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... that in a music video for Belgian singer
Loïc Nottet's "Rhythm Inside", several people are portrayed as being taken to a warehouse, for what some viewers believed was
human experimentation?
... that
catwalk model Michelle Leslie claimed police in
Bali, Indonesia, planted two
ecstasy tablets in her handbag and then asked for a
US$25,000 bribe to avoid conviction?
... that when a reviewer labelled his song "Don't Miss It" as "sad boy" music,
James Blake called the term "unhealthy and problematic"?
... that at age 17, the English actress Emily Lloyd reportedly beat over 5,000 others, including
Jodie Foster, for the lead role in the 1989 film Cookie?
... that the ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus(bust pictured) taught that the only reliable way to learn about the world is through
empirical observation?
... that HMS Sportsman sank twelve Axis ships during World War II?
26 January 2019
00:00, 26 January 2019 (UTC)
F. W. Bernstein
... that the poet, cartoonist, and satirist F. W. Bernstein(pictured) was appointed professor of caricature and comics in Berlin in 1984, the only such chair in the world at the time?
... that tropical cyclones may have induced past climate changes and could still be causing
El Niño type events today?
... that Simon Kaloa Kaʻai, a former jailer, became a noble and cabinet minister to a king?
... that an 1832 auction of the contents of Cullands Grove included three hundred and seventy cases of wine, two Shetland ponies, a fire engine, and two "humane" man traps?
... that Zhuo-Hua Pan, credited by some as the inventor of
optogenetics, had his paper describing the technique rejected by multiple journals?
... that the Russian youth movement Lion Versus opposes public smoking by spraying smokers' hands with water to douse their cigarettes?
25 January 2019
00:00, 25 January 2019 (UTC)
19th-century design for the Rondebosch Fountain
... that Rondebosch Fountain(pictured), a cast-iron water trough and one of the first electric street lights in South Africa, is being rebuilt in aluminium after a speeding car demolished the original?
... that in his first battle, Prince Binnya Kyan and his brothers drove back the forces of Crown Prince
Minye Kyawswa of
Ava after being called "useless" by their father, King
Razadarit of
Pegu?
... that in 2018, 151 North Franklin(pictured) became the new corporate headquarters for
CNA Insurance, which continues to be based in the
Chicago Loop as it has been since 1900?
... that Alex Macmillan did not know his 1954 mathematical correction had become a widely used formula known as the "Macmillan Correction" until he read about it while
surfing the web in 2004?
... that Lieutenant Colonel James Lawton Collins Jr.(pictured) was wounded when his battalion was accidentally hit by American bombers during
Operation Cobra?
... that allyl glycidyl ether can be converted to three different types of
polymers by changing the polymerization conditions?
... that "The Bird Language", a short story by
Pu Songling, may have been written to antagonise corrupt officials?
... that Swedish
logging sportsmanFerry Svan accidentally severed a tendon in his leg with an axe only weeks before the 2018
Timbersports Champions Trophy, but still competed and set a national record?
... that Home and Away character Dean Thompson was described in 2018 as the serial's "new favourite bad boy"?
... that on 20 January 1990, Sakina Aliyeva signed the first declaration of independence by a part of the Soviet Union, and announced it on
Nakhichevan television?
... that the bite of the red-bellied black snake can result in
necrosis, and has been known to require amputation of an affected finger?
... that the diademed amazon(pictured) is considered an
endangered species because the forests in Brazil in which it lives are being felled for
soybean production and cattle ranching?
... that Bester Bube is a card game characterised by the promotion of two jacks to topmost position, a feature paralleled in
Euchre and other historical games such as
Reunion and
Kontraspiel?
... that when HMS Safari attacked barges at Ras Ali, Libya, the torpedo passed underneath, damaging a
mole and killing five men?
... that Marc Bloch(pictured), one of the most influential historians of the 20th century, was also a
French Resistance fighter and was executed by the
Gestapo in 1944?
... that in her second novel, Echoes,
Maeve Binchy underscores the paucity of educational opportunities in small Irish towns before the introduction of free
secondary education in 1967?
... that 79 pages of
Robin Coste Lewis's anthology Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poems are devoted to the titular poem, which consists of "titles, catalog entries, or exhibit descriptions" depicting the black female form in Western art?
