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31 March 2024

12:00, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

Rachelle Ann Go

... that Rachelle Ann Go (pictured) recorded the song "First Burn" with four other actresses who played Eliza Schuyler to promote the music collection Hamildrops?
... that one of Arch Wolfe's duties as an NFL general manager was to prevent his players from fighting the referees?
... that the Frick Collection is not allowed to lend out some of its art?
... that the constant losses of Pokémon series protagonist Ash Ketchum have been highlighted for teaching positive lessons to viewers?
... that the Chevalier d'Eon de Beaumont inspired the name of the transgender rights organisation the Beaumont Society?
... that Nils Elias Anckers was a kommendör in the Swedish Navy who won a silver medal at the 1900 Paris Exposition for his artwork?
... that the canoe Mānuka is said to have voyaged to the Polynesian homeland and brought back tubers that would not grow?
... that Esther Merle Jackson, as a specialist in theatre and dance education at the United States Office of Education, intended to expand theater's role in the Great Society?
... that a dispute over 600 machine guns led Czechoslovakia and Portugal to break off diplomatic relations for nearly 37 years?

00:00, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

Horne Book

... that the crucifix on the cover of the Horne Book (pictured) is made of walrus ivory?
... that the spirit liverwort is called such because of its proximity to the Māori afterlife?
... that Angelle's debut single was promoted with an entire television channel – and still only reached number 43 on the UK Singles Chart?
... that the video game Fursan al-Aqsa received an update that allows players to reenact the October 7 attacks on Israel?
... that cultures of the fungus Lentinus brumalis have been flown on three different satellites?
... that the English herbalist Nicholas Culpeper claimed that eating alkanet leaves would make a person's spit deadly to serpents?
... that Native Americans in Seattle sought refuge on an artificial island composed of waste thrown overboard from ships?
... that the UAW's 1941 union contract with the Ford Motor Company included a then-unique antidiscrimination clause negotiated by Black foundryman Shelton Tappes?
... that the urban legend Herobrine was ranked on a Guinness World Records poll of the best video game villains, despite never existing?

30 March 2024

12:00, 30 March 2024 (UTC)

Male Meratus blue flycatcher

... that only six years after its 2016 discovery, the Meratus blue flycatcher (pictured) was found being sold in Indonesian songbird markets?
... that "End Zone" Jones ran for a career high in his final regular season game with Nebraska to finish third in the school's history in career rushing yards?
... that the Khalij, an ancient canal in Cairo, was replaced by a boulevard in the 1890s?
... that following a boycott orchestrated by church groups, a Texas TV station ceased airing the controversial NYPD Blue after just a month?
... that Mexican filmmaker David Zonana wrote his first feature film after producing for two other directors?
... that the Cranford Rose Garden at Brooklyn Botanic Garden was cited as having 1,200 varieties of roses?
... that the Qurna Queen's tomb may be the only complete royal burial exported in its entirety from Egypt?
... that in the Çöpler mine disaster in Turkey, nine gold miners were trapped under a collapse of heap leach material?
... that Townsends, a YouTube channel dedicated to life in 18th-century America, has featured a 1784 recipe for macaroni and cheese?

00:00, 30 March 2024 (UTC)

Jack A. Bade

... that despite receiving a head injury, and the guns of his fighter becoming jammed after being attacked by enemy aircraft, Jack A. Bade (pictured) continued to defend American bombers over Guadalcanal?
... that in some rare cases, large Siberian tigers prey on adult brown bears?
... that gynecologist Linda Giudice found that bisphenol A contamination in water systems correlates with higher miscarriage rates?
... that a massive smallpox epidemic struck the Pacific Northwest shortly before historical records were kept?
... that Karsten Januschke's conducting of Offenbach's Die Banditen was described as producing a "lean, dry, [and] delicate" sound with an ensemble of 22 soloists, including 11 tenors?
... that in accordance with Hale's law, sunspot groups have magnetic fields that align in opposite directions on opposite sides of the Sun's equator?
... that due to segregation, coach Millard Naylor's high school football team needed to play out-of-state opponents for his first 19 seasons?
... that during the rollout of her album Can You See Me?, Rezz released a sex toy?
... that George Parks was president of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and his son Rowan Parks became president of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh?

