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31 May 2018

00:25, 31 May 2018 (UTC)

Mary Greyeyes (left) in publicity photo

... that World War II servicewoman Mary Greyeyes (pictured, left) was incorrectly labeled as an "unidentified Indian princess" in a famous Canadian Women's Army Corps publicity photo?
... that the Trout Creek Hill volcanic eruption approximately 340,000 years ago, during the Pleistocene, produced a lava flow that extended 20 km (12 mi), temporarily damming the Columbia River?
... that the emirs of Liptako replaced the kings of Koala?
... that larvae of the thimble jellyfish are the most common cause of seabather's eruption in the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico?
... that the "masterpiece" Kamsuan Samut describes a distraught lover's journey into exile to Southern Thailand?
... that architect Arthur Ecclestone designed the Never Turn Back pub as a memorial to the nine lifeboatmen who died in the Caister lifeboat disaster of 1901?
... that after attempts to close New York City's Franklin Avenue subway line failed for over 20 years, the MTA finally decided to renovate it in 1998?
... that after leading the first slave insurrection in Venezuela's history, Miguel de Buría had himself crowned as king?

30 May 2018

00:40, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

Williamson County Courthouse

... that 23-year-old African-American Amos Miller was lynched in 1888 in Franklin, Tennessee, on the balcony of the Williamson County Courthouse (pictured)?
... that the Russian occupations of Beirut in 1772 and 1773 marked the first period in over 250 years that Beirut was ruled by a power other than the Ottoman Empire?
... that during apartheid, music producer Rashid Vally owned a record shop that was among the few places in Johannesburg where people of different racial backgrounds could socialize?
... that Ortwin Gamber, an expert on medieval weapons and armour, is a recipient of the Theodor Körner Prize?
... that the launch of the Costa Rican satellite Irazú was partly funded through a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign?
... that the German cellist Julius Berger recorded all twelve concertos by Luigi Boccherini on the composer's own Stradivari instrument?
... that forest fires are a threat to the fiery minivet?
... that following his research for Epidemiology in Country Practice, William Pickles observed that "studies in epidemiology sometimes reveal romances"?

29 May 2018

00:55, 29 May 2018 (UTC)

Port of Ozamiz on Panguil Bay

... that Panguil Bay (Port of Ozamiz pictured) in the Philippines was once described as a "never ending source of Muslim pirates"?
... that White House social aides are not permitted to be married?
... that the English Premiership Rugby Cup was created after the Welsh regions left the Anglo-Welsh Cup?
... that after being rejected by 24 publishers, Robert Schneider's first novel, Schlafes Bruder, became an international bestseller and spawned a film, a ballet, an opera, and several plays?
... that early Japanese Mormons lost contact with their church for over 20 years after the first mission closed?
...that Japanese voice actress Ayane Sakura practised sword fighting while in acting school?
... that Mount Carmel East sits on land that was originally used as a farm which provided food for another hospital, Mount Carmel West?
... that Philip Woodroffe redressed all chirurgic woes?

28 May 2018

01:10, 28 May 2018 (UTC)

Overinflating a hot-water bottle

... that it is possible – though potentially injurious – to blow up a hot-water bottle (pictured) with your nose?
... that Ivor Allchurch was known as the "Golden Boy of Welsh football"?
... that the possibly blind extinct ant Boltonimecia has a shield-like head?
... that an opera was composed for mezzo-soprano Birgit Remmert – Iokaste by Stefan Heucke – in which the mother and wife of Oedipus is the only role?
... that New York City's 23rd Street once contained the city's largest residential complex and the world's largest hotel?
... that in 1847, Émile Küss and Charles-Emmanuel Sédillot performed the first recorded biopsies on tumours?
... that Bruiser and Bodacious are the only two bulls to win both the Professional Bull Riders World Champion Bull and the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association Bull of the Year titles?
... that Saint Dominic in Soriano was a 1530 painting believed to be of miraculous origin, with numerous miracles being attributed to it?

27 May 2018

01:25, 27 May 2018 (UTC)

Foss couchant by Edward Lear

... that the English poet and illustrator Edward Lear is said to have built his new house on the same floorplan as his old home to avoid confusing his cat Foss (pictured)?
... that the 1902 Ibrox disaster was partly blamed on the crowd surging forward in excitement at seeing Bobby Templeton dribble with the ball?
... that Constantine VIII was crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire in 962 but had to wait 63 years before becoming sole ruler?
... that the Ortiz Shift, designed to counter baseball player David Ortiz, was created on an exercise bike?
... that Teodora Krajewska, one of the first female physicians in Bosnia-Herzegovina, rode a pony to visit her patients in remote mountain villages?
... that the Auburn train station also serves as the venue for a seasonal farmers' market?
... that about 1,400 leeches were found to be attached to a green sea turtle in the Persian Gulf?
... that the Fatimid Caliphate used messages stamped on kahk, a type of cookie, as propaganda?

26 May 2018

01:40, 26 May 2018 (UTC)

Charles Stanford

... that Jubilate and Te Deum from the Morning, Evening and Communion Service in B-flat by Charles Villiers Stanford (pictured) were first performed in Cambridge on 25 May 1879?
... that Félix-Marie Abel, a Dominican priest and archaeologist, identified several battle sites from the Maccabean Revolt?
... that Edge of the Knife will be the first feature film in Haida, an endangered language?
... that the Turkish-Cypriot women's footballer Zehra Borazancı has played international football tennis for her country?
... that Toronto's worst mass shooting was committed by teenagers at a block party?
... that in 2005, the Northern Irish artist Rita Duffy made a proposal to tow an iceberg from Greenland to Belfast?
... that Ursula K. Le Guin wrote "Old Music and the Slave Women", set on a fictional planet, after visiting a plantation in South Carolina that had once used slave labor?
... that xenotransplant pioneer René Küss described removing organs from guillotined convicts on the prison floor?

