Did you know? Facts from Wikipedia, 2023

text: Did you know that David Bowie frequently updated the lyrics for his song " Young Americans " to keep them contemporary?
text: Did you know that in 1991, Juan López Mella was the first Spanish rider to achieve a podium place in the Superbike World Championship ?
text: Did you know that after complaints of A Pickle for the Knowing Ones lacking punctuation, the author published a second edition with full pages of punctuation in the appendix?
text: Did you know that in 1998, the Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR received the Guinness World Record for the most expensive production car?
text: Did you know that the 1995 dedication ceremony for the Faces of War Memorial included missing-man flyovers ?
text: Did you know that fossils are included in Polystoechotites due to being poorly fossilized, rather than due to relation?
text: Did you know that politician Kalervo Kummola introduced karaoke to Finland?
text: Did you know that Indian Carnatic music vocalist R. K. Padmanabha teaches group singing predominantly to women?
text: Did you know that a targeting penalty that caused the disqualification of an Arkansas player during overtime of the 2022 Liberty Bowl was overturned by the NCAA the next day?
text: Did you know that Fernando Cajías , who belongs to the first generation of professional historians in Bolivia, composed part of history academia's " Mirista wing"?
text: Did you know that a mercury spill occurred at Agua Fria High School when students discovered and started playing with an unsecured supply of the element?
text: Did you know that industrial designer Cesar Vergara started designing trains because he "thought most were awful looking"?
text: Did you know that the Three Tuns , a 17th-century pub in Alcester , has been left roofless since a 2021 fire?
text: Did you know that Solihin G. P. was anecdotally asleep when he was announced as the commander of the Hasanuddin Military Region ?
text: Did you know that the Phoenixonian Institute was the first African-American high school in California?
text: Did you know that Oscar Ortiz continued his 2019 presidential campaign even after his own running mate asked him to withdraw?
text: Did you know that of up to 300 bullets fired in the Ash Street shootout between U.S. Army Rangers and alleged drug dealers, none were reported to have hit anyone?
text: Did you know that before Paul Goodman became known for his views on education, he wrote an autobiographical novel about a teacher's sexual relationship with his student?
text: Did you know that Piotr Sierzputowski and Tomasz Wiktorowski each coached Iga Świątek to win a French Open title?
text: Did you know that the đàn tre uses an olive oil can to make music?
text: Did you know that when Nashville 's Eighth Avenue South Reservoir ruptured in 1912, one family was swept away while still lying in bed?
text: Did you know that when Brigadier Leonard Parrington ordered Sergeant Jack Hinton to surrender, Hinton told Parrington to "go and jump in the bloody lake"?
text: Did you know that the demolition of the Shrine of Husayn's Head , probably the most important Shi'a Muslim shrine in Israel, may have been related to efforts to transfer Palestinians out of the country ?
text: Did you know that as a last-minute substitute in a premiere performance at Oper Frankfurt , Elena Manistina sang from the side while the assistant director mimed onstage?
text: Did you know that the agent at 14th Place station was the target of an attempted murder?
text: Did you know that although he was a former Indonesian prime minister , Soekiman Wirjosandjojo was not arrested during a political purge as he was considered a non-threat?
text: Did you know that the now-drained lake Tarn Wadling was famous as a liminal place where the spectre of Guinevere 's dead mother appeared to her and Gawain in The Awntyrs off Arthure ?
text: Did you know that David Burbank , a dentist, founded Burbank, California ?
text: Did you know that Arab troops under King Faisal missed the 24 January 1917 capture of Wejh by two days because they had been celebrating the capture of £20,000 in gold?
text: Did you know that the Daughters of the American Revolution opposed Marjorie Lynch 's nomination to a government post due to her birth in Britain?
text: Did you know that the New Beehive Inn in Bradford, England, was "a rare example of a public house built by a local authority"?
text: Did you know that during Matt Lanter 's audition for Star Wars: The Clone Wars , he was told that he was going to play Deak Starkiller even though he was actually going to play Anakin Skywalker ?
text: Did you know that the Sangage Sheikhdom was the last holdout of native Swahili resistance to Portuguese colonization in northern Mozambique?
text: Did you know that author John Neal said reading too much of Logan would kill you?
text: Did you know that the case Lewis Galoob Toys, Inc. v. Nintendo of America, Inc. was considered essential to the future of video game modding in the United States in 1992?
text: Did you know that Louis Pasteur 's 1859 experiment is widely seen as having disproved the theory of spontaneous generation ?
text: Did you know that, before same-sex unions were legally recognised in the UK , the London Partnership Register allowed nearly 1,000 couples to celebrate their relationships?
text: Did you know that modern sources believe that the first Catilinarian conspiracy was fake?
text: Did you know that Kuchipudi exponent Maddali Usha Gayatri choreographed a 12-hour ballet that was performed by a troupe involving 12 of her disciples?
text: Did you know that employees claimed to have temporarily shut down an Arkansas radio station over not receiving paychecks?
text: Did you know that in a tennis match against Stefanos Tsitsipas, Daniil Medvedev called the umpire "a small cat"?
text: Did you know that Amdek Corporation , a popular manufacturer of computer monitors in the 1980s, started out as a reseller of car radio components?
text: Did you know that before pursuing a career in music, Lauren Jenkins was the host of a wrestling television show?
text: Did you know that the manga series Sora ga Suki! depicted two male characters kissing each other although it was a taboo for manga in the 1970s?
text: Did you know that the 2020 Colonial Pipeline oil spill was discovered by two teenagers?
text: Did you know that W. A. F. J. Tumbelaka once expelled his children from the University of Indonesia after they failed to pass an evaluation?
text: Did you know that three blocks near Stampede Park were transformed into a destroyed city for the first episode of The Last of Us ?
text: Did you know that the wine cellar of New York City's Barclay Hotel is on the second floor?
text: Did you know that Gogu Rădulescu , a member of the Romanian Communist Party central committee, was allegedly spied on by his colleagues through Lăutari performers, called upon to "sing him the blues"?
text: Did you know that although Andrzej Żuławski 's film Possession is referred to as a psychological drama and horror, its genre is still a matter of controversy?
text: Did you know that Thin Lizzy 's debut single only sold 283 copies?
text: Did you know that Kakusan-ni was the founding abbess of a Buddhist convent that was a refuge for women running away from their husbands?
text: Did you know that Phineas Gage was buried in Lone Mountain Cemetery twice, once without his head, before being relocated still without his head?
text: Did you know that Jessica Martin has played both a punk werewolf and the voice of the Queen in Doctor Who ?
text: Did you know that Burlington Union Station is home to winged monkeys ?
text: Did you know that the work of Danish plant physiologist Peter Boysen Jensen paved the way to the discovery of the plant growth hormone, auxin ?
text: Did you know that the lobby of New York's 630 Ninth Avenue is decorated with stylized movie cameras, evoking the building's original purpose?
text: Did you know that Sosates was described as the "Jewish Homer ", but all of his works are lost?
text: Did you know that health economist Selma Mushkin estimated in the early 1970s that up to 50 percent of poor children in Washington, D.C., were affected by lead poisoning ?
text: Did you know that after the release of Enola Holmes in 2020, the original author 's estate sued Netflix, claiming that it violated copyright laws because it depicted Sherlock Holmes as having emotions?
text: Did you know that Buffalo 's band, cheerleaders, and radio crew were unable to make the trip to the 2022 Camellia Bowl due to a winter storm ?
text: Did you know that a new parasite was described from a certain shrew 's feces?
text: Did you know that Obliskomzap People's Commissar for Public Charity V. L. Mukha resigned in protest over the dispersing of the First All-Belarusian Congress ?
text: Did you know that Hindu religious leader Siddeshwar Swami declined the Padma Shri , India's fourth-highest civilian honor?
text: Did you know that the mass Messe in A by Christopher Tambling , originally set for high voices, proved so popular that a four-part version was commissioned?
text: Did you know that American football player Joe Hall , whose position was running back , weighed up to 340 pounds (150 kg) during his career?
text: Did you know that Group A of the 2006 FIFA World Cup featured the highest-scoring opening game in World Cup history since the competition began using a single match opening format?
text: Did you know that Centre College president Milton C. Moreland wrote his honors thesis about the Nag Hammadi library ?
text: Did you know that Tolkien's aunt lived in Bag End ?
text: Did you know that Marlis Rahman was sworn in as Governor of West Sumatra in a garage?
text: Did you know that John Lennon believed that the Rolling Stones ' 1978 hit " Miss You " was based on a sped-up version of his 1974 song " Scared "?
text: Did you know that Philip Wodehouse spent four months chasing after HMS Peterel across the Mediterranean before catching up with the ship and taking over command from Bartholomew James ?
text: Did you know that American first lady Lou Henry Hoover secretly sent money to families in need during the Great Depression ?
text: Did you know that the novel Anon Pls. is based on the author 's real-life experience going viral on Instagram?
text: Did you know that the Iowa Colored Cowboys played softball for audiences of over a thousand people, in an atmosphere similar to a Harlem Globetrotters show?
text: Did you know that Vice-Admiral Gerald Marescaux was reprimanded for wearing pyjamas?
text: Did you know that the 2022 Gasparilla Bowl was the first edition of the game to feature two Power Five teams?
text: Did you know that when Australian Brihony Dawson debuted as the first non-binary host of reality TV franchise The Challenge , they decided not to imitate the "ominous" style of the U.S. host?
text: Did you know that the Japanese male–male romance magazine June was originally pitched to its publisher as a "mildly pornographic magazine for women"?
text: Did you know that the cremated remains of AIDS activist Ortez Alderson were thrown onto the South Lawn of the White House in the ACT UP Ashes Action of 1992?
text: Did you know that in November 2022 the Supreme Court of New Zealand ruled that the voting age of 18 was unjustified age discrimination in Make It 16 Incorporated v Attorney-General ?
text: Did you know that Ted Danson 's role in " Somewhere Else ", an episode of The Good Place , featured a nod to his previous role as a bartender ?
text: Did you know that Isabel Cooper painted live snakes while holding them in her hand?
text: Did you know that after being removed from his post as governor due to a corruption case, Djoko Munandar was later found not guilty?
text: Did you know that in Freedom & Civilization , an anthropological analysis of the concept of freedom, Bronisław Malinowski argues for the creation of a world government ?
text: Did you know that Sandra Dombrowski was the first female to referee an IIHF World Women's Championship gold-medal game?
text: Did you know that a construction worker working on the Great World MRT station died after an excavator's bucket dislodged and fell on him?
text: Did you know that Sears heiress Edith Rosenwald Stern organized a women's broom brigade against political corruption in New Orleans?
text: Did you know that the Leedy Manufacturing Company of Indianapolis, Indiana, was at one point the largest manufacturer of drums in the world?
text: Did you know that Ming-dynasty physician Miao Xiyong used a virgin boy's urine to treat a stroke patient?
text: Did you know that the January 2023 election of the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives was the longest speaker election since December 1859 – February 1860?
text: Did you know that PeopleSound was Europe's most visited music streaming site in 2000, and had offered any artist £100 for each song they uploaded?
text: Did you know that American football linebacker Segun Olubi grew up in New Jersey, Minnesota, Arizona, England, and California, and attended four different colleges in Idaho, California, and Arkansas?
text: Did you know that according to a critic, Odysseus, Verbrecher portrays Odysseus with post-traumatic stress disorder ?
text: Did you know that nearby homeowners believed the tower of a TV station in Arkansas was responsible for "a bad effect on the peace and health of the citizens"?
text: Did you know that St Mary's Anglican Church, Busselton , Australia, has been a part of six dioceses , namely Canterbury , Calcutta , Sydney , Adelaide , Perth and Bunbury ?
text: Did you know that Scottish scientists attempted to create a carrot-based substitute for carbon fibre ?
text: Did you know that Elisabeth Waterhouse founded the National Chamber Music Course summer school in 1974 and has managed it since?
text: Did you know that Soviet cruiser Vasily Chapayev was ordered to sail on 24 December 1976, but its crew refused to comply, causing the removal of its senior officers?
text: Did you know that Dawid Celt was Agnieszka Radwańska 's hitting partner before he became her domestic partner?
text: Did you know that the actor who played Screech on Saved by the Bell portrayed Harvey Weinstein in a music video for the song " Kill All the Things "?
text: Did you know that comedian Frankie Boyle 's debut novel Meantime is about a Glaswegian drug addict investigating his friend's death?
text: Did you know that Jiří Kylián had all the dancers in his ballet Bella Figura appear topless to equalise men and women?
text: Did you know that Canadian artist Tom Forrestall spent six months painting his own car?
text: Did you know that after Archimedes first defined convex curves , mathematicians lost interest in their analysis until the 19th century, more than two millennia later?
text: Did you know that British architect Diane Haigh transformed one historic building into an art gallery and another into a hospice?
text: Did you know that Dana Holgorsen coached Houston in the 2022 Independence Bowl while wearing a jacket that honored Mike Leach , his late coach and mentor?
text: Did you know that Liu Ji'en was assassinated just 60 days after being crowned the emperor of the Northern Han ?
text: Did you know that the developers of Sonic felt the series' linear design contained "little room for evolution" so they decided to make Sonic Frontiers an open world game?
text: Did you know that Governor Miguel Barbosa Huerta said that his predecessor's death in office was a punishment from God – and then died in office himself?
text: Did you know that Bothie was the only dog to "set paw" on both the North and South poles ?
text: Did you know that an NFL scheduling decision forced ESPN to change the kickoff times and television networks of the 2022 Las Vegas Bowl and the 2022 New Mexico Bowl ?
text: Did you know that Nobel laureate Thomas Mann reportedly did not want his Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man to be translated into English during his lifetime due to its chauvinistic content?
text: Did you know that Ariana Orrego was the first Peruvian gymnast to compete at the Olympic Games?
text: Did you know that the cold pad batch method halves the amount of water needed to dye cotton with reactive dyes ?
text: Did you know that the Big Stan drill rig is claimed to be the largest vehicle-mounted drilling rig in the United States?
text: Did you know that the wealth of bakers in ancient Rome may have contributed to them receiving a negative reputation?
text: Did you know that Charles F. Barlow helped to fund his medical education with his magic act, The Great Barloni ?
text: Did you know that R. J. Mitchell was the lead designer of the Supermarine Spitfire ?
text: Did you know that Marshall ended a three-game college football bowl losing streak with its win in the 2022 Myrtle Beach Bowl ?
text: Did you know that hot springs at Aachen nurtured its 1,000-year-old textile industry ?
text: Did you know that before Sarah Elmaleh voiced the player character in the video game Anthem , developed by BioWare , she voiced characters in a mod of an earlier BioWare game?
text: Did you know that the Loddon Bridge disaster , which killed three people, led to changes in how falsework was managed on British construction sites?
text: Did you know that because of dotations made by Napoleon to his supporters, the Kingdom of Westphalia was never fiscally solvent under French rule?
text: Did you know that Andrew Leake was called "Queen Anne's handsome captain"?
text: Did you know that The Man Without Talent is an I-novel , a genre of semi-autobiographical confessional literature that has been popular in Japan since the early twentieth century?
text: Did you know that Timo Meier became the first player in San Jose Sharks franchise history to score five goals in one game when he was 25?
text: Did you know that electric organs are composed of stacks of specialised cells that can generate electricity?
text: Did you know that the South Australian Labor politician Ernest Roberts served two tours in South Africa during the Second Boer War ?
text: Did you know that the founders of New York City's Circle in the Square Theatre had a total of $320 when they leased an inn in 1951?
text: Did you know that Nina de Creeft Ward worked on art that resembles corpses of extinct and endangered species to show "how people have caused a scourge to the balance of nature"?
text: Did you know that an old cookbook recommends eating tiger meat to ward off tigers?
text: Did you know that after Jim Sheddan ditched his Hawker Typhoon in the North Sea upon it being damaged by anti-aircraft fire, he spent 19 hours in an inflatable dinghy?
text: Did you know that Bulkboeken ('bulk books') were cheap reprints of Dutch literary classics, published from 1971 to the late 1990s, and again from 2007?
text: Did you know that the 2022 Yangtse clash saw Chinese and Indian troops fight hand-to-hand with melee weapons on a high-elevation ridgeline that formed their frontier in the area ?
text: Did you know that Elie Honig obtained the convictions of more than 100 members of the American Mafia , including members of the Genovese and Gambino crime families ?
text: Did you know that the New Zealand Geographic Board initially rejected the name of the Garden of Eden Ice Plateau for being biblical in origin?
text: Did you know that Riddiculous riddlemaster Henry Lewis has appeared in The Play That Goes Wrong , Peter Pan Goes Wrong , Magic Goes Wrong , and The Goes Wrong Show ?
text: Did you know that statistics for the roller coaster Steel Curtain were announced through a scratch card?
text: Did you know that the Kill Bill films inspired SZA to write a song about murdering her ex-boyfriend ?
text: Did you know that the president of his own party criticized the speed at which members of the Congress of Puebla moved to appoint Sergio Salomón Céspedes as the substitute governor?
text: Did you know that the luxury passenger steamer Stephen Furness was taken into Royal Navy service during the First World War and was sunk by a U-boat, with the loss of more than 100 lives?
text: Did you know that Pap of Armenia survived an assassination attempt by Roman legions during a battle, but was later murdered by the Romans during a feast?
text: Did you know that the Communist Opposition was the most popular slate in the 1931 Czechoslovak municipal election in Unhošť ?
text: Did you know that American professor Emerson Charles Denny co-published the Nelson–Denny Reading Test in 1930, which has parts held at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History ?
text: Did you know that according to Ren Xiaoping , the first reference to a body swap occurs in the Chinese short story " Judge Lu ", in which the titular character performs a head transplant on his friend's wife?
text: Did you know that Robert Zollinger was a surgeon and an avid rose grower, serving as president of both the American Surgical Association and the American Rose Society ?
text: Did you know that Russian money, known as qiang tie by locals, was used as legal currency in some regions of China for decades?
text: Did you know that Chekri Ganem 's play Antar was described as the most significant display of Arab nationalism organized outside the Arab world?
text: Did you know that Luis Miguel 's chance meeting with Juan Luis Guerra led to Guerra writing the song " Hasta Que Me Olvides " on a napkin?
text: Did you know that Innokenty Fedenev , who was an Old Bolshevik , inspired one of the characters in How the Steel Was Tempered , a novel he helped to get published?
text: Did you know that the Frye Fire decimated the population of the already endangered Mount Graham red squirrel in Arizona?
text: Did you know that Romanian poet Dimitrie Stelaru said that he once traveled to Paris by truck, adding "I hardly remember anything, I was drunk the whole time"?
text: Did you know that the 1601 medical text Zhenjiu dacheng recommends acupuncture -based cures for mental illness?
text: Did you know that Park Ji-hyun helped to expose an online sex-crime ring and later became the interim co-chair of the Democratic Party of Korea at the age of 26?
text: Did you know that the Aesculapian Club , founded in Edinburgh in 1773, still meets twice a year?
text: Did you know that the Glock switch is a device that can turn a handgun into a machine gun ?
text: Did you know that Liz Shore 's nomination to be Chief Medical Officer of the United Kingdom was vetoed by Margaret Thatcher because of Shore's husband's political affiliation?
text: Did you know that the Allegheny river cruiser can be accurately identified by holding it or by studying its genitalia?
text: Did you know that the Los Angeles Rams roster features T. J. Carter and T. J. Carter ?
text: Did you know that Sybil Thorndike was known as Britain's leading tragedienne?
text: Did you know that a 1987 march attended by about 20,000 protestors in Forsyth County, Georgia , has been called one of the largest civil rights demonstrations since the civil rights movement ?
text: Did you know that the ferry General Joe Potter at Walt Disney World is named in honor of Major General William Everett Potter ?
text: Did you know that Japanese bookstore employees recommended Candy Color Paradox as one of the best yaoi manga titles in 2016?
text: Did you know that Will Arbery 's view that the media shallowly examined supporters of Donald Trump after the 2016 presidential election crystallized Arbery's desire to write a play ?
text: Did you know that the relatively low death toll of 100 of the 1997 Bojnurd earthquake was attributed to a foreshock and most residents being outdoors?
text: Did you know that the Los Angeles Salsa , from the United States, attempted to join a Mexican soccer league ?
text: Did you know that Lord Cottenham resigned from MI5 during the Second World War, as he did not support the war with Germany?
text: Did you know that the BK inequality was used to identify implausibly lucky Florida Lottery winners, whose involvement in illegal activities was later confirmed by investigations?
text: Did you know that after Deutsche Bahn built Berlin's central railway station according to plans that had been altered against the original architect Meinhard von Gerkan ' s wishes, he sued them, and won?
text: Did you know that the Argentina and Netherlands national football teams have played each other at every other FIFA World Cup since 1998 ?
text: Did you know that Don Luce led a group of Americans to a secret part of a South Vietnamese prison where inmates were kept in squalor in what were called "tiger cages"?
text: Did you know that the Blemyomachia is an epic poem describing a historical clash between the Roman Empire and the Blemmyes in the Nile valley?
text: Did you know that the city of Palo Alto, California , is named after a big tree ?
text: Did you know that to comply with a law that restricted liquor sales near churches, the Peninsula New York placed its cocktail lounge up a flight of stairs and down a long hallway?
text: Did you know that Shigeru Ohmori and his team took half a year to design the grass in Pokémon Sword and Shield ?
text: Did you know that in 2019, the Canadian government's Translation Bureau began providing translation services in Dene , East Cree , Plains Cree , and Mohawk ?
text: Did you know that Robert Rattenbury said to his student Geoffrey Kirk : "Good Heavens! Well, I don't suppose I shall be seeing you again"?
text: Did you know that the construction of the Botaş Saros FSRU Terminal in the Gulf of Saros , Turkey, continued despite a court-ordered stay of execution ?
text: Did you know that illustrator Rudy Nappi based his cover art for the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories on summaries provided by his wife, who actually read the books?
text: Did you know that Fucking Trans Women associates erectile dysfunction with pleasure?
text: Did you know that Ismail Suko was elected governor of Riau in 1985, then forced to resign before taking office?
text: Did you know that Eastern Michigan 's only bowl-game victory before defeating San Jose State in the 2022 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl was against San Jose State in the 1987 California Bowl ?
text: Did you know that campaigning by climate activist Kimiko Hirata halted plans to build 17 new coal-fired power plants following the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan?
text: Did you know that the only known specimen of the Cretaceous lizard Carsosaurus contains preserved embryos?
text: Did you know that Anglo-Indian sprinter Kenneth Powell was the first sportsperson from Karnataka to win the Arjuna Award ?
text: Did you know that the Casablanca Protocol was the only binding instrument of the Arab League that addressed the status of Palestinian refugees ?
text: Did you know that exactly how "man of mystery" Max Wenner fell from an airliner flying over Belgium remains a mystery?
text: Did you know that Italian designer Livio Castiglioni was the elder brother of Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni , sons of sculptor Giannino Castiglioni ?
text: Did you know that an internet meme about the nonexistent film Goncharov inspired more than 500 fan fiction works about the film?
text: Did you know that the Ohio Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church admonished pastor John Swanel Inskip for allowing men and women to sit together at church?
text: Did you know that forest defenders sat in trees at the Old Atlanta Prison Farm to Stop Cop City ?
text: Did you know that París Galán , who introduced a style of drag performance in Bolivia, became the first-ever transgender individual to win elective office in the country?
text: Did you know that Called Up Sent Down: The Bevin Boys' War describes the experiences of young men conscripted to work as coal miners in Britain during World War II?
text: Did you know that when asked by reporters why he was retiring, U.S. Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall replied: "What's wrong with me? I'm old. I'm getting old and coming apart"?
text: Did you know that the character Kurama was inspired by a friend of manga creator Yoshihiro Togashi ?
text: Did you know that there was an organism from which all current life on Earth is descended ?
text: Did you know that Ernest Fanelli 's composition Thèbes , written in 1886, utilizes musical elements considered to precurse Impressionism ?
text: Did you know that Washington State linebacker Daiyan Henley opted out of playing in the 2022 LA Bowl and served as an assistant linebackers coach during the game instead?
text: Did you know that while Arifin Achmad was the third governor of Riau , he was the first to hail from the province?
text: Did you know that the Central Powers brought their armies under a supreme headquarters in September 1916, 18 months before the Allies did the same?
text: Did you know that, when discussing his music project Love or Loved , K-pop star B.I said that he felt the opposite of love was not "I don't like you", but rather "I loved you before"?
text: Did you know that businessman Usman Ja'far was the first locally born governor of West Kalimantan elected in nearly 40 years?
text: Did you know that although it was rejected by the lesbian mainstream when it was first released, Kamikaze Hearts has since been called a milestone in queer cinema ?
text: Did you know that Paramount Chief Matilda Lansana Minah V has backed a 30-percent quota for the representation of women in the parliament of Sierra Leone?
text: Did you know that during the 1930 Bago earthquake , a witness observed surface waves propagating through a tennis court?
text: Did you know that the Seattle SeaDogs won the final Continental Indoor Soccer League championship before the league folded?
text: Did you know that Aang Kunaefi banned the jaipongan dance from official events because some saw it as being too erotic?
text: Did you know that both Toyota and Pizza Hut have had commercials saying "Sheesh!" ?
text: Did you know that a dispute led to HMS Gloucester taking a path that caused the ship to hit a sandbank, leading to it sinking?
text: Did you know that Paul Joseph Cini , a Canadian skyjacker, thought that he could evade justice by parachuting from the plane before landing?
text: Did you know that the Second Vatican Council tried to undo the latinization of Eastern Catholic liturgy ?
text: Did you know that writer Eliza Bland Smith Erskine Norton married two different men who both lost an arm in battle?
text: Did you know that Midway v. Artic helped establish that video games are eligible for copyright protection as audiovisual works?
text: Did you know that the statue of Mahatma Gandhi on the premises of the Telangana Legislative Assembly was sculpted by C. S. N. Patnaik ?
text: Did you know that the Piano Quintet by Alfred Schnittke has been called one of the most depressing pieces ever written?
text: Did you know that classical dances of Gaddam Padmaja Reddy , recipient of India's highest award for performing arts , explore contemporary social issues such as female foeticide and HIV/AIDS ?
text: Did you know that the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier under the Arc de Triomphe in Paris was desecrated during riots in 1927?
text: Did you know that John Kinch worked two jobs in the late 1970s, as a mail carrier and a professional football player ?
text: Did you know that the Kitab al-wadih bi-l-haqq is a critique of Islam written by a convert to Coptic Christianity during a period of persecution?
text: Did you know that fighter pilot Winton W. Marshall used the jet exhaust of his F-86 Sabre to extinguish the fire from a crashed B-47 bomber?
text: Did you know that a man who fatally shot a Florida woman waving a gun at him from her front yard after a road-rage incident was not charged in connection with her death?
text: Did you know that according to Chinese physician Zhu Zhenheng , apparent possessions are typically no more than confusion caused by mucus?
text: Did you know that the geology of the Ellsworth Mountains was explored by geologists using motor toboggans in 1961?
text: Did you know that soprano Galina Pisarenko studied economics, English, and Norwegian at the same time she was studying to become a professional opera singer?
text: Did you know that Parasitic Engineering was named as a reference to a MITS co-founder calling third-party hardware vendors "parasite companies"?
text: Did you know that Volodymyr Kozhukhar , the chief conductor of the National Opera of Ukraine in Kyiv, led Lysenko's opera Taras Bulba and Shchedrin's ballet Carmen Suite ?
text: Did you know that so little is known about the reclusive developer of Yume Nikki that its publisher Kadokawa Games had to debunk rumors that they had died in the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake ?
text: Did you know that Jack Melchor stayed at Claridge's annually over a 40-year period?
text: Did you know that the documentary Railway with a Heart of Gold has actual footage of a derailment captured whilst the filmmaker was attached to the side of the train?
text: Did you know that after being benched at quarterback , Jackson State Tigers football player T. C. Taylor changed his position and became a record-setting wide receiver ?
text: Did you know that Canadian poets Milton Acorn , Margaret Atwood , and Gwendolyn MacEwen performed at the Bohemian Embassy on the same bill as burlesque dancer Libby Jones?
text: Did you know that American teacher Marc Fogel was sentenced to 14 years in Russian prison for possessing a small amount of marijuana, but has gotten little public attention compared to Brittney Griner ?
text: Did you know that the dinosaur Bashunosaurus was first mentioned in a scientific paper in 1989, but was only formally named in 2004?
text: Did you know that Patty Loveless 's musical career rebounded after she underwent surgery to repair a blood vessel on her vocal cords?
text: Did you know that Monaco GP was the most popular arcade driving game in the United States in 1981?
text: Did you know that Walter von Pückler earned the nickname Dreschgraf ('Thrashing Count') due to his frequent use of violent, antisemitic language?
text: Did you know that the San Diego Trough Fault Zone can produce an earthquake that devastates the counties of Los Angeles , Orange , and San Diego, California ?
text: Did you know that Ravenshoe has been noted for its passages dealing with the Charge of the Light Brigade , a failed military action during the Crimean War ?
text: Did you know that the note-taking software Obsidian was created by just two developers during the COVID-19 pandemic ?
text: Did you know that Willi Ritschard was not amused when he had to attend a royal banquet for Queen Elizabeth II on International Workers' Day ?
text: Did you know that creating Vennture Brew Company involved 18 months of construction and $22,000 in crowdsourced funds?
text: Did you know that abused Overseas Filipino Workers accused the former chargé d'affaires of the Philippine embassy in Damascus of neglecting them while he was regularly partying with handsome Syrians?
text: Did you know that gas lighting inspired Stephen Gunzenhauser to start a classical music festival?
text: Did you know that Tibor Wlassics 's upper-class status forced him to work as a manual laborer?
text: Did you know that Bethune: The Making of a Hero , once Canada's most expensive film, had a documentary about its troubled production shown at the 1988 Toronto International Film Festival instead of itself?
text: Did you know that Chinese scholar Liang Tingnan suggested that China should emulate the United States to avoid the upheavals of dynastic change?
text: Did you know that the music for the Norse Lands DLC of Kingdom Two Crowns utilizes the hurdy-gurdy and moraharpa ?
text: Did you know that after Mary Gardiner Horsford died, her husband married her sister Phoebe?
text: Did you know that while most lichens that grow on plants live on the surface, the sole species in Amazonotrema grows partially among the cells of the tree bark on which it lives?
text: Did you know that Adib Pishavari likened Britain to an old fox ?
text: Did you know that the feedback sounds in the Yardbirds ' " Happenings Ten Years Time Ago " were later "swiped" by Jimi Hendrix ?
text: Did you know that the first day of filming of the psychological thriller Farah coincided with the beginning of the 2019 Lebanese protests ?
text: Did you know that the Douglas branch 's Roosevelt station went from having more than 700,000 riders in 1910 to only 50,000 in 1950?
text: Did you know that Nasser Abu Hamid had five brothers serving life sentences in addition to him?
text: Did you know that the 2022 Quick Lane Bowl had to use a substitute referee after the original referee's flight was canceled?
text: Did you know that Robert Spencer Finkbine spent 13 years as the superintendent of construction of the Iowa State Capitol ?
text: Did you know that the developers of Among Us VR said that the game could have been too spooky?
text: Did you know that Kaiu Shirai said that some parts of his story The Promised Neverland came from nightmares?
text: Did you know that on 9 January 1917, German Emperor Wilhelm II agreed to implement unrestricted submarine warfare?
text: Did you know that Dreamer Isioma began learning music theory at the age of three?
text: Did you know that the government of Victoria , Australia, has a program to remove 110 level crossings by 2030, the fastest rate in the state's history?
text: Did you know that witchcraft historian Malcolm Gaskill documented a real-life 17th-century witch hunt in Springfield, Massachusetts?
text: Did you know that the 1961 Indonesian census was the country's first since 1930 and the first since gaining independence from the Netherlands ?
text: Did you know that the name Zenock is misspelled in almost every published edition of the Book of Mormon ?
text: Did you know that Meghan Trainor wrote her song " Bad for Me " with strangers?
text: Did you know that two railroad boxcars were needed to ship William W. Jefferis 's vast mineral collection to the Carnegie Museum of Natural History ?
text: Did you know that according to Viktor Kožený 's lawyer, Fox Hill Prison in the Bahamas is known for "breaking even the toughest of men"?
text: Did you know that one of the districts in the city of Astrakhan is named after Bolshevik leader Aleksandr Trusov ?
text: Did you know that Lady Gaga said she was in a dark state of mind when writing the song " Free Woman " but got over it after completing the song?
text: Did you know that after saying that joining the Three-Self Patriotic Movement was "against the will of God", Chinese theologian Jia Yuming joined it and became its vice chairperson?
text: Did you know that workers had to somersault to safety when the Secor Bridge collapsed in 1911?
text: Did you know that the neutron has a magnetic moment even though it lacks an electric charge ?
text: Did you know that croton seeds were already being used as a laxative when Chinese physician Wang Haogu discovered that they could also be used to treat diarrhea?
text: Did you know that the Georgia Cryptologic Center is an NSA facility that uses the code name "Sweet Tea"?
text: Did you know that in the 1920s, Australian journalist E. George Marks predicted military conflict in the Pacific between Japan and the United States?
text: Did you know that the North-Western Regional Committee of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) ran an underground network to distribute literature to German soldiers in occupied areas?
text: Did you know that National Football League player Grant Hermanns won his state high-school wrestling championship just months after a near-fatal staph infection ?
text: Did you know that Kamibox 's video game A Joke That's Worth $0.99 is permanently on special offer because Itch.io does not allow $0.99 as a regular price?
text: Did you know that the 2022 Boca Raton Bowl was the first bowl game loss in Liberty program history after three wins in their first three appearances?
text: Did you know that after a lifetime of feeling undervalued, Nergisî gained the appreciation of the Ottoman sultan and was sent to the front as a chronicler, only to fall from his horse and die on his way?
text: Did you know that a Washington state radio station turned to "professional bikini watchers"—military recruiters—to report on crowds at local beaches?
text: Did you know that Ephraim E. Lisitzky wrote an epic poem in Hebrew based on Native American legends ?
text: Did you know that the Paul Delvaux Museum exhibits not only Paul Delvaux 's paintings, but also a collection of model trains?
text: Did you know that Chinese physician Gao Ruona 's son, son-in-law, and student all served as editors at the Song government 's Bureau for Editing Medical Texts?
text: Did you know that after a CCTV system was installed at the 59th Street–Columbus Circle station , crime went up?
text: Did you know that Anna Maria Bowes escaped from her governess Elizabeth Parish by crawling over a plank to cross a narrow street?
text: Did you know that the general manager of a West Virginia TV station called changing its network affiliation "the hardest decision I've ever had to make"?
text: Did you know that Akshata Murty , the wife of British prime minister Rishi Sunak , reportedly has more personal wealth than King Charles III ?
text: Did you know that the first public usage of the term " ongoing Nakba " is widely credited to Hanan Ashrawi , who referenced it in a speech at the 2001 World Conference against Racism ?
text: Did you know that Michael S. Farbman 's reporting of the Russian Civil War in winter 1917–18 was described by The Observer as "one of the outstanding successes of the time in special correspondence"?
text: Did you know that despite being in force for more than 100 years, no known prosecutions were made under the Seamen's and Soldiers' False Characters Act 1906 ?
text: Did you know that U.S. first lady Bess Truman was humiliated by a champagne bottle?
text: Did you know that people are prone to such a strong distaste for uncertainty that they might value a $50 gift card more than a lottery ticket that yields a $50 or $100 gift card with equal probability?
text: Did you know that although the First World War ended with the armistice of 11 November 1918 , twenty-one generals are recognised as having died for France after this date, some as late as 1923?
text: Did you know that Concentricities , a 2019 clarinet–cello–piano trio by Graham Waterhouse , musically depicts a theme of circular, spiraling, or oscillating concentric phenomena in nature and human structures?
text: Did you know that Wan Abubakar submitted his resignation to run for reelection, but retracted it when his candidacy failed?
text: Did you know that a kickoff temperature of 13 °F (−11 °C) at the 2022 Armed Forces Bowl nearly made it the coldest bowl game ever?
text: Did you know that Debbie Friedman and Drorah Setel 's Mi Shebeirach for healing, written by the couple amidst the AIDS crisis , has become "the emotional highlight of synagogue services" for many Jews?
text: Did you know that American Elmer Carlson brought a roller-skating mule to the 1964 Democratic National Convention ?
text: Did you know that the show The Thing About Pam is based on Pam Hupp 's involvement in the murder of Betsy Faria?
text: Did you know that Austin Reed 's 497 passing yards in the 2022 New Orleans Bowl set a New Orleans Bowl record?
text: Did you know that Sarah Mardini worked as a humanitarian for refugees and now could be sentenced to 25 years in prison?
text: Did you know that Quasar Data Products ' ruggedized QDP-300 microcomputer alerts the user if it is potentially overheating by sounding an alarm?
text: Did you know that a 2016 leaflet published by the British government warned that Brexit would increase the cost of living and lead to a decade or more of uncertainty?
text: Did you know that the Macks Creek Law originated in response to a state legislator getting a traffic ticket?
text: Did you know that James B. Jones got his nickname, "Jawbone", from his time as a traveling soap salesman?
text: Did you know that L. J. Potts translated the Poetics as Aristotle on the Art of Fiction , a title accused of "[narrowing] dangerously the wide gap between Aristotle and ourselves", but later called "creative genius"?
text: Did you know that Atlanta's "quicker picker-upper " aired martial arts movies, professional wrestling, jazz music, and Japanese-language programming?
text: Did you know that despite published scholarship to the contrary, Andrew Planta neither received a doctorate nor taught mathematics at Erlangen ?
text: Did you know that in November 2022, Leicester City Council used the Food Act 1984 in combination with a royal charter of 1199 to levy a charge on the organisers of two Christmas light switching-on events?
text: Did you know that after Domen Križaj from Slovenia was a prize winner in the singing competition Neue Stimmen , he moved to the Oper Frankfurt where he appeared as Massenet's Albert and Mozart's Papageno ?
text: Did you know that Manny's Deli in Chicago received national recognition for its popularity among politicians, including Barack Obama ?
text: Did you know that Claude C. Robinson was supposed to pick the star-of-the-game , but he left early when struck in the head by a hockey puck ?
text: Did you know that the audience sometimes heckles defeated sumo wrestlers by throwing zabuton onto the stage at them?
text: Did you know that while at high school, Johann Georg Seidenbusch declared to Our Lady : "ad carissimam Sponsam te eligo" (I choose thee as my dearest Bride)?
text: Did you know that Cincinnati hired Louisville 's head football coach to replace their own outgoing head coach just days after the two teams were announced as opponents for the 2022 Fenway Bowl ?
text: Did you know that George Jameson was the highest-scoring New Zealand night fighter pilot of World War II ?
text: Did you know that when the former Clarence Hotel in Brighton began to collapse in 1990, the resulting closure of North Street diverted 120 buses per hour in each direction for a week?
text: Did you know that when serving as Governor of Riau , Soeripto helped found the province's first daily newspaper?
text: Did you know that Culver City's Measure VY would have allowed 16-year-olds to vote, but it fell short by 16 votes out of over 16,000?
text: Did you know that Gene Cipriano played the saxophone part for Tony Curtis 's character in the film Some Like It Hot ?
text: Did you know that when Westminster City Council in London agreed to use " global majority " as a more inclusive term than BAME or "ethnic minority", a Conservative MP called it "deeply sinister"?
text: Did you know that Rhea Seehorn wanted the sprinkler in the cold open to the Better Call Saul episode " Hit and Run "  to sound like a machine gun?
text: Did you know that after leaving his job promoting Qatar ahead of the 2022 World Cup , Marc Bennett alleged he was tortured before being found hanged in his hotel room ?
text: Did you know that at age 10, Sophia Lucia surpassed the world record for consecutive pirouettes by 19 turns?
text: Did you know that the medieval baptismal font of Löderup Church in Sweden contains a depiction of a ship with a dragon's head at the stem, similar to a Viking ship ?
text: Did you know that New York mayor Michael Bloomberg said that the only calls on his bat phone were from salespeople offering magazine subscriptions or insurance policies?
text: Did you know that Fuccbois ' crew won awards, while Fuccboi 's prose received both praise and criticism?
text: Did you know that after fleeing the Nazis in 1938, Peter Strausfeld befriended the manager of London's top art house cinema and designed their posters until his death in 1980?
text: Did you know that the Allman Brothers Band 's well-known 1971 interpretation of " Done Somebody Wrong " had four songwriters listed in the credits, but not Eddie Kirkland , who wrote the original song?
text: Did you know that Imam Munandar once proposed releasing prisoners to kill them?
text: Did you know that although the third Onondaga County Courthouse was demolished in 1967, the hand-cut stones of its tower have been preserved?
text: Did you know that King Albert Park MRT station and its adjoining stations Tan Kah Kee and Sixth Avenue are intended to represent the natural elements?
text: Did you know that Aaron Stark 's life may have been saved by a friend inviting him in for a blueberry-peach pie ?
text: Did you know that C. J. Phipps , the leading theatre architect of the age, was found responsible for the deadliest-ever UK theatre disaster ?
text: Did you know that Michelle Lyons has personally witnessed nearly 300 executions?
text: Did you know that the 100-player board game Cartographers has a crowdfunded expansion set?
text: Did you know that Midwest Scientific was the only maker of microcomputers in Kansas City in the late 1970s?
text: Did you know that Catholic bishop-elect Philip Moger knew that he wanted to become a priest when he was eight years old?
text: Did you know that the 2021 film West Side Story was banned in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, and Bahrain, likely due to the transgender character Anybodys?
text: Did you know that according to legend, Giriyak Stupa was constructed over the body of a dead goose?
text: Did you know that the parliamentary sign-language interpreter could not make out what South African MP Joan Fubbs tried to say in her tribute to President Cyril Ramaphosa ?
text: Did you know that Perry County is the least densely populated county in Tennessee ?
text: Did you know that Abdul Hamid al-Zahrawi , a former member of the General Assembly of the Ottoman Empire , was executed in 1916 for his support for Arab nationalism?
text: Did you know that a section of Mississippi Highway 489 was designated as the Jason Boyd Memorial Highway to commemorate the MDOT superintendent who was killed while removing debris from the road?
text: Did you know that in mediaeval England an area of special legal jurisdiction extended around the royal court and moved with it?
text: Did you know that Paul Dini was a writer for both the animated television series Batman: The Animated Series and the video game series Batman: Arkham ?
text: Did you know that Romeo and Juliet both served in the Union Navy ?
text: Did you know that the first fictional depiction of the moons of Mars predates their discovery by a century and a half?
text: Did you know that in Mother and Child , composed in 2002 by John Tavener for the vocal ensemble Tenebrae , organ and temple gong enter for the climax?
text: Did you know that the 2022 Cure Bowl is the only one of the 2022–23 NCAA football bowl games scheduled to be played between FBS conference champions?
text: Did you know that Burton Raffel called Arthur Cooper 's translation of a poem by Du Fu "exceedingly lame"?
text: Did you know that Minnesota legislator Claudia Meier cosponsored a bill freeing women from having to take their husbands' last names, and then took her husband's last name?
text: Did you know that at the height of the war between Iraq and the Islamic State , diplomats of the Philippine embassy in Baghdad agreed to die together rather than be taken hostage?
text: Did you know that all three of playwright Oliver Hailey 's Broadway productions closed after one regular performance?
text: Did you know that Jack Smith , the special counsel appointed to investigate Donald Trump , played football for Liverpool ?
text: Did you know that the parasitic fossil fungus Paleoserenomyces allenbyensis was named after a Canadian ghost town?
text: Did you know that retired Indonesian general and politician Mochamad Hasbi fled from arrest for seven years after he was sentenced to a year in prison in relation to a corruption case?
text: Did you know that the Apple II game Pentapus was developed by Jeremy Sagan, son of astronomer Carl Sagan ?
text: Did you know that the Canadian Coalition for Firearm Rights has been described as "Canada's most prominent pro-gun group"?
text: Did you know that the South Asian river dolphin is nearly blind and relies on echolocation for navigation?
text: Did you know that Cow Hell Swamp got its name because cows would frequently wander in and get stuck?
text: Did you know that although SS Tembien was known to be carrying Allied prisoners of war, she was sunk by a British submarine on 27 February 1942 with hundreds killed?
text: Did you know that the conservationist Martha Isabel Ruiz Corzo sings when she speaks?
text: Did you know that Linda Ronstadt 's " Long, Long Time " saw a 4,900-percent increase in Spotify streams in the United States in the hour after the broadcast of the third episode of The Last of Us ?
text: Did you know that Nicholas Orsini became Despot of Epirus by murdering his uncle, only to be in turn killed by his brother five years later?
text: Did you know that Max Reger 's Piano Concerto was premiered by Frieda Hodapp in 1910, but has rarely been performed since due to its difficulty?
text: Did you know that Gnat Computers was one of the first to license the CP/M operating system, paying only US$90 for a perpetual license before the price skyrocketed to tens of thousands of dollars?
text: Did you know that from the old Chicago Station , a five-cent fare would get you as far west as California ?
text: Did you know that LaDainian Tomlinson scored two touchdowns in 47 seconds to break the NFL single-season touchdown record?
text: Did you know that tobacco conglomerate Philip Morris Cos. marketed Capri Sun to children based on experience selling tobacco to young people?
text: Did you know that in the aftermath of the American Civil War , the only Black-led organization providing teachers to formerly enslaved people was the African Civilization Society ?
text: Did you know that Gother Mann commanded a small body of militia on Dominica during the French invasion in 1778 ?
text: Did you know that Ward v. Flood was the legal basis for racially segregated education in California?
text: Did you know that Kenneth Willoughby Heaton developed the Bristol stool scale for classifying the consistency of human faeces?
text: Did you know that the Los Angeles Times , the Chicago Tribune , and Sports Illustrated have all profiled the smallest TV station in the United States ?
text: Did you know that in 1785, at the age of 24, James Freeman convinced his congregation to adopt his revised prayer book , which contributed to King's Chapel becoming the first Unitarian congregation in the United States?
text: Did you know that Haunted House has been called one of the earliest video games in the survival horror genre?
text: Did you know that Bernie Wrightson spent seven years drawing an illustrated edition of Mary Shelley 's 1818 novel Frankenstein ?
