which American forces suffered 2,128 casualties?
text: Did you know that a casino, a bar, and formerly a restaurant occupy what was once one of Brighton's most important cinemas ?
text: Did you know that Belgian hardcore DJ Liza 'N' Eliaz was named a "spiritual leader" in France's free party movement?
text: Did you know that a knife attack in Suzhou, China , led to the deletion of hundreds of ultranationalist posts from social media platforms?
text: Did you know that soprano Grace Panvini stood 4 ft 11.75 in (151.8 cm) tall – a height described by one reviewer as an asset for appearing youthful on stage?
text: Did you know that the Labour Party of Turkey was banned by the Constitutional Court in 1980 due to its support for the use of the Kurdish language in schools?
text: Did you know that Michael Sugrue became an "internet phenomenon" during the COVID-19 pandemic for his lectures on YouTube, recorded in 1992, that covered "the last 3,000 years of Western intellectual history"?
text: Did you know that Ready Set Learn! was TLC 's answer to the PBS children's lineup ?
text: Did you know that Shawn Mendes 's song " Nobody Knows " was recorded in one take on a "tough night"?
text: Did you know that in 2018 thieves stole 40 percent of the cocoa produced by the São Toméan Organic Cocoa Production and Export Cooperative ?
text: Did you know that Matthew Webb died attempting to swim down the Niagara Rapids ?
text: Did you know that Mobtown Ballroom and Café enlisted volunteers to build its sprung wood floor by hand – twice?
text: Did you know that a hagiography of Abbess Hathumoda was tempered by its audience's knowledge of her flaws?
text: Did you know that Shah Budak , a prince of the Dulkadir dynasty in Anatolia, blinded his nephew Shahruh in retaliation for his son's similar fate?
text: Did you know that at one point the Lyons Pool Recreation Center had three employees whose only job was to maintain water filters?
text: Did you know that a 19th-century newspaper editor went to prison after protesting the Isle of Man's lack of democracy?
text: Did you know that Stephen Tung was cast in Stuntman because the directors envisioned someone who had co-starred with Bruce Lee for the lead role?
text: Did you know that Prussian-born Samuel Conrad Schwach founded the first newspaper in Norway in 1763?
text: Did you know that " So American " is considered the first love song in Olivia Rodrigo 's discography by critics?
text: Did you know that the law of reentry is cited as an explanation for a character's abrupt exit from the stage in Richard II ?
text: Did you know that Gao Qifeng , a founder of the Lingnan School , slept in a room filled with explosives?
text: Did you know that in the Littlehampton libels , Edith Swan fooled three juries and two judges, had another woman sent to prison twice, and was declared not guilty before finally being convicted?
text: Did you know that Filomena Fortes once said that she was "a bit critical of top-level sports in Cape Verde" despite being the president of its National Olympic Committee ?
text: Did you know that on the same day that the members of Heaven's Gate died in a mass suicide, five members of an unrelated group did likewise ?
text: Did you know that the regent of the Mongol Empire between 1248 and 1251 was named " We Were Searching for a Boy "?
text: Did you know that the 48th Hong Kong International Film Festival canceled the screening of a politically themed film due to the "inability to locate suitable copies", despite the film having been showcased three years earlier?
text: Did you know that thirty white employees quit working at Jumbo's restaurant in Miami after it desegregated?
text: Did you know that Gerda Philipsborn , a German woman, dedicated her life to the development of Jamia Millia Islamia , a national university in New Delhi?
text: Did you know that one 1886 night 150 people broke into a courthouse and began moving it 15 miles (24 km), before getting stuck in a blizzard?
text: Did you know that George Bernard Shaw jokingly threatened to torture Hilaire Belloc if it would get G. K. Chesterton to write his first play ?
text: Did you know that Norman warrior Hugh Bunel lived for years among the Saracens before turning against them to join the First Crusade?
text: Did you know that after reading American Writers , William Lloyd Garrison told John Neal to be on guard should he return to the United States?
text: Did you know that Druze rower Saleh Shahin won a bronze medal for Israel at the 2024 Paris Paralympics 19 years after he was injured in a terrorist attack?
text: Did you know that the Hong Kong–based holding company now known as Nan Nan Resources went by three different names in 2011?
text: Did you know that Dusko Doder reported the 1984 death of Yuri Andropov , the leader of the Soviet Union , before any official announcement?
text: Did you know that Queen Victoria supported Clare embroidery by purchasing dresses for her family?
text: Did you know that chocolate is included as an ingredient in 18th-century Italian recipes for pappardelle, fried liver, black polenta, and lasagna sauce?
text: Did you know that a 1920s reviewer considered Hammond's Hard Lines "dangerously experimental ground for boys' fiction"?
text: Did you know that Eddie Canales set up nearly 200 water stations along an area of the US–Mexico border to save the lives of undocumented immigrants?
text: Did you know that before his victory at the 1128 Battle of Axspoele , William Clito ordered his knights to cut their hair and remove opulent clothing as a sign of penance?
text: Did you know that Canadian punk rock musician Talli Osborne had only briefly spoken to the frontman of NOFX before the band wrote a song about her?
text: Did you know that a red light in the corner bay window of the Ansorge Hotel told rumrunners of revenue men in town?
text: Did you know that some delegates elected in the Qing dynasty's first provincial elections were secretly affiliated with republican revolutionaries ?
text: Did you know that neurocysticercosis has been referred to as the " great imitator " because it can mimic many other neurological disorders?
text: Did you know that the only two Venezuelans ever to play for the NFL, Pat Ragusa and Alan Pringle , played a combined total of four regular-season games?
text: Did you know that imprisoned Afghan politician Abdur Rahman Mahmudi wrote poems using onion juice as ink in his prison cell?
text: Did you know that MyRadar uses a custom satellite constellation to help forecast the weather?
text: Did you know that the early woman explorer Adèle de Dombasle travelled to Polynesia in 1847 and worked as an illustrator, drawing people such as Queen Pōmare IV ?
text: Did you know that song lyrics were allowed as evidence in the YSL Records racketeering trial ?
text: Did you know that the parents of Mathias Nkwenti , the second Cameroonian ever to play in the NFL, initially opposed his football career?
text: Did you know that a small golden bell found at the site of the Mount Gerizim Temple is believed to have been part of the ephod of a high priest , as described in Exodus 28 ?
text: Did you know that because the lord chancellor of England did not freeze assets before trial in 1789, the U.S. Supreme Court decided in 1999 that U.S. courts cannot either ?
text: Did you know that a Stradivarius cello once owned by Ernest de Munck is now named after him?
text: Did you know that the Félag hljómplötuframleiðenda tried to close the file-sharing website Istorrent in 2007–2008, but the Supreme Court of Iceland dismissed the case?
text: Did you know that a banker was named the prime minister of Equatorial Guinea after his predecessor resigned during an economic crisis?
text: Did you know that while shooting his first short film , Jean-Luc Godard was barred from his mother's funeral for stealing?
text: Did you know that Brenden Bates "loves moving people against their will"?
text: Did you know that a fort in Baguia was restored to be converted into tourist accommodation?
text: Did you know that The New York Times Simulator was inspired by its creator's frustration with media coverage of the Israel–Hamas war ?
text: Did you know that an Australian wildlife conservationist has trapped and killed more than 1,450 feral cats?
text: Did you know that the original exhibition of art installation Chocolate Room was shut down after attracting an "army of ants"?
text: Did you know that Iowa politician June Franklin wrote to ten members of the US Congress urging them to declare Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday a federal holiday?
text: Did you know that an ancient Canadian archaeological site was discovered during the construction of a dump ?
text: Did you know that Chris Collier is the first NFL player from his college in 37 years?
text: Did you know that Veto , inspired by the history of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth , is considered to be the first Polish collectible card game ?
text: Did you know that a man's body , found wearing only a woman's wedding ring and a pair of socks in 1971, is the oldest unsolved missing persons case in Staffordshire, England?
text: Did you know that Mdou Moctar 's 2021 album Afrique Victime was distributed on pre-loaded Nokia 6120 classic cellphones?
text: Did you know that both Christian Albright and De'Montre Tuggle were born on the same day, named second-team all- Mid-American Conference in 2020, signed with the Chicago Bears in 2022, and debuted in the CFL in 2023?
text: Did you know that thrash metal band Hermética has a failed project to release a version of their debut album in English?
text: Did you know that Oxford suffragist Myvanwy Rhys earned first-class honours from Newnham College, Cambridge , but was denied a degree?
text: Did you know that the verdict of Pell v The Queen could not be reported on properly for two months?
text: Did you know that approximately 85 per cent of Welsh children were not in school in 1821 ?
text: Did you know that the scenes set in the United States in the Taiwanese film Daughter's Daughter were nearly omitted during the writing process but were retained at the insistence of lead actress Sylvia Chang ?
text: Did you know that an Oklahoma TV station returned to its original call sign after the death of its founder, Gene Autry ?
text: Did you know that Indonesian legislator Jamaludin Malik wore an Ultraman costume to his swearing-in ceremony?
text: Did you know that Americans received nearly 15 billion political text messages in 2022?
text: Did you know that novelist Sue Monk Kidd spent fourteen months researching New Testament–era Egypt and the Levant for The Book of Longings ?
text: Did you know that following the success of Jools Lebron 's "demure" videos, she stated that she was able to use the proceeds to pay for her gender transition?
text: Did you know that, when preparing the statue of John Stockton , its sculptor repositioned the model about 20 times by using a wrench to adjust ball-and-socket joints on steel rods?
text: Did you know that the writings of José Rizal , a prominent contributor to liberalism in the Philippines , were adopted by both Philippine independence fighters and American colonial authorities?
text: Did you know that Will Wood conducted a Bulgarian choir via Zoom for " White Noise "?
text: Did you know that Xiphophorus signum is the only swordtail not known to hybridise with other species?
text: Did you know that Mr. Bronx was not from the Bronx?
text: Did you know that King Minkhaung I of Ava lamented that King Razadarit of Hanthawaddy had invaded his country without "breaking a sword or a lance"?
text: Did you know that Andreas Vogt yelled "Down with the government! Long live the republic!" at a session of the Landtag of Liechtenstein in 1919?
text: Did you know that "Dark Avenger", a song from Manowar 's album Battle Hymns , is narrated by actor Orson Welles ?
text: Did you know that real paramedics were hired to portray EMTs in Mongrel , and they responded to a medical emergency that occurred in a village where they were filming?
text: Did you know that labor lawyer Dick Moss argued the 1975 case which resulted in the establishment of free agency in Major League Baseball ?
text: Did you know that Louis Vuitton helped to develop the visual arts programme for the School of the Arts, Singapore ?
text: Did you know that the University of Memphis football team posthumously retired Danton Barto 's number following an online petition?
text: Did you know that the 1935 Brussels Party Conference of the Communist Party of Germany took place in the outskirts of Moscow?
