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31 May 2015

21:45, 31 May 2015 (UTC)

... that the organ in the village church of Störmthal (pictured) was approved by Bach and dedicated with a cantata written for the occasion?
... that Sonya Rose is an expert in the role of gender identity in British history?
... that The Big Short is a drama about a crisis?
... that Laura Forster was the first Australian woman doctor to volunteer her services as a medic in Belgium during World War I?
... that the 1984 All-Big Ten Conference football team included Heisman Trophy winner Keith Byars and national receiving leader David Williams?
... that Ernst Pepping composed symphonies, a German mass in 1938, a Latin mass in 1948, and Jesus und Nikodemus?
... that Cameron Park in Waco, Texas, will open a new limestone pavilion this summer?
... that a set of cards had a police escort?

09:30, 31 May 2015 (UTC)

... that the Badshahi Mosque (pictured) functions as both a mosque and an idgah?
... that Marie-Louise Dubreil-Jacotin was the first female full professor of mathematics in France?
... that Sterry Creek is usually "little more than a trickle", but overflows its banks about once every ten years?
... that while on tour in Brazil to promote its new album Omen, the band Antestor was attacked by Satanist black metal fans angered by the Christian beliefs of the band members?
... that contemporary versions of the Greek bread paximathia can remain edible for up to eight weeks when stored in an airtight container?
... that violinist Carolin Widmann played with her brother when he was composer and artist in residence at the Rheingau Musik Festival?
... that the scorpionfly family Eorpidae has a single genus, Eorpa, described in 2013?
... that Wickedly Welsh Chocolate held a Willy Wonka-themed "golden ticket" promotion?

30 May 2015

21:15, 30 May 2015 (UTC)

... that the RAAF's Fighter and Seaplane Squadrons (Supermarine Southampton pictured) actually belonged to No. 1 Flying Training School, and were "really little more than flights"?
... that Abel Gonzales invented both Fried Coke and deep-fried butter?
... that in Keqrops, a composition for piano and orchestra by Iannis Xenakis, melodies are played in cluster lines?
... that Lady Katherine Sophia Kane was the first woman to be elected to the Botanical Society of Edinburgh?
... that the performance of The Icelandic New Business Venture Fund was described as "disappointing" even though it managed to fund a major tourist attraction in Iceland?
... that the British billionaire Adam Fleming is the nephew of James Bond novelist Ian Fleming?
... that at the 2015 FA Cup Final, a 64-person choir, comprising one fan for each team which reached the third round of competition, sang "Abide with Me" before kick-off?
... that Synageva, a company with no marketed products and a net loss of US$60 million in the most recent quarter, recently entered into an agreement to be sold for US$8.4 billion?

09:00, 30 May 2015 (UTC)

... that Elizabeth Handley-Seymour created Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother's 1937 Coronation dress (pictured) and her 1923 wedding dress?
... that kosha mangsho, a type of mutton curry, is traditionally prepared as part of the celebration of Kali Puja?
... that Andreas Tscherning, author of Deutscher Getichte Frühling (Spring of German Poems), was the first to translate Arabic poetry into German?
... that the 1965 Soviet economic reform counteracted wage reforms which had just been introduced?
... that when Henry Bradford Endicott built the Endicott Estate mansion in 1904, his distant cousins in the nearby Fairbanks House did not have indoor plumbing or electricity?
... that Korean nationalist Yun Bong-gil used a bomb to assassinate Japanese officials gathered in Shanghai's Hongkou Park?
... that until 1918, Fort Kosmač in Montenegro was the southernmost fortress of the Austro-Hungarian Empire?
... that unlike many Orientalist painters, John Frederick Lewis never painted a nude, and used his wife as a model in some harem scenes?

29 May 2015

20:45, 29 May 2015 (UTC)

... that gadgets (rotary evaporator pictured) used by Michelin-starred chef Homaro Cantu include a class IV laser, a centrifuge, and a hand-held ion particle gun?
... that European cartographers initially considered the Pacific Ocean to be Ptolemy's Great Gulf?
... that Scottish judge William Honyman, Lord Armadale, was one of the initiators of the Highland Clearances?
... that Limassol District contains one of the Painted Churches in the Troödos Region, a UNESCO World Heritage Site?
... that writs against Peter Wilmshurst, after he published negative findings from clinical trials, were a catalyst for the UK's libel reform of 2013?
... that terrorists attacked Raghunath Temple in Jammu twice in 2002, causing multiple fatalities?
... that University of California political science professor Charles R. Adrian wrote two articles considered seminal works in the study of nonpartisanship?
... that Osorkon IV saved his kingdom with a dozen horses?

08:30, 29 May 2015 (UTC)

... that Liam Neeson (pictured) agreed to say any line that the writers of the Family Guy episode "Fighting Irish" wrote – except one?
... that the extinct mantidfly Dicromantispa electromexicana was described from a solitary male insect?
... that German poet and pacifist Clementine Krämer attempted to flee Nazi Germany to the U.S., Denmark, China, and Cuba before being sent to the concentration camp where she died?
... that one can hear parts of Sonic Youth's 1987 album Sister in quiet sections of the band's 1994 album Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star, because it was recorded over the same master tapes?
... that Abdoulaye Demba was playing football in England's fifth division for Yeovil Town in October 2002, but in January 2004 was playing at the Africa Cup of Nations?
... that highlights from the history of dromaeosaurid research include a skeleton of Velociraptor preserved in combat with a Protoceratops, the gigantic Utahraptor, and tiny four-winged Microraptor?
... that Lena O. Smith was the first African American woman lawyer in Minnesota and among the first in the United States?
... that the Cao'e River is named after a teenage girl who drowned herself about 1,900 years ago?

28 May 2015

20:15, 28 May 2015 (UTC)

... that Kirkton of Bourtie stone circle (pictured) has the longest recumbent stone of any recumbent stone circle?
... that María Luisa Elío and Jomí García Ascot visited Gabriel García Márquez every night for 18 months to critique One Hundred Years of Solitude as it developed?
... that Block Island Wind Farm is the first offshore wind farm to be built in the United States?
... that the appearance of the nudibranch Marionia levis closely resembles the surface of the soft coral Rhytisma fulvum on which it feeds?
... that Chants for Socialists is an album by Darren Hayman based on the 19th-century protest poetry of William Morris?
... that the source of Lake Run is in both Henry Lake and Eagle Lake?
... that Harvard-educated playwright Hong Shen wrote the first published Chinese film script, but it was never filmed?
... that Clarence Darrow claimed judges would say, when passing a death sentence, "May God have mercy upon your soul", because they felt they didn't have the authority to destroy souls?

