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Did you know that soldiers participating in an Israeli raid in Masyaf described an explosion that destroyed a missile production facility as "a mini earthquake"?
Did you know that The Scarecrow , considered the first collection of Chinese fairy tales, has parallels with the works of Andersen , Pushkin , and Wilde ?
Did you know that the ceiling of the Langar Mosque resembles that of a Buddhist chaitya ?
Did you know that Adam and John were the only Latin bishops of Banias who lived in Banias ?
Did you know that the Japanese song " Summertime " gained traction after it became popular in Southeast Asia two years after its first release?
Did you know that the Green Bay Packers ' ninth home victory in a row against the Seattle Seahawks was in the 2019 NFC Divisional playoff game ?
Did you know that a profile of artist Mark Hearld said his "wrens and squirrels, field mice and owls" help a child care about the planet better than telling them it is burning?
Did you know that the NFL listed the 4th and 26 game as one of the greatest in the first 100 years of its history?
Did you know that the Yiddish poet David Einhorn levelled criticism at other Jewish writers in Berlin whom he accused of being "bourgeois intellectuals" and out-of-touch with their fellow migrants?
Did you know that the Kokusai Ta-Go aircraft was purposely designed for the kamikaze role?
Did you know that LGBTQ synagogues helped shape the American Jewish response to AIDS in the 1980s, even as the disease killed many of their members?
Did you know that Ali-Hajji of Akusha supported the Bolsheviks because he believed that they would implement sharia ?
Did you know that the health of prisoners in Australia is impacted by their lack of access to Medicare , the country's otherwise- universal health care system?
Did you know that during hearings for a new TV station in the state of Washington , an engineer collapsed on the witness stand, a radio station owner suffered food poisoning, and his rival's wife was hospitalized?
Did you know that Mark IV was the first commercial software to cross $10 million in total sales, and the first to cross $100 million as well?
Did you know that lukken , a traditional dessert waffle from West Flanders , gets its name from the Dutch word for 'luck'?
Did you know that Rickey Henderson was the first American League baseball player to join the 20–50 club ?
Did you know that Shloyme Bastomski reestablished the first children's periodical published in Yiddish after it was discontinued due to World War I?
Did you know that " Pantropiko " made Bini the first P-pop group to top the Billboard Philippines Songs chart?
Did you know that the Ruthenian Catholic bishop Artur Bubnevych earned a degree in Gaming ?
Did you know that Joe Biden has cited Wilmington, Delaware , and Syracuse, New York , as possible locations for the Joseph R. Biden Jr. Presidential Library ?
Did you know that Science Fiction Literature Through History: An Encyclopedia contains entries on topics not typically associated with science fiction, such as William Shakespeare and the Odyssey ?
Did you know that Mirza Muhammad Amin Shahristani served in the royal courts of the Golconda Sultanate , Safavid Iran , and the Mughal Empire ?
Did you know that one writer criticized the College Football Playoff system before its first edition had even begun?
Did you know that the Nicaraguan nun Dorotea Wilson joined a guerrilla group, renounced her vows, and became a women's rights activist and politician?
Did you know that a U.S. government official ordered that " It Was on a Friday Morning " be removed from a hymnal within 24 hours?
Did you know that after the failure of the Tiepolo conspiracy of 1310, the houses of the chief conspirators were torn down, and their families were forced to change their coats of arms?
Did you know that Coscinodon lawianus is one of only two species of moss only found in continental Antarctica?
Did you know that LGBTQ activist Alexey Davydov became the first person to be charged with violating Russia's 2013 anti-gay law after he displayed a sign that read "being gay is normal" at a children's library?
Did you know that stars have been depicted in fiction since the 1600s as locations that can be visited?
Did you know that three women spent 80 hours chained together in a mine to protest its closure?
Did you know that Joseph Hirkala initially declined to run for reelection to the New Jersey Senate in 1987 due to poor health, but entered the race 38 days before his death?
Did you know that a long-legged lovebird lived in humanity's cradle ?
Did you know that Bao Tianxiao received an award for best original work for his translation of an Italian novel?
Did you know that the lyrics of So Medieval are "like an audiobook during a car crash"?
Did you know that Tan Gee Paw was presented with a solid gold medal by Lee Kuan Yew for helping to clean up Singapore's waterways?
