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31 August 2022

12:00, 31 August 2022 (UTC)

Leonard Bernstein

... that at its premiere at Symphony Hall, Leonard Bernstein (pictured) described his suite Divertimento as a "fun piece" that "reflects my youthful experiences here where I heard my first orchestral music"?
... that Irene Desmet, a Liverpudlian paediatric surgeon, was described by one of her trainees as "an iron fist in a velvet glove"?
... that Gil Scott-Heron's 1975 song "Johannesburg" was banned in South Africa during apartheid?
... that Indian philanthropist and business executive T. Mohandas Pai has been called the "architect of modern Manipal"?
... that a Virginia radio station built a house to raise money for operations?
... that Peter Corby's electric trouser press used technology designed for Concorde?
... that at over 2,800 kilometres (1,700 mi), Antar Lintas Sumatera's Medan-to-Jember service is the longest bus route in Indonesia?
... that Pliny used the term insania to describe a Roman art collector's love of citron tables?

00:00, 31 August 2022 (UTC)

Winifred Brown

... that when Winifred Brown (pictured) arrived for the King's Cup air race in 1930, she was not allowed to stay at the aero club but still won the race?
... that voting in the first Eurovision Song Contest was conducted in secret, with countries able to vote for their own entries, and only the winner of the contest being announced?
... that William White's last NFL game was Super Bowl XXXIII, in which he made a team-high nine tackles for the losing Atlanta Falcons?
... that Leafpad is a text editor for Linux that is comparable to Notepad for Windows?
... that cosmetic chemist Balanda Atis created the foundation worn by Lupita Nyong'o in advertisements for Lancôme?
... that a practice known as jieba, in which a Buddhist monk has scars ritually burned into his head, was banned by the Chinese government for 300 years?
... that Clifford G. Grulee died while attending a dinner hosted by the American Academy of Pediatrics in his honor?
... that the name of the International Institute of Modern Letters has been criticised by its founder Bill Manhire for being "almost at odds with the fine use of language"?

30 August 2022

12:00, 30 August 2022 (UTC)

Rockwood & Company shipping department, 1918

... that the 1919 Rockwood & Company shipping department fire (location pictured) in New York City led to a flood of chocolate and butter sufficient to "float a rowboat for two blocks along Flushing Avenue"?
... that Henry Jackson served for 44 days, the shortest tenure of any New Zealand member of parliament?
... that armored mud balls are formed underwater when fragments of clay or mud are rolled by moving currents, picking up a coating of gravel or pebbles that helps to stop them breaking down further?
... that Eliane Capobianco's election to the Bolivian Constituent Assembly reflected the propensity of the country's agribusiness elites to occupy positions that granted them influence over land reform policy?
... that Bob Dylan rhymes "Angelina" with "concertina", "hyena", "subpoena", "Argentina" and "arena"?
... that The Exposé's false claims that COVID-19 was created by Moderna were republished by Chinese state media outlets?
... that New Zealand composer Maewa Kaihau sold her rights to the song "Now is the Hour" for £10, a decade before it became a hit in the United Kingdom and United States?
... that Blue Ridge Sanatorium was once a prizewinning pig farm?

00:00, 30 August 2022 (UTC)

Lauren Mitchell

... that in 2010, Lauren Mitchell (pictured) became the first Australian female artistic gymnast to win a world title?
... that an incident in the Tailhook scandal involved party goers who accidentally dislodged an eighth-floor window pane while "mooning" the crowd below?
... that Tigor Silaban vowed to work far from Jakarta and not to open a private practice?
... that 17 State Street, near the southern end of New York City's Manhattan Island, was described as "quite literally a beacon for Lower Manhattan"?
... that Esther Cuesta was an undocumented migrant in the United States long before she was elected to represent about 800,000 Ecuadorian migrants?
... that "Arnold's Christmas", now considered one of the most memorable episodes from the animated series Hey Arnold!, was almost rejected by network executives because it depicted the Vietnam War?
... that the 1948 novel The Corner That Held Them uses subversion of history that includes a nun who enjoyed the Black Death?
... that Brad White was a potato farmer who went on to play six years in the National Football League?

29 August 2022

12:00, 29 August 2022 (UTC)

Vladimirka by Isaac Levitan

... that the subject of the painting Vladimirka (pictured) is a road that was used to transport prisoners to Siberia on foot?
... that Bill Harkin designed the original Glastonbury Festival Pyramid Stage, which was built from scaffolding and plastic sheeting?
... that for decades, the Sand Springs Railway gave all of its profits to a children's home?
... that John Dique constructed the machine used by the first Australian patient to receive dialysis?
... that the Roman fort Aquis Querquennis periodically emerges from a reservoir?
... that casino pit boss Mike Goodman was the author of a book that sold over a million copies?
... that Youlgreave in Derbyshire is one of only a few villages in the United Kingdom to be supplied by its own private waterworks?
... that radio station WBML made its first broadcast just one hour after the funeral of its manager-to-be?

