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31 March 2021

12:00, 31 March 2021 (UTC)

Siuro railway station

... that the Siuro railway station (pictured), located in the Finnish town of Nokia, was proclaimed a nationally significant built cultural environment by the Finnish Heritage Agency?
... that physician Roopa Dhatt has highlighted the disproportionate number of women working on the frontline of the COVID-19 pandemic?
... that British singer Rita Ora and Kazakh DJ Imanbek collaborated with translators over videotelephony software Zoom to record their collaborative EP Bang?
... that Andy Crosby captained Scunthorpe United to victory in the 2009 League One play-off Final, the last match of his 715-game career?
... that the encrusting bryozoan Chorizopora brongniartii has a strategy for avoiding being overgrown by worm tubes?
... that although Peter Doyle was Walt Whitman's intimate companion for over twenty years, he was almost not permitted to attend Whitman's funeral?
... that the elderly Widow Mulchrone baked griddlecakes at the Kelly homestead for Princess Grace and Prince Rainier?
... that Richard W. Wells claimed that before he brought several eastern brown snake eggs into the office of a local newspaper, the species had never been photographed hatching?

00:00, 31 March 2021 (UTC)

Advertisement for Around the World in 90 Minutes

... that Around the World in 90 Minutes featured Elizabeth Taylor cutting a 30-foot-long (9.1 m) cake, Walter Cronkite reporting, and Hubert Humphrey delivering a speech?
... that after his baseball career, Byron Houck worked as a camera operator on Buster Keaton's production crew?
... that the River Poddle, the main water source of the city of Dublin for over 500 years, was later so polluted by industry that it allegedly killed cattle and horses drinking from it?
... that Alexander Bielaski was friends with Abraham Lincoln and the grandfather of a director of what became the FBI?
... that the Disability Day of Mourning was first observed in 2012, in response to the media coverage of a murdered autistic man focusing on his murderer's "love and devotion"?
... that one of Elizabeth Cressener's nuns entered her priory as a ten-year-old princess?
... that the Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock was the first symphony orchestra to perform as a full ensemble following a hiatus caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany?
... that Japanese artist Macoto Takahashi stopped making girls' comics in the 1960s because he considered himself incapable of adopting the point of view of a girl?

30 March 2021

12:00, 30 March 2021 (UTC)

[[File:|140px|Ana Kansky painted by Henrika Šantel (1932) ]]

Ana Kansky painted by Henrika Šantel (1932)

... that chemist Ana Kansky (pictured) became the first person to be awarded a doctoral degree by the newly established University of Ljubljana in 1920?
... that before the consulate was ready, the first Russian consul in Hakodate lived in local temples?
... that when Fred Stewart was appointed the manager of Cardiff City F.C., he paid the transfer fee of his first signing himself?
... that Berwind, a mining ghost town in Colorado, was a battle site during the Colorado Coalfield War in 1913 and 1914?
... that Christina Adane's free school meal campaign created a UK government U-turn?
... that the first Route 128 station was built in just one week?
... that Irish Times columnist Róisín Ingle has penned more than 4,000 pieces, including "It was love at first riot" about meeting her life partner in Northern Ireland?
... that the New York Produce Exchange's business was described in 1886 as "callithumpian discord" with "fiendish screeches"?

00:00, 30 March 2021 (UTC)

Comic Takaoka in 2015

... that Comic Takaoka (pictured) opened in 1880 as a general used bookstore and operated continuously until 2019, closing only for the Second World War?
... that Satyavathi Rathod is the first woman from a scheduled tribe to serve as a minister in the Indian state of Telangana?
... that Vasari disliked the "clumsy Greek style" of Italo-Byzantine painting that preceded the Renaissance?
... that William Lyon Mackenzie was the first mayor of Toronto?
... that the East Bengal Ultras, founded in 2013, became India's first ultras group?
... that pianist David Kadouch, named Young Artist of the Year in 2011, recorded Shostakovich's 24 Preludes and his Piano Quintet on a single CD?
... that Jack Lemmon starred in The Mystery of Thirteen as a real-life physician who Charles Dickens called "the greatest villain that ever stood in the Old Bailey"?
... that Stephanie Saland decided to become a ballet dancer because of computerized report cards?

29 March 2021

12:00, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

Scott Brown

... that professional goalkeeper Scott Brown (pictured) lost his father to Parkinson's, witnessed the birth of his son, and then signed with Aberdeen, all in the space of ten days?
... that Dreamcar's "All of the Dead Girls" was inspired by a comment made by American actor Josh Richman?
... that a child in command of the controls crashed an airplane, killing all seventy-five occupants on impact?
... that Kolja Lessing, playing both violin and piano, focuses his repertoire on neglected composers, including numerous former students of Franz Schreker?
... that Sailor Moon contributed significantly to the development of yuri, a genre of media focusing on intimate relationships between female characters?
... that John Frankenheimer's World War II drama Rumors of Evening led one critic to predict stardom for Robert Loggia?
... that the street Borgo Santo Spirito in Rome was named after a fortified complex for Anglo-Saxon pilgrims to Rome?
... that after a Falklands War adventure with rigid inflatable boats, Tommy Turtle's SAS troop called itself "The South Georgia Boating Club"?

00:00, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

Three-circle depiction of the Borromean rings

... that the common depiction of the Borromean rings as three linked but pairwise-unlinked circles (pictured) is an impossible object, because they cannot actually be circular?
... that MLS Cup 1999 was played with new rule changes that were approved days before the game?
... that both grandfathers of Donough MacCarty, who fought for the Irish Catholic Confederation, were Protestants?
... that Aaron Copland considered the Short Symphony to be "one of the best things I ever wrote"?
... that Carl Craig became the state auditor of Mississippi in 1936 after defeating a former state auditor also named Carl?
... that a syzygy of celestial bodies caused Van Sickle Island to flood in 2017?
... that 19th-century Guyanese poet Egbert Martin, who died at the age of 29, is considered to be the country's first major poet?
... that Pseudolarix wehrii fossils can be mummies?

