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31 January 2021

12:00, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

Cortinarius ainsworthii

... that among Kew's highlights of species described in 2020 were six British webcaps: Cortinarius ainsworthii (example pictured), C. heatherae, C. britannicus, C. scoticus, C. aurae, and C. subsaniosus?
... that "Paint It Black" by the Rolling Stones, which was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, was almost scrapped?
... that Kafilur Rahman Nishat Usmani translated the Islamic law book Fatawa 'Alamgiri from Arabic into Urdu?
... that the development of Thomas Jefferson Park was intended to help Italian Harlem, described as "for many years the black spot of Harlem"?
... that the 9th-century Abbasid caliph al-Wathiq, whose five-year reign is considered by historians to be unremarkable, was heavily fictionalized in the 18th-century Gothic fantasy novel Vathek?
... that both the Mayotte Marine Natural Park and the Glorioso Islands Marine Natural Park entirely cover the exclusive economic zones of the islands within them?
... that Millicent Taplin left school at 13 and never studied art full time, yet became one of Wedgwood's main ceramics designers?
... that the U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether a frustrated high-school student who Snapchatted "fuck school fuck softball fuck cheer fuck everything" can be suspended from cheerleading for a year?

00:00, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

George Harper

... that although New Zealand lawyer George Harper (pictured) had been declared bankrupt in 1893, he was knighted in 1937?
... that the writing and publication of Justice and Jurisprudence in 1889 has been described as "the Magna Carta of black people"?
... that Manek Premchand estimated that 4,334 Hindi films made between 1930 and 1970 depicted around 36,000 songs?
... that Stonecrop Gardens in the Hudson Highlands features alpine vegetation and a sunken English garden?
... that the A.P. No. 3 landmine could be neutralised with a "safety spider"?
... that the addition of the Ally 400 to the 2021 NASCAR Cup Series schedule was considered a surprise as the host venue, the Nashville Superspeedway, had been up for sale since 2012?
... that BTS's song "Blue & Grey" was originally intended to be included on band member V's solo mixtape?
... that Ethiopian-Italian refugee environmentalist Agitu Ideo Gudeta was nicknamed the "Queen of Happy Goats"?

30 January 2021

12:00, 30 January 2021 (UTC)

Pallas's cat

... that the Pallas's cat (example pictured) has up to 9,000 hairs per cm² (58,000/in²) of fur?
... that after quarterback Joe Montana invested in Crowd Cow, PETA sent him a letter filled with football puns imploring him not to invest in a company that facilitates the slaughtering of animals?
... that "I Did Something Bad" is the first song in which Taylor Swift uses profanity?
... that Mahadevi Varma chose to live an ascetic life despite being married?
... that the treatise Zabân-e Pâk, written by Ahmad Kasravi, was one of the first works that sought to suggest refinements to the Persian language?
... that Anna Martina Gottschick wrote the hymn "Herr, mach uns stark" because a composer wanted to make Ralph Vaughan Williams's 1906 melody of "For All the Saints" available for German church singing?
... that Tomoki Suzuki won the men's wheelchair race at the 2020 Tokyo Marathon by over eight minutes?
... that Coventry City's winning goal in the 1987 FA Cup Final was an own goal scored in extra time off Gary Mabbutt's knee?

00:00, 30 January 2021 (UTC)

Mahdist wearing a jibba (1936)

... that the jibba (pictured), a Sudanese coat, symbolised a dedication to a religious way of life and denoted the military rank of the wearer?
... that during the filming of 6 Day Bike Rider, sixteen bicyclists hit the cameraman's motorcycle, which resulted in nine of them being injured?
... that Pierre Daumesnil refused to surrender the Château de Vincennes after the French Empire had been defeated at the Battle of Paris in 1814?
... that in advance of the 2021 general election, Morocco outlawed the making of certain types of online posts?
... that the true identity of the British crime writer Francis Duncan was unknown until after a reprint of his 1949 novel Murder for Christmas?
... that when a proposed sale of Orlando-area radio station WVCF fell through, the attempted buyer started his own station?
... that Joe Jackson's 1984 album Body and Soul emulated the artwork of the 1957 jazz album Sonny Rollins, Vol. 2?
... that a Latin translation of Winnie-the-Pooh spent 20 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list?

29 January 2021

12:00, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

Saint or sibyl?

... that art historians disagree as to whether two figures in a painting (detail pictured) by the Master of Delft are saints or sibyls?
... that American Brigadier General Harold Francis Loomis was in charge of the rearmament of French forces during World War II?
... that Overdrawn at the Memory Bank was recorded on videotape instead of photographic film so as not to be as expensive as Blade Runner?
... that Kathleen Heddle was one of two Canadians to win three gold medals at the Summer Olympic Games?
... that eleven people, nine of them minors, died in a sugar plantation fire in Cagua, Venezuela, while trying to hunt rabbits?
... that Minnie Lou Crosthwaite, the first Black woman to pass the teacher exam in Nashville's segregated school system, and Minnie Lee Crosthwaite, one of Kansas City's first Black social workers, both attended Fisk University?
... that Sampson's snakeroot is traditionally used to help knit broken bones and as a salve on wounds, ulcers and boils?
... that Zéna M'Déré led a protest movement in Mayotte in which women tickled their political opponents, forcing them to comply with their demands?

00:00, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

Mangrove jewel bug adults on a river poison tree leaf

... that larvae of the mangrove jewel bug (pictured) feed only on the seeds of the river poison tree?
... that Lisa Nishimura started out in the music industry before producing Netflix documentaries including Chef's Table and Making a Murderer?
... that Nima Yooshij was threatened with death for presenting his school of poetry, She'r-e Nimaa'i?
... that the 1839 city plan for Austin, Texas, is thought to have been inspired by the original 1682 city plan for Philadelphia?
... that Michael Cretu of Enigma has been accused of putting satanic content into the band's debut album MCMXC a.D.?
... that Leszek Sibilski was supported by Turkmenistan in establishing World Bicycle Day?
... that malaria is expected to become more prevalent due to the impacts of climate change in Kenya?
... that former American football player Bruce Taylor owned eighteen Burger King locations?

28 January 2021

12:00, 28 January 2021 (UTC)

Adlai Stevenson II

... that in the 1948 Illinois gubernatorial election, Adlai Stevenson II (pictured) won with a 572,067-vote margin of victory, a record at the time for Illinois gubernatorial elections?
... that Sylvie Fortier retired from competitive synchronized swimming at only 18, saying she was happy with what she had achieved?
... that the memoir Just Mercy tells the story of an innocent black man who was convicted and condemned to die for the 1986 murder of a young white woman in the town in which To Kill a Mockingbird was written?
... that Olga Petit – the first female lawyer in France – was a Russian?
... that 6,800 Columbia University students and faculty signed a petition to remove an entrance to the 116th Street–Columbia University station?
... that Bangladesh is the only Test-playing nation that has not been involved in any tied international cricket matches?
... that Jerome Kohl, a music theorist of the University of Washington, was recognized internationally as an authority on the composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, publishing a book on his Zeitmaße in 2017?
... that the Umberslade Obelisk has been described as a "monument of nothing in particular"?

