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... that radio station KWKC dropped its application for a TV station in order to speed the arrival of television to
Abilene, Texas, which would otherwise have been 89th in line?
... that the lions supporting the coat of arms of the Football Association are half-blue and half-white in imitation of the blue shorts and white shirts worn by the national teams?
... that when La Folia Barockorchester made the first recordings of anonymous violin concertos found in the
Dresden Hofkirche, they chose not to discover the identity of the composers?
... that the first successful Mars rover, Sojourner(pictured), was named after the Civil War era African-American abolitionist and women's rights advocate
Sojourner Truth?
... that a Chinese corruption investigation into Gao Yan has been interpreted as a political move against
Li Peng, then second-in-command of the
Communist Party of China?
... that a 1917 explosion broke the SS Fernebo in two, with one part drifting ashore carrying six survivors?
... that Facebook's outage on October 4, 2021, also cut off the company's internal communications, preventing employees from sending or receiving external emails or logging in to Zoom?
... that United States Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg(pictured) wrote an essay in 2000 on
Bernie Sanders, his future competitor in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries?
... that Life with Father was the first network television series originating in Hollywood that was broadcast in color?
... that
Māori fiction written in English, now a key part of New Zealand literature, only emerged in the 1950s?
... that the Frente de Liberación Homosexual viewed all forms of oppression as interconnected, and believed that homosexuality was subversive because it challenged
patriarchy?
... that reporter O. Kay Henderson, who has interviewed U.S. presidential candidates, is considered by national media to be an
Iowa political authority?
... that a Gelae donut has large, protruding eyes?
00:00, 26 October 2021 (UTC)
Depiction of LZ 37's destruction
... that Frederick Marten Hale designed the bomb that brought down Zeppelin
LZ 37 in mid-flight (pictured) on 7 June 1915?
... that "The Supremes" was said to have foreseen the conflict following the death of
Antonin Scalia, twelve years later?
... that in Magic Desk I, the icons within the main screen for the phone, the calculator, the spreadsheet, and the Rolodex do nothing?
... that the Temagami River in
Ontario, Canada, is an outstanding water route with twenty sets of
whitewater rapids rated CI to CIII?
... that Times Square Tower and 5 Times Square, across the street from each other, were built for rival accounting firms during a redevelopment of New York City's
Times Square?
... that rebel leader Sam Magara was killed when he ventured into a city to visit a dentist?
... that Australian religious sister Bridget Partridge fled her convent in 1920 dressed only in her nightgown, precipitating a national sectarian scandal?
... that
IBM originally designed the Palm Top PC 110(pictured) to be closer in shape to a
VHS cassette but narrowed it when testers kept using their thumbs to type?
... that archaeologist Giuseppe Scarabelli made the only complete excavation of a Bronze Age village in Italy?
... that M. Night Shyamalan's Old is based on a Swiss graphic novel that the filmmaker received as a Father's Day gift?
... that philosopher George Pitcher adopted a stray dog and her puppy that he took everywhere, including on a trip to France aboard the Queen Elizabeth 2?
... that
the Antlers' 2021 album Green to Gold was made after lead singer
Peter Silberman suffered temporary total hearing loss and lesions on his vocal cords?
... that the Jersey Maritime Museum(part of collection pictured) displays a 7.5-million-stitch tapestry depicting life under Nazi occupation that was worked on by thousands of islanders?
... that Congolese rebel leader André Kisase Ngandu criticised his Rwandan allies to such an extent that they were probably responsible for his murder?
... that in 2020, Border Violence Monitoring Network published the Black Book of Pushbacks documenting human rights violations against 12,654 migrants traveling on the Balkan route?
... that as secretary of the
NAACP, May Childs Nerney has been credited with "laying the fundamental groundwork" for "the most powerful organization battling racial injustice"?
... that a club set up tennis courts on the roof of St. John's Terminal after broker William J. Hirschman spotted the suitable space from a helicopter?
... that when
Gene Scott was forced to close
San Francisco TV station KVOF-TV, he called
its successor "the Tower of Babel religious brigade"—then proceeded to buy air time on it?
... that in the Kelmscott Press's acclaimed Complete Works of Chaucer, illustrator Burne-Jones depicts a house "made of twigges" in an unusually literal style?
... that
Allen Ravenstine, who used a synthesizer to emulate the sound of an airplane's engine on "30 Seconds Over Tokyo", later became an airline pilot?
... that Hoodoo Volcano(pictured) formed largely under glacial ice in the last 100,000 years?
... that Waka Nathan was nicknamed "the Black Panther" by a French newspaper reporter who was impressed by his ability to pursue opponents like the animal?
... that the 1970 board game Blacks & Whites is "strategically designed to make a black win impossible"?
... that Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Rawlins proposed that the Rhodesian Army employ witchdoctors as psychological warfare during the
Rhodesian Bush War?
... that Indiana's WTAF-TV fought for more than six years to obtain a network affiliation and reached an agreement with
NBC just ten days before shutting down for good?
... that chemist R. Nelson Smith replaced his colleague's desk chair with a porcelain toilet?
