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30 June 2022

00:00, 30 June 2022 (UTC)

Ezo flying squirrel

... that the Ezo flying squirrel (pictured) can glide a distance of more than 49 m (160 ft)?
... that Alden Roche played in all but one game during his six seasons with the Green Bay Packers?
... that Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey said that about 80% of the causes driving the ongoing UK cost of living crisis are global?
... that a folded paper lantern shows that certain mathematical definitions of surface area are incorrect?
... that the producer of Kylie Minogue's "Butterfly", American DJ Mark Picchiotti, released it in the US as a promotional single under his label?
... that Mike Sullivan was the first governor in Wyoming's statehood history to have his veto overridden by the state legislature?
... that Şevket Yorulmaz scored 99 goals in 173 matches whilst playing for Beşiktaş?
... that the Aurelia Star, an Iowa newspaper, has changed ownership at least 11 times?

29 June 2022

00:00, 29 June 2022 (UTC)

Paola Cabezas

... that Ecuadorian politician Paola Cabezas (pictured) decided to stop straightening her hair when her niece described her own unstraightened hair as "ugly"?
... that the Supreme Court has been cited as a vector of democratic backsliding in the United States?
... that Takayama, Gifu, distributed 10,000 maps featuring the real-life locations of the anime TV series Hyouka?
... that singer Patsy Torres was referred to as the "princess of Tejano music"?
... that an exhibition match of Australian rules football was contested in London on 28 October 1916 between two teams of elite footballers also serving in the First AIF?
... that when her boss told her to quit her unpaid television commenting role, Katie Phang quit her paid job instead?
... that "Öffnet eure Tore" is a 1810 hymn in German written by Christoph Bernhard Verspoell for the Feast of the Ascension, based on Psalm 24?
... that "on a good day", a Minnesota radio station could reach St. Peter?

28 June 2022

00:00, 28 June 2022 (UTC)

Regine Velasquez in R2K: The Concert

... that during R2K: The Concert, Regine Velasquez was lifted by wires (pictured) as if she were flying towards the audience?
... that Daisy Rockwell, the granddaughter of Norman Rockwell, won the 2022 International Booker Prize for her translation of Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree?
... that songs from the collection "Auf dem Weg durch diese Nacht" (On the way through this night) were performed at the 2022 Katholikentag?
... that Margaret Peoples Shirer established the first Assemblies of God mission in Ghana?
... that some women have stopped playing competitive football because of the French Football Federation's ban on playing in hijab?
... that Caesar Tarrant remained enslaved after his service as a boat pilot in the American Revolutionary War until the state of Virginia purchased his freedom in 1789?
... that National Women's Day in Pakistan commemorates a 1983 march against a law that devalued the testimony of Pakistani women to half that of men?
... that Robert J. Vlasic published a book of pickle jokes?

27 June 2022

00:00, 27 June 2022 (UTC)

Ernest Lawrence's 27-inch (690 mm) cyclotron

... that in March 2020, there were nearly 1,500 medical cyclotrons (example pictured) in operation worldwide?
... that Lorenzo Passerini, who has conducted several operas in Sydney, revived Giordano's Fedora at the Oper Frankfurt?
... that John Cranko's ballet Initials R.B.M.E. is named after the four original lead dancers, Richard Cragun, Birgit Keil, Marcia Haydée and Egon Madsen, who were his close friends and muses?
... that the winter quarters of a circus owned by Benjamin Wallace are now the site of the Circus Hall of Fame?
... that live broadcasts of the deciding frame of the 2020 World Seniors Championship were replaced by golf highlights?
... that trombonist Big Chief Russell Moore was the first member of the Pima tribe to receive an obituary in The New York Times?
... that Ed Sheeran wrote "Remember the Name" as a homage to the "cheekier songs" on early Eminem albums?
... that in 2007, José the beaver set up housekeeping in the Bronx?

26 June 2022

00:00, 26 June 2022 (UTC)

Wilhelmine Holmboe-Schenström

... that the mezzo-soprano Wilhelmine Holmboe (pictured), who studied in Paris with Pauline Viardot and moved to Italy to perform, was one of the first Norwegian women to be acclaimed internationally for her singing?
... that Faith Cabin Library at Seneca Junior College in South Carolina is also called the "Oberlin Unit" because of the donations of books by the students of Oberlin College in Ohio?
... that as a member of the El Alto Workers' Center, Martha Yujra participated in mass mobilizations that led to the resignations of two Bolivian presidents?
... that Central City College was established as an African American-led alternative to the historically black Atlanta Baptist College?
... that Arlene Kelly made her international debut for the Ireland women's cricket team after nine of their regular players were unavailable for selection?
... that One Griswold Street in Detroit, now owned by the Church of Scientology, was built on the location of the first church building in the city, Ste. Anne de Détroit?
... that Lady Eva Julius once called Girl Guiding "the most important youth movement in the world"?
... that the Gould Memorial Library once hosted pie-throwing contests to raise money?

