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8 March 2021

00:00, 8 March 2021 (UTC)

Tom Acker

... that pitcher Tom Acker (pictured), who had a keen interest in horses, worked at the Meadowlands Racetrack after his Major League Baseball career?
... that Singapore's Punggol station is the longest station on the North East line, at 320 m (1,050 ft)?
... that after going viral, Robin Schreiber danced at the 2017 NBA All-Star Weekend with Stephen Curry, who later wore shoes featuring designs in her honor?
... that Anwoth Old Church, where Samuel Rutherford preached in the early 17th century, was used as a location in the shooting of the classic horror film The Wicker Man?
... that in 1973, jockey Robyn Smith won a race while riding a horse named after her?
... that the music video for "Fantastic Baby" by Big Bang is the first by a K-pop boy band to reach 100 million, 200 million, and 300 million views on YouTube?
... that the studio of Francis Chit, the first Thai professional photographer, was in a floating raft-house?
... that because Accolade had focused their success around sports games, the packaging for the science-fiction game Star Control II accidentally included a sticker calling it the "Best Sports Game" of 1992?

7 March 2021

12:00, 7 March 2021 (UTC)

Brian Sicknick

... that US Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick (pictured) wanted to pursue a career in law enforcement since high school, and joined the New Jersey Air National Guard "as a means to that end"?
... that the 1959 short story "Now: Zero", while sharing some concepts with the popular 2003 manga Death Note, has been described as one of J. G. Ballard's weakest works?
... that Malysha Kelly's return to the Jamaica national netball team after a three-year absence was halted by the COVID-19 pandemic?
... that the American reality TV series The Bachelor took 18 years and 25 seasons to star its first black man?
... that for the 2015 film A Heavy Heart, German actor Peter Kurth gained and then lost 35 pounds (16 kg) to portray his character's physical decline due to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis?
... that the 1996 book Breton Ballads studies examples of the Breton genre of gwerz, and discusses the Barzaz Breiz controversy?
... that in 2020, Eli Savit was elected the prosecuting attorney of Washtenaw County, Michigan, on a promise to abolish the cash bail system?
... that at the 2010 Belgian Grand Prix, Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton slid off the wet track into a gravel trap, but was able to re-join the circuit and win the race?

00:00, 7 March 2021 (UTC)

Cippus in the form of a warrior head

... that Etruscan cippi were sometimes used as cinerary urns in the shape of a human torso with the head as a lid (example pictured)?
... that writer James Kendall Hosmer chose to fight on the front lines in the American Civil War instead of serving on the staff of General Nathaniel P. Banks?
... that Cheltenham Town lost the 2012 Football League Two play-off Final, their first defeat in nine play-off matches?
... that in The Age of Phillis (2020), American poet Honorée Fanonne Jeffers "fills in the gaps" in a white woman's biography of Phillis Wheatley (1753–1784)?
... that the fossil pine Pinus latahensis was named for the wrong geologic formation?
... that plant scientist Norman C. Deno's research on seed germination techniques resulted in him writing a book with germination methods for thousands of species?
... that while waiting to film London Hughes: To Catch a D*ck for Netflix, London Hughes talked about the word dick in History of Swear Words?
... that John Lockhart-Mummery was the king of the rectum?

6 March 2021

12:00, 6 March 2021 (UTC)

George Poynter Heath

... that George Poynter Heath (pictured), the first portmaster of Queensland, Australia, was responsible for establishing 33 lighthouses, Booby Island Light being the last one?
... that the Atlas Cinema in Istanbul was established as a 1,800-seater movie theatre in 1948 replacing a notable music hall, which was in turn established in the horse stable of a 19th-century residential building?
... that Nyeema Morgan collaborated in the design of a wooden Afrofuturist replica of the Millennium Falcon?
... that the Paper Mario series was changed from role-playing games to action-adventure games because the developers found it to be too similar to Nintendo's other role-playing series, Mario & Luigi?
... that on 13 August 2020, Australian-born cricketer Janet Ronalds became the first player, male or female, to score a century for Germany in Twenty20 Internationals?
... that South Carolina low-power television station WPDF-LP was bumped off the air by another station's digital signal?
... that Bukhari Daud was considered to be the first regent in Indonesia to attempt to resign from his office?
... that the proposers of the imprinted brain hypothesis, which claims that autistic and schizotypal traits are opposites, had no background in behavioural genetics before proposing it?

