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30 June 2014

16:15, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

... thatPhiladelphia Phillies catcherCarlos Ruiz(pictured) earned the nickname "Señor Octubre" for his strongpostseason performances?
... that seafarers have used the tower of Sweden'sRone Church as anavigational aid since theMiddle Ages?
... thatJim Bartels resigned as curator of Honolulu'sʻIolani Palace after criticizingAbigail Kinoiki Kekaulike Kawānanakoa for sitting on one of the palace thrones?
... that the horned godNaigamesha was worshipped as the patron of childbirth?
... thatJuozas Gabrys worked to liberate Lithuania, but became "virtually anunperson" in that country?
... thatCarrie Underwood's 2012 single "Two Black Cadillacs" was certified Platinum by theRIAA, signifying US sales of at least 1 million units?
... that SirGarrard Tyrwhitt-Drake, twelve-time mayor ofMaidstone, England, kept lions, tigers and elephants on his estate?

03:40, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

... that in 1944 RomanianpathologistFrancisc Rainer(pictured) correctly diagnosed himself withlung cancer, predicted the time of his death, and left instructions for his ownembalming?
... thatMillennium's composerMark Snow praised the use of operatic music in the episode "Roosters"?
... that Colombian-AmericanOrange Is the New Black actressDiane Guerrero's parents and older brother weredeported to Colombia when she was 14 years old?
... that composerHeinrich Schütz publishedPsalmen Davids, including polychoral settings for many of the included psalms, on his wedding day?
... thatLouis John Gill was the original architect of theSan Diego Zoo?
... thatHerbert Sears' father ran a fish and chip shop inSaskatoon and Herbert himself worked at a bakery before becoming the city's mayor?
... thatRoma Abbey onGotland has been the site of a medieval abbey, a crown estate manor, and a military base?

29 June 2014

16:00, 29 June 2014 (UTC)

... thatLondon'sDenmark Street(pictured), home to several music shops, is thought to have been named afterPrince George of Denmark?
... thatAmerican Canadian scientistJack Souther contributed significantly to the early understanding ofQuaternary volcanism in Canada?
... that when the BritishSlavery Abolition Act 1833 compensated slave-owners, the largest single payment went toTory Member of ParliamentJames Blair for his 1,598 slaves inBritish Guiana?
... that the action video gameThe Legend of Korra is intended to be visually indistinguishable fromthe animated TV series on which it is based?
... that more than thirty bird species inhabit the vicinity of Pennsylvania'sLittle Shickshinny Creek, including ten kinds ofwarbler?
... thatVetUK, which has annual revenues of more than £10 million as of 2010, initially operated out of the living room of co-founder Iain Booth?
... that Brazilianstriptease artistLuz del Fuego performed with live snakes?

08:00, 29 June 2014 (UTC)

... that in North America the red sauce forprawn cocktail(pictured) includesketchup andhorseradish?
... that a crossroad nearGujarat University, where Gujarati authorBholabhai Patel taught, is named after him?
... that theantebellum bestsellerCotton Plantation Record and Account Book taught plantation owners how to use moderncost accounting principles to measure theproductivity of theirslaves?
... thatKeith Martin developed a technique forprinting eye cells?
... thatGryta Church preserves paintings attributed to a student ofAlbertus Pictor?
... that Dr.Naim Dangoor lost everything when he leftBa'athist Iraq, then built another fortune in the UK, helped endow 4,000 studentbursaries and donated over £1 million toCancer Research UK?
... that the Chinese surnamesJi,Ji, andJi are pronounced differently inCantonese?

00:00, 29 June 2014 (UTC)

... that construction of theRiverview Theater(pictured) marked the beginning of a "theater-building orgy" inMinneapolis?
... that in 1966, parliamentarianRungsung Suisa proposed confederation as a solution to the Indo–Naga conflict?
... that the yellow-green gasfluorine azide freezes to a highly explosive solid?
... that businessman turned political candidateWill Brooke described theAffordable Care Act as a "planned economy disaster"?
... that the disintegration of the Royal Yugoslav4th Army during theInvasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941 was caused largely byfifth column activity?
... that although deaconessMargaret Rodgers could not be ordained as a priest because of her gender, she was cited as "one of the most powerful people in theAnglican Diocese of Sydney"?
... that the name of theDebianoperating system is a combination of the first names of its creatorIan Murdock and his then-girlfriend Debra?

28 June 2014

16:00, 28 June 2014 (UTC)

... that first the death, then resurrection, of foxhunting celebrityCharles Loraine Smith(pictured) were imagined in lighthearted verse while he was still very much alive?
... thatRichard Strauss reportedly composed "Traum durch die Dämmerung" ("Dream in the Twilight"), from a love poem byOtto Julius Bierbaum, in 20 minutes?
... thatIvy Parker was the first woman to receive aPhD in chemistry from theUniversity of Texas?
... that a specialDetroitcommuter train transported theCBS production crew from theRenaissance Center toSuper Bowl XVI at thePontiac Silverdome?
... that one ofHrithik Roshan's first acting roles was as the adopted son ofRajinikanth's character in the 1986 filmBhagwaan Dada?
... thatThe Saturday Evening Post claimed that efforts to extinguish theCarbondale mine fire would move more earth than the construction of thePanama Canal?

08:15, 28 June 2014 (UTC)

... thatthe Top 10 New Species of the past year includea 40 foot (12 m) tall tree(pictured), acrustacean that looks like a skeleton, aprotist that acts like a sponge, and afungus named after the King of the Netherlands?
... that American bandParamore's "Ain't It Fun" became their first song to reach the top 10 of the USBillboardHot 100?
... thatSan Diego's civic celebrationFiesta del Pacifico featured a theatrical production billed as "the biggest non-movie spectacle ever produced anywhere"?
... that the fungus toxinaspergillomarasmine A is capable of inhibiting an antibiotic-resistance enzyme produced bysuperbugs?
... that theLeft and Secular Alliance andBJP opposed each other in the2014 Indian general election, but later sent a joint delegation to lodge a complaint with the Election Commission?
... that the starBH Crucis has become redder and (on average) brighter since it was discovered in 1969?
... that the Hindu elephant-headed godGanesha may be depicted as acrawling infant eating sweets?

00:30, 28 June 2014 (UTC)

... that theUniversity of Tübingen has agiant stone vagina(pictured) that weighs 32 tons?
... that art dealerGrace Nicholson designed the building that now houses theUSC Pacific Asia Museum?
... that thirteen different political parties are represented in the5th Democratic Parliament of South Africa?
... thatFlorence Stoney was the UK's first femaleradiologist and one of the first women doctors hired by theWar Office in World War I?
... that in 2013Malek Fahd Islamic School was the largest Islamic school inAustralia?
... that the Indian communist politicianL.B.G. Rao led guerrilla squads during theTelangana armed struggle?
... that wheelchair athleteElaine Allard scaledKala Patthar in the Himalayas?

27 June 2014

16:00, 27 June 2014 (UTC)

... that theFrankish Tower(pictured) on theAcropolis of Athens, part of the palace of theFrankish Dukes of Athens, was demolished in 1874 in what has been called "an act of vandalism"?
... that British airmanTom Rees was killed in the first official victory credited to German flying ace theRed Baron?
... thatCharles Dickens' son was sent toMomba Station in Australia before his 16th birthday?
... thatBuck's Fizz was invented atBuck's Club in London'sClifford Street?
... that Canadian politicianPercy Klaehn was the high school coach ofEthel Catherwood, who won a gold medal in high jump at the1928 Summer Olympics?
... that the plot of the 1901 filmKansas Saloon Smashers was based on aneditorial cartoon?
... that the wife of formerSaskatoon mayorFrederick Harrison shot him in the chest twice just to scare him?

