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31 July 2022

12:00, 31 July 2022 (UTC)

Flag of Azerbaijan

... that the blue stripe in the Azerbaijani flag (pictured) reflects the country's Turkic heritage?
... that Vivien Lyra Blair's performance was deemed "just absurd" in the Netflix film We Can Be Heroes?
... that although Mayu Island has an area of less than one square kilometer (0.4 sq mi), it has two different temples honoring the same goddess?
... that after Keri Blakinger left Cornell University to serve time in prison for possession of heroin, she returned to finish her degree and then became a criminal justice reporter?
... that although Leah Kate's single "10 Things I Hate About You" shares the same name as the 1999 movie, she said that she did not use it as inspiration for the song?
... that Redcliffe railway station has been renamed twice since 2016?
... that Royal Navy boy seaman Alf Lowe was awarded the Albert Medal for Lifesaving for his actions during a 1948 sinking that killed 29 men?
... that the first meeting of the New Zealand Women Writers' Society was chaired by a man?

00:00, 31 July 2022 (UTC)

Apollo spacecraft inertial measurement unit

... that Paul Blasingame was a member of the "inertial mafia", who advocated the use of inertial navigation systems, and he oversaw the development of the one used by the Apollo spacecraft (pictured)?
... that music from Mariah Carey, Sheena Easton, and Whitney Houston was the inspiration for the concert residency Reflections?
... that the ceramicist Sandy Brown wanted her sculpture Earth Goddess to be "female and making an impact"?
... that Phil Elverum recorded Don't Wake Me Up nocturnally, while "drinking pots of black tea all night"?
... that Argentinian Ricardo D. Eliçabe qualified as a physician, co-founded a petroleum refinery, and wrote about forgeries of Bolivia's first stamps?
... that the book Love Falls On Us, about the LGBTQ movement in Africa, was praised by author Uzodinma Iweala for "elevating the extraordinary ordinariness of L.G.B.T.Q. Africans"?
... that Garretson, South Dakota, was named after businessman Arthur Samuel Garretson?
... that the plot of Fast and Feel Love involves a character competing to become the fastest cup-stacking competitor in the world?

30 July 2022

12:00, 30 July 2022 (UTC)

Margrethe Parm

... that in 1946, Margrethe Parm (pictured) was appointed the director of a women's prison that had been used as a political prison during the German occupation of Norway?
... that Garsa Fwip's portrayer, Jennifer Beals, did not know what series she was part of when she arrived on set?
... that Portunus segnis was one of the earliest Lessepsian migrants to the Mediterranean, being first recorded in 1898 at Port Said?
... that R. B. Schlather directed the world premiere of Hertzberg's chamber opera The Rose Elf in Brooklyn, as well as Cimarosa's L'Italiana in Londra and Puccini's Madama Butterfly at the Oper Frankfurt?
... that after Lew Dickey Sr. broke into the radio business by buying a station in West Virginia, his son would go on to own Cumulus Media?
... that Russian scientist Dmitry Kolker was arrested on charges of espionage while being treated for terminal cancer at a hospital and flown to Moscow, dying two days later?
... that a Space Forge satellite is scheduled to fly on the first-ever satellite launch from the United Kingdom?
... that mathematics professor Ari Nagel has fathered more than a hundred children?

00:00, 30 July 2022 (UTC)

Flag of Sint Maarten

... that the flag of Sint Maarten (pictured) depicts the friendship monument delineating the boundary between the Dutch and French sections of the island?
... that Margot Sponer used her international network of contacts to help people escape persecution in Nazi Germany?
... that the 37-metre-long (121 ft) Burnham Pier is sometimes described as the United Kingdom's shortest?
... that Louis Weinstein, a pioneer in infectious disease treatment, funded his education by working as a jazz violinist?
... that Rust has been named the "most loved programming language" every year for seven years since 2016 by annual surveys conducted by Stack Overflow?
... that Heather Baron-Gracie of the band Pale Waves likened the music video for their song "Jealousy" to a "Helmet Lang or Calvin Klein advert"?
... that Matthew Tye uploaded a YouTube video about leaving China after hearing that members of the local public security bureau had shown his photograph in bars frequented by foreigners?
... that the presentation of Inuit fashion items made from sealskin at contemporary art exhibition Floe Edge was called "an upraised Inuit middle finger" to anti–seal hunting activists?

29 July 2022

12:00, 29 July 2022 (UTC)

Pyramid of Khentkaus I

... that an inscription uncovered at the Pyramid of Khentkaus I (pictured), identifies Khentkaus I as the mother of two kings, or perhaps the mother of one and a king herself?
... that Canadian paediatrician Gladys Boyd was one of the first physicians to treat diabetic children with insulin?
... that Jerome Robbins's final ballet, Brandenburg, set to excerpts from Bach's Brandenburg Concertos, is likened to a kaleidoscope?
... that Athanasius Safar, a Syriac Catholic bishop from the Ottoman Empire, left Europe for Mexico in 1689?
... that following the ban of its labour unions in 1934, the Romanian United Socialist Party would rely on its youth and women's wings for political action?
... that the Clements twins have an estimated revenue of almost US$6000 per Instagram post?
... that the Japanese manga series Heart Gear sells three times better in France than in Japan?
... that the name of the Indian city Bangalore could be derived from a Kannada word meaning 'town of boiled beans'?