29 March 2024

12:00, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

Caldera of Mount Okmok

... that Mount Okmok (pictured) in Alaska may have contributed to the downfall of Ptolemaic Egypt?
... that Majed Abu Maraheel, the first Palestinian Olympian, tended flowers for a living before becoming an Olympic runner?
... that Apollo 17 carried a 6-pound (2.7 kg) explosive charge as part of the Lunar Seismic Profiling Experiment?
... that Edwin Atwater and his brother were the first people to import glass into Canada?
... that a former section of U.S. Route 101 was nicknamed the "Bloody Bayshore" for its frequent collisions?
... that Gerald Willis, after working as a bus driver at age 15, started a business that earned $2 million per year and built a replica of the Hermitage after watching The President's Lady?
... that Ian Begg restored Muckrach Castle after over 200 years without a roof?
... that John Jones took a leave of absence just days before succeeding Bob Harlan as chief executive officer of the Green Bay Packers, and ultimately left the team a few months later?
... that Missouri's annual Snake Saturday parade originally began in a hotel parking lot with only four floats?

00:00, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

Three bowls of sobá

... that a popular vote declared sobá (pictured), an adaption of Okinawa soba introduced by Japanese immigrants, to be the most representative dish of the Brazilian city of Campo Grande?
...that the influential Armenian merchants Petik and Sanos expanded the Armenian Church of the Forty Martyrs in Aleppo, in spite of Ottoman laws that banned new construction and expansion of churches?
... that Keivonn Woodard's nomination for The Last of Us made him the second-youngest actor and first black deaf actor to be nominated at the Emmys?
... that an unnamed abuse survivor risks her life to become a spy in "one of the bravest actions in all of the Book of Mormon"?
... that Scytalopus krabbei is named after Niels Krabbe, who discovered seven other species in its genus?
... that Canadian surgeon Robin McLeod advocated for post-operative patients to get back on their feet and move around immediately, against the prevailing guidance that they should stay in bed?
... that the Sydney asbestos crisis started when a child brought home handfuls of mulch from a playground?
... that Velma Whitman had "one of the largest and most elaborate wardrobes" for a vaudeville performer thanks to her collection of designer-made English and French gowns?
... that Institutiones rei herbariae, published in 1700, sought to give a unique name to every plant based on their "essence"?

28 March 2024

12:00, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

Anna Filosofova

... that after being criticized for dressing "like a doll" at an important meeting, pioneering Russian feminist Anna Filosofova (pictured) replied that "clothes do not make the woman"?
... that Edward Hopper's 1963 painting Intermission can be viewed as a metaphor for the world as theater?
... that footballer Keira Walsh first captained England in 2018, when she was the youngest player in the squad?
... that foam has been used to kill farm animals en masse in a process called foam depopulation?
... that Jaroslav Záruba tricked a Waffen-SS unit into surrendering to the Government Army of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia by falsely claiming that British troops were advancing against Prague?
... that the fossil fern Dickwhitea was described from a single block of chert?
... that Andrew Dakich received an athletic scholarship while under police escort?
... that the buyers of the house featured in American Horror Story: Murder House sued its sellers for not disclosing that the house was featured on the series?
... that Rear Admiral Richard Washbourn bought the bell of HMS Chevron for £8 and donated it to Collingwood School?

00:00, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

Sheet music for The Sleeping Beauty and the Beast (1901)

... that composer Frederick Solomon adapted several British pantomimes into Broadway musicals, including The Sleeping Beauty and the Beast (sheet music pictured)?
... that although his leg was shortened by 5 cm (2.0 in) following a battlefield injury, Raoul Augereau continued his military service?
... that the extinct genus Mixtotherium, meaning 'mixed beast', has traits of both extinct primates and hyraxes?
... that before Sean Jackson won three Ivy League basketball championships, he won high school state championships in both baseball and basketball?
... that Aaron Bushnell said that his action of setting himself on fire was less extreme than "what people have been experiencing in Palestine at the hands of their colonizers"?
... that Prince Hubertus is the heir apparent to the head of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, a royal dynasty to which Elizabeth II belonged?
... that the album Dariacore took inspiration from Internet memes?
... that Francis Fogarty, who went on to manage an NFL franchise for nearly two decades, was taken prisoner by the Nazis in World War II but managed to escape while wounded?
... that men of a Namibian tribe "share" their wives with visitors?

27 March 2024

12:00, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

Jerome and Schwartz

... that Jean Schwartz and William Jerome (pictured) wrote more than 1,000 popular songs together?
... that marketers try to turn a women-only script in China into a branding device for "high-end potatoes" in the documentary Hidden Letters?
... that in addition to his work as a scientist, Robert Hooke was an architect who designed the Monument to the Great Fire of London so that it could also have a practical value as a scientific instrument?
... that Pat Robertson let his Christian TV station in Dallas air wrestling because it drew viewers and fetched high advertising rates?
... that Ivan Ančić was the first Bosnian Franciscan to use the Latin script to write in his native language?
... that an interstate catalytic converter theft ring generated US$545 million in revenue?
... that basketball player Gary Bossert has made 11 consecutive three-point shots and at least 31 consecutive free throws?
... that one of the first Polish science fiction novels featured a trip to the South Pole by airship, a decade before a similar airship was built?
... that voice actresses Miharu Hanai and Aina Suzuki were revealed to be sisters when they were both cast in an anime TV series?