08:00, 28 May 2015 (UTC)

... that according to legend, Sorapiss (pictured), a mountain in the Dolomites near Cortina d'Ampezzo, is the embodiment of a king?
... that footballer Erik Lima won the best newcomer award at the end of the 2014 Brasileirão season?
... that the 2001 Pan Celtic Festival was cancelled due to the United Kingdom foot-and-mouth outbreak?
... that the webs of buck-spoor spiders can look like hoof prints or four-leaf clovers?
... that Alan Clark, CEO of SABMiller, the world's second largest brewer, used to be a clinical psychologist?
... that the Devil's Feather Bed is near Pennsylvania State Game Lands Number 115?
... that out of only 25 episodes of the TV series The Next Step Beyond, 14 were remakes from One Step Beyond?
... that the Alsatian village of Erckartswiller was abandoned from 1649 to 1651?

27 May 2015

19:45, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

... that the mezzo-soprano Marga Schiml (pictured), an academic voice teacher in Karlsruhe, appeared as a Rhinemaiden and a valkyrie in the Jahrhundertring?
... that some of the most popular nautical fiction works, including those about Horatio Hornblower and Jack Aubrey, were based upon the real adventures of the "sea wolf" – Lord Cochrane?
... that New York City's Akeem Dodson was one of only four American-born players in the U.S. national cricket team's squad for its most recent major tournament?
... that the Paul McCartney and Wings song "Band on the Run" was only released as a single at the insistence of Capitol Records promotion man Al Coury?
... that molybdenum ditelluride has potential for use as an infrared detector?
... that in The Machine Question, David Gunkel argued that the other minds problem implies that a proper understanding of consciousness is impossible?
... that John B. Hogenesch is responsible for discovering the only essential circadian clock gene in humans?
... that Albert Fish inserted 27 or more needles into his groin?

07:30, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

... that Cornelia Parker has made an embroidered representation (detail pictured) of the Wikipedia article on Magna Carta?
... that a seventh of the total population of Sarajevo cited the Judaeo-Spanish language as their mother tongue in 1921, with historical links between Bosnia and Spain going back to the 15th century?
... that Teddy Osei, who was born in Ghana, played flute, drums, and saxophone for the Afro-pop band Osibisa, which he helped create?
... that the extinct mantidfly Feroseta prisca has bristle-covered pterostigma?
... that disguised British East Indiamen intimidated a French frigate squadron into retreating during the Bali Strait Incident of 1797?
... that Oscar Holderer, an engineer for Nazi Germany who later worked on the Apollo space program, brought America's first rocket wind tunnel from Germany?
... that Wrestle Kingdom 9 featured the return of Jim Ross to commentating on professional wrestling since his departure from WWE?
... that the Affair of the Dancing Lamas was covered up for over fifty years?

26 May 2015

19:15, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

... that double tee beams (pictured) were first used in 1961 by an architect experimenting with new structural elements for his own office?
... that the Duchess of Devonshire refused to employ a wet nurse for her eldest child Lady Georgiana Cavendish, an unusual decision for an upperclass woman in that era?
... that the 1992 All-Big Ten Conference football team included rushing, receiving, and passing efficiency leaders Tyrone Wheatley, Lee Gissendaner and Elvis Grbac?
... that Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Shalom Cohen has spent 70 years at Jerusalem's Porat Yosef Yeshiva, first as a student, then a teacher, and then rosh yeshiva (dean)?
... that some 80,000 Poles have been waiting for over sixty years for compensation for the immovable property lost in lands beyond the Bug River to the Soviet Union?
... that Hedwig Kettler founded the first girls' gymnasium in Germany?
... that the Qila-i-Kuhna Mosque in Purana Qila, Delhi, was originally intended to be built in marble, but as it ran out of supply, red sandstone had to be used?
... that Bernarda Gallardo has adopted four dead babies and is in the process of adopting a fifth?

07:00, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

... that baseball manager Walter Alston (pictured) signed 23 one-year contracts with the same team?
... that the first white settlers in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, settled near Keyser Creek?
... that the eastern backdrop of the Veerabhadra Temple, Lepakshi features a granite boulder with a carving of a coiled multi-hooded serpent providing shade over a linga?
... the a college in Ambato, Ecuador, is named for Augusto Nicolás Martínez‍—‌an agronomist, geologist, researcher and educator?
... that in 1966 two Members of the Singapore Parliament were convicted of sedition for claiming that the People's Action Party government was "plotting to murder" an opposition politician?
... that the footballer Raphael Rossi Branco's favourite player is fellow Brazilian defender David Luiz?
... that Lessing J. Rosenwald instructed his literary agent to spend any amount necessary to prevent Prozess gegen die Juden von Trient from falling into Nazi hands?
... that Ashley Everett was asked to dye her hair red by Beyoncé?

25 May 2015

18:45, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

... that the scribbled rabbitfish (pictured) may form either heterosexual or homosexual relationships?
... that Andrés L. Mateo's novel, La balada de Alfonsina Bairán, is set in a brothel during the Rafael Trujillo regime?
... that the Niari Valley is a notable agricultural area in the Republic of the Congo?
... that Tommy Hendricks played free safety for the undefeated 1997 Michigan American football team and was the Miami Dolphins' special teams captain from 2001 to 2003?
... that Roaring Brook flows through the Nay Aug Gorge, which is listed on the National Register of Geologic Landmarks?
... that bean chips may be prepared from a bean-based dough that is steamed, sliced and then deep-fried?
... that a forest glade near Palmiry became "one of the most notorious places of mass executions" in Poland after Nazi war crimes were committed there?
... that when a grade-school teacher gave her students a writing assignment, "I Wish My Teacher Knew ______", the answers went viral and sparked a movement?

07:00, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

... that most outbreaks of the African migratory locust (pictured) start on the floodplains of the Niger River?
... that I Am Wrath was put on ice for two years and began filming in March 2015 with a new lead actor and new director?
... that William G. Whittaker wrote Gebrauchsmusik?
... that near its source, the gradient of Lindy Creek is about ten times steeper than in its lower reaches?
... that one critic felt there was a "perfectly pitched" joke about selfies in "The Trial of Elizabeth Gadge", an episode of Inside No. 9 about a 17th-century witch trial?
... that for its first 25 years of existence in Michigan, US Highway 33 did not have an independent routing?
... that at least 39 different organisms inhabit the lower reproductive tract of women?
... that Arnold Schönberg arranged Bach's chorale partita on Luther's hymn for Pentecost "Komm, Gott Schöpfer, Heiliger Geist", a paraphrase of "Veni Creator Spiritus"?
... that Nina Starr Braunwald designed, fabricated and implanted the first successful artificial mitral heart valve replacement in a human?

