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31 May 2012

16:00, 31 May 2012 (UTC)

... that Jan Matejko's painting Stańczyk (pictured), portraying a solemn court jester, is considered one of the most recognized and significant paintings of Poland?
... that historian Max Hastings called Thaddeus Holt's book The Deceivers a "worthy celebration" of British deception during World War II?
... that the size of a spherical bubble in an infinite body of liquid is described by the Rayleigh–Plesset equation?
... that writer Frank Spotnitz has called "Sacrament" his favourite among the episodes he has written for Millennium?
... that during a football match between FK Bodø/Glimt and Tromsø IL in 1995, Tromsø head coach Harald Aabrekk was brought to the hospital in an ambulance, despite not being injured?
... that males with the genetic disorder familial hyperestrogenism may become feminized and often seek to have their enlarged breasts surgically removed?
... that after the Battle of Azaz in 1030, the victorious Arabs needed seventy camels to carry off the imperial tent of the Byzantine emperor Romanos III and its treasures?

08:00, 31 May 2012 (UTC)

... that the Požega Valley is home to the oldest continuously operating wine cellar in Croatia, built by Cistercians in Kutjevo (pictured) in 1232?
... that actress Lisa George was told by a singing teacher at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama that she was "too big" to be successful in musical theatre?
... that in 1983, in the Russian military town Serpukhov-15, the system controlling the Soviet Union's Oko satellites received warning of American ICBMs being launched?
... that the American film All the Vermeers in New York was created as a tribute to the director's father?
... that the ringback tone for the Indonesian music duo Ratu's song about friends with benefits was downloaded more than a million times?
... that the Annaberg hill (Góra Świętej Anny) in Silesia has a pilgrimage church that remained popular despite Nazi efforts to draw attention away with an open-air theatre and a heroes' mausoleum?
... that Duke Zhuang II of Qi ascended the throne with the help of minister Cui Zhu, but was later killed by Cui for having an affair with his wife?

00:00, 31 May 2012 (UTC)

... that among the mythical owners of Canis Minor (pictured) were Orion, Icarius and Tobias?
... that Australian Opal and Bulleen Boomers forward Elyse Penaluna scored 29 points and made six rebounds in 17 minutes during a basketball game against the Hobart Chargers?
... that when Ottoman commander Esad Pasha surrendered after the 1913 Battle of Bizani, Greek Army officer Ioannis Velissariou personally led the Ottoman delegation to Greek headquarters?
... that the central premise of Millennium's "Covenant" may have been based on Albert Fish's history of self-harm?
... that Sarah, Duchess of York, observed a tradition by diving naked into the swimming pool at Hurst Lodge School at midnight on the eve of her last day there?
... that German conductor Konrad Junghänel and his vocal ensemble Cantus Cölln won the Gramophone Award for the first complete recording of Monteverdi's collection Selva morale e spirituale?
... that Leo Franklyn spent much of the 1940s as a Dame?

30 May 2012

16:00, 30 May 2012 (UTC)

... that the Soviet A-35 anti-ballistic missile system had a radar nicknamed the Dog House (pictured)?
... that William Addams Williams, the MP for Monmouthshire, ensured that newspapers were notified when they incorrectly listed his votes?
... that the Norwegian footballer Steffen Hagen has played every minute of 100 consecutive league-matches for Odd Grenland in Tippeligaen?
... that prepatellar bursitis is also called "coal miner's knee"?
... that in 567 BC Duke Ling of Qi annexed the neighbouring state of Lai, more than doubling the size of the state of Qi?
... that Wojciech Smarzowski's film Róża gained the Polish Film Award in seven categories in 2011?
... that at St Athan, a wild fig tree grew out of the cement of the East Orchard chapel walls?

08:00, 30 May 2012 (UTC)

... that the hirola (pictured) is often referred to as the "four-eyed antelope" due to its large preorbital glands?
... that the use of noise by Ottoman military bands inspired European composers such as Haydn, Beethoven, and Mozart?
... that Raymond P. Ahlquist's discovery of adrenergic receptor subtypes was at first largely ignored but eventually led to the development of widely prescribed beta blocker drugs?
... that Pragyananda Mahasthavir was the first Theravada Buddhist monk wearing yellow robes to be seen in Kathmandu since the 14th century?
... that the pro-gay rap song "BEN (Better Everything Now)" was inspired by the coming out of the artist's gay friend and the It Gets Better campaign?
... that Sting supports Bees for Development?
... that National Hero Iswahyudi, dissatisfied with life in Australia, took a rubber boat back to Indonesia?

00:00, 30 May 2012 (UTC)

... that Sisera's mother (pictured), a biblical character, has been described as evil and sexually depraved?
... that Australian Opal Natalie Hurst is only 163 cm (5 ft 4 in) tall and was once suspended from basketball for five weeks for swearing at a referee?
... that the 1984 American biopic drama film Pope John Paul II, directed by Herbert Wise, was actor Albert Finney's American television debut and the first script to ever be rejected by Finney upon a first reading?
... that depending on a time and place, the same social movement may be revolutionary or not?
... that strand swamps are home to Florida black bears and the endangered Florida panther?
... that after Francys Arsentiev died while climbing Mount Everest, it was nine years before her frozen, preserved body could be moved from beside the main route to the summit?
... that Honeypot Wood was used as a bomb dump in World War II?

29 May 2012

16:00, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

... that a bikini-clad rendition of the "Cat Daddy" dance by the reigning Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue cover model Kate Upton (pictured) was temporarily banned from YouTube?
... that the German National Library of Science and Technology, the world's largest specialty library in its field, has 125 km (78 mi) of shelf space?
... that an obituary in The Independent called Lady June "a great British eccentric and cosmic prankster"?
... that Christ's College Big School is the oldest educational building in New Zealand in continuous use?
... that the first 140 amino acids encoded by the gene TMEM106A are deleted along with BRCA1 during early-onset breast cancer?
... that missing 20th Century Fox executive Gavin Smith set a single-season record of 23.4 points per game playing University of Hawaii basketball that still stands?
... that National Hero of Indonesia Pong Tiku used chili pepper extract to blind his Dutch foes?

08:00, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

... that Angampora (pictured), a martial art native to Sri Lanka which incorporates pressure point attacks, was banned by the British who gained control of the island in the early 19th century?
... that due to his role in the national uprising, Bahraini human rights activist Mohammed al-Maskati received a number of death threats?
... that according to The New York Times, opera producer Robert Lepage and opera house general manager Peter Gelb "cut heroic figures in an epic adventure" in the 2012 documentary Wagner's Dream?
... that while honored in France, the inventor of the smart card, Roland Moreno, received little public recognition outside of the country?
... that Culture Freedom Day, celebrating free culture, has been inspired by the Software Freedom Day?
... that Yan Gomes is the first Brazilian-born player to appear in Major League Baseball?
... that the first privateer battle of the American Revolutionary War was fought at Turtle Gut Inlet?

00:00, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

... that the 2000 a cappella composition Lux Aurumque (Light and Gold) was recorded by a Virtual Choir of 185 singers from 12 countries, conducted by its composer Eric Whitacre (pictured)?
... that Tia Norfleet is the first African American woman to receive a NASCAR racing license?
... that foreign relations between France and Serbia, established in 1879, were briefly severed after France's participation in the bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999?
... that German anarchist Johannes Holzmann edited twenty-five issues of the journal Der Kampf, but eleven of them were banned?
... that Millennium's "Force Majeure" features stock footage from the 1996 Saguenay Flood in Quebec?
... that Yaakov Yosef Herman manufactured and sold kosher wine out of his home throughout the Prohibition era with the approval of a New York City judge?
... that a game between Belfast's Big Two once led to a cockerel and a blue pig being released onto a football pitch?

28 May 2012

16:00, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

... that Leonte Răutu (pictured) survived as the ideologist of Communist Romania under Stalinism, anti-revisionism and national communism, but was toppled when his own daughter emigrated to the West?
... that the 1982 television film The Scarlet Pimpernel was expanded in length to allow for a subplot detailing the rescue of the Dauphin?
... that Ryan Payton created République to prove that a "real game" can be made for mobile phones?
... that the sharp saw-like edges of the native Australian red-fruit saw-sedge can cut the hands of careless handlers?
... that Shirley Reilly, winner of the women's wheelchair race at the 2012 Boston Marathon, has Inupiat heritage?
... that for Pentecost Monday, Bach added five wind parts to the opening of Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 to form the Sinfonia of Ich liebe den Höchsten von ganzem Gemüte, BWV 174?
... that Joshi's Museum of Miniature Railway was the first ever Indian museum to have scale models with digital control and simulated movements of trains?

08:00, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

... that other RAAF units "happily disposed of their oldest airframes" to equip No. 4 Service Flying Training School (Avro Anson of the unit pictured) in 1941?
... that "Dinosaur", a song by American singer Kesha, was inspired by an encounter with an old man whom she perceived as "prehistoric" and "like a dinosaur"?
... that Ohhh...Alright..., I Can See the Whole Room...and There's Nobody in It!, and Sleeping Girl set records for highest priced Roy Lichtenstein work sales at $42.6, $43.2, and $44.8 million, respectively?
... that the young-adult novel Titanic 2020 by Colin Bateman is about an apocalyptic plague that almost destroys mankind, and not about the famous ship itself?
... that Eddie Sharp raced hydroplanes before winning the 1999 ARCA Racing Series championship as a crew chief?
... that Herbert Olivecrona brought neurosurgery to Sweden and later became the namesake of the so-called "Nobel Prize of Neurosurgery"?
... that high-definition video was used for making Brownies?

00:00, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

... that while the legume flower Utah sweetvetch provides habitat for the Sage Grouse, the seeds of legume roundhead bushclover (pictured) are a food source for the Bobwhite Quail?
... that a physical examination of strongman Gino Martino by Harvard Medical School discovered that his skull was more than 2.3 times thicker than the average human skull?
... that Christian rock band MercyMe employed the London Symphony Orchestra to play strings on their album Undone?
... that Little Big Painting and Yellow and Green Brushstrokes, part of Roy Lichtenstein's Brushstrokes series, parody the gestural painting of abstract expressionism?
... that the Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk M.F.7 floatplane trainer was intended as an interim solution, yet it served for several years after the introduction of its successor, the M.F.8?
... that after a police raid, Ali al-Ghanmi, a Bahraini police officer, left his guard post and joined protests because he could no longer support "a killer institution"?
... that 90% of Tracy Beaker fans are girls between 8 and 14?

