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30 April 2023

12:00, 30 April 2023 (UTC)

Rutherford's Monument

... that the 56-foot-tall (17 m) monument (pictured) to the theologian Samuel Rutherford near his parish church in Anwoth was badly damaged by a lightning strike five years after its construction?
... that Americano Media wants to be "Fox News in Spanish"?
... that Joanna Cherry showed a printed copy of an Internet meme featuring Lily Hoshikawa during a UK parliamentary committee meeting?
... that 47-year-old Turkish para-karateka Oya Ekici won the bronze medal at the 2022 European Championships?
... that producers of The Simpsons have spoken about the importance of its LGBT characters in representation?
... that HMS Martin was part of the Grand Fleet of the Royal Navy in the First World War, but after the war was sold to be broken up?
... that the saying "give me the man and I will give you the case against him" is usually attributed to Soviet-era public figures such as Beria or Vyshinsky?
... that Ice Spice is Princess Diana?

00:00, 30 April 2023 (UTC)

Canterbury Pioneer Women's Memorial

... that although it was a centennial project, the Canterbury Pioneer Women's Memorial (pictured) in New Zealand was opened 90 years after the region's organised settlement began?
... that Anne Cooke Reid founded the first Black summer theater in the United States?
... that Arthur Arndt's family was the largest known group of Jews to successfully hide in Germany during the Holocaust?
... that to prepare for her role in the television film Search for Grace, actress Lisa Hartman Black underwent hypnosis?
... that United States Air Force colonel Virgil K. Meroney flew two combat missions with his son before his son was killed in action in March 1969, during the Vietnam War?
... that Salar de Pajonales in Chile has been used as an analogue for environments on Mars?
... that in the same year, an Illinois radio station lost its station manager in a car crash and its advertising revenue to flooding?
... that Auto-GPT, an autonomous artificial-intelligence software agent, was used to create ChaosGPT, which has not yet achieved its goal of destroying humanity?

29 April 2023

12:00, 29 April 2023 (UTC)

Reproduced fresco depicting Aulus Vibenna on the far right

... that according to Etruscan tradition Aulus Vibenna (depicted) helped Servius Tullius to oust the Roman king Lucius Tarquinius Priscus?
... that more than 100 traps were set to catch a single stoat on an otherwise predator-free island in Taiari / Chalky Inlet in 2022?
... that the Housatonic Railroad used to send 100,000 US quarts (95,000 litres) of milk to New York City per day?
... that Godwin Obasi has been described as "Africa's gift to the world of climate science"?
... that more than a decade after Edgar Wright assembled the cast of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, he helped to convince them all to reprise their roles in an anime adaptation of the source material?
... that as part of Bahrainization, the Bahraini government prohibited foreigners from driving taxis?
... that delivering newspapers was how Garnett Wikoff became an Olympic runner?
... that Hot Gay Time Machine had two life-sized cut-outs of Beyoncé?

00:00, 29 April 2023 (UTC)

Fictional tourism poster by NASA

... that the star TRAPPIST-1 has seven planets, several of which may have temperatures that would allow the existence of liquid water (artist's impression depicted)?
... that Fred Narganes is said to be the first Latino wrestler to win an amateur US national championship or to compete for an American university, and among the first Latino-American Olympians?
... that Weltdeutsch was a proposal for a German-based language by Nobel-Prize laureate and pacifist Wilhelm Ostwald, created in an episode of chauvinistic fervour?
... that Mira Bellwether's husband had already read her zine, Fucking Trans Women, years before he met her?
... that the publisher of the board game Destination faced financial trouble when a Harry Potter film was delayed?
... that the Ladies Musical Club brought Sergei Rachmaninoff, Marian Anderson, and Pablo Casals to perform in Seattle?
... that Mira, a Hong Kong YouTuber, was asked by the Korea Tourism Organization to be a spokeswoman for Michelin-starred restaurants one year after she started her channel?
... that one can change from doing 'sad girl music' to dissing your favorite rapper?

