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30 June 2014

16:15, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

... that Philadelphia Phillies catcher Carlos Ruiz (pictured) earned the nickname "Señor Octubre" for his strong postseason performances?
... that seafarers have used the tower of Sweden's Rone Church as a navigational aid since the Middle Ages?
... that Jim Bartels resigned as curator of Honolulu's ʻIolani Palace after criticizing Abigail Kinoiki Kekaulike Kawānanakoa for sitting on one of the palace thrones?
... that the horned god Naigamesha was worshipped as the patron of childbirth?
... that Juozas Gabrys worked to liberate Lithuania, but became "virtually an unperson" in that country?
... that Carrie Underwood's 2012 single "Two Black Cadillacs" was certified Platinum by the RIAA, signifying US sales of at least 1 million units?
... that Sir Garrard Tyrwhitt-Drake, twelve-time mayor of Maidstone, England, kept lions, tigers and elephants on his estate?

03:40, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

... that in 1944 Romanian pathologist Francisc Rainer (pictured) correctly diagnosed himself with lung cancer, predicted the time of his death, and left instructions for his own embalming?
... that Millennium's composer Mark Snow praised the use of operatic music in the episode "Roosters"?
... that Colombian-American Orange Is the New Black actress Diane Guerrero's parents and older brother were deported to Colombia when she was 14 years old?
... that composer Heinrich Schütz published Psalmen Davids, including polychoral settings for many of the included psalms, on his wedding day?
... that Louis John Gill was the original architect of the San Diego Zoo?
... that Herbert Sears' father ran a fish and chip shop in Saskatoon and Herbert himself worked at a bakery before becoming the city's mayor?
... that Roma Abbey on Gotland has been the site of a medieval abbey, a crown estate manor, and a military base?

29 June 2014

16:00, 29 June 2014 (UTC)

... that London's Denmark Street (pictured), home to several music shops, is thought to have been named after Prince George of Denmark?
... that American Canadian scientist Jack Souther contributed significantly to the early understanding of Quaternary volcanism in Canada?
... that when the British Slavery Abolition Act 1833 compensated slave-owners, the largest single payment went to Tory Member of Parliament James Blair for his 1,598 slaves in British Guiana?
... that the action video game The Legend of Korra is intended to be visually indistinguishable from the animated TV series on which it is based?
... that more than thirty bird species inhabit the vicinity of Pennsylvania's Little Shickshinny Creek, including ten kinds of warbler?
... that VetUK, which has annual revenues of more than £10 million as of 2010, initially operated out of the living room of co-founder Iain Booth?
... that Brazilian striptease artist Luz del Fuego performed with live snakes?

08:00, 29 June 2014 (UTC)

... that in North America the red sauce for prawn cocktail (pictured) includes ketchup and horseradish?
... that a crossroad near Gujarat University, where Gujarati author Bholabhai Patel taught, is named after him?
... that the antebellum bestseller Cotton Plantation Record and Account Book taught plantation owners how to use modern cost accounting principles to measure the productivity of their slaves?
... that Keith Martin developed a technique for printing eye cells?
... that Gryta Church preserves paintings attributed to a student of Albertus Pictor?
... that Dr. Naim Dangoor lost everything when he left Ba'athist Iraq, then built another fortune in the UK, helped endow 4,000 student bursaries and donated over £1 million to Cancer Research UK?
... that the Chinese surnames Ji, Ji, and Ji are pronounced differently in Cantonese?

00:00, 29 June 2014 (UTC)

... that construction of the Riverview Theater (pictured) marked the beginning of a "theater-building orgy" in Minneapolis?
... that in 1966, parliamentarian Rungsung Suisa proposed confederation as a solution to the Indo–Naga conflict?
... that the yellow-green gas fluorine azide freezes to a highly explosive solid?
... that businessman turned political candidate Will Brooke described the Affordable Care Act as a "planned economy disaster"?
... that the disintegration of the Royal Yugoslav 4th Army during the Invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941 was caused largely by fifth column activity?
... that although deaconess Margaret Rodgers could not be ordained as a priest because of her gender, she was cited as "one of the most powerful people in the Anglican Diocese of Sydney"?
... that the name of the Debian operating system is a combination of the first names of its creator Ian Murdock and his then-girlfriend Debra?

28 June 2014

16:00, 28 June 2014 (UTC)

... that first the death, then resurrection, of foxhunting celebrity Charles Loraine Smith (pictured) were imagined in lighthearted verse while he was still very much alive?
... that Richard Strauss reportedly composed "Traum durch die Dämmerung" ("Dream in the Twilight"), from a love poem by Otto Julius Bierbaum, in 20 minutes?
... that Ivy Parker was the first woman to receive a PhD in chemistry from the University of Texas?
... that a special Detroit commuter train transported the CBS production crew from the Renaissance Center to Super Bowl XVI at the Pontiac Silverdome?
... that one of Hrithik Roshan's first acting roles was as the adopted son of Rajinikanth's character in the 1986 film Bhagwaan Dada?
... that The Saturday Evening Post claimed that efforts to extinguish the Carbondale mine fire would move more earth than the construction of the Panama Canal?

08:15, 28 June 2014 (UTC)

... that the Top 10 New Species of the past year include a 40 foot (12 m) tall tree (pictured), a crustacean that looks like a skeleton, a protist that acts like a sponge, and a fungus named after the King of the Netherlands?
... that American band Paramore's "Ain't It Fun" became their first song to reach the top 10 of the US Billboard Hot 100?
... that San Diego's civic celebration Fiesta del Pacifico featured a theatrical production billed as "the biggest non-movie spectacle ever produced anywhere"?
... that the fungus toxin aspergillomarasmine A is capable of inhibiting an antibiotic-resistance enzyme produced by superbugs?
... that the Left and Secular Alliance and BJP opposed each other in the 2014 Indian general election, but later sent a joint delegation to lodge a complaint with the Election Commission?
... that the star BH Crucis has become redder and (on average) brighter since it was discovered in 1969?
... that the Hindu elephant-headed god Ganesha may be depicted as a crawling infant eating sweets?

00:30, 28 June 2014 (UTC)

... that the University of Tübingen has a giant stone vagina (pictured) that weighs 32 tons?
... that art dealer Grace Nicholson designed the building that now houses the USC Pacific Asia Museum?
... that thirteen different political parties are represented in the 5th Democratic Parliament of South Africa?
... that Florence Stoney was the UK's first female radiologist and one of the first women doctors hired by the War Office in World War I?
... that in 2013 Malek Fahd Islamic School was the largest Islamic school in Australia?
... that the Indian communist politician L.B.G. Rao led guerrilla squads during the Telangana armed struggle?
... that wheelchair athlete Elaine Allard scaled Kala Patthar in the Himalayas?

27 June 2014

16:00, 27 June 2014 (UTC)

... that the Frankish Tower (pictured) on the Acropolis of Athens, part of the palace of the Frankish Dukes of Athens, was demolished in 1874 in what has been called "an act of vandalism"?
... that British airman Tom Rees was killed in the first official victory credited to German flying ace the Red Baron?
... that Charles Dickens' son was sent to Momba Station in Australia before his 16th birthday?
... that Buck's Fizz was invented at Buck's Club in London's Clifford Street?
... that Canadian politician Percy Klaehn was the high school coach of Ethel Catherwood, who won a gold medal in high jump at the 1928 Summer Olympics?
... that the plot of the 1901 film Kansas Saloon Smashers was based on an editorial cartoon?
... that the wife of former Saskatoon mayor Frederick Harrison shot him in the chest twice just to scare him?