08:00, 27 June 2014 (UTC)

... that after ordering the bombardment ofFort Sumter which started theAmerican Civil War,General P. T. Beauregard watched the attack from theEdmondston-Alston House(pictured)?
... thatRita Cléos was the first actress filmed in a bathing scene on Brazilian TV?
... thatBoniface of Verona, once a poor knight who sold his own castle to equip himself, became one of the richest lords ofFrankish Greece?
... that the jaw ofExoglossum laurae is partially exposed because it is missing much of its lower lip?
... thatMekayla Diehl forgave the attacker who molested her as a child, and was the first woman ofNative American descent to winMiss Indiana USA?
... that the lead character of the filmHemlock Hoax, the Detective had been a minor character in a rejected story?
... thatsuper-yacht builderJonathan Quinn Barnett also made modelKlingon ships forStar Trek IV and renovated theRubicon Estate Winery mansion forFrancis Ford Coppola?

00:00, 27 June 2014 (UTC)

... thatMahaganapati(pictured) is a depiction of theSupreme Being?
... that theHuysman Gallery of Los Angeles closed after less than a year due to a controversial poster for itsWar Babies exhibition?
... that the French missionary and explorerProsper Philippe Augouard was dubbed "Cannibal Bishop"?
... that the Soviet Armenian newspaperKommunist became the opposition newspaperGolos Armenii in the 1990s?
... thatThakur Ganpat Singh was re-elected to the Ajmer Legislative Assembly with an increased margin, after his election had been declared void in 1953?
... that the 1967 song "Days of Pearly Spencer" features a "strange 'phoned-in' chorus"?
... that at the time,King William IV's public mourning of his son-in-law, the husband of his illegitimate daughterLady Augusta FitzClarence, was considered scandalous?

26 June 2014

08:00, 26 June 2014 (UTC)

... that the blue band on theflag of Sierra Leone(pictured) represents the "natural harbour" ofFreetown, the country's capital city?
... thatFrozen is currently thehighest-grossing animated film of all time, and the fifthhighest-grossing film?
... that worshippers ofHaridra Ganapati used tobrand the image of the god on their palms?
... thatIntermediate School 318's chess team was the first from amiddle school to win the US high school championship, despite 87% of its members coming from families below the poverty line?
... thatLady Harriet Cavendish's marriage toGranville Leveson-Gower was arranged byher aunt, who had been his lover for seventeen years?
... that theSuheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party has favoured the creation of aPurvanchal state?
... that Swedish engineerRudolf Fredrik Berg's brother wasKing Oscar II's medical doctor and had to attend at the king's deathbed, preventing him from visiting Rudolf who died on the same day?

00:00, 26 June 2014 (UTC)

... that on June 13 theTsavo Trust reported thatSatao, one of the world's largestAfrican elephants, was killed inTsavo East National Park(elephants pictured) by a poacher's poisoned arrow?
... that World War II French GeneralLeclerc adopted hisnom de guerre to avoid risk to his family in the event his missions appeared in the papers?
... that in 2004,Typhoon Nanmadol became the first December tropical cyclone to strike the island of Taiwan in 108 years of record-keeping?
... that the 19th-centuryKlabböle hydroelectric power plant in northern Sweden produced electricity until 1958, and is now a museum?
... that the South African concert pianistAdolph Hallis made the first complete recording ofDebussy'sPréludes, and wrote film scores forAlfred Hitchcock?
... that the courthouse on thepublic square inShelbyville, Tennessee, is the successor to earlier courthouses that were destroyed bytornado, wartime misadventure, and alynch mob?
... that 19th-century baseball playerCount Campau could reportedly run the bases in 14 seconds, and once converted an infieldpopup into ahome run?

25 June 2014

16:00, 25 June 2014 (UTC)

... thatJake Gyllenhaal(pictured) witnessed a murder during adrug bust while he was preparing for his role as a police officer in the filmEnd of Watch?
... thatLehmann's poison frog is not toxic in captivity because its poison derives from food it eats only in the wild?
... that according to hip-hop artistHopsin, his albumKnock Madness was inspired by dissatisfaction with life and a need to "find" himself?
... that in 1991 the loneCommunist Party of India (Marxist) member in theOrissa Legislative Assembly,Radhakanta Sethy, left the party?
... that rookiebaseball playerMartin Powell finished second toCap Anson for the 1881 batting title, but retired three years later and died ofconsumption at age 31?
... that theManche Ch'ol, aMaya people encountered by Spanishconquistador Hernán Cortés in 1525, were nearly extinct by 1770?
... thatLew Bloom claimed to be the first stage tramp in show business, and later hoaxed descendants ofAbraham Lincoln?

08:00, 25 June 2014 (UTC)

... thatSt. Joseph's Church(pictured) inSemarang, Indonesia, is the oldest Catholic church in the city?
... thatRobert Galbreath, Jr., was called the "Oil King of the Southwest" after discovering and drilling the first productive wells in the Glenn Pool oil field, the largest in Oklahoma?
... that though many specimens ofSaurolophus angustirostris have been found, it was not clearly differentiated as a separate species fromSaurolophus osborni until 2011?
... thatChester Nez was the last of the originalNavajo code talkers who served in World War II?
... that a river inHonduras swelled 15 meters (50 feet) above its normal level during torrential rains from ahurricane in 1935?
... thatDusari Goshta, abiopic on ex-Home Affairs ministerSushilkumar Shinde, was screened at theresidence of the President of India?
... thatdevelopmental psychobiologistJay S. Rosenblatt was described as the "father of mothering"?

00:00, 25 June 2014 (UTC)

... that thebutter boletes, such asB. appendiculatus(pictured), are so named for their butter-yellow stalks and pores?
... that although theNew York Giants signedWalt Nielsen in 1939, he spent that season with the minor-leagueJersey City Giants, reportedly because of hishay fever?
... thatLili Bosse, the mayor ofBeverly Hills, California, was sworn in by actorSidney Poitier?
... that in 1936, residents of what is nowSan Juan de Santa Bárbara used sugarcane profits to buy their land from an Englishman?
... thatKiki Byrne designed the goldenbikini worn byMargaret Nolan in the title sequence of theJames Bond filmGoldfinger?
... that thewhite-throated robin-chat is sometimesparasitised by thered-chested cuckoo?
... thatLi Shaohong, a Chinese woman film director, joined the army at the age of 14?

24 June 2014

16:14, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

... that the nave of theChurch of St Thomas, Thurstonland, England, contains anarch-braced hammerbeam roof(pictured)?
... that Romanian anatomistGrigore T. Popa's peasant parents sold their land to help finance his education?
... thatPaul W. Tibbets IV is one of the few pilots qualified to fly theB-1,B-2 and theB-52?
... thatRichard Burn, editor of the 1909Imperial Gazetteer of India, wrote that it took years to decide on that work's form because the British Government in India worked so slowly?
... that, in Ontario, landowners who voluntarily protect anArea of Natural and Scientific Interest on their land can receive aproperty tax reduction?
... that in its recent ruling inR v Incedal and Rarmoul-Bouhadjar theCourt of Appeal of England and Wales held it "difficult to conceive of a situation" justifying holding a criminal trial in full secrecy?
... that just afterFrederick Federici sang the final note asMephistopheles in Gounod'sFaust, descending through a trap door to hell, he died?

08:30, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

... that the 1998 filmPride was controversial for its positive portrayal of Japanese prime ministerHideki Tōjō(pictured)?
... that more than 120Jehovah's Witnesses objected to singing "God bless Africa" because they believed it suggests obeisance to the flag of Tanzania over God?
... that footballerPavel Mareš played for theCzech Republic atUEFA Euro 2004?
... thatMellor's Gardens atHough Hole House inCheshire are themed onBunyan'sThe Pilgrim's Progress?
... that at the time of her death,Satyavati Devi was India's oldest freedom fighter?
... that theColt First Model Ring Lever rifle, produced in 1837 and 1838, wasSamuel Colt's first manufactured firearm?
... thatRalph Siewert was the first seven-footer to play professionalbasketball?

