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31 July 2022
12:00, 31 July 2022 (UTC)
Flag of Azerbaijan
... that the blue stripe in the Azerbaijani flag(pictured) reflects the country's
Turkic heritage?
... that Argentinian Ricardo D. Eliçabe qualified as a physician, co-founded a petroleum refinery, and wrote about forgeries of Bolivia's first stamps?
... that the book Love Falls On Us, about the LGBTQ movement in Africa, was praised by author
Uzodinma Iweala for "elevating the extraordinary ordinariness of L.G.B.T.Q. Africans"?
... that Russian scientist Dmitry Kolker was arrested on charges of espionage while being treated for terminal cancer at a hospital and flown to Moscow, dying two days later?
... that a Space Forge satellite is scheduled to fly on the first-ever satellite launch from the United Kingdom?
... that mathematics professor Ari Nagel has fathered more than a hundred children?
... that Matthew Tye uploaded a
YouTube video about leaving China after hearing that members of the local
public security bureau had shown his photograph in bars frequented by foreigners?
... that the presentation of
Inuit fashion items made from sealskin at contemporary art exhibition Floe Edge was called "an upraised Inuit middle finger" to anti–
seal hunting activists?
29 July 2022
12:00, 29 July 2022 (UTC)
Pyramid of Khentkaus I
... that an inscription uncovered at the Pyramid of Khentkaus I(pictured), identifies Khentkaus I as the mother of two kings, or perhaps the mother of one and a king herself?
... that Canadian paediatrician Gladys Boyd was one of the first physicians to treat diabetic children with insulin?
... that following the ban of its labour unions in 1934, the Romanian United Socialist Party would rely on its youth and women's wings for political action?
... that Robert M. Blizzard, who pioneered
growth hormone therapy in children, liked to joke that he had added 11 miles (18 km) to the height of the U.S. population?
... that
Adele reduced the length of "I Drink Wine" from fifteen to six minutes because her label thought that no one would play a fifteen-minute song on the radio?
... that after a successful siege of
Mogaung, Commander Thiri Zeya Thura rushed back to
Ava, arriving there in time for the coronation of
Narapati I to present the captured sawbwa?
... that the flag of Montserrat depicts
Erin embracing a cross, signifying the Montserratians' love of Christ?
... that years after he played a recurring character on Glee during its first season, Dijon Talton reprised his role as
Matt Rutherford in the final two episodes?
... that when Heather Engebretson portrayed the title role of Puccini's Madama Butterfly for the first time, a reviewer said that her voice "can tremble with panic and shine with hope"?
... that the painted portrait series Ishūretsuzō features
Ainu chieftains (example pictured) in
Qing robes, Russian military coats, and as an "Ininkari bear" (white
brown bear)?
... that the Enkeli-Elisa story about a 15-year-old girl who committed suicide because she had been bullied at school was investigated as a fraud by the police?
... that 1920s and 1930s radio show actress Artie Belle McGinty played the original radio advertisement voice for
Aunt Jemima?
... that 17th-century entomologist Eleanor Glanville raised her own moths and butterflies, and wrote some of the earliest detailed descriptions of butterfly rearing?
... that before the swearing-in of convicted murderer Kenny Motsamai as an MP, South African Chief Justice
Mogoeng Mogoeng cited a constitutional requirement prohibiting felons from becoming MPs?
... that the first line to
STU48's "Hana wa Dare no Mono?", which imagines a world without borders, is often misheard as wishing for a world without
Tokyo?
... that residents of the Normandy tried to block the construction of an adjacent tower by citing a covenant that the Normandy itself violated?
... that German SA officer Walter Heck was paid only 2.50
ℛℳ (about US$2) for designing the Nazi SS double rune symbol?
... that the Indy Bag Ladies, one of the oldest
AIDS fundraising organizations, is a group of activist
drag queens in
Indianapolis who have raised more than $1 million for AIDS patients?
... that Liu Zhaohua was a Chinese drug lord who produced and trafficked over 18 tonnes of
methamphetamine?
... that the 2020 case Henderson v. Box held that the state of Indiana must list same-sex parents on their child's birth certificate?
... that the unveiling of the statue of Captain Cook in
Hyde Park, Sydney, in 1879 was declared a public holiday, with an estimated 60,000 people in attendance?
... that model
Tyra Banks produces Generation Drag, a TV series which follows five children preparing for a drag show?
... that the arrest of American farmer Wayne Cryts for removing his soybeans from a bankrupt
grain elevator led to a change in legislation by Congress?
