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... that Sir Garrard Tyrwhitt-Drake, twelve-time mayor of
Maidstone, England, kept lions, tigers and elephants on his estate?
03:40, 30 June 2014 (UTC)
... that in 1944 Romanian
pathologistFrancisc Rainer(pictured) correctly diagnosed himself with
lung cancer, predicted the time of his death, and left instructions for his own
embalming?
... that although deaconess Margaret Rodgers could not be ordained as a priest because of her gender, she was cited as "one of the most powerful people in the
Anglican Diocese of Sydney"?
... that the name of the Debianoperating system is a combination of the first names of its creator
Ian Murdock and his then-girlfriend Debra?
28 June 2014
16:00, 28 June 2014 (UTC)
... that first the death, then resurrection, of foxhunting celebrity Charles Loraine Smith(pictured) were imagined in lighthearted verse while he was still very much alive?
... that
San Diego's civic celebration Fiesta del Pacifico featured a theatrical production billed as "the biggest non-movie spectacle ever produced anywhere"?
... that the fungus toxin aspergillomarasmine A is capable of inhibiting an antibiotic-resistance enzyme produced by
superbugs?
... that the Soviet Armenian newspaper Kommunist became the opposition newspaper Golos Armenii in the 1990s?
... that Thakur Ganpat Singh was re-elected to the Ajmer Legislative Assembly with an increased margin, after his election had been declared void in 1953?
... that the 1967 song "Days of Pearly Spencer" features a "strange 'phoned-in' chorus"?
... that at the time,
King William IV's public mourning of his son-in-law, the husband of his illegitimate daughter Lady Augusta FitzClarence, was considered scandalous?
26 June 2014
08:00, 26 June 2014 (UTC)
... that the blue band on the flag of Sierra Leone(pictured) represents the "natural harbour" of
Freetown, the country's capital city?
... that worshippers of Haridra Ganapati used to
brand the image of the god on their palms?
... that Intermediate School 318's chess team was the first from a
middle school to win the US high school championship, despite 87% of its members coming from families below the poverty line?
... that Swedish engineer Rudolf Fredrik Berg's brother was
King Oscar II's medical doctor and had to attend at the king's deathbed, preventing him from visiting Rudolf who died on the same day?
... that 19th-century baseball player Count Campau could reportedly run the bases in 14 seconds, and once converted an infield
popup into a
home run?
25 June 2014
16:00, 25 June 2014 (UTC)
... that
Jake Gyllenhaal(pictured) witnessed a murder during a
drug bust while he was preparing for his role as a police officer in the film End of Watch?
... that Lehmann's poison frog is not toxic in captivity because its poison derives from food it eats only in the wild?
... that according to hip-hop artist
Hopsin, his album Knock Madness was inspired by dissatisfaction with life and a need to "find" himself?
... that rookie
baseball player Martin Powell finished second to
Cap Anson for the 1881 batting title, but retired three years later and died of
consumption at age 31?
... that Robert Galbreath, Jr., was called the "Oil King of the Southwest" after discovering and drilling the first productive wells in the Glenn Pool oil field, the largest in Oklahoma?
... that Richard Burn, editor of the 1909 Imperial Gazetteer of India, wrote that it took years to decide on that work's form because the British Government in India worked so slowly?
... that the 1998 film Pride was controversial for its positive portrayal of Japanese prime minister
Hideki Tōjō(pictured)?
... that more than 120
Jehovah's Witnesses objected to singing "God bless Africa" because they believed it suggests obeisance to the flag of Tanzania over God?
... that Sweden's richest man, Henry Dunker,
willed his entire fortune to a foundation which subsequently funded many improvements to the city of
Helsingborg?
... that CCM Magazine called the debut album by Christian pop singer V. Rose an "upbeat pop production set to spiritually-grounded lyrics"?
... that in late Joseon society, commoner Korean women who had fulfilled their
Confucian duty to produce a son bared their breasts in public as a sign of pride?
... that Australian actor Taylor Glockner was cast as Boges in the television miniseries Conspiracy 365 just two weeks after graduating from drama school?
