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31 May 2021

12:00, 31 May 2021 (UTC)

... that the international numbered-node cycle network (example sign pictured) gives more freedom to cycle arbitrary routes across Europe?
... that American legislator Uriah F. Abshier rescued his son from an 1894 Christmas Eve fire in Silver Lake, Oregon, that killed 43 people, including his wife?
... that Gertrude Michelson sat on the board of trustees of Columbia University before it began admitting female students?
... that the original video about the slang term "cheugy" didn't go "TikTok viral", but two months later, a New York Times article about the video did?
... that Stephen Chow initially declined to become Bishop of Hong Kong, but relented after receiving a handwritten letter from Pope Francis?
... that there are more than thirty Eagles around the world?
... that Jim Johnson scored the first goal in Philadelphia Flyers history during an exhibition game?
... that males of the fossil ant Klondikia have "massive" genitalia?

00:00, 31 May 2021 (UTC)

Cut glass punchbowl, 1895

... that John Ruskin wrote that "all cut glass is barbarous, for the cutting conceals its ductility and confuses it with crystal"?
... that Leon Hale, who would have turned 100 today, was rejected from the US Navy and the Marine Corps during World War II partly due to the odd placement of his eye?
... that the mushroom Macrocybe gigantea has been found growing on elephant dung in Kerala?
... that Joe Ligon is America's longest serving juvenile lifer?
... that the video game Football Glory features its developers in the Croatia national football team?
... that the music of Jade Bird was called a "young Londoner's spin on modern Americana" by Rolling Stone?
... that research on Inuit clothing began with detailed images of Inuit people produced by Europeans as early as the 1560s?
... that Charles Henry Huberich published a book on English prize law in German, and another on German prize law in English, in the same year?

30 May 2021

12:00, 30 May 2021 (UTC)

Philipp Harnoncourt in the chapel in 2017

... that Philipp Harnoncourt (pictured) initiated the restoration of a Gothic chapel with a triangle floorplan, originally dedicated to the Trinity and reopened on Trinity Sunday 2020?
... that at 100, Eric Tweedale is the oldest living Australian rugby international player?
... that the editor of the Pixar film Soul directed its prequel short film 22 vs. Earth?
... that social worker Mary Treglia died before the Mary J. Treglia Urban Renewal Project razed the neighborhood of immigrants in Sioux City, Iowa, whom she had helped?
... that Pop Smoke's debut album Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon was released nearly five months after his death?
... that a proposal was made to build a shoe factory on Waterloo Park?
... that Irish association footballer Margaret Saurin later worked as a coach in the US?
... that while the current record-holding giant pumpkin weighed 2,624.6 lb (1,190.5 kg), an ideal pumpkin could grow up to 20,000 lb (9,100 kg)?

00:00, 30 May 2021 (UTC)

Psyche Showing Her Sisters Her Gifts from Cupid

... that Jean-Honoré Fragonard's Psyche Showing Her Sisters Her Gifts from Cupid (pictured), presented to Louis XV at the Palace of Versailles in 1753, was painted when the artist was 21 years old?
... that the 2017 film Suburbicon was inspired by Daisy Myers's family, who faced racially charged harassment and violence in all-white Levittown, Pennsylvania?
... that the hornbeam Carpinus perryae was described from two fossil nutlets found on a single rock?
... that the verse novel Songs of a Mormon Woman by Sidonie Grünwald-Zerkowitz was banned as pornographic in Austria?
... that Winterset City Park has a six-ton granite boulder that commemorates the discovery of the Red Delicious apple in Madison County, Iowa, in 1872?
... that water polo player Jack Ferguson performed in a circus throughout Britain as a child?
... that the DK Atlas of World History includes maps on the spread of agriculture and the movement of indentured servants?
... that pitcher Hal Stowe won a baseball game without throwing a pitch?

29 May 2021

12:00, 29 May 2021 (UTC)

Meeri Kalavainen

... that Meeri Kalavainen (pictured), Finland's first minister of culture, helped end a schism in the women's branch of the Social Democratic Party?
... that a chemical known as ROY has eleven crystalline forms, including red, orange and yellow examples?
... that Bruce Baillie's short film All My Life was shot in one continuous take?
... that Life magazine put an Amster Yard Christmas tree on their cover in 1946?
... that Republic of Ireland youth-team international footballer Jaden Charles is the son of former England international Gary Charles?
... that Gao Jiamin is commonly known as the "Queen of Taiji"?
... that Margaret Thatcher's usage of the royal we was interpreted as an example of her "pseudo-royal grandiosity"?
... that as part of a World War I patriotic fundraiser, Frederick E. Betts agreed to run in a "fat man's race"?

00:00, 29 May 2021 (UTC)

USS LST-1081

... that the World War II tank landing ship USS LST-1081 (pictured) was brought back into service with the US Navy because of the Korean War?
... that Finnish politician Maija Perho encouraged future president Sauli Niinistö to join the National Coalition Party in the 1960s?
... that the main menu for the 2006 video game Curious George looked so simple that a reviewer thought he had an unfinished version of the game?
... that Luke Bond, the organist for a royal wedding and a royal funeral at Windsor Castle, played Poulenc's Organ Concerto in Cape Town?
... that modern art in Sudan was suppressed from the 1980s until its revival in the Sudanese Revolution?
... that Charles Strum, the obituaries editor of The New York Times, seldom employed the terms "first" or "last" in an obituary to avoid issues with contradictory stories?
... that, on arriving at Mecca with a pilgrim caravan, the mahmal was given an elaborate fabric covering?
... that camping is prohibited at Reynolds Wayside Campground?

28 May 2021

12:00, 28 May 2021 (UTC)

219 East 49th Street

... that 219 East 49th Street (pictured) contains windows with 12-by-12-inch (300 by 300 mm) glass bricks, larger than any others manufactured at the time?
... that Clarence Lushbaugh claimed that God gave him permission to take Cecil Kelley's organs?
... that while performing their song "Sing" on Top of the Pops, Scottish band Travis engaged in a pie fight?
... that Chinese activist Li Qiaochu was detained on 31 December 2019 and spent New Year's Day in handcuffs in relation to the "12.26 Citizens Case" while her partner Xu Zhiyong was still in hiding?
... that Amasa Eaton wrote the first law review article to be cited in a decision of the Supreme Court of the United States?
... that Canada's Bill C-10 has faced criticism for potentially classifying social media services as broadcasters?
... that Sinikka Luja-Penttilä published a novel in the same year that she retired from the Finnish parliament?
... that Yonenaga's Atlantic spiny rat produces a secretion from its anal gland that has been described as smelling like tutti frutti?

