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30 June 2016

11:52, 30 June 2016 (UTC)

Blue Moon ice cream

... that the House of Flavors' signature ice cream is the "Blue Moon" flavor (pictured) that has been sold since 1935?
... that Lucía Meza Guzmán has represented Cuautla twice in the state congress of Morelos and once at the Chamber of Deputies?
... that Mamamoo's Melting was described as "heralding the Korean quartet's rise to the top ranks of the girl group hunger games"?
... that Howard Rusk Long interviewed Chiang Kai-shek while teaching at the National Chengchi University in Taipei?
... that the İskender Pasha Mosque in Fatih, Istanbul, became the center of an Islamic religious order to which several prominent Turkish politicians belonged?
... that Sharon Barker, director of the Women's Resource Center at the University of Maine, brings 500 middle school girls to campus each year to explore careers in the STEM fields?
... that Usmar Ismail was ashamed of Tiga Dara, his company's greatest commercial success?

29 June 2016

21:17, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

The Laguna Corona del Inca crater lake

... that Incapillo (pictured) is the highest explosive caldera in the world and may still be hydrothermally active?
... that Kenneth Rayment, the co-pilot during the Munich air disaster, was a decorated World War II flying ace?
... that Icebar Orlando is claimed to be the world's largest permanent ice bar?
... that Political Animals and Animal Politics was the first edited collection focused on the political turn in animal ethics?
... that the narrowtail catshark is thought to be a pedomorphic dwarf?
... that Mexican federal deputy Fidel Kuri Grajales threatened to move the Tiburones Rojos de Veracruz if the Institutional Revolutionary Party lost the gubernatorial elections?
... that the July 7 opening date for the Ark Encounter theme park was chosen to correspond with Genesis 7:7?

09:02, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

In-Young Ahn

... that In-Young Ahn (pictured) was the first Korean woman to visit Antarctica?
... that the K-25 gaseous diffusion plant was once the largest building under one roof in the world?
... that Wesley P. Lloyd served a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints under B. H. Roberts in 1929?
... that hard soda is a fast-emerging segment in the craft beer industry that realized over one percent of overall beer category sales in the U.S. in May 2016?
... that Felicity Okpete Ovai was the first female commissioner of the Rivers State Ministry of Works?
... that Ace of Aces was one of Accolade's best-selling Commodore 64 video games in 1987?
... that a year after McGruff the Crime Dog asked people to lock their doors, dog ownership in the United States had increased but there was no increase in people locking their doors, possibly due to a plateau effect?

28 June 2016

19:37, 28 June 2016 (UTC)

Castle of Pambre

... that the Castle of Pambre (pictured) is a well-preserved 14th-century castle in Palas de Rei, built in Galician medieval military architectural style?
... that upon his election as Mayor of Southwark in 1983, Sam King was the only black mayor in London?
... that fossilized fungi were found on an Arriagadoolithus shell, the egg of the dinosaur Bonapartenykus?
... that the 2015 Polish horror film The Lure is a reimagining of The Little Mermaid?
... that pannenkoek2012 has offered $1,000 to anyone who can replicate a particular warp glitch in Super Mario 64?
... that Romania's main exports are related to motor vehicle production?
... that before he founded Black Angus Steakhouse, Stuart Anderson opened a Seattle restaurant whose clientele was mostly "hookers, seamen, hustlers and wrestlers"?

07:22, 28 June 2016 (UTC)

Gioachino Rossini in 1865

... that Rossini (pictured) scored the last of his "sins of old age", the Petite messe solennelle, for twelve singers, two pianos, and harmonium?
... that a 1980s slide show of Asian lesbians in history and literature created by June Chan and Katherine Hall has been called "grassroots scholarship"?
... that the Royal Pier, Southampton, used to have a station at the end of it?
... that Merry Walker is the only female Tennessee Walking Horse to produce two World Grand Champions?
... that the weight of a clump of mushrooms of the tropical genus Macrocybe can exceed 30 kg (66 lb)?
... that Steve Hamilton was a cast member of Wheel of Fortune throughout its 13-year run?
... that upon its February 2016 launch, the Frinkiac website contained almost three million screenshots of The Simpsons?

27 June 2016

16:34, 27 June 2016 (UTC)

Stiletto heels

... that in 1770, the British Parliament considered an act concerning high heels (pictured) and now, in 2016, it is making a fresh inquiry?
... that while Inger Hanmann created enamels for the Copenhagen Airport, her daughter Charlotte made processed photographs of the urban environment?
... that George Harrison played on Harry Nilsson's infamously profanity-laden song "You're Breakin' My Heart"?
... that Jesús Zambrano Grijalva, a three-time federal deputy and former president of the PRD in Mexico, was jailed for his activities in the Liga Comunista 23 de Septiembre?
... that diabetic children were sent to visit Loon, a drill at the San Diego Zoo, to help them overcome their aversion to needle injections?
... that Juan Pablo Montoya's victory in the 2007 Toyota/Save Mart 350 made him the first foreign-born driver to win a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race since 1974?
... that as part of her magic act in Benidorm, Sticky Vicky pulled ping-pong balls, eggs, handkerchiefs, sausages, and razor blades out of her vagina?

04:49, 27 June 2016 (UTC)

Lucille Dumont in 1940

... that Canadian singer and radio/television host Lucille Dumont (pictured) first performed under the name Micheline Lalonde to hide her real identity?
... that motsoalle is the term for socially acceptable, long-term relationships between Basotho women in Lesotho?
... that Alexander Duckham, founder of Alexander Duckham & Co, was a friend of cross-channel aviator Louis Blériot, and paid for the memorial marking where Blériot landed in 1909?
... that the actress Chitra Dewi has been described as the ideal Indonesian woman?
... that the Archencyrtus type species is named for Russian paleoentomologist Alexandr Rasnitsyn?
... that Andrea Jenkins plans to collect up to 400 hours of transgender oral history?