27 May 2012

16:00, 27 May 2012 (UTC)

... that two National Heroes of Indonesia died in the crash of Dakota VT-CLA (replica of tail depicted)?
... that according to Aristophanes of Byzantium, Euripides' lost play Antigone differed from Sophocles' famous play Antigone in three key respects, including that Antigone married Haemon?
... that upon receiving a personal letter from George Washington appointing him a lieutenant colonel in the Continental Army, Virginia militiaman Angus McDonald declined the offer?
... that the native Australian longhair plumegrass has become naturalised in Hawaii?
... that Millennium's "Powers, Principalities, Thrones and Dominions" makes reference to Powers, Principalities, Thrones and Dominions?
... that the racehorse Bruni won the 1975 British Classic St. Leger Stakes by ten lengths?
... that a video ad for 2012 Russian presidential candidate Vladimir Zhirinovsky featured a donkey pulling a sleigh and called the donkey an allegory for Russia?

08:00, 27 May 2012 (UTC)

... that the U.S. Congress and President both had to give approval to build the Butt-Millet Memorial Fountain (pictured), which memorializes two men who died in the sinking of the Titanic?
... that the German National Library of Medicine is the world's largest specialty library in its five subjects?
... that a farmer drove his tractor from Crawley to Buckingham Palace to protest the land acquisition policies of Crawley Development Corporation?
... that J. A. Chapman, a 19th-century mayor of Portland, Oregon, died after driving his buggy into a telephone wire?
... that the acreage associated with National Register of Historic Places Woodhouse House in Virginia Beach, Virginia, has decreased to less than a fifth of what it was in the 1880s?
... that at the height of Romanticism in Scotland, George IV launched an international craze for tartan by wearing a kilt?
... that some tales have legendary robber Si Pitung losing his magical powers after being hit by rotten eggs?

00:00, 27 May 2012 (UTC)

... that Kenmore (pictured) was used by Colonel Walker of the Army of Northern Virginia as a headquarters during the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House in 1864?
... that the collection at the National Museum of African Art is the largest publicly held African art collection in the United States?
... that Gerhard C. Kallevig was a pioneer in establishing bus routes in Norway?
... that the German drama film Jerichow was nominated for the 2009 German Film Prize in both the Best Feature Film and Best Director categories?
... that Netherlands Antilles women's national football team faces development challenges because football is only the sixth most popular sport in the country?
... that the Maya International Cooperative Biodiversity Group was designed in 1998 to meet the highest ethical standards in bioprospecting, but was closed down in 2001 due to accusations of biopiracy?
... that in 737, the Umayyad Caliphate and the Turgesh Khaganate fought the Battle of the Baggage?

26 May 2012

16:00, 26 May 2012 (UTC)

... that the ruin of St Mary's Kirk, Auchindoir, in northeastern Scotland has a highly decorated, stone sacrament house (pictured) set inside a former window?
... that Uthayan is the only newspaper in Jaffna which did not cease publication during the Sri Lankan Civil War, amid numerous attacks and threats?
... that Bruno Müller was implicated in Nazi atrocities against Polish academics, Ukrainian Jews, and prisoners in a slave labor camp, but died a free man?
... that the a cappella group Straight No Chaser changed its name to Another Round?
... that Mike Daniels, now a rookie for the Green Bay Packers, was first noticed by the American football team when they were scouting other Iowa linemen?
... that there are two versions of Roy Lichtenstein's In the Car, one of which set the record for highest auction price for a Lichtenstein work?
... that although the town of Saint Saëns provided 60,000 francs towards the construction of its own railway line, it was only enough to pay for the station?

08:00, 26 May 2012 (UTC)

... that the Kuriyama (pictured) is the southernmost river in Japan with a salmon run?
... that a statue of the founder of Manichaeism as the "Buddha of Light" has survived for almost 700 years in China's Cao'an Temple?
... that the 12th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry regiment captured 92 Confederate soldiers during the Battle of Gettysburg, including 7 officers?
... that nisoxetine, a predecessor of Prozac, was never marketed but is widely used in scientific research?
... that Major League Baseball's new collective bargaining agreement addressed the issue that led to Barret Loux being declared a free agent?
... that the mineral gatehouseite has been found in only one mine in South Australia?
... that the pullet carpet shell is cultivated in "parks" on the seabed?

00:00, 26 May 2012 (UTC)

... that the spiny scallop (pictured) camouflages itself with a sponge and can swim away from predatory starfish?
... that the five brothers Prince Wukui, Duke Xiao, Duke Zhao, Duke Yi, and Duke Hui fought one another for the throne of the ancient state of Qi, and all succeeded, often by killing their predecessors?
... that continuous flash suppression can suppress an image ten times longer than flash suppression or binocular rivalry?
... that although the market price for Roy Lichtenstein's works in 1965 was $6,000, a collector paid $30,000 for M-Maybe?
... that the New York Yankees introduced Eduardo Núñez to Derek Jeter, his childhood idol, as Jeter's eventual replacement?
... that the manor house of Mapperton was used in the filming of Emma (1996) and The History of Tom Jones (1997)?
... that during the hunt for Pretty Boy Floyd, FBI special agent Melvin Purvis used the Travelers Hotel in East Liverpool, Ohio, as his headquarters?

25 May 2012

16:00, 25 May 2012 (UTC)

... that the Grande halle de la Villette (pictured), now a cultural center in Paris, was formerly a slaughterhouse?
... that Blam was one of the works from Roy Lichtenstein's first solo exhibition that was sold out in advance?
... that Tadashi Yamamoto, who promoted private sector relations between Japan and the United States, founded the Japan Center for International Exchange and the Shimoda Conference?
... that Great Eastern Railway engineers discovered chalk while digging the Narborough Railway Line?
... that writer David Wong's book John Dies at the End was made into a movie starring Paul Giamatti?
... that Albert Brahms kept the first known records of the tide levels on the North Sea coast of Germany?
... that "She's a Mess", a song by English girl group Sugababes from their seventh studio album, had to be renamed because the band felt the lyrics were promoting binge drinking?

08:00, 25 May 2012 (UTC)

... that children as young as eight were forced to work in a stone quarry in a Polenlager (pictured) during the Nazi occupation of Polish Silesia?
... that most Stemmadenia donnell-smithii fruit ripens when insects are scarce, allowing normally insectivorous birds to feed on the fruit opportunistically?
... that Expressionist Head is the name of many Roy Lichtenstein works of art, including six identical sculptures and various paintings?
... that the villain in Millennium's "Paper Dove" was based on real life murderers Edmund Kemper and Jeffrey Dahmer?
... that recent excavation at St James Square revealed the first evidence of Mesolithic human settlement in Monmouth, Wales?
... that in 1926 Jääkarhu became the first Finnish state-owned icebreaker to adopt Finnish as the command language?
... that Hanung Bramantyo's horror film Red Lantern has been described as reminiscent of a history of the Indonesian Communist Party?

00:00, 25 May 2012 (UTC)

... that Roy Lichtenstein's Drowning Girl was adapted from Hokusai's The Great Wave off Kanagawa (pictured)?
... that the United States Senate inquiry into the sinking of the RMS Titanic declared the disaster an "act of God" because nobody could be held liable for it under maritime law?
... that Duke Xiang, ruler of the ancient state of Qi, had an incestuous relationship with his sister Wen Jiang and had her husband Duke Huan of Lu murdered?
... that the Castillo de San Felipe de Lara, a Spanish colonial fort in Guatemala, was built in the 17th century to defend against frequent English pirate attacks?
... that Rudy Árias was a replacement player during the 1994–95 Major League Baseball strike, though he retired as a player in 1979?
... that Agus Kuncoro has acted in three films directed by Hanung Bramantyo?
... that the Bangladesh delegation to the 2011 Commonwealth Youth Games consisted of eight people, including four competitors?

24 May 2012

16:00, 24 May 2012 (UTC)

... that the British inquiry into the sinking of the RMS Titanic was criticised as a "whitewash" after Lord Mersey (pictured) found that the disaster had not been caused by negligence?
... that Australia women's national basketball team member and two-time WNBL Defensive Player of Year Rachael Flanagan is also a personal trainer?
... that cypress domes are the most common swamp habitat in Florida?
... that Albert André's monograph of his friend Pierre-Auguste Renoir is considered to be "one of the most accurate contemporary accounts of the artist's work"?
... that Kirstie Alley made her debut as Rebecca Howe in the Cheers episode "Home Is the Sailor", replacing Shelley Long's Diane Chambers?
... that Lawrence Berry Washington, a great-grandnephew of George Washington, participated in the California Gold Rush, Bleeding Kansas conflict, and Mexican–American War?
... that the 1st SAS Brigade, a World War II military unit, never actually existed?

08:00, 24 May 2012 (UTC)

... that the male Forbes sea star (underside pictured) is sometimes castrated by Orchitophrya stellarum, a parasite which feeds on its gonads?
... that the film Thor 2 will have a "more Viking-influenced feel" than its 2011 predecessor, Thor?
... that the Liturgy of Saint Cyril is one of the three Anaphoras currently used by Coptic Christianity?
... that in 2011 Jerel Worthy, now a Green Bay Packers rookie, became the first defensive tackle from Michigan State to be named a first-team collegiate football All-American since 1971?
... that Hüseyin Özer went from living on the streets of Ankara to owning a British restaurant chain and teaching at Middlesex University?
... that the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum used Grrrrrrrrrrr!! on promotional posters for its 1993 Roy Lichtenstein exhibition?
... that despite the flesh of the mushrooms smelling of semen, Inocybe salicis is best identified microscopically?

00:00, 24 May 2012 (UTC)

... that the mineral shigaite (hexagonal crystal pictured) is named for the Japanese Prefecture where it was discovered in 1985?
... that in Renaissance Scotland, the Chapel Royal at Stirling Castle was rebuilt for the baptism of James VI's son Henry, to mirror the proportions of the Temple of Solomon?
... that in 2009, the deputy chief of Saudi Arabia's intelligence agency, Faisal bin Abdullah bin Mohammed Al Saud, became the country's Minister of Education?
... that England women's cricket captain Charlotte Edwards was the leading run-scorer in three of the first four years of the Super Fours?
... that in his fictional work "Surabaya", Idrus referred to the Indonesian revolutionaries as "cowboys" and the Allies as "bandits"?
... that Roy Lichtenstein's pop art painting Girl with Ball, which was based on a newspaper ad that was still running more than 20 years later, was first sold to Philip Johnson?
... that on 7 June 1998, the Swiss electorate rejected the Gene Protection Initiative, which would have banned scientific research using genetically modified animals?

