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30 April 2012

16:00, 30 April 2012 (UTC)

... that the flags hoisted by the Finnish icebreaker Tarmo (pictured) on 3 March 1918 included a large white tablecloth?
... that the Anacostia Community Museum was the first federally funded community museum in the United States?
... that Looking for Madonna, meant to raise awareness of HIV/AIDS in Papua, used shots of a green bra to symbolise sex?
... that the Jarvis launch vehicle was designed to deliver up to six satellites into different orbits on a single flight?
... that Czech international footballer Jan Suchopárek dislocated his shoulder while attempting a bicycle kick?
... that the partitioning of the state of Jin, during the reign of Duke Chu, is often considered the start of China's Warring States period?
... that the Flaming Lips plan to include blood samples from their collaborators in the vinyl edition of their album The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends?
... that Shlomo Moussaieff owns rare gemstones worth millions of dollars, including a flawless blue diamond and the world's largest known red diamond?

08:00, 30 April 2012 (UTC)

... that John Montgomery Traherne, a notable antiquarian, son of Llewelyn, was reverend of the church (pictured) in St Hilary, Vale of Glamorgan?
... that Megitza, the vocalist and bass player, got the highest score at a Polish National IQ contest held in 2004?
... that the 2009 Women's Cricket World Cup Final player of the match Nicky Shaw only played in the final because a teammate suffered an injury during the warm-up?
... that Seattle's Jack Block Park was built on a Superfund site?
... that numismatist and historian Don Taxay walked away from his career to become a Rajneeshee?
... that the Costa Chica of Guerrero is one of two regions in Mexico with a significant Afro-Mexican population?
... that the Newspaper Libel and Registration Act 1881 (though partially repealed in 1888) still requires dozens of newspapers published in the United Kingdom to be centrally registered?
... that, according to a 2008 book, Kareem Abdul Jabbar doesn't want to blow you up?

00:00, 30 April 2012 (UTC)

... that the tradition in Franconian Switzerland of decorating public fountains with Easter eggs, Osterbrunnen (pictured), has spread beyond Franconia?
... that Mississippi Highway 198 is the designation given to former alignments of U.S. Highway 98 in the state?
... that Teguh Karya's film Mother, which won nine Citra Awards, did not turn a profit?
... that while FIFA inquired about the creation of a Sudanese women's national football team, the Islamic Fiqh Council in Sudan issued a fatwa forbidding it?
... that Barry Klarberg manages celebrities including Charlie Sheen, Justin Timberlake and Anna Kournikova?
... that the midwater squid uses bioluminescence as a camouflage to counter-illuminate its underside to match the sparkling sea surface above?
... that Lachie Neale and Alex Forster, who were both selected by Fremantle in the 2011 Australian Football League Draft, both grew up in Kybybolite, a very small town in south-eastern South Australia?
... that some men find lower-back tattoos on women erotic, but generally avoid the lower back when choosing tattoos for themselves?

29 April 2012

16:00, 29 April 2012 (UTC)

... that extra Hen Houses were built at the Balkhash (pictured) and Mishelevka Radar Stations in the late 1960s, while another was located at Olenegorsk?
... that the mangrove jingle shell has two different colour varieties, but pale specimens normally found on mangrove leaves can darken when moved to the tree's bark?
... that the popularity of Canadian author David Gilmour's memoir The Film Club helped him become Pelham Edgar Visiting Professor of Literary Studies at the University of Toronto?
... that the Indonesian film Get Married was described as contrasting the rich and poor, with the rich being prone to violence?
... that between the start of the competition in 1947 and 1995, the Victorian women's softball team won the Gilleys Shield 22 times?
... that the freeway sections of M-5, a state highway in Michigan, were originally planned as parts of two different Interstate Highways?
... that in the 1714 Bach cantata Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen, BWV 12, the first choral section was described as a "tombeau ... most impressive and deeply affecting"?
... that navigational instrument maker William Spencer signed a contract in which he agreed not to fornicate for seven years?

08:00, 29 April 2012 (UTC)

... that Senhora das Dores Church (pictured) in Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal, has six chapels?
... that pioneer of rescue archeology John Bailey Shelton was awarded the RSPCA's Queen Victoria Medal for saving his horses during the Coventry Blitz?
... that Philip Humber's April 21, 2012, perfect game was only the 21st in Major League Baseball history dating back to 1869?
... that hole-in-the-wall Chinese restaurant Sam Wo had the world's rudest waiter and was closed in 2012 for rat feces after 100 years of operating in San Francisco's Chinatown?
... that the Zanzibar women's national football team has few women's teams to play against and has beaten men's teams?
... that the Kowmung River in New South Wales gained its name from the local aboriginal word for "sore eyes", possibly trachoma?
... that "These Arms of Mine" was Otis Redding's first hit single?
... that "gay penguins" Roy and Silo raised a chick at New York's Central Park Zoo, which when fully grown, entered into a same-sex relationship of its own?

00:00, 29 April 2012 (UTC)

... that Edward Griffin Beckwith (pictured) was engaged in the Pacific Railroad Survey from 1853 to 1857, and that the First Transcontinental Railroad followed his recommended route?
... that Filipino band Up Dharma Down declined to label their album Bipolar with a specific genre?
... that the seeds of the breadnut Artocarpus camansi from New Guinea taste like chestnuts, and can be processed to make paste, flour, butter or oil?
... that the deepest lake dammed by sand dunes along the coast of the U.S. state of Oregon is Woahink Lake?
... that the website for the viral video Kony 2012 crashed after the video became popular worldwide, but the video went on to have tens of millions of page views on various websites?
... that South Australian Samuel Morcom began playing first-class cricket five years before his state's team played its first match?
... that the Fleet class USVs are the first unmanned vessels to receive U.S. Navy hull numbers?
... that An Evening in Paris was the first lesbian-themed Indonesian short story collection?

28 April 2012

16:00, 28 April 2012 (UTC)

... that the Royal Australian Air Force's F/A-18 Hornet fighters (pictured) have been deployed as far afield as Qatar and Alaska?
... that Harry Trihey set the record for the most goals in a regular season major professional hockey match over a hundred years ago?
... that Mutilator was described as an excellent case study in DIY ethics?
... that the British scholar Percy Brown was one of the earliest pioneers who wrote on Indian and Buddhist architecture?
... that over fifty women were assaulted during the Puerto Rican Day Parade attacks?
... that Hall of Fame manager Miller Huggins executed the first delayed steal in recorded baseball history?
... that when "Tanzania's most popular film star" died, his mourners included his country's Vice President, First Lady and 20,000 other people?
... that in 1204, the wife of Hugh de Neville paid John, King of England 200 chickens for the right to sleep one night with her own husband?

08:00, 28 April 2012 (UTC)

... that after Kentucky Senator Humphrey Marshall (pictured) voted to ratify the Jay Treaty, his constituents stoned him and tried to throw him into the Kentucky River?
... that Wallace Neff's Bubble Houses in Litchfield Park, Arizona, were built in a community planned and owned by the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company?
... that despite being over 4000 years old, Sperris Quoit near Zennor, Cornwall, was only rediscovered in 1954?
... that the 1939 Alabama Crimson Tide football team played against Fordham in the second ever televised college football game?
... that Atiqah Hasiholan considered her role in the Oscar-submitted Jamila and the President a "regular slutty prostitute"?
... that inventor John Browning provided the first electric lights in London, for the occasion of the visit of the Shah of Persia to Queen Victoria?
... that NASCAR powerhouse team Richard Childress Racing sold one of its race teams to Virginia car dealer Joe Falk?
... that the golden mussel can make good use of a discarded plastic bottle?

00:00, 28 April 2012 (UTC)

... that a Spencer, Browning & Rust sextant (pictured) is one of the oldest items in the collection of the United States Geological Survey Museum?
... that the privileges of Polish nobility were unprecedented in Europe, giving the nobles the right to control most legislation, foreign relations, taxation, elect a king and rebel against him?
... that the main leaders of the Khmer–Chinese Friendship Association were purged and executed in 1977?
... that the song "Ode to Mel Bay", popularized by Tommy Emmanuel and Chet Atkins, has lyrics by Shel Silverstein about a missing page 23 in Mel Bay's Deluxe Encyclopedia of Guitar Chords?
... that "A House Divided" was the Dallas television series episode that led to the eight-month Who shot J. R.? hysteria?
... that World War I British flying ace Harold Stackard was credited with fifteen aerial victories?
... that one man loved the 1943 film Immensee so much that in 1975 he bought the estate where it was filmed?

27 April 2012

16:00, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

... that Jacobus Deketh (pictured) was a captain of a 36-gun frigate in the Frisian Admiralty?
... that "Drunk on Love" contains a sample of The xx's song "Intro", with Jamie Smith being credited as co-writer?
... that the mangrove tunicate produces an anti-tumour drug, trabectedin, which becomes concentrated in the tiger flatworm when it feeds on the tunicate?
... that Kid Elberfeld discovered future Hall of Famer Travis Jackson when Jackson was 14 years old?
... that the music of the film Lakshmi Putrudu was launched by Andhra Pradesh state Information Technology minister Damodar Reddy?
... that former Elitserien and National Hockey League player Håkan Loob was one of the first members of the Triple Gold Club, winning the Stanley Cup, World Championship and Olympic gold?
... that the Syrian town of al-Harra was owned by Beirut-based landowner Selim Freige?