text: Did you know that the Highfield Cocoa and Coffee House in Sheffield , England, sold tea, coffee and cocoa at a penny a pint and also provided billiards and reading rooms?
text: Did you know that under a rules draft presented at the 1857 baseball convention , baseball bats would have been allowed to be shaved flat on one side?
text: Did you know that Norcliffe Norcliffe was severely wounded in the head at the Battle of Salamanca but survived?
text: Did you know that a solvent company can access the bankruptcy courts by doing the Texas two-step ?
text: Did you know that for an additional US$25, Martin Research shipped its 1975 book on microcomputers with an Intel 8008 ?
text: Did you know that the 2017 acquisition of Katz Broadcasting by the E. W. Scripps Company was seen as a validation of the business of diginets ?
text: Did you know that aircraft helping to fight the Poe Fire in northern California in September 2001 were grounded by the FAA following the September 11 attacks?
text: Did you know that Elvis Costello and the Attractions were consistently intoxicated during the recording of the album Trust ?
text: Did you know that in the 1970s, the Shelton Hotel avoided demolition after seven elderly residents and a secretary refused to move out?
text: Did you know that Minuscule 1689 , a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament , went missing for nearly 100 years after it was moved during World War I?
text: Did you know that Greg Noire aims to "de-concert" his concert photography?
text: Did you know that 2022 documentary The Australian Wars explores "the great Australian silence" about massacres of Indigenous Australians ?
text: Did you know that Devolver Digital published A Fistful of Gun after its developer jokingly suggested a collaboration?
text: Did you know that John Rauch , of the firm Venturi, Rauch & Scott Brown, was called "one of the unsung heroes of postwar American architecture" by the Architectural Record ?
text: Did you know that Informer released a portable computer terminal that also doubled as an IBM PC compatible ?
text: Did you know that in 2010 the Indonesian National Armed Forces brought a retired brigadier general before a military tribunal over a land dispute?
text: Did you know that although the Liberty Theatre was built in 1904 to host the Rogers Brothers ' musicals, the brothers made their last appearance there three years later?
text: Did you know that Korey Foreman held a makeshift raffle to decide where to play college football ?
text: Did you know that contract killer Werner Pinzner fatally shot the investigating public prosecutor, his own wife, and himself at the Hamburg police headquarters?
text: Did you know that David H. Ahl called Comp-Sultants one of the first casualties of the microcomputer revolution?
text: Did you know that college basketball player Jett Howard almost signed at Tennessee , but instead chose the Michigan team of his father Juwan Howard ?
text: Did you know that one could get prosecuted for comparing the Turkish President Erdoğan to Gollum , a character from The Lord of the Rings ?
text: Did you know that tickets of the Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railroad could be purchased for Bellwood station at a local drug store?
text: Did you know that in 1998, Chris Lewis and other volunteer despammers on Usenet went on a labor strike?
text: Did you know that Lady Rainier has been raising a glass since 1903?
text: Did you know that Jane Dempsey Douglass became the first woman to head a worldwide communion of churches in 1990?
text: Did you know that the 1968 single " There's a Blind Man Playin' Fiddle in the Street " by Tages was inspired by an old man that could be seen roaming around the streets of Gothenburg , playing a violin?
text: Did you know that Kurnianingrat helped historian George McTurnan Kahin smuggle speeches by leaders of the Indonesian revolution from the Dutch?
text: Did you know that Ethel Barrymore and Luisa Tetrazzini reportedly visited the Lambs Club Building even though women were not allowed to access the clubhouse's upper floors?
text: Did you know that in August 2022, Igor Mangushev spoke on a stage in a Russian nightclub with what he said was the skull of a Ukrainian soldier killed in the Azovstal Iron and Steel Works ?
text: Did you know that the Capitol Hill Citizen 's motto, "Democracy Dies in Broad Daylight", is intended as a jab at The Washington Post 's motto, " Democracy Dies in Darkness "?
text: Did you know that Paul Harvey improvised a viral piano piece using only four notes?
text: Did you know that Richard Horn's 1969 novel was an Encyclopedia ?
text: Did you know that Michał Węsławski was the first non-Russian mayor of Vilnius after the January Uprising ?
text: Did you know that the Servants' Characters Act 1792 criminalised the creation of false references by servants in Great Britain?
text: Did you know that on his wedding night, Maximilian of Habsburg had a childhood friend , wearing a suit of armour , stand in for him in bed with his new wife ?
text: Did you know that for the fourth episode of The Last of Us , Melanie Lynskey was told her character's brother was "basically Jesus "?
text: Did you know that the search for a lost radioactive capsule along a 1,400-kilometre (870 mi) stretch of road in Western Australia was likened to looking for a needle in a haystack?
text: Did you know that Rear Admiral Edward B. Barry was once demerited for "very disorderly humming"?
text: Did you know that American folklorist Esther Shephard collected tall tales from logging camps in the state of Washington to complete her 1924 book about Paul Bunyan ?
text: Did you know that the Māori believed that the failure of the rockets launched at a pā (fort) during the Battle of Puketutu was due to rites and rituals performed during its construction?
text: Did you know that a lawyer got his client acquitted of a 1975 kidnapping by accusing the victim of masterminding his own abduction—but in 2020 admitted that he had known it was a lie?
text: Did you know that a teenager planned to blow up the tomb of Islamic saint Habib Noh because he believed that it was un-Islamic?
text: Did you know that former NASCAR driver St. James Davis was badly mauled by two chimpanzees while visiting one who was the best man at his wedding?
text: Did you know that the City and Guilds of London Institute developed the City & Guilds Computer virtual machine as part of their 1960s teaching materials?
text: Did you know that Mimi Kilgore gifted Willem de Kooning a frog that had been run over by a car?
text: Did you know that despite J. R. R. Tolkien 's dislike of Shakespeare, he was influenced by his work ?
text: Did you know that the television series The Owl's Legacy was modelled after the ancient Greek symposium ?
text: Did you know that James Danandjaja , an expert on Indonesian folklore and the pioneer of Indonesian folkloristics , also learned ballet and modern dance ?
text: Did you know that Rick and Morty caused McDonald's to bring back its Szechuan Sauce , twenty years after it was discontinued?
text: Did you know that the release of Mario Kart: Super Circuit in China was cancelled because of excessive video-game piracy in the country?
text: Did you know that Constans II was a monk before he became a Roman emperor ?
text: Did you know that the particular church to which one belongs determines the right rite and the use to use?
text: Did you know that Eva Siracká remained the president of the League Against Cancer, citing the reign of Elizabeth II as the reason?
text: Did you know that the lobby of the Royalton Hotel was once compared to an ocean liner?
text: Did you know that Mark Wetjen was a top advisor for Sam Bankman-Fried , the former CEO of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX , during an aggressive lobbying campaign at the United States Congress ?
text: Did you know that although Greek forces captured the Aegean island of Chios in January 1913, its annexation to Greece was not finalized until 1923?
text: Did you know that in 2022, Briton Charlotte Payne broke the world record for a hammer throw by a deaf woman by almost 5 metres (16 ft)?
text: Did you know that the Arab Orthodox Movement aims to Arabize the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem , a church whose laity is mostly Arab but is led by Greek clergy?
text: Did you know that Mittens was a chess -playing "cat"?
text: Did you know that the riots protesting the destruction of the houses in Nieuwmarkt are memorialised in its namesake station ?
text: Did you know that King Bataha Santiago 's parents sent him to school when he was 44 years old?
text: Did you know that, due to bandits, convoys of ten or more vehicles are required on some roads when driving in Madagascar ?
text: Did you know that United States Air Force brigadier general E. Daniel Cherry became close friends with the Vietnamese pilot whom he shot down during the Vietnam War ?
text: Did you know that the College Entrance Examination Board went back and forth over whether the Achievement Test in English Composition should include an essay component?
text: Did you know that Sakhela Buhlungu 's anti-corruption efforts at the University of Fort Hare led to a failed assassination attempt that killed his bodyguard?
text: Did you know that Dr. Oz called his veggie tray "crudité" in his supermarket scanner moment ?
text: Did you know that academic Muhammad Musa'ad was barred from running as a candidate in the Papuan gubernatorial election due to his Arabic ancestry?
text: Did you know that Damen , despite being one of the busiest stations on the Chicago "L" , lacks accessibility for the disabled?
text: Did you know that the BBC documentary India: The Modi Question , which examines the career of Indian prime minister Narendra Modi , was banned in India?
text: Did you know that Lucien Laurent scored the first goal in FIFA World Cup history during the inaugural game of Group 1 of the 1930 World Cup ?
text: Did you know that Grace Lavery's autobiography Please Miss discusses her transition but also the "paradigmatic concept of the penis"?
text: Did you know that the Arizona Coyotes ice hockey team objected to a new host on the Phoenix radio station that carried their games, leading to his removal after a week?
text: Did you know that Alexis Soyer 's dish of lamb cutlets Reform is still on the menu at the Reform Club ?
text: Did you know that actor Tatsunari Kimura ate pancakes and drank coffee while talking for eight hours during the filming of the television drama Old-Fashioned Cupcake ?
text: Did you know that popular Korean folk singer Wang Su-bok was given birthday gifts by both Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il ?
text: Did you know that the painting God Giving Birth was inspired by Monica Sjöö 's inner visions while giving birth?
text: Did you know that King Edgar of England wanted to marry Wulfhild , but she rejected him to become a nun instead?
text: Did you know that in 2007, the 1966 track " Most Likely You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine " was the first of Bob Dylan 's songs to be officially remixed?
text: Did you know that trans man Iszac Henig alternated wins against trans woman Lia Thomas on the way to the 2022 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming Championship ?
text: Did you know that the Commission on Training Camp Activities allegedly used sexual denial to make American World War I soldiers fight harder?
text: Did you know that conservator Carolyn Price Horton helped to direct a "Mud Angel army" that rescued books after the Arno flooded museums and libraries in Florence, Italy, in 1966?
text: Did you know that when Ashgabat Zoo opened in Turkmenistan, dictator Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow 's personal menagerie was moved to the zoo?
text: Did you know that railway engineer Henry Ketchum earned the first diploma in civil engineering granted by the University of New Brunswick ?
text: Did you know that the first batch of Action Computer Enterprise 's Discovery 1600, one of the first multi-user microcomputers, was delivered to a tobacco-growing business in Thailand?
text: Did you know that the infected creatures in the second episode of The Last of Us were created using prosthetics instead of visual effects ?
text: Did you know that Ertuğrul Gazi , a Turkish floating storage and regasification unit for liquefied natural gas , has a daily capacity of 28 million cubic metres (990 million cu ft), among the world's largest?
text: Did you know that California rancher Frank O'Connor could grow Lipstick and Halloween in a greenhouse?
text: Did you know that the hook and concept of the song " Big Brother " was conceived by Kanye West in an elevator ride?
text: Did you know that Kalle Rovanperä became the youngest podium finisher in 2020 , the youngest event winner in 2021 and the youngest world champion in 2022 in the World Rally Championship ?
text: Did you know that many surviving remnants of North American prairie grasslands are in cemeteries ?
text: Did you know that Indian harmonium player Appa Jalgaonkar stopped singing due to puberty?
text: Did you know that the chapters of 2 Maccabees contain some of the earliest statements of belief in a bodily resurrection in Judaism?
text: Did you know that Charles Grobe wrote the "Lincoln Quickstep" in honor of Abraham Lincoln ?
text: Did you know that the 1980s were the " age of hole-discovery " in yaoi erotica?
text: Did you know that the "You've Got Mail" voice actor was one of dozens of people fired from an Ohio TV station after its takeover by Paxson Communications ?
text: Did you know that Paul Freeman became one of the few Westerners interred at the Kremlin Wall Necropolis , following his death in an experimental propeller-driven Soviet railcar ?
text: Did you know that Lewis Fry Richardson 's Statistics of Deadly Quarrels suggested that the establishment of a world government might end wars?
text: Did you know that a bloodied fingerprint on newspaper was the central piece of evidence in the murder of Vivianne Ruiz ?
text: Did you know that Sylvia Plath criticized her own award-winning poem for its "old crystal-brittle and sugar-faceted voice"?
text: Did you know that Edward A. Hanna wanted to eliminate the New York State Assembly while he served in it, and later wanted to close down the government of the city of Utica while he was its mayor?
text: Did you know that Pulaski's Masterpiece , billed as the "world's most valuable dog", disappeared without a trace in 1953?
text: Did you know that interfaith greetings in Indonesia include phrases from Islam, Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Confucianism?
text: Did you know that Absaroka was a proposed U.S. state that would have included parts of Wyoming , South Dakota , and Montana ?
text: Did you know that Kimmo Leinonen helped establish both the Finnish Hockey Hall of Fame and the IIHF Hall of Fame ?
text: Did you know that the Pulitzer Prize -winning novel All the Light We Cannot See contains a sympathetic Nazi ?
text: Did you know that prior to entering politics, Herbert Salvatierra led a troupe of carnival comparsas ?
text: Did you know that during the filming of Dawn of the Dead , hundreds of extras in zombie makeup had to be on constant standby, so the crew built a "factory" where painted extras were on-call?
text: Did you know that Winston Churchill published an essay on extraterrestrial life during the Second World War?
text: Did you know that Daniel Thrasher once unintentionally re-created the theme song of The Office ?
text: Did you know that talim encodes intricate patterns for Kashmir shawls and carpets?
text: Did you know that the 1981 Japanese experimental short film Spacy is made up of 700 still photographs of a gymnasium?
text: Did you know that in 1943, it took the Oregon State Senate 45 ballots to elect William H. Steiwer as president of the senate over fellow Republican Dorothy McCullough Lee ?
text: Did you know that even though Oise amber is found in France, it was produced by a type of tree now found in the Amazon ?
text: Did you know that Grand was the least-ridden station on the Logan Square branch for most of its existence?
text: Did you know that one can swim with humpback whales in the Niue Nukutuluea Multiple-Use Marine Park ?
text: Did you know that a Bot Sentinel report described conspiracy theories about Prince Harry and Meghan as being reminiscent of QAnon ?
text: Did you know that Enriqueta Medellín , a Mexican surgeon, has an ecological center and environmental prize named after her in the state of Aguascalientes ?
text: Did you know that the Norwich and Worcester Railroad became independent again in 1976 after more than 100 years of being leased, only to immediately have its line taken over by another railroad?
text: Did you know that T-Pain said that he thought of the concept for the song " Good Life " while dining at a restaurant with Kanye West ?
text: Did you know that the Virginia Quay Settlers Monument in London has been subject to bombing and theft?
text: Did you know that before becoming a successful children's author, Myron Levoy was an engineer doing research on nuclear-powered spaceships for a mission to Mars?
text: Did you know that the takedown of a controversial Goddess of Victory: Nikke advertisement led to another controversy?
text: Did you know that the 1834 Philadelphia race riot began at a carousel before spreading to other parts of the city?
text: Did you know that the May Queen dress worn by Florence Pugh in the film Midsommar was made of 10,000 silk flowers and reportedly sold for US$65,000 at auction?
text: Did you know that William J. McGee said that the 2022 Southwest Airlines flight delays were the result of "appearing to regulate rather than actually regulating"?
text: Did you know that the contest of the 1830 Liverpool by-election was considered to be "in great measure a personal one"?
text: Did you know that Berta Berkovich , who was skilled in sewing, managed to survive Auschwitz in a fashion salon established by the wife of the concentration camp commandant ?
text: Did you know that the 1931 Valentine earthquake was the strongest earthquake in recorded history to hit Texas ?
text: Did you know that Kangal shepherd dogs can gall cyclists in Turkey ?
text: Did you know that Perla Batalla was once a backup singer for Leonard Cohen , who encouraged her to write her own songs?
text: Did you know that MicroProse was formed to publish Hellcat Ace after Sid Meier boasted that he could design a better video game than Red Baron in a week?
text: Did you know that Interstate 81 in Tennessee was the site of a carjacking that culminated in the Lillelid murders in 1997?
text: Did you know that during the First World War, James Kirkham Ramsbottom saved the British daffodil industry?
text: Did you know that the 801 Grand is the tallest building in the state of Iowa ?
text: Did you know that a 15-year-old swim team member is credited with saving several lives in the crash of Alitalia Flight 1553 ?
text: Did you know that Leverington Cemetery has the most orbs and apparitions in Philadelphia ?
text: Did you know that of the ten Royal Navy flag officers to die during the First World War , three were killed in action?
text: Did you know that Henry R. Pattengill requested that his name be removed from the ballot?
text: Did you know that zinc white was found in several versions of The Scream ?
text: Did you know that Indian independence activist and author P. Kodanda Rao 's correspondence with Mahatma Gandhi helped to clarify Thoreau 's influence on Gandhi?
text: Did you know that some historians believe that Steele's Greenville expedition marked a shift in the Union 's war policy?
text: Did you know that after his tenure ended in 1964, Ipik Gandamana would be the last Indonesian minister of home affairs to be a civilian until 2009?
text: Did you know that Alexander the Great occasionally founded cities not named after himself ?
text: Did you know that with his self-produced solo ice show Gift , two-time Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu is expected to become the first ice skater to perform at the Tokyo Dome ?
text: Did you know that during its run of screenings at the Whitney Museum , the 1979 film Asparagus was shown rear-projected onto a set that appears in the film itself?
text: Did you know that Eudoro Galindo , who was nearly elected Vice President of Bolivia , was also a three-time national fencing champion and a two-time Bolivarian Games bronze medallist?
text: Did you know that SZA said her label insisted on scrapping a song from her second album , even though they had used it to promote the album?
text: Did you know that attendees from forty countries and financial institutions at the 2023 International Conference on Climate Resilient Pakistan pledged more than US$9 billion for flood recovery?
text: Did you know that Margaret Cooper wrote that the Women's Royal Indian Naval Service was providing "the experience of a lifetime" to the young women she recruited during the Second World War?
text: Did you know that in 2012, a " stylish but illegal monkey " was seen wandering a Toronto-area IKEA ?
text: Did you know that Majidreza Rahnavard was the first Iranian to be executed in public in connection with the Mahsa Amini protests ?
text: Did you know that Southern Railway 1401 was one of eight locomotives that hauled the funeral train of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt ?
text: Did you know that Henrietta Bruckman founded the first fraternal organization for Jewish women in the United States?
text: Did you know that only one person made a donation of land for the settlement and employment of British military veterans under a 1916 act of Parliament ?
text: Did you know that Valentín Carboni played in the same three youth teams as his brother Franco before they both received their first call-up to the Argentine senior national team in March 2022?
text: Did you know that two Tuscarora men held their local newspaper hostage in an attempt to expose local police corruption, to no avail?
text: Did you know that Phil Fletcher as Hacker T. Dog caused Lauren Layfield to make the "most famous snort" in the United Kingdom in 2016?
text: Did you know that the music video for David Bowie 's " Ashes to Ashes " was, at a cost of £250,000, the most expensive made at the time ?
text: Did you know that Jack Champion had to film all his scenes in Avatar: The Way of Water twice?
text: Did you know that a model walked the runway at the Alexander McQueen show The Dance of the Twisted Bull in a flamenco dress pierced with spears?
text: Did you know that the Brooklyn Tower , the first supertall building in Brooklyn, was described as the "Empire State Building of Brooklyn"?
text: Did you know that according to a critic, the black metal album The Mercian Sphere is not folk metal , but close enough for "black metal purists" to reject it?
text: Did you know that when West Java governor Nana Nuriana ran for reelection in 1998, he faced fifteen challengers?
text: Did you know that members of Lego fandom not only design their own sets but also engage in cosplay?
text: Did you know that after David Glenn Lewis was killed in an apparent hit-and-run incident 30 years ago today 1,600 miles (2,600 km) from his home, it took a Google search in 2004 to identify his body?
text: Did you know that the launch of a Florida TV station was brought forward nearly two months because the local ABC affiliate stopped airing more than half of its prime-time shows?
text: Did you know that Peruvian foreign minister Manuel María Gálvez Egúsquiza was arrested by Chilean troops for refusing to sign peace with the cession of territory during the War of the Pacific ?
text: Did you know that Rolling Stone named Mission of Burma 's " Academy Fight Song " as one of the 100 greatest debut singles of all time?
text: Did you know that the first issue of Allan , one of the earliest Japanese magazines focused on male–male romance for a female audience , featured a pin-up poster of David Bowie ?
text: Did you know that the Banu Kalb tribe were originally Christians but became Muslims after the Muslim conquest of the Levant ?
text: Did you know that a donut has a donutussy ?
text: Did you know that Adam Ramage was considered one of the most important early American printing press builders in his day, having produced 1,250 presses during his lifetime?
text: Did you know that Tolkien's Morgoth has been seen as analogous to Satan ?
text: Did you know that after each loss, American football coach Art Haege made his players crawl from the locker room to the practice field, saying "if you played like a worm, you crawled like a worm"?
text: Did you know that for his first film, Operation Java , director Tharun Moorthy and his production team handpicked all 83 actors rather than doing an open audition for roles?
text: Did you know that with no documents verifying its establishment, an American concession existed de facto in the Chinese city of Tianjin for more than 40 years?
text: Did you know that George Charles Hoste took charge of the quarter-deck guns of the frigate Spartan , defended her against a French squadron , and took the brig Sparvière as a prize?
text: Did you know that at the start of Drama Shower , Mr. Unlucky Has No Choice But to Kiss! ?
text: Did you know that following the killing of Richard Ward by a Colorado sheriff's deputy, the deputy received an award for the injuries that he allegedly sustained during the incident?
text: Did you know that the Arleigh Burke -class destroyers are hardened against electromagnetic pulses ?
text: Did you know that Jan Kochanowski 's Fraszki is a 16th-century collection of almost 300 poems, ranging from anecdotes and epitaphs to obscenities and erotica?
text: Did you know that J.J. Wright fused Gregorian chant with jazz in his advent album O Emmanuel ?
text: Did you know that the site of the 1910 lynching of Allen Brooks was unmarked for 111 years?
text: Did you know that out of 84 people running for governor seats in Bolivia in 2021, Mirtha Arce was one of just seven women and was the first woman from the Tarija Department to run?
text: Did you know that while Egypt has the Order of the Nile, Sudan has the Order of the Two Niles , White and Blue ?
text: Did you know that Dale Johnston was sentenced to death for murdering and dismembering his stepdaughter and her fiance in 1982 , and 30 years after the murders declared innocent?
text: Did you know that in 1945, Kasman Singodimedjo lobbied other Islamist leaders not to implement sharia law in Indonesia?
text: Did you know that a woman who died from Alzheimer's was memorialized by her granddaughter through posthumous vocals in a song ?
text: Did you know that Tobi Oluwayemi and his older brother Josh are both goalkeepers who played for Tottenham's youth academy ?
text: Did you know that the Meriden, Waterbury and Connecticut River Railroad , created as an alternative to the New Haven Railroad , was absorbed into the New Haven after just 11 years?
text: Did you know that Kong Dongmei , the granddaughter of Mao Zedong , and her husband have an estimated net worth of 5 billion yuan (US$815 million)?
text: Did you know that there is ice fishing in Turkey ?
text: Did you know that naval units from around 50 countries took part in the Pakistani naval exercise AMAN-23 ?
text: Did you know that Hugo Krabbe stirred up much controversy in the interwar period by arguing that the law, not the state, is the true sovereign?
text: Did you know that a 1943 performance of Darius Milhaud 's Scaramouche used anagrams to disguise the suite and its composer from Nazi censors?
text: Did you know that all three of Jane Severance 's books for young readers include lesbian characters, including her first book , which was the first picture book to include such characters?
text: Did you know that when the Numidian king Syphax attempted to rally his fleeing army at the Battle of Cirta he was thrown from his horse and captured?
text: Did you know that Andrew Sorrell , State Auditor of Alabama , initially ran for election to the Alabama House of Representatives when his father declined to run for the seat?
text: Did you know that Frederic Growse 's book Bulandshahr: Or, Sketches of an Indian District annoyed the British Indian government so much that they allowed only one edition?
text: Did you know that Sharon Cuneta and Regine Velasquez 's concert Iconic has been referred to as a venture of two unrivaled names in the music scene of the Philippines?
text: Did you know that despite having been enlarged for the 1939 New York World's Fair , the Willets Point Boulevard station served practically no resident population by 1949?
text: Did you know that in 1982 the British civil defence exercise Hard Rock was cancelled when twenty local authorities refused to participate?
text: Did you know that Ron Labinski has been described as the world's first sports-venue architect?
text: Did you know that Malinau Kota , Indonesia, with 31 percent of the population of Malinau Regency , is home to more than 70 percent of its registered restaurants?
text: Did you know that after publishing a fictional account of women who survived a Nazi concentration camp by sewing dresses, Lucy Adlington was contacted by descendants of actual dressmakers?
text: Did you know that a same-sex kiss scene in the seventh episode of The Last of Us was censored in some regions?
text: Did you know that the Stanhope Demonstrator was the first machine to solve problems in logic?
text: Did you know that in 1993, Indonesia's home affairs minister Yogie Suardi Memet used thugs to disrupt the opposition Indonesian Democratic Party 's national congress?
text: Did you know that Colonel Mohamed Hashi Lihle 's speech after freeing more than 700 prisoners from Mandera Prison first popularized the Somali National Movement in Somaliland?
text: Did you know that American football fullback Harry Bolick was described as being a more effective blocker than an iron fence?
text: Did you know that Bayfront MRT station in Singapore has public art that features ships powered by whales and dragons, hand-drawn by children?
text: Did you know that the "updown" singer piri funded her music career by setting up an OnlyFans account?
text: Did you know that An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Karl Marx's Capital was considered unusual for introducing the three volumes of Karl Marx's Capital ?
text: Did you know that Bertha McNeill challenged policies of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom that excluded Black women from full membership in the organization?
text: Did you know that the concert series Regine at the Theater was conceived two years earlier but was delayed after singer Regine Velasquez suffered acid reflux ?
text: Did you know that Hodges Figgis , a bookseller in Dublin , celebrated its 250th year with the largest ever anthology of new Irish writing, with 250 contributors?
text: Did you know that two American officers bribed Japanese troops with their watches to have Dutch medical officer Henri Hekking allocated to their prisoner of war camp?
text: Did you know that at least 14 people were killed during the 1978 Tabriz protests in Iran, which were meant to commemorate the dead in the 1978 Qom protest ?
text: Did you know that the Unitized Group Ration – Express is designed to heat food itself without the need of a field kitchen ?
text: Did you know that on his death, medical historian Edgar Underwood was described by The Times as one of the last of a dying race, the "canny Scot"?
text: Did you know that Hixxy and Sharkey created a schism in the UK rave music scene in 1995?
text: Did you know that the earliest Nabataean Aramaic inscriptions contain Arabic names and loanwords?
text: Did you know that Alexandra Hunt , a former stripper , opened an OnlyFans account in response to an Internet troll during her campaign for a seat in the United States House of Representatives ?
text: Did you know that in his review of A Tribute for the Negro by Wilson Armistead , Frederick Douglass criticised how it included an image of him that was edited to give him a smile?
text: Did you know that New Haven, Connecticut , was home to the world's first commercial telephone exchange ?
text: Did you know that an English country house was the location for the 1970s horror sexploitation films Virgin Witch , Satan's Slave and Terror ?
text: Did you know that the 1989 Georgetown–Princeton basketball game made Bob Scrabis "the face of Cinderella "?
text: Did you know that Ralph E. Brock was the first academically trained African-American forester in the United States?
text: Did you know that the system of native administration , used in Sudan to govern rural areas, was adapted for use in camps for internally displaced people ?
text: Did you know that Muhammad al-Jawad was the ninth of the Twelve Imams and, with his unexplained death at about twenty-five, the shortest-lived?
text: Did you know that Newark Liberty International Airport was the first commercial airport in the United States with a paved airstrip?
text: Did you know that on the opening night of her concert R3.0 , singer Regine Velasquez also released a triple album of the same name ?
text: Did you know that Panagiotis Kavvadias boasted that he had excavated the Acropolis of Athens so thoroughly that "not the slightest quantity of soil ... [had] not been investigated"?
text: Did you know that Ron Brown , the United States secretary of commerce , leased equipment to a TV station in Washington, D.C. , whose owner turned out to be his lover?
text: Did you know that in 2008, Grafton Street had the fifth-highest property rental prices in the world for retailers?
text: Did you know that Claude Vivier was inspired to compose Shiraz after hearing two blind singers in a market?
text: Did you know that the programming language Acorn System BASIC was so non-standard that one commenter suggested that using it on the BBC Micro would be a disaster?
text: Did you know that Hussein Kamel Bahaeddin tried to pass a decree in 1994 that would have prohibited wearing hijab in Egyptian schools?
text: Did you know that Kainé from the video game series Nier was created in response to a female staff member's vague wish for a "male heroine"?
text: Did you know that Stan Robb played professional football for the team coached by his brother?
text: Did you know that Russell Court in Bloomsbury , London, has more than 500 "bachelor flats"?
text: Did you know that Walter White was a member of the prosecution for the Scopes trial in 1925 despite not passing the bar until 1944?
text: Did you know that the investigation of Team Jorge , an Israeli disinformation outfit, led to the suspension of a prominent French news anchor?
text: Did you know that No, Ma'am, That's Not History , Hugh Nibley 's rebuttal to Fawn Brodie's divisive biography of Joseph Smith , started a trend of polemics in Mormon apologetics?
text: Did you know that some fossils thought to be ancient marine animals have been reinterpreted as seaweeds?
text: Did you know that Thomas Highgate was the first British soldier on the Western Front to be executed for desertion during the First World War?
text: Did you know that the Brisbane Lions ' AFL women's team in the AFL Women's season seven became the first AFLW team to score more than 200 points across the first three rounds of a season?
text: Did you know that in the 1960s one could have tea and toast served to your changing room at the Carlisle Turkish baths in England?
text: Did you know that niwar , a material used for weaving cots, was once produced in Indian jails ?
text: Did you know that parts of the Basilica of Our Lady of Hungary were thought to be Gothic until wall probes showed otherwise?
text: Did you know that before getting their own office space, independent children's publisher Lollipop Power stored books "under beds, in attics, [and] under ping-pong tables"?
text: Did you know that saxophonist Braxton Cook appeared in three Tiny Desk concerts for NPR as a sideman , before performing as a featured artist in 2020?
text: Did you know that in 1981, New Zealand prime minister Robert Muldoon controversially published a list of "subversives", including many members of the Workers' Communist League ?
text: Did you know that prior to serving in the Bolivian Chamber of Deputies , rancher Osney Martínez sought to be elected the mayor of San Borja , as his mother had been before him?
text: Did you know that the owner of a Pennsylvania radio station compared his job to that of Lee Iacocca at Chrysler ?
text: Did you know that the developers of Jikandia: The Timeless Land wanted to make a game that could be finished in the time of a normal Japanese train commute?
text: Did you know that Linn County clerk Del Riley established Oregon's vote-by-mail system , now used as the only voting method in the state?
text: Did you know that Pinky & Pepper Forever is a graphic novel that follows two anthropomorphic dog girlfriends through hell?
text: Did you know that within 15 minutes of the Battle of Bronkhorstspruit , all the British officers in the battle were either killed or seriously wounded?
text: Did you know that Chinese leader Xi Jinping called common prosperity an essential requirement of socialism but also said that it does not represent uniform egalitarianism?
text: Did you know that in 2022 David DeJulius pledged to donate his student athlete compensation from jersey proceeds to provide books to inner city youth?
text: Did you know that Parkville lost out on becoming the Colorado Territory 's capital by eleven votes and is now a ghost town largely buried under mining waste?
text: Did you know that Cora Slocomb di Brazza designed the peace flag adopted by the International Council of Women, and her mother Abby Day Slocomb designed the Connecticut state flag ?
text: Did you know that girls at a school for children deemed " educationally subnormal " were given far less freedom than boys in order to prevent "sexual misbehaviour"?
text: Did you know that Justin Schultz was personally recruited by Hockey Hall of Famers Wayne Gretzky and Paul Coffey to join the Edmonton Oilers in 2012?
text: Did you know that in 2019 the South African army's Natal Carbineers were renamed the Ingobamakhosi Carbineers , after a Zulu regiment that had fought against them at the 1879 Battle of Isandlwana ?
text: Did you know that to attend the 1915 Women at the Hague Congress, Eugénie Hamer and the Belgian delegates drove, were frisked, walked two hours, and took a train?
text: Did you know that " Spelling on the Stone ", released in 1988 by an uncredited vocalist purporting to be Elvis Presley , inspired a number of Elvis sightings eleven years after his death?
text: Did you know that Tolkien was not sure if Orcs were made of slime or were corrupted Elves ?
text: Did you know that writer Naoko Sato was initially worried that the character Kat would come off as "too Japanese" for overseas audiences?
text: Did you know that as a member of the Bolivian Chamber of Deputies , Shirley Franco presented a bill that would penalize street harassment with up to eight hours in jail and a 500- boliviano fine?
text: Did you know that the 2021 NCAA Division I men's basketball championship game between Baylor and Gonzaga was the first since 2005 to feature the top two overall seeds of the NCAA tournament?
text: Did you know that Frances Helen Prideaux 's skill convinced Sir William Gull that women were intellectually capable of being doctors?
text: Did you know that Bella Ramsey struggled to hold a real rifle while filming the eighth episode of The Last of Us ?
text: Did you know that although previews called Panzer Dragoon Orta ' s story a sequel to Panzer Dragoon Saga ' s, developers have said that it might reflect an alternative timeline?
text: Did you know that It's So Amazing won an award from the American Library Association before entering the organization's list of the most banned books of the decade?
text: Did you know that the doll company American Girl published The Care and Keeping of You , a book explaining puberty, after receiving thousands of letters from children asking about it?
text: Did you know that Alia Bhatt 's first screen appearance was as the younger version of Preity Zinta 's character in the 1999 horror film Sangharsh ?
text: Did you know that in 2022 Joe Biden delivered a speech in Warsaw addressing the "task of this generation" that was overshadowed by an apparently ad-libbed nine-word comment?
text: Did you know that the Ancient Synagogue in the Jewish quarter of Barcelona is one of the oldest synagogues in Europe?
text: Did you know that soccer player Danielle Marcano scored four goals in back-to-back games that helped to send the University of Tennessee to the NCAA tournament quarterfinals for the first time in history?
text: Did you know that the comet C/1963 A1 (Ikeya) was discovered by 19-year-old amateur astronomer Kaoru Ikeya using a self-made telescope?
text: Did you know that a temple once housed the New York City Opera and New York City Ballet ?
text: Did you know that Kenny Williams set a Polish Basketball League record with 14 three-point shots in a game?
text: Did you know that the 2015 campaign Woman to Woman included a "Pink Bus" that was mocked by critics as sexist and patronising?
text: Did you know that composer Igor Stravinsky fled Russia after the October Revolution , but returned once in 1962 to conduct in Moscow and Leningrad, meeting Nikita Khrushchev during the visit?
text: Did you know that the season finale of The Last of Us used real giraffes?
text: Did you know that Nobel laureate Czesław Miłosz described the 16th-century play The Dismissal of the Greek Envoys by Jan Kochanowski as the finest specimen of Polish humanist drama?
text: Did you know that despite being accused of cowardice at the 28 March 1879 Battle of Hlobane , John Cecil Russell rose to become a major-general?
text: Did you know that a Florida TV station claimed freeze damage to its transmitter as the reason it had to delay its first broadcast?
text: Did you know that it is controversial whether knowledge is the same as justified true belief?
text: Did you know that baseball player Joey Marciano is a cousin of world heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano ?
text: Did you know that some families feel pressure to reclassify their child to compete with their peers who have repeated a grade ?
text: Did you know that Helene Scheu-Riesz created the first German translation of Alice Through the Looking-Glass but struggled with Lewis Carroll 's made-up words?
text: Did you know that a South Carolina TV station went on the air 12 years after its owner said the odds of it existing were "fairly long"?
text: Did you know that Satoko Kishimoto is the first elected female mayor of Suginami , Tokyo?
text: Did you know that when Luna Park opened in 1906, the first program included "comedy sheep"?
text: Did you know that Alex Mivedor , who had been seen as the number two in the ruling RPT party in Togo, was purged from the party leadership in 1983?
text: Did you know that the jazz collective West Coast Get Down once recorded around 190 songs over the course of a month?
text: Did you know that Abdul Ghani Azhari wrote Qadim Tarikh-e-Gujjar in Urdu , detailing the ancient history of Gujjars in India?
text: Did you know that the 2022 essay and short story collection Kilometer 101 was published shortly after the author fled Russia due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine ?
text: Did you know that at 23, Roman Mejia reached the rank of principal dancer at the New York City Ballet , where his father had also danced?
text: Did you know that director Kunihiko Ikuhara created the anime series Revolutionary Girl Utena after becoming frustrated by his lack of creative control as a director of the anime series Sailor Moon ?
text: Did you know that Rancho Obi-Wan contains more than 500,000 Star Wars collectibles?
text: Did you know that Gloria Cameron was the first native Jamaican in the UK to appear on the British television programme This Is Your Life ?
text: Did you know that Gimix acknowledged in 1980 that its computer for home automation was like a "Hollywood-type toy"?
text: Did you know that on his 1994 song " London's Brilliant Parade ", Elvis Costello used a Dobro guitar as an homage to the Kinks ' " Lola "?
text: Did you know that when investigative journalist Dan McCrum published his findings of the Wirecard scandal , German authorities investigated him instead of the company?
text: Did you know that a Texas man who, on his front porch, fatally shot a police officer , was acquitted of murder?
text: Did you know that the post-apocalyptic novel The Mercy Journals was inspired by the Gombe Chimpanzee War , the Rwandan genocide , and the Bible?
text: Did you know that naming every character "Bob" was common in the play-by-mail game Mobius I ?
text: Did you know that Michael Stuart raised three sons to play in the National Hockey League , then established a sled hockey team?
text: Did you know that the 2023 Huwara rampage , a late-night spree of arson and vandalism by hundreds of Israeli settlers, was the worst flare-up of Israeli settler violence in the northern West Bank in decades?
text: Did you know that while defending Zaw Myint Maung following his arrest by the Myanmar junta , lawyer Ywet Nu Aung was herself arrested and charged?
text: Did you know that due to events during the Kinks' 1965 U.S. tour , the American Federation of Musicians blocked the band from performing in the U.S. for the next four years?
text: Did you know that Sanaullah Bhat is considered the father of journalism in Kashmir ?
text: Did you know that due to a dispute over who owned a road in Delta County, Michigan , eight school children missed two weeks of school?
text: Did you know that the melody of " Dokdo Is Our Land " is commonly used by South Korean students as a study tool?
text: Did you know that The Scout Mindset , a book about being able to change one's mind, took five years to be published partly because author Julia Galef changed her mind about what to write?
text: Did you know that 17-year-old cyclist J. Nash McCrea , nicknamed "Crash", caused a major crash at the 1904 Olympics?
text: Did you know that H. G. Wells wrote the majority of The War of the Worlds while living in Woking , and much of the novel is set in the local area?
text: Did you know that through their participation in the Liberian National Transitional Government , warlords could gain access to state resources whilst continuing hostilities between each other?
text: Did you know that physicist Sabine Hossenfelder 's book Existential Physics discusses whether free will , the multiverse , the existence of God , and the meaning of life are topics that science can answer?
text: Did you know that trampolinist Dylan Schmidt is New Zealand's first Olympic medallist in any gymnastics discipline?
text: Did you know that the name of the book Private Peaceful came from a misspelled gravestone?
text: Did you know that clothing physiology is the study of how clothing interacts with the human body and the environment?
text: Did you know that Esmond Venner Keogh was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal in World War I and later protested against the Vietnam War ?
text: Did you know that Meghan Trainor announced her song " Mother " while 21 weeks pregnant?
text: Did you know that Frank Gadsby , nicknamed "Peggy", was a one-legged British stunt diver during the early 20th century?
text: Did you know that in a lawsuit over Mike Tyson's face tattoo , a judge found it "just silly" to say that tattoos cannot be copyrighted, but refused to delay The Hangover Part II ?
text: Did you know that when the 18-year-old New York City Ballet dancer Mira Nadon performed her first major role, The New York Times called her performance a promise to the future?
text: Did you know that people sometimes wonder whether the contortionist Sofie Dossi has a spine?
text: Did you know that it has been a goal of Oregon state senator Bill Hansell to get the potato officially designated as the state vegetable?
text: Did you know that all stable group 5 elements are silvery-blue refractory metals ?
text: Did you know that excavations led by archaeologist Judith Marquet-Krause disproved that the Book of Joshua was a factual account of the city of Ai ?
text: Did you know that Mycobacterium bacterial species constantly remodel their cell wall layers to survive in stressful environments and avoid their host's immune defenses?
text: Did you know that attempts to locate Stonewall Jackson's arm with a metal detector failed?
text: Did you know that jazz composer Duke Ellington worked on his only opera, Queenie Pie , from the 1930s until his death in 1974 without finishing it?
text: Did you know that the Newent Onion Fayre included a raw-onion-eating competition?
text: Did you know that Aly Tewfik Shousha , a founding member of the World Health Organization , died while attending the WHO executive meeting in Geneva?
text: Did you know that a swivel weaving technique was used by cloud brocade weavers in Ming-dynasty China?
text: Did you know that a simple polygon through all the points of a three-by-three grid must pass straight through some of the points, rather than turning at each of them?
text: Did you know that foreign nationals wishing to gain Philippine citizenship need to demonstrate proficiency in English or Spanish as well as a Philippine language?
text: Did you know that according to some Shi'i Muslim authors who wrote under the name of al-Mufaddal ibn Umar al-Ju'fi , unbelievers will be reincarnated into animal, vegetable, or mineral bodies?
text: Did you know that the game director for A Space for the Unbound wanted to preserve his memories as an Indonesian through the game?
text: Did you know ... that millennials pause ?
text: Did you know that New York City's Barbizon Hotel hosted its first male guests on Valentine's Day in 1981 after operating as a women-only hotel for more than five decades?
text: Did you know that the artist and designer Yinka Ilori once made a collection of chairs that were inspired by a Nigerian parable about a giraffe?
text: Did you know that the 14th-century St Mary's Church, Mablethorpe , in Lincolnshire , England, is constructed of material classified as random mixed rubble, red brick and slate?
text: Did you know that Bit House Saloon 's menu featured Rocky Mountain oysters ?
text: Did you know that after being a college football player, William A. Brooks became a prominent surgeon, and had several hospitals named after him?
text: Did you know that the government of El Salvador, the Catholic Church, and street gangs negotiated a truce to reduce homicides from 2012 to 2014?
text: Did you know that Edward Dando once ate 300 oysters with a loaf and a half of bread and butter in one sitting?
text: Did you know that the wildlife of Sudan includes leopards, giraffes, crocodiles, water hyacinth and the umbrella thorn acacia ?
text: Did you know that Japanese pianist Nagaoka Nobuko , a child prodigy called an "absolute genius", was killed in the final American firebombing of Tokyo ?
text: Did you know that a robotic controller for the Yamaha Reface CS was described by Mixmag magazine as looking "like an army of robot toothbrushes cleaning a synth"?
text: Did you know that West Auckland is home to the largest stratovolcano in the geologic history of New Zealand?
text: Did you know that al-Battani was one of the first astronomers to observe that the distance between the Earth and the Sun varies during the year?
text: Did you know that The Embrace , a monument to Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King , was deemed phallic?
text: Did you know that Taylor Swift-lookalike Ashley Leechin went viral for doing laundry?
text: Did you know that Michelangelo's The Creation of Adam was at the centre of controversy in Sudan ?
text: Did you know that after their Apple II clone was seized by U.S. Customs, CompuSource released a portable Apple II clone that was also IBM PC compatible ?
text: Did you know that Cara De Silva described a cookbook compiled by a woman in Terezin concentration camp as a record of "psychological resistance”?
text: Did you know that in 2015, GracePointe Church , Nashville, Tennessee , became one of the first evangelical megachurches to openly support full equality for LGBTQ people?
text: Did you know that traders from Novgorod supplied medieval western Europe with fashionable furs?
text: Did you know that Japanese Breakfast released versions of their song " Be Sweet " in both Korean and Simlish ?
text: Did you know that Nixon 's " Slaughtergate " scandal involved selling kangaroo meat as beef?
text: Did you know that the Roman Catholic Diocese of Suzhou has both the tallest Catholic church building in China and the first ever Chinese bishop to meet the pope ?
text: Did you know that French astrochemist Christine Joblin co-created a webcomic to popularize her research on the origins of cosmic dust ?
text: Did you know that the developers of The Pale Beyond were inspired by stories from historical Antarctic and Arctic expeditions ?
text: Did you know that Larry Kennedy played professional baseball while serving as his town's mayor?
text: Did you know that in 1998, David Bowie launched BowieNet , a pioneering internet service provider which offered exclusive access to audio recordings, music videos, an online chat , and a virtual world ?
text: Did you know that Dutch designer Sabine Marcelis was a semi-professional snowboarder in New Zealand before she decided to pursue a career in the arts?
text: Did you know that the walls of the Paper House are made from newspaper?
text: Did you know that the human rights abuses committed by Indonesian soldiers at ExxonMobil's Arun gas field spawned a U.S. lawsuit against the company that has been stalled for 20 years?
text: Did you know that the Spanish priest Baltasar Calvo was denounced as a "Valencian Robespierre " for leading an 1808 massacre of French residents in Valencia ?
text: Did you know that after the Battle of Winwick in 1648 some Scottish prisoners were sold as slaves?
text: Did you know that Nazi concentration camp commandant Otto Hantke was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1974 at the age of 67 for his acts during the Holocaust ?
text: Did you know that King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard 's " cli-fi " thrash metal album addresses a mix of current ecological threats and attempts to find another planet to live on?
text: Did you know that Pat Cronin , a 19-year-old man, died after he was struck just once on his head during a pub fight?
text: Did you know that Logical Machine Corporation product range of computers included the ADAM, the Mike, and the Tina?
text: Did you know that a SailRail ticket allows travel from any station in Britain to any station in Ireland?
text: Did you know that the last Fatimid caliph , al-Adid , came to the throne as a child, was dominated by his viziers , and died a few days after Saladin abolished the Fatimid regime?
text: Did you know that according to media outlet WLOS , surveillance footage appears to contradict the initial police account of the shooting of Jason Harley Kloepfer at his home in Murphy, North Carolina ?
