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31 October 2022

12:00, 31 October 2022 (UTC)

Drawing of Sadler in a balloon

... that Windham William Sadler (pictured) made the first crossing of the Irish Sea by balloon in 1817, five years after his father had failed to achieve the same feat?
... that the "awkward, cramped galleries" at 2 Columbus Circle later housed New York City government offices?
... that the perpetrator of the 2015 Heze bombing was described as normal just days before the attack?
... that after civil rights activist Andrew Goodman was murdered, Mary Doyle Curran found and published a poem that Goodman had written for her class?
... that at 6 by 22 metres (20 by 72 feet), Zeitlaich is Jonas Burgert's largest oil painting?
... that after journalist Adele Ferguson's criticism of the U.S. Navy's sex discrimination attracted nationwide attention, she was offered a personal tour of a nuclear submarine?
... that a travelling museum exhibition in Japan displays "life-size" renditions of Pokémon skeletons alongside the fossils of actual prehistoric animals?
... that Cheekface announced their third album via postcards sent to fans?

00:00, 31 October 2022 (UTC)

Andriy Kovalchuk

... that Major-General Andriy Kovalchuk (pictured), commander of the 2022 Ukrainian southern counteroffensive, met his wife, a fellow officer, when she chastised him for wearing an unpolished belt buckle?
... that extendable marshmallow toasting forks were cited as an example of how glamping has "ruined" camping?
... that Silvia Hauer, a singer of Rossini's Rosina and Bizet's Carmen at Staatstheater Wiesbaden, performed the mezzo-soprano solo of Verdi's Requiem in 2022?
... that Mike Judge's three-month tenure at the video-card manufacturer Parallax Graphics was an inspiration for Office Space?
... that it was rumoured that "R.I.P." was initially intended for Rihanna, but it became a song for Rita Ora instead?
... that Bruce Timm created most of the character designs for Batman: The Animated Series?
... that in 1993, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld West Virginia's largest punitive damages award in history, awarding $10 million – 526 times larger than the compensatory damages?
... that Mini mum is miniscule, but it is not Mini scule?

30 October 2022

12:00, 30 October 2022 (UTC)

Hall of Casals Forum

... that the walls of the Kronberg Academy's Casals Forum (pictured) are curved and covered with wood in a manner reminiscent of a string instrument?
... that after his release from a hospital for the criminally insane, Richard Dixon burgled $16 from a credit union and hijacked a jet to Cuba?
... that some evangelical Christians confess their sexual temptations to an accountability partner to maintain their sexual purity?
... that John Allen Lewis printed the Los Angeles Star, the first newspaper to appear in Los Angeles in 1851, with two pages written in English and two in Spanish?
... that Frederick the Great personally convicted six judges for their involvement in the Miller Arnold case and sentenced them to a custodial penalty?
... that Halyna Kuzmenko promoted the Ukrainization of the Makhnovist movement, successfully increasing the use of the Ukrainian language by Russian speakers?
... that recruitment to the British Canton Coolie Corps suffered due to false rumours that men would be used as human shields in the Second Opium War?
... that there is a Loch Ness Monster in Williamsburg, Virginia?

00:00, 30 October 2022 (UTC)

Drawing of Jacobus Capitein

... that Jacobus Capitein (pictured), who was sold into slavery at either age 7 or 8, promoted proslavery arguments based on Christianity?
... that Aox Inc., a maker of computer expansion cards, was named after the founders' dog?
... that Rebecca Blake, Anglo-Romanian captain of the Romania women's national cricket team, also led the French team to victory in a six-team tournament?
... that episodes of such game shows as Double Dare, Finders Keepers, and You Bet Your Life were filmed at the Philadelphia studios of a public TV station?
... that Bear Witness reviewers said, "The songs were richer than the first wave of Madonna's hits"?
... that Leonard Kriegel, who had polio, insisted on using the term "cripple" in his works to describe his illness?
... that "one of the finest cut brick façades" in the United Kingdom has been partially obscured by scaffolding for four years, as funds are raised for its repair?
... that after Claudia Fleming's dessert cookbook went out of print due to poor sales, used copies began circulating on eBay for hundreds of dollars?

29 October 2022

12:00, 29 October 2022 (UTC)

Elmer Smith

... that in 1920, Elmer Smith (pictured) hit the first grand slam in World Series history?
... that Bochart's 1646 Geographia Sacra seu Phaleg et Canaan was the first full-length book devoted to the Phoenicians?
... that heavy metal led Ossian D'Ambrosio to druidism?
... that the wedding of Grover Cleveland and Frances Folsom had the president walking his own bride down the aisle?
... that William of Littlington opposed the division of England and Scotland into two Carmelite provinces in 1303, was excommunicated, and did four years' penance in Paris?
... that Cardigan Donuts has sold a Super Mario Kart–inspired rainbow doughnut with white chocolate frosting, gold walnuts, and cereal marshmallows?
... that board game cafés can be found across the world?
... that the title for Need for Speed Unbound was accidentally revealed early on Electronic Arts' website?

00:00, 29 October 2022 (UTC)

Spanish patrol boat Serviola

... that in 2019, the Spanish patrol boat Serviola (pictured) thwarted two attempts at piracy in as many months?
... that after being extensively hunted in the 19th century, southern right whales can again sometimes be seen in Mahurangi Harbour?
... that Richard W. Conway earned a varsity letter, a Ph.D., and an endowed chair, all from the same university?
... that according to two surveys, knocking on wood and 'crossing fingers for good luck' are the most popular superstitions in Britain?
... that Ella van Poucke, a cellist who studied at the Kronberg Academy, returned there as a soloist, playing Haydn's Cello Concerto No. 1 in the new Casals Forum?
... that Nippon Steel, one of Japan's largest steelmakers, sold notebook computers in the U.S. in the early 1990s?
... that Lanfranco Cirillo is the architect of Putin's Palace, a palace complex on the Black Sea coast allegedly built for Vladimir Putin which is estimated to have cost over one billion US dollars?
... that couples can marry 'over the anvil' at Patterson's Spade Mill?

