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31 January 2024

12:00, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

Roanoke Star

... that a city in Virginia's 88.5-foot-tall (27.0 m) Christmas decoration (pictured) was so popular with residents that it was decided to light it nightly year-round?
... that prehistoric women may have had unique advantages over men in endurance hunting due to the positive effects of estrogen on muscle development?
... that the actor Andrew Still worked as a receptionist and janitor after leaving Hollyoaks?
... that the Great Book of Marvels has been called "one of the most valuable sources for the study of Chinese folklore"?
... that after no record label would sign Keith Marshall, his manager set one up himself and released his 1981 UK Top 20 single "Only Crying"?
... that the protagonist of Shovel Knight: King of Cards was compared to "a bad Renaissance fair actor who's gotten too far into his role"?
... that skateboarder Cui Chenxi is the youngest Chinese gold medalist in the Asian Games?
... that in the Six Poems by Marina Tsvetayeva, Dmitri Shostakovich wanted to convey how he imagined the poet's voice, "husky, hefty, occluded in the smoke of homegrown tobacco"?

00:00, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

The Apollo 17 Lunar Surface Gravimeter on the surface of the Moon

... that the Lunar Surface Gravimeter (pictured) failed to turn the Moon into a gravitational wave antenna?
... that McKinney Roughs Nature Park has an unusual convergence of four distinct ecosystems?
... that a hammer and sickle motif was proposed for the New Zealand sixpence?
... that the Voice of Freedom had to counter venomous snakes, leeches, and other wildlife?
... that the seven leaders of the East Turkestan Revolutionary Party had Uyghur-language code names, the initials of which spelled out the word Lëninchi, meaning "Leninist"?
... that Whitley Furniture Galleries would increase the population of Zebulon more than eightfold when hosting an automobile giveaway in 1936?
... that the Gale–Shapley algorithm was used to assign medical students to residencies long before its publication by Gale and Shapley?
... that Skibidi Toilet inspired the Generation Alpha slang "skibidi"?

30 January 2024

12:00, 30 January 2024 (UTC)

Ion Luca Caragiale

... that the first theatrical run of A Stormy Night by Ion Luca Caragiale (pictured), featuring a journalist nearly beaten up by the Civic Guard, saw Caragiale nearly beaten up by the Civic Guard?
... that pioneering bodybuilder Hippolyte Triat was kidnapped by vagabonds at the age of six and sold to a troupe of Italian acrobats?
... that Nigeria seeks the return of the Benin Altar Tusks, ivory artefacts taken by the British in 1897 and dispersed in Europe?
... that the Cold Cathode Gauge Experiment could detect gases leaking from an astronaut's life support systems on the Moon's surface?
... that the national women's day of Guinea-Bissau commemorates the death of Titina Silá, who was killed on this day during the nation's war of independence?
... that the Adly Mansour Transportation Hub was selected as the best rail project of 2022 by Engineering News-Record?
... that Tucker Hall and Ewell Hall sit on either side of the Sunken Garden on the College of William & Mary's campus?
... that the comic book Nietzsche, se créer liberté tries to express Friedrich Nietzsche's personality visually?

00:00, 30 January 2024 (UTC)

Pulitzer Prize–winning photograph, Homecoming (1944)

... that after he waited twenty-four hours to capture his Pulitzer Prize–winning photograph (pictured), the flash bulb on Earle Bunker's camera failed on his first attempt?
... that Fred G. Sullivan's film The Beer-Drinker's Guide to Fitness and Filmmaking depicts Sullivan being humiliated with mud and whips for the failings of his previous film?
... that Porphyry describes a moral obligation to extend justice to animals in his 3rd-century treatise on vegetarianism?
... that Yuna Kim had a major impact on figure skating and was instrumental in bringing the Olympics to Pyeongchang in 2018?
... that in 2023, Ralph Nader founded the newspaper Winsted Citizen in his hometown of Winsted, Connecticut, where he delivered papers as a boy?
... that after fleeing the Spanish Civil War to Venezuela, Spanish anarchist Concha Liaño became a supporter of Hugo Chávez?
... that two rival designers independently submitted a map for the design of a 1940 New Zealand coin?
... that "Cave Man Kenny" was a "fast-charging, hard-hitting" "ubiquitous" "obstreperous iron man" with "dependable shoulders"?

