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30 November 2022

00:00, 30 November 2022 (UTC)

Coat of arms of Curaçao

... that a design competition was held in 2022 to find a replacement for the coat of arms of Curaçao (depicted)?
... that Carter Moore Braxton fought for the Confederacy throughout the American Civil War and, according to one report, had seven horses killed under him but avoided any wounds?
... that the Adoration of the Magi with Saint Helena was once the main altarpiece at Sant'Elena, a church dedicated to its namesake?
... that after the Supreme Court of Ohio imposed restrictions on bail procedures, the dissenting justices participated in a bus tour to campaign for a ballot measure that took away their power on that issue?
... that a peace monument was erected for Turkish journalist Abdi İpekçi in the place where he was shot and killed by an assassin 21 years earlier?
... that in 2016 an inflatable gorilla was erected on the top of the Sky Trek Tower for Six Flags Great America's Halloween event Fright Fest?
... that Ugandan military officer Bernard Rwehururu originally wanted to become a Catholic priest, but enlisted as a soldier to pay for his siblings' school fees?
... that Delsworth Buckingham was an Odd Fellow?

29 November 2022

00:00, 29 November 2022 (UTC)

Giant bucket hat in Cardiff

... that giant bucket hats (pictured) were placed around Wales and in Qatar to mark Wales' football team reaching the 2022 FIFA World Cup?
... that after he, his father, and his grandfather won the Rurrenabaque mayoralty as MNR members, Yerko Núñez switched parties and won a third term, defeating the MNR by a margin of 3,476 votes to 30?
... that LCD Soundsystem recorded for the first time in five years by making the song "New Body Rhumba" for the 2022 film White Noise?
... that Syndicate was the first to reach 1 million followers on Twitch, beating League of Legends developer Riot Games to the record?
... that when students spoke Vietnamese in a graduation speech in Louisiana, the school district proposed banning all non-English languages?
... that in 2020 when Persian-Canadian countertenor Cameron Shahbazi performed in Written on Skin in Cologne, his "Luciferian charm" and "iridescent voice" were noted?
... that the Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina, uniquely within the Council of State, has powers in both the executive and legislative branches of government?
... that a woman hitchhiked from Indiana to Washington, D.C., to protest the sale of the radio station where she worked?

28 November 2022

00:00, 28 November 2022 (UTC)

Karl Liebknecht

... that 55,000 Berlin workers went on strike on 28 June 1916 to protest the arrest and trial of anti-war campaigner Karl Liebknecht (pictured)?
... that Derrick Palmer and Chris Smalls, leaders of the Amazon Labor Union, were named two of the "100 most influential people in the world" in 2022?
... that the 1957 Mongolia earthquake produced the world's best-preserved surface rupture of any great earthquake?
... that Jean Holzworth obtained a PhD in Latin, then retrained as a veterinarian after one of her favorite cats died from a viral infection?
... that Wyndham Lewis abandoned work on a portrait of Edith Sitwell from 1923 to 1935 after he failed to pay the rent for his studio?
... that Erick Russell is the first openly gay African American elected to a statewide office in the United States?
... that Gastria in Cyprus is "not old", but is home to Bronze Age tombs and a medieval castle?
... that the robot Cozmo is said to have "felt like a real-life version of WALL·E"?

27 November 2022

00:00, 27 November 2022 (UTC)

Exchange Hotel, Montgomery

... that the Exchange Hotel, Montgomery (pictured), where Confederate president Jefferson Davis's inaugural procession started, also hosted Ku Klux Klan leaders, politicians, prostitutes, and two US presidents?
... that the groundwater level of a coastal aquifer system changes with the tide?
... that agronomist Simon Groot was awarded the 2019 World Food Prize for "benefiting hundreds of millions of consumers with greater access to nutritious vegetables"?
... that 144 couples were pronounced man and wife on the Giant Drop before the cars at the top were released 205 feet (62 m) down?
... that as a child, Turkey national amputee footballer Şeyhmus Erdinç played football with balls he made out of crumpled paper?
... that when the Yale Club of New York City Building was completed in 1901, a Yale Club member said "it will be an easy matter to look down upon" the Harvard Club?
... that at 102 years old, Christian Lamb is one of the last surviving officers of the Women's Royal Naval Service who served throughout World War II?
... that given a choice between Life and World, the answer was Yes?

26 November 2022

00:00, 26 November 2022 (UTC)

Nargess Eskandari-Grünberg in 2019

... that Nargess Eskandari-Grünberg (pictured), the new mayor of Frankfurt, gave birth to her first child while a political prisoner in the wake of the Iranian Revolution?
... that Cranksgiving has been described as "part bike ride, part food drive, part scavenger hunt"?
... that the body of Fateme Asadi was found 37 years after she was tortured and killed by the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan when she attempted to ransom her husband?
... that penetration enhancers can open tight junctions to allow entry of drugs?
... that James Diossa rescued the only public library and post office in Central Falls, Rhode Island, when the city went into bankruptcy?
... that the first judgement of 2022 from the High Court of Australia was considered a loss for a labour hire organisation, but a win for labour hire organisations?
... that Eleanor Hadley, a 29-year-old doctoral candidate in economics, was recruited by the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers to implement antitrust policies in occupied Japan?
... that some believe that learning about Roko's basilisk may cause a superintelligence from the future to torture you for eternity?