00:00, 6 March 2021 (UTC)

Conflagration of the Houses of Parliament, 1834

... that Thomas Picken's lithograph of the 1834 conflagration of Britain's Houses of Parliament (detail pictured) was created when he was around 16 years old?
... that "The Present Crisis" by James Russell Lowell has been called a "poetic anthem" for the American antislavery movement?
... that conductor Volker Wangenheim opened the Beethovenhalle in Bonn for music by Karlheinz Stockhausen on 15 November 1969, including the world premiere of Fresco for four orchestral groups?
... that FHProductionHK, a YouTube channel with videos that have reached two million views, features someone who always wears a bear mask to hide his appearance?
... that Frank Greenleaf designed a new style of hockey net which prevented the puck from rebounding?
... that the horse in the equestrian statue of William Henry Harrison has stirrups, but no saddle?
... that Spanish designer Alberto Corazón was considered one of the fathers of graphical modernization in Spain with the advent of democracy after the death of Francisco Franco?
... that a carpet for the Chamber of Commerce Building was so large that part of the building's outer wall was temporarily removed so the carpet could be put inside?

5 March 2021

12:00, 5 March 2021 (UTC)

Mr. Touchdown pictured in 1951

... that Bobby Reynolds (pictured) was known as "Mr. Touchdown" after winning a promotional contest for the song "Mr. Touchdown, U.S.A."?
... that Mexican political party Progressive Social Networks allowed party members to vote in internal elections using a smartphone app?
... that Joel S. Levine led a team of 12 NASA scientists to investigate why the U.S. Constitution was deteriorating?
... that when Dubliners donated more than 630 trees for amaptocare in Ballymun, artist Jochen Gerz offered a face-to-face meeting to each sponsor to choose their tree's personal permanent inscription?
... that Nathan Abshire was considered an "accomplished musician" at eight years old after learning to play on an accordion that cost $3.50?
... that NASCAR races on the Daytona International Speedway infield road course for the Cup Series, the Xfinity Series, and the Camping World Truck Series were added to the schedule two years in a row due to the COVID-19 pandemic?
... that the adult i phenotype, a rare blood type, has been associated with being born with cataracts in some populations?
... that the world's richest farmer, Qin Yinglin, started out with just 22 pigs?

00:00, 5 March 2021 (UTC)

Kansas City Ballet dancers in The Four Temperaments

... that George Balanchine's ballet The Four Temperaments (production pictured) premiered at a high-school auditorium?
... that German cricketer Christina Gough, who scored 348 runs in Women's Twenty20 Internationals in 2020, completed a Master of Arts degree in Modern Languages (German) at St Hilda's College, Oxford?
... that biotin has been proven to benefit hoof health in cattle and horses, but evidence for human nail health is very weak?
... that John Moffet set an Olympic swimming record despite injuring himself during the same race?
... that the co-founder of Arkansas radio station KTOY, the first Black-owned radio station in the state, continued teaching math after starting it?
... that the French classical scholar François Guyet kept his composure during a lithotomy by reading Lucan's Pharsalia?
... that despite containing crystals and chemicals which are thought to deter herbivory, Hypericum sechmenii is still under threat of extinction from grazing?
... that Asuka Langley Soryu's surname was taken from two warships used in World War II?

