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31 January 2022

12:00, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

Umar Zahir

... that Umar Zahir (pictured) built both an island of trash and an island of hope?
... that Kanye West originally wrote the chorus of "Gold Digger" from a female point of view?
... that in 2019, Paul Cosford and his colleagues found that lung cancer was more common in non-smokers than was generally thought?
... that the video game Pyongyang Racer was developed in North Korea for Koryo Tours, which organises tours to the country?
... that AI expert Tess Posner resigned her role as a CEO in order to concentrate on her music career?
... that the Syracuse House on Clinton Square was described by Charles Dickens as "the worst inn that ever was seen"?
... that Zimbabwean colonel Flint Magama, who was responsible for the killing of opposition politician Njini Ntuta, later received the country's highest award for military bravery?
... that at various secondary schools and universities, students eat entire heads of lettuce as quickly as possible?

00:00, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

BP Building

... that the BP Building (pictured) features Europe's first example of "suspended construction"?
... that Da'ud, the heir apparent of the last Fatimid caliph, spent almost his entire life imprisoned by the succeeding Ayyubid dynasty?
... that Encanto's Mirabel is the first Disney heroine to wear glasses?
... that Siegfried Goldschmidt translated Kalidasa's epic poem Sêtubandhu from Prakrit into German?
... that the headless body of Thomas Aquinas was boiled, possibly in wine, after his canonization?
... that after going off the air due to financial issues, the control room of Texas radio station KBIL was set ablaze by an arsonist?
... that Elena Guseva's training as a choral conductor helped her analyse the score when playing Polina in Prokofiev's The Gambler at the Vienna State Opera?
... that the vegan-food brand Squeaky Bean produces food that does not contain beans?

30 January 2022

12:00, 30 January 2022 (UTC)

Obverse of a double florin

... that the double florin (example pictured), a British coin, was criticised both for being too close in size to the crown and because the crown on it was too small?
... that when journalist Bill Fleischman was surprised by a radio advertisement about his next-day article, he just sat down and wrote it?
... that the Port of Shahid Rajaee is responsible for 85 percent of the total loading and unloading carried out at Iranian ports?
... that Lieutenant-Colonel Johannes Wilhelm Colenbrander and two others died on camera during the filming of the 1918 war film Symbol of Sacrifice?
... that part of the funding for the Columbus Monument in Syracuse, New York, was provided by Italian dictator Benito Mussolini?
... that in 2014, Trinidadian sprinter Deon Lendore won the highest award in National Collegiate Athletic Association track and field while at Texas A&M University?
... that Historia narodu polskiego, the first modern history of Poland, was never finished but was highly influential on emerging Polish historiography?
... that a pornographic video service once offered NFL quarterback Gardner Minshew a one-million-dollar endorsement deal based on his habit of exercising in nothing but a jockstrap?

00:00, 30 January 2022 (UTC)

Fragments of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9

... that Jupiter is sometimes called a "cosmic vacuum cleaner" because of frequent impacts from asteroids and comets (example pictured)?
... that when baseball outfielder Brick Eldred was suspended by his team for refusing to pay a fine, another team acquired him, paid the fine, and gave him a raise?
... that Tana Tidung Regency is the smallest regency by land area in North Kalimantan and has the province's lowest poverty rate?
... that Michael Koomen was shot and killed while trying to calm the situation?
... that Jackie Kennedy teased former love interest Declan Costello that a 1955 double date involving them and their spouses had almost broken up the Kennedys' marriage?
... that David Bowie's 1999 album Hours was the first by a major artist available for download from the Internet?
... that businessman and activist Matthew Glover's charity challenged Pope Francis to become a vegan for Lent?
... that the American Committee for the Defense of British Homes donated a hunting rifle from Theodore Roosevelt to help defend Britain during the Second World War?

29 January 2022

12:00, 29 January 2022 (UTC)

Woman presumed to be Louisa Bernie Gallaher

... that Smithsonian archivists are rediscovering the works of photography pioneer Louisa Bernie Gallaher (pictured) after they were misattributed to her boss?
... that the Doctor Who serial The Chase was to feature the Beatles dressed as old men, performing as part of a fictional 50th-anniversary concert, but the idea was rejected by their manager?
... that Garry Kasparov thought that a move by chess computer Deep Blue demonstrated its "superior intelligence", but the move was in fact caused by a software bug?
... that Albert Freedman was the first person indicted in the 1950s quiz show scandals?
... that Dan Lanning, who coached his final game at Georgia in the 2022 College Football Playoff National Championship, will face Georgia in his first game as the new head coach at Oregon?
... that Paul Gutama Soegijo travelled from Germany to Indonesia to study the gamelan instruments of Java for eight years?
... that the Amazon Venture oil spill, in which about 500,000 US gallons (1,900,000 litres) of oil spilled into the Savannah River, was caused by three valves that simultaneously malfunctioned?
... that Peruvian Viagra grows on the roots of plants?

00:00, 29 January 2022 (UTC)

St. James Theatre

... that a 40-foot-tall (12 m) mural outside Broadway's St. James Theatre (pictured) was painted over due to a broken foot?
... that in 1887, after spending three nights on the summit of Mont Blanc, scientist Joseph Vallot and his party were greeted with flowers by the mayor and all the inhabitants of Chamonix?
... that staff at the vegan food brand VFC interact with internet trolls on social media platforms to grow their online brand?
... that American musician Kenneth Kilgore, who was inducted into the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame, had a bridge posthumously named after him?
... that in 1951, 22 Greenlandic children were sent to foster families in Denmark to be re-educated as "little Danes"?
... that Kate Foster is the British ambassador to Somalia, but there are no consular services at the embassy in Mogadishu?
... that a billion dollars' worth of coal power in Turkey could be stranded?
... that the play-by-mail game Victory! The Battle for Europe takes about three years to play?

28 January 2022

12:00, 28 January 2022 (UTC)

John William Kiser

... that John William Kiser (pictured), who arrived in Chicago "practically penniless", took advantage of a boom in bicycle usage when he formed the Monarch Bicycle company?
... that Pope Pius IX gave the monks of Saint Vincent Archabbey permission to brew Saint Vincent Beer?
... that DTK Computer was one of the first companies to have its computers sold via satellite television?
... that in Africa, the criminalization of homosexuality was a colonial imposition and the decriminalization of homosexuality is resisted as a neocolonial imposition?
... that Francis Martin, a Cistercian monk from the Bronx, became a leader in the Catholic charismatic renewal?
... that Singapore's North East MRT line saw the first launch of the Art-in-Transit (AiT) programme – a public artwork showcase on the MRT network?
... that journalist Jack Berry was influential in lifting the ban on female reporters in the locker room at The Masters?
... that the artwork Comedian, a fresh banana taped to a wall with duct tape, sold for $120,000 in 2019?

00:00, 28 January 2022 (UTC)

Sissinghurst Castle Garden

... that Vita Sackville-West described the garden rooms she created at Sissinghurst (pictured) as "a series of escapes from the world, giving the impression of cumulative escape"?
... that fashion model Vivienne Rohner, named after fashion designer Vivienne Westwood, opened one of Westwood's shows during her first season as a model?
... that Washington State Route 304 was accidentally removed from the state highway system by the Washington State Legislature for two years?
... that Beate Ulbricht was subjected to harassment by the East German government because her adoptive parents, Walter and Lotte Ulbricht, did not approve of her marriage?
... that Henry Stoehr was able to spend more time producing his band's debut studio album, Moveys, after losing his day job due to the COVID-19 pandemic?
... that one-sixth of all liquor establishments in Bombay were attacked in the 1921 Prince of Wales riots?
... that at the 2016 Summer Paralympics, German para-cyclist Hans-Peter Durst won a time trial despite having no saddle for most of the event?
... that one radio station owner's decision to bring a "country cousin" to Tallahassee, Florida, turned out to be a miscalculation?