00:00, 29 August 2022 (UTC)

Alice Kuperjanov

... that Alice Kuperjanov (pictured) was one of the founders of the Estonian women's movement and assisted military efforts during the Estonian War of Independence?
... that the East Louisiana Railroad, which removed Homer Plessy from a train, actually did so to help him start Plessy v. Ferguson, an attempt to overturn segregation in the United States?
... that until Rufina Peter and Kessy Sawang's election in August 2022, Papua New Guinea was one of only three countries without a woman in parliament?
... that "Dir, dir, Jehova, will ich singen" is a 1697 Lutheran hymn, translated into English by Catherine Winkworth in 1863 as "Jehovah, let me now adore Thee"?
... that Heisman Trophy winner Larry Kelley turned down multiple offers to play professional football to become a school teacher?
... that contrary to Shakespeare's play, Macbeth was not killed during the Battle of Dunsinane?
... that the leader of the Quebec Hells Angels was acquitted of 13 murder charges because the star witness was unwilling to testify at trial and instead complained about how the Crown had cheated him?
... that the design of the train for the roller coaster Tigris was revealed in the form of a cake?

28 August 2022

12:00, 28 August 2022 (UTC)

Male Baer's pochard

... that Baer's pochard (example pictured), found in eastern Asia, has seen a population decline of more than 99 percent in past decades, and is no longer migratory in central and eastern China?
... that ballerina Ashley Ellis started her own dancewear brand after her colleagues at Boston Ballet asked her to make leg warmers for them?
... that as the reality of Venus's harsh surface conditions became known from the mid-20th century, the early tropes of adventures in Venusian tropics gave way to more realistic stories?
... that Mario Fiorentini was Italy's most decorated World War II resistance fighter?
... that Lechmere station was proposed for replacement in 1924 – yet was in use until 2020?
... that after suffering life-changing injuries as a baby, five-year-old Tony Hudgell raised £1.7 million for a London children's hospital, and inspired English law changes on child abuse?
... that George Balanchine's ballet Scotch Symphony, set to Mendelssohn's Scottish Symphony, evokes the style of La Sylphide, a romantic ballet set in Scotland?
... that Suay Sew Shop plans to be owned by its sewers?

00:00, 28 August 2022 (UTC)

Jim Dillard

... that Jim Dillard (pictured) declined an offer to play in the National Football League?
... that the 18th-century "Danket, danket dem Herrn", a thanksgiving round based on Psalm 106:1, has been described as one of the most widespread rounds in German?
... that British horse trainer Alice Hayes rode a zebra sidesaddle in the late 19th century?
... that the Indianapolis Community Food Access Coalition was created to resolve food deserts in the city of Indianapolis?
... that the Caldecott Honor–winning illustrations for Going Down Home with Daddy contain Adinkra symbols that represent various concepts in Ghanaian culture?
... that Federico Gatti went from playing in the Italian sixth division and doing menial jobs to joining Juventus and playing for the Italy national team?
... that Kanye West performed an additional Touch the Sky Tour date at the University of North Carolina Wilmington after coming third in a student survey?
... that the decisive participation of a Peruvian cavalry unit in the Battle of Junín led Simón Bolívar to rename them the Hussars of Junín?

27 August 2022

12:00, 27 August 2022 (UTC)

St. Martinus, Hattersheim

... that when the new church of St. Martinus (pictured) in Hattersheim was built in 1915 with Jugendstil elements, the architect incorporated parts from the earlier church?
... that Walter Nolen was ranked by ESPN and USA Today as the number-one player in the 2022 college football recruiting class?
... that the poor of ancient Rome were compared to dogs by the Roman writer Martial?
... that Hayley Kiyoko aimed for a fully LGBT cast while casting the video for her song "For the Girls"?
... that The Twins, a 1930 story by Abd al-Quddus al-Ansari, was called the first Saudi Arabian novel?
... that the Sweet Vengeance Mine was owned and operated by Black miners during the California Gold Rush?
... that at the request of Regine Velasquez, her former manager Ronnie Henares directed the concert Twenty?
... that ice hockey commentator Jack Michaels began his career announcing an ostrich race?

00:00, 27 August 2022 (UTC)

William George Carlile Kent

... that William George Carlile Kent (pictured) was court-martialled for disobeying deposed Governor William Bligh's order to destroy Sydney?
... that the Acoustic Atlas at Montana State University Library helped to create a public domain archive of sounds from Yellowstone National Park?
... that in 1836, a jury ignored the judge's advice and found Daniel Arnoldi guilty of assaulting a black man?
... that in Crippled, author Frances Ryan describes a disabled British woman who was unable to afford heating or her specialist meals due to an austerity programme that began in 2010?
... that amateur astronomer A. O. Granger expanded his home to include the largest observatory and telescope in the southeastern United States?
... that in the concert Songbird Sings the Classics, Regine Velasquez paid homage to the music of Burt Bacharach, Leonard Bernstein, Michel Legrand, Henry Mancini, and Barry Manilow?
... that Ballet Russe de Monte-Carlo dancer George Verdak was awarded an honorary doctorate by Butler University?
... that the Scilly Boys' idea to try and beat the transatlantic rowing record was started while they were at the pub?