4 March 2021

12:00, 4 March 2021 (UTC)

Portrait of Queen Victoria's dog, Spot, by F. C. Fairman

... that artist Frances C. Fairman painted portraits of Queen Victoria's dogs (example pictured) by royal command?
... that Osborne's ligament is a tissue under some people's elbows that can compress the ulnar nerve when the elbow is flexed, causing numbness and weakness in the fingers?
... that even though low interest prompted the Associated Students of Montana Tech to cut funding for student radio station KMSM-FM, it still filed to renew the station's license?
... that the investigations of Scandinavian place names by Magnus Olsen were instrumental in restoring confidence in Icelandic literature as a useful source for information on Old Norse religion?
... that Winston Churchill, an amateur painter, held the first exhibition of his paintings in Paris under a pseudonym?
... that Verna Grahek Mize was given the title "First Lady of Lake Superior" for her campaign to stop a mining company from dumping 67,000 tons of "gray gunk" into the lake each day?
... that George Balanchine choreographed the ballet Stravinsky Violin Concerto in 1972, a year after Igor Stravinsky's death, having previously choreographed another ballet to the same score in 1941?
... that during a bloody assault with his unit on the Western Front in 1914, Stephan Westmann was amazed to see the British stop firing and send stretcher-bearers to rescue his wounded German comrades?

00:00, 4 March 2021 (UTC)

The Thankful Poor by Henry Ossawa Tanner

... that The Thankful Poor (pictured), an 1894 painting by Henry Ossawa Tanner, was discovered in a storage closet in 1970?
... that Molly Clutton-Brock treated the spines of African babies until she was deported by the government of Rhodesia?
... that at the 1997 Bully Hill Vineyards 150, Ron Fellows, driving for a team that did not have garage space, became the first Canadian to win a NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race?
... that Caleb Grafton Roberts, head of the Second World War Allied Intelligence Bureau, was a highway engineer before the war?
... that the architect of Singapore's Stadium MRT station rotated the original plan on its side after being forced to revise the station's design?
... that former Minnesota governor Harold LeVander jokingly said that he served under state senator Gordon Rosenmeier?
... that in 1356 Henry of Lancaster marched an English expedition through Normandy 330 miles (530 km) in 22 days while successfully avoiding battle with the French king's far larger army?
... that Michael van der Veen, who represented Donald Trump at his second impeachment trial, also represented a man claiming to have been served a fried rat at a KFC?

3 March 2021

12:00, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

Lil Stoner

... that pitcher and "smokeball artist" Lil Stoner (pictured) also enjoyed baking and growing flowers?
... that Jia Ling's directorial debut film Hi, Mom has made her the highest-grossing female director in Chinese box-office history?
... that George A. Palmer continued his live Morning Cheer radio broadcast from his house while it was on fire?
... that Amonovula piriei is a master of camouflage?
... that Robert Dean was one of the few Anglophone Quebecers to join the separatist Parti Québécois?
... that at the conclusion of the 2006 Football League Two play-off Final, the losing manager said his side did not deserve to win and the winning goalscorer said he did not mean to score?
... that Caroline Parker, a deaf performer, signed the song "I Am What I Am" at the 2012 Summer Paralympics opening ceremony?
... that Diana, Princess of Wales, wore her revenge dress on the night that her husband admitted to having been unfaithful in a televised interview?

00:00, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

Government House, Bulawayo

... that the president of Zimbabwe has access to State House which has a "drunk" "Superman" statue of Robert Mugabe in the grounds, and to the former Rhodesian prime minister's house and Cecil Rhodes's Government House in Bulawayo (pictured), but not to Mugabe's Blue Roof mansion?
... that botanist Rosemary Margaret Smith had both an entire genus and a separate species named after her for her major discoveries and classification of ginger?
... that Kirka Sharif houses a cloak believed to be that of the Prophet Muhammad, the founder of Islam?
... that when the fireman's pole was invented at Chicago's Engine Company 21, other firefighters thought its use was crazy—until 21 started being the first crew to arrive at fires?
... that British band Black Country, New Road, who are known for experimenting with post-punk sound, showcased a clear preference for atmospherics on their album For the First Time?
... that runners training to represent Laos at the 2012 Summer Olympics used barbell weights made from concrete, tires, and paint cans?
... that the investigation into the Koh Tao murders and the subsequent trial were widely criticised by human-rights organisations, pathologists and legal experts?
... that Leslie Rowan was PPS to Winston Churchill and Clement Attlee, but Hugh Dalton called him "A bit too pi for me"?

