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Did you know that at the 2024 Democratic National Convention , vice presidential nominee Tim Walz was booed for visiting the "wrong" Pennsylvanian gas station chain ?
Did you know that Eunus , a Syrian slave and reputed prophet, led a slave revolt in Sicily against the Roman Republic?
Did you know that China was once the " Kingdom of Bicycles "?
Did you know that Alan Rosen once sold 2,400 cheesecakes in four minutes to television shoppers?
Did you know that Checheyigen 's political acumen ensured that her family became one of the most powerful in the Mongol Empire ?
Did you know that the Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies houses a John Steinbeck archive of more than 50,000 items?
Did you know that " Buy Cash " is the speaker of the House of Assembly of Eswatini ?
Did you know that Jeya Wilson invited New Zealand prime minister David Lange to debate the moral indefensibility of nuclear weapons at the Oxford Union ?
Did you know that the music producer of Barney & Friends considered it ludicrous that its theme song was used in torture at Guantanamo Bay ?
Did you know that the Xinwen Bao was first published during the Lunar New Year to take advantage of its competitors being on hiatus?
Did you know that psychologist Sonya Friedman recommends that women create a totem, a collection of objects that represent important turning points in their lives?
Did you know that the FCC canceled a permit to build a Florida TV station , finding that "the most prominent facility completed within the studio building appears to be a toilet"?
Did you know that a renovation of 240 Centre Street was delayed by several months because a street map was incorrect?
Did you know that with the exception of one day in 1941, the Kaunas Carillon stopped playing music for sixteen years due to the Soviet and German occupations of Lithuania ?
Did you know that Northern Cypriot minister of health İzlem Gürçağ Altuğra warned that her country would be destroyed unless it started producing drugs?
Did you know that the barracks at the Xifeng concentration camp were named for Confucian tenets such as righteousness and filial piety ?
Did you know that Nathania Ong had not seen Les Misérables before successfully auditioning for the role of Éponine ?
Did you know that " All Hell Breaks Loose ", the last episode of Charmed to feature Shannen Doherty as Prue, was also directed by her?
Did you know that a poem by Moses da Rieti includes an encyclopedia of the sciences, a Jewish paradise fantasy, and a post-biblical history of Jewish literature?
Did you know that El Eternauta: tercera parte kept Héctor Germán Oesterheld , the creator of the original comic, as a narrator after he was disappeared?
Did you know that the assassination of Fengshan resulted in a pun combining fried eggs and bombs?
Did you know that Ye Gongchuo worked for emperors, warlords and republicans before leaving politics to focus on art?
Did you know that controversy ensued when the painting Pleasure Garden was offered to the Robert McDougall Art Gallery ?
Did you know that Walter Campbell Smith 's training in mineralogy led him to volunteer with the chemical warfare unit of British Army during World War I?
Did you know that Will Wood performed nude for the music video of a song on SELF-iSH ?
Did you know that Wilf Perreault 's artwork of landscapes and alleyways was influenced by artists such as Reta Cowley and Dorothy Knowles ?
Did you know that the Hollywood Boulevard Commercial and Entertainment District has 102 properties within 12 blocks and contains "excellent examples of the predominant architecture styles of the 1920s and 1930s"?
Did you know that Dutch rabbi Meijer de Hond , who grew up in poverty, was known as the Volksrebbe ('people's rabbi') for his popularity among the Jewish poor of Amsterdam?
Did you know that Chinese Garden MRT station did not originally have access to the Chinese Garden ?
Did you know that Jacques Lewis , a 105-year-old French veteran of D-Day , insisted on participating in a ceremony commemorating the invasion's 80th anniversary?
Did you know that a memorial in Suffolk, England , marks the deaths of six members of a scout troop in a 1914 boating accident and that of the sole survivor two years later in the Battle of the Somme ?
Did you know that, according to his family, Ye Yanlan was compelled to leave government service after speaking Cantonese in front of the emperor of China?
Did you know that the suppression of the Diaspora Revolt of 115–117 CE led to the near-total annihilation and displacement of Jewish communities in Cyrenaica , Cyprus , and much of Egypt ?
Did you know that 50 Lan occupied the number-one spot in Taiwan's bubble tea market for most of 2023?
Did you know that the world's oldest timepiece with an anchor escapement is in the collection of the Irish Museum of Time ?