28 October 2022

12:00, 28 October 2022 (UTC)

Charles de Tricornot de Rose

... that the "father of French fighter aircraft" (pictured) became interested in flying whilst suspended from the French Army following a court-martial?
... that the remix of Kanye West's "Use This Gospel" was added to DJ Khaled's God Did at the last minute?
... that BBC radio broadcaster Venu Chitale taught listeners how to cook without meat when it was rationed during the Second World War?
... that Ball Ground, Georgia, received its name because the land was originally used by Native Americans to play stickball?
... that Sergei Prokofiev's oratorio On Guard for Peace has been called "Kremlin music" and "Stalinist era kitsch at its most egregious"?
... that Leon Burton set the NCAA record of 9.6 yards per carry in 1957?
... that a copyright infringement suit was filed against the song "How We Do (Party)" for its use of the phrase "party and bullshit"?
... that a Florida TV station operated from an abandoned amusement park?

00:00, 28 October 2022 (UTC)

Ocoee salamander

... that the Ocoee salamander (example pictured) from Tennessee is named after the Cherokee word for Passiflora incarnata (passionflower)?
... that the North Carolina state auditor is fifth in the line of succession to the governorship of North Carolina?
... that Martini Maccomo accidentally shot someone in the eye while performing?
... that on the song "Conceited", Flo Milli raps that she's been important since she was a fetus?
... that the heads of the world's largest producer of pure lithium grew up in poverty?
... that William F. Hanson collaborated with Zitkala-Sa on a Sioux-inspired work called The Sun Dance Opera?
... that the platform below the Weesperplein metro station was used as a fallout shelter after the line that was supposed to run through it got cancelled?
... that Beatrice Muller lived on Queen Elizabeth 2 for nine years?

27 October 2022

12:00, 27 October 2022 (UTC)

Titanokorys reconstruction

... that the relative rarity of the radiodont Titanokorys (video featured) in Marble Canyon suggests that the deposits in which it was found may represent the outermost edge of its distribution in life?
... that Iraqi poet Isa Hasan al-Yasiri ran away from school at 10 years old, before travelling with a camel caravan overnight to another village?
... that a negative review of Sky Ferreira's "Don't Forget" on Pitchfork caused a large amount of controversy?
... that Welsh footballer Jon Morgan went on to become a college principal after retiring?
... that the founder of the Guide to the Free World, helping people leave Russia after its invasion of Ukraine, said she was told: "It's good that you get out of Russia, but a pity that you won't be shot"?
... that after serving as the speaker of the Oregon Territory House of Representatives, Lafayette Cartee moved to the Idaho Territory where he became a well-known horticulturalist?
... that the Shiba Inu memes of NAFO have been called "an actual tactical event against a nation state"?
... that you could place bets on a lettuce becoming the British prime minister?

00:00, 27 October 2022 (UTC)

Shannon Lucid

... that when astronaut Shannon Lucid (pictured) returned to Earth after six months in orbit, she was presented with a box of M&M's?
... that the Regensburg Botanical Society, founded on 14 May 1790, is the world's oldest extant botanical society?
... that decades after its closure, the station house of the Chicago "L"'s Madison station would house a hot dog stand?
... that before entering politics, Romina Pérez worked at the Center for Legal Studies and Social Research, which "became a 'nursery' for intellectual and political cadres of the Movement for Socialism"?
... that despite his defeat at the battle of Pitgaveny, both of Duncan's sons would later rule Scotland?
... that Kline's Mill is a rare surviving example of an Oliver Evans milling system from 1794?
... that the hoof of Richard Thomas Glyn's horse is used as an ashtray by officers of the Royal Regiment of Wales?
... that the Mesopotamian goddess Iqbi-damiq had an illness named after her?

26 October 2022

12:00, 26 October 2022 (UTC)

WPA advertising poster

... that the 1940 poster for Cavalcade of the American Negro (pictured) anticipated 1960s Black Power iconography?
... that Marcela Revollo's pragmatic approach to legislating led her to cooperate with both neoliberal and socialist governments on women's rights legislation?
... that All Saints' Episcopal Church contains the crypt of its founder, Episcopal Bishop of Texas George Herbert Kinsolving?
... that the Nakhichevan uezd was home to more than 54,000 Armenians until they perished through the events of 1918–1920 as a result of the Russian Revolution?
... that the inspiration for the Hong Kong novel Sai Ying Pun came from the author oversleeping on a train?
... that Tyrone Davis set a school record with 28 career touchdown receptions while playing wide receiver for the Virginia Cavaliers?
... that the abandoned 17th-century Grimethorpe Hall in South Yorkshire, England, has been proposed as a potential new headquarters for the Grimethorpe Colliery Band?
... that athletic trainer Gian Piero Ventrone, nicknamed "marine" for his very hard and tiring training sessions, made his players ring a "bell of shame" when they were too exhausted to continue?

00:00, 26 October 2022 (UTC)

Skiagraph of 3-month-old infant by Sydney Rowland, 1896

... that pioneer radiologist Sydney Domville Rowland coined the term "skiagraphy" (example pictured)?
... that in the 1920s, Hickson Inc. had the "most elegant and expensive specialty shop" on New York's Fifth Avenue?
... that the Konzerthalle in Bad Salzuflen, an example of spa architecture in the 1960s, is one of the regular venues of the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie?
... that Eppa Hunton Jr. and his son, Eppa Hunton IV, the namesakes of the Hunton Student Center at Virginia Commonwealth University, served a combined 50 years on the Medical College of Virginia's board of visitors?
... that a U.S. soldier who killed a Vietnamese woman after raping her was dubbed a "double veteran"?
... that both of Karl R. Free's New Deal-era U.S. post office murals with Native American subjects have been challenged as offensive?
... that the Scottish Register of Tartans has registered district tartans for Australia as a whole, and also a state district tartan for each of Australia's six states?
... that before bungee jumping with White House aides in New Zealand, senior White House correspondent Bill Plante said he was "proving that you're never too old to do something really stupid"?

