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31 October 2024

00:00, 31 October 2024 (UTC)

Chong Wa Benevolent Association Building

... that Wing Sam Chinn combined Chinese and Beaux-Arts architecture in his design for a building in Seattle (pictured)?
... that the Labour Party of Turkey was banned by the Constitutional Court in 1980 due to its support for the use of the Kurdish language in schools?
... that Michael Sugrue became an "internet phenomenon" during the COVID-19 pandemic for his lectures on YouTube, recorded in 1992, that covered "the last 3,000 years of Western intellectual history"?
... that Ready Set Learn! was TLC's answer to the PBS children's lineup?
... that Shawn Mendes's song "Nobody Knows" was recorded in one take on a "tough night"?
... that in 2018 thieves stole 40 percent of the cocoa produced by the São Toméan Organic Cocoa Production and Export Cooperative?
... that Matthew Webb died attempting to swim down the Niagara Rapids?
... that Mobtown Ballroom and Café enlisted volunteers to build its sprung wood floor by hand – twice?
... that a hagiography of Abbess Hathumoda was tempered by its audience's knowledge of her flaws?

30 October 2024

00:00, 30 October 2024 (UTC)

Empirical Labs Distressors

... that Maroon 5, Kali Uchis, and Wilco have all used the same effects unit (pictured)?
... that Shah Budak, a prince of the Dulkadir dynasty in Anatolia, blinded his nephew Shahruh in retaliation for his son's similar fate?
... that at one point the Lyons Pool Recreation Center had three employees whose only job was to maintain water filters?
... that a 19th-century newspaper editor went to prison after protesting the Isle of Man's lack of democracy?
... that Stephen Tung was cast in Stuntman because the directors envisioned someone who had co-starred with Bruce Lee for the lead role?
... that Prussian-born Samuel Conrad Schwach founded the first newspaper in Norway in 1763?
... that "So American" is considered the first love song in Olivia Rodrigo's discography by critics?
... that the law of reentry is cited as an explanation for a character's abrupt exit from the stage in Richard II?
... that Gao Qifeng, a founder of the Lingnan School, slept in a room filled with explosives?

29 October 2024

00:00, 29 October 2024 (UTC)

Viriamo

... that the traditional Rapa Nui tattoos of Viriamo (pictured) included motifs similar to an adze and a paddle?
... that in the Littlehampton libels, Edith Swan fooled three juries and two judges, had another woman sent to prison twice, and was declared not guilty before finally being convicted?
... that Filomena Fortes once said that she was "a bit critical of top-level sports in Cape Verde" despite being the president of its National Olympic Committee?
... that on the same day that the members of Heaven's Gate died in a mass suicide, five members of an unrelated group did likewise?
... that the regent of the Mongol Empire between 1248 and 1251 was named "We Were Searching for a Boy"?
... that the 48th Hong Kong International Film Festival canceled the screening of a politically themed film due to the "inability to locate suitable copies", despite the film having been showcased three years earlier?
... that thirty white employees quit working at Jumbo's restaurant in Miami after it desegregated?
... that Gerda Philipsborn, a German woman, dedicated her life to the development of Jamia Millia Islamia, a national university in New Delhi?
... that one 1886 night 150 people broke into a courthouse and began moving it 15 miles (24 km), before getting stuck in a blizzard?

28 October 2024

00:00, 28 October 2024 (UTC)

New York Hall of Science

... that a nuclear reactor was nearly built at the New York Hall of Science (pictured), but the money for the institution instead went to Yankee Stadium?
... that George Bernard Shaw jokingly threatened to torture Hilaire Belloc if it would get G. K. Chesterton to write his first play?
... that Norman warrior Hugh Bunel lived for years among the Saracens before turning against them to join the First Crusade?
... that after reading American Writers, William Lloyd Garrison told John Neal to be on guard should he return to the United States?
... that Druze rower Saleh Shahin won a bronze medal for Israel at the 2024 Paris Paralympics 19 years after he was injured in a terrorist attack?
... that the Hong Kong–based holding company now known as Nan Nan Resources went by three different names in 2011?
... that Dusko Doder reported the 1984 death of Yuri Andropov, the leader of the Soviet Union, before any official announcement?
... that Queen Victoria supported Clare embroidery by purchasing dresses for her family?
... that chocolate is included as an ingredient in 18th-century Italian recipes for pappardelle, fried liver, black polenta, and lasagna sauce?