28 April 2023

12:00, 28 April 2023 (UTC)

Drake

... that Drake (pictured) has the personal approval of U.S. president Barack Obama to portray him in a biopic if the opportunity came?
... that in the Forum of Augustus in Rome, elogia were hung on statues of commanders and Augustus's ancestors?
... that the pseudonymous manga artist Junichi Yamakawa never disclosed to his editor his legal name, address, or contact information?
... that either dog feces, or hen and pigeon manure, were used by tanners to produce a soft leather?
... that Drag Isn't Dangerous is a charitable telethon set to be hosted by numerous drag queens to oppose the Tennessee drag-ban bill?
... that Leopoldo Salazar Viniegra laid the foundation for the Reglamento Federal de Toxicomanias, which legalized psychoactive substances in Mexico in 1940?
... that the mainland portion of Lake of the Woods Provincial Park in northwestern Ontario, Canada, was deregulated as part of a First Nations land claim settlement?
... that Devin Futrell used a post to dodge a draft?

00:00, 28 April 2023 (UTC)

Margery Jackson's court mantua

... that Carlisle miser Margery Jackson, who chose to live like a pauper, possessed a fine court mantua (pictured)?
... that The Steranko History of Comics has been described as the first piece of cultural analysis on American comic books?
... that Heinz Schwarz attended all CDU party conventions from the first ever in 1950 to 2020?
... that the Lewis and Clark Expedition documented the Ionia Volcano?
... that although he only had ten minutes to learn to play offensive lineman, college football player Jake Witt was able to successfully block against "the best defensive line" in the U.S.?
... that the Irish N53 road from Dundalk to Castleblayney has a 6-kilometre (3.7 mi) gap where it enters Northern Ireland?
... that Cambodia's first science-fiction film, Karmalink, combines Buddhist concepts of karma with themes of artificial intelligence?
... that Émile Aubrun flew circles around a golden virgin?

27 April 2023

12:00, 27 April 2023 (UTC)

Hearst Castle

... that Hearst Castle (pictured) inspired Xanadu, the lavish mansion in the 1941 film Citizen Kane?
... that the Gouzenko Affair marked the beginning of the Cold War in Canada?
... that Sujudi had his election to the post of rector of the University of Indonesia overruled by the Indonesian government?
... that when Zenni Optical released a Super Bowl LIV advertisement, its website told a number of customers that eyeglasses deliveries would be delayed for weeks?
... that Burmese princess Myat Phaya Gyi was impregnated by a servant, gave up her royal privileges, and lived a life of poverty?
... that the soundtrack of The Last of Us features a song performed by Nick Offerman, who played a character in the series?
... that the government of Ethiopia's SNNP Region supported local governments calling for a referendum to secede from the region?
... that British designer Alexander McQueen constructed a dress made of clear pallet wrap for his Spring/Summer 1995 collection The Birds?

00:00, 27 April 2023 (UTC)

Maya (left) and Yehuda Devir

... that after being featured on a Lithuanian website, Maya and Yehuda Devir (both pictured) got so many followers that they thought Instagram had broken?
... that ninja families in Sengoku Japan established self-governing confederacies in Iga and in Kōka, which formed an alliance?
... that soprano Carolina White performed the title role in the United States premiere of Il segreto di Susanna at the Metropolitan Opera in 1911?
... that the gender of the villains in Galaxy 4 was switched to female partly due to the women's liberation movement?
... that Trinidad Arroyo was allowed to vote in a Spanish election 17 years before women were granted suffrage?
... that in 2022 an Egyptian company was awarded the contract to build the first toll highway in Madagascar?
... that Darryl Milburn made his Canadian Football League debut on his birthday, but did not appear in any other games that year?
... that Arnold Schoenberg composed a film score to no film?

26 April 2023

12:00, 26 April 2023 (UTC)

Pizza divided into eighths

... that exercises in the fair division of food (example pictured) are often used to teach unit fractions?
... that US embassy staff in Moscow during the Cold War used Magic Slates to stop the KGB from intercepting their communications?
... that the creators of the 1990 game Star Control designed a starship for an alien race of female humanoids, naming it the Penetrator for its resemblance to a ribbed condom?
... that Ilona Tóth testified that she had injected a man with gasoline?
... that "Fear", an episode of The 1619 Project, traces present-day vigilante violence against Black youths in the United States to the fear of slave rebellions?
... that as mayor, Muhammad Saleh Arifin permitted a temporary gambling area in Medan, Indonesia, saying that it would fund a new street?
... that there was only one Friedrichshafen FF.1 aircraft and it was destroyed in a crash?
... that Mardijo was sentenced to one, then two, then one, then two years in prison?