25 October 2022

12:00, 25 October 2022 (UTC)

Firebug and spider by the Master of the Brussels Initials

... that the level of detail in medieval depictions of firebugs (example pictured) has been cited as evidence that the Master of the Brussels Initials "knew the bug in nature"?
... that Taylor Swift got in touch with Gary Lightbody, with whom she collaborated on the song "The Last Time", through Ed Sheeran?
... that the Lithuanian-Belorussian Soviet Republic exchanged 13 detained German diplomats for 24 jailed leaders of the Kaunas Soviet of Workers Deputies?
... that the Missa primi toni octo vocum was written for double choir by the Italian composer Stefano Bernardi in 1630 for Salzburg Cathedral when he was the music director there?
... that Betty Hall introduced a New Hampshire bill that would have petitioned the United States Congress to impeach George W. Bush?
... that Tony DeLuca was the longest-serving member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives at the time of his death?
... that Tropical Storm Hermine in September 2022 produced record-breaking rainfall in the Canary Islands amounting to more than 20 times the monthly average?
... that according to one historian, James S. Rains made a "significant contribution to the Confederate war effort" by getting drunk?

00:00, 25 October 2022 (UTC)

Seated Woman with Bent Knees (1917)

... that Egon Schiele disrupted the dichotomy between beauty and ugliness in his Seated Woman with Bent Knees (pictured)?
... that the Church of the Immaculate Conception was rededicated as a shrine in 1954, 100 years after the dogma of the Immaculate Conception was defined?
... that Markus Becker, who earned awards for his recording of the complete piano works by Max Reger, also recorded jazz?
... that according to the Open Syllabus Project, the most widely taught novel in college courses is Frankenstein?
... that César Mascetti was reportedly the first Argentine journalist to interview a member of the Beatles when he met a naked George Harrison on a Rio de Janeiro beach?
... that IBM EduQuest equipped the floppy drives in their computer systems with a dust shield to prevent the intrusion of dirt and chalk dust?
... that an ancient Chinese medical encyclopaedia recommends qigong as a cure for most diseases?
... that a grey poplar in Amsterdam is "the tree that saw it all"?

24 October 2022

12:00, 24 October 2022 (UTC)

Scrunchies

... that nightclub singer Rommy Revson earned millions of dollars from her 1986 invention of the scrunchie (examples pictured), which she originally named after her pet poodle?
... that Mark Williams travelled for more than 13 hours to be a last-minute replacement at the 2022 Hong Kong Masters?
... that Sir Frank Price, a former Lord Mayor of Birmingham, grew up in the city's slums and left school at the age of 14?
... that the beat in Taylor Swift's song "Holy Ground" was described by Brad Nelson of The Atlantic as "insistent enough to act as punctuation for the lyrics"?
... that Carlo Carrà attributed The Funeral of the Anarchist Galli to the 1904 Italian general strike, while the actual funeral and riot occured in 1906?
... that American illustrator Alfred Skrenda "was particularly adept at billowing skirts and heroic gazes"?
... that the Pedestals of Biahmu are known locally as Al-Ṣanam, Arabic for "the idol"?
... that the Sugar Puffs bear once escaped from Clinton Keeling's home zoo?

00:00, 24 October 2022 (UTC)

Lucy de László by Philip de László

... that portraits of Lucy de László with a violin (one portrait pictured), painted by her husband, are recognised as some of the first examples of portraiture to include womens' talents in them?
... that civil rights lawyer Qian Julie Wang wrote the draft of her memoir Beautiful Country on her phone during her commute?
... that the memorabilia of Jennie Scott Griffiths, a Texan who died in California, are housed in the National Library of Australia?
... that Queen Camilla has said that her childhood at The Laines was "perfect in every way"?
... that despite a "No Rock & Roll" sign in the studios of the Utica College radio station, students played it anyway?
... that Kenyan coffee farmer "Pinkie" Jackson amassed Africa's largest collection of native butterflies?
... that following a gun battle with Polish legionnaires, five leaders of the Vilna Soviet of Workers Deputies committed suicide rather than surrendering?
... that Abbott and Costello dragged the Empire Theatre 168 feet (51 m) in 1998?

23 October 2022

12:00, 23 October 2022 (UTC)

Kansas City Ballet dancers in Allegro Brillante

... that George Balanchine said Allegro Brillante (dancers pictured) "contains everything I knew about classical ballet – in thirteen minutes"?
... that birders in New York City have recorded over 400 species?
... that Iraqi poet Kazim al-Samawi spent more than half his life in political exile and was called "The Sheikh of the Exiles"?
... that the Piedmont Hotel hosted a former, a current, and a future U.S. president in one week?
... that Royston Brooks was the last European to serve as the Commanding Officer of the Royal Hong Kong Auxiliary Air Force from 1988 to 1990?
... that the U.S. National Firefighter Registry will match state cancer data with voluntarily collected work history data from firefighters?
... that Scottish physician George Gray received the thanks of the Chinese government for his work during the Manchurian plague of 1910–11?
... that Rockstar Leeds was once based at a decommissioned church?

00:00, 23 October 2022 (UTC)

Male resplendent quetzal

... that killing a resplendent quetzal (pictured) was a crime in Aztec and Maya law?
... that, among migrants, transgender asylum seekers are more likely to be subjected to physical and mental abuse?
... that camel caravans using the Darb El Arba'īn trade route transported salt and slaves?
... that Yemen currently has two parliamentary upper houses?
... that the public artwork Eroclamation at Haw Par Villa MRT station reflects Haw Par Villa's themes of mortality and reincarnation?
... that Australia has three major Japanese language schools?
... that in "Who shall separate us?", composed by James MacMillan for the state funeral of Elizabeth II, verses from Romans 8 are followed by Alleluias described as "burning bright sonic trails"?
... that the collapse of Cloghan Castle in County Cork, Ireland, was said to have been caused by the barking of a ghostly black dog?

22 October 2022

12:00, 22 October 2022 (UTC)

Hall of Fame for Great Americans

... that since 1976 there have been no additions to, but two removals from, the Hall of Fame for Great Americans (pictured)?
... that Luis Gallego had only completed middle-school education when he was elected to the Bolivian Chamber of Deputies?
... that Tornado Cash, a cryptocurrency tumbler, was blacklisted by the United States Department of the Treasury?
... that despite losing his left arm in World War II, Austrian tennis player Hans Redl reached the fourth round at Wimbledon in 1947?
... that In Win Development designed a computer case that can be opened with a smartphone app?
... that Jacqueline Kennedy bought several saris during her 1962 tour of India and Pakistan to be turned into sari-inspired dresses?
... that Assyrian Christian couples drink dust from the tombs of martyrs and are crowned during their weddings?
... that an early version of the turn-based game Legends could take three to ten years to complete?