08:00, 27 June 2014 (UTC)

... that after ordering the bombardment of Fort Sumter which started the American Civil War, General P. T. Beauregard watched the attack from the Edmondston-Alston House (pictured)?
... that Rita Cléos was the first actress filmed in a bathing scene on Brazilian TV?
... that Boniface of Verona, once a poor knight who sold his own castle to equip himself, became one of the richest lords of Frankish Greece?
... that the jaw of Exoglossum laurae is partially exposed because it is missing much of its lower lip?
... that Mekayla Diehl forgave the attacker who molested her as a child, and was the first woman of Native American descent to win Miss Indiana USA?
... that the lead character of the film Hemlock Hoax, the Detective had been a minor character in a rejected story?
... that super-yacht builder Jonathan Quinn Barnett also made model Klingon ships for Star Trek IV and renovated the Rubicon Estate Winery mansion for Francis Ford Coppola?

00:00, 27 June 2014 (UTC)

... that Mahaganapati (pictured) is a depiction of the Supreme Being?
... that the Huysman Gallery of Los Angeles closed after less than a year due to a controversial poster for its War Babies exhibition?
... that the French missionary and explorer Prosper Philippe Augouard was dubbed "Cannibal Bishop"?
... that the Soviet Armenian newspaper Kommunist became the opposition newspaper Golos Armenii in the 1990s?
... that Thakur Ganpat Singh was re-elected to the Ajmer Legislative Assembly with an increased margin, after his election had been declared void in 1953?
... that the 1967 song "Days of Pearly Spencer" features a "strange 'phoned-in' chorus"?
... that at the time, King William IV's public mourning of his son-in-law, the husband of his illegitimate daughter Lady Augusta FitzClarence, was considered scandalous?

26 June 2014

08:00, 26 June 2014 (UTC)

... that the blue band on the flag of Sierra Leone (pictured) represents the "natural harbour" of Freetown, the country's capital city?
... that Frozen is currently the highest-grossing animated film of all time, and the fifth highest-grossing film?
... that worshippers of Haridra Ganapati used to brand the image of the god on their palms?
... that Intermediate School 318's chess team was the first from a middle school to win the US high school championship, despite 87% of its members coming from families below the poverty line?
... that Lady Harriet Cavendish's marriage to Granville Leveson-Gower was arranged by her aunt, who had been his lover for seventeen years?
... that the Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party has favoured the creation of a Purvanchal state?
... that Swedish engineer Rudolf Fredrik Berg's brother was King Oscar II's medical doctor and had to attend at the king's deathbed, preventing him from visiting Rudolf who died on the same day?

00:00, 26 June 2014 (UTC)

... that on June 13 the Tsavo Trust reported that Satao, one of the world's largest African elephants, was killed in Tsavo East National Park (elephants pictured) by a poacher's poisoned arrow?
... that World War II French General Leclerc adopted his nom de guerre to avoid risk to his family in the event his missions appeared in the papers?
... that in 2004, Typhoon Nanmadol became the first December tropical cyclone to strike the island of Taiwan in 108 years of record-keeping?
... that the 19th-century Klabböle hydroelectric power plant in northern Sweden produced electricity until 1958, and is now a museum?
... that the South African concert pianist Adolph Hallis made the first complete recording of Debussy's Préludes, and wrote film scores for Alfred Hitchcock?
... that the courthouse on the public square in Shelbyville, Tennessee, is the successor to earlier courthouses that were destroyed by tornado, wartime misadventure, and a lynch mob?
... that 19th-century baseball player Count Campau could reportedly run the bases in 14 seconds, and once converted an infield popup into a home run?

25 June 2014

16:00, 25 June 2014 (UTC)

... that Jake Gyllenhaal (pictured) witnessed a murder during a drug bust while he was preparing for his role as a police officer in the film End of Watch?
... that Lehmann's poison frog is not toxic in captivity because its poison derives from food it eats only in the wild?
... that according to hip-hop artist Hopsin, his album Knock Madness was inspired by dissatisfaction with life and a need to "find" himself?
... that in 1991 the lone Communist Party of India (Marxist) member in the Orissa Legislative Assembly, Radhakanta Sethy, left the party?
... that rookie baseball player Martin Powell finished second to Cap Anson for the 1881 batting title, but retired three years later and died of consumption at age 31?
... that the Manche Ch'ol, a Maya people encountered by Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés in 1525, were nearly extinct by 1770?
... that Lew Bloom claimed to be the first stage tramp in show business, and later hoaxed descendants of Abraham Lincoln?

08:00, 25 June 2014 (UTC)

... that St. Joseph's Church (pictured) in Semarang, Indonesia, is the oldest Catholic church in the city?
... that Robert Galbreath, Jr., was called the "Oil King of the Southwest" after discovering and drilling the first productive wells in the Glenn Pool oil field, the largest in Oklahoma?
... that though many specimens of Saurolophus angustirostris have been found, it was not clearly differentiated as a separate species from Saurolophus osborni until 2011?
... that Chester Nez was the last of the original Navajo code talkers who served in World War II?
... that a river in Honduras swelled 15 meters (50 feet) above its normal level during torrential rains from a hurricane in 1935?
... that Dusari Goshta, a biopic on ex-Home Affairs minister Sushilkumar Shinde, was screened at the residence of the President of India?
... that developmental psychobiologist Jay S. Rosenblatt was described as the "father of mothering"?

00:00, 25 June 2014 (UTC)

... that the butter boletes, such as B. appendiculatus (pictured), are so named for their butter-yellow stalks and pores?
... that although the New York Giants signed Walt Nielsen in 1939, he spent that season with the minor-league Jersey City Giants, reportedly because of his hay fever?
... that Lili Bosse, the mayor of Beverly Hills, California, was sworn in by actor Sidney Poitier?
... that in 1936, residents of what is now San Juan de Santa Bárbara used sugarcane profits to buy their land from an Englishman?
... that Kiki Byrne designed the golden bikini worn by Margaret Nolan in the title sequence of the James Bond film Goldfinger?
... that the white-throated robin-chat is sometimes parasitised by the red-chested cuckoo?
... that Li Shaohong, a Chinese woman film director, joined the army at the age of 14?

24 June 2014

16:14, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

... that the nave of the Church of St Thomas, Thurstonland, England, contains an arch-braced hammerbeam roof (pictured)?
... that Romanian anatomist Grigore T. Popa's peasant parents sold their land to help finance his education?
... that Paul W. Tibbets IV is one of the few pilots qualified to fly the B-1, B-2 and the B-52?
... that Richard Burn, editor of the 1909 Imperial Gazetteer of India, wrote that it took years to decide on that work's form because the British Government in India worked so slowly?
... that, in Ontario, landowners who voluntarily protect an Area of Natural and Scientific Interest on their land can receive a property tax reduction?
... that in its recent ruling in R v Incedal and Rarmoul-Bouhadjar the Court of Appeal of England and Wales held it "difficult to conceive of a situation" justifying holding a criminal trial in full secrecy?
... that just after Frederick Federici sang the final note as Mephistopheles in Gounod's Faust, descending through a trap door to hell, he died?

08:30, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

... that the 1998 film Pride was controversial for its positive portrayal of Japanese prime minister Hideki Tōjō (pictured)?
... that more than 120 Jehovah's Witnesses objected to singing "God bless Africa" because they believed it suggests obeisance to the flag of Tanzania over God?
... that footballer Pavel Mareš played for the Czech Republic at UEFA Euro 2004?
... that Mellor's Gardens at Hough Hole House in Cheshire are themed on Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress?
... that at the time of her death, Satyavati Devi was India's oldest freedom fighter?
... that the Colt First Model Ring Lever rifle, produced in 1837 and 1838, was Samuel Colt's first manufactured firearm?
... that Ralph Siewert was the first seven-footer to play professional basketball?