00:00, 26 April 2023 (UTC)

Musa va 'Uj

... that Musa va 'Uj (pictured) depicts figures from all three Abrahamic religions?
... that the Millennium Complex in Plymouth, England, has hosted a cinema, dance hall, roller disco and night club?
... that Aubri Esters was among the winners of a hackathon focusing on ways to reduce drug addiction and drug-related deaths?
... that the bridge on the R565 road to Valentia Island was opened twice?
... that police investigating the murder of Una Crown initially thought that she had accidentally set herself on fire and cut her own throat with her scarf?
... that the bishop of Oregon's residence in Portland once had a private chapel, a ballroom, and a wine cellar?
... that Abdillah was sworn in as the mayor of Medan, Indonesia, in an abrupt and secretive ceremony?
... that the play-by-email game Lords of the Earth takes about 25 years to play?

25 April 2023

00:00, 25 April 2023 (UTC)

Church Street School swimming pool

... that buddleia grows from the exterior of the Church Street School swimming pool (pictured) in Glasgow?
... that Ethan Loch, a blind pianist, was inspired by Rowlf the Dog?
... that Money Shot: The Pornhub Story was described by multiple reviewers as unsalacious?
... that Liberian factions voted Bismarck Kuyon to be the chair of the transitional executive branch of the government, but his nomination was revoked before he was installed?
... that the Marble Hall in Osmaston, Derby, was built in 1912 as offices for the factory manufacturing the Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost?
... that Clara Stauffer was the only woman on the Allied Control Council's list of 104 wanted Nazis in Spain?
... that the battle of Zama commenced with a charge by 80 war elephants?
... that former NBA basketball player Leroy Chollet benched his own coach?

24 April 2023

00:00, 24 April 2023 (UTC)

Saint Casimir wearing Gediminas' Cap

... that during the inaugurations of Lithuanian monarchs, Gediminas' Cap (depicted) was placed on the monarch's head by the bishop of Vilnius?
... that today is the Day of Books and Roses, which originated in Barcelona in 1926 as the Day of the Book, described as a "festival of civility and intelligence"?
... that in 2009 Jeff Wrana helped to develop a biological model that might play a role in predicting whether a woman is more likely to recover from breast cancer?
... that the elite men's event at today's London Marathon featured four of the five fastest competitors of all time?
... that the first ambassador at the Philippine embassy in Manama would later be injured in the 2000 bombing of the Philippine embassy in Jakarta?
... that NIU dormitory residents cast 65,000 write-in votes to elect Matt Hicks to the 1977 Pizza Hut All-American game?
... that the 1917 Leeds Convention in Britain passed resolutions calling for the end of the First World War and praising the February Revolution in Russia?
... that the 19-story Starrett–Lehigh Building was built on the principle of "every floor a first floor"?

23 April 2023

00:00, 23 April 2023 (UTC)

West Mata erupting underwater

... that the two primary vents of West Mata (pictured), a submarine volcano, are called "Hades" and "Prometheus"?
... that for a rare performance in 2023 of the St Matthew Passion by the 18th-century composer Homilius, the conductor Clemens Bosselmann had to track down handwritten sheet music?
... that a former armory in New York City later housed ESPN offices?
... that St Julian's Church was the only church in Norwich destroyed during World War II to be rebuilt?
... that after Ray Hall threw an apple at Jo Jo White, White became Hall's sports agent?
... that YouTube channel Trial & Error's manner of selling live-show tickets—HK$10,000 on day one, $5,000 on day two, all the way to $10 on day 24—appeared on a university entrance exam?
... that Maria Stromberger was sent to Auschwitz at her own request?
... that a man dropped his hat while riding Flight Deck and went to retrieve it, but ended up dying after being struck by the foot of a rider?

22 April 2023

00:00, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

Lee at MIT's radio experiment station, 1925

... that Li Fu Lee (pictured), the first Chinese woman to attend MIT, studied electrical engineering, which—according to The Boston Globe—its undergraduates at the time said was its hardest major?
... that Still Life with Books by Jan Lievens is an example of the vanitas genre of painting?
... that Digital Domain created a new facial-capture system to help create the look of Thanos in Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame?
... that Saulteaux linguist Margaret Cote was the first person in Saskatchewan to teach a First Nations language in a public school?
... that newspapers in Brazil printed cake recipes and 16th-century poetry to cover material censored by the military dictatorship?
... that President James Monroe promised the eastern Cherokee a "gateway to the setting sun" where they were not "surrounded by the White man", which resulted in the creation of Lovely's Purchase?
... that blogger Vladlen Tatarsky was killed by a bomb hidden in a bust of himself?
... that Untitled Goose Game escaped being called Some Like It Honk?