text: Did you know that Fionula Brennan 's experiments with cytokines led to new therapies to treat rheumatoid arthritis ?
text: Did you know that two years after Instagram's Dear White Staffers started out as a small meme account, it was credited with kickstarting the unionization of U.S. congressional staff ?
text: Did you know that Panagiotis Stamatakis and Heinrich Schliemann quarrelled so much during their excavations at Mycenae that they spoke only through intermediaries?
text: Did you know that micronations have claimed territory in Antarctica, in international waters , and in space?
text: Did you know that a bill poster for the Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railroad ended up robbing the Railroad's own Division station ?
text: Did you know that Omeima Mudawi-Rowlings was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire for services to people with disabilities by the Queen , but received her award from the King ?
text: Did you know that alcohol manufacturers claimed the Northern Territories Alcohol Labels Study violated their freedom of expression?
text: Did you know that after anti-apartheid activist David Rabkin was sentenced to prison in South Africa, he gave the courtroom the clenched-fist black power salute ?
text: Did you know that three of the 16th-century Florentine Otto prints show young males tied to a tree and abused by women?
text: Did you know that lectures given by Charles Lappenbusch were described as "so complicated that those in attendance often didn't know whether to take notes or laugh"?
text: Did you know that the jumbotron at a 2022 Illinois football game displayed a tribute to the piebald squirrel Pinto Bean ?
text: Did you know that a rare 1958 Gibson Flying V guitar named Amos appeared in the 1984 film This Is Spinal Tap ?
text: Did you know that the Ilford Park Polish Home in Stover , Devon, is the last surviving of 45 camps established from 1947 to cater for Polish veterans and their dependants in the UK?
text: Did you know that Lia Lewis became a freestyle football world champion three years after switching over from dance?
text: Did you know that for the 50th anniversary of the word game Lexicon , the publisher organised a Golden Jubilee weekend that included an alphabet soup dinner?
text: Did you know that the discovery of anthropologist Bronisław Malinowski 's diary after his death sparked what was called "a moral crisis of the discipline"?
text: Did you know that the Storrie Fire was started when Union Pacific Railroad workers were repairing train tracks at the Feather Canyon ?
text: Did you know that the New York Yankees were first named after a Scottish regiment ?
text: Did you know that upon being named the head football coach at Central College , C. A. Clingenpeel declared that "we will win one game this year" – and was correct?
text: Did you know that an unidentified ancient temple may be the finest example of a " high place " in the Galilee ?
text: Did you know that Rubel Phillips was the first Republican to run in the Mississippi gubernatorial election since 1947 when he ran in 1963 ?
text: Did you know that Pronto Computers ' System 16 was one of the first computers in the tower form factor?
text: Did you know that at the 2020 Olympics , Lee Chih-kai became the first gymnast competing for Chinese Taipei to win an Olympic medal?
text: Did you know that Charlie Jane Anders wrote preferred pronouns into her science fiction novel Victories Greater Than Death because she thought that alien gender would be unclear to humans?
text: Did you know that a Milwaukee TV station lost a newsgathering vehicle when it fell through ice and into a lake – while reporting on ice safety?
text: Did you know that Hurricane Henri , a minimal category 1 hurricane , set a rainfall record in New York City's Central Park ?
text: Did you know that a retired high school teacher coached the United States men's national ice hockey team at the Winter Olympics?
text: Did you know that the song " Balladen om killen " was unusually released on two record labels, CBS Records International and Mercury Records , around the same time?
text: Did you know that Sister Maureen Keleher said that the first freestanding hospice in Hawaii was like an answer to prayer?
text: Did you know that the Duffield Memorial was termed "quite unique" in 1912, and "unusual" in 2022?
text: Did you know that the second game in the series The Last of Us was developed by more than 2,100 people across 14 studios?
text: Did you know that 76 beavers parachuted into Central Idaho in 1948?
text: Did you know that Ben LaBolt is the first openly gay White House communications director ?
text: Did you know that Chickaboom! , by country musician Tami Neilson , was nominated for both Canadian and New Zealand music awards ?
text: Did you know that in response to the death of Tyre Nichols , Justin J. Pearson has pushed for a law banning officers with criminal records from transferring between police departments?
text: Did you know that Byzantine emperor Maurice was executed at the Harbor of Eutropius ?
text: Did you know that Ida Ospelt-Amann led the revival of dialect poetry in Liechtenstein and was awarded the Golden Cross of Merit ?
text: Did you know that Brian Stableford blamed the cancellation of the follow-up to his 2006 book Science Fact and Science Fiction: An Encyclopedia on the availability of information online?
text: Did you know that Lake Street station was originally on Pond Street?
text: Did you know that the United Ukrainian Ballet Company , consisting of exiled dancers based in The Hague , has toured the UK, Singapore, Australia and the US?
text: Did you know that Benjamin Tompson 's poem "Harvardine Quils" called for writers in New England to memorialize the loss of "whole towns and Churches" in King Philip's War ?
text: Did you know that Iván Arias 's eccentric but successful 2021 La Paz mayoral campaign involved an action figure , comics , and chocolate kisses named and styled in his likeness?
text: Did you know that the rector of the University of Indonesia , Muhammad Kamil Tadjudin , introduced a non-thesis degree policy that allowed students to graduate without publishing a thesis?
text: Did you know that The New Yorker 's purchase of stock in Teleram Communications , a maker of portable computers, was the magazine's first investment in an outside company?
text: Did you know that the novel Alan and Naomi has been called "one of the starkest representations of trauma and traumatic loss"?
text: Did you know that after each win, the Sacramento Kings light the beam ?
text: Did you know that Shirley Kurata is said to have "subverted and reclaimed Asian-centric tropes" through her "outrageous" costume designs for movie villain Jobu Tupaki?
text: Did you know that at the time, the Fountain Fire was the third-most destructive wildfire in California 's recorded history?
text: Did you know that the Uthmaniyya , the partisans of Uthman , the third Muslim caliph , killed his assassin Kinana ibn Bishr in the First Muslim Civil War ?
text: Did you know that Josiane Lima won Brazil's first Paralympic rowing medal?
text: Did you know that Caulfield railway station had a ticket office for the adjacent racecourse and a platform for delivering horses to it?
text: Did you know that police doubt that Arnold Archambeau and Ruby Bruguier died shortly after a car accident, even though their bodies were found near the scene three months later?
text: Did you know that the Baby! 1 microcomputer came shipped in an attaché briefcase?
text: Did you know that Hammersmith by Gustav Holst was acclaimed by Frederick Fennell for having "some of the most treacherous stretches of music making" in band literature?
text: Did you know that economist Robin Greenwood 's work has been used to suggest the bubble nature of Bitcoin and Tesla, Inc. valuations?
text: Did you know that executives of American Family Corporation learned they "could never be the city's news leader" running an underperforming TV station in Columbus, Georgia ?
text: Did you know that Cherry Valentine hid his Romani heritage because he feared he might receive "hate or backlash"?
text: Did you know that caffoy was a fabric similar to cut silk velvet, made from wool and often used for decorations such as hangings and draperies ?
text: Did you know that S. H. M. Byers not only coined the phrase " Sherman's March to the Sea ", but also wrote Iowa's state song ?
text: Did you know that Mad Computers' MAD-1 ran Mad MS-DOS ?
text: Did you know that during the First Balkan War , the capture of Lemnos by the Greek navy enabled it to blockade the Dardanelles ?
text: Did you know that  former CIA agent Bazzel Baz was hired to be a consultant for The Blacklist television series and instead became a cast member?
text: Did you know that the folk ritual jailangkung originates from the Chinese practice of spirit basket divination and has been featured in Indonesian horror films?
text: Did you know that shortly after his capture in 1918 British brigadier general Hubert Conway Rees was interviewed by Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany?
text: Did you know that dishes at the 1888-established Hacı Abdullah Restaurant in Istanbul are cooked in  handcrafted copper pots?
text: Did you know that Lieutenant Governor of Alabama Will Ainsworth started his career as a youth pastor before co-founding a hunting lodge?
text: Did you know that Fortress of the Bear 's founder raised pigs to prove he could take care of bears?
text: Did you know that New Zealand activist Pania Newton gave up a legal career to become an activist and spokesperson for the preservation of her ancestral lands at Ihumātao ?
text: Did you know  that the writer of Poison Ivy: Thorns felt the titular DC Comics character was "tailor made for [her] interests as a nature-loving, gay makeup enthusiast"?
text: Did you know that one of Beverly Robertson 's biggest accomplishments as CEO of the Greater Memphis Chamber was attracting the Ford Motor Company 's US$5.6 billion Blue Oval City complex to Memphis, Tennessee?
text: Did you know that Shiroi Heya no Futari is regarded as the first work of yuri , a genre of manga and other media focused on female-female romance, despite not being the first manga to depict romance between women?
text: Did you know that Nilofer Khan was appointed the first woman vice-chancellor of the University of Kashmir on 19 May 2022?
text: Did you know that Joanna E. Schanz , who received a lifetime achievement award, revived broom making and basket weaving in the Amana Colonies ?
text: Did you know that a locally developed diagnostic probe is used for breast cancer surgeries in Iran?
text: Did you know that in 2021, Uche Eke became the first gymnast to represent Nigeria at the Olympics ?
text: Did you know that an Ohio radio station 's satellite dish was vandalized twice in 1991, believed by the station manager to be due to the outspoken conservative stances of one of the station's hosts?
text: Did you know that Dean Huijsen went from scoring seven goals in one season for Juventus 's under-17 squad to playing for their professional reserve team in just half a year?
text: Did you know that the solar panels of Canyon View High School provide shade from the Arizona heat and provide 20 percent of the school's energy?
text: Did you know that Indian violin player Dwaram Durga Prasad Rao , a recipient of India's highest award for the performing arts , was once an apprentice to a painter?
text: Did you know that mirror neurons may explain the phenomenon of empaths ?
text: Did you know that the Florida Criminal Justice Standards & Training Commission reviewed a case in which a deputy sent a woman a photograph of a cake with the words "Sorry I Tased You" in blue frosting?
text: Did you know that the singer Luci van Org followed up her mainstream success from the 1990s by starting a "Latin–disco–pop–country crossover" band?
text: Did you know that a pond of liquid sulfur was discovered at the summit crater of the Daikoku Seamount in 2006 in the Northern Mariana Islands ?
text: Did you know that before John McClaughry was elected to the Vermont House of Representatives , he traveled about 5,000 miles (8,000 km) in boxcars as a hobo ?
text: Did you know that David Bowie 's song " Let's Dance " began as a folk song?
text: Did you know that the rebooted design of Glimmer from She-Ra was partly inspired by the showrunner's love of Dungeons & Dragons ?
text: Did you know that the Evans Bay Patent Slip was built in 1871 using hundreds of tons of machinery that had sat on a beach for five years?
text: Did you know that the " Barry White of tennis" is a French chair umpire ?
text: Did you know that Muchlis Ibrahim opted to resign as Governor of West Sumatra when Zainal Bakar , instead of his choice, was appointed to be his deputy?
text: Did you know that even though an FCC examiner recommended denial of an application for a radio station in Illinois after approving it twice, the commission granted it anyway?
text: Did you know that Montagu Toller was a part of the British team that played cricket at the 1900 Summer Olympics , the only time cricket was ever featured at the Olympics?
text: Did you know that covers of Bob Dylan 's " Just Like a Woman " by Manfred Mann and Jonathan King were both coincidentally released on the same day Dylan was involved in a motorcycle accident?
text: Did you know that the Cut Meutia is the only active train service in Indonesia using standard-gauge track ?
text: Did you know that the School for American Crafts recruited faculty from Denmark to teach metalsmithing and woodworking?
text: Did you know that Ludwig Ahgren showered on camera during his 31-day continuous livestream ?
text: Did you know that the Crimean Mountain karst nature reserve in Ukraine has more than 1,000 natural karst cavities?
text: Did you know that Gloria Orwoba raised awareness about period poverty by appearing in the Senate of Kenya in apparently blood-stained trousers?
text: Did you know that at the battle of the Great Plains in 203 BC most of the Carthaginian army fled, except for 4,000 Iberians who fought to the death?
text: Did you know that former Union brigadier general J. H. Hobart Ward was struck and killed by a train while on vacation?
text: Did you know that the Backrooms is associated with an Internet aesthetic which includes images of eerie and uninhabited spaces?
text: Did you know that the New York City Board of Education said Rose Freistater weighed too much to be a teacher?
text: Did you know that artwork at Shenton Way MRT station depicts everyday people running after an old banknote ?
text: Did you know that after leading the Khoikhoi in war against the Dutch at the Cape of Good Hope, Doman returned to Dutch service as an interpreter?
text: Did you know that of thirty-five Palestinians killed in the West Bank in January 2023 by Israeli forces and settlers, twenty were from the Jenin refugee camp ?
text: Did you know that the first secular school in Catalonia was founded by the anarcha-feminist Teresa Mañé ?
text: Did you know that East Timor uses the United States dollar, but produces its own coins to facilitate smaller transactions?
text: Did you know that Mark Robinson was a world champion in submission wrestling , sumo and powerlifting ?
text: Did you know that Kaharuddin Datuk Rangkayo Basa refused to be buried at a heroes' cemetery, and so was buried at a regular public cemetery upon his death?
text: Did you know that in the 2000s, New York City's Benjamin Hotel offered a pillow menu and hired a sleep concierge?
text: Did you know that the old adage " feed a cold, starve a fever " was first published in a 1574 dictionary?
text: Did you know that Utah state representative Charles Redd successfully proposed the legalization of horse racing and betting in 1925, only to successfully propose making it illegal again two years later?
text: Did you know that the Cathedral of Our Lady of Seven Sorrows in Suzhou is known for its "hybridity" of Chinese and Western architecture?
text: Did you know that the Jewish anarchist Volin refused to flee Nazi-occupied France as he believed that a revolution would follow the liberation of France ?
text: Did you know that Comcast removed a Florida TV station from its lineup for allegedly broadcasting home shopping in prime time instead of its normal UPN programming?
text: Did you know that John Spencer won a World Snooker Championship on his first attempt in 1969 ?
text: Did you know that Nothing, Forever is completely procedurally generated?
text: Did you know that the Fatimid boy caliph al-Fa'iz bi-Nasr Allah was raised to the throne by the vizier , who had killed his father and uncles?
text: Did you know that of more than 300 schools offering evening classes in the District of Columbia in 1907, only Frelinghuysen University admitted Black students?
text: Did you know that Kloe was a headliner at King Tut's Wah Wah Hut in 2014, despite not being old enough to attend most shows there?
text: Did you know that science fiction authors who want to avoid the paradoxes associated with time travel may instead write about time viewers ?
text: Did you know that three decades after chasing away surveyors for a previous railroad with guns, residents of Wickford, Rhode Island , built their own railroad ?
text: Did you know that Charles Norris-Newman was a war correspondent, a corrupt British colonial official and a Russian intelligence officer?
text: Did you know that a media columnist in Columbus, Georgia , opined: "If TV-16 was a horse, it would have been shot long ago"?
text: Did you know that nursing educator Helen Turner Watson was one of the first African-American women to become a commissioned officer in the United States Navy ?
text: Did you know that Lamar Johnson learned American Sign Language for his role in the fifth episode of The Last of Us ?
text: Did you know that Soviet German literary critic Richard Knorre was injured in an explosion during the siege of Leningrad ?
text: Did you know that George Balanchine choreographed Ballet Imperial to prove that Americans were capable of performing in the traditions of classical ballet ?
text: Did you know that two Norwegians, Erik Fosse and Mads Gilbert , as the only Western doctors at the al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza , found themselves as leading witnesses of the 2008–2009 Gaza War ?
text: Did you know that New York City's Lexington Hotel banned tipping when it opened?
text: Did you know that trains can be pulled by cows ?
text: Did you know that Americano Media wants to be " Fox News in Spanish"?
text: Did you know that Joanna Cherry showed a printed copy of an Internet meme featuring Lily Hoshikawa during a UK parliamentary committee meeting?
text: Did you know that 47-year-old Turkish para-karateka Oya Ekici won the bronze medal at the 2022 European Championships ?
text: Did you know that producers of The Simpsons have spoken about the importance of its LGBT characters in representation?
text: Did you know that HMS Martin was part of the Grand Fleet of the Royal Navy in the First World War, but after the war was sold to be broken up ?
text: Did you know that the saying " give me the man and I will give you the case against him " is usually attributed to Soviet-era public figures such as Beria or Vyshinsky ?
text: Did you know that Ice Spice is Princess Diana ?
text: Did you know that Anne Cooke Reid founded the first Black summer theater in the United States?
text: Did you know that Arthur Arndt 's family was the largest known group of Jews to successfully hide in Germany during the Holocaust ?
text: Did you know that to prepare for her role in the television film Search for Grace , actress Lisa Hartman Black underwent hypnosis?
text: Did you know that United States Air Force colonel Virgil K. Meroney flew two combat missions with his son before his son was killed in action in March 1969, during the Vietnam War ?
text: Did you know that Salar de Pajonales in Chile has been used as an analogue for environments on Mars ?
text: Did you know that in the same year, an Illinois radio station lost its station manager in a car crash and its advertising revenue to flooding?
text: Did you know that Auto-GPT , an autonomous artificial-intelligence software agent, was used to create ChaosGPT, which has not yet achieved its goal of destroying humanity?
text: Did you know that more than 100 traps were set to catch a single stoat on an otherwise predator-free island in Taiari / Chalky Inlet in 2022?
text: Did you know that the Housatonic Railroad used to send 100,000 US quarts (95,000 litres) of milk to New York City per day?
text: Did you know that Godwin Obasi has been described as "Africa's gift to the world of climate science"?
text: Did you know that more than a decade after Edgar Wright assembled the cast of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World , he helped to convince them all to reprise their roles in an anime adaptation of the source material ?
text: Did you know that as part of Bahrainization , the Bahraini government prohibited foreigners from driving taxis?
text: Did you know that delivering newspapers was how Garnett Wikoff became an Olympic runner?
text: Did you know that Hot Gay Time Machine had two life-sized cut-outs of Beyoncé ?
text: Did you know that Fred Narganes is said to be the first Latino wrestler to win an amateur US national championship or to compete for an American university, and among the first Latino-American Olympians ?
text: Did you know that Weltdeutsch was a proposal for a German-based language by Nobel-Prize laureate and pacifist Wilhelm Ostwald , created in an episode of chauvinistic fervour?
text: Did you know that Mira Bellwether 's husband had already read her zine, Fucking Trans Women , years before he met her?
text: Did you know that the publisher of the board game Destination faced financial trouble when a Harry Potter film was delayed?
text: Did you know that the Ladies Musical Club brought Sergei Rachmaninoff , Marian Anderson , and Pablo Casals to perform in Seattle?
text: Did you know that Mira , a Hong Kong YouTuber, was asked by the Korea Tourism Organization to be a spokeswoman for Michelin-starred restaurants one year after she started her channel?
text: Did you know that one can change from doing 'sad girl music' to dissing your favorite rapper ?
text: Did you know that in the Forum of Augustus in Rome, elogia were hung on statues of commanders and Augustus 's ancestors?
text: Did you know that the pseudonymous manga artist Junichi Yamakawa never disclosed to his editor his legal name, address, or contact information?
text: Did you know that either dog feces, or hen and pigeon manure, were used by tanners to produce a soft leather ?
text: Did you know that Drag Isn't Dangerous is a charitable telethon set to be hosted by numerous drag queens to oppose the Tennessee drag-ban bill ?
text: Did you know that Leopoldo Salazar Viniegra laid the foundation for the Reglamento Federal de Toxicomanias, which legalized psychoactive substances in Mexico in 1940?
text: Did you know that the mainland portion of Lake of the Woods Provincial Park in northwestern Ontario , Canada, was deregulated as part of a First Nations land claim settlement?
text: Did you know that Devin Futrell used a post to dodge a draft ?
text: Did you know that The Steranko History of Comics has been described as the first piece of cultural analysis on American comic books?
text: Did you know that Heinz Schwarz attended all CDU party conventions from the first ever in 1950 to 2020?
text: Did you know that the Lewis and Clark Expedition documented the Ionia Volcano ?
text: Did you know that although he only had ten minutes to learn to play offensive lineman , college football player Jake Witt was able to successfully block against "the best defensive line" in the U.S.?
text: Did you know that the Irish N53 road from Dundalk to Castleblayney has a 6-kilometre (3.7 mi) gap where it enters Northern Ireland ?
text: Did you know that Cambodia's first science-fiction film, Karmalink , combines Buddhist concepts of karma with themes of artificial intelligence?
text: Did you know that Émile Aubrun flew circles around a golden virgin ?
text: Did you know that the Gouzenko Affair marked the beginning of the Cold War in Canada ?
text: Did you know that Sujudi had his election to the post of rector of the University of Indonesia overruled by the Indonesian government?
text: Did you know that when Zenni Optical released a Super Bowl LIV advertisement, its website told a number of customers that eyeglasses deliveries would be delayed for weeks?
text: Did you know that Burmese princess Myat Phaya Gyi was impregnated by a servant, gave up her royal privileges, and lived a life of poverty?
text: Did you know that the soundtrack of The Last of Us features a song performed by Nick Offerman , who played a character in the series ?
text: Did you know that the government of Ethiopia's SNNP Region supported local governments calling for a referendum to secede from the region ?
text: Did you know that British designer Alexander McQueen constructed a dress made of clear pallet wrap for his Spring/Summer 1995 collection The Birds ?
text: Did you know that ninja families in Sengoku Japan established self-governing confederacies in Iga and in Kōka , which formed an alliance ?
text: Did you know that soprano Carolina White performed the title role in the United States premiere of Il segreto di Susanna at the Metropolitan Opera in 1911?
text: Did you know that the gender of the villains in Galaxy 4 was switched to female partly due to the women's liberation movement ?
text: Did you know that Trinidad Arroyo was allowed to vote in a Spanish election 17 years before women were granted suffrage?
text: Did you know that in 2022 an Egyptian company was awarded the contract to build the first toll highway in Madagascar ?
text: Did you know that Darryl Milburn made his Canadian Football League debut on his birthday, but did not appear in any other games that year?
text: Did you know that Arnold Schoenberg composed a film score to no film ?
text: Did you know that US embassy staff in Moscow during the Cold War used Magic Slates to stop the KGB from intercepting their communications?
text: Did you know that the creators of the 1990 game Star Control designed a starship for an alien race of female humanoids, naming it the Penetrator for its resemblance to a ribbed condom ?
text: Did you know that Ilona Tóth testified that she had injected a man with gasoline?
text: Did you know that "Fear", an episode of The 1619 Project , traces present-day vigilante violence against Black youths in the United States to the fear of slave rebellions?
text: Did you know that as mayor, Muhammad Saleh Arifin permitted a temporary gambling area in Medan , Indonesia, saying that it would fund a new street?
text: Did you know that there was only one Friedrichshafen FF.1 aircraft and it was destroyed in a crash?
text: Did you know that Mardijo was sentenced to one, then two, then one, then two years in prison?
text: Did you know that the Millennium Complex in Plymouth , England, has hosted a cinema, dance hall, roller disco and night club?
text: Did you know that Aubri Esters was among the winners of a hackathon focusing on ways to reduce drug addiction and drug-related deaths?
text: Did you know that the bridge on the R565 road to Valentia Island was opened twice?
text: Did you know that police investigating the murder of Una Crown initially thought that she had accidentally set herself on fire and cut her own throat with her scarf?
text: Did you know that the bishop of Oregon's residence in Portland once had a private chapel, a ballroom, and a wine cellar?
text: Did you know that Abdillah was sworn in as the mayor of Medan , Indonesia, in an abrupt and secretive ceremony?
text: Did you know that the play-by-email game Lords of the Earth takes about 25 years to play?
text: Did you know that Ethan Loch , a blind pianist, was inspired by Rowlf the Dog ?
text: Did you know that Money Shot: The Pornhub Story was described by multiple reviewers as unsalacious?
text: Did you know that Liberian factions voted Bismarck Kuyon to be the chair of the transitional executive branch of the government, but his nomination was revoked before he was installed?
text: Did you know that the Marble Hall in Osmaston, Derby , was built in 1912 as offices for the factory manufacturing the Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost ?
text: Did you know that Clara Stauffer was the only woman on the Allied Control Council 's list of 104 wanted Nazis in Spain?
text: Did you know that the battle of Zama commenced with a charge by 80 war elephants ?
text: Did you know that former NBA basketball player Leroy Chollet benched his own coach?
text: Did you know that today is the Day of Books and Roses , which originated in Barcelona in 1926 as the Day of the Book, described as a "festival of civility and intelligence"?
text: Did you know that in 2009 Jeff Wrana helped to develop a biological model that might play a role in predicting whether a woman is more likely to recover from breast cancer ?
text: Did you know that the elite men's event at today's London Marathon featured four of the five fastest competitors of all time?
text: Did you know that the first ambassador at the Philippine embassy in Manama would later be injured in the 2000 bombing of the Philippine embassy in Jakarta ?
text: Did you know that NIU dormitory residents cast 65,000 write-in votes to elect Matt Hicks to the 1977 Pizza Hut All-American game?
text: Did you know that the 1917 Leeds Convention in Britain passed resolutions calling for the end of the First World War and praising the February Revolution in Russia?
text: Did you know that the 19-story Starrett–Lehigh Building was built on the principle of "every floor a first floor"?
text: Did you know that for a rare performance in 2023 of the St Matthew Passion by the 18th-century composer Homilius , the conductor Clemens Bosselmann had to track down handwritten sheet music?
text: Did you know that a former armory in New York City later housed ESPN offices?
text: Did you know that St Julian's Church was the only church in Norwich destroyed during World War II to be rebuilt?
text: Did you know that after Ray Hall threw an apple at Jo Jo White , White became Hall's sports agent ?
text: Did you know that YouTube channel Trial & Error 's manner of selling live-show tickets— HK$ 10,000 on day one, $5,000 on day two, all the way to $10 on day 24—appeared on a university entrance exam ?
text: Did you know that Maria Stromberger was sent to Auschwitz at her own request?
text: Did you know that a man dropped his hat while riding Flight Deck and went to retrieve it, but ended up dying after being struck by the foot of a rider?
text: Did you know that Still Life with Books by Jan Lievens is an example of the vanitas genre of painting?
text: Did you know that Digital Domain created a new facial-capture system to help create the look of Thanos in Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame ?
text: Did you know that Saulteaux linguist Margaret Cote was the first person in Saskatchewan to teach a First Nations language in a public school?
text: Did you know that newspapers in Brazil printed cake recipes and 16th-century poetry to cover material censored by the military dictatorship ?
text: Did you know that President James Monroe promised the eastern Cherokee a "gateway to the setting sun" where they were not "surrounded by the White man", which resulted in the creation of Lovely's Purchase ?
text: Did you know that blogger Vladlen Tatarsky was killed by a bomb hidden in a bust of himself?
text: Did you know that Untitled Goose Game escaped being called Some Like It Honk ?
text: Did you know that Confederate troops under Colonel George Wythe Baylor disabled two Union tinclad gunboats on the Red River in Louisiana on May 5, 1864?
text: Did you know that during a guerrilla campaign in 1968, the Iraqi Communist Party – Central Command attacked the house of Saddam Hussein ?
text: Did you know that Medan under Rahudman Harahap attempted a crackdown on pig farms within city limits, but backed down after local opposition?
text: Did you know that after Michael Jordan was fired by the Washington Wizards , he wanted to move the Capital Classic from the Washington, D.C., area to New York?
text: Did you know that after a riot destroyed some local churches, Marie-Julien Dunand , a French missionary in China, ordered the construction of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Chengdu and Annunciation Seminary in Pengzhou?
text: Did you know that there was an American version of the Eurovision Song Contest , but it was not renewed for a 2023 season?
text: Did you know that Rosa Smester Marrero said that without women, men would live the life of a turnip ?
text: Did you know that Nationalist China 's own Northeastern Army captured Chiang Kai-shek to convince him to end the civil war against the Chinese Communist Party ?
text: Did you know that the 2018 book The Longevity Diet claims that a "fast-mimicking diet" increases lifespan and healthspan?
text: Did you know that Rihanna and Dua Lipa participated in #BlueforSudan to bring attention to the 3 June 2019 Khartoum massacre ?
text: Did you know that the periodic comet 323P/SOHO approaches the Sun at a distance of 0.04 AU , nearer than any other numbered comet, every 4.15 years?
text: Did you know that the Berlin embassy of the Italian Social Republic published the weekly La Voce della Patria from 1943 to 1944 for distribution among Italian Military Internees in Germany?
text: Did you know that Francois Massaquoi , who studied economics at New York University , later led the Lofa Defense Force during the First Liberian Civil War ?
text: Did you know that The Noble Fisherman unusually places Robin Hood in the seaside town of Scarborough , and he ends up fighting French pirates?
text: Did you know that Swedish footballer Taha Ayari made his Allsvenskan debut by coming on as a substitute for his older brother ?
text: Did you know that the court case Nintendo of America, Inc. v. Blockbuster Entertainment Corp. helped allow the game rental market to thrive for the years that followed the case?
text: Did you know that when he was the rector of the University of Indonesia , Asman Boedisantoso Ranakusuma sometimes took the train to campus to overhear criticism of the school?
text: Did you know that Fairleigh Dickinson 's upset victory over Purdue was the biggest upset in terms of point spread in NCAA tournament history, with Purdue being a 23 + 1 ⁄ 2 -point favorite?
text: Did you know that the Friedrichshafen FF.19 became the first German aircraft to conduct successful tests with wireless telegraphy ?
text: Did you know that both candidates in the 1866 Helston by-election received the same number of votes?
text: Did you know that there are no werewolves in Mexican Werewolf in Texas ?
text: Did you know that the Mosaic of Rehob is the oldest surviving Talmudic text?
text: Did you know that the men's winner of the 2022 New York City Marathon was almost hit by a vehicle during the race?
text: Did you know that after losing her eyesight to toxoplasmosis , Rhina Aguirre dedicated herself to disability rights and was elected to the Bolivian Senate in 2009?
text: Did you know that you can see the sea from every apartment in Arlington House, Margate ?
text: Did you know that 161 years ago today, William Y. Slack was promoted to brigadier general , even though he was already dead?
text: Did you know that Sasajiscymnus tsugae is used as a biological control method for the hemlock woolly adelgid , an invasive pest of the eastern hemlock ?
text: Did you know that Museum Arnhem in the Netherlands celebrated its 100th anniversary with a giant cat picture ?
text: Did you know that a pregnant Sally Buchanan was said to have carried bullets in her apron and distributed whiskey while singing during the Battle of Buchanan's Station ?
text: Did you know that Latin legal maxims like casum sentit dominus have been described as "guardians of eternity [...] more lasting than codifications "?
text: Did you know that the ruined Fort Phantom Hill was briefly a town that was the seat of Jones County, Texas ?
text: Did you know that Erich Korngold 's Die tote Stadt had simultaneous premieres in Cologne and Hamburg in 1920, one with Johanna Geisler and her husband Otto Klemperer ?
text: Did you know that a filing for a temporary restraining order to stop the release of Get Up and Dance in the United States by the publisher of the Just Dance series was denied?
text: Did you know that the Indonesian town of Tiakur experienced a shortage of specialist doctors due to them not renewing their contract?
text: Did you know that comedian Kemah Bob maintains a drag king persona, Lil' Test Ease?
text: Did you know that Armenian-Turkish soprano Sibil Pektorosoğlu released her first album after singing in a church choir for almost twenty years?
text: Did you know that logic translations can be used to analyze whether arguments expressed in ordinary language are correct?
text: Did you know that Indonesia and Malaysia founded the Council of Palm Oil Producing Countries to promote the use of palm oil ?
text: Did you know that Meyers and Elle Leonard donated US$500,000 toward the renovation of the site of their first date?
text: Did you know that X-radiographs of Jan Lievens 's circa 1629–1630 Self-Portrait showed that the artist made "transformative revisions to his appearance" in the portrait?
text: Did you know that Rachel Belden Brooks was an African-American pioneer who was awarded $1,000 when she sued the estate of her previous enslaver?
text: Did you know that black lemurs use toxic millipede secretions as insect repellent, and apparently enjoy their narcotic effect ?
text: Did you know that Thierry Coquand won a SIGPLAN award for his eponymous proof assistant Coq , which was used to find a formal proof of the four color theorem ?
text: Did you know that the Chinese-language forum 1Point3Acres created a COVID-19 tracker used by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ?
text: Did you know that Mary Shadow , the first unmarried woman in the Tennessee House of Representatives , received fourteen marriage proposals after her election?
text: Did you know that the poem " Ovid in the Third Reich " has been described as "a classic reaction" to the Eichmann trial , despite being published before the trial was held?
text: Did you know that Airis Computer 's 1991 laptop could be powered with ten C batteries as an alternative to a rechargeable pack?
text: Did you know that Christian Keller worked as an academic before running SSV Jahn Regensburg ?
text: Did you know that Ned Beatty turned down the role of John Doe in the film Seven because the script was the "most evil thing" he had ever read?
text: Did you know that Foster Loyer broke Michigan's high-school and Steph Curry 's Davidson records for consecutive free throws ?
text: Did you know that the 2023 United Kingdom student protests were organised on TikTok and Snapchat?
text: Did you know that at the age of 27 New Zealand entrepreneur Jamie Beaton had degrees from Harvard, Stanford, Oxford, and Tsinghua University , and was working on his seventh degree, from Yale?
text: Did you know that It Was Hot, We Stayed in the Water explores the theme of water and was inspired by Phil Elverum 's visits to the ocean?
text: Did you know that in 1956 Green Bay Packers athletic trainer Bud Jorgensen became the first athletic trainer selected by the National Football League to treat players at a Pro Bowl ?
text: Did you know that the St. Raphael Provincial Park in Northern Ontario , Canada, is part of the 1,530 km 2 (590 sq mi) St. Raphael Signature Site, which is recognized for its natural and recreational values?
text: Did you know that in the 1970s, residents of the Belnord in New York City had to sneak in refrigerators at night?
text: Did you know that John Hoke III , who is dyslexic and the chief design officer of Nike, has described drawing as his first language ?
text: Did you know that The Vision of God sparked controversy in Mexican radio?
text: Did you know that Atari hired a number of graffiti artists for the remixed versions of classic arcade games in Retro Atari Classics ?
text: Did you know that Albert Luthuli was the first African to win the Nobel Peace Prize ?
text: Did you know that Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park , modeled on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. , was created to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the statehood of Tennessee in 1996?
text: Did you know that in 1819 Michael O'Sullivan , a member of the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada , fought a duel in Montreal with William Caldwell over a proposal to create the Montreal General Hospital ?
text: Did you know that there is a "desert" in Maine ?
text: Did you know that 100 beerhouses were licensed in Brighton (population 40,000) in the first week after the Beerhouse Act 1830 was enacted?
text: Did you know that beekeeper Erika Thompson uses her bare hands to scoop up bees?
text: Did you know that when recording what became " Suze (The Cough Song) ", Bob Dylan started coughing, then said that the song ended before his coughing started, and asked the producer to fade it out?
text: Did you know that during the time of the Church Fathers , the velatio nuptialis was used by the church to validate the sacrament of marriage and emphasize its importance?
text: Did you know that Estonian minister of war Paul Lill resigned in 1939, citing the unacceptable conditions of the Bases Treaty with the Soviet Union?
text: Did you know that in 1979, Vermont ETV received more donations from viewers in Quebec than it did from Vermonters ?
text: Did you know that a local councillor complained that the R319 road in County Mayo had more humps and hollows than a camel's back?
text: Did you know that when a tourist's corpse was found atop the Apthorp , The New York Times wrote that "it struck some tenants not as an oddity but as a metaphor" for life there?
text: Did you know that before becoming the mayor of Medan , Indonesia, Agus Salim Rangkuti acted in movies and oversaw a real-life political prison camp?
text: Did you know that M.I.A. originally wanted to name her newest album after her son but instead named it Mata ?
text: Did you know that Yeshiva University basketball star Dave Kufeld was the first Orthodox Jew ever to be selected in the NBA draft ?
text: Did you know that Sonia Chadwick Hawkes led a rescue excavation at the Updown early medieval cemetery in 1976 because the site was threatened by a planned pipeline?
text: Did you knowthat Audrey Whitty , who created an exhibition about the thousands of Irish children who died in care , is now the director of the National Library of Ireland ?
text: Did you know that according to legend, the Third Month Fair was originally held on the Moon?
text: Did you know that Melanie Martinez 's song, " Death ", was her first chart hit in more than a decade?
text: Did you know that while serving as the mayor of Malang , Peni Suparto led a protest in front of the city hall?
text: Did you know that Splatoon 3 became the fastest-selling video game of all time in Japan three days after launch?
text: Did you know that Elena Rybakina's coach promised to get a tattoo of her name if she ever won Wimbledon – and did so?
text: Did you know that Jasmila Žbanić 's experience of living through the siege of Sarajevo influenced her work on the sixth episode of The Last of Us ?
text: Did you know that Brennley Brown was a finalist on The Voice when she was only 15 years old?
text: Did you know that the developers of 161 Maiden Lane offered luxury yachts to attract tenants?
text: Did you know that in February 2023, Italian footballer Samuele Parlati saved a penalty kick while playing as an emergency goalkeeper ?
text: Did you know that songs in The Beautiful Letdown are "chunky", "gentle", and "nois[y]"?
text: Did you know that the Romans used grappling hooks during the Battle of Corycus to board Seleucid ships?
text: Did you know that Paris Opera Ballet dancer Guillaume Diop co-authored a manifesto that called for the Paris Opera to make urgent changes to address racial discrimination?
text: Did you know that at the 2022 Primetime Emmy Awards The White Lotus was nominated in five categories and won in all?
text: Did you know that Abbas ibn Abi al-Futuh was a Zirid prince who became a vizier of the Fatimid Caliphate after assassinating his stepfather, and was overthrown after murdering caliph al-Zafir ?
text: Did you know that in 1967 Hilton Hotels revealed plans for a 100-room hotel on the Moon ?
text: Did you know that a revival of the comedy series Lizzie McGuire was ordered in 2019, but canceled mid-production after Disney deemed it not family-friendly enough?
text: Did you know that King Charles III 's wife left him after she found four of his lovers living in his palace?
text: Did you know that Sweden won the Eurovision Song Contest 1999 , twenty-five years after ABBA brought the country its first victory in the contest?
text: Did you know that Liberian paramount chief Tamba Taylor worked as a tailor and claimed to have sewn clothes for Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie and Ghanaian president Kwame Nkrumah ?
text: Did you know that the LAPD Special Investigation Section trains military special forces in surveillance?
text: Did you know that Gottfried August Homilius wrote Passions for Good Friday services during his time as music director of the Church of the Holy Cross in Dresden?
text: Did you know that Basic Medicine features North Korean propaganda?
text: Did you know that Prilep's Old Bazaar contains a leaning clock tower ?
text: Did you know that in 1945 the US Army confiscated the Hotel Rose in Wiesbaden , which is now the Hessian State Chancellery ?
text: Did you know that the opera Omar , about the Muslim scholar Omar ibn Said , had its world premiere in a theater located less than a mile from the site where he was sold as a slave?
text: Did you know that Panzer Dragoon II Zwei features a villain inspired by Dune 's Baron Harkonnen, visuals inspired by the work of Jean Giraud , and a fictional language ?
text: Did you know that Andrew Klemencic said "I don't think that I blockaded the streets nearly as bad as the Salvation Army " after Hawaii police fined him for speaking on a street corner in 1900?
text: Did you know that the Monument to the Victims of the Holocaust in Madrid was the first Holocaust memorial in Spain when it opened in 2007?
text: Did you know that football linebacker Roger Bonk was nicknamed "the Boinker"?
text: Did you know that when Nestor Binabo 's wife was freed by her kidnappers, she was given a bag of fish and told to make her husband peppersoup ?
text: Did you know that the Poison Book Project has identified more than 100 books that contain arsenic ?
text: Did you know that for Live at Bush Hall the band Black Country, New Road created three distinct backstories for its performances, including one about a pizza chef who comes across a poltergeist ?
text: Did you know that the children of papercutting artist Claire von Greyerz received some of their education together with Napoleon III ?
text: Did you know that originally, residents of New York City's Ansonia Hotel received fresh eggs from a farm on its roof?
text: Did you know that a Lady Gaga song became popular 11 years after its release, when videos showing Jenna Ortega , as Wednesday Addams , dancing to the song became viral on TikTok?
text: Did you know that knees and elbows were censored on Manga Up! ?
text: Did you know that UCLA basketball player Jaylen Clark was named the Naismith Defensive Player of the Year in 2023, after also significantly improving on offense?
text: Did you know that, amongst the kidneys of the vertebrates , only those of mammals and birds can produce concentrated urine?
text: Did you know that Constantine , an infant Byzantine emperor, reportedly died by drowning in a cistern after escaping the care of his nurse?
text: Did you know that a Kansas City TV station had so many children's shows to air that the station manager talked of "fit[ting] so many ten-pound turnips into a five-pound sack"?
text: Did you know that in 1952 a 19-year-old footman shot Lady Derby and three members of staff at Knowsley Hall in England?
text: Did you know that the 2023 series Farzi tells the story of a counterfeiting ring as well as the fakeness of people?
text: Did you know that a special case was instrumental to harpist Steffy Goldner 's professional career and legacy?
text: Did you know that 22-year-old singer Milena Warthon has created a new genre, pop andino , by fusing pop and Andean music ?
text: Did you know that Nottingham Forest 's victory in the 2022 EFL Championship play-off final gained them promotion to the Premier League for the first time in 23 years?
text: Did you know that at the peak of the 2018 Tinder Fire in Arizona , 695 firefighters worked to contain its spread?
text: Did you know that the Kipsigis people wrote a folk song about American singer Jimmie Rodgers , whom they called " Chemirocha "?
text: Did you know that Iyarkai is based on the true story of a man who got lost in the Mediterranean Sea and never returned?
text: Did you know that Brightwell Manor was the home of a eugenicist clergyman who did not believe in democracy ?
text: Did you know that the Federal Communications Commission 's comparative hearing criteria for awarding broadcast licenses were struck down as "arbitrary and capricious"?
text: Did you know that the Alchymic Quartet is a string quartet by Graham Waterhouse , to be performed alongside chemical experiments of Andrew Szydlo , his former teacher at Highgate School ?
text: Did you know that during the 1913 El Paso smelters' strike the Industrial Workers of the World and the Western Federation of Miners competed to organize the strikers with their respective labor unions ?
text: Did you know that Lewes Road in Brighton has a gyratory named after a pornographic cinema?
text: Did you know that the 1919 suite of The Firebird contained "more than three hundred errors"?
text: Did you know that British outrage at the sentencing of a white Kenyan settler to just two years' imprisonment for the 1923 killing of a black employee eventually led to the replacement of the colony's legal code?
text: Did you know that Avi Kwa Ame National Monument , protected as a national monument since March 21, 2023, is a significant habitat of Joshua trees and threatened desert tortoises ?
text: Did you know that the game designer of the video game Hades said that the characters were attractive "because Jen Zee "?
text: Did you know that Charles III abdicated to become a monk, leaving his land divided between his younger brothers?
text: Did you know that an artist tried to fly on a Hummingbird ?
text: Did you know that the Loophonium , a cross between a euphonium and a toilet, was played alongside the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic on April Fools' Day ?
text: Did you know that Edith of Wilton was criticized for not working after her death?
text: Did you know that Twelves , a pet monkey , died and became a diamond ?
text: Did you know that " 'average person eats 3 spiders a year' factoid actualy just statistical error "?
text: Did you know that a rabbit played for the Philadelphia Eagles – as there's a drive into deep left field by Castellanos , that will be a home run. And so that will make it a 4–0 ballgame?
text: Did you know that the Optimizer by Capex Corporation brought memory and runtime savings to COBOL programs running on IBM mainframes ?
text: Did you know that as part of its strategy of political renovation, National Convergence nominated a librarian to contest one of Bolivia's most competitive legislative districts?
text: Did you know that the title of the livestreaming concert Freedom came from Regine Velasquez 's desire to have freedom of singing anything she wants?
text: Did you know that in the 2022 film Saint Omer , Guslagie Malanda plays a character based on convicted murderer Fabienne Kabou , while Kayije Kagame plays a stand-in for director Alice Diop ?
text: Did you know that the site of Mount Bibele is home to a necropolis with 171 tombs?
text: Did you know that Ruth Scott Miller , the first female music critic for the Chicago Tribune , said she was hired to "write for the masses and not for 'four or five thousand freak music lovers ' "?
text: Did you know that not all military rations are food?
text: Did you know that duplex stainless steel can undergo 475 °C embrittlement that causes a loss of plasticity when it is heated between 250 °C and 550 °C?
text: Did you know that Vietnam War photojournalist Art Greenspon was wounded in the face by a shot that had first passed through colleague Co Rentmeester 's hand?
text: Did you know that programs at a Cleveland public TV station had to be recorded in between school bells and fire drills?
text: Did you know that actress Eula Morgan performed opera in her 1940s film roles, such as Madame Rinaldi in The Great American Broadcast ?
text: Did you know that the ownership group of San Diego's MLS team includes a Native American tribe and baseball player Manny Machado ?
text: Did you know that chef Lata Tondon once set a Guinness World Record with a cooking marathon lasting 87 hours 45 minutes?
text: Did you know that the relatively low standards of player selection for Somerset County Cricket Club in 1883 have been described as being "determined with a nod and a wink over drinks"?
text: Did you know that Lamia Al-Gailani Werr helped rebuild the Iraq Museum after it was looted in the 2003 American-led invasion of Iraq?
text: Did you know that of approximately 140 men stranded after a shipwreck on Wager Island in 1741, only 36 returned alive to Britain, according to Rear Admiral C. H. Layman?
text: Did you know that Roy McGrath , who was the chief of staff to Maryland governor Larry Hogan , was wanted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and was killed during a shootout by agents?
text: Did you know that the 2003 book The Reconstruction of Nations describes how "national reconciliation is possible after even the most terrible conflicts", including ethnic cleansing?
text: Did you know that the bird subspecies Alcippe dubia genestieri is named after Annet Genestier , a French missionary-botanist in China who also built Zhongding Catholic Church in 1908?