Did you know that a " mystery eruption " cooled the Northern Hemisphere in 1453 ?
Did you know that Lily Phillips had sex with 101 men on 19 October 2024?
Did you know that a group of 25 women disfigured by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima traveled to the United States in the 1950s to receive reconstructive surgery?
Did you know that Mary Sheffield is the youngest elected member and the youngest president in the Detroit City Council's history?
Did you know that fans speculated that Charli XCX wrote " Sympathy Is a Knife " about Taylor Swift and her relationship with Matty Healy?
Did you know that the capture of the crusader Bertrand of Toulouse by Muslims was blamed by an anonymous monk on the "treachery" of Queen Melisende and Countess Hodierna ?
Did you know that the Chinook Indian Nation became a federally recognized tribe in 2001, but had its status revoked the following year?
Did you know that Liang Sishun published an anthology of Chinese poetry in 1908, when she was about fifteen years old?
Did you know that Eoscorpius , despite living hundreds of millions of years ago, has been noted for its similarity to modern scorpions?
Did you know that a Greek academic compared the Frankish Tower in Athens with the droppings of birds of prey?
Did you know that Alabama and Clemson played each other in the championship game of the second and third College Football Playoffs ?
Did you know that an irreverent photograph of Czechoslovak president Klement Gottwald brought a ten-year sentence for the photojournalist Jindřich Marco , who had to serve seven years in uranium mines?
Did you know that despite having built a cathedral , Bishop Joseph Crétin said that his diocese did not have one?
Did you know that Jerónimo Muñoz 's mastery of Hebrew purportedly caused Jews to assert that Muñoz was himself a Jew?
Did you know that an Oregon radio station stayed on the air through a major windstorm even though a tree fell into its studios?
Did you know that Lee Kuan Yew stated that "there would have been no clean and green Singapore without Lee Ek Tieng "?
Did you know that the 1827 novel A Voyage to the Moon contains the first use of anti-gravity for space travel in science fiction?
Did you know that a wardrobe malfunction at the Eurovision Song Contest 1985 was staged because the host wanted the audience "to wake up a little"?
Did you know that the floor plans of East Kangqiao station included a COVID-19 testing booth near one of its exits?
Did you know that college football player Jack Browning was named All– Mountain West Conference at three different positions in 2022?
Did you know that the New Zealand goose Thomas has been described as an "icon of the LGBT community"?
Did you know that the sole survivor of the Caffey family murders escaped the burning building and crawled for more than an hour to a neighbor's house?
Did you know that film director Orlando Bagwell initially thought that he would enter a career in medicine?
Did you know that BBC One initially passed on Line of Duty , whose finale would become its highest-rated drama in 19 years?
Did you know that Amit Mekel served in Cairo, São Paulo, Brussels and Los Angeles, before becoming the Israeli ambassador to Paraguay ?
Did you know that Blue Bendy have been compared to both pavement and Pavement ?
Did you know that the T24 Festival was organized after a former soldier boasted online that he could set up a 24-person military tent by himself?
Did you know that the organ console at the Loew's Jersey Theatre was originally installed at another theater by mistake?
Did you know that The Hangover by Toulouse-Lautrec, which features the stylistic influence of Vincent van Gogh, was once displayed by Aristide Bruant in his nightclub?
Did you know that there were "jubilant" cheers from the courtroom audience when three students were acquitted of the murder of Fernando Rios ?
Did you know that the discontinuation of a Warsaw-based Yiddish literary journal in the summer of 1939 was unrelated to the invasion of Poland ?
Did you know that Olympic gold medalist Lao Lishi was one of eight bell-ringers for the Alibaba Group 's listing on the New York Stock Exchange ?
Did you know that according to the Mercurius Aulicus , 400 soldiers were routed by six officers and a boy during the English Civil War?
Did you know that only two people are known to have seen Du Toit's torrent frog alive?
Did you know that Jeanne Trevor 's name was misspelled on the cover of her first album?
Did you know that the Sitaleshwar Temple remained a place of worship even when it was in ruins?
Did you know that the comet C/1975 T2 (Suzuki–Saigusa–Mori) was independently discovered by five observers within the span of half an hour?
Did you know that viewers of an Indiana TV station 's newscast in 1995 could send emails to the presenter live on air?