21 April 2023

00:00, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

Achaemenid inscription at Persepolis

... that the Achaemenid royal inscriptions (one pictured) at Persepolis allowed for the initial decipherment of cuneiform?
... that Confederate troops under Colonel George Wythe Baylor disabled two Union tinclad gunboats on the Red River in Louisiana on May 5, 1864?
... that during a guerrilla campaign in 1968, the Iraqi Communist Party – Central Command attacked the house of Saddam Hussein?
... that Medan under Rahudman Harahap attempted a crackdown on pig farms within city limits, but backed down after local opposition?
... that after Michael Jordan was fired by the Washington Wizards, he wanted to move the Capital Classic from the Washington, D.C., area to New York?
... that after a riot destroyed some local churches, Marie-Julien Dunand, a French missionary in China, ordered the construction of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Chengdu and Annunciation Seminary in Pengzhou?
... that there was an American version of the Eurovision Song Contest, but it was not renewed for a 2023 season?
... that Rosa Smester Marrero said that without women, men would live the life of a turnip?

20 April 2023

00:00, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

Letitia Tyler

... that Letitia Christian Tyler (depicted) was the first United States first lady to die in the role?
... that Nationalist China's own Northeastern Army captured Chiang Kai-shek to convince him to end the civil war against the Chinese Communist Party?
... that the 2018 book The Longevity Diet claims that a "fast-mimicking diet" increases lifespan and healthspan?
... that Rihanna and Dua Lipa participated in #BlueforSudan to bring attention to the 3 June 2019 Khartoum massacre?
... that the periodic comet 323P/SOHO approaches the Sun at a distance of 0.04 AU, nearer than any other numbered comet, every 4.15 years?
... that the Berlin embassy of the Italian Social Republic published the weekly La Voce della Patria from 1943 to 1944 for distribution among Italian Military Internees in Germany?
... that Francois Massaquoi, who studied economics at New York University, later led the Lofa Defense Force during the First Liberian Civil War?
... that The Noble Fisherman unusually places Robin Hood in the seaside town of Scarborough, and he ends up fighting French pirates?

19 April 2023

00:00, 19 April 2023 (UTC)

Apartment block at Alterlaa

... that residents at Alterlaa (building pictured), a housing complex in Vienna, have large concrete planters in which plants can be grown?
... that Swedish footballer Taha Ayari made his Allsvenskan debut by coming on as a substitute for his older brother?
... that the court case Nintendo of America, Inc. v. Blockbuster Entertainment Corp. helped allow the game rental market to thrive for the years that followed the case?
... that when he was the rector of the University of Indonesia, Asman Boedisantoso Ranakusuma sometimes took the train to campus to overhear criticism of the school?
... that Fairleigh Dickinson's upset victory over Purdue was the biggest upset in terms of point spread in NCAA tournament history, with Purdue being a 23+1⁄2-point favorite?
... that the Friedrichshafen FF.19 became the first German aircraft to conduct successful tests with wireless telegraphy?
... that both candidates in the 1866 Helston by-election received the same number of votes?
... that there are no werewolves in Mexican Werewolf in Texas?

18 April 2023

00:00, 18 April 2023 (UTC)

"Daddy, what did you do in the Great War?"

... that some British soldiers hung the First World War propaganda poster "Daddy, what did you do in the Great War?" in the trenches and left sarcastic answers to the daughter's question?
... that the Mosaic of Rehob is the oldest surviving Talmudic text?
... that the men's winner of the 2022 New York City Marathon was almost hit by a vehicle during the race?
... that after losing her eyesight to toxoplasmosis, Rhina Aguirre dedicated herself to disability rights and was elected to the Bolivian Senate in 2009?
... that you can see the sea from every apartment in Arlington House, Margate?
... that 161 years ago today, William Y. Slack was promoted to brigadier general, even though he was already dead?
... that Sasajiscymnus tsugae is used as a biological control method for the hemlock woolly adelgid, an invasive pest of the eastern hemlock?
... that Museum Arnhem in the Netherlands celebrated its 100th anniversary with a giant cat picture?