text: Did you know that activist Joan McIntyre left Friends of the Earth to start her own organization focused on stopping Japanese and Russian whaling ?
text: Did you know that Sandra Ng wore her own clothes while filming Love Lies to help the production crew save on the budget?
text: Did you know that the world's largest video game studio is headquartered in a former textile factory ?
text: Did you know that Renaissance-era weapons designer Abramo Colorni performed magical illusions and card tricks for his patrons?
text: Did you know that Ogeretsu Tanaka was inspired to create the manga series Happy of the End after taking a morning walk in Shinjuku ?
text: Did you know that in 1825 the Suquamish leader Kitsap led an alliance of tribes stretching from the Columbia River to Puget Sound to stop the Cowichan slave raids wreaking havoc on the Sound?
text: Did you know that a judge is threatening to shut down Wikipedia in India over a defamation lawsuit ?
text: Did you know that a South Dakota radio station went from a university to "Guns, Gold & Rock 'n' Roll"?
text: Did you know that a Paralympic gold medalist originally did not know that she qualified for parasports?
text: Did you know that Karan Aujla 's Hindi -language single " Tauba Tauba " from the 2024 film Bad Newz became a Canadian Hot 100 top-25 song ahead of the film's release?
text: Did you know that Dani Sanchez-Lopez wanted to be an actor but switched to cinematography after realizing that actors deliver others' lines?
text: Did you know that in UnMetal , the player has to heal any enemies whom they shoot?
text: Did you know that manga artist Shinichi Ishizuka was told that becoming a manga artist would be "absolutely impossible"?
text: Did you know that two Wisconsin radio stations purchased and reassembled the Wisconsin Pavilion from the 1964 New York World's Fair for use as their studios?
text: Did you know that the extension to the Yumeshima Station was originally supposed to be opened in 2008 for when the Osaka Olympics was being bid for?
text: Did you know that Tonia Ko once composed a three-part concerto played on bubble wrap ?
text: Did you know that the Haitian Revolution began when Cécile Fatiman sacrificed a black pig, a ritual that was later repeated by Haitians resisting the United States occupation and the Duvalier dynasty ?
text: Did you know that a shark cost a competitor a silver medal in the spearfishing event at the 2014 Micronesian Games ?
text: Did you know that the number 1 is its own square, square root, and factorial ?
text: Did you know that Deep Cut Gardens in New Jersey contains a stone replica of Mount Vesuvius that once erupted smoke at the behest of mobster Vito Genovese ?
text: Did you know that the Hillbilly Thomists , a band made up of friars from the Dominican Order , reached the number-two spot on Billboard 's bluegrass chart?
text: Did you know that Pituamkek National Park Reserve , Canada's newest national park, protects a chain of barrier islands that have been used for fishing and hunting by the Mi'kmaq for 4,000 years?
text: Did you know that the Palace Theater light bulb has been running since 1908?
text: Did you know that a sensational story in 1888 claimed that James Wickham, a British scientist, introduced two whales to the Great Salt Lake in an attempt to start a whale oil industry?
text: Did you know that rebel fighters pursued their fleeing enemies during the Battle of Kembogo because they wanted new boots?
text: Did you know that Abdul Ahad Azad is recognised for laying the foundations of literary criticism in Kashmiri literature ?
text: Did you know that Episode 7921 of Neighbours featured Australia's first televised fictional same-sex wedding since the country voted in favour of legalising same-sex marriage?
text: Did you know that the 2024 Summer Paralympics opening ceremony featured dancing Phryges ?
text: Did you know that Albert Bumgardner 's design for an architectural press office was highly publicized in the architectural press?
text: Did you know that the song " You Liked This (Okay, Computer!) " features the former text-to-speech voice of TikTok?
text: Did you know that drivers "dodge[d] track blemishes" more than each other during the first race at the Charlotte Motor Speedway ?
text: Did you know that football coach Dim Montero was considered such a great recruiter that it was said he "could pick up a rock and find an outstanding football prospect"?
text: Did you know that Samuel Barber said that he could not adequately play his own Piano Sonata ?
text: Did you know that geographer Michael Chisholm and contemporaries became known as "Caesar's Praetorian Guard", in reference to their teacher Gus Caesar ?
text: Did you know that Anne Morrow Lindbergh tried to warn her husband Charles Lindbergh of the backlash that his antisemitic Des Moines speech would receive?
text: Did you know that Rose Betts wrote the song "Driving Myself Home" as a joke after a blind date, only for it to go viral on TikTok?
text: Did you know that an art critic felt that Rooms by the Sea was one of Edward Hopper 's "strangest" works?
text: Did you know that when Swedish soccer player Beata Olsson transferred from Florida to Florida State , she said that she did not really know about the schools' rivalry?
text: Did you know that John Passmore Edwards erected a library in memory of his mother ?
text: Did you know that researchers want Hymenophyllum axsmithii rhizomes so that they can tell whether the filmy fern was up a tree?
text: Did you know that composer Gonzalo Brenes was a politician in the National Assembly of Panama and served for seven years as Panama's secretary of culture?
text: Did you know that the undefeated 1961 Pittsburg State Gorillas football team shut out seven opponents, featured four All-Americans , and won three national championships?
text: Did you know that Cathy Merrick was the first woman to be elected grand chief of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs ?
text: Did you know that Maystorm, a character from Ultimate X-Men , was initially created for a variant cover for the comic X-Men ?
text: Did you know that Mike Veeck 's baseball promotions include Disco Demolition Night , a game with no fans, and the world's largest pillow fight?
text: Did you know that a clergyman from London established 87 schools in Wales in the 17th century ?
text: Did you know that Harold C. Hinton was one of the only American academics under McCarthyism to study communist China ?
text: Did you know that South African president Jacob Zuma requested a tour of a Sainsbury's supermarket during his state visit to the United Kingdom in 2010?
text: Did you know that researchers speculate that cocoa butter forms crystals on sugar while chocolate is tempered ?
text: Did you know that the noken system used for voting in parts of Indonesia can produce turnouts of 100%?
text: Did you know that for 19 years Tonya Burns had the only retired jersey number in Iowa State women's basketball history?
text: Did you know that Northamptonshire has had ninety-two railway stations , but now has only six?
text: Did you know that Joe Wirkkunen coached the Finland men's national ice hockey team after receiving a recommendation from Canada?
text: Did you know that the music video for " ...Well, Better Than the Alternative " uses software to render handmade paintings over live-action footage of musician Will Wood ?
text: Did you know that British conscientious objector Henry Firth died in 1918 while being held at a work camp in Dartmoor?
text: Did you know that the ongoing premiere of Gregory Markopoulos 's Eniaios started 20 years ago?
text: Did you know that cyclist Daniela Larreal competed in five Olympic Games for a country that later exiled her?
text: Did you know that after Hitler came to power in 1933, the newspaper Hakenkreuzbanner acquired an office building and printing presses by seizing them from a Social Democratic publication?
text: Did you know that despite having no university training, Agnes Crane described a new species of brachiopod in 1886?
text: Did you know that chronic pain syndromes affect approximately 20 percent of people and account for 15 to 20 percent of doctor visits?
text: Did you know that the first art exhibition in the Trade Fair Palace after it was rebuilt from a fire was named Like a Phoenix ?
text: Did you know that Arekia Bennett was inspired to organize a voter registration drive in 2017 by the 1964 Freedom Summer drive?
text: Did you know that the Counterintelligence Group was disbanded because the unit was deemed successful in the "neutralization and prosecution of scalawags" in the Armed Forces of the Philippines ?
text: Did you know that the character Psycho Mantis in the video game Metal Gear Solid breaks the fourth wall by identifying the player's other games?
text: Did you know that a lane behind a tenement in Edinburgh is decorated as a Wild West town?
text: Did you know that a German pastor let a deposed East German head of state stay in his house?
text: Did you know that the 2024 American remake of Have I Got News for You has a permanent host, something that the original show dispensed with in 2002?
text: Did you know that when guitarist Pete Wade was 19, he moved to Nashville with $3, his suitcase, two ham sandwiches, and the telephone numbers of Don Helms and Jerry Rivers ?
text: Did you know that a tornado near Chicago was produced by a storm with a hydrodynamical helicity four times higher than the threshold favorable for tornadogenesis ?
text: Did you know that Victoria Siddall is the first woman to be appointed the director of the 168-year-old National Portrait Gallery in London?
text: Did you know that North Korean series The Taehongdang Party Secretary was created to help promote the consumption of potatoes during a rice shortage?
text: Did you know that a baby penguin from Australia is "an absolute unit "?
text: Did you know that Nancy S. Steinhardt completed her doctorate on medieval Chinese architecture before she was able to see any in person?
text: Did you know that much of Archcliffe Fort was demolished in the 1920s to allow for expansion of a railway?
text: Did you know that Alfred Sully , who led US forces during the Sioux Wars , was married to a Yankton Sioux woman?
text: Did you know that The Right and the Wrong was the first feature film produced natively in Trinidad and Tobago?
text: Did you know that a 23-day CBC strike thrust Don Goodwin into the Canadian national spotlight and into "folk-hero status"?
text: Did you know that the lyric video for an Olivia Rodrigo song included a teaser that she would tour in support of her album Guts ?
text: Did you know that the Cosmere Roleplaying Game surpassed Frosthaven to become the most-funded tabletop game on Kickstarter in August 2024?
text: Did you know that " Honest Ike " stole more than $200,000 from the Alabama treasury?
text: Did you know that in the history of fisheries in the Philippines , the once-dominant local municipal fisheries were supplanted first by commercial fisheries , and then by aquaculture ?
text: Did you know that Eliza Legzdina has attributed opinions of her work to the "horrification of the female body"?
text: Did you know that the center squeeze has been blamed for costing Gary Johnson the 2016 US presidential election ?
text: Did you know that voice actress Atsuko Tanaka named several pandas?
text: Did you know that seven people died when their helicopter struck supporting wires of a Texas TV station 's tower and crashed?
text: Did you know that Michael P. Walsh oversaw the construction of 15 buildings as the president of Boston College ?
text: Did you know that Jer Lau , who appeared in the film Over My Dead Body , also performed its theme song because the director felt his role was too minor?
text: Did you know that the search for mammals on Booby Island was a bust?
text: Did you know that a Picasso sculpture at University Village was called "half as high and twice as sexy as the Great Sphinx of Egypt"?
text: Did you know that country music singer Buck Owens bought a bankrupt TV station in California from his sister?
text: Did you know that according to the mayor of Utica , 13-year-old Nyah Mway was the first Karen person to be killed in America by police?
text: Did you know that Ratnākara's Haravijaya is the longest extant Sanskrit mahākāvya ?
text: Did you know that Betty Brussel set three competitive swimming records on the same day at the age of 99?