00:45, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

... thatHeather Willauer(pictured) is working to enable U.S. Navy warships to synthesize jet fuel from seawater?
... thatGeorgette Heyer intended her novelMy Lord John to be the first in a trilogy featuring theHouse of Lancaster?
... that Sweden's richest man,Henry Dunker,willed his entire fortune to a foundation which subsequently funded many improvements to the city ofHelsingborg?
... that the founder ofAll Saints Church, Scholar Green,Cheshire, died during its construction, and the church was completed and paid for by his son?
... thatSusan Anderson was one of the first women to practice medicine inColorado?
... thatCCM Magazine called thedebut album by Christian pop singerV. Rose an "upbeat pop production set to spiritually-grounded lyrics"?
... that in lateJoseon society, commoner Korean women who had fulfilled theirConfucian duty to produce a son bared their breasts in public as a sign of pride?

23 June 2014

13:50, 23 June 2014 (UTC)

... thatNarendra Modi's swearing-in ceremony(pictured) was the first for anIndian Prime Minister to which the head-of-government of everySAARC country was invited?
... that Australian actorTaylor Glockner was cast as Boges in the television miniseriesConspiracy 365 just two weeks after graduating from drama school?
... that thePhiladelphia 76ers plan to move their headquarters and practice facilities to theCamden Waterfront?
... that 19th-century American businessmanAlbert Heard was once the Russianconsul general inShanghai?
... that thecervix, which in adult women is much smaller than the rest of theuterus, is twice as large during childhood as the body of the uterus?
... that in 1938 theSan Diego County Administration Center was dedicated byPresident Franklin D. Roosevelt before a crowd estimated as 25,000 people?
... that asoccer kick can cause serious injury?

05:35, 23 June 2014 (UTC)

... that the thousand-year-old bronzeBernward Column shows scenes from the life ofJesus(example pictured) arranged in a spiral similar to an arrangement onTrajan's Column?
... thatBob Leadley managedMajor League Baseball teams inDetroit andCleveland, and later lived in Mexico City as a fugitive from embezzlement charges?
... that as of April 2014, therose rosette virus had killed at least two-thirds of the roses in theTulsa Rose Garden?
... thatMiss USA 2014Nia Sanchez is a fourth degreeblack belt intaekwondo, and once worked atHong Kong Disneyland?
... that the 12th-centurybaptismal font inBarlingbo Church carriesrunic inscriptions?
... thatNancy M. Hill, one of the first womenphysicians in the United States, founded a society to provide shelter and support for unwed mothers and their babies inDubuque, Iowa?
... that theSAS is based in Australia?

22 June 2014

21:20, 22 June 2014 (UTC)

... thatKaty Perry(pictured) is the first artist to spend 69 consecutive weeks in the top ten of theBillboardHot 100?
... that 44Dalits wereburned to death in a hut inKizhavenmani village ofTamil Nadu in 1968?
... that according toThai history, Crown PrinceMingyi Swa ofBurma is said to have been killed insingle combat by KingNaresuan ofSiam?
... that the setting forAnne Rice's novelThe Wolves of Midwinter is based on theMadewood Plantation House, where she once attended a Christmas dinner?
... that theisopodAnilocra pomacentri lives as an external parasite of theyellowback puller?
... thatRevolutionary Socialist Party leaderV. P. Ramakrishna Pillai served as Minister of Labour inKerala between 1998 and 2001?
... that55 Hudson Yards is set to be built on land previously intended for a cancelled 1,011-foot-tall (308 m) "World Product Center"?

07:25, 22 June 2014 (UTC)

... that the German Zeppelin Airship Works received most of the revenue from the sale of the1930 Graf Zeppelin postage stamps(pictured), issued by the U.S. as a gesture of good will towards Germany?
... thatChief Zimmer set multiplecatching records, was the first president of thePlayers' Protective Association, and invented a popular mechanical baseball game?
... that 3500 Jews from thePińsk Ghetto and nearbyKobryn were murdered atBronna Góra in June 1942?
... that the smallCosta Rican town ofJesús de Santa Bárbara had separate schools for boys and girls as early as 1885?
... that there are nine species offern inStony Brook valley?
... that Sweden's medievalLäby Church was abandoned in 1890 but reopened in 1928?
... that theCambridge boat sank during the1978 University Boat Race?

21 June 2014

23:10, 21 June 2014 (UTC)

... that whenNorman Heathcote climbed theSt Kilda sea stack Stac Lee(pictured) in 1899, he found the climbing "comparatively easy" but getting ashore had been "a most appalling undertaking"?
... thatWatford Gap services were a popular meeting place for rock bands such asthe Beatles,The Rolling Stones andPink Floyd?
... thatLapland school founderMaria Magdalena Mathsdotter turned toErik Viktor Almquist to improve the rights of theSami people?
... that the 1956 Hindi filmEk Hi Raasta wasDadasaheb Phalke Award winnerB. R. Chopra's first film as producer under his banner B. R. Films?
... thatCarlos Manuel Hoo Ramírez was arrested along withJoaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, once considered Mexico'smost-wanted drug lord?
... thatUganda won theinaugural edition of theCECAFA Cup?
... that theFolketing used acartoon featuringgroup sex to try to convince people to vote in the2014 European Parliament election?

08:55, 21 June 2014 (UTC)

... thatTreak Cliff Cavern(pictured) is one of only two remaining active sources of the ornamental mineralBlue John?
... that fashion designerThea Porter's customers includedElizabeth Taylor,Princess Margaret,Mick andBianca Jagger, andLauren Bacall?
... that over ninety percent of the historictown of Manisa was burned down between 5 September and 8 September 1922?
... that in 1931, African-American obstetricianIonia Rollin Whipper opened Washington, D.C.'s first home for unwed mothers that was not racially segregated?
... that duringancient China'sTang dynasty,Gong Shi allowed imperialeunuchs to purchase goods by force at very low prices?
... thatK. Prasad Babu posthumously became the first police officer from the state ofAndhra Pradesh to receive theAshok Chakra Award, India's highest for peacetime gallantry?
... that Richard Nixon sentHome some dirt?

01:10, 21 June 2014 (UTC)

... thatMedal of Honor recipientAudie Murphy(pictured) saw combat in nineWWII campaigns with the US Army, and was afterward an officer in theTexas National Guard for sixteen years?
... thatbook embeddings ofgraphs have been used to modelfault-tolerant computer systems, the phases oftraffic lights, andpseudoknots inRNA molecules?
... thatSami singerJon Henrik Fjällgren wonTalang Sverige 2014 with his interpretations of traditional Sami songs?
... that theNessah Synagogue inBeverly Hills, California was established forPersian Jews in 1980 by the son of formerChief Rabbi of Iran Yedidia Shofet?
... that in June 2013, 930 cases filed byMadhavpura Mercantile Cooperative Bank were pending in Indian courts?
... that warden's wifeKate Soffel, who fled with condemned brothers Jack and Ed Biddle after supplying guns and saws for their 1902 escape from theAllegheny County Jail, later took up dressmaking?
... that belief in the existence ofwater bulls persisted in Scotland until at least the last quarter of the 19th century?

20 June 2014

13:35, 20 June 2014 (UTC)

... that the stars on theflag of São Tomé and Príncipe(pictured) represent the two islands that make upthe country?
... that theSwan & Edgar was claimed to be the smallest pub in London?
... that baseball pitcherBun Troy, who won adoubleheader while pitching all nine innings of both games, was killed in action during World War I?
... that theWilliam Brydone Jack Observatory inFredericton,New Brunswick, was the first astronomical observatory in British North America (modern Canada)?
... that out of consideration for his well-known family, Norwegian revue writer and entertainer Vidar Wexelsen adopted the pen and stage namePer Kvist?
... that theNew Jersey-basedgarage rock bandThe Friggs' song "Shake" featured in the 2007 comedy filmSuperbad?
... thatIshita Malaviya is India's first professional femalesurfer?