29 January 2024

12:56, 29 January 2024 (UTC)

Gold-morph swamp guppies

... that female swamp guppies (pictured) show no preference for orange or red coloration during courtship?
... that Andrea Blanch said that she came to appreciate Jeff Koons's artwork more after suing him for copyright infringement?
... that Desert Bus requires eight hours of continuous play to gain one point?
... that Coco of Coco & Clair Clair developed her alias for school announcements during her senior year of high school?
... that the Transvaal Chinese Association opposed discriminatory legislation in the British Transvaal Colony alongside Mahatma Gandhi?
... that Turkish migrant workers living in a residential complex in Amsterdam refused to eat the Dutch food for two weeks after the kitchen's only Turkish chef was fired?
... that an Australian High Court case found a hotel chain to have used third-party contractors to avoid paying employees their required benefits?
... that a tattoo on the anus of Brazilian singer Anitta ultimately led to inquiries to investigate the use of public funds in artists' concerts?

01:35, 29 January 2024 (UTC)

Young Girls

... that Amrita Sher-Gil's Young Girls (pictured) earned her the Paris Salon's gold medal in 1933, making her the first Asian to be awarded the prize?
... that Wee Toon Boon remained a member of the Parliament of Singapore even after he began serving a prison sentence for corruption?
... that the Saskatchewan Conservation House, built in 1977 to withstand Canadian winter temperatures, did not use a furnace?
... that Adila Laïdi-Hanieh and her team used digitisation to preserve endangered Palestinian material culture?
... that despite being 80 miles (130 km) apart, Austin and San Antonio are merging into one metropolis?
... that comedian Şenay Duzcu was awarded the German–Turkish Friendship Prize?
... that the Leonia Alternative High School's employment of volunteer instructors led to opposition from the local teachers' union?
... that Louis Zhang Jiashu, a Catholic bishop of Shanghai who studied at Canterbury in 1911, received the archbishop of Canterbury in Shanghai in 1983?

28 January 2024

14:32, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

Epipterygium opararense

... that all known populations of Epipterygium opararense (example pictured) live within a 5-metre (16 ft) radius in New Zealand?
... that Gareth Knight, a devout Christian, was an occultist who ran an esoteric society of magicians?
... that in 1983 readers of the magazine Softline voted Star Raiders the best program for Atari computers?
... that Mar Galcerán is believed to be the first politician with Down syndrome to serve in a European regional parliament?
... that the 1976 Big Thompson River flood took place several hours before Colorado's 100th anniversary of statehood?
... that before discovering a rudimentary audio workstation on his mother's phone, the French musician Lewis OfMan wanted to be a perfumer?
... that Harpegnathos alperti worker ants have black heads and chocolate-colored mandibles?
... that the reign of Ye will be one of perjury, slavery, pestilence and death, according to the Ethiopic Apocalypse of Ezra?

03:11, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

1935 illustration of wreck

... that locals responding to the 1882 Spuyten Duyvil train wreck used snowballs to extinguish the fires in the wrecked cars (illustration pictured)?
... that the rapper Jords did not know his father was a musician until a chance encounter in a British supermarket?
... that the Lunar Ejecta and Meteorites Experiment continuously overheated and had to be switched off during lunar noon?
... that Nelson Santana supposedly predicted the date of his death?
... that anti-Korean sentiment, due to South Korea's economic growth, motivated Djuna to write the sci-fi novel Counterweight?
... that jazz saxophonist Chris Byars ended his childhood operatic career when his voice croaked during a performance?
... that years after it closed, the studios of an Iowa TV station became the headquarters for the state police radio network?
... that Frederick Murray Trotter had a distinguished career as a field geologist despite losing a part of his skull and an eye to shrapnel during World War I?

27 January 2024

15:00, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

Roosevelt Island Tramway

... that New York City's Roosevelt Island Tramway (pictured) was placed next to a bridge to prevent collisions with planes?
... that Stanislav Aseyev, the author of The Torture Camp on Paradise Street, was placed in the Izolyatsia torture camp for writing "Donetsk People's Republic" in quotation marks in a social media post?
... that Boquila trifoliolata is the only known plant capable of simultaneously mimicking multiple species?
... that Jorge Barón, a member of King County Council, was an assistant director on The Mask of Zorro?
... that the play-by-mail game Westworld was run from prison?
... that David Bowie narrated a version of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf in 1978 as a gift for his seven-year-old son Duncan?
... that The Connor Brothers were believed to be two 20-something artists from Brooklyn, but are actually two British art dealers from London?
... that Augustine of Hippo's Harmony of the Gospels is technically not a Gospel harmony?