26 August 2022

00:00, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

Tenta

... that Tenta's architectural remains, artefacts, human burials, flora and fauna (pictured) have been "virtually unchanged for two millennia"?
... that Ryan Roberts, a defensive end for Notre Dame, was a soccer player in high school?
... that the last of three Regina coeli settings written by Mozart for Salzburg Cathedral is scored for four soloists, choir and orchestra?
... that while Moto Hagio's parents discouraged her interest in manga as "an impediment to studying", she would go on to receive a Medal of Honor for her contributions to the medium?
... that the man from Del Monte never spoke on screen?
... that it was Caltech experimental physicist Rana X. Adhikari's idea to build a gravitational-wave observatory in India?
... that many fans of Ayub Bachchu's Bangladeshi rock watched the film Loot Toraj in theaters just to hear the love song "Ananta Prem Tumi Dao Aamake"?
... that Ken Russell went on international yo-yo tours before turning to politics?

25 August 2022

00:00, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

Theatre Royal, Southampton

... that the Theatre Royal, Southampton (pictured), which Jane Austen visited in 1807, was described in 2013 as having "morphed into a hideous high-rise"?
... that Fabio Miretti received a standing ovation from Juventus fans after his Serie A debut as a starter?
... that Logan v. Zimmerman Brush Co. was the first time a majority of U.S. Supreme Court justices agreed that a challenged statute failed the rational basis test?
... that the lineups for two songs in the single "Kaze wo Matsu" were determined by the century in which the singers were born?
... that Roslyn Lindheim, who designed hospitals, was the first architect to be elected to the National Academy of Medicine?
... that coral cores from Flinders Reef capture environmental changes caused by the use of nuclear weapons?
... that Elizabeth Thorn was six months pregnant when she buried approximately one hundred fallen soldiers after the Battle of Gettysburg?
... that a walrus named Freya was spotted riding a Walrus-class submarine, and later sank several boats in the Oslofjord?

24 August 2022

00:00, 24 August 2022 (UTC)

Ardwall House

... that Ardwall House (pictured) has a garden ornament in the form of an early mediaeval Pictish slab inscribed with a Celtic cross?
... that Henry Janzen was the first coach to lead his team to back-to-back Vanier Cup championships?
... that the main studio of a Cincinnati TV station occupies the one-time gymnasium of a former Black junior high school?
... that Juan José Cabezudo was an openly gay chef and street-food seller in 19th-century Lima?
... that the area of responsibility of the 6th Military Police Group includes all of the United States west of the Mississippi River?
... that when the US government offered Bolivian president Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada US$15 million to help quell riots in La Paz, he said that with that amount he couldn't even afford to pay for the cigars he smoked?
... that telegraph operator Emma Hunter may have been the world's first electronic commuter?
... that a dead woman's knickers helped to solve the Charing Cross Trunk Murder?

23 August 2022

00:00, 23 August 2022 (UTC)

Claude Debussy

... that Claude Debussy (pictured) described his Cello Sonata, composed within a few weeks in July 1915 at a Normandy seaside town, in a letter to his publisher Durand as of "almost classical form"?
... that after U.S. Navy pilot Royce Williams engaged in a solo dogfight with seven Soviet MiG-15s during the Korean War, he was ordered never to tell anyone about it?
... that the 1985 manga series Tomoi contains the first depiction of HIV/AIDS in any literary medium in Japan?
... that the unacknowledged contributions of Eunice Newton Foote to climate change research were recovered by Elizabeth Wagner Reed, whose research in genetics was also obscured?
... that people with sensory processing disorders often require sensory friendly environments which are designed to accommodate their condition?
... that American educator Gilbert Eastman, who acted in and wrote American Sign Language plays, won an Emmy Award in 1993?
... that Nirmalendu Goon shared his doubts about Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's political decisions during the 1969 East Pakistan mass uprising in his poem Huliya?
... that after Florida schools banned 54 mathematics books, Chaz Stevens petitioned that they also ban the Bible?

22 August 2022

00:00, 22 August 2022 (UTC)

Gian Franco Bottazzo

... that Gian Franco Bottazzo (pictured) and Deborah Doniach proved that type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease?
... that since 2018, IKEA's stuffed toy shark Blåhaj has become a popular Internet meme and an icon of the online transgender community?
... that Canadian brothers Graeme and Jacob Saunders learned to sail at the Chester Yacht Club, and campaigned a two-person dinghy in the 2016 Summer Olympics?
... that a livestock auctioneer and former Army sharpshooter shot and killed seven family members in the Rock Road massacre?
... that when the Canadian baritone Iain MacNeal appeared as Odysseus in Dallapiccola's Ulisse at the Oper Frankfurt, a reviewer noted that he portrayed the "character's self-exegeses"?
... that the sculpture Chicago Rising from the Lake was meant to show the city's rebirth after the Great Chicago Fire but it went missing twice and was eventually found by a Chicago firefighter?
... that as part of its #BlossomWatch campaign, the National Trust plans to plant trees along a circular bus route in Birmingham?
... that Jack Deloplaine was nicknamed "Hydroplane" because of his running ability in wet conditions?

