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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 ?
Did you know that as part of Bahrainization , the Bahraini government prohibited foreigners from driving taxis?
Did you know that Hot Gay Time Machine had two life-sized cut-outs of Beyoncé ?
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 ?
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?
Did you know that Mira Bellwether 's husband had already read her zine, Fucking Trans Women , years before he met her?
Did you know that the publisher of the board game Destination faced financial trouble when a Harry Potter film was delayed?
Did you know that the Ladies Musical Club brought Sergei Rachmaninoff , Marian Anderson , and Pablo Casals to perform in Seattle?
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?
Did you know that one can change from doing 'sad girl music' to dissing your favorite rapper ?
Did you know that in the Forum of Augustus in Rome, elogia were hung on statues of commanders and Augustus 's ancestors?
Did you know that the pseudonymous manga artist Junichi Yamakawa never disclosed to his editor his legal name, address, or contact information?
Did you know that either dog feces, or hen and pigeon manure, were used by tanners to produce a soft leather ?
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 ?
Did you know that Leopoldo Salazar Viniegra laid the foundation for the Reglamento Federal de Toxicomanias, which legalized psychoactive substances in Mexico in 1940?
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?
Did you know that Devin Futrell used a post to dodge a draft ?
Did you know that The Steranko History of Comics has been described as the first piece of cultural analysis on American comic books?
Did you know that Heinz Schwarz attended all CDU party conventions from the first ever in 1950 to 2020?
Did you know that the Lewis and Clark Expedition documented the Ionia Volcano ?
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.?
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 ?
Did you know that Cambodia's first science-fiction film, Karmalink , combines Buddhist concepts of karma with themes of artificial intelligence?
Did you know that Émile Aubrun flew circles around a golden virgin ?
Did you know that the Gouzenko Affair marked the beginning of the Cold War in Canada ?
Did you know that Sujudi had his election to the post of rector of the University of Indonesia overruled by the Indonesian government?
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?
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?
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 ?
Did you know that the government of Ethiopia's SNNP Region supported local governments calling for a referendum to secede from the region ?
Did you know that British designer Alexander McQueen constructed a dress made of clear pallet wrap for his Spring/Summer 1995 collection The Birds ?
Did you know that ninja families in Sengoku Japan established self-governing confederacies in Iga and in Kōka , which formed an alliance ?
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?
Did you know that the gender of the villains in Galaxy 4 was switched to female partly due to the women's liberation movement ?
Did you know that Trinidad Arroyo was allowed to vote in a Spanish election 17 years before women were granted suffrage?
Did you know that in 2022 an Egyptian company was awarded the contract to build the first toll highway in Madagascar ?
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?
Did you know that Arnold Schoenberg composed a film score to no film ?
Did you know that US embassy staff in Moscow during the Cold War used Magic Slates to stop the KGB from intercepting their communications?
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 ?
Did you know that Ilona Tóth testified that she had injected a man with gasoline?
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?
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?
Did you know that there was only one Friedrichshafen FF.1 aircraft and it was destroyed in a crash?
Did you know that Mardijo was sentenced to one, then two, then one, then two years in prison?
Did you know that the Millennium Complex in Plymouth , England, has hosted a cinema, dance hall, roller disco and night club?
Did you know that Aubri Esters was among the winners of a hackathon focusing on ways to reduce drug addiction and drug-related deaths?
Did you know that the bridge on the R565 road to Valentia Island was opened twice?
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?
Did you know that the bishop of Oregon's residence in Portland once had a private chapel, a ballroom, and a wine cellar?
Did you know that Abdillah was sworn in as the mayor of Medan , Indonesia, in an abrupt and secretive ceremony?
Did you know that the play-by-email game Lords of the Earth takes about 25 years to play?
Did you know that Ethan Loch , a blind pianist, was inspired by Rowlf the Dog ?
Did you know that Money Shot: The Pornhub Story was described by multiple reviewers as unsalacious?
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?
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 ?
Did you know that Clara Stauffer was the only woman on the Allied Control Council 's list of 104 wanted Nazis in Spain?
Did you know that the battle of Zama commenced with a charge by 80 war elephants ?
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"?
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 ?
Did you know that the elite men's event at today's London Marathon featured four of the five fastest competitors of all time?
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 ?
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?
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?
Did you know that the 19-story Starrett–Lehigh Building was built on the principle of "every floor a first floor"?
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?
Did you know that St Julian's Church was the only church in Norwich destroyed during World War II to be rebuilt?
Did you know that after Ray Hall threw an apple at Jo Jo White , White became Hall's sports agent ?
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 ?
Did you know that Maria Stromberger was sent to Auschwitz at her own request?
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?
Did you know that Still Life with Books by Jan Lievens is an example of the vanitas genre of painting?
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 ?
Did you know that Saulteaux linguist Margaret Cote was the first person in Saskatchewan to teach a First Nations language in a public school?
Did you know that newspapers in Brazil printed cake recipes and 16th-century poetry to cover material censored by the military dictatorship ?
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 ?
Did you know that blogger Vladlen Tatarsky was killed by a bomb hidden in a bust of himself?
Did you know that Untitled Goose Game escaped being called Some Like It Honk ?
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?
Did you know that during a guerrilla campaign in 1968, the Iraqi Communist Party – Central Command attacked the house of Saddam Hussein ?
Did you know that Medan under Rahudman Harahap attempted a crackdown on pig farms within city limits, but backed down after local opposition?
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?
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?
Did you know that there was an American version of the Eurovision Song Contest , but it was not renewed for a 2023 season?
