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29 February 2024

00:00, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

Cloaca N°5

... that, according to the artist, the Cloaca art installations (example pictured) are "shit machines"?
... that after the 1999 Tempe military base shooting, the Pan African Congress demanded a military funeral for the perpetrator?
... that the volcano Carachipampa is surrounded by a lake and a salt flat, and has a Mars-like environment?
... that a Stone Age Siberian village is the oldest known fortification in the world?
... that Jenny Cavnar is the first female primary play-by-play announcer in Major League Baseball history?
... that the hippocampus of the black-capped chickadee grows in the fall and shrinks in the spring?
... that a great-grandfather and a grandfather of a commissioner of the Baltimore Police Department also served in the department?
... that due to 19th-century French views of widespread homosexuality among Ottoman Turks, Mehmet Cemaleddin Efendi was offered male prostitutes by officials on a visit to Paris?

28 February 2024

00:00, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

Frankee Connolly

... that Frankee Connolly (pictured) signed to Xenomania and took her first singing lessons – in that order?
... that almost all members of a flock of tufted jays work together to build a nest?
... that Sarah McCreanor imitates objects under hydraulic presses through dance?
... that former US president Theodore Roosevelt was shot in front of the Gilpatrick Hotel in 1912?
... that Olympic hammer thrower Tamer Balcı was later cast in a movie as Tarzan?
... that TV stations in Nashville and in Memphis, Tennessee, both on channel 30, lost their Fox affiliations in 1990?
... that the mild climate in the remote mountain village of Wakan in Oman allows the growth of fruits such as pomegranates in an otherwise hot and dry country?
... that football player Brad Kragthorpe played in an exhibition game named after his grandfather?

27 February 2024

00:00, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

Pyaling, a tower complex in Ingushetia

... that Ingushetia is often called the "land of towers" after the Ingush towers (examples pictured), unique medieval monuments found throughout the region?
... that the album Something Like This by Ben Rector debuted at number one on iTunes' singer-songwriter album chart five minutes after its release?
... that Maria Leshern von Herzfeld helped to organise the prison escape of the Russian revolutionary Peter Kropotkin?
... that the Boundary Fire burned 17,788 acres (7,199 ha) of the Coconino and Kaibab National Forests in Arizona?
... that Valentine Strudwick enlisted to serve in the First World War at 14 years old?
... that The Seoul Press was an English-language newspaper created to justify Japan's colonial rule of Korea?
... that archaeologist Karl Frederik Kinch identified the location of Stagira, the hometown of Aristotle?
... that the US federal government's "checking account" held more than $800 billion at the beginning of February 2024?

26 February 2024

00:00, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

Poster for Stenka Razin (1908)

... that the first Russian feature film, Stenka Razin (poster pictured), depicts the historical Cossack leader throwing a princess into the Volga?
... that would-be assassin John Schrank was foiled by a 50-page speech and a spectacles case?
... that the Balconcillo mutiny is considered to be the first coup d'état in the history of Peru?
... that Marie Vuillemin was acquitted in the trial of the Bonnot Gang, as the prosecution defined her according to her gender rather than her role in the gang?
... that New Zealand wrestler Leilani Tominiko (aka. Candy Lee) has a signature move called the Candy Crush?
... that the Seattle metropolitan area includes two major volcanoes, Mount Rainier and Glacier Peak?
... that for at least 90 minutes, Mori Calliope livestreamed herself begging video game developer Atlus to allow her to stream their game Persona 3?
... that the principal of a high school in Taiwan resigned after students held a Nazi-themed parade, complete with mock uniforms and a cardboard tank?

25 February 2024

00:00, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

Cora Agnes Benneson

... that Cora Agnes Benneson (pictured), one of the first female lawyers in New England, was rejected by Harvard Law School because "the equipments were too limited to make suitable provision for receiving women"?
... that Lauryn Hill's song "To Zion" is about her decision not to terminate her pregnancy despite facing pressure to do so?
... that Philipp Tanzer has been an army medic, artist, firefighter, hairdresser, massage therapist, festival organiser, political candidate and gay porn star?
... that food was left to rot outside after the supermarket Supie went out of business?
... that the sea slug Bosellia mimetica benefits from photosynthesis?
... that in December 2022 Panos Katseris scored his first goal for the Italian club Catanzaro less than a minute after kick-off?
... that 35.6 percent of counties in the United States are classified as maternity care deserts?
... that the "first settler of Asotin County" was the second?

