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20 April 2021

12:00, 20 April 2021 (UTC)

Male (top) and female Whitehead's trogons

... that stones have been found in the stomachs of some Whitehead's trogons (pictured)?
... that in 1972, "Prime Minister" David Sanchez led an occupation of Catalina Island by the Brown Berets meant to draw attention on the continuing struggles of Mexican-Americans in the United States?
... that four religious denominations meet in one district of Wrocław?
... that Theresa M. Korn turned down a scholarship to the Carnegie Institute of Technology in order to become the institute's first female engineer?
... that in 2001, Turkey set up an official government agency co-chaired by the foreign minister to combat "baseless genocide claims"?
... that Kristen Stewart played a young woman with Friedreich's ataxia in the 2007 film, The Cake Eaters?
... that some English mediaeval commissions of sewers had powers to imprison labourers who refused to work on flood defences?
... that after Musical Youth reworked the song "Pass the Kouchie" into "Pass the Dutchie" by replacing cannabis references with food references, the word "dutchie" later became a cannabis reference as well?

00:00, 20 April 2021 (UTC)

Chava Shapiro, circa 1904

... that Chava Shapiro (pictured) published the first feminist manifesto in Hebrew, lamenting the absence of women's voices in the language's literature?
... that runner-up Ronnie O'Sullivan almost withdrew from the 2021 Tour Championship after sending his cue stick for repair twice before the event?
... that Two-Way Mirror, the first full biography of English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning in 30 years, portrays the poet as a daring Victorian sensation and dismisses her image as an invalid?
... that Luigi Fugazy was described as "perhaps the most eminent padrone in the United States"?
... that the Saugatuck Chain Ferry is believed to be the last operating hand-cranked chain ferry in the United States?
... that the fictional character Howard Bellamy from the British soap opera Doctors was based on a real-life army captain who quit his job to run a doctor's surgery?
... that Plunton Castle, although well defended by gun loops, a ditch and a 9-foot (2.7 m) wall, had a very rare security flaw in the arrangement of its ground-floor rooms?
... that after he died, American Revolutionary War general and physician William Irvine was buried three different times at three different locations?

19 April 2021

12:00, 19 April 2021 (UTC)

Hunterdon Art Museum

... that the Hunterdon Art Museum (pictured), located in a historic stone mill, was described as the "most charming and picturesque" museum in New Jersey?
... that Madame Gavaudan, a soprano of the Opéra-Comique in Paris, created the role of Benjamin in Étienne Méhul's Joseph?
... that all three albums in the discography of the emo band American Football are eponymous, so the media and Polyvinyl Records refer to them as LP1, LP2, and LP3?
... that the cucumber seeds that botanist Elwyn Meader brought back from Korea in 1948 became the basis for all modern cucumber hybrids grown worldwide?
... that during the 2020 Zagreb flash flood, residents broke into a dam control building to drain floodwaters from the city?
... that Mississippi legislator Thelma Farr Baxter introduced a bill to keep livestock off the roads after her husband was fatally injured in a highway collision with a cow?
... that in 1984, a Spanish fishing trawler sank after being fired upon by the Irish patrol vessel Aisling?
... that despite his side winning the 1998 Football League Second Division play-off Final, Grimsby's Alan Buckley said "Anybody who says they enjoy play-offs aren't football managers"?

00:00, 19 April 2021 (UTC)

Comptonia columbiana leaf with evidence of moth feeding

... that the almost 50-million-year-old fossil leaves of Comptonia columbiana (example pictured) preserve evidence of moth feeding?
... that since Henry E. Parker ran for office in 1974, the Democratic Party has always nominated an African American for Connecticut State Treasurer?
... that the Shinan shipwreck, the first major discovery of Korean maritime archaeology, has been described as possibly "the richest ancient shipwreck yet discovered"?
... that a head was displayed in the Seagram Building's plaza in 1968?
... that Kate Clark wrote the children's book A Southern Cross Fairy Tale, which used Northern Hemisphere Christmas imagery but featured the natural features and animals of New Zealand?
... that after Ted Turner asked for viewers' money to keep WRET-TV afloat, he was able to repay thousands of lenders four years later—with interest?
... that Ben Connor, who competed in his first marathon in October 2020, has qualified for the marathon race at the delayed 2020 Summer Olympics?
... that The Wolf of Wall Street set a Guinness world record for the most instances of swearing in a film, with the word "fuck" said a total of 569 times?

18 April 2021

12:00, 18 April 2021 (UTC)

The Duke of Windsor in 1970

... that when he was younger, the Duke of Windsor (pictured) wanted to be an "up-to-date" king?
... that Aga Mikolaj, a soprano who studied with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, appeared as Mozart's Donna Elvira from San Francisco to Tokyo, and sang the Four Last Songs with "a degree of abandon and rapture"?
... that Nadodrze in Poland was used by Steven Spielberg as a filming location for a spy drama set in Berlin?
... that Rogers Lehew was influential in starting the Calgary Stampeders tradition of featuring a horse at the sidelines during games at McMahon Stadium?
... that in the 1950s, the Soviet Union introduced an open university system to enable working-class students to become useful functionaries of the Communist party?
... that historian of the Middle East George Eden Kirk's first book was praised for excelling in objectivity while his last was criticised for bias and bitterness?
... that the Stinnes–Legien Agreement was named after a trade union leader and an industrialist?
... that the miracles that established Saint Glodesind's claim to sainthood did not begin until 25 years or more after her death, and many of them occurred over 200 years later?