00:00, 28 January 2021 (UTC)

Mary Jones in 1865

... that pioneering Chicago abolitionist Mary Richardson Jones (pictured) helped hundreds of people escape slavery via the Underground Railroad?
... that the soft crafting materials used in Judith Weinshall Liberman's artworks were described as providing "an important contrast to the Holocaust tragedy"?
... that an artificial turf soccer field in New York City's Red Hook Park, donated by the Norwegian government, was destroyed by arson ten days after its dedication?
... that Radio Quarantine was founded in India by a group of professors, directors and PhD students in response to social isolation protocols following the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic?
... that Capitol Police officer Eugene Goodman has been credited with having "saved American Democracy" on January 6, 2021?
... that the black swan leech attaches itself to the skin or eye of a fish before working its way to the gill chamber?
... that Julio César Gandarilla Bermejo, a founder of the Cuban National Revolutionary Militia, ignored instructions from the Cuban president Miguel Díaz-Canel to make a Twitter account?
... that one of the most recognizable video-game glitches, a bug that forced Mahatma Gandhi in Civilization to use nuclear weapons heavily, never actually existed?

27 January 2021

12:00, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

Vision wrapping of the Ringturm

... that the Ringturm, a 65-year-old skyscraper in Vienna, has been wrapped by artists in summer, such as Mihael Milunović's Vision (pictured) in 2017?
... that the formation of the Central Irian Jaya province in Indonesia, which was headed by Herman Monim, caused a civil war between the supporters and opponents of the province?
... that the 1951 film The Basketball Fix is based on a real-life scandal involving college basketball betting?
... that architect Piers Taylor had to carry the materials for building his award-winning home "Moonshine" over a 600-metre (2,000 ft) woodland incline?
... that the book In Praise of Blood was described as "an immediate, destabilizing influence on the world of orthodox Rwandan scholarship"?
... that Susan Estes is the first woman to have her own company in the historically male bond-trading business in the U.S.?
... that during the Yamagata Hanagasa Festival, ten thousand people sing and dance on Japan National Route 112?
... that "New Year's Day" by Taylor Swift was recorded in "scratch takes" that did not filter out unwanted sounds from the outside environment?

00:00, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

Shamsa on the ceiling of the Tomb of Hafez, Iran

... that in Islamic art, the shamsa is found in places as diverse as on carpets, inside domes (example pictured), and forming the frontispiece of books?
... that American local car dealer Sigmund Strochlitz was a confidant of Elie Wiesel and a leader in the Holocaust remembrance movement?
... that the yawara is a Japanese weapon that is used for martial arts and was used by American police?
... that Walt Whitman called one of his lectures on Abraham Lincoln "the culminating hour" of his life?
... that places of worship in Elmbridge, Surrey, include the "ferocious" Weybridge United Reformed Church?
... that former New York City Ballet principal dancer Janie Taylor appeared in the film Center Stage as a background dancer, and served as a motion caption dancer for Barbie of Swan Lake?
... that Ipswich Town won the Football League First Division in their 1961–62 season having been promoted from the Second Division the previous season?
... that Bob Wells created a Burning Man for retirees?

26 January 2021

12:00, 26 January 2021 (UTC)

Manjappada roadshow

... that Manjappada (pictured), a supporters' group of Kerala Blasters FC, coordinated and brought forty-one busloads of their fans across Kerala to the venue for the opening match of the 2019–20 season?
... that despite James Snyder having taught at a women's college for over 20 years, his Northern Renaissance Art of 1985 was criticized for using gender stereotypes?
... that horse-mounted elements of the French 1st Cavalry Brigade helped hold up the advance of tanks from the 1st Panzer Division for a day in May 1940?
... that the root of the slimflower scurfpea can be eaten raw or cooked, or ground up and used as an ingredient in bread-making?
... that with "Homura" and Leo-Nine, LiSA became the first female artist in 16 years to debut a song and an album simultaneously at number one in Japan since Utada Hikaru?
... that Eleanor Keaton, who at age 21 became the third wife of silent-film comedian Buster Keaton, was widely credited with rehabilitating his life and career?
... that The Magic of Chocolate's volumes are ordered alphabetically rather than numerically?
... that after Saint Eustadiola, a 7th century abbess in Bourges, France, prayed with her nuns for rain during a drought, they got drenched before they were able to return to the convent?

00:00, 26 January 2021 (UTC)

Gotthilf Fischer

... that Gotthilf Fischer (pictured) founded the Fischer-Chöre, who appeared with 1,500 singers at the final of the 1974 FIFA World Cup?
... that the peppermint stick insect possesses an aposematic coloration and a robust chemical defense mechanism?
... that after a 15-year campaign, activist Cécile Nobrega completed fundraising for the first public monument to black women to be on permanent display in England?
... that Theodore Roosevelt conducted one of his last bison hunting excursions at Yule Ranch?
... that the Four Ds include demilitarisation, denazification, decentralisation, and democratisation?
... that by paying attention to mundane decision-making among activists, the critical theorist Eva Haifa Giraud troubles the notion of staying with the trouble?
... that contractors digging New York City's Joralemon Street Tunnel found the remains of a ship?
... that Napoleon's penis, which was cut off after his death, has been described as comparable to a "piece of leather or a shriveled eel"?

25 January 2021

12:00, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

Hearst Tower

... that the Hearst Tower (pictured) was built nearly eight decades after its base was completed?
... that clergyman David Williamson's time as an outlaw is commemorated in the traditional Scottish song "Dainty Davie"?
... that a political feud in the Eastside of Los Angeles began when Gloria Molina was told by Art Torres that she was not the chosen candidate to run for an office?
... that Setiadi Reksoprodjo, who was appointed Minister of Information at the age of 25, had a junior minister twice as old as him?
... that after the Morning Star sank on Lake Erie, the death toll was unknown because many of the passengers were not on the ship's manifest?
... that the Japanese television drama Ossan's Love is credited with popularizing the boys' love genre for a general audience outside of anime and manga fans?
... that Mat and Savanna Shaw's cover of "The Prayer" went viral at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, after which they released their debut album that was ranked 54th on the Billboard 200?
... that American conservation officer Terry Grosz busted an illegal snagging boat on the Eel River by waiting in the water and getting reeled in?

00:00, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

Antoinette Dinga Dzondo

... that Antoinette Dinga Dzondo (pictured), Minister of Social Affairs and Humanitarian Action of the Republic of the Congo, set up a fund to help refugees in the country return home?
... that before the creation of Good Job!, Paladin Studios had wanted to collaborate with Nintendo for about a decade?
... that the American writer Mark C. Yerger was honored by the veterans' organization of the Waffen-SS for his works that embellished its history?
... that the Christuskirche in Idstein-Walsdorf received this name in 1993, 600 years after a first chapel in the village was mentioned?
... that a body-shaming comment from a New York Times critic led to ballerina Jenifer Ringer's appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show and The Today Show?
... that Kyren Wilson set fire to his cue stick at the 2021 Masters?
... that at the 1783 Siege of Bednore a British force of 1,600 faced a Mysore army of more than 100,000?
... that the pig bank at the Freedom Farm Cooperative loaned out pigs to families who paid interest in the form of piglets?

24 January 2021

12:00, 24 January 2021 (UTC)

Northern masked owl

... that northern masked owl (example pictured) chicks hiss to ask for food, while adults hiss to defend nests?
... that Joseph McLain held 30 patents, including for smoke grenades, underwater torches, and flares?
... that Artémis, cœur d'artichaut is a female buddy film inspired by Greek mythology, Carl Jung and Éric Rohmer?
... that the specific name of Laudakia nupta comes from the Latin word for a bride who veils herself?
... that Zintkala Nuni, who survived the Wounded Knee Massacre, gave birth to a stillborn boy in Nebraska's Milford Industrial Home, at one time the only state-funded institution in the US for unmarried pregnant women?
... that due to Brian Crabtree's closeness with his brothers in professional wrestling, Kendo Nagasaki once refused to wrestle "Big Daddy" Crabtree with Brian refereeing?
... that the 1978 science-fiction novel Dreamsnake includes a named character for whom gender pronouns are never used, thereby subverting gender expectations?
... that Svetlana Lloyd accidentally became a model for Christian Dior, after wandering into his Paris boutique looking for a receptionist job?

