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... that upon receiving her pay fromHis Master's Voice,Asiah Aman was taught by an executive how to open a bank account?
... that while the 2024WDF World Darts Championship final featured a 70-year-old, the 2025 final featured a 15-year-old?
... that Indonesian ambassadorNiniek Kun Naryatie initially wanted to resign as a diplomat after giving birth to her first child, but her husband convinced her not to do so?
... that, whenMariame Clément directed Mozart'sCosì fan tutte, she froze a wedding tableau during the overture and restarted it in the finale?
... that Turkey is facing itsworst drought in the last 50 years?
... thatNobuhiko Jimbo saved future Philippine presidentManuel Roxas from execution during World War II, and Roxas did the same for Jimbo four years later?
... that YouTuberLaura Kampf got millions of views on a video in which she built a project that did not work?
13 December 2025
00:00, 13 December 2025 (UTC)
General Motors Technical Center
... that the opening of theGeneral Motors Technical Center(pictured) featured an appearance by Indonesia's president and a speech from the US president?
... that authorTareq Baconi, after studying water scarcity and Hamas, wrote a memoir about queer identity, family displacement, and political awakening?
... that a New York railroad once operated a special train toa former train station so that people could see model trains?
... thatLeon Russianoff never took a college music lesson, but an obituary stated that he was "considered by many to be the Godfather of American clarinetists"?
... that the author ofKaiten no Albus did not decide the protagonist's objective until after the first chapter was written?
... thata Florida TV station was named after Columbia Pictures, even though a merger with that company fell through?
... thatGemma Hayter was inspired to return to playing darts after eight years when her friend became world champion?
... that multiple police raids failed to retrievea book that was once valued at more than US$900 million?
12 December 2025
00:00, 12 December 2025 (UTC)
Australian Church building
... that Charles Strong founded theAustralian Church(building pictured) after facing heresy charges, and attracted many elite congregants including a future prime minister?
... thatBaek Se-hee wroteI Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki?
... that cyclistSepp Kuss logged 547,019 metres (1,794,682 ft) of elevation gain in 2023?
... that the Minnesota and Wisconsin National Guards may have shot cannonballs across the Mississippi River at each other during artillery competitions atCamp Lakeview?
11 December 2025
00:00, 11 December 2025 (UTC)
Portrait of Paul Revere
... that Paul Revere's daughter hada portrait of him(pictured) revised, as it depicted him dressed informally?
... thatBob Comfort, an atheist, made up a religion when ordered to pick one while serving in the United States military?
10 December 2025
00:00, 10 December 2025 (UTC)
The restored Satank Bridge
... thatSatank Bridge(pictured) toSatank, Colorado, was constructed in 1900 for $2,325, while its 2011 restoration was estimated to cost at least $750,000?
... that one newspaper labelledCaroline Hodgson the "wickedest woman in Melbourne"?
... thatGävle Hospital in Sweden was so overrun with scarlet fever in 1934 that it considered requisitioning a local gymnasium?
... thatGatot Wilotikto needed approval from the North Korean parliament to marry a local woman?
... that more than 30 women claimed to have gone into labor within 24 hours of eating aLabor Inducer?
... that, when workers of theZenkoku Jiren went on strike at a Hitachi factory, anarchist militants firebombed the mansion of Hitachi's president,Namihei Odaira?
... thatMatilda Freeman did not originally intend to be an actress, but auditioned for a role after being teased by some classmates?
... thatThe Republic Newspaper Office was completed under budget despite the plans undergoing more than 100 changes during construction?
... that the video gameMy Time at Sandrock was funded by almost 10,000 people from more than 160 countries?
... that Brigadier GeneralWilliam J. Fox retired from the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, moved to Mexico and became acharro?
... thatHMAS Emu once rescued a cigarette-smoking chimpanzee and his magician owner?
7 December 2025
00:00, 7 December 2025 (UTC)
Size chart of variousPlagiolophus species
... that the seventeen known species of the prehistoric horse relativePlagiolophus ranged in weight from 10 kg (22 lb) to more than 150 kg (330 lb)(size chart pictured)?
... thatSneeze Achiu(pictured) had documents listing him as Caucasian so that he would not be segregated from his teammates?
... that a nationwide survey found that one in three Japanese people have anoshi?
... that in 1900Isabel Fidler was appointed as tutor to the 70 women students at the University of Sydney; by the time of her retirement in 1939 there were more than 800?
... thatLuciano Berio composedSequenza III for diverse mouth sounds interspersed with ecstatic singing?
... thatTjoo Tik Tjoen stood for the Indonesian Communist Party in a 1955 election, despite not having officially joined the party?
... that the appeal of the children's poem "On the Ning Nang Nong" has been attributed to the absurdity of its nonsense sounds, like teapots going "Jibber Jabber Joo"?
5 December 2025
00:00, 5 December 2025 (UTC)
The Banquet of Cleopatra
... thatThe Banquet of Cleopatra(pictured) depicts Cleopatra drinking a dissolved pearl to impress Mark Antony?
... that an on-stage incident traumatizedAntonie Mielke so much that she retired from opera?
... that people entered the Bronze Age tombs atVolimidia centuries later in the Iron Age to leave offerings to the dead?
... thatZhang Xichen founded a magazine to compete with one made by his own employer?
... that the unique, if "Freudian", partnership betweenRichard A. Hunter and his mother was the most prolific in publishing in the history of psychiatry?
... that, according to legend,Ngataba Min became king after eating the head of a rooster?
4 December 2025
00:00, 4 December 2025 (UTC)
Marie Goldsmith
... thatNestor Makhno described the evolutionary biologistMarie Goldsmith(pictured) as one of the "titans of anarchism"?
... thata house that was once called "almost the opposite of a landmark" later became a U.S. National Historic Landmark?
... that two successiveHanthawaddy commanders who held the title ofSmin Maw-Khwin surrendered toAva forces in 1414?
... thatThe Patient's Playbook warns against overly hasty medical treatment, citing a case in which a man received heart stents before learning that the issue was in his lungs?
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