24 February 2024

00:00, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

Horned sungem robbing a flower

... that the horned sungem (example pictured) becomes a nectar robber when food is scarce?
... that the music of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance was designed to be reactive to the player's actions?
... that from 1904 to 1911 Arthur Lewis Hall covered 17,479 miles (28,130 km), mostly on foot, to map the geology of the Transvaal?
... that a Rhode Island TV station broadcast for 14 months and then was off the air for 26 years before returning?
... that all three of María Esther Biscayart de Tello's children were forcibly disappeared during the Dirty War in Argentina?
... that Life magazine said that Babe Ruth's funeral was the "kind of tribute normally reserved for kings and presidents"?
... that Mary Clutter used her directorial position at the National Science Foundation to require scientific conferences to include women speakers when presenting research done by them?
... that Taubaté became the "city of lies" after a 2012 pregnancy hoax?

23 February 2024

00:00, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

Statues of the Fandiño Ricart sisters

... that Maruxa and Coralia Fandiño Ricart (statues pictured) became famous in Galicia because their bright, colourful outfits contrasted with the social repression of Francoist Spain?
... that the growth of Christianity in 20th-century Africa has been termed the "fourth great age of Christian expansion"?
... that Augustus Belknap led the first mule-drawn car from Alamo Plaza to San Pedro Springs Park, which developed into the first streetcar line in San Antonio?
... that land for a library built for African Americans in Virginia was donated by Pope Pius XII?
... that despite knowing of Geno's popularity, Super Mario RPG's co-director wasn't sure why the character was popular?
... that the Japanese boy band D-Date promoted a song through a short film in which the audience had to guess who the traitor was?
... that Nicki Minaj's song "Big Foot" is a diss track about Megan Thee Stallion?
... that Dr. Disaster's office collapsed in an earthquake on this day in 2011?

22 February 2024

00:00, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

Sacred Heart Cathedral, Kaifeng

... that communist forces set up their headquarters at the Sacred Heart Cathedral (pictured) during the 1948 battle for Kaifeng in the Chinese Civil War?
... that Max Stephan was sentenced to death for aiding a Nazi pilot who had escaped from a prisoner of war camp?
... that the 1892 Biddle vs. Livingstone football game was the first college football game ever played between historically black schools?
... that Malaysian percussionist Lewis Pragasam was drumming to "Joy to the World" at a Christmas concert when he suffered a fatal heart attack?
... that Spider-Man was chosen as the last character to return in Avengers: Endgame's Avengers assemble scene because it was designed to be emotional for audiences?
... that the injuries Anthony W. Case suffered in a school shooting led him to give up baseball and turn to astrophysics as a career?
... that Taylor Swift announced her upcoming eleventh studio album, The Tortured Poets Department, while accepting a Grammy for her album Midnights?
... that "delulu is the solulu" is a catchphrase?

21 February 2024

00:00, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

Mike Sadler

... that Mike Sadler (pictured) guided nighttime raids on enemy targets as a celestial navigator during the Western Desert campaign?
... that the founder of a California TV station opted not to name it for himself because the call sign would have sounded like "cough"?
... that William N. Salin was twice decorated with the Sagamore of the Wabash?
... that the Soviet soprano Tamara Milashkina performed alongside her husband Vladimir Atlantov at New York's Metropolitan Opera in 1975?
... that for a while in the 1950s, Englewood Golf Club was co-owned by four well-known comedians?
... that Prey is the first feature film to have a full Comanche language dub?
... that Margaret Donahue was the first female executive in Major League Baseball?
... that for several millennia, some humans buried corpses in their houses?

20 February 2024

00:00, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

Waharoa

... that Waharoa (pictured), a sculpture by artist Selwyn Muru, was created to metaphorically turn Aotea Square in Auckland into the courtyard of a Māori meeting house?
... that chemist Betty Lou Raskin said in 1958 that society was wasting the "brainpower" of women, and blamed the media for making the mink coat the "symbol of female success" and not the lab coat?
... that The Drunkard's Progress suggests that a single social drink leads to poverty, crime, and suicide?
... that James Light was threatened by the Ku Klux Klan when he staged a play with an interracial couple?
... that the performers in the Thai drag show Calypso Cabaret impressed Lady Gaga with their ability to be open about their identities?
... that William Winstanley Hull's search for the original manuscript of the 1662 prayer book led to its later discovery?
... that Indian field hockey player Sukhbir Singh Gill continued to play professionally after being diagnosed with a brain tumor in 2006?

