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Low | 68.8 | Innocence (opera) | 165.9 | Hill Women | 68.8 | Innocence (opera) |
Median | 308.3 | Hometown Village | 598.8 | Stenka Razin (film) Claire Rousay |
327.1 | Poecilia orri |
High | 1,265.5 | Maxine North, Robert G. North, Polaris drinking water | 2,216.9 | Mike Sadler | 2,216.9 | Mike Sadler |
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[edit]Article | Date | Image | views | vph | DYK hook |
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Mike Sadler | 2024-02-20 | 53,205 | 2,216.9 | ... that Mike Sadler (pictured) guided nighttime raids on enemy targets as a celestial navigator during the Western Desert campaign? | |
Hanging Stone | 2024-02-02 | 25,980 | 2,165.0 | ... that groups of tourists have unsuccessfully tried to push the Hanging Stone (pictured) into the lake below? | |
Jack Ruby Shoots Lee Harvey Oswald | 2024-02-15 | 44,344 | 1,847.7 | ... that six-tenths of a second is one reason that a photograph (pictured) won a Pulitzer Prize? | |
Qalaherriaq | 2024-02-06 | 13,677 | 1,626.6 | ... that teenage Inuk interpreter Qalaherriaq (pictured) drew an accurate map of northwest Greenland while using a pencil for the first time? | |
Okunoin | 2024-02-29 | 38,708 | 1,612.8 | ... that the hall of worship of Okunoin holds more than 10,000 perpetually lit lanterns (pictured), two of which are believed to have been lit for more than 900 years? | |
Flaco (owl) | 2024-02-18 | 36,952 | 1,539.7 | ... that having lived in Central Park for more than a year after becoming homeless, Flaco (pictured) has been accused of being a peeping tom? | |
Donald H. Bochkay | 2024-02-01 | 16,866 | 1,405.5 | ... that fighter pilot Donald H. Bochkay (pictured) shot down two jet-powered Messerschmitt Me 262s while flying a propeller-driven P-51 Mustang? | |
Maxine North | 2024-02-29 | 13,203 | 550.1 | ... that Maxine North swore never to return to Thailand after the death of her undercover CIA husband, but ultimately settled there and introduced bottled water to the country? | |
Robert G. North | 11,080 | 461.6 | |||
Polaris drinking water | 6,090 | 253.7 | |||
Total | 30,372 | 1,265.5 | |||
Babe Ruth Bows Out | 2024-02-01 | 14,264 | 1,188.6 | ... that Babe Ruth Bows Out marked the first time a sports-related image won the Pulitzer Prize for Photography? | |
Max Stephan | 2024-02-21 | 27,292 | 1,137.2 | ... that Max Stephan was sentenced to death for aiding a Nazi pilot who had escaped from a prisoner of war camp? | |
Johnny & Clyde | 2024-02-02 | 13,236 | 1,103.0 | ... that heist-horror film Johnny & Clyde has been called "unwatchable"? | |
Dumb Woman's Lane | 2024-02-17 | 25,218 | 1,050.8 | ... that Paul McCartney wrote a poem about Dumb Woman's Lane (pictured)? | |
Pohang Space Walk | 2024-02-08 | 12,600 | 1,050.0 | ... that the steps of Pohang Space Walk (pictured) represent an ascent to an unreachable utopia? | |
Frankee Connolly | 2024-02-27 | 25,149 | 1,047.9 | ... that Frankee Connolly (pictured) signed to Xenomania and took her first singing lessons – in that order? | |
Tove Jansson | 2024-02-08 | 12,500 | 1,041.7 | ... that artist Tove Jansson (pictured) based the children's book character Snufkin on a political philosopher whom she had dated? | |
Well he would, wouldn't he? | 2024-02-02 | 12,408 | 1,034.0 | ... that "he would, wouldn't he"? | |
Ingush towers | 2024-02-26 | 24,418 | 1,017.4 | ... that Ingushetia is often called the "land of towers" after the Ingush towers (examples pictured), unique medieval monuments found throughout the region? | |
Town of Seattle Ordinance No. 5 | 2024-02-12 | 23,646 | 985.2 | ... that a law banning Native Americans from living in Seattle was voided when Seattle itself was abolished? | |
Cloaca (art installation) | 2024-02-28 | 23,297 | 970.7 | ... that, according to the artist, the Cloaca art installations (example pictured) are "shit machines"? | |
Jenny Suo | 2024-02-07 | 9,538 | 953.9 | ... that at the age of 14, Jenny Suo conducted a science experiment that ultimately led to GlaxoSmithKline pleading guilty to breaching consumer protection laws? | |
Cisco (wine) | 2024-02-01 | 11,426 | 952.2 | ... that Cisco wine was nicknamed "liquid crack"? | |
Yi–Ta incident | 2024-02-06 | 7,845 | 933.0 | ... that from March to May 1962, 60,000 Chinese citizens migrated to the Soviet Union through two ports of entry? | |
George Roper (ship) | 2024-02-06 | 14,370 | 921.2 | ... that on its maiden voyage from Liverpool to Australia, the George Roper ran aground (pictured) and was wrecked? | |
Amnya complex | 2024-02-28 | 21,484 | 895.2 | ... that a Stone Age Siberian village is the oldest known fortification in the world? | |
1999 Tempe military base shooting | 2024-02-28 | 20,764 | 865.2 | ... that after the 1999 Tempe military base shooting, the Pan African Congress demanded a military funeral for the perpetrator? | |
Robert H. Brooks (soldier) | 2024-02-29 | 20,180 | 840.8 | ... that Robert H. Brooks passed as a white man to join an all-white unit? | |
Maruxa and Coralia Fandiño Ricart | 2024-02-22 | 20,060 | 835.8 | ... that Maruxa and Coralia Fandiño Ricart (statues pictured) became famous in Galicia because their bright, colourful outfits contrasted with the social repression of Francoist Spain? | |
Phomen Singh | 2024-02-05 | 9,855 | 821.2 | ... that Phomen Singh (pictured), an early Indian migrant to New Zealand, sold sweets and chutneys out of a suitcase? | |
Sun in an Empty Room | 2024-02-01 | 9,806 | 817.2 | ... that Edward Hopper wondered what an empty room would look like with no one to see it? | |
António Corea | 2024-02-29 | 19,444 | 810.1 | ... that the slave António Corea may have been the first Korean to visit Europe? | |
Pilgrims' Cross, Holcombe Moor | 2024-02-07 | 7,764 | 776.4 | ... that the 6-ton (6.1-tonne) Pilgrims' Cross (pictured), high on Holcombe Moor, England, was dragged up there with difficulty by 14 horses? | |
Jews in Madagascar | 2024-02-03 | 9,251 | 770.9 | ... that millions of people from Madagascar claim ancestral ties to ancient Jews, according to a centuries-old origin myth called the "Malagasy secret"? | |
Gender and sexual minorities in the Ottoman Empire | 2024-02-28 | 18,460 | 769.1 | ... that due to 19th-century French views of widespread homosexuality among Ottoman Turks, Mehmet Cemaleddin Efendi was offered male prostitutes by officials on a visit to Paris? | |
Tilted Towers | 2024-02-05 | 8,778 | 731.5 | ... that Fortnite's Tilted Towers was described by critics as the equivalent of "psychological torture" and being "dropped into a meat grinder"? | |
