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31 July 2020

12:00, 31 July 2020 (UTC)

Flag of Ulster

... that the elements of the Flag of Ulster (pictured) supposedly trace their origins to a cross drawn in Saracen blood and a hand cut off to claim a kingdom?
... that in response to the Hong Kong government refusing to close its border with mainland China to contain COVID-19, Winnie Yu organized a labour strike among hospital workers in February 2020?
... that the English and French translations of Kenjirō Tokutomi's The Cuckoo all omit a key aspect of its most famous line?
... that Sandra Perron, whom other Canadian Armed Forces officers viewed as a threat, was once interrogated and left in the snow for two hours without boots as part of a training exercise?
... that archaeological finds at Danamandıra village in Istanbul Province, Turkey, date its settlement back to the Late Neolithic era?
... that the myth of Czechoslovakia as "a welcoming and tolerant place for Jews" was exploited by Czechoslovak politicians?
... that Emma Lamb was part of the Lancashire Women cricket team that in 2017 won both the Women's County Championship and the Counties Twenty20 competition?
... that despite being illegal, jueteng is played by one out of every seven Filipinos?

00:00, 31 July 2020 (UTC)

Fakhreddine Mosque

... that the Druze emir Fakhr al-Din built a mosque (pictured) in Mount Lebanon despite the non-use of mosques by the Druze?
... that none of the 17 anchor projects put forward for recovery from the 2011 Christchurch earthquake in New Zealand have been delivered on time?
... that Stuart Bergsma, a medical missionary in Ethiopia and India, connected speaking in tongues with emotional stress?
... that the 1994 video game Kajko i Kokosz, the first based on the Polish comic book series of the same name, was not playtested, and the initial release had to be recalled and replaced?
... that Sarah Chapone compares the legal situation of married women in 18th-century England to slavery in her legal treatise?
... that the J. N. Petit Library in Mumbai is considered to be one of the finest examples of Neo-Gothic architecture in the city?
... that the transmitter used to start Nashville radio station WSIX was purchased in exchange for five barrels of oil?
... that during the women's marathon at the 1983 World Championships in Athletics, one runner fell out of medal contention when she stopped for a toilet break?

30 July 2020

12:00, 30 July 2020 (UTC)

[[File:|140px|Mud play in a rice field during the 2020 National Paddy Day ]]

Mud play in a rice field during the 2020 National Paddy Day

... that on National Paddy Day in Nepal, people splash each other and play in the mud (pictured), plant rice seedlings, eat curd and beaten rice, and sing folk songs?
... that during the Congo Crisis, American Methodist bishop Newell Snow Booth was threatened at gunpoint by a soldier before being released by an officer who recognized him?
... that in 1960, British AI researcher Donald Michie made a noughts-and-crosses-playing algorithm out of matchboxes?
... that the English philanthropist Miss James has both a footpath and a footbridge named after her?
... that the old church of St Sebastian in Qormi, Malta, was completed in 1890 but was not formally consecrated until 2019?
... that Ty Dolla Sign's song "Ego Death" is a "first-ever of its kind" 9D listening experience?
... that Ba Than, a school teacher, wrote the Burmese history textbook used in many Burma high schools from the 1930s to 1950s?
... that to demonstrate elevator safety in the Empire Building, eggs and light bulbs were loaded in a cab that was dropped past the third floor at 82 miles per hour (132 km/h), emerging undamaged?

00:02, 30 July 2020 (UTC)

Two members of the Curragh Wrens

... that the Wrens of the Curragh group of sex workers (members depicted) lived in "nests" hollowed from the ground near Curragh Camp in the 19th century?
... that Iain Macintyre's group was the first to show that the hormone calcitonin was produced by the thyroid gland?
... that FCC chairman Ajit Pai has cited his hometown radio station, KLKC in Parsons, Kansas, in advocating for a revitalization of AM broadcasting?
... that in 1988, an enquiry confirmed Joe Collier and Aggrey Burke's findings that racial and sexual discrimination operated in the selection of students at London medical schools?
... that only three Confederate soldiers were killed at the Battle of Grand Gulf, but one of them was the commander of Fort Wade?
... that a poem by Annie Rothwell was read to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Queen's University?
... that Seton Falls Park went from being one of New York City's best parks to one of its worst in the span of two years?
... that Nerine Barrett, one of the few black women to have achieved international recognition as a classical pianist, first performed on Radio Jamaica for her third birthday?

29 July 2020

12:00, 29 July 2020 (UTC)

Viklau Madonna

... that the Viklau Madonna (pictured) is one of the best-preserved 12th-century wooden sculptures in Europe?
... that American endocrinologist Jacob Robbins studied the effects of nuclear fallout in Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Chernobyl on the development of thyroid cancer?
... that City Developments Limited introduced the concept of show houses in 1965, and is believed to be the first company in Asia to do so?
... that Troy Nehls, the sheriff of Fort Bend County, is the son of a sheriff and brother of a sheriff?
... that after closing his military academy at Chelsea, Lewis Lochée fought for the United Belgian States against the Austrian Netherlands and then wrote a history of the Belgian Revolution?
... that St. James Church in New York City was once occupied by a veterans' organization, an Indonesian church, and a group for Chinese senior citizens?
... that Ismail II of Granada deposed his brother to take the throne, but less than a year later he was dethroned and killed by his brother-in-law?
... that Vlambeer pitched the video game Serious Sam: The Random Encounter with a crude sketch, expecting it to be turned down?

00:00, 29 July 2020 (UTC)

Indian locomotive class WDG-4G

... that it took 190 litres (42 imp gal; 50 US gal) of paint to complete the livery of the Indian locomotive class WDG-4G (pictured)?
... that a report that Slayback's Missouri Cavalry Regiment, which was formed in 1864, was armed with lances instead of firearms is likely inaccurate?
... that Maisie Williams almost missed her Game of Thrones audition because it coincided with a school field trip to a pig farm?
... that El Salvador converted its main convention center into a COVID-19 hospital that, when completed, will have 2,000 beds?
... that Canadian journalist Jim Coleman invented the Curse of Muldoon to meet an editing deadline?
... that the 1990 Message from Turnberry issued by NATO has been called the "first official recognition of the end of the Cold War"?
... that after Dua Lipa wrote her song "Break My Heart", she noticed similarities to INXS's "Need You Tonight" and decided to credit the band?
... that Xu Chang's rebellion against the Han dynasty attempted to revive the ancient state of Yue, which had ended about 400 years earlier?