00:00, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

Matooskie

... that the 1830 abandonment of Chipewyan woman Matooskie (pictured) by her Scottish husband was eventually settled with a dowry payment of £200?
... that at least three historians asserted How the Red Sun Rose to have rendered outdated the scholarly understanding of the Yan'an Rectification Movement?
... that before the age of thirty, Anna Nekhames performed the dual role of Venus and Chief of the Gepopo in Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre, one of opera's most demanding coloratura soprano parts?
... that Femke is the most common feminine given name of West Frisian origin in the Netherlands?
... that stagecoaches on the Humboldt Wagon Road could make a 400-mile trip in under four days?
... that although only one member was fluent in English, the cast of The Mongol Khan learned the entire script before the play's West End run?
... that "gig" in "gig economy" comes from the slang term for individual appearances by performing artists?
... that a species of spider is named after Barack Obama?

26 January 2024

12:00, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

Ruins of the Abbey of Saint Winnoc

... that two towers remain (pictured) of the otherwise almost completely demolished Abbey of Saint Winnoc, because they were used as daymarks by sailors?
... that Michael Owens became the first mayor of Mableton, Georgia, in more than 100 years after winning the 2023 mayoral election?
... that Peckham Rock, a fake cave painting surreptitiously installed in the British Museum by Banksy, is actually concrete from Hackney?
... that biochemist Susan Berget was heavily involved in the discovery of split genes, but was excluded from credit and later the Nobel Prize for the research?
... that more than 150 years of documentary sources at the Central Archives of Gaza City were destroyed during the Israel–Hamas war?
... that for 25 years after an attempt to explode a whale went awry, the Oregon TV station that filmed it regularly fielded requests for its footage?
... that the fossil turtle Acherontemys was named for a "river of the fabled lower world"?
... that Tap Pryor saw a coral reef in Zanzibar that inspired him to spend his life "under water"?

00:00, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

Self-Portrait as a Tahitian (1934)

... that Self-Portrait as a Tahitian (pictured) depicts Indian artist Amrita Sher-Gil standing in the shadow of an unknown man?
... that in his first month in the job, Wali Mohammad Itoo suspended all 23 opposition representatives when they questioned his integrity as the speaker of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly?
... that VMB-611 was the only United States Marine Corps bombing squadron to operate in the Philippines during World War II?
... that Japanese actress Junko Ikeuchi was known as the "Queen of TV Dramas" from the 1960s to the 1980s?
... that a commemorative coin was made for a cancelled royal visit to New Zealand?
... that because of New York City's Summer Streets program, Park Avenue in Manhattan has no motor traffic in three mornings in August?
... that the British musician Coupdekat recorded the vocals for "It's Not You" while trampolining on her bed?
... that the book A City on Mars covers sex in space, raising children in low gravity, space law, and space cannibalism?

25 January 2024

12:00, 25 January 2024 (UTC)

Interior of St. Martin, Oestrich

... that the Late Gothic appearance of the church of St. Martin (interior pictured) in Oestrich was destroyed in the Thirty Years' War and restored only in 1894?
... that before going viral on TikTok for "Hit or Miss" at age fifteen, Georgia Twinn wanted to become a forensic scientist?
... that Jake Kaufman composed most of the soundtrack for Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment while streaming on Twitch?
... that Thomas Ragle, the president of Marlboro College from 1958 to 1981, described his position as like a "19th-century college president"?
... that after being waived by the San Diego Chargers, Frank Duncan began packing before being re-signed the next day and eventually becoming a starter?
... that "Shalom chaverim" ('Peace, friends'), a Hebrew traditional folk song, has been sung at events commemorating the Holocaust and victims of anti-Semitic violence?
... that a future U.S. president and a future British king both visited the Van Cortlandt House during the American Revolution?
... that one academic described the introduction of femboys to Myanmar as a tactic to achieve an "ideological revolution"?

00:00, 25 January 2024 (UTC)

Māori warrior on the New Zealand shilling

... that the Māori warrior on the New Zealand shilling (pictured) was actually depicted wearing a dance uniform?
... that with Gogoliad, Dmitri Shostakovich ended his film career with Grigori Kozintsev, the same director with whom he started?
... that during the Mongol campaigns in Siberia, the Mongols defeated rival tribes at the Battle of Irtysh River?
... that in 2014, BBC Three cancelled a debate on being gay and Muslim featuring Asifa Lahore, a Muslim drag queen, citing security concerns at the mosque where it was filmed?
... that "Thy Strong Word" replaced an anti–Mexican–American War hymn in the Episcopal Church?
... that despite Daniel Lopatin's electronic album Chuck Person's Eccojams Vol. 1 having a limited 2010 release on cassette tapes, it became a foundational album for the vaporwave genre?
... that Shanthi Kalathil believes Radio Free Asia "filled a critical role in combating Chinese disinformation"?
... that a pornographic screenplay about Jesus led to papal and royal condemnations, a firebombing, the writer's ban from the UK, and thousands of letters per week demanding the ban of a non-existent gay Jesus film?