27 October 2024

00:00, 27 October 2024 (UTC)

Wigwam

... that Wigwam (pictured) formed four days before their first concert?
... that a 1920s reviewer considered Hammond's Hard Lines "dangerously experimental ground for boys' fiction"?
... that Eddie Canales set up nearly 200 water stations along an area of the US–Mexico border to save the lives of undocumented immigrants?
... that before his victory at the 1128 Battle of Axspoele, William Clito ordered his knights to cut their hair and remove opulent clothing as a sign of penance?
... that Canadian punk rock musician Talli Osborne had only briefly spoken to the frontman of NOFX before the band wrote a song about her?
... that a red light in the corner bay window of the Ansorge Hotel told rumrunners of revenue men in town?
... that some delegates elected in the Qing dynasty's first provincial elections were secretly affiliated with republican revolutionaries?
... that neurocysticercosis has been referred to as the "great imitator" because it can mimic many other neurological disorders?
... that the only two Venezuelans ever to play for the NFL, Pat Ragusa and Alan Pringle, played a combined total of four regular-season games?

26 October 2024

00:00, 26 October 2024 (UTC)

Swadlincote ski slope

... that part of the site of Granville Colliery is now used as a dry ski slope (pictured)?
... that imprisoned Afghan politician Abdur Rahman Mahmudi wrote poems using onion juice as ink in his prison cell?
... that MyRadar uses a custom satellite constellation to help forecast the weather?
... that the early woman explorer Adèle de Dombasle travelled to Polynesia in 1847 and worked as an illustrator, drawing people such as Queen Pōmare IV?
... that song lyrics were allowed as evidence in the YSL Records racketeering trial?
... that the parents of Mathias Nkwenti, the second Cameroonian ever to play in the NFL, initially opposed his football career?
... that a small golden bell found at the site of the Mount Gerizim Temple is believed to have been part of the ephod of a high priest, as described in Exodus 28?
... that because the lord chancellor of England did not freeze assets before trial in 1789, the U.S. Supreme Court decided in 1999 that U.S. courts cannot either?

25 October 2024

00:00, 25 October 2024 (UTC)

Wuhan trolleybus on route 1

... that for nearly 65 years, Wuhan trolleybus route 1 (pictured) included a loop around a statue of Sun Yat-sen?
... that a Stradivarius cello once owned by Ernest de Munck is now named after him?
... that the Félag hljómplötuframleiðenda tried to close the file-sharing website Istorrent in 2007–2008, but the Supreme Court of Iceland dismissed the case?
... that a banker was named the prime minister of Equatorial Guinea after his predecessor resigned during an economic crisis?
... that while shooting his first short film, Jean-Luc Godard was barred from his mother's funeral for stealing?
... that Brenden Bates "loves moving people against their will"?
... that a fort in Baguia was restored to be converted into tourist accommodation?
... that The New York Times Simulator was inspired by its creator's frustration with media coverage of the Israel–Hamas war?

24 October 2024

00:00, 24 October 2024 (UTC)

Computer simulation of a neutron star

... that in fiction, neutron stars (pictured) harbour exotic lifeforms in their vicinity, on their surface, and even in their interior?
... that an Australian wildlife conservationist has trapped and killed more than 1,450 feral cats?
... that the original exhibition of art installation Chocolate Room was shut down after attracting an "army of ants"?
... that Iowa politician June Franklin wrote to ten members of the US Congress urging them to declare Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday a federal holiday?
... that an ancient Canadian archaeological site was discovered during the construction of a dump?
... that Chris Collier is the first NFL player from his college in 37 years?
... that Veto, inspired by the history of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, is considered to be the first Polish collectible card game?
... that a man's body, found wearing only a woman's wedding ring and a pair of socks in 1971, is the oldest unsolved missing persons case in Staffordshire, England?
... that Mdou Moctar's 2021 album Afrique Victime was distributed on pre-loaded Nokia 6120 classic cellphones?