23 May 2012

16:00, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

... that the April 1894 Salon des Cent exhibition (poster shown) was devoted to the work of Eugène Grasset?
... that Napoleon Bonaparte had great interest in geometry, but probably did not discover Napoleon points?
... that dramatist Kevin Laffan could not find a publisher for his first novel, Pendle's Disposal, but had two offers within a week of changing the title to Virgins are in Short Supply?
... that students of the Jack Welch Management Institute participate in video conferences with the founder, whom Fortune magazine named Manager of the Century?
... that the large prehistoric amphibian Cyclotosaurus had a skull up to 70 cm (28 in) long?
... that Eagle's Store, structurally similar to the Old Faithful Inn, has been operated by the same family since its founding in 1908?
... that Nino Fernandez, who had his breakthrough role as a gay character, dated Miss Indonesia 2009?

08:00, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

... that racehorse I'll Have Another (pictured) won the 2012 Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes with a jockey who had no prior experience in either race?
... that although the starfish Evasterias troscheli shelters juvenile Alaskan king crabs between its arms, it is fed on by the adult crab?
... that Big Painting No. 6 set a record for highest auction price for a painting by a living American artist and Torpedo...Los! set a record for price for a Roy Lichtenstein work?
... that a Bruges building dating to 1399 now houses a museum dedicated to fries?
... that due to the isolated locations, keepers at some lighthouses in Alaska were given a year of leave for every four years served?
... that various turmoils in the history of the Soviet Union left millions of homeless children roaming the country?
... that a prospective book agent advised British author Lindsey Kelk to use a pseudonym as her real name sounded like "a cat being sick"?

00:00, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

... that all that is left of "Vulcan's great forges" of the Consett Iron Company are some sculptures (example pictured)?
... that "21st May", a song recorded by Guillemots, was described by The Times as "gleefully [marrying] a hip-shaking reggae beat to jazz sax"?
... that the extrasolar planet KOI-872.02 was discovered in a similar fashion to Neptune?
... that Roy Lichtenstein considered the discordant panels of his diptych painting Whaam! humorous?
... that Coronation Street actress Patti Clare was working as an office receptionist before she won the role of Mary Taylor in the soap opera?
... that according to a traditional account, the Ndut and Palor people of Senegal split as the result of a disagreement between two brothers?
... that the desecrated Church of Christ of the Chalkè in Istanbul housed—at the same time—both wild animals and the painters and miniaturists working at Topkapı Palace?

22 May 2012

16:00, 22 May 2012 (UTC)

... that Maida's House, the screenwriting debut of Indonesian novelist Ayu Utami (pictured), showed the 1928 Youth Conference, the Japanese surrender, and the May 1998 riots?
... that two regions of the brain, Broca's and Wernicke's areas, are responsible for humans' ability to produce and comprehend language?
... that As I Opened Fire was part of the culmination of the dramatic war-comic works of Roy Lichtenstein?
... that the Polish Writers' Union had an annual budget set by the state allowing for food supplements, health clinics, foreign travel, cars, vacations, stipends and cash prizes?
... that the idea for the MercyMe song "The Hurt & The Healer" came from the death of lead singer Bart Millard's firefighter cousin?
... that the Maya archaeological site of Tres Islas in Guatemala has an alignment of monuments that imitates an architectural group at Uaxactun that served as an astronomical observatory?
... that the Slayer of the elephant, depicted dancing vigorously inside a flayed elephant hide, is popular in Pallava and Chola art?

08:00, 22 May 2012 (UTC)

... that the donkey character Rucio in the 2007 children's film Donkey Xote, executive-produced by Giulia Marletta (pictured), was made to look like "Donkey" from Shrek?
... that Bob Marley & The Wailers' Catch a Fire is regarded as one of the greatest reggae albums?
... that Aaron Ayers, Henry Thomson, and Eden George all unsuccessfully contested the Christchurch South election in the 1887 election and were at some point Mayors of Christchurch?
... that the Relief Association of Southern Sudan was one of the Sudanese partner organizations of Operation Lifeline Sudan?
... that Roy Lichtenstein's pop art painting Oh, Jeff...I Love You, Too...But... uses the classic romance-comic narrative thread of temporary adversity?
... that legally the Trade Unions of socialist Albania had "sweeping powers to regulate hours, wages, working conditions", but were, according to Anton Logoreci, "an appendage of the party"?
... that the LVMH Tower in New York has a 30-foot-high glass "Magic Room" at the top made possible by folding the facade in an unusual interpretation of setback requirements?

00:00, 22 May 2012 (UTC)

... that Tadeusz Lehr-Spławiński (pictured) was released from Sachsenhausen concentration camp with a group of Kraków academics due to protest by prominent Italians including Mussolini and the Vatican?
... that the Millennium episode "Broken World" has been compared to Peter Shaffer's 1973 play Equus?
... that Chrisye initially thought his vocals on the title song for the million-selling album I Love Her were like a monkey's?
... that there are only 136 hectares of the endangered Blue Gum High Forest of the Sydney Basin Bioregion left?
... that Terry Fulmer was the first nurse to serve as president of the Gerontological Society of America?
... that Eustache-Hyacinthe Langlois drew Gothic fantasies but his daughter Espérance painted porcelain?
... that José Quintana made his Major League Baseball debut due to a new rule that allows a team to carry 26 players on their 25-man roster?

21 May 2012

16:00, 21 May 2012 (UTC)

... that the Pont Flavien (pictured) in southern France is the only bridge with an arch over each end to have survived from the time of the Roman emperor Augustus?
... that women's kickboxing in New South Wales, Australia, was banned by law in 1986 and only became legal again in 2008?
... that co-founder Mike Jetter got the idea for Mindjet's first product while recovering from an illness in hospital?
... that Hetty Sarlene could reportedly sing her namesake's songs by age three?
... that the Croatian Littoral is a Croatian region between the cities of Rijeka and Karlobag, but the term is also applied to the entire Croatian coast on the Adriatic Sea?
... that film director Peter Mettler said his documentary Gambling, Gods and LSD was not scripted, but "was making itself while I acted as a medium"?
... that Calvin's Case, an English legal case from 1608, helped establish the principle of birth on American soil as the primary means of acquiring United States citizenship at birth?

08:00, 21 May 2012 (UTC)

... that the Silver Star Cafe, in Port Hedland, Australia (pictured), is housed in a railway carriage built in 1939 for a midwest American streamliner, the General Pershing Zephyr?
... that snow buckwheat and parsnipflower buckwheat were used by Native Americans to treat diarrhea?
... that director Ifa Isfansyah concluded his debut film Garuda on My Chest belonged to its child actors?
... that a year after excavation of Neolithic and Roman artefacts at 33 Whitecross Street, archaeologists discovered evidence of Middle Stone Age human settlement in Monmouth?
... that the 3D music video for "Wide Awake" will be used as a tie-in promotion for the 2012 documentary-concert film, Katy Perry: Part of Me as part of her deal with Pepsi?
... that the Kurdistan Wheatear is sometimes found in North West India?
... that the Torchwood episode "Meat" featured an alien which the writer Catherine Tregenna felt to resemble "a giant kebab"?

00:00, 21 May 2012 (UTC)

... that The Lego Group produced 381 million tires (example pictured) in 2011, making it the largest tire manufacturer in the world?
... that Jagannath Prasad Das is the third Oriya writer to receive India's Saraswati Samman literary award?
... that students at the Havo voor Muziek en Dans are taught music and dance by teachers from Codarts?
... that the U.S. Supreme Court overruled Wilko v. Swan 36 years later in Rodriguez de Quijas v. Shearson/American Express Inc. because changes in arbitration could better protect investors' rights?
... that after Naif sent a demo for a chance to join a compilation album, they were given their own album instead?
... that ground was broken for the Intelsat headquarters by using a space-based circumnavigating radio signal to trigger the explosive?
... that Antiguan and Barbudan participation in the 50-meter freestyle at the 2008 Summer Olympics marked the fifth time swimmer Kareem Valentine ever swam in a pool?

20 May 2012

16:00, 20 May 2012 (UTC)

... that King Teuruarii IV of Rurutu and Queen Tamaeva IV (pictured) of Rimatara, fearing French encroachment, personally petitioned Queen Victoria for a British protectorate over their islands in 1888?
... that the Moucherotte, in France, was the location of the ski-jumping events of the 1968 Winter Olympics?
... that although no Mississippian copper plates have ever been found at Cahokia, it is the only Mississippian culture site where a copper workshop has been located by archaeologists?
... that 2004 Olympic silver medal winning Australian Opal Alicia Poto played basketball in Siberia after a contract fell through with a Czech club?
... that China Miéville's metafictional "salvagepunk" novel Railsea is an "affectionate parody" of Moby-Dick?
... that the original transom at Glenview Mansion, in Yonkers, New York, was removed so a stuffed elephant once owned by the Barnum & Bailey circus could be brought in?
... that the ark clam Anadara subcrenata was involved in an outbreak of Hepatitis A in China in 1988 which killed nine people?

08:00, 20 May 2012 (UTC)

... that kalamalo (pictured) provides the main nesting habitat for the Laysan Finch?
... that Count Vrana refused to surrender during the Siege of Krujë despite a bribe offered to him by Ottoman sultan Murad II?
... the purple pouch fungus is white before its emergence from the ground exposes it to light?
... that Erna Lendvai-Dircksen produced heroic photographs of autobahn construction workers under the Nazis on a commission from Fritz Todt?
... that the Army of the Congress Poland was disbanded after the November Uprising, which marked the end of an independent Polish Army for close to a century?
... that Sebastian Gregory will play a math genius during his second guest stint in the Australian soap opera Neighbours?
... that umpire Bill Hohn once fist-bumped a player following the conclusion of a game?