00:45, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

... that Heather Willauer (pictured) is working to enable U.S. Navy warships to synthesize jet fuel from seawater?
... that Georgette Heyer intended her novel My Lord John to be the first in a trilogy featuring the House of Lancaster?
... that Sweden's richest man, Henry Dunker, willed his entire fortune to a foundation which subsequently funded many improvements to the city of Helsingborg?
... that the founder of All Saints Church, Scholar Green, Cheshire, died during its construction, and the church was completed and paid for by his son?
... that Susan Anderson was one of the first women to practice medicine in Colorado?
... that CCM Magazine called the debut album by Christian pop singer V. Rose an "upbeat pop production set to spiritually-grounded lyrics"?
... that in late Joseon society, commoner Korean women who had fulfilled their Confucian duty to produce a son bared their breasts in public as a sign of pride?

23 June 2014

13:50, 23 June 2014 (UTC)

... that Narendra Modi's swearing-in ceremony (pictured) was the first for an Indian Prime Minister to which the head-of-government of every SAARC country was invited?
... that Australian actor Taylor Glockner was cast as Boges in the television miniseries Conspiracy 365 just two weeks after graduating from drama school?
... that the Philadelphia 76ers plan to move their headquarters and practice facilities to the Camden Waterfront?
... that 19th-century American businessman Albert Heard was once the Russian consul general in Shanghai?
... that the cervix, which in adult women is much smaller than the rest of the uterus, is twice as large during childhood as the body of the uterus?
... that in 1938 the San Diego County Administration Center was dedicated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt before a crowd estimated as 25,000 people?
... that a soccer kick can cause serious injury?

05:35, 23 June 2014 (UTC)

... that the thousand-year-old bronze Bernward Column shows scenes from the life of Jesus (example pictured) arranged in a spiral similar to an arrangement on Trajan's Column?
... that Bob Leadley managed Major League Baseball teams in Detroit and Cleveland, and later lived in Mexico City as a fugitive from embezzlement charges?
... that as of April 2014, the rose rosette virus had killed at least two-thirds of the roses in the Tulsa Rose Garden?
... that Miss USA 2014 Nia Sanchez is a fourth degree black belt in taekwondo, and once worked at Hong Kong Disneyland?
... that the 12th-century baptismal font in Barlingbo Church carries runic inscriptions?
... that Nancy M. Hill, one of the first women physicians in the United States, founded a society to provide shelter and support for unwed mothers and their babies in Dubuque, Iowa?
... that the SAS is based in Australia?

22 June 2014

21:20, 22 June 2014 (UTC)

... that Katy Perry (pictured) is the first artist to spend 69 consecutive weeks in the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100?
... that 44 Dalits were burned to death in a hut in Kizhavenmani village of Tamil Nadu in 1968?
... that according to Thai history, Crown Prince Mingyi Swa of Burma is said to have been killed in single combat by King Naresuan of Siam?
... that the setting for Anne Rice's novel The Wolves of Midwinter is based on the Madewood Plantation House, where she once attended a Christmas dinner?
... that the isopod Anilocra pomacentri lives as an external parasite of the yellowback puller?
... that Revolutionary Socialist Party leader V. P. Ramakrishna Pillai served as Minister of Labour in Kerala between 1998 and 2001?
... that 55 Hudson Yards is set to be built on land previously intended for a cancelled 1,011-foot-tall (308 m) "World Product Center"?

07:25, 22 June 2014 (UTC)

... that the German Zeppelin Airship Works received most of the revenue from the sale of the 1930 Graf Zeppelin postage stamps (pictured), issued by the U.S. as a gesture of good will towards Germany?
... that Chief Zimmer set multiple catching records, was the first president of the Players' Protective Association, and invented a popular mechanical baseball game?
... that 3500 Jews from the Pińsk Ghetto and nearby Kobryn were murdered at Bronna Góra in June 1942?
... that the small Costa Rican town of Jesús de Santa Bárbara had separate schools for boys and girls as early as 1885?
... that there are nine species of fern in Stony Brook valley?
... that Sweden's medieval Läby Church was abandoned in 1890 but reopened in 1928?
... that the Cambridge boat sank during the 1978 University Boat Race?

21 June 2014

23:10, 21 June 2014 (UTC)

... that when Norman Heathcote climbed the St Kilda sea stack Stac Lee (pictured) in 1899, he found the climbing "comparatively easy" but getting ashore had been "a most appalling undertaking"?
... that Watford Gap services were a popular meeting place for rock bands such as the Beatles, The Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd?
... that Lapland school founder Maria Magdalena Mathsdotter turned to Erik Viktor Almquist to improve the rights of the Sami people?
... that the 1956 Hindi film Ek Hi Raasta was Dadasaheb Phalke Award winner B. R. Chopra's first film as producer under his banner B. R. Films?
... that Carlos Manuel Hoo Ramírez was arrested along with Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, once considered Mexico's most-wanted drug lord?
... that Uganda won the inaugural edition of the CECAFA Cup?
... that the Folketing used a cartoon featuring group sex to try to convince people to vote in the 2014 European Parliament election?

08:55, 21 June 2014 (UTC)

... that Treak Cliff Cavern (pictured) is one of only two remaining active sources of the ornamental mineral Blue John?
... that fashion designer Thea Porter's customers included Elizabeth Taylor, Princess Margaret, Mick and Bianca Jagger, and Lauren Bacall?
... that over ninety percent of the historic town of Manisa was burned down between 5 September and 8 September 1922?
... that in 1931, African-American obstetrician Ionia Rollin Whipper opened Washington, D.C.'s first home for unwed mothers that was not racially segregated?
... that during ancient China's Tang dynasty, Gong Shi allowed imperial eunuchs to purchase goods by force at very low prices?
... that K. Prasad Babu posthumously became the first police officer from the state of Andhra Pradesh to receive the Ashok Chakra Award, India's highest for peacetime gallantry?
... that Richard Nixon sent Home some dirt?

01:10, 21 June 2014 (UTC)

... that Medal of Honor recipient Audie Murphy (pictured) saw combat in nine WWII campaigns with the US Army, and was afterward an officer in the Texas National Guard for sixteen years?
... that book embeddings of graphs have been used to model fault-tolerant computer systems, the phases of traffic lights, and pseudoknots in RNA molecules?
... that Sami singer Jon Henrik Fjällgren won Talang Sverige 2014 with his interpretations of traditional Sami songs?
... that the Nessah Synagogue in Beverly Hills, California was established for Persian Jews in 1980 by the son of former Chief Rabbi of Iran Yedidia Shofet?
... that in June 2013, 930 cases filed by Madhavpura Mercantile Cooperative Bank were pending in Indian courts?
... that warden's wife Kate Soffel, who fled with condemned brothers Jack and Ed Biddle after supplying guns and saws for their 1902 escape from the Allegheny County Jail, later took up dressmaking?
... that belief in the existence of water bulls persisted in Scotland until at least the last quarter of the 19th century?

20 June 2014

13:35, 20 June 2014 (UTC)

... that the stars on the flag of São Tomé and Príncipe (pictured) represent the two islands that make up the country?
... that the Swan & Edgar was claimed to be the smallest pub in London?
... that baseball pitcher Bun Troy, who won a doubleheader while pitching all nine innings of both games, was killed in action during World War I?
... that the William Brydone Jack Observatory in Fredericton, New Brunswick, was the first astronomical observatory in British North America (modern Canada)?
... that out of consideration for his well-known family, Norwegian revue writer and entertainer Vidar Wexelsen adopted the pen and stage name Per Kvist?
... that the New Jersey-based garage rock band The Friggs' song "Shake" featured in the 2007 comedy film Superbad?
... that Ishita Malaviya is India's first professional female surfer?