08:00, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

... that Osbaston's hydropower station (pictured) can produce 670 MWh of electricity each year and allows salmon to travel upstream?
... that Matt Barnes and Michael Roth were named college baseball First Team NCAA Division I All-Americans in 2011?
... that the Glass Palace Chronicle in 1829 proclaimed Abhiyaza as the founder of the Burmese monarchy in contradiction to the prevailing pre-Buddhist origin myth?
... that U.S. Route 287 Business passes the Fort Worth Stockyards?
... that Istanbul University Professor Semavi Eyice is regarded as the pioneer of Byzantine studies in Turkey?
... that during the Vietnam War, when Lt. Col. Byron P. Howlett heard that one of the medivac helicopters under his command had crashed, he personally oversaw and piloted the Rescue of Dustoff 65?
... that "Snail" was the first woman to compete in an international motor race?

00:00, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

... that the male tropical rockmaster (pictured) can be distinguished from the male sapphire rockmaster by the size of the blue spots on the underside of its abdomen?
... that the 1938 Alabama Crimson Tide football team still holds defensive team records for the fewest total, rushing and passing yards in a season?
... that three medieval walls dated to 1282 were found in the grounds at Maenan Abbey in 2011, whilst workmen were working on the drainage?
... that critics described the 2002 comedy thriller Triggermen as "neither noticeably comic nor remotely thrilling"?
... that the bailiff John Knibb also built the turret clock for St John's College, Oxford?
... that U.S. state governors Blagojevich, Blanton, Edwards, Hall, Kerner, Mandel, Moore, Rowland, Ryan, and Siegelman have been convicted of federal public corruption crimes?
... that the number of ways to place n diagonally symmetric rooks on an n × n chessboard in such a way that no two rooks attack each other is a telephone number?

26 April 2012

16:00, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

... that Indonesian journalist Marco Kartodikromo (pictured) was arrested several times by the Dutch colonial government and ultimately died in exile?
... that although a Spanish treasure convoy was captured at the Action of 26 April 1797, the cargo had already been smuggled to safety aboard a fishing boat?
... that the 1937 Alabama Crimson Tide football team won the SEC championship after Hayward Sanford kicked a fourth quarter, game-winning field goal against Vanderbilt?
... that when Thomas M. Messer retired in 1988, after 27 years as director of the Guggenheim Foundation, he had served longer than any other major museum director in New York City?
... that thieves have recently stolen the memorial plaques from the Livesey Hall War Memorial?
... that Helen Jonas-Rosenzweig, Holocaust survivor and one of the Schindlerjuden, appeared in a documentary with the daughter of Amon Goeth, her Nazi tormentor?
... that Winston Churchill's father once owned "Abscess on the Jaw"?

08:00, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

... that Forrest Hall (pictured) played for Princeton's 1893 national championship football team, coached Auburn to a 94–0 victory over Georgia Tech in 1894, and set a shot put record at Michigan in 1895?
... that Robert B. Cohen opened the first Hudson News, the world's largest airport newsstand retailer, in LaGuardia Airport in 1987?
... that the Shute Park Aquatic & Recreation Center in Hillsboro, Oregon, was built for $2.5 million but remodeled and expanded at a cost of $9 million?
... that the author of The Undying Flame, who wrote the novel when he was 22, felt it resounded with teenage sentimentality?
... that Australia women's national softball coach Kere Johanson won two men's softball world championships as a player with New Zealand's team?
... that George Hubert Kemp, a flying ace from World War I, was fatally wounded on his last sortie, having shot down twelve enemy aircraft in the previous three weeks?
... that the Seri people believed that the leaves of Standley's cloak fern brought good luck when carried in a bag?

00:00, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

... that the concert choir Schiersteiner Kantorei, founded 50 years ago in Wiesbaden-Schierstein, performed Bach's St Matthew Passion in the Marktkirche (pictured)?
... that Jason Krizan set a National Collegiate Athletic Association record for doubles?
... that RNAD Coulport in Argyll, Scotland, is the storage and loading facility for the United Kingdom's stock of Trident nuclear warheads?
... that Duncan Barrett, co-author of The Sugar Girls, once directed Joe Thomas of The Inbetweeners in a show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival?
... that according to one reviewer, the reggae drum fill in "Watch n' Learn" originates from Bob Marley's 1983 single "Buffalo Soldier"?
... that San Jose State University and Australia women's national softball team player Michelle Cox played softball in New South Wales for the state under-16 team?
... that California governor Henry Gage publicly denied there was a San Francisco plague of 1900–1904?

25 April 2012

16:00, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

... that Australian Aboriginal South Australian softball player Vanessa Stokes (pictured) is vying for a roster spot on the Australian team going to the 2012 World Championships?
... that U.S. Route 6 in Ohio crosses the Black River on the Charles Berry Bridge, the second-largest bascule bridge in the world?
... that WWI British flying ace Bruce Digby-Worsley scored the majority of his aerial victories against the Fokker D.VII?
... that "Saturday Night Glee-ver" is Glee's tribute to the Bee Gees and Saturday Night Fever?
... that Filipino fashion designer and Project Runway Philippines judge Rajo Laurel has held exhibitions in New York City, San Francisco, Shanghai, Sydney, and Bali?
... that Puppigerus, an extinct sea turtle, had a specialized jaw structure which kept it from accidentally inhaling water?
... that during World War II, the government occupied Parsi Gymkhana and Islam Gymkhana in Bombay, leading Hindu Gymkhana to offer membership to Muslims and Parsis as an "emergency measure"?

08:00, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

... that Chicago Tribune war correspondent Floyd Gibbons dubbed John Herbert Hedley (pictured) "The Luckiest Man Alive"?
... that the Djibouti women's national football team has played in only one FIFA recognised match, a 0–7 loss to Kenya in 2006?
... that most of the length of the Seward Highway, which connects Anchorage and Seward, Alaska, is within Chugach National Forest?
... that a Soviet merchant vessel was named after Danish communist leader Knud Jespersen?
... that war memorials in Monmouth include one that commemorates 16 admirals and Britain's victories in the French Revolutionary Wars?
... that the hitchhiking anemone is often attached to shells occupied by the hermit crabs Dardanus venosus and Clibanarius vittatus?
... that two members of the I-Pop group Cherry Belle were reportedly released for being too old?

00:00, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

A picture of a striped cat in an apparent seated position with its legs spread, looking at the camera. In the upper left corner is the text "Why U Wanna Censor Me?" in white capital letters — Anti-censorship lolcat

... that the cute cat theory of digital activism draws a connection between Internet censorship and lolcats (pictured)?
... that Colombia's Parabellum was described as one of the world's first black metal bands?
... that Glasgow has the ninth oldest golf club in the world?
... that the Socialist Unity Party of West Berlin leader Erich Ziegler had been imprisoned during World War II for his role in the Heinz Kapelle resistance group?
... that the Indian River Inlet Bridge in Delaware uses a fiber-optic system that monitors the structural integrity of the bridge?
... that while the Rwanda women's national football team has not played a FIFA-recognised match, a professional women's league in the country has attracted women from Uganda?
... that, in Mitsubishi Motors Corp. v. Soler Chrysler-Plymouth, Inc., the U.S. Supreme Court ordered a car dealer in Puerto Rico to arbitrate its Sherman Act case in Tokyo per a contract under Swiss law?

24 April 2012

16:00, 24 April 2012 (UTC)

... that the undefeated 1910 Michigan football team featured three All-Americans in Albert Benbrook, Stanfield Wells and Joe Magidsohn (pictured)?
... that the Carrara marble baptismal font of the church of Augustenborg Palace was a gift from Tsar Alexander I of Russia?
... that Salomon Schweigger published the first German language translation of the Qur'an?
... that ice XI, one of the fifteen known phases of ice, may be present on Pluto and Charon?
... that professional softball player Clare Warwick is one of three national team players from Australian Capital Territory vying to represent Australia at the 2012 World Championship?
... that the Baptism of Poland in 966 led to the emergence of Poland as a proper European state, recognized by other European powers?
... that the survival of descendants of the Banker horses used by Mounted Boy Scout Troop 290 of Ocracoke, North Carolina, relies upon one testicle?

08:00, 24 April 2012 (UTC)

... that patrons used social media to contribute to the design of the new library (pictured) in Surrey, British Columbia?
... that after the 1989 Revolution, Romanian communist politician Paul Niculescu-Mizil briefly led the National Salvation Front before being arrested and sent to prison?
... that in 2011 Mike Shildt led the Johnson City Cardinals to their first back-to-back Appalachian League championship since 1976?
... that three bombs exploded in Jammu's Maulana Azad Stadium during the Governor General's 1995 Republic Day Parade speech, killing eight people?
... that Pavlo Kurtik had a little of Pavlo-Kurtik?
... that a private company wants to pay for the construction of County Road 595 in Marquette County, Michigan, to connect its nickel mine to its processing mill?
... that Chakal was once inspired by the Living Dead?

00:00, 24 April 2012 (UTC)

... that the Marlowe Academy (pictured), among "the worst schools in England", but now showing satisfactory progress, has a radio station on the Isle of Thanet?
... that the Pacific leaping blenny is considered a terrestrial fish, due to its ability to survive on land for several hours at a time?
... that the Sammarinese Communist Party leader Ermenegildo Gasperoni worked as both a car mechanic and as Minister of Transport at the same time?
... that First Lady of the United States Hillary Rodham Clinton was instrumental in passing the Foster Care Independence Act, which funds independent living skills for youth in foster care?
... that while Mauritius has a senior women's national football team, they have not played in a single FIFA sanctioned game?
... that Chinese politicians have engaged in debate over economic development using a metaphor for baking a cake?
... that soon after Jim Umbricht's death from melanoma in 1964, his brother flew above the Astrodome construction site and scattered his ashes throughout the grounds?