00:00, 29 July 2022 (UTC)

Alexander Caulfield Anderson

... that Alexander Caulfield Anderson (pictured) was the first European to widen and use the Naches Pass?
... that Olivia Rodrigo and Dan Nigro wrote the song "Deja Vu" within one day?
... that Anita Rivas, an Ecuadorian mayor, visited the United Kingdom and offered to stop oil drilling in a rainforest in Yasuní National Park?
... that the mission of the United Nations special envoy on Myanmar has been called a "diplomatic graveyard"?
... that Robert Byron Tabor's first major painting was put on display in the White House by Franklin D. Roosevelt and his wife?
... that there are nearly 100 carillons in Belgium, two of which are in the same building?
... that the Deutsches Romantik-Museum in Frankfurt, the only museum dedicated to the entire era of German Romanticism, looks like three houses and features blue elements?
... that Robert M. Blizzard, who pioneered growth hormone therapy in children, liked to joke that he had added 11 miles (18 km) to the height of the U.S. population?

28 July 2022

12:00, 28 July 2022 (UTC)

Cabeza de Juárez

... that the head on top of the Museo Cabeza de Juárez (pictured) inspired the pictogram of Guelatao metro station?
... that Isabel Darlington was the first woman lawyer in Chester County, Pennsylvania, and the only woman practicing law there for 45 years?
... that organist Jehan Alain's Messe modale en septuor was written for a septet of soprano, alto, flute and string quartet?
... that Angéline de Montbrun by Laure Conan is the first psychological novel written by a French Canadian?
... that while Marvel Comics originally designated the main reality depicted in the MCU multiverse as Earth-199999, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness established it as Earth-616?
... that Rod Zaine scored his high school's championship-winning single in Canadian football before playing in the National Hockey League?
... that the classroom video platform Flip was made free-to-use when acquired by Microsoft in 2018?
... that Martin Nievera said "you won't see any dancers, fire eaters and things like that" at his 2003 World Concert Tour with Regine Velasquez?

00:00, 28 July 2022 (UTC)

A 1920s group of the Cotton Blossom Singers

... that up to 13 groups of the Cotton Blossom Singers (group pictured) toured through the United States at a time?
... that Ada Buisson died at the age of 27, and her short story "The Ghost's Summons" has been anthologised several times since her death?
... that some members of the Daughters of the American Revolution came up with the idea to design a flag of Colorado, unaware that such a flag already existed?
... that after a massacre that took place there, the village of Sohagpur was renamed the "village of widows"?
... that Theophilus Gates started a nudist free-love Christian sect in the mid–19th century near Pottstown, Pennsylvania?
... that after its merger with India, the last raja of Jubbal State joined the Indian Foreign Service?
... that Adele reduced the length of "I Drink Wine" from fifteen to six minutes because her label thought that no one would play a fifteen-minute song on the radio?
... that Dan Jones discovered that he was talented at taking throw-ins after having been a javelin thrower at school?

27 July 2022

12:00, 27 July 2022 (UTC)

Daniel Webster

... that Brooklyn's West Street Foundry, owned by Wilson Small, built the engine for Daniel Webster (pictured), which on debut in 1853 was the largest and fastest steamboat in Maine coastal service?
... that after a successful siege of Mogaung, Commander Thiri Zeya Thura rushed back to Ava, arriving there in time for the coronation of Narapati I to present the captured sawbwa?
... that the flag of Montserrat depicts Erin embracing a cross, signifying the Montserratians' love of Christ?
... that years after he played a recurring character on Glee during its first season, Dijon Talton reprised his role as Matt Rutherford in the final two episodes?
... that "Ich lobe meinen Gott von ganzem Herzen" is a cheerful hymn based on the beginning of Psalm 9?
... that the veto of an Indiana law that bans transgender girls from participating in school sports was overridden by the state legislature?
... that the son of Reverend Canon W. W. Covey-Crump, Commander A. T. L. Covey-Crump, compiled a list of Jack-speak that is still consulted by historians of the Royal Navy?
... that no wave band Pulsallama was described as "13 girls fighting over a cowbell"?

00:00, 27 July 2022 (UTC)

Fausta Labia

... that after the Italian soprano Fausta Labia (pictured) worked at the Royal Swedish Opera, she appeared as Mascagni's Iris at La Fenice in Venice and as Wagner's Sieglinde at La Scala in Milan?
... that Watchdog created a fact-checking app within 36 hours of its founding?
... that Gentner Drummond flew in the first combat mission of Operation Desert Storm?
... that a hut on New Zealand's Copland Track had to be moved after being hit by a mudslide just 13 weeks after opening?
... that Ontario Hockey Association president Brent Ladds once agreed to let a player reduce his suspension by serving as a referee?
... that South Carolina's Buford High School was named in 1925 after Continental Army Colonel Abraham Buford, who fought at a nearby battlefield in 1780?
... that the Treaty of Breda did not establish the borders of Acadia, so Hector d'Andigné de Grandfontaine established them at the Saint George River?
... that Chicecream's ice cream flavours include aged cheese and bird's nests?

26 July 2022

12:00, 26 July 2022 (UTC)

Flag of Norfolk Island

... that the pine tree on the flag of Norfolk Island (pictured) is native to the territory and is its official tree?
... that when Heather Engebretson portrayed the title role of Puccini's Madama Butterfly for the first time, a reviewer said that her voice "can tremble with panic and shine with hope"?
... that The Kreutzer Sonata was reproduced to promote Tabu?
... that Tashy Bohm held the American public high school 100 meter backstroke record for seven years?
... that Mabel Cheung won the 5th Hong Kong Film Award for Best Director with her debut film The Illegal Immigrant?
... that a plaza called the Channel Gardens was planted between British and French buildings at Rockefeller Center?
... that operations at Mirador mine were shut down in June 2022 by protests in Ecuador?
... that William Forsythe's ballet The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude is so difficult to dance that a ballerina said she would rather give birth again?