28 March 2021

12:00, 28 March 2021 (UTC)

Composition with Grid No. 1

... that the 1918 painting Composition with Grid No. 1 (pictured) by Piet Mondrian is based on the golden ratio?
... that Arora Akanksha, the first millennial candidate for Secretary-General of the United Nations, believes the organisation is wasteful?
... that "Wer unterm Schutz des Höchsten steht", a hymn paraphrasing Psalm 91, has been recommended instead of the psalm in the Liturgy of the Hours, and for memorial services after disasters?
... that only posthumously was Patrick Francis Healy described as the first black American to become a Jesuit, earn a Ph.D., and become the president of a predominantly white university?
... that the Battery Maritime Building was used as a musical installation while it was awaiting redevelopment?
... that Sandra Wolin, a physician-microbiologist, devised an early ribosome profiling method as a postdoctoral researcher in Peter Walter's lab at the University of California, San Francisco?
... that three-quarters of the animated film A Goofy Movie had to be reshot due to a single dead pixel on a faulty monitor, leading to a delayed release?
... that to attract commercial investment, stones were installed on Stone Street in New York City?

00:00, 28 March 2021 (UTC)

John J. DeGioia

... that in 2001, John J. DeGioia (pictured) became the first lay president of a Jesuit university in the United States?
... that A Winged Victory for the Sullen's album Invisible Cities was composed as the score of a multimedia theatre production that was inspired by Italo Calvino's 1972 novel of the same name?
... that Will Arnett is the only voice actor to appear in the BoJack Horseman episode "Free Churro"?
... that, during his time in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp, footballer Ernie Curtis would obtain extra food by teaching his captors how to play with a ball made of paper?
... that a high-rise residential building in Seattle is planned to incorporate a Boeing 747-400 fuselage into its indoor galleria?
... that Muraina Oyelami started painting after attending a Mbari Mbayo workshop?
... that a 2009 study found that Apple Fifth Avenue was geotagged in more photographs than the Statue of Liberty was?
... that 1-pentadecanol is synthesized by creeping cucumbers, mutant fungus, and the Shell oil company?

27 March 2021

12:00, 27 March 2021 (UTC)

Dalby Church

... that Dalby Church (pictured) may once have been part of a Danish royal palace complex?
... that after his professional baseball career, Joe Beggs was superintendent of prisons in Kentucky and director of urban renewal for Newport, Kentucky?
... that the String Octet by Max Bruch was premiered in a live BBC broadcast in 1937 and then forgotten for several decades?
... that Crewe Alexandra were promoted back to the second tier of English football for the first time in 101 years when they won the 1997 Football League Second Division play-off Final?
... that of the ten Taiwanese delegates at the 2017 National Congress of the Communist Party of China, only one, Lu Li'an, was born in Taiwan?
... that temporary war buildings on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., were blamed for "producing a depressing air of slovenliness", but some remained standing for over half a century?
... that the 13th-century Barnston Manor was owned by the same family for 700 years before being put up for sale in 2018?
... that when Marjan Haydaree became the all-time top scorer for the Afghanistan women's national football team, she had never set foot in Afghanistan?

00:00, 27 March 2021 (UTC)

Supersonus katydid

... that the katydid genus Supersonus (example pictured) has been considered to produce the highest-frequency ultrasonic noise in the animal kingdom?
... that the original name for the Arrested Development episode "Motherboy XXX" was an advertisement for Burger King?
... that stamp dealer Everard F. Aguilar wrote a chapter on Jamaican postage stamps for Ian Fleming Introduces Jamaica (1965)?
... that the Cambridge United team took a cold shower before winning the 1990 Football League Fourth Division play-off Final?
... that A Ruined Life was the first film by director Victor Sjöström to be shown in Sweden because his earlier film, The Gardener, had been censored for 68 years?
... that during the 1986 Rogers Commission investigation, Allan J. McDonald revealed a coverup by NASA engineers?
... that the 2018–2020 Kivu Ebola epidemic was the Democratic Republic of the Congo's 10th and longest Ebola outbreak and the second largest in the world after the outbreak in West Africa?
... that Ted Cohen's romance was set to music by Isaac Asimov?

26 March 2021

13:07, 26 March 2021 (UTC)

Red Steer in the tail of an Avro Vulcan

... that operators of the Mark 1 Red Steer tail warning radar (pictured) joked that the Soviets would not attempt to jam it as such attempts would not make it any harder to read?
... that 29 years after their last album, alternative rock band the Dream Syndicate released a new studio album, How Did I Find Myself Here? in 2017?
... that Phil Chisnall moved from Manchester United to Liverpool in April 1964, becoming the last player to be transferred directly between the two clubs?
... that Woodrow Wilson's 1919 Pueblo speech was the last time he gave a public oration?
... that when the Conservative Mary Morris claimed "never to have been a militant suffragette", the audience laughed?
... that Australian hotelier and television personality Simon van Kempen recorded a single, "I Am Real", in 2011?
... that Japan's Shirongo Festival sees ama compete to be the first to catch and dedicate to the kami a pair of "beckoning abalone"?
... that Noah Beck, a social-media personality and former college soccer player, wore fishnet tights, cuffed jeans, and stiletto heels for a digital cover of VMan magazine?

03:07, 26 March 2021 (UTC)

Giovanna Tosato

... that physician-scientist and cancer researcher Giovanna Tosato (pictured) had just crossed the finish line when the Boston Marathon bombing started?
... that the 1952 film Girls Marked Danger was classified as being morally objectionable for Catholics by the National Legion of Decency?
... that Kanye West's inspiration for "Welcome to Heartbreak" was Dave Sirulnick showing him pictures of his children?
... that the St. Clair Parkway travels through Corunna, Ontario, a planned town intended to be the capital of a united Upper and Lower Canada when it was established in 1823?
... that Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai is considered the greatest Sufi poet in the Sindhi language?
... that the Port of Spain Gazette was known for its strongly pro-slavery position in the 1830s, and it was said that it "spat its venom on anyone who spoke of the virtues of emancipation"?
... that in 2021, Jane Lunnon became the first woman head of Alleyn's School since it was separated from the College of God's Gift in 1882?
... that the Z173 Shipyard changed its name seven times from 1965 to 2010 before it adopted its current public name, Hong Ha Shipbuilding One-Member Limited Liability Company?

