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Histamine N-methyltransferase |
2024-04-30 |
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138,476 |
5,769.9 |
... that the enzyme
histamine N-methyltransferase regulates essential brain functions and sleep–wake cycles in humans?
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Teleseme |
2024-04-03 |
|
21,766 |
1,812.6 |
... that hotel guests in the 1890s could use a
teleseme (example pictured) to order cocktails and call manservants?
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Ray cat |
2024-04-01 |
|
43,372 |
1,807.1 |
... that
color-changing cats (artist's impression pictured) could help us communicate with the future?
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When a man argues against two beautiful ladies like this, they are going to have the last word |
2024-04-01 |
|
42,498 |
1,770.8 |
... that no one laughed at
the worst joke in legal history?
|
Pep (dog) |
2024-04-01 |
|
38,680 |
1,611.6 |
... that
Pep the dog was falsely accused of murdering a cat and sent to
Eastern State Penitentiary?
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Ivanka Trump |
2024-04-17 |
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36,410
[a] |
1,517.1 |
... that in 2017
Ivanka Trump (pictured) became the first Jewish member of a
U.S. first family?
|
Mamiko Tanaka |
2024-04-23 |
|
35,994 |
1,499.7 |
... that
Shohei Ohtani married "
a normal Japanese woman" (pictured) who used to play professional basketball?
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Hell Gate Bridge |
2024-04-04 |
|
16,464 |
1,442.1 |
... that in 2005, a magazine estimated that the
Hell Gate Bridge (pictured) could last a thousand years if humans disappeared?
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Komeng |
2024-04-18 |
|
31,816 |
1,325.6 |
... that in the
2024 election, Indonesian comedian
Komeng (election portrait pictured) received the most votes of any
senatorial candidate to date?
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Grave with the Hands |
2024-04-13 |
|
15,818 |
1,318.2 |
... that the
Grave with the Hands (pictured) commemorates a married couple, divided by society and religion, with hands clasped over a cemetery wall after death?
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Cover-up tattoo |
2024-04-16 |
|
30,998 |
1,291.6 |
... that some
cover-up tattoos incorporate scars into their designs (example pictured)?
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2011 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot |
2024-04-22 |
|
28,606 |
1,191.9 |
... that the
2011 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot (rioter pictured) was the second time a riot broke out in Vancouver after a Stanley Cup loss?
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Oakland California Temple |
2024-04-10 |
|
14,218 |
1,184.8 |
... that the Federal Aviation Administration uses the brightly lit
Oakland California Temple (pictured) as a navigation beacon, despite complaints about light pollution?
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Killing baby Hitler |
2024-04-13 |
|
14,146 |
1,178.9 |
... that the ethical dilemma of
killing baby Hitler has been compared to the
trolley problem?
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Funeral of a Mummy on the Nile |
2024-04-09 |
|
14,048 |
1,170.7 |
... that the whereabouts of the painting
Funeral of a Mummy on the Nile (pictured) were unknown for more than 100 years?
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Jean-Emmanuel Depraz |
2024-04-05 |
|
13,782 |
1,148.5 |
... that
Jean-Emmanuel Depraz (pictured) won a
Magic: The Gathering world championship using three cards depicting the player who beat him in 2021?
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Shipping discourse |
2024-04-16 |
|
26,804 |
1,116.8 |
... that a "pedophilic" relationship between two fictional adults led to
an era of ship wars?
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Riley Jackson |
2024-04-08 |
|
12,634 |
1,052.8 |
... that on her first trip abroad,
Riley Jackson (pictured) won the Golden Ball as the best player of the
2022 CONCACAF Women's U-17 Championship?
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Transgender people in Nazi Germany |
2024-04-10 |
|
12,310 |
1,025.9 |
... that in just one night, thousands of books on the experiences and medical care of
transgender people in Nazi Germany were burned (pictured) for being "un-German"?
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Mirna El Helbawi |
2024-04-26 |
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22,446 |
935.2 |
... that
Mirna El Helbawi (pictured) discovered a way to reconnect people in Gaza to the internet through donated eSIMs, and her organisation
Connecting Humanity has connected more than 200,000 people so far?
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The Feast of Bacchus (Koninck) |
2024-04-06 |
|
11,188 |
932.3 |
... that
The Feast of Bacchus (pictured) went viral following a football game?
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Gertrude Rhinelander Waldo House |
2024-04-15 |
|
10,944 |
912.0 |
... that the heiress
Gertrude Rhinelander Waldo abandoned
a brand-new mansion in New York City and refused to sell, rent, or maintain it?
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Ur Mum |
2024-04-01 |
|
20,563 |
856.8 |
... that
ur mum has an eleven-second scream?
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Battle of La Haye-du-Puits |
2024-04-12 |
|
10,276 |
856.3 |
... that at the
Battle of La Haye-du-Puits in July 1944, a Confederate flag dating to the American Civil War was raised over the town?
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Pudella carlae |
2024-04-10 |
|
9,924 |
827.0 |
... that
the first extant deer discovered in the 21st century is only 38 centimetres (15 in) tall?
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February 1983 North American blizzard |
2024-04-01 |
|
19,527 |
813.6 |
... that
a blizzard helped end the
Cold War?
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Halfpenny (New Zealand coin) |
2024-04-10 |
|
9,720 |
810.0 |
... that the design on
a New Zealand coin was incorrectly alleged to represent a "personified phallus"?
|
Camilo Cienfuegos |
2024-04-07 |
|
9,069 |
755.8 |
... that after his movement's victory in the
Cuban Revolution, television broadcasts showed
Camilo Cienfuegos (pictured) freeing parrots from birdcages, declaring that the birds had "a right to liberty"?
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Aiming stone |
2024-04-13 |
|
8,854 |
737.8 |
... that the
Beşiktaş
aiming stone in Istanbul (pictured) marks the spot where in 1810 Sultan
Mahmud II hit an
ostrich egg 735.9 metres (2,414 ft) away?
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Gusuku period |
2024-04-30 |
|
17,060 |
710.8 |
... that the
Gusuku period saw
massive castles built on "virtually every ridge"?
|
Rasmus Paludan |
2024-04-11 |
|
8,403 |
700.2 |
... that
Rasmus Paludan caused
a global controversy by burning the Quran?
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Muslim–Muslim ticket |
2024-04-15 |
|
8,360 |
696.7 |
... that Nigeria's
Muslim–Muslim ticket challenges the norm of religious balance in politics?
|
Karl Loewenstein (banker) |
2024-04-08 |
|
8,336 |
694.7 |
... that shortly after being liberated from the
Theresienstadt Ghetto in 1945,
Holocaust survivor
Karl Loewenstein was sent to
Pankrác Prison?
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Verteba Cave |
2024-04-11 |
|
8,298 |
691.5 |
... that 28 Jews hid in
Verteba Cave for almost six months during the Holocaust?
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Charm quark |
2024-04-01 |
|
16,367 |
682.0 |
... that the
charm quark made physicists eat hats?
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Lynching of Norris Dendy |
2024-04-17 |
|
16,366 |
681.9 |
... that five men were accused of
lynching Norris Dendy but none were ever indicted?
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George W. Munroe |
2024-04-12 |
|
8,012 |
667.7 |
... that Broadway and vaudeville star
George W. Munroe (pictured) was known for his comic
female impersonations of elderly Irish women?
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Vicky López |
2024-04-25 |
|
15,509 |
646.2 |
... that
Vicky López (pictured) took up horse riding during a six-month period when she was not allowed to play football?
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Cozy game |
2024-04-22 |
|
15,422 |
642.6 |
... that
Animal Crossing: New Horizons sparked a boom in the popularity of
cozy games?
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Descartes' theorem |
2024-04-23 |
|
15,378 |
640.8 |
... that the discovery of
Descartes' theorem in geometry came from a too-difficult mathematics problem posed to a princess?
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G299.2-2.9 |
2024-04-29 |
|
15,140 |
630.8 |
... that
G299.2-2.9 (pictured) is one of the oldest known
Type Ia supernova remnants in the Milky Way?
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Shel Kaphan |
2024-04-04 |
|
7,565 |
630.4 |
... that
Shel Kaphan was the first employee of
Amazon?
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Max Whitlock |
2024-04-15 |
|
7,506 |
625.5 |
... that
Max Whitlock (pictured) is the most successful gymnast on the
pommel horse at the Olympics, with two golds and a bronze?
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Liberty 5-3000 |
2024-04-12 |
|
7,496 |
624.6 |
... that scholars have called
Liberty 5-3000, the heroine of Ayn Rand's Anthem, "an ideal Randian" and "a frivolous trophy wife"?
