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Did you know that the Loyang Tua Pek Kong Temple in Singapore houses effigies of both the Jade Emperor and Mahaganapati ?
Did you know that Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton spent the last 50 years of her life preserving Alexander Hamilton 's and George Washington 's legacies?
Did you know that most of the films produced by the Huaju Film Company starred its co-founder and his girlfriend?
Did you know that Demi Lovato changed a lyric from " Cool for the Summer " for Revamped to reflect pride in her sexuality?
Did you know that young male African bush elephants in musth killed about 49 white rhinoceros in Pilanesberg National Park between 1992 and 1997?
Did you know that Scholastique Dianzinga edited a post-independence history of women in the Republic of the Congo that discussed why women's emancipation has been hindered?
Did you know that a host of the Longform.org podcast once interviewed a writer while accidentally high on edibles ?
Did you know that Zhang Zhiyun , crowned "movie queen" in a newspaper poll in 1926, is reported to have died homeless in Hong Kong?
Did you know that a summons to the Council of Tripoli was issued in the name of the Church to bypass the issue of whether a king could summon a prince?
Did you know that a Swim School song described by one reviewer as "a heavy dystopian doom rocker" was originally performed by Taylor Swift ?
Did you know that the Japanese manga series Mink featured futuristic technology even though its creator was unfamiliar with computers?
Did you know that the Airbnb homestay where a song was recorded by Glaive and Ericdoa was dubbed by fans as the "Hyperpop Hype House "?
Did you know that the fourth president of Austria 's post-secondary instructors included all three of his predecessors?
Did you know that The Catch II game had "one of the most amazing finishes in NFL postseason history", according to the NFL ?
Did you know that the Bank of Korea asked the makers of a cheese-filled waffle to change its design?
Did you know that Christian death metal has been called the least likely musical development at the close of the 20th century?
Did you know that the second edition of An Introduction to Non-Classical Logic more than doubled the length of the original text?
Did you know that Wolseley Haig noted that it was not the " city's huge mosque " but the "far less pretentious" Jama Masjid that served as the congregational mosque in Hyderabad ?
Did you know that the violent end of a bog body might be related to the cult of the Celtic god Esus ?
Did you know that the three costliest tornadoes in Oklahoma's history hit the same town in 2013 , in 1999 and in 2003 ?
Did you know that a TV station in Windsor, Ontario , was spared from closure even though it lost money for ten consecutive years?
Did you know that the leaves of the herb spiked savoury , although protected under Israeli law, are foraged by local people to make a spice mix ?
Did you know that Fatima Payman is the first elected woman to wear a hijab in Australia’s parliament ?
Did you know that Turkey approved the expansion of a coal-fired power station while also bidding to host the 2026 United Nations Climate Change Conference ?
Did you know that the Yiddish writer Shmuel Hurvits quit his job as a teacher to become a street paver due to an ideological appreciation for manual labor?
Did you know that the majority of extrasolar planets in fiction are inhabited by native species ?
Did you know that Wu Yun wrote a treatise on immortality but apparently declined to discuss the subject with Emperor Xuanzong of Tang ?
Did you know that Notre Dame 's win in the 2025 Orange Bowl American football game made Marcus Freeman the first Asian and first Black head coach to earn a spot in an FBS national championship game?
Did you know that Panchiko released their first studio album, Failed at Math(s) , more than 20 years after the band's formation?
Did you know that Scrat , who appears in many films in the Ice Age franchise , was originally intended to be killed in the introduction of the first film ?
Did you know that executive John Spytek helped the Tampa Bay Buccaneers sign Tom Brady , more than 20 years after Spytek played with him?
Did you know that a Florida TV station 's decision to fire one of its main newscasters led to picketing?
Did you know that the wuxia star Wu Suxin passed as a man in several of her films?
Did you know that the pilot episode for a BBC series on a suicide prevention charity made some critics laugh?
Did you know that Syrian vlogger Hayla Ghazal used online humour to explore the  limitations placed on women in the Arab world?
Did you know that the Polish subgenre of speculative fiction known as klerykal fiction emerged in the 1990s as a response to societal fears of church influence in politics?