00:00, 20 May 2012 (UTC)

... that Whitecross Street is included on the 1610 map of Monmouth (pictured) drawn by cartographer John Speed?
... that Smithsonian Institution registrar Helena M. Weiss processed over 250,000 letters from the public each year?
... that the Masonic Hall in Monmouth, Wales, located on Monk Street, houses the oldest surviving masonic lodge in Monmouthshire?
... that in the 1900s, Sara Agnes Rice Pryor, a "Confederate carpetbagger," published two memoirs of the American Civil War after more than 30 years of living in New York?
... that Roy Lichtenstein's Bedroom at Arles was based on Vincent van Gogh's Bedroom in Arles?
... that in Bach's cantata Sie werden euch in den Bann tun, BWV 44, the word "töten" (kill) is "twice emphasized by a sudden, mysterious piano and ... chromatically tinged harmonies"?
... that despite being nicknamed the "relay of peace", the 1948 Summer Olympics torch relay involved the torch being carried on three warships?

19 May 2012

16:00, 19 May 2012 (UTC)

... that although women could not be members of an antiquarian society in Bristol, Mary Ellen Bagnall-Oakeley presented numerous papers to historians, including one about the tower on Monnow Bridge (pictured)?
... that the song "Jesus, Friend Of Sinners" by Casting Crowns "admonishes" the Christian church to show compassion?
... that new Monmouth Alms Houses are to be provided by the charity established nearly four hundred years ago to build the original dwellings?
... that Israel's Chamber of the Holocaust museum includes urns with the ashes of victims from 36 Nazi death camps?
... that New York Times religion editor Rachel Kollock McDowell got locked inside a princess's tomb in pursuit of a news story?
... that the discovery of Mesolithic microliths during gas main excavation in 2010 revealed that Monmouth was inhabited during the Middle Stone Age?
... that the ribald Korean dance-drama Hahoe byeolsingut talnori features a lecherous apostate priest and a urinating dancing girl?

08:00, 19 May 2012 (UTC)

... that Air Marshal Arthur Harris regarded the Rose turret (pictured) as being the only improvement made to the defensive armament of the RAF's heavy bombers between 1942 and the end of World War II?
... that Monmouthpedia has led to Monmouth being described as the "world's first Wikipedia town"?
... that Mei Baojiu is the leader of the Mei Lanfang Peking Opera troupe?
... that the Church of the Holy Cross at Kilgwrrwg, Monmouthshire, is one of the most remote parish churches in the UK still in regular use?
... that United States Fish Commissioner Marshall McDonald devised a number of innovative fish hatching apparatuses including a fish ladder, an "automatic hatching jar" and a "cod box"?
... that Roy Lichtenstein's pop art painting Girl in Mirror is the subject of a 2012 sale without consent and fraud lawsuit?
... that the Christmas-colored Ghost Head Nebula has "eyes" because of new stars?

00:00, 19 May 2012 (UTC)

... that the perennial grass Muhlenbergia capillaris (pictured) was voted 2012 plant of the year by the Garden Club of America?
... that Viktor Chirkov was appointed Commander-in-chief of the Russian Navy by President Dmitry Medvedev on the latter's last day in the Kremlin?
... that Bristol was the only one of the ten cities in England and Wales to have mayoral referendums on 3 May 2012 which voted to switch to a directly elected mayor?
... that Lorri Bauman in 1984 became the first women's collegiate basketball player to score 3,000 points and still holds all-time NCAA records for field goals and free throws?
... that the Katskhi pillar is a 40-metre (130 ft) high natural monolith in Georgia, with remnants of early medieval hermitages atop it?
... that Richard Armstrong became director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in 2008, bringing a curatorial background to the position?
... that the prices of goods in the Phrygian city of Aizanoi were controlled by an edict of Roman emperor Diocletian?

18 May 2012

16:00, 18 May 2012 (UTC)

... that Gregory's tree (pictured), near Timber Creek in Australia's Northern Territory, bears inscriptions by 19th-century explorers and is registered as both a heritage place and an Aboriginal sacred site?
... that although an actor, as a filmmaker better known for his fan films about Batman, Aaron Schoenke was described by filmschoolrejects.com as being "in another league altogether"?
... that the Qianlong Emperor's elegant retirement retreat, the Palace of Tranquil Longevity, is currently undergoing an $18 million international restoration project?
... that Australia had never lost a game on instances when Brett Lee had claimed five wickets in an innings?
... that the Dutch film The Shadow Walkers is based on stories written by Dylan Thomas and Gianni Celati?
... that the Government Gazette (1802) and Sunday Observer (1834) are the oldest newspapers in Sri Lanka?
... that former Indonesia national football team player Herry Kiswanto only received one yellow card during his 17-year career?

08:15, 18 May 2012 (UTC)

... that Brigadier Dudley Clarke, despite having been less than a year old at the time, tried to claim the Queen's South Africa Medal (pictured) for his participation in the Siege of Ladysmith?
... that Sodsai Vanijvadhana performed as "Sondi Sodsai" in the United States because foreigners could not pronounce her last name?
... that County Road 510 in Marquette County, Michigan, previously crossed the Dead River on a bridge moved to the site from Pennsylvania?
... that neither Pat nor Drake Dunsmore, father and son National Football League tight ends, played organized American football before high school?
... that Kusumanegara Heroes' Cemetery in Yogyakarta is the final resting place of five National Heroes of Indonesia?
... that Argentine Manuel Dorrego studied federalism in the United States during his exile in Baltimore?
... that former tennis player Chris Evert is the "godmother" of cruise ship MS Volendam?

00:30, 18 May 2012 (UTC)

... that Bach created the cantata for Ascension (depiction pictured), Gott fähret auf mit Jauchzen, BWV 43, on text in eleven movements, from the Old Testament, New Testament, a poem and a chorale?
... that when basketball player Walter Luckett was a senior in high school, he averaged a triple-double of 39.5 points, 16 rebounds and 13 assists per game?
... that Jan Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa from 1919 to 1924, envisioned a Greater South Africa similar in greatness to Canada and Australia?
... that Juliet May described child actress Lucy Hutchinson as "one of the most remarkable five year olds" she had ever met?
... that Luis Miguel's version of the song "Inolvidable" was included on an album that revived the interest for bolero?
... that Green Bay Packers rookie cornerback Casey Hayward tied the Vanderbilt record for interceptions in a career with 15?
... that the Malaysian film Iskandar was described as a "'genre-less' flick"?

17 May 2012

16:45, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

... that over two thousand skulls, legs, ribs and other body parts of unidentified soldiers were sorted and interred in various compartments under the Civil War Unknowns Monument (pictured) in Arlington, Virginia?
... that the music of Catalan guitarist Toti Soler has been described as beautifully capturing the "enigmatic mood" of "traumas and passions"?
... that Malta's Ministry of Foreign Affairs is housed in the same mansion that Napoleon Bonaparte occupied during his Egyptian Campaign?
... that Gloria Estefan's guest-starring role as the mother of Santana Lopez in the season finale of Glee was originally planned for an early 2012 episode?
... that Pierre and Damien Vachon have been billed as the youngest sons of legendary Canadian professional wrestler Paul "The Butcher" Vachon?
... that when the German TV film Das Millionenspiel aired in 1970, some viewers thought they were watching a real manhunt and called the fictitious telephone number to register to participate?
... that according to Cornish legend, the mermaid Saint Senara fell in love with the chorister of the church in Zennor, and that the church is now dedicated to her?

09:00, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

... that Boudougate led to the attempted impeachment of Argentine Vice President Amado Boudou (pictured)?
... that baseball pitcher Robert Stephenson threw back-to-back no-hitters in his senior season of high school?
... that under the criminal statutes in force during US Chief Justice John Marshall's tenure, slave trading was a misdemeanor but insurance fraud was punishable by death?
... that John Bonham copied Charles Connor's drumming on Little Richard's 1957 hit "Keep A-Knockin'" for the introduction to Led Zeppelin's "Rock and Roll"?
... that the army of the Duchy of Warsaw was able to field almost 100,000 men, more than the larger Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ever could for its army?
... that the go bus is a system of bus rapid transit in New Jersey?
... that the Mexico City borough of Xochimilco has a child that is over 400 years old?

01:15, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

... that seven-time WNBA All-Star Lauren Jackson (pictured) has been described as Australia's Michael Jordan or Shaquille O'Neal?
... that the first known use of the phrase out of left field in its idiomatic sense was by the American music industry?
... that journalist Alice E. Gillington lived with Gypsies but didn't want them to know she was writing about them?
... that the Fourth Crusade to the Holy Land was called for by the 1198 papal bull Post Miserabile?
... that Jason Hartmann was the only male non-Kenyan runner to finish in the top six in this year's Boston Marathon?
... that the Russian Ministry of Defence sued Energia Corp over delays to the EKS early warning satellites?
... that baseball executives thought that Toe Nash was a hoax, similar to Sidd Finch?

16 May 2012

17:30, 16 May 2012 (UTC)

... that N44 (pictured), an emission nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud, has a superbubble structure due to radiation pressure from its powerful stars?
... that the First International Silent Games, in 1924, were the first ever international games for athletes with a disability?
... that soprano Ursula Schröder-Feinen appeared at the Bayreuth Festival as Senta, Brünnhilde, Ortrud and, with "intensity, ... freshness and spontaneity", as Kundry in Parsifal?
... that Soapy Castles and Tiny Lund were the only drivers ever to win the NASCAR Grand National East Series season championship?
... that female director Upi Avianto created Last Wolf, a film about gangsters, drugs, betrayal and revenge?
... that the Smithsonian Institution's Arthur M. Sackler Gallery is ninety-six percent underground?
... that the extinct Crocodylus thorbjarnarsoni from the Pliocene and Pleistocene of Kenya was the largest true crocodile and may have eaten early human ancestors?

09:45, 16 May 2012 (UTC)

... that French choral music composer Ernest Boulanger, son of Opéra-Comique mezzo-soprano Marie Halligner (pictured), received the Grand Prix de Rome in 1835, as did his daughter, Lili, in 1913?
... that up to 167 small bivalve molluscs, Entovalva nhatrangensis, have been found living inside the oesophagus of a brown sandfish?
... that 21-year-old Danny Duffy's abrupt retirement from the Kansas City Royals organization in 2010 reminded many of when Zack Greinke left the baseball club in 2006?
... that the critical and commercial flop Ballad of a Man was later called one of the ten best Indonesian films of all time?
... that Margaret Powell's 1968 memoir, Below Stairs, has inspired three television series: Upstairs, Downstairs, Beryl's Lot and Downton Abbey?
... that the 2010 excursion of the Clifton Antiquarian Club to the Gower Peninsula led to the discovery of what may be the oldest rock art in the British Isles?
... that Martha Wise said she poisoned seventeen family members with arsenic, killing three, because she was irresistibly drawn to funerals and there weren't enough in her town?