00:00, 24 January 2021 (UTC)

DC-XA Clipper Graham

... that the McDonnell Douglas DC-X experimental SSTO rocket (pictured) was launched twelve times but never flew higher than 3.14 kilometres (1.95 mi)?
... that Christian Friedrich Gottlieb Schwencke, who succeeded C. P. E. Bach as the music director of Hamburg, edited an early publication of the The Well-Tempered Clavier in which the first prelude had an extra measure?
... that U.S. senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan proposed an expansion of New York Penn Station as a homage to the original station, where he had once shined shoes?
... that the two participants in a yaoi relationship are referred to as seme ('top') and uke ('bottom'), terms derived from martial arts that were later appropriated as Japanese LGBT slang?
... that the defeat of the consul Gaius Porcius Cato by a Celtic tribe in 114 BC led to the last human sacrifices in ancient Rome?
... that during the trial of Francis Gary Powers, Kansas radio station KBTO presented summaries of Radio Moscow broadcasts alongside other international reports?
... that members of the Nyasaland Volunteer Reserve fought in the first naval action of the First World War?
... that Doug Grimston insisted on a smoking ban at Queen's Park Arena and took financial responsibility for lost attendance?

23 January 2021

12:00, 23 January 2021 (UTC)

Vilma Núñez

... that the discrimination Vilma Núñez (pictured) experienced as a child born out of wedlock motivated her career as a Nicaraguan lawyer and human-rights activist?
... that Eli Wallach agreed to play the role of Tuco in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly immediately after watching the main title sequence of For a Few Dollars More?
... that Anna Feldhusen was for a long time the only female German artist to acquire a business license?
... that the First World War Zanzibar Volunteer Defence Force included practically every able-bodied British man residing in the protectorate?
... that a memorandum written by Douglass Cater convinced Lyndon B. Johnson to focus on education policy during his administration?
... that when Joe Brown and George Band made the first successful ascent of Kangchenjunga in 1955, they deliberately turned back a few feet below the summit?
... that the freighter John V. Moran and her sister ship were both sunk by ice on Lake Michigan, ten years apart?
... that the manga anthology Nanohana was inspired by efforts in Chernobyl and Fukushima to use plants to absorb radioactive material?

00:00, 23 January 2021 (UTC)

Richards Building

... that a U.S. secretary of commerce wrote of the Richards Building (pictured), "were there such a function as a public incendiary, these buildings are among the first that should receive his official attention"?
... that Professor Shabir Madhi, who led trials of the Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine in South Africa, did not originally want to study medicine?
... that Minnesota's Winsted Municipal Airport once hosted a country-music festival?
... that a fake family tree was created for Jeyran, the beloved wife of Naser al-Din Shah of Persia, linking her to the Sassanids and the Ilkhans?
... that both Jochen Klepper and Hildegard Schaeder sought solace amidst the horror of the Nazi regime in Paul Gerhardt's 17th-century New Year's song "Nun lasst uns gehn und treten"?
... that Edmilsa Governo won Mozambique's first medal at a Paralympic Games in 2016?
... that to record his narration for A Perfect Planet at home, David Attenborough hung duvets from his dining room walls to make a sound stage, and bought a hut for the sound recorder?
... that Kehinde Wiley wanted to express "absolute joy – break dancing in the sky" when he created Go?

22 January 2021

12:00, 22 January 2021 (UTC)

To the Rescue by Hilda Annetta Walker

... that figurative artist Hilda Annetta Walker (work pictured) objected to Modernist works because she found it difficult to tell what they represented?
... that Spider-Man 2 is considered to be one of the best and most influential superhero films of all time?
... that progressive house music producer and DJ Guy J prefers analog equipment over software, describing its sound as "a bit dirty and warm"?
... that about 27 men and newsboys were killed in the Chicago circulation wars in the early 1900s?
... that according to Amnesty International, pre-trial detentions, bans on gatherings, and censorship have occurred in Chad in the lead-up to the 2021 presidential election?
... that ballerina Jennie Somogyi was offered an apprenticeship at the New York City Ballet when she was 15, becoming one of the youngest dancers to join the company?
... that the Atlantic partridge tun preys on sea cucumbers much larger than itself?
... that Texas Motor Speedway's president once "just laughed" at the idea of NASCAR at COTA?

00:00, 22 January 2021 (UTC)

SS Edward L. Ryerson

... that the lake freighter Edward L. Ryerson (pictured) is not only the last steam-powered freighter built on the Great Lakes, but also the last built without a self-unloading boom?
... that most Russian cities were destroyed as a result of the Mongol invasion?
... that associate justice William Johnson was the first member of the U.S. Supreme Court who was not a member of the Federalist Party?
... that according to legend, Växjö Cathedral in Sweden was founded by an English saint?
... that Dominic Thiem, winner of the 2020 US Open, is the first player since the 2004 French Open to come back from two sets down in a Grand Slam final to win the title?
... that Veronica Maggio's 2011 song "Jag kommer" was accused of plagiarizing the Strokes' "Reptilia", but the singer denied any connection?
... that Charles G. Hopkins accompanied Queen Emma of Hawaii to Europe and the United States, where she visited Queen Victoria, Emperor Napoleon III, and President Andrew Johnson?
... that due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Japanese cheer screenings, which encourage audience participation, have been replaced by viewers' text messages being superimposed on the screen?

21 January 2021

12:00, 21 January 2021 (UTC)

Ingrid Bergman in Gaslight (1944)

... that Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman (pictured) did not think she would be believable as Israeli prime minister Golda Meir, but her performance added a Primetime Emmy to her awards shelf?
... that the Royal Victoria Arcade, Ryde, had an underground market that is now used as a local history museum?
... that ballerina Kyra Nichols danced with the New York City Ballet for 33 years, retiring shortly before she turned 49?
... that "I Love You" by 2NE1 integrates traditional Korean trot music with electronic to create a different sound and "new genre" of music?
... that Emil Aaltonen went from being a 13-year-old shoemaker's apprentice to owning and running the largest shoe manufacturing business in the Nordics?
... that the Trinidad euphonia lacks the muscular gizzard that most birds have as part of their digestive tract?
... that the Ur-Quan from the 1992 science-fiction game Star Control II are ranked among the best game antagonists of all time, and have influenced character design in modern games?
... that someone ate Koos van der Merwe's cake?

00:00, 21 January 2021 (UTC)

Theodore Roosevelt desk in the Truman Oval Office

... that the Theodore Roosevelt desk (pictured) was the first desk used by a US president in the Oval Office?
... that the Scottish distiller Sandy Grant Gordon pioneered the creation of single malt Scotch as a whisky category?
... that KEVT, the first Spanish-language radio station in Tucson, offered English lessons from a University of Arizona professor?
... that Jincheon Gilsangsa is a shrine dedicated to the portrait of General Gim Yu-sin?
... that Hannah J. Patterson and other suffragists hauled a replica of the Liberty Bell across Pennsylvania to gain the right to vote?
... that Dua Lipa's livestream concert Studio 2054 had a record-breaking attendance of five million paid viewers?
... that the Bharatanatyam dancer Sangeeta Isvaran works with deprived communities and uses dance and theatre in an effort to bring about social reform?
... that George H. W. Bush drowned a rat in the White House swimming pool?