text: Did you know that the historical-romance novel My Tender Matador includes a fictionalized version of the attempted assassination of Augusto Pinochet ?
text: Did you know that in college, American football lineman Zack Johnson played directly next to Zack Johnson?
text: Did you know that actor Glenn Strange was unaware that he was being called to play Frankenstein's monster in House of Frankenstein until he reported to the make-up room?
text: Did you know that when journalist and trade unionist Nisn Pups was released from jail, the Communist Party of Lithuania instructed him to change his name?
text: Did you know that scientists initially could not determine which direction Weywot was orbiting?
text: Did you know that Samuel Dexter Lecompte , the pro-slavery chief justice of Kansas Territory before the Civil War, administered oaths to the Fugitive Slave Act instead of the United States Constitution ?
text: Did you know that records of transgender people in Finland stretch back to the 19th century?
text: Did you know that crew members had to sign non-disclosure agreements to stop them revealing that the Inside No. 9 episode " Hold on Tight! " was fake?
text: Did you know that evangelist Bob Harrington would drive miles out of his way to avoid the sight of a steeple?
text: Did you knowthat the Locumba uprising was thought by many to be a cover for the escape of Vladimiro Montesinos , Peru's de facto leader from 1990 to 2000?
text: Did you know that Edward D. Boone was the last surviving member of his 1851 graduating class from the College of the Holy Cross ?
text: Did you know that the Easter composition Surrexit a mortuis ('He rose from the dead') was scored for choir and two organs by Charles-Marie Widor , the organist at Saint-Sulpice in Paris?
text: Did you know that one abolitionist said that William L. Breckinridge 's anti-slavery views would "disqualify [him] from political usefulness"?
text: Did you know that variations of the Latin legal maxim ius civile vigilantibus scriptum est have been used by American, European and Lesotho courts?
text: Did you know that the Standseilbahn Linth-Limmern , the funicular railway with the highest transport payload capacity (215 tonnes), was built to move four transformers 882 m (2,894 ft) uphill?
text: Did you know that before becoming a legislator, Bettina Petzold-Mähr played volleyball for Liechtenstein when they defeated Lichtenstein ?
text: Did you know that Zayn al-Din Qaraja was imprisoned and executed by the Mamluk Sultanate after he declared the independence of the Beylik of Dulkadir ?
text: Did you know that " London shrunk " garments can go for several weeks without needing ironing ?
text: Did you know that Katharina von Schnurbein is the European Commission 's first coordinator on combatting antisemitism , having served in the role since 2015?
text: Did you know that the show Protection Court continued to air episodes during an investigation launched by the Florida Judicial Qualifications Commission alleging that litigants were filmed without their consent?
text: Did you know that a giant sculpture of melting whipped cream with a cherry on top transmitted a live feed of passers-by in Trafalgar Square , London?
text: Did you know that Jordan St. Cyr , a Christian songwriter from a small town in Manitoba , won the first Juno Award for which he was nominated?
text: Did you know that the late-Victorian Pagan Review lasted for a single issue and all of its content was written by one person?
text: Did you know. that Prodigy Math Game was initially created as a school project?
text: Did you know that Anggara Wicitra Sastroamidjojo , a regional councillor in Jakarta , Indonesia, received media attention for bringing his seven-month-old child into the legislative chamber?
text: Did you know that a book about Mormon polygamy claims that polygamy was an early form of feminism?
text: Did you know that the Mongol general Boroqul saved the life of the future Ögedei Khan by continually sucking clotted blood from a wound on his neck?
text: Did you know that the word ' tissue ' in textiles refers to types of fabric that are delicate, lightweight, and sheer in nature?
text: Did you know that a world record has been set every year Gqeberha has held its Breaking Barriers 50km event?
text: Did you know that film critic and censor D. I. Suchianu wanted Romanian moviegoers to cease "falling asleep whenever they're not shown a naked breast [or] a hip that's getting some action"?
text: Did you know that the Otoskwin–Attawapiskat River Provincial Park , protecting the Otoskwin and Attawapiskat Rivers in Ontario , Canada, has archaeological and historical sites dating from 3000 BC to the 1800s?
text: Did you know that Crying Ladies and Donsol , films starring Angel Aquino , were Philippine submissions for Best International Feature Film at the 77th and 80th Academy Awards , respectively?
text: Did you know that to learn the rules of American football, Australian Adam Korsak , who was named the best college punter in 2022, played Madden NFL 06 and watched Any Given Sunday ?
text: Did you know that the Game Boy –released game Monster Max was considered by critics to be the closest in quality to The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening ?
text: Did you know that in 2019, a rockfall on the Spanish Autovia C-13 caused skiing holidays to be cancelled?
text: Did you know that while Philippine Spanish has been described as an endangered language , a new generation of speakers has emerged?
text: Did you know that Ulysses S. Grant was arrested for speeding in his horse carriage when he was a general?
text: Did you know that several composers wrote coloratura arias specifically for the voice of Italian opera singer Maria Giustina Turcotti ?
text: Did you know that despite Missourians voting for Henry Clay , Missouri representative John Scott voted for John Quincy Adams ?
text: Did you know that Curtis Aiken set the New York State Public High School Athletic Association single-season boys' basketball scoring record?
text: Did you know that Deng Xiaoping called his actions during the Baise Uprising "one of the worst mistakes" of his life?
text: Did you know that Asia Abdelmajid , a pioneering Sudanese actress, was killed in crossfire during the 2023 Sudan conflict ?
text: Did you know that confectioner William Westerfeld hired architect Henry Geilfuss to design his home in San Francisco , and then died in it?
text: Did you know that the ancient Romans kept leopards in captivity to be used in the executions of criminals?
text: Did you know that Polish-Jewish Post-Impressionist painter and Dadaist Marcel Słodki was arrested by the Germans in France and died in Auschwitz concentration camp ?
text: Did you know that Valley Public Television once raffled off a 1961 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud , according to the wishes of the man who bequeathed it to the station?
text: Did you know that Sheila P. Burke was once known as the 101st U.S. senator?
text: Did you know that after a guest smuggled a lion into the Hotel Belleclaire using a piano crate, the lion was thrown out of the hotel?
text: Did you know that Vanessa Feltz 's ex-fiancé Ben Ofoedu sang on hits by Benz , Phats & Small , and Intenso Project ?
text: Did you know that the Chicano Liberation Front claimed responsibility for 28 bombings in Los Angeles in 1970 and 1971?
text: Did you know that it once took two days to determine whether a slam dunk by Lester Rowe at the buzzer counted?
text: Did you know that the Pimlico tube station is the deepest station below sea level on the Victoria line ?
text: Did you know that Dafne Navarro was the first trampoline gymnast to represent Mexico at the Olympics ?
text: Did you know that Dubuque, Arkansas , was destroyed in the American Civil War and is now covered by the waters of Bull Shoals Lake ?
text: Did you know that Japanese singer Noa became interested in music after watching the 2006 film High School Musical ?
text: Did you know that Aristotle 's system of logic formed the foundation of logical thought in the Western world for more than 2,000 years until the advent of modern symbolic logic?
text: Did you know that the art of Irma Blank , of "drawing languages without words" and including sounds, was recognised in the 1970s but fell into obscurity until a rediscovery in the 2010s?
text: Did you know that Blood on the Floor uses scaffolding as an instrument?
text: Did you know that the microscopic organism Cafileria is the only living being that connects its nucleus to its mitochondria ?
text: Did you know that Lynda Simmons co-founded Architecture + Women NZ with Sarah Treadwell, Julie Wilson and Megan Rule to push for equity in New Zealand architecture?
text: Did you know that the 1994 film The Devil Never Sleeps centers on director Lourdes Portillo investigating her uncle's death?
text: Did you know that the team developing the action video game Knights Contract researched European folklore on witches and witch hunts?
text: Did you know that literary agent Jacques Chambrun sold unauthorized, scandalous excerpts of a Marilyn Monroe memoir to a British tabloid?
text: Did you know that gold(III) chloride can directly convert a primary amine to a ketone without any additional steps?
text: Did you know that Jesse Marcel claimed that he recovered extraterrestrial debris from a ranch near Roswell, New Mexico ?
text: Did you know that YouTuber Joey Santore is known for his " Bill Swerski –esque" Chicago accent and use of profanity on his channel Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't ?
text: Did you know that makwerekwere is the South African equivalent of " barbarians ", an offensive and derogatory slur used to refer to foreigners?
text: Did you know that Marisa Anderson organized and participated in multiple cross-country walks to raise awareness for various political causes?
text: Did you know that the World-Wide Navigational Warning Service divides the entire ocean into just 21 radio areas?
text: Did you know that the 1943 North Texas Aggies went from "kitchen maid" to "queen of the ball" when the Marine Corps sent players from major universities "tumbling onto" the campus?
text: Did you know that Montserratian playwright Edgar Nkosi White only wrote his first play after he was dared by actor Martin Sheen ?
text: Did you know that Cusrow Baug in Mumbai had only a few tenants in the 1950s even at a low rent of 40 rupees per month?
text: Did you know that in 1956, a Las Vegas TV station may have been the only 24-hour TV station in the U.S.?
text: Did you know that a photograph inspired by one of Leonardo da Vinci 's paintings shows 14 Israeli soldiers and was described as a "homoerotic challenge to Israeli machismo"?
text: Did you know that John Sebastian composed the song " Rain on the Roof " after he spent a night listening to the rain with his wife?
text: Did you know that Satrio Sastrodiredjo and Moerachman , both former mayors of Surabaya , Indonesia, were held as political prisoners in the same prison after the 30 September Movement in 1965?
text: Did you know that the 2019 book Pacifying the Homeland was compared to an ice-cold shower for individuals acclimatized to mass surveillance in the US due to its pervasiveness in daily life?
text: Did you know that in 1994, Anthony Pople created two computer programs to analyse classical music ?
text: Did you know that the Cantonese cooking channel Made With Lau began generating about US$50,000 per month in YouTube advertising revenue in under a year?
text: Did you know that when the dance permit for El Monte Legion Stadium was revoked, Johnny Otis accused the local city council of racism and, with the ACLU and NAACP , successfully reversed their decision?
text: Did you know that a Connecticut TV station was dedicated to the state's first female governor, Ella Grasso , whose son was a minority owner?
text: Did you know that the Los Angeles Sparks have the most wins and highest winning percentage in WNBA history ?
text: Did you know that Tim Watson-Munro was the psychologist responsible for treating mass murderer Julian Knight ?
text: Did you know that no law establishes whether a sitting U.S. president can be prosecuted ?
text: Did you know that Bob Dylan played the song " Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again " 748 times in concert performances between 1976 and 2010?
text: Did you know that British designer Alexander McQueen partied so hard that he accidentally abandoned the entirety of his second collection among a nightclub's rubbish?
text: Did you know that the casualties suffered at the Battle of Plum Point Bend were very light given the amount of ordnance expended?
text: Did you know that Jalen Redmond received the offer of a college athletic scholarship before having even played in a high-school football game?
text: Did you know that the Church of St. Jacob , which had been used for centuries by Prussian Lithuanians in Klaipėda , was demolished by soldiers of the Soviet Armed Forces using tanks in 1959?
text: Did you know that Ruth Northway is the United Kingdom's first professor of learning disability nursing?
text: Did you know that the Japanese destroyer Teruzuki was sunk by a single torpedo to the stern?
text: Did you know that Angel Aquino received two nominations for Best Supporting Actress at the 2014 Gawad Urian Awards ?
text: Did you know that Whistling Dick was "of rather modest proportions"?
text: Did you know that Winchester United Church , a place of worship in the City of Winchester District , Hampshire, was built into the walls of the former county jail?
text: Did you know that Kyren Wilson won the first four frames in all of his snooker matches at the 2023 Tour Championship ?
text: Did you know that supporters of a 2020 ballot initiative to expand Medicaid in Missouri did not use the words "Medicaid expansion" to describe their proposal in some campaign material?
text: Did you know that in 2022 Marios Georgiou became Cyprus's first European champion in gymnastics?
text: Did you know that in winning the 2021 College Football Playoff National Championship , Alabama head coach Nick Saban broke the record for the most Division I college football national championships as a coach?
text: Did you know that Chadd Cumberbatch , a Montserratian poet and playwright, wrote a play called 1768 to tell the story of the island's St Patrick's Day slave rebellion ?
text: Did you know that the developers of CT Special Forces: Back to Hell responded to criticism of their previous game's password save system by making even more detailed passwords?
text: Did you know that Emily Donelson stopped serving as First Lady of the United States due to illness?
text: Did you know that transgender activist Ky Schevers transitioned to male , detransitioned to female, then retransitioned as transmasculine and genderqueer ?
text: Did you know that marrying Plautia Urgulanilla may have helped Claudius get first-hand information for Tyrrhenika , his work about the Etruscans ?
text: Did you know that one reviewer said that players should try using a guitar controller with Fret Nice "to gain a new appreciation for a traditional controller"?
text: Did you know that the LGBTQ+ anthology This Arab Is Queer features 18 queer Arab writers?
text: Did you know that Celine-Marie Pascale 's work focuses on how race and class impact the way "business practices and government policies create, normalize and entrench economic struggles" to benefit the wealthy?
text: Did you know that most blue bloods in college basketball coincidentally wear shades of blue in their uniforms?
text: Did you know that Lucy Salani is considered the only known Italian transgender person to survive the Nazi concentration camps ?
text: Did you know that during the early-access period of Hogwarts Legacy , the game set a new record on Twitch with the largest number of concurrent viewers for a single-player game in history?
text: Did you know that the miniseries In the Best of Families was based on the book Bitter Blood which in turn is a recount of the real life murders of Fritz Klenner?
text: Did you know that male blue-bellied limias spend more than 26 minutes per hour courting females?
text: Did you know that two Americans, Jeff Yass and Arthur Dantchik , are large funders of the Kohelet Policy Forum , an  intellectual driving force of the controversial 2023 Israeli judicial reform package?
text: Did you know that a Houston TV station lost its broadcasting tower in a construction accident a month after going on the air?
text: Did you know that the USC Trojans team that won the 2022 NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship had been compared to the Marvel Comics ' Avengers ?
text: Did you know that a Kansas TV station claimed it had "The Look of a Leader" and then went on to become the leader in its market?
text: Did you know that Wanda Szuman , a pioneer of special education in Poland, was also active in underground education ?
text: Did you know that one reviewer said that her favorite part of Cassette Beasts was that it is not "forced to cater to younger children", unlike Pokémon ?
text: Did you know that the incorruptibility of Wihtburh 's body was considered a miracle?
text: Did you know that declarative knowledge is an awareness of facts that differs from practical knowledge in the form of skills and knowledge by acquaintance based on experiential familiarity?
text: Did you know that Christopher W. Shaw has called for the return of banking at the United States Postal Service ?
text: Did you know that English-speaking elephants can be okay on Neptune in fiction , but a solid surface is not?
text: Did you know that Gagauz politician Dumitru Topciu was mocked by his colleagues in the Romanian Assembly of Deputies for speaking Romanian with a "boorish accent"?
text: Did you know that an FBI investigation contributed to the cancellation of the Kentucky Derby Festival Basketball Classic , which had been the longest-running U.S. high school all-star basketball game?
text: Did you know that in 1976, William F. Matthews became the first bookbinder to receive the Insignia Award of the City and Guilds of London Institute ?
text: Did you know that German president Joachim Gauck , a former Lutheran pastor, visited St. Francis Cathedral in Xi'an , China, 300 years after construction began?
text: Did you know that Vanita Jagdeo Borade has been called the "snake woman" for having rescued more than 50,000 snakes?
text: Did you know that a 3.5-kilometre (2.2 mi) section of the N54 road in the Republic of Ireland cannot be reached without first travelling through Northern Ireland ?
text: Did you know that Xiphophorus milleri only rarely eats its young?
text: Did you know that medieval Muslim historians blamed al-Amir bi-Ahkam Allah for the loss of much of Palestine to the crusaders but, in reality, he played no role in the Fatimid government during that period?
text: Did you know that Tim Allen debuted in the 1988 film Tropical Snow ?
text: Did you know that Cathy Whims has opened several restaurants in Portland, Oregon , including the Nostrana , which has been described as "Portland's capital of the Negroni "?
text: Did you know that at Capa House , photographer Robert Capa captured The Picture of the Last Man to Die , of American soldier Raymond J. Bowman ?
text: Did you know that Michalis Rakintzis said that he "came close to throwing down [his] microphone and walking off the stage" during his performance at the Eurovision Song Contest 2002 ?
text: Did you know that in her first year with San Diego State , basketball player Tina Hutchinson set NCAA freshman scoring records and led the Aztecs to their first NCAA tournament ?
text: Did you know that most figures in 16th-century etchings by Jean Mignon have open mouths?
text: Did you know that the nadiri , a sleeveless overcoat, was personally designed by Jahangir , the fourth Mughal emperor ?
text: Did you know that singer Barbara Mandrell thought that when she saw Maureen McCormick play her in her biographical film , "all [she was] going to be able to think about is Marcia Brady "?
text: Did you know that Soeparno moved the official year of establishment of Surabaya , Indonesia, from 1906 to 1293?
text: Did you know that the acorn worm Balanoglossus gigas gives a strong iodoform -like smell when handled, possibly to ward off predators?
text: Did you know that the musicians piri , venbee , Issey Cross , and Charlotte Plank are all part of the female and non-binary collective Loud LDN ?
text: Did you know that the New York Savings Bank Building later became "The Grand Palais of Rugs" and the "Temple of Food"?
text: Did you know that before assassinating Umberto I of Italy , Gaetano Bresci spent most of the day eating ice cream?
text: Did you know that Liberian minister of information Joe Mulbah was suspended by President Charles Taylor after a fist fight with the deputy minister of information?
text: Did you know that zaï planting pits are an indigenous form of rainwater harvesting in the Sahel ?
text: Did you know that despite being marketed as Tages ' international breakthrough, Studio was only issued in Sweden and Denmark upon original release?
text: Did you know that Barbara Kennedy was the first player to lead NCAA Division I women's basketball in scoring ?
text: Did you know that Constantin Bivol , who championed land reform in Bessarabia , could only locate half of his ten dessiatins of ancestral farmland, noting that "God only knows where the rest of them are"?
text: Did you know that Fred Rogers created and hosted a television documentary series titled Old Friends ... New Friends due to his concern that older generations were getting more isolated from younger generations?
text: Did you know that a court ordered Jonathan Jacob Meijer to stop donating sperm or pay a €100,000 fine per donation?
text: Did you know that Edemariam Tsega published a book about his father while Aida Edemariam , Tsega's daughter, published a book about Tsega's mother in the same year?
text: Did you know that a TV station in Washington, D.C. , held on-air monkey races as part of its children's programming?
text: Did you know that Bessarabian legislator Anton Novakov , who was absent when his colleagues voted on union with Romania , sued the Romanian state for land benefits they had received for voting in favor?
text: Did you know that after seeing a broken car, A.B. Quintanilla proclaimed his desire to make the song " La Carcacha " about it?
text: Did you know that during his career in Surabaya , Radjamin Nasution worked as a customs official, an alderman, a doctor, a football club's president, and the city's mayor?
text: Did you know that the Australian government tried to censor a film of Quail Island 's starving koalas?
text: Did you know that author John Green fundraises for Partners In Health by selling shirts with an image of his mustachioed face called "Pizza John"?
text: Did you know that Japanese voice actors provided voice-overs to El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron for a domestic audience, although they were chosen for their "foreign"-sounding voices?
text: Did you know that the owners of the Doll's Hospital building were the penultimate victims of the Acid Bath Murderer ?
text: Did you know that the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission listed former Council of State vice chair Isaac Musa among dead supposed perpetrators of human rights abuses and war crimes?
text: Did you know that the 2021 NCAA Division I women's basketball championship game was the first to feature two teams from the Pac-12 Conference ?
text: Did you know that Ali Mufiz was named advisor, without his consent, to a candidate's campaign in the 2013 gubernatorial election for Central Java ?
text: Did you know that an attempted British-Norwegian attack on the German battleship Tirpitz was abandoned after two Chariot manned torpedoes were lost due to bad weather?
text: Did you know that Matty Healy is banned from Dubai ?
text: Did you know that an Iowa TV station 's prior decision to disaffiliate from the Fox network meant that The Simpsons were originally unseen in the Quad Cities ?
text: Did you know that before his 100th birthday, Herman Benson wrote his own obituary claiming that his "last, dying words" were a plea for generous donations to the Association for Union Democracy ?
text: Did you know that across his thirty-six collections , fashion designer Alexander McQueen contemplated religion, told fairy tales, and criticized the fashion industry?
text: Did you know that Martine Froger was elected to the National Assembly of France without the support of the national leadership of her party ?
text: Did you know that while studies have shown anti-trespass panels do reduce intrusions into rail track areas, there is concern that they could also trap trespassers on the tracks?
text: Did you know that under Soekotjo Sastrodinoto , the municipal government of Surabaya signed up the city's homeless population for the transmigration program ?
text: Did you know that There I Ruined It aims to ruin as many songs as possible?
text: Did you know that Beibeilong was one of the largest oviraptorosaurs , with an estimated adult length of about 7.5 m (25 ft) and body mass of around 1.2 t (2,600 lb) or 2 t (4,400 lb)?
text: Did you know that one of the longest civil trials in Utah history, with 1,000 exhibits, concerned the purchase of a Salt Lake City TV station ?
text: Did you know that Vice Admiral Ernst Scheurlen was killed in action a month before the end of the Second World War in Europe while leading a hastily raised division of naval troops in defence of Germany?
text: Did you know that before winning The X Factor: The Band as part of RLY , Luena Martinez had released two singles as part of an anti-bullying campaign?
text: Did you know that in a rapid decline, Computer Applications, Inc. went from the second-largest independent software firm in the United States to being bankrupt and subject to liquidation?
text: Did you know that Elaine Marshall became the first woman elected to the North Carolina Council of State in its 246-year existence?
text: Did you know that the Instrument 1 can be a guitar, piano, violin, or drum kit?
text: Did you know that the Cross of Wales , leading the procession at the coronation of Charles III and Camilla , features two relics of the True Cross gifted to the King by Pope Francis ?
text: Did you know that the 2018 Te Deum for choir by Peter Reulein uses the same instruments including a bandoneon as Palmeri's Misatango , and is inspired by tango , habanera and huapango ?
text: Did you know that Helene Lecher 's presentation at the Women at the Hague conference, which Mary Heaton Vorse described as the "most moving speech of all the Congress", urged for peace?
text: Did you know that today the Bishop of Edinburgh plays a ceremonial role at the coronation of Charles III and Camilla as a representative of the Walker Trustees ?
text: Did you know that the tower of a defunct TV station turned into a Christmastime landmark in Winston-Salem, North Carolina ?
text: Did you know that the Greyster is a type of sled dog favored especially for dryland racing like canicross and bikejoring ?
text: Did you know that during her coronation , Caroline of Ansbach 's dress was reportedly so covered in jewels that she required a pulley to lift her skirt for her to kneel?
text: Did you know that as a college football player, Frank LeMaster changed from being a fullback to the starting halfback , to reserve halfback, to tight end , to linebacker , back to halfback and then linebacker again?
text: Did you know that the documentary Lynch/Oz incorporates hundreds of film clips to illustrate the influence of The Wizard of Oz on the work of filmmaker David Lynch ?
text: Did you know that 19th-century American evangelist Dwight L. Moody was converted to Christianity in the stock room of a shoe store by his Sunday School teacher Edward Kimball ?
text: Did you know that Edward VI was only nine years old on the day of his coronation ?
text: Did you know that Bachtiar Djafar was the first mayor of Medan , Indonesia, to be of Malay descent?
text: Did you know that the destroyed plinth of Gürdal Duyar 's nude sculpture Güzel İstanbul contained reliefs of a fig, a pomegranate, a honeysuckle and a bee to represent different aspects of Istanbul ?
text: Did you know that Caity Baser followed up her 2022 singles "Friendly Sex", "X & Y", and "Kiss You" with "Friendly Sex (Angrier)", "X & Y (What I Didn't Say)", and "Kiss You, Pt. 2", respectively?
text: Did you know that Mari Shimizu is nicknamed the "mother of voice actors " in Japan?
text: Did you know that the shores of Kesagami Lake in Kesagami Provincial Park (northern Ontario , Canada) are surrounded by "exceptional" peat cliffs reaching 4 metres (13 ft) in height?
text: Did you know that John C. Carson built the first sidewalk in Portland, Oregon ?
text: Did you know that the 1928 Book of Common Prayer was adopted by the Episcopal Church in the United States, but the Church of England 's 1928 Book of Common Prayer was rejected by Parliament?
text: Did you know that Victor Wembanyama has been described as the most anticipated NBA prospect since LeBron James in 2003 ?
text: Did you know that Percy Kelly hoarded his drawings and paintings until the end of his life, saying that his cottage would someday "upstage Beatrix Potter 's home"?
text: Did you know that the title of Lemnis Gate refers to the lemniscate ?
text: Did you know that Jay Versace went from poking fun at SZA 's music to producing songs for her?
text: Did you know that the 1965 song " Wie als een God wil leven ", written by Huub Oosterhuis , was listed in 2013 as a hymn in German successful with young people?
text: Did you know that witch-hunts in India are still prevalent?
text: Did you know that table tennis commentator Adam Bobrow 's nickname "Snakeman" comes from a trick shot called "the snake"?
text: Did you know that dying Unit 731 war criminal Shirō Ishii was baptized by Jesuit priest and playwright Hermann Heuvers ?
text: Did you know that although Alexander the Great founded two cities named Boukephala and Nikaia during his invasion of the Indian subcontinent , we do not know which was which?
text: Did you know that vampire amoebae are naked?
text: Did you know that an earlier title going viral on TikTok prompted Meghan Trainor to take it back to doo-wop , which made them look again?
text: Did you know that in 2020 Robert Tvorogal became Lithuania's first European champion in gymnastics?
text: Did you know that during the 2023 Fort Lauderdale floods , 25.91 inches (65.8 cm) of rain fell in Fort Lauderdale , equivalent to a third of the city's annual rainfall total?
text: Did you know that the existence of Lego Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues was accidentally leaked when it was displayed on an animator's résumé?
text: Did you know that Zenith Data Systems 's $242 million contract with the United States Department of Defense in 1986 was the largest federal computer contract until then?
text: Did you know that respected travelling bandleader Otto Schwarz and his Bavarian String Band were interned in Douglas, Isle of Man , during World War I?
text: Did you know that when part of New York City's Hotel Riverview became a theater, some people thought that the hotel's overflowing toilets and leaky ceilings were part of the show there?
text: Did you know that Filipina actress Angel Aquino has been described as a "perennial villainess" for portraying several antagonistic roles on television?
text: Did you know that the purple shore crab has evolved to survive in oxygen-deprived waters?
text: Did you know that before joining the girl group XG , Japanese singer Amy Harvey won the most awards when she participated in a modeling contest?
text: Did you know that the court in BP Refinery v Tracey upheld a decision to reinstate an employee fired by BP for posting a meme video from the 2004 film Downfall ?
text: Did you know that Fletcher Loyer made a game-winning three-point shot in Columbus, Ohio , in January 2023 and missed a game-tying one in Columbus in March?
text: Did you know that after the 2023 New York City parking garage collapse , a robotic dog named Digidog was deployed by the New York City Fire Department ?
text: Did you know that a beer named after the barley variety Golden Promise was not brewed using the variety?
text: Did you know that for several decades, Soviet actress Maria Vladimirovna Mironova acted out scenes of a quarrelling couple on stage with her real-life husband?
text: Did you know that a monument to honor the Jewish artist Jozef Israëls was destroyed during World War II, but the pieces were saved and it was restored and unveiled in 1946?
text: Did you know that nearly two years after getting into a serious car accident that sidelined him for a full season, football player Juice Scruggs returned to the field, and was named All- Big Ten one year later?
text: Did you know that New York City's Mansfield Hotel was developed by two neighbors from Vermont , one of whom later served as Vermont's governor?
text: Did you know that Mary Taft said in 1799 that stopping women from "bring[ing] souls to Christ" would, one day, be unbelievable?
text: Did you know that a "hacker" with blog posts written by ChatGPT was at the center of an online scavenger hunt promoting Avenged Sevenfold 's album Life Is but a Dream... ?
text: Did you know that tyrant Thrasybulus of Miletus ended the 12-year Lydian–Milesian War with a fake party?
text: Did you know that linguist Aníbal Otero was imprisoned for espionage while working on fieldwork for the Linguistic Atlas of the Iberian Peninsula ?
text: Did you know that future NFL linebacker Eldridge Milton liked playing with alligators at a young age?
text: Did you know that Nebraska TV station Big 8 was a big bust, losing nearly $5 million between 1983 and 1986?
text: Did you know that a fantasy novel by Irish poet and author Sarah Maria Griffin was sent to around 200,000 ticket-holders of the music festival Tomorrowland ?
text: Did you know that a gameplay demonstration of Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six boosted its popularity when it accidentally showed AI teammates rescuing hostages by themselves?
text: Did you know that Wanda Wesołowska has named 40 genera and 572 species of animals?
text: Did you know that despite plans to restore the Sam H. Harris Theatre in the 1990s, it became an entrance to a wax museum?
text: Did you know that Patrick O'Brian 's Testimonies received reviews that variously described it from "clumsy in construction to the point of amateurishness" to "rare and beautiful"?
text: Did you know that during World War II, Oscar Holmes became the first black US naval aviator only because the still-segregated Navy initially thought that the light-skinned Holmes was white?
text: Did you know that Green Day wrote a tribute song for singer Amy Winehouse following her death, despite never having met her?
text: Did you know that N. Porsenna , who translated The Ballad of Reading Gaol into Romanian, spent seven years in communist prisons?
text: Did you know that the contrabass trombone has experienced a revival in film music and video game soundtracks ?
text: Did you know that after he retired from professional baseball , Paul Hinrichs became a Lutheran minister?
text: Did you know that the African Union has set up a space agency in a Space City?
text: Did you know that to film the series Quarterback , the NFL allowed quarterbacks to wear microphones for every game of the 2022 season ?
text: Did you know that Indonesian politician Muhammad Rapsel Ali founded a motorcycle racing team?
text: Did you know that at the trial of the Rumrich spy case , US Army deserter Guenther Rumrich stated he was instructed to determine how many US soldiers were based on the country's east coast?
text: Did you know that Radomir Lazović and other activists protested against the redevelopment of the Belgrade Waterfront by bringing a giant rubber duck to the House of the National Assembly ?
text: Did you know that the main village set of the 2019 horror film Impetigore was so remote that the crew had to build toilets and a path for vehicles?
text: Did you know that Uncle Waffles learned how to DJ during the COVID-19 lockdowns, and then retired from being an Eswatini TV presenter once her music career took off?
text: Did you know that American teenagers of the 1960s and 1970s used to chat and arrange dates over the sound of the busy signal ?
text: Did you know that the Koryo-saram newspaper Koryo Ilbo was once known as Lenin's Banner and is the oldest active Korean newspaper outside of Korea?
text: Did you know that Rufina Bazlova has used traditional embroidery to depict protests in Belarus?
text: Did you know that an episode of Sesame Street featuring the Wicked Witch of the West only aired once because it terrified children?
text: Did you know that after bailing out of his aircraft over France, Stanley Browne was able to evade any German soldiers searching for him with the help of local villagers?
text: Did you know that in 2020, COVID-19 –related articles across all Wikipedias received more than 579 million pageviews?
text: Did you know that defenceman Roman Josi is the Nashville Predators single-season points leader?
text: Did you know that shōnen manga protagonists often possess "insanely spiky hair"?
text: Did you know that after becoming one of the Mongolian Armed Forces ' first female recruits, Bolor Ganbold is now its first female brigadier general?
text: Did you know that a 2023 ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit invalidates a law preventing people from owning firearms while under restraining orders for domestic abuse?
text: Did you know that in the remake of Resident Evil 2 , Mr. X walks at four times his normal speed when the player cannot see him?
text: Did you know that no contemporary source identifies the praefectus vigilum who commanded the night watch during the Great Fire of Rome under Nero ?
text: Did you know that quantum materials researcher Tina Brower-Thomas 's attempts at chemistry as a youth led to her concoctions eating holes into her coat?
text: Did you know that Džuvljarke written by Vera Kurtić includes interviews with members of the LGBT community in Serbia and concludes that Romani lesbian women are often "invisible"?
text: Did you know that a New Mexico TV station went on the air "a day late but ... not a single program short"?
text: Did you know that the Alexander McQueen collection Neptune drew negative reviews comparing the clothing to 1980s science fiction, Xena , and Wonder Woman ?
text: Did you know that three years prior to this month's massive plastics fire in Indiana , a court determined that the site was a fire hazard "unsafe to people and property"?
text: Did you know that former East Java provincial secretary Trimarjono was known for his habit of standing in front of the governor's office lobby every morning?
text: Did you know that the 12th-century Lundie Kirk was left as "a charred roofless shell" after a fire in November 2022?
text: Did you know that goalkeeper Sophie Whitehouse , who has lived in England, Africa and the US, has been chosen to play soccer for the Republic of Ireland?
text: Did you know that during the Battle of Nicopolis in 1798, Revolutionary French troops placed their artillery on top of an ancient burial mound ?
text: Did you know that while feathers are light, and light opposes darkness, feathers do not oppose darkness ?
text: Did you know that the dispute between France and Mexico over Clipperton Island was settled by King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy ?
text: Did you know that the Genoese admiral Simone Vignoso conquered the island of Chios and founded a joint-stock company to rule it?
text: Did you know that due to climate change there are not only more heatwaves over land, but also more heatwaves in the ocean ?
text: Did you know that football player Johnny Buchanan said that, while running for touchdowns without being touched was fun, "something about running through somebody's face is unmatched"?
text: Did you know that Beyond the Wall received positive reviews in the UK but was deeply controversial in Germany?
text: Did you know that the Mark Curry song "American Dream" samples the David Bowie song " This Is Not America "?
text: Did you know  that laughing gas is serious stuff in carbon accounting ?
text: Did you know that future Loud LDN member Willow Kayne went into music after temporarily losing her sight?
text: Did you know that the White Otter Castle is the most popular attraction in the Turtle River–White Otter Lake Provincial Park , even though it is not accessible by road?
text: Did you know that up to 129,000 Canadian federal workers went on strike ?
text: Did you know that in R v ACR Roofing Pty Ltd the Victorian Court of Appeal held that workers do not need to be employed by a company to hold it liable for safety violations?
text: Did you know that Raymond Vohasek led his college's football team in sacks even though he played the entire season with a torn labrum ?
text: Did you know that the Game Boy Advance version of Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars was largely developed by just two people?
text: Did you know that at the 1965 World Pentathlon Championships, Herbert Polzhuber was said to have drunk ten beers and a bottle of cognac before firing his pistol at the ground and passing out?
text: Did you know that the British 1st Division repulsed numerous French assaults at the Battle of Waterloo including the final main assault?
text: Did you know that New Jersey politics expert Nick Acocella hosted Pasta & Politics , a television show where he would make pasta with various politicians including Thomas Kean , Cory Booker , and Chris Christie ?
text: Did you know that the Kerr-Addison Mine was the largest producer of gold in North America in 1960?
text: Did you know that as a young adult, lesbian novelist Lee Winter disliked the poor quality of lesbian fiction, preferring autobiographies by lesbian people?
text: Did you know that the 2004 Nosratabad fuel tanker explosion highlighted the high rate of road accidents in Iran, one of the worst globally ?
text: Did you know that Walt Nauta would bring a Diet Coke to the Oval Office whenever President Donald Trump requested one via his call button ?
text: Did you know that one critic called Little Witch Nobeta a "Baby's First Dark Souls "?
text: Did you know that PBS Appalachia Virginia is the first all-non-terrestrial public TV station in the United States?
text: Did you know that the conference-champion 1934 Central Eagles football team had a reserve squad known as the Rinkeydinks?
text: Did you know that the martial booty seized by the Romans after the Battle of New Carthage included 63 merchant ships, numerous catapults, large amounts of weapons and more?
text: Did you know that Valentina Bodrug-Lungu has declared that Moldova's political climate does not encourage female participation, despite having a woman president ?
text: Did you know that the song supposedly sung by Cheyenne chief White Antelope as he died at the Sand Creek massacre has been used at remembrances commemorating the event?
text: Did you know that Charli XCX retitled " Unlock It " after it went viral on TikTok ?
text: Did you know that Sid Justin almost became a Miracle , but he turned it down to play professional football?
text: Did you know that volunteers at a Florida public TV station forced its chief fundraiser to resign by accosting him in the hallway?
text: Did you know that during his tenure as Governor of Central Java , Muhammad Ismail banned rock music concerts and car rallies?
text: Did you know that no one knows how honeybee drones from hundreds of different colonies all converge on the same drone congregation areas to mate?
text: Did you know that James Tissot is thought to have transgressed many Victorian sexual boundaries in his work, even setting a painting aboard the HMS Calcutta as a pun on a female subject's behind?
text: Did you know that in March 1991, hundreds of inmates rioted at the Eden Detention Center over a lack of vegetables on the cafeteria menu, causing an estimated US$250,000 in damages?
text: Did you know that Shigi Qutuqu , a high-ranking official during the early Mongol Empire , survived the first four Mongol khans when he died over the age of eighty?
text: Did you know that on June 14, 2023, Michael Jordan 's Flu Game shoes sold for US$1.38 million?
text: Did you know that Hong Kong YouTuber Martin co-created a video showing himself using a washing machine to make soup?
text: Did you know that Sudan has a decoration for women , with a pink ribbon, and another for men , with a green ribbon?
text: Did you know that developmental economist Michael Lipton showed that poor farmers were more resource efficient than rich farmers?
text: Did you know that Japanese game developer Square was told to "never come back" by Nintendo after shifting production to the PlayStation ?
text: Did you know that Rick Suder was bumped from the NCAA record book by JJ Redick and Gerry McNamara ?
text: Did you know that in February 2023, Ecuadorian entrepreneur Omar Menéndez was elected the mayor of his canton the day after his assassination?
text: Did you know that in the 1980s, "Sherman Bonner, The Human Thermometer" presented the weather on an Arkansas TV station ?
text: Did you know that in 2007, Joe Garcia became the first governor of a pueblo to swear in the governor of New Mexico ?
text: Did you know that the studios of Basin PBS had once been a movie theater, a church meeting space, and a nightclub?
text: Did you know that while being considered for the post of ambassador to Paraguay, Lidia Patty brushed off her lack of diplomatic training because she had " indigenous, native, peasant diplomacy"?
text: Did you know that all species of the genus Odontorrhina are covered with dense bristly hairs?
text: Did you know that Arnie Roth debuted as a gay Marvel Comics character at a time when the publisher maintained a "No Gays in the Marvel Universe " policy?
text: Did you know that after being arrested for organizing a general strike in 1920, S. Girinis was sent to the Soviet Union following a Soviet-Lithuanian exchange of political prisoners?
text: Did you know that Pope Sisinnius was pope for only 20 days?
text: Did you know that on 1 March 2023, Lorenzo Carfora became the first player born in 2006 to feature in a Serie B match?
text: Did you know that after significant modifications of the Tianzhou cargo spacecraft, Tianzhou 6 is the world's largest active cargo spacecraft by capacity ?
text: Did you know that after coming second to Kim Hamilton in floor exercise at two NCAA Gymnastics Championships , Corrinne Wright tied with her the next year after tumbling to music from Who Framed Roger Rabbit ?
text: Did you know that while Dmitri Shostakovich composed his opera Katyusha Maslova , Sergei Prokofiev was also contemplating an opera based on the same subject?
text: Did you know that Mackay Davashe wrote "Lakutshona Ilanga", the English version of which, sung by Miriam Makeba , became the first South African piece to chart on the Billboard Hot 100 ?
text: Did you know that the 2023 CONCACAF Champions League final was a rematch of a 2020 series played by Club León and Los Angeles FC ?
text: Did you know that Lord Adolphus FitzClarence was said to be too slow due to his "most necessary appendage"?
text: Did you know that in ancient China, Xiazhi was the day to sprinkle chrysanthemum ashes on wheat plants?
text: Did you know that Evelyn Pruitt was the highest-ranking woman scientist in the United States Navy when she retired in 1973?
text: Did you know that 104 miners were killed in the 1995 Vaal Reefs mining disaster when a locomotive fell on an elevator, making it history's deadliest elevator disaster?
text: Did you know that Norma Hunt , known as the "First Lady of Football", never missed a Super Bowl ?
text: Did you know that Come On Over is the best-selling country album and the best-selling album by a female artist?
text: Did you know that Falaki Shirvani may have died from stress that he endured during his imprisonment?
text: Did you know that angels are perched atop the Bayard–Condict Building ?
text: Did you know that in the 1968 election , Ludwig Keke defeated Nauru's first female candidate for parliament, his sister Liebon Sunshine Keke?
text: Did you know that when UCLA was founded in 1919, the university's students provided numerous services, including athletics, housing, and parking?
text: Did you know that the 16th-century poet Fuzuli wrote a poetic letter titled "Complaint" after Ottoman officials cut his stipend?
text: Did you know that by September 29, 1864, the 23rd Virginia Infantry Battalion only had 78 enlisted men present for duty?
text: Did you know that Landrada of Austrasia "was regarded, even as a child, as a model of Christian perfection"?
text: Did you know that the University of Minnesota Messenia Expedition has been described as "the first truly multidisciplinary archaeological expedition in Greece"?
text: Did you know that Longcat was long?
text: Did you know that Narita Viliamu Tahega has won 38 medals in international weightlifting competitions, the most in the history of Niue athletics?
text: Did you know that the Canadian Night Watchman was the first operational radar system in North America?
text: Did you know that John Goldmark brought a libel suit that did "to the Red Scare what the Scopes monkey trial had ... done to Creationism "?
text: Did you know that during the Boxer Rebellion in 1900, Boxer rebels destroyed the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Taiyuan , and 26 members of the clergy were killed?
text: Did you know that the Toronto Star estimated that Meron Estefanos may have helped save 16,000 refugees with her phone?
text: Did you know that although four far-right groups claimed responsibility for the killing of Fausto and Iaio , no one was convicted of the crime?
text: Did you know that Consequence selected Carly Rae Jepsen 's " Talking to Yourself " as song of the week and declared her music speaks for the "delightfully unhinged"?
text: Did you know that Gus C. Moser served five 4-year terms in the Oregon State Senate , including two non-consecutive 2-year periods as senate president, to which post he was elected unanimously in 1917?
text: Did you know that following its withdrawal, copies of the Game 's "The Addicted Man" were sold for as much as £1,000?
text: Did you know that after Mollie Steimer was convicted for sedition , she refused to join a prison escape attempt as she did not want to dishonor the workers who had paid her bail?
text: Did you know that during the German invasion of Poland in 1939, German war crimes included the murder of about 3,000 Polish prisoners of war ?
text: Did you know that Elizabeth Wilkins chose to work at the Federal Trade Commission on the hope that the agency is now positioned to address economic injustice?
text: Did you know that all known writing in Ancient Hebrew totals just 300,000 words, versus 9.9 million in Akkadian ?
text: Did you know that after women's suffrage in Switzerland was approved in a referendum in 1971 , the tabloid Blick sported a cover with a naked blonde and the headline "Thank you for the Roses"?
text: Did you know that the San Francisco nightclub City Nights was the target of bombing threats by an alleged supporter of the Islamic State ?
text: Did you know that a report led by academic Cathy Nutbrown concluded that qualifications for vocational courses in childcare and early education were laxer than in animal welfare?
text: Did you know that the photograph Kandake of the Sudanese Revolution symbolised the determination of the Sudanese people as they called for political change ?
text: Did you know that some prisoners in Peru get tattoos of Sarita Colonia for alleged protection?
text: Did you know that the song " Labour " started a TikTok trend of women sharing their experiences with sexism?
text: Did you know that the United States Supreme Court has struck down Texas's congressional and legislative districts numerous times?
text: Did you know that it was through a social media post that 2023 NFL Draft pick Tavius Robinson was able to receive several offers to play college football?
text: Did you know that in the lead-up to the 1997 Indonesian legislative election , Soewardi engaged in the "yellowization" of Central Java ?
text: Did you know that 1980 San Diego Chargers ' John Jefferson , Kellen Winslow and Charlie Joiner became the first trio to earn 1,000 receiving yards each in the same season?
text: Did you know that the Kinks' 1965 UK tour ended early after the band's drummer Mick Avory attacked the lead guitarist Dave Davies with a hi-hat stand mid-concert?
text: Did you know that the UN Human Rights Committee recognized a correlation between the right to life and protection of the environment in Portillo Cáceres v Paraguay ?
text: Did you know that war correspondent Jurate Kazickas financed her plane ticket to Vietnam in 1967 with a US$500 win on the game show Password ?
text: Did you know that during the filming of Adele One Night Only , a male attendee blindfolded his partner of seven years and proposed to her?
text: Did you know that manga aggregation website MangaDex had its users host its content during the COVID-19 pandemic ?
text: Did you know that El-Tigani el-Mahi pioneered studies on magic and zār and their relationship to mental health?
text: Did you know that three massacres of the Western Shoshone took place at Bahsahwahbee , a sacred grove of swamp cedars ?
text: Did you know that the death records of Dmitrii Milev , a Soviet Moldavian writer, were falsified to obscure mention of his execution during the Great Purge ?
text: Did you know that Elena from the video game series Street Fighter uses a capoeira fighting style, for which the development team used travel videos as reference material as they had no experience with the style?
text: Did you know that poor aircraft maintenance practices contributed to the crash of Indian Airlines Flight 503 ?
text: Did you know that NFL player Derek Parish once ate seven pounds (3.2 kg) of steak in one sitting?
text: Did you know that the rebel al-Faddayni , a descendant of Caliph Uthman , led the last major attempt to reestablish Umayyad rule in Syria ?
text: Did you know that the 1964 San Diego Chargers suffered what would be their worst margin of defeat for 56 years ?
text: Did you know that Walter Nash 's 14 years as New Zealand's minister of finance is the longest continuous time that anyone has ever served in that post?
text: Did you know that after trans woman Dylan Mulvaney was sponsored by Bud Light, American conservatives boycotted the brand and its parent company Anheuser-Busch ?
text: Did you know that Yemi Mobolade is the first Black person and the first non- Republican to be elected the mayor of Colorado Springs, Colorado ?