25 November 2022

00:00, 25 November 2022 (UTC)

Holotype of Eatoniella mortoni

... that the New Zealand mollusc Eatoniella mortoni (pictured) can thrive in extreme carbon dioxide-rich environments, making it a subject for the study of ocean acidification?
... that the global coalition to save Abu Simbel, Philae and many other temples led to the creation of the modern list of World Heritage Sites?
... that spatial inequality refers to the unequal distribution of income and resources across geographical regions?
... that an interdisciplinary study concluded that the Motilla del Azuer was built during the 4.2-kiloyear BP aridification event, in a long period of severe drought?
... that Grumman Aerospace built its own power plant because it was cheaper than buying electricity from utilities?
... that academics called MoSys's 1T-SRAM a misnomer with "a catchy name"?
... that to protest against the overturning of Roe v. Wade, Billie Eilish performed a song that criticizes abusive men in power?
... that María Urquides was the "Mother of Bilingual Education"?

24 November 2022

00:00, 24 November 2022 (UTC)

Suzanna Randall

... that astrophysicist Suzanna Randall (pictured) continued her research at the European Southern Observatory while training for the spaceflight programme Die Astronautin?
... that the documentary Boggy Creek Monster, about the Fouke Monster, had its first screening at a middle school?
... that environmental activist Nigel Savage created Hazon after googling "Jewish food movement" and receiving zero search results?
... that "March of the Soviet Militia" by Dmitri Shostakovich was described by one biographer as a "manifestation of conformity" that was "better not to remember"?
... that Lainey Wilson said she hoped her duet with Hardy, "Wait in the Truck", haunted domestic abusers?
... that in August 2022, Sarah Oakley became the first female captain to helm the passing out parade at Dartmouth?
... that Eritrean poet Yirgalem Fisseha Mebrahtu was imprisoned for six years without trial, and later published poems in Tigrinya based on her experience?
... that China limited online video games for children to three hours per week in 2021?

23 November 2022

00:00, 23 November 2022 (UTC)

Supermarine Stranraer

... that the Supermarine Stranraer (example pictured) had the nickname "whistling shithouse"?
... that the 8th-century Lichfield Angel was discovered beneath the floor of Lichfield Cathedral in 2003?
... that the gun-powered mousetrap never gained wide popularity after being patented in 1882, but was hailed as the "best mousetrap ever" in 2012?
... that ophthalmologist Tom Pashby spent 46 years improving the safety of hockey helmets?
... that women did not enter the upper stories of the New York Yacht Club Building for 35 years?
... that owner Matthew Benham influenced both Brentford FC in the UK and FC Midtjylland in Denmark to use mathematical modelling to recruit undervalued football players?
... that to optimize Atkinson Hyperlegible for visually impaired people, its designers intentionally broke the rule that a typeface should be uniform?
... that the name of the SooperDooperLooper was picked when a Hershey executive was outvoted by his wife and children?

22 November 2022

00:00, 22 November 2022 (UTC)

Brogan Rafferty

... that Brogan Rafferty (pictured) was told he would never play professional ice hockey due to his amblyopia and scoliosis?
... that by mid-1920, hundreds of German and Austrian communists fought in Red Army units in Turkestan?
... that Maung O, Prince of Salin, and his sister Nanmadaw Me Nu became de facto rulers of Burma when King Bagyidaw was suffering from depression?
... that in 2022, Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America was a finalist for both an Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction and an Audie Award for Multi-voiced Performance?
... that after the Russian invasion, the daughter of the Ukrainian ambassador to Indonesia was evacuated together with Indonesian citizens in Ukraine?
... that the China Folk House Retreat dismantled a Chinese folk house and rebuilt it in West Virginia?
... that Iran's first three-stage satellite carrier, Qaem 100, successfully passed its suborbital test?
... that the president of chipset designer ServerWorks called Intel their "main competitor" as well as their "best customer"?

21 November 2022

00:00, 21 November 2022 (UTC)

Replica of Nelson's chelengk

... that after Taters Chatham stole the chelengk of Lord Nelson (replica pictured) in 1951 it was never recovered?
... that when rock musician Warren Zevon received a terminal diagnosis of lung cancer, he learned to "enjoy every sandwich"?
... that writer I. C. Vissarion was sentenced to death during the 1907 Romanian peasants' revolt, after it was alleged that he had created homemade bombs?
... that House of Waters repurposes the hammered dulcimer, an Appalachian folk music instrument, for international jazz fusion?
... that Sanne Wevers is the first Dutch female gymnast to have won an individual Olympic medal?
... that the Hosanna Meeting House was a station on the Underground Railroad and had a secret chamber to conceal fugitive slaves beneath its floorboards?
... that Dana International, winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 1998, received death threats following her selection to compete?
... that despite its sizable population, Cary is classified as a town?