27 January 2022

12:00, 27 January 2022 (UTC)

Veronica Volkersz

... that beauty queen Veronica Volkersz (pictured) was the first woman to pilot an operational jet fighter?
... that although the House Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight tried to end payola, it just became more sophisticated?
... that star singers from the Munich parish of St. Martin, Moosach, were received by Angela Merkel in 2012?
... that Tyler Stockton was the second-youngest defensive coordinator in the FBS each of the two times he was nominated for the Broyles Award?
... that larvae of the baked bean ascidian settle onto the tunics of adult individuals?
... that Mary Healy, an international speaker on faith healing in the Catholic Church, only became interested in the subject during her 2014 sabbatical?
... that depictions of a sexual relationship between Richard the Lionheart and his sister Lady Joanna were cut from the script of the Doctor Who serial The Crusade?
... that in 2021, Alabama state representative Steve McMillan sponsored a bill that later became law allowing restaurants to have outdoor dining areas for dogs?

00:00, 27 January 2022 (UTC)

Wellbee

... that in the 1960s, the Centers for Disease Control's Wellbee (pictured) encouraged Americans to get vaccinated against polio and diphtheria?
... that Andi Sudirman Sulaiman made it mandatory for Muslim civil servants to read the Quran before work?
... that according to legend, the Red Ghost trampled a woman to death, and killed and ate a grizzly bear?
... that David Flitcroft was appointed as director of football at Port Vale after initially applying to be the club's manager?
... that the driver in a 2019 truck crash received a sentence of 110 years in prison due to mandatory sentencing laws in Colorado?
... that Rudi Kappel, co-founder of the first airline of Suriname, was arrested both on entering and leaving Santiago de Cuba?
... that The Alignment Problem, a book discussing existential risk from AI, was one of five "books that inspired Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella" in 2021?
... that Thomas Davey was part of a florists' cult?

26 January 2022

12:00, 26 January 2022 (UTC)

Jessen's icosahedron

... that Jessen's icosahedron (pictured) has been used for both the "Skwish" children's toy and a NASA proposal for a "super ball bot" to cushion space landers on other planets?
... that after a dispute emerged over the terms of its lease, the owner of its broadcast tower forced Wyoming radio station KNWT off the air by disconnecting its power?
...that the Yamashiro ikki has been characterized as the "people's parliament of the Warring States period"?
... that in 1848, the Hartford and New Haven Railroad was "regularly run with greater speed than any other railroad in the United States"?
... that Ludwig Zottmayr, who created the role of King Marke in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, was not the composer's first choice?
... that referee Jan Verhaas was informed of an error he made at the 2022 Masters by a member of the crowd?
... that Cody Bellinger made a motion capture appearance in Assassin's Creed Valhalla as the Viking Otta Sluggasson, with Bellinger's own baseball bat serving as Sluggasson's weapon?
... that Uvariopsis dicaprio was the first new plant species described in 2022?

00:00, 26 January 2022 (UTC)

Angela Cullen

... that Lewis Hamilton's physiotherapist, Angela Cullen (pictured), once cycled from Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, to northern Colombia?
... that while Wired recommended that readers binge The West Wing, it also advised readers to skip the fourth season episode "The Long Goodbye"?
... that sports broadcaster Gene Principe had to choose between covering his hometown team at the 2006 NHL playoffs and his "pure dream" of covering the Italian team at the 2006 FIFA World Cup?
... that four years after Harry Frazee opened his Longacre Theatre, he sold his ownership stake in the theater to focus on baseball?
... that quotations of Cicero, Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. about memory and love are engraved on the Memorial to Victims of Violence in Mexico?
... that Leander Schnerr survived the Great Chicago Fire and subsequently became the archabbot of Saint Vincent Archabbey?
... that Fire and Sword, a film about Tristan and Isolde, reused the stuntmen and horses from another Arthurian film, Excalibur?
... that there have been several attempts to make Colby cheese the official state cheese of Wisconsin?

25 January 2022

12:00, 25 January 2022 (UTC)

Screenshot of a typical game of Wordle

... that the viral online word game Wordle (instance pictured) was originally created just for the developer and his partner to play?
... that an Indonesian road expansion project demolished the home of a former public works minister?
... that a Māori military settlement at Māngere Bridge, New Zealand, was established in the 1840s to protect Auckland?
... that Dick Graves sold his casino to an employee on a handshake, telling him "pay me when you can"?
... that Ukrainian activists squatted Viktor Yanukovych's opulent clubhouse at the Mezhyhirya Residence?
... that journalist Eddie MacCabe claimed to have been pinned to the ground with guns pointed at his head while acting as a golf caddie for the United States president?
... that some of the Japanese music unit Sangatsu no Phantasia's songs were also written in novel form by its lead vocalist?
... that the fifteen bags of seaweed used as set dressing for the Doctor Who serial The Web Planet emanated an overpowering vegetable smell under the hot studio lights?

00:00, 25 January 2022 (UTC)

60 Wall Street

... that J.P. Morgan & Co. received a tax exemption for its former 60 Wall Street headquarters after the building's original developer had been denied the same exemption?
... that Oswald Spengler and the artist can be seen in the painting Late Visitors to Pompeii?
... that current Hawaii football defensive coordinator Trent Figg coached for the United States national team in 2016?
... that Dyson Institute Village's modular student-housing pods were inspired by Habitat 67?
... that Bobbie Gentry defined her composition "Ode to Billie Joe" as a "study in unconscious cruelty"?
... that Amanda Asay was the longest-serving member of the Canadian women's baseball team when she died at 33, having played on the team for sixteen years?
... that the more irreverent moments of The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction, such as a golf game with giant balls, were added to break up the story's intensity?
... that immediately after Colonel Drury-Lowe reassured his men that "[the bullets] are all passing over your heads", the officer next to him was shot and killed?

24 January 2022

12:00, 24 January 2022 (UTC)

Preet Chandi

... that Preet Chandi, the first known woman of colour to walk solo to the South Pole, contacted friends to be bridesmaids during her expedition?
... that in the 12th century, when wearing pure silk was forbidden for Muslim men, a silk-and-cotton blend known as mashru solved the problem?
... that Nathan Agostinelli stomped on a Viet Cong flag during his campaign for Connecticut State Comptroller?
... that Lille langebro looks like a twisted ribbon when it is lit up after dark?
... that American business executive William M. Ellinghaus helped rescue New York City from bankruptcy in the late 1970s?
... that Lifetime Medical Television, "the network for physicians only", charged the highest advertising rates on cable?
... that after Goo Hara's mother abandoned her and Goo died young, South Korean law was changed to prevent such parents from claiming inheritance?
... that you could be arrested for trying to arrange a contract killing through RentAHitman.com?

00:00, 24 January 2022 (UTC)

Sign that does not read "yonder lies Jackson Hole"

... that the name of the KHOL podcast "Yonder Lies" comes from a common misconception about the words on a sign (pictured)?
... that the astrologer Linn Nhyo Taryar was arrested after performing yadaya (magic rituals) against coup leader Min Aung Hlaing?
... that despite digital solutions gaining market share, the Day-Timer personal organizer has returned to being a paper-only product?
... that British philatelist Alma Lee specialised in the "standing Helvetia" stamps of Switzerland?
... that the Nashua and Lowell Railroad was the first railroad built in the state of New Hampshire?
... that in her 2021 composition This too shall pass with string orchestra, Raminta Šerkšnytė used a vibraphone for the flow of time, a violin for the transience of humans, and a "heavenly" cello?
... that Charles Thaddeus Russell's architectural designs helped to create the "Black Wall Street of America"?
... that Rosa the cow would attack French game show contestants and knock down sets but would not attack people on the ground?