00:00, 26 July 2022 (UTC)

Ikotoi, chieftain of Akkeshi, by Kakizaki Hakyō (1790)

... that the painted portrait series Ishūretsuzō features Ainu chieftains (example pictured) in Qing robes, Russian military coats, and as an "Ininkari bear" (white brown bear)?
... that when Jo Ann Evansgardner ran for a position on the Pittsburgh City Council, she asked voters to "put this woman in her place"?
... that the Enkeli-Elisa story about a 15-year-old girl who committed suicide because she had been bullied at school was investigated as a fraud by the police?
... that 1920s and 1930s radio show actress Artie Belle McGinty played the original radio advertisement voice for Aunt Jemima?
... that discrimination based on nationality is an exception to anti-discrimination laws in many countries?
... that artist Richard Lorenz was nearly killed by a falling tree cut down by workers he had been sketching?
... that a reviewer called Black Krrsantan one of "the scariest characters in Star Wars history"?
... that Adele decided never to perform "To Be Loved" live as it upset her to the point of having to leave the room?

25 July 2022

12:00, 25 July 2022 (UTC)

Department of Conservation video about the Paparoa Track

... that the hiking track through the Pororari River gorge has become part of New Zealand's newest Great Walk, the Paparoa Track (video featured)?
... that Bob Dylan poked Emmylou Harris when he wanted her to start singing during the recording of "One More Cup of Coffee (Valley Below)"?
... that two Argentine commandos were awarded their nation's highest honour for the Skirmish at Top Malo House?
... that the 1923 book Motion Pictures in Education is among the first major works about using films to teach students?
... that Stanley Shaldon upset manufacturers by reusing dialysis machines?
... that the soundtrack for the 2016 film Arrival, composed by Jóhann Jóhannsson, was ruled ineligible for contention at the 89th Academy Awards due to the film's prominent inclusion of a Max Richter piece?
... that 17th-century entomologist Eleanor Glanville raised her own moths and butterflies, and wrote some of the earliest detailed descriptions of butterfly rearing?
... that Park Avenue Plaza is not on Park Avenue and does not have a plaza?

00:00, 25 July 2022 (UTC)

Charles Gounod

... that the Messe brève no. 7 by Charles Gounod (pictured) is an 1890 Missa brevis that he derived from an earlier work for only two voices and organ?
... that deceased YouTuber Technoblade beat the video game Minecraft in hardcore mode using a racing-wheel controller?
... that the paleoflora of the Messel Formation has had monographs documenting leaves, flowers, fruits, seeds and even pollen?
... that David P. Davies was the chief test pilot for the United Kingdom's Civil Aviation Authority for 33 years?
... that in June 2009, a teenage girl and her adult boyfriend stabbed her mother to death when she objected to their relationship?
... that the National Agrarian Union opposed the introduction of female suffrage in Sweden?
... that Mary Mara felt the writers of Nash Bridges "started to write for me really well about halfway through the season"?
... that a pontiff in pontificals may pontificate with a pontifical at a Pontifical during his pontificate?

24 July 2022

12:00, 24 July 2022 (UTC)

The pakhavaj, a traditional barrel-shaped, two-headed drum

... that Gita Sarabhai was among the first women to play the pakhavaj (example pictured), a traditional musical instrument of India?
... that Erasmus Schöfer chronicled the resistance in Germany, from the protests of 1968 to German reunification, in a tetralogy of novels?
... that the film Evangeline, based on a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, was praised by Longfellow's daughter?
... that the defiant owner of a Miami TV station kept its marquee lit for 18 months after losing its license?
... that Carver Court in Coatesville, Pennsylvania, was built to house African-American steelworkers during World War II?
... that the wirebird on the flag of Saint Helena is the last species of bird that is endemic to the island?
... that Arizona state senator W. P. Mahoney became an acquaintance of Wyatt Earp when he was a miner?
... that some TikTokers make videos about whether to smash or pass Disney characters?

00:00, 24 July 2022 (UTC)

Vaillant-Couturier as Micaëla

... that French soprano Marguerite Vaillant-Couturier created the role of Micaëla in the world premiere of Lecocq's Le coeur et la main (pictured) in Paris in 1882?
... that the 2022 USFL playoffs and championship game could not be played in Birmingham, Alabama, as the rest of the season was, due to the 2022 World Games?
... that Bruno Pereira, an expert in the indigenous people of Brazil, and journalist Dom Phillips were killed while on a trip in the Vale do Javari?
... that a founder of a Tennessee radio station bought it back from the same group he had sold it to, who in turn had bought it back themselves?
... that the 2022 Marmolada serac collapse was caused by climate change in Italy?
... that doctors told Lance McCullers that he should not continue to pitch in 1990, but he returned to Major League Baseball in 1992?
... that displaced aggression is experienced by humans and animals?
... that a kind of deep fried egg dish might be perceived as a warning in Thai folklore?

23 July 2022

12:03, 23 July 2022 (UTC)

Clarion Van No. 1

... that Julia Dawson's first Clarion Van (pictured) was named for Scottish socialist Caroline Martyn?
... that a Phoenix radio station served as the springboard for future Arizona governor Jack Williams and comedian Steve Allen?
... that soprano Sarah Traubel appeared as Inanna in Jörg Widmann's Babylon for the opening of the 2022 Internationale Maifestspiele Wiesbaden?
... that the engineering and architectural company Burns & McDonnell is 100% owned by its employees?
... that indigenous Australian artist Daniel Boyd has depicted colonial figures including Captain James Cook and Governor Arthur Phillip as pirates?
... that Matthew Healy and George Daniel of The 1975 helped make Pale Waves's debut single, "There's a Honey", "sonically bigger"?
... that an episode of the children's TV show Arthur featuring a same-sex wedding was not aired on Alabama's PBS network?
... that Dead Cells was published in early access because the developers feared that there would be an "indiepocalypse"?