Did you know that the diary of Erich Lassota von Steblau is an important primary source on the 16th-century Zaporozhian Cossacks of Ukraine?
Did you know that nearly half of the wins achieved in 2024 by the San Jose State Spartans women's volleyball team were by forfeit?
Did you know that 1,10-decanediol could potentially hamper the production of nitrite in soil?
Did you know that Doug Hamlin vowed to recruit more women and minorities to the National Rifle Association ?
Did you know that the upcoming Seattle Sounders FC season includes a tournament for which they qualified in 2022?
Did you know that the 1999–2001 Liechtenstein financial crisis caused the country to be blacklisted by the Financial Action Task Force ?
Did you know that the Vĩnh Điện River was used to transport sugar and cinnamon for international export in the 1840s?
Did you know that after seeing a film at the United Palace , the televangelist Reverend Ike asked to buy the theater so he could move in the next day?
Did you know that the staff of Sergiyev Posad-6 were banned from using libraries in Moscow?
Did you know that the music video of " Speed Me Up " was described as "incredibly dumb" and a "cornucopia of hilarious imagery"?
Did you know that the collapse of the Aboriginal Community Benefit Fund left 14,500 customers A$ 66 million out of pocket?
Did you know that a labor union sued a Seattle TV station over a newscast aired on another station ?
Did you know that Arthur Swanstrom co-wrote the lyrics to "the first Off-Broadway musical to gain wide recognition in New York"?
Did you know that a popular romantic pairing from Doctor Who was later adapted into the show at the suggestion of lead actress Jodie Whittaker ?
Did you know that shipwreck hunter Noel Hilliam claimed to have found a sunken U-boat off the coast of New Zealand?
Did you know that lead actor Ian Chan also composed, arranged, and performed the interlude for Last Song for You ?
Did you know that in the 2019 NFC Championship Game , Raheem Mostert became the first person to rush for more than 200 yards and score four touchdowns in an NFL playoff game?
Did you know that Ana María Ochoa was born in Colombia, studied in British Columbia, and taught at Columbia?
Did you know that Bob Fernandez , one of the last known survivors of the attack on Pearl Harbor , was then just 17 years old and serving as a Navy mess cook?
Did you know that the city of al-Suqaylabiyah was founded in the 19th century by Christian villagers from the Hauran and the Syrian coastal mountains ?
Did you know that Oscar Goodman was the tournament MVP for the first New Zealand under-17 basketball team to reach the FIBA Under-16 Asia Cup championship game?
Did you know that William , a medieval bishop of Acre, "met a strange and undeserved fate" at the hands of a mentally ill young priest?
Did you know that the music video for " Step by Step " stars a 12-year-old professional skateboarder ?
Did you know that Ryusei Nishioka broke the world record difficulty score in trampoline gymnastics by performing seven triple somersaults ?
Did you know that Disney+ released a promotional poster for the Doctor Who Christmas special " Joy to the World " with the title spelled incorrectly?
Did you know that the illustrated manuscript Tarif-i Husain Shahi contains a rare depiction of a queen in Islamic art ?
Did you know that a bulldog from New Zealand was trained to locate wounded soldiers on the battlefields of the Western Front in World War I and guide them back to safety?
Did you know that the first biography of the first Japanese woman to earn a college degree was written by her great-granddaughter, who also studied abroad in the U.S.?
Did you know that the serial killer Raul Meza Jr. , when asked if he was apologetic, replied: "What's the use if a person will not accept it?"
Did you know that after a retabulation showed an overtime was needed, Ateneo put its 1930 NCAA basketball championship round game against UST under protest as one of the two referees already left?
Did you know that Robert Yelverton Tyrrell became a professor of classics despite spending only six weeks at secondary school?
Did you know that the limited study of the Afghani plants Aquilegia gracillima , A. maimanica , and A. microcentra has been blamed on political circumstances?
Did you know that Pixel Piracy 's developers released a free torrent of their game?
Did you know that Gracie Abrams wrote Good Riddance about her breakup from her former collaborator and boyfriend, Blake Slatkin ?
Did you know that Wu Zhong was recognized as the youngest general in the Chinese People's Liberation Army after the first holder was stripped of the title following his emigration to the Soviet Union ?
Did you know that the 1926 film Lonely Orchid was adapted from a British novel via a Chinese translation of a Japanese translation?