23 January 2022

12:00, 23 January 2022 (UTC)

Female Churah Valley kukri snake

... that the Churah Valley kukri snake (example pictured) was discovered because of an Instagram post?
... that Billy Raimondi declined opportunities to play in Major League Baseball?
... that Queen Victoria ordered the erection of the Prince Imperial Memorial on the spot where Prince Napoléon was killed in battle with Zulus?
... that between 1878 and 1898, American inventor Maria E. Beasley patented a footwarmer, an improved life raft, several barrel-making machines and an anti-derailment device for trains?
... that the Royal Navy's 4th Submarine Squadron operated from Sydney to train Australian personnel in anti-submarine warfare?
... that Alice of Friday the 13th became a catalyst for the slasher film trope of unexpectedly killing off the main surviving protagonist in the sequel?
... that the architect Friedrich Silaban submitted his design for the Istiqlal Mosque pseudonymously in order to conceal his Christian identity?
... that according to one critic, the math rock album Cryptooology by Yowie "sounds like an explosion in a Slinky factory"?

00:00, 23 January 2022 (UTC)

Kumeko Urabe

... that as well as having a film career spanning 60 years, Kumeko Urabe (pictured) became the oldest debut singer in 1984 with her single Octopus Song?
... that Green Bay Packers kicker Mason Crosby performed a Lambeau Leap after a game-winning field goal, even though it is usually only done as a touchdown celebration?
... that when George Ross went bankrupt in 1867, his wife Sibella Ross started a school to sustain their large family?
... that Everyone on the Moon is Essential Personnel includes fairy tale, body horror, and apocalyptic short stories, but all of them relate to the human body?
... that "Candy" by H.O.T. sparked a new wave of mainstream music in the young generation of South Korea?
... that ice hockey player Trent Frederic was coached by former professional athletes in three of his childhood sports?
... that the immigrant-background narration of I Am Zlatan Ibrahimović has been compared to that of Philip Roth's novel Portnoy's Complaint?
... that The Outdoor Circle opposed a 2009 visit to Hawaii by the Wienermobile, believing its presence in the state was illegal?

22 January 2022

12:00, 22 January 2022 (UTC)

Freedom

... that the 7,000-pound (3,200 kg) sculpture Freedom (detail pictured) offers visitors a photograph opportunity?
... that calypsonian Mighty Bomber believed that the judges denied him the Trinidad and Tobago Independence calypso monarch title in 1962 because he was born in Grenada?
... that the windows of St. George's Episcopal Memorial Church in Bismarck, North Dakota, contain stained glass fragments collected from English churches damaged during World War II?
... that Zdzisław Najmrodzki, a thief in 1970s–1980s Poland, escaped from law-enforcement authorities and prisons on 29 occasions?
... that according to the book To Kill a Democracy, when democracies destroy their social foundations, they lay the foundations for despotism?
... that Ching Hammill died less than two months after making his National Football League (NFL) debut?
... that the wedding of Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands and Claus van Amsberg was marred by protests over Amsberg's German heritage and past membership in the Hitler Youth and the Wehrmacht?
... that Crackhead Barney picked a dead rat up off the street before confronting the National Guard at the inauguration of Joe Biden?

00:00, 22 January 2022 (UTC)

Belt buckle from Finnestorp

... that archaeologist Bengt Nordqvist interprets a Migration Period belt buckle (pictured) found at Finnestorp as a depiction of a mythological scene known from the Old Norse poem Völuspá?
... that in her 2021 book White Evangelical Racism, professor of religion Anthea Butler called American evangelicalism a pro-Trump, "nationalistic political movement"?
... that the steamship Clyde was wrecked in 1879 while carrying more than 500 replacements for the British 24th Regiment, which had suffered heavy losses at the Battle of Isandlwana?
... that in his final collegiate game, Tufts University football player Carl Etelman kicked a field goal with a broken ankle?
... that the construction of Auckland's Panmure Bridge in 1865 involved underwater repairs using Heinke diving suits?
... that Leon Stynen has been called one of Belgium's greatest architects of the 20th century?
... that the glass surface on the BNL BNP Paribas headquarters has alternating angles that follow the principle of the "two-faced Janus"?
... that U.S. Virgin Islands suffragist Ella Gifft smuggled rum during Prohibition by hiding it in her underwear?

21 January 2022

12:00, 21 January 2022 (UTC)

Elisa Ruiz Díaz

... that Paraguayan diplomat Elisa Ruiz Díaz (pictured) helped develop her country's constitution?
... that the 1938 film Road Demon contains footage of well-known accidents that occurred at Indianapolis Motor Speedway?
... that when Christy Schwundeck was shot in a job centre in Germany, she had nine cents in her wallet?
... that the Ethel Barrymore Theatre has never changed its name, owner, or use since its opening in 1928?
... that the St Leonard's Place hoard of around ten thousand 9th-century Northumbrian coins was discovered by workers digging a drain?
... that the short story collection Drinking Coffee Elsewhere was chosen by John Updike as a selection for the Today Show book club on NBC?
... that the Springburn Winter Gardens, the largest single-span glasshouse in Scotland, has been derelict since 1983?
... that the magic minute exposed a "secret" about baby carrots and criticized Jimmy Carter's sweaters?

00:00, 21 January 2022 (UTC)

Mausoleum in Berggarten

... that the Berggarten, a historic botanical garden since 1750 in Herrenhausen, features a mausoleum (pictured), where members of the royal family were interred?
... that an observer once described a play-by-mail game as "the most complex game system on Earth"?
... that Chappell Roan was signed to Atlantic Records at 17 years old?
... that factorials are more likely to begin with small digits?
... that American football wide receiver Bo Hines transferred to Yale University as a freshman to further his political ambitions?
... that a jury ruled that the killing of a policeman during the Coldbath Fields riot was justifiable homicide?
... that news editor Amasa Converse officiated the marriage of Edgar Allan Poe and Poe's teenage cousin Virginia Clemm?
... that the "wickedest man in the world" and the creator of Winnie-the-Pooh both lived in London's Wellington Square?

20 January 2022

12:00, 20 January 2022 (UTC)

Ravish Malhotra

... that after training for the Soyuz T-11 mission, Indian Air Force pilot Ravish Malhotra (pictured) stayed on the ground as a backup astronaut for Rakesh Sharma, who became the first Indian in space?
... that before the Biltmore Theatre was restored in 2003, there were proposals to lease the theater to a delicatessen owner or turn it into a hotel lobby?
... that the township of Hồ Xá in Vietnam was once known as the "B-52 bomb pocket"?
... that Nebraska's "Itch" Oehlrich was lured by the "scratch" of $100 per game to play in the National Football League?
... that George Balanchine choreographed the ballet Ivesiana to music by Charles Ives, despite previously finding his works too complex for dance?
... that the lead role in the 2021 film Cry Macho was first offered to Clint Eastwood in 1988?
... that Elfrida von Nardroff won $220,500 ($2.1 million today) on the game show Twenty-One in 1958, the highest winnings of any contestant?
... that after it broadcast for the last time, KHAT became Rock Steady and was part of a Triathlon?

