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30 April 2013

16:00, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

... that St. Lawrence's Church (pictured) in the small town of Söderköping, Sweden, has been the venue for royal coronations on two occasions?
... that Lee Tai-Young was the first woman to study at Seoul National University?
... that Hocutt v. Wilson, the first attempt to desegregate higher education in the United States, was dismissed for lack of standing because the president of the university implicated refused to release the transcript of the plaintiff?
... that Satō Tadanobu saved his master Minamoto no Yoshitsune by dressing in his armour and impersonating him?
... that Alabama Crimson Tide football under Nick Saban won college football national championships in their 2009, 2011, and 2012 seasons?
... that when Nicholas Brend, the first owner of the Globe Theatre, died in 1601, his heir was his infant son, Matthew, who would not come of age until 6 February 1621?
... that contemporary reports claimed that French President Félix Faure died receiving fellatio and his penis had to be surgically removed from his mistress's locked jaw?

08:00, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

... that Japanese idol group Momoiro Clover Z (pictured) do not lip-synch in live performances even though their vocals are rendered unstable when coupled with dance moves?
... that Australian trade union organiser William Orr was charged with incitement to murder after advising striking coal miners to arm themselves?
... that Game of Thrones episode "And Now His Watch Is Ended" introduced the fictional tongue of High Valyrian on television, which was created by a linguist?
... that Johann Christian Simon Handt was possibly the first missionary to Queensland?
... that the type specimen of the extinct nutmeg yew Torreya clarnensis is located in Florida?
... that Ami Priyono was one of four directors who dominated the cinema of Indonesia during the 1970s?
... that the function of safety-valve institutions such as gambling or pornography is to reduce the tensions in the society?

00:00, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

... that John R. McCarl (pictured) had no prior financial training or experience when he was appointed to become the inaugural Comptroller General of the United States in 1921?
... that Salmo ezenami, a critically endangered species of trout, is endemic to Chechnya's Lake Kezenoyam and is threatened by the invasive European chub?
... that American football player Alan Gendreau, the Sun Belt Conference's all-time leading scorer, was known to be gay by his team?
... that the mug shot publishing industry has expanded with 60 new sites in the last two years and multiple state legislatures are seeking to regulate it?
... that Leon Boullemier, the son of a French artist, was (under another name) Northamptonshire County Cricket Club's official scorer for 50 years?
... that R.K.M & Ken-Y received an American Society of Composers and Publishers Award for "Llorarás" and "Igual Que Ayer" at the same ceremony?
... that Joan Leche founded a school in Saffron Walden which Gabriel Harvey attended in the early 1560s, where according to Thomas Nashe he was a "desperate stabber with pen-knives"?

29 April 2013

16:00, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

... that the sea (wave pictured) contains over 97% of Earth's water?
... that the Twelfth Siege of Gibraltar ended in defeat for France and Spain, which lost 10,000 men while the English and Dutch defenders lost only 400?
... that Alex Valencia was named "player of the year" when IK Start won silver in the 2005 Norwegian Premier League?
... that foundations of a medieval limestone church were found during the building of Haslev Church in 1916?
... that Sir Sigismund Zinzan tilted in the tournament celebrating the creation of King James's son, Henry, as Prince of Wales in 1610, and led a horse draped in black at Henry's funeral in 1612?
... that the Class 374 is the first high speed train type purchased by a part owned French rail company not to be based on the TGV?
... that a boy's eligibility to lodge in a Zawlbûk in a traditional Mizo community depends on the length of his pubic hair?

08:00, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

... that Wilhelm Busch (self portrait pictured), who created Max und Moritz in 1865, has been considered a forefather of comics?
... that some economists question the relevance of involuntary unemployment because "however miserable one's current work options, one can always choose to accept them"?
... that Supernova by Cuban pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba's trio was beaten to a Grammy Award by an album produced and performed by Rubalcaba?
... that Samuel Meredith was the first chief constable in Britain?
... that the Image of Camuliana, said to be a miraculous icon of Christ, was carried into battle by Byzantine armies, but probably destroyed in the Byzantine Iconoclasm?
... that the Big Blue River Bridge was one of the first of nearly 30 concrete bridges designed by engineer William A. Biba?
... that during the American Revolution Prudence Wright led a militia of pitchfork-bearing women to arrest her brothers?

00:00, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

... that Thomas Gabriel (pictured) composed the Missa mundi for World Youth Day 2005, representing the continents in style and instrumentation with pan flute, sitar, drums and didgeridoo?
... that on the northwest shore of Cape Denbigh on Norton Bay, archeological finds in the National Historic Landmark Iyatayet Site attest to the Norton Culture dated between 500 BC and 300 AD?
... that the localization, stability, export, and translation efficiency of a messenger RNA are regulated by its three prime untranslated region?
... that Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park, one of the protected areas of Vietnam, has the largest cave in the world?
... that Lefty Driesell Award winner Tommy Brenton guided the 2012–13 Stony Brook Seawolves men's basketball team to their program's first ever postseason tournament win?
... that Heroes for Sale by Andy Mineo mixes hip-hop with hymns, reggaeton, jazz, R&B, heavy metal, and classical?
... that during the American Revolution, Martha Bratton stuck her son in a chimney and tried to blow up the British?

28 April 2013

16:00, 28 April 2013 (UTC)

... that an engraving by Dutchwoman Maria de Wilde (pictured) of her father meeting Peter the Great records "the beginning of the West European classical tradition in Russia"?
... that Church of Saint Mary the Virgin is built on property where Horace Greeley once held a campaign reception in Chappaqua, New York?
... that the triannual Redi Award given out by the International Society on Toxinology was named after Francesco Redi, the 17th-century Italian scientist who showed that viper venom comes from glands near its fangs?
... that in 1983, Anita Pratap became the first journalist to interview LTTE chief V. Prabhakaran?
... that despite its name, the chewing louse Columbicola extinctus, which was originally thought to only use the Passenger Pigeon as a host, is not extinct as it was rediscovered on the Band-tailed Pigeon?
... that the murder of Helen McCourt was the first case in which a suspect was convicted on DNA evidence in the UK without the victim's body having been discovered?
... that a mixture of bark and crushed leaves of Grevillea heliosperma was used to wash sores by local indigenous people?

08:00, 28 April 2013 (UTC)

... that over 99% of the flower heads of the shrub Banksia elegans (pictured) set no seed?
... that actor Ian Kirkby once described motor racing as "a waste of petrol"?
... that Faxe Church contains a 1717 painting by Hendrick Krock, Frederik IV's court painter?
... that Florida A&M Rattlers basketball player Terrence Woods won the 2004 NCAA Division I three-point shooting contest at the conclusion of his senior season?
... that Sir Matthew Brend conveyed the property on which the Globe Theatre was built to his wife, Frances?
... that the list of National Trust properties in Somerset includes sites dating from the Iron Age to the Victorian era?
... that a cricket match in Hong Kong was once called off because a batsman was hitting so many sixes that he might pose "a danger to passing traffic"?

00:00, 28 April 2013 (UTC)

... that the Eisenhower dollar (pictured) was the first U.S. dollar coin produced in over 35 years?
... that the Australian plant Banksia saxicola has been cultivated outdoors in the Netherlands and United Kingdom?
... that the Bhusawal-Kalyan railway line in western India rises by 970 ft (296 m) within a span of 9.5 mi (15 km) across Thul Ghat?
... that, playing in her fifth successive Women's Cricket World Cup, England's Charlotte Edwards was named in the team of the tournament?
... that slow code is a purposely slow response to a patient in cardiac arrest?
... that the para-military squads of the Peruvian APRA Party used to be nick-named "Buffaloes"?
... that Johan van Brosterhuysen, a dilettante Dutch botanist, translated a bishop's lunar fiction?

27 April 2013

16:00, 27 April 2013 (UTC)

... that the ichnogenus Chondrites (pictured) can be used as an indicator of anoxia in sediments?
... that horse racing commentator Lord Oaksey was once captain of Eton College's boxing team?
... that the Norwegian steamer Kommandøren was torpedoed and sunk by a drunken crewman on a German E-boat?
... that Blaine Wilson has won the most all-around titles at the USA Gymnastics National Championships?
... that the album Solo by Cuban pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba includes songs inspired by John Coltrane's Giant Steps?
... that almost all tunicates of the species Pyura pachydermatina house at least one parasitic ribbon worm?
... that Vester Egede Church displays a relief of "Luxuria", a woman standing on her head, nurturing a winged dragon and a lion?

08:00, 27 April 2013 (UTC)

... that the tailor Fred Hobbs (pictured), who served as the eighth Mayor of Christchurch, came from a musical family?
... that Walter Curran Mendenhall found obscure fossils on Fish River at White Mountain, Alaska?
... that Fateh Chand Badhwar was the first Indian to become Chairman of the country's Railway Board?
... that José María Caro Martínez, the first Mayor of Pichilemu, was the father of José María Caro Rodríguez, the first Chilean Cardinal of the Catholic Church?
... that coated urea fertilizers reduce the risk of fertilizer burn by slowing the rate at which moisture in the soil dissolves the sulfur- or polymer-encapsulated prills of urea?
... that Sean Manaea was named the Most Outstanding Prospect in the Cape Cod Baseball League for 2012?
... that Ferdinand von Mueller named the rainforest proteaceae genera Buckinghamia, Cardwellia, Carnarvonia, Hicksbeachia and Hollandaea in honour of British Secretaries of State for the Colonies?

