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30 June 2020

00:00, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

dark brown cocktail on ice in a tall glass

Glass of fernet con coca

... that the combination of fernet and cola (example pictured) is so popular in Argentina that the country consumes more than 75 percent of all fernet produced globally?
... that Ryan T. Anderson wrote an anti-transgender book that topped the Amazon bestsellers list in the Gay & Lesbian Civil Rights History category?
... that Elizabeth I is said to have been told of her accession whilst sitting beneath Queen Elizabeth's Oak at Hatfield Palace?
... that in 1952, the U.S. State Department Panel of Consultants on Disarmament recommended that the first test of the hydrogen bomb not be held?
... that Bandana Nepal achieved the Guinness World Record for "longest dance marathon by an individual" by dancing for 126 hours continuously?
... that the extinct sumac species Rhus republicensis is named for Republic, Washington?
... that Başakşehir Çam and Sakura City Hospital in Istanbul was the largest seismic base-isolated building in the world at the time of its opening?
... that Hollywood stuntwoman Lila Finn, who "jumped out of bombers, [was] chased by lions, clawed by tigers, and thrown overboard into icy ocean waters at night", performed injury-free into her seventies?

29 June 2020

00:00, 29 June 2020 (UTC)

Siad Barre

... that a 1978 coup d'état attempt sought to remove Somali president Siad Barre (pictured), who himself had come to power in a coup a decade earlier?
... that Bobby Diamond turned down the role of second son Robbie on My Three Sons, which ran for twelve seasons, in favor of Westinghouse Playhouse, which lasted only one?
... that Storkyrkan, Stockholm's oldest church, was the first church in Sweden where Mass was celebrated in Swedish?
... that the 1st and 4th Missouri Infantry Regiment (Consolidated) lost six colorbearers at the Battle of Champion Hill?
... that a queen of Bohemia died at Leicester House, Westminster, shortly after moving in?
... that Nora Ephron was the first writer to use the word "shit" in Esquire, in her 1972 essay "A Few Words About Breasts"?
... that Lieutenant-General Sir David Lindsay feared being made a scapegoat for the poor state of defences at Plymouth during the Armada of 1779?
... that Luigi Gregori used University of Notre Dame founder Edward Sorin as the model for Christopher Columbus's face in one of his Columbus murals?

28 June 2020

00:00, 28 June 2020 (UTC)

Tourtière with Canadiens flag

... that Vancouver restaurant St. Lawrence playfully references Quebecois cultural icons by serving tourtière with a miniature Montreal Canadiens flag (pictured), and oreilles de crisse in a maple syrup can?
... that Handala is considered to portray the Palestinian identity "with astounding clarity"?
... that North Carolina Courage teammates Ryan Williams and Cari Roccaro made training videos for other teammates to follow during socially distanced training?
... that the 1949 film Prejudice drives its point home by having characters use many ethnic slurs, including "nigger", "wops", "dagoes", "dirty Jew", and "dumb Swede"?
... that during a 2015 speech at the Oxford Union, Indian politician Shashi Tharoor claimed that Britain owes reparations to India?
... that the former New York City nightclub The Beatrice Inn is now owned by Chopped "Grill Masters" champion Angie Mar?
... that a model featured in the game Cover Girl Strip Poker said that she was not informed what the photoshoot was for, and that several models were not paid for their involvement in the game?
... that Rachel Bitecofer, who closely predicted the 2018 U.S. House election results, contends that elections are decided by negative partisanship rather than swing votes?

27 June 2020

00:00, 27 June 2020 (UTC)

Pascal, c. 1900

... that the French cruisers Pascal (pictured), Descartes, Bugeaud, and Chasseloup-Laubat were deployed to East Asia as part of France's response to the Boxer Uprising in Qing China?
... that Mark Ibn Kunbar was excommunicated by two Coptic popes and one Monophysite patriarch in the 12th century?
... that Jimmy and Sally, a 1933 film written for the popular screen duo of James Dunn and Sally Eilers, ended up creating a new screen duo of Dunn and Claire Trevor?
... that Rangers fans at the 2000 Scottish Cup Final wore orange shirts in tribute to their Dutch manager and players, despite suggestions of Protestant undertones?
... that the title of Got7's 2020 EP Dye is a pun referring to both colour and death as they relate to "eternal love"?
... that William Carney is the only registered member of the Conservative Party of New York State to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives?
... that the 13th-century St Andrew-in-the-Oxmarket Church in Chichester, which was bombed during the Second World War, is now an arts centre?
... that Lewis (first name unknown) pitched in his only Players' League game in 1890 and gave up 20 runs?

26 June 2020

00:00, 26 June 2020 (UTC)

Ribblesdale in top hat, Chesterfield coat, and jodhpurs, carrying a riding whip

Lord Ribblesdale (1902)

... that Thomas Lister, 4th Baron Ribblesdale, claimed that John Singer Sargent's portrait Lord Ribblesdale (shown) "forced greatness upon me"?
... that "There is a green hill far away" was described by French composer Charles Gounod as "the most perfect hymn in the English language"?
... that Danielle Lessovitz found respite in New York's ball culture after her father's suicide, later setting her first feature film, Port Authority, within it?
... that the 1920 blind march led the British government to pass the Blind Persons Act, the first disability-specific legislation anywhere in the world?
... that the fire of Landis' Missouri Battery helped clear the way for an infantry charge at the Second Battle of Corinth?
... that rapper Big Zuu's first demos were recorded at a studio that did not allow expletives to be used?
... that Microsoft head Bill Gates giving a keynote address at the Unix Expo was likened to going "into the belly of the beast", and when a demo he was overseeing crashed, the attendees were delighted?
... that famous chefs have based their menus on recipes found in Thai funeral books?

25 June 2020

00:00, 25 June 2020 (UTC)

Boie's frog

... that Boie's frog (pictured) and the Banhado frog both resemble dead leaves on the floor of the forest?
... that 16-year-old Tate McRae has been described as "Canada's answer to Billie Eilish"?
... that Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East argues that Nazism and Islamism are similar, especially in their extreme antisemitism?
... that the Bodie Creek Suspension Bridge was built to carry sheep?
... that Lilly Dubowitz, co-developer of the Dubowitz Score, also introduced the use of cranial ultrasound to assess the brains of newborns at Hammersmith Hospital?
... that an 1870s-era windmill threatened with demolition was relocated to Alley Pond Park to be preserved, only to be burned down two years later?
... that Jasraj, a Hindustani classical musician, is still teaching music at age 90, including via Skype?
... that you can't take pictures inside The Cock?