25 March 2021

12:00, 25 March 2021 (UTC)

Kaktovik numerals, representing 0 to 19

... that Kaktovik numerals (pictured) are an iconic, base-20 numeral system created by the Alaskan Iñupiat, with shapes that visually indicate the numbers being represented?
... that Edward Hewitt Nichols, the first leader of Hong Kong's Country Parks administrations, oversaw the designation of 40 per cent of the territory as parkland?
... that one of the first recorded cases of the rare genetic disorder ring chromosome 22 was in a pair of identical twins?
... that Isa Briones, who played Soji and other roles on Star Trek: Picard, sang a new arrangement of Irving Berlin's song "Blue Skies" for the first season's finale?
... that until the Calendar (New Style) Act 1750 was passed, the new year began on 25 March in England, Wales, Ireland, and Britain's American colonies?
... that the current United States Chargé d'affaires to China, Robert W. Forden, taught English at universities in Shenyang and Beijing from 1981 to 1983?
... that recordings of Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, BWV 1, a Bach chorale cantata for the Annunciation, include Fritz Lehmann's with the Berlin Philharmonic, and Nikolaus Harnoncourt's using period instruments?
... that at the opening ceremony for Ontario Highway 105, a construction company presented Minister of Highways George Doucett with a bear cub as thanks for his efforts towards the creation of the route?

00:00, 25 March 2021 (UTC)

Jakob Grün

... that Jakob Grün (pictured), concertmaster of the Vienna Court Opera Orchestra from 1868 to 1897, played violin solos standing, in Hungarian tradition?
... that the 2002 Football League Third Division play-off Final was one of the last matches shown on the ITV Sport Channel?
... that actress Isabel Bonner died on stage while performing in a play written by her husband?
... that the novel Nick was written in 2015 but could not be published until after the copyright of The Great Gatsby expired in 2021?
... that Myra MacDonald, whose career as a foreign correspondent for Reuters spanned virtually three decades, and who covered South Asia for a long time, wrote three books on India and Pakistan?
... that all video games by Digital Homicide Studios were removed from Steam after the company sued 100 of the platform's users?
... that Barnham Court in West Sussex is built in a similar style to Kew Palace in London?
... that the original trenches from the 1916 defensive battle of the Ottoman Army against Russians were identifiable from the satellite images of the Mount Kop Defense National Historic Park?

24 March 2021

12:00, 24 March 2021 (UTC)

Lucia Votano

... that Lucia Votano (pictured) was the first woman to be appointed director of the Gran Sasso National Laboratory, the largest underground research center in the world?
... that Doug Sahm's album Groover's Paradise was produced by former Creedence Clearwater Revival drummer Doug Clifford?
... that Nicola Formby has recalled growing up in South Africa when "dogs lived in kennels outside and never ever came into the house with their muddy paws"?
... that both Robbie Williams and Michael Jackson played for Blackpool in the 2007 Football League One play-off Final?
... that Australian talk-show host Paul B. Kidd is a prolific true-crime writer who has written 37 books?
... that Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl will be the first main-series Pokémon games not developed by Game Freak since the franchise's inception 25 years ago?
... that Rupert Richardson, a civil-rights activist, was known as the "grand dame" of the NAACP?
... that Roxette's final studio album Good Karma was recorded in a studio named "Tits & Ass"?

00:00, 24 March 2021 (UTC)

Cromwell House

... that the listing particulars of Cromwell House (pictured) call it a "splendid example of Renaissance brickwork"?
... that LeRoy Woodson's photographs of steel-industry pollution were part of the Environmental Protection Agency's Documerica project?
... that many South Asian migrants are brought into the Gulf Cooperation Council area under the kafala system, which is seen by human-rights groups as highly exploitative?
... that after Pokémon Legends: Arceus was announced, users pointed out that it was very similar to another hit game on the Switch, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild?
... that the clarinetist Nicola Jürgensen portrayed the character of Eve with her basset horn in Karlheinz Stockhausen's Michaels Reise um die Erde in Vienna and New York City?
... that before his 1868 impeachment, there had been several previous efforts to impeach Andrew Johnson?
... that Andrew Russell Murray, pioneer of pollicization and of finger joint replacement, was shot dead by Karl Kast in the Brisbane medical massacre?
... that Paul Laurence Dunbar would "undoubtedly" have been killed if contemporary white society had fully understood his poem "We Wear the Mask"?

23 March 2021

12:00, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

Ringyuichon Vashum

... that microcredit activist Ringyuichon Vashum (pictured) was awarded the Nari Shakti Puraskar for working to empower more than 13,000 female self-help organizations?
... that The Book of American Negro Poetry, Negro Poets and Their Poems, An Anthology of Verse by American Negroes, and Caroling Dusk, major poetry anthologies from the Harlem Renaissance, included poems by African-American poets ranging from Langston Hughes to a nine-year-old girl?
... that Paul Rolan has been the principal investigator in more than 700 clinical research studies of new medicines?
... that the bank initially refused to provide a mortgage for the 1932 Alvar Aalto–designed house Villa Tammekann in Tartu until its flat roof was replaced by a pitched one?
... that Maryland running back Jake Funk had his best college season after tearing his ACL in the two previous seasons?
... that so many people attended the golden-jubilee celebrations for the pastor of Galeed Chapel in Brighton in 1932 that they had to be held in a different church?
... that the first words ever spoken in a feature film were uttered by Al Jolson after singing "Dirty Hands, Dirty Face"?
... that Poème roumain was composed by George Enescu when he was only 16 years old?

00:00, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

Kangasala railway station

... that the now-closed Kangasala railway station (pictured) in Finland was designed in the National Romantic style, unlike many contemporaneous buildings?
... that the Rhodesian Air Force's Green Leader once threatened to shoot down any Zambian Air Force planes that interfered with Operation Gatling after taking control of Zambian airspace?
... that KQLO, the antecedent of today's KIHM, was established after its founder drove from Nevada to Vermont and found no Catholic radio stations on the trip?
... that Dwayne De Rosario is Canada's all-time leading male soccer goalscorer, with 22 international goals?
... that a rented Ducati SuperSport that was scratched during the making of Road Rash was kept and displayed in the Electronic Arts lobby?
... that when John-Michael Caprio became the director of music at the Roman Catholic St. Patrick's Cathedral, he ordered that the choir's robes be replaced because they looked "too Protestant"?
... that the EMER-K1 was created by Myanmar by reverse-engineering QBZ-97 assault rifles sold to them?
... that the BoJack Horseman episode "The View from Halfway Down" received its title because series creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg needed an episode title starting with the letter "V"?