01:44, 23 July 2022 (UTC)

Amund Dietzel

... that Amund Dietzel (pictured), sometimes called the "Rembrandt of the rind", learned to tattoo after he went to sea at the age of 14?
... that the 2001 concert residency Regine at the Movies was restaged seventeen years later?
... that former Dutch rugby union player Sylke Haverkorn served as head coach of the Turkey women's national team before securing the same position at her country's women's national team?
... that the CIA shipped color TV sets to Japan to broadcast propaganda for the Liberal Democratic Party?
... that "Supermodel" is about a fictional character inspired by people Måneskin met in Los Angeles?
... that the original Green Goblin suit, created by Amalgamated Dynamics for Spider-Man, was scrapped after being deemed "too creepy" by studio executives?
... that South African mayor Marlene van Staden was re-elected through a coin toss?
... that the members of the band that recorded the album Hearken to the Witches Rune do not remember in what year it was released?

22 July 2022

12:13, 22 July 2022 (UTC)

White-nosed saki

... that despite its name, the white-nosed saki (pictured) actually has a reddish-pink nose?
... that after finding success in Poland and South America, soprano Adalgisa Gabbi performed at La Scala as Eva in the Italian premiere of Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg?
... that the perceived tameness of LGBT Pride Month gave rise to Wrath Month?
... that Kiyoe Yoshioka, the vocalist of the band Ikimonogakari, voiced an Eevee in the film Pokémon the Movie: Genesect and the Legend Awakened?
... that the beginning of Lawyering was compared to a Cinderella story?
... that before the swearing-in of convicted murderer Kenny Motsamai as an MP, South African Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng cited a constitutional requirement prohibiting felons from becoming MPs?
... that the Morris County Park Commission in New Jersey oversees over 20,000 acres (8,100 ha) of land, including a marina, an ice skating arena, a horse stable, a historical farm, and a gristmill?
... that the first line to STU48's "Hana wa Dare no Mono?", which imagines a world without borders, is often misheard as wishing for a world without Tokyo?

00:11, 22 July 2022 (UTC)

Sunsphere at the 1982 World's Fair

... that touch-screen technology, pay-at-the-pump, car phones, and Coca-Cola Cherry were shown at the 1982 World's Fair (pictured)?
... that Yosef Shenberger was inspired to add stained glass and other decorative elements to his synagogues through his study of ancient ruins?
... that the software-testing framework pytest has been described as a key ecosystem project for the Python programming language?
... that Irving L. Branch headed the X-15 rocket program and the first test flight of the B-70 Valkyrie supersonic bomber?
... that the Maizbhandari order of Sufism in Bangladesh is each year host to reportedly the fifth-largest gathering of Muslims in the world?
... that Danish-born soprano Louise Janssen appeared at the Grand Théâtre de Lyon as Eva in the French premiere of Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg?
... that HMS Chichester was designed to carry 44 guns but never carried more than 22?
... that a South Dakota radio station once played nothing but various recordings of "Amazing Grace"?

21 July 2022

12:00, 21 July 2022 (UTC)

Katyusha rocket launchers in World War II

... that the Reactive Scientific Research Institute developed the Katyusha rocket launcher (examples pictured)?
... that in an 1854 war with the Jicarilla, William S. Messervy, the acting governor of the New Mexico Territory, desired either "their extinction or their settlement in pueblos"?
... that at the 2022 British Athletics Championships, Daryll Neita became the first woman since 2010 to win both the 100- and 200-metre events?
... that Evgenia Debryanskaya, the lesbian activist who co-founded Russia's first gay-rights organization, was the first wife of Aleksandr Dugin, Vladimir Putin's "Rasputin"?
... that residents of the Normandy tried to block the construction of an adjacent tower by citing a covenant that the Normandy itself violated?
... that German SA officer Walter Heck was paid only 2.50 ℛℳ (about US$2) for designing the Nazi SS double rune symbol?
... that the Indy Bag Ladies, one of the oldest AIDS fundraising organizations, is a group of activist drag queens in Indianapolis who have raised more than $1 million for AIDS patients?
... that Catherine Ribeiro's 1972 album Paix contains a 25-minute-long song about meeting a female personification of death?

00:00, 21 July 2022 (UTC)

Candler Building

... that when the Candler Building (pictured) opened, it was the tallest building around Times Square?
... that Liu Zhaohua was a Chinese drug lord who produced and trafficked over 18 tonnes of methamphetamine?
... that the 2020 case Henderson v. Box held that the state of Indiana must list same-sex parents on their child's birth certificate?
... that the unveiling of the statue of Captain Cook in Hyde Park, Sydney, in 1879 was declared a public holiday, with an estimated 60,000 people in attendance?
... that indie musician Sufjan Stevens composed the score for the 2014 ballet Everywhere We Go, choreographed by Justin Peck for the New York City Ballet?
... that Hermann Gutzmann died of sepsis after suffering a stab wound from a gramophone needle?
... that a Federal Communications Commission examiner found that billing fraud at a South Carolina radio station "merited the severest sanctions"?
... that Christchurch smells?