Did you know that editors often line up in rival camps during contentious disputes on Wikipedia and the winning side typically cites encyclopedic policies to favor their viewpoint?
Did you know that although Hugh O'Neill publicly assisted the English Crown in thwarting Irish rebels during the Nine Years' War , he was secretly the leader of the Irish confederacy?
Did you know that the Lichfield War Memorial includes a life-size depiction of Saint George and a slain dragon?
Did you know that the current flag of Falcón , a state of Venezuela, was first hoisted at the Monument to the Venezuelan Federation in 2006 and is based on the design of the 1806 naval flag of Francisco de Miranda ?
Did you know that Abraham Hamadeh lost one of the closest elections in Arizona history by 280 votes, and has filed multiple lawsuits challenging the results?
Did you know that during the Second World War the British government transmitted German music to Nazi U-boats ?
Did you know that photographer Charles Biasiny-Rivera and fellow members of the artistic collective En Foco drove around New York City in his Volkswagen Bus putting on art exhibitions in Latino neighborhoods?
Did you know that sculptor Moelwyn Merchant described his 1982 piece Growing Form as resembling "a tulip bud with the front leaf pulled out"?
Did you know that the music video for " It's OK I'm OK " was edited to make its singer appear naked?
Did you know that hot-dog vendor Dan Rossi has slept inside his cart overnight to preserve his spot in front of the Metropolitan Museum of Art ?
Did you know that He Jianshi used Chinese opera to advance a revolution against the Qing dynasty ?
Did you know that crab is served in school meals in Toyama Prefecture ?
Did you know that Aniello Prisco was shot to death while trying to extort a crime boss ?
Did you know that the rural village of Neath, New South Wales , had a population of three Tok Pisin speakers in 2021?
Did you know that Canadian microbiologist Patricia Taylor helped American diplomats hide in her house in Tehran during the Iran hostage crisis ?
Did you know that a " glomping circle" in 2008 reportedly lasted seven hours?
Did you know that Margaret Pargeter published 49 books in eleven years, with another book following eleven years later?
Did you know that the Holy See has been represented by an anime-style mascot ?
Did you know that college football player Ricot Joseph declined a full scholarship so that he could be a walk-on ?
Did you know that the headquarters of the Northern Ireland Prison Service were breached by protestors in 2003?
Did you know that Ukrainian journalist Victoria Roshchyna 's car was once fired on by Russian tanks?
Did you know that the owner of the De Vinne Press Building finalized his purchase of the building while in an elevator?
Did you know that Grizel Niven created "The Bessie", the Women's Prize for Fiction statuette, which a past winner called "ugly"?
Did you know that two of the victims and much of the aircraft involved in the crash of Western Air Lines Flight 636 were never removed from San Francisco Bay?
Did you know that a superintendent of the New Orleans Police Department posed as a corrupt officer during covert operations?
Did you know that The Lock-Up , an art gallery housed in a former police station, retains the graffiti drawn by prisoners in the holding cells and has incorporated it into a performative exhibition?
Did you know that Allison Reese has received millions of views for her impressions of Kamala Harris ?
Did you know that the embassy of the Philippines in Bucharest is the country's first mission in the Eastern Bloc ?
Did you know that the lyrics of Gigi Perez 's " Sailor Song " were criticized by far-right conservative Christian communities?
Did you know that the first Chinese driver to race in Formula One debuted at the 2022 Bahrain Grand Prix ?
Did you know that several major U.S. politicians have spread conspiracy theories about the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season ?
Did you know that Tenzin Doendrup , the 68th Je Khenpo and chief abbot of Bhutan, issued a decree to stop the practice of animal sacrifices?
Did you know that Manhood was Josh Hawley 's second book to be published by Regnery , after he was dropped by Simon & Schuster for his support of attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election ?
Did you know that Vivian Stranders , a British-born Jew, served as an officer in the Nazi SS?
Did you know that From Warsaw to Ojców , an 1897 Polish adventure and travel novel for young readers, was inspired by Jules Verne 's works but reflects Polish patriotic and educational values?
Did you know that a portrait engraver made the controversial decision to change a Sioux chief's war bonnet so that it would fit on the 1899 United States five-dollar silver certificate?
Did you know that Charli XCX once followed George Daniel into a toilet but stopped halfway, and later wrote the song " Talk Talk " about the experience?