05:20, 20 June 2014 (UTC)

... thatGoethe was commissioned to lead the reconstruction of theSchloss in Weimar(pictured) after a fire in 1774?
... that golferLucy Li set records as the youngestU.S. Women's Amateur Championship qualifier at age 10 in 2013 and the youngestU.S. Women's Open Championship qualifier at age 11 in 2014?
... thatAnjali Joseph's debut novel,Saraswati Park, won both theBetty Trask Prize and theDesmond Elliott Prize?
... that thelist of English Heritage properties in Somerset comprises 12 sites, dating from theNeolithic to the 18th century?
... that the Deputy Speaker of theKerala Legislative Assembly,R. S. Unni, held positions in over 20 trade unions?
... that the choice of name for the British warshipHMSZubian, a combination of the warshipsHMSZulu andHMSNubian, caused confusion among theGerman Imperial Admiralty Staff?
... that Dutch impresarioBen Essing gotThe Beatles to play their only concerts in the Netherlands in an auction hall in the small village ofBlokker?

19 June 2014

21:05, 19 June 2014 (UTC)

... thatKakan Hermansson(pictured) held an art exhibition during the "West Pride", anLGBT festival inGothenburg in 2014?
... that after theRussian monitorRusalka sank, all that was found in the immediate aftermath were a few lifebuoys, and a sailor's corpse in a dinghy?
... thatKong Yingda, one of the most influential Confucian scholars, was said to be a 32nd-generation descendant ofConfucius?
... that thewhite-headed stilt sometimes feigns a leg injury to draw intruders away from its chicks?
... that Bollywood directorRahul Rawail paid tribute to his fatherH. S. Rawail's filmSunghursh (1968) by titling one of his films asJeevan Ek Sanghursh (1990)?
... that in 1975, more than half the population ofBuka Island were members of theHahalis Welfare Society?
... that in the 1930s the NaziGerman-American Bund had its headquarters at 178East 85th Street inManhattan, and paraded in the neighborhood wearing Nazi uniforms?

12:50, 19 June 2014 (UTC)

... that the larvae of theapple clearwing moth(adult pictured) create tunnels under the bark of fruit trees?
... that "Turn Up the Radio" isMadonna's 43rd number-one single on the USBillboardDance Club Songs chart, the most for any artist?
... thatT. J. Chandrachoodan is the thirdKeralite to head theRevolutionary Socialist Party?
... that the leader of theTrade Union of Andorra has likened the labour rights situation in the country to that of a dictatorship?
... that one chimpanzee group killed off all the adult males in another chimpanzee group during theGombe Chimpanzee War?
... thatCambridge threatened to boycott the1983 University Boat Race afterBoris Rankov was included in theOxford crew for the sixth time?
... thatmustang wine has been made in Texas from wildmustang grapes since theAntebellum Era?

04:35, 19 June 2014 (UTC)

... that theNOAASPisces (R 226) oceanographic research vessel(pictured) was named by fiveseventh graders fromSouthaven, Mississippi?
... that whenVirginia Grayson won $20,000 in theDobell Prize for drawing, she said she would use the money to get her "ute fixed"?
... that theJavan ferret-badger visits picnic sites to scavenge for food, and has been hand-fed biscuits?
... thatKing Rögnvaldr Óláfsson was assassinated by a knight named Ívarr and his accomplices?
... that the Swiss magazineDer Kreis was the only gay magazine available in Europe during World War II and theNazi regime?
... thatCambridge had a femalecox for the first time in its history in the1985 University Boat Race?
... thatTony Henry once accidentally sang "my penis is a mountain" inCroatian?

18 June 2014

20:35, 18 June 2014 (UTC)

... that theWakatobi flowerpecker(pictured), originally classified as a species in 1903, was changed to a subspecies for unknown reasons, and in 2014 was re-described as a distinct species?
... that formerU.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's memoirHard Choices is so titled because that is how she frames the foreign policy situations encountered during her tenure?
... thatDepartures was the first Japanese submission to win theAcademy Award for Best Foreign Language Film?
... that twoPhiladelphia Phillies pitchers phonedJonathan Pettibone to try to convince him to sign with the team?
... thatMelchior Hoffmann probably composedSchlage doch, gewünschte Stunde (BWV 53), notBach?
... that Bissau-GuineanZinha Vaz was arrested and detained after an argument with PresidentKumba Ialá, who offered her the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs months later?
... that in 1872 the newly-elected EnglishConservative Party Member of ParliamentEdward Wells denouncedthe Ballot Act as "positively un-English"?

05:54, 18 June 2014 (UTC)

... thatAdele Schopenhauer, sister of German philosopherArthur Schopenhauer, was not only a noted author, but also a talentedpapercut artist(papercut self-portrait pictured)?
... thatAlfred V. Verville designed theVerville-Sperry R-3 Racer, which set aworld speed record in 1923 and was called one of the "Twelve Most Significant Aircraft of all Time" byPopular Mechanics magazine?
... that althoughJ. R. R. Tolkien translated the Old English poemBeowulf in the 1920s, he did not like the result so it was published only posthumously in 2014 asBeowulf: A Translation and Commentary?
... that theWorld Bank's first loan to China'spower sector was for theLubuge Dam?
... thatHalo: The Master Chief Collection includes a remastered version ofHalo 2 to coincide with its tenth anniversary?
... that women's fashion boutiqueGiorgio Beverly Hills had a reading room, bar, and pool table to help men "pass the time"?
... thatOfcom received 260 complaints aboutLady Gaga's live performance of "Do What U Want" on the United Kingdom'sThe X Factor?

17 June 2014

21:54, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

... thatwar photographer Robert Capa and his brotherCornell are buried in the cemetery atAmawalk Friends Meeting House(pictured) nearYorktown Heights, New York, even though neither was aQuaker?
... thatnewly-elected RomanianMEPMircea Diaconu has appeared in over 60 films, managed a theater, published a novel, and taken part ina revolution?
... thatLittle David's first record,The Devil Made Me Buy This Dress, was named for a line spoken byFlip Wilson's characterGeraldine?
... thatCommunist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation candidateAmar Nath Yadav mustered a quarter million votes in theSiwan seat in the 1999 election?
... thatLieutenant Colonel Terry Lakin invitedhis own court-martial to attempt to forceBarack Obama to release the original version of hisbirth certificate?
... thatSingapore used to have afrozen pork hotline?

13:50, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

... that although some fanciers of theExmoor pony(pictured) claim it was purebred from an isolated wild population since theIce Age, modern research shows they share much of their DNA with other breeds?
... thatJanet Greig and her sisterJane, both doctors, were founding members ofMelbourne's Queen Victoria Hospital and inductees of theVictorian Honour Roll of Women?
... that theAmerican Civil Liberties Union condemned government use of theDraganflyer X6?
... thatRudolf Henke was elected to theBundestag in 2009 after receiving more votes than incumbent federal health ministerUlla Schmidt?
... that the video gameFreedom Planet has not yet been released and is not part of an existing franchise, but has already been promoted on T-shirts?
... that the customers ofMichael Rainey's boutiqueHung On You includedThe Rolling Stones,The Beatles, andThe Kinks?
... that the1984 University Boat Race was postponed by a day afterCambridge hit a barge and sank during the warm-up?
05:28, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

... thatCatalan singerSilvia Perez Cruz's(pictured) songs have been described as a blend of music genres includingfado,jazz improvisation, andflamenco?
... that the offices of theAntigua and Barbuda newspaperOutlet were torched in 1998, following the publication of an article on a secret arms deal?
... that theCanadian Labour Congress presidentDennis McDermott was the founding chairman of theCommonwealth Trade Union Council?
... that due to enemy action in World War I, one set of expensiveepigraphic illustration plates forThe Indian Antiquary had to be sent from London to Bombay three times?
... that the present town ofAshford inKent, England, originates from an original settlement established in 893 AD by inhabitants escaping a Danish Viking raid?
... that in his boutiqueBlades,Rupert Lycett Green's customers includedMick Jagger, theMarquess of Hartington and theEarl of St Germans?
... that the 1982Atari 2600 gameLost Luggage features terrorist suitcases?