text: Did you know that when the founder of Pansophic Systems tried to return to the company, he was rejected?
text: Did you know that as an Easter egg , the color of Sarah Bryant 's earring changes depending on the fighting stage in which the player is engaged?
text: Did you know that based on 19th-century local traditions and name preservation , it has been suggested that the archaeological site of Khirbet Kheibar was once inhabited by Jews expelled from Khaybar ?
text: Did you know that Alice Ilgenfritz Jones was one of "Two Women of the West" from Iowa who wrote the 1893 feminist utopian novel Unveiling a Parallel ?
text: Did you know that the 1975 premiere of the Four Verses of Captain Lebyadkin by Dmitri Shostakovich was described as a "pretty weird experience" by Alfred Schnittke ?
text: Did you know that Bazzini , established in 1886, is the oldest extant nut company in the United States?
text: Did you know that the Shining Path used squatting as a tactic to gain support during the internal conflict in Peru ?
text: Did you know that when Kaz Ayabe pitched his video game Boku no Natsuyasumi to Sony, he said that illustrator Mineko Ueda was interested in the project even though they had never actually met?
text: Did you know that an Adele song titled " Oh My God " is about the joys of hooking up?
text: Did you know that Huntsville, Alabama , is nicknamed Rocket City?
text: Did you know that Canadian pentathlon champion J. Howard Crocker introduced volleyball to China?
text: Did you know that the nose of the Tarsus çatalburun , a scenthound native to Turkey, is separated by a deep indentation or cleft, often creating the illusion of having two noses?
text: Did you know that Micro Star v. FormGen Inc. affirmed that copyright owners have the exclusive right to make sequels?
text: Did you know that fictional religions , often described in speculative fiction , have in some cases inspired real religious movements?
text: Did you know that Scottish painter Gordon Coutts left Australia without paying maintenance to his estranged wife, but was arrested in New Zealand?
text: Did you know that the beat goes on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on ?
text: Did you know that after the Wolverines released their " Moose " for his fifth season, he went on to win another Big Ten championship with the Hoosiers ?
text: Did you know that Micronations: The Lonely Planet Guide to Home-Made Nations features the Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands , the Kingdom of Lovely, and the Grand Duchy of Westarctica ?
text: Did you know that Salvador Ondo Nkumu read out the sentences of mercenaries involved in the 2004 Equatorial Guinea coup d'état attempt ?
text: Did you know that Hong Kong police claimed to have safely blown up 1.5 kilograms (3.3 lb) of TATP on a factory rooftop , even though 280 grams (0.6 lbs) is enough to blow up an airplane?
text: Did you know that Urwa ibn al-Zubayr has been called the founder of Islamic historiography?
text: Did you know that fashion psychology is an interdisciplinary field that studies the interaction between human behavior, psychology, and fashion?
text: Did you know that in 1953, zookeepers accused Penelope the platypus at the Bronx Zoo of "posing as an expectant mother just to lead a life of luxury on double rations"?
text: Did you know that Debra Lew Harder is the fifth person to host the Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts since they began in 1931?
text: Did you know that the University of the West Indies Seismic Research Centre , which is 70 years old this year, once had an earthquake processing system called "WurstMachine"?
text: Did you know that hiding power can be measured?
text: Did you know that Mavis Paterson , an octogenarian grandmother, has cycled more than 10,000 miles (16,000 km) for charity?
text: Did you know that red teams are used to test airport security?
text: Did you know that football player Dee Winters , who helped bring TCU to a national championship appearance and was selected in the 2023 NFL Draft , grew up in a small town with only one gas station?
text: Did you know that in A [For 100 Cars] , an orchestra of cars play the note A for 28 minutes?
text: Did you know that Zainab Salbi is the co-founder of Women for Women International and has authored multiple books?
text: Did you know that anti-aircraft defense for the Soviet guard ship Groza was supposed to be four single 37 mm 11-K guns, but bad relations with the UK left them with two PM M1910 guns instead?
text: Did you know that in 1987, Michael Denneny started Stonewall Inn Editions at St. Martin's Press , the first LGBT trade paperback imprint at a major publishing house?
text: Did you know that the Indonesia–Korea Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement covered access to South Korean online video games in Indonesia?
text: Did you know that Karen Hanghøj , the 2023 winner of the William Smith Medal for applied geology, became the first female director of the British Geological Survey , 183 years after it was founded?
text: Did you know that while filming the Doctor Who serial The Myth Makers , William Hartnell was jealous of being upstaged by the other actors?
text: Did you know that United States Marine Corps captain Katie Higgins flew nearly 400 combat hours in seven countries before performing with the Blue Angels in an airplane named "Fat Albert"?
text: Did you know that before being a top player at a Division I FBS school, wide receiver Grant DuBose worked bagging groceries and saw limited playing time for a Division II team?
text: Did you know that to prevent bishops from opposing the Elizabethan Book of Common Prayer , reformers had the entire papalist party arrested during a debate?
text: Did you know that Oscar James Campbell Jr. , an American scholar of Shakespeare, complained in 1926 that PhD students of English had to read "masses of stupid and essentially insignificant material"?
text: Did you know that the prime minister of Serbia signed the 1918 Geneva Declaration after intervention from the President of France ?
text: Did you know that the first song played on That's 60s was the same song Tony Blackburn had played on BBC Radio 1 more than 55 years earlier?
text: Did you know that a university student sought counseling from his pastor after attending a guest lecture on sexuality by lesbian and former novice Joanne Marrow ?
text: Did you know that the BBC commissioned a painting of a 1987 Bullingdon Club photograph featuring David Cameron and Boris Johnson to circumvent copyright protection?
text: Did you know that Der Bialistoker Shtern 's unique spelling policy combined standard Soviet Yiddish orthography with the traditional final forms of Hebrew letters?
text: Did you know that Geoff Bent , one of Manchester United 's Busby Babes , saved a child from drowning in a canal?
text: Did you know that A&E Networks filed a lawsuit against the producers of On Patrol: Live , alleging that it was a "blatant rip-off" of their show Live PD ?
text: Did you know that Zakir Husain was the first Muslim and the first governor of a state to be elected President of India ?
text: Did you know that the 1887 novel Bellona's Husband: A Romance by William James Roe "may be the earliest example of the time in reverse tale presented in full-fledged narrative form"?
text: Did you know that the Republican Palace Museum in Khartoum was originally a cathedral?
text: Did you know that after playing American football for three different high schools, Matt Landers played for three different colleges?
text: Did you know that Australiformis semoni is a parasite that infests marsupials in Australia and New Guinea and whose infestation could cause debilitating ulcerative granulomatous gastritis ?
text: Did you know that Abigail Fillmore spearheaded the creation of the White House Library after reportedly being appalled at the fact that there was no library?
text: Did you know that when first erected, the Abgig obelisk likely stood at 12.9 metres (42.3 ft) high, but was knocked down on the ground and broke into two pieces?
text: Did you know that when South African anti-apartheid activist Kay Moonsamy went into exile, it was fifteen years before he saw his wife and children again?
text: Did you know that, as required by the New START treaty , Russia notified the US of a missile test, which US officials believe failed days before Vladimir Putin announced Russia's suspension of the treaty ?
text: Did you know that Belén Barenys and Berta Prieto's short film was picked up by Filmin after they suggested the idea on Instagram?
text: Did you know that spectators climbed up to Fortitude, Justice, and Liberty on College Street, Dublin , to get a view of Queen Victoria ?
text: Did you know that Lucy Greenish was the first woman in New Zealand to become a registered architect?
text: Did you know that patriarchal gender roles become more sharply defined for England in the High Middle Ages , with some of that to do with the new feudal system ?
text: Did you know that in Strauss's Elektra , Aile Asszonyi was said to be convincing as a woman close to madness?
text: Did you know that although most Game Boy Advance games are developed in at least five to six months, XXX was developed in two?
text: Did you know that after going 1–10–1 in the first season of his tenure, Green Bay Packers president Dominic Olejniczak hired Vince Lombardi and the team would go on to win five NFL championships in nine years?
text: Did you know that M. Jeff Thompson described the Confederate ship named after himself as being "the largest and best, but slowest boat of the fleet "?
text: Did you know that Caroline Breese Hall and her father, who were both pediatricians , wrote a book together?
text: Did you know that the theme from Curb Your Enthusiasm , a former ringtone of Steven Spielberg , has been used as the backing to a Snoop Dogg song?
text: Did you know that Louise Willingale is developing ZEUS, which is projected to be the most powerful laser in the United States?
text: Did you know that in 2017 the British travel magazine Wanderlust rated Azerbaijan's electronic visa as the easiest visa to obtain in the world?
text: Did you know that Leonie ter Braak made her film debut in The Marriage Escape , the film of Dutch origin with the most cinema ticket sales in 2020?
text: Did you know that the owner of a Tennessee TV station denied that he had named it after himself, telling a reporter, "I'm not that much of an egotist"?
text: Did you know that 2023 NFL Draft pick Travis Bell is the only Kennesaw State Owls player ever to be selected?
text: Did you know that decoy geese spent more than 15 years trying to attract real geese to the Powell Marsh Wildlife Area ?
text: Did you know that in 1984, Charles, Prince of Wales described a proposed extension to the National Gallery as a "monstrous carbuncle"?
text: Did you know that the editorial staff of online news startup The Messenger includes former editors-in-chief of Gizmodo , Entertainment Weekly , People , and Self ?
text: Did you know that İbrahim Çolak 's 2019 gold medal in still rings was Turkey's first at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships ?
text: Did you know that at the time, the Battle of Shiloh was the largest battle fought in the United States, with nearly 24,000 casualties?
text: Did you know that Lord Snowdon and Princess Margaret spent much time at his family's Welsh country mansion Plas Dinas , but after his father's death the estate went to Snowdon's younger half-brother?
text: Did you know that Michael Block , a club professional who charges $150 per hour for golfing lessons, scored a hole in one on his way to finishing joint 15th at the 2023 PGA Championship ?
text: Did you know that one critic called Patrician IV a "very dry affair"?
text: Did you know that Pete Johnson was the first Republican to hold statewide office in Mississippi since the Reconstruction era ?
text: Did you know that Jacques-Louis David 's Portrait of Count Stanislas Potocki from 1781 has been described as one of his masterpieces?
text: Did you know that as a teenager in a B'nai B'rith camp in Canada, Holocaust survivor and future Canadian ambassador Fred Bild learned English from his camp counselor, future actor William Shatner ?
text: Did you know that the experimental film 13 Lakes , which consists of 13 ten-minute-long static shots of different lakes in the United States, was deemed to be significant by the Library of Congress ?
text: Did you know that Gator Rivers dribbled a basketball around chairs and under tables in a closet when trying out for the Harlem Globetrotters ?
text: Did you know that though Mohamed Oufkir was appointed as Minister of Defence as a result of the 1971 Moroccan coup d'état attempt , he would later organize his own coup ?
text: Did you know that Lonzo Anderson "grew up rather like a rabbit" while unsupervised outdoors, anticipating his work on Two Hundred Rabbits ?
text: Did you know that only 45 per cent of babies born in 1851 in Victorian-era Liverpool , England, lived to be 20 years old?
text: Did you know that walk-on basketball player Josh Bartelstein was the captain of the national runner-up 2012–13 Michigan Wolverines ?
text: Did you know that weather whiplash is the phenomenon of rapid swings between extremes of weather conditions?
text: Did you know that Linda Yaccarino , Twitter's new chief executive officer , created an advertising campaign for COVID-19 vaccines that featured Pope Francis ?
text: Did you know that Keith Carradine met his future wife, actress and model Hayley DuMond, on the set of the 1999 film The Hunter's Moon ?
text: Did you know that during the Polish–Soviet War , Lithuanian-Belorussian Soviet Republic People's Commissar for Justice Yitzhak Weinstein-Branovsky organized revolutionary militias in villages near Utena ?
text: Did you know that in a segment filmed for The Late Report , comedian John Safran got frisked by police after going to a McDonald's restaurant dressed up as Ronald McDonald ?
text: Did you know that the 1892 Milwaukee Cold Storage Co. Building has very few windows, and walls which are two feet (0.6 m) thick?
text: Did you know that the Venetian admiral Angelo Emo invented floating artillery batteries on rafts during his campaign against the Beylik of Tunis ?
text: Did you know that a San Antonio TV station lost its Fox affiliation on twelve days' notice to the public?
text: Did you know that in the 1930s Alfred Verdross , an Austrian international lawyer and future judge of the European Court of Human Rights, sympathised with National Socialism ?
text: Did you know that although he was expected to exit the race after about 30 km (19 mi), pacemaker Reuben Kipyego ended up winning the 2019 Abu Dhabi Marathon and US$100,000?
text: Did you know that the maritime painter Gordon Ellis had his first commission published when he was just 13 years old?
text: Did you know that at the 1978 World Snooker Championship , Fred Davis reached the semi-finals at the age of 64?
text: Did you know that the Fox television network successfully moved to strip an Iowa TV station of its affiliation?
text: Did you know that Canadian football player Nicholas Dheilly tied his team's single-game sack record in his debut?
text: Did you know that the Octavius V. Catto Memorial , unveiled in 2017, contains the first statue on Philadelphia public property of a specific African American?
text: Did you know that Heba Saadia , the first Palestinian referee at a World Cup, only took up the profession when she noticed there were no women among a group of referees she saw training?
text: Did you know that three months after Jon Stewart went on CNN's Crossfire and told the hosts that their show was "hurting America", CNN cancelled it and fired co-host Tucker Carlson ?
text: Did you know that the Poniatowski gems , 19th-century forgeries of ancient engraved gems , have themselves been copied by other forgers?
text: Did you know that Wrinkle Five Star set an unratified 1 km (0.62 mi) world record of 18 minutes 8 seconds while running in custom shoes?
text: Did you know that Wallachian statesman Radu Golescu , who worked with Russian occupiers in 1806 , was described as "immeasurably thirsty for wealth, and mean-spirited"?
text: Did you know that the song " Money " by the Drums was certified gold by the RIAA over a decade after its initial release?
text: Did you know that German cyclist Antonia Niedermaier won a stage on her first UCI Women's World Tour event, then crashed out of the event the next day?
text: Did you know that a minute's silence was incorporated into the opening ceremony of the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup after a deadly shooting in a host city earlier that day?
text: Did you know that Charles F. Gumm Jr. was the first aviator to score an aerial victory in the P-51 Mustang ?
text: Did you know that Hurricane Heather caused the normally dry Santa Cruz River to reach a 100-year flood stage?
text: Did you know that 15 U.S.C. § 68 contains provisions to prevent pulling the wool over consumers' eyes?
text: Did you know that Israeli journalist Ayala Hasson is the first woman to head Channel 1 's news division?
text: Did you know that the notorious gambler Richard Albert Canfield stayed in the Elihu Akin House for a summer when he was thirteen years old?
text: Did you know that New Zealand footballer Grace Wisnewski 's bottom-ranked team upset the defending league champions when she scored what an A-League statistician called an "acrobatic" 99th-minute equalising goal?
text: Did you know that the toroidal solenoid was the first fusion-power device to be patented?
text: Did you know that leading Sacaba 's largest drivers' union was José Mendieta 's second choice of career, after teaching?
text: Did you know that Melanie Golding's theory that changeling folklore was an attempt to explain postpartum psychosis inspired her horror novel Little Darlings ?
text: Did you know that a mural created to honor the late YouTuber Etika was added as a PokéStop in the mobile game Pokémon Go ?
text: Did you know that after Texaco accused the academic publishers suing it for copyright infringement of profiteering, the judge called it "an odd argument ... to be made by an oil company"?
text: Did you know that after Luigi Galleani was deported from the United States, his followers retaliated by carrying out a series of bomb attacks against government officials?
text: Did you know that Tropicana was reportedly the first building in Singapore to contain nightclubs, restaurants, and a theatre?
text: Did you know that in August 2021 Sheika Scott became the youngest player to score in the Costa Rican Women's Premier Division , at just 14 years old?
text: Did you know that the newly discovered red tigrina may already be extinct?
text: Did you know that Emi Wong , the Hong Kong YouTuber with the most subscribers, used a carpet sweeper to do lunges and bottles of laundry detergent to do squats ?
text: Did you know that the 100 gecs tree was listed as a "place of worship" on Google Maps ?
text: Did you know that Continental Army soldier Adamson Tannehill , later the president of the Pittsburgh branch of the Bank of the United States , was also convicted of extortion?
text: Did you know that in a 2014 study viriditoxin was able to inhibit prostate cancer cells' growth in a lab environment?
text: Did you know that Romanian musicologist Cornel Țăranu completed unfinished scores by George Enescu that Enescu did not wish to publish?
text: Did you know that the Algoma Headwaters Provincial Park in Ontario has some of the oldest and best samples of old-growth white pine in the Algoma region?
text: Did you know that after Spanish footballer Elene Lete had to leave Spain's under-20 football team with an injury in 2022, she returned to join the senior World Cup squad in 2023?
text: Did you know that a political action committee paid $132,000 to former First Lady Melania Trump 's fashion stylist for strategy consulting?
text: Did you know that drummer Ivan Conti earned the nickname " Mamão " after destroying a papaya tree?
text: Did you know that the coat of arms of Santiago de Compostela features a chalice and host from the Galician arms , as well as a star and the tomb of Saint James ?
text: Did you know that the lower level of Santiago de Compostela's Plaza de la Quintana is called the Quintana de Mortos because it was once a cemetery?
text: Did you know that during a Jacobean Holy Year, the Berenguela Tower 's lantern is lit throughout the year to act as a lighthouse to guide pilgrims to the cathedral?
text: Did you know that according to legend the tomb of James the Apostle was forgotten for eight centuries until it was found by Pelagius in the forest Libredón ?
text: Did you know that both the Way of the Lighthouses and the Way of Saint James end at Cape Finisterre in Galicia?
text: Did you know that the Cross of Saint James is associated with the apostle's appearance at the mythical Battle of Clavijo ?
text: Did you know that Queen Lupa sent the disciples of James the Apostle to Mount Ilicino without telling them about a dragon?
text: Did you know that Carly Rae Jepsen recorded over 65 songs for The Loneliest Time and created another album from its outtakes?
text: Did you know that at age 14, footballer Lara Esponda was the youngest goalkeeper to debut in the top division of women's football in Argentina ?
text: Did you know that Tesla, Inc. is the only major U.S. automobile manufacturer with no unionized American plants ?
text: Did you know that Chief Rabbi of Madrid Yehuda Benasouli 's first language was Castilian Spanish , but he also knew Hebrew , French, Arabic, Ladino , Haketia , and some English?
text: Did you know that weeks after its CEO said the chain had no plans to open or close stores, Store of Knowledge filed for bankruptcy and initiated a liquidation?
text: Did you know that nearing the end of his tenure as mayor of Tegal , Indonesia, Adi Winarso took part in a talkshow with his former political competitors?
text: Did you know that Margaret Thatcher once bought Wilberforce a tin of sardines in a Moscow supermarket?
text: Did you know that multiple mathematics competitions have made use of Sophie Germain's identity ?
text: Did you know that Julius Shiskin originated the idea that a recession can be identified by two quarters of negative GDP growth?
text: Did you know that during the creation of Sophitia Alexandra , her designers focused on maintaining an innocent appearance for her face?
text: Did you know that episodes of Angel , Lost , and The Office inspired the writer of The Flash series finale ?
text: Did you know that the Leeds 13 's attempt at staging a holiday at Leeds University Union 's expense was taken literally by the British press?
text: Did you know that Michaela Foster , a New Zealand footballer playing in the 2023 World Cup , is known for her mana ?
text: Did you know that despite Peter and Peter III each serving about 17 years, Peter II 's tenure only lasted six months?
text: Did you know that Carol Thomas began her football career at the age of 11, while the sport was still banned for women?
text: Did you know that the old Ashford railway works is being redeveloped into Ashford International Studios ?
text: Did you know that Brison Manor , who played eight years in the National Football League, had never set foot outside of his home state before attending college?
text: Did you know that indie rock band Built to Spill accompanied outsider musician Daniel Johnston at his final two concerts ?
text: Did you know that Karl Rozental was investigated and surveilled by police after the 1912 sappers ' revolt in Tashkent ?
text: Did you know that the web-based video game Moderator Mayhem was based on a card game meant to demonstrate the difficulties of content moderation ?
text: Did you know that Goddard. learned Reason ?
text: Did you know that upon the announcement of the verdict in the trial of Lina E. , court spectators shouted "fuck class justice" and "you are friends of fascists"?
text: Did you know that Jon Brower Minnoch weighed twelve times his 110-pound (50 kg) wife?
text: Did you know that none of the actors in Poppy Garden , a film depicting a father and son's struggle for survival during the Colombian conflict , had previously acted in a film?
text: Did you know that Jon Secada became the first black artist to top the Hot Latin Tracks chart in 1992, with the Spanish version of " Just Another Day "?
text: Did you know that Smoke over Birkenau by Polish writer Seweryna Szmaglewska , published in 1945, was one of the first and most influential works about the Auschwitz–Birkenau concentration camp?
text: Did you know that when TVBoy 's daughter said she wanted to be a footballer like Alexia Putellas , he painted a mural of Alexia as a superhero to inspire other girls?
text: Did you know that Igor Stravinsky suggested that performances of his song " The Owl and the Pussy Cat " should be "a little hooted, a little meowed, a little grunted"?
text: Did you know that the Nigerian film October 1 could not be released on October 1, the country's Independence Day ?
text: Did you know that in July 2023, Giulia Dragoni became the youngest person to represent any Italian senior national football team – including both men and women – in the 21st century?
text: Did you know that although Vibe Chemistry 's "Balling" only peaked at No. 35 on the UK Singles Chart , it spent ten weeks in the UK Top 40 , five of them at No. 38?
text: Did you know that a painting by Major League Baseball player Gene Locklear was hung in the White House ?
text: Did you know that the visual design of Overwatch character Widowmaker was inspired by World of Warcraft character Sylvanas Windrunner ?
text: Did you know that former North Sumatra governor Rudolf Pardede was once the richest public official in Indonesia?
text: Did you know that Dark Archives reveals that most books bound in human skin were made by respected doctors?
text: Did you know that the Royal Academy of Arts exhibited Wyndham Lewis 's portrait of T. S. Eliot in 2018, after having rejected it 80 years earlier?
text: Did you know that according to the Burmese Razadarit Ayedawbon chronicle, Commander Pyit-Nwe of Myaungmya refused to join the royal service after being defeated in battle, and instead asked to be executed?
text: Did you know that on the 1950s game show Across the Board , crossword answers were clued by both a phrase and an image?
text: Did you know that Spanish diplomat Ángel Sagaz Zubelzu secured the release of more than 1,500 Jews from prison in Egypt by arguing they were descended from expelled Jews and thus entitled to Spanish citizenship ?
text: Did you know that the short film Once Upon a Studio features previously unheard audio from Robin Williams as the Genie?
text: Did you know that Katherine Henderson led efforts to reverse the gender pay gap in Canadian curling?
text: Did you know that the creator of The Password Game was unsure whether winning the game was possible before releasing it?
text: Did you know that an air traffic controller's confusion of two planes' locations caused sixteen skydivers to drown after they unknowingly jumped over Lake Erie ?
text: Did you know that just four days before his death in 2004, David B. McCall received a presidential pardon from George W. Bush for fraud charges dating from the 1990s?
text: Did you know that although more than a thousand used Japanese train cars had previously been imported into Indonesia, the Indonesian government blocked a recent attempt to import more ?
text: Did you know that Patricia Banks-Edmiston was prevented from becoming a flight attendant during the 1950s because she was black?
text: Did you know that the 1935 SMU vs. TCU football game , known as the "Game of the Century", was the first football game in Texas to be broadcast nationally?
text: Did you know that Emmanuel Zheng Manuo was the first Chinese student in Europe and the first Chinese Jesuit priest?
text: Did you know that Piri & Tommy 's Froge.tour included pole dancing ?
text: Did you know that Patricia Davies and Jean Argles , two sisters who signed the Official Secrets Act as World War II codebreakers, did not find out about each other's top-secret work until the 1960s?
text: Did you know that in 1978, Keine Kameraden 's findings – that 3.3 million Soviet prisoners of war died of ideologically motivated mistreatment – caused a sensation in Germany?
text: Did you know that 2023 Ecuadorian presidential candidate Luisa González was pepper-sprayed by the National Police while on her way to register her candidacy?
text: Did you know that few decisions have instigated more discussion in German criminal law scholarship than an 1859 judgement of the Preußisches Obertribunal ?
text: Did you know that A Little Sound began uploading music to her YouTube channel when she was eleven years old?
text: Did you know that Kenneth Halliwell murdered his lover Joe Orton with a hammer at their flat in London's Noel Road , before taking a drug overdose?
text: Did you know that Ben Phillips replaced his friend's hair gel with superglue , put Viagra in his sports drink, and placed him on a lake while he slept on an inflatable mattress ?
text: Did you know that the 1979 video game Superman was one of the first console games with a pause feature?
text: Did you know that neurologist Christopher J. Boes has discussed the history of treating headaches without drugs?
text: Did you know that after freestyling over DJ Marky and XRS 's " LK (Carolina Carol Bela) " on stage, Stamina MC was asked to record official vocals for the song?
text: Did you know that Minnesota 's Dick Wildung played for back-to-back national championship teams and was twice selected as a consensus All-American ?
text: Did you know that critics felt that the claustrophobic submarine setting was one of the scariest parts of the vampire novel 100 Fathoms Below ?
text: Did you know that curator Nina Tonga is the first Pasifika person to be a contemporary art curator at Te Papa , the national museum of New Zealand?
text: Did you know that some fictional music can actually be heard?
text: Did you know that Russian indie artist polnalyubvi bought her first guitar with money earned from busking with her violin?
text: Did you know that although the Brooklyn Union Gas Company 's original building, next to its replacement , was once described as having been "miraculously saved", the older building was demolished in 2004 without protest?
text: Did you know that Barrie Trinder helped to raise the standing of industrial archaeology to that of a respected academic discipline in Britain?
text: Did you know that the United States won the 2023 CONCACAF Nations League final and extended a home unbeaten streak against Canada that dates back to 1957?
text: Did you know that Jazzy 's 2023 single " Giving Me " made her the first Irish solo female act to top the Irish Singles Chart since Julie-Anne Dineen in 2009 with " Do You Believe "?
text: Did you know that Bill Pohlad , co-founder of film distributor Apparition , was surprised by his fellow co-founder Bob Berney 's resignation?
text: Did you know that cocalera activist Ancelma Perlacios , the first Afro-Bolivian to be elected to the Senate , was her organization 's secretary of defense of the coca leaf?
text: Did you know that the 2005 video game Bokura no Kazoku was inspired in part by the birth of its creator's first child?
text: Did you know that Keith Raniere co-founded NXIVM , a multi-level marketing company that has been described as a cult?
text: Did you know that the final stage of the 2023 Tour Féminin des Pyrénées was cancelled for safety reasons?
text: Did you know that the actions of Henry de Hinuber and his battalions during the Battle of Bayonne in 1814 reportedly "saved the allies from a very terrible disaster"?
text: Did you know that Igor Stravinsky 's unfinished Two Sketches for a Sonata has been called a "poignant summing-up of a life's work"?
text: Did you know that when the German-Irish historian Marie Sophie Hingst was revealed to be faking descent from Holocaust survivors, the media of different countries disagreed on how to report on it?
text: Did you know that Peter III , a cat employed by the British government, was buried in Ilford with "full honours"?
text: Did you know that the poet Fernando Pessoa considered Alberto Caeiro , one of his own heteronyms , to be his master?
text: Did you know that Shanghai Trolleybus Route 20 was so popular in the 1980s that it required 65 buses to run as little as 30 seconds apart?
text: Did you know that the Belgian far-right activist Robert Steuckers is critical of the French New Right for their lack of proficiency in German?
text: Did you know that according to Fodor's Travel , the 16th Avenue Tiled Steps is "possibly the world's largest mosaic staircase"?
text: Did you know that Ida Mett was expelled from a Russian anarchist group for mourning her deceased father by lighting a Yahrzeit candle ?
text: Did you know that Piri & Tommy 's " Beachin " was an attempt at imitating the Isley Brothers ?
text: Did you know that Newton's apple tree was blown down in a storm in 1816?
text: Did you know that OnPoint NYC 's safe injection sites treated 672 overdoses in their first year of operation, with no resulting deaths?
text: Did you know that when Ralph Sazio , a Canadian Football Hall of Fame inductee, visited Boston University to scout a player, he became so impressed by Dave Viti that he signed him instead?
text: Did you know that when it opened in 1968, the Beth Yaacov Synagogue in Madrid was the first new synagogue built in Spain since Jews were expelled from the country by the Catholic Monarchs in 1492?
text: Did you know that Peter Read coined the term " Stolen Generations " to refer to Aboriginal children who were forcibly separated from their families by Australian governments?
text: Did you know that Jean Sibelius likely wrote his first composition, Water Droplets , as a schoolboy?
text: Did you know that the Benz and Phats & Small singer Tony Thompson is a former cage fighter?
text: Did you know that Kraft Heinz was "intrigued" by the fake product image of Mayoreo that became an Internet meme in June 2021?
text: Did you know that Princess Rallou Karatza 's theater in Bucharest , now upheld as a pioneering institution of modern Greek drama , was described in one Wallachian chronicle as a "temple" for devil-worship?
text: Did you know that a demo version and a music video of Greece's 2017 Eurovision candidate song , "This Is Love", were leaked online?
text: Did you know that Michele Beevors explores the complicated relationships between humans and the natural world through hand-knitted skeletons?
text: Did you know that critically ill patients undergoing mechanical ventilation in the intensive care unit have been sedated with ciprofol ?
text: Did you know that Fred Plump sued Alabama governor Bob Riley over an appointment to the county commission of Jefferson County ?
text: Did you know that the 2022 Optus data breach affected over a third of Australians?
text: Did you know that Rawson Stovall became the first nationally syndicated video game journalist in the United States when he was only eleven years old?
text: Did you know that a verse by Kendrick Lamar for The Melodic Blue was leaked before the album's release and went viral as an Internet meme ?
text: Did you know that Soepardjo Rustam guarded a double of Indonesian Armed Forces commander Sudirman to draw attention away from the real commander?
text: Did you know that the 1929 book The Magic Island by William Seabrook is considered the first popular English-language work to describe a zombie ?
text: Did you know that Ann Tahincioğlu was 49 years old when she competed in Turkey's first all-women car race, the "Volkswagen Polo Ladies Cup"?
text: Did you know that though poisonweed, Delphinium geyeri , is highly toxic, it is less poisonous after it starts flowering?
text: Did you know that Elena Mikhnenko was born in a prison in Warsaw where her mother had been detained for allegedly plotting an anti-Polish uprising?
text: Did you know that Egghead & Twinkie claims to be the first feature film crowdsourced on TikTok?
text: Did you know that when Carla Monroe 's vocals were used in MK 's " 17 ", she was working in a prison?
text: Did you know that basketball player Lou Williams was nicknamed "Lemon Pepper Lou" after an incident involving lemon pepper wings ?
text: Did you know that Jerome Epstein was advised not to take credit for his production work on Charlie Chaplin 's 1952 film Limelight due to accusations that Chaplin had communist sympathies ?
text: Did you know that Amtrak opened the Jeffersonville train station before ending its only service there less than four years later?
text: Did you know that Austrian online streamer Keekihime became fluent in Japanese from live-streaming daily on the Japanese video website Nico Douga ?
text: Did you know that police in Indianola, Mississippi , shot an unarmed 11-year-old African-American boy after responding to his 9-1-1 call for help at his home?
text: Did you know that Whisnu Sakti Buana served as the mayor of Surabaya , Indonesia, for just one week in 2021?
text: Did you know that MetroHero used to let riders know whenever the Washington Metro caught on fire?
text: Did you know that an Armenian Apostolic Church lawsuit over the Zeytun Gospels led Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh to write a history of its separated canon tables ?
text: Did you know that during the excavation of the Beulé Gate , a dynamite explosion sent a piece of mortar through one onlooker's hat?
text: Did you know that an Egyptian rabbi 's authority was invoked in a deed freeing a woman from slavery in 1132 in Mangalore , India?
text: Did you know that the Kawa model uses the metaphor of a river to help people contemplate their well-being?
text: Did you know that Paul Christiano founded the Alignment Research Center to align advanced artificial intelligence with human values and priorities?
text: Did you know that joking about the Chinese military can cost you US$2 million?
text: Did you know that Nazi Party member Adalbert Baumann created Oiropa'pitshn , a language based on Yiddish ?
text: Did you know that Domingo Germán was booed off the pitcher's mound in the game prior to his perfect game ?
text: Did you know that the history of philosophy in India is characterized by its combined interest in the nature of reality , the ways of arriving at knowledge , and the spiritual question of how to reach enlightenment ?
text: Did you know that a misreport led to Francis Slater Rebow being recorded in the wrong military rank for three years?
text: Did you know that Robin Roberts , later of ESPN and Good Morning America , worked as a reporter for the radio station at Southeastern Louisiana University while a student there?
text: Did you know that Tatsuya Takahashi worked with Red Bull Music Academy to create an online game about synthesisers?
text: Did you know that even though syndicated talk show Karamo generally replaced Maury , its host promised it would feature "no baby mama stuff"?
text: Did you know that the Japanese Buddhist temple of Gansen-ji has a 275-centimeter-tall (9.02 ft) statue of Amitābha Buddha that was created in the year 946?
text: Did you know that Astrid Lindgren can be read in 100 languages?
text: Did you know that an underground hip hop album was funded by James Murdoch , the son of billionaire Rupert Murdoch ?
text: Did you know that prior to his career in the CIA, Dick Linthicum played basketball at UCLA and became the university's first All-American in any sport?
text: Did you know that three days after announcing their ROG Ally handheld computer, Asus had to clarify that it was not an April Fools' prank?
text: Did you know that Precious Brady-Davis and her husband were the first transgender couple to have their gender identities listed correctly on an Illinois birth certificate ?
text: Did you know that during the sinking of the Costa Concordia , Gregorio de Falco told Francesco Schettino "Vada a bordo, cazzo!" which loosely translates to "Get back on board, for fuck's sake"?
text: Did you know that Mother Mother 's " Hayloft " received only niche radio play for more than a decade after its release, and then started pulling in a million streams a week?
text: Did you know that after Indonesian football club PSMS Medan won three consecutive national championships, Medan's mayor Sjoerkani granted the club a stadium?
text: Did you know that many europium compounds fluoresce under ultraviolet light?
text: Did you know that the 2014 text adventure The Uncle Who Works for Nintendo is inspired by a source cited by children for spreading video game rumors?
text: Did you know that King Mohammed VI of Morocco donated part of his royal collection to the new National Jewellery Museum ?
text: Did you know that Jordan Hawkins won the 2023 NCAA Division I men's basketball championship game a day after his cousin won the women's championship ?
text: Did you know that unicorn hunting is the practice by a couple, usually a man and a woman, of seeking a third partner for the relationship, usually a bisexual woman?
text: Did you know that M. Farooqui , who had been expelled from his studies for having organized a strike in 1940, received his Delhi University degree in a special convocation in 1989?
text: Did you know that the director of House of Ashes included both American and Iraqi protagonists because he felt that movies about conflicts tend to dehumanise people?
text: Did you know that David Gerard is the author of Attack of the 50-foot Blockchain , a " 'no holds barred' attack" on cryptocurrency ?
text: Did you know that the 75/24 Split in Chattanooga, Tennessee , has been one of the worst bottlenecks for trucks in the United States?
text: Did you know that Harold Ingrams said that Yemeni philanthropist Sayyid Abubakr bin Shaikh Al-Kaff could be an embarrassment for wanting Hadhramaut to be ruled by the British like Singapore ?
text: Did you know that Les Avariés was temporarily banned in England and France for its focus on syphilis ?
text: Did you know that, in her second season in the SDHL , ice hockey defenseman Ebba Berglund scored no points but accrued 20 penalty minutes ?
text: Did you know that Michael Huber 's translation of Salomon Gessner 's works into French made Gessner the best-known German-language poet in Europe before Goethe ?
text: Did you know that 24 Hour Psycho slows down Alfred Hitchcock 's 1960 film Psycho to two frames per second, stretching its duration to a full 24 hours?
text: Did you know that Moenadi was reportedly offered the post of Governor of Central Java during a flight?
text: Did you know that Olivia Rodrigo wears two interlaced purple Band-Aids in the artwork for her song " Vampire "?
text: Did you know that Peter Fallon , an Irish poet who translated Virgil's Georgics , also edited a 1970 beat -poetry magazine that featured works by John Lennon and Allen Ginsberg ?
text: Did you know that the story for Infogrames ' 1992 computer game Alone in the Dark was outlined in just three days?
text: Did you know that research conducted in 2020 found that squirrels are "nearly ubiquitous" on college campuses in the United States and Canada?
text: Did you know that bshp 's cover of " Kissing You " was streamed more than 3,000,000 times on Spotify after it appeared on Love Island ?
text: Did you know that the book Racecraft argues that the concept of human races was developed to justify racism ?
text: Did you know that Jack Critchley , state parliamentarian then senator for South Australia , was invalided home from the Western Front with " wry neck "?
text: Did you know that despite the Japan–Korea Joint Development Zone containing "prolific" oil reserves, none has been produced to date?
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 a Fort Worth police officer who shot and killed a 72-year-old man on the latter's own property in 2013 did not face any charges?
text: Did you know that " Clown " is an answer song in which Mariah Carey responds to Eminem 's comments about their relationship in " Superman "?
text: Did you know that the only known copies of the oyster dress designed by Alexander McQueen for his collection Irere are owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Kim Kardashian ?
text: Did you know that Dean Faithfull was the oldest player in NCAA Division II football history?
text: Did you know that classified documents of the United States were partially leaked onto a Discord server for the video game Minecraft ?
text: Did you know that before Ashley Jade debuted on the UK Singles Chart , she had played the lead in the BAFTA Award -winning short film About a Girl ?
text: Did you know that as of 2017, New York City was spending $500,000 per year on bus tickets and airfare for homeless people to leave New York ?
text: Did you know that while Eliza Stephens worked as governess for Mary Eleanor Bowes , she supported Andrew Robinson Stoney 's schemes to seduce her employer?
text: Did you know that the Pidakala War is a cow dung fight held every year?
text: Did you know that Piri 's self-produced music video for " Soft Spot " features her performing against her bedroom wall to projected "trippy liquid visuals" she found on YouTube ?
text: Did you know that the 17-animal inheritance puzzle has variously been stated with 17 camels, 17 elephants, or 17 horses?
text: Did you know that Seda Kaçan became Turkey's first race-winning female driver?
text: Did you know that the Vegas Golden Knights used five different starting goaltenders during their 2022–23 Stanley Cup championship season?
text: Did you know that Leonard Abrams founded the arts and culture magazine East Village Eye , which he claimed was the first publication to print a comprehensive definition of hip-hop ?
text: Did you know that though the Offerman Building is only eight stories high, its tall ceilings once made it one of the tallest buildings in Brooklyn ?
text: Did you know that John Oliver dared Disney to sue him over his version of Mickey Mouse ?
text: Did you know that Fall Out Boy 's updated " We Didn't Start the Fire " mentions Myspace , but not the COVID-19 pandemic ?
text: Did you know that one of the founders of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party , Andrius Domaševičius , had his own private gynecology practice, treating poor women free of charge?
text: Did you know that in April 2023 the Last Dance shoes sold for US$2.238 million, the highest sale price ever realized for any pair of shoes?
text: Did you know that College Football Hall of Fame inductee Pug Lund received his college degree 62 years after enrolling at the University of Minnesota ?
text: Did you know that cactus fries taste similar to onion rings and asparagus ?
text: Did you know that Edna Thomas portrayed Lady Macbeth in Orson Welles's "Voodoo" Macbeth ?
text: Did you know that former Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson said that she would swim in Loch Ness naked if the SNP won more than 50 seats at the 2019 United Kingdom general election ?
text: Did you know that the economy of Tolkien's Middle-earth has been described as a mix of feudalism and capitalism , with one scholar even suggesting it had communist elements?
text: Did you know that despite being a dwarf , Anomochilus monticola is the largest species in its genus?
text: Did you know that although her character goes through writer's block while writing " The Rose Song ", Olivia Rodrigo wrote its first version chords in 20 minutes?
text: Did you know that British communist leader Trevor Carter was the stage manager for the first British-Caribbean carnival, held in St Pancras Town Hall ?
text: Did you know that Timothy Brosnahan began the physical separation of what would eventually become Boston College High School from Boston College ?
text: Did you know that Schramm's model of communication introduced the idea of feedback loops to understand communication ?
text: Did you know that Rodger Page was called out of retirement in 1947 to officiate at the double wedding of two Tongan princes?
text: Did you know that in United States v. Strong , a U.S. appeals court upheld the conviction of a man for covering a federal courthouse restroom in his own feces?
text: Did you know that Wanda Warska was nicknamed the "First Lady of Polish Jazz"?
text: Did you know that The Stylus was published for the first time in 1883, during Jeremiah O'Connor 's presidency of Boston College ?
text: Did you know that in 930, the Qarmatians sacked Mecca , massacred Hajj pilgrims, plundered the Kaaba , and carried off the Black Stone to their homeland in Bahrayn ?
text: Did you know that JetBlue 's CEO, Robin Hayes , flew in an airplane for the first time aged 18?
text: Did you know that the lands of the Shirvanshah served as the focal point for Persian literature during the 12th century?
text: Did you know that after Victor Verity crash-landed his plane in Norrent-Fontes and travelled back to England, he discovered that he had been reported as being missing in action?
text: Did you know that 16 Montana youths are plaintiffs in the lawsuit Held v. Montana , the first constitutional climate change lawsuit to go to trial in the United States?
text: Did you know that in recent years several paintings have been attributed to the 15th-century painter Piero del Pollaiuolo that were once ascribed to his brother Antonio ?
text: Did you know that countertenor Christopher Lowrey 's voice has been described as "packed with enough character to sink a battleship"?
text: Did you know that the restricted life of the Shia imam Ali al-Hadi under Abbasid surveillance ended the imams' direct leadership of the Shia community ?
text: Did you know that the First Lady Bake-Off was inspired by a political gaffe by Hillary Clinton and predicted five out of seven elections?
text: Did you know that in 2007, Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling 's cat Sybil met Margaret Thatcher ?
text: Did you know that Zinkiv , Ukraine, was a center of Hasidic Judaism until almost the entirety of the city's 2,300-strong Jewish population was murdered during the Holocaust ?
text: Did you know that due to her leftist beliefs, journalist Ana Amado was told not to come to work by her public television employer while her husband was on the death list of the Argentine Anticommunist Alliance ?
text: Did you know that the Japanese manga series Minato's Laundromat originated as a story titled Wash My Heart! that was posted on Pixiv ?
text: Did you know that former Czech Army doctor Marek Obrtel returned his military decorations from NATO operations in 2014, citing his pro-Russian and anti-American views?
text: Did you know that the text of the Acts of Peter and the Twelve was completely unknown until its discovery at Nag Hammadi in 1945?
text: Did you know that when Doug McKechnie played the "Big Moog", he was sometimes fueled by psychoactive drugs?
text: Did you know that If Books Could Kill , there would be a podcast about it?
text: Did you know that the killing of Mitch Henriquez led to four days of rioting in The Hague , prompting the police to announce a ban on public assemblies of more than three people?
text: Did you know that Loud LDN members once occupied five places in a single edition of the UK Singles Chart ?
text: Did you know that William F. Gannon died before reforming the membership of the married men's sodality in Philadelphia ?
text: Did you know that the song " Dance the Night " killed a viral meme about Dua Lipa 's hip twist, as news about the song replaced it in online search results?
text: Did you know that María Pérez was signed to FC Barcelona Femení 's B team in 2020 but started for the first team by the end of the season?
text: Did you know that the Fore River Railroad was bought by the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority as part of a project to clean up Boston Harbor ?
text: Did you know that Austro-Hungarian actress Gisela Werbezirk claimed to receive up to 20 prank calls a day about her married name, Gisela Werbezirk Piffl?
text: Did you know that celebrities who were interviewed in The Canadian Conspiracy were paid US$500?
text: Did you know that Howard Florey led the team that developed penicillin ?
text: Did you know that " Obviously 5 Believers " (1966), which featured one of the Hawks , later known as the Band , inspired the name of a band, later known as the Hawks, that was featured on Obviously 5 Believers (2021)?
text: Did you know that Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja called King Leopold II 's atrocities in the Congo Free State the " Congo holocaust "?
text: Did you know that 81 and 101 Willoughby Street were described as being one city block apart physically but "eons apart in their architecture"?
text: Did you know that 2023 NFL Draft pick Atonio Mafi played both on offense and defense during his college career, and shares a UCLA record with 56 games played?
text: Did you know that the rivalries of University College London students have led to pitched battles with other institutions involving rotten apples, emasculation, and the embalmed head of Jeremy Bentham ?
text: Did you know that at the age of 82, Kuwaiti crown prince Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah is the oldest heir apparent in the world?
text: Did you know that Jordan Stephens has released solo music under his own name and the pseudonyms "J Steezy", "Rizzle", "Wildhood", "Gnarly Ventura", and "Al, the Native"?
text: Did you know that parts of the Marsala Punic shipwreck were marked with alphabetical signs intended to facilitate and speed up assembly?
text: Did you know that prior to attorney Stanley Woodward representing Donald Trump aide Walt Nauta and Oath Keeper Kelly Meggs , he represented tenants in D.C. who were facing eviction?
text: Did you know that staff of a California public TV station were unaware it was broadcasting in color until a viewer called to compliment their color signal?
text: Did you know that the flightless suliforme Klallamornis likely went extinct when the volcanic islands it used for shelter along the coast of the Pacific Northwest eroded away into the Pacific Ocean?
text: Did you know that Kevin A. Gilroy served as the mayor of Gilroy ?
text: Did you know that the Los Angeles Times called William D. Hoard the "father of modern dairying"?
text: Did you know that Ashiq Peri was the first prominent female folk poet in Azerbaijan?
text: Did you know that in the span of three days, a Florida man was approved by bankruptcy courts to buy TV stations in Roanoke and Lynchburg, Virginia , and then arrested on charges of laundering millions in drug money?
