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28 February 2015

12:05, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

... that the first British Army battalion to land in Portugal during the Peninsular War was led by William Gabriel Davy (pictured)?
... that Bangladesh officially rejected Israel's recognition of its sovereignty in 1972?
... that Urkhuz ibn Ulugh Tarkhan, the Abbasid governor of Tarsus, was deposed for embezzling the salaries of the garrison of Loulon, leading to its surrender to the Byzantine Empire?
... that production has begun on The Taliban Shuffle, a film based on the memoir by Kim Barker?
... that Ted Longshaw founded three governing bodies for radio-controlled car racing?
... that 22 million tons of coal have been mined in the vicinity of Black Creek?
... that Jacob Hiatt financed a chair in Judaic studies at the College of the Holy Cross and a chair in Christian studies at Brandeis University?
... that there is a rat tribe living under Beijing?

00:20, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

... that Telmatobius ventriflavum (pictured) was not discovered until 2012, despite being located near a major highway?
... that the Taichung BRT was the first articulated bus in Taiwan?
... that one reviewer said John de Lancie's talents were "wasted" in the video game Star Trek: Borg?
... that when the Beirut I electoral district was formed in 2008, it was the first Christian-majority electoral district in the city since 1972?
... that Leon Dexter Batchelor was the longest-serving director of the University of California Citrus Experiment Station?
... that the protozoan parasite Apicystis bombi probably arrived in South America with bumblebees?
... that Stripped Classicism is an architectural style used in several countries, including the United States, Nazi Germany, and Stalin's USSR?
... that Kido Witbooi, first Kaptein of the ǀKhowesin, suggested the name for the Namibian village of Gibeon?

27 February 2015

12:22, 27 February 2015 (UTC)

... that the Westinghouse Atom Smasher (pictured), a 65-foot (20 m) Van de Graaff generator built near Pittsburgh in 1937, was instrumental in the development of practical applications of nuclear science for energy production?
... that Col. Frederick Henry Rich investigated over 250 railway accidents‍—‌including Staplehurst, in the aftermath of which Charles Dickens tended the injured?
... that Charlie Hebdo issue No. 1178 had the highest print run in the history of the French press?
... that according to the Adhyatma Upanishad an intelligent person avoiding truth gets into an illusory state, in the same way as a reed pulled out does not remain straight?
... that Teddy Schwarzman beat out thirty other film producers to acquire the screenplay for The Imitation Game?
... that twenty runners from a single town will be participating in the 2015 Boston Marathon?
... that French Nazi-collaborator and art dealer Achille Boitel sold Woman with a Carnation by Lucas Cranach the Elder to Hermann Göring?
... that a national cricket fighting tournament is held annually on Chongming Island?
00:00, 27 February 2015 (UTC)

... that six buildings on The Square (pictured) in Wiveliscombe are listed?
... that the recently executed billionaire Liu Han once survived an assassination attempt by another billionaire, who was also executed?
... that the premiere episode of You're Whole earned nearly one million viewers, despite airing at 4 a.m.?
... that professor Noel T. Keen, who won an award named for a fellow plant pathologist, now has an award named for him?
... that the Battle of Ban Pa Dong began when Auto Defense Choc graduates from Operation Momentum ambushed Pathet Lao troops?
... that during 2005's stressful conditions in the Caribbean Sea, Symbiodinium trenchi may have prevented some corals from bleaching?
... that the five largest kosher certification agencies in the United States certify 80 percent of the kosher food sold in that country?
... that after Matt Macey was rejected by Bristol Rovers, he turned down their later contract offer to join Arsenal?

26 February 2015

12:00, 26 February 2015 (UTC)

... that when it was built as a private house in 1902, Tower House in Brighton (pictured) had such unusually modern features as underfloor heating and a combined shower and bath?
... that a photo of Lutz Bachmann dressed as Adolf Hitler sparked controversy before his resignation as leader of Pegida, an anti-Islam organisation?
... that it is thought ClearSign Combustion may have been the first publicly-traded company to take advantage of JOBS Act rules allowing avoidance of Sarbanes–Oxley Act accounting standards?
... that Chris Wu lost 8 kilograms (18 lb) in ten days when he was cast in The Third Wish as a skinny farmer with ALS disorder?
... that the 2015 State of the Union Address was the first State of the Union Address in which the President of the United States used the words "gay", "lesbian", and "transgender"?
... that although Brown Creek is usually dry, it can sometimes experience intense floods?
... that in 1902, Admiral Hammerton Killick went down with his ship during a civil war waged in support of Anténor Firmin's bid to become president of Haiti?
... that Goat Simulator was released on April Fools' Day?

00:00, 26 February 2015 (UTC)

... that on her first mission, the Phoenix (pictured) helped to save over 3000 migrants and refugees in less than three months?
... that in 2002, Indonesian taekwondo practitioner Juana Wangsa Putri won a silver medal at the Asian Championships and a bronze at the Asian Games?
... that The Demands of Liberal Education concludes that parental school choice limits capacity for autonomy and, consequently, individual liberty?
... that Guadeloupe-born Élie Bloncourt was permanently blinded in World War I and part of the French resistance movement in World War II?
... that the 2012 western Django Unchained is currently Quentin Tarantino's highest-grossing film?
... that according to the Dečani chronicle, Skanderbeg deserted Ottoman forces in 1444, after being defeated by Serbian Despot Đurađ Branković?
... that while Edward Bishop was chairman, the Christchurch (New Zealand) Town Council nearly went bankrupt?
... that Foxboro Park could not fill all of its thoroughbred racing dates due to a lack of horses?

25 February 2015

12:00, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

... that "Zephyrette" refers to both a hostess on the California Zephyr (pictured) and a Budd Rail Diesel Car service between Oakland, California, and Salt Lake City?
... that Hawanatu Bangura, who was a flag bearer at the 2004 Athens Games, is still the youngest-ever member of the Sierra Leone Olympic team?
... that the Eastern Pilbara Craton contains pieces of Earth crust that are 3.6 billion years old?
... that "Walking Down Madison" is the first song Johnny Marr wrote after the dissolution of The Smiths?
... that professional cyclist Fredrik Ludvigsson rides in the same team as his older brother Tobias?
... that Ralph Benatzky wrote the libretto and music for Meine Schwester und ich, a "more intellectual, more cabaret-style" operetta which premiered in Berlin in 1930?
... that the 1-mile (1.6 km) long Paddy Run has been used as an industrial water supply?
... that Bagboy is a "spin-off of a spin-off of a show within a show"?