26 June 2016

17:04, 26 June 2016 (UTC)

Rachel's tomb in Tiberias

... that the ancient Jewish tomb (pictured) of Rachel, wife of Rabbi Akiva, was "rediscovered" in 1993 in a disused Muslim cemetery in Tiberias?
... that the Sydney suburb of Daceyville was named after John Dacey, who in the early 1900s envisioned Australia's first public housing estate?
... that The Bangles' studio album, Sweetheart of the Sun, was released 30 years after the band's formation?
... that after joining the club in 1947, Tommy Best became the first black player to represent Chester City in the Football League in a match against Oldham Athletic?
... that the isolated Kimsachata volcano is the northernmost active volcano in Peru, its Oroscocha dome having erupted around 4450 BCE?
... that architect Howard Backen worked on projects with Sundance Institute, Skywalker Ranch, and the Disney Burbank Sound Studios?
... that a cubicle room at the Sunshine Hotel cost $10 a night in 1998, measured 4 by 6 by 7 feet (1.2 m × 1.8 m × 2.1 m), and featured a bed, locker, light bulb, and chicken-wire ceiling?

25 June 2016

12:20, 25 June 2016 (UTC)

Deadly webcap

... that the author Nicholas Evans and his wife Charlotte Gordon Cumming required kidney transplants after mistaking the deadly webcap (pictured) for ceps in Scotland?
... that Bernard Shapero has been called "London's most successful rare-book dealer and arguably the top dealer in the world today"?
... that the Jarrahids, the ruling family of the Tayy tribe, virtually controlled Palestine in the late 10th century?
... that when he takes office in September, José Rosas Aispuro will be the first governor of Durango to come from a party other than the Institutional Revolutionary Party?
... that the sixteenth-century Doria Atlas was saved from fire in 2004 by villagers forming a human chain?
... that people in the Cazumbá-Iracema Extractive Reserve want mobile phones, although there is no phone service?

00:20, 25 June 2016 (UTC)

DNA adduct of a mutagen from tobacco smoke

... that a metabolite of a component of tobacco smoke binds with DNA (pictured) causing mutations?
... that the South American rodent genus Necromys includes the hairy-tailed, the Paraguayan, the dark, the spotted, the rufous-bellied, and the pleasant bolo mouse, as well as the northern grass mouse?
... that when Javare Gowda was reappointed vice chancellor of Mysore University, the governor requested "please try to remember that when you criticize the government, do so mildly"?
... that Ubisoft Annecy consulted professional skiers and extreme sports experts when creating Steep?
... that during the 1936–39 Palestine revolt, British forces punished men from the rebel village of al-Birwa by making them sit on cactus plants?
... that Getz/Gilberto by Stan Getz and João Gilberto won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1965 and was inducted into the Latin Grammy Hall of Fame in 2001?
... that William Morales' attorneys claimed the police confiscated his fingers as evidence?

24 June 2016

12:00, 24 June 2016 (UTC)

Caitlyn Jenner in 2015

... that 1976 Summer Olympics decathlon champion Caitlyn Jenner (pictured) was once a Playgirl magazine cover model?
... that one eruption in the Jom-Bolok volcanic field created a 70 kilometre- (43 mile-) long lava flow?
... that although Alejandro Murat Hinojosa was born in the State of Mexico, he was allowed to run for governor of Oaxaca by the SCJN because his parents were natives of that state?
... that the music video for Mamamoo's "Mr. Ambiguous" includes a hidden camera prank?
... that Daniel Nivel, victim of an assault by German football hooligans in 1998, was the guest of honour at a 2006 match also marred by hooliganism?
... that the secret Korean Patriotic Organization aimed for Korean independence through assassinations of prominent Japanese figures?
... that the Bolivian city of Potosí is located close to, or even inside, the Miocene Kari-Kari caldera?

00:00, 24 June 2016 (UTC)

Chicago Spire pit

... that Gateway Tower is a proposed building for the lot that contains the 110 foot (34 m) wide, 76 foot (23 m) deep hole in the ground (pictured) from the abandoned Chicago Spire?
... that Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's stay at Atatürk Museum Mansion in Ankara between 1921 and 1932 was his longest at any place in his life?
... that S.C. Braga's record in European football includes 6–0 losses to Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur?
... that the largest female black-sided hawkfish in a harem changes sex if the male dies?
... that some homes in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Zikhron Tuvya sport blue-painted doors, windows, and gates, as well as horseshoes and hamsas, to guard against the evil eye?
... that some Bach scholars believe that Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich, BWV 150, is his earliest extant church cantata?
... that Floyd Carothers turned a plow horse into a national champion?

23 June 2016

12:00, 23 June 2016 (UTC)

Fuentidueña Apse

... that the 12th-century Fuentidueña Apse (pictured) in New York's Cloisters museum was originally part of a Romanesque church likely built as the chapel for a fortress defending against Moorish invaders?
... that two Polish nuns harbouring Jewish fugitives who escaped from the Słonim Ghetto were beatified by Pope John Paul II, along with 108 Martyrs of World War II?
... that Tommy Lawton held the record as the youngest player to score on his England debut for 78 years?
... that the star S Doradus was calculated to have ranged between 100 and 380 times the radius of the Sun?
... that economist and cabinet minister Gheorghe Leon died in a Communist Romanian prison while his government colleagues, surgeon Victor Gomoiu, Iron Guard activists Radu Budișteanu and Vasile Noveanu, and Generals Gheorghe Mihail and Constantin Nicolescu, survived detention?
... that "Ríe y Llora" was the final song recorded by Celia Cruz before her death?
... that stump blossoms can cause butt rot?

00:00, 23 June 2016 (UTC)
... that Hawaiian King Kamehameha III fell into a state of depression and drunkenness, and attempted to commit suicide, after the death of his fiancée Kamānele?
... that Promo Azteca introduced American-style pro wrestling to Mexican audiences?
... that Doris Yankelewitz Berger was the first Jewish First Lady of Costa Rica?
... that to develop the 1990 video game Commander Keen in Invasion of the Vorticons, John Carmack and John Romero took their work computers from Softdisk home with them on weekends?
... that the California smoothtongue has a black pigment in its stomach lining that may conceal the presence of bioluminescent prey the fish has swallowed?
... that Philip Egner began composing "On, Brave Old Army Team", the fight song of the United States Military Academy at West Point, by scribbling notes on his shirt?

