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31 March 2020

00:00, 31 March 2020 (UTC)

Rain (1889)

... that Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh used slanted lines to depict rainfall in his 1889 painting Rain (shown), drawing inspiration from Japanese prints such as those by Hiroshige?
... that English judoka Samantha Lowe was selected, then deselected, then reselected for the 2002 Commonwealth Games, and went on to win a gold medal?
... that Shueisha, the publisher of Weekly Shōnen Jump, has produced a manga series in collaboration with Marvel Comics?
... that Jeffrey Erickson, who was accused of robbing banks in the Chicago metropolitan area with his wife Jill, was a former police officer in Hoffman Estates?
... that the Royal Irish Yacht Club has retained its royal title despite the establishment of the Republic of Ireland?
... that Gösta Neuwirth studied composition and musicology in Vienna, but wrote his dissertation on harmony in Schreker's opera Der ferne Klang in Berlin?
... that the Whitehall Building in New York City was developed by a company headed by the inventor of Vaseline?
... that during the first siege of Wardour Castle in 1643, Lady Blanche Arundell held out for a week with just 25 Royalist soldiers against 1,300 Parliamentarian troops?

30 March 2020

00:00, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

Jessye Norman

... that soprano Jessye Norman (pictured), whose voice was described as a "grand mansion of sound", performed at U.S. presidential inaugurations and sang La Marseillaise at the French Revolution's bicentennial?
... that before its closure, locals near St Johnston railway station relied heavily for income on Irish customs officers trying to catch smugglers heading for Londonderry station?
... that history professor Hiraizumi Kiyoshi believed Emperor Jimmu to have been a real historical figure?
... that a 19th-century country house with a ruined monastery in Winchelsea, England, was put on the market for £4.5 million in 2015?
... that Peter Force's library is considered to be the most important collection of military manuscripts and maps from the American Revolution?
... that the flowering plant Gentianella anglica is found only in Great Britain?
... that after 50 years in business, S.W. Randall Toyes and Giftes is both a landmark and a stop on "Haunted Pittsburgh" tours?
... that Corona, named after Corona, is fighting corona?

29 March 2020

00:00, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

Drawing from Brush's aircraft patent application

... that Mary Taylor Brush filed a 1917 patent (drawing shown) for a design to make aircraft "practically invisible when in the air"?
... that the Aberbargoed Grasslands in Wales were designated a Special Area of Conservation primarily due to their population of marsh fritillary butterflies, which had been threatened by an arson attack?
... that sculptor Dan Lam was born in a refugee camp in Morong, Philippines?
... that a deep-sea fish known as a black ruff was caught in a salmon net in the Firth of Forth and donated to the Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art in 1901?
... that the offices of the Chanin Organization in New York City's Chanin Building contained "America's finest bathroom" and a set of ornate bronze gates?
... that Japanese voice actor Shugo Nakamura, who has voiced characters in The Idolmaster SideM and other anime series, was recognized as one of the Best New Actors at the 2019 Seiyu Awards?
... that musician Finneas made a cameo appearance as an Uber driver in the music video for Tove Lo's song "Bikini Porn"?
... that at the age of 10, Sky Brown became the youngest professional skateboarder in the world?

28 March 2020

00:00, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

Megan Rosenbloom

... that librarian Megan Rosenbloom (pictured), an expert in anthropodermic bibliopegy, can determine if a book is bound in human skin?
... that during the 1981 Benson & Hedges Cup Final, a domestic cricket match in England, two West Indian players set new batting and bowling records?
... that Richard J. Daronco was a United States federal judge for just over a year before he was assassinated by the father of a disgruntled plaintiff?
... that academic Paul Tempan said of the Twelve Bens mountain range in Connemara, Ireland, that "nobody seems to know exactly which are the twelve peaks in question"?
... that political scientist Elizabeth Theiss-Morse has written a book on the flexibility of the American national identity?
... that due to its similarity to the coronavirus pandemic, Warner Bros.' second most successful film of 2020 so far is 2011's Contagion?
... that while studying dance, Anca Giurchescu joined the Romanian national shooting team and won individual and team medals at the 1955 European Shooting Championships?
... that the "Cracked Bell of Trinity Church" in Ryde, England, died of a broken heart and wrote to a newspaper about it?