Did you know that Rose O'Neill 's marriage to Hugh Roe O'Donnell united two powerful noble families that had been rivals for centuries?
Did you know that the practice of some Christians of making the lesser sign of the cross has been traced back to the 11th century?
Did you know that Frederick Prigg and his predecessor as secretary of the Provisional Government of Oregon were both doctors who drowned in a river at Oregon City just three years apart?
Did you know that a rainbow plaque marks the site of Peckham's Black Lesbian and Gay Centre ?
Did you know that one of the paintings sold by Beijing Hanhai was stolen by an emperor , and another was hidden in a well?
Did you know that the Korean War allowed Don Bragg to set a UCLA basketball record for the most rebounds by a varsity freshman, which stood for almost 40 years?
Did you know that the Indonesian pulp and paper industry collectively controls over 10 million hectares of land?
Did you know that Tore Skeie 's first book, written while he faced severe financial hardship, won him a prize of NOK 100,000?
Did you know that 1977's Typhoon Thelma was the most destructive event in Taiwan since World War II?
Did you know that Sammy Basso was the oldest known person with progeria ?
Did you know that the 2024 psychological horror game Mouthwashing utilises non-diegetic scene transitions that mimic glitches and crashes ?
Did you know that John W. Keogh killed an attorney to encourage redistricting ?
Did you know that Toby Keith 's last recording before his death was a cover of Joe Diffie 's " Ships That Don't Come In " on the tribute album Hixtape: Vol. 3: Difftape ?
Did you know that swimmer Alex Portal and his brother Kylian Portal both won medals in the same event at the 2024 Paralympics?
Did you know that the Chinese community of Kota Kinabalu sponsored the creation of the Malaysia Monument just 20 days before it needed to be completed to mark the formation of Malaysia?
Did you know that Marine chaplain Francis W. Kelly was known as "Father Foxhole" for his presence on the front lines of the Pacific Theater ?
Did you know that in October 2024 Manawanui became the first Royal New Zealand Navy vessel to be lost in peacetime?
Did you know that self-help author Beth Kempton held positions at both the 2002 FIFA World Cup in Tokyo and the 2012 Summer Olympics in London?
Did you know that when the E-Defense was commissioned in 2005, it was the world's largest 3D earthquake shake table ?
Did you know that the Puck Building has two gilded Pucks ?
Did you know that America's first small-size silver certificate was referred to as a Funnyback ?
Did you know that Cate Blanchett played 13 different characters in the multi-screen film installation Manifesto ?
Did you know that Marie Marcks sarcastically caricatured gender roles like no one before, according to Jutta Limbach ?
Did you know that the tenants of a New York City apartment building protested against its owner by going to a racetrack and betting on his horse?
Did you know that one of the last surviving women from Rapa Nui to receive traditional facial tattoos was queen consort Ana Eva Hei ?
Did you know that the Nualas ' 2015 novelty song "Yes 2 Love" was created to promote a yes vote ?
Did you know that Ivan Ivan played for the Eagles and the Eagles ?
Did you know that a member of the second Adrian Hasler cabinet was expelled in 2019 following an embezzlement scandal?
Did you know that after Liam and Noel Gallagher's band Oasis announced " the most controversial band reunion since the Sex Pistols' 1996 Filthy Lucre Tour ", Noel's daughter Anaïs Gallagher criticised some fans for ageism and sexism?
Did you know that oral repositories are individuals trusted with memorising a society's oral traditions , and have been termed "walking libraries"?
Did you know that David de Pomis published a trilingual Hebrew – Aramaic , Latin and Italian dictionary in 1587?
Did you know that Come In was recorded on a hands-free microphone attached to a pair of headphones?
Did you know that a poultry farmer was the first woman to compete for the Sovereign's Prize , the highest honour in British rifle shooting?
Did you know that Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures excludes mentions of Nazism that are present in the Indiana Jones films?
Did you know that diverse fields study the mind , including psychology , neuroscience , cognitive science , and philosophy ?
Did you know that NFL player Muadianvita Kazadi viewed football as "war", according to a teammate?
Did you know that, despite Delibird being directly inspired by Santa Claus, TheGamer refused to give it the title of Christmas Pokémon?
Did you know that a German court's decision involving football stadiums may preclude Facebook from arbitrarily banning users?
Did you know that Yang Pao'an refused to forsake the Chinese Communist Party , reportedly even after a telephone call with Chiang Kai-shek ?