28 July 2020

12:00, 28 July 2020 (UTC)

Lady Tambourine

... that videos of Lady Tambourine (pictured) playing the tambourine at Southern Louisiana football games went viral in 2017?
... that due to its explicit content, a manga series on Shōnen Jump+ cannot be accessed via its iOS app, but is available on its website and Android app?
... that Bharatiya Janata Party politician Biyuram Wahge is the first Arunachal Pradesh legislator in history to donate his first salary to his party's fund?
... that after a shoving incident involving a 75-year-old man, two Buffalo police officers were suspended and charged with assault?
... that the Rheinsberg Music Academy, based at Schloss Rheinsberg, offered master classes by opera singer Waltraud Meier and stage director Harry Kupfer in 2019?
... that the bank that owned Wisconsin radio stations WMAD AM and FM hired three new employees in the ten days before shutting the stations down?
... that Pippa Wicks, the deputy chief executive officer of the Co-operative Group, has supported the company's initiative to employ people who have escaped modern slavery?
... that Chinese citizens are lawfully required to spy for the state?

00:00, 28 July 2020 (UTC)

Builders Building

... that the Builders Building (pictured), originally built to house construction industries, would eventually be home to the Chicago Board of Education and later be renovated into a hotel?
... that BTS's Japanese single "Lights" surpassed one million pre-orders in Japan and broke the 24-year-old record of Celine Dion's 1995 single "To Love You More"?
... that Priscilla Johnson McMillan is the only individual who personally knew both President John F. Kennedy and his assassin Lee Harvey Oswald?
... that Lel and Polel are considered divine twins in Slavic mythology?
... that many structures in the Shackelford County Courthouse Historic District were built in the 1880s after Albany, Texas, became the terminus of the now-defunct Texas Central Railroad?
... that harpsichords built and restored by Claude Mercier-Ythier were played in thousands of concerts and on hundreds of recordings?
... that Walter Lord's book The Dawn's Early Light was called "the definitive book about the burning of Washington during the War of 1812" by the Los Angeles Times?
... that a peace treaty signed between Venice and the Byzantine Empire in 1277 allowed both parties to fight one another over possession of Negroponte, without violating its terms?

27 July 2020

12:00, 27 July 2020 (UTC)

AGM-183A carried by a B-52

... that the announced "Super-Duper Missile" has been theorized to be the AGM-183A air-launched rapid response weapon (pictured)?
... that the 1943 Rolls-Royce strike at the Merlin engine plant in Hillington, Scotland, was the only major strike for equal pay in the United Kingdom during the Second World War?
... that critics called for a boycott of transgender filmmaker Rhys Ernst's film Adam for perceived transphobia?
... that the Doric columns used in Christ Church in Byculla, India, were imported from England?
... that Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman co-founded the Sadie Collective, which aims to increase representation of black women in economics and other quantitative fields?
... that the sea urchin Goniocidaris umbraculum moves its eggs with its tube feet, assisted by cilia, to an area near its mouth where they can be brooded?
... that more men of the 10th Missouri Infantry Regiment were captured at the Battle of Helena than remained in the regiment two days later?
... that the music video for Dua Lipa's song "Physical" is based on a Venn diagram from 1981?

00:00, 27 July 2020 (UTC)

Kevin Seaward at the
2017 London Marathon

... that Kevin Seaward (pictured) is the fastest marathon runner from Northern Ireland?
... that the Antonyo Awards—a riff on the Tony Awards—were instituted in 2020 to celebrate excellence in Black theater?
... that the musicologist Jeffrey Kurtzman edited Monteverdi's Vespro della Beata Vergine and wrote a "comprehensive" book about its context, music and performance?
... that the Russian group Occupy Pedophilia filmed themselves committing more than a hundred anti-gay attacks between 2012 and 2014?
... that dancer Alicia Graf Mack completed a history degree in Columbia University while recovering from ankylosing spondylitis?
... that the publication of Malta's first newspaper was discontinued after about ten issues due to a local uprising?
... that a large sign announcing the winner of the Democratic nomination for a New Mexico special election appeared three hours before the meeting to select him had started?
... that pedlar Joan Dant died a millionaire?

26 July 2020

12:00, 26 July 2020 (UTC)

[[File:|140px|Die BIF No. 2 (1927) ]]

Die BIF No. 2 (1927)

... that Die BIF (cover pictured) was the world's first lesbian magazine where only women were in charge?
... that snooker player John Pulman obliterated a rival's branding from his own cue?
... that one of the two surviving manuscripts of the Ladakh Chronicles is owned by a monk in Lamayuru Monastery?
... that in 1948 and 1952, nuclear physicist Leslie Shepherd published scientific papers on the use of nuclear technology for interplanetary and interstellar space travel?
... that New York City's Rattlesnake Creek was named after the rattlesnakes that once populated the Bronx?
... that Réjane Laberge-Colas was the first woman to serve as a superior court judge in Canada?
... that the chief of the Louisville Metro Police Department was fired after the mayor learned that officers' body cameras were off during the shooting of David McAtee?
... that when Elza van den Heever made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera as the bald queen Elisabetta in Donizetti's Maria Stuarda, she had her head shaved?

00:00, 26 July 2020 (UTC)

Vases by Namikawa Sōsuke

... that Namikawa Sōsuke (work pictured) and Namikawa Yasuyuki were the only two cloisonné artists to be appointed Imperial Household Artists?
... that the founders of the literary journal Irreantum hoped it would become the source for nationwide publishers to access the best of Mormon literature?
... that a Christian revival at Anna Bliss's school in Peru, Massachusetts, led to her being selected to establish a new school in South Africa?
... that the British Raj restricted access to squash courts in India—then located on military bases—to the upper class of society?
... that Portuguese HIV researcher Odette Ferreira flew from Lisbon to Paris with test tubes of blood in her coat to maintain the right temperature for testing at the Pasteur Institute?
... that many law enforcement authorities in the United States can issue civil investigative demands to compel the production of documents before an action has begun?
... that Ralph Debbas founded the first Middle Eastern automotive company in 2012, making him the first automotive executive in the Middle East?
... that while the management of Wyoming television station KFNB claimed transmitter trouble as the reason for going off the air, a former reporter announced that all staff had been laid off?

25 July 2020

12:00, 25 July 2020 (UTC)

Detail from The Garden
of Earthly Delights

... that the music video for Twice's song "More & More" was inspired by the Garden of Eden (depicted)?
... that Harold Clyde Bingham trailed a troop of gorillas for 100 hours in 1929?
... that the interior of Manik Bagh, a palace of the maharajah of Indore State, was filled with contemporary designer furniture by Le Corbusier, Eileen Gray, Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann, and others?
... that suffragist Olive Stott Gabriel supported James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr.'s 1920 Senate campaign, although he opposed extending the vote to women?
... that the rapper Akala explains in his book Natives why he was placed in special-needs classes for children who did not speak English, despite reading The Lord of the Rings at the time?
... that the 2002 video game Unlimited Saga was one of five games planned for use in a Sony promotional lottery that was cancelled due to tensions between the U.S. and Iraq?
... that William L. Borden wrote the letter that set in motion the Oppenheimer security hearing?
... that following decades of repairs due to vandalism and falling headstones in the Children of Israel Cemetery in Winnipeg, Canada, maintenance is now limited to "mowing the grass"?