text: Did you know that both scholars and activists believe that diet culture is often intertwined with racism and other forms of prejudice?
text: Did you know that G. R. Pantouw supported the Dutch puppet state of East Indonesia because he wanted to push the Netherlands into abandoning colonialism?
text: Did you know that a Cretan man found a 1st-century statue of Aphrodite while trying to drill a well, and then reburied it?
text: Did you know that Mokulubete Makatisi placed eighth at the 2022 Commonwealth Games women's marathon despite running in new shoes that she had received on the eve of the race?
text: Did you know that the developer of The Crimson Diamond first created a series of pixel-art rooms and later built a game around the house she had designed?
text: Did you know that some of the work of lesbian feminist filmmaking pioneer Norma Bahia Pontes is lost media ?
text: Did you know that the government used military trucks and bulldozers to rescue people from a tropical storm ?
text: Did you know that Milan A. P. Harminc , the consul-general of the Slovak Republic in London, broke with his government at the outbreak of World War II and sided with the Allies ?
text: Did you know that there was a doomsday cult named after Neo from The Matrix ?
text: Did you know that a woman was considered a witch because her husband prepared chocolate instead of her?
text: Did you know that Australian train driver Bill Morrow received the Soviet Union's Lenin Peace Prize alongside Fidel Castro?
text: Did you know that among the Orang Asli of Negeri Sembilan , chica is only collected during kenduri rituals?
text: Did you know that Sailor Moon co-stars Emi Shinohara and Rika Fukami were born on the same date?
text: Did you know that almost 45 percent of Taiwan's beer purchases come from rechao restaurants?
text: Did you know that Janet Panetta started dancing as physical therapy for childhood polio?
text: Did you know that the flag of La Guaira is based on the design of a banner from a 1797 conspiracy against Spanish rule in Venezuela?
text: Did you know that chef Victor Albisu created a bulgogi taco that honors the Koreatown neighborhood of his hometown of Annandale, Virginia?
text: Did you know that the first dogs in space returned to Earth with a parachute?
text: Did you know that in 1989 the Barcelona women's second football team was knocked out of the Catalan Cup in the same round as the Barcelona women's first team?
text: Did you know that Tuhi Martukaw led youth delegations to the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues for ten years in a row?
text: Did you know that unused placeholder sounds from Smash Hit were reused in Teardown ?
text: Did you know that announcers at a Virginia radio station were warned that playing more than three rap songs an hour could get them fired?
text: Did you know that of the 16 aircraft which took part in the Doolittle Raid , only the one piloted by Edward J. York landed intact?
text: Did you know that " Bed Chem " and " Juno " are the "horniest" tracks on Short n' Sweet , according to one critic?
text: Did you know that Moses Benjamin Wulff founded a printing press that reprinted The Guide for the Perplexed for the first time in centuries?
text: Did you know that New York City's Queens Zoo once received a lion cub despite having no lion enclosure?
text: Did you know that Muhammad Khaznadar 's museum was said to have "surpassed every other museum in the world" in Phoenician and Carthaginian antiquities ?
text: Did you know that William, Prince of Wales , inspired the character of Prince Wheeliam in Cars 2 ?
text: Did you know that Hurry Up Tomorrow is planned to be the Weeknd 's final album under his stage name?
text: Did you know that Columbus Airport saw commercial air service before being certified for public use by the Civil Aeronautics Authority ?
text: Did you know that Lisa Blatt , the first woman to argue 50 cases before the Supreme Court of the United States , "elicits laughs and the occasional sharp response from the justices" for her witty delivery?
text: Did you know that Oxford is the first city in the United Kingdom to adopt a zero emission zone ?
text: Did you know that although Pachyballus ornatus is named for its bright pattern, the female is dark and plain while young?
text: Did you know that retired model Leticia Sardá had no idea that she was the subject of a four-year global search ?
text: Did you know that pastry chef and television judge Benoit Blin cut off the tips of his fingers in a kitchen accident during his service in the French Navy ?
text: Did you know that the Netflix-released film A House in Jerusalem is inspired by the history of the director's Palestinian family, who were expelled in 1948 from what had become Israel during the Nakba ?
text: Did you know that former Commonwealth Games diver Nicky Cooney became a police officer?
text: Did you know that in 1917 British soldiers in France opened fire on mutineers from the Egyptian Labour Corps , killing at least 27 of them?
text: Did you know that Maryvonne Le Dizès commissioned a trio for saxophone, trombone and violin during her time as a violinist with the Ensemble intercontemporain ?
text: Did you know that Patrick Tse 's performance in the film Time won him the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actor at the age of 85, making him the award's oldest recipient?
text: Did you know that Elham Mahamid Ruzin , a blind Muslim Arab , won a silver medal for Israel at the 2024 Paris Paralympics ?
text: Did you know that attractions at the 1939 World's Fair included a roller coaster, a ski slope, and scantily clad women?
text: Did you know that a major anime piracy website had over 100 million monthly visits and was one of the top 200 most popular Internet properties?
text: Did you know that while Council Working Parties only formally prepare decisions of the Council of the European Union , they de facto shape the majority of those decisions?
text: Did you know that actress Norma Phillips starred in a 52-episode silent film series in 1914 that interviewed real-life celebrities?
text: Did you know that mutilated body parts found in the spring of Tattarisuo in 1931 were used to practice black magic ?
text: Did you know that Dezső Varga was the first Szekler ice hockey player to be inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame ?
text: Did you know that at least 69 countries have " no net loss " environmental policies?
text: Did you know that in Hindu mythology, Madhavi , who was blessed with the miraculous ability to regain her virginity after each childbirth, was married to three kings, each in exchange for 200 rare horses?
text: Did you know that the ending of the TV series Community features a fourth-wall-breaking monologue?
text: Did you know that Henry Kailimai and his Hawaiian Quintet were hired by Henry Ford to serve as official musicians for the Ford Motor Company?
text: Did you know that when the Edward S. Harkness House was built, its owner took the address from his neighbor?
text: Did you know that a New Testament manuscript was "barbarously scored with red chalk" by a book publisher?
text: Did you know that Thomas Bertrand-Hudon is the first professional football player to wear a Guardian Cap during a regular season game?
text: Did you know that the 1998 cyberpunk short story " CyberJoly Drim " caused a controversy in the Polish science fiction and fantasy community?
text: Did you know that Ajah Pritchard-Lolo is Vanuatu's first Olympic weightlifter ?
text: Did you know that many hapa haole songs were written by non-Hawaiians and featured nonsensical, faux-Hawaiian lyrics?
text: Did you know that Shoko Ikeda once admitted that Haruhi Suzumiya , a character she designed, was "just like me"?
text: Did you know that Russian pianist Pavel Kushnir died on a hunger strike after his arrest for anti-war videos posted on a YouTube channel with five subscribers?
text: Did you know that public health measures and advances in medical science in modern human history helped raise global life expectancy from about 31 years in 1900 to over 66 years in 2000?
text: Did you know that Green Day 's " Wake Me Up When September Ends " became closely associated with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina ?
text: Did you know that scientists publishing in Liebigs Annalen were subject to criticism and attacks by editor Justus von Liebig ?
text: Did you know that English amateur geologist Charlotte Eyton wrote a number of papers and pamphlets on the geology of the Wrekin , a part of Shropshire, between 1862 and 1870?
text: Did you know that the director of a Lake Erie-based walleye fishing tournament defended two anglers accused of cheating until he found weights in their winning fish two years ago today ?
text: Did you know that East Suffolk Park , a former student hostel in Edinburgh, was once an internment camp for enemy aliens ?
text: Did you know that football player Kyle Hergel said his biggest strength was "my nastiness"?
text: Did you know that museum administrator Herbert Smith hired a special train so that civil servants could watch a total solar eclipse in 1927?
text: Did you know that Yan Ruisheng , China's first full-length feature film, was banned within two years?
text: Did you know that Shadia Abu Ghazaleh was one of the first women to join the Palestinian resistance to the Israeli occupation of the West Bank ?
text: Did you know that the radio program Radio City Music Hall of the Air employed approximately 10,000 musicians during the first eight years of its broadcast history?
text: Did you know that Stanley Washburn 's message on November 29, 1941, warning the US Navy not to underestimate the Japanese, failed to reach Admiral Kimmel before the attack on Pearl Harbor ?
text: Did you know that the first standalone street toilets to cater to both men and women in Auckland were converted into a male-only facility during the Second World War?
text: Did you know that Taurus 09 was the largest Royal Navy deployment in more than ten years?
text: Did you know that the name of Kim Jong Un's daughter has not been publicly disclosed?
text: Did you know that the hips of some 19th-century Fijian young women were tattooed with veiqia when they reached puberty?
text: Did you know that the myth of Shunten , the legendary first king of Chūzan , was used to justify the 1872 annexation of Okinawa ?
text: Did you know that two best-seller lists initially classified The Children's Book of Virtues as non-fiction, but later moved it to their fiction charts?
text: Did you know that Bahamian basketball player Waltiea Rolle moved to the United States at the age of 13 after being noticed while walking home from school?
text: Did you know that the U.S. Air Force considered a bomber version of the F-22 Raptor known as the FB-22 ?
text: Did you know that a new soccer team in Boise, Idaho , plans to play at a converted horse racing track?
text: Did you know that geologist Gilbert Wilson was the fifth Wilson at school, so he was known as " Quintus "?
text: Did you know that a medieval town in Poland disappeared?
text: Did you know that Soviet academic Lily Golden researched " officially disapproved " genres of contemporary Black music?
text: Did you know that the opening scene of Yen and Ai-Lee was rewritten as a long take due to rain during filming?
text: Did you know that anime singer Rei Nakashima was named after Ray Charles ?
text: Did you know that in high school Anne Marie Armstrong won three state titles in volleyball, three in basketball, and four in track and field?
text: Did you know that when French secret police raided Deng Xiaoping 's hotel room in Billancourt , they encountered copies of the Moscow newspaper Qian Jin Bao ?
text: Did you know that Victoria Espinosa directed the first performance of The Public , almost 50 years after it was written?
text: Did you know that aerospace engineering firm Helliwells Ltd began as a maker of fireplace accessories?
text: Did you know that during the colonial period , the Dutch East Indies was the third-largest exporter of tea after the British Raj and Ceylon ?
text: Did you know that the director of Eating Out 2: Sloppy Seconds once described the film as "gaysploitation"?
text: Did you know that Xu Xinfu adapted the fictional Chinese-American detective Charlie Chan for Chinese audiences?
text: Did you know that large aircraft once operated on a regular basis from Griffin–Spalding County Airport despite it only having a 3,100-foot-long (940 m) runway?
text: Did you know that Susanne Craig won the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for her reporting on Donald Trump's taxes after receiving a copy of his tax records in her mailbox?
text: Did you know that New York City's Hotel Marseilles , once a shelter for Holocaust survivors, later became affordable housing for the elderly?