00:00, 28 May 2021 (UTC)

Chris Colfer

... that author Chris Colfer (pictured) described A Tale of Magic... as a "manifesto of compassion"?
... that during World War II, 150,000 carillon bells were stored in "bell cemeteries" (German: Glockenfriedhöfe) before being melted down to make shell casings and armaments?
... that Frank Jackson was born free but had to win two court cases before he was freed from forced slavery?
... that a memorial hall in Ahmedabad has a 12-by-24-foot (3.7 m × 7.3 m) stainless-steel portrait of Rabindranath Tagore on an exterior wall?
... that on 18 October 2020, all previous United Nations arms resolutions on Iran expired based on Security Council Resolution 2231?
... that ballerina Marie-Jeanne entered the School of American Ballet two days after seeing a ballet performance for the first time?
... that Road Rash 3 artist Michael Hulme created ten conceptual settings for the game before settling on seven?
... that a potential buyer of the Rockefeller Guest House, trying to bid on the house while in a tunnel, found that the house was already sold when he emerged?

27 May 2021

12:00, 27 May 2021 (UTC)

Pipe organ of the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, Berlin

... that Karl Schuke's company built the organs of the Berliner Philharmonie and the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church (pictured)?
... that Tony Blair felt later that the sobriquet "people's princess" sounded "corny" and "over the top", but "at the time it felt natural"?
... that as a child, future script supervisor Pamela Mann-Francis went to the cinema multiple times a week, even during Second World War air raids?
... that Doja Cat stopped smoking marijuana while recording Hot Pink, and discovered that her songwriting improved significantly?
... that Simonie Michael was the first elected Inuk legislator in Canada?
... that photography video games often play like non-violent shooter games, with the player equipped with a camera instead of a gun?
... that L. Zenobia Coleman, a librarian at Tougaloo College for 36 years, "paved the way for Black librarians"?
... that during World War II, the U.S. Ghost Army used sonic deception to confuse the Germans?

00:00, 27 May 2021 (UTC)

Mr. Dick drawn by Fred Barnard

... that Dickens changed the delusion of Mr. Dick (pictured) from a bull in a china shop to King Charles's head?
... that the United Kingdom Carrier Strike Group 21 will be the largest single deployment of the F-35 Lightning II fighter aircraft since the program started in 2006, with 18 of the aircraft embarked?
... that although some sources have cited the fish kick as potentially the fastest way for humans to swim, it has not been widely used in competitive swimming?
... that Marie Desbrosses made her operatic debut at the Comédie-Italienne in Paris in 1776, and created the role of Marguerite in Boieldieu's La dame blanche there in 1822?
... that a Turkish court banned a Hrant Dink Foundation conference about the social, cultural and economic history of Kayseri?
... that in April 2020, the Somali health minister, Fawziya Abikar Nur, announced the death of Somalia's second COVID-19 victim, a state justice minister?
... that the South African Pavilion at the 1938 Empire Exhibition in Glasgow became the canteen at an explosives factory?
... that ancient Spartans ate black soup?

26 May 2021

12:00, 26 May 2021 (UTC)

A Boy with a Flying Squirrel

... that the 1765 painting A Boy with a Flying Squirrel (pictured) by John Singleton Copley was lauded as a "very wonderfull [sic] Performance" by Sir Joshua Reynolds?
... that dentist Christian Linger ordered two hand-powered horseless carriages to be constructed by machinist Frank Toepfer, leading to the first American gasoline-driven vehicle?
... that the Tō-Ō Nippō was the first newspaper distributed throughout Aomori Prefecture?
... that during World War II, Helena Kuipers-Rietberg helped create a national underground network that supported Dutch Jews, downed airmen, and people conscripted for forced labor in Nazi Germany?
... that the poem Beachy Head by Charlotte Turner Smith was written while Britons feared Napoleon's armies would invade at that spot?
... that despite growing up "no more than a bus ride away from Yankee Stadium", Don Savage had never been to the team's home field before he made the 1944 New York Yankees roster?
... that Judas and the Black Messiah's film director Shaka King approved "Fight for You" by H.E.R. after he heard aspects inspired by Curtis Mayfield?
... that Stuart Baggs "The Brand" was told he was "full of shit" by Lord Sugar after it was revealed he had lied on his application for The Apprentice?

00:00, 26 May 2021 (UTC)

Photograph of a man by Rashid Mahdi

... that the work (example pictured) of Sudanese visual artist Rashid Mahdi was discovered by a French photographer in the dusty backrooms of several stores?
... that the unfinished Interstate 405 was used to mark the border between two of Oregon's congressional districts?
... that Lachlan Power became the first Australian gaming content creator to reach 10 million subscribers on YouTube?
... that the UFC's Dana White said that EliteXC: Heat was "fucking illegal" over allegations of fight tampering in the main event involving Kimbo Slice?
... that in 1886 prison superintendent John W. Tyler took 34 Indians, mostly prisoners, to the Colonial and Indian Exhibition in London to show their skill in carpet weaving?
... that Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau made an unannounced visit to a McDonald's at the Whitby Mall?
... that, though a poet like her famous great-uncle Henry Wadsworth, Stephanie Longfellow found fame as an actress?
... that Zealot: A Book About Cults suggests someone might join a cult when their lifestyle "doesn't let them have enough sex with aliens"?

25 May 2021

00:00, 25 May 2021 (UTC)

Henderson Hall

... that Henderson Hall Historic District (building pictured) contains one of the oldest extant schools in West Virginia?
... that bishop Adam Naruszewicz was a prominent writer of the Polish Enlightenment, and one of the first modern historians of Poland?
... that the first use of the phrase "crimes against humanity" in diplomacy was in a May 1915 Entente declaration condemning the Armenian Genocide?
... that hockey player Troy Terry was named after former National Football League quarterback Troy Aikman?
... that the name of Malaysia's Kalabakan District comes from the words "can eat" in a local language?
... that Thomas Fritsch, a film actor who charmed the teens of the 1960s, was the German voice of Russell Crowe, Scar and Diego, a Smilodon?
... that seven years after Miss America cut the ribbon for the Pepsi-Cola world headquarters in New York City, the company announced it would move to the suburbs?
... that Indian writer Shrabani Basu learned about the relationship between Abdul Karim and Queen Victoria while researching the history of curry?