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Religion in South Ossetia |
2024-04-09 |
|
7,476 |
623.0 |
... that the capital of
South Ossetia once
had more Jews than Ossetians?
|
Iona Allen |
2024-04-25 |
|
14,801 |
616.7 |
... that
Iona Allen, "the only one to ever make a perfect pair of boots", constructed the pair worn by Neil Armstrong on the Moon out of thirteen layers of precisely fabricated material?
|
Jenna Ortega |
2024-04-22 |
|
14,285
[b] |
595.2 |
... that
Jenna Ortega almost quit acting to play soccer?
|
Aleksandra Waliszewska |
2024-04-05 |
|
7,042 |
586.8 |
... that gothic painter
Aleksandra Waliszewska (artwork pictured) works with
The Vampire's Wife?
|
3:16 game |
2024-04-08 |
|
6,971 |
580.9 |
... that in the
3:16 game, Tim Tebow threw for 316 yards with 31.6 yards per completion, the ratings for the game were 31.6, and the opposing team's time of possession was 31 minutes 6 seconds?
|
Calamophyton |
2024-04-21 |
|
13,874 |
578.1 |
... that trees of the extinct genus
Calamophyton (example pictured) formed the earliest known forest?
|
Tumblr sexyman |
2024-04-06 |
|
6,847 |
570.6 |
... that
Sans was crowned as "
Ultimate Tumblr Sexyman" on the same day that
Elizabeth II died?
|
Mattie Edwards |
2024-04-10 |
|
6,740 |
561.7 |
... that actress
Mattie Edwards was made a
US deputy marshal at the age of sixteen?
|
Rodney, Mississippi |
2024-04-07 |
|
6,624 |
552.0 |
... that
Rodney, Mississippi, became a
ghost town after the Mississippi River shifted about two miles (3.2 km) away?
|
Asakusa Culture Tourist Information Center |
2024-04-11 |
|
6,570 |
547.5 |
... that the architect of the
Asakusa Culture Tourist Information Center (pictured) thought of stacked
nagaya houses while designing it?
|
Camberley Kate |
2024-04-29 |
|
13,009 |
542.0 |
... that eccentric
Yorkshirewoman
Camberley Kate is estimated to have cared for more than 600 dogs in her lifetime?
|
Young Dirty Bastard |
2024-04-19 |
|
12,968 |
540.3 |
... that
Young Dirty Bastard rapped despite
Ol' Dirty Bastard telling him not to?
|
Cladonota |
2024-04-18 |
|
12,927 |
538.6 |
... that
Cladonota's extravagant dorsal structures have been called both "grotesque" and "particularly charismatic"?
|
Ballast Island (Japan) |
2024-04-07 |
|
6,457 |
538.1 |
... that
a Japanese island has rapidly fluctuated in size?
|
Flypaper (1998 film) |
2024-04-02 |
|
12,907 |
537.8 |
... that
TV Guide criticized
Flypaper as among the "second-rate rip-offs" of Tarantino's
Pulp Fiction?
|
To Catch a Copper |
2024-04-19 |
|
12,834 |
534.8 |
... that
To Catch a Copper hoped to show "an enjoyable journey of officers solving cases", but discovered "a misconduct process that was unfit for purpose in addressing seriously concerning behaviour"?
|
Rotter kidnapping |
2024-04-17 |
|
12,623 |
526.0 |
... that in 1933 Nazi sympathisers
attempted to kidnap two German-Jewish filmmakers in Liechtenstein?
|
Randy Travis |
2024-04-04 |
|
5,978
[c] |
523.6 |
... that, after
Randy Travis lost most of his singing ability to a stroke in 2013, James Dupré has sung his songs for him in concert?
|
Get Lost (organisation) |
2024-04-12 |
|
6,159 |
513.2 |
... that as of December 2023,
Get Lost claimed to have helped nearly 20,000 people avoid
conscription in Russia?
|
Selected Ambient Works 85–92 |
2024-04-18 |
|
12,130 |
505.4 |
... that
Selected Ambient Works 85–92's audio quality has been described as poor due to being recorded on a
cassette damaged by a cat?
|
Tarbula |
2024-04-28 |
|
12,026 |
501.1 |
... that
Saint Tarbula of Persia was
martyred by being cut in half by a saw after being accused of
witchcraft?
|
Colin MacKay (journalist, born 1944) |
2024-04-01 |
|
11,998 |
499.9 |
... that
Colin Mackay, the political editor at
Scottish Television, was "very sad" when
Colin MacKay, the political editor at Scottish Television, died?
|
The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks |
2024-04-09 |
|
5,994 |
499.5 |
... that a story titled "The Adventures of Mr. Stupidhead in Russia" may have influenced the Soviet silent comedy film
The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks?
|
Georgiana Bonser |
2024-04-15 |
|
5,973 |
497.8 |
... that British physician
Georgiana Bonser (pictured) investigated whether chemicals used in the dyeing industry caused
bladder cancer?
|
Corpse-like obedience |
2024-04-28 |
|
11,766 |
490.2 |
... that
zombie-like obedience has been attributed to
Jesuits, the military, and followers of totalitarian regimes?
|
Anomalites |
2024-04-02 |
|
11,636 |
484.9 |
... that
an extinct French scarab beetle was discovered in a Prague factory?
|
Obsessed (Olivia Rodrigo song) |
2024-04-01 |
|
11,632
[d] |
484.6 |
... that when
Olivia Rodrigo spilled
her guts,
her obsession came out?
|
Louisa Mak |
2024-04-08 |
|
5,750 |
479.2 |
... that Hong Kong actress and beauty pageant winner
Louisa Mak is a
Cambridge law graduate?
|
Gloster P.370 |
2024-04-15 |
|
5,744 |
478.6 |
... that after years of development, the British
thin-wing Javelin
interceptor aircraft was cancelled in favour of purchasing the Canadian
Avro Arrow?
|
Van Tran Flat Bridge |
2024-04-03 |
|
5,741 |
478.1 |
... that the
Van Tran Flat Bridge was restored in 1984 using original construction techniques from the 1860s?
|
Cookie stuffing |
2024-04-01 |
|
11,388 |
474.5 |
... that you could be sentenced to serve time in prison for
stuffing cookies?
|
Savungaz Valincinan |
2024-04-27 |
|
11,328 |
472.0 |
... that an activist protested the use of Chinese characters for Taiwanese Indigenous names by changing her legal name to "
Lee I want to exclusively list my tribal name, my Bunun tribal name is Savungaz Valincinan"?
|
Algebra |
2024-04-08 |
|
5,605
[e] |
467.1 |
... that the word
algebra is derived from an Arabic term for the surgical treatment of
bonesetting?
|
Andreas Kieber |
2024-04-07 |
|
5,584 |
465.3 |
... that
Andreas Kieber died in 1939 as the last surviving veteran of the Liechtenstein military, which was disbanded in 1866?
|
Wright Mons |
2024-04-18 |
|
11,165 |
465.2 |
... that
an unusual mountain on
Pluto may have once
erupted water instead of lava?
|
Adolf Ulrik Schützercrantz |
2024-04-08 |
|
5,558 |
463.2 |
... that
Adolf Ulrik Schützercrantz was enrolled in the military at the age of ten?
|
Illieston House |
2024-04-08 |
|
5,538 |
461.5 |
... that
Illieston House, a castle built around 1600, was sold for £890,000 in 2019?
|
Tommy Wood (International Brigades) |
2024-04-03 |
|
5,533 |
461.1 |
... that Irish
International Brigader
Tommy Wood had only been in Spain for 18 days when he was killed at the
Battle of Lopera during the
Spanish Civil War?
|
Francis of Delirium |
2024-04-28 |
|
10,912 |
454.7 |
... that
Francis of Delirium (pictured) overcame Luxembourg's relatively quiet alternative music scene to become a prominent artist?
|
Independence Lost |
2024-04-12 |
|
5,447 |
453.9 |
... that
Independence Lost argues that most support for the
American Revolution was non-ideological?
|
Cold Crematorium |
2024-04-07 |
|
5,384 |
448.7 |
... that
a Holocaust memoir translated in 2023 described prisoners so dehumanized by the Nazis that they introduced themselves in past tense, as in "My name was ..."?
|
Jack White (sports executive) |
2024-04-13 |
|
5,339 |
444.9 |
... that
Jack White worked for the New York Yankees – and for the New York Yankees?
|
Architecture astronaut |
2024-04-07 |
|
5,284 |
440.4 |
... that the
metaverse has been described as "a honeypot trap for
architecture astronauts"?
|
Kassiane Asasumasu |
2024-04-05 |
|
5,240 |
436.6 |
... that
Kassiane Asasumasu coined the term
neurodivergent in 2000?
|
Cistern of Pulcheria |
2024-04-28 |
|
10,411 |
433.8 |
... that the
Cistern of Pulcheria is one of the best-conserved Byzantine reservoirs in
Istanbul?
|
Head Harbour Lighthouse |
2024-04-19 |
|
10,394 |
433.1 |
... that there is an
East Quoddy Head Lighthouse (pictured) and a
West Quoddy Head Lighthouse on opposite sides of a bay, but one is in Canada and the other is in the United States?
|
Fesa Evrensev |
2024-04-26 |
|
10,242 |
426.8 |
... that World Pilots' Day is celebrated on 26 April to commemorate
Fesa Evrensev's first flight, which took place 112 years ago today?
|
Adelir Antônio de Carli |
2024-04-15 |
|
5,108 |
425.6 |
... that
a Brazilian priest died while attempting to break the
cluster-ballooning world record, in order to fund a spiritual rest-stop for truckers?
|
Euwallacea interjectus |
2024-04-10 |
|
5,052 |
421.0 |
... that there is one male for every 31 females in an
E. interjectus colony, and each female can start its own colony?
|
Stewards Society |
2024-04-16 |
|
10,083 |
420.1 |
... that the
Stewards Society is an all-male secret society at
Georgetown University?
|
Stanley Casson |
2024-04-17 |
|
9,997 |
416.5 |
... that the archaeologist
Stanley Casson was almost captured – twice – during
World War II?
|
Puyallup people |
2024-04-25 |
|
9,912 |
413.0 |
... that the
Puyallup people traditionally
took ritual sweat baths before hunting, after intercourse, and even as a sport?
|
George E. Mylonas |
2024-04-03 |
|
4,948 |
412.0 |
... that
George E. Mylonas visited
Mycenae at night to speak to the legendary king
Agamemnon?
|
Waluigi |
2024-04-03 |
|
4,918 |
409.5 |
... that
Waluigi inspired the name of a phenomenon in artificial intelligence known as the
Waluigi effect?
|
Jourdan Saunders |
2024-04-04 |
|
4,674 |
409.4 |
... that slave trader
Jourdan Saunders greatly profited from a Louisiana law banning slave trading?
|
Yuki Sakakihara |
2024-04-12 |
|
4,888 |
407.3 |
... that singer and voice actor
Yuki Sakakihara lived "[so] deep in the mountains of
Okayama Prefecture" that it was difficult for him to go out for
karaoke?
|
Jennifer Martz |
2024-04-14 |
|
4,846 |
403.9 |
... that 25 years after her career ended,
Jennifer Martz (pictured) remains second in
NCAA Division III history in hitting percentage?