20 November 2022

00:00, 20 November 2022 (UTC)

Tove Birkelund

... that the Danish geologist Tove Birkelund (pictured) received a gold medal for her early work on fossils of Scaphites in Greenland?
... that Meghan Trainor was inspired to write "Made You Look" after her therapist asked her to look at herself naked for five minutes?
... that of 12 experts who opened the tomb of a medieval Polish king in 1973, 10 died prematurely?
... that the view from Vogelsang Pass has been described as "one of the most stunning" in Yosemite National Park?
... that Montenegrin historian Radoje Pajović refused to engage in historical revisionism to rehabilitate Chetniks who collaborated with the Axis powers?
... that the roller coaster Great Bear is named after the constellation Ursa Major?
... that Belfast's War Memorial Building was built on the site of a hotel destroyed during the 1941 Belfast Blitz?
... that Shigeo Kageyama was purposely created to come across as "somewhat standoffish or nerdy"?

19 November 2022

00:00, 19 November 2022 (UTC)

Flags in the Nordic cross family

... that most national flags belong to a flag family with similar designs?
... that the Lebon Patisserie & Café in Istanbul closed in 2022, after 212 years of business, due to the high increase of monthly rent?
... that Albert Sack wrote the "bible" for a generation of weekend antique furniture buyers?
... that Dmitri Shostakovich denounced his own Tahiti Trot, an orchestral arrangement of "Tea for Two", as a political blunder?
... that Beryl Benacerraf, pioneer of the nuchal scan, wrote that dyslexia caused her to live in a world of images where "anomalies jump out at me like a neon sign"?
... that one of the first researchers to propose dolphin-assisted therapy for humans later renounced it?
... that in March 1916 the Duke of Westminster led a group of armoured cars on a 250-mile (400 km) round trip to rescue 92 men held prisoner at a remote desert oasis?
... that the success of Los Angeles Rams coach Sean McVay led sportswriter Bill Barnwell to quip that "anyone who has ever worn a polo shirt around McVay is now an NFL head coach"?

18 November 2022

00:00, 18 November 2022 (UTC)

Enriqueta Legorreta

... that Enriqueta Legorreta (pictured), who was the first Mexican woman to appear as Sieglinde in Wagner's Die Walküre, became an award-winning environmental activist?
... that the only known copy of People, Places and Things, co-authored by Stephen King, is owned by King?
... that singer Mohinder Kaur Bhamra encouraged British Indian women to join in party celebrations at a time when they were typically excluded?
... that the Tellico Dam project was controversial for its acquisition of farmland for real estate development, loss of Native American sites, and damaging an endangered fish habitat?
... that Katie Leung was told to deny witnessing any racism from fans while filming the Harry Potter movies?
... that politics in The Simpsons have caused controversy in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, and Japan?
... that a version of the video game Rhino Rumble was not released due to the creators not wanting to add licensed characters?
... that Carson Steele, known as the "Man of Steele", has a pet alligator named Crocky-J and has been called "the most interesting man" in college football?

17 November 2022

00:00, 17 November 2022 (UTC)

Disc depicting Cybele being pulled by two lions through a mountainous landscape

... that artefacts from Ai-Khanoum, a Hellenistic city rediscovered by the King of Afghanistan in 1961, include a "remarkable" disc (pictured) displaying "hybrid Greek and Oriental imagery"?
... that it takes about five hours to inspect Skyrush every morning?
... that after the results of the 2010 Sudanese general election in Jonglei were announced, two disgruntled candidates launched armed insurgencies?
... that Samuel Green printed the Eliot Indian Bible, the first Bible printed in British America, in 1663?
... that a lack of screening for pregnant women with syphilis in sub-Saharan Africa is associated with increased infant mortality?
... that in the 1960s Kléber Dupuy campaigned to rehabilitate the reputation of Philippe Pétain, against whose Vichy regime he had fought as a member of the French Resistance?
... that thousands of Greenlandic women and girls had intrauterine devices placed without their consent during the 1960s and 1970s?
... that by the time he became Governor of Arizona, John Howard Pyle's appearances on a Phoenix radio station made him "as familiar in Arizona homes as the family radio"?

16 November 2022

00:00, 16 November 2022 (UTC)

Macginitiea gracilis leaf fossil

... that the paleoflora of the Eocene Okanagan Highlands (fossil pictured) has a notable mixture of both temperate and subtropical plants?
... that Raihan Rafi, the writer and director of the 2021 Bangladeshi film Janowar, interviewed the alleged perpetrators of the quadruple murder on which it is based?
... that Jason Moore and other Wikipedia editors curated the entry about the January 6 United States Capitol attack in real time?
... that in Loriot's comedy sketch "Englische Ansage", a German TV announcer played by Evelyn Hamann despairs of pronouncing complicated English names?
... that former Arizona Cardinals kicker Cedric Oglesby, one of the first African-American kickers in NFL history, received his chance to play when the team's previous kicker injured himself celebrating?
... that Chōgaku-ji's bell-tower gate was originally built in the early 9th century and is the oldest of its kind in Japan?
... that Nathan Smith made 110 consecutive appearances for Port Vale after his 2016 English Football League debut?
... that the Roman emperors Augustus and Claudius may have had an affinity for gambling?

