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Did you know that the Afonso Henriques Theatre in Guimarães , Portugal, regularly performed shows and plays to aid the construction of the nearby Santos Passos Church ?
Did you know that poet and rapper Elayne Harrington carried all her property in her bodhrán case while homeless in Dublin?
Did you know that Edi Rama and Baba Mondi plan to create the smallest nation in the world ?
Did you know that Chlöe Swarbrick won the race for Auckland Central in 2020 , during which she held a drag show as a campaign event?
Did you know that many Jehovah's Witnesses in Singapore have been imprisoned for refusing to serve in the military?
Did you know that PGA Tour golfer Max Greyserman and his brother Reed are the first brothers to win the New Jersey Amateur Championship?
Did you know that many African countries provide for legal abortion in their reproductive health laws, but such laws have been passed without grounds for legal abortion in Madagascar and in Senegal ?
Did you know that Mariano R. Vázquez oversaw the integration of anarchists into the government during the Spanish Civil War ?
Did you know that the author of The Power of Babel says that speakers of Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish are all speaking the same language?
Did you know that in college, football player Cooper Mays was a member of the same offensive line as his brother?
Did you know that the music of math rock band Jyocho has been alternatively described as akin to "madness" or "contemplative and melancholy"?
Did you know that Sophie Scamps decided to enter politics after a survey from her local member of parliament failed to mention climate change ?
Did you know that Vollpension employs grandparents to bake cakes according to their own recipes and, during the COVID-19 pandemic, offered live baking courses from elders around the world?
Did you know that Benjamin F. McAdoo was the first Black architect to be licensed in the U.S. state of Washington?
Did you know that Sabrina Carpenter and Jenna Ortega kiss in the music video for " Taste "?
Did you know that in the week of his assassination, Quinto Inuma Alvarado said at a conference: "If I must die, I will die"?
Did you know that G Affairs was presented at project markets in South Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, but rejected because it was deemed unmarketable in China?
Did you know that Sienna Green began playing water polo because she saw it as a combination of basketball and swimming, her favourite sports?
Did you know that a parrot reportedly screamed profanities at the funeral of U.S. president Andrew Jackson ?
Did you know that the science-fiction video game The Anacrusis is named after a musical term ?
Did you know that to protest changes to the flight route M503 , Taiwan cancelled 176 flights between China and Taiwan?
Did you know that ComicBook.com originally began as a website with sales links and press releases before becoming an entertainment news site?
Did you know that the Dust Bowl refugee Ibsen Nelsen received the Purple Heart and became a fellow of the American Institute of Architects ?
Did you know that Chișinău 's National Hotel was once a flagship property but is now effectively abandoned?
Did you know that the composer Joe Hisaishi has been awarded eight Japan Academy Film Prizes and nominated for eight more?
Did you know that one commentator interpreted a kiss between two women in " Fedora " as possibly following the " heteronormative script"?
Did you know that the September 11 Digital Archive argues that even its misinformation is useful to the historical record?
Did you know that as of 1.06 billion years ago, three supermassive black holes from a trio of galaxies in the constellation of Cancer were colliding?
Did you know that Takara's Treasure was created because its artist wanted to draw a story about a boy who speaks a local dialect?
Did you know that in addition to having been a centre for local involvement in Chinese politics, the Kuomintang Building in Vancouver has hosted social events including a wedding reception?
Did you know that Ron Tiavaasue was born in Samoa, grew up in New Zealand, played college football in the United States, and now plays professional football in Canada?
Did you know that the concept of genocide was introduced in the 1944 book Axis Rule in Occupied Europe ?
Did you know that Michael Kettle received an award at the age of 80 for his work as a cricket groundskeeper?
Did you know that Madonna once operated an elevator at Terrace on the Park ?
Did you know that Tamurbek Dawletschin wrote one of the few memoirs by a Soviet prisoner of war, 3 million of whom died in German captivity ?
Did you know that a class-action lawsuit was filed against Spotify following the discontinuation of the Car Thing ?
Did you know that Singaporean former lawyer David Yong learned Korean and moved to South Korea to become a K-pop singer?
Did you know that during the Tunisian campaign in World War II, crews carried an AMES Type 6 radar set across a swamp to allow them to spy on Luftwaffe aircraft running supplies into Tunis ?