22 March 2021

12:00, 22 March 2021 (UTC)

Sammy Byrd

... that Sammy Byrd (pictured) is the only person to play in both a World Series and a Masters Tournament?
... that the music styles in the discography of mewithoutYou range from screamed post-hardcore vocals to acoustic campfire songs?
... that Eliza Pottie was one of a small group of women who founded the first Young Women's Christian Association branch in Sydney?
... that at the 2021 Welsh Open, Jordan Brown was the lowest-ranked snooker player to win a ranking event since 1993?
... that Andrew Logan assisted at the first pneumonectomy in the UK and performed the country's first lung transplant?
... that the 1938 film Gangster's Boy starred silent-film actress Betty Blythe, who took on roles that she liked despite a source saying that she was "more or less retired"?
... that the baritone Benjamin Appl, the last private student of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, was named Gramophone's Young Artist of 2016?
... that when commenting on her decision to depict Achilles and Patroclus as lovers in her novel The Song of Achilles, author Madeline Miller remarked: "I stole it from Plato"?

00:00, 22 March 2021 (UTC)

Chemical graph of the overlapping substructures of caffeine

... that one of the first generators of chemical graphs (example pictured) was developed in the context of NASA's Mariner program to facilitate the automated identification of chemical compounds in the search for life on Mars?
... that Millie Dienert was called the "first lady of prayer" for her work on behalf of evangelist Billy Graham?
... that the Sonata in C major for piano four-hands by Franz Schubert was, for over a century after its publication in 1837, thought of as a symphony in disguise?
... that Joseph B. O'Hagan resigned the presidency of the College of the Holy Cross to recuperate but soon thereafter died at sea?
... that the Mississippi–Alabama barrier islands have shrunken rapidly and drifted westward since first being mapped in the 1800s?
... that Domus Litonii is the only remaining 19th-century residential building in the entire centre of Helsinki?
... that in the film Dog Day Afternoon, Al Pacino improvised the "Attica! Attica!" scene following the suggestion of an assistant director?
... that Hollis Taylor has argued that birdsong should be considered music?

21 March 2021

12:00, 21 March 2021 (UTC)

Ava Cherry

... that Ava Cherry (pictured), David Bowie's partner and muse, spent a year searching for him in Europe after he cancelled a tour of Japan on which she was to be a backup singer?
... that Neil Warnock left Huddersfield Town shortly after they gained promotion by winning the 1995 Football League Second Division play-off Final because he said the club chairman had told him a "porky pie"?
... that Turkish world-champion para-archer Bahattin Hekimoğlu did not leave his home for two years after breaking his neck and becoming paralyzed?
... that the melody of a song to Venus became the tune for the 17th-century hymn "Auf meinen lieben Gott" (in English "In God, My Faithful God") and others?
... that the philosopher G. E. L. Owen was described by Martha Nussbaum as "an alcoholic and an attempted womaniser"?
... that the British Consulate of Hakodate was prone to catching on fire?
... that physicist Joseph Gelders was kidnapped and beaten, probably by members of the Ku Klux Klan, for his civil rights and labor organizing activities?
... that the signature fragrance of Aedes de Venustas perfumery is based on rhubarb and tomato leaf?

00:00, 21 March 2021 (UTC)

Federal Reserve Bank of New York Building

... that the Federal Reserve Bank of New York Building (pictured) has been described as "a bigger Florentine palace than has ever stood in Florence"?
... that the death of NME music journalist Dele Fadele was not known within the music industry for more than two years after the fact?
... that Washington State Route 539 is named the "Guide Meridian" because it follows a surveying meridian?
... that the 1998 Football League Third Division play-off Final was the first play-off final to feature two brothers when Neil and David Gregory played for Colchester United?
... that Dennis Howard Green was such a productive book reviewer for the Modern Language Review that they implemented a rule called Lex Green, which limits the number of reviews per person to three per year?
... that Chuck Connors, star of the ABC show The Rifleman, was an investor in TV station KNBS, an ABC affiliate, in Washington state?
... that physician Clare Fowler and surgeon Prokar Dasgupta were the first in the UK to use Botox injections, using a flexible cystoscope, to treat people with overactive bladders?
... that William Steig wrote Shrek! at the age of eighty-three, two decades after leaving a career as a cartoonist at The New Yorker?

20 March 2021

12:00, 20 March 2021 (UTC)

Ebenezer Teichelmann after the first crossing of Harper Pass in 1905

... that when Ebenezer Teichelmann (pictured), Henry Newton and Alec Graham made the first ascent of Douglas Peak in New Zealand in 1907, they took more than 25 kg (55 lb) of camera equipment?
... that Allen Mawer was the driving force behind the establishment of the English Place-Name Society, which conducted a systematic survey of English place names?
... that Claude McKay's poem "If We Must Die" has been cited as marking the beginning of the Harlem Renaissance?
... that John Morkel captained the Rhodesia national rugby team to a victory over the All Blacks?
... that the song "August" was written by Taylor Swift from the perspective of a girl who falls in love with somebody already in a relationship?
... that Boris Johnson and Tony Fernandes were present at the opening ceremony of Epsom College in Malaysia in 2014?
... that Dorothy Henriques-Wells made 360 paintings for display on three Norwegian Cruise Line ships?
... that live huhu grubs have been served at the Hokitika Wildfoods Festival?

00:00, 20 March 2021 (UTC)

Singing male black-chinned sparrow

... that the song of the black-chinned sparrow (pictured) is said to resemble the sound of a dropped ping-pong ball?
... that Ángel Mangual's walk-off single in the 20th inning on July 9, 1971, ended the longest scoreless game in American League history?
... that in Begum v Home Secretary, Lord Reed quoted from Eleanor Roosevelt: "justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both"?
... that Maha Jaafar, a Sudanese-Iraqi dentist who started producing YouTube videos to "have fun with her friends", has attracted almost two million views for a video mimicking Arabic dialects and stereotypes?
... that the co-founders of the Black College Football Hall of Fame attended the same historically black university and were both quarterbacks in the National Football League?
... that the short documentary film A City Called Copenhagen was initially not released due to the film commission disliking the film, but it was shown two years later to positive reception?
... that Adolphus D. Griffin published the Portland New Age for Portland's African-American residents during a time in which they were legally excluded from the state?
... that oversimplifying a fictional character over the course of a show's run is called Flanderization, after Ned Flanders of The Simpsons?