Mariia Vetrova | 2024-02-05 | 8,591 | 715.9 | ... that Mariia Vetrova's self-immolation provoked student protests in Saint Petersburg, Moscow and Kyiv? | |
The Drunkard's Progress | 2024-02-19 | 17,166 | 715.3 | ... that The Drunkard's Progress suggests that a single social drink leads to poverty, crime, and suicide? | |
Clipperton Island case | 2024-02-05 | 8,378 | 698.2 | ... that it took the King of Italy 22 years to decide whether France or Mexico owned Clipperton Island? | |
Siege of Baghdad[a] | 2024-02-10 | 12,736[b] | 687.5 | ... that before besieging Baghdad in 1258, the Mongol prince Hulegu Khan ended a letter to the city's ruler with the words "I will show you the meaning of the will of God"? | |
John Schrank | 2024-02-25 | 16,405 | 683.5 | ... that would-be assassin John Schrank was foiled by a 50-page speech and a spectacles case? | |
Jonos | 2024-02-09 | 15,634 | 651.4 | ... that Jonos offered Gucci carrying cases with their Escort portable computers (example pictured) in 1982? | |
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings | 2024-02-04 | 7,660[c] | 638.4 | ... that a bus-chase sequence in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings took more than a year to plan and was revised more than twenty times? | |
Claire Rousay | 2024-02-04 | 7,298 | 608.1 | ... that Claire Rousay (pictured) creates music using everyday sounds she records? | |
Beeper (company) | 2024-02-02 | 7,096 | 591.3 | ... that a 16-year-old high-school student reverse-engineered iMessage to let Android users text iPhone users with blue chat bubbles using the Beeper Mini app? | |
Stenka Razin (film) | 2024-02-25 | 14,148 | 589.5 | ... that the first Russian feature film, Stenka Razin (poster pictured), depicts the historical Cossack leader throwing a princess into the Volga? | |
Let's All Go to the Lobby | 2024-02-01 | 7,070 | 589.2 | ... that Let's All Go to the Lobby, a one-minute filmed advertisement, has been preserved by the US National Film Registry? | |
Imhotep (board game) | 2024-02-29 | 14,117 | 588.2 | ... that a review of the board game Imhotep stated that it can be chaotic and "extremely mean"? | |
Statue of George Washington (Perth Amboy, New Jersey) | 2024-02-11 | 11,172 | 465.5 | ... that the terracotta statue of George Washington (pictured) by the Danish-American sculptor Nels N. Alling was entirely funded by the local Scandinavian community? | |
Nels N. Alling | 2,840 | 118.3 | |||
Total | 14,012 | 583.8 | |||
Taubaté pregnancy hoax | 2024-02-23 | 13,840 | 576.7 | ... that Taubaté became the "city of lies" after a 2012 pregnancy hoax? | |
KOVR | 2024-02-20 | 13,612 | 567.1 | ... that the founder of a California TV station opted not to name it for himself because the call sign would have sounded like "cough"? | |
Delulu | 2024-02-21 | 13,583 | 566.0 | ... that "delulu is the solulu" is a catchphrase? | |
Xiang Xuan | 2024-02-18 | 13,525 | 563.5 | ... that nine-year-old Xiang Xuan was the youngest soldier to take part in the Long March? | |
Nadia Smyrnytska | 2024-02-11 | 8,834 | 368.1 | ... that Ukrainians Nadia Smyrnytska, Maria Kalyuzhnaya and Maria Kovalevska joined other prisoners in committing suicide to protest against the abuse of imprisoned women in Kara katorga? | |
Maria Kalyuzhnaya | 4,458 | 185.8 | |||
Total | 13,292 | 553.9 | |||
Prey (2022 film) | 2024-02-20 | 13,274[d] | 553.1 | ... that Prey is the first feature film to have a full Comanche language dub? | |
40 Bank Street | 2024-02-03 | 6,581 | 548.4 | ... that 40 Bank Street (pictured), a skyscraper in London, has been described as looking like two different buildings fused into one? | |
Kirk Raymond Jones | 2024-02-03 | 6,480 | 540.0 | ... that Kirk Raymond Jones became the first person to survive going over Niagara Falls without safety equipment, then died after going over it again in an inflatable ball? | |
Mount Hudson | 2024-02-16 | 12,954 | 539.7 | ... that the volcano Mount Hudson repeatedly depopulated parts of South America? | |
Lancelot of Navarre | 2024-02-02 | 6,432 | 536.0 | ... that King Charles III of Navarre wanted his illegitimate son Lancelot to become a bishop but the pope forbade it? | |
Anti-facial recognition mask | 2024-02-10 | 12,698 | 529.1 | ... that the use of high-tech surveillance to monitor protests and identify participants has led protestors to use anti-facial recognition masks? | |
Valentine Strudwick | 2024-02-26 | 12,517 | 521.5 | ... that Valentine Strudwick enlisted to serve in the First World War at 14 years old? | |
Kalmia Club | 2024-02-04 | 6,246 | 520.5 | ... that the Kalmia Club (clubhouse pictured) is named after the mountain laurel? | |
Dione arcuata | 2024-02-04 | 6,208 | 517.3 | ... that eyelash seaweed may have been made extinct by a single 2016 earthquake? | |
Girl soldiers | 2024-02-18 | 12,416 | 517.3 | ... that former girl soldiers may face higher rates of community rejection than former boy soldiers? | |
Hsinchu Kuang-Fu Senior High School | 2024-02-25 | 12,340 | 514.2 | ... that the principal of a high school in Taiwan resigned after students held a Nazi-themed parade, complete with mock uniforms and a cardboard tank? | |
Paul Pavelka | 2024-02-06 | 4,320 | 513.8 | ... that aviator Paul Pavelka was killed after being thrown and trampled by a horse? | |
Hackaball | 2024-02-01 | 6,078 | 506.5 | ... that children have programmed Hackaball as a Magic 8 Ball, a whoopee cushion, and an alarm clock? | |
Anjali Lama | 2024-02-16 | 12,006 | 500.2 | ... that Anjali Lama, Nepal's first transgender model, worked with Calvin Klein in 2019? | |
Megan Barton-Hanson | 2024-02-04 | 4,886 | 407.2 | ... that Megan Barton-Hanson dated her costars from Love Island 4, Celebs Go Dating, and Ex on the Beach, but not Hey Tracey!? | |
Hey Tracey! | 1,059 | 88.2 | |||
Total | 5,945 | 495.4 | |||
Andy Dickerson | 2024-02-17 | 6,356 | 264.8 | ... that offensive lineman Andy Dickerson is not to be confused with offensive lineman Andy Dickerson? | |
Andy Dickerson (offensive lineman, born 1963) | 5,521 | 230.0 | |||
Total | 11,876 | 494.9 | |||
The Waste Land | 2024-02-12 | 11,839[e] | 493.3 | ... that The Waste Land, considered one of the most important poems of the 20th century, was described as "waste paper" when first published? | |
William Thomas Pike | 2024-02-02 | 5,824 | 485.3 | ... that William Thomas Pike, a convicted felon, published a biographical series (volume pictured), which includes traders, bishops, and a lord mayor of London, but almost no women? | |
Sarah McCreanor | 2024-02-27 | 11,600 | 483.4 | ... that Sarah McCreanor imitates objects under hydraulic presses through dance? | |