00:00, 27 April 2013 (UTC)

... that the Helena Historic District (Atlas building pictured) required a major boundary adjustment when urban renewal in the 1970s destroyed over 60 historically significant buildings?
... that both Vice Admiral Matthew Quashie and former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan attended Mfantsipim?
... that Blackstairmountain from Ireland was the first European-trained racehorse to win the Nakayama Grand Jump, the world's richest steeplechase?
... that prior to the phylloxera epidemic in the mid-19th century there were almost 17,000 hectares (42,000 acres) of Gouget noir, but by 2008 there were just 10 hectares (25 acres) of the grape left in France?
... that a canopy walkway connects seven tree tops in Ghana's Kakum National Park?
... that the silencer on DNA allows repressors to bind, inhibiting transcription?
... that Brandon Maurer threw a perfect game during a Little League Baseball all-star game?

26 April 2013

16:00, 26 April 2013 (UTC)

... that historical maps and descriptions include nine different names for Lake Débo (pictured) in Mali?
... that the Purple-throated Cotinga is considered a naturally rare species across its range?
... that the church of St. Severin in Keitum on the island of Sylt, first mentioned in 1240, is furnished with an early Renaissance pulpit from Denmark?
... that Sukur is Africa's first cultural landscape to receive World Heritage List inscription?
... that the future of the narrow gauge Shakuntala Railway depends on how Central Railway acts on the option it has to buy it in 2016?
... that John Lightfoot provided the first British records for the chanterelle and the summer truffle?
... that the world's oldest known harbor and Egypt's oldest known papyrus documents were both discovered at Wadi al-Jarf?

08:00, 26 April 2013 (UTC)

... that the father of Bob Feller (signed baseball pictured) changed the crop on the family farm from corn to wheat so that the future baseball Hall of Fame pitcher could play more baseball?
... that nuclear physicist Katharine Way co-edited a 1946 bestseller which included essays by Niels Bohr, Albert Einstein and Robert Oppenheimer, and sold over 100,000 copies?
... that the 2002 EA Sports 500 featured no cautions despite Talladega Superspeedway being known for "The Big One"?
... that in 1750 Paul Troger painted the altarpiece Vision of St. Ulrich at the Battle of Lechfeld for the church St. Ulrich in Vienna?
... that there are records of a woman being stoned to death for stepping over the rope used in Juldarigi (Korean tug of war)?
... that tributary creeks of the Koyuk River include Dime and Sweepstakes?
... that visitors to the Ulucanlar Prison Museum who pay extra to be handcuffed and locked in an isolation cell for a limited time may not leave it before the agreed time is up?

00:00, 26 April 2013 (UTC)

... that mathematician Andrew Gleason liked to say that proofs (example pictured) "really aren't there to convince you that something is true—they're there to show you why it is true"?
... that the Newborn monument in Pristina, Kosovo, was unveiled on the day of the 2008 Kosovo declaration of independence?
... that the most common sources of added sugar consumption are sweetened beverages?
... that tariffs will increase for thousands of goods imported to Canada from 72 nations as a result of the 2013 Canadian federal budget?
... that Jennifer Gove is South Africa's leading run-scorer in women's Test cricket?
... that by 1810, the Susquehanna and Tioga Turnpike was the first road in good condition for wagons in its part of Pennsylvania?
... that the Sclerodermatineae include boletes, earthstars, and pretty mouths?

25 April 2013

16:00, 25 April 2013 (UTC)

... that the World Digital Magnetic Anomaly Map depicts features such as the Richat Structure, Atlantic ridge, Paris Basin and Chicxulub crater (pictured)?
... that College Baseball Hall of Famer Eddy Furniss had to be convinced to play baseball?
... that less than two weeks after Elis won the 1835 St. Leger Stakes, 21 horses were withdrawn from the colt's next scheduled race?
... that sheng nu is a pejorative term promoted by the Government of China to pressure unwed women into marriage in response to the gender imbalance caused by the one-child policy?
... that French nobleman Louis Philippe Marie Léopold d'Orléans (1845–1866) was not only the last Prince of Condé but also the first royal visitor to the continent of Australia?
... that Highnam Court in Gloucestershire was built in 1658 to replace the manor that was damaged in the English Civil War?
... that one threat to the vulnerable potato chip coral is its collection for the aquarium trade?

08:00, 25 April 2013 (UTC)

... that sawfishes (pictured), a family of rays with a long rostrum resembling a saw, are threatened with extinction?
... that the UNESCO-inscribed Group of Monuments at Mahabalipuram of the Pallava Period include: Ganesha Ratha; the Pancha Rathas of Dharmaraja, Arjuna, Bhima, Draupadi, and Nakula Sahadeva; several cave temples such as Varaha, Krishna, Mahishasuramardini, and Panchapandava; the structural temples of Olakkannesvara and Shore; and the Descent of the Ganges, one of the largest open-air bas-reliefs in the world?
... that René Maturana Maldonado was the last Mayor of Pichilemu to be appointed by the military regime of Augusto Pinochet?
... that in the late 1820s, Cherry Hill was host to both the Marquis de Lafayette and a sensational murder that led to the last public hanging in Albany, New York?
... that the season three premiere episode of Game of Thrones was dedicated in the memory of its cinematographer, Martin Kenzie?
... that Tropical Storm Agatha caused a 100-foot (30 m) deep sinkhole to open in 2010 in Guatemala City, killing 15 people?

00:00, 25 April 2013 (UTC)

... that the extinct Choiseul Pigeon (pictured), which was endemic to the island of Choiseul in the Solomon Islands, was so tame that the indigenous hunters could pick it up off of its roost?
... that a month after the Palestinian Arab leadership confirmed Abd al-Rahim al-Hajj Muhammad as general commander of the 1936 Palestine revolt, he was killed in a clash with British authorities in March 1939?
... that the Majdanek concentration camp trial was the longest Nazi war crimes trial in history, spanning over 30 years?
... that child actor Jared S. Gilmore was the third person to play Bobby Draper in six years when he was cast in the American television series Mad Men?
... that the Marechal Joffre and Marechal Foch wine grapes were named after the World War I generals Joseph Joffre and Ferdinand Foch?
... that the statue of General Casimir Pulaski in Washington was sculpted by Kazimierz Chodziński?
... that the Armada Service, rumoured to have been made from New World silver captured from the Spanish Armada, was buried during the English Civil War and lay hidden until 1827?

24 April 2013

16:00, 24 April 2013 (UTC)

... that the Lockheed C-130 Hercules (pictured) entered service with the RAAF in 1958, making Australia the first country after the United States to operate the aircraft?
... that Luke Thomas was Britain's youngest head chef?
... that the Norwegian king Magnus Barefoot may have shot Hugh of Montgomery dead with an arrow through his eye in the Battle of Anglesey Sound?
... that sheep grazier Thomas Gibson Sloane was an expert on tiger beetles?
... that Fir Hill Manor was the subject of a BBC documentary in 1994, which documents the search for absentee landlord John Paget Figg-Hoblyn?
... that the damage wrought by Typhoon Karen in Guam in 1962 was considered worse than that of the American liberation of the island in 1944?
... that Anthony Musgrave, the son of Anthony Musgrave, was related to Anthony Musgrave?

08:00, 24 April 2013 (UTC)

... that the Aurore wine grape is named after Aurora (pictured), the Roman goddess of the dawn?
... that Brandon Miller scored the game-winning basket in a 2003 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament game that Sports Illustrated called an "instant tourney classic"?
... that painter Johann Heinrich Baumann was called the "Münchhausen of Courland" for his tales of his hunting adventures?
... that Lilik Sudjio received the first Citra Award for directing his father?
... that an early version of the Facebook-developed software on the HTC First was code-named "Buffy"?
... that the real life mother and daughter, Jyoti and Amruta Subhash, have played the same relationship in the 2009 Marathi film Gandha?
... that mento artist Lord Flea helped start the calypso craze, was covered by Harry Belafonte, and wrote a song about a monkey who followed him around?

00:00, 24 April 2013 (UTC)

... that the gardens of Gibraltar (pictured) in Wilmington, Delaware, were designed by a pioneering female American landscape architect?
... that the Whitehorse Ranch in southeast Oregon voluntarily removed its cattle from 50,000 acres (200 km²) of its BLM grazing allotment for three years to allow watershed and riparian areas to recover?
... that the authenticity of the supposedly Maya Grolier Codex is disputed, even though it uses pre-Columbian paper?
... that Star Trek: The Next Generation: Klingon Honor Guard was the first video game other than Unreal itself to use the Unreal Game engine?
... that despite the family being of rather humble origin, Thomas Gapes and his father James both served as Mayor of Christchurch?
... that while some sources believe that Thomas Fitch, V inspired the original Yankee Doodle Dandy in 1755, other sources think the song was written at least 12 years earlier?
... that anyone who entered Emperor Ashoka's Hell was not allowed to come out alive?

23 April 2013

16:00, 23 April 2013 (UTC)

... that the former Customs House (pictured) in Porsgrunn, Norway, originally contained three restaurants and a liquor store?
... that while Claude Raguet Hirst's painting A Gentleman's Table was commissioned by a men's club, it offers a subtle critique of male culture?
... that Abouriou was almost lost to extinction until a local farmer discovered abandoned plantings of the French wine grape growing up the walls of a ruined castle?
... that Norwegian footballer Erik Midtgarden won the Estonian Meistriliiga with Flora Tallinn in 2011?
... that Manny Coto compared the Vulcans in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Awakening" to the Catholic Church during the Protestant Reformation?
... that Gene Hobbs, a regular contributor to Wikipedia's scuba articles, was named the 2010 Divers Alert Network/Rolex Diver of the year?
... that according to Jaś Elsner, "style art history" was "the indisputable king of the discipline", but is now "dead"?