15 November 2022

00:00, 15 November 2022 (UTC)

Richard Mather, engraved by John Foster

... that John Foster, a Boston printer, made an engraving (pictured) of Richard Mather around 1670, the first produced in colonial America?
... that the collier Franz Fischer was claimed to have become, in 1916, the first merchant vessel to be sunk by aerial attack but is now thought to have been sunk by a submarine?
... that the territories of Old Dartmouth contained five modern Massachusetts towns and cities, and parts of two others?
... that Luis Alegre Salazar led the translation of the constitution of the Mexican state of Quintana Roo into Maya?
... that the most valuable player of MLS Cup 2022, John McCarthy, only played once in the regular season?
... that German general Hans von Guretzky-Cornitz was awarded the Pour le Mérite in 1916 after mistakenly announcing the capture of Fort Vaux?
... that Chicago's Marshfield station had four tracks and three platforms, and involved three branch lines and an interurban?
... that the Guinness World Record for the most consecutive pull-ups is 651 in 87 minutes?

14 November 2022

00:00, 14 November 2022 (UTC)

Burton upon Trent war memorial

... that the Burton upon Trent war memorial (pictured) in England includes a depiction of Saint George standing atop the vanquished dragon?
... that William D. Dunham threw a lifejacket to the Japanese pilot he shot down in aerial combat, after the pilot parachuted into the water?
... that the Victoria State Government has ordered 100 G-class trams, which is the largest domestic order in Australian history?
... that Venla Luukkonen is the first Finnish person to win the World IBJJF Jiu-Jitsu Championship at black belt level?
... that the Citizens for Sanity political action committee, opposing "woke insanity", ran ads saying "vote progressive this November"?
... that Kenneth Lo was called "the foremost expert in Britain on Chinese food"?
... that an attempt by six employees of a California TV station to remain on the air by working unpaid lasted just three days?
... that Japanese parodies of scenes from the life of Buddha in art include arrangements of vegetables?

13 November 2022

00:00, 13 November 2022 (UTC)

Choe Han-gi

... that Choe Han-gi (pictured) published a theory that aimed to replace Newtonian mechanics with one based on qi?
... that a class-action lawsuit against Global Plasma Solutions claimed that their air-purification devices used in schools did not function as advertised and were potentially harmful?
... that Arthur Leslie Walter Newth was only 21 when appointed to command the 16th (Service) Battalion of the Cheshire Regiment during the First World War?
... that Todd Terry's To the Batmobile Let's Go features the first track to sample Arthur Russell?
... that when sworn in, Annas Maamun was the oldest serving Indonesian governor?
... that GhostRider is the longest wooden roller coaster on the West Coast of the United States?
... that the 2000 Taiwanese presidential election ended more than 50 years of Kuomintang rule?
... that an online community makes its users pretend to be long-time neighbors as part of a fictional town named Lower Duck Pond?

12 November 2022

00:00, 12 November 2022 (UTC)

[[File:|140px|Vientiane railway station |alt=Facade of Vientiane railway station ]]

Vientiane railway station

... that Vientiane railway station (pictured) in Laos is the largest on the Boten–Vientiane railway and can accommodate 2,500 passengers, but currently only serves three trains per day?
... that John Kennedy of Dingwall was minister of the same church for forty years?
... that Jim Londos was one of four wrestlers recognized by The Ring as professional wrestling's "true world champion", for holding both the Los Angeles and New York versions of the world title?
... that Rusli Zainal, the former governor of Riau, represented the province in the Indonesia International Quran Competition as a child?
... that the writer of the 2022 comic book miniseries Poison Ivy, starring the eponymous Batman villain, described it as a "love story" that features "plant-based body horror"?
... that in 1917 French general François Léon Jouinot-Gambetta led an offensive that advanced 57 miles (92 km) in six days to capture Skopje?
... that the fall of Sundrum Castle was alluded to in a poem by Robert Chambers in the 19th century and was later referred to as a curse?
... that one reviewer called deleting a block of text in Atari Word Processor "as easy as a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j,k,l"?

11 November 2022

12:00, 11 November 2022 (UTC)

Stele depicting Meni

... that the tomb of the overseer of every cultivated place and every desert place (stele pictured) threatens grave robbers with crocodiles and snakes?
... that Terra Invicta's development company is a group of former volunteer video game modders that decided to release their own game after the success of their mod?
... that Tang dynasty poet and calligrapher Li Yong was falsely accused and executed for attempted treason in 747, but had actually committed treason 37 years earlier?
... that Meteor Studios created "realistic CG on TV budgets", but went bankrupt after completing visual effects work for Journey to the Center of the Earth?
... that Nicole Lloyd-Ronning returned to astrophysics research after a ten-year hiatus, aided by an American Physical Society award for women with interrupted careers?
... that when built in the 1880s, London's Hesper Mews was home to servants, stables, and horses, but within a century it was populated by artists, military officers, and an Astronomer Royal?
... that after being considered too lean for his position, college football player Jalen Dalton gained 40 pounds (18 kg) for his sophomore season, describing his diet as "eat whatever"?
... that the song "Phenomenal Cat" was misspelt as "Phenominal Cat" on the original album sleeve?