19 March 2021

12:00, 19 March 2021 (UTC)

Peter Thorburn

... that rugby coach Peter Thorburn (pictured), who had a keen interest in Thoroughbred racing, owned two horses that won multiple Group I races?
... that New York City's Hudson Terminal, once billed as the world's largest office building by floor area, was demolished as part of an agreement to develop the World Trade Center?
... that Manuel L. Quezon defeated the National Socialist Party and the communist-backed Republican Party in 1935?
... that former masonic grand master Tobias Watkins served nine months in prison for embezzling $3,050 from the U.S. Treasury, then two more years for failing to pay it back?
... that many locations in the manga Aria are based on real-life Venice?
... that Idaho's first television station, KFXD-TV, was a two-man operation that lasted less than two months?
... that a copy of Estella Hijmans-Hertzveld's poem "Stemmen en zangen" was gifted to Hans Christian Andersen during his 1866 visit to the Netherlands?
... that the Comanche Springs pupfish no longer lives in Comanche Springs?

00:00, 19 March 2021 (UTC)

Fossil echinoid

... that fossil echinoids (example pictured) can be used to date the various chalk strata of the White Cliffs of Dover?
... that Elsa Dreisig appeared at the Berlin State Opera in soprano roles from Diane in Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie to Natascha in the world premiere of Beat Furrer's Violetter Schnee?
... that a decade after passing on the opportunity to build a radio station, the owner of the Okmulgee Daily Times newspaper instead bought KOKL?
... that four members of the Usmani family were co-founders of the Darul Uloom Deoband seminary, where the Deobandi movement began?
... that Robert T. Kerlin was fired from the Virginia Military Institute for questioning the death sentences of African-American farmers?
... that the publication of A Companion to J. R. R. Tolkien in 2014 by Wiley-Blackwell has been described as proof that Tolkien had finally attained acceptance by the literary establishment?
... that the original Pittsburgh U.S. Marine Hospital became a saloon?
... that Art Potter once ordered the "unusual scene" of five ice hockey players beginning a game in the penalty box?

18 March 2021

12:00, 18 March 2021 (UTC)

James McHenry Jones

... that James McHenry Jones (pictured) was the president of a university, a leader of a fraternal organization, and a director of one of the first African American–owned fossil-fuel companies?
... that the ornamental dome of the Great Mosque of Tlemcen is considered one of the most exceptional examples of Almoravid architecture?
... that Heléne Alexopoulos was one of the few New York City Ballet dancers who had children?
... that the first episode of the British television drama series Ackley Bridge was re-edited following the Manchester Arena bombing, as scenes showed a student at the centre of a bombing hoax?
... that Luis Salvador became the mayor of Granada in 2019 even though his party won only four of twenty-seven seats?
... that the machine-learning model DALL-E, widely reported on for its "surreal" and "quirky" output, also learned to solve Raven's Matrices (a form of IQ test) without being specifically taught to do so?
... that Icelandic footballer Þórdís Hrönn Sigfúsdóttir has had to self-isolate on four occasions during the COVID-19 pandemic?
... that the governor of Iowa banned the speaking of any language other than English in public in 1918?

00:00, 18 March 2021 (UTC)

Blue asbestos from the Koegas region

... that the Koegas mine was once the largest producer of blue asbestos (example pictured) in the world?
... that attorney Mark F. Pomerantz, who supervised the prosecution of mob boss John A. Gotti, is now assisting a criminal investigation into Donald Trump's finances?
... that the song "I Didn't Know", representing San Marino in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016, was written by a composer and a lyricist who had never met each other in person?
... that the southern brown howler is considered to be a vulnerable species, partly because of the monkey's susceptibility to yellow fever?
... that on Saint Patrick's Day in 2003, Catholic Worker Clare Grady broke into an Army recruiting center and poured her blood on the walls, windows, and a US flag in a protest against the invasion of Iraq?
... that Tamar, an epic poem by American writer Robinson Jeffers, makes references to the Books of Samuel in the Old Testament?
... that the violinist Rudolf Deman, concertmaster of the orchestra of the Berlin State Opera, took part in the first German radio broadcast from Berlin in 1923?
... that the shoe department of the Saks Fifth Avenue flagship store was the first individual story of a building in the United States with its own ZIP Code?

17 March 2021

12:00, 17 March 2021 (UTC)

Jyoti Kumari

... that teenager Jyoti Kumari (pictured) travelled 750 miles (1,210 km) on a bicycle with her injured father, during India's COVID-19 lockdown?
... that The Ghost Inside's self-titled 2020 album was their first release since a deadly tour bus crash in 2015?
... that Irish sportswoman Carol Breen has played internationally in both association and Australian rules football?
... that within hours of the Social Encounter Party in Mexico being stripped of its electoral registration, the Solidary Encounter Party was formed with the same initials, party structure and ideology?
... that ballerina Patricia Delgado danced in a music video for indie rock band the National?
... that KSBK, which has been described as the most influential radio station in Okinawa in the 1960s, became a casualty of the reversion of the Ryukyu Islands to Japan and closed in October 1973?
... that Governor Andrew Cuomo, who was initially praised for his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York, is now implicated in a scandal related to it?
... that Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward starred in The 80 Yard Run as a couple in a troubled marriage, and were married in real life 13 days later?

00:00, 17 March 2021 (UTC)

Folio depicting Alexander the Great at the Kaaba

... that the Khalili Collection of Hajj and the Arts of Pilgrimage has a 16th-century manuscript (pictured) showing Alexander the Great praying at the Kaaba?
... that Martina Vandenberg moved to Russia and founded the country's first rape crisis center when she was 24?
... that a three-minute segment of Boonie Bears: The Wild Life took an average of 20 hours per frame to render?
... that footballer Billy Hardy is Cardiff City F.C.'s record appearance holder, having played in 590 matches between 1911 and 1932?
... that research incorporating sex as a biological variable enhances the rigor and reproducibility of results?
... that the music video for the Taylor Swift song "Delicate" was accused by internet audiences of plagiarizing an advertisement for Kenzo?
... that Chang Yun Chung, formerly the world's oldest billionaire, was captured during the Japanese occupation for aiding anti-Japanese resistance in Malaya?
... that when a fire broke out at 1 Hanover Square's basement restaurant, engine crews simultaneously fighting a fire across the street got confused?