00:00, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

Paleoallium billgenseli fossil

... that while named for alliums, the fossil Paleoallium (pictured) was not necessarily directly related to any allium species?
... that as music director of the Oper Hagen, Florian Ludwig promoted a wide repertoire that included contemporary operas such as Barber's Vanessa and crossover projects?
... that the Lemmon Petrified Wood Park & Museum contains 3,200 tons of petrified wood?
... that E. Graham Howe "introduced Eastern philosophy to psychotherapy in England"?
... that the video game mode Ultimate Team has been criticized for its reliance on loot box packs, considered to be a controversial form of gambling?
... that police officer Kevin Davis's father, grandfather, and great-grandfather all served in public safety?
... that The Wall Street Journal considered the removal of compulsory figures from Olympic figure skating to be an "obvious" decision, and subsequent attempts to revive them as "surprising"?
... that Matt Stoller believes that "nearly any other cause or political relationship should be sacrificed" to break up monopolies?
... that the Korean protest song "Morning Dew" was banned in North and South Korea?

26 March 2024

12:00, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

Billy Garrett Jr.

... that the first known NBA player with sickle cell disease (pictured) once nearly died of a sickle cell crisis after a flight to a game?
... that the psychological inner space genre was a rebellion against the traditional focus of science fiction on literal outer space?
... that according to Billboard magazine, Laufey created a blueprint for jazz music in the modern music industry and helped push it back into the mainstream?
... that the tablet PY Ta 641 was instrumental in proving that Michael Ventris had indeed deciphered Linear B?
... that despite falling out with novelist Thomas Wolfe, Kenneth Raisbeck was the basis for a character in Of Time and the River?
... that only one fruit but several thousand seeds were known when Allenbya collinsonae was named?
... that when Kelsey Lauritano portrayed Mozart's Cherubino, a reviewer from the FAZ noted her "almost metallic-brittle approach that spreads androgynous infatuation"?
... that Mildmay Mission Hospital in East London is the only hospital in Europe specialising in the care and rehabilitation of people with HIV-associated neurocognitive disorder?
... that Sukadji Hendrotomo's daughter solemnized her marriage contract in front of his deceased body?

00:00, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

Salar del Huasco

... that the designation of Salar del Huasco (pictured) as a national park in 2010 was revoked in 2014?
... that Jo-anne Wilkinson and Graeme Dingle crossed the Bering Sea in a leaking boat?
... that Archbishop Lando of Messina abandoned his archdiocese in 1238 and spent the rest of his life in his hometown of Anagni?
... that an Illinois radio station closed down to reduce interference with television reception?
... that Bob Moore did not found Bob's Red Mill until after his first retirement?
... that the titular character in "Beebo the God of War" was inspired by Tickle Me Elmo?
... that Alfred de Laage de Meux received the rank of brevet without completing aviation school?
... that the skeleton panda sea squirt was known on the Internet for its skeleton-like appearance years before its formal description?

25 March 2024

00:00, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

Halley's Comet

... that Halley's Comet (pictured) is a living creature in several works of fiction?
... that according to Indian chef Imtiaz Qureshi, who is credited with reviving the cooking tradition of dum pukht, all biryanis are pulaos?
... that Oakwood Cemetery contains the graves of Confederate soldiers and officers, English, Canadian, and French World War II pilots, and Hank Williams?
... that May O'Flaherty's purchase in 1949 of Parsons Bookshop, which would become a hub of activity in Dublin's Baggotonia, was inadvertent?
... that Piri formed a band with Porij's guitarist after matching with him on Tinder?
... that the Love Island series 8 contestant Tasha Ghouri went viral in early 2024 after uploading a video to TikTok using her "deaf accent"?
... that one Baltimore Orioles player compared the 2024 Major League Baseball jerseys to knockoffs from TJ Maxx?
... that John Blackinger quit his job as the general manager of a professional football team to work in the dairy business?
... that during their two-minute performance at the Oulu City Theatre, the group Jumalan teatteri caused a huge scandal by throwing excrement, eggs and yoghurt at the audience?