23 October 2024

00:00, 23 October 2024 (UTC)

Desert cottontail

... that rabbits can control their body temperature with their ears (pictured)?
... that both Christian Albright and De'Montre Tuggle were born on the same day, named second-team all-Mid-American Conference in 2020, signed with the Chicago Bears in 2022, and debuted in the CFL in 2023?
... that thrash metal band Hermética has a failed project to release a version of their debut album in English?
... that Oxford suffragist Myvanwy Rhys earned first-class honours from Newnham College, Cambridge, but was denied a degree?
... that the verdict of Pell v The Queen could not be reported on properly for two months?
... that approximately 85 per cent of Welsh children were not in school in 1821?
... that the scenes set in the United States in the Taiwanese film Daughter's Daughter were nearly omitted during the writing process but were retained at the insistence of lead actress Sylvia Chang?
... that an Oklahoma TV station returned to its original call sign after the death of its founder, Gene Autry?
... that Indonesian legislator Jamaludin Malik wore an Ultraman costume to his swearing-in ceremony?

22 October 2024

00:00, 22 October 2024 (UTC)

1934 US$10,000 bill

... that the US$10,000 bill (example pictured) is the highest denomination of US currency that has been used by the public?
... that Americans received nearly 15 billion political text messages in 2022?
... that novelist Sue Monk Kidd spent fourteen months researching New Testament–era Egypt and the Levant for The Book of Longings?
... that following the success of Jools Lebron's "demure" videos, she stated that she was able to use the proceeds to pay for her gender transition?
... that, when preparing the statue of John Stockton, its sculptor repositioned the model about 20 times by using a wrench to adjust ball-and-socket joints on steel rods?
... that the writings of José Rizal, a prominent contributor to liberalism in the Philippines, were adopted by both Philippine independence fighters and American colonial authorities?
... that Will Wood conducted a Bulgarian choir via Zoom for "White Noise"?
... that Xiphophorus signum is the only swordtail not known to hybridise with other species?
... that Mr. Bronx was not from the Bronx?

21 October 2024

00:00, 21 October 2024 (UTC)

Catharina Weiss

... that Catharina Weiss (pictured) used to play for the Rolling Chocolate?
... that King Minkhaung I of Ava lamented that King Razadarit of Hanthawaddy had invaded his country without "breaking a sword or a lance"?
... that Andreas Vogt yelled "Down with the government! Long live the republic!" at a session of the Landtag of Liechtenstein in 1919?
... that "Dark Avenger", a song from Manowar's album Battle Hymns, is narrated by actor Orson Welles?
... that real paramedics were hired to portray EMTs in Mongrel, and they responded to a medical emergency that occurred in a village where they were filming?
... that labor lawyer Dick Moss argued the 1975 case which resulted in the establishment of free agency in Major League Baseball?
... that Louis Vuitton helped to develop the visual arts programme for the School of the Arts, Singapore?
... that the University of Memphis football team posthumously retired Danton Barto's number following an online petition?
... that the 1935 Brussels Party Conference of the Communist Party of Germany took place in the outskirts of Moscow?

20 October 2024

00:00, 20 October 2024 (UTC)

Karađorđeva šnicla with accompaniments

... that Karađorđeva šnicla (pictured) was accidentally created as an improvisation of chicken Kiev?
... that activist Joan McIntyre left Friends of the Earth to start her own organization focused on stopping Japanese and Russian whaling?
... that Sandra Ng wore her own clothes while filming Love Lies to help the production crew save on the budget?
... that the world's largest video game studio is headquartered in a former textile factory?
... that Renaissance-era weapons designer Abramo Colorni performed magical illusions and card tricks for his patrons?
... that Ogeretsu Tanaka was inspired to create the manga series Happy of the End after taking a morning walk in Shinjuku?
... that in 1825 the Suquamish leader Kitsap led an alliance of tribes stretching from the Columbia River to Puget Sound to stop the Cowichan slave raids wreaking havoc on the Sound?
... that a judge is threatening to shut down Wikipedia in India over a defamation lawsuit?
... that a South Dakota radio station went from a university to "Guns, Gold & Rock 'n' Roll"?