00:00, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

... that although Aulis Sallinen (pictured) composed Kullervo for the opening of Helsinki's new national opera house, it was first performed in Los Angeles?
... that Blalock, Oregon, was inundated by rising waters after the John Day Dam was constructed?
... that Mano Blanca was an anti-communist death squad set up and run by the Guatemalan military with considerable assistance from the United States?
... that four of the twenty publicly-owned streambeds in the Upper Susquehanna–Lackawanna basin are Elk Run and its three named tributaries: Long Run, Hog Run, and Gallows Run?
... that N.E.B. Ezra, an ardent Zionist who established the Shanghai newspaper Israel's Messenger, pleaded for a new Buddha to save the world from tyranny?
... that Chennai Express is the third-highest-grossing Bollywood film of all time?
... that the Splash Brothers recently became the first teammates since 1975 to start at guard in an NBA All-Star Game?
... that Aaron Turner is into Sumac for the heaviest experience?

24 February 2015

12:00, 24 February 2015 (UTC)

... that the fossil ant genus Yantaromyrmex (pictured) is found in four amber deposits in Europe?
... that while at Ross Hall, General George Washington ordered a feu de joie?
... that in 2014 Martin Ødegaard became the youngest footballer to play in a UEFA European Championship qualifying match?
... that the short story Old Love by Jeffrey Archer is a tale about two undergraduates at Oxford in the 1930s and their bitter rivalry ending up in a tragic love story?
... that during the Iran–Iraq War, an Iraqi major told his prisoner Aboutorabi, "if Khomeini is like you, I will follow him"?
... that women are currently chiefs of the U.S. Navy Civil Engineer, Medical, Chaplain, Nurse, and Judge Advocate General's Corps‍—‌a majority of the eight Navy staff corps?
... that a telegram marking a century-old beheading prompted Austrian authorities to charge the leadership of the Arboroasa student society with treason?
... that The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky, who had outlined a novel about a writer who dies in a plane crash, died in a plane crash‬?

00:00, 24 February 2015 (UTC)

... that the Dumas Brothel (pictured), believed to be haunted, was the longest-operating brothel in the United States?
... that the helium dimer is the largest molecule in the ground state made from two atoms?
... the Atmabodha Upanishad explains "state of knowledge of the inner self"?
... that film editor Melanie Oliver began her career under the tutelage of director Jane Campion?
... that the Masonic Hall in Taunton was built in the early 19th century as a Catholic chapel?
... that Richard the Lionheart deliberately took church property without its permission?
... that John Gilroy has edited films for his father and both of his brothers?
... that the Australian cricketer Bill Woodfull was the first to carry the bat twice in Tests?

23 February 2015

12:00, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

... that the heroic antislavery painting The Captive Slave (pictured) was not seen in public for 180 years?
... that the fungus Hirticlavula elegans is so named (from the Latin for "elegant") because of the beauty of its fruit bodies?
... that French cinematographer Eric Gautier has been nominated for six César Awards over ten years, winning one?
... that the 1990 Earth-grazing meteoroid above Czechoslovakia and Poland was observed from two sites, which for the first time enabled geometrical calculations of the orbit of such a body?
... that Kim Hyung-jun's 2012 Japanese release of Escape includes only two Japanese songs out of seven tracks?
... that over two hundred Bronze Age objects have been found in Heathery Burn Cave?
... that road cyclist Fernando Gaviria came to global attention after beating Mark Cavendish in two sprints at the 2015 Tour de San Luis?
... that of all manures, chicken manure has the highest nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium content?

00:00, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

... that the site of Castelldefels Castle (pictured) had previously been home to an Iberian settlement and a Roman villa?
... that Colonel Franklin Matthias, the Manhattan District area engineer at the Hanford site, personally couriered its first production batch of plutonium?
... that the second Team Sone Pet vanished?
... that cinematographer Adam Arkapaw's work on True Detective included a single-take shot that took months to plan and a day and a half to execute?
... that a 1662 brawl between Corsican soldiers and Frenchmen at Rome's Ponte Sisto forced Pope Alexander VII to disband the Corsican Guard?
... that Ladislaus I of Hungary, who was canonized in 1192, admitted in a letter that he could not "promote the cause of earthly dignities without committing grave sins"?
... that the fasciated tiger heron is named for the black and buff stripes on its neck and back?
... that the director of Five All Night, Live All Night reportedly did not censor the Human Sexual Response song "Butt Fuck" because he was distracted by naked women?

22 February 2015

12:00, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

... that the mountain trogon (male pictured) either excavates its own cavity nest by chewing into rotting wood or uses a pre-existing hole?
... that novelist George R. R. Martin singled out Tyrion Lannister as his favorite character in his A Song of Ice and Fire series?
... that the Khalidi family opened Palestine's first public library in a Mamluk-era building in the Old City of Jerusalem?
... that the first scene in Three Weeks With Lady X is an homage to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice?
... that Polish painter Bronisława Janowska rejected a marriage proposal from the man she loved because he was divorced?
... that the groundnut rosette virus, which causes serious damage to peanut crops in Africa, is spread by the groundnut aphid?
... that Alfred Hitchcock was an advisor on the official British documentary German Concentration Camps Factual Survey?
... that the Privy Garden of the Palace of Whitehall had a screen installed to ensure that passersby would not see the King of England in his bathtub?

00:00, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

... that French track cyclist Frédéric de Civry (pictured) was considered an amateur in France, but a professional in England?
... that for the Orphan Black episode "Instinct", the show's own writing offices were used as a filming location?
... that Le Salon de Madame Aron by Édouard Vuillard was stolen from Alfred Lindon by the Nazis in 1940 and not returned to his family until 2006?
... that 40% of Gardens Alive's revenue comes from non-gardening merchandise?
... that a surveillance video of Elisa Lam acting strangely in an elevator drew three million views in its first ten days on Youku, though many viewers said it disturbed them?
... that the Aruneya Upanishad says that an itinerant monk should practise chastity, nonviolence, truthfulness, and indifference to material possessions?
... that Karl Jenkins derived Palladio, a concerto grosso for string orchestra named after Palladio, from his TV commercial for De Beers diamonds?
... that Emin Xhinovci was given the nickname "Hitler" because of his uncanny resemblance to Adolf Hitler?