00:00, 22 October 2022 (UTC)

Mutilated chessboard

... that if you remove two opposite corners of a chessboard, you cannot cover all squares with dominos?
... that in 1875, Robert J. Fulton moved Boston College by 60 feet (18 m)?
... that the Jihadist Burkinabè rebels' ongoing siege of Djibo has been described as a "Ukrainian death"?
... that Chunyu Yi may have been the "ancient founder of the case history tradition"?
... that in 2010, the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Atlanta became the first church in the state to be elevated to the rank of a minor basilica?
... that Robert Nimmo's command of the UN Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan remains the longest ever command of a United Nations operation?
... that the Victory Theatre, the first theater on 42nd Street to show adult movies, later became a children's theater?
... that religious studies scholar C. Jouco Bleeker believed that religions are like acorns?

21 October 2022

12:00, 21 October 2022 (UTC)

John Anderson in 1947

... that Sir John Anderson (pictured) was described as the "world's most-shot-at-man" in 1935, after surviving three assassination attempts?
... that after the liberation of towns in Ukraine during the Ukrainian Kharkiv counteroffensive, authorities found evidence of numerous Russian torture chambers?
... that Maria Sole Ferrieri Caputi is the first woman to referee a Serie A football match?
... that a Connecticut radio station was "the loser in a survival-of-the-fittest battle"?
... that Abdel Moneim Mokhtar travelled to the 1928 Summer Olympics to compete in gymnastics, but took part in diving instead?
... that Shaun Murphy lost a match at the 2022 British Open despite potting the winning ball?
... that the best novel of American science fiction author Garrett Smith did not appear as a stand-alone book until over 60 years after his death?
... that after Billie Eilish wrote the song "Wish You Were Gay", its subject came out to her as gay?

00:00, 21 October 2022 (UTC)

Sri Lankan elephants at Minneriya Tank

... that Sri Lanka's ancient tank cascade system of irrigation reservoirs creates habitats for the island's elephants (examples pictured)?
... that "Like as the hart", a setting of Psalm 42 for a cappella choir, was composed by Judith Weir, Master of the King's Music, for the state funeral of Elizabeth II?
... that Rebeca Delgado created Freedom of Thought for Bolivia after being told by her previous party that she should leave if she wanted to be a "freethinker"?
... that Brooklyn Nine-Nine character Amy Santiago has straight hair because the show's two Latina regular cast members feared that one of them would be fired?
... that Adam Kingsmill, who is missing most of his right leg, played stand-up ice hockey until 2016?
... that a 28-year-old tire store manager drowned his four children in the same station wagon in which his father fatally shot himself in the head?
... that writer Malcolm Neesam was awarded the Freedom of the Borough of Harrogate, England, by the town council for services to local history?
... that "perhaps the most notable wedding gown in existence" within the United States was once worn in St. Mary's-in-Tuxedo?

20 October 2022

12:00, 20 October 2022 (UTC)

Severo Aguilar

... that following his election to the Constituent Assembly, Severo Aguilar (pictured) had to trek four hours and hitch a ride on a truck in order to get to the assembly's headquarters in Sucre?
... that the documentary film Jihad Rehab features interviews with former inmates from the Guantanamo Bay detention camp who are now in the Care Rehabilitation Center, a "jihad rehab" in Saudi Arabia?
... that Malabo Mosque cost about two billion Central African CFA francs to build?
... that Cary Grant taught Sylvia Wu how to make shredded chicken salad?
... that Adele's artwork for "When We Were Young" features a picture of her as a child?
... that Jutta Fleck protested for six months in front of border guards at Checkpoint Charlie for her daughters' release from East Germany?
... that the combat suit Pharah wears in Overwatch bears a strong resemblance to those featured in mecha anime?
... that "the Hurricane Shark is real"?

00:00, 20 October 2022 (UTC)

Doyle spiral illustrating plant growth in a 1911 Popular Science article

... that circle packings in the form of a Doyle spiral (pictured) were used to model plant growth long before their mathematical investigation by Doyle?
... that Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, India's second Muslim president, was also the second Indian president to die in office?
... that while some lichen species in the genus Piccolia have ranges which span multiple continents, others are restricted to single islands?
... that Stardust, the title of a composition by Taylor Scott Davis for eight voices a cappella commissioned by Voces8, became also the name of the vocal ensemble's 2022 tour?
... that the roadless Solace Provincial Park in the Temagami area of Ontario, Canada, is considered as one of the most isolated, wild places in the province?
... that the day after returning to Atlanta following his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance in 1964, Martin Luther King Jr. joined picketers who were on strike against Scripto?
... that Herbert James Gunn used a paper cut-out of Princess Elizabeth's corgi dog to help him paint his Conversation Piece at the Royal Lodge, Windsor?
... that Shaun Aguano's interview to join the Arizona State football coaching staff consisted only of being asked, "you want the job?"

19 October 2022

12:00, 19 October 2022 (UTC)

Zunda Towers

... that the Zunda Towers (pictured) in Riga, Latvia, changed their name from "Z-Towers" to avoid being associated with Russia's invasion of Ukraine?
... that Annie Dove Denmark was offered residency on campus for the rest of her life after resigning as the president of Anderson College?
... that Andreas Reize ranked Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen, a choral setting of the first verses of Psalm 84 by Johann Hermann Schein, as one of three pinnacles of motets before Bach?
... that Malaysian poet Wong Phui Nam wrote in English, despite feeling no connection to the English literary tradition?
... that the depiction of conservative Catholic intellectuals in the play Heroes of the Fourth Turning was praised both by its subjects and by liberal New York theater critics?
... that the day before the 1969 investiture of Charles, Prince of Wales, two protestors were killed when their homemade bomb exploded prematurely?
... that Plutarch believed that animals were more virtuous than humans?
... that Tom Urbani was an original Dirtbag?