02:00, 16 May 2012 (UTC)

... that after future all-star Phil Nevin was taken first overall in the 1992 Major League Baseball Draft, Houston Astros' scout Hal Newhouser quit, protesting that the club should have taken Derek Jeter (pictured) instead?
... that Viktor Bondarev was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Air Force by President Dmitry Medvedev on the latter's last day in the Kremlin?
... that the 2011 drama film When the Night, written and directed by Cristina Comencini, was based upon her novel by the same name?
... that more than 8000 trees were planted in Backmuir Wood to celebrate the 2000 millennium?
... that zoologist Charles Manning Child was described by a National Academy of Sciences biographer as "unmarred by personal ambition or striving for fame and position"?
... that Adinegoro stopped writing literature after his second novel, Asmara Jaya?
... that at a 1999 Singapore Parliament debate, opposition MP J.B. Jeyaretnam's motion that the Government should comply fully with the rule of law was amended to commend the Government for doing so?

15 May 2012

18:14, 15 May 2012 (UTC)

... that fossil leaves almost identical to those of the Australian rainforest tree Orites excelsus (pictured) have been found in New Zealand?
... that Harcourt Morgan, who was later University of Tennessee president and TVA chairman, camped out in pastures and cotton fields to study cattle ticks and boll weevils?
... that in the Bach cantata Bisher habt ihr nichts gebeten in meinem Namen, BWV 87, the bass as the vox Christi sings the opening and "In der Welt habt ihr Angst" ("In the world you have fear")?
... that the 1481 return of Nicholas Dukagjini and Gjon Kastrioti II to Albania, and their subsequent military campaigns, indirectly contributed to the defeat of the Ottoman forces in Otranto?
... that How to Start a Revolution, a 2011 BAFTA award-winning film that profiled the "Machiavelli of Nonviolence", was described by the New York Times as a "noble documentary"?
... that 186 victims of human sacrifice were discovered in the 2,500-year-old tomb of Duke Jing of Qin, an ancestor of the First Emperor of China?
... that Dial soap was originally created and marketed by the Armour and Company meat-packing firm?

08:00, 15 May 2012 (UTC)

... that the blue, turquoise and green colors of peacock tail feathers (pictured) result from structural coloration?
... that Pakistani General Ghulam Jilani Khan founded Chand Bagh School, which was inspired by his own alma mater, the Doon School of India?
... that a scene in the television series Fringe received praise for featuring two versions of the same character conversing together?
... that Duke Xiang succeeded his father Duke Zhuang as ruler of the ancient state of Qin after his older brother refused to take the throne?
... that Calico Joe is a baseball novel by John Grisham about the implications of a nearly fatal beanball?
... that, with a depth of 170 metres (560 ft), Hoverbergsgrottan is the largest rock cave in Scandinavia?
... that 73-year-old Nyi Ageng Serang led her troops in a war against Dutch colonists from a stretcher?

00:00, 15 May 2012 (UTC)

... that Cy Young (pictured) threw a perfect game in the midst of a Major League Baseball record streak of 25⅓ innings pitched without allowing a hit?
... that Eberhard Wolfgang Möller originally intended Adolf Hitler to be revealed as the supreme judge in his Thingspiel, the Frankenburger Würfelspiel?
... that by 1974 at the height of the Mexican barbasco trade, 125,000 mostly indigenous peasants depended on collecting wild yam in the jungle and selling it to the pharmaceutical industry?
... that jazz trio BADBADNOTGOOD had a crowd moshing at a J Dilla tribute show?
... that the main tourist attraction in Agkistro, northern Greece, its steam bath complex, dates from the 10th century Byzantine period?
... that Darrell Wallace, Jr. was the first African American to win a NASCAR Rookie of the Year award?
... that the Millennium episode "Lamentation" features a kidney sent to an investigator's wife, as a reference to Jack the Ripper's "From Hell" letter?

14 May 2012

16:00, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

... that reports of Tristram's Jird (pictured) on the Greek island of Kos are the only wild gerbil sightings from Europe outside of the former Soviet Union?
... that like William Bligh of the Bounty, naval officer John Bligh experienced a mutiny during his time in command?
... that Steven Curtis Chapman's song "Yours" was the 45th number-one single of his career?
... that in 1457 Pope Callixtus III criticized the bishop of Krujë for the unjustified excommunication of Pal Dukagjini and his subjects?
... that the Dutch children's book Frog and the Birdsong by Max Velthuijs is frequently used to teach young children how to cope with death?
... that Ørn-Horten avoided relegation from the 2001 Norwegian First Division with a match-winning goal from the goalkeeper five minutes into stoppage time in the decisive match against Vålerenga?
... that National Hero of Indonesia Oerip Soemohardjo attended a girls' school as a child to improve his temperament?

08:00, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

... that the pioneering Orfordness Beacon radio navigation system (pictured) could be used with nothing more than a radio receiver and clock?
... that the plot of the novel Mothers and Other Liars, about a teenage runaway raising a baby found in a trashcan, was inspired by author Amy Bourret's work in child advocacy?
... that a song included on the album El Ejemplo released by Mexican band Los Tigres del Norte in 1995 was nominated for an award in 2011?
... that Green Bay Packers rookie linebacker Nick Perry broke the Michigan record for sacks as a senior in high school?
... that Helen Keller interceded with the US government on behalf of Japanese anma practitioners?
... that performance calligraphy is a modern form of Japanese calligraphy that combines J-pop music and dance with traditional calligraphy?
... that Vasile Pogor, a Romanian Buddhist scholar and co-founder of the Conservative Party, appeared to be "missing something upstairs"?

00:00, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

... that Indonesian film producer Mira Lesmana (pictured) has campaigned several times against censorship in the country's film industry?
... that cognitive psychologist Eldar Shafir has concluded that people who believe they are being rational often are not?
... that Gillian Anderson's minimal involvement in The X-Files episode "The Gift" allowed her to spend more time with her daughter?
... that Jersey will compete in the 2012–13 RFU Championship after three consecutive promotions?
... that the Chinese political cartoon Hexie Farm, critical of the government, is written by someone identified only as "Crazy Crab"?
... that the Music for Our Mother Ocean (MOM) series of benefit albums featured a wide array of popular musicians, including Paul McCartney, Snoop Dogg, the Beach Boys and the Beastie Boys?
... that Leontina Albina Espinoza of Colina, Chile, claimed to have given birth to 58 children and was cited for a time by the Guinness Book of Records as the world's most prolific mother?

13 May 2012

16:00, 13 May 2012 (UTC)

... that human–animal breastfeeding – women breastfeeding young animals, or animals breastfeeding human children, such as goats (pictured) – has been practised throughout history?
... that John de Rantau's 2011 film The Universe Supports details a boy's search for his mother through the Indonesian Physics Olympiad Team?
... that Jeffrey Hammonds received the largest signing bonus of the 1992 Major League Baseball Draft?
... that the Compton–Belkovich Thorium Anomaly is a thorium-rich hotspot on the back of the moon?
... that Phoebe Buffay's childbirth scenes in the Friends episode "The One Hundredth" were created using actual childbirth footage, dolls, and real-life triplets coated with grape jelly?
... that the only FIFA recognised matches Anguilla women's national football team have played in were against Antigua and Barbuda, US Virgin Islands, Barbados and Grenada?
... that a Klingon bat'leth was used in two Colorado robberies?

08:00, 13 May 2012 (UTC)

... that one can be fined Rp. 100 million for willfully damaging Cultural Properties of Indonesia, such as Prambanan (complex pictured)?
... that A. P. Nagarajan, who played the main lead in Naalvar, also provided the script for the film?
... that mathematician Ioan Mire Melik was a member of the Romanian literary society Junimea, and recommended it invest in a salt mine to improve its finances?
... that a newspaper quipped that the 1911 Michigan football team, featuring "Bottles" and "Bubbles", could claim the world championship for having players injured?
... that in his Requiem, composer Frederick Delius mingled "Hallelujahs" with "Allah II Allah"?
... that pitcher B. J. Wallace set an Olympic baseball record with fourteen strikeouts in one game?
... that the father of aircraft pioneer William Boeing threatened to block the Duluth Ship Canal by tying a rope across it?

00:00, 13 May 2012 (UTC)

... that Oliver F. Atkins captured a secret meeting (pictured) between President Nixon and Elvis?
... that Jumbo King, a branded fast food chain company marketing Maharashtrian speciality vada pav, was inspired by McDonald's and Burger King?
... that a nine-image series by Nadar may be the first medical photographic documentation of an intersex person?
... that in 1965, Barbara Robbins became the first female CIA employee to die in action in the agency's history and the first American woman to die in the Vietnam War?
... that the vulnerable shrub Acacia pubescens, once grown at the Château de Malmaison, is threatened by housing development around Sydney?
... that the Millennium episode "Maranatha" connects the Chernobyl disaster to events in the Book of Revelation?
... that milonguero-style tango is danced with a close embrace?

12 May 2012

16:00, 12 May 2012 (UTC)

... that former Major League Baseball pitcher Paul Shuey (pictured) is now a professional bass fisherman?
... that Rambhadracharya believes that Tulsi Peeth stands at the place where Rama gave his sandals to Bharata, as described in the Ramayana?
... that due to the strength of The Dismemberment Plan album The Dismemberment Plan Is Terrified, the band was able to sign with major record label Interscope?
... that Hungarian-born Endre Nemes was a pioneer in Sweden in the use of enamels in public art?
... that when John Ollivier contested the Lincoln electorate in New Zealand in an 1889 by-election, he was praised by his opponent for his good-humoured campaign?
... that the onion-eye grenadier is often caught unintentionally when the Greenland halibut is being fished?
... that the 1941 film Christmas Under Fire features people celebrating Christmas underground?