25 May 2018

00:35, 25 May 2018 (UTC)

Hypothetical restoration of Oxalaia

... that at 12–14 metres (39–46 ft) in length, Oxalaia (artist's impression pictured) is the largest-known theropod dinosaur from Brazil?
... that during World War II, Lieutenant General John C. H. Lee had his own railroad train?
... that the Thai mining town of Pilok was so harshly inaccessible that its ore had to be transported by elephant?
... that a bobblehead of Sister Jean, the chaplain for the Loyola Ramblers men's basketball team, sold for more than $300 on eBay?
... that war in the Horn of Africa may have contributed to the decline of the little brown bustard?
... that Puerto Rican actress Sol Miranda created a one-woman show about her immigrant experience in Peekskill, New York?
... that Peniscola Castle, in the Valencian Community of Spain, was used as a papal residence by the Antipope Benedict XIII?
... that after a future philologist's older brother reportedly shot their missionary mother, their reverend father said he would not let the facts be known?

24 May 2018

00:50, 24 May 2018 (UTC)

HMS Victorious

... that the UK's Trident nuclear missile submarines (HMS Victorious pictured) use a control system which the media have nicknamed "Windows for Submarines", because it is based on Windows XP?
... that Japanese voice actress Inori Minase, who won the Best Lead Actress Award at the 10th Seiyu Awards in 2015, is releasing her second album today?
... that the Assyrian captivity of the Israelites was one instance of forced resettlement carried out by the Neo-Assyrian Empire?
... that Katharina Magiera, a member of the Frankfurt Opera, has appeared as Lisa, a former SS officer in Auschwitz, in Weinberg's opera The Passenger?
... that workplace robotics safety applies to both traditional industrial robots and emerging technologies such as robotic exoskeletons and drone aircraft?
... that the Irish lawyer and satirist William Norcott ended his life in poverty in Constantinople where he was reportedly decapitated and his body thrown into the sea?
... that the Morelia and Guadalajara International Film Festivals were used as a reference for the creation of FotoFilm Tijuana?
... that in Re Bristol South-East Parliamentary Election, it was held that votes for Tony Benn were effectively "thrown away" because, as a hereditary peer, he was disqualified from sitting in the House of Commons?

23 May 2018

01:05, 23 May 2018 (UTC)

A miniature from the Gospels of Tsar Ivan Alexander

... that until D. H. Turner organised its loan, the Gospels of Tsar Ivan Alexander (detail pictured) had not been in Bulgaria for half a millennium?
... that the proposed Special Counsel Independence and Integrity Act seeks to protect Robert Mueller from being arbitrarily fired?
... that 20 years after confessing to the murder of a four-year-old boy, two brothers had all suspicions against them dismissed?
... that Corinne Foxx changed her surname from Bishop as her father, Jamie Foxx, had done?
... that The Black Book of Polish Jewry, published in the United States in 1943 during World War II, downplayed the true scale of the Holocaust?
... that Birgit Arrhenius revealed that a Torslunda plate helmeted figure, thought to represent Odin, had its eye deliberately struck out, consistent with the associated legend?
... that Lago di Bientina was the largest lake in Tuscany until the beginning of a 300-year effort to drain it?
... that Irish surgeon Gustavus Hume was so fond of prescribing oatmeal porridge to his patients that he became known as "Stirabout Gusty"?

22 May 2018

00:40, 22 May 2018 (UTC)

Iveta Mukuchyan

... that Armenian singer-songwriter Iveta Mukuchyan (pictured) was named Best Female Singer of the Year at the 2018 Swallow Music Awards?
... that group testing can be used for DNA sequencing, cryptography, machine learning, and data forensics?
... that journalist Jamil Smith wrote Time magazine's first cover story about a Marvel film, Black Panther?
... that the 2014 Macau Grand Prix featured Tatiana Calderón, the first woman to compete at the race since Cathy Muller in 1983?
... that James I of Aragon undertook the conquest of Murcia after a request for assistance from his daughter?
... that most fish leeches cling onto their hosts with suckers but Acanthobdella peledina uses hooked bristles for this purpose?
... that the title Baron Kilkeel was given to Prince Harry as a gift from Queen Elizabeth II on his wedding day?
... that the U.S. Army's 116th Infantry Regiment received battle honors for fighting against the United States?

21 May 2018

00:55, 21 May 2018 (UTC)

Vikings invading Britain

... that Julian D. Richards is investigating the camp at Torksey of the Great Viking Army (Viking invaders pictured)?
... that the flatworm Polystoma integerrimum, a frog parasite, has a life cycle which synchronises with that of its host?
... that Union Army general Justus McKinstry, who recommended the appointment of Ulysses S. Grant to his first important command, was soon thereafter cashiered?
... that in addition to being the oldest racecourse and second-oldest golf course in Thailand, the Royal Bangkok Sports Club also served as its first airfield?
... that a coroner's inquest into the death of Ms Dhu found that she suffered "unprofessional and inhumane" treatment by police and "deficient" treatment by hospital staff?
... that after playing sparingly for Illinois State, Zeke Upshaw used a graduate transfer exception to continue his college basketball career with Hofstra and lead the CAA in scoring?
... that a 2009 recording of Louis Vierne's Messe solennelle for choir and two organs at Saint-Sulpice, where it was first performed in 1901, was called "musical and spiritual time-travel"?
... that an accidental release of farmed Atlantic salmon in Washington state was initially blamed on unusually strong tides during a solar eclipse?

