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Did you know that when Alexander McQueen , following years of criticism for over-reliance on runway spectacles, presented The Man Who Knew Too Much , it was criticised for its lack of theatrics?
Did you know that Lars Chemnitz was one of the first recipients of Nersornaat , the highest honor in Greenland?
Did you know that the principal songwriter of a song on Always Happy to Explode asked listeners to "love it for me, for I cannot"?
Did you know that Daniel Hermann wrote poems on the inclusion of a lizard and a frog in a piece of amber, the eagle in the coat of arms of Poland , and a child suffering from Fraser syndrome ?
Did you know that the harsh treatment of Allied prisoners of war in Japan is well known in the West but mostly ignored or glossed over in Japan itself?
Did you know that a cable TV channel in the UK was still broadcasting primarily in black and white as late as 1979?
Did you know that with the Green Bay Packers ' loss in the 2020 NFC Championship Game , Aaron Rodgers "became the first quarterback in NFL history to lose four straight NFC Championship Games "?
Did you know that The House of Bijapur has been called a "painted curtain call" since the dynasty it depicts was overthrown only a few years later?
Did you know that Dethloff Willrodt fought for the Union army on the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg on July 1, 1863 , having previously been a soldier in the Confederate army ?
Did you know that in Greek mythology, Achilles promised to marry Pisidice if she would help him conquer her homeland, but afterwards he had her executed for treason?
Did you know that blogger Charles LeBlanc interviewed a man who carried out a mass shooting the following year?
Did you know that for cultural reasons the jijin was permitted to be worn by Catholic priests in China even while celebrating Mass?
Did you know that in 1927 Berta Persson became the first woman bus driver in Sweden and was nicknamed "Buss-Berta"?
Did you know that both the comedy film Starbuck , and the Holstein bull it was named after, had cloned remakes?
Did you know that Emirati princess Mahra Al Maktoum invoked the triple talaq to divorce her husband, which is traditionally done only by the husband?
Did you know that as many as 35 million soldiers became prisoners of war in World War II , according to some estimates?
Did you know that Luigi Mangione was described as "somewhat of an online sex symbol" following his December 2024 arrest?
Did you know that the Mseilha Fort is strategically located to overlook the crossing of the Jaouz River near Ras ash-Shaq'a , a promontory in Lebanon?
Did you know that Saint Amata of Assisi was interviewed and testified during the process of the canonization of her aunt, Saint Clare of Assisi ?
Did you know that journalism students at New Mexico State University were willing to work for free to save their newscast on the school's TV station ?
Did you know that the Rockwell PPS-8 microprocessor had a number of features that made Adam Osborne call it "most unusual" and "difficult to understand"?
Did you know that a president of the Oregon Senate crawled along a ledge of the State Capitol to access an unsecured window of the absent governor's office to place bills on his desk?
Did you know that a PhD student discovered a lost manuscript of Galen 's Peri Alypias in 2005, in "one of the most spectacular finds ever of ancient literature"?
Did you know that Kim Kitsuragi was praised as one of the best video game characters of 2019?
Did you know that the Chinese Lingnan School faced condemnation during the Second Sino-Japanese War , even as it spread anti-Japanese messages?
Did you know that in the wake of a hazing scandal , Western Kentucky University placed their swimming and diving programs on a five-year suspension?
Did you know that some years after unknowingly working for the Manhattan Project , Charles Fisk quit physics and became an organ builder ?
Did you know that after a 2008 tornado , Michael Chertoff likened Picher, Oklahoma , to a nuclear bomb site?
Did you know that the producers of Doctor Who only wrote a queer romance into the programme's 2022 special episodes after viewers began shipping two characters?
Did you know that the return ceremony of the skull of Adam Sapi Mkwawa 's grandfather was "probably the biggest gathering ever to take place in Tanganyika"?
Did you know that a study of people who reported experiences of alien abduction found that many exhibited characteristics consistent with fantasy-prone personality ?
Did you know that the My Chemical Romance song " Cancer " was written in eight minutes?
Did you know that Ambo Sooloh pledged allegiance to the British government on behalf of all Malays in Singapore?
Did you know that a pavilion next to New York City's Ted Weiss Federal Building was canceled due to the discovery of human remains?
Did you know that Pocatello mayor Les Purce was the first African-American political officeholder in Idaho?