17 April 2023

00:00, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

Annunciation Seminary

... that an abandoned seminary (pictured) collapsed during the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, upon its 100th year of completion?
... that a pregnant Sally Buchanan was said to have carried bullets in her apron and distributed whiskey while singing during the Battle of Buchanan's Station?
... that Latin legal maxims like casum sentit dominus have been described as "guardians of eternity [...] more lasting than codifications"?
... that the ruined Fort Phantom Hill was briefly a town that was the seat of Jones County, Texas?
... that Erich Korngold's Die tote Stadt had simultaneous premieres in Cologne and Hamburg in 1920, one with Johanna Geisler and her husband Otto Klemperer?
... that a filing for a temporary restraining order to stop the release of Get Up and Dance in the United States by the publisher of the Just Dance series was denied?
... that the Indonesian town of Tiakur experienced a shortage of specialist doctors due to them not renewing their contract?
... that comedian Kemah Bob maintains a drag king persona, Lil' Test Ease?

16 April 2023

00:00, 16 April 2023 (UTC)

Otto (right) in The Great Gabbo

... that precursors to the killer toy include ventriloquist dummies such as Otto (pictured) in the 1929 film The Great Gabbo?
... that Armenian-Turkish soprano Sibil Pektorosoğlu released her first album after singing in a church choir for almost twenty years?
... that logic translations can be used to analyze whether arguments expressed in ordinary language are correct?
... that Indonesia and Malaysia founded the Council of Palm Oil Producing Countries to promote the use of palm oil?
... that Meyers and Elle Leonard donated US$500,000 toward the renovation of the site of their first date?
... that X-radiographs of Jan Lievens's circa 1629–1630 Self-Portrait showed that the artist made "transformative revisions to his appearance" in the portrait?
... that Rachel Belden Brooks was an African-American pioneer who was awarded $1,000 when she sued the estate of her previous enslaver?
... that black lemurs use toxic millipede secretions as insect repellent, and apparently enjoy their narcotic effect?

15 April 2023

00:00, 15 April 2023 (UTC)

Castner Range National Monument

... that to open for recreation, Castner Range National Monument (pictured) in El Paso's Franklin Mountains still needs to be cleaned of live munitions since closing as a weapons test site in 1966?
... that Thierry Coquand won a SIGPLAN award for his eponymous proof assistant Coq, which was used to find a formal proof of the four color theorem?
... that the Chinese-language forum 1Point3Acres created a COVID-19 tracker used by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention?
... that Mary Shadow, the first unmarried woman in the Tennessee House of Representatives, received fourteen marriage proposals after her election?
... that the poem "Ovid in the Third Reich" has been described as "a classic reaction" to the Eichmann trial, despite being published before the trial was held?
... that Airis Computer's 1991 laptop could be powered with ten C batteries as an alternative to a rechargeable pack?
... that Christian Keller worked as an academic before running SSV Jahn Regensburg?
... that Ned Beatty turned down the role of John Doe in the film Seven because the script was the "most evil thing" he had ever read?

14 April 2023

00:00, 14 April 2023 (UTC)

TVBoy mural of Alexia Putellas

... that street artist TVBoy, known for his murals of footballers in Barcelona (example pictured), painted uplifting art in regions of Kyiv ahead of the one-year anniversary of the 2022 Russian invasion?
... that Foster Loyer broke Michigan's high-school and Steph Curry's Davidson records for consecutive free throws?
... that the 2023 United Kingdom student protests were organised on TikTok and Snapchat?
... that at the age of 27 New Zealand entrepreneur Jamie Beaton had degrees from Harvard, Stanford, Oxford, and Tsinghua University, and was working on his seventh degree, from Yale?
... that It Was Hot, We Stayed in the Water explores the theme of water and was inspired by Phil Elverum's visits to the ocean?
... that in 1956 Green Bay Packers athletic trainer Bud Jorgensen became the first athletic trainer selected by the National Football League to treat players at a Pro Bowl?
... that the St. Raphael Provincial Park in Northern Ontario, Canada, is part of the 1,530 km² (590 sq mi) St. Raphael Signature Site, which is recognized for its natural and recreational values?
... that in the 1970s, residents of the Belnord in New York City had to sneak in refrigerators at night?