20 May 2018

01:10, 20 May 2018 (UTC)

Triangular corner flag

... that contrary to popular belief, the use of triangular corner flags in English football (pictured) is not a right reserved only for FA Cup winners?
... that Canadian naturalist R. D. Lawrence followed a cougar in the wild for nine months, and spent six months observing a beaver colony?
... that Manchester United are looking to match Arsenal's FA Cup winner's record in today's 2018 FA Cup Final against Chelsea?
... that the Hinners Organ Company pioneered production and pricing methods for pipe organs similar to those applied by Henry Ford to the automobile?
... that the footballer Albert Shepherd was the first player to score a penalty in an FA Cup final?
... that the Frederick W. Winters House is the only nationally designated historic property in Bellevue, Washington?
... that "Christ fuhr gen Himmel" (Christ rose to Heaven) is based on a medieval Leise and is sung by both Catholics and Protestants?
... that the least expensive law school in Texas bought the Dallas Municipal Building for $1?

19 May 2018

01:25, 19 May 2018 (UTC)

Anne Beaumanoir,
c. 1940

... that Anne Beaumanoir (pictured) and her parents were recognised as Righteous Among the Nations for saving two Jewish children in France during the Second World War?
... that compulsive showering in hot water is a common symptom of cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome in cannabis users?
... that Ralph Smith O’bré invented a double tracheostomy tube that was popular among surgeons in Georgian era Dublin?
... that it took two campaigns to raise the funds for Beats of Rage, the sequel to The FP?
... that Oleg Vinogradov was the first Soviet ballet master to invite Western choreographers like Maurice Béjart to stage works for the Kirov Ballet?
... that the Sunday Observance Act 1695 banned the playing of sports on Sunday in Ireland, and parts of the act are still in force in Northern Ireland?
... that Microsoft published Close Combat to kickstart its wider push into the strategy video game industry?
... that the Welsh footballer John Toshack authored a book of poems entitled Gosh, it's Tosh?

18 May 2018

01:40, 18 May 2018 (UTC)

Ornamentation on the façade of Balluta Buildings

... that Balluta Buildings (detail pictured), one of the finest Art Nouveau buildings in Malta, was built on the grounds of Villa St Ignatius, one of the island's earliest Gothic Revival buildings?
... that a 19-year-old female student, Wu Shuqing, formed, trained, and capably led her own women's militia in the Xinhai Revolution of 1911?
... that Jefferson Street, the historic center of the African-American community in Nashville, Tennessee, declined after the construction of Interstate 40 in the aftermath of the Nashville sit-ins?
... that para-alpine skier H. E. Bayındırlı twice took part in the Winter Paralympic Games, representing the United States in 2006 and Turkey in 2014?
... that the wreck of a merchant ship thought to be West Ridge was found while searching for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370?
... that metal cones, designed to protect the tops of wooden posts, inspired the creation of a new musical instrument called the Aluphone?
... that in 1953, U.S. Navy pharmacist Katherine Keating was an official witness for a prisoner of war exchange aboard the hospital ship USS Haven?
... that the title character of The Adventures of Beekle was named after the way the author Dan Santat's son would say "bicycle"?

17 May 2018

00:00, 17 May 2018 (UTC)

Wang Danfeng

... that "legendary" Chinese actress Wang Danfeng‎ (pictured) was invited to attend the inauguration of U.S. President Ronald Reagan?
... that while the freighter Lakeland was sinking on Lake Michigan, her captain allegedly refused a tow?
... that the Single African Air Transport Market, which was launched in 2018, was almost 30 years in the making?
... that German World War II general Erich Hoepner was a member of the military resistance to Adolf Hitler, but was also implicated in crimes of the Wehrmacht?
... that despite being born in Indiana, Brad Kiltz represented American Samoa at the 1994 Winter Olympics?
... that archaeologist Hans-Åke Nordström excavated sites in Nubia before they were submerged by the creation of the Aswan Dam?
... that "This Is America" by Childish Gambino addresses the themes of being black in America and gun violence in the United States?
... that footballer Ian Feuer played a Predator in the 2007 film Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem?

16 May 2018

00:00, 16 May 2018 (UTC)

The legendary Burning Lake

... that enlightened individuals can supposedly see a temple at the bottom of the Burning Lake (pictured) in Bhutan?
... that the footballer Irvine Thornley's benefit match raised £1036, a record at the time?
... that Jack White left his song "Over and Over and Over" unrecorded for 13 years until his 2018 album Boarding House Reach?
... that though found from Portugal to Angola, the conservation status of the Portuguese sole is unknown?
... that as a child, Nagi Yanagi became interested in music after playing with an electronic keyboard her neighbor originally intended to throw away?
... that no one was ever convicted of the 1924 lynching of 15-year-old African-American Samuel Smith in Nolensville, Tennessee?
... that when blindness forced Oscar Almgren to retire as professor of Scandinavian and Comparative Archaeology at Uppsala University, a role filled by Sune Lindqvist and Mårten Stenberger in turn, his young son Bertil Almgren read academic papers to him, and decades later took the post himself?
... that Mrs. David Wright's Guard was formed by female patriots in the American Revolutionary War to guard a crossing on the Nashua River?