00:00, 20 January 2022 (UTC)

Las Tarascas

... that although the sculptor of Las Tarascas (work pictured) based their faces on that of a real woman, their bodies were invented?
... that in 1976, Karen Ferguson founded the Pension Rights Center, a nonprofit pensioner advocacy organization, with encouragement and monetary support from Ralph Nader?
... that the Nishi-Okoppe and Yubetsu stations on the former Nayoro Main Line are now the site of a hotel and fire station respectively?
... that Hurley Goodall was appointed back onto the school board in Muncie, Indiana, following the death of his successor in a plane crash?
... that The Romans was the first Doctor Who serial with a humorous tone?
... that in October 1981, American doctor and mountaineer Peter Hackett became the third known person to complete a solo ascent of Mount Everest?
... that the landscapes in the manga series Star Red were drawn from photographs taken by NASA during the Viking 1 Mars exploration mission?
... that when Lou Almada brought his younger brother with him to spring training, the team gave his brother his job?

19 January 2022

12:00, 19 January 2022 (UTC)

Wilderness at Ham House

... that in garden history, a wilderness is a highly artificial and formalized type of woodland, forming a section of a large garden?
... that Black Garnet Books was founded in response to the murder of George Floyd?
... that Progress, composed by Winsford Devine and recorded by calypsonian King Austin in 1979, was declared "the song of the last millennium" by the Trinbago Unified Calypsonians' Organisation?
... that for its ReadRight software, OCR Systems recommended users block out graphics on the page with a Post-it Note?
... that 2020 European pommel horse champion Matvei Petrov won Albania's first medal at the European Men's Artistic Gymnastics Championships?
... that the season-one finale of Riverdale, "Chapter Thirteen: The Sweet Hereafter", almost included Sabrina Spellman from Chilling Adventures of Sabrina?
... that the text of "In dir ist Freude" ("In Thee is Gladness") was written in the 16th century to a 1591 dance song melody by Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi, and first published in a collection of Christmas carols?
... that Jonathan Reynolds deep-fried a real turkey during his performance of Dinner With Demons at the Second Stage Theater, New York?

00:00, 19 January 2022 (UTC)

Mary Zicafoose with ikat weaving

... that dyeing the threads for a weaving by Mary Zicafoose (pictured) may involve wrapping, tying, and untying as many as 80,000 ikat ties?
... that according to the Chronicon Wormatiense, Emperor Frederick II would have conquered the entire Holy Land if the pope had not invaded his kingdom while he was away on crusade?
... that Rita Humphries-Lewin, a former chair of the Jamaica Stock Exchange, entered the industry as a secretary?
... that Kanye West's "24" was recorded in tribute to Kobe Bryant a few days after his death?
... that the subdistrict of Komet in Banjarbaru was named after Komet Windpump?
... that after the NCAA vacated their national championship in men's lacrosse, Syracuse made a new trophy without the NCAA logo?
... that calypsonian Kenny J was best known for his "well-crafted, risqué parang soca contributions"?
... that a condor is a stretched butterfly?

18 January 2022

12:00, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

US Corozal

... that the Corozal (pictured) was the most powerful dredger ever built when she was launched in 1911 to work on the Panama Canal?
... that as a youth, Jim Johannson handed out shoes and jackets to ice hockey players on the United States national team, then later became general manager of the team?
... that a statue of the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, was installed despite his opposition to cults of personality?
... that Beverly Russell's 1992 book Women of Design: Contemporary American Interiors was the first survey of female interior designers?
... that two versions of Embrace Again were released, one in Standard Mandarin and another in the Wuhan dialect?
... that Tiancheng Lou is currently the most successful competitive programmer from China?
... that the medieval Looe Bridge had 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, or 18 arches?
... that Japanese voice actress Kaori Maeda cites Mister Donut fortune-telling as one of her hobbies?

00:00, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

Marshall Sherman with the 28th Virginia battle flag

... that the 28th Virginia battle flag (pictured) is stored at an undisclosed location in the Minnesota Historical Society, and has not been returned to Virginia despite multiple requests across three centuries?
... that after first alerting authorities to the Omicron variant in South Africa, bioinformatician Tulio de Oliveira insisted that its origin is unknown?
... that the 1912 production of Man's Genesis was the first "primitive man" film ever made and created a prehistory film boom in the years following its release?
... that development economist John Toye said free-market proponents "first turn liberty against equality and fraternity, then overthrow liberty itself"?
... that the surname Waering is Anglo-Saxon, but Waring may be Norman?
... that the street from which Mississippi radio station WMPR broadcasts was renamed in honor of the station's longtime owner and general manager, former politician Charles Evers?
... that when Helena Braun visited New York "just for the trip", she sang the role of Brünnhilde in Wagner's Die Walküre at the Metropolitan Opera with four hours' notice?
... that George H. W. Bush hated broccoli so much that he banned it from Air Force One?

17 January 2022

12:00, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

Memorial to the First Homosexual Emancipation Movement

... that 120 years after the founding of the world's first homosexual organization in 1897, a monument near its former headquarters (pictured) was unveiled in Berlin?
... that Paul R. Howe was first on the scene in the real-life "Black Hawk Down"?
... that before writing The Space Museum, Glyn Jones had never seen Doctor Who?
... that whilst serving as the Central African ambassador in Paris, Sylvestre Bangui held a press conference confirming that his government had massacred children and resigned?
... that the Professional Esports Association suspended its plans for a Counter-Strike: Global Offensive league four months after its announcement?
... that the Irish judge Maureen Harding Clark studied Malay in Malaysia and French in France before she was appointed to the Khmer Rouge Tribunal by King Norodom Sihamoni?
... that in 2006 The New York Times described the Palácio das Cinzas, then the presidential palace of East Timor, as "a glorified bungalow really"?
... that Gloria Gould, the manager of New York City's Embassy Theatre, wanted an all-woman staff because women "were more efficient than men"?

00:00, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

Donn Piatt

... that Donn Piatt (pictured) threw his mathematics teacher out of the window?
... that the stay of exit has trapped possibly hundreds of British people?
... that Ala Stanford established the Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium to fight racism in medicine, vaccinating nearly 4,000 people?
... that as a result of the Röhm scandal, a Nazi became the world's first openly gay politician in 1932?
... that in 1960, Zoe Progl became the first woman to escape over the wall of HM Prison Holloway?
... that in its first two decades, the Mansfield Theatre had only two "outstanding hits", both performed by all-Black casts?
... that economist and anti-apartheid activist Vella Pillay arranged for South African revolutionaries to receive military training in the Soviet Union and China?
... that the Apache leader Geronimo soaked in Truth or Consequences Hot Springs?

16 January 2022

12:00, 16 January 2022 (UTC)

Terras Bridge, Cornwall

... that vehicles crossing Terras Bridge (pictured) pass over a tidal river, an ungated level crossing, and the remains of a canal?
... that record-setting airplane spinner Catherine Cavagnaro is also a professional mathematician?
... that Canadian doctor James Maskalyk's book Six Months in Sudan was based on his blog?
... that after George Alexander Albrecht collapsed when conducting Beethoven's Ninth Symphony during a New Year's concert, he returned to composing and began hospice work?
... that during the 1979 Boston University strike, some striking professors carried picket signs with quotes from Paul the Apostle, William Shakespeare, and Voltaire?
... that the sea slug Aglaja tricolorata wraps its egg string around its body, forming a tangled skein?
... that Anne Emerman refused to allow Mother Teresa and the Missionaries of Charity to convert a building in the Bronx into a homeless shelter without installing an elevator?
... that some nuisance ordinances include the forced eviction of tenants if they call for emergency services?

