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31 July 2024

00:00, 31 July 2024 (UTC)

WZZM weatherball

... that a Michigan TV station rescued and restored a weather ball (pictured) that had been sitting for years in a scrapyard?
... that in Liberia , self-induced abortions are performed with herbal remedies known as "rocket-propelled grenade" and "Christmas leaf"?
... that Olympic judoka Valentin Houinato is also a full-time journalist?
... that Ghana and Ivory Coast have been accused of setting up a cocoa cartel ?
... that the triathletes competing in the 2024 Summer Olympics include a man who won his first international competition aged 30 and the brother of a former Olympian ?
... that the Wikipedia hoax Carlos Bandeirense Mirandópolis was cited in a judicial decision by the Rio de Janeiro Court of Justice?
... that Alyssa Mendoza and Andy Barat are the first Olympic representatives of their sport for their state and country, respectively?
... that one in ten thousand individuals are born without the ability to smell ?
... that Sizzle Ohtaka , known as the "Queen of Commercial Songs", was producing them at a rate of ten per month?

30 July 2024

00:00, 30 July 2024 (UTC)

Adam Maraana

... that Adam Maraana (pictured), a Jewish Arab-Israeli, is competing in swimming for Israel at the 2024 Summer Olympics?
... that future American presidential candidate George McGovern was a student pastor at a church in Diamond Lake, Illinois ?
... that Stefano Manetti was co-consecrated a bishop by the same man who ordained him a priest 30 years earlier?
... that a law was signed so that the Solomon Islands delegation could return home from the 2020 Summer Olympics?
... that the first lady of the Ivory Coast created an animated kids' show in 1989?
... that Olympic fencer Victor Alvares de Oliveira was told at a young age by doctors that he had little chance to compete in the sport due to his severe asthma?
... that the site of the headquarters of the German colonization of Texas was converted into a museum ?
... that artifacts of Papua New Guinean art were called "living spirits with fixed abodes"?

29 July 2024

00:00, 29 July 2024 (UTC)

Oliveira in 2018

... that Brazilian Olympic gymnast Lorrane Oliveira (pictured) trained for the circus before starting gymnastics?
... that some estimate that maintenance of existing software costs up to nine times as much as creating it in the first place?
... that at age 15, Lilia Cosman moved from the United States to Romania to compete for Romania's Olympic gymnastics team?
... that Baubau city filed two different budgets at the same time, losing their chance at becoming the capital of Southeast Sulawesi?
... that in 1948, Jane Wallis Burrell became the first CIA officer to die in service?
... that after being freed from Buq Buq labor camp in Italian-occupied Egypt, Libyan Jewish prisoners had to walk home across the desert?
... that Aminata Barrow is the first female Olympic swimmer for The Gambia?
... that the Newton Lower Falls Branch was operated with a single electric railcar nicknamed the "Ping-Pong"?
... that after disappearing in 2019, a donkey is now "living his best life" with a wild elk herd?

28 July 2024

00:00, 28 July 2024 (UTC)

View of Clover Point

... that untreated sewage was dumped directly into the ocean from Clover Point (pictured) until 2020?
... that Fathimath Dheema Ali is the first Olympic qualifier from the Maldives?
... that Rhapsody was the hardest traditional climbing route in the world?
... that Rashmika Mandanna was reluctant to accept her first role in Hindi cinema as she disagreed with the character's views on spirituality?
... that the aid climbing routes on the Great Trango Tower are some of the longest vertical big wall climbs in the world?
... that Evann Girault is Niger's first Olympic fencer?
... that the neutral oil tanker Hercules carried an unexploded bomb into a Brazilian port after being attacked by Argentine aircraft during the Falklands War?
... that Goodboy Galaxy was the first commercially released video game for the Game Boy Advance in more than 13 years?
... that Quintus et Ultimus Watson was the acting governor of Texas for one day in 1915?