Intramural burial | 2024-02-20 | 11,578 | 482.4 | ... that for several millennia, some humans buried corpses in their houses? | |
Philipp Tanzer | 2024-02-24 | 11,540 | 480.8 | ... that Philipp Tanzer has been an army medic, artist, firefighter, hairdresser, massage therapist, festival organiser, political candidate and gay porn star? | |
Carol Mutch | 2024-02-22 | 11,443 | 476.8 | ... that Dr. Disaster's office collapsed in an earthquake on this day in 2011? | |
Black-billed magpie | 2024-02-01 | 5,674 | 472.9 | ... that black-billed magpies are known to eat ticks off deer and other large mammals (example pictured)? | |
The Overlook (Alexander McQueen collection) | 2024-02-12 | 11,221 | 467.5 | ... that the Alexander McQueen collection The Overlook (Autumn/Winter 1999) featured a Shaun Leane–produced corset made from coiled aluminium (pictured)? | |
Anthony W. Case | 2024-02-21 | 11,182 | 465.9 | ... that the injuries Anthony W. Case suffered in a school shooting led him to give up baseball and turn to astrophysics as a career? | |
Gilpatrick Hotel | 2024-02-27 | 11,118 | 463.2 | ... that former US president Theodore Roosevelt was shot in front of the Gilpatrick Hotel in 1912? | |
Death and funeral of Babe Ruth | 2024-02-23 | 11,117 | 463.2 | ... that Life magazine said that Babe Ruth's funeral was the "kind of tribute normally reserved for kings and presidents"? | |
Dieux du Stade | 2024-02-14 | 11,107 | 462.8 | ... that sales from Dieux du Stade, a nude calendar produced by the French professional rugby union club Stade Français featuring photos of its players, helped to finance the club for many years? | |
Joseph S. Bartley | 2024-02-06 | 7,212 | 462.3 | ... that after Joseph S. Bartley was sentenced to twenty years in prison for embezzlement, he tried to have himself declared legally dead? | |
Agora Hills | 2024-02-07 | 5,468[f] | 458.5 | ... that "Agora Hills" is named after the location of the ashram where Doja Cat lived growing up? | |
Nadezhda Bantle | 2024-02-05 | 5,432 | 452.7 | ... that after Nadezhda Bantle was exiled to the Russian North, she oversaw the development of the hospital in Nikolskoye to become the most advanced in its region? | |
SkyDoesMinecraft | 2024-02-03 | 5,397 | 449.8 | ... that Minecraft YouTuber SkyDoesMinecraft, once the eleventh-most subscribed creator on the platform, attempted to sell their YouTube channel for nearly a million dollars? | |
Mako Morino | 2024-02-01 | 5,328 | 444.0 | ... that voice actress Mako Morino played volleyball for 14 years, but gave up the goal of playing professionally after being assigned to the non-serving libero position? | |
Zanana | 2024-02-06 | 3,716 | 441.9 | ... that zanana can refer to a nagging wife in Egypt, or to Israeli drones flying overhead in Gaza? | |
Avengers assemble scene | 2024-02-21 | 10,563 | 440.1 | ... that Spider-Man was chosen as the last character to return in Avengers: Endgame's Avengers assemble scene because it was designed to be emotional for audiences? | |
Milwaukee Brewers ball-in-glove logo | 2024-02-10 | 10,311 | 429.6 | ... that CBS Sports said the Milwaukee Brewers ball-in-glove logo "might just be the best in all of baseball"? | |
Tamer Balcı | 2024-02-27 | 10,204 | 425.2 | ... that Olympic hammer thrower Tamer Balcı was later cast in a movie as Tarzan? | |
Eenoolooapik | 2024-02-15 | 10,202 | 425.1 | ... that Eenoolooapik fell ill while kayaking through Aberdeen in traditional Inuit clothing? | |
Nevoid melanoma | 2024-02-01 | 5,092 | 424.3 | ... that unlike most skin cancers, a nevoid melanoma may have an almost perfectly symmetrical shape? | |
History of Christianity | 2024-02-22 | 10,171[g] | 423.8 | ... that the growth of Christianity in 20th-century Africa has been termed the "fourth great age of Christian expansion"? | |
Carachipampa | 2024-02-28 | 10,023 | 417.6 | ... that the volcano Carachipampa is surrounded by a lake and a salt flat, and has a Mars-like environment? | |
Treasury General Account | 2024-02-26 | 10,000 | 416.7 | ... that the US federal government's "checking account" held more than $800 billion at the beginning of February 2024? | |
Yobidashi | 2024-02-02 | 4,995 | 416.2 | ... that yobidashi often receive their trousers from sumo wrestlers who have been promoted to the rank of yokozuna or ōzeki? | |
Laguna Honda Hospital | 2024-02-06 | 3,496 | 415.8 | ... that Laguna Honda Hospital is a non-profit long-term care facility that has been described as America's "last big almshouse"? | |
1928 Liechtenstein embezzlement scandal | 2024-02-29 | 9,980 | 415.8 | ... that the 1928 Liechtenstein embezzlement scandal cost 1.8 million Swiss francs, the equivalent of two yearly state budgets? | |
James Light (director) | 2024-02-19 | 9,942 | 414.2 | ... that James Light was threatened by the Ku Klux Klan when he staged a play with an interracial couple? | |
Sofia Vakman | 2024-02-17 | 9,929 | 413.7 | ... that Sofia Vakman relinquished a career as a concert pianist because a skin disorder she contracted after swimming made it painful for her to play? | |
Ibedul succession dispute | 2024-02-07 | 4,890 | 410.0 | ... that during the ibedul succession dispute, Gloria Salii held a ceremony for her son in which he washed his hands in turtle blood? | |
Geno (Super Mario RPG) | 2024-02-22 | 9,803 | 408.5 | ... that despite knowing of Geno's popularity, Super Mario RPG's co-director wasn't sure why the character was popular? | |
Fionna Campbell (character) | 2024-02-02 | 4,892 | 407.7 | ... that Fionna Campbell was created as gender-swapped Adventure Time fan art, but ended up getting her own show? | |
Maria Trubnikova | 2024-02-10 | 9,624 | 401.0 | ... that after dying in her daughter's arms in an asylum in 1897, Maria Trubnikova (pictured) was remembered as the "heart and soul" of feminist activism in Russia? | |
I'm God | 2024-02-06 | 6,240 | 400.0 | ... that it took eleven years for the instrumental track "I'm God" to receive an official release? | |
Newquay Lifeboat Station | 2024-02-02 | 4,797 | 399.8 | ... that with an inclination of 1 in 2.5, the slipway at Newquay Lifeboat Station was one of the steepest in England? | |
1921 Centre vs. Harvard football game | 2024-02-16 | 9,550 | 397.9 | ... that Centre's 1921 defeat of Harvard is widely considered to be one of the greatest upsets in college football history? | |
Pamatan | 2024-02-15 | 9,400 | 391.7 | ... that Pamatan is an undiscovered city on Lombok that was destroyed by the 1257 Samalas eruption? | |
Campus of the College of William & Mary | 2024-02-14 | 9,390 | 391.2 | ... that lovers on the campus of the College of William & Mary are encouraged to cross the Crim Dell bridge (pictured) together? | |