00:00, 19 October 2022 (UTC)

Minye Kyawswa of Ava

... that crown prince of Ava Minye Kyawswa (pictured) discarded advice from Yazathingyan, and subsequently got slain in battle?
... that riding on the Roller Soaker was described as going through a "car wash with the top down"?
... that British Army brigadier John Hemsley and his wife set a record time for travel by car from Cape Town to London in 1983?
... that Kanye West's "Hands On" marked Fred Hammond's first appearance on the US Billboard Hot 100?
... that some analysts considered Víctor Hugo Zamora's appointment as hydrocarbons minister to be a gesture to oil companies, guaranteeing "covert continuity" between the Áñez and Morales governments?
... that Christy Martin vs. Deirdre Gogarty has been called the fight that "put women's boxing on the map"?
... that former child refugee Ann Beaglehole has become a historian specialising in refugee history?
... that one reviewer of the British reality TV series Make Me Prime Minister said "Technically it's worth five stars. In every other way, I wish I was dead"?

18 October 2022

12:00, 18 October 2022 (UTC)

Folio of a medieval copy of the Amṛtasiddhi

... that the Amṛtasiddhi (folio pictured), translated as 'the attainment of immortality', is an early text about what later became haṭha yoga?
... that Joe Kraker was said to be the only lineman in football history to play without shoulder pads?
... that the Violin Concerto by Mieczysław Weinberg, premiered in Moscow in 1961 by Leonid Kogan, was first performed in Germany by Linus Roth in 2014, and in the U.S. by Gidon Kremer in 2015?
... that from 1912, Jindřiška Flajšhansová was the principal editor of Ženské listy, a Czech journal that became a women's "survival manual" during World War I?
... that Ponce de Leon Springs in Atlanta was named in reference to the legend of Juan Ponce de León's search for the Fountain of Youth due to the spring water's supposed health benefits?
... that Elizabeth II's 1994 state visit to Russia was overshadowed in the UK by a Prince Charles biographical book?
... that Maria Bakalova thought that her Borat Subsequent Moviefilm audition might have been part of a human trafficking scheme?
... that Don Lemon "didn't mean to set the internet on fire" when teasing the rebranding of CNN Tonight to Don Lemon Tonight?

00:00, 18 October 2022 (UTC)

Jack Johnson vs. James J. Jeffries

... that The New York Times claimed that if Johnson beat Jeffries (fight pictured), black people would "misinterpret his victory as justifying claims to much more than mere physical equality with their white neighbors"?
... that the Grade II*–listed Church of St Benedict, in Ardwick, Manchester, is now a climbing centre?
... that in 2021 Sarah Aristidou recorded Jörg Widmann's Labyrinth V, a wordless piece for her soprano voice with "ululations, sobs, jazz inflections and wild laughter"?
... that Windows 3.1 had a special version, known as Modular Windows, that was controlled via television?
... that during the 1960s and 1970s, American artist Robert Bauer painted figures that were a mixture of 20th-century avant-garde funk and 17th-century Dutch realism?
... that a Catholic radio station in Texas airs religious talk shows, the Mass—and weekly broadcasts of high school football?
... that Jonathan Beaulieu-Richard retired from the Canadian Football League to become a pharmacist?
... that in 1979 the magazine Seven Days advised, to avoid ingesting plutonium orally, "never make an A-bomb on an empty stomach"?

17 October 2022

12:00, 17 October 2022 (UTC)

David Cortés

... that David Cortés (pictured), a member of the Bolivian Chamber of Deputies, was dubbed the "Santa Claus of Potosí"?
... that yoga nidra, a state of consciousness "in which Buddhas may access secret knowledge", is being studied for potential treatment of sleep problems?
... that Kotaku revised an article about Nintendo Switch emulation after Nintendo complained that the previous version encouraged piracy?
... that Collingwood coach Robert Harvey gave Anton Tohill his AFL debut in 2021, having played International Rules Series against Tohill's father in the 1990s?
... that in her song "Icy Chain", Saweetie disses PETA, telling them she wears fur?
... that University of Exeter lecturer Fu Jia and his coauthors said in 2017 that "uniquely for any hotel in China", Fairmont Beijing has three workers who have learning disabilities?
... that Robert Micklewright created the cover art for Nobel Prize winner V. S. Naipaul's first two novels?
... that in 1979, the Studio 54 nightclub started serving fruit punch because its owners were arrested?

00:00, 17 October 2022 (UTC)

Crystal structure of ice XVII

... that ice XVII (structure shown) potentially has a use in green technology as a medium for storing hydrogen?
... that the book Working from Within details how W. V. Quine only began to use the term "naturalism" years after he had already developed the key tenets of the philosophy?
... that the owner of a Louisiana radio station was killed while in the process of putting it back on the air?
... that the 1944 Story of a Secret State was one of the first book accounts of the German occupation of Poland, including the Holocaust in Poland?
... that the Dimension 68000 microcomputer had expansion cards to emulate the Apple II, the IBM PC, and various CP/M machines?
... that William Penney, Baron Penney, was credited as the "father of the British bomb"?
... that the proposed third season of teen sitcom Sonny with a Chance was reworked into the sketch comedy series So Random! after the departure of its lead actor Demi Lovato?
... that banker Hermann Marx and his firm underwrote the share issue that led to the "pepper scandal" of 1934?

16 October 2022

12:00, 16 October 2022 (UTC)

White-lipped peccary with juvenile

... that groups of white-lipped peccaries (pictured) can drive away jaguars with their screaming and clacking of teeth?
... that the only purpose of the Delaware Straight-Out Truth Teller was to promote a political candidate?
... that as a senior in high school, manga artist Yama Wayama began drawing male–male romance manga as a hobby?
... that Windows 2.1 was the first version of Microsoft Windows to require a hard disk drive?
... that Sarah Clarke was the first female president of the British Cardiovascular Society?
... that a radio astronomy facility in Illinois objected to the establishment of a TV station in New Jersey?
... that Turkish aviation pioneer Vecihi Hürkuş had to transport his second plane to Prague just to get it certified?
... that The Onion said in a brief to the U.S. Supreme Court that "the federal judiciary is staffed entirely by total Latin dorks"?

00:00, 16 October 2022 (UTC)

Tiger Fire burning in the Bradshaw Mountains

... that two days after it had ignited, the Tiger Fire (pictured) had already burned 5,567 acres (2,253 ha) of land near Black Canyon City, Arizona?
... that in the 2022 Berlin Marathon, Tigist Assefa won by running the third-fastest marathon ever by a woman, in just her second marathon, breaking her personal best by nearly 20 minutes?
... that Clinton D. Burdick and his father Howard are the only father–son pair to receive the title of flying ace?
... that Rockstar Vienna was the largest video game developer in Austria when it closed in 2006?
... that Harry Langford still turned up for football practice the day after he received a concussion, passed out, and was hospitalized?
... that after visiting Hungary in 2015, members of Action Deaf Youth headed to Stormont to demand better sign language support in Northern Ireland?
... that Darrell Mudra was known as "Dr. Victory"?
... that people queued in a queue to queue in The Queue?