05:20, 20 June 2014 (UTC)

... that Goethe was commissioned to lead the reconstruction of the Schloss in Weimar (pictured) after a fire in 1774?
... that golfer Lucy Li set records as the youngest U.S. Women's Amateur Championship qualifier at age 10 in 2013 and the youngest U.S. Women's Open Championship qualifier at age 11 in 2014?
... that Anjali Joseph's debut novel, Saraswati Park, won both the Betty Trask Prize and the Desmond Elliott Prize?
... that the list of English Heritage properties in Somerset comprises 12 sites, dating from the Neolithic to the 18th century?
... that the Deputy Speaker of the Kerala Legislative Assembly, R. S. Unni, held positions in over 20 trade unions?
... that the choice of name for the British warship HMS Zubian, a combination of the warships HMS Zulu and HMS Nubian, caused confusion among the German Imperial Admiralty Staff?
... that Dutch impresario Ben Essing got The Beatles to play their only concerts in the Netherlands in an auction hall in the small village of Blokker?

19 June 2014

21:05, 19 June 2014 (UTC)

... that Kakan Hermansson (pictured) held an art exhibition during the "West Pride", an LGBT festival in Gothenburg in 2014?
... that after the Russian monitor Rusalka sank, all that was found in the immediate aftermath were a few lifebuoys, and a sailor's corpse in a dinghy?
... that Kong Yingda, one of the most influential Confucian scholars, was said to be a 32nd-generation descendant of Confucius?
... that the white-headed stilt sometimes feigns a leg injury to draw intruders away from its chicks?
... that Bollywood director Rahul Rawail paid tribute to his father H. S. Rawail's film Sunghursh (1968) by titling one of his films as Jeevan Ek Sanghursh (1990)?
... that in 1975, more than half the population of Buka Island were members of the Hahalis Welfare Society?
... that in the 1930s the Nazi German-American Bund had its headquarters at 178 East 85th Street in Manhattan, and paraded in the neighborhood wearing Nazi uniforms?

12:50, 19 June 2014 (UTC)

... that the larvae of the apple clearwing moth (adult pictured) create tunnels under the bark of fruit trees?
... that "Turn Up the Radio" is Madonna's 43rd number-one single on the US Billboard Dance Club Songs chart, the most for any artist?
... that T. J. Chandrachoodan is the third Keralite to head the Revolutionary Socialist Party?
... that the leader of the Trade Union of Andorra has likened the labour rights situation in the country to that of a dictatorship?
... that one chimpanzee group killed off all the adult males in another chimpanzee group during the Gombe Chimpanzee War?
... that Cambridge threatened to boycott the 1983 University Boat Race after Boris Rankov was included in the Oxford crew for the sixth time?
... that mustang wine has been made in Texas from wild mustang grapes since the Antebellum Era?

04:35, 19 June 2014 (UTC)

... that the NOAAS Pisces (R 226) oceanographic research vessel (pictured) was named by five seventh graders from Southaven, Mississippi?
... that when Virginia Grayson won $20,000 in the Dobell Prize for drawing, she said she would use the money to get her "ute fixed"?
... that the Javan ferret-badger visits picnic sites to scavenge for food, and has been hand-fed biscuits?
... that King Rögnvaldr Óláfsson was assassinated by a knight named Ívarr and his accomplices?
... that the Swiss magazine Der Kreis was the only gay magazine available in Europe during World War II and the Nazi regime?
... that Cambridge had a female cox for the first time in its history in the 1985 University Boat Race?
... that Tony Henry once accidentally sang "my penis is a mountain" in Croatian?

18 June 2014

20:35, 18 June 2014 (UTC)

... that the Wakatobi flowerpecker (pictured), originally classified as a species in 1903, was changed to a subspecies for unknown reasons, and in 2014 was re-described as a distinct species?
... that former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's memoir Hard Choices is so titled because that is how she frames the foreign policy situations encountered during her tenure?
... that Departures was the first Japanese submission to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film?
... that two Philadelphia Phillies pitchers phoned Jonathan Pettibone to try to convince him to sign with the team?
... that Melchior Hoffmann probably composed Schlage doch, gewünschte Stunde (BWV 53), not Bach?
... that Bissau-Guinean Zinha Vaz was arrested and detained after an argument with President Kumba Ialá, who offered her the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs months later?
... that in 1872 the newly-elected English Conservative Party Member of Parliament Edward Wells denounced the Ballot Act as "positively un-English"?

05:54, 18 June 2014 (UTC)

... that Adele Schopenhauer, sister of German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, was not only a noted author, but also a talented papercut artist (papercut self-portrait pictured)?
... that Alfred V. Verville designed the Verville-Sperry R-3 Racer, which set a world speed record in 1923 and was called one of the "Twelve Most Significant Aircraft of all Time" by Popular Mechanics magazine?
... that although J. R. R. Tolkien translated the Old English poem Beowulf in the 1920s, he did not like the result so it was published only posthumously in 2014 as Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary?
... that the World Bank's first loan to China's power sector was for the Lubuge Dam?
... that Halo: The Master Chief Collection includes a remastered version of Halo 2 to coincide with its tenth anniversary?
... that women's fashion boutique Giorgio Beverly Hills had a reading room, bar, and pool table to help men "pass the time"?
... that Ofcom received 260 complaints about Lady Gaga's live performance of "Do What U Want" on the United Kingdom's The X Factor?

17 June 2014

21:54, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

... that war photographer Robert Capa and his brother Cornell are buried in the cemetery at Amawalk Friends Meeting House (pictured) near Yorktown Heights, New York, even though neither was a Quaker?
... that newly-elected Romanian MEP Mircea Diaconu has appeared in over 60 films, managed a theater, published a novel, and taken part in a revolution?
... that Little David's first record, The Devil Made Me Buy This Dress, was named for a line spoken by Flip Wilson's character Geraldine?
... that Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation candidate Amar Nath Yadav mustered a quarter million votes in the Siwan seat in the 1999 election?
... that Lieutenant Colonel Terry Lakin invited his own court-martial to attempt to force Barack Obama to release the original version of his birth certificate?
... that Singapore used to have a frozen pork hotline?

13:50, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

... that although some fanciers of the Exmoor pony (pictured) claim it was purebred from an isolated wild population since the Ice Age, modern research shows they share much of their DNA with other breeds?
... that Janet Greig and her sister Jane, both doctors, were founding members of Melbourne's Queen Victoria Hospital and inductees of the Victorian Honour Roll of Women?
... that the American Civil Liberties Union condemned government use of the Draganflyer X6?
... that Rudolf Henke was elected to the Bundestag in 2009 after receiving more votes than incumbent federal health minister Ulla Schmidt?
... that the video game Freedom Planet has not yet been released and is not part of an existing franchise, but has already been promoted on T-shirts?
... that the customers of Michael Rainey's boutique Hung On You included The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, and The Kinks?
... that the 1984 University Boat Race was postponed by a day after Cambridge hit a barge and sank during the warm-up?
05:28, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

... that Catalan singer Silvia Perez Cruz's (pictured) songs have been described as a blend of music genres including fado, jazz improvisation, and flamenco?
... that the offices of the Antigua and Barbuda newspaper Outlet were torched in 1998, following the publication of an article on a secret arms deal?
... that the Canadian Labour Congress president Dennis McDermott was the founding chairman of the Commonwealth Trade Union Council?
... that due to enemy action in World War I, one set of expensive epigraphic illustration plates for The Indian Antiquary had to be sent from London to Bombay three times?
... that the present town of Ashford in Kent, England, originates from an original settlement established in 893 AD by inhabitants escaping a Danish Viking raid?
... that in his boutique Blades, Rupert Lycett Green's customers included Mick Jagger, the Marquess of Hartington and the Earl of St Germans?
... that the 1982 Atari 2600 game Lost Luggage features terrorist suitcases?