|
Charles Holland (singer) |
2024-04-20 |
|
9,692 |
403.9 |
... that opera singer
Charles Holland (pictured) spent much of his career in Europe as opportunities in classical music for African Americans were limited?
|
Norske jenter omskjæres |
2024-04-11 |
|
4,824 |
402.0 |
... that
a 2000 documentary exposed the secret support of
female genital mutilation by Norwegian
imams?
|
Sophia, a Person of Quality |
2024-04-23 |
|
9,548 |
397.9 |
... that a 17th-century male-authored book was adapted to
argue in favor of women's superiority?
|
Émile Gilliéron |
2024-04-04 |
|
4,522 |
396.0 |
... that
Émile Gilliéron was accused of making
Minoan
frescoes look like
Vogue models?
|
Ukraina, North Dakota
|
2024-04-27
|
|
6,213
|
258.9
|
... that the residents of
Ukraina and
Gorham, North Dakota, were involved in a feud that started with
Easter baskets?
|
Gorham, North Dakota
|
3,240
|
135.0
|
Total |
9,454 |
393.9
|
Kameron Saunders |
2024-04-14 |
|
4,726 |
393.9 |
... that
Kameron Saunders is the only dancer in Taylor Swift's
Eras Tour to have a spoken line?
|
Andaman and Nicobar Islands |
2024-04-03 |
|
4,668
[f] |
389.0 |
... that
Barren Island (pictured), located in the
Andaman and Nicobar Islands, is the only active volcano in India?
|
Savika |
2024-04-04 |
|
4,656 |
388.0 |
... that
people in Madagascar wrestle bulls to commemorate the
unearthing of ancestral corpses?
|
Palauan English |
2024-04-15 |
|
4,652 |
387.7 |
... that
Palauan English only started emerging in 1962?
|
Olga von Türk-Rohn |
2024-04-30 |
|
9,286 |
386.9 |
... that soprano
Olga von Türk-Rohn (pictured) was celebrated for her interpretations of
Franz Schubert's
lieder?
|
Heckler v. Chaney |
2024-04-04 |
|
4,382 |
383.8 |
... that
a group of death row inmates filed a lawsuit when the U.S. government refused to confiscate their states' lethal injection drugs?
|
Zmiivska thermal power plant |
2024-04-26 |
|
9,208 |
383.6 |
... that
one of Ukraine's largest power plants was mostly destroyed by Russians in March 2024?
|
Qiao'ergou Catholic Church |
2024-04-18 |
|
9,188 |
382.8 |
... that
an abandoned Catholic church in China was used by a
party school?
|
Freedom, Equality and the Muslim Brotherhood |
2024-04-10 |
|
4,533 |
377.8 |
... that
a 2010 documentary claimed to expose how the
Muslim Brotherhood infiltrates Western society from within?
|
Nancy Ross |
2024-04-13 |
|
4,514 |
376.2 |
... that just seven years after being elected to a local school board,
Nancy Ross was a candidate for
Vice President of the United States?
|
Jumu'atul-Wida |
2024-04-09 |
|
4,514 |
376.2 |
... that Muslims believe that giving to the poor on the
last Friday of Ramadan (prayers pictured) will bring them wealth and blessings during the year and in the future?
|
Joey Siu |
2024-04-16 |
|
9,022 |
375.9 |
... that activist
Joey Siu is the first US citizen to be declared a fugitive under the
Hong Kong national security law?
|
Thorpe, North Yorkshire |
2024-04-20 |
|
8,974 |
373.9 |
... that
Thorpe's secluded hills provided refuge from Scottish raiders and
English Civil War troops?
|
Toilets in New York City |
2024-04-05 |
|
4,486 |
373.8 |
... that in 2006, half a million people used a temporary
New York City public toilet sponsored by a toilet paper brand?
|
N661US |
2024-04-27 |
|
8,948 |
372.8 |
... that
N661US (pictured) was the prototype
Boeing 747-400 and was involved in the
Northwest Airlines Flight 85 incident, in which the aircraft suddenly banked hard to the left in flight?
|
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas |
2024-04-10 |
|
4,466
[g] |
372.2 |
... that the developers of
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas walked out of the
Game Developers Choice Awards after winning nothing?
|
Anders Åkerman |
2024-04-24 |
|
8,844 |
368.5 |
... that
Anders Åkerman started the production of
terrestrial and
celestial globes (example pictured) in Sweden?
|
Eretnid dynasty |
2024-04-06 |
|
4,408 |
367.3 |
... that the
Eretnid dynasty that ruled central and eastern
Anatolia during the 14th century was founded by
Eretna (coin pictured), an
Ilkhanid officer of
Uyghur origin?
|
Jet Lady |
2024-04-12 |
|
4,376 |
364.6 |
... that the first woman cleared to fly Boeing 747s recorded the 1982
outsider music album
Jet Lady?
|
Superphosphate |
2024-04-26 |
|
8,732 |
363.8 |
... that John Bennet Lawes started producing
superphosphate, the first chemical manure produced in the world, from
fossilised dinosaur dung on an industrial scale?
|
Stefon |
2024-04-15 |
|
4,353 |
362.8 |
... that
John Mulaney would change the
Saturday Night Live character
Stefon's lines before airing in order to make
Bill Hader break character?
|
Pokémon Crystal |
2024-04-11 |
|
4,350 |
362.5 |
... that the Japanese version of
Pokémon Crystal allowed players to trade and battle over mobile networks using an adapter (pictured)?
|
Arithmetic |
2024-04-11 |
|
4,347 |
362.2 |
... that 1 + 1 = 1, according to some forms of non-Diophantine
arithmetic?
|
Fūka Izumi |
2024-04-24 |
|
8,620 |
359.2 |
... that
Fūka Izumi became a voice actress despite initially doubting that she could be one?
|
Johnny Buss |
2024-04-08 |
|
4,287 |
357.2 |
... that U.S. presidential candidate
Johnny Buss owns one of the oldest comedy clubs in the country?
|
So It Goes... |
2024-04-07 |
|
4,270 |
355.9 |
... that
a Taylor Swift song shares its name with a recurring refrain from
Slaughterhouse-Five?
|
Destinies of the Soul |
2024-04-27 |
|
8,479 |
353.3 |
... that
Destinies of the Soul was the only book that contained human skin in the collection of
Harvard University?
|
Sirius Remembered |
2024-04-09 |
|
4,210 |
350.8 |
... that
Stan Brakhage's film
Sirius Remembered shows the decomposition of the corpse of his family's dog?
|
Silver Hill Mine |
2024-04-06 |
|
4,190 |
349.1 |
... that some
Confederate bullets were sourced from
a silver mine?
|
Ellhorn |
2024-04-13 |
|
4,177 |
348.1 |
... that Liechtenstein ceded the
Ellhorn mountain to Switzerland in 1949?
|
Hypericum sect. Androsaemum
|
2024-04-09
|
|
2,577
|
214.8
|
... that
Androsaemum androsaemum is
botanically unacceptable, but
Aniculus aniculus is
perfectly valid?
|
Aniculus aniculus
|
1,592
|
132.7
|
Total |
4,169 |
347.4
|
The Girl Who Lived in the Tree |
2024-04-14 |
|
4,140 |
345.0 |
... that
Alexander McQueen created a fairy tale about a feral girl who becomes a princess for his autumn/winter 2008 collection
The Girl Who Lived in the Tree (look pictured)?
|
Jenna Winebrenner |
2024-04-14 |
|
4,130 |
344.2 |
... that
a men's soccer team hired
Jenna Winebrenner to analyze game film and practice with the squad?
|
2023–24 Caddo Parish sheriff election |
2024-04-15 |
|
4,104 |
342.0 |
... that
the 2023 election for sheriff in
Caddo Parish, Louisiana, was rerun after an initial margin of one vote?
|
Dress (Taylor Swift song) |
2024-04-16 |
|
8,166 |
340.2 |
... that "
Dress" was described as "the perfect marriage of [Taylor] Swift's romanticism and newfound lust"?
|
Armenian Rite |
2024-04-10 |
|
4,077 |
339.8 |
... that within the
Armenian Rite, it takes 40 days and more than 40 flowers, herbs, and spices to create the
chrism known as myron?
|
Gerald McGinnis |
2024-04-10 |
|
3,990 |
332.5 |
... that
Gerald McGinnis founded his first medical device company from his own home, working at night and using his kitchen oven as a
kiln?
|
Modi'in (ancient city) |
2024-04-05 |
|
3,952 |
329.4 |
... that the ancient Jewish town of
Modi'in housed a monumental mausoleum for the
Hasmonean family, built in the 2nd century BC, that remains undiscovered?
|
Fork-tailed drongo |
2024-04-05 |
|
3,941 |
328.4 |
... that the
fork-tailed drongo gives genuine alarm calls but will sometimes lie to
steal food from other animals?
|
Syncletica of Alexandria |
2024-04-14 |
|
3,936 |
328.0 |
... that
Syncletica of Alexandria, a 4th-century saint and
Desert Mother, was called "an upper-class girl who does not care about her body"?
|
Jo Clifford |
2024-04-08 |
|
3,906 |
325.5 |
... that The Gospel According to Jesus, Queen of Heaven,
Jo Clifford's 2009 play featuring
Jesus as a
trans woman, was called an "offensive abuse of Christian beliefs" by Archbishop
Mario Conti?
|
Lou Novikoff |
2024-04-14 |
|
3,904 |
325.3 |
... that
Lou Novikoff asked if the
ivy growing on the walls of
Wrigley Field could be smoked?
|
Peter Patton (basketball) |
2024-04-04 |
|
3,885 |
323.8 |
... that
Peter Patton was given the nickname General Patton by the father of his college coach?
|
Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act |
2024-04-13 |
|
3,846 |
320.5 |
... that
TikTok rallied its users to protest
a bill that would potentially ban the app?