00:00, 25 July 2020 (UTC)

AFTI/F-111A Aardvark

... that instead of using standard control surfaces, the AFTI/F-111A Aardvark research aircraft (pictured) had an adaptive wing that could change its airfoil shape for inflight control?
... that in addition to his rabbinical duties at a Winnipeg Orthodox synagogue, Solomon Frank served as Grand Chancellor of the Knights of Pythias?
... that during the Battle of Port Gibson, the 5th Missouri Infantry Regiment (Confederate) was sometimes only 10 feet (3.0 m) away from their opponent?
... that Antoinette Waroh was the only female member of the Provisional Representative Body, the parliament of East Indonesia?
... that during contract bidding for structural steel for New York City's New Lots Line, all three bids were rejected partly because the chief engineer was banking on steel prices falling?
... that Thomas H. Stack was president of Boston College for less than a month before he died?
... that in a radical reform of its power grid, Gujarat became the first state in India to separate electricity feeder lines between agricultural and household usage?
... that the Isma'ili leader Ibn Hawshab had to surrender his son as hostage to a rival, who returned him after a year with a golden necklace as a gift?

24 July 2020

12:00, 24 July 2020 (UTC)

Jayanthi Kuru Utumpala
atop Mount Everest

... that in 2016, LGBT and women's rights activist Jayanthi Kuru-Utumpala (pictured) became the first Sri Lankan to summit Mount Everest?
... that development of the Republic XP-69 aircraft was canceled due to problems with its liquid-cooled radial engine?
... that the German musicologist Ludwig Finscher was the editor of Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, an encyclopedia in 28 volumes, placing music in cultural, social, and historical context?
... that a Missouri Confederate infantry regiment lost many men on Graveyard Hill?
... that professional Super Smash Bros. player Marss is known for his aggressive, unconventional style that capitalizes on Zero Suit Samus's superior mobility?
... that the soundtrack to the manga and anime series Kids on the Slope features American jazz musicians Art Blakey and Bill Evans?
... that Adesh Kumar Gupta, the current president of the Bharatiya Janata Party's Delhi unit, was once arrested and imprisoned for a year for his association with the Ram Janmabhoomi Movement?
... that the video for Harry Styles's single "Adore You" was praised for "elevating a good pop song to something closer to absurdist art"?

00:00, 24 July 2020 (UTC)

Alexander III (center right) during
the singing of La Marseillaise
at Kronstadt

... that during the French naval visit to Kronstadt, which started on 23 July 1891, Emperor Alexander III of Russia stood to attention for the singing of La Marseillaise (scene depicted), despite his disapproval of France?
... that in the 1950s, Slovene transgender lawyer and writer Ljuba Prenner used the introduction: "I am Dr. Ljuba Prenner, neither man nor woman"?
... that more than 60 percent of the members of the 2nd and 6th Missouri Infantry Regiment (Consolidated) became casualties at the Battle of Franklin?
... that the sea urchin Abatus cordatus broods its young for nine months in pockets on its upper surface?
... that Isaiah McKinnon, an African American, decided to join the Detroit Police Department after he was beaten by racist police officers?
... that only Ifugao consented to be part of an autonomous region in the Philippine Cordillera in a 1990 plebiscite?
... that Japanese-American hard rock band Crush 40 created music for a number of Sonic the Hedgehog games?
... that the town of Tofino on Vancouver Island was host to a hippie commune called Poole's Land where residents could exchange their labour for accommodation and drugs?

23 July 2020

12:00, 23 July 2020 (UTC)

Life reconstruction of Pterodactylus antiquus

... that the genus Pterodactylus (species depicted), the scientific name for a pterodactyl, had been considered a "wastebasket taxon" as many species were assigned to it and later reassigned?
... that Nyma Tang sheds light on colourism in the beauty industry through her YouTube series The Darkest Shade?
... that the Ente Nacional de Comunicaciones, the communications and media regulator of Argentina, was created despite a court ruling blocking the act?
... that Turkish soldier Abdur Rahman Peshawari was appointed as Turkey's ambassador to Afghanistan in part due to his knowledge of Pashto and Persian?
... that in 1548, the parish of Egginton sold two church bells to fund repairs to the Monks Bridge?
... that Edmund Kurtz's edition of Bach's cello suites, published in 1983, is recognized as one of his greatest achievements?
... that in a new book, Wolf Gruner argues that the collaborationist Czech government played a significant role in the persecution of Jews in Bohemia and Moravia?
... that American space rock band Hum released Inlet, their first album in 22 years, as a surprise on June 23?

00:00, 23 July 2020 (UTC)

María José Quintanilla, a Chilean singer of Mexican music

... that Mexican music is common in Chile (ranchera singer pictured) during the national day celebrations of Fiestas Patrias?
... that lifelong Democrat Stephanie Pollack was appointed by lifelong Republican Charlie Baker to lead the Massachusetts Department of Transportation?
... that Charles Rolls's first car showroom, Lillie Hall, was on the site of a disused skating rink?
... that Belgian academic and judge Étienne Cerexhe was a co-founder of the Faculty of Law at the University of Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso?
... that Britney Spears's song "Mood Ring" was originally written as a collaboration between Spears and the Chainsmokers?
... that Manuel Ellis can be heard in a recording through the Tacoma, Washington, police dispatch radio on March 3, 2020, shouting "I can't breathe!" before his death?
... that Moral, part of a loose trilogy of feminist films directed by Marilou Diaz-Abaya, was initially dismissed by critics but is now regarded as one of the best Filipino films ever made?
... that Cheech Marin of Cheech & Chong, a collector of Mexican-American art, is helping develop The Cheech, a center for Chicano art in Riverside, California?

22 July 2020

12:00, 22 July 2020 (UTC)

Gold dinar of Yusuf I

... that when his enemy Alfonso XI succumbed to the Black Death while besieging Gibraltar, Yusuf I of Granada (coin pictured) ordered his forces not to attack Alfonso's army as they carried the body home?
... that the sea slug Discodoris boholiensis exhibits photokinesis?
... that the administrator Winifred Tumim called the state of management where charity trustees had no knowledge of their legal and professional obligations "mad chair disease"?
... that Real Life, Brandon Taylor's debut novel, is an American campus novel about a gay, black doctoral student in a mostly white PhD program?
... that the depiction of Catholicism in Japan in Kids on the Slope, an anime series adapted from a manga by Yuki Kodama, has been compared to The Singing Nun and Sister Act?
... that the author of the hymn "Das Jahr steht auf der Höhe" wrote his reflections of midsummer in 1978 to a 16th-century melody of a love song?
... that the statue of Mary Seacole in London honours a woman voted the greatest black Briton?
... that Lauren Boebert encourages her servers to openly carry firearms inside her restaurant in Rifle, Colorado?