15 October 2022

12:00, 15 October 2022 (UTC)

Interior of the Four Seasons Restaurant

... that Julian Niccolini of the Four Seasons Restaurant (pictured) deliberately sat ex-partners next to each other?
... that Vlado Milunić admitted that the Dancing House, which he co-designed, was compared to a "gold tooth that spoils a smile"?
... that the leak of the upcoming Grand Theft Auto game was described as one of the biggest leaks in video game history?
... that Scottish glass artist Denis Mann has made the winner's trophy for every series of the British game show Mastermind, which started in 1972?
... that fans of the musical Rent would sleep outside the Nederlander Theatre to get cheap front-row tickets?
... that after a trip to Morocco in 1912, Henri Matisse painted Goldfish and the animal would become a frequent motif in his art over the next decade?
... that in 1915, Walter McCredie unsuccessfully challenged the baseball color line that prohibited non-white players?
... that Cryptodidymosphaerites is a parasite of a parasite?

00:00, 15 October 2022 (UTC)

Arab Coffeehouse

Arab Coffeehouse

... that Arab Coffeehouse (pictured) depicts Henri Matisse's visit to Tangier, where he saw its locals gaze for hours into fishbowls?
... that in 2017, Vincent Ialenti became the first anthropologist with a feature article in Physics Today?
... that the chancery of the Philippine consulate general in Honolulu was bought with donations?
... that Cornell University's student-oriented programming language dialect was made available to other universities but required a "research grant" payment in exchange?
... that John Giffard, of Chillington Hall, was described as "arguably Britain's most aristocratic policeman" in 2004?
... that the pro-adoption documentary I Lived on Parker Avenue premiered at the Louisiana Governor's Mansion in 2018 at the invitation of Governor John Bel Edwards?
... that the young protagonist of A Costume for Nicholas has Down syndrome, as does his portrayer?
... that North Coast Radio went silent after playing the song "In a Silent Way"?

14 October 2022

12:00, 14 October 2022 (UTC)

Tino rangatiratanga flag

... that the white design on the national Māori flag (pictured) is a traditional Māori koru, or fern frond, representing renewal and hope for the future?
... that Fritz Pleitgen, who interviewed Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan, directed the broadcaster WDR from 1995 to 2007?
... that passenger service on the Ridgefield Branch was eliminated after the electrification of neighboring lines?
... that there are palaces named the Ranjit Vilas in Rajkot, in Ratlam and in Wankaner?
... that Rick Buffington played for at least 17 minor league and semi-professional football teams, including three at once?
... that the final scene in the 1931 Soviet Yiddish theatrical play Fir teg is said to evoke the mass suicide at the siege of Masada?
... that Harry Booth played for, captained, and coached the Saint Joseph's Hawks baseball and men's basketball teams?
... that the yellow bloodstain lichen is not always yellow?

00:00, 14 October 2022 (UTC)

Illustration of 18th-century shielings on a Scottish island

... that the isolation of shielings (examples pictured) might have given opportunity for "sexual experiment[ation]"?
... that the firm of Israel Sack supplied American antiques to leading private collectors and museums, including the Winterthur Museum, The Henry Ford, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art?
... that the southernmost worm species, Scottnema lindsayae, reproduces best at temperatures below 10 °C (50 °F)?
... that Mary Ridge blew up the Liberator on her first encounter with Blake's 7, and killed off the crew on her last?
... that fighting video game Panza Kick Boxing was endorsed by a French kickboxing champion who also supplied technical advice?
... that Albert Henry Smyth discovered 385 letters written by Benjamin Franklin and became the first editor to publish them, beginning in 1905?
... that although he won the battle of Brentford, Edmund Ironside lost so many men that he needed a new army?
... that Magnus Carlsen, the current World Chess Champion, resigned a recent tournament game after only one move?

13 October 2022

12:00, 13 October 2022 (UTC)

Kraftwerk Heimbach

... that the eight original Francis turbines of Kraftwerk Heimbach (pictured), a hydro-electric power station that opened in 1905 as then the largest in Europe, served until 1974?
... that Galadriel's gift of some of her hair to Gimli in The Lord of the Rings has echoes in both English literature and Norse legend?
... that the English River within the East English River Provincial Park has no regulated flow and no pollution, unique in northwestern Ontario?
... that Ruth Huenemann was one of the first researchers to make a connection between socioeconomic status and childhood obesity?
... that Windows 2.0 is the last version of Windows that ran solely on floppy disks?
... that Songbird Sings was a series of concerts that focused on Regine Velasquez's music career?
... that Miguel Rivera sold cosmetics and appliances while working as a jockey?
... that a TV station in Buffalo, New York, owned a 1921-vintage fire engine?

00:00, 13 October 2022 (UTC)

Felix M. Warburg House

... that the Felix M. Warburg House (pictured) was converted into the Jewish Museum after nearly being replaced by apartments?
... that Borys Lyatoshynsky wrote Mourning Prelude, described as among his most tragic works, the day his father died of typhus?
... that Freetown, Alabama, was founded by free and formerly enslaved African Americans in Alabama, whose church, built in 1929, burned down in 2022?
... that Edgar Williams, Bernard Montgomery's intelligence officer, was an Oxford don who hated soldiering as a profession?
... that the book Questioning Collapse was created as a critique of the claims made by Jared Diamond in his book Collapse?
... that a New York state radio station became entangled in an estate dispute in which a man was jailed four times in six months for contempt of court?
... that Natalie Portman was a co-author on a scientific paper about frontal lobe activation?
... that there was an internet challenge to eat Tide Pods?