|
Canadian peacekeeping |
2024-04-08 |
|
3,824 |
318.6 |
... that
Canadian peacekeepers participated in every UN peacekeeping effort from its inception until 1989?
|
Struggle Committee (Hong Kong) |
2024-04-20 |
|
7,528 |
313.6 |
... that a
committee of Chinese compatriots of all circles from Hong Kong Island and Kowloon struggled against what they viewed as persecution by the British authorities in Hong Kong?
|
Paimon (Genshin Impact) |
2024-04-02 |
|
7,526 |
313.6 |
... that some fans of
Genshin Impact have referred to the character
Paimon as "emergency food"?
|
Belzan |
2024-04-19 |
|
7,437 |
309.9 |
... that food critic
Grace Dent reviewed
a Liverpool restaurant that served her
rice pudding flavoured with
a substance that is banned in the United States for its lethality?
|
Synodus isolatus |
2024-04-13 |
|
3,718 |
309.8 |
... that despite commonly being caught
with a hook and line, the
holotype of the
Rapa Nui lizardfish was instead collected
with a spear?
|
Bajo de la Campana Phoenician shipwreck |
2024-04-15 |
|
3,707 |
308.9 |
... that alongside
a 7th-century BC Phoenician shipwreck, two additional wrecks from various historical periods were unearthed in Bajo de la Campana, situated off the coast of
Cartagena, Spain?
|
White-tailed jay |
2024-04-04 |
|
3,702 |
308.5 |
... that the
white-tailed jay (example pictured) found in Ecuador and Peru was once thought to have been brought to Mexico by
pre-Columbian trade?
|
Parachuting animals |
2024-04-08 |
|
3,648 |
304.0 |
... that beavers, mules, and dogs have been
parachuted from airplanes?
|
Aphaena submaculata |
2024-04-08 |
|
3,612 |
301.0 |
... that
Aphaena submaculata (pictured) uses specialized mouthparts to suck the sap of trees?
|
Scott Tower |
2024-04-04 |
|
3,410 |
298.7 |
... that the
Scott Tower was built in 1940 as part of a project to create
Holyoke, Massachusetts' "own version of New York City's
Central Park"?
|
Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth |
2024-04-29 |
|
7,169 |
298.7 |
... that
Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth was
Wole Soyinka's first novel in nearly fifty years?
|
Vostok 2022 |
2024-04-25 |
|
7,169 |
298.7 |
... that
Vostok 2022 marked the most comprehensive participation of Chinese forces in a Russian military exercise to date?
|
Amanda Jones (librarian) |
2024-04-20 |
|
7,157 |
298.2 |
... that librarian
Amanda Jones won an award from the
American Library Association for not backing down after receiving death threats for speaking out against book censorship?
|
Wayne Jacobs |
2024-04-07 |
|
3,570 |
297.5 |
... that
Wayne Jacobs said that without
football he would have been "dead by 30, or in prison"?
|
Biostack experiment |
2024-04-10 |
|
3,554 |
296.1 |
... that as part of the
Apollo 17
Biostack experiment scientists found that
cosmic rays could cause
brine shrimp
larvae to grow two abdomens or have short limbs?
|
Herodian Quarter |
2024-04-12 |
|
3,537 |
294.8 |
... that the mansions in the
Herodian Quarter contain frescoes with burn marks and charred wooden beams, serving as evidence of
Jerusalem's destruction in 70 AD?
|
Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome |
2024-04-12 |
|
3,524
[h] |
293.6 |
... that some people with severe
myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome can lose the ability to speak?
|
Predator: The Secret Scandal of J-Pop |
2024-04-20 |
|
7,014 |
292.2 |
... that until the release of the documentary
Predator: The Secret Scandal of J-Pop,
sexual abuse claims involving record producer
Johnny Kitagawa went widely unreported in Japanese media?
|
Fredy Clue |
2024-04-17 |
|
7,010 |
292.1 |
... that
Fredy Clue designed Sweden's first unisex
folk costume?
|
Geogaddi |
2024-04-14 |
|
3,497 |
291.4 |
... that
Geogaddi makes references to the
Branch Davidians and their former leader,
David Koresh?
|
Aisling (book series) |
2024-04-03 |
|
3,496 |
291.3 |
... that the novel series
Aisling is based on a character archetype elaborated upon by users of a Facebook group?
|
Lianxing Temple |
2024-04-01 |
|
6,829 |
284.5 |
... that the White Dagoba at
Lianxing Temple was probably not originally made of an enormous pile of salt?
|
Who Are You? (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) |
2024-04-21 |
|
6,750 |
281.3 |
... that
a Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode features a
body-swap storyline that academics compared to a thought experiment from
Plato's
Republic?
|
Saturn Returns Interlude
|
2024-04-05
|
|
1,997
|
166.4
|
... that
Ariana Grande's song about
Saturn returns, as well as
SZA's and
Kacey Musgraves's, were coincidentally released just weeks apart?
|
Saturn (SZA song)
|
1,348
|
112.3
|
Total |
3,345 |
278.8
|
Ibrahim al-Imam |
2024-04-16 |
|
6,688 |
278.7 |
... that
Ibrahim al-Imam secretly orchestrated the
Abbasid Revolution that toppled the
Umayyad Caliphate, but was captured and died in prison shortly before the Abbasid army defeated the Umayyads?
|
Neil Ritchie |
2024-04-06 |
|
3,300 |
275.0 |
... that despite being sacked after losing the
Battle of Gazala,
Neil Ritchie went on to command a corps in North West Europe?
|
Rosa Laviña |
2024-04-06 |
|
3,300 |
275.0 |
... that the anarchist
Rosa Laviña opened the first vegetarian restaurant in
Tolosa?
|
Akure–Benin War |
2024-04-22 |
|
6,574 |
273.9 |
... that the 1818
Akure–Benin War led to the
Akure Kingdom becoming a vassal state of the
Benin Kingdom?
|
Asteroids in fiction |
2024-04-23 |
|
6,519 |
271.6 |
... that
in many works of fiction, the
asteroid belt is the remnants of
a destroyed planet?
|
Mars Society |
2024-04-04 |
|
3,245 |
270.4 |
... that the
Mars Society's founding conference included a rancorous debate about the ethics of
terraforming?
|
Akshayapureeswarar Temple |
2024-04-12 |
|
3,224 |
268.7 |
... that the Hindu god
Shani is worshipped for protection from fear, accident, death and enemies in the 13th-century
Akshayapureeswarar Temple (pictured)?
|
Bob Born |
2024-04-19 |
|
6,350 |
264.6 |
... that
Bob Born became known as the "Father of Peeps" for automating the production of an Easter marshmallow treat?
|
Ellen Bernstein |
2024-04-07 |
|
3,138 |
261.5 |
... that
Ellen Bernstein was called the "birthmother of Jewish environmentalism"?
|
Potteries derby |
2024-04-08 |
|
3,122 |
260.1 |
... that one
Potteries derby game was decided by a goal scored twelve seconds into the match?
|
Hesperocyparis guadalupensis |
2024-04-05 |
|
3,092 |
257.6 |
... that saving the
Guadalupe cypress included the help of 40
Judas goats?
|
Şimal Yılmaz |
2024-04-12 |
|
3,076 |
256.3 |
... that Turkish
sport shooter
Şimal Yılmaz, who qualified for the
2024 Summer Olympics, had a shooting range in her living room?
|
History of the Jews in Dubrovnik |
2024-04-15 |
|
3,071 |
255.9 |
... that the
Jewish community of Dubrovnik grew due to the expulsions of Jews and
Marranos from the Iberian peninsula?
|
Hildegard Temporini-Gräfin Vitzthum |
2024-04-05 |
|
3,070 |
255.8 |
... that
Hildegard Temporini-Gräfin Vitzthum arrived at the
University of Tübingen as a student in 1959, and remained there until her death in 2004?
|
Shakespeare Garden and Anne Hathaway Cottage |
2024-04-07 |
|
3,044 |
253.7 |
... that the
Shakespeare garden in Wessington Springs, South Dakota, was the first of its kind in the state?
|
Spitfire (EP) |
2024-04-23 |
|
5,986 |
249.4 |
... that the release of the EP
Spitfire crashed the servers of the online music store
Beatport?
|
Swift Orange Line |
2024-04-13 |
|
2,975 |
247.9 |
... that the constructors of the
Swift Orange Line were fined for breaching a landfill?
|
Al-Rushati |
2024-04-08 |
|
2,970 |
247.5 |
... that the historian
al-Rushati was martyred during the
fall of Almería in 1147?
|
Singh v Canada |
2024-04-04 |
|
2,937 |
244.8 |
... that the anniversary of the
Singh v Canada decision is observed as Refugee Rights Day?
|
Trumpet (ice cream) |
2024-04-05 |
|
2,920 |
243.4 |
... that the phrase "togs, togs, undies" was popularised in New Zealand by an advertisement for
Trumpet ice cream cones?
|
Biological Cosmic Ray Experiment |
2024-04-08 |
|
2,904 |
242.0 |
... that as part of the
Apollo 17
Biological Cosmic Ray Experiment, the heads of
five mice were each cut into 1600 slices to look for
brain lesions?
|
The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763–1789 |
2024-04-24 |
|
5,799 |
241.6 |
... that
The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763–1789 has been the first, second, and third volume of the Oxford History of the United States?
|
Xu Ruiyun |
2024-04-03 |
|
2,890 |
240.9 |
... that in 1940
Xu Ruiyun became the first Chinese woman to receive a PhD in mathematics?
|
Ahmad Nasuhi |
2024-04-03 |
|
2,872 |
239.2 |
... that
Ahmad Nasuhi ordered a subordinate to attack the
Indonesian Communist Party's offices with grenades as "psychological warfare against the central government"?
|
Nannette Hegerty |
2024-04-04 |
|
2,856 |
238.0 |
... that
one of the first female officers of the
Milwaukee Police Department later served as chief of the department?