22 June 2016

12:00, 22 June 2016 (UTC)

Salem in 2016

... that Salem (pictured), Musmus, Zalafa, and Musheirifa are four of the Arab villages making up the Israel local council of Ma'ale Iron?
... that after retiring as dean of the College of Home Economics at the University of Rhode Island, Elizabeth W. Crandall became an environmental and women's rights activist in Maine?
... that the red alga Galdieria sulphuraria grows well at pH between 0–4 and temperatures up to 56°C—among the most extreme environments known for a eukaryote?
... that Governor-elect of Hidalgo Omar Fayad appointed his wife, actress Victoria Ruffo, local director of the DIF in Pachuca?
... that due to the points system being used, England won the 2013–14 Women's Ashes despite winning fewer matches than Australia?
... that Burger King withdrew an advert featuring Mary J. Blige singing about a crispy chicken wrap due to the racial stereotype associated with fried chicken?
... that Liverpool F.C. manager Bill Shankly resigned on the same day he spent a club record £200,000 to sign Ray Kennedy?

00:00, 22 June 2016 (UTC)

Aplets & Cotlets

... that a 2009 proposal to name Aplets & Cotlets (pictured) the "official candy" of Washington state failed after legislators from western Washington refused to support a candy manufactured in eastern Washington?
... that there is a shrine on Jotabeche, a volcano last active about five million years ago?
... that when the Memel Convention came into force in 1925, the local branch of the Social Democratic Party of Germany became a separate party?
... that the footballer Gary Bennett was one of the first players to become involved with the Show Racism the Red Card campaign?
... that the DNA of Sartidia perrieri's only known herbarium specimen was successfully sequenced 100 years after its collection?
... that the Windows Push Notification Service allows developers to send push data to Windows desktop and mobile applications?
... that Mr. Darcy's Daughters, Elizabeth Aston's debut novel, has been classified as fan fiction by several commentators?

21 June 2016

12:00, 21 June 2016 (UTC)

Mr. Dooley (drawn in 1900)

... that although the fictional bartender Mr. Dooley (pictured) was a very popular political commentator in his time, he is almost forgotten today?
... that Maison Bertaux in Soho is London's oldest pâtisserie shop?
... that Boyers Run starts in Pennsylvania and ends up near Liverpool?
... that the 2016–17 rugby season of London 1 South will feature a national RFU cup champion?
... that Fantasia described her song "No Time for It" as a combination of her childhood singing in church and desire to "tap into that whole rock world"?
... that Moses Toata won the Solomon Islands S-League in his first season as a manager?

00:00, 21 June 2016 (UTC)

The Royal Oak public house

... that the Royal Oak (pictured), a 17th-century public house in Frindsbury, is rumoured to contain a timber from the HMS Royal Oak?
... that the rugby player Tommy Thompson played "like one possessed" in South Africa's 38–0 defeat of Ireland in 1912?
... that the 1905 Shoubak Revolt was sparked after Ottoman forces started to put the town's women into forced labor?
... that the 2016 International Gran Prix wrestling tournament will be the first Gran Prix held by Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre since the 2008 International Gran Prix?
... that Theodore Wassmer supported his family of ten on a $55 monthly income during the Great Depression?
... that the current Clydesdale Bank £5 note is the first British banknote to be entirely made from polymer?
... that the filming of What Maisie Knew was complicated by its six-year-old star's early bedtime?

20 June 2016

12:00, 20 June 2016 (UTC)

The papyrus on which the Tithonus poem is preserved

... that one of the few nearly-complete poems by the Greek lyric poet Sappho, preserved on a papyrus (pictured) from the third century BC, was published in 2004?
... that William Vitarelli led community and educational projects in Micronesia after winning a U.S. Supreme Court case about his alleged associations with the Communist Party USA?
... that "Catch Me If You Can" was the first release by Girls' Generation since member Jessica was dismissed from the group?
... that Rita Harradence and her husband synthesised penicillamine?
... that the first ever FA Women's Premier League Plate was won by Preston North End in 2015?
... that Bamidele Ali became a specialist in 3D printing after his career in the Canadian Football League?
... that on Super Tuesday, Google Searches for "Donald Drumpf" surpassed those for Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio?

00:00, 20 June 2016 (UTC)

Llewellyn F. Haskell

... that the 41st United States Colored Infantry was organized in 1864 under the command of Colonel Llewellyn F. Haskell (pictured)?
... a new category in the alcoholic beverage industry, referred to as "hard soda" or "flavored beer", was created due to the prosperity of Small Town Brewery's Not Your Father's Root Beer brand?
... that after South Korean girl group GFriend debuted with Season of Glass, a Billboard columnist said they were "leading a new wave of female acts with a classic innocent look"?
... that WAFL Hall of Fame member and East Fremantle Football Club life member Merv Cowan did not want to play for the team when he returned from the war?
... that the dark purple Cortinarius kioloensis mushroom turns red when potassium hydroxide is applied to it?
... that Ukrainian-American endocrinologist Ricka Sapiro Finkler began using the name Rita after Saint Vincent's Hospital offered her a job which they later retracted when they discovered she was a woman?
... that Special Requirements led to Unity?

19 June 2016

12:00, 19 June 2016 (UTC)

Nilgai

... that the nilgai (pictured) has been declared as vermin in Bihar, India?
... that while living in England, American artist Robert Hess learned to paint in the style of John Constable and was influenced by the sculptures of Henry Moore?
... that Acidilobus saccharovorans was the first thermophilic, acidophilic, and obligately anaerobic archaeon to have its genome sequenced?
... that the D.Gray-man character Yu Kanda was taken from an unpublished manga written by the same author?
... that the Guinness World Records lists the Aqaba Church in Jordan as "oldest known purpose-built Christian church in the world"?
... that David Tod Roy, the son of Presbyterian missionaries to China, produced the first unexpurgated English translation of the Ming dynasty erotic novel Jin Ping Mei?
... that Ubisoft Montreal intended to take risks when creating Watch Dogs 2?