27 July 2024

00:00, 27 July 2024 (UTC)

Kubrick stare

... that a Kubrick stare (example pictured) can be "invasive" and "troubling"?
... that Chloë Farro , María Sara Grippoli , Edda Hannesdóttir , Viren Nettasinghe , Oyuntsetsegiin Yesügen , and Lê Đức Phát are flagbearers at today's Olympic opening ceremony?
... that silver dimes kept a Tennessee TV station on the air?
... that agronomist Oliver Golden remained in the Soviet Union after his delegation of cotton experts returned to the United States?
... that the Guinness World Record holder for the world's largest menorah, in Manhattan's Grand Army Plaza , is smaller than a menorah in Brooklyn's Grand Army Plaza?
... that Olympic swimmer Camil Doua represents a country in which "the only existing swimming pools are those in hotels"?
... that there is a rare circumstance in which Jewish soldiers are allowed to abandon kosher dietary laws?
... that physiotherapist Alison McGregor was one of the Olympic flame torchbearers from Imperial College London in the build-up to the London Olympic Games in 2012?
... that NATO was once targeted by a group of "gay furry hackers "?

26 July 2024

00:00, 26 July 2024 (UTC)

Soldiers' and Sailors' Arch

... that New York City's Soldiers' and Sailors' Arch (pictured) once had a puppet library?
... that angling was once an Olympic sport ?
... that the shape of Fisherman's Friend lozenges was based on the buttons on a dress worn by Doreen Lofthouse ?
... that during an expedition on RV Kaharoa , a 34-centimetre-long (13 in) "supergiant" amphipod was discovered?
... that Olympia Dukakis's first screen role was in the avant-garde film Twice a Man ?
... that ten years after publishing the book Great South African Christians, Horton Davies gave a speech criticizing South African churches and synagogues for their role in apartheid?
... that the two varieties of Alabama croton are separated by more than 1,000 kilometres (620 miles)?
... that Aboriginal soldier Tim Hughes was decorated for remarkable bravery, exceptional coolness and initiative during the Battle of Buna–Gona?
... that the Victory Vertical piano was developed in 1942 to be parachuted to US troops?

25 July 2024

00:00, 25 July 2024 (UTC)

Frances Darlington

... that although sculptor Frances Darlington (pictured) was known for her painted relief panels, she also designed a railway poster?
... that a shrine dedicated to the fictional character Ianto Jones is visited by people from around the world?
... that a sprinter who competed for American Samoa at the 2020 Summer Olympics had never competed in a sprinting event beforehand?
... that immigrant midwife Dorothy Dworkin was considered the matriarch of Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital?
... that an Alabama TV station fired nearly its entire news staff and replaced its newscasts with a countdown clock for more than a month?
... that the Kelvite sounding machine used a chemical reaction to determine the depth of water in which a ship was sailing?
... that Zionist activist Georg Kareski defended the Nuremberg Laws in a Nazi newspaper?
... that the 2024 U.S. Supreme Court case Department of State v. Muñoz decided that the fundamental right to marry does not give a U.S. citizen a right to challenge their spouse's visa denial?
... that Toby Olubi has claimed to have funded his Olympic bobsled career by being "shot out of a cannon "?

24 July 2024

00:00, 24 July 2024 (UTC)

Jenny Hurn

... that Jenny Hurn (pictured) in Lincolnshire, England, is said to be haunted by a boggart that crosses the River Trent in a dish propelled by oars the size of teaspoons?
... that the Mount Leona Fire was finally contained on the upper slopes of Profanity Peak?
... that the International Olympic Committee's TikTok account praised the "incredible strategy" of speed skater Yang Jingru 's win at the 2024 Winter Youth Olympics?
... that according to writer Russell T Davies, he conceived elements of the Doctor Who episode "Empire of Death " decades before he wrote it?
... that during his tenure as the manager of Austria's Burgtheater from 1971 to 1976, Gerhard Klingenberg often directed plays with analogies of a divided Europe?
... that Red (Taylor's Version) was credited by media publications with popularizing the "Sad Girl Autumn" phenomenon in popular culture?
... that 14 months after taking up track cycling, René Heyde only narrowly missed out being selected to the New Zealand team at the 1972 Summer Olympics?
... that during the construction of 181 Montague Street in New York City, each of the building's columns was pulled by 14 horses?
... that Unilever invited Britons to congregate and worship at a shrine to Marmite in 2010?