00:00, 18 April 2021 (UTC)

Statue of Laxmi-Narayan

... that the historic Statue of Laxmi-Narayan (pictured) was on display in the Dallas Museum of Art for 37 years despite having been stolen?
... that ballerina Catherine Hurlin performed in Radio City Christmas Spectacular between the age of eleven and thirteen?
... that the space industry of India has supported the launch of more than 100 domestic satellites and more than 300 foreign satellites?
... that Senegalese artist and actress Younousse Sèye, who is best known for her mixed-media works incorporating cowrie shells, is considered to be Senegal's first woman painter?
... that writer Mark Twain frequently used Cooper station to meet with a friend?
... that geneticist Neil Hanchard was a senior author on a publication surveying human genomic diversity in Africa that was described by Nature as "a milestone in genomics research"?
... that Wyche Pavilion, a two-story historic building in Greenville, South Carolina, was originally intended to serve as a paint shop for the Greenville Coach Factory?
... that Surinamese singer Shahied Wagid Hosain was famous for his Bollywood song covers, more than for his own songs?

17 April 2021

12:00, 17 April 2021 (UTC)

Zalgo text

... that the Lovecraftian Zalgo text (pictured) is a common aspect of "surreal memes"?
... that Carl Au received three musical theatre scholarships, which was deemed "an unprecedented event in show business"?
... that Hey Lady! is Jayne Eastwood's first leading role in a 50-year career?
... that Colin Powell was regarded as the "architect of Jersey's finance industry"?
... that the 1972 manga series The Poe Clan was among the first works of vampire literature to depict vampires as romantic and tragic rather than predatory?
... that Turkish anthropologist Ayşe Gül Altınay was sentenced to 25 months in jail due to her support for a peaceful resolution of the Kurdish–Turkish conflict?
... that the sea cucumber Holothuria poli may have reached the Red Sea by travelling through the Suez Canal?
... that NASA scientist Scott Sandford wrote that apples and oranges can be compared?

00:00, 17 April 2021 (UTC)

Gabriel Turville-Petre

... that Myth and Religion of the North by Gabriel Turville-Petre (pictured) has been described as the best work on Norse mythology in English?
... that former U.S. president Bill Clinton made a guest appearance on a television reunion episode of The West Wing to encourage voter turnout in the 2020 United States elections?
... that Fan Hongwei and her husband turned a failing textile factory into the largest fiber producer in China?
... that coverage of the 1952 funeral of George VI may have led to the mass purchase of television sets in the United Kingdom?
... that after Maria Camilleri co-founded a school for Muslim children in Malta, she became the only Christian headmistress of a Muslim school in the world?
... that role-playing-game supplement GURPS Steampunk was the most detailed definition of the steampunk genre when it was published?
... that Benjamin Kapelushnik, also known as "Benjamin Kickz", sold sneakers at age 16 to celebrity clients such as DJ Khaled, Drake, Travis Scott, Floyd Mayweather and Kevin Hart?
... that the owner of Oregon radio station KLOO offered $10,000 to anyone who could bring an extraterrestrial lifeform to the station's studios?

16 April 2021

12:00, 16 April 2021 (UTC)

A train of the Aoimori Railway arriving at Kominato Station

... that trees keep the trains (pictured) running at Kominato Station?
... that the combined no-hitter at the Los Angeles Angels' memorial game for Tyler Skaggs was the first combined no-hitter in California since the day Skaggs was born?
... that a prototype of Octogeddon was submitted to a Ludum Dare contest before being developed into an official video game?
... that Julia Letlow won the special election for a seat in the United States House of Representatives after her husband died from COVID-19 before he could be sworn into office?
... that the San Diego Trolley passes through the James R. Mills Building?
... that Gianluigi Colalucci is credited with restoring the "dazzling splendour" of both the Sistine Chapel ceiling and Michelangelo's The Last Judgment?
... that concrete bus shelters in Canberra, Australia, now considered an icon of the city, were initially labelled as "lunatic" by a reporter for The Canberra Times?
... that the critically endangered chestnut-capped piha is locally known as the "little herdsman of Antioquia" because its call sounds like the whistles made by horsemen herding cattle?

00:00, 16 April 2021 (UTC)

SS Birma

... that when SS Birma (pictured) responded to the sinking of the Titanic, RMS Carpathia told them to "shut up"?
... that Lovie Gore made multiple unsuccessful attempts to delay the desegregation of schools in Mississippi?
... that on Holocaust Memorial Day in 2014, Turkish foreign minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu claimed that "there is no trace of genocide in our history" – thus denying the Armenian Genocide?
... that Anja Petersen performed the role of the leading woman in the world premiere of Arnulf Herrmann's Der Mieter at the Oper Frankfurt?
... that Burnley won the 1994 Football League Second Division play-off Final after two opposition players were sent off?
... that Addison Rae's debut single "Obsessed" is about self-love?
... that Pikrolimni is the only salt lake in Greece, mentioned by Plato and Pliny, and nowadays known for its therapeutic mud baths?
... that the success of the children's poetry book Alligator Pie led to the author, Dennis Lee, being named "Canada's Father Goose"?