text: Did you know that Anatolii Brezvin helped establish a youth hockey championship in Ukraine, and sought to open 60 ice rinks ?
text: Did you know that the Union of Assyrians 's mishandling of shoe-polishing stations led to violent conflicts in 1920s Moscow?
text: Did you know that in 1959, Henri Claireaux claimed that a reduction to a subsidy to Saint Pierre and Miquelon had devolved the territory into "a state bordering on poverty"?
text: Did you know that both Tim Walz and JD Vance were accused of sanewashing in the 2024 vice presidential debate ?
text: Did you know that Kazimierz Sakowicz spent three years recording the murder of tens of thousands in his diary, which was published decades later?
text: Did you know that Rust Red Hills is being sold to renovate student housing, a court-approved move that museum associations say violates the ethics of deaccessioning ?
text: Did you know that Amaury du Closel founded the Forum Voix Etouffées to revive music that was suppressed by 20th-century totalitarian regimes?
text: Did you know that 38 per cent of Welsh university students in 1900 were women?
text: Did you know that Johnny Fripp was described as "a bundle of football-toting dynamite"?
text: Did you know that Big Motor employees hit cars with socks stuffed with golf balls as part of an insurance-fraud scheme?
text: Did you know that " Every Night ", released ten years ago today, was called "the smartest dumb music out there"?
text: Did you know that Bishop John Dunn continued to celebrate Mass after a fire broke out in the choir loft of St. Cecilia Cathedral during the Sixth National Eucharistic Congress ?
text: Did you know that over the opening weekend of Florentina Holzinger 's first opera, eighteen audience members required medical treatment for severe nausea?
text: Did you know that the apricot dress of Jacqueline Kennedy kept its shape in India's hot weather?
text: Did you know that weightlifter Oun Yao-ling was asked to compete in the South African Games , but the invitation was swiftly rescinded once the organisers learned that he was Chinese, not white?
text: Did you know that the opening of Salmon n' Bannock led to the owner reconnecting with her long-lost family?
text: Did you know that Władysław Umiński 's 1914 novel Czarodziejski okręt was described as being a "grotesque" treatment of the robinsonade ?
text: Did you know that Ross Mihara "didn't know a yorikiri from hara-kiri " when he was hired as a sumo commentator by NHK ?
text: Did you know that despite her father wanting her to become a music teacher, Marcia Moore ran away to Chicago to star in silent film , vaudeville , cabaret , and burlesque performances?
text: Did you know that al-Shaykh Badr was the hometown of Salih al-Ali , who led the Alawite revolt against the French in Syria ?
text: Did you know that a charity founded by Henry Smith in 1628 now has assets of more than £1 billion?
text: Did you know that the 2024 Talerddig train collision was the first collision between passenger trains in Wales since 1991?
text: Did you know that New World Mall was the largest Asian shopping mall in the Northeastern United States upon its opening in 2011?
text: Did you know that Mariah Carey used a sample from the New Zealand duo Adeaze in her 2005 song " Your Girl "?
text: Did you know that working at a post office was how Derrick Harden became an NFL player?
text: Did you know that Michael F. Adams was the first president of Centre College not to be a Presbyterian ?
text: Did you know that between 30 and 300 million rupees ' worth of goods were plundered during the Afghan sack of Delhi ?
text: Did you know that Shuah Khan , the first woman fellow of the Linux Foundation , "signed off" on a patch recommending the use of inclusive terminology in the Linux kernel ?
text: Did you know that Benjamin Britten was said to have composed Canticle V: The Death of Saint Narcissus "in the face of death"?
text: Did you know that Last Call BBS contains a chip-manufacturing game, a model-building simulator, a game of solitaire , and more?
text: Did you know that Pablo Barragán originally wanted to be a jazz saxophonist, but was more attracted to the clarinet because he thought it resembled the human voice?
text: Did you know that Malfunction Junction in Birmingham, Alabama, carried 160,000 vehicles in 2018, instead of 80,000 as it was intended to hold?
text: Did you know that according to the author of Stuff Matters , holding a sample of an aerogel is "like holding a piece of sky"?
text: Did you know that Napoleon III was buried in St Mary's Church, Chislehurst , before his remains were moved to Farnborough Abbey 15 years later?
text: Did you know that Sankar Montoute became the first NFL player from Trinidad and Tobago in 1987?
text: Did you know that a San Francisco–area radio station sometimes had to be quiet to avoid disturbing patients at a nearby dentist's office?
text: Did you know that Bethwel Henry was the first Micronesian to receive a degree in his field, and served as a United Nations delegate at the age of 25?
text: Did you know that the novel Bloody Bread , about the struggles of Polish immigrants in the US, was briefly criticized by communist censors for "glorifying the United States"?
text: Did you know that Leonardo DiCaprio was set to star in the film adaptation of Leonardo da Vinci ?
text: Did you know that the fishing cat mainly inhabits wetlands and preys predominantly on fish?
text: Did you know that Ewa Ligocka cooked another mathematician's goose?
text: Did you know that Helmut Bauer confirmed around 150,000 young people, including 500 in Tanzania?
text: Did you know that although the plant species Dolichostachys elongata was first described in 1962, it was not considered validly published until 60 years later?
text: Did you know that a review described He Fucked the Girl Out of Me as being about "all the ways in which American society fails its most vulnerable"?
text: Did you know that the restoration of Neknampur Lake was recognised "as the best model of lake restoration in India"?
text: Did you know that Benjamin Franklin Shumard 's assistant named an oak species after him, and then sabotaged his reinstatement after he was fired?
text: Did you know that the 2013 book Brick by Brick , about how The Lego Group reinvented itself, became a popular business text?
text: Did you know that the Trilobite Wilderness is so rich in trilobite fossils that in places virtually every rock contains a fossil?
text: Did you know that cavalry officer Harvey Tuckett retired from the British Army to become an actor, but was shot in a duel by his former commanding officer?
text: Did you know that after fleeing to Argentina as a Spanish Civil War refugee, Maria Muntañola Cvetković became one of Yugoslavia's first experts on microfungi?
text: Did you know that a modern Polish fairy tale , written during the period of martial law in Poland in the 1980s, mixes the themes of real-world environmental protection and fantasy-like gnomes?
text: Did you know that the Japanese TV show Iron Chef gained a cult following on a San Francisco TV station before it was dubbed into English and aired on the Food Network ?
text: Did you knowthat Malik Arslan was assassinated on the orders of the Mamluk Sultan of Egypt due to his ties with the Ottomans ?
text: Did you know that The Gust of Wind is Renoir's attempt to paint air?
text: Did you know that Equatorial Guinea's national abortion law is, as of 2022, one of only eleven that requires a woman to get her spouse's approval to receive an abortion?
text: Did you know that Wasswa Serwanga and his twin brother were the first two NFL players from Uganda?
text: Did you know that " Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites " has been credited with bringing dubstep to the mainstream?
text: Did you know that Johann Friedrich Hartknoch published the first edition of Immanuel Kant 's Critique of Pure Reason ?
text: Did you know that according to the Laws of London , merchants from lands ruled by the German emperor enjoyed special trading privileges in 11th-century London?
text: Did you know that language activist Hasan Ali spent more than 20 years compiling a dictionary of the Osing language ?
text: Did you know that a Chinese poet wrote about a Syriac church in Sichuan without knowing what it was?
text: Did you know that the politician Veylma Falaeo is the first woman to be President of the Congress of New Caledonia ?
text: Did you know that housewives were encouraged to keep Edmonds baking-powder tins to be used as bombs?
text: Did you know that the members of Nocturna met for the first time while recording their debut album?
text: Did you know that tyromancy is a form of fortune-telling using cheese?
text: Did you know that Samuel Lander founded the Williamston Female College in an abandoned hotel?
text: Did you know that Leon Trotsky frequented a Jewish dairy restaurant in the Bronx but refused to tip, and the waiters retaliated by spilling hot soup on him?
text: Did you know that Roger Farmer , the first NFL player from Barbados, reached the league after playing for schools that a newspaper described as having "terrible records"?
text: Did you know that a recurrent famine has haunted Madagascar's southern regions since the 1930s?
text: Did you know that Georgina Sutton was the first woman to be appointed the chief pilot of an Australian airline?
text: Did you know that the ballot summary for 2024 Ohio Issue 1 was a flashpoint for legal action?
text: Did you know that ballerina Marina Kondratyeva served the Bolshoi Ballet and its school for over 70 years?
text: Did you know that Eternity in Flames , now commonly shown in Chinese schools, was banned during the Cultural Revolution ?
text: Did you know that before selling chicken and pies, 5-foot-9-inch (1.75 m) Eddie Sheldrake broke UCLA 's single-game scoring record in basketball?
text: Did you know that a book known as the "Polish Pinocchio " was published a hundred years ago?
text: Did you know that Sun Jianai co-founded one of China's first national universities in 1898?
text: Did you know that in its 1962 election campaign, the Socialist Party of India demanded that twice-yearly inter-caste dining be made a mandatory criterion for government employment?
text: Did you know that the 2000 edition of the Eurovision Song Contest was the first to be broadcast live over the internet?
text: Did you know that the cast of The Perfect Couple created a WhatsApp group to avoid filming a dance sequence to the theme song ?
text: Did you know that Negussie Roba was an Olympic sprinter who later became a top marathon coach?
text: Did you know that smokestacks at a former rayon mill were stabilized by dropping bricks into them?
text: Did you know that Dalibor Riccardi , a head of state of San Marino, has played more than 70 matches in the country's football league?
text: Did you know that at the 2024 Democratic National Convention , vice presidential nominee Tim Walz was booed for visiting the "wrong" Pennsylvanian gas station chain ?
text: Did you know that Eunus , a Syrian slave and reputed prophet, led a slave revolt in Sicily against the Roman Republic?
text: Did you know that China was once the " Kingdom of Bicycles "?
text: Did you know that Alan Rosen once sold 2,400 cheesecakes in four minutes to television shoppers?
text: Did you know that Checheyigen 's political acumen ensured that her family became one of the most powerful in the Mongol Empire ?
text: Did you know that the Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies houses a John Steinbeck archive of more than 50,000 items?
text: Did you know that " Buy Cash " is the speaker of the House of Assembly of Eswatini ?
text: Did you know that Jeya Wilson invited New Zealand prime minister David Lange to debate the moral indefensibility of nuclear weapons at the Oxford Union ?
text: Did you know that the music producer of Barney & Friends considered it ludicrous that its theme song was used in torture at Guantanamo Bay ?
text: Did you know that the Xinwen Bao was first published during the Lunar New Year to take advantage of its competitors being on hiatus?
text: Did you know that psychologist Sonya Friedman recommends that women create a totem, a collection of objects that represent important turning points in their lives?