text: Did you know that goalkeeper Daniela Solera had the most touches of any Costa Rican player in their opening match of the 2023 World Cup ?
text: Did you know that the study of selection algorithms has been traced to an 1883 work of Lewis Carroll on how to award second place in single-elimination tournaments ?
text: Did you know that former New Jersey first lady Lucinda Florio restored the Italianate gardens at Drumthwacket ?
text: Did you know that tens of thousands of New Yorkers traveled to see Dreamland burn?
text: Did you know that a stamp depicting an elephant compelled Plácido Ramón de Torres to flee Italy for his native Spain?
text: Did you know that an Iowa TV station operates from a former McDonald's restaurant?
text: Did you know that after breaking up, Piri and Tommy Villiers released a song about wanting to be treated nicely in a relationship?
text: Did you know that National Football League player Jacob Sykes took college courses in sixth grade and assisted in teaching college courses in seventh grade?
text: Did you know that although Kississing Lake is threatened by water contaminated with tailings , it is the main resource for nearby residents?
text: Did you know that about 30 cases of Hanhart syndrome were reported between 1932 and 1991?
text: Did you know that Diamandi Djuvara 's last stand against the Ottoman army in Wallachia resulted in the Ottomans collecting 138 human tongues as war trophies?
text: Did you know that Chinese intellectual Tan Teck Soon , who was the son of a Christian missionary, became a supporter of Buddhist revivalist Anagarika Dharmapala in his later years?
text: Did you know that CSS Beaufort fought USS Albatross in the first ship-versus-ship action of the American Civil War ?
text: Did you know that Thelma Bates 's colleagues tried to discourage her from establishing the first palliative care team at a British hospital, saying it would ruin her career?
text: Did you know that equipment from a bankrupt North Carolina TV station was dismantled, loaded on three rental trucks, and reassembled to start a station in Virginia ?
text: Did you know that Singaporean performance artist Josef Ng was fined S$ 1,000 for partially exposing his buttocks and snipping his pubic hair during a public performance?
text: Did you know that one critic described the lower portion of One Worldwide Plaza 's facade as resembling "stone wallpaper"?
text: Did you know that the Ängelholm UFO memorial reflects the account of Swedish entrepreneur Gösta Carlsson, who attributed his success in life to encountering a UFO in 1946?
text: Did you know that Edward A. McGurk disbanded the College of the Holy Cross's football team because he did not want it playing outside Worcester ?
text: Did you know that Juventus 's reserve team, Juventus U23 , won their first trophy after only two years in existence?
text: Did you know that to promote the Buffalo Club , Rising Tide Records sent packages of plastic buffalo to music industry executives in Nashville ?
text: Did you know that Carlos Alberto Sonnenschein won three terms and spent twelve years in the Bolivian parliament despite barely attending any legislative sessions ?
text: Did you know that the Piri Reis map likely contains the only surviving piece of an otherwise lost map of Christopher Columbus ?
text: Did you know that to announce the first commercially broadcast Green Bay Packers game in 1929, Russ Winnie sat in a studio and read out telegrams sent from someone who was at the game?
text: Did you know that depending on who you ask, an anomochilid could be a dwarf or a giant?
text: Did you know that social media influencer Alix Earle 's first video on TikTok featured her and her friends showcasing outfits they had made out of trash bags?
text: Did you know that the first Thai typewriter left out two letters, which eventually became obsolete?
text: Did you know that after his candidacy was disqualified by Bolivia's electoral court , Eduardo Maldonado sued the state at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and won?
text: Did you know that during the 2013 Midwest floods , lightning struck a plane on the runway, according to officials at the airport?
text: Did you know that Chinese missionary Tan See Boo moved to Singapore to work for the Presbyterian Church , but later returned to China to persuade Christians to leave the Presbyterian Church?
text: Did you know that of 42 pilot competitors who started the 2022 X-Pyr , a paragliding hike-and-fly endurance race, only four reached the final goal?
text: Did you know that Bird Thomas Baldwin , the director of the first child research center of its kind, died due to a shaving accident?
text: Did you know that Singaporean swimmer Marc Tay served in the Gulf War as an eye surgeon?
text: Did you know that in 1987, an estimated one-sixth of New York City's homeless children lived at the Martinique Hotel , even though it lacked basic facilities like kitchens?
text: Did you know that the names of Harvey Meyerhoff , Elie Wiesel , and Bill Clinton are carved into the cornerstone of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum , according to Meyerhoff's daughter?
text: Did you know that one former employee called the executives of a New Orleans TV station "piranhas"?
text: Did you know that one contemporary chronicler claimed that Tolui 's Mongol army killed as many as three million people in less than two months?
text: Did you know that fire baskets were once used to mark the main route through Danish waters from the North Sea to the Baltic ?
text: Did you know that Mike Wingfield named a fungus after his first grandchild, Rachel?
text: Did you know that when Felicia Schroeder signed to play soccer for the University of South Carolina , the school did not have a sign-language interpreter available for her?
text: Did you know that the founding owner of a South Dakota TV station became known for industry ads calling him "a helluva salesman"?
text: Did you know that a 14th-century work, originally attributed to another poet, was discovered in 2018 to be the creation of the Azerbaijani poet Yusuf Meddah ?
text: Did you know that despite being legally available in most cases, abortion in Taiwan is still criminalized under the penal code?
text: Did you know that a report by the philosopher Jonathan Birch and colleagues led to cephalopods and decapods being recognised as sentient under the UK's Animal Welfare (Sentience) Act ?
text: Did you know that the 2023 US FIBA Basketball World Cup team is the first American national team of NBA players without an All-NBA player?
text: Did you know that the walls of the Municipal Asphalt Plant ' s mixing plant remained standing after three weeks of attempts to demolish it?
text: Did you know that although doctors said Mitchell Agude would live the rest of his life in a vegetative state following a skateboarding accident at age nine, he recovered in three days and now plays in the NFL ?
text: Did you know that Master of Magic , released in 2022, is a faithful remake of the 1994 classic of the same name?
text: Did you know that the Jewish Telegraphic Agency named Philip Sherman one of "America's Top Mohels"?
text: Did you know that Mae Stephens described Meghan Trainor as her "role model music mother" after they collaborated on " Mr Right "?
text: Did you know that in 1974, a hoard of more than 400,000 silver dollars was discovered in Nevada?
text: Did you know that the hometown newspaper of soccer player Olivia Wingate named her "Female Athlete of the Decade" for the 2010s?
text: Did you know that a Michigan TV station was built on a former circus ground?
text: Did you know that channel 31 in Denver was planned to broadcast in Spanish – until the 1980 United States census figures came out?
text: Did you know that Wilhelm Büsing said that "all hell broke loose" after he won an Olympic medal?
text: Did you know that during the 2023 Western Kentucky floods , 11.28 inches (287 mm) of rain fell in Graves County , which set a new preliminary rainfall record for the state?
text: Did you know that inventor Kamil Tolon manufactured the first Turkish electric engine after prime minister Adnan Menderes prohibited him from importing them?
text: Did you know that the exclusive secret society Hamilton House from the television show Gossip Girl was based on St. Anthony Hall , a social and literary fraternity?
text: Did you know that Ridho Rahmadi helped develop digital apps for the Ummah Party before he was appointed its chairman?
text: Did you know that Rampage was said to cause "an adrenaline-induced tingle"?
text: Did you know that Lorenzo White was the first player in college football to rush for 2,000 yards in a season without winning the Heisman Trophy ?
text: Did you know that holmium has the highest magnetic moment of any naturally occurring element?
text: Did you know that Jorge Medina – the first Afro-Bolivian in parliament – recalled being harassed as a young adult due to the superstitious belief that pinching a black person brought good luck?
text: Did you know that the prop currency produced by the Earl Hays Press for the 1965 film The Cincinnati Kid was so realistic that it entered circulation and the plates had to be destroyed by the United States Secret Service ?
text: Did you know that Ice King , the antagonist of television series Adventure Time , was at first received negatively by critics but later praised for representing mental health issues such as Alzheimer's disease ?
text: Did you know that reporting by Theo Baker , a freshman student journalist, led to the resignation of Stanford University president Marc Tessier-Lavigne ?
text: Did you know that the Midtown Theater was nowhere near Midtown ?
text: Did you know that sisters Alyssa and Gisele Thompson are the first high school students to sign a name, image, and likeness deal with Nike?
text: Did you know that Shaparak Khorsandi asked for her book to be removed from the Jhalak Prize longlist, which she considered to be "a sticker for being brown"?
text: Did you know that in 1999, British designer Alexander McQueen staged an Eye in the middle of a New York hurricane ?
text: Did you know that Bob Harlan was the first president of the Green Bay Packers without any roots in the Green Bay community?
text: Did you know that Pany Yathotou is the first woman vice president of Laos ?
text: Did you know that Piri released the song " Fumble " after her relationship ended?
text: Did you know that John Cleese once called Olivia Benson "the weirdest cat I've ever seen in my life"?
text: Did you know that the Three Bards are the most celebrated poets in the history of Polish literature ?
text: Did you know that for the Better Call Saul episode " Breaking Bad ", writer and director Thomas Schnauz filmed the cameos of Walter White and Jesse Pinkman seven months before the main production?
text: Did you know that George Munday became known as "Sunday" Munday while playing in the National Football League ?
text: Did you know that Tylocephale possibly used their domed skulls to fight one another?
text: Did you know that future state senator William T. Vinton was sent to jail for contempt of court when he refused to sign a city paving contract, but was later vindicated by an Oregon Supreme Court decision?
text: Did you know that a march of six thousand people commenced after a statue of Our Lady of Lourdes was made in Paraparaumu ?
text: Did you know that a Nebraska TV station stopped carrying live studio wrestling after wrestlers kicked a TV monitor?
text: Did you know that Travis Scott expressed interest in collaborating with Beyoncé eight years before creating " Delresto (Echoes) " with her?
text: Did you know that Mike Venaani serves alongside his son in the Namibian National Assembly ?
text: Did you know that Project Ketch proposed the detonation of a 24-kiloton nuclear device in Pennsylvania to create a natural-gas storage reservoir?
text: Did you know that some misanthropes reject humanity because of how humans treat other animals?
text: Did you know that anti-refugee activist Ann Corcoran has claimed that refugees are a Muslim plot to colonize the United States?
text: Did you know that fermented leaves are used to make a meat substitute in Sudan called kawal ?
text: Did you know that Nancy Reagan was hexakosioihexekontahexaphobic ?
text: Did you know that the men's 100 metres event at the 2023 British Athletics Championships was run in heavy rain?
text: Did you know that Albert Bahhuth fled the Lebanese Civil War and owned a Subway franchise before being named an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles ?
text: Did you know that favissae were underground pits dedicated to the disposal of votive offerings that were no longer in use?
text: Did you know that John Sterling , Anthony Harrison and Chuck Compton were all signed by the Green Bay Packers as replacement players because of a players' strike during the 1987 NFL season ?
text: Did you know that in 1875, Queen Victoria paid £250 to have a north London graveyard for Lutherans maintained in perpetuity?
text: Did you know that Sue Marx won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film for Young at Heart , about a romance between two octogenarians?
text: Did you know that in the 1950s, links to sexually transmitted infection were dropped from the title of several skin-disease journals, including the Archives of Dermatological Research ?
text: Did you know that to gain weight to increase his chance of being a college football offensive lineman , John Ojukwu went on a diet that included consuming a gallon of milk a day and sometimes whole pizzas?
text: Did you know that when Oakdale Golf & Country Club was founded, the Toronto Star ran a story with the headline "Hebrews buy farm; build golf course"?
text: Did you know that Joseph O'Callaghan died at sea while carrying papers appointing him provincial superior ?
text: Did you know that the current Salvation Army Headquarters replaced an earlier Manhattan building that resembled a "medieval citadel"?
text: Did you know that in early 2023 Angela Ferrell-Zabala became the first executive director for the US gun control advocacy organization Moms Demand Action ?
text: Did you know that a commercial for HeadOn drew comparisons to Maoist posters , North Korean propaganda , and Hillary Clinton ?
text: Did you know that William Maldon learned to read, which resulted in him almost being killed by his father?
text: Did you know that during the August 2023 Mid-South U.S. floods , 3.77 inches (96 mm) of rain fell in Columbia, Missouri , breaking a 113-year rainfall record?
text: Did you know that Jaleel McLaughlin went from being homeless to being college football's all-time leading rusher?
text: Did you know that the Jewish cemetery in Lucena , the largest such cemetery excavated in Spain, was discovered in 2006 during construction of the city's southern ring road?
text: Did you know that in 1975, a cache of 20,000 of Ernst Gottmann 's photographic negatives was discovered in the basement of his company's old studio?
text: Did you know that Tweet Kimball lived in a castle , herded grand-champion cattle , and preserved a petrified forest ?
text: Did you know that part of the legislative building of Jujuy Province in Argentina was burned during the 2023 Jujuy protests ?
text: Did you know that the post-apocalyptic board game Radlands is illustrated in bright neon?
text: Did you know that Margaret C. Roberts was encouraged to study medicine by LDS Church leader Brigham Young to reduce mortality rates during childbirth?
text: Did you know that some theorists claim that intrapersonal communication is the basis of all communication ?
text: Did you know that at over 400 pounds (180 kg), Desmond Watson is one of the largest players in NCAA Division I football history?
text: Did you know that the Infinity Stones were not planned to be the MacGuffins of the Marvel Cinematic Universe 's Infinity Saga until at least 2012?
text: Did you know that Bonnie Elliott devised the concept for a campaign to promote female representation in cinematography ?
text: Did you know that the Paramore song " Running Out of Time " is based on singer Hayley Williams 's friendship with Taylor Swift ?
text: Did you know that as part of his 2014 reelection campaign, Indonesian legislator Eriko Sotarduga provided free haircuts and motorcycle repairs?
text: Did you know that Quintin Johnstone advocated giving control of an American-governed law school to native Ethiopians ?
text: Did you know that the crusading movement defined concepts of warfare throughout medieval Europe?
text: Did you know that according to its president Said Iqbal , Indonesia's Labour Party would form "personal" coalitions with presidential candidates?
text: Did you know that the chemicals responsible for the smell of freshly cut grass are a plant defense mechanism ?
text: Did you know that New Zealand potter Hardy Browning began his career as a coal miner ?
text: Did you know that Edvard Munch 's Inheritance is an inversion of the traditional artistic subject of the Madonna and Child ?
text: Did you know that in between snowboarding runs at the 2022 Winter Olympics , Jenise Spiteri ate a bao that she forgot was in her pocket?
text: Did you know that the Pellissippi Parkway in East Tennessee takes its name from a Native American name that was applied to both the Clinch and Ohio Rivers ?
text: Did you know that Beyoncé paid tribute to O'Shae Sibley , a gay man who was killed after vogueing to her music, on her official website?
text: Did you know that teenagers picketed The Washington Post to protest the sudden cancellation of The Milt Grant Show , a teen dance TV show in Washington, D.C. ?
text: Did you know that footballer Kameron Simmonds , who plays for Jamaica, only took up the sport after a gymnastics injury?
text: Did you know that a Vatican Hebrew manuscript has been used as a source for analysing and emending modern editions of the Palestinian Talmud ?
text: Did you know that John Oliver has been credited with influencing United States law and culture, a phenomenon dubbed the "John Oliver effect"?
text: Did you know that three burnt golf balls are preserved at Kew Gardens as a "rare fungal species"?
text: Did you know that former German chancellor Angela Merkel 's grandfather likely fought against Germany in World War I?
text: Did you know that a division of the Buffalo Sabres ice hockey team lost $6 million in less than three years running a TV station ?
text: Did you know that Jug Bennett , Merle Zuver , Lyle Sturgeon , Wuert Engelmann , Zud Schammel , Hal Hinte and Frank Butler all played for Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame head coach Curly Lambeau during the 1930s and 1940s?
text: Did you know that when Jalal al-Din realised that he would be defeated at the Battle of the Indus , he rode his horse off a 30-foot (10 m) cliff into the Indus River ?
text: Did you know that the unusual trousers worn by crammer Herbert Jackson led to rumours among students of the University of Oxford that they concealed a coiled-up tail?
text: Did you know that the Libellus de vocabulis rei militaris has been misattributed to Cicero , Cato , Pomponius Laetus and a mysterious Modestus?
text: Did you know that Chip Hawkes got his nickname after turning up at gigs while covered in wood shavings?
text: Did you know that before Emine Arslan became a world kickboxing champion she smoked two packets of cigarettes a day?
text: Did you know that the music video for the song " Justify My Love " was banned from appearing on MTV , MuchMusic , and Musique Plus for its sexual imagery?
text: Did you know that when coach C. O. Brocato led his high school football team to a winning record in 1960, it was the first time they had done so since 1948 – when he had captained them as a player?
text: Did you know that La La Land 's composer initially wanted " Audition (The Fools Who Dream) " to be the film's "award song" instead of "City of Stars"?
text: Did you know that Hans-Jochen Jaschke , who was responsible for ecumenism and inter-religious dialogue as an auxiliary bishop of Hamburg , represented the Catholic Church to the media?
text: Did you know that the decision to report the name of an internet forum dedicated to suicide was described by journalist Megan Twohey as one of the "biggest ethical issues that we had ever dealt with"?
text: Did you know that an artwork in Singapore's Outram Park MRT station represents the state of mind of commuters through 69 engravings of surreal human forms?
text: Did you know that the perigynia of the few-flowered sedge spring outward when brushed against?
text: Did you know that historian Anne Balay wrote two books on oral histories from LGBT steelworkers and truck drivers?
text: Did you know that according to the Source–Message–Channel–Receiver model , all forms of communication are attempts to influence the behavior of the audience?
text: Did you know that Wu Xiaoyan , persecuted because of her adoptive father Wu Han , committed suicide 13 days before the end of the Cultural Revolution ?
text: Did you know that the stop-motion lyric video of Kylie Minogue 's " Skirt " was created using more than 1,000 still photos of her posing in a hotel room?
text: Did you know that Ade Surapriatna confronted a police officer who had ticketed his party's supporters for violating traffic laws at a rally?
text: Did you know that Lord Dunsany 's story " The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth " may feature "the most original method of dragonslaying ever devised"?
text: Did you know that Jake Ryan has acted in Wes Anderson films since he was seven?
text: Did you know that in 1941 Ivo Rojnica ruled that all Serbs and Jews were banned from walking the streets of Dubrovnik at night?
text: Did you know that the European Sky Shield Initiative is expected to have anti-ballistic missile capability?
text: Did you know that an estimated 30,000 people attended the funeral of Max Steinberg , an Israeli lone soldier who was killed during the 2014 Gaza War ?
text: Did you know that the Hotel Normandie supported the Leaders of the World ?
text: Did you know that comedian Pamela Stephenson was pleased that her 1987 book How to Be a Complete Bitch was described as "sexist, violent and crude"?
text: Did you know that 900 West Randolph , Chicago's first high-rise building built by a black-owned construction firm, has penthouses that can be rented for over $20,000 per month?
text: Did you know that Brian Kalbas helped recruit the player who would replace him in the number-one spot on his college tennis team?
text: Did you know that a company controlled by Lady Bird Johnson bought a Texas TV station from one of her college classmates?
text: Did you know that the "extreme lightness and luminous agility" of Michael McCown 's voice in the roles of the Tempter and Nebuchadnezzar has been likened to that of Peter Pears ?
text: Did you know that The Wizard of the Kremlin depicts a fictional éminence grise based on Vladislav Surkov , who was called one of Russia's "most intriguing figures" by The New York Times ?
text: Did you know that Barcroft Boake , the author of one of Australia's most anthologised poems, hanged himself with a stockwhip a few months after it was published?
text: Did you know that the Knock Knock Gang 's modus operandi involves deceiving drivers and passengers before robbing them?
text: Did you know that as an undergraduate, battery engineer Celina Mikolajczak discovered a supernova ?
text: Did you know that King Hussein of Jordan gifted an ancient Roman column to New York City for the 1964–65 World's Fair ?
text: Did you know that the Battlestar Galactica character Laura Roslin has been compared to Machiavelli 's Lucretia and Virgil 's Dido ?
text: Did you know that a Florida TV station abruptly removed programs from its schedule after it became unable to pay distributors?
text: Did you know that Kamrussamad lost five Indonesian elections before finally winning a seat on the People's Representative Council in 2019?
text: Did you know that the Akademia Nasionala del Ladino in Israel is dedicated to preserving the Judaeo-Spanish language ?
text: Did you know that after Emily and Jerry Spiegel 's deaths, their daughters held rival art auctions?
text: Did you know that former basketball player David Webber broke a record previously held by all-time great Larry Bird ?
text: Did you know that " In Bloom ", the lead single of the EP Youth in the Shade , samples a-ha 's 1984 single " Take On Me "?
text: Did you know that Misuzu Yamada worked as a nursery teacher before starting her voice-acting career ?
text: Did you know that a Nebraska public radio station operated from a 1916-built Carnegie library in the 1970s and 1980s?
text: Did you know that according to artist Tetsuya Nomura , Vanille 's attire took inspiration from the Himba people of Namibia?
text: Did you know that the Soviet Union boycotted the United Nations in 1950?
text: Did you know that Nickelodeon storyboard artists created a book with hundreds of pornographic drawings of SpongeBob SquarePants characters?
text: Did you know that T Express is the tallest, tenth-fastest and third-longest wooden roller coaster in the world?
text: Did you know that John Bunker was inspired to propagate old apple tree varieties after encountering Black Oxford apples while managing the food co-op in Belfast, Maine ?
text: Did you know that The Science of Dune contains a scientific analysis of the fictional concepts from the Dune franchise, such as sandworms , stillsuits, and the fictional drug melange ?
text: Did you know that the NCAA placed Yale University athletics on probation for two years after basketball player Jack Langer played in the 1969 Maccabiah Games ?
text: Did you know that The Wicked Prince by Hans Christian Andersen , published in 1840, depicts powered and steerable flight twelve years before the first successful airship flight ?
text: Did you know that on 9 August 1673 a Dutch naval squadron reconquered New York from the English?
text: Did you know that South Carolina Gamecocks head coach Will Muschamp told Jalin Hyatt : "Man, you're fast, but you need to eat more peanut butter"?
text: Did you know that despite having never played college football , Henry Bell was able to make the roster of the NFL 's Denver Broncos and served as one of the team's starting running backs in their inaugural season ?
text: Did you know that the author of In the Land of Invented Languages lived in the same town as a fluent Klingon speaker?
text: Did you know that Elisabeth Anderson Sierra , nicknamed the "milk goddess", holds the Guinness World Record for the largest individual donation of breast milk?
text: Did you know that Chicago-style barbecue is cooked in an aquarium smoker?
text: Did you know that two months after the Black September Organization assassinated Mossad operative Baruch Cohen in Madrid, his role in uncovering a Syria-directed spy ring in Israel was revealed?
text: Did you know that Gladys Quander Tancil interpreted the lives of her enslaved ancestors at George Washington's Mount Vernon for more than twenty years?
text: Did you know that the two residents of the Kabul synagogue argued with each other so much that the Taliban imprisoned them both?
text: Did you know that Milton Grant went from disc jockey and bandstand host to an owner of television stations?
text: Did you know that Daniels Park , a Denver Mountain Park , is neither in Denver nor the mountains?
text: Did you know that Soledad Rosas was falsely charged with eco-terrorism in Italy?
text: Did you know that two days after the 2015 FIFA corruption case was covered in season 2 of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver , FIFA president Sepp Blatter resigned?
text: Did you know that South Australian Labor premier Des Corcoran was mentioned in despatches for courage and skill in evacuating casualties during the Korean War ?
text: Did you know that Change UK had eleven elected members of Parliament despite never actually winning an election?
text: Did you know that the James New York – NoMad hotel employed a witch?
text: Did you know that in the 1930s two hoards of gold coins were found in a cellar in Baltimore, Maryland ?
text: Did you know that Fanya Baron resisted her prison guards and had to be carried to the place of her execution?
text: Did you know that the creators of Misfits and Magic said that they sympathize with those who choose not to watch it?
text: Did you know that after the death of surgeon and philanthropist John Hitchman the townspeople of Leamington Spa , England, erected a fountain in his memory?
text: Did you know that Chicago's Kasama is the world's first Filipino restaurant to be awarded a Michelin star ?
text: Did you know that before becoming the first woman president of the American College of Sports Medicine , Barbara L. Drinkwater had an undefeated season as a women's college basketball coach?
text: Did you know that by 1967, staff at the Home Office were told not to feed Peta morsels of food as she had become "inordinately fat"?
text: Did you know that SB19 became the first Filipino group to appear on Billboard 's World Digital Song Sales chart, with " Gento "?
text: Did you know that Bill Putnam was an All-American and the co- captain of the first UCLA team to win a basketball championship?
text: Did you know that the Hotel Wolcott had to be sold less than a year after it opened?
text: Did you know that Ester Sokler has claimed that he has often been mistaken for a woman?
text: Did you know that the commander of the French garrison at the 1704 siege of Landau was blinded by an Allied artillery bombardment?
text: Did you know that Ikmal Jaya , a former mayor of Tegal , Indonesia, published a translated Quran written in Pegon script while in prison?
text: Did you know that Elon Musk plans to fight Mark Zuckerberg by lying on top of him?
text: Did you know that I Gede Pasek Suardika resigned the chairmanship of the Nusantara Awakening Party to be succeeded by his formerly imprisoned colleague Anas Urbaningrum ?
text: Did you know that the Sea to Sky Gondola was vandalized twice in two consecutive years, costing the company millions?
text: Did you know that Indian singer Sudakshina Sarma sang in Assamese as Mahatma Gandhi 's ashes were immersed in the Brahmaputra River ?
text: Did you know that Jarren Horton 's childhood dream was to serve as an American football defensive coordinator under his father, and he now does so with the Pittsburgh Maulers ?
text: Did you know that the 14th- and 15th-century Azerbaijani poet Imadaddin Nasimi was possibly flayed alive after he was accused of being a kafir by Sunni scholars?
text: Did you know that Habiburokhman made a public bet that Basuki Tjahaja Purnama would not be able to collect one million ID cards – or else he would jump off the National Monument ?
text: Did you know that the active galaxy 3C 120 was given the variable-star designation BW Tauri because of its variability in the visible spectrum ?
text: Did you know that in 1912, Emily Dorothea Pavy became the first recipient of the Catherine Helen Spence Scholarship ?
text: Did you know that a British supermarket uses barriers to prevent shoppers grabbing food with yellow discount stickers out of the hands of staff?
text: Did you know that New Zealand footballer Milly Clegg was called "an absolute unicorn" after appearing at three FIFA World Cups in under twelve months?
text: Did you know that unlike other German radio magazines of its era, N.S.-Funk was published in several regional editions?
text: Did you know that George Thomas Taylor was one of Canada's earliest nature photographers?
text: Did you know that the only notable quality in Igor Stravinsky 's " Tarantella ", according to Richard Taruskin , is "how little talent it displays"?
text: Did you know that when discussing her album Guts , Olivia Rodrigo said she "grew 10 years between the ages of 18 and 20"?
text: Did you know that Ameles decolor has one of the most complex mating rituals of any praying mantis ?
text: Did you know that the Duke of Westminster preferred Bourdon House to Grosvenor House ?
text: Did you know that former Kuwaiti foreign minister Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah interrupted his studies in France to volunteer during the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait ?
text: Did you know that almost 40 years into their career, American indie rock band Yo La Tengo released their first self-produced album, This Stupid World , in 2023?
text: Did you know that Ferrial Sofyan was absent at the inauguration of his successor as deputy speaker of the Jakarta Regional People's Representative Council ?
text: Did you know that Oklahoma tenderloin is baloney ?
text: Did you know that Chris Wroblewski was the starting point guard for the winningest team in Ivy League history ?
text: Did you know that in the lead-up to the 4th Congress of the Communist Party of Lithuania in Moscow in 1924, party organizations inside Lithuania held clandestine district conferences?
text: Did you know that Mardani Ali Sera , after initiating a campaign to " Replace the President ",  prohibited himself from speaking of it after the 2019 Indonesian presidential election ?
text: Did you know that three songs from Kyla 's album Not Your Ordinary Girl were nominated in the same category at the 2005 Awit Awards ?
text: Did you know that a man found 700 gold coins on his own land in an undisclosed part of Kentucky?
text: Did you know that Gwen Stacy was depicted with a " Protect Trans Kids " poster in her room in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse ?
text: Did you know that Ed Bradley could get interviewees to divulge information with just his body language and facial expressions?
text: Did you know that " Mission to the Unknown " is the only Doctor Who serial not to feature the Doctor at all?
text: Did you know that Anita Gustafson became Presbyterian College 's first female president when she took office today?
text: Did you know that in 1835 the run of Brunswick Falls was 1,280 feet (390 m)?
text: Did you know that Ben Collins accepted a job with NBC News on the condition that the company also hire Brandy Zadrozny ?
text: Did you know that years after premiering Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7 in the US , conductor Arturo Toscanini allegedly asked if he had really learned and conducted "such junk"?
text: Did you know that Martin Farquhar Tupper was a favourite poet of Queen Victoria , but his works are now almost entirely forgotten?
text: Did you know that orcas have been teaching each other to attack boats ?
text: Did you know that Skyline Madrid was built on the most expensive plot of land ever sold in Madrid ?
text: Did you know that independent India's first female pilot, Usha Sundaram , holds the record for the fastest flight between England and India in a piston-engine aircraft?
text: Did you know that fictional life on Pluto has included mist creatures and crystals?
text: Did you know that in 1966 Sylvester da Cunha modelled the Amul girl to contrast with the mascot of Amul 's main rival, Polson ?
text: Did you know that the façade of the Brooklyn Central Library was removed in an attempt to save money?
text: Did you know that footballer Alexandra Pinell scored the Costa Rica U20 team 's only goal at the FIFA tournament hosted by their country ?
text: Did you know that personal debt was regularly cancelled in the ancient Near East ?
text: Did you know that Himmatul Aliyah was born in Tangerang and represents Jakarta in Indonesia's House of Representatives , while Himmatul Alyah was born in Jakarta and represented Tangerang?
text: Did you know that a $10 calculator was among the best-rated Nintendo Switch games?
text: Did you know that EastEnders producers decided to kill off Chantelle Atkins at the conclusion of a domestic-abuse plot after learning of the high statistic of women killed by a partner?
text: Did you know that the 1874 Alabama gubernatorial election was marred by violence and fraud?
text: Did you know that soprano Vera Curtis was the first singer trained exclusively in the United States to perform with the Metropolitan Opera ?
text: Did you know that the Daft Punk track " Infinity Repeating " is considered by the duo to be their "last song ever"?
text: Did you know that Nunuk Nuraini was described as a hero for developing the mi goreng flavor of Indomie instant noodles?
text: Did you know that the Dvorichna settlement hromada has remained divided between Russia and Ukraine since the 2022 Kharkiv counteroffensive ?
text: Did you know that Chanig ar Gall joined her husband Charlez ar Gall in Breton-language broadcasting after learning Breton?
text: Did you know that South Korean band Seventeen partnered with Apple to let fans create remixes of their song " Darl+ing " on GarageBand ?
text: Did you know that tickets on secondary markets for the 2023 Leagues Cup final ranged from $484 to $12,000 within a day of release?
text: Did you know that 13 contemporary Dubliners reenacted The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci for a mural installed in their city's " Italian Quarter "?
text: Did you know that Chaimas Kaplanas took part in four hunger strikes during his imprisonment at Kaunas Prison ?
text: Did you know that a reviewer for The Sims 2: Nightlife said that a more accurate name would be " The Sims: Slutting About "?
text: Did you know that the 1989 Serbian general election was the last one-party election in Serbia?
text: Did you know that fans of Taylor Swift solved 33 million puzzles in less than a day to find out 1989 (Taylor's Version) 's "vault" tracks?
text: Did you know that John Romita Sr. has been credited with introducing romance comic themes to Spider-Man comic books?
text: Did you know that the Waitangiroto Nature Reserve is the only known nesting area for the eastern great egret in New Zealand?
text: Did you know that Ben Brown was the seventh member of his family to play American football for the Ole Miss Rebels ?
text: Did you know that according to David Baddiel 's book Jews Don't Count , antisemitism has become perceived as a "second-class racism"?
text: Did you know that one reviewer described a TV station in St. Louis as appearing to be "not serious about the news"?
text: Did you know that ancient Rome's Temple of Piety was closely connected with the legend of a daughter who breastfed an imprisoned parent?
text: Did you know that the librarian Paul Needham has argued for the "respectful burial of the human remains" included in a book bound in human skin ?
text: Did you know that the Solution and EU Party aimed to represent 30 percent of Turkish Cypriots , but failed to enter the Northern Cypriot parliament ?
text: Did you know that Seattle Sounders FC players held their practices over Zoom during part of their 2020 season ?
text: Did you know that according to Rolling Stone , Lauren Jenkins blended music and acting for No Saint "in ways not currently common practice" in country music?
text: Did you know that Thorfinn 's journey to Vinland in the manga Vinland Saga was influenced by the author's anxieties during the Cold War and the September 11 attacks ?
text: Did you know that the bicolor molly inevitably goes off the deep end in adulthood?
text: Did you know that Julian Hill was the first player from Campbell University to make an NFL roster, but Brevin Allen was the first to play in a game?
text: Did you know that a freelance game developer successfully pitched a video game with a picture of a car driving around a lake?
text: Did you know that when Valerie Cowie was appointed a senior lecturer , one of her referees wrote that his "only reservation is that the post ... does not adequately do justice to her high academic status"?
text: Did you know that the Museum of Norwich at the Bridewell operated as a residence, a house of correction , a factory, and finally a museum?
text: Did you know that Charlotte Haining was an International Jury Member for the selection of Finland's 2020 Eurovision Song Contest entry ?
text: Did you know that a Maine TV station was so protective of its evening newscast that it preempted nearly 40 percent of all NBC Sports programming in 1994?
text: Did you know that Hồn – trăng – máu , Hạc San 's concept album , consists solely of the 29-minute title track?
text: Did you know that the Orangeburg Massacre was the first time police shot and killed students on an American university campus?
text: Did you know that heritage properties cared for by An Taisce include a guildhall , a marsh, a castle, a Quaker cemetery, and Babe's Bridge ?
text: Did you know that David Dayen , executive editor of The American Prospect , argues in his 2020 book that monopolies are so interwoven with our lives that it is impossible to escape them?
text: Did you know that much of the research in dress history has been done from documents, illustrations, and photographs rather than by studying items of clothing?
text: Did you know that when Zhu Cilang was asked why his family lost the Mandate of Heaven , he blamed it on their "treacherous ministers"?
text: Did you know that State Auto Mutual 's life-size nativity scene was donated to the Museum of Catholic Art and History in 2023 for display at St. Joseph Cathedral ?
text: Did you know that Naomi Klein and Naomi Wolf are Doppelgangers ?
text: Did you know that Arsjad Rasjid said that he learned of his appointment as chairman of Ganjar Pranowo's presidential campaign from a friend showing him the news?
text: Did you know that the Brazilian military government changed the ochre on the proposed flag of Mato Grosso do Sul to blue so as to match the colors of the national flag ?
text: Did you know that The Last Hope: Dead Zone Survival has been considered one of the worst video games of 2023?
text: Did you know that Kevin Feige perceived a "direct parallel" between the experiences of real people during the COVID-19 pandemic and those of fictional characters in the Marvel Cinematic Universe during the Blip ?
text: Did you know that the 1930s Polish Andean expeditions have been credited with several first ascents and the tracing of a new route to the summit of Aconcagua , the Andes ' highest peak?
text: Did you know that "Gam3 Bo1", a song from the EP Your Choice , contains references to NFTs and Zoom ?
text: Did you know that Lord McAlpine commissioned 100 heads from Big John Dodo ?
text: Did you know that the slogan "One Nation, One Language" has been used to justify the imposition of Hindi ?
text: Did you know that Swedish naval officer Axel Lagerbielke was imprisoned in Lima for over a year, held in Callao and eventually escaped from Panama on an English packet boat to Jamaica?
text: Did you know that the title of Olivia Rodrigo 's song " All-American Bitch " was derived from an essay by Joan Didion ?
text: Did you know that attending the 1984 Summer Olympics inspired Bob Barney to establish an institution to research the Olympic Games?
text: Did you know that CBS executive Laurence Tisch found out on a tennis court in the U.S. Virgin Islands that rival network NBC had bought his company's affiliate station in Miami ?
text: Did you know that Mihai Eminescu 's poem " Out of All the Masts ", which Eminescu himself never intended to publish, has won posthumous praise as a "perfect combination of words"?
text: Did you know that Saunders Island has a lava lake and is populated by penguins?
text: Did you know that due to the 1955 Brazilian coup d'état , Brazil had three presidents in the span of a single week?
text: Did you know that artist Joan Brigham is best known for her work with steam?
text: Did you know that following its closure, the former Admiral Beatty Hotel was converted into a senior citizens' apartment building?
text: Did you know that even though Mother Mary Corona received no formal teacher training, she was the president of Alverno Teachers College ?
text: Did you know that the 1968 book Yanomamö: The Fierce People led to a major and decades-long controversy in the field of anthropology?
text: Did you know that Major League Baseball player Wade Meckler was 4 feet 10 inches (1.47 metres) tall and weighed 75 pounds (34 kilograms) when he was a high-school freshman?
text: Did you know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd that once led to the Jergins Trust Building in Long Beach, California ?
text: Did you know that KFC rice may have originated as a quick, cheap Christmas dinner , owing to the popularity of KFC in Japan ?
text: Did you know that Mary Burt Messer was researching and writing about the sociology of divorce as early as 1924?
text: Did you know that following the release of Olivia Rodrigo 's song " The Grudge ", fans speculated that it was about her supposed feud with Taylor Swift ?
text: Did you know that the Reichsgesetzblatt was last issued five days before the Battle of Berlin began?
text: Did you know that employees resigned from an Illinois TV station after ownership decided there were too many people on the payroll?
text: Did you know that the heavy metal band Cradle of Filth released a T-shirt that was so offensive that several people were arrested for wearing it?
text: Did you know that bugs reported during the development of The Sims 2: University included "zombies can't fall in love" and "zombies walk on water"?
text: Did you know that in 2021, Tropical Storm Danny became just the third named system to make landfall in South Carolina in the month of June since 1867?
text: Did you know that Salar de Pedernales in Chile features dark slope streaks resembling dark slope streaks on Mars?
text: Did you know that House Gospel Choir 's very first gig was at Glastonbury ?
text: Did you know that William Nixon performed abortions in the NHS before the passing of the Abortion Act 1967 ?
text: Did you know that three American bombers were downed over the Romanian village of Suslănești in May 1944?
text: Did you know that the Lava Ridge Wind Project proposal has faced opposition for putting 740-foot-tall (230 m) wind turbines next to the former Minidoka internment camp ?
text: Did you know that Georgia's racketeering law has been used to prosecute an assisted-suicide group, schoolteachers in a cheating scandal , a fake dentist, and Donald Trump ?
text: Did you know that novelist Erskine Childers was an artilleryman in the British Army, a lieutenant in the Royal Navy, a major in the Royal Air Force, and a staff captain in the Irish Republican Army?
text: Did you know that Catechumen , a Christian first-person shooter , was funded only in the aftermath of the Columbine High School massacre ?
text: Did you know that upon establishing Georgia's first printing press for Vakhtang VI , Mihai Iștvanovici published Romanian verse in Georgian script ?
text: Did you know that a rapper coined the term " Dongbei renaissance " to describe the cultural resurgence of China's rust belt?
text: Did you know that American football player Doug Turley reportedly had some of his best performances after he fractured a bone in his wrist?
text: Did you know that " Updown ", the first solo single released by Piri and Tommy Villiers after their breakup, was about Piri having cowgirl sex with Villiers ?
text: Did you know that during the 2021 Nabisco strike , Kotaku published an article discussing the ethics of buying Pokémon -themed Oreos ?
text: Did you know that the Canadian government implemented the Peasant Farm Policy to force First Nations farmers to use the methods of European peasants?
text: Did you know that the first organized football game of C. J. Okoye 's life was in the National Football League?
text: Did you know that a number of bus drivers who participated in a strike were unaware that it was illegally held?
text: Did you know that the earliest-known Jewish writer in the Americas was the nephew of a conquistador ?
text: Did you know that the song " Hot " features samples of car alarms ?
text: Did you know that Moran Zer Katzenstein led a women's march inspired by The Handmaid's Tale in protest of Israeli judicial reform ?
text: Did you know that the spiky inedible grass Triodia scintillans tastes like salt and vinegar chips?
text: Did you know that HMS Redpole , one of the aptly-named coffin brigs , sank in an action with a pirate vessel in August 1828?
text: Did you know that NBA owners won a binding arbitration that blocked a third NBA–ABA all-star game between the rival basketball leagues?
text: Did you know that the Madrasa Ghaziuddin Khan is one of the few surviving madrasas dating from the Mughal Empire , and the oldest continuing school in Delhi , India?
text: Did you know that Scarlett Johansson filed a lawsuit against The Walt Disney Company alleging that the release strategy for Black Widow breached her contract?
text: Did you know that Roman or Trajan lettering was popular for official use in Britain in the first half of the twentieth century?
text: Did you know that the day before William J. McGarry was set to leave for the Pontifical Biblical Institute , he was instead appointed a professor at Weston College ?
text: Did you know that the name of the video game mod series Bomba Patch was inspired by éclairs ?
text: Did you know that scholarly study of the poetry of Kishvari , one of the most important Azerbaijani poets of the 15th and 16th centuries, only started in 1928?
text: Did you know that the George S. Bowdoin Stable has variously served as a garage, private residence, art gallery, cultural center, and office?
text: Did you know that in 2018, breast surgeon Liz O'Riordan arrived for her breast cancer treatment dressed as Mrs Incredible ?
text: Did you know that in season three of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver , Oliver personally forgave nearly $15 million of medical debt for 9,000 Americans?
text: Did you know that E. F. Bleiler conducted research for Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years by reading all 1,835 stories published in science fiction magazines between 1926 and 1936?
text: Did you know that the Buffalo Sabres drafted a fictional player in the 1974 National Hockey League Amateur Draft ?
text: Did you know that the Atlantic Avenue–Barclays Center station has a Hook, Line, and Sinker?
text: Did you know that the Kingstree jail fire killed 22 freedmen amidst the "unsettled" labor conditions of Reconstruction in South Carolina ?
text: Did you know that Ivan Beshoff , the last survivor of the mutiny on the Potemkin , emigrated to Ireland where he established a fish and chip shop that is still run by his descendants?
text: Did you know that The Cormac McCarthy Journal is one of the few academic journals about a specific author from the United States founded while its subject was alive?
text: Did you know that according to family tradition, admiral and painter Jacob Hägg decided to become a naval officer after seeing a Franco-British naval force during the Crimean War ?
text: Did you know that a complaint signed by 52 people resulted in curriculum standards at New York State's private schools being subject to structured regulatory oversight for the very first time?
text: Did you know that Imagining Mars: A Literary History "presents a compelling case that 'Mars matters ' "?
text: Did you know that a 1903 New York Times editorial predicted it would take one to ten million years to develop an operating flying machine?
text: Did you know that Dear England tells the story of how manager Gareth Southgate helped change notions of masculinity for the men's national football team ?
text: Did you know that according to the Lotharian legend a medieval emperor declared Roman law the law of the Holy Roman Empire ?
text: Did you know that a pregnant Meghan Trainor , who considered her child a present, wore bows during the promotion for her album A Very Trainor Christmas ?
text: Did you know that the first imported copies of Norman Lindsay's Age of Consent were confiscated by Australian customs authorities?
text: Did you know that portions of Tennessee State Route 158 have been called "Front Street", "Front Avenue", "Lakefront Drive", "Neyland Drive", and "James White Parkway"?
text: Did you know that the tenor Graham Clark appeared at the Bayreuth Festival in 16 seasons, portraying the characters Loge and Mime in the 1988 Ring cycle ?
text: Did you know that the Hôtel Gabriel was rebuilt after its destruction in World War II?
text: Did you know that known books bound in human skin include a highwayman's memoirs bound in his own skin, a novel about a man being left by his lesbian wife, and a BDSM erotic poem?
text: Did you know that College Football Hall of Fame inductee Scott Reppert was a three-time Little All-American at running back and an Academic All-American in the classroom?
text: Did you know that the Hotel Brexton in Baltimore was once home to Wallis Simpson , the American divorcée who married Edward VIII?
text: Did you know that archaeological excavations in the historic town of Kharayeb revealed a rural settlement with a complex system of cisterns and a Phoenician temple ?
text: Did you know that according to sportswriter Jon Henderson, the 1943 Football League War Cup final was "widely regarded as the greatest club football match of the war"?
text: Did you know that Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers formed Wet Leg on a Ferris wheel ?
text: Did you know that within 90 minutes of Donald Trump's release from jail, his 2024 presidential campaign began using his mug shot on merchandise?
text: Did you know that Graham Fraser pioneered cochlear implantation in the United Kingdom?
text: Did you know that the Adelaide L. T. Douglas House , built for a New York City socialite, housed the United States Olympic Committee before being sold to Guatemala?
text: Did you know that ice hockey player Mitch Love once fought 34 times in one season, more than any other professional player in the world that year?
text: Did you know that BattleBit Remastered , a massively multiplayer online first-person shooter , was created by three indie developers ?
text: Did you know that Chester Smith 's California TV station ran its newscast on a "dental floss budget", as one former anchor put it?
text: Did you know that medieval monks could be punished by being walled up alive in a special ecclesiastical prison called the Vade in Pace ?
text: Did you know that the best-selling novel of 1947 was described by Time magazine as "one of the worst ever published"?
text: Did you know that the mayor of Antrim, Adrian Watson, said that he was overlooked for not being a " Cameron Cutie "?
text: Did you know that Holocaust survivor Samuel Rajzman , a witness to the post-war Nuremberg and Treblinka trials , escaped from Treblinka concentration camp and was then sheltered by a local Polish farmer ?
text: Did you know that Occult America suggests that Abraham Lincoln may have turned to Spiritualism after the death of his son?
text: Did you know that due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the nightclub scene in Simón used only 30 extras instead of the originally intended 250?
text: Did you know that Haggai Chisom Ndubuisi , a National Football League player, had never heard of American football before watching a YouTube video when he was 18 years old?
text: Did you know that while the laws governing Jewish astrology prohibit worshipping the stars, gaining knowledge of their influences on humans is permitted?
text: Did you know that after the Battle of Lewinsville , the " Gray Ghost " wrote that he regretted "the glorious opportunity that I missed of winging their colonel"?
text: Did you know that the Siberian crane is considered more threatened than the whooping crane , despite there being an estimated ten times more of them ?
text: Did you know that John Ogilby saved the manuscript of his translation of the complete works of Virgil from destruction in a shipwreck by wrapping it in a waterproof cloth?
text: Did you know that an "army" of women were congratulated by Pat Nixon for their fundraising efforts to bring public TV to Indianapolis ?
text: Did you know that comic book artist Barry Windsor-Smith wrote, drew, inked, and lettered every page of his graphic novel Monsters by himself?
text: Did you know that a Harvey's franchise known for being a hub for sex work was described by one artist as a "legendary Toronto icon"?
text: Did you know that William J. Ennis 's office consisted of a folding bed ?
text: Did you know that there is a folk tradition in Korea where children who urinate while sleeping are made to wear a winnowing basket on their head and ask their neighbors for salt?
text: Did you know that Jonathan Blow thought that he may not have finished creating the videogame Braid were he not simultaneously learning kung fu ?
text: Did you know that judge Robert Bork 's leaked list of video rentals included movies such as Citizen Kane , The Philadelphia Story and Sixteen Candles ?
text: Did you know that in 2023, footballer Funso Ojo was named as Port Vale 's PFA community player of the year for his efforts at becoming more environmentally friendly ?
text: Did you know that the founding manager of an Oregon radio station named it after his wife's former name?
text: Did you know that after Irish post office clerk Maureen Flavin Sweeney reported worsening weather conditions, Dwight D. Eisenhower agreed to postpone D-Day by 24 hours?
text: Did you know that Pont Abraham Services , at the end of the M4 , were one of the first in the UK to sell fuel for over £2 per litre?
text: Did you know that The Impossible Quiz is possible to beat?
text: Did you know that the bankruptcy of Penn Central in 1970 was the largest in American history at the time?
text: Did you know that five years after retiring as the president of the Green Bay Packers , judge Robert J. Parins ruled on a case related to American serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer ?
text: Did you know that the former Lyster Sanatorium , which was used as the setting for the horror movie Villmark Asylum , is being renovated as a hotel?
text: Did you know that it is not known what happened to the 25 pregnant women who were given iodine-132 in Keith Halnan 's study?
text: Did you know that the success of Kingdom Rush prompted plans to grow the video game industry of Uruguay?
text: Did you know that when Erice van Leuven 's brothers posted a video of her mountain biking as a 10-year-old, she received four offers of sponsorship?
text: Did you know that Covanta Hempstead 's predecessor smelled so bad that it caused nearby shoppers to vomit and its workers to strike?
text: Did you know that following the energy price shock caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine , the Turkish government intervened to have the country's renewable energy subsidise coal and gas?
text: Did you know that Adam Exner , the archbishop of Vancouver from 1991 to 2004, played polkas and waltzes on the accordion well after he became a bishop?
text: Did you know that a Baltimore TV station aspired to be "the Cadillac of independents "?
text: Did you know that Mark Murphy played safety for the Washington Redskins from 1977 to 1984 while Mark Murphy played safety for the Green Bay Packers from 1980 to 1991?
text: Did you know that the Costco hot dog and soda combo deal has cost $1.50 since its introduction in 1984?
text: Did you know that " Rich Men North of Richmond " by Oliver Anthony was the first single to debut at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 with no previous chart history for its artist?
text: Did you know that dwarf mollies hit rock bottom when they grow up?
text: Did you know that William L. Keleher fired three teachers who said Boston College was teaching heresy ?
text: Did you know that it took nearly five years for Tetsuya Tsutsui to find out that the first volume of his work Manhole was banned in Nagasaki Prefecture ?
text: Did you know that John Koniszewski was wounded by machine-gun fire at the Battle of Saipan , returned to the battle after "a brief rest", and later played three years in the National Football League ?
text: Did you know that it took almost as long to renovate New York City's Borough Hall station in the 1980s as it did to construct the original subway line?
text: Did you know that the assassination of Shinzo Abe motivated a former believer of the Unification Church, Sayuri Ogawa , to become a prominent anti-cult activist?
text: Did you know that according to an art historian, the painting The Temple evokes a sense of both crisis and "enduring power"?
text: Did you know that JPEGMafia did not use Pro Tools when Scaring the Hoes ?
text: Did you know that the play-by-email game Blood Pit was so complex that even its programmer had trouble winning?
text: Did you know that José Cobo Cano compared officiating same-sex marriages to celebrating the Eucharist with Coca-Cola ?
text: Did you know that Eternal Blue , a metalcore album, was inspired in part by 1980s pop music ?
text: Did you know that Loud LDN co-founder Maisi came joint last in the 2022 Maldon mud race , behind a naked runner who had been forced to start after everyone else?
text: Did you know that the perpetrator of the 1976 Spring Hill shooting allegedly committed the attack in a rage after being denied membership to a model plane club?
text: Did you know that CBS News and Stations president Wendy McMahon helped bring local evening news back to the network's Detroit station after 20 years?
text: Did you know that the dwarf merry widow is not very brave?
text: Did you know that Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014 is an example of irredentism ?
text: Did you know that Sinéad O'Connor said that tearing up her mother's picture of the Pope on Saturday Night Live put her "back on the right track"?
text: Did you know that Romanian literary scholar Dan Simonescu , who edited a chronicle dealing with the reign of Michael the Brave , had to delete any mention of Michael having "all the Jews murdered"?
text: Did you know that UK prime minister Rishi Sunak complained when a joint declaration was made at a summit between the EU and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States that used the term Islas Malvinas ?
text: Did you know that according to Ron Howard , his high school classmates teased him by whistling " The Andy Griffith Show Theme "?
text: Did you know that as of 2018, the opera house in Harrington, Washington – which opened in 1904 – had never staged an opera ?
text: Did you know that invisible ships are a myth?