24 June 2020

00:00, 24 June 2020 (UTC)

Devo performing in 1978

... that the inaugural Top 106.7 Countdown in 1980 was topped by the song "Whip It" by Devo (pictured)?
... that a mathematics teacher became one of Kashmir's most hunted militants?
... that during the 1970 U.S. Senate election in New York, Vice President Spiro Agnew referred to Senator Charles Goodell as the "Christine Jorgensen of the Republican Party"?
... that Mexican professional wrestler Chabela Romero had a feud with Irma González that played out across eight years and in three countries?
... that the Chilean seaside cinclodes bobs its tail while it walks and flares its wings while it sings?
... that the phrase "When the looting starts, the shooting starts" was first used by a Miami police chief who told the press in 1967 that they "don't mind being accused of police brutality"?
... that the earliest of the three surviving operas by Claudio Monteverdi, L'Orfeo from 1607, is the oldest extant opera still regularly performed today?
... that visitors often find a double entendre in the General Hooker Entrance of the Massachusetts State House?

23 June 2020

12:00, 23 June 2020 (UTC)

Sidi Darghut Mosque

... that Dragut built the Sidi Darghut Mosque (pictured) in Tripoli on the site of a Hospitaller church, and was later buried there after being killed whilst attacking the Hospitallers in the Great Siege of Malta?
... that the United States Army employed its first non-Christian chaplain, Rabbi Jacob Frankel, during the American Civil War?
... that Manoj Muntashir originally wrote "Teri Mitti" as a tribute to soldiers, then wrote a reprise as a tribute to healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic in India?
... that in Eve Online, the Battle of Asakai became one of the largest online battles after a single player made an accidental move that escalated the conflict to include more than 3,000 players?
... that Canadian soccer player Christabel Oduro is the cousin of Dominic Oduro, who has played for Ghana?
... that although the captain of American Airlines Flight 320 was considered one of the most experienced pilots in the world, his crew was blamed for the fatal crash in 1959?
... that during the 1985 Gujarat riots, police in Ahmedabad attacked and burned down the offices of a newspaper?
... that San Francisco socialite Mary Grace Borel was granted her first divorce in a hearing that lasted less than five minutes, from a Superior Court Judge who was also her aunt's husband?

00:00, 23 June 2020 (UTC)

Strawberries and Cream Tree
in full bloom in April 2020

... that the Strawberries and Cream Tree (pictured) is noted for producing pink blossoms on one side of the tree and white on the other, when it blooms every spring?
... that more than 1,000 men fought in the 1st Missouri Infantry Regiment, the first unit from the state to officially enter the Confederate States Army?
... that Raymond Kipkoech won the 2011 Jerusalem Marathon despite crossing the wrong finish line?
... that the Wells curve, which illustrates what happens to respiratory droplets once they are exhaled, helps explain the spread of respiratory infections?
... that the 2018 film Hotel Milan is based on "anti-Romeo squads" formed in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh?
... that Héctor Suárez was the first comedian from Latin America to be "roasted" by fellow celebrities?
... that after 28 Liberty Street's private plaza was fenced off during the Occupy Wall Street protests, people sued to reopen the plaza, claiming the barriers violated freedom-of-speech laws?
... that Wong Keng Liang was arrested after Malaysian customs officials found nearly one hundred baby boa constrictors, two vipers, and a South American turtle hidden in his suitcase?

22 June 2020

12:00, 22 June 2020 (UTC)

Lady Henrietta Berkeley

... that Lady Henrietta Berkeley (pictured) had an affair with her older sister's husband, claimed in court to have married his servant, and then fled with both of them to Cleves?
... that to prevent spoilers, the name of the American reality singing competition The Masked Singer is not listed on contracts with celebrities competing on the show?
... that Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's call for Israel to be "wiped off the map" has been described as incitement to genocide?
... that Rupert Bunny gained an honourable mention at the Paris Salon of 1890 with his painting Tritons?
... that one of the factors affecting the future of the Huanchaca mouse is the increased cultivation of biofuels?
... that the World Hockey Summit debated the age at which to introduce body checking at the minor ice hockey level, or whether to eliminate it altogether?
... that American law professor Harry Bigelow sat on President Harry S. Truman's National Loyalty Review Board during the Second Red Scare?
... that on the Lycian Way, a hiker can experience all four seasons in one day?

00:00, 22 June 2020 (UTC)

Location of the hum in Times Square, New York City

... that the hum has been heard in Times Square (location pictured) since 2002?
... that George Brian Sinclair worked on British thermonuclear weapons tests, the Channel Tunnel, and a Korean sewer system?
... that for generations, black parents in the United States have felt compelled to instruct their children about how to de-escalate encounters with the police?
... that the Central Asian riparian woodlands ecoregion features shrubby vegetation known as tugai, which adapts to the region's extremely hot summers and cold winters?
... that former GlaxoSmithKline executive Moncef Slaoui is chief adviser to Operation Warp Speed, which aims to deliver 300 million doses of a vaccine for COVID-19 by January 2021?
... that over ground workers act as the "eyes and ears of the underground militants" in Jammu and Kashmir?
... that Günther Massenkeil, editor of an eight-volume music encyclopedia, initiated the restoration of the village organ he had played as a prisoner of war in Alsace decades earlier?
... that production of Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story was delayed by a monsoon and the director having a heart attack, then sped up following an extortion attempt by the Chinese mafia?

21 June 2020

12:00, 21 June 2020 (UTC)

Deep-sea Antipathes dendrochristos

... that when boiled in milk, black coral (example pictured) emits a faint scent of myrrh?
... that St Mary's Church, Rolleston on Dove, is unusual in having the public entrance on its north side, the southern entrance being reserved for the Mosley family?
... that professional Super Smash Bros. player Samsora performed a runway walk while cosplaying as the character he competes with, Princess Peach, at a tournament in 2019?
... that an eruption in the Hakkōda Mountains could create volcanic mudflows that might inundate large sections of the Japanese cities of Aomori and Towada?
... that after Joanna Jordan left her job at the Late Show with David Letterman to start a talent agency, the show became her first client?
... that in A World Without Jews, Alon Confino argues that "the messianic struggle to create a Nazi civilization depended on the extermination of the Jews"?
... that Northern Irish goalkeeper Alan Mannus refused to face the flag of the Republic of Ireland at the 2019 FAI Cup Final because he is not Irish?
... that during a 1977 blackout, crews filming Superman: The Movie at the Daily News Building lent their Klieg lights to Daily News editors so that the next day's issue could be published?

00:00, 21 June 2020 (UTC)

The Great Lunacy Case of Mr. W. F. Windham (1862)

... that William Frederick Windham (depicted) was the subject of the longest and most expensive lunacy case in English history?
... that Megacephalosaurus was one of the last known pliosaurs and coexisted with some of the earliest mosasaurs?
... that when the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba discussed the speed limit, Toby Sexsmith remarked that nobody, with the possible exception of the premier, needed to travel faster than 50 mph (80 km/h)?
... that The Cincinnati Enquirer commended makers of the 1950 film Again Pioneers for basically telling the Protestant churches that sponsored the production that they "are not doing their jobs"?
... that the Corn Exchange in Chichester has also been used as a cinema and a McDonald's?
... that Niya was the Polish god of the underworld?
... that after a 2016 prison break by suspected terrorists, the government of Madhya Pradesh called on the Central Industrial Security Force to review the security of its jails?
... that the titular antagonist in the Chinese short story "Hu Dagu" is based on a toilet spirit?