15 April 2021

12:00, 15 April 2021 (UTC)

Shimao Cross-Strait Plaza

... that the towers of Shimao Cross-Strait Plaza (pictured) are inspired by sails and bougainvilleas?
... that Halyna Sevruk was expelled from the Union of Artists of Ukraine in 1968 due to a political letter she signed?
... that Humphrey Jennings's 1939 film Spare Time showed an American audience how the British working classes spent their free time?
... that when Joachim Philip delivered an ultimatum to the British in Grenada during Fédon's rebellion, the militia had to restrain his sister, Susannah, who otherwise would have "torn him to pieces"?
... that Jesu, meine Freude (Jesus, my joy), a motet by Bach, has a complex symmetrical structure in which six hymn stanzas alternate with five Bible verses?
... that Kendal Green station was named both for dyed cloth and a nearby resident's grandfather?
... that an art gallery exhibit featuring My Androgynous Boyfriend took place at the Animate Girls Festival in 2019?
... that as part of her influential research on the garden strawberry, Vivian Lee Bowden discovered the unpublished drawings of early French botanist Antoine Nicolas Duchesne?

00:00, 15 April 2021 (UTC)

Jenny Frost

... that future Atomic Kitten member Jenny Frost (pictured) represented the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 1999 as part of the group Precious?
... that the Fred F. French Building has been described as the "only Mesopotamian skyscraper" in New York City?
... that Arthur Schüller founded the discipline of neuroradiology?
... that Forest Glen Park was among the earliest residential subdivisions in Montgomery County, Maryland, and was described by its developer as "Washington's most desirable suburb?"
... that besides the fruits being edible, the roots and leaves of creeping cucumber have many uses in traditional medicine?
... that Darrell Blocker, "The Spy Whisperer", began playing live music in Senegal as part of his espionage duties?
... that the Lucifer Dékou-Dékou Biological Reserve, the largest wilderness area of France, is divided in two by land which includes the country's biggest mining project, the Montagne d'Or mine?
... that Dottie Ray interviewed 32,397 guests over 55 years on more than 14,000 broadcasts of her daily show on KXIC radio in Iowa City?

14 April 2021

12:00, 14 April 2021 (UTC)

Advertisement for The Abysmal Brute

... that the 1923 film The Abysmal Brute (advertisement pictured) included comedic episodes that were not in the 1911 story by Jack London on which it was based?
... that Barbara Yancy, who succeeded her husband in the Mississippi Senate after his death, later became an advocate for other widowed homemakers?
... that the title of Welsh musician The Anchoress's album The Art of Losing was inspired by American poet Elizabeth Bishop's poem "One Art"?
... that Marita Napier is the first South African opera singer to have performed lead roles in each of the four "Grand Slam" opera houses?
... that the Sunshine Protection Act would make daylight saving time in the United States become permanent?
... that the contrast agent iobitridol can be injected into blood vessels, joints, or body cavities such as the uterus?
... that former baseball player Tacks Latimer was sentenced to life imprisonment for second-degree murder, but was pardoned for his heroism in stopping a prison break?
... that in the music video for "Montero (Call Me by Your Name)", Lil Nas X gives Satan a lap dance?

00:00, 14 April 2021 (UTC)

Boophis entigae

... that despite looking like the other frogs in its genus, Boophis entingae (pictured) has a very different call?
... that a drifting shipwreck stranded several dozen people on Margate Jetty in 1877?
... that Frances Theresa Peet Russell may have written the first book to examine satire in Victorian literature?
... that in 1846, Emma Willard represented all of human history in a graphic resembling an Ancient Greek temple?
... that following his career with the Headhunters, Paul Jackson moved to Japan and established a voluntary concert to familiarize students with African-American history?
... that a number of live grenades remain on the moon as part of the Active Seismic Experiment, flown on Apollo 14 and Apollo 16?
... that every competitor at the 2021 British Athletics Marathon and 20km Walk Trial received a commemorative bonsai tree?
... that ballerina Elena Lobsanova broke the "curse of Marie" at the National Ballet of Canada?

13 April 2021

12:00, 13 April 2021 (UTC)

Coat of arms of Naples

... that one legend on the origin of the coat of arms of Naples (pictured) claims that it alludes to the colors of the sun and moon cult practiced by the city's pre-Christian inhabitants?
... that Tara Downs co-founded the Tomorrow Gallery in a converted paintball studio in Toronto?
... that the principles of quantum mechanics have been demonstrated to hold for complex molecules with thousands of atoms?
... that MLS Cup 2000 was the first championship game in league history not to feature D.C. United?
... that Abdallah Oumbadougou, the "godfather of all the present-day Tuareg musicians in Niger", distributed illegal cassette tapes of banned ishumar music while in exile from 1984 to 1995?
... that an owner of Wyoming radio station KATI donated the station to the University of Wyoming, only to be "disappointed" when the university opted not to use his gift?
... that after the start of Afghan peace talks in 2019, journalist Farahnaz Forotan travelled the country to collect testimonies from women and prevent the rollback of their freedoms?
... that the settling of Martensdale, California, went so badly that the town's namesake spent the rest of his life as a fugitive?