27 March 2020

00:00, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

Caricature of Hector Berlioz by Étienne Carjat

... that besides his portrait photography, Étienne Carjat edited journals and published caricatures (example shown) in the popular press?
... that the systematic deportation of Jews to the Auschwitz concentration camp began on 26 March 1942, with a transport of 997 women and girls from Poprad, Slovakia?
... that Chiara Daraio has used a version of Newton's cradle to create "sound bullets", and walls filled with ball bearings to create one-way barriers for sound?
... that the Union Church in Hong Kong was temporarily moved to the officers' mess of the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps from 1945 to 1949?
... that Senator Ted Kennedy's 1980 presidential campaign may have weakened support for incumbent U.S. president Jimmy Carter, who later lost the general election?
... that the Palazzo del Governatore di Borgo in Rome was one of the first buildings to display architect Antonio da Sangallo the Younger's artistic maturity?
... that during the American Civil War, Charles B. Norton offered to hide Peter Force's large library for fear of a Confederate attack on Washington, D.C.?
... that High Peak Borough Council dyed a lake black at Harpur Hill Quarry in Derbyshire, England, to deter swimmers from entering the caustic waters?

26 March 2020

00:00, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

Swanwick Shore Strict Baptist Chapel

... that Swanwick Shore Strict Baptist Chapel (pictured), a place of worship in the borough of Fareham in Hampshire, England, was built to replace a converted wooden boatshed that flooded during high tides?
... that Kurdish nationalist Dara Tawfiq was the editor of Iraq's only independent newspaper in the early 1970s?
... that records from the National Archives at Seattle are planned to be moved to California and to Kansas City, Missouri?
... that in 1918, Edith A. Ellis advocated an all-female government with the slogan "Insist that no man shall occupy a position that a woman can fill"?
... that the U.S. has imposed sanctions on Luis Parra and six other Venezuelan politicians in relation to an alleged corruption plot?
... that Cecylia and Maciej Brogowski, a Polish Catholic couple, were posthumously recognised as Righteous Among the Nations for having sheltered a Jewish girl during the Holocaust?
... that the winged wheel on the coat of arms of the Institution of Municipal Engineers represented traffic and machinery?
... that the song "I've danced with a man, who's danced with a girl, who's danced with the Prince of Wales" was inspired by Edna Deane being asked for a dance nine times by the future Edward VIII?

25 March 2020

00:00, 25 March 2020 (UTC)

Seattle Monorail red train

... that the Seattle Center Monorail began operating 58 years ago today and still uses its original trains (example pictured)?
... that Edgar Wright, director of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, thinks that the film is different from other comedies because it has "a lot of funny women in it"?
... that Gaelic footballer Seán Quigley was banned for one game for turning off the lights in a stadium tunnel?
... that the Merthyr Mawr Sand Dunes in Wales doubled for the deserts of the Arabian Peninsula during the filming of Lawrence of Arabia?
... that James Blunt wrote "Monsters" to express his feelings about his father and his father's illness?
... that the Reverend Raphael Warnock has hosted Al Gore at his church, and been arrested at the Georgia State Capitol?
... that darts player Tony David won the 2002 BDO World Darts Championship despite having haemophilia, which prevents him from straightening his throwing arm?
... that in 1725 Hans Sloane described a plant he called Prickly-Pole as the Jamaican tree species that was "the most fit to make Rods and Scowrers for Guns"?

24 March 2020

00:00, 24 March 2020 (UTC)

Idol Rock

... that although the Brimham Rocks (example pictured) were shaped naturally by erosion, Hayman Rooke conjectured that the extraordinary shapes of some stones could have been carved in part by druids?
... that J. Hunter Guthrie, president of Georgetown University, disbanded the university's football program because he considered it unprofitable and inconsistent with a Catholic university's mission?
... that despite being known as the Kerry lily, the perennial plant has a much wider distribution outside Ireland?
... that Papuan-born Silas Papare, who originally held pro-Dutch views, became pro-republican after World War II and founded the Indonesian Irian Independence Party?
... that 21 West Street in New York City is possibly the first commercial building in the U.S. to have windows wrapping around the corners?
... that the manga series A Man and His Cat was initially self-published, with entries posted weekly on the author's Twitter account?
... that Gerry Culliton was banned from hurling after being seen playing rugby, and later represented Ireland in rugby internationally?
... that a 2020 documentary about Pepe the Frog raises the question of whether Pepe can be redeemed?