... that the production of the film El Caracazo required a military security presence for the filming of scenes of riot and massacre in the centre of the Venezuelan capital of
Caracas?
... that the man who named a nearly blind amphibian Dermophis donaldtrumpi did so to raise awareness of Donald Trump's policies on
climate change?
17 January 2019
00:00, 17 January 2019 (UTC)
Baker Hotel
... that even though the Baker Hotel(pictured) was nearly fully booked during the filming of the 1969 musical film Paint Your Wagon, it closed shortly thereafter?
... that the
first-class cricketer and British Army
racquets champion Henry Bond received honours from the British and Romanian governments for his service during the First World War?
... that Israeli scholar Esther Farbstein and a colleague discovered more than 100 personal
Holocaust accounts in rabbinical works, a resource previously overlooked by Holocaust researchers?
... that the Ugandan military indiscriminately bombarded rebel fighters, civilians, and even their own forces during the Battle of Tororo?
... that actor Tim Franklin had his first on-screen kiss while portraying Home and Away character Colby Thorne?
... that historian Julius S. Scott did not agree with his publisher's suggested revisions to The Common Wind, so the book remained unpublished for over thirty years?
... that the 18th-century Rami Barracks was temporarily used by food wholesalers before its current planned redevelopment to create Turkey's biggest library?
... that black voting rights activist Herbert Lee was killed in 1961 by Mississippi state representative
E. H. Hurst?
... that some forms of ginbuna carp
asexually reproduce via gynogenesis, in which the male sperm contributes no genetic material but is still required for egg development?
... that Jewish community leader Tibor Kováč negotiated with and bribed a former classmate who was organizing the deportation of Jews from Slovakia during the Holocaust?
... that social connectedness may be as important to our well-being as food or water?
... that Edward Gyfford's buildings (1807 design pictured) were "calculated for the comfort and convenience of persons of moderate and of ample fortune"?
... that the Buddhist eight precepts allow lay people to lead a life similar to a monk for a day?
9 January 2019
00:00, 9 January 2019 (UTC)
Macrozamia riedlei pollen cones
... that Macrozamia riedlei(pictured), a favoured food plant of southwest Australians, was responsible for the accidental poisoning of some early European explorers?
... that the
red ochre sprinkled on the body of Jane Britton (pictured) 50 years ago today ultimately turned out to be a
red herring in solving her murder?
... that in 1933
Green Bay Packers president Lee Joannes personally loaned the organization $6,000 to keep it in operation?
... that in 1960 Emil Paleček discovered that
nucleic acids could be studied
electrochemically, contradicting previous assumptions that DNA molecules were too large to have electrochemical properties?
... that organic nuclear reactors, widely researched in the 1950s and 1960s, replaced the water normally used to cool the reactor core with various organic fluids?
... that
Thomas Mann's
widow, Katia, (couple pictured) called Gert Westphal "des Dichters oberster Mund" (the poet's principal voice) after his reading of her husband's works?
... that the Country Hospital in
Shanghai provided free treatment to Jewish refugees during World War II?
... that food writer Melissa Clark elicited disapproving
tweets from President Barack Obama and former governor
Jeb Bush for her recipe for
guacamole with green peas?
5 January 2019
00:00, 5 January 2019 (UTC)
Simeon Monument
... that, upon completion of the Simeon Monument(pictured), a local resident complained that "among the generality of the inhabitants it is called a p****** post"?
... that Chief Minister Zeik-Bye of
Hanthawaddy persuaded Prince
Binnya Nwe to revolt by saying that his mother Princess
Maha Dewi was planning to put her lover on the throne?
... that, in the 1980s, the British physician John R. Seale advocated the now-discredited theory that
HIV might have been created in a
germ warfare laboratory?
... that during the filming of There She Goes, a programme based on series creator
Shaun Pye's learning-disabled daughter, he became so emotional that he had to leave the set?
... that Scharwenzel is a
card game, at least three centuries old, that is played today only on the German island of
Fehmarn?
... that when creating the television drama Butterfly, the playwright
Tony Marchant aimed to dispel the myth that transgender children
transition in order to be "trendy"?