19 February 2024

00:00, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

Flaco peeping through a window

... that having lived in Central Park for more than a year after becoming homeless, Flaco (pictured) has been accused of being a peeping tom?
... that nine-year-old Xiang Xuan was the youngest soldier to take part in the Long March?
... that because the Cherokee people were deliberately routed through cholera-stricken areas, their dislocation has been given as an example of Native American genocide in the United States?
... that Centre College hosted two vice-presidential debates during John A. Roush's presidency?
... that former girl soldiers may face higher rates of community rejection than former boy soldiers?
... that Ireland's 2024 Eurovision entrant Bambie Thug describes their musical genre as "ouija pop"?
... that Campbell Soup considered suing Andy Warhol for his Campbell's Soup Cans theme, but then promoted it?
... that Ove Jørgensen, after giving his name to a law of Homeric poetry, renounced classical studies to write about ballet?

18 February 2024

00:00, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

Street sign of Dumb Woman's Lane

... that Paul McCartney wrote a poem about Dumb Woman's Lane (pictured)?
... that Sofia Vakman relinquished a career as a concert pianist because a skin disorder she contracted after swimming made it painful for her to play?
... that the shining St John's wort owes its bright colors partly to carotenoid compounds?
... that Jessica Mutch McKay hosted debates between the leaders of New Zealand's two major political parties?
... that some WNBA seasons, including this year's, have a break for the Summer Olympic Games?
... that public historian Richard Smith called Henry David Thoreau the "first punk rocker"?
... that The Anxious City introduced a recurring figure in Paul Delvaux's paintings: a man who is ignorant of the pretty women and disasters around him?
... that offensive lineman Andy Dickerson is not to be confused with offensive lineman Andy Dickerson?

17 February 2024

00:00, 17 February 2024 (UTC)

Logan Thompson

... that Logan Thompson (pictured) is the first former U Sports goaltender to start a National Hockey League game in over 30 years?
... that the volcano Mount Hudson repeatedly depopulated parts of South America?
... that Anjali Lama, Nepal's first transgender model, worked with Calvin Klein in 2019?
... that Centre's 1921 defeat of Harvard is widely considered to be one of the greatest upsets in college football history?
... that Monique Ryan ran for election to the Parliament of Australia after seeing an advertisement in the newspaper calling for an independent candidate?
... that Pupil Slicer's 2023 album Blossom draws inspiration from narratives in the video games Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker and Outer Wilds?
... that Margareth Rago seeks to establish a methodology for what she calls "feminist science"?
... that Etchmiadzin Cathedral, Armenia's mother church, previously had a Tibetan Buddhist bell?

16 February 2024

00:00, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

Jack Ruby Shoots Lee Harvey Oswald

... that six-tenths of a second is one reason that a photograph (pictured) won a Pulitzer Prize?
... that Keshawn Banks's only NFL appearance came in the playoffs?
... that Pamatan is an undiscovered city on Lombok that was destroyed by the 1257 Samalas eruption?
... that Ian Begg, known for his work on restoration of castles in Scotland, designed and built his own 20th-century tower house to live in?
... that an editorial cartoon in The Honolulu Advertiser called Civ-Alert "Hawaii's Paul Revere"?
... that Peter d'Hamecourt was asked to pay for taxi fares with 24 cans of Heineken?
... that Dua Lipa premiered "Training Season" at the 66th Annual Grammy Awards, 11 days before its official release?
... that Eenoolooapik fell ill while kayaking through Aberdeen in traditional Inuit clothing?