19 October 2024

00:00, 19 October 2024 (UTC)

Ferrari FF

... that the Ferrari FF (pictured) was, upon its release, the world's fastest four-seater car?
... that a Paralympic gold medalist originally did not know that she qualified for parasports?
... that Karan Aujla's Hindi-language single "Tauba Tauba" from the 2024 film Bad Newz became a Canadian Hot 100 top-25 song ahead of the film's release?
... that Dani Sanchez-Lopez wanted to be an actor but switched to cinematography after realizing that actors deliver others' lines?
... that in UnMetal, the player has to heal any enemies whom they shoot?
... that manga artist Shinichi Ishizuka was told that becoming a manga artist would be "absolutely impossible"?
... that two Wisconsin radio stations purchased and reassembled the Wisconsin Pavilion from the 1964 New York World's Fair for use as their studios?
... that the extension to the Yumeshima Station was originally supposed to be opened in 2008 for when the Osaka Olympics was being bid for?
... that Tonia Ko once composed a three-part concerto played on bubble wrap?

18 October 2024

00:00, 18 October 2024 (UTC)

1912 memento dollar

... that the first silver dollars of the Republic of China were crudely designed mementos (example pictured)?
... that the Haitian Revolution began when Cécile Fatiman sacrificed a black pig, a ritual that was later repeated by Haitians resisting the United States occupation and the Duvalier dynasty?
... that a shark cost a competitor a silver medal in the spearfishing event at the 2014 Micronesian Games?
... that the number 1 is its own square, square root, and factorial?
... that Deep Cut Gardens in New Jersey contains a stone replica of Mount Vesuvius that once erupted smoke at the behest of mobster Vito Genovese?
... that the Hillbilly Thomists, a band made up of friars from the Dominican Order, reached the number-two spot on Billboard's bluegrass chart?
... that Pituamkek National Park Reserve, Canada's newest national park, protects a chain of barrier islands that have been used for fishing and hunting by the Mi'kmaq for 4,000 years?
... that the Palace Theater light bulb has been running since 1908?
... that a sensational story in 1888 claimed that James Wickham, a British scientist, introduced two whales to the Great Salt Lake in an attempt to start a whale oil industry?

17 October 2024

00:00, 17 October 2024 (UTC)

Najmuddin of Gotzo (left) and Uzun-Hajji

... that although Uzun-Hajji and Najmuddin of Gotzo (both pictured) were originally political allies, they later fought on opposing sides of the Russian Civil War?
... that rebel fighters pursued their fleeing enemies during the Battle of Kembogo because they wanted new boots?
... that Abdul Ahad Azad is recognised for laying the foundations of literary criticism in Kashmiri literature?
... that Episode 7921 of Neighbours featured Australia's first televised fictional same-sex wedding since the country voted in favour of legalising same-sex marriage?
... that the 2024 Summer Paralympics opening ceremony featured dancing Phryges?
... that Albert Bumgardner's design for an architectural press office was highly publicized in the architectural press?
... that the song "You Liked This (Okay, Computer!)" features the former text-to-speech voice of TikTok?
... that drivers "dodge[d] track blemishes" more than each other during the first race at the Charlotte Motor Speedway?
... that football coach Dim Montero was considered such a great recruiter that it was said he "could pick up a rock and find an outstanding football prospect"?