15 May 2018

00:00, 15 May 2018 (UTC)

The Siamese palace guard depicted in 1866

... that members of the Krom Klone (pictured), the all-female bodyguard of the King of Siam, had to take a vow of chastity, though an exception was made for marrying the king?
... that Jimmy 'Five Bellies' Gardner has been described as "the only person in Britain famous for being a footballer's mate"?
... that the 2018–19 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team features an incoming class with two players who finished in the top three in voting for the 2018 Mr. Basketball of Michigan award?
... that Longqing Gorge is a scenic area in Beijing created after the flooding of the canyon by the construction of a nearby dam?
... that after police told Brandon Swanson's mother he had "a right to be missing" ten years ago today, she successfully lobbied for a state law requiring that such investigations start promptly?
... that both the Morrison–Grady Plan and the Bevin Plan presented at the 1946–47 London Conference on Palestine were rejected by all parties?
... that Bernardo De Pace, an Italian immigrant, started his own opera company and eventually performed at the Metropolitan Opera in New York?
... that the music video for Basement Jaxx's "U Don't Know Me" shows a Queen Elizabeth II look-alike groping a lapdancer?

14 May 2018

12:00, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

Butterfly stub filter

... that distributed element circuits include butterflies (pictured)?
... that while posted to London during the First World War, journalist Beatrice Nasmyth had her brother smuggle her articles back to Canada to avoid censorship?
... that the title of Schlafes Bruder (Brother of Sleep), a 1992 novel set in a mountain village in Vorarlberg, refers to Bach's setting of "Komm, o Tod, du Schlafes Bruder"?
... that the last railroad in Ohio to be powered by third rail delivered coal to the Picway Power Plant?
... that the partial eye-ring of the male green iora looks like a pair of bright yellow eyelids?
... that when the Opémiska Community Hall fire broke out, people inside did not immediately evacuate because they thought the fire was part of a performance?
... that an American report on the refugee camps in post-World War II Europe led to an inquiry regarding Palestine?
... that the footballer Gary Gill suffered a broken leg during a match in 1989 but carried on playing after being given the magic sponge?

00:00, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

Royal Navy Lieutenant Hugh Mackenzie

... that the British submariner Hugh Mackenzie (pictured) was credited with sinking over 40,000 gross register tons of enemy shipping, including Mussolini's yacht Diana?
... that an unconscious bias training program has been created to help people unlearn bias while sleeping?
... that Ye Jizhuang, China's first Minister of Trade, was among the first four officers to be awarded a general's rank by the Communist Party?
... that an underground temple of Mithraism was discovered inside Zerzevan Castle during archaeological excavations?
... that a fellow writer said that satire was the oxygen in Sushil Siddharth's life?
... that a goal of Unix System Laboratories was the creation of their namesake product "for the masses"?
... that the Welsh footballer Nathan Wigg retired from playing after a scan of his knee was described as looking like it could have "been in a car crash"?
... that the Emilia Plater Independent Women's Battalion, formed by the Soviet Union in the Second World War, was named after a Polish woman who fought against Russia?

13 May 2018

12:15, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

Splash tetra

... that the splash tetra (pictured) lays its eggs on a leaf above the surface of the water?
... that Lin Haiyun was attacked by Red Guards who called his ministry the "black headquarters" of revisionism?
... that users of Mary-Kate and Ashley: Pocket Planner can send "G-mail" through the Game Boy Color's infrared port?
... that Donald Seldin transformed the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center from a dilapidated barracks into a world-class medical center with five Nobel laureates?
... that the 60th Ariel Awards includes three female filmmakers nominated for the Best Director award?
... that the footballer Ken Hodgkisson was the first player ever to be used as a substitute by Walsall?
... that a pumping station on the River Jordan used a section of the damaged funnel from the SS Great Eastern as a water filter?

00:30, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

Erica Schwartz

... that Erica Schwartz (pictured) provided health protection guidance for the US military's response to Hurricane Katrina, the 2010 Haiti earthquake, and the West Africa Ebola outbreak?
... that the two competitors for Cyprus at the 2010 Winter Olympics are siblings?
... that Ephraim Grizzard was lynched in front of a mob of 10,000 in Nashville, Tennessee, on April 30, 1892?
... that while one reviewer could not get past the second level of Army Men: Operation Green, another felt the game would only take a few hours to beat?
... that Indian politician Anil Sarkar led efforts to provide relief and shelter for hundreds of thousands of refugees from the Bangladesh Liberation War?
... that Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat won the Caldecott Medal for its illustrations done in the style of Basquiat?
... that Spring is Coming was the first South Korean musical performance in the North in over a decade, and was attended by North Korean leader Kim Jong-un?
... that, using data collected from the Dark Energy Survey, a team of researchers led by David Gerdes discovered a new dwarf planet nicknamed DeeDee?

12 May 2018

12:46, 12 May 2018 (UTC)‎

Destruction of the S-1 satellite

... that a power failure resulted in the destruction of the Juno II launch vehicle (pictured) carrying the Explorer S-1 satellite, five seconds after its launch?
... that Gujarati writer Mafat Oza published his own elegy in his poetry collection Ashubh?
... that New York City's Jacob Riis Park contained the world's largest paved parking lot when it was constructed?
... that Clara Schumann noted in her diary in 1853 that her husband was very happy about completing his Märchenerzählungen, fairy-tale music for piano, clarinet, and viola?
... that Fredrik Önnevall, who speaks fluent Chinese, was Sveriges Television's first correspondent in Beijing and provided commentary for the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics?
... that there are multiple ways to switch antipsychotics?
... that Leslie Webster spent her entire career at the British Museum?
... that according to legend, The Lady Bushranger "escaped from custody while in a locked toilet aboard a moving train"?
01:06, 12 May 2018 (UTC)

Ant tending aphids

... that aphids (pictured) are sometimes farmed by ants?
... that the pianist Margarita Höhenrieder has premiered works dedicated to her by Harald Genzmer, including a concerto for piano, trumpet, and strings?
... that the world's largest curved all-wood trestle was built over Goat Canyon?
... that Ahmed Jahouh is the first Moroccan footballer to play in India?
... that in the novel New England White, Stephen L. Carter writes about the murders of a black professor and a schoolgirl set in a town described as "the heart of whiteness"?
... that Herbert Holmes à Court's commands included the gunnery training ship HMS Revenge?
... that until the Netherlands competed at the 2014 Winter Paralympics, all of the country's Winter Paralympics medals had been won by one woman, Marjorie van de Bunt?
... that Croatia's first female general joined the army by mistake?