08:00, 23 April 2013 (UTC)

... that merchants at horse fairs appreciated the Auxois horse (pictured) because its chestnut coloration might conceal dirt better than that of the light gray Percheron or black Nivernais?
... that Sophie Matisse's reinterpretation of Pablo Picasso's Guernica was regarded as a strange idea for an artist whose great-grandfather, Henri Matisse, was known to be an artistic rival of Picasso?
... that the jurists of the ancient Law School of Beirut played a major part in drafting the Justinian body of civil law?
... that Tiffany Porter was called a "Plastic Brit" by a newspaper for refusing to recite the words of "God Save the Queen"?
... that to finance the completion of the Petit Serail, the Wāli of Syria had to take a loan, mortgage public buildings and impose new taxes?
... that Eric Newby's A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush has been described as a "comic masterpiece" and among the "best travel books of all time"?
... that the Aldabra atoll in Seychelles, called "one of the wonders of the world" by David Attenborough, has about 100,000 giant tortoises, the largest concentration in the world?

00:00, 23 April 2013 (UTC)

... that defects in Coca-Cola's MagiCans (pictured) led a child to mistakenly drink foul-tasting liquid used to replace actual cola?
... that Leona Woods was the only woman present when the world's first nuclear reactor went critical?
... that the upset victory of Ebor in the 1817 St Leger Stakes was ascribed to the overconfidence of Blacklock's jockey?
... that during its initial run of episodes, Glee fans lobbied for Idina Menzel to be cast as the biological mother of Lea Michele's character due to the strong resemblance between the two actresses?
... that a colony of Damaraland mole rats have been estimated to excavate as much as three tons of earth over a two week period?
... that Leonard Nimoy's 1975 autobiography was entitled I Am Not Spock?
... that Pearlin Jean purportedly haunted her former lover's estate after he tried to buy her silence with the lace of the same name?

22 April 2013

16:00, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

... that Dahlia Hill in Midland, Michigan, plants over 250 different cultivars of dahlia (example pictured) each year?
... that scholarly estimates for the dates of southeastern Illinois' Hubele archaeological site vary by 1,400 years from earliest to latest?
... that the Negros Fruit Dove is only known from a single female shot from a tree on the slopes of a Philippine volcano in 1953?
... that One Night in Malaysia was enough to make Nico Pelamonia Best Director?
... that consumption of sweetened beverages has been linked to obesity and related health problems?
... that Peter Lauritson's directorial debut, the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Inner Light", was awarded the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation?
... that the Native American sport snow snake is named for the snake-like wiggling motion of wooden poles sliding down an icy track?

08:00, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

... that Commodore Lejoille (pictured), who captured British warships on three occasions during the French Revolutionary Wars, had been a sailor since the age of seven?
... that with "enormous dramatic impact", Bach inserted a recitative for the voice of Christ in the opening chorus of his cantata Ihr werdet weinen und heulen, BWV 103?
... that the medieval manor house of Fiddleford Manor may have been built for William Latimer, sheriff of Dorset and Somerset, in around 1370?
... that First Ladies Eleanor Roosevelt and Jackie Kennedy both lived on East 74th Street on the Upper East Side of New York City?
... that violet root rot can damage crops such as carrots?
... that one of the leaders of the Kraków Uprising in 1846 was killed while leading a religious procession?
... that American basketball player Sugar Rodgers scored a record number of points (2,518) at Georgetown University?

00:00, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

... that it is not known how the Paris Codex (pages pictured), one of only three surviving pre-Columbian Maya books, came to be in the collection of the Bibliothèque Imperiale in Paris in the 19th century?
... that Henry Seidu Daanaa is the first blind person to be called to the Ghana Bar?
... that the wheatbelt shrub Persoonia coriacea can have naturally twisted leaves?
... that baseball announcer Shelby Whitfield wrote a book titled Kiss It Goodbye that helped prompt the Federal Communications Commission to investigate the ethics of sports broadcasting?
... that the Muslim conquest of Sicily lasted from 827 to 902 AD?
... that the Gustav Adolfs Kyrka in Liverpool was W. D. Caroe's first independent commission to design a church?
... that when Charles O'Rear took a photograph of a green, lush hillside near Napa Valley, he did not expect it to be "the most viewed image of the world"?

21 April 2013

16:00, 21 April 2013 (UTC)

... that Gresley Parish Church (pictured) was originally an Augustinian priory, founded in the 12th century?
... that London-based engraver Peter Mazell bungled an image of the Common Tailorbird?
... that the Mérens horse was saved from extinction by hippies in the 1970s?
... that when Lieutenant Commander Hugh Haggard returned the Truant to Britain in late 1942, the submarine flew a Jolly Roger with 4 stars and 16 bars?
... that although the species name of the tree Alloxylon brachycarpum means "short fruit", it has the largest fruit of its genus?
... that former Israeli Ambassador to Russia Anna Azari is married to a rabbi who leads a congregation in Tel Aviv?
... that the video game Star Trek: Hidden Evil was described by one critic as "2,891 phaser shots connected by some irrelevant puzzles"?

08:00, 21 April 2013 (UTC)

... that making kalu dodol (pictured) is a labour-intensive process that can take up to nine hours?
... that Joseph Partridge, a former waggoner, wrote the first history of the Cheshire town of Nantwich?
... that Korean sedge-weavers, known as wanchojang, can take up to two weeks to complete one box?
... that baritone Berthold Possemeyer performed songs by John Dowland, Gerald Finzi and Thomas Morley in a parody chamber musical after Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream?
... that the Condado Vanderbilt Hotel became the first hotel in Puerto Rico to include a casino after gambling was legalized in the 1940s?
... that in 1566, Richard Carmarden funded the printing of an edition of the Great Bible in English at Rouen?
... that chocoholism is frequently claimed in surveys to be the most common form of food craving?

00:00, 21 April 2013 (UTC)

... that ocellated icefish Chionodraco rastrospinosus (pictured) have blood as clear as water?
... that Marian Cruger Coffin, one of America's first female landscape architects, set up her own highly successful practice because male-dominated firms would not employ her?
... that the Church of St. Margaret of Antioch was the centre of Anglo-Catholicism in 19th-century Liverpool?
... that Victorian detective Jack Whicher was the inspiration for The Suspicions of Mr Whicher?
... that the Bank of Chester County, chartered in 1814, was the first bank in the county?
... that in 2012 Jewish Universalist rabbi Steven Blane, who encourages converts to join his online rabbinical school, ordained an ex-Muslim as a rabbi?
... that NASA has plans to tug an asteroid to the Moon?

20 April 2013

16:00, 20 April 2013 (UTC)

... that at hotels in Israel, the Israeli breakfast is commonly presented as a self-service buffet (pictured)?
... that Saura painting of Odisha has a visual semblance to Warli painting from Maharashtra?
... that correspondence with Thomas Pennant formed the basis of part of Gilbert White's Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne?
... that the Cebongan Prison raid in Indonesia was declared a human rights violation by the National Commission on Human Rights, but not by Defence Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro?
... that Daniel Ortúzar Cuevas, a former member of the Chamber of Deputies of Chile, was also a farmer?
... that in 1587 Sir Rowland Hayward entertained Queen Elizabeth I at his home of King's Place, which had once been owned by her father, King Henry VIII?
... that after being caught at sea trying to defect, Cuban baseball player Andy Morales wasn't asked to participate in the 2000 Summer Olympics?

08:00, 20 April 2013 (UTC)

... that the Atiq Mosque (pictured) in Libya is lit and ventilated by openings in its conical domes?
... that H. A. Gade, described as a "painters' painter", was one of independent India's pioneering abstract expressionist painters?
... that Christian rock band Casting Crowns have performed their song "Who Am I" at a Bush-Cheney '04 campaign rally and the 2009 Spring Friendship Art Festival in North Korea?
... that actor Anthony Wong was drunk when director Herman Yau asked him to portray the title character in Ip Man: The Final Fight?
... that Queen's Building was called Hong Kong's "most prestigious commercial building" when it opened in 1899?
... that Alaska's Candle Creek, a tributary of Kiwalik River, derived its name from the ice-covered willow twigs along its banks resembling candles?
... that in Fifehead Wood one may find a White Admiral with a Purple Hairstreak among some Five-faced Bishops?

00:00, 20 April 2013 (UTC)

... that William O. Cushing (pictured), writer of the words of the hymn that inspired Rangers' Follow Follow anthem, gave his entire life savings to a blind girl for her to receive an education?
... that Thomas Savage, Shakespeare's trustee in the purchase of shares in the Globe Theatre, was a friend of John Jackson, Shakepeare's trustee in the purchase of the Blackfriars Gatehouse?
... that a parole camp was a place where soldiers were housed by their own army after being granted parole and pledging not to engage in combat?
... that the College of Aesculapius and Hygia was a dining club and burial society in ancient Rome?
... that Luke Hancock is the first reserve player to be named Most Outstanding Player of the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament?
... that Untied.com has logged 25,000 customer complaints and 200 employee complaints about United Airlines?