25 June 2022

00:00, 25 June 2022 (UTC)

Summit Hotel (now DoubleTree Metropolitan Hotel)

... that the Summit Hotel (pictured), once described by its own architect as the "most hated hotel in New York", was protected as a New York City landmark in 2005?
... that Egon Madsen, a former Stuttgart Ballet principal dancer, returned to the stage at the age of 57 and continues to perform in his 70s?
... that the 2009 book Where Heaven and Earth Meet introduced the term "Sacred Esplanade" as a politically neutral term for the religious site in Jerusalem known as al-Haram al-Sharif or the Temple Mount?
... that Sophie Freud, the granddaughter of Sigmund Freud, criticized psychoanalysis as a "narcissistic indulgence"?
... that, in the 2014 Texas Bowl, the Arkansas Razorbacks defense held the Texas Longhorns offense to a season-low net total of 59 yards?
... that when Bernardin Schellenberger wrote the 1978 hymn "Selig, wem Christus auf dem Weg begegnet", he was prior at Mariawald Abbey, a Trappist monastery?
... that squatters in Myanmar were punished for protesting against the 2021 coup d'état by being evicted?
... that a bunch of "smart-assed teenagers" drove around the Bronx looking for birds in garbage dumps?

24 June 2022

00:00, 24 June 2022 (UTC)

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Kyla

... that "My Heart", a song recorded by Kyla (pictured), was written by Brian McKnight as a gift for her wedding to Rich Alvarez?
... that American artist Inez Demonet created watercolors of facial injuries for the War Department?
... that with regard to transparency, a Swiss permanent representative to the United Nations compared the election of the secretary-general of the United Nations to the election of the pope?
... that the Foxconn union, representing more than 90 percent of Foxconn's 1.4 million workers, is a company union dominated by management?
... that traffic at Greymouth railway station increased significantly after the opening of the Otira Tunnel?
... that Julie Beckett lobbied for the Katie Beckett Medicaid waiver, which enabled hundreds of thousands of disabled children to be cared for by their families at home instead of a hospital?
... that Subneolithic groups practised hunting and gathering whilst also incorporating elements of Neolithic culture, including pottery?
... that Sput played with Puppy and Dogg?

23 June 2022

00:00, 23 June 2022 (UTC)

One of the Stations of the Cross, Donnerskirchen

... that Burgenland Croat sculptor Thomas Resetarits created Stations of the Cross (example sculpture pictured)?
... that the host of Canyon Kid's Corner said that his Brooklyn accent as a cowboy came from "the canyons created by the tall buildings"?
... that after a publisher declined the manga series Let's Go Karaoke!, it sold out multiple times after being self-published?
... that Vito Trause, who dropped out of high school during his junior year to join the United States Army in 1943, received his high school diploma at the age of 92?
... that Faiz Ahmad Faiz reportedly remarked that Mujh Se Pehli Si Mohabbat Mere Mehboob Na Maang no longer belonged to him but to Noor Jehan?
... that Pearl Jam's manager agreed to include a song in The Last of Us Part II after hearing the story pitch, watching the trailer, and receiving a PlayStation 4 and a copy of the first game?
... that Ukrainian designer Anna October showed her collection during Paris Fashion Week after escaping the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine?
... that 75 years ago today, it was KOOL in Phoenix?

22 June 2022

00:00, 22 June 2022 (UTC)

Victoria Desintonio

... that Victoria Desintonio (pictured) successfully proposed a "citizen observatory" watchdog to reduce gender violence in Ecuador?
... that the band BHLT split up when they did not get a recording contract?
... that football goalkeepers dive too much during penalty kicks?
... that Boris Rhein failed to become the mayor of his hometown, but was later elected the minister-president of his home state?
... that Dutch squatters fighting eviction from De Vloek (The Curse) briefly occupied Scheveningen Pier?
... that H. B. Wilkinson lost the first special election in Arizona to Isabella Greenway, who became the first woman from Arizona to go to Congress?
... that after failing to persuade European donors that six human rights organizations had terrorist connections based on a dossier of classified evidence, Israel designated them as terrorist organizations?
... that more emerging adults are failing to launch?

21 June 2022

00:00, 21 June 2022 (UTC)

Stadthalle Hannover

... that the Stadthalle Hannover (pictured), the largest classical music concert hall in Germany by capacity, was modelled after the Pantheon in Rome and completed by 1914?
... that during World War II, Terry Sanford captured a German officer by grabbing him by the belt?
... that Basshunter recorded "Fest i hela huset" with Swedish Big Brother contestants who had never worked with music professionally?
... that art dealer Inigo Philbrick was called a "mini Madoff" by a colleague – before he was convicted of wire fraud?
... that ancient Roman gynecologists believed that menstrual blood could be used to drive dogs insane?
... that the emo-revival album Just Got Back From the Discomfort—We're Alright contains samples from Malcolm in the Middle on three of its songs?
... that Olympic diver Millie Hudson, who attempted to swim across the Strait of Gibraltar in 1928, was a member of the Hammersmith Ladies Swimming Club along with Belle White, the first British diver to win an Olympic medal?
... that the Dnieper Balts might have worshipped bear heads on pillars?

20 June 2022

00:00, 20 June 2022 (UTC)

The nova on the Juneteenth flag

... that on the Juneteenth flag, designed by Ben Haith to celebrate freedom and the end of slavery in the United States, the nova (pictured) represents a new beginning for all?
... that ancient Roman surgeons used materials such as bran and ashes to heal burns?
... that Joseph Ranger was the longest-serving Black sailor in the American Revolutionary War's Virginia State Navy?
... that the Suwałki Gap is often described as the modern version of the Cold War–era Fulda Gap, a NATO vulnerability of historical importance?
... that Stanford women's basketball player Cameron Brink is a close family friend of Stephen Curry?
... that a Japanese-era building in the Imperial Crown Style serves as the regional museum of Russia's Sakhalin Oblast?
... that Emma Watson considered quitting the Harry Potter film series, but later returned to star in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince?
... that George Henry Daniels has been called the "Father of the Century"?

