Did you know?

i feel like at this point everyone knows that

DYK that a ghosts favorite car is a bogati

Ha. Ha.

DYK that Oskar Schindler (famous for Schindler's List) is the only member of the Nazi Party to have been honored upon death by being buried on Mount Zion in Jerusalem?

Did not know

DYK that most people sit facing forward when they use the toilet?

Yes I did.

DYK that Jackie Robinson was actually not the first African-American to play in Major League Baseball?

Did not know.

DYK that in 1997, Shaquille O'Neal played Steel in a live action movie.

I knew that.

DYK that the city of Budapest, Hungary is actually a combination of two separate historic cities that were separated by the Danube River, called Buda and Pest?

Didn't know, but that is a really cool fact to know!

DYK that Harvey Dent is scarred on the left side of his face?

Yes, yes I did know that. This is a Comic Book site after all :p

Did you know that mirrors are technically green.

I knew it, but without knowing that I knew it. It is the glass, in fact, that is green. You can see it when you look at the edge.

A Belgian princess was Empress of Mexico.

Did not know

DYK That Andre the Giant had fun farting on opponents?

Didn’t know

DYK that before Action Comics was created, Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel created a short story called The Reign of the Superman where Superman was an evil bald guy with telepathy.

I knew that to an extent.

DYK that the last Imperial Japanese soldier held out and didn’t surrender until 1974, nearly 30 years after the end of World War II?

I did know that!

DYK that the bones of some frogs can be seen fluorescing under the skin when exposed to UV light?

Did not know, but that is a cool fact.

DYK That Elvis Presley had a twin brother?

I knew that.

DYK that Johnny Cash was the first American to learn about the death of Joseph Stalin?

Wow, That I did not know!

DYK that a live action version of Thor appeared back in 1988 in a made for tv movie called The Incredible Hulk Returns?

Didn't know.

DYK that the Northeastern United States has the second largest Jewish population in the world, behind only Israel itself?

No I did not know. But I don't find that surprising. America is a great country and the only one capable of offering them security during the Second World War. And New York was the entry point for European migrants.

DYK that the name of the fifth day of the week "Thursday" of the Roman calendar comes from the name "Thor", equivalent of the Roman god Jupiter, the Greek god Zeus, the Gallic god Taranis and the Indian god Indra.

Didn't know.

DYK that the velociraptors made famous by Jurassic Park were actually much smaller, had feathers and were a lot less threatening than the terrifying lizards they were portrayed as in the movie?

Actual raptors looked like this:

Smth smth dinosaurs had feathers so yeah already knew

DYK Caffeine kills

I've heard that, never knew if it was true.

DYK on the show 'Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman', Clark was wearing glasses long before he came up with the idea of being Superman.

Didn't know.

DYK that the Soviet Union was one of the biggest importers of grain from the United States during the Cold War?

Didn't know

DYK that the Earth spins at roughly 1,000 miles per hour?

I think I heard something like that.

DYK that in The Simpsons, Krusty the Clown was originally intended to be Homer Simpson's secret alter ego, NOT a separate character?

Didn't know, but that is a cool fact

DYK A woman was elected to Congress before women’s suffrage.

Didn't know.

DYK that China is in the midst of its largest uprising against the CCP seen in the nation since 1989?

Did not know but I should have

DYK that the dot over a lowercase i and j has a name?

I knew that.

DYK that the real origin of Venom's name is actually derived from the tabloid hit pieces and celebrity gossip newspapers that Eddie Brock had been working on?

Didn't know

DYK For 20 years, a cat served as mayor of an Alaskan town.

Didn't know, that's funny though.

DYK that the British accent around the 1600s-1700s actually sounded a lot closer to an American accent, because Received Pronunciation wasn't adopted until the 1800s?

This is also why Australians and New Zealanders have British-like accents, because they were established as colonies after RP was adopted, whereas Americans and Canadians existed long before it, which is why there's such a noticeable difference.

Did not know

DYK that 781 people have posted on this thread?

Yes I do.

DYK that there are over 200 dead bodies of climbers on Mt. Everest because it’s so difficult to bring them down?

I knew that.

DYK that none of the countries that bordered Poland before 1990 exist today?

i did not know

did you know that that Napoleon's army managed to reach Moscow and that is why the Russians decided to burn their city?

Yes I know , the Heavens helped Russians a lot , first a horrid summer and then a terrible winter , a rather alien environment to the french.

The Seige of Stalingrad was so bad that people resorted so badly to cannibalism, new laws and a department of police was created simply to deal with cannibalism related topics.

Didn't know, but it doesn't surprise me.

DYK that so many people died in the Battle of Stalingrad that to this day, hundreds of skeletons are found each year in present day Volgograd, Russia?

Most commonly they're of Soviet soldiers and civilians, as well as German troops, though to a lesser extent Italian, Hungarian and Romanian troops are found as well.

I knew that to a certain extent but didn't know it was hundreds found each year.

DYK that there was an assassination attempt on John F. Kennedy in 1960 when he was still President-elect?

I did not know 🤔

Did you know that David Ben Gurion was the first PM of israel.

Didn't know.

DYK that four US Presidents have been successfully assassinated?

I didn't know about James A. Garfield

Did you know that tomato sauce was sold in the 18th century as a cure?

Never knew.

Did you know First vaccines has been created before our era ?

Idk???

DYK that Chris Pratt is Arnold Schwarzenegger's son-in-law?

nope

DYK today is the day juice WRLD died?

(posting this on December 8th)

Didn't know.

DYK that the only countries to win the FIFA World Cup in its entire history are England, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina?

I didn't know that! I guess money talks, huh?

Did you know that Ashkenazi Jews are 100% white (instead of West Asian) and speak a German language called Yiddish. They're legit Eastern Europeans! My whole life was a lie!

Well, I didn't know that likely because it's not true. Ashkenazi Jews can suffer from diseases like Tay Sachs, while non Jewish Europeans don't.....so there is some genetic variance and they're not completely the same as other Eastern Euro populations.

Did you know that while Wolverine was created by Len Wein, his full blown identity and demeanor wasn't really fleshed out until John Byrne co wrote him with Chris Claremont. Wherein John Byrne based him off of a character that appears in about 5 minutes of the 70s hockey movie "Slapshot"

Cool Fact, Did not know

DYK there was an evil Hulk on the 70's TV series The Incredible Hulk?

Didn't know.

DYK that Darth Vader was inspired in part by Doctor Doom?

I had heard that, but only through rumors.

DYK In "Star Wars’" First Draft, Han Solo Was Green

I knew that.

DYK that Red Dawn (1984) is the first PG-13 movie ever released, just a month after the rating had been introduced in July of that year?