24 March 2024

00:00, 24 March 2024 (UTC)

Proprietor of the Mussel Inn pouring a beer

... that the proprietor of the music venue the Mussel Inn (pictured) in Onekaka built tables strong enough for up to eight people to dance on?
... that Fabrizio Dori wants his comic book Il dio vagabondo to bring attention to an ancient Greek view of death?
... that Paul Nunn worked as a climbing double for Sean Connery on the film Five Days One Summer?
... that it took a particle accelerator and machine-learning algorithms to extract the charred text of PHerc. Paris. 4 without unrolling it?
... that American mezzo-soprano Cecelia Hall portrayed the lead male role in Mozart's Ascanio in Alba?
... that New York Rangers forward Matt Rempe is the first ice hockey player to make his National Hockey League debut in an outdoor game?
... that Weise's law was first proposed as a way to explain why cognates differ unexpectedly in ancient Greek and Sanskrit?
... that Oregon state senator William Kuykendall was a physician who founded the first hospital in Eugene, Oregon?
... that Grounded, an opera about drone warfare, was sponsored by General Dynamics, a major military contractor?

23 March 2024

00:00, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

Portrait of a woman from the Myanmar Photo Archive

... that the Myanmar Photo Archive (example photograph shown) revealed "a side of modern Myanmar that, until very recently, remained hidden in dusty attics"?
... that jazz singer Judi Singh's mother and father were, respectively, among the earliest Black and Sikh settlers of Alberta, Canada?
... that the Elmwood Tower may have once been the tallest building in Omaha?
... that R. Ames Montgomery resigned as president of Centre College after students petitioned to remove him for de-emphasizing football?
... that Britney Spears's 2011 song "Selfish" reached number one on the iTunes chart in 2024?
... that despite a career writing queer literature, Chen Xue's 2019 novel Fatherless City had a "putatively straight premise"?
... that singer-songwriter Madi Diaz released her sixth studio album, Weird Faith, after touring with Harry Styles?
... that Kate Gleason would wear her most feminine attire available as a strategy to sell bevel gears?
... that Alan Wace recruited Walter Abel Heurtley, a former military prison governor, to help manage the students of the British School at Athens?

22 March 2024

00:00, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

Safe House Black History Museum

... that one of the buildings that house the Safe House Museum (pictured) was where Martin Luther King Jr. hid from the Ku Klux Klan on 21 March 1968, just weeks before he was assassinated?
... that Zoé Clauzure won the 2023 Junior Eurovision Song Contest with a song about school bullying?
... that Cobb Power Station has the highest-elevation hydroelectric storage lake in New Zealand?
... that Woodrow Wilson, Hermann Collitz, and Carey Thomas all taught at Bryn Mawr College before becoming presidents?
... that Xebec Corporation's partnership with IBM was both their greatest achievement and their eventual downfall?
... that Frank Fitzgerald was the general manager of an NFL team that played under four names in five years?
... that DeeDo secured a license to feature characters from the manga series Doraemon on its products?
... that My Chemical Romance and Fall Out Boy are not emo bands, according to Is This Band Emo?

21 March 2024

00:00, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

Sumner Z. Kaplan

... that a park in Brookline, Massachusetts, is named for the Massachusetts politician Sumner Z. Kaplan (pictured)?
... that "GBI (German Bold Italic)" has been described as the first song written about a specific typeface?
... that Australian Madeleine Steere played water polo professionally in Turkey after studying biomolecular science in the United States?
... that Tapir! often wear red papier-mâché heads while performing, representing the character of "The Pilgrim"?
... that former foreign minister Ali Ahmed Karti was elected secretary general of the Sudanese Islamic Movement in a secret meeting?
... that an Indiana newspaper donated its TV station to the local high school instead of shutting it down?
... that the title of Vampire Weekend's upcoming fifth studio album, Only God Was Above Us, is derived from a 1988 New York Daily News article about an aircraft's roof being torn off mid-flight?
... that a journalists' poll rated Billy Fitzgerald the second-best Canadian lacrosse player of the first half of the 20th century?
... that mule deer sometimes prefer the flavor of one Rocky Mountain juniper tree, like "ice cream", over another?

20 March 2024

00:00, 20 March 2024 (UTC)

Sheet-music cover for The Red Moon

... that The Red Moon (sheet music pictured) was the first Broadway show to depict alliances between African Americans and Native Americans?
... that Xu Garden was created by community residents grateful to their local warlord?
... that while pretending to be a prince of Montenegro, Italian journalist Stefano Černetić met with royalty and made Pamela Anderson a countess?
... that more than 50 Microsoft engineers opposed the development of the Integrated Visual Augmentation System, as they believed this made them war profiteers?
... that Rhinecliff station was unusually large for a small hamlet due to the influence of John Jacob Astor IV and Levi P. Morton?
... that Sinéad O'Connor personally invited M-Beat to remix her single "Fire on Babylon" after meeting him backstage at Top of the Pops?
... that the 2026 FIFA World Cup final will be hosted by a stadium that is cutting corners?
... that before charting on the UK Albums Chart with Are We There Yet?, the indie rock musician James Marriott had made a career of mocking other YouTubers' music?
... that San Rafael Falls, once Ecuador's largest waterfall, was swallowed by a sinkhole in February 2020 and no longer exists?