text: Did you know that the FCC canceled a permit to build a Florida TV station , finding that "the most prominent facility completed within the studio building appears to be a toilet"?
text: Did you know that a renovation of 240 Centre Street was delayed by several months because a street map was incorrect?
text: Did you know that with the exception of one day in 1941, the Kaunas Carillon stopped playing music for sixteen years due to the Soviet and German occupations of Lithuania ?
text: Did you know that Northern Cypriot minister of health İzlem Gürçağ Altuğra warned that her country would be destroyed unless it started producing drugs?
text: Did you know that the barracks at the Xifeng concentration camp were named for Confucian tenets such as righteousness and filial piety ?
text: Did you know that Nathania Ong had not seen Les Misérables before successfully auditioning for the role of Éponine ?
text: Did you know that " All Hell Breaks Loose ", the last episode of Charmed to feature Shannen Doherty as Prue, was also directed by her?
text: Did you know that a poem by Moses da Rieti includes an encyclopedia of the sciences, a Jewish paradise fantasy, and a post-biblical history of Jewish literature?
text: Did you know that El Eternauta: tercera parte kept Héctor Germán Oesterheld , the creator of the original comic, as a narrator after he was disappeared?
text: Did you know that the assassination of Fengshan resulted in a pun combining fried eggs and bombs?
text: Did you know that Ye Gongchuo worked for emperors, warlords and republicans before leaving politics to focus on art?
text: Did you know that controversy ensued when the painting Pleasure Garden was offered to the Robert McDougall Art Gallery ?
text: Did you know that Walter Campbell Smith 's training in mineralogy led him to volunteer with the chemical warfare unit of British Army during World War I?
text: Did you know that Will Wood performed nude for the music video of a song on SELF-iSH ?
text: Did you know that Wilf Perreault 's artwork of landscapes and alleyways was influenced by artists such as Reta Cowley and Dorothy Knowles ?
text: Did you know that the Hollywood Boulevard Commercial and Entertainment District has 102 properties within 12 blocks and contains "excellent examples of the predominant architecture styles of the 1920s and 1930s"?
text: Did you know that Dutch rabbi Meijer de Hond , who grew up in poverty, was known as the Volksrebbe ('people's rabbi') for his popularity among the Jewish poor of Amsterdam?
text: Did you know that Chinese Garden MRT station did not originally have access to the Chinese Garden ?
text: Did you know that Jacques Lewis , a 105-year-old French veteran of D-Day , insisted on participating in a ceremony commemorating the invasion's 80th anniversary?
text: Did you know that a memorial in Suffolk, England , marks the deaths of six members of a scout troop in a 1914 boating accident and that of the sole survivor two years later in the Battle of the Somme ?
text: Did you know that, according to his family, Ye Yanlan was compelled to leave government service after speaking Cantonese in front of the emperor of China?
text: Did you know that the suppression of the Diaspora Revolt of 115–117 CE led to the near-total annihilation and displacement of Jewish communities in Cyrenaica , Cyprus , and much of Egypt ?
text: Did you know that 50 Lan occupied the number-one spot in Taiwan's bubble tea market for most of 2023?
text: Did you know that the world's oldest timepiece with an anchor escapement is in the collection of the Irish Museum of Time ?
text: Did you know that editors often line up in rival camps during contentious disputes on Wikipedia and the winning side typically cites encyclopedic policies to favor their viewpoint?
text: Did you know that although Hugh O'Neill publicly assisted the English Crown in thwarting Irish rebels during the Nine Years' War , he was secretly the leader of the Irish confederacy?
text: Did you know that the Lichfield War Memorial includes a life-size depiction of Saint George and a slain dragon?
text: Did you know that the current flag of Falcón , a state of Venezuela, was first hoisted at the Monument to the Venezuelan Federation in 2006 and is based on the design of the 1806 naval flag of Francisco de Miranda ?
text: Did you know that Abraham Hamadeh lost one of the closest elections in Arizona history by 280 votes, and has filed multiple lawsuits challenging the results?
text: Did you know that during the Second World War the British government transmitted German music to Nazi U-boats ?
text: Did you know that photographer Charles Biasiny-Rivera and fellow members of the artistic collective En Foco drove around New York City in his Volkswagen Bus putting on art exhibitions in Latino neighborhoods?
text: Did you know that sculptor Moelwyn Merchant described his 1982 piece Growing Form as resembling "a tulip bud with the front leaf pulled out"?
text: Did you know that the music video for " It's OK I'm OK " was edited to make its singer appear naked?
text: Did you know that hot-dog vendor Dan Rossi has slept inside his cart overnight to preserve his spot in front of the Metropolitan Museum of Art ?
text: Did you know that He Jianshi used Chinese opera to advance a revolution against the Qing dynasty ?
text: Did you know that crab is served in school meals in Toyama Prefecture ?
text: Did you know that Aniello Prisco was shot to death while trying to extort a crime boss ?
text: Did you know that the rural village of Neath, New South Wales , had a population of three Tok Pisin speakers in 2021?
text: Did you know that Canadian microbiologist Patricia Taylor helped American diplomats hide in her house in Tehran during the Iran hostage crisis ?
text: Did you know that a " glomping circle" in 2008 reportedly lasted seven hours?
text: Did you know that Margaret Pargeter published 49 books in eleven years, with another book following eleven years later?
text: Did you know that the Holy See has been represented by an anime-style mascot ?
text: Did you know that college football player Ricot Joseph declined a full scholarship so that he could be a walk-on ?
text: Did you know that the headquarters of the Northern Ireland Prison Service were breached by protestors in 2003?
text: Did you know that Ukrainian journalist Victoria Roshchyna 's car was once fired on by Russian tanks?
text: Did you know that the owner of the De Vinne Press Building finalized his purchase of the building while in an elevator?
text: Did you know that Grizel Niven created "The Bessie", the Women's Prize for Fiction statuette, which a past winner called "ugly"?
text: Did you know that two of the victims and much of the aircraft involved in the crash of Western Air Lines Flight 636 were never removed from San Francisco Bay?
text: Did you know that a superintendent of the New Orleans Police Department posed as a corrupt officer during covert operations?
text: Did you know that The Lock-Up , an art gallery housed in a former police station, retains the graffiti drawn by prisoners in the holding cells and has incorporated it into a performative exhibition?
text: Did you know that Allison Reese has received millions of views for her impressions of Kamala Harris ?
text: Did you know that the embassy of the Philippines in Bucharest is the country's first mission in the Eastern Bloc ?
text: Did you know that the lyrics of Gigi Perez 's " Sailor Song " were criticized by far-right conservative Christian communities?
text: Did you know that the first Chinese driver to race in Formula One debuted at the 2022 Bahrain Grand Prix ?
text: Did you know that several major U.S. politicians have spread conspiracy theories about the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season ?
text: Did you know that Tenzin Doendrup , the 68th Je Khenpo and chief abbot of Bhutan, issued a decree to stop the practice of animal sacrifices?
text: Did you know that Manhood was Josh Hawley 's second book to be published by Regnery , after he was dropped by Simon & Schuster for his support of attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election ?
text: Did you know that Vivian Stranders , a British-born Jew, served as an officer in the Nazi SS?
text: Did you know that From Warsaw to Ojców , an 1897 Polish adventure and travel novel for young readers, was inspired by Jules Verne 's works but reflects Polish patriotic and educational values?
text: Did you know that a portrait engraver made the controversial decision to change a Sioux chief's war bonnet so that it would fit on the 1899 United States five-dollar silver certificate?
text: Did you know that Charli XCX once followed George Daniel into a toilet but stopped halfway, and later wrote the song " Talk Talk " about the experience?
text: Did you know that Rose O'Neill 's marriage to Hugh Roe O'Donnell united two powerful noble families that had been rivals for centuries?
text: Did you know that the practice of some Christians of making the lesser sign of the cross has been traced back to the 11th century?
text: Did you know that Frederick Prigg and his predecessor as secretary of the Provisional Government of Oregon were both doctors who drowned in a river at Oregon City just three years apart?
text: Did you know that a rainbow plaque marks the site of Peckham's Black Lesbian and Gay Centre ?
text: Did you know that one of the paintings sold by Beijing Hanhai was stolen by an emperor , and another was hidden in a well?
text: Did you know that the Korean War allowed Don Bragg to set a UCLA basketball record for the most rebounds by a varsity freshman, which stood for almost 40 years?
text: Did you know that the Indonesian pulp and paper industry collectively controls over 10 million hectares of land?
text: Did you know that Tore Skeie 's first book, written while he faced severe financial hardship, won him a prize of NOK 100,000?
text: Did you know that 1977's Typhoon Thelma was the most destructive event in Taiwan since World War II?
text: Did you know that Sammy Basso was the oldest known person with progeria ?
text: Did you know that the 2024 psychological horror game Mouthwashing utilises non-diegetic scene transitions that mimic glitches and crashes ?
text: Did you know that John W. Keogh killed an attorney to encourage redistricting ?
text: Did you know that Methuselah likes belly rubs?
text: Did you know that Toby Keith 's last recording before his death was a cover of Joe Diffie 's " Ships That Don't Come In " on the tribute album Hixtape: Vol. 3: Difftape ?
text: Did you know that swimmer Alex Portal and his brother Kylian Portal both won medals in the same event at the 2024 Paralympics?
text: Did you know that the Chinese community of Kota Kinabalu sponsored the creation of the Malaysia Monument just 20 days before it needed to be completed to mark the formation of Malaysia?
text: Did you know that Marine chaplain Francis W. Kelly was known as "Father Foxhole" for his presence on the front lines of the Pacific Theater ?
text: Did you know that in October 2024 Manawanui became the first Royal New Zealand Navy vessel to be lost in peacetime?
text: Did you know that self-help author Beth Kempton held positions at both the 2002 FIFA World Cup in Tokyo and the 2012 Summer Olympics in London?
text: Did you know that when the E-Defense was commissioned in 2005, it was the world's largest 3D earthquake shake table ?
text: Did you know that the Puck Building has two gilded Pucks ?
text: Did you know that America's first small-size silver certificate was referred to as a Funnyback ?
text: Did you know that the British Army deployed companies of aliens to France during the First World War?
text: Did you know that Cate Blanchett played 13 different characters in the multi-screen film installation Manifesto ?
text: Did you know that Marie Marcks sarcastically caricatured gender roles like no one before, according to Jutta Limbach ?
text: Did you know that the tenants of a New York City apartment building protested against its owner by going to a racetrack and betting on his horse?
text: Did you know that one of the last surviving women from Rapa Nui to receive traditional facial tattoos was queen consort Ana Eva Hei ?
text: Did you know that the Nualas ' 2015 novelty song "Yes 2 Love" was created to promote a yes vote ?
text: Did you know that Ivan Ivan played for the Eagles and the Eagles ?
text: Did you know that a member of the second Adrian Hasler cabinet was expelled in 2019 following an embezzlement scandal?