15 February 2024

00:00, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

Crim Dell bridge on William & Mary's campus

... that lovers on the campus of the College of William & Mary are encouraged to cross the Crim Dell bridge (pictured) together?
... that after Shawn Christopher's "Another Sleepless Night" was rereleased with Mike "Hitman" Wilson's name removed, it charted 24 places higher on the UK Singles Chart?
... it has been suggested that Crassispira incrassata may be a southern variation of Crassispira bottae and not its own species?
... that Maria Olovennikova was the only woman present at the founding conference of Narodnaya Volya?
... that the naturally connected Pipe Lake and Lake Lucerne are the only hydrilla-infested lakes in the state of Washington?
... that sales from Dieux du Stade, a nude calendar produced by the French professional rugby union club Stade Français featuring photos of its players, helped to finance the club for many years?
... that Carmen Scheibenbogen was awarded the German Cross of Merit for her work on ME/CFS at the suggestion of patients and relatives?
... that despite various proposals, a statue of a renowned Dunedin clergyman was not moved from its location adjacent to a brothel and two parking lots?

14 February 2024

00:00, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

Postage stamp with Hill Women

... that Amrita Sher-Gil's painting Hill Women appeared on a 1978 Indian postage stamp (pictured)?
... that the Chinese play Silang tanmu, which depicts a general returning home to visit his mother, was banned in Tianjin in 1945 because it "distorted the normal ethics and morality"?
... that W. Seavey Joyce's presidency of Boston College was dominated by frequent, large student protests?
... that barley was once used as a form of money?
... that actor Bridger Zadina became a national champion llama exhibitor when he was 11 years old?
... that male mangrove mollies mate sneakily?
... that 13-year-old Michael Artiaga won against his 15-year-old brother Andrew in the final round of the 2020 Classic Tetris World Championship?
... that Winchester College football used to be played on top of a hill, with a line of boys on each side to keep the ball from rolling away?

13 February 2024

00:00, 13 February 2024 (UTC)

Coiled corset from The Overlook

... that the Alexander McQueen collection The Overlook (Autumn/Winter 1999) featured a Shaun Leane–produced corset made from coiled aluminium (pictured)?
... that a law banning Native Americans from living in Seattle was voided when Seattle itself was abolished?
... that Cam McCormick is thought to be the first college football player to be granted a ninth year of NCAA eligibility?
... that the oldest surviving synagogue building in Wisconsin was almost razed in the 1970s?
... that when tavern operator August Palmisano was killed in a 1978 car bombing, authorities suspected organized crime in Milwaukee?
... that during the COVID-19 pandemic, some former office workers used myNoise to remind them of their workplace?
... that Charles J. Turck was accused of being a communist spy during his time as president of Macalester College?
... that The Waste Land, considered one of the most important poems of the 20th century, was described as "waste paper" when first published?

12 February 2024

00:00, 12 February 2024 (UTC)

George Washington by Nels N. Alling

... that the terracotta statue of George Washington (pictured) by the Danish-American sculptor Nels N. Alling was entirely funded by the local Scandinavian community?
... that Walkelin, Bishop of Winchester, began the construction of the modern Winchester Cathedral in 1079?
... that New York store Yun Hai raised nine times its fundraising target to support Taiwanese farmers after China banned the import of their pineapples?
... that Ukrainians Nadia Smyrnytska, Maria Kalyuzhnaya and Maria Kovalevska joined other prisoners in committing suicide to protest against the abuse of imprisoned women in Kara katorga?
... that Heinrich Nidecker accused Samuel Taylor Coleridge of having committed plagiarism in his philosophical tract Theory of Life?
... that Cliff Davis spent $53 during his 1960 campaign for a seat in the Wyoming House of Representatives?
... that Sky Above Clouds IV was inspired by a large, blank white wall?
... that a species of butterfly was named in honor of an Inuit interpreter?

11 February 2024

00:00, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

Maria Trubnikova

... that after dying in her daughter's arms in an asylum in 1897, Maria Trubnikova (pictured) was remembered as the "heart and soul" of feminist activism in Russia?
... that Lake Fenwick suffers from an infestation of Brazilian elodea?
... that before besieging Baghdad in 1258, the Mongol prince Hulegu Khan ended a letter to the city's ruler with the words "I will show you the meaning of the will of God"?
... that after the original developer of the Kips Bay Towers sold off the buildings in 1962, his son bought them back a decade later?
... that Mwaksy Mudenda presented her first Blue Peter episodes in her house?
... that CBS Sports said the Milwaukee Brewers ball-in-glove logo "might just be the best in all of baseball"?
... that the use of high-tech surveillance to monitor protests and identify participants has led protestors to use anti-facial recognition masks?
... that Tarcisio Martina, the representative of the Holy See in China, was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1951 over a plot to assassinate Mao Zedong?

