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... that the Big King sandwich (pictured),
Burger King's take on the
Big Mac, underwent five reformulations and four name changes before settling on its current recipe and name?
... that the Jokhang temple, at the center of an ancient network of
Buddhist temples in
Lhasa, is considered the "spiritual heart of the city" and the most sacred in Tibet?
... that the Old Wall(pictured) in
Sofia,
Bulgaria, popularly called the "Roman Wall", is in fact an
Islamic religious structure from the 16th or 17th century?
... that, when bad weather caused more than half of them to desert, the remaining off-and-on
mutineers of Operation Strength II were disarmed and flown to a training base at Seno?
... that the ancient Trishikhibrahmana Upanishad text asserts the theory that living beings originate by four means, through an egg, through seeds, through a womb, or through sweat?
... that the tuck rule prevents
National Hockey League players from tucking in their jerseys during games, although it took almost fifty years to enforce it?
... that despite the immensity of the
Syrian refugee crisis, the Azraq refugee camp in Jordan that is meant to house them has remained well below capacity since its opening in 2014?
... that
Luther adapted "Christe, du Lamm Gottes" (symbol pictured) as a Protestant communion song from the Latin "Agnus Dei" (Lamb of God) of the
mass?
... that
spoken word artist Yolanda Wisher, whose writing focuses on the urban African-American experience, became the third poet laureate of
Philadelphia in 2016?
... that while still in school, Chinese social and Christian activist Deng Yuzhi decided to be an independent woman, remain unmarried, and live the life of a "new woman"?
... that "Kau Ilhamku", a promotional song that is only available for streaming on
Yonder Music, saw the collaboration of Malaysian and Indonesian artists?
... that the crew of Veronica Mars had wanted
Paul Rudd to guest star on the show for several years before his eventual appearance in the episode "Debasement Tapes"?
... that after the ancient Chinese state of Zhoulai was conquered in 529 BC, its territory was ruled by three different states in the ensuing decades?
... that when Elida Campodónico attempted to get an identity card to vote, she was told, "In Panama there are no women citizens, only male citizens"?
... that antlions, which are found over most of the European continent, are extremely rare in Great Britain and only known to breed in two areas across
East Anglia?
... that Bai Jinian was China's first provincial
party chief elected by secret ballot, but was forced out of office three years later?
... that despite admitting to
necrophilia, Karen Greenlee only spent 11 days in jail for theft of a hearse and interfering with a funeral?
00:00, 23 March 2016 (UTC)
Cerro Quiac
... that the small
Maya archaeological site of Cerro Quiac(pictured), the most important Maya ceremonial site in the
Guatemalan municipality of
Cantel, was once used as an artillery emplacement?
... that agliata sauce originated from the times of
Ancient Rome, at which time it was a
peasant food that was also used by the upper classes?
... that the philosopher Tatjana Višak argues that
utilitarians should oppose the killing of animals in agriculture, even if they have lived happy lives?
... that when
Changsha was invaded in 1930, Maud Russell refused to leave the city and, after mistakenly being thought to have perished, a memorial service was held for her?
... that Františka Plamínková's activism started when she spoke out about an
Austro-Hungarian law that forbade female teachers from marrying and required them to be celibate?
... that the Annapurna Upanishad states a
Yogi with self-knowledge beholds all living beings as his own self, fears no one, and treats people's possessions as meaningless?
... that in addition to collecting and curating thousands of volumes for the Maine Women Writers Collection, Dorothy M. Healy raised thousands of
turkeys on her farm?
... that Coropuna(pictured), the tallest
volcano in Peru, was active less than 2,000 years ago?
... that after Natasha Wightman shaved her head for V for Vendetta, her neighbour assumed a man was trying to break into Wightman's home and called the police?
... that SPARK, a group co-founded by Lyn Mikel Brown, started a 2012 petition against
Lego Friends for introducing a line of skinny, buxom female characters?
... that Tessa Hadley's second novel has been described as "mysteriously, bewitchingly compelling" despite being a "virtually plotless portrait ... of breathtakingly ordinary mortals"?
... that in 1959 the Women's Union at
Colby College was renamed Runnals Union (pictured) in honor of Ninetta May Runnals, the college's first Dean of Women?
... that believers of Rulaizong use the phrase "Thanking Master, Praising Master" to praise the founder of the religion?
... that during the Nazi era, World War I flying ace Edmund Nathanael was deleted from the list of
Hohenzollern honorees?
... that Filipina feminist Concepción Felix founded
A Drop of Milk to train maternity nurses and provide sterile milk to malnourished infants?
... that the South African
national anthem was played before their first rugby test match since being banned for apartheid, despite an agreement with Nelson Mandela's
ANC that it would not be?
... that in 1940, professional wrestler Murciélago Velázquez was the first Mexican to lose his
mask in a match, creating the Luchas de Apuestas concept that headlines shows all over Mexico to this day?
... that the young of Nomorhamphus ebrardtii develop in the mother fish's oviduct, feeding on unfertilised eggs and their smaller siblings?