19 April 2013

16:00, 19 April 2013 (UTC)

... that adaptations of the wildlife of Antarctica (icefish pictured) to survive the cold include growing blubber, having antifreeze in their blood, and digesting themselves into a juvenile state?
... that Binod Bihari Chowdhury, who died on 10 April 2013 at the age of 102, was the last surviving revolutionary from the Chittagong armoury raid?
... that composer Graham Waterhouse was the cellist in a performance of his string trio Zeichenstaub at his former school, playing the U.K. premiere with two members of the Münchner Philharmoniker?
... that the 1925 Hama uprising began when Fawzi al-Qawuqji mutinied with his entire Syrian Legion cavalry unit and took control of Hama from the French Mandatory authorities?
... that Léopold Louis Joubert fought for the Pope in Italy and against slave traders in the Congo?
... that the Peloponnese peninsula in southern Greece was ruled as the "Kingdom of the Morea" by the Republic of Venice in 1688–1715?
... that William Markwick's "Sheep's fescue" was not suitable for sheep?

08:00, 19 April 2013 (UTC)

... that the radar dome on Cass Peak (pictured), with the hill being named for the surveyor Thomas Cass, is part of a network that monitors aircraft position data in New Zealand?
... that Singaporean politician Abdul Rahim Ishak at different points in time served as ambassador to Ethiopia, Indonesia, Lebanon, the United Arab Republic, and Yugoslavia?
... that a draftsman may have misinterpreted the notation "? Name" as "C. Nome"?
... that by the time of his death in 1842, Admiral William Taylor was the last surviving officer from Cook's third and final voyage of discovery?
... that for General Hospital's 50th anniversary the soap opera's fictional Nurses' Ball was connected for the first time with a real HIV/AIDS non-profit organization?
... that the Chakmas welcome their new year with the Bizhu dance?
... that Arnold Horween married his wife because Harvard beat Yale in a football game?

00:00, 19 April 2013 (UTC)

... that Ezra Meeker (pictured) traveled the Oregon Trail by ox cart in 1852, and crossed the United States by airplane in 1924 at age 93?
... that Italy ranked first in the 2009 Mediterranean Games medal table?
... that Cossack hetman Ivan Petrizhitsky-Kulaga was executed by other Cossacks after he lost a power struggle?
... that the Swedish newsmagazine Fokus has operated at a loss since its first publication, despite an ever increasing circulation?
... that Amir Garrett was ranked the 68th best college basketball recruit and could throw a 96-mile-per-hour (154 km/h) fastball?
... that before the Armenian Genocide, the Karin dialect was spoken in two provincial centers in eastern Turkey?
... that Scottish American stone mason Daniel Pennie carved the grout he used on his house to resemble stone?

18 April 2013

16:00, 18 April 2013 (UTC)

... that a liver bird survives in the bombed-out Church of St Luke, Liverpool (pictured)?
... that Karlheinz Oswald created sculptures of Cardinal Volk, Pierre de Coubertin, and Hildegard of Bingen?
... that the Great Eastern Hotel in Kolkata, built in 1840 or 1841, may have been the first hotel in India with electricity?
... that the Great Eastern Hotel, near Liverpool Street station, London, used to have fresh sea water brought in for guests' baths?
... that Syrian veteran officer Sa'id al-'As was killed in action commanding Arab rebels in a confrontation with British forces near Jerusalem during the 1936 Palestine Revolt?
... that Rihanna's Good Girl Gone Bad: Reloaded led Good Girl Gone Bad to reach a 930% increase in sales?
... that Arsenal became known as the Bank of England club after gaining the largest amount of income from match days and being cautious with money while also breaking British transfer records?

08:00, 18 April 2013 (UTC)

... that most of the Central African Republic is covered by the Bangui Magnetic Anomaly (pictured as large red anomaly in central Africa), the result of an igneous intrusion or meteorite impact?
... that settlers of the American frontier in the 19th century sometimes fell victim to prairie madness, in which social isolation and other hardships of life on the prairie caused them to develop mental illness?
... that in the late 19th century the residents of al-Sahwah, a Syrian village in the Hauran, paid the Druze chiefs of the area to gain access to a water canal south of the village?
... that the position of Chief Justice of Hungary was held mostly by ecclesiastical dignitaries until the 1507 reform?
... that former Marquette University basketball player Tony Miller recorded 956 assists during his career, which is currently the seventh-most in NCAA Division I history?
... that London-based butchers C Lidgate employed five generations of the same family?
... that the Sugababes' song "Angels with Dirty Faces" was promoted through Cartoon Network's animated television series The Powerpuff Girls?

00:00, 18 April 2013 (UTC)

... that the Lichtental Church (pictured), consecrated in 1730 to the Fourteen Holy Helpers, is known as the Schubertkirche, because Schubert was baptised and conducted his sacred music there?
... that the Tête nucléaire océanique is a new French thermonuclear warhead that will replace the currently deployed TN 75 warhead beginning in 2015?
... that Holy Trinity Church, Wavertree, was described by John Betjeman as Liverpool's best Georgian church?
... that Earl Rose performed autopsies on J. D. Tippit, Lee Harvey Oswald, and Jack Ruby, but was not permitted to examine President John F. Kennedy?
... that the ten-lined urchin was one of several species used in research to determine the feasibility of using non-invasive MRI technology to study the internal anatomy of echinoids?
... that following the Tay Bridge disaster, a viaduct on the North British, Arbroath and Montrose Railway became so seriously distorted during testing that a new one had to be designed and built?
... that former German secretary Margot Wölk's background as Adolf Hitler's personal food taster was revealed on her 95th birthday?

17 April 2013

16:00, 17 April 2013 (UTC)

... that in the poem Kali the Mother written by Swami Vivekananda in 1898, the poet worshipped the terrible form of Hindu goddess Kali (pictured)?
... that during the six months that the 824th Tank Destroyer Battalion served in the European theater of World War II, its officers and men were awarded six Silver Stars and thirty-one Bronze Stars?
... that the name of the search engine Shodan, which searches devices linked to the Internet, is based on the character of the same name in the System Shock game series?
... that when the 1962 Alabama Crimson Tide football team lost to Georgia Tech, it ended a 19-game winning and 26-game unbeaten streak that dated back to their 1960 season?
... that the father of silent film actress and supercentenarian Mabel Richardson died when she was seven?
... that the Childers Incident of 1793 was the first action between British and French forces in the French Revolutionary Wars?
... that the Great Moonbuggy Race is underway right now?

08:00, 17 April 2013 (UTC)

... that Canada's Glacier National Park (pictured) contains moonmilk?
... that Armenian American biologist Greg Hampikian is considered one of the foremost forensic DNA experts in the United States?
... that the food featured in the movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding was provided by the Greek restaurant Papa Cristo's?
... that the juvenile leaves of Placospermum coriaceum are up to 90 cm (35 in) long?
... that Detroit Titans men's basketball player Ray McCallum, Jr. was "one of the most highly-recruited players in school history"?
... that between the first white settlement in 1856 and the end of the Mendocino War in 1860, the Native American population in Mendocino County, California, decreased by 80%?
... that Akokan, Roberto Fonseca's sixth studio album, features some "lovely sax work"?

00:00, 17 April 2013 (UTC)

... that the Church of St Paul, Liverpool, (pictured) was designed by Giles Gilbert Scott, who also designed Liverpool Cathedral?
... that baseball pitcher Eric King was credited with three complete games and three saves in his rookie season?
... that during the Great Syrian Revolt, rebel commander Hasan al-Kharrat led the capture of the Azm Palace, aiming for Maurice Sarrail, the High Commissioner of the French Mandate?
... that actor Andrew Robinson wrote the novel A Stitch in Time, which is about his character from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine?
... that James Hall's 1883 history of Nantwich remains one of the chief sources for the Cheshire town's history?
... that woodcarver Park Chan-su, one of Korea's Important Cultural Assets, drives his chisel with a wooden fish instead of a mallet?
... that the name of the newly defined genus of macadamia-like trees, Lasjia, is derived from the initials of Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson?

16 April 2013

16:00, 16 April 2013 (UTC)

... that while trying to disavow the Rudd Concession, King Lobengula of Matabeleland (pictured) sent emissaries to meet with Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle?
... that superior artillery created by Jean Bureau helped France achieve victories in several important battles of the Hundred Years' War?
... that the Bishop of Cambrai was benefactor of the monastic library at Groenendael Priory?
... that Annika Zeyen and Maria Kühn were both members of the wheelchair basketball team that was awarded Germany's highest sporting honour, the Silver Laurel Leaf?
... that Tonia Marketaki's psychological crime film John the Violent is based on an actual murder which happened in Athens in the 1960s?
... that the Saxon Tithe Barn was a filming location for the TV series Robin of Sherwood, doubling as Nottingham Castle's great hall?
... that baseball umpire Nelson Díaz gained prominence in Cuba after shoving an American coach?

08:00, 16 April 2013 (UTC)

... that the wildlife of Vietnam includes the saola (pictured), an antelope-like animal unknown to Western science until found in 1992 in the Bach Ma National Park?
... that 20th Century Fox executive Fred Baron worked at a department store and the mailroom of a studio before being given a chance at film producing?
... that neural folds turn into the central nervous system?
... that Doaksville, Choctaw Nation, was the largest town in the Indian Territory in 1850?
... that Max Reinhart made his National Hockey League debut for the Calgary Flames, the same franchise his father Paul began his career with?
... that the Nandu River Iron Bridge was built by the Imperial Japanese Army in Hainan, China, during the Second Sino-Japanese War as the first bridge to span the Nandu River?
... that sociologist Ben Aggers has described the trend of selfies as "the male gaze gone viral"?