20 January 2021

12:00, 20 January 2021 (UTC)

Isaac Newton

... that the 2017 book Priest of Nature analyses theological writings of Isaac Newton (pictured) that were never published due to his heretical views?
... that virtuoso organist Frederick Swann was seen weekly on television by an estimated audience of 20 million viewers in 165 countries?
... that the exact date of establishment of the Philippine embassy in Cairo is unclear, despite the Philippines having first named an ambassador to Egypt in 1960?
... that the philosopher Andy Lamey challenges "new omnivorism", according to which it is permissible to eat animals even if they have moral status?
... that the IRT Powerhouse was intended to be the largest power generating station on earth when it was built in the 1900s?
... that Travancore Radio's first English-language broadcaster, Indira Joseph Venniyoor, was paid 69 rupees (then equivalent to US$14.50) for her broadcasts in 1949?
... that the Japanese-pop song "Snow Halation" by μ's has a music video animated by Sunrise?
... that more than 41 million hours of online chess have been watched on Twitch during the COVID-19 pandemic?

00:00, 20 January 2021 (UTC)

Cantata rehearsal in the Dreikönigskirche, 2020

... that after the Dreikönigskirche escaped destruction in World War II, it became Frankfurt's leading venue of church music performances (example pictured)?
... that the 2009 Nova episode "Darwin's Darkest Hour" was filmed for the bicentennial anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his work On the Origin of Species?
... that New Zealand–born musician Millie Lovelock wrote her English literature master's thesis on One Direction?
... that Bernie Sanders was the first socialist mayor in New England since Jasper McLevy?
... that Japanese business executive Minoru Makihara credited his association with activist shareholder Robert Monks, his roommate at Harvard, for some of the reforms at Mitsubishi Corporation?
... that Columbia University's small press Columbia Global Reports has been described as "somewhere between a magazine and book publisher"?
... that Fraser's Hill in Malaysia was previously a tin mining area that was converted into a hill station after the tin ore depleted in 1913?
... that when sports journalist Leo Monahan traveled overnight with the Boston Bruins by train, he feared moving while sleeping and keeping one of the team's players awake?

19 January 2021

12:00, 19 January 2021 (UTC)

Two kusarigamas

... that the kusarigama (examples pictured), a traditional Japanese weapon, was more useful against a sword than against a spear, a naginata, or a bō?
... that Bianca Smith, the first Black female coach in professional baseball history, has a JD degree and an MBA in sports management?
... that confectionery in the English Renaissance marks the transition of sugar from a medicine to a sweetener?
... that when Riot Games approached investors to fund the development of League of Legends, publishers were baffled by the game's free-to-play business model?
... that in 2015, Alexe Gaudreault became the first independent artist to top the BDS charts in 15 years?
... that the wreck of the freighter Vernon is one of the deadliest ever to have occurred in Wisconsin?
... that the 1352 Siege of Guines reignited the Hundred Years' War after six years of uneasy truce?
... that after meeting Mira Mendelson, Sergei Prokofiev described his future wife as "just some girl who wants me to read her bad poetry"?

00:00, 19 January 2021 (UTC)

Historic buildings on South Main Street in Memphis, Tennessee

... that the site of the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. later became part of the South Main Street Historic District (pictured)?
... that The Doctor and Student by Christopher St. Germain was used as a primer by English law students for over two centuries?
... that Izaac Hindom, a Papuan himself, actively promoted the assimilation of Javanese and Papuans, describing the latter as backward and self-centered?
... that the first Cincinnati Marine Hospital was taken by the Department of War, and the second by environmental health scientists?
... that in their 1962 postal history of the Cayman Islands, Philip Saunders and Everard Aguilar were unable to find any surviving mail from the islands before 1889 in private collections, and very little in archives?
... that prior to becoming the highest-grossing film of 1965, The Sound of Music was initially criticized for its romanticism and sentimentality?
... that Blackburn Rovers won the Premier League three seasons after winning the 1992 Football League Second Division play-off Final?
... that John Clark Mayden's images of African Americans were extolled by James Baldwin as capturing the "majesty of black life" by portraying people who are "weary but not cast down"?

18 January 2021

12:00, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

Kansas City Ballet dancers in Theme and Variations

... that George Balanchine choreographed the ballet Theme and Variations (pictured) as a tribute to the imperial Russian ballet style?
... that according to a chaplain at Nonnberg Abbey, an abbot was immediately struck blind after stealing one of Saint Erentrude's relics 300 years after her death?
... that City of Champaign v. Madigan was the first decision by an Illinois court addressing whether the private emails of government officials are subject to public disclosure?
... that Chinese bandit Ma Xiang raised a thousands-strong rebel army in just one or two days, conquered three commanderies, and declared himself emperor, only to be killed by a much weaker opponent?
... that a mental-health hotline in Puerto Rico recorded a spike in calls leading up to Hurricane Beryl?
... that Georgina Schuyler led the campaign to have the poem "The New Colossus" by Emma Lazarus placed inside the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty?
... that the gill chambers of the tiger lucine, the dwarf tiger lucine, and the Pennsylvania lucine contain symbiotic bacteria which help them live in sediments not suited to other bivalves?
... that upon completing their apprenticeships, British printers might be doused in ink and paper shavings and paraded through the streets?

00:00, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

The Burton Cooper

... that The Burton Cooper (pictured) was moved inside a shopping centre in 1994 despite objections from the Burton upon Trent civic society?
... that during the reigns of King Kalākaua and Queen Liliʻuokalani, attempts were made to change the constitution to grant women of the Hawaiian Kingdom the right to vote?
... that Iqbal Qureshi composed the music for the 1964 film Cha Cha Cha, the first Indian film to feature Western dance?
... that Vine-Glo sold during Prohibition carried a warning telling people how to make wine from it, and Al Capone allegedly threatened to force it out of Chicago?
... that the artist Thilagavathi teaches social interactions and facial expressions to children on the autism spectrum through Therukoothu folk-theatre performances?
... that Matt Czuchry, who plays Logan in Gilmore Girls, recommended season 5's "You Jump, I Jump, Jack" as a good episode for new viewers to begin with?
... that the Homeward Bound leadership program organized the largest all-woman expedition to Antarctica in 2019?
... that after 108-year-old Sarah Thomas woke up from a thirty-hour coma, she asked for her pipe and tobacco?

17 January 2021

12:00, 17 January 2021 (UTC)

Saint Émilie de Rodat

... that Saint Émilie de Rodat (pictured) founded the Sisters of the Holy Family of Villefranche in 1815, a French religious order that provides free education for poor girls?
... that Barack Obama's 2020 book A Promised Land took longer to write than any other presidential memoir in the past hundred years?
... that Turkish artistic gymnast Ümit Şamiloğlu is the creator of a special grip in the horizontal bar event?
... that after releasing their debut album Black Focus, the English band Yussef Kamaal was denied entry to the United States because one member's visa was revoked by the Trump administration?
... that attorney Styles Hutchins was the first African American to argue a case in a court in Georgia?
... that the flameback coral shrimp is often found in close proximity to the yellow-edged moray eel, suggesting that they may have a cleaning symbiosis?
... that according to one critic, video-game designer Kitty Horrorshow does not exploit the Lovecraftian "fear of the unknown", but instead the "fear of the familiar"?
... that this year's Boat Race between Oxford and Cambridge will take place on the River Great Ouse instead of the River Thames for the first time since 1944?