|
George Schollenberger |
2024-04-06 |
|
2,854 |
237.8 |
... that
George Schollenberger was so well known as a high-school football coach that teams in the National Football League sometimes asked for his opinions?
|
To See the Next Part of the Dream |
2024-04-22 |
|
5,677 |
236.5 |
... that the vocals of
To See the Next Part of the Dream were recorded on a
Samsung Galaxy S5?
|
Drew Golz
|
2024-04-12
|
|
1,902
|
158.5
|
... that
Drew Golz, who was
Baseball Academic All-American of the Year and
Soccer Academic All-American of the Year, became the first male
student athlete to be named
Academic All-American of the year for two sports at the same time?
|
List of Baseball Academic All-America Team Members of the Year
|
517
|
43.1
|
List of Men's Soccer Academic All-America Team Members of the Year
|
398
|
33.1
|
Total |
2,816 |
234.7
|
Waste Siege |
2024-04-09 |
|
2,790 |
232.5 |
... that
Waste Siege: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine is based on ten years of field research in the
Israeli-occupied West Bank?
|
KASN |
2024-04-03 |
|
2,786 |
232.1 |
... that
an Arkansas TV station apologized for not being on the air by sending local media a drawing of ducks?
|
Paul Huff Parkway |
2024-04-22 |
|
5,554 |
231.4 |
... that
Paul Huff Parkway is named after
a U.S. Army soldier who was awarded the
Medal of Honor while serving in World War II?
|
Robin Ordell |
2024-04-10 |
|
2,766 |
230.5 |
... that in 1939, a teenage
Robin Ordell became the youngest radio announcer in Australia?
|
Hiss (song) |
2024-04-06 |
|
2,754 |
229.5 |
... that
Nicki Minaj reacted to
Megan Thee Stallion's "
Hiss" with a 3,100-character Twitter diatribe and
a diss track?
|
Furina (Genshin Impact) |
2024-04-26 |
|
5,506 |
229.4 |
... that the design of
Genshin Impact's
Furina has elements inspired by classical stories and musicals?
|
KARE (TV) |
2024-04-06 |
|
2,750 |
229.2 |
... that
a Minneapolis TV station had newscasts that were "about as popular as the measles" with "sickening theme music"?
|
Ethics |
2024-04-10 |
|
2,720
[i] |
226.7 |
... that some
ethical theorists believe that all moral claims are false?
|
Islamic vegetarianism |
2024-04-13 |
|
2,716 |
226.4 |
... that some
faqih have suggested that
vegetarian Muslims should replace the
Eid sacrifice with
donations or
fasting?
|
Omar Aziz (anarchist) |
2024-04-10 |
|
2,698 |
224.9 |
... that during the
Syrian revolution, anarchist
Omar Aziz directly participated in establishing four local
opposition councils?
|
Black-headed tailorbird |
2024-04-23 |
|
5,332 |
222.2 |
... that the color of a
black-headed tailorbird's throat was thought to depend on sex, but later turned out to depend on age?
|
Ukrderzhnatsmenvydav |
2024-04-02 |
|
5,298 |
220.7 |
... that the
Lviv branch of the
Ukrderzhnatsmenvydav (building pictured) was the main publisher of
Polish literature in the Soviet Union by 1941?
|
WTXF-TV |
2024-04-26 |
|
5,278 |
219.9 |
... that
Fox bought
a Philadelphia TV station started by a Fox?
|
Pavel Chioru |
2024-04-21 |
|
5,264 |
219.4 |
... that Soviet politician
Pavel Chioru wanted "
Moldovan", which he developed from
a dialect of Romanian, to serve as a language of the "exploited" against the supposedly upper-class Romanian?
|
Texas Hold 'Em (song)
|
2024-04-02
|
|
2,988
[j]
|
124.5
|
... that
Beyoncé released
a country ballad and
an uptempo country pop western song on the same day?
|
16 Carriages
|
2,276
[k]
|
94.8
|
Total |
5,264 |
219.3
|
Abigail Larson |
2024-04-02 |
|
5,222 |
217.6 |
... that illustrator
Abigail Larson once designed a
wine-bottle label for the
Edgar Allan Poe Museum?
|
Sans (Undertale) |
2024-04-29 |
|
5,203 |
216.8 |
... that
Sans's boss theme, "
Megalovania", was played at the
Vatican as part of a circus act during an audience with
Pope Francis?
|
Merrill Piepkorn |
2024-04-18 |
|
5,194 |
216.4 |
... that
North Dakota state senator
Merrill Piepkorn is also a musician, radio host, and
public address announcer?
|
Canada All-Stars |
2024-04-03 |
|
2,590 |
215.7 |
... that in one year,
a team of Canadian All-Stars twice played against the U.S.
college football national champion and came within one point of winning each game?
|
Mew (Pokémon) |
2024-04-28 |
|
5,160 |
215.0 |
... that the promotion and hype around obtaining
Mew in the
original Pokémon games resulted in the games' sales increasing more than threefold?
|
Hibiscus Rising |
2024-04-07 |
|
2,526 |
210.5 |
... that
Hibiscus Rising (pictured), a 9-metre-tall (30 ft) artwork in
Leeds, commemorates
David Oluwale, a Nigerian man who drowned in 1969 after police harassment?
|
Herwig Gössl |
2024-04-09 |
|
2,510 |
209.2 |
... that
Herwig Gössl rejected a reform document on the
Catholic theology of sexuality prepared by the
Synodal Way, but later welcomed the church's decision to bless homosexual couples?
|
Max Eisenbud |
2024-04-13 |
|
2,505 |
208.8 |
... that
Max Eisenbud helped make
Maria Sharapova the world's highest-paid female athlete for more than a decade?
|
It Sticks Out Half a Mile |
2024-04-28 |
|
4,966 |
206.9 |
... that
It Sticks Out Half a Mile is a radio sequel series to
Dad's Army that follows three of the main characters in their attempts to renovate a seaside pier in post-war Britain?
|
John Holahan |
2024-04-02 |
|
4,951 |
206.3 |
... that
John Holahan recalled both being called a "lunatic" by his school's president for seeking a
football game at night and being told afterward by the president, "I was the lunatic, not you"?
|
Alison Frantz |
2024-04-05 |
|
2,470 |
205.8 |
... that
Alison Frantz's photographs played a crucial role in the
decipherment of Linear B?
|
Lunar Traverse Gravimeter |
2024-04-03 |
|
2,463 |
205.1 |
... that the
Lunar Traverse Gravimeter's primary
accelerometer was based on those operational on
SM-65 Atlas intercontinental ballistic missiles?
|
Electoral history of the Labour Party (UK) |
2024-04-30 |
|
4,915 |
204.8 |
... that the
Labour Party received
their highest share of the vote to date in the
1951 UK general election but still lost to the
Conservatives, who received fewer votes?
|
Miyuki Ichijo |
2024-04-22 |
|
4,881 |
203.4 |
... that before becoming a voice actress,
Miyuki Ichijo left the
NHK music variety show Stage 101 in protest over the removal of its director?
|
Aysu Türkoğlu |
2024-04-24 |
|
4,837 |
201.5 |
... that the young Turkish
open water swimmer
Aysu Türkoğlu has completed three of the
Oceans Seven series?
|
Canadian League for Peace and Democracy |
2024-04-02 |
|
4,836 |
201.5 |
... that the
Canadian League for Peace and Democracy organized a 10,000-person rally at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto to protest a 2,500-person fascist rally?
|
Video Seven |
2024-04-04 |
|
2,300 |
201.5 |
... that
Video Seven released the first
VGA video card with
video RAM?
|
BrewGroup |
2024-04-03 |
|
2,407 |
200.4 |
... that
Bell Tea, founded in 1898, is the oldest tea company in New Zealand?
|
Joseph Schwarz (baritone) |
2024-04-18 |
|
4,804 |
200.2 |
... that in opposition to his parents, opera star
Joseph Schwarz began his career by running away from home to join a band of traveling minstrels?
|
Johan Herman Schützercrantz |
2024-04-05 |
|
2,398 |
199.9 |
... that Swedish naval officer
Johan Herman Schützercrantz fought in the
American Revolutionary War and participated in the
Battle of the Chesapeake?
|
Semantics |
2024-04-04 |
|
2,396
[l] |
199.6 |
... that in
semantics,
antonym is an antonym of
synonym while synonym is not a synonym of antonym?
|
Red Pepper (musical)
|
2024-04-22
|
|
2,870
|
119.6
|
... that
Albert Gumble and
Owen Murphy's music score for the Broadway musical
Red Pepper was dismissed by one critic as not "real music" because of its embrace of
jazz?
|
Albert Gumble
|
1,015
|
42.3
|
Owen Murphy (songwriter)
|
893
|
37.2
|
Total |
4,778 |
199.1
|
REM de l'Est |
2024-04-25 |
|
4,762 |
198.4 |
... that the
REM de l'Est, a planned
light rail network, was abandoned due to its controversial use of
elevated railways in downtown
Montreal?
|
Dorkas Tokoro-Hanasbey |
2024-04-05 |
|
2,374 |
197.8 |
... that
Dorkas Tokoro-Hanasbey, the only female member of the
New Guinea Council, arrived thirty minutes late to her inauguration ceremony?
|
Karl Schädler |
2024-04-19 |
|
4,734 |
197.2 |
... that in 1848
Karl Schädler performed the first surgery with chloroform anaesthesia in Liechtenstein?
|
Cornelius N. Dorsette
|
2024-04-08
|
|
1,387
|
115.6
|
... that in 1890
Cornelius N. Dorsette, often referred to as the first African-American physician in Alabama, founded
Hale Infirmary, a hospital for Black patients and staff in
Montgomery?
|
Hale Infirmary
|
976
|
81.4
|
Total |
2,364 |
197.0
|
Chandelure |
2024-04-25 |
|
4,720 |
196.7 |
... that the chandelier
Pokémon
Chandelure is a playable character in the fighting game
Pokkén Tournament?