20 July 2022

12:00, 20 July 2022 (UTC)

Leo Posada

... that before his Major League Baseball career, Leo Posada (pictured) represented Cuba internationally in cycling?
... that model Tyra Banks produces Generation Drag, a TV series which follows five children preparing for a drag show?
... that the arrest of American farmer Wayne Cryts for removing his soybeans from a bankrupt grain elevator led to a change in legislation by Congress?
... that the westernmost population of California fan palms is found on the slopes of Cerro Bola in Baja California, Mexico?
... that Rahmah el Yunusiyah founded four Islamic schools for women in Indonesia despite being made to leave school herself at the age of 16?
... that in 1991 Mazda engineers created a suitcase car with lights and a 1.7 horsepower engine?
... that the favourite role of Wilma Schmidt, who performed at the Staatsoper Hannover for more than five decades in German, Italian and Slavic operas, was the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier?
... that only one boat successfully made it through the Duckport Canal?

00:00, 20 July 2022 (UTC)

Airship, painted by Alfred Egerton Cooper

... that Alfred Egerton Cooper, a war artist who lost the use of an eye in World War I, painted airships (example pictured)?
... that when Divine's song "Lately" topped the Billboard Hot 100 in 1998, it became the first number-one single for the performers, the songwriters, the producers, and the record labels?
... that activist Gerlin Bean co-founded the Organisation of Women of African and Asian Descent in 1978, an event described as "a watershed in the history of Black women's rights activism"?
... that in the 1980s, NBC was given several hundred million dollars' worth of incentives to stay at 30 Rockefeller Plaza?
... that the tribune of the plebs Gaius Antius Restio passed a law in 68 BC forbidding Roman magistrates from attending banquets?
... that a group of Boy Scouts provided first aid to victims of the 2022 Missouri train derailment before first responders arrived?
... that COVID-19 lockdown restrictions caused a 37-percent increase in infections of dengue fever in Singapore's 2020 outbreak?
... that Ruth L. Trufant sued a man for not following through on a promise to marry her?

19 July 2022

12:00, 19 July 2022 (UTC)

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Dee Dawkins-Haigler

... that Dee Dawkins-Haigler (pictured) ran in four elections in four months for the same seat?
... that an erroneous claim that the neural language model LaMDA is sentient has generated conversations on the efficacy of the Turing test?
... that South Carolina legislator Wade Perrin was assassinated by members of the Ku Klux Klan the day after being re-elected?
... that the Promethean gap was part of an attempt by Gunther Andres to conceptualize Hiroshima and Auschwitz?
... that the 1956 article "My Last Wonderful Days", about an Iowa woman accepting terminal cancer, funded an Iowa State University scholarship program?
... that Ernst Jacobi, known for portraying Gauleiter Löbsack in Volker Schlöndorff's film The Tin Drum, played more than 200 roles as a television actor?
... that public health authorities are still not exactly sure how Alaskapox virus, a recently discovered relative of Monkeypox virus, has spread to humans from animals?
... that Mary Baines, credited as one of the founders of the palliative care movement, initially thought it "very odd, this idea of caring for the dying"?

00:00, 19 July 2022 (UTC)

Chrysina limbata

... that Chrysina limbata (pictured) has a reflective silver color because of layers of chirped chitin coating?
... that two slaves belonging to Don Carlos were trained by the Italian medallist Jacopo da Trezzo in his workshop in 1550s Madrid?
... that a Florida resident was arrested after posting on RateMyCop.com?
... that in 2007, Arthur Gray's £2 Kangaroo and Map stamp sold for a world record price for a single Australian stamp?
... that the RoadRunner, a laptop from 1983, loaded and stored data from cartridges?
... that in 2021, Wishma Sandamali, who was detained for overstaying her visa after seeking police protection for domestic abuse, became the 17th person to die in Japanese immigration detention since 2007?
... that roughly 15,000 copies of the anonymously published essay "Queers Read This" were distributed at the June 1990 New York Gay Pride Parade?
... that people with woolly hair may also have tooth decay?

18 July 2022

12:00, 18 July 2022 (UTC)

Pooja Sharma

... that Pooja Sharma (pictured) employs 150 women in a bakery that she started in a reputedly haunted mansion?
... that the American card game of Six-Bid Solo originated in southern Germany?
... that Ellaisa Marquis has been called the "marquis player" of women's football in Saint Lucia?
... that two state representatives got into a fight in the parking lot of Miami's Radio Mambí after one's father insulted the other's on the air?
... that Oey Tiang Tjoei once physically assaulted the editor of a competing newspaper?
... that a guerrilla garden established atop an abandoned railroad in Long Island City became legally recognized by the MTA?
... that Welsh shot putter Adele Nicoll was approached about taking up bobsleigh based on a video on social media of her exercising?
... that the Broadway Theatre is one of Broadway's few Broadway theaters?

00:00, 18 July 2022 (UTC)

The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Hokusai

... that The Great Wave off Kanagawa (pictured) has been described as "possibly the most reproduced image in the history of all art"?
... that María Chiquinquirá was allowed to remain free until a court heard her case, but since it never did she died a free woman?
... that under a new Connecticut law, abortion providers in the state can countersue anyone who sues them under the Texas Heartbeat Act?
... that three men resigned from the Executive Council of Nova Scotia upon Mather Byles Almon's appointment?
... that the snapping shrimp Alpheus armatus clears sand from a sea anemone's lair?
... that counterterrorism expert Esperanza Casteleiro used to work in human resources?
... that during Orrin Hatch's presidential campaign in 2000, his wife told him that his poor performance in the Iowa caucuses was a "sign from God" to end his campaign?
... that a statue of Serenidus, the brother of Serenicus, is called the "little pissing saint" because a spring issues from below it in the Oratory of Saint Cénéré?