23 April 2012

16:00, 23 April 2012 (UTC)

... that the medieval church of the Kremikovtsi Monastery near Sofia, Bulgaria, includes a fresco of Saint George using a dragon as a footrest (pictured)?
... that the Grand Veymont in France is the highest point of the Massif du Vercors and the Vercors Regional Natural Park, with a prominence of 1,165 metres (3,822 ft)?
... that in 2007 and 2008, two American satellites were hacked using commands sent via the Svalbard Satellite Station?
... that Alexandre Chemetoff, winner of the Grand Prix de l'urbanisme, created a bamboo garden in Paris' Parc de la Villette?
... that as a result of the North Carolina Sullivan Acts, Asheville is the only city in the state that cannot charge a higher water rate for consumers outside city limits?
... that Indonesian actress Sophia Latjuba received no fee for playing in her most recent film?
... that Samuel Glazer, the co-developer of Mr. Coffee, gifted so many coffeemakers to Johnny Carson that the television host told him to stop?

08:00, 23 April 2012 (UTC)

... that not long after it first appeared in 1631, the book Janua linguarum reserata (pictured) by Comenius was published in translation in twelve European languages plus several Asian languages?
... that sculptor Vernon March, designer of the National War Memorial in Ottawa, Ontario, was the youngest exhibitor at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts?
... that the 19th-century alkali works of Losh, Wilson and Bell was the first in England to use the Leblanc process to make soda ash?
... that Queensland softball player Jocelyn McCallum has played softball in the United States and Italy?
... that P&G promoted their self care website BeingGirl by partnering with Sony BMG and Cathy's Book?
... that St George's Church in Eastergate, West Sussex, is reached by walking through a farm whose "magnificent" Elizabethan granary is also used by the church?
... that George W. Jenkins, who founded Publix supermarkets in 1930, learned the business at Piggly Wiggly?

00:00, 23 April 2012 (UTC)

... that Wilhelm Sauer built the Berlin Cathedral organ (pictured)?
... that all four Lyon-class battleships were cancelled on account of World War I?
... that Victorian softball player and Olympic bronze medalist Justine Smethurst picked up an American accent while attending university?
... that the Whitefish Bay National Forest Scenic Byway in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan follows the shore of Whitefish Bay and provides access to the Point Iroquois Lighthouse?
... that the region of Central Croatia comprises one third of the territory of Croatia, while generating more than half of the nation's GDP?
... that Mohammad Husni Thamrin argued for the term "Indonesia" to replace "Dutch Indies"?
... that seamanite is known from only four locations, with three in Michigan and one in Australia?

22 April 2012

16:00, 22 April 2012 (UTC)

... that Bach's cantata Ich bin ein guter Hirt, BWV 85, begins with the bass as Jesus, the Good Shepherd (pictured), in "a mood of tranquil seriousness"?
... that the 1925 Michigan football team allowed only three points all year and featured one of the sport's greatest passing combinations in "The Benny-to-Bennie Show"?
... that the 1937 Bloudan Conference was held in Bloudan only after the British rejected the Arab request to host it in Jerusalem?
... that occupants of Wenvoe Castle in south Wales have included a member of Cromwell's Upper House and a vice chamberlain to the Prince of Wales (later King George IV)?
... that because the four founders of the Norwegian ISP PowerTech Information Systems were still minors, the father of one of them became the company's first chairman?
... that two scenes of the Friends episode "The One Where Rachel Smokes" appear only in the DVD version?
... that the novel Student Hidjo describes love as something only those with a Dutch education would attempt to find?

08:00, 22 April 2012 (UTC)

... that the coastal goldenrod (pictured) grows well after a hurricane has blown down the trees surrounding it?
... that former National Hockey League player Brad McCrimmon moved to Russia to further his coaching career, but died in the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl air disaster en route to his first game?
... that although Indonesian national hero Usman Janatin was born in Banyumas, Usman Janatin City Park was built in Purbalingga Regency?
... that British writer Owen Hatherley introduces his 2010 book A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain as "an autopsy of the urban renaissance" promoted under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown?
... that sex workers' rights activist Catherine Healy was the second New Zealander after David Lange to be invited at a debate at the University of Oxford?
... that George Haggarty was named Mr. Basketball of Michigan for 1921 and won the U.S. Seniors' Golf Association championship in 1966?
... that Princeton is the terminus of the Dinky, the shortest commuter rail line in the United States?

00:00, 22 April 2012 (UTC)

... that a bamboo grove (pictured) marks the spot in Hōkoku-ji where the Zen master Butsujo wrote poetry?
... that Grace Towns Hamilton was the first African American woman elected to the Georgia General Assembly?
... that the Hotel Janzen in Marquette, Michigan, has served as a hotel and a shelter for the potentially homeless?
... that Czech top flight footballer ‪Pavel Hašek‬ is the son of former national team player and manager Ivan ‪Hašek‬?
... that a naval battle was fought between British and Dutch frigate squadrons in the North Sea off Eigerøya in August 1795?
... that until 1951, when the Seward Highway was finished, in order for travelers to drive on the Hope Highway, they had to transport their cars on the Alaska Railroad?
... that after a crash involving plutonium and diamonds, the pilots of Swissair Flight 316 were charged with manslaughter?

21 April 2012

16:00, 21 April 2012 (UTC)

... that Welsh boxer Fred Dyer (pictured) would entertain spectators by singing and playing the ukulele after a boxing match?
... that North Carolina policy allows community colleges to admit students who cannot prove legal U.S. residency if they graduated from a U.S. high school?
... that apartments in Jerusalem's Shmuel HaNavi neighborhood, near the street of the same name, have triple-thick concrete walls, roofs with gunner positions, and courtyards for mass troop call-ups?
... that test pilot Hanna Reitsch described the Raab Doppelraab as "a dream of an aircraft"?
... that the idea for the Steven Curtis Chapman song "Miracle of the Moment" came from a song, "Find Me", that Chapman did not release?
... that the start of the 2009–10 Logan Cup was delayed because not all the cricket teams involved had finished signing players?
... that the flowers of the bumpy satinash often grow on its trunk?

08:00, 21 April 2012 (UTC)

... that Sydney and Elsie March and their siblings completed the National War Memorial of Canada (pictured) after their brother Vernon died?
... that Angela Byron, an open source software developer, was the first woman to be featured on the cover of Linux Journal?
... that the Temple of the Tooth, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Sri Lanka that houses the relic of the tooth of the Buddha, was attacked twice, first in 1989 and then in 1998?
... that West Virginia native Frank Harrigan led Michigan to two Big Ten basketball championships and played for the Cook Painter Boys' 1929 national championship team?
... that on the day the factory of Aspioti-ELKA in Corfu obtained permission to move its equipment to Athens, it got bombed?
... that the extinct winter-hazel species Corylopsis readae was described from a single Ypresian fossil?
... that Westward Ho! premiered in cinemas just two weeks after the start of filming?

00:00, 21 April 2012 (UTC)

... that Eucalyptus robusta (pictured) is planted to drain swamps in Uganda?
... that Baderon of Monmouth took Hadnock back from Monmouth Priory and gave three forges in exchange?
... that Western Australia softball player Verity Long-Droppert won a bronze medal at the 2007 Junior World Championships and later played professional softball in Italy?
... that "Goodbye Mr. Fish" is an episode of The Cosby Show about a family funeral for a goldfish?
... that the logo of the China Disabled Persons' Federation is based on a plum flower?
... that Jennifer Lopez's song "One Love" contains indirect references to her previous high-profile relationships?
... that swarms of Japanese soldier crabs of the species Mictyris guinotae, named after French biologist Danièle Guinot, can be used in place of the billiard balls in billiard-ball computers?

20 April 2012

16:00, 20 April 2012 (UTC)

... that Cherimoya's unanticipated victory at the 1911 Epsom Oaks (pictured), the only start of her career, left "the spectators too dumbfounded to cheer"?
... that an amendment to Slovakia's Citizenship Act, which states that any national who takes another citizenship loses their Slovak citizenship, was enacted in reaction to Hungary's nationality law?
... that Catalan guitarist Pedro Javier González won both the Premio al Toque por Bulerías and Certamen de Guitarra flamenca flamenco competitions in the 1980s?
... that former British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli was buried in 1881 in the churchyard of St Michael and All Angels Church, Hughenden in Buckinghamshire, England?
... that LaVell Blanchard was the fifth person to lead a National Collegiate Athletic Association basketball team in scoring and rebounding four times?
... that Léopold Sédar Senghor chaired the 1955 congress of the Youth Council of the French Union in Madagascar?
... that the 1920s film The Virgin with the Hot Pants was the first known pornographic film to use animation?

08:00, 20 April 2012 (UTC)

... that William Bell photographed the wounds (example pictured) and diseases of American Civil War soldiers for the Army Medical Museum?
... that when early versions of iostat monitored multiprocessor computer systems, they could wrongly interpret one processor waiting for I/O to mean that all those in the system were waiting?
... that French sporting pioneer Camille du Gast was falsely accused of having posed nude for La Femme au Masque, but did not win the legal action she filed against her accuser?
... that the yellowhead wrasse changes both colour and sex during its life?
... that the vice-president of the Bahrain Teachers' Association, Jalila al-Salman, was sentenced to three years in prison for her involvement in the 2011–2012 uprising?
... that the 2012 Preston Passion featured thousands of Preston residents and included Surely He Hath Borne Our Griefs from Handel's Messiah?
... that a 14th-century ivory casket in Baltimore has a scene of "Gawain on the perilous bed"?

