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30 September 2012
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29 September 2012
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- ... that the base of Bach's cantata Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir, BWV 130, for the feast of Michael (pictured) on 29 September 1724 is a hymn by Paul Eber sung to a famous tune?
- ... that Sergei Bondarchuk, the director of the Academy Award-winning Soviet film War and Peace, first offered the role of Pierre Bezukhov to Olympic weightlifter Yury Vlasov?
- ... that in 1995, the Egyptian left-wing leader Mohamed Refaat El-Saeed was nominated to the Upper House of Parliament by Hosni Mubarak?
- ... that 35 days after the December 1988 Spitak earthquake, six people were rescued alive from a collapsed building?
- ... that the racemare Busybody improved the race record by three seconds when she won the 1,000 Guineas Stakes in 1884?
- ... that the BBC documentary, The Pharaoh Who Conquered the Sea, explores the legend claiming that the pharaoh Hatshepsut built ships that were capable of sailing to the Land of Punt?
- ... that Eustachy Trepka, Stanisław Murzynowski, and Hieronim Malecki were early Polish Lutherans who translated the Gospels, works of Martin Luther, and other religious texts while working in Królewiec (Königsberg) in the 16th century?
- ... that the most popular species for Christmas trees in Denmark and most of Europe is the Nordmann fir?
- 08:00, 29 September 2012 (UTC)
- ... that Yad Kennedy (pictured), an Israeli memorial to John F. Kennedy designed by architect David Resnick, is shaped like the trunk of a felled tree, symbolizing a life cut short?
- ... that according to Buddhist cosmology, in the beginning of the world, Maha Sammata was elected by the people of Jambudvipa, the only habitable continent on earth, to be their first monarch?
- ... that in the 1950 Australian National Airways Douglas DC-4 crash, an aircraft exploded in a fireball but when rescuers arrived they found one of the passengers walking around the wreckage?
- ... that Nico Ladenis was the first self-taught chef to win three Michelin stars?
- ... that none of the fillies Moonshell, Shahtoush, Love Divine, Imagine, Eswarah, Light Shift, and Look Here ever won another race after winning the British Classic Race Epsom Oaks?
- ... that the East Asian banded red snake can harbour tapeworms and eating its raw meat may lead to parasitic infections?
- ... that a petroleum geologist named William Warren Orcutt began collecting fossils from the La Brea Tar Pits in 1901, bringing the site to the attention of the scientific community?
- ... that Dardanella featured a Chinese man dubbed the "Douglas Fairbanks of Java"?
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28 September 2012
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- ... that the US-31–Island Lake Outlet Bridge (pictured in video) in Charlevoix, Michigan, is the fifth bridge to cross the channel at that location?
- ... that while serving as the Akwamu Chief, Agyen Kokobo ruled the state with his mother as the queen mother?
- ... that the 18th-century Burmese chronicle Maha Yazawin of Toungoo Dynasty has formed the basis for all subsequent histories of the country?
- ... that when Dr. Joseph Brittan caused a scandal in England, he responded by emigrating to Christchurch, New Zealand, following his brother Guise Brittan?
- ... that "Kill the DJ" by Green Day was released on 14 August 2012, but it was also played at a secret show by the band eight days earlier?
- ... that Magnus Sylling Olsen's first goal in Tippeligaen was named the best goal of the round?
- ... that the white waratah, mountain and Mueller's geebungs are three members of the protea family found only in Tasmania?
- ... that in response to "Heil Hitler", Karl Schneider said he regretfully could not cure Adolf Hitler, as he was an ophthalmologist, not a neurologist?
- 00:00, 28 September 2012 (UTC)
- ... that Pieter Nieuwland (pictured), an 18th-century child prodigy and polymath who died a year after becoming a professor, has been called the Dutch Isaac Newton?
- ... that officialese can be traced to the exercise of authority going back as far as the oldest human civilizations?
- ... that Liverpool journalist John A. Willox, the winner of the 1892 Everton by-election, had become a newspaper editor at the age of 21?
- ... that the Point Gammon Light was turned into an observation tower for bird-watching?
- ... that former Syrian chief-of-staff, Anwar Bannud, was the only Syrian officer to reach a rank of colonel under the French mandate?
- ... that no other racehorse has started with longer odds and won the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes than Montaval in 1957?
- ... that although John Tarchaneiotes was the nephew of Byzantine emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos, he became one of the leaders of the Arsenites, who denounced Michael's legitimacy?
- ... that serving shrubs has recently become a trend in bars across the United States, Canada, and London?
27 September 2012
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- ... that Heston Blumenthal's restaurant The Fat Duck in Bray, England, serves dishes such as egg and bacon ice cream, and snail porridge (pictured)?
- ... that in 1971, Alex Johnson said he would prefer "playing in hell" than remaining with the California Angels?
- ... that Hyderabad auditorium Ravindra Bharathi was inaugurated by former President of India Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan in 1961?