Stuart Memorial, Dunedin | 2024-02-14 | 9,382 | 390.9 | ... that despite various proposals, a statue of a renowned Dunedin clergyman was not moved from its location adjacent to a brothel and two parking lots? | |
Max Glatt | 2024-02-07 | 3,902 | 390.2 | ... that addicts imprisoned in Wormwood Scrubs named the prison football team "Glatt Dynamos", after their psychotherapist Max Glatt, a former Nazi concentration-camp inmate? | |
Ephelcomenus | 2024-02-05 | 4,680 | 390.0 | ... that the artiodactyl Ephelcomenus is thought to have been capable of burrowing? | |
Heat Flow Experiment | 2024-02-09 | 9,359 | 390.0 | ... that the Apollo 16 Heat Flow Experiment was disabled when astronaut John Young tripped over a cable and tore it from its connector? | |
Mori Calliope | 2024-02-25 | 9,352 | 389.7 | ... that for at least 90 minutes, Mori Calliope livestreamed herself begging video game developer Atlus to allow her to stream their game Persona 3? | |
Ludwig Grass | 2024-02-07 | 4,646 | 389.6 | ... that in 1857 Ludwig Grass (pictured) donated 20,000 guilders to build the first state secondary school in Liechtenstein? | |
Chompi | 2024-02-03 | 4,649 | 387.4 | ... that the Chompi Kickstarter campaign was one of the most successful of 2023? | |
Big Foot (Nicki Minaj song) | 2024-02-22 | 9,298 | 387.4 | ... that Nicki Minaj's song "Big Foot" is a diss track about Megan Thee Stallion? | |
The Anxious City | 2024-02-17 | 9,289 | 387.0 | ... that The Anxious City introduced a recurring figure in Paul Delvaux's paintings: a man who is ignorant of the pretty women and disasters around him? | |
Sacred Heart Cathedral, Kaifeng | 2024-02-21 | 9,286 | 386.9 | ... that communist forces set up their headquarters at the Sacred Heart Cathedral (pictured) during the 1948 battle for Kaifeng in the Chinese Civil War? | |
Site isolation | 2024-02-03 | 4,637 | 386.4 | ... that adding the site isolation security feature made Google Chrome use 10 percent more RAM? | |
Takabb Anti-Cough Pill | 2024-02-04 | 4,614 | 384.5 | ... that the packaging of one Thai throat lozenge features five centipedes? | |
August Palmisano | 2024-02-12 | 9,206 | 383.6 | ... that when tavern operator August Palmisano was killed in a 1978 car bombing, authorities suspected organized crime in Milwaukee? | |
Salmon Report | 2024-02-07 | 4,556 | 382.0 | ... that the Salmon Report (1966) led to the loss of the job title "matron" from UK hospitals? | |
Elijah Hewson | 2024-02-05 | 4,500 | 375.0 | ... that Elijah Hewson's band Inhaler's UK No. 1 debut album charted 51 places higher than the debut album of his father's band U2? | |
Training Season | 2024-02-15 | 8,996[h] | 374.8 | ... that Dua Lipa premiered "Training Season" at the 66th Annual Grammy Awards, 11 days before its official release? | |
Silang tanmu | 2024-02-13 | 8,938 | 372.4 | ... that the Chinese play Silang tanmu, which depicts a general returning home to visit his mother, was banned in Tianjin in 1945 because it "distorted the normal ethics and morality"? | |
Ray E. Dillon Jr. | 2024-02-04 | 4,424 | 368.6 | ... that Ray E. Dillon Jr. flew in 92 combat missions during World War II before becoming the president and CEO of Dillons? | |
Yunè Pinku | 2024-02-06 | 3,098 | 368.4 | ... that Yunè Pinku derived the first half of her stage name from a childhood nickname and the second half from the children's program Pingu? | |
Advisory Neighborhood Commission district 7F08 | 2024-02-02 | 4,419 | 368.2 | ... that in one neighborhood commission district, the voters and officeholders are all inmates at the D.C. Jail? | |
Native American Educational Services College | 2024-02-06 | 3,088 | 367.2 | ... that a college designed for and led by Native Americans was active in Chicago from 1974 to 2005? | |
Richard Twine (sociologist) | 2024-02-01 | 4,397 | 366.4 | ... that sociologist Richard Twine has developed the concept of the "vegan killjoy" who challenges anthropocentrism by their mere presence? | |
Leilani Tominiko | 2024-02-25 | 8,788 | 366.2 | ... that New Zealand wrestler Leilani Tominiko (aka. Candy Lee) has a signature move called the Candy Crush? | |
MyNoise | 2024-02-12 | 8,738 | 364.1 | ... that during the COVID-19 pandemic, some former office workers used myNoise to remind them of their workplace? | |
Poecilia vivipara | 2024-02-02 | 4,334 | 361.1 | ... that for the southern molly, sexual selection favors smaller males because they copulate by sneaking up to females? | |
Princess Zelda | 2024-02-04 | 4,276 | 356.3 | ... that Princess Zelda's name was inspired by American novelist and socialite Zelda Fitzgerald? | |
Gates of Heaven Synagogue | 2024-02-12 | 8,509 | 354.5 | ... that the oldest surviving synagogue building in Wisconsin was almost razed in the 1970s? | |
Tarcisio Martina | 2024-02-10 | 8,428 | 351.2 | ... that Tarcisio Martina, the representative of the Holy See in China, was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1951 over a plot to assassinate Mao Zedong? | |
George Daniel | 2024-02-05 | 4,207 | 350.6 | ... that George Daniel submitted his band's demos as coursework while in college? | |
Sky Above Clouds | 2024-02-11 | 8,400 | 350.0 | ... that Sky Above Clouds IV was inspired by a large, blank white wall? | |
Twink Twining | 2024-02-04 | 4,200 | 350.0 | ... that Dr. Twink Twining was a Major League Baseball player? | |
Bob Bracken (settler) | 2024-02-24 | 8,342 | 347.6 | ... that the "first settler of Asotin County" was the second? | |
Supie | 2024-02-24 | 8,243 | 343.5 | ... that food was left to rot outside after the supermarket Supie went out of business? | |
Bdóte | 2024-02-09 | 8,188 | 341.1 | ... that Bdóte, an area of sacred significance to the Dakota people, centered on the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi rivers, was also the site of their forced exile from Minnesota? | |
Bambie Thug | 2024-02-18 | 8,180[i] | 340.9 | ... that Ireland's 2024 Eurovision entrant Bambie Thug describes their musical genre as "ouija pop"? | |
Hicklin Lake | 2024-02-08 | 4,062 | 338.5 | ... that artificial islands were deployed in Hicklin Lake in an unsuccessful attempt to stop eutrophication? | |
Wakan, Oman | 2024-02-27 | 8,108 | 337.9 | ... that the mild climate in the remote mountain village of Wakan in Oman allows the growth of fruits such as pomegranates in an otherwise hot and dry country? | |
AtariWriter | 2024-02-07 | 3,368 | 336.8 | ... that the AtariWriter word processor for the Atari 8-bit family sold over 800,000 copies, about one copy for every five machines sold? | |
To Zion | 2024-02-24 | 8,010 | 333.7 | ... that Lauryn Hill's song "To Zion" is about her decision not to terminate her pregnancy despite facing pressure to do so? | |