20 June 2020

12:00, 20 June 2020 (UTC)

C. brasiliensis, a species
in the C. major complex

... that vestigial organs in the Brazilian Callichirus major population (example species pictured) suggest Callichirus may be the only crustacean genus with basal, yet not universal, hermaphroditism?
... that a reviewer praised child star Jane Withers's expressiveness in the title role of Paddy O'Day, saying that she "talks with eyes, hands, feet and hair"?
... that Munster Technological University, scheduled to open in 2021, will be only the second university of its type in Ireland?
... that excavations for the Steinway Tunnel expanded a reef in the East River into an island?
... that Swedish ballerina Nikisha Fogo's parents owned the first hip-hop dance school in Sweden?
... that a state representative called Boston's Silver Line buses "discrimination against people of color", owing to their poor service compared to the elevated metro line they replaced?
... that the election of Giacomo dalla Torre as the grand master of the Order of Malta in 2018 marked the first time that female members participated in the vote for a new leader?
... that the Unicode characters ☕, ☔, and ⚡ were originally proposed by North Korea?

00:00, 20 June 2020 (UTC)

Loyola's Vic Rouse
shoots over Mississippi
State's Aubrey Nichols

... that in 1963, a majority-black Loyola-Chicago team and an all-white Mississippi State team defied segregationists to play a historic college basketball game (pictured)?
... that Sir Hereward Wake, 13th Baronet, preserved the keep of Dover Castle from possible loss to fire by giving it to the Office of Works?
... that Fonner Park in Grand Island, Nebraska, was described as having become "the center of the horse racing world" during the COVID-19 pandemic?
... that in Nepal, it is against the law to beg?
... that motorsport champion Ashley Freiberg does cyclo-cross, hiking, rock climbing, and skate skiing in the mountains of Vermont to prepare for auto racing events?
... that before the passage of India's anti-defection law, an estimated 550 out of 3,500 legislators elected in 1967 defected from their parent parties, some crossing the floor more than once?
... that Layla Saad's 2020 book Me and White Supremacy originated from an Instagram challenge?
... that an American politics podcast has said that "if you sleep on a mattress on the floor and fuck in a sleeping bag, then you just might be the dirtbag left"?

19 June 2020

12:00, 19 June 2020 (UTC)

Crown House in 2015

... that the local council voted against listing Crown House (pictured), the first building in St Leonards-on-Sea, criticising its "out-of-date design" and "fake Greek architecture"?
... that professional Super Smash Bros. player Maister went from being unranked to being considered the sixth-best Super Smash Bros. Ultimate player in only six months?
... that Barracuda is home to the longest-running bar show in New York City, which may have inspired RuPaul's Drag Race?
... that Jem Bendell's paper Deep Adaptation argues that neither a complete halt in emissions nor geoengineering can prevent what he sees as an impending climate apocalypse?
... that Brad Ashford described the film Forrest Gump as "a travelogue of my early life"?
... that the Space Shuttle used autogenous pressurization to keep its external fuel tank pressurized after engine ignition?
... that Polish philosopher Bronisław Bandrowski was trapped in the Tatra Mountains for days, but had already hurled himself into an abyss when rescuers arrived?
... that NATO has its own anthem?

00:00, 19 June 2020 (UTC)

Gil Scott-Heron

... that the 1970 spoken-word poem "Whitey on the Moon" by Gil Scott-Heron (pictured) critiques the Moon landings carried out by the United States?
... that St Anselm's Church, Pembury, a Catholic church for former Anglicans, once used an altar on wheels?
... that North Texas was invited to play in the 2016 Heart of Dallas Bowl despite having a losing record?
... that Monita Rajpal, whose first job out of college was as a receptionist, has interviewed Mikhail Gorbachev, Vicente Fox, Al Gore, Tom Ford, and I. M. Pei?
... that the male giant glass frog has a hooked spur on his upper arm which is used when fighting rivals?
... that the 1980s American manufacturer Parallel Computers, Inc., was part of a wave of new companies trying to make fault-tolerant systems?
... that Abu Said Faraj instigated Ceuta to declare independence from the Marinid Sultanate in 1304, only to conquer the city for Granada two years later?
... that future government minister Alistair Burt attended the A Question of Europe debate wearing a beret, a striped shirt, and a string of onions?

18 June 2020

12:00, 18 June 2020 (UTC)

Fonthill Casket, from the Khalili Collection of Spanish metalwork

... that Plácido Zuloaga trained more than two hundred artists to make damascened artworks (example pictured)?
... that a group of escaped German prisoners established a short-lived Nazi state in the Dutch East Indies?
... that in the 1980s, textile conservator Martand Singh organized a series of exhibitions to rekindle interest in the weaving and dyeing traditions of India?
... that the Laguna Creek watershed debouches into the San Francisco Bay near the site of the ghost town of Drawbridge?
... that the board of directors of Canadian cooperative television station CFVO-TV refused to accept the resignation of its president so that he could negotiate a loan?
... that the abduction of the Georgian demoness Samdzimari and her subsequent conversion to goddess may have been derived from the Christian story of Saint George and the Dragon?
... that the composition of the 1st Wyoming Territorial Legislature was entirely Democratic?
... that the Soviet Union women's national rugby union team bartered smuggled vodka and caviar to cover their living expenses at the 1991 Women's Rugby World Cup?

00:00, 18 June 2020 (UTC)

Depiction of the 1831 Bristol riots

... that Bristol mayor Charles Pinney was tried before the King's Bench for his actions during the 1831 riots in the city (depicted)?
... that a member of the U.S. Congress referred to the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act as "one of the worst pieces of legislation Congress has passed in a generation"?
... that Gérard de Nerval thought his poems from the cycle The Chimeras would "lose their charm" if they were explained?
... that the All India Conference of Indian Christians was opposed to the partition of India?
... that in the early years of Montana radio station KGHL, some musical groups had to perform on the roof of the studio building?
... that coal from Turkey fuelled the first submarine in history to fire a torpedo while submerged?
... that the Film Development Board of Nepal refused to issue a production license to Gaja Baja because the title alluded to marijuana?
... that a former school band teacher became the Archbishop of Winnipeg?

17 June 2020

12:00, 17 June 2020 (UTC)

Australasian gannet

... that Nigel, nicknamed "the world's loneliest gannet" (species pictured), attempted to mate with a concrete decoy bird on Mana Island, New Zealand?
... that Joseph M. Carey lost reelection to the United States Senate with zero votes to Francis E. Warren due to his opposition to the free silver movement?
... that Road Rash II is reportedly "the first game in which you could actually beat, and get beaten by, a cop"?
... that the drama The Undivine Comedy has been recognized as one of the most significant works of literature of the Polish Romantic period?
... that Swedish composer Harald Fryklöf, "who had hardly ever known a day's illness in his life", died from the Spanish flu at the age of 36?
... that the Keweenaw Brewing Company's most popular beer gets its "widow maker" nickname from a dangerous drill once used to mine copper?
... that both the white-bellied woolly mouse opossum and the Fernando Po swift are named after the British architectural historian and philanthropist Constance Sladen?
... that the East York Lyndhursts' loss to the Russians in ice hockey was "a national calamity, a national humiliation, and a mortifying experience"?