24 May 2021

00:00, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

Kerttu Saalasti

... that the University of Oulu renamed an institute after Finnish politician Kerttu Saalasti (pictured) in 2017, six decades after she introduced the bill that established the university?
... that the Golden Age short story "The Voyage That Lasted 600 Years" includes the first use of a generational starship in fiction?
... that Kidsgrove Athletic F.C. became the first football club in England to have father and son goalkeepers when they signed Steve Cherry in 2003?
... that "O komm, du Geist der Wahrheit" is an 1833 German-language hymn for Pentecost in which the "Spirit of Truth" is called to come and restore the attitude of early Christianity?
... that because of her striking beauty and sense of high fashion, soprano Annamary Dickey was dubbed the "Glamour Girl of the Met" in 1949?
... that the statue of Billie Holiday in Upton, Baltimore, also depicts a crow eating a gardenia?
... that the Nakba – the destruction of Palestinian society, their homeland, and the permanent displacement of a majority of the Palestinian people – has been described as an ongoing catastrophe?
... that the design of Suffolk Downs station was inspired by medieval fortified churches?

23 May 2021

00:00, 23 May 2021 (UTC)

Sculpture of Lady Katharine Berkeley

... that the first founder of a free-to-use English school was Lady Katharine Berkeley (sculpture pictured)?
... that the finalists from Nizi Project debuted in the Japanese girl group NiziU?
... that Lisa Kahn was described as a prototypical example of a German-American author?
... that some 5,000 white people looted a Black church for wood to burn the lynched body of John Carter, a Black man who was hanged and shot in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1927?
... that the Harzburger Musiktage is an annual festival founded in a German spa town in 1970 by violinist Luz Leskowitz, who first played there with colleagues from Berlin and Vienna?
... that financial troubles at a television station in Florida led to the bankruptcy that caused the 1994 demise of Mississippi radio station WHSY?
... that Hampden Park's square wooden goalposts, which were used at Scotland's national football stadium between 1903 and 1987, were later placed on the roof of an English pub?
... that future Bangladeshi prime minister Tajuddin Ahmad earned a degree in law after taking his law examination in prison?

22 May 2021

00:00, 22 May 2021 (UTC)

Serpent eel

... that the serpent eel (example pictured) wriggles backwards into the sandy seabed, leaving only its head visible?
... that during his mayoralty of South Bend, Indiana, Pete Buttigieg faced controversy when he fired the city's first African-American police chief for wiretapping?
... that a penalty shootout was used to determine which side would host the replay of the 1988 Football League Third Division play-off Final?
... that the court of Hossein Ali Mirza, the governor of Fars, was compared to the courts of Ottoman sultans due to its large and extravagant festivals?
... that the owner of a radio station in Hawaii changed its call letters to KIMO because the Hawaiian name Kimo translates to Jim, the owner's name?
... that the regular nature walks taken by historian and naturalist William Grainge averaged 24 miles (39 km)?
... that The Simpsons episode "Panic on the Streets of Springfield" features a "Morrissey-esque" character voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch, performing music by Bret McKenzie?
... that filmmaker Matthias Hoene won an award for a commercial of dogs having sex?

21 May 2021

00:00, 21 May 2021 (UTC)

George Mogridge

... that George Mogridge (pictured) threw the first no-hitter in New York Yankees franchise history?
... that IBM worker organizations compared the company's business deals with apartheid South Africa in the 1970s to those with Nazi Germany?
... that after her death Katri-Helena Eskelinen was voted "the greatest Siilinjärvi resident of all time" by her hometown?
... that a hardware bug in early versions of the Intel Pentium CPU led to the affected processors being recalled, in what was the first full recall of a computer chip?
... that the founder of New Orleans radio station WHIV-LP chose those call letters to help reduce the stigma surrounding the virus?
... that the New York and Long Island Coignet Stone Company went out of business less than a decade after completing its headquarters building?
... that Fijian Napolioni Bolaca was the top point scorer at the 2019–20 World Rugby Sevens Series?
... that the Danish Civil War was paused so that combatants could participate in the Wendish Crusade?

20 May 2021

00:00, 20 May 2021 (UTC)

President Bush waving from the train outside Bowling Green during his whistle-stop campaign

... that during George H. W. Bush's 1992 presidential campaign, he conducted a whistle-stop tour (pictured) on a train named Spirit of America?
... that surgeon Alexander Crombie was the first to inject morphine as a premedication?
... that Kammermusik by Paul Hindemith comprises eight chamber-music compositions, including a wind quintet and six solo concertos for various instruments?
... that the new director of DARPA, Stefanie Tompkins, was paid by NASA to analyze Moon rocks?
... that the Romans copied the Phoenician joints technique from a Punic warship that ran aground in 264 BC?
... that despite being warned that her "female parts would be damaged", Susan Beharriell recorded 80 hours in a jet during her time training fighter pilots?
... that Hulk Hogan testified in the United States v. McMahon steroids trial that WWF chairman Vince McMahon never bought steroids for him?
... that British actress Marie Empress was last seen on a Cunard liner bound for New York?

19 May 2021

00:00, 19 May 2021 (UTC)

Jesús Soto Museum of Modern Art

... that for the construction of the Mediterranean-style Jesús Soto Museum of Modern Art (pictured), architect Carlos Raúl Villanueva brought builders from Spain to Venezuela?
... that the Museum of Literature Ireland is branded MoLI in homage to Molly Bloom of James Joyce's Ulysses, of which it holds "Copy No. 1"?
... that in order to keep two paintings by Pablo Picasso in the Kunstmuseum Basel, the people of Basel voted in the 1967 Basel Picasso paintings purchase referendum to buy them?
... that Musée de l'Amérique francophone's collection contains first edition copies of The Birds of America and Encyclopédie?
... that the Musée Archéologique de Dijon holds dozens of religious offerings to the pagan goddess Sequana?
... that the Kimiuo Aisek Memorial Museum is the first museum in Chuuk State and exhibits artefacts collected from Pacific War wreck sites?
... that the designer of the flag of Papua New Guinea, Susan Karike, had a gallery at the national museum named after her?
... that Kosrae State Museum used virtual reality technology to inspire interest in the state's heritage from local stakeholders and members of the Kosraean diaspora?
... that some of the Science Museum Group's collection have Never Been Seen?