00:00, 17 January 2021 (UTC)

Clouded leopard

... that the clouded leopard (example pictured) is the first cat that diverged from the common ancestor of the Felidae more than four million years ago?
... that Debbie Muir retired from synchronized swimming at age 20 and coached the Calgary Aquabelles to 22 national titles in ten years?
... that in Playing the Whore, Melissa Gira Grant contends that categorizing all sex work as exploitation or empowerment creates a false dichotomy?
... that The Ur-Quan Masters, an open-source remake of the 1992 science-fiction game Star Control II, has been listed several times as one of the best free PC games ever?
... that Lucy Burwell Page Saunders's novel Dora Lee features a French-speaking macaw named Fanchon, inspired by Dolley Madison's pet parrot, who attacks three different characters in eight pages?
... that although the Philippines and Denmark established relations in 1946, the Philippine embassy in Copenhagen only opened in 2019?
... that Taylor Swift's 2020 song "Marjorie" has been described as "a heart-rending tribute" to her grandmother, opera singer Marjorie Finlay, who inspired Swift's musical career?
... that the Index Thomisticus covered 10,631,980 words in fifty-six volumes and took an estimated one million hours to create?

16 January 2021

12:00, 16 January 2021 (UTC)

Siegfried Pank

... that Siegfried Pank (pictured), the director of the International Telemann Association, was a cellist of the Gewandhausorchester and professor of cello and viol?
... that the 2008 FA Cup Final between Cardiff City and Portsmouth holds the record for the highest attendance for a football match at the new Wembley Stadium, with 89,874?
... that Katherine Loker donated $30 million each to Harvard and USC, and millions more to develop university, medical, and cultural programs in California?
... that prior to the arrival of the Year 24 Group, most girls' comics in Japan were written by men?
... that memorial director Jens-Christian Wagner blames Alternative for Germany for the increase in heckling at former Nazi concentration camps in recent years?
... that in the 1930 United States Senate election in Illinois, Ruth Hanna McCormick was the first woman ever nominated for the U.S. Senate by a major party?
... that the defenses of the soft coral Leptogorgia virgulata are useless against the barnacle Conopea galeata?
... that comedian Blaire Erskine's mock interview duped Michael Moore into believing she was a Donald Trump supporter stranded and freezing after his Omaha, Nebraska, rally?

00:00, 16 January 2021 (UTC)

Miniature from the book of hours of Joan of France

... that the National Library of France was able to buy the book of hours of Joan of France (detail pictured) thanks to private donations?
... that Utah Utes football player Ty Jordan died on Christmas Day, one day after being named the Pac-12 Conference newcomer of the year for 2020?
... that The Gospel of Afranius, a 1995 Russian novel and polemic challenging an American evangelical apologist text, has not yet been translated to English?
... that Oscar Fritz Schuh created a new style to direct Mozart operas at the Vienna State Opera, focused on the psychology of the characters?
... that the wooden freighter Jarvis Lord was one of the first lake freighters ever built?
... that Adele Rose wrote 457 scripts for the British soap opera Coronation Street, more than any other contributor?
... that President Barack Obama celebrated his 50th birthday by playing basketball with Shane Battier, LeBron James, Magic Johnson, Maya Moore, Alonzo Mourning, Joakim Noah, Chris Paul, and Derrick Rose?
... that George Orwell described the Hyde Park pet cemetery as "perhaps the most horrible spectacle in Britain"?

15 January 2021

12:00, 15 January 2021 (UTC)

Patent diagram for the Deats plow

... that a Deats plow (illustrated), patented by John Deats in 1828 and manufactured by his son Hiram Deats, was donated by his grandson Hiram Edmund Deats to Rutgers University for an agricultural museum in 1929?
... that the Argentine government took over operations of television channel 8 at Mar del Plata in 1973, only to privatize it again a decade later?
... that actress and tennis player Filiz Taçbaş, tired of city life, purchased agricultural land and obtained a farming certificate, and now grows olives and lemons?
... that in The Autistic Brain, Temple Grandin suggests that the rise in autism diagnoses has been due to an inaccurate definition in the DSM-5 which groups other conditions under the term?
... that it is popularly believed that the Pointer descends from Old Spanish Pointers introduced to England in 1713 by soldiers returning from Spain after the Peace of Utrecht?
... that Södermanland runic inscription 140 has a runic cross that is either a pagan invocation of the Norse god Thor or one of the earliest mentions of Sweden?
... that the Nukegate scandal was precipitated by the largest business failure in the history of South Carolina?
... that during Francis Reynolds's command of HMS Augusta, the ship ran aground and exploded with such force that the blast was heard 30 miles (48 km) away?

00:00, 15 January 2021 (UTC)

Model of Galactic Radiation and Background satellite 1 (GRAB-1)

... that Galactic Radiation and Background (GRAB) was the first successful U.S. orbital surveillance program (satellite pictured), revolutionizing American understanding of Soviet air defense radar capabilities?
... that Turkey threatened that Jewish lives would be put in danger if the 1982 International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide, which covered the Armenian Genocide, was not cancelled?
... that Canadian football broadcaster Ernie Calcutt coined the phrase "being as wide open as a church door on a Sunday morning"?
... that television station WKAB-TV of Mobile, Alabama, broadcast for less than two years before it went off air due to financial difficulties?
... that M. P. Alladin depicted rural Indo-Trinidadian life in his art, and has been credited with giving "a new dignity" to the subject?
... that a U.S. Supreme Court case involving the French vessel Euryale considered whether Napoleon III, as a foreign emperor, could bring cases in American courts?
... that the Lectures on Theoretical Physics are based on thirty years of lectures given by Arnold Sommerfeld, a man Wolfgang Pauli once described as "the epitome of the scholar and the teacher"?
... that Billie Holiday was paid $35 for her first recording?

14 January 2021

12:00, 14 January 2021 (UTC)

Adi Utarini

... that Adi Utarini (pictured) was listed as one of Nature's 10 in 2020 after she released infected mosquitoes all over Yogyakarta to control dengue fever?
... that It's Elementary: Talking About Gay Issues in School was the first film to provide educators with information on how to prevent discrimination against gay people?
... that Esat Uras, a major perpetrator of the Armenian Genocide, later wrote "the ur-text of Turkish denialist 'scholarship'"?
... that a Canadian Supreme Court case about administrative law granted citizenship to a child of covert Russian agents?
... that the conchfish conceals itself in the mantle cavity of a living mollusc?
... that 2NE1's "I Am the Best" topped the Billboard World Digital Songs chart after being featured in a Microsoft commercial?
... that Joseph Bachelder III, pioneer of the golden-parachute executive compensation structure, represented John Sculley at Apple Inc., Jamie Dimon at Citigroup, and Louis Gerstner at RJR Nabisco and IBM?
... that campaigners to save the Happy Man Tree, named England's Tree of the Year for 2020, presented an axe made from papier-mâché to the mayor of Hackney?

00:00, 14 January 2021 (UTC)

Pencil towers in New York City

... that the new slender, super-tall skyscrapers in New York City are known as pencil towers (examples pictured)?
... that Governor of Papua Lukas Enembe pledged financial support to send Indonesian military commander Herman Asaribab to the United States Army Command and General Staff College?
... that at 5,593 pages, the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 is the longest bill ever passed by the U.S. Congress?
... that both Elfriede Jelinek's 2013 play Die Schutzbefohlenen and the ancient Greek play that inspired it deal with refugees fleeing to Europe?
... that Bru McCoy transferred from USC to the University of Texas and back to USC in less than six months?
... that women are prohibited from entering the Chisapani Gadhi in Nepal due to the belief that this could bring them bad luck or even death?
... that the 2020 EFL League Two play-off Final is believed to be the first competitive match played behind closed doors at Wembley Stadium?
... that "Fujiyama Mama", an American rockabilly song that compared a woman's energy to the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, was a number-one hit in Japan in 1958?