|
Will Tschetter |
2024-04-10 |
|
2,357 |
196.4 |
... that
Will Tschetter had the highest
scoring average in Minnesota in
basketball and won the state
discus throw championship?
|
Tokoyama |
2024-04-25 |
|
4,678 |
194.9 |
... that
tokoyama (traditional Japanese hairdressers) working in
kabuki are divided into specialties named after the floors of the
Kabuki-za?
|
Jacques Loew |
2024-04-11 |
|
2,304 |
192.0 |
... that
Jacques Loew started the
worker-priest movement after working as a
longshoreman and realizing the distance between the priesthood and the working class?
|
Frank J. Wood Bridge |
2024-04-12 |
|
2,303 |
191.9 |
... that the
Frank J. Wood Bridge is the seventh bridge built across the
Androscoggin River to link the towns of
Brunswick and
Topsham, Maine, since 1796?
|
Reinforcement learning from human feedback |
2024-04-16 |
|
4,568 |
190.3 |
... that artificial intelligence models like
ChatGPT can
learn from human feedback?
|
Premiership of Maurice Duplessis |
2024-04-12 |
|
2,282 |
190.2 |
... that
Premier Maurice Duplessis, angry at the fact that the federal
government of Canada was taking taxes at the expense of the
provinces, once demanded that
Ottawa "return our loot"?
|
Gorontalo (city) |
2024-04-02 |
|
4,552 |
189.6 |
... that the Indonesian city of
Gorontalo is nicknamed the "Porch of
Medina"?
|
Marvel Cinematic Universe: Phase One |
2024-04-24 |
|
4,519 |
188.3 |
... that
Edgar Wright's pitch for an Ant-Man film in 2006 helped to shape the early films of
Phase One of the
Marvel Cinematic Universe?
|
Ochrophyte |
2024-04-15 |
|
2,242 |
186.9 |
... that
ochrophyte algae have twice as many membranes around their chloroplasts as plants?
|
2022 Glasgow City Council election |
2024-04-14 |
|
2,235 |
186.2 |
... that the
2024 Hillhead by-election was the first by-election won by the Scottish Green Party?
|
Thomas S. Gathright |
2024-04-09 |
|
2,234 |
186.1 |
... that the only functioning secondary school in Mississippi during the
American Civil War was founded by
Thomas S. Gathright?
|
Mihail Moxa |
2024-04-07 |
|
2,231 |
185.9 |
... that in the first Romanian
universal chronicle,
Mihail Moxa shows "the God of the Old and New Testaments baptizing His stars with the names of
Olympian deities"?
|
Joseph Drummond |
2024-04-11 |
|
2,225 |
185.4 |
... that
Joseph Drummond, a key figure of
New Brunswick's branch of the
NAACP, staged a
sit-in at a local barbershop whose owner proclaimed that he had "never cut a colored person's hair in 55 years"?
|
Full Personality Expression |
2024-04-14 |
|
2,216 |
184.6 |
... that
Full Personality Expression was an organization for
cross-dressers that was originally called the Hose & Heels Club?
|
Eurovision Song Contest 1990 |
2024-04-20 |
|
4,406 |
183.6 |
... that the
Eurovision Song Contest 1990, held in
Yugoslavia, was the first
Eurovision Song Contest to be held in the
Balkans or in a
socialist state?
|
Eurovision Song Contest 1994 |
2024-04-24 |
|
4,400 |
183.4 |
... that seven countries competed in the
Eurovision Song Contest 1994 for the first time, the largest single expansion of participating countries since
the contest's first edition?
|
Wolvesey Palace |
2024-04-13 |
|
2,196 |
183.0 |
... that the 17th-century
Wolvesey Palace reuses a 15th-century chapel built on the remains of a 12th-century room from
Wolvesey Castle?
|
Thomas Young (obstetrician) |
2024-04-11 |
|
2,196 |
183.0 |
... that
Thomas Young, a professor of midwifery, was taken prisoner at the
Battle of Prestonpans?
|
Thambi Naidoo |
2024-04-03 |
|
2,196 |
183.0 |
... that South African civil rights activist
Thambi Naidoo was arrested along with
Mahatma Gandhi and sent outside of
Transvaal for refusing to
register?
|
National Women's Basketball Association |
2024-04-13 |
|
2,193 |
182.8 |
... that the
National Women's Basketball Association's methods of selling tickets were derided as "like something from grammar school"?
|
A-Channel |
2024-04-04 |
|
2,082 |
182.4 |
... that an
Edmonton politician began mouthing his words when he saw a cameraman for
A-Channel walk in, mocking the frequent audio difficulties on its newscasts?
|
Prostate cancer |
2024-04-17 |
|
4,350
[m] |
181.3 |
... that 1.2 million people are diagnosed with
prostate cancer per year and 350,000 people die from it?
|
Lynn Theatre |
2024-04-13 |
|
2,174 |
181.2 |
... that in 2023, car manufacturer
Rivian acquired the historic
Lynn Theatre in Laguna Beach, California, and converted it into its first showroom?
|
Enchylium conglomeratum |
2024-04-17 |
|
4,342 |
180.9 |
... that while the
lichen species
Enchylium conglomeratum is considered
secure globally, it has been designated as
extinct in the UK and
regionally extinct in Switzerland?
|
Alexander Atabekian |
2024-04-04 |
|
2,162 |
180.1 |
... that
Alexander Atabekian published the first
anarchist periodical in the
Armenian language?
|
Alda Milner-Barry |
2024-04-14 |
|
2,158 |
179.9 |
... that
Alda Milner-Barry, the older sister of World War II
Enigma codebreaker
Stuart Milner-Barry, worked for British military intelligence during World War I?
|
Susan Spungen |
2024-04-07 |
|
2,143 |
178.6 |
... that food stylist
Susan Spungen estimated that she baked hundreds of pies with
Josh Brolin and film staff while practicing for a scene in
Labor Day?
|
Canadian Dental Care Plan |
2024-04-11 |
|
2,132 |
177.7 |
... that more than one million applications for the
Canadian Dental Care Plan were approved in its first three months?
|
Forever Young (Blackpink song) |
2024-04-27 |
|
4,254 |
177.3 |
... that
Blackpink's "
Forever Young" was heard being played from the group's agency's headquarters three years before it was released?
|
History of Palestinian journalism |
2024-04-29 |
|
4,250 |
177.1 |
... that the terms "
Palestine" and "
Palestinians" were being increasingly used in 1908 by the emergent
Palestinian press, which expressed
anti-Zionist positions?
|
Bill Shearer |
2024-04-23 |
|
4,244 |
176.9 |
... that
Bill Shearer, a leader of the segregationist
George Wallace's 1968 presidential campaign, also advocated for ballot access for the
Socialist Workers Party?
|
First Shift (film) |
2024-04-28 |
|
4,230 |
176.3 |
... that
Uwe Boll has described his 2024 crime drama film
First Shift as the least violent in his body of work?
|
Sarah Todd Cunningham |
2024-04-13 |
|
2,106 |
175.5 |
... that
Sarah Todd Cunningham was the first woman from the island of Hawaii to serve as a Hawaii territorial senator?
|
Greenpeace v. Eni |
2024-04-03 |
|
2,094 |
174.5 |
... that
Greenpeace v. Eni is the first
climate change lawsuit filed against a privately owned company in Italy?
|
Rewilding Argentina |
2024-04-06 |
|
2,093 |
174.4 |
... that
Rewilding Argentina has reintroduced
giant river otters,
giant anteaters, and jaguars to the country?
|
Audrys Nin Reyes |
2024-04-18 |
|
4,177 |
174.0 |
... that
Audrys Nin Reyes is the first male gymnast from the Dominican Republic to qualify for the
Olympic Games?
|
Shmap'n Shmazz |
2024-04-09 |
|
2,068 |
172.3 |
... that
Tim Kinsella made most of the lyrics for
Cap'n Jazz's only album,
Shmap'n Shmazz, during his first experience with
psilocybin mushrooms?
|
Josef Weiss |
2024-04-15 |
|
2,064 |
172.0 |
... that pianist and composer
Josef Weiss created the first
film score in the history of
German cinema?
|
Fawazeer Ramadan |
2024-04-09 |
|
2,032 |
169.4 |
... that
a Ramadan television show featured riddles, music, choreographed dance routines and "fantastical narratives"?
|
Longlac |
2024-04-14 |
|
2,029 |
169.1 |
... that the town of
Longlac was originally founded as a
North West Company trading post circa 1800?
|
Shigeichi Negishi |
2024-04-10 |
|
1,988 |
165.7 |
... that because
karaoke sounds like the Japanese word for 'coffin',
Shigeichi Negishi called his karaoke machine prototype the "Sparko Box"?
|
Bittersweet Goodbye |
2024-04-12 |
|
1,977 |
164.8 |
... that
Issey Cross's 2023 song "
Bittersweet Goodbye" uses a sped-up sample of a sped-up sample of a sped-up cover version, which itself interpolates a cover version of a traditional gospel song?
|
Ray Walsh |
2024-04-09 |
|
1,976 |
164.6 |
... that football executive
Ray Walsh also had a "murderous"
forehand?
|
Darius Durham |
2024-04-06 |
|
1,964 |
163.7 |
... that a
San Diego State coach called
Darius Durham "the best high school guy we've ever signed"?
|
Marcelino Gutiérrez |
2024-04-15 |
|
1,940 |
161.6 |
... that
Marcelino Gutiérrez was the only one of his brothers, who together led
a rebellion against
the president of Peru, to survive a subsequent riot?
|
Gendarmerie (Czechoslovakia) |
2024-04-12 |
|
1,918 |
159.9 |
... that four members of the
interwar
Czechoslovak Gendarmerie were
killed in action against the
Sudetendeutsches Freikorps during the
Clash at Habersbirk?