18 May 2021

00:00, 18 May 2021 (UTC)

488 Madison Avenue

... that Esquire magazine, a tenant of 488 Madison Avenue (pictured), tried to prevent the building from being named after Look, its competitor in the same building?
... that Soman Chainani wrote The School for Good and Evil to "give young readers a taste of what a real fairy tale is"?
... that Alli Lahtinen, the first woman to lead a central government agency in Finland, helped establish the country's national child care system?
... that the 2007 Heineken Cup Final was the last rugby union match for coach Pat Howard before he returned to Australia to take over the family pharmacy business?
... that the Black Keys' 10th album Delta Kream comprises cover versions of hill country blues songs, a genre that strongly influenced the band's early works?
... that the neighborhood of Eastport in Annapolis, Maryland, declared independence in mock secession after the state highway administration temporarily shut down the drawbridge connecting it with the rest of Annapolis?
... that Max Emanuel Stern published a two-part epic poem on the life of Elijah?
... that although Justin Peck's ballet In the Countenance of Kings is plotless, the dancers are credited with superhero names?

17 May 2021

00:00, 17 May 2021 (UTC)

Florence Jepperson Madsen

... that Florence Jepperson Madsen (pictured) directed choirs of over 500 "Singing Mothers" for annual Relief Society conferences?
... that in 2012, French women's football club Arras FCF were promoted to the country's top division and reached the semi-finals of the French Cup?
... that Johnny Peirson signed with the Boston Bruins to earn some extra money for his education at McGill University?
... that a Colorado policeman laughingly told coworkers "Ready for the pop? ... I think it was her shoulder" as they watched footage of a handcuffed 73-year-old being forced to the ground and hogtied?
... that Walter Donaldson, a two-time World Snooker Champion, converted his snooker room into a cowshed and used the slate from his billiard table for paving?
... that the creators of the Indian web series His Storyy changed the ending because of prevailing social discrimination against the LGBTQIA+ community in the country?
... that Ora Nichols was the first woman to run a radio sound effects unit?
... that The Kiffness satirised the South African national anthem as a protest against the ban on cigarette sales during the COVID-19 pandemic?

16 May 2021

00:00, 16 May 2021 (UTC)

Comstock mealybug infestation

... that in a 1980 Japanese study, virgin female adult Comstock mealybugs (examples pictured) were taken from pumpkins so that scientists could extract their sex pheromone to capture the males?
... that the 2021 FA Cup Final between Leicester City and Chelsea today is expected to be the first football match in England with more than 8,000 supporters since March 2020?
... that construction site visits for the Denny Centre in Seattle were conducted through 360-degree video for the Canadian developer due to the COVID-19 pandemic?
... that Orvokki Kangas authored six books, including a novel, memoirs, and religious devotionals, after she left the Finnish parliament at the age of 61?
... that Russ Ford developed the emery ball pitch and taught it to Ed Sweeney and Earle Gardner, who taught it to Cy Falkenberg, before it was banned by Major League Baseball when Ray Keating was caught using it?
... that A Question of Love was widely regarded as a bold film for portraying homosexuality, a rare topic for television dramas in 1978?
... that 47,000 bodies from Lafayette Cemetery in Philadelphia were reinterred to allow for the construction of a playground?
... that Miroslav Fryčer's wish for his former head coach John Brophy to be fired after scoring two goals against the Toronto Maple Leafs came true that same month?

15 May 2021

00:00, 15 May 2021 (UTC)

Place Marie de Hongrie, Mariembourg

... that although considered impenetrable when built, the fortress town of Mariembourg (pictured) was taken by French troops after only three days of siege?
... that Colonel Anna von Wattenwyl went to jail in Switzerland because of her work for the Salvation Army?
... that Alan Little led York City to victory in the 1993 Football League Third Division play-off Final two days before his brother's side played in the First Division play-off Final?
... that for several nights early in her career, ballerina Mary Ellen Moylan danced in a Balanchine ballet, then took a taxi to another theater to appear in the second act of an operetta?
... that the region of Oostpunt, which encompasses roughly 10 percent of the island of Curaçao, is privately owned?
... that the 1914 Greek deportations have been described as "a trial run for the Armenian Genocide"?
... that Silvia Bottini, the face of the "First World Problems" meme, has done makeup for T-Pain and publicly performed Ovid?
... that the only winner of Spain's Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? used his "Phone a Friend" lifeline on the final question to tell his wife that he was going to win?

14 May 2021

00:00, 14 May 2021 (UTC)

Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Mathura

... that Sacred Heart Catholic Church (pictured) in Mathura, India, combines Gothic principles, Indian craftsmanship, and a Russian dome?
... that Paul Odgers was the last survivor of Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery's tactical headquarters who was present at the German surrender at Lüneburg Heath?
... that the upcoming television series House of the Dragon takes place before Game of Thrones and chronicles the beginning of the end of House Targaryen?
... that in The Gamblers, Shostakovich tried to set Gogol's play word for word but gave up after one act, and Krzysztof Meyer completed the opera decades later?
... that Norwegian footballer Sissel Grude retired aged 22, but returned for a one-off appearance 22 years later?
... that two utility companies fought in court over who would supply electricity to North Dakota radio station KBMR?
... that during his fourteen years as mayor, László Bogdán transformed the town of Cserdi in what was known as the "Cserdi miracle"?
... that the stargazer snake eel sometimes has a shrimp perched on its head?