00:01, 20 April 2012 (UTC)

... that Jodie Stevenson (pictured) is attempting to make the Australia women's national softball team to compete in the 2012 ISF Women's World Championship, a competition Australia only won in 1965, when they hosted the event?
... that "color markings", considered rare among fossil crabs, have been found on Avitelmessus?
... that Thomas Dolby's 1981 single "Europa and the Pirate Twins" features a harmonica solo by XTC's Andy Partridge?
... that the Gianni Caproni Museum of Aeronautics is Italy's oldest aviation museum, in addition to being the country's first corporate museum?
... that in the early 1970s, President Félix Houphouët-Boigny of the Ivory Coast persuaded his protegé, Omar Bongo, to give a Donguila plantation to Bob Denard?
... that Indonesian literary critic Muhammad Balfas' unfinished manuscript Si Gomar has been described as his most interesting?
... that the Krrish series is regarded as the first science fiction / superhero film series of Indian cinema?

19 April 2012

16:16, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

... that the Easter egg tree (pictured) in Saalfeld, Thuringia, was decorated with 10,000 Easter eggs in 2012?
... that Anthony Alexander Forrest played two senior games of Australian rules football for the Perth Football Club before dying at age 16 in the Second Boer War?
... that the center of Santa Barbara, California, is built in a homogeneous style because of a 1925 earthquake?
... that two guide dogs, Salty and Roselle, were awarded the Dickin Medal for gallantry after leading their blind owners out of the World Trade Center during the September 11 attacks?
... that, as of 2010, 85 percent of the readers of the Indonesian daily Bernas are male?
... that Bach created an "operatic scene" in his cantata Halt im Gedächtnis Jesum Christ, BWV 67, with Jesus serenely repeating "Peace be with you" against the raging of the enemies?
... that John Merton Aldrich donated 45,000 flies to the United States National Museum?

08:31, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

... that Theo Randall (pictured) has been called the "unsung hero" of The River Café in London, and was head chef when it won its Michelin star?
... that Humboldt Bay Life-Saving Station has the only marine railways still in an operational Pacific Coast U.S. Coast Guard station?
... that five people died at the Shimonoseki Station in Japan when a man drove a car onto the platform in a deliberate attack?
... that Andrew Freedman, owner of the National League's New York Giants, bought the American League's Baltimore Orioles from John Mahon to raid Baltimore's best players?
... that Alberto Cavalcanti asked David MacDonald to reshoot scenes from the 1940 British propaganda film Men of the Lightship because the performance of the actors was "totally unconvincing"?
... that the Sudanese Socialist Republican Party was nicknamed 'Mr. Hawkesworth's Party', in reference to a rumour that a British colonial officer by that name had engineered it?
... that Jessica Alba got a temporary tattoo of a bow on her tailbone for her role in A.C.O.D.?

00:46, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

... that the Japanese squid fishing vessel Ryou-Un Maru (pictured) was sunk by gunfire from a United States Coast Guard cutter?
... that the Compulsory Process Clause of the United States Constitution allows defendants to force the attendance of witnesses in their favor?
... that despite being handicapped, Bahraini engineer Abduljalil Alsingace was allegedly tortured by being forced to stand on one leg without crutches for prolonged periods?
... that during the 1567 Siege of Inabayama Castle, Kinoshita Tōkichirō and a small team climbed a mountain, infiltrated the castle, and opened the gates to let in the army of Oda Nobunaga?
... that Sebald Heyden has been speculated to be the world's first musicologist?
... that Truro Cathedral School existed long before Truro Cathedral?
... that Christopher Szwernicki was titled "Apostle of Siberia" by Pope Leo XIII?

18 April 2012

17:01, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

... that the National Treasure statue of Dainichi Nyorai (pictured), made in 1175–76 by Unkei from Japanese cypress with lacquer and gold leaf, employs a "tranquil" style?
... that John N. Shive not only invented the phototransistor but also the Shive wave machine?
... that the Men's Gymnasium at Indiana University once hosted the school's basketball team and was the first facility in the country to use glass backboards?
... that a male and female pair of sand stars, Archaster typicus, engage in pseudocopulation so that when they spawn, some two months later, they will do so simultaneously?
... that Job 600 cost over 4 million pounds to build and was completed in 1965 to showcase Ghana and Africa to the world?
... that when Petoski won the 1985 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes, his trainer received a personal phone call from the Queen?
... that a dog named Gabi fought a jaguar, preventing the big cat's escape from the Belgrade Zoo onto the streets of Belgrade?

09:16, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

... that King Arthur's Cave is in The Doward (pictured)?
... that Lucile Petry Leone's successful establishment of the Cadet Nurse Corps in 1943 made it unnecessary to draft US nurses for WWII?
... that Thamudarit, who according to legend reigned over the Pagan Kingdom from 107 to 152 CE, was only proclaimed the founder of this kingdom in 1829?
... that current Oakland University senior basketball player Reggie Hamilton was the only true freshman to receive the honor of being named to the Summit League All-Newcomer Team?
... that State Highway 7 in the US state of Minnesota follows the Minnesota River National Scenic Byway along Lac qui Parle by the state line?
... that A. Teeuw, despite resorting to guesswork, still encountered indecipherable data in his successful dissertation on a Kakawin?
... that the black sea rod coral contains large quantities of a lipid, prostaglandin A, which deters predatory fish from feeding on it by making them vomit?

01:31, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

... that the rice stink bug (pictured), a major pest of rice kernels, can safely be ignored when found on standing corn?
... that "Hill Street Station", the first episode of Hill Street Blues, suffered "confusion and conflict in its marketing" to the point that it was considered a surprise the show survived to be aired?
... that minors were barred from digitally purchasing "Drips", a track from South Korean singer Seven's mini-album Digital Bounce?
... that the Second World War homing pigeon Tyke won a gallantry medal for reporting the location of a downed American bomber?
... that despite the expulsion of softball from the Olympic programme, Belinda White wants to represent Australia at the 2020 Games?
... that Maya Angelou uses themes in her autobiographies to connect all six of them organically, beginning in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings?
... that in Romania, journalist Constantin Al. Ionescu-Caion became a symbol of yellow journalism?

17 April 2012

16:16, 17 April 2012 (UTC)

... that the protein Concanavalin A (pictured) cuts itself in two and then reassembles in a circularly permuted order?
... that the naval shipworm was responsible for great damage to the Netherlands' sea defences in the 18th century?
... that prior to winning 323 games as a college football head coach, Bear Bryant's first regular season coaching position was on the staff of the 1936 Alabama Crimson Tide football team?
... that Mathew Richmond was the first Chairman of Committees of the New Zealand Legislative Council?
... that Indonesian band Netral released an album with random yet simple lyrics and a "naughty" rock style?
... that the Journal of Japanese Studies called a book by William Bodiford "the most important English work on Sōtō Zen to date"?
... that China had such appeal during the Ming Dynasty that even a king from Borneo insisted that his tomb be located there?

08:31, 17 April 2012 (UTC)

... that to run for U.S. president in 1896, William Jennings Bryan (pictured) traveled to 27 of the 45 states and gave some 600 speeches on a whistle-stop tour?
... that German conductor Martin Lutz developed the Schiersteiner Kantorei from a suburban church choir at the Christophoruskirche into one of the largest choirs in Hesse?
... that both the Bromley War Memorial and the Bromley Parish Church Memorial were the work of British sculptor Sydney March?
... that Radič was the second most powerful person in Serbia, after Despot Đurađ?
... that the United States Supreme Court ruled in Taylor v. Illinois that defendants do not have an absolute right to obtain witnesses in their favor?
... that in ancient Mesoamerica, mirrors were fashioned from stone and were regarded as portals to a supernatural realm?
... that while researching his debut novel, The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi, Dutch author Arthur Japin discovered the head of the Ghanaian prince Badu Bonsu II?

00:00, 17 April 2012 (UTC)

... that Oregon's Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center (Hillsboro clinic pictured) started in a garage and now has over US$20 million in annual revenue?
... that the memoirs of life in the Lvov Ghetto during the Holocaust written by Maurycy Allerhand were unknown for over 20 years and first published only after the Revolutions of 1989?
... that the Arcade Fire song "No Cars Go" originally appeared on their self-titled extended play and was reworked for their second album, Neon Bible?
... that the royal catchfly is pollinated by the ruby-throated hummingbird?
... that the female factory workers featured in the book The Sugar Girls would stuff their turbans with underwear to make them look more fashionable?
... that although later writers claimed William the Conqueror's victory in the 1057 Battle of Varaville was a massacre, contemporary writers barely noticed it?
... that Walter Rea, the leading scorer for the 1919–20 Michigan Wolverines basketball team, later became the university's spokesman on "panty raids"?

16 April 2012

16:00, 16 April 2012 (UTC)

... that unbeknownst to him, Danish explorer Vitus Bering (pictured) was not in fact the first European to sail through the strait that now bears his name?
... that the 1934 Alabama Crimson Tide football team won a second consecutive Southeastern Conference championship and claimed a share of the 1934 national championship?
... that the Royal Navy's Frolic-class gunvessels were used to suppress the slave trade between East Africa and the Persian Gulf in the 1870s and 1880s?
... that after escaping Nazi-occupied Europe, the Belzer Rebbe held his first tish in Jerusalem at the Zion Blumenthal Orphanage?
... that Adinegoro's 1927 novel Young Blood was one of few Indonesian works from the period in which the main characters succeeded at love?
... that the propellers of the Short No.1 biplane rotated in the same direction because their designer wished to avoid patent infringement?
... that Rigby & Peller provides undergarments to Queen Elizabeth II?

