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Did you know that in his book How to Be Perfect , Michael Schur sought to "wade into some deeply confusing and painful applications of moral philosophy ... but in a fun way"?
Did you know that a video accompanying ML Buch 's debut album showed viewers her inner self – literally?
Did you know that environmental journalist Gloria Dickie wrote her thesis on how cities in Colorado changed garbage laws to prevent bear incursions?
Did you know that Brunel University's lecture centre has been described as "imposing" and "frightening", but also as "an expressive centrepiece" and "a brutalist classic"?
Did you know that Benjamin Jackson was likely paid at least $300 to fight in the American Civil War as Lewis Saunders?
Did you know that, of the three presidents of the Chamber of Dutch Culture , two were arrested and one was assassinated?
Did you know that the inclusion of two preteen competing performers at the Eurovision Song Contest 1989 led to the introduction of an age rule for participants at future contests?
Did you know that a gunman who, in 1960, shot three people dead in Sheffield , England, was deported to Somalia, where he was killed in a shoot-out while "running amok"?
Did you know that Iowa government social worker Catherine G. Williams started out as a tap dancer ?
Did you know that Banner in the Sky inspired a Canadian dentist to climb the Matterhorn ?
Did you know that Australia's most threatened butterfly is confined to a native range of less than 10 square kilometres (3.9 sq mi)?
Did you know that football player Gordon Cooper performed so well that "the adjective supply [was] exhausted" in trying to describe him?
Did you know that the live-action drama adaptation of the Japanese manga Setsuyaku Rock was reimagined as a buddy comedy ?
Did you know that Emily Spreeman , the all-time top scorer for the United States women's national deaf soccer team , debuted for the team at the age of 15?
Did you know that the San Diego YMCA estimates that it has served more than 125 million military personnel?
Did you know that the real-time strategy, tower defense and factory management game Mindustry is freely licensed under the GPLv3 ?
Did you know that Oen Boen Ing , a doctor who often worked for free , was so popular that the Indonesian government was petitioned not to evacuate him during a period of violence against Chinese Indonesians ?
Did you know that 200 spiders were on the set of Infested ?
Did you know that the Vancouver School Board 's alleged attempt to censor a student newspaper led to the drafting of a press-freedom act?
Did you know that fans on TikTok were behind the choice of name for one of SZA's singles ?
Did you know that when sales slowed on the Texas Centennial half dollar , Senator Tom Connally suggested minting five separate versions?
Did you know that the Green Bay Packers once had fourteen players selected to a national All-Pro team ?
Did you know that Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos bought New York City's Crown Building because of a tearful plea?
Did you know that the magazine Acoustic Guitar said that Dan Erlewine "might be the most famous guitar repairperson on earth"?
Did you know that models in the runway show for Nihilism by Alexander McQueen were dressed in plastic, locusts, rust, and clay?
Did you know that literary critic Leslie Fiedler called the novel Band of Angels "operatic in the worst sense of the word"?
Did you know that a novel about Madagascar's colonization , which the author was aware was impossible to publish under colonial rule, was finally published decades after his suicide?
Did you know that working broadcast journalists were used as extras for the portions of the Doctor Who episode " 73 Yards " that were filmed at the BBC Cymru Wales New Broadcasting House ?
Did you know that plans to shoot the Beijing-set portions of the 1989 Japanese film Beijing Watermelon on location were cancelled after the Tiananmen Square protests and massacre occurred mid-production?
Did you know that the Radcliffe Telescope was the largest telescope in the Southern Hemisphere when it was completed in 1948?
Did you know that the marine fungal species Parengyodontium album only breaks down polyethylene plastics that have been exposed to ultraviolet light?
Did you know that author Ron Chernow was reluctant to write a biography of John D. Rockefeller until being shown a 1,700-page transcript of three years' worth of private interviews with him?
Did you know that the Green Bay Packers once defeated a team of all-stars chosen from the rest of the league?
Did you know that on February 3, 1986, African Independence Party leaders Adama Touré and Adama Touré were released from detention?
Did you know that South Korean actress Na O-mi 's stage name was inspired by the song " I Dream of Naomi "?
Did you know that while reviewers generally praised The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs , one reviewer complained that the author was "so nice about his colleagues that it makes you long for a juicy academic vendetta"?