19 June 2022

00:00, 19 June 2022 (UTC)

15 Central Park West

... that a wine closet at 15 Central Park West (pictured) originally cost up to $80,000, while a storage bin cost $35,000?
... that Arno Lücker ran a series of concerts titled 2 x hören (listen twice) at the Konzerthaus Berlin in which performers were interviewed between two renditions of the same piece of chamber music?
... that Baltimore Transmission was the last General Motors plant in Maryland?
... that Rosana Alvarado was one of three women leading Ecuador's National Assembly in 2017?
... that Callaway Gardens promoted the John A. Sibley Horticultural Center as "one of the most advanced garden/greenhouse complexes in the world", before closing it in 2015 after more than 30 years?
... that the character of the mother in the painting In the Ploughed Field: Spring is believed to personify Spring?
... that Béla Petsco's Nothing Very Important and Other Stories was based on his own experience as a missionary in Southern California for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints?
... that the kisslip himri in Turkey might face a dam problem?

18 June 2022

00:00, 18 June 2022 (UTC)

Mechanitis polymnia chrysalis

... that the shiny chrysalis of Mechanitis butterflies (example pictured) might serve as temperature control during pupation?
... that Bob Neuwirth worked at an art supply store before becoming Bob Dylan's road manager?
... that Hurricane Agatha was the strongest Pacific hurricane to make landfall in Mexico in May since records began in 1949?
... that due to the efforts of James Markham Ambler, the Jeannette expedition became the first Arctic expedition "without a single case of scurvy"?
... that the Uzunköprü Bridge was the longest bridge in the Ottoman Empire and later Turkey for 530 years until 1973, when it was surpassed by the Bosphorus Bridge?
... that Ruth L. Bennett provided shelter for more than 2,000 black women and girls who migrated north to Chester, Pennsylvania, as part of the Great Migration?
... that after using a talent show to select Apostolos Psichramis to represent Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 2004, the Greek broadcaster instead sent Sakis Rouvas?
... that after serving as President of the Oregon State Senate, Brady L. Adams founded BearFest in Grants Pass, Oregon, which featured playful fiberglass bear statues placed around the town?

17 June 2022

00:00, 17 June 2022 (UTC)

Pipe Shed in Methven, designed by Thomas Beck

... that Thomas Beck designed a syphon for the Rangitata Diversion Race made of 723 concrete pipes each weighing 28 tons, with another pipe section used as an explosives store (pictured)?
... that the Stony Brook Railroad was in business from 1845 to 2022, but never owned a single locomotive or ran a single train?
... that British oceanographer Sonya Legg has studied the South China Sea, where internal waves can be taller than 200 metres (660 ft)?
... that the Rudolf-Oetker-Halle, the concert hall of Bielefeld, remains mostly unchanged from its completion in 1930?
... that food psychology research has found that the COVID-19 pandemic led to both reduced and increased consumption of junk food among different geographical populations and educational backgrounds?
... that the first tequila distillery in the United States was opened in 1936 in Nogales, Arizona, by Harry J. Karns, former Arizona state senator and Nogales mayor?
... that 40 countries constitutionally recognize a right to resist the government under certain circumstances?
... that six-time American national archery champion Russ Hoogerhyde performed trick shots including shooting a cigarette from the lips of a spectator?

16 June 2022

12:00, 16 June 2022 (UTC)

"Dirty Angel" by T. E. Macklin

... that the bronze statue atop Thomas Eyre Macklin's 1907 South African War Memorial in Newcastle became known as the "Dirty Angel" (pictured)?
... that entrepreneur Ian Schrager paid a record $9 million for two apartments at the Majestic in New York City, but he never lived there?
... that actress Klara Höfels, known for her roles in television crime series, also produced, directed, and starred in world premieres of theatre projects in Berlin?
... that Peter Clavelle's victory in the 1995 Burlington mayoral election made him its first mayor to return to office after losing it since James Edmund Burke in 1933?
... that a statue of the Elamite queen Napir-Asu is inscribed with a curse for its would-be vandals?
... that Bally's Chicago, a proposed casino resort in Chicago, has a goal of bringing in $200 million in annual tax revenue to fund the city's police and firefighter pension fund?
... that Fyodor Arturovich Keller was one of two Russian generals who opposed the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II, offering his corps to help suppress the February Revolution?
... that a Wisconsin radio station used to collect rent from the United States Congress?

00:00, 16 June 2022 (UTC)

Moshassuck Valley Railroad

... that the two-mile-long (3.2 km) Moshassuck Valley Railroad (pictured) operated independently for 105 years?
... that Job Abbott designed the first through cantilever bridge in North America?
... that ska-crazed dancers at a Stretch Armstrong concert once became so intense that three people left on stretchers and one in a hospital helicopter?
... that One Night with Regine was a concert in support of the child-welfare program Bantay Bata, staged on the steps of the entrance façade of the National Museum of Anthropology in Manila?
... that Hanning Schröder, who in the 1930s played historical instruments in the Harlan Trio together with his wife, was recognised as Righteous Among the Nations?
... that Thihapate of Mohnyin, who was laying siege to Mogaung, refused the court's offer to be king of Ava, saying he was neither a son nor a younger brother of the king, and returned to the siege?
... that the Ja Ja Ding Dong Guy announced the points from Iceland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2021?
... that when A Nymphoid Barbarian in Dinosaur Hell screened at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival, Lloyd Kaufman said that "no one else was dumb enough to do a dinosaur movie"?