23 March 2020

00:00, 23 March 2020 (UTC)

Glass facade of a building

... that glass (example pictured) can form naturally from supercooled volcanic magma?
... that Odile Pierre, who became interested in the organ at a recital by Marcel Dupré at the age of seven, later served as the organist of La Madeleine in Paris and played around 2,000 recitals herself?
... that in Florida, winged termites are sometimes found stuck to wet foliage, buildings, or vehicles after rain?
... that nuclear scientist Clarice Phelps has been recognized as the first African-American woman to be involved with the discovery of a chemical element?
... that any tetrahedron that has integer edge lengths, face areas, and volume can be given in integer vertex coordinates?
... that "Baby Yoda" is considered the breakout character of the Star Wars television series The Mandalorian?
... that Mariya Takeuchi's 1984 song "Plastic Love" saw an international resurgence in 2017?
... that poet and scholar Robert L. Kahn, who escaped Nazi Germany with a Kindertransport, became a professor of German at Rice University in Houston, Texas?

22 March 2020

00:00, 22 March 2020 (UTC)

Edward Kamakau Lilikalani

... that Edward Kamakau Lilikalani (pictured) filed a petition with President Theodore Roosevelt claiming to be "the sole heir to the Kamehameha rights to the Crown lands" of Hawaii?
... that a 1978 Jammu and Kashmir law enacted by Sheikh Abdullah was eventually used to detain his son and his grandson?
... that psychologist Susan Folkman coined the terms "problem-focused coping" and "emotion-focused coping"?
... that contrary to popular belief, a hatch in the roof of the Cleveland Tunnel in Bath was probably not used to pass paperwork between office workers above and vessels below?
... that "Democracy Dies in Darkness" is the first slogan ever to be adopted by The Washington Post?
... that video game director Aya Kyogoku created Animal Crossing: New Leaf with a team that was half female, and credits the team's diversity for the game's critical and commercial success?
... that mass graves in the Orkney and Shetland islands of Scotland might contain bodies from a tsunami 5,500 years ago?
... that Russia and Belarus fought an eleven-day Milk War?

21 March 2020

00:00, 21 March 2020 (UTC)

Riccarton House

... that neither William nor John Deans, pioneers of Canterbury, New Zealand, lived to move from their 1843 cottage to the 1856 homestead (pictured) built on their estate?
... that television station KTVE in Longview, Texas, broadcast the 1954 World Series without permission, and was ordered to cease and desist by the NBC network?
... that at the age of 11, Gabrielle Reidy made her first appearance at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin?
... that the Washington Hall hotel was destroyed during the Battle of Atlanta as part of General Sherman's scorched-earth policy?
... that an erotic manga series by Milk Morizono received complaints from the police, parent–teacher associations, housewife groups, and politicians?
... that the 1985 British Open was the first ranking snooker tournament not to feature a British player in the final?
... that J. Havens Richards, the president of Georgetown University, successfully petitioned Harvard Law School to admit the graduates of some Catholic colleges?
... that the first football match held after the renovation of Milltown stadium in Northern Ireland was abandoned due to a floodlight failure?

20 March 2020

00:00, 20 March 2020 (UTC)

American Ruff – City Flotsam by Jan Yager

... that Jan Yager's artwork American Ruff (pictured) is made from discarded crack-cocaine vials and caps?
... that unlike most soft scale insects, the adult female pyriform scale is able to move around?
... that Welsh boxer Steve Sims has trained for fights by running up and down the 290 steps of the Newport Transporter Bridge ten times a day?
... that the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority twice built new lines bypassing JFK/UMass station, only to add platforms later?
... that negotiations for the Indonesia–Australia Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement were hindered by spying and executions?
... that Pier 40, a sports facility in New York City's Hudson River Park, was formerly a cargo terminal?
... that Llerena Friend, the first director of the Barker Center for Texas History, lived in 24 different homes during her youth?
... that IXI Limited was one of many computer companies to sprout from an acorn?