Did you know that Gwent Broadcasting , at the time the smallest Independent Local Radio station in Britain, lasted less than two years?
Did you know that Valentin Bontus won the first-ever Olympic gold medal in Formula Kite , while Toni Vodišek won the first silver medal?
Did you know that during the Khalji Revolution , Sultan Qaiqabad was wrapped in a carpet and thrown into the Yamuna river?
Did you know that the small fish species Poecilia vandepolli solves food shortage problems by eating its own offspring ?
Did you know that German national Rico Krieger was likely forced by the Belarusian KGB to lie in a state-televised plea titled "Confession of a German Terrorist"?
Did you know that although the electrification of the Midland Main Line was designated as a high priority in 1981, work to electrify the northern part of the line did not begin until more than 30 years later?
Did you know that Huang Shaoqiang produced numerous paintings condemning the Japanese invasion of China ?
Did you know that the 2019 single " Trust Issues " by Drake was originally released in 2011 as a free download?
Did you know that the 2003 graphic novel The Life Eaters , presenting an occult-driven , hypothetical Axis victory in World War II , has been discussed in the context of its portrayal of The Holocaust ?
Did you know that Mali and Niger broke off diplomatic relations with Ukraine over the country's alleged support for rebel groups in the Battle of Tinzaouaten ?
Did you know that Olympic gold-medal-winning rugby player Jordan Sepho vomited from stress the first time he played for his national team?
Did you know that a viral dance in which performers mimic driving a car was performed by #Amishtiktok content creators, who substituted operating a horse and buggy?
Did you know that although J1407b eclipsed V1400 Centauri in 2007, nobody noticed for over three years?
Did you know that in order to attend breakdancing classes as a child, future Olympian Amir Zakirov had to give up eating lunch?
Did you know that The Book of Virtues inspired PBS 's first animated primetime series?
Did you know that one researcher found that nearly a third of the people cancelled over antisemitism allegations in Germany have been Jews?
Did you know that plans for a statue of Dirk Nowitzki to have three basketballs were scrapped?
Did you know that during the writing of El Eternauta: segunda parte , Héctor Germán Oesterheld became victim of an enforced disappearance ?
Did you know that arguments in favor of a Palestinian right of armed resistance are often based on Article 1(4) of Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions?
Did you know that Joanna Ferrone served as the business manager for the fictional character Fido Dido ?
Did you know that queer pro-Palestinian protesters faced off against the 2024 Philadelphia Pride drumline?
Did you know that Australian judoka Josh Katz competed in the 2024 Paris Olympics six months after completely rupturing an ACL ?
Did you know that the Tunghsing Building was the only building in Taipei that collapsed after the September 21 earthquake in 1999?
Did you know that Parker Short became popular on social media for singing and dancing to " Not Like Us " at a rally for Kamala Harris ?
Did you know that the Rabbinic period was consequential in the ongoing development of Judaism and its traditions?
Did you know that Alexina Kublu , a linguist, translator, Languages Commissioner, and the first justice of the peace in Nunavut, is her grandmother's father and her daughter's son, as per the Inuit namesake tradition?
Did you know that the Shrine of Taharqa was coated in nitrocellulose ?
Did you know that Rolling Stone listed Ácido Argentino as the most essential album of Argentine heavy metal?
Did you know that people of the Zenú culture built canals in the La Mojana wetland area of Colombia long before Spanish arrival?
Did you know that Kaylee Bryson was the first female driver to advance to the A-Main feature race at the Chili Bowl Nationals ?
Did you know that every summer, the Suiattle River dirties the Sauk with glacial debris?
Did you know that architect Donald MacKay designed a fire station which later burnt down in the Great Seattle Fire ?
Did you know that according to legend, after one of the Earl de Grey 's parrots was killed, the other never spoke again?
Did you know that although Armond Seidler invented the pugil stick for military training purposes, it later found use in the television show American Gladiators ?
Did you know that two cosmetic companies engaged in a "rose war" with advertising campaigns based around the song " You're More Beautiful Than a Rose " and the film The Rose of Versailles ?
Did you know that Fede Vigevani once presented an awards ceremony in which he won an award?
Did you know that the construction of the Jubilee Bridge was featured in the 1982 documentary about the A9 road reconstruction?
