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... that the combination of fernet and cola(example pictured) is so popular in Argentina that the country consumes more than 75 percent of all
fernet produced globally?
... that Hollywood stuntwoman Lila Finn, who "jumped out of bombers, [was] chased by lions, clawed by tigers, and thrown overboard into icy ocean waters at night", performed injury-free into her seventies?
... that the 1949 film Prejudice drives its point home by having characters use many
ethnic slurs, including "nigger", "wops", "dagoes", "dirty Jew", and "dumb Swede"?
... that a model featured in the game Cover Girl Strip Poker said that she was not informed what the photoshoot was for, and that several models were not paid for their involvement in the game?
... that
Rangers fans at the 2000 Scottish Cup Final wore orange shirts in tribute to their Dutch manager and players, despite suggestions of Protestant undertones?
... that the title of
Got7's 2020 EP Dye is a
pun referring to both colour and death as they relate to "eternal love"?
... that the 1920 blind march led the British government to pass the Blind Persons Act, the first disability-specific legislation anywhere in the world?
... that rapper Big Zuu's first
demos were recorded at a studio that did not allow expletives to be used?
... that Microsoft head
Bill Gates giving a keynote address at the Unix Expo was likened to going "into the belly of the beast", and when a demo he was overseeing crashed, the attendees were delighted?
... that famous chefs have based their menus on recipes found in Thai funeral books?
25 June 2020
00:00, 25 June 2020 (UTC)
Boie's frog
... that Boie's frog(pictured) and the Banhado frog both resemble dead leaves on the floor of the forest?
... that the earliest of the three surviving operas by Claudio Monteverdi, L'Orfeo from 1607, is the oldest extant opera still regularly performed today?
... that in Eve Online, the Battle of Asakai became one of the largest online battles after a single player made an accidental move that escalated the conflict to include more than 3,000 players?
... that although the captain of American Airlines Flight 320 was considered one of the most experienced pilots in the world, his crew was blamed for the fatal crash in 1959?
... that during the 1985 Gujarat riots, police in
Ahmedabad attacked and burned down the offices of a newspaper?
... that
San Francisco socialite Mary Grace Borel was granted her first divorce in a hearing that lasted less than five minutes, from a Superior Court Judge who was also her aunt's husband?
00:00, 23 June 2020 (UTC)
Strawberries and Cream Tree in full bloom in April 2020
... that the Strawberries and Cream Tree(pictured) is noted for producing pink blossoms on one side of the tree and white on the other, when it blooms every spring?
... that the Wells curve, which illustrates what happens to
respiratory droplets once they are exhaled, helps explain the spread of respiratory infections?
... that the 2018 film Hotel Milan is based on "anti-Romeo squads" formed in the Indian state of
Uttar Pradesh?
... that after 28 Liberty Street's private plaza was fenced off during the
Occupy Wall Street protests, people sued to reopen the plaza, claiming the barriers violated freedom-of-speech laws?
... that Wong Keng Liang was arrested after Malaysian customs officials found nearly one hundred baby
boa constrictors, two
vipers, and a South American turtle hidden in his suitcase?
22 June 2020
12:00, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
Lady Henrietta Berkeley
... that Lady Henrietta Berkeley(pictured) had an affair with her older sister's husband, claimed in court to have married his servant, and then fled with both of them to
Cleves?
... that for generations, black parents in the United States have felt compelled to instruct their children about how to de-escalate encounters with the police?
... that Günther Massenkeil, editor of an eight-volume music encyclopedia, initiated the restoration of the village organ he had played as a prisoner of war in
Alsace decades earlier?
... that professional Super Smash Bros. player Samsora performed a
runway walk while
cosplaying as the character he competes with,
Princess Peach, at a tournament in 2019?
... that in A World Without Jews,
Alon Confino argues that "the messianic struggle to create a Nazi civilization depended on the extermination of the Jews"?
... that Northern Irish goalkeeper
Alan Mannus refused to face the flag of the Republic of Ireland at the 2019 FAI Cup Final because he is not Irish?
... that The Cincinnati Enquirer commended makers of the 1950 film Again Pioneers for basically telling the Protestant churches that sponsored the production that they "are not doing their jobs"?
... that a reviewer praised child star
Jane Withers's expressiveness in the title role of Paddy O'Day, saying that she "talks with eyes, hands, feet and hair"?
... that a state representative called Boston's Silver Line buses "discrimination against people of color", owing to their poor service compared to
the elevated metro line they replaced?