11 May 2018

12:00, 11 May 2018 (UTC)

Smith–Ninth Streets station viewed from below

... that the Smith–Ninth Streets station (pictured) in New York City is the world's highest subway station?
... that Lt. Gen. Wang Bingzhang, head of China's ballistic missile and satellite programs, was imprisoned for ten years without being convicted of a crime?
... that the Motor Neurone Disease Association criticised the two-part Holby City episode "Group Animal" for misleading viewers about a cure for motor neuron disease?
... that Henry Boynton Clitz, Commandant of Cadets at West Point from 1862 to 1864, disappeared in 1888?
... that the Global Buddhist Network used to be a Thai television station featuring Buddhist content, but was shut down by the Thai military junta?
... that Wendy Watson Nelson taught nursing students that "the family's ability to change depends upon their ability to alter their perception of the problem"?
... that 40 or more fish leeches of the species Hemibdella soleae may be found attached to one common sole?
... that the US National Gallery of Art has a picture of Trump urinating on the work of a satirist?

00:00, 11 May 2018 (UTC)

Yellow Star by Judith Weinshall Liberman

... that the Holocaust Wall Hangings (example pictured) are a series of fabric banners created between 1988 and 2002 illustrating the plight of the Jewish people and other minorities during the Holocaust?
... that Oscar Wilde, Robert Falcon Scott, David Bowie, and Bob Marley all lived in the same street?
... that James T. Sutherland, known as the "Father of Hockey", founded the Memorial Cup after serving overseas in World War I?
... that the Bradenton Riverwalk area was originally nicknamed "The Sand Pile"?
... that German stage director Tobias Kratzer nominated two versions of Verdi's Rigoletto for an international competition, pretending to be an American woman in the first instance, and a Bulgarian in the second?
... that the state communication system developed in the Neo-Assyrian Empire enabled communication speed unsurpassed in the Middle East until the advent of telegraphy?
... that, appalled by the terrible living standards in his hometown, Wu Nansheng became a strong proponent of economic reform in China?
... that the upper floors of a new high-rise building in Seattle will cantilever over an adjacent building?

10 May 2018

12:00, 10 May 2018 (UTC)

Frederick Gilbreath

... that Frederick Gilbreath (pictured) commanded the 7th Cavalry?
... that Marvel Comics published Venomverse to relaunch the original Venom character?
... that the Portuguese international footballers Matilde Fidalgo and Bernardo Silva are cousins?
... that one popular expression of Buddhist devotion is to go on pilgrimage to Bodh Gayā in India?
... that around the Dutch village of Aartswoud, the former polder landscape and its seasonal water levels are being restored?
... that the ambassador Ayşe Sinirlioğlu was Turkey's sherpa to the G20?
... that the Home and Away spin-off All or Nothing was called "the bloodiest episode ever seen of the hit Aussie soapie"?
... that fashion model Nikki Sievwright captured a wanted man by searching a woman's knickers?

00:00, 10 May 2018 (UTC)

Top of Achaemenid column from Persepolis

... that the ancient Persian columns of the Achaemenid Empire (example at Persepolis pictured) were revived by 19th-century Parsis in India, and in Iran in the 20th century?
... that vaudevillian and theatre manager Loney Haskell eulogized Harry Houdini?
... that the Protestant municipal Luisenkirche in Charlottenburg was named after Queen Luise of Prussia around 100 years after Frederick I of Prussia financed it?
... that President Franklin D. Roosevelt was the first person to officially pass through the Queens–Midtown Tunnel?
... that both adults and nymphs of the bug Anthocoris nemoralis suck the body fluids from the insects and mites on which they feed?
... that Brazil, Turkey, and Uzbekistan all made their Winter Paralympics debuts at the 2014 Sochi Games?
... that Bai Xiangguo, China's Minister of Foreign Trade, was dismissed because he "failed to withstand the poisonous snake that took the form of a beautiful woman"?
... that The Elvis Dead, a retelling of Evil Dead II in the style of Elvis Presley, features songs such as "Standing in a State of Shock", "I've Been Possessed", and "Wrapped Up in Vines"?

9 May 2018

12:00, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

Ruby Boye in her Navy uniform

... that Ruby Boye (pictured) was Australia's only female coastwatcher?
... that not having been observed by a potential rescue ship, three survivors from the Margaret Olwill coordinated their shouts to attract the attention of a second ship?
... that the pear sucker arrived in the eastern United States from Europe in the early 1800s and took about 100 years to travel across the country?
... that the Turkish international Dilara Özlem Sucuoğlu started to play football in Germany at the age of five inspired by her father, a football coach?
... that the Father Serra statues in Ventura, California, have been vandalized and called "a direct slap in the face" of Native American cultures?
... that Blanche McVeigh's home workshop had a Sturges printing press so heavy that the floor needed to be shored up to support it?
... that Casualty's list of special episodes includes the first webisode for a BBC continuing drama?
... that some people from Ohio don't give a damn for the whole state of Michigan?