00:00, 17 June 2020 (UTC)

Skittles

... that purple Skittles (assortment pictured) are grape-flavored in the United States because of a long-standing ban on blackcurrant production?
... that Ján Vojtaššák, deputy chairman of the Slovak parliament when it approved the deportation of Jews from Slovakia, is being considered for beatification?
... that The Little Players performed invitation-only puppet shows out of a New York City living room for over 25 years?
... that after the king of Kachar died whilst invading the Pratapgarh Kingdom, his widow Kamala commanded its conquest herself to avenge him?
... that the #VivaTaiwan campaign started when a letter to Brazilian parliamentarians from the Chinese embassy in Brasília was leaked online?
... that Jitse Groen founded Takeaway.com while still a student, after being unable to get a takeaway delivered to North Holland?
... that the 1925 FA Cup Final was the first in the competition's history to feature a Welsh team?
... that a well-preserved ghost town lies intact at the bottom of an Arizona lake?

16 June 2020

12:00, 16 June 2020 (UTC)

Walkiria Terradura

... that Walkiria Terradura (pictured) was a member of the Italian resistance movement during World War II and a specialist in blowing up bridges?
... that the former seal of Zion, Illinois, was ruled unconstitutional because it contained the phrase "God reigns"?
... that Chelsea F.C.'s loss in the 1988 Football League Second Division play-off Final triggered football hooliganism that injured 45 people?
... that Olga Yurievskaya, a daughter of Alexander II of Russia and Princess Catherine Dolgorukova, was legitimated by her parents' morganatic marriage?
... that in a promotional stunt, staff at Cincinnati-area radio station WIZF demanded a 40-percent raise, which turned out to refer to a 40-foot (12 m) increase in the height of the station's antenna?
... that while lente insulin is no longer approved for use in humans in the United States, it is still used commonly in cats and dogs with diabetes?
... that Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman developed the plot of their 1936 play Stage Door while cycling side by side?
... that a Pony on YouTube creates make-up tutorials for millions of subscribers?

00:00, 16 June 2020 (UTC)

La Parka Jr.

... that La Parka Jr. (pictured) won the Mexican National Cruiserweight Championship, relinquished the title when he changed his ring name, then won it again under his new name?
... that the hymn "Praise, my soul, the King of heaven", sung at the wedding of Princess Elizabeth, now Queen Elizabeth II, was written by Henry Francis Lyte, who also wrote the well-known "Abide with Me"?
... that Hungarian émigré Frank Varga followed in his father's footsteps to become a noted sculptor?
... that Singaporean authorities hope that the Mandai Wildlife Bridge will reduce the risk of animals such as Sunda pangolins and leopard cats becoming roadkill?
... that Arlington State College left the Texas A&M University System after 48 years to join the University of Texas System?
... that the annual film festival in Kigali is known as "Hillywood"?
... that William Jefferson Hardin was the first black member of the Wyoming House of Representatives?
... that the small frog Cochranella nola has yellow intestines, a green tongue, and dark green bones?

15 June 2020

12:00, 15 June 2020 (UTC)

The Burning of the United States steam frigate Missouri at Gibraltar, 1843

... that George Pechell Mends witnessed the burning of the steam frigate USS Missouri at Gibraltar on 26 August 1843, and his sketch was the basis for a painting by Edward Duncan (lithograph shown)?
... that during the COVID-19 pandemic, United Nations secretary-general António Guterres called for a global domestic violence "ceasefire"?
... that when sports journalist Andy O'Brien discovered John Landy bleeding in the locker room at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games, the runner swore him to secrecy?
... that Rob Wiethoff's work as John Marston in Red Dead Redemption lasted almost two years?
... that after logging their 199th win, Hendrick Motorsports had to wait for seven months and sixteen races before they won their 200th NASCAR Cup Series, with Jimmie Johnson at the wheel?
... that Casualty struggled to portray the open-air scenes from Episode 1067 as winter because passers-by were wearing summer clothing?
... that Susan Benesch, founder of the Dangerous Speech Project, advocates the use of "counterspeech" and humor against hate speech?
... that the 2018 Nepali comedy-drama Mr. Virgin was criticised for its title?

00:00, 15 June 2020 (UTC)

Psilocybe semilanceata

... that U.S. advocates for the decriminalization of psilocybin (species pictured) have cited ongoing research on its use in treating depression and nicotine dependence?
... that Luis Ocaña won the Orcières-Merlette stage of the 1971 Tour de France, beating the 1970 champion, Eddy Merckx, by more than eight minutes?
... that Roland Tan, the most-wanted fugitive in Singapore, remained at large for 50 years until his death in April 2020 in Denmark?
... that Massachusetts's Question 3 was the first U.S. ballot measure to ban the sale of animal products such as eggs and pork from intensively confined animals?
... that the history of nursing's pinning ceremony dates back to the Knights Hospitaller in the 12th century?
... that Fumio Tajima published a paper described as among the "founding papers of modern population genetics" the same year he submitted his doctoral dissertation?
... that the text of the hymn "Was mein Gott will, das g'scheh allzeit" was written by Albert, Duke of Prussia, while the tune came from a secular French song?
... that when the National City Bank of New York moved to 55 Wall Street in 1908, messengers carried the bank's $500 million holdings across the street in leather satchels?

14 June 2020

12:00, 14 June 2020 (UTC)

Tilly Bébé with lions in 1905

... that Tilly Bébé (pictured), a pioneer in the docile training of predators, starred with her lions in a silent film of a genre described as "exotic-erotic-escapist"?
... that Systime Computers, based in Leeds, was once Britain's second largest computer manufacturer?
... that in qualifying for the 1987 World Snooker Championship, Jimmy van Rensberg had a suspected heart attack, but returned to win his match?
... that Jim Lander graduated from Lander University?
... that the Elected Authorities (Northern Ireland) Act 1989 requires Northern Irish election candidates to sign a declaration that they will not support terrorism in word or deed?
... that Homo ergaster may have been the first species of archaic humans to control fire?
... that Jane Bell, one of the original occupants of Bell Cottage, was found guilty of concealing a birth and became the first European woman to be incarcerated on Rottnest Island?
... that "Ode to the Mets" is not actually an ode to the Mets, despite being written following a Mets game?