00:00, 19 June 2016 (UTC)

Painted during internment

... that Jewish-Ukrainian artist Adolphe Féder produced art (example pictured) while imprisoned in the Drancy internment camp?
... that the concept of lost sales used by the content industry assumes that if pirated products were not available, people would buy them at market rate?
... that when growing up in Ireland, Terry Conroy was sentenced to probation for playing football in the street?
... that Yugo Nakamura avoided elements of modern web design to keep the appearance of FFFFOUND! simple?
... that in the music video for Mamamoo's "Um Oh Ah Yeh", three members dress as men and wear wigs, beards, and prosthetic makeup?
... that in preparation for the 2018 Commonwealth Games, three stations will be added to the initial sixteen stations in the G:link, a light rail system serving the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia?
... that Akashi District existed for another 30 years after the city of Akashi left?

18 June 2016

12:00, 18 June 2016 (UTC)

A dessert served in edible tableware

... that the use of edible tableware (example pictured) dates back to at least the Elizabethan era?
... that the Sekrenyi festival, known locally as Phousnyi, is held by the Angami Nagas as a purification festival?
... that David A. Cooper diagnosed the first case of HIV in Australia?
... that the video game A Bird Story was released as a link between the award-winning To the Moon and its sequel?
... that Margarete Zuelzer, only the 37th woman to earn a doctorate at the University of Heidelberg, had to get special permission from her professors to attend their classes?
... that the grey-crowned flatbill and orange-eyed flatbill often build their bag-shaped nests near wasp nests?
... that both John Quincy and Andrew Johnson currently serve on the Minneapolis City Council?

00:00, 18 June 2016 (UTC)

Andrew McClary

... that during the Battle of Bunker Hill, Andrew McClary (pictured) was both the highest-ranking colonial officer to die and the last soldier killed?
... that the government of Karnataka claims to have eliminated the ancient practice of dedicating girls to the Yellamma Temple?
... that Mary Hale Woolsey wrote the lyrics to "When It's Springtime in the Rockies", which was used in the 1937 film Springtime in the Rockies starring Gene Autry?
... that Poland is creating a 35,000-strong military force designed to counter hybrid warfare?
... that Phillipsburg Union Station was served by the DL&W and CNJ where their lines merged before crossing the Delaware River?
... that R. P. Sethu Pillai was the first recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award for Tamil?
... that the El Laco volcano in Chile has erupted enigmatic iron-rich lava flows?

17 June 2016

12:28, 17 June 2016 (UTC)

Shumen Plateau forest

... that the Shumen Plateau Nature Park (pictured) in Bulgaria is located on the highest plateau of the Danubian Plain?
... that Hannah Chaplin, the mother of the silent screen star Charlie Chaplin, was a British music hall performer who used the stage name Lily Harley?
... that the 1990 edition of the Tour de Trump, an American cycling race, visited Baltimore after its sponsor Donald Trump agreed to moor the Trump Princess in Baltimore Harbor during the race?
... that Girls' Generation's Japanese single "Galaxy Supernova" was used in advertisements for Samantha Thavasa jeans?
... that the new Royal Bank of Scotland £5 note will feature a portrait of the author Nan Shepherd?
... that the Grade I listed Trinity Green Almshouses were built to house "28 decay'd Masters & Commanders of Ships or ye Widows of such"?
... that Colin Raston can unboil an egg?

00:46, 17 June 2016 (UTC)

The Lotus of Hangal

... that the Tarakeshwara Temple in Hangal has an octagonal hall with a 6-metre (20 ft) diameter lotus carving (pictured) as its ceiling?
... that French photographer, journalist, and author Gaëlle Ghesquière achieved fame photographing pop-rock artists on stage, such as Madonna and Mick Jagger?
... that the fifth season of Samurai Jack will continue from the last episode aired in 2004?
... that Frederick Konig commissioned Edwin Lutyens to add a bathing pavilion and temple of music to Tyringham Hall?
... that Cortinarius sublargus mushrooms appear in burnt areas after bushfire?
... that Mason Cox practiced with the Cowgirls, was a walk-on player for the Cowboys, and is now a professional Australian rules footballer for the Magpies?
... that banana ketchup is a fruit ketchup that is very common in the Philippines?

16 June 2016

12:33, 16 June 2016 (UTC)

McLaren MP4-30

... that the McLaren MP4-30 (pictured) was the team's first Honda-powered Formula One car since 1992?
... that the making of Donald Trump's The Art of the Deal: The Movie was kept secret, resulting in a surprise release?
... that Utako Okamoto, discoverer of tranexamic acid, worked with her infant daughter on her back in the laboratory, as she could not find child care?
... that the Muur van Mussert, an overgrown brick wall, is all that remains of the Nazi-inspired rally grounds planned by the Dutch National Socialist Movement?
... that Indian scientist Pushpa Mittra Bhargava, one of the recipients of the Padma Bhushan award in the 1980s, returned it in 2015?
... that Jacky Lafon accidentally received a serious electric shock from a defibrillator while filming the Belgian soap opera Familie?
... that Bishop's Castle Town F.C. was banned by the Football Association of Wales from playing in affiliated leagues because they were not Welsh?

00:00, 16 June 2016 (UTC)

Mahavira

... that Mahavira (pictured) was the 24th and last tirthankara (teaching god) in Jainism?
... that during World War II, the Ames Project produced over 1,000 short tons (910 t) of uranium metal for the Manhattan Project?
... that Jung Mina's song "Jumeokbab" is about her selling rice balls near Gwanghwamun Station?
... that Afghan governments since the 1880s have encouraged, and sometimes forced, Pashtuns to settle in northern Afghanistan?
... that Sawyer's, known for making the View-Master, was at one time the second-largest U.S. manufacturer of slide projectors?
... that the spaghetti sandwich has been described as a "Tokyo novelty" and "handy commuter snack"?
... that Hookers for Hillary is a group of Nevada-based sex workers who support Hillary Clinton in the 2016 United States presidential election?

15 June 2016

12:00, 15 June 2016 (UTC)

David Nott

... that David Nott (pictured) is often styled the "Indiana Jones of surgery"?
... that Operation Leader was the only offensive operation undertaken by the United States Navy in Northern European waters during World War II?
... that the first season of the Netflix television series Marvel's Jessica Jones was awarded a Peabody Award in the category of "Entertainment and Children's programs"?
... that Louisiana Hot Sauce was the first sauce brand marketed using the state of Louisiana's name?
... that from October 2016, the Bank of Scotland £5 note will be issued in polymer, not paper?
... that under US tax law, an association of churches can have churches of different denominations and still be tax-exempt?
... that VA-11 HALL-A is a bartender simulation video game with visual novel, cyberpunk, and anime influences?

