Did You Know?

About

“Did You Know?” is a single topic blog featuring image macros containing facts, occasionally also featuring factoids and misconceptions. These facts vary on various topics such as internet, science, history, or just fun facts.

Origin

The Tumblr blog “Did You Know?”^[1] was launched on April 30th, 2011, with a post containing ten “facts” about the person reading the post.^[2] The blog then stayed silent until the next month on May 19th, with a post about MySpace reblogs. In the days follwing to that, the blog showed a significant rise in the number of posts on a daily base.

Precursors

Sites containing useless and fun facts already existed before the launch of the blog. So was the website didyouknow.org^[4] created on February 18th, 2002, and focusses on fascinating facts and interesting stories. The website did-you-knows.com^[5] was created on December 28th, 2009, and is more specialised in short facts. Director of Technology Karl Fisch has also created Did You Know’s on topic’s such as information technology as early as early as August 2006^[6] and has shared these on his personal blog, updating them over time. Tea and juice drink manufacturer Snapple has has also placed a series of “Real Facts”^[10] on the bottom of their caps since [Date Researched], many which later turned out to be factoids or even fake.^[11]

Spread

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Notable Examples

Spin-Off Blogs

The popularity of the original blog has resulted in multiple spin-off blogs. So does Did You Know Gaming?^[7] focus on facts found in video games, which are also shared through their own sub-reddit^[8]. Did Yuo Know?^[9] uses the same style of image macros as the original blog, only they replace the facts and factoids by obvious false facts and lies for a humerous effect and trolling purposes.

Search Interest

The tag “Tumblr” has been added to the search terms to avoid results unrelated to the blog.

External References