00:00, 16 April 2013 (UTC)

... that until the 1970s there were more plantings of the hybrid grape Couderc noir in France than of Cabernet Sauvignon (pictured)?
... that Kenneth Bowra helped to develop the first human rights policy for American special forces soldiers?
... that Bach composed Der Herr ist mein getreuer Hirt (The Lord Is My Faithful Shepherd) in 1731, to complete his 1724 cycle of chorale cantatas?
... that the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Demons" guest starred Peter Weller, who is set to appear in the 2013 film Star Trek Into Darkness?
... that the moated Baroque Holzhausenschlösschen, completed in 1729 as a summer residence of the Frankfurt Holzhausen family, has served as a cultural venue since 1989?
... that Memphis Tigers basketball player Joe Jackson was the first in league history to win back-to-back Conference USA Tournament MVP awards?
... that Faroese girls would test their boyfriends' readiness for marriage by presenting them with woolly willy warmers?

15 April 2013

16:00, 15 April 2013 (UTC)

... that the Baroli Temples (temple complex pictured), one of the earliest temple complexes in Rajasthan, India, are reported to have been built during the Gurjara-Pratihara Empire in the 10th-11th centuries?
... that Mona Lisa replicas and reinterpretations have been created using everything from seaweed to software?
... that the release of Tunisian director Néjia Ben Mabrouk's debut film Sama was delayed for six years because of a dispute with the production company?
... that the European Underwater and Baromedical Society was formed in 1971 to further education and research in diving and hyperbaric medicine?
... that in 1925, an assault by Druze rebels against French troops based in al-Musayfirah resulted in the French Mandate's first victory during the Great Syrian Revolt?
... that the 2013 boxing-related death of Michael Norgrove was the first in the United Kingdom in 18 years?
... that the Puits d'amour pastry caused scandal in 18th century France because of the erotic connotation of its name?

08:00, 15 April 2013 (UTC)

... that the cursed Ring of Silvianus (pictured) may have inspired J. R. R. Tolkien to write The Hobbit?
... that Swabhiman Sanghatana, headed by Nitesh Narayan Rane, set a Guinness World Record by conducting a job fair which gave over 25,000 jobs to unemployed youth?
... that the mayor of Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil wanted his town to have its own AOC separate from Bourgueil despite the two areas having essentially identical terroir and producing similar wines?
... that after Flamur Kastrati was injured in a match between MSV Duisburg and Energie Cottbus, both teams stopped playing football?
... that Horace Greeley's daughter donated family land to be used for a new train station in Chappaqua, New York, on the condition that a small public park always be maintained in front of it?
... that when José Fernández defected from Cuba, his mother fell overboard and he jumped in to save her life?
... that cockroach racing started in Australia in 1982, and is also held at the Loyola University Maryland, under the name "Madagascar Madness: The Running of the Roaches"?

00:00, 15 April 2013 (UTC)

... that the wines of Maury are still made using the technique of halting fermentation with grape spirits perfected in 1299 by Catalan alchemist Arnaldus de Villa Nova (pictured)?
... that Julia Pierson is the first female Director of the United States Secret Service?
... that Inheritance tells of Monika Hertwig's investigation into what her mother never told her?
... that Derick Ashe was appointed British Ambassador to Argentina in March 1975 as tensions mounted between the respective governments, and survived a car bomb blast the following month?
... that chopped pork shoulder barbecue sandwiches served with coleslaw atop them are common in Memphis, Tennessee?
... that Emeli Sandé has written songs which have peaked at number one on the UK Singles, UK Dance and UK R&B charts?
... that Scott Rice played in minor league baseball for 14 seasons before a 2013 promotion to Major League Baseball?

14 April 2013

16:00, 14 April 2013 (UTC)

... that Ralli Hall (pictured) in Hove—founded 100 years ago today—has been an Anglican church hall, a Jewish place of worship, a wartime drill hall, a cinema, and a zumba venue, among other things?
... that Gulf Cartel drug lord Miguel Villarreal allegedly ordered kidnappings in South Texas from Mexico in 2011?
... that although Kokis is considered a traditional Sri Lankan dish, its name is believed to be of Dutch origin?
... that Spanish communist resistance member Sixto Agudo was sentenced to death, but released from jail in 1961?
... that the Lulua Mosque in Cairo, built in 1015–16 during Caliph al-Hakim's reign, partially collapsed in 1919 and was restored in 1998 by the Dawoodi Bohras, a community of Indian Muslims?
... that football player Ebenezer Assifuah scored in all of Ghana's 2013 African U-20 Championship group matches en route to the finals?
... that Long Churn Cave contains the "Cheesepress"?

08:00, 14 April 2013 (UTC)

... that King's Bastion (model pictured), instrumental in defending Gibraltar during its Great Siege, was later used as a generating station and is now a leisure centre?
... that Paleolithic human remains were discovered on Ishigaki Island, Japan, during the construction of New Ishigaki Airport?
... that Drew Cannon is believed to be the first person hired by a college basketball team to perform statistical analysis?
... that "Shooting Star", the eighteenth episode of the fourth season of Glee, has been characterized as "unsettling" and "harrowing" by pre-broadcast reviewers?
... that the Japanese pagoda at the Museums of the Far East in Brussels, Belgium is nearly 50 metres (160 ft) high?
... that in rugby union, Sid Going won the Tom French Cup a record six times between 1967 and 1972?
... that Indian social worker and socialist politician Mama Baleshwar Dayal once led a "cut down the forest" movement?

00:00, 14 April 2013 (UTC)

... that contrary to the racist stereotype that African Americans eat more watermelon than average (1909 illustration pictured), a survey showed that they actually eat less?
... that Michael Piller's original idea for Star Trek: Insurrection was based on the Joseph Conrad novel Heart of Darkness?
... that in his book In Secret Tibet, author Theodore Illion relates how he twice saw what he called "flying lamas" who could supposedly sit on an ear of barley without bending its stalk?
... that following the crushing of the 1982 Hama revolt, the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood formed a broad alliance with Arab nationalist factions?
... that a hwahyejang (traditional Korean shoemaker) can take as long as a week to create a pair of shoes?
... that a drought in 1902 at Kynuna Station in Australia meant that 81,000 of a flock of 82,000 sheep had to be sent away?
... that in 2008, a portrait of the 18th-century racehorse Ambrosio was sold in an auction in New York for more than $200,000?

13 April 2013

16:00, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

... that a 1911 show of paintings by Max Weber (1916 painting pictured) resulted in "one of the most merciless critical whippings that any artist has received in America"?
... that Israeli lightweight MMA fighter Ido Pariente lost to American welterweight Jake Shields, after accepting the fight without realizing Shields fought at a heavier weight?
... that in World War II's top-secret Operation Fish, the United Kingdom shipped more than a billion dollars in gold and securities to Canada, and not one ship was lost?
... that William Leveson was sued by the Virginia Company in 1613?
... that the Blanc de Hotot rabbit is completely white, except for black rings around the eyes which present "the appearance of fine spectacles"?
... that to portray battalion commander LtCol Stephen "Godfather" Ferrando in the 2008 miniseries Generation Kill, actor Chance Kelly spent five months filming in Africa?
... that the tunicate Oikopleura cophocerca lives in a disposable house on plankton broth?

08:00, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

... that Michigan Wolverines football in the Kipke years (Kipke pictured) included a four-year stretch in which the team won two national championships and had three undefeated seasons?
... that the Governor of California Jerry Brown's gubernatorial portrait was described as looking like "spilled ketchup and soy sauce"?
... that former Chicago Bears chairman Ed McCaskey tried out for Harry James' band, but lost out to Frank Sinatra?
... that Vidal Blanc is grown just 500 miles (800 km) south of the Arctic Circle and used to make ice wine in Sweden?
... that Norris Bradbury replaced Robert Oppenheimer as director of the Los Alamos Laboratory?
... that the film Ikan Doejoeng was advertised as giving viewers "a good perspective on the Eastern mentality"?
... that replacement baseball umpire Joe Padilla once operated a grill-cleaning business?

00:00, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

... that ten of the twenty McDonnell Douglas A-4G Skyhawk aircraft (pictured) operated by the Royal Australian Navy between 1967 and 1984 were destroyed in accidents?
... that the fossil yew Taxus masonii was described from fifteen fossils collected from 1942 to 1989?
... that Kevin Ware's broken leg during the Elite Eight resulted in sympathetic comments from Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, and Kevin Durant?
... that in 1987 the Revolutionary Palestinian Communist Party and the Palestinian Communist Party switched places as members of the PLO?
... that the wall panels on the Enterprise were nicknamed "Mees panels" in Star Trek scripts after set decorator Jim Mees?
... that William of Canterbury, author of a hagiography of the murdered Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket, was an eyewitness to the murder?
... that Alec Douglas-Home described himself to portrait artist Juliet Pannett as having "the biggest head in London"?

12 April 2013

16:00, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

... that in 2013 Kerala High Court judge Manjula Chellur (pictured) refused the plea of the Leader of the Opposition for an early hearing in another investigation of the "Ice Cream Parlour sabotage case"?
... that Mutya Buena's single "Just a Little Bit" contains Motown influences?
... that dozens of baseball players have defected from Cuba during events such as the Mariel boatlift and the 1996 Summer Olympics?
... that while researching his 1964 book The Mare's Nest, David Irving discovered the existence of the Allied programme to break the Enigma code but agreed to keep it secret?
... that Admiral Sir Vernon Harry Stuart Haggard joined the Royal Navy as a youth?
... that the creators of the Kickstarter-funded Star Trek: Renegades hope to use it as a pilot for a new series on CBS?
... that Picasso's poetry has lines like "my grandmother's big balls are shining midst the thistles" and that one of his works depicts Franco as a jackbooted phallus?