24 January 2024

00:00, 24 January 2024 (UTC)

In the Snow at Tsukahara, Sado Island

... that Monet decorated his house at Giverny with Kuniyoshi's In the Snow at Tsukahara, Sado Island (pictured), one of about 231 Japanese prints in Monet's personal collection?
... that LaVonne Griffin-Valade, the Oregon Secretary of State, has published four crime fiction novels?
... that Laverstock ware pottery was produced to supply the royal palace at Clarendon, but was also used all over the south of England?
... that geographer Richard Urquhart Goode is the namesake of three mountains and a glacier?
... that the Indian politician Diwan Chaman Lall failed to get rid of the painting Nude of Indira?
... that the musician Salute has an inclusion rider on their contracts for live performances?
... that the success of the book Fifth Chinese Daughter led to the U.S. State Department translating the book into various Asian languages and sending its author on a speaking tour across Asia?
... that a teacher of medieval literature and comic books writes the blog Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle?

23 January 2024

00:00, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

Andrew J. Evans Jr.

... that Andrew J. Evans Jr. (pictured) was the highest-ranking United States Air Force prisoner during the Korean War?
... that the film Critical Zone was shot in secret by Ali Ahmadzadeh without permission from Iranian authorities?
... that nine-year-old Muskan Ahirwar started a library for the children in her slum that now contains more than 3,000 books?
... that Wilfried Nancy became the first Black coach to win the MLS Cup in 2023?
... that Sandra Elkin, discussing basic information on women's topics on Woman, "radicalized" women into supporting women's rights?
... that some people have asked whether they can pay for their Singapore hotel stay using a travel card?
... that the YouTuber CaptainSparklez set three Guinness World Records with a Minecraft song parody?
... that the bad handwriting of British doctors has been blamed on the small size of their medical-record envelopes?

22 January 2024

00:00, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

Villa Saluzzo Serra

... that after Nazi Germany placed anti-aircraft batteries on the property of the Genoa Conservatory, the school moved into the Villa Saluzzo Serra (pictured) art museum to maintain the safety of its students?
... that Vivi Vassileva, a percussionist who was the youngest member of the German national youth orchestra, has played Gregor Mayrhofer's Recycling Concerto on instruments derived from garbage?
... that some California schoolchildren build dioramas when learning about their state's Spanish missions?
... that Thomas J. Wright's PhD dissertation focused on US–Soviet relations in the late 1940s?
... that Wrexham and East Denbighshire War Memorial Hospital was designed with balconies to treat patients with tuberculosis?
... that actress M'liss McClure's publicity agency promoted her "almost telescopic vision" as a selling point?
... that 2.5-metre-tall (8.2 ft) white rock spires grow at the volcano Huequi?
... that Detroit has been waiting for its statue of RoboCop for more than 12 years?

21 January 2024

00:00, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

The Little Girl in Blue

... that the mother of The Little Girl in Blue (pictured) did not think that the painting was a good likeness of her daughter?
... that square pyramids can have different shapes, and pyramidologists have put forward multiple theories on which of these shapes was used for the Egyptian pyramids?
... that St. Joseph, a 1909 Catholic church in the Romanesque Revival style in Berlin-Wedding, has served as an interim cathedral since 2018?
... that the Ava–Hanthawaddy War of 1385–1391 began when King Swa Saw Ke of Ava tried to place his nominee on the Hanthawaddy throne?
... that Koh Masaki was one of the first gay pornographic film actors in Japan to openly appear in adult films without obscuring his identity?
... that several reviewers noted the opening line of Venbee's 2022 song "Messy in Heaven", "Jesus did cocaine on a night out"?
... that a coach said that Bob Gregor "hits so hard, he maims himself"?

20 January 2024

00:00, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

S. F. Light examining termites

... that S. F. Light (pictured) disliked using his full name?
... that the second collection of decretals in the Quinque compilationes antiquae was actually compiled after the third collection?
... that Tadeusz Gebethner, a soccer player, bookseller, soldier and resistance fighter, was recognized as a Polish Righteous Among the Nations?
... that pumices erupted by the Protector Shoal volcano in 1962 floated to Australia and South America?
... that the Apollo 12 Solar Wind Spectrometer detected a gas-ion shockwave produced by the impact of the Apollo 13 S-IVB stage on the lunar surface?
... that the fraud that marred Kansas's 1855 territorial legislature elections led many to dub the elected body the "Bogus Legislature"?
... that New York City's Bartow–Pell Mansion became a museum after its operator was restricted from importing and exporting plants?
... that sheep can get less stressed when looking at pictures of other sheep?