Did you know that Joseph Tetley , a member of the New Zealand Legislative Council , defrauded several investors to the 2017 equivalent value of around NZ$7 million?
Did you know that Cleo Hill Jr. coached the college basketball team for which his father played more than 60 years earlier?
Did you know that according to the official history of the Song dynasty , Zhao Kuangyin 's soldiers stormed his bedroom and proclaimed him emperor , to his surprise?
Did you know that a video game consisting solely of a clickable image of a banana was briefly the second-most played game on Steam ?
Did you know that the album covers of Blue Note Records have been considered to be the "look" of jazz?
Did you know that on July 11, 2022, millions of dollars worth of jewelry was stolen from the back of a truck while one driver was getting food at a California truck stop and the other one was asleep in the cab?
Did you know that a street in San Francisco was named after a man who used a false identity ?
Did you know that Alfie Templeman described the style of his studio album Radiosoul as "incohesively cohesive"?
Did you know that Rosemary Miller won her state's skeet shooting championship one year after learning the sport, and then won a state shooting championship in all but two years for the rest of her life?
Did you know that the Japanese boy band Nexz was created through the program Nizi Project season 2 ?
Did you know that the Nazi collaborator Sebastiaan de Ranitz abandoned his office following Mad Tuesday , leaving his department in turmoil?
Did you know that Gedling Town F.C. 's nickname "The Ferrymen" was inspired by the name of a pub located next to the team's stadium?
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?
Did you know that after a pigeon sculpture in Wellington went missing, members of the public created a memorial for it?
Did you know that Jopie and Teun Roosenburg led an art colony at Oost Castle that helped Jewish refugees escape the Nazi-occupied Netherlands to Belgium?
Did you know that Flyover , a 2023 science fiction novel by an American author, portraying a dystopian future where part of the US becomes a theocracy , was published in French but not in English?
Did you know that Anna Russell Cole , a significant benefactor of Vanderbilt University , donated $10,000 in 1926 to endow the office of dean of women?
Did you know that in The Servile State , Hilaire Belloc criticized socialism for being too similar to capitalism?
Did you know that the 2024 Doctor Who episode " Dot and Bubble " was first conceptualized in 2009?
Did you know that rapper Gmac Cash attempted to gift a pair of Cartier glasses to Gretchen Whitmer , the governor of Michigan ?
Did you know that the Tampa Bay Buccaneers players wore white uniforms during a snowy NFL game , which made them extremely difficult for their quarterback to see?
Did you know that barbarians would have bought cake , not pie , at Barbara's Rhubarb Bar ?
Did you know that 16th-century chroniclers thought María Pacheco , a leader of the Revolt of the Comuneros , was a witch ?
Did you know that some critics described the fourth season of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver as comic relief from the activities of the Trump administration ?
Did you know that in order to re-marry, Zhou Wennan had to request Mao Zedong 's permission?
Did you know that schoolchildren in the town of Kirkby were paid 25 pence an hour to help build Kirkby Ski Slope , even though the slope never opened?
Did you know that Lois E. Trott ran the first lodging house for homeless girls in America, providing shelter and support for over 1,000 girls annually, all without receiving any payment?
Did you know that Jerzy Kosinski: A Biography described its subject as a "liar", and yet, one reviewer felt that the author's "studiously neutral position ends up sounding like an apologia for Kosinski"?
Did you know that " Chihiro " by Billie Eilish was titled in reference to the main character of Spirited Away ?
Did you know that the DJ NewJeansNim has been credited with reviving interest in Buddhism among South Korean youths?
Did you know that the "mythical love story" of Sami politician Bjarne Store-Jakobsen and Blackfoot physician Esther Tailfeathers is a focus of the 2014 film Bihttoš ?
Did you know that after Seattle Seahawks quarterback Matt Hasselbeck promised victory , he threw an interception that lost the game?
Did you know that the compilation of the Wu shu was hampered by the execution of two members of the committee compiling the text?
Did you know that after operating for 168 years and moving to three buildings, the Mercantile Library in Philadelphia was closed due to concerns about asbestos ?
Did you know that the annual energy cost of a single fume hood in Singapore can be up to US$9,300?
Did you know that Laura Veale was the first woman to practise as a doctor in the town of Harrogate ?