21 February 2015

12:00, 21 February 2015 (UTC)

... that the alleged remains of a fort supposedly built by the Fishing Creek Confederacy lie in the vicinity of Painter Run (pictured)?
... that Bruna Papandrea co-founded a film production company with actress Reese Witherspoon?
... that after his assassination, Laurent Kabila lay in state at the People's Palace of the Democratic Republic of Congo, which had been commissioned by the president he overthrew?
... that a Corroboree frog described in a monograph by John Alexander Moore was featured on an Australian postage stamp?
... that the Italian cruiser Vettor Pisani almost bombarded Prevesa during the Italo-Turkish War of 1911–12 until protests by the Austro-Hungarian Empire forced the Italians to cancel the operation?
... that Methodist preacher Stephen G. Roszel opposed abolition?
... that Marian Engel's 1976 novel Bear has been called "the most controversial novel ever written in Canada"?
... that Dick Whittington gave London a public toilet with 128 seats, known as Whittington's Longhouse?

00:00, 21 February 2015 (UTC)

... that The Sirens and Ulysses (detail pictured) by William Etty was described in 1837 as "a disgusting combination of voluptuousness and loathsome putridity"?
... that Sri Lankan cricketer Rangana Herath conceded the fewest runs while taking a five-wicket haul in Twenty20 Internationals?
... that according to the Brahma Upanishad, a living being controls all its senses similarly to a spider, which weaves its web with a single thread?
... that the dispute over Hamo's appointment as treasurer of York was resolved when his opponent gave him a church instead?
... that Dickie Dick Dickens was voted the most popular radio play ever in Norway?
... that George F. Robinson was awarded the 1871 Congressional Gold Medal for saving the life of US Secretary of State William Seward?
... that a church in Leipzig with many names, destroyed in a bombing in 1943, had served two denominations, and was also used for storage, as a prison, and as a hospital?
... that the glaucous pimplet can be distinguished from the closely related red speckled anemone by the sediment that sticks to its column?

20 February 2015

12:15, 20 February 2015 (UTC)

... that the Chitrakoot Falls (pictured) is often called "the Niagara Falls of India" because of its wide spread of water during the monsoon season?
... that Wesley Blake trained in the Funking Conservatory and eventually became its World Champion?
... that the manuscript of Harper Lee's forthcoming novel, Go Set a Watchman‍—‌written before To Kill a Mockingbird but featuring its key characters‍—‌was lost until rediscovered by her lawyer in 2014?
... that Venezuelan singer Aneeka cites as musical influences American singers Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston and Aretha Franklin?
... that the Dattatreya Upanishad describes the god Dattatreya variously as a child, a demon, crazy, and an ocean of knowledge?
... that the Canadian industrialist Alexander "Boss" Gibson named his company town after his wife and daughter?
... that Manot 1, a skull discovered in the Manot Cave in Israel, provides evidence that modern humans lived side-by-side with Neanderthals?
... that to combat "shuddering fluorescent jelly" on TV, Jonathan Miller launched A Trip to the Moon?

00:30, 20 February 2015 (UTC)

... that Umberto Boccioni's 1913 painting Dynamism of a Cyclist (pictured) depicts a racing cyclist?
... that Romanian sociologist Traian Brăileanu, known to his students as "Socrates", was tried for "corrupting the youth"?
... that Oak Hill Industrial Academy was a school in Indian Territory for the children of Choctaw freedmen?
... that the Pine Creek watershed contains the only Approved Trout Waters in the Solomon Creek drainage basin?
... that Ukraine still relies on Soviet-era laws and standards to designate the status of cities of district significance, as it does not have a current law of its own?
... that James P. T. Carter was one of "three brave men" who escorted Andrew Johnson from Greeneville, Tennessee, to Washington, D.C. in June 1861?
... that colonies of black stem aphid may be enclosed in earth galleries by ants?
... that Georges Méliès's film The Doctor and the Monkey has been compared to the 1981 video game Donkey Kong?

19 February 2015

12:45, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

... that the Castaing machine (pictured), a seventeenth-century device created by Jean Castaing, was said to be capable of applying edge lettering to 20,000 coins daily?
... that Ladislaus III of Hungary reigned less than a year and died before his sixth birthday?
... that "Geh aus, mein Herz, und suche Freud", written by Paul Gerhardt after the Thirty Years War, was translated as "Go Forth, My Heart, and Seek Delight"?
... that Watering Run caused the only recorded flooding due to a major storm in any developed part of Wright Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania?
... that Serbian writer Oskar Davičo received the literary NIN Award a record three times?
... that Education and Democracy: The Meaning of Alexander Meiklejohn argues that at the core of Meiklejohn's efforts is "the paradox of Socratic teaching"?
... that auctioneer Theodor Fischer was described as "the focal point in all looted art transactions" in World War Two–era Switzerland?
... that the album From the Ages is over an hour long and was recorded in just two days?

01:00, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

... that Mogurnda adspersa (pictured), a species of fish once thought to be extinct, was rediscovered in 2002?
... that in 2005, Dutch skeptic Rob Nanninga used an Internet spelling error to expose a psychic?
... that Clancy's was once an unassuming neighborhood bar?
... that Jerry Lester was the host of the first successful network late-night television show, Broadway Open House?
... that The Lying Student was written in 1914, but not published until most of the manuscript was rediscovered in 1981?
... that before becoming a film actor, Deepak Tijori worked for a magazine and a hotel?
... that Paris Saint-Germain and SC Bastia, the two teams in the 2015 Coupe de la Ligue Final, also played the tournament's first ever final?
... that a novel virus may be implicated in its parasitic wasp host turning the spotted lady beetle into a "zombie bodyguard"?

18 February 2015

13:15, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

... that Bonne of Bourbon (pictured), countess of Savoy, had to sell her jewelry to re-equip her husband at war in Italy?
... that Ohio derived its state motto, "With God, all things are possible", from a passage in the Gospel of Matthew, prompting a lawsuit from the American Civil Liberties Union?
... that the 2015 Scottish League Cup Final will be Celtic's 30th appearance in the final and Dundee United's 7th?
... that Taiwanese actress Jade Chou was once compared to her character in What Is Love because they were both in their thirties and still single?
... that the domestication of wild barley probably took place in the Fertile Crescent about 10,000 years ago?
... that Ocle Pychard was held by Roger de Lacy at the time of the Domesday Book?
... that the references to Ganesha in the popular devotional song Sukhakarta Dukhaharta are described as "remarkable", considering he was not the patron god of its poet?
... that film producer Anne Rosellini wrote her first screenplay because "I didn't have the money to hire a writer, so I just decided to do it myself"?

