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Did you know...

1 April 2025

• 00:00, 1 April 2025 (UTC)

Schafer at the 74th Berlin International Film Festival

• ... that aged 17, Hunter Schafer (pictured) was a plaintiff in a successful lawsuit against an act preventing trans people from using the bathroom corresponding to their gender identity?
• ... that players on the Laos national baseball team helped construct the country's first baseball stadium in 2019?
• ... that accountant Dan Busby studied with a minor-league umpire in hopes of becoming one himself?
• ... that QuizKnock created puzzle games for the Imperial Palace East Garden?
• ... that while filming a music video for her debut album at a motel, Underscores had the police called on her by the motel staff because they thought she was shooting a pornographic film?
• ... that the family drama film Little Red Sweet revolves around red bean soup, as red beans symbolize "longing for family" in Chinese culture?
• ... that the author of If It's You, I Might Try Falling in Love made the main characters unfamiliar with each other so that she could draw all sorts of scenarios between them?
• ... that singer-songwriter SZA wore a hijab as a child, but stopped wearing it due to Islamophobia after 9/11?
• ... that in an effort to reclaim "the most offensive word in the English language" as aspirational, some people describe being "powerful in an unapologetic and feminine manner" as "serving cunt"?