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#DidYouKnow that ten-year-old Katie Phar supported the Industrial Workers of the World during the Spokane free speech fight?

Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:00:03 GMT

Did you know that ten-year-old Katie Phar supported the Industrial Workers of the World during the Spokane free speech fight?

#DidYouKnow that around 1,000 graves were exhumed to make way for Zim Cyber City, a development project in Mount Hampden?

Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:00:03 GMT

Did you know that around 1,000 graves were exhumed to make way for Zim Cyber City, a development project in Mount Hampden?

#DidYouKnow that Deng Ken placed a newspaper advertisement to find his elder brother, who initially believed it was a trap set by Nationalist Chinese intelligence agents?

Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:00:03 GMT

Did you know that Deng Ken placed a newspaper advertisement to find his elder brother, who initially believed it was a trap set by Nationalist Chinese intelligence agents?

#DidYouKnow that a building in Boston was named after slain US president John F. Kennedy, after which one writer stated: "the building mocks the martyred president. It does not memorialize him"?

Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:00:03 GMT

Did you know that a building in Boston was named after slain US president John F. Kennedy, after which one writer stated: "the building mocks the martyred president. It does not memorialize him"?

#DidYouKnow that English princess Mary of Blois may have colluded in her own abduction from her nunnery by Matthew of Alsace?

Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:00:03 GMT

Did you know that English princess Mary of Blois may have colluded in her own abduction from her nunnery by Matthew of Alsace?

#DidYouKnow that Ivan Murray Johnston's prediction that Penstemon angelicus would be described as its own species came true more than five decades later?

Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:00:03 GMT

Did you know that Ivan Murray Johnston's prediction that Penstemon angelicus would be described as its own species came true more than five decades later?

#DidYouKnow that, according to tradition, King Ahenzae lost the Kingdom of Benin's royal coral beads to a palace priest through repeated games of dice?

Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:00:03 GMT

Did you know that, according to tradition, King Ahenzae lost the Kingdom of Benin's royal coral beads to a palace priest through repeated games of dice?

#DidYouKnow that the French Navy used catapults on their ships after trials with the dispatch ship Bapaume concluded that launching platforms were unsafe?

Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:00:03 GMT

Did you know that the French Navy used catapults on their ships after trials with the dispatch ship Bapaume concluded that launching platforms were unsafe?

#DidYouKnow that Jacob F. Wolters broke his shoulder by crashing his car into a hog?

Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:00:03 GMT

Did you know that Jacob F. Wolters broke his shoulder by crashing his car into a hog?