Did you know that Olympic judoka Edmilson Pedro is nicknamed Bicho Papão , which means "the bogeyman"?
Did you know that "New York's wealthiest janitor" lived atop the Bergdorf Goodman Building ?
Did you know that Henry Charles Swan , a law graduate from Oxford, spent more than 25 years living on a yacht in a stream in New Zealand?
Did you know that in her song " Slim Pickins ", Sabrina Carpenter supposedly settles for someone who does not know the difference between "their", "there", and "they are"?
Did you know that the ideas of Albert Schädler became the founding ideas of the Progressive Citizens' Party , though he himself was opposed to the formation of political parties?
Did you know that Queen Anne Pool opened to the public one day late, after a thermostat glitch accidentally heated the pool to 100 °F (38 °C)?
Did you know that Hyakuman-kai no "I Love You" is a popular confession song in Japan?
Did you know that upon winning a civil war in Portuguese Timor , the political party Fretilin repeatedly requested that Portuguese authorities return?
Did you know that around the age of four, Jacob von Eggers was deported to Arkhangelsk in Russia together with the entire German-speaking population of Tartu ?
Did you know that an annex to the A. I. Namm & Son Department Store included artifacts from a church?
Did you know that the Military-First Girls , a Japanese all-women fan club of the Moranbong Band , have compared their interest in North Korean music to other women's interests in K-pop and Taylor Swift ?
Did you know that one of the last photographs ever taken of Sitting Bull shows him side by side with Buffalo Bill ?
Did you know that Juan de Casas , the Spanish military governor of Venezuela, cried after the French demanded that he accept a Frenchman as king?
Did you know that a bust of former Peruvian president Justiniano Borgoño was stolen from its pedestal by thieves?
Did you know that the Republic Drug Store was formed from the consolidation of an estate and its competition?
Did you know that a coconut tree meme drove sales of piña coladas in the Washington, D.C., area?
Did you know that Nicole Chang-Leng has been described as a "daughter" of the Seychelles?
Did you know that a former teacher in the Philippines became a Robin Hood –like outlaw?
Did you know that the author of Sugar Dog Life ended up buying and raising a cactus after drawing one in the manga?
Did you know that a 1917 agreement between France and Russia was rendered void within days because of the February Revolution ?
Did you know that Goethe used his unrequited love to Maximiliane Brentano as inspiration for his novel The Sorrows of Young Werther ?
Did you know that the cupola of Homer House is part of a 19th-century cooling system?
Did you know that Grant Nel , at the age of nine, switched from gymnastics to diving after breaking both of his hands?
Did you know that the New York City Police Department shut down highway and bridge traffic for the funeral of the owner of Neary's , an Irish pub?
Did you know that a drone attack by the Houthi military hit a target in Tel Aviv , but no sirens were activated?
Did you know that the general manager of a California TV station canceled the interview show he hosted because of its lack of quality?
Did you know that the regent of the Mongol Empire between 1248 and 1251 was named " We Were Searching for a Boy "?
Did you know that Olympic taekwondo practitioner Yahya Al-Ghotany picked up the sport "by chance" at a refugee camp?
Did you know that the opera Christopher Columbus was written by its Jewish composer while fleeing persecution from Nazi Germany by sailing across the Atlantic?
Did you know that The Invincible Dragon was filmed at the Macau police headquarters without permission, leading to the detention of the director and the lead actor?
Did you know that David Gillespie became the chief surveyor of the United States boundary commission after the first surveyor was considered to be "insufferably arrogant"?
Did you know that the creator of Ani ni Aisaresugite Komattemasu ensured a happy ending by not making the main characters blood relatives?
Did you know that painter Mark Robert Harrison 's brother died in a fire that broke out at one of Harrison's own exhibitions in 1846?
Did you know that €40,000 of equipment and cash was stolen during the filming of the music video for " Cry Baby "?
Did you know that to avoid COVID-19 rule breaches, officials had to discourage people from posting a leopard seal 's location online?
Did you know that Zhong Jingwen was known as the "father of Chinese folklore studies"?
Did you know that Galena Schoolhouse in South Dakota was once leased to a historical society for $1 annually?
Did you know that the British Army's Submarine Mining Service defended ports and harbours with naval mines and torpedoes?