00:00, 22 July 2020 (UTC)

Théo Maledon in 2018

... that at age 17, French basketball player Théo Maledon (pictured) became the youngest player ever to compete in the LNB All-Star Game?
... that carnivorous wildlife of North Macedonia as small as the Balkan lynx have been reported to attack not just livestock, but humans too?
... that Alexander Gordon clearly demonstrated that childbirth fever was contagious 66 years before Ignaz Semmelweis did?
... that Indiana radio station WFCI engaged in a five-year battle to increase its transmitting power, facing opposition from a local TV station?
... that the chief executive officer of the Central Police Canteen was removed from his position for issuing a list of non-indigenous items that were supposed to be banned for sale?
... that Zico's "Any Song" dance challenge went viral on TikTok after several South Korean celebrities including Hwasa, Chungha, and Lee Hyori participated in the trend?
... that when originally organized, the 9th Missouri Infantry Regiment contained only eight companies, which violated Confederate regulations?
... that Jürgen Holtz played the title role in Brecht's Leben des Galilei with the Berliner Ensemble at age 86, sometimes appearing naked?

21 July 2020

12:00, 21 July 2020 (UTC)

June 6, 1944, order of the day

... that in his reading of the June 6, 1944, order of the day (recording featured), Dwight D. Eisenhower reportedly sounded like Clark Gable?
... that the reef box crab uses its powerful pincers to break open the shells of snails?
... that Hetty Spiers, who wrote screenplays for silent films as early as 1917, is included on Columbia University's list of "Unhistoricized Women Film Pioneers"?
... that a LinkedIn license contract compelled UpCounsel, an online marketplace for legal services, to close but it ended up remaining in business?
... that Italian prima ballerina Alessandra Ferri originated the lead role in the 2015 ballet Woolf Works at age 52?
... that astronomer Mustafa ibn Ali wrote mostly in Ottoman Turkish rather than Arabic, in order to make his field more accessible in the Ottoman Empire?
... that the All India Anglo-Indian Association maintains that Anglo-Indians are unique because they are Christians and have historical links to both Europe and India?
... that Nathalie Evans lived in a flat with a chimpanzee that was trained to eat at the dinner table and use the flush toilet?

00:00, 21 July 2020 (UTC)

Dance performed in Kartik Naach

... that the 379-year-old dance musical play Kartik Naach (video clip featured) is performed every year in Nepal?
... that the flag of the 4th Missouri Infantry Regiment (Confederate) is on display at the Museum of the Confederacy?
... that Adolf Hitler and members of his staff who survived the 20 July plot to assassinate him were treated in the former Carlshof Institutions?
... that Albanese Candy makes gummy confectioneries in the shape of worms, snakes, butterflies, khaki-colored soldiers, and jet fighter aircraft?
... that the choir of Reigate St Mary's School in England sang in the film Angels & Demons and was featured on the soundtrack of Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland?
... that Gabriella Morreale de Escobar established a national newborn-screening program for congenital hypothyroidism in Spain?
... that the Survey of Palestine was the only government department in Mandatory Palestine not headquartered in Jerusalem?
... that when he was Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Pope Francis instructed the first director general of television station Canal 21 to position the station "between nude women and the Sunday Mass"?

20 July 2020

12:00, 20 July 2020 (UTC)

Helalia Johannes

... that in 2019, Helalia Johannes (pictured) became Namibia's first-ever female medallist at the World Athletics Championships?
... that the 1994 film Fresh Kill is noted for its influence on hacker subculture, with a 1995 article about the film containing one of the first recorded uses of the term "hacktivism"?
... that Venezuelan sociologist Esther Pineda G popularized the term violencia estética ('aesthetic violence') to describe the damaging pressure on women to respond to prevailing ideas of beauty?
... that 47 million copies of Dwight D. Eisenhower's People of Western Europe speech were printed for distribution during World War II?
... that American rapper 2 Black 2 Strong is best known for his song "Burn Baby Burn" about the right to burn the flag?
... that for its 2020 tourism campaign, the Government of Nepal proposed building 108 sculptures of the Yeti painted by 108 different artists?
... that the 5th-century saint Apollinaris Syncletica might have been wrongly accused of seducing her own sister?
... that it was said that Crawfish Spring supplied water to the "entire" Union Army during the Battle of Chickamauga?

00:00, 20 July 2020 (UTC)

Thai characters พ, ร, and บ in two typefaces

... that some typefaces used in Thai typography are designed to resemble Latin sans-serif, and the Thai characters พ, ร, and บ (pictured in two fonts) may look just like the English letters W, S, and U?
... that Bruce Lewandowski, the incoming auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, worked with the activist group BUILD to create a parish identity card for undocumented immigrants?
... that O sacrum convivium! is one of the best-known works by Olivier Messiaen, but he declared that it was not representative of his compositional style?
... that Nature's Fynd, producer of microbe-based meat substitutes, is working with NASA to develop a bioreactor for use in space travel?
... that Mark Ormrod was the first UK soldier to survive a triple amputation during the War in Afghanistan?
... that How to Be an Antiracist topped The New York Times Best Seller List in the Hardcover Nonfiction category after a surge in sales following the killing of George Floyd?
... that "Oye Mujer", a song certified 14× Multi-Platinum (Latin) in the US, was composed by Mexican musician Raymix while he was participating in a NASA educative internship?
... that a same-sex kiss, broadcast in January 2020, between the Casualty characters Marty Kirkby and Jack Ward received 111 complaints?

19 July 2020

12:00, 19 July 2020 (UTC)

Tray painted in the Roses and Castles style

... that the "gaudy" stylised floral paintings (example pictured) used to decorate narrowboats and their fittings may have originated from decorations on Romani wagons?
... that after the American Civil War, Reconstruction-era laws enabled black suffrage, but in practice African Americans still faced obstacles to voting?
... that Souleymane Mboup and his team discovered HIV-2 in Senegal in 1985?
... that the film Chasing 3000 was meant to premiere at the 2006 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, but was held back since the filmmakers wanted a better chance to secure a distribution deal?
... that as the pianist for the ensemble Gruppe Neue Musik Hanns Eisler, Gerhard Erber was among the first East German musicians to tour beyond the Iron Curtain?
... that the "bad apples" metaphor has changed from a warning not to interact with corrupt individuals to a claim that bad apples are not representative of an entire group?
... that the base of 712 Fifth Avenue contains the historic Coty Building, which has the only documented architectural work by René Lalique in the United States?
... that Emily Sheffield, the new editor of London's Evening Standard, left British Vogue as part of what was called a "posh girl exodus"?

00:00, 19 July 2020 (UTC)

Man taking a selfie

... that a thirst trap (selfie pictured) can lead to harassment and bullying?
... that in the tell-all book Too Much and Never Enough, Donald Trump's niece Mary L. Trump alleges that he mistreated his father Fred Trump after Fred developed Alzheimer's disease?
... that Joseph Ngolepus finished third at the 2003 London Marathon, one second behind the winner, in the closest London Marathon finish in history?
... that Operation Gideon, an attempt to infiltrate Venezuela by sea and remove Nicolás Maduro from office, was stopped before it got further than the beach?
... that technology executive Scott A. McGregor was the lead developer of Windows 1.0?
... that in a January 1939 speech, Hitler predicted "the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe"?
... that Brooklyn-based activist group El Grito de Sunset Park frequently photographs the police?
... that Priyanka Chopra planned her wedding to Nick Jonas in between filming scenes for The Sky Is Pink?