16 March 2021

12:00, 16 March 2021 (UTC)

Al Gettel

... that Al "Two Gun" Gettel (pictured) rode a horse onto the baseball field in full Western wear for a game?
... that Andrew Bahr drove a herd of 3,000 reindeer from Nome, Alaska, to Reindeer Station, earning the nickname "The Arctic Moses"?
... that ballerina Kay Mazzo created roles in three ballets choreographed by George Balanchine during the New York City Ballet's Stravinsky Festival in 1972?
... that during the first public reading of Wolfdietrich Schnurre's short story Das Begräbnis, part of the audience left the room in protest?
... that Geoffrey Kirk captained a fishing boat before becoming a professor of ancient Greek at Cambridge University?
... that the top-level domain .guru had 35,000 websites registered to it within the first three weeks of its release?
... that Lisa Martin captained the Scotland women's national rugby union team in 2018 to their first victory in Ireland for 12 years?
... that a 1958 promotion by Nashville radio station WKDA, in which a "purple people eater" climbed a hotel sign, prompted the police chief to ask the station "never to pull a trick" like it again?

00:00, 16 March 2021 (UTC)

Prokofiev (on the podium, right) after the second performance of his Sixth Symphony

... that the Sixth Symphony by Sergei Prokofiev (pictured) was said to depict the "private world of modern man against the terrifying machinery of universal destruction"?
... that Lester Collins developed Innisfree Garden over 55 years, and it was listed in the US National Register of Historic Places in 2019?
... that Femme au béret et à la robe quadrillée (Marie-Thérèse Walter), an oil-on-canvas painting by Pablo Picasso, was one of the most expensive paintings ever sold at an auction in Europe?
... that no more than 50 mature individuals of the critically endangered northern brown howler are estimated to remain?
... that the opening of a new church in Guston, Colorado, was said to have brought fire and "divine intervention" on a rival neighboring community?
... that French rugby union player Audrey Forlani scored a try in the decisive match of the 2016 Women's Six Nations Championship, after which France won the tournament?
... that the owners of Kettlethorpe Hall used a relocated 14th-century chapel as a boathouse, and the chapel's remains are now in a public park?
... that Wilbur Nelson was known as the "singing evangelist" because he both sang and preached at his services?

15 March 2021

12:00, 15 March 2021 (UTC)

Irena Solska by Leon Wyczółkowski (1899)

... that during the German occupation of Poland, the Polish dramatic actress Irena Solska (pictured) worked with Żegota and helped to hide and rescue Jews?
... that the whaleback barge 104 was the first ship of its kind to be lost on the Great Lakes?
... that the March of the Indonesian National Armed Forces was adopted after the previous march fell into disuse following mocking and parodying by activists?
... that American financial executive Robert Glauber could watch an opera "infinite times"?
... that in Epidemiology in Relation to Air Travel (1933), Arthur Massey showed how air passengers could spread infectious diseases between countries before they showed any symptoms?
... that while at Fiorentina, Mohamed Salah chose the shirt number 74 in honour of the victims of the Port Said Stadium riot?
... that the US government once mailed rural school districts scale models from which carpenters could construct actual two-room schools?
... that Kids See Ghosts and Ty Dolla Sign were sued for allegedly sampling "The Spirit of Marcus Garvey (Garvey speaks to an all-Black audience)" in their song "Freeee (Ghost Town, Pt. 2)"?

00:00, 15 March 2021 (UTC)

"Liberty frightening the world"

... that Darktown Comics, a series of racist caricatures (example pictured), was a perennial bestseller for Currier and Ives and by 1884 represented a third of the company's production?
... that the Kharijite leader Abu Bilal Mirdas defeated a 2,000-strong Umayyad army with his band of forty?
... that "For the Night" was Pop Smoke's first single to reach the top ten on the US Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number six?
... that Andanappa Doddameti was the first member to address the Bombay Legislative Assembly in the Kannada language?
... that TIC 168789840 is the first known six-star stellar system in which the stars can be observed eclipsing one another from Earth?
... that during the Great Depression, Ernest R. Fatland led an organization that helped Oregonian farmers reduce their mortgage payments and other debts to save their farms from foreclosure?
... that Swansea City made two appearances at the Millennium Stadium in 2006, winning the Football League Trophy but losing the Football League One play-off Final?
... that the variegated grasshopper can be de-winged, salted and fried to provide a tasty meal?

14 March 2021

12:00, 14 March 2021 (UTC)

Vampira

... that the producers of The Jet Propelled Couch hired "Miss Color TV", Vampira (pictured in black and white), and several Miss Americas to portray attractive creatures inhabiting an imaginary planet?
... that in After Us, or the World as it Might Be, surgeon John Lockhart-Mummery proposed that women should only be allowed to breed with physically perfect men?
... that when Mark Coles started coaching the Pakistan women's national cricket team, he was not being paid, and he later lived in a compound with snipers on the roof?
... that the music video for "Shake the Room" was Pop Smoke's first posthumous visual after he was shot and killed at the age of 20 during a home invasion?
... that at the 2019 London Marathon, the total raised for charities surpassed £1 billion since the first race in 1981?
... that Charles Sweeny was expelled from West Point twice, but went on to became a Polish Army brigadier general, a US Army lieutenant colonel, and an officer in the Royal Air Force and the Foreign Legion?
... that the cyberpunk setting of New Gods: Nezha Reborn is based on a mixture of 1920s–1930s Manhattan and Republic of China–era Shanghai?
... that Barge 129 was sunk on Lake Superior by the ship that was towing her?

00:00, 14 March 2021 (UTC)

Bilingual Romantic Road sign in Röttingen, Germany

... that the Japan Romantic Road was so popular that signs (example pictured) were altered on a road in Germany?
... that Elvis Presley's song "I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone" features a theme common to country music: "passive acceptance of the singer's fate"?
... that the Rolls Royce Battle of Britain Memorial Window commemorates the pilots of the Royal Air Force and the contributions of Rolls-Royce engineering to the Battle of Britain?
... that Amber McReynolds's advocacy for vote-by-mail supported US states' expansion of absentee balloting during the COVID-19 pandemic so millions of people could vote from home in the 2020 elections?
... that the Rhodesian African Rifles' march "Sweet Banana" was created after their soldiers stopped to buy some bananas in South Africa?
... that the 1991 Football League Fourth Division play-off Final was the first Football League play-off to be decided by a penalty shoot-out?
... that RealSports Baseball, part of Atari's response to an Intellivision marketing campaign fronted by George Plimpton, won a best sports game award for 1983?
... that an engineer of Pittsburgh television station WENS found out that its tower had collapsed when he looked out his window to find it missing?