Did you know that Tilman Michael , who is set to be the Metropolitan Opera 's chorus master from the 2024/25 season, helped the Oper Frankfurt win multiple awards for operatic choir of the year?
Did you know that " 50 YouTubers Fight for $1,000,000 " gained more than 70 million views in 24 hours?
Did you know that Thomas Broun has been blamed for inflating the number of beetle species in New Zealand?
Did you know that a school was once evacuated after the water gun of a student playing senior assassin was mistaken for a firearm?
Did you know that the Permanent Mission of Indonesia to the United Nations is housed in a former public bath ?
Did you know that rugby sevens player Malacchi Esdale said that the conditioning he went through to play in the Olympics was "borderline crazy"?
Did you know that Fantasy , performed at the Luxor Las Vegas hotel, is the longest-duration topless production in Las Vegas at a single venue?
Did you know that two kidnapped activists were released after claiming at a press conference that they were abducted by government forces?
Did you know that Mary Jane Patterson , whose mother was an African-American slave, gained a BA degree in 1862 having taken a "gentleman's course"?
Did you know that the angel's wings in the live-action television-drama adaptation of One Room Angel took about a month to construct?
Did you know that Dorothy Stanley was once said to be one of the last speakers of the Miwok languages ?
Did you know that a contemporary adaptation of "The Snow Queen" contains feminist elements and, according to one scholar, violates gender expectations?
Did you know that Badger is the first commander of the Unmanned Systems Forces ?
Did you know that the borders of the Yellow River Delta National Nature Reserve were drawn to minimize impact on the Shengli Oil Field ?
Did you know that as a child, future Olympian Kevin Mejía sold spinning tops ?
Did you know that Chris Cox, the founder of Bikers for Trump , estimated that 70 percent of its members are former military personnel?
Did you know that Feastogether launched a restaurant that was Taiwan's highest-priced buffet when it opened in 2023?
Did you know that while recruiting for the Blair Colony , Betty Blair reportedly convinced potential settlers that there were no flies in South Dakota?
Did you know that the DJ Sammy Virji went viral on TikTok after cueing in a track with a rubber fish?
Did you know that in 1884 Motibai Kapadia 's father allowed her to study alongside men in India?
Did you know that in the late 1940s the steam tug Brent removed war-related debris, including naval mines, from the River Thames?
Did you know that Lorena Peril , who once cleaned toilets at a nursing home, beat out over 3,000 people to sing the national anthem for the San Francisco 49ers ?
Did you know that Mohammad Bhar, a Palestinian man with Down syndrome and autism, died following a dog attack in the Gaza Strip during the Israel–Hamas war ?
Did you know that Héctor Germán Oesterheld repurposed his initial plans for a sequel of the comic The Eternaut as a novel?
Did you know that Helen Hornbeck Tanner was part of a major case supporting the Ojibwe before the Supreme Court of the United States while in her 80s?
Did you know that the title of the documentary Wolfman's Got Nards is derived from a memorable line in the 1987 film The Monster Squad ?
Did you know that USA Boxing's head coach said that Olympian Jajaira Gonzalez 's return to boxing was "like Lazarus coming back from the dead"?
Did you know that shortly after it was completed, the Tokamak de Fontenay-aux-Roses burned a hole through itself in a plasma disruption?
Did you know that 19th-century Polish writer Józef Ignacy Kraszewski authored hundreds of works, including more than 200 novels?
Did you know that the legalization of abortion in Benin was supported by two members of the cabinet who had both worked as gynecologists?
Did you know that in December 2023, former Major League Soccer referee Alex Chilowicz began officiating in the English Football League after relocating to England?
Did you know that many producers of Marmelada de Santa Luzia , a variety of quince cheese , are descendants of quilombolas ?
Did you know that Nathaniel Coe declined nomination to the United States Senate , instead choosing to serve as an inspector for the United States Postal Service ?
Did you know that Sachi Narashima came up with the idea for the manga Cosmetic Playlover after her friend, who worked as a beauty consultant, mentioned that there were male beauty consultants?
Did you know that Mary Jo West compared working in network TV news to learning that Santa Claus is just an ordinary man?
Did you know that the Church of St John of the Collachium was said to contain the hand of John the Baptist , a bowl used by Jesus, and a piece of the True Cross ?