19 March 2020

00:00, 19 March 2020 (UTC)

Kuney in Penny Serenade, 1941

... that Eva Lee Kuney (pictured) was one of the children used to fill out the background of Munchkin scenes in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz?
... that a man suspected of carrying coronavirus in Nepal ran away from the hospital?
... that Mayerlin Rivas held World Boxing Association world championship titles in both bantamweight and super bantamweight classes?
... that Jay Electronica began recording his 2007 mixtape Act I: Eternal Sunshine (The Pledge) on a built-in laptop microphone?
... that Aditi Kapil's Imogen Says Nothing is inspired by a ghost character in Much Ado About Nothing?
... that Union Station in Walpole, Massachusetts, was the site of the last semaphore signals in New England?
... that Canadian professor Robert Steadward became the founding president of the International Paralympic Committee in 1989?
... that the sea cucumber Actinopyga agassizii has five teeth surrounding its anus?

18 March 2020

00:00, 18 March 2020 (UTC)

Emerson Emory

... that African-American physician Emerson Emory (pictured) hung both a Confederate flag and a photograph of Hillary Clinton in his office?
... that composer Payal Dev used multiple instruments in the 2019 Hindi ballad "Tum Hi Aana" to "give it the right amount of emotions"?
... that Cleveland Museum of Art director William Griswold negotiated the restitution of a Hanuman sculpture and a portrait of Drusus Julius Caesar after their questionable provenances were discovered?
... that the Irish Central Committee for the Employment of Women, which operated from 1914 to 1919, paid Irish women the same as their British counterparts?
... that Latvian folklorist Anna Bērzkalne wrote her 1942 doctoral thesis in English instead of German as a form of non-violent resistance to the Nazi occupation of Latvia during World War II?
... that the sea slug Berthella ocellata hides during the day and feeds on sponges such as Corticium candelabrum at night?
... that Charles Carroll MacTavish, the great-grandson of a signatory of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, was briefly a member of the British House of Commons?
... that the Apache Powder Company used a fleet of fireless locomotives to prevent accidental explosions?

17 March 2020

00:00, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

Common toothwort flowers

... that Ripon Parks is noted for its colonies of the parasitic common toothwort (pictured), as well as for the yellow star-of-Bethlehem?
... that David Leleo Kinimaka was the first member of the Royal Guards of Hawaii to voluntarily leave the ranks during an 1873 mutiny at ʻIolani Barracks?
... that the 3-metre-high (9.8 ft), 6th-century Parel Relief, with seven figures of Shiva, was found in Mumbai during road building in 1931, and is now worshipped at a local temple?
... that violinist Günter Kehr, director of the Peter Cornelius Conservatory from 1953, founded the Kehr Trio, a string trio that toured South America, North Africa, and the Near East?
... that the premiere of the television series Arrow's fourth season is the first time that the title character is referred to by his comics moniker Green Arrow?
... that boxer Angélique Duchemin was an undefeated French, European, and world champion?
... that 26 Broadway, the former New York City headquarters of Standard Oil, has a pyramidal tower that once contained a kerosene-burning cauldron?
... that the residents of Ely, Cardiff, rioted over the sale of bread in 1991?

16 March 2020

00:00, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

Liberty County Jail

... that Liberty County Jail (pictured) in Hinesville, Georgia, now listed on the National Register of Historic Places, was once described by the state governor as a "rotten, filthy rathole"?
... that Frieda Caplan, a pioneer of the specialty-produce industry in the U.S., introduced the kiwifruit to the American market?
... that Dubarry Park hosted the Irish rugby union team's home matches in the Six Nations Under 20s Championship between 2005 and 2015?
... that Haraguchi Kensai led the Imperial Japanese Army's 13th Division in the invasion of Sakhalin?
... that Ohio television station WSWO-TV went off the air the same week that its owner was arrested for stealing equipment from other stations?
... that for more than a decade, wrestler Ravi Kumar Dahiya's father travelled daily from his village to Delhi to deliver milk and fruits to him?
... that a new wireless-charging standard for electric vehicles guides the driver over the charging spot by triangulating the charger's signal?
... that Nikolai Moskvitelev, a former officer in the Soviet Air Defence Forces, was still flying in old age – including a Sukhoi Su-30 on his 80th birthday, and a Yakovlev Yak-52 just before his 90th?