21 August 2022

00:00, 21 August 2022 (UTC)

Indira Devi of Kapurthala

... that in 1935, Indian princess Indira Devi (pictured) secretly travelled to London to become an actress, telling only her two sisters?
... that dozens of men were indicted for the lynching-by-fire deaths of two Seminole boys in 1898?
... that the de Havilland Mosquito was almost cancelled in 1940, but Air Vice-Marshal Richard Peck persuaded Air Marshal Wilfrid Freeman to continue the programme?
... that in the music video for her song "Wheelie", Latto shows off a diamond cryptocurrency wallet made by celebrity jeweler Greg Yuna?
... that after Claudia Winterstein dropped plans to become an architect because of the Berlin Wall, she led her party as a member of the Bundestag?
... that Derek Jeter discusses his biracial upbringing and experiencing racism in Michigan in the 1980s and 1990s in The Captain?
... that when the deputy finance minister rejected his proposal to create a national bank, Margono Djojohadikusumo tried again with the Vice President?
... that a miniature book written by a 13-year-old sold for over $1 million?

20 August 2022

00:00, 20 August 2022 (UTC)

55 Water Street

... that New York City's largest office building (pictured) is owned by an Alabama pension fund?
... that Victória Pitts from Brazil portrayed characters in all three parts of Puccini's Il trittico at the Oper Frankfurt in 2022, including Zita in Gianni Schicchi?
... that Sharp Corporation produced three official variants of Nintendo's Famicom in Japan, one of which was a television set that was subsequently released in the United States?
... that the US Special Envoy for Afghan women and girls, Rina Amiri, is a former refugee who told US Senator John Kerry that "the Afghan population is not the Taliban"?
... that the main activity of the short-lived parliament of Central Lithuania of 1922 was to request annexation by Poland?
... that Emma Reaney is the only Notre Dame Fighting Irish swimmer to win an NCAA championship?
... that sales declined after Anyone Here Been Raped and Speaks English? was renamed by its American publisher, so the original title was restored in subsequent editions?
... that model Patsy Pulitzer was called one of the "World's Loveliest Sportswomen" after catching a 1,230-pound (560 kg) black marlin, a then world-record fish for a woman?

19 August 2022

00:00, 19 August 2022 (UTC)

John Caffey

... that John Caffey (pictured) was the first to describe the condition now known as shaken baby syndrome?
... that people in Loli traditionally derive their social identity from the village in which they were born?
... that Thomas Jeremiah, a slaveowner, was executed for inciting a slave insurrection?
... that Don't Pay UK plan to encourage UK households to cancel their energy bill payments on 1 October 2022 if their pledge reaches 1 million signatures?
... that PJ and Thomas were the first gay couple to host an HGTV show?
... that in 2018, Donald Trump disinvited the Philadelphia Eagles from a Super Bowl LII victory ceremony at the White House after several players said they were not going to attend?
... that at the end of the siege of Petra in 551 AD, the Romans discovered that there was yet another pipe beneath the ones they destroyed that was supplying water to the besieged garrison all along?
... that Edward N. Hall is known as the "father of the Minuteman ICBM" but his brother Ted was a Soviet spy?

18 August 2022

00:00, 18 August 2022 (UTC)

Tayaw kinpun

... that the traditional shampoo tayaw kinpun (pictured) has been used by successive Burmese kings to wash their hair ritually to cast away evil, and augment their powers?
... that Roland Jefferson, the first African-American botanist to work at the U.S. National Arboretum, helped preserve the famous flowering cherry trees in Washington, D.C.?
... that Gandhi's statue in the Indian parliament is frequently used as a protest site by members of parliament?
... that Rogers Covey-Crump, once the high tenor of the Hilliard Ensemble, is known as a leading Evangelist in Bach's Passions?
... that after the tower of a New York state TV station was toppled by Hurricane Hazel, it did not return to the air for more than 18 months?
... that in 1944, at the age of 18, Trevor Hill was responsible for broadcasting Eisenhower's D-Day announcement of the Normandy landings?
... that Gleaners Food Bank has served more than 700 million pounds (320 million kg) of food in Indiana?
... that AMTD Digital had a market value greater than the Coca-Cola Company, Costco or McDonald's after its stock price rose 21,000 percent in a matter of days?

17 August 2022

00:00, 17 August 2022 (UTC)

Hank Goldberg

... that after Hank Goldberg (pictured) was dismissed from WIOD for publicly disregarding his program director's instructions, he joined its struggling rival, which ultimately surpassed WIOD in the ratings?
... that Turkey's newly acquired fourth drillship, Abdülhamid Han, is able to drill up to 12,200 m (40,000 ft) and in a maximum water depth of 3,665 m (12,024 ft)?
... that Kyaymyin Mibaya was King Mindon's youngest, last and richest queen?
... that according to researchers including Stephen Hargarten, the slogan "guns don't kill people, people kill people" is "scientifically inaccurate"?
... that the coin used by Gaelic football referee Sean Hurson bears his initials and was presented to him by one of his umpires shortly before the latter died?
... that This Tender Land is a retelling of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn set in the 1930s and incorporating elements of Homer's Odyssey?
... that Russell Strong pioneered multiple techniques for liver transplantation, including splitting a donor liver between multiple recipients?
... that during the 2022 National Arena League season, a player hit a referee?