16 October 2024

00:00, 16 October 2024 (UTC)

Chesmac running on a Telmac-1800 computer

... that as the 1979 computer chess game Chesmac (pictured) could not display a chessboard on screen, players had to replicate the game on a physical chessboard?
... that Samuel Barber said that he could not adequately play his own Piano Sonata?
... that geographer Michael Chisholm and contemporaries became known as "Caesar's Praetorian Guard", in reference to their teacher Gus Caesar?
... that Anne Morrow Lindbergh tried to warn her husband Charles Lindbergh of the backlash that his antisemitic Des Moines speech would receive?
... that Rose Betts wrote the song "Driving Myself Home" as a joke after a blind date, only for it to go viral on TikTok?
... that an art critic felt that Rooms by the Sea was one of Edward Hopper's "strangest" works?
... that when Swedish soccer player Beata Olsson transferred from Florida to Florida State, she said that she did not really know about the schools' rivalry?
... that John Passmore Edwards erected a library in memory of his mother?
... that researchers want Hymenophyllum axsmithii rhizomes so that they can tell whether the filmy fern was up a tree?

15 October 2024

00:00, 15 October 2024 (UTC)

Niederdollendorf stone

... that the Niederdollendorf stone (pictured), the Grésin plaque, and the Landelinus buckle are each controversially conjectured to depict a pagan-inspired Jesus Christ?
... that composer Gonzalo Brenes was a politician in the National Assembly of Panama and served for seven years as Panama's secretary of culture?
... that the undefeated 1961 Pittsburg State Gorillas football team shut out seven opponents, featured four All-Americans, and won three national championships?
... that Cathy Merrick was the first woman to be elected grand chief of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs?
... that Maystorm, a character from Ultimate X-Men, was initially created for a variant cover for the comic X-Men?
... that Mike Veeck's baseball promotions include Disco Demolition Night, a game with no fans, and the world's largest pillow fight?
... that a clergyman from London established 87 schools in Wales in the 17th century?
... that Harold C. Hinton was one of the only American academics under McCarthyism to study communist China?
... that South African president Jacob Zuma requested a tour of a Sainsbury's supermarket during his state visit to the United Kingdom in 2010?

14 October 2024

00:00, 14 October 2024 (UTC)

Santa singing at the 2024 Paralympics closing ceremony

... that Santa opened the 2024 Summer Paralympics closing ceremony (pictured)?
... that researchers speculate that cocoa butter forms crystals on sugar while chocolate is tempered?
... that the noken system used for voting in parts of Indonesia can produce turnouts of 100%?
... that for 19 years Tonya Burns had the only retired jersey number in Iowa State women's basketball history?
... that Northamptonshire has had ninety-two railway stations, but now has only six?
... that Joe Wirkkunen coached the Finland men's national ice hockey team after receiving a recommendation from Canada?
... that the music video for "...Well, Better Than the Alternative" uses software to render handmade paintings over live-action footage of musician Will Wood?
... that British conscientious objector Henry Firth died in 1918 while being held at a work camp in Dartmoor?
... that the ongoing premiere of Gregory Markopoulos's Eniaios started 20 years ago?

13 October 2024

00:00, 13 October 2024 (UTC)

Actinote zikani

... that Actinote zikani (specimen pictured) is one of only two butterflies on the IUCN's list of the 100 most threatened species?
... that cyclist Daniela Larreal competed in five Olympic Games for a country that later exiled her?
... that after Hitler came to power in 1933, the newspaper Hakenkreuzbanner acquired an office building and printing presses by seizing them from a Social Democratic publication?
... that despite having no university training, Agnes Crane described a new species of brachiopod in 1886?
... that chronic pain syndromes affect approximately 20 percent of people and account for 15 to 20 percent of doctor visits?
... that the first art exhibition in the Trade Fair Palace after it was rebuilt from a fire was named Like a Phoenix?
... that Arekia Bennett was inspired to organize a voter registration drive in 2017 by the 1964 Freedom Summer drive?
... that the Counterintelligence Group was disbanded because the unit was deemed successful in the "neutralization and prosecution of scalawags" in the Armed Forces of the Philippines?
... that the character Psycho Mantis in the video game Metal Gear Solid breaks the fourth wall by identifying the player's other games?