00:00, 14 June 2020 (UTC)

Exit ramp going through the Gate Tower Building

... that an exit ramp (pictured) of the Ikeda Route in Osaka passes through the Gate Tower Building, taking up part of the building's fifth, sixth, and seventh floors?
... that Gisele Bündchen thinks that the reason she was audited by the Internal Revenue Service was because of her regular top placing on a Forbes magazine high-earners list?
... that a proposed Jewish unit in the Polish Armed Forces in the Soviet Union was described as a "moral victory" for Nazism?
... that a song from the Kris Kristofferson album The Silver Tongued Devil and I is referenced in the film Taxi Driver?
... that British educator Thomas Lucas created an embossed shorthand to teach the blind to read by touch around 1830–1832, before the introduction of braille in the UK?
... that Siamosaurus, a large bipedal carnivore from the Early Cretaceous of Thailand, is the first crocodilian-like dinosaur named from Asia?
... that legislation for a Hong Kong national security law was attempted during both the SARS and COVID-19 epidemics?
... that Irene Triplett, who died in May 2020, was the last recipient of a pension from the American Civil War of 1861–1865?

13 June 2020

12:00, 13 June 2020 (UTC)

Gold-striped frog

... that the gold-striped frog (pictured) sometimes breeds inside an active nest of leafcutter ants?
... that H. M. Hook, the first mayor of Cheyenne, Wyoming, drowned while searching for silver mines?
... that Singaporean authorities hope that the Mandai Wildlife Bridge will reduce the risk of animals such as Sunda pangolins and leopard cats becoming roadkill?
... that Fannie Flagg set her 2010 comedy-mystery novel I Still Dream About You in Birmingham, Alabama, because she wanted "to write a Valentine to my hometown"?
... that Temple Memorial Park, named after Archbishop of Canterbury William Temple, was given to the people of South Shields in recognition of their military contributions at sea in World War II?
... that Martin Luther King Jr. used the phrase "justice too long delayed is justice denied" in his Letter from Birmingham Jail?
... that the song "Running", which was set to represent Cyprus in the Eurovision Song Contest 2020, was sung by a German-born singer of Greek and American ancestry?
... that the Northern Irish historian A. T. Q. Stewart once said that Irish history was "too short, too narrow, upside down and it leans all over to one side"?

00:00, 13 June 2020 (UTC)

SS Dongola

... that one hundred years ago, Frank William North brought his congregation home from Russia on the SS Dongola (pictured)?
... that the recording of the Bon Iver song "iMi" took five years and nearly 30 collaborators to complete?
... that the University of Cologne awards an annual gender equality prize in honor of Jenny Gusyk, who became the school's first female and first foreign student when it was re-established in 1919?
... that fever hospitals, for infectious patients, were once the most common type of hospital in England and Wales?
... that a room in the Nebuta Museum in Aomori, Japan, is darkened so the floats on display can be illuminated as they are during the city's annual summer festival?
... that missionary and author Lucy Goodale Thurston survived a mastectomy without anaesthetic in 1855?
... that one Labour MP said that the result of the 2016 Sleaford and North Hykeham by-election could foreshadow an "electoral disaster" for the party?
... that Biff Pocoroba endeared himself with Atlanta Braves fans despite the team's poor performance, partly because they liked "the sound of his name"?

12 June 2020

12:00, 12 June 2020 (UTC)

Portia White

... that after joining her father's church choir at the age of six, contralto Portia White (pictured) grew up to become the first Black Canadian concert singer to achieve international fame?
... that Blackrocks Brewery was created by two unemployed pharmaceutical salesmen?
... that in medieval Tutbury, Staffordshire, minstrels chased a bull that, if caught, could be eaten or exchanged for forty pennies?
... that William G. King Jr. explored and surveyed islands where downrange stations were subsequently established as part of the Eastern Test Range?
... that the hills of Hárshegy offer commanding views of Budapest?
... that some types of incitement to terrorism are constitutionally protected in the United States?
... that Béla Bartók mixed and matched selections from his Eight Hungarian Folksongs in performance?
... that President Ulysses S. Grant planned but failed to annex the Dominican Republic from his summer cottage?

00:00, 12 June 2020 (UTC)

Heuglin's gazelle

... that Heuglin's gazelle (illustrated), reportedly last seen in Eritrea over a century earlier during Italian colonial rule, was sighted again in the country last year?
... that the railings on Santa Cruz de Tenerife's Galcerán Bridge were replaced in 1954 to reduce the number of suicides?
... that Héctor D. Abruña's outreach efforts resulted in 15 out of 55 graduates of his Cornell University electrochemistry research group coming from Puerto Rico, like Abruña himself?
... that during the Paris Peace Conference, Czechoslovak politicians claimed that their country was tolerant, even as anti-Jewish violence was ongoing?
... that the Portland Streetcar's Loop Service enabled the production of the first U.S.-built streetcars in nearly 60 years?
... that there has been a Galleon inn on the same site as the current Spanish Galleon in Greenwich, England, since the 17th century?
... that the Taungtha, an unrecognized ethnic group of Myanmar, claim descent from the Pyu during the reign of the legendary King Thamoddarit of Pagan?
... that a June 2015 performance of the 1999 Smash Mouth song "All Star" went awry when audience members began throwing loaves of bread onto the stage?

11 June 2020

12:00, 11 June 2020 (UTC)

James Dunn in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

... that five years after the major film studios branded him "unemployable", James Dunn (pictured) was cast as the dreamy alcoholic father in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and won an Academy Award?
... that the Cyfarthfa Band was conducted by a circus musician and his son?
... that New York City's Equitable Building, completed just before the 1916 Zoning Resolution, was described as being "more famous for what it caused than what it is"?
... that Ottilie Baader was one of the founders of the first trade union organization for women in Germany?
... that after the former church of San Sebastiano in Verona was bombed in 1945, its façade was relocated to San Nicolò all'Arena?
... that the opera The Devil in Love by Alexander Vustin took 15 years to be completed and 30 more years to be premiered, debuting at the centenary of a Moscow theatre?
... that the Church of England expected to distribute a few hundred millennium yews, but ended up sending out 8,000?
... that the Hotel Adams, Phoenix's first luxury hotel, burned to the ground in 1910, leaving the territorial governor homeless?

00:00, 11 June 2020 (UTC)

Drużbart card

... that Drużbart, named after its second-highest card (shown), was the favourite card game of Polish novelist Count Henryk Rzewuski?
... that more than 3 million people have downloaded the COVID Symptom Study app in the UK and the US?
... that mezzo-soprano Grace Hoffman from Cleveland appeared as Brangäne in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde at the Bayreuth Festival in 1957 and 1970?
... that defending champion Francisco Bustamante was reportedly distracted by a press photographer at the 2011 WPA World Nine-ball Championship and lost in a knockout round?
... that despite suffering from vertigo, actor Bob Barrett performed his own stunt on the hospital rooftop in the Holby City episode "Man Down"?
... that the Besser Museum for Northeast Michigan houses the Katherine V, believed to be the last intact wooden fishing tug built to harvest the freshwater fish of the Great Lakes?
... that the Old Church of Siġġiewi was used for agricultural purposes until 2007?
... that despite being shortsighted and nearly deaf, Rodger Young saved his platoon from an enemy ambush, for which he was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor?