16 August 2022

00:00, 16 August 2022 (UTC)

Wood type

... that wood type for printing (example pictured) was invented in China, first mass-produced in the United States, and later exported back to China for use by missionaries?
... that William Pinckney was the second Black American to be awarded the Navy Cross, the second-highest decoration for valor in combat, after the Medal of Honor?
... that the Franco-Greek defence agreement is the first intra-NATO defensive alliance?
... that Fateh Muhammad Panipati has been called the al-Jazari of contemporary times?
... that Harris Computer Systems specialized in making computers for real-time simulation?
... that LGBT rights activist Kit Malone helped create the first transgender organized marching group in the Indianapolis Pride Parade's history?
... that in a choral tour program titled Salmo!, Bach's 18th successor first conducted Salmo 150, an a cappella setting of Psalm 150 by the Brazilian composer Ernani Aguiar?
... that zoologist Herb Wong wrote the liner notes for more than 600 jazz albums, by his own count?

15 August 2022

00:00, 15 August 2022 (UTC)

William H. Davis

... that William H. Davis (pictured) was the first teacher of Booker T. Washington and the first African American to be nominated as a candidate for West Virginia governor in 1888?
...that defence was not a significant factor in the design or placement of Earlstoun Castle, which was unusual for a 16th-century tower house?
... that Baya Gamani was freed from prison by his captor, King Mohnyin Thado, to defend the capital region of Ava?
... that the Manila Standard described the concert Two for the Knight as the "biggest team-up of a foreign and local artist" in the Philippines?
... that hostile references towards Anglo-Egyptian rule in Sudan by Khalil Farah were hidden in colloquial Sudanese Arabic?
... that when the University of South Dakota started a radio station, the transmitter was built by student and future Nobel Prize winner Ernest Lawrence?
... that the 1971 Hazelwood massacre was the largest mass murder in the history of "Murder City"?
... that taxation may have played a part in the fall of the Roman Empire?

14 August 2022

00:00, 14 August 2022 (UTC)

Phoenician arrowheads with inscriptions (12th–11th century BC)

... that the earliest-known Phoenician inscriptions (examples pictured) were found near Bethlehem?
... that women's rights activist Susan B. Anthony spoke twice at the now defunct Academy of Music in Sioux City, Iowa, during the 1870s?
... that upon his rescue, Alexander Armstrong retrieved his journal against his captain's orders, and its publication contradicted the captain's claims about their chances of survival?
... that Jesse Fuller's first release of his song "You're No Good" was more than a year after Bob Dylan had included it on his debut album?
... that when reggae musician Bob Marley was arrested in London for cannabis possession, he falsely told the police he lived in Collingham Gardens?
... that in 1948, Thomas Yarborough became the first African American to be elected as a city council member in California?
... that U.S. sanctions against Iran have adversely impacted Iranian children with epidermolysis bullosa, among other patients?
... that Lillian Chase became interested in diabetes after meeting the first patient to receive insulin, and went on to become an expert in the disease?

13 August 2022

00:00, 13 August 2022 (UTC)

United Nations Secretariat Building

... that when the United Nations Secretariat Building (pictured) was finished, its staff were described as "neither united nor very peaceful"?
... that after a 1968 split in the Communist Party of Italy (Marxist–Leninist), the Black Line and Red Line groups would engage in reciprocal acts of violence and vandalism?
... that creating visual art led Maya Pindyck to write poetry?
... that the Missa brevis in C by František Brixi, an 18th-century kapellmeister at Prague Cathedral, was not published until 2004?
... that British writer Adolphe Smith Headingley popularised the singing of the socialist anthem "The Red Flag" to the tune of "O Tannenbaum" against the wishes of its lyricist?
... that the late Foo Fighters member Taylor Hawkins plays the drums on the closing track of King Princess's album Hold On Baby?
... that during the First World War, Adrian Becher received his second Military Cross for leading the defence of a position for five days, despite having been buried by a shell explosion on the first day?
... that 11 years after it opened in 1993, Currambine railway station was rebuilt 60 metres (200 ft) to the east?