00:00, 13 April 2021 (UTC)

Zahra Mohamed Ahmad

... that Zahra Mohamed Ahmad (pictured), who gives legal advice at the Somali Women Development Centre, is said to be a Woman of Courage?
... that Idaho television station KCIX-TV went silent awaiting a merger deal that fell apart?
... that Tranmere Rovers players were each promised a £10,000 bonus for winning the 1991 Football League Third Division play-off Final?
... that according to Nepalese folklore, Pimbahal Pond was built by a demon?
... that XYYY syndrome, a chromosome abnormality in which a man has two extra Y chromosomes, has only been recorded twelve times?
... that Hitler Nababan was beaten by an angry mob after posting a meme to a WhatsApp group?
... that ballerina Unity Phelan danced in the films John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum and I'm Thinking of Ending Things?
... that Silver Hill station may have been named for rumors of Captain Kidd's treasure – or just a stand of trees?

12 April 2021

12:00, 12 April 2021 (UTC)

Australian advertisement of Aloha from Hawaii via Satellite

... that Elvis Presley's concert Aloha from Hawaii via Satellite (advertisement pictured) took place at midnight in Hawaii to match the prime time of its target audience in Asia and Oceania?
... that Charles Scott Napier graduated from the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in 1916, but could not be sent overseas until he turned nineteen in 1918?
... that the Turkish government forced the last monks of Vazelon Monastery to leave in 1923, more than one thousand years after the monastery first opened?
... that Marion Miley, a 1930s amateur golfer ranked second in the United States, was murdered at the age of 27?
... that the tourist submarine Windermere operated for only two seasons on her namesake lake in Cumbria, England?
... that Vikram Phadnis designed around 800 costumes for the Bollywood film Salaam-e-Ishq?
... that attending the first Women in Print Conference inspired Carol Seajay to create Feminist Bookstore News?
... that The Top 100 Drugs can fit in a pocket?

00:00, 12 April 2021 (UTC)

Harry F. Sinclair House

... that the "fairy-tale palace" Harry F. Sinclair House (pictured), once home to magnates Isaac D. Fletcher and Harry F. Sinclair, later contained the Ukrainian American Institute?
... that Michael Hampe, who directed the Cologne Opera for 20 years, was the stage director for the world premiere of Henze's adaptation of Monteverdi's Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria at the Salzburg Festival?
... that the remote Burt Township Schools, covering 258 square miles (670 km²) in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, implemented a novel telephone teaching program that included electronic blackboards in 1984?
... that the Final Offensive of 1981 was actually the first offensive of the 12-year-long Salvadoran Civil War (1979–1992)?
... that professor Emma Baker trained her pharmacology students to perform mass COVID-19 testing on their fellows so that they could go home for Christmas?
... that some of the proposed routes for the current effort to build a Uinta Basin Rail line are based on routes surveyed more than 100 years ago?
... that genderless fashion in Japan was inspired by K-pop groups, visual kei, and 1980s–1990s American fashion?
... that a math mistake while fencing with longswords gave cognitive scientist Tom Griffiths a broken right wrist?

11 April 2021

12:00, 11 April 2021 (UTC)

Gold foil figure from Aska

... that last summer, Martin Rundkvist discovered 22 gold foil figures (example pictured) while excavating a "Beowulfian" mead hall in Sweden?
... that Betty Jane Long was Speaker of the Mississippi House of Representatives for less than a day?
... that a contributor to Hell Is a Very Small Place, a 2016 book about solitary confinement, was denied access to a copy of the book while in prison?
... that Aramburu Island is named after its creator, a Marin County supervisor who ordered it cut off from the mainland because he "did not think any homes should be built" there?
... that Kathy Hudson, an expert in science policy and genetic discrimination, helped assemble a team that led to the passage of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act?
... that Paul McCartney's psychedelic 1972 Wings Tour Bus ended up in a garden in Tenerife before returning to the UK for restoration?
... that hockey player Kevin Hayes came within two hours of needing his leg amputated due to compartment syndrome?
... that sniffing for coffee was once a highly paid job?

00:00, 11 April 2021 (UTC)

Parterre of the Schlosspark in Brühl

... that in the 1930s, the Baroque parterre of the Schlosspark (aerial view pictured) in Brühl, part of a World Heritage Site, was restored according to the original 1728 plans?
... that Russian-born choreographer George Balanchine made the ballet Stars and Stripes as a tribute to the United States, his adopted country?
... that Marion Macfarlane, the first deaconess in the Anglican Church of Australia, later converted to Catholicism and joined the Sisters of the Good Shepherd?
... that Games Research Inc licensed Diplomacy, Henry Kissinger's favorite game, in 1960 after the board game's creator unsuccessfully tried to get multiple publishers to accept it?
... that Luis Abraham Delgadillo was Nicaragua's director-general of musical culture, a position which was created specifically for him?
... that in 1750, Daniel-Marie Chabert de Joncaire de Clausonne built a small canal above Niagara Falls to power a sawmill?
... that the North Korean song "Where Are You, Dear General?" plays every morning at 6 a.m. through Pyongyang's loudspeakers?
... that the chief engineer of Virginia television station WRFT-TV said that "a 15-watt Christmas bulb and baling wire" kept it on the air?