19 March 2024

00:00, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

Joseph Bosworth

... that Joseph Bosworth (pictured) was the last Republican speaker of the Kentucky House of Representatives until the election of Jeff Hoover in 2017?
... that Latvian-Soviet artist Karlis Johansons exhibited a skeletal tensegrity form of the Schönhardt polyhedron seven years before Erich Schönhardt's 1928 paper on its mathematics?
... that Walker Keith Baylor, a strong believer in phrenology and physiognomy, determined the fitness of political candidates by measuring their faces and heads with a tape measure?
... that names have been steadily added to a Bellingham fishermen's memorial as local fishermen are lost at sea?
... that Diana, Princess of Wales, drove through the night to be with Adrian Ward-Jackson before he died?
... that in nearly one in three clinical trials, authors engage in outcome switching, which can undermine the reliability of the trials?
... that Lewes Friends Meeting House, built in 1784, replaced an earlier building whose proximity to a slaughterhouse made it "unfit to sit in"?
... that only approximately 50 individuals have been diagnosed with Beck–Fahrner syndrome?
... that "runology" is the study of how to run away from China?

18 March 2024

00:00, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

Making a Stand, Leeds

... that a seven-metre-tall (23 ft) "sculptural forest" (pictured) was created during Leeds 2023, inspired by the region's ancient woodland?
... that the Scottish surgeon John Blair was the only dux of his high school to receive his gold medal in the presence of his wife and child?
... that the 2023 drama film Time Still Turns the Pages won the Audience Choice Award at the 60th Golden Horse Awards?
... that the abandoned New World Department Store in Bangkok became home to thousands of fish?
... that Singaporean chef and restaurateur Tan Kue Kim cooked while wearing a S$40,000 gold Rolex watch?
... that some online social and "Barstool conservatives" spent their Christmas holidays arguing about whether a beer promotional calendar was "demonic"?
... that as she commenced chemotherapy, Irish singer Majella O'Donnell raised more than €350,000 for the Irish Cancer Society with a sponsored head shave live on The Late Late Show?
... that US president Calvin Coolidge left Mystic, South Dakota, in a lumber wagon?

17 March 2024

00:00, 17 March 2024 (UTC)

Front cover of "Maple Leaf Rag" (1899)

... that the actress Lottie Williams was one of the cakewalk dancers depicted on the front cover of the sheet music for Scott Joplin's "Maple Leaf Rag" (pictured)?
... that the 1974 conference Transvestism and Transsexualism in Modern Society in Leeds became an early platform for the emergence of terms such as "gender alignment" and "trans.people"?
... that both Thackeray and Longfellow bought paintings by Fanny Steers?
... that Samoa House was the first fale (traditional Samoan house) built outside of Samoa?
... that as a high schooler in 2018, Logan O'Hoppe caught a home-run ball at Yankee Stadium hit by visiting player Manny Machado and was televised throwing it back on the field?
... that Lana Del Rey, who is known as an alt-pop artist, will release her first official country album, Lasso, this year?
... that Patricia Grace did not intend for her novel Potiki, about the impact of land development on an indigenous community, to be seen as political?
... that in the 1934 German referendum, some areas recorded more votes than there were eligible voters?

16 March 2024

00:00, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

Muqarnas vault at the Mosque of Ulmas al-Hajib

... that the Mosque of Ulmas al-Hajib has the first "flat" muqarnas vault (pictured) in Cairo?
... that the record label Tidy Trax released an album in 2023 to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the death of Tony De Vit, the "godfather of UK hard house"?
... that the city of Tacoma, Washington, incentivized building Seattle–Tacoma International Airport at Bow Lake by contributing $100,000?
... that after dodging censorship for years, The Korea Daily News was finally bought out and turned into a publication of the Japanese colonial government in Korea?
... that the Buddhist-studies scholar Paula Arai suffered racial and sexual discrimination while researching Sōtō Zen laywomen and nuns?
... that Zwycięzcy oceanu, a Polish young-adult adventure book from 1890, features Polish, English, and American characters?
... that Charles Knight's wartime painting activities led to him being mistaken for a German spy?