Did you know that the bugia , a ceremonial candlestick used by Latin Catholic bishops , is named after the Algerian city of Béjaïa , which was a source of candle wax?
Did you know that Brooklyn's Roll-A-Palace has been called "the front-runner of the roller-disco craze"?
Did you know that Elisheva Biernoff paints recreations of found vintage snapshot photographs, some including details like lens flare and overexposure ?
Did you know that staffers of an Ohio radio station learned that it had been sold on the same day as its owner 's death?
Did you know that A Narrative of the Travels and Adventures of Paul Aermont Among the Planets (1873), following the cancellation of a planned second edition, was not reprinted until 2018?
Did you know that Harold Harrington did not seek out new species, but was the first to collect a plant that was later named after him?
Did you know that fans of romcom heroine Bridget Jones were shocked at the death of a favourite character in the 2013 novel Mad about the Boy , and then again in a 2025 film ?
Did you know that a Bronze Age priestess named Eritha was the focus of the first recorded legal dispute in Europe?
Did you know that the Roman-era Ard-al-Moharbeen necropolis is the largest cemetery discovered in Gaza?
Did you know that the writer of " Crabs for Christmas " joked that it contributed to Baltimore 's population decline?
Did you know that Doris Tulifau , after founding an online campaign to counter Samoan gender-based violence, moved to Samoa to expand the campaign in person?
Did you know that the 2014 chariot racing video game Qvadriga was inspired by a 1979 board game ?
Did you know that singer Tomoko Aran became a city-pop icon decades after her initial music career?
Did you know that the owner of a Montana TV station bought an American Legion hall, gutted by fire, to use as a studio building?
Did you know that Ernesius , a 12th-century archbishop of Caesarea , was once prevented from crossing the sea by such a severe storm that he refused to make a second attempt?
Did you know that Olde Raleigh Distillery is not located within its namesake city?
Did you know that archaeologists found evidence at Taur Ikhbeineh in the Gaza Strip of interactions between Egyptians and Canaanites in the 4th millennium BC?
Did you know that an emu named Emmanuel Todd Lopez was the target of a death hoax by undercover journalists?
Did you know that the Chauburji might have been the Mughal emperor Babur 's original burial place?
Did you know that the magazine Science Fiction Chronicle changed its name to just Chronicle two decades after its launch, to avoid being confused with the San Francisco Chronicle ?
Did you know that football manager Darren Moore led Sheffield Wednesday to promotion even after they lost the first leg of their play-off semi-final 4–0 ?
Did you know that some locals have criticised the flag of Kagoshima Prefecture , which is supposed to depict the prefecture's topography but omits its outlying islands?
Did you know that the month of July is named after Julius Caesar ?
Did you know that the first minister of the Hopewell Baptist Church is presumed to be buried under the building?
Did you know that a 2001 book shares the history of a small Tudor community through a 54-year-long " running commentary " by " a somewhat unamiable busybody "?
Did you know that the parked vehicle of one candidate in a 2024 Mexico City borough election was shot five times to "give her a scare"?
Did you know that " The Man in the Yellow Tie ", an episode of The Flash , concludes a plotline established two years earlier on a different TV series ?
Did you know that college football player Chad Brinker continued his career after undergoing brain surgery and eventually signed into the NFL?
Did you know that Their Highest Potential shows the positive side of segregated schools, as written by a student who was taught in one?
Did you know that Ann McMillan recalled "playing" a tape recorder for Déserts , a piece by Edgard Varèse ?
Did you know that an Iowa TV station , in one fell swoop, fired nearly a third of its staff and canceled a children's show that had been on the air for 32 years?
Did you know that Henry A. Henry brought an extensive library of Jewish literature when he emigrated to the United States in 1849?
Did you know that King Philip refused to give up Champagne ?
Did you know that Maki Narukido researched the characters' travel times in her manga The End of the World With You using Google Maps?
Did you know that Annel Silungwe was a judge in Seychelles, a supreme court justice in Namibia, and the chief justice of Zambia?
Did you know that after the Great Savannah Fire of 1820 , the city government rejected a donation from New York City because it was stipulated that the funds be allocated "without distinction of color"?
Did you know that Italian artist Gianni Benvenuti , known for his children's book illustrations, also had a diverse career as a painter, sculptor, and printmaker ?