00:00, 15 June 2016 (UTC)

Shaokao

... that shaokao (example pictured) is a street food that can be found in almost all cities in China?
... that two days after resigning from the PRI, Carlos Joaquín González became the gubernatorial candidate of a PAN-PRD alliance?
... that a statue near the Senator George Mitchell Peace Bridge commemorates the Northern Ireland peace process, with the inscription "Peace For All"?
... that the 2015 historical novel The Nightingale borrows from the experiences of Belgian World War II resistance fighter Andrée de Jongh?
... that boy band member Gongchan plays the pianist in the music video for Mamamoo's "Piano Man"?
... that during his 23-year career on the Kentucky Court of Appeals and the Kentucky Supreme Court, John S. Palmore wrote more than 800 judicial opinions?
... that Olivia's debut single "Bizounce" was described as giving a "steely boot to a crap lover" in the style of TLC, Kelis, and Eve?

14 June 2016

12:00, 14 June 2016 (UTC)

Blackbuck

... that blackbuck (pictured) could play a role in the dispersal of Prosopis juliflora fruits?
... that Ora Mendelsohn Rosen and her colleagues achieved a scientific breakthrough by cloning the human insulin receptor gene?
... that triple parentheses have been used on Twitter to signify targets for antisemitic harassment?
... that in 1761, the crew of the 26-gun frigate HMS Aquilon rowed for 26 hours straight to escape an enemy ship of the line?
... that George Waschkies, a German member of the Lithuanian parliament, had 14 children?
... that the soundtrack of the 1971 film Ekeino to kalokairi featured the song "San Me Koitas", which has been described as "one of the most beautiful erotic songs of all time"?
... that after Mike Ditka, head coach of the New Orleans Saints, traded for running back Ricky Williams, the two posed together as bride and groom?

00:00, 14 June 2016 (UTC)

Savadatti fort

... that the inner wall of the Kadisiddeshwara Temple in the Savadatti fort (entrance pictured) features a row of more than 200 carvings in geometric designs?
... that Elizabeth Alkin—a publisher, nurse and spy for the Parliamentarian forces during the English Civil War—was nicknamed Parliament Joan?
... that the title for the Resident Alien comic book came from a conversation Peter Hogan had more than 20 years prior to publishing it?
... that the fossil lacewing Paradoxosisyra was placed into a separate subfamily based on its mouth?
... that Formula One driver Michael Schumacher was on the podium in every race of the 2002 season, including eleven race victories, breaking the record for most in a season?
... that since 1976, Mexican filmmaker Felipe Cazals has been nominated for the Ariel Award for Best Director at least once every decade?
... that according to the Long Life of Saint Gerard, the tongue of Ajtony was cut out after his death?

13 June 2016

12:10, 13 June 2016 (UTC)

Sheet music in the Regimen Animarum

... that the Regimen Animarum (pictured) is a Latin codex created in 1343 that contains the Office of the Feast of Corpus Christi?
... that Hillary Clinton's estate Whitehaven has been described as her "fortress of solitude"?
... that town councillors and city police in Boston, Lincolnshire, commemorated its alcohol-free zone legislation by pouring cans of beer down a city street drain?
... that Louise Stevens Bryant, a secretary for the Girl Scouts, also worked with the English sexologist Havelock Ellis?
... that the pygmy three-toed sloth features first in Chris Packham's list of the top ten discoveries in the 2000s?
... that the title of the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Tin Man" was a reference to L. Frank Baum's Tin Woodman?
... that James Bond has died?

00:00, 13 June 2016 (UTC)

1933 poster of the film King Kong

... that before Ernest B. Schoedsack helped direct the original King Kong (poster pictured) with Merian C. Cooper, he was a cameraman in the Signal Corps of the U.S. Army?
... that the 2016–17 Football League Cup will be the first since The Football League was renamed the English Football League?
... that in 1988 Ruth Lockhart oversaw campus AIDS education programs like "Love Carefully Day", when flowers, candies, and condoms were distributed to students to give to "that special someone"?
... that the worker ant Formica biamoensis is difficult to compare to other species because latter species fossils are based upon amber specimens?
... that Michael O. Tunnell unsuccessfully submitted his first children's book over 30 times, but is now the author of many published books including Wishing Moon?
... that a chloridometer is used to determine the concentration of chloride in biological fluids, including blood serum, cerebrospinal fluid, sweat, and urine?
... that Fact magazine headlined in June 2016 that "We’ve discovered Simpsonwave and now we don’t need any more new genres"?

12 June 2016

12:00, 12 June 2016 (UTC)

Spirit of St. Louis

... that the Haskelite Manufacturing Corporation provided most of the plywood material for the Spirit of St. Louis (pictured), which Charles Lindbergh flew on a record-breaking transatlantic flight in 1927?
... that Tube Alloys was the code name of the clandestine British nuclear weapons project during World War II?
... that a Torah scroll commissioned by the Women's Torah Project was written by female scribes and clothed in a mantle stitched with items of clothing donated by women?
... that Sniper Elite 4 was designed to be a "sniper paradise"?
... that Danish swimmer Pernille Blume was part of a team that set a new world record in the 4 × 50 metre medley relay at the 2014 World Short Course Championships?
... that the longnose eagle ray, which is caught unintentionally during fishing activities, is listed as being a "near-threatened species"?
... that Laurie Wolf has written children's books and a crowdfunded book of recipes for cooking with marijuana?

00:00, 12 June 2016 (UTC)

Obverse, Alabama Centennial half dollar

... that, with the issuance of the Alabama Centennial half dollar (pictured), Alabama Governor Thomas Kilby became the first living person to be depicted on a U.S. coin?
... that Secretariat won the 1973 Kentucky Derby with a time of 1 minute 59.4 seconds and ran the last quarter mile in 23 seconds, both Derby records?
... that the pharmaceutical drug migalastat fights Fabry disease by correcting the way a mutated enzyme is folded?
... that Yiddish poet Rivka Basman Ben-Hayim began writing poetry to cheer up fellow inmates at the Kaiserwald concentration camp during World War II?
... that J. Keith Desormeaux decided to become a horse trainer instead of a veterinarian?
... that Mel Eslyn began working on film sets when she was 14 years old?
... that the activity of the bare-tailed woolly opossum is influenced by moonlight?