Poecilia orri | 2024-02-13 | 7,852 | 327.1 | ... that male mangrove mollies mate sneakily? | |
Michael Artiaga | 2024-02-13 | 4,797 | 199.9 | ... that 13-year-old Michael Artiaga won against his 15-year-old brother Andrew in the final round of the 2020 Classic Tetris World Championship? | |
Andrew Artiaga | 3,001 | 125.0 | |||
Total | 7,798 | 324.9 | |||
John Boswell (clergyman) | 2024-02-06 | 2,698 | 320.8 | ... that John Boswell believed that the executed King Charles I of England was a martyr? | |
Justin Yu | 2024-02-08 | 3,849 | 320.8 | ... that Justin Yu, the current Classic Tetris World Champion, is also a cellist in MIT's video game orchestra? | |
Jessica Mak | 2024-02-09 | 7,668 | 319.5 | ... that for her presentation at the 2008 Game Developers Conference, Jessica Mak simply played music and released balloons in the audience? | |
María Esther Biscayart de Tello | 2024-02-23 | 7,614 | 317.2 | ... that all three of María Esther Biscayart de Tello's children were forcibly disappeared during the Dirty War in Argentina? | |
Joan Phillip | 2024-02-07 | 3,777 | 316.7 | ... that Joan Phillip offered to give any MLAs who were rude to her a whack with her Saskatoon berry stick? | |
Misfat al Abriyeen | 2024-02-02 | 3,784 | 315.4 | ... that Misfat al Abriyeen in Oman was named one of the best tourism villages by the World Tourism Organization in 2021? | |
Englewood Golf Club | 2024-02-20 | 7,506 | 312.7 | ... that for a while in the 1950s, Englewood Golf Club was co-owned by four well-known comedians? | |
Hypericum foliosum | 2024-02-17 | 7,413 | 308.9 | ... that the shining St John's wort owes its bright colors partly to carotenoid compounds? | |
Holly Ringland | 2024-02-03 | 3,704 | 308.7 | ... that Holly Ringland wrote her second book while stuck in Australia for three years during the COVID-19 pandemic? | |
Hometown Village | 2024-02-08 | 3,700 | 308.3 | ... that Hometown Village is a community of Sakhalin Koreans who were finally allowed to return to South Korea after the dissolution of the Soviet Union? | |
Betty Lou Raskin | 2024-02-19 | 7,389 | 307.9 | ... that chemist Betty Lou Raskin said in 1958 that society was wasting the "brainpower" of women, and blamed the media for making the mink coat the "symbol of female success" and not the lab coat? | |
Cam McCormick | 2024-02-12 | 7,376 | 307.4 | ... that Cam McCormick is thought to be the first college football player to be granted a ninth year of NCAA eligibility? | |
Emais Roberts | 2024-02-03 | 3,684 | 307.0 | ... that Emais Roberts (pictured) administered the COVID-19 vaccination program in Palau and was one of the first to receive the vaccine in the country? | |
Logan Thompson | 2024-02-16 | 7,360 | 306.7 | ... that Logan Thompson (pictured) is the first former U Sports goaltender to start a National Hockey League game in over 30 years? | |
Effective accelerationism | 2024-02-03 | 3,666 | 305.5 | ... that adherents of effective accelerationism believe that unrestricted technological progress would be a solution for poverty and war? | |
Maternity care deserts in the United States | 2024-02-24 | 7,134 | 297.2 | ... that 35.6 percent of counties in the United States are classified as maternity care deserts? | |
Dora Goldstein | 2024-02-06 | 4,595 | 294.6 | ... that Dora Goldstein exposed mice to alcoholic vapor to investigate the biochemistry of alcohol addiction and alcohol withdrawal syndrome? | |
Lake Fenwick | 2024-02-10 | 7,005 | 291.9 | ... that Lake Fenwick suffers from an infestation of Brazilian elodea? | |
Ioniță Tunsu | 2024-02-04 | 3,499 | 291.6 | ... that a street in Bucharest was once named after Ioniță Tunsu, an outlaw who used to visit his girlfriend there? | |
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage elements in Palestine | 2024-02-06 | 4,534 | 290.6 | ... that intangible heritage unique to Palestine includes women's story-telling, embroidery, dance, and soap-making? | |
Mike "Hitman" Wilson | 2024-02-14 | 6,966 | 290.3 | ... that after Shawn Christopher's "Another Sleepless Night" was rereleased with Mike "Hitman" Wilson's name removed, it charted 24 places higher on the UK Singles Chart? | |
Open Source Tripwire | 2024-02-08 | 3,476 | 289.7 | ... that a computer system can contain tripwire files that alert administrators upon being accessed by intruders? | |
Baldwin–Reynolds House | 2024-02-05 | 3,464 | 288.6 | ... that the design of the Baldwin–Reynolds House, a mansion built for U.S. Supreme Court justice Henry Baldwin, may have been inspired by Andrew Jackson's home? | |
Conservation in Indonesia | 2024-02-05 | 3,436 | 286.3 | ... that conservation in Indonesia had little local support after independence because it was associated with the Dutch colonial period? | |
Marie Vuillemin | 2024-02-25 | 6,813 | 283.9 | ... that Marie Vuillemin was acquitted in the trial of the Bonnot Gang, as the prosecution defined her according to her gender rather than her role in the gang? | |
Lewis Pragasam | 2024-02-21 | 6,761 | 281.7 | ... that Malaysian percussionist Lewis Pragasam was drumming to "Joy to the World" at a Christmas concert when he suffered a fatal heart attack? | |
Jørgensen's law | 2024-02-18 | 4,214 | 175.6 | ... that Ove Jørgensen, after giving his name to a law of Homeric poetry, renounced classical studies to write about ballet? | |
Ove Jørgensen | 2,533 | 105.5 | |||
Total | 6,748 | 281.1 | |||
Cora Agnes Benneson | 2024-02-24 | 6,714 | 279.8 | ... that Cora Agnes Benneson (pictured), one of the first female lawyers in New England, was rejected by Harvard Law School because "the equipments were too limited to make suitable provision for receiving women"? | |
Keshawn Banks | 2024-02-15 | 6,704 | 279.3 | ... that Keshawn Banks's only NFL appearance came in the playoffs? | |
Matei Donici | 2024-02-09 | 6,613 | 275.5 | ... that Matei Donici, a general in the Imperial Russian Army, secretly wrote poetry with Romanian-nationalist and anti-Russian messages? | |
Martina Fernández (footballer) | 2024-02-04 | 3,290 | 274.1 | ... that Martina Fernández plays football for Barcelona and studies part-time at a biomedical laboratory? | |
Barley | 2024-02-13 | 6,564[j] | 273.5 | ... that barley was once used as a form of money? | |
Bridger Zadina | 2024-02-13 | 6,548 | 272.9 | ... that actor Bridger Zadina became a national champion llama exhibitor when he was 11 years old? | |
Gurdev Singh Gill (physician) | 2024-02-03 | 3,270 | 272.5 | ... that Gurdev Singh Gill was the first Canadian physician of Indian descent? | |