10 June 2020

12:00, 10 June 2020 (UTC)

MetLife Tower with lantern in fog

... that the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower (pictured) was used in its namesake's advertising as "The Light That Never Fails"?
... that the name "Hashub", mentioned in the Hebrew Bible in the Book of Nehemiah, was found on a piece of pottery contemporary to Nehemiah at the archaeological site of Tel Zeton, Israel?
... that a version of Alexander Calder's hanging mobile Snow Flurry sold for more than $10 million in 2012?
... that Cliff Wilson won his first professional snooker title at the age of 57?
... that during World War II, the Fremantle Fortress protected the second-most important Allied submarine base in the Pacific Theatre?
... that Ferdinand Zellbell the Younger was the only co-founder of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music who was a professional musician?
... that cattle and deer sometimes stand under trees where southern plains gray langurs are feeding in order to consume the edible pieces that the monkeys drop?
... that a comedian was jailed for his negative video review of the 2019 Nepali romantic comedy Bir Bikram 2?

00:00, 10 June 2020 (UTC)

Painted and gilded bowl by Yabu Meizan, c. 1910

... that Yabu Meizan's success as a porcelain artist (work pictured) inspired a rival workshop to sell imitations under his name?
... that the Battle of Mine Creek was one of the largest battles between mounted cavalry during the American Civil War?
... that Roald Dahl became an advocate of vaccination after his eldest daughter died from measles, saying that it was "almost a crime to allow your child to go unimmunized"?
... that the New York City Subway's 7 train has been nicknamed the "International Express" due to the ethnic diversity of communities on its route?
... that for the centenary of Stravinsky's birth, Zoltán Peskó conducted three of the composer's stage works—The Flood, Renard, and Mavra—directed by Peter Ustinov at La Scala?
... that the book Do You Remember Kunan Poshpora? has been described as demonstrating the ability of Kashmiri women to tell their own story and resist oppression?
... that after lying on the seafloor for nearly 100 years, the schooner Alvin Clark was noted as "the finest preserved historic vessel in the United States"?
... that a 2006 German documentary attempted to answer the question "Do communists have better sex?"

9 June 2020

12:00, 9 June 2020 (UTC)

Thatbyinnyu Temple

... that King Sithu I of Burma founded and donated "boatloads of rubies" to the Thatbyinnyu Temple (pictured) in Bagan?
... that during World War II, Royal Air Force ace Thomas Wallace lost his commission but nonetheless joined the volunteer reserve, where he downed seven enemy aircraft in three weeks?
... that the historic Modern Art Foundry operates in what used to be the carriage house of the Steinway Mansion in New York City?
... that Lisa Piccirillo solved a half-century-old mathematics problem in less than a week during her free time in graduate school?
... that members of the Infrastructure Client Group account for 40 per cent of all spending on infrastructure in the United Kingdom?
... that food writer Vir Sanghvi called Indigo "one of the most important establishments in Indian restaurant history"?
... that the Alpha Michigan Brewing Company describes its location as the "smallest village in America with a brewery"?
... that Irish milliner Philip Treacy said of the controversy surrounding his "pretzel hat" for Princess Beatrice, "I thought I would find myself with my head on a spike outside the Tower of London"?

00:00, 9 June 2020 (UTC)

Marie Bernays

... that German politician and activist Marie Bernays (pictured) joined a convent and converted to Catholicism in 1933 in response to the rise of Nazism?
... that although the people involved in the shooting of Ahmaud Arbery were immediately identified by police, arrests were only made 74 days later, after a video of the incident was publicized?
... that the Open Ice Summit led to fundamental changes in how Canadian ice hockey players were trained?
... that the first mayor of Mountlake Terrace, Washington, lent the city $5 to file its incorporation charter?
... that after an aeroplane hijacking, the Central Industrial Security Force was given the responsibility of securing airports in India?
... that following its limited release in 1972, Cisco Pike was not available on home media until 2006?
... that Yinka Jegede-Ekpe, the first Nigerian woman to go public with her HIV-positive status, later gave birth to a healthy, HIV-negative baby girl?
... that the Equitable Life Building, once described as fireproof, was destroyed by a massive fire?

8 June 2020

12:00, 8 June 2020 (UTC)

Ambay pumpwood

... that the presence of the beetle Coelomera ruficornis on its host tree (pictured) is tolerated by the ant Azteca alfari, but not by the ant Azteca muelleri?
... that 20-year-old Alejandro Cruz won the 1988 Chicago Marathon after being selected as an emergency replacement for Mauricio González?
... that the American merchant ship Herald served in the U.S. Navy against France before becoming a French privateer, was sold to Britain as a slaver, and ended her days as a West Indiaman?
... that the Cranbrook Strict Baptist Chapel was converted from two cottages?
... that the documentary Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness includes an appearance by Aleichem's granddaughter Bel Kaufman, who was 100 years old at the time of filming?
... that Nottingham Castle was set on fire during the 1831 reform riots?
... that Ludwig Strecker was both director of the Schott music publishing house, and under a pen name the librettist of two of the most successful German contemporary operas of the 1930s?
... that the Medford branch had 21 daily round-trip passenger trains in 1906, but carried just a single carload of fish in 2010?

00:00, 8 June 2020 (UTC)

Pinhas Rutenberg caricatured in Punch on 7 June 1922

... that only one hydroelectric plant was built on the Jordan River, out of the fourteen planned by Pinhas Rutenberg (depicted)?
... that the owner of Texas television station KFWT-TV questioned the use of a UNIVAC III computer to assign it a channel?
... that Ken Nightingall, an uncredited boom operator on Star Wars, was not mentioned in the citation for his sound team's Academy Award, but was still invited to Buckingham Palace with the winners?
... that the railway management building at Ankara Central Station, which served as a residence and headquarters for Mustafa Kemal Atatürk during the Turkish War of Independence, is now a museum?
... that Sophia Kianni was the youngest activist at a hunger strike and sit-in at U.S. speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's office?
... that the Vietnamese pop song "Ghen Cô Vy" was produced to educate people on how to avoid contracting COVID-19?
... that Pakistani amateur chef and vlogger Mubashir Saddique cooks with farm-fresh ingredients, earthenware pots, and a hand-built earthenware oven?
... that Bob Dylan's line "horseplay and disease is killing me by degrees" in "Where Are You Tonight? (Journey Through Dark Heat)" has been called the sound of a man who has hit the wall?

7 June 2020

12:00, 7 June 2020 (UTC)

Reginald Heber

... that "Holy, Holy, Holy! Lord God Almighty", written by future Anglican bishop Reginald Heber (depicted), was first published at a time when hymn singing was prohibited in Church of England liturgy?
... that J. Hartwell Harrison was the first surgeon to subject a patient to a major operation that was not for their own benefit?
... that during the 1990s, some British Army infantry battalions suffered such severe manpower shortages that they had to be reinforced by companies of Gurkhas?
... that production on the first season of The House of Flowers was shut down twice—after an earthquake injured one of the leads, and when a store objected to homosexual content being filmed there?
... that the San Antonio Municipal Archives contain the architectural plans for the Alamo?
... that sportswriter Zotique Lespérance was not invited to his own induction ceremony by the Hockey Hall of Fame because they had been misinformed that he had died?
... that D'Angelo spent several hours playtesting Red Dead Redemption 2 before being invited to write the song "Unshaken" for its original soundtrack?
... that during the COVID-19 pandemic, Polish police requested criminals to stop all criminal activities until further notice?