11 June 2016

12:00, 11 June 2016 (UTC)

Close-up view of an Italian sandwich

... that the Italian sandwich (pictured) was invented after dockworkers in Portland, Maine asked a baker to slice his bread rolls and add vegetables, meat, and cheese?
... that the 1903 Jamaica hurricane destroyed five villages in Martinique established after the eruption of Mount Pelée in 1902?
... that the Electrophone relayed theatre shows, opera performances, and church services over telephone lines?
... that Augustinian nun Jacomijne Costers survived the plague in 1489 and wrote Visioen en exempel, recounting her vision of being led through hell and purgatory?
... that the common eagle ray feeds on shellfish which it crushes with flattened hexagonal teeth arranged in a mosaic fashion on its jaws?
... that the anti-forensic software USBKill was created to prevent data from being seized from logged-in computers, as happened in Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht's arrest?
... that when the Hydraulic Press Channel, a YouTube channel, broadcast the folding of a piece of paper seven times using a hydraulic press, the paper exploded?

00:00, 11 June 2016 (UTC)

Kinki Sharyo SLRV

... that DART's Kinki Sharyo SLRV (pictured) conversion project saved over $50 million compared to the cost of buying new accessible light rail vehicles?
... that storing fossils of Dlusskyidris in castor oil changed the amber's refractive index?
... that James E. Talmage had been one of May Booth Talmage's teachers when she attended Brigham Young Academy before the couple got married?
... that for the web series Play It Again, Dick, the role of Duncan Kane was given to Ryan Devlin, despite the fact that the role was originated by Teddy Dunn?
... that Saul Levin is the first openly gay CEO of the American Psychiatric Association?
... that the release of Girls' Generation's "Mr.Mr." was delayed because scenes from the music video were accidentally deleted?

10 June 2016

12:00, 10 June 2016 (UTC)

Blood red webcap (Cortinarius sanguineus)

... that the pigment of the blood red webcap (pictured) can be used as a red, pink, or purple dye for wool?
... that the complete five-song set of the Bangles' debut EP remained out of print for over 30 years?
... that Michael Andretti's win in the 2001 Molson Indy Toronto surpassed the record for most victories in a single Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART) event?
... that Dorothy Weir Young was the daughter of impressionist painter J. Alden Weir, and wrote a biography of him that was published posthumously in 1960?
... that the Stecknitz Canal was the first European summit-level canal and one of the earliest artificial waterways in Europe?
... that construction of California High-Speed Rail's San Joaquin River Viaduct involves eliminating the last at-grade rail crossing in the city of Fresno?
... that Martha Sonntag Bradley-Evans received criticism for her active voice in Mormon feminism while she was a professor of history at Brigham Young University?

9 June 2016

23:43, 9 June 2016 (UTC)

John von Neumann

... that John von Neumann (pictured) once wrote that "anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin"?
... that Bakeys, an Indian manufacturer of edible utensils, hopes to reduce plastic utensil waste in India, which numbers around 120 billion discarded pieces annually?
... that Canadian football center Marv Allemang was moved to the Ottawa Rough Riders in a secret equalization draft designed to improve poorly-performing teams?
... that two of the key elements of political globalization are the decreasing role of the nation-state and the rise of global civil society?
... that 16th-century Greek noble Manthos Papagiannis repeatedly solicited support from western European leaders for a planned uprising against the Ottoman Empire?
... that Ursula K. Le Guin's 1972 short story Vaster than Empires and More Slow features a consciousness that reaches over all the vegetation on the fictional planet World 4470?
... that the grassland sparrow is a "secretive" bird?

11:28, 9 June 2016 (UTC)

1900 vintage carroms game board

... that Henry L. Haskell patented a game board (1900 vintage board shown) through the Carrom Company to keep young boys out of pool halls where they might develop bad habits?
... that Jon Gries of Lost fame will portray Dream Corp, LLC's principal character, while John Krasinski of The Office is an executive producer?
... that cricketer and Australian rules footballer George Coulthard was attacked by a shark near Shark Island?
... that the champion stallion Midnight Sun was ridden by children?
... that U.S. Navy SEAL Faauuga Muagututia was a member of American Samoa's first Winter Olympic team?
... that then-Mayor of London Boris Johnson and Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn campaigned to save Gaby's Deli?

8 June 2016

23:03, 8 June 2016 (UTC)

Cairanoolithus

... that Cairanoolithus (pictured), a type of dinosaur egg measuring up to 19 cm (7.5 in) in diameter, is too large to have been laid by the ornithopod Rhabdodon?
... that the sport shooter Elena Allen was born in Russia, but has competed separately for England and Wales at the Commonwealth Games, and Great Britain at the Summer Olympics?
... that because of pedigree collapse, some family trees are better modeled mathematically as directed acyclic graphs than as trees?
... that "UpTown Funk!", the number-one song of 2015 in the United States according to Billboard, also reached the top of the Mexico Ingles Airplay chart?
... that Amy Bess Miller helped found a museum while presiding over a library?
... that a brawl caused the Halifax Rainmen to forfeit the National Basketball League of Canada Finals?
... that while watching her first operation, Mary Alice Powell Lindsay passed out three times, but she later became a registered nurse in Utah and was assistant superintendent of nurses at the LDS Hospital?

00:00, 8 June 2016 (UTC)

Prince

... that an episode of New Girl marked the first time Prince (pictured) appeared in a television sitcom?
... that Scott Dixon became the winner of the 2010 Honda Indy Edmonton after Hélio Castroneves was judged to have blocked his teammate?
... that the fossil ant genus Baikuris is known from adult males only?
... that when RAAF Transport Flight (Japan)'s last C-47 departed Iwakuni in 1956, it left ground staff and Flight Lieutenant Raleigh, a small dog who liked flying and had been at the base since 1945?
... that the kabbalistic hymn "Bar Yochai" is "heard around the clock" at the massive celebrations in Meron, Israel, on Lag BaOmer?
... that Canadian football fullback Guillaume Allard-Caméus is a two-time Vanier Cup champion?
... that the female figures in the Vishvanatha Temple in Madhya Pradesh, India, have been described as the "most striking carvings of females in Khajuraho"?