Did you know that to encourage the development of Bissau-Guinean cinema , one foreign filmmaker provided the country's film institute with cameras, lights, and a Steinbeck guitar?
Did you know that professional vibraphonist Joel Ross has called the vibraphone his "least favorite instrument"?
Did you know that according to a former military journalist, 80,000 copies of a command information newspaper were dumped into the South China Sea during the Vietnam War ?
Did you know that despite specializing in literature and serving as a senior editor of the Zhonghua Book Company , historian Zhang Zhenglang never published a single book of his own?
Did you know that AJR 's " Way Less Sad " samples the final trumpet riff of Simon & Garfunkel 's " My Little Town " as its primary hook?
Did you know that when MT Petar Hektorović was temporarily reassigned, one resident of Vis wrote an online memorial to the ship, writing "the bay of Vis grieve for you"?
Did you know that Drew Thomas , a former car salesman , reached the finals of the NBC show Last Comic Standing ?
Did you know that the Bad Dürrenberg shaman may have been able to block blood vessels to her brain by holding her head at certain angles?
Did you know that a New York man built a house with materials from several 1964 New York World's Fair pavilions ?
Did you know that putting pre-moistened meat diapers in pre-packaged meat is a form of weight fraud ?
Did you know that Mark Hutton was the first Australian to be a starting pitcher in a Major League Baseball game?
Did you know that two of three candidates in the 2018 mayoral race in Malang, Indonesia , were arrested for bribery before the election?
Did you know that Gladys Stone Wright got started with a year of free piano lessons and a $5 clarinet?
Did you know that " At the Name of Jesus " has been described as "the only completely objective theological hymn to come from the hand of a 19th-century woman writer"?
Did you know that Liza Soberano's early acting roles include playing the third wheel in romance films?
Did you know that Maryland state delegate C. T. Wilson compared negotiating with the Catholic Church on the Maryland Child Victims Act to making "a deal with the devil"?
Did you know that educational writer Ștefan Tita gave Romanian students impractical advice on mending damaged bark with bandages of dirt?
Did you know that Eminem promoted " Houdini " with a video in which David Blaine eats a wine glass?
Did you know that sauerkraut made by members of a Russian spiritual sect in Armenia was popular in many other parts of the Soviet Union ?
Did you know that The Blue Angels was shot using IMAX cameras rigged to a helicopter, plus an ultra-high-speed camera shooting at 1,000 frames per second?
Did you know that Margaret Carroux 's German translation of The Lord of the Rings contains errors introduced by her editor?
Did you know that the LACE satellite tracked rocket plumes from space for the United States's Star Wars program ?
Did you know that Melanie L. Campbell was arrested for civil disobedience while protesting proposed restrictions on voting rights ?
Did you know that historically, lichens like Umbilicaria torrefacta have been used to naturally dye traditional Scottish tartans and textiles ?
Did you know that American poet Edwin Ford Piper preserved 828 folk songs, most of which were from Iowa and Nebraska?
Did you know that before reading the script for the play Golden Girls , at least nine of the cast members were under the impression that they would be taking the lead role?
Did you know that the Upper Voltan National Radio chief editor Watamou Lamien was the liaison between the ROC group of young radical military officers and the clandestine Voltan Revolutionary Communist Party ?
Did you know that Silence Is Loud uses a style that was previously considered "absolutely verboten" for its genre?
Did you know that Jackson Demonstration State Forest was named in honor of American lumberman Jacob Green Jackson ?
Did you know that Tural, the setting of the expansion pack Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail , is inspired by Latin America and Southeast Asia?
Did you know that orthopedic surgeon Adnan al-Bursh had also served as an advisor to the Palestine national football team before dying in an Israeli prison ?
Did you know that American Colossus is a biography of a man who was "the most famous sportsman in the world" and "the most forgotten great athlete in American history"?
Did you know that husband and wife Edward M. and Marie Zimmerman co-wrote the suffragist anthem "Votes for Women: Suffrage Rallying Song"?
Did you know that between 1985 and 1988, Televerket spent 2 million kronor paying youth sports teams to monitor payphones for vandalism ?
Did you know that Billie Eilish first served " Lunch " during a party at Coachella?