Did you know that the Green Bay Packers and the Arizona Cardinals set multiple NFL playoff records during their 2009 NFC Wild Card playoff game ?
Did you know that a painting of the Battle of Kejiwan was for a time the most expensive ever made by an Indonesian artist?
Did you know that some Jeep owners enjoy ducking each other ?
Did you know that Edward Skeletrix , to promote his album Museum Music , held an exhibition during which he sat inside a glass box?
Did you know that the fortified walls surrounding the Iron Age Tell Ruqeish in Palestine are up to 5.5 metres (18 feet) thick?
Did you know that the Raymond C. and Mildred Kramer House was one of fewer than half a dozen houses built in Manhattan during 1934?
Did you know that the sustainability of the Baggu reusable bag is challenged by collector culture?
Did you know that NFL player Obe Wenig was named an All-Pro even though he played only one game?
Did you know that director Isao Takahata reportedly stayed overnight at a doss-house to ensure that the Japanese animated film Jarinko Chie accurately depicts the city of Osaka ?
Did you know that journalist Ivan Miller was once bitten by a disgruntled Santa Claus?
Did you know that weightlifter Mattie Sasser switched her sporting nationality twice before qualifying for the Marshall Islands at the 2024 Summer Olympics ?
Did you know that "the flower of the Yogyakarta nobility perished" at the Battle of Lengkong ?
Did you know that the soap opera Neighbours was cancelled by Amazon MGM Studios just three days after the conclusion of its 40th anniversary tour ?
Did you know that the French Jesuit priest and archaeologist René Mouterde contributed to the documentation of 3,405 Greek and Latin inscriptions from Lebanon, Jordan, and Syria?
Did you know that readers of Your Computer is On Fire would be "faced with an existential crisis", according to The Register ?
Did you know that a California radio station came to exist because a high-school faculty advisor was on leave in Europe?
Did you know that a word in Wangerooge Frisian , once used to describe loading a gun, later came to be used to describe an invitation to a birthday party?
Did you know that during the 1967 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election , Apurbalal Majumdar ran in two different constituencies and was elected in both?
Did you know that the soundtrack to the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz was not commercially available until 1956?
Did you know that tea-garden labour leader Prem Oraon lost his right leg in 1970 during a protest against a factory closure?
Did you know that when the Brighton Town Commissioners wanted to build Queen's Road through a slum district, they invited all the residents to a festival and demolished their houses while they were away?
Did you know that Green Bay Packer Wally Ladrow worked as a packer?
Did you know that the outbreak of the Java War , which lasted five years and killed more than 200,000 people, was triggered by a government road project?
Did you know that Herzog Wine Cellars produces approximately 250,000 cases of kosher wine annually?
Did you know that a car accident may have wrecked Richard Petty's chances of being elected North Carolina's secretary of state ?
Did you know that when the crime of mugging gained attention in the UK, one book argued that mugging was not distinct from existing crimes?
Did you know that in the essay " Toward European Unity " George Orwell presumed that one of the greatest obstacles to a federal Europe would be economic pressure by the United States?
Did you know that Fadel al-Utol considers preserving Gaza's archaeological sites to be a peaceful act of resistance against Israel?
Did you know that cyclist Mike Allen compared participating in the Olympics to Disneyland ?
Did you know that New York City's unbuilt River Walk development was delayed due to a $2 million study of striped bass ?
Did you know that a character from Gunbuster popularized an arm fold commonly seen in anime?
Did you know that Marilyn Fisher Lundy developed one of Michigan's first accredited charter schools?
Did you know that a journalist used vibe coding to create an app to suggest what to pack for lunch?
Did you know that Indian communist revolutionary S. A. Rawoof was charged with conspiracy to murder two individuals with the same name?
Did you know that the FogCam is believed to be the world's longest-running public webcam?
Did you know that cowries were increasingly used during the reign of Ehenneden as currency in Igodomigodo 's markets?
Did you know that the Christchurch Seagull Pit has been described as the "ninth wonder of the world"?
Did you know that Herman Martell , who co-founded the alumni association for the Green Bay Packers , only appeared in one NFL game for the team?