15 March 2020

00:00, 15 March 2020 (UTC)

Royal Navy officers boarding Chesapeake

... that Gordon Falcon was one of the British officers who boarded the USS Chesapeake (depicted) to search for Royal Navy deserters during the Chesapeake–Leopard affair?
... that production designer Kristi Zea created the visual imagery for The Silence of the Lambs, including a scene that the script described only as "a snapshot from hell"?
... that Pride in STEM wants to "queer up science spaces and science up queer spaces"?
... that Walter M. Giffard was a member of the Republic of Hawaii's Committee to Destroy Postage Stamps, Postcards and Stamped Envelopes?
... that the 1977 Dry Blackthorn Cup was the first snooker event to be held at Wembley Conference Centre?
... that Vasily Savvin was the last commander of the Internal Troops of the Soviet Union, and the first commander of the Internal Troops of Russia?
... that The Red Dragon magazine was intended to "make known to the greater English world the characteristics and aims of the Welsh people and the beauties of their language and literature"?
... that comedian Bill Burr disliked Star Wars and regularly mocked the franchise until he portrayed a character in it?

14 March 2020

00:00, 14 March 2020 (UTC)

Cover of The Victorian
Railway Murders (1979)

... that Arthur and Mary Sellwood had the idea for a book (cover shown) on Victorian railway murders in the 1940s, but did not write it until after a "violent incident on a night train" in the 1970s?
... that Joywave's third album Possession incorporates samples of audio from the Voyager Golden Record into its songs?
... that as a law student, Burkhard Driest robbed a savings bank shortly before an examination, and later wrote a book and a film script about his experiences?
... that larvae of the tube worm Hydroides ezoensis prefer to settle on a substrate already inhabited by other worms of their own species?
... that Pope Francis's apostolic exhortation Querida Amazonia does not explicitly endorse married Catholic priests, despite being called for by the Amazon synod?
... that in a January 2020 Premiership Rugby match, referee Luke Pearce appointed Manu Vunipola as Saracens captain, after Pearce decided that he did not want to speak with Jackson Wray?
... that future president John F. Kennedy came in second to Senator Estes Kefauver in the 1956 Democratic vice-presidential ballot?
... that police officers once arrested a Mexican Panther who was involved in drug trafficking?

13 March 2020

00:00, 13 March 2020 (UTC)

Conan Gray

... that the upcoming debut album Kid Krow by Conan Gray (pictured) grew out of his experiences as a mixed-race child in Texas?
... that the design of the 2018 Melita bullion coins is based on a series of stamps issued almost a century earlier?
... that Charles E. Mills had dual careers in banking and explosives?
... that past eruptions of Cadamosto Seamount dispersed volcanic ash underwater over thousands of square kilometres?
... that in 2019, Japanese voice actress Midori Katō earned a Guinness World Record for having voiced the same character in the anime Sazae-san for 50 years and a day?
... that in the collection Madwoman, Jamaican-American poet Shara McCallum uses both English and Patwa, a creole she heard while growing up but never saw in writing?
... that Estonian general and former Minister of Education Aleksander Jaakson was arrested by NKVD while working on his farm?
... that the American Stock Exchange Building was built to get the New York Curb Exchange off the street?