01:30, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

... that Alfred Sisley's The Port of Moret-sur-Loing (1884) (pictured) was one of nearly 1,000 items looted from the Lévy de Benzion collection by Nazi agents during the Second World War?
... that Fabrice Aragno's cinematography in Jean-Luc Godard's 3D film Goodbye to Language introduced a new kind of camera shot?
... that Martin D. Whitaker was the first director of the Clinton Laboratories (now the Oak Ridge National Laboratory)?
... that the International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians established its Chern Prize nine years before the International Mathematical Union established its?
... that Jean-Baptiste Pastor, an orphan immigrant in 1880, founded Monaco's "second dynasty"?
... that in Poliçan, southern Albania, as well as in the rest of the Pogoni region, polyphonic singing is a local tradition?
... that Ross Taylor's score of 102 not out against Pakistan was the hundredth One Day International century by a New Zealand batsman?
... that 64% of Utah is federal land, and Utah wants it?

17 February 2015

12:00, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

... that the Plaka Bridge (pictured) in western Greece, formerly the largest single-arch stone bridge in the Balkans, survived bombing by the Luftwaffe, but was destroyed by floods on 1 February 2015?
... that the sea battles of the Echinades and of Amorgos in 322 BC led to the defeat of Athens in the Lamian War, ending Athenian naval power and independence?
... that India is one of the most dangerous places in the world to drive?
... that in the 1969 Lusaka Manifesto, black-ruled African states offered dialogue with apartheid South Africa?
... that Tripoli Jewish community leader and historian Abraham Khalfon lost two sons in his lifetime – one in a plague and one who was burned at the stake?
... that in 1886, the United States Naval Academy football team beat close rival Johns Hopkins with a last-second double lateral?
... that Masanobu Takayanagi was inspired to move to the U.S. and become a cinematographer after seeing a book about the subject in a Japanese bookstore?
... that Gotlandsdricka is essentially the same everyday brew that the Vikings drank?

00:04, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

... that the bookwheel (pictured) was one of the earliest devices that allowed a person to read multiple books in one location?
... that the 2013 documentary The Prime Ministers: The Pioneers is based on the 2010 book The Prime Ministers: An Intimate Narrative of Israeli Leadership?
... that Giuseppina Brambilla, one of five opera-singer sisters, was a prima donna in Barcelona and Odessa?
... that as a result of the Super Bowl XLIX halftime show, a dancer known as the "Left Shark" became an internet meme?
... that Columbia University professor Deborah Mowshowitz teaches introductory biology by having students solve famous historical problems?
... that production has begun on Creed, a spin-off of Rocky and the seventh film in the Rocky series?
... that Walter Buckley's venture capital firm Internet Capital Group, once worth over US$50 billion, lost 99% of its value when the dot-com bubble burst in 2001, but continues to operate today?
... that the gum produced by the gum karaya is used as a laxative and an aphrodisiac?

16 February 2015

12:19, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

... that Huda Zoghbi (pictured), the physician–scientist who identified the gene that causes Rett syndrome, originally wanted to study literature?
... that HBO used some 160 lawyers to vet its film Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief because of the notorious litigiousness of the Church of Scientology?
... that a nineteenth-century author wrote, "there is not a more complete system of fortifications extant, in any part of the world, than the cordon of defensive structures at Malta"?
... that New York Yankees' prospect Ty Hensley was allegedly assaulted by another athlete because Hensley did not want to discuss his $1.2 million signing bonus?
... that God's Choice was the fruit of a late-1970s 18-month ethnographic study of a 350-student Christian fundamentalist Baptist K–12 day school in Illinois?
... that John Norton, future United States Army lieutenant general, was college roommates with George Scratchley Brown, future Air Force Chief of Staff?
... that the theme for World Youth Day 1995, "Tell the World of His Love", was performed multiple times during the visit of Pope Francis in the Philippines?
... that the renovation of the nuclear weapon arsenal of the United States resulted in the setting of the Doomsday Clock two minutes closer to midnight?

00:34, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

... that the Le Conte's thrasher (pictured) can run faster than a trotting horse?
... that A-Force, the upcoming ongoing comic book series to be published by Marvel Comics, will feature Marvel's first all-female team of Avengers?
... that Iran's Supreme Leader, Khamenei, is alleged to be the first senior Islamic cleric directly addressing western youth about his religion?
... that Peter Landesman made his directorial debut with the 2013 film Parkland, based on a non-fiction book's excerpt titled "Four Days in November"?
... that the 2015 McDonald's All-American Boys Game is the 38th annual McDonald's All-American Game and 5th consecutive at Chicago's United Center?
... that although only two of Zhang Ruoxu's poems have survived, one of them was called "the poem of all poems" by Wen Yiduo?
... that in Compulsory Miseducation, Paul Goodman proposes that school be made non-compulsory?
... that a bubble caused Sir Abraham Elton, 2nd Baronet to flee England for France?

15 February 2015

12:50, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

... that the Hayagriva Upanishad is dedicated to a horse-headed god (pictured)?
... that swimmer Mary Wayte won the first of four Olympic medals by defeating former world record-holder Sippy Woodhead in the final of the women's 200-meter freestyle at the 1984 Summer Olympics?
... that a method to reduce the temperature recovery time for an oven is to keep a baking stone in it?
... that freelance programmer and author Martin Pistorius was believed to be in a persistent vegetative state but was actually suffering from locked-in syndrome?
... that Argentine president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner's government is trying to force the impeachment of the judge investigating her in the Hotesur scandal?
... that John Shannon Munn, one of the few first-class cricketers from Newfoundland, was killed in the wreck of a ship owned by his stepfather's company?
... that Jennifer Rush's "Higher Ground" was covered by Mario Pelchat and Celine Dion in French as "Plus haut que moi"?
... that Henry Ford was a "comparative nonentity" who got various jobs because his wife's uncle was a bishop?