08:00, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

... that the general public cannot visit the Connecticut wildlife center where the recent birth of an endangered Rothschild's giraffe (adult pictured) received extensive media attention?
... that Norwegian football club Egersunds IK won promotion to the third tier in 2011 because IK Start was relegated from the top flight?
... that creature and concept designer Neville Page portrayed minor roles in soap operas, including General Hospital?
... that Locko Preceptory is the only recorded Lazarite Preceptory in England?
... that Christian rock band Casting Crowns' song "American Dream" became the band's first music video?
... that Lesley Yellowlees is the first female president of the Royal Society of Chemistry and is the subject of two portraits in the National Portrait Gallery?
... that a man described by his neighbours as "the upstart spawn of an Edinburgh strumpet" inherited the large and valuable estate of a former Lieutenant Governor of Tobago?

00:00, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

... that the Albany office and laboratory (pictured) of paleontologist James Hall will soon be part of the first bilingual Montessori school in upstate New York?
... that the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Exile" was seen as a play on the Beauty and the Beast story, and one critic thought that the new sets reminded her of a Disney Castle?
... that there have been fourteen sieges of Gibraltar, making it one of the most fought-over places in Europe?
... that Korean dancer Ha Po-gyong continued performing well into his eighties?
... that pastis magnate Paul Ricard created the Paul Ricard Oceanographic Institute on the Île des Embiez, and the Universal Exposition of Wines and Spirits on the Île de Bendor?
... that the T1 Tramway near Paris marks the return of trams to Paris after their disappearance in 1957?

11 April 2013

16:00, 11 April 2013 (UTC)

... that Beirut's Saint George Greek Orthodox Cathedral sits on the vestiges of three earlier church structures dating back as early as the 5th century AD?
... that James Nelson Barker's play The Indian Princess is largely responsible for the modern version of the Pocahontas story?
... that Scott Bakula gave a video interview from the set of the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "The Shipment" on Good Day Live, to promote a different episode of the show?
... that in June 1537 Elizabeth Bourchier's servant received two shillings as a reward for bringing strawberries and cream to the future Queen Mary?
... that the whereabouts of the original K'iche' version of the 16th-century Título de Totonicapán was unknown after its translation into Spanish in 1834 until it was shown to American anthropologist Robert Carmack in 1973?
... that Sir Godfrey Haggard directed the American Forces Liaison Division of the Ministry of Information after his retirement as the British Consul General at New York?
... that drunk rabbits up to 30 m (98 ft) high are found in Queensland rainforests?

08:00, 11 April 2013 (UTC)

... that in the wildlife of Niger, the Dama gazelle (pictured) species is a symbol that appears on the badge of the Niger national football team?
... that histone methylation helps regulate gene expression by controlling whether DNA is exposed to proteins and transcription factors?
... that INS Kadmatt is the second of four anti-submarine warfare corvettes being built for the Indian Navy by the Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers, Kolkata, under Project 28?
... that the first fashion show of Ahmedabad was held under Calico Dome?
... that Sir Michael Stanhope was beheaded on Tower Hill on 26 February 1552 after having been convicted of conspiring to take the life of John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland, and others?
... that John Ireland's Fantasy-Sonata was inspired by Satyricon and the composer's wartime evacuation from Jersey?
... that in his 1570 cookbook Opera dell'arte del cucinare, Bartolomeo Scappi included a recipe for crostata using "the viscera of any sort of turtle"?

10 April 2013

23:45, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

... that the 1933 film Eskimo (poster pictured) was the first movie with sound in a Native American language?
... that the trans-border Muhuri River is also called the Little Feni?
... that the NYU Violets men's basketball team, twice national champions before the creation of the NCAA tournament, had to be disbanded in 1971 due to a budget crisis?
... that the Plantation Workers International Federation was founded in Tunis in July 1957?
... that the intro to "Already There", a song by Christian rock band Casting Crowns, was compared to U2's "Beautiful Day"?
... that reporter Merrill Mueller was removed from the European Theatre during World War II because he reported that the Soviets weren't communicating with Supreme Commander Eisenhower during the Battle of the Bulge?
... that ancient Egyptian deities were often combined with each other, even when they were of opposite sexes?

15:30, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

... that mountain rockets (pictured) are found in alpine and subalpine parts of Tasmania?
... that the honeysuckle tunicate often grows intertwined with the bryozoan Amathia vidovici?
... that the Norwegian pretender Sigurd Slembe was brutally tortured, mutilated and executed following his capture in the Battle of Holmengrå?
... that while boarding the frigate Créole, Toussaint Louverture issued his famous statement that "the tree of liberty will spring up again from the roots, for they are many and they are deep"?
... that, on the encouragement of fans, John Grisham wrote The Racketeer with an African-American protagonist and hopes Denzel Washington will play the role in the movie adaptation?
... that Piddles Wood in Dorset was once home to the Pearl-bordered Fritillary (Boloria euphrosyne), now believed to be extinct in Dorset?
... that a smelling screen can project a smell to the specific spot that a corresponding digital image is displayed on screen?

07:15, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

... that cartoonist Winsor McCay (pictured) created comic strips and animation about explosive sneezes and exploding mosquitoes, the dreams of children and of adults, a dancing dinosaur, and the World War I torpedoing of the RMS Lusitania?
... that human sacrifice among the pre-Columbian Maya was performed in a number of ways, including decapitation, heart extraction, shooting with bow and arrows and disembowelment?
... that winemakers used to add urea to grape must as a nitrogen source for wine yeast?
... that after NBC shuffled its 2012–13 television schedule, Ready for Love was given a two-hour timeslot following The Voice, starting April 9?
... that the Monbar Hotel attack was the deadliest carried out by the GAL, a death squad established by officials of the Spanish state?
... that conservation areas in Crawley, West Sussex, include some 1930s almshouses, 1950s flats and two 1970s housing estates?
... that an American football injury almost ended Ryan Pressly's baseball career?

9 April 2013

23:00, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

... that a Kabbalistic decoding of the Book of Genesis by Charles George Gordon suggested Vallée de Mai (pictured) in Seychelles is the Garden of Eden?
... that former parachute factory worker Emile Turlant is currently, at age 109, France's oldest living man?
... that Monastery of the Transfiguration of Kinaliada is where Byzantine emperor Romanos IV Diogenes was exiled after his eyes were gouged out?
... that Frédéric Chopin and Napoleon III were both in love with Maria Wodzińska?
... that 50 people died when a Boeing 727 crashed into a house at Fernhill on its approach to Gatwick Airport in 1969, but a baby in the house survived?
... that at the age of 49, Britt Dillmann was the oldest wheelchair basketball player at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London?
... that the BIL gates technology recently entered into the public domain?

14:45, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

... that Mound 72 (pictured) at Cahokia in pre-Columbian western Illinois was the site of ritual human sacrifice, including a pit burial containing 53 young women?
... that José Maria Larocca spent reported millions on the horse Okidoki for the 2012 Summer Olympics, but the horse died two years before the event?
... that Ludovic Kennedy said that The Land of Lost Content revealed "many uncomfortable home truths", but Paul Foot described it as "a wretched hagiography"?
... that according to Thomas Jefferson, U.S. House Representative Alexander White reluctantly supported the Funding Act of 1790 bill "with a revulsion of stomach almost convulsive"?
... that Mount Pleasant was the base trig station for the survey of the Canterbury settlement in New Zealand?
... that German footballer Michael Petry made his professional debut aged 36, and scored within two minutes of coming on the pitch?
... that the Aztec UFO Crash was faked to sell devices called "doodlebugs"?

06:30, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

... that throughout the 400-year history of Combermere Abbey (pictured), various of its abbots and priors were excommunicated, assaulted, murdered, and accused of forgery and covering up murder?
... that Towson University men's basketball player Jerrelle Benimon was not even selected to the 2012–13 preseason all-conference team, yet went on to become its player of the year?
... that "Change" was considered a contender for the UK Singles Chart Christmas number one, but only managed to reach number 13?
... that the Better Farming Train promoted the latest agricultural research in Saskatchewan, Canada between 1914 and 1922?
... that Wins Above Replacement is a sabermetric baseball statistic that measures "a player's total contributions to their team"?
... that Elizabeth Bacon has been identified as the Lady Nevell of My Ladye Nevells Booke, a manuscript of keyboard music by William Byrd?
... that elephant racing held with 16 circus elephants became a major event (though it generated protests) in Germany in 2000, and was an organized International event held in Nepal in 1982?

8 April 2013

22:30, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

... that William J. Powell (pictured) founded a flying club in honor of Bessie Coleman and in 1931 hosted the first ever all-Black air show in the United States?
... that the 1664 bridge on Getar River was one of the few buildings that survived the 1679 earthquake?
... that Elise Andrew has been called the Neil deGrasse Tyson of Facebook?
... that a series of mostly pagan uprisings in 1030s Kingdom of Poland threw the young Polish realm into chaos?
... that King Stephen of England threatened to hang Roger le Poer, his ex-Lord Chancellor, in order to force Roger's mother to surrender the castle she held?
... that Junior Aaron Craft was the Academic All-America Team Member of the Year on the 2013 NCAA Men's Basketball All-American team?
... that the ironclad HMS Resistance was the first capital ship in the Royal Navy to be fitted with a ram and was given the nickname of Old Rammo?