text: Did you know that after Liam and Noel Gallagher's band Oasis announced " the most controversial band reunion since the Sex Pistols' 1996 Filthy Lucre Tour ", Noel's daughter Anaïs Gallagher criticised some fans for ageism and sexism?
text: Did you know that oral repositories are individuals trusted with memorising a society's oral traditions , and have been termed "walking libraries"?
text: Did you know that David de Pomis published a trilingual Hebrew – Aramaic , Latin and Italian dictionary in 1587?
text: Did you know that Come In was recorded on a hands-free microphone attached to a pair of headphones?
text: Did you know that a poultry farmer was the first woman to compete for the Sovereign's Prize , the highest honour in British rifle shooting?
text: Did you know that Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures excludes mentions of Nazism that are present in the Indiana Jones films?
text: Did you know that Mitch Torres is a "self-proclaimed damper destroyer"?
text: Did you know that diverse fields study the mind , including psychology , neuroscience , cognitive science , and philosophy ?
text: Did you know that NFL player Muadianvita Kazadi viewed football as "war", according to a teammate?
text: Did you know that, despite Delibird being directly inspired by Santa Claus, TheGamer refused to give it the title of Christmas Pokémon?
text: Did you know that a German court's decision involving football stadiums may preclude Facebook from arbitrarily banning users?
text: Did you know that Yang Pao'an refused to forsake the Chinese Communist Party , reportedly even after a telephone call with Chiang Kai-shek ?
text: Did you know that despite being commonly found off the coast of Argentina, Diplodus argenteus is not named after the country?
text: Did you know that the music video for John Lennon 's " You Are Here ", issued half a century after the song was released, shows previously unseen footage of Lennon?
text: Did you know that politician Teleke Lauti unseated a former prime minister, was himself unseated by a future prime minister, and later ran again to replace a former prime minister?
text: Did you know that some Idaho mountain deathcamas are pollinated by carrion and flesh flies rather than bees?
text: Did you know that What a Merry-Go-Round closed with evil clowns cavorting around a carousel?
text: Did you know that the ghost of Margaret C. Waites is said to haunt an undergraduate suite at Harvard College's Cabot House , protecting her book collection?
text: Did you know that trunk-or-treating was created as a safer alternative to regular trick-or-treating ?
text: Did you know that Vincent Darré had a Parisian apartment decorated with skulls?
text: Did you know that the song " Haunted " "blends cuteness and spookiness"?
text: Did you know that the Australian spider Progradungula barringtonensis has been called a "ghost of Gondwana "?
text: Did you know that Brian David Gilbert released a series of monster-themed ABBA covers under the name AAAH!BBA ?
text: Did you know that the zombie film Get the Hell Out was shot at the currently abandoned Kaohsiung City Council Hall , which had neither water nor electricity?
text: Did you know that the Devil's Doorway is found in Wisconsin?
text: Did you know that during one of his Diddy parties , Sean Combs promised not to spill champagne on the Declaration of Independence ?
text: Did you know that the release of the top-level domain .zip was condemned by cyber-security experts?
text: Did you know that grand claims that the ruler of Mwene Muji once had imperial status were dismissed by Belgian colonial authorities ?
text: Did you know that John Mascarenhas simultaneously served as the chairman of his country's legislature and the president of their Olympic committee?
text: Did you know that Ekin Cheng agreed to make a cameo appearance in A Nail Clipper Romance after learning that it would be filmed in Hawaii?
text: Did you know that Emil Bove prosecuted Nicolás Maduro and defended Donald Trump ?
text: Did you know that a Florida radio station DJ's attempt to break a world record was foiled by blown transmitter tubes?
text: Did you know that The Sausages ' first sausage was filled with three courses and an espresso ?
text: Did you know that British war correspondent Ian Fyfe was killed on D-Day while landing in a glider with troops attacking the Merville Gun Battery ?
text: Did you know that the 1976 Philippine film Itim was described as "one of the most remarkable debuts in cinema history" in a 2022 retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art ?
text: Did you know that Phoebe Plummer was "unfortunate" to draw Christopher Hehir as judge when they stood trial over the Just Stop Oil Sunflowers protest ?
text: Did you know that the only death from the Belvidere Apollo Theatre collapse was the one audience member who bought a concert t-shirt from Crypta that night, according to their lead singer?
text: Did you know that the cover art of Music from the Merch Desk (2016–2023) was derived from bootleg merchandise?
text: Did you know that Michael O'Kane never received approval to begin constructing a building for the College of the Holy Cross ?
text: Did you know that in the 1980s, when Moturoa Island lost all its endangered kiwi to pests, experts reintroduced seven birds – today there could be as many as 300 kiwi on the island?
text: Did you know that Jill, Duchess of Hamilton , donated her body to science because "funerals are a bore"?
text: Did you know that a reviewer described Ceechynaa , who entered the UK singles chart earlier this month with " Peggy ", as "proudly waving the sexual liberation flag"?
text: Did you know that vitamin E was named "tocopherol" as it was identified as essential for live births in rats?
text: Did you know that in the 1950s Michel Klein opened one of the first veterinary practices in Paris?
text: Did you know that the sexual onomatopoeia puff-puff was censored in English releases of Dragon Quest until Dragon Quest XI ?
text: Did you know that newspaper publisher Jacob Frolich built trapdoors and hiding places in his house in case it was raided by Radical Republicans ?
text: Did you know that nearly 300 construction workers showed up at 8 am to continue building Chernobyl Reactors 5 and 6 , despite the Chernobyl disaster earlier that day?
text: Did you know that war correspondent Bernard Gray was killed while travelling as an unofficial passenger aboard a Royal Navy submarine during the Second World War?
text: Did you know that Good Gravy! , a Thanksgiving dinner –themed roller coaster, was first tested with a train full of plush turkeys?
text: Did you know that the style of Hermann Weyl 's Gruppentheorie und Quantenmechanik has been likened to "a smiling figure on horseback, cutting a clean way through ... with a swift bright sword"?
text: Did you know that international adult figure skating champion Naz Arıcı learned to skate at the age of 29?
text: Did you know that in 1967 two mathematicians published PhD dissertations independently disproving the same thirteen-year-old conjecture ?
text: Did you know that Shalom Nagar , executioner of war criminal and Nazi Party official Adolf Eichmann , said he was selected at random for the role?
text: Did you know that Kevin Roose wrote a viral article about artificial intelligence rhetoric after an AI bot attempted to convince him to leave his wife?
text: Did you know that Karl Thielscher began refereeing American football games less than a month after retiring from playing the sport professionally?
text: Did you know that between February and August 1918 the Petergofsky District mobilized more than 20 combat units for the Red Army ?
text: Did you know that a South Korean actor sold his belongings and went $7 million into debt to keep his amusement park running?
text: Did you know that a lost chronicle of the kings of Kashmir is attributed to the author Ratnākara ?
text: Did you know that a critic described GNX , after its surprise release, as Kendrick Lamar 's "greatest work" yet?
text: Did you know that ballet dancer Nina Tikhonova taught dance to children who had been orphaned during World War II?
text: Did you know that former adult actress Suzumi Suzuki 's book Gifted was nominated for the Akutagawa Prize in 2022?
text: Did you know that George Bogaars , as head of Singapore's Secret Branch, oversaw the detention of more than a hundred suspected communist sympathisers ?
text: Did you know that the Green Bay Packers won a snowy NFL playoff game by scoring six straight touchdowns after they had been losing 14–0 ?
text: Did you know that William C. Roberts had to resign a pastorate in Ohio because his wife's illness was believed to be curable if she returned to her home state?
text: Did you know that anarchism without adjectives has been described as an ecumenical or non-denominational form of anarchism ?
text: Did you know that on 26 December 1724 J. S. Bach directed the first performance of Christum wir sollen loben schon , BWV 121 , based on a hymn written by Martin Luther in 1524?
text: Did you know that actress Jane Barnes learned how to pilot a plane so that she could fly home to Massachusetts on her own?
text: Did you know that the largest IMAX cinema in the Southern Hemisphere is in Melbourne?
text: Did you know that Musa al-Gharbi argues that "symbolic capitalists" support social justice movements to amass social currency ?
text: Did you know that American president Zachary Taylor is mentioned in a poem about the conversion of Saint Paul ?
text: Did you know that Filipino violinist Gilopez Kabayao was nicknamed the "Mozart to the Barrios"?
text: Did you know that Ian Holm , who died in 2020, was "resurrected" to appear in Alien: Romulus through a combination of animatronics, computer-generated imagery, and artificial intelligence?
text: Did you know that NFL player Adrian Baril also was a "fat men's race" champion?
text: Did you know that the Philly Specials , formed by three football players from the Philadelphia Eagles , have recorded Christmas music with Stevie Nicks and Boyz II Men ?
text: Did you know that heavy spring rains caused a poor harvest of the Dickinson pumpkin , leading to a canned pumpkin shortage for Christmas in 2015?
text: Did you know that Holiday Seasoning was promoted with the release of holiday seasonings ?
text: Did you know that HMT Night Hawk was sunk on Christmas Day 1914 while trawling for mines off Scarborough, England?
text: Did you know that the National Gingerbread House Competition , despite its name, has featured gingerbread merry-go-rounds, sea monsters, and even the Statue of Liberty?
text: Did you know that Pflaumentoffel , edible figures made from prunes, were sold by children in German Christmas markets in the 19th century?
text: Did you know that " The Christmas Invasion " led to Christmas specials becoming a staple for Doctor Who ?
text: Did you know that A. krampus has been found living in southeastern Brazil?
text: Did you know that tourte de blettes , a sweet pie made with Swiss chard , is traditionally eaten in Nice on Christmas Eve?
text: Did you know that Casanova 's friend Edoardo Tiretta built a bazaar in India ?
text: Did you know that Christmas: A Biography states that, despite its Christian origins, Christmas has been mostly secular since its inception in the fourth century?
text: Did you know that Oh Hee-ok was the last surviving female Korean independence activist ?
text: Did you know that the Christmas carp traditionally swims in a bathtub for a few days before becoming Christmas Eve dinner?
text: Did you know that Italian anti-Mafia prosecutor Nicola Gratteri survived three assassination attempts within three weeks?
text: Did you know that in 2016 two thieves stole $350,000 worth of rare books in Oakland, California, and tried to sell some of them to Moe's Books nearby?
text: Did you know that energy executive Chris Wright once drank fracking fluid to prove that it was not dangerous?
text: Did you know that Dithapelo Keorapetse was named Speaker of the National Assembly of Botswana shortly after losing his bid for election to the legislature?
text: Did you know that the 1962 space-age pop album Latin-esque was recorded with halves of the orchestra separated by almost a city block to heighten its stereo effects?
text: Did you know that Bob Gandey founded a circus that continues to be operated by his descendants more than a century later?