16 June 2014

21:48, 16 June 2014 (UTC)

... that the southern black flycatcher (pictured) sometimes forages in the company of another black bird, the fork-tailed drongo?
... that the release of the Moto E caused the website of online retailer Flipkart to crash?
... that Neon Steeple is the first solo release by Crowder, which he recorded after the break-up of David Crowder Band?
... that Belgian anti-Zionist politician Laurent Louis was censured for antisemitism and Holocaust denial after making the quenelle gesture in parliament?
... that the Oregonian Building, completed in 1892 in Portland, Oregon, was the first steel-framed skyscraper west of Chicago?
... that Reverend George Lloyd, archaeologist and Anglican curate, was so outspoken that he received an assassination threat?
... that Dupee Shaw's delivery may have been the first pitching wind-up, created "a genuine sensation" and led baseball writers of his day to call him "a monkey, a mountebank and other harsh names"?

10:00, 16 June 2014 (UTC)

... that the khanjar, a "ceremonial dagger" from Oman, is featured on the country's national emblem (pictured)?
... that a footbridge proposed to link Grand Central Plaza with Sha Tin railway station was embroiled in controversy for allegedly bad feng shui?
... that Lala Achint Ram was a member of the Constituent Assembly of India, which drafted India's constitution?
... that the song "A+E" was written whilst waiting for someone to come out of the A&E?
... that the newspaper Labour Spokesman shares its building with the Saint Kitts and Nevis Labour Party and the Trades and Labour Union?
... that according to the Susquehanna River Basin Commission, the watershed of North Branch Mahantango Creek is one of the highest-quality watersheds in the lower Susquehanna River watershed?
... that a critic of Dishaster said that the game was "as bad as its unfunny title implies"?

01:27, 16 June 2014 (UTC)

... that despite being designed for the North American commuter rail market, six Budd SPV-2000 railcars (pictured) were sold to ONCF for Hassan II of Morocco's royal train?
... that bacteriologist Sara Branham Matthews was considered to be one of the "grand ladies of microbiology"?
... that Ken Baumann's book on the SNES video game EarthBound was the first title published by Boss Fight Books?
... that Los Zetas crime syndicate founder Galindo Mellado Cruz was recently killed in a gunfight in Mexico?
... that Below Paradise by Tedashii explores his efforts to come to grips with the death of his young son?
... that Seattle Mariners CEO Howard Lincoln posed for the Norman Rockwell painting The Scoutmaster?
... that David Tennant founded London's Gargoyle Club, with lavish interiors by Henri Matisse, and whose regular patrons included Fred Astaire, Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud?

15 June 2014

09:05, 15 June 2014 (UTC)

... that Baggböle manor (pictured) is built entirely of wood, but made to look like a stone building?
... that Jackie Tavener is one of only four players in Major League Baseball history to steal second, third and home in the same inning on more than one occasion?
... that the album Tunnel Rats by the hip-hop collective of the same name featured a more mainstream and diverse production style than previous albums?
... that William Stadiem's book on Frank Sinatra was based on thousands of pages of notes taken about Sinatra's everyday life by his valet George Jacobs?
... that state-dependent memory suggests that if you forget what you did when blind drunk, you could get drunk again and remember it?
... that Nawrahta Minsaw, the first Burmese ruler of Lan Na, was also an accomplished poet in the yadu style?
... that the Japan release of Saints Row: The Third had the veins removed from its Penetrator weapon—a three-foot long phallus bat—due to regulatory restrictions on depictions of genitalia?

01:20, 15 June 2014 (UTC)

... that Felton Hervey, who was in the foreground of Zoffany's painting Tribuna of the Uffizi, never saw the completed painting (detail pictured)?
... that "Baggböleri", the Swedish derogatory term for deforestation, is named after Baggböle on the Ume River?
... that the upcoming video game Halo 5: Guardians features a new game engine for the series?
... that Milan Puskar Health Right, a system of free clinics in West Virginia that handles nearly 4,000 patients a year, originally operated out of a Baptist church?
... that the film Death in the West contains what is believed to be the first recorded admission from a tobacco company representative that smoking causes health problems?
... that London's Burlington Gardens is the site of the first Abercrombie & Fitch store in Europe?
... that Robbie Williams was inspired to write Rudebox's hidden track, "Dickhead", after playing The Mitchell Brothers' "Routine Check" to death?

14 June 2014

16:00, 14 June 2014 (UTC)

... that Pliny's encyclopedia Natural History includes descriptions of dog-headed men and monopods with umbrella feet (pictured)?
... that in 1988 Afghan Deputy Foreign Minister Abdul Ghafar Lakanwal defected to the United States?
... that at various times the ground sloth, Billy the Kid, Geronimo, and astronauts could be found in what is now the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument?
... that Bartholomäus Sastrow's autobiography does not give the birth dates of his children?
... that the Fountain of Ahmed III in Üsküdar, Istanbul, features a inscription by Ottoman Sultan Ahmed III, copied from his own calligraphy?
... that Zhang Shichuan made China's first feature film, first martial arts film, and first sound film?
... that Fawlty Towers character Basil Fawlty sang "Don't Mention the World Cup" to dissuade fans of England's 2006 FIFA World Cup team from mentioning the Second World War while in Germany?

08:00, 14 June 2014 (UTC)

... that the WonderSwan (pictured) sold 3.5 million units in Japan but was never released in Western markets?
... that some England players allegedly sang "Aye Aye Ippy The Germans Bombed Our Chippy", despite the FA not wanting to support any anti-German songs?
... that Sir Wolseley Haig fought dacoits in Burma before becoming a Scottish herald?
... that the events of Bloody Sunday are being recreated at the Edmund Pettus Bridge for the upcoming film Selma?
... that Kashmiri politician and poet Abdul Sattar Ranjoor‎ was assassinated by militants when he was 73?
... that Thomas Elfe, a contemporary of Thomas Chippendale, was the most successful furniture craftsman in Charleston in the eighteenth century?
... that at approximately 568 feet (173 m), the proposed Skyscraper is expected to be the tallest roller coaster in the world when it opens in 2016?

00:00, 14 June 2014 (UTC)

... that the website of the Australian War Memorial describes its diorama Man in the mud (pictured) as being "much-loved"?
... that "Yasss Bish" is a bounce and drill song with a trap beat?
... that Milan Miskovsky and James Donovan convinced Cuba to release over 1,000 insurgents captured during the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion?
... that 16 biblical scenes are cast in bronze on the Romanesque Bernward Doors, including Cain's murder of Abel?
... that Borka Pavićević is a Montenegrin dramaturge who founded the Centre for Cultural Decontamination?
... that Moonbird eats horseshoe crabs' eggs, and has flown further than the distance to the Moon?
... that professional baseball player "Prince" Oana was falsely advertised by his promoters as a full-blooded Hawaiian royal?

13 June 2014

16:00, 13 June 2014 (UTC)

... that during Typhoon Pat (pictured), 95 Japanese fishing boats took refuge in North Korea?
... that as the new US Representative to the UN Human Rights Council, Keith M. Harper is the first Native American to achieve the rank of US Ambassador?
... that 65 percent of Camden Fort Meagher is underground?
... that Ohio State retired Les Horvath's jersey number 22 in 2001, six years after his death?
... that the Dutch women's magazine Beatrijs for Catholic readers made its photos and patterns more modest by adding collars to low necklines and lengthening skirts?
... that Georges Méliès filmed a "pre-reenactment" of Edward VII's coronation more than a month before the actual event took place?
... that Gustav Rosén sent apples from northern Sweden to newspaper editors in the south to show that grass was not the only thing that grew "up there"?