18 July 2020

12:00, 18 July 2020 (UTC)

Thomas Powell

... that Thomas Powell (pictured) was one of several exceptionally fast Hudson River steamboats of the 1840s powered by the marine engineering works of T. F. Secor?
... that when Antje Weithaas played Max Bruch's Violin Concerto, a reviewer from The Guardian wrote that she reminded her, "with quiet and compelling eloquence, why it's a masterpiece"?
... that the Federal Communications Commission disapproved of a potential buyer's plans for North Carolina television station WANC-TV, finding them a wasteful use of spectrum?
... that to avoid prosecution, managers of illegal opioid prescription centers known as "pill mills" tend to run their facilities like pop-up stores?
... that Jan Otrębski, who knew nothing of the Lithuanian language until his adulthood, is honored in Lithuania for his studies of the language?
... that the frog Corythomantis greeningi retreats into a hole, blocks the entrance with its spiny head, and injects venom into anything that tries to dislodge it?
... that Angèle Dola Akofa Aguigah demonstrated that the earthworks at Notsé in Togo were used to define separate social spaces, not for defence?
... that one of the 11 museums and art installations maintained by the Dia Art Foundation is a room in New York City filled with 250 cubic yards (190 m³) of soil?

00:00, 18 July 2020 (UTC)

Joe DiMaggio

... that the record 56-game hitting streak of Major League Baseball player Joe DiMaggio (pictured), which ended 79 years ago today, is considered unbreakable?
... that Circassian settlers in Jordan founded modern Amman in 1878?
... that the quality of Bruce Edwards's repartee with his co-star in the 1947 film serial The Black Widow has been compared to the verbal sparring of Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell in His Girl Friday?
... that Pita Limjaroenrat, the current leader of Thailand's Move Forward Party, was the first Thai student to receive an international student scholarship from Harvard University?
... that at only 54 mi (87 km) long, the Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail commemorating the Voting Rights March of 1965 is the shortest National Historic Trail in America?
... that Seu'ula Johansson-Fua is the keeper of the Kukū Kaunaka Collection, an archive of doctoral and masters dissertations written by Tongan scholars based at universities around the world?
... that the video for "Angels Ain't Listening" by Basshunter features a mentally unstable man modeled after Joaquin Phoenix's 2019 portrayal of the Joker?
... that in 2018, hair stylist Johann Peries became the first Sri Lankan man to summit Mount Everest?

17 July 2020

12:00, 17 July 2020 (UTC)

Flag of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

... that diamonds were featured on the flag of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (pictured) because the previous breadfruit leaf was hard to recognise from afar?
... that sculptor Antonio Berti designed the bronze casket used to house the wooden coffin of Pope Pius XI?
... that the picture book Orca's Song has received both praise for its depiction of a lesbian relationship and criticism for how it adapted a First Nations story?
... that Leila Hassan edited the journal Race Today and was a member of the British Black Panthers and the Black Unity and Freedom Party?
... that South Dakota TV station KRSD-TV's signal was so poor that it sparked an "uprising" of calls and cancellations from cable viewers?
... that Eleanor C. Pressly helped develop and launch a series of Aerobee rockets during the 1957–1958 International Geophysical Year?
... that a bail fund was started by the American Civil Liberties Union in 1920 to release people arrested for sedition?
... that the one hundred squatters at the Oval Mansions in London could watch Test cricket for free from the roof?

00:00, 17 July 2020 (UTC)

Amazon parrot

... that the Amazon parrot (depicted) was implicated as a source of the great parrot fever pandemic of 1929–30, in which more than 100 people died?
... that Ethel McGhee Davis, an alumna of Spelman College, later served as the school's first African-American dean and was a member of its board of trustees for 24 years?
... that in the 1970s, Indian retailer Anokhi, which produces hand-printed garments, helped revive traditional Rajasthani woodblock printing?
... that the Jonas Brothers wrote and recorded the song "Only Human" mostly via FaceTime?
... that in 1918, a Jewish couple was married in a cemetery in Winnipeg with 1,000 people in attendance?
... that a song by Belarusian rock band Molchat Doma reached number two on the Spotify Viral 50 chart after it was frequently used as background music on video sharing platform TikTok?
... that the Helmsley Building and the Manhattan Municipal Building both have "basements" above ground, since both are located above underground tracks?
... that money Spain provided to the Hong Kong Junta as part of a peace deal was used to buy weapons to fight Spain?

16 July 2020

12:00, 16 July 2020 (UTC)

Embassy of the Philippines, Kuala Lumpur

... that the chancery of the Embassy of the Philippines (pictured) in Kuala Lumpur was formerly the home of Tunku Abdul Rahman, the first prime minister of Malaysia?
... that Fred Sargeant was one of the gay rights activists who proposed the first Christopher Street Liberation Day—now the NYC Pride March—to commemorate the Stonewall riots?
... that according to one Korean creation narrative, there was a time when noodles grew on shrubs and rice cakes grew on leaves?
... that when one president of the General Union of Public Sector and Transport Workers tried to negotiate with the Nazi government, the other planned to resign in protest?
... that the Emilio López Zamora dam in Ensenada, Baja California, almost overflowed on March 4, 1978?
... that among the 444 songs in the hymnal Cantate!, published by the pedagogue Heinrich Bone in 1847, was his "Komm, Schöpfer Geist, kehr bei uns ein" ("Come, Holy Spirit, visit us")?
... that to bypass censorship in Poland, some authors turned to self-censorship, Aesopian language, and the Polish underground press?
... that at the 2005 World Snooker Championship, a player turned up without his cue stick and with a hangover?

00:00, 16 July 2020 (UTC)

ANZCO Foods feedlot at Wakanui

... that although Damien O'Connor, the minister of agriculture, stated that "the image of pastoral farming is the one New Zealand promotes", he called the ANZCO Foods feedlot (drone footage featured) at Wakanui "innovative"?
... that author and performance artist Junauda Petrus originally wanted to be an astronaut, but is now a "pleasure activist"?
... that the Canadian Hockey Association threatened to seize the assets of the St. Thomas Barons after they abandoned the east–west national final?
... that although it depicts an indigenous goddess, the statue María Lionza is deliberately located in the middle of a highway?
... that John Whitworth, a singing lay vicar at Westminster Abbey for 22 years, was praised for his "voice of great beauty, rich in the lower register, trumpet-toned in the upper"?
... that the title of the 2020 Nepali comedy–drama film Senti Virus was changed from Anti Virus on the advice of an astrologer?
... that an 18th-century court case may support altered ways of signing and witnessing English wills during the COVID-19 pandemic?
... that U.S. admiral Edward Joseph O'Donnell passed responsibility for Guantanamo Bay Naval Base to its new commander on a golf course?