12 March 2020

00:00, 12 March 2020 (UTC)

Mary Helen Johnston

... that Mary Helen Johnston (pictured) was awarded the NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal before being selected as an astronaut, but has never gone into space?
... that the nucleoid keeps the bulk of a bacterium's DNA both compact and well organized?
... that a pub on Wincheap in Canterbury is believed to be the oldest continuously trading in the city?
... that O salutaris hostia (O saving victim), a setting of a Eucharistic hymn for mixed choir by Vytautas Miškinis, was performed in Brussels when Lithuania held the EU Council presidency?
... that professor Neil Ferguson and his team believe that significantly more people in China have been infected with the 2019 novel coronavirus than has been reported?
... that trailers for Uncharted 4: A Thief's End were shown before select screenings of Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice?
... that a course in Spanish North American history that Nettie Lee Benson took at the University of Texas inspired her lifelong interest in teaching and building libraries for Latin American studies?
... that asphaltite powers Şırnak Silopi?

11 March 2020

00:00, 11 March 2020 (UTC)

Kakwkylla

... that Kakwkylla (depiction shown), a female saint venerated in Sweden and Germany during the late Middle Ages, may have originated from a misunderstanding of an Irish abbot's gender?
... that horse surfing involves a person surfing while being towed by a horse?
... that Joseph Stoddart was acknowledged as "one of the founding fathers" of intensive care in the UK?
... that copies of the video game The Race Against Time were recalled due to the unauthorized use of Jesse Owens's likeness on its packaging and advertising?
... that the musicologist Georg von Dadelsen wrote his dissertation on the chronology of Bach's compositions, and influenced the Neue Bach-Ausgabe, the second complete edition of his works?
... that reflective writing is a good way to increase empathy in medical students?
... that Eugene C. Barker was involved in the "biggest bear fight" in Texas history with Governor James E. Ferguson, but Barker kept his job and Ferguson was later impeached?
... that the British regulator Ofcom received more than 400 complaints over the Pussycat Dolls' decision to wear sheer PVC outfits during their live performance of "React" on a family programme?

10 March 2020

00:00, 10 March 2020 (UTC)

Washington Building

... that the Washington Building (pictured) was described as "probably the first building to attract the foreigner" who arrived in Manhattan?
... that former slave Dorothy Thomas purchased her own manumission, but later employed slaves as hucksters?
... that the title of the play The House of Yes came from a piece of bathroom graffiti seen by its author?
... that the Hebrides Terrace Seamount, west-southwest of the Scottish Hebrides, hosts "coral gardens" where numerous other animals live?
... that industrialists John Huntington, Hinman Hurlbut, and Horace Kelley each independently bequeathed funds that would be used to form the Cleveland Museum of Art in 1913?
... that Toyota won the 2018 24 Hours of Le Mans, becoming the first Japanese car manufacturer to win the race since Mazda in the 1991 edition?
... that three communities in New Hampshire vote at midnight during the state's presidential primaries and elections?
... that after vehicle thief Líctor Hazael Marroquín García died in 1985, a Mexican drug lord sent flowers to his grave twice a year?

9 March 2020

00:00, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

Marie Rennotte

... that Belgian teacher and physician Marie Rennotte (pictured) became a women's rights activist in Brazil?
... that the 2005 BBC documentary Dead Mums Don't Cry follows Grace Kodindo's efforts to stem the maternal mortality rate in Chad, where pregnant and childbearing women had a 9 per cent chance of dying?
... that neuroscientist Cristina Alberini uses both mammals, and invertebrates such as sea slugs, to study memory?
... that Heidi Cruz, wife of U.S. senator Ted Cruz, is the primary breadwinner of the family?
... that Angelina Atyam was awarded the 1998 UN Prize in the Field of Human Rights for campaigning for the release of captive children, including her own daughter kidnapped by Ugandan guerrillas?
... that Judith Liberman learned storytelling in a French commune at the age of 14, and has gone on to reintroduce the telling of Anatolian fairy tales in Turkey?
... that Frieda Nadig, one of the four "mothers" of the German constitution, proposed to include the sentence "men and women have equal rights", but was initially voted down?
... that boxing World Youth champion Caroline Dubois pretended to be a boy named Colin when she started training?