15 March 2024

00:00, 15 March 2024 (UTC)

Olivetti Valentine

... that Ettore Sottsass's design of the Olivetti Valentine typewriter (example pictured) was inspired by the pop-art nudes of Tom Wesselmann?
... that the first game in Georgetown football history was never played?
... that Family 1, a closely related group of Greek New Testament manuscripts, place the passage of the woman caught in adultery at the end of the Gospel of John as a separate story?
... that the Canada Centre Building has one of the first aquifer thermal energy storage systems?
... that Spring Lake has suffered from an infestation of Eurasian water milfoil, a noxious weed?
... that Indian aristocrat and photographer Umrao Singh Sher-Gil left more than 3000 prints and negatives, including many of his daughter Amrita Sher-Gil, documenting life in Europe and India?
... that a Variety critic suggested that the title of Ariana Grande's "Yes, And?" followed on from that of "Thank U, Next"?
... that as a result of the medicalisation of sexuality, sexual disorders like erectile dysfunction have been used as a "penile health gauge" to measure general wellbeing?

14 March 2024

00:04, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

Elbert E. Martin

... that former football player Elbert E. Martin (pictured) stopped an assassin from killing former US president Theodore Roosevelt?
... that in New Orleans, galleries differ from balconies because they feature supporting posts?
... that Lovro Šitović, a 17th-century Croatian Franciscan friar who wrote a Latin grammar, was a convert from Islam?
... that the creators of the cartoon Jade Armor filmed live-action martial arts stunts to visualize the show's animated action sequences?
... that trans women in Cape Verde are colloquially referred to as tchindas, named after Tchinda Andrade, the first trans woman in the country to come out publicly?
... that the dish gogi-guksu, from South Korea's Jeju Island, developed in part because of the Japanese colonial period?
... that So Sethaputra compiled his authoritative English–Thai dictionary while in prison, with the manuscripts smuggled out for publication?
... that after being named the general manager of the Minnesota Vikings for three years, Fran Foley served in the position for just three months?

13 March 2024

04:28, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

Thoon Kramom

... that the 1866 barque Thoon Kramom (pictured) has a replica serving as a floating restaurant?
... that Will Smith took part in the expedition that discovered the northern green anaconda?
... that at the age of 28, Mason Morelli became the first player in Vegas Golden Knights franchise history to record two points in their National Hockey League debut game?
... that the Kīlauea lava cricket disappears from a lava field as soon as any plants start to grow there?
... that the British political theorist Chris Armstrong has called for a "blue new deal" to secure ecological resilience for the ocean and a just blue economy?
... that Songs from Suicide Bridge was recorded in a repurposed tool shed?
... that several organisers of the Hindu Mela were involved in a secret society that manufactured matchsticks?
... that Julian Assange's lawyer argued that the rules set by the Ecuadorian embassy requiring Assange to take care of his pet cat Michi were "denigrating"?

12 March 2024

00:00, 12 March 2024 (UTC)

Onekaka Dam under construction in the late 1920s

... that the rebuilt Onekaka Power Station is controlled remotely using text messages via the cellular phone network?
... that Indian historian R. Champakalakshmi was a script consultant for Bharat Ek Khoj, a television series based on Jawaharlal Nehru's The Discovery of India?
... that Tom Landry led the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League to a record 20 consecutive winning seasons?
... that Jack Biddle was the first and only person to be elected to the Alabama Legislature as a Democratic, Republican, and independent representative?
... that only 130 personnel joined the United States Army's Slavic Legion?
... that the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize is the only Nobel Peace Prize ever to have been declined?
... that the 1993 Pacific hurricane season generated more than double the average number of major hurricanes, which have sustained winds of at least 111 mph (179 km/h)?
... that sports journalist Tim Burke specialized in capturing "offbeat" moments through GIFs?

11 March 2024

00:00, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

Horsham Friends Meeting House in 2018

... that the headstone of George Bax Holmes, who is buried at Horsham Friends Meeting House (pictured), is now a paving slab?
... that the King Tornado football team once won by a score of 206–0 – without even playing the full game?
... that the album cover for Bruce Springsteen's Born to Run has been imitated by several musicians, as well as the Sesame Street characters Bert and Cookie Monster?
... that as part of the Hardpoint missile defense system, ARPA developed missiles able to hit 377 g of acceleration with reaction times in milliseconds?
... that Enass Muzamel established the Sudanese Female Cyclists Initiative to challenge the stigma against women riding bikes in Sudan?
... that only months after going out of business, Milkrun relaunched?
... that Aaron Hertzman paid $25 to have a team in the National Football League?
... that Rubymar was the first ship sunk by Houthi missiles during the Red Sea crisis?
... that a Missouri TV station blew up its call letters – literally?