Horned sungem | 2024-02-23 | 6,538 | 272.4 | ... that the horned sungem (example pictured) is sometimes a nectar robber? | |
Indian rhinoceros | 2024-02-29 | 6,532 | 272.2 | ... that an Indian rhinoceros, sent as a gift to Pope Leo X in 1515, was immortalised as Dürer's Rhinoceros after dying in a shipwreck? | |
Harley Poe | 2024-02-03 | 3,214 | 267.9 | ... that Harley Poe's folk punk lyrics have been described as "some of the most deranged in the genre"? | |
Music of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance | 2024-02-23 | 6,423 | 267.6 | ... that the music of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance was designed to be reactive to the player's actions? | |
No Rome | 2024-02-03 | 3,202 | 266.9 | ... that the Filipino musician No Rome took his stage name from people doubting his career choice? | |
Ian Begg (architect) | 2024-02-15 | 6,382 | 265.9 | ... that Ian Begg, known for his work on restoration of castles in Scotland, designed and built his own 20th-century tower house to live in? | |
Storm Poly | 2024-02-01 | 3,183 | 265.2 | ... that Storm Poly caused hundreds to be stranded at Amsterdam's central station as it passed the Netherlands? | |
Tish (2023 documentary) | 2024-02-01 | 3,168 | 264.0 | ... that the documentary Tish uses sets from Ricky Gervais's sitcom After Life? | |
Jenny Cavnar | 2024-02-28 | 6,332 | 263.8 | ... that Jenny Cavnar is the first female primary play-by-play announcer in Major League Baseball history? | |
Nia Archives | 2024-02-06 | 4,044 | 259.3 | ... that before becoming a jungle musician, Nia Archives wanted to be an archaeologist? | |
WNET (Rhode Island) | 2024-02-23 | 6,171 | 257.1 | ... that a Rhode Island TV station broadcast for 14 months and then was off the air for 26 years before returning? | |
Black Souls (play) | 2024-02-04 | 3,073 | 256.1 | ... that Annie Nathan Meyer's Black Souls was one of the first "lynching dramas" created by a white woman? | |
Gainsboro Branch Library | 2024-02-22 | 6,118 | 254.9 | ... that land for a library built for African Americans in Virginia was donated by Pope Pius XII? | |
Peter d'Hamecourt | 2024-02-15 | 6,100 | 254.1 | ... that Peter d'Hamecourt was asked to pay for taxi fares with 24 cans of Heineken? | |
Robert Alexander Neil | 2024-02-03 | 3,042 | 253.5 | ... that Sunday lunch with Robert Alexander Neil was called "the best intellectual thing in Cambridge"? | |
Native American genocide in the United States | 2024-02-18 | 6,038 | 251.6 | ... that because the Cherokee people were deliberately routed through cholera-stricken areas, their dislocation has been given as an example of Native American genocide in the United States? | |
Stephen Gould (tenor) | 2024-02-07 | 2,515 | 251.5 | ... that Stephen Gould performed three roles at the 2022 Bayreuth Festival: Tannhäuser, Siegfried and Tristan, earning him nicknames such as "Iron Man"? | |
Tufted jay | 2024-02-27 | 5,976 | 249.0 | ... that almost all members of a flock of tufted jays work together to build a nest? | |
Dane Hansen | 2024-02-08 | 2,972 | 247.6 | ... that Dane Hansen started a road-construction business with about 100 mules that he was unable to sell to the US Army after World War I ended? | |
Yun Hai | 2024-02-11 | 5,934 | 247.2 | ... that New York store Yun Hai raised nine times its fundraising target to support Taiwanese farmers after China banned the import of their pineapples? | |
Maria Leshern von Herzfeld | 2024-02-26 | 5,894 | 245.6 | ... that Maria Leshern von Herzfeld helped to organise the prison escape of the Russian revolutionary Peter Kropotkin? | |
Robert Beall | 2024-02-05 | 1,653 | 137.8 | ... that St Mary's Church in Nun Monkton, England, restored by John Wilson Walton-Wilson, contains a pulpit (detail pictured) carved by Robert Beall? | |
John Wilson Walton-Wilson | 1,272 | 106.0 | |||
Total | 2,926 | 243.8 | |||
The Seoul Press | 2024-02-26 | 5,848 | 243.6 | ... that The Seoul Press was an English-language newspaper created to justify Japan's colonial rule of Korea? | |
Shiv Palekar | 2024-02-07 | 2,430 | 242.9 | ... that Shiv Palekar is trained in both the Suzuki method and Butoh form of acting? | |
Shovel Knight Showdown | 2024-02-07 | 2,878 | 241.3 | ... that Shovel Knight Showdown started as a fundraising goal for the Kickstarter of the original game? | |
Kips Bay Towers | 2024-02-10 | 5,730 | 238.8 | ... that after the original developer of the Kips Bay Towers sold off the buildings in 1962, his son bought them back a decade later? | |
Al Sweet | 2024-02-04 | 2,856 | 238.0 | ... that cornetist Al Sweet dressed his band, the White Hussars, in flashy white-and-gold military uniforms based on hussars? | |
Winchester College football | 2024-02-13 | 5,638 | 234.9 | ... that Winchester College football used to be played on top of a hill, with a line of boys on each side to keep the ball from rolling away? | |
Black-capped chickadee | 2024-02-28 | 5,624 | 234.3 | ... that the hippocampus of the black-capped chickadee grows in the fall and shrinks in the spring? | |
Campbell's Soup Cans | 2024-02-18 | 5,551 | 231.3 | ... that Campbell Soup considered suing Andy Warhol for his Campbell's Soup Cans theme, but then promoted it? | |
Harrison School (Roanoke, Virginia) | 2024-02-05 | 2,758 | 229.8 | ... that enrollment at a school for African-American students in Virginia grew from 14 pupils to 1,300 in its first ten years? | |
W. Seavey Joyce | 2024-02-13 | 5,511 | 229.6 | ... that W. Seavey Joyce's presidency of Boston College was dominated by frequent, large student protests? | |
Threepence (New Zealand coin) | 2024-02-08 | 2,712 | 226.0 | ... that the patu clubs on the New Zealand threepence were compared to bottles of ginger beer? | |
N. D. Popescu-Popnedea | 2024-02-02 | 2,702 | 225.2 | ... that Romanian adventure novelist N. D. Popescu-Popnedea "generate[d] laughter" with his deposition at a political assassin's trial? | |
Wooden Warrior | 2024-02-08 | 2,690 | 224.1 | ... that elementary school students named the Wooden Warrior roller coaster? | |
Charles J. Turck | 2024-02-12 | 5,256 | 219.0 | ... that Charles J. Turck was accused of being a communist spy during his time as president of Macalester College? | |
2024 Masters (snooker) | 2024-02-07 | 2,608 | 218.7 | ... that after winning the 2024 Masters, snooker player Ronnie O'Sullivan is both the youngest and oldest winner of the tournament? | |
South Bellevue station | 2024-02-09 | 5,246 | 218.6 | ... that completion of South Bellevue station was delayed by more than a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic and a workers' strike? | |