24 May 2015

07:15, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

... that Salve Regina, composed by Arvo Pärt to venerate the Golden Madonna of the Essen Cathedral (detail pictured), "builds very gradually to a late, majestic climax"?
... that while researching his award-winning book on US President George Washington, Logan Beirne found letters written by Washington in his own ancestors' house?
... that in mixed martial arts, 12-6 elbows are legal if the fighter is on his back because "the clock doesn't move"?
... that a recipe for brewing beer from loaves of multigrain bread mixed with honey dates to approximately 4,000 years ago from ancient Mesopotamia, and is the oldest surviving beer recipe in the world?
... that six members of the Polish-Ruthenian noble Szeptycki family were bishops, some Eastern Catholic and one Roman Catholic?
... that crickets and their close relatives have sound receptors on their front legs?
... that the house which Balu Mahendra constructed as a set for the film Veedu (1988) is now home to a film school he started in 2007?
... that Van Brunt Creek and its tributary Langan Creek are significant sources of flooding in Moscow, despite not being in Russia?

23 May 2015

07:30, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

... that TouchTone (pictured) was just a "hacking minigame" until the 2013 Edward Snowden global surveillance disclosures gave Mikengreg a story?
... that the Thomas Parr Monument was built as a memorial to the British Resident of Bencoolen, who was decapitated by his subjects?
... that Unnaipol Oruvan (1965), Tamil writer Jayakanthan's directorial debut, was shot in 21 days?
... that after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his appeal, Edmund Boyle was convicted of an unrelated murder, adding 20 years to his sentence?
... that Assyrian lion weights are one of the most important groups of artefacts featuring the "Aramaic" form of Phoenician script?
... that Hersey and Corey Hawkins combined to score the second most points by a father–son duo in Division I college basketball history, behind only Dell and Stephen Curry?
... that female Cantuaria dendyi trapdoor spiders spend their entire lives in their burrows?
... that Eva Von Gencsy created a new style of dance called ballet-jazz?

22 May 2015

07:15, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

... that in 2013, Deepika Padukone (pictured) starred in Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani and Chennai Express, both of which rank among the highest-grossing Bollywood films?
... that deep-fried butter has been described by ABC News as an "artery-clogging snack"?
... that at least 15 people were killed and 70 injured during the Lahore church bombings?
... that American football player Mike Teeter won the Dick Katcher Award in 1989 and was named All-World while playing for the Frankfurt Galaxy in 1991?
... that the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act requires public and private institutions to eliminate barriers so all residents can "obtain, use and benefit from goods and services"?
... that the sand field cricket is unusual in laying two types of egg?
... that in his Ascension Oratorio, as in his Christmas Oratorio, Bach used three trumpets and timpani, and ended with a chorale fantasia?
... that some Byzantine steelyards employed bronze empresses?

21 May 2015

13:30, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

... that cassava (plants pictured) is a principal crop in the Republic of the Congo and Democratic Republic of the Congo?
... that a new family of predatory cockroaches, named Manipulatoridae, has been discovered from amber found in the Hukawng Valley of Myanmar?
... that in his painting Perseus and Andromeda, Lord Frederic Leighton contrasted Andromeda in white to a dark sea monster with an irregular and jagged body?
... that "Girls Talk" was unloaded by Elvis Costello "in a moment of drunken bravado"?
... that it is not entirely clear why Hammarlöv Church has a round tower?
... that Favites pentagona uses its sweeper tentacles armed with stinging cells to prevent other corals from crowding it?
... that Cuban writer Lesbia Soravilla incorporates Mariblanca Sabas Alomá into her feminist novel?
... that "Johnny's Theme", beamed to Tonight Show viewers from 1962 to 1992, was a cover song of a cover song of a cover song?

01:45, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

... that the heritage ambiance of Fontainhas (house with wishing well pictured) reflects the traditional Portuguese influence in the area?
... that Taiwanese singer/actor Nylon Chen calls himself "musical zhainan" (musical homeboy) because he mostly spends his time at home writing and composing songs?
... that the Shivalik Fossil Park includes vertebrates that resided in the area of the Shivalik Hills about 2.5 million years ago?
... that Sir Mark Henig, the first chairman of the English Tourist Board, was one of three Jews who served as Mayor or Lord Mayor of Leicester?
... that a nematode kills the mole crickets it parasitises by infecting them with a specialist bacterium?
... that Peder Syv's publication of proverbs and folk songs helped establish Danish as a literary language?
... that one company owned 93% of the upper 11.5 square miles (30 km²) of the Stafford Meadow Brook watershed in the 1940s, and another owned most of the upper 75% of the watershed in the 1990s?
... that during the Stalin era, Akmol in Kazakhstan was notorious for its "Labour Camp for Wives of Traitors of the Motherland"?

20 May 2015

14:00, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

... that Star Trek producer Bob Justman said you could hit the hair of Janice Rand (pictured) with a sledgehammer and not leave a dent?
... that Fort Wayne, Indiana, is considered the birthplace of the NBA?
... that the brother of the President of Tunisia was found guilty of laundering drug money in the couscous connection trial?
... that the museum at Forte Tre Sassi displays World War I artifacts collected over a period of 45 years, and reportedly has 20,000 visitors annually?
... that the first American grand opera was written for soprano Ann Childe Seguin?
... that highlights from the history of tyrannosaur research include the first carnivorous dinosaur known to walk bipedally, the giant Tyrannosaurus rex, and feathered taxa from China like Yutyrannus?
... that a chance encounter with a railway official owning a pet parrot unknown to science led to the discovery of the Naretha bluebonnet?
... that Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zúñiga (1784–1792) was recently reunited with his parents?

00:00, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

... that Angel has the longest escalators (pictured) on the London Underground network?
... that Lawrence Livermore canceled its LIFE fusion power plant design work when the National Ignition Facility failed to live up to its name and produce fusion ignition?
... that Maitreyi was highly revered as one of the few women scholars of the Vedic period (c. 1750 – 500 BCE) able to discuss the highest spiritual truths of life?
... that Turbinaria peltata, Turbinaria reniformis, Turbinaria mesenterina and Turbinaria stellulata are all species of disc coral that the IUCN considers "vulnerable"?
... that the d-CON founder Lee Ratner started Florida's first planned community, created a mail-order computer programming class, and was involved in oil exploration?
... that EGS-zs8-1 is the oldest and most distant galaxy ever observed?
... that Thao Ma's 1966 Laotian coup bombed?