15 June 2022

12:00, 15 June 2022 (UTC)

Electric egg

... that Paul Arzens created the electric egg (pictured) in 1942, during the war in occupied Paris?
... that two-time Emmy winner George Yanok was the final road manager of the Kingston Trio and editor of their last album?
... that the 47 in the marijuana strain AK-47 may refer to the number of days between its planting and harvest?
... that Royal Ballet dancer Reece Clarke once filled in for a lead role mid-show, opposite a ballerina he had never danced with, after having ten minutes to prepare?
... that episodes of the TV Tokyo late-night show Nogizaka Under Construction are uploaded to YouTube shortly after broadcast, which is considered unusual in Japanese media?
... that Edward Severin Clark was bequeathed the Dakota in New York City when he was 12 years old?
... that Maria Olsvik was called up to the Norway national football team for the first time one year after giving birth?
... that the Key Underwood Coon Dog Memorial Graveyard is the only U.S. cemetery reserved exclusively for coon dog burials?

00:00, 15 June 2022 (UTC)

Sofía Sanchez in the National Assembly

... that Sofía Sanchez (pictured) loved soccer and she played for a leading Spanish side, but her mother said "study" and she now sits in Ecuador's National Assembly?
... that over half a century after Kristallnacht, the Jews of Innsbruck rebuilt their synagogue on the location of the one destroyed that night?
... that Eri Yukimura pushed through with a voice acting career partly to prove her late grandmother wrong?
... that Seattle radio station KBLE was named in 1963 for a cable car system that had closed nearly 25 years prior?
... that the album Topical Dancer was created using four different languages?
... that Turkey demanded Mehmet Sıraç Bilgin's extradition in May 2022, seven years after he died in Sweden?
... that Prawoto Mangkusasmito did not complete law school before the Japanese invaded because he was too busy with student and political organizations?
... that one of the tracks on the deluxe version of Frayed at Both Ends by country musician Aaron Lewis was originally a poem by Johnny Cash?

14 June 2022

12:00, 14 June 2022 (UTC)

Dinoša mulberry tree

... that water pours from the Dinoša mulberry tree (pictured) for a few days each year?
... that Jack Morris, who set Oregon Ducks football records in single-season scoring and consecutive successful conversions, also won three state titles in hurdling?
... that the environmentalism of the poor is a global movement arising from local environmental conflicts?
... that Luz del Carmen Ibáñez Carranza was Abimael Guzmán's prosecutor before being elected the first Peruvian judge of the International Criminal Court?
... that officials installed a secret switch to shut down the radio station at the University of Akron in Ohio in case "radicals" took it over?
... that journalist Charles Edwards relayed a report by The Canadian Press on the torpedoing of SS Athenia without comment, even though his father was aboard the ship?
... that Bob Dylan's backing singers on "New Pony" included both his then-girlfriend and his future wife?
... that the Patriarchy really does control the sisters of the Monastery Saint Claire in Nazareth?

00:00, 14 June 2022 (UTC)

Amangiri spa pool

... that the acquisition of land for the Utah resort hotel Amangiri (pictured) required an act of Congress?
... that William Buchanan designed the first vehicle to exceed 100 miles per hour (160 km/h)?
... that "Monggeumpo Taryeong", a Korean folk song, is about lovers that wait and sing in a harbor for their loved ones (sailors) to return?
... that Benjamin Wallace wrote a book about wine bottles allegedly owned by Thomas Jefferson?
... that Ijima's leaf warbler is named after Japanese zoologist Ijima Isao?
... that The West Wing's "Hartsfield's Landing" is a homage to three tiny towns in New Hampshire?
... that on his third expedition to Hudson Bay, Pierre Allemand piloted a captured English ship?
... that campaign literature in the 1894 Montana capital referendum accused Helena residents of copious Manhattan consumption?

13 June 2022

12:00, 13 June 2022 (UTC)

Orange petunias

... that the petunia carnage of 2017 (cause pictured) led to worldwide economic losses?
... that the first episode of the British pop music TV show Top of the Pops was broadcast on 1 January 1964 from Dickenson Road Studios, a converted church in Manchester?
... that archaeologist Lawrence H. Keeley refined the methods of microscopic use-wear analysis to learn about prehistoric stone tools?
... that players are cheating in esports by using performance-enhancing drugs?
... that Las Vegas radio station KVBC-FM offered Monica Lewinsky $5 million to do a tell-all interview?
... that the reactions to food depicted in the manga series Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma were decided on through free association games?
... that although the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 was cancelled, Iceland's planned entry for that year was chosen as the alternative winner in several countries, including Sweden and Australia?
... that Floyd Griffin lost a mayoral election by just 35 votes?

00:00, 13 June 2022 (UTC)

Evening Bells by Isaac Levitan

... that Isaac Levitan was inspired to paint Evening Bells (pictured) when he came across a small monastery in a remote village?
... that Sam Smith left the University of Louisville after being found to be academically ineligible for its basketball team, claiming the school was "too big for him"?
... that the adoption of the Declaration of Independence of Azerbaijan made the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic the first successful republic in the Muslim world?
... that Arnold Blackner was said to be the first person to sing over 3,000 miles (4,800 km) on the telephone?
... that the literary movement of créolie tries to integrate the identity of Réunion with France?
... that the Four-Track News is not news about the car music cassettes of the 1950s, but an illustrated magazine of the early 1900s on travel and education put out by the New York Central Railroad?
... that records of Acoutsina's captivity allow historians to analyse the eighteenth century French-Eskimo relationship?
... that a regional radio group with 75 stations started with a "Big Wrig"?