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text: Did you know that Akbelen Forest is being cut down to make way for a coal mine?
text: Did you know that Gage and Tollner used to close from June to September because of oyster shortages?
text: Did you know that small Poecilia gillii males have longer sex organs than larger males, to facilitate mating with females that flee from them?
text: Did you know that kids could fight the Great Chicago Fire at Freedomland U.S.A. ?
text: Did you know that despite being the first women's football team in Northern Ireland to sign players on professional contracts, Cliftonville Ladies F.C. were not the first club to register them?
text: Did you know that Art Rooney Jr. presided over what one Pro Football Hall of Fame selector described as "the best drafting run in NFL history"?
text: Did you know that Leskov Island is probably inaccessible for penguins?
text: Did you know that it is controversial whether indoctrination forms part of education ?
text: Did you know that Megan Abbott 's 2018 novel Give Me Your Hand uses menstruation as a metaphor, which she compared to comments made by Donald Trump during the 2016 election?
text: Did you know that Towa Tei 's " Sometime Samurai " remained unfinished for eight years until Australian singer Kylie Minogue re-recorded the song in 2004?
text: Did you know that readers of Detroit columnist Nancy Brown funded the reforestation of 560 acres of land in her honor during the Great Depression ?
text: Did you know that fans of Castle in the Sky twice broke the record for largest number of tweets posted per second?
text: Did you know that pilot Henry Biard made his first flight before taking his first flying lesson?
text: Did you know that Parimal Garden in Ahmedabad has scrap-metal monkeys?
text: Did you know that The Librarian was part of the shift by computer programmers away from using punched cards ?
text: Did you know that DeepStateMap.Live , an interactive map of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, received up to 120,000 visitors in 30 minutes during the Battle of Izium in the 2022 Kharkiv counteroffensive ?
text: Did you know that several science fiction critics praised " Rock Diver ", the first short story by American writer Harry Harrison , for its compelling take on technology for passing through matter?
text: Did you know that the first road tunnel in England, opened in 1823 in Reigate , Surrey, runs under the site of a medieval castle?
text: Did you know that an initial gameplay concept for Diggin' Dogs was "possibly going to be worms eating into a diseased brain", with design input from Edmund McMillen ?
text: Did you know that Wagner Group head of logistics Valery Chekalov , who was killed in the 2023 Tver Oblast plane crash , used the call sign "Rover"?
text: Did you know that Australian politicians may face the pub test ?
text: Did you know that one of the earliest models of communication was developed by Aristotle ?
text: Did you know that African porters in Salvador, Bahia , went on strike after the provincial government passed a law requiring them to wear metal identification tags?
text: Did you know that one NYPD captain called the 1973 Brooklyn hostage crisis the "birthplace of hostage negotiation "?
text: Did you know that Japanese voice actress Akiho Suzumoto can recite 70 digits of pi from memory?
text: Did you know that one reviewer for Women Philosophers in the Long Nineteenth Century was let down by the book's lack of poetry?
text: Did you know that since being left vacant the grade II–listed Occleshaw House in Leyland, Lancashire , has been used as an illegal cannabis farm and suffered a suspected arson attack?
text: Did you know that a wolf reportedly ate Boris Johnson 's dongle at an Italian castle owned by a Russian billionaire?
text: Did you know that more than 60 scientific papers authored by mathematician Paul Erdős were published posthumously ?
text: Did you know that an album of collectible cards from the German margarine brand Echte Wagner in 1930 presented a vision of the future that incorporated concepts such as wireless personal phones with screens?
text: Did you know that the New York City-based fashion label Sandy Liang is inspired by grandmothers in Chinatown, and often features Liang's own grandmother as a model?
text: Did you know that the Campanile , a bell tower in Portmeirion , north Wales, was built in 1928 using stone from a nearby 12th-century castle?
text: Did you know that Adam W. Oberlin , the 1917 Republican nominee to be the mayor of Canton, Ohio , went missing and was found seven months later working as a carpenter in Norfolk, Virginia ?
text: Did you know that in 2023 the IFLA named the Biblioteca Gabriel García Márquez the "best new public library in the world"?
text: Did you know that merry widows like soft bottoms?
text: Did you know that the U.S. Marine Hospital in Lahaina collapsed due to vibrations from neighboring construction, was rebuilt, and then was destroyed by the 2023 Hawaii wildfires ?
text: Did you know that Daniela Ceballos worked with the Football Federation of Chile to supervise safety protocols during the COVID-19 pandemic while playing football herself?
text: Did you know that a seat was reserved for Buddhist monks and nuns in the Sikkim State Council ?
text: Did you know that when the New York City Subway's 14th Street–Union Square station was built, the park above it was raised?
text: Did you know that Taiwan used to have a consulate general in Latvia before it was downgraded?
text: Did you know that Script Ohio has been called  "one of the most impressive examples of American folk art in existence"?
text: Did you know that it can be horrifying to people to choose to use too many to s?
text: Did you know that provatura cheese was mentioned in a 12th-century chronicle ?
text: Did you know that when the J. Lewis Crozer Library was founded in 1769, it had 163 books?
text: Did you know that Singaporean broadcaster Lee Fook Hong legally changed his name to Lee Dai Sor (literally 'Lee Big Fool' in Cantonese ) after being accused of tax evasion?
text: Did you know that the Aubinadong River in Ontario, Canada, was an indigenous canoe route and is still used for canoe camping as its main recreational activity?
text: Did you know that Indianapolis 's 2023 gun control ordinance – which bans assault weapons , among other measures – is a trigger law that only goes into effect if Indiana 's state preemption law is repealed or struck down?
text: Did you know that the waltz from Khachaturian 's Masquerade Suite has been called "spooky" and is often played for Halloween?
text: Did you know that the organisation Netsafe created an email chatbot that replies to scammers with questions indefinitely?
text: Did you know that 30 Ukrainian anarchists defeated more than 500 Austrian imperial soldiers at the Battle of Dibrivka ?
text: Did you know that in the 1920s, a guard was posted outside the New York City Subway's Clark Street station to prevent sailors from using it at night?
text: Did you know that El Yucateco was the first Mexican brand of hot sauce sold in the United States?
text: Did you know that Le langaige du Bresil , one of the earliest documentary sources of any South American language , demonstrates that Europeans and Brazilian indigenous peoples maintained intimate social contacts?
text: Did you know that the Japanese-language children's show Kikaida , popularized in Hawaii by a Honolulu TV station , beat Sesame Street in the local ratings?
text: Did you know that cannibals used hooks to kidnap people during a famine in Fatimid Egypt ?
text: Did you know that before having bracelets thrown at him in July, Harry Styles had been the target of Skittles , chicken nuggets, kiwi fruit, tampons, feather boas, cowboy hats, pride flags , and Dr. Simi dolls?
text: Did you know that Quechua senator Carmen García helped pass reforms to education in Bolivia that incorporated indigenous and traditional knowledge ?
text: Did you know that the rights to build Incheon Station in the Korean Empire were temporarily given to an American company in an attempt to protect it from the Empire of Japan ?
text: Did you know that Mark Fabish was recruited to play college football by coach Al Bagnoli and 30 years later succeeded him as head coach of the Columbia Lions ?
text: Did you know that the entire development team of Lego Island was fired the day before the game was released?
text: Did you know that when Edgar Jaffé died, D. H. Lawrence wrote to his widow to say that he was glad?
text: Did you know that Igor Stravinsky called his 1955 orchestral work Greeting Prelude "a kind of singing telegram "?
text: Did you know that Helene Ollendorff Curth was first to introduce a set of criteria for associating some rashes as possible indicators for internal cancers ?
text: Did you know that according to a popular legend, the tomb of Humayun Shah split open when he was interred?
text: Did you know that the legal battle over awarding channel 9 in Orlando, Florida , the longest case in FCC history at the time, filled 55 volumes?
text: Did you know that the Munich Mouser , Neville Chamberlain 's pet, and Nelson , Winston Churchill 's pet, had a rivalry during World War II?
text: Did you know that circulation numbers for early comic books featuring Captain America remained close to a million copies per month, outstripping news magazines such as Time ?
text: Did you know that Blockchain Chicken Farm is about chicken farms run by people who have never heard of blockchain ?
text: Did you know that raw material waste from the West influenced a generation of rock music in China?
text: Did you know that a public TV station in Texas held an eight-hour telethon before it even began broadcasting?
text: Did you know that Governor Lauk Shein of Bassein fled the city along with "ten elephant loads of gold and silver", but could not outrun the pursuing Hanthawaddy troops?
text: Did you know that C/1990 K1 (Levy) was the first comet observed by the Hubble Space Telescope , but only short exposures were obtained as the telescope was not yet able to track Solar System bodies?
text: Did you know that the pastor of St. Patrick's Old Cathedral made Nicholas Russo celebrate Mass in the basement of the church because Russo was Italian ?
text: Did you know that Nicola Griffith 's novella Spear examines how the Roman conquest made Britain an ethnically diverse society?
text: Did you know that Major League Baseball pitcher Charlie Gray was billed as his team's pitcher "of six fingers and six toed fame" and called "a freak" by the Sporting Life ?
text: Did you know that "the first rule of the Dunning–Kruger club is you don't know you're a member of the Dunning–Kruger club"?
text: Did you know that an unfinished cut of Revolution+1 , a film about the life of the suspected assassin of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe , was released in theaters the day before Abe's state funeral?
text: Did you know that the murderer of Yadira Arroyo was reportedly found mentally unfit to stand trial three times?
text: Did you know that Nāmākēhā was sacrificed in 1797 after he led an unsuccessful rebellion against Hawaiian king Kamehameha I ?
text: Did you know that the Roman historian Marcus Junius Gracchanus adopted his last name to show his support for Gaius Gracchus?
text: Did you know that the debut season of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver beat seasoned HBO counterpart Real Time with Bill Maher in the ratings?
text: Did you know that Regina Purtell took such great care of Theodore Roosevelt 's Rough Riders that the press called her the Florence Nightingale of the Spanish–American War ?
text: Did you know that in Yugoslavia, Rudi Čajavec , the electronics company that produced various components of the M-84 tank, also made guitar amplifiers?
text: Did you know that Slovenian-born singer Ben Dolic was set to represent Germany at Eurovision in 2020 ?
text: Did you know that the deity of the Phoenician sanctuary of Kharayeb remains unidentified due to the absence of names of specific gods in unearthed inscriptions?
text: Did you know that Scholastic requested Maggie Tokuda-Hall remove the phrase "virulent racism" from the Author's Note in Love in the Library , a children's book about Japanese-American internment camps?
text: Did you knowthat in 1819, members of the Catholic Tübingen school first published the Theologische Quartalschrift , which remains in print as the oldest journal of Catholic theology in the world?
text: Did you know that American football player Tanner Brown went from being a walk-on to a semifinalist for the Lou Groza Award as the best college placekicker in the United States?
text: Did you know that the unus testis, nullus testis rule has been criticised because it makes convictions in rape cases very difficult?
text: Did you know that butterfly collector Ian Heslop was once required to supervise an execution?
text: Did you know that when Kentuckians discover unwanted bourbon, there is something they can do with it ?
text: Did you know that William J. Murphy 's presidency of Boston College began 16 days before the start of World War II and concluded five days after hostilities ended?
text: Did you know that Singapore's founding prime minister Lee Kuan Yew and his son Lee Hsien Loong donated the "unsolicited discounts" from their controversial purchase of condominium units to charity?
text: Did you know that Sienna Shaw of the slasher film Terrifier 2 was envisioned by Damien Leone as symbolizing an Old Testament angel?
text: Did you know that Le Vin herbé is a 1942 musical setting of the story of Tristan and Iseult by Frank Martin for twelve vocalists, seven strings and piano ?
text: Did you know that Casey Johnston 's writing about weightlifting is intended for people who feel their bodies are "never hot enough"?
text: Did you know that today is independence day for Philly 57 ?
text: Did you know that King Seonjo considered necromancy for Crown Princess Gonghoe 's funeral because her remains were lost during the 1592 Japanese invasion of Korea ?
text: Did you know that in 2019, Chinese electronics company Xiaomi posted a video of their third-quarterly financial report featuring a parody of the anime song " Renai Circulation "?
text: Did you know that Xochitl Gomez was aged 13 when she first auditioned for the 18-year-old America Chavez in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness ?
text: Did you know that Forbes named German chancellor Angela Merkel the world's most powerful woman fourteen times ?
text: Did you know that future Loud LDN member Parthenope left her 200-year-old violin on a train?
text: Did you know that MrBeast 's Squid Game re-enactment was described as "perverse" and a misunderstanding of the original?
text: Did you know that Project Carryall proposed the detonation of 23 nuclear devices in California to build a road?
text: Did you know that Premana Premadi is the first Indonesian female astronomer to have an asteroid named in her honor?
text: Did you know that the album No Highs is a response to the "corporate" ambient music of streaming services?
text: Did you know that telephone operator Myriel Davies began her long career as a peace activist during the Suez Crisis ?
text: Did you know that New Zealand's Native Island hosted a colony of Samoyeds and huskies used in both the Southern Cross and Nimrod expeditions to the South Pole?
text: Did you know that the suspect in a deadly shooting at the University of North Carolina was a graduate student of the victim?
text: Did you know that the sound for the film A Rustling of Leaves: Inside the Philippine Revolution was recorded using a Walkman ?
text: Did you know that a man from Milwaukee who goes on walks shirtless is known as the " Milverine "?
text: Did you know that since being founded in December 2021, the German initiative Freiheitsfonds has paid for the release of around 850 people imprisoned for fare evasion ?
text: Did you know that in 2023, NFL player Tristin McCollum 's team played against a team featuring his twin brother?
text: Did you know that the Benin Moat was built by the Edo people over several centuries, starting from around AD 800 and continuing until 1460?
text: Did you know that Lavinia Valbonesi , the first lady–designate of Ecuador , is a nutritionist who owns a fitness center in Tampa, Florida , and a healthy-dining location in Guayaquil ?
text: Did you know that in Fancies Versus Fads , G. K. Chesterton "knocks all our preconceived notions in the scrap heap, and then tells us that there is no scrap heap"?
text: Did you know that Tommy Villiers , the guitarist for " Feel It ", has been a member of five different bands?
text: Did you know that U.S. Marines eat crayons ?
text: Did you know that the Jewish-German Georg Karo was accused of being a Nazi spy after fleeing Nazi persecution?
text: Did you know that Gracie Graves and the Kids from Room 402 was criticized for conveying "a sort of smug superiority of adults"?
text: Did you know that Isabelle Cals , who turned to singing after a degree in Chinese, appeared as Wagner's Kundry in a production of Parsifal at the Stadttheater Minden ?
text: Did you know that the Counter-Strike map " Inferno " encourages the player to massacre chickens?
text: Did you know that the Red Hill Band was commended by the United States Senate in 1965 for its "excellence and its state and community contributions"?
text: Did you know that AreYouKiddingTV once gave out $5,000 to a student at East Carolina University who was the first to retrieve a clear key from a pool on campus?
text: Did you know that the founder of Annales des Maladies de la Peau et de la Syphilis claimed to have inoculated himself with syphilis?
text: Did you know that Robert Ford Jr. wrote the first article about hip-hop in a major publication?
text: Did you know that Adele 's song " My Little Love " features voice notes of her nine-year-old son?
text: Did you know that Dennis Law broke an "unwritten commandment" while returning a punt , causing him to get tackled in the end zone ?
text: Did you know that during a call that led to the creation of the Congressional Workers Union , one of the participants attended from a bathroom stall?
text: Did you know that in the 1950s, 70 percent of senior officers in the People's Liberation Army came from the Eyuwan Soviet area?
text: Did you know that according to legend, the Sacambaya River houses treasure hidden in a cavern by Jesuits ?
text: Did you know that a statue of Ernest Rutherford was snapped off by a thief and later found in an attic?
text: Did you know that Bill Dunn , an Indigenous Australian pastoralist approaching retirement, sold his station at half-price to the Jigalong community despite receiving full-price offers from non-Indigenous people?
text: Did you know that before the House of Commons of Canada considers a taxation or spending bill, a royal recommendation has to be given by the governor general ?
text: Did you know that ancient permafrost can preserve viable microorganisms , some of which contain antibiotic-resistance genes that may be transferred to modern bacteria ?
text: Did you know that during the "coffin brig" HMS Rinaldo 's first three years of service, she captured five ships and sank another?
text: Did you know that according to Christian tradition, the cloth used to shroud the body of Christ was made of sindon ?
text: Did you know that NPR favorably compared a story in Jonathan Escoffery's debut book If I Survive You to Moby-Dick ?
text: Did you know that Ellie Dixon 's "Big Lizard Energy" imagines herself as a 320-foot (98 m) dinosaur?
text: Did you know that Shukriyya Akhundzada learned of her husband's death 15 years after it occurred?
text: Did you know that New Zealand's election mascot Orange Guy has a pet dog named Pup?
text: Did you know that the early drafts of Appalachian Spring contained a Native American girl to act as an invisible theatrical device, but it was cut in the final production?
text: Did you know that Steem peanut butter contained as much caffeine per serving as two cups of coffee?
text: Did you know that in a copyright infringement case over a coffee-table history of the Grateful Dead , the Second Circuit held that a reuser can still claim fair use despite negotiating with the rights holder?
text: Did you know that an Alabama radio station was described by its program director as a "no-format mess"?
text: Did you know that officials said this year's Louisiana wildfire season includes the largest wildfire in the state's history?
text: Did you know that Gavriil Popov 's Fourth Symphony was not publicly performed until 2023, 74 years after it was composed?
text: Did you know that German forester Carl A. Schenck founded the first forestry school in North America at George W. Vanderbilt 's Biltmore Estate ?
text: Did you know that Russell Shorto 's mobster grandfather was described as the "holy trinity of a reprobate—a drunk, a philanderer, and a cheat" in a review of the 2021 family memoir Smalltime ?
text: Did you know that in one of NFL player Earl Witte 's only games, he hit a player so hard that the player "stopped, curled up and dropped to the ground as if he had hit a stone wall"?
text: Did you know that the Cure 's Shows of a Lost World has grossed $37.5 million and become their highest-grossing tour to date, despite the band's refusal to use Ticketmaster 's dynamic pricing?
text: Did you know that Ganjar Pranowo's 2024 presidential campaign is headquartered in the same building that hosted the incumbent president's 2019 campaign ?
text: Did you know that a 15-year-old student was brought to court over throwing an egg during a vegetable fight ?
text: Did you know that a fungus called white rot can strip out certain dyes in textiles?
text: Did you know that James B. Tapp was the first United States Army Air Forces pilot to be recognized as a flying ace for flying very-long-range missions over Japan in P-51s during World War II?
text: Did you know that the book series The Serrano Legacy by Elizabeth Moon features protagonists who are daughters or aunts?
text: Did you know that Minuscule 1582 , a Greek manuscript of the New Testament Gospels, has an ancient note before Mark 16 : 9–20 which casts doubt on the authenticity of these verses?
text: Did you know that despite being a keyboard player himself, Ray Charles hired Bobby Floyd to play organ and piano in his band?
text: Did you know that according to Cory Doctorow , enshittification is how platforms die?
text: Did you know that Jennifer Mills has written Jennifer Mills News , a weekly newspaper about herself, for 21 years?
text: Did you know that when asked how many rooms his Trump Tower penthouse had, Donald Trump replied: "However many they will print"?
text: Did you know that Blessed Seraphina Sforza was implicated in a murder plot at the age of twelve?
text: Did you know that Julie Mehretu 's Mural , installed at 200 West Street in New York City, was painted using 215 different colors?
text: Did you know that for all of his years in college, future NFL running back Chet Winters had little chance to rush the ball due to a different player taking priority every year?
text: Did you know that during the 1916–1917 northern Minnesota lumber strike , multiple cities in Minnesota banned members of the Industrial Workers of the World from their municipalities?
text: Did you know that the Android version of Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective is now lost media ?
text: Did you know that in June 2022, a neurosurgeon found a roundworm in someone's brain?
text: Did you know that Julia Marden was the first known person to create a Wampanoag twined turkey-feather mantle since European contact 400 years earlier?
text: Did you know that Aristotle classified living things based on whether they had a "sensitive soul" or, like plants , only a "vegetative soul"?
text: Did you know that Liu Weining , grandson of the second president of the People's Republic of China , became involved with Russian military secrecy due to his job and was denied the ability to travel to China?
text: Did you know that there are at least 13,000 sites containing toxic materials that are frozen in permafrost , many of which are expected to start thawing and releasing their pollutants in the near future?
text: Did you know that Songs and Flowers of the Wasatch represented a shift in Mormon history toward a "socially-accepted American cultural and religious heritage", according to historian Jennifer Reeder ?
text: Did you know that it is debated whether the 1919 kino-drama Righteous Revenge can be considered the first Korean film?
text: Did you know that Jim Davidson 's Sinderella featured a flatulent Fairy Godmother?
text: Did you know that Kimball County, Nebraska , was named after railroad executive Thomas Lord Kimball ?
text: Did you know that the Amazonas de Yaxunah , a Mayan softball team from Yucatán , play barefoot while wearing the huipil , a traditional indigenous dress?
text: Did you know that in 2023, a sculpture garden in Praunheim displayed abstract works by Hans Steinbrenner from different periods of his life, and corresponding works by his friends and students?
text: Did you know that people in the Victorian era commonly placed black borders on letters and envelopes to signify that they were in mourning?
text: Did you know that in aquariums, the humpbacked limia is known to cannibalise the young?
text: Did you know that John Buck Wilkin was inspired to write " GTO " during a physics class?
text: Did you know that Hypericum perforatum was a common component of classical cure-all concoctions called theriacs ?
text: Did you know that James Edward Moore was the chief of staff of the Ninth United States Army , which Omar Bradley described as "uncommonly normal"?
text: Did you know that to include the popular Marian hymn " Maria zu lieben, ist allzeit mein Sinn " in the first common Catholic hymnal in German , Friedrich Dörr retained only its first line?
text: Did you know that Keith Hartwig overcame an injury that he was told would end his career in high school, and went on to play in the National Football League ?
text: Did you know that no single political party has a mandate in a coalition government ?
text: Did you know that Freedom of Religion South Africa filed an unsuccessful lawsuit to keep child spanking legal?
text: Did you know that Jerome Robbins choreographed In G Major for New York City Ballet 's Ravel Festival, in celebration of the composer 's centenary?
text: Did you know that despite claims to the contrary, novelist Walter Tevis insisted that the characters of "Minnesota Fats" and "Fast Eddie" in The Hustler were fictitious?
text: Did you know that at the age of 27, Aleksander Barkov became the Florida Panthers ' all-time leading scorer?
text: Did you know that the Medway Branch was made redundant just nine years after its opening by the construction of the Charles River Railroad ?
text: Did you know that RinRin Doll first modeled for the brand Angelic Pretty at Pacific Media Expo after her friend, the organizer for the event, submitted an application for her without her knowledge?
text: Did you know that although fossils of the extinct mammal Asiavorator were first found in 1922, the genus was not named until 73 years later, in 1995?
text: Did you know that the first United States court case to recognize moral rights in authorship involved the use of music by four Soviet composers in the 1948 Cold War film The Iron Curtain ?
text: Did you know that the music video for Olivia Rodrigo 's " Bad Idea Right? " features appearances by her "favorite girlz"?
text: Did you know that the littleBits Synth Kit is like Lego for making instruments?
text: Did you know that in the early 1990s, several TV stations in Northern California experimented with moving prime time up an hour ?
text: Did you know that Louise Fulton was the first African American to win a professional bowling tournament?
text: Did you know that in 1936, a dairy farmer unsuccessfully attempted to cut a signal wire to prevent a train from derailing as it approached a landslide in New Zealand?
text: Did you know that footballer Sara Mérida played for Espanyol Femení , was a physiotherapist for the club, and ultimately helped coach her former team to promotion in 2022?
text: Did you know that a 1937 proposal to name a small church in Bremen after Horst Wessel provoked a fierce dispute with the local Nazi Party leadership?
text: Did you know that a landscape demo created by Attention to Detail for the Konix Multisystem became the basis for Cybermorph on Atari Jaguar ?
text: Did you know that firefighters had to wade through deep pools of viscous, slippery butter and cheese spawned by the great butter fire ?
text: Did you know that as president of Loyola College in Maryland , John F. Quirk became close friends with the cardinal who ordained him a priest ten years earlier?
text: Did you know that contrary to NFL rules, the Green Bay Packers do not have a franchise owner and are instead led by an elected team president ?
text: Did you know that Czesław Lewicki , Polish composer and conductor, was recognized as Righteous Among the Nations for aiding the Polish-Jewish composer Władysław Szpilman ?
text: Did you know that PlantSims, human–plant hybrids in The Sims 2: Seasons , have been studied as examples of ecofeminism and deep ecology ?
text: Did you know that Richard Worley played in minor baseball leagues and is now the commissioner of the Baltimore Police Department ?
text: Did you know that during a temporary public holiday to mourn the death of Elizabeth II , New Zealand had another public holiday on the same day?
text: Did you know that Michael Vinson wasn't yet cheese, so he became milk instead?
text: Did you know that despite having no professional training or experience, DeLancey W. Gill was appointed to take thousands of photographs for the Smithsonian Institution?
text: Did you know that John Wooden 's UCLA Bruins won the NCAA Division I basketball championship in his last game as head coach?
text: Did you know that Sarah Cox brought the first breach of promise suit in Australia, during which she was represented by her future husband William Wentworth ?
text: Did you know that players of Monster Hunter Now have just 75 seconds to defeat large monsters?
text: Did you know that a sinkhole opened up in Massachusetts in September 2023 , damaging cars?
text: Did you know that " The Potato King of Colorado " survived a shipwreck, mined for gold in Australia, and helped establish an alcohol-free Methodist colony ?
text: Did you know that a Brontosaurus stamp led to the United States Postal Service being accused of "fostering scientific illiteracy"?
text: Did you know that the hotel The Redbury New York did not accept men for 95 years?
text: Did you know that Anthony Vaz was the first flag bearer and team captain for Kenya at the Olympics?
text: Did you know that the Caleb Grimshaw sank after catching on fire, leaving at least 90 of the 457 people on board dead?
text: Did you know that when Robert Hale performed as Wagner's Wotan in Washington, a reviewer noted that he commanded "the spirit, from tragic grandeur to ironic detachment, from flooding tenderness to grim rage"?
text: Did you know that a woman who bought The Sims 2: Bon Voyage sued its publisher?
text: Did you know that the first newspaper in Korea, the Chōsen shinpō , was written in Japanese and Classical Chinese ?
text: Did you know that a radio station in Alberta fell afoul of Canadian content guidelines because new songs by Anne Murray were not Canadian enough?
text: Did you know that under early English common law a person became legally dead when they entered a religious order ?
text: Did you know that Kenya Grace shot her first music video after becoming a finalist in a competition?
text: Did you know that future Georgia representative Edna Jackson was part of a wade-in to protest segregation at Tybee Island Beach?
text: Did you know that student-aid startup Frank claimed to have 4.25 million users, but is alleged to have had fewer than 300,000?
text: Did you know that Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour caused the horror film The Exorcist: Believer to move its release date one week earlier from Friday, October 13, 2023?
text: Did you know that Rebecca Struthers has a PhD in horology ?
text: Did you know that sugar cubes were used to deliver the polio vaccine ?
text: Did you know that of newly hired coach Fred Vehmeier , one newspaper said: "Any candidate for the university football team who gets a bit sassy can count on a beating, if this new coach is the man he looks to be"?
text: Did you know that a 19th-century horse stable in New York City later housed a luxury pet sitter for cats and dogs?
text: Did you know that in September 2023, The New York Times publicly confirmed the detention of Johan Floderus in Iran a year and a half after his arrest?
text: Did you know that a reviewer for the PS2 version of The Sims 2: Pets was disappointed that it didn't let him drown the animals?
text: Did you know that the Yunus Emre coal-fired power station is licensed to operate after Turkey's goal for net zero ?
text: Did you know that the founder of a California radio station "didn't want to do background music"?
text: Did you know that All Things Considered host Juana Summers is a competitive pinball player?
text: Did you know that Bill Duplissea has been said to have the "best eyes in baseball"?
text: Did you know that Episode 2351 of the Australian soap opera Home and Away was filmed in England, marking the first time the serial was filmed overseas?
text: Did you know that Irish writer Dave Rudden has written a juvenile fantasy trilogy as well as several stories in the Doctor Who universe ?
text: Did you know that to portray a child abductor in A Friend of the Family , Jake Lacy took inspiration from the fearlessness and charisma of Danny Ocean and Steve McQueen ?
text: Did you know that Thomas Mancuso showed how deaths among factory workers could be understood by looking at social security data?
text: Did you know that the royal chronicles report that the Kingdom of Ava mobilized nearly 300,000 troops for one invasion , but they probably only mobilized around a tenth of that?
text: Did you know that the katydid -like fossil Republicopteron douseae possibly could not sing?
text: Did you know that ancient Greek philosopher Xenophon thought the alopekis was part dog, part fox?
text: Did you know that at least 73,000 attendees were stranded at Burning Man because of the September 2023 southwestern U.S. floods ?
text: Did you know that Hamas militant Tito Masoud , who manufactured the first Qassam rocket , became wanted by Israel after a colleague revealed his name under interrogation?
text: Did you know that the mixtape Froge.mp3 took its title from a nickname that Piri & Tommy gave each other?
text: Did you know that an 1893-S Morgan dollar sold for US$2,086,875.00 in 2021?
text: Did you know that the BOW counties in Wisconsin were one of the regions of the U.S. that helped Joe Biden win the presidency in 2020?
text: Did you know that after 233 years of being united, Samson lost his mate Hercules ?
text: Did you know that National Football League player Dylan Cook went from being the quarterback to protecting the quarterback ?
text: Did you know that there have been eight known males with three X and two Y chromosomes ?
text: Did you know that in 1903, Georg Forchhammer invented a system to help his deaf students see the sounds of spoken Danish ?
text: Did you know that after their 2020 tour was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic , Spiritbox received $10,000 from Shinedown 's Brent Smith , a stranger, to cover losses?
text: Did you know that the developers of BattleSphere pledged to donate all profits from sales to diabetes research?
text: Did you know that during World War I , Roy W. Ritner was elected unopposed to the Oregon State Senate while serving with the American Red Cross in France?
text: Did you know that Athenians built their bulletin board with a surprising lack of precision?
text: Did you know that climate change protesters vandalized and glued themselves to a version of Andy Warhol 's Campbell's Soup I ?
text: Did you know that Paul Roach became so popular for coaching the Wyoming Cowboys football team that people voted for him to be the state's governor even though he was not a candidate?
text: Did you know that Angeline Quinto became the first Filipino singer to release a soundtrack album for a television series that featured a single artist?
text: Did you know that the early big cat Pachypanthera may have weighed as much as 142 kilograms (313 lb) and had teeth similar to a hyena's?
text: Did you know that in 2014, one could pay half a million US dollars to live in a former residence for people with tuberculosis ?
text: Did you know that when Jessica Berman was named the deputy commissioner of the National Lacrosse League , she became the first woman to hold that position in a men's professional sports league?
text: Did you know that Venetian Blinds uses Venetian blinds to simulate Venetian blinds ?
text: Did you know that physics, chemistry, and biology were all part of philosophy before they became separate disciplines?
text: Did you know that artist Percy Delf Smith 's work included lettering using Roman capitals and depictions of the First World War inspired by his experiences in the trenches?
text: Did you know that the perpetrator of the 2006 San Miguel shooting greeted some former co-workers and shot at others?
text: Did you know that a dispute over paid sick leave at a chocolate factory ended up before the High Court of Australia in Mondelez v AMWU ?
text: Did you know that the Park Avenue Armory was leased out as an art center because the New York state government could not pay for repairs?
text: Did you know that during her 2023 season , Aryna Sabalenka became the first woman since Serena Williams in 2016 to reach the semifinals at all four majors in a season?
text: Did you know that Death Valley Girls have been described as "doom-boogie psych-pop"?
text: Did you know that George Balanchine choreographed Ballo della Regina to showcase ballerina Merrill Ashley 's speed and precision?
text: Did you know that Elbridge Colby was considered for a top job in Jeb Bush's 2016 presidential campaign , but was not hired after "prominent, interventionist neoconservatives " objected?
text: Did you know that the perpetrator of a murder on a bus once described meeting his victim, who was his girlfriend, to be "like winning the Mark Six "?
text: Did you know that the site of an old paper mill is being redeveloped into a residential area dubbed "Tesla town"?
text: Did you know that the number of employees in the US represented by a union is rising while the proportion of workers represented by a union is decreasing?
text: Did you know that Romanian actress Mitzura Arghezi was once told by her father that her career path held "few satisfactions [...] if you're not a director's wife, a manager's wife, this and that man's girlfriend"?
text: Did you know that Ray Bradbury's short story " I, Rocket " won an award 76 years after it was first published?
text: Did you know that Fly with Me , one of the first collaborations by Rodgers and Hart , was written for the 1920 Varsity Show ?
text: Did you know that The Sims 2: Open for Business has been used to teach business students?
text: Did you know that David Dean served as general counsel to Texas governor Dolph Briscoe , a Democrat , as well as his Republican successor Bill Clements ?
text: Did you know that an eruption on Montagu Island that began in 2001 continued for several years and formed a lava delta ?
text: Did you know that wampum artist Elizabeth James-Perry also works on ecological restoration projects, including the reintroduction of native plant life?
text: Did you know that the royal necropolis of Ayaa in Sidon , Lebanon, was accidentally discovered in the late 19th century by a workman who stumbled upon a shaft and chamber tomb while quarrying for stone?
text: Did you know that Kent Gaydos played quarterback in high school, then wide receiver in college, and in the NFL changed to tight end before going back to receiver, then tight end again, and then receiver once more?
text: Did you know that as well as books, Hove's first public library featured a disembowelling knife and a Japanese executioner's sword?
text: Did you know that Arthur Yorinks 's children's book Louis the Fish was inspired by Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis ?
text: Did you know that in Utoro, Uji , in Japan, former forced Korean laborers dodged eviction from 1945 to 2010, when they were finally able to afford buying the land in the district?
text: Did you know that Danish-Portuguese publisher Snu Abecassis was the first to publish both Pippi Longstocking and Solzhenitsyn in Portugal?
text: Did you know that 28 Greenpeace activists partially cut down a field of genetically modified maize in a 1999 direct action in Lyng, Norfolk , but were acquitted of all charges?
text: Did you know that in 2023, Daniel Whelan became the first Irish-born NFL player since 1985?
text: Did you know that the Ni'isjoohl totem pole was once fed a diet of vacuum-packed food?
text: Did you know that indirect evidence suggests that cataract surgery could have been performed as early as in ancient Egypt ?
text: Did you know that the militant group Hezbollah released a video game in 2003?
text: Did you know that writer Profira Sadoveanu and her novelist father Mihail once had to take turns defending their home against attacks by the Iron Guard ?
text: Did you know that the U.S. Bank Center in Seattle once had a Montessori school on the 23rd floor?
text: Did you know that after Benjamin Moloise's execution , the extremist group Direct Action bombed two Paris companies linked to South Africa in protest?
text: Did you know that " John Brown " was recorded by Bob Dylan under the pseudonym "Blind Boy Grunt"?
text: Did you know that El Ojo is a circular rotating floating island ?
text: Did you know that across her first three albums, Alessia Cara co-wrote 43 songs ranging in themes from teenage life, to her insecurities about writing music alone, to the five stages of grief ?
text: Did you know that Carson Spiers and four of his relatives have played for the Clemson Tigers ?
text: Did you know that the historical lands and fishing grounds of the Skinpah were buried underwater by the construction of The Dalles Dam ?
text: Did you know that one year after Private Harris Turner was blinded in battle, his fellow soldiers elected him to the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan ?
text: Did you know that Saints Peter and Paul Seminary , the last Catholic high school seminary in Ohio before its closure in 1990, was designed with influences from Chinese architecture ?
text: Did you know that John Byrne retold the origin of Superman in the 1986 comic book limited series The Man of Steel , 48 years after the character was created?
text: Did you know that the Canadian rock band Rainbow Butt Monkeys changed their name to " Finger Eleven " before releasing their second album Tip ?
text: Did you know that a 1956 eruption of Bristol Island drove Argentina to abandon a hut they had built on Thule Island ?
text: Did you know that John A. Kennedy was placed near the top of the 1964 Illinois House election ballot because of his name?
text: Did you know that Annalee Newitz chose to set their debut novel Autonomous in the Canadian prairies because it was "the kind of place that often gets forgotten"?
text: Did you know that the Committee for the Prevention of Destruction of Antiquities on the Temple Mount used aerial photography to monitor the removal of antiquities during construction at Solomon's Stables ?
text: Did you know that the Siberian columbine has been crossed with another species in the genus Aquilegia to determine the gene behind the genus's nectar spurs ?
text: Did you know that film director Christina Rosendahl started her career with a documentary about her sister Pernille 's music career?
text: Did you know that MI-5 had trouble finding people to interview?
text: Did you know that Olga Onuch is believed to be the first professor of Ukrainian politics in the English-speaking world?
text: Did you know that Stephen Colbert , Jimmy Fallon , Jimmy Kimmel , Seth Meyers and John Oliver started a podcast to support their employees during the 2023 Writers Guild of America strike ?
text: Did you know that as a child, New Zealand economist Brad Olsen would write notes about stock market trends while watching the evening news?
text: Did you know that the University of Maryland's Iribe Center was partly funded by a businessman who dropped out of the university ?
text: Did you know that Stan Lee modeled Tony Stark after 20th-century business magnate Howard Hughes ?
text: Did you know that in his 2000 book , Michael Cook argues that the West prefers to "rescue" people after wrongdoing has occurred, while Muslims prefer to "forbid wrong"?
text: Did you know that the Ninja of Heisei , who robbed places in Japan while wearing a ninja costume, was caught at the age of 74?
text: Did you know that François Glorieux was a Belgian pianist and improvisor, conductor of the BBC Radio Orchestra and Stan Kenton 's band, and arranger for Michael Jackson ?
text: Did you know that a developer on Serious Sam: The Second Encounter doubled its frame rate by removing one line of code ?
text: Did you know that the Penitential of Finnian is the oldest known penitential ?
text: Did you know that a former Dutch villa houses both the city council of Semarang, Indonesia , and the city's mayor?
text: Did you know that Salty Parker , who spent 60 years in organized baseball , described his lifelong love of the game as "a beautiful disease"?
text: Did you know that the directors of the Dutchess and Columbia Railroad stole back the railroad from a bankrupt lessee?
text: Did you know that puzzle maker Patrick Berry has been called the " Thomas Pynchon of crosswords"?
text: Did you know that Japanese actor Kouhei Higuchi prepared for his role on the television drama adaptation of My Personal Weatherman by learning from a weather forecaster?
text: Did you know that Erin Swenson was the first mainstream Protestant minister known to have undergone gender transition while in ordained office?
text: Did you know that an ancient wildcat species is known only from a part of the jaw of a single animal discovered in Poland?
text: Did you know that when historian of cartography Leo Bagrow was granted Swedish citizenship in 1952, he had been stateless for 34 years?
text: Did you know that rural women in Burundi greet each other with an intricate musical ritual called akazehe ?
text: Did you know that Margarita Ortega left her husband to fight in the Mexican Revolution ?
text: Did you know that the "Mayor of Picklesburgh " is decided by a pickle juice drinking competition?
text: Did you know that Romanian-born Helen O'Brien escaped advancing Russians on the King's horse, opened Eve , and worked as a spy for MI5 and MI6?
text: Did you know that students who do not attend Conversations about Important Things lessons face expulsion or police investigation?
text: Did you know that Dan Blumenthal , a senior defense official in the Bush administration, believes that China has "three roads" to gain control of Taiwan?
text: Did you know that the building housing the city council of Palembang, Indonesia , was claimed to be the "grandest" of its kind?
text: Did you know that Stan Mataele lied about his football experience but still became one of the top players in the state?
text: Did you know that The Constellation of Leo , a group portrait of people from Italy's art world, was exhibited with a note that read "not without a trace of irony"?
text: Did you know that Mariah Carey does not know Jennifer Lopez ?
text: Did you know that the 1992 comic book storyline " Man and Wolf ", in which Captain America is transformed into a werewolf, has been described as "one of the most bizarre moments of the core Marvel Universe "?