14:00, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

... that Bangui (picture of a boat race in the river) was once considered to have "the most remote radio station in Africa"?
... that Al Green said that recording his song "Love and Happiness" was "like mixing explosive chemicals – everything had to be added at just the right time and at just the right dose"?
... that the Syrian town of Harran al-Awamid was named after the ruins of three Roman era basaltic columns protruding out from the roof of a mudbrick house?
... that NIRDESH in Kozhikode district of Kerala is India's first centre for research and development in defence shipbuilding?
... that the Nettleton Mill in Wiltshire, an 18th-century Grade II Listed building, is now a country retreat?
... that the London scrivener, Thomas Brend, was the owner of the land on which the Globe Theatre was built?
... that disputes over Nisqually fishing rights led to the Fish Wars of the 1960s?

06:20, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

... that T. W. Wood told Darwin that the Argus pheasant he was illustrating for him (pictured) could not be explained by Darwin's theory?
... that during the Manhattan Project, physicist Robert Bacher served on the Cowpuncher Committee?
... that Berkeley law dean Frank C. Newman, whose work on international human rights law was prompted by a sabbatical year in Geneva, Switzerland, was appointed to the Supreme Court of California in 1977?
... that the west front of the Church of St Dunstan, Liverpool, has been described as "impressive if rather curious"?
... that Wounds of Armenia, the first Armenian novel, was published 10 years after the disappearance of its author Khachatur Abovian?
... that Everett Hughes was General Dwight D. Eisenhower's "right-hand man" during the European campaign of World War II?
... that the Mars Cheese Castle, a Wisconsin "cheese landmark", was visited by U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden while he campaigned for the 2012 presidential election?

7 April 2013

16:37, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

... that Elizabeth, queen of Henry VII of England, bought a belt that had touched the Girdle of Thomas (legend illustrated) to help her pregnancy?
... that paintings by Finnish artist Ilona Harima were influenced by the cultures of India and Tibet but she never visited either country?
... that the 1963 Alabama Crimson Tide football team defeated Southeastern Conference (SEC) champion Ole Miss in a Sugar Bowl that featured two SEC teams?
... that the octagonal tower of St Luke's Church, Hodnet, is the only tower of its type in Shropshire?
... that the Syrian village of Marj al-Sultan, near Damascus, served as a major transit point for Circassian migrants heading south to the Golan Heights and Transjordan?
... that the Minotaur-class cruisers of 1906 have been described by naval historian R. A. Burt as "cruiser editions of the Lord Nelson-class battleship"?
... that due to their success in the caviar industry, the Russian Armenian Mailov brothers were known as the "Kings of fish roe"?

08:52, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

... that ex-slave Mary Fields was forced to leave St. Peter's Mission Church and Cemetery (pictured in 1884) by the bishop?
... that the Indio Comahue Monument, commemorating the native inhabitants of the Comahue region of Argentina, was built in 1964 for the first National Comahue Fair?
... that Patrick Keogh was recruited into the 1888–1889 New Zealand Native football team despite being born in Birmingham, England?
... that Dmitry Bortniansky was the most prolific composer of choral concertos, short compositions for unaccompanied voices to be sung in the Divine Liturgy?
... that the Loire wine grape Pineau d'Aunis was a favorite of King Henry III of England?
... that Felix Robertson, the first white child born in what is today Nashville, Tennessee, would later serve twice as the city's mayor?
... that the Hundertwasser Toilets are the most photographed toilets in New Zealand?

01:07, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

... that the statues of Castor and Pollux (detail pictured) at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, were created by Max von Widnmann, who studied and taught there?
... that Wolf Creek, which originates on Banner Mountain, has a heavily mined watershed?
... that American, Belgian and British soldiers attended the funeral of Walter Waddington, along with an entire French cavalry brigade?
... that a Gacaca court found that at least 64,000 people were massacred in Kabgayi in 1994?
... that Glenn Curtiss became "the fastest man alive" for going faster than anything on land, sea or air on a motorcycle with an aircraft V-8 engine, setting an unofficial record that stood for 30 years?
... that Polish postmodernism met with severe impediments not so much from the communist establishment as from Solidarity and the Catholic Church?
... that Glenn Duffie Shriver pleaded guilty to spying for China, although his fiancée called him "Mr. Patriot"?

6 April 2013

17:22, 6 April 2013 (UTC)

... that the pink and black sea cucumber (pictured) is eaten as "bêche-de-mer" in China and Indonesia?
... that although the medieval Lord Chancellor Ralph de Warneville was a friend of Arnulf of Lisieux, Ralph helped to force Arnulf's resignation as Bishop of Lisieux?
... that Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom was the first unified musical setting of the Divine Liturgy?
... that the appearance of the British Invincible-class battlecruisers in 1908 rendered the Japanese Ibuki-class armored cruisers obsolete before they were commissioned?
... that the telescoping effect occurs when people perceive recent events as being more remote than they are and distant events as being more recent than they are?
... that the only sides that have beaten England in women's Test cricket are Australia and India?
... that removal of "doggers" has caused much of Warren Hill to slip away?

08:45, 6 April 2013 (UTC)

... that the last Polish red złoty (pictured) were the so-called "insurgent ducats" minted at the Warsaw mint in 1831, on the eve of the November Uprising?
... that the horse genome contains 2.7 billion DNA base pairs, and horses have over 90 hereditary diseases similar to those found in humans?
... that the Citra Award for Best Director, established in 1955, once went to Teguh Karya of November 1828?
... that the west portal and the main windows in the Church of St Christopher, Norris Green, Liverpool, are hyperbolic in shape?
... that Latvian-American mathematician Lipman Bers was also a human rights activist and a founder of the Committee on Human Rights of the National Academy of Sciences?
... that Vito Alessio Robles was one of the first romantic revolutionaries of Mexico?
... that plants of the genus Triunia have attractive but highly toxic fruit?

00:30, 6 April 2013 (UTC)

... that actors in Norway went on strike in 1941 after work permits for six actors, including Elisabeth Gording and Lillemor von Hanno (pictured), were revoked for refusal to perform on Nazi-controlled radio?
... that the Lingayen-Lucena corridor has been described as the place where national elections are won in the Philippines?
... that Josh Rutledge was named the California League's player of the week twice in his second professional baseball season?
... that the national colours of Greece were specified in the Greek Constitution of 1822, drafted during the Greek War of Independence from the Ottoman Empire?
... that the fungus Sclerotium cepivorum causes onions to rot in the ground while Botrytis allii causes them to rot during storage?
... that the 17th-century English poet Thomas Jordan wrote one poem that was widely anthologized in the 20th century, even though his poetry had been disdained by his contemporaries?
... that it is hoped that Arsenal's game against Indonesia, to be played as a warm up match for Arsenal's 2013–14 season, will help ease an internal dispute between the PSSI and KPSI?

5 April 2013

16:00, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

... that in the chancel wall of Holy Trinity Church, Holdgate, Shropshire, is a sheela na gig?
... that Lord Pitfour used a trick to save many Jacobite rebels from execution?
... that Circassians in Syria occupied many villages, including Murayj al-Durr, having been relocated to the country by the Ottoman authorities in an effort to combat rising local dissent during the nineteenth century?
... that Norwegian footballer Espen Hægeland scored more than 50 goals for Lyngdal IL in 2012?
... that Mir Hazar Khan Khoso is the current caretaker Prime Minister of Pakistan?
... that independent South African online newspaper Daily Maverick was influenced by defunct South African business magazine Maverick and American news websites The Daily Beast and The Huffington Post?
... that Robert of Ghent, a 12th-century Lord Chancellor of England, once tried to prevent an Archbishop of York from entering the city of York?

08:00, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

... that the wildlife of Libya includes the Mediterranean monk seal (pictured), which is listed as Critically Endangered?
... that general Ants Kurvits became the first head of the Estonian Border Guard in 1922, and held that position almost continuously for the whole interwar period?
... that areas along the Tubutulik River contain abnormal radioactivity?
... that India got their first Test cricket win against England in 1952 at the Madras Cricket Club Ground?
... that by 1940, Mount Mary College president Edward Fitzpatrick was considered one of the United States' "foremost authorities in military conscription"?
... that Bikenibeu, a settlement in Kiribati, could be completely flooded if sea levels rise by one metre?
... that the Tswana ruler and rainmaker Sechele I, denounced for polygamy by David Livingstone, was one of the most successful Christian missionaries of the 19th century?

00:00, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

... that astrophysicist Joan Feynman (pictured), sister of noted physicist Richard Feynman, discovered that auroras are caused by the solar wind's magnetic field interacting with Earth's magnetosphere?
... that the Indian Navy's anti-submarine warfare corvette INS Kiltan is named after Kiltan, a coral island of India's Union Territory of Lakshadweep?
... that 2012–13 Atlantic 10 Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year, Khalif Wyatt, was considered "high maintenance" early in his career by his head coach, Fran Dunphy?
... that the Anosy mouse lemur and Marohita mouse lemur were described as new lemur species in March 2013, and the latter was listed as Endangered the year before?
... that Mario Poli replaced Jorge Bergoglio as Archbishop of Buenos Aires when the latter was elected as Pope Francis?
... that the novel Passing by Nella Larsen, with its focus on "jealousy, psychological ambiguity and intrigue" has been described as a "skillfully executed and enduring work of art"?
... that the Second Street Bridge in Allegan, Michigan, was rehabilitated by rolling it ashore and disassembling it?