- ... that Henry Herx, a film critic for Catholics, was upset that Siskel and Ebert walked out on a film, as "his job was to sit there and watch it and give an honest review" no matter how bad?
- ... that the Altes Stadthaus in Bonn was built for French occupation forces after World War I?
- ... that the official video for One Direction's "Live While We're Young" was premiered four days early following a leak of it online?
- ... that in the early 1900s the Illecillewaet Glacier in British Columbia, Canada, was described as the "most visited glacier in the Americas"?
- ... that Caine's Arcade, a short documentary on nine-year-old Caine's cardboard arcade, has raised over $200,000 towards his college fund and the creation of a non-profit organization?
26 September 2012
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25 September 2012
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24 September 2012
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- ... that satirist Păstorel Teodoreanu (pictured) embarrassed his fellow Romanian Masons when he showed up drunk for his initiation ceremony?
- ... that al-Shaykh Saad in the Hauran region of Syria was mentioned by several Christian scholars and pilgrims, including Eusebius, Egeria and Jerome, as the town of St. Job?
- ... that the Thoroughbred Petrarch earned £11,700 in prize money from various races in 1876, the most in British horse-racing that year?
- ... that Roekihati bucked a trend of intellectualising films in the Dutch East Indies?
- ... that the account of life in the Yertsevo labor camp, described in the book A World Apart by Herling-Grudziński, preceded Solzhenitsyn's revelations about gulags by a decade?
- ... that Norway international footballer Jarl André Storbæk captained Strømsgodset in his first match for the club?
- ... that in the music video for "Let Me Love You (Until You Learn to Love Yourself)", American singer Ne-Yo "channels" Michael Jackson in his dance moves?
- ... that Meow, once the world's heaviest cat, gained international attention due to his weight loss plan?
23 September 2012
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- ... that the restaurant The Cube (pictured in Milan) has "popped up" in Milan, Stockholm, Brussels, and London?
- ... that Johann Sebastian Bach composed the cantata Aus der Tiefen rufe ich, Herr, zu dir, BWV 131, as a young organist at Mühlhausen's Divi Blasii church?
- ... that Romeo Acop is the incumbent representative of Antipolo City's Second Legislative District?
- ... that the wattle Acacia riceana, native to Tasmania, was named after the Chancellor of the Exchequer at the time of its discovery?
- ... that Joe Molloy, a school teacher, and Robert Nederlander, a theatre executive, served as managing partners of the New York Yankees when George Steinbrenner was banned from baseball?
- ... that The Goat Puzzle in the 1996 adventure game Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars is considered by many to be one of the hardest video game puzzles of all time?
- ... that NASCAR driver Jeff Choquette's grandfather, Jack Choquette, won the 1954 NASCAR Modified Division championship?
- ... that the daughter of Candice Cohen-Ahnine is a Jewish-Saudi princess whom French President Nicolas Sarkozy attempted to bring to France, but failed?
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22 September 2012
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- ... that Haesindang Park, on the eastern coast of South Korea, is also known as "Penis Park", due to its statues representative of phallic architecture (pictured)?
- ... that Yair Shamir, who has recently entered politics in Israel, served as the director of Israel Aerospace Industries from 2005 to 2011 without pay?
- ... that the vegetarian philanthropist Arnold Hills planned to contest the Walthamstow by-election in 1897 as a temperance candidate?
- ... that Franz Lehrndorfer was the organist of the Munich Frauenkirche cathedral for over three decades?
- ... that the Syrian village of al-Mushannaf has a well-preserved temple, dated to the first century BC, that was dedicated to Zeus and Athena?
- ... that Harley Peyton, writer of "Episode 6" of Twin Peaks, found it difficult to write for Kyle MacLachlan's character Dale Cooper?
- ... that the Swedish feminist network Bara Bröst won the right for women to bare breasts at swimming pools in Malmö, but the city's ruling did not result in any significant difference?
- ... that it was known as early as the 16th century that water held in a cup made of lignum nephriticum from New Spain would become brightly blue?
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21 September 2012
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20 September 2012
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19 September 2012
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18 September 2012
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17 September 2012
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16 September 2012
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- ... that at 270 feet (82 m), the US 12–St. Joseph River Bridge (pictured) is the longest surviving camelback bridge in the U.S. state of Michigan?
- ... that Japan's first wooden roller coaster appeared in Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla?
- ... that a stele of Egyptian king Seti I was found built into the wall of a local house in the village of Tell Shihab in southern Syria?
- ... that, Jesús Blancornelas, a Mexican journalist, risked his life while reporting on the Tijuana Cartel, the drug trade in Mexico, and political corruption?
- ... that despite being the son of a two-time NASCAR champion and brother of a Daytona 500 winner, Randy Baker never finished better than 17th in NASCAR competition?
- ... that Dedeline Mibamba Kimbata, a member of DR Congo's first Paralympic team, competed in a wheelchair donated by Kenyan Paralympian Anne Wafula Strike?