15 July 2020

12:00, 15 July 2020 (UTC)

Qibla observation by shadows

... that today at 09:27 UTC, the direction to Mecca can be determined by looking at the shadow cast by a stick (diagram pictured)?
... that Ōyama Sutematsu was eleven years old when she was sent with the Iwakura Mission to receive an American education on behalf of Japan?
... that the district attorney of Fulton County, Georgia, sued the U.S. Department of Justice after it refused to cooperate with his investigation of the shooting of Jamarion Robinson?
... that "Island Home" is the anthem of Jersey, but has been disliked and sometimes substituted with a song that mentions France?
... that in order to write his novel Mr. Monster, Dan Wells researched the offender profiling and embalming processes?
... that brewer Claude Watney was one of several Old Etonians involved in the motor trade in Edwardian London?
... that the chancery of the Philippine embassy in Buenos Aires was previously a house, a hotel, and a retirement home?
... that Bruce Jay Friedman described his first marriage as having "crumbled like an old graham cracker"?

00:00, 15 July 2020 (UTC)

Deutsches Reichsbräu logo

... that the German police were called to investigate Deutsches Reichsbräu beer because of the Nazi-style imagery on its logo (pictured)?
... that Kessler R. Cannon, who later became an Oregon state representative, interviewed Oregon pioneers for his popular 15 Minute Histories radio program broadcast on KBND in the 1950s?
... that the card game of Husarln ("Hussar") is dominated by the distribution of tarot cards, giving it "that brisk and energetic feel" which is reflected in its name?
... that A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip, the new album by rock group Sparks, contains lyrics that appear to foreshadow COVID-19, even though it was recorded before the onset of the pandemic?
... that a report by Chinese journalist Chen Jieren on university students turning to prostitution to pay for their tuition fees sparked a major debate about prostitution in China?
... that a life-size cast-iron rhinoceros sculpture was created for the 1878 Exposition Universelle in Paris?
... that in a survey, a Pakistani stated that a visit to one of the American Spaces under increased security conditions was "like going to jail or getting into Fort Knox"?
... that Charles Kingston O'Mahony's selection of murderers in his 1927 book Enemies of Society includes five doctors?

14 July 2020

12:00, 14 July 2020 (UTC)

Orozco's Prometheus

... that abstract expressionist Jackson Pollock considered the greatest painting in North America to be a mural of Prometheus (pictured) at Pomona College by Mexican artist José Clemente Orozco?
... that Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin claimed that he had prevented another Holocaust by bombing an Iraqi nuclear reactor?
... that the languorous voice of television character Paulina de la Mora is seen as a socioeconomic commentary on the Mexican stereotype of high-class young women?
... that the musicologist Ulrike Liedtke, who founded and directed the Rheinsberg Music Academy, became president of the Brandenburg state parliament in 2019?
... that the Guinness World Record for the amateur sport of cherry pit spitting is 28.51 metres (93 ft 6.5 in)?
... that neuroscientist Michela Gallagher's research group showed that the epilepsy drug levetiracetam is a candidate to reduce mild cognitive impairment in patients with Alzheimer's disease?
... that the 1997 historical drama Balidaan (Sacrifice) was banned in 2005 by King Gyanendra's government for its portrayal of Nepal's communist movement?
... that the first state superintendent of schools for Georgia was a one-armed former dentist?

00:00, 14 July 2020 (UTC)

Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti

... that when Nigerian women's rights activist Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti (pictured) was banned from organizing demonstrations, she organized "picnics" and "festivals" instead, drawing up to 10,000 participants?
... that in Algeria potatoes are grown in sand in the Sahara desert?
... that the Jimi Hendrix guitar solo which Beautiful People sampled for their 1993 single "Rilly Groovy" had to be cut into about forty pieces and rearranged to fit the beat?
... that Ba Than founded what became Japanese Burma's main public hospital after the Imperial Japanese Army reserved Rangoon General Hospital for its exclusive use?
... that business leaders tried to ban the Depression anthem "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" for being "a dangerous attack on the American economic system"?
... that the female Andes marsupial frog carries her developing young in a pouch on her back?
... that professional Super Smash Bros. player Dabuz once requested a pause mid-game to consult his notes using a laptop he brought on stage?
... that a courier was once robbed of nearly £300 million in the City of London?

13 July 2020

12:00, 13 July 2020 (UTC)

Marie Hassenpflug

... that stories by Marie Hassenpflug (pictured) were a source for the Brothers Grimm fairy tales "Little Red Riding Hood", "Sleeping Beauty", and possibly "Snow White"?
... that the Chinese policy of Five Fingers of Tibet considers Tibet to be China's right-hand palm, with five fingers—Ladakh, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, and Arunachal Pradesh—that must be "liberated"?
... that amid the George Floyd protests, New York City implemented its first nighttime curfew since the Harlem riot of 1943?
... that most Nepali families disapprove of inter-caste marriage because they are afraid of becoming social outcasts?
... that Seraph Young Ford was the first American woman to cast a vote under a women's equal-suffrage law?
... that army ambulances were deployed during the 1989–90 British ambulance strike?
... that Stanley Matthews vowed to never work in management again after one year as Port Vale F.C. manager?
... that the Stanford Fleet Street Singers perform a medley of songs called the "Greatest Hits of the 1590s"?

00:00, 13 July 2020 (UTC)

Internet bench

... that during the first few days of the launch of the internet bench (pictured), two teenagers phoned the local council and Bill Gates after discovering that it could be used to make international calls?
... that Connie Carberg, the NFL's first female scout, made mock drafts as a hobby while growing up?
... that negotiations to end the 1942 Betteshanger miners' strike took place at Maidstone Prison, as three of the union officials had been imprisoned there?
... that "Meine engen Grenzen" ("My narrow limits"), a new hymn with text by Eugen Eckert and a melody by Winfried Heurich, was recorded with a band?
... that in a 2013 ranking compiled by the political editors of Verdens Gang, Astrid Gjertsen was rated the ninth-most important woman in Norwegian history?
... that the Lekhapaddhati, a guidebook written in Sanskrit, includes specimens of letters and documents intended to be used by administrators during Chaulukya rule in Gujarat, India?
... that after Sweden defeated the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth at the Battle of Lemberg, the Polish troops joined Sweden and were stationed in the city they had just lost?
... that NASA mechanical engineer Aaron Yazzie has compared the surface of Mars to the landscape near his birthplace in the Navajo Nation?