13 May 2021

00:00, 13 May 2021 (UTC)

Kate Lutkins

... that Australian rules footballer Kate Lutkins (pictured), the best on ground at this year's AFL Women's Grand Final, played with a painful foot injury that required surgery?
... that Boris Carmeli, a basso profondo born in Poland who made an opera career in Italy, appeared in the world premieres of Penderecki's Seventh Symphony and Stockhausen's Sirius?
... that The New York Times puzzle editor Joel Fagliano published four crosswords in the paper before he finished high school?
... that all inmates of Nohra concentration camp, the first Nazi concentration camp, were communists?
... that the "Dirty Tricks" campaign run by British Airways against Virgin Atlantic involved BA staff working behind locked doors to illicitly obtain information about Virgin by pretending to be Virgin?
... that the Second Apocalypse of John paints a picture of the Last Judgement in which Christian emperors are driven like slaves and racial discrimination is no more?
... that Ken Bloom's real-life blog Quantum Diaries was a plot point on The Big Bang Theory?
... that in 1968, the inhabitants of a commune in Zealand, Denmark, named themselves after the valley Rivendell from J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional world of Middle-earth?

12 May 2021

00:00, 12 May 2021 (UTC)

Columnar basalt at Cape Stolbchaty, Russia

... that more than 90 percent of all volcanic rock on Earth is basalt (example pictured)?
... that Les McKeown worked at a paper mill before becoming the frontman of the Bay City Rollers?
... that some microprocessors feature a compressed instruction set that packs machine-language instructions into a more memory-efficient size?
... that Curley Christian was the only soldier in the First World War to survive a quadruple amputation?
... that critic Jack Anderson described Patricia Bowman as "the first American ballerina to win critical acclaim and wide popularity as a classical and a musical-theater dancer"?
... that the Soviet frigate Zadornyy was named after the Russian word for "provocative"?
... that Daniel Post Senning studied molecular biology and modern dance but ultimately became an expert in etiquette?
... that William Lescaze and his wife lived in a glass house and were not afraid of stone throwers?

11 May 2021

12:00, 11 May 2021 (UTC)

Prince Philip's personal standard

... that the standard of the late Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (pictured), contains references to his status as a former prince of Greece and Denmark, and his title as Duke of Edinburgh?
... that Sarah Zettel wrote her first short story at the age of 20 and it was published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact five years later?
... that Ontario's last German-language newspaper, the Berliner Journal, was forced to publish in English in 1918 after the Canadian government prohibited German publications?
... that when Risa Tsumugi was hired to be the disc jockey and rapper for the band Raise A Suilen, she had no prior experience in either disc jockeying or rapping?
... that one of the first two women diagnosed with tetrasomy X was living semi-independently 26 years after her diagnosis, instead of in an institution?
... that Irma Toivanen, who was part of a group of Finnish volunteer medics during World War II, helped make a film about the group six decades later?
... that the 1972 invasion of Uganda was described by a historian as "one of those rare events in military history. A perfect failure."?
... that acid house music promoter Tony Colston-Hayter directed people to his countryside raves by answerphone messages?

00:00, 11 May 2021 (UTC)

Arthur Kopit

... that Arthur Kopit (pictured) dismissed the commercial potential of his first play, which ran for six weeks on Broadway and earned him the Vernon Rice Award and Outer Critics Circle Award?
... that Daimaou Kosaka produced the theme song to the anime adaptation of Damens Walker and had his friend sing it?
... that the U.S. Public Health Service Environmental Health Divisions grew from a water-pollution research station in Cincinnati into the modern Environmental Protection Agency?
... that Finnish politician Margit Eskman did not attend secondary school because she had to work in a shoe factory?
... that New York City's Ritz Tower was dubbed the world's tallest apartment hotel when it was constructed?
... that juggling patterns can be encoded in terms of a mathematical object called the affine symmetric group?
... that Ivan Provorov moved to Pennsylvania from Russia at the age of 13 to play ice hockey?
... that Alan Comfort caught a helicopter to Heathrow then a flight to Ireland to get married hours after winning the 1989 Football League Fourth Division play-off Final?

10 May 2021

12:00, 10 May 2021 (UTC)

Morton Feldman

... that when Five Pianos premiered in Berlin in 1972, composer Morton Feldman (pictured) was one of the five humming pianists performing the piece?
... that civil engineer Tillinghast L'Hommedieu Huston oversaw major projects, from the clean-up of Havana's leper colonies to the construction of Yankee Stadium?
... that extracts from the brown algae Dictyota dichotoma and Dictyota implexa have been shown to have various antimicrobial, antioxidant and antifungal properties?
... that when mathematician Josephine M. Mitchell married another University of Illinois faculty member, the university revoked her tenured position so her husband could keep his untenured one?
... that the Weimar Republic had three successive cabinets that governed only through emergency powers?
... that when Hetty Jane Dunaway created Dunaway Gardens near Atlanta, it had a 400- and a 1,000-seat theatre and a swimming pool blasted out with explosives?
... that the breakaway club Dial Square F.C. was founded under the original name of Arsenal as a protest against Stan Kroenke's ownership of the contemporary club?
... that when arguing for a narrow front, Monty called Ike's messages, "nothing but balls"?

00:00, 10 May 2021 (UTC)

Animation showing the flooding of the Long Sault rapids

... that the Long Sault Parkway connects eleven islands created by the flooding of the Long Sault rapids (animation pictured) during the construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway in the late 1950s?
... that the independent record label Bellmark Records distributed hit records by Prince, Tag Team, and Duice in the 1990s?
... that Pirjo Ala-Kapee-Hakulinen was the first and only governor of the Eastern Finland Province from its creation in 1997 to its abolition in 2010?
... that the 2014 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship Game, held between UConn and Notre Dame, was the first to feature two undefeated teams?
... that the art and diaries of coal miner Sakubei Yamamoto were Japan's first entry on the UNESCO Memory of the World Register?
... that Pakistan was envisioned as the New Medina to be used as a staging point for the conquest and Islamisation of India, similar to the conquest of Mecca by Muhammad?
... that Figueroa Mountain Brewing Company claimed in 2017 to be brewing beer "around the clock – 22 and a half hours every day" in order to keep up with demand?
... that John James Hood Gordon and his twin brother Thomas Edward were both generals in the British Army, and joined on the very same day?