00:00, 7 June 2020 (UTC)

Primary Jain symbol

... that the ancient Indian religion Jainism (primary symbol pictured) holds that the universe was not created?
... that the grand marble staircase entrance to Sony Hall was restored in 2013, but painted to appear more dilapidated than it truly was?
... that Joe Davis, champion from 1927 to 1946, remains the only undefeated player at the World Snooker Championship?
... that medical supply company Prestige Ameritech offered to manufacture millions of N95 masks in January, but was rebuffed by the U.S. government?
... that "Ye Choirs of New Jerusalem" has been described as the "only medieval resurrection hymn still widely sung"?
... that the 1964 Elektron satellites, launched in pairs to simultaneously measure the upper and lower Van Allen belts, marked the first time multiple satellites were orbited on a single Soviet rocket?
... that Maria Paasche helped Jews and intellectuals escape Nazi Germany by taking them to Prague on her motorcycle?
... that American rapper 6ix9ine requested permission from a judge to record the music video for "Gooba" while under house arrest?

6 June 2020

12:00, 6 June 2020 (UTC)

Ping Yuen (foreground) in San Francisco

... that Ping Yuen (pictured), a public housing complex in San Francisco's Chinatown, has an entrance modeled after that of a temple in Beijing?
... that the 2019 romantic comedy Kabaddi Kabaddi Kabaddi set the record for the highest-grossing opening of a film in Nepal?
... that Frédéric Passy was challenged to a duel over the 1901 Nobel Peace Prize?
... that in 1947, Canadian children staged a nationwide candy bar protest against an increase in the price of chocolate bars from five to eight cents?
... that Ira L. Hanna, the 36th mayor of Cheyenne, Wyoming, served for only five months before being convicted for bribery?
... that cloth face masks are considered source control but they are not considered personal protective equipment?
... that Vonda McIntyre's 1973 short story "Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand", which won a Nebula Award, was used as the first chapter of her 1978 novel Dreamsnake, which also won a Nebula Award?
... that Hossein Kazempour Ardebili, Iran's former commerce minister and OPEC governor, once worked as a pizza delivery man in the U.S.?

00:00, 6 June 2020 (UTC)

Laura Judd and her daughter in 1850

... that American missionary Laura Fish Judd (pictured) taught a queen how to make dresses, co-founded the first school for Hawaiian children, and wrote about Hawaiian dining etiquette and cuisine?
... that ant gardens are cultivated by several species of ant, including Crematogaster carinata?
... that Oasis frontman Noel Gallagher discovered a song to release while under lockdown, which his brother called "not worth a wank"?
... that Sarah Fisher, the first woman to claim a pole position in American open-wheel racing, began competing at age five?
... that the Welsh fiscal deficit was higher than Greece's throughout the Greek government-debt crisis?
... that the Canadian film I've Heard the Mermaids Singing was the second production screened at 1987 film festivals to have a title taken from T. S. Eliot's poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"?
... that U.S. president Donald Trump dismissed five inspectors general in the space of six weeks?
... that in 1914, the Oxford historian L. G. Wickham Legg contributed to Why We Are at War: Great Britain's Case, then joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve?

5 June 2020

12:00, 5 June 2020 (UTC)

Culture of S. aureus

... that the colonial morphology of Staphylococcus species (culture pictured) is described as "creamy"?
... that American scholar of genocide Gregory Gordon believes that ordering war crimes or crimes against humanity should be criminalized, even if mass killing has not taken place?
... that the opera Doktor Johannes Faust by Hermann Reutter, which was premiered by the Oper Frankfurt in 1936, is based on a puppet play?
... that in the 1970s, Disney attempted to build a ski resort and mountain village at Independence Lake, a glacial lake high in California's Sierra Nevada mountains?
... that Julie Sauvé has coached Canadian, Brazilian, and Singaporean synchronized-swimming teams?
... that McDonald's lost over £20 million in its sale of The Aroma Cafe, the first non-American chain it had acquired to run as a separate brand?
... that the veterinarian Janina Oyrzanowska-Poplewska, whose work led to the creation of the first Polish canine distemper vaccine, has been honored as a Righteous Among the Nations?
... that the world's largest building by volume is an airplane factory in Everett, Washington?

00:00, 5 June 2020 (UTC)

Heinrich Schütz House

... that Heinrich Schütz House (pictured) in Bad Köstritz, the inn where composer Heinrich Schütz was born, is now a museum and concert venue?
... that Pierre Schlumberger ran the family business, was a "visionary" art collector, and hosted guests including Audrey Hepburn, Yves Saint Laurent, Andy Warhol, and Rudolf Nureyev?
... that The Biafra Story by Frederick Forsyth was reportedly one of the earliest eyewitness accounts of the Nigerian Civil War?
... that Tracy R. Norris, the first female commander of the Texas Military Department, has masters degrees from Florida State University, the University of Texas, and the United States Army War College?
... that London subsidized the rest of the UK by £38.6 billion in the 2016–17 fiscal year?
... that J. Leo Hafen was excommunicated from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for being associated with a religious group practicing wife sacrifice?
... that the banteng is the second endangered species to be successfully cloned, and the first clone to survive beyond infancy?
... that Peter the Great experienced "a riotous and revelling Christmas" in London in 1697?

4 June 2020

12:00, 4 June 2020 (UTC)

40 Wall Street

... that in 1940, 40 Wall Street (pictured) in New York City was worth less than its elevators had cost?
... that Hong Kong protestors have drawn analogies between Nazi Germany and China?
... that Cyrano de Bergerac by Eino Tamberg was the first opera to be broadcast internationally from Estonia?
... that American Atheists unsuccessfully sued the city of Austin, Texas, because they believed the city's flag violated the First Amendment?
... that according to Muslim sources, Muhammad IV of Granada was assassinated due to his alliance with Sultan Abu al-Hasan, while Christian sources say it was due to his closeness to King Alfonso XI?
... that My Name Is Han, a 1948 docudrama about Christian missionary work in China, was filmed on location near a war zone?
... that Bishnu Majhi is the highest-paid singer in Nepal?
... that the installation of a garbage-eating sculpture in Riverfront Park caused an uproar from goat farmers, concerned that it perpetuated the false stereotype that goats eat anything?