12 October 2022

12:00, 12 October 2022 (UTC)

Cathie Dunsford

... that Cathie Dunsford (pictured) was unable to find many books about lesbianism in the 1970s, but by the 1980s had herself become a writer and anthologist of lesbian literature?
... that in 1816, a copy of the long-lost Institutes by the Roman jurist Gaius was discovered, hidden underneath writings by Saint Jerome?
... that Ruth M. Anderson recorded a "timeless" Spain in her photographs of the 1920s?
... that Queen Elizabeth II wanted the King George VI Memorial Chapel to hold the remains of three British monarchs and their consorts?
... that Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Nasafi was the first theologian to introduce concepts from Neoplatonism into Isma'ili doctrine?
... that a Nebraska radio station's plans to broadcast college sports were met with "audible gasps"?
... that Dave Barrow quit municipal politics to work at his family's insurance brokerage before becoming mayor of Richmond Hill?
... that there are no NIMBYs in NIMBY Rails?

00:00, 12 October 2022 (UTC)

East African Mounted Rifles

... that during the First World War the East African Mounted Rifles (pictured) sometimes painted stripes on their horses to camouflage them as zebras?
... that Kiriko, a "fox girl" character for Overwatch 2, was teased through a coded message that translates to "What Does the Fox Say?"
... that William Hartnell was the only original Doctor Who cast member who remained by the end of the second season?
... that the First National Bank Tower, standing at 634 feet (193 meters), is the tallest building in the state of Nebraska?
... that New Zealand academic and runner Roger Robinson has continued competing in races into his 80s despite knee replacement surgery in both knees?
... that the Michigan banner survived an attack by uniformed men from Ohio during the Ten Year War?
... that the lenient sentencing of two Europeans convicted in 1918 after the death of a black man in the East Africa Protectorate led to inquiries from the British Colonial Office?
... that in 2021, two Swedish prison inmates took correctional officers as hostages, demanding twenty kebab pizzas?

11 October 2022

00:00, 11 October 2022 (UTC)

Ranjit Vilas Palace

... that Wankaner's Ranjit Vilas Palace (pictured) in Gujarat, India, features Venetian Gothic, Italianate, Mughal and Rajput styles?
... that Tova Friedman is a Holocaust survivor who now posts videos of her life and survival on TikTok?
... that the ampullae of Lorenzini enable sharks to sense electric fields?
... that Gilbert Bundy killed himself on the 12th anniversary of a traumatic experience as a war artist at the Battle of Tarawa?
... that the margins of the Hours of Charles the Noble contain 180 depictions of musical instruments, providing a representative overview of medieval instruments?
... that Cleo Damianakes's 1920s book dust jacket designs "made sex respectable", but Hemingway did not like the "large misplaced breasts" on A Farewell to Arms?
... that The Summer Hikaru Died went from drawings on a Twitter account to receiving three times more orders than copies available in its first print run?
... that a doctor told Howie Shanks that he only had a few weeks to live, but he lived another 31 years?

10 October 2022

00:00, 10 October 2022 (UTC)

Leiv Eirikson Discovering America

... that Christian Krohg's painting Leiv Eirikson Discovering America (pictured) was shown at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition together with a replica of a Viking ship?
... that upon the redescription of the fossil marchfly Plecia avus, an additional seven specimens were identified?
... that Perth's Airport Central railway station, which opens today, has the longest operating escalators in the southern hemisphere?
... that when Fred Franzia created Two-Buck Chuck, he was said to have "turned the wine industry on its head"?
... that while oil and gas production is a large part of Turkmenistan's economy, there are only two oil refineries in Turkmenistan?
... that Herb Lusk retired from the National Football League at the age of 26 to become a minister?
... that Nicola Griffith's Slow River, described as a lesbian romance, features a "sophisticated depiction of environmental management"?
... that a Catholic radio station in Texas wields the "velvet hammer" to promote Christianity?

9 October 2022

00:00, 9 October 2022 (UTC)

Antimonumento +43

... that the anti-monument to the 43 students kidnapped in 2014 (pictured) was also dedicated to the thousands of people reported missing in Mexico?
... that Incas, the last known Carolina parakeet, died in the same aviary cage as the last passenger pigeon?
... that the lichen genus Felipes is named for its fruiting structures, which resemble a cat's paw?
... that heavy metal band Judas Priest took their name from Bob Dylan's song "The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest"?
... that Rings of Power showrunner Patrick McKay likened Isildur to Michael Corleone from The Godfather?
... that Oak Industries was the largest American maker of TV tuning dials in 1980?
... that Wesley Tann designed dresses for Jackie Kennedy, Carmen de Lavallade, Leontyne Price and Michelle Obama?
... that some microorganisms consume honey despite it having antimicrobial qualities?

8 October 2022

00:00, 8 October 2022 (UTC)

Rosalie Edge

... that American environmentalist Rosalie Edge (pictured) was called "the only honest, unselfish, indomitable hellcat in the history of conservation"?
... that the dominant species in the Iron-grass Natural Temperate Grassland of South Australia are often not grasses at all?
... that a pink skin for Mercy in the video game Overwatch helped raise more than $12 million for breast cancer research?
... that in 2005, the Philippine embassy in Paris regularly had a flooded basement due to a lack of funds?
... that medievalist Edward Rand rang the doorbell of Harvard president Charles William Eliot and asked him: "I would like to go to Harvard; do you have any money?"
... that academic Kohei Saito describes the Sustainable Development Goals as the "new opium of the masses" in his 2020 Marxist book, Capital in the Anthropocene?
... that Nick Kerbawy did not receive his college tennis championship trophy until 14 years after winning it?
... that the dining room at Ardress House has no internal doors and can only be reached using an external entrance?

7 October 2022

00:00, 7 October 2022 (UTC)

Interior of St. Martin, Sindelfingen

... that the flat wooden ceiling of St. Martin (pictured), the Lutheran main church of Sindelfingen built in the 11th century, is still preserved?
... that Cephas L. Bard, the first American physician in Ventura, California, was also the first person to die in the hospital he built there?
... that independent media and scholars estimate that thousands might have perished in the Yarkand Massacre in 2014?
... that Reconstructing Womanhood by Hazel Carby, about the history of American black women writers, was said to be a "landmark study" and "groundbreaking"?
... that Henry Stock designed the Peek Freans factory where, in 1929, Twiglets were invented?
... that despite a song duration limit of three minutes and thirty seconds at the Eurovision Song Contest 1957, the entry from Italy lasted over five minutes?
... that the search engine of Geliyoo was found to be retrieving its results from Google, in contrast to the company's claims of spending 10 million Turkish liras on development?
... that Jamie "Canhead" Keeton is also known as the "human suction cup"?