16 June 2014

21:48, 16 June 2014 (UTC)

... that thesouthern black flycatcher(pictured) sometimesforages in the company of another black bird, thefork-tailed drongo?
... that the release of theMoto E caused the website of online retailerFlipkart to crash?
... thatNeon Steeple is the first solo release byCrowder, which he recorded after the break-up ofDavid Crowder Band?
... thatBelgian anti-Zionist politicianLaurent Louis was censured forantisemitism andHolocaust denial after making thequenelle gesture inparliament?
... thatthe Oregonian Building, completed in 1892 inPortland, Oregon, was the firststeel-framed skyscraper west of Chicago?
... that ReverendGeorge Lloyd,archaeologist andAnglican curate, was so outspoken that he received anassassination threat?
... thatDupee Shaw's delivery may have been the firstpitching wind-up, created "a genuine sensation" and led baseball writers of his day to call him "a monkey, amountebank and other harsh names"?

10:00, 16 June 2014 (UTC)

... that thekhanjar, a "ceremonial dagger" from Oman, is featured on thecountry's national emblem(pictured)?
... that a footbridge proposed to linkGrand Central Plaza withSha Tin railway station was embroiled in controversy for allegedly badfeng shui?
... thatLala Achint Ram was a member of theConstituent Assembly of India, which drafted India's constitution?
... that the song "A+E" was written whilst waiting for someone to come out of theA&E?
... that the newspaperLabour Spokesman shares its building with theSaint Kitts and Nevis Labour Party and theTrades and Labour Union?
... that according to theSusquehanna River Basin Commission, the watershed ofNorth Branch Mahantango Creek is one of the highest-quality watersheds in the lower Susquehanna River watershed?
... that a critic ofDishaster said that the game was "as bad as its unfunny title implies"?

01:27, 16 June 2014 (UTC)

... that despite being designed for theNorth American commuter rail market, sixBudd SPV-2000 railcars(pictured) were sold toONCF forHassan II of Morocco'sroyal train?
... thatbacteriologistSara Branham Matthews was considered to be one of the "grand ladies of microbiology"?
... thatKen Baumann's book on theSNES video gameEarthBound was the first title published byBoss Fight Books?
... thatLos Zetas crime syndicate founderGalindo Mellado Cruz was recently killed in a gunfight in Mexico?
... thatBelow Paradise byTedashii explores his efforts to come to grips with the death of his young son?
... thatSeattle Mariners CEOHoward Lincoln posed for theNorman Rockwell paintingThe Scoutmaster?
... thatDavid Tennant founded London'sGargoyle Club, with lavish interiors byHenri Matisse, and whose regular patrons includedFred Astaire,Francis Bacon andLucian Freud?

15 June 2014

09:05, 15 June 2014 (UTC)

... thatBaggböle manor(pictured) is built entirely of wood, but made to look like a stone building?
... thatJackie Tavener is one of only four players inMajor League Baseball history tosteal second, third andhome in the sameinning on more than one occasion?
... that the albumTunnel Rats by the hip-hop collectiveof the same name featured a more mainstream and diverse production style than previous albums?
... thatWilliam Stadiem's book onFrank Sinatra was based on thousands of pages of notes taken about Sinatra's everyday life by his valetGeorge Jacobs?
... thatstate-dependent memory suggests that if youforget what you did whenblind drunk, you could get drunk again and remember it?
... thatNawrahta Minsaw, the firstBurmese ruler of Lan Na, was also an accomplished poet in theyadu style?
... that the Japan release ofSaints Row: The Third had the veins removed from its Penetrator weapon—a three-foot long phallus bat—due to regulatory restrictions on depictions ofgenitalia?

01:20, 15 June 2014 (UTC)

... thatFelton Hervey, who was in the foreground ofZoffany's paintingTribuna of the Uffizi, never saw the completed painting(detail pictured)?
... that "Baggböleri", theSwedish derogatory term for deforestation, is named afterBaggböle on theUme River?
... that the upcoming video gameHalo 5: Guardians features a newgame engine forthe series?
... thatMilan Puskar Health Right, a system of free clinics in West Virginia that handles nearly 4,000 patients a year, originally operated out of a Baptist church?
... that the filmDeath in the West contains what is believed to be the first recorded admission from atobacco company representative that smoking causes health problems?
... that London'sBurlington Gardens is the site of the firstAbercrombie & Fitch store in Europe?
... thatRobbie Williams was inspired to writeRudebox's hidden track, "Dickhead", after playingThe Mitchell Brothers' "Routine Check" to death?

14 June 2014

16:00, 14 June 2014 (UTC)

... thatPliny's encyclopediaNatural History includes descriptions ofdog-headed men andmonopods with umbrella feet(pictured)?
... that in 1988 Afghan Deputy Foreign MinisterAbdul Ghafar Lakanwal defected to the United States?
... that at various times theground sloth,Billy the Kid,Geronimo, and astronauts could be found in what is now theOrgan Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument?
... thatBartholomäus Sastrow'sautobiography does not give the birth dates of his children?
... that theFountain of Ahmed III inÜsküdar,Istanbul, features a inscription byOttoman SultanAhmed III, copied from his own calligraphy?
... thatZhang Shichuan made China's first feature film, firstmartial arts film, and firstsound film?
... thatFawlty Towers characterBasil Fawlty sang "Don't Mention the World Cup" to dissuade fans of England's2006 FIFA World Cup team from mentioning the Second World War while in Germany?

08:00, 14 June 2014 (UTC)

... that theWonderSwan(pictured) sold 3.5 million units in Japan but was never released in Western markets?
... that some England players allegedly sang "Aye Aye Ippy The Germans Bombed Our Chippy", despite theFA not wanting to support any anti-German songs?
... thatSir Wolseley Haig foughtdacoits in Burma before becoming aScottish herald?
... that the events ofBloody Sunday are being recreated at theEdmund Pettus Bridge for the upcoming filmSelma?
... that Kashmiri politician and poetAbdul Sattar Ranjoor‎ was assassinated by militants when he was 73?
... thatThomas Elfe, a contemporary ofThomas Chippendale, was the most successful furniture craftsman inCharleston in the eighteenth century?
... that at approximately 568 feet (173 m), the proposedSkyscraper is expected to be the tallestroller coaster in the world when it opens in 2016?

00:00, 14 June 2014 (UTC)

... that the website of theAustralian War Memorial describes its dioramaMan in the mud(pictured) as being "much-loved"?
... that "Yasss Bish" is abounce anddrill song with atrap beat?
... thatMilan Miskovsky andJames Donovan convinced Cuba to release over 1,000 insurgents captured during the failedBay of Pigs Invasion?
... that 16 biblical scenes are cast in bronze on the RomanesqueBernward Doors, includingCain's murder of Abel?
... thatBorka Pavićević is aMontenegrin dramaturge who founded theCentre for Cultural Decontamination?
... thatMoonbird eats horseshoe crabs' eggs, and has flown further than the distance to the Moon?
... that professional baseball player"Prince" Oana was falsely advertised by his promoters as a full-blooded Hawaiian royal?

13 June 2014

16:00, 13 June 2014 (UTC)

... that duringTyphoon Pat(pictured), 95 Japanese fishing boats took refuge inNorth Korea?
... that as the newUS Representative to the UN Human Rights Council,Keith M. Harper is the firstNative American to achieve the rank of US Ambassador?
... that 65 percent ofCamden Fort Meagher is underground?
... thatOhio State retiredLes Horvath's jersey number 22 in 2001, six years after his death?
... that the Dutch women's magazineBeatrijs for Catholic readers made its photos andpatterns more modest by adding collars to low necklines and lengthening skirts?
... thatGeorges Méliès filmeda "pre-reenactment" of Edward VII's coronation more than a month beforethe actual event took place?
... thatGustav Rosén sentapples from northern Sweden to newspaper editors in the south to show that grass was not the only thing that grew "up there"?