10 February 2024

00:00, 10 February 2024 (UTC)

Jonos Escort

... that Jonos offered Gucci carrying cases with their Escort portable computers (example pictured) in 1982?
... that swimmer Jin Hao competed in eight events, the most of any participant, during the 2001 National Games of China, causing him to lose 4 kilograms (8.8 lb)?
... that Bdóte, an area of sacred significance to the Dakota people, centered on the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi rivers, was also the site of their forced exile from Minnesota?
... that Thomas of Chobham's Summa confessorum was one of the most copied works on penance in the late medieval period?
... that the Apollo 16 Heat Flow Experiment was disabled when astronaut John Young tripped over a cable and tore it from its connector?
... that for her presentation at the 2008 Game Developers Conference, Jessica Mak simply played music and released balloons in the audience?
... that completion of South Bellevue station was delayed by more than a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic and a workers' strike?
... that Matei Donici, a general in the Imperial Russian Army, secretly wrote poetry with Romanian-nationalist and anti-Russian messages?

9 February 2024

00:00, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

Tove Jansson

... that artist Tove Jansson (pictured) based the children's book character Snufkin on a political philosopher whom she had dated?
... that the church of St James the Less, Pockthorpe, now the home of the Norwich Puppet Theatre, once contained a rood screen with portraits of saints painted in 1479?
... that the Burmese Buddhist monk Sagyo Thu-Myat successfully lobbied for the recalibration of the Burmese calendar?
... that artificial islands were deployed in Hicklin Lake in an unsuccessful attempt to stop eutrophication?
... that a COVID-19 bout forced Beef creator Lee Sung Jin to direct the show's season finale remotely?
... that elementary school students named the Wooden Warrior roller coaster?
... that Olympic gold medalist Dean Crawford was introduced to rowing when he found a rowing shell outside the students' union building at the University of Victoria?
... that the patu clubs on the New Zealand threepence were compared to bottles of ginger beer?

8 February 2024

12:00, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

Pohang Space Walk

... that the steps of Pohang Space Walk (pictured) represent an ascent to an unreachable utopia?
... that Justin Yu, the current Classic Tetris World Champion, is also a cellist in MIT's video game orchestra?
... that a computer system can contain tripwire files that alert administrators upon being accessed by intruders?
... that Bryan Brinyark finished second in an election to the Alabama House of Representatives just 15 votes behind his opponent, but later won a runoff election?
... that the papal bull Ad fructus uberes gave friars the right to hear confessions and preach without the authorisation of secular clergy?
... that Dane Hansen started a road-construction business with about 100 mules that he was unable to sell to the US Army after World War I ended?
... that Hometown Village is a community of Sakhalin Koreans who were finally allowed to return to South Korea after the dissolution of the Soviet Union?
... that after Ursula K. Le Guin published her collection The Wind's Twelve Quarters, a reviewer called her the "ideal science fiction writer for readers who ordinarily dislike science fiction"?

00:00, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

Ludwig Grass

... that in 1857 Ludwig Grass (pictured) donated 20,000 guilders to build the first state secondary school in Liechtenstein?
... that "Agora Hills" is named after the location of the ashram where Doja Cat lived growing up?
... that after winning the 2024 Masters, snooker player Ronnie O'Sullivan is both the youngest and oldest winner of the tournament?
... that Shovel Knight Showdown started as a fundraising goal for the Kickstarter of the original game?
... that Nick Whiteside overcame a torn Achilles tendon in 2021 and a broken foot in 2022 to play in the National Football League in 2023?
... that the Salmon Report (1966) led to the loss of the job title "matron" from UK hospitals?
... that Joan Phillip offered to give any MLAs who were rude to her a whack with her Saskatoon berry stick?
... that during the ibedul succession dispute, Gloria Salii held a ceremony for her son in which he washed his hands in turtle blood?