12 August 2022

00:00, 12 August 2022 (UTC)

Roman Bunka playing the oud

... that the German guitarist Roman Bunka (pictured) studied the Arabic oud in Egypt and played in Mohamed Mounir's band at the Pyramids of Giza to celebrate entering the year 2000?
... that in 2010, a blue poison bottle inscribed "not to be taken" was excavated from the wheel pit of Knowles Mill?
... that a Billie Eilish song references the Depp v. Heard defamation trial and the overturning of Roe v. Wade?
... that in 1888, Edward P. Duplex became the first African American to be elected a mayor in California?
... that the 6.0 system of judging figure skating was replaced in 2004, as a response to the scandal during the pair skating competition at the 2002 Winter Olympics?
... that when creating Aerodynamic Forms in Space in 2010, Rodney Graham was inspired by photographs of misassembled toy model gliders he took in 1977?
... that Bill Hatfield, the oldest person to have sailed solo around the world, had previously narrowly survived a shipwreck with his young family?
... that a reviewer said that playing as a cat "is at least 50% of the appeal" of Stray?

11 August 2022

00:00, 11 August 2022 (UTC)

Akron Baptist Temple's 1949 sanctuary building

... that Akron Baptist Temple (pictured) once featured 6-foot-tall (1.8 m) red lettering that flashed?
... that although some casting directors found Jack Ferver difficult to believe as an 18-year-old, Ferver would later portray Little Lad in a Starburst advertisement?
... that the idea for the Fuente de la República arose after Manuel Felguérez suggested a fountain to accompany his newly inaugurated Puerta 1808 to the mayor of Mexico City?
... that in his early career, Daniel Camargo was cast to dance a lead role at the opening night of Don Quixote at Stuttgart Ballet, over the principal dancers?
... that The Scent of Joseph's Shirt was said by Iranian director and screenwriter Ebrahim Hatamikia to reflect his perception of waiting for Imam Mahdi?
... that Ruslana Pysanka, who hosted a Ukrainian television program with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, died as a refugee in Germany?
... that "Highway 51", the closing track on Bob Dylan's debut album, incorporated elements from earlier songs by Curtis Jones, Tommy McClennan, and the Everly Brothers?
... that Kenyan theologian Mary Getui was named a Moran of the Burning Spear?

10 August 2022

00:00, 10 August 2022 (UTC)

Gordon Memorial in Crossmichael Churchyard

... that within the graveyard of the Category A–listed Crossmichael Parish Church, there is a memorial (pictured) to William Gordon of Greenlaw that is itself designated Category A in its own right?
... that Colombian singer Juanita Lascarro became a soprano at the Oper Frankfurt, where she appeared as both Calypso and Penelope in a new production of Dallapiccola's Ulisse?
... that Akbar Bhawan, which houses the South Asian University and offices of India's Ministry of External Affairs, was originally a hotel?
... that Pop Team Epic creator Bkub Okawa is also a virtual YouTuber?
... that after the Little Rock campaign, Union forces held three-quarters of Arkansas?
... that Alena Analeigh Wicker is the youngest Black person to be accepted into medical school in the United States and the youngest person to work as an intern at NASA?
... that Taco Bell initially commissioned a TikTok musical for their Mexican Pizza?
... that Curtis Imrie won three world championships as a pack burro racer?

9 August 2022

00:00, 9 August 2022 (UTC)

Avelina Carrera

... that Avelina Carrera (pictured) made her debut at the Liceu in Barcelona in 1889, stepping in as Elsa in Wagner's Lohengrin, and created the role of Maddalena in Giordano's Andrea Chénier at La Scala?
... that Northup Avenue Yard in Providence, Rhode Island, was described as "the finest in the New Haven system"?
... that David Belchem was awarded the DSO for leading a tank regiment in Tunisia that took 749 prisoners?
... that according to historian Rashid Khalidi, "Israel has been extremely successful in forcibly establishing itself as a colonial reality in a post-colonial age"?
... that in 2022, Michael Phillips became the third professor in a year to sue Collin College for retaliating against protected speech?
... that Spy Princess by Shrabani Basu tells the story of Noor Inayat Khan, a British secret agent in France who was executed by the Nazis?
... that Julian MacKay moved to Moscow at the age of 11 to attend the Bolshoi Ballet Academy, and later became the first American to complete both the lower and upper schools there?
... that milk's gotta lotta bottle?

8 August 2022

00:00, 8 August 2022 (UTC)

Flag of Gdańsk

... that the use of the flag of Gdańsk (pictured) was discontinued during World War II and was not restored until 1991?
... that "The Strike" (1954), about an American officer's turmoil in ordering an air strike on his own men, was rated as Rod Serling's best script he had written to date?
... that Suleman Raza was coincidently awarded an MBE while his organisation Uplyft received the Queen's Award for Voluntary Service in the 2022 Birthday Honours?
... that a boy's voice over CB radio claiming to be within an overturned truck in New Mexico sparked a search-and-rescue mission 49 years ago today?
... that baseball player Dwight Smith recorded a demo rhythm and blues album during the 1993–94 offseason?
... that Natsuki Hanae was chosen to voice Vanitas to give the character more sexual appeal?
... that the indie band Crumb wrote Jinx after a near-fatal car accident?
... that Colin Stubs spent the prize money from his first international tennis title on an old Volkswagen to travel around Europe?

