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Salvador Dalí jumping while three cats fly through the air
... that before photographer Philippe Halsman decided to photograph three cats flying through the air(pictured), surrealist artist Salvador Dalí had wanted to blow up a duck with dynamite?
... that Jack Washburn was called "Cinderella Boy" for winning a starring role in his first Broadway show?
... that the Al Qarara Cultural Museum, housed in a former grain silo, contained 6000 years of history?
... that Dimitrie Ralet, a pioneer Romanian orientalist, commended
Ottoman reformers for not "blindly adopting what we in Europe take to mean civilization"?
... that the No. 1–ranked 2023 Colorado Mines Orediggers, "college football's nerdiest contender", featured players with pigtails and a drawn-on blue mustache, a friar's haircut, and Harry Potter cosplay?
... that in the early 20th century, the town council of
Worthing purchased Cote Bottom and pledged that it would be kept in perpetuity as a public amenity?
... that the party leader of the new Dutch youth political party LEF – For the New Generation tattooed his party's program points on his forearm?
... that the Latin princess Ioveta was about four years old when her mother, Queen
Morphia, surrendered her to the Turks as debt payment security?
... that a 1905 steam-powered pump was assembled on-site in Virginia with its housing constructed around it?
... that when the financially failing Walker Interactive Products could not find a buyer, it staged a large-scale layoff in order to stay alive?
... that to encourage upscale development of the neighborhood, J. Harper Smith had the street leading to his Victorian mansion renamed to have a "higher tone"?
... that in 1977,
Appalachian folk singer Phyllis Boyens performed at a Christmas benefit concert to support Kentucky coal miners who had been on strike for 17 months?
... that Jewish refugee Kurt S. Adler, who started one of the largest importers of Christmas decorations to the United States, was called "America’s Father Christmas" by the magazine German Life in 2002?
... that on Christmas Eve in 1818, the Christmas carol "Stille Nacht" ("
Silent Night") was first performed in the Nikolauskirche in
Oberndorf, Austria?
... that the tripartite structure of the National War Labor Board helped the United States keep work stoppages to a minimum during World War II?
... that the anti-colonialist Ligue de défense de la race nègre, which at one point had around 1,000 members, was suppressed by the French government in 1937, ten years after its founding?
... that the closest modern fern relatives to Dennstaedtia christophelii(fossil pictured) of the Pacific Northwest are tropical species from South America?
... that 25 Water Street was designed to blend in with historic brick buildings that no longer exist?
... that having worked as a secretary for 67 years, secret millionaire Sylvia Bloom retired at the age of 96 and willed US$8.2 million to sponsor underprivileged students?
... that Fred Provo was told he would have to have his arm amputated due to a wound sustained in World War II, but refused, recovered, and went on to play in the National Football League?
... that the Key & Peele sketch "Substitute Teacher" was analyzed for its racial commentary and educational insight?
... that the musician Bou went from being fired from an IT apprenticeship for producing beats during company time to having songs rank on the
UK Singles Chart?
... that The Story Teller by
Amrita Sher-Gil, depicting a group of Indian village women performing ordinary tasks, fetched US$7.45 million at auction in 2023?
... that the Antarctic lichen Buellia frigida has been to outer space?
21 December 2023
00:00, 21 December 2023 (UTC)
Wolf jumping during a 2022 warmup
... that Dustin Wolf(pictured) has been named his league's
goaltender of the year the last four years in a row?
... that
Jimmy Fallon and
Meghan Trainor wrote their song "Wrap Me Up" over FaceTime, during which she described being "so nervous [her] heart was in [her] ass"?
17 December 2023
00:00, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
Starving child during the blockade of Biafra
... that at least one million civilians died as a result of the blockade of Biafra(child pictured)?
... that in a village in Wales, hares were traditionally nicknamed "St Monacella's lambs"?
... that Yurie Funato, a voice actress and former singer, was bullied in high school for her high-pitched voice?
... that the Fitzgerald Hoard included sealed treasury bags of silver dollars, casino chips, and other casino related merchandise?
... that near the end of her life, feminist and educator Nadezhda Stasova(pictured) wrote that Russian women "still have not learned to stop being men's slaves"?
... that Geoffrey Holt, an unassuming New Hampshire man who worked as a groundskeeper in a mobile home park where he resided, left $3.8 million to
his small town after his death?
... that unlike other armories in New York City, the 69th Regiment Armory was designed in the Beaux-Arts style because its architect did not want it to look like a "mediaeval castle"?
... that Annie Rauwerda's stew cooked for more than 60 days and had around 300 contributors?
11 December 2023
00:00, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
Adult female Varroa mite
... that Varroa destructor(example pictured), the Varroa mite, is an external parasitic
mite that attacks and feeds on
honey bees and is one of the most harmful honey-bee pests in the world?
... that the Chinese government began compiling an official history of the
Qing dynasty in 2002, but as of 2023 a protracted political review is forestalling its publication?
... that a Nebraska radio station chartered an aircraft to search for motorists stranded after a blizzard?
... that despite little formal education, Earnest Andersson(pictured) was a successful inventor, businessman, amateur athlete, race car driver, pilot, photographer, radio operator, pro golfer, and composer?
... that 32 former members of the city council of Bogor, Indonesia, were convicted of corruption in 2010, including 3 who were still serving?
... that Lincoln Fitzgerald survived a 1949 murder attempt and went on to run three Nevada casinos?
... that Trần Lập was involved in Vietnam's first internet copyright lawsuit?
... that the 1982 book Bitter Legacy by historian
Richard C. Lukas describes how in the early Cold War years America lost influence over Poland, which became a part of the
Soviet empire?
... that Andrea Carla Michaels, who has written more than 80 crosswords for The New York Times, is known as the "Pizza Lady" in San Francisco?
6 December 2023
00:00, 6 December 2023 (UTC)
Bofedales in the foreground
... that the green colour of bofedales(examples pictured) stands out in the yellow surrounding landscape?
... that Palestinian hikaye is a unique form of folk culture performed by older women in winter?
... that tennis player
Arthur Ashe only realized that his doubles partner Larry Nagler was Jewish when he was invited to Nagler's home for lox and bagels?