19 May 2015

12:00, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

... that after a ten-year hiatus, Sweden will reestablish its previously unbroken 200-year military presence on Gotland (unit crest pictured)?
... that Great Leap Brewing, Beijing's first microbrewery, makes beers with distinctly Chinese flavoring adjuncts such as Sichuan pepper and tiěguānyīn oolong tea?
... that Orin W. Angwall an American lake captain, commercial fisherman, and mayor of Marinette, Wisconsin owned the Mindemoya, the last composite constructed vessel sailing the Great Lakes?
... that Ono Ranzan's school of pharmacognosy had over 1,000 pupils?
... that Fort Trašte in Montenegro was built by the Austro-Hungarian Empire to protect its naval base at Kotor from a seaborne invasion?
... that Philip of Majorca, a prince and Franciscan friar, strove to protect heretics and Jews from the Inquisition?
... that Assassin's Creed Syndicate was called Assassin's Creed Victory prior to its official reveal?
... that the copyright to Hillary Rodham Clinton's 1998 book about a cat and a dog, Dear Socks, Dear Buddy, is held by the National Park Foundation?

00:00, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

... that the Great Mosque of Asmara (pictured) was built in 1938 on the initiative of Benito Mussolini to impress the local Muslim population?
... that the sudden emergence of Climax Blues Band's "Couldn't Get It Right" irritated their producer, because he thought they had spent eight albums withholding a hit from him?
... that Mercedes Sandoval de Hempel was nominated in Paraguay for "1000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize 2005"?
... that Bouvier's red colobus, a species of monkey last seen in the 1970s and thought possibly to be extinct, was rediscovered in the Republic of the Congo in 2015?
... that a serious demeanour and disdain for small talk earned the Australian General Sir John Wilton the nickname "Happy Jack"?
... that the 1995 All-Big Ten Conference football team included two Heisman Trophy winners, Eddie George of Ohio State and Charles Woodson of Michigan?
... that Fort Gorazda in Montenegro has the last surviving example of a 100-ton Gruson revolving gun turret still in situ?
... that the actor and director Grigoriy Dobrygin, who has been called the "Russian James Franco", is a classically trained ballet dancer who studied at the Bolshoi Theatre?

18 May 2015

12:00, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

... that the Polish street food known as zapiekanka (pictured) has been described both as "Polish pizza" and "a poor relative of its distant Italian cousin"?
... that a herd of Highland cattle is known as a fold?
... that Ian Jacobs developed a test for early-stage ovarian cancer?
... that the Syrian National Coalition announced its relocation to Idlib just two days after the Second Battle of Idlib?
... that both of the named tributaries of Mill Creek (Collins Creek and Lidy Creek) lose flow to mine pools?
... that Wilhelm Lemke was the 35th Luftwaffe fighter pilot credited with 100 aerial victories?
... that secondary crater formation requires a primary crater, sufficient gravity, and enough velocity in the ejected material?
... that Meryl Streep has received 19 Academy Award nominations, more than any other actor or actress in history?

00:00, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

... that Ouyang Yuqian (pictured) is considered one of the three founders of Chinese spoken drama?
... that the clock of the Clallam County Courthouse was warehoused at the Seattle docks for 29 years?
... that Heinrich Jost, who was trained by typeface designer Paul Renner, later oversaw Renner's work at the Bauer Type Foundry?
... that with its 1819 foundation, the Romney Literary Society became the first organization of its kind in present-day West Virginia, and one of the first in the U.S.?
... that Mountain Lake Run flows through a culvert system for a substantial part of its length in its lower reaches?
... that the Roanoke darter is of least-concern for the International Union for Conservation of Nature?
... that Céline Renooz argued that John the Baptist was a woman and that humans had evolved from plants?
... that Karang Bolong Beach, on the prison island of Nusa Kambangan, is open to the public?

17 May 2015

12:13, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

... that Alto's Adventure (pictured) was inspired by Journey (2012), Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 (2000), and Windosill (2009)?
... that the family of North Dakota college student Andrew Sadek believes he was murdered for his work making drug buys for police?
... that protesters blockaded construction on the world's largest telescope proposed for Mauna Kea, the most sacred mountain of the Native Hawaiian people?
... that according to Martin v. Hearst Corp., expungement of your criminal record does not entitle you to make old news disappear?
... that recumbent stone circles are thought to have been used by prehistoric people for rituals involving the moon?
... that Marie Uchytilová's Memorial to the Children Victims of the War commemorates the gassing of 82 children from Lidice at Chełmno during World War II?
... that Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry first wrote for the series Highway Patrol under the pseudonym "Robert Wesley" as he was still in the LAPD at the time?
... that Neal Howard's debut EP contained mixes by Bad Boy Bill, Derrick May, and Kevin Saunderson?

16 May 2015

22:18, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

... that in 2006, some 60 percent of the 57-square-mile (148 km²) watershed of Spring Brook (pictured) was owned by one company?
... that at the inauguration of a Torah scroll, the other Torah scrolls housed in the synagogue or sanctuary are carried outside to "welcome" the new addition?
... that the fossil mantidfly Dicromantispa moronei was first described from a single specimen in a private collection?
... that Saido Berahino scored his first Premier League goal against Manchester United, the team which he supports?
... that the Ekron Royal Dedicatory Inscription was described by its discoverers as an enigma?
... that The Simpsons episode "Clown in the Dumps" features an opening sequence by the surrealist animator Don Hertzfeldt?
... that the longlegged spiny lobster does not breed until it is about five years old?
... that according to Time magazine, the Sulabh International Museum of Toilets is one of the ten weirdest museums in the world?

10:03, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

... that in 2013, Lecrae (pictured) became the first artist to reach No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and the Top Gospel Albums charts?
... that the book title Beyond the Sky and Earth refers to a Bhutanese expression meaning "I am thankful to you beyond the earth and sky"?
... that Thomas Olivers was buried in John Wesley's grave, despite Wesley's erstwhile complaint that Olivers was "murdering" his magazine?
... that the producer Norman Dolph re-tuned the Moog modular synthesizer every 15 minutes during the recording of Switched-On Rock?
... that Alex Behring, slated to become chairman of the newly merged Kraft Heinz Company, has a BS degree in electrical engineering?
... that Thol Lake, also known as the Thol Bird Sanctuary, is a key habitat for sarus crane, ruff, and flamingo?
... that a Boston Globe reporter described Maia Weinstock's apartment as having "stacks of heads and hairstyles, torsos and legs and arms, a pint-sized Frankenstein's workshop stored in little plastic bins"?
... that during location filming, Ron Howard's upcoming thriller Inferno was code-named "Headache"?