7 August 2022

00:00, 7 August 2022 (UTC)

Travertine formations in Grand Canyon National Park

... that Laura J. Crossey has shown that travertines (example pictured) are more likely to form when meteoric groundwater mixes with deeper groundwater from the Earth's mantle?
... that Seckinger High School was created in 2022 with an artificial intelligence–themed curriculum?
... that Singaporean singer Dawn Gan played herself in a television drama about aspiring singers?
... that Oleksandr Kamyshin, the head of Ukrainian Railways, who runs the iron diplomacy program that brings world leaders to Kyiv by rail, carries his gun and his son's stuffed owl with him?
... that Zahia Mentouri was credited with training all pediatric anesthetists in western Algeria?
... that the Freies Deutsches Hochstift association acquired Goethe's birthplace in Frankfurt am Main in 1863, but did not fully restore it until 1926?
... that the majority of the members of the Israeli Desert Reconnaissance Battalion are Bedouin Arabs?
... that Super Mario has spent more than a million dollars on cruises?

6 August 2022

00:00, 6 August 2022 (UTC)

Lilly Pulitzer dresses in Suzie Zuzek prints, c. 1965

... that Suzie Zuzek's impactful 1960s and 1970s textile designs for Lilly Pulitzer dresses (examples pictured) were recovered from under floorboards?
... that the carillons of the British Isles were primarily constructed in the interwar period?
... that Indian author and publisher Pramod Kapoor was made a Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur for his contribution to promoting India's heritage?
... that shoals of Munida gregaria, the gregarious squat lobster, can be up to 5 km (3.1 mi) long?
... that Martha Wolfenstein wrote stories based on her father's experiences in a Moravian Judengasse?
... that Bob Dylan's song "I Pity the Poor Immigrant" uses phrases from the Book of Leviticus?
... that A. K. M. Miraj Uddin set a Pakistani national record in the pole vault by clearing 12 feet 2 inches (3.71 m) with a bamboo pole instead of a carbon-fiber pole?
... that a New York City office building was nicknamed for its resemblance to a lipstick tube?

5 August 2022

00:00, 5 August 2022 (UTC)

Coyote en Ayuno

... that the first ray of sunlight on 23 April passes through the eye of the Coyote en Ayuno (pictured), which was built to commemorate the founding of Nezahualcóyotl, Mexico?
... that José Ramón Balaguer fought as a soldier-medic for Fidel Castro's rebel army before becoming Cuba's minister of public health?
... that the 6th Louisiana Infantry Regiment began with 916 men and ended with 52?
... that Shanti Devi was awarded the Padma Shri Award for her social work, including eradicating the yaws disease in a village in Odisha?
... that "Kommt her, ihr Kreaturen all", a Catholic hymn first published in 1687, is still commonly used for Corpus Christi processions?
... that Syrian novelist Hani al-Rahib had a deaf-mute father and an illiterate mother?
... that 100-year-old logs, perfectly preserved and good enough to mill, have been retrieved from the bottom of Lake Brunner?
... that Sir Thomas Peel Dunhill used to milk the goats at St Vincent's Hospital?

4 August 2022

00:00, 4 August 2022 (UTC)

Shireen Abu Akleh

... that according to investigations by independent press agencies, journalist Shireen Abu Akleh (pictured) was killed by an Israel Defense Forces bullet while wearing a blue "press" vest?
... that the Amazon rainforest may change into a savanna once it passes a tipping point?
... that Carl-Gustav Groth was the first surgeon in Sweden to perform pancreas, liver, and islet cell transplants?
... that the 14th-century Tashfiniya Madrasa in Tlemcen was demolished by French colonial authorities in 1876?
... that actor Oscar Isaac contributed to the creation of his character's background history in the film A Most Violent Year (2014)?
... that three gasholders at the Windsor Street Gasworks were painted in the claret and blue colours of local football team Aston Villa?
... that Canadian professional ice hockey player Larry Jeffrey had eleven knee surgeries in a span of nine years?
... that among the special events broadcast by the Maine Television Network during its brief existence were a fashion show, a basketball tournament, and an ordination ceremony?

3 August 2022

12:00, 3 August 2022 (UTC)

Toshiko Ueda

... that Toshiko Ueda (pictured), the author of the manga series Fuichin-san, was still actively publishing new manga at the age of 90?
... that in 1969, unknown persons dynamited the tower of a Kentucky TV station, leaving it leaning at a 15-degree angle?
... that at 107 years old, Stanley Stair of Jamaica was at the time of his death the last surviving Caribbean veteran of World War I?
... that Calvin Harris's 2022 album Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 2 features nearly 20 collaborators, including Justin Timberlake, Snoop Dogg, and Busta Rhymes?
... that actress Daisy Belmore disfigured her appearance for a character in a play so significantly that she was barely recognised in the street by audience members?
... that the 2021 French documentary From Where They Stood examines photographs secretly taken by inmates of Nazi concentration camps?
... that Jerold F. Lucey introduced phototherapy to the United States as a treatment for jaundice in newborns?
... that seats of some roundabout chairs have corners?