23 July 2024

00:00, 23 July 2024 (UTC)

Scybalium fungiforme flower

Scybalium fungiforme flower

... that before they can be pollinated, Scybalium fungiforme flowers (example pictured) need to be forcefully peeled open by possums or tanagers?
... that Zali Steggall , an independent member of the Parliament of Australia, is an Olympic skiing medallist?
... that petroglyphs from western Crete may depict extinct Candiacervus deer from the Palaeolithic?
... that North Korean child prodigy Ri Jong-yol defected to South Korea after winning silver at the 2016 International Mathematical Olympiad in Hong Kong?
... that after women at Apple Inc. found a 6-percent gender wage gap and spoke out against sexual harassment and discrimination in #AppleToo , a class-action lawsuit was filed in June 2024?
... that Fu Wuji 's Fuhou gujin zhu includes information on a diverse range of topics, from astrological signs to the dimensions of imperial tombs?
... that Ascension Island designated its entire marine territory as a protected area with no commercial fishing permitted ?
... that Jewish video essayist Jacob Geller cited Jewish traditions of study and scholarship as an inspiration behind his analysis of popular culture?
... that one critic likened the design of 185 Montague Street in New York City to the horns of Count Basie's orchestra?

22 July 2024

00:00, 22 July 2024 (UTC)

Women's 400 metres hurdles medallists at the 2024 EAC

... that Femke Bol won the women's 400 metres hurdles at the 2024 European Athletics Championships (medallists pictured) in a championship record of 52.49 seconds?
... that Steve Elcock 's Symphony No. 6 is dedicated to "the everlasting execration of self-serving politicians, the obscenely rich and the system that allows them to remain so"?
... that to embody her role as a short-track speed skater in the movie Breaking Through , actress Meng Meiqi inserted a rock into one of her ice skates to feel real pain?
... that British physician James A. Glover found that "spacing-out" beds prevented epidemics of meningitis in the military during World War I?
... that a co-founder of Braver Angels designed their Red/Blue political depolarization workshops based on couples therapy?
... that the 1969 leadership election for the Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick was blacklisted by the American Federation of Musicians because one of the candidates was indebted to them?
... that American ornithologist Judy Kellogg Markowsky died after disappearing in the river that she worked to protect during her life?
... that the third Josef Hoop cabinet survived an attempted coup from a domestic Nazi party?
... that author Anna Smith Spark is also known as the "Queen of Grimdark"?

21 July 2024

00:00, 21 July 2024 (UTC)

Tobie Goedewaagen

... that Tobie Goedewaagen (pictured), a minister under the Nazi occupation government, fled the Netherlands with his belongings in a bedspread?
... that sixteen-year-old Lisa Andreas, who represented Cyprus in the Eurovision Song Contest 2004 , was that year's youngest contest entrant?
... that Chris Patrick is one of seven Stanley Cup champions in his family?
... that the Coon Rapids Dam on the Mississippi River is the northern terminus of the river's navigable portion?
... that musician Henry Donch witnessed the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and served on the grand jury that indicted the assassin of President Garfield?
... that the Pokémon species Lucario is used to promote fitness programs in Japan?
... that Peter Talbot , the Catholic archbishop of Dublin, was imprisoned in 1678 due to an anti-Catholic conspiracy?
... that the owners of the Narragansett Pier Railroad included a family of industrialists, a dentist, a systems analyst, a lumberyard, and the founder of Textron?
... that valence populism cannot be positioned on the left–right political spectrum?
... that 17-year-old women's basketball player Zhang Ziyu is at least 220 centimetres (7 ft 3 in) tall?

20 July 2024

00:00, 20 July 2024 (UTC)

Big Duck

... that a big duck (pictured) helped promote duck farming on Long Island?
... that Cornell College professor Harriette Cooke was also a deaconess?
... that there were technical issues with the performance of "Luna " by the Colombian singer Feid at the 2024 Copa América opening ceremony?
... that Oey Kim Tiang was one of two "men with no name" to translate Jin Yong's Condor Trilogy into vernacular Malay?
... that the radio station at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire would go off the air in the middle of the day?
... that thirty years after playing his first season for the Miami Hurricanes, J. D. Arteaga became the team's head coach in 2024?
... that scientists tested the age of an African termite 's inhabited mound—and found it to be 34,000 years old?
... that Albert Einstein wrote to Joseph Petzoldt in 1914 that he had "long shared his convictions", after reading one of his philosophical books?
... that in fiction, supernovae are induced to serve as weapons, power sources for time travel, and advertisements?