08:00, 13 June 2014 (UTC)

... that since the Nile perch was introduced into Lake Victoria, the cichlid Haplochromis vonlinnei (pictured) has become "critically endangered" and may be extinct?
... that when twin fetuses lock together during childbirth, the first twin is sometimes decapitated to save the second?
... that Michael Schofield started playing American football because his younger brother did?
... that Mozart Distillerie claims to use "soundmilling" – playing the music of Mozart 380 times into their chocolate liqueurs?
... that in the early 1980s, a team of surveyors discovered the World War II-era Avro Anson Memorial near Clackline, Western Australia, which had been overgrown by shrubs and trees?
... that celebrities desired to appear on The Adventures of Ellery Queen although their solutions to the mystery were usually incorrect?
... that publicity about its outing club led to one university receiving 300% more applications for admission?

00:00, 13 June 2014 (UTC)

... that fossil animals found in the Wookey Hole Caves (underground lake pictured) include the Pleistocene lion and cave hyena?
... that Robert M. Bond, a lieutenant general in the USAF and decorated American veteran of the Vietnam War, was killed in a 1984 crash in Nevada while flying a Soviet-built MiG-23?
... that Doncaster Knights' promotion to the 2014–15 RFU Championship was the first time a rugby team returned to the RFU Championship after being relegated for just one season?
... that a Rolling Stone readers' poll ranked Made in Japan the sixth best live album of all time?
... that Schloss Warthausen has been the home of famous historical personages like authors Christoph Martin Wieland and Sophie von La Roche, and painter Johann Heinrich Tischbein?
... that the 1946 drama film Her Sister's Secret was briefly banned in Ireland?
... that Nicolae Minovici performed twelve hanging experiments on himself?

12 June 2014

16:00, 12 June 2014 (UTC)

... that Justina Ford (pictured) was the only African American woman to be licensed as a physician in Denver for nearly 50 years?
... that Polish-American philosopher and sociologist Florian Znaniecki coined the terms culturalism and humanistic coefficient?
... that film director Wilfrid North was blinded in 1913 by a cannon explosion on a movie set?
... that "The Summons" includes 13 questions asked in the voice of Jesus?
... that the Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters had not lost a game in the 2014 PBA Commissioner's Cup, but were defeated in three games by the San Mig Super Coffee Mixers in the finals series?
... that a T-shirt with Audi, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Porsche and Volkswagen logos on it was created in homage to Meridian Dan's German Whip?
... that in 1966, Men in Vogue included a photoshoot by Michael Cooper entitled "Girls dress men to suit themselves" with Brian Jones dressed by Anita Pallenberg?

08:00, 12 June 2014 (UTC)

... that the owners of earthquake-damaged Chippenham Lodge (pictured) have proposed that the homestead be rebuilt in Christchurch's Hagley Park?
... that Jitan Ram Manjhi was asked to resign the day after he was sworn in as Bihar's cabinet minister in 2005?
... that to make his single "Good Kisser" "less X-rated", Usher changed the lyrics to remove the sexual innuendo?
... that Marten Woudstra was one of four men who formed the committee that eventually produced the New International Version of the Bible?
... that allegations that lepers, Jews and Muslims were conspiring against the Christians of Europe sparked international hysteria in June 1321?
... that Dutch zoologist C. A. W. Jeekel is credited with launching the "modern era" of millipede taxonomy?
... that the video game The Idolmaster One For All sold out in Akihabara the day after its release?

00:00, 12 June 2014 (UTC)

... that Lang Jingshan was the first Chinese art photographer to use nude models (earliest photo pictured)?
... that Korengal examines the military life and experiences of the same men who were in Restrepo?
... that the compilation album Underground Rise, Vol. 1 features about thirty-five rappers, and was recorded almost entirely over a single weekend?
... that the Thomas Elfe House is the oldest house in Charleston that is open to the public?
... that an annual carnival at Verrès Castle celebrates the time the lord and lady came down to town to dance with the local youth?
... that Kinross Gold built the Dvoinoye Gold Mine at a cost of US$360 million?
... that the camera of the LG G3 smartphone has an autofocus system that uses technology originally intended for robotic vacuum cleaners?

11 June 2014

16:00, 11 June 2014 (UTC)

... that the blue nuthatch (pictured) protects its corneas from falling debris when prospecting on trees by contracting the bare skin around its eyes – an adaptation apparently unique to the species?
... that punter Pat O'Donnell recorded more bench press repetitions at the NFL Scouting Combine than first-overall draft pick Jadeveon Clowney?
... that the Germany–Poland border after WWII mostly follows the Oder–Neisse line, dividing several towns?
... that the University of Mississippi Field Station originally had 220 experimental ponds and was once a fish farm?
... that around 100 years ago, the steaming process in Lancashire cotton mills made workers fear for their health?
... that before Oscar Dystel made Bantam Books America's largest publisher of paperbacks, he worked on psychological warfare in World War II?
... that despite being The Rolling Stones' business adviser and financial manager for nearly 40 years, Prince Rupert Loewenstein preferred the music of The Beatles?

08:00, 11 June 2014 (UTC)

... that despite being Australian artists of a war, neither Jessie Traill (pictured) nor Iso Rae were Australian war artists?
... that before they moved to their current home of Odsal Stadium, Bradford Northern spent 26 years based at Birch Lane?
... that Indian freedom fighter and politician N. M. R. Subbaraman was known as "Madurai Gandhi"?
... that Ontario Highway 23 was extended from Highway 8 to Highway 7 as part of a Depression-era relief program?
... that the Nazi Sonderdienst formations included men who did not know German and required translation by their native commanders?
... that on the album Tunnel Vision, Tunnel Rats leader Dax Reynosa responded to claims that his group was too aggressive with the line "I pull a pistol out my pocket and I cock it"?
... that Eric A. Walker continued as a professor at Cambridge University and published more books after being lobotomised?

00:00, 11 June 2014 (UTC)

... that Kent vs Lancashire at Canterbury (pictured) was originally hung in the Lord's Pavilion when Kent County Cricket Club were unable to afford to insure it?
... that Cassandra Pickett Durham was the first woman to earn a medical degree in the U.S. state of Georgia?
... that the ideological concept of a primary stage of socialism explains the use of capitalist methods in the Chinese economy by the Communist Party of China?
... that the father of Iran's nuclear program, Akbar Etemad, had said that neither Israel or the US are in a position to attack Iran?
... that Cuenta Conmigo by Jerry Rivera won the Lo Nuestro Award for Tropical Album of the Year and outsold the highest selling salsa album at the time?
... that American writer and actor Henry Howard Paul became famous in Great Britain after appearing on stage with his wife?
... that the magazine Man About Town, in advertising itself, declared "that a fool and his money are soon parted"?

10 June 2014

12:00, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

... that the Equality Parade (pictured) in Warsaw, Poland, held since 2001, is the oldest pride parade in a former European Communist bloc country?
... that Fred Stanfield was dealt in "the most one-sided trade in NHL history"?
... that the U.S. House Select Committee on Events Surrounding the 2012 Terrorist Attack in Benghazi is the fifth House committee to investigate this matter?
... that chief justice Thomas Balmer was once the managing partner of American law firm Ater Wynne?
... that the live extended play MTV Unplugged by Thirty Seconds to Mars features musicians from the Vitamin String Quartet, a gospel choir and the contribution of the band's fans?
... that in 1966 Indonesian ambassador Djawoto was granted political asylum in China, following the mass killings of 1965–66?
... that the mobile tie-in game Saints Row 2 has a carjacking minigame where the player earns more money for driving at high speeds to scare their captive passenger?