12 June 2022

12:00, 12 June 2022 (UTC)

Madhulika Ramteke receives the Nari Shakti Puraskar.

... that Madhulika Ramteke's (pictured) microfinance bank for Indian women grew to have over 5,000 "branches"?
... that the recently-announced Google Wallet app revives the brand name previously used by a similar service of the same name from 2011 to 2018?
... that Paula Lizell, a former star of the Royal Swedish Opera, advanced from coloratura to dramatic Wagnerian roles?
... that until the outbreak at Rotterdam Zoo in 1964, monkeypox was thought to occur only in primates?
... that Yumi Nu is a Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue and Vogue cover model and musician signed to Steve Aoki's record label?
... that the arches of the 1849 Belvidere Bridge consist of six pre-cast ribs bolted together?
... that after becoming paralyzed from the neck down, Rocky "RockyNoHands" Stoutenburgh broke two Guinness World Records in the video game Fortnite?
... that the largest white diamond ever auctioned is simply called The Rock?

00:00, 12 June 2022 (UTC)

Pintilie's official portrait

... that Gheorghe Pintilie (pictured), who joined the Romanian Communist Party Central Committee on this day in 1948, had used a crowbar to murder its former general secretary?
... that when the studio album Jim Reeves Sings was released by Abbott Records in 1955, the artist himself had already signed with RCA Victor?
... that Pedro Tenorio left his professorship at the University of Rome to fight in the Battle of Nájera in 1367 and was captured?
... that in Ryūnosuke Akutagawa's retelling of the Tang dynasty short story "Du Zichun", a son grieves for his mother who has been reborn as a horse?
... that journalist Bob Moir posed as medical staff on the Canadian Olympic team to report on the Munich massacre?
... that Roman Emperor Tiberius used "quantitative easing" to solve a financial crisis in 33 A.D.?
... that 2022 Kentucky Derby winner Rich Strike was drawn into the field just minutes before the entry deadline?
... that "Sae Taryeong", a Korean folk song, describes the flow of a stream as ju-ru-ru-ru-ru-ru?

11 June 2022

12:00, 11 June 2022 (UTC)

The "Durable Dodger Infield"

... that the infield of Garvey, Lopes, Russell and Cey (pictured) played together longer than any other infield foursome in Major League Baseball?
... that after bombing in World War II, the surviving tower of the Friedenskirche, a Lutheran church in Stuttgart, was combined with a new concrete structure?
... that in 2022 Sandhya Dhar has received both a Nari Shakti Puraskar and a bronze medal in boccia at the Indian national championships?
... that professional golfer Cary Middlecoff co-owned Memphis, Tennessee, radio station WCBR in the mid-1950s?
... that Werner Flume called a fellow academic assistant a pig for demanding the boycott of professors of Jewish descent in 1933?
... that the Beresford and the San Remo were sold for a total of $25,000 in 1940, a decade after they were built for $10 million?
... that Nathalie Viteri was dismissed from Ecuador's National Assembly but she is now one of the top five members contributing to their debates?
... that Melody Clinger of the girl band the Clingers met the drummer for the Beach Boys, Dennis Wilson, after wolf-whistling his Rolls Royce on her way home from a guitar lesson?

00:00, 11 June 2022 (UTC)

Susanna and the Elders by Artemisia Gentileschi

... that Artemisia Gentileschi produced the first of her four renderings of Susanna and the Elders (pictured) at the age of 17, shortly before she accused two well-respected older men of rape?
... that American doctor Cory Synhorst SerVaas believed that high-lysine corn could help end hunger in Africa, end famine, and stop protein deficiency despite only being fed to livestock and poultry?
... that at one point the fossil grasshopper Promastax was placed in the same family as a stick insect?
... that tenor Theo Lebow performed the roles of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Pablo Picasso in the world premiere of the opera 27?
... that a new building of the Catholic church Our Lady of the Annunciation in King's Lynn was initiated by Edward, Prince of Wales, because his guests were inconvenienced by the old building's condition?
... that Matthew Walker was driven to write Why We Sleep because of a woman who passed by him and took a peek at his work?
... that the 1872 Tradeston Flour Mills explosion that killed 18 people was caused by a fire after the feed of grain to a pair of millstones was halted?
... that Phil McGrane used food trucks as his inspiration to increase early voting?

10 June 2022

12:00, 10 June 2022 (UTC)

Bare formula shelves with purchase limit notice, January 2022

... that the ongoing infant formula shortage in the United States (example pictured) also affects non-infant medical patients who require nasogastric feeding?
... that John Jacob Withrow allegedly did not consult anyone before announcing a permanent exhibition in Toronto?
... that the Hawaii Civil Liberties Committee was designated as a Communist front by the House Un-American Activities Committee?
... that Mahendra Raj's engineering work on the Hindustan Lever pavilion resembled a crumpled sheet of paper?
... that the clown character Mombo was created for The Dr. Max Show after being blamed for an off-stage noise?
... that Roddie Fleming was expecting to inherit the family business, but it was sold to Chase Bank instead?
... that Darkness Visible: A Study of Vergil's Aeneid was thought by one reviewer to have "the remarkable qualities of the oracular"?
... that Sunny Low and his sister were dubbed the "King and Queen of Cha-Cha-Cha and Rock 'n' Roll"?