12 October 2024

00:00, 12 October 2024 (UTC)

Maximiliano Hernández Martínez

... that Maximiliano Hernández Martínez (pictured) believed that hanging colored lights across San Salvador would cure a smallpox epidemic?
... that a lane behind a tenement in Edinburgh is decorated as a Wild West town?
... that a German pastor let a deposed East German head of state stay in his house?
... that the 2024 American remake of Have I Got News for You has a permanent host, something that the original show dispensed with in 2002?
... that when guitarist Pete Wade was 19, he moved to Nashville with $3, his suitcase, two ham sandwiches, and the telephone numbers of Don Helms and Jerry Rivers?
... that a tornado near Chicago was produced by a storm with a hydrodynamical helicity four times higher than the threshold favorable for tornadogenesis?
... that Victoria Siddall is the first woman to be appointed the director of the 168-year-old National Portrait Gallery in London?
... that North Korean series The Taehongdang Party Secretary was created to help promote the consumption of potatoes during a rice shortage?
... that a baby penguin from Australia is "an absolute unit"?

11 October 2024

00:00, 11 October 2024 (UTC)

Downtown Serekunda

... that because the capital of The Gambia is on a small island, its population has overflowed into Serekunda (pictured) in the nearby municipality of Kanifing?
... that Nancy S. Steinhardt completed her doctorate on medieval Chinese architecture before she was able to see any in person?
... that much of Archcliffe Fort was demolished in the 1920s to allow for expansion of a railway?
... that Alfred Sully, who led US forces during the Sioux Wars, was married to a Yankton Sioux woman?
... that The Right and the Wrong was the first feature film produced natively in Trinidad and Tobago?
... that a 23-day CBC strike thrust Don Goodwin into the Canadian national spotlight and into "folk-hero status"?
... that the lyric video for an Olivia Rodrigo song included a teaser that she would tour in support of her album Guts?
... that the Cosmere Roleplaying Game surpassed Frosthaven to become the most-funded tabletop game on Kickstarter in August 2024?
... that "Honest Ike" stole more than $200,000 from the Alabama treasury?

10 October 2024

00:00, 10 October 2024 (UTC)

Farnese Artemis in the National Archaeological Museum, Naples

... that while the objects on the Farnese Artemis (pictured) had initially been identified as female breasts, the museum housing the statue now describes them as bull scrotums?
... that in the history of fisheries in the Philippines, the once-dominant local municipal fisheries were supplanted first by commercial fisheries, and then by aquaculture?
... that Eliza Legzdina has attributed opinions of her work to the "horrification of the female body"?
... that the center squeeze has been blamed for costing Gary Johnson the 2016 US presidential election?
... that voice actress Atsuko Tanaka named several pandas?
... that seven people died when their helicopter struck supporting wires of a Texas TV station's tower and crashed?
... that Michael P. Walsh oversaw the construction of 15 buildings as the president of Boston College?
... that Jer Lau, who appeared in the film Over My Dead Body, also performed its theme song because the director felt his role was too minor?
... that the search for mammals on Booby Island was a bust?

9 October 2024

00:00, 9 October 2024 (UTC)

Winfield Blake

... that after a career as an opera singer and Broadway musical star, Winfield Blake (pictured) became a vaudeville comedian as one half of the duo Blake and Amber?
... that a Picasso sculpture at University Village was called "half as high and twice as sexy as the Great Sphinx of Egypt"?
... that country music singer Buck Owens bought a bankrupt TV station in California from his sister?
... that according to the mayor of Utica, 13-year-old Nyah Mway was the first Karen person to be killed in America by police?
... that Ratnākara's Haravijaya is the longest extant Sanskrit mahākāvya?
... that Betty Brussel set three competitive swimming records on the same day at the age of 99?
... that both scholars and activists believe that diet culture is often intertwined with racism and other forms of prejudice?
... that G. R. Pantouw supported the Dutch puppet state of East Indonesia because he wanted to push the Netherlands into abandoning colonialism?
... that a Cretan man found a 1st-century statue of Aphrodite while trying to drill a well, and then reburied it?