00:00, 11 November 2022 (UTC)

Charles and Camilla in 2019

... that despite it being announced in 2005 that she would not bear the title, Charles III's wife, Camilla (both pictured), is to be crowned queen at his side?
... that Alfredo Frohlich formed an award-winning collection of Panamanian postal history that included items from as early as 1777?
... that the top goalscorer of the 1957 Latin Cup scored all three goals in the same match?
... that the book Dracul makes use of the unpublished first 100 pages of Bram Stoker's Dracula manuscript?
... that Tickner Edwardes was a beekeeper who wrote the earliest published account of hitchhiking?
... that the first known texts written by Brazilian indigenous people, written in 1645, were only completely translated in 2021?
... that Bettye Crutcher, the only female staff songwriter for Stax Records, wrote songs for B.B. King, Johnnie Taylor, and the Staple Singers?
... that in 1916 the French appointed a pigeon to the Legion of Honour?

10 November 2022

12:00, 10 November 2022 (UTC)

2022 French protests on 16 October

... that the 2022 French protests (pictured) against the rising cost of living have been called French president Emmanuel Macron's "stiffest challenge" since his re-election?
... that the TV series Mad Men inspired Taylor Swift's hit song "Lavender Haze"?
... that the ancient Roman tourist destination of Baiae was infamous for its hedonism?
... that What Hath God Wrought, the 2007 history of Jacksonian America written by Daniel Walker Howe, is dedicated to Andrew Jackson's "political nemesis" John Quincy Adams?
... that with the help of Turkish and Azerbaijani agents, Muslims in Armenia revolted in 1919–1920 and massacred over 10,000 Armenians?
... that The Breakwater Light was the first newspaper in the first town in the first state?
... that Mexican poet Francisco de Terrazas was praised by Don Quixote author Miguel de Cervantes?
... that as a young midshipman Martin Wemyss, arriving late at a function and using the wrong entrance, bumped into George VI and was invited to dance with the Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret?

00:40, 10 November 2022 (UTC)

Grand Canyon of the Stikine

... that according to Tlingit legend, the Stikine River (pictured) once flowed under a glacier?
... that Hollywood Golden Age actress Gloria Dea was the first magician to perform on the Las Vegas Strip, at the El Rancho Vegas hotel and casino on May 14, 1941?
... that a Taiwanese film about parental favoritism was titled A Sun in English to create a pun with "a son"?
... that Handan Chun wrote a poem on the game of pitch-pot?
... that Sung Min Song, who was an informatics engineer in Seoul until age 26, performed the extreme tenor role of Arnold in Rossini's Guillaume Tell as his debut at the Saarländisches Staatstheater?
... that Edward V. Boursaud was the first American assistant secretary to the Jesuit Superior General for the English-speaking world?
... that Gürdal Duyar's 1976 Seyrani Monument became a symbol of the Develi district?
... that Ed Miliband retweeted "Chaos with Ed Miliband" with a clown emoji during the October 2022 United Kingdom government crisis?

9 November 2022

12:00, 9 November 2022 (UTC)

Making a sand mandala

... that Tibetan art (example pictured) has been described as "almost unbelievably conservative" over the last thousand years?
... that Burt Gustafson was described as the "grand old man" of the Wyoming Cowboys football coaching staff despite being only 36?
... that in 2021, two asteroids hit Mars, each leaving craters over 100 meters (330 feet) across and being felt as marsquakes by the InSight mission thousands of kilometers away?
... that Fire Shut Up in My Bones, a 2019 opera by Terence Blanchard, was the first by a black composer to be performed at the Metropolitan Opera since its founding in 1883?
... that Rabia Balkhi is the first known Persian woman poet?
... that trains lost traction during the Locust Plague of 1874 in the United States due to the tracks being "slick with grasshopper guts"?
... that track and field star Herman Neugass boycotted the 1936 US Olympic Trials because of rising antisemitism in Nazi Germany?
... that the Wood River Branch Railroad was once sold for $301?

00:00, 9 November 2022 (UTC)

Portrait of Gowan Pamphlet

... that in 1772, Gowan Pamphlet (pictured) was ordained while still a slave?
... that Taylor Swift said that her first live album, Speak Now World Tour – Live, was meant to capture what she wanted to "show [...] my kids and my grandkids"?
... that Rockstar New England is based in Andover, Massachusetts, because it is the founder's "favorite place"?
... that the constitution of Arkansas contained text opposing racial integration for 34 years until it was repealed in a 1990 amendment?
... that while the Empire of Japan did not actively participate in the Holocaust, it has been found to have committed war crimes of its own?
... that Helmut Reimer, who was professor of microelectronics at the Technische Universität Ilmenau from 1971, began in 1992 to make TeleTrusT a competence centre for applied cryptography and biometrics?
... that the concept of adding strippers to the extreme sports video game BMX XXX was initially proposed in jest?
... that you can keep a snowflake in a browser tab?