... that "doomsday trucks" may hit the road following a catastrophic nuclear attack against the United States?
18 March 2016
12:00, 18 March 2016 (UTC)
Chappel Viaduct
... that newly minted coins placed inside a
pier of Chappel Viaduct(pictured) went missing within hours, and a bricklayer who proffered a new half-sovereign in a pub was suspected?
... that Robert Shope, described as a "walking encyclopaedia" of
arboviruses, discovered more novel viruses than anyone previously?
... that the hip-hop group Ill Harmonics was formed after the founders met at their local church choirs?
... that the collapse of the Tête Rousse Glacier in the
Alps killed over 200 people in 1892, and thousands still live under its threat?
... that Maud McLure Kelly, the first woman to practice law in
Alabama, was also the first
Southern woman admitted to the bar of the United States Supreme Court?
... that the Rama Rahasya Upanishad(Rama in the heart of Hanuman pictured) presents a goddess as the cause of creation, a god as the soul, and both together as the source of all existence?
... that in 2013 and 2014, the Mexican RTC issued 50 times as many
religious broadcasting permits as it did in 2000 and 2001?
... that Eugenia de Reuss Ianculescu included men on the board of the Romanian
women's suffrage association that she founded because she believed their skills would help the cause?
... that
free love activist Helga Goetze advertised her cause with the slogan "Fucking is peace"?
16 March 2016
12:00, 16 March 2016 (UTC)
Friargate Bridge
... that despite appearances, the Friargate Bridge(pictured) in
Derby is actually two bridges?
... that because
Bank of America customers who invest less than $250,000 usually do not receive counsel from Merrill Edge employees, the discount brokerage service plans to offer customers
robo-advisors?
... that the 1912 testimony of 14-year-old
child laborerCarmela Teoli spurred labor reforms in
Massachusetts, helped settle a strike, and raised wages for working men and women?
... that for TNGHT, his collaboration with
Hudson Mohawke,
Lunice wanted to start producing much simpler music instead of weird tracks that were "all over the place" ?
... that China's Labour Minister Ma Wenrui was imprisoned for five years as a result of an interview with a book author?
... that the Sanskrit text Manasollasa is a 12th-century encyclopedia covering topics such as garden design, cuisine recipes, veterinary medicine, jewelry, painting, music, and dance?
... that the species name for Burmaleon magnificus was coined for the quality of preservation in the fossils?
... that the documentary film No Land's Song spotlights women's protests against an Iranian ban on public female solo singing before male audiences?
... that as boys, David Zwingerman and Horst Löwenstein rescued 12
Torah scrolls from a Berlin synagogue after it was burned by the Nazis?
... that during protests in February 2016 against the construction of a mine in the forested hill of Cerattepe in Turkey, entry to and exit from the town of
Artvin was banned?
... that Wan Shaofen, China's first female provincial
party chief, did not complete her term because of the downfall of
Hu Yaobang?
... that possible color patterning is preserved on the wings of the extinct neuropteran Rafaelnymphes?
... that a fan-animated video for the
Mystery Skulls song "Ghost" received more than two million views on
YouTube in under a month?
00:00, 13 March 2016 (UTC)
Marquesa del Ter
... that pianist Marquesa del Ter(pictured) founded one of the first feminist organizations in Spain and received the
Medal of French Gratitude for her aid to hospitals during World War I?
... that the Antarctic Sound(pictured) was named after the first vessel to navigate it, which was later crushed by ice?
... that the 1915
British Cabinet memorandum The Future of Palestine was possibly the first time that enlisting the wartime support of Jews was proposed in an official record?
... that the Sanskrit text Tarasara Upanishad states that the
Om mantra is about
Ātman (soul), and meditating on Om helps one cross from the mundane into the spiritual world?
... that Annot and her husband were ordered by the
Nazis to close their art school after refusing to dismiss Jewish pupils?
... that in "A Sequel to the Yellow Millet Dream", a Chinese scholar becomes prime minister, then a woman, before waking up with a monk on his bed?
11 March 2016
12:00, 11 March 2016 (UTC)
Chamba Rumal
... that the brightly coloured Chamba Rumal(pictured) or "Chamba handkerchiefs", promoted by the former rulers of the
Chamba kingdom, are a common gift in marriages?
... that the medieval era Varaha Upanishad describes moksha as the state when a man does not shrink from fear of the world, nor the world shrink from fear of the man?
... that Dapeng, a second-millennium BC Chinese state, probably practised
human sacrifice?
Correction: We stated in a previous "Did you know" that "the Devanahalli pomelo [...] is said to be the largest citrus fruit in the world". However, no good source for this claim could be found.
... that Ayers Rock were the first
Mushroom Records artists to sign with an international label, enabling their tour of US stadiums and recording an album in Los Angeles?
... that Janet McNeill, a prolific
Irish writer of adult and children's fiction, peopled her adult novels with "menopausal, middle-aged, middle-class Protestants"?
... that Eivind Astrup(pictured) helped introduce the combination of
dog sleds and
skis on polar expeditions?