Waharoa (Aotea Square sculpture) | 2024-02-19 | 5,190 | 216.2 | ... that Waharoa (pictured), a sculpture by artist Selwyn Muru, was created to metaphorically turn Aotea Square in Auckland into the courtyard of a Māori meeting house? | |
Carmen Valero | 2024-02-02 | 2,576 | 214.7 | ... that in 1976, Carmen Valero became the first female track and field athlete to represent Spain at the Olympics? | |
Monique Ryan | 2024-02-16 | 5,002 | 208.4 | ... that Monique Ryan ran for election to the Parliament of Australia after seeing an advertisement in the newspaper calling for an independent candidate? | |
Sukhbir Singh Gill | 2024-02-19 | 4,978 | 207.4 | ... that Indian field hockey player Sukhbir Singh Gill continued to play professionally after being diagnosed with a brain tumor in 2006? | |
The Wind's Twelve Quarters | 2024-02-08 | 2,476 | 206.3 | ... that after Ursula K. Le Guin published her collection The Wind's Twelve Quarters, a reviewer called her the "ideal science fiction writer for readers who ordinarily dislike science fiction"? | |
Jin Hao (swimmer) | 2024-02-09 | 4,948 | 206.2 | ... that swimmer Jin Hao competed in eight events, the most of any participant, during the 2001 National Games of China, causing him to lose 4 kilograms (8.8 lb)? | |
Calypso Cabaret | 2024-02-19 | 4,916 | 204.8 | ... that the performers in the Thai drag show Calypso Cabaret impressed Lady Gaga with their ability to be open about their identities? | |
Pipe Lake–Lake Lucerne | 2024-02-14 | 4,888 | 203.7 | ... that the naturally connected Pipe Lake and Lake Lucerne are the only hydrilla-infested lakes in the state of Washington? | |
Maria Olovennikova | 2024-02-14 | 4,874 | 203.1 | ... that Maria Olovennikova was the only woman present at the founding conference of Narodnaya Volya? | |
Sewage discharge in the United Kingdom | 2024-02-04 | 2,402 | 200.2 | ... that Southern Water was fined £90 million for deliberately dumping sewage into the sea? | |
Mwaksy Mudenda | 2024-02-10 | 4,778 | 199.1 | ... that Mwaksy Mudenda presented her first Blue Peter episodes in her house? | |
Patrick O'Connell (American football) | 2024-02-02 | 2,382 | 198.5 | ... that Patrick O'Connell made his NFL debut on his birthday, in the only game he played that year? | |
Cliff Davis | 2024-02-11 | 4,758 | 198.2 | ... that Cliff Davis spent $53 during his 1960 campaign for a seat in the Wyoming House of Representatives? | |
Crassispira incrassata | 2024-02-14 | 4,720 | 196.7 | ... it has been suggested that Crassispira incrassata may be a southern variation of Crassispira bottae and not its own species? | |
The Tortured Poets Department | 2024-02-21 | 4,676[k] | 194.8 | ... that Taylor Swift announced her upcoming eleventh studio album, The Tortured Poets Department, while accepting a Grammy for her album Midnights? | |
Balconcillo mutiny | 2024-02-25 | 4,614 | 192.2 | ... that the Balconcillo mutiny is considered to be the first coup d'état in the history of Peru? | |
Franz Jakob Späth | 2024-02-29 | 4,609 | 192.0 | ... that Franz Jakob Späth's fortepianos were favorites of Mozart, but Beethoven refused to play them? | |
Civ-Alert | 2024-02-15 | 4,415 | 184.0 | ... that an editorial cartoon in The Honolulu Advertiser called Civ-Alert "Hawaii's Paul Revere"? | |
Tamara Milashkina | 2024-02-20 | 4,330 | 180.4 | ... that the Soviet soprano Tamara Milashkina performed alongside her husband Vladimir Atlantov at New York's Metropolitan Opera in 1975? | |
Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789–1815 | 2024-02-07 | 1,800 | 180.0 | ... that Empire of Liberty was published twenty-seven years after its preceding volume in the Oxford History of the United States series? | |
St James the Less, Pockthorpe | 2024-02-08 | 2,156 | 179.7 | ... that the church of St James the Less, Pockthorpe, now the home of the Norwich Puppet Theatre, once contained a rood screen with portraits of saints painted in 1479? | |
Buddhism in Armenia | 2024-02-16 | 4,182 | 174.3 | ... that Etchmiadzin Cathedral, Armenia's mother church, previously had a Tibetan Buddhist bell? | |
Pupil Slicer | 2024-02-16 | 4,173 | 173.9 | ... that Pupil Slicer's 2023 album Blossom draws inspiration from narratives in the video games Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker and Outer Wilds? | |
Ad fructus uberes | 2024-02-08 | 2,084 | 173.7 | ... that the papal bull Ad fructus uberes gave friars the right to hear confessions and preach without the authorisation of secular clergy? | |
Julia Dorsey (athlete) | 2024-02-05 | 2,084 | 173.7 | ... that in 2022, Julia Dorsey helped North Carolina win a national lacrosse championship and reach the national soccer final? | |
Arthur Lewis Hall | 2024-02-23 | 4,162 | 173.4 | ... that from 1904 to 1911 Arthur Lewis Hall covered 17,479 miles (28,130 km), mostly on foot, to map the geology of the Transvaal? | |
Adelaida K. Semesi | 2024-02-01 | 2,056 | 171.3 | ... that scientist Adelaida K. Semesi was known as "mama mangroves" due to her specialist knowledge of their ecology? | |
William Aditya Sarana | 2024-02-03 | 2,005 | 167.1 | ... that William Aditya Sarana was sworn in as a regional legislator four days before he graduated from university? | |
WUXP-TV | 2024-02-27 | 2,460 | 102.5 | ... that TV stations in Nashville and in Memphis, Tennessee, both on channel 30, lost their Fox affiliations in 1990? | |
WLMT | 1,549 | 64.5 | |||
Total | 4,008 | 167.0 | |||
Hill Women | 2024-02-13 | 3,980 | 165.9 | ... that Amrita Sher-Gil's painting Hill Women appeared on a 1978 Indian postage stamp (pictured)? | |
Margareth Rago | 2024-02-16 | 3,909 | 162.9 | ... that Margareth Rago seeks to establish a methodology for what she calls "feminist science"? | |
Nagagamisis Provincial Park | 2024-02-03 | 1,946 | 162.1 | ... that the Nagagamisis Provincial Park has been enlarged four times and once reduced in size? | |
Boundary Fire (2017) | 2024-02-26 | 3,882 | 161.7 | ... that the Boundary Fire burned 17,788 acres (7,199 ha) of the Coconino and Kaibab National Forests in Arizona? | |
Vincent Marks | 2024-02-05 | 1,915 | 159.6 | ... that pathologist Vincent Marks helped reverse the conviction of socialite Claus von Bülow in a case that was adapted for the film Reversal of Fortune? | |
Free and Candid Disquisitions | 2024-02-05 | 1,914 | 159.5 | ... that the only proposal from the 1749 book Free and Candid Disquisitions to be implemented by the Church of England was a prayer "for the ceasing of the distemper" of cattle? | |
Margaret Donahue | 2024-02-20 | 3,806 | 158.6 | ... that Margaret Donahue was the first female executive in Major League Baseball? | |
American Anthropometric Society | 2024-02-01 | 1,898 | 158.2 | ... that Walt Whitman's brain was donated to the American Anthropometric Society but was accidentally destroyed? | |