08:00, 13 June 2014 (UTC)

... that since theNile perch was introduced intoLake Victoria, thecichlidHaplochromis vonlinnei(pictured) has become "critically endangered" and may beextinct?
... that whentwin fetuses lock together during childbirth, the first twin is sometimesdecapitated to save the second?
... thatMichael Schofield started playingAmerican football because his younger brother did?
... thatMozart Distillerie claims to use "soundmilling" – playing the music of Mozart 380 times into their chocolate liqueurs?
... that in the early 1980s, a team of surveyors discovered the World War II-eraAvro Anson Memorial nearClackline, Western Australia, which had been overgrown by shrubs and trees?
... that celebrities desired to appear onThe Adventures of Ellery Queen although their solutions to the mystery were usually incorrect?
... that publicity about itsouting club led to one university receiving 300% more applications for admission?

00:00, 13 June 2014 (UTC)

... that fossil animals found in theWookey Hole Caves(underground lake pictured) include thePleistocene lion andcave hyena?
... thatRobert M. Bond, a lieutenant general in theUSAF and decorated American veteran of theVietnam War, was killed in a 1984 crash in Nevada while flying a Soviet-builtMiG-23?
... thatDoncaster Knights' promotion to the2014–15 RFU Championship was the first time a rugby team returned to the RFU Championship after being relegated for just one season?
... that aRolling Stone readers' poll rankedMade in Japan the sixth best live album of all time?
... thatSchloss Warthausen has been the home of famous historical personages like authorsChristoph Martin Wieland andSophie von La Roche, and painterJohann Heinrich Tischbein?
... that the 1946 drama filmHer Sister's Secret was briefly banned in Ireland?
... thatNicolae Minovici performed twelvehanging experiments on himself?

12 June 2014

16:00, 12 June 2014 (UTC)

... thatJustina Ford(pictured) was the onlyAfrican American woman to belicensed as a physician inDenver for nearly 50 years?
... that Polish-American philosopher and sociologistFlorian Znaniecki coined the termsculturalism andhumanistic coefficient?
... that film directorWilfrid North was blinded in 1913 by a cannon explosion on a movie set?
... that "The Summons" includes 13 questions asked in the voice of Jesus?
... that theTalk 'N Text Tropang Texters had not lost a game in the2014 PBA Commissioner's Cup, but were defeated in three games by theSan Mig Super Coffee Mixers in thefinals series?
... that a T-shirt with Audi, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Porsche and Volkswagen logos on it was created in homage toMeridian Dan'sGerman Whip?
... that in 1966,Men in Vogue included a photoshoot byMichael Cooper entitled "Girls dress men to suit themselves" withBrian Jones dressed byAnita Pallenberg?

08:00, 12 June 2014 (UTC)

... that the owners ofearthquake-damagedChippenham Lodge(pictured) have proposed that the homestead be rebuilt inChristchurch'sHagley Park?
... thatJitan Ram Manjhi was asked to resign the day after he was sworn in asBihar's cabinet minister in 2005?
... that to make his single "Good Kisser" "less X-rated",Usher changed the lyrics to remove the sexual innuendo?
... thatMarten Woudstra was one of four men who formed the committee that eventually produced theNew International Version of the Bible?
... thatallegations thatlepers, Jews and Muslims were conspiring against the Christians of Europe sparkedinternational hysteria in June 1321?
... that Dutch zoologistC. A. W. Jeekel is credited with launching the "modern era" ofmillipede taxonomy?
... that the video gameThe Idolmaster One For All sold out inAkihabara the day after its release?

00:00, 12 June 2014 (UTC)

... thatLang Jingshan was the first Chinese art photographer to use nude models(earliest photo pictured)?
... thatKorengal examines the military life and experiences of the same men who were inRestrepo?
... that the compilation albumUnderground Rise, Vol. 1 features about thirty-five rappers, and was recorded almost entirely over a single weekend?
... that theThomas Elfe House is the oldest house inCharleston that is open to the public?
... that an annual carnival atVerrès Castle celebrates the time the lord and lady came down to town to dance with the local youth?
... thatKinross Gold built theDvoinoye Gold Mine at a cost of US$360 million?
... that the camera of theLG G3 smartphone has anautofocus system that uses technology originally intended forrobotic vacuum cleaners?

11 June 2014

16:00, 11 June 2014 (UTC)

... that theblue nuthatch(pictured) protects itscorneas from falling debris when prospecting on trees by contracting the bare skin around its eyes – anadaptation apparently unique to the species?
... thatpunterPat O'Donnell recorded morebench press repetitions at theNFL Scouting Combine than first-overall draft pickJadeveon Clowney?
... that theGermany–Poland border after WWII mostly follows theOder–Neisse line, dividing several towns?
... that theUniversity of Mississippi Field Station originally had 220 experimental ponds and was once afish farm?
... that around 100 years ago, thesteaming process in Lancashire cotton mills made workers fear for their health?
... that beforeOscar Dystel madeBantam Books America's largest publisher of paperbacks, he worked onpsychological warfare in World War II?
... that despite beingThe Rolling Stones' business adviser and financial manager for nearly 40 years,Prince Rupert Loewenstein preferred the music ofThe Beatles?

08:00, 11 June 2014 (UTC)

... that despite being Australian artists ofa war, neitherJessie Traill(pictured) norIso Rae wereAustralian war artists?
... that before they moved to their current home ofOdsal Stadium,Bradford Northern spent 26 years based atBirch Lane?
... that Indian freedom fighter and politicianN. M. R. Subbaraman was known as "Madurai Gandhi"?
... thatOntario Highway 23 was extended from Highway 8 to Highway 7 as part of aDepression-era relief program?
... that theNaziSonderdienst formations included men who did not know German and required translation by their native commanders?
... that on the albumTunnel Vision,Tunnel Rats leader Dax Reynosa responded to claims that his group was too aggressive with the line "I pull a pistol out my pocket and I cock it"?
... thatEric A. Walker continued as a professor atCambridge University and published more books after beinglobotomised?

00:00, 11 June 2014 (UTC)

... thatKent vs Lancashire at Canterbury(pictured) was originally hung in theLord's Pavilion whenKent County Cricket Club were unable to afford to insure it?
... thatCassandra Pickett Durham was the first woman to earn a medical degree in the U.S. state ofGeorgia?
... that the ideological concept of aprimary stage of socialism explains the use ofcapitalist methods in the Chinese economy by theCommunist Party of China?
... that the father ofIran's nuclear program,Akbar Etemad, had said that neither Israel or the US are in a position to attack Iran?
... thatCuenta Conmigo byJerry Rivera won theLo Nuestro Award for Tropical Album of the Year and outsold the highest sellingsalsa album at the time?
... that American writer and actorHenry Howard Paul became famous in Great Britain after appearing on stage withhis wife?
... that the magazineMan About Town, in advertising itself, declared "that a fool and his money are soon parted"?

10 June 2014

12:00, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

... that theEquality Parade(pictured) inWarsaw, Poland, held since 2001, is the oldestpride parade in a former EuropeanCommunist bloc country?
... thatFred Stanfield was dealt in "the most one-sided trade inNHL history"?
... that theU.S. House Select Committee on Events Surrounding the 2012 Terrorist Attack in Benghazi is the fifth House committee to investigate this matter?
... thatchief justice Thomas Balmer was once the managing partner of Americanlaw firmAter Wynne?
... that the liveextended playMTV Unplugged byThirty Seconds to Mars features musicians from theVitamin String Quartet, a gospel choir and the contribution of the band's fans?
... that in 1966 Indonesian ambassadorDjawoto was granted political asylum in China, following themass killings of 1965–66?
... that the mobile tie-in gameSaints Row 2 has acarjacking minigame where the player earns more money for driving at high speeds to scare their captive passenger?