00:00, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

... that seven-year-old brain cancer patient Jack Hoffman (pictured) scored a touchdown for Nebraska and subsequently met with President Barack Obama?
... that Sri Lankan Tamils commemorate 18 May, the day when the civil war ended, as Mullivaikkal Remembrance Day?
... that Templeton Thompson combines her interests in horses and country music in songs such as "When I Get This Pony Rode"?
... that China's Qing dynasty (1644–1912) bestowed the title Marquis of Extended Grace on a member of the former Ming imperial clan who presided at ceremonies at the Ming tombs?
... that The Sun Also Rises is the first version of Hemingway's novel en pointe; The Sun Also Rises increases the story's death count; and The Sun Also Rises is known for its award-winning sound design?
... that Sadie Houck was blacklisted by the National League for being "addicted to drink" despite being acknowledged as "one of the best short stops in the country and a thorough ball player"?
... that the Neighbours plane crash was nominated for Best Storyline at the 2006 Inside Soap Awards?

9 June 2014

12:00, 9 June 2014 (UTC)

... that Cymbiola nobilis (pictured) is vulnerable due in part to overcollection for the shell trade?
... that in the last ten years, Lisa Kewley has won a Hubble postdoctoral fellowship, the Annie J. Cannon Award, the Newton Lacy Pierce Prize, and been elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science?
... that the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Our Man Bashir" was based in part on James Bond films, something Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was not happy about?
... that while Bad Dirt: Wyoming Stories 2 was poorly received critically in comparison to Close Range: Wyoming Stories, one of the short stories in the collection won the 2004 Aga Khan Prize for Fiction?
... that a Dachau concentration camp survivor recognized Major General William P. Levine nearly 40 years later because Levine had carried him in his arms?
... that the national quality award phenomenon grew out of the Total Quality Management movement of the 1980s?
... that the four miles of stacks aisles in Harvard's 3.5-million-volume Widener Library are so labyrinthine that one student felt she ought to carry "a compass, a sandwich, and a whistle" when entering?

00:00, 9 June 2014 (UTC)

... that Cumberland Island horses (pictured) are considered "feral, free-ranging and unmanaged" by the U.S. National Park Service?
... that Crown Princess Yaza Datu Kalaya is the subject of some of the "most beautiful poems in Burmese literature" by her nephew and husband Natshinnaung?
... that Martin Luther created the Pentecost hymn "Komm, Heiliger Geist, Herre Gott" by adding two stanzas to an earlier German version of "Veni Sancte Spiritus", keeping its melody?
... that Gopal Kalan Tandel defeated Narayan Fugro in the first Lok Sabha election for the Daman and Diu seat?
... that Tropical Storm Zelda destroyed 95% of Marshall Islands' crops?
... that German silent film actress Hedda Vernon was 28 years old when she played the role of a 15-year-old girl in a film?
... that the northwest tower of St James' Church, Handsworth, used to be its western tower?

8 June 2014

12:00, 8 June 2014 (UTC)

... that Soraya Post (pictured) was the first Romani in Swedish history to top the ballot for a political party at the European Parliament elections in 2014?
... that the rusty silky oak had different everyday and taboo names in the local Dyirbal language?
... that Alajuela Province, Costa Rica, is home to gothic, neo-classical, art deco, and neo-colonial churches, including a church constructed with sheet metal?
... that David Ames auditioned for another Holby City character prior to winning the role of Dominic Copeland?
... that "I will sing with the spirit" was composed by John Rutter for the Royal School of Church Music?
... that Rudolf Nadolny, a German diplomat, replied that the conversation had just begun after Adolf Hitler declared it had finished?

00:00, 8 June 2014 (UTC)

... that the June 4th Museum (temporary location pictured) is the permanent exhibition museum for the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989?
... that fires in Sundsvall and Lilla Edet, Sweden, broke out on the same day as the Great Fire of Umeå?
... that Romeo and Juliet (2013) was the first Broadway theatre adaptation of William Shakespeare's play since 1977?
... that Jean Bellette is the only woman to have won the Sulman Prize more than once?
... that in the Caribbean, a small octopus mimics the bursts of swimming activity of the plate fish?
... that France and Estonia were the first countries to contribute troops for the EU peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic?
... that the seemingly unremarkable Catt family – father Ronald "Scott" Catt and his children, Hayden and Abigail – pulled off several bank robberies in Oregon and Texas?

7 June 2014

12:00, 7 June 2014 (UTC)

... that Rosa 'Line Renaud' (pictured) won the National Horticultural Society of France's 2009 Grand Prix de la Rose in all categories?
... that astronomer Adelaide Ames joined the Harvard College Observatory as a research assistant because she could not find any jobs in journalism?
... that the novel Mira, Mirror is written from the viewpoint of a mirror?
... that Harvard Business School professor Charles M. Williams survived the sinking of the USS Lexington by swinging from a line onto the deck of a rescuing destroyer?
... that The Polish Peasant in Europe and America has been called a "neglected classic" of American empirical sociology?
... that House From Hell was a 1998 precursor to Big Brother Australia?
... that T. K. Bellis, the "Turtle King", imported live turtles from Jamaica to London so that the Lord Mayor of London would not have to eat mock turtle soup?

00:00, 7 June 2014 (UTC)

... that Operation Overlord (detail pictured), the Allied invasion of Normandy in World War II, was the largest seaborne invasion in history?
... that as of June 5, 2014, at least 35 U.S. veterans are known to have died while waiting for Veterans Health Administration care in the Phoenix VHA system?
... that the film Merdeka 17805, about the fight for Indonesian independence, was described as a "two-fisted, hinomaru-waving, blood-and-guts ode to the soldiers who died for the glory of the emperor and for Dai Nippon"?
... that biology teacher Blanche Evans Dean wrote several books about Alabama's natural history after becoming frustrated with the lack of books on the subject?
... that despite having supporting air groups Yokosuka D4Y dive bombers and Aichi E16A reconnaissance aircraft, neither of the Ise-class battleships used them in combat?
... that the site of the Cheddar Palace is within the grounds of The Kings of Wessex Academy?
... that long hair on men was once banned in Singapore?

6 June 2014

11:48, 6 June 2014 (UTC)

... that during the 17th century many couples performed "erotic" acts near The Iron Lady (pictured), and it was thrown into the river twice for being an object of pagan veneration?
... that the Prosecutor General of Crimea, Natalia Poklonskaya, is barred from entering European Union countries?
... that Iggy Azalea's "Black Widow", co-written by Katy Perry, was originally intended to be a duet with both singers?
... that Olympian Murray Buchan originally wanted to work in mountain rescues?
... that "El Gran Carlemany", the national anthem of Andorra, proclaims the microstate as the "only remaining daughter of the Carolingian empire"?
... that the 1999 film Isusumbong Kita Sa Tatay Ko was the first Philippine-produced film to exceed 100 million pesos in box office gross?
... that after it was banned, members of the Iraqi Anti-Zionist League were arrested and charged with the crime of Zionism?

5 June 2014

23:33, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

... that the Bedford Road Historic District (pictured) has been described as the first residential subdivision in Armonk, New York?
... that Armenian activist Harutiun Djangulian launched the 1890 Kum Kapu demonstration by interrupting a mass and reading a declaration from the altar?
... that Granny, also known as J2, is the oldest known orca at an estimated 103 years old?
... that Christopher Senyonjo, a retired bishop of the Church of Uganda who opposed "draconian" anti-gay legislation, was honored by former US president Bill Clinton?
... that private estate houses in Scotland originate from extensive building and rebuilding of royal palaces, probably starting under James III?
... that British numismatist E. J. Rapson was reckoned to have an uncanny ability to identify ancient coins merely by feel?
... that negotiations to place a LORAN radio navigation site in Nova Scotia were going poorly until the US Navy men refused proffered cigarettes?