19 July 2024

00:00, 19 July 2024 (UTC)

Red Rock sunflower

... that the newly discovered and critically imperiled Red Rock sunflower (Helianthus devernii) has only been found around two desert springs located in the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area?
... that football player Julian Lewis received offers to play college football before he had attended high school?
... that carpenter Cumming Haswell erected a historic villa , later described as "modestly-scaled but ornamental"?
... that Terry Pratchett's earliest Discworld stories were posthumously found and published by two of his fans?
... that the flaming finale of Joan by Alexander McQueen has been read as an image of violence, resilience, transcendence, and resurrection?
... that the 2016 festival South by South Lawn included a panel discussion on climate change led by President Obama?
... that Melani Budianta used street gangs and Moonies in Los Angeles to reflect on the state of democracy in Indonesia?
... that Stardust's only song earned them a 3ドル million offer from a record label, but they refused?
... that Bill Wurtz once accepted an award with a two-word acceptance speech?

18 July 2024

00:12, 18 July 2024 (UTC)

Nathan Steuer

... that Magic: The Gathering world champion Nathan Steuer (pictured) started tournament-level play as a pre-teen, saying that the "13 and up" label on Magic packaging was "just recommended"?
... that in 1919 Vladimir Zitta , Evgenia Semenovskaya , Vladimir Bezel and G. N. Maksimov were expelled from the Party of Revolutionary Communism for having advocated unity with other populist sectors?
... that the satellite TRUTHS is planned to enable the precise calibration of Earth observation data from other satellites?
... that ice hockey coach Ryan Warsofsky was the youngest active head coach in the ECHL, then was the youngest in the AHL, and now is the youngest in the NHL?
... that Pure Japanese was released under this English title in its native Japan?
... that Charlemagne owned an elephant that he received as a gift from the Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid?
... that one critic interpreted a SZA song as being about her fears about the growing influence of AI in the music industry?
... that Kho Ping Hoo , despite writing numerous stories based on wuxia , could not read Chinese?

17 July 2024

00:00, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

H. J. Lovink Pumping Station

... that the H. J. Lovink Pumping Station (pictured), a national monument of the Netherlands, was used to reclaim the Flevopolder?
... that during the 1899–1900 peasant unrest in Bulgaria , some troops refused orders to fire on the protesters?
... that the winner of the seventeenth series of Britain's Got Talent was the first individual woman to win the show without a dog?
... that the moat around Pinxton Castle was inside the perimeter walls, rather than outside?
... that William Beck emigrated to the US from Germany, became a policeman at 19, was wounded by a Native American tribe, and was shipwrecked before becoming Milwaukee's first police chief?
... that a Texas TV station hoped that being named after an eye would ease viewer confusion?
... that Pharos , the largest impact crater on Neptune's moon Proteus, is more than half the diameter of Proteus itself?
... that in his book How to Be Perfect , Michael Schur sought to "wade into some deeply confusing and painful applications of moral philosophy ... but in a fun way"?
... that a video accompanying ML Buch 's debut album showed viewers her inner self – literally?

16 July 2024

00:00, 16 July 2024 (UTC)

Giado concentration camp

... that Libyan Jews and Arabs traded and bartered with each other at the fence of the Giado concentration camp (pictured)?
... that environmental journalist Gloria Dickie wrote her thesis on how cities in Colorado changed garbage laws to prevent bear incursions?
... that Brunel University's lecture centre has been described as "imposing" and "frightening", but also as "an expressive centrepiece" and "a brutalist classic"?
... that Benjamin Jackson was likely paid at least 300ドル to fight in the American Civil War as Lewis Saunders?
... that, of the three presidents of the Chamber of Dutch Culture , two were arrested and one was assassinated?
... that the inclusion of two preteen competing performers at the Eurovision Song Contest 1989 led to the introduction of an age rule for participants at future contests?
... that a gunman who, in 1960, shot three people dead in Sheffield, England, was deported to Somalia, where he was killed in a shoot-out while "running amok"?
... that Iowa government social worker Catherine G. Williams started out as a tap dancer?
... that Banner in the Sky inspired a Canadian dentist to climb the Matterhorn?