19 January 2024

00:00, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

Calligraphic tiles from the Empire of the Sultans

... that most objects in the travelling exhibition Empire of the Sultans bore calligraphy (example pictured)?
... that the life of Gloria Meneses is celebrated with an exhibition in the Plaza de la Diversidad Sexual in Montevideo?
... that 555 Edgecombe Avenue, once named for a British soldier and occupied entirely by white Americans, later attracted notable African Americans like Paul Robeson and Count Basie?
... that journalist Isaac Saul was named as one of the 16 people who had the greatest influence in the 2016 U.S. election?
... that Agri-Expo is the oldest agricultural society in Africa?
... that bereavement support groups are one of the most common services offered for grief but have little evidence of improving psychological outcomes?
... that a Lockheed EC-130Q aircraft crashed after performing a waterbombing just 190 feet (58 m) in the air?
... that Michael Kremer's O-ring theory of economic development was inspired by his forgetting to purchase toilet paper for a training session?

18 January 2024

00:00, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

Cora Victoria Diehl

... that after Cora Victoria Diehl (pictured) was elected as the first woman to hold office in Oklahoma Territory, county records had to be recovered with dynamite when the incumbent refused to concede?
... that a New Zealand coin was declared evidence of an atheistic government by detractors?
... that Patricia Schultz, the author of 1,000 Places to See Before You Die, would choose Florence for her final trip before dying?
... that children's book illustration techniques include photography?
... that French historian Patrice Gueniffey called the 2023 film Napoleon a "very anti-French and very pro-British" rewrite of history?
... that the Oasis of Bukhara used to be a swamp?
... that while being held in Stalag Luft I, an American prisoner of war built a violin out of scrap material?
... that a "welding nun" angered farmers with her garbage-eating goat?

17 January 2024

00:00, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

Cartoon of Brownell as a "Pretty Moth"

... that while George C. Brownell played no part in the Oregon land fraud scandal, a published cartoon (pictured) showed him as the "Pretty Moth" that flew too close to the land fraud limelight?
... that Oxford ivy grows towards the light to bloom and then towards the darkness when going to seed?
... that it took 34 years for the first person to beat the game Tetris?
... that the murder of Luisa Lallana sparked a general strike in Rosario, Argentina?
... that the stylized animation of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem was inspired by rough sketches in school notebooks?
... that Thomas Fritzsch, a viol player who rediscovered compositions by Carl Friedrich Abel, established a festival dedicated to him in Köthen?
... that Michael Lewis, author of Going Infinite, compared a rival author to the subject of both their books, convicted fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried?
... that Gracie Mansion became New York City's mayoral residence after serving as a public toilet and a museum?

16 January 2024

00:00, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

Kreuzkirche in 1945

... that Wie liegt die Stadt so wüst (How Deserted Lies the City), a motet composed by Rudolf Mauersberger after the bombing of Dresden, was first performed in the destroyed Kreuzkirche (pictured)?
... that instead of paying homage to a visiting King Gustaf VI Adolf, Swedish headmaster Carl Segerståhl took his students swimming in a nearby lake?
... that Wikipedia editors have organized various campaigns to improve LGBT coverage on the site?
... that Olipop, with more than $100 million in revenue, has an all-remote workforce?
... that Illinois senator Mark Kirk returned to his former high school as an adult to create a UNICEF club?
... that the 2024 season for Seattle Sounders FC will be their first with a new logo?
... that while developing the sound effects for Letterpress, Loren Brichter spit in his microphone?
... that Line 51 of the Amsterdam Metro was called an express tram because the term "metro" was too controversial in the city?

15 January 2024

00:00, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

Hyperbolic spirals in a spiral staircase

... that the spirals in photographs of spiral staircases (example pictured) are hyperbolic?
... that Forest Van Hook was so large that he always bought two tickets when attending sports events?
... that a My Little Pony fan band wrote a song about a horror game, creating what has been considered to be a sub-genre of music?
... that by popular demand, philosopher Anton Charles Pegis continued to teach graduate classes for three years after becoming an emeritus professor?
... that the reggae singer Tony Tribe used to have blouses thrown at him while performing?
... that Akram Nadwi addressed the lack of Islamic women scholars highlighted in a Time article by composing al-Wafa bi Asma al-Nisa, a 43-volume work with more than 10,000 entries?
... that despite being only 40 feet (12 m) tall, Roar-o-Saurus was described by CNN as one of the "most insane" new roller coasters of 2014?
... that composer and conductor William Carter began a career as a professional organist at the age of nine?