13 April 2023

00:00, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

Pizza dolce di Beridde

... that the Jewish-Roman pizza dolce di Beridde (pictured) was reportedly the favorite dessert of Pope Benedict XVI?
... that John Hoke III, who is dyslexic and the chief design officer of Nike, has described drawing as his first language?
... that The Vision of God sparked controversy in Mexican radio?
... that Atari hired a number of graffiti artists for the remixed versions of classic arcade games in Retro Atari Classics?
... that Albert Luthuli was the first African to win the Nobel Peace Prize?
... that Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park, modeled on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., was created to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the statehood of Tennessee in 1996?
... that in 1819 Michael O'Sullivan, a member of the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada, fought a duel in Montreal with William Caldwell over a proposal to create the Montreal General Hospital?
... that there is a "desert" in Maine?

12 April 2023

00:00, 12 April 2023 (UTC)

BRAAAM

... that the loud low horn sound (featured) that often appears in action film trailers is known as BRAAAM?
... that 100 beerhouses were licensed in Brighton (population 40,000) in the first week after the Beerhouse Act 1830 was enacted?
... that beekeeper Erika Thompson uses her bare hands to scoop up bees?
... that when recording what became "Suze (The Cough Song)", Bob Dylan started coughing, then said that the song ended before his coughing started, and asked the producer to fade it out?
... that during the time of the Church Fathers, the velatio nuptialis was used by the church to validate the sacrament of marriage and emphasize its importance?
... that Estonian minister of war Paul Lill resigned in 1939, citing the unacceptable conditions of the Bases Treaty with the Soviet Union?
... that in 1979, Vermont ETV received more donations from viewers in Quebec than it did from Vermonters?
... that a local councillor complained that the R319 road in County Mayo had more humps and hollows than a camel's back?

11 April 2023

00:00, 11 April 2023 (UTC)

Male rufous hummingbird

... that flying hummingbirds (example pictured) use oxygen at a rate which is relatively ten times greater than elite athletes?
... that when a tourist's corpse was found atop the Apthorp, The New York Times wrote that "it struck some tenants not as an oddity but as a metaphor" for life there?
... that before becoming the mayor of Medan, Indonesia, Agus Salim Rangkuti acted in movies and oversaw a real-life political prison camp?
... that M.I.A. originally wanted to name her newest album after her son but instead named it Mata?
... that Yeshiva University basketball star Dave Kufeld was the first Orthodox Jew ever to be selected in the NBA draft?
... that Sonia Chadwick Hawkes led a rescue excavation at the Updown early medieval cemetery in 1976 because the site was threatened by a planned pipeline?
...that Audrey Whitty, who created an exhibition about the thousands of Irish children who died in care, is now the director of the National Library of Ireland?
... that according to legend, the Third Month Fair was originally held on the Moon?

10 April 2023

00:00, 10 April 2023 (UTC)

Chapels at Grove Road Cemetery

... that Grove Road Cemetery once had two chapels (pictured) by architect Thomas Charles Sorby, and contains self-made men George Dawson, Richard Ellis and David Simpson, banker John Smith, bandleader Daniel Schwarz, newspaperman Robert Ackrill, kayaker Fridel Meyer, and miser John Turner?
... that Melanie Martinez's song, "Death", was her first chart hit in more than a decade?
... that while serving as the mayor of Malang, Peni Suparto led a protest in front of the city hall?
... that Splatoon 3 became the fastest-selling video game of all time in Japan three days after launch?
... that Elena Rybakina's coach promised to get a tattoo of her name if she ever won Wimbledon – and did so?
... that Jasmila Žbanić's experience of living through the siege of Sarajevo influenced her work on the sixth episode of The Last of Us?
... that Brennley Brown was a finalist on The Voice when she was only 15 years old?
... that the developers of 161 Maiden Lane offered luxury yachts to attract tenants?