... that before the passage of India's anti-defection law, an estimated 550 out of 3,500 legislators elected in 1967 defected from their parent parties, some
crossing the floor more than once?
... that an American politics podcast has said that "if you sleep on a mattress on the floor and fuck in a sleeping bag, then you just might be the dirtbag left"?
19 June 2020
12:00, 19 June 2020 (UTC)
Crown House in 2015
... that the local council voted against
listingCrown House(pictured), the first building in
St Leonards-on-Sea, criticising its "out-of-date design" and "fake Greek architecture"?
... that Polish philosopher Bronisław Bandrowski was trapped in the
Tatra Mountains for days, but had already hurled himself into an abyss when rescuers arrived?
... that in the 1980s, textile conservator Martand Singh organized a series of exhibitions to rekindle interest in the weaving and dyeing traditions of India?
... that the board of directors of Canadian
cooperative television station CFVO-TV refused to accept the resignation of its president so that he could negotiate a loan?
... that Ján Vojtaššák, deputy chairman of the Slovak parliament when it approved the deportation of Jews from Slovakia, is being considered for
beatification?
... that The Little Players performed invitation-only puppet shows out of a New York City living room for over 25 years?
... that after the king of
Kachar died whilst invading the Pratapgarh Kingdom, his widow Kamala commanded its conquest herself to avenge him?
... that the #VivaTaiwan campaign started when a letter to Brazilian parliamentarians from the Chinese embassy in
Brasília was leaked online?
... that Jitse Groen founded
Takeaway.com while still a student, after being unable to get a takeaway delivered to North Holland?
... that the 1925 FA Cup Final was the first in the competition's history to feature a Welsh team?
... that in a promotional stunt, staff at
Cincinnati-area radio station WIZF demanded a 40-percent raise, which turned out to refer to a 40-foot (12 m) increase in the height of the station's antenna?
... that while lente insulin is no longer approved for use in humans in the United States, it is still used commonly in cats and dogs with
diabetes?
... that the small frog Cochranella nola has yellow intestines, a green tongue, and dark green bones?
15 June 2020
12:00, 15 June 2020 (UTC)
The Burning of the United States steam frigate Missouri at Gibraltar, 1843
... that George Pechell Mends witnessed the burning of the steam frigate
USS Missouri at Gibraltar on 26 August 1843, and his sketch was the basis for a painting by
Edward Duncan(lithograph shown)?
... that when the National City Bank of New York moved to 55 Wall Street in 1908, messengers carried the bank's $500 million holdings across the street in leather satchels?
14 June 2020
12:00, 14 June 2020 (UTC)
Tilly Bébé with lions in 1905
... that Tilly Bébé(pictured), a pioneer in the docile training of predators, starred with her lions in a
silent film of a genre described as "exotic-erotic-escapist"?
... that Systime Computers, based in
Leeds, was once Britain's second largest computer manufacturer?
... that Jane Bell, one of the original occupants of Bell Cottage, was found guilty of
concealing a birth and became the first European woman to be incarcerated on
Rottnest Island?
... that an exit ramp (pictured) of the Ikeda Route in
Osaka passes through the
Gate Tower Building, taking up part of the building's fifth, sixth, and seventh floors?
... that British educator Thomas Lucas created an embossed shorthand to teach the blind to read by touch around 1830–1832, before the introduction of
braille in the UK?
... that Temple Memorial Park, named after Archbishop of Canterbury
William Temple, was given to the people of
South Shields in recognition of their military contributions at sea in World War II?
... that the Northern Irish historian A. T. Q. Stewart once said that Irish history was "too short, too narrow, upside down and it leans all over to one side"?
00:00, 13 June 2020 (UTC)
SS Dongola
... that one hundred years ago, Frank William North brought his congregation home from Russia on the SS Dongola(pictured)?
... that the recording of the
Bon Iver song "iMi" took five years and nearly 30 collaborators to complete?
... that the
University of Cologne awards an annual
gender equality prize in honor of Jenny Gusyk, who became the school's first female and first foreign student when it was re-established in 1919?
... that fever hospitals, for infectious patients, were once the most common type of hospital in England and Wales?
... that Biff Pocoroba endeared himself with
Atlanta Braves fans despite the team's poor performance, partly because they liked "the sound of his name"?
12 June 2020
12:00, 12 June 2020 (UTC)
Portia White
... that after joining her father's church choir at the age of six,
contraltoPortia White(pictured) grew up to become the first
Black Canadian concert singer to achieve international fame?
... that Blackrocks Brewery was created by two unemployed pharmaceutical salesmen?