15 July 2024

00:00, 15 July 2024 (UTC)

Adam and Eve by Ludwig Krug

Adam and Eve by Ludwig Krug

... that in Ludwig Krug 's rendition of Adam and Eve (pictured), an ape mimics Adam eating the apple?
... that Australia's most threatened butterfly is confined to a native range of less than 10 square kilometres (3.9 sq mi)?
... that football player Gordon Cooper performed so well that "the adjective supply [was] exhausted" in trying to describe him?
... that the live-action drama adaptation of the Japanese manga Setsuyaku Rock was reimagined as a buddy comedy?
... that Emily Spreeman , the all-time top scorer for the United States women's national deaf soccer team, debuted for the team at the age of 15?
... that the San Diego YMCA estimates that it has served more than 125 million military personnel?
... that the real-time strategy, tower defense and factory management game Mindustry is freely licensed under the GPLv3?
... that Oen Boen Ing , a doctor who often worked for free, was so popular that the Indonesian government was petitioned not to evacuate him during a period of violence against Chinese Indonesians?
... that 200 spiders were on the set of Infested ?

14 July 2024

00:00, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

Hermanus Johannes Lovink

... that Dutch agriculturist Hermanus Johannes Lovink (pictured) used a suitcase gramophone during his lectures?
... that the Vancouver School Board's alleged attempt to censor a student newspaper led to the drafting of a press-freedom act?
... that fans on TikTok were behind the choice of name for one of SZA's singles ?
... that when sales slowed on the Texas Centennial half dollar , Senator Tom Connally suggested minting five separate versions?
... that the Green Bay Packers once had fourteen players selected to a national All-Pro team ?
... that Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos bought New York City's Crown Building because of a tearful plea?
... that the magazine Acoustic Guitar said that Dan Erlewine "might be the most famous guitar repairperson on earth"?
... that models in the runway show for Nihilism by Alexander McQueen were dressed in plastic, locusts, rust, and clay?
... that literary critic Leslie Fiedler called the novel Band of Angels "operatic in the worst sense of the word"?

13 July 2024

00:00, 13 July 2024 (UTC)

Severed human toe resting on salt

Toe used in the Sourtoe Cocktail

... that a human toe used for cocktails (pictured) is one of many body parts that are tourist attractions?
... that a novel about Madagascar's colonization , which the author was aware was impossible to publish under colonial rule, was finally published decades after his suicide?
... that working broadcast journalists were used as extras for the portions of the Doctor Who episode "73 Yards " that were filmed at the BBC Cymru Wales New Broadcasting House?
... that plans to shoot the Beijing-set portions of the 1989 Japanese film Beijing Watermelon on location were cancelled after the Tiananmen Square protests and massacre occurred mid-production?
... that the Radcliffe Telescope was the largest telescope in the Southern Hemisphere when it was completed in 1948?
... that the marine fungal species Parengyodontium album only breaks down polyethylene plastics that have been exposed to ultraviolet light?
... that author Ron Chernow was reluctant to write a biography of John D. Rockefeller until being shown a 1,700-page transcript of three years' worth of private interviews with him?
... that the Green Bay Packers once defeated a team of all-stars chosen from the rest of the league?
... that on February 3, 1986, African Independence Party leaders Adama Touré and Adama Touré were released from detention?