9 April 2023

00:00, 9 April 2023 (UTC)

Dale Earnhardt's car in the Richard Childress Racing Museum

... that the Richard Childress Racing Museum (exhibition pictured) is located in the former team workshop in which Richard Childress Racing won six NASCAR Cup Series championships and 58 races?
... that in February 2023, Italian footballer Samuele Parlati saved a penalty kick while playing as an emergency goalkeeper?
... that songs in The Beautiful Letdown are "chunky", "gentle", and "nois[y]"?
... that the Romans used grappling hooks during the Battle of Corycus to board Seleucid ships?
... that Paris Opera Ballet dancer Guillaume Diop co-authored a manifesto that called for the Paris Opera to make urgent changes to address racial discrimination?
... that at the 2022 Primetime Emmy Awards The White Lotus was nominated in five categories and won in all?
... that Abbas ibn Abi al-Futuh was a Zirid prince who became a vizier of the Fatimid Caliphate after assassinating his stepfather, and was overthrown after murdering caliph al-Zafir?
... that in 1967 Hilton Hotels revealed plans for a 100-room hotel on the Moon?

8 April 2023

00:00, 8 April 2023 (UTC)

Allegory of Marriage

... that although Titian's Allegory of Marriage (pictured) left England in the 17th century, two early replicas, probably done from the original, remain in the Royal Collection?
... that a revival of the comedy series Lizzie McGuire was ordered in 2019, but canceled mid-production after Disney deemed it not family-friendly enough?
... that King Charles III's wife left him after she found four of his lovers living in his palace?
... that Sweden won the Eurovision Song Contest 1999, twenty-five years after ABBA brought the country its first victory in the contest?
... that Liberian paramount chief Tamba Taylor worked as a tailor and claimed to have sewn clothes for Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie and Ghanaian president Kwame Nkrumah?
... that the LAPD Special Investigation Section trains military special forces in surveillance?
... that Gottfried August Homilius wrote Passions for Good Friday services during his time as music director of the Church of the Holy Cross in Dresden?
... that Basic Medicine features North Korean propaganda?

7 April 2023

00:00, 7 April 2023 (UTC)

Hart (left) and Roland

... that in a recent book, David Bentley Hart – a New Testament translator and proponent of the existence of fairies – engages in dialogues with his dog Roland (both pictured)?
... that Prilep's Old Bazaar contains a leaning clock tower?
... that in 1945 the US Army confiscated the Hotel Rose in Wiesbaden, which is now the Hessian State Chancellery?
... that the opera Omar, about the Muslim scholar Omar ibn Said, had its world premiere in a theater located less than a mile from the site where he was sold as a slave?
... that Panzer Dragoon II Zwei features a villain inspired by Dune's Baron Harkonnen, visuals inspired by the work of Jean Giraud, and a fictional language?
... that Andrew Klemencic said "I don't think that I blockaded the streets nearly as bad as the Salvation Army" after Hawaii police fined him for speaking on a street corner in 1900?
... that the Monument to the Victims of the Holocaust in Madrid was the first Holocaust memorial in Spain when it opened in 2007?
... that football linebacker Roger Bonk was nicknamed "the Boinker"?

6 April 2023

00:00, 6 April 2023 (UTC)

Lamp with backlit lithophanes

... that porcelain lithophanes (examples pictured) are intended to be viewed when lit from behind?
... that when Nestor Binabo's wife was freed by her kidnappers, she was given a bag of fish and told to make her husband peppersoup?
... that the Poison Book Project has identified more than 100 books that contain arsenic?
... that for Live at Bush Hall the band Black Country, New Road created three distinct backstories for its performances, including one about a pizza chef who comes across a poltergeist?
... that the children of papercutting artist Claire von Greyerz received some of their education together with Napoleon III?
... that originally, residents of New York City's Ansonia Hotel received fresh eggs from a farm on its roof?
... that a Lady Gaga song became popular 11 years after its release, when videos showing Jenna Ortega, as Wednesday Addams, dancing to the song became viral on TikTok?
... that knees and elbows were censored on Manga Up!?

5 April 2023

00:08, 5 April 2023 (UTC)

Allegory of Peace

... that the Allegory of Peace (pictured) by Jan Lievens celebrates the 1648 Treaty of Münster?
... that UCLA basketball player Jaylen Clark was named the Naismith Defensive Player of the Year in 2023, after also significantly improving on offense?
... that, amongst the kidneys of the vertebrates, only those of mammals and birds can produce concentrated urine?
... that Constantine, an infant Byzantine emperor, reportedly died by drowning in a cistern after escaping the care of his nurse?
... that a Kansas City TV station had so many children's shows to air that the station manager talked of "fit[ting] so many ten-pound turnips into a five-pound sack"?
... that in 1952 a 19-year-old footman shot Lady Derby and three members of staff at Knowsley Hall in England?
... that the 2023 series Farzi tells the story of a counterfeiting ring as well as the fakeness of people?
... that a special case was instrumental to harpist Steffy Goldner's professional career and legacy?