Did you know that the Mobile Adapter GB was an early, albeit unsuccessful, attempt at handheld online gaming for the Game Boy Color and the Game Boy Advance?
Did you know that Genora Johnson Dollinger was known as the Joan of Arc of Labor due to having to be dragged away from the 1936 Flint sit-down strike ?
Did you know that an Israeli diplomat was assassinated in Ankara just two days after diplomatic relations between Israel and Turkey were fully established?
Did you know that Celeste Bedford Walker said that both her plays on the Houston riot of 1917 and Tulsa race massacre were "quintessential racial confrontation stories"?
Did you know that actor Kōta Nomura had no experience in cooking before being cast in the live-action drama adaptation of Perfect Propose ?
Did you know that Gerry Snyder brought the Summer Olympics and Major League Baseball to Montreal?
Did you know that an attempt to use automated dialogue replacement in the Reservation Dogs episode " Deer Lady " failed because the voice sounded too much like Yoda ?
Did you know that a former police whistleblower is developing six islands in The World ?
Did you know that the 2012 Southern Indiana tornado ripped chunks of asphalt concrete off of a road and threw the pieces 30 yards (27 m) away?
Did you know that the proprietor of the company Samurai Shokai promoted the foreign practice of shaking hands in Japan?
Did you know that John Albrinck is estimated to have planted more than 1,500 fruit trees during his time as a seminary rector?
Did you know that clapper-bells are the oldest bronze-cast objects found at Erlitou ?
Did you know that the historic water stream Seil Amman was roofed to make way for a road in the 1960s?
Did you know that C. G. Joshi played cricket for Rajasthan at the same time that he ran the fine arts department at Mayo College ?
Did you know that the French, when they began to colonize Cambodia, agreed that Angkor Wat was in Thailand ?
Did you know that there was initially an attempt to cover up any casualties during the 2025 New Delhi railway station crowd crush ?
Did you know that the music video for the single " Dam " by the Filipino boy band SB19 has been compared to Game of Thrones and The Lord of the Rings ?
Did you know that the " Slicker " "performed so well at cracking skulls"?
Did you know that Mabel Dole Haden gained her law degree at Howard University after not being able to afford to complete her bachelor's degree there?
Did you know that Zhou Enlai reportedly enjoyed watching the play Li Huiniang , while Mao Zedong did not?
Did you know that the Philippines' gold medal at the 2025 Asian Winter Games was also its first medal at the Asian Winter Games ?
Did you know that " Hardwired " was interpreted as a statement on the outcome of the 2016 United States presidential election?
Did you know that Kevin Jefferson started kindergarten at age 3, high school at 12, and college at 16, and made his NFL debut at 20?
Did you know that Vince McMahon reportedly attempted to buy the rights to a documentary on his career ?
Did you know that Dan Bull was a keyboardist for Eskimo Joe before he was elected to the Western Australian Legislative Assembly ?
Did you know that the painting Christ's Entry into Jerusalem was once cut from its frame and dragged "like a wet blanket" to save it from a fire?
Did you know that Chung Suet Ying has better sign language skills than her character in The Way We Talk , which requires her to sign "worse"?
Did you know that while executives believed the Golden Rondelle Theater would be a waste of money, it was one of the 1964 World's Fair 's most popular attractions?
Did you know that University of Indonesia dean Sahati Suharto was sued by one of her expelled students?
Did you know that the first general manager of a Michigan radio station almost died of carbon monoxide poisoning during construction?
Did you know that the Attorney General of Georgia argued that Robin Shahar 's lesbian wedding meant that she didn't have "good sense"?
Did you know that the expansion of glaciers created two distinct forms of Aquilegia confusa , with individual populations better adapted to different elevations?
Did you know that the identity of Cleo , who provided online answers to complex mathematics problems without showing any work, was revealed over a decade later in 2025?
Did you know that the Anishinaabe founded Little Current , but were displaced by white settlers who took over their profitable trade?
Did you know that in the span of five years, Elsie Chin was a nurse during the Battle of Hong Kong , served with the Chinese Red Cross , trained soldiers on first aid in India, and joined the U.S. Army Nurse Corps ?
Did you know that in 1359 the French king signed a treaty which ceded almost half of France to England?