... that the westernmost population of
California fan palms is found on the slopes of Cerro Bola in Baja California, Mexico?
... that Rahmah el Yunusiyah founded four
Islamic schools for women in Indonesia despite being made to leave school herself at the age of 16?
... that in 1991
Mazda engineers created a suitcase car with lights and a 1.7 horsepower engine?
... that public health authorities are still not exactly sure how Alaskapox virus, a recently discovered relative of Monkeypox virus, has spread to humans from animals?
... that Mary Baines, credited as one of the founders of the
palliative care movement, initially thought it "very odd, this idea of caring for the dying"?
00:00, 19 July 2022 (UTC)
Chrysina limbata
... that Chrysina limbata(pictured) has a reflective silver color because of layers of
chirped chitin coating?
... that two slaves belonging to
Don Carlos were trained by the Italian medallist Jacopo da Trezzo in his workshop in 1550s Madrid?
... that a Florida resident was arrested after posting on RateMyCop.com?
... that the RoadRunner, a laptop from 1983, loaded and stored data from cartridges?
... that in 2021, Wishma Sandamali, who was detained for overstaying her visa after seeking police protection for domestic abuse, became the 17th person to die in Japanese immigration detention since 2007?
... that a statue of Serenidus, the brother of Serenicus, is called the "little pissing saint" because a spring issues from below it in the Oratory of Saint Cénéré?
... that in 2020, Ukrainian
association football referee Maryna Striletska was part of the first all-woman officiating team for a men's international football match?
... that the Spirit of Norfolk caught fire while carrying 89 schoolchildren?
Reverse of the 1909-S VDB cent; "VDB" visible at bottom
... that the US Mint released the 1909-S VDB Lincoln Cent(pictured) on August 2, 1909, and discontinued it on August 5 because it showed the initials of engraver
Victor David Brenner?
... that Alex Horton made his
Twenty20 cricket debut for
Glamorgan despite no actual play being possible due to rain?
... that dermosyphilopathologist Giuseppe Mariani received a silver medal for his bravery under fire at the Third Battle of the Isonzo?
... that based on the biblical principle of omnia sunt communia,
Thomas Aquinas argued that theft is not a
sin if the thief genuinely needs what they are stealing?
... that the 19th Junior Eurovision Song Contest was held on 19 December with 19 participating countries – but the
EBU had to choose between three competition scenarios due to
COVID-19?
10 July 2022
00:00, 10 July 2022 (UTC)
Columbia University sundial
... that despite having reportedly been destroyed in 1946, the 16-ton granite ball that once sat on top of the Columbia University sundial(pictured) reappeared in a Michigan field in 2001?
... that the developer of 15.ai claims that as little as 15 seconds of a person's voice is sufficient to clone it up to human standards using
artificial intelligence?
... that
Ingrid Andress came up with "Lady Like" after being rejected by a man when she brought politics up?
... that a 1955 satirical comedy play by Kasymaly Jantöshev was one of the first signs of the relaxation of
Soviet literary restrictions after the death of
Joseph Stalin?
... that Science Park station was built despite the objections of the operating agency?
... that according to one reviewer, the problems that may have prompted the publication of Schooling and the Struggle for Public Life in the 1980s had "only gotten worse" by 2005?
... that Norwegian footballer Tuva Hansen and her dog have received millions of views on several
TikTok videos?
... that one Palestinian man criticized the beauty of West Bank Wall graffiti art(example pictured), telling
Banksy: "We don't want this wall to be beautiful. We hate it. Go home"?
... that Italian football club A.C. Monza played 40 seasons in
Serie B before securing promotion to
Serie A – more than any other club?
... that Red Jordan Arobateau adopted "Red" as his first name after dyeing his hair red because he thought the color represented the sensuality and eroticism of his work?
... that according to Bohr's law, the person who draws first in a gunfight loses?
... that Kwaku Ohene-Frempong, an expert in
sickle cell disease, decided while still in medical school to devote his life to the study of the disease, after his newborn son was diagnosed with the condition?
... that Lebanese
LGBT rights activist Sandra Melhem, one of the foremost promoters of drag culture in Beirut, was given an award for her humanitarian relief work after the
2020 Beirut explosion?
... that the quantum boomerang effect causes particles to turn around and return to their starting point?
... that red-boxing by American politicians is used to coordinate with
Super PACs, an activity that the
Campaign Legal Center called the "primary mechanism for corruption of federal campaigns in 2022"?
... that a song about an esports team went viral in Finland?