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... thatWindham William Sadler(pictured) made the first crossing of theIrish Sea by balloon in 1817, five years afterhis father had failed to achieve the same feat?
... that the "awkward, cramped galleries" at2 Columbus Circle later housed New York City government offices?
... that the perpetrator of the2015 Heze bombing was described as normal just days before the attack?
... that after civil rights activistAndrew Goodman was murdered,Mary Doyle Curran found and published a poem that Goodman had written for her class?
... that at 6 by 22 metres (20 by 72 feet),Zeitlaich isJonas Burgert's largest oil painting?
... thatJohn Allen Lewis printed theLos Angeles Star, the first newspaper to appear in Los Angeles in 1851, with two pages written in English and two in Spanish?
... thatFrederick the Great personally convicted six judges for their involvement in theMiller Arnold case and sentenced them to a custodial penalty?
... thatWilliam of Littlington opposed the division of England and Scotland into two Carmelite provinces in 1303, was excommunicated, and did four years' penance in Paris?
... thatCardigan Donuts has sold aSuper Mario Kart–inspired rainbow doughnut with white chocolate frosting, gold walnuts, and cereal marshmallows?
... thatLanfranco Cirillo is the architect ofPutin's Palace, a palace complex on the Black Sea coast allegedly built forVladimir Putin which is estimated to have cost over one billion US dollars?
... that the "father of French fighter aircraft"(pictured) became interested in flying whilst suspended from the French Army following a court-martial?
... that the relative rarity of theradiodontTitanokorys(video featured) inMarble Canyon suggests that the deposits in which it was found may represent the outermost edge of its distribution in life?
... that Iraqi poetIsa Hasan al-Yasiri ran away from school at 10 years old, before travelling with a camelcaravan overnight to another village?
... that WelshfootballerJon Morgan went on to become a college principal after retiring?
... that the founder of theGuide to the Free World, helping people leave Russia afterits invasion of Ukraine, said she was told: "It's good that you get out of Russia, but a pity that you won't be shot"?
... that theShiba Inu memes ofNAFO have been called "an actual tactical event against anation state"?
... that you could place bets ona lettuce becoming the British prime minister?
00:00, 27 October 2022 (UTC)
Shannon Lucid
... that when astronautShannon Lucid(pictured) returned to Earth after six months in orbit, she was presented with a box ofM&M's?
... that theRegensburg Botanical Society, founded on 14 May 1790, is the world's oldest extant botanical society?
... that decades after its closure, the station house of theChicago "L"'sMadison station would house a hot dog stand?
... that before entering politics,Romina Pérez worked at the Center for Legal Studies and Social Research, which "became a 'nursery' for intellectual and political cadres of theMovement for Socialism"?
... thatMarcela Revollo's pragmatic approach to legislating led her to cooperate with bothneoliberal andsocialist governments on women's rights legislation?
... that the abandoned 17th-centuryGrimethorpe Hall in South Yorkshire, England, has been proposed as a potential new headquarters for theGrimethorpe Colliery Band?
... that athletic trainerGian Piero Ventrone, nicknamed "marine" for his very hard and tiring training sessions, made his players ring a "bell of shame" when they were too exhausted to continue?
00:00, 26 October 2022 (UTC)
Skiagraph of 3-month-old infant by Sydney Rowland, 1896
... that beforebungee jumping with White House aides in New Zealand, senior White House correspondentBill Plante said he was "proving that you're never too old to do something really stupid"?
25 October 2022
12:00, 25 October 2022 (UTC)
Firebug and spider by the Master of the Brussels Initials
... that the level of detail in medieval depictions offirebugs(example pictured) has been cited as evidence that theMaster of the Brussels Initials "knew the bug in nature"?
... thatTropical Storm Hermine in September 2022 produced record-breaking rainfall in theCanary Islands amounting to more than 20 times the monthly average?
... that according to one historian,James S. Rains made a "significant contribution to theConfederate war effort" by getting drunk?
... thatCésar Mascetti was reportedly the first Argentine journalist to interview a member ofthe Beatles when he met a nakedGeorge Harrison on a Rio de Janeiro beach?