13 January 2021

12:00, 13 January 2021 (UTC)

Rosalbina Caradori as Zora, the slave girl

... that a few years after Pacini's opera La schiava in Bagdad premiered in Turin, Rosalbina Caradori performed the title role of the slave girl (pictured) in London?
... that during Sir George Smith's term as governor of Nyasaland, the area of land used for the cultivation of tea, cotton, and tobacco increased a hundredfold?
... that according to his 2020 biography, Atomic Spy, Klaus Fuchs felt that passing secrets from his work on the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union was for "the betterment of mankind"?
... that Cristin Milioti appears in Death to 2020 as a stereotypical "Karen", having previously worked with its creators Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones in Black Mirror episode "USS Callister"?
... that Iti Tyagi said, "I urge every woman to come out of their shells and to break the stereotype" after receiving the Nari Shakti Puraskar?
... that the music video for Taylor Swift's single "Willow" avoids showing some dancers' faces because they were wearing masks as a COVID-19 precaution?
... that the video game Bad Rats was a popular gag gift on Steam?
... that Wall Street Journal architecture columnist Julie V. Iovine caused an uproar when she wrote that Yale University had a reputation for being a "gay school" in 1987?

00:00, 13 January 2021 (UTC)

Konrad von Altstetten, his lover, and his falcon

... that the poet Konrad von Altstetten (depicted) is shown in the Codex Manesse splitting his attention between his falcon and his lover?
... that the owners and residents of the Alwyn Court argued over the legal definition of a window in 1985?
... that Masochistic Ono Band was created by two Japanese voice actors as the house band for their radio program Dear Girl: Stories?
... that the Scottish gynaecologist Benjamin Philip Watson was examined in surgery by Joseph Bell, the model for Sherlock Holmes?
... that the Save Uganda Movement grew from a few hundred members to around 17,000 in a matter of months?
... that "Macorina", the first erotic song dedicated to one woman by another, became a "lesbian hymn"?
... that Bernie Sanders received significant support from Democratic voters in the 1983 Burlington mayoral election despite not being the Democratic nominee?
... that competitive swimmer Meenakshi Pahuja encountered water snakes in one river race at Murshidabad, and a corpse in another?

12 January 2021

12:00, 12 January 2021 (UTC)

Aramaic document in the Khalili Collection

... that the Khalili Collection of Aramaic Documents (example pictured) includes the earliest known use in Aramaic of the name "Alexandros" to refer to Alexander the Great?
... that the environmental journalist Swati Thiyagarajan investigated claims of interspecies communication made by the conservationist Anna Breytenbach?
... that six different dams were proposed for the lower Sanpoil River?
... that British businessman William Brooks Close and his two brothers started a colony in Iowa while owning at times almost 40,000 acres (16,000 ha) of the best soil in the United States?
... that Atalanta reached the semifinals of the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1988 while playing in the Italian second tier?
... that Olive Whitlock Klump was the first industrial nurse to work for the U.S. government?
... that the developers of Paper Mario: Sticker Star de-emphasized a proper story because fewer than one percent of players found the plot of the previous game interesting?
... that WhopperCoin attempted to turn a burger into an "investment vehicle"?

00:00, 12 January 2021 (UTC)

Werner Heisenberg

... that the biographies Uncertainty and Beyond Uncertainty show, contrary to popular belief, that there is no evidence that Werner Heisenberg (pictured) impeded the German nuclear weapons program to prevent Hitler from obtaining a bomb?
... that Hector Munro Chadwick postulated the Heroic Age as a distinct stage in the development of human societies?
... that radio station WWBC in Cocoa, Florida, was forced to remove its transmitter tower from the Indian River when the site was sold to condominium developers?
... that Wolfgang Marschner was the violinist in the first public performance of a work by Karlheinz Stockhausen, his Sonatine, with the composer as the pianist?
... that when Nichols's Missouri Cavalry Regiment was formed, about two-thirds of its men were unarmed?
... that Rohana Muthalib, the first Indonesian cosmetologist, was also the first woman mayor of Pontianak?
... that it took Zachary Levi an average of twenty minutes to get into costume as the titular character in Shazam!?
... that an album of poetry read by John Wayne reached the number-13 spot on Billboard's Hot Country Albums chart?

11 January 2021

12:00, 11 January 2021 (UTC)

M42 sub-basement

... that the M42 sub-basement (pictured) was featured in a navy training film as the safest place in New York during a nuclear strike?
... that Paper Mario: Color Splash was accidentally playable two weeks before its launch?
... that Rosalynn Carter's 1984 memoir First Lady from Plains outsold her presidential husband Jimmy Carter's 1982 memoir?
... that the choral conductor Michael Gläser was called in to lead the Thomanerchor in Leipzig when its musical director Georg Christoph Biller fell ill?
... that the People's Liberation Army in China developed the Dongfeng EQ2050 armored vehicle after seeing the Humvee in action on television during the Gulf War?
... that league executives voted ice hockey player Mitchell Miller as one of the best blueliners in the United States Hockey League?
... that Callimachus's Aetia explains how a lock of hair became an astronomical constellation?
... that Archie Andrews has been described as the "simpiest of the simps"?

00:00, 11 January 2021 (UTC)

John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara in The Quiet Man

... that Maureen O'Hara and John Wayne (both pictured) had such a strong rapport on screen that some people believed that they were married in real life?
... that hermit crabs such as Paguristes puncticeps raid octopus middens, both for food and for empty mollusc shells?
... that as the health commissioner of Chicago in the 1920s, Herman Bundesen advocated the distribution of prophylactics by the city to combat sexually transmitted diseases?
... that "Morgenglanz der Ewigkeit", a 17th-century morning hymn, has been variously translated as "Come, Thou Bright and Morning Star", and as "Dayspring of Eternity"?
... that women's rights activist Mebrure Aksoley founded an elementary school before serving for more than 40 years in the Turkish parliament, Constituent Assembly, and Senate?
... that Louis Prima being credited as a featured artist on Kids See Ghosts' "4th Dimension" marks the third time Kanye West has given this type of posthumous credit?
... that the German anthropologist Aparna Rao studied the impact of the Kashmir conflict on both lives and the environment?
... that after discovering a giant larva on the fourth Dana expedition, Anton Frederik Bruun said, "I believe in the sea serpent", and lectured on its possible existence?

10 January 2021

12:00, 10 January 2021 (UTC)

Stockton Flyer

... that the kinetic sculpture Stockton Flyer (pictured) appears at 1 pm each day in Stockton-on-Tees High Street?
... that turbine manufacturer S. Morgan Smith Company made large gun lathes during World War I and large aircraft carrier, gun, and tank parts during World War II?
... that when Abbey House Museum curator Violet Crowther wanted to add old-fashioned household objects or "bygones" to the collection, she advertised for a pair of bellows in the local newspaper?
... that while it is now considered a classic work of girls' comics, the 1974 manga series The Heart of Thomas was almost cancelled five weeks into serialization due to poor initial reader response?
... that John Montgomery Cooper advanced the theory that both South American and North American Indians were "marginal peoples" who were cultural relics from prehistoric times?
... that the judiciary of the Philippines has recognized the legal standing of dolphins?
... that after ice hockey executive Hanson Dowell suspended players on Cape Breton Island, local coal miners threatened to strike in protest?
... that Industry faces Therapy?