00:00, 16 January 2022 (UTC)

Echinocereus websterianus, named after Gertrude Webster

... that a cactus (pictured) is named after Gertrude Webster, who helped found the Desert Botanical Garden in Arizona?
... that Gamaliel's principle has been used to support religious pluralism and reforms within religious groups?
... that the photographer Václav Jírů was sentenced to death for resisting the German occupation of Czechoslovakia and spent years in Nazi prisons?
... that the recreation area in Cleadon contains the remains of an 18th-century grotto?
... that West Virginia nursing professor Christine Elizabeth Abrahamsen wrote science-fiction and Gothic novels under the pseudonyms Christabel and Kathleen Westcott?
... that the Caslon Type Foundry made metal type in London for more than two hundred years?
... that St. James AME Zion Church, the oldest known standing church in Ithaca, New York, was a site on the Underground Railroad?
... that in the lead-up to the Second World War, the British government stockpiled more than 100,000 tons of whale oil?

15 January 2022

12:00, 15 January 2022 (UTC)

Christine Haidegger

... that the novel Mama Dear by Christine Haidegger (pictured) details her childhood in post–World War II Austria?
... that the oldest rocks of the Dharwar Craton are tonalite–trondhjemite–granodiorite gneisses and greenstone sequences between 3 and 3.4 billion years old?
... that George L. P. Weaver chaired the U.S. delegation to International Labour Organization conferences under Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon?
... that The Lost Homestead describes how Kuldip Singh recovered her childhood "paradise", lost after India's partition, in an English country cottage?
... that Alison H. Clarkson, the majority leader of the Vermont Senate, worked as a theatrical producer and on New York Theatre Workshop's board?
... that belief that homosexuality can be acquired has motivated Nazi persecution, discriminatory age-of-consent laws, censorship of LGBT publications and employment discrimination?
... that Colorado public television station KTSC operates from two studios named for the same benefactor?
... that from 1996 to 2019, Turkish Airlines operated an aircraft that would not move a meter on the ground when "she didn't feel like it"?

00:00, 15 January 2022 (UTC)

Tristan and Isolde (Death)

... that Rogelio de Egusquiza's paintings of Tristan and Isolde (one pictured) arose from his decades-long fascination with the works of Richard Wagner?
... that Alisha Kramer worked to fight HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and inequity in women's health in Africa and Europe as a program coordinator for the Center for Strategic and International Studies?
... that many Germans' belief that homosexuality was a communicable disease limited the success of the first homosexual movement?
... that after New Jersey attorney general Walter D. Van Riper busted betting rooms protected by party boss Frank Hague, Hague had Van Riper charged with check kiting and black-market gasoline sales?
... that Rangoon kept its own time for more than two decades after Burma Standard Time first came into effect?
... that the book Our Hindu Rashtra claims that India is a de facto Hindu-majoritarian state?
... that Jeffrey Paparoa Holman gave himself his middle name, after the Paparoa Range?
... that Georgia radio station WMGA was so "atrocious" that its announcers would invite listeners to donate their records?

14 January 2022

12:00, 14 January 2022 (UTC)

Square pyramid of cannonballs

... that the number of cannonballs in a square pyramid (pictured) with $n$ cannonballs along each edge is ${\frac {n(n+1)(2n+1)}{6))$ ?
... that Thomas Binger, the lead prosecutor in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, unsuccessfully ran for district attorney of Racine County, Wisconsin, in 2016?
... that after the War of Padua, the victorious Republic of Venice executed the lord of Padua and two of his sons?
... that before the Swiss surgeon René Prêtre specialized in surgeries on children's hearts, he treated victims of gunshots and stabbings at Bellevue Hospital in New York?
... that the series of protests that led to the 2021 North Kosovo crisis was caused by a ban on Serbian license plates from the Kosovan Government?
... that Bruce Davis and his son, who both played for UCLA in college and professionally for the Raiders, are one of the few father–son duos to have played on teams that reached the Super Bowl?
... that at the 2021 Dublin Bay South by-election, voters were asked to bring their own pen or pencil?
... that the sourdough starter at Diamond Bakery is believed to be more than a century old?

00:00, 14 January 2022 (UTC)

Florence Church Bullard

... that American nurse Florence Church Bullard (pictured) gave her French Croix de Guerre medal with a bronze star to the Sisters of Saint Marys, believing that her heroic deeds were a reflection of their teachings?
... that the Black Prince's chevauchée of 1356 was the most important campaign of the Hundred Years' War?
... that constable Joseph Luker, the first police officer killed on duty in Australia, was a former convict?
... that Roswell, New Mexico, radio station KBIM was so successful that its owner was able to start two other stations with its profits?
... that Austrian mountaineer Franz Oppurg was the first person to achieve a solo ascent of Mount Everest, climbing alone from the South Col to the summit on 14 May 1978?
... that Broadway's Imperial Theatre, opened in 1924, was the Shubert family's 50th theater in New York City?
... that when elected as mayor, Venezuelan politician Gloria Lizárraga de Capriles did not have her own office and worked from a shopping mall?
... that two nude bathers in Arnold Comes of Age were "nearly obliterated"?

13 January 2022

12:00, 13 January 2022 (UTC)

Moylough Belt-Shrine

... that the 8th-century Irish reliquary known as the Moylough Belt-Shrine (pictured) was found in 1945 by a workman while cutting turf?
... that Margaret A. Mahoney, who in 1949 became the majority leader of the Ohio Senate, is still the only woman to hold the top leadership role?
... that machine learning can be used to recognize rock fractures?
... that Kip Andersen and Keegan Kuhn were co-nominees for the 2018 Cinema for Peace Award for their documentary What the Health?
... that the taxi driver in the Liverpool Women's Hospital bombing was later commended for "incredible presence of mind and bravery"?
... that American medical pioneer Isabella Coler Herb designed the Herb–Mueller apparatus to help doctors and dentists administer ether to patients?
... that Maroparque received more than 250 exotic animals that were evacuated due to the 2021 Cumbre Vieja volcanic eruption?
... that Alexander Tahy became a pilot via on-the-job training?

00:00, 13 January 2022 (UTC)

The Battle of the Saints (1782) by Thomas Luny

... that Frederick Thesiger was an aide-de-camp to Admiral Rodney at the Battle of the Saintes (pictured)?
... that a 1963 gas explosion in Indianapolis during a Holiday on Ice show was one of the worst disasters in Indiana history?
... that Super Mario 64 has been the subject of medical literature showing a correlation between habitual playing of 3D platformers and increased grey matter in the brain?
... that 1920s actress Susie Sutton created her own vaudeville troupe and toured her company throughout the TOBA circuit?
... that despite a 2016 commitment to channel a quarter of humanitarian aid through local aid organizations, only 2.1 percent of 2020 funding went to them?
... that composers Charles Ives, Charles Tomlinson Griffes, and Elliott Carter attended Scriabin conferences held at Katherine Ruth Heyman's loft?
... that the replacement of arts listings television show 01-for London was described as "like having to swap a bright yellow curvy Japanese sports car for a dumpy little khaki-coloured old Ford Fiesta"?
... that in 2002, a python was left in an amnesty bin at a Hawaii airport?

12 January 2022

12:00, 12 January 2022 (UTC)

Motoo Ōtaguro

... that music critic Motoo Ōtaguro (pictured) held private piano concerts in his own residence despite not being a professional musician?
... that Adam Kincaid of the National Republican Redistricting Trust defended lowered competition in US House elections, arguing that the changes would save the party money?
... that the National Democratic Redistricting Committee supported lawsuits in North Carolina and Ohio against alleged gerrymandering by Republicans?
... that the brutal torture and lynching of Luther Holbert in 1904 was not recognized in the National Memorial for Peace and Justice until 2018?
... that woody plant encroachment can harm the habitats of the cheetah, plains zebra and secretarybird?
... that actress Ethelyn Gibson was the first person to star in and produce a serial film that had sound?
... that the 2016 Jim Beam strike was the first labor strike in the company's history?
... that British Army brigadier Cyril Barclay certified that he was neither a polygamist nor an anarchist who wished to overthrow the United States government?