15 May 2015

20:08, 15 May 2015 (UTC)

... that Aeromedical Isolation Team members were trained to take a bathroom break before putting on racal suits (pictured) for a training session or actual mission?
... that contemporary feminist scholars have debated the value of the work of the 19th-century novelist Ellen Pickering?
... that two landslides in April 2015 in Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan, killed 52 people, destroyed homes, and displaced families?
... that the physician John Macdonald was the first person to represent Scotland at both cricket and football?
... that the violet darter has recently expanded its range northwards in Europe?
... that in the United States, consumers sometimes refer to white bread as sandwich bread?
... that in a May 1942 raid, aircrew of No. 20 Squadron RAAF disrupted the sleep of Japanese soldiers by dropping beer bottles to make a sound "something between a shrill whistle and a scream"?
... that Adam WarRock was a lawyer before he became a nerdcore rapper?

07:53, 15 May 2015 (UTC)

... that in 1742, Zoroastrians built the Udvada Atash Behram (pictured) and moved their sacred fire to it?
... that Félix Galipaux's antics were captured on paper by Toulouse-Lautrec and on film by Georges Méliès?
... that in May 2015 BBC Four aired "the most boring TV show ever"—an un-narrated, two-hour narrowboat journey on the Kennet and Avon Canal?
... that the first botanical drug approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration treats genital warts?
... that coins found in 1840 identified the previously unknown Norse kings Cnut and Siefredus?
... that the United States Army fought 46 campaigns during World War II?
... that the English Renaissance composer William Mundy was a pioneer of verse anthems with organ accompaniment?
... that villains Bebop and Rocksteady will appear in the upcoming film Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Half Shell?

14 May 2015

19:38, 14 May 2015 (UTC)

... that boost-glide spacecraft (X-20 pictured) were originally designed as bombers to attack New York from Nazi Germany?
... that Mary Tannahill was not only a painter, but also made woodcuts, batik, and embroidery?
... that the Falkland Islands do not have a national fishing license?
... that Kileak: The DNA Imperative was a European and North American launch title for the PlayStation console?
... that the jurist and satirist Gottfried Wilhelm Sacer wrote the lyrics of a hymn which Bach used to conclude his Ascension Oratorio?
... that the Argentine telenovela Esperanza mía will have cameos from Valeria Lynch and Jimena Barón?
... that Basarab I of Wallachia was addressed as a "devout Catholic prince" in a papal letter and mentioned as a "perfidious schismatic" in a Hungarian chronicle?
... that the Milifandom of fans of the politician Ed Miliband has been compared to the fans of Justin Bieber and One Direction?

07:23, 14 May 2015 (UTC)

... that Die Plage, created by composer and visual artist Harley Gaber (pictured), is a historical narrative of Germany, from the Weimar Republic to the end of World War II, in 5,000 canvases?
... that all three films in the Ip Man series about Yip Man (played by Donnie Yen) are directed by Wilson Yip?
... that Meadow Brook has been so severely impacted by urban development or historic mining that it no longer resembles a stream and has been described as "essentially non-existent"?
... that the Celta de Vigo footballer Santiago Mina is the father of the Celta de Vigo footballer Santiago Mina?
... that Black American Sign Language (BASL) is a dialect of American Sign Language used predominantly by the African American Deaf in the United States?
... that the terrorist attack carried out in Mostar in 1997 by al-Qaeda remains the most serious terrorist attack in Bosnia and Herzegovina?
... that the most notable exhibit in the Archaeological Museum of Komotini is the gilded bust of Septimius Severus (193–211 AD)?
... that sliding bookcases were used in the United States during Prohibition to hide secret rooms or spaces containing liquor?

13 May 2015

19:08, 13 May 2015 (UTC)

... that the globehead parrotfish (pictured) was the first parrotfish collected by Charles Darwin?
... that Hebron Church was founded by German settlers in 1786, making it the first organized Lutheran church west of the Shenandoah Valley?
... that Rosamund Pike won the Empire Award for Best Actress for her role in Gone Girl?
... that Podyjí National Park contains one of the oldest and most renowned vineyard tracks in the Czech Republic?
... that a beer, brewed in honour of former Derby County footballer Dave Mackay, is raising funds for radio presenter Colin Bloomfield's melanoma appeal?
... that Leggetts Creek, and a reservoir on it, served as a supplementary drinking water supply for more than 100,000 people in the late 20th century?
... that the 2012 Turkish historical drama film Çanakkale 1915 was screen-written by Turgut Özakman and based on his 2008 historical novel Diriliş: Çanakkale 1915?
... that titles in the dinosaur erotica genre include works such as Taken by the T-Rex, Ravished by Triceratops, and A Billionaire Dinosaur Forced Me Gay?

06:53, 13 May 2015 (UTC)

... that the fictional SCP Foundation (logo pictured) contains and documents thousands of paranormal objects?
... that unusual dishes at Moto have included edible menus, "inside out bread", carbonated fruit, and experiments with levitating food?
... that the Atari Sierra 16/32-bit personal computer was never built, but its synthesizer chip was later sold as the Atari AMY?
... that Matt Damon was previously set to re-team with Kenneth Lonergan on Manchester-by-the-Sea, but Casey Affleck replaced him to lead the film?
... that in the part-settings of hymns in Walter's Eyn geystlich Gesangk Buchleyn‍—‌also known as the first Wittenberg hymnal‍—‌the melody is in the tenor?
... that the Michigan Wolverines women's lacrosse team splits its home games between Michigan Stadium (capacity 110,000) and Oosterbaan Field House (capacity 1,000)?
... that Twinkle Khanna won the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut for her performance in Barsaat?
... that the day gecko Cnemaspis adii was first discovered in 2015 at the World Heritage Site of Hampi?

12 May 2015

18:38, 12 May 2015 (UTC)

... that Summer Evening on Skagen's Southern Beach (pictured) depicts the artist's wife and a painter on the beach during the blue hour?
... that the surface features of Venus include volcanoes, impact craters and aeolian landforms?
... that the film Arms and the Dudes is the true story of arms dealers David Packouz and Efraim Diveroli?
... that the spire of the Sacred Heart Church in Fiji has a neon light in the form of a cross, which is used by ships for navigation?
... that Siri Lindley retired as the number-one female triathlete after winning back-to-back Triathlon World Cup titles?
... that the linking of the Perunchani and Chittar Dams could allow another 15,000 acres (6,100 ha) to be served by the Kodiyar Irrigation System?
... that the tenor Llewellyn Cadwaladr created the role of Frederic in the first performance of The Pirates of Penzance in 1879?
... that the orange sea pen can't write?