12 July 2024

00:00, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

Republica hickeyi leaf

Republica hickeyi leaf

... that fossil plants (leaf pictured) and damselflies from the Ypresian age are named after the city of Republic?
... that South Korean actress Na O-mi 's stage name was inspired by the song "I Dream of Naomi"?
... that while reviewers generally praised The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs , one reviewer complained that the author was "so nice about his colleagues that it makes you long for a juicy academic vendetta"?
... that Joseph Tetley , a member of the New Zealand Legislative Council, defrauded several investors to the 2017 equivalent value of around NZ7ドル million?
... that Cleo Hill Jr. coached the college basketball team for which his father played more than 60 years earlier?
... that according to the official history of the Song dynasty, Zhao Kuangyin's soldiers stormed his bedroom and proclaimed him emperor , to his surprise?
... that a video game consisting solely of a clickable image of a banana was briefly the second-most played game on Steam?
... that the album covers of Blue Note Records have been considered to be the "look" of jazz?
... that on July 11, 2022, millions of dollars worth of jewelry was stolen from the back of a truck while one driver was getting food at a California truck stop and the other one was asleep in the cab?

11 July 2024

00:00, 11 July 2024 (UTC)

Yevhen Klopotenko

... that Yevhen Klopotenko (pictured) fought a "war for borscht"?
... that a street in San Francisco was named after a man who used a false identity ?
... that Alfie Templeman described the style of his studio album Radiosoul as "incohesively cohesive"?
... that Rosemary Miller won her state's skeet shooting championship one year after learning the sport, and then won a state shooting championship in all but two years for the rest of her life?
... that the Japanese boy band Nexz was created through the program Nizi Project season 2?
... that the Nazi collaborator Sebastiaan de Ranitz abandoned his office following Mad Tuesday, leaving his department in turmoil?
... that Gedling Town F.C. 's nickname "The Ferrymen" was inspired by the name of a pub located next to the team's stadium?
... that Antonio Dini was the only survivor of a three-man crew after he crashed a plane into the sea, but had no recollection of the crash due to concussion?
... that after a pigeon sculpture in Wellington went missing, members of the public created a memorial for it?

10 July 2024

00:00, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

Dreamtime

Dreamtime

... that Dreamtime (pictured) is one of the world's most famous bouldering routes?
... that Jopie and Teun Roosenburg led an art colony at Oost Castle that helped Jewish refugees escape the Nazi-occupied Netherlands to Belgium?
... that Flyover , a 2023 science fiction novel by an American author, portraying a dystopian future where part of the US becomes a theocracy, was published in French but not in English?
... that Anna Russell Cole , a significant benefactor of Vanderbilt University, donated 10,000ドル in 1926 to endow the office of dean of women?
... that in The Servile State , Hilaire Belloc criticized socialism for being too similar to capitalism?
... that the 2024 Doctor Who episode "Dot and Bubble " was first conceptualized in 2009?
... that rapper Gmac Cash attempted to gift a pair of Cartier glasses to Gretchen Whitmer, the governor of Michigan?
... that the Tampa Bay Buccaneers players wore white uniforms during a snowy NFL game , which made them extremely difficult for their quarterback to see?
... that barbarians would have bought cake, not pie, at Barbara's Rhubarb Bar ?

9 July 2024

00:00, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

Isle of Dogs Pumping Station

... that the Isle of Dogs Pumping Station (pictured) was nicknamed the Temple of Storms?
... that 16th-century chroniclers thought María Pacheco , a leader of the Revolt of the Comuneros, was a witch?
... that some critics described the fourth season of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver as comic relief from the activities of the Trump administration?
... that in order to re-marry, Zhou Wennan had to request Mao Zedong's permission?
... that schoolchildren in the town of Kirkby were paid 25 pence an hour to help build Kirkby Ski Slope , even though the slope never opened?
... that Lois E. Trott ran the first lodging house for homeless girls in America, providing shelter and support for over 1,000 girls annually, all without receiving any payment?
... that Jerzy Kosinski: A Biography described its subject as a "liar", and yet, one reviewer felt that the author's "studiously neutral position ends up sounding like an apologia for Kosinski"?
... that "Chihiro " by Billie Eilish was titled in reference to the main character of Spirited Away ?
... that the DJ NewJeansNim has been credited with reviving interest in Buddhism among South Korean youths?