Did you know that the Chapline columbine is generally considered a distinct species, except in Texas, where it is considered a variety of the golden columbine ?
Did you know that a Portsmouth building was Grade II-listed because Eric Rimmington painted a mural inside it?
Did you know that the Glucoboy was advertised as the "first medical device to interface with a Nintendo Game Boy"?
Did you know that a Sunday afternoon phone call to Ken Battle laid the foundations for the Canadian Child Benefit program?
Did you know that in the narrative epic Pem Nem , the union of two lovers is a metaphor for the union of the soul with God?
Did you know that after becoming a born again Christian, soprano Jane Stuart Smith abandoned a successful opera career to pursue a life of Christian service?
Did you know that Singapore's first R-rated play was performed despite the police finding parts of it "offensive"?
Did you know that the Filipino boy band SB19 considered disbandment after their debut single " Tilaluha " saw little success?
Did you know that Richard Stratton 's diplomatic career took him "from South America to Japan, and from Southern Africa to the foothills of the Himalayas"?
Did you know that among the millions of prisoners of war murdered by the Germans during WWII there were also tens of thousands of their former allies, the Italians?
Did you know that American football player Noah Knigga went viral for his last name and had to clarify its pronunciation?
Did you know that gym teacher Harold Styan of Clifton House School was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to youth?
Did you know that one critic described some of the melodies in Life Till Bones as akin to "trying to dig a hole in a bowl full of sugar"?
Did you know that Goro Takahashi , a silversmith adopted by a Lakota family, was the first Japanese person allowed to attend a Sun Dance ?
Did you know that a Rhode Island TV station started out by re-running an inventory of 50 hours of cartoons and 14 old movies?
Did you know that the 1923 film Zhang Xinsheng featured close-up views of internal organs?
Did you know that an inscription from 243 AD for a leader of the marzēaḥ ends with blessings for his sons, the scribe, the person in charge of the cooking, the cupbearer, and other assistants?
Did you know that Ripken wore a GoPro on his back while retrieving used bats and tees at major sporting events?
Did you know that trucks in Tyler promoted Tyler 's latest album ?
Did you know that aerospace engineer Nuno Xavier signed the treaty that made São Tomé and Príncipe an independent nation?
Did you know that some journalists interpreted Taylor Swift's song " But Daddy I Love Him " as her criticism of her own fans?
Did you know that The Bootleggers portrays the illegal alcohol trade during the Prohibition era of the Roaring '20s?
Did you know that the Hanta Road on Okinawa was used by both Ryukyuan armies and the U.S. Navy's Perry Expedition ?
Did you know that political consultant Jim Rivaldo said that moving to San Francisco made him realize that "there were gay lawyers, gay businessmen—a lot of people like me"?
Did you know that Aquilegia barykinae is likely more closely related to other species of columbine than to Aquilegia amurensis , which shares its range?
Did you know that Mark Smith was a fourth-generation actor who performed in 70 theaters in New York City and on more than 2,000 radio programs?
Did you know that the director-screenwriter of Blossoms Under Somewhere joined Telegram groups that sell used lingerie to conduct field research?
Did you know that a musical adaptation of Homer's Odyssey is structured after video-game level progression?
Did you know that scholars have suggested that bædlings may have been a third gender in Anglo-Saxon society?
Did you know that the FBI's first successful use of silver nitrate to identify fingerprints was in solving the kidnapping of a brewery executive ?
Did you know that one Tumblr user cursed another for stealing bones for use in curses ?
Did you know that in 1902 the paramedic student Anna Weisman smuggled fonts to help set up an underground revolutionary publishing house in Saratov ?
Did you know that debris was carried aloft to an altitude of 30,000 feet (9,100 m) after the 1957 Ruskin Heights tornado ?
Did you know that Johannes Kaiser was the leading opponent to Liechtenstein's accession to the International Monetary Fund ?
Did you know that the publication of Paul Creston's saxophone sonata was delayed by a "rat with a toothbrush mustache"?
Did you know that Josie Childs served as a Chicago mayor's assistant, worked as a campaign organizer for three U.S. presidents, and hosted the British queen?
Did you know that Kenshi Yonezu 's song " Dune " describes his perception of a "desert-like atmosphere" on the video-sharing website Niconico ?