01:05, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

... that the "goddess of music" on the Cincinnati Musical Center half dollar (pictured) has been described as having "the same appeal of a dancer with cramps"?
... that Tsgabu Grmay was the first Ethiopian to win an international cycling event?
... that ribonuclease V1, an enzyme used to study the structure of transfer RNA, is found in the venom of the Caspian cobra?
... that Arizona Territorial Chief Justice C. G. W. French reunited with and married "the love of his youth" late in life?
... that Grand Theft Auto V caused controversy over a mission that requires players to waterboard and torture a hostage?
... that Louis Edmund Blaze was responsible for introducing rugby to schools in Ceylon?
... that Richmond Park in London is three times the size of Central Park in New York?
... that screenwriter Lucy Alibar raised money through online crowdfunding so she could afford to attend her film's screening at the Cannes Film Festival?

14 February 2015

13:20, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

... that Madness had to pretend they were a jazz band to get a gig at the Dublin Castle, Camden (pictured)?
... that Hoyt Wilhelm was the first relief pitcher elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum?
... that the Serb Uprising of 1596–97 came to an end due to lack of foreign support and defeat at the field of Gacko?
... that a nun is said to have been miraculously cured at the Franciscan Convent in Taunton in 1809?
... that filmgoers incorrectly believed that Blackrock was a factual account of the murder of Leigh Leigh?
... that an April 2013 exhibit in the Interference Archive featured homemade cardboard shields that were confiscated by the New York Police Department as weapons?
... that Kapellmeister Mattheus Le Maistre's request for retirement was denied, yet he was granted a stipend?
... that the Bleu Horses near Three Forks, Montana, are 8 feet (2.4 m) tall?

00:00, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

... that Lalji Singh (pictured) is popularly known as the "Father of DNA Fingerprinting" in India?
... that Beyond: Two Souls, despite being a video game, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival?
... that American swimmer Nicole Haislett is a three-time Olympic gold medalist who learned to swim at the age of 18 months?
... that Nissan used a commercial during Super Bowl XLIX to debut their GT-R LM Nismo race car?
... that Columbia mathematics professor Mu-Tao Wang did not consider himself a particularly good student?
... that Govind Nihalani's Hindi film Tamas (1988) was initially aired as a television series?
... that the family support group The Mariposa Trust has been partly funded by charity sky dives?
... that the Hoosier cavefish has its anus directly behind its gills?

13 February 2015

12:00, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

... that the T28E1 Combination Gun Motor Carriage, a version of the M15 Half-Track (pictured), shot down 39 aircraft during the Battle of Kasserine Pass?
... that Japanese movie producer Nagamasa Kawakita introduced Kurosawa's Rashomon at the 1951 Venice Film Festival, where it won the Golden Lion?
... that the Krishna Upanishad advocates serving God by love and devotion to achieve emancipation?
... that Charles Hailey developed the glass slumping technique on which the optics of the NuSTAR telescope are based?
... that the Capon Lake Whipple Truss Bridge was originally built in 1874 on the South Branch Potomac River, but was moved to its current location on the Cacapon River in 1938?
... that Paganini published the world's first Arabic-language printed edition of the Quran?
... that the extinct earwig Toxolabis was preserved with two earwig nymphs?
... that Afro-German advocate Ika Hügel-Marshall, the child of a German woman and an African-American soldier, never met another black person until she was 39?

00:00, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

... that the title of the children's magazine The Brownies' Book (pictured) alludes to black Americans being used as servants?
... that the future poet Yang Jiong was appointed to the prestigious Hongwen College at the age of nine?
... that two men were ambushed while making sugar near the mouth of Hunlock Creek in 1780?
... that Turkish journalist Amberin Zaman recognizes the Armenian Genocide and believes that the Turkish government must reconcile its history?
... that the children's album Pombo Musical is based on the fables of Colombian poet Rafael Pombo?
... that Arthur Phillips composed a setting of "The Requiem, or, Liberty of an Imprisoned Royalist" by Thomas Pierce?
... that both mountainous star coral and boulder star coral are susceptible to coral diseases and bleaching?
... that Kenneth and Sarah Ramsey win horse races with Kittens?

12 February 2015

12:10, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

... that in addition to escargot, some snail farms also produce snail caviar (pictured)?
... that Marija Bursać was the first woman to be proclaimed a People's Hero of Yugoslavia?
... that the Sahifah of al-Ridha is a collection of 240 hadiths narrated by Ali ibn Musa al-Ridha, the eighth Shia Imam?
... that a dispute between Nyu Media and PayPal led to a reform of the latter's crowdfunding policies?
... that the Indian politician and senior advocate K. T. S. Tulsi represented the victims of the Uphaar Cinema fire in court?
... that of the eight tied Twenty20 International cricket matches, three were between New Zealand and the West Indies?
... that General Vang Pao's dream of enemy troops hidden on the Operation Pigfat landing zone was verified by refugee interrogation?
... that Brother Richard Withers, an American hermit in Philadelphia, does not own a television or car but does own a computer?

00:25, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

... that during World War II, Japanese invasion money for Oceania (pictured) was issued for use in the Gilbert and Solomon Islands, New Britain, and Papua New Guinea?
... that Robert Smirke painted a series of seven paintings derived from a monologue in As You Like It?
... that the Sikh politician Darshan Singh Pheruman died after 74 days on hunger strike, demanding inclusion of Chandigarh and other Punjabi-speaking regions into Punjab?
... that two and a half years before the Tonkin Gulf Incident, the Sigma I-62 war game concluded that American intervention in Vietnam would be unsuccessful?
... that Massachusetts Secretary of Veterans' Affairs Francisco Urena was the state's Veterans Services Director of the Year in 2008?
... that the INTEGER Millennium House incorporates numerous environmental technology features, including a green roof and a geothermal heat pump?
... that folklorist Jan Harold Brunvand describes urban legends as the "kissing cousins of myths, fairy tales and rumors"?
... that Muddy Waters' 1951 blues song, "Long Distance Call," was inspired by Blind Lemon Jefferson's 1929 song, "Long Distance Moan"?