8 July 2024

00:00, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

Nakanoseto Bridge on the Akinada Tobishima Kaido

... that the Akinada Tobishima Kaido (bridge pictured), an island-hopping road, was named after its resemblance to stepping stones in a garden?
... that the "mythical love story" of Sami politician Bjarne Store-Jakobsen and Blackfoot physician Esther Tailfeathers is a focus of the 2014 film Bihttoš ?
... that after Seattle Seahawks quarterback Matt Hasselbeck promised victory , he threw an interception that lost the game?
... that the compilation of the Wu shu was hampered by the execution of two members of the committee compiling the text?
... that after operating for 168 years and moving to three buildings, the Mercantile Library in Philadelphia was closed due to concerns about asbestos?
... that the annual energy cost of a single fume hood in Singapore can be up to US9,300ドル?
... that Laura Veale was the first woman to practise as a doctor in the town of Harrogate?
... that to encourage the development of Bissau-Guinean cinema , one foreign filmmaker provided the country's film institute with cameras, lights, and a Steinbeck guitar?
... that professional vibraphonist Joel Ross has called the vibraphone his "least favorite instrument"?

7 July 2024

00:00, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

Paul Parkman

... that Paul Parkman (pictured), one of the developers of the rubella vaccine, did not monetize the patent so that the vaccine could be freely available?
... that according to a former military journalist, 80,000 copies of a command information newspaper were dumped into the South China Sea during the Vietnam War?
... that despite specializing in literature and serving as a senior editor of the Zhonghua Book Company, historian Zhang Zhenglang never published a single book of his own?
... that AJR's "Way Less Sad " samples the final trumpet riff of Simon & Garfunkel's "My Little Town" as its primary hook?
... that when MT Petar Hektorović was temporarily reassigned, one resident of Vis wrote an online memorial to the ship, writing "the bay of Vis grieve for you"?
... that Drew Thomas , a former car salesman, reached the finals of the NBC show Last Comic Standing ?
... that the Bad Dürrenberg shaman may have been able to block blood vessels to her brain by holding her head at certain angles?
... that a New York man built a house with materials from several 1964 New York World's Fair pavilions ?
... that putting pre-moistened meat diapers in pre-packaged meat is a form of weight fraud?

6 July 2024

00:00, 6 July 2024 (UTC)

Sage cultivation, 14th-century manuscript

... that much of what we know of medieval gardens comes from illuminated manuscripts (example pictured)?
... that Mark Hutton was the first Australian to be a starting pitcher in a Major League Baseball game?
... that two of three candidates in the 2018 mayoral race in Malang, Indonesia , were arrested for bribery before the election?
... that Gladys Stone Wright got started with a year of free piano lessons and a 5ドル clarinet?
... that "At the Name of Jesus " has been described as "the only completely objective theological hymn to come from the hand of a 19th-century woman writer"?
... that Liza Soberano's early acting roles include playing the third wheel in romance films?
... that Maryland state delegate C. T. Wilson compared negotiating with the Catholic Church on the Maryland Child Victims Act to making "a deal with the devil"?
... that educational writer Ștefan Tita gave Romanian students impractical advice on mending damaged bark with bandages of dirt?
... that Eminem promoted "Houdini " with a video in which David Blaine eats a wine glass?

5 July 2024

00:00, 5 July 2024 (UTC)

George Kunkel

... that actor George Kunkel (pictured) portrayed in blackface the character of Uncle Tom, using it at first to promote slavery during the American Civil War but later to attack it, after his views had changed?
... that sauerkraut made by members of a Russian spiritual sect in Armenia was popular in many other parts of the Soviet Union?
... that The Blue Angels was shot using IMAX cameras rigged to a helicopter, plus an ultra-high-speed camera shooting at 1,000 frames per second?
... that Margaret Carroux 's German translation of The Lord of the Rings contains errors introduced by her editor?
... that the LACE satellite tracked rocket plumes from space for the United States's Star Wars program?
... that Melanie L. Campbell was arrested for civil disobedience while protesting proposed restrictions on voting rights?
... that historically, lichens like Umbilicaria torrefacta have been used to naturally dye traditional Scottish tartans and textiles?
... that American poet Edwin Ford Piper preserved 828 folk songs, most of which were from Iowa and Nebraska?
... that before reading the script for the play Golden Girls , at least nine of the cast members were under the impression that they would be taking the lead role?