... that the thousand-year-old bronze Bernward Column shows scenes from the life of
Jesus(example pictured) arranged in a spiral similar to an arrangement on
Trajan's Column?
... that Nancy M. Hill, one of the first women
physicians in the United States, founded a society to provide shelter and support for unwed mothers and their babies in
Dubuque, Iowa?
... that 55 Hudson Yards is set to be built on land previously intended for a cancelled 1,011-foot-tall (308 m) "World Product Center"?
07:25, 22 June 2014 (UTC)
... that the German Zeppelin Airship Works received most of the revenue from the sale of the 1930 Graf Zeppelin postage stamps(pictured), issued by the U.S. as a gesture of good will towards Germany?
... that when Norman Heathcote climbed the
St Kildasea stackStac Lee(pictured) in 1899, he found the climbing "comparatively easy" but getting ashore had been "a most appalling undertaking"?
... that in 1931, African-American obstetrician Ionia Rollin Whipper opened Washington, D.C.'s first home for unwed mothers that was not racially segregated?
... that warden's wife Kate Soffel, who fled with condemned brothers Jack and Ed Biddle after supplying guns and saws for their 1902 escape from the
Allegheny County Jail, later took up dressmaking?
... that belief in the existence of water bulls persisted in Scotland until at least the last quarter of the 19th century?
... that out of consideration for his well-known family, Norwegian revue writer and entertainer Vidar Wexelsen adopted the pen and stage name Per Kvist?
... that Dutch impresario Ben Essing got
The Beatles to play their only concerts in the Netherlands in an auction hall in the small village of
Blokker?
19 June 2014
21:05, 19 June 2014 (UTC)
... that Kakan Hermansson(pictured) held an art exhibition during the "West Pride", an
LGBT festival in
Gothenburg in 2014?
... that after the
Russian monitor Rusalka sank, all that was found in the immediate aftermath were a few lifebuoys, and a sailor's corpse in a dinghy?
... that Kong Yingda, one of the most influential Confucian scholars, was said to be a 32nd-generation descendant of
Confucius?
... that the white-headed stilt sometimes feigns a leg injury to draw intruders away from its chicks?
... that Tony Henry once accidentally sang "my penis is a mountain" in
Croatian?
18 June 2014
20:35, 18 June 2014 (UTC)
... that the Wakatobi flowerpecker(pictured), originally classified as a species in 1903, was changed to a subspecies for unknown reasons, and in 2014 was re-described as a distinct species?
... that Bissau-Guinean Zinha Vaz was arrested and detained after an argument with President
Kumba Ialá, who offered her the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs months later?
... that although some fanciers of the Exmoor pony(pictured) claim it was purebred from an isolated wild population since the
Ice Age, modern research shows they share much of their DNA with other breeds?
... that due to enemy action in World War I, one set of expensive
epigraphic illustration plates for The Indian Antiquary had to be sent from London to Bombay three times?
... that the present town of Ashford in
Kent, England, originates from an original settlement established in 893 AD by inhabitants escaping a Danish Viking raid?
... that Dupee Shaw's delivery may have been the first
pitchingwind-up, created "a genuine sensation" and led baseball writers of his day to call him "a monkey, a
mountebank and other harsh names"?
... that the album Tunnel Rats by the hip-hop collective
of the same name featured a more mainstream and diverse production style than previous albums?
... that the Japan release of Saints Row: The Third had the veins removed from its Penetrator weapon—a three-foot long phallus bat—due to regulatory restrictions on depictions of
genitalia?
... that Milan Puskar Health Right, a system of free clinics in West Virginia that handles nearly 4,000 patients a year, originally operated out of a Baptist church?
... that the film Death in the West contains what is believed to be the first recorded admission from a
tobacco company representative that smoking causes health problems?
... that
Ohio State retired Les Horvath's jersey number 22 in 2001, six years after his death?
... that the Dutch women's magazine Beatrijs for Catholic readers made its photos and
patterns more modest by adding collars to low necklines and lengthening skirts?
... that Gustav Rosén sent
apples from northern Sweden to newspaper editors in the south to show that grass was not the only thing that grew "up there"?