8 November 2022

12:00, 8 November 2022 (UTC)

Borys Lyatoshynsky

... that the Ukrainian composer Borys Lyatoshynsky (pictured) composed his second opera, Shchors in 1937–38, about a military figure from Ukraine who fought for the Soviet Red Army in the Ukrainian–Soviet War?
... that although Ronteza slipped and fell chasing a cow in competition, she made Arabian horse history?
... that Tammy Wynette once toured on a bus labeled "Mr. and Mrs. Country Music" with her husband George Jones?
... that one scholar compared the importance of Zork to that of Homer's Iliad?
... that philanthropist Sydney Simmons gave Friary Park a statue of Queen Victoria as Peace holding a dove, but the dove was replaced with a spear?
... that despite Jimmy Eat World running out of song ideas in pre-production, Rolling Stone called Futures their "finest album"?
... that Chinese court painter Su Hanchen is known for his paintings of children?
... that despite not ever performing in the country, Lil Yachty rapped about taking the wock to Poland?

00:00, 8 November 2022 (UTC)

Letters on the platform walls

... that the letters on the platform walls of Wibautstraat metro station (pictured) refer to the offices of Dutch newspapers that were located on the street above?
... that Four Epigraphs after Escher is a 1993 piano trio by Graham Waterhouse for viola, heckelphone and piano based on four graphic artworks by M. C. Escher including Reptiles?
... that after 2014 horror film The Babadook was listed as an "LGBT film" by Netflix, the titular monster was adopted as a gay icon in internet memes?
... that the statue of the goddess Dērītum had to be ceremonially bathed?
... that Ken Kortas lost money speculating on hog futures during his NFL career?
... that terbium compounds have applications in fields such as optics because of their green fluorescence?
... that one of chairman and CEO Brendan Bechtel's first jobs was to install security cables for laptops at Bechtel headquarters in San Francisco when he was 14 years old?
... that the Chinese medical text Essential Formulas Worth a Thousand in Gold for Emergencies warns its readers not to share its formulas "even for a thousand in gold"?

7 November 2022

12:00, 7 November 2022 (UTC)

Westland Explorers' Monument

... that the Westland Explorers' Monument (pictured), placed within an intersection, was seen as an obstruction and relocated, only to be replaced with an even larger monument?
... that Cumulus Computer Corporation was sued over alleged unpaid T-shirts?
... that the dog in A Man and His Dog was modelled after Thomas Mann's real-life dog Bauschan?
... that in 1674 Marmaduke Johnson was the first printer allowed in colonial America to operate his own printing press in Boston?
... that the Israeli song "HaSela haAdom", about illegal trips to Petra, was banned in Israel?
... that the sentencing phase of the Jemma Mitchell case was the second to be filmed in England and Wales since a change in the law permitted television cameras into court?
... that the opening day of a California TV station was affected by a strike when workers refused to cross a two-man picket line?
... that the Marrow of the Red Phoenix was composed by the "Daoist Confounded by Plum Blossoms"?

00:00, 7 November 2022 (UTC)

Orange chocolate chip lichen

... that the orange chocolate chip lichen (pictured) was given its common name because of its fruitbodies that look like chocolate?
... that Carol Wilson had to pretend that she was a schoolteacher when unofficially representing England at the 1971 Women's World Cup?
... that the Aegis BMD at Deveselu Military Base, intended to intercept missiles from Iran, has been called a "direct threat" by Russian officials?
... that Michigan defensive end Eyabi Okie, ranked number 3 in the 2018 college football recruiting class, changed his surname from "Anoma" to recognize his mother who lives in Africa?
... that in the 1916 Declaration of Sainte-Adresse Britain, France and Russia committed to securing the political and economic independence of Belgium after the First World War?
... that Ausma Malik is the first hijab-wearing Muslim woman to be elected to public office in Canada?
... that the music video for Taylor Swift's song "Bejeweled" hints that her 2010 album Speak Now would be her next re-recording?
... that the Algonquin Hotel keeps a cat in its lobby?

6 November 2022

12:00, 6 November 2022 (UTC)

Walton and Mouvet, pictured in 1913

... that Florence Walton and Maurice Mouvet (pictured) became the first American dancers to appear by command of British royalty when they performed at the 1914 Kenwood House ball?
... that the nonconformist minister Ichabod Chauncey was banished from England under the Religion Act 1592 and spent two years in exile in Holland where he published a defence of his actions?
... that rather than warning those downriver of the impending failure of the Walnut Grove Dam, a messenger got drunk, leading to the deaths of more than 100 people?
... that the fake news website Disclose.tv plagiarized many of its articles when it relaunched in September 2021?
... that it took 90 years to replace the "unconvincing" original proof of Roberts's triangle theorem, on the number of triangles formed by systems of lines, with a correct proof?
... that View from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on Manhattan, 9/11 taken on the day of the attacks on the World Trade Center was not published until 2005 because it seemed too pretty to its creator Thomas Hoepker?
... that Sulayman Pasha al-Azm lifted his 1742 siege of Tiberias to lead the Hajj pilgrim caravan to Mecca?
... that in two days, Nick Sciba went from selling fish to playing in the National Football League?