... that in medieval
Tutbury, Staffordshire, minstrels chased a bull that, if caught, could be eaten or exchanged for forty pennies?
... that William G. King Jr. explored and surveyed islands where downrange stations were subsequently established as part of the
Eastern Test Range?
... that the hills of Hárshegy offer commanding views of
Budapest?
... that some types of incitement to terrorism are constitutionally protected in the United States?
... that Héctor D. Abruña's outreach efforts resulted in 15 out of 55 graduates of his
Cornell University electrochemistry research group coming from
Puerto Rico, like Abruña himself?
... that a June 2015 performance of the 1999
Smash Mouth song "All Star" went awry when audience members began throwing loaves of bread onto the stage?
11 June 2020
12:00, 11 June 2020 (UTC)
James Dunn in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
... that five years after the major film studios branded him "unemployable", James Dunn(pictured) was cast as the dreamy alcoholic father in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and won an
Academy Award?
... that New York City's Equitable Building, completed just before the
1916 Zoning Resolution, was described as being "more famous for what it caused than what it is"?
... that Ottilie Baader was one of the founders of the first trade union organization for women in Germany?
... that despite being shortsighted and nearly deaf, Rodger Young saved his
platoon from an enemy
ambush, for which he was posthumously awarded the
Medal of Honor?
... that the name "Hashub", mentioned in the
Hebrew Bible in the
Book of Nehemiah, was found on a piece of pottery contemporary to
Nehemiah at the archaeological site of Tel Zeton, Israel?
... that cattle and deer sometimes stand under trees where southern plains gray langurs are feeding in order to consume the edible pieces that the monkeys drop?
... that a comedian was jailed for his negative video review of the 2019 Nepali romantic comedy Bir Bikram 2?
00:00, 10 June 2020 (UTC)
Painted and gilded bowl by Yabu Meizan,
c. 1910
... that Yabu Meizan's success as a porcelain artist (work pictured) inspired a rival workshop to sell imitations under his name?
... that the book Do You Remember Kunan Poshpora? has been described as demonstrating the ability of
Kashmiri women to tell their own story and resist oppression?
... that after lying on the seafloor for nearly 100 years, the schooner Alvin Clark was noted as "the finest preserved historic vessel in the United States"?
... that during World War II, Royal Air Force ace Thomas Wallace lost his commission but nonetheless joined the
volunteer reserve, where he downed seven enemy aircraft in three weeks?
... that Irish milliner Philip Treacy said of the controversy surrounding his "pretzel hat" for
Princess Beatrice, "I thought I would find myself with my head on a spike outside the Tower of London"?
00:00, 9 June 2020 (UTC)
Marie Bernays
... that German politician and activist Marie Bernays(pictured) joined a convent and converted to Catholicism in 1933 in response to the rise of Nazism?
... that although the people involved in the shooting of Ahmaud Arbery were immediately identified by police, arrests were only made 74 days later, after a video of the incident was publicized?
... that the Open Ice Summit led to fundamental changes in how Canadian ice hockey players were trained?
... that the American merchant ship Herald served in the U.S. Navy against France before becoming a French
privateer, was sold to Britain as a
slaver, and ended her days as a
West Indiaman?
... that Ludwig Strecker was both director of the
Schott music publishing house, and under a pen name the librettist of two of the most successful German contemporary operas of the 1930s?
... that the Medford branch had 21 daily round-trip passenger trains in 1906, but carried just a single carload of fish in 2010?
00:00, 8 June 2020 (UTC)
Pinhas Rutenberg caricatured in Punch on 7 June 1922
... that production on the first season of The House of Flowers was shut down twice—after
an earthquake injured one of the leads, and when a store objected to homosexual content being filmed there?
... that sportswriter Zotique Lespérance was not invited to his own induction ceremony by the
Hockey Hall of Fame because they had been misinformed that he had died?
... that medical supply company Prestige Ameritech offered to manufacture millions of
N95 masks in January, but was rebuffed by the U.S. government?
... that "Ye Choirs of New Jerusalem" has been described as the "only medieval resurrection hymn still widely sung"?
... that the 1964 Elektron satellites, launched in pairs to simultaneously measure the upper and lower
Van Allen belts, marked the first time multiple satellites were orbited on a single Soviet rocket?
... that Maria Paasche helped Jews and intellectuals escape Nazi Germany by taking them to
Prague on her motorcycle?
... that American rapper
6ix9ine requested permission from a judge to record the music video for "Gooba" while under
house arrest?