|
Chris Hill (basketball) |
2024-04-30 |
|
3,736 |
155.7 |
... that despite getting an offer from his dream basketball school,
Notre Dame,
Chris Hill instead chose
Michigan State?
|
TikTok-A-Thon for Trans Healthcare |
2024-04-28 |
|
3,732 |
155.5 |
... that home repair and maintenance educator Mercury Stardust and her friend Jory Vizcaino have raised more than $4 million for transgender healthcare through their
TikTok-A-Thon for Trans Healthcare?
|
Kobe Bufkin |
2024-04-16 |
|
3,730 |
155.4 |
... that as a
sophomore
Kobe Bufkin was the youngest member of the
2022–23 Michigan Wolverines?
|
KDCD-TV |
2024-04-19 |
|
3,722 |
155.1 |
... that the planned sale of
a Texas TV station was the subject of a lawsuit more than seven years after it closed for the last time?
|
John Morin Scott (mayor) |
2024-04-23 |
|
3,717 |
154.9 |
... that
John Morin Scott, the mayor of Philadelphia, responded to the 1842
Lombard Street riot by mostly arresting black victims?
|
Kully Thiarai |
2024-04-15 |
|
1,830 |
152.5 |
... that
Kully Thiarai made a theatre in
Doncaster a "
living room" for the town?
|
Bud Lea |
2024-04-15 |
|
1,826 |
152.2 |
... that even though he read the articles of
sportswriter
Bud Lea "religiously",
Vince Lombardi often made his job difficult whenever he interviewed him?
|
Elizabeth Ward (British campaigner) |
2024-04-30 |
|
3,645 |
151.9 |
... that
the healthcare campaigner who pioneered organ donor cards in the UK placed a
personal advertisement in
The Times looking for a "
cadaver kidney" for her son?
|
Pink Venom |
2024-04-25 |
|
3,636 |
151.5 |
... that
Blackpink's "
Pink Venom" incorporates the sounds of traditional Korean instruments such as the
geomungo?
|
Alfred Cowles |
2024-04-06 |
|
1,800 |
150.0 |
... that
Alfred Cowles stopped publishing his stock market newsletter as he could not predict the stock market?
|
Geoffrey Cuming |
2024-04-11 |
|
1,788 |
149.0 |
... that
Geoffrey Cuming edited what has been called a gramophone librarian's "Bible"?
|
CSL Plasma |
2024-04-12 |
|
1,772 |
147.7 |
... that many employees of
CSL Plasma are themselves
plasma donors?
|
Don Tait |
2024-04-06 |
|
1,764 |
147.0 |
... that
WFMT classical music radio host
Don Tait owned such a large collection of recordings that he had to buy a house and have its floor reinforced to accommodate the weight?
|
KOKO Networks |
2024-04-21 |
|
3,465 |
144.4 |
... that
KOKO Networks has used more than $100 million in
carbon financing to subsidise cooking fuels in Kenya?
|
Liberty Christian Preparatory School |
2024-04-05 |
|
1,729 |
144.1 |
... that although some of the players on
Liberty Christian Preparatory School's
eight-man football team had never played tackle football before, the team won the state championship in its first season?
|
Queensboro Bridge |
2024-04-07 |
|
1,681 |
140.1 |
... that a local newspaper hosted a beauty pageant to celebrate the opening of New York City's
Queensboro Bridge?
|
Interstate 65 in Tennessee |
2024-04-17 |
|
3,348 |
139.5 |
... that a section of
Interstate 65 in Tennessee was the first part of the
Interstate Highway System to open in the state?
|
Pasco School District (Washington) |
2024-04-07 |
|
1,662 |
138.5 |
... that a new high school for the
Pasco School District had to expand with
portable classrooms within eight years of opening?
|
Cameron Butler |
2024-04-29 |
|
3,316 |
138.2 |
... that ice hockey player
Cameron Butler "had the good fortune not to get pulled over as he raced" to reach his team's game in time for his NHL debut?
|
Eriopis connexa |
2024-04-08 |
|
1,652 |
137.7 |
... that female
Eriopis connexa beetles prevent sibling cannibalism by laying unfertilized eggs?
|
All Nations Baptist Church |
2024-04-28 |
|
3,274 |
136.4 |
... that
All Nations Baptist Church in New York City is primarily associated with
ethnic Koreans of the former Soviet Union?
|
Krisztofer Mészáros |
2024-04-06 |
|
1,629 |
135.8 |
... that in 2021
Krisztofer Mészáros became the first Hungarian male gymnast in 22 years to qualify for a
World Artistic Gymnastics Championships all-around final?
|
Imamate in Zaydi doctrine |
2024-04-14 |
|
1,616 |
134.7 |
... that in
Zaydi Shi'ism, the
imamate was not inherited or appointed but had to be claimed by public summons for allegiance or even leadership of an armed revolt?
|
Entre el Mar y una Estrella |
2024-04-11 |
|
1,616 |
134.7 |
... that "
Entre el Mar y una Estrella" by
Thalía was crowned the best number-one Latin hit of the year 2000 in a survey conducted by
Billboard?
|
Robert L. McLeod
|
2024-04-07
|
|
1,104
|
92.0
|
... that
Centre College co-president
Robert L. McLeod served for fifteen months on a
U.S. Navy aircraft carrier while
Robert J. McMullen, the other co-president, ran the school's day-to-day operations?
|
Robert J. McMullen
|
508
|
42.3
|
Total |
1,612 |
134.3
|
Pocinho railway station |
2024-04-15 |
|
1,594 |
132.9 |
... that the Comboio Presidencial, a train that carried the
Portuguese head of state through the
Linha do Douro from 1890, had the
Pocinho railway station as its last stop?
|
The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing |
2024-04-30 |
|
3,163 |
131.8 |
... that the 2004 documentary
The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing contains interviews from dozens of film editors, including women under-represented in the field?
|
Crossing a Line (book) |
2024-04-14 |
|
1,569 |
130.8 |
... that
Crossing a Line compares Palestinian political expression on either side of the
Green Line between Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories?
|
Tupinizando |
2024-04-03 |
|
1,568 |
130.7 |
... that the Brazilian social media page
Tupinizando is dedicated to the promotion of
Old Tupi, a
dead language?
|
Yudas Sabaggalet |
2024-04-27 |
|
3,120 |
130.0 |
... that
Yudas Sabaggalet, an Indonesian politician, worked in a
Coca-Cola factory while studying at university?
|
Marcelle (musical) |
2024-04-06 |
|
1,549 |
129.1 |
... that as the title character in
Marcelle, actress
Louise Gunning portrayed a Parisian barmaid who masquerades as her brother, a soldier?
|
Rita Cox |
2024-04-03 |
|
1,531 |
127.6 |
... that storyteller
Rita Cox thinks of stories as "gently echoed music" between the storyteller and the listener?
|
Maggio di Accettura |
2024-04-06 |
|
1,518 |
126.5 |
... that
Maggio di Accettura, a festival in Italy dedicated to the Christian martyr
Saint Julian, might have
pagan origins or be linked to
Langobard history?
|
Senate Avenue YMCA |
2024-04-24 |
|
3,030 |
126.3 |
... that the
Indianapolis African-American community raised $100,000 in just ten days in 1911 to establish the
Senate Avenue YMCA?
|
Eurovision Song Contest 1993 |
2024-04-12 |
|
1,511 |
125.9 |
... that with a population of 1,500,
Millstreet in
County Cork, Ireland, became the smallest settlement to host the
Eurovision Song Contest when it staged
the 1993 event?
|
Our Dining Table |
2024-04-26 |
|
3,021 |
125.9 |
... that the live-action drama adaptation of
Our Dining Table was filmed in the hometown of one of the lead actors?
|
Frank Jonet |
2024-04-13 |
|
1,494 |
124.5 |
... that
Frank Jonet was appointed as the
receiver of the
Green Bay Packers from 1933 to 1935, helping to prevent the team from shutting down?
|
The Lyricist Wannabe |
2024-04-21 |
|
2,980 |
124.2 |
... that the 2024 drama film
The Lyricist Wannabe is the first motion picture about
Cantopop lyric writing?
|
List of games by Supermassive Games |
2024-04-09 |
|
1,472 |
122.7 |
... that the positive reception for
Until Dawn,
developed by Supermassive Games, caught
Sony by surprise and led to two spin-off games?
|
Typhoon Wutip (2019) |
2024-04-27 |
|
2,928 |
122.0 |
... that
Typhoon Wutip in 2019 was the first recorded
Category 5–equivalent
tropical cyclone to occur in February in the Northern Hemisphere?
|
Dahiru Musdapher |
2024-04-19 |
|
2,924 |
121.8 |
... that
Dahiru Musdapher, the 12th
chief justice of Nigeria, was once a BBC World Service contributor for West Africa and Hausa?
|
Okanagrion |
2024-04-20 |
|
2,913 |
121.4 |
... that the damselfly-relative
Okanagrion is suggested to have eight species due to both
alpha and
beta diversity drivers?
|
Virtual Self (EP) |
2024-04-25 |
|
2,899 |
120.8 |
... that
Porter Robinson listened to excerpts of 100,000 songs in two years to create his EP
Virtual Self?
|
Ladislav Burlas |
2024-04-03 |
|
1,432 |
119.2 |
... that
Ladislav Burlas, a musicologist at the
Slovak Academy of Sciences for almost 40 years, wrote more than 150 works during his career?
|
Thoriqul Haq |
2024-04-20 |
|
2,859 |
119.1 |
... that even though a village said that it did not want a church, Indonesian politician
Thoriqul Haq allocated land and money to build one along with a
musalla?
|
Been Like This
|
2024-04-14
|
|
750
|
62.5
|
... that
Meghan Trainor had been a fan of
T-Pain for a long time before they finally collaborated on the song "
Been Like This" from her upcoming sixth major-label studio album,
Timeless?