10 April 2021

12:00, 10 April 2021 (UTC)

Diane Damiano

... that Diane Damiano (pictured), a biomedical scientist and physical therapist, helped create a robotic exoskeleton designed to aid children with cerebral palsy to learn how to walk?
... that during a renovation of New York City's 2 Broadway, some funds were embezzled and sent to two crime families?
... that Lionel Fleury brought minor ice hockey and a recreational facility to Quebec City during the Great Depression?
... that Frank Sinatra was "very, very angry" after being told that he would not be singing "Lonely Town" on film?
... that Captain John Fenwick Hutchings was in charge of Operation Pluto, the project to construct submarine oil pipelines under the English Channel during World War II?
... that Jessie Carney Smith spent more than twenty years researching the three volumes of Notable Black American Women, which profiled 1,100 figures?
... that the latex-like sap of the desert candle has uses in traditional medicine but can cause skin blisters and blindness?
... that the music video for Oh Land's "Listen a Little Less" was filmed entirely on a Samsung Galaxy S21 smartphone?

00:00, 10 April 2021 (UTC)

David Abner Jr.

... that Guadalupe College president David Abner Jr. (pictured) declined lucrative positions at northern U.S. colleges so that he could continue "conducting a school for the colored youths of the south"?
... that Robert Fancourt lost his ship to mutineers in 1797, then ran it aground in 1801?
... that some Brexit supporters have called for the UK to transform itself into a deregulated, low-tax "Singapore-on-Thames" to prosper outside of the EU?
... that Port Vale F.C. captain Tom Conlon's great-great-grandfather played for the club more than a century ago?
... that Pop Smoke references Manu Ginóbili, a former basketball player with the San Antonio Spurs, in the lyrics for "Hello"?
... that despite the European Commission organising COVID-19 vaccine supplies for the whole bloc, a shortage of vaccines caused several member states to obtain their own supplies from Russia and China?
... that Joseph Taylor Goodsir accused Rudolph Virchow, "the father of modern pathology", of plagiarism?
... that Robert Webb planned his first book to be about Top Gear and other topics of lad culture before it became How Not to Be a Boy, a memoir about masculinity?

9 April 2021

12:00, 9 April 2021 (UTC)

Exterior of the V. K. Arseniev Museum of Far East History

... that at one point, the Consulate-General of Japan in Vladivostok was housed in what is now the Vladimir K. Arseniev Museum of Far East History (pictured)?
... that Doug Sahm's posthumous album The Return of Wayne Douglas was his first to feature only country music songs?
... that the Astor Place station was flooded by a subterranean river after firefighters extinguished a blaze at a building above it?
... that 19th-century French economist Jean Gustave Courcelle-Seneuil is considered to be the founder of classical economics and economic liberalism in Chile?
... that the late Ottoman Empire has been described as "the laboratory of demographic engineering in Europe"?
... that as the only woman in the 1923 Utah State Senate, Antoinette Kinney introduced bills to increase the number of state-sponsored scholarships and to establish public health regulations?
... that after Erna Schlüter had appeared as Elektra at the Royal Opera House, the composer, who was in the audience, told her that she was the fulfilment of the character?
... that the UK Supreme Court told the Chief Constable that the West Yorkshire Police are not allowed to knock over old ladies?

00:00, 9 April 2021 (UTC)

Jeroboam's hand "shrivelled up".

... that Fragonard won the Prix de Rome for painting Jeroboam Sacrificing to Idols (detail pictured) in 1752, when he was 20 years old?
... that the pioneering Turkish soprano Mesude Çağlayan was presented a tiny doll of "Madama Butterfly" by the government of Japan for performing the Japanese title role in Puccini's opera?
... that Plandemic was criticized for its professional-style production?
... that Bob's Your Uncle, a Hong Kong YouTuber, began cooking while he was an international student after he found the food from Chinese restaurants in London unappetising?
... that the Thousand Islands Parkway was the final two-lane section of Highway 401?
... that the death of Serbian politician Vladimir Cvijan, which occurred in January 2018, was not publicly known until March 2021?
... that the French football club GPSO 92 Issy was founded by three Peruvian sisters in 1997?
... that Hastings station had neither platforms nor shelter for waiting passengers?