14 January 2024

00:00, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

Tragedy by the Sea

... that Tragedy by the Sea (pictured) shows a man and a woman standing beside the ocean a few minutes after the couple's young son went missing?
... that Mister Rogers said that Mr. Chuck, the host of a children's show on the public TV station in Memphis, Tennessee, was "truly remarkable" and "achieving things I still struggle to achieve"?
... that Gamze Durmuş and her husband were the first referees to officiate a TFF First League match together?
... that Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl took 15 years to write?
... that Dom DiSandro, the Philadelphia Eagles' chief security officer, was ejected from a game for getting into a scuffle with an opposing player?
... that Sasuke vs. Commander, one of SNK's earlier arcade games, was among the earliest to feature multiple boss fights?
... that physician Melvin Ramsay refuted the suggestion – partially based on the fact more women are affected – that myalgic encephalomyelitis is a form of mass hysteria?
... that the Vocalises by Jānis Ivanovs were said to express "a longing for humanity"?

13 January 2024

00:00, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

King Manor

... that a former radio host got a free apartment in New York City's King Manor (pictured) and lived there for more than three decades?
... that Kihwan Sim, a bass-baritone performer at the Oper Frankfurt, learned to play the tuba during his two years of military service?
... that the publication of A Field Guide to Otherkin sparked scholarly interest in people who consider themselves animals or mythological creatures?
... that George Cross recipient Bill Madden died as result of malnutrition and ill-treatment by his Chinese captors while a prisoner of war?
... that Nonô's discography includes songs from Majestic and Punctual?
... that Louise Julien may have been an inspiration for the character of Cosette in Les Misérables?
... that Nakba denial is a form of historical negationism pertaining to the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight?
... that being in the chain-melted state makes some metals behave as a liquid and solid at the same time?

12 January 2024

00:00, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

Twenty newly elected New Zealand MPs

... that a third of the MPs elected in the 2023 New Zealand election were new to Parliament, including Carlos Cheung, Grant McCallum, Suze Redmayne, Dana Kirkpatrick, Ryan Hamilton, James Meager, Greg Fleming, Vanessa Weenink, Mike Butterick, Katie Nimon, David MacLeod, Miles Anderson, Carl Bates, Rima Nakhle, Nancy Lu, Cushla Tangaere-Manuel, Reuben Davidson, Scott Willis, Darleen Tana, Takutai Moana Kemp (all pictured), Kahurangi Carter, Todd Stephenson, Laura Trask, Cameron Luxton, Tākuta Ferris, Mariameno Kapa-Kingi, Casey Costello, Jamie Arbuckle, and Tanya Unkovich?
... that since 1995, the AP NFL MVP award has been given to a player for the Green Bay Packers seven times?
... that Carla Ronci, an Italian declared venerable by the Catholic Church, is remembered as the "Vespa saint"?
... that Yellow Swans recorded their final album, Going Places, after their breakup?
... that code-switching in Lebanon is so common that "hi, كيفك؟ Ça va ?", which combines English, Levantine Arabic and French, is a typical greeting?
... that Peanut is inhospitable to peanuts?

11 January 2024

00:00, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

Poussin, The Abduction of the Sabine Women

... that Poussin painted the abduction of the Sabine women twice (one pictured), once for a prince and once for a cardinal?
... that the leader of the German Red Cross under the Nazi regime had lived in the UK until he was fifteen years old and was a grandson of Queen Victoria?
... that New Zealand petrol stations were filled with queues before a change in government policy?
... that although five of Armenian composer Grigor Yeghiazaryan's siblings died of starvation from the Armenian genocide, his life was saved because he played in a brass band?
... that Edo literature was influenced by British colonialism in the late 19th century, which introduced the Roman script and Christianity to the Edo people?
... that a New York state TV station thought a St. Bernard could serve as a mascot—until she proved incapable of following direction and had to be sent to obedience school?
... that Harald Hasselbach, the only Dutch Super Bowl champion, lived in four continents in his youth?
... that life always ended with a sneeze until the time of Jacob, according to one Midrash?

10 January 2024

00:00, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

Catherine, Princess of Wales

... that Catherine, Princess of Wales (pictured), is a keen amateur photographer and the patron of the Royal Photographic Society, and has taken many official photographs of her children?
... that a Connecticut radio station left the FM band for good after it was out of service for a week and only one person wrote a letter to complain?
... that the Swiss mountaineer Hermann Alfred Tanner invented a compass to navigate colour harmony?
... that during the January 1982 California floods, more than 18,000 landslides swept through the San Francisco Bay Area with little warning?
... that Kathanar – The Wild Sorcerer is being shot on a custom-built studio spanning 45,000 square feet (4,200 m²), utilizing the virtual production technology?
... that in her 2021 book The Origins of Early Christian Literature, Robyn Faith Walsh found that German Romanticists were in part responsible for modern scholarly assumptions about the gospels?
... that a 1974 recording of Mozart's Così fan tutte with Ryland Davies as Ferrando was used in a 1995 film by the Salzburg Marionette Theatre?
... that sculptures of defecating people are displayed in the park surrounding Haewoojae?