4 July 2024

00:00, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

A Guardian Cap being worn in 2023

... that the NFL has required players in most positions to wear Guardian Caps (pictured) during training even though third-party research has questioned their effectiveness?
... that the Upper Voltan National Radio chief editor Watamou Lamien was the liaison between the ROC group of young radical military officers and the clandestine Voltan Revolutionary Communist Party?
... that Silence Is Loud uses a style that was previously considered "absolutely verboten" for its genre?
... that Jackson Demonstration State Forest was named in honor of American lumberman Jacob Green Jackson ?
... that Tural, the setting of the expansion pack Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail , is inspired by Latin America and Southeast Asia?
... that orthopedic surgeon Adnan al-Bursh had also served as an advisor to the Palestine national football team before dying in an Israeli prison?
... that American Colossus is a biography of a man who was "the most famous sportsman in the world" and "the most forgotten great athlete in American history"?
... that husband and wife Edward M. and Marie Zimmerman co-wrote the suffragist anthem "Votes for Women: Suffrage Rallying Song"?
... that between 1985 and 1988, Televerket spent 2 million kronor paying youth sports teams to monitor payphones for vandalism ?

3 July 2024

00:00, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

Ernest J. King

... that according to a popular myth, Admiral Ernest J. King (pictured) shaved with a blowtorch?
... that Billie Eilish first served "Lunch" during a party at Coachella?
... that footballer Han Bong-zin trained in the military every day for four years in preparation for the FIFA World Cup?
... that a critic said that the hors d'oeuvres served at Sud 777 could function as desserts and vice versa?
... that after completing his tenure as regent, Tatto Suwarto Pamuji walked 96 kilometres (60 mi) to fulfill a vow he made?
... that Florida Hospital Oceanside was demolished after being damaged by Hurricane Irma?
... that youthful Second World War resistance leader Jean-Pierre Lévy was advised by the Free French intelligence service to dye his hair grey to appear older?
... that Żeromski Park , the second-largest park in Szczecin, Poland, used to be a cemetery?
... that on American band the Linda Lindas' first album, Growing Up , a cat named Lil' Dude is featured playing the piano?

2 July 2024

00:00, 2 July 2024 (UTC)

Detail of a frog on a banknote

... that the 1754 Battle of the Frogs was commemorated on banknotes (detail pictured)?
... that as of 2019, inclusion in the International Register of Electors no longer requires residency in Canada in the preceding five years?
... that the United States Department of Defense ran a propaganda campaign against Chinese vaccines during the COVID-19 pandemic?
... that Peewee Jarrett went from having a two-year span with no playing time and being "set on quitting football" to signing into the National Football League?
... that the Wellesbourne , Brighton's lost river, stopped flowing in 1889?
... that Max Weil , founder of the Halifax Symphony Orchestra, spent his later years in real estate?
... that when DarkZero contracted Xynew, his teammates highlighted his "communication skills and game brain", which they deemed unusual for a controller player?
... that the first public performance of the two songs of Arnold Schoenberg's Zwei Gesänge, Op. 1 was met with hostile audience reactions?
... that Score: A Hockey Musical has been described as "so Canadian it hurts"?

1 July 2024

00:00, 1 July 2024 (UTC)

Sea Life Brighton, formerly Brighton Aquarium

... that at the opening ceremony of Brighton Aquarium (pictured), naturalist Frank Buckland "produced, apparently from his pocket, a couple of juvenile alligators"?
... that a mail-order catalogue offered a "Rocking Ram" toy, designed by Charleen Kinser , for US1,600ドル in 1985?
... that the project Called by Name aims to commemorate Poles who were murdered for aiding Jews during World War II?
... that despite a global decline in mangrove forests, Red Sea mangroves have expanded in area since 1972?
... that Voyager 2 has been transmitting data for more than 46 years, making it the oldest active space probe in history?
... that Brittany Luse 's podcast The Nod was praised for its exploration of "the diversity and richness of the Black experience"?
... that despite lagging attendance at the 1964 New York World's Fair , its organizer rejected nearly every suggestion to increase attendance?
... that David Marchese recalled accidentally posting a picture of a cat's testicles on Salon.com ?

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