8 October 2024

00:00, 8 October 2024 (UTC)

Asik-Asik Falls

... that the water of Asik-Asik Falls (pictured) comes from a source inside a cliff?
... that Mokulubete Makatisi placed eighth at the 2022 Commonwealth Games women's marathon despite running in new shoes that she had received on the eve of the race?
... that the developer of The Crimson Diamond first created a series of pixel-art rooms and later built a game around the house she had designed?
... that some of the work of lesbian feminist filmmaking pioneer Norma Bahia Pontes is lost media?
... that the government used military trucks and bulldozers to rescue people from a tropical storm?
... that Milan A. P. Harminc, the consul-general of the Slovak Republic in London, broke with his government at the outbreak of World War II and sided with the Allies?
... that there was a doomsday cult named after Neo from The Matrix?
... that a woman was considered a witch because her husband prepared chocolate instead of her?

7 October 2024

00:00, 7 October 2024 (UTC)

Blue Mountain Pottery bowl

... that Blue Mountain Pottery wares (example pictured) had a distinctive drip glaze, particularly blue-green and black, so that each piece was unique?
... that Australian train driver Bill Morrow received the Soviet Union's Lenin Peace Prize alongside Fidel Castro?
... that among the Orang Asli of Negeri Sembilan, chica is only collected during kenduri rituals?
... that Sailor Moon co-stars Emi Shinohara and Rika Fukami were born on the same date?
... that almost 45 percent of Taiwan's beer purchases come from rechao restaurants?
... that Janet Panetta started dancing as physical therapy for childhood polio?
... that the flag of La Guaira is based on the design of a banner from a 1797 conspiracy against Spanish rule in Venezuela?
... that chef Victor Albisu created a bulgogi taco that honors the Koreatown neighborhood of his hometown of Annandale, Virginia?
... that the first dogs in space returned to Earth with a parachute?

6 October 2024

00:00, 6 October 2024 (UTC)

Rika Nakagawa

... that Rika Nakagawa (pictured) won a national debate competition as an active tarento?
... that in 1989 the Barcelona women's second football team was knocked out of the Catalan Cup in the same round as the Barcelona women's first team?
... that Tuhi Martukaw led youth delegations to the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues for ten years in a row?
... that unused placeholder sounds from Smash Hit were reused in Teardown?
... that announcers at a Virginia radio station were warned that playing more than three rap songs an hour could get them fired?
... that of the 16 aircraft which took part in the Doolittle Raid, only the one piloted by Edward J. York landed intact?
... that "Bed Chem" and "Juno" are the "horniest" tracks on Short n' Sweet, according to one critic?
... that Moses Benjamin Wulff founded a printing press that reprinted The Guide for the Perplexed for the first time in centuries?
... that New York City's Queens Zoo once received a lion cub despite having no lion enclosure?

5 October 2024

00:00, 5 October 2024 (UTC)

Battle of Lodi, part of the Italian Campaign

... that the Italian Campaign of 1796–1797 (battle pictured) demonstrated that Napoleon was a "great strategist"?
... that Muhammad Khaznadar's museum was said to have "surpassed every other museum in the world" in Phoenician and Carthaginian antiquities?
... that William, Prince of Wales, inspired the character of Prince Wheeliam in Cars 2?
... that Hurry Up Tomorrow is planned to be the Weeknd's final album under his stage name?
... that Columbus Airport saw commercial air service before being certified for public use by the Civil Aeronautics Authority?
... that Lisa Blatt, the first woman to argue 50 cases before the Supreme Court of the United States, "elicits laughs and the occasional sharp response from the justices" for her witty delivery?
... that Oxford is the first city in the United Kingdom to adopt a zero emission zone?
... that although Pachyballus ornatus is named for its bright pattern, the female is dark and plain while young?
... that retired model Leticia Sardá had no idea that she was the subject of a four-year global search?