Did you know  that Bahraini author Fatema Al Harbi ,  the first non-government Bahraini to visit Israel, faced death threats upon her return to Bahrain?
Did you know that Sacred Heart Church was the birthplace of the orphanage which would become the only pontifical university in the United States ?
Did you know that the Dutch edition of Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight for Survival was recalled?
Did you know that brothers Carl , Martin , and Dick Zoll all played exactly one NFL game for the Green Bay Packers ?
Did you know that an activist group projected an image of Elon Musk's salute onto a Tesla factory with the phrase "Heil Tesla"?
Did you know that Jake Brown , although born with cerebral palsy , made dozens of appearances for the mainstream association football club Askam United?
Did you know that the Hennepin Avenue Bridge was the first bridge across the Mississippi River ?
Did you know that Karl Braun and other German scientists played cards with their British colleagues during World War I?
Did you know that a five-year-old boy thrown from a third-floor balcony in the Mall of America was released from the hospital just in time for his first day of kindergarten?
Did you know that Andrzej Sapkowski , the creator of The Witcher , described his short story W leju po bombie as the only one of his works that can be classified as science fiction?
Did you know that Black Forest gateau inspired an Internet meme ?
Did you know that Tim Urban stated that a procrastinator's brain is distracted by an "instant gratification monkey" and saved at the last minute by a "panic monster"?
Did you know that Ronald Reagan 's friends thought that his official White House portrait did not look like him?
Did you know that Kwek Leng Joo co-created an exhibition combining modern photography and traditional Chinese painting?
Did you know that the library of the Institut Français d'Archéologie de Beyrouth contained about 24,000 volumes by 1970?
Did you know that one scholar regards an Old Irish oath as a scholarly Christian invention, but another sees it as the descendant of a Proto-Indo-European oath?
Did you know that Evan Honer was told by American Idol judge Luke Bryan to "stick to diving"?
Did you know that Wayne Davenport , in a six-year span, went from playing college football to coaching football, returning to college, playing in the NFL, returning to coaching and then back to college football?
Did you know that the Battle of the Bosporus , one of the largest naval battles in the Middle Ages , was fought during the night in a storm in a narrow strait?
Did you know that Terry Davis created TempleOS, a Bible-themed operating system that had more than 120,000 lines of code?
Did you know that two EF2 tornadoes merged near downtown Tallahassee in 2024?
Did you know that Los Angeles Rising was put together by two musicians who had been forced to evacuate their homes due to the January 2025 wildfires in Los Angeles ?
Did you know that the lead cast of Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In reunited to star in the unrelated film Hit N Fun ?
Did you know that The Hungry Five were credited with maintaining the unique ownership structure of the Green Bay Packers ?
Did you know that the zookeeper of the " loneliest elephant in the world " credited her with saving his marriage?
Did you know that music manager Alan Wills learned about management from his father, who was "in charge of the UK's nuclear early warning system"?
Did you know that according to some value theorists , nothing is good or bad?
Did you know that the main dome of the Sadna Qasai Mosque has collapsed?
Did you know that Gil Skeate was called up to the NFL straight from a lumber camp?
Did you know that a Doctor Who episode took place during the partition of India , and used a unique Indian adaptation of the usual closing theme?
Did you know that multiple deaths could have been avoided if the Peachtree 25th Building had a fire sprinkler system?
Did you know that it took 40 years after the formation of the state of West Bengal before a member of the Rajbanshi people became a government minister?
Did you know that anthropologist H. Russell Bernard teamed up with an oceanographer to estimate the number of people killed in an earthquake?
Did you know that a newly discovered bee descends from a single ancestor that reached the Hawaiian Islands between 1 million and 1.5 million years ago?
Did you know that a single company authorizes health-insurance coverage for more than one hundred million Americans?
Did you know that politician Prasenjit Barman was credited for leading the restoration of the Cooch Behar Palace ?
Did you know that Sound Transit has 170 pieces of permanent public art at its stations and facilities?
Did you know that football player DJ Pickett was the first All-American at his high school since his uncle nearly 30 years prior?
Did you know that The Dedalus Book of Polish Fantasy features stories spanning two centuries of Polish literary tradition, exploring the theme of personification of evil ?