Did you know that footballer Han Bong-zin trained in the military every day for four years in preparation for the FIFA World Cup?
Did you know that a critic said that the hors d'oeuvres served at Sud 777 could function as desserts and vice versa?
Did you know that after completing his tenure as regent , Tatto Suwarto Pamuji walked 96 kilometres (60 mi) to fulfill a vow he made?
Did you know that Florida Hospital Oceanside was demolished after being damaged by Hurricane Irma ?
Did you know that youthful Second World War resistance leader Jean-Pierre Lévy was advised by the Free French intelligence service to dye his hair grey to appear older?
Did you know that Żeromski Park , the second-largest park in Szczecin , Poland, used to be a cemetery?
Did you know that on American band the Linda Lindas ' first album, Growing Up , a cat named Lil' Dude is featured playing the piano?
Did you know that as of 2019, inclusion in the International Register of Electors no longer requires residency in Canada in the preceding five years?
Did you know that the United States Department of Defense ran a propaganda campaign against Chinese vaccines during the COVID-19 pandemic ?
Did you know that Peewee Jarrett went from having a two-year span with no playing time and being "set on quitting football" to signing into the National Football League?
Did you know that the Wellesbourne , Brighton's lost river, stopped flowing in 1889?
Did you know that Max Weil , founder of the Halifax Symphony Orchestra , spent his later years in real estate?
Did you know that when DarkZero contracted Xynew, his teammates highlighted his "communication skills and game brain", which they deemed unusual for a controller player?
Did you know that the first public performance of the two songs of Arnold Schoenberg 's Zwei Gesänge , Op. 1 was met with hostile audience reactions?
Did you know that Score: A Hockey Musical has been described as "so Canadian it hurts"?
Did you know that a mail-order catalogue offered a "Rocking Ram" toy, designed by Charleen Kinser , for US$1,600 in 1985?
Did you know that the project Called by Name aims to commemorate Poles who were murdered for aiding Jews during World War II ?
Did you know that despite a global decline in mangrove forests , Red Sea mangroves have expanded in area since 1972?
Did you know that Voyager 2 has been transmitting data for more than 46 years, making it the oldest active space probe in history?
Did you know that Brittany Luse 's podcast The Nod was praised for its exploration of "the diversity and richness of the Black experience"?
Did you know that despite lagging attendance at the 1964 New York World's Fair , its organizer rejected nearly every suggestion to increase attendance?
Did you know that David Marchese recalled accidentally posting a picture of a cat's testicles on Salon.com ?
Did you know that Sophie Kropotkin and her husband returned to France despite the risk of being arrested, as they thought that detention in a French prison would be preferable to living in England?
Did you know that following the filming of the music video for " Guess ", Charli XCX and Billie Eilish donated 10,000 pairs of underwear to charity?
Did you know that Winzar Kakiouea was the sole athlete from his nation at the 2024 Olympics?
Did you know that resources to fight the 1988 White Mountain Fire were slow to arrive because of fires at Yellowstone ?
Did you know that journalist Jules Loh reported that Malcolm X told him that "his own people would kill him" before his assassination ?
Did you know that Bangué , the smallest island of the Bazaruto Archipelago , was formed by ocean waves shaped by the surrounding archipelago?
Did you know that The Game led to a boom in all-channel TV sales so viewers could see the game on Ohio State University's TV station ?
Did you know that Aphex Twin never intended to release Drukqs and only did so because he accidentally left an MP3 player on a plane?
Did you know that Olympic breakdancer Sun Chen is nicknamed "Quake" as he was born on the day of a deadly earthquake?
Did you know that The Eternaut 1969 is a reboot of the original comic , with an anti-imperialist tone?
Did you know that the Durrës Expedition in 1376 saw Louis of Évreux successfully recapture Durrës from Karl Thopia , only for Thopia to reclaim the city in 1383?
Did you know that Robert Turner remained in post for around 30 years after being described as "the oldest soldier in the Royal Artillery"?
Did you know that you can search Wikipedia or a database of more than 37 billion compounds by substructure ?
Did you know that Luxembourgian myrmecologist Robert Stumper also played as a goalkeeper for his nation's football team?
Did you know that mamas sang on " Mama "?