Did you know that Haliey Welch earned more than $65,000 within weeks of hawk tuah going viral?
Did you know that the first women's dormitory built at Hampton University was partially paid for with money collected by the school's choir in tours led by Thomas P. Fenner ?
Did you know that hefker , unowned property in Talmudic law, came to express both personal freedom and societal abandonment in 20th-century Yiddish poetry?
Did you know that the questionnaire prepared after the Jewish Ethnographic Expedition had 2,087 questions and was called "a modern epic"?
Did you know that during World War II, US Army casualty telegrams were sent out in the name of Major General James Alexander Ulio ?
Did you know that to raise funds for the Council of District Dumas , its chairman led an armed squad to storm the Moscow headquarters of the State Bank ?
Did you know that the Boldy James and Sterling Toles collaborative album Manger on McNichols took over a decade to make?
Did you know that Renildo José dos Santos , a Brazilian councilman, was murdered in 1993 after publicly coming out as bisexual?
Did you know that a Kansas City TV station was under contract to be sold within a week of its first regular broadcast?
Did you know that Her Story was described as China's answer to Barbie ?
Did you know that football player Jahkeem Stewart was 6 feet 4 inches (1.93 m) and 340 pounds (150 kg) in sixth grade?
Did you know that the murder of skier Corinne Rey-Bellet led to a change in Swiss gun-control regulations ?
Did you know that Home and Beauty has been described as both a "little masterpiece of polite merriment" and a "misogynist comedy dipped in vitriol"?
Did you know that Bea Hines , the first African-American woman to become a reporter at the Miami Herald , was sent to report on a riot on her first day at work?
Did you know that terracotta cones found at al-Moghraqa in Palestine are unique in the region, but resemble artefacts from ancient Egypt?
Did you know that Yvonne Francis-Gibson , before improving women's rights as a legislator in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, led a Women's Desk that was "unable to take a firm stand on behalf of women's issues"?
Did you know that Aquilegia moorcroftiana is named after a mountaineer and is found at the highest elevation of any species of columbine ?
Did you know that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was just one center until 1980?
Did you know that Yuki Waga created the "earworm" for " Shikairo Days " by walking around his house repeating " shikanoko nokonoko koshitantan "?
Did you know that the Okinawan king Shō Taikyū was reportedly protected by an all-female bodyguard?
Did you know that the browser extension AdNauseam blocks and clicks on advertisements at the same time?
Did you know that a key part of Alexis Harding 's abstract art is the chemical incompatibility of the different paints he uses?
Did you know that neither of the two athletes who represented Togo at the 2014 Winter Olympics grew up or trained in the country?
Did you know that Monica Smit was ordered to pay Victoria Police 's legal bill of about A$ 250,000, despite winning a lawsuit against them?
Did you know that St. Peter's Catholic Church is the oldest church in continuous use in the state of Minnesota?
Did you know that the music of Camila Cabello inspired Taylor Swift to work on the song " I Forgot That You Existed " with the producers Louis Bell and Frank Dukes ?
Did you know that the Biblical Magi dispense mysterious vision-inducing foods in the Revelation of the Magi , which a scholar proposed to be an account of ritual hallucinogen intake?
Did you know that the Rescatemos a David y Miguel memorial was installed seven years ago today in response to a kidnapping that occurred thirteen years ago today?
Did you know that Carol and Eric Hafner ran for five United States House of Representatives seats for states in which they did not live, and mostly had not visited?
Did you know that ketchup chips were introduced in the 1970s along with other flavours such as grape and orange?
Did you know that the military glider Tsybin Ts-25 was considered for use as a civilian airliner?
Did you know that the futurist novel Man of Smoke , according to a scholar, contains a hidden legal code for readers to piece together?
Did you know that Pokémon Scarlet and Violet became the lowest-rated mainline entries in the franchise's history due to performance issues at launch?
Did you know that Mirza Ebrahim Khan Sahhafbashi opened the first commercial movie theater in Iran, only for it to be banned within a month?
Did you know that the death of Odysseus's dog in the Odyssey uses language typically reserved for the noble deaths of warriors?
Did you know that when future Olympian Chang Wei-chia entered high school, her elementary-school swimming coach was hired full-time and continued to coach her?