Did you know that South Korean sources reported in January 2024 that several thousand North Korean migrant workers occupied a factory and took hostages ?
Did you know that World War II nurse Ethel Lote practised yoga and tai chi until she was 95?
Did you know that " Prius Missile " is internet slang for traffic accidents involving older drivers in Japan?
Did you know that the dance drama Rain of Flowers Along the Silk Road used movements inspired by cave paintings?
Did you know that Sher Machado created a League of Legends tournament exclusively for transgender people?
Did you know that Capote Falls is the highest waterfall in Texas, and the only location where Hinckley's columbine occurs in the wild?
Did you know that the Legend of Aphroditian identifies the Greek goddess Hera with the Virgin Mary ?
Did you know that a bishop complained to the pope that Princess Alice of Antioch refused to share her raiding spoils with him?
Did you know that streets in a neighborhood in Mexico were renamed after concepts and projects associated with Andrés Manuel López Obrador ?
Did you know that state representative Karl Bohnak , referring to his former profession, said that the Upper Peninsula of Michigan was one of the most challenging places in the U.S. to forecast the weather?
Did you know that Efrim Menuck , the guitarist of Godspeed You! Black Emperor , likened the composition of Lift Your Skinny Fists like Antennas to Heaven to film editing ?
Did you know that all sporting events in Djibouti were banned for three days after the death of Abdoulkader Waberi Askar ?
Did you know that the 1925 Tri-State tornado was the deadliest in United States history?
Did you know that Annilese Miskimmon directed a choose-your-own-ending production of Mozart's Così fan tutte ?
Did you know that more than 60 student athletes were involved in an academic dishonesty scandal at Florida State University between 2006 and 2007?
Did you know that Malik Ambersley escaped homelessness by making TikTok Live content in which he pretended to be a non-player character version of the superhero Miles Morales ?
Did you know that Polish prisoners of war in World War II were held not only by Nazi Germany but also by the Soviet Union?
Did you know that the death of child monarch Kerekorio Manu Rangi in 1867 ended the ancient dynasty of Easter Island , which according to local belief "went back to the gods themselves"?
Did you know that a widespread violin performance scam was described by radio host Scott Simon as "one more raindrop in the storm of schemes that blur our view of what's right in front of us"?
Did you know that William van Praagh pioneered the lip-reading method for the education of the deaf in England?
Did you know that players of the simulation video game Overcrowd: A Commute 'Em Up need to manage everything from the construction of train stations to dumping trash cans?
Did you know that Jennifer Reid at first could not find a Canadian publisher for her book on Canadian identity ?
Did you know that the 1975 French jazz-funk album Troupeau Bleu has been sampled by hip-hop artists at least 142 times since the 1990s?
Did you know that a viral image called for global attention to the humanitarian crisis following the Tel al-Sultan attack ?
Did you know that Patrick Pillay negotiated Seychelles' re-entry into the Southern African Development Community with a reduced membership fee?
Did you know that Susan Twist portrayed seven different roles in the eight episodes of Doctor Who 's fourteenth series ?
Did you know that Allen DeGraffenreid , who played in the NFL in the 1990s, is not to be confused with Allen DeGraffenreid , who played in the NFL in the 1990s?
Did you know that brickmason Donum Montford likely purchased his own freedom from slavery and became a prominent slave-owner?
Did you know that Brazil's Ministry of Education threatened legal action against the Portuguese Wikipedia over the article for its minister ?
Did you know that a Japanese man raised more than 1,000 Korean orphans during the Japanese occupation of Korea ?
Did you know that although over half a million troy ounces of gold have been mined from Valdez Creek , surveys suggest that more is likely undiscovered?
Did you know that Katerina Clark wrote "a brave and intelligent study of the Soviet novel"?
Did you know that during Frank Ocean 's performance of " Close to You " at FYF Fest in 2017, giant screens live-streamed Brad Pitt acting out a phone conversation backstage?
Did you know that Aon v Australian National University overturned a precedent that encouraged litigation-prolonging amendments to pleadings?
Did you know that vehicles in Star Trucker still look like American semi-trucks from the 1970s, despite having technology such as warp drivers and maglocks ?
Did you know that a Saturday Night Live sketch received an award from the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)?