9 May 2021

12:00, 9 May 2021 (UTC)

Painting of the Punic building by Jean-Pierre Houël, 1770s

... that the best-preserved Punic building in Malta (pictured) has been incorporated into a priest's private garden?
... that after surviving the Holocaust, writer Trudi Birger moved to Israel with her family and founded a non-profit dental clinic?
... that members of the Eocene lacewing genus Palaeopsychops likely migrated from Denmark to the Pacific Northwest via Greenland?
... that Alec Sutherland was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire for his work in the sport of swimming?
... that the Canopy Group, one of the first venture capital firms in Utah, found success, controversy, and tragedy?
... that Helmut Branny, a double bassist of the Staatskapelle Dresden, conducted a recording of four bassoon concertos found in the library of the Dresden Court, including two by Antonín Reichenauer?
... that Alejandro Calvo García's mother overcame her fear of flying to see him score the winning goal in the 1999 Football League Third Division play-off Final?
... that Zoom towns may increase the demand for self-driving cars?

00:00, 9 May 2021 (UTC)

Isabelle Andréani as Carmen

... that Isabelle Andréani appeared as Bizet's Carmen (pictured in the role) first at the Opera de Marseille, and from 1960 in a production of the Opera de Paris?
... that during the production of Jeepers Creepers, a budget cut of $1 million resulted in a third of the film being rewritten?
... that West Virginia delegate Harry J. Capehart introduced bills establishing a state anti-lynching law, and a school for West Virginia's African-American deaf and blind students?
... that the Kharijites were the first sect to arise in Islam?
... that horticulturalist Albert F. Yeager's accomplishments led to him being referred to as the "plant wizard of the north" and the "Luther Burbank of North Dakota"?
... that one can accurately estimate the area of irregular objects such as plant leaves using only a transparent sheet printed with a grid of dots?
... that Smithe Redwoods State Natural Reserve was originally a privately-owned site that encompassed cabins, a post office, and a store?
... that H. J. Sterling once hired a detective to investigate players in the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association?

8 May 2021

12:00, 8 May 2021 (UTC)

Great hornbill with a casque

... that the casques of some large hornbill species (example pictured) can take up to six years to reach their full size?
... that Beverley Manley was a prominent activist for women's rights in Jamaica while her husband was prime minister?
... that a tunnel along Japan National Route 410 and Japan National Route 465 is the second-oldest tunnel still used on Japanese national highways?
... that Nicholas Chevalier designed a fern-inspired dress for Anne Maria Barkly, an expert on South African ferns?
... that "Herr, du bist mein Leben" (Lord, You are my life), a translation of a popular Italian 1977 "Symbolum" with text and music by Pierangelo Sequeri, was included in the next German Catholic hymnal?
... that after Watergate, the legal profession turned to the 19th-century ethics of David Hoffman because the President's lawyers had "blindly followed the demands of their client"?
... that Thomas S. Riley, the son of Irish immigrants, was West Virginia's 11th attorney general and chairperson of the West Virginia Democratic Party State Executive Committee?
... that in "Oh Sheit It's X", Thundercat sings about feeling ecstasy while on ecstasy?

00:00, 8 May 2021 (UTC)

Sudanese woman with facial scarification

... that facial scarification (example pictured), a feature of ethnic groups of both Northern and Southern Sudan, has been documented by various photographers in Sudan?
... that after Lady Ganga learned that she had stage-four cervical cancer, she traveled to India and set a women's world record by standup-paddleboarding 700 miles (1,100 km) on the Ganges?
... that confusion over time zone changes in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan resulted in technical violations at WCKD radio and almost cost the owner an opportunity to build a station in Illinois?
... that Martin Willock took breaks in his cycling career to build a house and start a repairs company?
... that a Financial Times reviewer described Der Mieter (The Tenant), a German opera based on a French novel, as "a journey to the blackest regions of an anguished psyche in a hostile world"?
... that Nancy McCormick Rambusch founded the Whitby School in 1958, sparking a revival of Montessori education in the United States?
... that although Surrey County Council created over 250 smallholdings for men after the First World War, it was the Women's Farm and Garden Society which created those for women?
... that international cricketer Rohit Sharma is the rhino ambassador for WWF-India?

7 May 2021

12:30, 7 May 2021 (UTC)

Adelaide Level lead mine at Arn Gill

... that the former Adelaide Level lead mine (pictured) at Arn Gill in Swaledale, England, was named after Lady Adelaide Lamont, a descendant of Judge Jeffreys?
... that pioneer film actress Ann Brody was known for her roles as Jewish mothers?
... that the 2000 Football League Third Division play-off Final was played at Wembley Stadium on a Friday night to accommodate a friendly between England and Brazil?
... that after Peggy Knobloch disappeared on the way home from school in 2001, her body was not located until 2016?
... that chemical warfare agents require specialized equipment for workplace exposure monitoring?
... that when Ruth Stokes defended her dissertation on the theory of linear programming in 1931, she became the first person to earn a doctorate in mathematics from Duke University?
... that the 11th-century Dalby Gospel Book is the first medieval manuscript known to have existed in Denmark?
... that art collector Michael Xufu Huang bought a portrait of Anna Sorokin, who had defrauded him years earlier, to be displayed in his museum?

00:30, 7 May 2021 (UTC)

Rosa von Milde

... that Rosa Agthe (pictured) and her future husband performed the roles of Elsa and Telramund, respectively, in the world premiere of Wagner's Lohengrin, conducted by Franz Liszt in Weimar?
... that the Hartford Courant described the library of the Hartford Medical Society as "one of the country's finest collections of medical literature"?
... that when Giovanni Rossi founded a utopian community in Brazil, based on anarchist ideals including free love, most of its 300 members were men?
... that one of the highest death rates in the Holocaust was in Bulgarian-occupied Greece, where 97 percent of Jews were killed in less than a month?
... that Emma Mullin, who won four Gaelic football championships, was also the first player from her association football club to play for the Republic of Ireland?
... that the Chamber of Progress describes itself as devoted to a "progressive society" but some critics have called it an astroturfing group and "progressive camouflage" for anti-union organizing?
... that Spanish actress Úrsula Corberó captured footage for the music video for "Un Dia (One Day)" without involving production assistants?
... that the russet brittlegill is collected and eaten by people in the Ivory Coast?