08:00, 12 May 2012 (UTC)

... that the native American rose Rosa blanda (pictured) is hybridising with the introduced Japanese rose Rosa rugosa?
... that the Danish theological movement Tidehverv, represented in parliament from 2001 to 2011, published combined pamphlets by Martin Luther under the title "Against the Turk and the Jew" in 1999?
... that the Bozeman National Fish Hatchery was instrumental in rebuilding the endangered population of the greenback cutthroat trout?
... that Highway 95 and Highway 96 were the only King's Highways in Ontario not connected to the rest of the network by a fixed link?
... that Scheduled Castes leader Sukumar Barman served as Tripura state minister for transport and fisheries?
... that Horse ebooks is a Twitter spam account best known for the amusing non sequiturs it tweets to evade spam detection?
... that in the 2007 children's book Duck, Death and the Tulip by Wolf Erlbruch, a duck and Death discuss the afterlife?

00:00, 12 May 2012 (UTC)

... that Japanese censors were horrified by Gaetano Faillace's photograph (right) of General Douglas MacArthur and Emperor Hirohito?
... that the roundnose grenadier is projected to be fished to extinction unless actions are taken to conserve it?
... that Adéodat Compère-Morel published a socialist encyclopedia and dictionary?
... that when filming "Walkabout", Millennium star Lance Henriksen wanted it to be clear his character was not reckless with medicine?
... that two years after winning the 2,000 Guineas Stakes, the British racehorse Gang Forward was sold for 4,000 guineas and became a stud in Australia?
... that the Atwood-Blauvelt mansion in Oradell, New Jersey, was built for Kimball Atwood, whose Florida grapefruit plantation was the birthplace of the pink grapefruit?
... that the original publication of Eve's Ransom by George Gissing was delayed by Fred Barnard's drunkenness?

11 May 2012

16:00, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

... that the Andrew Freedman Home (pictured) served as a retirement home for "aged and indigent persons of both sexes" who had formerly been of "good circumstances"?
... that Tricana poveira are Portuguese girls known for a characteristic style of dressing, based on folk costume, and way of walking?
... that Tunisian police officer and whistle-blower Samir Feriani became known as "the first 'Prisoner of Conscience' in post-revolutionary Tunisia"?
... that Lindsay Lohan is one of three celebrity judges appearing in the "Nationals" competition episode of Glee?
... that Romanian politician Nicolae Penescu was seriously wounded in two assassination attempts thirty-five years apart, dying as a result of injuries sustained the second time?
... that a large aftershock following the 1966 Toro earthquake caused more deaths in the Democratic Republic of Congo than the original earthquake?
... that at the age of 92, Marius Moutet was the oldest member of the Senate of France and the French Assembly?

08:00, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

... that today a conservator-restorer polishes silver objects (pictured) with a homemade slurry of precipitated calcium carbonate and deionized water?
... that Chad Mottola was the first University of Central Florida athlete to be selected in the first round of a professional sports draft?
... that the endangered butterfly Karner blue prefers the perennial subshrub Rubus flagellaris as a source of nectar?
... that artist Tina Mion, of Winslow, Arizona, grew up visiting the museums of her birthplace, Washington, D.C., whose National Portrait Gallery now holds two of her works in its permanent collection?
... that the head of King Badu Bonsu II, who was hanged in 1838 during the Dutch–Ahanta War, was rediscovered in the Leiden University Medical Center in 2005?
... that the Helmand and Arghandab Valley Authority in Afghanistan was modelled on the Tennessee Valley Authority in the United States?
... that singer Hetty Koes Endang and her duet partner were the first Indonesians to win the World Popular Song Festival?

00:00, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

... that the smallflower false foxglove (pictured) is a hemiparasite?
... that Leslie H. Sabo, Jr. is scheduled to posthumously receive the Medal of Honor from President Barack Obama 42 years after he was killed in the Vietnam War?
... that "the mill and trysting thorn" in Robert Burns's poem "The Soldier's Return" are located in the Scottish hamlet Millmannoch?
... that Suttle Lake, a natural lake on the eastern slope of the Cascade Range of Oregon, has brown trout weighing up to 10 pounds (4.5 kg)?
... that Bangkok hosted the 1978 Asian Games after Singapore and Islamabad dropped their plans to host for financial and political reasons, respectively?
... that a letter from Charles McEwen Hyde prompted Robert Louis Stevenson to publicly express his belief that Father Damien would one day achieve sainthood?
... that the Bergen Greenland Company colonized Greenland thinking it was a peninsula still inhabited by the old Norse settlers?

10 May 2012

16:00, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

... that the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth army (troops pictured) was so underfunded that it was often outnumbered 12 to 1 by neighboring armies?
... that four of the twentieth-century Parkfield earthquakes had similar intensities to the dawn foreshock of the great 1857 Fort Tejon earthquake?
... that while football is the most popular women's sport in Gambia and the U-17 has played in a World Cup qualifier, the Gambia women's national football team has not played a FIFA sanctioned game?
... that the Algerian communist leader Larbi Bouhali went into exile after the 1965 coup d'état?
... that the top of Bear Seamount, an underwater volcano, is covered by sediment and boulders that may have fallen from icebergs?
... that Argentine general Lucio Norberto Mansilla died during the 1871 epidemic of yellow fever in Buenos Aires?
... that Major League Baseball pitcher Dan Jennings of the Miami Marlins has been mistakenly thought to be the son of team vice president Dan Jennings?

08:00, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

... that in the medieval period, Mont Aiguille (pictured) was traditionally called "Mount Inaccessible", and typically depicted as an "inverted pyramid" or "mushroom"?
... that MP Thomas William Booker, son of the poet Luke Booker, was raised at Melingriffith Tin Plate Works by his uncle, the High Sheriff Richard Blakemore?
... that casino operator Caesars World began as a hot dog stand in Miami Beach?
... that the Central African Republic faced difficulties in playing in the Women's U-19 World Cup semi-final against South Africa because the country initially refused to grant players visas?
... that Robert Kirkman's method for co-writing the Thief of Thieves comic book series was influenced by his work on The Walking Dead TV show?
... that voluntary disclosure in accounting benefits investors, companies and the economy, and is carried out extensively by many companies?
... that Rufus Youngblood used his body to shield Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson during the assassination of John F. Kennedy?

00:00, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

... that U.S. Navy rear admiral John W. Wilcox, Jr. (pictured) was lost overboard from the deck of his flagship during World War II?
... that the anti-cancer drug polyestradiol phosphate was discovered accidentally when scientists experimented with a compound found in apple tree leaves?
... that the 6th Summit of the Americas was boycotted by Presidents Rafael Correa of Ecuador and Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua?
... that Ottoman architect Mimar Sinan erected a Koranic school and an elementary school near the Ese Kapi Mosque in Istanbul?
... that the cremated remains of Romanian communist politician Alexandru Drăghici were smuggled into his native country and, refused burial, lay uninterred for a decade?
... that the B3306 road in Cornwall passes at least four Bronze Age or Neolithic sites?
... that prior to his long coaching career, Hank Crisp was a member of the football, basketball, and baseball teams at Virginia Polytechnic Institute despite not having a right hand?

9 May 2012

16:00, 9 May 2012 (UTC)

... that school teacher and conspirator Jadwiga Apostoł (pictured) survived three German camps, including Auschwitz, and was jailed in Stalinist Poland on trumped-up charges soon after her return?
... that iron hydride is one of the few molecules found in the Sun's atmosphere?
... that protesters have occupied and started to farm a tract of land owned by the University of California, Berkeley?
... that the founders of Indonesian band Last Child are the last children of their families?
... that while filming the episode "Props", many Glee actors had to swap roles with another actor in the cast?
... that the founder of handbag company Radley originally started in the industry by selling bags on a market stall in 1984?
... that Ed Samples took up stock car racing because he deemed the sport to be safer than moonshine-running?

08:00, 9 May 2012 (UTC)

... that of the 17 confirmed Olmec colossal heads of Mexico (example pictured), the largest is estimated to weigh 40 tons?
... that the Plymouth, Stonehouse and Devonport Tramway was the only one of three independent tramways in Plymouth to be built to the British standard gauge?
... that the group theatre of Kolkata is a theatre tradition that arose contrasting with the commercial theatre in the 1940s?
... that the name of the racehorse Ela-Mana-Mou, the beaten favourite for the 200th Epsom Derby, means "Come on, my darling" in Greek?
... that Mahdi Abu Deeb was arrested, allegedly tortured, and sentenced to 10 years in prison due to his role in the 2011–2012 Bahraini uprising?
... that Mike Graham, the son of Eddie Graham, opened the Eddie Graham Memorial Battle of the Belts with a tribute to his father and officially introduced the FIP Florida Heritage Championship?
... that for years Smalls Jazz Club did not serve alcohol?

00:00, 9 May 2012 (UTC)

... that patterns in nature like the spirals of Aloe (pictured) are explained by mathematics, physics, chemistry, and natural selection all at once?
... that bowlers have taken thirteen five-wicket hauls in Tests and one five-wicket haul in One Day International cricket matches played at Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai?
... that Consul General Eb Gaines organized two Bermuda summits between U.S. President George H. W. Bush and U.K. Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher and John Major?
... that "Dance with Somebody", Glee's tribute episode to the late Whitney Houston, features an a cappella version of "How Will I Know"?
... that the Balaban Aga Mosque in Istanbul, built in the Byzantine era, was demolished in 1930 because it stood in the way of a new road?
... that University of Hawaii softball player Kaia Parnaby is trying to make the Australian squad that will play in the 2012 World Championships?
... that Adolf Hitler was so hopelessly in love with Stefanie Isak when he was a teenager that he planned to kill both her and himself in the Danube?

8 May 2012

16:00, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

... that the Leona Lewis (pictured) song "Homeless" was written by Swedish songwriter Jörgen Elofsson?
... that the film Shodo Girls is based on the true story of a group of high school girls who organized a performance calligraphy competition to revive their hometown?
... that India has the highest frequency of traffic collisions in the world, with frequency of accidents in its capital New Delhi being 40 times more than in London?
... that botanist Allen Lowrie wrote three volumes dedicated to the carnivorous plants of Australia?
... that the main theme of the 1994 Asian Games was to promote peace and harmony among Asian nations, which was emphasized because the venue was the site of the first atomic bomb attack?
... that the "most famous signature in rock 'n' roll" – the opening riff to Chuck Berry's 1958 hit "Johnny B. Goode" – was actually a jazz riff played 12 years earlier by Carl Hogan?
... that the first secular Bulgarian book of the modern era was an 1824 children's encyclopedia?