Did you know that despite being commonly found off the coast of Argentina, Diplodus argenteus is not named after the country?
Did you know that the music video for John Lennon 's " You Are Here ", issued half a century after the song was released, shows previously unseen footage of Lennon?
Did you know that politician Teleke Lauti unseated a former prime minister, was himself unseated by a future prime minister, and later ran again to replace a former prime minister?
Did you know that some Idaho mountain deathcamas are pollinated by carrion and flesh flies rather than bees?
Did you know that What a Merry-Go-Round closed with evil clowns cavorting around a carousel?
Did you know that the ghost of Margaret C. Waites is said to haunt an undergraduate suite at Harvard College's Cabot House , protecting her book collection?
Did you know that trunk-or-treating was created as a safer alternative to regular trick-or-treating ?
Did you know that the song " Haunted " "blends cuteness and spookiness"?
Did you know that the Australian spider Progradungula barringtonensis has been called a "ghost of Gondwana "?
Did you know that Brian David Gilbert released a series of monster-themed ABBA covers under the name AAAH!BBA ?
Did you know that the zombie film Get the Hell Out was shot at the currently abandoned Kaohsiung City Council Hall , which had neither water nor electricity?
Did you know that during one of his Diddy parties , Sean Combs promised not to spill champagne on the Declaration of Independence ?
Did you know that the release of the top-level domain .zip was condemned by cyber-security experts?
Did you know that grand claims that the ruler of Mwene Muji once had imperial status were dismissed by Belgian colonial authorities ?
Did you know that John Mascarenhas simultaneously served as the chairman of his country's legislature and the president of their Olympic committee?
Did you know that Ekin Cheng agreed to make a cameo appearance in A Nail Clipper Romance after learning that it would be filmed in Hawaii?
Did you know that Emil Bove prosecuted Nicolás Maduro and defended Donald Trump ?
Did you know that a Florida radio station DJ's attempt to break a world record was foiled by blown transmitter tubes?
Did you know that The Sausages ' first sausage was filled with three courses and an espresso ?
Did you know that British war correspondent Ian Fyfe was killed on D-Day while landing in a glider with troops attacking the Merville Gun Battery ?
Did you know that the 1976 Philippine film Itim was described as "one of the most remarkable debuts in cinema history" in a 2022 retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art ?
Did you know that Phoebe Plummer was "unfortunate" to draw Christopher Hehir as judge when they stood trial over the Just Stop Oil Sunflowers protest ?
Did you know that the only death from the Belvidere Apollo Theatre collapse was the one audience member who bought a concert t-shirt from Crypta that night, according to their lead singer?
Did you know that the cover art of Music from the Merch Desk (2016–2023) was derived from bootleg merchandise?
Did you know that Michael O'Kane never received approval to begin constructing a building for the College of the Holy Cross ?
Did you know that in the 1980s, when Moturoa Island lost all its endangered kiwi to pests, experts reintroduced seven birds – today there could be as many as 300 kiwi on the island?
Did you know that Jill, Duchess of Hamilton , donated her body to science because "funerals are a bore"?
Did you know that a reviewer described Ceechynaa , who entered the UK singles chart earlier this month with " Peggy ", as "proudly waving the sexual liberation flag"?
Did you know that vitamin E was named "tocopherol" as it was identified as essential for live births in rats?
Did you know that in the 1950s Michel Klein opened one of the first veterinary practices in Paris?
Did you know that the sexual onomatopoeia puff-puff was censored in English releases of Dragon Quest until Dragon Quest XI ?
Did you know that newspaper publisher Jacob Frolich built trapdoors and hiding places in his house in case it was raided by Radical Republicans ?
Did you know that nearly 300 construction workers showed up at 8 am to continue building Chernobyl Reactors 5 and 6 , despite the Chernobyl disaster earlier that day?
Did you know that war correspondent Bernard Gray was killed while travelling as an unofficial passenger aboard a Royal Navy submarine during the Second World War?
Did you know that Good Gravy! , a Thanksgiving dinner –themed roller coaster, was first tested with a train full of plush turkeys?
Did you know that the style of Hermann Weyl 's Gruppentheorie und Quantenmechanik has been likened to "a smiling figure on horseback, cutting a clean way through ... with a swift bright sword"?
