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# Did You Know?

Did you know that...

• the Bayeux Tapestry shows the Battle of Hastings and is a key source in English history.
• Coyote vs. Acme is a 2026 movie that was shelved for the sake of a tax write-off, but thanks to public backlash, finally came out in cinema to great sucess?
• the Internet Relay Chat protocol is so old, it is not possible to send images, video, or any files?
• during his life, Vincent van Gogh would only sell one painting?
• the Web series The Amazing Digital Circus was inspired, in part, by «I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream»?
• LSD: Dream Emulator is the game of your dreams?
• My Father's Dragon is a book about a boy freeing an enslaved dragon?
• the Solar System is big, like, really big?
• Grokipedia is an AI encyclopedia where none of the original contents were written by a human?
• in the early days of the website, Wikipedia started sep11.wikipedia.org, a memoriam wiki where people could write about where they were when the attack was happening?
• if it were a hollow shell, 1,000 Earths could fit inside Jupiter?
• when trying to name what would be called Uranus, William Herschel tried unsuccessfully to name his discovery Georgium Sidus after King George III?
• in France, there was a dog that local veneration as a folk saint?
• you can browse this website on Lynx (a text-only browser), and it will still be fine?
• an 1879 poem about a real-life disaster got the number of deaths wrong?
• the song «Heater Skelter» by The Beatles is possibly one of the earliest proto~heavy metal songs?
• making a stew is easy?
• 🍆, 🍑, 💦 don't always mean eggplant, peach, and water?
• that the Toki Pona language only has between 120 and 137 words?
• there is an operating system that allows you to talk to God?
• during his lifetime, Mozart was obsessed with shit?
• Onfim was a boy in the 1220s whom we only know about as he used to draw on birchbark?
• CIL 4.5296 is an example of early sapphic literature from Pompeii?
• there exists an art movement made up of only text?
• Astronomy Picture of the Day has been posting daily space photos since 1995?

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