08:00, 16 April 2012 (UTC)

... that there are more plants of Alloxylon flammeum (pictured) in cultivation than there are in the wild in its native Queensland?
... that the only Japanese passenger aboard the Titanic survived, but was then shunned as a coward in his home country for not going down with the ship?
... that the Long Branch Cubans were the first baseball team composed almost entirely of Cubans to play in the U.S. minor leagues?
... that on January 19, 1977, snow fell in south Florida and the Bahamas, and the Florida citrus industry was "nearly wiped out"?
... that the United States Navy used Old Faithful to prepare enemy beaches for amphibious assault?
... that the late Toronto Maple Leafs owner Harold Ballard portrayed a doctor of his hockey team in the 1971 film Face-Off?
... that a police officer in Indonesia was sued for dumping blood to appease the Goddess of the South Sea while investigating the murder of Udin?

00:00, 16 April 2012 (UTC)

... that Saved from the Titanic, starring Titanic survivor Dorothy Gibson (shown in poster), was the first film made about the sinking of the Titanic and was released only 29 days after the disaster?
... that genetic studies on Serbs show that they are closely related to the neighbouring peoples, regardless of language and religion?
... that the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, founded by Saulius Sondeckis, has been described as among "the three most masterly orchestras of the world"?
... that the new Titanic Belfast visitor attraction tells the story of the ill-fated RMS Titanic through interactive videos, audio, replicas and displays?
... that "Roc Me Out" was described as a combination of Rihanna's "Umbrella" and a slowed down version of Pendulum's "Slam"?
... that 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) from Lebamba in southwestern Gabon are "massive underground cave networks", known as the Bongolo or Malibé Caves?
... that a sample of the First Class experience aboard the RMS Titanic and Olympic can be found at the White Swan Hotel in Alnwick?

15 April 2012

16:00, 15 April 2012 (UTC)

... that the Titanic Memorial in Belfast (pictured) depicts a personification of Death holding a wreath above the head of a drowned sailor who is borne above the waves by mermaids?
... that writers exiled from Indonesia after the 30 September Movement continued to write and publish overseas?
... that 100 English foxhounds narrowly avoided being among the animals aboard the RMS Titanic during her disastrous maiden voyage?
... that Abasse Ndione's first novel, La Vie en spirale, discusses the use and trafficking of "yamba" (marijuana) as a social metaphor?
... that the extinct species Cornus piggae has fruits smaller than any other species in the dogwood subgenus of Cornus?
... that despite signing it in 1986, President Ronald Reagan objected to parts of the RMS Titanic Maritime Memorial Act?
... that commemorations of the RMS Titanic in popular culture have included songs, poems, plays, musicals, films, books and even black teddy bears?

08:00, 15 April 2012 (UTC)

... that RMS Titanic survivor Margaret Bechstein Hays not only saved her Pomeranian dog from the wreck, she also looked after the "Titanic Orphans" (pictured)?
... that in 570 Jassem served as a seat of the Monophysite church during Ghassanid rule in Syria?
... that even though he didn't start pitching until 2007, D. J. Mitchell was the New York Yankees minor league Pitcher of the Year in 2011?
... that Walter Lord's 1955 book A Night to Remember has been described as a "defining moment" in the creation of the myth of the RMS Titanic?
... that John de Rantau co-directed a film that presents a fictionalised version of Barack Obama's childhood years in Indonesia?
... that Deputy Prime Minister of Cambodia Men Sam An served as chairwoman of the Kampuchean Federation of Trade Unions?
... that the French research vessel Le Suroît was involved in the search for the wreck of the RMS Titanic but missed it by less than one kilometre?

00:00, 15 April 2012 (UTC)

... that seven men died when LV-117 (pictured), the Nantucket lightship, was rammed and sunk on 14 May 1934 by RMS Olympic, sister ship of the lost Titanic?
... that Peter Feldmann is the first politician of the Jewish faith to be elected mayor of Frankfurt since World War II?
... that following the 1973 Toulouse congress of PSOE a group of veteran Spanish socialists organized the "Historical" UGT, claiming to represent the original UGT trade union?
... that the first captain of Titanic was Captain Haddock?
... that over 10% of Slovenia's population participated in each of the volunteer cleanups organized by the Ecologists Without Borders association, the Let's Clean Slovenia in One Day! in 2010 and this year's Let's Clean Slovenia 2012?
... that the Glover Prize, though limited to depictions of Tasmania, is the richest art award for landscape painting in Australia?
... that baseball outfielder Adam Eaton received USD $120,000 meant for the retired pitcher of the same name?

14 April 2012

16:00, 14 April 2012 (UTC)

... that Shakespeare scholars used Ford's Hospital, Coventry (pictured), to understand Elizabethan doorways while planning the reconstruction of the Globe Theatre?
... that the College of Southern Nevada's baseball team was forced to forfeit 37 games in 2006 when Craig Heyer was ruled ineligible?
... that individuals who report high levels of affiliative humor are more likely to initiate friendships?
... that India won only 9 medals in the 2011 Commonwealth Youth Games, comparing with 76 medals in the previous edition of the Games?
... that Henry MacLauchlan recommended to the British parliament that Ordnance Survey maps should not use contour lines?
... that Bear Bryant played in the game against Tennessee with a broken leg as a member of the 1935 Alabama Crimson Tide football team?
... that Ratna Sarumpaet's singing of the Indonesian national anthem was called "proof" of a crime?

08:00, 14 April 2012 (UTC)

... that the extinct witchalder Fothergilla malloryi (pictured) is the oldest confirmed member of the genus Fothergilla?
... that the animated short film Sex Life of Robots, showing sexual activity among robots, is described as "art-porn"?
... that it is customary for Viktor Tsoi's fans to leave a broken lighted cigarette in the special ash plate at the Tsoi Wall?
... that between 1800 and 1890, some 25,000 to 50,000 slaves were captured in present-day Tanzania, Mozambique, and Malawi and forced to work on plantations in Somalia?
... that the 1933 Alabama Crimson Tide football team won the first Southeastern Conference football championship?
... that the Latvian mathematician Emanuels Grīnbergs lost his job and his doctoral degree for serving in the German Army during World War II, but then regained both by writing a new thesis?
... that when the feathers left in the Round Island Lighthouse keepers' living quarters were identified, the lighthouse cat was banished from that Scillonian island?

00:00, 14 April 2012 (UTC)

... that poet William Wordsworth said of the site of Holy Trinity Church, Brathay (pictured), "there is no situation out of the Alps, nor among them, more beautiful than that where this building is placed"?
... that the Maoist Youth Union demanded that a "Youth Charter" be included in the new Spanish constitution?
... that Australian national team field hockey player Luke Doerner gave teammate Matthew Swann a yellow headband that Swann wears at every match?
... that the video for Radiohead's "Lotus Flower", which features Thom Yorke's "spastic" dancing, was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video?
... that Lady Llangattock, the mother of Charles Rolls, commemorated the centenary of Nelson's death at the Kymin?
... that a Punu-Lumbo mask from Gabon has been sold at Sotheby's for well over $400,000?
... that Indian matchmaker website Shaadi.com created an online game called Angry Brides to raise awareness of dowry deaths in India?

13 April 2012

16:00, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

... that if an Abbott's Booby (juvenile pictured) falls to the ground, it will starve unless it can catch the wind and take off again?
... that Texas' Ranch to Market Road 187 appears in the 2011 film Seven Days in Utopia as the road where actor Lucas Black wrecks his car?
... that Japanese comedian Neko Hiroshi was nominated by the National Olympic Committee of Cambodia to compete for Cambodia at the 2012 Summer Olympics?
... that the newly elected President of Senegal Macky Sall appointed the technocrat and banker Abdoul Mbaye as prime minister?
... that baseball player Josh Edgin won the Pennsylvania state championship in wrestling, finishing fourth in the national championship?
... that Deonar is one of India's oldest and largest waste dumping grounds?
... that at its extreme, serfdom in Poland required a peasant to work eight days a week for his feudal lord?

08:00, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

... that prolific food writer and reality TV judge Mary Berry's (pictured) first job was to visit consumers' homes to show them how to use their own electric cookers?
... that the remains of the Bogdan Saray in Istanbul lie inside a tire shop?
... that the New York Giants and Cincinnati Reds raided Joe McGinnity, Joe Kelley, Cy Seymour, Dan McGann, Jack Cronin, and others from the Baltimore Orioles during the 1902 season?
... that the first modern road connecting the Adriatic and Pannonian basins, spanning the Mountainous Croatia region, was completed in 1732?
... that the new Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library in Indianapolis, Indiana, houses a pack of the writer's Pall Malls as well as his Purple Heart?
... that Yutyrannus huali is the largest known feathered dinosaur, the holotype measuring 9 metres (30 ft) long?
... that Philander and Francis Roots founded Roots Blower Company when one of them blew off his brother's hat?

00:00, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

... that Osgood Castle (pictured), in Redstone, Colorado, was the first real property seized by the Internal Revenue Service to be auctioned online?
... that TTAADC member Sridam Pal was one of the 13 victims killed in the 1988 Birchandramanu massacre in South Tripura?
... that last name of Peter Spani, one of the founders of the League of Lezhë in 1444, is derived from the Greek word spanos (Greek: σπανός) which means beardless?
... that the woodland at Dizzard Point in Cornwall, which is part of the Boscastle to Widemouth SSSI, is of international importance for its lichen communities?
... that the fathers of Australian national team field hockey players Jonathon Charlesworth and Brent Dancer, both coached the men's national team?
... that the MV-1 is the first purpose-built taxicab to be approved for use as a New York City yellow cab since the iconic Checker Marathon?
... that eggs en cocotte are cooked by breaking eggs into ramekins and then baking them in a water bath?