17 July 2022

00:00, 17 July 2022 (UTC)

Short-finned pilot whale

... that research on short-finned pilot whales (example pictured) by Natacha Aguilar de Soto is leading scientists to reassess foraging models for the behavior of marine predators?
... that Charlie Young was introduced into The West Wing over concerns of a lack of racial diversity in casting?
... that in 2020, Ukrainian association football referee Maryna Striletska was part of the first all-woman officiating team for a men's international football match?
... that the Spirit of Norfolk caught fire while carrying 89 schoolchildren?
... that in 2021, Elvis Costello remade his 1978 album This Year's Model in Spanish with several Latin musical artists?
... that according to Rogers Smith, the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in the Ku Klux Cases was its only ruling "markedly favorable to black voting rights" in the post-Reconstruction era?
... that Ursula Sillge's attempt to organize a 1978 national lesbian gathering in East Germany led to the banning of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf's venue for LGBT meetings?
... that the novel June Rain was described by one critic as "a 'whodunit' without a 'who'"?

16 July 2022

00:00, 16 July 2022 (UTC)

Stegodon aurorae cheek tooth

... that the Akebono elephant (tooth pictured) is one of four Stegodon species that roamed Plio-Pleistocene Japan?
... that Ann Klein supported a successful bill that allowed women to register to vote in New Jersey without disclosing their marital status?
... that readers of The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler often incorrectly assume that the main character is a boy?
... that after LaVere Redfield's death, 12 tons of silver dollars were found hidden in his garage and home?
... that a cheat code in the video game Spyro: Year of the Dragon grants access to a near-complete copy of Crash Bash?
... that James T. Sears called the novels The White Paper (1928), Street of Stairs (1968), and Boychick (1971), three "pederastic erotic classics"?
... that Australian communist Harry Stein was personally invited by Prime Minister Nguyễn Cao Kỳ to tour South Vietnam?
... that a study published in the journal Celebrity Studies examined Pippa Middleton's buttocks using Marxist and Freudian analyses?

15 July 2022

00:00, 15 July 2022 (UTC)

Eileen Collins

... that Eileen Collins (pictured) was the first woman Space Shuttle pilot and the first woman to command a Space Shuttle mission?
... that The Lord of the Ice Garden, a Polish novel series mixing elements of fantasy and science fiction, has been compared to The Witcher?
... that the Fischer quintuplets had six other siblings?
... that Jim Pappin was credited with the 1967 Stanley Cup-clinching goal in exchange for giving Pete Stemkowski unlimited access to his backyard pool?
... that William D. Leahy was the highest-ranking American military officer in World War II?
... that the prologue to The Polymath was written by Martin Kemp, a leading expert on Leonardo da Vinci?
... that food YouTuber Mike Chen also runs a channel documenting strange phenomena?
... that some bells are replaced by a wooden clapper for three days in a year?

14 July 2022

00:00, 14 July 2022 (UTC)

Reverse of the 1909-S VDB cent; "VDB" visible at bottom

... that the US Mint released the 1909-S VDB Lincoln Cent (pictured) on August 2, 1909, and discontinued it on August 5 because it showed the initials of engraver Victor David Brenner?
... that Alex Horton made his Twenty20 cricket debut for Glamorgan despite no actual play being possible due to rain?
... that spiritual jazz originated in the 1960s, partially due to the civil rights movement?
... that dermosyphilopathologist Giuseppe Mariani received a silver medal for his bravery under fire at the Third Battle of the Isonzo?
... that based on the biblical principle of omnia sunt communia, Thomas Aquinas argued that theft is not a sin if the thief genuinely needs what they are stealing?
... that jazz fusion and funk musician Mark Lettieri graduated with a degree in marketing?
... that the first time The Witcher universe was portrayed outside the novels was in the 1993–1995 Polish comic book series of the same name?
... that the Beacon Theatre, once described as "a true bit of Bagdad on Broadway", later gained a reputation as a rock venue?

13 July 2022

00:00, 13 July 2022 (UTC)

Orii Hyōjirō

... that dozens of mammals and birds were first described from specimens collected by "Orii of the Orient" (pictured)?
... that early floppy disks used FM encoding that took up only half the available storage?
... that politician John D'Orazio helped to secure a three-year trial of daylight saving time in Western Australia?
... that the Red Hill water crisis has caused a water shortage in Honolulu?
... that Ekaterina Novitskaya, then aged 16, became the first female ever to win the Queen Elisabeth Competition for piano?
... that the 1944 SCR-720 radar system was used only briefly by the USAAF, but was a primary RAF system into the late 1950s?
... that the Scottish medical missionary Ernest Muir championed the use of the traditional Ayurvedic cure chaulmoogra oil in treating Hansen's disease (leprosy)?
... that a Pennsylvania TV station is experimenting with datacasting educational content to school students and prison inmates?

12 July 2022

00:00, 12 July 2022 (UTC)

Skeletal remains

... that prior to Mary Manhein's forensic-anthropology work in Louisiana, unidentified bones (examples pictured) "usually ended up in a box"?
... that Hans van Manen's ballet Adagio Hammerklavier is inspired by a recording of the Beethoven score that was played at an exceptionally slow tempo?
... that Judith Ehrlich incorporated her NPR work on pacifism into a documentary focusing on conscientious objectors during World War II?
... that Israel's mixed cities don't have much mixing?
... that Greenlandic author Pipaluk Freuchen was praised for the "unrelenting realism" in her first book, where a child kills a polar bear?
... that it took seven years for Gwazi, a pair of dueling wooden roller coasters, to be refurbished into the hybrid roller coaster Iron Gwazi?
... that The Tale of Genji's Kaoru Genji has been called literature's first antihero?
... that in Jackson, Tennessee, there was a 50–50 chance a reference to Dixie was about a radio station?