00:00, 12 January 2022 (UTC)

Marquois scales

... that entry to the British Royal Military Academy required the use of a drawing triangle (examples pictured) with a completely different purpose from those used today?
... that the starfish Luidia savignyi feeds on sea urchins and starfish, swallowing its prey whole?
... that artist Marie Herndl was arrested after trying to meet with President Theodore Roosevelt about her art?
... that the Gujarati poem "Shav Vahini Ganga" criticises the Indian government's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic?
... that Byron Root Pierce was Michigan's last living Civil War general?
... that Ken Johannson became the captain of the University of North Dakota ice hockey team despite attending the school on a football scholarship?
... that a photo shoot on the Japanese survival program Who Is Princess? was published in the magazine Popteen?
... that Play features Katy Perry interacting with a giant toilet and a giant face mask?

11 January 2022

12:00, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

Wheat Field with Reaper and Sun

... that the first painting (pictured) in Vincent van Gogh's 1889 series Reaper may have been gifted to contemporary artist Paul Gauguin?
... that Harold A. Littledale went undercover as a prisoner for his Pulitzer Prize–winning investigation into the New Jersey prison system?
... that after it bombed in Canada, John Richardson removed anti-American passages from The Canadian Brothers to publish it in New York?
... that Tandiono Manu worked in a tax office, took part in guerrilla warfare and then became Minister of Agriculture?
... that a future president of the United States played halfback for the 1912 Army Cadets football team?
... that the clinical trials of British scientist Peter Pharoah helped eradicate congenital iodine deficiency syndrome (cretinism) in Papua New Guinea?
... that in 1959, the new owner of the Coronet Theatre wanted to rename the theater after his favorite playwright, Eugene O'Neill, whose widow objected?
... that China's "lipstick king", Li Jiaqi, once sold 15,000 lipsticks in five minutes in a faceoff against Alibaba Group's CEO?

00:00, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

Depiction of Osnas winning the Cross of St. George

... that Russian-Jewish medical student Leo Osnas won the first Cross of St. George of the First World War by saving his regiment's colours from capture (pictured)?
... that Tulsa and Old Dominion, who played in the 2021 Myrtle Beach Bowl, each had to win their final regular season game to achieve bowl eligibility?
... that the British University of Nottingham has named a building at their Jubilee Campus after Chinese Communist Party politician Xu Yafen?
... that though Broadway's Ambassador Theatre was characterized as having a "relatively lackluster career", it has hosted the same musical since 2003?
... that Alexander Wehrle was denied a move to VfB Stuttgart because his parents wanted him to focus on his studies?
... that the owner of Mississippi radio stations WGUF and WGUF-FM purposefully fell behind on his royalty payments because he did not like copyright fees?
... that Alicia Girón García was the first woman to become the director of the Biblioteca Nacional de España?
... that The New York Times described China Chalet "as if New York's art world had been transported to a Holiday Inn in the Midwest"?

10 January 2022

12:00, 10 January 2022 (UTC)

Ladoga Skerries National Park

... that Ladoga Skerries National Park (pictured) in Russia has more than 350 species of various liverworts, hornworts and mosses?
... that Surinamese trade unionist Louis Doedel was involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital by the governor-general for 43 years?
... that the 1999 video game Interplay Sports Baseball Edition 2000 used a public-address announcer while its rivals were switching to two commentators as featured on real MLB game broadcasts?
... that Austrian master metalsmith Cyril Colnik chose to close his shop rather than make armaments for World War I?
... that The New-England Courant has been noted as the first newspaper to publish a writing by Benjamin Franklin?
... that British architect Chris Wilkinson redeveloped Victorian-era industrial gasholders in Kings Cross, London into modern residential apartments?
... that after The West Wing's live, open presidential debate episode, MSNBC polled viewers on whom they thought won?
... that Vancouver-based binner turned social entrepreneur Ken Lyotier took the 2010 Winter Olympics torch with him so that other binners could take photographs with it?

00:00, 10 January 2022 (UTC)

KiHa 81-3 car at the Kyoto Railway Museum

... that to promote the KiHa 80 series train (example pictured), a film was made of a nine-car set on the Kawagoe, Jōban and Tōhoku Main Lines?
... that although Alfred Hitchcock rejected James P. Cavanagh's script for Psycho it contained many elements used in the final film, including the iconic shower murder scene?
... that the music hall song "Let's All Go Down the Strand", with its line "stay away from Germany, what's the good of going down the Rhine?" was popular with British soldiers during the First World War?
... that the lynching of Lation Scott took more than three hours while thousands watched?
... that the play-by-email game TribeNet, launched in the 1980s, allows players to gameplay activities ranging from combat to beekeeping?
... that Stanton Catlin won a Grammy Award in 1965 for an essay on Mexican art?
... that in Die Schneekönigin, an opera for children by George Alexander Albrecht after Andersen's "The Snow Queen", members of a children's choir play the roles of birds and ice crystals?
... that while preparing for War Horse, theatre set designer Rae Smith spent weeks pretending to be a First World War British Army captain?

9 January 2022

12:00, 9 January 2022 (UTC)

Poster for Shirley Chisholm's 1972 presidential campaign

... that the first black female candidate for a major party's U.S. presidential nomination, Shirley Chisholm (campaign poster pictured), is largely credited for paving the way for future candidates Barack Obama and Kamala Harris?
... that when it rains, Turkey burns less gas?
... that a federal marshal seized a car and a truck because there was no other way to satisfy a debt owed by Arkansas television station KRZB-TV?
... that Titane, the first feature film of French actress Agathe Rousselle, won the Palme d'Or at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival?
... that after many years of farming crops, Russ Island was deliberately flooded for salt farming?
... that Papuan anthropologist Marlina Flassy is the first woman to be appointed a dean at Cenderawasih University?
... that a giant puppet dragon called The Hatchling was paraded through Plymouth and flown as a kite over the sea?
... that in 1969, the man from Del Monte said yes to Eldorado Electrodata?

00:00, 9 January 2022 (UTC)

Symphyotrichum novae-angliae

... that the Chippewa have smoked the root of the New England aster (pictured) in pipes to attract game?
... that a recent New York Times article recommended four educational charities: Catherine Omanyo's school, Children International, Khan Academy and the Wikimedia Foundation?
... that the fortunes of the Hardwick and Woodbury Railroad were inextricably linked to those of the Woodbury Granite Company?
... that in 18th-century England, buyers could pay to include their coat of arms in some books published by subscription?
... that American martial artist John Giordano, who taught karate to women alongside men and disabled people in the 1970s, held plays similar to kabuki theatre?
... that the villagers of Akuşağı in Turkey have used their tractors to take tourists to a local attraction?
... that the Little Cleo fishing spoon lure previously featured a scantily dressed exotic dancer?
... that "Prawo Jazdy", once considered the worst traffic violator in Ireland, is actually the Polish term for 'driving licence'?

