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... that after Hilary Duff announcedher return to music, searches for her on Spotify surged by 400%, with U.S. streams rising nearly 80% and first-time listeners up about 75%?
... that Ukrainian writerMykhailo Starytsky financed his own theatre with proceeds from the sale of hisrusk factory?
... thatWilliam Bloomfield(pictured) is recognized as the first known Māori architect?
... thatrock wrens build pavements made of flat stones to keep their nests dry?
... that the developers ofArlington Forest followed the U.S. government's recommendations for both residential architecture and racially restrictive covenants?
... thatDavid Barsum Perley used his writings to explore what he considered the British betrayal of the Assyrian people?
... thatLiu Shasha didn't own a mobile phone because it might take away from her learning billiards?
... that despite coincidental timing,Gap's ad featuringKatseye was not intended as a response toSydney Sweeney's controversial jeans commercial?
... that at fifteen years old,Ebenezer Harcourt became the youngest footballer to play for the Nigeria national team?
... that whenTitan Fleischmann's grandmother first heard her future grandson's name, she cried out of fear that he would be bullied for it?
... thatNigel Bluck's cinematography has been compared to the work of painter Edward Hopper?
... that the difficulty of finding Fluid Ounces'sthird studio album led some fans to believe it was an urban legend?
... that United States Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scaliadid not endorse the statement, "everybody has got a right to the use of the English language"?
14 February 2026
00:00, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
Calvin Duncan
... thatCalvin Duncan(pictured) was electedclerk of the same court that wrongfully convicted him of murder and sentenced him to life in prison?
... thatBilly Gallagher's Times Square cabaret was open from sundown to dawn, with a mix of "reputable people" and those "who had practical reasons for circulating after dark"?
... that theCipero Tramway was the first operational railway in Trinidad and Tobago?
... that voice actorRena Motomura prepared for an audition by practicing a single challenging line a hundred times a day?
... thatAl-Qunayyah, a village in Jordan, is thought to have been the site of a Roman-era sanctuary?
... that future Slavic-language professorMarc L. Greenberg learned Slovene after his fiancée sent him a bilingual dictionary and started writing letters to him only in Slovene?
... that the attorney of thelast person executed by Peru requested Pope John Paul II's intervention to save his client's life?
... that mangroves reduced the impact ofCyclone Dana?
... thatVariety once calledTrisha Ziff a "photographer's photographer"?
... that the headquarters of Indonesia's16th Mechanized Infantry Brigade was a Japanese military base, seized by Indonesian youths after Japan's surrender in 1945?
... thatImmanuel Iheanacho was measured as a 14-year-old freshman at 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) and 325 lb (147 kg), with a 7 ft (2.1 m)wingspan?
... that in 1956 a person dressed as the anthropomorphic hedgehog and comic starMecki traveled by helicopter to more than 100 cities in southern Germany to give children gifts?
... thatRichard Lee Morton became the head of the College of William & Mary's history department after two years of teaching?
... thatChandler Court and Pollard Park, which were designed and occupied by William & Mary faculty, have been called "two ofWilliamsburg's most appealing twentieth-century neighborhoods"?
Rolling-shutter photograph of a spinning airplane propeller
... that a photograph of an airplane propeller taken by a camera with arolling shutter(pictured) may distort the propeller into curves resembling thequadratrix of Hippias?
... that the remains of at least 970 people were discovered at the formerKilkenny Union Workhouse?
... that theOceanic Steamship Company(advertisement pictured) beat a rival company in a trans-Pacific race, bought the rival's ships, and added them toits own fleet?
... that the author ofFive Bullets was unaware for a year thatFear and Fury was also being written about the same 1984 shooting, and for the same publishing house?
... that the baritoneJubilant Sykes, active in spirituals, gospel and funk, recorded the role of the Celebrant in Leonard Bernstein's Grammy-nominatedMass?
... thatFluminense FM used to broadcast horse races before becoming "the gateway to Brazilian rock in the 80s"?
3 February 2026
00:00, 3 February 2026 (UTC)
Girardinus metallicus
... that Cuba'sGirardinus fish(pictured) may have evolved into different species because the island's rivers are often interrupted by waterfalls or vanish underground?
... that Tinashe's333 and Wishy'sTriple Seven are both named for angel numbers?
... thatslipper lamps produced in theUmayyad era sometimes carried bilingual inscriptions with "TheLight of Christ" in Greek, alongside "God" (Allah) in Arabic?
... thatAnahit Ananyan was credited with starting Armenia's tomato heritage?
... that the relocation ofa Mexico City monument resulted in the water-level indicators on its pedestal losing their original geographic alignment?
... that a pre-order ticket campaign forRhapsody in August saw¥300 of the¥1,300 ticket price go to the assistance of birds affected by theGulf War?
... thatAllan Ludwig has been described as the "founding father" of gravestone studies?
... thatEmily Sutton illustrated an abridged children's edition ofShakespeare's First Folio with "red-cheeked gentlemen, sword-wielding warriors and ladies in striking attire"?
... that gamblers in Myanmar worship the spiritThone Myo Shin to ensure victory in cockfights?
... thatJohn A. Jakle has co-authored nine books on "roadside America", including books on motels, road signs, gas stations, parking lots, and fast-food restaurants?
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