|
Timeless (Meghan Trainor album)
|
680
|
56.7
|
Total |
1,430 |
119.1
|
List of Seattle SuperSonics seasons |
2024-04-05 |
|
1,429 |
119.1 |
... that the
Seattle SuperSonics had
consecutive seasons with identical
records under different head coaches?
|
Physica (Hildegard) |
2024-04-09 |
|
1,423 |
118.6 |
... that according to Lois N. Magner,
Hildegard of Bingen's
Physica is "probably the first book by a female author to discuss the elements and the therapeutic virtues of plants, animals, and metals"?
|
Bangiales |
2024-04-06 |
|
1,416 |
118.0 |
... that
Bangiales, an
order of
red algae, contains both
the oldest-known sexually reproducing organism and
the seaweed used to make sushi wrappers?
|
Jason Jones-Hughes |
2024-04-11 |
|
1,398 |
116.5 |
... that Australia-born
rugby union player
Jason Jones-Hughes was the subject of a protracted legal battle over his international eligibility after
Wales called him up for the
1999 Rugby World Cup?
|
Rainforest (EP) |
2024-04-27 |
|
2,792 |
116.3 |
... that
Clams Casino almost lost his EP
Rainforest because his computer stopped working?
|
And He Shall Be a Good Man |
2024-04-29 |
|
2,772 |
115.5 |
... that the
iZombie episode "
And He Shall Be a Good Man" gets its name from
an Elton John lyric?
|
Eurovision Song Contest 1992 |
2024-04-09 |
|
1,346 |
112.2 |
... that at the
Eurovision Song Contest 1992,
Johnny Logan became the first person to win the contest three times as either a performer or a songwriter?
|
Robert Winterberg |
2024-04-16 |
|
2,638 |
109.9 |
... that in 1906, composer
Robert Winterberg gave a concert for the queen of Romania?
|
Silvio Hein |
2024-04-13 |
|
1,274 |
106.1 |
... that after
Broadway musical composer
Silvio Hein died in 1928, the pallbearers at his funeral included
Irving Berlin,
John Philip Sousa, and
Jerome Kern?
|
Cliff Christl |
2024-04-09 |
|
1,260 |
105.0 |
... that
Cliff Christl, who became the
Green Bay Packers team historian in 2014, estimated that he had recorded more than 250
oral histories with past players and coaches since the 1990s?
|
List of roles and awards of Rachelle Ann Go |
2024-04-06 |
|
1,228 |
102.3 |
... that
Rachelle Ann Go debuted in the
West End and
Broadway revivals of
Miss Saigon
portraying the role of a bargirl?
|
Ghost Voices |
2024-04-26 |
|
2,450 |
102.1 |
... that
Porter Robinson discovered that his song "
Ghost Voices" had been nominated for a
Grammy through
Twitter?
|
Biodiversity Impact Credit |
2024-04-29 |
|
2,444 |
101.9 |
... that
Biodiversity Impact Credits seek to stop species
extinction?
|
Jordan Murphy (basketball) |
2024-04-17 |
|
2,404 |
100.2 |
... that
Jordan Murphy finished his college career ranked second in
Big Ten Conference career
rebounds, behind
Jerry Lucas?
|
2023 AFL Women's season |
2024-04-11 |
|
1,186 |
98.8 |
... that after going winless in its first season in 2022,
Sydney made the finals in the
2023 AFL Women's season and won its first finals match?
|
New England Revolution in international competition |
2024-04-21 |
|
2,286 |
95.2 |
... that the first time the
New England Revolution
competed in an international competition, they played their "home" match at
their opponent's stadium?
|
Angela Doyinsola Aina |
2024-04-26 |
|
2,258 |
94.1 |
... that
Angela Doyinsola Aina helped to found the Black Mamas Matter Alliance to address the higher rate of
maternal mortality faced by Black women in the United States?
|
1971 P.F. Barcelona season |
2024-04-11 |
|
1,126 |
93.8 |
... that
Barcelona Femení were unbeaten in
their first season in 1971 when their captain announced that she would leave football?
|
William O'Rourke (cricketer) |
2024-04-29 |
|
2,236 |
93.2 |
... that cricketer
William O'Rourke has the best match-bowling figures by a New Zealander on a
Test debut?
|
William Lambdin Prather |
2024-04-21 |
|
2,218 |
92.4 |
... that
William Lambdin Prather introduced the phrase "the eyes of Texas are upon you", which was incorporated into
the school song of the
University of Texas at Austin?
|
Todd Leslie |
2024-04-19 |
|
2,218 |
92.4 |
... that it took four games for
Todd Leslie to set the
NCAA Division I record of fifteen consecutive
three-point shots made?
|
Motivation |
2024-04-05 |
|
1,107
[n] |
92.2 |
... that having specific rather than vague goals tends to increase
motivation and performance?
|
Connecting Humanity |
2024-04-21 |
|
2,162 |
90.1 |
... that Palestinian journalist
Hind Khoudary was one of the first two people in the
Gaza Strip to receive donated
eSIMs through the initiative
Connecting Humanity?
|
Belgian Building |
2024-04-05 |
|
1,062 |
88.5 |
... that
an exhibition hall for the 1939 New York World's Fair later hosted athletic events at
a historically Black university in Virginia?
|
Kentucky Educational Television |
2024-04-30 |
|
2,120 |
88.4 |
... that country music singer
Waylon Jennings earned his
GED by watching tapes of a
Kentucky Educational Television series on his tour bus?
|
Wyll Stanway |
2024-04-11 |
|
1,054 |
87.8 |
... that footballer
Wyll Stanway was a
National Counties cricketer and a football
centre-back before becoming a
goalkeeper?
|
List of presidents of Centre College |
2024-04-11 |
|
1,047 |
87.2 |
... that
James McChord is considered to be the first
president of Centre College despite dying before officially taking up the role?
|
UDC Homes |
2024-04-14 |
|
1,044 |
87.0 |
... that shareholders of
UDC Homes received two settlements over claims that executives sought to inflate its stock price and conceal financial information?
|
KTIV |
2024-04-14 |
|
1,040 |
86.7 |
... that
an Iowa TV station paid
Tom Brokaw, a future anchor of
NBC Nightly News, $75 a week to work as a staff announcer and part-time newscaster?
|
Wilner Burke |
2024-04-10 |
|
976 |
81.4 |
... that
Wilner Burke was the
director of the
Lumberjack Band, the marching band of the
Green Bay Packers, for 42 years?
|
1973 P.F. Barcelona season |
2024-04-15 |
|
974 |
81.1 |
... that horses were responsible for delaying the deciding match of the
Barcelona women's football team's
1973 winning season?
|
Luming Lu |
2024-04-09 |
|
954 |
79.5 |
... that
Golden Horse Awards–winning film composer
Luming Lu worked as a
cram-school tutor before pursuing a career in music?
|
Kylie and Garibay (EP) |
2024-04-11 |
|
930 |
77.5 |
... that
Giorgio Moroder co-wrote and recorded a poem about seduction in Italian for
Kylie and Garibay's
self-titled EP?
|
Buellia aethalea |
2024-04-13 |
|
920 |
76.7 |
... that
Buellia aethalea, a
species of
fungus, is also known as the "darkened
button lichen" due to the small black spots on its crusty grey surface?
|
Crazy Crazy / Sakura no Mori |
2024-04-14 |
|
912 |
76.0 |
... that the lyrics to
Gen Hoshino's "
Crazy Crazy" references members of the jazz group
Crazy Cats through kanji?
|
Timeline of the 1994 Pacific hurricane season |
2024-04-22 |
|
1,809 |
75.4 |
... that the
1994 Pacific hurricane season
was the first to produce three hurricanes that attained
Category 5 intensity, the highest rating on the
Saffir–Simpson scale?
|
2024 Charlotte FC season |
2024-04-07 |
|
896 |
74.6 |
... that
Charlotte FC opened
their third season with their third
manager?
|
Tilmann Köhler |
2024-04-05 |
|
888 |
74.0 |
... that
Tilmann Köhler directed Mozart's
Le nozze di Figaro in 2023 with playful "serious games" in which the women win by "wit, cleverness and presence of mind"?
|
Donna Taggart |
2024-04-07 |
|
880 |
73.3 |
... that
Donna Taggart's cover of
Jenn Bostic's "
Jealous of the Angels" charted at No. 85 on the
UK Singles Downloads Chart after being featured in an episode of the cooking competition
Great British Menu?
|
William O. Raymond |
2024-04-27 |
|
1,747 |
72.8 |
... that
William O. Raymond's 1905 Glimpses of the Past: History of the River St. John probably recorded the first known Black man in future
New Brunswick?
|
Wallsocket |
2024-04-24 |
|
1,687 |
70.3 |
... that while touring for her album
Wallsocket,
Underscores handed out pizza before her sets?
|
List of Green Bay Packers general managers |
2024-04-14 |
|
810 |
67.5 |
... that
Vince Lombardi resigned as head coach of the
Green Bay Packers after the
1967 NFL season to focus on his role as
the team's general manager?
|
1984 Iowa Democratic presidential caucuses |
2024-04-10 |
|
774 |
64.5 |
... that during the
1984 Democratic presidential primaries,
Alan Cranston scheduled his advertisements
in Iowa around airings of
The Day After?
|
Youth Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine |
2024-04-30 |
|
1,262 |
52.6 |
... that
Oksana Lyniv founded the
Youth Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine in 2016 and conducted them in thirty concerts across ten music festivals in 2022?
|
List of Seattle Storm seasons |
2024-04-09 |
|
596 |
49.7 |
... that the
Seattle Storm had a
ten-season streak of playoff appearances?
|
Clint Sargent |
2024-04-21 |
|
1,108 |
46.2 |
... that
Clint Sargent succeeded
Scott Nagy as head coach of the
Wright State Raiders, years after he played for him with the
South Dakota State Jackrabbits?
|
Censorship by copyright |
2024-04-20 |
|
660 |
27.5 |
... that
copyright has been used to censor reporters, activists, scholars and artists?
|