text: Did you know that Hudson's Bay Company ships reserved special rooms for important Lower Chehalis visitors due to their key role in regional trade networks?
text: Did you know that referee Mike Hasenfratz acted in an ice hockey fight in Stay Tuned ?
text: Did you know that Planting a Rainbow has been praised for both its "deft use of colors" and the educational identification of seeds, bulbs, sprouts, and blossoms?
text: Did you know that David Bookbinder was Margaret Thatcher 's "least favourite local government leader"?
text: Did you know that entitativity refers to how "groupy" a group is?
text: Did you know that the creator of The Americans drew inspiration for the show from his time as a CIA officer and a 2010 Russian spy scandal ?
text: Did you know that Tjeerd van Andel was surprised to find heaps of giant clam shells around hot springs on his first dive to the Pacific ocean floor?
text: Did you know that art historians believe that Ellen Thesleff's self-portrait may have been drawn in a trance -like state?
text: Did you know that Charles Herman Allen , university administrator and American Civil War captain, opened the University of Wisconsin to female enrollment in 1863?
text: Did you know that during World War I the organ of evacuated Polish railway workers in Moscow denounced the trade unions of the Warsaw–Vienna railway as "separatists"?
text: Did you know that the Mingxing Film Company released more than 150 films in 16 years, but most are now lost?
text: Did you know that St. Gregory the Great Seminary was founded in a former juvenile mental hospital?
text: Did you know that Ritsuko Taho once had her students at Harvard University slaughter a chicken and turn its bones into a sculpture?
text: Did you know that Luo Shiwen led a secret cell of the Chinese Communist Party that negotiated better conditions for inmates at their concentration camp ?
text: Did you know that the Museiliha inscription hints at a border dispute between ancient Caesarea ad Libanum and Gigarta ?
text: Did you know that the fortune left by Zhu Baosan was believed to have been greatly diminished by his philanthropic activities?
text: Did you know that less than a day after his dad died, Brett Favre played in " one of the greatest games of his fabulous career "?
text: Did you know that a museum of tomato processing in Greece uses holographic mechanical fans to display images of workers?
text: Did you know that Shelley Luther was elected to the Texas House of Representatives four years after being imprisoned?
text: Did you know that the main cemetery of Mainz was established in 1803 and became the model for the Cimetière du Père-Lachaise in Paris?
text: Did you know that David Green published more than 200 research papers before his 18th birthday?
text: Did you know that the distant horse relative Palaeotherium was first misidentified as an amphibious animal, then as a canine?
text: Did you know that Nikolaus Mollyn was the first book printer in Riga , and the first to print a book in Latvian within the present-day territory of Latvia?
text: Did you know that in addition to millions murdered, Nazi crimes against children included compulsory sterilization , forced labor, forced institutionalization, medical experiments and Germanisation ?
text: Did you know that Chivas USA had eleven different managers over ten seasons ?
text: Did you know that literary critic Qian Xingcun brought several Communist writers into the Shanghai film industry?
text: Did you know that the clergy of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis were upset about the sale of Nazareth Hall Preparatory Seminary after its closure?
text: Did you know that Femke Bol successfully defended her 2021 title by winning the women's 400 metres at the 2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships ?
text: Did you know that Louis Abramson worked on the renovation of a building that he designed 57 years earlier?
text: Did you know that Fen Juhua became the "first of the lady knights in the Chinese cinema" after fighting for love in a 1925 film ?
text: Did you know that the offices of Hamm's Brewery in Saint Paul, Minnesota , were built on the site of the city's third cathedral ?
text: Did you know that Miles Rock served as chief of the commission that determined the disputed Guatemala–Mexico border ?
text: Did you know that the 2025 season of Inter Miami CF includes matches in the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup ?
text: Did you know that Anthony F. Ciampi fought his superiors to rebuild the College of the Holy Cross after it was destroyed by fire in 1852?
text: Did you know that a documentary film built around the final interview of K-pop star Sulli employs elements of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz as a framing device?
text: Did you know that Diane Leather was the first woman to run a mile in under five minutes?
text: Did you know that a cat, Timoshenko, joined the British submarine HMS Unruffled on twenty patrols during the Second World War?
text: Did you know that the 2007 Greensburg tornado had ten smaller tornadoes orbiting it?
text: Did you know that a music video for a song on the album Dostrotime was made with an oscilloscope ?
text: Did you know that the bacterium Ethanoligenens harbinense can produce hydrogen?
text: Did you know that Bob Hainlen , at the age of 22, was both a player and an assistant coach for a professional American football team?
text: Did you know that Izvestiya Askhabadskogo Soveta was the first Bolshevik newspaper published in present-day Turkmenistan?
text: Did you know that after he did not come home for dinner, James Michael Reardon 's assistant priests found that he had died in his basilica while praying?
text: Did you know that the area around Sams Creek was excluded from Kahurangi National Park when it was formed in 1996 due to gold-mining interests?
text: Did you know that Susan Finnegan was the first female head of the arachnids section at the Natural History Museum, London, but had to resign her job to marry?
text: Did you know that David Fishwick went from a £27.50-a-week pebbledashing job to becoming the biggest minibus supplier in Britain?
text: Did you know that modern Chinese drama was banned during the Cultural Revolution?
text: Did you know that American football player Rich Romer was selected three times as an All-American by Pizza Hut ?
text: Did you know that the medieval font of St Peter's Church, Stapenhill , was restored in 1973?
text: Did you know that as a nine-year-old, Anastasia Somoza lobbied U.S. president Bill Clinton ?
text: Did you know that Bini 's performance of " Cherry on Top " at KCON 2024 was the first act by a Filipino pop group at the event?
text: Did you know that French cellist Nicolas-Joseph Platel is considered to be the founder of the Belgian school of cello playing?
text: Did you know that Saint George fought a dragon at the Paradise Theater until both were stolen?
text: Did you know that the Upper Chehalis people adopted horses widely after their introduction, becoming known as "equestrian" compared to their coastal neighbors?
text: Did you know that an official investigation found the Fukushima nuclear accident was foreseeable and preventable?
text: Did you know that basketball player Trey McKenney made all fourteen of his free throws in St. Mary's Preparatory 's 2024 state championship victory?
text: Did you know that members of the Trade Union Opposition Federation stormed the Copenhagen Stock Exchange ?
text: Did you know that Arne Slettebak revitalised interest in the field of stellar rotation after it had been abandoned for nearly 15 years?
text: Did you know that of the 25 times the Green Bay Packers and Seattle Seahawks have played each other, 4 have come in the playoffs ?
text: Did you know that Amrita Sher-Gil painted a portrait of Helen Chaman Lall without expecting a fee?
text: Did you know that SZA's " Snooze " happens to be a sleeper hit?
text: Did you know that Zheng Zhegu urged his film students to bring their girlfriends when no women enrolled?
text: Did you know that the Green Bay Packers lost the 2014 NFC Championship Game and a spot in the Super Bowl after they were considered to have a 99.9-percent chance of victory?
text: Did you know that politician Thokchom Chandrasekhar Singh was jailed for 12 months for protesting in favour of restoring the Manipur Legislative Assembly ?
text: Did you know that the newspaper Qizil Tugh ( Red Banner ) provided a publishing platform for young Uyghur-language poets and writers in the Soviet Union?
text: Did you know that Gail Damerow was described by one magazine as "poultry's Cesar Millan "?
text: Did you know that both Catholic and Orthodox Christian democrats received a higher share of votes in Kazansky District than in any other district of Petrograd in the 1917 Russian elections ?
text: Did you know that in a 2024 game, college football player Jordan Watkins scored an Ole Miss –record five receiving touchdowns – even though he had never before had more than one?
text: Did you know that Haruki Murakami owns so many T-shirts that he published a book about them ?
text: Did you know that most of the contributors to the Emancipation Pictorial , a Chinese women's magazine, were men?
text: Did you know that Elin Falk caused a national controversy in 1913 with her proposals for reforming gymnastics in Swedish schools?
text: Did you know that the discovery of a new waltz attributed to Chopin was announced in October 2024?
text: Did you know that college basketball player Adou Thiero plays for the same head coach for whom his father played?
text: Did you know that match-three video games such as Candy Crush Saga are often considered to be Bejeweled clones?
text: Did you know that Hikari Kodama disguised herself with wigs during public performances because she went to a high school with strict rules?
text: Did you know that although three witnesses are typically needed in linguistic reconstruction , only two are necessary if borrowing and innovation can be ruled out?
text: Did you know that after seeing Taiwanese actor Mo Tzu-yi 's work, a director sought to inquire about him at a film market, only to find Mo standing right behind him?
text: Did you know that Wang Hanlun used proceeds from her company's only film to finalize her divorce?
text: Did you know that Benjamin Britten wanted the score of his An American Overture destroyed after it was rediscovered?
text: Did you know that Dr Disrespect 's first videos featured a bombastic "champion" trash-talking game-play footage?
text: Did you know that Cordova, Alabama , was hit by two tornadoes on the same day in 2011, the second of which was on the ground for more than two hours?
text: Did you know that Arthur France founded the Leeds West Indian Carnival , the first Caribbean carnival in Europe, in 1967?
text: Did you know that Spectrum HoloByte published Tetris without permission from the Soviet Union?
text: Did you know that a future World War II aircraft carrier was used as a hotel during the 7th National Eucharistic Congress in 1935?
text: Did you know that John Moore 's mother, after learning that UCLA 's student-body president was Black, said "this is where he's going to school"?
text: Did you know that Yangginu plotted to defeat Khan Wan to avenge his murdered father?
text: Did you know that to prepare for her role in The Last Dance , actress Michelle Wai learned to perform a Taoist funeral ritual traditionally performed only by men?
text: Did you know that the city council of Hamtramck , led by Mayor Amer Ghalib , banned the pride flag from publicly owned flagpoles?
text: Did you know that the death rate from adrenal crises can reach as high as 6 percent?
text: Did you know that Shane Connolly has provided flowers for two royal weddings and the coronation of Charles III?
text: Did you know that the Child Law Project reports on Ireland 's child-care system?
text: Did you know that U.S. Army chaplain Patrick Ryan celebrated a Mass of thanksgiving for 10,000 people after the liberation of Rome ?
text: Did you know that Perplexities after Escher , a composition for heckelphone , string quartet and double bass, is based on five graphic artworks by M. C. Escher ?
text: Did you know that Verificado 2018 was a fact-checking collaboration between at least 90 organizations to counter disinformation during the 2018 Mexican federal election ?
text: Did you know that Tommy Suggs recommended using Also sprach Zarathustra as his college football team 's entrance music, because he saw Elvis Presley do it first?
text: Did you know that "unusual choices" at Liliget Feast House included wind-dried salmon and pan-fried oolichans ?
text: Did you know that Rada Dyson-Hudson was denied academic tenure at Johns Hopkins University and Cornell University despite her academic record and capabilities?