8 January 2022

12:00, 8 January 2022 (UTC)

Providence and Worcester Railroad train

... that the Providence and Worcester Railroad (train pictured) became independent in 1973 after 85 years of being leased?
... that coir is saving the Great North Bog?
... that Steve Hamas played in the National Football League and later beat two former boxing champions in the ring?
... that fiction about journeys to the Moon has been written since at least the second century?
... that Makoto Soejima is the only International Mathematical Olympiad gold medalist with a perfect score to have won both the Google Code Jam and the Facebook Hacker Cup?
... that The Massachusetts Gazette was one of the few Loyalist newspapers commissioned by the British ministry for its support prior to the American Revolution?
... that The Travelers were made to represent emigrants who have left a part of themselves behind?
... that before being electrocuted for his crime, Julius Morgan said that the whisky made him do it?

00:00, 8 January 2022 (UTC)

Johanna Quaas

... that Johanna Quaas (pictured), the world's oldest competitive gymnast, did a tandem skydive from about 3,000 meters (9,800 ft) in 2016, dedicating it to Queen Elizabeth II?
... that The Betty White Show was the subject of significant controversy after Betty White refused to fire a black cast member?
... that when Stefan Keil moved to Yekaterinburg, Russia, as the German consul general, one of his first appearances was at the European Christmas market, dressed as Saint Nicholas?
... that When Harry Met Santa, an advert for Posten Norge featuring Santa kissing a man, commemorated 50 years since the repeal of Norway's anti-gay laws?
... that Edward M. Kirby proposed the first Pageant of Peace, to follow the lighting of the National Christmas Tree in Washington, D.C.?
... that rugby league's 2022 Challenge Cup final will take place at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium instead of its traditional location of Wembley Stadium due to a scheduling conflict?
... that COVID-19 vaccine scientist Paul Duprex got his start in microbiology by experimenting with his high-school classmates' spit?
... that the origin of Christmas is uncertain?

7 January 2022

12:00, 7 January 2022 (UTC)

Times Square Church at the Mark Hellinger Theatre

... that the Mark Hellinger Theatre (pictured) has been occupied by the Times Square Church since 1989, when its then-owner said the church's five-year lease will "pass before you know it"?
... that Rudolf Szepessy-Sokoll shot down a pair of Macchi L.3 seaplanes to become a flying ace?
... that the continuing influence of the Catholic Church in the politics of the Philippines means that the country lacks a divorce law?
... that Francis Bacon played in the first National Football League game and became the first NFL player to return a punt for a touchdown?
... that the Democratic Society Party was the 25th political party to be banned in Turkey since 1962?
... that when Antonia Urrejola was president of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, her vice presidents were women as well?
... that the pictogram of Zapotitlán metro station depicts an indented sapote tree as the word tlantli means 'tooth' in Nahuatl?
... that the completion of Interstate 205 in Oregon was delayed to mitigate air and noise pollution for a jail that closed a few months later?

00:00, 7 January 2022 (UTC)

Madonna and Child statue in Nothgottes

... that Nothgottes (interior pictured), a pilgrimage destination in the Rheingau since the 14th century, is a monastery of Cistercians from Vietnam?
... that American engineering manager Jack Lemley, credited with rescuing the Channel Tunnel project, flew over 7 million miles (11 million kilometres) or about 300 times around the globe?
... that certain bamboo species release large numbers of seeds in synchrony after numbers of years that have only 2, 3, and 5 as their prime factors?
... that the Richard Rodgers Theatre has hosted 11 Tony Award-winning plays and musicals, more than any other Broadway theater?
... that Francis Bourgeois is pursuing full-time trainspotting?
... that the 2021 Seattle City Council 3rd district recall election was the first recall held in the city since 1975?
... that mayor Pero Pirker was largely forgotten despite leading recovery and rebuilding efforts after the devastating 1964 Zagreb flood?
... that WTVK in Knoxville, Tennessee, won a years-long battle to move from UHF to a VHF channel, only to be sent by new management to "that big TV station in the sky"?

6 January 2022

12:00, 6 January 2022 (UTC)

Mike Gapes

... that a pro-EU explanation of how Baileys is made, given by British MP Mike Gapes (pictured), was described as being "infinitely memeable" and giving him a "bizarre online infamy"?
... that a bicycle shop in Maryland became a major BMX bike manufacturer in the 1980s?
... that the only stained glass exported to the United States by Barton, Kinder and Alderson had to pay import duty, unlike much artwork in places of worship, because of its low cost-to-size ratio?
... that John J. Slocum tried in vain to return James Joyce's body to Ireland?
... that Canticle IV: The Journey of the Magi, a 1971 composition for three male solo voices and piano by Benjamin Britten, sets a T. S. Eliot poem to music?
... that the recently restored Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Roebourne is the oldest church in North West Australia?
... that after offering to be an extra in The Walking Dead, Zoe Colletti was cast as a main character in its spin-off Fear the Walking Dead?
... that during a match at the snooker 2021 UK Championship, player Mark Williams fell asleep?

00:00, 6 January 2022 (UTC)

Loess landscape near Hunyuan, Datong, Shanxi Province, China

... that one of the largest and thickest loess plateaus in the world is the Loess Plateau (pictured) in China?
... that Bobbi Kristina Brown died less than four years after her mother Whitney Houston died in similar circumstances?
... that during the January 1998 North American ice storm, an employee at Cornwall Electric used a bow and arrow to provide power to a city?
... that colonial printer Peter Edes was arrested by British forces for openly expressing support and sympathy for the patriots when they lost the Battle of Bunker Hill?
... that lesbians in Nazi Germany, unlike gay men, did not face systematic persecution?
... that former NFL halfback Art Pharmer pursued, tackled, and captured a shoplifter who ran from the sporting goods store where Pharmer worked?
... that the Degenerate Art auction in 1939, which included paintings by Van Gogh and Picasso, raised only $115,000?
... that actress Miya Cech was praised for "do[ing] what [she] can with nothing" in the ill-regarded The Darkest Minds?

5 January 2022

12:00, 5 January 2022 (UTC)

Bhupinder Singh of Patiala

... that the 19-year-old Maharaja Bhupinder Singh of Patiala (pictured) was the captain of the first all-Indian cricket team to tour England in 1911?
... that the Bancroft region is the only place in Canada and one of very few places in the world where uranium has been mined from pegmatite rock?
... that Mally Nydahl, "one of the greatest backs ever to come out of the Middle West", used his football earnings to pay for medical school and became a professor of orthopedic surgery?
... that Levantine Arabic is often written in Hebrew characters online by Bedouin, Arab Christians, and Druze in Israel?
... that Rebecca Odes played bass guitar for Love Child before going on to create Gurl.com?
... that in 2008, Macau transferred a woman to mainland China before her habeas corpus case was heard?
... that Twitch streamer Jerma985 hosted a stream in which viewers could control him in a real-life version of The Sims?
... that 88.1.2.1 is a broken toe, while 78.1.1.1 is a broken finger?

00:00, 5 January 2022 (UTC)

Abel Tasman Monument

... that more than 20 of Ernst Plischke's designs for the Abel Tasman Monument (pictured) in New Zealand's Tarakohe were rejected before he designed a tall, tapering column referencing the Greek funerary stele?
... that Maw Htun Aung, a Shan Nationalities League for Democracy candidate in the 2020 Myanmar general election, is Kachin, not Shan?
... that Greyhound Electronics enlisted the help of the Scarfo crime family to sell its video poker machines?
... that the economy of Reineh, now in northern Israel, was so strong in the Mamluk era that they could afford imported pottery from Syria and Italy?
... that Junji Ito had no particular ending in mind while writing Sensor?
... that Daniel Henchman was considered the "most eminent and enterprising" publisher and bookseller in all of British America prior to the American Revolution?
... that according to George Orwell, "serious sport has nothing to do with fair play ... it is war minus the shooting"?
... that Claudia Watkins, the only "lady judge" in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, in 1969, thought it was "no big deal"?