00:00, 6 November 2022 (UTC)

Jubilee Memorial by Arthur Bown, 1887

... that Arthur Bown designed Harrogate's Jubilee Memorial (pictured) to commemorate Queen Victoria's golden jubilee?
... that Jay Owen Light aspired to be an astronaut before becoming the dean of Harvard Business School?
... that a caped Atatürk Monument by Gürdal Duyar was erected in Uşak in 1965 after a campaign by the Milliyet newspaper to erect Atatürk monuments in provinces that did not have them?
... that in the music video for the song "Anti-Hero", Taylor Swift imagines a scenario in which she is killed by her own daughter-in-law?
... that te lapa, an unproven and unexplained oceanic light phenomenon, might have been used by Polynesians to find islands in the Pacific Ocean?
... that The Immaculate Collection was the first album to use QSound?
... that Cape Grim Air Archive in Tasmania has been collecting air samples for more than 40 years?
... that J. Elroy McCaw feigned losing his wallet to make women pay for meals at restaurants?

5 November 2022

12:00, 5 November 2022 (UTC)

Edward Mosberg

... that Holocaust survivor Edward Mosberg (pictured in his concentration camp uniform) was awarded the Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland for his efforts recognizing the Polish war-time rescue of Jews?
... that "Look at the world" is a 1996 choral harvest anthem with text and music by John Rutter, written for CPRE "on the theme of the environment and our responsibility towards it"?
... that although Austrian model Greta Hofer was only discovered in 2020, she was chosen to work exclusively for Prada that year?
... that a "frustration walk" connected Chicago Union Station with the rapid transit Canal station?
... that during the Avar Wars, disease killed 90 per cent of Charlemagne's horses?
... that in 1919 Ethel Hampson Brewster compared dropping ancient history from school curricula to "knock[ing] out the first two stories of a skyscraper"?
... that the United States severed diplomatic ties with Finland in 1944 because of a personal letter sent to Hitler?
... that Rockstar Lincoln used to keep live tarantulas at its offices?

00:00, 5 November 2022 (UTC)

Ten-sided dice

... that ten-sided gaming dice (examples pictured) have kite-shaped faces?
... that physician and scientist F. William Sunderman continued working until shortly before his death at the age of 104?
... that Daruma-ji was razed in the early 14th century by Buddhists who opposed the spread of Zen Buddhism in Japan?
... that Andrea Bonetti was Juventus U16's most prolific player of the 2018–19 season, with 16 goals?
... that The Essex Gazette was established in 1768, becoming Salem's first newspaper, and was used as a voice against British rule just before the American Revolution?
... that Şebnem Korur Fincancı, a drafter of a United Nations guideline on the documentation of torture, was arrested after she suggested an investigation into the use of chemical weapons?
... that City Pier A's clock tower was the first memorial to World War I casualties in the United States, according to a New York City government spokesperson?
... that the three lines of the traditional German round "Lobet und preiset, ihr Völker, den Herrn" are based on verses from three psalms?

4 November 2022

12:00, 4 November 2022 (UTC)

Meadow knapweed

... that meadow knapweed (example pictured) is a hybrid between black knapweed and brown knapweed, which were both introduced to North America?
... that Pride Month is held in commemoration of the Stonewall riots?
... that Manuel Carpio's 1849 poem is the earliest literary depiction of the weeping ghost La Llorona?
... that Denver's oldest building continuously used for Protestant worship, the Evans Memorial Chapel, is now also used by Catholics?
... that Graham Hawkins coached the Wolverhampton Wanderers to the top division in his first season as a manager?
... that the studios of a California TV station were converted back into a movie theater after it went out of business?
... that Hirsch Sommerhausen worked as a court translator in a dozen languages?

00:00, 4 November 2022 (UTC)

Rosalía Abreu

... that there was an initial agreement for chimpanzees from the private zoo of Rosalía Abreu (pictured) to be part of an experiment to breed a humanzee?
... that the cover art for "True Love" features handwritten notes by XXXTentacion?
... that the Paradise of Wisdom, an early Islamic medical encyclopedia, describes an abortion-causing stone?
... that Jon Brittenum managed an investment banking firm after his fourteen-game-long NFL career?
... that accessible yoga was formed as a way for people with disabilities to be able to perform yoga?
... that the screenwriter for Corianton: A Story of Unholy Love went to jail for telling a judge to "shut up"?
... that Elcho Castle never saw combat, but was nearly burned down by a mob in 1773?
... that Jordan Gray added the technical name for spider silk to her name due to the UK not having a process to change honorific from Mr to Miss?