00:00, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

... that seven-year-old brain cancer patientJack Hoffman(pictured) scored a touchdown forNebraska and subsequently met with PresidentBarack Obama?
... thatSri Lankan Tamils commemorate 18 May, the day when thecivil war ended, asMullivaikkal Remembrance Day?
... thatTempleton Thompson combines her interests in horses andcountry music in songs such as "When I Get This Pony Rode"?
... that China'sQing dynasty (1644–1912) bestowed the titleMarquis of Extended Grace on a member of the former Ming imperial clan who presided at ceremonies at theMing tombs?
... thatThe Sun Also Rises is the first version ofHemingway's novelen pointe;The Sun Also Rises increases the story's death count; andThe Sun Also Rises is known for its award-winning sound design?
... thatSadie Houck was blacklisted by theNational League for being "addicted to drink" despite being acknowledged as "one of the best short stops in the country and a thorough ball player"?
... that theNeighboursplane crash was nominated for Best Storyline at the 2006Inside Soap Awards?

9 June 2014

12:00, 9 June 2014 (UTC)

... thatCymbiola nobilis(pictured) isvulnerable due in part to overcollection for the shell trade?
... that in the last ten years,Lisa Kewley has won a Hubble postdoctoral fellowship, theAnnie J. Cannon Award, theNewton Lacy Pierce Prize, and been elected Fellow of theAustralian Academy of Science?
... that theStar Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Our Man Bashir" was based in part onJames Bond films, somethingMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer was not happy about?
... that whileBad Dirt: Wyoming Stories 2 was poorly received critically in comparison toClose Range: Wyoming Stories, one of the short stories in the collection won the 2004Aga Khan Prize for Fiction?
... that aDachau concentration camp survivor recognized Major GeneralWilliam P. Levine nearly 40 years later because Levine had carried him in his arms?
... that thenational quality award phenomenon grew out of theTotal Quality Management movement of the 1980s?
... that the four miles ofstacks aisles inHarvard's 3.5-million-volumeWidener Library are solabyrinthine that one student felt she ought to carry "a compass, a sandwich, and a whistle" when entering?

00:00, 9 June 2014 (UTC)

... thatCumberland Island horses(pictured) are considered "feral, free-ranging and unmanaged" by theU.S. National Park Service?
... that Crown PrincessYaza Datu Kalaya is the subject of some of the "most beautiful poems in Burmese literature" by her nephew and husbandNatshinnaung?
... thatMartin Luther created the Pentecost hymn "Komm, Heiliger Geist, Herre Gott" by adding two stanzas to an earlier German version of "Veni Sancte Spiritus", keeping its melody?
... thatGopal Kalan Tandel defeatedNarayan Fugro in thefirst Lok Sabha election for the Daman and Diu seat?
... thatTropical Storm Zelda destroyed 95% ofMarshall Islands' crops?
... that Germansilent film actressHedda Vernon was 28 years old when she played the role of a 15-year-old girl in a film?
... that the northwest tower ofSt James' Church, Handsworth, used to be its western tower?

8 June 2014

12:00, 8 June 2014 (UTC)

... thatSoraya Post(pictured) was the firstRomani in Swedish history to top the ballot for a political party at theEuropean Parliament elections in 2014?
... that therusty silky oak had different everyday and taboo names in the localDyirbal language?
... thatAlajuela Province, Costa Rica, is home to gothic, neo-classical, art deco, and neo-colonial churches, including a church constructed withsheet metal?
... that David Ames auditioned for anotherHolby City character prior to winning the role ofDominic Copeland?
... that "I will sing with the spirit" was composed byJohn Rutter for the Royal School of Church Music?
... thatRudolf Nadolny, a German diplomat, replied that the conversation had just begun afterAdolf Hitler declared it had finished?

00:00, 8 June 2014 (UTC)

... that theJune 4th Museum(temporary location pictured) is the permanent exhibition museum for theTiananmen Square protests of 1989?
... that fires inSundsvall andLilla Edet, Sweden, broke out on the same day as theGreat Fire of Umeå?
... thatRomeo and Juliet (2013) was the firstBroadway theatre adaptation of William Shakespeare's play since 1977?
... thatJean Bellette is the only woman to have won theSulman Prize more than once?
... that in the Caribbean, a smalloctopusmimics the bursts of swimming activity of theplate fish?
... that France and Estonia were the first countries to contribute troops for theEU peacekeeping mission in theCentral African Republic?
... that the seemingly unremarkableCatt family – father Ronald "Scott" Catt and his children, Hayden and Abigail – pulled off several bank robberies inOregon andTexas?

7 June 2014

12:00, 7 June 2014 (UTC)

... thatRosa 'Line Renaud'(pictured) won theNational Horticultural Society of France's 2009Grand Prix de la Rose in all categories?
... that astronomerAdelaide Ames joined theHarvard College Observatory as a research assistant because she could not find any jobs in journalism?
... that the novelMira, Mirror is written from the viewpoint of a mirror?
... thatHarvard Business School professorCharles M. Williams survived the sinking of theUSSLexington by swinging from a line onto the deck of a rescuingdestroyer?
... thatThe Polish Peasant in Europe and America has been called a "neglected classic" of American empirical sociology?
... thatHouse From Hell was a 1998 precursor toBig Brother Australia?
... thatT. K. Bellis, the "Turtle King", imported live turtles from Jamaica to London so that theLord Mayor of London would not have to eatmock turtle soup?

00:00, 7 June 2014 (UTC)

... thatOperation Overlord(detail pictured), theAllied invasion ofNormandy in World War II, was the largest seaborne invasion in history?
... that as of June 5, 2014,at least 35 U.S. veterans are known to have died while waiting for Veterans Health Administration care in the Phoenix VHA system?
... that the filmMerdeka 17805, about the fight for Indonesian independence, was described as a "two-fisted,hinomaru-waving, blood-and-guts ode to the soldiers who died for the glory of the emperor and for Dai Nippon"?
... that biology teacherBlanche Evans Dean wrote several books about Alabama'snatural history after becoming frustrated with the lack of books on the subject?
... that despite having supporting air groupsYokosuka D4Y dive bombers andAichi E16A reconnaissance aircraft, neither of theIse-class battleships used them in combat?
... that the site of theCheddar Palace is within the grounds ofThe Kings of Wessex Academy?
... thatlong hair on men was once banned in Singapore?

6 June 2014

11:48, 6 June 2014 (UTC)

... that during the 17th century many couples performed "erotic" acts nearThe Iron Lady(pictured), and it was thrown into the river twice for being an object of pagan veneration?
... that the Prosecutor General of Crimea,Natalia Poklonskaya, is barred from enteringEuropean Union countries?
... thatIggy Azalea's "Black Widow", co-written byKaty Perry, was originally intended to be a duet with both singers?
... that OlympianMurray Buchan originally wanted to work in mountain rescues?
... that "El Gran Carlemany", the national anthem ofAndorra, proclaims themicrostate as the "only remaining daughter of theCarolingian empire"?
... that the 1999 filmIsusumbong Kita Sa Tatay Ko was the first Philippine-produced film to exceed 100 million pesos in box office gross?
... that after it was banned, members of theIraqi Anti-Zionist League were arrested and charged with the crime of Zionism?

5 June 2014

23:33, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

... that theBedford Road Historic District(pictured) has been described as the first residentialsubdivision inArmonk, New York?
... thatArmenian activistHarutiun Djangulian launched the 1890Kum Kapu demonstration by interrupting a mass and reading a declaration from the altar?
... thatGranny, also known as J2, is the oldest knownorca at an estimated 103 years old?
... thatChristopher Senyonjo, a retired bishop of theChurch of Uganda who opposed"draconian" anti-gay legislation, washonored by former US presidentBill Clinton?
... thatprivate estate houses in Scotland originate from extensive building and rebuilding of royal palaces, probably starting underJames III?
... that BritishnumismatistE. J. Rapson was reckoned to have an uncanny ability to identify ancient coins merely by feel?
... that negotiations to place aLORANradio navigation site inNova Scotia were going poorly until theUS Navy men refused proffered cigarettes?