12 April 2012

16:00, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

... that while Chinese emperors had stone tortoises guard their tombs, some of their subjects in Fujian were laid to rest under plaster tortoises (example pictured)?
... that the General Prologue of the Wycliffe Bible was not written by John Wycliffe?
... that Hero Cup was the first cricket tournament to be broadcast on satellite television in India in 1993, prior to which state terrestrial broadcaster Doordarshan had a monopoly on cricket broadcasts?
... that Queensland softball catcher Kym Tollenaere narrowly missed out on the 2004 Summer Olympics and is trying to represent Australia at the 2012 World Championships?
... that the Gabonese Socialist Union, initially an opposition party founded by formerly exiled student activists, aligned itself with the then incumbent president Omar Bongo?
... that Kyeong Kang was the first South Korean to be selected in the Major League Baseball Draft?
... that a large number of street food vendors in Mumbai trade illegally without mandatory permits from the local municipality by bribing officials?

08:00, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

... that the statue of Shaka at Birth at Tōdai-ji (pictured) is the largest example of a type of statue anointed with sweet hydrangea tea on April 8 in celebration of Buddha's Birthday?
... that Sister Jackie Hudson served six months in prison for painting "Christ lives, Disarm" on the side of a bunker?
... that the 1917–18 team was the University of Michigan's first basketball team after an eight-year hiatus and the only winless conference season in the school's history?
... that the comb star (Astropecten polyacanthus) contains a potent neurotoxin called tetrodotoxin?
... that the Presbyterian Church of Victoria was formed in 1859 as a union of Church of Scotland, Free Presbyterian and United Presbyterian congregations?
... that with the Romanian Revolution of 1989, Alexandru Bârlădeanu went from house arrest to Senate President within a few months?
... that Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer William M. Gallagher once commandeered a police helicopter to cover a story?

00:00, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

... that Argentine celebrity Calu Rivero (pictured) was the first actress from Catamarca Province to appear in national television, thus being named Illustrious Citizen of Recreo, her hometown?
... that former National Hockey League player Joel Otto credited Battle of Alberta rival Mark Messier as being the reason he made the Calgary Flames?
... that the Albanian nobility was absorbed into the Ottoman military class through the implementation of the timar system within not more than two generations?
... that upon release of Rihanna's Talk That Talk, "We All Want Love" was the album's lowest charting song on the UK Singles Chart, at number 188?
... that according to some sources, bulb-bearing water-hemlock is one of the most poisonous leafy plants native to North America?
... that the racehorses Pennekamp in 1995 and King of Kings in 1998 were both winners of the 2000 Guineas in May, found lame after losing the Epsom Derby in June, and then retired to stud soon after?
... that former churches in Chichester, West Sussex, have been converted into a doll museum, a betting shop and a Chinese takeaway, among other things?

11 April 2012

16:00, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

... that on the southern slopes of Maja e Thatë (pictured) lies the Cave of Haxhia, a Nature Monument of Albania, explored by Polish speleologists?
... that Henry Hallowell Farquhar, the leading scorer on the first Michigan Wolverines basketball team in 1909, became a professor at Harvard Business School?
... that The Who's bassist John Entwistle kept skeletons in the bedroom of his Victorian mansion Quarwood to frighten guests?
... that British World War II fighter ace Noel Agazarian was rejected by Trinity College, Oxford, allegedly because its President objected to his ethnicity?
... that Polish writer Łukasz Orbitowski was one of the pioneers of setting horror stories in mundane, modern Polish cities?
... that the composite hull of the Beacon-class gunvessels was described by Admiral G. A. Ballard as built "along the lines of an extremely elongated packing crate"?
... that Manuel Gálvez promoted Juan Manuel de Rosas as an archetype of Argentine values?

08:00, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

... that Australian softballer Melinda Weaver (pictured) missed the 2008 Beijing Games and a year later played professional softball in Italy?
... that the historiography of Juan Manuel de Rosas influenced much of the whole historiography of Argentina?
... that according to one critic, "Farewell" is a "shameless rewrite" of Adele's song "Someone like You"?
... that naval architect William K. MacCurdy developed the Hydra-Cushion rail coupling at SRI International, significantly changing freight transportation?
... that Audrey Withers, who edited the British Vogue for twenty years, lacked a personal interest in fashion and joined the London Fire Brigade?
... that over 16 million years ago, four species of parrot in the genus Nelepsittacus made their home in subtropical rainforest in what is now Otago, New Zealand?
... that Chinese-Indonesian writer Mira Wong may use the pen name Mira W. to cover her ethnicity?

00:15, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

... that many things related to Rhodesia, both physical and immaterial (examples pictured), can be considered Rhodesiana?
... that the steamer R. J. Hackett is recognized as the first Lake freighter?
... that the 1834 Epsom Oaks was won by a filly named Pussy?
... that both the 1997 and 2009 versions of TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All-Time included episodes that were only aired two months prior?
... that Kieran Govers, Simon Orchard, Robert Hammond, Nathan Burgers, Matthew Butturini, Kiel Brown, Joel Carroll, Mark Knowles, Fergus Kavanagh, Glenn Turner, Jason Wilson and Russell Ford are in training with the Australian field hockey team for the 2012 Olympics?
... that at the Romanian Communist Party congress of November 1989, Emil Bobu countered delegates' flagging enthusiasm by shouting slogans and applauding vigorously, even interrupting leader Nicolae Ceauşescu?
... that Paul Chemetov built the French embassy in New Delhi in the 1980s?

10 April 2012

16:30, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

... that composer and cellist Graham Waterhouse (pictured) dedicated his Three Pieces for Solo Cello, described as "rhapsodic movements of great expressive strength", to Siegfried Palm?
... that 1907 Michigan football team gave up an average of only one point per game and shut out Vanderbilt in front of the largest crowd to see a football game south of the Mason–Dixon Line?
... that slavery in Poland existed during the Middle Ages, but eventually disappeared with the transformation of slaves into serfs?
... that Kookaburra Commonwealth gold medalist Chris Ciriello lost 18 kilograms (40 lb) because of his busy hockey schedule?
... that when Abdul Alkalimat wrote Malcolm X for Beginners, he was sued by the activist's widow?
... that the pandemonium in a pandemonium architecture simply represents the cumulative yelling of the "demons" within the system?
... that the Bach cantata for Easter Ich lebe, mein Herze, zu deinem Ergötzen, BWV 145, was expanded after Bach's death by two leading movements, the second one composed by Telemann?

08:45, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

... that mackerel have vertical stripes on their sides which may help them stay in formation when they are schooling (pictured)?
... that in 1955 Marie Aspioti returned her MBE to Queen Elizabeth II in protest against the British policies on Cyprus regarding enosis with Greece?
... that infants are so motivated to engage in joint attention that they will turn away from interesting sights to do so?
... that prior to taking up athletics, Olympic long-distance runner Väinö Koskela was a member of the winning team at an under-18 cross-country skiing championship?
... that Matt Bomer suggested that Glee feature Gotye's "Somebody That I Used to Know" in an episode, only to be cast a week later to sing it himself in the episode "Big Brother"?
... that the first non-white player in the National Basketball Association was an Asian-American who played in 1947?
... that Cat Creek was the site of the first commercially successful oil field in Montana, producing oil so pure it could be used in Model T cars straight from the ground?

01:00, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

... that Ada Initiative co-founder Valerie Aurora (pictured) chose Anita as her middle name, after the computer scientist Anita Borg?
... that following the 2011 civil war in Libya, the Muslim Brotherhood founded the Justice and Development Party, which is said to be the country's most organised political force?
... that in the upcoming US Supreme Court case of Fisher v. University of Texas, a white woman argues that the university discriminated against her based on race?
... that King Arthur's Cave, near Ganarew, to the northeast of Monmouth, is reputedly the oldest Arthurian site?
... that Hall of Fame baseball manager John McGraw signed Billy Gilbert to the Baltimore Orioles in 1902 and the New York Giants in 1903?
... that Chelsea Forkin has represented Australia in the World Cup of Baseball and World Cup of Softball?
... that an 80-km-long, 6-m-high mound formed by the 1819 Rann of Kutch earthquake was known as the Dam of God?

9 April 2012

17:15, 9 April 2012 (UTC)

... that fossil leaves indistinguishable from the living Tasmanian waratah (pictured) have been dug up from lower Oligocene (28–34 million year old) rock strata?
... that The Yama Yama Man may be hiding behind a chair, "ready to spring out at you unaware"?
... that Martin Segon wrote a short biographical sketch on Skanderbeg at the end of the 15th century?
... that the racehorse Americus, despite being called "fat as a showyard bull", still finished fourth in the 1899 Steward's Cup at Goodwood?
... that Admiral John Ferrier had friendships with Lord Exmouth and the Duke of Wellington, and served under Nelson, who called Ferrier "as steady as old Time himself"?
... that Indonesian director Wim Umboh, who won nine Citra Awards, began his career in the film industry as a janitor?
... that George Grey was the winner in two different electorates in both the 1875–76 and 1879 elections in New Zealand?

09:30, 9 April 2012 (UTC)

... that according to Life, Florida's Bubble Houses (one pictured) are hurricane-proof, despite being built using an inflatable balloon?
... that an opole was an early Polish unit of administration that predated the first formal Polish state?
... that debuting Major League Baseball pitcher Drew Smyly came within two outs of pitching a no-hitter in a college baseball tournament while a redshirt freshman at the University of Arkansas?
... that the Paleocene Ginkgo cranei is the first fossil Ginkgo to be described from Tertiary "seeds"?
... that sixteen of Harbhajan Singh's international cricket five-wicket hauls have come in victory for India, while five have been in defeats?
... that in 1953, Beaconsfield, Tasmania, became the first town in Australia to fluoridate the water supply?
... that John Halsted kissed King George IV's hand twice, once when George was Prince Regent, and once as a monarch?