8 April 2021

12:00, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

Clarke and her mother at Mauthausen

... that Anka Nathanová gave birth to Eva Clarke (both pictured) at the Mauthausen concentration camp shortly before its liberation in 1945?
... that computer game studio Legend Entertainment was founded by veterans of the interactive fiction studio Infocom after it shut down in 1989?
... that F. Scott Fitzgerald said that his book The Great Gatsby was a failure in comparison to Willa Cather's My Ántonia?
... that the Frightened Rabbit album Painting of a Panic Attack was written mostly over email?
... that Paul English, co-founder of Kayak, offered to pay for the vaccination of 100,000 people during the cholera outbreak following the 2010 Haiti earthquake if other funding could not be secured?
... that the Sursock Purchases represented almost a quarter of all land purchased by Jews in Palestine until 1948?
... that ballerina Miranda Weese performed the lead role in a televised performance of Swan Lake under an hour's notice, with a partner she had never rehearsed with?
... that while the 2020 Triumph Tiger 900 shares a name with a previous model (the 1998 Tiger 900) and looks similar to its predecessor (the 2010 Tiger 800), it shares its design with neither?

00:00, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

Work No. 227: The lights going on and off (2000)

... that Martin Creed's installation Work No. 227: The lights going on and off (pictured) has been described as "the first truly great artwork of the twenty-first century"?
... that on the first day of the East L.A. walkouts, Vickie Castro's car was used to take down a fence at Roosevelt High School?
... that a German theologian wrote "Vertraut den neuen Wegen" to be sung at a wedding in Eisenach shortly before the fall of the Wall?
... that Rosemary Crumlin, author of a 60-year history of the Blake Prize for religious art, first attended a Blake exhibition when she was a young novice with the Australian Sisters of Mercy?
... that within three years, American subscription television service ON TV went from boasting 725,000 subscribers in eight cities to being out of business?
... that English clergyman Wilfrid T. F. Castle wrote the first book-length account of the postal history of Cyprus?
... that in the Neon Genesis Evangelion episode "A Transfer", Arthur Schopenhauer's hedgehog's dilemma is mentioned?
... that Len Fisher won the 1999 Ig Nobel Prize for physics for his research on the optimal way to dunk a biscuit?

7 April 2021

12:00, 7 April 2021 (UTC)

Japan National Route 101 along the Sea of Japan coastline

... that most of the coastal highway Japan National Route 101 (pictured) follows the path of a road originally established by the Tokugawa shogunate?
... that Grote Stadskerk, a church located in the historical centre of Paramaribo, is the first and the largest church of the Moravian congregation in Suriname?
... that after making videos on TikTok where she lip-synced Donald Trump, Sarah Cooper got a comedy special on Netflix and a TV show on CBS?
... that the greeneye spurdog, Sydney skate, grey skate and whitefin swellshark are at risk of extinction by trawling, according to a 2021 report?
... that the Nazis at Ravensbrück killed French Resistance fighter Émilie Tillion by gas chamber for having white hair?
... that the most senior of the African-American scientists and technicians on the Manhattan Project, William Knox, supervised the otherwise-white staff of the Corrosion Section at Columbia University?
... that José de la Cruz Mena, who contracted leprosy at the age of 21 and was blind at 26, was described as "the pre-eminent Nicaraguan composer of his time"?
... that in State v. Linkhaw, the North Carolina Supreme Court reversed the conviction of a man who sang so badly in church that a jury had found him guilty of "disturbing a religious congregation"?

00:00, 7 April 2021 (UTC)

The Söderala vane

... that although used as the weather vane of a church, the Söderala vane (pictured) was probably originally made for a Viking ship?
... that Carter Hart is the youngest goaltender in Philadelphia Flyers history to record a shutout, doing so at the age of 21 years and 57 days?
... that a song of God's presence, written in 1965 in Dutch by Huub Oosterhuis, became part of the first common German Catholic hymnal, and was retained in the second by popular demand?
... that in September 2020, two labor unions both performed strike actions against the University of Illinois Hospital in Chicago?
... that irked by the immense gap in gender-focused digital storytelling from both Sudan and South Sudan, Omnia Shawkat co-founded Andariya magazine?
... that studies in occupational toxicology often focus on early effects that are more subtle than those in clinical medicine?
... that in one of Singapore's largest drainage diversions, a canal had to be redirected into steel pipes while constructing Chinatown MRT station?
... that organist Lorin Whitney worked nights at a Lockheed Aircraft plant during World War II, while performing on a coast-to-coast radio program after his shift ended in the morning?

6 April 2021

12:00, 6 April 2021 (UTC)

Canadian loggers and their cookhouse, 1917

... that their cookhouse (example pictured) was as important to loggers as their bunkhouse or tool shed?
... that the mayor of Málaga, Francisco de la Torre, was the first Spaniard to be awarded the Medal of Pushkin by Vladimir Putin?
... that historians do not agree on how Port Way entered the Roman town of Calleva Atrebatum?
... that Lyubomir Pipkov is considered one of the founders of Bulgaria's modern professional musical establishment?
... that students from four local high schools and Rutgers University each had their chance to run New Jersey television station WRTV for a day?
... that Erich Honecker demanded that West Germany violate its own constitution by recognising East German citizenship?
... that assisted by computers, Marijn Heule helped devise a proof of Keller's conjecture in dimension seven, a 90-year-old math problem?
... that the bicolored sponge goby spends most of its life living inside sponges?

00:00, 6 April 2021 (UTC)

Martin Luther King Jr.