7 June 2016

12:00, 7 June 2016 (UTC)

Original Hove Town Hall c. 1907

... that the original Hove Town Hall building (pictured) was damaged by fire in 1966?
... that "International Lover" was the song for which Prince received his first Grammy Award nomination?
... that head film critic for Variety and The Hollywood Reporter Todd McCarthy also won an Emmy Award for his documentary Preston Sturges: The Rise and Fall of an American Dreamer?
... that the Autonomy Cube is an art project by Trevor Paglen and Jacob Appelbaum which places Tor-relays in art-museums?
... that Egyptologist Roger Khawam learned to fly and originally wanted to be an aerobatic pilot?
... that there are "moderately aromatic" arsoles?

00:00, 7 June 2016 (UTC)

Remains of a wooden barge at the Purton site

... that the Purton Hulks make up the largest ship graveyard (abandoned ship pictured) in mainland Britain?
... that the philosopher John Hadley argues that the territory of wild animals should be considered their property?
... that the carrozza is a street food and popular dish in Campania, Italy, where it is prepared using buffalo mozzarella?
... that Pat, a character from the Inside No. 9 episode "Nana's Party", was variously described by critics as an "irritating tit", an "insufferable booby", and a "desperately sad and dignified man"?
... that Serbs taken as prisoners of war during the Siege of Belgrade in 1521 were settled at a present-day location inside Istanbul's Falih Rıfkı Atay Nature Park?
... that in February 1981, "Duncan", a song about drinking beer, was the number-one single in Australia?
... that the larvae of the rove beetle Lomechusa pubicollis are cared for by ants?

6 June 2016

12:00, 6 June 2016 (UTC)

Six-banded armadillo

... that in South America, taboos are associated with the consumption of the meat of the six-banded armadillo (pictured)?
... that Captain Robert Orme fought alongside George Washington at the Battle of the Monongahela?
... that by the 13th century, the Tayy were the dominant Arab tribe in the Syrian steppe, Upper Mesopotamia and north-central Arabia?
... that a song from GFriend's EP Flower Bud was broadcast via loudspeaker across the Korean Demilitarized Zone as part of South Korea's response to a North Korean nuclear test?
... that Pleas Jones was the first justice to retire from the Kentucky Supreme Court after its creation in 1976?
... that the small Maya archaeological site of K'atepan in Guatemala is said to have been the home of the Tojolabal Maya, a group now found in neighbouring Mexico?
... that game developers changed the victory pose for the Overwatch character Tracer, after a fan noted that her original pose was over sexualized?

00:00, 6 June 2016 (UTC)

Rebecca Levy House

... that a three-story house (pictured) in the historical neighborhood of Even Yisrael has been called "Jerusalem's first skyscraper"?
... that Alexander Prokhorenko, a Russian special forces intelligence officer, called in an airstrike on himself when he was ambushed by ISIS during the battle to liberate Palmyra?
... that in the late 1960s, a civil engineer found himself unable to uncover any written information on the spelling of Fidlers Run?
... that Canadian football fullback Kojo Aidoo appeared in two direct-to-TV movies?
... that the musical style of GFriend's Snowflake is similar to K-pop from the late 1990s and 2000s?
... that Stanko Bilinski's 1960 rediscovery of the Bilinski dodecahedron corrected a 75-year-old omission from the list of convex polyhedra with congruent rhombic faces?
... that the Australian mushroom Cortinarius erythraeus is covered in slime?

5 June 2016

12:00, 5 June 2016 (UTC)

Portrait of Alexander Mornauer, National Gallery, London

... that a 15th-century portrait of a Bavarian town clerk by the anonymous Master of the Mornauer Portrait (pictured) was once partially overpainted and then sold as "Martin Luther, by Hans Holbein"?
... that Irish producer Iglooghost said he did not understand the comparison to the works of PC Music in reviews for his EP Chinese Nü Yr?
... that the first film produced by Gabriel Ripstein was directed by his father and written by his mother?
... that fried cheese was a popular dish in Cairo, Egypt during the Middle Ages, and remained a part of the cuisine throughout the Ottoman occupation?
... that Birgit Jürgenssen, an Austrian photographer, painter, graphic artist, curator and teacher, was acclaimed as one of the "outstanding international representatives of the feminist avant-garde"?
... that the story line of the 2015 Thai teen flick May Who? was inspired by director Chayanop Boonprakob's own teenage years?
... that a recent Major League Soccer match between two teams in New York City was nicknamed the Hudson River Massacre?

00:00, 5 June 2016 (UTC)

G. Sankara Kurup

... that when poet G. Sankara Kurup's (pictured) poem Odakkuzhal was nominated for the first Jnanpith Award, the Kerala Sahitya Akademi had opined that no Malayalam-language work was worthy of this inaugural prize?
... that the Mennonite radio program The Calvary Hour had no official standing?
... that the Prussian scheme was a reported attempt to establish a monarchy in the United States under Prince Henry of Prussia?
... that Plagioolithus is thought to be the oldest known fragment of bird egg?
... that Bernice Weldon Sargent's work was used by Enrico Fermi in developing his theory of beta decay?
... that some meteorites contain an unusual isotope of neon due to it being trapped in buckyballs in an endohedral neon compound?
... that Gussie Nell Davis created Greenville High School's all-girl team, the Flaming Flashes, the first dance-drill squad to perform in the United States?

4 June 2016

12:00, 4 June 2016 (UTC)

Old Slaughter's Coffee House

... that Benjamin Franklin played chess at Old Slaughter's Coffee House (pictured)?
... that the United States was accused by President Maduro of provoking a covert coup against his government in Venezuela's state of emergency?
... that The Jordan Museum is the largest museum in Jordan, and hosts the country's most important archaeological finds?
... that white jute and Jew's mallow are used both for the production of fibre and for food?
... that Mexican actor Sebastián Aguirre won an Ariel Award for the role of a child sexually abused by a priest?
... that the 2001 Marlboro 500 saw a record-breaking 73 lead changes in a Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART) race?
... that patent barley flour is used as an ingredient in infant foods?