00:00, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

Sumner station

... that Sumner station (pictured) was designed to resemble hop kilns, referencing the city's historical agriculture industry?
... that English paediatrician Alfred White Franklin was one of the first to recognise that child abuse was much more common in the United Kingdom than the public realised?
... that in Sessions v. Dimaya, Trump-appointed U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch joined a 5–4 vote against the Trump Administration?
... that Mabel St Clair Stobart became the first woman to be promoted to the rank of major in any national army?
... that upon release, SpellForce 3 was so buggy that the developer had to release 21 patches in 14 days?
... that before becoming a food historian, James Beard Award-winner Adrian Miller was a White House adviser in the Clinton administration?
... that Leucospermum cuneiforme is known as luisiesbos ("lice bush") in Afrikaans as its seed pods resemble lice?
... that scientist Warren P. Mason said that polymer chemistry was not "civilized" because of the awful smells produced?

8 May 2018

12:00, 8 May 2018 (UTC)

Henriette Feuerbach, painted by her stepson

... that Henriette Feuerbach (pictured) wrote a book for women and promoted the art of her stepson, the painter Anselm Feuerbach?
... that the video game Observer stars Rutger Hauer, who also starred in Blade Runner, which influenced the game?
... that before Zheng Tuobin became China's Minister of Foreign Trade, he spent five years performing manual labour?
... that the alpine skier Corey Peters won a silver medal for New Zealand at the 2014 Winter Paralympics?
... that mezzo-soprano Melinda Paulsen was the first to record songs by Nadia Boulanger and Ethel Smyth?
... that during the construction of New York City's Van Wyck Expressway, a four-story apartment building was placed on metal rollers and relocated away from the expressway's path?
... that Kavinder Gupta was elected mayor of Jammu for a record three consecutive terms?
... that George Speake sees an "eyeless, open-jawed serpent" on the Staffordshire helmet?

00:00, 8 May 2018 (UTC)

Andaman masked owl

... that the only place in the world where the Andaman masked owl (pictured) is found is an archipelago in the Indian Ocean?
... that a citizens' group opposing Nashville's transit referendum submitted an op-ed to The Tennessean under a fake name?
... that the Russian Orthodox Church's mission in China created their own Chinese characters for translating liturgical texts?
... that Michigan Wolverines point guard Zavier Simpson had his two highest-scoring games as a sophomore against top-five ranked opponents?
... that a newly discovered plankton species, Syracosphaera azureaplaneta, has been named in honour of the BBC TV documentary series The Blue Planet, and its presenter, Sir David Attenborough?
... that according to legend, the dragon Graoully, which terrorized the citizens of Metz, was vanquished by Saint Clement?
... that Erjon Tola was the only athlete sent by Albania to the 2006 and 2010 Winter Olympics?
... that Louise Antonini disguised herself as a man to serve in the French Navy and Napoleon's army for a total of 25 years?

7 May 2018

12:00, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

Otsego in 1943

... that prior to their naval service, USS Otsego (pictured in later army service) escaped destruction in an earthquake, and USS Philippines survived three weeks of storms at sea without a rudder?
... that Li Zhengyou, vice-governor of Yunnan province, was also a pioneer in the research of high-altitude hybrid rice?
... that California's Senate Bill 827 would have affected 96 percent of land in San Francisco?
... that at the age of 79 years and 9 months, Robert Pitcairn became the oldest athlete to debut in a Commonwealth Games event?
... that the endangered New Zealand shrub Muehlenbeckia astonii is also known as zig zag plant and wiggy-wig bush?
... that Gaboimilla, a mythical Chilean queen, is said to have allowed men into her kingdom only for procreation?
... that the British jazz-funk band Jamiroquai gave a performance on an aircraft travelling at 1017 km/h (632 mph), setting the Guinness World Record for "fastest concert"?
... that Poulsbo Bread was inspired by a recipe described in the Book of Ezekiel?

00:00, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

The Helgö Buddha

... that Wilhelm Holmqvist discovered a 6th-century Buddha statuette (pictured) from North India on the Swedish island of Helgö?
... that Tunbridge Wells RFC brought 9,000 fans to the RFU Intermediate Cup final at Twickenham Stadium in 2016, establishing a new attendance record for the competition?
... that Yang Gui was the chief designer of the Red Flag Canal, considered by Premier Zhou Enlai as one of the two "miracles" of the People's Republic of China?
... that the Ventura Pier was the longest wooden pier in California until a storm sheared off approximately 420 feet (130 m) in 1995?
... that an interrupted aortic arch is rapidly lethal, but can be fixed by surgery?
... that vaudeville star Don the Talking Dog once helped rescue a drowning man?
... that a reviewer of The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous saw the title character Lysander Hawkley as "the man who put the giggle in gigolo"?
... that Charlotte Serber worked at the secret Project Y during World War II, but after the war could not get a security clearance to work as a librarian at Berkeley?

6 May 2018

12:00, 6 May 2018 (UTC)

Bisexual pride flag showing the colours

... that bisexual lighting (colours pictured) has been criticized for contributing to the perpetuation of bisexual stereotypes?
... that in the only church dedicated to Saint Wendreda, the roof is decorated with 118 oaken angels?
... that U.S. President Donald Trump has proposed to revoke government funding using the rescission process, which was successfully used 461 times prior to 2000 but has never been attempted since?
... that footballer Joe Mayo "never really thought about" turning professional, and was training as an accountant when offered his first professional contract?
... that during its development, the predatory plant bug Deraeocoris brevis can consume up to 400 eggs and nymphs of the pear psylla?
... that Pulitzer Prize-nominated film critic Ann Hornaday was once an assistant to Gloria Steinem?
... that some stilts have been designed to be used within saggars?
... that for £5, Amiga users who registered Llamatron would receive a poster, a newsletter, and another game from the company?