... that photographer Benedict J. Fernandez was invited several times to the home of Martin Luther King Jr. (pictured), where he was able to see him "as a man, a father, a husband"?
... that rapper Pop Smoke recorded "Diana" the night before he was murdered?
... that after Mary Lou Godbold announced her candidacy for the Mississippi Senate, all of the other candidates withdrew from the race?
... that when the tower of Sioux Falls radio station KISD collapsed in 1968, it narrowly missed a train motel run by the station's former owner?
... that as a fifteen-year-old student, ballerina Angelica Generosa replaced an injured schoolmate to perform a lead role in Balanchine's Stars and Stripes after two weeks of rehearsals?
... that Leonard Bernstein rediscovered his setting of Psalm 148 for voice and piano, dated 1935, in the mid-1980s, and it was first performed in 1993?
... that the Thai Supreme Court opinion concerning the murder of Jenjira Ployangunsri is often quoted on Valentine's Day?
... that a 1947 song tells you how to cook rabbit at top speed?

5 April 2021

12:00, 5 April 2021 (UTC)

A flat-roofed pub

... that a saying in Britain states that one should "never drink in a flat-roofed pub" (example pictured)?
... that Eugénie Brazier was the first chef to be awarded six Michelin stars?
... that a team including bricklayers, assistant bank managers and insurance clerks defeated Coventry City in the third round of the FA Cup in 1989?
... that Ivorian politician Téné Birahima Ouattara, the brother of the country's president, is nicknamed "Photocopy" due to their similar appearance?
... that neither of the US-based authors of the 1991 book The Coming War With Japan had ever visited Japan when they wrote it?
... that when Canadian preacher Perry F. Rockwood criticized the Presbyterian church in 1947, he was ordered to recant and burn his sermons?
... that the 2021 Palestinian film The Present is about a present and the present?
... that German minister Wolfgang Clement said that the secret to drinking a glass of beer in 1.5 seconds was to fold back the uvula?

00:00, 5 April 2021 (UTC)

Noreen Riols

... that British novelist Noreen Riols (pictured) trained agents who supported the French Resistance during World War II?
... that the wasp Sceliphron asiaticum provisions its nest with body parts of spiders?
... that Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Zach Eflin was once traded twice in the course of 24 hours?
... that the February 2021 calving of Iceberg A-74 has provided the opportunity to study seafloor organisms that can survive 30 kilometres (19 mi) from the nearest daylight?
... that the Battle of Milliken's Bend brought acceptance of African Americans as soldiers?
... that after Do Not Split received an Oscar nomination, the Chinese government reportedly told local media to downplay the awards?
... that Louis William Valentine DuBourg established his episcopal see in St. Louis because the Catholics of New Orleans would not accept his authority?
... that people in Taiwan changed their legal names to something involving salmon in order to get free sushi?

4 April 2021

12:00, 4 April 2021 (UTC)

Archimedean Excogitation

... that the rolling ball sculpture Archimedean Excogitation (pictured) has almost 30 moving or sound-producing components?
... that Imago Records intended to release Kylie Minogue in the US before closing down in 1995?
... that after IFPI Taiwan established the IFPI Taiwan Charts in August 1996, the charts were noted for having their own World Wide Web site?
... that the music video for St. Vincent's song "Pay Your Way in Pain" recalls the 1970s downtown New York, taking inspiration from the works of Kate Bush, David Bowie, and Cindy Sherman?
... that "Christians, awake, salute the happy morn" is a hymn based on a poem that John Byrom first presented "For Dolly"?
... that an article headlined "(Almost) Straight Outta Compton" led to Prince Harry's communications secretary issuing a public statement denouncing "racist" and "sexist" commentary about Meghan, Duchess of Sussex?
... that the 2003 spy thriller The Hero: Love Story of a Spy was Priyanka Chopra's first Bollywood film?
... that "prophet of doom" Craig Hamilton-Parker claims to have predicted Brexit and Trump?

00:00, 4 April 2021 (UTC)

Lupita Infante

... that singer-songwriter Lupita Infante (pictured) advocates for women's empowerment through her traditional norteño and ranchera music?
... that the dual circulation policy calls for China to prioritize domestic consumption while remaining open to international trade?
... that Masako Yashiro was one of the earliest female artists to create Japanese boys' comics?
... that the series finale of Schitt's Creek was written in three hours by co-creator Daniel Levy?
... that Alice Saxby was nurse in charge of an officer's wing at Botleys during the Second World War and cared for many casualties from the Normandy landings?
... that in 2000, the Mayor of New York City Rudy Giuliani threatened to sell JFK and LaGuardia airports to BAA USA owned by a British company?
... that Mark Cullen was named as League Two Player of the Month for October 2014 after scoring a perfect hat-trick?
... that former Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev starred in a Pizza Hut commercial in 1997?