11 July 2022

00:00, 11 July 2022 (UTC)

Brewer Hicklen in 2022

... that Brewer Hicklen (pictured) hosts an annual youth baseball camp in Alabama?
... that the Irish Bee Conservation Project is helping to rewild native bees with bee lodges on the estate of the historic Dunsany Castle?
... that American drag queen James Herndon donated funds and resources into black and LGBTQ+ communities in Lexington, Kentucky?
... that Mess L, a multipurpose building in Banjarbaru, Indonesia, was historically used to house Soviet workers?
... that American conservationist Paul Lester Errington reshaped perception of predators?
... that the 1983 pink film Beautiful Mystery was one of the earliest commercially produced gay pornographic films in Japan?
... that Charles Leslie Richardson was ordered to "make science fashionable in the army"?
... that the 19th Junior Eurovision Song Contest was held on 19 December with 19 participating countries – but the EBU had to choose between three competition scenarios due to COVID-19?

10 July 2022

00:00, 10 July 2022 (UTC)

Columbia University sundial

... that despite having reportedly been destroyed in 1946, the 16-ton granite ball that once sat on top of the Columbia University sundial (pictured) reappeared in a Michigan field in 2001?
... that J. Michael Miller, the archbishop of Vancouver, who turns 76 today, starred in a high school production of Our Town opposite Mary Lou Finlay?
... that a Louisiana radio station went to a satellite-fed music format because it had more control than with its previous "18- and 20-year-old jocks"?
... that Avtar Singh Jouhl took Malcolm X to a segregated pub in Smethwick as part of his campaign to end the colour bar?
... that the title of the incel and Frogtwitter subculture film TFW No GF stands for "that feeling when [you have] no girlfriend"?
... that 2021 NCAA champion Bonnie Tan served as the assistant to 2021 UAAP champion Goldwin Monteverde in 1991?
... that the developer of 15.ai claims that as little as 15 seconds of a person's voice is sufficient to clone it up to human standards using artificial intelligence?
... that Alfons Koziełł-Poklewski, dubbed the "vodka king of Siberia", was actually Polish?

9 July 2022

00:00, 9 July 2022 (UTC)

Portrait head of Claudia Octavia

... that Nero's divorce of Claudia Octavia (pictured) caused public outcry – so he had her executed instead?
... that about 200 San Francisco police officers led a 1989 riot through a gay neighborhood in reaction to a peaceful protest?
... that John Yelland was insulted by Admiral Hyde Parker's offer of a position aboard his flagship?
... that the Enterprise, a black newspaper in Omaha, supported a separate African American department at the 1898 Trans-Mississippi Exposition?
... that Charles Alban Buckler, an artist, topographer, author, and officer of arms, rebuilt Arundel Castle?
... that Ingrid Andress came up with "Lady Like" after being rejected by a man when she brought politics up?
... that a 1955 satirical comedy play by Kasymaly Jantöshev was one of the first signs of the relaxation of Soviet literary restrictions after the death of Joseph Stalin?
... that Science Park station was built despite the objections of the operating agency?

8 July 2022

00:00, 8 July 2022 (UTC)

Kuappi

... that Kuappi (pictured) in Iisalmi, Finland, holds the Guinness world record for the smallest restaurant?
... that Chris Ernst stripped naked in 1976 with her Yale University teammates to protest the lack of showers for the women's rowing crew?
... that Polish courts processed 14.38 million cases in 2020 while having fewer than 10,000 judges?
... that conservationist Frank H. Wadsworth supported and worked with efforts to recover the endangered Puerto Rican parrot?
... that Olive Llewellyn, a character in the novel Sea of Tranquility, has been called a stand-in for Emily St. John Mandel, the novel's author?
... that Dominic Keegan refused a position on the New York Yankees to "go back and win another championship" for his college baseball team?
... that the McLaren MCL35 was the first McLaren race car to be wrapped?
... that baseball player Nick Solak was named after the sports bar where his parents first met?

7 July 2022

00:00, 7 July 2022 (UTC)

Angel Locsin

... that Filipina actress Angel Locsin (pictured) was recognized for her work in disaster relief, as well as humanitarian aid for internally displaced persons in the Marawi siege?
... that according to one reviewer, the problems that may have prompted the publication of Schooling and the Struggle for Public Life in the 1980s had "only gotten worse" by 2005?
... that Norwegian footballer Tuva Hansen and her dog have received millions of views on several TikTok videos?
... that "Hurricane" was originally intended for Chance the Rapper, who passed on the song to Kanye West?
... that Hausman Baboe, a colonial district chief of Kuala Kapuas, was fired due to his anti-colonial remarks?
... that the motto of the Clayton Herald was "Independent in Everything; Neutral in Nothing"?
... that in the 1980s, international LGBT organizations organized protests in Europe and the Americas in support of Belgian teacher Eliane Morissens?
... that local dairy farmers credit morning broadcasts of polka music from a Wisconsin radio station for relaxing their cows?