13 March 2021

12:00, 13 March 2021 (UTC)

Ada Ballin

... that dress reformer Ada Ballin (pictured) warned of the dangers of poisonous dyes and tight lacing in women's clothing?
... that "Lob Gott getrost mit Singen" (Praise God confidently with singing), the first line of a 1544 hymn by the Bohemian Brethren, was used for the title of a songbook aimed at senior citizens?
... that Turkish psychologist Doğan Cüceloğlu contemplated suicide due to his poor command of English while a doctoral student at the University of Illinois, and later taught 16 years at CSU Fullerton?
... that the 2014 film Fires on the Plain, which includes madness, murder, and cannibalism, was intended to warn younger Japanese audiences of the horrors of war?
... that Brian Lee Durfee, a prison guard at Utah State Prison, has a painting in the permanent collection at the Grand Canyon National Park visitor center?
... that although remaining a little-known monument in Neuquén, Argentina, the Fotheringham Crossing Pyramid, inaugurated in 1947, is considered to be a symbol of the neighborhood of Sapere?
... that in 2020, Jasmin Taylor broke the record for the most medals won by a British skier at the World Cup and World Championships?
... that the Rod Serling–hosted television production The Great Gatsby (1958) was described as being "neither 'Great' nor 'Gatsby'"?

00:00, 13 March 2021 (UTC)

Dorking cockerel

... that a three-metre-tall (10 ft) statue of a five-toed cockerel (pictured) in Dorking is a frequent target of yarn bombers?
... that geographer J. Russell Smith worked with the USDA to make 20 new varieties of Chinese chestnut, with the aim of creating a blight-resistant tree?
... that although The Most Important Man was poorly received by critics, composer Gian Carlo Menotti thought it was one of his finest operas?
... that a line from the 1899 poem "Sympathy" provided the title for Maya Angelou's autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings?
... that several candidates running on the ticket of the new political party Force for Mexico were previously members of the National Regeneration Movement?
... that Covington Hall was a member of the Industrial Workers of the World and the Sons of Confederate Veterans?
... that the upcoming SNLE 3G-class nuclear ballistic-missile submarines could remain in service with the French Navy until 2090?
... that Plants vs. Zombies became the fastest-selling video game developed by PopCap Games in under a month?

12 March 2021

12:00, 12 March 2021 (UTC)

Driss El Maloumi

... that Moroccan oud player Driss El Maloumi (pictured) participated in the project The Routes of Slavery at New York's Lincoln Center?
... that Governor Greg Abbott initially blamed the 2021 Texas power crisis on frozen wind turbines?
... that after winning Olympic bronze in bobsleigh, "Paddy" Green went on to RAF night-fighter fame that won him awards from the US and Soviet Union?
... that George Balanchine choreographed the ballet Vienna Waltzes as a tribute to Austria, using music by Johann Strauss II, Franz Lehár and Richard Strauss?
... that Chris Redd won a Primetime Emmy Award in 2018 for co-writing a song about Barack Obama?
... that tens of thousands of British city dwellers engaged in trekking during the Blitz, with most doing so to get a good night's sleep in nearby towns and rural areas?
... that New Zealander Fran Jonas made her debut at the top level of domestic cricket aged 15, and took three wickets in the final that season?
... that the God in the novel I Am God was described by a reviewer as "half heteronormative deity, half embarrassing uncle"?

00:00, 12 March 2021 (UTC)

Bridge at Aix repaired with a German railway-gun carriage

... that in support of Allied logistics in the Southern France campaign, engineers repaired a bridge (pictured) using the carriage of a German railway gun?
... that when his attempt to build RCA into a conglomerate failed, Robert Sarnoff was ousted from the board in a "palace revolt"?
... that Wycombe Wanderers secured back-to-back promotions when they won the 1994 Football League Third Division play-off Final?
... that Girma Bekele Gebre finished third at the 2019 New York City Marathon, despite not having a coach or sponsor, and having to pay to enter the race?
... that a landmarked house on Abolitionist Place in Downtown Brooklyn may have been a stop on the Underground Railroad?
... that scenes of Honey Wright driving in Casualty had to be filmed carefully as actress Chelsee Healey could not drive?
... that the termite Odontotermes formosanus grows its own food?
... that billionaire Julia Koch once worked as a fashion designer's assistant and did fittings for Nancy Reagan?

11 March 2021

12:00, 11 March 2021 (UTC)

Gengoroh Tagame

... that a 1994 manga series by artist Gengoroh Tagame (pictured) was the first gay comic in Japan to turn a profit?
... that 23-year-old Michael Oliver refereed the 2009 Football League One play-off Final at Wembley Stadium the day after his father had officiated the 2009 Football League Two play-off Final?
... that anti-vaccine activist Simone Gold participated in the storming of the U.S. Capitol?
... that when Big Red Envelope was released, nearly half of its audience came from fourth-tier Chinese cities?
... that Joachim Herz was the stage director of an unconventional production of the Ring cycle at the Leipzig Opera, completed in 1976, and of the opening performance of the restored Semperoper in 1985?
... that Littledale's whistling rat can be distinguished from Brants's whistling rat by the pitch and length of its calls?
... that Candace Brightman was the Grateful Dead's longtime lighting engineer?
... that John Rennie the Elder built Ken Bridge twice?

00:00, 11 March 2021 (UTC)

Right-sided pleural effusions caused by urinothorax

... that urine can enter the pleural cavity (x-ray pictured) through pores in the diaphragm?
... that Clair McCollough rose from being a carrier boy for Lancaster Newspapers to presiding over the broadcast station group spawned by the company?
... that the 10th Texas Field Battery fired at a courthouse during the Battle of Pine Bluff?
... that the Bach Archive in Leipzig, directed by Peter Wollny, acquired in 2021 Gustav Mahler's copy of the Bach edition, in 59 volumes with handwritten annotations by Mahler?
... that Stop AAPI Hate was formed in 2020 in response to increased racially motivated violence against Asian people, which now includes the murder of Vicha Ratanapakdee?
... that Mus'ab ibn al-Zubayr, the Zubayrid governor of Iraq during the Second Fitna (680–692), fought the Umayyad army at the Battle of Maskin almost alone?
... that Millwall finally gained promotion through the play-offs on the sixth attempt after winning the 2010 Football League One play-off Final?
... that Pius Schwert died after giving a speech announcing his candidacy for mayor of Buffalo, New York?