8 March 2020

00:00, 8 March 2020 (UTC)

Gessner Harrison

... that when Gessner Harrison (pictured) was a student at the University of Virginia, he declined Thomas Jefferson's invitation to Sunday dinner, saying that it would be a violation of the Sabbath?
... that extensive disturbances in the crust beneath the Philippines produce many volcanoes and earthquakes?
... that the 2000 Canadian hip-hop song "Money Jane" is credited with launching Sean Paul's international music career?
... that "The Country Without a Post Office" describes Kashmir as "a land of doomed addresses", because postal services were stopped for seven months during an armed uprising?
... that in 1953, American scientist Winston Price isolated the first rhinovirus, the most prevalent cause of the common cold?
... that Jon Favreau, creator of the Star Wars television series The Mandalorian, also voiced the character of Paz Vizla?
... that after Indian-American lawyer Sakharam Ganesh Pandit represented Bhagat Singh Thind in a 1923 U.S. Supreme Court case, the U.S. government attempted to revoke his citizenship?
... that Piazza Scossacavalli in Rome kept its cinquecento atmosphere for nearly 400 years?

7 March 2020

00:00, 7 March 2020 (UTC)

SARS-CoV-2

... that infectious disease specialist Daniel R. Lucey has hypothesised that the SARS-CoV-2 virus (pictured) responsible for the 2019–20 coronavirus outbreak may have been quietly circulating among humans since at least November 2019?
... that President Idi Amin ensured the Uganda Army's loyalty with the so-called "whisky run"?
... that the British security services described Lisa von Pott as the organiser of a pro-Nazi espionage group in wartime Vienna?
... that the Strokes revealed the release date for their sixth album The New Abnormal while performing at a rally for U.S. presidential candidate Bernie Sanders?
... that three Roman Catholic bishops of Hong Kong have been elevated to the College of Cardinals, even though the diocese is nominally only a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Guangzhou?
... that baritone Michael Volle has appeared as Wagner's Hans Sachs at the Bayreuth Festival and was awarded Der Faust for portraying Wozzeck?
... that 110 North Wacker in Chicago replaced a building that was eligible for the National Register of Historic Places?
... that dillegrout was so delicious that it earned the cook a manor, but to keep it he and his descendants had to serve the dish at every future English coronation?

6 March 2020

00:00, 6 March 2020 (UTC)

Asmundtorp Church

... that Asmundtorp Church (pictured), built between 1895 and 1897, was financed with returns from Swedish farmsteads that were donated to the church during the Middle Ages?
... that Australian brigadier Arthur Blackburn ordered his men to shoot less in the Battle of Leuwiliang, so that when they withdrew, their Japanese enemies would not realize it?
... that Emily Swallow did not know that she was auditioning for a Star Wars television series when she tried out for the part of the Armorer?
... that the 2012 24 Hours of Le Mans saw the first overall victory for a hybrid electric vehicle at the race?
... that Alan Swallow started his own solo publishing imprint, Alan Swallow Press, and published novels by Janet Lewis and Anaïs Nin?
... that the Wiener Hofmusikkapelle, founded by Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I in 1498, was a forerunner of the Vienna Boys' Choir?
... that in her song "Bad Idea", Ariana Grande calls herself "Ari-chan" in reference to her admiration of Japanese culture?
... that Adrian Long's FlexiArch precast-concrete bridge arch can be installed in a single day?

5 March 2020

00:00, 5 March 2020 (UTC)

Portrait of Eliodoro Bianchi by Luigi Rados (c. 1820)

... that tenor and voice teacher Eliodoro Bianchi (depicted) performed in many world premieres of operas, with Rossini expressly writing two roles for him?
... that the Zulu taunted the British during the action at Sihayo's Kraal, asking: "Why don't you come on up?"
... that General Raymond W. Bliss opened the United States Army's first radioactive-isotope laboratory in 1949?
... that the crested oyster has been eaten by humans for at least 6,000 years?
... that Alasdair Cochrane's Sentientist Politics was the first book dedicated to extending cosmopolitan political theory to include animal rights?
... that Texas radio stations KMJR, KXAI, and KBPA are part of a three-station facility change that will give the Educational Media Foundation a city-grade signal in San Antonio?
... that Swedish actress Julia Dufvenius had a role specially written for her in director Ingmar Bergman's last film, Saraband?
... that North Seattle's waste transfer station has a viewing room and a playground?