... that Robert M. Bond, a lieutenant general in the
USAF and decorated American veteran of the
Vietnam War, was killed in a 1984 crash in Nevada while flying a Soviet-built
MiG-23?
... that
Doncaster Knights' promotion to the 2014–15 RFU Championship was the first time a rugby team returned to the RFU Championship after being relegated for just one season?
... that the blue nuthatch(pictured) protects its
corneas from falling debris when prospecting on trees by contracting the bare skin around its eyes – an
adaptation apparently unique to the species?
... that Indian freedom fighter and politician N. M. R. Subbaraman was known as "Madurai Gandhi"?
... that Ontario Highway 23 was extended from Highway 8 to Highway 7 as part of a
Depression-era relief program?
... that the
NaziSonderdienst formations included men who did not know German and required translation by their native commanders?
... that on the album Tunnel Vision, Tunnel Rats leader Dax Reynosa responded to claims that his group was too aggressive with the line "I pull a pistol out my pocket and I cock it"?
... that in 1966 Indonesian ambassador Djawoto was granted political asylum in China, following the
mass killings of 1965–66?
... that the mobile tie-in game Saints Row 2 has a
carjackingminigame where the player earns more money for driving at high speeds to scare their captive passenger?
00:00, 10 June 2014 (UTC)
... that seven-year-old brain cancer patient Jack Hoffman(pictured) scored a touchdown for
Nebraska and subsequently met with President
Barack Obama?
... that Sadie Houck was blacklisted by the
National League for being "addicted to drink" despite being acknowledged as "one of the best short stops in the country and a thorough ball player"?
... that the four miles of
stacks aisles in
Harvard's 3.5-million-volume Widener Library are so
labyrinthine that one student felt she ought to carry "a compass, a sandwich, and a whistle" when entering?
... that Crown Princess Yaza Datu Kalaya is the subject of some of the "most beautiful poems in Burmese literature" by her nephew and husband
Natshinnaung?
... that Soraya Post(pictured) was the first
Romani in Swedish history to top the ballot for a political party at the
European Parliament elections in 2014?
... that Alajuela Province, Costa Rica, is home to gothic, neo-classical, art deco, and neo-colonial churches, including a church constructed with
sheet metal?
... that David Ames auditioned for another Holby City character prior to winning the role of Dominic Copeland?
... that the seemingly unremarkable Catt family – father Ronald "Scott" Catt and his children, Hayden and Abigail – pulled off several bank robberies in
Oregon and
Texas?
... that the film Merdeka 17805, about the fight for Indonesian independence, was described as a "two-fisted,
hinomaru-waving, blood-and-guts ode to the soldiers who died for the glory of the emperor and for Dai Nippon"?
... that biology teacher Blanche Evans Dean wrote several books about Alabama's
natural history after becoming frustrated with the lack of books on the subject?
... that long hair on men was once banned in Singapore?
6 June 2014
11:48, 6 June 2014 (UTC)
... that during the 17th century many couples performed "erotic" acts near The Iron Lady(pictured), and it was thrown into the river twice for being an object of pagan veneration?
... that despite being born to a
Shia family and influenced in childhood by the
Islamic revival,
Bahraini cultural critic Nader Kadhim refused to be classified as an
Islamist or a Shia intellectual?
... that many
Alaska legislators wear kuspuks to work on Fridays?
09:48, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
... that the architect of the Clal Center(pictured), the first upscale, indoor shopping mall in
Jerusalem, candidly added the project to an Israeli exhibition titled "Bad Jobs"?
... that in 1931, Lick Run was said to be "one of the best streams in this section of
Clearfield County", but was found to be entirely devoid of fish 52 years later?
... that in James Wilson's first senior football match for Manchester United, he scored two goals that won the game?
... that the blue band on the flag of the Gambia(pictured) represents
the river that gives the country its name?
... that despite
Georges Clemenceau's claim that the
Saar contained 150,000
Frenchmen, just 2,124 of the territory's voters supported a French annexation of the Saar in a 1935 referendum?
... that a 36-year-old
yeshiva student in Kiryat Shomrei Emunim, Jerusalem, discovered a bomb planted in a garbage can and dismantled it himself before calling police?