00:00, 9 April 2012 (UTC)

... that Kaiser Wilhelm II called the Kurhaus (pictured) in Wiesbaden "the most beautiful spa in the world" at the opening ceremony?
... that the oldest volume in the Hereford Cathedral Library is the Hereford Gospels, dated to around the year 780?
... that Australian softball player Jade Wall started playing softball when she was nine years old and surfs as a hobby?
... that although George Harrison's 1973 song "Sue Me, Sue You Blues" was inspired by his own legal issues with his fellow ex-Beatles, he let Jesse Ed Davis record it first?
... that the 1999 documentary Private Dicks: Men Exposed, in which men were interviewed about their penises, was described by Ken Tucker as "quite literally touching"?
... that the development of basketball as "almost a major sport" led the University of Michigan to form its first basketball team in 1909?
... that Seaman Frank vowed "Do you think I'm going to let them get away with that? Not pygmalion likely!" after he lost his foot to a German raider?

8 April 2012

16:00, 8 April 2012 (UTC)

... that in hot weather, the eastern spadefoot toad (pictured) may aestivate in the deep burrow it has dug?
... that John Garrels of the 1906 Michigan football team threw the school's first legal forward pass, won Olympic medals in the hurdles and shot put, and set a world record in the discus throw?
... that the 2002 funeral of John Entwistle, bassist for rock band The Who, was held at St Edward's Church in Stow-on-the-Wold?
... that Danville, Kentucky's Constitution Square State Historic Site features a replica of the first Presbyterian meetinghouse in the state?
... that in the 2011–12 Logan Cup, the Matabeleland Tuskers cricket team became the first to win consecutive titles during the franchise era of the competition?
... that Jamila and the President, submitted to the 82nd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, was initially written after the director received a UNICEF grant?
... that celebrity chef and baker Paul Hollywood created what is thought to be the most expensive loaf of bread in Britain?

08:00, 8 April 2012 (UTC)

... that Radford University softball player and national team member Leigh Godfrey (pictured) is from a softball family, with her aunt and mother both representing Australia in the sport?
... that Keith Meinhold, who came out publicly in 1992, was allowed to stay in the US Navy after a 1994 court decision as long as he did not say he was gay again?
... that the Alfaguara project has photographed and identified over 350 individual blue whales?
... that in 1821–22 Aaron Manby built the world's first seagoing iron-hulled steamship, named after him, and patented the design of its oscillating engine?
... that Estonia's first major industrial strike occurred in 1872 at the Krenholm Manufacturing Company?
... that the father, grandfather, and great-grandfather of NASCAR driver Mikey Kile were all racing drivers as well?
... that the Indonesian internet community Fiksimini writes complete works of fiction in under 140 characters?

00:00, 8 April 2012 (UTC)

... that Steve Jobs wanted to study Zen in Japan at Eihei-ji (pictured)?
... that Edward Espe Brown, author of The Tassajara Bread Book, was inspired as a child by his aunt's baking of homemade bread?
... that before its restoration the Kasim Ağa Mosque in Istanbul was used as a shanty?
... that in his 1936 German melodrama, Schlußakkord, Douglas Sirk characterised and contrasted a Weimar new woman and a German expatriate mother through their reactions to Beethoven's 9th Symphony?
... that Stacey McManus represents Australia in softball, while her sister Brook plays softball for New Zealand's national team?
... that Christian rock band Casting Crowns' fourth studio album, Until the Whole World Hears, sold 167,000 copies in its first week?
... that National Hero of Indonesia Slamet Rijadi took the name Rijadi after there were too many students called Slamet at his school?

7 April 2012

16:00, 7 April 2012 (UTC)

... that Fielding H. Yost opined that Germany Schulz (pictured) gave "the greatest one-man exhibition of courage I ever saw on a football field" for the 1908 Michigan football team?
... that artist Sydney John Bunney created over 500 works depicting the city of Coventry?
... that Kookaburra gold medalist Jamie Dwyer met his girlfriend while playing professional field hockey in the Netherlands?
... that "Do Ya Thang" was described as a return to Rihanna's roots, which were notably present in the songs from her first studio album Music of the Sun?
... that with the help of the IDRF, Narayanan Komerath, a professor of aerospace engineering, launched a fund to aid families of people hurt in the war against terrorism?
... that Robert Hiester Montgomery, one of the founders of the world's largest accounting firm, never graduated from high school?
... that King Gong and then King Kang ruled the Chu kingdom in the 6th century BC?

08:00, 7 April 2012 (UTC)

... that George V gave the cradle (pictured) that was said to be that of Henry of Monmouth (later Henry V who was at Agincourt) to the London Museum?
... that the 1932 Alabama Crimson Tide football team's contest against Georgia Tech was the first Alabama football game that was broadcast live?
... that Milko Bambič had to escape from Trieste to Yugoslavia to avoid arrest after he had published the first Slovene comic strip, a parody on Benito Mussolini?
... that Ghost Story, a 1972–73 television anthology series, was renamed Circle of Fear after 13 episodes?
... that Giring Ganesha, the lead singer of Nidji, lost 11 kilograms (24 lb) for his role in The Enlightener?
... that until Judge Sonia Sotomayor ordered the creation of Krimstock hearings, there was often no way for thousands of owners to promptly recover their seized vehicles from the NYPD?

00:00, 7 April 2012 (UTC)

... that isochrone maps (pictured) have been used since 1972 or earlier, and that since 2009 online versions have been used by house hunters wishing to evaluate residential areas?
... that the Portage Glacier Highway is made up of a series of eight roads, bridges, and tunnels?
... that Romanian politician Oana Niculescu-Mizil once wore a genuine prison uniform to the floor of the Chamber of Deputies as a sign of protest?
... that Margaret Wenzell's only home run in her professional baseball career was a game-winning inside-the-park home run, hit with her parents in attendance?
... that Samuel Barber derived his choral composition Agnus Dei (Lamb of God) from his successful Adagio for Strings, showing "the work's sense of spirituality"?
... that journalist Ding Yu interviewed 226 death row prisoners for a popular television programme in China's Henan Province?

6 April 2012

16:00, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

... that Bach's St Matthew Passion is structured in 67 movements, according to the NBA, and tells the Passion (pictured) based on the Gospel of Matthew, Picander's contemporary poetry, and chorales?
... that the role of the Rhodesian head of government gradually evolved, between 1890 and 1970, from that of a company-appointed administrator to the prime ministerial office of a republic?
... that Nicholas Dukagjini is mentioned in a song about an Albanian Romeo and Juliet written by Girolamo de Rada?
... that in 1956 Cricket Records were promoted simultaneously with all Betsy Wetsy television advertisements?
... that Jean Clédat uncovered the monastery of Apa Apollo, founded in the fourth century, whilst excavating at Bawit in the winter of 1903?
... that a young spider crab, Libinia ferreirae, often lives inside the bell of the jellyfish Lychnorhiza lucerna?

07:46, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

... that when Roger Bresnahan (pictured) adopted the use of shin guards in Major League Baseball on Opening Day in 1907, angry fans threw snow onto the field?
... that the Rukwa Valley in southwestern Tanzania is sparsely populated because of its difficult environment?
... that Nicolae Xenopol, who wrote a satirical novel about a Yankee visiting "disgusting" Romania, was later Romania's first ambassador to Japan?
... that the occurrence of the 1906 Valparaíso earthquake thirty minutes after the 1906 Aleutian Islands earthquake was probably just coincidence?
... that the Radiohead song "True Love Waits" became a highly requested song at their live shows in the 1990s despite having never been released?
... that Roy Marten was one of the highest paid Indonesian actors in the late 1970s?

5 April 2012

23:31, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

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... that the largest of all billfishes, the Atlantic blue marlin (pictured), weighs up to 820 kilograms (1800 pounds) and has been classified as a vulnerable species?
... that softball player Brenda De Blaes represented Australia and Belgium at the Women's World Championship?
... that The Kinks' song "The Hard Way" was based on a true incident in which Kinks' guitarist Dave Davies was caned and expelled from school?
... that Minnie Fisher Cunningham helped convince both Senator Andrieus A. Jones and President Woodrow Wilson to support passage of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, giving women suffrage?
... that the Swiss-South African Association tried to lobby the Swiss government to recognize the Bantustan state Transkei?
... that April the Fifth, the winning racehorse of the 1932 Epsom Derby, and his breeder, were both born on April the fifth?

15:16, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

... that Olympic silver and bronze medalist Stacey Porter (pictured) was the first Aboriginal member of the Australian women's national team to represent the country in softball at the Olympics?
... that the Devonian stem tetrapod Tinirau clackae, transitional between fish and land vertebrates, was named after the half-human half-fish character Tinirau in Polynesian legend?
... that the protagonist of the game Soft & Cuddly must reassemble his mother's dismembered body?
... that World Naked Gardening Day, celebrated in May to promote nude gardening, was first observed in 2005?
... that the Communist Party leader Umberto Barulli was appointed head of state in San Marino in 1988?
... that the Dynasphere monowheel was criticized for its poor braking and steering capabilities, as well as its gerbiling tendencies?