11 February 2015

12:40, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

... that Shanghai's Beth Aharon Synagogue (pictured) provided refuge to 400 rabbis and students of the Mir yeshiva, the only Eastern European yeshiva to survive the Holocaust intact?
... that the 2012 London Games was Sierra Leone's tenth appearance at the Summer Olympics?
... that according to the Atharvashikha Upanishad, Om represents the Hindu Trinity, the Vedic scriptures, Vedic poetic meters and holy fires?
... that a brief conversation with Lawrence of Arabia prompted R. V. C. Bodley to live with a nomadic tribe in the Sahara desert for seven years?
... that the main cast and supporting actors of the film Chotoder Chobi were previously non-actors?
... that the future Béla III of Hungary was for a time the chosen successor of Byzantine emperor Manuel I Komnenos, who created the title despotes for him?
... that four months after Major General Stephen Twitty enacted measures to correct inadequate security at Fort Bliss, the response to the 2015 Fort Bliss shooting was described as "a model of how to respond"?
... that the hairstyle, sideburns, life and death of Austrian poacher Pius Walder inspired the Tatort police procedural film Elvis lebt! (Elvis lives!)?

00:55, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

... that the green hellebore (pictured) was used as a folk remedy to treat worms in children, and topically for lice?
... that Newton Aduaka was the first independent black filmmaker to get a national release in the UK, for Rage in 1999?
... that during the Korean War, No. 30 Communications Unit RAAF undertook "Operation Haggis", the delivery of 180 lb (82 kg) of haggis to the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders?
... that R. Fraser Armstrong‎ became superintendent of Kingston General Hospital despite having no medical training?
... that when the solitary octocoral Taiaroa tauhou was discovered in 1973, it was at first thought to be a sea anemone?
... that Ian Bell has scored 21 centuries in Test cricket for England?
... that Pikes Creek and Harveys Creek together supply water to more than 60,000 people in 15 communities?
... that St. Vincent's single "Digital Witness" was released on a limited-edition gold die-cut vinyl triangle?

10 February 2015

13:10, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

... that the Portrait of an African Man (pictured) is the first portrait of a black man in European painting and might depict an archer, nobleman, Saint Maurice or Zwarte Piet?
... that artefacts from Glastonbury Lake Village are on display at The Tribunal?
... that after announcing his retirement, Australian MP Clive Shields publicly attacked his own constituents, saying he was "fed up with oiling the parish pump"?
... that male and female Potomac sculpins prefer to live in different habitat conditions?
... that Olympic bronze medalist Richard W. Mayo was a brigadier general in the Korean War?
... that North Nicosia, the capital of Northern Cyprus, has a population of around 61,000 and hosts over 34,000 university students?
... that Amlaíb Conung was the first King of Dublin?
... that Operation Off Balance was staged in only three days in hopes of catching the enemy off balance?

01:25, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

... that the necklaced spinetail (pictured) sometimes sings from inside its globular nest?
... that Romanian writer Ion Agârbiceanu was influenced in his work by the four years he spent as a parish priest in the Apuseni Mountains?
... that Lemmings is regarded as one of the most widely ported video games?
... that poet Lu Zhaolin drowned himself after suffering from a debilitating disease for years?
... that images of Nandanar, Vayilar, Sakkiya, Idangazhi, Anaya, Kalikamba, Kaliya, Satti, Pusalar, Kungiliya Kalaya, Sadaiya, Murthi, Murkha, Nami Nandi Adigal, Somasi Mara, Isaignaniyar, Viralminda, Eyarkon Kalikkama, Pugal Chola, Eripatha, Manakanchara, Kotpuli, Enathinathar, Sirappuli, Seruthunai, Amaraneedi, Nesa, Pugazh Thunai, Kutruva, Kalarsinga, Munaiyaduvar, Ilayankudi Maranar, Meiporul, Iyarpagai, Tiru Nilakanta Yazhpanar, Tirunilakanta, Tiruneelanakka, and Apputhi Adigal are among the 63 Nayanar saints paraded during processions at temple festivals in Tamil Nadu?
... that disappointment led to the creation of Retox?

9 February 2015

13:40, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

... that the use of Lord Kitchener's image in recruiting advertisements (pictured) was so ubiquitous that Lady Asquith began referring to him as simply "the poster"?
... that Phisit Intharathat was saved in the only successful rescue of POWs during the Second Indochina War?
... that the Bolokhoveni were forced to supply the Mongol army with crops after the Mongols destroyed Kiev in 1240?
... that during a lull in fighting in the Lebanese Civil War, some 100,000 people gathered in Beirut to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide?
... that a Christian education program at the Tarrant County Corrections Center was shut down as unconstitutional?
... that in 1693 Julije Balović wrote a multilingual dictionary on five languages, including Albanian?
... that Yuraygir National Park boasts 48 beaches?
... that in retaliation for trains' killing of their cattle, farmers would spread lard on the tracks of the Lake Simcoe Junction Railway?

01:55, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

... that The Abbot's Fish House (pictured) is the only surviving monastic fishery building in England?
... that the Anglo-Norman baron William Pantulf cleared himself from suspicion of murdering his lord's wife by undergoing a trial by ordeal?
... that with a 20-million-year fossil record, Acer chaneyi has the longest fossil record of the Western North American maples?
... that Christian Socialism in Utah prompted a debate on whether "socialism or individualism was taught by the New Testament as a basis for Christian government"?
... that Mouna Ragam was the first Mani Ratnam film to use staccato dialogue?
... that Graeme Swann's 18 five-wicket hauls in international cricket ties him with James Anderson for third-highest for England?
... that a fire lookout station has been located on Hager Mountain since 1915?
... that over $20,000 was spent trademarking the name Max Heat before the character was renamed Max Payne?

8 February 2015

14:10, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

... that Hans Rosenfeldt (pictured)‍—‌creator of the Scandinavian crime series The Bridge, which has spawned two international adaptations‍—‌briefly worked as a sea lion trainer?
... that the cemetery of Capon Chapel is the burial place of free and enslaved African Americans, Union and Confederate American Civil War veterans, and two state legislators?
... that in 2007 Richard Malka successfully defended the editor of Charlie Hebdo against charges of inciting racism?
... that Wilhelm von Humboldt created a revolutionary model of higher education at the University of Berlin?
... that Alan Resnick's house was transformed into the set of the television special he hosts?
... that Pedro Rivera, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf's nominee to become education secretary, was honored by the White House as a "champion of change"?
... that the kola nut is used in the manufacture of both cola drinks and chocolate that has a high melting point?
... that Conxita Julià is best known for a handkerchief she owned?