00:00, 10 June 2022 (UTC)

Höchst Castle, Frankfurt

... that unmarried staff of the radio station AFN Frankfurt lived in a medieval tower (pictured)?
... that a statue and a clock were the only items indicating that Tiffany & Co. occupied the Tiffany and Company Building?
... that Ana Štěrba-Böhm became the first Slovene woman with a doctorate in science, in 1911?
... that after performing as a costumed stunt double in the Kamen Rider and Super Sentai franchises for almost 30 years, Seiji Takaiwa appeared in his first starring role in Good Morning, Sleeping Lion?
... that Kelsie Whitmore was part of the first all-female battery in a professional baseball league since the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League?
... that the deity in Nakodaji is considered as a business partner by businessmen?
... that at age 22, Yoel Gamzou from Tel Aviv conducted an orchestra that he had founded, playing his completion of Mahler's Tenth Symphony in Berlin?
... that The Mutiny Hotel was described as a haven for "cocaine cowboys"?

9 June 2022

12:00, 9 June 2022 (UTC)

Yosef Avidar

... that Israeli diplomat Yosef Avidar (pictured) met his future wife after a grenade accident?
... that the Biden Foundation was shut down on the same day one of its co-founders announced his candidacy for president of the United States?
... that neuroscientist Beatriz Rico and her team discovered a link between a protein called Brevican and short-term spatial memory?
... that WLOK, the first Black-owned radio station in Memphis, Tennessee, organizes an annual "Stone Soul Picnic" gospel concert series?
... that Darrell Clarke led Bristol Rovers to two successive promotions after having to remove "Clarke Out" posters that disgruntled fans had posted outside of the club's training ground?
... that the 2022 Sweden riots stemmed from an anti-Islamic group burning a Quran during Ramadan with police permission?
... that in 1991, James F. Kelley claimed that he had been ordered to repatriate Amelia Earhart (who disappeared in 1937) to the United States, where she lived as Irene Craigmile Bolam?
... that the final of the 2009 IBSF women's snooker championship was interrupted so that drug tests could be conducted on the players?

00:00, 9 June 2022 (UTC)

Garden Gate, Bulandshahr

... that Bulandshahr's ornate Garden Gate (pictured) was built on the site of a "filthy" drainage ravine?
... that Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver Britain Covey played quarterback in high school and led his team to 26 consecutive wins?
... that the temptation of Christ has been associated with Jebel Quruntul in the West Bank since at least the 4th century?
... that Luigi Gaggero conducted the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra in Germany in April 2022, restoring Lyatoshynsky's Symphony No. 3 to its 1951 version, with the last movement themed "Peace will conquer war"?
... that the Louis M. Martini Winery began selling wine on December 5, 1933 – the day on which Prohibition in the United States was repealed?
... that a former member of the French Senate ended up being exiled to the northern Central African Republic by the future emperor?
... that the documentary comedy films Being Canadian and When Jews Were Funny explore the filmmakers' cultural identity through interviews with dozens of comedians?
... that copies of the underground anti-war publication Liberated Barracks were found on ships carrying US troops to Vietnam?

8 June 2022

12:00, 8 June 2022 (UTC)

2 Park Avenue

... that the colored facade panels of 2 Park Avenue (pictured) were inspired by the texture of fabric?
... that Ambati Rambabu, the state minister for irrigation of Andhra Pradesh, dabbled in acting before entering politics?
... that the solar water-heating market in Turkey is second in the world, after China's?
... that when tenor Jonathan Tetelman appeared as Loris Ipanov in Giordano's Fedora, which had made Caruso famous, a reviewer called him ideal for the role?
... that the main nesting site of the Japanese murrelet was used as a bombing range by the USAF?
... that East Lake Square, a failed shopping mall in Tampa, Florida, was converted into a business park known as NetPark Tampa Bay in 1999?
... that Olga Rudenko, who was chosen as the editor-in-chief of the newspaper The Kyiv Independent, appeared on the cover of Time?
... that literary fiction novel Agatha of Little Neon's title stems from a house that is "the color of Mountain Dew"?

00:00, 8 June 2022 (UTC)

Liva Järnefelt as Ortrud

... that Liva Järnefelt performed leading roles at the Royal Swedish Opera, such as Ortrud in Wagner's Lohengrin (pictured), and Bizet's Carmen, which she also performed for her 25th anniversary with the company?
... that before Angeli Foods was sold this year, the first self-service grocery store in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan had been owned by three generations of a single family?
... that cricketers Anil Kumble and Harbhajan Singh both played for the Chemplast cricket team under owner and industrialist N. Sankar?
... that the bronze sculpture Expansion is lit from within, after Paige Bradley broke its wax model intentionally and assembled the cast pieces to leave cracks?
... that mathematician Mathias Metternich was one of the founders of the Jacobin club of the Republic of Mainz?
... that the documentary Babi Yar. Context shows rare footage of buildings being destroyed by retreating Soviet forces in the main street of Nazi-occupied Kyiv?
... that open depictions of sexual acts were a defining trait of early works of josei manga ('women's comics')?
... that Nina Jankowicz dubbed herself the "Mary Poppins of disinformation"?