00:00, 6 May 2018 (UTC)

Arlington's Great Meadows

... that before Arlington's Great Meadows (pictured) was drained in 1902, it was a popular site for recreational boating?
... that actor Kelly Lai Chen married and divorced the "female Bruce Lee"?
... that the pygmy eagle of New Guinea is the world's smallest-known species of eagle?
... that by the time of his death, Owen Harding Wangensteen's invention of Wangensteen suction was estimated to have saved a million lives?
... that when completed in 1968, the Tower of History was the tallest observation tower in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan?
... that the audience of the play Quiz act as the jury for a fictionalised version of the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? "Coughing Major" scandal?
... that Knut Stjerna used archaeology to analyse the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf?
... that there is no strangler in the 1972 film Night of the Strangler?

5 May 2018

12:00, 5 May 2018 (UTC)

Police officer with riot shield

... that riot shields (example pictured) may actually encourage protesters to throw things at police?
... that the US Air Force Association's highest award for nursing is named in honor of Juanita Redmond Hipps?
... that Trivières contains the most important Merovingian necropolis in Belgium?
... that footballer Wayne Entwistle played for more FA Cup-winning clubs than any other player?
... that the Xena: Warrior Princess episode "The Haunting of Amphipolis" was changed at the behest of the writers from focusing on a murdered man and his daughter to featuring the demon Mephistopheles?
... that Li Keran's painting Landscape in Red, which sold for 80 yuan in the 1970s, fetched 184,000,000 yuan at auction four decades later?
... that the Uspallata chinchilla rat feeds on the leaves of the creosote bush, despite the toxicity of its foliage?
... that Gavin Robinson's 1960s fashion shows were described as zippy, nippy, and hippy?

00:00, 5 May 2018 (UTC)

Cross in the Mountains (1808)

... that the German painter Caspar David Friedrich's Cross in the Mountains (pictured) constituted "a revolution in landscape painting"?
... that during the filming of Atlanta's "Teddy Perkins", Donald Glover was referred to by the crew as "Teddy" and "there was no Donald on set whatsoever"?
... that after Canadian football player Earl Valiquette signed with the Edmonton Eskimos, his former team threatened legal action to keep him from leaving?
... that the copepod Temora longicornis makes daily vertical migrations, spending the day near the seabed and the night near the surface?
... that after a decade-long opera and concert career, George Bentham originated the leading role of Alexis in The Sorcerer by Gilbert and Sullivan, which proved to be his last performing engagement?
... that in 2016, Oregon’s legislative Emergency Board provided $2 million to reimburse state and local agencies for costs resulting from the armed occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge?
... that radiologically isolated syndrome is a condition that may develop into multiple sclerosis, even in children?
... that in 1896, Queen Mamea offered her South Pacific island nation to the United States?

4 May 2018

12:00, 4 May 2018 (UTC)

Ralph Abernathy

... that Ralph Abernathy (pictured), mentor and friend of Martin Luther King Jr., led a demonstration protesting the use of federal funds for the Apollo 11 project when many Americans lived in poverty?
... that the black-winged flycatcher-shrike camouflages its nest with pieces of bark?
... that in 1956–57, footballer Ray Straw equalled Derby County's club record for most league goals in a single season?
... that it is possible to simultaneously measure which genes are turned on in an organism using transcriptomics technologies?
... that Medal of Honor recipient Charles Mattocks was born in Danville, Vermont, and imprisoned in Danville, Virginia, as a POW during the American Civil War?
... that the Romanesque cross basilica St. Georg in Aplerbeck from the 12th century fell into such disrepair that its street was named Ruinenstraße?
... that Yurika was inspired to become a singer for anime after hearing the song "Genesis of Aquarion" by Akino in a television commercial?
... that a year after the character of Mason Morgan was introduced on Home and Away, his curly hair disappeared due to actor Orpheus Pledger's new hairstyle?

00:00, 4 May 2018 (UTC)

Katharinenkirche in 2010

... that the Katharinenkirche (pictured) at Frankfurt's Hauptwache, destroyed in World War II, was rebuilt with a Baroque exterior, and new stained-glass windows by Charles Crodel?
... that ballerina Joan Benesh married the man who suggested a better way of notating her dances?
... that horse racing became so popular in Thailand that in 1949 the government ordered the Royal Turf Club and the Royal Bangkok Sports Club to alternate months holding races?
... that Greta Arwidsson, Sweden's first female professor of Scandinavian and Comparative Archaeology, turned to the subject while excavating the Valsgärde boat graves in school?
... that the Scottish Triple Qualification allowed doctors fleeing Nazi oppression to practise medicine in Britain?
... that ice hockey coach Gregg Pilling attempted to serve a penalty himself, instead of putting a player in the penalty box?
... that the diet of the semi-aquatic Chaco marsh rat includes sugar cane, rice and bananas?
... that on his election in 2017, Alexander Curtis was thought to be the youngest mayor in Europe at only 20 years old?