10 March 2021

12:00, 10 March 2021 (UTC)

Kristoffer Domeij

... that Kristoffer Domeij (pictured) set a record when he died after 14 tours of duty in more than 10 years as a Special Operations Ranger?
... that Arthur C. Clarke's short story "Time's Arrow" from 1950 predicted that paleontologists may learn about dinosaurs by analyzing their footprints before the method was implemented in real science?
... that William Wernigk performed four roles in Der Rosenkavalier during his decades at the Vienna State Opera, including the Innkeeper on a 1933 recording conducted by Robert Heger?
... that the board game Glory to Rome, despite being well-received, led to its publisher's bankruptcy in the mid-2010s and has been out of print since?
... that philanthropist George McDonald founded the advocacy group Doe Fund after his homeless friend "Mama Doe" died in the cold on Christmas day after she was ejected from New York's Grand Central?
... that a fire at Marl Chemical Park in 2012 interrupted the world supply of a chemical that was crucial to the auto industry?
... that aviation medicine pioneer Jarnail Singh's work launched the first ultra long-haul flight between Singapore and New York in 2004?
... that a former owner of Illinois radio station WRBA carried an expired police badge to allow him to get to its transmitter site quickly if need be?

00:00, 10 March 2021 (UTC)

[[File:|140px|Lurie Children's Hospital ]]

Lurie Children's Hospital

... that when Lurie Children's Hospital (pictured) moved within Chicago to a new location in June 2012, it took more than 10 hours to transfer nearly 200 children?
... that South African association footballer Amanda Sister has played for clubs in Hungary and Italy?
... that televoting for San Marino in the Eurovision Song Contest is simulated by a pre-selected group of countries?
... that Edward McClaren was one of only three black doctors in Greenville, South Carolina, in 1950?
... that the Crash Bandicoot character Doctor Neo Cortex was kept stationary in many of his early appearances because his model's short legs kept him from walking properly?
... that in his dissent in the Straub v. BMT by Todd case, Indiana Supreme Court Justice Roger Owen DeBruler argued that a promise to pay someone else's share of child support should be considered legally binding?
... that a group of Dayak burned a Golkar party office after their gubernatorial candidate, Yurnalis Ngayoh, failed to receive an endorsement from the party?
... that Babe Ruth called Marty McHale "the best goddamn singer I ever heard"?

9 March 2021

12:00, 9 March 2021 (UTC)

New York Stock Exchange Building

... that the New York Stock Exchange opposed making its building (pictured) a New York City landmark?
... that historian Gary Kates turned down recruiters seeking to help make him a college president so that he could teach undergraduate history?
... that after Turkey's environment ministry granted a one-year temporary licence to reopen the coal-fired Çatalağzı power station, the Right to Clean Air Platform complained that it was still emitting thick smoke?
... that Elliot Mazer's only taste of Neil Young's music before meeting him was his girlfriend incessantly playing "After the Gold Rush"?
... that the Jaffna Stallions took home the trophy for the inaugural season of the Lanka Premier League in 2020, besting the Galle Gladiators, the Dambulla Viiking, and the Kandy Tuskers, despite failing to record a win against the Colombo Kings?
... that Arthur Walworth took a decade to write his biography on Woodrow Wilson and twenty-five years to write another book on him?
... that Primrose Hill Tunnel was the first railway tunnel to be built in London?
... that the English classicist Neil Hopkinson hosted events at which only dessert was served?

00:00, 9 March 2021 (UTC)

Krishna Yadav receiving the Nari Shakti Puraskar

... that Krishna Yadav's journey from finding jobs for her family growing vegetables in Delhi to creating jobs for others won her an award (pictured) on International Women's Day?
... that Chichester & Selsey Ladies F.C. broke away from Chichester City for an undisclosed reason but retained their colours and football league position?
... that YaYa Gosselin booked her first job a month after signing with an agent at the age of five?
... that for 300 years a Kathakali dancer had to be a high-caste man until the Tripunithura Kathakali Kendram Ladies Troupe was formed in 1975?
... that Andréa Guiot appeared internationally in French soprano roles such as Mireille, Marguerite, Manon, and Micaëla in Bizet's Carmen, which she recorded alongside Maria Callas in the title role?
... that after being told that women could not compete in athletics at the 1924 Summer Olympics, the FSFSF set up their own Women's Olympiad?
... that Pat Lundvall was the first female chair of the Nevada State Athletic Commission, but garnered controversy for some of her decisions relating to mixed martial arts?
... that Susan B. Anthony took British citizenship to avoid testifying before the House Un-American Activities Committee and later spent nine years trying to repatriate?

8 March 2021

12:00, 8 March 2021 (UTC)

Kagganapalli Radha Devi

... that the Venkateswara Temple only allowed male barbers to shave off the ton of hair that is donated every day until Kagganapalli Radha Devi (pictured) challenged the rules?
... that the Duchess Bridge in Dumfries and Galloway is thought to be the oldest surviving iron bridge in Scotland?
... that in 2021, Christina Soontornvat became the first author to win two Newbery Honors in the same year for both fiction (A Wish in the Dark) and nonfiction (All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys' Soccer Team)?
... that badminton player P. V. Sindhu became the inaugural recipient of the BBC Indian Sportswoman of the Year award in 2020?
... that Polly Batic appeared at the Salzburg Festival in roles such as Annina in Der Rosenkavalier from 1931 to 1937, and became a member of the Vienna State Opera in 1948?
... that the spaces between the shelves of the United States Senate bill hopper get shorter near the top as so few proposed bills became law?
... that Sadhana Mahila Sangha protected Bangalore sex workers from the police and from HIV, but they now help feed them during the pandemic?
... that the Taylor Swift masters controversy was described by Rolling Stone as one of the "most important moments" in music of the 2010s?

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"?