6 July 2022

00:00, 6 July 2022 (UTC)

Flying Balloon Girl by Banksy

... that one Palestinian man criticized the beauty of West Bank Wall graffiti art (example pictured), telling Banksy: "We don't want this wall to be beautiful. We hate it. Go home"?
... that Kelly Hecking won more Big East Conference championships than any other Notre Dame athlete?
... that the three oak saplings on the flag of Prince Edward Island represent the three counties that make up the province?
... that Bert Longfellow took on a one-man crusade which halved the drowning rate in the United States?
... that Holy Trinity Church in Newcastle-under-Lyme was praised as the "finest modern specimen of ornamental brickwork in the kingdom"?
... that the Ukrainian violinist Diana Tishchenko played Skoryk's Melody on a tour of the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra to Germany in April 2022?
... that a Pacific Cyber/Metrix's Bubbl-Dek fits into the floppy drive bay of an IBM PC, allowing it to take a bubble memory module?
... that Dr. Dot started to give her mother "bite massages" at the age of five?

5 July 2022

00:00, 5 July 2022 (UTC)

Margaret Abbott by Charles Dana Gibson

... that Margaret Abbott (pictured) was the first American woman to win an Olympic event, but never realized it?
... that Owen Jones's elaborately ornamented Book of Common Prayer "pointed to the direction that books in general were to follow in the Victorian Age"?
... that George Mann Niedecken was a Prairie-style interior architect who designed furniture for Frank Lloyd Wright and worked for Marion Mahony Griffin?
... that in the 1917 municipal election in Minsk, Belorussian parties only won 2 out of 102 seats?
... that as a lawyer, Peter Dowding defended more than 100 Vietnam War conscientious objectors?
... that Rafflesia lawangensis was previously misidentified as Rafflesia arnoldii, only to be identified as a new species in 2005 after photographs of it were sent to the National University of Malaysia?
... that Paul Chadick performed so well in the Delaware River Basketball League that a sportswriter said it would "benefit the league if he retired"?
... that the ancient Romans made toothpaste with human urine?

4 July 2022

00:00, 4 July 2022 (UTC)

John Tien

... that the first Asian-American at West Point to be named First Captain of the cadets was John Tien (pictured), the current U.S. Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security?
... that Irene Parlby was one of The Famous Five, a group of women in Canada who fought for the right of women to be considered "persons"?
... that agriculture ranks as one of the most stressful occupations in the United States and one that experiences high suicide rates?
... that The Baby-Sitters Club actress Sophia Reid-Gantzert won an Austrian ballet competition when she was six?
... that when the pastor of an African-American church bought the El Dorado, one newspaper wrote that "its occupants are white, and were white"?
... that actress Hilda Hanbury was the grandmother of actors James and Edward Fox and the great-grandmother of actress Emilia Fox?
... that part of West Virginia's Princeton–Deepwater District railway was so steep that only shortened coal trains could ascend it?
... that George Allsopp was arrested three times for not carrying a lantern?

3 July 2022

00:00, 3 July 2022 (UTC)

Glaciers on Mount Speke in the Rwenzori Mountains

... that the Rwenzori glaciers (examples pictured) are being melted by climate change in Uganda?
... that Edward A. Synan, a military chaplain, wrote over eighty journal articles on subjects ranging from early patristics to late scholasticism?
... that Italian football club A.C. Monza played 40 seasons in Serie B before securing promotion to Serie A – more than any other club?
... that Red Jordan Arobateau adopted "Red" as his first name after dyeing his hair red because he thought the color represented the sensuality and eroticism of his work?
... that according to Bohr's law, the person who draws first in a gunfight loses?
... that Richmond station includes a "rather disquieting" artwork by William Mitchell?
... that Kwaku Ohene-Frempong, an expert in sickle cell disease, decided while still in medical school to devote his life to the study of the disease, after his newborn son was diagnosed with the condition?
... that a Nevada radio station named "Sexy" blew into town with a windstorm?

2 July 2022

00:00, 2 July 2022 (UTC)

Ultrasound waves imaged by Franziska Seidl's apparatus

... that Franziska Seidl, born 130 years ago today, finished school after her husband's death and then went on to research ultrasound (illustration pictured) at the University of Vienna?
... that Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the first president of Bangladesh, had an appearance in the 1974 film Sangram?
... that Lebanese LGBT rights activist Sandra Melhem, one of the foremost promoters of drag culture in Beirut, was given an award for her humanitarian relief work after the 2020 Beirut explosion?
... that the quantum boomerang effect causes particles to turn around and return to their starting point?
... that Pat Gozemba married her wife while researching a book about the history of the struggle for equal marriage in Massachusetts?
... that red-boxing by American politicians is used to coordinate with Super PACs, an activity that the Campaign Legal Center called the "primary mechanism for corruption of federal campaigns in 2022"?
... that a song about an esports team went viral in Finland?
... that King Mohnyin Thado of Ava responded to the troubles of his kingdom by recalibrating the Burmese calendar to year 2?

1 July 2022

00:00, 1 July 2022 (UTC)

Olena Shevchenko

... that a journalist dubbed Olena Shevchenko (pictured) as "probably the most famous lesbian in Ukraine"?
... that the Electronic Arrays 9002 microprocessor was developed to get the company out of the calculator business, but instead led to their disappearance?
... that Stig Millehaugen, who had escaped or attempted escape from prison multiple times, was given a prison furlough in 2022 and failed to return?
... that posters for John Lindsay's 1965 New York City mayoral campaign told voters that "John Lindsay Cares About You"?
... that an intestine-on-a-chip can model and mimic an organ?
... that Charlie H. Hogan was called "king of engineers" after he became the first to drive a train at over 100 miles per hour (160 km/h)?
... that Internet activist Sally Burch was refused entry into Argentina because her presence was considered to be disruptive?
... that the name of the "Mormons vs. Mullets" game was a play on the 1988 "Catholics vs. Convicts" game?