... thatIBM EduQuest equipped the floppy drives in their computer systems with a dust shield to prevent the intrusion of dirt and chalk dust?
... that nightclub singerRommy Revson earned millions of dollars from her 1986 invention of thescrunchie(examples pictured), which she originally named after her pet poodle?
... that the beat inTaylor Swift's song "Holy Ground" was described by Brad Nelson ofThe Atlantic as "insistent enough to act as punctuation for the lyrics"?
... that portraits ofLucy de László with a violin(one portrait pictured), painted byher husband, are recognised as some of the first examples of portraiture to include womens' talents in them?
... that despite a "No Rock & Roll" sign in the studios of theUtica College radio station, students played it anyway?
... that Kenyan coffee farmer"Pinkie" Jackson amassed Africa's largest collection of native butterflies?
... that following a gun battle with Polish legionnaires, five leaders of theVilna Soviet of Workers Deputies committed suicide rather than surrendering?
... thatRebeca Delgado created Freedom of Thought for Bolivia after being told by her previous party that she should leave if she wanted to be a "freethinker"?
... thatBrooklyn Nine-Nine characterAmy Santiago has straight hair because the show's two Latina regular cast members feared that one of them would be fired?
... thatAdam Kingsmill, who is missing most of his right leg, played stand-up ice hockey until 2016?
... that a 28-year-old tire store managerdrowned his four children in the same station wagon in which his father fatally shot himself in the head?
... that "perhaps the most notable wedding gown in existence" within the United States was once worn inSt. Mary's-in-Tuxedo?
20 October 2022
12:00, 20 October 2022 (UTC)
Severo Aguilar
... that following his election to theConstituent Assembly,Severo Aguilar(pictured) had to trek four hours and hitch a ride on a truck in order to get to the assembly's headquarters inSucre?
Doyle spiral illustrating plant growth in a 1911Popular Science article
... that circle packings in the form of aDoyle spiral(pictured) were used to model plant growth long before their mathematical investigation by Doyle?
... thatFakhruddin Ali Ahmed, India's second Muslim president, was also the second Indian president to die in office?
... that while somelichen species in the genusPiccolia have ranges which span multiple continents, others are restricted to single islands?
... thatStardust, the title of a composition byTaylor Scott Davis for eight voicesa cappella commissioned byVoces8, became also the name of the vocal ensemble's 2022 tour?
... that the roadlessSolace Provincial Park in theTemagami area ofOntario, Canada, is considered as one of the most isolated, wild places in the province?
... that Malaysian poetWong Phui Nam wrote in English, despite feeling no connection to the English literary tradition?
... that the depiction of conservative Catholic intellectuals in the playHeroes of the Fourth Turning was praised both by its subjects and by liberal New York theater critics?
... that some analysts consideredVíctor Hugo Zamora's appointment as hydrocarbons minister to be a gesture tooil companies, guaranteeing "covert continuity" between theÁñez andMorales governments?
... that former child refugeeAnn Beaglehole has become a historian specialising in refugee history?
... that one reviewer of the British reality TV seriesMake Me Prime Minister said "Technically it's worth five stars. In every other way, I wish I was dead"?
18 October 2022
12:00, 18 October 2022 (UTC)
Folio of a medieval copy of theAmṛtasiddhi
... that theAmṛtasiddhi(folio pictured), translated as 'the attainment of immortality', is an early text about what later becamehaṭha yoga?
... that from 1912,Jindřiška Flajšhansová was the principal editor ofŽenské listy, a Czech journal that became a women's "survival manual" during World War I?
... that Don Lemon "didn't mean to set the internet on fire" when teasing the rebranding ofCNN Tonight toDon Lemon Tonight?
00:00, 18 October 2022 (UTC)
Jack Johnson vs. James J. Jeffries
... thatThe New York Times claimed that ifJohnson beat Jeffries(fight pictured), black people would "misinterpret his victory as justifying claims to much more than mere physical equality with their white neighbors"?
... thatWindows 3.1 had a special version, known as Modular Windows, that was controlled viatelevision?
... that during the 1960s and 1970s, American artistRobert Bauer painted figures that were a mixture of 20th-century avant-gardefunk and 17th-century Dutchrealism?