10 March 2024

00:00, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

Ford Strikers Riot

... that the Pulitzer jury said that Ford Strikers Riot (pictured) is "a brutal picture, it sums up much of the labor history of 1941"?
... that 320-pound (145 kg) Brandon Coleman runs at 18 miles per hour (29 km/h)?
... that in South Africa's genocide case against Israel, the International Court of Justice ordered Israel to "punish the direct and public incitement to commit genocide" against Palestinians in Gaza?
... that after losing his brother to suicide, Turno collaborated with Skepsis and Charlotte Plank on a single about men's mental health?
... that the stage for Pantheon ad Lucem by Alexander McQueen evoked imagery of alien starships and the Roman Colosseum?
... that when Mexia Supermarket was abandoned because of its owners' bankruptcy, all of the food inside was left to rot for more than three months?
... that the British musician Charlie Deakin Davies cofounded the Trans Creative Collective, a directory of transgender musicians?
... that Henry Clay Frick would not take World War I as an excuse for delays in the construction of his New York City house?
... that Bill Post helped invent the Pop-Tart?

9 March 2024

00:00, 9 March 2024 (UTC)

Korowai gecko

... that off-roading at Muriwai Beach in New Zealand may be damaging the habitat of the newly described korowai gecko (example pictured)?
... that after criticising horsegiirL's "My Barn My Rules" live on air, the British DJ Arielle Free was suspended from BBC Radio 1 for a week?
... that the Andrew Carnegie Mansion in New York City was designed by "the only architects in the city who had not begged for the job"?
... that Marcos G. McGrath, the Catholic archbishop of Panama, was allowed to enter Manuel Noriega's "witch house" and other residences, and found evidence of torture, devil worship, and voodoo?
... that the Chicago Community Bond Fund sought to put itself out of business by eliminating cash bail?
... that Dave Jamerson was the first NCAA Division I men's basketball player to make 14 three-point shots in a game?
... that Nicki Minaj, who receives a shoutout from Ben Shapiro in his song "Facts", congratulated him when it reached number one on the iTunes chart?
... that a Miami TV station built a news set atop a wooden conference room table?

8 March 2024

00:00, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

Five-Pavilion Bridge

... that Yangzhou's Five-Pavilion Bridge (pictured) was built by salt merchants to welcome the Qianlong Emperor?
... that the use of trade in prehistoric society may have given humans an evolutionary advantage over Neanderthals?
... that the British rock musician Hannah Grae went viral online with an anti-sexual harassment parody of Aqua's "Barbie Girl"?
... that Michigan's victory in the 2024 College Football Playoff National Championship marked their first outright national championship since 1948?
... that the cherry blossom was used symbolically in Japanese World War II propaganda, with falling petals representing "young soldiers' sacrifice for the emperor"?
... that the music video for SB19's "I Want You" showed scenes of the boy band shot underwater?
... that the journalist Wendell Steavenson's book Circling the Square covers the events of the 2011–2013 Egyptian crisis, which were centered around Cairo's Tahrir Square?
... that lenses for telescopes are being designed using optics inspired by lobster eyes?

7 March 2024

00:00, 7 March 2024 (UTC)

Joseph Pierce

... that Chinese-born Joseph Pierce (pictured) enlisted as a Union Army soldier, fought at the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War, and was made a corporal?
... that Sting wrote "We Work the Black Seam" because he felt that "the case for coal was never put to the nation" during the 1984–85 British miners' strike, which began 40 years ago today?
... that James May led the team that transplanted a patient's right hand onto his left arm?
... that Saint Melangell's shrine was reconstructed from pieces of the 12th-century original found in the walls of the church and lychgate?
... that Rana Reider has trained athletes who won Olympic gold medals in five different events?
... that in the song "Carnival", Kanye West references several public figures including Elon Musk and Taylor Swift?
... that the horse Sardar was gifted to Jacqueline Kennedy during her 1962 goodwill tour of Pakistan?
... that a school in New York City occupies a Renaissance-style palazzo and a "French Renaissance hotel"?

6 March 2024

00:00, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

The One

... that The One (pictured), a private residence in Los Angeles, has 21 bedrooms, 42 bathrooms, a 30-car garage, a four-lane bowling alley, a casino, a nightclub, and five swimming pools including a moat?
... that gynecologist Mary Lake Polan wrote a medical mystery novel to "demystify" the procedures behind in vitro fertilisation?
... that in his Ethics, Peter Abelard argued that infidels who sincerely believe themselves to be honouring God are not guilty of sin?
... that the Scottish judge Lord Duthie served as an officer in the Royal Naval Reserve?
... that the first election in Baden in which women could vote resulted in nine women being elected to the state legislature?
... that the alt-pop musician Lucy Tun cites death metal and RuPaul's Drag Race as influences?
... that Rob Thomas always planned to give iZombie a happy ending?
... that placekicker Cam Little donated money to a Down syndrome organization for every field goal he made?