12 July 2020

12:00, 12 July 2020 (UTC)

Khalili Imperial Garniture

... that on their display in Chicago in 1893, the vases of the Khalili Imperial Garniture (pictured) were described as "the largest examples of cloisonné enamel ever made"?
... that Ed Warren, the 35th and 41st mayor of Cheyenne, Wyoming, was an actor and one of three Cheyenne mayors to have played on Broadway?
... that husband and wife Ralf and Kristin Bochröder both won their 1975 Berlin Marathon races, the only couple to have done so?
... that after years of fan lobbying, the director's cut of Zack Snyder's 2017 film Justice League will be released on HBO Max?
... that Maurício Camuto, the incoming bishop of Caxito in Angola, was the director of a commercial radio station that exposed human rights abuses in the country?
... that one private company, Lexipol, writes the policy manuals for 3,500 law and public service agencies in the U.S.?
... that a large, elderly, "decently behaved" Russian brown bear once lived in the Leeds suburb of Headingley?

00:00, 12 July 2020 (UTC)

Joshna with her gold medal at the 2016 South Asian Games

... that Joshna Chinappa (pictured) has won the Indian national squash championship a record 18 times?
... that Harris' Missouri Battery was formed in an 1864 reorganization that may not have been authorized?
... that the Who set the world record for the loudest concert on their The Who by Numbers Tour?
... that Nepali actor Jayanendra Chand Thakuri starred in more than 100 films?
... that program tapes were sent to KUAC, the first public radio station in Alaska, by overnight Pan Am flights from Oregon?
... that The Generation: The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Communists of Poland discusses the minority of Polish Jews who became communists and were later "demonized" as part of the Żydokomuna canard?
... that Taroc l'Hombre imported bidding from the world's most successful card game, Ombre, a feature that was crucial to the future of Tarot games outside Italy?
... that a Spanish woman was arrested for carrying a bag that read "A.C.A.B." accompanied by the phrase "All Cats Are Beautiful"?

11 July 2020

12:00, 11 July 2020 (UTC)

Topo Islet (background) off the coast of São Jorge

... that the whole of Topo Islet (pictured), in Portugal's Azores, is protected as a nature reserve?
... that F. Scott Fitzgerald's works, such as The Great Gatsby, only gained popularity after his death?
... that the Spanish government blocked the sale of a stake in digital television licensee Sociedad Gestora de Televisión Net TV to Viacom?
... that during the topping-out ceremony for 1 Wall Street, while workers hoisted an evergreen tree to its pinnacle, a hot rivet fell onto the street and caused a fire?
... that in R v Zora, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that the offence of breaching bail conditions requires subjective mens rea?
... that Joseph Crews, who organized a militia to mobilize African-American voters in South Carolina, was assassinated by whites in the run-up to the 1876 gubernatorial election?
... that a kidney-transplantation scandal led to a 2011 amendment to the law on organ donation in India?
... that trade union official Roger Poole spent his honeymoon travelling the Americas in a double-decker bus promoting British products, until the bus sank in a river in Peru?

00:00, 11 July 2020 (UTC)

National anthem of the Bahamas

... that "God Save the Queen" was twice played by mistake at the 1982 Commonwealth Games instead of "March On, Bahamaland" (featured), before officials realized they did not have a recording of the latter?
... that the 7th-century drama Bhagavadajjukam is the earliest-surviving satirical play in Sanskrit literature?
... that after early professional success as a snooker player, Patsy Fagan developed a psychological block when using the rest and never won another major tournament?
... that the British government funded Crossroads, the first Kazakhstani soap opera, to promote the country's transition to a free-market economy after the collapse of the Soviet Union?
... that Leo Pacheco, a member of the Texas House of Representatives, used to drive buses for VIA Metropolitan Transit?
... that the Jamai Palace in Fez was originally the residence of a grand vizier, but was later seized by the state, sold, and converted into a hotel?
... that during World War II, Polish-Jewish economist Ludwik Maurycy Landau conducted undercover research into the economic conditions in occupied Poland?
... that the Asian freshwater leech Barbronia weberi has invaded North Carolina?

10 July 2020

00:00, 10 July 2020 (UTC)

Aaron Judge

... that Tyler Austin and Aaron Judge (pictured) are the only teammates to hit a home run in their first major league at bats in the same game, and to accomplish this in back-to-back at bats?
... that production of mina'i ware, the first pottery to use overglaze enamels, stopped with the Mongol invasion of Persia in 1219?
... that in 2016, on the tenth anniversary of its premiere, the Royal Ballet performed Chroma with five dancers from the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater?
... that King Carlos I of Portugal often donated the game shot during his hunts to a soup kitchen founded by Maria Luísa de Sousa Holstein?
... that Nick Begich won reelection to the U.S. House of Representatives despite having gone missing the previous month?
... that Friedrich Dörr was a member of the commission for Gotteslob, the first common Catholic hymnal in German, which included several old hymns translated by him into modern language?
... that before becoming a presenter of Home School Hub, teacher Clíona Ní Chiosáin played the title role in the Irish-language teen drama Aifric?
... that in 2014, judge William Orrick III upheld the constitutionality of a California law banning the possession and sale of shark fin?

9 July 2020

00:00, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

Headingley Hill Congregational Church

... that Cuthbert Brodrick was invited to design Headingley Hill Congregational Church (pictured) after its committee rejected all of the entries in its architectural competition?
... that at the Battle of Grand Gulf, men of the Confederate 3rd Missouri Infantry Regiment fired into the portholes of Union Navy ships?
... that the Football Association has asked England fans to stop singing "No Surrender to the IRA"?
... that Rockwell A. Schnabel was nominated as United States Ambassador to the European Union instead of Ambassador to Italy, after Italian-Americans demanded one of their own be in that position?
... that after a 2014 Philippine Supreme Court decision, liking or retweeting cyberlibel is no longer a crime?
... that bobsleigh pusher Pavle Jovanovic was "one of the most feared brakemen" on the Bobsleigh World Cup circuit?
... that Gaoshi Shrine is the first Shinto shrine constructed in Taiwan after World War II?
... that the 14-year-old lead actress in the 1931 British Indian film The Last Kiss was brought from a brothel in Dhaka?

8 July 2020

00:00, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

Pratt's 1867 Pterotype

... that John Jonathon Pratt, known as the grandfather of the typewriter (1867 model pictured), invented several common typewriter features before Remington or Hammond machines entered the market?
... that rights of nature are legally recognized in twelve countries?
... that as of June 11, 2020, the Navajo Nation had a larger per-capita rate of infection from COVID-19 than any U.S. state?
... that the Thailand-based Diablos outlaw motorcycle club fought the Hells Angels in a gun battle in Australia?
... that in 1557, Cardinal Giovanni Ricci sold Palazzo Sacchetti in Rome for 25,000 scudi to his friend Tommaso Marino in a fictitious sale?
... that railway sabotage during World War II was one of the most common forms of resistance against German occupation?
... that Robert Plunkett resigned as the first president of Georgetown College in 1793 because he preferred a rural life of ministry?
... that the "lost manuscript" of The Ickabog was featured on the dress worn by J. K. Rowling at her 50th birthday party?