... thatyoga nidra, a state of consciousness "in which Buddhas may access secret knowledge", is being studied for potential treatment ofsleep problems?
... thatKotaku revised an article aboutNintendo Switch emulation after Nintendo complained that the previous version encouraged piracy?
... that the bookWorking from Within details howW. V. Quine only began to use the term "naturalism" years after he had already developed the key tenets of the philosophy?
... that the owner ofa Louisiana radio station was killed while in the process of putting it back on the air?
... thatCathie Dunsford(pictured) was unable to find many books about lesbianism in the 1970s, but by the 1980s had herself become a writer and anthologist oflesbian literature?
... that in 1816, a copy of the long-lostInstitutes by the Roman juristGaius was discovered, hidden underneath writings bySaint Jerome?
... thatRuth M. Anderson recorded a "timeless" Spain in her photographs of the 1920s?
... thatCleo Damianakes's 1920s book dust jacket designs "made sex respectable", but Hemingway did not like the "large misplaced breasts" onA Farewell to Arms?
... thatThe Summer Hikaru Died went from drawings on a Twitter account to receiving three times more orders than copies available in its firstprint run?
... that a doctor toldHowie Shanks that he only had a few weeks to live, but he lived another 31 years?
... that medievalistEdward Rand rang the doorbell of Harvard presidentCharles William Eliot and asked him: "I would like to go to Harvard; do you have any money?"
... thatNick Kerbawy did not receive his college tennis championship trophy until 14 years after winning it?
... that the dining room atArdress House has no internal doors and can only be reached using an external entrance?
7 October 2022
00:00, 7 October 2022 (UTC)
Interior of St. Martin, Sindelfingen
... that the flat wooden ceiling ofSt. Martin(pictured), the Lutheran main church ofSindelfingen built in the 11th century, is still preserved?
... thatCephas L. Bard, the first American physician inVentura, California, was also the first person to die in the hospital he built there?
... that independent media and scholars estimate that thousands might have perished in theYarkand Massacre in 2014?
... thatReconstructing Womanhood byHazel Carby, about the history of American black women writers, was said to be a "landmark study" and "groundbreaking"?
... that the search engine ofGeliyoo was found to be retrieving its results from Google, in contrast to the company's claims of spending 10 million Turkish liras on development?
... that at the time of its construction in 1920, theHoward Theatre inAtlanta was the second-largest movie theater in the world, with a seating capacity of 2,700?
... thatOglethorpe County High School worked with the University of Georgia to bring their dropout rate from 65 dropouts in 1985–86 to just 4 in 1987–88?
... that when pieces fromMendelssohn'sGerman Liturgy were sung by theThomanerchor(pictured) in 2022, a reviewer noted "a captivating purity in the tone of devotional Reformation romanticism"?
... that the only run scored byJohn Gamble was a game-winner?
... that despite the commercial success of previousKendrick Brothers films, starKirk Cameron said thatLifemark was unable to secure a distributor due to its pro-life stance?
... that the elite men's race attoday's London Marathon is expected to feature three of the five fastest men in history?
... thatBob Dylan recorded "To Ramona" in a single take, for an album recorded in a single three-hour session?
... that during his first air-sea rescue mission with theIrish Air Corps,Barney McMahon landed to refuel with a mixture of petrol and paraffin, filtered through a pair of tights?
... thatWilliam Anders took the iconic photographEarthrise(pictured)?
... that an investigation into theRoyal Oak post office shootings led one congressman to accuse the Postal Service of having been "asleep at the switch"?
... thatGil Kim playedprofessional baseball in the Netherlands, China, Australia, Spain, and Venezuela,scouted in Mexico and the Dominican Republic, andcoaches in Canada?
... thatHamim Tohari, the current spokesperson of the Indonesian Army, was once removed from his post after being caught using a phone during a meeting with the commander-in-chief?
... thatTreasuryDirect, a website for purchasingUS Treasury securities, originated in 1986 as a computerized service conducted over postal mail?
... that the manga seriesReptilia was inspired in part by a story fromJapanese folklore about a woman who is transformed into a snake, told to authorKazuo Umezu as a child?
... thatNancy Reagan jumpedout of her bath when she heard that her husband had been elected President of the United States?
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