text: Did you know that the Jiangwan Racecourse hosted horse races, a golf club, and prisoners of war?
text: Did you know that a manuscript of the New Testament was bound in the wrong order, which a scholar decried: "the bookbinder has messed everything up"?
text: Did you know that Doctor Who star Peter Capaldi was a fan of the series as a child?
text: Did you know that the backflip ban in figure skating was lifted in 2024 alongside other "somersault type jumps"?
text: Did you know that Bob Hobman recreated a possible sea journey by Palaeolithic humans after 130,000-year-old tools were found on the island of Crete ?
text: Did you know that Aucklanders have a reputation for making false earthquake reports on New Zealand's earthquake monitoring website GeoNet ?
text: Did you know that in his first electoral victory, Aaron Kennedy defeated the premier of New Brunswick ?
text: Did you know that " Vanishing " is the first song that Mariah Carey produced by herself?
text: Did you know that Kenneth Creer supported applying cosmology to geological problems?
text: Did you know that during World War II, Soviet atrocities against prisoners of war included the murder of tens of thousands of Polish soldiers in the Katyn massacre ?
text: Did you know that basketball player Charel Allen was a five-time Bulgarian Cup champion despite knowing only a few words of Bulgarian?
text: Did you know that coconut cups were believed to have medical benefits?
text: Did you know that a Syrian filmmaker repurposed footage from his first film in his last film in order to criticize his younger self?
text: Did you know that Celeste Caeiro 's actions led to the naming of the 1974 coup in Portugal as the Carnation Revolution ?
text: Did you know that Operation Blooming Onion uncovered instances of "modern-day slavery" amongst H-2A visa workers in the state of Georgia ?
text: Did you know that L'Attaque , the board game that became Stratego , was patented in 1908 by its designer, a 57-year-old woman ?
text: Did you know that the Australian Light Weight Air Warning Radar was once loaded using canoes and later manhandled up a 200-foot cliff?
text: Did you know that Thomas Sewell said that in 2017 he attempted to recruit the perpetrator of the 2019 Christchurch mosque shootings into the Lads Society ?
text: Did you know that while supporting a law easing restrictions on abortion in Gabon , Prime Minister Rose Christiane Raponda said "it is not yet the right time"?
text: Did you know that " the world's loneliest duck " arrived on the remote Pacific island country of Niue in 2018?
text: Did you know that David Hilchen played a key role in the establishment of Renaissance humanism in the area of the present-day Baltic states ?
text: Did you know that Gutidara is played with balls made from water buffalo horns?
text: Did you know that the 1931 Barcelona rent strike resulted in 18 deaths, dozens of injuries and arrests, and an agreement on the reduction of rents?
text: Did you know that several local residents mistook the production set of Miss Shampoo for a real shop and entered during filming?
text: Did you know that a columnist described Bern Shanks as "the most open and accessible state wildlife chief in memory"?
text: Did you know that Ngiam Tong Dow negotiated Singapore's first and largest purchase of gold from South Africa in 1968 by comparing two halves of a United States one-dollar bill ?
text: Did you know that Tiny Glade was developed by a two-person studio and was the fourth most-played demo on 2024's Steam Next Fest?
text: Did you know that Chen Qiyou , a would-be assassin, later became part of the Chinese Committee for World Peace?
text: Did you know that Annie Huggett , aged 103, was the oldest living suffragette at the time of her death in 1996?
text: Did you know that cellist Rohan de Saram 's background as a geta bera drummer inspired Luciano Berio 's Sequenza XIV ?
text: Did you know that a priest canceled 1,600 subscriptions to The Catholic Bulletin over a front-page photograph of nuns dancing?
text: Did you know that comic-opera performer Celie Ellis Turner pursued a stage career against her family's wishes?
text: Did you know that the oldest surviving wooden lightship , dating to 1840, is now an Airbnb property?
text: Did you know that Henry Parnell was the youngest British parliamentarian to die in the First World War ?
text: Did you know that after signing a peace agreement in 1919 , Azerbaijan prepared another invasion of southern Armenia that was foiled by a rebellion in Nagorno-Karabakh ?
text: Did you know that schoolteacher Thomas Curnow used a red scarf to stop a train from derailing, leading to the capture of notorious outlaw Ned Kelly ?
text: Did you know that the political opposition in Saint Kitts and Nevis has viewed the national broadcaster, ZIZ , as a government mouthpiece?
text: Did you know that Richard Du Cann acted for the defence in the Lady Chatterley's Lover obscenity trial and the trial of the MP John Stonehouse ?
text: Did you know that the funds from the sale of burial lots at Cathedral Cemetery in Philadelphia were intended for the construction of the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul ?
text: Did you know that Mary Robertson was the first woman to receive a Doctor of Science degree in medicine from the University of Cape Town ?
text: Did you know that Karl Amadeus Hartmann completed his Hungarian-influenced composition Kammerkonzert during his period of inner emigration after Hitler's seizure of power?
text: Did you know that one Canadian football announcer refused to mention Tony Pajaczkowski in game broadcasts for several years?
text: Did you know that Augustus Pugin called St John the Evangelist Church, Islington , a "deformity"?
text: Did you know that residents of Port Mercer, New Jersey , profited from passing vessels by dragging their tow mules into the Delaware and Raritan Canal and having local boys "rescue" them for a fee?
text: Did you know that in 1809, two ministers leading the British war effort against Napoleon fought a duel against each other ?
text: Did you know that in his first year in the NFL , Lou Rash was told he was released and began flying back home, but was told upon landing that the release was a mistake and he was to return?
text: Did you know that muthkwey was not harvested or walked over, because oral tradition held that it had grown from the droppings of a two-headed serpent?
text: Did you know that the Mongol princess Al-Altan was rumoured to have poisoned her brother Ögedei Khan ?
text: Did you know that the Saybrook Colony was sold to Connecticut for an annual payment of 180 pounds of equal quantities of wheat, peas, and either rye or barley?
text: Did you know that future Olympic weightlifter Chiu Yuh-chuan received a job offer in marketing after media coverage about his difficulty securing employment?
text: Did you know that out of 148 candidates in the 1957 Manipur Territorial Council election there was only one woman?
text: Did you know that basketball coach Trisha Stafford-Odom left the Eagles to join the Eagles ?
text: Did you know that The Crystal was one of few publications in early-20th-century China that regularly covered same-sex intimacy?
text: Did you know that Hanif Kureshi transformed shadows cast by the Sun into street art?
text: Did you know that Gigarta , a settlement mentioned by Strabo and Pliny the Elder , is believed to have been located on the slopes of Mount Lebanon , although its exact location remains under debate?
text: Did you know that Al LeBoeuf was diagnosed with a rare condition in 2012 from an injury that he suffered in 1985?
text: Did you know that the Swedish broadcaster organising the Eurovision Song Contest 1975 refused to allow the contest to be shown in Chile, as a protest against the country's military dictatorship?
text: Did you know that the Polish manga and anime fandom arose in the 1990s and now numbers over 100,000 people?
text: Did you know that Frank A. Kimball brought a transcontinental rail terminus to National City, California , in exchange for thousands of acres of land?
text: Did you know that Aldous Huxley developed his " feelies " in response to the emergence of " talkies "?
text: Did you know that a senior colonel with 30 years' experience in North Korean intelligence agencies defected to South Korea in 2014?
text: Did you know that an underground tunnel between two houses in what is now Jugtown Historic District was used to hide fugitive slaves?
text: Did you know that when John of Montfort was captured in 1341 during the Breton Civil War , his wife took command of the Breton army?
text: Did you know that Sehome was an incorporated town for only three years?
text: Did you know that five of the six people killed in the 2011 Cullman–Arab tornado were members of the same family?
text: Did you know that Ornithoprion was studied primarily using X-rays of its fossils?
text: Did you know that the author of Oh My Mother! has written about the phenomenon of giving Asian-American girls the name "Connie"?
text: Did you know that the Campo Valdés Roman baths were rediscovered during the construction of a sewer system in 1903?
text: Did you know that Karen Tei Yamashita realized the structure of her novel, I Hotel , by cutting, folding, and writing on ten cardboard cubes, each representing a year in the book?
text: Did you know that Carrlyn Bathe met her husband after he sent her gear from his clothing brand?
text: Did you know that due to the near-miss effect , gamblers may mistake a game of luck for a game of skill?
text: Did you know that tacklers "bounced off" Chauncey Archiquette "as if he were a brick wall"?
text: Did you know that the author of the comic book Timeless Voyage was the leader of a UFO religion ?
text: Did you know that Chief Constable James Smart flooded police courts with over 17,000 cases to prove the impracticality of leaving homeowners with the responsibility for lighting  stairs?
text: Did you know that an Indiana university recently argued in court that The Silver Veil and the Golden Gate , a 1914 painting, was too modern for their art collection?
text: Did you know that Piri Reis did not map Antarctica in the sixteenth century?
text: Did you know that although no people died in the 1984 Southland floods , about 12,000 sheep perished?
text: Did you know that while conducting research for Kingdom of Characters , author Jing Tsu visited archives across multiple countries and continents?
text: Did you know that Patriarch Amalric was, according to the archbishop of Tyre, "reasonably well educated but bereft of intelligence and virtually useless"?
text: Did you know that according to The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction , the 1913 Polish novel The Cross and the Crescent is "perhaps the first example" of the genre of military science fiction in Polish literature?
text: Did you know that the director for Yuzuru Hanyu 's Echoes of Life Tour choreographed the 2016 Summer Olympics closing ceremony ?
text: Did you know that the MrBeast Lab toy line first debuted in a pop-up store in the shape of an overturned tanker truck carrying toxic waste?
text: Did you know that Peel's Cut , a watercourse in Staffordshire, lasted more than 100 years longer than the mill it was excavated to power?
text: Did you know that no actual voting took place in the 1939 Liechtenstein general election ?
text: Did you know that following its deconsecration , the Church of Santa Maria Maggiore in Venice and its grounds have been used as a stable, a tobacco warehouse, and a prison?
text: Did you know that television director Diana Edwards-Jones introduced earpieces to permit direct communication between a control room and newsreaders?
text: Did you know that St Francis of Assisi Church, Notting Hill , contains a font designed by John Francis Bentley and in which he was later baptised?
text: Did you know that the 1983 Spanish floods were the most economically damaging in Spain until the 2024 Spanish floods ?
text: Did you know that the medieval Castle Knob was the site of a Cold War nuclear monitoring station?
text: Did you know that Zhou Houkun wrote a thesis on the use of bamboo to reinforce concrete?
text: Did you know that Burrito Express began shipping out its burritos by mail because of demand from former customers who had moved away from California?
text: Did you know that weightlifter Wu Tsai-fu drank six huge glasses of beer to help himself urinate for a drug test?