06:23, 12 May 2015 (UTC)

... that Janapada Loka, a museum in Karnataka, has a display of 5,000 folk artefacts (mannequin pictured)?
... that the libertarian micronation Liberland was proclaimed on 13 April 2015 by Czech politician Vít Jedlička on unclaimed land between Croatia and Serbia?
... that Beau Flynn and Marley Shelton met on the set of Bubble Boy in 2000, and were married in 2001?
... that Op. 120, No. 1 is an arrangement of a clarinet sonata by Brahms which Luciano Berio arranged as a clarinet concerto for the Los Angeles Philharmonic?
... that the 2014 film Earth to Echo marked the directorial debut of Dave Green?
... that Benjamin Verbič scored for NK Celje in the 2011–12 Slovenian Football Cup final, but missed in the penalty shootout as they lost the match to NK Maribor?
... that half of the Gravity Falls fandom guessed the ending to "Not What He Seems", according to creator Alex Hirsch?
... that Cheryl's birthday is July 16, although some people think it should be August 17?

11 May 2015

14:58, 11 May 2015 (UTC)

... that Tony Benn (pictured) challenged Neil Kinnock for the leadership of the Labour Party in 1988, on a far-left platform?
... that Kavindya Thennakoon, one of the top four scorers in the world on the Cambridge International Examinations, founded a community development project in Sri Lanka?
... that Donkey Kong Country was one of the first games for a home video game console to use pre-rendered 3D graphics?
... that Laotian General Sing Rattanasamai was originally a policeman in the Garde Indigene?
... that the fragile shell of the glassy nautilus was once worth more than its weight in gold?
... that Time Crash claims to be the first Time Lord rock band in the United States?
... that Operation Scarlift carried out 500 stream pollution abatement projects, eliminated 150 areas of mine subsidence, extinguished 75 mine fires, and alleviated air pollution at 30 burning refuse banks?

02:53, 11 May 2015 (UTC)

... that the ceiling frescoes (pictured) in the Painted House at Jordan's Little Petra are the only known example of interior Nabataean figurative painting in situ?
... that "A Limo For A Lame-O", Al Franken's Weekend Update attack on Fred Silverman 35 years ago today, set in motion the events that led to Saturday Night Live's "worst" season?
... that Brazilian footballer Wanderley Machado played alongside his brother Waldo for Spanish club Hércules CF?
... that actress Ellen Page accused Naughty Dog of "ripping off [her] likeness" for the design of Ellie in their video game The Last of Us?
... that Marrakesh's Amanjena was the venue of David Beckham's 40th birthday celebrations, and a film locale for Sex and the City 2?
... that Joe Cocozzo played in the 1993 Rose Bowl, the 1993 Senior Bowl, and Super Bowl XXIX?
... that the upcoming film The Childhood of a Leader is the feature-directing debut of Brady Corbet?
... that the coral Coelastrea aspera has a "memory" of at least ten years?

10 May 2015

15:08, 10 May 2015 (UTC)

... that The Destroying Angel and Daemons of Evil Interrupting the Orgies of the Vicious and Intemperate (detail pictured) depicts around 25 semi-naked human figures, each expressing terror in a different way?
... that Kenny Booker as a basketball player helped UCLA win its fifth-straight national championship, and as a coach the next year led Verbum Dei to its fourth consecutive title?
... that eight months after launch, d-CON was selling US$100,000-worth of rat poison per week, a feat that was called "as brilliant a record for a new product as you're likely to find anywhere, anytime"?
... that "The God of Abraham Praise" has been called the Christian "hymn born in a synagogue"?
... that the thin birdsnest coral can reproduce by "polyp bail-out"?
... that Shigeru Miyamoto gave Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island its signature, hand-drawn art style in defiance of Nintendo's marketing department?
... that Lucky Run lacks any perennial flow because it loses flow to underground mine pools?
... that Christian Marclay's LP Record Without a Cover has no cover?

02:23, 10 May 2015 (UTC)

... that there were a reported 50,000 orders for a song performed by Laurie Anders (pictured) before it was even recorded?
... that in Kinsella v. Krueger, the Supreme Court of the United States freed a woman who had fatally stabbed her husband?
... that Airdeconut, first identified in 2011, is the first new Viking king discovered since 1840?
... that the film The Free State of Jones is the story of Southern Unionist Newton Knight (played by Matthew McConaughey)?
... that a bleached coral that has expelled its zooxanthellae may be recolonised by others of a different species?
... that Tucson, Arizona Territory Mayor Charles M. Strauss resigned because the city council overturned his veto?
... that Ip Man 3 may be Donnie Yen's final martial arts film?
... that bibliomaniac ex-monk Don Vincente murdered a bookseller, a priest, a judge, and an alderman to get his hands on some of their books?

9 May 2015

14:38, 9 May 2015 (UTC)

... that 100 soldiers compete against a single elephant in a tug of war during the Surin Elephant Round-up (procession pictured)?
... that Barack Obama is the first U.S. President since Lyndon B. Johnson who has not given a Landon Lecture?
... that "Ladders" is the first episode of Community to be broadcast on Yahoo! Screen instead of NBC?
... that the endangered honey blue-eye is threatened by urban development and possibly mosquitofish?
... that the 2015 DFB-Pokal Final will be Jürgen Klopp's final match as manager of Borussia Dortmund?
... that Ernst Pepping's 1948 Missa Dona nobis pacem (Grant Us Peace) for unaccompanied eight-part choir may have been the composer's "personal plea"?
... that Robert Desrosiers' dance Blue Snake included three-dimensional sets, automated mechanical structures, and surrealistic costumes?
... that after its deconsecration, Rome's twelfth-century church of the Santi Simone e Giuda was a cinema, then a restaurant, and finally a theater?

8 May 2015

09:58, 8 May 2015 (UTC)

... that the original route of US Highway 25 between Detroit and Port Huron, Michigan, followed Gratiot Avenue (pictured), named for Fort Gratiot that was built in the aftermath of the War of 1812?
... that the Malaysian blogger Alvin Tan was put on trial for sedition after posting a photograph of himself eating pork as a Ramadan greeting?
... that Kim Il-sung has been credited with resolving the Sinuiju Incident in 1945?
... that until it reappeared in 2002, Steve Garvey's No. 6 was missing for years from the display of numbers retired by the San Diego Padres?
... that the goal of the Yale Labor and Management Center of the 1940s–50s was to study real-world interactions to devise an explanatory theory of behavior in industrial relations?
... that in the Kek Lok Si temple, the pagoda combines a Chinese octagonal base with a middle tier of Thai design, and a Burmese crown reflecting both Mahayana and Theravada Buddhism?
... that Gabriele Zerbi, author of the first guide on geriatrics, was sawn in half?
... that a recently discovered frog looks a lot like The Muppets character Kermit the Frog?