text: Did you know that Abram Kofman was the first Ancient Greek–Esperanto translator, publishing translated sections of the Iliad in 1895?
text: Did you know that interviews collected for a Boston College oral history project were used in two murder trials?
text: Did you know that after learning to write with Inuktitut syllabics to help Catholic missionaries learn her language, Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk wrote one of the first Inuktitut-language novels ?
text: Did you know that John Seigenthaler hosted a literary interview program which ran for 42 years on Nashville Public Television ?
text: Did you know that in high school, tennis player Sara Daavettila went an entire season without losing a game ?
text: Did you know that Pachelbel's Canon is notorious for being widespread in pop music , but it actually isn't?
text: Did you know that Indonesian politician Gembong Warsono criticized the governor of Jakarta over municipally owned companies, sidewalk use, and imported dumpsters?
text: Did you know that Mohammed went from the roof of the Appellate Division Courthouse of New York State to a field in New Jersey?
text: Did you know that some of the Michigan fake electors attempted to enter the State Capitol , but were turned away by the state police ?
text: Did you know that throughout the history of education in Wales , schools have been held in monastic settlements , cathedrals, residential houses, marketplaces, barns, churches, and village halls?
text: Did you know that dei Rossi 's work on modern Jewish historiography was banned by Venetian rabbis, but he obtained imprimatur from a Catholic?
text: Did you know that Dublin restaurant Deli 613 imports frozen bagels from New York?
text: Did you know that Lady Six Monkey was the only one of her four siblings not to be sacrificed?
text: Did you know that during the production of Serious Sam: The First Encounter , all of its developers were conscripted into the Croatian military ?
text: Did you know that Athanasios Rhousopoulos , one of Athens's major archaeological criminals, made a speech complaining about the high rate of archaeological crime?
text: Did you know that some viewers of an Arizona TV station saw hardcore pornography instead of the Super Bowl ?
text: Did you know that hundreds of people lived in Jim Jordan 's orbit in "Jordanville"?
text: Did you know that some ancient Athenian coins featured the faces of gorgons ?
text: Did you know that Manaka Matsukubo , the youngest player to start in the NWSL Challenge Cup , was named most valuable player of this year's final?
text: Did you know that people are robbing Lebanese banks to get their own money back?
text: Did you know that Turkey is the world's largest grower of hazelnuts, apricots, and oregano?
text: Did you know that the John Snow Society 's Pumphandle Lecture ends with a ceremonial removal of the Broad Street pump handle and a visit to a pub ?
text: Did you know that in Korea Job World , children can participate in career-experience scenarios to explore vocational paths?
text: Did you know that former Dreams Come True band member Takahiro Nishikawa opened a bar in his hometown of Sapporo in 2009, seven years after he left the band?
text: Did you know that a manuscript discovered in the Morris–Jumel Mansion was sold for US$912,000 to finance the mansion's endowment fund?
text: Did you know that Zimbabwean musician Joshua Sacco and his band used to perform songs at ZANU–PF election rallies before he became a party member?
text: Did you know that The Washington Post called Butts: A Backstory "cheeky"?
text: Did you know that Turkish carom billiards champion Güzin Müjde Karakaşlı grew up playing volleyball for about 12 years?
text: Did you know that North Nias Regency demolished its own government buildings in 2018 for urban renewal ?
text: Did you know that pollution in rivers scatters far-red light , making it harder for plants like Noveloa to germinate ?
text: Did you know that while writing Lessons in Chemistry , the author self-studied chemistry and was a full-time copywriter?
text: Did you know that Martha Poma worked as a textile artisan in El Alto before being elected to the Bolivian senate ?
text: Did you know that Benjamin Britten composed Canticle I: My beloved is mine and I am his for the tenor voice of Peter Pears , using poetry from A Divine Rapture by Francis Quarles ?
text: Did you know that in 1790, ten years before the discovery of infrared heating of the Earth by the Sun, Marc-Auguste Pictet demonstrated the apparent reflection of cold by mirrors ?
text: Did you know that Djanius Djamin , the speaker of Medan's city council from 1969 to 1971, was the first woman to chair a legislature in Sumatra ?
text: Did you know that Long Island's PBS station specialized in making shows for other stations to air during their pledge drives ?
text: Did you know that the Code of Lipit-Ishtar is older than the famous Code of Hammurabi ?
text: Did you know that American football player Ralph "Catfish" Smith was a two-way player in college and in the National Football League ?
text: Did you know that Donald A. Morgan is the first director of photography to be inducted into the Television Hall of Fame ?
text: Did you know that Lord Stonehaven , Governor-General of Australia , called Hay War Memorial High School the "finest war memorial in the British Empire "?
text: Did you know that organisms could harvest kinetic energy to survive?
text: Did you know that Rush Munro's , New Zealand's oldest ice creamery, has used the same recipes since 1926?
text: Did you know that the mean sea level observed by the Newlyn Tidal Observatory from 1915 to 1921 defined the reference for height measurement in Great Britain?
text: Did you know that Orchard MRT station had a dome over the station's circular concourse until it was removed in 2008?
text: Did you know that there are only 4 locations left of Boloco , which once had 22 burrito restaurants throughout the northeastern United States ?
text: Did you know that Jeʹvida is the first feature film in the Skolt Sámi language?
text: Did you know that the novel Minor Detail is based on a true story of a 1949 gang rape and murder of a young Arab Bedouin-Palestinian girl by Israeli soldiers?
text: Did you know that people were scammed on New Zealand television by the host of You've Been Scammed ?
text: Did you know that a Twitter account became a major source on what was happening during the 2022 COVID-19 protests in China ?
text: Did you know that Jim Hobbins played two years of professional football, spaced apart by 11 years?
text: Did you know that Baghdad governor Ḥassan Pasha bought the slave who married his granddaughter and went on to become governor of the same city?
text: Did you know that University of Nebraska alumnus M. Khalid Roashan helped draft the 1964 Constitution of Afghanistan ?
text: Did you know that the authors of The Neanderthals Rediscovered learned that their book proposal had been accepted on the same day they took their twin sons home from hospital?
text: Did you know that Władysław Umiński has been called the "Polish Jules Verne "?
text: Did you know that current NHL player Alex Laferriere refused to try out ice skating at a young age, and only did so when bribed with Skittles ?
text: Did you know that Hilda Hilst impersonated a journalist to meet Marlon Brando , and asked him about Franz Kafka 's works?
text: Did you know that after the Iraqi government lost control of its northern territories following the 1991 Gulf War , the Legislative Council of the Autonomous Kurdistan Region was based in Baghdad ?
text: Did you know that the killing of hundreds of thousands of Soviet civilians by starvation in the siege of Leningrad was ruled not criminal by an American court?
text: Did you know that Stella Alexander , the first female mayor of Issaquah , was nicknamed "Madame Mussolini " by her detractors?
text: Did you know that Canadian photographer and architectural activist Brian Merrett 's works prompted the preservation of Montreal's Shaughnessy House, now the Canadian Centre for Architecture ?
text: Did you know that Susan Murabana created Africa's first permanent planetarium?
text: Did you know that @ NYT_first_said 's most popular tweet, as of 2019, was simply "shithole"?
text: Did you know that Swiss athlete Clara Thalmann arrived in Barcelona to compete in the People's Olympiad but ended up fighting in the Spanish Civil War ?
text: Did you know that Hende's Hut on Roberts Point Track , a tramping track in New Zealand, originally had no windows?
text: Did you know that soprano Rachel Yakar , who received international attention in 1977 as Poppea with Nikolaus Harnoncourt , was also described as an "ideal" Mélisande and "a Mozartian at heart and in style"?
text: Did you know that in its first full month on the air, an Idaho TV station had the highest prime-time viewing share of any independent station in the United States?
text: Did you know that in the 1909 election to the city council of Surabaya , less than 1 percent of the population was enrolled to vote?
text: Did you know that each performance of the Tale of the Moon Cuckoo lasted for an entire month?
text: Did you know that the Saikabo Korean restaurant chain in Japan suffered a 30% drop in sales after the South Korean president visited the disputed Liancourt Rocks ?
text: Did you know that Turku remained the largest city in Finland after three quarters of it burned down?
text: Did you know that sessions of This War of Mine: The Board Game can last over five hours and often end in the deaths of all characters?
text: Did you know that the title of " Shinzō wo Sasageyo! ", the opening theme song for season two of Attack on Titan , comes from an in-universe salute and battle cry?
text: Did you know that according to a book by a friend of the Columbine shooters , students at Columbine High School would joke that their school was next for a mass shooting?
text: Did you know that authorities said the killing of Wadea al-Fayoume in Illinois was a response to the 2023 Israel–Hamas war ?
text: Did you know that the city council of Bandung in the Dutch East Indies initially met at the site of a former coffee-packing factory?
text: Did you know that when he was in the Royal New Zealand Air Force , future politician Tim Costley starred in a YouTube video that joked about having sex with sheep?
text: Did you know that Jim Rich served as editor-in-chief of the Daily News twice?
text: Did you know that the site of Hirbemerdon Tepe was initially inhabited in the Chalcolithic and continued to be populated until the Ottoman Empire ?
text: Did you know that Flathead Lake Biological Station can detect invasive aquatic species in real-time using eDNA technology?
text: Did you know that the Wantage Code , a record of laws promulgated by the English king Æthelred the Unready and his councillors around 997, may provide the earliest description of a jury of presentment ?
text: Did you know that in the Russian Far East , there is a population of North Koreans in Kamchatka that now aligns itself with South Korea?
text: Did you know that New Zealand politician Tom Rutherford is a firefighter and hockey umpire?
text: Did you know that later pressings of the soundtrack of the soft porn film The Stud replaced Manfred Mann's Earth Band 's " Davy's on the Road Again " after a journalist blabbed its presence to the band's keyboardist ?
text: Did you know that the Data Colada bloggers drew attention to the replication crisis by exposing faulty social science research?
text: Did you know that the FBS college football player Tre Harris set his school's single-game record for most receiving touchdowns in his debut?
text: Did you know that a 1950s album of frog calls developed a cult following?
text: Did you know that historically, native mercury was extracted from rocks mined in Idrija by washing them in the stream Nikova ?
text: Did you know that some of the optics for the James Webb Space Telescope were made at the NETPark science park in northern England?
text: Did you know that professor Ruth Ann Davis made the largest-ever single contribution to Potomac State College of West Virginia University to support nursing scholarships in memory of her mother?
text: Did you know that cross-site leaks can be used to gain information about your web-browsing habits?
text: Did you know that Jewish tartans have been made for the Jewish community of Scotland?
text: Did you know that to combat water privatization in Bolivia , Freddy Huayta joined a "coordinator"—a loose-knit alliance of organizations united around a single cause ?
text: Did you know that " Mir nach, spricht Christus, unser Held " (Follow me, says Christ, our hero) is a Christian hymn in German with a text by Angelus Silesius that uses sayings of Jesus in direct speech ?
text: Did you know that shortly after a missile strike on the Russian Black Sea Fleet headquarters, Oleksiy Danilov said that the fleet could be "sliced up like a salami " at a later date?
text: Did you know that the United States Conciliation Service , which was part of the U.S. Department of Labor , came to an end because the writers of the Taft–Hartley Act thought that the service was too partial to labor?
text: Did you know that Dianne Lee had her name changed from Melody to avoid seeming like a reggae act?
text: Did you know that an island vindicated James Cook ?
text: Did you know that even though the Legislative Assembly of Quebec ordered a monument of Maurice Duplessis in front of its building , later premiers hid it for 16 years to avoid political tensions?
text: Did you know that after the British premiere of Percy Grainger 's suite In a Nutshell , The Daily Telegraph argued that the marimba , then new to the orchestra, sounded inferior to the xylophone ?
text: Did you know that a favorite of Tsar Ivan the Terrible may have killed his own father to prove his loyalty to the tsar?
text: Did you know that BoysTown was reported as having the largest case of child abuse in Australia's history?
text: Did you know that James Dillon Armstrong was a Virginia state senator, a delegate to West Virginia's constitutional convention, and a circuit court judge while serving for more than 43 years as a Presbyterian church elder ?
text: Did you know that Amrita Shah found that the introduction of television to India led to more women aspiring to become independent?
text: Did you know that one of the largest fishing companies of New Zealand started as a fish and chip shop?
text: Did you know that the song " Lacy " is about a girl whom Olivia Rodrigo finds "sexy" and describes as a " Bardot reincarnate"?
text: Did you know that Pasquier Grenier sold tapestries to royalty across Europe in the 15th century?
text: Did you know that History of the Mission of the Evangelical Brothers in the Caribbean by C. G. A. Oldendorp was the first book to publish Igbo-language terms in 1777?
text: Did you know that Conjurer has contributed to a musical project named after a quote from the sitcom Peep Show ?
text: Did you know that the island bronze-naped pigeon is a popular food at bars and parties on São Tomé ?
text: Did you know that last month, Delanie Sheehan scored her first professional goal during Gotham FC 's first NWSL postseason win?
text: Did you know that little pink elephants are parasitic ?
text: Did you know that a retired man with no previous broadcasting experience was offered a job by a Wyoming TV station after winning an "Anchorman for a Day" contest?
text: Did you know that according to Pope Innocent III 's 1213 letter Quia maior , the number of the beast refers to the number of years since Muhammad's migration from Mecca to Medina?
text: Did you know that the Trapeze spreadsheet introduced the idea of blocks that InfoWorld called "revolutionary"?
text: Did you know that euglossine bees distribute the seeds of vanilla tlatepusco ?
text: Did you know that New Zealand politician Hamish Campbell is a cancer researcher and runs a flower-delivery business?
text: Did you know that Fort Stonewall was considered a model of river defense?
text: Did you know that Omi in a Hellcat owned three Dodge Hellcats ?
text: Did you know that plants grow around volcanic gas vents on Candlemas Island ?
text: Did you know that ranchers in the community now known as Loybas Hill ran their own telephone company for 60 years?
text: Did you know that the August 2014 United States floods set rainfall records across cities in several states, including Michigan , Maine , and New York ?
text: Did you know that actress Jacqui Purvis performed her character's wedding vows in te reo Māori during the 8000th episode of Home and Away ?
text: Did you know that 6 percent of the US population had symptoms of long COVID lasting three months or longer in the first half of 2023?
text: Did you know that a newspaper in Kentucky reported that the solar eclipse of November 22, 1900 , would pass over Austria instead of Australia?
text: Did you know that The Butchering Art describes how Joseph Lister 's successful surgery on Queen Victoria led to the widespread adoption of his antiseptic techniques?
text: Did you know that when Sarah Jane Baker was released after 30 years, she was the United Kingdom's longest serving transgender prisoner?
text: Did you know that Massachusetts gave the United States its first openly LGBT state legislator to be elected , as well as the first out congressperson and state attorney general ?
text: Did you know that the Royal Mint reportedly shipped rare silver coins to New Zealand in unsecured bags, claiming they had not been advised to take extra precaution?
text: Did you know that Toshiki Seto was cast in the television adaptation of Senpai, This Can't Be Love! because, according to the creator, he could express emotion through his stare?
text: Did you know that the judge in the 1938 King v Bourne trial stated that performing an abortion might prevent a "physical or mental wreck"?
text: Did you know that the 2023 MLS Cup Playoffs feature 62 percent of the league's teams?
text: Did you know that the John Snow pub is named for a shy British epidemiologist who did not drink?
text: Did you know that the ancient Roman poem In Eutropium criticized the politician Eutropius for holding a "feminine" triumph ?
text: Did you know that The Fader praised " Montgomery Brawl " as "a hilarious recap" of the brawl and a "song a piece of history deserves"?
text: Did you know that Lillian V. Holdeman Moore identified a spike in hydrogen-gas-producing bacteria in Skylab astronauts?
text: Did you know that Eric Sams remarked "what bride ever had a finer wedding gift?" of the song collection Myrthen ( Myrtles ), which Robert Schumann dedicated to Clara ?
text: Did you know that since 1977, a world constitution has existed alongside a Provisional World Parliament ?
text: Did you know that the music video for Olivia Rodrigo 's song " Get Him Back! " was shot on a smartphone?
text: Did you know that smokestacks at a former rayon mill were stabilized by dropping bricks into them?
text: Did you know that Sivapardus was larger than a leopard, smaller than a lion, and had a face like a cheetah?
text: Did you know that the archaeologist Alan Wace worked undercover for British intelligence during both world wars?
text: Did you know that Benton Harbor BASIC was written by Gordon Letwin , who Heathkit management said once showed up with long hair, high-top sneakers and a velvet coat?
text: Did you know that the Battle of Daybathwe ended shortly after the Myaungmya commander Saw E Binnya was assassinated by the Hanthawaddy commander Dein Mani-Yut , whom he thought was defecting to his side?
text: Did you know that in the 1932 baseball game in which pitcher Eddie Rommel won his last game, he pitched 17 innings in relief, an American League record?
text: Did you know that Spanish mystic Marina de Escobar founded a convent but never joined one?
text: Did you know that Spyridon Marinatos discovered the battlefield of Thermopylae in 1939?
text: Did you know that in 1944, the Tuvan-language journal Lenin–Stalinnьꞑ tugunuꞑ adaa-pile switched from the Latin script to the Cyrillic script?
text: Did you know that railroad engineer Jules Hanscotte developed a system for the safe braking of heavy trains on steep gradients , but its only significant use was on tourist tramways?
text: Did you know that William Sharpington and his workshop created what was described as "some of the most distinguished" public lettering in post-war England?
text: Did you know that before a separate party was created for Pakistan , the All India Scheduled Castes Federation simultaneously held the posts of Minister of Law in both Pakistan and India ?
text: Did you know that the owner of the Washington Wolfpack said that he initially only wanted to try out some players from his semi-professional team, but they gave him ownership instead?
text: Did you know that one legend claimed that Hö'elün conceived the boy who would become Genghis Khan when she was impregnated by a ray of light?
text: Did you know that They Might Be Giants sang in Simlish on the soundtrack for The Sims 2: FreeTime ?
text: Did you know that when she was elected to the New Zealand parliament, Catherine Wedd defeated her former coworker at a marketing company?
text: Did you know that the Seabury Tredwell House , now a museum, is Manhattan's only remaining 19th-century house with its original furnishings?
text: Did you know that scholars have argued over whether the Aineta aryballos depicts a goddess, a dancer, or a prostitute ?
text: Did you know that Hanthawaddy commander Smin Ye-Thin-Yan captured Donwun by deceiving his blood brother ?
text: Did you know that French bread is not from France?
text: Did you know that Tournament of Kings made its host the United States' biggest buyer of Cornish game hens in 2018?
text: Did you know that if James Stuart-Wortley had not falsified his age for the 1853 general election , Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke would now be New Zealand's youngest-ever member of parliament?
text: Did you know that the statue of Trần Hưng Đạo in Mê Linh Square was erected by the South Vietnamese Navy, who regarded him as a patron saint?
text: Did you know that Hanthawaddy royal Saw Maha-Rit was executed for leaving behind his wife Princess Tala Mi Kyaw on the battlefield?
text: Did you know that although Quentin Tarantino thought " Wiseman " was "fantastic", he could not find a scene for it in his film Django Unchained ?
text: Did you know that in 1974, Oliver C. Dawson was the first black person to be inducted into the South Carolina Athletic Hall of Fame ?
text: Did you know that The Sims 2: Apartment Life is not about apartment life?
text: Did you know that insects not only destroyed the personal plant collection of John Hunter Thomas , but also bear his name ?
text: Did you know that with only three of the six guns in his P-51 Mustang working during a dogfight , Claude J. Crenshaw managed to shoot down four enemy aircraft?
text: Did you know that after signing the Camp David Accords in 1978, Prime Minister Menachem Begin ended a speech with a desire to sing the peace song " Hevenu shalom aleichem " with the people of Israel?
text: Did you know that scientists traveled thousands of miles to observe the solar eclipse of September 10, 1923 , from Santa Catalina Island, but saw only clouds?
text: Did you know that until 1985, CBS programs on a TV station in Sitka, Alaska , were videotaped in Seattle and aired on a two-week delay?
text: Did you know that Julia Allison has been described as one of the first influencers ?
text: Did you know that a US$6 plastic crown worn by the Notorious B.I.G. in a photograph featured on the cover of Rap Pages sold for US$594,790 at an auction?
text: Did you know that Randy Huntington coached three athletes to break world records in the long jump , the triple jump , and the 60-metres split ?
text: Did you know that despite a mathematical model deeming the ice cream bar flavour Goody Goody Gum Drops impossible, it was still created?
text: Did you know that a song from Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind was performed by four-year-old Mai Fujisawa , daughter of the film's composer Joe Hisaishi ?
text: Did you know that the Harlem Park Three were awarded US$48 million, the largest sum in Baltimore history, after being falsely imprisoned for murder?
text: Did you know that Warren C. Dickerson helped transform the Bronx into an urban extension of Manhattan?
text: Did you know that Batman has extra heavy crude ?
text: Did you know that a variety of the Connecticut field pumpkin is known as "the original commercial jack-o'-lantern pumpkin"?
text: Did you know that there are nearly one hundred thousand .monsters on the internet?
text: Did you know that The Faculty Club at UC Berkeley , built in 1902, has been reported to be a hotspot for paranormal activity?
text: Did you know that British designer Alexander McQueen pressed live worms into a translucent corset to evoke vampirism and undeath for his collection The Hunger ?
text: Did you know that various online retailers removed hundreds of books featuring erotic horror from their stores?
text: Did you know that " Thriller " is the most popular Halloween song in the United States?
text: Did you know that film critics accused the MPAA ratings board of having yielded to studio pressure to rate The Exorcist R rather than X?
text: Did you know that the Circleville Pumpkin Show , the oldest pumpkin show in the United States, has been selecting a Miss Pumpkin since 1933?
text: Did you know that The Wiccan Web recommends drawing pentagrams on your computer screen with tinctures?
text: Did you know that Jack Washburn was called "Cinderella Boy" for winning a starring role in his first Broadway show?
text: Did you know that the India national team were victorious in football at the 1951 and 1962 Asian Games ?
text: Did you know that Bob Albright won his first primary election for the Alabama House of Representatives against a neighbor who lived on the same street as him?
text: Did you know that the allegedly haunted Capitol Hill mystery soda machine "went for a walk" one day and never returned?
text: Did you know that teacher Mary Creighton Bailey was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for her services in the improvement of education in Germany shortly after World War II ?
text: Did you know that a winter storm in December 2017 cancelled an attempt at the world's largest snowball fight at Six Flags Great Adventure in New Jersey ?
text: Did you know that Colonel Sanders created a competing restaurant to KFC, and was sued by KFC?
text: Did you know that Snoop Dogg's original lyrics about cannabis for the song " Sunday " were sung over by Ben Rector to keep the song clean?
text: Did you know that Sophie von Maltzan led the making of a submarine that was walked through the streets of Dublin ?
text: Did you know that the New Zealand fishing company Sealord Group is half-owned by iwi ?
text: Did you know that rubber barons like Carlos Scharff enslaved indigenous populations in the Upper Amazon region during the rubber boom as a workforce for latex collection?
text: Did you know that the Greco-Australian dialect , a variety of Modern Greek , blends words with English roots into the Greek language?
text: Did you know that Dublin property developer Harry Crosbie received an OBE from the British ambassador to Ireland , partly for entertaining Elizabeth II with his showbiz contacts?
text: Did you know that the song " Luochahai City " mentions Ludwig Wittgenstein ?
text: Did you know that football player and coach Clarence McGeary wrestled with Bronko Nagurski , owned bowling alleys with Rocky Marciano , founded the Federation of Christian Athletes, and was awarded a Purple Heart ?
text: Did you know that the Al Qarara Cultural Museum , housed in a former grain silo, contained 6000 years of history?
text: Did you know that Dimitrie Ralet , a pioneer Romanian orientalist, commended Ottoman reformers for not "blindly adopting what we in Europe take to mean civilization"?
text: Did you know that PragerU 's hashtag #DETRANS, originally meant to promote their short film , was hijacked by Twitter users?
text: Did you know that plant species like Hypericum bupleuroides can reproduce by a callus ?
text: Did you know that the son of an engine fitter from England became Director of Education in part of modern-day South Africa for almost twenty years?
text: Did you know that the No. 1–ranked 2023 Colorado Mines Orediggers , "college football's nerdiest contender", featured players with pigtails and a drawn-on blue mustache, a friar's haircut, and Harry Potter cosplay?
text: Did you know that the socialite Lucy Drexel Dahlgren's New York City house was designed by a neighbor whom Dahlgren met in Paris?
text: Did you know that Turbo Dismount released a playable web demo to stave off bankruptcy?
text: Did you know that the Lake Patzcuaro salamander 's native habitat is limited to a single lake in Mexico ?
text: Did you know that the Springfield Science Museum is home to the oldest operating projection planetarium in the United States?
text: Did you know that in the early 20th century, the town council of Worthing purchased Cote Bottom and pledged that it would be kept in perpetuity as a public amenity?
text: Did you know that the party leader of the new Dutch youth political party LEF – For the New Generation tattooed his party's program points on his forearm?
text: Did you know that the Latin princess Ioveta was about four years old when her mother, Queen Morphia , surrendered her to the Turks as debt payment security?
text: Did you know that Kirby was designed simply so that children could draw him with ease?
text: Did you know that William Brault was inducted into the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame 28 years after he founded it?
text: Did you know that a 1905 steam-powered pump was assembled on-site in Virginia with its housing constructed around it?
text: Did you know that when the financially failing Walker Interactive Products could not find a buyer, it staged a large-scale layoff in order to stay alive?
text: Did you know that to encourage upscale development of the neighborhood, J. Harper Smith had the street leading to his Victorian mansion renamed to have a "higher tone"?
text: Did you know that in 2001, around 64 percent of all films produced in Malayalam were of the soft-porn variety ?
text: Did you know that although Jules Meysmans invented an entire language, he is best known for his invention of one word ?
text: Did you know that in 1977, Appalachian folk singer Phyllis Boyens performed at a Christmas benefit concert to support Kentucky coal miners who had been on strike for 17 months?
text: Did you know that Grandpa Indian , created in the 1930s to replace Santa Claus in Brazil , was portrayed as adorned in colorful bird feathers, bringing gifts to Brazilian children?
text: Did you know that an early example of the genre of Christmas horror is A Christmas Carol , published in 1843?
text: Did you know that Jewish refugee Kurt S. Adler , who started one of the largest importers of Christmas decorations to the United States, was called "America’s Father Christmas" by the magazine German Life in 2002?
text: Did you know that the live-action comedy series Community had a stop motion animated Christmas special ?
text: Did you know that " Verbum caro factum est ", a Christmas motet for six voices by Hans Leo Hassler in the Venetian polychoral style , has been arranged for brass ensembles?
text: Did you know that in Icelandic folklore, the Yule cat eats people who do not receive new clothing for Christmas?
text: Did you know that Maryam Eslamdoust was the first Iranian-born woman to hold public office in Great Britain?
text: Did you know that you can play Pitfall! in two Call of Duty games?
text: Did you know that on Christmas Eve in 1818, the Christmas carol "Stille Nacht" (" Silent Night ") was first performed in the Nikolauskirche in Oberndorf , Austria?
text: Did you know that the tripartite structure of the National War Labor Board helped the United States keep work stoppages to a minimum during World War II?
text: Did you know that on every Christmas Eve since 1994, Willem Lange 's story about the fruitcake -delivering farmer Favor Johnson is broadcast on public radio stations in Vermont ?
text: Did you know that the anti-colonialist Ligue de défense de la race nègre , which at one point had around 1,000 members, was suppressed by the French government in 1937, ten years after its founding?
text: Did you know that Mel Bartholomew , who developed the time-saving square foot gardening method, said that he gardened "with a salad bowl in mind, not a wheelbarrow "?
text: Did you know that 25 Water Street was designed to blend in with historic brick buildings that no longer exist?
text: Did you know that the last Byzantine emperor , Constantine XI Palaiologos , was never formally crowned ?
text: Did you know that having worked as a secretary for 67 years, secret millionaire Sylvia Bloom retired at the age of 96 and willed US$8.2 million to sponsor underprivileged students?
text: Did you know that a Hot Dog Bean screenprint from Andy Warhol 's Campbell's Soup Cans II sold for $258,046 in 2013?
text: Did you know that Anna Burke was the second woman to give birth while a member of the Australian House of Representatives ?
text: Did you know that Eagle-Dogtooth Provincial Park in Ontario , Canada, contains part of the Experimental Lakes Area , a controlled area for conducting scientific experiments in lakes?
text: Did you know that a replacement player was injured replacing an injured replacement player?
text: Did you know that as CEO of Walmart US, Greg Foran would go undercover as a shopper?
text: Did you know that Mario Party DS 's minigames feature "minimized" Mario characters ?
text: Did you know that Fred Provo was told he would have to have his arm amputated due to a wound sustained in World War II, but refused, recovered, and went on to play in the National Football League?
text: Did you know that the Key & Peele sketch " Substitute Teacher " was analyzed for its racial commentary and educational insight?
text: Did you know that the musician Bou went from being fired from an IT apprenticeship for producing beats during company time to having songs rank on the UK Singles Chart ?
text: Did you know that the Indian director Manhar Raskapur 's films Mulu Manek and Kadu Makrani were both remade during the 1970s?
text: Did you know that Ged Kearney represented Batman in the Parliament of Australia from 2018 to 2019?
text: Did you know that the pastor John Littlejohn went from selling pornographic literature to sailors as a youth to protecting the Declaration of Independence?
text: Did you know that the restaurant CosMc's is named after a character from McDonaldland ?
text: Did you know that Nivelon de Quierzy claimed to have brought the staff of Moses to France?
text: Did you know that Misti is one of the most dangerous volcanoes in the world?
text: Did you know that Hoàng Thị Minh Hồng 's environmental activism inspired Barack Obama ?
text: Did you know that The Story Teller by Amrita Sher-Gil , depicting a group of Indian village women performing ordinary tasks, fetched US$7.45 million at auction in 2023?
text: Did you know that the Antarctic lichen Buellia frigida has been to outer space?
text: Did you know that the British Tychon missile was developed from a Barnes Wallis concept to keep strike aircraft safe while dropping nuclear bombs ?
text: Did you know that voice actress Yurie Igoma considers Mickey Mouse to be her mentor?
text: Did you know that in the documentary Transition , Jordan Bryon says he finds Taliban fighters "lovely"?
text: Did you know that Emelia Quinn argues that "monstrous vegans" have recurred in literature since Mary Shelley 's Frankenstein ?
text: Did you know that as a result of the Witch Fire almost 1 million people had to evacuate Southern California ?
text: Did you know that in Liber ad amicum , Bonizo of Sutri endorses violence against heretics ?
text: Did you know that orange paintbrushes are guarded by rufous hummingbirds ?
text: Did you know that the banker Charles Merlin played a major role in the trafficking of antiquities between Greece and London in the 19th century?
text: Did you know that The Oxford Guide to the Book of Common Prayer: A Worldwide Survey made historian Alec Ryrie suspect "there is such a thing as ' Anglicanism ' after all"?
text: Did you know that Civana Kuhlmann overcame four surgeries during her college soccer career to make her professional debut in 2023?
text: Did you know that the Apollo Lunar Surface Magnetometer experiments confirmed the existence of permanent magnetic fields on the surface of the Moon?
text: Did you know that writer Ed Brubaker earned more from the residuals for his cameo appearance in the film Captain America: The Winter Soldier than he did for his comic from which the film was adapted ?
text: Did you know that Tjarda Struik is the Netherlands' first female mayor to be nearly blind, and a TikTok influencer?
text: Did you know that stinking tutsan smells like goat?
text: Did you know that NFL head coach Herb Dell also officiated games of the team he coached?
text: Did you know that Nizza in central Frankfurt is one of the largest gardens of Mediterranean plants north of the Alps , thanks to its very warm microclimate ?
text: Did you know that T. K. Jones thought that a nuclear war was survivable if "there are enough shovels to go around"?
text: Did you know that 19.99 was intended to be a serious Jewish hip hop album, but reviewers largely treated it as parody?
text: Did you know that Vera Chok asked producers to place a rice cooker in the set of the home of her character, Honour Chen-Williams ?
text: Did you know that in his memoir This Boy's Life , Tobias Wolff writes about his childhood misdeeds including stealing and forging checks?
text: Did you know that a journalist created a game about the Syrian civil war after observing that Miley Cyrus got more clicks than the war?
text: Did you know that despite not owning a road bike the year before, Nickolas Zukowsky placed third in the 2016 Canadian National Junior Road Race Championships ?
text: Did you know that rural Afghans keep fresh grapes in mud ?
text: Did you know that the New York Post called Paige Lorenze the "female Pete Davidson "?
text: Did you know that Crystal Dynamics was the first developer for the PlayStation outside Japan?
text: Did you know that Walter A. Groves received a job offer from Centre College by telegram around the same time that he was forced to leave his work as a missionary in Iran due to the country being invaded ?
text: Did you know that despite being rivals since 1977 , the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Green Bay Packers have only played each other twice in the playoffs, with each team winning once?
text: Did you know that Jimmy Fallon and Meghan Trainor wrote their song " Wrap Me Up " over FaceTime, during which she described being "so nervous [her] heart was in [her] ass"?
text: Did you know that in a village in Wales, hares were traditionally nicknamed " St Monacella 's lambs"?
text: Did you know that Yurie Funato , a voice actress and former singer, was bullied in high school for her high-pitched voice?
text: Did you know that the Fitzgerald Hoard included sealed treasury bags of silver dollars, casino chips, and other casino related merchandise?
text: Did you know that former International Brigades doctor Walter Fischer managed the Austrian broadcasts of Radio Moscow during World War II?
text: Did you know that in 1964, Illinoisans cast more than 500 million votes in one election ?
text: Did you know that Mike Shenk once constructed an entire crossword puzzle by hand in an hour?
text: Did you know that Foodbank Canterbury receives products from a prison?
text: Did you know that Geoffrey Holt , an unassuming New Hampshire man who worked as a groundskeeper in a mobile home park where he resided, left $3.8 million to his small town after his death?
text: Did you know that young orange-billed lorikeets are actually yellow-billed?
text: Did you know that the San Gregorio Fault comes ashore in only two places in northern California, one of which is between Pillar Point Bluff and Moss Beach?
text: Did you know that before embarking on a music career, Matilda Cole appeared in three of her father 's films?
text: Did you know that the Ngwa people are the largest clan in Igboland ?
text: Did you know that each station in the TVX Broadcast Group had exactly 37 employees?
text: Did you know that one of the founders of a public TV station in California gave 92 speeches in 90 days during a fundraising drive?
text: Did you know that Isabella Correa was one of the few Jewish women poets active in the Netherlands before the 19th century?
text: Did you know that in his Liber Gratissimus , Peter Damian argues that simony is a sin worse than adultery or murder?
text: Did you know that Michael Collins has been called  "one of the best clarinettists walking the planet" by The Times ?
text: Did you know that in Hyprov , off-Broadway audience members perform improv after undergoing stage hypnosis ?
text: Did you know that Swiss-born peace activist Henriette Ith chose to marry an anarchist to regain Swiss citizenship?
text: Did you know that The Lit. Bar was funded to "Bring a Goddamn Bookstore to the Bronx"?
text: Did you know that Kantibhai Patel is a National Hero of Zimbabwe ?
text: Did you know that Al-Rantisi Hospital can extract drinking water from air?
text: Did you know that Molly Burman resumed releasing music three years later after finding that "Happy Things" had accrued a million streams on Spotify ?
text: Did you know that it is debated whether or not Nephites used minted coins ?
text: Did you know that a year after becoming the first woman president of the Canadian Political Science Association , Caroline Andrew moderated the first Canadian leaders' debate on women's issues ?
text: Did you know that War Against Smallpox describes how Edward Jenner 's vaccination technique spread across Europe during the Napoleonic Wars?
text: Did you know that DOM clobbering attacks can take over your website?
text: Did you know that unlike other armories in New York City, the 69th Regiment Armory was designed in the Beaux-Arts style because its architect did not want it to look like a "mediaeval castle"?
text: Did you know that Tsvetana Jermanova survived imprisonment in two forced labour camps in communist Bulgaria ?
text: Did you know that in the 2009 documentary concert special Roots to Riches , Regine Velasquez reunited and performed with her former talent show rival Eva Castillo ?
text: Did you know that Hannah Davis authored highly cited articles on long COVID while battling the disease herself?
text: Did you know that police were stationed on the new Kansas Avenue Bridge to prevent streetcar rails from being laid down?
text: Did you know that Jerónimo Saavedra was the first openly gay politician to serve in several high public offices in Spain?
text: Did you know that New Zealand's Lemon & Te Aroha was created 19 years before the similarly named and more famous Lemon & Paeroa ?
text: Did you know that Wawa Airport 's first commercial flights began three weeks before it officially opened?
text: Did you know that after starting the first game of the 2023 NFL season , Jordan Love became only the third quarterback since 1993 to start Week 1 for the Green Bay Packers , following Brett Favre and Aaron Rodgers ?
text: Did you know that the position of the volcano Lautaro was only clarified thanks to aerial imagery?
text: Did you know that British child artist Noah created the backgrounds for paintings by worldwide celebrities including Ed Sheeran ?
text: Did you know that there have been ongoing conflicts for decades about whether Sugarbush Hill is the highest point in Wisconsin?
text: Did you know that country musician Kristian Bush celebrated his 52nd birthday by releasing 52 songs in the span of one year ?
text: Did you know that Annie Rauwerda 's stew cooked for more than 60 days and had around 300 contributors?
text: Did you know that Father Marceli Godlewski , known for his pre-war anti-Semitic activities, helped save the lives of hundreds of Jews held in the Warsaw Ghetto during the German occupation of Poland ?
text: Did you know that a reception was held for civic leaders of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico , to promote a forthcoming TV station that never launched?
text: Did you know that the scholar Mathias Nordvig argues that Norse mythology contains many implicit references to Icelandic volcanoes?
text: Did you know that when a state highway between Beegum and Peanut was vetoed, a newspaper accused their residents of lacking imagination?
text: Did you know that Raymond Bushland and Edward F. Knipling won the 1992 World Food Prize for developing the sterile insect technique which eliminated parasitic screw-worms from the United States?
text: Did you know that HMS Trent helped keep the Dutch in port by sending bogus signals to a non-existent fleet?
text: Did you know that a design for the New Zealand florin was criticized as looking like a violently defecating kiwi?
text: Did you know that The Math Myth advocates for American high schools to stop requiring advanced algebra?
text: Did you know that Japanese costume designer Satomi Ito has created costumes for figure skating , artistic and rhythmic gymnastics , equestrian vaulting , ballet , and ballroom dance ?
text: Did you know that a founder of a New Zealand ice cream company was previously an investment banker?
text: Did you know that Canadian singer Tate McRae is a trained ballet dancer and started her musical career by accident?
text: Did you know that Turkish international  soccer player Rojin Polat was named member of the "2021 All Schools Merit Girls Team" in New South Wales , Australia?
text: Did you know that the Bishop of Brooklyn was "appalled" that the music video for " Feather ", in which Sabrina Carpenter kills several men, was filmed in a church?
text: Did you know that Zavodovski Island stinks?
text: Did you know that a TV station in North Carolina changed its call letters in memory of its general sales manager, who was shot dead in an incident at its studios?
text: Did you know that little has been known of the exact whereabouts of Iranian communist leader Ashraf Dehghani since she escaped prison in 1973?
text: Did you know that the contestants on Jet Lag: The Game played a game of capture the flag that spanned the entirety of Japan?
text: Did you know that Daniel McCaffery campaigned on protecting abortion rights in the 2023 Pennsylvania Supreme Court election , even though judicial candidates typically avoid commenting on specific issues?
text: Did you know that the Chinese government began compiling an official history of the Qing dynasty in 2002, but as of 2023 a protracted political review is forestalling its publication?
text: Did you know that a Nebraska radio station chartered an aircraft to search for motorists stranded after a blizzard?
text: Did you know that the wrestler Brillante Jr. is the younger cousin of the wrestler Brillante Jr. ?
text: Did you know that the 16th-century In the Village of Guaraparim , written by a Catholic saint in a now-dead American language , features a character speaking "in a way that resembles the characters of Aristophanes "?
text: Did you know that Femke Bol broke the 41-year-old indoor world record for the 400 metres with a time of 49.26 seconds in 2023?
text: Did you know that Desulfovibrio vulgaris can remove toxic heavy metals from the environment?
text: Did you know that graffiti artist Al Diaz cuts up New York metro signs and reconfigures the letters into his own text?
text: Did you know that the initial lyrics to " Shukusei!! Loli Kami Requiem " were "as painful as hitting someone with concrete"?
text: Did you know that the New Orleans Saints went their first 20 seasons without a winning season ?
text: Did you know  that five peregrine falcon chicks were released from the roof of an office building in Virginia in an unsuccessful attempt to combat an overpopulation of pigeons?
text: Did you know that 32 former members of the city council of Bogor , Indonesia, were convicted of corruption in 2010, including 3 who were still serving?
text: Did you know that Lincoln Fitzgerald survived a 1949 murder attempt and went on to run three Nevada casinos?
text: Did you know that by digging a trench through Hisarlik , Heinrich Schliemann destroyed parts of the ruins of Troy ?
text: Did you know that the International Fire Marshals Association is partly responsible for the ban on fireworks in some U.S. states?
text: Did you know that Trần Lập was involved in Vietnam's first internet copyright lawsuit?
text: Did you know that the 1982 book Bitter Legacy by historian Richard C. Lukas describes how in the early Cold War years America lost influence over Poland, which became a part of the Soviet empire ?
text: Did you know that Andrea Carla Michaels , who has written more than 80 crosswords for The New York Times , is known as the "Pizza Lady" in San Francisco?
text: Did you know that Anthony Bennett is part of a football family, with his father , uncle , cousin , and older brother all playing professionally?
text: Did you know that Che Guevara was almost killed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo during Operation South ?
text: Did you know that Lore Maria Peschel-Gutzeit once advocated for a "right to vote from birth"?
text: Did you know that a train runs along the roof at Miami International Airport ?
text: Did you know that Ding Xuesong was the first female ambassador of the People's Republic of China?
text: Did you know that actress Louise Franklin replaced the main dancing role in 1945's Pillow to Post after Dorothy Dandridge was injured in a car accident?
text: Did you know that history sniffing has been used to track Papa John's customers?
text: Did you know that Lepas testudinata can form colonies of more than 1000 members at a time?
text: Did you know that Patti Smith posed for a racy photograph in Michael Goldstein 's rooftop wading pool?
text: Did you know that Palestinian hikaye is a unique form of folk culture performed by older women in winter?
text: Did you know that tennis player Arthur Ashe only realized that his doubles partner Larry Nagler was Jewish when he was invited to Nagler's home for lox and bagels?
text: Did you know that the gecko Teratoscincus roborowskii eats caper fruits and disperses the plant's seeds in its feces?
text: Did you know that at the end of her Weekends with Adele shows, Adele vanishes?
text: Did you know that Henk Zwartepoorte quacked at caimans ?
text: Did you know that when Bob and Dave Barney won multiple intramural swimming races, their university recruiter reportedly did not realize they were twins?
text: Did you know that the broadcast of the 8th Session of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Serbia was manipulated to remove or delay speeches critical of Slobodan Milošević ?
text: Did you know that during World War II, Leonard K. Carson led an air combat school within his fighter unit, called "Clobber College"?
text: Did you know that a Hawaii TV station 's switch from Japanese-language programming to home shopping stirred viewer outcry?
text: Did you know that in 2023, Tshering Tshomo was the only woman elected to serve in the National Council of Bhutan ?
text: Did you know that according to local legend, the St. Nicholas Church in Dubliany, Rivne Oblast , was built there by accident following a clerical error?
text: Did you know that NYPD officers stabbed and stomped on Barney the Dinosaur to cheers from a massive crowd?
text: Did you know that fridges filled with "frozen duck" sent to Britain actually contained illegal coins ?
text: Did you know that Steve Englehart wrote the Captain America comic book storyline " Secret Empire " as an allegory for the Watergate scandal ?
text: Did you know that the Uganda Muslim Supreme Council became the richest landlord in Uganda after inheriting land left behind by Asian Muslims expelled under Idi Amin ?
text: Did you know that a downed power line caused a fire spanning more than 100 acres (40 ha) during a November 2013 North American storm ?
text: Did you know that white moths are suspected to cause seasonal hyperacute panuveitis in Nepal?
text: Did you know that the developers of Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number suggested that Australian customers pirate their game?
text: Did you know that " National Stupid Day " was not intended to be on Veterans Day?
text: Did you know that Brother Jonathan by John Neal has been considered the longest work of early American fiction?
text: Did you know that 24-year-old Mahasweta Chakraborty of Operation Ganga helped around 800 students return to India during the Russian invasion of Ukraine ?
text: Did you know that a "bat ensnared by a plant" was discovered in the garden of the Palestine Museum of Natural History ?
text: Did you know that Ron Monaco , described as the "longest of long shots", became a starter in the NFL having been just a backup in college?
text: Did you know that Herky and Timmy's Racing Coaster is the first roller coaster in South Korea to go backwards?
text: Did you know that Julie Cliff revealed that an outbreak of konzo in Mozambique was caused by cyanide in insufficiently processed cassava ?
text: Did you know that a Florida TV station was late to its first broadcast because an engineer overslept?
text: Did you know that Frederick E. Olmsted was instrumental in the creation of nineteen national forests and the Muir Woods National Monument in California?
text: Did you know that South Korea has censored military-affiliated golf courses ?
text: Did you know that as Malaysian prime minister, Mahathir Mohamad called the outcomes of the 1992 Earth Summit "eco-imperialism"?
text: Did you know that Ursula K. Le Guin 's short story " The Day Before the Revolution ", which won Nebula and Locus Awards in 1975, was praised for its depiction of a "revolutionary icon as a curmudgeonly old woman"?
text: Did you know that Mexican musician Christian Nodal was the first artist to have a regional Mexican song enter the Billboard Hot 100?
text: Did you know that Angelito de Canal 13 , the mascot of the Chilean television network Canal 13 , was inspired by its creator's son?
text: Did you know that football player Jeff Allen had an "ability to scramble through small holes" that earned him the nickname "Rat"?