7 February 2024

12:05, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

Pilgrims' Cross, Holcombe Moor

... that the 6-ton (6.1-tonne) Pilgrims' Cross (pictured), high on Holcombe Moor, England, was dragged up there with difficulty by 14 horses?
... that Shiv Palekar is trained in both the Suzuki method and Butoh form of acting?
... that the AtariWriter word processor for the Atari 8-bit family sold over 800,000 copies, about one copy for every five machines sold?
... that Stephen Gould performed three roles at the 2022 Bayreuth Festival: Tannhäuser, Siegfried and Tristan, earning him nicknames such as "Iron Man"?
... that during Siam Niramit, a Bangkok cultural show, the forestage was transformed into a 50-metre-long (160 ft) river?
... that addicts imprisoned in Wormwood Scrubs named the prison football team "Glatt Dynamos", after their psychotherapist Max Glatt, a former Nazi concentration-camp inmate?
... that Empire of Liberty was published twenty-seven years after its preceding volume in the Oxford History of the United States series?
... that at the age of 14, Jenny Suo conducted a science experiment that ultimately led to GlaxoSmithKline pleading guilty to breaching consumer protection laws?

02:05, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

Qalaherriaq

... that teenage Inuk interpreter Qalaherriaq (pictured) drew an accurate map of northwest Greenland while using a pencil for the first time?
... that from March to May 1962, 60,000 Chinese citizens migrated to the Soviet Union through two ports of entry?
... that aviator Paul Pavelka was killed after being thrown and trampled by a horse?
... that Laguna Honda Hospital is a non-profit long-term care facility that has been described as America's "last big almshouse"?
... that Yunè Pinku derived the first half of her stage name from a childhood nickname and the second half from the children's program Pingu?
... that a college designed for and led by Native Americans was active in Chicago from 1974 to 2005?
... that John Boswell believed that the executed King Charles I of England was a martyr?
... that zanana can refer to a nagging wife in Egypt, or to Israeli drones flying overhead in Gaza?

6 February 2024

15:36, 6 February 2024 (UTC)

George Roper stranded on the reef at Point Lonsdale

... that on its maiden voyage from Liverpool to Australia, the George Roper ran aground (pictured) and was wrecked?
... that Dora Goldstein exposed mice to alcoholic vapor to investigate the biochemistry of alcohol addiction and alcohol withdrawal syndrome?
... that intangible heritage unique to Palestine includes women's story-telling, embroidery, dance, and soap-making?
... that before becoming a jungle musician, Nia Archives wanted to be an archaeologist?
... that a Brisbane Lions player said the sight of a jerrycan motivated her team during the 2023 AFL Women's Grand Final?
... that Sun Haiyan is the first Chinese ambassador to Singapore who was not a member of the Foreign Ministry of China?
... that it took eleven years for the instrumental track "I'm God" to receive an official release?
... that after Joseph S. Bartley was sentenced to twenty years in prison for embezzlement, he tried to have himself declared legally dead?

00:00, 6 February 2024 (UTC)

Phomen Singh

... that Phomen Singh (pictured), an early Indian migrant to New Zealand, sold sweets and chutneys out of a suitcase?
... that the artiodactyl Ephelcomenus is thought to have been capable of burrowing?
... that after Nadezhda Bantle was exiled to the Russian North, she oversaw the development of the hospital in Nikolskoye to become the most advanced in its region?
... that the design of the Baldwin–Reynolds House, a mansion built for U.S. Supreme Court justice Henry Baldwin, may have been inspired by Andrew Jackson's home?
... that pathologist Vincent Marks helped reverse the conviction of socialite Claus von Bülow in a case that was adapted for the film Reversal of Fortune?
... that enrollment at a school for African-American students in Virginia grew from 14 pupils to 1,300 in its first ten years?
... that George Daniel submitted his band's demos as coursework while in college?
... that the only proposal from the 1749 book Free and Candid Disquisitions to be implemented by the Church of England was a prayer "for the ceasing of the distemper" of cattle?