6 May 2021

12:00, 6 May 2021 (UTC)

Spherical concretion on Ward Beach

... that spherical concretions (example pictured) were revealed on Ward Beach as a result of the large uplift of the seabed caused by the 2016 Kaikōura earthquake?
... that Grischa Huber played Grischa in Under the Pavement Lies the Strand, regarded as "a cult film in the feminist movement"?
... that Charles Scribner's Sons occupied its Fifth Avenue building, designed by Ernest Flagg, for 19 years before moving to another Fifth Avenue building, also designed by Flagg?
... that Japanese singer Lovely Summer Chan attended the same middle school and high school as the members of the all-female band the Peggies?
... that Ishihara Park and Gandara Park in Santa Monica, California, are both named after local World War II veterans whose military contributions were overlooked during their lifetimes?
... that after their roughly 320 km/h (200 mph) crash at the 2021 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, George Russell slapped Valtteri Bottas on his crash helmet while Bottas showed Russell his middle finger?
... that American actress Minerva Bussenius's stage name Roberta Arnold is a combination of her father's and uncle's names?
... that Adam West was on the set of Zombie Nightmare for two days?

00:00, 6 May 2021 (UTC)

Róża Maria Goździewska

... that eight-year-old Róża Maria Goździewska (pictured) was "the youngest child nurse" in the Warsaw Uprising?
... that choreographer George Balanchine completed the ballet Symphony in Three Movements in a week, despite its complex choreography, large cast and Stravinsky's intricate score of the same name?
... that Julie Erichsen is the first female Norwegian gymnast to qualify for an Olympic Games since 1992?
... that the 2021 book Do Not Disturb was credited with exposing "a remarkable catalog of lies the [Rwandan government] sold to western apologists"?
... that Ecuadorian presidential candidate Ximena Peña previously represented the United States and Canada in the National Assembly?
... that smell training is being used to treat long-term loss of smell after COVID-19 infection?
... that the yellow and orange mushroom Imperator luteocupreus stains blue when bruised or cut?
... that the founding owner of Minnesota radio station WVAL would climb the 300-foot (91 m) transmission tower himself and change the light bulbs on the mast?

5 May 2021

12:00, 5 May 2021 (UTC)

Interior courtyard of the Currency Building

... that Kolkata's Currency Building (pictured) has housed the Agra Bank, an office for the issue and exchange of currency, the Reserve Bank of India, and a public art museum?
... that Vieno Simonen was first elected to the Finnish parliament in 1948, ten years after she was widowed with seven children?
... that Langston Hughes allowed his poem "Mississippi–1955", written in response to Emmett Till's lynching, to be republished in all newspapers that wanted to?
... that Chris Horn, founder of the NASDAQ-listed IONA Technologies, was still living with his wife and four children in a three-bedroom semi-detached house at a time when his net worth exceeded 300 million dollars?
... that the Los Angeles restaurant El Cholo Spanish Cafe is credited with introducing the burrito to the U.S.?
... that the fossil torchwood genus Barghoornia was named in honor of paleobotanist Elso Barghoorn?
... that Frederic Growse finished the first complete and illustrated English translation of the Ramayana of Tulsidas in 1883?
... that the play Karl Marx in Kalbadevi depicts an imaginary visit by Marx to Kalbadevi, the hyper-capitalist area of Mumbai, India?

00:00, 5 May 2021 (UTC)

"The finest two acres of private garden" in Scotland

... that seeds from Asia allowed Dorothy Renton to create "the finest two acres of private garden" (detail pictured) in Scotland?
... that May 4 is celebrated both as Literary Day and as Youth Day in honor of the May Fourth Movement?
... that Conn Findlay is one of only two individuals to win sailing's America's Cup and an Olympic gold medal in rowing?
... that pentasomy X, in which a girl or woman has five X chromosomes, is sometimes mistaken for Down syndrome?
... that John Thomas Douglass's Virginia's Ball, which premiered in 1868, is generally regarded as the first opera written by a black composer?
... that in his book, Uğur Ümit Üngör argues that the Armenian Genocide contributed to The Making of Modern Turkey?
... that Orgill, Inc., now the world's largest independently owned distributor of hardlines, began as a hardware store in 1847, making it the oldest Memphis-founded company still in operation?
... that the colonial tunicate Botrylloides leachii can regenerate its whole body from a small fragment of tissue?

4 May 2021

12:00, 4 May 2021 (UTC)

Linn Sömskar

... that Linn Sömskar (pictured) has won medals at World Cups in both cross-country skiing and roller skiing?
... that Japan National Route 119 runs along the world's longest tree-lined avenue?
... that soprano Florence Kirk's temperamental fit over her costume as Lady Macbeth led to the professional debut of opera star Regina Resnik who replaced her?
... that actor Don Johnson and other investors reportedly planned to restart production of the Renaissance Tropica, an electric car which appeared in an episode of Nash Bridges?
... that Adeline Gray was the first person to jump using a nylon parachute?
... that Asus had to rename their ZenFone 6 for the Indian market after the Delhi High Court ruled that the name violated a competitor's trademark?
... that Finnish minister Kyllikki Pohjala learned English while working in New York hospitals to pay for her education at Columbia University?
... that American fiction's first son-of-a-bitch is in the writings of John Neal?

00:00, 4 May 2021 (UTC)

Model of the Flying Dutchman

... that the Flying Dutchman (model pictured), a locomotive powered by a horse on a treadmill, could carry 12 passengers at speeds of around 12 miles per hour (19 km/h)?
... that toy manufacturer siblings Nick, Anna, and Mat Mowbray bought Coatesville mansion near Auckland, New Zealand, for NZ$32.5 million when they were in their early thirties?
... that safe listening prevents risks to hearing from voluntary sound exposure rather than unwanted noise?
... that "Kiss Me More" interpolates the melody from "Physical" by Olivia Newton-John?
... that a report by Witold Pilecki, a Polish resistance fighter who infiltrated Auschwitz, was translated into English in 2012 as The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery?
... that Facebook has estimated that fake news reached 126 million voters on social media in the 2016 United States presidential election?
... that one of the Cehennemağzı Caves in northwestern Turkey features a very old Christian church, which was used as a secret place of worship in the first years of Christianity?
... that geographer John Fraser Hart does not use a computer, preferring to type emails on his typewriter and have an assistant re-type them digitally?