Did you know that the Nuwhaha people, despite sometimes being erroneously known as the "Upper Samish ", do not speak the Samish language ?
Did you know that Betty Hanley , originally a Michigander , was appointed lampshade designer to the British royal family?
Did you know that the spin-off episode of the live-action adaptation of Motokare Retry was written to portray "conversations between men" and "male friendship"?
Did you know that during the 1964 New York World's Fair , police officers used computers at the United States Pavilion to help arrest people?
Did you know that Greenlandic content creator Qupanuk Olsen petitioned the Inatsisartut to move Greenland's time zone to UTC−03:00 ?
Did you know that many an Xplorer has traversed the rails in Canberra ?
Did you know that William Aitken , William J. Bain , J. Lister Holmes , John T. Jacobsen , and George W. Stoddard collaborated in the early 1940s to design America's first racially integrated public housing development ?
Did you know that the 1990 Serbian constitutional referendum also took place at six voting stations in Montenegro for voters who were on holiday?
Did you know that Ana Sigüenza was the first woman to be the general secretary of a national trade union center in Spain?
Did you know that during the 1929 Dollar Mountain Fire , 65 firefighters survived being surrounded by fire overnight by sheltering near a creek?
Did you know that the lyrics of " Executioner's Tax (Swing of the Axe) " were inspired by beheadings in medieval Europe?
Did you know that up to 16,000 crows regularly commute from around the Seattle metropolitan area to a wetland in Bothell, Washington ?
Did you know that according to a TikTok theory , burnt toast could save you from a car accident?
Did you know that Cyclone Freddy was the longest-lasting tropical cyclone recorded ?
Did you know that Daiki Kobayashi was already known for his androgynous voice when he was cast as a cross-dressing idol in The Idolmaster SideM ?
Did you know that an office building on New York City's Times Square was almost entirely vacant upon its completion?
Did you know that although sport shooter Ban Hyo-jin attended Olympic trials just to gain some competition experience, she qualified for the Olympics and went on to win a gold medal?
Did you know that while performing " Love Is Embarrassing ", Olivia Rodrigo suffered an "embarrassing" wardrobe malfunction?
Did you know that architect Ivan Palmaw designed houses in Shanghai and Seattle after fleeing the Russian Revolution ?
Did you know that a researcher called the community on the short-lived collaborative writing website One Million Monkeys Typing "astonishingly harmonious"?
Did you know that an icon of Jesus was removed from a Catholic church for allegedly being pagan imagery?
Did you know that Olympian Sydney Francisco was named after the city where her mother competed at the Olympics?
Did you know that the December 2010 Christchurch earthquake caused Boxing Day sales events six weeks later?
Did you know that a judge compared the bankruptcy fraud of an Ohio TV station to a 1601 English court case ?
Did you know that the surviving copies of the Kitab-ı Bahriye contain a total of more than 5,700 maps?
Did you know that the 1919 foxtrot song " I'll See You in C-U-B-A " was an example of Cuba being perceived as "America's playground"?
Did you know that 30 royal portraits of Korean kings were completely destroyed in a 1954 fire in Busan, South Korea ?
Did you know that cinematographer Alfredo Gandolfi also had a career as a singer that included more than 300 performances at the Metropolitan Opera ?
Did you know that the demolition of the Iloilo Central Market was criticized as being unlawful?
Did you know that Swedish naval officer Henrik Johan Nauckhoff fought against the British in the American Revolutionary War ?
Did you know that nine-year-old children were sometimes employed to help teach younger children in infant schools in the 1840s?
Did you know that the Zbrojovka Z 4 was the first Czechoslovak mass-produced car with front-wheel drive?
Did you know that " Ka Esi Le Onye Isi Oche ", a 1983 song by Mike Ejeagha , went viral in 2024?
Did you know  that despite being an independent candidate, Leanne Mohamad came within 528 votes of defeating shadow health secretary Wes Streeting in the 2024 UK general election ?
Did you know that German officials exiled the Samoan king from his own kingdom in 1887?
Did you know that at the 2024 Olympics, unranked North Korean table tennis pair Ri Jong Sik and Kim Kum Yong defeated the defending champions and went on to win the silver medal?
Did you know that according to a myth, after composer Maxim Berezovsky died, Catherine the Great allegedly ordered that the papers in his rooms be burned?