08:00, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

... that the zig-zag wattle (pictured) is so named for its zig-zag stems?
... that Sherina's Adventure featured a young girl going against Sadam, then joining forces with him, in a story inspired by Grease?
... that in 678 BCE Duke Wu started the practice of funeral human sacrifice in Qin, which continued in the ancient Chinese state for nearly three centuries till Duke Xian abolished it in 384 BCE?
... that the Pebble smartwatch failed to interest traditional investment groups, and then became the most successful project in the history of Kickstarter?
... that German general Hermann von Kuhl is one of only five recipients to be distinguished with both the "military class" and "peace class" of the Pour le Mérite?
... that Buenos Aires besieged and captured Montevideo during the Second Banda Oriental campaign?
... that the fictitious P. Orno is named as author of several mathematical papers emanating from Ohio State University?

00:00, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

... that TV presenter Dieter Thomas Heck (pictured), known for the ZDF-Hitparade, stuttered as a boy after being trapped in a 1943 bombing raid, but conquered his stutter with singing lessons started at age 16?
... that the British Army fielded a battalion of professional footballers in the World War I Battle of the Somme?
... that Chinese academic Wu Mi is an expert in redology, the study of the Chinese classic book Dream of the Red Chamber?
... that despite having few registered women players and their team never playing a FIFA-recognised match, Burundi has an under-20 women's national team?
... that Romanian politician George Mârzescu championed a law banning the Communist Party and was _targeted for assassination when he paved the way for Jews to gain citizenship?
... that "Thank You for the Heartbreak", a song recorded by English girl group Sugababes for their seventh studio album, was co-written by Ryan Tedder, a member of rock band OneRepublic?
... that in 1934 Hitler fired for unbecoming conduct a German diplomat who was caught on film kissing the episcopal ring of Irish nuncio Paschal Robinson?

7 May 2012

16:00, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

... that World War I British flying ace Thomas Elliott scored all eleven of his aerial victories from the Bristol F.2 Fighter (pictured)?
... that of the more than 200 songs recorded by Chrisye, four were selected by Rolling Stone Indonesia as among the best Indonesian songs of all time?
... that Hawaiian chief Kamanawa gave his daughter Peleuli in marriage to King Kamehameha I to cement their alliance after Kamehameha's victory at the Battle of Mokuʻōhai?
... that Twitter bombs have been used in Internet activism by people as diverse as Barack Obama and members of Anonymous?
... that the giant white clam Calyptogena magnifica and the large mussel Bathymodiolus thermophilus are found at hydrothermal vents more than a mile beneath the surface of the Pacific Ocean?
... that Paul and Tim Andrews are the first father-and-son crew chief and driver combination in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series since 1987?
... that the Glee episode "Prom-asaurus" features a dinosaur-themed senior prom and the song "Dinosaur" by Kesha?

08:00, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

... that when Nikolaus Simrock (pictured) founded music publisher N. Simrock in 1793, his earliest publications included piano variations by his friend Beethoven, a former orchestra colleague in Bonn?
... that Sixto Mercado Tiongco, born in the Philippines on May 7, 1914, grew up to become Governor of China's Fujian Province, Minister of Transport, and head of the Chinese Navy?
... that although the prehistoric shark Nanocetorhinus is named for the resemblance of its teeth to miniature Cetorhinus teeth, there is no evidence the two genera are closely related?
... that the Pulitzer Prize jury voted to award Les Payne the prize, but the advisory board overruled the decision without explanation?
... that the defendant in an Amsterdam sex crimes case awaiting final judgment has admitted to abuse of 83 young children?
... that Isaac Albéniz dedicated his composition Sevilla to Count Guillermo Morphy's wife when he premiered it in a piano performance in Paris on 24 January 1886?
... that Robert Menzies played cricket for New Zealand in 1939?

00:00, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

... that the Medieval Faire (pictured) is now home to Canada's Wonderland's 16th roller coaster, the Leviathan?
... that the candidates in the 2012 Negros Occidental's 5th district special election are an uncle and nephew?
... that the New York apartment of advertising consultant Cindy Gallop was the set for the music video for "Nasty Girl" by The Notorious B.I.G.?
... that the ruins of the Minnesota Point Light mark the zero point of the first survey of the Lake Superior region?
... that Polish resistance member Tadeusz Popek was one of only two known prisoners to have escaped from the Nazi torture centre at the Palace Hotel in Zakopane?
... that Indonesian screenwriter Salman Aristo initially wanted to be a musician?
... that Boston Red Sox third baseman Will Middlebrooks is engaged to a former Dallas Cowboys cheerleader whom he has known since childhood?

6 May 2012

16:00, 6 May 2012 (UTC)

... that the debates from the 1976 European Communist Conference (commemorative stamp pictured) were censored by Pravda, but not by Neues Deutschland?
... that Bach's cantata Es ist euch gut, daß ich hingehe, BWV 108, for Cantate Sunday, has Gospel text sung by the bass as vox Christi and by the choir in three fugues?
... that Patrick Corbin set a Mobile BayBears franchise record when he pitched 271⁄3 consecutive scoreless innings?
... that, during their fight against the Moldo-Wallachian Cuza regime, Românul editors agitated in international radical circles, assisted the rebellious Polish migrants, and feigned madness?
... that 60 mothers have been prosecuted under Alabama's chemical endangerment law?
... that guitarist Ian Antono described Nicky Astria as "the best female pop rock singer Indonesia has ever seen"?
... that the first CZW World Junior Heavyweight Champion, The Sensational One, lost the title in the same night he won it?

08:00, 6 May 2012 (UTC)

... that the Mogao and Yulin Caves (wall painting pictured) are among the Major Historical and Cultural Sites of western China?
... that the Melvyn Maxwell and Sara Stein Smith House, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, was built by two Detroit Public Schools teachers who "scrimped and saved" on an income of $280 per month?
... that Horst von der Goltz, a German spy against the U.S. in World War I, played himself in the 1918 American anti-German propaganda film The Prussian Cur?
... that Trachysalambria curvirostris, one of the most important species of fished prawns, is abundant around Australia but is considered too small to be commercial there?
... that Adonis García was named to the 2012 Caribbean Series All-Tournament Team?
... that before the establishment of the Jerusalem Foundation in 1966, there were hardly any parks or playgrounds in Jerusalem?
... that the 2011 All-Africa Games gold medallist Julius Yego learned the javelin throw by watching videos of Jan Zelezny and Andreas Thorkildsen on YouTube?

00:00, 6 May 2012 (UTC)

... that the 145-room Wiesbaden City Palace (pictured) in Germany has survived two revolutions and both World Wars to become the home of the Hessian State Parliament?
... that Guy Kabeya Muya, co-director of Entre la coupe et l'élection (2008), received death threats for helping with Thierry Michel's 2009 Katanga Business?
... that the Barcelona Papyrus is the oldest liturgical manuscript containing a complete anaphora?
... that Don Kindt was drafted 11th overall in the 1947 NFL Draft and signed for a $25,000 bonus, despite having off-season knee surgery?
... that in 1931 the publication of the Volga German newspaper Nachrichten was reduced to 18 times per month, due to paper shortages?
... that many of the pre-Columbian Etowah plates found at Etowah Indian Mounds in Georgia were thought to have been made at Cahokia in western Illinois?
... that Colonel Victor Jones used dummy tanks during the North African Campaign of World War II to confuse the Germans about the size and location of Allied forces?

5 May 2012

16:00, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

... that @ladygaga (pictured) and @justinbieber are, respectively, the first and second most-followed celebrities on Twitter?
... that Melville Waddington was the first observer ace in No. 20 Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps to score a victory in the Bristol Fighter?
... that the coming out of real-life gay former baseball player Glenn Burke inspired the Cheers episode "The Boys in the Bar"?
... that the stepfather of Swiss politician Jakob Lechleiter was a German communist leader who was executed in 1942?
... that VimpelCom was the first Russian company to list its shares on the New York Stock Exchange?
... that John Stossel's book No, They Can't focuses on the topic of government intervention?
... that Wingletang Down is the only place in Great Britain and Ireland where you can find Least Adder's Tongue?

08:00, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

... that the inselberg Mount Oxley (pictured) was known as Oombi Oombi to the local aborigines?
... that Tajul Muluk, whose home and boarding school were burnt down by opponents of his preaching Shia Islam, was arrested for blasphemy?
... that Johannes Brahms composed two major works about death inspired by the Luther Bible, his Requiem as a young man, and Vier ernste Gesänge, when close to his own death?
... that artefacts of the poorly understood Mezcala culture of western Mexico were re-used by the Aztecs?
... that French socialist Jules Nadi founded the Symbolist journal L'Œuvre?
... that in the United States, sex in public bathrooms is more frequent in bars than in restaurants?
... that the mossy saxifrage and the rough saxifrage are the only two species in the Trachyphyllum section of the genus Saxifraga to grow in the Alps?

00:00, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

... that Australian national team pitcher Aimee Murch (pictured) has won the Italian Softball Championship, Italian Cup and European Cup?
... that geothermal power plants being built at Olkaria in Kenya could generate two gigawatts of electricity?
... that Alabama Shakes were the first act to top the Official Record Store Chart, with their album Boys & Girls?
... that Lizzy Lind af Hageby, a Swedish feminist and anti-vivisectionist, broke a record in England in 1913 when she spoke 210,000 words during a libel trial and asked 20,000 questions?
... that plates in the pre-Columbian Wulfing style, likely made by the same workshop at Cahokia, have been found as far apart as Oklahoma, Illinois, and Florida?
... that Norwegian footballer Thomas Holm was both champion with Molde FK and runner-up with Tromsø IL of Tippeligaen in 2011?
... that during Liverpool's Sea Odyssey, the city was visited by a 9-metre-tall little girl, her 15-metre uncle, and her dog, Xolo?

4 May 2012

16:00, 4 May 2012 (UTC)

... that Federal Forest Highway 13 (pictured) in the Hiawatha National Forest in Michigan crosses the Sturgeon River on a T-beam bridge built in 1941?
... that the Biblioteca Palafoxiana in Puebla, Mexico, founded in 1646, was the first public library in colonial Mexico?
... that the inventor of the FIFA World Cup, Jules Rimet, won the Croix de Guerre while fighting with the French forces during the First World War?
... that archaeologists have found human remains, Mesolithic and Neolithic flintwork and Neolithic pottery in the caves of Goldsland wood near Wenvoe, Cardiff?
... that a TV crew filmed Prashant Bhushan being beaten up in his chambers in the Supreme Court of India?
... that despite an improved accident record following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Aeroflot's three deadliest accidents in the 1990s occurred in the post-Soviet era?
... that poet and underground leader Augustyn Suski refused to agree to the assassination of a Gestapo informant for lack of material evidence, and died as a result of his denunciation?