00:00, 4 June 2016 (UTC)

Pilgrim Tercentenary half dollar

... that, in numismatics, it was said that "the age of innocence" ended with the Pilgrim Tercentenary half dollar (pictured)?
... that former university president Nancy H. Hensel has skied the Tasman Glacier and climbed Mount Whitney, Mount Kilimanjaro, and Mount Aconcagua?
... that Switzerland's Poya Bridge was constructed together with an adjacent tunnel containing an underground roundabout?
... that a linebacker was the leading scorer on the 1971 Michigan Wolverines football team?
... that despite the U.S. Supreme Court holding in Foster v. Chatman that prosecutors purposefully discriminated against black jurors in his trial, Timothy Foster's death sentence might not be overturned?
... that, according to a 2005 survey, 1 out of 5 women in China had suffered from domestic violence within the previous year?
... that the driver of a speeding coach that crashed in Joigny, France, killing 11, was finally tried 13 years after the incident?

3 June 2016

12:00, 3 June 2016 (UTC)

Maria Antonia Merkelbach

... that Maria Antonia Merkelbach (pictured) and her husband took many portrait pictures of Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, one of which was chosen as the state photograph?
... that the South Jamaica Houses in South Jamaica, New York City, was the first housing development built by the New York City Housing Authority intended to be racially integrated?
... that because she was arrested for indecent behavior, Rosette Wolczak died in Auschwitz aged 15?
... that recent United States Supreme Court decisions may have created "drug-dog and drunk-driving exceptions to the totality-of-the-circumstances approach"?
... that Danell Lynn rode 48,600 miles (78,214 km) to become the first solo woman to set a world record for longest motorcycle journey in a single country?
... that Alexander Ewing's tune for "Jerusalem the Golden" was "the earliest written, the best known, and with children the most popular"?
... that according to scientists, cow tipping would require between 4 and 14 coordinated people, unlike the depiction of the urban legend in film and television?

00:06, 3 June 2016 (UTC)

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Kanhira Puzhan Dam and reservoir

... that the Kanhira Puzhan Dam reservoir (pictured) caused a village to be submerged, and its 44 tribal families to be moved?
... that Ronald Reagan called Ralph Harris "a veritable institution among the Fourth Estate in Washington"?
... that Husayn ibn Ruh, the third deputy of Muhammad al-Mahdi, was from the Nawbakhti family who had high position in the Abbasid court?
... that klipspringers form pair bonds that may last for life?
... that Mary Mostert was a Democrat, but switched parties after working on President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty programs, and ran as a Republican for the New York State Senate in 1972?
... that Liam Neeson is portraying a key person of the Watergate scandal, Mark Felt, in an eponymous upcoming film?
... that a roadeo is a rodeo, but for motor vehicles?

2 June 2016

12:13, 2 June 2016 (UTC)

Mary Cabot Wheelwright, age 4

... that Mary Cabot Wheelwright (pictured as a child) recorded details about Navajo ceremonies in the early 20th century from medicine man Hosteen Klah?
... that the proposed Potala Tower in Seattle was named after the Potala Palace in Tibet by its developer, a former Tibetan Buddhist monk?
... that Steve McGarrett was played by Jack Lord and then, 30 years later, by Alex O'Loughlin?
... that hydrothermal vents provide a deep-sea habitat for crustaceans and other animals?
... that Debra Marquart left Napoleon, North Dakota, to tour with rock bands and returned to teach writers' workshops in Bakken oil field communities most affected by hydraulic fracking?
... that Juan Pablo Montoya's victory in the 2001 Italian Grand Prix made him the first Colombian to win a Formula One motor race?
... that central to Philippe Musard's 1832 concerts was a "lascivious spectacle"?
00:00, 2 June 2016 (UTC)

Dude Rancher Lodge stairway

... that the Dude Rancher Lodge (stairway pictured) is said to be haunted by the ghost of its original owner?
... that Moustafa Ali played rugby union after retiring from the Canadian Football League?
... that ice caps can contain nitrogen clathrate formed by compressing air on ice?
... that Christopher Báthory, Voivode of Transylvania, was buried almost two years after his death?
... that construction of the new Calgary Central Library required the encapsulation of an active CTrain light rail line over a year-long period?
... that ballet photographer Nina Alovert's subjects have included Mikhail Baryshnikov, Vladimir Malakhov, and Yulia Makhalina?
... that the first alcohol-free bar in New Zealand went out of business five weeks after opening due to a lack of consumer interest?

1 June 2016

12:00, 1 June 2016 (UTC)

Caracal

... that the caracal (pictured) can leap more than 3 m (10 ft) in the air and catch birds on the wing?
... that the Ping Opera star Bai Yushuang collapsed during a performance of Understanding after Death and subsequently died?
... that on "Traveling Salesman Day" at the 1915 Texas State Fair, the Dallas Equal Suffrage Association convinced visiting salesmen to wear badges proclaiming "Votes for Women"?
... that Israel Beltrán Montes was elected twice to the Chamber of Deputies and twice as municipal president of Ciudad Cuauhtémoc?
... that Televisa Radio attempted to merge with two of its principal competitors in 2000, only to have both deals fall through?
... that Cy Sneed's father took a demotion to move from Nevada to Idaho so his sons could play for a better high school baseball team?
... that two Catholic saints, Ansbert of Rouen and Angadrisma, were engaged to be married?

00:00, 1 June 2016 (UTC)

Side view of Church of the Holy Trinity

... that despite the cornerstone being laid in 1852, the Church of the Holy Trinity in Nashville, Tennessee, was not consecrated until 36 years later, in 1888?
... that two Scotland international rugby union players, Cecil Abercrombie and John Skinner Wilson, died in the Battle of Jutland on 31 May 1916?
... that one critic saw "Séance Time", an episode of Inside No. 9, as a critique of reality television's callousness from the perspective of television plays?
... that Barbara Minishi's photo series was featured in the book 9 Photographers from Kenya, published in association with the National Museums of Kenya?
... that the pepito is one of the most popular street foods in Venezuela?
... that the midge Forcipomyia squamipennis is an important pollinator of the cacao tree in Ghana?
... that Ruth Taubert Seeger represented the United States in the 1957 Deaflympics and was still competing successfully in the 2002 Senior Games of San Antonio?