5 February 2024

12:00, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

Detail of the pulpit in St Mary's Church, Nun Monkton

... that St Mary's Church in Nun Monkton, England, restored by John Wilson Walton-Wilson, contains a pulpit (detail pictured) carved by Robert Beall?
... that conservation in Indonesia had little local support after independence because it was associated with the Dutch colonial period?
... that Mariia Vetrova's self-immolation provoked student protests in Saint Petersburg, Moscow and Kyiv?
... that Fortnite's Tilted Towers was described by critics as the equivalent of "psychological torture" and being "dropped into a meat grinder"?
... that Elijah Hewson's band Inhaler's UK No. 1 debut album charted 51 places higher than the debut album of his father's band U2?
... that the Platt Report was commissioned to improve British nursing education, as at the time up to 50 per cent of trainee nurses failed to qualify?
... that in 2022, Julia Dorsey helped North Carolina win a national lacrosse championship and reach the national soccer final?
... that it took the King of Italy 22 years to decide whether France or Mexico owned Clipperton Island?

00:00, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

Clubhouse of the Kalmia Club

... that the Kalmia Club (clubhouse pictured) is named after the mountain laurel?
... that Martina Fernández plays football for Barcelona and studies part-time at a biomedical laboratory?
... that Southern Water was fined £90 million for deliberately dumping sewage into the sea?
... that Princess Zelda's name was inspired by American novelist and socialite Zelda Fitzgerald?
... that a bus-chase sequence in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings took more than a year to plan and was revised more than twenty times?
... that cornetist Al Sweet dressed his band, the White Hussars, in flashy white-and-gold military uniforms based on hussars?
... that the 400th episode of Neighbours features the serial's first ever Christmas story?
... that a street in Bucharest was once named after Ioniță Tunsu, an outlaw who used to visit his girlfriend there?

4 February 2024

12:00, 4 February 2024 (UTC)

Claire Rousay performing

... that Claire Rousay (pictured) creates music using everyday sounds she records?
... that Annie Nathan Meyer's Black Souls was one of the first "lynching dramas" created by a white woman?
... that Ray E. Dillon Jr. flew in 92 combat missions during World War II before becoming the president and CEO of Dillons?
... that Kaija Saariaho's 2021 opera Innocence includes traditional Finnish cow-herding calls?
... that Megan Barton-Hanson dated her costars from Love Island 4, Celebs Go Dating, and Ex on the Beach, but not Hey Tracey!?
... that the packaging of one Thai throat lozenge features five centipedes?
... that Dr. Twink Twining was a Major League Baseball player?
... that eyelash seaweed may have been made extinct by a single 2016 earthquake?

00:00, 4 February 2024 (UTC)

40 Bank Street

... that 40 Bank Street (pictured), a skyscraper in London, has been described as looking like two different buildings fused into one?
... that Gurdev Singh Gill was the first Canadian physician of Indian descent?
... that adding the site isolation security feature made Google Chrome use 10 percent more RAM?
... that the Filipino musician No Rome took his stage name from people doubting his career choice?
... that the Chompi Kickstarter campaign was one of the most successful of 2023?
... that Holly Ringland wrote her second book while stuck in Australia for three years during the COVID-19 pandemic?
... that adherents of effective accelerationism believe that unrestricted technological progress would be a solution for poverty and war?
... that William Aditya Sarana was sworn in as a regional legislator four days before he graduated from university?

3 February 2024

12:00, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

Emais Roberts

... that Emais Roberts (pictured) administered the COVID-19 vaccination program in Palau and was one of the first to receive the vaccine in the country?
... that millions of people from Madagascar claim ancestral ties to ancient Jews, according to a centuries-old origin myth called the "Malagasy secret"?
... that Sunday lunch with Robert Alexander Neil was called "the best intellectual thing in Cambridge"?
... that the Apollo 14 Suprathermal Ion Detector Experiment is credited with the first direct observation of water on the Moon?
... that Minecraft YouTuber SkyDoesMinecraft, once the eleventh-most subscribed creator on the platform, attempted to sell their YouTube channel for nearly a million dollars?
... that Harley Poe's folk punk lyrics have been described as "some of the most deranged in the genre"?
... that the Nagagamisis Provincial Park has been enlarged four times and once reduced in size?
... that Kirk Raymond Jones became the first person to survive going over Niagara Falls without safety equipment, then died after going over it again in an inflatable ball?