7 June 2022

12:00, 7 June 2022 (UTC)

Ahichchhatra Jain temple

... that the Ahichchhatra Jain temples (pictured) were built to commemorate the attainment of kevala jnana (omniscience) by Parshvanatha, the 23rd tirthankara of Jainism?
... that a 1 a.m. phone call resulted in financier George D. Gould joining the efforts to stave off New York City's near-bankruptcy in 1975?
... that although the problem of squaring the circle with compass and straightedge goes back to Greek mathematics, it was not proven impossible until 1882?
... that Canadian cricketer Divya Saxena was accused of obstructing the field in an international match but was ruled "not out"?
... that German violinist and professor Aleksey Semenenko was stranded in Ukraine for a month because Russia invaded the country the day after his performance?
... that the dark-money American Accountability Foundation aims to "take a big handful of sand and throw it in the gears of the Biden administration"?
... that random runners are lonely?

00:00, 7 June 2022 (UTC)

Synapturanus danta

... that Synapturanus danta has been described as a "smooth lil fella"?
... that Justus H. Rathbone, founder of the Knights of Pythias, served as a hospital steward during the American Civil War?
... that some radical right parties in Europe have adopted the rhetoric of anti-antisemitism to oppose Muslim immigration?
... that according to one legal scholar, "no intelligent lawyer could well practice without" the books of Joseph Kinnicutt Angell?
... that Tutankhamun's infant daughters are unnamed, being referred to only as "the Osiris" on their coffins?
... that Albania's first professional woman painter was Androniqi Zengo Antoniu, who painted impressionist portraits and landscapes, as well as religious art in churches?
... that the Fort Worth Intelligence Exchange has investigated a neo-Nazi gang and an alleged plan to break Joe Exotic out of jail?
... that Nicholas Jakubovics holds a patent on the use of L-arginine to remove dental plaque?

6 June 2022

12:00, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

Italian Renaissance relief by Leon Battista Alberti

... that new forms appearing in 15th-century Italian Renaissance sculpture (example pictured) include the medal and the plaquette?
... that the chicken turtle is one of the shortest-lived turtle species in the world?
... that Joseph Eiboeck called the period from July 4, 1884, to 1890 "a reign of terror for Iowa"?
... that the Storia de Mahometh contains the earliest Latin translation of any part of the Quran?
... that Paul Delvaux's painting The Sacrifice of Iphigenia has been interpreted as a work about the little death?
... that actress Dorothy Van Engle starred in the 1935 movie Murder in Harlem with a "proto-feminist role" that was then a primary source of positive representation for African Americans in film?
... that the Oshima Brothers started singing together in the bathtub?
... that Solomon Hughes was a Harlem Globetrotter before he played a Laker in film?

00:00, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

Diamond Miller

... that Diamond Miller (pictured) is the all-time leading scorer on her high-school basketball team – a record previously held by her sister?
... that uses for medical textiles range from a simple cotton bandage to complex tissue growth?
... that Clotworthy Upton, an illegitimate child, could not inherit his father's barony?
... that the Indonesian film Apa Jang Kau Tjari, Palupi? was "hailed by critics", "rejected by the audience", and "shown around the world"?
... that Tzedi Tzarfati directed a production of Annie decades after becoming enamored with its song "Tomorrow"?
... that American media intelligence company Anomaly Six uses software development kits in commonly used apps to track the movements of hundreds of millions of mobile phones?
... that Warring Kennedy was re-elected as Mayor of Toronto by 14 votes?
... that the British rap song "Jiggle Jiggle" by filmmaker Louis Theroux has been used in more than two million TikTok videos?

5 June 2022

12:00, 5 June 2022 (UTC)

4 Park Avenue

... that during a renovation of 4 Park Avenue (pictured), workers found a sealed room with women's clothes and shoes that was not in the building's blueprints?
... that Adam Murray became the youngest manager in the English Football League when he was appointed at Mansfield Town at the age of 33?
... that the UNESCO Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity includes value systems, traditions, and beliefs in its definition of culture?
... that Dorothy Binney Palmer built two houses that are on the United States' National Register of Historic Places?
... that, despite its name, The Guild of Carillonneurs in North America is not a labor union?
... that Aguil Chut-Deng took 22 child refugees from South Sudan to Ethiopia during civil war so that they could attend school?
... that the screenwriter of Under the Christmas Tree, the network Lifetime's first lesbian Christmas film, also wrote the channel's first gay male Christmas film the year before?
... that the 2002 Russian pop song "A Man like Putin" inadvertently became adopted as propaganda?

00:00, 5 June 2022 (UTC)

Celmisia major var. major

... that the two varieties of Celmisia major (one variety pictured) are "certainly not" closely related?
... that Kim E. Nielsen trained as a historian of women and politics, and came to disability history and studies via her discovery of Helen Keller's political life?
... that the first recording of Bach's Kreuzstab cantata was a 1939 Dutch live broadcast sung by Mack Harrell, 25 years before the 1964 German recording by his protégé Barry McDaniel?
... that Johnny Hatley quit professional football to become a full-time rodeo competitor?
... that development of the British UB.109T cruise missile was given "super-priority" in 1951 to ward off an expected attack by the Soviet Union, only to be cancelled after the attack never came?
... that metaphysicist Helen Hadsell claimed that she won things she wanted by projecting energy?
... that Chabacano metro station has a composition named after it and it served as a film location for the 1990 film Total Recall?
... that ballet dancer William Bracewell has portrayed Louis XIV, Romeo, a salamander, and a caterpillar?