Did you know that Darryl De Sousa created a Baltimore Police Department unit to give lie detector tests to other units?
Did you know that the reliefs on the walls of the Dhumnath Temple depict erotic poses from the Kama Sutra ?
Did you know that general Zhao Chongguo 's appointment to manage parklands incidentally gave him control over the Han dynasty 's coinage production?
Did you know that an Australian crocodile named Burt starred in Crocodile Dundee ?
Did you know that Governor of Svalbard Håkon Balstad was described as a "roaring bull of a man with a fabulous capacity for raw liquor"?
Did you know that before specializing in bagpipe making, Roddy MacLellan helped create one of the trophies used at the Super Bowl ?
Did you know that the first draft pick in New England Patriots ' history, Gerhard Schwedes , was born in Nazi Germany?
Did you know that an ancient Egyptian pet cemetery included a Rüppell's fox , a Barbary falcon , and over 500 cats?
Did you know that a species of Australian ant has special workers that make honey, and is considered a delicacy by Aboriginal Australians ?
Did you know that Armand Ceritano acquired a Philadelphia hotel for "a smile and a handshake" – and $20, borrowed from others?
Did you know that in the Orphic Hymns the mythical Greek hero Heracles is a sun god ?
Did you know that Clay Stevenson has his nickname, "Mud", written on the front of his mask, and a Star of Life on the back?
Did you know that a volunteer quipped of a Colorado TV station : "We broadcast to more ears of corn and heads of cattle than any other station"?
Did you know that a Bangladeshi diplomatic mission in India was attacked by Hindu extremists protesting the arrest of a Hindu monk ?
Did you know that a portrait of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec cooking captures him in an unusual moment of sobriety?
Did you know that the Lisdoonvarna Music Festival was described as Ireland's version of the Woodstock music festival?
Did you know that Japanese-American activist Yuri Kochiyama converted to Islam in 1971?
Did you know that in 1968, ADR 's Autoflow flowchart software became the first program to receive a software patent in the United States?
Did you know that the tomb of the 15th-century Okinawan king Shō Hashi was destroyed during World War II?
Did you know that the Wilson Warbirds were nearly named the "Wilson Whirligigs" after the folk artist Vollis Simpson 's whirligig sculptures in the town?
Did you know that Archbishop John Roach received a standing ovation for admitting his alcoholism?
Did you know that the Yogini with a Mynah Bird has the attributes of an ascetic as well as a princess?
Did you know that artist Dan Hays uses what he calls "the tactile, flawed and time-consuming medium of painting" to reproduce the effect of a low-resolution JPEG ?
Did you know that the owner of a South Carolina TV station admitted, "I'm not a broadcaster"?
Did you know that after serving as Malawi's first speaker of the assembly following independence, Alec Nyasulu was a tobacco farmer?
Did you know that the "white rose" in The Valiant Girl White Rose refers to both its star and character, but neither share a name?
Did you know that in 1860, engineer Andreas Kordellas helped restart operations at an ancient Athenian mine ?
Did you know that in " Skin of My Teeth ", Demi Lovato declared that she barely escaped death?
Did you know that for some time the penguin Happy Feet got more media attention than New Zealand Prime Minister John Key ?
Did you know that the CEO of the London Stock Exchange described insider dealing as "the poster child of market abuse"?
Did you know that the Praga E-55 was abandoned due to the Czech aircraft industry being directed to concentrate on licensed production of Soviet aircraft?
Did you know that pianist BLKBOK has composed works based on the murder of George Floyd , the Little Rock Nine , and The Negro Motorist Green Book ?
Did you know that for television, James Mustapic set his mother up on a date with David Seymour , who will soon be the New Zealand deputy prime minister?
Did you know that debris fallout from a violent 2011 tornado included a photograph found 353 km (219 mi) downstream from its origin?
Did you know that John A. Tibbits and his law firm partner served as consecutive U.S. consuls to Bradford , England?
Did you know that the Chinese theatre dance known as wuju blends influences of ballet and traditional opera?
Did you know that a hockey line named after That '70s Show helped the Los Angeles Kings win their second Stanley Cup?
Did you know that specimens of Aquilegia daingolica were collected in 1906 and 1909, but it was first described as a new species in 2013?
Did you know that Yanou Collart helped Rock Hudson get medical treatment when Nancy Reagan would not?