Did you know that international adult figure skating champion Naz Arıcı learned to skate at the age of 29?
Did you know that in 1967 two mathematicians published PhD dissertations independently disproving the same thirteen-year-old conjecture ?
Did you know that Shalom Nagar , executioner of war criminal and Nazi Party official Adolf Eichmann , said he was selected at random for the role?
Did you know that Kevin Roose wrote a viral article about artificial intelligence rhetoric after an AI bot attempted to convince him to leave his wife?
Did you know that Karl Thielscher began refereeing American football games less than a month after retiring from playing the sport professionally?
Did you know that between February and August 1918 the Petergofsky District mobilized more than 20 combat units for the Red Army ?
Did you know that a South Korean actor sold his belongings and went $7 million into debt to keep his amusement park running?
Did you know that a lost chronicle of the kings of Kashmir is attributed to the author Ratnākara ?
Did you know that a critic described GNX , after its surprise release, as Kendrick Lamar 's "greatest work" yet?
Did you know that ballet dancer Nina Tikhonova taught dance to children who had been orphaned during World War II?
Did you know that former adult actress Suzumi Suzuki 's book Gifted was nominated for the Akutagawa Prize in 2022?
Did you know that George Bogaars , as head of Singapore's Secret Branch, oversaw the detention of more than a hundred suspected communist sympathisers ?
Did you know that the Green Bay Packers won a snowy NFL playoff game by scoring six straight touchdowns after they had been losing 14–0 ?
Did you know that William C. Roberts had to resign a pastorate in Ohio because his wife's illness was believed to be curable if she returned to her home state?
Did you know that anarchism without adjectives has been described as an ecumenical or non-denominational form of anarchism ?
Did you know that on 26 December 1724 J. S. Bach directed the first performance of Christum wir sollen loben schon , BWV 121 , based on a hymn written by Martin Luther in 1524?
Did you know that actress Jane Barnes learned how to pilot a plane so that she could fly home to Massachusetts on her own?
Did you know that Musa al-Gharbi argues that "symbolic capitalists" support social justice movements to amass social currency ?
Did you know that American president Zachary Taylor is mentioned in a poem about the conversion of Saint Paul ?
Did you know that Filipino violinist Gilopez Kabayao was nicknamed the "Mozart to the Barrios"?
Did you know that Ian Holm , who died in 2020, was "resurrected" to appear in Alien: Romulus through a combination of animatronics, computer-generated imagery, and artificial intelligence?
Did you know that NFL player Adrian Baril also was a "fat men's race" champion?
Did you know that the Philly Specials , formed by three football players from the Philadelphia Eagles , have recorded Christmas music with Stevie Nicks and Boyz II Men ?
Did you know that heavy spring rains caused a poor harvest of the Dickinson pumpkin , leading to a canned pumpkin shortage for Christmas in 2015?
Did you know that Holiday Seasoning was promoted with the release of holiday seasonings ?
Did you know that HMT Night Hawk was sunk on Christmas Day 1914 while trawling for mines off Scarborough, England?
Did you know that the National Gingerbread House Competition , despite its name, has featured gingerbread merry-go-rounds, sea monsters, and even the Statue of Liberty?
Did you know that Pflaumentoffel , edible figures made from prunes, were sold by children in German Christmas markets in the 19th century?
Did you know that " The Christmas Invasion " led to Christmas specials becoming a staple for Doctor Who ?
Did you know that tourte de blettes , a sweet pie made with Swiss chard , is traditionally eaten in Nice on Christmas Eve?
Did you know that Casanova 's friend Edoardo Tiretta built a bazaar in India ?
Did you know that Christmas: A Biography states that, despite its Christian origins, Christmas has been mostly secular since its inception in the fourth century?
Did you know that Oh Hee-ok was the last surviving female Korean independence activist ?
Did you know that the Christmas carp traditionally swims in a bathtub for a few days before becoming Christmas Eve dinner?
Did you know that Italian anti-Mafia prosecutor Nicola Gratteri survived three assassination attempts within three weeks?
Did you know that in 2016 two thieves stole $350,000 worth of rare books in Oakland, California, and tried to sell some of them to Moe's Books nearby?
Did you know that energy executive Chris Wright once drank fracking fluid to prove that it was not dangerous?
Did you know that Dithapelo Keorapetse was named Speaker of the National Assembly of Botswana shortly after losing his bid for election to the legislature?