4 October 2024

00:00, 4 October 2024 (UTC)

Lion sculpture by Anders Årfelt

... that after some of Anders Årfelt's lion sculptures (example pictured) were struck during the 2017 Stockholm truck attack, the city ordered new versions weighing 3 tonnes?
... that pastry chef and television judge Benoit Blin cut off the tips of his fingers in a kitchen accident during his service in the French Navy?
... that the Netflix-released film A House in Jerusalem is inspired by the history of the director's Palestinian family, who were expelled in 1948 from what had become Israel during the Nakba?
... that former Commonwealth Games diver Nicky Cooney became a police officer?
... that in 1917 British soldiers in France opened fire on mutineers from the Egyptian Labour Corps, killing at least 27 of them?
... that Maryvonne Le Dizès commissioned a trio for saxophone, trombone and violin during her time as a violinist with the Ensemble intercontemporain?
... that Patrick Tse's performance in the film Time won him the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actor at the age of 85, making him the award's oldest recipient?
... that Elham Mahamid Ruzin, a blind Muslim Arab, won a silver medal for Israel at the 2024 Paris Paralympics?
... that attractions at the 1939 World's Fair included a roller coaster, a ski slope, and scantily clad women?

3 October 2024

00:00, 3 October 2024 (UTC)

Andrea Navagero

... that much to his dismay, Andrea Navagero (pictured) was named the Venetian ambassador to France in 1529?
... that a major anime piracy website had over 100 million monthly visits and was one of the top 200 most popular Internet properties?
... that while Council Working Parties only formally prepare decisions of the Council of the European Union, they de facto shape the majority of those decisions?
... that actress Norma Phillips starred in a 52-episode silent film series in 1914 that interviewed real-life celebrities?
... that mutilated body parts found in the spring of Tattarisuo in 1931 were used to practice black magic?
... that Dezső Varga was the first Szekler ice hockey player to be inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame?
... that at least 69 countries have "no net loss" environmental policies?
... that in Hindu mythology, Madhavi, who was blessed with the miraculous ability to regain her virginity after each childbirth, was married to three kings, each in exchange for 200 rare horses?
... that the ending of the TV series Community features a fourth-wall-breaking monologue?

2 October 2024

00:00, 2 October 2024 (UTC)

Healed tuberculous lung cavity

... that many people who recover from tuberculosis lose more than half of their lung capacity (example pictured)?
... that Henry Kailimai and his Hawaiian Quintet were hired by Henry Ford to serve as official musicians for the Ford Motor Company?
... that when the Edward S. Harkness House was built, its owner took the address from his neighbor?
... that a New Testament manuscript was "barbarously scored with red chalk" by a book publisher?
... that Thomas Bertrand-Hudon is the first professional football player to wear a Guardian Cap during a regular season game?
... that the 1998 cyberpunk short story "CyberJoly Drim" caused a controversy in the Polish science fiction and fantasy community?
... that Ajah Pritchard-Lolo is Vanuatu's first Olympic weightlifter?
... that many hapa haole songs were written by non-Hawaiians and featured nonsensical, faux-Hawaiian lyrics?
... that Shoko Ikeda once admitted that Haruhi Suzumiya, a character she designed, was "just like me"?

1 October 2024

00:00, 1 October 2024 (UTC)

Statue of Yakushi Nyorai at Jingo-ji

... that a statue of the Medicine Buddha (pictured), dating from the late 8th or early 9th century, never left its temple grounds until 2024?
... that Russian pianist Pavel Kushnir died on a hunger strike after his arrest for anti-war videos posted on a YouTube channel with five subscribers?
... that public health measures and advances in medical science in modern human history helped raise global life expectancy from about 31 years in 1900 to over 66 years in 2000?
... that Green Day's "Wake Me Up When September Ends" became closely associated with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina?
... that scientists publishing in Liebigs Annalen were subject to criticism and attacks by editor Justus von Liebig?
... that English amateur geologist Charlotte Eyton wrote a number of papers and pamphlets on the geology of the Wrekin, a part of Shropshire, between 1862 and 1870?
... that the director of a Lake Erie-based walleye fishing tournament defended two anglers accused of cheating until he found weights in their winning fish two years ago today?
... that East Suffolk Park, a former student hostel in Edinburgh, was once an internment camp for enemy aliens?
... that football player Kyle Hergel said his biggest strength was "my nastiness"?

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