7 July 2020

00:00, 7 July 2020 (UTC)

"Your Britain. Fight for It Now" poster

... that Kensal House, the UK's first modernist block designed for the working class, was used by Abram Games for his 1942 poster "Your Britain. Fight for It Now" (pictured)?
... that to make the ethnographic film series The Doon School Quintet, visual anthropologist David MacDougall was given unprecedented access to film students at an all-boys boarding school in India?
... that Frank Sargent was the first person to be president of two national amateur sporting associations in Canada?
... that a number of Confederate cannons were captured at the Battle of Big Black River Bridge because battery horses were posted on the wrong side of the river?
... that Markham's storm petrel, which nests in Peru and northern Chile, has been described as "one of the least known seabirds in the world"?
... that James A. Baker helped to reveal the murder conspiracy against wealthy businessman William Marsh Rice?
... that in 1381, the Monastery of St Lawrence at Buda gained greatly in prestige when it received the body of Paul of Thebes?
... that while researching for his book How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems, Randall Munroe enlisted Serena Williams to knock a drone out of the sky with a tennis ball?

6 July 2020

00:00, 6 July 2020 (UTC)

Art Tomassetti

... that Art Tomassetti (pictured) is the only test pilot to fly all three variants of the X-35 in addition to the F-35?
... that the Senior Citizens Partylist was sworn in five months after the 18th Congress of the Philippines convened, since its factions could not agree on a nominee?
... that U.S. law enforcement used chemical irritants to disperse a peaceful George Floyd protest in Washington, D.C., shortly before President Donald Trump's photo op at St. John's Church?
... that the Büyük Valide Han, a 17th-century caravanserai in Istanbul, was one of the locations used for a motorcycle chase scene in the 2012 James Bond movie Skyfall?
... that after meeting Pueblo Indians during his World War II service, Burton Benedict switched his focus at Harvard University from ornithology to anthropology?
... that BTS transform into black swans in their music video for "Black Swan"?
... that more men died while serving in the 16th Missouri Infantry Regiment than any other Missouri unit of the Confederate States Army?
... that there is a large cock at a junction of Sutton High Street, London?

5 July 2020

00:00, 5 July 2020 (UTC)

Statue of Liberty

... that the Statue of Liberty (pictured) was not designated a New York City landmark until 1976?
... that neurologist Frank Clifford Rose believed that any alcohol might cause a headache, but that red wine could trigger a migraine?
... that the Star Stations radio group was the subject of the largest denial of license renewals in the history of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission?
... that the Nizari (Assassin) garrison of Gerdkuh resisted the siege of Mongol invaders for 13 more years after the surrender of their leaders?
... that the Jonas Brothers' song "Cool" has several popular culture references in its lyrics, including Post Malone, Game of Thrones, and 1950s actor James Dean?
... that Boneybefore in Northern Ireland contains the ancestral home of the seventh president of the United States, Andrew Jackson?
... that the first expulsion from the National Assembly of Guyana took place in 1991, when MP Isahak Basir threw a glass of water at the speaker in protest against one of his decisions?
... that Alan Cumming started a nightclub in his dressing room?

4 July 2020

00:00, 4 July 2020 (UTC)

Guru Ram Rai Darbar Sahib

... that, unusual for a Sikh place of worship, Guru Ram Rai Darbar Sahib (pictured) in India was influenced by Islamic architecture?
... that the Great Northern School District is named for a railroad?
... that as health minister of Indonesia, Johannes Leimena focused on preventive care in rural regions, contrasting with prior colonial policy?
... that despite owning it, the city of Athens, Georgia, has to look for a legal loophole to relocate its Confederate monument?
... that Norman Whitten, who played the Mad Hatter in the 1903 film Alice in Wonderland, later married May Clark, who played Alice?
... that Gwen Stefani's song "Hollaback Girl" was the first single ever to sell more digital downloads than CDs?
... that the book The Polish Underground and the Jews, 1939–1945 has been praised for bridging widely different views of the Polish resistance found in Jewish and Polish historiographies?
... that the hollow trunk of Queen Elizabeth's Oak was used as a prison?

3 July 2020

00:00, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

Isle of the Dead

... that a tiny Tasmanian island called the Isle of the Dead (pictured) is home to one of the few preserved convict-period burial grounds?
... that fans were asked to return their copies of The Lot, a 2013 compilation album by Queen drummer Roger Taylor, due to audio and typographical errors?
... that film producer Sue Bruce-Smith was credited with the success of Oscar-winning films including 12 Years a Slave, The Favourite, Room, and Slumdog Millionaire?
... that every employee who remained with Mojang Studios for six months after its acquisition by Microsoft received a bonus of roughly $300,000?
... that during the Siege of Vicksburg, the former commander of the 2nd Missouri Infantry Regiment stated that the regiment "died once, and can die again"?
... that some of Dungiven Celtic F.C.'s players play association football and Gaelic football concurrently?
... that Asa Binns was elected president of the Institution of Civil Engineers, but died before he could take office?
... that the Pepsi Number Fever draw in May 1992 was supposed to have just two 1-million-peso winners, but 486,170 people made claims for a winning bottle cap?

2 July 2020

00:00, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

Patrick Stewart

... that Patrick Stewart (pictured) invented "photo negative" casting in order to play Othello when it had become no longer acceptable to perform the role in blackface?
... that the Newland Oak in Gloucestershire took "200 years to grow, 200 years to exist, and 200 to die"?
... that Craig Hall, the first African American in New York City Ballet to dance the title role in Apollo, went on to teach the role to Taylor Stanley, another dancer of color?
... that St Luke's burial ground, on the south side of London's Cale Street, once had a 9-foot-high (2.7 m) wall and railings to protect against grave robbers?
... that MkLeo, regarded as the best Super Smash Bros. Ultimate player in the world, won his first tournament at the age of eight?
... that a mine was detonated under the position of part of the 6th Missouri Infantry Regiment (Confederate) on July 1, 1863, during the Siege of Vicksburg?
... that Ng On-yee defeated Reanne Evans, the champion for the ten previous years, on her way to win the 2015 World Ladies Snooker Championship?
... that after a show host on Orlando-area radio station WTLN hired a hitman to kill his former lover's husband, the intended victim began a campaign to urge advertisers to boycott the station?

1 July 2020

00:00, 1 July 2020 (UTC)

Runners during the 2019 men's marathon

... that the men's marathon at the 2019 World Athletics Championships (pictured) started just before midnight?
... that the first murder trial in Iowa led to the hanging of Patrick O'Connor?
... that the second commander of the 3rd Missouri Light Battery was elected by the men of the battery after the original commander was transferred away from the unit?
... that Pakistani model Zara Abid, who made her film debut in the upcoming biopic Chaudhry, died in the crash of PIA Flight 8303?
... that a pedestrianized block of Pine Street in Seattle was re-opened to vehicles after a citywide ballot measure?
... that the Indonesia–Japan Economic Partnership Agreement was Indonesia's first bilateral free trade agreement?
... that Dawn Aponte became the highest-ranked woman in NFL football operations when she was appointed chief administrator in June 2017?
... that streetcars on the Ipswich Street line ran on both Boylston Street and Boylston Street?