4 March 2020

00:00, 4 March 2020 (UTC)

Title page of Summa de arithmetica

... that the Summa de arithmetica (title page shown), thought to be the first printed work on algebra, contains the first published description of double-entry accounting?
... that Zina P. Young Card fought on a national level for both women's suffrage and the right to practice plural marriage in the US?
... that the worm Phyllodoce lineata is a predator and scavenger, feeding mostly on other polychaetes?
... that Ocean Wind, a planned offshore wind farm in the U.S., may use infrastructure at a closed nuclear power plant to access the electrical grid?
... that Zoltán Kovács is the first Hungarian to receive the Paul Loicq Award for contributions to international ice hockey?
... that the Danish Trade Union Confederation, the country's largest trade union centre, promotes a model in which pay and working conditions are negotiated without state involvement?
... that the designer of the best house in the new Romford Garden Suburb won £250 and a gold medal?
... that Moff Gideon of The Mandalorian has been compared to Darth Vader?

3 March 2020

00:00, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

Shōji in a historic Dutch-Japanese interior

... that shōji (examples pictured), like other traditional Japanese partitions, serve as doors, windows, and walls, both interior and exterior?
... that Tayseer Sboul, one of Jordan's most celebrated writers, wrote some erotic poems?
... that KBCQ-FM in Roswell, New Mexico, was traded on two separate occasions, for television stations in Amarillo, Texas, and in Richmond, Virginia?
... that British Paralympic swimmer Toni Shaw has set a world record in the S9 200 m (660 ft) butterfly at the age of 15?
... that tenants of the Bowling Green Offices Building in New York City have included the owners of the RMS Titanic, and the Erie Railroad?
... that Magdalena K. P. Smith Meyer was known as the "mother of red-spider mites of the world"?
... that Asumiko Nakamura, the author of the manga series Classmates, sought to create a story about a "slow, serious love" that was "cliché" and "almost hackneyed"?
... that "Anyone" by Demi Lovato became the most downloaded song of the day in the U.S. after she performed it at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards?

2 March 2020

00:00, 2 March 2020 (UTC)

Wembley Stadium

... that in today's 2020 EFL Cup Final at Wembley (pictured), Manchester City retained the EFL Cup for the third consecutive year with a 2–1 victory against Aston Villa?
... that the blood-sucking bug Primicimex cavernis survives in a cave in Texas while the bats on which it feeds overwinter elsewhere?
... that tenor Roberto Saccà has portrayed opera characters such as Haydn's Orfeo, Pfitzner's Palestrina, and Herbert Willi's Elias?
... that in 1941, two German POWs escaped from their British prison camp and stole a plane from an RAF base to try to reach the continent?
... that former college basketball star Amy Langville is an expert in ranking systems, and has applied her ranking expertise to basketball bracketology?
... that Sefer ve Sefel, a second-hand bookshop in Jerusalem, stocks more than 26,000 titles?
... that Amazon plans to build its tallest office tower in the Bellevue suburb of Seattle, Washington?
... that Guangdong native Chun Lung attended Yale University in 1879 after being educated in Hawaii's Punahou School?

1 March 2020

00:00, 1 March 2020 (UTC)

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Dr K

... that YouTuber and public piano performer Dr K (pictured) considers a Holocaust survivor who became an international concert pianist to be his mentor?
... that when WIRK-TV ceased operations 64 years ago today, its president admitted to operating the station "long past the point of good judgment"?
... that Yang Xin, the vice director of the Palace Museum in Beijing, collaborated with his counterpart at the National Palace Museum in Taipei for the first joint publication by the two museums?
... that Calamagrostis intermedia is the dominant plant of the grassy páramo in Ecuador's El Cajas National Park?
... that Edward I. Devitt was the first alumnus of Woodstock College to become a member of its faculty?
... that during the Storming of Farnham Castle, the Royalist defence was so minimal that one contemporary claimed they "deserved not the name of a garrison"?
... that India's Shikhar Dhawan and England's Jack Burnham are the only players to have scored three centuries in the Under-19 Cricket World Cup?
... that a man shouted "This is madness!" during a production meeting for The Goes Wrong Show?