4 January 2022

12:00, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

Ed Sullivan Theater

... that Stephen Colbert initially balked at hosting The Late Show at the Ed Sullivan Theater (pictured), but called for the theater's restoration after learning about its neo-Gothic dome?
... that visual effects artist Roy Field worked on the first seven official James Bond films?
... that the board game Viticulture has a Mafia-themed expansion set?
... that Sinan Selen worked at the travel agency TUI before he became the vice president of the German domestic intelligence service?
... that a woman in Texas attempted to have Tiger Flowers removed from the library collection at her daughter's school?
... that communist propagandist Jian Xianfo gave birth to her son in an earthwork during the Long March?
... that Interstate 90 is the longest freeway in the United States, at 3,020 miles (4,860 km)?
... that General Antonio Valero de Bernabé is said to have used his skills as a ventriloquist to fool his enemies into believing that their weapons were possessed?

00:00, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim

... that South African anti-apartheid activist Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim (pictured) confused warders at the Robben Island maximum security prison by playing Bollywood music?
... that the 100-player board game Cartographers has a crowdfunded expansion set?
... that bass-baritone Johann-Werner Prein took part in the 1994 premiere of Erwin Schulhoff's only opera, Flammen, which the Nazis had suppressed?
... that the director of the 1936 film The Love Wanga was threatened by having a wanga placed in his car?
... that artist Heather Doram won Antigua and Barbuda's national competition to design a new national costume?
... that a 1999 legal case guaranteed the right of transgender people in England and Wales to access gender reassignment surgery?
... that WAAF Corporal Elspeth Henderson remained at her post despite a direct hit by a Luftwaffe bomb?
... that the Glen Rock is very gneiss?

3 January 2022

12:00, 3 January 2022 (UTC)

40-foot radio telescope

... that the 40-foot radio telescope (pictured) at Green Bank Observatory was the first automated telescope?
... that Sandy Heribert was inspired to become a journalist after seeing coverage of the Gulf War when she was nine years old?
... that "the crowning achievement" of Francis Hopkinson Smith, the novel Felix O'Day, was not published until after his death?
... that the French lawyer and politician Francis Szpiner defended a former emperor in court before becoming a district mayor of Paris?
... that Marc Jacobs's fragrance Daisy is cottagecore?
... that orange sea grapes contain substances that have a cytotoxic effect?
... that even though Charles P. Adams meant to hire someone else, Ralph Waldo Emerson Jones remained at Grambling State University for 51 years?
... that the Chronicle of the 20th Century was so heavy that it was said to be "the first coffee table book seriously to threaten the well-being of coffee-tables"?

00:00, 3 January 2022 (UTC)

Individual E. persephone with 1,306 legs

... that with more than 1,000 legs, Eumillipes persephone (example pictured) is the first known "true" millipede?
... that the USFL is in talks with officials from Birmingham, Alabama, with the goal of hosting the entirety of the 2022 USFL season in the city?
... that when flying ace Julius Busa's aircraft was hit at 3,000 metres (9,800 ft), his observer leapt overboard without a parachute?
... that Ethel Barrymore, Marilyn Miller, Mary Pickford, and Rosa Ponselle have been standing at 1552 Broadway since 1929?
... that blind botanist John Grimshaw Wilkinson used his tongue to tell the difference between plants?
... that the world's only museum devoted to American actor Phil Silvers is located in Coventry, England?
... that Sumitro Djojohadikusumo expected the majority of the beneficiaries of his economic policy might turn out to be "parasites"?
... that about three million people employed Dr. Halo between 1984 and 1993?

2 January 2022

12:00, 2 January 2022 (UTC)

Yasmin Miller

... that children copied British champion 60 m hurdler Yasmin Miller (pictured) while she was training in her local park during the COVID-19 lockdown?
... that Robert D. Bullard has emerged as the "father of environmental justice" since the publication of his 1990 book, Dumping in Dixie?
... that after the arrival of guerilla commander Goliath Tabuni, Puncak Jaya Regency became "the most violent" region in Papua?
... that the presence of illegal colleges in Saumlaki was compared to "mushrooms growing in the rainy season"?
... that West Virginia lawyer Arthur G. Froe served as D.C. Recorder of Deeds under three presidents and was appointed by President Wilson as a draft board legal advisor during World War I?
... that clashes between the Myanmar military and local armed groups broke out in Lay Kay Kaw six years after it was established as a "town of peace" between the parties?
... that in 1896, the New York Driving Club was sued for damaging their neighbor's garden?
... that Daviesia devito and D. schwarzenegger are two Australian peas?

00:00, 2 January 2022 (UTC)

First African Baptist Church in Christian Street Historic District

... that the proposed Christian Street Historic District (building pictured), originally settled by Irish immigrants, is also known as "Black Doctors' Row"?
... that twenty-a-day cigarette smoker Trudi Thomson suffered from bulimia and rheumatoid arthritis before she became a successful runner?
... that Dash for Cash, an event in which teachers competed to grab one-dollar bills to pay for school supplies, was criticized for being dehumanizing?
... that paracyclist Juan José Florián fought for both sides in the Colombian conflict?
... that the Third Street Railroad Trestle is the last remaining wooden trestle bridge in downtown Austin, Texas?
... that Xie Fei, one of the thirty women participating in the Long March, was imprisoned during the Cultural Revolution?
... that the Sei pezzi per pianoforte were Ottorino Respighi's first published works?
... that Pittsburgh Panthers end Steve Jastrzembski was nicknamed "Jazz" because his teammates could not correctly pronounce his surname?

1 January 2022

12:00, 1 January 2022 (UTC)

"Drinka pinta milka day" on a 1959 poster

... that many British people refer to one-pint milk bottles as "pintas" because of a 1958 advertising slogan (pictured)?
... that New Mexico television station KIVA-TV received angry phone calls and a bomb threat after switching away from a tied football game?
... that conductor Rudolf Pohl, a member of the Aachen Cathedral choir as a boy, brought the Charlemagne-era choir to international recognition in the 1960s?
... that on initiative of the Volkswagen worker organizations, Volkswagen formed one of the first Global Works Councils in 1998, an extension of the existing European Works Council?
... that Lou Swarz became famous for her "One Woman Show" involving monologue performances as various characters, including Phillis Wheatley and Sojourner Truth?
... that Monmouth Coffee Company in Covent Garden was one of the foundations for the third wave of coffee in London?
... that Juan Juárez may have been the first bishop-elect within the territory of the United States?
... that the leader of the Japanese band Friends was chosen via a game of Uno?

00:00, 1 January 2022 (UTC)

The twelve lucky grapes

... that in Spain, it is considered lucky to eat twelve grapes while wearing red underwear received as a gift (pictured) at midnight on New Year's Eve?
... that Moldavian rebel Teodor Boldur-Lățescu was twice beaten up on circus grounds: once for insulting Wallachian officers of the Romanian Army, and a second time for cruelty to animals?
... that the Tokio platform for the Rust programming language uses a work stealing scheduler?
... that lingering disabilities led flying ace Johann Frint to join the Austro-Hungarian Aviation Troops?
... that the last edition of The Knoxville Journal was printed 30 years ago today after a 106-year run?
... that Adolph Schoeninger faced financial ruin three times before becoming one of the largest bicycle manufacturers in the world?
... that Lunt and Fontanne retired from Broadway after the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre was renamed after them?
... that Karolína Huvarová quipped that she earned her position as men's hockey coach "in bed"?