2 March 2021

12:00, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

Tiffany & Co. flagship store

... that in 2017 you could finally have breakfast at Tiffany's (pictured)?
... that the British mycologist Denis Garrett, "one of the last 'string and sealing wax' scientists", once bought plastic lavatory cisterns for his laboratory to use in experiments?
... that sand in the stomach of the ocean surgeon helps to grind up its food?
... that Vera Wülfing-Leckie translated in Senegal a novel by Boubacar Boris Diop written in the Wolof language, titled Doomi Golo: The Hidden Notebooks in English?
... that Langston Hughes's poems "Mother to Son", "Harlem", and "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" have been described as "anthems of black America"?
... that Miki Satō would write song lyrics while commuting by train from home to university?
... that after winning the 2004 Football League Second Division play-off Final, some of the Brighton & Hove Albion players dropped the trophy while celebrating and damaged it?
... that poet Mary Custis Vezey, an eleventh-generation American, published much of her work in Russian?

00:00, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

FM213, painted as VR-A

... that FM213 (pictured) spent a decade in search and rescue and another as a gate guardian before being restored as one of only two remaining airworthy Avro Lancaster bombers?
... that the 2020 book Stuck: How Vaccine Rumors Start and Why They Don't Go Away by Heidi Larson addresses misinformation related to vaccination?
... that Quentin Tarantino directed a Mother's Day–themed episode of ER after being encouraged to do so by George Clooney?
... that Bob McCallister is the only golfer to win both the Pac-8 Conference and Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference titles in back-to-back seasons?
... that "Lasst uns Gott, dem Herrn, lobsingen", a hymn of praise, was written by Dominican Petronia Steiner in 1944 to a melody which Johann Georg Ebeling created in 1666 for a hymn by Paul Gerhardt?
... that Mary Kate Barlow was made a dame of the Holy Sepulchre in recognition of her contribution to the Eucharistic congress of 1928 held in Sydney, Australia?
... that Indian Kathakali artist Mathoor Govindan Kutty specialized in Kathakali Stri Vesham, the portrayal of female characters on stage?
... that John Oliver was sued for defamation after a man in a squirrel costume told a coal industry CEO to "eat shit" on his show?

1 March 2021

12:00, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

1959 Michigan football team

... that when the 1959 Michigan football team (pictured) defeated Ohio State, opposing coach Woody Hayes whirled and hurled pieces of clothing, drawing a comparison to a "hot stripper"?
... that the Indonesian drama film Ave Maryam focuses on a forbidden romantic relationship between a Roman Catholic nun and her pastor?
... that before she was elected to the Kansas Senate, Beverly Gossage worked as an elementary school teacher and an insurance agent?
... that the 2020 crime film Caught in Time is based on the real-life robber and serial killer Zhang Jun?
... that for nearly two decades Alfred Woodford was the sole professor in Pomona College's geology department?
... that the tiny true bug Microvelia macgregori spends much of its time on the surface of water?
... that attorney David Schoen held up a copy of Mao's Little Red Book while defending Donald Trump at his second impeachment trial?
... that the former graveyard of St Michael and All Angels Church, Sunninghill, is in the front garden of the house next door?

00:00, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

Richard Platt

... that Richard Platt (pictured), a master brewer, founded Aldenham School and arranged for the Company of Brewers to pay the boys beer money?
... that even though Willa Cather asked that her final novel, Hard Punishments, be destroyed when she died, new fragments were discovered in 2011?
... that Guan Bee Ong was the first person of Chinese descent to be professor of surgery at the University of Hong Kong?
... that logging camps were placed next to a river so that harvested logs could be floated to lumber mills in the spring?
... that Doris Stockhausen's husband dedicated several compositions to her, beginning with Chöre für Doris in 1950 before they married?
... that Albert H. Blumenthal jumped into the Asser Levy Recreation Center's pool while campaigning for the 1973 New York City mayoral election?
... that in 1955, physician Count Gibson became the first person outside the Tuskegee Syphilis Study to criticize its ethics, but the study continued for 17 more years?
... that the opening goal of the 1992 Football League Third Division play-off Final was described as a "Russian linesman job"?

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