00:00, 10 January 2021 (UTC)

Clarence E. Willard, with a photographic effect showing his increase in height

... that vaudeville performer Clarence E. Willard could add 7+1⁄2 inches (19 cm) to his height by stretching (pictured)?
... that the 2021 Challenge Cup will not feature any amateur rugby league teams due to the COVID-19 pandemic?
... that gestural abstract painter Jackie Saccoccio experimented with randomness in her works by pouring paint, tilting canvases, and even pressing wet canvases together?
... that Harper Pass, a remote hiking trail crossing the Southern Alps / Kā Tiritiri o te Moana in New Zealand, was once the most important overland connection between Canterbury and the West Coast?
... that Anil Kapoor called AK vs AK "the fastest film I have done in my career"?
... that in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the U.S. Department of Agriculture had members of Congress distribute millions of free seed packets to Americans?
... that while Ute Trekel-Burckhardt was a leading mezzo-soprano of the State Opera of East Berlin, she appeared as the Rosenkavalier in Vienna, and in the premiere of Sutermeister's Le roi Béranger in Munich?
... that the largest heroin seizure in the New York City Police Department's history occurred at the luxury apartment tower Central Park Place in 1993?

9 January 2021

12:00, 9 January 2021 (UTC)

Santal 33

... that the social theory of distinction could explain why the more popular the perfume Santal 33 (pictured) became, the less some people liked it?
... that the demesne of Rostellan contains an 18th-century folly, built by the landowner in honour of the actress Sarah Siddons?
... that Fran Todman, who fundraised for the Retina Foundation for decades, was honored with an electrophysiology laboratory at the Schepens Eye Research Institute being named for her?
... that the Idalion bilingual, one of six Phoenician inscriptions found in 1870 at Dali, Cyprus, was the "Rosetta Stone" for the decipherment of the Cypriot syllabary?
... that Shanghai-born lawyer Ezekiel Toeg formed leading collections of the stamps of the British West Indies?
... that in My Memoir, former United States first lady Edith Wilson detailed how she became Woodrow Wilson's gatekeeper after his stroke, prioritizing his official duties?
... that Ethiopian runner Helen Bekele Tola has stated a desire to compete for Switzerland at the 2020 Summer Olympics?
... that voice actor Justin Roiland got drunk to record the part of Rick in the Rick and Morty episode "Vindicators 3: The Return of Worldender"?

00:00, 9 January 2021 (UTC)

Mercy dog carrying a soldier's helmet (1918)

... that mercy dogs (example illustrated) were trained during World War I to comfort mortally wounded soldiers as they died in no man's land?
... that Pope Pius VI named Leonard Neale the coadjutor bishop of Baltimore in 1795, but Neale did not learn of this until 1800?
... that the Urdu novel Fasana-e-Azad consists of about 3,000 pages?
... that at the Schaubühne in Berlin, Jutta Lampe played Ophelia "as if in a trance", and male and female roles on a time voyage as the only actor in the premiere of Robert Wilson's Orlando?
... that the Cominform Resolution of 28 June 1948 publicly announced the Tito–Stalin split?
... that after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a Montana abortion law in Mazurek v. Armstrong, state courts struck down the law as a violation of the Montana Constitution?
... that Canadian ethnomusicologist Judith R. Cohen dispels the myth that Judeo-Spanish songs have medieval origins and are unique to Sephardic Jews?
... that in The Trouble With Gravity, Richard Panek suggests that our universe's gravity originates in a parallel universe and is leaking into our own?

8 January 2021

12:00, 8 January 2021 (UTC)

Recumbent stone (centre) at Aikey Brae

... that at 21.5 tonnes, the recumbent (pictured) at Aikey Brae stone circle is one of the largest in Aberdeenshire?
... that Molly Gray, the new lieutenant governor of Vermont, is a former competitive skier and the daughter of an Olympic skier?
... that bathrooms in some German bars have vomiting basins?
... that Eleanor Roosevelt wrote four autobiographical memoirs: This Is My Story (1937), This I Remember (1949), On My Own (1958), and The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt (1961)?
... that Rosl Zapf, a mezzo-soprano of the Oper Frankfurt who took part in world premieres, appeared at the Salzburg Festival in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte conducted by Georg Solti?
... that LiDAR can be used to make a digital terrain model?
... that the Butler mansion was built with parquette oak floors, elaborate frescos, wainscot paneling—and a fireproof wing to store the archives of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey?
... that during a spacewalk, Jean-Pierre Haigneré, a French spationaut and crew member of the Mir space station, deployed Sputnik 99 onto its orbit by simply releasing the satellite by hand?

00:00, 8 January 2021 (UTC)

Clara Bow

... that despite receiving 30,000 monthly fan letters, top box-office silent-film star Clara Bow (pictured) was convinced that talking pictures would ruin her career?
... that Derrick Tovey recognised early cases of smallpox during an outbreak in Bradford in 1962?
... that fossils of the cypress Taxodium dubium have been found as far north as Spitsbergen and Denali?
... that Massachusetts-born activist Almira Hollander Pitman was given credit for the passage of a bill for women's suffrage in Hawaii?
... that DTM is the largest gay club in Northern Europe?
... that Socrates Nelson sold a block of land to the city of Stillwater, Minnesota, for $5 in 1867 for the building of a new county courthouse?
... that the Law for the Protection of Macedonian National Honour, created during World War II to quash opposition to Macedonian nationalism, remained in force until 1991?
... that Sunny Lam, a Hong Kong singer-songwriter, performed a love song with Siri?

7 January 2021

12:00, 7 January 2021 (UTC)

Dosan Ahn Chang Ho Memorial Interchange

... that construction of the Dosan Ahn Chang Ho Memorial Interchange (pictured) in Los Angeles in the 1950s displaced an entire neighborhood primarily inhabited by people of color?
... that Australian and Greek troops under Lieutenant Colonel Ian Ross Campbell held off a force of over 1,000 German paratroops on Crete for ten days?
... that when designing the character Madoka Kaname, Ume Aoki used Yuno, the protagonist of her manga series Hidamari Sketch, as a basis?
... that Elaine Van Blunk finished third at the 1994 Chicago Marathon, her second marathon event?
... that vaccines are commonly administered via intramuscular injection?
... that KAVU-TV in Victoria, Texas, did not know their signal was being seen on cable in Corpus Christi until family of station employees living there said that they had enjoyed that morning's newscast?
... that arachnologist Ekaterina Andreeva wrote the first original monograph published in the USSR about Central Asian spiders?
... that an obituary of Neil Peart said he was "sent to Earth to destroy drummer jokes"?

00:00, 7 January 2021 (UTC)

Christine Nagel

... that Christine Nagel (pictured) once created a strawberry-and-popcorn perfume for Dior?
... that the former ASCE Society House in New York City has been home to a tire showroom, a restaurant, and an art shop?
... that Shanti Stupa, Delhi, was inaugurated by the Dalai Lama in 2007?
... that William Cline Borden wrote the first American textbook on X-rays?
... that Bechevinka, an abandoned Soviet submarine base in Kamchatka, is now a ghost town that attracts tourists?
... that Openload, a defunct file-sharing site that once received more traffic than Hulu, was labelled a notorious market?
... that the permeability of rocks affected by faults can increase or decrease as a result of seismic activity?
... that Taylor Swift offered to postpone the release date of Evermore by one week so as not to coincide with Paul McCartney's McCartney III?