- ... that excavations at the town of Jayrud in the Qalamoun Mountains of Syria produced microliths, blades, scrapers and other lithic tools dating back to the Natufian culture?
- ... that it took 120 years before it was discovered that deep-water Stokes waves, named after George Gabriel Stokes, are unstable?
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15 September 2012
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14 September 2012
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- ... that Jane Stanford (pictured), co-founder of Stanford University, ordered her jewels to be sold to provide funding for the Stanford University Libraries?
- ... that Diego Ramírez de Arellano set a southern navigation record in 1619 that was unbroken for 150 years?
- ... that the frugal appropriations authorized by the 14th Arizona Territorial Legislature were just one reason the session was nicknamed the "Measly Fourteenth"?
- ... that the cyanobacterium Nostoc commune can withstand desiccation and repeated freezing and thawing?
- ... that fakanau, considered by Christian missionaries to be evil dancing, eventually disappeared from Tuvalu?
- ... that George Bray's association with Burnley F.C. as a player, coach, kit man and supporter spanned seven decades?
- ... that in 1977, the Douglas Stenstrom Bridge in Indian Mound Village, Florida, replaced the Osteen Bridge, a 1920s hand-turned swing bridge that had become an unsafe driving hazard?
- ... that during the bird flu pandemic of 2005, chef Alexis Gauthier removed bird related products from the menu at his Michelin starred restaurant in London?
- 08:00, 14 September 2012 (UTC)
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13 September 2012
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- ... that Treasury Secretary William Gibbs McAdoo, a onetime resident of Yonkers, New York, personally chose the location for the city's new post office (pictured) in 1916?
- ... that the larvae of the terrestrial Ceylon caecilian have gills and a tail fin and develop in water?
- ... that the village of Najran in Syria was named after the Najran of South Arabia, whose inhabitants, the Balharith, fled to Syria in the 520s?
- ... that the British racehorse Teenoso won the 1983 Derby Stakes with the slowest winning time of this race in the 20th century?
- ... that María Soledad Iparraguirre was only the second woman to serve on the executive of the Basque separatist group ETA and was wanted by Spanish police for participation in at least 14 assassinations?
- ... that Christian Garcia reached Major League Baseball despite enduring three elbow surgeries?
- ... that Ed, Edd n Eddy's TV movie series finale, Ed, Edd n Eddy's Big Picture Show, premiered on November 8, 2009, and achieved high ratings success for Cartoon Network?
- ... that despite being founded in 1984, the Roux Scholarship contest was only first televised in 2012?
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12 September 2012
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11 September 2012
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10 September 2012
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9 September 2012
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8 September 2012
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- ... that 2012 Australian Paralympic wheelchair basketball player Sarah Vinci (pictured) made her national team debut at the 2011 Osaka Cup?
- ... that the Danube bleak, a migratory fish, has had its traditional routes blocked by the building of dams?
- ... that Mika Yamamoto, the fifteenth journalist killed in Syria in 2012, was the first Japanese reporter to be killed in the ongoing armed political conflict in Syria?
- ... that Tim Hunter, director of "Episode 4" of Twin Peaks, was inspired by Otto Preminger's use of small sets in 1945's Fallen Angel?
- ... that John Greenleaf Whittier immortalized the sinking of the Palatine Light ghost ship with a poem written in 1867?
- ... that 2012 Australian Paralympic sailor Stephen Churm competed in his first sailing race in 1963?
- ... that the Church of the Holy Archangels Michael and Gabriel in Brăila, Romania, is the country's only former mosque converted into an Orthodox church?
- ... that the 2011 film Love's Kitchen starring Dougray Scott, Claire Forlani and featuring chef Gordon Ramsay in a cameo role, took £121 on its opening weekend?
7 September 2012
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6 September 2012
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- ... that the Vätsäri Wilderness Area in Lapland, which covers an area of 1,550 square kilometers (600 sq mi), includes taiga forests of Scots Pine and thousands of small lakes (pictured)?
- ... that 2012 Australian Paralympic athletics competitor Matthew Cameron has represented his country in athletics and wheelchair basketball?
- ... that pottery from the Duffy Archaeological Site in Illinois is distinctive for its lack of decorative elements?
- ... that in 1332 Taynal, the Mamluk governor of Tripoli, was transferred to Gaza as punishment by the viceroy of Syria, only to be reassigned to Tripoli three years later?
- ... that Blessed Guerric's relics, located at Igny Abbey in Arcis-le-Ponsart, are still venerated?
- ... that according to her memoirs, African American preacher Zilphia Elaw gave over a thousand sermons in Victorian Britain?
- ... that 2012 Australia Paralympic equestrian Rob Oakley started riding horses as a way to impress a girl?
- ... that a 19th-century brick synagogue in Radzanów designed with Moorish-style motifs, serves as a public library since there are now no Jews in Radzanów?
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5 September 2012
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4 September 2012
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3 September 2012
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2 September 2012
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1 September 2012
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