Brad Kragthorpe | 2024-02-27 | 3,782 | 157.6 | ... that football player Brad Kragthorpe played in an exhibition game named after his grandfather? | |
Something Like This | 2024-02-26 | 3,747 | 156.1 | ... that the album Something Like This by Ben Rector debuted at number one on iTunes' singer-songwriter album chart five minutes after its release? | |
Tatannuaq | 2024-02-11 | 3,642 | 151.8 | ... that a species of butterfly was named in honor of an Inuit interpreter? | |
Sun Haiyan | 2024-02-06 | 2,367 | 151.7 | ... that Sun Haiyan is the first Chinese ambassador to Singapore who was not a member of the Foreign Ministry of China? | |
Bosellia mimetica | 2024-02-24 | 3,568 | 148.6 | ... that the sea slug Bosellia mimetica benefits from photosynthesis? | |
Sagyo Thu-Myat | 2024-02-08 | 1,734 | 144.5 | ... that the Burmese Buddhist monk Sagyo Thu-Myat successfully lobbied for the recalibration of the Burmese calendar? | |
Nick Whiteside | 2024-02-07 | 1,708 | 143.3 | ... that Nick Whiteside overcame a torn Achilles tendon in 2021 and a broken foot in 2022 to play in the National Football League in 2023? | |
2023 AFL Women's Grand Final | 2024-02-06 | 2,228 | 142.8 | ... that a Brisbane Lions player said the sight of a jerrycan motivated her team during the 2023 AFL Women's Grand Final? | |
Frederick H. Bealefeld III | 2024-02-28 | 3,418 | 142.4 | ... that a great-grandfather and a grandfather of a commissioner of the Baltimore Police Department also served in the department? | |
Lee Sung Jin | 2024-02-08 | 1,677 | 139.8 | ... that a COVID-19 bout forced Beef creator Lee Sung Jin to direct the show's season finale remotely? | |
Summa confessorum | 2024-02-09 | 3,350 | 139.6 | ... that Thomas of Chobham's Summa confessorum was one of the most copied works on penance in the late medieval period? | |
Augustus Belknap | 2024-02-22 | 3,306 | 137.7 | ... that Augustus Belknap led the first mule-drawn car from Alamo Plaza to San Pedro Springs Park, which developed into the first streetcar line in San Antonio? | |
Jessica Mutch McKay | 2024-02-17 | 3,250 | 135.4 | ... that Jessica Mutch McKay hosted debates between the leaders of New Zealand's two major political parties? | |
Dean Crawford | 2024-02-08 | 1,624 | 135.3 | ... that Olympic gold medalist Dean Crawford was introduced to rowing when he found a rowing shell outside the students' union building at the University of Victoria? | |
1892 Biddle vs. Livingstone football game | 2024-02-21 | 3,194 | 133.1 | ... that the 1892 Biddle vs. Livingstone football game was the first college football game ever played between historically black schools? | |
Episode 400 (Neighbours) | 2024-02-04 | 1,583 | 131.9 | ... that the 400th episode of Neighbours features the serial's first ever Christmas story? | |
Richard Smith (public historian) | 2024-02-17 | 3,068 | 127.9 | ... that public historian Richard Smith called Henry David Thoreau the "first punk rocker"? | |
William Winstanley Hull | 2024-02-19 | 2,942 | 122.6 | ... that William Winstanley Hull's search for the original manuscript of the 1662 prayer book led to its later discovery? | |
Platt Report 1964 | 2024-02-05 | 1,444 | 120.3 | ... that the Platt Report was commissioned to improve British nursing education, as at the time up to 50 per cent of trainee nurses failed to qualify? | |
Suprathermal Ion Detector Experiment | 2024-02-03 | 1,396 | 116.4 | ... that the Apollo 14 Suprathermal Ion Detector Experiment is credited with the first direct observation of water on the Moon? | |
William N. Salin | 2024-02-20 | 2,788 | 116.2 | ... that William N. Salin was twice decorated with the Sagamore of the Wabash? | |
Carmen Scheibenbogen | 2024-02-14 | 2,783 | 116.0 | ... that Carmen Scheibenbogen was awarded the German Cross of Merit for her work on ME/CFS at the suggestion of patients and relatives? | |
D-Date | 2024-02-22 | 2,721 | 113.4 | ... that the Japanese boy band D-Date promoted a song through a short film in which the audience had to guess who the traitor was? | |
Bryan Brinyark | 2024-02-08 | 1,323 | 110.2 | ... that Bryan Brinyark finished second in an election to the Alabama House of Representatives just 15 votes behind his opponent, but later won a runoff election? | |
Avengers (Marvel Cinematic Universe) | 2024-02-01 | 1,280[l] | 106.6 | ... that Kevin Feige first envisioned a shared universe featuring the Avengers in the mid-2000s? | |
Siam Niramit | 2024-02-07 | 1,064 | 106.4 | ... that during Siam Niramit, a Bangkok cultural show, the forestage was transformed into a 50-metre-long (160 ft) river? | |
Walkelin | 2024-02-11 | 2,533 | 105.5 | ... that Walkelin, Bishop of Winchester, began the construction of the modern Winchester Cathedral in 1079? | |
Heinrich Nidecker | 2024-02-11 | 2,513 | 104.7 | ... that Heinrich Nidecker accused Samuel Taylor Coleridge of having committed plagiarism in his philosophical tract Theory of Life? | |
Mary Clutter | 2024-02-23 | 2,506 | 104.4 | ... that Mary Clutter used her directorial position at the National Science Foundation to require scientific conferences to include women speakers when presenting research done by them? | |
Karl Frederik Kinch | 2024-02-26 | 2,502 | 104.2 | ... that archaeologist Karl Frederik Kinch identified the location of Stagira, the hometown of Aristotle? | |
Panos Katseris | 2024-02-24 | 2,446 | 101.9 | ... that in December 2022 Panos Katseris scored his first goal for the Italian club Catanzaro less than a minute after kick-off? | |
Seattle metropolitan area | 2024-02-25 | 2,426 | 101.1 | ... that the Seattle metropolitan area includes two major volcanoes, Mount Rainier and Glacier Peak? | |
Pagtatag! | 2024-02-02 | 1,200 | 100.0 | ... that SB19's second extended play (EP), Pagtatag!, is part of a trilogy about their artistry? | |
List of WNBA seasons | 2024-02-17 | 1,252 | 52.1 | ... that some WNBA seasons, including this year's, have a break for the Summer Olympic Games? | |
2024 WNBA season | 1,144 | 47.6 | |||
Total | 2,395 | 99.8 | |||
John A. Roush | 2024-02-18 | 1,964 | 81.8 | ... that Centre College hosted two vice-presidential debates during John A. Roush's presidency? | |
Nurture (album) | 2024-02-01 | 891 | 74.2 | ... that Porter Robinson chose the title Nurture for his second album due to its evocation of the word nature and as a reference to the nature versus nurture debate? | |
Innocence (opera) | 2024-02-04 | 826 | 68.8 | ... that Kaija Saariaho's 2021 opera Innocence includes traditional Finnish cow-herding calls? |
Notes
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