5 March 2024

00:00, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

Stieler's portrait of Beethoven

... that in Stieler's portrait of Beethoven (pictured), the composer's arms "are not convincingly attached to his shoulders"?
... that Fumiya Takahashi was referred to as "the most handsome high schooler in Japan"?
... that popular garden plants like malfurada often escape from cultivation and become invasive?
... that Olivia Olson won state championships as a soccer goalkeeper and a basketball guard?
... that the Jewish cemetery in the Dutch city of Hoorn was cleared in 1968 to make room for a roadway, and the bodily remains and gravestones were moved to the public cemetery?
... that Nilüfer Gürsoy's memoirs detail the 1960 Turkish coup d'état, which overthrew her father?
... that during the 1997 Spring Creek flood, a railroad embankment suppressing 8,250 cubic feet (234 m³) of water per second overflowed, causing a train to derail?
... that Elizabeth II's childhood toys at 145 Piccadilly included 30 toy horses and a farm set collected from Woolworths?

4 March 2024

00:00, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

Eufriesea purpurata

... that a malaria-control program in rural Brazil attracted droves of annoying, colorful bees that collect pesticide (example pictured) into homes?
... that Caspar Richter co-founded an orchestra in Vienna and conducted it in performances of new musicals including Mozart! and Elisabeth?
... that the Fighting Vanguard waged a guerrilla war against the Syrian government in the 1970s and 1980s?
... that Robert Brigandyne constructed the first purpose-built dry dock in England, after King Henry VII's new warships grew too big to be repaired on mudbanks?
... that actor Jim O'Heir consumed numerous cinnamon rolls for a scene in Better Call Saul?
... that the British musician Nieve Ella has a hair salon named after her?
... that a reviewer thought that the video game Robbery Bob contained cringeworthy dialogue?
... that Muhsin Hendricks of South Africa has been described as "the world's first openly gay imam"?

3 March 2024

00:00, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

Float at the Gasparilla Pirate Festival

... that since 1904 the Gasparilla Pirate Festival (float pictured) in Tampa, Florida, has featured a pirate-themed parade?
... that S. Iswaran was the first Singaporean cabinet minister to be investigated by the country's Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau since 1986?
... that the 2023 Argentine provincial elections were overshadowed by the disappearance of Cecilia Strzyzowski?
... that Steven A. Shaw, one of the first food bloggers, decided to pursue the career that he loved after the early death of his father?
... that due to a misunderstanding, Catodontherium was moved from its original genus name?
... that after becoming "convinced of the evils of slavery", James Townsend left Kentucky for Indiana?
... that a bust of South Korean president Park Chung Hee in Mullae Park had a Japanese Rising Sun Flag tied to it and was dragged through the streets?
... that a well-publicised conflict with a superior officer led British cavalry officer John Williams Reynolds to take a break from his military career, study chemistry and discover propylene?

2 March 2024

00:00, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

John Cowans

... that British prime minister H. H. Asquith described John Cowans (pictured) as "the best Quartermaster since Moses"?
... that historians oppose the removal of a 150-year-old mosque in New Delhi for alleged traffic congestion, citing its cultural significance?
... that the Canadian journalist Bernard Descôteaux is credited with the economic revival of the independent newspaper Le Devoir?
... that a Virginia TV station had to take out title loans to pay its staff?
... that Métis guide Pierre St. Germain was forced to remain with an Arctic expedition he considered too dangerous?
... that songs recorded by Ben&Ben will be featured in the musical adaptation of the film One More Chance?
... that Mount Churchill, a volcano in Alaska, distributed ash as far as Europe and may have driven migration from Canada to southwestern North America?
... that although the Jesuit missionary He Tianzhang despised his "sad Chinese appearance", it allowed him to circumvent the Qing's ban on Christianity and enter China?

1 March 2024

00:00, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

Tōrō-dō Hall, Okunoin

... that the hall of worship of Okunoin holds more than 10,000 perpetually lit lanterns (pictured), two of which are believed to have been lit for more than 900 years?
... that the slave António Corea may have been the first Korean to visit Europe?
... that an Indian rhinoceros, sent as a gift to Pope Leo X in 1515, was immortalised as Dürer's Rhinoceros after dying in a shipwreck?
... that Robert H. Brooks passed as a white man to join an all-white unit?
... that the 1928 Liechtenstein embezzlement scandal cost 1.8 million Swiss francs, the equivalent of two yearly state budgets?
... that Maxine North swore never to return to Thailand after the death of her undercover CIA husband, but ultimately settled there and introduced bottled water to the country?
... that a review of the board game Imhotep stated that it can be chaotic and "extremely mean"?
... that Franz Jakob Späth's fortepianos were favorites of Mozart, but Beethoven refused to play them?

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