4 April 2023

00:05, 4 April 2023 (UTC)

Parker House

... that after Sea Girt, New Jersey, passed a law that banned live rock and disco music at the Parker House (pictured), a state judge overturned the ban as being "silly"?
... that 22-year-old singer Milena Warthon has created a new genre, pop andino, by fusing pop and Andean music?
... that Nottingham Forest's victory in the 2022 EFL Championship play-off final gained them promotion to the Premier League for the first time in 23 years?
... that at the peak of the 2018 Tinder Fire in Arizona, 695 firefighters worked to contain its spread?
... that the Kipsigis people wrote a folk song about American singer Jimmie Rodgers, whom they called "Chemirocha"?
... that Iyarkai is based on the true story of a man who got lost in the Mediterranean Sea and never returned?
... that Brightwell Manor was the home of a eugenicist clergyman who did not believe in democracy?
... that the Federal Communications Commission's comparative hearing criteria for awarding broadcast licenses were struck down as "arbitrary and capricious"?

3 April 2023

00:00, 3 April 2023 (UTC)

Birubala Rabha

... that Indian activist Birubala Rabha (pictured) has rescued more than thirty women from being persecuted as witches in the last decade?
... that the Alchymic Quartet is a string quartet by Graham Waterhouse, to be performed alongside chemical experiments of Andrew Szydlo, his former teacher at Highgate School?
... that during the 1913 El Paso smelters' strike the Industrial Workers of the World and the Western Federation of Miners competed to organize the strikers with their respective labor unions?
... that Lewes Road in Brighton has a gyratory named after a pornographic cinema?
... that the 1919 suite of The Firebird contained "more than three hundred errors"?
... that British outrage at the sentencing of a white Kenyan settler to just two years' imprisonment for the 1923 killing of a black employee eventually led to the replacement of the colony's legal code?
... that Avi Kwa Ame National Monument, protected as a national monument since March 21, 2023, is a significant habitat of Joshua trees and threatened desert tortoises?
... that the game designer of the video game Hades said that the characters were attractive "because Jen Zee"?

2 April 2023

00:00, 2 April 2023 (UTC)

New York City I (1941), upside down

... that after one of Piet Mondrian's paintings (shown) was discovered to have been hanging upside down for decades, the museum left it as is?
... that Charles III abdicated to become a monk, leaving his land divided between his younger brothers?
... that an artist tried to fly on a Hummingbird?
... that the Loophonium, a cross between a euphonium and a toilet, was played alongside the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic on April Fools' Day?
... that Edith of Wilton was criticized for not working after her death?
... that Twelves, a pet monkey, died and became a diamond?
... that "'average person eats 3 spiders a year' factoid actualy just statistical error"?
... that a rabbit played for the Philadelphia Eagles – as there's a drive into deep left field by Castellanos, that will be a home run. And so that will make it a 4–0 ballgame?

1 April 2023

00:00, 1 April 2023 (UTC)

Fujita (standing) with Sirota

... that pianist Fujita Haruko, one of the first 19 female students enrolled at the University of Tokyo, was taught by Leo Sirota, who was once called the "god of piano" (both pictured)?
... that the Optimizer by Capex Corporation brought memory and runtime savings to COBOL programs running on IBM mainframes?
... that as part of its strategy of political renovation, National Convergence nominated a librarian to contest one of Bolivia's most competitive legislative districts?
... that the title of the livestreaming concert Freedom came from Regine Velasquez's desire to have freedom of singing anything she wants?
... that in the 2022 film Saint Omer, Guslagie Malanda plays a character based on convicted murderer Fabienne Kabou, while Kayije Kagame plays a stand-in for director Alice Diop?
... that the site of Mount Bibele is home to a necropolis with 171 tombs?
... that Ruth Scott Miller, the first female music critic for the Chicago Tribune, said she was hired to "write for the masses and not for 'four or five thousand freak music lovers'"?
... that not all military rations are food?

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