9 January 2024

00:00, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

Frédéric Chopin

... that Chopin's heart (composer pictured) was smuggled into Poland by his sister?
... that Shen Zigao, the first Anglican bishop of Chinese descent, was consecrated at All Saints Church, Shanghai, in 1934?
... that before filming National Football League games, former Green Bay Packers video director Al Treml was trained in photography while serving in the United States Army?
... that the Russian propaganda outlet Sputnik compared the Global Engagement Center to the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four?
... that Giovanni Bonfanti scored a goal on his debut in a European competition?
... that The New Zealand Herald opposed a children's hospital in favour of a statue of Queen Victoria?
... that the Hank Aaron State Trail was regularly visited by Hank Aaron until his death in 2021?
... that it is controversial whether there are things that do not exist?

8 January 2024

00:00, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

Nancy Nash

... that Nancy Nash (pictured) had to convince her parents to let her not attend the University of Texas to instead become an actress in 1926?
... that a letter to the American people allegedly written by Osama bin Laden has been cited as an example of online youth radicalization?
... that "Hare Hare Yukai" is credited with originating the genre of cover dance videos, in which individuals attempt to replicate dance choreography on video-sharing websites?
... that F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote the short stories "The Jelly-Bean" and "May Day" at the Allerton 39th Street House?
... that Lachlan Murdoch was forced to resign as a director of Prime Media Group because the company owned a radio station on Queensland's Sunshine Coast?
... that small-business leaders such as Guillermo Torrez sympathized with the Movement for Socialism despite its anti-capitalist rhetoric?
... that Olivia Rodrigo can write ballads about homeschooled girls as well as about songbirds and snakes?
... that when her husband was captured by the Turks, Queen Morphia hired a band of secretly armed fake monks and merchants to infiltrate the prison and rescue him – only for him to be captured again?

7 January 2024

00:00, 7 January 2024 (UTC)

Cosmos ball in the Great Divine Temple

... that the Great Divine Temple of Caodaism holds the cosmos ball (pictured), which represents the Jade Emperor's universe?
... that the curator aedium sacrarum et operum locorumque publicorum was responsible for the upkeep of public works and buildings in ancient Rome?
... that British intervention reversed the lacquering of a statue in New Zealand?
... that Harry Dunn guarded a stairwell and Nancy Pelosi's office during the January 6 United States Capitol attack?
... that the Kansas Business Hall of Fame includes the founders of Pizza Hut and Russell Stover Candies?
... that three first-team All-Americans – Logan Eggleston, Zoe Fleck, and Asjia O'Neal – played on the University of Texas's NCAA volleyball championship team in 2022?
... that the WoodmenLife Tower hosts a livestream of a peregrine falcon nest on its 28th floor?
... that Genghis Khan was extremely charismatic and renowned for his generosity towards his followers?

6 January 2024

00:00, 6 January 2024 (UTC)

Dolly de Leon

... that Dolly de Leon (pictured) was the first Filipino to be nominated for a Golden Globe or a BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress?
... that a neighborhood in Virginia lost its public park because its city government did not build a fence?
... that having painted a domestic scene depicting his nude wife, Robert Ballagh felt that he had to produce a nude painting of himself as a follow-up?
... that ten people have died trying to cross the Cascade Saddle?
... that Maciej Grabowski became the Polish minister of environment in 2013 despite having no environmental experience?
... that a design for the 1930s New Zealand penny depicted a rugby player?
... that the new Catalogue of Works of Carl Friedrich Abel, listing 420 compositions, was introduced at a festival celebrating Abel's tercentenary in Köthen?
... that although Olga Hartman believed that her basic research on marine worms had no practical value, it was applied to experimental studies of oysters?