6 October 2022

00:00, 6 October 2022 (UTC)

Replacement and School Command shoulder sleeve insignia

... that the United States Army Replacement and School Command (insignia pictured) reached its peak in May 1945 with 481,000 personnel?
... that Adele's song "Water Under the Bridge" is about her relationship with Simon Konecki, which she is usually reluctant to discuss in her music?
... that the 1995 Aigio earthquake caused the strongest ground acceleration ever recorded in Greece?
... that Latin philologist Robert Rodgers produced the first detailed commentary on Frontinus's work on Roman aqueducts in almost 300 years?
... that the bombing of Mokha was described as one of the deadliest attacks by the Saudi Arabian–led coalition against Yemen, leaving between 65 and 120 dead, including 10 children?
... that at the time of its construction in 1920, the Howard Theatre in Atlanta was the second-largest movie theater in the world, with a seating capacity of 2,700?
... that when Josette Simon appeared as Rosaline in Love's Labour's Lost, she was the first black woman in a lead role at the Royal Shakespeare Company?
... that Soccer Mommy hosted a virtual concert through Club Penguin Rewritten?

5 October 2022

00:00, 5 October 2022 (UTC)

Bakhshi in 2022

... that Surinder Singh Bakhshi (pictured) led the successful containment of smallpox in the community during Birmingham's smallpox outbreak in 1978?
... that the 2022 U.S. Open Cup Final was the first in 14 years to feature a non-Major League Soccer team?
... that Pietro Badoer was banished twice, poisoned one of his three wives, but declined an offer for a coup to make him doge?
... that college debates in the United States were originally conducted entirely in Latin?
... that despite entering politics as part of a right-wing party, Betty Tejada was later elected president of the Chamber of Deputies as a member of the Movement for Socialism?
... that Britten's Five Flower Songs, part songs composed for a couple's 25th wedding anniversary, premiered at their estate Dartington Hall?
... that when Rain Pryor drew a picture of her friend Skeeter the unicycling clown in school, her teacher said that there were no Black clowns?
... that British logistics in the Western Allied invasion of Germany involved buffaloes, duck bills and weasels?

4 October 2022

00:00, 4 October 2022 (UTC)

Acarapi in 2020

... that in being hired as a newscaster for ATB, Bertha Acarapi (pictured) became one of Bolivia's first high-profile chola indigenous presenters?
... that Boost! won a temporary restraining order against Mead Johnson, after claiming it had infringed on their trademarks?
... that the Peruvian Civil Guard officer Mariano Santos Mateo was nicknamed the Brave Man of Tarapacá because he captured a banner of a Chilean military unit during the Battle of Tarapacá?
... that Oglethorpe County High School worked with the University of Georgia to bring their dropout rate from 65 dropouts in 1985–86 to just 4 in 1987–88?
... that Taylor Swift said she wrote "Should've Said No" to address her "dramatic and crazy" experience?
... that until a 1982 legal decision, women were not permitted to stand at the bar at El Vino in London?
... that OPTi Inc. won a patent suit against Apple for unauthorized use of "predictive snooping" technology?
... that the "Temple of Humanity" hosted underwear companies?

3 October 2022

00:00, 3 October 2022 (UTC)

Thomanerchor at Lutherkirche, Wiesbaden

... that when pieces from Mendelssohn's German Liturgy were sung by the Thomanerchor (pictured) in 2022, a reviewer noted "a captivating purity in the tone of devotional Reformation romanticism"?
... that the only run scored by John Gamble was a game-winner?
... that despite the commercial success of previous Kendrick Brothers films, star Kirk Cameron said that Lifemark was unable to secure a distributor due to its pro-life stance?
... that the elite men's race at today's London Marathon is expected to feature three of the five fastest men in history?
... that Tolkien may have devised the sundering of the Elves to justify the existence of two distinct Elvish languages in his legendarium?
... that the six highest Minor League Baseball season attendance counts were all at Sahlen Field?
... that Bob Dylan recorded "To Ramona" in a single take, for an album recorded in a single three-hour session?
... that during his first air-sea rescue mission with the Irish Air Corps, Barney McMahon landed to refuel with a mixture of petrol and paraffin, filtered through a pair of tights?

2 October 2022

00:00, 2 October 2022 (UTC)

Earthrise, taken by William Anders

... that William Anders took the iconic photograph Earthrise (pictured)?
... that an investigation into the Royal Oak post office shootings led one congressman to accuse the Postal Service of having been "asleep at the switch"?
... that Gil Kim played professional baseball in the Netherlands, China, Australia, Spain, and Venezuela, scouted in Mexico and the Dominican Republic, and coaches in Canada?
... that the first Catholic synod in China was held in 1803 near Chungkingchow in Sichuan Province?
... that badminton in Singapore began in the early 19th century?
... that 17th-century freemason and alchemist Elias Ashmole attempted to invoke the spirits at the mediaeval Dove Bridge?
... that former Atalanta player Andrea Rinaldi died of an aneurysm aged 19 in 2020?
... that Golf Digest has described "Narco" as having "a fire beat"?

1 October 2022

00:36, 1 October 2022 (UTC)

Jamie Proctor's scissor-kick goal

... that Jamie Proctor won Port Vale's Goal of the Season award after scoring a scissor-kick volley (pictured) against Sutton United?
... that the video for "7/11" by Beyoncé contains a cameo from her daughter Blue Ivy?
... that Elise Reiman, who taught children's classes at George Balanchine's School of American Ballet for four decades, was called "the bridge between generations"?
... that a Turkish Airlines aircraft that crashed in 1972 had been due to carry Turkish prime minister Nihat Erim later that day?
... that Hamim Tohari, the current spokesperson of the Indonesian Army, was once removed from his post after being caught using a phone during a meeting with the commander-in-chief?
... that TreasuryDirect, a website for purchasing US Treasury securities, originated in 1986 as a computerized service conducted over postal mail?
... that the manga series Reptilia was inspired in part by a story from Japanese folklore about a woman who is transformed into a snake, told to author Kazuo Umezu as a child?
... that Nancy Reagan jumped out of her bath when she heard that her husband had been elected President of the United States?

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