Did you know that Babak Ganjei tried to sell a painting of his credit card to Barclays ?
Did you know that An Amorous History of the Silver Screen has been read as a biographic metafilm , paralleling its lead's rise from prostitution into film stardom?
Did you know that the first publication of the prolific author and Talmudic scholar Israel Ta-Shma was a Jewish songbook for the Israel Defense Forces ?
Did you know that Sarah Pickstone based her John Moores Prize –winning painting on an illustration that accompanied the poem " Not Waving but Drowning "?
Did you know that Frank Ocean 's song " American Wedding " was pulled from streaming platforms because of its unauthorized use of " Hotel California "?
Did you know that after being signed, released, signed, released, signed, released, signed, released, signed, released, and signed again, Brandon Smith made his NFL debut?
Did you know that a brigade of Russian paratroopers took part in a NATO-led peacekeeping mission during the 1990s?
Did you know that a squirrel helped to steer viewers to its owner's OnlyFans account?
Did you know that the Bronx General Post Office 's roof once had a shooting range?
Did you know that Thomas Fenner captained an English warship against the Spanish Armada ?
Did you know that an AI-generated Minecraft clone has been described as an early glimpse of the future of video games?
Did you know that films were made of plays written by Anthony E. Wills after his death at a relatively young age?
Did you know that there were at least seven unsuccessful attempts to redevelop New York City's Kings Theatre before it reopened in 2015?
Did you know that newspaper columnist Ly Singko was imprisoned for "glamourising the communist system"?
Did you know that Aquilegia gegica and Aquilegia colchica , two species of columbine native to the Caucasus, can produce fertile hybrid offspring?
Did you know that YouTuber Tyler Oliveira apologized after trying to drain a pool with paper towels?
Did you know that the final seconds of MLS Cup 2024 were disrupted by players and staff who mistakenly entered the field to celebrate?
Did you know that Mary Mellor argued that the COVID-19 pandemic increased the impact of the patriarchy on women, both at home and in the wider economy?
Did you know that Taylor Swift released a demo containing lyrics that were trimmed from the final version of her song " My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys "?
Did you know that a Welsh man lost more than £500 million of bitcoin in a landfill ?
Did you know that baritone Ettore Verna twice "sang himself out of his pants" during a performance at the Boston Opera House , according to Billboard ?
Did you know that the members of an abortive conspiracy to restore the Fatimid Caliphate were said to have asked the Order of Assassins for assistance in eliminating Saladin ?
Did you know that the Lithuanian duke Jonas Vaidutis was elected as the second rector of the oldest Polish university after its restoration in 1400?
Did you know that a Talmudic passage, " The Heart Knows Its Own Bitterness ", has been used in Jewish medical ethics to justify patient autonomy?
Did you know that Kurt Burris was the first American football lineman to finish among the top two in Heisman Trophy voting?
Did you know that The King of Comedy Visits Shanghai depicted Charlie Chaplin in China fourteen years before it happened?
Did you know that the Japanese band Gohobi describes themselves as having a "tofu mentality"?
Did you know that five percent of Barbados's population turned out to protest the death of Milton King in Cape Town police custody?
Did you know that about 200,000 Jews served in the Polish Army and related formations during World War II?
Did you know that Pete Vann recovered from spinal meningitis to set an NCAA single-season passing record?
Did you know that St Bride's Church still has loopholes from use as a military outpost in the 19th century?
Did you know that Glaive recorded the first track for I Care So Much That I Don't Care at All at the age of 17?
Did you know that according to George K. Teulon all of the presidents and vice-presidents of the Republic of Texas , and four-fifths of its government officials, were freemasons ?
Did you know that Sonya Friedman developed the idea of supertitles , which translate words being sung on stage in opera?
Did you know that multiple scenes in Papa feature cotton-tree flowers, even though it was not scripted and the falling cotton simply kept drifting into the shot?
Did you know that Canadian rapper Apt Exact , who has been described as "not gangster", was elected to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia in 2024?
Did you know that the Canaanite ivory comb contains the earliest known sentence in a Canaanite language ?
Did you know that Kathryn Maple won the Sunday Times Watercolour Competition twice in three years?
Did you know that the apartment building the Manhasset caught fire in 1999, just as its renovation was being completed?