00:00, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

... that there were so many pubs in Monmouth's market place that they said "A gin court here, a gin court there, No wonder they call it Agincourt Square" (sign pictured)?
... that Soedjatmoko was expelled from medical school but went on to become rector of the United Nations University?
... that Atretochoana eiselti, the largest tetrapod to lack lungs, was until late 2011 known only from two museum specimens whose origin was unknown?
... that when U.S. President Johnson signed Executive Order 11375 in 1967 banning sex bias in federal government hiring, women held just 809 of more than 40,000 federal civil service jobs?
... that Henry Knighton was the first historian of Lollardy?
... that "Zou Bisou Bisou" sung by Jessica Paré as Megan Draper on the March 25 season 5 premiere of Mad Men, was a 1960s yé-yé song that can be translated as "Oh! Kiss Kiss"?

4 April 2012

16:00, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

... that according to art-historical analysis the 9th-century illuminated manuscript Codex Vaticanus Latinus 3868 (pictured) was copied from a 3rd-century model?
... that during the Popish Plot, on Sunday 17 November 1678, John Arnold of Monmouthshire captured Father David Lewis at St Michael's Church, Llantarnam, and he was later executed?
... that in the spring of 1941 the Swiss Socialist Federation was banned and its four national deputies (including Le Travail editor Léon Nicole and Jacques Dicker) were expelled from parliament?
... that film editing innovations by Lou Lombardo and Sam Peckinpah in 1969 still influence filmmakers such as Quentin Tarantino, John Woo, Kathryn Bigelow, and the Wachowskis?
... that Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau was the soloist in a recording of Max Reger's Requiem with the Monteverdi-Chor Hamburg in 1990?
... that the ruins of the Maya city of Mixco Viejo in Guatemala received their name because they were believed to be the remains of another city entirely?

08:00, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

... that labor lawyer and activist Khaled Ali (pictured) filed a landmark lawsuit against the Egyptian government in 2010 and won a higher minimum wage for all workers?
... that birdwatcher Lieutenant Colonel Jackson Miles Abbott bird ringed 1,400 birds in seven months?
... that the Singapore High Court once held that, by refusing berths to a company running gambling cruises, the port authority had not fettered its discretion – a form of illegality in administrative law?
... that Samson Isberg's last beheadings were attended by about 5,000 spectators?
... that when the Basque trade union movement ELA-STV suffered a split in the 1970s, the dissident ELA-STV (Askatuta) was accused of being bankrolled by Opus Dei?
... that Tristram Coffin led a group of investors who bought Nantucket for thirty pounds and two beaver hats?

00:00, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

... that various studies show prostitution exists among animals such as Adélie Penguins (pictured), chimpanzees, and crab-eating macaques?
... that the 1931 Alabama Crimson Tide football team competed in two charity games at the end of the season to raise money for unemployment relief?
... that Shuffle Master created the casino game Let It Ride to drive demand for its shuffling machine?
... that a joint musical venture between a Dutch and Indonesian band resulted in Chaos & Warfare?
... that most active filmmakers of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, such as Monique Mbeka Phoba, live and work abroad?
... that because of his escape from captivity in 1188 through a sewer, the medieval monk and future Abbot of Evesham Roger Norreis was nicknamed "Roger Cloacarius" or "Roger the Drain-Cleaner"?

3 April 2012

16:00, 3 April 2012 (UTC)

... that the Luba Crater Scientific Reserve (pictured) may have the largest population of drills in the world?
... that the 2005 TNA Super X Cup Tournament was also known as the "Christopher Daniels Invitational"?
... that before becoming a celebrity chef, Eric Lanlard served in the French Navy on board the flagship Jeanne d'Arc?
... that with an area of 1,865 square kilometres (720 sq mi), Siling Co in Xainza County is the second largest saltwater lake in the northern Tibetan Plateau?
... that Julia Holter's debut album Tragedy (2011) was inspired by Euripides' Ancient Greek play Hippolytus?
... that Bakri Siregar wrote the first history of modern Indonesian literature?

08:00, 3 April 2012 (UTC)

... that 2012 National Player of the Year Anthony Davis (pictured) was unknown locally and nationally through his junior year of high school basketball?
... that a controversy arose over the Tulsi Peeth edition of the Ramcharitmanas, when the author Rambhadracharya was accused of tampering with the epic?
... that the longnose spider crab disguises itself by sticking bits of unpalatable seaweed and invertebrates on its shell?
... that the Norwegian landowner Oscar Collett was the single largest benefactor of the old Norwegian Ornithological Society's academic journal?
... that the racehorse St. Frusquin lost the 1896 Epsom Derby by merely a neck to his brother Persimmon, whose winning time of 2:42.0 set a new Derby record?
... that a review of Plastic Flowers, a 1977 Indonesian film directed by a man known for romances, found him unfit to direct but praised a robbery scene?

00:00, 3 April 2012 (UTC)

... that the flowers of the rough-barked apple (pictured) are visited by flying foxes and jewel beetles?
... that Great Tew Circle was a group of intellectual and literary figures who gathered in the 1630s at the manor house of Great Tew, Oxfordshire?
... that when the footballer Svein Fjælberg joined Viking FK from Sola FK in 1979 for a transfer fee of 45,000 Norwegian kroner, he became the then most expensive player at the club?
... that during the Abbasid invasion of Asia Minor of 782 CE, Byzantine general Tatzates defected to the Arab side when the Byzantines already had the Abbasids surrounded and asking for negotiations?
... that the MSC Fabiola is the largest container ship to dock in North America?
... that while Victoire Conroy was among the few companions allowed to associate with the young Queen Victoria, the queen disliked her?

2 April 2012

16:00, 2 April 2012 (UTC)

... that Queensland teacher Jodie Bowering (pictured) is also an Australian Olympic bronze medalist in softball?
... that the racehorse Colombo won £17,130 in 1933, a year after he was purchased for only 510 guineas?
... that threats to the Blue Gum Forest in the Blue Mountains included logging, coal mining, a dam and growing walnuts?
... that World War I British flying aces Ralph Curtis and Desmond Uniacke battled Hermann Göring, future head of the Luftwaffe?
... that Indonesian band Efek Rumah Kaca donated the royalties from ringback tone sales for one of the tracks on their self-titled debut album to the family of a human rights activist?
... that Ratirahasya, a medieval Indian sex manual, classifies sexual intercourse into nine different types on the basis of the size of genitals?

08:00, 2 April 2012 (UTC)

... that the Croscat (pictured), the youngest volcano in the Iberian Peninsula, was quarried until 1991 and its internal structure is exposed as a result?
... that the lower masts of the Briton-class corvettes of the Royal Navy were iron, but the rest of the masts were made of wood?
... that despite winning consecutive conference championships, UC Riverside Highlanders football was discontinued following their 1975 season?
... that in 1978 the Maoist Sindicato Unitario won the union election at the conservative newspaper ABC in Madrid?
... that The Panther, the favourite for the 1919 Epsom Derby, became agitated before the race and finished unplaced, possibly due to the presence of a mare ridden by a mounted policeman?
... that Dorothy Manley took unpaid leave from her job as a typist to compete in the 1948 Summer Olympics, where she won the silver medal in the women's 100 metres?

00:00, 2 April 2012 (UTC)

... that Ralph Dewey (pictured) blows up animals for Jesus?
... that a University of Washington fake mathematician created as a student prank became the author of several well-received papers in research journals?
... that Toronto officials considered replacing their moose with unicorns?
... that in 2007, the owners of a hairy Fabulous Willy were criticised for being homosexual?
... that Nintendo owns the rights to a pornographic film?
... that Santa Claus was a stud?
... that some Chicago sports fans blame their team's recent failings on the absence of Honey Bears?
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1 April 2012

16:00, 1 April 2012 (UTC)

... that the opening of Eston railway station (pictured in 1902) enabled passengers to travel from Middlesbrough, England, to California in only 15 minutes?
... that Mr Grumpy was once bombed by the Americans?
... that Frank Lloyd Wright designed a dog house—and even its roof leaks?
... that ever since coming between neighbours, Funzie Girt has run almost the length of a Scottish island?
... that an Italian Protestant fathered The Virgin Mary in 1950?
... that T. vagina have eyes hidden behind their skin?
... that the City of Rio de Janeiro is located in San Francisco Bay?
... that Mr. Santoso was the first female cabinet member in Indonesian history?
... that a gang leader was executed by lethal injection for the crimes of assaulting tourists and breaking into their cars to steal food?

08:00, 1 April 2012 (UTC)

... that in 2009, the urinal known as "The Carousel of Love" (pictured), a well known place for gay cruising, was declared a Norwegian Cultural Heritage Site?
... that a fish in a fishbowl is in a fish?
... that if you want to talk to the anal it helps to speak their language?
... that the United States once fought 32 tons of shark fins, and the fins won?
... that a Baker went into outer space with sea urchin sperm, later receiving a rubber duck and many bananas for her efforts?
... that a Roman Catholic priest got five Super Bowl rings with the 49ers?
... that Nuns can fly at high altitudes?
... that red hot penises can be pickled, but it is recommended one not eat them?
... that people have cut off arms and legs because of Gigli?

00:00, 1 April 2012 (UTC)

... that the male common midwife toad (pictured), like other members of the genus Alytes, carries his eggs around with him until they hatch?
... that following the example of Khader Adnan, Hana Shalabi began a hunger strike after her arrest in Israel, on February 16, 2012?
... that the Plan B song "ill Manors" was written in reaction to the 2011 England riots?
... that in 1985 differences of opinion on the tactics of general strikes led to a split in the Galician nationalist trade union movement and the founding of CXTG?
... that The Flying Fleet's female lead, Anita Page, described co-star Ramón Novarro as "something to dream about"?
... that the black gum is threatened by global warming as it is largely restricted to frost hollows?