... that Hossein Kazempour Ardebili, Iran's former commerce minister and
OPEC governor, once worked as a pizza delivery man in the U.S.?
00:00, 6 June 2020 (UTC)
Laura Judd and her daughter in 1850
... that American missionary Laura Fish Judd(pictured) taught a queen how to make dresses, co-founded the first school for Hawaiian children, and wrote about Hawaiian dining etiquette and
cuisine?
... that American scholar of genocide Gregory Gordon believes that ordering war crimes or crimes against humanity should be criminalized, even if mass killing has not taken place?
... that in the 1970s,
Disney attempted to build a ski resort and mountain village at Independence Lake, a glacial lake high in California's
Sierra Nevada mountains?
... that Tracy R. Norris, the first female commander of the
Texas Military Department, has masters degrees from Florida State University, the University of Texas, and the United States Army War College?
... that according to Muslim sources, Muhammad IV of Granada was assassinated due to his alliance with Sultan
Abu al-Hasan, while Christian sources say it was due to his closeness to King
Alfonso XI?
... that My Name Is Han, a 1948
docudrama about Christian missionary work in China, was filmed on location near a war zone?
... that Bishnu Majhi is the highest-paid singer in Nepal?
... that the installation of a garbage-eating sculpture in Riverfront Park caused an uproar from goat farmers, concerned that it perpetuated the false stereotype that
goats eat anything?
... that Airmail(pictured), a fresco featuring a barefoot and barechested flying mailman, was commissioned to commemorate one of the first American airmail facilities?
... that Keep was the most downloaded
fitness app in China between July and September 2018, with 38.8 million downloads?
... that the B46 has been called "the most dangerous bus route" in New York City?
... that a monument in Moscow honoring North Vietnamese communist leader
Ho Chi Minh has been nicknamed the "flying saucer monument" by locals?
... that Julian Wylie, known as the King of Pantomime, "never took to drink, he took to ice-cream"?
... that Florida radio station WEBY received three threats to blow it up if it did not stop criticizing the sheriff of
Okaloosa County?
3 June 2020
12:00, 3 June 2020 (UTC)
San Francisco Bay Salt Ponds
... that the vivid colors of the San Francisco Bay Salt Ponds(pictured), ranging from magenta to blue-green, come from the
brine shrimp and microorganisms that thrive in the water?
... that many of the animals regarded as pests have co-evolved with humans, adapting to the warm, sheltered conditions that a building provides?
... that it took three years to construct a subway line to 86th Street in New York City, and another nine years to extend it by one stop to 95th Street?
... that Jeffrey Herf found that East Germany delivered 750,000 Kalashnikov rifles to countries and militants as part of what he calls "undeclared wars with Israel"?
... that scientists were unsure whether the blue calamintha bee(pictured) still existed until it was observed again in March 2020?
... that Servaas Theron, a World War II fighter pilot, landed next to a stranded aircraft and siphoned fuel from his plane so that they could both fly away?
... that in 2016, Scientific American listed one of Lynden Archer's discoveries among their top-10 "world changing ideas" for that year?
... that between 1857 and the 1930s, a Russian gun captured during the
Crimean War was displayed on the Hastings seafront near Pelham Arcade?
... that the Protestant Film Commission was founded partly in response to the sympathetic portrayal of Catholics in
Hollywood films of the 1940s, while Protestants were played for laughs?
... that the
Cork band Five Go Down to the Sea? are widely credited for the often quirky and deadpan approach of Cork bands that followed in the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s?
... that the day before a gas explosion on Staten Island killed 40 people, company officials described residents as "hysterical" for raising concerns about storing gas near residential areas?
... that after 250 years of production, the Rouen faience industry (example pictured) was greatly reduced in the 1790s by competition from English
creamware?
... that a five-year-old boy, using paper and his mother's
cigarette lighter, started a fire that consumed the transmitter of Florida radio station WEAR?
... that a Court of Minstrels, led by a King of the Minstrels, regulated the trade of travelling musicians in parts of the medieval
English Midlands?
00:00, 1 June 2020 (UTC)
Junko Tabei
... that Japanese mountaineer Junko Tabei(pictured), the first woman to summit
Mount Everest, created her own climbing equipment from scratch out of old curtains and the cover of her car?
... that stolen money was found at Newforge in what was believed to be an IRA plot to frame the Police Service of Northern Ireland?
... that Lim Ban Lim, Singapore's most wanted fugitive, stole at least $2.5 million in his career but was found with only $1.40 on him when he was killed by police?