4 April 2013

16:15, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

... that Admiral Eduard von Capelle (pictured) was responsible for writing the legislation that funded the battleships of the German High Seas Fleet before World War I?
... that Miss Calypso, a 1957 album by future poet and writer Maya Angelou, was reissued in 1995, probably as part of the "exotica-space age pop revival"?
... that Ferndown Common in Dorset supports such rare heathland species as the Sand Lizard (Lacerta agilis) and Smooth Snake (Coronella austriaca)?
... that offensive tackles Mitchell Schwartz and Geoff Schwartz are the first Jewish brothers to play in the National Football League since Arnold Horween and Ralph Horween, in 1923?
... that the song "Tunnel Vision" by Justin Timberlake features several voyeuristic references?
... that in the Gossaum fights during Korean New Year, the straw constructions are deliberately mismatched to give the preferred team an advantage?
... that American Founding Father Thomas Jefferson discovered vanilla ice cream in France, and then introduced it to the United States?

08:30, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

... that Grand Duke Leszek the White and a number of other Polish Piast dukes were ambushed in their baths during the 13th-century regicide and massacre at Gąsawa (pictured)?
... that Kentucky established a record with six blue chip recruits from a single school being selected to the 2013 McDonald's All-American Boys Game?
... that Zoebaida kept audiences focused by using alternating long shots and close-ups?
... that Amanda Clement was the first woman paid to umpire a baseball game?
... that the French ship Hercule had been in commission just 24 hours when captured by HMS Mars at the Battle of the Raz de Sein?
... that John Knox's journals provide one of the most complete accounts of the British Army's campaigns in North America from 1757 to 1760?
... that the Coorabulka station in Australia lost 4,000 square miles (10,360 km²) of grazing lands during a rat plague in 1940?

00:30, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

... that Pinus densiflora (pictured) is a dominant forest component of the flora of North Korea?
... that Sir Roger Townshend's portrait was among those on a tapestry commemorating the destruction of the Spanish Armada which hung in the House of Lords until the tapestry was destroyed by fire in 1834?
... that Graduados is the first remake produced by the Chilean TV channel Chilevisión?
... that new South Alabama head basketball coach Matthew Graves is one of three brothers from the tiny town of Switz City, Indiana, to play basketball for Butler?
... that for all species of bats native to Canada, there have been five total recorded cases of bat to human rabies transmission since 1925?
... that A. M. B. H. G. Abeyrathnebanda, who was killed in action at 19 years of age, is the youngest recipient of the Parama Weera Vibhushanaya?
... that Justin Timberlake's song "Strawberry Bubblegum" contains references to "Pop", a song by his former band 'N Sync?

3 April 2013

16:00, 3 April 2013 (UTC)

... that the Quaker meetinghouse (pictured) in the Old Chappaqua Historic District, the oldest building in New Castle, New York, was used to treat Continental Army casualties of the Battle of White Plains?
... that the cruise ship Norwegian Getaway will feature an entertainment venue devoted to magic, called the "Illusionarium"?
... that Operation Ironside was a Second World War military deception, targeting the Bay of Biscay, in support of the D-Day landings?
... that Shell Beach in Western Australia is entirely composed of empty shells of the heart cockle?
... that Franz Schubert's third mass in B flat major is by its short duration a missa brevis, but by its large orchestral force of brass, woodwinds, and timpani a missa solemnis?
... that Parley Common in Dorset has at least 147 species of spider among its fauna, including the very rare Ero aphana, and Xysticus robustus?
... that Horween Leather Company makes the National Football League's footballs, colloquially known as "pigskins", out of steer hides?

08:00, 3 April 2013 (UTC)

... that in The Malay Archipelago, Wallace is greeted by 50 exuberant Papuan Ké Islanders (pictured), naked but for shells and Cassowary plumes?
... that baseball pitcher Darin Downs had to regain the ability to speak after being hit in the head by a batted ball?
... that in the film Debipaksha (2004), a Bengali priest named his three daughters Rebati, Haimanti and Jayanti, the names of Hindu goddess Durga?
... that the spiral galaxy NGC 5585 contains a supernova remnant that is over 650 light-years long, 300 light-years wide and still expanding?
... that Franz Schubert's fourth mass, a missa solemnis in C major, shows a perceived "lightness of touch" in the tradition of Mozart and Michael Haydn?
... that in 2013, Singaporean politician Desmond Lim set a new record for the lowest percentage garnered in an election since the independence of Singapore in 1965?
... that smile mask syndrome may affect people whose jobs force them to smile for many hours per day, and is particularly common in Japan and Korea?

00:00, 3 April 2013 (UTC)

... that when force-fed to mice, the toxin ustalic acid, isolated from the mushroom Tricholoma ustale (pictured), makes them crouch—hesitant to move—before it kills them?
... that "Leafy" Burnham, co-founder of the Barmy Army, got his nickname from the cockney rhyming slang for "thief" while working at British Airways?
... that despite having 6 centimetre (2.4 inch) thorns, Acacia ehrenbergiana is an important food for camels, goats, and sheep?
... that the punishments in Hell that Ralph of Coggeshall's "Vision of Thurkill" claimed would happen to medieval judge Osbert fitzHervey included being forced to eat and then vomit back up hot coins?
... that a vineyard crossing of Peloursin and Syrah produced the wine grape variety Petite Sirah?
... that although the medieval cleric Burchard du Puiset was called the nephew of Hugh du Puiset, the Bishop of Durham, it is possible that Burchard was really Hugh's son?
... that in India, people suffering from puppy pregnancy syndrome believe a dog bite can impregnate humans, including men?

2 April 2013

16:00, 2 April 2013 (UTC)

... that fragments of the coral Acropora grandis (pictured with hawkfish) have been successfully transplanted to a nursery bed and used to regenerate a damaged coral reef?
... that Jörg Faerber was the artistic director of the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn for more than four decades and recorded piano concertos by Shostakovich and Haydn with Martha Argerich?
... that inscriptions in the extinct Bactrian language can be found at Shatial?
... that Soho Pam liked to give her patrons a cuddle?
... that the Lebang Boomani dance is performed by the Tripuri people of Tripura, India, as part of the jhum cultivation cycle?
... that Tom Platt was a member of the Harrogate Town team that reached the FA Cup second round in the 2012–13 season?
... that while plantings of Gros Verdot have been banned in Bordeaux, the grape can still be used to make Bordeaux-style Meritage wines outside of France?

08:00, 2 April 2013 (UTC)

... that the churchyard gates (church pictured) in the small Cheshire village of Burleydam come from Lleweni Hall, and were described as "of great elegance" by Samuel Johnson?
... that the Buddhist court attendant who wrote an anti-Daoist text converted from Daoism after negative experience with Daoist sexual practices?
... that trees of the New Guinea genus Finschia have stilt roots coming off the trunk up to 1.8 m (6 ft) off the ground?
... that Mexican journalist Rodolfo Rincón Taracena was kidnapped, tortured, and burned to death for writing about drug trafficking?
... that at the Action of 16 October 1799 a Spanish treasure convoy worth more than £600,000 (£43 million at present value) was captured by the Royal Navy?
... that the Steps of Cincinnati once stretched over 30 miles (48 km)?
... that one reviewer describes Rihanna's "Jump" as one of two tracks that "see sex wriggling everywhere" on the album Unapologetic?

00:00, 2 April 2013 (UTC)

... that English actor Clive Mantle (portrait pictured) beat up Clint Eastwood?
... that Christina Aguilera had sex for breakfast with slow jam and honey drip?
... that John le Fucker's name probably did not mean what you might think it means?
... that Walter Baxter wrote about the gay Batman–Kent relationship?
... that an armless freak had a chimpanzee as his partner?
... that The Three Musketeers were the nucleus engineers of the Chrysler Corporation?
... that Dick Wick Hall's frog never learned to swim?
... that a mouldy old film was screened at Cannes?
... that Mark Koenig was the last surviving member of the Murderers' Row?

1 April 2013

16:00, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

... that Norwegians built Gibraltar's first school (pictured) in the 1860s?
... that Shitterton has been voted to be worse than Scratchy Bottom or Brokenwind?
... that Siemens is in Püssi?
... that the Aetherius Society believes that their sacred 1,375-foot (419 m) Brown Willy is full of holy energy?
... that Elvis' greatest shit was dropped in 1982?
... that students at Washington College celebrate May Day by running naked around the flag pole on the campus green?
... that Mugeary, which is 25 miles from Glenelg in Scotland, is the namesake of a rock found millions of miles away but just a few hundred feet from Glenelg?
... that James Bond played briefly in the National Football League after completing his military service?
... that sheep enjoy snacking on Pecorino?

08:00, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

... that Polish girls (pictured) are getting wet and spanked today, but will have their revenge tomorrow?
... that a Lady twin produced a Bachelor's Double?
... that Wikipedia was discovered in 2008 between Mars and Jupiter?
... that a Norwegian organization established a women's fart team?
... that Chrisye performed a new song, "Eternal Ballad", five years after his death?
... that some schmuck tried to get the U.S. Supreme Court to let him off for mail fraud because all he did was roll back odometers?
... that the voice of blood is violet and makes no sound?
... that National Hockey League goaltender Sam LoPresti murdered a dolphin to save 28 men?
... that happiness is Dean Martin?

00:00, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

... that Bach performed his cantata Der Himmel lacht! Die Erde jubilieret, BWV 31, festively scored for Easter Sunday, probably in the town church St. Peter und Paul (pictured) in Weimar?
... that Gordon R. Thompson was the youngest-ever appointee to any state supreme court in the U.S. when chosen?
... that the main threat to the Easter Island spiny lobster may be tourists who eat them in restaurants on the island?
... that according to the 1850 US Census, Massachusetts and Rhode Island were the first U.S. states to become urban-majority, 70 years before the U.S. as a whole?
... that Jean Hurault de Boistaillé, ambassador of France, used his appointment at the embassy to collect manuscripts?
... that the Rhinelander rabbit was re-established in the United States in 1972 after a 40-year absence?