17 October 2021
00:00, 17 October 2021 (UTC)
Stephen Sondheim Theatre
... that the historic facade of Henry Miller's Theatre(pictured) is preserved at the base of the Bank of America Tower, while the theater's interior was rebuilt underground?
... that ahead of the
iPhone 4S's launch,
Apple retail store workers in Rome went on strike using the slogan "Strike Different", a play on words on Apple's "
Think Different"?
... that Abdullah Aidit did not want
his son to change his name, mainly because he did not want to deal with the administrative consequences?
15 October 2021
00:00, 15 October 2021 (UTC)
Muang Thong Thani
... that Muang Thong Thani(street pictured), intended as a
satellite city of Bangkok, has been called "one of the greatest planning disasters of the 20th century"?
... that an ancient Chinese medical text suggests that those of low social status will have many illnesses and die more easily?
... that a flat on London's Cadogan Lane has been described as "one of the happiest turn-on centres there's ever been" due to experiments with LSD done there?
... that the famous campaign slogan "I Like Ike" was associated with the 1952 Draft Eisenhower movement?
... that a painting of a Nigerian princess, unseen for more than 40 years, was discovered in 2017 and sold for more than £1 million?
... that when Charles P. Gross became the chairman of the New York City Board of Transportation, the mayor told him that "if you think war is Hell, then you have something waiting for you on this job"?
14 October 2021
00:00, 14 October 2021 (UTC)
Lismore Crozier (c. 1100)
... that of the many Insular croziers(example pictured) made between
c. 800 and 1200, fewer than 20 survive fully intact?
... that Richardson Island was involved in an "annexation war" between two cities in the 1950s?
... that after Polish commander Julian Filipowicz was tortured and pronounced dead by the
Gestapo, he escaped from the morgue?
... that the fixed anvil temperature hypothesis proposes that anvil clouds (pictured) do not remove excess radiation as the Earth's surface temperature increases?
... that Anne Wyllie, also known as the "Spit Queen", now has a Wikipedia biography because a healthcare executive asked who she was?
... that civil-rights lawyer Ni Yulan, sentenced after recording the forced demolition of homes to make way for the
2008 Beijing Olympics, was prevented from leaving China to accept awards?
... that
Richard Osman wrote that Squares were invented because "scientists were concerned that children weren't hurting the roofs of their mouths as often as they should be"?
... that
Dieter Trautwein gave his 2003 autobiography the same title as his hymn "Komm, Herr, segne uns" (Come, Lord, bless us), for which he wrote the text and music in 1978?
... that one of the plaques of the Fundadores de São Paulo monument (pictured) was stolen in 2004, and cannot be replaced due to incomplete records?
... that the robotic enemies in the video game The Incredible Hulk were influenced by
Marvel Comics' objection to the
Hulk killing humanoid characters?
... that when H. P. Lovecraft was five years old, he was told
Santa Claus did not exist and responded by asking why "
God is not equally a myth"?
... that a leaked memo indicating that a government official would receive a
bonus payment if she cut $667 million from Ontario's education budget contributed to the 1997 Ontario teachers' strike?
... that the Sharp PC-7000, compared in shape to a toaster, was manufactured in a factory that also produced Sharp's microwave ovens?
... that 50-year-old Lieutenant Colonel John Ford Elkington was reinstated into the British Army in 1916 after winning medals for bravery while serving in the ranks of the
French Foreign Legion?
... that after they met, evolutionary scientist
Charles Darwin described Thomas Parr as an "old, miserly squire"?
4 October 2021
00:00, 4 October 2021 (UTC)
Amarin Plaza
... that following the controversial success of Amarin Plaza,
Rangsan Torsuwan went on to design the Grand Hyatt Erawan hotel in the same vein, but with Thai-style columns replacing Ionic ones?
... that Wickiup Hill has undocumented Native American burial grounds that are protected by
Iowa law?
... that the UK's former chief immigration adjudicator, Judge Hubert Dunn, published a book on the Irish poet
Francis Ledwidge, including some previously unseen poems?
... that in a typical tarmac scam someone at your door claims to be a builder working on a contract nearby with some
asphalt left over, and offers a cheap deal to resurface your
driveway with it?
... that after
Williams won the 2012 Spanish Grand Prix a conspiracy theory emerged which argued that the team had been given special tyres?
... that Battle of Demons was first published on an original fiction website in 2004?
... that the apartments and hotel rooms at Time Warner Center did not have internet from Time Warner because it was too expensive?
1 October 2021
00:00, 1 October 2021 (UTC)
Antarctic fur seal
... that Nigel Bonner, an Antarctic marine mammal specialist and
Polar Medal recipient, researched the
Antarctic fur seal(pictured) and published "the first modern scientific study of the species" in 1968?
... that Bob Jahnke started the first
Māori visual arts degree programme in New Zealand in 1991?
... that Kathryn Gromatski was the first Miss Wool of Texas in 1952?
... that Zhang Shangwu, a two-time gold medal
gymnast at the
Universiade, turned to stealing and begging in the streets after his competitive career ended with an injury?