7 May 2015

21:43, 7 May 2015 (UTC)

... that on August 15, 1774, Christ Church, Newton (pictured), an Episcopal church in Newton, New Jersey, was granted a charter by Royal Governor William Franklin on behalf of Britain's King George III?
... that Mozart composed an obbligato part for the flute of Johann Baptist Wendling in an aria of his Idomeneo sung by Wendling's wife?
... that the Meghalaya insurgency is a part of a wider war in Northeast India?
... that archaeologist Harold St George Gray discovered that the 11 m (36 ft) deep ditch surrounding Avebury was dug from solid chalk using red deer antlers as picks?
... that Major League Baseball veterans sometimes play at the Double-A level while recovering from injuries?
... that the Carroll Group, once one of the largest private businesses in Britain, collapsed in the early 1990s amid allegations of fraud?
... that in 1961, Democrats outnumbered Republicans in the Oregon State Senate 20 to 10, but majority leader Alfred H. Corbett did not get enough votes to be elected its President?
... that in Tajikistan there is a mountain peak named after a university in Estonia?

09:28, 7 May 2015 (UTC)

... that Abbie Lathrop's mouse number 57 was the origin of the C57BL/6 laboratory mouse (pictured)?
... that Sophie's choice took an hour less in Washington than in London?
... that Quinlan Terry was told to step into John Nash's shoes and "carry on walking"?
... that MediEvil was inspired by works such as Tim Burton's hit film The Nightmare Before Christmas?
... that Andrew II of Hungary employed Jews and Muslims to administer royal revenues, which brought him into conflict with the Holy See?
... that Zolykha's Secret was the first prominent feature film produced in post-Taliban Afghanistan?
... that Hugo Moutinho became the first Portuguese footballer to score a hat-trick in Romania?
... that Mother Brook has been called the "most audacious attempt of robbery ever recorded in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It was the effort made by Dedham ... to actually steal the River Charles"?

6 May 2015

21:13, 6 May 2015 (UTC)

... that Mount Yamato Katsuragi (pictured) has four other historical names: Mount Kaina, Mount Tenshin, Mount Kamo, and Shinoga Peak?
... that Lizzy Hawker bought her first pair of trail running shoes just 10 days before running the 100-mile Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc for the first time, and winning?
... that the Port Jackson glassfish gets its common name from its transparent body?
... that Harriet Newell Noyes founded the first school for women in Guangdong Province?
... that Gellner's theory has been called "the best-known modernist explanatory theory of nationalism"?
... that Clover Hill Creek has splash pools and rock ledge falls in its upper reaches, but is severely channelized in its lower reaches?
... that Qi Jianguo is one of the few serving Chinese generals with actual battle experience?
... that Stan Winston's special effects studio cut its prices in half to meet the budget for the film Tank Girl, as it was desperate to work on the project?

08:58, 6 May 2015 (UTC)

... that when Alexander Asher (pictured) first stood for the Elgin Burghs constituency, he was unopposed?
... that an interdisciplinary team of scientists is working with NASA to search for life on exoplanets?
... that during the attempted overthrow of the Abbasid Caliph al-Muqtadir in 908, Husayn ibn Hamdan killed the vizier, but failed to force the Caliph to surrender, leading to the coup's collapse?
... that a minister of Germany's cabinet drives an Audi A8 powered by e-diesel, a fuel created from carbon dioxide and water?
... that the United States national baseball team mimicked the Bash Brothers at the 1988 Summer Olympics in South Korea?
... that the post-punk band ESG became inactive shortly after the release of its debut album Come Away with ESG?
... that the flathead gudgeon can be distinguished from the dwarf flathead gudgeon by its larger size and gill openings, and stripes on its sides?
... that Grete Keilson was in a communist plot with Klaus Fuchs?

5 May 2015

20:03, 5 May 2015 (UTC)

... that some believe the fate of the unfinished Sathorn Unique Tower (pictured) is due to the shadow it casts on Wat Yan Nawa?
... that the Texan businessman George Neel, Jr. published western-themed short stories and a novel featuring a Marine in South Korea?
... that a corallite is a cup for a coral?
... that Tsien Tsuen-hsuin, who recently died at age 105, risked his life to ship rare books from China to the United States, out of the reach of the Japanese Army?
... that the architectural design of the Moorish Mosque, Kapurthala is patterned after the Koutoubia Mosque in Marrakesh in Morocco?
... that Ricky Ponting's 140 not out in the 2003 Cricket World Cup Final is the highest score by a captain in a World Cup final?
... that Amos Yee won the Best Actor and Best Short Film awards at the 2011 First Film Fest for a film he made "in his bedroom" at the age of 13?
... that The Last of Us: Left Behind featured entire gameplay encounters involving water guns, and a photo booth?

07:48, 5 May 2015 (UTC)

... that the Chaac-Camaxtli region of Io contains a variety of different surfaces, including bright floor material (pictured) probably made of solid sulfur dioxide?
... that Clayton Knight, a World War I aviator and artist, wrote and illustrated children's books with his wife Katherine Sturges Dodge?
... that the Wise Old Man, the Great Mother, the Trickster, and the Shadow live side by side in Carl Jung's collective unconscious?
... that while critics saw high-concept and New Aesthetic qualities in Back to Backspace, Pillywags' Mansion was compared to Pee-wee's Playhouse?
... that a 2002 study confirmed James H. Dieterich's theory that an earthquake's magnitude and the rate of ensuing aftershocks are in inverse proportion?
... that the MTA Arts & Design-commissioned "Sky Reflector-Net" uses a 53-foot (16 m) skylight and hundreds of aluminium mirrors to bring sunlight into the Fulton Center transit hub?
... that after Hitler assumed power, Vera Lachmann founded a school for Jewish children expelled from German public schools?
... that funeral strippers are sometimes hired to remove their clothing during a funeral in an effort to attract more mourners?

4 May 2015

19:33, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

... that the Cypress Tomb (pictured) in Lahore, Pakistan, is so named because of the cypress tree motif on its exterior walls?
... that Thorwald Jørgensen enjoys playing Rachmaninoff's "Vocalise" on the theremin?
... that Every Last Child exposes false propaganda against polio vaccinations, such as the idea it is a plot by Jews and Christians to eliminate Muslims?
... that the folk rock band The Rails is the first band to release an album on Island Records' Pink Label since the 1970s?
... that Monmouth University Library was originally the summer home of Murry and Leonie Guggenheim?
... that Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk, and top artificial intelligence experts have penned an open letter urging AI researchers not to create anything that can't be controlled?
... that Leach Creek flows through 49 pipes?
... that Christoph Martin Wieland's satire Die Geschichte der Abderiten suggests that small-minded ancient Greek frog-worshippers had much in common with provincial Germans?