Did you know that Chen Dingshan has been called the last heir of the Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies school?
Did you know that meetings between Biblical and post-Biblical characters, such as when Moses sees Rabbi Akiva teach and be martyred, are rare in Talmudic stories?
Did you know that Marie-Thérèse Eyquem served in the government of Vichy France , and was later appointed a national secretary of the French Socialist Party?
Did you know that An Amorous History of the Silver Screen , an exploration of more than four decades of film in China, argues that cinema is a "modern folk tale"?
Did you know that a critic called Benjamin Britten 's Tema "Sacher" a "truncated and barely coherent page [of music]" and "a pathetic fragment"?
Did you know that the 1980s Beechcraft BQM-126 target drone could be launched from aircraft based on aircraft carriers?
Did you know that children's author Mary Chalmers owned ten cats and a Pomeranian dog, whose poses helped her draw illustrations for her books?
Did you know that in the 1917 Moscow District Duma elections , the Bolshevik Party won 97 percent of the votes of the soldiers at the heavy artillery workshops?
Did you know that Flora Hommel , after being afraid of giving birth to her own child, went on to teach the Lamaze technique to more than 17,000 couples?
Did you know that lacrosse player Austin Staats was undefeated in his college career?
Did you know that one of the major prey groups of the paddle crab, Ovalipes catharus , is other paddle crabs?
Did you know that Arab Christian physician Abu Sulayman Da'ud served both Latin Christian and Arab Muslim rulers?
Did you know that jazz dancer LaTasha Barnes used to be a sergeant in the U.S. Army?
Did you know that the basic tune for " As Long as You're Mine " from 2003's Wicked was written by Stephen Schwartz in the 1970s?
Did you know that Jing Tsu remembers being called "female tiger" because her schoolteachers' punishments had little effect on her?
Did you know that booing heard after the United Kingdom's entry at the Eurovision Song Contest 1984 was reportedly either a response to past football hooliganism, claims of lip syncing, or alleged plagiarism of the Supremes ?
Did you know that the 2024 American Samoan gubernatorial election was won by Pula and Pulu ?
Did you know that Murad Al-Katib provided 700 million meals of Saskatchewan-grown chickpeas, lentils and wheat to a United Nations program for Syrian refugees?
Did you know that insurers paid out about NZ$ 171 million in damages caused by a 10-minute hailstorm in New Zealand ?
Did you know that Scottish bricklayer Brian Higgins was unable to find work for 25 years after appearing on a construction-industry blacklist ?
Did you know that the dragonfly Antiquiala was described from a single wing found in the state of Washington?
Did you know that Edward W. Gantt was a Confederate soldier who defected to the Union during the American Civil War ?
Did you know that bored soldiers during the siege of Ak-Mechet began stealing watermelons from gardens outside the enemy fortress?
Did you know that Shō Sen'i was overthrown in favor of his thirteen-year-old nephew ?
Did you know that the titular songstress in Sing-Song Girl Red Peony , a contender for China's first sound film, was overdubbed by a man?
Did you know that the male standard-winged nightjar grows a wing ornament more than twice the length of its body during breeding season?
Did you know that John Green was UCLA 's leading scorer on the first of coach John Wooden 's 12 Final Four teams?
Did you know that while Schubert wrote a melody for the song " Bunt sind schon die Wälder " in 1816, Johann Friedrich Reichardt 's 1799 version is the one that remains popular?
Did you know that a fighter-bomber group under the command of Walter G. Benz Jr. during the Korean War became the first United States Air Force unit to complete 50,000 combat sorties?
Did you know that because of the cultural impact of Dragon Ball in Mexico, Goku has been described as "a Latino icon"?
Did you know that seamen from the warship USS Roy O. Hale boarded the Soviet ship M/V Novorossiysk in 1959, in response to a report from AT&T ?
Did you know that Hidayat Arsani , the governor of the Bangka Belitung Islands in Indonesia, was dumped into a trash can as a baby by his birth parents?
Did you know that Operation Dugo commemorates the death march from the Auschwitz concentration camp annually on 18 January with the consumption of falafel ?
Did you know that the 1990 Serbian general election returned only two women to the National Assembly of Serbia ?
Did you know that a desire to be separated from Chicago has led 33 counties in downstate Illinois to hold referendums on secession ?