6 January 2021

12:00, 6 January 2021 (UTC)

Detail from Adoration of the Magi by the Master

... that the existence of the painter known as the Master of the Lille Adoration (painting detail pictured), active in 16th-century Antwerp, was only proposed in 1995?
... that Gernot Roll, considered an expert in literary adaptations, was the cinematographer for the 11-part television series The Buddenbrooks based on Thomas Mann's novel?
... that although fracking is banned in Maryland, state officials support the Eastern Shore Pipeline, which carries fracked gas?
... that Michael White served in the same regiment as his father and married the daughter of another of its officers?
... that in the Mediterranean Sea, recruitment of the bryozoan Callopora lineata takes place in February and March, whereas in the Isle of Man, it takes place all year round?
... that in his first run for Texas House of Representatives, El Franco Lee had to pay a $400 fee to remain on the ballot because his nominating petition did not have enough verifiable signatures?
... that dissections for Gray's Anatomy were carried out at the medical school in London's Kinnerton Street?
... that in a 2018 U.S. district court case, software company Stardock unsuccessfully tried to claim trademarks for the names of aliens from the game Star Control?

00:00, 6 January 2021 (UTC)

Max Born

... that according to a 2005 biography, Max Born (pictured), the author of the classic textbook Principles of Optics, felt dejected when he did not share in the 1932 Nobel Prize that was given to his assistant Werner Heisenberg?
... that Laura Purser-Rose became the first woman to sign her name on the Green Monster at Fenway Park?
... that Lenín Moreno, who was elected president of Ecuador in 2017, is not seeking re-election in the 2021 general election?
... that Anton Colella was named the chief executive of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland even though his only qualifications were in teaching Catholic theology?
... that in "Body", Megan Thee Stallion name-drops animal-rights activist Carole Baskin, who had previously criticized the rapper's use of big cats as props in a music video?
... that according to historian Stefan Ihrig, the Nazis sought to emulate Turkey, which they viewed as a "postgenocidal paradise"?
... that ecological speciation can give rise to new species by the way animals interact with their environment and each other?
... that Hawaiian princess Kaʻiulani was an avid surfer and professed in an interview, "I'm sure I was a seal in another world because I am so fond of the water"?

5 January 2021

00:00, 5 January 2021 (UTC)

View of El Paso at Sunset (c. 1922–1925)

... that View of El Paso at Sunset (pictured), a 22-foot-long (6.7 m) painting by Audley Dean Nicols, spent years in a janitor's closet at El Paso High School?
... that people with a fish allergy are unlikely to be allergic to shellfish, because fish and shellfish do not have the same allergenic protein?
... that American-Israeli basketball player Bryan Cohen is the only athlete in the history of the Patriot League to win its Defensive Player of Year award three times?
... that social projection may explain political polarization?
... that Gertrude Degenhardt illustrated her brother-in-law Franz Josef Degenhardt's song albums in the 1960s, and created art books such as Women in Music and Vagabondage in Blue in the 1990s?
... that Choctaw was one of only three semi-whaleback ships ever built?
... that armed robbers stole an estimated $30–45 million worth of paintings from Sweden's Nationalmuseum in December 2000, including two Renoirs and a Rembrandt?
... that the Strokes lose a game of baseball by a score of 56–1 against a team of robots in the music video for their song "The Adults Are Talking"?

4 January 2021

00:00, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

Kathleen Byron as a nurse in Life in Her Hands

... that the British film Life in Her Hands (scene pictured) was produced to recruit women into nursing?
... that ballerina and répétiteur Sara Leland was able to stage more than 30 ballets due to her ability to remember choreography accurately?
... that the frog pond effect describes how it is better for self-evaluation of competence to be a "big frog in a little pond"?
... that Oregon state representative John H. Carkin was unanimously elected Speaker of the Oregon House in 1927, with support from all Democratic House members as well as his fellow Republicans?
... that a section of Japan National Route 114 that was closed following the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster has since been reopened?
... that the Ava Prince Thray Sithu led two ceasefire negotiations with Hanthawaddy during the Forty Years' War?
... that messages could be sent by pneumatic tube in central Paris until 1984?
... that Mildred Mottahedeh's personal collection of porcelain was described by Nelson Rockefeller as "utterly fabulous, an artistic and cultural treasure without comparison in its field"?

3 January 2021

00:00, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

Panchkuta Basadi, Humcha

... that Panchkuta Basadi (pictured), in the Humcha Jain temple complex, houses a golden-coloured idol of Padmavati carrying a lotus, a goad, and a noose?
... that US civil-rights leader John Warren Davis was the longest-serving president of West Virginia State University and helped to establish the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund?
... that U-710 was sunk only ten days after beginning her first patrol?
... that as a Porto Alegre city councillor, Rodrigo Maroni proposed a bill that would have imposed life imprisonment on offenders who commit cruelty to animals?
... that 6,000 square feet (560 m²) of development rights above the Art Students League Building cost $31.8 million?
... that Enid Szánthó, a leading contralto of the Vienna State Opera, appeared as Erda in Wagner's Ring cycle at the Bayreuth Festival in 1930, but was no longer invited by 1938?
... that Paper Mario: The Origami King uses office supplies for boss battles to complement its origami theme?
... that climate journalist Kendra Pierre-Louis is a critic of mayonnaise?

2 January 2021

00:00, 2 January 2021 (UTC)

Dinah Washington

... that a ranking of the greatest double-entendre songs of all time included "Big Long Slidin' Thing" by Dinah Washington (pictured), "Need a Little Sugar in My Bowl" by Bessie Smith, "It Ain't the Meat (It's the Motion)" by the Swallows, "Keep On Churnin' (Till the Butter Comes)" by Wynonie Harris, and "Big Ten Inch Record" by Aerosmith?
... that XO was one of the lowest-selling games in the Super Robot Wars series due to Xbox 360's unwelcoming commercial and critical reception in Japan?
... that Frances Spatz Leighton was called the "Queen of Female Ghosts" for ghostwriting many memoirs?
... that the 1988 Bruges speech by Margaret Thatcher has been described as "setting the UK on the path to Brexit"?
... that after Illinois overhauled its Freedom of Information Act on January 1, 2010, the law became regarded as one of the most liberal public-records statutes in the United States?
... that in 1982, a Magnificat in German composed in 1707 for soprano, traverso, strings, and continuo and attributed to Bach and Telemann, was identified as a composition by Melchior Hoffmann?
... that Spanish physicist Teresa Rodrigo worked on the discovery of the Higgs boson at CERN and the discovery of the top quark at Fermilab?
... that Manner, a Macau entertainment company, opened a store that sells almond biscuits with condom-looking wrapping, and gives customers free beef jerky if they show a parking ticket?

1 January 2021

00:00, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

Micrograph of fumarole minerals from Tolbachik

... that volcanic fumaroles deposit more than 240 distinct, rare fumarole minerals (examples pictured)?
... that British Army officer Sir Augustus FitzGeorge served as equerry to his father, Prince George, Duke of Cambridge, and accompanied Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, on his visit to India?
... that the 1983 memoir Home Before Morning, which details the author's time as a Vietnam War nurse, is dedicated to "all of the unknown women who served forgotten in their wars"?
... that Israeli lawyer Gonen Ben Itzhak, a prominent figure in the protests against Benjamin Netanyahu, is a former Shin Bet handler of Hamas mole "The Green Prince"?
... that the results of the 2021 Uzbek presidential election are expected to mirror those from 2016, which were widely considered illegitimate?
... that LaVon Mercer, who was homeless as a teenager, played in the Israeli Basketball Premier League for 14 years and was its 1980–81 season MVP?
... that Milestone House at the Edinburgh City Hospital was the first custom-built AIDS hospice in the UK?
... that in a three-month period in mid- to late 2020, nearly half of Americans were subject to an SSA impersonation scam robocall?