4 June 2022

12:00, 4 June 2022 (UTC)

Maloja Snake

... that the Maloja Wind in Switzerland can produce a narrow and elongated low-lying cloud known as the "Maloja Snake" (pictured)?
... that botanist William West's elder son William West Jr assisted him with fieldwork, and his younger son George Stephen West collaborated with him on numerous scientific publications?
... that some severe environmental impacts of the invasion of Ukraine can be seen from space?
... that Planned Parenthood president Eleanor Bellows Pillsbury received the Lasker Award for leading the organization into "a new era as a national force and international influence"?
... that the Tapuae-o-Uenuku / Hector Mountains have been an important mahinga kai (food-gathering site) for the Māori for more than 600 years?
... that beginning in 2024, some California stores will be required to have a gender-neutral children's section?
... that researchers think that investing in the construction of corporate buildings can also have a social impact?
... that an Alabama mayoral candidate received "his head on a platter", according to winning candidate Dave Thomas?

00:00, 4 June 2022 (UTC)

Piper's Hole, Tresco

... that according to legend, dogs who travelled through a passage between Piper's Hole in Tresco (pictured) and Piper's Hole in St Mary's emerged without most of their fur?
... that Russ Davis hit the first home run at Safeco Field?
... that according to The Wire, the web application Tek Fog was used to "amplify right-wing propaganda" among Indians?
... that after developing the first packet switching network for the ARPANET in the United States, computer scientist David Walden went to Norway to develop a packet switching network in that country?
... that William Shakespeare once described a shepherd's hat as a "platted hive of straw"?
... that Lucy Westlake summited the highest peak of each of the 48 contiguous U.S. states by age 12?
... that as a result of the crisis of the late 16th century in Russia, many service-class landowners were left with no peasants working their land?
... that fashion designer Ouigi Theodore's anvil-horn-shaped beard inspired his alter ego, "The Bearded Man"?

3 June 2022

12:00, 3 June 2022 (UTC)

Living room of the Underground World Home

... that an underground home (pictured) was featured at the 1964 New York World's Fair?
... that Friedrich Oberschelp founded and conducted for five decades the Bielefelder Kinderchor, a children's choir that filled the Rudolf-Oetker-Halle in Bielefeld for Christmas concerts several times each season?
... that the adapted TV series Ten Percent was criticised as being too faithful to the original?
... that Wayne Cooper, who played in two NBA Finals, finished his career with exactly 7,777 points?
... that Anne Baker's book Wings over Kabul: The First Airlift describes the first significant use of airpower in an insurgency campaign?
... that James McChord was elected to the presidency of Centre College by its board of trustees, but died before he could take office?
... that Iranian Sunni scholars condemned the Imam Reza shrine stabbings carried out by a Takfiri extremist?
... that homes in urban areas must have earthquake insurance before being connected to electricity in Turkey?

00:00, 3 June 2022 (UTC)

Hanna Dmyterko

... that Hanna Dmyterko (pictured) was among 34 Ukrainian women who fought in World War I?
... that Taylor Swift initially wrote "This Love" as a poem, turning it into a song only when she came up with a melody?
... that after travelling around 8,300 km (5,200 mi) from Afghanistan to Ireland, Muzamil Sherzad was named a member of Ireland's squad for the 2022 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup?
... that Representative Paul Gosar once posted an anime video on Twitter depicting him killing Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and attacking President Joe Biden?
... that Visigothic noblewoman Sara al-Qutiyya took back the land her uncle stole by travelling to Damascus and petitioning the caliph?
... that in her performances of "Supper Time", Ethel Waters drew on her experience of staying with the family of a man who had been lynched?
... that at the time of his death, Alexander Manning was the largest individual ratepayer in Toronto?
... that one New Hampshire TV station was reportedly dying since its first moment on air?

2 June 2022

00:00, 2 June 2022 (UTC)

"Deliberation", from Charles Turzak's Abraham Lincoln: A Biography in Woodcuts

... that Charles Turzak's book of woodblock prints presenting the life of Abraham Lincoln (example pictured) was the first ever such life of a historic figure presented only in images?
... that Clayton Weishuhn set the New England Patriots single-season record of 229 tackles in 1983, a record that still stands?
... that the Carib Theatre in Kingston, Jamaica, was the British West Indies' first building to offer air conditioning upon its opening?
... that "What do you hope to achieve with this?" were the last words of the Nigerian college student Deborah Yakubu while being lynched for alleged blasphemy?
... that the Astor family's plans for 200 Madison Avenue were delayed for years because of J. P. Morgan Jr., who lived across the street?
... that Japanese voice actress and singer Sora Amamiya's song "Jōnetsu no Te Amo" was heavily influenced by Latin music, including the use of a Spanish guitar?
... that the Anglo-Saxons may have used a mixture of garlic, another Allium, wine, and bovine bile as an eye medicine?
... that Darien, Connecticut, was once home to a train station built inside a cemetery?

1 June 2022

00:00, 1 June 2022 (UTC)

Blind cave eel

... that the blind cave eel (pictured) is the longest cavefish in Australia?
... that John Hutchison, in his role as Mayor of Toronto, signed the city's bid to become the capital of the Province of Canada?
... that there is a Gambian literature even though it has been argued that there is "minimal basis" for its existence?
... that Brooklyn Nine-Nine actress Melissa Fumero is the daughter of Cubans who fled to the U.S. as teenagers?
... that George Balanchine stated that he choreographed Divertimento No. 15 as he forgot his previous ballet to the same Mozart composition, but some dancers said the two works are nearly identical?
... that All-American cornerback Drane Scrivener later became a published author on fire safety issues involving children with special needs, newborns, and older adults?
... that French broadcast regulators failed to mediate a dispute between four Jewish radio stations in Paris sharing the same frequency: Judaïques FM, RCJ, Radio J, and Radio Shalom?
... that Abishabis claimed that he could create a map to heaven?