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Did you know...

3 August 2024

• 00:00, 3 August 2024 (UTC)

Leaves of S. tonkinensis seedlings

• ... that the dried leaves of Strobilanthes tonkinensis (examples pictured) give black tea a sticky rice flavor?
• ... that at age 12, Emily Ausmus participated in an international water polo tournament against players as old as 19?
• ... that a crab species was named after both an ancient board game and a League of Legends character?
• ... that Cho Myung-chul was the first North Korean defector to be elected to the South Korean National Assembly?
• ... that the flagbearer for the Philippines at the 1924 Summer Olympics also carried a flag of the United States?
• ... that a geographer determined the surface area of Carl Friedrich Gauss's brain?
• ... that a Kentucky TV station gained industry attention after it criticized the overuse of the term "breaking news"?
• ... that citizens of New Westminster burnt effigies of Attorney General George Hunter Cary and drowned the ashes?
• ... that many enthusiasts say that a good tomato sandwich is so messy, it should be eaten over the kitchen sink?

2 August 2024

• 00:00, 2 August 2024 (UTC)

Matahi Brightwell

• ... that Matahi Brightwell (pictured) reintroduced the sport of waka ama to New Zealand?
• ... that during the First Bishops' War, the Duke of Hamilton's mother intended to shoot him with silver bullets if he landed in Scotland?
• ... that Warren Lawrence, the first Dominican swimmer at the Commonwealth Games, is the son of the first Dominican swimmer at the Olympics?
• ... that a high school evicted a Pennsylvania TV station?
• ... that the National Library of Korea is a no kid zone?
• ... that in its first appearance at the Olympics, Suriname was represented by a single athlete, who missed his event?
• ... that Myinsaing withstood a ten-week siege by the Mongols because its three brother leaders bribed the invaders to withdraw?
• ... that basketball player Marcedes Walker became an Olympian 16 years after her WNBA career ended?
• ... that "the old man was startled and a little shocked" when he was shown Walter Frere's revision of his book?

1 August 2024

• 00:00, 1 August 2024 (UTC)

Inauguration of Lai Ching-te

• ... that China launched a military exercise in response to the inauguration of Lai Ching-te as president of Taiwan (pictured)?
• ... that although Luxembourg has won the Eurovision Song Contest five times, none of the winning artists representing the country have been native Luxembourgers?
• ... that basketball player Dylan Travis played for nine head coaches in nine years?
• ... that The Chinese in America documents how people in California, during the gold rush era, mailed their laundry to Hong Kong for cleaning?
• ... that a member of the House of Lords was the principal of a Canadian junior school?
• ... that despite being invented in the 2000s, Frutiger Aero was not named until 2017?
• ... that Roscoe "Red" Jackson was the last person to be publicly executed in the United States?
• ... that Cameroonian-born Joel Embiid opted to play for the 2024 U.S. Olympic basketball team instead of France in part because his son is American?
• ... that after Wong Sau Ying attempted to assassinate a British colonial official, the police and press began to associate the bob cut with anarchism?