11:18, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

... thatBill Gates(pictured) toppedForbes' annuallist of the world's billionaires in2014, after not having topped the list in2013,2012,2011, or2010?
... that the 1928 Hindi novelNirmala uses fiction to promote social reform of thedowry system in India?
... that despite being born to aShia family and influenced in childhood by theIslamic revival,Bahraini cultural criticNader Kadhim refused to be classified as anIslamist or a Shia intellectual?
... that the 39th annualGMMSF Box-Office Entertainment Awards ceremony was referred to as the 40th due to superstition?
... that all countries in South Americause their own currency, except Ecuador?
... thatSavo Zlatić took upchess composition while imprisoned, usingchess pieces made of bread?

4 June 2014

23:03, 4 June 2014 (UTC)

... that theHezilo chandelier(pictured) and theAzelin chandelier, treasures ofHildesheim Cathedral, are symbols of theheavenly Jerusalem?
... thatPropaganda followed up hisExcellent album with his fourth solo release,Crimson Cord?
... thatJean D'Costa's novels for children have narrative in Standard English and dialogue inJamaican Creole?
... that Oxford's victory inThe 2000 Boat Race was a "shock triumph"?
... that Jesuit priestCarlos G. Vallés was awardedRanjitram Suvarna Chandrak, the highest literary award in theGujarati language, in 1978?
... that in the British game showEjector Seat, contestants who give wrong answers find their chairs moving backwards?
... thatJason Healey predicted that theNational Security Agency would be "shredded by the computer security community" for its failure to expose theHeartbleed security bug?

10:48, 4 June 2014 (UTC)

... that theSeaboard Air Line Railroad'sSun Lounges(pictured) featured lamps made fromdriftwood?
... thatPurnendu Dastidar was elected to theEast Pakistan Legislative Assembly in 1954 while in jail?
... that one of the benefits ofcommunity-based program design is a learning experience between a consumer and a social services provider?
... thatHenry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, went from being congratulated by the King to beingattainted and his son taken to the Tower of London?
... thatThe Cambridge History of India would have had six volumes, but Volume II was abandoned?
... that the 2014Pulitzer Prize for Drama-winning play,The Flick, is about threemovie theater ushers?
... thatDuke Dumont's "I Got U" contains "all the summertime essentials: steel drums, Balearic synths and a myriad of earworm hooks"?

3 June 2014

22:33, 3 June 2014 (UTC)

... thatnasal strips are worn both byrace horses(California Chrome pictured) and by human athletes?
... that despiteFrederick Law Olmsted's wishes,Francis Allen hadVassar College'sLathrop House built directly north ofStrong House?
... thatSessue Hayakawa, who played the role ofTsuru Aoki's father in the filmThe Wrath of the Gods, married her the same year the film was released?
... thatFishergate Baptist Church inPreston,Lancashire, contains fourwheel windows?
... thatT. Veerabhadram was theCommunist Party of India (Marxist) candidate with the most votes outsideKerala andWest Bengal in the1998 Indian general election?
... that while Mexican drug lordInés Coronel Barreras was officially listed as a cattle rancher inDurango, the neighbors claimed he was growingmarijuana andopium poppies?
... that theKota Kinabalu City Mosque is home to afish farm?

10:18, 3 June 2014 (UTC)

... that film starXu Lai(pictured), who worked as asecret agent during World War II, died in prison following political persecution byMadame Mao?
... that thegrey gull nests inland in adesert some 35 to 100 km (22 to 62 miles) from the sea?
... that ifUnited States Army RangerAlejandro Villanueva does not make anNFL roster, he plans to return toAfghanistan for a fourth tour of duty?
... that a cobbler taught the first lessons atSanta Bárbara de Heredia's public school when it opened in 1860?
... thatLowangcha Wanglat,BJP candidate in the2014 Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, is from the Namsang-Borduria royal family?
... that, when it occurred, the mass shooting in thePińsk Ghetto was the second largestanti-Jewish operation in a single settlement?
... thatChristopher Gibbs andRobert Fraser are credited with inventing "Swinging London"?

2 June 2014

22:03, 2 June 2014 (UTC)

... that a1650-year-old wine bottle(pictured) found in Germany has been called the world's "oldest existing bottle of wine"?
... that theKizlar Agha, the chief eunuch of theOttoman Sultans'harem, ranked third in the state hierarchy after theGrand Vizier and theShaykh al-Islām?
... that cricketing lawyerArthur Coleridge, great-nephew ofthe poet, organised the first full performance ofBach'sMass in B minor in England?
... thatRahul Shewale recently won theMumbai seat in theParliament of India by a margin of 138,000 votes?
... that twelve years after its release,GamesRadar called the 1997Mischief Makers "possibly the most underrated and widely ignored game on theN64"?
... thatMatthaios Kofidis, former member of theOttoman parliament, was among theGreek notables hanged inAmasya by theTurkish National Movement?
... that manyAlaska legislators wearkuspuks to work on Fridays?

09:48, 2 June 2014 (UTC)

... that the architect of theClal Center(pictured), the first upscale, indoor shopping mall inJerusalem, candidly added the project to an Israeli exhibition titled "Bad Jobs"?
... thatThe Allman Brothers Band recorded their first live album,At Fillmore East, over three successive nights in March 1971?
... that thelucky iron fish is a fish-shaped ingot used to provide dietary iron to rural Cambodians who cannot afford iron-rich foods?
... thatSecurity Printing and Minting Corporation of India Limited producescurrencies andcoins for India?
... that in 1931,Lick Run was said to be "one of the best streams in this section ofClearfield County", but was found to be entirely devoid of fish 52 years later?
... that inJames Wilson's first senior football match for Manchester United, he scored two goals that won the game?
... that tall, blonde photographerHenk Jonker disguised himself as a female nurse duringWorld War II while working for theDutch resistance?

1 June 2014

21:33, 1 June 2014 (UTC)

... thatPrincess Marie Amelie of Baden(pictured), the wife of aScottish duke, attended the 1856 baptism ofNapoléon, Prince Imperial?
... that theaccumulation of blood in the uterus can occur as a complication of surgery or the result ofcongenital abnormalities?
... thatFord Island was used by ancientHawaiians for a ceremony to swap sex partners, was bought by theUS Army in 1917, and was the center of theattack on Pearl Harbor in 1941?
... that footballerVratislav Lokvenc won five league titles in six seasons withSparta Prague?
... that there are six floors in thestaircase model ofterrorism?
... that 16-year-oldBobby Byrne replacedTommy Dorsey uponThe Dorsey Brothers' split?
... thatJames Earl Jones andCarrie Fisher appeared inThe Big Bang Theory episode "The Convention Conundrum"?

09:18, 1 June 2014 (UTC)

... that the blue band on theflag of the Gambia(pictured) representsthe river that gives the country its name?
... that despiteGeorges Clemenceau's claim that theSaar contained 150,000Frenchmen, just 2,124 of the territory's voters supported a French annexation of the Saar in a1935 referendum?
... thatPaul Palaiologos Tagaris was anOrthodox monk and impostor, who at one point claimed to be thePatriarch of Jerusalem, and even managed to be namedLatin Patriarch of Constantinople by the Pope?
... thatAlbania became one of the main hubs forexiled Indonesian communists following themass killings of 1965–66?
... that Medal of Honor recipientLuther Kaltenbach was granted a pension of twenty-four dollars a month by anAct of Congress?
... thatDrexel 4175, amusic manuscript commonplace book belonging to theNew York Public Library, is an important source for seventeenth-century English song?
... that a 36-year-oldyeshiva student inKiryat Shomrei Emunim, Jerusalem, discovered a bomb planted in a garbage can and dismantled it himself before calling police?

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