... that the Landing at Scarlet Beach on 22 September 1943 was the first time Australian forces had made an opposed amphibious landing since the
Gallipoli Campaign in 1915?
... that Huang An's 1993 album, New Dream of Butterfly Lovers, sold one million copies in
Taiwan and six million worldwide, making it one of the country's best-selling albums?
... that Ghazir was the headquarters of the Assaf dynasty, which at its peak administered the region between
Beirut and
Homs on behalf of the
Ottoman authorities?
... that
women's rights advocate Patricia E. Ryan thought she would head the
Maine Human Rights Commission for five years, but ended up serving for over three decades?
... that Doris Sands Johnson, who wrote a how-to book for voting, lost her initial attempt to run for office but later became the premier woman President of the
Bahamian Senate?
... that Woman, Demon, Human, directed by Huang Shuqin, is considered to be China's first feminist film?
... that Sonia M. Johnny, the first woman ambassador to the United States from
Saint Lucia, has also represented
CARICOM nations' interests in a trade dispute over
bananas?
... that women's rights activist Meaza Ashenafi noted that
Amharic proverbs that place women only in domestic roles are to blame for the degrading of women in
Ethiopia?
... that Christiane Floyd was the first female professor of computer science in Germany?
... that Edith Ellen Greenwood was the first woman and first nurse to receive the
Soldier's Medal after she rescued 15 patients from a burning hospital ward?
...that a golden
ice axe was presented to Italian Prime Minister,
Matteo Renzi, when he officially opened the Skyway Monte Bianco(pictured), a new cable car system in the
Alps?
... that species of the extinct insect family Kalligrammatidae have sometimes been called "butterflies of the Jurassic"?
7 March 2016
12:00, 7 March 2016 (UTC)
Orissa Ikat from Sambalpur
... that the process of creating Orissa Ikat(pictured), a unique silk art in which the warp and weft threads are tie-dyed before weaving, has been termed "poetry on the loom"?
... that Kris Leonard, vocalist of the band Viola Beach, commented that the lyrical content of their songs was inspired by their "very grey and industrial" hometown of
Warrington,
Cheshire?
... that Thomas Whitetaxied his aircraft some 24 kilometres (15 mi) past enemy encampments in Mesopotamia during World War I, in what was later described as a "
Keystone Cops adventure"?
... that while
Maine nutrition educator Katherine O. Musgrave criticized the Fit for Life diet plan, she praised the nutritional benefits of the
whoopie pie(pictured), Maine's official state treat?
... that the Hindu text Vajrasuchi Upanishad questions
social classes, and asserts that any human being can achieve the highest spiritual state of existence?
00:00, 6 March 2016 (UTC)
Ivory burning in the Republic of Congo
... that the destruction of ivory(pictured) has been called "indispensable in the fight against trafficking of threatened species"?
... that in 2003 the women's football club Ballymena United Allstars were forced to play on a "disgraceful and embarrassing" park pitch during council renovations at their new ground?
... that the Rurouni Kenshinmanga character Kamiya Kaoru was originally meant to die, but the author decided to make her survive to give young readers a happy ending?
... that while
Bulgaria's most famous long-distance trail, Kom–Emine, typically takes 20 to 25 days to complete, the record stands at under 5 days?
4 March 2016
12:00, 4 March 2016 (UTC)
Sitatunga
... that the ears of the sitatunga(pictured) are so specialized that they can pinpoint the direction of the origin of a sound?
... that Bas van Bavel has linked Dutch cleanliness to the production of cheese?
... that the family-run New Cheshire Salt Works was said to have had a "magnificent"
Art Deco vacuum evaporator, decorated with stripes of different-coloured woods?
... that Laxman Gole, a contemporary Indian
Gandhian described as a real-life
Munnabhai, won the Zindagi Live National Award given by
IBN-7?
... that the video game Her Story features entirely live-action footage?
... that The Children's Village was the first residential treatment center in the United States to have an on-site psychiatric clinic and a social work training school?
... that the medieval era text Sarasvati-rahasya Upanishad calls
Sarasvati(pictured) the goddess of wisdom who manifests as syllables, words, sentences, and understanding?
... that several journalists regarded the low-budget ACE (1985) as one of the best
flight simulators of the time?
... that French-Moroccan photographer Leila Alaoui used to set up a portable studio in a public place, such as a market square, and invite interested passers-by to be photographed?
... that people in Syria are using small, portable
radio transmitters to create Syrnet, a network of pirate radio broadcasts committed to oppose the
Assad regime?
... that the 1835 opera La casa disabitata, composed by
Princess Amalie of Saxony, received its first modern performance in 2012 after its previously lost score was discovered in a library in Moscow?
... that Juma Namangani fought in Afghanistan for the
Soviet Army in the late 1980s and alongside the
Taliban in the early 2000s?
... that Khmer, the language of Cambodia and the
Khmer Empire, has a 1400-year written history?
... that Hao Jianxiu, an illiterate teenage textile worker, became a
model worker and a high-ranking politician after inventing a work method named after her?