3 May 2018

12:00, 3 May 2018 (UTC)

Ursine tree-kangaroo by John Gould

... that the ursine tree-kangaroo (illustrated) is listed by the IUCN as "vulnerable" as it is hunted for food and its numbers are decreasing?
... that Oleta Crain, one of only three black women officers in training in the U.S. Army in 1943, was not allowed to sleep in the same barracks or take a shower at the same time as the white women?
... that Romania won its only Winter Olympics medal at the 1968 Games in Grenoble, France?
... that Simon Dale lived mainly in the kitchen and one bedroom of his 50-room Hopton Heath mansion, where he was found bludgeoned to death?
... that the first public meeting of the Catholic Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania was chaired by a bishop and drew a crowd of more than 500 people?
... that professional cyclist Marcel Wüst had to end his road bicycle racing career after an accident left him blind in one eye?
... that before becoming a prehistorian, Hans-Jürgen Häßler lived in a refugee camp and trained as a plumber?
... that in Sean Penn's satirical novel Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff, Honey advocates the assassination of the US President, "Mr. Landlord", who resembles Donald Trump?

00:00, 3 May 2018 (UTC)

Serpent labret with articulated tongue

... that the serpent labret with articulated tongue (pictured) can stick out its tongue?
... that the Vidames de Chartres included a song-writing crusader, a glamorous Renaissance courtier, a writer of famous memoirs, and a banker who was guillotined?
... that the Easter hymn "Das Grab ist leer, der Held erwacht" (The tomb is empty, the hero awake) from 1777 has been called a hit among church songs?
... that after being sentenced to death for resisting the Romanian military intervention, the Moldavian officer Anatolie Popa was pardoned and offered a position in the Romanian Army?
... that U.S. Vice President Al Gore smashed a glass ashtray on the Late Show with David Letterman to advocate for simplified government acquisition procedures?
... that as of 2009, the highest location where crustaceans had been discovered was in the crater lake of Paniri?
... that the Ocean City Life-Saving Station, opened in 1886, was owned by the United States Coast Guard and its predecessor until 1945, when it was sold to become a private residence?
... that Edward Frank Gillett competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics the year after he died?

2 May 2018

12:00, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

Historic home in Castroville

... that due to the well-preserved colonial Alsatian architecture (pictured) in the Castroville Historic District, the city is known as the "little Alsace" of Texas?
... that in 2005, Kyrgyz politician Anvar Artykov was elected as a "people's governor" of Osh Region, only to be detained a day later by the police?
... that Low Country Sound operates out of historic RCA Studio A in Nashville, Tennessee?
... that footballer Chris Sander was the first Cardiff City player to save two penalties during the same match?
... that the Airports Act 1986 created the private company BAA from a public aviation authority?
... that the species description for the mite Afropolonia tgifi was likely only approved because the journal's editors were unfamiliar with the expression "TGIF" ("Thank God It's Friday")?
... that Charles Green excavated burial mounds near Stonehenge?
... that Bill Gates has participated in the RedditGifts gift exchange service for five years, with the username "thisisbillgates"?

00:00, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

Lentaigne's illustration of a Thiersch graft

... that the duties of Mollie Lentaigne, a nurse during the Second World War, included drawing the experimental surgery (example pictured) being performed on members of the Guinea Pig Club?
... that the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit, Michigan, was the first factory where more than 100 cars were assembled in one day?
... that Minister Dein, a loyalist of King Binnya U of Hanthawaddy, escaped execution by King Razadarit by telling the new king that his only "crime was being a servant of your father, the king"?
... that the American superhero film Thor: Ragnarok features elements from the comic book storyline "Planet Hulk"?
... that Mary A. Monroe was the first woman to serve as president of the Washington Education Association?
... that Both Lives Matter ran an advertising campaign in 2017 with billboards featuring the headline "100,000 people are alive today because of our laws on abortion. Why change that?"
... that Paralympic silver-medal winning snowboarder Patrick Mayrhofer was the first person in the world to undergo elective amputation to get a bionic hand prosthesis?
... that China can also be found outside China?

1 May 2018

12:00, 1 May 2018 (UTC)

Electric bath

... that a luminous discharge could be seen around a person taking an electric bath (pictured)?
... that National Book Award finalist Jason Reynolds was inspired by Queen Latifah to begin writing poetry when he was nine years old?
... that in his Clarinet Sonata in G minor, composer Ferdinand Ries provided the opportunity for improvised cadenzas?
... that an automobile graveyard in Georgia, United States, has become an open-air art gallery?
... that the three-gap theorem explains both the spacing of leaves on plant stems and the intervals between adjacent tones in certain musical tuning systems?
... that Nicole Girard-Mangin, the first woman doctor to serve in the French army, was initially paid at the same rate as a nurse?
... that the video game Harlem Globetrotters: World Tour does not feature the Washington Generals, even though they have been the Globetrotters' traditional rival for over 50 years?
... that George Smith left money to establish a school for poor children named Smith?

00:00, 1 May 2018 (UTC)

Elephant trunkfish grazing on the seabed

... that the elephant trunkfish (pictured) grazes on the seabed and can weigh up to 4.5 kg (10 lb)?
... that Benjamin Ladraa embarked on a 4,800-kilometre (3,000 mi) trek from Sweden to Jerusalem to raise awareness of rights violations in the West Bank?
... that investigators allege Libyan influence in the 2007 French elections was partly accomplished by laundering money from the sale of paintings by 17th-century Dutch artist Andries van Eertvelt?
... that Ordinaire, a wine bar in Oakland, California, opened while its owner was writing a dissertation on the sense of taste in modernist literature?
... that Fatima Zohra Ardjoune became the first female general in the Arab world in 2009?
... that in the United States, it is estimated that for every dollar spent on prison education, $4 to $5 is saved due to decreases in recidivism?
... that Pope Alexander VIII, elected in 1689, was the first Venetian in over 200 years to become pope?
... that Chris Caple, an artefact conservationist, began archaeological excavations at the age of 14?