3 April 2021

12:00, 3 April 2021 (UTC)

The Annunciation (1898) by Henry Ossawa Tanner

... that in his 1898 painting The Annunciation (pictured), Henry Ossawa Tanner uses a column of light to depict the angel Gabriel?
... that Jacquie Sturm was the first Māori writer to have her work published in a New Zealand anthology?
... that Green Bullfrog featured members of Deep Purple, Procol Harum and Chas & Dave?
... that due to her Casualty character Ruby Spark's near-photographic memory, actress Maddy Hill had to learn all the intricate details of the medical terminology used by the character?
... that people thought Boxers would gentrify Washington Heights?
... that Gardner Dow was the only American college football player to die of sports-related injuries in 1919?
... that English musician Jane Weaver's album Flock was inspired by Lebanese torch songs, 1980s Russian Aerobics records, and Australian punk music?
... that author Edmund G. Love spent several years homeless, sleeping on the subway and interacting with other homeless people, leading him to write the book Subways Are For Sleeping?

00:00, 3 April 2021 (UTC)

Harry Styles

... that Harry Styles (pictured), who is known for his flamboyant fashion, was voted the Most Stylish Man of the Year by GQ in 2020?
... that only about a quarter of New York City's 472 subway stations had elevators in 2018, among the lowest accessibility rates of the world's major transit systems?
... that the TV broadcast of the Taylor Swift concert City of Lover only included half the set list of the original concert?
... that Tonia Shand became Australia's first woman high commissioner to Sri Lanka in 1988?
... that the coral reefs of Tuvalu include the Funafuti Conservation Area, which encompasses 20 per cent of the reef area of Funafuti atoll?
... that Peter Milliman coached Team Russia at the 2014 World Lacrosse Championship despite not knowing until that year that they even had a team?
... that, while representing Andorra at the 2010 Winter Olympics, Lluís Marin Tarroch served as the flag bearer and became the first Andorran to compete in snowboarding at the Games?
... that Sister Elizabeth Sander, who was imprisoned for carrying "lewd books", escaped twice?

2 April 2021

12:00, 2 April 2021 (UTC)

Johannes Hill as soloist at the Dreikönigskirche, Frankfurt

... that Ich will den Kreuzweg gerne gehen, a Passion cantata for solo bass by Telemann composed in Frankfurt, was performed there in Lent during the COVID-19 pandemic (pictured)?
... that at the age of 12, the Lakota spiritual leader Arvol Looking Horse became the youngest ever Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe and Bundle?
... that Gwen Stefani's "Slow Clap" has a country-inspired cover artwork, despite the song itself having a ska sound?
... that in 1930, the new infant-care centre of the Mothercraft Training Society was named after Princess Elizabeth of York, now Queen Elizabeth II?
... that when journalist Pierre Nadeau reported on the 1973 famine in Ethiopia, his suggestion for viewers to donate to Oxfam led to an inundation of contributions the next day?
... that Duncan Jupp scored his first league goal for more than a decade in the 2005 Football League Two play-off Final?
... that Lieutenant General Osman Erbaş was one of 11 Turkish military personnel killed in a 4 March 2021 helicopter crash?
... that Prides Crossing station had separate benches for Democrats and Republicans?

00:00, 2 April 2021 (UTC)

Senator Fred H. Brown

... that Fred H. Brown (pictured) went from a bean eater to a bean counter?
... that there are dragons in Buckingham Palace?
... that Napoleon Bonaparte once acted as the main character in a soap opera and once fell from a Harley Davidson motorbike?
... that there has been a bottomless pit in East Flagstaff, Arizona, for more than 100 years?
... that President George H. W. Bush was King of the Pit?
... that an Alligator in PVC made Mary Quant look wet?
... that Mussolini is not interested in politics?
... that Mr. Spock ate my balls?

1 April 2021

12:00, 1 April 2021 (UTC)

Cthulhu during the 2016 campaign

... that cosmic horror Cthulhu has run for President of the United States (2016 campaign pictured) in every election since 1996?
... that having sex at different times may produce new species?
... that Michigan governor William Milliken gave the homily at a funeral for frozen cheese and mushroom pizzas?
... that Johnny Dickshot was captain of the All-Ugly team?
... that Leonard Bernstein wrote "I hate music"?
... that 14 April is Cake and Cunnilingus Day?
... that Mr Bean attempted to kill the Queen with a tobacco-loaded gun?
... that the United States once sued a golden cock but cried fowl when the cock won?
... that in 1941, a Trinidadian king was crowned with the assistance of Adolf Hitler?

00:00, 1 April 2021 (UTC)

Hy Cohen

... that Hy Cohen's (pictured) seven-game-long Major League Baseball career ended before his baseball card could be produced?
... that Toa Payoh station was the first in Singapore's Mass Rapid Transit system to have its structural works completed?
... that the title of the Taylor Swift song "Cornelia Street" refers to a street in New York City on which Swift rented a townhouse?
... that the Cerrón Grande Reservoir, also known as Lake Suchitlán, is one of the most contaminated and polluted bodies of fresh water in Central America?
... that Brenda Banks was one of the first African-American women to work as a professional animator?
... that Vorau Abbey's collegiate church has been described as the "most splendid baroque church in Styria?"
... that, such was his popularity with the club's supporters, when footballer Hughie Ferguson was sold by Motherwell F.C., the local steel works closed to allow workers to wave him off?
... that the founder of WZIP in Covington, Kentucky, beat out his own brother for the right to build the station?

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