00:00, 3 August 2022 (UTC)

Wastwater, one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the UK

... that a survey found that only 10 per cent of Britons had heard of all Seven Natural Wonders of the UK (one pictured)?
... that American religious speaker Ann Kiemel Anderson ran in two Boston Marathons and two Israel marathons near the Sea of Galilee to promote Christianity?
... that the neighborhood of Colonia Federal was built by employees of the Mexican Secretariat of the Interior to create exclusive housing for civil servants?
... that Robert Armour was entrusted with his children's inheritance from his dead wife, but used it to buy the Montreal Gazette instead?
... that in 1951, the University of Arizona radio bureau produced four different programs that aired on four different Tucson stations?
... that Alice King overcame her disability to lead Bible classes and write eleven novels?
... that the Sofia, a condominium building in New York City, was originally a parking garage?
... that the "candidate of God" badly lost the 2000 Pasay mayoral recall election?

2 August 2022

12:00, 2 August 2022 (UTC)

Painting of birds by William Savage

... that American ornithologist William Savage painted pictures of birds (example pictured) that he hunted or received?
... that about 1,000 years after it was made, a stele of The Eight Great Events in the Life of Buddha is worshiped as an image of a female Hindu goddess?
... that according to Theodore Roosevelt, U.S. Supreme Court justice David J. Brewer had "a sweetbread for a brain" and was a "menace to the welfare of the Nation"?
... that the administration of Carlos Salinas de Gortari barred El Financiero from the Mexican presidential press plane for its reporting on foreign debt negotiations?
... that Thomas Dickson Archibald, when speaking against increasing fines for violating liquor licenses, said "we need only go a step further and make the violation a hanging matter"?
... that eight years after the U.S. Army canceled the M8 Armored Gun System, the 82nd Airborne Division requested that prototypes from the program be sent to Iraq?
... that skeletons of a Triassic marine reptile were discovered at an altitude of about 2,700 metres (8,900 ft) above sea level?
... that the only trumpet concerto by Antonio Vivaldi is for two trumpets?

00:00, 2 August 2022 (UTC)

Reverse of the Indian 500-rupee note, featuring Gyarah Murti

... that the Gyarah Murti statue was featured on the Indian 500-rupee note (pictured)?
... that Bernard Toone received a standing ovation after being berated by coach Al McGuire to the point of tears?
... that as women's ski jumping was not then an Olympic event, Yoshiko Kasai participated as the only female test jumper at the 1998 Winter Olympics, as dramatized in Jump!! The Heroes Behind the Gold?
... that the Education for Economic Security Act prohibited secular humanism in magnet schools?
... that Katja Husen was the speaker of the Green Youth, a member of the Hamburg Parliament, and the CEO of the Centre for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg?
... that singer Billie Eilish wrote and produced a film that critiques body shaming?
... that Kamome Shirahama, in addition to writing and illustrating her best-selling Witch Hat Atelier manga series, has created variant covers for DC Comics, Marvel Comics, and the Star Wars franchise?
... that the man who designed the flag of Barbados also made the first few flags himself out of fabric from a department store?

1 August 2022

12:00, 1 August 2022 (UTC)

Sarah Pike Conger

... that Sarah Pike Conger (pictured) helped defend the international legations during the Boxer Rebellion by making sandbags and carrying supplies?
... that Regine Velasquez had to audition for composer Michel Legrand before collaborating in the concert Songbird Sings Legrand?
... that Joseph-Alfred Archambeault threatened to excommunicate a writer who criticised the Catholic Church's opposition to the theory of evolution?
... that New Galloway Town Hall's clock mechanism was replaced in 1872 because the original was "utterly worthless as a time keeper"?
... that political philosophy professor Werner J. Dannhauser was the basis for a character in a Saul Bellow novel?
... that shareholders who object to some transactions can use appraisal rights to make the company buy their shares?
... that Kanye West recorded "Everything We Need" as a new version of his leaked track "The Storm"?
... that Roman slave miners would rather die than work in the horrible working conditions of the mines?

00:00, 1 August 2022 (UTC)

Turkish Airlines Airbus A340

... that when expanding the airline's fleet in 1989, the directors of Turkish Airlines did not fulfil the request of Turkey's president to buy the Boeing 747, and ordered the Airbus A340 (example pictured) instead?
... that the fossil palm Uhlia allenbyensis has been found with "tar spots"?
... that Catherine Flanagan was arrested and jailed in 1917 for picketing the White House in support of women's suffrage?
... that half a square mile (130 ha) in Alberta contains an estimated 6,000 arthropod species and is one of the most biodiverse areas in the province for its size?
... that Charles Johnson received the most votes for student body president at the University of Colorado Boulder, even though he had already been disqualified from running?
... that Sdorica featured crossovers with the fellow Rayark games Cytus II and Deemo, involving special events in Sdorica and song albums in Cytus II?
... that a new Christmas stamp that debuted in the 350-person town of Bethlehem, Georgia, in 1967 got so much attention that the two-employee post office had to hire forty-three temporary workers?
... that Horace Archambeault introduced a Quebec bill in 1904 that would make employers responsible for workplace accidents, even if they were not negligent?

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