00:00, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

Hanging Stone

... that groups of tourists have unsuccessfully tried to push the Hanging Stone (pictured) into the lake below?
... that a 16-year-old high-school student reverse-engineered iMessage to let Android users text iPhone users with blue chat bubbles using the Beeper Mini app?
... that with an inclination of 1 in 2.5, the slipway at Newquay Lifeboat Station was one of the steepest in England?
... that heist-horror film Johnny & Clyde has been called "unwatchable"?
... that Romanian adventure novelist N. D. Popescu-Popnedea "generate[d] laughter" with his deposition at a political assassin's trial?
... that Misfat al Abriyeen in Oman was named one of the best tourism villages by the World Tourism Organization in 2021?
... that King Charles III of Navarre wanted his illegitimate son Lancelot to become a bishop but the pope forbade it?
... that in one neighborhood commission district, the voters and officeholders are all inmates at the D.C. Jail?

2 February 2024

12:00, 2 February 2024 (UTC)

Vol. 6 of New Century Series by Pike

... that William Thomas Pike, a convicted felon, published a biographical series (volume pictured), which includes traders, bishops, and a lord mayor of London, but almost no women?
... that SB19's second extended play (EP), Pagtatag!, is part of a trilogy about their artistry?
... that in 1976, Carmen Valero became the first female track and field athlete to represent Spain at the Olympics?
... that yobidashi often receive their trousers from sumo wrestlers who have been promoted to the rank of yokozuna or ōzeki?
... that Fionna Campbell was created as gender-swapped Adventure Time fan art, but ended up getting her own show?
... that for the southern molly, sexual selection favors smaller males because they copulate by sneaking up to females?
... that Patrick O'Connell made his NFL debut on his birthday, in the only game he played that year?
... that "he would, wouldn't he"?

00:00, 2 February 2024 (UTC)

Donald H. Bochkay

... that fighter pilot Donald H. Bochkay (pictured) shot down two jet-powered Messerschmitt Me 262s while flying a propeller-driven P-51 Mustang?
... that Babe Ruth Bows Out marked the first time a sports-related image won the Pulitzer Prize for Photography?
... that voice actress Mako Morino played volleyball for 14 years, but gave up the goal of playing professionally after being assigned to the non-serving libero position?
... that Kevin Feige first envisioned a shared universe featuring the Avengers in the mid-2000s?
... that sociologist Richard Twine has developed the concept of the "vegan killjoy" who challenges anthropocentrism by their mere presence?
... that Porter Robinson chose the title Nurture for his second album due to its evocation of the word nature and as a reference to the nature versus nurture debate?
... that the documentary Tish uses sets from Ricky Gervais's sitcom After Life?
... that scientist Adelaida K. Semesi was known as "mama mangroves" due to her specialist knowledge of their ecology?

1 February 2024

12:00, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

Black-billed magpie eating ticks off the back of a cow

... that black-billed magpies are known to eat ticks off deer and other large mammals (example pictured)?
... that unlike most skin cancers, a nevoid melanoma may have an almost perfectly symmetrical shape?
... that Storm Poly caused hundreds to be stranded at Amsterdam's central station as it passed the Netherlands?
... that children have programmed Hackaball as a Magic 8 Ball, a whoopee cushion, and an alarm clock?
... that Cisco wine was nicknamed "liquid crack"?
... that Walt Whitman's brain was donated to the American Anthropometric Society but was accidentally destroyed?
... that Edward Hopper wondered what an empty room would look like with no one to see it?
... that Let's All Go to the Lobby, a one-minute filmed advertisement, has been preserved by the US National Film Registry?

00:00, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

Faith and Confidence

... that even though Faith and Confidence (pictured) by William C. Beall won the 1958 Pulitzer Prize for photography, the jurors who selected it were unimpressed by all of the entries?
... that a California TV station had a cartoon bee as its mascot?
... that Winter Renouf, a British member of the Indian Civil Service, thought that farmers in the Punjab should grow Canadian wheat varieties?
... that Van Morrison performed and recorded a collection of ancient Irish poems for Moles nightclub in Bath, Somerset?
... that Donald Sutherland asked to play Coriolanus Snow in The Hunger Games films as he hoped the series would inspire a revolutionary movement among young people?
... that a story about Call of Duty: Warzone led to Video Games Chronicle's Twitter account being temporarily locked?
... that the author of the Alex novels says they are not semi-autobiographical, even though she was herself a champion teenage swimmer like the protagonist?
... that the band Ryokuoushoku Shakai was named after its members misheard "vegetables" (野菜, yasai) as "society" (社会, shakai)?

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