Did you know that Rosa Smester Marrero said that without women, men would live the life of a turnip ?
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 ?
Did you know that the 2018 book The Longevity Diet claims that a "fast-mimicking diet" increases lifespan and healthspan?
Did you know that Rihanna and Dua Lipa participated in #BlueforSudan to bring attention to the 3 June 2019 Khartoum massacre ?
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?
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?
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 ?
Did you know that The Noble Fisherman unusually places Robin Hood in the seaside town of Scarborough , and he ends up fighting French pirates?
Did you know that Swedish footballer Taha Ayari made his Allsvenskan debut by coming on as a substitute for his older brother ?
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?
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?
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?
Did you know that the Friedrichshafen FF.19 became the first German aircraft to conduct successful tests with wireless telegraphy ?
Did you know that both candidates in the 1866 Helston by-election received the same number of votes?
Did you know that there are no werewolves in Mexican Werewolf in Texas ?
Did you know that the Mosaic of Rehob is the oldest surviving Talmudic 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?
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?
Did you know that you can see the sea from every apartment in Arlington House, Margate ?
Did you know that 161 years ago today, William Y. Slack was promoted to brigadier general , even though he was already dead?
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 ?
Did you know that Museum Arnhem in the Netherlands celebrated its 100th anniversary with a giant cat picture ?
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 ?
Did you know that Latin legal maxims like casum sentit dominus have been described as "guardians of eternity [...] more lasting than codifications "?
Did you know that the ruined Fort Phantom Hill was briefly a town that was the seat of Jones County, Texas ?
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 ?
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?
Did you know that the Indonesian town of Tiakur experienced a shortage of specialist doctors due to them not renewing their contract?
Did you know that comedian Kemah Bob maintains a drag king persona, Lil' Test Ease?
Did you know that Armenian-Turkish soprano Sibil Pektorosoğlu released her first album after singing in a church choir for almost twenty years?
Did you know that Indonesia and Malaysia founded the Council of Palm Oil Producing Countries to promote the use of palm oil ?
Did you know that Meyers and Elle Leonard donated US$500,000 toward the renovation of the site of their first date?
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?
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?
Did you know that black lemurs use toxic millipede secretions as insect repellent, and apparently enjoy their narcotic effect ?
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 ?
Did you know that the Chinese-language forum 1Point3Acres created a COVID-19 tracker used by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ?
Did you know that Mary Shadow , the first unmarried woman in the Tennessee House of Representatives , received fourteen marriage proposals after her election?
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?
Did you know that Airis Computer 's 1991 laptop could be powered with ten C batteries as an alternative to a rechargeable pack?
Did you know that Christian Keller worked as an academic before running SSV Jahn Regensburg ?
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?
Did you know that Foster Loyer broke Michigan's high-school and Steph Curry 's Davidson records for consecutive free throws ?
Did you know that the 2023 United Kingdom student protests were organised on TikTok and Snapchat?
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?
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?
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 ?
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?
Did you know that in the 1970s, residents of the Belnord in New York City had to sneak in refrigerators at night?
Did you know that John Hoke III , who is dyslexic and the chief design officer of Nike, has described drawing as his first language ?
Did you know that Atari hired a number of graffiti artists for the remixed versions of classic arcade games in Retro Atari Classics ?
Did you know that Albert Luthuli was the first African to win the Nobel Peace Prize ?
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?
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 ?
Did you know that there is a "desert" in Maine ?
Did you know that 100 beerhouses were licensed in Brighton (population 40,000) in the first week after the Beerhouse Act 1830 was enacted?
Did you know that beekeeper Erika Thompson uses her bare hands to scoop up bees?
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?
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?
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?
Did you know that in 1979, Vermont ETV received more donations from viewers in Quebec than it did from Vermonters ?
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?
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?
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?
Did you know that M.I.A. originally wanted to name her newest album after her son but instead named it Mata ?
Did you know that Yeshiva University basketball star Dave Kufeld was the first Orthodox Jew ever to be selected in the NBA draft ?
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?
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 ?
Did you know that Melanie Martinez 's song, " Death ", was her first chart hit in more than a decade?
Did you know that while serving as the mayor of Malang , Peni Suparto led a protest in front of the city hall?
Did you know that Splatoon 3 became the fastest-selling video game of all time in Japan three days after launch?
Did you know that Elena Rybakina's coach promised to get a tattoo of her name if she ever won Wimbledon – and did so?
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 ?
Did you know that Brennley Brown was a finalist on The Voice when she was only 15 years old?
Did you know that the developers of 161 Maiden Lane offered luxury yachts to attract tenants?
Did you know that in February 2023, Italian footballer Samuele Parlati saved a penalty kick while playing as an emergency goalkeeper ?
Did you know that songs in The Beautiful Letdown are "chunky", "gentle", and "nois[y]"?
Did you know that the Romans used grappling hooks during the Battle of Corycus to board Seleucid ships?
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?
Did you know that at the 2022 Primetime Emmy Awards The White Lotus was nominated in five categories and won in all?
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 ?
Did you know that in 1967 Hilton Hotels revealed plans for a 100-room hotel on the Moon ?
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?
Did you know that King Charles III 's wife left him after she found four of his lovers living in his palace?
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?
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 ?
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?
Did you know that Prilep's Old Bazaar contains a leaning clock tower ?
Did you know that in 1945 the US Army confiscated the Hotel Rose in Wiesbaden , which is now the Hessian State Chancellery ?
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?
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 ?
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?
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?
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 ?
Did you know that the Poison Book Project has identified more than 100 books that contain arsenic ?