3 May 2021

12:00, 3 May 2021 (UTC)

Hercules ant

... that in North America, the Hercules ant (pictured) tends aphids, as well as the larvae of the silvery blue butterfly?
... that Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television is the first book that collects information from various sources to determine how the wide availability of television affects society?
... that after the BBC suspended its regular programming following the death of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, the broadcaster received criticism for its continuous coverage of the event?
... that Aaron Nola was the first Philadelphia Phillies pitcher since 1989 to make his major league debut the year after he was drafted?
... that the live-action television drama adaptation of Kakafukaka was the first show broadcast on MBS's programming block, Drama Tokku?
... that for his 2015 mural Mutual Entanglements, artist Sandeep Mukherjee instructed the gallery to install the 10 panels in whatever order and orientation they wanted?
... that the president of the Palestine Oriental Society was of the opinion that the monuments and antiquities of Palestine belonged to the Palestinians?
... that on Christmas Eve in 1917, Lieutenant Cedric Naylor and some of his crew remained aboard their sinking ship so they could fire upon the submarine that had torpedoed her?

00:00, 3 May 2021 (UTC)

72nd Street station original entrance

... that the original entrance to New York City's 72nd Street station (pictured) was once called "a miserable monstrosity as to architecture" and recommended for demolition?
... that the 2011 single "Chic C'est la Vie" by Luann de Lesseps was called "stunningly un-self-aware and over the top" by a critic?
... that Philadelphia Phillies backup catcher Andrew Knapp changed his number in 2018 to honor Roy Halladay and then a second time in 2020 to honor Dick Allen?
... that in Open Wounds, Vicken Cheterian argues that "by censoring the Armenian Genocide, its impact, traces and consequences do not simply disappear. It continues in various forms"?
... that actress Bertha Belmore starred in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1925 with W. C. Fields and Will Rogers?
... that Class 1 protected forests in Sabah, such as Tenompok Forest Reserve, Tawai Forest Reserve, Binsuluk Forest Reserve, and Ulu Telupid Forest Reserve, are threatened by encroaching agriculture, illegal logging, and man-made fires?
... that Canadian geneticist Phyllis McAlpine was among the first to promote a unified gene nomenclature system and helped found the HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee?
... that there is a mountain of gold in French Guiana?

2 May 2021

12:00, 2 May 2021 (UTC)

Sussex Drive and the Royal Canadian Mint, circa 1920

... that Sussex Drive (pictured) forms part of a ceremonial route used by foreign dignitaries and royal visitors to Canada?
... that Mikoto Misaka, a fictional character from A Certain Magical Index, inspired the name of Bilibili, a real-life streaming service?
... that the Fuller Building, with a black granite base and limestone tower, has been called "the Brooks Brothers of Art Deco"?
... that in 1908, Louisa Wilkins went to Damascus without local language skills, wearing long skirts and riding side saddle?
... that Kanye West and Spike Jonze expanded a music video for "See You in My Nightmares" into the film We Were Once a Fairytale?
... that Rumahis ibn Abd al-Aziz, the governor of Palestine for Caliph Marwan II, escaped to Islamic Spain where he became governor of Algeciras and Sidonia?
... that the Christuskirche, a German Protestant parish church in Paris completed in 1894, has been a venue for performances of Bach's Christmas Oratorio?
... that the Cloud9 League of Legends division won back-to-back League of Legends Championship Series titles in their first two seasons of existence?

00:00, 2 May 2021 (UTC)

Detail from Matilda de Bailleul's illuminated psalter

... that Euphemia de Walliers made additions to the illuminated psalter (detail pictured) left by her predecessor as Wherwell Abbey's prioress, Matilda de Bailleul?
... that a researcher at the Electronic Frontier Foundation described Google's Federated Learning of Cohorts as "a technology that should not exist"?
... that although they were positioned just a few miles away, the soldiers of George Johnstone's brigade were unaware of the Battle of Waterloo taking place?
... that "Der am Kreuz ist meine Liebe" (He on the Cross is my love) is the first line of four hymns from the 17th, 18th and 20th centuries?
... that Camillo Vaz managed Paris Saint-Germain Féminine when they qualified for the UEFA Women's Champions League for the first time?
... that officially sanctioned methods to combat drought in Turkey include better protecting river basins, building underground dams, rainwater harvesting, using more grey water, and praying for rain?
... that classicist Alfred Klotz wrote a textbook promoting scientific racism that turned out to be a commercial failure?
... that Dendroides canadensis larvae alternate between two different adaptive mechanisms to survive in subzero temperatures?

1 May 2021

12:00, 1 May 2021 (UTC)

Charles A. Bevilacqua

... that US Navy Seabee Charles A. Bevilacqua (pictured) was chief builder of the original South Pole station?
... that Andrew Guest wrote "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons" despite having no experience playing the titular game?
... that Anna-Liisa Tiekso dropped out of university in 1951 to become the youngest member of the Finnish parliament?
... that the shrimp Processa edulis is white during the day and pink at night?
... that French rugby union referee Aurélie Groizeleau also breeds almost 7,000 pairs of pigeons?
... that the 1989 manga Sweet Spot by Yutsuko Chūsonji originated the slang term oyaji gal, used to describe young businesswomen who have the interests and hobbies of middle-aged businessmen?
... that Terence Lam, who initially did not plan to become a singer, received ViuTV Chill Club's best male singer award and Commercial Radio Hong Kong's best new artist award?
... that the supermarket Omega Mart has nut-free salted peanuts available for purchase?

00:00, 1 May 2021 (UTC)

14th-century gold-ground Madonna and Child

... that the use of a gold background (example pictured) has been prevalent for some types of art from Europe to Japan?
... that Helen D'Amato was appointed to a three-year term as Malta's commissioner of children, but held the role for nearly twice as long after her term expired without a successor being designated?
... that because the globose octopus Bathypolypus sponsalis lives at great depths, it has large eggs, reduced gills, and no ink sac?
... that Gira Sarabhai and her brother Gautam were crucial in the formation of the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad?
... that upon its completion, 400 Madison Avenue in New York City was described as one of several buildings that comprised the "Grand Canyon of midtown business"?
... that Captain John T. Newton commanded USS Missouri on the first crossing of the Atlantic by an American steam-powered warship, and was later court-martialed after an accidental fire sank the ship?
... that the 1975 book Fighting Auschwitz: The Resistance Movement in the Concentration Camp was the first work to discuss in detail the story of the resistance's founder, Witold Pilecki?
... that Rocking the Boat believes that kids are built by boats?