08:00, 4 May 2012 (UTC)

... that juvenile slender groupers (adult pictured) aggressively mimic harmless red-lined wrasses?
... that the brothel Bon Ton is described by BBC as "an ideal showcase for New Zealand-style liberalisation"?
... that the Western Thousand Buddha Caves are documented in a manuscript from the Library Cave at Mogao?
... that Zambia's women's national football teams include a senior women's team, under-20 team, under-17 team, an Olympic qualification team, an under-23 team and Homeless World Cup team?
... that Indonesian actress Ayu Azhari reportedly invested Rp. 10 billion in an unsuccessful bid to become Deputy Regent of Sukabumi?
... that to film her role on the Glee episode "Choke", Whoopi Goldberg traveled by bus from New York to Los Angeles?
... that a coin-collecting shop has become the largest supplier of gold to the U.S. Treasury?

00:00, 4 May 2012 (UTC)

... that Gligor Sokolović (pictured) was killed by his Young Turk guards while drinking from a fountain?
... that in SEC v. Rajaratnam, the US 2nd Circuit Court held that defendants can be compelled to disclose relevant wiretapped conversations given to them in a separate trial?
... that one reviewer called the subway scene of the gay pornographic film Inch by Inch a blend of "realism and 'classical cinema'"?
... that in ancient Rome, a horse was sacrificed to the deity Mars each year on the Ides of October, with ceremonies in various venues involving different parts of the horse's body?
... that the NYPD Blue episode "Hearts and Souls" was the last regular appearance of the character Bobby Simone, a role for which Jimmy Smits won a Golden Globe Award?
... that when he was 18, pianist Percival Mackey toured with a band consisting of a 72-year-old trumpeter and a fiddler who was often drunk?
... that the state of Qin, predecessor of China's Qin Dynasty, was founded by Feizi, a horse breeder?
... that a member of the Indonesian band Armageddon Holocaust claimed to be Bill Clinton?

3 May 2012

16:00, 3 May 2012 (UTC)

... that French revolutionary forces in Rennes evicted almost forty nuns from their abbey residence, the Palais Saint-Georges (pictured), and used the building as a barracks?
... that the leadership of Zen Buddhism's Sōtō School under Koun Ejō led to a schism of the community within only a generation of its founding?
... that the proceeds of the 2008 Jeff Peterson Memorial Cup were donated to a two-year-old child diagnosed with a rare form of cancer?
... that in 2010, artist Neltje Doubleday Kings made the largest estate gift ever to the University of Wyoming?
... that the fossil pelican Pelecanus schreiberi from North Carolina was possibly the largest species of pelican ever?
... that Blake Beavan, the losing pitcher of Philip Humber's perfect game, threw a perfect game of his own while in high school?
... that Krasta, the highest town in Albania, was founded in 1970 as a chromium mining town?
... that while serving as mayor of Portland, Oregon, Allen G. Rushlight once climbed inside the city crematory to repair it?

08:00, 3 May 2012 (UTC)

... that after being born on a ship in the North Sea and growing up in poverty, Hannah Kempfer (pictured) went on to become one of the first women legislators in Minnesota?
... that Da-Don took the office of chief rabbi of Croatia in 1998, more than fifty years since the last office-holder?
... that voters in Zurich, Switzerland, approved the creation of "sex boxes"?
... that Paul Burnum did not lose a game as head coach of the Tuscaloosa High School football team from 1925 to 1929, and each of his five teams were later recognized as Alabama state champions?
... that the eastern edge of Philipshill Wood is believed to mark the boundary between the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of Wessex and Mercia?
... that former Delhi High Court Chief Justice Rajinder Sachar was taken into custody at the age of eighty-seven for defying a ban on public speaking?
... that the Australian native apricot is also known as gumbi gumbi or cumby cumby?
... that South African cricketer Ernest Halliwell was the first wicket-keeper to put raw steaks in his gloves to protect his hands?

00:00, 3 May 2012 (UTC)

... that the subversive newsletter made for German occupation authorities (pictured) by the Polish underground Tatra Confederation was so good the Germans thought it was produced internally?
... that Indonesian politician Marzuki Darusman was burned in effigy in Sri Lanka for his investigation into that country's civil war?
... that Holocausto were described as the most controversial Brazilian heavy metal band ever?
... that from 1944, subscribers to Asia Raja were charged an extra fee for supporting forced labourers?
... that Czech international footballer Patrik Gedeon went to play club football in Liechtenstein in the middle of his career?
... that when Roman consul Lucius Postumius Megellus left office in 290 BCE, he was fined 500,000 asses, at the time the largest fine issued to a Roman citizen?
... that the larval form of the bobtail snipe eel Neocyema erythrosoma was first described more than 60 years before the adult fish was discovered?
... that the Broadway–Livingston Avenue Historic District in Albany, New York, does not include the intersection of those two streets?

2 May 2012

16:00, 2 May 2012 (UTC)

... that Fedor Kelling (pictured) twice pulled out of elections for the New Zealand Parliament in the Suburbs of Nelson electorate?
... that historian Yang Kuan believed that the history of China's Xia Dynasty was pure mythology?
... that Benji documents the life and 1984 death of Ben Wilson, who was at the time considered the best U.S. high school basketball player?
... that Indonesian newscaster Putra Nababan uses four names for different situations?
... that each of the Big Five personality traits can be further broken down into six facets?
... that The Poznań was copied by Manchester City football fans after their team played Polish team Lech Poznań?
... that Gouffier of Lastours tried to bring home a lion after the First Crusade?
... that Madonna's song "Gang Bang" was inspired by the films of director Quentin Tarantino?

08:00, 2 May 2012 (UTC)

... that more than 500,000 people attended the free Simon & Garfunkel concert in Central Park (audience pictured)?
... that 126 people complained to Ofcom because Emmerdale character Ivan Jones kissed another male?
... that the Togo women's national football team participated in the 2007 Tournoi de Cinq Nations in Ouagadougou but was disqualified after the first match for sending a club team?
... that radio newsreader Martin Gunnar Knutsen was the first to present the news of the death of Joseph Stalin to a Norwegian audience?
... that Rocher Rond, France, is the highpoint of the Vercors Regional Park, despite not being a part of the Vercors?
... that although the newspaper Bauer und Arbeiter rapidly gained popularity amongst German colonists in Azerbaijan, it was closed down after only a few months of existence?
... that the National Stock Car Racing Association and NASCAR would have merged had Bruton Smith not been drafted to serve in the Korean War?
... that the Kelihos botnet was once capable of sending 4 billion spam emails a day?

00:00, 2 May 2012 (UTC)

... that the fragile file clam (pictured) uses its tentacles as oars when it swims?
... that James Bond creator Ian Fleming named his villain in The Man with the Golden Gun after the first cousin of WWI flying ace James Scaramanga?
... that 2007 Monte Carlo Rally was based in Valence, Drôme, and it only visited Monte Carlo for the final Special Stage of the event?
... that consul general Peter J. K. Petersen headed the organizing committee for a speed skating race at Frognerkilen in 1885?
... that the futuristic Fringe episode "Letters of Transit" contained references to The Prisoner and Star Wars?
... that Queen Tin Hinan, the legendary "mother" of the Tuareg people, was excavated in Algeria in 1925 by the adventurer Byron Khun de Prorok?
... that the lifting of Chikaraishi ("strength stones") was an organised sport in early Meiji-era Japan?
... that there used to be a metal fish tree in Cowleaze Wood?

1 May 2012

16:00, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

... that Baudry's painting The Pearl and the Wave (pictured) was bought by French Empress consort Eugénie de Montijo for 20,000 francs?
... that the rulers of the ancient state of Jin include Duke Jing and Duke Jing, while a third Duke Jing is disputed?
... that Yvonne van Mentz scored South Africa's first century in Women's Test cricket?
... that the 2011 film Asmaa is the first feature-length Egyptian drama film to present AIDS patients sympathetically?
... that the Idle Thumbs video game culture podcast organized a game jam based on a parody of Peter Molyneux which produced over 280 games?
... that Reckless Roy Hall beat Big Bill France to win the first racing event held at Seminole Speedway?
... that Oakland Medical Center was the first health maintenance organization (HMO) hospital?
... that larvae of the Ouachita creekshell attach themselves to fish hosts as part of their life cycle?

08:00, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

... that Frank Graham called Dave Bancroft (pictured) "the greatest shortstop the Giants ever had and one of the greatest that ever lived"?
... that The Great Enigma by Tomas Tranströmer mainly consists of haiku poems?
... that casino operator Full House Resorts has been led by a horse breeder, a rock star, and Lee Iacocca?
... that the actor who played Lord Alex Oakwell on Emmerdale was reportedly "thrilled" to get the part and described the character as "weak-willed, arrogant and motivated by self-preservation"?
... that the endangered shrub Hakea dohertyi has a range of only 18 square kilometres within Australia's Kanangra-Boyd National Park?
... that the only team Guinea-Bissau women's national football team has played a FIFA-recognised match against is Guinea?
... that although the Sudanese Anti-Imperialist Front had opposed a union with Egypt, it sent volunteers to help the Egyptian side in the 1956 Suez Crisis?
... that in 1943, White Vision became one of the first pigeons to be awarded the Dickin Medal, considered to be "the animals' Victoria Cross"?

00:00, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

... that the Toklu Dede Mosque (pictured), a former Byzantine church in Istanbul, was destroyed with its frescoes by its owner in 1929?
... that the English association football league, the Premier League, will give awards to mark the league's 20 seasons anniversary?
... that for the film Monster Mutt, the "mutt" was a larger-than-life animatronic puppet requiring five persons to operate?
... that Lake Manassas, a reservoir operated by the City Council of Manassas, Virginia, to provide drinking water to the city, is not located in Manassas?
... that Grafton Tyler Brown was the first African American artist to document California and the Pacific Northwest?
... that the planned Timna Airport near Eilat, Israel, will be named after Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon, who died in the Columbia disaster, and his son Assaf, who died in a flight training accident?
... that Jack Zeller, who was credited with building the Detroit Tigers' farm system, proposed a draft that would have ended the use of farm systems in baseball?
... that Chrisye was so disgusted with his first major film role that he never made another movie?