11:18, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

... that Bill Gates (pictured) topped Forbes' annual list of the world's billionaires in 2014, after not having topped the list in 2013, 2012, 2011, or 2010?
... that the 1928 Hindi novel Nirmala uses fiction to promote social reform of the dowry system in India?
... that despite being born to a Shia family and influenced in childhood by the Islamic revival, Bahraini cultural critic Nader Kadhim refused to be classified as an Islamist or a Shia intellectual?
... that the 39th annual GMMSF Box-Office Entertainment Awards ceremony was referred to as the 40th due to superstition?
... that all countries in South America use their own currency, except Ecuador?
... that Savo Zlatić took up chess composition while imprisoned, using chess pieces made of bread?

4 June 2014

23:03, 4 June 2014 (UTC)

... that the Hezilo chandelier (pictured) and the Azelin chandelier, treasures of Hildesheim Cathedral, are symbols of the heavenly Jerusalem?
... that Propaganda followed up his Excellent album with his fourth solo release, Crimson Cord?
... that Jean D'Costa's novels for children have narrative in Standard English and dialogue in Jamaican Creole?
... that Oxford's victory in The 2000 Boat Race was a "shock triumph"?
... that Jesuit priest Carlos G. Vallés was awarded Ranjitram Suvarna Chandrak, the highest literary award in the Gujarati language, in 1978?
... that in the British game show Ejector Seat, contestants who give wrong answers find their chairs moving backwards?
... that Jason Healey predicted that the National Security Agency would be "shredded by the computer security community" for its failure to expose the Heartbleed security bug?

10:48, 4 June 2014 (UTC)

... that the Seaboard Air Line Railroad's Sun Lounges (pictured) featured lamps made from driftwood?
... that Purnendu Dastidar was elected to the East Pakistan Legislative Assembly in 1954 while in jail?
... that one of the benefits of community-based program design is a learning experience between a consumer and a social services provider?
... that Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, went from being congratulated by the King to being attainted and his son taken to the Tower of London?
... that The Cambridge History of India would have had six volumes, but Volume II was abandoned?
... that the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama-winning play, The Flick, is about three movie theater ushers?
... that Duke Dumont's "I Got U" contains "all the summertime essentials: steel drums, Balearic synths and a myriad of earworm hooks"?

3 June 2014

22:33, 3 June 2014 (UTC)

... that nasal strips are worn both by race horses (California Chrome pictured) and by human athletes?
... that despite Frederick Law Olmsted's wishes, Francis Allen had Vassar College's Lathrop House built directly north of Strong House?
... that Sessue Hayakawa, who played the role of Tsuru Aoki's father in the film The Wrath of the Gods, married her the same year the film was released?
... that Fishergate Baptist Church in Preston, Lancashire, contains four wheel windows?
... that T. Veerabhadram was the Communist Party of India (Marxist) candidate with the most votes outside Kerala and West Bengal in the 1998 Indian general election?
... that while Mexican drug lord Inés Coronel Barreras was officially listed as a cattle rancher in Durango, the neighbors claimed he was growing marijuana and opium poppies?
... that the Kota Kinabalu City Mosque is home to a fish farm?

10:18, 3 June 2014 (UTC)

... that film star Xu Lai (pictured), who worked as a secret agent during World War II, died in prison following political persecution by Madame Mao?
... that the grey gull nests inland in a desert some 35 to 100 km (22 to 62 miles) from the sea?
... that if United States Army Ranger Alejandro Villanueva does not make an NFL roster, he plans to return to Afghanistan for a fourth tour of duty?
... that a cobbler taught the first lessons at Santa Bárbara de Heredia's public school when it opened in 1860?
... that Lowangcha Wanglat, BJP candidate in the 2014 Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, is from the Namsang-Borduria royal family?
... that, when it occurred, the mass shooting in the Pińsk Ghetto was the second largest anti-Jewish operation in a single settlement?
... that Christopher Gibbs and Robert Fraser are credited with inventing "Swinging London"?

2 June 2014

22:03, 2 June 2014 (UTC)

... that a 1650-year-old wine bottle (pictured) found in Germany has been called the world's "oldest existing bottle of wine"?
... that the Kizlar Agha, the chief eunuch of the Ottoman Sultans' harem, ranked third in the state hierarchy after the Grand Vizier and the Shaykh al-Islām?
... that cricketing lawyer Arthur Coleridge, great-nephew of the poet, organised the first full performance of Bach's Mass in B minor in England?
... that Rahul Shewale recently won the Mumbai seat in the Parliament of India by a margin of 138,000 votes?
... that twelve years after its release, GamesRadar called the 1997 Mischief Makers "possibly the most underrated and widely ignored game on the N64"?
... that Matthaios Kofidis, former member of the Ottoman parliament, was among the Greek notables hanged in Amasya by the Turkish National Movement?
... that many Alaska legislators wear kuspuks to work on Fridays?

09:48, 2 June 2014 (UTC)

... that the architect of the Clal Center (pictured), the first upscale, indoor shopping mall in Jerusalem, candidly added the project to an Israeli exhibition titled "Bad Jobs"?
... that The Allman Brothers Band recorded their first live album, At Fillmore East, over three successive nights in March 1971?
... that the lucky iron fish is a fish-shaped ingot used to provide dietary iron to rural Cambodians who cannot afford iron-rich foods?
... that Security Printing and Minting Corporation of India Limited produces currencies and coins for India?
... that in 1931, Lick Run was said to be "one of the best streams in this section of Clearfield County", but was found to be entirely devoid of fish 52 years later?
... that in James Wilson's first senior football match for Manchester United, he scored two goals that won the game?
... that tall, blonde photographer Henk Jonker disguised himself as a female nurse during World War II while working for the Dutch resistance?

1 June 2014

21:33, 1 June 2014 (UTC)

... that Princess Marie Amelie of Baden (pictured), the wife of a Scottish duke, attended the 1856 baptism of Napoléon, Prince Imperial?
... that the accumulation of blood in the uterus can occur as a complication of surgery or the result of congenital abnormalities?
... that Ford Island was used by ancient Hawaiians for a ceremony to swap sex partners, was bought by the US Army in 1917, and was the center of the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941?
... that footballer Vratislav Lokvenc won five league titles in six seasons with Sparta Prague?
... that there are six floors in the staircase model of terrorism?
... that 16-year-old Bobby Byrne replaced Tommy Dorsey upon The Dorsey Brothers' split?
... that James Earl Jones and Carrie Fisher appeared in The Big Bang Theory episode "The Convention Conundrum"?

09:18, 1 June 2014 (UTC)

... that the blue band on the flag of the Gambia (pictured) represents the river that gives the country its name?
... that despite Georges Clemenceau's claim that the Saar contained 150,000 Frenchmen, just 2,124 of the territory's voters supported a French annexation of the Saar in a 1935 referendum?
... that Paul Palaiologos Tagaris was an Orthodox monk and impostor, who at one point claimed to be the Patriarch of Jerusalem, and even managed to be named Latin Patriarch of Constantinople by the Pope?
... that Albania became one of the main hubs for exiled Indonesian communists following the mass killings of 1965–66?
... that Medal of Honor recipient Luther Kaltenbach was granted a pension of twenty-four dollars a month by an Act of Congress?
... that Drexel 4175, a music manuscript commonplace book belonging to the New York Public Library, is an important source for seventeenth-century English song?
... that a 36-year-old yeshiva student in Kiryat Shomrei Emunim, Jerusalem, discovered a bomb planted in a garbage can and dismantled it himself before calling police?