02:25, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

... that Booker T. Washington (pictured) was the protégé of American General Samuel Chapman Armstrong, as described in his 1999 biography Educating the Disfranchised and Disinherited?
... that Shanghai's Ohel Rachel Synagogue, described as "second to none in the East", was on the World Monuments Watch's list of most endangered sites?
... that Bhakti Sharma is the first Asian woman and the youngest in the world to set a record in open swimming in Antarctic waters?
... that after hackers stole confidential information from Sony Pictures Entertainment, former employees sued the company for failing to protect their data?
... that Ralph Benatzky wrote both libretto and music of the musical comedy Bezauberndes Fräulein, inspired by the French farce La petite chocolatière?
... that, until his death, Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman had been working on the case of the AMIA bombing, the 1994 terrorist attack against Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (AMIA)?
... that the first four specimens of the fossil earwig Zigrasolabis are all preserved in the same piece of amber?
... that although not his final release, Padayappa (1999) was the last film that Sivaji Ganesan worked?

7 February 2015

14:40, 7 February 2015 (UTC)

... that the West Virginia Legislature adopted the state's first official flag (present flag pictured) in 1905, based on the flag used by West Virginia's committee at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition?
... that the position of Thomaskantor in Bach's time has been described as "one of the most respected and influential musical offices of Protestant Germany"?
... that Kajol became first woman to win the Filmfare Award for Best Performance in a Negative Role for her performance in Gupt: The Hidden Truth (1997)?
... that the 5300-tonne (12 million lb) Brooke Street Pier is Australia's largest floating building?
... that over 100 people have been killed in terrorist attacks in France since 1961?
... that self-taught botanist Wilhelm Nikolaus Suksdorf is the namesake of the type species Suksdorfia violacea?
... that when first proposed in 2013, the Canada Job Grant was described as "economic sabotage" by Quebec's finance minister Nicolas Marceau?
... that because he is 4 ft 4 in (1.32 m) tall, Rico Abreu uses foot blocks to operate his race car's throttle?

00:00, 7 February 2015 (UTC)

... that the Parker Training Academy Dutch Barn (pictured) in Red Hook, New York, is one of the last built in the Hudson Valley?
... that Edmond Debeaumarché (1906–1959) was a French postal worker who was honored with a stamp for his service with the French Resistance?
... that the Caproni Ca.60 Transaereo eight-engine, nine-wing flying boat prototype was intended to become a 100-passenger transatlantic airliner, but crashed on its second flight?
... that Maitland Volcano in northern British Columbia is a prehistoric shield volcano of the Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province?
... that Minnie Evans, chair of the Prairie Band of Potawatomi Nation, prevented termination of her tribe and won reparations for her people from the Indian Claims Commission?
... that General Francesco Ferruccio compared the ranks of 16th-century Corsican condottiero Pasquino Corso to tabby cats, beautiful but unable to catch mice?
... that according to the book Ozu's Anti-Cinema, Japanese film director Yasujirō Ozu "did not trust actors' performances"?
... that Musa McKim painted a mural in a U.S. Forest Service building along with her husband, abstract artist Philip Guston?

6 February 2015

12:00, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

... that the vetch aphid (pictured) only produces winged aphids after three generations?
... that the upcoming Coen brothers film Hail, Caesar!, set in the 1950s Hollywood film industry, was originally planned to have a 1920s setting?
... that Canadian children's author Sheree Fitch was the poet laureate of a golf tournament in the Arctic?
... that as rocks are compressed, sinking down into an oceanic trench, they release water that causes volcanoes to form above?
... that by the time he turned 27, Trevor Kincaid had discovered more than 240 new insect species?
... that several major skating events, including the 2010–11 Speed Skating World Cup, have been held at the ice rink in the small Bavarian town of Inzell?
... that Australia defeated West Indies in the final of the 2006 ICC Champions Trophy by eight wickets, winning the title for the first time?
... that during his recent visit to the Philippines, Pope Francis said mass before a record gathering of six million people?

00:00, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

... that the 1890 Jolly Darkie Target Game (cover pictured), one of many games of its time having themes of violence against black people, is now part of collectable black memorabilia?
... that in 1912 Michael Winter intruded into the White House twice in one day?
... that No. 300 Group of the British Royal Air Force was formed in Australia in 1944, and many of the personnel in one of its squadrons were Australian?
... that the larvae of the harlequin fly are blood red due to haemoglobin?
... that particle physicist and Columbia professor Michael Tuts is often mistaken for horror author Stephen King?
... that sculptor Jim Dolan portrayed Albert Einstein throwing a Frisbee?
... that two troops of dragoons were sent to Taunton after the result of the 1754 by-election prompted rioting?
... that most of Fox Film's silents were lost in the 1937 Fox vault fire?

5 February 2015

12:00, 5 February 2015 (UTC)

... that Francisco D'Andrade (pictured) appears in his signature role Don Giovanni in three paintings by Max Slevogt?
... that during the apartheid era, South Africa's National Party won a by-election in Oudtshoorn after waging a "Boerehaat campaign"?
... that despite breaking a collarbone after only ten minutes, Lieut. Edmund Creswell played the whole of the first FA Cup Final?
... that the New Synagogue, which once served the Russian Jews in Shanghai, has been demolished?
... that video game character Jill Valentine was almost a Jill sandwich?
... that the Hôtel d'Alluye hosted Scarface's brother in 1588?
... that Barbadian singer Rihanna accumulated 20 number one songs on the U.S. Hot Dance Club Songs chart in less than eight years?
... that Till Nowak's German mockumentary short film The Centrifuge Brain Project incorporates computer-generated imagery to create seven realistic fictional amusement park rides?

00:00, 5 February 2015 (UTC)

... that the Market Cross (pictured) in Cheddar has stood for 500 years, but been damaged by traffic twice since 2000?
... that "Won't Get Fooled Again" was the last song Keith Moon ever played live with The Who?
... that schools of Ammodytes americanus bury themselves in sand each night to avoid predators?
... that six different sects share one parliamentary seat in Lebanon?
... that Gloucester, Massachusetts, mayor David I. Robinson chose to resign rather than sign a liquor license?
... that the Garuda Upanishad, dedicated to the "Lord of birds", includes spells claimed to cure wounds inflicted by poisonous snakes, ghosts, and demons?
... that Hurricane Fay caused about 3.8 million USD in damage in 2014?
... that a popular form of entertainment at jilt shops was rat-baiting?