00:00, 4 June 2020 (UTC)

Airmail by Edwin Boyd Johnson

... that Airmail (pictured), a fresco featuring a barefoot and barechested flying mailman, was commissioned to commemorate one of the first American airmail facilities?
... that 414 Tank Battalion, a mixed Dutch-German military unit, has been described as a step towards a European army?
... that Oakland Athletics fans coined the chant "I believe in Stephen Vogt!", inspired by a similar U.S. men's national soccer team chant?
... that Keep was the most downloaded fitness app in China between July and September 2018, with 38.8 million downloads?
... that the B46 has been called "the most dangerous bus route" in New York City?
... that a monument in Moscow honoring North Vietnamese communist leader Ho Chi Minh has been nicknamed the "flying saucer monument" by locals?
... that Julian Wylie, known as the King of Pantomime, "never took to drink, he took to ice-cream"?
... that Florida radio station WEBY received three threats to blow it up if it did not stop criticizing the sheriff of Okaloosa County?

3 June 2020

12:00, 3 June 2020 (UTC)

San Francisco Bay Salt Ponds

... that the vivid colors of the San Francisco Bay Salt Ponds (pictured), ranging from magenta to blue-green, come from the brine shrimp and microorganisms that thrive in the water?
... that though formerly a vassal to the Mongol Empire, Eastern Xia was later destroyed by the Mongols because it rebelled against them?
... that visual anthropologist David MacDougall won the Grand Prix at the Venice Film Festival for his first film, To Live With Herds, about Uganda's Jie people?
... that many of the animals regarded as pests have co-evolved with humans, adapting to the warm, sheltered conditions that a building provides?
... that it took three years to construct a subway line to 86th Street in New York City, and another nine years to extend it by one stop to 95th Street?
... that Jeffrey Herf found that East Germany delivered 750,000 Kalashnikov rifles to countries and militants as part of what he calls "undeclared wars with Israel"?
... that doctor Carl K. Becker responded to emergency calls in the Ituri Rainforest until the age of 70?
... that after the 1973 Chilean coup d'état, Admiral José Toribio Merino described ousted President Salvador Allende's GAP security force as "Disney-movie style ... kids playing bandits"?

00:00, 3 June 2020 (UTC)

Jagdschloss Kranichstein in 1852

... that Jagdschloss Kranichstein (depicted), a hunting lodge built by the landgraves of Darmstadt, served as a temporary residence for Louis IV and his wife Princess Alice?
... that journalist James Edwin Baum hunted big game in Africa for the Field Museum of Natural History?
... that Nakano Broadway in Tokyo, founded as a luxury shopping complex in 1966, became a destination for anime and manga fans in the 1980s?
... that first overall draft pick Nicolas Roy refused to play in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League unless his rights were traded to a Quebec team?
... that the Pulitzer Prize–winning opera The Central Park Five includes a role for Donald Trump?
... that Ipsita Biswas led the team that developed less-lethal plastic bullets for crowd control in Jammu and Kashmir?
... that Black Cap Mountain can be seen from both Bangor, Maine, and the sea?
... that TORPEDO, BATMAN, CASANOVA, ATLANTIS, and ISIS are all names of clinical trials?

2 June 2020

12:00, 2 June 2020 (UTC)

Blue calamintha bee

... that scientists were unsure whether the blue calamintha bee (pictured) still existed until it was observed again in March 2020?
... that Servaas Theron, a World War II fighter pilot, landed next to a stranded aircraft and siphoned fuel from his plane so that they could both fly away?
... that in 2016, Scientific American listed one of Lynden Archer's discoveries among their top-10 "world changing ideas" for that year?
... that Tamil Nadu was the first state in India to use green corridors to expedite organ transplants?
... that between 1857 and the 1930s, a Russian gun captured during the Crimean War was displayed on the Hastings seafront near Pelham Arcade?
... that the Protestant Film Commission was founded partly in response to the sympathetic portrayal of Catholics in Hollywood films of the 1940s, while Protestants were played for laughs?
... that the world's longest domestic flight, between Papeete, Tahiti, and Paris, France, a distance of 9,765 miles (15,715 km), came about because of the COVID-19 pandemic?
... that the Lincoln Legion of Lesbians, a lesbian separatist collective in Nebraska, tried to outlaw anti-gay discrimination in 1980?

00:00, 2 June 2020 (UTC)

Javier Bardem

... that Javier Bardem (pictured) is the first Spanish actor to win an Academy Award, which he won for his performance in No Country for Old Men?
... that four prominent Republicans have endorsed a Democrat for president in 2020?
... that despite being a member of the cat family, the jaguarundi has several features in common with mustelids such as otters and weasels?
... that American tenor Scot Weir sang Hans Zender's contemporary version of Schubert's Die Winterreise with chamber orchestra in a performance of the Hamburg Ballet?
... that the Ospedale di San Carlo was the first Italian military hospital in Rome?
... that gays and lesbians began using the pink triangle in the 1970s to counter "the vicious, influential myth" of a connection between Nazism and homosexuality?
... that the Cork band Five Go Down to the Sea? are widely credited for the often quirky and deadpan approach of Cork bands that followed in the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s?
... that the day before a gas explosion on Staten Island killed 40 people, company officials described residents as "hysterical" for raising concerns about storing gas near residential areas?

1 June 2020

12:00, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

Rouen bust of Apollo, c. 1730

... that after 250 years of production, the Rouen faience industry (example pictured) was greatly reduced in the 1790s by competition from English creamware?
... that Shannon Hale gave her publisher the sequel novel Princess Academy: Palace of Stone instead of the sci-fi novel she had a contract to write?
... that in 1324, Ismail I of Granada likely directed the first use of cannons in the Iberian Peninsula?
... that an extension of the New York City Subway to Broad Street station cost three times the normal price of construction at the time, due to its location in the Financial District?
... that the members of the bands Poppin'Party and Roselia are voice actresses in the BanG Dream! anime series who can play their characters' instruments in live concerts?
... that a five-year-old boy, using paper and his mother's cigarette lighter, started a fire that consumed the transmitter of Florida radio station WEAR?
... that the origins of the modern hazmat suit can be traced to the use of PPE during the Manchurian plague of 1910–1911?
... that a Court of Minstrels, led by a King of the Minstrels, regulated the trade of travelling musicians in parts of the medieval English Midlands?

00:00, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

Junko Tabei

... that Japanese mountaineer Junko Tabei (pictured), the first woman to summit Mount Everest, created her own climbing equipment from scratch out of old curtains and the cover of her car?
... that stolen money was found at Newforge in what was believed to be an IRA plot to frame the Police Service of Northern Ireland?
... that several hymns for Pentecost in different languages are based on the 9th-century "Veni Creator Spiritus" ("Come, Creator Spirit")?
... that the City of Phoenix printed ballots on municipal water bills during a citywide vote for a logo for its new flag?
... that during the COVID-19 pandemic, Camille Combal hosted episodes of Qui veut gagner des millions ? – the French version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? – from his living room?
... that on the day she began filming her first starring role in Ginger, nine-year-old Jane Withers received congratulatory bouquets from W. C. Fields and President Franklin D. Roosevelt?
... that Lim Ban Lim, Singapore's most wanted fugitive, stole at least $2.5 million in his career but was found with only $1.40 on him when he was killed by police?
... that the City of Seattle was built in Philadelphia?