5 January 2024

00:00, 5 January 2024 (UTC)

Almirante Barroso

... that the Brazilian cruiser Almirante Barroso (pictured) was on a voyage to circumnavigate Earth with Prince August Leopold on board when the republic was proclaimed in Brazil?
... that archaeologists found that Updown Girl, who was buried in England in the 7th century, had a mixture of West African and European DNA?
... that until April 2023, when the genus Triassosculda was discovered, the mantis shrimp fossil record contained a gap of more than a hundred million years?
... that when Abbess Stephanie of Courtenay's niece's marriage to the king of Jerusalem was annulled, the court's reasoning was so flimsy that a noted jurist had to ask Stephanie to explain it to him?
... that the wood-pasture hypothesis posits that semi-open wood pastures and not primeval forests are the natural vegetation of temperate Europe?
... that Julia Figueredo was the first indigenous woman to be elected president of La Paz's parliamentary delegation?
... that fewer than half of the seventy cues composed by Dmitri Shostakovich for the 1971 film King Lear made it into the final cut?
... that the song "Poison" can soothe babies?

4 January 2024

00:00, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

Eustace Tilley on the first edition of The New Yorker, 1925

... that in 2017, Eustace Tilley (pictured) missed his annual turn on the cover of The New Yorker because of Donald Trump?
... that during the British period, the tomb of Khan Muhammad was used as an office and residence for the executive engineer?
... that after his professional American football career, Lou Daukas became a lawyer?
... that the thought of her sister Ioveta being a common nun was so abhorrent to the queen of Jerusalem that she ordered the construction of the Convent of Saint Lazarus for Ioveta to rule as an abbess?
... that the great-nephew of Leon Trotsky was a physician for the Black Panther Party and helped deinstitutionalize Willowbrook State School?
... that the entire inventory of historic string instruments in Canada's Musical Instrument Bank are loaned to musicians in a competition held every three years?
... that cabinet-maker Stephen Badlam simultaneously served as a justice of the peace and a brigadier-general?
... that misidentifications of the crested cuckoo-dove have led to claims that the extinct Choiseul pigeon is still around?

3 January 2024

00:00, 3 January 2024 (UTC)

Geordie Greep

... that Geordie Greep (pictured) has an accent that has been described as "geographically unclassifiable"?
... that the owner of 130 West 30th Street would have renamed the structure the "Beaver Pelt Building" if it could not be named after its architect?
... that the murder of Jiang Ge led to public debate in China over the actions of Jiang's roommate during her murder?
... that George Willis Pack, a Northerner and Lincoln supporter, financed a monument to Confederate governor Zebulon Vance in Asheville, North Carolina?
... that the painter of The Rape of Lucretia updated the ancient legend by setting the scene in the bedroom of a contemporary Italian home?
... that the projector at the Walter Reade Theater had to be modified to screen Nathaniel Dorsky's short film Triste?
... that Dacrytherium, literally meaning 'tear beast', was named after its "tear-pit"?
... that the construction of the Rajiv Lochan Temple has been variously attributed to two mythical kings and a god?

2 January 2024

00:00, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

Dragonesque brooch

... that if the double-headed Romano-British dragonesque brooch type (example pictured) represents any real animal, it may be hares rather than dragons?
... that human rights activist Adeeb Youssef was imprisoned and tortured but later became the governor of Central Darfur?
... that the Cross Temple in Fangshan, Beijing, is the only surviving Nestorian Christian site in China?
... that Switch Disco's song "Everything" saw a 185-percent increase in its Spotify streams after it was used in the seventh series of Love Island?
... that after popularizing the term rizz, Kai Cenat stopped using the term himself, saying that TikTok had butchered the word?
... that Forbes said of the Jetson One aircraft, "Flying Cars Are Here"?
... that after accepting the job of team physician for the Green Bay Packers in 1962, E. S. Brusky was not paid a salary for at least the first nine years of his tenure?
... that examples of artificial planets in science fiction include Riverworld, the Well World, and the Death Star?

1 January 2024

00:00, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

Criccieth Castle

... that Criccieth Castle (pictured) combined the "latest advances in military technology" with the "haphazard Welsh castle building style"?
... that Jerry Atkinson, a manager for a department store, helped prevent the Green Bay Packers from becoming insolvent in 1949 and 1950?
... that the most tweeted word on New Year's Eve 2013 related to the anime opening theme "Guren no Yumiya"?
... that Carlos Santana Tovar, who represented Amazonas in the 1952 Venezuelan Constituent Assembly, was taken hostage during the 1921 revolution and escaped only years later?
... that Only Up! was removed from Steam twice: first over copyright violations and subsequently to alleviate the developer's stress?
... that the Lunar Ejecta and Meteorites experiment continuously overheated and had to be switched off during the lunar noon?
... that Brian Herbert, the son of Frank Herbert, may have left a poem out of a collection of his father's poetry because it was "too racy"?
... that Prince William reportedly used the name "Steve" while studying at the University of St Andrews to avoid attracting attention from the media?

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