Did you know that according to Charles Melville , the poet Hatefi implied that Timur was another Alexander the Great by making Timur the subject of the fourth poem of a quintet ?
Did you know that photographs of Donald Trump taken during the failed attempt to assassinate him have been acclaimed as "immediately legendary"?
Did you know that Jerzy Artysz was given a gala concert on his 70th birthday by the Chopin University of Music ?
Did you know that Ernest Hemingway broke a cane over John O'Hara 's head in Costello's , an Irish bar in New York City?
Did you know that after her 2019 death in rural China, Huang Wenxiu was elevated into a national model by the Chinese Communist Party ?
Did you know that traditional folk dances are an essential part of Pontic Greek culture ?
Did you know that police were called several times in 2014 about a fictitious post on r/nosleep ?
Did you know that Brandiose 's design work for the Rocket City Trash Pandas helped the team sell $4 million in merchandise before it played its first game?
Did you know that Tupou VI was crowned by D'Arcy Wood , an Australian, in order to respect the tradition of native Tongans not touching the king's head?
Did you know that Aleister Crowley's 1941 manifesto controversially asserts a human right to commit tyrannicide ?
Did you know that Begüm Pusat , a 15-year-old Turkish wheelchair basketballer , was one of the youngest players at the 2019 Women's U25 World Championship ?
Did you know that by losing her constituency of South West Norfolk in 2024 , Liz Truss became the first former UK prime minister since 1935 to lose their seat?
Did you know that Upper Ivory Coast was created from the former French Upper Volta to facilitate the provision of forced plantation labour?
Did you know that Quintus Quincy Quigley preferred "Angles" to a ring?
Did you know that the anniversary of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's 1974 speech at the United Nations has been observed as Bangladeshi Immigration Day in New York since 2019?
Did you know that thousands of crocodiles were once farmed on Bazaruto Island ?
Did you know that the flag of North Korea has been mistakenly used by international organisations to represent South Korea?
Did you know that Marie Breen retired from the Australian Senate to care for her husband, who had been badly injured in a car accident?
Did you know that Lionel Messi and Luis Suárez were picked for the 2024 MLS All-Star Game but could not play?
Did you know that Spanish bishop Josep-Lluís Serrano Pentinat is expected to be a future head of state of Andorra?
Did you know that after becoming a religious leader of the Upper Skagit Indian Tribe , Slaybebtikud united the tribes and established himself as their sole leader?
Did you know that Wolfgang Rihm asked of the music of his 1987 opera Oedipus : "Sound is a weapon here – or a scalpel?"
Did you know that Michael Jerrell was the only player from the NCAA Division II level to be selected in the 2024 NFL draft ?
Did you know that Crystal Castles canceled their studio recording plans for " Not in Love " because of Robert Smith 's demo vocals?
Did you know that architect John Henry Hirst designed at least nine Grade II listed buildings , including Cambridge Crescent, Harrogate , which hosts the newsroom of the Stray Ferret ?
Did you know that Nosy Komba is a destination for both ecotourism and illegal logging?
Did you know that Sheikh Mujibur Rahman , the founder and first president of Bangladesh, experienced his birthday in jail eight times?
Did you know that Hadriana in All My Dreams , published in 1988, was the first novel by a Haitian author to win a major French literary award?
Did you know that Hendrik Wortman oversaw the early development of the Zuiderzee Works , which dammed off the Zuiderzee to create arable land in the Netherlands?
Did you know that though Donatello was a Bardi , he was not a Bardi ?
Did you know that women seeking abortions in Eswatini or in Lesotho may travel to neighbouring South Africa, where it is legal ?
Did you know that New Zealand mayor Georgina Beyer was the world's first openly transgender mayor?
Did you know that during World War II an armed resistance group was based at the Norwegian Soy Flour Plant in Larvik ?
Did you know that Moain Sadeq led excavations at Tell es-Sakan in the Gaza Strip , the oldest-known ancient Egyptian fortification to be excavated?
Did you know that Richard Swanson died while trying to dribble a soccer ball from Seattle to São Paulo ?
Did you know that Winston Churchill was often portrayed as a bulldog, but his personal pet dog during the Second World War was a poodle?
Did you know that when Didier Berthod failed to make the first free ascent of Cobra Crack in 2005, he quit climbing and became a Franciscan monk?