3 November 2022

12:00, 3 November 2022 (UTC)

Castle Clinton

... that the New York City Board of Estimate voted to demolish Fort Clinton (pictured) six times before the fort became a U.S. national monument?
... that the 1947 World Snooker Championship was the first world snooker championship where the winner wasn't Joe Davis?
... that according to the Open Syllabus Project, Diana Hacker is the second most-read female author on college campuses after Kate L. Turabian?
... that a scene featuring Michael Fassbender kissing himself in Alien: Covenant was cut from the Chinese release due to censorship?
... that "Kommt herbei, singt dem Herrn" is a Christian hymn that Diethard Zils wrote in 1972 as a paraphrase of Psalm 95 to an Israeli melody?
... that at the Calais Conference of July 1915 both the British and French thought they had persuaded the other to support their opposing war strategies?
... that the seats on Pipeline: The Surf Coaster shift up and down to mimic the feeling of surfing?
... that Ted Heaton advertised himself as "Liverpool's famous swimming master"?

00:00, 3 November 2022 (UTC)

Graham Waterhouse

... that compositions by Graham Waterhouse (pictured) range from the beginning of his String Sextet, Op. 1, in 1979 to the Fantasia Ucraina for two violins in 2022?
... that Clara MacBeth lived on a cruise ship for over a decade?
... that Oh My God, Charlie Darwin was recorded by the Low Anthem in ten days in a Block Island basement?
... that run-pass option plays used in college football allow quarterbacks to pass the ball farther downfield than those used in the NFL?
... that despite having roles in more than 170 films, Josef Somr preferred acting in theatre?
... that when the Bowery Savings Bank Building opened in 1895, "the bank as a work of architecture went from the merely big to the colossal"?
... that Zail Singh was the first Sikh and the first person from a backward caste to become President of India?
... that the Iowa Cow War started due to bovine tuberculosis testing?

2 November 2022

12:00, 2 November 2022 (UTC)

The elephant depicted in the contemporary Liber Additamentorum

... that the elephant of Henry III (pictured), which arrived in England in 1255, was the first to set foot in that country since the Roman invasion of Britain?
... that the sculpture Guns into Plowshares was built from 3,000 disabled handguns?
... that Hong Kongese wuxia author Jozev Kiu is an Eskrima coach and karateka?
... that Saint Augustine died during the Vandal conquest of Roman Africa?
... that Samuel Hall established Salem's first newspaper, The Essex Gazette, in 1768, using it to support the colonial cause against British taxation?
... that the heads of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church and Jacobite Syrian Christian Church certify their bishops by giving them a sthathicon?
... that Lindsay Ring regained control of his family catering firm and went on to become Lord Mayor of London?
... that some scientists believe we may live in a "dark forest"?

00:00, 2 November 2022 (UTC)

Smilisca sila, the Panama cross-banded tree frog

... that Panama cross-banded tree frog (pictured) males synchronize their mating calls to confuse predators that locate them by sound?
... that Dale Haney has walked presidential pooches from Richard Nixon's King Timahoe to Joe Biden's Commander and safeguarded George W. Bush's pets during the September 11 attacks?
... that Japanese jazz cafés often require customers to be silent?
... that a 1969 note from New York Times writer Grace Glueck to Arthur Ochs Sulzberger spurred a class-action lawsuit over gender discrimination?
... that organizations have been successfully sued for not using the alt attribute correctly on their websites?
... that the Roman emperor Hadrian was so grieved by the death of his male lover Antinous that he made him into a god and founded a city in his honour?
... that Kurt Cobain gave a Seattle radio station a copy of his first single, then called from a pay phone to request it after it went unplayed?
... that Liz Truss's rise to power went from "astonishing" to "explosive" a day before she resigned as prime minister?

1 November 2022

12:00, 1 November 2022 (UTC)

Hasanpaşa Gasworks

... that Hasanpaşa Gasworks (pictured) escaped its demolition through the resistance of local residents, became a festival venue for a time and was finally transformed into a museum after redevelopment?
... that, in 2018, Tara Jones both captained a women's Super League team and was the first female match official in the men's Super League?
... that the limited radio airplay of "Get Together" in the US spawned a petition, outrage, and conspiracy theories among Madonna fans?
... that The Bone People by Keri Hulme nearly ended up as a doorstop instead of a Booker Prize-winning novel?
... that Juliet Rice Wichman once stood in front of a bulldozer to prevent the destruction of a rock wall?
... that the change of South Kalimantan capital city from Banjarmasin to Banjarbaru was called a "constitutional coup" by its opponents?
... that Chuck Deardorf joked that he "played both kinds of music: country and western"?
... that mushroom synagogues helped many Jews celebrate the High Holidays?

00:00, 1 November 2022 (UTC)

Regent Cinema

... that a Halloween-themed protest was held at the former Regent Cinema (pictured), urging the owners to "raise [it] from the dead"?
... that Matthias Hanke, an organist and choral leader by age 14, in due course became responsible for all Protestant church music in Württemberg?
... that the steamboat carrying the 9th Missouri Sharpshooter Battalion back from its military service sank in the Red River of the South?
... that Margie Masters made the cut at a golf tournament despite being shot at by a sniper on the course?
... that Delaware weekly newspaper The Faulkland Quiz was founded, edited and published by an 18-year-old?
... that Rabab Al-Kadhimi was threatened with deportation from Egypt due to the political nature of her poetry?
... that the Chicago "L"'s Laflin station had an elevator for caskets?
... that Martin Pipe's training methods for steeplechasers were so effective, he was investigated twice for cheating?

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