07:18, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

... that Wilson's honey myrtle (pictured) flowers less in humid areas?
... that the rapper Lecrae was the first hip hop artist to receive a Grammy Award for Best Gospel Album?
... that Lü Bicheng has been called one of the four women geniuses of the Republic of China?
... that Cyclone Pat in February 2010 caused no fatalities despite damaging or destroying 78% of the homes on Aitutaki in the Cook Islands?
... that Terry Acebo Davis, an artist and full-time nurse, is a lecturer on the Filipino identity?
... that Alejandro González Iñárritu was slated to direct Jungle Book: Origins, but left to direct The Revenant instead?
... that Tony Parker was the first basketball player in Georgia in nearly two decades to start for four straight state champions?
... that there's a Blob in the Pacific Ocean?

3 May 2015

19:03, 3 May 2015 (UTC)

... that Lise Tréhot (pictured) appeared in more than twenty paintings by Renoir and was the sole model for most of the female figures during his early Salon period?
... that in Great Britain, the term plum cake typically refers to what most Americans think of as a type of fruitcake?
... that the harvesting of Japanese beech trees on the slopes of Mount Izumi Katsuragi is forbidden for religious reasons?
... that Kangana Ranaut won both the National Film Award and Filmfare Award for Best Actress for the 2014 comedy-drama film Queen?
... that Wendy Sue Swanson, the Seattle Mama Doc, won the CDC's first Childhood Immunization Champion Award in 2012?
... that Mount Faloria, near Cortina d'Ampezzo, hosted the men's giant slalom event of the 1956 Winter Olympics?
... that Wendover Air Force Base has been used as a location for films including Con Air (1995), Mulholland Falls (1996), Independence Day (1996), The Hulk (2003) and The Core (2003)?
... that the trapdoor spider genus Eucteniza contains species named after Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa, a Cylon from Battlestar Galactica, and rocker Sammy Hagar's nightclub?

06:48, 3 May 2015 (UTC)

... that the Temple of Garni (pictured), the only Hellenistic structure in Armenia, collapsed in an earthquake and was reconstructed 300 years later?
... that Priyanka Chopra won a second consecutive Star Guild Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, for the 2009 caper-thriller Kaminey?
... that the unusual round tower of the medieval Hammarlunda Church probably served a defensive purpose?
... that the engineering professor Morrough Parker O'Brien is considered the founder of modern coastal engineering?
... that the Spillings Hoard in the Gotland Museum is the world's largest Viking silver treasure?
... that the CARMADI Foundation, an ecological research organization on Piscadera Bay, is the "largest field station in the Southern Caribbean"?
... that cucumber juice is commonly used topically as a skin rejuvenator and to improve skin complexion?
... that The Gift has been made by Joel Edgerton?

2 May 2015

19:32, 2 May 2015 (UTC)

... that Head of Christ (pictured) by Correggio was likely intended for private devotion?
... that the very first basketball players in Lithuania were women, but the first official game was played by men?
... that Ziona of Baktawng village, Mizoram, India holds the world record as head of the "world's largest existing family" with 39 wives, 94 children, and 33 grandchildren, all living?
... that the ballet Onegin by John Cranko premiered with Marcia Haydée as Tatiana and Ray Barra as Onegin fifty years ago?
... that the Canadian philanthropist Dorothy J. Killam offered $5 million for the Brooklyn Dodgers?
... that Big Inch, a petroleum pipeline, had a companion project named Little Big Inch?
... that the 1984 status referendum in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands has been described as the "smallest act of self-determination ever conducted"?
... that the scandalous life of Teresia Constantia Phillips was published in eighteen parts?
07:23, 2 May 2015 (UTC)

... that the British wanted to destroy the Jama Masjid (pictured) after the Revolt of 1857?
... that the last two TV series of The Island with Bear Grylls were filmed on the uninhabited Panamanian island of Isla Gibraleón?
... that the poet Agustina Andrade shot herself after learning her husband maintained a parallel family in Patagonia?
... that Taziki's Mediterranean Café does not purvey deep-fried foods?
... that Peter Woon supported the introduction of female newsreaders at the BBC, though he was concerned that most "sound as though they came from Cheltenham Ladies' College"?
... that parts of Fort Templebreedy were demilitarized and laid out as a pitch and putt course?
... that despite losing two limbs in an improvised explosive device attack, former US soldier Noah Galloway is competing in this season's Dancing with the Stars?
... that the Chinese atlas Zhifang Waiji includes maps of the continent Magellanica?
... that the very first basketball players in Lithuania were women, but the first official game was played by men?

1 May 2015

16:23, 1 May 2015 (UTC)

... that Nicole Kidman (pictured) was the first Australian to win the Best Actress Oscar?
... that it took Goethe only three days to write the play Der Bürgergeneral, satirising the French Revolution, and it was first performed just six days later?
... that the appearance of bright spots in Ganiki Chasma suggests there is active volcanism on Venus?
... that M. Travis Lane was the first winner of the annual Pat Lowther Award for the best book of poetry by a Canadian woman?
... that the first phase of the Wenzhou Rail Transit is being built at an estimated cost of 50 billion yuan?
... that the release of the 2002 documentary War and Peace was blocked by the Indian censor board, which demanded 21 cuts?
... that George Edgar Slusser was the first curator of the Eaton collection?
... that Cold War Kids named their album Loyalty to Loyalty after a paper of the same name by American philosopher Josiah Royce?
00:04, 1 May 2015 (UTC)

... that Snake Pass is named after a pub (pictured), which in turn is named after the arms of William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire?
... that Polygon described Saints Row IV's dubstep gun as "iconic"?
... that the Aroma of Tacoma is a putrid odor associated with Tacoma, Washington?
... that the Hinatuan Enchanted River is a hot spring, a lagoon, and a river all at the same time?
... that the recently-designated Pullman National Monument is the first unit of the National Park Service in Chicago?
... that an activist chained herself to the Statue of Paul Kruger to protect the monument after green paint was thrown on it?
... that when William Hung learned that Harvard professor Langdon Warner was removing murals from Dunhuang, he made sure that Warner was never left alone at any historic site?
... that Lorina Bulwer embroidered long rants that launched an investigation by the BBC?