4 February 2015

12:00, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

... that the French satirical cartoonist Charb (pictured), a victim of the Charlie Hebdo shooting in Paris in January, had been on Al-Qaeda's "most wanted list" since 2013?
... that there is an ongoing proposal within the UK to restrict encryption?
... that as head of the rabbinical court in Tripoli, Libya, Abraham Hayyim Adadi levied a 5 percent tax on local merchants to pay for teachers for poor children?
... that the tail of the ornate shrew is bicolored?
... that football player Brad Craddock of the Maryland Terrapins was tutored by NFL Pro Bowler Matt Stover?
... that The Legend of Lucky Pie was called the Chinese "knock-off" of Adventure Time?
... that James C. Marshall was the first Chief Engineer of the Manhattan District?
... that in Roger Scruton's musical vision of the eccentric love-life of Violet Gordon-Woodhouse, a leading lady is sung by a baritone?

00:00, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

... that Renoir's harem scene, Parisian Women in Algerian Costume (pictured), was rejected for the Paris Salon of 1872?
... that Alexandra Aitken, daughter of former British politician Jonathan Aitken, converted to Sikhism and changed her name to Uttrang Kaur Khalsa?
... that the victors in Operation Diamond Arrow abandoned the battlefield?
... that new colonies of the carpet sea squirt can form by "dripping"?
... that a 2013 study by American neuroscientist Tor Wager found that it is possible to detect physical pain in humans using an fMRI scan?
... that the United States accounts for 37% of all global military spending?
... that Thomas Reardon was for a time Microsoft's entire Internet Explorer development team?
... that in 1629 a Virginia court sentenced Thomasine Hall to wear items of both male and female clothing simultaneously?

3 February 2015

12:00, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

... that after Lionel de Jersey Harvard (pictured) died in World War I, a fellow officer wrote, "If Harvard College made him what he was, I want my sons to go there that it may do the same for them"?
... that the only source on the life of Gelou, the Vlach ruler of Transylvania, is the chronicle Gesta Hungarorum?
... that the rare clouds that shower in the desert are called "Uttanka's clouds"?
... that Tomislav Smoljanović's "guerrilla science approach" uncovered financial ties between medical researchers and an American pharmaceutical company?
... that The Guardian's iOS game of 2014, Vainglory, was chosen to demonstrate the iPhone 6's graphics capabilities at the phone's launch event?
... that portraying the role of lesbian headmistress Caroline Dawson in Last Tango in Halifax earned actress Sarah Lancashire the most fan mail of her career?
... that the migrating island of Hengsha was finally stopped by Shanghai's "educated youth" and other workers during the 1960s?
... that medical missionary Victor Clough Rambo removed nineteen cataracts in one day, using a desk as an operating table?

00:00, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

... that the fringed filefish (pictured) and the fan-bellied leatherjacket both have dewlaps?
... that SpotHero is a mobile app that allows motorists to reserve parking spaces at a discount?
... that Arshad Warsi won the Filmfare Award for Best Performance in a Comic Role for Lage Raho Munna Bhai?
... that the Lisburn Distillery Predators were the first Northern Irish team to play in the UEFA Women's Cup?
... that the Beda people are the smallest officially recognised tribe in Jammu and Kashmir?
... that the New South Wales Bail Act includes an "unacceptable risk" test?
... that in the Church of St John the Divine, Holme Chapel, is a misericord depicting a mermaid with a mirror?
... that Ernest Cashel, who once escaped from a moving train by jumping out the bathroom window, was hanged on this day in 1904?

2 February 2015

12:00, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

... that the convent of San Isidro Labrador Parish (pictured) in Lazi, Siquijor is one of the largest convents built during the Spanish colonial era in the Philippines?
... that with two 1,600-gallon (6,056-liter) cisterns and a filtering system, Brock Environmental Center is the first project in the US to receive a commercial permit to use rainwater as drinking water?
... that Empire marks the television directorial debut for Academy Award–nominated director Lee Daniels?
... that despite a "perfect" performance in goal, William Merriman was on the losing side in the first FA Cup Final?
... that Web of the Romulans was the first original Star Trek novel to reach the US bestseller lists?
... that David Ogilvy's quotation "The customer is not a moron" has been reused by the BBC and the CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi?
... that the Delta Psi fraternity at the University of Vermont was famous for its 100-keg Oktoberfest parties?

00:00, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

... that the collages of the Victorian photographer Lady Jocelyn (pictured) were said to have "subverted the realistic nature of photography"?
... that the 2003 Food City 500 was the 2,000th NASCAR Winston Cup Series race?
... that Last Tango in Halifax actor Louis Greatorex almost missed his audition for the series due to a bout of flu?
... that in the early 1970s, Bow Creek was nearly devoid of aquatic life, but within five years had substantial fish populations and is now Class A Wild Trout Waters?
... that Macedonian journalist Tomislav Kezarovski was sentenced to 4½ years for allegedly revealing the identity of a protected witness?
... that John Venn said of James Halman's time as Master of Caius College that "his brief career in that capacity has left no perceptible impression behind"?
... that The sacred duck was seen widely across Germany until the Third Reich silenced it?

1 February 2015

12:00, 1 February 2015 (UTC)

... that Shortia galacifolia (pictured) was rediscovered nearly 100 years after its first sighting?
... that the god Vishnu's mace represents his wife?
... that Grabaciones Accidentales, established in 1981, was one of Spain's first independent record labels?
... that William Egon of Fürstenberg was a Prince in the Holy Roman Empire, and making 90,000 livres a year as a French agent, when he was arrested for treason?
... that a man shot two New York City police officers to death, ostensibly in revenge for the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, and then committed suicide?
... that in Somerset's 1882 cricket match against Lancashire, the stumps had to be moved, because the pitch was "a puddle"?
... that the Belleville and North Hastings Railway didn't reach either Belleville or North Hastings?

00:00, 1 February 2015 (UTC)

... that the pipe organ at the Old Salem Visitor Center (pictured) was constructed by David Tannenberg, who has been called "the most important eighteenth-century American organ-builder"?
... that the Pennsylvania Game Commission maintains riprap on Hemlock Run?
... that "Trouble" was the promotional single for Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie, and was described by Billboard as being as goofy as the film?
... that Seattle Sounders FC's trip to the 2014 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Final was their fifth in six years?
... that Gloucester, Massachusetts Mayor John S. Parsons led raids on the city's brothels while the City Marshal was otherwise engaged?
... that Mas'ud Hai Rakah traveled to Libya to collect funds for the Jews of Jerusalem, and ended up serving as Chief Rabbi of Tripoli for 20 years?
... that Fuck It, We'll Do It Live contains no overdubs and has several wrong notes?